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Interred with Their Bones
Jennifer Lee Carrell - Author
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"A feverishly paced action adventure" (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard's most bloody murders[A] smart notable debut literary thriller.
Jennifer Lee Carrell's highly acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant, breathlessly paced literary adventure. The action begins on the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet when Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe is burned to the ground and Roz is found dead…murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlet's father.
Inside the box Kate finds the first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, highstakes treasure hunt. From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and solve a tantalizing string of clues hidden in the words of Shakespeare, which may unlock one of history's greatest secrets.
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This debut mystery kicks off with quite a bang the author never lets her pace sag as the storys roots reach back to Shakepeares time. High-class fun.
Plot twists worthy of The Da Vinci Code.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
One of the most intriguing things mentioned in your book is the surprising relationship between the writings of Shakespeare and pioneers of the American West. Can you tell your readers a little more about this? Why were cowboys so fascinated with the Bard?
In the nineteenth century American West, Shakespeare hadn't yet become Literature with a capital, elitist "L." He was simply the best storyteller out there. His popularity is actually less of an oddity than it might seem—it's a holdover from earlier periods, all the way back to Shakespeare's day, when his plays belonged to everyone, from the King down to the lowliest London apprentice ducking out of work to stand in the Yard of the Globe with his mates, gaping up at the shenanigans unfolding on the stage.
In the American West, Shakespeare's stories tended to be heard, not read. If you'd had any schooling at all, you'd probably learned some long passages by heart, reciting them in front of everyone in the one-room schoolhouse—and listening to everyone else recite their passages. His language would not have seemed as foreign as it does now. If you'd ever been to church, you'd heard the rich poetic cadences of the King James bible, published in Shakespeare's day, read aloud. Very likely, someone at home read long passages from the same Bible aloud in the evenings and on Sundays too. Just about everybody knew the sound and feel of Shakespearean language on their own tongues.
Of course it helps, too, that Shakespeare's plays tend to be epic tales of love or war, their emotions sized XXL. Even his silliness tends to be outsized, sometimes literally, as in the comic character of jolly, rumbustious, drunken Sir John Falstaff. In thinking about Shakespeare's popularity among cowboys in particular, it's worth remembering that many of them were veterans of the Civil War. After the fighting stopped, they turned their backs on the cities and farms of their boyhood, choosing instead to wander professionally through vast, little-known, and often dangerous territory. (I sometimes wonder how many of them, brought forward in time, would be diagnosed with PTSD.) It's my hunch that the grandness of Shakespeare's stories—the cruelty, killing, laughter, and loving—just made sense to them. There's a tale of a Montana rancher reading Julius Caesar to his cowboys in the 1880s. When he finished the "dogs of war" passage, one of the top farmhands shook his head and said, "That fellow Shakespeare could sure spill the real stuff. He's the only poet I ever seen what was fed on raw meat."
In the Wild West, theater kept its sense of "play" longer than it did in the more sophisticated cities. Audiences felt free to cheer, boo, hiss, whistle, applaud, and throw anything from flowers to rotten eggs onto the stage during a performance. During the gold and silver rushes in California, Colorado, and Arizona, famous actors from New York and London would travel out to the roughest of boomtowns, because the enthusiastic miners paid well, often in gold: The actors could make as much in a week in the mining camps as they might make in a month in the cities. In the absence of professional actors, though, entertainment-starved people banded together for amateur performances. Thus in Texas, a young lieutenant named Ulysses S. Grant was drafted to play Desdemona in an Army production of Othello.
Failing the willing numbers for a performance, intrepid storytellers would take it on themselves to recount the plays as stories. After hearing from an Army officer that Shakespeare was the greatest author ever, in 1863 the mountain man Jim Bridger made his way to the Oregon Trail and found someone willing to trade a yoke of oxen for a volume of Shakespeare. As he was illiterate and had no interest in learning to read, he hired a boy to read the book to him. Thereafter, he became famous for entertaining fellow mountain men around campfires by reciting his favorite plays—especially Richard III—from beginning to end. Apparently, he liked to salt his Shakespeare with oaths of his own, just to see if anyone could tell which bits were Shakespeare and which were Bridger.
American pioneers liked Shakespeare because they liked his stories and they were comfortable with his language. Nobody had told them to sit still, be quiet, and show respect in the presence of the Bard. Nobody had held up Shakespeare under glass on a silver platter and said "Look, don't touch." Nobody had said, Must have college degree to appreciate, much less must have plummy upper-class English accent to speak aloud.
If anybody had said any of those things, they would likely have been chased out of town with a volley of rotten tomatoes.
Having invested so much time and research in Shakespearean conspiracy theories in order to lay the groundwork for Interred with Their Bones, is there any particular theory that you think might actually hold water? If so, why?
On the question of Shakespeare's identity, I'd say that I'm happily agnostic: I like the mystery. The writer of the plays was probably William Shakespeare of Stratford, but there are enough gaps in the evidence that it only seems responsible to admit that we don't know "who did it" with certainty. To put it in legal terms, by the standards of a civil trial ("preponderance of evidence"), I would cast my vote to convict the actor from Stratford. By the much more demanding standards of a criminal trial, however ("beyond a reasonable doubt"), I could not, because to my mind somebody else might well be the guilty party.
That said, most of the commonly proposed alternates have serious problems. For example, Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, died in 1604—although new Shakespearean plays look to have gone on premiering until about 1613.
The alternate who most intrigues me at the moment is William Stanley, sixth earl of Derby. Unlike Oxford, he had the right life span, which makes Derby possible as a candidate. But he's also seductively plausible.
Derby is known, for instance, to have written plays (though none survive), and he was a fine musician (at least one of his compositions, a pavane, does survive). He also knew all the right things: He was well educated (including a stint of legal training at the Inns of Court) and widely traveled, and seems to have enjoyed such aristocratic pastimes as hunting and hawking (he certainly indulged in them). His family was (and is) famous for horsemanship, horse breeding, and horse racing (from their title comes the noun derby, meaning "horse race"). He grew up in a household widely acknowledged to be England's grandest, outside the queen's. Theater was literally in the house—his father and elder brother, Lord Strange, were two of the theater's greatest patrons. Both the Earl of Derby's Men and Lord Strange's Men seem to have performed some of Shakespeare's earliest plays, before he became the queen's playwright (as part of the Chamberlain's Men—essentially the queen's company).
From infancy, Derby knew court, courtiers, grand living, and political infighting, but he never expected to be a peer himself—he was a younger son. In fact, he seems to have been something of a wild child for much of his youth, pulling himself back to the straight and narrow only when his elder brother died unexpectedly in 1594, leaving him the burden of one of England's most powerful earldoms.
