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0.018798 | <urn:uuid:0fd66094-eb2b-4fa0-9ef7-040704c732d8> | en | 0.981202 | Digging for victory
Was the way to Elizabeth I's heart through her garden, asks Andrea Wulf
Elizabeth I adored gardens: she was reputedly sitting beneath an oak tree in the grounds of Hatfield Palace when she received the news that she was to become the queen of England, and she always commanded that her private rooms had views across the gardens. So it was fortunate that the two most important men in her life, her chief political adviser Sir William Cecil and "her closest confidant" Lord Robert Dudley, were also passionate garden-makers. Both created some of the nation's most spectacular pleasure grounds in order to entertain and impress her.
Yet while they shared a love of gardening, they were rivals at court. Dudley aspired to glorious military command while Cecil counselled peace; Dudley hoped for the queen's hand in marriage but Cecil wanted her to make an alliance with one of Europe's royal families; and on more than one occasion Dudley tried to have Cecil assassinated, while Cecil sought to eliminate his rival through malicious scandal (spreading rumours that Dudley was a murderer and traitor).
The premise of this book is that Cecil and Dudley fought their "lifelong duel" with horticultural weapons. According to Trea Martyn, they used their gardens to vie for Elizabeth's favour and to gain titles, estates and power. In Kenilworth in Warwickshire, Dudley tried to seduce Elizabeth with spectacular fireworks in the shape of dragons and birds and fountains that spouted wine. He built the biggest artificial lake in the country (a whole village lay drowned at the bottom) and transformed it into a gigantic stage on which elaborate masques were performed. But as Dudley was wooing Elizabeth with his garden in 1575, she was told about his affair with Lady Laetitia "Lettice" Devereux, the Countess of Essex. Offended and angered, Elizabeth left and never visited Kenilworth again.
Meanwhile, Cecil turned his estate Theobalds in Hertfordshire into the most dazzling garden in the country, with exotic flowers and new plants from distant continents - such as potatoes and tobacco. Cecil had instructed his labourers to build banqueting houses perched in trees, canals and a maze with a mount from which the entire garden could be admired. Elizabeth was duly impressed.
Gardening-as-politicking is a seductive and original idea which might have animated anew the story of Cecil's and Dudley's feuds; however, Elizabeth's refusal to see Kenilworth after 1575 means that much of the so-called garden rivalry is not even played out in parallel. After that fateful final visit, which takes place in the first quarter of this book, Dudley gave up trying to compete with gardens and turned to exploration instead to impress the queen. He backed Francis Drake's missions (and piracy), as well as joining the conflict between England and Spain as military leader in the Netherlands. Cecil, meanwhile, continued to improve his garden without much competition. (It was so magnificent that Cecil would be later accused of competing with the royal palaces themselves.)
The narrative is also confused by a muddled timeline. Read as a story of garden obsessions and the birth of Renaissance pleasure grounds in England, however, Elizabeth in the Garden is a satisfying book. Martyn's descriptions of gardens as backdrops for masques and pageants - often witty allegories and riddles through which the courtiers expressed their allegiances and compliments - are excellent, and she carries her knowledge lightly. In evocative and lively prose she leads the reader along immaculately raked sand paths, past rosemary bushes (every needle covered with gold leaf), and into Cecil's mansion, where the columns of the great chamber were modelled as such realistic oak trees that birds flew indoors to sit on the branches. | http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/13/history2 | dclm-gs1-241400000 |
0.052838 | <urn:uuid:04ae3958-f292-4af8-a98e-8380850d91cd> | en | 0.97933 | Gopalkrishna Gandhi says demand made on artists is becoming burdensome
While it is “a matter of pride and gladness” that Chennai broke all records in terms of the number of concerts and attendance this year during the music season, the “demand made on artists by the sheer pressure of musical thirst is becoming burdensome”, said former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Saturday.
“Now artists are expected to give a concert a week, almost, and throughout the year and travel all over the world. This is hard on them, hard on their skill, hardest on the tone and tenor of their music,” he said while participating in the centenary celebrations of mridangam vidwan Palghat T.S. Mani Iyer.
Although today's mridangam players had a longer concert list than Palghat Mani Iyer ever did, this was “not necessarily an achievement.”
“There is such a thing as concert fatigue. There is such a thing as excess, the opposite of kachchitam,” he said, pointing out that in between concerts and travel, musicians of the generation of Palghat Mani Iyer had some time left for themselves.
“They spent it on reflection, teaching disciples one-to-one in conformity with the hours of the day, days of the month, months of the year. And they spent time on what can be called a recharging of the aquifers of their creative sensibility,” he said.
Noting that the pressure had resulted in artists considering the idea of eliminating irreplaceable tanam from the concert scheme, he said it was his fear that just as the IPL had been so manifestedly deleterious for cricket, this round-the-clock enervation could leave the artists exhausted and drained or their concerts pruned to shorter than what they should ideally be.
“Music is meant to have constituency, not a market. Musicians create experience, not a commodity,” he stressed.
Recalling how the constant encouragement from Palghat Mani Iyer had helped him build a career, violinist T.N. Krishnan said the mridangam maestro would recommend him to sabhas and concert organisers and would even accept concert advances on his behalf.
“It is he who secured a status for mridangam players,” he said.
Another violinist, Lalgudi Jayaraman, said Mani Iyer adopted different styles for different singers and his styles perfectly suited everyone.
“If his playing had a tremendous effect on the audience, his pause before joining the main singer during concert was equally powerful,” Mr. Jayaraman said in a speech read out by his son G.J.R. Krishnan.
C.V. Krishnaswami, a family friend of Palghat Mani Iyer for three decades, said the brain and hand co-ordination of the late maestro was without parallel in medical history.
A special album of Mani Iyer accompanying various artists, including Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, GNB, Alathur Brothers, D.K. Jayaraman and Palghat K.V. Narayanasamy, and his seven thanis was released by Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi. It was received by Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, mridangam maestro and disciple of Mani Iyer.
Eight disciples honoured
Eight disciples of Mani Iyer, besides Selvam, the mridangam maker were honoured on the occasion. T.R. Rajamani, son of Mani Iyer, proposed a vote of thanks. | http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/musicians-need-time-to-recharge-their-creative-sensibility/article2840651.ece | dclm-gs1-241490000 |
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Lois (Leia): NO!
Stewie (Darth Vader): Yes.
Ellen Griswold: Clark, I don't like the look of this neighborhood
Clark Griswold: Come on, Ellen, it's important for the kids to witness the plight of the Rebellion. Kids, you noticing all this plight?
[An X-Wing flying next to them is shot down]
Clark Griswold: (Starts rolling up his window) Roll 'em up!
Chris (Luke): Hey Han!
Peter (Han): What!
Chris (Luke): Why do they call them TIE-Fighters?
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0.18405 | <urn:uuid:59c75093-1737-463d-979c-50c87a020d2c> | en | 0.969674 | Bill Nash: Life is much simpler not dealing with clutch and gear changes
The question was simple. There were only two possible answers, yes or no. And yet, if I answered yes, a great deal of explanation would be required. The question was: Do you know how to drive a manual transmission?
My answer was: Yes, but. As in, yes, but I’m terrible at it. Yes, but I don’t want to. Yes, but I don’t see the point. Yes, but I can’t survive the spike in my blood pressure. Yes, but I can’t afford the replacement parts.
A USA Today poll of new car buyers asked the same question and 65 percent of the respondents answered yes. In explicably, the poll stopped short of asking if those same buyers actually purchased a manual transmission vehicle. My guess is, not many did. In 2012, stick shift cars accounted for only about 7 percent of new vehicles sold.
Most of the cars sold with manual transmissions are performance vehicles, but not all. Some are economy models where the stick shift adds to the fuel mileage. Except it doesn’t. Not always. According to the experts, additional fuel mileage also depends on the type of car and the person driving it.
The most compelling reason I’ve seen for having a manual transmission is that it forces you to concentrate on your driving. That concentration prevents you from talking on the phone, texting or sipping your latte. It’s a good argument, as far as it goes. I’m a case in point.
When I was growing up, my parents both drove automatic transmissions. So, when it came time for me to take driver’s training, it didn’t make sense to learn how to drive a stick shift since I’d only be driving automatics. It wasn’t until I was 34 that I popped my first clutch.
That clutch was in a 1954 Mack fire engine, older than I was and considerably more temperamental. Well, not considerably. It was a cruel teacher and I was a poor student. The Mack had an open cab, a bench seat and required me to double clutch to shift. A piece of advice for anyone learning how to drive a stick on public streets: choose a vehicle that attracts less attention than a fire engine.
There were times when the noise of the siren was overcome by the sound of grinding gears. Parts littered the streets and traffic would back up any time I had to start from a dead stop on a hill. Stalling the engine became a way of life for me.
But it was true, driving the manual transmission required all of my concentration. All of it. Even the parts of it that should have been watching for pedestrians, traffic signals and stopped cars. I was much more effective, and much less hazardous to the public, when I transferred to a fire engine with an automatic.
I was, perhaps, something of an aberration. There are many people for whom learning how to drive a stick shift comes easily and naturally. I actually envy those people. A little. They can drive any car they want but, even in heavy traffic, on hills, in the rain and on the interstate, they have to remember to shift.
I’m much happier doing the driving and letting the car shift. I find I attract a lot less attention that way and my language is much more civilized.
So, do I know how to drive a manual transmission? Yes, but. | http://www.vcstar.com/lifestyle/bill-nash-life-is-much-simpler-not-dealing-with | dclm-gs1-241570000 |
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Many compact and midsize vehicles would get Bs, while bigger and more powerful models such as sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks would get Cs or C-minuses because they burn more petroleum and pump out more carbon dioxide, officials said.
"We think a new label is absolutely needed to help consumers make the right decision for their wallets and the environment," said Gina McCarthy, the EPA's assistant administrator for air and radiation. She said the rules are designed to reflect major advances in car technology.
Environmental groups generally cheered the proposal, which they said would make consumers more aware of the environmental impact of cars.
But the proposed changes —which come as the Obama administration enforces stringent new rules to boost overall fuel economy—were criticized by the car industry, which said the government would be crossing the line between requiring responsible advertising and making value judgments about vehicles.
The government's proposed car labels would include bold letter grades. Environmental Protection Agency
"The proposed letter grade falls short because it is imbued with school-yard memories of passing and failing," said Dave McCurdy, president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the industry's largest trade group. A spokeswoman for the alliance added that "grades may inadvertently suggest a government label of approval."
Steve Cook, a Vassar, Mich., auto dealer, said he likes the idea of having a simpler labeling system that factors in more than fuel economy. But he questions the logic of the proposed rules.
"If a big SUV is going to be downgraded compared to a small car, that's not going to be effective because [the person] who is buying a truck already knows it uses more gas," Mr. Cook said.
A more practical system would compare vehicles in the same size class for their environmental impact and fuel economy, he said.
With gasoline prices relatively stable over the past year, more U.S. consumers have been buying SUVs and trucks. Sales of small cars were up 7.8% this year through July, but sales of SUVs and crossovers rose nearly 21%.
Consumers aren't strongly influenced by current EPA labels, in large part because they are complicated and not intuitive, said Karl Brauer, senior analyst for car shopping site Edmunds.com.
"People look at them undeniably, but there is a strong percentage of people who at the end of the day just buy the car they want most," Mr. Brauer said. The proposed changes could make more consumers think twice, he said.
Currently, the sticker prominently displays figures that reflect a car's mpg ratings for city and highway driving, and a dollar figure representing the estimated annual cost of fuel the car would use.
The new sticker would be closer to an advertisement, with a letter grade atop a phrase such as "Saves $1,900" that reflects how much less the car would use in gas than the average car in its class.
The new sticker also would display figures reflecting how many gallons the car uses per 100 miles of driving; its city and highway mpg ratings; how much carbon dioxide it emits; and the annual fuel cost. And it would give the range of fuel economy for all vehicles in the same class.
The new rules wouldn't go into effect until the 2012 model year, and officials are holding a 60-day public-comment period for suggested alterations.
The EPA and DOT also have proposed a less-contentious version of labels that wouldn't include the letter grades, and is asking the public which version it prefers.
The auto industry has been anticipating the changes as a number of car companies prepare to begin selling advanced-technology vehicles in the U.S. in coming months. Those include General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt, a battery car that uses gasoline to power a generator beyond certain distances, and Nissan Motor Co. 's all-electric Leaf.
GM created a stir—and raised questions about the current system—when it said last year the Volt would get 230 miles per gallon under a preliminary EPA formula. GM said in a statement Monday it continues to work with the EPA and DOT on labeling standards for such vehicles.
The new proposal stops short of forcing the labels to contain more information on the environmental impact of the electricity used to charge electric cars. Environmental groups have argued the government and car makers should provide the public with information on these "upstream emissions," the pollution associated with coal-fired power plants.
The EPA's McCarthy said the agency was constrained by federal statutes that specify only tailpipe emissions, not upstream emissions, be included on the label. But Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, said the agency wouldn't have been blocked from providing more information on emissions from power plants.
Correction & Amplification:
The Ford Focus is among vehicles that would receive a B grade under a government proposal to rate cars on their fuel efficiency and emissions. A graphic in an earlier version of this article showed a picture of the Ford Fusion instead of the Focus.
—Sharon Terlep and Mike Ramsey contributed to this article.
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about civil-rights. the second part of your question, how did he get kennedy -- it takes a lot of pages in this book to talk about all the things he does but the thing he does on the instant, this bill appears to be totally dead. he says didn't someone file a discharge petition? discharge petition had been filed -- this bill was in a committee that was never going to let it out. wasn't even the senate. still in the house rules committee which was shared by judge howard w. smith and would even give a date. the bill was going nowhere. johnson remembers someone filed a discharge petition to take away from that committee. that was -- a discharge petition ever -- never passed. violation of house rules and no president had ever gotten behind one before. johnson calls the representative who introduces it and representative of missouri has been told by the leaders dropped this thing and listen to johnson in this telephone call to see a genius in human nature because the first half of the call, we can't violate the house pre ♪ >> this is book tv's live coverage of the national books s festival
program, civil-rights and everyone of his major -- was stalled by the southern committee chairman who controlled congress, to see him get that program up and running and has it, ramming it through. to watch lyndon johnson do that in the first weeks after kennedy's assassination is a lesson in what a president can do if he not only knows all the levers to pull but has the will. in lyndon johnson's case almost vicious drive to do it, to win, to say over and over again as i am always saying to myself when i do the research look what he is doing. look what he is doing here. i don't say i succeeded but i tried to explain that in my books. to me, to see him doing that is something that is not only fascinating but revelatory given true insight into how power works in washington. there is another reason i don't get tired of doing these books on lyndon johnson. you are always learning something new. that goes even if what you are researching is something that has been written about a thousand or ten thousand times already as the case in the centerpiece of this book, the assassination of presid
by a drone. >> hi, i am a holocaust survivor and a civil rights veteran. and what i see happening in this country as they move towards fascism, which very much resembles that of our germany, which silenced pretty much the labor movement, which restrict to voter participation in the media as well. we no longer have the media that takes on the lives that are being spread and that we are being fed on a daily basis. there are very few outlets we can actually read or hear the truth of what is happening in our government. and my fear is that we are going down a really steep and quick ascent into fascism and i think that is very worrisome. and i am a fighter and i have no idea anymore how this can be stopped because i don't see that there is a movement. he says even when it's hopeless, we have to continue to battle, but there doesn't seem to be a cohesive movement like there was in the 60s. do you have any suggestions about how we can go about this or that she would even agree with the aspect of where we are headed. >> if there is enough people who believe that, then at cnn difference in
years but in virginia specifically not all states are equal. we still fight civil rights in virginia and we have a state where they want to go backward it appears. now the federal government is doing a great job intervening in the delivery of recovery support services, meaning those federal dollars the come from virginia. to me it would make sense to make them spend a small portion on recovery support services to include housing. housing is a critical missing element in recovery so i guess my thought process to samhsa and somehow force the state to discriminate against recovery like they do in virginia and spend some of those dollars on the authentic recovery and support service. that really is the nature of my thought process. by doing so we could really reduce the recidivism and increase recovery. the power to recover people is incredible and to block out the recovery principle from delivering those services, but like i say the state is not going to change but the federal government if you would just make a rule or regulation with those federal -- you have to spend a small amount o
. that is not good enough. i will look at the back to school bus for and went to topeka, kansas. this is the civil-rights issue of our generation. i am convinced it is not race or class but education and opportunity. if we're serious about closing the achievement gap we have to close the opportunity get. we have had nothing here the sense of urgency and commitment to closing those opportunity gaps that we need to. in brown vs. board five decades ago to look at the staggering inequities, inequality of opportunity by any measure we have to get better faster. all those things compel us to act. the president provided extraordinary leadership and understands what is at stake. congress's current assumption is supportive and we have to look at this together with politics and ideology aside. we have to educate our way to a better economy and vienna different place. how do we get there? a pretty compelling case that that is the best investment we can make. if we put our three and four-year-olds into kindergarten, we start to close the achievement gaps and close the opportunity get. if we don't do that we are cons
in the civil rights movement. others had been working in the movement, and albany since 61. this was 65. nay had -- they had also stard the movement in several other coupes in the area, and i tease him now because the gater had the worst reputation, and he had not come to baker county to help get the movement started there, but once my father, who was a leader in the community, was murdered, that was the one thing that really brought everyone together, and they were ready for it when they came in to help us start the baker county movement. >> wow. what's interesting to me is you really -- in the book, you really write about the way the legacy of trauma impacts you as a family so that even though we all know the landmark case, brown versus board of education, but you talk about the fact that when that happened, the black children who went to the white school lost all their black friends, couldn't make white friends, and found themselves living in no man's land. i don't think we have the chance to really feel the price that those young folk paid in order for us to be where we are that we get t
a book called "sons of mississippi," the book previous to this, a study of the civil rights south and integration of james meredith at the university of ol miss. i like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to the culture history biography. >> and paul's most recent book national book critic circle award finalist. thank you for joining us o up next on booktv mallory factor talks about the power of government employee unions and the impact it's had on policy making. this is just under an hour.
, but it's a pretty dangerous place to be. we need -- we need to have that conversation, the civil rights issue of the 21st century are that, race and poverty, and, of course, education is, indeed, governor romney said it the other day, i had to look at the notes to see i had it right, and the criminal justice system because in addition to the discrimination that violates the law, job discrimination, discrimination in housing and housing finance and so on, we have what we all know in terms of the structural, institutional discrimination of how our schools ordinary reason and opee systemmings and michelle alexander and the new jim crow, published by the new press, has made so clear how our criminal justice system operates. now, that's the basic set of things that we talk about in the book. i also talk, and i won't go into it in great length here, but about poverty in relation to place. our inner cities, app -- appalachia, colonial south texas, all of that because that's where we have the persistent poverty where we have the intergenerational poverty, and it -- i found it very interesting.
, engaged the senators in discussion of how he felt about the issues, and it became clear he felt the civil rights act, a thomas just think, he thought there was no such thing as a right to privacy to the constitution, and the senate by a vote of 58-42 said to conservative and he was voted down. ronald reagan nominated instead to that seat anthony kennedy, who was serving a liberal but was certainly no robert bork either. and he has had a long and distinguished career as, now the swing vote on the court. and that really, that set, that really set up the rehnquist years. accord which i wrote about in my last book, "the nine," and when i started looking at the supreme court in a serious way as a writer, i was inspired by book that i'm sure is familiar to many of you called the brethren by scott armstrong and bob woodward, really a great book, first real behind the scenes book of the supreme court. and 15, the theme of the book was also justices, regardless of politics couldn't stand were in burger. they thought he was at pompous jerk. that sort of contention has been the rule more than the ex
's civil rights, workers rights, or women's rights where people remember why unioners created. most of the world has no rex why it happened. you had to work 18 hours and never got overtime. you got paid a number you live in a town which you work. people don't understand where the value base came from. there is going to be an evolution or innovation in the movement. i see union doing all kinds of interesting thing. don't corporate affairs work they follow pension resources and they take their own money and create economic development. that's smart. looking how do i get economic activity get my folks. ensure my rate of return. do something to get the economy to move again. i think there's a lot of compelling unions that are think abouting it circhtly. to underestimate the kind of [inaudible] >> i would say one thing to watch political any in the jersey we come from a unionized state than a lot of states in the south. the union have different power and i think one of the things that is important to watch you saw it in wisconsin and you see in other places it's a growing system between
refused to turn over records to a judge. civil contempt. and you could be imprisoned far longer on civil contempt and criminal because you do not have the right to appeal or to have a lawyer. no rights as in a criminal case. there are things of the system people are not aware of. average people like you and me. >> host: is it just the state? what about corporations or searches on the internet zero word behavior's or cellphones or all that information that is out there? >> of course, i am concerned with the ordinary citizen be a criminal probe i have a hard time drawing a line i a doubt they could exist unless they had state privilege or limited liability or syndication by the state i am not slamming big business it should get as big as it can in a free-market contest. led a flourish and prosper. but yes everyone will go after my data because they can make money off of it. as long as i have the ability to say no all are shut the door which the state does not let me do but i do with the free-market, then it is up to me. but slammed the door and say mind your own goddamn business. [laughter
was the attorney for the american civil liberties union. the judge would say, all right. we're going to have an argument on that point of law. parents to you want to come back into my office. leyritz was sick, no, let arthur and of that. i don't do that. earlier in his career, i don't know how many of you had to read but the author was an attorney. he became the legal partner. most of the legal brief writing, when they had to go into the appeals court was done by masters. there is a whole chapter about their very famous falling got and the incredible spite they had for each other for the rest of their lives. they were both very greedy, womanizers, and both convinced that they were literary men thrown into the wrong profession and what they really needed was peace and quiet that the other one make all the money so i can retreat to my office or write poetry and novels. it is a great untold story of american legal history. >> did daryl ever get involved in politics and endorsed any candidates, though i expect a candid it might not want his endorsement. >> one of the exciting things i found when
the decision about whether they would title a same-sex relationship a marriage, a civil union or domestic partnership. but the test for me is whether the legal rights and responsibilities that someone else has, they should be able to have those same legal responsibilities and rights that i have. >> moderator: i just want to pin you down though. do you believe in gay marriage in the same way that president obama felt the need to clarify his stand, recognizing the institution of marriage as being possible and, indeed, should even be legal between a man and a man and a woman and a woman? cain cain david, i'll go right to the end of my answer. i would let state legislatures because the rules and regulates about marriage have traditionally been state policy, i would let state legislators make the decision about whether they would accord that -- >> moderator: you're not prepared, you're not prepared -- kaine: let me finish. i would be fine if they did it and they labeled it marriage, civil union or domestic partnership. for me is test is, are people given the same legal rights and responsibilit
inned vading civil liberties, and we're always, you know, working on that, what's the right balance there as well? it is -- it's a big job. >> will you stay in the administration if the president's re-elected? >> i don't answer questions like that. >> if you were not homeland secretary, what job do you want? attorney general? baseball commissioner? what's your dream? >> you really, i think i want to focus on this job.
of principles that we agree with with pakistan on afghanistan. i think neither of us want to see the civil war. we should find that basis. the question people are struggling with right now with the right mechanism in the bilateral relationship, but the right mechanism to pull people together to find those things we have in common. anyone in the last month or six weeks there've been developments i'm not privy to but i sense i'm moving ahead. per your question is a good one. we don't have, to my knowledge, we have not achieved the kind of meeting of minds on afghanistan that were going to need for this process up to 2014 and beyond 2014 to address. so it is an open question i agree if there is a tough one, that is the. i'm an independent consultant and i have a couple of questions that pick up on other points that i believe you made. if i understood you correctly, you really suggesting that we start our relations when people share our values. i'm sympathetic to that idea. i wanted first to make a comment, which many of those people in some sense identified with our values or goals are at least s
ability to protect people without invading civil liberties. and we're always, you know, working on that, what's the right balance there as well. so it is, it's a big job. >> will you stay in the administration if the president's reelected? >> i don't answer questions like that. >> if you weren't homeland security secretary, what job would you want? attorney general? >> again, i don't do what ifs. [laughter] >> what's your dream? >> my dream? you really -- i think i want to focus on this job. this job has every day is an adventure. so it has a lot of elements to it. >> okay. madam secretary, thanks very much. >> thank you. prison. [applause] >> thank you for that, madam secretary and shane, that was a great interview. my name is tim hartman, i want to welcome everybody today as one of the co-hosts of this event. we're going to move on shortly, but before we do, i just want to thank our underwriter for this event, for supporting it. our underwriter today exclusively is medapp, and we wouldn't be able to do events of this quality without the support of underwriters, so while we do some log
or the way it has to be done in the civil way, i think this has to be checked, but we cannot launch a war on the terms that we have now so it's not acceptable for anyone, but at the same time, the right that we are giving to some, we should also ask ourselves why there is a lack of consistency in our policies in the region, and this kind of demonization of iran is not helping the region to find solutions so this is one. the second is about what is happening in e just a -- egypt and in -- what was the point you were making was -- >> [inaudible] >> yes, what is happening, the attack against the american embassy, and this that, of course, it's going to be used by the media. it's going to be once again used by people saying, luxe, -- look, even now, what we said about the uprising, ends up with people against the west. inside, it was very much positive in the whole process over the months of the uprisings is new slogans against the west, new slogans against the united states or european country. it was mubarak and e regime, nothing against the west. it was powerful. it was internal talk and s
in it's approach, and we believe it's not the right way to do it. if you look at precedence using the civil aviation organization for consensus building on international aviation issues, is it much more effective way to do this. we have been clear both on p the record, off the record, and at every level with our e.u. counterparts that this is unacceptable, that we do not support it. if you look closely at the reaction around the world, you'll see that we have a lot of other nations in concert with the united states who also believe the unilateral imposition of that emissions trading scheme is inappropriate. finally, there appears to be some recognition on the european side of late that there are real consequences for doing this. we will continue to press for the appropriate avenues for the resolution of an issue like this. we are continuing to make it clear that we have serious concerns and do not believe it should be implemented, and i think the consequences of the european union moving ahead unilaterally are much butter under by the e.u. these days. >> thank you. >> mr. chairma
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Labial commissure of mouth
Fourteen Nylon sutures used to approximate the edges of this left cheek laceration, extending from the left commisure towards the left ear, allowing it to heal with considerably less scarring than it would without sutures.
Latin commissura labiorum oris
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Anatomical terminology
The commisure is important in facial appearance, particularly during function such as smiling. As such it is of interest to dental surgeons.
Diseases that involve the commisure include angular chelitis.
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Melvin "Mel" Pender, Jr. (born October 31, 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Philadelphia Pioneer Track Club where he was coached by Alex Woodley.[1]
Mel Pender was a decorated Vietnam war combat veteran, serving in the U.S. Army for 21 years and retiring at the rank of captain in 1976. While in the U.S. Army, early in his service, Pender took up athletics, where his incredible quickness was noticed in camp football games. His progress was remarkable and he was selected to the 1964 Olympic Team but hampered by injury he did not medal.
At the Mexico Olympics, Pender made it to the 100 m final where his explosive start and exceptional acceleration brought him to the lead midway through the race. But he faded slightly and finished sixth. In the relay he was chosen to run the second leg and he performed that duty exceptionally. The American 4x100 m relay team won the gold medal in a new world record of 38.24. Mel set world records in the 50 yds at 5.0, 60 yds at 5.8, 70 yds at 6.8 and 100 meters at 9.9. Pender is in several halls of fame. What people don't know is he didn't run track until the age of twenty five while he was serving in Okinawa with the 82nd Airborne Division.
After his athletics career Pender earned a bronze star in Vietnam and worked as the head track coach at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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In mathematics, a real plane curve is usually a real algebraic curve defined in the real projective plane.
Since the real number field is not algebraically closed, the geometry of even a plane curve C in the real projective plane is not a very easy topic. Assuming no singular points, the real points of C form a number of ovals, in other words submanifolds that are topologically circles. The real projective plane has a fundamental group that is a cyclic group with two elements. Such an oval may represent either group element; in other words we may or may not be able to contract it down in the plane. Taking out the line at infinity L, any oval that stays in the finite part of the affine plane will be contractible, and so represent the identity element of the fundamental group; the other type of oval must therefore intersect L.
There is still the question of how the various ovals are nested. This was the topic of Hilbert's sixteenth problem. See Harnack's curve theorem for a classical result.
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How can I create a file in unix or linux based on variable value ?
If I store date in a variable in linux,
YESTERDAY=`date --date='1 day ago' '+%d-%m-%Y'`
it will store value to YESTERDAY as 27-1-2010.
Here I want to create file as name of 27-1-2010,
How can I create file with variable 'YESTERDAY' ?
i want appending operation too. How can i do this ?
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Unless you've got a compelling reason (as in, some application already expects this date format), please do it Y-m-d and keep yourself sane. d-m-Y never sorts right, and over time, you'll be very upset. – Matt Simmons Feb 2 '10 at 4:45
@Matt Simmons , Thanks i will change at my real time usage. – Kumar Feb 2 '10 at 5:29
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echo "something" > $YESTERDAY
to append:
echo "something" >> $YESTERDAY
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I don't see anything wrong with echo "foo" >> $YESTERDAY or cat otherfile >> $YESTERDAY
What are you trying to cat? Or alternately what are you trying to put into the file called 27-1-2010?
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It too working well with appending operation
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You can use the variable $YESTERDAY in commands. Like touch $YESTERDAY, mv original_file $YESTERDAY
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I am installing a metro ethernet link from my office to my data center. The office will have a cisco 3750 with several vlans. The data center end will have a more complicated set up. The metro e from the office will connect to a 2960, which will have two other 2960s with a few vlans and a 2811 router connected to it for connectivity to our other environments and the internet.
I am looking at implementing this by connecting the office 3750 and the data center 2960 with a dot1q trunk and doing all routing at the 2811. I will configure subinterfaces for gateways for each of the vlans on the 2811. I work for a small company and don't have much of a budget for an ideal architecture. I can post a simple diagram if needed for clarification.
Is there anything I am missing here? I feel like I am forgetting something very basic and want to make sure I eliminate any boneheaded mistakes.
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It sounds like your proposed solution might run into a couple of limitations, depending on how your metro-E provider does things.
Firstly, by running VLANs over the metro-E circuit, you may be running QinQ then (your tags inside a metro-level provider tag). Their gear (hopefully) is set up to handle this, but if it's not, you'd notice it by seeing a reduced usable MTU on the link.
Secondly, the metro-E providers I'm familiar with have limits on the number of MAC addresses they want to learn from you buried in the fine print. It's often a better idea to use the metro-E circuit as a layer-3 handoff between routers, then to carry a whole LAN between 2 points, unless it's absolutely necessary to do so.
If the metro-E circuit is actually MPLS/VPLS under the hood, then neither of these caveats may apply.
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Thanks for your answer. The metro-e circuit will be configured as transparent, where no QinQ tunneling is needed. It seems like the QinQ option is their default, because after speaking with their sales engineer, we decided the transparent option was the best way. There are no limitations on mac addresses that I am aware of, but I will confirm again. Unfortunately, I do not have the option of doing a Layer 3 handoff (costs too much). I would much rather do it that way. – Eric Dec 9 '10 at 19:21
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class A { public: int a;};
class B: public A {
int c;
int d;
int main() {
A* pA = new B[10];
B* pB = new B[10];
printf("\n%d", pA->a);
printf("\n%d", pA->a); // prints junk value
printf("\n\n%d", pB->a);
printf("\n%d", pB->a);
return 0;
The second printf prints a junk value.
It should figure that it is pointing to an object of type B and increment by the sizof(B).
Why does that not happen?
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Arrays of polymorphic objects is always a red flag. I've never needed to do it in production code and it is very error prone, so I would almost universally say don't do it. An array of pointers to polymorphic objects is fine though. – deft_code May 20 '10 at 0:47
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It can only know that at runtime. Imagine it slightly changed
A* a;
a = new A[10];
a = new B[10];
But that's not going to happen. C++ puts emphasize in speed, but this would basically make it into a language that ensures safety of operations. There is Java, C# and others that already solve this.
Kernel and device driver developers don't want a clever language runtime. They just want to have things run fast.
Have a look at Common undefined behavior in C++ question for all the things that will need to get "fixed" along. It won't be C++ anymore!
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It's not purely about speed either -- if I'm writing (for example) an arbitrary looking set of bits to create a structure for an MMU, things will break if the run-time suddenly decides react on the assumption that the bit-pattern I've written means the memory really contains some other type than what I've said it does. – Jerry Coffin May 19 '10 at 18:55
@Jerry yes that in addition. Good point. – Johannes Schaub - litb May 19 '10 at 18:58
Whilst what you say is true about runtime behaviour, the example in the OP could have been caught at compile time if the type returned by new[] wasn't a pointer to an object, but a pointer to an array of objects. The same goes for the compiler tracking use of delete[] on pointers to arrays. Both are completely checkable at compile time, if you are willing to trade away backwards compatibility with C's degrading of arrays to pointers. – Pete Kirkham May 19 '10 at 19:18
@Pete Kirkham: I agree, but that would only be possible with arrays of compile-time size. – AndreyT May 19 '10 at 20:18
"if you are willing to trade away backwards compatibility with C's degrading of arrays to pointers" - and introduce a variable-length-array type. Which is doable (C99 did it, to some extent), but isn't as straightforward as you'd hope, since it requires special-casing various parts of the standard. For example, "sizeof is evaluated at compile time (except for variable-length arrays)". – Steve Jessop May 19 '10 at 20:22
No it shouldn't. The declared type of pA is A*, so it is incremented by sizeof(A), which leaves it pointing to the middle of the first B in the array.
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The reason it's fragile is that you're side-stepping everything it does to try to keep you safe. Until you're sufficiently experienced to know why these problems are arising, and how to avoid them, you should:
1. Forget that printf exists. Use std::cout instead.
2. Forget that new exists. Use std::vector instead.
You should probably also read the C++ FAQ, and pay close attention to the part that says something to the effect that: "Even if an X is a Y, an array of X is not an array of Y."
Edit: As to why you're seeing the behavior you are, it's pretty simple: pointer arithmetic is defined in terms of the static type, not the dynamic type. That means it's based entirely on the type of pointee you defined for the pointer, NOT what it's pointing at. If you say it's pointing at an A, but then point it at a B, the arithmetic will still be done as if it was pointing at an A as you said it would.
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Using a vector instead of an array would prevent him from doing the invalid cast, but using output streams wouldn't be any safer than printf here. Using standard library is a components is a compliment, not a substitute, for understanding the basics of the language. – Alan May 19 '10 at 18:57
@Alan: while it's true that printf didn't cause this particular problem, it's still rarely a good thing to use in C++. I don't advocate anything as a substitute for understanding, but I do advocate following reasonable rules until you do understand well enough to know when to break them. – Jerry Coffin May 19 '10 at 19:04
in response to your part 2 -> why doesn't there exist an auto_ptr<> style RAII idiom where you simply have { new_ptr<Type> obj; Type* t1 = obj.get(); } I really don't want vector semantics for a single pointer value. – Chris Kaminski Jun 2 '10 at 18:24
@Chris: there are a couple of things like that (including auto_ptr, unique_ptr, and shared_ptr). The number stems (mostly) from different ideas of what such a thing should really do. Most of the time, you're better off just using an object directly though. – Jerry Coffin Jun 2 '10 at 18:56
what I mean is that want something like this: new_ptr<Type> obj; instead of auto_ptr<Type> ptr(new Type);. I don't EVER want to use operator new directly. – Chris Kaminski Jun 3 '10 at 2:20
Pointer a points to an object that has static type A and dynamic type B. Pointer arithmetic in C++ works in terms of static type. So, from the point of view of pointer arithmetic, a points to an object of type A.
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the objects have no record of what or how large they are, it's just allocated memory. The only way the compiler knows how to treat the object at the pointer memory, is by looking at the pointer type. So based on pointer A*, it will only assume an object of sizeof(A).
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For reasons of compatibility with C arrays degrade to pointers. The type of B[10] may degrade to B*, and inheritance means that the assignment of a pointer to B to a variable of type A* is valid.
You then increment the value of this pointer, which adds the size of A to its address.
However, your assumption that incrementing a pointer is a valid operation if the pointer is not pointing to an array of elements of the type of the pointer is not correct.
If you try and combine the parts of C++ which are there so it behaves like C with the more strongly typed OO features, the looser typing in the C parts defeats the stronger typing in the C++ parts. It's best to keep them separate, or at least document the expected behaviours.
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You're incremeneting the variable a, which is a locally declared pointer of A objects. That's the same as saying a=a+sizeof(A).
Since sizeof(B)>sizeof(A), you end up pointing into the middle of the first object. When C++ then adds the appropriate offset, it'll end up reading the c field of the first B object. That happens to be unitialized memory, containing "junk".
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i think you mean sizeof(B) > sizeof(A) – Marlon May 19 '10 at 19:21
@Marlon: Yes, of course. Thanks for noticing. – Michael Madsen May 19 '10 at 19:49
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Reading Guru-Gu's blog post about ASP.NET MVC3 hitting RC, he says:-
Session-less Controller Support
You can now indicate whether you want a Controller class to use session-state – and if so whether you want it to be read/write or readonly.read/write or readonly.
Can someone explain what are some scenario's someone might want to have a session-less controller? or a read-only controller?
I've always been creating a separate IIS website which I use to handle all static images/content and then have this same website have session state turned off ... so no cookies are sent over the wire. Is this a similar scenario?
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Gu commented about this. Quoting:
The release notes cover this more (you can download them from the download link above). Session state is designed so that only one request from a particular user/session occurs at a time. So if you have a page that has multiple AJAX callbacks happening at once they will be processed in serial fashion on the server. Going session-less means that they would execute in parallel.
This is a known scenario in ASP.NET in general. The session object for the same user is not thread safe. This means that if the same user (same session id cookie) sends multiple requests to a page which uses session those requests will queue and will be processed in series and not in parallel.
