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Having had plenty of performance problems with LR4, now 4.1 RC (unimproved), I probably should not have been surprised to find the whole catalogue missing when I tried to open it today. My C drive where the catalogue should be, and my actual images (on another drive) are both fine. But I got an error when I tried to open the one and only catalogue I run. Something to the effect that it was unable to find the source for LR 4.1, and it went on with verbage I certainly did not understand. I wish now that I would have written down the message, because I cannot recreate it. This is because when I tried again to open the catalogue by clicking directly on where it lives, the program all of a sudden makes a brand new catalogue for me with none of the 25,000 images that were on the catalogue I've been working with. So when I click the icon now, I get this new empty catalogue happily opening.
Now when I go to my most recent backup and try to open that, I get a message from Windows saying it is attempting to configure LR 4.1 RC, then an error message saying "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable". It goes on to ask that I enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'Adobe_Lightroom_x64.msi'. A search for that turned up nothing. So it appears to be trying to install Lightroom, correct? But I already installed it, and it appears in my programs folder. I assumed that to restore a catalogue backup you simply went into where your backups are stored and clicked on the most recent one. But I don't know how my catalogue disappeared in the first place. Again, my images are safe and sound on another drive (but without a day or two worth of edits saved into the metadata, unfortunately - so I'd really like to get the catalogue back).
Can anyone help with figuring out what may have happened in the first place, and how to restore from my backup (which includes the most recently imported images and all my edits). Thanks.
P.S. LR 4 is turning out to be a nightmare. I'm really sorry I bought it.
Hi Mike,
Please don't be upset with my suggestions.
You seem to be the kind of guy who does lot of things in a haste and cannot remember exactly what it was. So slow down.
I'd generally suggest, that before you actually do something you take a piece of paper and scribble down what you want to achieve, then outline the steps you think you need. Then as you progress you write down what you actually did and what system reactions you encountered.
This will help anybody afterwards to make head or tail of what may have happened.
Which is something probably nobody can do for you at the moment.
So here are suggestions how I would continue from where you are:
1. With all LR versions closed salvage everything you might need as a set-up point for later, using Windows Explorer:
Search for any *.lrcat-file you may find on your computer and save it away, on network storage or an external drive.
Do the same for your original photos, the ones LR is supposed to get into its catalog (which means LR is going to point at them).
Result: no further havoc possible without the means to remedy it according to current state.
2. As your LR seems not to be properly installed:
De-install then any LR version you may have, using Windows Installation Features.
This may leave
C: \ Users \ [your username] \ My Pictures \ Lightroom \
C: \ Users \ [your username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ Lightroom \
Rename the last Folder \Lightroom\ into \LR old\, so any new installation will ignore it. To be deleted later once everything works again.
To be on the really safe side restart your computer.
3. Download a fresh clean installation version from Adobe.
Install it. Close it.
Note: any preferences or settings, plugins will be ditched in doing so. But I suspect any attempt to salvage this would further complicate or introduce other problems...
4. Now there are several alternative routes possible.
Difficult to predict the best one, but my guess to try would be as follows:
4A) Copy your latest LR4-catalog (Lightroom 4 Catalog.lrcat or similar name) from the safe storage under 1. into C: \ Users \ [your username] \ My Pictures \ Lightroom \.
Right-click on it in Windows Explorer to open it in Lightroom.
It should open, unless it is corrupted. Then try with an older backup of your catalog.
If you have to go back to a LR3-catalog, the system will do a conversion to LR4.
If none of your sufficiently recent catalogs will open, go for alternative
4B) Open LR4 with its newly created default catalog. Then do File>Import from Catalog and choose the latest non-corrupted catalog that you have.
I have never seen catalogs (i.e. *.lrcat-files) disappear... this is something you cannot attribute to LR4's buggy state.
Good luck,
Hi Mike,
Incidentally I had a similar experience to your effects:
As I had an internal error when trying to export to eMail I wanted to ditch my preferences file, so I renamed it.
When I tried to start LR again I also got the Windows installer with trying to search and ending up with a strong installation failure (or whatever the correct English term is - I use my Windows in German, just LR in English).
All what happened was that I tried to restart LR and have it rebuild the preferences file - standard operating procedure in former LR-versions for all sorts of strange problems!
So I renamed my preferences-file back to "Lightroom 4 Preferences.agprefs"
and everything works perfectly again (apart from my mail-export...).
Now that is weird ! Should the recreation-mechanism of the preferences file be broken? I am still on LR4.0, not 4.1RC.
It might open another route for you: look for C:\Users\[your username]I\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Preferences\Lightroom 4 Preferences.agprefs
Maybe you have another copy of it, so you can copy over there?
But that is something I would not have backed up... due to the former standard rule...
Sorry for laying the havoc at your door earlier...
Doing some more tests:
This time I had renamed the LR4-preferences-file differently, so it started with different digits rather than ending differently.
I found the problem is when you have another "Lightroom 3 Preferences.agprefs" present in the same folder:
Then the system looks for the relevant LR3-catalog, which it could not find anymore (because I had moved that earlier, after conversion to LR4).
But this time I could point the dialog to choose another catalog, and I directed it to my new LR4-catalog. This time it opened without problems, creating a new Lightroom 4 Preferences.agprefs as usual.
First time I had abandoned the dialog to search for a catalog and had invoked LR from WindowsExplorer, when I got the installer stuff.
So suggestion for you:
Remove the "Lightroom 3 Preferences.agprefs" if you have any there (store safely away - you might need it again in case you might give up on LR4 altogether).
Verify the default position of your latest LR4-catalog.
Then start your LR4 as it is and direct it in the missing-catalog-dialog to this file.