He seems to have been properly Church of England, at least on the surface, but he grew up in Lancashire, a stronghold of Roman Catholicism and of Catholic discontent—at a time when that roused suspicions of treason. His father routinely shielded Catholics from the full brunt of the increasingly ferocious laws aimed at crushing them—while managing to keep the queen's trust. So Derby grew up surrounded by Catholic sensibilities (as well as a sense of protective duplicity), familiar—as was the writer of the plays—with such notions as confession and purgatory, with figures of friars and nuns, and with the folklore of ghosts and fairies that seems to have survived much longer in the conservative Catholic countryside than in urban Puritan neighborhoods.
Through their mother, Derby and his brother had royal blood—they were great-great-grandsons of King Henry VII through his daughter Mary Tudor (King Henry VIII's younger sister and Queen Elizabeth's aunt). Both brothers thus spent their lives aware of being carefully, even anxiously watched by the government, by would-be Catholic plotters, and by all those with a dangerous taste for speculating on who might succeed Queen Elizabeth. (For a sense of how solid his royal claim seemed at the time, the man who eventually became Elizabeth's heir, King James, also claimed the English throne by virtue of being the great-great-grandson of King Henry VII—through the elder daughter, Margaret. Though Derby's claim came through the younger daughter, he was preferred to James in some quarters because he was English, while James, as King of Scotland, was a foreigner.) Derby was, for all that, one of the Queen's few male relations on the royal Tudor side to survive into old age without losing his head or even doing a stint in the Tower. That in itself suggests a man of no mean political and diplomatic savvy, as well as an insider's understanding of the lures and perils of great power.
If there is a quintessentially Shakespearean topic, it is surely the tangled and twisting lures, responsibilities, and perils of power.
Derby has links to specific plays as well. The Stanleys had helped to put King Henry VII on throne, at the end of the Wars of the Roses, and Shakespeare's history plays highlight the role of the house of Stanley. Derby also has intriguing links to Love's Labour's Lost and The Tempest. His turbulent relationship with his wife, Elizabeth de Vere (eldest daughter of the earl of Oxford)—which seems to have included meddling deceit on the part of a trusted lieutenant—bears at least a passing resemblance to the plot of Othello.
Derby's status—first as the cadet of a major aristocratic dynasty, and later as the earl of Derby and head of the family—would explain why, if indeed he had a hand in composing Shakespeare's plays, he hid his identity behind a pseudonym. Writing for the public stage would have been almost immeasurably beneath his family's dignity. On the other hand, his exalted status would explain why Shakespeare seems to have waltzed unscathed through crises and scandals that would have landed other playwrights in scalding water—such as the playing of Richard II, with its touchy subject of deposing a monarch, on the eve of the Essex rebellion.
Given all of the circumstantial evidence, I have no idea why Derby has always been such a dark horse candidate. But he's never had the cachet of Bacon or Oxford or even Marlowe. Perhaps it's because he didn't leave a body of writing behind—though to my mind, that's perversely in his favor, since to my ears the writings of Bacon, Oxford, and Marlowe don't sound anything like Shakespeare's work.
Unfortunately, the Derby seat of Lathom House, for centuries one of England's largest and finest castles, was razed to the ground by Cromwell's army during the Civil War, with such savage finality that it no longer seems to be quite clear exactly where it stood. Any papers that might have clarified Derby's relationship to a certain player from Stratford were likely burned then (just a few years after Derby's death), if they had not already been destroyed. The other main palace of the earls of Derby, Knowsley Hall, still exists as one of the great stately homes of England—but since the sixth earl's time it has been rebuilt, enlarged, and refurbished out of all recognition. However suggestive Derby's life, learning, and character may be, real links between him and Shakespeare remain elusive; the closer you look, the more they dissolve, like the remnants of a dream.
In the end, the lack of irrefutable evidence linking anyone—including the front-runner William Shakespeare of Stratford—to the writing of the plays keeps me in the agnostic category. It's still a mystery, and I like it that way.
But history is full of quirks. It's always possible that something has survived and will eventually come to light.
You've directed Shakespeare for the stage; in writing this book, did you develop a different kind of relationship with the works of Shakespeare than you'd had as a director?
Thinking about whether writing Interred with Their Bones gave me a different relationship with the works of Shakespeare than directing them did—I think I'd have to turn that question inside out. Writing the novel didn't rearrange my experience of the plays so much as directing the plays taught me how to write a novel.
As a director, it's your job to find the "through-story" of the play at hand—the story that you want your production to tell, the linear path down which you're going to lead your audience. With Shakespeare, that's a harder task than with many other playwrights—but also more exhilarating. Shakespeare is one of the most generous storytellers I've ever run across, in that he doesn't try to ride herd on his readers', actors', and directors' imaginations. He gives almost no stage directions, and his indications of setting are brief to the point of near-blankness. Compare Beckett or Shaw or O'Neill, for example—wonderful storytellers all—but their stage directions tend to be controlling and insistent. Shaw and O'Neill can go on for what seems like pages. Beckett's estate still famously refuses to license productions that do not adhere to the particulars of his stage directions.
By comparison, a Shakespearean play seems lush, loose, almost wanton with possibilities. Each of his plays can be tailored to tell a number of very different stories. In fact, many of his plays need streamlining in order to run in anything approaching the two hours' time that seems to have been the usual allotment for plays in Shakespeare's day as well as in ours. This very richness is one reason Shakespeare is hard to read: He makes his readers do a lot more imaginative work than most other authors do. In the theater, the job of meeting him halfway goes to the director. As director, you have to pick one main story that will make sense and develop it, distilling it out to clarity as you go.
Together with your actors, you have to figure out why each character must say these words, and not any other words, at just this point in time. How are they said? To whom? Why? And, once said, what effect do they have on the world of the play? When you, as a company, get it right, you know it: The words begin to conjure up a believable world, which in turn supports the words. It's this give-and-take—this resonating feedback—between words and the world in which they're said that makes them, in the end, so very powerful.
In a way, directing a Shakespearean play is a piece of detective work: piecing together evidence—each piece building on the next—to make, in the end, a story so plausible, so compelling, that the audience members will lose themselves in your fictional world, at least for a little while. By intuition and hard work, you have to figure out what's necessary to that story, and have the courage and conviction to pare away what's not—whether that's your own pet interpretation or an arcane phrase, confusing subplot, or out-of-date joke of the playwright's. It's this behind-the-scenes work—the investigative rehearsals leading up to performance—that are part of what I love most about theater. No doubt that's one reason I'm a director/writer rather than a performer!
