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The Library Automation News Cycle Typically, news in the library automation industry tends to be clustered around major conferences, and larger conferences tend to attract bigger news. The American Library Association Annual Conference (held each summer) and the Midwinter Meeting (held early...
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Progressive Trends in New Zealand I continue to see in almost all of my encounters with technology use in libraries an ever-increasing reliance on cooperative efforts to find ways to gain more efficiencies, lower costs, and make a greater impact on patron services than possible alone. This spirit of cooperation seems well rooted in most library organizations. --Marshall Breeding Also...
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Balancing Continuity and Change through Business Transitions Libraries expect continuity from the organizations that they rely on for strategic technology products. Libraries tend to make use of their automation products for incredibly long periods and expect them to be supported and enhanced throughout a prolonged life cycle. I observe that a typical lifespan of an integrated library...
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Growing Cooperation and Consolidation We can see a definite trend of consolidation among the organizations that create technology products for libraries. Through a long series of mergers and acquisitions, the industry has gradually transformed from being fractured in a way that pits relatively small companies against each other with overlapping products and limited revenue opportunities to...
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Forming Constructive Partnerships I have long held that libraries should not be passive consumers of technology products, but rather, active partners in shaping them. Libraries have a great deal at stake in how well these products work. They benefit from individual or collective efforts to influence product development in order to address ever evolving requirements. Not all libraries have...
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The OCLC Non-Event The topic sparking the most buzz in library tech circles at ALA's Annual Conference was the unfortunate turn of events surrounding OCLC leadership. OCLC had named Jack Blount as its new President and Chief Executive Officer on June 8, 2012 and then rescinded the appointment with a subsequent and surprising announcement. A letter from Larry Alford, chair of the OCLC Board...
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Open and Linked Data Despite a proclivity toward openness, libraries have historically been involved with data and content under various levels of restrictions imposed by copyright and proprietary business arrangements. Libraries have also dealt with data primarily through self-contained applications, mostly managed within relational databases. While these modes of operation persist today...
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Unified Discovery and Management of E-book Content and Lending The lending of e-books continues to be an activity of critical interest in public libraries. As e-books gain ever wider popularity by the general public, libraries have been steadily working out the many problems related to offering e-book services similar to those offered for print materials. As e-book content increases...
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Investing in the Industry The big news this month concerns Innovative Interfaces, Inc. receiving a major investment from a pair of private equity firms. Until now, this company had often touted its independence from the influence of outside investors as one of its positive qualities. Innovative will need to demonstrate that its new ownership arrangement actually does mean "business as...
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While the largest companies tend to garner the most headlines, it's important to remember that the library automation industry consists of a very diverse group of organizations. Players in this industry range from tiny firms of with a handful of employees to the larger international companies with hundreds of personnel that do business around the world. I'm glad to see this kind of diversity...
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As we enter a new year, I'd like to pause and consider some of the trends and events that I anticipate playing out in 2012. The predictions I made for 2011 largely held (see Smart Libraries Newsletter, February 2011). Given the momentum of developments and the issues currently in play, 2012 may turn out to be a very interesting year in the realm of library technologies. --Marshall Breeding Also...
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Well, whadaya know... another Shame post. Get used to it, those who apparently are troubled by our coverage of it, 'cause, I'll be honest with ya, there'll be a lot more I'm sure.
This time it's the post-Venice Film Festival press conference (where the film made its debut yesterday), with director Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender on the mic. And, as the title of this post states, beginning at around the 2:30 mark, you'll see what I believe is the very first footage of the film to show up online; not much, only about a minute's worth.
RECOVERED ADDICT | September 10, 2011 10:24 AM
The producers of this short film are both recovering addicts who have both spent time living and indulging with drug addiction in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
CareyCarey | September 7, 2011 2:04 AM
"What I'm curious about is if you are so averted to the movie why do you continue to frequent the site's coverage of it? Just don't see it. If his handling of a sensitive area such as "terrorism" in Hunger is any indication of how gifted he truly is, I believe broaching the topic of addiction will be handled with the utmost precision and nuance by both the actors and directors" By Nia on September 6, 2011
Nia, first, I read every post that's submitted by S & A, some I get engaged with, other I avoid like they are The Black Death (plague)... the one on "The Talk" quickly comes to mind, which had over 80 comments. Now, since I'm an old school dude who has paid his dues for these knots on my head, I've taken on the tasks of trying to pass down the "right" messages. I may not always accomplish my goal, but when I see a post that hits my sweet spots, i.e. race relations, addictions, relationship, sidewinders, etc, just to name a few, I look and listen - with a keen eye - to the messages being sent by the authors of each post and those who comment. If I disagree with some of their sentiments, I've learned that a closed mouth will never get feed, and "arguments" & "disagreements" are the fastest roads to victory.
Granted, this is a film blog and I love love love watching movie, but it's been said many times and in many ways; movies are not "just" movies. If that were not true, we would not be having this discussion.
"why would you expect a movie about a sex addict not to have sex? That's like saying a movie about drug addiction won't include drugs" ~ Nia
Well Nia, you're either not an author/writer or you're very young. The story of "addictions" has many visions and several roads less and yet traveled. None of which has to show graphic drug usage, explicit sex acts, or naked ass of any nature, yet an engrossing, shocking and/or tremendously engaging story can to told without such over the top "theatrics". In reference to "Shame", I personally cannot find any redeeming qualities - by what's been said about the movie - that would compel me to see it, let alone recommend it to others. It's not a story I'd pass on to one of my children or any young black youth.. ~ CareyCarey
HI Blu, what'sup.