I keep my fingers crossed that this will work you same as it did for me.
I have had this searching-for-MSI situation happen twice, once some days after each of my LR4 and LR4.1RC installs.
I have solved it by starting up the LR installer (setup32.exe or setup64.exe), letting it extract all the setup files waiting for the install go-ahead, then I go find the MSI file it is searching for in the newest gibberish-name temp folder the installer just created and copy the MSI file to another folder I create for the purpose, then point the search window to that location and it finds it and configures LR4 and continues on without having the problem, again.
My process is likely something only a somewhat sophisticated computer user would be able to do, so it is something that Adobe really needs to fix in the Install process.
I am glad you think it is associated with having the LR3 preferences file in the same folder, because next time a LR4 version is installed I'll go remove the LR3 preferences and see if it happens, again.
Normally I open LR4 and have it open where it remembers its catalog from last time, but occasionally I actually double-click on an LRCAT file to have LR4 open that one specifically. It is when I double-click on an LRCAT file that LR4 displays the MSI-searching behavior.
Thanks for the help Cornelia.
It actually appears to be something that happened when an automatic Windows update took place. I lost communication with LR, lost my prefs folder, don't have any folder for \AppData\roaming\adobe\ in fact. And, I appear to have lost 5500 DNGs from Africa that were on my C drive. This is tough because I have lost about 20-30 hours of editing work on selects from that trip. But it's my fault for not getting around to transferring that folder within LR to my external drive. I do have the images on my external, but they're CR2 RAWs with precious little editing metadata. What's strange is that I did synch these two drives so the DNGs with the latest metadata should have been backed up. Anyway...at least the other 20,000+ images in my catalog are safely in DNG form on my external drive.
But indeed I was able to re-install LR 4 and re-establish the backup catalog as per your first suggestion. All but the images on the C drive that is (they showed up as missing). I don't know exactly what happened, but when that Windows update happened, I lost my desktop and all my settings when I restarted. So I did a system restore (which I've done before without any programs or files being affected, including LR) and got things back to normal - all normal except LR. But today when I was setting a restore point I noticed that I had no restore points in memory, so I looked a little further and noticed other system settings that weren't right (maybe they're back to some default).
So all in all this appears to be a problem precipitated by Windows, but in which LR 4 was compromised and no other programs (including Photoshop) were affected. I really suspect it's part of the problem with this program, which is the most buggy I've ever used (I don't do betas). But Windows did something strange to me too. The moral of the story: ALWAYS have your image files with the most recent metadata safely saved in at least two or three separate drives/locations, NOT on the same drive as Lightroom.
Thanks again, and yes, I do get in a hurry when I just want to go through a shoot quickly so I can actually sleep a little bit.
An automatic Windows Update is not going to delete your DNGs. The reason you can't find the LR preferences is because C:\Users\yourusername\AppData is a hidden folder.
You either have to enable the display of hidden folders in your Explorer Options or do some typing into the Explorer Address bar to get there, or use a DOS prompt:
After you have made hidden folders visible, then try finding your LR preferences file, again.
Thanks for the headsup on the hidden folders. Didn't matter much with my situation since I'm gonna be re-doing a lot with the new develop module and all. But nice to see they are there. Regarding the crash, it's obvious I needed to re-install, and all's well now. Only thing I can point to between good LR4 and no LR4 was the strange loss of my desktop and Windows settings after the update. But who knows? All I know is I'll never have a folder of images on the same drive as Lightroom (or any photo software). This taught me that's asking for trouble.
Lightroom doesn't contain image files so I can't see the connection between the loss and Lightroom. Hvae you tried searching for file names of some missing files with Explorer??
LR would not delete your images from the hard-drive nor would it delete your catalog.
You may have lost track of them if your catalog or DNGs were relative to your users folder and your windows profile got changed.
The default location of a folder under Pictures for LR is actually a path under C:\Users\yourusername\My Pictures so if your profile got redone and a new path was created, then C:\Users\yourusername2\My Pictures would be a different place even though it shows up as Pictures when you login.
If you reformatted your hard-drive and re-installed Windows that would have deleted everything, but blaming LR for that seems unfair.
As Geoff suggests, search your C: drive for *.DNG and see if you can find them. You need to be an Administrator-class user to see files from other user-profiles, and if you're not then they may be off limits to you. Do you know if you are logged in as an Administrator user?
No worries guys, thanks for the comments. Cornelia had the correct advice for me, and I've followed it to a good conclusion. LR can have problems, and the catalog was inaccessible (yes I'm administrator) because of a problem that had it wanting to re-install the program. It actually did re-install, and gave me a fresh catalog with no images. So uninstalling and deleting everything, then a re-install, then opening the backup is all that was really required in the end. That's where I was going anyway, but I wasn't sure of the correct way to go about it, so I thought I'd check here for advice before I did (again, thanks Cornelia). I suppose there is a reason for backing up the catalog, and this is the first time I have had to take advantage of it. Still don't know what Windows did, but I'm not worried about that right now. By the way, I did eventually find my DNGs on my external drive; my synch did actually work, but Windows 7 search still leaves something to be desired. Persistence paid off. Again, problem solved.


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This war has colored my children's entire existence, as it has colored the existence of every child born since that September day, although not in immediately palpable ways. Their father hasn't had to face the possibility of being drafted, as was a possibility for my parents' generation during the Vietnam War. Their mother hasn't had to stock a pantry with only as much sugar as was rationed to her, as those in my grandparents' generation were forced to do during World War II.
