text:
Nov. 1
"Saving Santa" (animated family film, Anchor Bay)
Nov. 5
"Girl Most Likely" (PG-13, 103 minutes, Lionsgate): Kristen Wiig delivers another spaced-out star turn in "Girl Most Likely," a picaresque romance of self-discovery that delivers a near-constant flow of small delights until veering too far into screwball preposterousness. Wiig plays Imogene, who's introduced in a prologue as a precocious young actress who, when she's uttering the line "There's no place like home" in "The Wizard of Oz," turns to the director to say, "This just isn't working for me." Flash forward 20 years and the grown-up Imogene is an aspiring playwright whose early ambition has been thwarted by the comfort and distraction offered by her wealthy boyfriend. In its bravura opening sequence — filmed entirely from Imogene's point of view — we hear only Wiig's voice as her character leaves a series of voicemails for her errant beau as she makes her way into a snooty Manhattan fundraiser. By the time the camera finally reveals Wiig's face in a powder room mirror, her carefully made-up expression of self-deception and defeat speaks volumes. Eventually, events transpire to send Imogene back home to Ocean City, N.J., a place she has been running from all her adult life and where she's now forced to live with her mother, Zelda (Annette Bening), a compulsive gambler; her troubled but sweet brother, Ralph (Christopher Fitzgerald); and her mom's boyfriend, George (Matt Dillon), who insists he's in the CIA and has a coffee mug to prove it. Contains sexual content and profanity. Extras: making-of featurette, deleted scenes, gag reel and "Life in the Human Shell" featurette.
"The Greatest Ears in Town The Arif Mardin Story" (unrated, 103 minutes, Shelter Island): This tribute to producer-arranger-composer Arif Mardin continues a 2013 trend of great behind-the-music-scene documentaries ("Twenty Feet From Stardom," "Muscle Shoals"). Mardin, raised in Istanbul, was a fan of both Duke Ellington and Stravinsky and came to the United States to study at Berklee College of Music, aspiring to be a big band leader. But his greatest success came at Atlantic Records, where he guided rock and pop stars from the Little Rascals, to Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, the Bee Gees, Carly Simon and Chaka Khan, and many more. Later, at EMI, he produced Norah Jones' breakout album. The film includes the usual tributes from those appreciative stars, but there's a twist: in the twilight of his life, Mardin, assisted by his son Joe, decided to produce a record of his own widely ranging compositions, enlisting old friends (Dr. John, Willie Nelson) as well as new ones (Nicki Parrott, Raul Midon) to sing them. Despite failing health, Mardin's genius shines through each intricate tune, and the scenes of artists working with the Mardins to craft the songs give the film a contemporary feel not often seen in such a biographical documentary. And if the music doesn't move you, the interwoven story of Mardin's 50-plus-year romance with his wife, playwright Latife Mardin, surely will. Extras include 24 minutes of deleted scenes, additional studio footage and music video of "All My Friends Are Here," title song from that final recording.
"White House Down" (PG-13, 129 minutes, Sony): A riotous display of serial explosions, helicopter crashes, car smash-ups, sniper attacks and at least one slap on the face of a winsome little girl, "White House Down" is the kind of celebration of rampant mayhem in which everyone seems to have a rocket launcher at the ready, just in case they need to dispatch a scrum of vile and cruel villains. But "White House Down" also clearly wants to be a lighthearted comedy. At least that seems to be the aim in a film that, in the midst of sadistic violence, throws in jokes and bits of buddy humor as blithely as its protagonists toss those grenades. If cognitive dissonance ensues for an audience unsure whether to laugh or wince, that's nothing compared to the level of sheer volume — and preposterousness — the film inevitably reaches for with its we-can-top-that finale. Contains prolonged sequences of action and violence including intense gunfire and explosions, some profanity and a brief sexual image. Extras include "A Dynamic Duo," a look at the chemistry between co-stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx and their dynamic on-screen presence; featurette on Tatum's stunt work; a look a director Roland Emmerich vision for the film; and "Meet the Insiders" supporting cast featurette. Also, on Blu-ray: gag reel and nine more featurettes, including "Recreating the White House" about the detail that went into replicating, and wrecking, the presidential home.
"Grown Ups 2"³ (PG-13, 101 minutes, Sony): Adam Sandler is capable of portraying nuanced characters, as he did in "Funny People" and "Punch-Drunk Love," but he's clearly happy to settle for his go-to routine of acting like a child and spewing lazy jokes that include his comic holy trinity: bodily fluids, flatulence and ogling scantily-clad women. "Grown Ups 2"³ revisits the group of longtime friends that made "Grown Ups" a hit in 2010. But the sequel isn't merely mindless; it wastes a talented cast of "Saturday Night Live" alums who are capable of being much smarter and so much funnier. The film follows four men (Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade) over a single day as the quartet plans a 1980s-themed summer kickoff party. But every man also gets his own story line, each of which seems plucked from a bad sitcom. Sandler's Lenny is dealing with the fact that Roxanne (Salma Hayek) wants another baby; Kurt (Rock) needles Deanne (Maya Rudolph) that he remembered their anniversary and she didn't; Eric (James) hides frequent trips to his mom's house from Sally (Maria Bello); and Spade's Marcus finds out he fathered a son, who's a tattooed teenage thug. All these threads, plus many more involving the younger generation's love lives, math deficiencies, sports aspirations, broken bones, dirty diapers and bullying, vie for attention over the course of the relatively short run time. Contains crude material, language and bare backsides.
Also: "Parkland," "Lovelace," "Passion," "Oil City Confidential" (2009), "Out in the Dark" ( Israel-U.S.-Palestine), "Clear History" (HBO), "Syrup," "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas," "East End Babylon: The Story of the Cockney Rejects," "Journey to the Christmas Star" ( Norway), "Bonnie & Clyde: The Real Story" (compilation of two History Channel specials), "House of Eliott Complete Collection" (nine-disc set, BBC drama series, Acorn Media) and "Bonnie & Clyde: Justified" (A&E miniseries).