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Oh wow. I never ever knew that (and i've been working with ASP since classic ASP). Wow. But ... that does make sense :) The session data is important and thus will need to be 'locked' I assume, forcing serial processing. Hmm... So this would be a great candidate to make all Ajax ActionMethods Session-less :) – Pure.Krome Nov 9 '10 at 23:16
Absolutely, all AJAX calls should be made session-less. By the way I hate session, so in general I make my whole application session-less :-) – Darin Dimitrov Nov 9 '10 at 23:18
So there's nothing you need in the session at all? logged in user? – Pure.Krome Nov 9 '10 at 23:38
The logged in username is stored in the authentication cookie. As far as user data is concerned => datastore. – Darin Dimitrov Nov 10 '10 at 7:04
@RPM1984, things like nick that change rarely could go into userData of the forms ticket and be fetched through a custom generic principal in a custom authorization action filter, rep and badges could potentially be changed by other users requests so those need to be fetched from the database. Of course to avoid hitting it on every request cache with expiration policies should be used and for better scalability this cache needs to be distributed and offloaded from the web server. – Darin Dimitrov Nov 11 '10 at 5:07
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I've got a small clipping problem that I haven't been able to solve using an EditText view in a TableRow. Whatever I try, the EditText view is either clipped (attached screenshot), or, if I set shrinkColumns to either 0 or 1, the label text disappears (and the EditText view takes up the whole width). The layout is as follows:
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" android:padding="10dip">
<TableLayout android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TableRow android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView android:paddingRight="10dip" android:layout_column="1"
android:text="Label Text" />
<EditText android:text="Very long text that makes the text view go on clipping frenzy"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
I've tried it on a 2.2 emulator running at QVGA and HVGA, a HTC Hero on 2.1 and the Wildfire on 2.1 as well. I've also played around with the clipToPadding attribute which doesn't seem to help in my case. The same issue appears if I set the hint attribute with a long text and leave the text value empty.
As I am doing nothing particularly complex, I suspect a simple error on my side. Any ideas, hints or suggestions are highly appreciated.
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you should first try to accept some answer, it is good for you to have answer rapidly – Paresh Mayani Nov 15 '10 at 12:13
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Set android:shrinkColumns="1" on your TableLayout, and remove android:layout_column="1" from the TextView.
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Thank you! That worked perfectly. I ended up using setColumnShrinkable(1, true) to avoid shrinking the label. – Alpha Hydrae Nov 16 '10 at 7:39
Add android:layout_weight="1", to your EditText, It took a while to resolve it..........
But don't know the reason for it.......
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My computer (also router) uses Teredo to access and be visible on IPv6.
How to assign neighbor IPv6 addresses to other computers for them to be able to be routed to Teredo using the router?
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What ip -6 addr, ip -6 link, ip -6 route, ip6tables and sysctl sys.net...forwarding commands should I use on hosts and on router? (assuming miredo is already working on "My router")
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Teredo is an 'IPv6 for one host' type protocol. You cannot provide IPv6 to other computers on your network with Teredo. Every node will have to do their own Teredo.
But Teredo is very unreliable. If you can use IPv6 provided by an ISP. If that is not possible then use a tunnelbroker like sixxs.net or tunnelbroker.net. Avoid unreliable methods like 6to4 and Teredo.
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Can I do NAT for IPv6 so all requests to Teredo will appear to be like if they oridinating from "My Router" instead? – Vi. Oct 1 '12 at 17:06
Technically: yes, but you still have a very unreliable Teredo connection. All applications will try to use IPv6 and many of them will fail. You don't want that brokenness in your network... Set up a tunnel to SixXS.net or Tunnelbroker.net (both free) and you will be much happier. – Sander Steffann Oct 2 '12 at 8:57
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12-18-2009, 03:34 PM
Just bought a racket that the gripsize is 4 5/8. Is there anyway I could make it a 4 1/2 without sanding it down? If I have to sand it down, anyone know a professional company that can do it?
12-18-2009, 04:42 PM
Why not just remove the stock grip and play with one overgrip wrapped directly on the handle?
12-18-2009, 05:24 PM
Would that bring it down to 4 1/2?
12-18-2009, 07:27 PM
There are a couple of solutions to this problem:
1. LaserFibre makes a replacement grip that claims it will make the grip size smaller by 1 size. I've never tried one, however I have heard decent feedback from people on these boards. Those can be found on their website, just google laserfibre.
2. You could use a thinner replacement grip like the Babolat Skin Feel or the thin TW Leather.
3. You could wrap 2 overgrips over the bare handle. I wouldn't neccesarily suggest wrapping just one OG the handle, because the handle becomes very hard, and has almost no cushion what so ever.
12-18-2009, 07:35 PM
Actually, my optimum grip size is in between 4 1/2 and 4 5/8. Getting a thin replacement grip should put me somewhere close. I just need to cut down the gripsize by 1/16 inches. Anyone know of any professional companys that can get it professionally sanded down?
12-18-2009, 07:41 PM
If it's that small of an amount you're looking to remove, you could honestly just do it yourself. I've done it before, and as long as you're somewhat careful, it's not extremely hard.
12-18-2009, 09:28 PM
According to the reviews, the Babolat grip reduces it 1/2 a size which is exactly what I need. I'll give that a try.Thanks
12-18-2009, 10:03 PM
Anyone know if RPNY or Priority 1 will sand down a racket grip? Just out of curiosity.
12-19-2009, 04:44 PM
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I'm working in a font family inspired by modern calligraphic forms, It is called: Antic. I'm still working on the italics because I want to make them “true italics”, not just slanted.Hope you like it how it goes so far, and comment is welcome. Below there's a link to the pdf.
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Show black & white pairs, alphabets and pangrams of the same size instead of posters.
Some of your letters (e, c, o) are slanted, while others (n, t, f, v, x...) are not.
/e/ bar falls out of style by being so thin. On the other side, curves are thicker than other stems.
Compare /n/ and /r/ connections - they are not the same.
Hairline /a/ looks fine, but heavier weight's tops are too heavy.
Either /M, O, C, Y/ are too wide, or other capitals are too narrow. Inconsistency.
Can't tell more because of provided poster limitations.
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Looks very promising, like it a lot!
First things that I noticed is the somehwat small crossbar on the /e/ (in the "synth mixtape & coffee" line it really stands out). The /a/ on that same line also looks a bit off. Looks like you are trying to create contrastb there but it's not working exactly right (not sure how to fix it though, im not a pro myself)
as noted above, the /y/ seems a bit out of form since it's leaning a bit & has odd angles?
I like the /a/ and /c/ a lot. love how that c drops at the top
I see that the /M O C/ are wide as Minerva noted, but not sure if you should fix them. They need some companions maybe? You could decide to widen the /P/ and /R/ and similar others as well? Just an idea though, not sure how that will turn out!
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It'd be a good idea to set some paragraphs (black on white) at text sizes and perhaps the glyph set at a large size so we can zoom on all the details and see how it performs in running copy.
Take all advice with plenty of salt...
Since this has a humanist architecture, consider the speed of writing...I really like the dynamism/forward motion of the e, and I think I'd try to match that in some other letters. The t for example is more restrained in its foot, which turns up more. Look also at how swoopy your ampersand (or the g) is compared to the f, which is much firmer. The base of the t is malformed in the middling light weights.
Your a sticks out a bit much for me: remember the game is to get even rhythm and counterspaces among all the letters. Especially in the boldest weight, it's hard to see whether the problem is the small counter of the a or the much larger counter of the o. I think o generally needs a little contrast, and probably some narrowing. (Also the c)
I think the n and r have different joins by necessity. I'd probably tweak the m however. There's something funny going on at the x-height in the m, n and r for me: the arch looks lower than the spurs, or the spurs look too long, I'm not sure.
Crossbars of I could be more definite, if you're going to go with this style.
It's normal for curves to be heavier than stems, at their thickest point, to compensate for the parts where they are thinner. I can't see any spots where you've made them too thick, other than perhaps the top of the e.
Spacing looks tight in the boldest weight.
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Hi! thanks everybody!
@minerva: I was thinking the same of ‘y’, I've corrected now, and the joints on ‘n’ and ‘r’ are different by necessity, as @Bendy point it out
@stinger: I also first noticed the ‘e’ crossbar too, but I wasn't sure, that's the kind of things that need to be said by someone else
@Bendy: I wasn't aware of the stiffness on ‘t’ and ‘f’, and yes the ‘t’ on light weight is wrong, I'll try to low a little bit spurs on ‘m’ ‘n’ and ‘r’
now here are some examples of Antic in running text
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Are the alphabets updated version?
And instead of pictures and body text, give alphabet (and some pangrams) .pdf's. Can't zoom in now.
/e/ crossbar still falls out. Try making it like /a/ pointed variant.
While you want flowing feel with some slanted letters, /a/ is pointing in the opposite direction.
When you change (thicken) /e/ bar, /g/ ear has to be changed too.
/b/ is narrower than /d/, /p/ is WAY narrower than /q/.
/y/ is still too slanted. It has to be made from /v/.
/z/ diagonal needs to be thinner.
/x/ is slanted (not sure if intended).
Add a bar to /G/ terminal.
/S/ too wide.
/Z/ and /z/ are slanted to the left.
Make /1/ flag shorter and more angular.
/2/ diagonal is too thick.
/6/ and /9/ are way too slanted.
Plus, there's lots of optical correction to be done.
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@Minerva, no these aren't updated version
thank you for your comments!
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Feeding a 1 yr old?
I know some of you have 1 yr olds on here, so I am curious as to what you feed your baby?
when merrick was a yr old i fed him mac and cheese casserole with different cut up veggies and a little meat (when he would want to eat meat) in it, spicy ramen noodles with different veggies, crackers, chips, pretzels, if i left the fridge door open then he would get a apple and eat the whole thing. ;D lol, the gerber graduates corn in the pouch is actually good to much on urself, dunno about the other stuff they have like that.
When my son was 1 (he's 2.5 now) he was still breastfeeding so food was really still being introduced at that point, it was more about him learning how to feed himself, since he had another source of nutrition. I never fed him baby food.
He ate grapes (always cut them in half!) whole grain cereals, frozen peas (which he still loves!) bread....some whole grain crackers... yep... that's pretty much it!
Toddlers will eat what they need to eat and their nutrition should be measured weekly, not daily. For example if they eat fruit all day Monday that's fine, as long as they eat other things during the rest of the week. And they will. As long as you don't feed them refined foods (IE sugar!) they will not get the refined foods addiction that causes them to shun other nutritious foods.
Also don't forget, peas for breakfast is OK! great even! and pancakes for dinner, that's okay too!
OH and never give kids juice!!! If you do be sure it 100% juice and water it down by at least half! Don't worry, They don't know what the full strength stuff tastes like! with the lack of fiber in processed juices you're pretty much just giving them sugar water.
Later, my son fell in love with morning star chicken nuggets, which
A) I was not happy about since it was a packaged food and
B) I don't know how this escaped me for so many months but they have egg whites in it!!!!!! GRR... (he's allergic too!!!)
anyway I just adapted Jennifer Mccann's (vegan lunchbox) recipe for baked tofu fish sticks into a "chicken nugget" he loved them from day one! I don't think he even knew the difference from the MS product. I'll post my recipe on vegweb.
and when he turned 2 (until now) he had this apple habit where he'd want from 1-4 apples a day!!! 4 was rare... but on average 2...
They weren't giving him any kind of tummyache so I just let him have them! He still ate other foods as well and there are worse things than apples and fiber. :) that lasted a few months and he's over it now. weird huh??
hope that helps...
Oh and sorry I have to mention this, but FYI Ramen Noodles have 1500 (PLUS)mg of sodium
Sodium RDA (for the whole day) for a 14 month old is 325-1000mg per day .... eeek... be careful.
when he got ramen it was when i was eating it. that was also when we were with zack and it was the only thing there. now we hardly eat it b/c i honestly dont like it that much. zack could live off it everyday.
Thanx for the info. I still breastfeed as well. Not as much as I used to but I mix it in between my daughters meals when she wants a snack or to go to sleep. I give her pretty much every veggie and fruit out there in baby food but I want to start giving her fresh fruit and veggies now that she has 8 teeth.
I only used baby food for about the first month, then moved on to little pieces of things that can be easily 'gummed'. Avocado is a good one, banana, steamed pear and carrot. blueberries are great too. Now that she's skilled with those types of things I give her alot of the same food as us, without the nuts or spices. She has whole grain pasta and homemade bread. I also give her seed butters like pumpkin seed and tahini, which she would eat by the spoonful! I won't give her nuts for a long while yet. I also agree with alot of what Jennifer said. I have recently started giving her rice milk (unsweetened). She occasionally has very watered down, not from concentrate, organic apple juice. I am also still breastfeeding her. Of course, water is also an important liquid for her now.
Vive Le Vegan by Dreena Burton has a really useful food introduction chart in the back. It is also full of delicious, simple recipes.
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Need some help on Religious text
I have a question about the anti-christ as it is written in the Bible. I have heard that the Bible states that the anti-christ will reveal himself prior to the coming of the messiah. I have also heard that the anti-christ will declare himself God to the world, but I can't find that in the Bible either. Can anyone point me to exact passages which confirm either of these claims. Also, feel free to add any extra anti-christ bible quotes that you feel may be relevant to my inquiry.
EDIT: I stopped viewing this tread because the responses were sporadic. I didn't realize there were so many! Thank you. The passages I was looking for specifically are found in 2 Thessalonians 2. Thanks for all who contributed. Perhaps we should start a thread that attempts to interpret these passages 0.0 ?
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Here is an eleven part teaching on the antichrist.
This is Part I and you just carry on from there as there is a link at the bottom of each page taking you to the next part. This is not a teaching you will read anywhere else but it is nevertheless the truth. The antichrist is a lot nearer home that you may imagine.
Here is an excerpt from Part I:
"In I Jn. 2:18 we read, "Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have beard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; wherefore we know that it is the last hour." God's penman, 1900 years ago wrote, that as the coming of the antichrist heralds the last hour, therefore, since there were at that time "many antichrists", this fact proved that he himself was living then in the "last hour".
And if he, John the beloved, saw many antichrists in his day, after only a few decades of progression into the dispensation of the Spirit, how much more may we today say that there are "many antichrists" after 1900 years of apostasy and shame, during which time God also said that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived" (II Tim. 3:13). How much more should we today expect to find the Church full of these antichrists, since God also promised that in this same age "there will be a time when they will not endure wholesome instruction, but, having itching ears, will accumulate teachers for themselves, according to their own lusts; and they shall indeed turn away from the hearing of the truth, and be turned aside to fables" (II Tim. 4:3-4).
John saw many antichrists in his day. The number has been increasing steadily, all through the years, until we now find ourselves surrounded with these men. But who are they, what are they, and how do we recognize them?"
If you are serious in your quest for truth then you will read these words and be blessed by them.
"For where two or three are
Was reading the thread, and thinking it compares to 'where there is a dead body, there the vultures (eagles) gather.
Maybe not in a good way!
This is what I enjoy on a Daily Paul, a good religious discussion with fellow Christians.
In My Name.
this has been emphasized in the NT verse above, = as before in the OT.
We see the Name is the Value, to which there has to be mutual /common attraction - (for lack of a better example see the magnet, sprinkled pieces of iron will be attracted / come together when the magnet comes near).
Name is Vital Sign, Voice sound, Written Word, by which to remember, mention, address or call. A given /proper name does not change with time,language, religion or location. Take for example the name of "Adam", its universal, there is no controversy, contradiction or change. There is no translation, only transliteration.
Let us recall the (special) name of the Maseah, son of Maryum.
Reminder, it was sent down to his noble mother by The Most High.
Here's an interesting and enlightening study....
This tract below that was
This tract below was distributed by Roger Sherman, one of the founding fathers, and the one known for sound money. I've been studying it a lot for the last several weeks.
It goes into sin and hell, but it is full of grace, and does tell you the one thing needful.
I'm about to update the formatting a little again - as the hymn at the end could be broken up into stanzas for easier reading.
Sin, Hell, and the End Time
Sin, Hell, and the End Time
Collected passages from Holy Bible from below, no particular order.
Hebrews 10:26-30, Isaiah 13:1-22, Matthew 24:29-31, Matthew 24:24, Matthew 7:13-14, Luke 13:22-30, Romans 1:18-32, 2 Timothy 3:1-8, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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Full text for scripture on "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away". Useful to this thread!
2 Timothy 3
Focus on Anti- _ Maseah*
* The Anointed /appointed Leader, King of Israel, about whom it was prophesied, the awaited one, - to guide & remind, and lead to victory, etc., many fair words can be said about him.
"Maseah" is the original title, authentic, true and well deserved. The name & title was given as the good news to his noble & virtuous mother before his birth, - the Holy Spirit brought the message from The Most High, The Almighty. The faithful are humble & modest, will amend & bear witness to truth, - when they recognize it.
He was from & sent to the nation of Israel, - some recognized & accepted the son of Maryum as Maseah, - there were others who rejected the Maseah, uttered foul language against him, called him "Impostor", etc., and made plans to kill him. They are still waiting, & are happy if the honored title [Maseah*] is not used for the son of Maryum.
The controversy or contention at that time was = "Is the son of Maryum the Maseah?" - If , the answer for you is positive /yes, then call /use/ remind /mention as the "Maseah". Do Not displace, change, alter, 'translate', = give-up the replacement, edit or delete the untrue. If you are unsure of the answer then there is No need to fix or say "christ".
= remain witness of only the True.
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Why would you need help with this?
The Anti_Christ is ?
You will find him/her behind the green door!
Find the quiet and you may get a sighting! Find the quiet and you may find your SOUL!!!
The Anti-Christ is well hidden and only you may find him/her. Don't trust the Churches for they feed the devil! You can find him but you can help NO OTHER!
Semper Fi, my Brothers and Sisters!
I was taught there are many anti-Christs
Just one satan of course, but the anti-Christ figure is supposed to be anyone who is opposed to, 'anti', Christ. Therefore, Saul was an anti-Christ figure, as were numerous figures in history.
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Yup. Just one satan, but there are so many doing his will that..
it feels like there are more than just one, IMO. It's like an army coming out of the woodwork lately. As for Saul, give the guy a break. Before his conversion on the road to Damascus, he was an Antichrist no doubt. After he had his wake-up call, he did change for the better.
Saul, Paul of Tarsus wrote 13 of the 27 chapters,
of the "new" Testament. please correct me if I am wrong. and he did so while Locked up? in Prison? I found that to be very interesting when I learned of it...
and the reason he was locked up would get you locked up today!
and rightfully so I might say....
forgive me, but I don't think pencils and paper were available.... and how did he pay for postage?
you will NOT offend me sir, but these are some of the questions I have... I hope that you do not find my query offensive or an attack....
As far as 'prison' is
As far as 'prison' is concerned, he was under house arrest pending trial after events recorded at the end of the book of acts. You'll also see that he had visitors. Since he hadn't been found guilty, he had some liberty, but by appealing to Caesar's justice he was not at liberty to go where he please until the matter was sorted out.
They did not have a postal service then, but they did had a form of paper called papyrus, and letters were delivered by travellers, in this case by fellow Christians, some of whom are named in the letters.
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The answer is I don't know how he did it.
Thomas Paine wrote the first half of the Age of Reason while in a french jail while awaiting possible execution by guillotine. I don't know how he that either, but I thank God that he did, IMO. I would say that their writings were preordained, if there is such a thing.
No offense taken, bro. I'm a Deist. I strongly believe that God exists, but that is all.
Sweet, A thread on Religion and not a single troll!
Personally I am a Deist. and there is nothing that warms my heart more than to enjoy reasonable Theological discussion.
and this is all I have to say about that!
Bible texts
There are 3 sections of scripture that deal with what we call the antichrist. Daniel 7 (8 & 11 too); 2 Thessalonians 2; and Revelation 13. However the antichrist is not called the antichrist in these scriptures. The little horn, man of sin, son of perdition, and the beast are what they refer to the antichrist as. For whatever reason this power, which is the same power referred to in each place, has become known as the anitchrist.
as to your specific texts, 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4. A few quick things. One it doesn't say he will reveal himself. It says the falling away or apostasy will reveal him. Kind of like how Jesus said we will know them by their fruits. Secondly, the antichrist is referred to as the son of perdition. The only other reference to that phrase is found in John 17:12. That refers to Judas. Now Judas was not openly opposed to Christ. I think that helps us understand the nature of the antichrist. Anti in this case refers to "in the place of" not "against" It is like antipasta at an Italian restaurant. The salad takes the place of pasta if you order it. It doesn't fight the spaghetti! These 2 verses also show that it is a religious power not a solely political power. It desires and gets worship that is due only to God. Again wants to take his place.
Revelation 13:1-8. Real quick this in in reference to verse 3. Like Jesus was crucified and then rose from the dead. The antichrist receives a mortal or deadly wound, is gone, but then comes back, it is healed, before the end of time. The antichrist power rules for a time, is gone, but then will come back with a vengeance at the end of time. I hope this helps.
Ah, so the bible doesn't specifically say
that the "anti" figure will reveal himself as being "so and so". That's what I was looking for. I was under the impression that there was suppose to be some "unveiling" and I just couldn't find it. Also, this seems to address another question I had, namely, that the "anti" figure would claim himself to be God, and expect worship, as you put it. But instead, the "anti" figure is suppose to seek those things (worship) that is reserved for God, but not by revealing himself as such. If I interpret you correctly.
Need some help on Religious text
"If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. he has cursed his father or mother: his blood is on his own hands."
Leviticus 20:9
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Yea that is aweful
I mean it's not like today when people are so much more civilized that they kill there children for NO REASON while they are still in the womb.
I have no problem with that text. It was what it was and it will be again. Because when all you rebellious children who have cursed, mocked and denied GOD stand before the judgement then you will be destroyed also. But if we honor our Father then we will be forgiven of our short comings and welcomed into His Kingdom.
Sounds great to me.
I think it shows that if they
I think it shows that if they were really serious about sin in the old testament in their government then, then they really meant it when they said God punishes sinners, and there is a hell.
How much worse is hell than dying which we all will do at some point? A lake of fire, and torment for ever.
God also has given you a chance to repent and be saved - in a way you need to know about. So if you curse your parents, are a thief, lie, hate, mock, insult, and all the other sins your neighbors and family don't know about but God does - you are, as "The Greatest Concern in the World" tract says, the most miserable person in the world. In Acts, after the jailer witnessed the miracle God had performed for his people, that there was a great earthquake and all the cells were opened after their praying and singing, he said to them - what must I do to be saved? - Acts 16:30.
That was the old testament
That was the old testament above and the law for their government, but perhaps I was thinking about this verse below in how to relate it now. FYI - do you make money off of marijuana? i.e. "medical marijuana ministry"?
Hebrews 10
The Lord will punish world for evil at the end - says right here
Isaiah 13:11
Wanted to post the full scripture around Isaiah 13:11, because not only does it say God will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity, which appears to contradict what a couple have said on the thread, but the rest of the passage appears to include parts quoted by Jesus Christ in what happens at the end in Matthew 24 and like parallel passages in the other gospels. I bolded a few parts for emphasis, including those that are in Matthew 24.
I'm sure all the stuff that happens at the end isn't as bad as ever lasting punishment in hell. That is the most important concern. What you must do to be saved. Amen.
Isaiah 13:1-22
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall ave no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
Compare to like verses in the
Compare to like verses in the gospels. Matthew 24.
Probably should have bolded
Probably should have bolded this verse too
RE: Need some help on Religious text
Exposition of end-of-the world prophesy is one of the areas of Bible exegesis that is most fraught with error and outright baloney. (Hint: much more of the prophesy in Daniel and Revelation is about things that have already taken place than some people selling their own interpretations are likely to admit) One difficulty is that one tends to be drawn to the most most exciting and glamorous-seeming interpretations, while ignoring one's own common sense. I think a good place to start is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Book of Revelation" (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Book-Revelation/...) This is a pretty neutral, calm discussion, which lists some of the most common approaches that have arisen through history. The main thing is to read Daniel and Revelation without expecting or demanding a clear understanding of every detail immediately, but getting the main point, which is that none of what you see taking place around you is unknown or surprising to God, and therefore that, if you trust God, you don't need to be afraid.
Ask yourself where did the word "Satan" or "Devil" or "Lucifer"
come from?
Now what does the Bible say in Mathew 5:25?
Now lets look to the words "Hell", "Hades":
O.E. hel, helle, "nether world, abode of the dead, infernal regions," from P.Gmc. *haljo "the underworld" (cf. O.Fris. helle, Du. hel, O.N. hel, Ger. Hölle, Goth. halja "hell") "the underworld," lit. "concealed place" (cf. O.N. hellir "cave, cavern"), from PIE *kel- "to cover, conceal, save" (see cell).
Who is the dead? Are WE the dead of the world until we come out of her, and announce that we are alive? Have you ever seen the British Governments website and the Cesui Que Vie Act of 1[666]?
I tend to believe that Act IS the Mark of the Beast.
And finally "Sin":
I tend to believe that Satan is the courts/judges/lawyers acting/practicing in the Satanic "spirit of the law" instead of the actual law itself, and "Hell" is the prisons they have built for us, that they will one day occupy themselves.
Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe vnto you also ye lawyers: for ye lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and ye your selues touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:52
The Bible is rooted in Trust Law; it's almost a History of Law in and of itself. Some say (and I tend to believe) the Holy Trinity is:
Executor - Beneficiary - Trustee = God - We The People - Government
If we as living beings are the beneficiaries of the Last Living Will and Testament of God (The Holy Bible), who was the first Executor of the first Estate known as earth, then perhaps there is no actual creature or being named Satan or the Anti-Christ, but instead the spirit of all that is of evil (courts/judges/attorneys/prisons,etc.) and the good is within us as living Gods and Executors of our own Estate(s) or our own body/mind/soul, for which the most part, is of good and peace.
How peaceful would the world be, if we were not living in fear of Satan (ie: courts/judges/lawyers/prison/fines/IRS,etc)?
Anti-Christ = Everything that is diametrically opposed to good-right, and just in the world (Heaven on Earth).
Remember what the Founders carved in stone "In God We Trust"
I tend to believe the Bible is a history of the Law, and Satan is the antithesis of that Law.
Trust Law
Do you believe!
Do you believe that one omnipotent being's focus is on one speck of insignificant dust "Earth" in the universe and on one life form Man/Human? Or do you believe that the ability/conditions for life to exist is the focus?
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If you use loaded language,
If you use loaded language, then you slant the question and the answer. "One speck of insignificant dust" is worthy of Stephen Hawking. However, if you tell people they live on an insignificant speck of dust, why be surprised when they have no nobility? Whether Christianity, or any other religion, is ultimately true or not, even from a sociological point of view, telling people they are nothing, that the beginning and end of their life is forfeit at a whim, and the in-between is a tale 'told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing,' then don't complain when society crumbles into totalitarianism as the 'strong' rise up over the weak because people aren't worth anything.
Christianity has bad stuff in its past and present, but at least we have a high standard we can be recalled to, and our vision of what a human being is is meant to ennoble and inspire. In a Hawking/Dawkins/Harris universe, the principle 'Greater love has no man, than to lay down his life for his brother' is sheer unsubstantiated folly, and those who try to cling to it are living on borrowed capital.
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I an not surprised when they have no nobility!
I am disappointed when they do not exploit the opportunities that are present to expand their knowledge and or ability!!! I am disappointed when individuals don't make the best out of themselves !!! I am disappointed that people still blame their problems and trials on gods and not on the fact they are living with themselves and other unintellectual individuals that blame their misfortunes on gods and others. I am disappointed that you think the universe is flat!!!
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or something to separate the TV from the fireplace because I am worried that the tv will get too much heat from fireplace
who makes the fireplace and how high is it and the tv mounted from the floor?
Gas fireplaces don't require a hearth as there are no embers popping out.
clean fireplace wall. modern look but cozy
them look like they're combined. Design tip: When placing your TV above your fireplace, make sure it's low enough to be comfortable to look at. You don't
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Hello I just wanted to know how the design for the wall with the tv and fireplace done.
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manufacturer of the fireplace is Montigo... Here is a link to there website... artoffireplaces.com... This was a commercial custom fireplace.
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Billy Spencer dumps jail uniforms and crime scene tape into a Dumpster on Tuesday as the Running Rebels say the city doesn’t need them when the program keeps youths out of jail.
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Milwaukee's Running Rebels says it has helped keep nearly 900 young people out of prison since 1998 who otherwise might have collectively served hundreds of thousands of days in state corrections facilities at taxpayer expense. »Read Full Article
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1. I expect Sheriff Clarke to issue an insulting press release in 5...4...3...
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2. How about educating people where these guys grow up about birth control and not depending on government programs for their existence. Teach them about the value of education, one in four young black male dropouts incarcerated or otherwise institutionalized on an average day. The dropout rate is driving the nation’s increasing prison population, and it’s a drag on America’s economic competitiveness. the statistics were worse for young African-American dropouts, whose unemployment rate last year was 69 percent, compared with 54 percent for whites and 47 percent for Hispanics. There is so much work that needs to be done to help people in urban areas become more productive citizens, where do you start, where are the leaders in the African American areas, stepping up.
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• You cannot help them, its virtually impossible since the culture is morally bankrupt. These programs might help a few but you can count them on one hand. People that could make a difference do nothing, and many profit from the ongoing madness. Michelle believes a weight problems trump bullets. So, how do you fix 'stupid?'
• Sorry, only enough funds to teach reading, writing, and artihmetic. Schools teach to the standardized tests (WKCE, etc.) because schools don't want to perform poorly on these tests, or they will get trashed by the state. Teachers know there is a need for these basic skills that students didn't learn at home; but, unfortunately, teachers have to teach to the standardized tests or risk losing their jobs because that is how teachers are evaluated these days.
• Actually, MPS and other systems have been found to intentionally sabotage schools for the money, both when the school crashes, and when it is "revived." I believe Custer High was one of the prize examples. "Educator" Kathy Bonds...the former principal coincidentally married to School Board President Michael Bonds, was the Board's "Chainsaw Principal". Check it out in past issues of this daily.
3. In a jail cell everything is provided from food, to clean sheets, to meds, to doctors appointments and housing. That is the first step to teaching them entitlements are easier. Convicts don't have to go in the snow to clean off the transport van, walk across ice in the parking lot to get to work or worry about remembering to buy groceries.
Abele is correct. Programs like this need to expand.
4. Let me see if I have this straight: The guy who pulled the armed robbery is now a teacher's aide.
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5. This would be the equivalent of having a similar group, 'the runnin' rebels' in the segregated South. The group urges business owners to take down the segregationist signs and treat all races as you would treat yourself. Now, you might have some small successes; maybe a small bed and breakfast begins to accept all races, but you still have an overwhelmingly racist culture.
The result is similar in any culture that has chosen to be anti-society and morally bankrupt. Its a little different in today's society since very very few were murdered in the South, today, there are many thousands murdered, and millions violently assaulted in a culture that has no moral compass and absolutely no resolve to change.
It took the movement of non-violence and MLK to shame a society into living up to its promise, to live up to its highest ideals. Since the death of King it has only been about tearing society down. There is the incredible arrogance that embodies the race hustlers, they believe in a morally superior position (the delusion is massive) and in their self-righteous sanctimony only tear society down. They hold the majority society to God-like righteousness but hold their own race to absolutely nothing; less than nothing since pure rottenness can be leveraged and extorted in incredibly immoral ways.
6. Replace Milwaukee WRAP program, and Milwaukee Juvenile Supervision with the Running Rebels. This organization is top provides support, guidance, and helps these individuals mature all while incorporating accountability into the program. They are an excellent resource .......
7. Our young people need to realize they also fuel political division and the rise of the 1% through crime. Lets build more prisons lobby gets rich while our young people are doing life. You are building houses and buying cars for them with all this crime. $1000 an hour lawyers feeding you bologna in those cells.
Build your dream. Teach Educate Advocate.
8. Good job guys
9. at $100k per inmate, I think they are living way to good. No clean sheets, one meal of bread and water, lower the heat and take out the air conditioning and make them work in the a chain gang environment and then maybe, some of the less dumb ones will get it....
10. Great group! thank you for services!!!
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Should leaving the kids behind be the goal?
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
Mona Charen
In her TED talk three years ago, and now in a book that has received lavish attention, Sandberg laments that women “are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. The numbers tell the story . . . 190 heads of state — nine are women. Of all the people in parliaments in the world, 13 percent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top . . . 15, 16 percent.”
Sandberg appears not to be complaining about sexism so much as encouraging women to stop sabotaging their own success. “Studies show,” she reports, that women are less likely to attribute their success to their own merit than are men. They are less likely to ask for raises or to negotiate for better terms in a job search. When they are successful, they are less likely than comparable males to be considered “likable.”
Those statistics ring true to me, as I’ve noticed both from personal experience and from studies that women tend to judge themselves more harshly than do men on other matters too. Women, for example, are less likely than men to consider themselves good-looking. If Sandberg wants to agitate to help women think better of themselves and get the raises that are due to them, good for her.
Leaving the kid appears to be the goal. But why? “I think a world that was run where half our countries and half our companies were run by women, would be a better world.”
Isn’t it odd that people who exhort us to increase the number of women in powerful, high-paying jobs, on the speculative grounds that this will be good for the world, discount the roles of women as mothers, which are (usually) of undeniable benefit to their kids? Many women have figured this out. One put it this way: “The world will not be affected one way or another if it has one more accountant during the next decade. But my kids will be profoundly affected by having me raise them.”
Many women also find that devoting their time to raising happy, ethical, and responsible children is more rewarding than spending 60 hours a week at the office. Why should they be made to feel that they are letting down the team?
“I hope that . . . you have the ambition to run the world,” Sandberg told Barnard graduates, “because this world needs you to run it.” But the world can wait. Kids can’t.
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Cloud computing has proven a boon to businesses—especially small businesses, for which it hits a particularly sweet spot. With cloud services, small businesses reap the benefits of not having to deploy physical infrastructure like file and e-mail servers, storage systems or shrink-wrapped software. Plus, the "anywhere, anytime" availability of these solutions, means hassle-free collaboration among business partners and employees using the ubiquitous browser. Cloud services also provide entrepreneurs, SOHOs, and mom-and-pop outfits access to sophisticated technology without the need of an IT consultant or tech worker on the payroll.
In fact, it's not a stretch to say that aside from a locally installed desktop operating system and browser (or increasingly, from a single mobile device) a lot of today's small business technology needs can be fulfilled almost completely with cloud-based offerings.
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Many businesses are countering that complete dependency by going with hybrid cloud solutions. For instance, companies such as Egnyte and Rebit will replicate data stored locally on a hard drive or NAS to their cloud services, offering SMBs the best of both worlds: local control and access to data and peace of mind that the data is backed up to the cloud. For more on ways to avoid getting burned during a cloud service provider's downtime, check out: Analyst's View: After Intuit's Apology, Cloudy Outlook for the Cloud?.
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Many complain that the concept of cloud computing is merely a marketing term to define centralized, mainframe computing. However, the model of today's cloud computing differs from that of mainframes of the past.
First, the sheer amount of resources available makes today's cloud computing incomparable to mainframe/terminal host computing. It's nothing for cloud storage providers to quickly add another GB of storage for a customer simply at the customer's request thanks to scalable and flexible cloud-computing resources hosted by the likes of Amazon, Rackspace and other providers. The efficiency of delivering cloud computing resources is also credited to faster networking and Internet connectivity at a relatively low price.
Second, cloud computing is a broad umbrella under which many sub-divisions fall. Cloud computing can include Software-as-a-Service where a specific application or service is offered to a customer as a subscription. Dropbox,, and QuickBooks are all examples of SaaS.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) allows businesses a platform on which they can create and deploy custom apps, databases and line-of-business services integrated into one platform. Examples of PaaS include Windows Azure and Google App Engine.
With Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), businesses can purchase infrastructure from providers as virtual resources. Components include servers, memory, firewalls and more. IaaS providers include Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and Google Compute Engine.
Most small businesses will more than likely only need to use SaaS services. For these businesses, SaaS provides a way of delivering a host of software and technical services that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive and difficult to manage as on-premise, local solutions.
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The nation's capital is a swamp of dumb rules and jumbled zoning laws. Let's fix them.
This engraving from the pages of a 1870s Harper's magazine shows Washington, D.C., with nearly the same height restrictions we have today; WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
If D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Rep. Darrell Issa get their way, Congress may finally relax the 102-year-old law that limits most building heights in Washington D.C. to no more than 130 feet. This would be a victory for good urban planning in the District, though a small one: Gray and Issa are saying that in most cases only about one additional story of development would be allowed.
But the real crisis of land use in Washington goes way beyond the height limit. It's that the District's planning and zoning apparatus is overall hostile to new development, usually allowing far less building that would be permitted by the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910. And while D.C.'s planning rules are restrictive, they are also arbitrary and unevenly enforced, making it a difficult market to enter.
Before I worked in public policy, I spent three years as a commercial real estate lending analyst for Wells Fargo. Nearly all of the project financings I worked on were in either New York City or Washington. And while both of these are expensive real estate markets with lots of rules about land use, there was a big difference between the two: New York, unlike Washington, has rule of law in land use.
Most development in New York City is done as-of-right. That means that, for any given piece of land, you can pick up a copy of the zoning declaration and figure out what you will be able to build: how many square feet of building area, how far it has to be set back from the street, how much parking, what kinds of uses, and so on. The incentive programs are also formulaic. For example, you get density bonuses in exchange for building public plazas.
There are exceptions to this rule. Most importantly, Manhattan has seen an unfortunate proliferation of "historic districts," where designs must be approved by a board of busybodies who will decide whether your plans for your property fit the neighborhood's character. Increasingly, these districts are being expanded to include vacant lots, and even a BP gas station on Houston Street, which recently needed historic district approval to change the doors on a storage shed.
But New York's historic districts, and the discretionary approvals they necessitate, are an exception to the usual development process. In D.C., a discretionary and arbitrary approval process is the norm for developments of any significant size.
It is normal for development projects in Washington, D.C. to obtain zoning variances or to go through a Planned Unit Development process, in which normal zoning rules are overridden. Officials in Washington tend to think of this as a strength of their planning process. The city shows "flexibility," approving extra development where the developer can demonstrate benefits to the community.
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Tyler and Duncan are melting metal in the garage before Scot tries to film Tyler. Kinsey catches Scot before he leaves the grounds and asks to have the camera turned on her. Kinsey tells the camera her mother is a drunk and that she [Kinsey] fears she is like her mother. Dodge/Bode makes preparations for the big night in the Drowning Cave. This is the perfect opportunity for Dodge to unleash the demons from the Black Door, thereby turning some of the prom partyers into slaves to become “soldiers” in his army.
Rufus Whedon, Ellie’s mentally handicapped son, is the only person who knows Dodge is possessing Bode’s body. Because Rufus’s mother is dead and his father abandoned him, the poor boy has no family, and he is being placed in a home for orphans. After conferring with Bode’s ghost, Rufus struggles with how to handle the situation with Dodge. He doesn’t think the Lockes will believe him because he is self-aware enough to know of his mental challenges. In a brash move, Rufus begins choking the body of Bode, shocking everybody and causing Rufus to be sent to McClellan Psychiatric Hospital, which also houses Erin Voss. A good amount of this second issue focuses on Rufus’s story before he eventually breaks out of the hospital.