Yet this war, the one we've waged against Terror, that ominously obscure enemy, has nevertheless fueled a different kind of existence for my children's generation than would have otherwise emerged. As they crumbled to the ground, the World Trade Center towers brought down with them whatever framework for reality this country's citizens had erected; much as JFK's assassination shifted my parents' reality, I imagine. And from the dust and ashes rose a new, September 12 reality. My generation's reality.
But what do I tell my children about my generation's post-9/11 existence? My life has changed in more significant ways than just having to abide by stricter rules at the airport… hasn't it? Could miniature shampoo bottles really be my generation's equivalent to sugar rations?
So I come back to this question: What will I tell my children about the war they were born into?
Of course, I could rely on their history teachers to educate them about the social and political implications that emerged, like phantoms, from the rubble of the annihilated Twin Towers. They will no doubt have text book chapters and pop quizzes dedicated to the subject. They will know the dates and names – September 11, 2001…Osama Bin Laden – just as I know dates and names from Vietnam and World War II. But what will emotionally connect my children to this chapter of our nation's history? What will elicit tears in them like the ones that left streaks on our faces as we watched, horrified, the story unfold before us?
I ask these questions as a mother, and as a citizen, grappling with the same questions of myself. Have I, has my generation, learned any lessons about war and conflict from our parents and grandparents? What emotionally connects me to the wars of my parents and my grandparents' generations? I ask this of myself because I believe the answer holds the key to another more meaningful question: Is it possible to take the horrific stories of war, those dark and viscous experiences, and mold them, clay-like, into something useful – beautiful, even? In essence, can we do anything to help our children break the cycle of conflict's inevitability?
I ask this of myself, a mother in a post-9/11 world, not knowing the possibility of the answer I hope for, for my children and for their children. But I hold onto that hope, as slippery and unmanageable as it may be, because as a parent, I must. It is my obligation, and my generation's responsibility to share with our children the stories of war – the real stories of war, the ways in which war painfully rewrites the existences of real, feeling human beings – in hopes that our children will, someday, have the chance to write happier endings to the chapters of our country's history books.


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Hafiz (Quran)
Al-Qurʾān القرآن
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Hafiz (Arabic: حافظ, ḥāfiẓ, Arabic: حُفَّاظ, pl. huffāẓ,Arabic: حافظة f. ḥāfiẓa), literally meaning "guardian," is a term used by modern Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Qur'an. Hafiza is the female equivalent.
Muhammad (S.W.A.W) lived in the 7th Century CE, in Arabia in a time when few people were literate. The Arabs preserved their histories, genealogies, and poetry by memory alone. When Muhammad proclaimed the verses later collected as the Qur'an, his followers naturally preserved the words by memorizing them.
Early accounts say that the literate Muslims also wrote down such verses as they heard them. However, the Arabic writing of the time was a scripta defectiva, an incomplete script, that did not include vowel markings or other diacritics needed to distinguish between words. Hence if there was any question as to the pronunciation of a verse, the memorized verses were a better source than the written ones. The huffaz were also highly appreciated as reciters, whose intoned words were accessible even to the illiterate. Memorization required no expensive raw materials (in an age when there was no paper in the Muslim world, only vellum). Memorization was also considered more secure—a manuscript could easily be destroyed, but if the Qur'an was to be memorized by many huffaz, it would never be lost.
Even after Caliph Uthman ibn Affan collected and organized the Qur'an circa 650-656 CE, recitation (from memory) of the Qur'an was still honored and encouraged. There are numerous traditions of recitation. Most huffaz know only one version, but true experts can recite in several traditions.
Huffaz are highly respected within the Islamic community. They are privileged to use the title "Hafiz" before their names. They are tested on their knowledge. For example, in one test they are asked to continue the recitation of a passage taken randomly from the Qur'an. As they do not know which passage will be chosen, they must know the whole text in order to be sure of passing. In another test, a would-be hafiz might be asked to recite verses containing a specific word or phrase.
Most huffaz have studied as children in special Islamic schools or madrasahs, being instructed in tajwid (rules of recitation) and vocalisation as well as committing the Qur'an to memory. To give some idea as to the nature of this undertaking: The Qur'an is divided into 114 Surahs (chapters), containing 6,236 verses (comprising some 80,000 words or 330,000 individual characters). This process generally takes between 3 to 6 years part time together with schooling.
In the classical Arabic lexicon, the word hafiz was not traditionally used to refer to one who had memorized the Qur'an. Instead, the word used was hamil (i.e., one who carries.) Hafiz was used for the scholars of hadith, specifically one who had committed 100,000 hadiths to memory (for example, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani).
Having memorised the Qur'an, the hafiz or hafiza must then ensure they do not forget it. To ensure perfect recall of all the learned verses requires constant practice.1
The memorisation of the Qur'an was important to Muslims in the past and is also in the present. Yearly, thousands of students master the Qur'an and complete the book with interpretation and also memorisation.
The Quran, the Muslims' religious Scripture, was said to be revealed in Arabic to Muhammad (S.A.W.W) through the angel Gabriel. The revelation occurred piecemeal, over a period of twenty-three years, sometimes in brief verses and sometimes in longer chapters.2
The Quran (lit. a "reading" or "recitation") is distinct from the recorded sayings and deeds (Sunnah) of Muhammad, which are instead preserved in a separate set of literature collectively called the "Ahadeeth" (lit. "news"; "report"; or "narration").
