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John Daly
Moderator (1950-1967)
Arlene Francis
Regular Panelist (1950-1967)
Bennett Cerf
Regular Panelist (1951-1967)
Maureen O'Sullivan
Mystery Guest
Guest Star
Steve Allen
Guest Panelist
Guest Star
Kitty Carlisle
Guest Panelist
Guest Star
For the third airing, the episodes took longer than usual to cycle through their full rotation because GSN switched from daily airings to weekly airings between the dates of October 2, 2006 and January 1, 2008, when they once again resumed daily airings. - Suzanne (updated 2008)
1) Aired on April 15, 2002 in regular rotation.
2) Aired on July 8, 2004, in regular rotation.
3) Aired on July 23, 2007, in regular rotation.
THE GATHERING OF THE FAMILY!!! It was especially touching to see both Steve Allen and Kitty Carlisle on the panel for this somber occasion. As John mentioned in the opening, both Steve (who had been a former regular panelist) and Kitty had previously sat in on the panel as guest panelists. Also, Steve and Kitty represented Goodson-Todman's other two classic panel shows, "I've Got a Secret" and "To Tell the Truth," respectively. So, it definitely was a gathering of the "G and T" family.- Sargebri (2007)
THE POST DOROTHY ERA!!! After allowing things to settle down, Goodson-Todman announced that they would conduct a talent search to seek a suitable replacement for Dorothy. Their choices ranged from the excellent (Helen Gurley Brown, Lee Remick and Aileen "Suzy Knickerbocker" Mehle) to the downright bad (Aliza Kashi and Pamela Tiffin). However, it was eventually decided to leave Dorothy's seat open -- as was done with Fred Allen's seat on the panel -- and have a rotating group of ladies appear as guest panelists. The three main ladies who appeared on a semi-regular basis were the aforementioned Aileen "Suzy Knickerbocker" Mehle, former "To Tell the Truth" panelist Phyllis Newman and Steve's wife, Jayne Meadows. - Sargebri (2007)
DOROTHY MAY BE GONE, BUT THE "VOICE OF BROADWAY" LIVES ON: While Miss Kilgallen's seat on "WML?" was never permanently filled, it was a different story at the paper for which she wrote for nearly three decades, the New York Journal-American. After Dolly Mae's death, her "Voice of Broadway" column was assigned to Jack O'Brian who, up to that point, had been the Journal-American's TV critic. Mr. O'Brian's lone "WML?" appearance was on EPISODE #335 of November 4, 1956, as a mystery guest. - W-B (2009)
IN MEMORIAM: It wasn't just Dorothy who passed away this past week. Only one day after her death, on November 9, 1965, her Journal-American colleague, Florence Pritchett Smith, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in New York at age 45. She had been a guest panelist (filling in, ironically enough, for Dolly Mae) on the unfortunately long-lost "WML?" EPISODE #12 of July 19, 1950. - W-B (2009)
FLIP REPORT: John flipped the final card for mystery challenger Maureen O'Sullivan at nine down. Prior to the flip, Arlene had mentioned Maureen's name aloud when she mused that the mystery challenger "could not be Maureen O'Sullivan" -- the audience tittered, but Arlene didn't pick up on this important clue from the audience. - agent_0042 (2007)
(1) "WML?" SPONSOR WATCH: The opening sponsor for tonight's show was Supp-Hose stockings.
(2) "LIVE" WATCH: Announcer Johnny Olson did not mention that this tribute show was broadcast live, thus there were no cuts to the opening. In a departure from the norm, the panel and Mr. Daly are pre-seated tonight.
(3) KITTY CARLISLE: Based on the trajectory of the remainder of "WML?'s" classic CBS run from here on out, it would appear that there was more to Miss Carlisle's closing comments of "Tonight I'm sitting in Dorothy's seat, but no one could ever possibly take her place" than met the eye -- in Kitty's case, at least. That's because, after tonight's show, Kitty never again appeared on the "WML?" panel. In the general sense, however, her ending words tonight proved highly prophetic. Kitty would go on to make one more memorable appearance on the classic CBS "WML?", as a mystery guest combo along with her fellow "To Tell the Truth" panelists Tom Poston, Peggy Cass and Orson Bean, on EPISODE #840 of December 11, 1966, to promote the return of the nighttime edition of that venerable show. Fittingly, the one who identified them on that occasion was former daytime "TTTT" panelist, and now frequent "WML?" guest panelist, Phyllis Newman. Miss Carlisle would also appear on three different occasions as a mystery guest on "WML?" during its 1968-1975 syndicated run.
(4) MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN: At the time of Miss O'Sullivan's mystery guest appearance tonight, her daughter, Mia Farrow, was making a name for herself as the soap opera character named "Allison MacKenzie" on the 1964-1968 TV series version of "Peyton Place," which also made a household name of Ryan O'Neal. More than a year after this episode, on EPISODE #838 of November 27, 1966, Miss Farrow was the second mystery guest, while her then-husband, Frank Sinatra, making what turned out to be his only "WML?" appearance, was both the first mystery guest and, from that point on in that edition, a guest panelist. More about Mia can be found in the notes to EPISODE #838.