Television Series: "Mad Men: Season 6," "Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete Series" (71-disc set with new extras material), "Dexter: Final Season," "Dexter: The Complete Series Collection" (2006-13, 33-disc DVD or 25-disc Blu-ray), "Law & Order: The 13th Year," "Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga," "Boy Meets World: The Complete Collection" (1993-2000, 22-disc set), "The Hive" (Disney), "Duck Dynasty: I'm Dreaming of a Redneck Christmas," "Ice Road Truckers: Season 7," "Naked City: The Complete Series" (1958-63, Emmy Award-winning police drama, 29-disc set), "Farscape: Complete Series" (1999-2003, 27-disc DVD or 20-disc Blu-ray) , "Magic City: Second Season," "Robotech: The Complete Set," "Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely All of It" (10-disc set, BBC), "Saved By the Bell: The Complete Collection," "Dora the Explorer: Dora's Ice Skating Spectacular!" and "Ben 10 Omniverse: Aliens at War" (Cartoon Network).
Washington Post staff writer Kay Coyte contributed to this report.


text:
Chiefs defensive lineman Tyson Jackson hasn't shown much in four-plus NFL seasons. On Sunday, he showed plenty.
Lost in a 28-2 pasting of the Jaguars by the Chiefs was a pantsing of Jackson.
It happened when Jaguars center Brad Meester was trying to block Jackson. Meester slid down Jackson's body — and got a hand on Jackson's pants. And pulled.
Down came the back side of Jackson's pants, and the thing Randy Moss once pretended to do to the fans at Lambeau Field was actually done to the dozens of folks who were watching the Kansas City-Jacksonville game.
And that was pretty much the only highlight of the game.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/analytics.php"; ?>include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/people-header.php"; ?>
Nathaniel Hawthorne (4 July 1804 – 19 May 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist and short story writer, best-known today for his many short stories and his romance novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun.
Born: July 4th, 1804
Died: May 19th, 1864
Categories: American novelists, American short story writers, 1860s deaths
Quotes: 82 sourced quotes total (includes 4 misattributed, 1 disputed, 8 about)
|Meta data
|Words (count)
|6 - 371
|Search Results
|10 - 300
Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Let the black flower blossom as it may!
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
God will give him blood to drink!
Life is made up of marble and mud.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers — stern and wild ones, — and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.
I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.
In view of my previous weariness of office, and vague thoughts of resignation, my fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
I am always so dazzled and bewildered with the richness, the depth, the … jewels of beauty in his productions that I am always looking forward to a second reading where I can ponder and muse and fully take in the miraculous wealth of thoughts.
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry.
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
I found that but to glean after this man, is better than to be in at the harvest of others.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite. By some people, this entire scrawl of mine may be esteemed altogether unnecessary, inasmuch, "as years ago" (they may say) "we found out the rich and rare stuff in this Hawthorne, whom you now parade forth, as if only yourself were the discoverer of this Portuguese diamond in our Literature." — But even granting all this; and adding to it, the assumption that the books of Hawthorne have sold by the five-thousand, — what does that signify? — They should be sold by the hundred-thousand, and read by the million; and admired by every one who is capable of Admiration.
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
It is curious, how a man may travel along a country road, and yet miss the grandest, or sweetest of prospects, by reason of an intervening hedge, so like all other hedges, as in no way to hint of the wide landscape beyond. So has it been with me concerning the enchanting landscape in the soul of this Hawthorne, this most excellent Man of Mosses.
"What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered. "It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand, standing erect with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp. "A sin that grew nowhere else! The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!
It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told.
If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.
I do detest all offices — all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.
Let us forget the other names of American statesmen, that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loftiest — WASHINGTON. Mountains are Earth's undecaying monuments. They must stand while she endures, and never should be consecrated to the mere great men of their own age and country, but to the mighty ones alone, whose glory is universal, and whom all time will render illustrious.
It is a good lesson — though it may often be a hard one — for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.
America is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? — worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
How slowly I have made my way in life! How much is still to be done! How little worth — outwardly speaking — is all that I have achieved! The bubble reputation is as much a bubble in literature as in war, and I should not be one whit the happier if mine were world-wide and time-long than I was when nobody but yourself had faith in me. The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and, lastly, the solid cash.
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in? It had satisfied me well enough. My pleasant bachelor-parlor, sunny and shadowy, curtained and carpeted, with the bedchamber adjoining... my evening at the billiard club, the concert, the theatre, or at somebody's party, if I pleased - what could be better than all this? Was it better to hoe, to mow, to toil and moil amidst the accumulations of a barnyard; to be the chambermaid of two yoke of oxen and a dozen cows; to eat salt beef, and earn it with the sweat of my brow, and thereby take the tough morsel out of some wretch's mouth, into whose vocation I had thrust myself?
The truth seems to be, that like many other geniuses, this Man of Mosses takes great delight in hoodwinking the world, — at least, with respect to himself. Personally, I doubt not, that he rather prefers to be generally esteemed but a so-so sort of author; being willing to reserve the thorough and acute appreciation of what he is, to that party most qualified to judge — that is, to himself. Besides, at the bottom of their natures, men like Hawthorne, in many things, deem the plaudits of the public such strong presumptive evidence of mediocrity in the object of them, that it would in some degree render them doubtful of their own powers, did they hear much and vociferous braying concerning them in the public.
Where Hawthorne is known, he seems to be deemed a pleasant writer, with a pleasant style, — a sequestered, harmless man, from whom any deep and weighty thing would hardly be anticipated: — a man who means no meanings. But there is no man, in whom humor and love, like mountain peaks, soar to such a rapt height, as to receive the irradiations of the upper skies; — there is no man in whom humor and love are developed in that high form called genius; no such man can exist without also possessing, as the indispensable complement of these, a great, deep intellect, which drops down into the universe like a plummet. Or, love and humor are only the eyes, through which such an intellect views this world. The great beauty in such a mind is but the product of its strength.
Hawthorne's career was probably as tranquil and uneventful a one as ever fell to the lot of a man of letters; it was almost strikingly deficient in incident, in what may be called the dramatic quality. Few men of equal genius and of equal eminence can have led on the whole a simpler life... He produced, in quantity, but little. His works consist of four novels and the fragment of another, five volumes of short tales, a collection of sketches, and a couple of story-books for children. And yet some account of the man and the writer is well worth giving. Whatever may have been Hawthorne's private lot, he has the importance of being the most beautiful and most eminent representative of a literature. The importance of the literature may be questioned, but at any rate, in the field of letters, Hawthorne is the most valuable example of the American genius.
