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Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site, Luxor, where its twin remains. Although all three needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, their shared nickname is a misnomer, as they have no connection with Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and were already over a thousand years old in her lifetime. The London and New York "needles" were originally made during the reign of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III. The Paris "needle" dates to the reign of Ramesses II in the 19th Dynasty and was the first to be moved and re-erected as well as the first to acquire the nickname, "L'aiguille de Cléopâtre" in French.
Both examples are made of red granite, stand about 21 metres (69 ft) high, weigh about 224 tons[1] and are inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. They were originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. The material of which they were cut is granite, brought from the quarries of Aswan, near the first cataract of the Nile. The inscriptions were added about 200 years later by Ramesses II to commemorate his military victories. The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesareum – a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony or Julius Caesar – by the Romans in 12 BC, during the reign of Augustus, but were toppled some time later. This had the fortuitous effect of burying their faces and so preserving most of the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering.
The London needle is in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the Embankment underground station. It was presented to the United Kingdom in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. Although the British government welcomed the gesture, it declined to fund the expense of transporting it to London.
The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a distinguished anatomist and dermatologist, sponsored its transportation to London at a cost of some £10,000 (a very considerable sum in those days). It was dug out of the sand in which it had been buried for nearly 2,000 years and was encased in a great iron cylinder, 92 feet (28 m) long and 16 feet (4.9 m) in diameter, designed by the engineer John Dixon and dubbed Cleopatra, to be commanded by Captain Carter. It had a vertical stem and stern, a rudder, two bilge keels, a mast for balancing sails, and a deck house. This acted as a floating pontoon which was to be towed to London by the ship Olga, commanded by Captain Booth.[2]
The effort met with disaster on 14 October 1877, in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, when the Cleopatra began wildly rolling, and became untenable. The Olga sent out a rescue boat with six volunteers, but the boat capsized and all six crew were lost – named today on a bronze plaque attached to the foot of the needle's mounting stone. Captain Booth on the Olga eventually managed to get his ship next to the Cleopatra, to rescue Captain Carter and the five crew members aboard Cleopatra. Captain Booth reported the Cleopatra "abandoned and sinking," but instead she drifted in the Bay until found four days later by Spanish trawler boats, then rescued by the Glasgow steamer Fitzmaurice and taken to Ferrol in Spain for repairs. The Master of the Fitzmaurice lodged a salvage claim of £5,000 which had to be settled before departure from Ferrol, which was negotiated down and settled for £2,000.[2] The William Watkins Ltd paddle tug Anglia under the command of Captain David Glue was then commissioned to tow the Cleopatra back to the Thames. On their arrival in the estuary, the school children of Gravesend were given the day off when she arrived on 21 January 1878.[3] A wooden model of the obelisk had been placed outside the Houses of Parliament but the location had been rejected, so the London needle was finally erected on the Victoria Embankment on 12 September 1878.[4][5]
On erection of the obelisk in 1878 a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, it contained : A set of 12 photographs of the best looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in erection, a 3' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the strange tale of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages,[6] a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers.
Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by two faux-Egyptian sphinxes cast from bronze that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). These Sphinxes appear to be looking at the Needle rather than guarding it. This is due to the Sphinxes' improper or backwards installation. The Embankment has other Egyptian flourishes, such as buxom winged sphinxes on the armrests of benches. On 4 September 1917, during World War I, a bomb from a German air raid landed near the needle. In commemoration of this event, the damage remains unrepaired to this day and is clearly visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on the right-hand sphinx. Restoration work was carried out in 2005. The original Master Stone Mason who worked on the granite foundation was Lambeth-born William Henry Gould (1822–1891).
The New York City needle was erected in Central Park (at 40°46′46.67″N 73°57′55.44″W / 40.7796306°N 73.9654000°W, just west of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) on February 22, 1881. It was secured in May 1877 by judge Elbert E. Farman, the then-United States Consul General at Cairo, as a gift from Khedive for the United States remaining a friendly neutral as the European powers – France and Britain–maneuvered to secure political control of the Egyptian Government.