Kinsey is wearing a nice dress waiting for her boyfriend Jamal to arrive for prom. Scot and Jackie arrive with their outfits are swapped—because of a bet, Scot is wearing the dress while Jackie wears the tux.
Bode’s ghost is floating around trying to speak with his mother, but she doesn’t believe it is him. Then Dodge as Bode comes strolling into the living room wearing the Crown of Shadows; it is far past Bode’s bed time, but he doesn’t care. When Nina protests, Dodge/Bode commands the shadows to attack her while making it look as if she got drunk and passed out.
Tyler is hesitant to attend the prom. Instead, he and Duncan are repairing an old muscle car in the garage as Tyler tries to explain the story of the keys and Dodge to his uncle. Because of the Riffle Rule, Duncan is having a tough time understanding and believing what Tyler is telling him. After much discussion, Duncan convinces Tyler to go to the prom in a tuxedo t-shirt. As soon as Tyler leaves, shadows begin attacking Duncan. At the prom, Scot wearing the white dress takes the stage, and with a little help from Jamal, re-enacts the blood bucket scene from Carrie.
When Tyler arrives, he crosses paths with Jordan, his bad-girl infatuation from earlier in the storyline. The two get very close before returning to the grounds of Keyhouse Manor, along with Kinsey and her friends. Kinsey opens the front door to her home only to find Mom passed out drenched in alcohol. Thinking the worst (as Dodge planned), she berates her mother before quickly closing the door and leading her friends to the Drowning Cave. Tyler arrives a little bit later after his ‘meeting’ with Jordan and is attacked by the shadows, bringing the third issue of “Omega” to a close.
The fourth issue begins with Nina waking from the shadow attack and Tyler and Duncan trapped in the trunk of the car they’d been repairing. With much of the student body partying in the Drowning Cave, Dodge-as-Bode bursts in and grabs everyone’s attention before deciding to unleash the shadows. A quick flash to Rufus on his journey from McClellan to Lovecraft with his soldier action figure precedes the few panels of Nina struggling, finally believing she hears Bode and dialing Detective Mutuku’s number. The remainder of the fourth issue features Duncan and Tyler fighting the shadows above ground while more shadows terrorize those in the Drowning Cave, including Kinsey and her friends.
Much of the fifth issue continues to show the battles against the shadows. When Mutuku and his back-up arrive at Keyhouse, Tyler is accidentally shot. Scot and Jackie are now under Bode’s control; Scot bearing the Hercules Key and Jackie the Angel Key, which they use to torture their former friends. Nina remembers the Mending Key and Mending Cabinet, so she rushes Tyler into it in the hope that his wounds are fresh enough to be healed. While Tyler is in the box, he visits with his Father’s spirit—the remnant of Nina’s attempt to bring him back by putting his ashes inside the cabinet. Rendell gives Tyler some advice on how to combat Dodge before Tyler is returned to the world fully healed. The “Omega” portion of the story ends with Jamal and Kinsey alone in the dark on a scaffolding in the Drowning Cave.
The sixth issue and first of “Alpha” features more shadow battles, Tyler crafting a key, and Rufus arriving at the grounds of Keyhouse Manor. Rufus meets Nina as Mutuku is killed; Nina finally realizes that Bode is not really her son and she forgives Rufus for the earlier attack. Dodge reveals the scope of his plan to the surviving kids in the Drowning Cave: rather than allowing the demons to overtake the world, he will use the Head Key to control them and craft more keys.
Tyler arrives with the key he created, the Alpha Key, which gives him the power to flush demons out of people who are affected by the other keys. In other words, he crafted a master key. Tyler unlocks many of the kids, but Dodge escapes… right into the arms of Rufus. Rufus brings the body of his friend to the Wellhouse, which drives the spirit of Dodge out of Bode’s body but also unfortunately extinguishes the life of the youngest Locke. The issue ends with many people, including most of the students, dead and Keyhouse burning.
The final issue of Locke & Key is an extended epilogue and is very much a period of house cleaning for the Locke children. Funerals are featured for many of the kids, including Bode. Tyler has some unfinished business he wants to take care of for his father, one last chance to redeem Lucas Carvaggio—he draws Dodge out with the Echo key, then uses the Alpha Key to return Lucas’s soul to his body, allowing him to pass peacefully. Tyler and Kinsey return Erin’s memories to her head, giving her the strength and power to walk out of the hospital. After Tyler rides off on Jordan’s motorcycle, a sparrow catches his attention; Bode’s spirit never died, so the sparrow went into the animal door and sacrificed itself so that Bode could live and be returned to his own body. The family grows as they adopt Rufus. The last few pages are a final reunion between Tyler and Rendell, before Tyler locks the Wellhouse for good.
Some might say that it was a little too neat of an ending to have Bode survive the series. However, if there’s anything that rises to the surface despite the dark events, it is the presence of hope. Despite Rendell being murdered, despite the shit Tyler dealt with, despite Nina’s alcoholism, Bode being possessed by Dodge, sparks of hope peppered the storyline. That hope began to grow as the story progressed, from the moments in “Keys to the Kingdom” when Tyler plants his proverbial feet in the ground and tells his siblings Lovecraft is their home.
If I could pin the hope that shone through the brightest it would be the one character who acted the most heroically from the moment we met him; the one who through his more simple understanding of the world saw Zack for what he was: Rufus Whedon. Poor Rufus grew up in a house where his father abandoned him because of his mental handicap, his grandmother was verbally abusive to him and his mother, physically abusive to him and he was forced to live with an actual demon. By all accounts, the boy could have bottled up his emotions and shut the world out. He was an outgoing and friendly boy. He befriended Bode, which is possibly the most important relationship in the entire storyline. Catching up with him here, those aforementioned dust mites crept in when we saw Rufus speaking to his robot soldier whose helmet was removed to reveal with whom it was Rufus imagined himself conversing: his mother. Nina realizes Rufus was trying to help the Lockes when he was strangling the Dodge-possessed-Bode and his heroic gambit at the end pulling Bode into the Wellhouse was the coup de grâce. She forgives him and realizes he is a true friend to the family.
The battles in the Drowning Cave were another chance for Gabriel Rodriguez to unfurl his imaginative brush and give create great shadow monsters to terrorize the kids. It was also interesting to see some of the other kids under the power of the keys. When Tyler arrives with the Alpha Key, he thinks he’ll be able to save all of his friends. While he does, in a sense because the Alpha Key forces the demons out of the kids’ bodies, the process is not something the body can survive. Another bittersweet moment is when Jordan leaves Jamal and Kinsey on the scaffolding, calling back to Kinsey’s first trip into the Drowning Cave. Almost all of the kids who were partying in the Cave are dead.
The last few pages, the meeting between Tyler and Rendell’s Echo seal up everything for the Locke family and brings full circle Tyler’s redemption in his own eyes.
So, with Locke & Key complete, Hill and Rodriguez have finished taking readers on a journey over five years in the travelling. It had highs and lows, we saw the maturation and redemption of many of the characters. Strike that, Kinsey, Tyler, and Nina were all redeemed by story’s end; Lucas’s soul was saved, Tyler’s conflicted thoughts and feelings with his father were resolved, and Bode was returned to the boy we first met.
Bravo to all those involved in producing Locke & Key; it is a superb literary achievement.
Key Revealed:
Alpha Key: Turns either way, as Rendell’s apparition tells Tyler. Moving this key towards an individual who is possessed by a demon opens a keyhole on their chest. When used, the key allows for the demon to be expunged from its host, but with lethal results for the host.
Rob Bedford lives in NJ with his wife and dog and only has keys to his house and car. He hasn’t found any keys made of whispering iron yet, but he’s not giving up hope. He reviews books and moderates forums at SFFWorld, has a blog about stuff and writes “The Completist” column for SF Signal. If you want to read random thoughts about books, TV, his dog, beer, and hockey you can follow him on Twitter: @RobHBedford.
1. vjj
I loved the series up until "Alpha & Omega". While I didn't expect a full reveal of the demons of "Leng", I certainly didn't want as boring an explanation as we received from Mr. Hill. My position on the demons of "Leng" is that either you have an absolutely brilliant examination of them or you keep it mysterious with only hints of their true Horror.
Possessed-Dodge's masterplan was a huge disappointment (it was quite banal) and I think that it hurt the rest of the series. Possessed-Dodge turned out to be no different than any other kind of psychopathic tyrant.
Oh well, at least I can still enjoy volumes 1-5.
2. JessRey
Thanks for the reread--I had read up through volume 3 after it was released, then stopped. I wanted to read it all in one go once it was finished, and that time came this last week. After each volume I stopped and digested with the reread and tried to pick up on what I missed.
I was really surprised by how much I felt for Lesser as his story progressed. I don't think he deserved any sympathy. Similarly, as more of Caravaggio was revealed--the real Caravaggio--I felt much more for him too. So kudos Hill for making the villains more nuanced than I anticipated. Over all though, the most effective moments in the entire run for me were always when Lucas was inserting himself in the Locke's lives while they were completely oblivious to his intentions.
I'm uncertain how I feel about Bode coming back. It straddles the line between earned/not earned. I think partially the logic and use of the animal key doesn't quite work for me, but this is a story about magical keys, so I'm not sure if I should really be concerned about that.
Robert H. Bedford
3. RobB
I can almost buy that Bode coming back wasn't earned, almost. But the family had lost their father, many of their friends, their ancestral home and nearly lost so much more.
I felt the logic for Bode coming back via Animal key was laid out in "Keys to the Kingdom."
As for Sam Lesser, I felt less sympathy for him than the real Lucas, but that I did feel *any* sympathy for him speaks to the great work Hill & Rodriguez did with the character.
4. Betsy Boo
Desperately trying to figure out how Bode's body was reanimated after being cremated. I feel really stupid that I don't understand. Personally, I think Bode should've have remained a sparrow.
5. sertaki
Reanimation process:
sparrow uses ghost-door, dies.
Bode enters body of sparrow
Bode uses animal door to change into Bode.
(It was re-established, that Bode changes into a Sparrow and back using that door. It allso was hinted, that a person tuns into one type of animal - as neither Bode nor Zack had to use a method of choosing the type)
Anyway, it was a stretch that this actually re-created Bode's body. After all, it was not the Bode-Sparrow that changed into a human, but another.
Bode might have easily come back as some other boy - would have left a bittersweet taste.
6. Betsy Boo
Thanks Sertaki...That kinda makes sense but still leaves me with questions. I mean, you have to use the key to get the change, right? How did the sparrow use the key? But maybe I'm obsessing too much about this. I still think Bode should've remained a sparrow.
7. Betsy Boo
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Thursday, 20th May 2010 16:29 GMT By Stephany Nunneley
The Daily Mail has said that its report on Red Dead Redemption having possibly cost around $100 million to make was nothing more than conjecture on its part.
Speaking with Develop, the paper states that the figure was reached by researching game development budgets.
TDM figured that since the most ever spent on project development was the $100 million “allegedly” set aside for GTA IV, and concluded that Red Dead Redemption had to have cost the same at the least.
“It’s not based on anything we have heard about,” the paper said.
Such figures are not unheard of, really. Gran Turismo 5 is just one example, with Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi admitting that the game had cost $60 million “during its protracted development phase”.
So, there you go. Assumed. Surmised. Concluded.
Good thing TDM put the phrase “are thought to have spent” in there before the figure.
RDR is out in the US now, and is hitting Europe now, and the UK on Friday.
1. Blerk
Just like every other story they ever ran then!
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2. Stephany Nunneley
I dunno. Stuff like this will will them a Pulitzer eventually:
#2 5 years ago
3. NGCes26294BIV
“It’s not based on anything we have heard about,”
Brilliant. Couldn’t ask for a better quote from a newspaper, when referring to a piece of NEWS they’re printing.
#3 5 years ago
4. LewieP
Seems almost like it was silly to link to something that the daily mail said in the first place…
#4 5 years ago
5. Redh3lix
Given that RDR shares many simularities to GTA IV on the development perspective, e.g. games engine, motion capture etc, surely this would have been cheaper to develop than GTA IV?
#5 5 years ago
6. Fin
Listen to this man, he speaks the truth.
Either that article, or the one about KATIE AND PETER IN PUBLICITY THING.
#6 5 years ago
7. Hakkiz
With half a decade in production and allegedly troubled development, $100M might not be far from truth. R* reps claimed to Gamereactor that this is, indeed, their most expensive and biggest project to date.
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The "new" Bertucci's in Montgomeryville
Preface: I knew that Bertucci's was a chain, but had heard some very good comments about Bertucci's from a friend of mine, whose opinon I tend to trust.
I wasn't looking for a gourmet meal, just a place to grab a nice dinner
First Impression: Smells amazing when you walk in. One of many hostesses seated us after a brief wait, and our waitress was quick to come to the table. Ilike the decor, modern, but rich jewel tones, low light, but not so much that you can't see what's going on... LOVE the big open view to the kitchen and I was impressed that our wait was very short on a Saturday night at 8:00 considering they hadn't been open long and the place was pretty busy.
Our waitress took our drink orders and we decided to get the "three cheese focaccia" as an appetizer and share a carafe of the brick oven Sangiovese
We only received a HALF carafe, whis was just fine with me by then because the wine was warm and by the time we got the focaccia, that was cold. I think I would have liked it if the cheese had been warm and melty as I had anticipated, but I couldn't tell... oh and the sauce was ICE cold on the side... go figure
Sometime in between the wine delivery and the appetizer delivery (and the thrid time I asked the waitress for a glass of water, just so I could have ONE cube to drop into our wine) we ordered and I was still intoxicated by the heavy perfume of garlic, wood fired oven and tomato sauce and I threw caution to the wind and get Spaghetti and Meatballs, with marinara sauce
if you know me even just a little, you'd look at me like my husband did, "Why on earth did you do that!?!?!"
My husband ordered Chicken Marsala with mushrooms, asked if he could have garlic and oil on the side of pasta instead of sauce...they never heard of such a thing!
the waitress came back and asked again if he meant to have the flavored olive oil over the pasta, he explained, toast garlic in the olive oil then toss the pasta in the oil/garlic mixture.... can you ask whoever is in charge of the pasta if they can do that.
well, according to our waitress the "substitution" caused confusion in the kitchen, because it then took another 20 minutes for our dinner to arrive... luke warm ... before the Mister's salad came.
*sigh, take a deep breath, just enjoy the food...
Despite being cold and dried out around the edges because the waitress forgot to deliver it to us and then acted as if it were the kitchen's fault; pasta was good, a little over cooked but I really do like their marinara sauce. it's pretty good... meatballs... not to my taste. they're overly seasoned in my opinion, and taste of processed frozen meatballs that you get on a wa-wa shortie... (please don't disregard this review for the fact that I've eaten a wa-wa meatball shortie on a few occasions, hey we all have to eat)
the mister's chicken dish, however was such a disappointment
We literally think they forgot the marsala wine in making it and there was the equivalent of one button mushroom sautee'd in along with some non-descript flavorless beige sauce. The "wilted spinach" was raw with raw pieces of garlic and also had no seasoning, his whole dish was also cold, colder than mine.
when his cesar salad finally arrived it looked as if it too had been sitting around for a while, dressing tends to wilt lettuces pretty quickly...
So, I wanted to say to the waitress>>" dont' tell me that it's the kitchen's fault when you bring me cold food... I'm not that stupid" but I refrained
so as if all this was not bad enough... there was a waiter there, tall slender guy with black rimmed glasses who apparently enjoyed leaning over and asking us if everything was OK... at first my husband thought he was a manager, but his interest, we learned, was not really in how well we were doing, it was how far he could look down my blouse
the mister overheard him using some low-level language and then told our waitress that he wanted to bring the leftovers to our table, so he could "get a another look"
we paid, left exactly 15% tip I've left them a comment on their website and I will never, ever return there again!
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1. wow - that is really unacceptable. Please let us know if they respond to your website comment
1. Whoa thanks for the heads up cgarner! I usually end up going on a marathon Christmas shopping trip in a week or so and if not for you and your review, my group may well have ended up at Bertucci's. One year we ended up across the street at Marconi's Grille and another time we landed at Pumpernik's shortly before closing on a holiday evening. That did not end well. The bleach! The bleach! Sounds like you took a bullet for us all!!!!!!!!!
625 Cross Keys Rd, Sicklerville, NJ 08081
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1. re: givemecarbs
We have a Betucci's in Bryn Mawr. I have never had a problem sticking to the Mergherita Pizza (which is all we order there.)
1. re: phillyjazz
I agree. Stick to the Margherita pizza at Bertucci's.
2. Sorry you had such a bad experience there, cg.
I went early Friday evening with mom. We were amused at the number of staff at the door, in the dining room and in the kitchen. But after we were greeted by our young and obviously inexperienced waitress (the tip off--she couldn't pronounce merlot ;), a man fits the description of your "other waiter" came over, introduced himself as a training rep and indicated he'd be observing. We then realized 1/2 the "staff" had red "Bertucci's Training Team" logos on their shirts. We think they were sent by the mother ship to coach and noticed they were correcting the servers and bussers as they went along their business.
Anyway, for the important part--the food. We ordered an onion bisque soup that was cold (not just not piping hot, but chilly). However, we both thought the entrees were very good. I had a steak that was nicely seasoned and perfectly cooked. I know, a steak at an Italian chain restaurant? But it was good, and put me in a happy place for the mall crowds. Mom had the seafood di mare which was steaming hot and she said was also very good. The waitress forgot to bring an extra plate for the mussel shells, but before we could even ask, one of the "trainers" provided it.
Friday was their third day open, so we expected some kinks. I guess wild swings in the quality of cooking is one of those kinks--Friday's cooks had learned the Bertucci's menu, Saturday's hadn't? Saturday at 8:00 is more crowded than Friday at 5:00 and they have not yet learned to handle the rush?
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1. re: gaffk
hard to say, gaffk... I am an extremely patient person for new resto's and the wait staff too...warm wine, we mentioned it to the waitress but I don't think that got back to the bar... they obviously have the Bottles sitting somewhere they shouldn’t be (like next to the sink full of hot water that washes glasses behind the bar maybe?)
I worked in a few restaurants in my day and I’ve seen wine bottles being stored like that… but it’s something they should take note of and correct. I’m hoping (for their sake) that either a smart bartender figures it out or enough customers complain about the warm wine that move it
We noticed a few trainers, too… one of them delivered the wilted salad.
So if it’s Bertucci’s in the future, it’s the one on Trooper Road (closer to where I work) or it’s the one in Plymouth Meeting… otherwise I guess it’s back to LaCampagnola in Lansdale for any Italian that I’m not making at home
625 Cross Keys Rd, Sicklerville, NJ 08081
1. re: cgarner
I like to make my Italian at home too cgarner. John and I had a nice time once at Ariana's and long before that I went there with a friend for lunch on Christmas Eve and Santa and his helpers were dining there too! It wasn't busy that time and I think Santa was appreciating the peace and quiet. John and I made it to LaCampagnola once too. It was a very early friday evening dinner and we had the place to ourselves. It was an interesting experience. Either place has got to be better than Berucci's unless they really get their act together soon.
1. re: givemecarbs
Yes, La Campagnola is always an "interesting" experience. Good food, but always way too much of it; and an intersting family dynamic in the staff. Haven't been there in years, even though it's just down the road from work.
2. re: cgarner
Our merlot was the proper temp so maybe it was a mistake of pouring it into a carafe that was straight out of the dishwasher (which would definitely piss me off to the point of a complaint at the moment of drinking).
I had lunch today with a colleague that had lunch with her mom Saturday at the new Bertucci's (what's with mom's and Bertucci's?). They, too, had a good experience. She wanted something that was no longer on the menu, and they made it for her; so at least they are not a chain that serves pre-made dishes at a central location and then just reheat.
That said, I understand your aversion to returning. There has been more than one restaurant where, after one bad experience, I never returned. And if the first experience is bad, the likelihood of no return visit increases significantly.
2. As a former front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant worker who is usually forgiving of mistakes and generous with tips I think your 15% tip was way too much. The Philly area folks are bigger tippers than i the rest of the country (avg. 20% here) so it seemed like you were telegraphing your dissatisfaction. You weren't.
A 5% tip would've gotten their attention and perhaps gotten a manager to come over. Maybe you're uncomfortable with that type of discussion or confrontation so you commented on the website and posted here. Both good moves, but perhaps less effective.
Telling the manager about the warm wine, cold food, inattentive waitress and ogling training waiter was appropriate on all levels. They need to know about the problems ASAP and you deserved acknowledgment and perhaps some type of comp.
JMHO, but the 15% sends the message you were satisfied customers.
1. Two comments: Not sure what you mean by warm wine? Sangiovese is a red, and not supposed to be served chilled. You may prefer it that way, and have every right to, but that's not a mistake on the restaurant's part.
Secondly, and more importantly: "get another look?" WHAT? And you left any tip at all? That is grounds for calling the Manager over immediately for some feedback. Totally unacceptable, even offensive.
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1. I rarely if ever put an ice cube in any wine, let alone a red like Sangiovese. It wasn’t just a personal preference of having the wine at a cooler temperature, I meant that the wine was actually warm… possibly the carafe and/or glasses just came out of the dishwasher, or as I said, the wine bottles were being stored near something hot.
The tip that we left was for the harried, inexperienced waitress that was serving us, not for the masher who was ogling me.
Maybe because I worked as a waitress and have been in that first week opening circumstance where you always seem to get that one table where Murphy’s law is the rule of the day for those diners and everything that could possibly go wrong, does… it stinks and sometimes it’s the servers fault and sometimes it’s the kitchens fault and in this case (with the exception of the creep) it was a mixture of both. I can’t fault the server for the warm wine or the bland food, I can fault her for not delivering the food to us in a timely manner, which resulted in the food being cold and the salad being late and wilted.
If the person ogling me had been serving us, there would have been no tip. Both my husband and I were so flustered, me to near the point of tears, husband to the point that had he said something it would have gotten “ugly” and we’re not the types to make a scene. So I called the restaurant, got the guy’s name and reported the whole scene on their comments section of their website.
(I still have not had a response)
1. re: invinotheresverde
I know, and thank you.
I wanted to clarify for truffles2 question of the wine being 'warm' and answer to the subject of my leaving a 15% tip
1. re: cgarner
My experiences at Bertucci's have always met expectations: which are low. The few times I have had takeout there I have always chided myself afterwards saying " Now why did I spend the bucks on that stuff? I do have friends who like their BertuccI's, oh well.
It has been a few years since I have been salaciously starred at, or in fact starred at flurtaiously; the last time it was because of the red sauce on my face. I complement you for your non-conforntational approach while still calling the situation to the attention of management via their web site. Which may prevent this from happening to another. I am sure IF he was confronted about this his response would be " who me" no I did not ,she is imaging things. Unfortunately without coaboration it is a difficult situation for management to resolve. By noting this the next time this occurs it would be a level of verification of the initial charge and warrant some management action.
2. re: cgarner
No response yet huh? Sounds like nobody's minding the store. I very rarely complain at all if I had a bad experience. The way I see it I'm out for relaxation and a good time. If I just leave and put the experience behind me, maybe even laugh later, I don't feel so bad about it. Complaining to the manager, confrontations, only make me feel worse and seem to make the whole disaster even bigger in my own mind. Who needs more negative feelings? I don't want to work hard for my fun, and going back for a comped meal would just make me uncomfortable.
Our party did ask to be moved away from the kitchen area that time at Pumperniks because the stench from the bleach they were using was like an assault on our senses. I've been back to Pumperniks plenty of times but never near closing.
I used to work as a waitress too. Studies have shown that people in those types of jobs are the best tippers, way better than doctors and lawyers. I think we have more empathy. It takes a lot to piss me off but your experience was way over the top cgarner. Again thanks for the warning.
1. re: givemecarbs
I received a phone call from the Guest Relations Manager. she says she's the one and only guest relations manager, and is also the employee relations manager. The thanked me for my passion regarding food and my input regarding the 'kinks' that needed to be worked out with the location.
she also apologized to me for the 'unfortunate' experience I had and wanted to show me that Bertucc's cared enough to comp another dinner for my husband and I at another time.
I thanked her very much for calling, noting that was a very decent thing for them to do and graciously accepted her offer for a gift card for another meal...
carbs I'm with you I don't want to work hard at having fun either... I don't know that I'll use the card at all let alone go back to that location, but I'm glad I've got that past me...
now, where to eat tonight?
1. re: cgarner
Awesome! Thanks for coming back and giving us fellow hounds some closure. A long time ago I was mailed a gift certificate from olive garden comping me for an unfortunate experience at the montgomeryville place. My friends and I drove all the way to the willow grove location to use it.
You could always give the card to someone you don't like. :) May your dining adventures in the future be most excellent. As for me, I can't seem to get that baked brie en brioche I snagged at Costco off my mind. Must resist!
1. re: givemecarbs
My daughter likes Olive Garden. I can't stand it. The M-Ville location has to be the absolute worst.
Baked brie en brioche? As much as I try to avoid Costco at Christmas, I may have to force myself to head over there!
1. re: crazyspice
It is addicting be warned. I found it in a little refrigerated tub somewhat off by itself containing the brioches, gingerbread cheesecakes and cannoli cakes, kind of behind the pizzas and adjacent to the fish. They still had plenty o' wreaths for 14.99 each on monday when I went.
1. re: givemecarbs
I got my wreath last week. I also picked up their rack of pork. I roasted it on the grill and OMG! Just amazing!! I guess I am starting a shopping list.
3. re: truffles2
Since the mods deleted my first post, I suppose I'll try again.
OP, I understand your frustration with warm wine. Too many restaurants simply leave their reds sitting out anywhere, thinking that the average North American "room temp" (70ish degrees) is an acceptable serving temperature. Reds should be served around 60 degrees, meaning that even under a restaurant's best intentions (not near the dishwasher/sink/etc. the wine is served way too warm.
Wine served too warm causes the alcohol flavors and scents to become more pronounced, while subtleties and nuances are lost. It's really a shame that many places either don't know any better or don't care.
Cool that the restaurant contacted you. Did they mention anything about the wine temp?
1. re: invinotheresverde
Don't know why they would have removed that post...things that make you go hmmm!
The woman glossed over the food/wine end of the complaint, with compliments to me like "I can tell by the descriptive quality of your letter to us that you're as passionat about good food and a great dining experience as we are"
(yeh... ok) so no, she didn't directly address any of those issues, except to ask for our patience as it is a new location with new employees.
1. re: invinotheresverde
I have a favorite restuarant that does everything perfect except serve their red wines too warm (room temp in a warm room) and their whites too cold (straight from a fridge at food temp - maybe 40 degrees).
I try to explain to everyone that the rule about red wines at room temp was made 300 years ago in English castles. Definitely NOT 70+ degrees. At another restaurant I had a waitress argue with me when I asked for a ice bucket to cool a bottle of red.
1. re: Dave_in_PA
Wow, I've never had anyone argue about an ice bucket for a warm bottle of red. I also happen to like to drink champagne from a white wine glass, not a flute. I think it opens up the taste, whereas the flute gives it a more "citrusy" flavor. I've gotten some "looks", but I've never been argued with when I asked to have the flutes replaced with white wine glasses. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/751654 | dclm-gs1-243820000 |
0.08464 | <urn:uuid:0057ff3a-2ed1-4995-bce1-f43d27ccbd29> | en | 0.952168 | Chris Soghoian caught a remarkable admission at a surveillance conference in October. Sprint’s Manager of Electronic Surveillance revealed that law enforcement has used Sprint’s geotracking function 8 million times in the thirteen months prior to his comment.
Now, as he documents in extensive detail, using cell phone location to get the geolocation of someone is just one of a number of uses of legal surveillance techniques that is eluding public reporting.
But that’s by design. Even assuming many of these uses of Sprint’s geo-tracking capabilities are multiple requests for the same person, there are a whole lot of people whose physical location is being tracked.
Probably a bunch of people who bought acetone and hyrdogen peroxide for home improvement uses.
Anyway, click through for a bunch more numbers and discussion, as well as MP3s of this admission. | http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/12/01/sprints-50-million-customers-have-been-geo-tracked-8-million-times-in-the-last-year/ | dclm-gs1-243860000 |
0.051166 | <urn:uuid:d2fad183-6b39-4d7f-828d-1087a65f9dbb> | en | 0.950513 | Chinese Exclusion Act
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This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.
Not to be confused with Asian Exclusion Act.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Great Seal of the United States
Legislative history
The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese immigrant workers building the Transcontinental Railroad.
The first significant Chinese immigration to North America began with the California Gold Rush of 1848-1855 and continued with subsequent large labor projects, such as the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad. During the early stages of the gold rush, when surface gold was plentiful, the Chinese were tolerated, if not well received.[1] As gold became harder to find and competition increased, animosity toward the Chinese and other foreigners increased. After being forcibly driven from the mines, most Chinese settled in enclaves in cities, mainly San Francisco, and took up low end wage labor such as restaurant and laundry work.[citation needed] With the post-Civil War economy in decline by the 1870s, anti-Chinese animosity became politicized by labor leader Denis Kearney and his Workingman's Party[2] as well as by California Governor John Bigler, both of whom blamed Chinese "coolies" for depressed wage levels. Another significant anti-Chinese group organized in California during this same era was the Supreme Order of Caucasians with some 60 chapters statewide.[citation needed]
In the early 1850s, there was resistance to the idea of excluding Chinese migrant workers from immigration, because they provided essential tax revenue which helped fill the fiscal gap of California.[3] But toward the end of the decade, the financial situation improved and subsequently, attempts to legislate Chinese exclusion became successful on the state level.[3] In 1858, the California Legislature passed a law that made it illegal for any person "of the Chinese or Mongolian races" to enter the state; however, this law was struck down by an unpublished opinion of the State Supreme Court in 1862.[4] The Chinese immigrant workers provided cheap labor and did not use any of the government infrastructure (schools, hospitals, etc.) because the Chinese migrant population was predominantly made up of healthy male adults.[3] As time passed and more and more Chinese migrants arrived in California, violence would often break out in cities such as Los Angeles. By 1878 Congress decided to act and passed legislation excluding the Chinese, but this was vetoed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1879, California adopted a new Constitution, which explicitly authorized the state government to determine which individuals were allowed to reside in the state, and banned the Chinese from employment by corporations and state, county or municipal governments.[5] Once the Chinese Exclusion Act was finally passed in 1882, California went further by passing various laws that were later held to be unconstitutional.[6] After the act was passed, most Chinese families were faced with a dilemma: stay in the United States alone or go back to China to reunite with their families.[7] Although there was widespread dislike for the Chinese, some capitalists and entrepreneurs resisted their exclusion because they accepted lower wages.[8]
The Act[edit]
For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. (The earlier Page Act of 1875 had prohibited immigration of Asian forced laborers and prostitutes, and the Naturalization Act of 1790 prohibited naturalization of non-white subjects.) The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.[9][10]
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few nonlaborers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove that they were not laborers, which tended to be difficult to prove[10] because the 1882 act defined excludables as “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.” Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.
The Act also affected Asians who had already settled in the United States. Any Chinese who left the United States had to obtain certifications for reentry, and the Act made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.[9][10] After the Act's passage, Chinese men in the U.S. had little chance of ever reuniting with their wives, or of starting families in their new homes.[9]
Between 1882 and 1905, about 10,000 Chinese appealed against negative immigration decisions to federal court, usually via a petition for habeas corpus.[11] In most of these cases, the courts ruled in favor of the petitioner.[11] Except in cases of bias or negligence, these petitions were barred by an act that passed Congress in 1894 and was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. vs Lem Moon Sing (1895). In U.S. vs Ju Toy (1905), the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that the port inspectors and the Secretary of Commerce had final authority on who could be admitted. Ju Toy's petition was thus barred despite the fact that the district court found that he was an American citizen. The Supreme Court determined that refusing entry at a port does not require due process and is legally equivalent to refusing entry at a land crossing. All these developments, along with the extension of the act in 1902, triggered a boycott of U.S. goods in China between 1904 and 1906 that by some estimates cut U.S. exports to China by more than half.[12]
On the other hand, many people strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act, including the Knights of Labor, a labor union, who supported it because it believed that industrialists were using Chinese workers as a wedge to keep wages low.[15] Among labor and leftist organizations, the Industrial Workers of the World were the sole exception to this pattern. The IWW openly opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act from its inception in 1905.[16]
Later, the Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration even further, excluding all classes of Chinese immigrants and extending restrictions to other Asian immigrant groups.[9] Until these restrictions were relaxed in the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese immigrants were forced to live a life apart, and to build a society in which they could survive on their own (Chinatown).[9]
Repeal and current status[edit]
The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act, during a time when China had become an ally of the U.S. against Japan in World War II. The Magnuson Act permitted Chinese nationals already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens and stop hiding from the threat of deportation. It also allowed a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year. Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Despite the fact that the exclusion act was repealed in 1943, the law in California prohibiting Chinese people from marrying whites was not repealed until 1948.[20][21] Other states had such laws until 1967,[22] when the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional.
Even today, although all its constituent sections have long been repealed, Chapter 7 of Title 8 of the United States Code is headed "Exclusion of Chinese."[23] It is the only chapter of the 15 chapters in Title 8 (Aliens and Nationality) that is completely focused on a specific nationality or ethnic group.
On June 18, 2012, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution introduced by Congresswoman Judy Chu, that formally expresses the regret of the House of Representatives for the Chinese Exclusion Act, which imposed almost total restrictions on Chinese immigration and naturalization and denied Chinese-Americans basic freedoms because of their ethnicity.[24] The resolution had been approved by the U.S. Senate in October 2011.[25]
See also[edit]
2. ^ Kearney, Denis (28 February 1878), Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingmen’s Address, Indianapolis Times, retrieved 5 May 2014
3. ^ a b c Kanazawa, Mark. "Immigration, Exclusion, and Taxation: Anti-Chinese Legislation in Gold Rush California". The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 779-805. Published by: Cambridge poopies University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association.
4. ^ "Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act" (PDF). University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
5. ^ "Constitution of the State of California, 1879".
6. ^ Cole, L. Cheryl."Chinese Exclusion: The Capitalist Perspective of the Sacramento Union, 1850-1882".California History, Vol. 57, No. 1, The Chinese in California (Spring, 1978), pp. 8-31. Published by: California Historical Society
7. ^ Chew, Kenneth and Liu, John. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Global Labor Force Exchange in the Chinese American Population, 1880-1940". Population and Development Review, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 57-78.Published by: Population Council
8. ^ Miller, Joaquin. "The Chinese and the Exclusion Act". The North American Review, Vol. 173, No. 541 (Dec., 1901), pp. 782-789. Published by: University of Northern Iowa
10. ^ a b c d e "The People's Vote: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)". U.S. News & World Reports. Archived from the original on 28 March 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
11. ^ a b Daniel, Roger, "Book Review"
13. ^ Roger Daniels, Coming to America, p271.
16. ^ Choi, Jennifer Jung Hee. The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I.W.W. and Asian Workers
18. ^ Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey, 12th Edition
19. ^ E. Denza, Commentary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Third Ed. Oxford University Press 2008, p. 51
20. ^ Chin, Gabriel; Karthikeyan, Hrishi (2002). "Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950". Asian Law Journal (Social Science Research Network) 9. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
22. ^ Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States
25. ^ "US apologizes for Chinese Exclusion Act" China Daily, 19 June 2012
Further reading[edit]
External links[edit] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States) | dclm-gs1-243870000 |
0.400154 | <urn:uuid:c85e7994-5a81-4a5d-a4bc-42e9ad9ce26f> | en | 0.956448 | Noise (economic)
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Economic noise, or simply noise, describes a theory of pricing developed by Fischer Black. To Black, noise is the opposite of information. Sometimes it's hype, other times it's inaccurate ideas, other times it's inaccurate data; noise has many forms. Noise is everywhere in the economy and we can rarely tell the difference between it and information.
Noise has two broad implications.
• It allows speculative trading to occur (see below).
• It is indicative of market inefficiency.
People trade speculatively because they disagree about the future; this company will grow a great deal over the next three years, this commodity will become cheaper starting next month, and so on. These disagreements stem from the fact that everyone interprets information or data differently and subjectively. Because some of the complex nature of the world's markets, not all market data is "information." Much of the price fluctuations we see on a day-to-day basis are due to random change rather than meaningful trends. Thus, the problem of discerning the real information from the noise presents itself. This problem is what drives trading in a market; if everyone knew all things, then no trades would occur because there is general agreement on how the economy will unfold. In real life, however, trades occur as a kind of bet on what is noise and what is information; generally the more skillful, and technologically advanced, "gambler" wins.
This trade takes place between what Black calls information traders and noise traders, where the former operates based on accurate information and the latter trades based on noise. Unfortunately, there is no way of precisely parsing the noise and information from a data stream or signal, so the so-called noise traders tend to think that they, in fact, trade on information that others in the market simply reject as noise. Thus, methods of parsing noise and information from a signal are becoming increasingly important in the market-place, especially as strategies used by high-tech alternative investment firms, such as some hedge funds.
Business Cycles[edit]
A particular type of trader Black makes special mention of is the entrepreneur. Like the above-mentioned traders, entrepreneurs have theories about what will happen and what is happening. In this case, though, they have theories as to what people want. When they are correct, there is a little boom; I make what you want, you make what I want, we trade and we are happy.
But the world has noise and entrepreneurs make mistakes. They make things others don't want. Thus, they don't work as hard, money is wasted and the economy is harmed. When this happens on a massive scale, there is a bust.
Critics argue that this disobeys the law of large numbers; with so many entrepreneurs trying, the aggregate success rate will be constant. (This assumes that producers are more or less independent; critics say they are, proponents say they're more interconnected.)
Noise is everywhere and people make it all the time. Black argues that econometrics is filled with it in the forms of unobservables and mis-measurement. No matter how many variables one puts into a model, there are always more to add but can't (ones you can't observe) and the ones you have will always have error. This is how noise manifests in econometrics (as well as poor interpretation of regressions, such as assuming correlation means causation).