Nia | September 6, 2011 12:50 PM
I don't believe anyone begged her to be in the film. She tried out on her own accord and they felt she was the right person for the role. What I'm curious about is if you are so averted to the movie why do you continue to frequent the site's coverage of it? Just don't see it.
Are you even familiar with McQueens work at all? He debuted with a film about the IRA which left some of the audience walking out of the theatre and earned him a standing ovation and Palme d'or. He is no stranger to contrversial material. I don't expect actors that I like to always take the safe bet. McQueen is anything but.
If you haven't I do hope you will at least see some of the man's prior work before passing judgement. If his handling of a sensitive area such as "terrorism" in Hunger is any indication of how gifted he truely is, I believe broaching the topic of addiction will be handled with the utmost precision and nuance by both the actors and directors.
I've enjoyed our discourse. I do value your opinion.
BluTopaz | September 6, 2011 12:41 PM
jeez luis.
N-T-WAY: McQueen's whole premise of being "imprisoned by an addiction" happening to ordinary people is an interesting topic. Last time i saw something like that was in Requiem for a Dream, and McQueen sounds like an intriguing filmmaker. I'm always keen to watch work from Black filmmakers outside the U.S. --there are a lot of hangups and mental blocks here.
CareyCarey | September 6, 2011 8:17 AM
"To state that, "this is just a movie that's exploiting one of our up and coming new stars", is baseless"
Please Nia, your whole argument is baseless. You said it yourself, the role did not call for a black female, but yet they gave Nicole the part that some have said they've seen day players with more dialogue than Nicole has. So excuse me, but I see that as a bit of exploitation. Look, had Nicole not been attached to this film, I doubt we'd be having this conversation and you know it. So spare me, boo-who-boo-boo all you want, you can't change the facts.
"She is working with one of today's most talented directors and some of the hottest actors available. McQueen has been nominated for BAFTA's from his first film alone. I think he knows what he is doing. **SCREAMING BASELESS, MOOT, AND ALL THAT JAZZ!**
Of course Mr. McQueen knows what he's doing, that's my point. But if you're referring to his filmmaking abilities, your point is baseless b/c many directors - much more talented than him (with awards up the ying yang) - have been involved with flops and garbage. So what's your point?
Lastly, you said: "You are entitled to your opinion. I however will continue to support great projects by black filmmakers and actors"
NOW you're talking about something we can agree on. Well - except this great thing you're talking about. I mean, there is a saying "one man's garbage is another woman's treasure" so I understand. Great to me is not A MOVIE ABOUT A SEX ADDICT, nor is my pleasure zone excited by the prospect of a guy whacking off on the job, or scenes of him slipping off to the seedy 3 hour motel. I can rent a damn porno with some of the hottest actors available, if that was my dream movie. That's not a great project to me. But like you said, that's my opinion, and it's my prerogative to spend my money as I please. And again, I have to say this, if you desires to see the majestic beauty of Steve McQueen's expertise, through a white dude beating his meat, and having sex with prostitutes, go at it. But don't get mad at me when I say that sh*t sucks big time. Hey, it's all fair in love and war - isn't it - in the comment section of a film blog? You're here telling people how great a movie this is, and I am the counter-voice saying, "slow your roll, don't make your move too fast. Look before you leap". That's fair isn't it? I believe it's all good.
Thanks for the exchange.
Nia | September 6, 2011 6:42 AM
I think in an earlier post about the script it was made clear race wasn't even a factor in the role Ms. Baharie is playing. She could easily be white, latino, or any other race that matter.
To state that, "this is just a movie that's exploiting one of our up and coming new stars", is baseless. She is working with one of today's most talented diectors and some of the hottest actors available.
Beharie has made selective and very smart decisions in terms of advancing her career in my opinion. I don't believe she would allow herself to be limited by one sex scene in her already budding career.
Mcqueen has been nominated for BAFTA's from his first film alone. I think he knows what he is doing. Fassbender is in more sex scenes than Beharie is he getting any shade thrown his way? No because why would you expect a movie about a sex addict not to have sex? That's like saying a movie about drug addiction won't include drugs. It's ridculous to expect every black female actress to be Clair Huxtable. I don't epect Beharie to limit herself to these roles either, because she is a versatile actress.
You are entitled to your opinion. I however will continue to support great projects by black filmakers and actors. I wish McQueen and Beharie the best in their future endevors.
Nia | September 6, 2011 5:43 AM
Hunger was actually the film that brought Micheal Fassbender and McQueen to my attention. If you haven't yet seen it, watch it. It is stunning. I was blown away by Nicole Beharie's performance in American Violet. Everything you post about the film makes me want to see it more. I don't get why everyone is up in arms about the sex scene IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A SEX ADDICT. Otherwise, I believe all the actors can carry out a solid performance. Excited to see how McQueen will follow up Hunger.
BondGirl | September 6, 2011 3:50 AM
This right here------>>>" But hey, whomever desires to see the majestic beauty of Steve McQueen's expertise, through a white dude beating his meat, and having sex with prostitutes, go at it. There's also a black chick in the movie. But hush, don't cry fool when a black maid appears on the screen." has my stomach in knots from laughing so hard!!!