(4) GSN AIRING TALLY: Tonight's show was most recently aired by GSN on July 23, 2007. Previously, the cable (and satellite) channel had run it on July 8, 2004, and before that, on April 15, 2002.
(5) "WML?" CREW CREDITS WATCH: On this somber episode, only the title card was shown at the end, with none of the crew credited tonight.
(6) After the July 23, 2007 airing of tonight's show, GSN ran another "WML?" episode, this time from the 1968-1975 color syndicated incarnation. This edition was from Week #158, taped on July 27, 1972; it was from the second week of Larry Blyden's run as host, the announcer was Chet Gould, and the panel consisted of Soupy Sales, Anita Gillette, Gene Rayburn and Arlene Francis. The mystery guest on this show was actress Joan Fontaine who, like Miss Newman, was once a panelist on the daytime CBS "TTTT?" - W-B (2007)
More on Barbara Feldon: With all due respect to Barbara Feldon, the first female TV personality to project intelligence and sex appeal, the syntax she has used in print and television interviews for forty years does resemble that telegram sent to Goodson-Todman at 3:36 AM the day after Dorothy Kilgallen died. In 1995, Feldon appeared with on "Geraldo" (Geraldo Rivera's 1987-1998 syndicated talk show) in a salute to sitcoms of yesteryear. Appearing with her were Barbara Eden, Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily and Jeff Conaway. Feldon did not seem to fit in with the saccharine, lightweight atmosphere of Geraldo's discussion. She was sidelined by a foot injury, but that did not stop her from promoting her upcoming off-Broadway one-woman show in a shrill, tactless way. She insinuated that studio audience members owed it to themselves to absorb the classic poetry by the likes of Yeats and Browning that she planned to recite in this project titled "Love: For Better Or Verse." Days later, the New York Times theater critic slammed it, and Feldon soon moved on to other projects. Several years later, she tried unsuccessfully to launch a culinary TV show a la Emeril. She told one reporter that she had come to realize that haute cuisine was "one of life's great daily raptures." (That comment is an echo of the lexicon in the 1965 telegram.) Some may point out that the telegram was sent just two months after the premiere of "Get Smart," which was filmed in California. Consider that during those two months, the sitcom received impressive Nielsen ratings. They were high enough for its producers to reschedule filming so Feldon could return from New York to Los Angeles on one of the fast new jet planes. In other words, it would have been very possible for Feldon to be a regular performer on both shows - which were on opposite sides of the United States. While Feldon didn't appear on What's My Line? until 1967, she was no stranger to Goodson-Todman on the day they lost Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965. Old TV Guide magazines list Barbara Feldon as a guest player on G-T's "Get The Message" in 1964. She performed for other quiz show producers also. Her IMDB page lists her as a guest on a 1957 episode of "The $64,000 Question," with a specialty of Shakespeare. Also, consider that Feldon's Belgian-born husband remained in New York while she worked in Los Angeles, and she told People magazine many years after their divorce that he was "the most reasonable person I've ever met." In 2002, she published and heavily promoted her first book. It's about the joys of living single. "Don't feel you need a significant other," Barbara Feldon advises. - Jan Simonson (2004)
More words by Lee Israel, regarding Dorothy's To Tell The Truth quiz show:
(Begin quote) "G-T wiped the videotape, as it did with 99 percent of the other daytime To Tell The Truth videotapes between 1962 and 1966. I read Kilgallen's obits in various newspapers on microfilm including all the New York City dailies. I read columnists who could have referred to the death in passing. It turns out that only one paper revealed anything about the TTTT episode beyond the fact that Dorothy and Arlene pretended to be Joan Crawford.
The Evening Star of Washington, DC had a popular television columnist named Bernie Harrison who evidently watched the broadcast and summarized what Kilgallen said after she and the others removed their black veils. She said that she had found it difficult memorizing the information she needed for her impersonation and that 'playing the game made her nervous.'" (End quote) - Jan Simonson (2004)
More on Dorothy's last TV appearance on TTTT: The videotape of Dorothy's TTTT broadcast is long gone, but a respected television columnist of that era, Bernie Harrison of the Evening Star of Washington, DC, wrote some observations about it. In the same edition of that paper with Kilgallen's obit, Bernie wrote in his column that Kilgallen seemed nervous on the program. He reported that after the panelists voted and the real Joan Crawford stood up, Kilgallen said she had trouble memorizing the information she needed to know for a decent impersonation. He reported that she said the game made her nervous. None of the New York papers reported this. - Jan Simonson (2004)
Dorothy's very last aired television appearance - now lost - is on TTTT: The following quote is from the 1979 Lee Israel "Kilgallen" biography about Dorothy:
(Begin quote) "Dorothy had taped To Tell The Truth, a Goodson-Todman identity game, on November 2. Dorothy, Arlene and Joan Crawford appeared in masks. The panel had to determine which of the contestants was 'the real Joan Crawford.' The program was aired from 3:00 to 3:25 p.m. Immediately after it ended, Douglas Edwards made the first announcement: 'Dorothy Kilgallen, just seen on the preceding prerecorded program, was found dead in her home today.'" (End quote)
It sounds like it was an interesting episode. Arlene, Dorothy and Joan Crawford all wore the typical large hats with veils that TTTT put on guest stars for the celebrity rounds. In addition, their voices were electronically disguised. (Can you just picture Kitty Carlisle asking the contestant, "Number One, just what DO you have against wire coat hangers?") - georob (2004)