Upon receiving revelation, Muhammad (S.A.W.W) engaged himself in the duty of conveying the message to his Companions through reciting the exact words he heard in their exact order. This is evident in his inclusion of even the words of God which were directed specifically to him, for example: "Qul" ("Say [to the people, O Muhammad]"). The Quran's rhythmic style and eloquent expression make it easy to memorize. Indeed, God describes this as one of its essential qualities for preservation and remembrance (Q. 44:58; 54:17, 22, 32, 40), particularly in an Arab society which prided itself on orations of lengthy pieces of poetry. Michael Zwettler notes that: "in ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a degree now almost unknown." 3
Large portions of the Quran were thus easily memorized by a large number of people in the community of Muhammad (S.A.W.W).
Muhammed(S.A.W.W) encouraged his Companions to learn each verse that was revealed and transmit it to others.4 The Quran was also required to be recited regularly as an act of worship, especially during the daily meditative prayers (salah). Through these means, many repeatedly heard passages from the revelation recited to them, memorized them and used them in prayer. The entire Quran was memorized verbatim (word for word) by some of Muhammad's(S.A.W.W) Companions. Among them were Zaid ibn Thabit, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Muadh ibn Jabal, and Abu Zaid.5
Not only were the words of the Quran memorized, but also their pronunciation, later which formed into a science in itself called Tajweed. This science meticulously elucidates how each letter is to be pronounced, as well as the word as a whole, both in context)
Furthermore, the sequence or order of the Quran was arranged by Muhammad(S.A.W.W) himself and was also well-known to the Companions.6 Each Ramadan, Muhammad(S.A.W.W) would repeat after the angel Gabriel (reciting) the entire Quran in its exact order as far as it had been revealed, while in the presence of a number of his Companions.7 In the year of his death, he recited it twice.8 Thereby, the order of verses in each chapter and the order of the chapters became reinforced in the memories of each of the Companions present.
As the Companions spread out to various provinces with different populations, they took their recitations with them in order to instruct others.9 In this way, the same Quran became widely retained in the memories of many people across vast and diverse areas of land.
Indeed, memorization of the Quran emerged into a continuous tradition across the centuries, with centers/schools for memorization being established across the Muslim world.10 In these schools, students learn and memorize the Quran along with its Tajweed, at the feet of a master who in turn acquired the knowledge from his teacher, an 'un-broken chain' going all the way back to Muhammad (S.A.W.W). The process usually takes 3–6 years. After mastery is achieved and the recitation checked for lack of errors, a person is granted a formal license (ijaza) certifying she has mastered the rules of recitation and can now recite the Quran the way it was recited by Muhammad.
A.T. Welch, a non-Muslim orientalist, writes: "For Muslims the Quran is much more than scripture or sacred literature in the usual Western sense. Its primary significance for the vast majority through the centuries has been in its oral form, the form in which it first appeared, as the "recitation" chanted by Muhammad(S.A.W.W) to his followers over a period of about twenty years… The revelations were memorized by some of Muhammad's(S.A.W.W)followers during his lifetime, and the oral tradition that was thus established has had a continuous history ever since, in some ways independent of, and superior to, the written Quran… Through the centuries the oral tradition of the entire Quran has been maintained by the professional reciters (qurraa). Until recently, the significance of the recited Quran has seldom been fully appreciated in the West." 11
The Quran is perhaps the only book, religious or secular, that has been memorized completely by millions of people.12
Leading orientalist Kenneth Cragg reflects that: "…this phenomenon of Quranic recital means that the text has traversed the centuries in an unbroken living sequence of devotion. It cannot, therefore, be handled as an antiquarian thing, nor as a historical document out of a distant past. The fact of hifdh (Quranic memorization) has made the Quran a present possession through all the lapse of Muslim time and given it a human currency in every generation, never allowing its relegation to a bare authority for reference alone." 13
Virtues of memorising the Qur'an
Muhammad stated that there are many benefits, and rewards behind studying that which is best to be studied. Some sayings of Muhammad are quoted below:
- "The best of you is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it." (Bukhari)
- "Allah says: "If anybody finds no time for my remembrance and for begging favours of Me, because he remains busy with the Holy Qur'ân, I shall give him more than what I give all those who beg favours of Me". The superiority of the word of Allah (God) over all other words is like the superiority of Allah over the entire creation." (Tirmidhi)
- "On the day of judgement, it will be said to the man devoted to the Qur'ân, 'Go on reciting the Qur'an and continue ascending the storeys of paradise and recite in the slow manner you had been reciting in the worldly life. Your final abode will be where you reach at the time you recite the last ayah (verse)." (Ahmed, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood)
- "Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah (God) will receive a hasanah (good deed) from it (i.e. his recitation), and the hasanah is multiplied by ten. I do not say that Alif-Laam-Meem is (considered as) a letter, rather Alif is a letter, Laam is a letter, and Meem is a letter." (At-Tirmidhi, Ad-Darimi)
- "Read the Qur'an. For verily it will come forth on the Day of Resurrection as an intercessor for its readers." (Muslim)
- "The Qur'an is an intercessor (which by Allah's permission) intercedes, and an opponent (which is) truthful. He who appoints it as his leader, (then it) will lead him to Paradise. And he who puts it behind him, (then it) will lead him to the Fire." (Ibn Hibban, Al-Bayhaqi, At-Tabarani, Sahih)
- "He who is skillful in reciting the Qur'an is with the unveiled, honorable, and pious. And he who stutters when reading the Qur'an, (and its recitation) is difficult upon him, will receive two rewards." (Al-Bukhari)
- "Whoever reads the Quran, memorizes it, and acts upon it, on the Day of Judgment he will be clad (by angels) with a crown of light, its light is like the sunlight and his parents will be clad with two garments better than the whole world and whatever it contains." So they would amazingly ask: "What action did we do to deserve this?" They will be told: "Because your son memorized the Quran". (Al-Haakim)
- "On the Day of Qiyaamah a crown of such brilliance will be placed on the heads of the parents of one who learnt the Qur'an and practised on its laws, that its glitter will outshine the brilliance of the sun which penetrates your houses. What then do you think will be the position of the one who himself learnt the Qur'an and acted in accordance with it?" (Ahmad and Abu Dawood)
- "Whosoever memorizes the Qur'an and practises on what is lawful and abstains from what is prohibited, Allah will enter him into Jannah and accept his intercession on behalf of ten such relatives who have been destined to enter Hell." (Tirmidhi)
See also
- ^ Wajihuddin, Mohammed (22 Oct 2005). "The Messengers: Reward of the faithful". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ^ Muhammad Hamidullah, Introduction to Islam, London: MWH Publishers, 1979, p.17.