With the novel, I started with a basic idea: a deadly treasure hunt that would lead to a lost play, and a letter that might—or might not—reveal the "real" identity of the playwright. Very early on, a clear vision of the ending—the cave, the flash flood, the final death—just appeared in my imagination. Some time after that, I just "saw" the beginning: Kate sitting on a hill with the golden box on her knees. I didn't know what was in the box, or what she was doing there. But I knew the Globe was burning below. (What was going to end in water, somehow needed to begin with fire.) To write the novel, I had to find a "through-story" that would link this beginning with the ending, somehow picking up lots of odd Shakespearean clues and theories along the way. As I worked, the process of plotting and writing the novel came to seem very similar to the process of directing—only I was alarmingly alone, without a script for guidance.
So, I wouldn't say that writing the novel made me think about Shakespeare in a new light because it's about Shakespeare. I'd say the novel gave me the chance to put into practice lessons I'd learned from Shakespeare in the theater about how to tell a story, how to make a world with words. The experience of storytelling "from scratch," as it were, embarking on making a story without a script as guide, has only deepened my awe for him as a supremely gifted teller of tales.
Were you given access to one of the First Folios during your research?
While researching this book, I needed to look at the First Folio time and again. Fortunately, I did not need to handle an actual First Folio—and doubly fortunately, good facsimile copies are not hard to come by. That's what I used when I needed to see what particular pages looked like, or get the wording (and spelling) of particular phrases. There's also a superb "library" of early Shakespeare editions, including the First Folio, online at Internet Shakespeare Editions (internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html).
In my work as a scholar, I have handled many books from Shakespeare's era, so I know the marvelous feel and smell of books like the Folio . . . and the visceral horror at the thought of their desecration.
When I taught at Harvard, I used to have my students go look at the First Folio on display in Widener Library—both to see what the actual book looks like, and to think about the implications of the way in which the University displays it—along with a Gutenberg Bible, as it happens, in a case that looks a little like an altar, in a room that looks a lot like a shrine. Many of them would come back calling the place "The Church of Shakespeare"!
Giving myself a similar assignment, while researching the book I also visited displays of First Folios at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the British Library in London, and displays of fine facsimiles at Shakespeare's Globe in London, and in Nash's House (next to New Place) in Stratford-upon-Avon.
While plotting the novel, I very much wanted to have a First Folio found at the library of the Royal English College in Valladolid, though I knew they did not have one. I consoled myself, however, with the idea that it made plausible sense, historically, that one might have found its way there. Then, during a marvelous private tour of the college, I learned from the librarian that they had indeed once possessed a First Folio, but had sold it off many years ago.... Sometimes fiction has a sly way of sidling up to fact!
Why do you believe that the works of Shakespeare still hold such relevance in these modern times?
Shakespeare wrote about the fundamental experiences of life: love, hate, greed, jealousy, laughter, death. He could focus intensely on one aspect of such an experience—say, first love in Romeo and Juliet—without getting stuck there, so that his plays about love grow and change as he did, moving from first love, to middle-aged passion, to the love of aged fathers for their daughters. He could write equally well—often in the same play—about the murderous drive to revenge and the mischievous delight in laughter. And he had a special affinity for the showing the soul tangled in the lures and perils of power. Furthermore, he wrote about all these subjects with startling clarity and sometimes almost unbearable beauty, all the while keeping sentimentality at bay with a sharp, skeptical edge of irony.
All that is just to say that he was a great writer, who knew the human soul well and could show us ourselves—or who we might turn out to be, in extreme circumstances. But there are other writers who have done all these things. What sets Shakespeare apart even from other great writers is, as I've said above, his imaginative generosity. He does not insist that this story be told in such-and-such a way, in any particular setting, with any particular ulterior motive or political message. He does not insist on his interpretation.
Which means that his stories—as tied as they are to the core of what it is to live a human life—have a remarkable elasticity that allows them not only to change and grow with one reader across a single lifetime, but also to make sense in widely different times and places. Hamlet is the quintessential tale of English aristocratic angst; it has also been enjoyed in the East African bush as a tale of witchcraft and proper punishment. Coriolanus has been produced as a Communist play; it has also been produced as a Fascist play. Lear and Macbeth make sense in Japanese as samurai films. Henry V has been produced as an adventure glorifying the heroics of war, and as a tragedy lamenting the waste of war.
Shakespeare is great because he wrote beautifully and powerfully about the most fundamental of subjects. He is still relevant, after four hundred years, because he not only allows but requires his readers to remake his stories into tales that make sense for them.
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sheesh, you wisconsin fans don't give up. yes, you did misinterpret what was written. the motive was to stop the clock by spiking the ball. the play that ended by putting the ball on the ground was stupid. countless pundits agree. the qb should have stepped between the hashes, took a knee and tossed the ball to the ref. that would have given enough time to place and spike the ball to stop the clock. he didn't, that was the stupidity. not only that, there was really no need to even set up between the hashes for that chip shot field goal. that too has been brought up countless times. go cry in your cheese dip...
Pac-12 reprimands officials over Wisconsin-Arizona State ending
The Pac-12 has "reprimanded and taken additional sanctions against" the officiating crew of Saturday's game between Wisconsin and Arizona State for its handling of the final play.
Badgers' quarterback Joel Stave ran the ball towards the center of the field with 18 seconds remaining and attempted to take a knee before placing the ball on the ground. But there was confusion as to whether Stave's knee actually touched the ground. As a result, several Sun Devil players dove on the ball as if it were a fumble. The clock ran out before a decision was made, and Wisconsin missed the chance at a game-winning field goal as Arizona State escaped with a 32-30 win.
According to the league, no one of the officiating crew "moved with appropriate urgency to clearly communicate that the ball was to be spotted so play could resume promptly."
"This was an unusual situation to end the game," said Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement. "After a thorough review, we have determined that the officials fell short of the high standard in which Pac-12 games should be managed. We will continue to work with all our officials to ensure this type of situation never occurs again."
Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen responded to the Pac-12′s decision at his Monday press conference.
Reporter reads Pac-12 release to Andersen during his presser. Asked if that's satisfactory, he says, "No."—
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sheesh, you wisconsin fans don't give up. yes, you did misinterpret what was written. the motive was to stop the clock by spiking the ball. the play that ended by putting the ball on the ground was stupid. countless pundits agree. the qb should have stepped between the hashes, took a knee and tossed the ball to the ref. that would have given enough time to place and spike the ball to stop the clock. he didn't, that was the stupidity. not only that, there was really no need to even set up between the hashes for that chip shot field goal. that too has been brought up countless times. go cry in your cheese dip...