The original idea to secure an Egyptian obelisk for New York City came out of the March 1877 New York City newspaper accounts of the transporting of the London obelisk. If Paris had one and London was to get one, why should not New York get one? The newspapers mistakenly attributed to a Mr. John Dixon the 1869 proposal of the Khedive of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to give the United States the remaining Alexandria obelisk as a gift for increased trade. Mr. Dixon was the 1877 contractor who arranged the transport of the London obelisk and denied the newspaper accounts. In March 1877 and based on the newspaper accounts, Mr. Henry G. Stebbins, then Commissioner of the Department of Public Parks of the City of New York, undertook to secure the funding to transport the obelisk to New York.[7] The Commissioner of Public Parks of the City of New York, Henry G. Stebbins, started a fund raising effort to move the obelisk to New York. However, when the railroad magnate William H. Vanderbilt was asked to head the subscription, he generously offered to finance the project with a donation of over $100,000.[8]
Mr. Stebbins then sent two acceptance letters to the Khedive through the Department of State which forwarded them to Judge Farman in Cairo. Realizing that the New York accounts were false and that he might be able to secure one of the two remaining upright obelisks — either the mate to the Paris obelisk in Luxor or the London mate in Alexandria — Judge Farman formally asked the Khedive in March 1877 and by May 1877 he had secured the gift in writing.[9]
The obelisk was placed on an obscure site, some yards behind the Museum. This location appeared to be a site decided by Vanderbilt's wishes. Offering appallingly flimsy justifications for the choice, Gorringe wrote, "In order to avoid needless discussion of the subject, it was decided to maintain the strictest secrecy as to the location determined on." He noted that the prime advantage of the Knoll was its "isolation" and that it was the best site to be found inside the park, as it was quite elevated and the foundation could be firmly anchored in bedrock, lest Manhattan suffer "some violent convulsion of nature."[10]
The formidable task of moving the Obelisk from Alexandria to New York was given to Henry Honychurch Gorringe, a lieutenant commander on leave from the U.S. Navy. Cleopatra's Needle is a 240-ton, 68 foot 10 inch, single shaft of red granite from the Assuân (formerly Syene) Quarries at the 1st Cataract of the Nile. The 220-ton granite needle was first shifted from vertical to horizontal, nearly crashing to ground in the process. In August 1879[10] the movement process was suspended for two months due to local protests and legal challenges. Once those were resolved the obelisk was transported seven miles to Alexandria and then put into the hold of the steamship Dessoug which set sail June 12, 1880.[11] The obelisk was loaded through the ship's hole by rolling it upon cannonballs to somewhat ease this arduous task.[12]
Despite a broken propeller, the SS Dessoug was able to make the journey to the United States.[12] The obelisk and its 50-ton pedestal arrived at the Quarantine Station in New York in early July 1880. It took 32 horses hitched in pairs to bring it from the banks of the Hudson River to Central Park, finally arriving on July 20, 1880. The final leg of the journey was made across a specially built trestle bridge from Fifth Avenue to its new home on Greywacke Knoll, just across the drive from the then recently built Metropolitan Museum of Art. It look 112 days from Quarantine Station to arrive at the knoll.[13] A special railroad trestle bridge was built to transport the New York Obelisk from 96th street to its final resting place on Graywacke Knoll in Central Park. The movement was accomplished by pushing the obelisk by steam engine.[14]
Jesse B. Anthony, Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York, presided as the cornerstone for the obelisk was laid in place with full Masonic ceremony on October 2, 1880. Over nine thousand Masons paraded up Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to 82nd Street and it was estimated that over fifty thousand spectators lined the parade route. The benediction was presented by R.W. Louis C. Gerstein. The obelisk was righted by a special structure built by Henry Honychurch Gorringe. By the time it finally entered Central Park, it was the dead of winter. The official ceremony for erecting it was January 22, 1881.
The surface of the stone is heavily weathered, nearly masking the rows of Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved on all sides. Photographs taken near the time the obelisk was erected in the park show that the inscriptions or hieroglyphs, as depicted below with translation,[15] were still quite legible and date first from Thutmosis III (1479–1425 BC) and then nearly 300 years later, Ramesses II the Great (1279–1213 BC). The stone had stood in the clear dry Egyptian desert air for nearly 3000 years and had undergone little weathering. In a little more than a century in the climate of New York City, pollution and acid rain have heavily pitted its surfaces. In 2010, Dr. Zahi Hawass, sent an open letter to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the Mayor of New York City insisting on improved conservation efforts. If they are not able to properly care for the obelisk, he has threatened to "take the necessary steps to bring this precious artifact home and save it from ruin."[16]
The Paris Needle ("L'aiguille de Cléopâtre") is in the Place de la Concorde. The centre of the Place is occupied by the giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphs exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. Along with its twin (still in situ), it once marked the entrance to the Luxor Temple. The ruler of Egypt and Sudan, Muhammad Ali, presented the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk to France in 1826. King Louis-Philippe had it placed in the centre of Place de la Concorde in 1833 near the spot where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had been guillotined in 1793. Given the technical limitations of the day, transporting it was difficult – on the pedestal are diagrams explaining the machinery used for its transportation. The red granite column rises 23 metres high, including the base, and weighs over 250 tonnes. Missing its original cap, believed stolen in the 6th century BC, in 1998 the government of France added a goldleafed pyramid cap to the top of the obelisk. The obelisk is flanked by two fountains constructed at the time of its erection on the Place.
The Paris obelisk was described as "l'Aiguille de Cléopâtre" by 1877,[17] but the London obelisk was referred to as Cleopatra's Needle as early as 1821,[18] suggesting the nickname came from the pair located in Alexandria. However, the Paris obelisk is now more often referred to more formally as "the Luxor Obelisk".
One of two sphinxes at the base of Cleopatra's Needle (London). The scars on the pedestal were from fragments of a bomb dropped close to this spot, during a World War II airstrike.
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Your last sentence suggests this was merely an independent project gone awry. Actually, it pretty well says that. But the point is, we don't know if it was such a project or not. I'm not saying it is, but it could very well have been exactly what everyone up to the CEO wanted. I'm not suggesting that this is a massive conspiracy, but if we don't have evidence otherwise, its best to not suggest that this was just a rogue employee or a coding mistake. Its certainly not out of character for Google to act in grey areas to increase their information share.
Indexed fragmentary data from people too incompetent to secure their Wifi is a small price to pay for Google Maps and its street-view. Likewise, Google can read all of my Gmails.
What a bunch of brazen liars!
The galling thing is not that it happened as such, but that the company, as it turns out now, lied all the way, systematically and for years.
Don't be evil?
Ha! Google has the credibility somewhere between a used car dealership and a time share salesman. In other words: Whenever they open their mouth they lie!