- ^ Michael Zwettler, The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry, Ohio State Press, 1978, p.14.
- ^ Saheeh Al-Bukhari Vol.6, Hadith No.546.
- ^ Saheeh Al-Bukhari Vol.6, Hadith No.525.
- ^ Ahmad von Denffer, Ulum al-Quran, The Islamic Foundation, UK, 1983, p.41-42; Arthur Jeffery, Materials for the History of the Text of the Quran, Leiden: Brill, 1937, p.31.
- ^ Saheeh Al-Bukhari Vol.6, Hadith No.519.
- ^ Saheeh Al-Bukhari Vol.6, Hadith Nos.518 & 520.
- ^ Ibn Hisham, Seerah al-Nabi, Cairo, n.d., Vol.1, p.199.
- ^ Labib as-Said, The Recited Koran, translated by Morroe Berger, A. Rauf, and Bernard Weiss, Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1975, p.59.
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Islam, 'The Quran in Muslim Life and Thought.'
- ^ William Graham, Beyond the Written Word, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p.80.
- ^ Kenneth Cragg, The Mind of the Quran, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973, p.26
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How to Open Apps in Microsoft Surface
The Start screen of your Microsoft Surface heralds a new way of working with Windows and its ecosystem of small, inexpensive apps rather than large, expensive desktop programs.
To help you figure out this new world, this section covers app basics: How to open and close them, switch between them, and find their menus when they need a few tweaks.
When first installed, Windows 8 doesn't bother to organize your Start screen. Your apps appear in a haphazard mess that sprawls out of view beyond the screen's right edge. As you slide your finger along the Start screen from right to left, the tiles move, bringing more into view.
If you spot the app you'd like to open, tap it with a finger: The app fills the screen, ready for action.
However, the bigger task may be simply finding the app you want to open. The sprawling Start screen doesn't alphabetize your apps or organize them into manageable groups. That leaves way too many hiding places.
When your sought-after app is lost in a sea of tiles, bring the app to the surface by following these steps:
Swipe up from the screen's top or bottom. When the Start screen's menu appears along the bottom edge, tap the All Apps icon.
The Start screen lists an alphabetical list of all your apps, followed by a list of your desktop programs, organized alphabetically by category. Still don't spot the app you're after? Move to step 2.
Pinch the All Apps screen between two fingers.
The app icons disappear, and Windows lists the alphabet, from A to Z. Tap the first letter of your lost app—J, perhaps—and Windows redisplays all the apps. This time, though, apps beginning with J are placed directly beneath your finger, making them easier to find.
This trick works best for Start screens with a huge variety of apps. If you still can't find your wayward app, move to step 3.
Search for the app.
Swipe your finger in from the right edge to fetch the Charms bar. When the Charms bar appears, tap the Search icon. A box appears for you to type in the missing app's name. As you type, Windows lists matching apps, narrowing the list with each letter you type.
Spot your app? Tap its icon to launch it.
If you've added a keyboard to your Surface, just begin typing the app's name directly onto the Start screen. The Start screen quickly transforms into a list of every app matching what you've typed so far. After you spot your app's name on the list, tap it, and it leaps onto the screen.
The Start screen never shows all of your installed apps. Unless you personally reorganize it, the Start screen shows only the apps Microsoft chose to be listed.
Want an unlisted app to appear on the Start screen? Put it there yourself: When looking at the app's tile from the All Apps layout, select the app by sliding its icon up or down a bit. (A checkmark appears to let you know it's selected, and the bottom menu appears.) Then, tap the Pin to Start icon from the bottom menu.


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210 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY | Directions 1001240.722308 -73.994164
Fri-Sat: 6am-2am, Sun-Thu: 6am-1am
Neighborhoods: Downtown, NoLita
Public is one place that definitely deserves the "better than it has to be" award. The room is the very essence of the retro style pioneered by the influential design firm AvRoKo -- no surprise, since its founder, Adam Farmerie, is the brother of Public's chef-owner, Brad Farmerie. The latter does adventurous modernist food made with far greater care and imagination that one would expect from a restaurant this pretty on such a chic block of Nolita. The cocktails are also very high-concept. Some nights you'd rather have a steak and a Rob Roy -- and if that's the case, go someplace else. Public doesn't take the easy way.
Public = Horrible Service and Sub-par Food – The food wasn't anything special. I expected much better based on their prices.
But the service was horrible.
We made a reservation, and when we arrived (on time), we still had to wait 20 minutes, even though half the place was empty.
The hostess first ignored us when we arrived, then after getting her to talk to us, she told us to wait in the bar.
After 5 minutes, we asked them again whether we could be seated, since there were so many tables available.
They told us no, and that they'll call us when our table was ready.
After 15 minutes had passed, we asked again, and this time we pointed out at least 8 or 9 separate tables were empty since we came in, and they said "Oh, um, those are reserved".