In 1996, tonight's first guest, Norma Walker, then living in Pacifica County, Washington, ran for county commissioner and lost. She became an accomplished painter of oils and watercolors. - Jan Simonson (2004)
This show was really touching. I got misty eyed when, as Bennett was talking at the end, you could hear Arlene sob. Rest in Peace, Dorothy. - GSS (2004)
This had to be the saddest episode ever broadcast. Even though there were several attempts to lighten the mood, it was still evident that the panel was very subdued due to the tragedy. The panel tried to play the game, but you could tell that they were merely going through the motions. It was nice to see Kitty Carlisle and Steve Allen together as the guest panelists. Not only were they "family," but they also symbolically represented the panels of the other Goodson-Todman game shows, respectively, "To Tell the Truth" and "I've Got a Secret." In fact, as mentioned earlier, Dorothy's final appearance was on "To Tell the Truth." She and Arlene had earlier taped a segment which ironically aired on the day of her passing. You could also hear the sadness in their voices at the end. Each panelist's voice seemed to shake as they made their loving tributes to Dorothy. Arlene put it best when she said that the Dorothy wasn't just a co-worker, but she was family as well. She said that Dorothy, being the youngest, was the "little sister." Kitty really said it best when she said, "I may be sitting in Dorothy's seat, but she will never be replaced." And even though she never was permanently replaced, the show still went on for the next two years. Ironically, even though Dorothy's death did cause the WML ratings to diminish slightly, it was CBS's purge of all their primetime game shows ("Password," "To Tell the Truth" and "I've Got a Secret") that led to its ultimate demise. However, when Dorothy died, not only the show, but the panel changed forever. - Sargebri (2004)
The Mystery Telegram: In his 1978 hardback WML book, Gil Fates writes on page 107:
(Begin quote) "Some time in the early morning hours of Monday, November 8, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen died in her sleep. The next day a telegram stamped "3:36 A.M." arrived on Mark Goodson's desk. It read: 'I know how distressed you are at Dorothy Kilgallen's passing and all in show business share your sorrow. She is irreplaceable but perhaps I could bring to the "What's My Line?" panel promotional and entertainment values that would be almost as effective. Could we chat about it? May I call you for an appointment?' It was signed by a lady very large in television, who in her haste had lost her taste. This was Tuesday. Dorothy's funeral wasn't until Thursday. Mark bounced the wire over to me with the notation, 'When she calls, tell her it's a little early to be discussing this.' I did." (End quote)
Gil Fates did not name this woman in his book, but it has become known - or at least strongly suspected - that the woman who sent the telegram was Barbara Feldon. During this time, her 1965-1970 television series "Get Smart" was very popular. She played the character of the secret agent named "Agent 99." Barbara Feldon will later appear as a WML guest panelist on the episode of June 11, 1967. - Suzanne (2004)
Please don't believe the half-baked JFK conspiracy theories that link Dorothy Kilgallen with John K. Kennedy's death. Don't do Dorothy that disservice. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. In Dorothy's case, she has been a substance abuser for years. She had been hospitalized more than once for her alcohol dependence. More likely than not, Dorothy died of a lethal combination of self-ingested drugs and alcohol, by accident. Two web pages that outline the numerous flaws in the Kilgallen/Kennedy theory are here:
1) by Eric Paddon
2) by John McAdams
Many references are made to this episode being somber. While the overall tone is certainly subdued, this episode is not totally without smiles or a few laughs from the panel members or audience. The saddest part is definitely the end, when the panel members each offer their own personal goodbye to Dorothy. Understandably, the longest comments come from the panel members who had been regulars with Dorothy; Arlene Francis, Steve Allen and Bennett Cerf, with perhaps Bennett's words being the most touching. Kitty's tribute, while short, was also heartfelt. Kitty probably kept her comments short to allow Bennett more time to speak, as they were out of time. In retrospect, they should have foregone the forth game to allow the panel more time to speak about Dorothy. After Bennett's kind words, the camera then moves to John Daly, whose eyes appear glossy. He says good night with no further reference to Dorothy. - Suzanne (2004)
This is the show following Dorothy Kilgallen's death. John Daly opens the show in a very somber tone, of course. After his introduction, the animated opening begins, but afterwards, the panel is seated and there are no usual panel introductions at all. To indicate the more somber tone of the program, John, Steve and Bennett wear regular straight neckties rather than the customary bow ties the male panelists usually wore. (This also happened on the episode following Fred Allen's 1956 death.) Then, with a somber air, the program proceeds with no further mention of Dorothy's death until the end of the program. It is not a good night for the panel in terms of game play, as they miss the first two contestants and then fail to nab mystery guest Maureen O'Sullivan. They really get adrift during her segment, as more than one of them keeps trying to pin her down as a musical star or a person appearing in a musical, despite an earlier "no" answer to that question. At one point during a conference, Arlene says that it can't be Maureen O'Sullivan. On an ordinary night, the audience would have laughed at this and tipped things off, but not on this occasion. The audience titters slightly at her words, but not enough to give her a clue. Only on the last segment, with a lucky guess from Bennett concerning the female barber, do they partly redeem themselves. For the final segment, each panelist, Arlene Francis, Steve Allen, Kitty Carlisle and Bennett Cerf, offers their own personal tribute to Dorothy. By this point, almost a whole week had