When IT has a hole what do you expect? Google have a reputation to live up to, and basic Android has never felt like a product they care about. The unskinned version is so, so ugly; it's trying to be futuristic in a very awkward way. It feels like it's been created by a separate design team to their real flagship products like Gmail and Maps. ChromeOS Aura, by contrast, looks gorgeous: subtle and translucent. Once I would have agreed with you (and starting Android's take-up is greater) but now I'm to think they're taking ChromeOS seriously as a platform.The next problem is apps. Android without a touchscreen is no fun at all, no apps that work well. I think user experience would work better with WIMP using a different platform to touchscreen rather than having lots of users disappointed because they're using the wrong software for their computer.My final problem is I can't imagine Android for PCs or ChromeOS being released for novice users for PC upgrades. The odds of them either messing up bootloader installation or partitioning on someone's old wreck and creating 'Google broke my machine' stories is pretty high. I think neither will ever be available for PC users officially (ie through Google).That said, Windows 8 is one heck of an opportunity for both Android for x86 (touchscreen PCs go mainstream) and ChromeOS (everyone hates Windows 8) to displace the 'soft from the desktop. So we may see one or both going into x86 general release. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA
This sounds a lot like people looking for reasons to get mad at Google. Don't get me wrong, Google has done some not-so-great things but this isn't one of them.
When you use a wireless router, you are making a conscious decision to broadcast your network to anyone within range of it. Its purpose is to be seen, that's how you connect to it. Getting mad at someone for writing down the location of a network you're broadcasting is like getting mad at someone for writing down your street address. Ridiculous.
And to not put a password on it...please, spare me. It's the equivalent of leaving your front door open at night with a sign that says "free stuff" hanging over it. So if anything, Google's crime is not being aware of just how stupid some people are with their private information.
Don't conflate the technical term broadcast to the general term broadcast for a legal definition. WiFi routers "broadcast" the id in the technical term so that clients can find it. But this doesn't necessarily mean that I am broadcasting the information to the world.
For example, if I stood in the public square and shouted out something, I am broadcasting for anyone to hear. Someone can even record it or take pictures of it. If I am shouted the same thing in my home, I am not broadcasting to the world at least in intent because of where I am.
But even here there is another twist. If I am loud enough in my home and someone passing by overhears it, then that is fair game. But if someone overhears it only by using a parabolic microphone near my home and records what I am saying, then it is considered an intrusion of my privacy. Same thing with someone spying me through an open window vs using a camera to take pictures of me through the window. The WiFi traffic that I use inside my home for my use is no different. Just information at different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Of course, I can close my windows and draw curtains and not shout but that is a precaution. It doesn't absolve a spying person from using surveillance equipment to record my speech or pictures.
What Google was doing was effectively using surveillance equipment to record not just the WiFi id but the informational content passing within my subnet, just because they could. It is indeed wise to encrypt the data but that doesn't absolve the intrusion in the legal sense.
You have a false characterization that somehow using my router inside my home for my computing has a "free stuff, come and take it" sign. This is too much of a stretch by any imagination. It is more like leaving the door open at night rather than locking it which doesn't prevent a trespasser from walking through that door just because it was open (even if the mat in front of it said Welcome). The boundaries and the intent are very clear except for Google apologists perhaps.
"which doesn't prevent a trespasser"
Meant to say which doesn't condone a trespasser.
Excellent point, but you may be viewing this through the prism of individual action rather than what a corporation's responsibility is.
First, Google should likely have disclosed this behaviour to be consistent with its corporate policies before it began collecting it. At that point, national data protection authorities and other regulators might have wanted to weigh in on it. Google might have opted out.
Second, while individual may be unaware of or purposely broadcasting their information, that is a separate matter from whether other parties are legally entitled to record it. In Germany, data interception law a few years old criminalise many forms of benign and passive interception. It could cover this.
Third, until the last few years, protecting a Wi-Fi network wasn't easy enough for basic users. I've been writing about Wi-Fi for over a decade, and it's only since about 2008 or 2009 that I began to see (and reports confirmed from wardriving and other real-world checking) that most private networks were finally protected with encryption.
Fourth, even if you maintain an individual is responsible for broadcasting data in the clear, surely Google should have provided accurate information to government regulators of many nations when that information was requested? It appears to quibble over the delays in providing information to the FCC, but the basic nature of the documents appears to contradict Google's public statements on the matter to the media and to regulators.
Well said. A SSID being broadcast is only an address; it shouldn't mean that if I left my back door unlocked you can walk in and read my diary.
If this is true, it means a substantial eavesdropping program was instituted by basically a single developer? If this can happen at a relatively new company, why is it so hard to believe it can happen at CIA/NSA/ISI/MI6 or some other three character agency? More to the point, how can it be prevented? Sounds like I need to reinforce my tin-foil hat.
Having read up quite a bit on the Google's latest toy aka the Google Glass, it will seem that the data collection could very well be intentional, a part of the bigger plans and usage for the Google Glass
"... and its direct handling of e-mail and documents in Gmail and Google Docs. The combination of this intimate knowledge with the Wi-Fi poking is what caused alarm."
It is more than that. When one is using Google docs or Gmail, one is opting into the system and implicitly or explicitly agreeing to the consequences. This is Google poking into information for which they had obtained no consent or even a customer relationship and had nothing to do with what the purpose of the vehicles were.
This is somewhat like vans going around with remote-controlled spy drones taking pictures into a house at every open window JUST BECAUSE they could. We would consider the latter an unreasonable intrusion of privacy. There are even laws against such voyeurism in many places. Why we should hold the electromagnetic waves emanating from a house as open to all is beyond me.