1. The clock - by rule - does not stop on a running play, even a kneel-down. In fact, the kneel-down is used by QBs to intentionally run out the clock.
2. It takes about 20-30 seconds to set the ball following a play. This is exactly why you don't use a running play with less than 30 seconds in the game unless you have a time out you can take.
3. The defense is allowed to make substitutions when the offense does so, and this does not allow the clock to be stopped while they do that. Since Wisconsin ran a couple new players onto the field, this would have prevented the ball from being blown ready with time remaining.
4. So why were the refs penalized? Loss of game control, failure to explain the ruling. For Wisconsin, though, no grounds to change the result.
Wisconsin should forever have an asterisk by this "L". What a homer.
Time to move on...Its not like they will play those 18 seconds over.
I don't expect refs to be perfect, heck no, judgement calls are rough at mock speed. I do think they owe it to themselves and the teams they officiate to know the rules. This is the bone of contention with most.
The refs owed it to both teams to get clarification before ending the game like this.
If the Arizona State player truly believe he had just recovered a "fumble", why hump the ball for ten seconds? I've never seen that in a (non-pile-up situation) fumble recovery. If he thought he had recovered a fumble, he would have pounced on the ball, and then stood up, held the ball over his head, and high-fived his teammates or something. No. He was doing one thing, and one thing alone - trying to delay the game and prevent Wisconsin from having their rightful opportunity to spike the ball and then attempt a FG.
I'm still not sure I know what the officials *should* have done. Should they have ruled a fumble? Should they have ruled the play dead and allowed Wisconsin to get back up to the line?
That said, I'm pretty sure I know what they shouldn't have done: stood there and looked at each other like deer in headlights.
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QB was an idiot. Every QB understands that you actually go to a knee and don't fake going to a knee. Play should have been ruled a fumble anyway.
As someone who doesn't have a dog in this fight, my reading of the rule book (and I could very well be wrong) is that a player can't simply place the ball on the ground. This rule came into play back in the days when QBs or RBs would take the snap and lay the ball on the ground so as to fake and another RB from the Wishbone would could up and secretly pick it up. That got outlawed. The rulebook I am reading also says that the ball has to be clearly spiked, and even then the spike is moot if the QB does not do it immediately after the snap or has moved around outside the pocket. If the knee is down or not, the clock keeps running. In other words, you can't spike after trying to run a play, which is what appears to have happened here. Thus, anytime the ball is placed or dropped behind the line of scrimmage, it is a live ball. So, I think the defense here was correctly assuming it could have been a live ball.
Granted, that is a lot of confusion after that, but Wisconsin did not appear to be hustling to get back to the line. Had they hustled and snapped the ball with the defense still behind the line of scrimmage, then there should have been a penalty for offsides, but since that did not happen, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. If they would have cleanly spiked the ball as per the rules, none of this would have happened.
Amazing how many people are commenting on here who have no clue at all.
Why would he spike the ball instead on the play in question when the clock was stopped already geniuses? There were 18 seconds left and the clock was stopped before they ran the play where he took a knee. What would spiking the ball possibly accomplish? Again why would he spike the ball in that situation? That makes zero sense.
The refs blew it. The Pac-12 knows it and it's a complete joke. Stave clearly took a knee no matter how quickly he did it. You simply cannot let a game end that way. If the refs were so confused they need to stop the clock and figure out what to do, not do what they did and just run off the field without giving an explanation.
There should have been a delay of game penalty at least against ASU, the clock stopped, the ball moved 5 yards closer. Instead, we have this nonsense. The officials should have stopped the clock at least. The head ref should lose his job for this.
I've been watching Pac 12 or 16 or whatever the heck they call it these days for many years. Their refs are not crooks, but they are the most incompetent crowd of fools ever put on the field. For many, many years the refs have affected the outcomes of games in a negative way and the administration of the conference have simply hung out in the palatial headquarters, doing nothing. It has been a total joke.
This is the single greatest tragedy of our age. Or it's just a stupid college sporting event. One or the other.
It's easy to blame the refs but obviously the QB lost track of the time. From 0:10 to 0:03 he has no urgency at all, then he suddenly looks at the clock and panics.
Is it true that pac 12 officiating is a stepping stone to a career as a pro wrestling referee?
@rkcla08 - The QB DID take a knee to setup another play to spike the ball, so if your argument is that he didn't take a knee, go play in the sandbox with the other children.
1. Yes, we know the rules and no one ever has argued that the clock should stop with a knee.
2. No, it does not take 20-30 seconds to set a ball ready for play...the play clock is 40 seconds so that concept is just ridiculous.
3. No Wisconsin player left the field or substituted out after the kneel down play.
4. The officials own governing body said the officials were at fault due to lack of urgency in the remaining seconds of a 4th quarter.
Honestly, if you can't see that the officials blew that call, you should probably just stop following football entirely.
@hapefish - The QB took a knee...it's clear on video and photos. Just because it wasn't slow and deliberate doesn't mean it didn't happen! They should have acted with urgency to place the ball or called AZ State for Delay of Game for not allowing an official to place the ball. The head referee is the one that called the QB down so he should have stopped the clock when he saw that the AZ players were on the ball.
@hapefish the officials could have blown the whistle, conferenced, put the ball down and time back on the clock then resumed play. Problem solved. They could have even done this after time expired.
@swillyish After the whistle was blown,which it was, the play was dead. Whether his knee was ever down or not actually doesn't matter at that point. No fumble.
@swillyish It would help that the refs knew the rules better than the QB...The QB doesn't even actually have to kneel down, just simulate...play over...
BTW he didnt fake..he actually did kneel, albet quick.
Did you see the play? Stave didn't try to spike it, that's not what happened here. Stave ran to his left to respot the ball(for FG attempt) and HE TOOK A KNEE(I linked a picture of it below) and the WHISTLE BLEW.. Stave put the ball on the ground for the ref to then spot it...the second the kid from ASU jumped on the ball, it should have been a flag against ASU for delay of game.
Again there was no spike attempt per the rules, it was taking a knee...that's why the refs have been admonished, cause they were wrong...
Couldn't agree more and it's not just football. They are just as awful in basketball as well.
@First1 The Wisconsin QB couldn't do anything because the ref had not spotted the ball. By the time the ref spotted the ball it was too late for Wisconsin to snap the ball.
The Wisconsin quarterback took a knee and there is a whistle that can be clearly heard with fifteen seconds left in the game. At that point players from Arizona State cover the ball, which should have caused a flag for delay of game.
Then with about four seconds left the ref finally decides to spot the ball. At this point he orders the Wisconsin players to step back away from the ball.