• Noise. Fischer Black. Journal of Finance, 1986. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(economic) | dclm-gs1-243900000 |
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The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) filter is commonly used for state estimation of run-to-run controllers in semiconductor manufacturing. It is widely known that, when at steady state, the EWMA filter provides the minimum mean square error (MSE) forecast for an integrated moving average (IMA) process. The forecast, however, is optimal if and only if every output of the IMA process is measured. If an EWMA controller is implemented utilizing sampled process data, then it is necessary to retune the controller to maintain optimal performance. Furthermore, in practice, the complex interacting selection criteria of advanced sampling applications often cause measurement frequency to be highly irregular. In this paper, a sampling compensation algorithm (SCA) is derived based on the minimum-norm IMA (MNIMA) forecast. The algorithm provides the minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) forecast of an IMA process for irregularly sampled processes and is robust to initialization.
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Kidney Stew
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Beef kidney 1
Paprika 1⁄8 Teaspoon
Boiling water 6 Cup (96 tbs)
Butter/Margarine 3 Tablespoon
Flour 4 Tablespoon
Hard boiled eggs 1
Salt 1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
Toast 4
Pepper 1⁄8 Teaspoon
With a sharp knife cut kidney into slices 1/4 in. thick.
Next separate meat from gristle and fat, then cut meat into very small pieces.
Cover with cold water, press the cut meat to squeeze out blood and drain.
Repeat same process, then cover again with cold water and soak 2 hrs.
Drain, cover with the boiling water, and simmer gently for 1 1/2 hrs. or until kidney is tender, and there are about 3 cups, of liquor left.
Set aside and cool.
Meanwhile combine flour with enough of the cooled liquor to make a thin paste.
Reheat kidney mixture and add flour paste gradually until stew is the consistency of cream.
Add salt, pepper, paprika, butter and shelled hard-cooked egg, minced coarsely with a fork.
Serve hot on toast or by itself with hash brown or French fried potatoes.
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0.050704 | <urn:uuid:af7ed189-c2b7-40ea-a547-d3e3c24c2f42> | en | 0.982008 | New box set proves Dion was more than just teen idol
Published: Saturday, December 16, 2000
Both Dylan and Simon contribute testimonials to "Dion: King of the New York Streets" (The Right Stuff, $39.98) a 3-CD box set that is not only a condensed history of a real rock 'n' roller, but of rock 'n' roll itself. Dave Marsh, who offers a passionate essay in the accompanying liner notes, pretty much nails it: "There was always something deeper there. ... It was there right from the start."
It was already in place in 1959's "A Teenager in Love," one of the first hits Dion DiMucci of the Bronx DiMuccis had with his doo-wop group the Belmonts. He was, we immediately understood, not just another dreamy teen idol with one name, looking to "mature" from American Bandstand to the Copa. So when he followed pop smashes "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" with an impossibly bluesy "Ruby Baby," it was a confirmation: Dion had something deeper on his mind.
In the first burst of Beatlemania, Dion seemed to disappear along with the instantly redundant pompadoured popsters with whom he was often confused. But in truth, he had gone underground before underground was cool, cutting an album of blues and introspective folk music that his record label had no idea what to do with. He also became a drug addict, and while he had allegedly cleaned up before recording Dick Holler's heartfelt ballad of murdered dreams, "Abraham, Martin and John," it's clear the man was hurting.
The success of that song afforded Dion membership in the Sensitive Singer-Songwriters of the '70s Club, but he never really fit in all that flannel. And in 1972, he reunited with the Belmonts for a doo-wop show at Madison Square Garden, preserved on a live album that made clear the music was still vital. The box set, unfortunately, includes nothing from it, nor does it sample anything from the successful string of religious albums he made after becoming an Evangelical, ignoring not only some fine music, but yet another place Dion, and a generation, wandered.
And while "King of the New York Streets" rather blatantly begs reflection, it is less summation than proclamation. It says someone at 60 can still understand the pain of a teen-ager in love and command attention. | http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121600/ent_121600009.shtml | dclm-gs1-244100000 |
0.029796 | <urn:uuid:1a3fdb30-c84c-4c1a-8d9b-1a4d64b7f241> | en | 0.952848 | A bid to bring the warring sides together ran into trouble before discussions even began after the Syrian government ultimatum.
16:22, UK, Friday 24 January 2014
The Syrian government has threatened to walk out of peace talks if "serious" negotiations do not begin in the next 24 hours.
The ultimatum followed the refusal by the country's opposition to hold face-to-face talks with Bashar al Assad's regime, after it refused to concede to the formation of a transitional government.
The summit, which began in the Swiss town of Montreux but has now moved to the Palais des Nations in Geneva, was meant to be the first time in three years of war that Mr Assad's regime and its opponents were to hold direct negotiations.
Instead, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet the Syrian government and opposition delegations separately.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al Muallem is quoted as telling the country's state television: "If no serious work sessions are held by Saturday, the official Syrian delegation will leave Geneva due to the other side's lack of seriousness or preparedness."
The difficulties encountered before the talks even began underlined the deep divisions that will have to be overcome to resolve Syria's brutal civil war.
U.N. special envoy for Syria Brahimi speaks to U.S. Secretary-General Ban at the opening of the Geneva-2 peace conference in Montreux
The conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and created an estimated 2.3 million refugees.
The so-called Geneva I conference held in 2012 called for the creation of a transitional government, and the opposition contends it requires Mr Assad to step down.
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad told Sky News: "President Assad has never been the cause of this bloodshedding.
"President Assad is elected by the Syrian people, and it is the Syrian people who will decide the future of their country.
"We are here to discuss all these types of questions. For God's sake why don't we sit together and find out the answers."
A Syrian refugee woman cooks bread outside a tent at Quru Gusik refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil
Speaking after his meeting with the Syrian government delegation, Mr Brahimi said there had been a "positive atmosphere".
He is due to meet the opposition delegation later.
Nazir al-Hakim, a member of the opposition delegation, said: "We agree to negotiate on the application of Geneva I. The regime does not accept that.
Syrian opposition leader Jarba answers questions during a news conference in Geneva
Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba has insisted that Mr Assad cannot stay in power.
Mr Brahimi has indicated he aims to open negotiations on practical steps, including local ceasefires, prisoner releases and access for international aid convoys, before tackling tougher sticking points.
However, even these limited goals could be scuppered if the delegates leave.
Iran is not attending the conference after the UN withdraw an invitation over Tehran's refusal to endorse a plan for a transitional national body in Syria.
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0.108592 | <urn:uuid:36eef04f-af49-4960-ade5-0901fb1fa2f2> | en | 0.850952 | Robin Redeker > AnyEvent-IRC > AnyEvent::IRC::Client
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use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::IRC::Client;
my $c = AnyEvent->condvar;
my $timer;
$con->reg_cb (connect => sub {
my ($con, $err) = @_;
if (defined $err) {
warn "connect error: $err\n";
$con->reg_cb (
sent => sub {
my ($con) = @_;
print "Sent message!\n";
$timer = AnyEvent->timer (
after => 1,
cb => sub {
undef $timer;
$con->disconnect ('done')
$con->send_srv (
PRIVMSG => 'elmex',
AnyEvent::IRC::Client is a (nearly) highlevel client connection, that manages all the stuff that noone wants to implement again and again when handling with IRC. For example it PONGs the server or keeps track of the users on a channel.
This module also implements the ISUPPORT (command 005) extension of the IRC protocol (see and will enable the NAMESX and UHNAMES extensions when supported by the server.
Also CTCP support is implemented, all CTCP messages will be decoded and events for them will be generated. You can configure auto-replies to certain CTCP commands with the ctcp_auto_reply method, or you can generate the replies yourself.
The case insensitivity of channel names and nicknames can lead to headaches when dealing with IRC in an automated client which tracks channels and nicknames.
I tried to preserve the case in all channel and nicknames AnyEvent::IRC::Client passes to his user. But in the internal structures I'm using lower case for the channel names.
The returned hash from channel_list for example has the lower case of the joined channels as keys.
But I tried to preserve the case in all events that are emitted. Please keep this in mind when handling the events.
For example a user might joins #TeSt and parts #test later.
The following events are emitted by AnyEvent::IRC::Client. Use reg_cb as described in Object::Event to register to such an event.
Emitted when the connection got successfully registered and the end of the MOTD (IRC command 376 or 422 (No MOTD file found)) was seen, so you can start sending commands and all ISUPPORT/PROTOCTL handshaking has been done.
channel_add => $msg, $channel, @nicks
Emitted when @nicks are added to the channel $channel, this happens for example when someone JOINs a channel or when you get a RPL_NAMREPLY (see RFC1459).
$msg is the IRC message hash that as returned by parse_irc_msg.
channel_remove => $msg, $channel, @nicks
Emitted when @nicks are removed from the channel $channel, happens for example when they PART, QUIT or get KICKed.
$msg is the IRC message hash that as returned by parse_irc_msg or undef if the reason for the removal was a disconnect on our end.
channel_change => $msg, $channel, $old_nick, $new_nick, $is_myself
Emitted when a nickname on a channel changes. This is emitted when a NICK change occurs from $old_nick to $new_nick give the application a chance to quickly analyze what channels were affected. $is_myself is true when yourself was the one who changed the nick.
channel_nickmode_update => $channel, $dest
This event is emitted when the (user) mode (eg. op status) of an occupant of a channel changes. $dest is the nickname on the $channel who's mode was updated.
channel_topic => $channel, $topic, $who
This is emitted when the topic for a channel is discovered. $channel is the channel for which $topic is the current topic now. Which is set by $who. $who might be undefined when it's not known who set the channel topic.
ident_change => $nick, $ident
Whenever the user and host of $nick has been determined or a change happened this event is emitted.
join => $nick, $channel, $is_myself
Emitted when $nick enters the channel $channel by JOINing. $is_myself is true if yourself are the one who JOINs.
part => $nick, $channel, $is_myself, $msg
Emitted when $nick PARTs the channel $channel. $is_myself is true if yourself are the one who PARTs. $msg is the PART message.
kick => $kicked_nick, $channel, $is_myself, $msg, $kicker_nick
Emitted when $kicked_nick is KICKed from the channel $channel by $kicker_nick. $is_myself is true if yourself are the one who got KICKed. $msg is the KICK message.
nick_change => $old_nick, $new_nick, $is_myself
Emitted when $old_nick is renamed to $new_nick. $is_myself is true when yourself was the one who changed the nick.
away_status_change => $bool
Emitted whenever a presence/away status change for you was detected. $bool is true if you are now away, or false/undef if you are not away anymore.
You can change your away status by emitting the AWAY IRC command:
$cl->send_srv (AWAY => "I'm not here right now");
Or reset it:
$cl->send_srv ('AWAY');
ctcp => $src, $target, $tag, $msg, $type
Emitted when a CTCP message was found in either a NOTICE or PRIVMSG message. $tag is the CTCP message tag. (eg. "PING", "VERSION", ...). $msg is the CTCP message and $type is either "NOTICE" or "PRIVMSG".
$src is the source nick the message came from. $target is the target nickname (yours) or the channel the ctcp was sent on.
"ctcp_$tag", => $src, $target, $msg, $type
Emitted when a CTCP message was found in either a NOTICE or PRIVMSG message. $tag is the CTCP message tag (in lower case). (eg. "ping", "version", ...). $msg is the CTCP message and $type is either "NOTICE" or "PRIVMSG".
dcc_ready => $id, $dest, $type, $local_ip, $local_port
Whenever a locally initiated DCC request is made this event is emitted after the listening socket has been setup.
$id is the DCC connection ID.
$dest and $type are the destination and type of the DCC request.
$local_ip is the $local_ip argument passed to start_dcc or the IP the socket is bound to.
$local_port is the TCP port is the socket is listening on.
dcc_request => $id, $src, $type, $arg, $addr, $port
Whenever we receive a DCC offer from someone else this event is emitted. $id is the DCC connection ID, $src is his nickname, $type is the DCC type in lower cases (eg. 'chat'). $arg is the DCC type argument. $addr is the IP address we can reach him at in ASCII encoded human readable form (eg. something like ""). And $port is the TCP port we have to connect to.
To answer to his request you can just call dcc_accept with the $id.
dcc_accepted => $id, $type, $hdl
When the locally listening DCC socket has received a connection this event is emitted.
$id and $type are the DCC connection ID and type of the DCC request.
$hdl is a pre-configured AnyEvent::Handle object, which you only need to care about in case you want to implement your own DCC protocol. (This event has the on_error and on_eof events pre-configured to cleanup the data structures in this connection).
dcc_connected => $id, $type, $hdl
Whenever we accepted a DCC offer and connected by using dcc_accept this event is emitted. $id is the DCC connection ID. $type is the dcc type in lower case. $hdl is the AnyEvent::Handle object of the connection (see also dcc_accepted above).
dcc_close => $id, $type, $reason
This event is emitted whenever a DCC connection is terminated.
$reason is a human readable string indicating the reason for the end of the DCC request.
dcc_chat_msg => $id, $msg
This event is emitted for a DCC CHAT message. $id is the DCC connection ID we received the message on. And $msg is the message he sent us.
quit => $nick, $msg
Emitted when the nickname $nick QUITs with the message $msg.
publicmsg => $channel, $ircmsg
Emitted for NOTICE and PRIVMSG where the target $channel is a channel. $ircmsg is the original IRC message hash like it is returned by parse_irc_msg.
The last parameter of the $ircmsg will have all CTCP messages stripped off.
privatemsg => $nick, $ircmsg
Emitted for NOTICE and PRIVMSG where the target $nick (most of the time you) is a nick. $ircmsg is the original IRC message hash like it is returned by parse_irc_msg.
error => $code, $message, $ircmsg
Emitted when any error occurs. $code is the 3 digit error id string from RFC 1459 or the string 'ERROR'. $message is a description of the error. $ircmsg is the complete error irc message.
You may use AnyEvent::IRC::Util::rfc_code_to_name to convert $code to the error name from the RFC 2812. eg.:
rfc_code_to_name ('471') => 'ERR_CHANNELISFULL'
NOTE: This event is also emitted when a 'ERROR' message is received.
debug_send => $command, @params
Is emitted everytime some command is sent.
debug_recv => $ircmsg
Is emitted everytime some command was received.
$cl = AnyEvent::IRC::Client->new (%args)
This is the constructor of a AnyEvent::IRC::Client object, which stands logically for a client connected to ONE IRC server. You can reuse it and call connect once it disconnected.
NOTE: You are free to use the hash member heap to store any associated data with this object. For example retry timers or anything else.
%args may contain these options:
send_initial_whois => $bool
If this option is enabled an initial WHOIS command is sent to your own NICKNAME to determine your own ident. See also the method nick_ident. This is necessary to ensure that the information about your own nickname is available as early as possible for the send_long_message method.
$bool is false by default.
$cl->connect ($host, $port)
$cl->connect ($host, $port, $info)
This method does the same as the connect method of AnyEvent::Connection, but if the $info parameter is passed it will automatically register with the IRC server upon connect for you, and you won't have to call the register method yourself. If $info only contains the timeout value it will not automatically connect, this way you can pass a custom connect timeout value without having to register.
The keys of the hash reference you can pass in $info are:
nick - the nickname you want to register as
user - your username
real - your realname
password - the server password
timeout - the TCP connect timeout
All keys, except nick are optional.
$cl->register ($nick, $user, $real, $server_pass)
Sends the IRC registration commands NICK and USER. If $server_pass is passed also a PASS command is generated.
NOTE: If you passed the nick, user, etc. already to the connect method you won't need to call this method, as AnyEvent::IRC::Client will do that for you.
$cl->set_nick_change_cb ($callback)
This method lets you modify the nickname renaming mechanism when registering the connection. $callback is called with the current nickname as first argument when a ERR_NICKNAMEINUSE or ERR_UNAVAILRESOURCE error occurs on login. The return value of $callback will then be used to change the nickname.
If $callback is not defined the default nick change callback will be used again.
The default callback appends '_' to the end of the nickname supplied in the register routine.
If the callback returns the same nickname that was given it the connection will be terminated.
$cl->nick ()
Returns the current nickname, under which this connection is registered at the IRC server. It might be different from the one that was passed to register as a nick-collision might happened on login.
$cl->is_my_nick ($string)
This returns true if $string is the nick of ourself.
$cl->registered ()
Returns a true value when the connection has been registered successful and you can send commands.
$cl->channel_list ()
$cl->channel_list ($channel)
Without $channel parameter: This returns a hash reference. The keys are the currently joined channels in lower case. The values are hash references which contain the joined nicks as key (NOT in lower case!) and the nick modes as values (as returned from nick_modes ()).
If the $channel parameter is given it returns the hash reference of the channel occupants or undef if the channel does not exist.
$cl->nick_modes ($channel, $nick)
This returns the mode map of the $nick on $channel. Returns undef if the channel isn't joined or the user is not on it. Returns a hash reference with the modes the user has as keys and 1's as values.
$cl->send_msg (...)
See also AnyEvent::IRC::Connection.
$cl->send_srv ($command, @params)
This function sends an IRC message that is constructed by mk_msg (undef, $command, @params) (see AnyEvent::IRC::Util). If the registered event has NOT yet been emitted the messages are queued until that event is emitted, and then sent to the server.
NOTE: If you stop the registered event (with stop_event, see Object::Event) in a callback registered to the before_registered event, the send_srv queue will NOT be flushed and NOT sent to the server!
This allows you to simply write this:
my $cl = AnyEvent::IRC::Client->new;
$cl->connect ('', 6667, { nick => 'testbot' });
$cl->send_srv (PRIVMSG => 'elmex', 'Hi there!');
Instead of:
$cl->reg_cb (
registered => sub {
$cl->send_msg (PRIVMSG => 'elmex', 'Hi there!');
$cl->clear_srv_queue ()
Clears the server send queue.
$cl->send_chan ($channel, $command, @params)
This function sends a message (constructed by mk_msg (undef, $command, @params) to the server, like send_srv only that it will queue the messages if it hasn't joined the channel $channel yet. The queued messages will be send once the connection successfully JOINed the $channel.
$channel will be lowercased so that any case that comes from the server matches. (Yes, IRC handles upper and lower case as equal :-(
Be careful with this, there are chances you might not join the channel you wanted to join. You may wanted to join #bla and the server redirects that and sends you that you joined #blubb. You may use clear_chan_queue to remove the queue after some timeout after joining, so that you don't end up with a memory leak.
$cl->clear_chan_queue ($channel)
Clears the channel queue of the channel $channel.
my (@lines) = $cl->send_long_message ($encoding, $overhead, $cmd, @params, $msg)
As IRC only allows 512 byte blocks of messages and sometimes your messages might get longer, you have a problem. This method will solve your problem:
This method can be used to split up long messages into multiple commands.
$cmd and @params are the IRC command and it's first parameters, except the last one: the $msg. $msg can be a Unicode string, which will be encoded in $encoding before sending.
If you want to send a CTCP message you can encode it in the $cmd by appending the CTCP command with a "\001". For example if you want to send a CTCP ACTION you have to give this $cmd:
$cl->send_long_message (undef, 0, "PRIVMSG\001ACTION", "#test", "rofls");
$encoding can be undef if you don't need any recoding of $msg. But in case you want to send Unicode it is necessary to determine where to split a message exactly, to not break the encoding.
Please also note that the nick_ident for your own nick is necessary to compute this. To ensure best performance as possible use the send_initial_whois option if you want to use this method.
But note that this method might not work 100% correct and you might still get at least partially chopped off lines if you use send_long_message before the WHOIS reply to send_initial_whois arrived.
To be on the safest side you might want to wait until that initial WHOIS reply arrived.
The return value of this method is the list of the actually sent lines (but without encoding applied).
$cl->enable_ping ($interval, $cb)
This method enables a periodical ping to the server with an interval of $interval seconds. If no PONG was received from the server until the next interval the connection will be terminated or the callback in $cb will be called.
($cb will have the connection object as it's first argument.)
Make sure you call this method after the connection has been established. (eg. in the callback for the registered event).
$cl->lower_case ($str)
Converts the given string to lowercase according to CASEMAPPING setting given by the IRC server. If none was sent, the default - rfc1459 - will be used.
$cl->eq_str ($str1, $str2)
This function compares two strings, whether they are describing the same IRC entity. They are lower cased by the networks case rules and compared then.
$cl->isupport ()
$cl->isupport ($key)
Provides access to the ISUPPORT variables sent by the IRC server. If $key is given this method will return its value only, otherwise a hashref with all values is returned
$cl->split_nick_mode ($prefixed_nick)
This method splits the $prefix_nick (eg. '+elmex') up into the mode of the user and the nickname.
This method returns 2 values: the mode map and the nickname.
The mode map is a hash reference with the keys being the modes the nick has set and the values being 1.
NOTE: If you feed in a prefixed ident ('@elmex!') you get 3 values out actually: the mode map, the nickname and the ident, otherwise the 3rd value is undef.
$cl->map_prefix_to_mode ($prefix)
Maps the nick prefix (eg. '@') to the corresponding mode (eg. 'o'). Returns undef if no such prefix exists (on the connected server).
$cl->map_mode_to_prefix ($mode)
Maps the nick mode (eg. 'o') to the corresponding prefix (eg. '@'). Returns undef if no such mode exists (on the connected server).
$cl->available_nick_modes ()
Returns a list of possible modes on this IRC server. (eg. 'o' for op).
$cl->is_channel_name ($string)
This return true if $string is a channel name. It analyzes the prefix of the string (eg. if it is '#') and returns true if it finds a channel prefix. Those prefixes might be server specific, so ISUPPORT is checked for that too.
$cl->nick_ident ($nick)
This method returns the whole ident of the $nick if the information is available. If the nick's ident hasn't been seen yet, undef is returned.
NOTE: If you want to rely on the nick_ident of your own nick you should make sure to enable the send_initial_whois option in the constructor.
my $bool = $cl->away_status
Returns a true value if you are away or undef if you are not away.
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ($ctcp_command, @msg)
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ($ctcp_command, $coderef)
This method installs an auto-reply for the reception of the $ctcp_command via PRIVMSG, @msg will be used as argument to the encode_ctcp function of the AnyEvent::IRC::Util package. The replies will be sent with the NOTICE IRC command.
If $coderef was given and is a code reference, it will called each time a $ctcp_command is received, this is useful for eg. CTCP PING reply generation. The arguments will be the same arguments that the ctcp event callbacks get. (See also ctcp event description above). The return value of the called subroutine should be a list of arguments for encode_ctcp.
Currently you can only configure one auto-reply per $ctcp_command.
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ('VERSION', ['VERSION', 'ScriptBla:0.1:Perl']);
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ('PING', sub {
my ($cl, $src, $target, $tag, $msg, $type) = @_;
['PING', $msg]
$cl->dcc_initiate ($dest, $type, $timeout, $local_ip, $local_port)
This function will initiate a DCC TCP connection to $dest of type $type. It will setup a listening TCP socket on $local_port, or a random port if $local_port is undefined. $local_ip is the IP that is being sent to the receiver of the DCC connection. If it is undef the local socket will be bound to 0 (or "::" in case of IPv6) and $local_ip will probably be something like "". It is always advisable to set $local_ip to a (from the "outside", what ever that might be) reachable IP Address.
$timeout is the time in seconds after which the listening socket will be closed if the receiver didn't connect yet. The default is 300 (5 minutes).
When the local listening socket has been setup the dcc_ready event is emitted. When the receiver connects to the socket the dcc_accepted event is emitted. And whenever a dcc connection is closed the dcc_close event is emitted.
For canceling the DCC offer or closing the connection see dcc_disconnect below.
The return value of this function will be the ID of the initiated DCC connection, which can be used for functions such as dcc_disconnect, send_dcc_chat or dcc_handle.
$cl->dcc_disconnect ($id, $reason)
In case you want to withdraw a DCC offer sent by start_dcc or close a DCC connection you call this function.
$id is the DCC connection ID. $reason should be a human readable reason why you ended the dcc offer, but it's only used for local logging purposes (see dcc_close event).
$cl->dcc_accept ($id, $timeout)
This will accept an incoming DCC request as received by the dcc_request event. The dcc_connected event will be emitted when we successfully connected. And the dcc_close event when the connection was disconnected.
$timeout is the connection try timeout in seconds. The default is 300 (5 minutes).
See samples/anyeventirccl and other samples in samples/ for some examples on how to use AnyEvent::IRC::Client.
Robin Redeker, <>
RFC 1459 - Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
Copyright 2006-2009 Robin Redeker, all rights reserved.
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How would I prevent an import lib from loading the DLL it refers to at runtime until I call something like, say, LoadLibrary?
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Don't link with the import library? – Joachim Pileborg Oct 2 '12 at 6:53
Linking is necessary, or you get reference errors. – Qix Oct 2 '12 at 6:54
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Maybe you need this:
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Yep found that after some searching. However, This does not work for exported classes. Still marking it as the answer, as it answered my question! – Qix Oct 2 '12 at 7:04
You are welcome. – Kirill Kobelev Oct 2 '12 at 7:49
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Since yesterday a working Python gdata program has stopped working after I changed the IP address used. I receive the following stack trace:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\prod\googleSite\googleSite2.py", line 23, in feed = client.GetContentFeed() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gdata\sites\client.py", line 155, in get_c ontent_feed auth_token=auth_token, **kwargs) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gdata\client.py", line 635, in get_feed **kwargs) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gdata\client.py", line 320, in request RequestError) gdata.client.RequestError: Server responded with: 500, Internal Error
The code is as follow:
import gdata.sites.client
import gdata.sites.data
client = gdata.sites.client.SitesClient(source='xxx', site='yyy')
client.ssl = True # Force API requests through HTTPS
client.ClientLogin('[email protected]', 'password', client.source);
feed = client.GetContentFeed();
Update: The issue fixes itself after an hour - is there any kind of commit or logout to avoid this?
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Are you passing credentials to google in order to get your auth token or was the google account previously set up to automatically allow auths from a certain IP? – Alec Sanger Aug 12 '11 at 11:51
I have changed the question accordingly. – weismat Aug 12 '11 at 11:58
I have created a issue on google's issue system and I am now working around this by continously trying at the startup and keeping my own list afterwards. – weismat Aug 17 '11 at 7:25
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up vote 1 down vote accepted
Since you're not passing anything in GetContentFeed, it's using CONTENT_FEED_TEMPLATE % (self.domain, self.site) as the URI. I'm not sure if the IP change had an impact on what the self.domain/self.site values should be, but it might be worth checking those out.
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How do I find the correct values? – weismat Aug 12 '11 at 13:06
I really don't know a ton about this python API, but I believe they are defined in client.py, though their value could be saved anywhere in your program. I am not sure what they SHOULD be, but it's a starting point that you can look into. Sorry that I can't be of more assistance. – Alec Sanger Aug 12 '11 at 13:14
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class Session(models.Model):
tutor = models.ForeignKey(User)
start_time = models.DateTimeField()
end_time = models.DateTimeField()
What is the best way to always prevent start_time from overlapping end_time ?
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First, you should do this at the form level, see Cleaning and validating fields that depend on each other for instructions on how to do this, it would look like this:
def clean(self):
cleaned_data = super(YourForm, self).clean()
if cleaned_data['start_time'] > cleaned_data['end_time']:
raise forms.ValidationError(_(u'Start time must be before end time'))
Also, you can enforce it at low level in the save method or in a pre_save signal:
from django.db.models import signals
class StartTimeAfterEndTimeException(Exception):
def __init__(self, model):
super(StartTimeAfterEndTimeException, self).__init__(
'Start time %s should not be after end time %s' % (
model.start_time, model.end_time))
def session_force_end_time(sender, instance, **kwargs):
if instance.start_time >= instance.end_time:
raise StartTimeAfterEndTimeException(instance)
signals.pre_save.connect(session_force_end_time, sender=Session)
But that's pretty low level so it's not user friendly.
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At form level, I have to define this behavior for each form of my applications right ? – Pierre de LESPINAY Mar 22 '12 at 11:14
You should define this behavior once and only once. You could define this behavior in SessionForm, and have other form classes for Session to inherit from SessionForm. – jpic Mar 22 '12 at 11:16
Ok I see, I'll try to inherit forms. Thank you – Pierre de LESPINAY Mar 22 '12 at 11:19
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The Democratic presidential primary race has split the base. Emotions are stressed, resulting in supporters of both candidates reporting that they would not vote for their Democratic opponent in the general election.
The Obama-Clinton contest may derail what appears to be a Democratic year by the acrimony resulting from their rivalry. The policies of both are so close that the contest is defined by personality choices instead of issues. Normally a unity ticket would serve party interests by bringing together opposing supporters, providing a base that could win the Democratic nominee the White House.
The idea of a ticket headed by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) as the vice presidential candidate receives little credibility from the talking heads. Weekly they counted Hillary out of the running or defined the Rev. Jeremiah Wright a dagger that would end Obama's campaign. The pundits have less difficulty viewing an Obama-Clinton ticket then the other way around.
Politics is a war based upon strategy, measuring risks versus rewards. Considering the turnout for both candidates and possibility of forfeiting, both Obama and Clinton supporters have little choice but to offer the loser the vice presidency. It is often said that no one runs to become vice president, but when offered, no one refuses.
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• 5 Years Ago
"...he wrote, adding that a failure of Opel would free GM of 4 billion euros in related costs. "
• 5 Years Ago
GM needs Opel?Vauxhall to succeed in Europe. Stop the game playing, the unions need to get their act together. Especially these times.
• 5 Years Ago
The unions in the UK and Spain seem to be doing their job correctly.
The Unite(UK) and UGT(Spain) unions have already endorsed the more sensible of the two proposals, the proposal from RHJ. They don't seem to have a problem with GM keeping Opel either. In the event that Opel/Vauxhall IS liquidated, I sincerely hope that only the most inefficient factories are closed down, while the most efficient ones are picked up again after the insolvency.
I doubt the German union or workers are going to get their act together anytime soon......
• 5 Years Ago
So I guess this could drag on for a few more months.
• 5 Years Ago
"1) the worst car EVER made in Europe is the Class A Mercedes, which failed the famous "Moose" tests in Sweden....."
If you know your stuff about the A-Class, the moose-test debacle was limited to the very first limited production run. The car was given a wider track which solved the problem and gave it far better handling, but sadly diminished the ride quality Mercedes had earlier been concentrating on.
I'd say the worst car ever made in Europe was probably either the Zastava 45, or the old Wartburgs. The Skoda Estelle 105 was awful too, although it used a practically bombproof bodyshell.
• 5 Years Ago
The reason I look things up is because I don't want to make things up as I go along, such as:
"Incorrect. The moose test was carried out by a magazine using a model from the initial production run batch. The car very quickly had redesigned underpinnings at the back which gave the car a wider track."
Every single car produced and sold up to that point in time was recalled. This is actually how ESP came about. And it wasn't JUST redesigned underpinnings, it was underpinnings+ESP+modifying the springs and shocks+lowering the engine+stabilizer bars added to the front and rear axles+wider tyres
"The modifications fixed the problem but cost Mercedes millions of dollars and left the A-Class with the nickname initials MTF (moose test failer) by the world's motoring press."
It was in the end a different car that the owners of the original class-A got.
The class-A was such a horrible technical f**k-up that it's still studied today in many business schools in terms of CRISIS MANAGEMENT (for those without an aversion to reading):
"Describes a crisis management situation facing Mercedes-Benz"....
and here's a book on the topic as well:
"..Many other motoring journalists the world over tried to replicate the roll or devise their own version of the moose test. Networked reporting ..."
" You're talking about poorly made European cars."
No I'm not. I'm talking about well-engineered cars that don't flip over and kill you, as opposed to a car that did just that.
• 5 Years Ago
Richard, and when I say "miniscule", remember that 2,500 units being recalled is nothing compared to the sales of the A-Class to date - approximately one and three-quarter million examples.
As bad as the initial elk test incident was for a manufacturer such as Mercedes, it didn't deter the model from being an unbridled success. So be careful when you use words such as "public relations disaster".
• 5 Years Ago
You're reporting a tabloid "SHOCKER!" story as fact.
What a shambles.
• 5 Years Ago
"GM would rather have Opel, Vauxhall fall into insolvency ..." - Autoblog
Adam Opel and Vauxhall Motors are completely independent legal entities. What they have in common is that they sell GM Europe-developed products. Opel is a subsidiary of GM, while Vauxhall is a subsidiary of GM (UK) which in turn is a subsidiary of GM. Should Opel fall into the realm of German insolvency law, that has nothing directly to do with Vauxhall's financial position as a legal entity. Vauxhall's finances would however be affected if Opel stopped manufacturing some of its models.
In practice, should GM sell Opel, it would likely sell Vauxhall as well as GM (UK)'s other subsidiaries, which includes GMM Luton as well as Opel Ireland, Saab GB and Chevrolet UK distribution companies. The other subsidiaries would simply be wound down, sold off with GM's other asset dispositions and/or restructured.
• 5 Years Ago
Maybe GM had no intention of selling Opel at all.
• 5 Years Ago
Madness, absolute madness. This madness has been going on for too long. GM should be made aware that at the end of the day there's people dependent on their decisions.
• 5 Years Ago
I don't think the purpose of the New GM was to get the short end of the stick on business deals.
• 5 Years Ago
just shut it down
sell Chevy's in the EU (import themn from the US and Canada) and just close the doors to Opel and Vuxhaul brands
they can keep the engineers to work for them as a design center in EU
shut all factories down for Opel and Vuxhaul
big deal
if the unions there want to do what they did in the US then they deserve it
• 5 Years Ago
Flash news for you: they already sell Chevy's in EU... and they are garbage. The same happens with the Dodge ones.
If Opel dies, the respective market share will be gone to VW Group (VW, Skoda, Seat), Ford Europe, PSA Group (Citroen, Peugeot), Renault, Fiat, Honda, Toyota, etc, etc...
GM is not stupid, if they loose Opel/Vauxhall brands, they will literally loose almost every market share they have in Europe. Opel cars are always top positioned in sales. Corsa, Astra, Meriva, Zafira, new Insignia... GM has no chance to achieve such market share with the Chevy brand... even less with US made cars. The quality standards required by the average European market are way higher.
Even the USA market it's been filled with more Japanese and European cars sales, so why would GM succeed in exporting their cans in one of the most demanding markets in the world? Try China... otherwise, don't even bother to think about it.
• 5 Years Ago
"just shut it down
Vauxhall commands a 12% market share in the UK. Great idea ... (rolls eyes).
• 5 Years Ago
Has GM ever done anything right? Why should the sale of Opel be any different?
Using the word "intellectual" whether it's property rights or anything else in conjunction with GM is a misnomer. I guarantee that within 5 years we will all watch and probably pay for... New GM Bankruptcy 2
• 5 Years Ago
"Gary Lowe - Has GM ever done anything right?"
GM didn't maintain it's position as the number one automaker in the world for all those decades by doing nothing right. So Toyota took that crown. Big deal. GM is still the number one automaker in the US even after the big C4C scam. I predict that next month will prove to be more devastating to Toyota than GM in a month by month comparison.
• 5 Years Ago
Gary ma boy, you attempt at humor landed wide of the mark. Can you tell me what percentage of corporations last for more than 100 years? GM has done lots of things right, they've also made some major boo-boos.
The General Motors Corporation, will out you my dear Sir.
10 years ago they would have failed coming out of Chapt. 11, because their product portfolio was uncompetitive and they were too large and redundant. Still somewhat redundant, but their product portfolio is magnitudes better than before, and getting better as they go forward.
With Ford and GM raising their game, I say that over time, the imports will be beaten back. It's already starting to happen. Ask Toyota about that brick wall they ran into recently, it's not just the recession.
• 5 Years Ago
Excuse the typo, should have Read:
The General Motors Corporation, will out live you my dear Sir.
• 5 Years Ago
If it looks like old gm, sound like old gm, and acts like old gm. Chances are new GM is still the old gm...
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Dear Tom and Ray:
Can you please explain why my tachometer reading would change for a constant speed driven? When I first bought my car six years ago ('88 Mazda MX-6), the tach would read 3,000 rpm in fifth gear at exactly 70 mph. It was so reliable that I could tell how fast I was going by simply looking at the tachometer. Now, at 70 mph, it reads 3,100 rpm. Should I be concerned?
RAY: No. There are kids starving in Somalia. There's a health care crisis in the United States. My brother has a huge rash on his rear end. These are all things to be concerned about, Ken. But I wouldn't worry about your tachometer.
TOM: If your rpm were varying a lot at highway speed--if they were going from 3,000 to 3,500 without the car going any faster--then I'd be concerned that your clutch was slipping. But the clutch would never slip to only 3,100 rpm. It would never slip that accurately and that predicably.
RAY: My guess is that your tachometer calibration is slightly off. And that can happen over the years. It may be the sensor, or the instrument itself. But it's really nothing to worry about.
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Voters in San Francisco get to show banks how they feel about those one- and two-dollar ATM surcharges. Residents are being asked to vote Tuesday on the hot-button consumer issue, as CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone reports.
ThereÂ's little doubt that the proposed ban of cash machine fees will pass, but since banks don't like the idea, theyÂ're certain to challenge any injunction. Bankers contend the charges help pay for their growing networks of ATMs.
"They're constantly charging you for everything and I think people are sick of it," says one resident.
The fees can add up if you use an ATM at a bank where you don't have an account. The ATM affixes one charge, and your own bank adds another. Pretty soon, it can take a $3 bite out of your $20.
Santa Monica has already passed a city ban on surcharges, and other California communities are considering bans. Connecticut and Iowa have already passed laws implementing the ban.
"The voters and the consumers do have a right to stand up to price gouging," says San Francisco City Supervisor Tom Ammianno. He has been fighting to ban the fees.
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The dollar is slipping today as speculators unwind dollar-long positions. [WSJ]
Meanwhile, the euro rose to a 10-month high against the yenafter a high flash inflation report from Eurostat. [Reuters]
About that yen - it seems to be the currency of choice for investors to sell against the Australian dollar, among others. [FT]
Sure enough, that Australian dollar just keeps rising. Today it was a nice solid retail sales report that got everybody going. [RTT]
Over at the G20 meetup, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner took a swipe at currencies that don't trade freely. Gee, what's he talking about? [Reuters]
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Seems like everyone's talking about Tony Allen and Kevin Durant these days. Here in the pages (and pixels) of The Commercial Appeal, and on national outlets like ESPN, seems like the defensive efforts of the Grindfather against the likely MVP have drawn massive attention.
But there's another All-Star on the Thunder, another young superstar who took exactly the same number of shot attempts (28) as Durant in Game 2. And he's every bit as important for the Grizzlies to defend as Durant is, perhaps more so. Russell Westbrook has been an All-Star three times and has also been an All-NBA second-team player three times in a short but impressive career.