On an editorial note, a correction
"The employee in question exercised his right against self-recrimination ..."
I believe it should be self-incrimination. There are no rights against self-recriminations!
Mea culpa! Babbage was projecting. Fixed. Sorry.
I disagree with the last sentence. We tend to trust Google, partly because they kept saying "Don't be evil" but we fail to accept that maybe, just maybe their definition of evil is not ours. They apparently believe they have the right to index everything. Literally everything. This means they don't define this kind of behavior as evil.
I note, for example, that Sergey or Larry said recently that they would love to be able to index application data. But it has happened many times before. They started indexing books without permission from libraries and copyright owners. They don't see this as wrong.
I know of 3 cases where Google offices have taken competitor's data. If data is there to be indexed, then why not use it to take away sales? I'm still waiting for a change to the TOS for Google Drive because the current one says they can do just about anything with your stuff. (And I keep having conversations with people who say they wouldn't do that. Really? You trust them why?)
I'm not saying Google is evil. I'm saying the implicit notion that Google thinks the way we think may be very wrong. They want to have your data. They will continue to want your data. Period.
Google has a notion, and indeed a general goal of indexing all the information in the world that they can. They spend unprecedented amounts of money on projects that literally have zero revenue (until recently: Google-Earth). Which is why I generally trust/believe Google. If they were evil, they would use their vast mountains of data to twist arms and generate money in something other than advertisements. Perhaps there needs to be a serious discussion about the legality or more so the morality of data collection, whether intent is important, and how that data should be used.
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As a girl, I have no problem with the way the characters are portrayed. It is the same way in reality. Girls are showcased in a sexual manner. It has always been that way. For me, the problem that I have is that MOST guys assume that I need to be carried and that I am going to support them when I would rather play a more aggressive role. **** gets real when girls get aggressive and most guys don't want to admit it when a girl is better than him in a male-dominated field.
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I agree with you. What do you think of Viscero Xin Zhao? He's a throwback to Roman gladiators, whom female fans supposedly lost their minds over. His outfit is sexualized, and his body is not disgusting indeed, it seems like the most female players find him to be the most attractive male, though that's in his default skin. True, the Viscero art doesn't show off the un-armored side of his body, but it's obvious in the ingame skin. Viscero Xin Zhao might be the only male stripper skin. It fits his lore, but whether it fits his lore is beside the point. Miss Fortune, Janna, Cass, and Ahri being sexualized also fit their lore. The point is that they are sexualized, not that the writer came up with an excuse. So at least there is one possible sexualized male.
I think its less that these females are sexualized and more that they are idealized. It is the same way in classical art. The ideal body and features are being showcased here. It's why the male characters have impossible muscle mass and muscles that don't even exist irl (Pentakill olaf, muoytai lee sin, tryndamere, etc) As an artist I can understand the delight in drawing the "ideal, beautiful" specimen. I can understand the exaggeration of this with a crazy waist or bust for a more cartoony style. And this can be even more clear when the artist is trying to convey a certain theme (i.e. Zyra representing the wild, untamed, erotic side of nature, makes sense!) I do think it would be interesting and exciting to see a different, new champion though. Such as a spider queen champ who's kind of ugly or scary looking and totally badass.
Upvoted because of the kickass objective analysis, however, I don't have any issue with champion design (but I'm aware that some might). And you forgot to say Rugged Garen is totally hawt.
Only thing i can say about this subject that would be of any use is. Women's rights is an on going problem. In everything people of an Oppressed *** race poor or anything that makes a group feel inferior left out or in this case more sexual than the other. I see it only as a problem for the people offended, most people myself included don't give it much thought. My girlfriend dislikes some of the same things you do and i do agree that skins could be made that cover up the champions that you like to play. However I do see a lot of women who do play and do not complain in great detail that you describe. Riot taking down the creation that they have made, (story) just to make the women happy is also sexist imo. Stories are stories and are told in there own way, league members pervert it in ways like EZ and Taric, im sure you know what i mean about that. Garen turning into the rugged garen skin there are a lot on the male side as well. I think that you should play the game for what it is if you like it. If you cant stand it don't play it, girls play the game and seem to not mind at least ones i know.
if girls dont want to play lol because of the way riot portrays females then good riddance, they never even liked the game then.... i do agree that there should be more variety in the way the female champions look, but that is not a reason for someone to stop playing a video game. i do not like the way you are generalizing what you think most females think.
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Looney Toons
: "Original Video Animation" — direct-to-video anime intended for sale to viewers, rather than broadcast or theatre. Unlike in the USA, it's not a dumping ground for product of dubious quality. We have a
wiki page
on the topic.
Andyzero: I'm reminded of that Batman Gotham Knights episode where Croc and Baby Doll team up.
Batgirl: What do you suppose they do on a date? Batman: I don't want to think about it.
: Would the common Japanese cultural thing of one girl's "admiration" for another fit in here?
Andyzero: I think that could fit into a whole other trope. Or several.
Adonic Meki
: I'd say that kind of falls under
Schoolgirl Lesbians
, but not entirely. Maybe a
Hero Worship
trope, with a mention of how it can lead to romantic attraction, although it's usually two characters of the same gender?