To suggest that that the Wisconsin QB could have done anything to get his team to the line in order to spike the ball is to completely ignore what actually happened on the field.
The refs were at fault for not doing their jobs.
Its precisely this sort of situation that teams are supposed to be able to rely on an officiating crew to properly administer. The team isn't administering the game the officials are. It would certainly have helped if the UW QB had tossed the ball to the ref instead of setting it down. But that's where you should be able to rely on a competent official to step in and take control. Instead the officials just stood there looking helpless like pro wrestling refs.
@AintGotNoDukes @rkcla08 go back and re-read what i wrote. taking a knee was not the argument. it was taking a knee and tossing the ball to the ref rather than leaving the ball on the ground. the refs were dumbfounded by the stupidity of that, the defense pounced on the ball on the ground and hence the whistle wasn't blown right then and there when the knee went down. the childish sandbox is yours for not recognizing the stupidity displayed by the qb.
@HowardKnutThompson @swillyish After the whistle blew it was dead. The period where it was on the ground doing nothing prior to the whistle blowing though was live.
@j7apple @swillyish No he didn't. He ran into his own player and his knee got to about 6" off the ground. if he had stood up and thrown it, it would've still been a live ball and could've resulted in a TD.
@JohnCuevas @RyanA I think the taking a knee was pretty sketchy. None of the images I have seen look definitive to me. It is true that the whistle did blow, but even the line judge did not seem to have heard the whistle, so if anyone is at fault, it is the head ref. But I still maintain all this is a moot point because if it was in fact a legitimate knee, the QB should have handed the ball to the ref or kept it in his possession. He only added to the confusion with the weird placing of the ball on the ground, making it appear to the defense like it was a fumble or something bizarre. If time is of the essence, never do anything cutesy.
The whistle was blown with fifteen seconds left which was almost immediately after the ball was downed.
@swillyish @j7apple Wrong. There are plenty of images on the internet that showed his knee was down.
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actually on a fumble the clock would stop for change of possession. That would have been a good scenario for WI. As it would have been reviewed and the ball placed with 13 secs left. This is why the PAC12 reprimanded them. There was no scenario possible which would cause the refs to stand around looking like morons. Its simply not possible to imagine what they were thinking.
@JohnCuevas @j7apple lol, now you can gloat.
@JohnCuevas @swillyish @j7apple I had not seen that actually, but that is pretty clear. Whistle should have been blown right then and not 2s later like it was. It is pretty clear the refs did not see it at all and at least one of the officials was treating it like a fumble. PAC 12 officials are still the worst in the business.
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already posted the picture...there's ignorance here, but it ain't coming me from me.
Knee. Ground. Proof. http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/StaveKnee2.jpg
@IndependentsDay @swillyish @j7apple Knee hit what ground? I was being generous saying it got within 6", it wasn't even that close.
Photos don't lie bro, the knee hit the ground. ASU should have been flagged for delay of game or the refs should have blown the whistle. It was ridiculous for it to take 13 seconds to re-spot the ball. The refs blew it and may cost Wisconsin a spot in a BCS bowl worth millions of dollars to the program.
@JohnCuevas @swillyish @j7apple Yup, they were technically wrong for blowing the whistle on a fumble prior to a clear recovery. Thanks for being arrogant and ignorant!
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The whistle blew...the refs knew he had downed the ball, that was down live, without slo-mo replay. You don't need the TECHNICALLY...they were wrong...thanks for agreeing. End of Story.
@JohnCuevas @swillyish @j7apple Lol, there is not an official out there who isnt wrong often in slo mo on replay. The PAC 12 sucks so bad at officiating they have no choice but to always admit being wrong now or lose what little cred they are trying to rebuild. And technically they were wrong, but the QB could've made a play without requiring the official to make a judgement so I am not feeling terrible for him. It's like expecting a PI call as time expires...might happen.
@swillyish @JohnCuevas @j7apple
Dude, you're crawfishing, the Pac12 reviewed the play and said the refs were wrong, conclusively.
@JohnCuevas @swillyish @j7apple Whistle did not blow as soon as he took the knee. It blew when he made a hand signal to the ref which means nothing. I would 100% agree with all the issues, if the QB had not stumbled after running into his own guy. In doing that he made it not 100% clear he was giving himself up. He may have fumbled the ball and been grabbing for it when the knee was heading to the ground. I agree it looked likely he was giving himself up but without removing the judgement call from the official like his coach probably explicitly told him to do in the huddle (take the knee, dive on the ground, etc) he screwed up.
Wrong, he took a knee and it was whistled, so no it wouldn't have been a live ball...and j7apple is right, you only have to simulate taking knee, your knee doesn't have to hit the ground.
He placed the ball on the ground so the ref doesn't have to find the spot where the qb could have legally placed it. (which he did) That's the way the play is practiced to save time in a tight clock situation. The ref should have immediately grabbed it. He blew the whistle and then fell asleep at the wheel. How is it anyone can argue the qb was at fault? He did exactly what he wanted as they practiced within the rules of football.
@RyanA @JohnCuevas The whistle was blown. The refs gave him the kneel regardless. I believe it is also in the rule book that the knee does not have to actually touch the ground, it is the action or motion of taking a knee that signifies the player has given up and the official then makes the call to blow the play did which, in this case, they did. Bottom line, the whistle was blown and the ball needed to be immediately spotted. The latter did not happen.
That's the whole point isn't it? In that situation the QB is not supposed to be the primary determiner of the process. The refs are supposed to be in control. Their actions are SUPPOSED to be primary not secondary. The QB is not supposed to dictate the behavior of the officiating crew. I doubt they ever go over in practice - "Here's what you do if the officials are standing around like zombies." Basically EVERYONE who's an expert has said this is on the officials. If you ever played football at the college level or even the high school level you would understand your reliance on the officials to control and administer the game.


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The Second Yale-Riggs Conference on Partnerships, Parenting, and Family Systems will focus on the reciprocal effects of addiction on family process and family process on addiction. In a series of clinical and research presentations, the conference will explore the nature of sexual partnerships and parenting as they unfold in the context of addiction. Narratives of family process affected by addiction and addiction affected by family process will be drawn from clinical and research programs offered at the Austen Riggs Center and the Yale University School of Medicine. Special attention will be devoted to the integration of psychodynamic and psychobiological perspectives on both addiction and family process. Clinical and research presentations will be followed by an invited commentary and group discussion. Throughout the conference, there will be an emphasis on ways research on addiction can inform clinical care and ways clinical care can inform research on addiction.