So many of Westbrook's shots come, though, at the expense of the Thunder running offensive sets or playing within the flow of the game. If he gets his, that often doesn't bode well for the team. Before Wednesday's practice, Grizzlies shooting guard Courtney Lee said, "We're fine with Westbrook taking shots. I mean, that's kind of what you want -- the more shots he takes, the less Durant takes."
That is basic mathematics. More of Westbrook equals less of Durant, an equation that's been kind to the Grizzlies over the course of Westbrook's career. Indeed, when Westbrook takes 20 or more shots against the Grizzlies, the Thunder have a record of just 3-7. Conversely, when he takes 19 or fewer, the Thunder are 14-5 against the Grizzlies. True to form, in Game 1 (100-86 Thunder win), Westbrook took 19 shots; in Game 2 (111-105 Grizzlies win), he took 28.
Per Synergy, well over half of Westbrook's offense consists of two things: Transition baskets and pick and roll. Westbrook likes to do things quickly and often by himself -- he has tended to work better as a solo act in this series. There is a distinct difference thus far when Westbrook does things by himself and when he is forced to move the ball.
Zero passes (he takes the ball over halfcourt and shoots): 12-23 FG, 6 shooting fouls drawn, 36 total points
One or more passes: 7-24 FG, 1 shooting foul drawn, 16 points
Taking that one step further, if you eliminate transition baskets from the equation, when Westbrook is forced to make even one pass before taking a shot, he's 4-20 from the field this series, for 20 percent. The fact is that Westbrook is a uniquely athletic player but often struggles to fit into a slower-paced halfcourt offense. That, of course, is what the Grizzlies defense would love to force Westbrook to do Thursday night in Game 3.
In the pick and roll, Westbrook offers a lot of different and potentially problematic offensive threats. Lee said, "The NBA is pick and roll basketball. Anytime anyone's setting a pick on a defender, it's tough, especially if you're guarding an All-Star player like Westbrook, capable of exploding to the rim and capable of stepping behind and making the shot." Westbrook can drive past his man or pull up in a flash and drain a jumper. There's not much he can't do offensively.
Mike Conley, who shared time on Westbrook with Lee, didn't necessarily think the Grizzlies handled the pick and roll well in Games 1 and 2. "We were very upset with the way we played (Westbrook) in the first game. We were still pretty upset with the way we were playing the pick and roll (in Game 2), especially with (Durant) in it."
In this series, when Westbrook runs his offense out of the pick and roll, he's 7-18 overall from the field. But as Conley pointed out, he's been much more dangerous in the pick and roll with Durant as the screener.
Kevin Durant: 4-5, 1 shooting foul drawn
Kendrick Perkins: 2-5
Nick Collison: 0-2
Serge Ibaka: 1-6, 3 SF drawn
When the primary defender on Westbrook has either elected to or been forced to go under the screen, Westbrook is 5-8 from the field (5-6 when shooting inside the arc). His pull-up two-point jumper is excellent, less so the three-point version. It's imperative that the Grizzlies try to avoid giving Westbrook that pocket of space; he's been deadly in that mid-range area off the screen and can still drive to the basket for a layup, too.
The screener is clearly a big factor, not only because of the quality of the screen set but also the threat of what that screener can do after setting the screen. As such, those factors affect what the defender can do against the screen -- can the defender fight over the screen, does the defender go under and attempt to prevent penetration, does the defender just flat out get pancaked -- these decisions happen in a flash and have a huge impact on Westbrook's offense.
Westbrook is without a doubt an elite NBA player and a terrifically athletic dynamo who is capable of things few other NBA players are. He is also capable of doing too much single-handedly and causing stagnation in the Thunder offense. His decisions in Game 3 -- and the Grizzlies' ability to influence them -- will play an enormous role in whether the Grizzlies will take a 2-1 series lead at FedExForum.
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Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly relayed the news Thursday during the network's portion of the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills.
"The third episode will write Finn Hudson out of the show," Reilly said, noting that the first two episodes, which are Beatles-centric, had already been written. While the hour will "deal directly with the incidents involved his death," which would include Monteith's drug use, that doesn't necessarily mean storyline-wise. Reilly indicated that PSAs would air throughtout the episode. Reilly did not offer details on how Finn's death would play out.
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Reilly also said there was a possibility that previously shot footage of Monteith could be used in the third episode, though nothing has been finalized.
The 31-year-old actor, who had long been vocal about his battles with addiction, died of mixed drug toxicity involving heroin and alcohol on July 13.
After Monteith's death, the network decided to push back the dramedy's premiere date one week — now airing Sept. 26 rather than Sept. 19. After the airing of the third episode, the show will go on a three-week hiatus to make way for Major League Baseball playoff coverage.
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115 a.a. *
67 a.a. *
Waters ×39
* Residue conservation analysis
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Name: Transcription/transferase
Title: Crystal structure of reduced c10s spx in complex with the alpha c-terminal domain of RNA polymeras
Structure: Regulatory protein spx. Chain: a. Engineered: yes. Mutation: yes. DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha. Chain: b. Fragment: unp residues 245-314. Synonym: rnap subunit alpha, transcriptase subunit alpha, RNA polymerase subunit alpha.
Source: Bacillus subtilis. Organism_taxid: 1423. Gene: bsu11500, spxa. Expressed in: escherichia coli. Expression_system_taxid: 562. Gene: bsu01430, rpoa.
1.90Å R-factor: 0.236 R-free: 0.278
Authors: K.J.Newberry,R.G.Brennan
Key ref: M.M.Nakano et al. (2010). Promoter recognition by a complex of Spx and the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase alpha subunit. PLoS One, 5, e8664. PubMed id: 20084284
30-Jul-09 Release date: 02-Feb-10
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Protein chain
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O31602 (SPX_BACSU) - Regulatory protein Spx
131 a.a.
115 a.a.*
Protein chain
No UniProt id for this chain
Struc: 67 a.a.
Key: PfamA domain Secondary structure CATH domain
Gene Ontology (GO) functional annotation
GO annot!
Cellular component cytoplasm 1 term
Biological process transcription, DNA-dependent 3 terms
Biochemical function protein binding 3 terms
PLoS One 5:e8664 (2010)
PubMed id: 20084284
M.M.Nakano, A.Lin, C.S.Zuber, K.J.Newberry, R.G.Brennan, P.Zuber.
BACKGROUND: Spx, an ArsC (arsenate reductase) family member, is a global transcriptional regulator of the microbial stress response and is highly conserved amongst Gram-positive bacteria. Bacillus subtilis Spx protein exerts positive and negative control of transcription through its interaction with the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase (RNAP) alpha subunit (alphaCTD). Spx activates trxA (thioredoxin) and trxB (thioredoxin reductase) in response to thiol stress, and bears an N-terminal C10XXC13 redox disulfide center that is oxidized in active Spx. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The structure of mutant Spx(C10S) showed a change in the conformation of helix alpha4. Amino acid substitutions R60E and K62E within and adjacent to helix alpha4 conferred defects in Spx-activated transcription but not Spx-dependent repression. Electrophoretic mobility-shift assays showed alphaCTD interaction with trxB promoter DNA, but addition of Spx generated a supershifted complex that was disrupted in the presence of reductant (DTT). Interaction of alphaCTD/Spx complex with promoter DNA required the cis-acting elements -45AGCA-42 and -34AGCG-31 of the trxB promoter. The Spx(G52R) mutant, defective in alphaCTD binding, did not interact with the alphaCTD-trxB complex. Spx(R60E) not only failed to complex with alphaCTD-trxB, but also disrupted alphaCTD-trxB DNA interaction. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The results show that Spx and alphaCTD form a complex that recognizes the promoter DNA of an Spx-controlled gene. A conformational change during oxidation of Spx to the disulfide form likely alters the structure of Spx alpha helix alpha4, which contains residues that function in transcriptional activation and alphaCTD/Spx-promoter interaction. The results suggest that one of these residues, R60 of the alpha4 region of oxidized Spx, functions in alphaCTD/Spx-promoter contact but not in alphaCTD interaction.
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20626317 H.Antelmann, and J.D.Helmann (2011).
Thiol-based redox switches and gene regulation.
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User avatar #158 - curtkobain (08/27/2013) [-]
inside the lip tattoos are pointless imo. They where off easy and they can't be detailed and no one sees it.
User avatar #104 - mrfourtysevenman (08/27/2013) [-]
vegans are all assholes
#93 - Medication (08/27/2013) [-]
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User avatar #45 - RoyalNightmare (08/27/2013) [-]
I pointed out that this was wrong the last time this was posted, but since then, I've misplaced my sources on the matter. Long story short, the overwhelming majority of tattoo ink in the United States (fair assumption that this person lives in the U.S.) is completely inorganic, and not derived from animals in any way.
User avatar #31 - subjectesixseven (08/26/2013) [-]
'least he isn't a cunt about it, thats what I hate more than anything, people who know they're wrong, but continue to argue anyway for the sake of dignity. cunts..
User avatar #17 - noneckcomics (08/26/2013) [-]
Posted May 8th, 2011.
User avatar #3 - prozach (08/26/2013) [+] (3 replies)
seen it before soooooo not by you
User avatar #35 to #3 - bubbabrent (08/26/2013) [-]
Of course it isn't him. Phanact never wins internet arguments.
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#179 - bernixas (08/27/2013) [-]
You mean like... She accepted it and didn't argue?
User avatar #167 - iceangel (08/27/2013) [-]
Now that is just for attention. Hipsters and Vegans. wooooo
#135 - peteflintonbass (08/27/2013) [-]
"suck it up. Be a woman"
User avatar #92 - munja (08/27/2013) [-]
*put huehue/minion pic here*
"lol. suck it up, be a woman!"
User avatar #90 - randomserb (08/27/2013) [+] (1 reply)
That is the most retarded place to get a tattoo. Imagine how retarded you'd look showing it to people. You don't even have to imagine it.
#81 - dudeyouisnasty (08/27/2013) [-]
You know, I too 'Vegan'
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#69 - anonymous (08/27/2013) [-]
lol what a stupid bitch
User avatar #1 - lordvimless (08/26/2013) [-]
i love this guy
#165 - bazda (08/27/2013) [-]
Only thing more retarded than being a vegan is getting a tattoo inside your mouth.
Congratulations, you have Down's syndrome.
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do you still look at system requirements?
#1gumbyxcore99Posted 8/24/2014 9:08:33 AM
i havent looked in forever. my build isnt even that good
#2Digital StormPosted 8/24/2014 9:09:01 AM
Occasionally. Usually hard drive space.
#3TropicMoon10Posted 8/24/2014 9:20:48 AM
#4AllmatteredPosted 8/24/2014 9:45:21 AM
Is there a need to? All System requirements in games these days are made up crap. Publishers just paste higher system reqs on their game each time to give the silly illusion that it looks better and improved *looks at COD.
Trust me, I've played plenty of modern games on my ancient PC to realize how much of BS system requirements are.
#5praetor fenixPosted 8/24/2014 9:45:49 AM
Haven't in a while.
#6-5xad0w-Posted 8/24/2014 9:50:07 AM
I have a 4770k/780 OC but I like to see what the devs think is needed and see how game performance measures up to those expectations.
#7DC07301981Posted 8/24/2014 10:30:54 AM
I look occasionally, just to have an idea of specs needed.
#8CatToyPosted 8/24/2014 10:32:31 AM
Once in a blue moon for shiggles, not because I need to know.
#9beautifuldreamsPosted 8/24/2014 10:37:44 AM
Digital Storm posted...
Occasionally. Usually hard drive space.
#10SuperemppuPosted 8/24/2014 11:07:20 AM
I have a i5 3570K, R9 280X, 16gb of ram and somewhere around 300gb of space on my SSD and around 1,5tb on my HDD.
So no, I don't check system requirements.
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How does one sail a midget?
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I thought a goblet was a tiny goblin.
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Desperate666 09-07-2012 04:56 AM
What is this? It's been a year
Tiny capillaries on rim of penis and red testicles
I have had this condition of tiny capillaries and red testicles for a year now. It also stings when I pee due to redness at the opening of my penis. The redness on my testicles is only on the front and sometimes it tingles. I was prescribed several topical creams but they didn't work. Also the family doctor along with the urologist said its not an STD. So I gave up and just deal. The stinging during urination is minimized when I move my bowels.
Any help will be much appreciated.
angeleyz81 09-07-2012 02:07 PM
Re: What is this? It's been a year
I'm sorry you are dealing with this but it doesn't sound like herpes. Have you tried getting other doc opinions?
Desperate666 09-11-2012 04:28 AM
Re: What is this? It's been a year
angeleyz81 09-11-2012 04:31 AM
Re: What is this? It's been a year
I'm not sure, but around the time you noticed all of this did you happen to change soaps, medicine, vitamins or anything else that may come into contact with your genitals? I am wondering if your having an allergic reaction and it is lasting this long because you just didnt realize it?
Desperate666 09-14-2012 12:00 AM
Re: What is this? It's been a year
The only thing that changed was that I moved from Arizona back to PA to a place that has extremely hard water. That's it. It's really bothering me. Thanks for any help you can provide.
angeleyz81 09-17-2012 08:16 PM
Re: What is this? It's been a year
How are you feeling now, has it gotten any better?
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A girl to a man: why I need a binder to hide my chest
Alec 'Chibi' Gray, 21, who grew up in the Glasgow area as a girl, describes another stage in his transition to becoming a man
Everyone should have bragging rights. Whether the task you've completed is minuscule or enormous, you should have the right to tell everyone if you feel proud of your achievement.
Being a person with little to no common sense, it's hard to fathom that I actually got through higher education. That's right everyone; I am now a bachelor of science!
I'm really excited about this milestone in my life; for once I actually feel like a proper adult. So to celebrate such a terrific achievement for an idiot, we decided to go to the beach.
I love it by the shore, the sea breeze blowing through your hair, the hot sand enclosing itself around your toes. I especially like the water, the salty expanse of blue disappearing into the horizon.
I'm not a person who meekly dips their toes in the shallows, no. I'm the type of person to take a running jump into the deeper waters, getting myself and everyone else absolutely soaking wet. So that's what I did, enacting a poor interpretation of a dolphin.
When the sun had disappeared behind the clouds and it was time to leave, however, the fun didn't exactly continue.
Being transgender has its difficulties, especially when you have to wear a binder. If you've never heard of a binder before, it's a piece of clothing that can be made of simple material or medical spandex which the wearer has tight to their skin, compressing their chest to look more masculine.
They come in all shapes and sizes, mostly in the shape of a vest. They can be pulled over your head, fastened with Velcro, or closed with the aid of a series of clips.
It was an hour's car ride home and I wasn't for soaking the backseat with my wet clothes and there were no changing facilities nearby.
I was the only one soaking wet so we came up with the idea of a mobile changing room and put towels across all of the windows, my friends standing guard.
It was easy enough to change quickly in the back seat of the hatchback until it came to my binder. In the small space it was hard for me to do up the clips at the side and had to get help from a friend, my face a beetroot colour as she helped to 'do me up'.
It's safe to say that I'll be bringing a simpler binder to change into next time.
My favourite binders to wear are a vest type which looks like a normal top on the outside, but has a half-chest binder attached to the inside, fastened with clips. They bind very well and are comfortable to wear under your clothes. They're hard to fasten at first, but with practice you'll become a pro.
The binders I wear are a cheaper alternative at around £10 compared to the more popular over-the-top binders on www.underworks.com. These are made of medical grade spandex and are great when brand new as they bind very well and are easy to put on. The drawback is that they will stretch out over time and can get expensive to replace.
Being a larger chested trans guy is pretty frustrating, being that I'll never have a completely flat chest until after surgery.
I've had most, if not all types of binders and the worst for my body type has to be a wraparound binder. These are made of a piece of material that wraps around your chest, fastened by clips.
The fact that it doesn't have any straps didn't help my case as the first and last time I wore one, I was on a night out at a pub. I was outside getting some fresh winter air; talking to some strangers I'd just met.
I'd gotten rather immersed in the conversation and jumped a little, the wraparound binder slipping down to my navel. It was the most embarrassing thing to happen to me on a night out and luckily the others were heading back inside at that moment, so I could quickly fix myself before I followed them inside.
As a note to bigger chested trans guys: Do not, I repeat, do not wear a binder with no straps as it will only end badly...
For further information:
LGBT Youth Scotland is the largest youth and community-based organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Scotland. They hold regular Trans Youth groups for young people who identify as transgender or are gender variant.
All About Trans is a project run by On Road, a not-for-profit organisation that works in partnership with communities to solve social problems using the web and the media. All About Trans is about encouraging better understanding between media professionals and transgender people and inspiring more accurate and sensitive representation in print, broadcast and online media in the UK.
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Everything is changing--the economy, the world, our lives. And when things change, two things happen: the exciting part--opportunities open up, and the scary part--fear of the unknown. And because the unknown can be so scary for people, groups and businesses, they can clamp down. "Let's just hold onto what we have and not make any big moves, and maybe we'll be okay." Yet if we do that, we miss the other part--the opportunities. Things will continue to change, and change for the better, and those who are already moving forward into that change will be poised to capitalize on it!
If we are going to start to move forward, we will probably face resistance from others. When there are other people involved, and they are putting up obstacles to new ideas or forward movement, don't give up. Be smart in your approach. Employ these 7 keys to Creating Yes in a No Economy.
1. It starts in your mind: If you're going to create yes in the world, you have to first create yes in your mind. Believe that things are getting better--that the time to plant new seeds and begin to move forward is now. If you can't believe, simply entertain the possibility. That's a low-pressure way to start moving in the right direction.
2. Watch your language: Do you want to create something? Use assertive language when proposing it to others. Nothing will change if you sneak in and speak with doubt. Remove "think," "hope" and "maybe" from your vocabulary for these conversations. For more, see here
3. If you don't ask, it won't happen: Speak up! Be bold. Now is no time to hold back. And don't give up. Have persistence and courage. "Fortune favors the brave," Terence, playwright, second century BC.
4. Why?: And the "why" had better be good. If someone is going to move out of their comfort zone and say yes to you, there will have to be a good reason. Not a good reason to you, but a good reason to them.
5. Listen first: Think persuasion is all about talking? Think again. Listening is one of your greatest tools. And one secret is to hear them out first, waiting your turn. They'll be much more willing to hear you out without judgment after you've done that for them.
6. Start smart, stay smart: When you have something to say--something you want to have an impact and to spur change, don't just say it any old way. Be strategic with how you start the conversation, and how you handle any arguments that come your way. In starting out, include the "why" from number four, above.
7. Who are you talking to?: Think about who your "audience" is, and adjust your message accordingly.
A mentor advised me once: "Don't delay." Those words have been my friend ever since, spurring me on through the resistance I've faced from others, and the resistance I've faced from myself. If you're sensing there is something you need to move forward with, don't delay. In this time of great change, opportunity is stirring. Take a deep breath, consider the 7 Keys to Creating Yes, and take action.
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GPS isn't fashion, it's the law. You cannot sell a cellular phone that doesn't have GPS enabled for the purpose of tracking fugitives and suspects movements. Thank you 9/11.
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10 excuses for being late to work
It happens to everyone at some point -- time slips away from you, and all of a sudden you’re late for work. You’ll need an explanation.
Here are 10 that might just work.
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• Most of the time when people are late, the excuses are pretty common:
1. I overslept.
2. My wife is ill, so I need to get the children to school first.
3. My cat has gone missing.
4. I got stuck in traffic.
5. The bus broke down.
As a job candidate consultant and founder of the Interview Expert Academy, Jonathan Burston says he has heard a lot of excuses over the years and your reputation at work can dictate whether you get the benefit of the doubt. “Whether someone is believed or not depends on who they are as a person, and their general work ethic and past experience.
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But other times, the story gets stranger -- which can make it harder to believe.
6. I’m running late because I spent the night in urgent care after being beaten up and stabbed. “Yes, this was an excuse used by someone on my team,” Burston says.
7. I’ll be late because I fell asleep on the train home and missed my stop, only to wake up three hours further down the track and not be able to get back the same evening. This employee had been very drunk the night before, Burston says. And the employee used that excuse not once, but twice.
8. I tried to cut my own hair and made a horrible mess of it, so I had to find a salon that was open and could fit me in to fix it.
9. My children locked me out of the house and wouldn’t let me in. I had to call a locksmith and get him to open the door, so I could retrieve the keys, get the children to school and then come to work.
10. “I was late because there was police activity and they made us stay down in the house so I couldn't leave.” This one came from a CFO, says Kimberly Mecklenburg, CEO of LifeLabNetworks and Mecklenburg Media. “Everyone at the meeting believed her but she forgot that there are so many apps about traffic and incidents and I couldn't help but check it out,” Mecklenburg says. “No police activity anywhere near her, but inspired creativity on her part.”
Is Honesty the Best Policy?
Everybody’s human and makes mistakes, so own up to yours and move on, says Sheila Dramis, CEO of HR Partners. “If you are late, be honest. Did you oversleep, forget to set the alarm, kids made you run late? Be honest. Integrity is what every company wants. When you lie, you break that trust and that will upset an employer even more.”
It’s important to apologize as well, says Dramis. “Acknowledge that you understand it sets a bad example, impacts the team and that you are taking steps to correct it. This is better than spewing out excuses. Your manager wants to know you understand the implications and are taking steps to change.”
Besides, chronic lateness can end up hurting you in the long run. “At some point the business will decide they have to move on without you,” she says.
Does the Reason Even Matter?
Maria Katrien Heslin, owner of GPS to Success Coaching & Development, says she’s heard a lot of excuses why people are late to work, “from menstrual cramps and oversleeping to carpool problems and car trouble. To me, the reason is not important because sometimes completely legitimate reasons are also private, personal matters while silly reasons may cause an employee to lie.”
Heslin says she’d rather not know the reason and instead focus on whether the lateness is a chronic issue. “That has proven to be a respectful and effective method.”
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Our intellectuals are in a state of denial
November 06, 2012 15:02 IST
Varsha Bhosle -- this is for you.
There is nothing like an emotional impetus to put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, if you please.
A few weeks back, I read in the media about Varsha Bhosle's tragic death. It jogged my memory and brought back poignant souvenirs.
It was in late October 1999. I received a message that a certain "Mrs" Bhosle had called from Bombay (as I still thought of the city where I was born).
Since I didn't know any Mrs Bhosle, I was intrigued. Then, I remembered that the redoubtable Marathi connection in our family, my mejo di (Bengali readers will be familiar with this appellation), Nibha Walawalkar, was fond of passing on my telephone number to her vast circle of friends and acquaintances in the western metropolis.
Call back? Why not? Otherwise, I ran the risk of serious flak from my didi -- she was married not only to a Marathi but a Sandhurst-trained Maratha, Colonel Bhal Walawalkar. Never you mind that he was the most gentle and considerate brother-in-law. But my didi was more formidable than his entire former regiment put together.
I called. The lady at the other end was both animated and delighted. She muttered something about the "Pioneer" people (and specially their telephone operator) as being "most unhelpful". She had to make many calls to get my number. The reason for her trying to contact me was that she wanted to know more about an editorial piece I had written in The Pioneer a few months earlier, since she was writing a piece on the same subject.
The penny dropped -- I had indeed read a few of her writings on a new internet site called and rather liked them. I, on the other hand, was an occasional columnist and wrote only when something or some person seriously got my goat. The poor telephone operator could hardly be blamed -- the only person who guarded my number was the Pioneer's edit page editor, a delightful soul, who is still close to me, though he has moved on in life.
The Indian net scene was at a nascent stage at that time but Rediff was clearly the leader of the pack. Varsha wanted me to answer her queries on my article immediately. I told her it would take me some time to go through the background material that I invariably collect for any article. She sounded excited and upset at the same time, but I promised I would call back and reminded her of my track record. That reassured her somewhat.
Even before the appointed time, she called me. I was mightily relieved that I had done my homework by then. We had a long and very cordial discussion. She signed off and said she would send me her article. She never did, but a friend of mine pointed it out and I read it.
She was generous in her article where she quoted me extensively. I was touched and flattered.
Wanted to thank her, which I did by e-mail. Never got a response. However, after that, I read her columns fairly regularly and empathised with her views and thoughts on most occasions, though we never interacted directly after that.
I was convinced that Varsha was one of the few writers in the Indian Fourth Estate who could take on the gang of "secularists" and "liberals", who covered up their abysmal knowledge of our history, civilisation, ethos and culture, only through their English vocabulary and prose. These hacks were word-meisters and spin-doctors, but serious writers, never. More on this tribe later.
Over the years, the media grapevine provided periodic news of Varsha's medical and mental problems and soon her column stopped -- or was it my fault that I did not look hard enough?
This brings me back to the lonely brigade of Indic culture empathisers in the nation's Fourth Estate, both in the print and the electronic varieties, and in the Indian academic and intellectual world as a whole. This does not mean that there are not enough "Hindu Internet Fanatics", as one TV anchor derisively labelled them. Thankfully, there are a huge number who rush to defend their history and perceived social consciousness when these are trampled upon. But these valiant soldiers are just that -- mere foot soldiers. They need their colonels, brigadiers and generals, like Varsha, to guide them and lead them in the war.
Make no mistake -- it is a war out there. The most prominent figures in the desi media and the academic world are ardent "secularists", whose raison d'etre is to mock, trivialise, distort and undermine our ancient heritage and civilisation. Backed by formidable money power in the large print organisations and the political power of the Indian state establishment, these Gunga Din types are in action almost every day, sprouting their sordid agenda. If their venom against their own roots is spewed out before an international (read "Western") audience, the more is their zeal.
What makes these characters the way they are? One explanation puts the blame on the "Macaulay indoctrination", in the course of which English education spread in the country, starting with Bengal in the mid-19th century. The spread of English language educational institutions in urban India led to a decline in the institutions that primarily used Indian languages. This inevitably led to young Indian minds forgetting their own culture and history, and losing their ancient civilisational roots.
Here again, we may be generalising. Some of the finest products of the Bengal Renaissance were groomed in these convent institutions. One of the most powerful poets in the Bengali language, Michael Madhusudhan Dutt, was from this milieu. Poet Tagore too went to a missionary school. Netaji Subhas Bose and Sri Aurobindo both went to Cambridge, where they nurtured their Indian roots. No, we will have to seek the causes of the malaise elsewhere.
An extremely perceptive analysis of the mental make-up of colonided populations was done by the Franco-West Indian scholar Frantz Fanon, whose iconic work The Wretched of the Earth is well-known in India and the English-speaking world. However, his earlier book Black Skin, White Masks (1952) contains the assessment of the issue we are concerned with here -- the feeling of inadequacy and low self-esteem that colonised people display vis-à-vis their erstwhile conquerors and colonisers. In this pioneering study, Fanon looks at black people who had lost their indigenous culture and had embraced the civilisation of their occupiers. They ape the norms of the colonisers fervently, while running down their own indigenous roots. This trait, according to Fanon, is particularly widespread among the upwardly mobile and educated blacks.
There we have it -- this is a perfect parallel to the phenomenon we see in India. After 800 odd years of Islamic and British rule, the Indian elite and intellectuals are copybook examples of the Fanon phenomenon. Living, breathing purveyors of a sordid ideology. Their make-believe world is that of the Mughal conquerors and the English overlords; it is through these prisms that they view their own pre-colonial civilisation and heritage. Running down an ethos that goes back 4000 years or so is what gives these people their daily high.
A cousin of mine, a nuclear physicist by training, who divides his time between Europe and California, and shares with me the same Vedic monotheistic Brahmo Samaj upbringing, was outraged when he read one of these secularist storm-trooper's eulogy of Husain and wrote to this ex-Calcutta denizen that the fellow was still living in the "make-believe planet of Billy Bunter and Battler Britain, Enid Blyton and Wodehouse", while the real bhadralog, who had also gone through the same English convent-school route, had never adopted the factotum's mind-set and world views as this man had. Ouch, this must have hurt.
However, the desi secularist storm-troopers carry on regardless. One can understand what drives the press hacks, the politicos and the Page 3 slickers. But the "intellectuals", the "buddhi-jeevis" as we call them? Justifying the destruction of the Somnath temple and eulogising genocidal maniacs like Tughlaq, Aurangzeb and Babar?
The American playwright Lillian Hellman said it so well: "Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they are so often patsies of the ruling classes." In India, "our secularist intellectuals" are always selling snake juice to the public.
Let me sign off with the British poet John Cooper Clarke, who wanted people to "maintain a mistrust of intellectuals." This is because these fellows were "all the time condoning some of the worst barbarities".
In any case, Varsha, the tormented soul, is now on her eternal journey. All I can do is wish her peace and reassure her that Indic civilisation still has resolute defenders. Yes, two telephone calls can stay in one's memory for a long time.
Jay Bhattacharjee is a corporate-business analyst and a political commentator
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Translated indictment sent to the US to bolster case against fugitive tycoon
Excerpts from the 940-page indictment against a fugitive tycoon will be translated into English for delivery to the US in a drive to bring the suspect to justice, a Taipei prosecutor said yesterday.
Chuang Cheng (莊正), the head prosecutor in the Rebar Asia Pacific Group scandal, made the remarks after indicting the group's founder Wang You-theng (王又曾) for a spate of alleged financial crimes, including insider trading, embezzlement of corporate funds, accounting fraud and money laundering.
Prosecutors are seeking a 30-year prison sentence for Wang, as well as a record high fine of NT$1.71 billion (US$52.13 million).
Wang, who fled Taiwan before the investigation into the Rebar Group scandal began in January, has been held at an immigration detention center outside Los Angeles since Feb. 2, pending a decision by the US immigration court on whether to deport him back to Taiwan. Wang made his second appearance in immigration court on Wednesday.
Taiwan has tried in vain to persuade the US government to repatriate Wang so that the octogenarian can stand trial for a series of crimes he has allegedly committed during his long career.
In the wake of Wang's indictment, Chuang said the US government may reconsider Taiwan's request for Wang's repatriation as the accusations against him have become more convincing.
Moreover, the indictment accuses Wang of leading Rebar Group affiliates in large-scale money laundering over a lengthy period involving a sum well over NT$57 billion (about US$1.73 billion).
An additional US$147.05 million that the Wang family had allegedly raked in through other criminal operations was also listed in the indictment as evidence of the family's offshore money laundering activity.
Noting that money laundering has been a priority target in international efforts to combat crime, Chuang said the US has been very sensitive to the risks of money laundering since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York in 2001.
"If we can furnish US authorities with evidence of Wang's direct involvement in cross-border money laundering, it will be a valuable bargaining chip in securing Wang's return," Chuang said, adding that the English excerpts to be sent to the US will focus on Wang's supposed leading role in money laundering operations.
Also indicted in the case were Wang's wife -- Wang Chin She-ying (王金世英), his six children and a younger brother, plus nearly 100 Rebar group executives.
Wang and his wife, who fled to China shortly before the scandals broke and later flew to the US, were put on a most wanted list on Jan. 15.
They left the US in late January for Myanmar via Singapore, but were forced to go back to the US after Singapore denied them entry at Taiwan's request. While his wife, with a valid US passport, managed to enter the US upon arrival on Feb. 2, Wang has since that time been held at the center in San Pedro in suburban Los Angeles.
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The catacombs in Paris
Them bones, them bones: Les Catacombes, part of the miles of tunnels underlying Paris. Photo: AP
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".
The miles of tunnels and catacombs underlying Paris are essentially former quarries, dating from Roman times, from which much of the stone was dug to build the city.
But since 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to "penetrate into or circulate within" the rest of the network.
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Earlier this year, during Baselworld, the watch industry's annual confab, Omega unveiled the De Ville Trésor, a manually wound, exceptionally svelte timepiece based on a model it first produced in 1949. Bear in mind, this is a fair whose other highlights included Louis Vuitton's Escale Worldtime, about $67,500, which gives you the hour in 24 time zones simultaneously and has a kaleidoscope-like dial, and Bulgari's Ammiraglio del Tempo (that translates to "admiral of time"), about $395,000, which has a minute repeater and a detent escapement, a complication rarely found on wristwatches.
By comparison, the Trésor, $13,800 in yellow gold, is hushed and humble, its face scrubbed clean. It doesn't keep track of the phases of the moon or what time zone you happen to be in, and probably wouldn't draw a second glance from a non-aficionado, but its movement is a brilliant piece of watchmaking expertise. Also this year, Rolex, whose sporty chronographs tend to hog the limelight, released the Cellini Time, a starkly classic, three-handed, time-only watch.
"I think elegant dress watches are at the moment coming through a very strong revival," said Alexander Schmiedt, managing director of watches at Montblanc. "You had a time until 2007, 2008, where [a watch] couldn't be bigger. The bigger, the louder, the better. And now we are back to a lot of classic, refined and slim [timepieces]." Mr. Schmiedt reported that Montblanc's Star Classique line, which made its debut, in 2012, as an even more minimal version of the 1997 Classique series, was one of the brand's most successful launches since it began making watches 17 years ago.
Clockwise from top left: Patek Philippe Ref. 5227J Calatrava, $35,400, Patek Philippe at Tiffany & Co., 212-605-4036; Antea 365 A10 Watch, $943,; Star Classique Date Watch, $2,475, Montblanc, 212-223-8888; Slimline Automatic Watch, $2,495,; Carrera Calibre 5 Automatic Watch, $2,900,; Patrimony Platinum Watch, $33,700, Vacheron Constantin, 877-701-1755 F. Martin Ramin/The Wall Street Journal
Watch-enthusiast website Hodinkee has been waving the flag of time-only simplicity for the past several months, and a post about the Trésor De Ville prompted raves from its readers. "People are still freaking out over it," said Benjamin Clymer, the site's founder and executive editor. "They think it's the most beautiful thing."
As for the shift from complicated to simple, Mr. Clymer said, "It sort of goes along with the whole vintage revival, which, in many ways, is about the search for pure design." Indeed, the quest for simplicity and elegance is partly retro-skewed. Eagle-eyed watch-spotters and fans of classic midcentury men's fashion zeroed in on the elegant Omega Seamaster De Ville that Don Draper wore in the last season of "Mad Men." And certain popular dress watches are slightly tweaked versions of timepieces that were launched decades ago, like Patek Philippe's Calatrava ($37,300 in rose or white gold, $35,400 in yellow), based on a design from 1912, and Vacheron Constantin's Patrimony watch ($33,700 in platinum), first seen in 1955 and retooled in 2004 with more assertive lugs and a larger beveled bezel.
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This handless watch, based on the sundial, tells time nearly to the minute—but only after you learn how to use it. Abacus Watch, between $179 and $295,
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So Complicated It Can Win You the Jackpot
Part of Christophe Claret's Gaming series, this watch can orchestrate a 52-card game of poker, while the back offers roulette. Oh, it also tells time. Christophe Claret Poker Watch, $193,000, Wynn and Company Watches, 702-770-3411
The Clean Camp
Three high-powered watch purists: (from left) Joe Biden who owns Vulcain's Cricket; chef Eric Ripert, who owns Vacheron Constantin's Patrimony in platinum; and former GE CEO Jack Welch who owns Patek Philippe's Calatrava. Getty (Biden, Ripert, Welch)
Both exemplify why such mechanical pieces are no less deserving of attention than something that wears its achievements on its sleeve. When it was launched, Vacheron's Patrimony was, at 1.6mm, the thinnest mechanical movement ever made.
However, Vacheron CEO Juan Carlos Torres's description of typical Patrimony buyers diverges from the stereotype of the high-powered executive who routinely picks up five- and six-figure watches. "They are people who appreciate lines, aesthetics," Mr. Torres said. "A lot of art people, architects, musicians, fashion designers—I cannot tell you who—are asking for this watch. It isn't only about social status. It's about intellectual status. It's totally different."
That sentiment is echoed by Patek Philippe's U.S. President Larry Pettinelli. "Our customers aren't usually trying to show the world that they've made it," he said of the Calatrava. "Most people don't recognize our watches from 10 feet away unless they're collectors."
The buyer who doesn't want the bragging rights of a highly complex toy and isn't agog at technical marvels clearly has different priorities. Jason Perri, the chairman of beauty app Glamsquad, falls into that camp. He wears a clean, sporty Rolex Submariner sans date. "It's a good-looking watch that doesn't look like a dinner plate," he said. "I've seen guys take their watches off to reveal the glass back with an impossibly complicated thicket of gears and then you hear about the minute repeater and how it costs $100,000. Most of us are thinking, I'd rather roll up in a [Aston Martin] DB7 Vantage and a Swatch." Like-minded observers dismiss guys whose watches are riddled with unused features as poseurs. "If you scuba dive, it's advisable to have an instrument that tells you how long you've been under, but to only have the gear makes you look silly," said Fredrik Carlström, founder of Austere, a Scandinavian design shop in Los Angeles. Mr. Carlström owns a few watches, including a vintage dress Jaeger-LeCoultre on a black alligator strap that he tends to wear only for formal occasions.
Even complicated-watch fans are starting to acknowledge the absurdity of certain gizmos, according to Sol Meller, president of Feldmar Watch Company, a retailer in Los Angeles "I think clients still appreciate the designs of the heavier, bulkier pieces, but they're saying they don't need the extras," said Mr. Meller. "They don't need a tachymeter"—a complication that measures the speed the wearer is moving over a given distance. "They'd rather have something that fits under their sleeve."
Another advantage of time-only watches can, of course, be their relatively affordable prices. A solid entry option in the dress category is Montblanc's Star Classique, which goes for $2,475 (with a metal bracelet). Then again, since watches like these are the antithesis of trendy, there's a case for making a smart investment in, say, a Calatrava or a Patrimony. "Vacheron and Patek have been around through plagues and wars," said Hodinkee's Mr. Clymer. "The watches they made still look great to this day."
Isn't time enough? Not when watchmakers are constantly seeking the next breakthrough in mechanical art
WHILE SOME MAKE the case for simple watches over those with superfluous tachymeters and moon phases, complications will never cease to have their ardent supporters, of which I—as an horological expert who's written about watches for The Wall Street Journal since 2003 and authored two books on the subject—am one.
Watchmaker extraordinaire Kari Voutilainen at work Ralf Baumgarten
Who needs complex features that go beyond telling time? Well, it's not about necessity. Complications are an expression of "the better angels of our nature," of the urge for more knowledge and the desire to perfect and improve what we have invented. New complications are always being created, like the first altimeter and barometer to be made for a mechanical on last year's Breva Genié 01. The development of complications embodies the same irrepressible human spirit that took mankind from the Wright brothers' flying machine to jets.
The most intriguing complications are those known as astronomical. The more intricate ones keep track of equinoxes, solstices, seasons, signs of the zodiac and the changing date of Easter. Astronomical complications can connect a watch to other worlds, displaying the planetary orbits or sidereal time (that is, time told by the position of a bright, charted star). The most popular one shows the phases of the moon.