Looney Toons
: Sounds like a subset of the whole "student fan clubs" thing that happens in Japanese schools — where a particular student gets so popular that a
club forms spontaneously
around admiring him or her. (Very much like the club that moons over the nurse in
Nadia Secret Of Blue Water
: Possibly. I think the
Schoolgirl Lesbians
situation would be most applicable if it involved a
: Removed the Doctor Who reference as takingthis trope too literally. The Doctor isn't a child.
J Random User
: So, could someone explain to me how it would be considered wiser to appear to be a pedophile rather than tell your friends your secret identity, which your nemesis, a frequent opponent of the team, already knows?
: Should this be split into two: one where the childlike character is actually an age that a human could never reach, and one where they're, say, fifteen to twenty-eight? Is there already something like this?
: It seems like every time I see someone link to this page, it's for the former definition, of a character who really is "really seven hundred years old" and just looks 14 because she's part of some obscenely long lived race or something. This page is actually about, however, rather shaky justifications for why it's not icky to like a certain girl. I'd say since everybody's assuming that this is for the former definition, the former definition should probably get this title. That just leaves us with the problem of what to call this current entry.
Jordan: Isn't there a character from Interview With the Vampire who is like a twelve year old vampire girl and the lover of one of the main characters?
....: To Jordan: I have not read the novels, but from Wikipedia, I surmise that she was never physically involved with anyone. However, the fact that she is, physically, twelve and is defined by the disrapancy between her physical and mental/real age is, I belief, enough to warrant her inclusion.
....: How about Elda Marker, from Karin? Although there isn't any sexual tension involved with her, she is the grandmother of the Marker/Maaka family, and nearly everyone in the series confuses her with Karin at first glance. Plus, this editor thinks she looks hot like hell. ;p
Prfnoff: It was decided on
to split this into two tropes, this one and
Older Than They Look
. The new description for
Really 700 Years Old
could be done better, and perhaps some examples could still be moved.
spelling question: should "Wolkenwritter" be "Wolkenritter" (i.e., Wolken-Ritter, Clould Knight)?
Zelda The Swordsman
: Would someone from a Star Wars Expanded Universe comic go under Film or Comics?
St Fan
: Comics, technically.
St Fan
: Several examples were moved to
Older Than They Look
(or deleted if already there) as they weren't fitting with
Really 700 Years Old
Dragon Ball
(The Saiyans)
Black Cat
Zombie Powder
Captain Marvel
Namor the Sub-Mariner
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Start the Clock
Star Trek: The Next Generation
- "Rascals"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- "Time's Orphan", "Hard Time"
Tales of Symphonia
Final Fantasy VII
The Legend of Zelda
: Majora's Mask
Guilty Gear
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
The Order of the Stick
Kit329: Deleted Road Kamelot of
D Grayman
from the list, since there's no canon age for her yet and anything else is fanon.
BritBllt: Fight the
Chapter 187 revealed that Road's age is
over 35
. What isn't known is
whether the young form we see is her real body, or an illusion; for example, although we know she is human, we've also seen her in the form of a doll
Fou beats Old Man Zhi
President Aria from
. 20 years have passed and he doesn't look any different, unlike Grandma, who has considerably
This is what
becomes at the end of
"Groundhog Day" Loop
Suzumiya Haruhi
. Amazingly, at the time of the first season/novel,
she's somewhere around the age of
Saaya of
Blood the Last Vampire
has apparently been a 15-year-old girl since WWII. Possibly longer.
, two characters with the birthday January 1st, 1900 are older than they look: Elijah Snow, whose slowed aging is likely an aspect of his powers and permanently looks about 40, and Axel Brass, who figured out how to stop his aging when he was 43.
Because she is a time traveller from the past, 12-year-old
Klara Plast
is actually 112. This is brought up in the comic.
Jenny Sparks
was born at the beginning of the 20th century and
dies at the end of it
, all while looking like she's 19-25ish.
Someone who's
Really 700 Years Old
has to exceed a human lifespan, not just remain unnaturally young. Otherwise, they're just
Older Than They Look
. Some characters like Saaya are immortal and will end up being
Really 700 Years Old
someday, but it doesn't sound like she's there yet.
The Leagueof Extraordinary Gentlemen
's Mina Murray is immortal due to her encounter with Dracula, and thus always looks to be in her twenties.
Like Saaya, she might end up being
Really 700 Years Old
in a few more centuries, but at the time of the comic she's just
older than she looks
The vampiress Claudia in
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Chronicles
is forever stuck in the body of a twelve-years-old girl (it is said so in the movie, and twelve was real age of actress Kirsten Dunst at that time), despite being several decades old mentally when she is destroyed. In the book by Anne Rice that the movie is based on, the character of Claudia was something like FOUR years old. Considering that Anne Rice wrote the screenplay for the movie, too, we can assume she changed it simply to reduce the
factor of the love story.
That, and it's pretty danged hard to find a four-years-old actress
who can act like anything other than a four-years-old
for any length of time in a movie.
Labor laws also limit the working hours of a four-years-old performer — mind you, they do of a twelve-years-old performer too, but the allowable time period is longer.
She's also just
older than she looks
, since she died a few decades into her transformation. It's interesting, though, that Marius, Lestat and the other Rice vampires aren't on the page, since they're textbook
Really 700 Years Old
Reversed in
Blade Runner
, where the replicants are force-grown cloned humans with a maximum lifespan of four years (to keep them under control) and artificially implanted memories taken from "real" adult people (to keep the replicants from going insane, although they do know that they are replicants). Considering the fact that replicants are sold as off-world soldiers, slave labour or sex slaves (the "basic pleasure model") by the Tyrell Corporation, and can be hunted down and executed without trial if they return to Earth, the Tyrell corporation's ad slogan "More human than human." becomes particularly cynical.