In old times, the settlers used to be astounded by the inroads of the northern Indians, coming down upon them from this mountain rampart, through some defile known only to themselves. It is indeed a wondrous path. A demon, it might be fancied, or one of the Titans, was travelling up the valley, elbowing the heights carelessly aside as he passed, till at length a great mountain took its stand directly across his intended road. He tarries not for such an obstacle, but rending it asunder, a thousand feet from peak to base, discloses its treasures of hidden minerals, its sunless waters, all the secrets of the mountain's inmost heart, with a mighty fracture of rugged precipices on each side. This is the Notch of the White Hills. Shame on me, that I have attempted to describe it by so mean an image — feeling, as I do, that it is one of those symbolic scenes, which lead the mind to the sentiment, though not to the conception, of Omnipotence.
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral, — the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief; and he would feel it a singular gratification if this romance might effectually convince mankind — or, indeed, any one man — of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them, until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms. In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind. When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtile process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod, — or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly, — thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude. A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.
Hollingworth's more than brotherly attendance gave me inexpressible comfort. Most men - and certainly I could not always claim to be one of the exceptions - have a natural indifference, if not an absolute hostile feeling, towards those whose disease, or weakness, or calamity of any kind causes to falter or faint among the rude jostle of our existence. The education of Christianity, it is true, the sympathy of a like experience and the example of women, may soften and, possibly, subvert this ugly characteristic of our sex; but it is originally there, and has likewise its analogy in the practice of our brute brethren, who hunt the sick and disabled member of the herd from among them, as an enemy. It is for this reason that the stricken deer goes apart, and the sick lion grimly withdraws into his den. Except in love, or the attachments of kindred, or other very long and habitual affection, we really have no tenderness. But there was something of the woman moulded into the great, stalwart frame of Holligsworth; nor was he ashamed of it, as men often are of what is best in them, nor seemed ever to know that there was such a soft place in his heart. I knew it well, however, at that time, although afterwards it came nigh to be forgotten. Methought there could not be two such men alive as Holligsworth. There never was any blaze of a fireside that warmed and cheered me, in the down—sinkings and shiverings of my spirit, so effectually as did the light out of those eyes, which lay so deep and dark under his shaggy brows. Happy the man that has such a friend beside him when he comes to die! ...How many men, I wonder, does one meet with in a lifetime, whom he would choose for his deathbed companions! It still impresses me as almost a matter of regret that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to it; for Holligsworth would have gone with me to the hither verge of life, and have sent his friendly and hopeful accents far over on the other side, while I should be treading the unknown path.


text:
Total: 7 results found.
By creating Dynamics Automated to support implementations and maintenance of IT systems, XPLUS set standards for innovation, reliability and quality of Microsoft Dynamics AX together with absolute predictability of projects based on it.
Read more
Our tools lack functionality of importance to you? Tell us how you'd like them to evolve and we'll do the rest!


text:
Changes to Status.
New text in Status.
Changes to Section 2.1 MathML Overview.
Modify description of namespace declarations in Section 2.2 MathML in a Document.
Modify description of entity usage in Section 2.3.1 Presentation Examples.
Correct the MathML and default rendering of quatratic formula example in Section 2.3.2 Content Examples.
Wording changes in Section 2.4.5 Attributes Shared by all MathML Elements.
Changes to Chapter 3 Presentation Markup.
Delete incorrect reference to default em units in Section 188.8.131.52.5 Spacing around an operator.
Delete references to Negative Space Characters in Section 3.2.6 Text (mtext) and Section 3.3.4 Style Change (mstyle).
Editorial changes to the wording in Section 3.2.8 String Literal (ms).
Correct description of
lspace value in
Section 3.3.6 Adjust Space Around Content
Add warning that attempts to render outside the bounding box of the MathML expression will give implemetation specific results in Section 3.3.6 Adjust Space Around Content (mpadded).
Modify text to match example and refer to over brace rather than over bar in Section 3.4.5 Overscript (mover).
Correct description of
displaystyle in
Section 3.3.2 Fractions (mfrac) (may be set on
The example in Section 3.3.9 Enclose Expression Inside Notation
omitted units in the
columnspacing and
rowspacing attributes.
Correct the example MathML in Section 3.5.1 Table or Matrix (mtable).
Correct the description of
minlabelspacing in Section 3.5.5 Alignment Markers.
Correct the description the
linebreak attribute in
Section 3.2.7 Space (mspace).
Changes to Chapter 4 Content Markup.
Add comment about use of
semantics in
Section 4.2.1 Overview of Syntax and Usage.
Modify description of the
definitionURL attribute in
Section 18.104.22.168 Explicitly defined functions and operators,
Section 4.2.2 Containers
to be consistent with the DTD with regard to the
type attribute.
Modify description of the
type attribute in
Section 4.2.1 Overview of Syntax and Usage.
Add clarifying comments on the attributes allowed on
declare and give new extended example in
Section 184.108.40.206 Declare (declare).
Editorial correction to text in Section 220.127.116.11 Union (union) and Section 22.214.171.124 Proper Subset (prsubset).
New text clarifying the use of
tendsto in
Section 22.214.171.124 Tends To (tendsto).
Clarifying the use of
definitionURL and
encoding attributes with
annotation in
Section 188.8.131.52 Annotation (annotation) and Section 188.8.131.52 Semantics (semantics).
New text highlighting the fact that
vector may be
rendered either horizontally or vertically in
Section 188.8.131.52 Vector (vector).
The descriptions of the "scientific, or e notation" (1.234e5) in
Section 220.127.116.11
type, Section 184.108.40.206 Identifier (ci) and
Appendices C and D became inconsistent in the final
draft of MathML2. The older names float and floating-point remained, and the
description of type="e-notation" in Chapter 4 (but not Appendix C)
described its use with the example 1.234 e 5
where e was used as a separator rather than the
sep element
Correct the example MathML in Section 126.96.36.199 General Attributes.
Add note to Section 126.96.36.199 Universal quantifier (forall) observing that the mathematical expressions in the examples are false.
Clarify that the order of child elements of
is not signifcant in Section 184.108.40.206 Bound variable (bvar).
Correct the example of OpenMath usage in in Section 22.214.171.124 XML-based annotation (annotation-xml).
Changes to Chapter 5 Combining Presentation and Content Markup.
Editorial corrections to text in Section 5.2 Mixed Markup.
Correct the complexity of parallel markup given in Section 5.3 Parallel Markup to O(n log n).
Modify the example rendering image to include both sides of the equivalence expression in Section 5.2.1 Reasons to Mix Markup.
Add bibiographic reference to the OpenMath Standard in Section 5.2.1 Reasons to Mix Markup.