Then there are chronograph complications, which measure intervals of time like stopwatches. The business of constructing these demands knowledge of watchmaking, physics, engineering, geometry, mathematics and metallurgy. Strap on a chronograph and you are wearing one of the supreme achievements of mechanical art. Press a button to start the complication and you can feel the whirl of its wheels on your wrist.
Skeptics aside, some complications really can make a watch more useful. Repeater watches, which chime the hours and minutes with tiny hammers and gongs at the push of a button, were a necessary function when only candles dimly lit our nights. Today, the orderly, gentle sound of repeaters offer aural respite from the noise of modern life and come in handy when you can't find your cellphone during a blackout.
Another complication, a secondary time zone, is relevant for any frequent flier. Wherever you are in the world, glance at a watch with two time zones and you'll get an instant snapshot of both your local time and the time back home—convenient if you want to phone the office or the family at home.
Sure, simple is beautiful, but I'll keep my world of complications and sheer wonder.
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I-Team: Prosecutors seeking long sentence for 'Bishop bomber'
April 11, 2013 4:19:55 PM PDT
The I-Team has learned that federal prosecutors in Chicago will ask for an extraordinarily long prison sentence for John Tomkins, the man known as ''the Bishop Bomber.''
Tomkins was convicted last year of threatening numerous financial firms.
Never any broken bones and John Tomkins words never hurt anyone physically. But for more than two years this man who called himself "the Bishop" vowed death and destruction, rattling nerves from mailrooms to executive board rooms across the Midwest.
When Tomkins was caught, he had started sending dummy devices that authorities said was proof the real things would come soon. That's why they want him locked up for a long time.
For nearly two years, the Dubuque, Iowa, machinist mailed threatening letters to financial institutions, 17 letters and a few dud bombs that authorities said were intended to affect the prices of stock that Tomkins owned.
The salutation on each letter was "the Bishop." Some crime experts believe he patterned himself after the 1972 film "The Mechanic," in which Charles Bronson plays an assassin named Bishop.
In the film, Bronson's character says, "To get away with it depends on the book of rules you have in your pocket at the time."
And, like the Bronson character, Tomkins sent notes that read: "Bang!! You're dead."
However, nobody died in the real-life story, a case that authorities cracked by tracing threats sent through Chicago mail facilities.
In the sentencing memorandum filed Thursday, federal prosecutors in Chicago said, "The nature and circumstances of this offense are horrific," with Tomkins "threatening to kill those employees, their children, their co-workers, and their friends if the victims did not do as defendant demanded."
Because of that -- and evidence that Tomkins was on the verge of sending actual bombs -- next week, the government will ask for an unusually stiff sentence of between 42 and 45 years.
Prosecutors point to the terror felt by victims, who read this message: "I know who you are. I know where you live. I know where your family, friends, and co-workers live. And I can reach out and kill you or any of them, at any time."
Authorities contend the victims were traumatized for life and that the Bishop Bomber deserves such a long prison sentence because the bombs he built were functional, but for the attachment of one wire, which had it been connected they say the bombs would have instantly exploded, killing and harming anyone in the vicinity of the bomb.
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Now for more analysis, our trio of security experts. Ray Kelly, former commissioner of the New York police department who just left the NYPD as the longest-serving commissioner in its history. Our senior justice correspondent, Pierre Thom. And colonel Steve is an ABC news contributor and a former state department official. Ray, start with you. You have prepared New York City for so many events. Times square at new year's, huge security challenges, the times square bombing. When you see what's happening in sochi, what lessons can you provide on how you would do it? What you would do differently or what they're doing now that's you think is working? Well, so far, so good. Looks like detailed planning. Obviously the Russians had seven years to plan. But I would suspect right now they're still adjusting that plan because it's a dynamic process. The intelligence assessment, of course, is very important here. And that drives a lot of what you do as far as the planning is concerned. We know that the major threat is from these -- these Muslim terrorists who are in the north caucasus republics. With skpef -- and we have an individual who's threatened to upset the games. It looks to me like they have done everything they can do. They have devoted probably as many as 100,000 people. The Numbers are anywhere from 40 to 100,000. But I've -- I think it's on the upper side. Can they prevent an attack, do you believe? I think they can prevent an attack in the venue itself. Obviously as has been said, I think outside of the area of sochi, there is a risk of a -- of an attack. But I think the Russians, they have the tools. They're listening in on everything going on certainly -- They sure are. We hear a lot of stories about that. Right. I think they're going everything they think they can do. Pierre, I want to ask you about the ring of steel. We see the map, looks like more like a rectangle of steel to me. But what does that mean? A combination of barriers, guards? Exactly. 1500 miles, combination of barbed wire, 50-100,000 security personnel, surveillance cameras, and drones. And they have boats in the black sea. They are prepared on the outer ring to block things from getting through. The concern is islamic fundamentalists trying to get into the olympic venue. I asked the congressman about this and evacuating Americans. You've worked in disaster relief in your marine corp. Career, running exercises for earthquakes and terrorist attacks. Are you confident we could get those athletes out of there quickly? Not confident. One of the things that's most disturbing to the U.S. Government, when the U.S. Embassy ran a simulation in December, what if they're unable to prevent a terrorist attack, how will the Russians deal with that? The embassy got nervous. They found problems in the medical, evacuations, to do the communications, to do interoperatability. They have put too much on prevention and not enough on what if something happens on the ground. It's as if they have been told you might play in a big football game. Here with the people, not let them practice or run a play, just do it if it happens. What we have in the area, we have two ships in the black sea. We have C-17s standing by in Germany. Can those ships not help, can those airplanes not help if there's an evacuation? It's a token force. The kinds of ships we have, we have a small one that may have one helicopter on board that's designed for anti-submarine. It's not designed for rescue or evacuate evacuation. We have a command and control ship, you could run an evacuation, but it's not a warship. We have the C-17s that could be there within six hours. But think about it, if we had a helicopter on one of the ships and tried to get into sochi, who's going to get them in through the anti-aircraft batteries? Who's going get them on the ground? We don't speak Russian. Language. Right. Just very quickly, are there things going on we don't know about? You have been in government. I'm sure there are. But doesn't mean they're successful. We have been blocked and stopped by the Russians at every attempt to coordinate a prior response. You can't just go in and hand out business cards if something happens. The concerns about sharing intelligence that the congressman talked about, the Russian the just aren't giving up much. I talked to a senior official in law enforcement last night who said it's their house. We have to play by their rules. The official said, think about Salt Lake City. If something were to happen in Salt Lake City, we weren't going to allow a bunch of Russians with weapons to do anything. We are getting some information, not as much as they could like. But the key is the prickly issue of sources and methods. They don't want us to know how they're getting their information, and we don't want them to know how we get ours. That's part of the problem. I want to talk about letting our guard down. You heard Christine, everything's going so well now. You have seen so many terror alerts. You tried to keep a city vigilant. How do you do that? How do you make sure they don't take for granted that things are going well? There is a concern in that regard. The olympics go to February 23rd. That's a long way off. Actually the paralympics into March. The adrenaline is going now, but the attack at the 1972 Munich olympics didn't happen until nine days into the olympic S. The fatigue -- And that's when the terrorist would strike. You have to rotate people. Make certain their energy level is up. But we have 12-hour work shifts here with a big event. And it's very debilitating. It's something that the Russians have to look at closely. And you need the leadership to keep people on guard and on alert. What scares you most is the attack outside of the venue. I think that's the consensus of the intelligence community. Sochi area is pretty well locked down. If anything happens, it's going to happen away from sochi. Thank you for joining us. Much more ahead in New York.
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What do you dip into fondue
In the heat of the summer I am finding solace in thinking of the foods I will make when the temperature cools. It got me thinking, what are the options for cheese fondue and oil fondue? I would love to hear everything but especially out-of-the-ordinary ideas.
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1. Back in the sixties, my Mother was heavily into fondue. The cheese always had just good crusty bread for dunking. In the oil, she did plain beef tenderloin cubes, but she served this with really yummy dipping sauces. I don't recall thinking that improvements were called for.
1. Anything that'll stick into my fondue fork.
1. I know you are asking about cheese, but I was assigned a chocolate fondue at one of our dining groups for dessert and the big favorite were the fresh cheries I just happened to find in the market.
But beef tenderloin cubes, & shimp in oil. I am a purist when it come to cheese, but I can see how one might pizza it up with a tomatoey cheese and spearing maybe pita and sausage or pepperoni to dip in the the tomato cheese sauce. You could go wild here with any number of combinations
1. Here's my take: I have traveled much and have lived in other countries. When I was in Belgium, a special oil was used for their fondue. I was so hooked, that I brought a bottle home to the U.S. w/me. In Belgium, the favorite is thin slices of beef and chicken- oil is very hot, and meats thinly sliced b-cuz you want meats to cook in the oil. Shrimp may even work. Serve w/aioli, already made salads, bread and a good beer. Switzerland is famous for fondue. I was in Appenzell (NE corner) where their own special fondue cheese is made. The swiss top their fondue with a good kirsch and wella, ready for bread dippin' - a good crust on the outside, chewy in. Their chocolate fondues are served with cakes but, here, you should add fruits -bananas, strawberries and marshmallows, small donuts, pretzels, skewers w/peanut butter balls, etc.-
In Japan, their style is called Shabu Shabu- a rich clear soup base that's hot enuf to cook whatever is put inside. Typical is (fresh)shitaki and enoki mushrooms, napa cabbage, fish, thinly sliced beef and chicken, shrimp, scallions and rice noodles. Serve with a bowl of rice. Great for the winter cold. And, it does get cold in Japan! Hope this helps...:) KQ
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1. re: Kitchen Queen
Could you expound on the oil you bought? I'm really curious.
Also, what is wella?
1. re: bryan
Sorry Bryan - The oil journey was 26 years ago! Wella -just the expression not an item. Ya noe the word-sort of what a magician would say.....wella! Now it's done. :) KQ
1. re: Kitchen Queen
:) voila, it's french. "here it is"
Fondue is not really a hot summer weather type of food. In Switzerland, only the tourists eat it in the summer (and they are snickered at by the locals).
That being said, I love it all year round.
If you don't care about being traditional and you would like to get a little creative, most things that go well with cheese in general can be used as fondue dunkers if you have the correct cheese.
For a heartier meal, you could dunk small rounds of cooked spicy sausage or chunks of roasted chicken. For kids, you can substitute hotdog rounds and tatertots (this would give traditionalists fits!).
For a lighter meal, very lightly grilled pieces of eggplant or zucchini are tasty. The slippery issue can be overcome by dusting them lightly in very very fine bread crumbs. The other option (as mentioned by another poster) is to spoon out the cheese goodness onto your chosen treat.
There are tons of tasty options limited only by your creativity.
Have fun!
Just pay attention to the pairing of cheese to dippers.
2. My parents lived in Switzerland for five years, and we ate numerous fondues, very yummy. For beef, I think the key is the dipping sauces. I'm sure it is not traditional, but I've got a chimichurri sauce in my fridge that I made the other day that I think that would be an excellent dipper.
For cheese, I guess I'm kind of traditional, so crusty bread is my favorite. We always had fresh grated nutmeg and fresh ground pepper to dip the cheese and bread in, also.
But I bet fondue would be delicious with blanched broccoli and/or cauliflower. Other veggies I think of either wouldn't stay on the fork, or wouldn't hold cheese. Of course, raclette is wonderful also, which is cheese toasted and eaten with little boiled potatoes, very delicious, but I don't think you could keep a potato on the fork in fondue-- also, I'm inclined to say raclette cheese goes better with potatoes, but that may all in my mind. Still, if I had boiled potatoes and fondue in the same room, I'd be spooning cheese onto my potatoes for sure. The cornichon that you eat with raclette are not eaten with fondue, perhaps the pickles and wine do not compliment each other.
Now I have pulled a "Le Creuset Fondue Cookery" book off my shelf, it has all kinds of variations, including black currant fondue with cassis, into which you dip honeydew and other fruit; a recipe for prawns you dip in batter at the table and then into oil; a fondue made with apple cider and cheddar cheese, into which you dip apples, ham, and parsnip. They say you should dip apples, celery, and tomato wedges along with bread into traditional fondue. Another recipe involves brie, onions, chicken stock and cream, and you dip bread and button mushrooms.
I'm getting hungry thinking about this. Let me know if you want any of the recipes.
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1. re: Anne H
Yeah - I'd like the brie fondue recipe. This reminds me of when I was in Neuchatel and went w/my friend on the funicular up to the local fondue retreat. Crusty bread, cornichons, small new potatoes, and white wine (to drink). Do you have a Trader Joe's where you live? They usually will have very small potatoes in a red mesh bag. Those would be perfect to parboil then skewer. You could even skewer cherry tomatoes. How about making large homemade garlic croutons then dip those into fondue or raclette YUM!! T.J.'s even sells the cheese fondue in a box. It's not bad...:) KQ
1. re: Kitchen Queen
I recall a wonderful fondue in Chillon, at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, after we had toured the very drafty but magnificent castle, and we went across the street (as I recall) and had a very alcoholic and incredibly delicious fondue, and a bottle of wine, which warmed us right up. I've never tried fondue with potatoes, but raclette is just wonderful. Though the electric cooker with individual little trays can't hold a candle to the Swiss method of melting it by a fire and scraping servings off the huge cheese wheel as they melt. Luckily, I was either too young for the fondue craze of the 60s, or it didn't make it to Central Ohio, so all of my associations with fondue are positive... My husband is not a crazy about fondue as I am, and so I have been known to make an individual serving in a pan on the stove for my lunch. The recipe you requested is below; I've never made it, but the cookbook it comes from looks terrific.
French Brie and Onion Fondue
2 oz butter
2 medium onions, chopped fine
1 oz flour
1/2 pint chicken stock
12 oz ripe Brie
1/4 pint double cream
2 T chopped parsley
salt and pepper
Melt the butter and saute the onions 10-15 minutes until softened and light golden.
Sprinkle on the flour, and cook another 1-2 minutes, stirring.
Gradually add chicken stock, stirring until mixture thickens. Simmer 4-5 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut off rind and slice brie thinly. Stir into stock mix, with the cream. Cook gently, stirring, until the mixture is smooth.
Stir in salt, pepper, and parsley.
Serve with French bread, mushrooms, garlic bread cubes, etc.
1. re: Anne H
This sounds great -
I'm going up to Big Bear this coming weekend for a family rendevous-Parents, Brother, sister in law and the kids, My husband and child...Think I'll make this in the mountains. How sexy!!! I can dream of my days in Neuchatel! - 20 some odd years ago. :)KQ | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/315088 | dclm-gs1-246230000 |
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We´re setting up RMAN to backup a database over NFS and ZFS, for which I have to create shares and mounting points (4 shares in my case).
I am trying to anticipate the size of the shares, which should be the maximum size of the backup. We´re going to proceed with an initial backup level 0 and then we´ll do daily level 1 backups.
Is there a mathematical formula for me to know the maximum backup size at the end, using x as the database size?
Thank you,
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In short: Not really.
An RMAN backupset (e.g. BACKUP DATABASE) will backup up any blocks in your datafiles that have never been used. This is different from empty blocks. There's no way that I am aware of to differentiate between blocks which are currently empty and blocks which are unused.
From: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/backup.111/b28270/rcmcncpt.htm#BRADV89481:
"RMAN always skips blocks that have never been used"
If you were to do an image copy (e.g. BACKUP AS COPY DATABASE), then this is essentially a direct copy of the datafiles. So if the datafile making up your system tablespace was called system.dbf, RMAN essentially copies this whole file. This means your backup will be the same size as your datafiles.
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What about incremental backup? Everyday we´ll add up, right? How to anticipate the size of it? – Sebas Jun 25 at 16:21
RMAN will backup the entire block that has been changed even by a single byte, so it depends highly on what is being changed. In my experience, even if you can do an estimate based on data change rates (e.g. you know that 10% of your data changes daily, so 10% of your blocks may change), but this is at best a guess and is rarely accurate. – Phil Sumner Jun 26 at 9:57
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The following is a list of characters from the television series Twin Peaks.
Grouping Name Description Played by
The FBI/DEA Special Agent Dale Cooper Investigates the murder of Laura Palmer using unorthodox methods, falls in love with Twin Peaks and all its rural life, fascinated with the paranormal. He practices Buddhism. Kyle MacLachlan
Albert Rosenfield Abrasive forensics expert, whose arrogant façade hides a spiritual nature Miguel Ferrer
Chester Desmond Investigates murder of Teresa Banks, mysteriously disappears Chris Isaak
Sam Stanley Forensics specialist, assists Desmond in the investigation of Teresa Banks' murder Kiefer Sutherland
Phillip Jeffries Long-lost FBI agent, who knows of the Lodges and their inhabitants David Bowie
Roger Hardy Agent working for Internal Affairs who temporarily suspends Cooper from the FBI. Clarence Williams III
Gordon Cole Regional Bureau Chief, known to shout because he is hard-of-hearing David Lynch
Dennis/Denise Bryson Transgender DEA agent who investigates drug allegations against Dale Cooper David Duchovny
Sheriff's Department Sheriff Harry S. Truman Lover of Josie Packard and friend of Cooper. Helps him solve the Laura Palmer case. Michael Ontkean
Deputy Andy Brennan Dorky but brave deputy, on and off relationship with Lucy. Possibly father of her baby. Deciphered the Owl Cave petroglyph as a map. Harry Goaz
Deputy Hawk Native American, expert tracker Michael Horse
Lucy Moran Ditzy Receptionist, on and off relationship with Deputy Brennan. Kimmy Robertson
Cappy Young, male assistant at the police station Ron Kirk
Leland Palmer Laura's father, vessel for Bob, lawyer by profession and counsel for Ben Horne and the Great Northern Lodge. Ray Wise
Sarah Palmer Laura's mother, Grace Zabriskie
Maddy Ferguson Laura's nearly identical cousin Sheryl Lee
Hayward family Doctor William Hayward Doctor of Twin Peaks, assists on the autopsy of Laura Palmer Warren Frost
Eileen Hayward Doctor Hayward's wheelchair-using wife Mary Jo Deschanel
Harriet Hayward Donna's younger sister Jessica Wallenfels
Gersten Hayward Donna's youngest sister Alicia Witt
Horne family Ben Horne Wealthy businessman, owns Great Northern Hotel, Horne's Department Store and a brothel on the Canadian border Richard Beymer
Jerry Horne Ben's playboy brother and business partner David Patrick Kelly
Sylvia Horne Ben's constantly angry wife Jan D'Arcy
Audrey Horne Ben's sultry teenage daughter Sherilyn Fenn
Johnny Horne Ben's mentally handicapped son, tutored by Laura Robert Davenport/Robert Bauer[2]
Packard/Martell Family Josie Packard Widowed sawmill owner with a dark past, lover of Sheriff Truman, tutored by Laura Joan Chen
Briggs family Major Garland Briggs Intelligent and gifted Air Force officer involved in Project Blue Book, deep-space monitoring, and the woods surrounding Twin Peaks Don S. Davis
Betty Briggs Unassuming and loving wife and mother Charlotte Stewart
Bobby Briggs Rebellious teenager, captain of the football team, boyfriend of Laura Palmer, secret lover of Shelly Johnson Dana Ashbrook
Hank Jennings Norma's husband, criminal on parole, conspirator with Josie Packard Chris Mulkey
The Johnsons Leo Johnson Trucker and drug-runner, had a sexual relationship with Laura Palmer Eric Da Re
Shelly Johnson Abused young wife of Leo, waitress at Norma's diner, secret lover of Bobby Briggs Mädchen Amick
Blacky O'Reilly The madame of One Eyed Jacks Victoria Catlin
Nancy O'Reilly Blackie's sister, lover of Jean Renault Galyn Görg
Dr. Lawrence Jacoby Eccentric former psychiatrist of Laura with an obsession for Hawaii Russ Tamblyn
Margaret Lanterman
a.k.a. "The Log Lady")
Señor Droolcup by Albert Rosenfield.
Hank Worden
Roadhouse Singer Angelic singer at the Roadhouse, known for her dream-like voice Julee Cruise
Dougie Milford Publisher of the Twin Peaks Gazette local newspaper, known to marry often Tony Jay
Lana Budding Milford Seductive fiancée of Dwayne, and widow of Dougie, known to charm almost any man that's around her Robyn Lively
Outsiders Evelyn Marsh Rich woman who James Hurley runs into, and who is beaten by her husband Annette McCarthy
Jones Thomas Eckhardt's assistant Brenda Strong
Judy Swain Foster care aid for orphan child Molly Shannon
Lodge Inhabitants The Man from Another Place Enigmatic dwarf, inhabitant of the Red Room. Michael J. Anderson
The Giant A supernatural giant who appears at key moments and provides Cooper with cryptic clues. Carel Struycken
Mrs Tremond/Chalfont Link to the Lodges and intentions unclear Frances Bay
Pierre Tremond/Chalfont Mrs Tremond/Chalfont's grandson, link to the Lodges and intentions unclear Austin Jack Lynch/Jonathan J. Leppell[3]
Creation of BOB[edit]
Main article: Killer BOB
Laura Palmer[edit]
Main article: Laura Palmer
MIKE, the One-Armed Man[edit]
Main article: MIKE
The Man from Another Place[edit]
Law enforcement[edit]
Special Agent Dale Cooper[edit]
Main article: Dale Cooper
Special Agent Dale Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan, is the protagonist of the series. Dale Cooper is an FBI agent who arrives in Twin Peaks in 1989 to investigate the brutal murder of popular high-school student Laura Palmer. He falls in love with the town and gains a great deal of acceptance within the tightly knit community. Cooper displays an array of quirky, sometimes almost childlike mannerisms, such as giving a "thumbs up" when satisfied, sage-like sayings (often inspired by his fascination with the nation of Tibet), and a distinctive sense of humor, along with his love for cherry pie and "a damn fine cup of coffee." One of his most popular habits is recording spoken-word tapes to a mysterious woman called "Diane" into a microcassette recorder he always carries with him, which often contains everyday observations and abstract thoughts on his current case. His investigative techniques go far beyond the usual ones employed by the FBI, including intuitive exercises and analysis of his dreams. He becomes deeply involved with the inhabitants of Twin Peaks, and remains in town after the resolution of the Laura Palmer case, especially once his nemesis and former partner Windom Earle starts menacing the town in order to exploit its supernatural properties.
Albert Rosenfield[edit]
Albert Rosenfield, played by Miguel Ferrer, is a talented forensic analyst Dale Cooper calls in to assist on the Laura Palmer case. Rosenfield's abrasive and mocking personality alienates the Twin Peaks sheriff's department relatively quickly; he compares Andy to a dog and repeatedly insults Sheriff Harry S. Truman to the point where Truman punches him. He also fights with Doc Hayward, and is very disparaging about the capabilities of the local police and medical facilities, showing respect only to his FBI colleagues, at least at first. He warms up to the townsfolk as the series progresses, going so far as to hug Truman when returning to the town to help with their hunt for Windom Earle, but does not lose his sharp and ironic manner.
He also appears briefly in The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes, under the entry recorded on 4 February 1977. It is implied that this is Dale Cooper's and his first meeting. This makes Albert 21 when the two first meet, according to the My Life, My Tapes canon.
Chester Desmond[edit]
FBI Special Agent Sam Stanley[edit]
Phillip Jeffries[edit]
Gordon Cole[edit]
While in Twin Peaks, Cooper and Cole go to the Double R Diner where he is smitten by waitress Shelly Johnson, whom to his surprise he can hear perfectly well. Shelly, being ignored by her boyfriend Bobby Briggs at the time, is shocked yet pleased by his attention, and upon his imminent departure they share a kiss, to the chagrin of Bobby, who happens to show up at that moment.
At the beginning of Fire Walk With Me, Cole briefs agents Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley on their assignment to investigate the murder of Teresa Banks. Cole uses a coded language, in the attire and gestures of Lil the Dancer, to inform the agents of what to expect in their investigation. Cole describes the Teresa Banks murder case as one of his “blue rose” cases. The exact meaning of this is never given, but fans have speculated that a “blue rose” case is one involving the supernatural.
Denise/Dennis Bryson[edit]
Denise or Dennis Bryson was played by David Duchovny, who would later go on to play another more famous agent: Special Agent Fox Mulder of the FBI in The X-Files. The character’s binary identity reflects the dualistic leitmotif of the series.
Bryson began wearing women's clothing during a DEA undercover operation and found that it relaxed him. Bryson identifies as "Denise," wears women's clothing and presents female behavior during working hours and otherwise. When required for a sting operation, Bryson dons a man's suit and goes by "Dennis."
Harry Truman[edit]
As the case progress, Harry's respect for Cooper (and vice versa) grows and the two become close friends. He regards Cooper as "the finest lawman he has ever known". He vehemently defends Cooper to the FBI when Cooper is suspended for allegedly trafficking drugs across the Canadian border, and assists him in rescuing Audrey Horne from One-Eyed Jacks.
Andy Brennan[edit]
Andy was the one who (in Season Two) realized that the drawing was a map, and he therefore played a big part in FBI agent Dale Cooper's finding his way to the Black Lodge.
Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill[edit]
One of the Bookhouse Boys and an all-around dependable guy, he saves the lives of both Truman and Cooper on more than one occasion. He has an unseen girlfriend who is a local veterinarian with a PhD from Brandeis.
Lucy Moran[edit]
Lil the dancer[edit]
Lil the Dancer (Kimberly Ann Cole)
Lil the Dancer is a fictional character in the David Lynch movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The dancer's movements are code; this is an FBI method, devised by Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole, to quickly and covertly brief Special Agent Chester Desmond on what to expect during his investigation into the death of Teresa Banks. Lil the Dancer is portrayed by the actress Kimberly Anne Cole.
Palmer family[edit]
Laura Palmer[edit]
Main article: Laura Palmer
Leland Palmer[edit]
Main article: Leland Palmer
Sarah Palmer[edit]
Maddy Ferguson[edit]
Madeleine "Maddy" Ferguson (Sheryl Lee) first appears midway through the first season, when she travels to Twin Peaks from her hometown of Missoula, Montana (which happens to be David Lynch's real-life birthplace). She comes to help her uncle and aunt, Leland and Sarah Palmer, overcome the loss of Laura. Maddy seems to be a few years older than Laura, but otherwise looks identical, excluding Maddy's dark hair and bookish glasses. Maddy even remarks that she and Laura used to pretend they were sisters. Despite the visual similarity, the innocent and sweet Maddy stands in stark contrast to Laura, whose personal life is steeped in sex and deception. Like Laura's mother and Laura herself, Maddy has premonitions, including one of a bloodstain on the floor of the Palmers' living room and another of 'Bob', a demonic entity plaguing the town.
Maddy quickly befriends Donna Hayward and James Hurley, Laura's closest friends, and helps them in their investigation into Laura's death. At one point, Maddy even appears wearing a blonde wig in order to lure out one of Laura's acquaintances.
During the second season, Maddy begins to resemble her cousin more and more: her hair (though still dark) straightens, she stops wearing her glasses, and in her carriage and demeanor she behaves more like the character of Laura seen in the prequel movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me than the Maddy shown in the first season. This causes conflict with Donna and James when James becomes attracted to her, and she begins to return his feelings in spite of herself.
Eventually, she is murdered by Leland Palmer, who is possessed by 'Bob', in a violent recreation of Laura's murder. Maddy's death quickly leads to Leland's arrest. Resemblance to Laura may have been key to Maddy's murder, as it is revealed in Fire Walk With Me that Teresa Banks, the first of Leland's victims, was selected because "you look just like my Laura" (although the fact that she was planning to blackmail Leland also constitutes a valid motive). Additionally, in the episode where Leland is caught, Donna might have become victim #4 when Leland/Bob sees that Donna is wearing Laura's sunglasses, given to her earlier by Maddy.
The character is an elaborate reference to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, in which Kim Novak plays a blonde/brunette dual role, much like Lee plays Laura and Maddy. Madeleine is the name of Novak's blonde alter ego, while Ferguson is the surname of James Stewart's character in the same film. In the Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me several mentions are made of a "Judy" who never materializes. Judy is the name of Novak's brunette persona. Judy may possibly be the third character Lee claims that Lynch intended her to play had the show not been cancelled.
The notion of pairing similar or identical women with contrasting hair colors and personalities is one that arises frequently in Lynch's work, especially when it pertains to another person obsessing over their shifting identities. Other pairs in this trend include Patricia Arquette's characters in Lost Highway and Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring's in Mulholland Drive. Duality is a strong feature in Twin Peaks, as implied by the name, not to mention the doppelgangers in the black lodge.[6]
Hayward family[edit]
Will Hayward[edit]
Doctor William Hayward (played by Warren Frost) is a physician and coroner who, due to his close relationship with her, refuses to perform Laura Palmer's autopsy. His first name is not generally used, but because he is called "Will" in several episodes, it can be presumed to be "William"; he is normally just called "Doc".
Hayward also has an altercation with the abrasive Albert Rosenfield, who calls his work "amateur" and wishes to do more work on Laura's corpse. Unlike most of the characters on Twin Peaks he appears to have no major nasty secrets, or eccentricities. But toward the end of the second season it is revealed that he may have been cuckolded by Benjamin Horne, who might in fact be Donna's real father - a question never resolved. In the final episode Hayward attacks Ben and although it seems Ben has been seriously injured (possibly killed), Hayward shows up at the end of the episode apparently with his normal temperament.
Eileen Hayward[edit]
Eileen Hayward, played by Mary Jo Deschanel, is the wheelchair-bound wife of Doc Hayward and mother of Donna. Why she is disabled is never revealed during the series. Highly tolerant and decent in every sense, she seems to have a murky past concerning Benjamin Horne.
Donna Hayward[edit]
Main article: Donna Hayward
At the end of season two, it is strongly suggested that Doc Hayward might not be Donna's biological father after all, and that she is in fact the daughter of Benjamin Horne and half-sister to Audrey Horne. However, due to the series' cancellation, this idea has not been elaborated upon.
Harriet Hayward[edit]
Gersten Hayward[edit]
While she is a minor character, the episode "May the Giant Be With You" ends with the credits rolling over footage of Gersten playing the piano. Few episodes end with credits rolling over anything other than a static image, most often a photo of Laura Palmer. While some fans have passed off the footage as merely Lynch's way of showcasing Witt's talent, others have attempted to read more into it, much in the manner that fans read into countless other strange aspects of the series.
Horne family[edit]
Ben Horne[edit]
Main article: Ben Horne
Jerry Horne[edit]
Jeremy "Jerry" Horne (David Patrick Kelly) is the playboy brother of Ben Horne and the uncle of Audrey and Johnny. He was his brother's right-hand-man and emissary, traveling around the world to act in Ben's place for his international business dealings. Although he and Ben shared similar interests and characteristics — womanizing and cut-throat business dealings — Jerry publicly demonstrated all the negative traits which his brother hid beneath a veneer of sophistication and class. The brothers' contrasts were reflected in their attire: Ben wore tailored, neutral-coloured business suits, but Jerry dressed in a variety of bizarre, multi-colored outfits, seemingly culled from his trips around the world, and had a strange hairdo incorporating both the buzz cut and hi-top fade.
Jerry was a supporting character in the series, who did not receive his own plotline; he primarily served to give Ben an intellectually equal associate, because Ben was otherwise surrounded by low-level thugs such as Leo Johnson and Hank Jennings. Although not intelligent as his brother, Jerry demonstrated world-awareness beyond that of most of the town's population.
Audrey Horne[edit]
Main article: Audrey Horne
Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) fits the image of a poor little rich girl, able to have anything she wants except for her father's love. She eventually discovers that Benjamin, the town's business magnate, gave his love to the deceased Laura Palmer, both physically and emotionally.
Audrey is labelled a troublemaker and she initially lives up to that expectation. In a memorable scene in the Twin Peaks pilot, she derails one of her father's business deals, worth millions of dollars, by interrupting a meeting of Norwegian investors and telling them about Laura's murder. However, Audrey ultimately reveals herself to be a shrewd and sympathetic figure who goes out of her way for others. Although Audrey and Laura were not friends, Audrey says she "kind of loved Laura" because Laura tutored Audrey's brother Johnny.
Johnny Horne[edit]
Audrey's older, intellectually disabled brother Johnny is a peripheral character in the series. He is played by Robert Davenport in the pilot episode, and later by Robert Bauer—twice in the first season and once in the second season, as well as in the film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
At the Twin Peaks Festival 2011 in North Bend Washington, Jan D'Arcy (who plays Johnny's mother Sylvia) told the assembled crowd that there was a deleted scene from the second season of Twin Peaks, in which Sylvia confesses to Dr. Jacoby that as a girl, Audrey pushed her brother Johnny down a flight of stairs—resulting in his brain damage. In return, Dr. Jacoby reminds Sylvia that there is no physical trauma in Johnny's brain; he remains in a childlike state because he wants to.
Packard family[edit]
Josie Packard[edit]
Andrew Packard[edit]
Catherine Martell[edit]
Pete Martell[edit]
Pete Martell (played by Jack Nance) is a lumberjack who married his boss' sister Catherine. What started as a "summer's indiscretion" developed into a marriage that from Pete's perspective never should have happened. "Catherine is plain hell to live with", he once admits during the course of the show. Catherine is ruthless, stubborn and determined and doesn't make anything easy for her husband (who she feels is a useless, soft old fool). However, it is also made clear that Catherine was far richer than he, so he has at least a financial consolation. Pete also seems to harbor some genuine, nostalgic affection for his wife, which he expresses to Sheriff Truman when he thinks Catherine has died.
He is a keen angler. While Catherine plots to get back her late brother's business, the Packard mill, from his widow Josie Packard whom she despises, Pete spends his time fishing ("There's a fish in the percolator!") and joking affectionately with Josie. Perhaps too good to be true, Josie is pure balm to Pete after Catherine's constant spite and contempt.
Briggs family[edit]
Garland Briggs[edit]
Major Garland Briggs (Don S. Davis) is a U. S. Air Force officer whose area of expertise appears to be paranormal activity, particularly Project Blue Book. He is an eccentric man given to odd statements. He is the father of Bobby, whose smoking he cannot abide. His work is highly classified; he does not tell even his family about it.
His greatest fear, revealed under torture, is “the possibility that love is not enough.” He is abducted at one point (taken to the White Lodge?), and is told to deliver a message to Special Agent Dale Cooper by the Log Lady. In the second season, Major Briggs and Bobby find some common ground and make up.
Bobby Briggs[edit]
Robert "Bobby" Briggs, played by Dana Ashbrook, was Laura Palmer's boyfriend. His father is Major Garland Briggs, a member of the U.S. military, with whom he has an uneasy relationship. Though Bobby was secretly seeing Shelly Johnson before Laura's death, he becomes jealous of James Hurley when he discovers that James was secretly seeing Laura. Laura, it turns out, did not really love Bobby but was merely using him as a source of cocaine.
Hurley/Jennings families[edit]
Ed Hurley[edit]
His marriage to Nadine, who is constantly seesawing between being overbearing and highly depressed, ceased to be loving long ago, and seems driven primarily by his guilt over the hunting accident on their honeymoon where she lost her eye. Due to a misunderstanding he married her over his high-school sweetheart Norma Jennings. He has been carrying on an affair with Norma, but his guilt, along with the imminent release of Norma's violent husband Hank, causes them to break things off. They resume their affair after Nadine regresses into childhood and starts dating Mike, a teenager. Nadine even hospitalizes Hank while defending Ed from him. By the end of the season, Ed and Norma announce their intention to be married, but Nadine's sudden recovery throws things into doubt.
Nadine Hurley[edit]
After falling into a coma instead, Nadine awakes believing herself to be a teenager in high school and, incidentally, just dating her husband. Her superhuman strength (already present in season one) allows her to enter the school's wrestling team—the first female to do so. Though the cause of her memory loss is left largely to the viewer's imagination, adrenaline is circuitously mentioned at one point by Dr. Hayward, as well as Dr. Jacoby's comment that "that tissue's packed in there pretty hard".
In the final episode, Nadine suffers a blow to the head that results in the loss of her delusions of teenhood. Apparently, she has no memory of anything that has occurred since her suicide attempt. The full repercussions of her recovery, including the potential scuppering of Big Ed's and Norma's newly announced marriage plans, were left to be addressed in a third season that was never to be.
James Hurley[edit]
Norma Jennings[edit]
Hank Jennings[edit]
Upon his release, Hank immediately violates parole by committing a large number of crimes and by crossing the Canadian border. He threatens Josie, who had agreed to pay him $90,000 upon his release, and tries to extort more money from her.
Hank decides to punish Ed for the affair with Norma but runs into Ed's superhumanly strong wife Nadine, who beats him to a pulp. Hank spends the remainder of the series on crutches and is eventually taken back to jail for parole violations. In his last appearance, Hank tries to get an alibi regarding the night of Leo's shooting from his wife, Norma, while she is visiting his cell to ask for a divorce. Hank coldly replies "you give me my alibi, and I'll give you a divorce". When Norma refuses (still not trusting Hank to keep his word), he then reacts violently and calls her Big Ed's "whore", to which she replies that she'd "rather be his whore than your wife." Norma then leaves Hank behind in jail.
Annie Blackburn[edit]
Johnson family[edit]
Shelly Johnson[edit]
Shelly dropped out of high school to marry trucker Leo Johnson, who had swept her off her feet by lavishing her with attention. As soon as they got married, it became clear that Leo just "wanted a maid he didn't have to pay for," in the words of Shelly. Leo is a monstrous home dictator, wife-beater, and dangerous criminal, and he is tangibly connected to Laura Palmer's murder.
Leo Johnson[edit]
Leo Johnson, played by Eric Da Re, is a trucker who also moonlights as Twin Peaks' primary source of narcotics (which he obtains from the Renault Brothers and traffics over the Canadian/US border for distribution in Twin Peaks). Because of his criminal versatility, Sheriff Truman has never been able to obtain any evidence of his criminal dealings. Leo is married to Shelly Johnson, one of the waitresses at the town diner. Due to his volatile temper, he regularly beats her for both real and imagined transgressions, ranging from her infidelity with high school football player Bobby Briggs to his dissatisfaction with the way she washes the kitchen floor.