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For more information, contact:
Linda Isakson
Yale University School of Medicine
(203) 785-7205
Lee Watroba
Austen Riggs Center
(413) 931-5284
- Continuing Education
The Austen Riggs Center is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Austen Riggs Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This conference has been approved for 12.0 continuing education credits.
The Austen Riggs Center's policy on disclosure requires ARC Guest Speakers to disclose any significant financial interest or other relationship with any commercial supporters of this live activity. In keeping with this policy and the disclosure requirements of the Massachusetts Medical Society, we hereby state that none of the speakers, nor anyone involved in the planning of the CME/CE event, has disclosed a potential conflict of interest. The Austen Riggs Center accepts no commercial support of any kind to support our CME/CE events.
This program has been approved for 12.0 continuing education credit hours by the National Association of Social Workers, Connecticut and meets the continuing education criteria for Connecticut social work licensure renewal.
- Location
- The conference will be held in the Cohen Auditorium at the Yale Child Study Center, 230 Frontage Road, New Haven, CT 06519.collapse
- Lodging
- For information about lodging, see http://www.yale.edu/visitor/lodging.html
- Local Attractions
- For information about Yale University attractions, see http://www.yale.edu/visitor/attractions.html
For information about the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven during the conference, see http://artidea.org
- Fine Dining
- For information about fine dining in New Haven, see http://www.infonewhaven.com/ dining-listing
- Parking
- Parking for the conference is available for a daily fee in the Air Rights Garage at 60 York Street. The Temple Street Garage at 1 Temple Street, the Howard Avenue Garage at 800 Howard Avenue, and the Propark lots on Howard Avenue are alternatives.


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Capital Markets Recap
Top Stories
…a stream of consciousness collection of top stories IMO from the week
- Percentage of Americans delaying retirement increases to 62%. Two years ago it was 42%.
- The debt ceiling is…suspended for three months. I guess that means it doesn't matter until then.
- Euro:Dollar exchange reaches 14-month high. So much for the Euro going down the tubes.
- "The latest bout of optimism in the markets is welcome, but governments should not let it infect them with a dangerous complacency," so said The Economist. That same complacency has hit investors it seems. That's what John Hussman, of the Hussman funds, said last week in a dispatch titled "Capitulation Everywhere." It's evidenced in the low Volatility Index readings, bullish individual investor surveys, and elsewhere.
- Automatic spending cuts are set to kick in on March 1–this is the part of the Fiscal Cliff that was postponed–and The Washington Post cites lawmakers who say there is "little hope of averting them."
- Rep. Paul Ryan says the spending cuts will be allowed to take place, but the government won't shut down.
- Some guy from the Potomac Group–surely from a John Grisham novel–says the U.S. economy is in better shape than you think. He sees the unemployment rate going to 7% by the end of the year. Economists have less than enviable forecasting records. I wouldn't quit your job to look for a new one just yet.
- The Federal Reserve said it will continue to buy $85 billion of bonds each month. It intends to keep rates at zero until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5%, according to a number of sources. Here's a word cloud of the Fed's statement, released after its every-six-weeks rate decision meeting.
- Christina Romer, former economic advisor to the Pres, says the U.S. economy is doing better than Europe precisely because we avoided the harsh austerity it embraced. What do you think?
Company specific
- The Department of Justice is filing an anti-trust lawsuit to block Anheuser-Busch InBev from acquiring the 50% of Grupo Modelo that it doesn't already own.
- Amazon shares reached an all-time after beating Q4 earnings estimates
Security flavors of the week…as usual, more ETFs were launched this week
- WisdomTree is debuting an actively-managed corporate-bond ETF, the WisdomTree Global Corporate Bond ETF. This is the second coming of ETFs, the actively managed kind.
- iShares is launching the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Index fund, which will own stocks with the "potential for above-market momentum." Momentum is one of the drivers of stock performance that the efficient markets crowd hasn't been able to explain. It's sort of Darwin's platypus.
- You say you don't invest in gold because it doesn't pay a dividend? Well, that hasn't changed, but Credit Suisse is launching an exchange traded note (i.e. it'll have the credit risk of CSFB), the Credit Suisse Gold Shares Covered Call ETN, that will systematically write covered calls on the big GLD gold ETF.
- Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) are the income-generation vehicle of choice for many in this ultra-low-yield interest rate environment, so, naturally, MLP funds are popping up like weeds. Two companies are teaming up to launch the Yorkville High Income Infrastructure MLP ETF. Some day this market will get overcooked; investors will lose millions and will swear them off. That day's probably not here yet, but be careful.
- And now for some really useful ETFs. iShares has announced it's getting ready to launch its next series of target-maturity-date bond ETFs. Some day the aircraft carrier that is declining interest rates will change course, and interest rates will head back up. When that happens, bond funds will, generally, start to sport negative signs on portfolio statement, especially in front of the gain/loss numbers. That's one reason that investors prefer individual bonds…"but if I hold it 'til maturity I won't lose anything." Right, right. "Not so, with a bond fund," they say. Right, right. Anyway, while individual bond investors really should be in bond fund to gain their diversification and monthly income distribution, they generally don't like the no-maturity-date feature of the funds–even thought their fund of bonds has no maturity date. A n y w a y … these target date ETFs just own bonds set to mature in any one year. Accordingly, they give investors the benefits of bond funds (diversification, monthly income) with the certain maturity (December 31, 20XX) of an individual bond. The new iShares ETFs will have target maturities of 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2023 in both investment-grade and finance-sector varieties (four of each.)
This Week
I'm not a big fan of tying market moves, which comprise more than a few hands and more than a few motivations, to specific news, but perhaps it's different in futures. Here's a look at the overnight and pre-New York open activities in the front-month S&P 500 contract. Notice the spike at 8:30 AM that occurred on the Nonfarm Payrolls release, and, later, at 10:00 AM, when the ISM Manufacturing index was released. Cash markets open at 9:30, so the S&P 500 cash index is flat until then. The trouble with tying market moves to specific stories is, for example, what happened at 2:00, when the market started to roll over? Well, Utah Lawmakers approved some change in some pay structure; the NYT released some story about remembering Ed Koch; maybe some rumor spread on trading floors–who knows.
Out of these two releases, only the second one offered any reason to rally. The first one came in like this:
- Nonfarm Payrolls grew by 157,000. That's just 2,000 jobs more than last month's print, and it's 8,000 less than the dismal scientist crowd estimated.
- Private Payrolls declined by 2,000 from December and were 2,000 shy of economists' estimates.
- Manufacturing Payrolls grew by just 4,000; down from 25,000 in December and less than the 10,000 expected.