passed since her death, but you can tell that both the panel and John Daly are still largely in a state of shock, perhaps brought on more by the fact of having to do the program for the first time without her. Still, they valiantly try to keep things normal during the segments. Bennett even plugs in a question about the NYC blackout during the first contestant segment. Having to deal with a regular's death struck WML twice in its history. It is also worth noting that Goodson-Todman never had to deal with this kind of situation again until Allen Ludden's stroke disabled him and took him off "Password Plus" in October 1980, and prompted Tom Kennedy's word of encouragement at the beginning of his first show. To their discredit, they never did anything similar after Allen Ludden's passing in June 1981. I believe that the only other time a Goodson-Todman game show had to acknowledge on a death on-air was when Bob Barker mentioned Johnny Olson's death on "The Price Is Right" in 1985. On this episode, for the only time in WML's history, there was no applause or music at the end. After John said good night, the WML title card briefly appeared on the screen, under silence, and with no credit scroll, until the fade to black. - Eric Paddon (2002)
According to the TV Guide Magazine dated November 13-20, 1965, Robert Q. Lewis was originally scheduled to be a guest panelist on this episode of November 14, 1965. Of course, this issue of TV Guide was already published prior to Dorothy's death, which would account for the error. Robert Q. Lewis next appears on WML? on the May 28, 1967 episode. - Kirk Morgan (2004)
This was the saddest episode ever. This was the first episode after Dorothy Kilgallen died on November 8, 1965. She died several hours after taping the previous episode. To fill Dorothy's vacant spot, the producers chose Kitty Carlisle from "To Tell The Truth." John Daly remarked that Kitty was considered "family." This episode opened with John saying some very kind words about Dorothy. John said that they all wondered how to honor Dorothy. He said they decided, with approval from Dorothy's husband Dick Kollmar, that the best way to honor her was to play the game that she loved. At the end of the show, each member said a "goodbye" to Dorothy. The producers never picked a permanent replacement for Dorothy, even though many women requested her spot. Each week then had a different guest panelist in her place, which now was a total of two guest panelists each week. The show was never the same. The ratings went down and the show was eventually cancelled by CBS and taken off of primetime. - Wesley K (2002)
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A what-if, school-exercise - which the narrator self-reference in the novel itself - detective thriller, the novel is as if The Parent Trap were a sort of spy thriller indie film about identity crises, y'know, if Lindsay Lohan I creepily stalked Lindsay Lohan II for no apparent reason - instead of being amazed and overjoyed by the amazingness of meeting someone who looks just like you - and suffers feelings of potential inferiority because the other one was technically the original zygote. It raises somewhat profound questions about identity - what makes people individuals, whether personalities and inward characters are enough to distinguish you, and on a broader scale, how individuals fit into society. It's unfortunate that the protagonist is such an unlikeable character who feels himself superior to others, thinking he alone has seen through the futility of life and had his ego crushed by the appearance of a doppelganger. I quite enjoyed the ending, the protagonist's methodical research and the inexplicable nature of The Double.
Recommended only after you have experienced and liked Saramago's other works, and enjoy a sprinkling of magic realism.
A history teacher watches a video in which a bit player bears a striking resemblance to himself. He's obsessed with finding his double and upsets the order of the universe when he does. Who are we, really?
NOTE: Saramago is not a easy read. A sentence can take half a page. A paragraph more than a page. I find it's best to just surrender to his stream-of-consciousness style and keep reading. His works are thought-provoking.
UPDATE 2013 - the book was adapted to film with the title Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal
as you read this review remember that i will tell you how to feel about it and remind you along the way just what you are supposed to be thinking, which means that you don't need to think at all, in fact, and so the book also treats its readers in this way, repeating the main character's name over and over and over each and every time he talks about him, pronouns, it seems, like usual punctuation and paragraph breaks, do not have any place in this book, and, it turns out, neither did i, since i stopped reading it just before the midpoint, it's too bad, too, because the premise of this book is intriguing (the only reason i did not give 1 star) but the execution was pedantic and patronizing - of course, maybe i just can't register the genius that is this book.
Stunning and hilarious. In competition with Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for the best book I've read this year.
Ever since reading Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-up-Bird Chronicle' I've discovered a love for magical realism as a genre. Books that take place in our world, where small things are just a bit off. Not enough to call it straight up fantasy, but not normal either... Because of this another writer that was recommended to me was José Saramago, a Portuguese writer, probably best known for his novel Blindness.
In this book the main character is Tertuliano, a divorced high school history teacher who is a bit of a loner. One day he gets a tip from a fellow teacher to watch a certain movie. He is shocked when he sees that one of the extras looks almost exactly like him. When he looks up a photo of how he looked when the movie was shot, he finds out that they are identical, down to their facial hair. He gets obsessed with this double, and starts a mission to find out who he is. Eventually he discovers his double, the actor.