Please, please see the movie...because I really could use more gems like that. I just wish someone had th guts to say, "The Help isn't racist, but doesn't appeal to me. The blacks aren't glamourous as I'd like, they have jobs I abhor, and the time period reminds me of my granddaddy's scrapped knuckles from scrubbing toilets.
But to say white people are saviors in one movie, but act like they're not in another....makes you lose credibility.
CareyCarey | September 6, 2011 3:16 AM
"I don't get why everyone is up in arms about the sex scene"
Yeah, I agree, uuuuuuuummm, Maids in the South (The Help) vs. Black Chicks in the bed (Shame). What's the difference? What's wrong with promoting a movie when the only black chick in the movie is nothing more than a cheap sexual conquest for the white male lead. Nia said, IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A SEX ADDICT? Alexandria said, Fassbender's character sleeps with prostitutes and masturbates at work! And that damn "The Help" was what?
Yeah, why are some people up in arms about interracial sex? I mean, I don't have sex with white people and this is just a movie that's exploiting one of our up and coming new stars, so what's the problem? We need more great stories like this, especially in black cinema.
Listen, I am not planning on seeing Shame. I can't find a reason to do that. But hey, whomever desires to see the majestic beauty of Steve McQueen's expertise, through a white dude beating his meat, and having sex with prostitutes, go at it. There's also a black chick in the movie. But hush, don't cry fool when a black maid appears on the screen.
Maid vs. Flip Flop Girl, you be the judge. What's the difference?
Btw, I hope Clnmike is right when he said: "by the looks of it wont bust a bag of popcorn in the theaters"
Clnmike | September 5, 2011 9:01 AM
For real this movie is getting just a little too much hype on here, and by the looks of it it wont bust a bag of popcorn in the theaters.
BluTopaz | September 5, 2011 8:32 AM
Well then that will only give fodder to people who want to use this film as leverage to bitch and complain because there are people who do not like other types of movies, but whatever.
Another point she said in the interview is that Black actresses are constantly pressured by "us" to always be seen in a positive light. We've all seen cerebral flicks with all kinds of nudity in sex scenes, it's interesting to note when Black actors do these roles Black people hold them to higher standards, and all the reasons why. Some I agree with, others I don't. The sex scene in Monster's Ball was repulsive because imo, it played into all kinds of stereotypes.I have no idea if Shame uses any of that racial visual shorthand to shock, but i am interested in seeing it for Steve McQueen's work and Nicole.
Anwar | September 5, 2011 7:51 AM
@ BluTopaz
She IS involved in one of the graphic sex scenes in the film and she is nude. I think she meant that she would never compromise her own dignity by doing a film or a scene in a film that is degrading for no purpose. She also said that a lot of her family questioned why she would even do this film due to it's subject matter.
BluTopaz | September 5, 2011 6:55 AM
In the interview with Nicole posted on this site recently (sorry don't remember the writer), she noted that she would never do anything to compromise her dignity, so she probably is not involved in any graphic sex scenes in Shame. If that's the case, maybe the film's critics on this site who are still butthurt about the flamefest another certain movie received will have nothing to say.
Angela Tucker | September 5, 2011 2:12 AM
Feel free to post about this as much as you'd like!
Sell Out | September 5, 2011 1:42 AM
I think all of the coverage for Shame has been excellent on this blog.
Not only have the writers covered a wide variety of angles, but really enforced word-of-mouth that this will truly be a great cinematic experience. I have to concur from what I've read both here and other journals.
Keep it up! Steve McQueen is about to get huge.
Neziah | September 5, 2011 1:24 AM
Sweet. Keep up the great coverage, guys.


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For point number 7, you can download themes from Nokia store or other third party web sites. Incidentally, I always use a black wallpaper with an AMOLED screen. I don't see the point in having a bright and colourful wallpaper anyway.
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why the hell nokia is so selfish in giving more memory to inbuilt phone memory......??
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each and every ppl doesnot have time to install third party app and clear cache and other temp folder its annoying.....
if you knw the truth that the phone memory gets low with continuous use why are still stuck with low memory problem......and more over belle took out the option of storing messages to the sd card....now do you call it good...
first give less space in c drive and then force users to store all messages there....
excellent nokia...very gud...hell with you....these all are the reasons ppl migrate to companies like apple or get an android which i am also planing.... bye bye nokia nw no more nokia devices...
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what is the use of an AMOLED when you dnt see the bright colored wallpers ...the magic of amoled is seen when u use a hd bright wallpapers....
and most of the themes in nokia store are not so lovely..also varbide ui doesnot let u customise a sis theme what a dissapointment... from nokia...
23-05-2012 12:23
Belle didn't remove the ability to store messages to mass memory, it's been like this in all versions of S^3.
If you want a Nokia phone with more RAM why not try one of the Lumia phones or the Symbian powered 701 or 603. All have 512 MB of RAM.
23-05-2012 12:26
unmaskedfalesh wrote:
what is the use of an AMOLED when you dnt see the bright colored wallpers ...the magic of amoled is seen when u use a hd bright wallpapers....
and most of the themes in nokia store are not so lovely..also varbide ui doesnot let u customise a sis theme what a dissapointment... from nokia...
The point of the AMOLED is to give bright sharp images when using applications and viewing photos in the gallery. It's also good for watching videos. As I said, I don't see the point of having wallpapers because I don't sit there staring at my home screens. Not to mention that the wall paper would be obscured by widgets and app icons.