- In what is probably the most widely recognized economic data point, the Unemployment Rate moved up to 7.9% from 7.8%.
- Average Weekly Hours Worked fell by six minutes.
Following Wednesday's release of Q4 GDP, which showed a (-)0.10% decline, perhaps the morning's second release, ISM Manufacturing, grew unexpectedly from 50.7 to 53.1, far better than the 50.7 that economists had expected. This diffusion-index report indicates growth when the reading is above 50; contraction below 50. As one can see from the Payroll summary above, however, manufacturing payrolls grew very modestly in the last month, and it's a relatively small portion of our economy–even though there is no nation that produces more stuff than we do.
Regarding that GDP report, it seems that
everyone the bulls are dismissing it, that it's an artifact of the temporary [and vaporous?] year-end fiscal cliff worries. Capital spending's going to rebound, there's a newfound willingness in Congress to work together (what?!). Rather, I think it's a case of spineless Republicans turning belly up. It seems the best they can come up with is to approve the debt ceiling increase, asking only that Congress produce its first budget in four years or else all the congresspeople forfeit their pay. 'Like any of that will happen.
Hey, have you noticed your paycheck? All else equal, your 2013 weekly paycheck is lower than 2012′s. Hello…. Apparently, this came as some shock to the fine folks surveyed by the Conference Board. I would have thought that anyone able to fog a mirror would have known the 2% payroll tax cut was going away as part of the Fiscal Cliff, and that it's not hard to calculated 2% of one's pay. According to folks smarter than I, the folks surveyed were shocked…shocked…SHOCKED! to find this was the case. Accordingly, confidence (top panel) fell to levels of a year ago, as is on display below.
Next Week
Key indicators to watch
- ISM Non-manufacturing survey – arguably this indicator covers more of the economy than does today's ISM Manufacturing.
- Initial Jobless Claims
Graig P. Stettner, CFA, CMT
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As always we have a vibrant and busy field; The Avalon Inn – our fantastic timber framed pub, The Flying Seagulls to amuse the children, swing boats and a helter skelter as well as our first open air art gallery in conjunction with Somerset Art Week.
Relax in the Avalon Café and enjoy delicious food with its extensive vegetarian menu and the best coffee. Here, between the hours of 10am and 3am, you will be entertained with live music from numerous up and coming new acts to the festival as well as some firm festival favourites.
Built in Burton upon Trent in 1932 our (not so) new helter skelter has a rich history. During the 50s & 60s it was situated at Great Yarmouth, and more recently was featured in the video for The Beatles' anthology song Free as a bird.
Over the years it's had many celebrities down the slide from Barbara Windsor, Jeremy Beadle to Guy Martin to name but a few!
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I currently live in Pennsylvania and I'm looking to convert my existing 10 year old LAARS Newport boiler to gas. The problem I'm having is that I'm getting conflicting assessments from 2 local Plumbing companies. Currently my boiler heats the house and the water. The guy I had in Monday says no problem he can covert the existing equipment with a Wayne gas conversion burner and my boiler will still heat the house and the water. The guy I had in this morning says he can also convert the boiler to fire with gas but I would have to buy a separate water heater. He says once I convert to gas that there would not be enough power to do both. He says I would get some warm water but it would not be warm enough to take a shower with. So I'm really confused now and I have a 3rd company coming tomorrow morning.
Now I'm not sure I could be wrong but I think the 2nd guy said there would not be enough BTU's once converted to gas to do both. Does this make any sense to anybody? Is the first guy dead wrong or is the 2nd guy trying to up sell me?
My current boiler is a 150,000 BTU's and they both agreed it was a monster for this house. I've uploaded pics of the stats of the boiler and a pic of the water component attached to the boiler that the 2nd guy says I can't use.
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Pros – KraftMaid has a nice product, and one you believe in while you work for the company. Most every employee employee is great to work with.
Cons – Behind the times. They have a long way to go with systems, ideas and innovation before they will be able to retain top talent.
Advice to Senior Management – Update your systems and methodology. Put things in place to make this a better functioning company and you will make more profit in the long run.
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Opinion A partnership to boost the US economy: business and higher education
With college tuition costs skyrocketing, and a dearth of skilled workers, American businesses worry they won't have enough educated employees to power their companies – and fuel economic recovery. Companies have begun to partner with colleges to meet a mutual demand.
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Pearl Izumi Elite In-R-Cool Men's Tri Shorts $84.95
Cool running.
Stay cool during summer events with Pearl Izumi's Elite In-R-Cool Tri Shorts. Constructed from Izumi's Coldblack-treated Elite Transfer fabric, you'll experience temperature-regulating technologies that both reflect heat and block ultraviolet light.
Unlike common dark textiles, which absorb heat, Coldblack treated fabrics have a UPF 50+ rating and actually reflect the sun's radiant energy. In fact, the makers of Coldblack claim that fabric surface temperatures are reduced by to 35 degrees Fahrenheit. So, this alone will aid in the avoidance of overheating during the ride and run stages of your race. However, Izumi's Transfer fabric, with In-R-Cool technology, also performs much of the aforementioned.
This is due to the material's proprietary blend of nylon, elastane, and polyester. The resulting blend produces an outer-surface that's textured for breathability and that accelerates moisture transfer away from the skin. And by keeping your skin cool and dry, you'll experience both irritation free pedaling and running. Izumi also added extra ventilation in the form of it Direct-Vent side panels. Essentially, this material provides a superior airflow through the shorts, while also ensuring structural stability that's free from pinching.
The fabric and structure of these shorts also provide a lightly compressive fit that maximizes muscle efficiency. And, in addition to this, the shorts' multi-panel design allows you to spin without constriction, maintain a consistent output of power.
For further comfort, Izumi also included its TRI quick-dry chamois. This insert is constructed with variable density padding that's contoured for an anatomically correct fit. And while this chamois provides the necessary support for the cycling leg, it's so bulky that it'll interfere with either the run or swim legs. The insert, as touted by its name, is also quick drying for comfort post T1.
The Pearl Izumi Elite In-R-Cool Tri Shorts are available in five sizes from Small to XX-Large and in the colors Black, Black/white, and Black/electric blue.
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Pearl Izumi
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These are beautiful bike shorts and I wish I could enjoy the pair I ordered. However, I sent then back because the leg bands, the bands that go around the thigh, are way too tight. In fact, they would make the beginning of a good tourniquet due to the fact the bands dig into the thigh muscles thereby constricting blood flow. I purchased a large even though my waist is 33? ? 34?. If I go up to a XL the short I feel would be to large elsewhere.