I replied that I had made a reservation also.
They ignored me and just kept chatting with each other... How Rude!!!
After debating with my friends for a few minutes about which restaurant to change to, they finally came over and seated us.
After all that, we had to subject ourselves to rude waiters also.
It just seems like they don't want any business, and that they're tired of their jobs.
I don't know how this place remains in business.
Terrible service, mediocre food – I waited with a date 40 minutes despite having a reservation and no concession was made except a very glib "too bad you had to wait." The food did not impress and was overpriced for the quality. I will not be returning.
A Treasure – What a treasure! I became familiar with Chef Farmarie after seeing him on the Food Network and was anxious to try this restaurant. On a recent NY Jaunt, I met with up with 5 friends for dinner at this chic establishment on Elizabeth St. in Soho. We were running uber late but the staff was so friendly and did their best to have us seated in a timely fashion once we did finally arrive. Boy was it worth the wait. I had the scallops to start, simply delishious and then the venisson as a plat principal and again, perfection: Perfectly cooked with just the right gameyness. I tasted a bit of my friend's lamb and it was great. Everything I tasted at the table was a little piece of heaven.
For dessert I had the coconut pudding cake with passion fruit sorbet and it was perfectly light and refreshing.
Our waitor was friendly, knowledgeable but not annoyingly so.
It was a lovely evening! I 100% recommend!
Not worth it! – We had no reservations, but the lovely (not) hostesses, were awful. They said we could wait in their main bar or front bar. When we asked where the front bar was, she did not know left from right. She kept pointing to an empty space behind her with no entrance. Brilliant. Then one of them came to let us know our table was ready. We followed the hostess, she sat us and then said that table was for another party. Then they went to sit us at a dirty table, finally we were sat in the bar area. Extremely noisy. Our waiter was very good and thank goodness for that. The fois gras was good not the best but it was good. The Tasmanian Trout was good, but the 2 scallop appetizer was gritty with sand. The edamame was perfection. Ha... With the great places in NY, I probably won't be going back for dinner there, but it is a good place to meet friends and get a drink.
cozyy – This is probably the most expensive meal we've ever had and worth every penny! The service, ambiance, food, etc. were all amazing. We had several wait staffs serving us and explaining to us the details of the dish. Just knowing how it was prepared and the chef's inspiration for the dish made it that more tasty. Can't say this place will become a regular occurance (unless I win the lotto) but the next time I get a huge bonus or something we'll be back.
wonderful restaurant – Went here on a friday night recently with a party of 6 and we had an amazing dinner. Service was great and food was even better. Atmosphere was lively but we could still hear each other talk. Sticky toffee pudding dessert was the best!!!! Highly recommended!!!!
Great food, a little expensive – I had a great time here. I came for brunch with a friend on a Saturday around 11:45, and we were immediately given a table. Around 12:30-1pm there was a line of people waiting for tables. I ordered the coconut pancakes ($11) which while good, weren't great. My friend, however, ordered the Banana Stuff French Toast ($11) and it was amazing. They also had a good selection of scones or muffins to choose from, but I didn't pay the extra money to try it. But they did look tasty (they have it sitting out buffet style). Our waiter was really nice, and not pushy considering it started to rain and my friend and I lingered over our coffees so we wouldn't have to get drenched! A nice brunch spot that serves more than the usual fare with friendly service - something that can be hard to find in Soho!
Really fabulous sceney place...great food – We love Public! Fab wine list, really wonderful unusual flavors and menu, informative staff....when you go be sure to book and ask for a table outside - the two-top at the front is FAB but good luck if you can snag it.
AVOID FOR BRUNCH - Decent decor, loud music, unattentive wait staff, DON'T GET THE VENISON BURGER!!! – I had brunch there today with my fiance. The food was OK, but Public does not deserve the good reputation it has. I would DEFINITELY avoid this place for brunch. The service was very unattentive. I expected much better. For example, our waitress visited our table maybe 4 times over the course of the entire meal. I find this unacceptable, because I had to flag her down for more water and coffee.
As for the food, my fiance's dish, the french toast, was good, not great. I wish they had not put the syrup on before serving. You can find equal or better for less. The coffee is $4. Really? Most dishes are between $10-$15, which is fine, but $4 for coffee? And they don't explicitly put that on the brunch menu, they "hide" it in the drinks menu. So, if you are having brunch, no coffee, I think the prices are fine, but if you are having coffee, the place is overpriced. Serving sizes are also on the small side. Brunch is the only meal I really appreciate larger serving sizes, so maybe I'm being too picky, but don't expect a lot of food.
BTW - My VENISON HAMBURGER was TERRIBLE. I am not that picky of an eater, but I did not finish even a 1/3 of the meal. On top of that, the waitress, when she cleared our table, didn't ask why I didn't finish the meal. Is this supposed to be a good brunch place? Seriously? The decor is nice, but the music is a bit too loud. I felt like I had to semi-shout to be heard and I was often straining to hear what my fiance was saying.
It reminds me of a place people might take a date or out-of-towners. Avoid it for brunch if you can.