23-05-2012 12:31 - edited 23-05-2012 12:33
then y is there six home screens for just to fill them with widgets?
if no wallpaper is to be needed then y cant nokia be like apple giving just a lockscreen wallpaper and menu homescreenno offense)
23-05-2012 13:23
unmaskedfalesh wrote:
then y is there six home screens for just to fill them with widgets?
if no wallpaper is to be needed then y cant nokia be like apple giving just a lockscreen wallpaper and menu homescreenno offense)
Are you saying that you keep the extra home screens empty in order to display wall papers? Interesting. Each to his own I suppose. Personally, I've removed three home screens as I'd struggle to fill them with shortcuts or widgets. Same goes for my Galaxy S where I only keep three home screens active.
23-05-2012 13:26
i keep a home screen empty for my wallpaper and rest 2 home screens fr shortcuts...
23-05-2012 19:43 - edited 23-05-2012 19:56
you say you're using nokia for more than 15 years.
you must have by now known that nokia has successfully built a reputation of
- pulling great devices from market once demand goes up (E90 and the entire communicator line)
- introducing toys that are useless / money-worthless with huge fanfare (... need i say anything? just look at the recent launches after E7)
- removing critical featuresets in the name of "update" (anna, now belle)
take any nokia device, but i'll talk about E-series as i am more familiar with them:
1. E-series: name was great, but removed in favour of some numbering convention
2. E61, E62 and later E61i: were great machines, but nokia shrunk it, made it sexier and called it E71, which was good but not better. then came E72 with its own annoyances like email loading time (dreaded message: "fetching content"), lack of camera button etc.
the most underhyped, undervalued, bad timed launch which came when symbian was bleeped followed by MS alliance.
- why can't they give it atleast 800x400 resolution?
- why can't they provide a BP-4L battery?
- why can't they provide an auto-focus camera? a 5mp would have sufficed?! My E90 does super wonderful document close-ups, and why should not i desire the same for E7?
are nokia's h/w engineers that bleeped, that they somehow could not design a hardware that accommodates a BP-4L battery and a resolution > 640x480, and an autofocus camera?
you put a BP-4L monster on miniature miniscule tiny microscopic E72 and E52 and call them great battery life? what kind of bleeping foolish thing is that?
this is bleeping unnacceptable. a lot of tech websites have condemned this.
highspeed processors bleep the skin / environment / power, and E7's 680Mhz works like a breeze for simple day to day operations (not heavy gaming and videos), so low processor speed is not great, but acceptable.
E7's bleeping woes started with anna: packet data logging gone, access point alert all gone. atleast with my E7, S^3 email client did not crash, worked well with hotmail, ovi and gmail.
the other day i saw some screenshots of S^3. they look wonderful with all the colourful icons for contacts, menus etc. anna bleeped those icons and made them all black and white. why the bleep do i need a clear black display AMOLED bleep, when the OS itself is bleeped in its colourfulbess?!
bleeping annoying SMS pop-ups, bleeped email widget, bleeped clock widget, bleeped calendar widget, bleeped theme.
and why the bleep should nokia copy android in its pull down notification? what was wrong with the earlier "access point" system?
SMS characters alert: should i say anything? why would i have to close the keyboard everytime just to see the no.of characters?
what a bleep of user experience is nokia selling?
and why the bleep should i "purchase" an equalizer from ovi store for E7, when earlier devices had it built-in?
if something works, and works perfectly, why bleep it, and call it an update?
E-series customers are not toy owners like apple or geeks like android.
E-series owners are practical people who have business use for their devices. Nokia has completely bleeped the E-series users.
hopefully the update to belle resolves the issues in v.111.030.0609!
23-05-2012 23:58
24-05-2012 9:39
27-05-2012 15:57
I'm sure they would love to see us nagging customers go!
I'm only still hangiing around here in the vain hope of getting some kind of an apology really. I don't count on any fixes or getting an option to downgrade. I admire you guys/gals for keeping on pushing for improvements. I've resorted to changing phones.
But I would really appreciate an acknowledgement from Nokia that it was a mistake to remove functionality, that a warning about the magnitude of the change would have been appropriate, and that the inabiily to undo the upgrade is not customer friendly. Just an indication that they listen and value loyal customers. I feel totally dismissed. Fired as a customer.
27-05-2012 16:32
adventor wrote:
I'm sure they would love to see us nagging customers go!
I'm only still hangiing around here in the vain hope of getting some kind of an apology really. I don't count on any fixes or getting an option to downgrade. I admire you guys/gals for keeping on pushing for improvements. I've resorted to changing phones.
But I would really appreciate an acknowledgement from Nokia that it was a mistake to remove functionality, that a warning about the magnitude of the change would have been appropriate, and that the inabiily to undo the upgrade is not customer friendly. Just an indication that they listen and value loyal customers. I feel totally dismissed. Fired as a customer.
Completely agree.
I watched commented, and was completely ignored when they started stripping out good, valid functionality in the maps betas, that eventually became "retail" versions, and was staggered by the arrogance, hubris and subtle contempt shown to the more involved / demanding users, shunned entirely in favour of oversimplification to appease the keep-it-simple demograph.
What truly irked was the lack of response or recognition that both types of users could be kept happy with the (then current) defaults approach, plus an "advanced" settings option. So it was no surprise that Belle brought similar with it.
I've stuck with Anna and maps 3.06 - there's no way I'll now "upgrade" from versions and configuration I'm happy with, when I know it would just frustrate me with the features or configuration options removed - I already experienced that with maps betas.