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Gigalomania is a 2D real time strategy game that is a clone of Mega-Lo-Mania. The gameplay consists of researching and developing new technology with which to conquer your enemies, from rocks and sticks to nuclear weapons and spaceships. You can advance through ten different ages, from the stone age to the future. There are 28 different maps to play through. The game is still under development, but is entirely playable in its current state.
Sofia-SIP is a SIP user agent library, compliant with the IETF RFC3261 specification. It can be used as a building block for SIP client software for uses such as VoIP, IM, and many other real-time and person-to-person communication services. The primary target platform is GNU/Linux. Sofia-SIP is based on a SIP stack developed at the Nokia Research Center.
SILC Crypto Toolkit (SCT) is a high performance multipurpose cryptographic toolkit for application programmers. It provides ciphers, hash functions, public key cryptosystems, MAC algorithms, multi-precision integers, cryptographic accelerators, an ASN.1 encoder and decoder, and many other features.
SILC Runtime Toolkit (SRT) provides useful utility functions for application programmers. SRT can be used as the main runtime in any application. It provides an application main loop, hash tables, lists, atomic operations, threads, locks, queues, a file descriptor stream, a socket stream, network routines, a finite state machine, a memory pool, a random number generator, buffers, regular expressions, and many other features. It natively supports Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Symbian OS platforms.
Spring ME is a version of ME that not only runs on your cell phone, but also on any other Java platform not supporting reflection. It is to Java ME what Spring is to Java SE and Java EE, which is indicated by the name. However, the "ME" (Micro Edition) suffix not only refers to the platform it supports. It also refers to the size of the runtime, which is pretty minimal. In fact, it's pretty much non-existent, and therefore ideal for situations in which you cannot afford the sheer size of the traditional Spring runtime.
The FAAC project includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports several MPEG-4 object types (LC, Main, LTP, HE AAC, PS) and file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless en/decoding as well as MP4 metadata tags. The codecs are compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these profiles.
LightBlue is a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and Python For Series 60. It provides easy programmatic access to device and service discovery, RFCOMM sockets, L2CAP client sockets, sending and receiving files over OBEX, service advertising, and local device information.
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech data (e.g. voice mail).
The CommuniGate Pro Community Edition provides a single address and identity for all forms of Internet communications. You can check your e-mail, chat with colleagues via Instant Messaging and VoIP, view multiple calendars (and other presence features), maintain address books, and view streaming RSS news feeds, all through the powerful Flash-based interface.


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The annual "Hometown Kidfest" is set for July 31 at Evergreen Market's parking lot in Greenville. Event coordinator Nathan Tucker said last year more than 300 kids enjoyed the bounce house, face painting, games and other activities in this carnival-like free event. Once again he invites organizations and other interested groups to host a booth, game or some other activity. For more information or to sign up your group or organization, call Nathan at 284-7313.
Nestled in the heart of downtown Westwood, the historic Walker Mansion Inn and Café has reopened for the season. Owner Esther Pretti has been busy readying this charming café, bed & breakfast and gift store, which features antiques and home furnishings, for the new season. Lunch and Sunday brunch dining are something special given the unique ambience and peaceful surroundings of their dining room and screened-in patio.
Ranch hosts Ed and Billie Fiebiger tell us the road to Drakesbad in Lassen Volcanic National Park is clear of snow and the facility is now open for the season. This year all the cabins have been totally refurnished with locally built log cabinets and furniture items from Morning Star Products. In addition to a host of daily activities that include horseback riding, hiking and fishing, the popular Wednesday night barbecue returns.
Having grown up in Plumas County, Rich Miller, along with his wife Susan, is glad to be back "home" after spending the last 15 years in Scottsdale, AZ. where the two worked in the vacation ownership business. Rich and Sue are now affiliated with Mohawk Valley Associates Real Estate in Blairsden.
Lost Sierra Adventures Bike Shop, owned by Greg Williams, is the newest member of the Graeagle Merchants Association. His demo program for bicycles and Black Diamond skis give customers a chance to try his products before they buy.
As an added service: Greg provides shuttle service to some of the finest high-mountain biking trails. The merchant's accociation is comprised of business and professional leaders throughout the Graeagle community with a common interest in promoting a strong retail and service economy through advertising, sponsorships of local events and social activities.
It was just three years ago when Anna Jeffrey opened Anna's Café in the heart of downtown Greenville in the historical Coach House Building. It's her home-style cooking for breakfast, lunch and dinner that has helped make Anna's so successful. Its open daily and dinners are served Thursday-Saturday.
The hardworking professionals at DeMartile Automotive on Highway 70 just east of Quincy High School are celebrating their 10th anniversary this month. Owners Evans and Kathy and Tim and Marcy DeMartile are experts at taking care of your automotive needs.
Little People/Toy Store proprietors Peter and Totsy Beck began their 32nd year of business in April. Again we extend our congratulations as your name continues to climb the list of oldest continually operating businesses in town. The store is on Main Street across from Bank of America in Quincy's financial district.
This month marks year six for Norbert and Christine Schneider at Schneider's Old Time Merchants on Little Bear (campground) Road in Blairsden. This unique gift shop carries hand painted glass, cards, stuff animals and a lot more.
Wow! Rusty Warren opened his shop on Bell Lane in East Quincy selling a myriad of lawn and garden power tools and accessories 30 years ago. During that time, with his accumulated experience and knowledge, he has established himself as one of the best in his field. Rusty sells and services chain saws, snow and leaf blowers, lawn mowers and weed trimmers to name a few.
Leslie and Jeff Greenwood have really made a name for themselves and the quality products they build and sell at their business, Sierra Valley Barns, now in its 11th year. Some of the products they manufacture at their Highway 70 facility just east of Beckwourth include horse barns, tack rooms and economical barn-style storage buildings in a variety of sizes.
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A missing backup tape holding valuable data on 2 million mortgage customers has been found, but with the original airbill missing. Though it's unlikely that customer data was compromised, the company has urged affected customers to monitor their credit activity.
Reuters news agency reports delivery firm DHL International returned the missing tape on Tuesday to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group Inc., a part of Chicago-based LaSalle Bank Corp. The tape disappeared after it was picked up by a DHL carrier on Nov. 18 at ABN AMRO's Chicago data processing center. The tape, containing mortgage account information and Social Security numbers, was headed to a credit bureau in Texas.
"Although we have no reason to believe that the tape was compromised, we feel it is always good practice for consumers to monitor their credit activity on a regular basis," ABN AMBRO CEO Thomas Goldstein said in a prepared statement.
The company has since abandoned transferring physical tapes to credit bureaus in favor of electronically sending encrypted files.