Loved it. Will be back. – Had dinner at Public on Thursday, and I have to say it's the best restaurant experience I've had in a while. I'd been there for brunch before, and I always liked the space (very unique and industrial) but I'm not one to go gaga over brunch so it didn't leave much of an impression. Finally took a friend for dinner, and I fell for it. Started at the bar for a drink. My friend had a hot toddy that was made with port (thumbs up) and I ordered an unfiltered sake on the bartender's recommendation (very good, interesting). The hostess came over to seat us, but we were having a good time and decided to eat at the bar (great bar for dining, very comfortable with a good view of the cool space). Started with incredible fried oysters and kangaroo (try it!), both of which I'd go back for. Had the cod and venison for the main course, both very good. Chocolate plate for dessert had some very unusual chocolates (one with curry was my favorite). Shared a bottle of shiraz for $50 that was delicious and a pretty good value I thought. Tab wasn't cheap, but this isn't exactly a hole in the wall, you expect to pay more for the cool digs. Also it's really loud (high ceilings, hard surfaces) but that's really all I can say that's negative. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
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Reed struggled to find consistent offense before halftime and found itself deadlocked in a 27-27 tie at halftime. Many of its early woes came in the first quarter where Reed managed just eight points. The Raiders have been scoring in single digits in the first eight minutes of games far too often to coach Dustin Hall's liking.
"Right now, we're just struggling to come out and put the ball in hole," Hall said. "Today, I did think we came out with the right mindset. The ball just didn't go in. We'll try to find a way in the next couple of weeks to fix that."
Still, Reed got it going after the intermission. The Raiders scored 20 points in the third period and poured on 21 more in the fourth. Conversely, the RHS crew limited Manogue to 19 total points in the second half to help blow the game open.
"We just started defending," Hall said, alluding to his team's improved effort after the half. "We got some stops and got out in transition to get some easy buckets. We talked at halftime that we needed to buckle down and get stops. We did that."
Reed's Trae Wells posted 22 points to lead all scorers. John Stacy and Alonzo Vega chipped in 11 and 10 points respectively to help the Raiders' winning cause.
Reed won three of four games in the annual tournament and has won five of its last six games in an eight-day span. Next, the Raiders will get some extended practice time. They do not play again until they face Douglas Jan 5.
"I like what we did this week," Hall said. "But we all know there's a lot of stuff to clean up. I like this break we've got. We don't get a lot of skill work done in the preseason. We don't even get our whole team together because of football. Now we've got time to do some of that and see how good we can be."


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Wall Street's bull stands between Washington and the "fiscal cliff," and traders increasingly fear it will get run over.
Stocks have sold off more than 5 percent since election day on concerns that President Barack Obama and a divided Congress will not be able to strike a deal on taxes and spending that would avoid the U.S. economy hitting the $600 billion cliff. The cliff is a combination of taxes and automatic spending cuts that start to take effect Jan. 1 if Congress does not act.
While there has been talk from each side about a commitment to compromise, the first face-to-face meeting on the topic since the election takes place Friday when Congressional leaders meet with Obama at the White House. There is a lot at stake, and traders will be watching and waiting to see how Congressional leaders leave the meeting.
"It could go either way. I don't know that anyone has any fantastic visibility of what's going to come out of the meeting," said Gina Martin Adams, head of institutional equity strategy at Wells Fargo Securities. "We kind of have to wait for the results and see where we go from there."
The Dow slipped 28 points Thursday to 12,542, and the S&P 500 was down 2 at 1353. As stocks have sold off, money has moved into Treasurys, driving rates to the lowest level since early September. Small cap stocks and momentum names have been harder hit, with the Russell down 7 percent since election night.
"So far, we've heard really nice things compared to what's likely to unfold before the end of the year," said Zane Brown, fixed income strategist at Lord Abbett. "I still think nothing's going to get done until the end of the year. I think we're in for a very ugly period of volatility."
The Congressional Budget Office predicts a first half recession next year if the economy hits the cliff. It expects growth to be cut by a half percent for the year, and it expects growth to resume in the second half. But many private forecasts see a worse outcome if the full cliff is realized, and the unknown is how businesses and economic activity will respond to the process in Washington. If there is acrimony and contentious grandstanding, like during the debt ceiling debate, the hit on the economy could be even bigger.
The stock selloff is being fueled in part by the expectation that capital gains taxes are likely to rise next year. Capital gains rates could rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, or 23.8 percent for the wealthiest tax payers if tax breaks expire.
Particularly slammed has been Apple, the favorite stock in many a portfolio and fund, and a ripe target for tax loss selling, or capital gains avoidance in future years. The stock is down about 25 percent but still up 30 percent year to date.
Stocks that pay dividends, like utilities, have been thrown out for fear they will be less valuable if their dividends are taxed at a new higher rate. That rate could rise to as high as 43.4 percent for the richest taxpayers if the Bush-era 15 percent rate is left to expire.
"The dividend taxation issue is my greatest fear because I don't really know how you react to dividend taxes going to 45 percent and capital gains going close to 25," Adams said, adding investors have not had to consider those factors for years.
The market sell off also comes at the tail end of a lackluster earnings season, with a lot of disappointment and many warnings for the fourth quarter. Companies have pulled back on spending, and are signaling they will continue to hold off. For that reason, Adams said she downgraded tech stocks to underweight.
"Not only are investors selling their lack-of-conviction names, but they're selling their winners as well. That reflects that the market environment has turned significantly more negative," said Adams.
"The combination of fundamentals and technicals are already working against the market," she said. "If policy makers can't swoop in to add a boost to confidence, they're only going to add to the pressures...the problem now is this policy overhang is having real economic impact."
As investors take profits out of stocks, they have also been rushing into municipal bond funds because of their tax free status, and that has created a hot market for new issuance and record low rates. The MMD 10-year generic AAA muni was trading at 1.53 percent Thursday. According to Lipper U.S. Fund Flows, $3.3 billion left equity funds and ETFs in the week ending Thursday. Of that, $3 billion was taken out of the S&P 500 ETF SPY. That compares to inflows of $4.9 billion into equities last week, including about $4 billion into the ETF. (Read more: Why Muni Bonds Are Suddenly So Popular With Investors.)