27-05-2012 18:31
28-05-2012 16:27
Guyes, all 1st Gen Symbian^3 devices are getting Belle FP1.
This is the time we can push nokia to listen to us and fix the issues prior to the release.
I hope we atlest get a fix for very simple and stupid issues which were not there in Anna and Belle messed them up. eg: notification widget, calender event widget, video file play errors etc.
We have to get to nokia and ask for the basic fixed atleast. If we get more than that i'll be very happy. But lets hope for basic things first.
28-05-2012 16:40
Dear Coolani,
Thank you for your post.
Although I am a bit hesitant with the content of your post, in particular with the sentence:
Guyes, all 1st Gen Symbian^3 devices are getting Belle FP1.
I was wondering, where did you get this information?
So far, there have been lots of rumours going on, specially with a misinterpretation of a statement regarding Belle FP1 by our Italian colleague.
Just to remind you of Nokia's official statement regarding rumors on FP1.
We'd like to address these inaccurate reports circulating in regards to Symbian software. We do not normally disclose internal project names, but I need to defend my colleague in Italy whose comments were somehow lost in translation. Symbian Carla was the internal project name for Symbian Belle Feature Pack 1. Not only is FP1 not cancelled, it is rolling out on the Symbian 808 PureView and to other devices. Carla and FP1 are the same thing.
All the best,
28-05-2012 19:38
Believe me, it took me a while to be able to speak about this in anything more that rude 4-letter words, and there are still dents in the walls where I threw stuff right after the Belle upgrade.
One could say "why let it upset you, it's just a half-bricked phone, not something like a terrible act of nature or a horrible disease, so get over it". But although not a tragedy, it is not trivial either.
Smartphones are extremely personal and even intimate companions. We trust them with valuable information; contacts, photos, emails, business secrets and who knows what other secrets, they help us in social awkward situations ("What should I do? How do I look? Thank heavens I can always fumble with my phone!"), we play games on them while we're on the can, carry them in our pockets close to our bodies many hours each day, and after that they are on the charger next to the bed because they are also alarm clocks. The smartphone is a very personal assistant, and when you buy one, you make sure that it matches your way of working and personal preferences, because you'll essentially be working together day-in-day-out for a couple of years. Nokia was a logical choice; excellent solid hardware, good service, and they had never let me down. The 2110 from 1994 still works as well today as it did then. The E6 with Symbian Anna was the perfect choice for me.
And then one day I pressed the Update Software button in Ovi Suite and unknowingly killed my dear, modest, reliable, practical personal assistant called Anna, and find her replaced by Belle, who starts off her career by making an entrance in inappropriately flamboyant clothing, carrying a big bold 1970's clock. It makes me cringe and gasp for air. What have I done! She's clumsy and turns out to have lied on her resume because she can't do a lot of the things that Anna did very well.
So I immediately want to fire Belle and hire Anna back. But no, it turns out Anna was not a permanent employee, and that the temp agency had every right to replace her with what they consider to be an equivalent worker.
Nokia rationalised this with confabulations about statistics and marketing that supposedly are reasons for making things -regrettably- worse for some individuals, but better for the majority. Added were condescending comments that it was my fault, as I was the one who had willingly pushed the button in Ovi ("Nobody forced you to!") and that I should have kept up to date with current developments, and therefore should have known what Belle was all about. Please refer to your contract and warranty, Nokia guarantees only basic phone functionality.
They were right about that, and I was mad at myself. I was the sore loser who had not read the contract. According to the (European) warranty, all Nokia guarantees is a phone that makes and receives calls. There also is no law against clever marketing: selling phones based on qualities that are temporary. The phone had simply lost the temporary qualities it had at the time of purchase. It can happen with TV's, cameras, and every appliance of which the functionality is largely defined by the software in it.
Had I been a fool to trust Nokia? No, trust is a basic necessity in life (see Bruce Schneier: Liars and Outliers).
Nokia: people here have done lots of work to investigate and list all the things that need fixing in Belle. Apologies for the inconvenience would be nice. And a new optionally installable firmware imagine containing good old Anna for those who want to revert.
29-05-2012 4:52
29-05-2012 9:59 - edited 29-05-2012 10:02
coolani wrote:
I'm extremely thankful to John_Tesla for replying. Nokia IS listening at last. I found out the news about N8.Please check it out.
lle-FP1-and-FP2-Updates-Soon-Includes-Minor-CPU-Ov ...
hter-version-of-nokia-belle-fp1-update-soon-and-fp ...
These are just two of all the links I found.
Thank you once again.
Reading the article in the first link you provided makes me think that the author is getting a little over excited, so most of it may not be true. The last sentence, which states; "On a side note, a new firmware update for Nokia N8 has just been spotted in Spain at (censored ). Software version 111.30.610 will soon be pushed to N8 units, though we don't have any changelog available for the moment." shows a lack of understanding and knowledge by the author. The version 111.30.610 being pushed to two N8 variants in Spain is due to those handsets not receiving the original .609 update. The two handsets belong to the Movistar network in Spain so that version of Belle is specific to Movistar only. It's pure speculation to say that .610 will be pushed to all other N8's as an update.
As has been said over and over before, it's better to wait for an official statement from Nokia as to what updates will be made available and when, and to not put much trust in third party web sites.
All the best.
31-05-2012 13:29
There is so much criticism about nokia and belle. I agree to some extent but all the critics just think, if all cons (not found features) as mentioned, where put in one single phone then, no one in this entire world would ever buy other phone - no expansion of buisness (in terms of economists). And this isn't the case of Nokia and it is the case with all mobile phone manufactures. So why blame only Nokia...and its products....