Correct the example MathML in Section 5.4.3 Style Sheets for Extensions.
Changes to Chapter 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts.
Editorial changes to Section 6.1 Introduction.
Delete references to (deprecated) negative and other spacing characters in the table in Section 6.2.4 Non-Marking Characters.
Delete reference to possible Unicode characters for Boolean values as these were not in the final set of characters added at Unicode 3.2, Section 6.3.1 Special Constants.
Some changes in Section 6.3.4 Negated Mathematical Characters to document the current usage of combining characters which have been brought into line with the final versions of Unicode 3.2.
Changes to Section 6.2 MathML Characters, Section 6.2.1 Unicode Character Data, Section 6.2.3 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Characters., Section 6.3.2 Character Tables (ASCII format), Section 6.3.3 Tables arranged by Unicode block, Section 6.3.5 Variant Mathematical Characters, Section 6.3.6 Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and Section 6.4.4 Status of Character Encodings, to reflect Unicode 3.1 and 3.2 which were both released after the first edition of MathML 2.0.
Changes to Chapter 7 The MathML Interface.
Editorial changes to Section 7.1.2 The Top-Level math Element.
Change reference to XLink which is now a W3C Recommendation, Section 7.1.4 Mixing and Linking MathML and HTML.
New section, Section 7.1.5 MathML and Graphical Markup giving an example integrating with SVG.
Changes to Appendix A Parsing MathML.
New section, Section A.1 Use of MathML as Well-Formed XML describing use without a DTD.
The location of the MathML DTDs described in Section A.2.1 DOCTYPE Declaration for MathML and Section A.2.3 MathML as a DTD Module are now in the Math Working group area rather than distributed with this Recommendation.
New sections descriping parameterisation possibilities for the DTD: Section A.2.2.1 Namespace Prefix, Section A.2.2.2 Plane 1 Characters and Section A.2.2.3 Additional DTD Checking.
In Section A.2.4 SGML, the link to the W3C Note on SGML and XML has been corrected and changed to a bibliography reference.
The MathML DTD as shown in Section A.2.5 The MathML DTD Incorporates several corrections as listed in the MathML 2.0 Errata document.
New section, Section A.3 Using the MathML XML Schema describing the use of the W3C XML Schema for MathML.
Changes to Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar.
Many corrections, and new display format for the productions given in the grammar for Content Markup in Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar.
Changes to Appendix C Content Element Definitions.
Many corrections to the MathML Examples in cn, ci, interval, factorial, rem, root, gcd, divide, plus, equivalent, partialdiff, divergence, grad, limit, moment, selector, rationals, exponentiale, imaginaryi.
Clarify the use of
definitionURL in
in Section C.1 About Content Markup Elements.
Changes to Appendix D Document Object Model for MathML.
Corrections to the following interfaces: MathMLPresentationToken, MathMLContentToken, MathMLSpaceElement, MathMLOperatorElement, MathMLStyleElement, MathMLFencedElement, MathMLFractionElement, MathMLContentElement, MathMLIntervalElement, MathMLApplyElement.
Changes to Appendix F Operator Dictionary.
Blank lines in Section F.5 Operator dictionary entries used in the inferred mrow grouping algorithm were omitted. They have been restored based on the groupings in MathML 1.01.
Changes to Appendix I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments.
Document changes in Working Group membership in Section I.1 The Math Working Group Membership.
Changes to Appendix J Changes.
New section Section J.1 Changes between MathML 2.0 and MathML 2.0 2nd Edition describing changes in the 2nd edition.
changes to Chapter 1 Introduction
rewritten to reflect developments since publication of the MathML 1.0 Recommendation, for example XML, XSL, CSS and schemas
changes to Chapter 2 MathML Fundamentals
rewritten to reflect developments since publication of the MathML 1.0 Recommendation, for example XML, XSL, CSS and schemas
examples were rewritten to reflect good MathML 2.0 practice
descriptions of attribute values were updated to reflect MathML 2.0
changes to Chapter 3 Presentation Markup
introduced a new section on bidirectional layout of mathematics
introduced new mathematics style attributes
mathweight, and
mathcolor on token elements, and deprecated the
use of
fontstyle and
introduced new elements mglyph, menclose and mlabeledtr and updated related text accordingly
added attributes beveled, numalign and denomalign to mfrac
added a linebreaking attribute to mspace
required mtr and mtd elements to be explicit instead of allowing them to be inferred.
changes to Chapter 4 Content Markup
deprecated the use of reln and fn and changed the use of apply accordingly
introduced csymbol and added a discussion about the relation to the deprecated fn element
introduced new content elements domain, codomain, image, domainofapplication, arg, real, imaginary, lcm, floor, ceiling, equivalent, approx, divergence, grad, curl, laplacian, card, cartesianproduct, momentabout, vectorproduct, scalarproduct, outerproduct, integers, reals, rationals, naturalnumbers, complexes, primes, exponentiale, imaginaryi, notanumber, true, false, emptyset, pi, eulergamma, infinity, piecewise, piece and otherwise
corrected examples and fixed typos
expanded the attribute definitionURL to allow a URL or a URI as a value
clarified the use of presentation markup inside cn
made use of encoding attribute more uniform
changed description of the use of bvar in combination with min and max
changes to Chapter 5 Combining Presentation and Content Markup
added description of content-faithful transformation
updated examples to reflect MathML 2.0
define list of content that can appear in presentation
add attribute xref for cross-referencing purposes
added examples using XLink and namespaces
make use of encoding attribute more uniform
miscellaneous typographical corrections
changes to Chapter 6 Characters, Entities and Fonts
added a new section describing the methods of using Unicode data within MathML
added a new section describing the correspondence between
Math Alphabet characters and the
completely revised and reformatted the MathML character tables to reflect changes in Unicode since MathML 1.01
changes to Chapter 7 The MathML Interface
reworked the text in acknowledgement of the fact that the top-level and interface elements for MathML are now in practice the same
rewrote the text about linking to reflect changes in XLink since MathML 1.01
revised material about interactions with embedded renderers to reflect the current state of DOM implementation
added a definition of deprecated features in MathML 2
updated the text to reflect the use of namespaces and the introduction of XHTML. 2.0
added a new section on the appropriate use of CSS and the new mathematics style attributes in rendering environments with support CSS
changes to Chapter 8 Document Object Model for MathML
this is a completely new chapter
changes to Appendix A Parsing MathML
renamed attribute occurence to occurrence
added global attribute xref
add links to tables for each entity set
changes to Appendix B Content Markup Validation Grammar
Updated to reflect MathML 2.0.