It took some getting used to the writing style in this book (It is my first by Saramago, so I have no idea if this is a typical example) but I loved it. The narrator is as much part of the magic of this book as Tertuliano and his double. I love how the narrator keeps commenting both on what is happening in the story and his (the narrator's) telling of it. The story itself is pretty simple, but the writing style and exploration of the theme of having an exact double make it very good. Four out of five stars, and a good recommendation for someone who loves Murakami.
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Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.
Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.
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"A history teacher rents a video on the recommendation of a friend. Not a great fan of cinema, he watches the film unmoved, but wakes later that night unaccountably troubled by something he has subconsciously viewed. He gets up to watch the film again and discovers, to his horror, an actor who could be his twin, identical in every way except for the moustache he himself has not worn for five years." "Telling no-one of his discovery and wrought with anxiety, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso embarks on a quest to find the actor. By a process of elimination, and watching countless films, he manages to identify the "double" and secretly plots to make contact. But how will the struggling actor feel when confronted out of the blue by a man claiming to be identical to him in every way? A man proclaiming himself to be the original and the actor a duplicate?" "Saramago's new novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the impostor."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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I have to create a loop of the top 5 posts falling under any 1 or more of a set of categories. I have browsed the support forums and tried out all combinations. It is not working for me.
One odd output I got was that posts 2,4,6,8,10 that were falling under any 1 or more of the set of categories were displayed. Instead of the top 5 posts (1,2,3,4,5). The loop was skipping every alternate post.The code I used was as follows:
$ctr=1; while (have_posts() && $ctr<6) : the_post(); { $ctr++ ?>
Please provide the code for achieving this custom loop.
Thanks in advance.


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Men arrested after deputy finds calf in backseat
Published: Monday, April 2, 2012 at 3:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 2, 2012 at 3:33 p.m.
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities have arrested three men found with a 220-pound calf in the backseat of their car.
The Carlsbad Current Argus reports that the men are accused of cattle rustling. They were jailed on charges of suspicion of larceny of livestock, conspiracy, lack of a bill of sale and exporting livestock.
Luna County sheriff's office says a deputy pulled over their Honda Civic on Friday and saw the animal sharing the backseat with one of the alleged thieves.
The three are being held at the Luna County Detention Center.
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For complete conference schedule click here.Operating under different strategies regarding their relations with African nations, the U.S. and China are largely viewed as competitors within the continent. As disease and poverty burden the development of African nations, the U.S. has tripled its foreign aid to Africa over the past decade, largely directing it towards disease prevention programs and poverty alleviation. China's approach to development aid has focused more on building infrastructure throughout the continent and offering loans to various national governments. And while trade between Africa and both the U.S. and China has increased greatly, it has increased much more rapidly between Africa and China in recent years. Africa's natural resources make the continent quite attractive as a source of potential trading partners, but government corruption presents a major challenge for delivering effective aid. Operating under a non-interference policy, China does not restrict with which countries it trades based on perceived governmental corruption. But the U.S. relies more heavily on conditional agreements for its determining its aid recipients, mandating that governments enact reforms before receiving aid or trade benefits. What is the current nature of relations between each the U.S. and China within Africa? Can the relationships ever become more multi-lateral ones in which the U.S. and China cooperate to effectively impact Africa's future development?
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David is fluent in Spanish.
David is a certified registered EMT, he trained in New York City, riding along with the ambulance crews on over 200 calls. He saved the life of a heart attack victim using the defribrillator.
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David and Eddie started to publicly disagree about the direction Van Halen was taking. Tired of the drama, David left the band to embark on a solo career in late 1985.
David decided to issue a 4 track solo EP in 1985, at the height of Van Halen's popularity, sparking rumors of conflict between the band members.
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David was born in the farm community of Indiana, and spent his childhood commuting back and forth from the great outdoors to the bright lights of the big city. He lived part of the year with his famous uncle Manny Roth in Greenwich Village, living over the nightclub that he ran, the 'Cafe Wha?'. David was exposed to the greats at this nightclub, such as Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Peter, Paul and Mary.
After Van Halen, Dave formed the "supergroup" with guitarist Steve Vai, bass player Billy Sheehan and drummer Greg Bissonette.
His astrological sign is Libra.
He is exactly six feet tall.
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He was the original singer for Van Halen.
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Free download from Shareware Connection - Web2RSS Proxy allows gathering news from web sites that do not provide RSS feeds of their own. Web2RSS Proxy collects the required information from the selected page of the site and creates an RSS feed from it.
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Have latest version of wordpress, have uploaded several plugins via ftp, but do not show in plugins admin area. tryed changing permissions as per codex-no go , Please Help-Thanks
Have latest version of wordpress, have uploaded several plugins via ftp, but do not show in plugins admin area. tryed changing permissions as per codex-no go , Please Help-Thanks
Which one doesn't show up?
the wp-print? Did you read the instructions or readme? Of course not. So, do it now and you will see what was your mistake.