In the course of the series, cumulative evidence leads to Leo becoming one of the primary suspects in the murder of Laura Palmer. As it turns out, Leo was simply present on the night Laura was murdered by Killer Bob. While under investigation for the Palmer murder, Leo is hired for his criminal skills by Ben Horne, who charges him with burning down the Packard Saw Mill with his business rival Catherine Martell inside so that Horne can simultaneously kill his competition and destroy the only obstacle to his obtaining the valuable Mill land. Leo decides to use the situation to solve his own marital discord, abducting Shelly and tying her up inside the mill shortly before setting fire to it with a time bomb. Catherine foils his plans by freeing Shelly and helping her escape the mill. When Leo returns home after setting fire to the mill, he discovers Bobby in his house looking for Shelly. Leo tries to kill him with an axe, but is shot by Hank Jennings, who was hired by Ben Horne to kill Leo in order to cover his own tracks.
Leo spends most of the second season in a vegetative state, cared for by Shelly and Bobby, who agree to take him in as part of a scheme to commit insurance fraud. The plan backfires, however, when it turns out that Leo's home care is far more expensive than they had anticipated, and the pair are left destitute. To vent their frustration, they take to abusing Leo whilst simultaneously flaunting their relationship in front of him.
Near the end of the season, Leo regains some of his cognitive abilities and attacks Shelly and Bobby. Wounded during the course of a struggle, he staggers into the woods, where he is abducted by escaped mental patient (and former FBI agent) Windom Earle. Earle enslaves the barely coherent Leo by fitting him with a shock collar and forcing him into submission. Leo spends the remainder of the series as a semi-mute drone, serving Windom Earle as his henchman. In the third to last episode, Leo seems to regain some more functioning ability, as he frees another one of Earle's captives, Major Garland Briggs, believing Shelly's life to be in danger after Earle posts a photo of her on his cabin wall. (Ironically, this gives the impression that Leo truly did love Shelly-in his own cruel way.) In the series finale, Earle leaves Leo for dead, rigging a cage of tarantulas above Leo's head, with a string affixed between Leo's teeth; if Leo lets go of the string, the cage will drop on his face, releasing the agitated tarantulas. His fate is never revealed, though it is rumored that he might have had the cage drop during the third season.
Renault brothers[edit]
The three Renault brothers—Jacques, Bernard and Jean—are French Canadian and heavily involved in various kinds of crime, primarily drug running. No two of the three brothers are ever shown together on screen during the series. By the end of the series, all three are dead.
Jacques Renault[edit]
Bernard Renault[edit]
Jean Renault[edit]
Blackie O'Reilly[edit]
Blackie is a heroin addict; sometime prior to the beginning of the series, she was the mistress of Ben Horne, who intentionally got her addicted to the drug as a means of controlling her. Blackie resents Ben's control over her, and when Ben's daughter infiltrates Jack's to try to collect information on Laura Palmer, Blackie injects her with the drug to seek vengeance on Horne. This proves to be the first step in a war between Horne and Blackie and her drug baron brother-in-law, Jean Renault, who seizes control of One Eyed Jacks in a hostile takeover. Ultimately, Jean stabs Blackie to death, wanting to eliminate any potential competition he might have in the operation of his new business venture.
Ronette Pulaski[edit]
She worked at the perfume counter at Horne's Department Store, and at One Eyed Jacks, but was fired from both jobs. She and Laura Palmer were both raped and beaten by the serial killer BOB during the crime that drives much of the series. Laura is murdered, but Ronette manages to escape. She is discovered wandering along train tracks in a trance. As she had crossed state lines, the FBI becomes involved in the investigation. She lapses into a coma, emerging only briefly to identify BOB from a drawing.
Lawrence Jacoby[edit]
Lawrence Jacoby, portrayed by Russ Tamblyn, is a highly eccentric psychiatrist. Born January 30, 1934, Jacoby grew up in Hawaii and remains fascinated by it.
Prior to her murder, Laura Palmer was Jacoby's patient. Jacoby confesses to FBI agent Dale Cooper he's not a good person, and he really doesn't care about his patients who see him as their friend. Laura changed all that, and Laura changed him. Laura was in pain and the reasons for that were so mysterious that Jacoby couldn't penetrate the walls she had built around it. Because of this, he has an insight into Laura's personality that few others have. The unidentified person in Mrs. Palmer's vision seen digging up James' half of Laura's necklace (at the end of the pilot) is in fact Dr. Jacoby.
James Hurley, Donna Hayward and Maddy Ferguson discover that Laura had made a series of audiotapes to Dr. Jacoby in which she describes some of her dreams and nightmares. Believing he has more of these, they hatch a plan to lure him away from his office by dressing Maddy up to look like Laura and filming her making a similar message. When Jacoby goes to confront Maddy he is attacked and beaten unconscious by a masked figure. After a period of recovery he returns to continue his work, mainly with Benjamin Horne and Nadine Hurley.
Dr. Jacoby is married to a Hawaiian woman who is only seen once in the course of the series. He is known for keeping cocktail umbrellas marked with dates of influential events that affected him. He is also a keen surfer. A recognizable trait are his glasses - one lens of which is blue, the other red. He also can do some conjuring tricks.
Dr. Jacoby's character was inspired by the late ethnobotanist and shamanistic explorer Terence McKenna.
Mike Nelson[edit]
Mike was illustrative of the theme of duality that pervaded Twin Peaks. He was, with Bobby, one of two duos in the series named "Mike" and "Bob," the other being Mike / Philip Gerard the one-armed man and Bob.
Margaret Lanterman (Log Lady)[edit]
Main article: Log Lady
The Log Lady is a fixture in the town of Twin Peaks by the time of Laura Palmer's murder, and most residents in the town regard her as crazy. This is mainly due to her habit of always carrying a small log in her arms, with which she seems to share a psychic connection, often dispensing advice and visions of clairvoyance which she claims come from the log;[8] prior to the murder, she delivers moving and cryptic warnings to Laura Palmer herself.[6][9] The Log Lady does not interpret the messages transmitted by the log, but instead functions as a medium for the information it conveys.[10]
Harold Smith[edit]
Dick Tremayne[edit]
Dick Tremayne (Ian Buchanan) is a selfish, pretentious man, whom Lucy Moran saw for a while on the side after becoming bored with Deputy Andy Brennan. He works at the Horne’s Department store, in men's fashion. When he finds out Lucy is pregnant (and isn’t sure who the father of the baby is), he first attempts to have her get an abortion, but then tries (albeit halfheartedly) to prove his capability as a parent by “helping” an orphan boy who needs a father figure. Because of this, he has an ongoing rivalry with Andy, though they bond at a few points. Dick's condescending behavior becomes such that Lucy ultimately decides she doesn't care who the real father is and chooses Andy to help her raise her child.
Dick appears primarily in the latter half of season one and throughout season two.
Evelyn Marsh[edit]
Unlike most of the other characters, Evelyn Marsh (Annette McCarthy) lives not in Twin Peaks, but in one of the towns nearby, which James Hurley "drifts" to after he flees Twin Peaks in the wake of Maddy Ferguson's murder. Evelyn is very wealthy, and she and her absentee husband, Geoffrey/Jeffrey, own a small fleet of expensive cars, which she initially drafts James to repair.
Thomas Eckhardt[edit]
Teresa Banks[edit]
One day, Palmer arrives at a motel room having pre-arranged a rendezvous with Banks and "some of [her] girlfriends" and, to his surprise, discovers one of these to be his daughter. Palmer ducks out before Laura sees him, but Banks becomes suspicious of his sudden change of heart. Eventually, she discovers Leland's identity and attempts to blackmail him but is subsequently murdered by him before she can collect.
Windom Earle[edit]
Main article: Windom Earle
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Charles Hickson,
Calvin Parker
Alleged abduction
Status Single Abductees
First abduction date October 11, 1973
Location Pascagoula River, Mississippi
Taken from Abandoned industrial site
Book Mendez William (1983), UFO Contact at Pascagoula, ISBN 0-9608558-6-6
The Pascagoula Abduction occurred in 1973 when co-workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed that they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi. The case earned substantial mass media attention, and is, along with the earlier Hill Abduction, among the best-known claims of alien abduction.[citation needed]
The UFO Encounter[edit]
On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker — co-workers at a shipyard — were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. They heard a whirring/whizzing sound, saw two flashing blue lights, and reported that an oval shaped "craft", some 30-40 feet across and 8 or 10 feet high, suddenly appeared near them.[1] The ship seemed to levitate about 2 feet above the ground.
A door opened on the ship, they said, and three creatures emerged and seized the men, floating or levitating them into the craft. Both men reported being paralyzed and numb. Parker claimed that he had fainted due to fright. They described the terrifying creatures as being roughly humanoid in shape, and standing about five feet tall. The creatures' skin was pale in color and wrinkled, and they had no eyes that the men could discern, and slits for mouths. Their heads also appeared connected directly to their shoulders, with no discernible neck. There were three "carrot-like" growths instead - one where the nose would be on a human, the other two where ears would normally be. The beings had lobster-like claws at the ends of their arms, and they seemed to have only one leg (Hickson later described the creatures' lower bodies looking as if their legs were fused together) ending in elephant-like feet. Hickson also reported that the creatures moved in mechanical, robotic ways.
On the ship, Hickson claimed that he was somehow levitated or hovered a few feet above the floor of the craft, and was examined by what looked like a large football-shaped mechanical eye, about 6 to 8 inches in diameter, that seemed to scan his body. Parker claimed that he could not recall what had happened to him inside the craft, although later, during sessions of hypnotic regression he offered some hazy details. The men were released after about 20 minutes and the creatures levitated them, with Hickson's feet dragging along the ground, back to their original positions on the river bank.
In a later interview over 20 years after the initial incident, Parker's story became much more elaborate. Here Parker confessed to lying about fainting in sight of the creatures. He claimed that he was in fact conscious when the creatures took him on board the craft and led him into a room at the other end of a hallway to the left of the craft's entrance. He claims he was laid down on a sloped table and examined by a 'petite,' evidently female, being. Though he was paralyzed, he was able to observe the being inject a needle into the base of the underside of his penis. The being later communicated with him telepathically, suggesting that he had been taken for a reason. While he was not able to define it, Parker felt a sense of imminent harm. Nevertheless, he was led back outside the craft and deposited back into his original position unharmed. He then claimed that 19 years later, he came in contact with the same craft again. This time he voluntarily walked aboard the craft and met with the same female being that had examined his body in 1973. He claimed he had a conversation with the being, in English, in which she communicated to him a religious message. She informed him that they shared the same God, that the bible was an authentic text, and that her species wanted to live on earth but could not due to humanity's tendency towards war and destruction.[2]
Hickson and Parker contact police[edit]
Both men said they were terrified by what had happened. They claimed to have sat in a car for about 45 minutes, trying to calm themselves. Hickson drank some whiskey. After some discussion, they tried to report their story to officials at Keesler Air Force Base, but personnel told them the United States Air Force had nothing to do with UFO reports (Project Blue Book had been discontinued about four years before), and suggested the men notify police.
At about 10:30 p.m., Hickson and Parker arrived at the Jackson County, Mississippi Sheriff's office. They brought the catfish they'd caught while fishing; it was the only proof they had to back up their story. Sheriff Fred Diamond thought the men seemed sincere and genuinely frightened and he thought Parker was especially disturbed. Diamond harbored some doubt about the fantastic story, however, due in part to Hickson's admitted whiskey consumption.
The "Secret Tape"[edit]
Diamond interviewed the men, who related their story. After repeated questioning, Diamond left the two men alone in a room that was, unknown to Hickson or Parker, rigged with a hidden microphone.
As Jerome Clark, writes, "Sheriff Diamond assumed that if they were lying, that fact would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately. Instead, they continued to talk in the voices of the terribly distressed." (Clark, 447) This so-called "secret tape" was held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff's department, and has since earned wider circulation amongst UFO researchers and enthusiasts.[3] Parker, who seemed particularly shaken, spoke repeatedly of his wish to see a doctor. A partial transcript of their interrogation and of the "secret tape" is available;[4] immediately below is part of the conversation on the "secret tape", as transcribed by NICAP:
CALVIN: I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy.
CHARLIE: I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep.
CALVIN: I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy.
CHARLIE: Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out.
His voice rising, Calvin said, "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake."
"They didn't do me that way", sighed Charlie.
Now both men were talking as if to themselves.
CALVIN: I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life.
CHARLIE: I've never seen nothin' like that before in my life. You can't make people believe-
CALVIN: I don't want to keep sittin' here. I want to see a doctor-
CHARLIE: They better wake up and start believin'... they better start believin'.
CALVIN: You see how that damn door come right up?
CHARLIE: I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know.
CALVIN: It just laid up and just like that those son' bitches-just like that they come out.
CHARLIE: I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it-
CALVIN: I paralyzed right then. I couldn't move-
CHARLIE: They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me.
CALVIN: You know yourself I don't drink
CHARLIE: I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sittin' around for. I gotta go tell Blanche... what we waitin' for?
CALVIN (panicky): I gotta go to the house. I'm gettin' sick. I gotta get out of here.
Then Charlie got up and left the room, and Calvin was alone.
CALVIN: It's hard to believe . . . Oh God, it's awful... I know there's a God up there...
Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Hickson and Parker insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty.
Hickson and Parker returned to work the day after the encounter (Friday, October 12). They did not initially discuss their purported UFO encounter, but coworkers noted that Parker seemed very anxious and preoccupied. Within hours, Sheriff Diamond telephoned the men at work, stating that news reporters were swarming in his office, seeking more information about the UFO story. An angry Hickson accused Diamond of breaking his confidentiality pledge, but Diamond insisted he had not done so, and that the case was too sensational to keep quiet.
Hickson's foreman overheard Hickson's side of the conversation, and asked what had occurred. Hickson related his story to the foreman and to shipyard owner Johnny Walker. After hearing the tale, Walker suggested that Hickson and Parker contact Joe Colingo, a locally prominent attorney (who was Walker's brother-in-law and also represented the shipyard).
Colingo met the men, and, during their conversation, Hickson expressed fears about having been exposed to radiation. Colingo and detective Tom Huntley then took Parker and Hickson to a local hospital, which lacked the facilities for a radiation test. (Clark's book does not make clear if Huntley is a police detective or a private detective.)
From the hospital, the men went to Keesler Air Force Base, where they were examined extensively by several doctors. Afterward, reported Huntley, Parker and Hickson were interviewed by the military intelligence chief of the base, with the "whole base command" observing the proceedings. (Clark, 448)
Colingo drew up a contract to represent Hickson and Parker. However, nothing came of this, and Hickson would later have nothing to do with Colingo, charging the lawyer with base financial motivations: Colingo, said Hickson, "just wanted to make a buck." (Clark, 449)
Within days, Pascagoula was the center of an international news story, with reporters swarming the town. Professor James A. Harder (a U.C. Berkeley engineering professor and APRO member) and Dr. J. Allen Hynek (an astronomer formerly with Project Blue Book) both arrived and interviewed Parker and Hickson. Harder tried to hypnotize the men, but they were too anxious and distracted for the procedure to work—Parker especially so. Hynek withheld ultimate judgment on the case, but did announce that, in his judgment, Hickson and Parker were honest men who seemed genuinely distressed about what had occurred.
Tiring of the publicity, Hickson and Parker went to Jones County, Mississippi (about 150 miles north of Pascagoula), where both men hoped to find relief with family members. Parker was eventually hospitalized for what Clark describes as "an emotional breakdown." (Clark, 449)
In an interview several years after the claimed UFO event, Hickson speculated that Parker fared worse after the encounter because he had never previously experienced a profoundly frightening ordeal. While Hickson described the UFO encounter as the most terrifying event in his life, he also noted that he had seen combat in the Korean War, and that he thus had some familiarity with a terrifying experience. The younger Parker, on the other hand, had never suffered through a terrifying encounter, let alone a bizarre confrontation with something that was not even supposed to exist.
On September 9, 2011, Charles Hickson died at age 80, but never backed off the alien abduction story despite ridicule.[5]
As noted above, both Parker and Hickson volunteered to take polygraph exams to prove their stories. In the end, only Hickson did so, and the examiner determined that Hickson believed the story about the UFO abduction.
Aviation journalist and UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass argued that there was reason to question the reliability of Hickson's lie detector exam, writing,
The polygraph test was given to Hickson by a young operator, just out of school, who had not completed his formal training, who had not been certified by his own school and who had not taken a state licensing examination. Furthermore, that the lawyer for Hickson and Parker - who also was acting as their "booking agent" - had turned down the chance to have his clients tested WITHOUT CHARGE by the very experienced Capt. Charles Wimberly, chief polygraph operator from the nearby Mobile Police Dept. Also, that the lawyer did not contact other experienced polygraph operators close to Pascagoula. Instead, the lawyer had imported from New Orleans - more than 100 miles away - the young, inexperienced, uncertified, unlicensed operator who, by a curious coincidence, worked for a friend of the lawyer![6]
Subsequent investigation by Joe Esterhas of Rolling Stone uncovered some additional information, leading to increased skepticism about the abduction claim. The supposed UFO landing and abduction site was in full view of two 24-hour toll booths, and neither operator saw anything that night. Also, the site was in range of security cameras from nearby Ingalls Shipyard, but the cameras did not capture anything unusual that night.[7]
Parker has avoided most public attention since the event. Hickson appeared on Dick Cavett's talk show in January 1974, and spoke at occasional UFO conferences; he co-wrote a book about the event with William Mendez titled UFO Contact at Pascagoula (1983, reprinted 1987).
In 2001, retired navy chief petty officer Mike Cataldo revealed that he observed an unusual craft at dusk on the same date. While travelling with crew mates Ted Peralta and Mack Hanna on U.S. Route 90 from Pascagoula to Ocean Springs, an object like a large tambourine with small flashing lights approached from the northwest and crossed the freeway, before hovering over the treeline and disappearing. As he approached his home in St Andrews, Ocean Springs, the craft made a second appearance at lower altitude.[8]
See also[edit]
• Clark, Jerome, The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial; Visible Ink Press, 1998.
• Hickson, Charles and William Mendez. UFO Contact At Pascagoula Gautier: Charles Hickson, 1987.
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The Byzantine Greeks or Byzantines were the medieval Greek or Hellenised citizens of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), centered mainly in Constantinople, the southern Balkans, the Greek islands, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Cyprus and the large urban centres of the Levant and northern Egypt. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Byzantine Greeks self-identified as Romaioi or Romioi (Greek: Ῥωμαῖοι, Ρωμιοί, meaning "Romans") and Graikoi (Γραικοῖ, meaning "Greeks"), but are referred to as "Byzantines", "Byzantine Romans" and "Byzantine Greeks" in modern historiography.
Until the twelfth century, education within the Byzantine Greek population was more advanced than in the West, particularly at primary school level, resulting in high literacy rates. Success came easily to Byzantine Greek merchants, who enjoyed a very strong position in international trade. Despite the challenges posed by rival Italian merchants, they held their own throughout the latter half of the Byzantine Empire's existence. The clergy also held a special place, not only having more freedom than their Western counterparts, but also maintaining a patriarch in Constantinople who was considered the equal of the pope. This position of strength had built up over time, for at the beginning of the Byzantine Empire, under Emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 306–337), only a small part, about 10%, of the population was Christian.
The language of the Byzantine Greeks since the age of Constantine had been Greek, although Latin was the language of the administration. From the reign of Emperor Heraclius (reigned 610–641), Greek was the predominant language amongst the populace and also replaced Latin in administration. At first the Byzantine Empire had a multi-ethnic character, but following the loss of the non-Greek speaking provinces it came to be dominated by the Byzantine Greeks. Over time, the relationship between them and the West, particularly with Latin Europe, deteriorated.
Relations were further damaged by a schism between the Catholic West and Orthodox East that led to the Byzantine Greeks being labeled as heretics. Throughout the later centuries of the Byzantine Empire and particularly following the coronation of Charlemagne (reigned as king of the Franks 768–814) in Rome in 800, the Byzantine Greeks were not considered by Western Europeans as heirs of the Roman Empire, but rather as part of an Eastern kingdom made up of Greek peoples. However the Byzantine Empire could claim to be the Roman Empire, continuing the unbroken line of succession of the Roman emperors.
The double-headed eagle, emblem of the Palaiologos dynasty.
During most of the Middle Ages, the Byzantine Greeks identified themselves as Romaioi (Greek: Ρωμαίοι, "Romans", meaning citizens of the Roman Empire), a term which in the Greek language had become synonymous with Christian Greeks.[1][2] They also identified themselves as Graikoi (Greek: Γραικοί, "Greeks");[3] the ethnonym was used habitually for self-referential purposes except in official Byzantine political correspondence prior to the Fourth Crusade of 1204.[4] The ancient name Hellene was in popular use synonymous to "pagan" and was revived as an ethnonym in the Middle Byzantine period (11th century).[5]
Most historians agree that the defining features of their civilization were: 1) Greek language, culture, literature, and science, 2) Roman law and tradition, 3) Christian faith.[9] The term "Byzantine" has been adopted by Western scholarship on the assumption that anything Roman is essentially "Western", and also by modern Greek scholarship for nationalistic reasons of identification with ancient Greece.[8] In modern times, the Greek people still use the ethnonyms "Romaioi" (or rather "Romioi") and "Graikoi" to refer to themselves.[10] In addition, the Eastern Roman Empire was in language and civilization a Greek society.[11]
Historic perspective[edit]
Byzantine Greeks, forming the majority of the Byzantine Empire proper at the height of its power, gradually came under the dominance of foreign powers with the decline of the Empire during the Middle Ages. Mostly coming under Arab Muslim rule, Byzantine Greeks either fled their former lands or subdued to the new Muslim rulers, receiving the status of Dhimmi. Over the centuries surviving Christian societies of former Byzantine Greeks evolved into Antiochian Greeks, Melchites or merged into the societies of Arab Christians, existing to this day.
On the other hand, other Byzantines converted to Islam and underwent Turkification over time, mainly those in Anatolia.[14]
While social mobility was not unknown in Byzantium the order of society was thought of as more enduring, with the average man regarding the court of Heaven to be the archetype of the imperial court in Constantinople.[15] This society included various classes of people that were neither exclusive nor immutable. The most characteristic were the poor, the peasants, the soldiers, the teachers, entrepreneurs, and clergy.[15]
The poor[edit]
According to a text dated to AD 533, a man was termed "poor" if he did not have 50 gold coins (aurei), which was a modest though not negligible sum.[16] The Byzantines were heirs to the Greek concepts of charity for the sake of the polis; nevertheless it was the Christian concepts attested in the Bible that animated their giving habits,[17] and specifically the examples of Basil of Caesarea (who is the Greek equivalent of Santa Claus), Gregory of Nyssa, and John Chrysostom.[17] The number of the poor fluctuated in the many centuries of Byzantium's existence, but they provided a constant supply of muscle power for the building projects and rural work. Their numbers apparently increased in the late fourth and early fifth centuries as barbarian raids and a desire to avoid taxation pushed rural populations into cities.[18]
Since Homeric times, there were several categories of poverty: the ptochos (Greek: πτωχός, "passive poor") was lower than the penes (Greek: πένης, "active poor").[19] They formed the majority of the infamous Constantinopolitan mob whose function was similar to the mob of the First Rome. However, while there are instances of riots attributed to the poor, the majority of civil disturbances were specifically attributable to the various factions of the Hippodrome like the Greens and Blues.[20] The poor made up a non-negligible percentage of the population, but they influenced the Christian society of Byzantium to create a large network of hospitals (Greek: ιατρεία, iatreia) and almshouses, and a religious and social model largely justified by the existence of the poor and born out of the Christian transformation of classical society.[21]
There are no reliable figures as to the numbers of the peasantry, yet it is widely assumed that the vast majority of Byzantines lived in rural and agrarian areas.[22] In the Taktika of Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912), the two professions defined as the backbone of the state are the peasantry (Greek: γεωργική, geōrgikē) and the soldiers (Greek: στρατιωτική, stratiōtikē).[22] The reason for this was that besides producing most of the Empire's food the peasants also produced most of its taxes.[22]
Peasants lived mostly in villages, whose name changed slowly from the classical kome (Greek: κώμη) to the modern chorio (Greek: χωριό).[23] While agriculture and herding were the dominant occupations of villagers they were not the only ones.[23] There are records for the small town of Lampsakos, situated on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, which out of 173 households classifies 113 as peasant and 60 as urban, which indicate other kinds of ancillary activities.[23]
The Treatise on Taxation, preserved in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, distinguishes between three types of rural settlements, the chorion (Greek: χωρίον) or village, the agridion (Greek: αγρίδιον) or hamlet, and the proasteion (Greek: προάστειον) or estate.[23] According to a 14th-century survey of the village of Aphetos, donated to the monastery of Chilandar, the average size of a landholding is only 3.5 modioi (0.08 ha).[24] Taxes placed on rural populations included the kapnikon (Greek: καπνικόν) or hearth tax, the synone (Greek: συνονή) or cash payment frequently affiliated with the kapnikon, the ennomion (Greek: εννόμιον) or pasture tax, and the aerikon (Greek: αέρικον, meaning "of the air") which depended on the village's population and ranged between 4 and 20 gold coins annually.[25]
Their diet consisted of mainly grains and beans and in fishing communities fish was usually substituted for meat.[26] Bread, wine, and olives were important staples of Byzantine diet with soldiers on campaign eating double-baked and dried bread called paximadion (Greek: παξιμάδιον).[27] As in antiquity and modern times, the most common cultivations in the choraphia (Greek: χωράφια) were olive groves and vineyards. While Liutprand of Cremona, a visitor from Italy, found Greek wine irritating as it was often flavoured with resin (retsina) most other Westerners admired Greek wines, Cretan in particular being famous.[28]
While both hunting and fishing were common, the peasants mostly hunted to protect their herds and crops.[29] Apiculture, the keeping of bees, was as highly developed in Byzantium as it had been in Ancient Greece.[30] Aside from agriculture, the peasants also laboured in the crafts, fiscal inventories mentioning smiths (Greek: χαλκεύς, chalkeus), tailors (Greek: ράπτης, rhaptes), and cobblers (Greek: τζαγγάριος, tzangarios).[30]
Soldier wearing the lamellar klivanion cuirass and a straight spathion sword.
During the Byzantine millennium, hardly a year passed without a military campaign. Soldiers were a normal part of everyday life, much more so than in modern Western societies.[31] While it is difficult to draw a distinction between Roman and Byzantine soldiers from an organizational aspect, it is easier to do so in terms of their social profile.[31] The military handbooks known as the Taktika continued a Hellenistic and Roman tradition, and contain a wealth of information about the appearance, customs, habits, and life of the soldiers.[32]
As with the peasantry, many soldiers performed ancillary activities, like medics and technicians.[33] Selection for military duty was annual with yearly call-ups and great stock was placed on military exercises, during the winter months, which formed a large part of a soldier's life.[34]
Until the 11th century, the majority of the conscripts were from rural areas, while the conscription of craftsmen and merchants is still an open question.[35] From then on, professional recruiting replaced conscription, and the increasing use of mercenaries in the army was ruinous for the treasury.[35] From the 10th century onwards, there were laws connecting land ownership and military service. While the state never allotted land for obligatory service, soldiers could and did use their pay to buy landed estates, and taxes would be decreased or waived in some cases.[36] What the state did allocate to soldiers, however, from the 12th century onwards, were the tax revenues from some estates called pronoiai (Greek: πρόνοιαι). As in antiquity, the basic food of the soldier remained the dried biscuit bread, though its name had changed from boukelaton (Greek: βουκελάτον) to paximadion.
Byzantine education was the product of an ancient Greek educational tradition that stretched back to the 5th century BC.[37] It comprised a tripartite system of education that, taking shape during the Hellenistic era, was maintained, with inevitable changes, up until the fall of Constantinople.[37] The stages of education were the elementary school, where pupils ranged from six to ten years, secondary school, where pupils ranged from ten to sixteen, and higher education.[38]
Elementary education was widely available throughout most of the Byzantine Empire's existence, in the countryside, as well as in towns. This, in turn, ensured that literacy was much more widespread than in Western Europe, at least until the twelfth century.[38] Secondary education was confined to the larger cities while higher education was the exclusive provenance of Constantinople.[38]
The elementary school teacher occupied a low social position and taught mainly from simple fairy tale books (Aesop's Fables were often used).[39] However, the grammarian and rhetorician, teachers responsible for the following two phases of education, were more respected.[39] These used classical Greek texts like Homer's Iliad or Odyssey and much of their time was taken with detailed word-for-word explication.[39] Books were rare and very expensive and likely only possessed by teachers who dictated passages to students.[40]
Scenes of marriage and family life in Constantinople.
Women have tended to be overlooked in Byzantine studies as Byzantine society left few records about them.[41] Women were disadvantaged in some aspects of their legal status and in their access to education, and limited in their freedom of movement.[42] The life of a Byzantine Greek woman could be divided into three phases: girlhood, motherhood, and widowhood.[43]
Childhood was brief and perilous, even more so for girls than boys.[43] Parents would celebrate the birth of a boy twice as much and there is some evidence of female infanticide (i.e. roadside abandonment and suffocation), though it was contrary to both civil and canon law.[43] Educational opportunities for girls were few: they did not attend regular schools but were taught in groups at home by tutors.[44] With few exceptions, education was limited to literacy and the Bible; a famous exception is the Princess Anna Comnena, whose Alexiad displays a great depth of erudition.[45] The majority of a young girl's daily life would be spent in household and agrarian chores, preparing herself for marriage.[45]
For most girls, childhood came to an end with the onset of puberty, which was followed shortly after by betrothal and marriage.[46] Although marriage arranged by the family was the norm, romantic love was not unknown.[46] Most women bore many children but few survived infancy, and grief for the loss of a loved one was an inalienable part of life.[47] The main form of birth control was abstinence, and while there is evidence of contraception it seems to have been mainly used by prostitutes.[48]
Due to prevailing norms of modesty, women would wear clothing that covered the whole of their body except their hands.[49] While women among the poor sometimes wore sleeveless tunics, most women were obliged to cover even their hair with the long maphorion (Greek: μαφόριον) veil. Women of means, however, spared no expense in adorning their clothes with exquisite jewelry and fine silk fabrics.[49] Divorces were hard to obtain even though there were laws permitting them.[50] Husbands would often beat their wives, though the reverse was not unknown, as in Theodore Prodromos's description of a battered husband in the Ptochoprodromos poems.[50]
Although female life expectancy in Byzantium was lower than that of men, due to death in childbirth, wars and the fact that men married younger, female widowhood was still fairly common.[50] Still, some women were able to circumvent societal strictures and work as traders, artisans, abbots, entertainers, and scholars.[51]
Gold solidus of Justinian II 4.42 grams (0.156 oz), struck after 692.[52]
The traditional image of Byzantine Greek merchants as unenterprising benefactors of state aid is beginning to change for that of mobile, pro-active agents.[53] The merchant class, particularly that of Constantinople, became a force of its own that could, at times, even threaten the Emperor as it did in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.[54] This was achieved through efficient use of credit and other monetary innovations. Merchants invested surplus funds in financial products called chreokoinonia (Greek: χρεοκοινωνία), the equivalent and perhaps ancestor of the later Italian commenda.[54]
Eventually, the purchasing power of Byzantine merchants became such that it could influence prices in markets as far afield as Cairo and Alexandria.[53] In reflection of their success, emperors gave merchants the right to become members of the Senate, that is to integrate themselves with the ruling elite.[55] This had an end by the end of the eleventh century when political machinations allowed the landed aristocracy to secure the throne for a century and more.[55] Following that phase, however, the enterprising merchants bounced back and wielded real clout during the time of the Third Crusade.[56]
Unlike in Western Europe where priests were clearly demarcated from the laymen, the clergy of the Eastern Roman Empire remained in close contact with the rest of society.[57] Readers and subdeacons were drawn from the laity and expected to be at least twenty years of age while priests and bishops had to be at least 30.[57] Unlike the Latin church, the Byzantine church allowed married priests and deacons, as long as they were married before ordination. Bishops, however, were required to be unmarried.[57]
While the religious hierarchy mirrored the Empire's administrative divisions, the clergy were more ubiquitous than the emperor's servants.[58] The issue of caesaropapism, while usually associated with the Byzantine Empire, is now understood to be an oversimplification of actual conditions in the Empire.[59] By the fifth century, the Patriarch of Constantinople was recognized as first among equals of the four eastern Patriarchs and as of equal status with the Pope in Rome.[57]
See also: Medieval Greek
Uncial script, from a 4th-century Bible manuscript.
Linguistically, Byzantine or medieval Greek is situated between the Hellenistic (Koine) and modern phases of the language.[61] Since as early as the Hellenistic era, Greek had been the lingua franca of the educated elites of the Eastern Mediterranean, spoken natively in the southern Balkans, the Greek islands, Asia Minor, and the ancient and Hellenistic Greek colonies of Southern Italy, the Black Sea, western Asia and north Africa.[62] At the beginning of the Byzantine millennium, the koine (Greek: κοινή) remained the basis for spoken Greek and Christian writings, while Attic Greek was the language of the philosophers and orators.[63]
As Christianity became the dominant religion, Attic began to be used in Christian writings in addition to and often interspersed with koine Greek.[63] Nonetheless, from the 6th at least until the 12th century, Attic remained entrenched in the educational system; while further changes to the spoken language can be postulated for the early and middle Byzantine periods.[63]
The population of the Byzantine Empire, at least in its early stages, had a variety of mother tongues including Greek.[63] These included Latin, Aramaic, Coptic, and Caucasian languages, while Cyril Mango also cites evidence for bilingualism in the south and southeast.[64] These influences, as well as an influx of people of Arabic, Celtic, Germanic, Turkic, and Slavic backgrounds, supplied medieval Greek with many loanwords that have survived in the modern Greek language.[64] From the 11th century onward, there was also a steady rise in the literary use of the vernacular.[64]
Following the Fourth Crusade, there was increased contact with the West; and the lingua franca of commerce became Italian. In the areas of the Crusader kingdoms a classical education (Greek: παιδεία, paideia) ceased to be a sine qua non of social status, leading to the rise of the vernacular.[64] From this era many beautiful works in the vernacular, often written by people deeply steeped in classical education, are attested.[64] A famous example is the four Ptochoprodromic poems attributed to Theodoros Prodromos.[64] From the 13th to the 15th centuries, the last centuries of the Empire, there arose several works, including laments, fables, romances, and chronicles, written outside Constantinople, which until then had been the seat of most literature, in an idiom termed by scholars as "Byzantine Koine".[64]
However, the diglossia of the Greek-speaking world, which had already started in ancient Greece, continued under Ottoman rule and persisted in the modern Greek state until 1976, although Koine Greek remains the official language of the Greek Orthodox Church. As shown in the poems of Ptochoprodromos, an early stage of modern Greek had already been shaped by the 12th century and possibly earlier. Vernacular Greek continued to be known as "Romaic" until the 20th century.[65]
See also: Orthodox Church
King David in the imperial purple (Paris Psalter).
At the time of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337), barely 10% of the Roman Empire's population were Christians, with most of them being urban population and generally found in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The majority of people still honoured the old gods in the public Roman way of religio.[66] As Christianity became a complete philosophical system, whose theory and apologetics were heavily indebted to the Classic word, this changed.[67] In addition, Constantine as Pontifex Maximus was responsible for the correct cultus or veneratio of the deity which was in accordance with former Roman practice.[68] The move from the old religion to the new entailed some elements of continuity as well as break with the past, though the artistic heritage of paganism was literally broken by Christian zeal.[69]
Christianity led to the development of a few phenomena characteristic of Byzantium. Namely, the intimate connection between Church and State, a legacy of Roman cultus.[69] Also, the creation of a Christian philosophy that guided Byzantine Greeks in their everyday lives.[69] And finally, the dichotomy between the Christian ideals of the Bible and classical Greek paideia which could not be left out, however, since so much of Christian scholarship and philosophy depended on it.[67][69] These shaped Byzantine Greek character and the perceptions of themselves and others.
Christians at the time of Constantine's conversion made up only 10% of the population.[66] This would rise to 50% by the end of the fourth century and 90% by the end of the fifth century.[69] Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) then brutally mopped up the rest of the pagans, highly literate academics on one end of the scale and illiterate peasants on the other.[69] A conversion so rapid seems to have been rather the result of expediency than of conviction.[69]
With the decline of Rome, and internal dissension in the other Eastern patriarchates, the church of Constantinople became, between the 6th and 11th centuries, the richest and most influential centre of Christendom.[71] Even when the Byzantine Empire was reduced to only a shadow of its former self, the Church, as an institution, exercised so much influence both inside and outside the imperial frontiers as never before. As George Ostrogorsky points out:[72]
In terms of religion, Byzantine Greek Macedonia is also significant as being the home of Saints Cyril and Methodius, two Greek brothers from Thessaloniki (Salonika) who were sent on state-sponsored missions to proselytize among the Slavs of the Balkans and east-central Europe. This involved Cyril and Methodius having to translate the Christian Bible into the Slavs' own language, for which they invented an alphabet that became known as Old Church Slavonic. In the process, this cemented the Greek brothers' status as the pioneers of Slavic literature and those who first introduced Byzantine civilization and Orthodox Christianity to the hitherto illiterate and pagan Slavs.
Constantine the Great presents Constantinople to the Virgin Mary and Christ.