changes to Appendix C Content Element Definitions
completely rewritten to reflect changes in MathML 2.0
changes to Appendix F Operator Dictionary
entries in operator dictionary are parametrized
operator dictionary has become a non-normative part of the specification
new entries were added to operator dictionary
changes to Appendix D Document Object Model for MathML
this is a completely new appendix, containing the IDL definitions
changes to Appendix H Glossary
added entries for XSL, XSLT and XSL FO
changes to Appendix I Working Group Membership and Acknowledgments
all members of first and second Math Working Group are listed
changes to Appendix J Changes
completely new appendix, based on the logs obtained from CVS
changes to Appendix K References
added and updated many entries
general changes
text of specification now in XML form, with HTML and XHTML rendering by means of XSLT, and PDF rendering by means of XSLT and TEX
fixed errors in spelling and notation
normative examples of formulas are images, with a LaTEX equivalent
non-normative examples of formulas are HTML constructions wherever possible
improved cross-referencing


text:
There is broad, bipartisan support for Israel in the United States. ~Greg Scoblete
No country favors taking Israel's side, including the United States [bold mine-DL], where 71 percent favor taking neither side. ~WorldPublicOpinion.org
The Gallup survey asked respondents whether their "sympathies" are more with Israelis or Palestinians. Of course a vast majority will say that their sympathies are with the Israelis. The result would necessarily be lopsided because the question is bound to elicit such a result. The question isn't being asked in a vacuum, and it isn't actually a question about what U.S. policy ought to be.
Leaving aside existing cultural and religious reasons for such sympathy, the vast majority of media portrayals of the conflict encourage such sympathy. Our political class is virtually unanimous in casting the conflict in very simple terms that reinforce this sympathy. Are we more likely to sympathize with the modern, Western, industrialized, democratic nation-state whose people's history is related to ours or with a stateless refugee nation of Arabs whose members mostly belong to a religion a large number of Americans regard unfavorably? The high degree of sympathy the public has now is the product of decades of advocacy, rhetoric and political pressure in our domestic debate almost entirely on one side of a foreign conflict. Pro-Israel sympathy was not always as great as it is now. Not so long ago, it used to be much lower.
The Gallup numbers show us this. If we look at the late '80s on their graph, we see that just 37% sympathized with Israel, 15% sympathized with the Palestinians and 49% sympathized with neither side. As recently as 1997, the "neither" result was 54%. We do see sympathy for Israel spike in times of conflict. Before and during the Gulf War, the sympathy for Israel figure shot up to 64%, it rose during the second intifada, and after 9/11 over the last eight and a half years it has risen steadily to its current level. However, during the late '80s and for much of the '90s the "broad, bipartisan support" Scoblete points to in the recent survey was not there. Pro-Israel sympathy has commanded a majority of the public for less than half the time in the last 22 years, but it has been the constant, default position of virtually every national politician for at least that long.
In fact, if we distinguish between sympathy and actively wanting to take Israel's side, real support is still actually much more limited. If we believe the WPO survey, there is definitely a difference between broad sympathy and the kind of support for Israel that the U.S. actually provides. According to the WPO survey, just 21% favor taking Israel's side in the conflict and 71% prefer taking neither side. That suggests broad, probably bipartisan support for disentangling ourselves from the conflict all together. It also means that U.S. policy on this question does not simply flow from the will of the people. This 21% is the real constituency for current U.S. policy. This is a sizeable constituency that has effectively advocated and organized to make a one-sided approach to the conflict practically unquestionable in domestic policy debates. They and the policies they advocate do not represent the broad majority of Americans, even though a broad majority of Americans is now much more favorably disposed towards Israel than they once were.


text:
HOWE, TX -- New homes and more jobs are on the way for the city of Howe thanks to millions in funding from the state. Victoria Maranan tells us why Howe was chosen and when the new development will break ground
Joy McBride has lived in Howe for 15 years and said she's excited to hear about the new apartment complex.
"I think it's great. I think Howe needs a little more growth, need more people coming in. It's gonna open up some jobs while it's being built and afterwards because they'll need managers and groundskeepers," she said.
Mayor Jeff Stanley said The Abbington Meadows Apartments were made possible by a $5-million grant from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs that they received a few weeks ago.
Rea Ventures Group, which owns the new complex, said the city was chosen because new development is their first priority, they have a good school system and they've never received this grant before.
Stanley said the new project is promising for the city's progress, especially after the recent recession.
"It's the start of our growth for coming out of this bad economic slump that we've been in," he said.
The empty lot on Hall Cemetery Road off Highway 75 is the future home of a 64-unit apartment complex.
Stanley said Abbington Meadows would help bring more jobs and thousands of dollars in revenue to the city through property taxes and an increase of water and sewer customers.
The new apartment complex is classified as workforce housing-- designed for mid to lower income residents.
"When I say affordable, it's for working class. Affordable apartments for working class people like firemen, police officers and teachers.," said Stanley.
The city is expecting to break ground on the project this December.The new apartments should be available for lease by fall 2014.
Stanley said this is the first of many developments underway in the city and McBride is excited to see what's next.
"Hopefully one of them's gonna be a grocery store. That's one we definitely need," she said.


text:
Loans from £500 to £2500
Sunderland Doorstep Loans up to 6 months with fixed term
(It won't affect your credit score)
Representative 91.9% APR
Representative Example: Amount of credit: £1000 for 6 months with repayment of £219.61 and one repayment of £1317.66. Interest: £317.66. Interest rate: 102% pa (fixed). 433.4% APR Representative. Warning: Late repayment can cause you serious money problems. For help, go to moneyadviceservice.org.uk.
Doorstep Loans in Sunderland. Get Instant and guaranteed approve doorstep cash loans for unemployed people with no credit check in the Sunderland UK.


text:
Welcome to the Asia Markets live blog, a running account of what the region's stock markets are doing, along with other news. Another U.S. sell-off led by technology shares and other high-growth plays hits some markets today, including Japan's, but the techs make a comeback in Hong Kong, lifting that market to gains after weakness in the previous session. Meanwhile, Samsung warns of a slimmer operating profit, and the Bank of Japan meets expectations by holding its policy steady.