Attention MOSHU,
When I set up the site it came up that wordpress had to be upgraded to new version, So i uploaded the auto download plugin and used that to upgrade. That uploaded OK, but since then I have uploaded 5 more plugins-wp-print,subscribe to, adsense manager, all in one seo and google sitemap generator. But none of them appear in the plugin management page in the admin area and as per your suggestion above wp-print still no go. Thanks
I have a similar problem except it's related to the upgraded versions of plugins and it's infuriating.
1. I make sure the plugin is deactivated.
2. I delete the old plugin directory (I've even tried renaming it)
3. I upload the new version
When I check the plugins directory it still shows the old version!
I've looked in the WP plugins directory to check that the new version is there (it is).
When I check the plugin via the <Edit> option in WP, it shows the OLD version even though it no longer exists on the server.
What gives? Is WP caching the file somewhere (I've even tried to clearing the cache in Firefox)?
This is an ongoing problem with virtually every plugin I try to update.
BTW, I'm running WP 2.6.2
@ stuartpaul,
all the plugins you have mentioned, have the same problem as wp-print.
watch the video tutorials, they explain what you have done wrong.
Some further info on the plugin problem.
I uploaded a new version WP Ban (1.31) but the old version (1.11) still shows up in the Inactive section (the new version is active and functioning), so there's definately something wrong with the way the Plugins section works.
whooami: Thank you for the informative videos. It's too bad moderators around here are more interested in belittling than helping. *sigh* I have visited this forum a whopping three times in the past year and once asked a question of my own. Immediately a mod came across as intimidating and impatient. Unfortunately I have seen similar cases with all 3 of my visits.
Moshu, I think you could have worded your 'advice' without the arrogance.
Just my opinion.
Not all of us are experts. Some of us are just looking for a little direction.
Thanks again whooami.
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Hi all,
I run the automatic update from Wp3 and now I have a blank page wherever I go on my blog. I did not make a DB backup but probably the automatic update does one? How can I roll back the changes if I have no access to the dashboard? Where could I understand what is going wrong (logs).


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Hi guys, my site cardiaucalon.com isn't displaying the 'Home page' correctly. The text is now creeping into my sidebar.
I've narrowed the problem down to the reading settings. Whatever page I select as the 'home page' has this effect, with the text seemingly ignoring the sidebar boundaries.
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66 Alex Coren
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2014: Saw limited playing time.
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Personal: Son of Bruce and Lisa Coren ... Father played football at Cornell from 1974-78 ... Grandfather played football at West Chester ... Born 4/21/96 in West Palm Beach, Fla ... Enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.


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When Laurence Bergreen decided to write a book on Christopher Columbus's four voyages, the comment he most often heard from his friends was, "You mean he made four voyages? What happened on the others? Where did he go? Do the other voyages matter?" Bergreen would reply, he remembers, "that I thought the other voyages mattered greatly, that they were at least as important as the first, which, in context, set the stage for the later ones, each more adventurous and tragic than those preceding it."
The result of his labors is Columbus: The Four Voyages, an account simultaneously of the navigational feats of each voyage, what Columbus and his men encountered in the New World, and the long-term effects these European conquerors would have on it. For Columbus's voyages were both exploratory and imperial. The lands he "discovered" (for of course that term has come under attack as an example of European solipsism) he also claimed for himself and the Spanish Crown, though he had little idea where they actually were: to the end of his life he persisted in believing that Cuba, Hispaniola (now comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and the other islands he had come upon in the "Indies" were somewhere off the coast of China, potential stops on a trade route to the realm of the Great Khan whom Marco Polo had written about more than two centuries earlier.
The most famous voyage, and the one least tainted by the navigator's rapacity, was the first: after touching land (the celebrated "first contact"), probably on the Bahamian island now called San Salvador, he and his three ships continued along the coasts of Cuba and Hispaniola before their return to Spain. This was the valiant "Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria" expedition celebrated in elementary school classrooms all over our nation. In these early days the driven explorer, for all his gold lust and his growing religious messianism, could still appreciate the region's otherworldly beauty. The fish there, he noted in his diary, were "so unlike ours that it is marvelous; they have some like dories, of the brightest colors in the world, blue, yellow, red, and of all colors, and others painted in a thousand ways; and the colors are so bright, that there is no man would not marvel and would not take great delight in seeing them; also there are whales." The flora appeared to him just as remarkable. "During this time I walked among some trees which were the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen, viewing as much verdure in so great development as in the month of May in Andalusia, and all the trees were as different from ours as day from night." This was pre-contact America, an ecosystem that had developed independently from that of Eurasia since the breakup of Pangaea some 125 million years earlier. The so-called Columbian Exchange, initiated in 1492, would change that forever, "bursting the evolutionary bubbles of previously independent continents" and transforming the global environment forever.
The people of the islands—the peaceable Tainos and the more aggressive Caribs—he had already dubbed "Indians," and from the beginning the explorer saw them more as sources of labor and potential Christian converts than as members of a culture worthy of consideration in its own right. "Conditioned by medieval assumptions," Bergreen writes, "his intellect and imagination labored to interpret these astonishing sights according to categories that he understood." Though a gifted navigator and an avid reader of chronicles and histories, Columbus was not a brilliant thinker, and as he aged and the hardships of his voyages took their mental and physical toll on him he became ever more convinced that he was acting as God's instrument in a mystical Reconquista, a western extension of Ferdinand and Isabella's triumphant expulsion of Muslims and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula.