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Do or Don't: Bringing Outside Food/Drink Into a Restaurant
Do or Don't: Bringing Outside Food/Drink Into a Restaurant
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Last week, New York Times critic Frank Bruni broached the question of whether it's kosher to bring outside food or drink into restaurants. I've noticed at some places — most recently at a popular neighborhood coffeehouse — that a growing number of establishments have barred customers from bringing items (such as water) inside. Bruni cited an example of a friend getting turned away from brunch at a New York diner for arriving with a Starbucks coffee in hand, and argued in favor of the establishment. "It strikes me as a measure of disrespect," he writes.
What are your thoughts on the issue? Is Bruni being too extreme when he calls it disrespectful behavior?
zoneandonlymrm 1 year
If a restaurant (like McDonald's) doesn't offer a healthy alternative or to make a complete "value meal" costs more than it would for you to get a banana and yogurt (from a local grocery store) with your hamburger, why would that be so wrong to bring those items into one of their restaurants? I don't think it would be rude or disrespectul. You have the right to make a consciousness decision to eat healthier and make good decisions for your body.
Robyn3354682 1 year
As a small business owner myself, I definately say do NOT bring in outside food or drink. As far as people saying it should be ok or let water/juice be the exception, I would like to see how they would feel if they were on the other side of the fence. People need to stop being so selfish when it comes to them being a consumer and look at it from all sides. If this kind of thing keeps up there won't be any small business' left and the quality of dining out will drop tremendously.
dessert-princess 2 years
As a small business owner ,we strive to give excellent customer service. We are competing with large chains who have unlimited advertising budgets.We take a lot of pride in every aspect of our business. We order our coffee through a small business who roasts their beans in small batches, and deliver to us weekly. All of our baked products are baked fresh daily. It is very important to us that we offer a superior quality regarding our coffee we serve or our baked goods. It doesn't matter if you order a muffin, cupcake, specialty cake, wedding cake or a cup of coffee. We want it to be the best!!! I It is insulting when someone brings a dunkin donuts cup of coffee into our shop. We are a coffee house/ bakery. I would never bring a cup of coffee into another business that serves coffee. I think it is extremely disrespectful to visit a food establishment and bring anything into the food establishment that is on the menu. I understand that everyone has different tastes((and I respect their freedom of choice), but please leave the coffee in your car and purchase your desserts to go.
3 years
I'm with the "depends" crowd. Establishments are there to make money. First, you should have plans to be a customer. If you're not a customer you are taking up space and advertising for other companies. I don't know of any one who would condone this. Second, if they don't serve it there, I can't imagine it being a problem. However, if they don't serve it, that's probably because there are no accommodations for it. For example, a wine and cheese place would not want to clean up the soup you brought in from some place else. My 2 cents.
4 years
No, water shouldn't be exception. You can get free water in a restaurant! Only thing should be exception is baby food and baby bottle. It is not just rude. Businesses depending on your purchase. If you want to munch on something that you bought somewhere else do it outside in your car. It's like going to get your nails done, but while you wait in line you do it there with borrowed instruments from the proprietor. BYOB is a totally different ball park. Most places do that to boost business where there is no liqueur licence. But I bet my best Dollar that even there won't let you i n with your own food.
4 years
Bringing outside food or drink into a restaurant is rude. The restaurant is in business to sell food and drink, that's how they make their money. Additionally, restaurants carry liability insurance in case someone gets sick from something they consume. If you bring in outside food or drink and get sick, how can it be determined what caused the illness? And then is the restaurant liable? And that bottle of water could be a bottle of vodka, or the coffee could contain liquor, how would the restaurant know? It just creates headaches for the establishment that are not necessary. Baby food & milk would be the only exception I can think of.
5 years
I drink alot of water and always carry my own glass liter bottle filled with Eldorado Spring water. I never order sodas, juice or other drinks and the water in most places tastes terrible. When the water is good the wait person has to fill my glass over and over. I feel like it should be everyones right to bring water with them where ever they go. I have heard it said that it violates health regulations of some kind. I am not aware of this and I think it is used as an excuse to try to sell their beverages. I have left places with out ordering anything for them refusing to allow me to drink my own water.
5 years
Non-alcoholic beverages like juice or water, I don't see why not unless the restaurant wants you to buy the drinks from their menu instead. It's not like you bought the drink from somewhere else because you didn't like any of the drinks listed on the menu, you just happen to have a bottle of water with you and prefer that brand that over the restaurant's ice water.
5 years
Rude? To who? I think, for example, if an establishment were to sell only pepsi products and I don't like them (I'm a coke-a-cola guy myself), it would be OK do bring a coke.
5 years
I think that consumers should be treated well. I feel that it's unethical for businesses to forbid their customers to bring in food from home or from another establishment. A paying customer should be treated with respect and made to feel comfortable and appreciated in the establishment he/she is at. In this way, the customer will keep going back to the establishment. Isn't that what every business owner wants: to keep their customers satisfied so that they can make more money? I was at a Hondo's Center department store cafe today. As my husband was in line to get some coffee and water, I treated myself to the delicious donut we had just bought before going into the department store cafe. I was rudely approached by an employee who said that I was not allowed to be eating outside food. I told her that we're paying customers and that my husband was actually in line waiting to order. She persisted. I then went to the manager to complain. She agree with her employee. I feel that this is unfair treatment. Isn't there something that us consumers can do to stop this mistreatment? How can we have more power, as consumers? I just can't deal with things that are unfair. I am sorry, but what is one donut going to do to Hondo's Center (or any other department store for that matter). They make a lot of money. I mean isn't the money that they make from us? I don't understand these empty and unfair rules. I welcome any kind of feedback you may have. Thanks, Tina:)
chow 5 years
i'd say it's usually pretty rude.