Municipal bond funds received $706 million in the past week, on top of $866 million last week, unusually high volumes.
Issuers have benefited. "Deals are just getting completely eaten up. It's like they're never going to come again," said John Donovan, head of muni trading at Cantor Fitzgerald. He said in the past two days deals such as a $600 million Minnesota general obligation bond; a $590 million Texas transportation deal and $800 million in Hawaiian general obligation bonds were all oversubscribed.
Meanwhile, the public debate this week between the White House and House Republicans has been polite but shows a chasm in thinking about how to tax the rich. Both sides say they will be willing to bend, but Obama has stood his ground on higher tax rates, and House Speaker John Boehner has said higher revenues are possible but not higher rates. Comments from Obama sent stocks lower Wednesday, after traders took his re at a press briefing as a hardening of his position.
"If these guys don't get their act together, the market's going down. The economy is going down. The global economy is going down, and the only place to hide is in long duration Treasurys," said Richard Bernstein, CEO of Richard Bernstein Capital Management. "They realize it's not in their interests to completely go over the cliff. All they have to do is come up with wording so that both sides can save face with the home constituencies."
What has not been a big part of the public discussion this week was a plan on spending cuts, about $100 billion of which are automatic and the result of the debt ceiling compromise in 2011. Half the spending cuts hit defense, and were intentionally made to be onerous so it would force Congress to act. Most of the rhetoric has been about tax rates, and not about the thorny issue of cuts to entitlement programs.
"The market's going to be unsettled until we get some clarity on this stuff that could be a matter of days, a matter of weeks, it could be a matter of months," said Bernstein. He said he has become more defensively positioned and favors consumer staples and health care. Bernstein said he likes consumer-oriented stocks since household balance sheets have been improving, along with housing.
Adams said she is hoping to see the market bottom sometime in the next six months, and she too recommends defensive positioning. "At some point, we'll get some fiscal policy and all these uncertainties end...I still think the U.S. economy has investable trends, but it's hard to see them right now," she said.
"The problem in Washington is it's all emotion. It could be at the one yard line, and somebody could get mad and walk out," he said, but added that's not likely this time. "The market will absolutely get destroyed, and in this environment, nobody's going to walk away because they don't want to be the one to walk away."
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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
|Saturday, September 8, 2012
|10:45 am
|Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
Presentation by Professor of Classics Philip Freeman
In 64 B.C., Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest orator in ancient Rome, was running for consul, the highest office in the land. Cicero was a brilliant man and a gifted speaker, but he lacked the campaign skills needed in the cutthroat world of Roman politics. So his more worldly brother Quintus wrote for him a guide to winning an election. This short pamphlet is full of advice such as promising everything to everybody, exploiting the weaknesses of opponents, and giving voters hope. This almost unknown work has survived the centuries and remains as practical today as two thousand years ago.
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Upcoming in Crusader Basketball: After a week off from competition, Valparaiso returns to the hardwood on Saturday afternoon to entertain longtime rival Butler. The Crusaders will be wrapping up a three-game homestand when facing the Bulldogs, and are looking for their first Horizon League victory of the season.


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Over 250 people will converge on Sutcliffe Marina to take part in the Pyramid Lake Sprint Triathlon, hosted by the Reno-Area Triathletes Club. Starting at 8 a.m. competitors will swim a half-mile lap before hitting the road for a 14-mile bike ride. After completing the second leg of the race, participants will finish with a three-mile run. Most people will compete in the triathlon individually, but there are also 12 relay teams made up of three people each, with members completing a designated portion of the race one-by-one. Regardless of whether racers are competing as a team or on their on, many will be taking part in their very first triathlon.
"I'd say about a third of the racers are first-timers," Reno-Area Triathletes Club President Mike Ginsburg said. "A quarter to a third of the people are first-timers so we tend to cater to the first-timer experience. Because of that, this is a great first-time triathlon, and the reason is we're triathletes and we know how to run a race. We explain everything to them. We explain the course, we have maps, we have first-time tips. There's about a three-page little document that gives them everything they could possibly do from hydration to what they should on the morning of their race like when they should get in. There's always people available to tell them what to do or how to do it, giving them advice."
Ginsburg attributed much of the ease for first-timers to the aid of the many volunteers that help put the triathlon together.
"The volunteers are the reason we're successful. We'll have 100 volunteers and with 250 racers, that's one volunteer for every 2.5 people. That is a huge help," Ginsburg said. "I did Donner Lake a couple weeks ago and I went by one of the runner aid stations where they put the water out and there was one guy there for all of us. We never have a problem getting volunteers, so you're never going to get lost or run out of water or anything like that. You're never going to have a miserable experience here."
The on-hand assistance is part of the reason so many people look to the Pyramid Lake Sprint Triathlon as their first experience, as well a large part of the 30-year-old race's continued success, with the RATC running the race for the past eight years.
"A lot of people come back and the reason is because we're a triathlon club putting on a triathlon," Ginsburg said. "We know how it should go, want we want to see and what we like. I've been doing triathlons for 18 years so we have a good idea of what people want from the goody bags and T-shirts to the race itself and the timing. We know what we want to see as triathletes."
Aside from giving people what they want, the accessibility of the race is another key factor to its popularity.
"I think the main thing is that it's local," Ginsburg said. "There's not a lot of local races. I think there's one at the Sparks Marina and there's one at Donner that has been around forever. When people from around here do triathlons though, we normally have to go to the Bay Area or somewhere further. I've done triathlons in 14 states so part of the deal is traveling, and with this being a local race it's popular because we don't have to go anywhere. People can come out for the day and race and be back home the same day."


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