The degeneration of his mission from a religiously inspired crusade to save souls and win Catholic converts to a naked grab for slaves and gold can be traced through the course of the four voyages. On the second, 1493-96, the newly named "Viceroy and Admiral of the Ocean Sea and the Indies" and the sailors who manned his seventeen-ship fleet explored in greater depth the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the smaller islands to the east. Queen Isabella had given express instructions for the Indians to "be carefully taught the principles of our Holy Faith," but she stressed that the conquerors should "treat the Indians very well and lovingly and abstain from doing them any injury." Columbus's feelings about the indigenous people he encountered, however, were complex and ambivalent: "[W]ithin the span of a few days he was capable of regarding the Indians as political allies, trading partners, converts, slaves, or deadly enemies. In the pages of his journal they appeared as wise or primitive, indolent or resourceful, according to his judgments and whims." On the island of Hispaniola, he imposed a crippling tribute system that quickly depleted the island's gold supplies, destroyed its economy and enslaved its population. The result was the horrific mass suicide of some fifty thousand Indians. "They plunged off cliffs, the poisoned themselves with roots, and they starved themselves to death." And this was only the beginning. Between 1494 and 1496 it is estimated that at least a third of the island's population died; half a century later only 500 Indians remained, pathetic relics of the hundreds of thousands that had lived on the island when Columbus first arrived.
Still, the Admiral was authorized by his sovereigns to make a third voyage. This time he touched the South American mainland for the first time, landing in what is now Venezuela, at the mouth of the Orinoco River. But he was unwilling to accept the evidence that he had arrived at a previously unknown continent; he was more perplexed than ever. As Bergreen observes, "He was equipped to confirm cherished myths, not explode them." Neither was he equipped to administer colonies, as Bartolomé de las Casas's writings reveal only too clearly: in Hispaniola, the chronicler was to complain, Columbus's unscrupulous band of Spaniards "traveled from village to village and from place to place, eating at their discretion, taking the Indian men that they wanted for their service and the Indian women who looked good to them." Columbus, Las Casas wrote, "would have done great things and produced inestimable benefit in this land if he had realized that these people did not owe anything to him or to any other person in the world just because they had been discovered."
Tales of Columbus's brutal misrule got back to Spain, and the monarchs sent over a "special investigator," Francisco Bobadilla, who immediately usurped both the Admiral's gold and his authority and sent him back to Europe in chains, disgraced. By sobbing, groveling, and extravagant penitence the explorer managed to get back into the monarchs' good graces and even exacted from them the promise of a fourth voyage, generally called the High Voyage (1502-4), on which his thirteen-year old son, Ferdinand, accompanied him; Ferdinand's Historie Concerning the Life and Deeds of the Admiral Don Christopher Columbus, written as an effort to vindicate his father for posterity, was an important source for Bergreen, who points out that it "can also be read as an indictment of the Spanish colonial enterprise in all its cruelty and absurdity." The expedition explored the coast of Central America, where for the first time Columbus and his men encountered a highly civilized native people, the Maya. Subjected to a mutiny of the crew, shipwrecked on Jamaica for a year, Columbus finally returned to Spain a prematurely aged man at 53, delusional, paranoiac, and crippled by rheumatoid arthritis. He died two years later. "His morality remained absolutely fixed," says Bergreen. "It could be said that over the course of his four voyages, he had discovered everything, but learned nothing."
Bergreen's detailed descriptions of the four voyages are well executed and compelling, but the story of human contact between Spaniards and Indians is depressingly familiar. With its origins in genocide, greed, and messianism, is it any wonder American history has been so troubled? And cannot some of our problems still be traced to this history? Reading Bergreen's narrative, it is impossible not to compare our modern single-minded pursuit of oil, regardless of consequences, with the Spaniards' equally single-minded and destructive pursuit of gold. Even when they eventually found the quantities they sought, in the mines of Peru, it did them no good in the long run, for dependence on the boatloads of gold from the New World led to inflation and eventually crippled the Spanish economy. Columbus's vanity and delusions—he believed himself to be "an instrument of divine revelation"—even find an echo in our own brutal imposition of "democracy" at gunpoint, and our arrogant conviction that we are, in Ronald Reagan's words, "the last best hope of man on earth." Bergreen concludes his book with a short chapter on Columbus's historical legacy; I wish it had been longer, and more speculative. For that legacy is still playing itself out.
Columbus: The Four Voyages
By LAURENCE BERGREEN
When Laurence Bergreen decided to write a book on Christopher Columbus's four voyages, the comment he most often heard from his friends was, "You mean he made four voyages? What happened on the others? Where did he go? Do the other voyages matter?" Bergreen would reply, he remembers, "that I thought the other voyages mattered greatly, that they were at least as important as the first, which, in context, set the stage for the later ones, each more adventurous and tragic than those preceding it."