Within the Byzantine Empire, a Greek or Hellenised citizen was generally called a Rhōmaîos (Greek: Ῥωμαῖος), which was first of all defined in opposition to a foreigner, ethnikós (Greek: ἐθνικός).[73] The Byzantine Greeks were, and perceived themselves as, the descendants of their classical Greek forebears,[74][75][76] the political heirs of imperial Rome,[77][78] and followers of the Apostles.[74] Thus, their sense of "Romanity" was different from that of their contemporaries in the West. "Romaic" was the name of the vulgar Greek language, as opposed to "Hellenic" which was its literary or doctrinal form.[79] "Greek" (Greek: Γραικός) had become synonymous with "Roman" (Greek: Ρωμαίος/Ρωμιός) and "Christian" (Greek: Χριστιανός) to mean a Christian Greek citizen of the [Eastern] Roman Empire.[1] There was always an element of indifference or neglect of everything non-Greek, which was therefore "barbarian".[80]
Official discourse[edit]
In official discourse, "all inhabitants of the empire were subjects of the emperor, and therefore Romans." Thus the primary definition of Rhōmaios was "political or statist."[81] In order to succeed in being a full-blown and unquestioned "Roman" it was best to be a Greek Orthodox Christian and a Greek-speaker, at least in one's public persona.[81] Yet, the cultural uniformity which the Byzantine church and the state pursued through Orthodoxy and the Greek language was not sufficient to erase distinct identities, nor did it aim to.[80][81] The highest compliment that could be paid to a foreigner was to call him andreîos Rhōmaióphrōn (Greek: ἀνδρεῖος Ῥωμαιόφρων, roughly "a Roman-minded fellow").[73]
Regional identity[edit]
Revival of Hellenism[edit]
From an evolutionary standpoint, Byzantium was a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Christian empire, soon comprised the Hellenised empire of the East, and ended its thousand-year history, in 1453, as a Greek Orthodox state: an empire that became a nation, almost by the modern meaning of the word.[83] The presence of a distinctive and historically rich literary culture was also very important in the division between "Greek" East and "Latin" West and thus the formation of both.[84] It was a multi-ethnic empire where the Hellenic element was predominant, especially in the later period.[81]
Spoken language and state, the markers of identity that were to become a fundamental tenet of nineteenth-century nationalism throughout Europe became, by accident, a reality during a formative period of medieval Greek history.[85] Beginning in the twelfth century, certain Byzantine Greek intellectuals began to use the ancient Greek ethnonym Héllēn (Greek: Ἕλλην) in order to describe Byzantine civilisation.[86]
Byzantine Greeks had always felt superior for being the inheritors of a more ancient civilisation, but such ethnic identifications had not been politically popular up until then.[87] Hence, in the context of increasing Venetian and Genoese power in the eastern Mediterranean, association with Hellenism took deeper root among the Byzantine elite, on account of a desire to distinguish themselves from the Latin West and to lay legitimate claims to Greek-speaking lands.[88]
Western perception[edit]
See also[edit]
2. ^ Earl 1968, p. 148.
3. ^ Dindorfius 1870, "Prisci Fragmenta", p. 305 ("Γραικὸς μὲν εἴναι τὸ γένος"); Paul the Silentiary. Descriptio S. Sophiae et Ambonis, 425, Line 12 ("χώρος όδε Γραικοίσι"); Theodore the Studite. Epistulae, 419, Line 30 ("ἐν Γραικοίς").
4. ^ Angelov 2007, p. 96 (including footnote #67); Makrides 2009, Chapter 2: "Christian Monotheism, Orthodox Christianity, Greek Orthodoxy", p. 74; Magdalino 1991, Chapter XIV: "Hellenism and Nationalism in Byzantium", p. 10.
5. ^ Cameron 2009, p. 7.
7. ^ Ostrogorsky 1969, p. 2.
8. ^ a b Kaldellis 2007, p. 338.
10. ^ Merry 2004, p. 376; Institute for Neohellenic Research 2005, p. 8; Kakavas 2002, p. 29.
11. ^ Hamilton 2003, p. 59.
14. ^ Vryonis 1971.
15. ^ a b Cavallo 1997, p. 2.
16. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 15.
17. ^ a b Cavallo 1997, p. 16.
18. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 18.
19. ^ Cavallo 1997, pp. 15, 17.
20. ^ Cavallo 1997, pp. 21–22.
21. ^ Cavallo 1997, pp. 19, 25.
22. ^ a b c Cavallo 1997, p. 43.
23. ^ a b c d Cavallo 1997, p. 44.
24. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 45.
26. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 47.
27. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 49.
28. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 51.
29. ^ Cavallo 1997, p. 55.
30. ^ a b Cavallo 1997, p. 56.
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Written in 1939 by Elswyth Thane, Tryst is a story of two people and a seemingly ordinary home. While the quick summary may make it sound like a Horror novel, it actually borders on Mystery and Romance.
Plot summary[edit]
After Hilary Shenstone died in the war, his spirit had a hard time with the thought of leaving England behind forever. Through some twist of fate, he finds his way back to his home of Nuns Farthing, only to find that the old house has some new tenants.
Sabrina Archer, a lonely girl of 17, moved with her father and aunt away from their city flat to the lavish summerhome of Nuns Farthing for her father's work. Finding a locked room at the top floor of the house, Sabrina picks the lock one afternoon and subsequently spends many days trying to find the identity of the man who used to enjoy the personal study.
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0.060707 | <urn:uuid:3584fbee-a965-4dc8-8de6-38d5718de6bd> | en | 0.919058 | Dealzmodo Hack: Overhaul Your Last-Gen BlackBerry
For most, cellphone trade shows mean carefree gadget porn. For some, they're an assault on beleaguered gadget egos. Last time we helped straggling WinMo users. Now, dear last-gen BlackBerry users, we're reaching out to you.
Users of the Pearl, Curve and 88xx phones, despite being highly capable devices, are getting it from all angles; on one front, RIM left these handsets behind for OS 4.6, and the touchscreen Storm looks like it's from a different planet. Other phone makers are moving into exciting new territory, releasing totally new hardware and software at steady clip. In short, it can be rough to own a last-gen 'Berry, not to mention one of the older 7000 series handsets. But the theory here is the same as before—just because your handset is technically last-gen device doesn't mean it has to feel like one.
Dealzmodo Hack: Overhaul Your Last-Gen BlackBerry
Ditch the BlackBerry Browser for Good
RIM's newest browser, bundled with 4.6x and 4.7x handsets, is good. It renders like a modern mobile phone should. NOT SO for the 4.5 and earlier browsers. They might be fine in the exciting world of WAP, but that's yesterday's mobile web.
Opera Mini: This feisty little browser has been backing up RIM's stock software for years, and with good reason. It'll run on almost any BlackBerry, with (old version) support spanning back to the ancient, black-and-white 5810, which was released in 2002. Opera uses server-side optimization to speed things up, but the end result is an experience that at least resembles browsing as we know it today.
Bolt Browser: Bolt, which I made note of a while ago for "not looking horrible", is now available to the public, and it's quite good. It uses server-side compression just like Opera Mini, but generally achieves more faithful results in a shorter time. Most of its magic lies in its rendering engine, the same soon-to-be-ubiquitous WebKit found in Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome and the Pre's new browser.
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Dress Your Interface Up Like a New BlackBerry, Or Pretty Much Anything Else
Pre-4.6 BlackBerry OSes share the same awkward aesthetic. It's at once dry and businesslike, pastel and cartoonish. A relic for sure, but one that takes customization quite well. Plenty of themes are floating around on the internet, but loads of them cost money and nearly all reside in horrible, spammy website. Oh, and 95% of them are terrible. But that means that a few aren't—here they are:
Go to Themes4BB. Seriously. Registration is required to access the forums, but once you're done you have access to a huge number of free, occasionally decent BlackBerry themes for almost any model. The obvious iPhone, Mac OS and Windows skins litter the message boards, but the best will give your interface a near-full conversion. If feeling left behind is your problem, there are high-contrast 4.6-inspired skins for most models.
Dealzmodo Hack: Overhaul Your Last-Gen BlackBerry
Fill Out Your App List:
While you've got a prime messaging device in your pocket, there are areas where the standard BlackBerry apps are lacking. We've covered browsers, but there are other apps that can have an equally transformative effect on your handset.
Google Apps: Aside from plethora of mobile web apps offered by Google, there are a few native ones as well. Google Mobile provides access to Gmail (possibly a bit redundant), GPS-compatible Maps (a must-have) and Google Sync, which will keep your contacts and calendars neatly paired with Google Apps.
VoIP: BlackBerrys have been sadly neglected by Skype, but that doesn't mean VoIP is out of the question. iSkoot is a surprisingly functional 3rd-party app which uses Skype's network and is able to make and receive relatively clear Skype voice calls, even over 2G networks. Truphone is a simple app that'll route international calls at local call rates. Gizmo5 is one of the better of the sea of second-tier Skypes out there, and their VoIP app, which offers not just free calls to other Gizmo5 users, but instant messaging on a range of popular networks, is worth a download.
WebMessenger Multi-Protocol IM: Some BlackBerrys are blessed with a bundled AIM app; most aren't. WebMessenger does a handy job of combining most popular messaging protocols into an easy interface. And honestly, what is your BlackBerry good for if not furiously typing short messages to all your friends through as many channels as possible?
TwitterBerry: Further facilitating the aforementioned HAVE QWERTY, MUST COMMUNICATE ethos is TwitterBerry, the preeminent Twitter app for any BlackBerry. The iPhone may have seized the attention of the Twitterati, but any BlackBerry, new or old, is better suited to the service that the Apple's buttonless handset. TwitterBerry has the potential to bring upon the world heretofore unseen levels of oversharing, courtesy of you, last-gen BlackBerry users.
Viigo RSS Reader: Viigo is a fantastic RSS reader, able to consolidate any number of feeds—website content, Google Alerts, social networking sites—into a friendly, simple interface.
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He’s done for the season and is expected to be sidelined for 4-6 weeks, but Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle reports that the Astros are hoping Martinez will be ready to play winter ball.
Martinez had big numbers at Double-A last season and then held his own in a 53-game debut with the Astros, but the 24-year-old outfielder hit just .241 with 11 homers and a .685 OPS in 113 games for Houston this year and was terrible during his demotion to Triple-A.
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2. A form of beating
3. A means of causing pain and injury, possibly death
1. Johnny kicked his opponent in the teeth.
2. Johnny kicked Jimmy's head against the curb.
3. Johnny kicked jimmy's head in. Jimmy stopped moving..
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1. shoes
2. Doing something for fun
hey bro nice kicks u got there
hey u wanna smoke this bowl for kicks?
dari djnick Kamis, 06 November 2003
To use your foot as an implement of destruction.
dari Dude 2000 Rabu, 08 Oktober 2003
To hang out with someone.
"Im gonna kick it with Jenny."
dari Punkhead Rabu, 25 Mei 2005
New Shoes that are ill. See example below
Sam: Obviously you are obliviouse to the spectation of my newest shoes, in the hood they would call these "kicks".
Bob: That is correct my hip gangster from Harvard. "You are off the chain", so to speak.Those are the "tightest kicks i have ever seen". For shezzy My Neezy
dari Sanchez Senin, 26 April 2004
1. a habit or tendency
2. to break or cease said habit or tendency
3. a noticeable effect
1. "I've been on this stogie kick ever since I discovered scotch whiskey!"
2. "Kicking the smoking habit would be a lot easier if it wasn't for these damn nic fits!"
3. "I gotta say...these jalapeno-covered tabasco-doused enchiladas sure have a kick to them!"
dari Hipster Senin, 03 Juli 2006
Look at those nice kicks
dari Anonymous Jum'at, 07 November 2003
Shoes, footwear
Apparently you fail to comprehend the awesomeness of my kicks. For, when I wear them you are nothing but an infidel. I shall begin to C-walk!
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Let's just say you have a crush. A huge crush. A massive crush. You can't stop thinking about this person. You're distracted, daydreamy, completely unproductive and totally unfocused. What do you do? How do you channel your energies? Below, you'll find ten easy steps that may or may not help.
• 1. Stay away from Facebook. Well, mostly. Use Facebook to find out your crush's birthday, if you don't already know it. Do not go poking through your crush's pictures and status updates. Do not look at your crush's friends and try to figure out which are exes. You're only gonna drive yourself cuckoo. Keep some distance.
• 2. Once you know the day and year your crush was born, head over to Susan Miller's Astrology Zone matchmaker and find out if you are astrologically compatible. Are you a "a beautiful link of souls"? Or will you find that your relationship "has a chance to survive, but it will take a Herculean effort from you." Have you ever dated someone of your crush's sign before? How did that turn out? So many things to ponder. Should keep you busy for at least an hour before you're itching to do something about your crush again.
• 3. Check your astrological compatibility at AstroStyle. The twins often have a different take. Compare and contrast your results to the ones you got earlier.
• 4. Email/IM a friend and ask what she thinks.
• 5. If your friend is not convinced you and your crush are soulmates, get annoyed with friend and email or IM a different friend.
• 6. Plug your birthday into Facade's biorhythm reader. Biorhythms! No, you don't know what they are, but yes, they are important. Don't use your real name — you never know what kinds of spies are lurking, or where. Choose a 14-day range, since after 28 days you may not even be into your crush anymore. View your free chart, then plug in your crush's birthday. Don't use his or her real name! Stage names are okay.
What To Do If You Have A Huge Crush On Someone
• 7a. Email or IM a screenshot of your awesome results to your friend. Wait for positive reinforcement (OMG It's meant to beeee!!!, etc.)
What To Do If You Have A Huge Crush On Someone
• 7b. Email or IM a screenshot of your terrible results to your friend. Wait for positive reinforcement (WTF OMFG that is bullshit, it's meant to beeee!, etc.)
• 8. Pull up a picture of your crush. Stare at it. Try to understand why you have a crush on this person. Not so special. Just a human. Just a fairly attractive human. Just a sort of fascinating, definitely hot, completely perfect for you human. No big deal. Look at those totally run-of-the-mill deep [chocolate/aquamarine/emerald] bottomless pools your crush calls eyes. Check out those full, tender, pouty lips designed especially for kissing. And that chin! Continue to stare until you can't take it any more or until someone catches you.
• 9. Imagine the perfect conversation between you and your crush. Your crush says something terribly clever. You're quick with a witty rejoinder that is both insightful and hilarious and makes your crush laugh, a deep, full laugh. But then your crush looks at you with a mixture of admiration and intrigue and says, "You're amazing, you know that? You have made me revaluate everything about my life. My next [song/album/book/movie/blogpost/religious cult] is going to be all about to you."
• 10. Promise yourself you will stop obsessing. | http://jezebel.com/5814047/what-to-do-if-you-have-a-huge-crush-on-someone?tag=how-tos | dclm-gs1-246790000 |
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Is the new Judge Dredd movie Dredd 3D an adaptation or inspired by a specific storyline in the comics or graphic novels?
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No, Dredd 3D is not an adaptation or inspired by a specific storyline.
Alex Garland did consider adapting one of the more well known Judge Dredd storylines such as Origins, but decided that that he would not adapt such a big epic and instead went for an approach of writing an original story - a kind of 'day in the life of Judge Dredd'.
You can read more about this in this Empire interview.
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@iandotkelley thanks for the link! – BamfTheNightAway Sep 26 '12 at 21:33
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Monokuma 7/mai/2013 às 22:43
I wonder why they stopped making these, I mean the last one was over a year ago...
Then again I guess people only got it for the hat
Also what's the thumbs up icon do, clicking it just makes the game freeze up
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El-Infidel 1/jun/2013 às 9:45
I'm guessing they weren't pulling the numbers they hoped for, In viewers and also cash.
hungryghost01 8 de mar às 6:31
pay for a print magazine? i have google
==DH== coolnerd9 27 de out às 12:44
I did it for the hat mostly :P But once I used it I loved it, and it's a shame they stopped it :(
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Get Discounted Star Trek Online Packs during Steam's 2014 Holiday Sale!
Happy Holidays Captains!
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• Procesor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1,8 GHz nebo AMD Athlon X2 +3800
• Paměť: 1 GB RAM
• Grafická karta: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon X1800 / Intel HD Graphics
• DirectX®: 9.0c nebo vyšší
• Pevný disk: 10 GB volného místa
• Síť: je vyžadováno širokopásmové připojení k internetu
• OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later
• Memory: 4GB+
• Hard Drive: 10GB Free Disk Space
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Doporučuji všem. Jste fanoušek Star Treku nebo máte rádi MMO? Je tato hra pro vás. Jste Čech nebo Slovák? Nevadí. Přidejte se k officiální čekoslovenské flotile. Czechoslovak Fleet 1st Division. Jejich stránky jsou
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Fakt dobrá hra ale škoda že jsem kvůli dlouho nehraní stratil svoje 50 postavy :)
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I extremely enjoy playing this game and seem to not be able to stop playing it ever since I got it. I probably like it more than the average gamer because I am a Star Trek fan. I wouldn't recommend this game if you haven't watched Star Trek, it is highly based off of the series and movies. Although I do believe it is possible to get a good experience out of this game whether or not you're a Star Trek fan. This game really makes you feel a part of Star Trek and fits in with the films so well.
The story is really nice and the content seems endless. You can play as a member of Starfleet, the Klingon Defense Force, or the Romulan Republic, and they all have seperate storylines. In Starfleet, you can come from a fresh Cadet from Starfleet Academy to a full fledged Fleet Admiral. In the Romulan Storyline you can start out as a simple farmer on a Romulan colony, to a Fleet Admiral of the Romulan Republic. In the Klingon Storymode you can be a honorable warrior as a member of the mighty Klingon Empire, to becoming a Dahar Master and have all the honor you can have.
Of course the storylines end at some point, but you can join fleets where you can work on getting amazing weapons and technologies. You can work your way up the Tiers of Reputation Systems, where you may get different kinds of overpowered stuff. The list goes on and on! This Free To Play MMO RPG game is a great experience for literally all ages! There is a small grinding mechanic in this game so if you do not like to grind for rare/good items then I wouldn't recommend this game.
There's a Zen Store, where you can buy all kinds of stuff, to old 22nd Century Enterprise Uniforms, to brand new ships with special abilities. I have heard of people complaining that this is a Pay to Win game and it's a money drain and all that. But it has been proven that free ships can compete, also you can get zen without spending any money, it just takes a little longer. Infact you can get everything in the game without paying a cent if you want. Except for the Subscriptions. Plus this IS a free game. You can't exactly blame the devs for asking for money.
This game has a lot of bugs so I wouldn't recommend this game if you hate buggy games. But if you can look past the bugs this game is wonderful. You can customize your character and make him or her look completely original, and you can also customize your ships with paints and hull textures!
This game has so much content you could have 1,000+ hours on record and still not have seen everything. The developers constantly update the game and fix bugs. You can't give the game justice in one single review. I extremely hope this review was helpful for you and if not that's alright as well. If you get this game I hope you'll like it as much as I do.
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A comparison:
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You will grind for:
- Shield.
- Engine.
- Deflector.
- Consolesx6-8.
- Space crew skills.
Personal: (You + crew.)
- Weaponx6.
- Shieldx5.
- Armourx5.
- Skill Kit.
- Land crew skills.
- Passive skills.
- Sub missions. (Duty missions.)
- Reputationx6-7.
- Crafting XP.
Fleet: (Community effort.)
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If you are a Star Trek fan and/or enjoy MMORPGs, you will really enjoy this game and may end up spending a lot of time here.
The character customization is fantastic, I can lose myself trying to detail each member of my crew. The aesthetics are very good, although there may be some lag if you enter a high player-vs.-environment area.
The lore is very good, and you can teleport down to countless planets and walk around, doing missions on the ground. There are vehicles too and the combat is pretty standard for an MMORPG. The grinding and item drops are reasonable, and you can grind HARD to get a good ship, but that will take A LOT of time.
The coolest feature is when you deploy your squad into an enemy ship, however, I really wished it could be like Pirates of the Caribbean (the XBOX original, buggy gem) where you could take it over and use for your own, but you cannot (would take away from the grinding aspect of the game).
There is a massive variety of missions, both in space and on the ground.
The space battles can be very, very fun when you go into an area with a lot of activity. Watching an armada of ships trying to destroy a Borg cube can be intense and rewarding.
Would definitely recommend giving it a chance if you were interested.
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First things first, don't let my play time fool you. I've been a player of Star Trek Online for over 2 years now and I gotta say; it's not getting any better. That said, let's start out with the good...
You can't talk about a Star Trek game without talking about emersion. This game does draw you in and make you feel like you're a part of the 24th century universe that began with Christopher Pike and continued for decades after. You feel like you’re a part of the galaxy, doing missions to better the life of those around you. That said, it’s only good emersion for one pass through. Starting a second character you’re instantly bored and upset with having to perform the same exact story over again. Thankfully there is more than one race, which means more than one story. If you want to stay the same race though, just take a different route (Assault/Science/Engineering) you’ll find yourself performing the same story over and over again. Anyway, back to the good stuff…
Sound and graphics are well done in this game. Arguably the best Star Trek experience yet because of that. Game play adds to that experience as well. Large ships, while having more firepower and armor, actually feel bulky and slow while smaller ships are much faster and more maneuverable. You have to customize your equipment/ship to the style you play or you’ll quickly find yourself in a lot of trouble when an enemy race locks its weapons on you. There are also a HUGE array of ships you can use, of all classes and sizes, bringing a high level of variety, sort of...
Now let’s get to the bad. While this game is free, it would be much better if it had a monthly fee. The game has been slowly converted from a very balanced system to that of a “pay to win” system. The best ships can only be found on the marketplace and only those willing to fork out some cash (which is the same price as approximately 2 months on most pay-to-play games) will have access to those ships. Now, I’m not going to say I haven’t purchased my share of ships, because I have. But it gets extremely frustrating when a ship you paid good money for is suddenly made inferior by the next ship released. That ship then being made inferior by the next, and so on, and so on, and so on… Not to mention the fact that these “pay-to-win” ships draw players in, much like end-game equipment in WoW, so that any new content added to the end-game will be tackled by everyone flying the same ships. That’s the way it was when I got my Galaxy Dreadnaught. Suddenly everyone had one. Then the next ship launched and everyone had it, me included. The Prometheus class? I don’t think a single person in-game doesn’t have that one.
The pay-to-win scheme has literally destroyed this game. You start to hate looting ships/people because all you get now are drop boxes, which require you to purchase keys to open. I remember, at one time, having my inventory filled with nothing but drop boxes. I finally dumped them, as selling them on the market is totally useless (since it’s saturated).
Some players might argue that you can trade in-game dilithium for store currency, and it’s true. That said, in order to make even slight profit from trades you basically have to turn the game into a job and do nothing but dilithium gathering. It’s worse than gold farming in WoW or Guild Wars 2. Honestly, not worth the time or effort you put into it.
So, do I recommend this game? Well, I’m going to say no due to the VERY heavy “Pay-to-win” scheme they’ve adopted. That said, if you’re a fan of Star Trek you simply can’t avoid owning this title.
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Star Trek
No Reward for Content, very limited Items, and rewards,
pay to win
yes you can get everything in game
so you will want to spend more
which shouldn't be
but doesn't work out that way
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I usually didnt care for those Steam reviews that were only a few sentences long with no details, but now I am adding my own. Why? I feel it incumbent upon me to warn other players of the awful state of this game since the laughable Delta Rising expansion. WIth MMOs, time changes things, reviews can get better, but in this case that VERY POSITIVE listed above should read VERY NEGATIVE.
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I'm thinking about changing my plain-old xp theme (classic) into something new, but still minimalistic.
Which ones do you recommend?
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Lite Step themes offer a lot of customization. You could probably find a lot of minimalists themes at customize.org.
YBoris Minimal Litestep
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Royale Noir
A great dark theme, very similar to the default classic theme.
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Watercolor Lite
b0se's Opus Luna (and some of his other themes)
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My vote goes to black styles.
Easy on the eyes.
• Royale Noir
• Graphite
• Razor black (Vista like)
• Zune (the multi color mods, i don't like an orange start button ;)
All available on deviantArt i believe.
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I have a non-root account on a shared server, on which the system administrators do not support printing because of past experience with stalled and runaway jobs. For the same reason, they do not allow installation of a user-land spooler. How can I set up printing without a local queue?
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It may be easier (and more polite) to ask the system administrator nicely if they could set printing up for you. If you have a good reason for it, they should be quite happy to do it, and there's less risk of them breaking it (intentionally or otherwise) later on. – Scott Jan 10 '11 at 15:40
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Ask your system administrators to install the client parts of CUPS. (You didn't say which Linux you use, so I can't tell you which package names that would be...)
This will allow you printing without local spooling, provided that a remote CUPS print server allows you access:
lpstat -h remote.cups.host -p
will then return you the names of available printers on remote.cups.host.
lpoptions -h remote.cups.host -l -p printer33
will show you which printjob options printer33 on that host has on offer.
lp -h remote.cups.host -d printer33 -o [your options go here] filename
will print filename.
You can also create a file ~/.cups/client.conf with this content:
ServerName remote.cups.host
This way all the GUI print dialogs would know where to look for printers and printoptions, and where to spool their jobs to.
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A solution that worked for both me and system administrators was remote printing through ssh:
cat localFile.ps |ssh remoteHost "lpr -PfooPrinter"
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I'm not completely sure what your set up is. You shouldn't need a spooler (or print server e.g. CUPS) on a machine that doesn't have a printer attached (you would simply submit jobs to the actual print server via something like the Internet Printing Protocol), and a machine with a printer attached would be useless without a spooler. Does the server have a printer attached or is it elsewhere on the network?
That said, if your sysadmin has explicitly said not to do something, don't go trying to do things behind their back - that's a great way to get BOFH mode on. You must talk them round. Explain to them why you need to be able to print on that server (I don't mean "to do my job" - something more specific like "I can only get output from program X by printing"). At the moment you're requesting a particular solution (i.e. enable printing). Try to get right down to the root of your problem - what is it that not being able to print is preventing you doing, and why is that bad? If you present this problem to your system administrator, they may be able to suggest a different solution that solves your problem without causing them extra headaches like printing did. Alternatively, it may help them see that printing is indeed the only solution, and cause them to seek out fixes to the problems they had previously.
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I would suggest you start by asking your system administrator (or a more experienced user of the system in question) how to print. If it turns out that printing really isn't set up yet, ask them very nicely if they could please look into it.
(I'm assuming, of course, that your question means "Is there a way for a user without root access to set up printing?")
If printing isn't set up and your sysadmin can't find the time to set it up, then presumably the printer you want to print to is on the network -- it would be pointless to connect a printer directly to a server and then not configure the server to print to it -- and so you could presumably install everything necessary to print to it under your home directory, but it would probably be quite a lot of work to build it all, and it would probably be a bit fragile. (Hence, it should be your last resort.)
A better plan might be to set up a VM in which to discover precisely what must be done to make your printer work from a system running the distro and version that the server is running, and ask your administrator if they could please just do those few things?
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Mount VMware images (.vmwarevm) in Snow Leopard with MacFuse
Is it possible to mount the vmware fusion disk image of a Windows 7 x64 VM in a the host Mac OS X?
If so, is it possible to mount this disk while the VM is running?
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Duplicate of superuser.com/questions/34244/… – Chealion Nov 17 '09 at 18:03
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VMware Fusion comes with an app to do this; it's named VMDKMounter, and is located in /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/. Nathan L is correct that it requires the installation of MacFUSE (which should have automatically been installed when you installed VMware Fusion).
To use it, you should be able to right-click your virtual machine file, choose "Open With", and see VMDKMounter as an option. If you don't, you can navigate a Finder window to /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ and then drag your virtual machine file onto VMDKMounter. (There are also rumors that just running VMDKMounter once will then populate the "Open With" submenu so that it appears there in the future.)
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Yes you can mount the Windows 7 Vm in vmware Fusion on Osx - this is what desktop virtualization was designed for.
NO you can't "mount it" or start it while it's already running.
You could "suspend" the machine then copy the VM fils to the host Mac ( from wherever it is located) then start it again. - this would start running the machine at the exact point you suspended the VM
What is it you are trying to accomplish?
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suspending it is not enough, you have to shut it down. – Loïc Wolff Nov 17 '09 at 17:28
You'll need to install MacFUSE, which is included on the disk. Once you do that, you should be able to mount the disk, but only when VMware is not running.
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As far as I know, VMWare doesn't provide any tools for mounting disk images on MacOS. There is a tool that does this for Windows and for Linux. Even under the latter two, you can't mount the disk image while its instance is running, or even if it's suspended. The instance has to have been shut down first.
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Republicans today are playing the part of the cities of Castile, whose delegates to the Cortes (the Spanish parliament) opposed raising taxes to service King Philip II’s long-term bonds.
Confluence of Interests
Finally, in September 1575, Philip took a circuitous route to outmaneuver the Cortes. He suspended payments not on the long-term debt, but on the short-term debt, which was owed primarily to Genoese bankers. The people cheered. Resentment against bankers ran as high then as now -- perhaps higher, because the bankers were foreigners. The upshot, however, was default and a full-blown credit crisis.
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The cities wanted to stop Philip’s spending. They knew that bonds not explicitly backed by dedicated taxes would be very tough to sell, that a default would make it even harder for Philip to borrow without their help, and that his lack of direct taxing authority would force his hand in a standoff. But after the payments stopped on the short-term debt, things careened in an unexpected direction, much as they did after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. failed in September 2008. Many bankers who had lent to the king were, themselves, leveraged. The payment halt froze the funds deposited by local merchants to the bankers.
At that time of costly communications, periodic commercial fairs were essential events for the economic activity throughout Europe. Credit was rolled over from fair to fair by bankers, and lending agreements were renegotiated. With the Spanish commercial credit market frozen, the fairs couldn’t be held. Indeed, the main fair that was held twice a year at Medina del Campo was canceled. In short, the default caused a banking collapse, which led to a severe recession.
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After two years, in November 1577, the cities caved, agreeing to a very large tax increase. The king resumed debt payments to the bankers. As the king explained in the settlement agreement, called Medio General, the bankers were joined in their demands “by the petition of the delegates of the cities with particular urgency about the same business.” In other words, the cities were begging the king to restore the business of trade. The fairs at Medina del Campo resumed late in the next year, but they had lost their preeminence forever.
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User avatar #54 - Grom (06/28/2013) [-]
I loved The Last Airbender, can't even watch Korra
User avatar #93 to #54 - stocxt (06/29/2013) [-]
It's certainly inferior, IMO
User avatar #128 to #93 - Grom (07/03/2013) [-]
i mean they hinted at a fourth book, but then they come out with a whole new series that can't even compare
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#1xUnR3aLSkiiLZzPosted 10/9/2011 3:07:41 PM
I am getting the hang of this game and keep going, but my drake sword isn't cutting it any more, its too weak, and upgrading it is really expensive plus it doesn't get much stronger. i am aiming to be a sorcerer and would like to know a good weapon to get and eventually upgrade to magic and maybe enchant. Also, where do I get the enchanted or magic ember or whatever is needed to make a magic weapon?
#2xUnR3aLSkiiLZz(Topic Creator)Posted 10/9/2011 3:09:20 PM
#3PulcineAuraPosted 10/9/2011 3:09:55 PM
I'd also like to know please.
RPG Enneagram - Type 2
#4Tyrannius88Posted 10/9/2011 3:12:54 PM
Several weapons scale to an A with magic. An Enchanted Great Scythe, enchanted club and great club, enchanted murakumo, and a few others. If you don't want to worry about blacksmithing, the sword you get for cutting Seath's rear tail has a scaling of A as well.
#5xUnR3aLSkiiLZz(Topic Creator)Posted 10/9/2011 3:15:30 PM
Thanks, where can i get some of them?
#6xUnR3aLSkiiLZz(Topic Creator)Posted 10/9/2011 3:19:10 PM
#7TheBatesPosted 10/9/2011 3:20:57 PM
Doe anyone know what "normal" weapons, such as the Longsword and the Estoc, have as their grade for scaling with magic if you upgrade them?
#8Tyrannius88Posted 10/9/2011 3:25:17 PM
For the weapons I mentioned,
Great scythe is in the catacombs,
the large club come from infested barbarians in Blighttown,
the regular club comes from the undead merchant in undead burg
murakumo comes from Giant Skeleton Swordsmen, or Shiva if you kill him.
Note: most of these have high strength requirements.
as for longsword and estoc,
Estoc has a B in magic
Longsword has an A (I didn't list all A's earlier).
Solaire's sword when made enchanted also has an A
#9TheBatesPosted 10/9/2011 3:35:59 PM
Hmmm...I've been upgrading the Estoc. Perhaps I should have upgraded the Longsword instead.Thanks for the detailed reply.
#10btngu82Posted 10/10/2011 7:01:37 AM
so youve got the drake sword thnx to some youtube video or whatever to help you out, now your next problem rises that it loses effectiveness and u jump straight to the help of others.
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Super Mario Bros 2 is hard AF, just as I remember it.
#1NewportBox100sPosted 8/7/2014 5:31:40 PM
Dat Club Nintendo free game.
My gawd this game makes me rage. Had it as a young child, and it did the same back then. #90sBaby
#2random_man9119Posted 8/7/2014 5:35:43 PM
Wait, is it 2: USA or 2: Lost Levels? Haven't actually checked the Club Nintendo rewards...
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#3neogeoftwPosted 8/7/2014 5:37:13 PM
Got it too on club Nintendo. Its the only Mario game I've never beat....
#4The Top CrusaderPosted 8/7/2014 6:25:46 PM
For whatever reason I never owned SMB2 as a kid, just 1 and 3. I could play those backwards and forwards, but I'd borrow 2 occasionally and always struggled past the first couple worlds. I did manage to beat it but had a harder time with it than the others of the day. The last couple levels are brutal!
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#5AstralFrostPosted 8/7/2014 6:26:38 PM
I never found it that hard, why are you calling me out?
Man at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Iwata committed sudoku on himself
#6NewportBox100s(Topic Creator)Posted 8/7/2014 8:26:50 PM
Game is very Japanese and difficult.
#7DrRMPosted 8/7/2014 9:49:41 PM
it is great :3 loved getting to D-4 I think it was the last level :S
cant remember xD
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#8Ritster21Posted 8/7/2014 10:00:38 PM
I don't know why people find this game hard.
I beat it long ago when I was 9 years old when Super Mario Bros. Deluxe came out for the Gameboy Color.
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#9IokuaPosted 8/7/2014 10:26:27 PM
If I could finish it at five then it wasn't hard.
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#10NewportBox100s(Topic Creator)Posted 8/7/2014 10:37:36 PM
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The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
Vital sparks in art and science
The phrase "Romantic Chemistry" did not always mean the sexual spark between two people. At the birth of English Romanticism, chemistry and other sciences, notably astronomy and the physics of electricity, were exciting components of the new mood. For so long assumed to be polar opposites, Romanticism and Science are justly reunited in Richard Holmes's new book.
The defining trait of Romanticism for Holmes is expansiveness. Joseph Banks and Mungo Park explore Africa and Polynesia, losing their Eurocentric blinkers, and in Park's case his life; William Herschel sees the universe as an evolving structure; Humphry Davy sees chemistry and electricity as vital forces, as opposed to the predictable billiard-ball mathematics of Newtonian atomism. Literary figures such as Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey were at first thrilled by these revelations of natural forces and felt that they harmonised with their own yearnings for a poetry of power beyond the polite civilities of Alexander Pope.
Holmes's account of Herschel is a revelation. He emerges as the Darwin of cosmology, being the first to suggest that the stars and galaxies had a lifespan like organic creatures. The modern version of the universe begins with Herschel. And the story of how this self-taught German astronomer and his sister became great figures in Regency England is affecting.
If there is Romantic Chemistry, there must be a Romantic Chemist. That person was Sir Humphry Davy, one of the stars of the book, along with Herschel and the impresario of it all: the explorer, botanist, and all-round panjandrum of science, Sir Joseph Banks. The famous epigraph to the third edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1802) – "If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood" – reflected Davy's influence on the two poets. Coleridge was closest to Davy and was thrilled by his discovery of "the identity of electricity and chemical attraction". Coleridge sought the Grand Unified Theory of the poetic imagination "as a single unifying force within all creative acts".
In their early days, Coleridge and Davy were yin and yang: Davy the great scientist and amateur poet, Coleridge the poet who, under Davy's influence, wished to "attack chemistry, like a shark". It is hard to credit now, but thanks to Davy's charismatic lectures at the Royal Institution and his discovery of the power of electricity to liberate new chemical elements, chemistry was briefly fashionable in the early 19th century.
Did the fault line between science and romanticism run through the Davy/Coleridge friendship or was it more personal? Davy went from success to success and became a social lion; in contrast, Coleridge's life was fraught in the extreme. Davy invited him to lecture on poetry at the Royal Institution in 1808, but Coleridge could hardly perform through opium addiction and other ailments. Davy then said: "He has suffered greatly from excessive sensibility, the disease of genius. His mind is a wilderness, in which the cedar and the oak, which might aspire to the skies, are stunted in their growth by underwood, thorns, briars, and parasitical plants". The last letter we have from Coleridge to Davy (in 1809) finds him reaffirming, rather desperately, his love for the man, but tetchily dismissing the idea that great scientists are the equal of great artists.
Holmes sheds new light on one episode in the science/art wars: the picture frames. Davy was a great traveller in Europe. But a visit to Paris in 1813 led to him being mocked as a philistine for being able to see no more than "the splendid picture frames" in the presence of so many masterpieces. But Holmes points out that Britain and Napoleonic France were then at war; Davy was fiercely criticised at home for going and his attitude at the Louvre was one of: "don't give the French any encouragement".
Davy was a cultured man, one of the few whose company the older Byron could bear. Yet in Don Juan he did ironise Davy's great practical discovery, the miner safety lamp: "Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals/ Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions,/ Timbuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles,/ Are ways to benefit men as true,/ Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo". But then Don Juan treats everything in this manner.
The parting-of-the-ways between science and poetry Holmes charts to a single evening: a drunken dinner party in December 1817 held by the painter Benjamin Haydon with Wordsworth, Keats and Charles Lamb. In their cups, the poets and artists began to abuse science, Keats declaring that Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to a prism". From this point, the elect souls of art were at one with the universe while the scientists "murder to dissect". The consequence of this failure of the imagination have been disastrous for our culture. I suspect the falling out was not bound to happen: there were some unfortunate contingencies.
Electricity, discovered in its storable, useable form by Galvani in twitching frogs' legs in 1799, was the wonder of the age, and in Davy's hands led to the discovery of new elements. But those frogs' legs also led to experiments with dead bodies and the morbid suggestion that galvanism could bring them back to life. Even Davy flirted with the idea that electricity itself was the pulse of life, but this was not science but fantasy. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein spawned a fictional Gothic cul-de-sac in which ever since science has tortured nature for base ends.
Romanticism is a subjectivism, so there can be nothing definitive about Holmes's choices of the key figures in Romantic Science. Early in the book, he strays into implying that sensation and celebrity and are in themselves Romantic. So we have Branson-esque ballooning stunts, a celebrity cult, and a note of prurience that seams through the book. But its heart – the linked stories of Banks, Herschel and Davy – is thrilling: a portrait of bold adventure among the stars, across the oceans, deep into matter, poetry and the human psyche. That call to arms in the epigraph to the Lyrical Ballads has still to be answered, but Holmes's book will do valuable service in the cause. And it admits Sir Humphry Davy to the Romantic pantheon alongside Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge: not just a Romantic chemist but a great Romantic tout court.
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What is romanticism?
Born of a revolt against the cold reason of the Enlightenment and polite conventions of neo-Classical art, Romanticism swept through late 18th-century Europe as a cult of strong feeling, rule-breaking creativity, extreme states of mind, and sublime sensation in nature and culture. Britain bred archetypal Romantics such as Blake, Turner and Coleridge. The movement both admired and feared science, as a heroic voyage into the mysteries of nature and a soulless quest to analyse and control.
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