6:01 am | Asia closing levels | by Sara Sjolin
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1.4% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 1.9% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1% (closed)
3:46 am | Tokyo falls on another tech retreat and a firmer yen | by Laura He
Japan sees another bear day as technology stocks slid further and the yen strengthened against the greenback, while the Bank of Japan (BOJ) held its policy steady and maintained that the economy is recovering "moderately".
The Nikkei Average ended down 1.4% at 14,606.88, and the Topix closed 1.9% lower at 1,174.56.
Stocks posted broad declines, with tech names suffering substantial losses. Index heavyweight SoftBank Corp. sank 4.5%, NEC Corp. tumbled 3.8%, Sharp Corp. fell 3.7%, Renesas Electronics Corp. dropped 3.6%, and Sony was down 1.4%.
Financial shares were also among the biggest losers, as Daiwa Securities Group declined 4.5% and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group fell 3.5%. Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company was off 4%.
At its meeting today, the BOJ kept its monetary policy unchanged, noting that "Japan's economy has continued to recover moderately as a trend, albeit with some fluctuations due to the consumption tax hike." (See previous posts on the BOJ decisions.)
After a brief weakness following the BOJ announcement, the yen rose further against the dollar, up to ¥102.69 from ¥103.09 in the previous session.
1:41 am | Markets check -- 1:41 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1.1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 1.9%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) flat (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1%
1:40 am | U.S. jury award sickens Takeda Pharma shares | by Mike Kitchen
Japan's biggest drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical is trading 6% lower late in the afternoon session after a U.S. jury reportedly ordered it pay $6 billion (with a B) for not clearly warning of bladder-cancer risks for its Actos diabetes drug.
And to add insult to injury, Takeda rival Daiichi Sankyo is up 0.7% (though Astellas Pharma is off 3.4%).
According to a Bloomberg report, Takeda's partner on the drug, Eli Lilly & Co., was ordered to pay $3 billion.
While the judgment would be the seventh-largest in U.S. history, the Supreme Court "is almost certain" to reduce award, the Bloomberg report said.
"Of the 10 largest U.S. punitive verdicts previously awarded against corporations, all were either reversed or substantially reduced. None were paid at the amounts assessed by the juries," the report said.
12:06 am | Markets check -- 1:06 p.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 1.3% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1%
11:12 pm | Another Bank of Japan snoozer | by Mike Kitchen
It was unanimous and completely without surprises: The Bank of Japan has kept its policy unchanged.
Really, there's been little in the way of fresh monetary moves since that landmark meeting, one year and three days ago, when the central bank sent stocks surging and the yen tumbling by launching the current easing program. (If you're in a retro mood, here's the story from that BOJ decision.)
In today's statement, the word "moderately" was again used to describe Japan's economic recovery, though the board members also included the phrase "albeit with some fluctuations due to the consumption-tax hike." (You can read the full statement in English here.)
After an initial bump higher, the yen began a modest slide, with the dollar almost reaching back to the ¥103 level seen this morning before finding equilibrium around ¥102.88. The greenback was buying ¥102.86 just ahead of the BOJ decision. Meanwhile, stocks remain on break, with the Nikkei Average having ended the morning session down 1.1%.
Focus will now shift to remarks due later in the day from Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, but as mentioned in an earlier post on today's Asia blog, the markets may need to wait a while longer before the Bank of Japan offers any new moves.
10:46 pm | Hong Kong techs unlock stock rebound | by Laura He
Good news for Hong Kong's tech stock investors: While many Asia markets are following Wall Street to weakness, Hong Kong and Shanghai are standing out with gains.
After a seesaw start, the Hang Seng Index is now trading 0.2% higher, while the Shanghai Composite Index has reversed opening losses on its first day of trading after the Ching Ming Festival (see yesterday's Asia blog) and is now up 0.3%.
In what may be a move to counter recent weakness in its stock, tech major Tencent Holdings disclosed earlier Tuesday that it had just spent 76.7 million Hong Kong dollars ($10 million) on share buybacks. Apparently the announcement is working some magic, at least for now, with the index heavyweight breaking a four-day losing streak to rebound 2.3% (even after a brief loss in the opening minutes).
Shares of Gome, one of China's largest home-appliance retailers, is similarly climbing 3.1% on share-repurchase news. Gome said today that it bought back 20 million shares Monday, costing the company about HK$26.2 million.
Mainland Chinese banks and financial shares are also posting broad gains. China Minsheng Banking Corp. is jumping 1.8%, China Merchants Bank is advancing 1.3%, and ICBC is rising 1%. PICC Property & Casulty and China Pacific Insurance are also up more than 1% each.
Meanwhile, China Railsmedia has announced that it will spend HK$2 billion to buy i-Marker Culture & Media, which has been collaborating with state-backed China National Cultural & Art Corp. (CNCA) to import and distribute Hollywood movies in China.
China Railsmedia Corp. said earlier that CNCA acquired a new license to import and distribute revenue-sharing foreign movies and TV shows in the country, breaking a monopoly of Chinese movie companies. Shares of China Railsmedia are surging 12% in Hong Kong.
10:36 pm | Markets check -- 10:36 a.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1.1% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.2%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.6%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.2%
10:34 pm | Samsung down, Samsung up | by Mike Kitchen
The Kospi has managed to crawl to a 0.1% gain in Seoul, and so has Samsung Electronics — also up 0.1%
But earlier in the morning, Samsung was sitting well into negative territory after bumming out the market with its forecast for a second straight quarterly decline in operating profit.
Samsung's ops profit for the October-December quarter was 6% lower than a year earlier, and this morning, the Korean tech giant said the January-March drop would be somewhere between 2.1% and 6.6%. (Read detailed report here.)
All this comes as the company prepares to lift the wraps on its new Galaxy S5, set for launch this Friday, which analysts say is vital for the world's top mobile-phone maker.
9:13 pm | Markets check -- 10:13 a.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.4%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.2%
9:08 pm | Sydney sinks slightly | by Mike Kitchen
Australia's blue-chip mining and bank shares are modestly lower, so the market is modestly lower too. The S&P/ASX 200 is currently off 0.4% after falling 0.2% yesterday.
The retreat comes after U.S shares took a third day of punishment overnight, though commodities were mixed, as gold and oil slipped but copper gained. As a result, it's BHP Billiton down 0.3%, Fortescue up 0.1%, Oz Minerals down 1.8%, and Kingsgate down 0.5%.
Shares of Rio Tinto are 0.6% lower after it failed to win Supreme Court approval to expand its Warkworth open-cut coal mine, while coal-space rival Whitehaven Coal lost grip on early gains to trade 0.3% lower.