I'm not sure what that is, but it's a little too far away from this trope. Maybe
We Are as Mayflies
Aragorn, at 87-88, looks to be in early middle age. The youngest in the Fellowship is Pippin, at 29, who is still young and not considered an adult by his people.
Pippin is a teenager for the Hobbits, in this troper opinion he must be the equivalent to 17 years old. The real example is Frodo, who at 50 (Hobbit middle age) looks 33 (majority for hobbits, probably something between 18 and 21)
In the books Frodo is fifty - in the film he sets out for the Prancing Pony quite soon (certainly less than one year) after his 33rd birthday (Bilbo's 111th). If Frodo has a youthful appearance in the books or film, however, it can safely be attributed to his ownership of the Ring.
All of them are just
Older Than They Look
Elrond was half-Elven and is still called 'Elrond Half-Elven' - but he is no longer half-Elven. He chose to become fully elven, just as his brother chose to be fully a Man.
Not quite right. Elrond and Elros, called half-elven, were the sons of Earendil and Elwing. Elwing was the daughter of Dior, who was the the son of Beren and Luthien, and Earendil the son of Tuor and Idril, the least famous of the three human-elf marriages in history. All this making Elrond
three-eighths human
. Divinely resurrected human on one side, at that. Come to that, Luthien's mother was a Maia, a sort of demi-god, like Sauron before he fell into evil, so that family is just...complicated, racially speaking. Elrond and Elros did get that choice, though, and Elrond's children. Curiously, when Elrond's sons turn up with the Edain in
The Return of the King
, they don't appear to register with anyone, least of all Legolas, as
, so apparently their great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather are strong in them, or they'd already decided not to be elves for the dying lulz, or something. Except that they don't seem to have been a pro-Middle-Earth factor in Arwen's decision, and you'd think having your brothers around would have numbed the ache a
I've got the quote on Elladan and Elrohir; Legolas says that they're 'fair and gallant as elven-lords,' which is damn ambiguous. Especially from a green-elf prince describing persons of somewhat mixed breeding who are still considerably more exalted than himself by lineage. But given his way of treating the Elves of Lorien as long-lost cousins and so on, he gives a definite impression of these-are-not-elves. Yes, bizarre.
Elrond in the Hobbit is also described as "as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord" - pretty ambiguous as well, especially since JRRT goes on to compare him to creatures and things (wizard, king of dwarves, summer) he definitely is not. Written at a time when that Elrond wasn't identified with Elrond son of Eärendil from the first drafts, but still.
Elendil was descended from the eldest daughter of the fourth king of Numenor, Tar-Elendil, who was Elrond's great-great-nephew. Elendil himself lived in the time of either the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth monarch of Numenor, depending on whether you believe Tolkien that Ar-Adunakor was twentieth or count his king-list and find the guy nineteenth. Aragorn II, son of Arathorn II, crowned Elessar of Gondor and Arnor, is the direct descendant of Elendil's son Isildur to the fortieth degree. Making him and Arwen ridiculously-removed first cousins, but who really cares? At that kind of remove there are so many other ancestors involved...
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, and my god, it's all over whether Elrond is elven or half-elven!? Problem solved by just removing the "half-elven" line: either way, he's
Really 700 Years Old
The sun is less than eight thousand years old?
And, as one of the Noldor of that age, party to the Kinslaying, when the sons of Feanor and their followers killed a whole race of elves to steal their boats and go to Middle Earth. This troper had so much trouble getting used to this idea. She survived long enough, so now that the Fourth Age is beginning and the Valar are sending out the call, she gets to go back into the West. Bah. But it seems to be a pretty thorough clearing-out; no one in Legolas' family had even seriously considered going West even way back in the uttermost depths of time, but at the end of the Fourth Age they're off, too. Possibly only because Legolas carelessly heard seagulls? Galadriel did warn him...
Isn't she Arwen's mother? That's...a little cradle-robby of her, leaving aside the fact that she was married to Celeborn before Elrond's grandfather was born, and is still married to same. I do not remember seeing that explained.
She's Arwen's grandmother. Her daughter Celebrian married Elrond at the beginning of the Third Age. Cradle-robby? Not a problem, apparently. cf Aragorn&Arwen.
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, and the gist of it is just that Galadriel is
Really 700 Years Old
. Also removing the "she's older than the sun" comment and question. From my understanding of Tolkien's cosmology, that might actually be possible, but it's not that important either way.
Edward Cullen from Twilight is a 108-year-old virgin.
Dear God
. A sparkly, century-old virgin vampire?! The more I find out about
, the more
I become!
Hating on their fandom? :)
Name on reason we shouldn't hate on it?
Well, because it's
Complaining About Shows You Don't Like
. Also, it's a duplicate entry.
BritBllt: And moved all the above
Older Than They Look
entries over to that page. The only one I left off was Yuki, since
Groundhog Day Loops
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1/2 stick butter, melted
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
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The prospect of a TV subscription model from Apple has many around the Web pondering what such a move would do to the media landscape.