Argentee 5 years
I have no problem when it is for children. As a child, my mother learned not to trust restraunts when they said there was no milk in something... it turns up in the oddest places and after the first time a meal out ended with my being rushed to a hospital, mom got paranoid. As an adult I won't bring my own food, even though I've had some similar experiences.
Argentee 5 years
I have no problem when it is for children. As a child, my mother learned not to trust restraunts when they said there was no milk in something... it turns up in the oddest places and after the first time a meal out ended with my being rushed to a hospital, mom got paranoid. As an adult I won't bring my own food, even though I've had some similar experiences.
milosmommy 5 years
I would only do it for my son. Otherwise for adults I think it's very rude. And in doing it for my son it's usually only crackers and other snacks to hold him over until his meal comes anyway. I don't think I would ever bring him in a full meal because if he couldn't eat the food or didn't like it then I wouldn't bring him to that restaurant.
ilanac13 5 years
i think that it really depends on what you're bringing to the place and what kind of place it is. there are times that it's just WRONG to bring in stuff - but honestly, a coffee - really?
CarlyHP226685 5 years
If its a little kid then i dont see a problem. Most kids are picky and if they go to dinner with their parents or guardians then who cares. Adults however shouldnt bring food in to nice restaurants. I've eaten pizza in a dunkin donuts before because the people i was with wanted D&D. But I would never bring outside food in to a nice place. And movies? I always buy a drink and/or a snack at walmart or another store before i go in. $10 for a ticket and then $6 for a soda and $5 for candy? HAH! Not gonna happen lol Me & my boyfriend have snuck in our lunches before too...Wendy's sandwiches and wraps are the perfect jacket pocket sized snack haha. I do think that overly smelly food should be banned. No strong odors that will bother other movie goers! I try to go in the early afternoon so its empty.
CarlyHP226685 5 years
If its a little kid then i dont see a problem. Most kids are picky and if they go to dinner with their parents or guardians then who cares.Adults however shouldnt bring food in to nice restaurants. I've eaten pizza in a dunkin donuts before because the people i was with wanted D&D. But I would never bring outside food in to a nice place.And movies? I always buy a drink and/or a snack at walmart or another store before i go in.$10 for a ticket and then $6 for a soda and $5 for candy? HAH! Not gonna happen lolMe & my boyfriend have snuck in our lunches before too...Wendy's sandwiches and wraps are the perfect jacket pocket sized snack haha. I do think that overly smelly food should be banned. No strong odors that will bother other movie goers! I try to go in the early afternoon so its empty.
bawp125 5 years
this might be one of my pet peeves. i work at an independent coffee shop and sometimes people bring in coffee from starbucks!! it's really like a slap in the face to establishments like the one i work at, because we are a small business struggling to survive against a coffee empire. i could see there being some exceptions, but brining in food or drinks from direct industry competitors is a complete faux pas.
skigurl 5 years
it depends - if i had a coffee or water on the go, then i would bring it into most places (but not a starbucks into a different chain of coffee shop or anything) - but like actual food, NO! except like for a little kid, like someone said, if they only like/can eat certain stuff but the parents want something different, then that's also an exeption.
katie171 5 years
I wouldn't feel comfortable bringing outside food to a restaurant.
Angela123 5 years
I think it's rude and disrespectful to bring outside FOOD into a restaurant where you will be eating, but not necessarily beverages. If I already have a water or a latte or bottle of soda or whatever in my hand when I enter a restaurant, I'm not going to throw it away. Anything beyond that I wouldn't really do.
mtiger 5 years
I would never bring food or drink into a restaurant. Maybe a bottle of water at a fast-food restaurant. Also, I'm like readers above...I sneak snacks and drinks into the movies. $4 for a bottle of water is outrageous!
Rancher'sGirl 5 years
Yes, I take a small bottle of water into the movie theater with me because I will not pay $4.00 for one. I have even discreetly pulled a cookie from my purse at a coffeehouse. (My homebaked goods are much better than the mass produced items! LOL) ;) At a sit down restaurant, probably not. I guess it depends where I am. :)
LadyLiLa83 5 years
I don't do it, and I've actually never seen anyone who did.
ummyeaitsmarcie 5 years
I wouldn't do it at a sit down restaurant, but I routinely buy dinner at a fast food place and take it to the wireless hot spot in my town. I buy a coffee and occasionally a dessert there once I'm done with my food.
rickimc 5 years
Personally, I would never do this. However, I have seen people bring in food for thier young children, and this does not bother me.
puddlesworth 5 years
water is free, so why should they care if you bring your own?
lizzylu49 5 years
I agree with caligirl. I bring my coffee into brunch joints because I usually stop beforehand, not because I don't want to drink the restaurant's coffee. If its busy, I just sip it while I wait.
chiefdishwasher 5 years
I have never brought one bacon wrapped hot dog into a McDonalds......
Kazagirl 5 years
It really depends of the place. I can see someone bringing a bottle of water or even coffee but that is about it unless you are going to the movies. I don't think it is right to bring food into another establishment unless it is a fast food place.