Beyond the blue chips, Aussie tech plays are suffering along with their U.S. peers. Online jobs finder Seek is down 4%, TPG Telecom is off 2.7%, and web-based accounting-software maker Xero is 12.5% cheaper this morning after posting earnings late Monday.
On the upside, Foster's old wine business, Treasury Wine Estates, is up 4.3%, with Dow Jones Newswires quoting new CEO Michael Clarke as saying he's considering options for the firm's U.S. unit, including a possible sale.
8:42 pm | Japan stocks see further discount | by Mike Kitchen
It's a bear of a day on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as the Nikkei Average falls 1.2% (on top of a 1.7% retreat yesterday), while the Topix is 1.6% lower (it also lost 1.6% yesterday).
Today's retreat comes as Wall Street suffered a three-peat loss and as the dollar has just slipped below the psychologically significant 103-yen level (¥102.84 vs. ¥103.10 about 30 minutes earlier).
As you would expect, exporters are broadly weaker: Sony is down 2%, Sharp is down 2.8%, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is down 3.3%, Honda Motor is down 2.6%, Mazda Motor is down 2.3% each, and Rakuten is down a heavy 4.9%.
Real-estate and related shares are also taking a turn for the worse, with Mitsubishi Estate down 1.9%, Sumitomo Realty down 2.2%, and Obayashi down 2.4%.
Asahi Glass is escaping with a mere 0.2% pullback in early trade, even as the Nikkei newspaper tips the glass maker to report a 21% drop in January-March earnings. And jeweler Yondoshi Holdings is down 1.8%, even as another Nikkei newspaper report says it will report a second-straight fiscal year of record operating profit.
Meanwhile, retailers are outperforming, with several big names seeing opening gains before slipping into negative territory. At present, its Fast Retailing up 0.3%, Takashimaya flat, Aeon down 0.6%, and J. Front down 0.7%.
Possibly offers a bit of help for the retail shares is Japan's signing of a free-trade agreement with Australia, which lowers Aussie tariffs on Japanese cars and appliances, while cutting Japanese tariffs on Australian agricultural goods. (Though if the deal — which was widely flagged in advance — is having an effect, it's certainly not helping those auto shares.)
7:39 pm | Bank of Japan is watching, waiting... | by Mike Kitchen
Over in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, the Bank of Japan board members will gather today in their copper-roofed headquarters to issue their latest policy decision, and while there's a bit more of a chance they will launch additional easing than there was last month, the odds for fresh action still seem very long.
Sure, this is the first meeting since the April 1 consumption-tax hike that economists worry could derail the Japanese recovery, but many analysts say the central bank will likely hold fire until it has a better idea of how the economy is faring.
"The Bank of Japan will almost certainly maintain its current policy settings ... despite the hit to GDP from the consumption-tax hike," write economists at London-based Capital Economics.
"It makes sense to wait and see how the economy responds, both in the second quarter and in the third," they write, adding that if early action is required, "the more obvious timing ... would be the [next] meeting on April 30, when new growth and inflation forecasts will be released."
Société Générale agrees that no policy changes are likely today, but that "there will be additional QQE (quantitative and qualitative easing) measures sometime during the second quarter in order to counter downside risks to economic growth" from the tax increase.
With nothing expected out of the BOJ, the forex markets were content to let the yen drift higher overnight, with the dollar easing to ¥103.10 currently, down from ¥103.36 a day earlier.


text:
Trump International Golf Club, Trump International 1
West Palm Beach FL 33406-4111
It used to be a five NOW with all these new members and all the added winter rain it could have been a 3 1/2. Very disappointed. Donald take a break and check out your place QUICK!
It used to be a five NOW with all these new members and all the added winter rain it could have been a 3 1/2. Very disappointed. Donald take a break and check out your place QUICK!
Course Details/History
- Architect Name – Jim Fazio
- Regulation Length Holes – 27
- Twitter – https://www.pga.com/
Golf.com Editorial
Trump International has been ranked as one of the top courses in the U.S. by Golf Magazine's panel of experts.
Purists may abhor the wall of water that cascades behind the 17th green at Trump International, but it's definitely unforgettable -- like Trump himself. The Donald now presides over five courses, with a new project underway in Aberdeen, Scotland, but this Florida track, his first foray into the sport, might also be his best.
Trump International is anything but subtle. Ranked in GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the U.S., this private 1999 Jim Fazio design is relentlessly tough, having been sculpted from terrain that was once as flat as a poker table, but which now features contouring that's as intriguing as Trump's hairdo. The 15th and 18th tees are atop a six-story dune and the 14th demands an uphill approach akin to landing the ball on the roof of a clubhouse.
Many folks dismiss the course as the product of a limitless budget. It is certainly that, but beneath all the glitz lurks a terrific course.
GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher Dr. Gary Wiren wrote that Trump International is one of his five favorite courses in his article, My Fab 5. Here's what he said:
"There are many courses in America that are aesthetically striking, well designed, beautifully maintained, or challenging but fair -- but few meet all these criteria. Trump International is one, and I enjoy my golf there immensely. The members all say, "I never get tired of playing that course." That's how I feel as well."Design - Golf Course at Trump International Golf Club
- Year Built: 1999
- Designer: Jim Fazio
- Greens Grass Type: Not Available
- Fairways Grass Type: Not Available
- Water Hazards: Not Available
- Sand Bunkers: Not Available
- Yardage Markers: Not Available
Other Courses at this Facility
PGA of America Championships
Bethpage State Park, Black Course
Farmingdale, New York
Oak Hill Country Club
Rochester, New York
Hazeltine National Golf Club
Chaska, Minnesota
Bluffton, South Carolina
Whistling Straits
Kohler, Wisconsin


text:
first tschmidlin - i want to say thanks again for taking the time to help me.our discrepancy may be this: i have "american wheat or rye beer" as the style. you have "weizen", correct? my guess is that i'm off on this - i was going for a banana wheat, but does my recipe reflect that of a weizen instead?
thank you denny. i chose this yeast because it gives off heavy banana esters, i read. should i now refer to the beer as a weizen, simply because of the yeast choice? i'm still very new to this so i appreciate the help/knowledge.also - is there a "wheat" yeast that gives off heavy banana esters?