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Utopia Golden Anniversary Shootfest (May 11, 2014)
Last May 11, 2014, the Fraternal Order of Utopia held its 50th Anniversary Shootfest in cooperation with the Land Registration Authority, headed by LRA Administrator Brod Eulalio Galland Diaz, Brod Jon Fernando, Brod Melo Ramirez, Brod Norby Caparas and Brod Ry Jaen. The brods went at it and showed prowess in their mastery of the art of shooting. Congratulations to the winners of the tournament! Open Division Champion- Brod Jon Fernando, Classic Division Champion- Brod Gerard Mosquera, Standard Division Champion- Brod Maurice Dantes, and Man v Steel Division Champion- Brod Norby Caparas. The runner-ups include Brod Jose Palaganas, Brod Ry Jaen and Brod Jason Suarez. UTOPIA FIGHT!
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The place was dirty and empty of customers at 5 PM! We found a beetle cooked into the pizza!! We returned the food, and got our money back!
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I have a doubt about reduce tasks and block writes. Do a reduce task always first write to hdfs in the node where they it is placed? (and then these blocks would be replicated to other nodes) In case yes, if I have a cluster of 5 nodes, 4 of them run DN and TT and one (node A) just run DN, when running MR jobs, map tasks would never read from node A? This would be because maps have data locality and if the reduce tasks write first to the node where they live, one replica of the block would always be in a node that has a TT. Node A would just contain blocks created from replication by the framework as no reduce task would write there directly. Is this correct? Thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/doubt-about-reduce-tasks-and-block-writes-tp4003185.html Sent from the Hadoop lucene-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |


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As mentioned, there were lots and lots of people in Caps clothing outside the White House Sunday night. There was also at least one person in Caps clothing inside the White House.
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Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld's former chief of staff, Keith Urbahn, became one of the first people to break news of the bin Laden death on the Internet. Directly after he celebrated Alex Ovechkin's goal late in the third period. See below.


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by Melissa Bailey | Aug 3, 2014 10:47 am
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After this week, I won't be writing stories in the New Haven Independent. I'll be up in Boston, telling our New Haven story to a crew of journalists from around the world.
After eight-and-a-half joyful years at the Independent, I'm moving to Massachusetts to do a yearlong Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard. I'll be hanging out with 23 other journalists from print, radio, TV and online outlets as far away as Cuba, Serbia and Korea, taking classes and brainstorming together about the future of the news.
As I pack up my Winfred Rembert calendar and New Haven Road Race T-shirts, I'm flooded with great memories: Hopping aboard a 5-ton National Guard truck and plowing through flooded Morris Cove streets during Superstorm Sandy. Watching a pig farmer pick a president in a 17-person Democratic caucus in New Haven, Iowa. Witnessing the great joy and despair of the 2008 Kentucky Derby from within the howling vortex of Sports Haven (and its secret rooftop garden with tender tomato plants).
Eating coco ice at the Catch The Flava cart. Skiing up East Rock to behold the city covered in snow. Riding the "party bus" all the way from West Rock to Atlantic City to sit ringside with Big Steve the bail-bondsman and watch our hometown boxing hero regain his championship belt.
I'm so used to writing for an audience that knows New Haven that I find it hard to describe this city I love, and the journalistic experiment I've taken part in, to an outside audience—especially one in Cambridge, Mass.
Here's what I said about you behind your backs in my application essay to Harvard:
"The first newspaper for which I worked full-time had been sold to a large media conglomerate that gutted the news-gathering staff. The paper was heading downhill. One by one, the florescent lights in the newsroom started burning out, and no one would come to replace them. I brought in a lamp from home to illuminate my keyboard – and started looking for a workplace with a more robust commitment to local news.
"In 2006, I landed my dream job at a startup called the New Haven Independent. The founder, veteran investigative reporter Paul Bass, had become disillusioned with the state of journalism in town. No one was covering the schools, watching City Hall, or paying attention to urban neighborhoods. Bass founded a not-for-profit, online-only news site with a goal to restore news coverage and civic debate to New Haven. I was Bass's first full-time hire. Traveling to stories by bicycle, we set about reviving grassroots, community journalism with stories on slumlords, neighborhood political battles, and the lives of everyday people.
"The site quickly grew larger than we had imagined. That summer, stray bullets killed two young kids. Amid the citywide grief, something amazing began to take place in the comments section of our website: Family members of the victims, from poor neighborhoods, began to discuss solutions to violent crime with people they would never otherwise meet from the Yale side of town. Policymakers weighed in – and paid attention. We discovered we had created not just a source of information, but also a forum that was bringing people together in a powerful new way.
"Over the past nine years, the Independent has grown from an under-the-radar blog to a national leader in local journalism. The Independent was among the first wave of professionally run community news websites that emerged due to cutbacks at print publications. Now it's one of the strongest survivors. It's the main focus of The Wired City, a new book by media critic Dan Kennedy, who spent two years shadowing our operation and called it a beacon of hope for the future of quality local journalism.
"I'm proud of the national attention we've received. But I'm most proud of how our work has strengthened the sense of community here. I was riding my bike on Grand Avenue recently when I ran into one of our regular commenters, a retired nurse. She insisted I follow her Jeep Wrangler home to her locked safe, where she handed me a hundred-dollar bill. The money was for a first-generation college student I had written about who had fallen on bad luck. It felt good to know the story not only helped that student– but also helped someone feel enough empathy for a stranger to invest in her future."
I went on to brag about people who added dissertation-worthy urban planning commentary to our routine zoning-board stories. People who wrote illuminating diaries about school and waxed poetic about loosies. People who connected across difference to create a new kind of raw democratic debate that's redefining journalism. And an indefatigably enthusiastic editor who's never afraid to scrap convention and embrace the radical notion that everything that happens in the city—every hair cut and squashed raccoon and park-bench serenade—matters.