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Readers who for two decades have been following the fortunes of the dragonriders and other inhabitants of the planet Pern will welcome the latest volume, chronicling the early years. It stands very much on its own, however; knowing about the later history of the planet only adds enjoyment. After 15 years of cold sleep, 6000 colonists land on Pern, seeking a simpler existence, escaping the aftermath of interstellar war and an overly technical society. The colony prospers until the consuming Threada force that destroys all life it comes in contact withmakes its first appearance. A brilliant bio-engineer attempts to develop a biological weapon to save them, a much larger version of a native life form many of the colonists have adopted as pets: dragonets with the ability to teleport and breathe flame after eating phosphoric rock. The book ends with the first successful result of that experiment. Many richly developed characters people the novel, among them two youngsters, Sorka Hanrahan and Sean Connell, who grow up to become two of the first dragonriders. One hopes McCaffrey, who most recently has been writing in the mainstream ( The Lady ), is beginning a new Pern cycle in which she will tell, in answer to many other questions, whatever happened to the intelligent dolphins that came with the humans to Pern. Major ad/promo; author tour
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Have you ever wondered how life on Pern started and where the dragons came from? McCaffrey presents the birth of civilization on Pern in Dragonsdawn , the "prequel" to her earlier novels about this strange planet (e.g., Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern , Audio Reviews, LJ 9/15/93). Listen to the adventures of the first colonists on this beautiful planet and learn where all the names, customs, and legends come from. Reader Dick Hill provides excellent characterizations for each role and conveys much emotion. Even listeners unfamiliar with McCaffrey's other installments in the Dragon series will delight in this audiobook. Suitable for broad fiction collections.
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Dragonsdawn is about the colonists who came to Pern. They settle in at Landing and start building houses for families and Crafthalls to set up apprentinceship.
Soon young Sorka and Sean find miniature dragons who come to be called firelizards. Their friendship blossoms soon after they get firelizards of their own.
Unexpected danger comes all too soon in the form of mindless silver worms that fall from the sky to eat anything organic in it's path. Thread!
Only fire, water or stone will stop the Thread, but the sleds that the colonists brought with them weren't for often use and soon they weren't adequate to protect the people, but there is one hope. Those little firelizards that Sorka and Sean found can teleport themselves and breathe fire. They protect things from the Thread.
If only they were big enough to hold a rider. Kitti Ping genetically engeneers dragons and her granddaughter tries to keep on where Kitti left of, but fails with breeding a watchwher, a dragonlike animal who is sensitive to the light and is very protective of those it knows.
Soon, the volcano near Landing erupts and everyone is driven out to live elsewhere and leave a lot of technology behind.
This book is the basis for some of the themes in other later books such as The White Dragon and All The Weyrs of Pern.
Eight years later, the settlers notice an unusual cloud formation and think that there is a storm coming in. But when silver thread-like things start falling from the sky and devouring anything organic that can be found, paradise turns into a kind of living hell. The only bright spot that can be found in the whole tragedy is that the fire lizards seemed to know when the thread was coming and warned their owners to get inside where it was safe. The colony hopes that the thread-fall was a one-time occurrence, but then they notice the star with the irregular orbit that has slowly gotten closer to the planet and they realize that the thread is going to keep coming back. Many colonists despair and demand that the leaders send out the homing beacon to bring help from earth, but that could take 10 years or more, if help comes at all.Read more ›
I would compare the theme of this book to the book Ender's Game. In both books, mankind has to fight a alien hazard to stay and survive on their planet in a futuristic world. The main differences are that in Dragonsdawn, the battle against the alien hazard is on a different planet. The fighting in Dragonsdawn is done by a group of colonists on a new planet who are trying to escape the corrupt society on other planets, but the fighting in Ender's game is done by the military of planet earth. Dragonsdawn also uses dragons to fight the threat to their survival.
Overall, I consider this book a waste of my time. I just couldn't get into the plot enough to keep me reading. Two stars.
However, McCaffrey handled the development of Sorka and Sean very well. They were by far my most favorite characters in this book. Liked how Sean starts off as a total loner and very, very slowly warms up to Sorka. Soon finds himself learning to depend on her and starts opening up. This is especially true once they discover the dragons on Pern.
The dragons were pretty cool, especially when the Pernese start genetically altering them to grow bigger. And I did like the very first Threadfall, as debris from an Oort Cloud falls across Pern, burning almost everything it touches. McCaffrey really drew you into the scene and gave you a grand tour of the disaster and its emotional impact on the colony.
On a whole, the book seemed to have its up moments and down moments.
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very concise for a story line written after the others......greatly missedPublished 3 months ago by k muzzell
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Ever wonder where the dragons of Pern came from? This book gives a satisfying answer to that question. Read morePublished on Sept. 12 2003 by Katayla
I fell in love with the first 3 books in the Pern series when I was in high school. Dragonsdawn takes you back to when Pern was first inhabitated and the first encounters with... Read morePublished on Aug. 2 2003 by M. Rhodes
Nothing can top the first six books of the Pern series but this is definitely one of the best after those first six. Read morePublished on July 18 2003 by Cybele A. Baker
Dragonsdawn is the beginning to arguably the best Pern series written by McCaffrey. The novel and the subsequent novels suck the reader in with realistic characters and the... Read morePublished on July 8 2003
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