text:
Offense finally delivers only to see Cards hit back
ST. LOUIS -- Reds manager Bryan Price has only two hands and 10 fingers. Just when it seemed Tuesday that one leak was stopped when the offense perked up, Price saw two more drips spring on the club with its pitching and defense vs. the Cardinals.
This 7-5 Reds loss to St. Louis at Busch Stadium proved extra unfortunate because the lineup provided leads of 4-0 through two innings and 5-4 through the fifth. Neither one held up as Cincinnati dropped the first two games of the three-game series.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- Reds manager Bryan Price has only two hands and 10 fingers. Just when it seemed Tuesday that one leak was stopped when the offense perked up, Price saw two more drips spring on the club with its pitching and defense vs. the Cardinals.
This 7-5 Reds loss to St. Louis at Busch Stadium proved extra unfortunate because the lineup provided leads of 4-0 through two innings and 5-4 through the fifth. Neither one held up as Cincinnati dropped the first two games of the three-game series.View Full Game Coverage
"We've had a couple of games where we've been able to score some runs. We just haven't been able to hold the opponent down," Price said. "I just saw some better things offensively. Unfortunately, we weren't able to take advantage of the lead and maintain it."
In the St. Louis sixth against Reds reliever Logan Ondrusek, Peter Bourjos led off with a double inside the right-field line and went to third base on a sacrifice bunt. Matt Carpenter was hit by a pitch and Matt Holliday lifted a two-out fly ball to the warning track in right field. Jay Bruce appeared to have a bead on it, but the ball kissed off of his glove as he made a small leap.
It was scored as a two-run double that gave the Cardinals a 6-5 lead.
"I catch that. I should. I expect to," Bruce said. "I just jumped a tad early. Error or not, it's a ball I should have caught. I take a lot of pride in defense and that side of the game."
J.J. Hoover gave up two hits and two walks in the seventh, including Bourjos' one-out RBI single to left-center field that made it a two-run game. Hoover escaped more damage by leaving the bases loaded.
The Reds (2-6) are 1-4 on the current road trip with one game left to play.
"Across the board, we just need to get better," Reds starter Homer Bailey said.
Before Tuesday's game, Price had his four veteran hitters -- Bruce, Joey Votto, Brandon Phillips and Ryan Ludwick -- in his office for a private chat. The details were not revealed, but with the lineup hitting .224 entering the night, it probably didn't hurt to talk.
"It was just a conversation, not a motivational gung-ho speech or anything," Price said.
In last week's matchup vs. Bailey at Cincinnati, Cardinals starter Lance Lynn gave up three first-inning runs. Lynn did likewise on Tuesday as the Reds took another 3-0 lead, with Bruce's two-run triple to the right-center-field gap and Ludwick's sacrifice fly doing the damage.
It became a 4-0 game in the second after Devin Mesoraco's first at-bat of the season yielded a one-out double to left-center field. Mesoraco scored on Billy Hamilton's RBI single up the middle.
"They made a couple good swings early on," said Lynn, who gave up five runs over six innings. "They're an aggressive team early and often, and I just have to make better pitches. That's just part of getting into the flow of the game. So far, at the beginning of the game, sometimes I haven't been able to get the rhythm that I like."
Like the first showdown vs. Lynn, Bailey did not hold the lead and it came apart in a four-run Cardinals second that brought nine to the plate. The inning started with Yadier Molina's homer to left field. After a second run scored, Kolten Wong's two-run triple to right field made it a 4-4 game.
"Tonight I definitely felt like I deserved a loss," Bailey said. "I guess you can always say, 'It's still early,' but every single game counts. We're just in a bad knoll right now. It seems like when we hit, we don't pitch. When we pitch, we don't hit. It's kind of the way things have been going right now."
Bailey lived on the edge as he gave up two hits to start the third inning, and after an infield hit and a walk to begin the fourth, he got a strikeout of Holliday and Allen Craig's 5-4-3 double play started by a very nice diving stop from Todd Frazier.
With 99 pitches through five innings, Bailey was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the sixth. He finished with four earned runs and nine hits with two walks and five strikeouts. Although he had won two of his previous three starts to the Cardinals, he is 5-11 lifetime with a 5.01 ERA against them.
The Reds' tough times in St. Louis continue. Now that the Cardinals have taken the first two games of the three-game series, Cincinnati is 3-26-2 in series at Busch Stadium since 2003 -- including 0-for-the-last-6. Their last series win at St. Louis came in September 2011.
"They've been good against us here, in St. Louis in particular, taking advantage of RBI opportunities," Price said. "They got some guys in scoring position and did what they've done the last couple of years and drove them in. We couldn't avoid the big inning. If there's been a nemesis for us, against this team in particular in St. Louis, it's been avoiding the big inning.
"We have to make better pitches. We have to play a better game all the way around."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


text:
Amanuensis Monday – John Hurlburt Stocking's Death
Norwalk Daily Register
Norwalk, Ohio
20 Oct 1894
Pg 4 Col 6
After visiting friends and relatives a couple of weeks in Clarksfield and New London, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stocking left on last Wednesday for their home in El Dorado, Kansas, via St. Charles, Illinois, where they halted to spend a few days with relatives, whence they would start direct for their home; but on Sunday evening, on retiring for the night, Mr. Stocking fell down a flight of stairs, rupturing a blood vessel, the blood flowing from his nose and ears; no bones broken, he never spoke, but lived one hour, when his spirit took its flight across the dark river to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." Mr. Stocking was one of nature's nobility, a true and good man. To Mrs. Stocking and their son, in their bereavement, we extend our sympathies.
John Hurlburt Stocking's son, Roderick Remine Stocking, was my great-grandfather, and you can find a photograph of him here, as well as more information about him.
Roderick's mother, Betsey Jane Ames, died in Oct 1856 shortly after Roderick's little brother Bishop was born. After Betsey's death, John Hurlburt married Caroline Gates in April 1860.
In 1894, my great-grandfather, Roderick was living on the farm that he homesteaded in Sumner County, Kansas with his wife, Frances "Fannie" Hitchcock.
More Links:
Roderick Remine Stocking Photograph
The J. H. Stocking Bible
Carnival of Genealogy – the J. H. Stocking Bible


text:
His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, as well as Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town and his own Mass.
Bernstein was also the first conductor to give numerous television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. In addition, he was a skilled pianist, often conducting piano concertos from the keyboard.
As a composer he wrote in many styles encompassing symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music and pieces for the piano. Many of his works are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and commercial success of West Side Story.
Source: Wikipedia