Those people I bragged about: That's you. You made us think, and laugh, and groan in the comments section. You bravely told your stories. You threw us a dollar to keep the lights on. You let us know if we got a story wrong and pushed us to do better.
I'm so grateful to all of you – readers, newsmakers, donors, coworkers, and most of all, to visionary Paul – for letting me take part in this community.
You've let me into your lives during so many important and difficult moments. Into your living room in a superstorm. Into your workshop where the magic happens. Into the ICU to the bedside of a dying 13-year-old boy. Into the kitchen, where Mama Lue brewed goat's head soup to mourn a special man.
I've learned so much on this job: What it means to buy a "Maybach" or a "Vick." How to rip off mortgage lenders with doctored photographs. How hard it is to clean up after a homicide. What to do when you see a robber. (Look at his shoes.) How to spot a "gentrification vampire." (They're everywhere.)
It's hard for me to step away from this place where I feel deeply rooted, that I've called home for 14 years. I'll head to Boston with your voices in my ear: Kesa Whitaker empowering a complainer to "be a problem-solver"; Leo from Rudy's calling every stranger "buddy"; Joey Marini refusing to let setbacks "stop me from being who I am."
As I try to make sense of our impassioned, enduring community and what it can teach us about the future of journalism, I'll let these voices guide me. And I'll do my best to get our story right.
That's the best way I can think of to say thank you.
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posted by: Carlos R. Galo on August 1, 2014 3:25pm
All the best to you Melissa, well done!
PS: Where's the soccer reference? Did I miss it?
posted by: SLP on August 1, 2014 5:18pm
Thank you, Melissa, for turning your intelligent and thoughtful eye to the New Haven Public Schools, among so many other topics. Have fun in Cambridge, and be sure to check out Mary Chung Chinese restaurant and Brookline Lunch (for breakfast!) in Central Square.
posted by: Jill_the_Pill on August 1, 2014 8:15pm
"After this week, I won't be writing stories in the New Haven Independent. "
You do mean, "After this week, I won't be writing stories in the New Haven Independent for about a year, and then I'll be back writing even better stories," right?
posted by: Stephen Harris on August 1, 2014 8:34pm
Awesome Melissa!!
I'd wish you best of luck but you don't need that.
posted by: Morgan Barth on August 1, 2014 10:36pm
Melissa and Thomas,
Thank you for years of excellent reporting. For many years you both have been my guide to New Haven. I moved to New Haven ten years ago and for some time I was not sure if I would make this place my home. Finding the Independent and settling into the habit of reading it every day (checking the site many times a day) has helped me make New Haven home. You have done more than just report on this community…you have helped build this community by connecting us all to each other. You have enriched the lives of so many readers and so many subjects of stories. You both feel like family since I see your names and read your observations and thoughts every single day. I wish you both the very best in your next endeavors! And thank you to the entire NHI staff. Paul, I know you have several other talented writers and that these four shoes will be hard to fill—but keep up the excellent reporting and commentary!
With appreciation,
Morgan Barth
posted by: JayC on August 2, 2014 5:35am
Melissa's stories have been consistently informative, interesting, and particularly well-written. NH Indy readers (and the City of New Haven) will certainly miss her, and we wish her well.
posted by: Melissa Bailey on August 2, 2014 8:37am
Carlos: I am in denial about leaving all of the wonderful, hilarious people who have shared with me the great democratic space of the pick-up soccer field for the past 12-plus years (including you!). You all have taught me so much: how to arc the ball high, go in for a tackle, curse in 10 languages, and embrace the great clashing differences that make this such a fun and interesting place to live.
posted by: fastdriver on August 2, 2014 5:47pm
Good luck in your future endeavors Melissa. Thank you for your stories here. I would love to read your past stories about New Haven slumlords to see if they are STILL active today and WHO they are! Then again, I bet certain names have already been redacted or the articles eliminated!


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Los Angeles Kings vs. St. Louis Blues | |
The Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Scottrade Center. Last time out for Los Angeles, they were a 5-4 winner as they battled the Blackhawks on the road. Moneyline bettors who got the Kings at +120 were rewarded, while the 9 combined goals moved the game OVER for totals bettors. In their last action, St. Louis was a 3-0 loser at home against the Oilers. Bettors on Edmonton at +202 on the moneyline collected their winnings from that game, while the total score (3) sent UNDER bettors home happy as well. St. Louis: Team record: 17-13-2 SU, ATS Current streak: lost 2 straight games. The total has gone UNDER in 5 of last 5 games When playing on Thursday are 6-4 Team record: 18-12-2 SU, ATS is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis When playing on Thursday are 8-2 Los Angeles at Minnesota, Saturday, March 30 St. Louis at Minnesota, Monday, April 1 |


text: Principal flute of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) since 1978, Timothy Hutchins has received international critical acclaim for his work as a concerto soloist, as a duo recitalist with his wife, pianist Janet Creaser Hutchins, and as a chamber musician. He has appeared extensively as soloist with the OSM: notably with Charles Dutoit. Timothy Hutchins has appeared as guest principal with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and with Leonard Bernstein at the latter's last appearance, recording Beethoven's Seventh Symphony at Tanglewood. As guest principal he has performed and toured with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and Kurt Masur. He was principal flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for the 2003–04 season. Timothy Hutchins is professor of flute at McGill University. Many of his students perform with leading orchestras around the world.