Phasekitty 5 years
I said Depends. I would never do it at a really fancy restaurant, but just last weekend I was going out to brunch with some friends and the place had nearly an hour's wait. My friend and I needed to get our coffee fix, so we headed across the street for some Starbucks while we waited. They ended up bringing us in a little earlier than planned and I still had my cup and felt really bad about it- but they didn't seem to care.
PamiP 5 years
Food no, unless it's a small child and they can't cater to them. Drink is different, BYOB is just that, and here in New Orleans it's not uncommon to travel from bar to restaurant or reversed with a cocktail in hand.
leb357 5 years
I go to a University where the block right off campus has at least a dozen different restaurants. Two days ago I was at Chipotle and I saw a table where one girl was eating Chipotle and the other was eating Subway. That didn't bother me--they wanted to eat lunch together, but wanted food from different places. I think that only applies to fast food, though. I think it'd be weird to do that at a sit-down restaurant.
writerjenna 5 years
I think bringing your own wine or beer into a restaurant is okay. I agree with what danielle854 said; if it's a fast-food joint, there really isn't a problem, IMHO, if you want burgers and your friend wants chicken wings.
danielle854 5 years
Depends really. Right now I'm living in Mexico & where I am - they charge you for water. I bring a bottle with me everywhere. I'm not going to pay a couple dollars for one, when I can go to the local supermarket and get a bigger bottle for the same price. Cheap? Very. I'm a poor college student! I'll save money any chance I can get. On the other hand, bringing food in - I'm on the fence for. Fancy restaurants - definitely a no. However, fast-food restaurants I don't see the problem. For example: if someone I'm with wants KFC and I want Burger King, but we want to eat together - then whats the big deal? I bought food at the establishment & the other person is acting as a guest.
caligirl 5 years
I'm with PetSugar... I often get coffee from Starbucks or Peets before going to brunch, in anticipation of a long wait and not wanting to stand outside (or even inside) with nothing to sip on. I suppose if the place offered coffee while you wait I might feel differently? I can't be waiting without a caffeine fix!
yaksmilk 5 years
Dear management, If you're having trouble with people bringing in outside food/drink, it's likely because your prices are too high or your selection to poor ... or both. Perhaps it is disrespectful to bring coffee or water into some restaurant but is it really happening enough to warrant concern? There's an economic crisis coming and I wouldn't be spreading discontent among small business owners and customers just for the sake of an article. I dream of a future United States with beer gardens, free bathrooms, and restauranteers who give patrons something besides a hassle for our money.
animatedpunk 5 years
when i visit my cousin there is a cheese shop right next to a wine bar. Now, the wine bar sells cheese plates, but just doesn't have the variety or quality of the cheese shop. So we will buy cheese and take it into the wine shop to have with wine. Now, we spend plenty of money on their wine, so I really don't see why it should be a problem. But at some places it is.
bluesarahlou 5 years
I said other. The only item I'll bring to a restaurant is my own bottle of wine, since a lot places have crappy wine lists and mark up the price of the wine considerably. In this area of the country (Bay Area, CA) it's pretty much commonplace anyway. Restaurants will charge you a corkage fee, so they're still getting something out of it!
emileigh 5 years
I wouldn't bring in outside food or drink. It compromises health codes, and it just seems tacky. When I was a server, sometimes parents would bring in small snacks for their toddlers, which I consider an exception. Movie theaters are my other exception. I just can't rationalize paying $5 for candy.
psychobabble 5 years
I'm all for bringing my own snacks into a movie theater but I don't bring outside food/drink into restaurants, unless it's a BYOB. I've always thought it was kinda rude, regardless of how nice the place is. Though, I could see myself bringing in a cup of coffee when I order a bag of bagels to go, that's a bit different I guess.
lawchick 5 years
I agree that movie theaters are different. I paid $4.00 for a 20 oz. Dasani water at the movies on Sunday. UGHHH
verily 5 years
I think it's rude to bring in food to a restaurant. I was eating in a diner and watched a person bring in Starbucks...to a place that regularly serves coffee to its patrons all day long! They rightly told her to take it to her car or drink it outside. As for theaters, I think the theater inadvertently encourages it by charging astronomical prices for its concessions. I have no problem sneaking in a bag of candy to a regular theater.
Soniabonya 5 years
i said ti depends. at a fancy place, that's a big NO. rude and disrespectful. for casual dining places water is okay, heck you're going to get free water anywyas, and if you just bought a coffee or tea from another place then yes, finish it at the table. bringing other food in? i consider that really rude. except at movie theatres because theatre food just sucks and it's overpriced. in that circumstance, bring in a freaking pizza if you can :)
psterling 5 years
It depends entirely on the situation. Water should be ok though...people need to stay hydrated!
tlsgirl 5 years
I will amend that to say that the movies don't count. Until they stop charging $4 for a bottle of water I'll bring my own. I don't consider a movie theater on par with a restaurant though.
hippiecowgirl 5 years
I think it's rude to take food in from outside. Water doesn't count in my mind, though. I carry that everywhere I go.
NatashaAlexis 5 years
I'll admit it, I sneak food into the movies mostly because their food is terrible and on top of it the food is way over priced. Also I also think water is fine anywhere. The Starbucks cup is pushing it, however fine as long as you brought it with you to throw away before ordering. Those are my only exceptions the rest I find rude.
lemuse20 5 years
I didn't even know people would bring food into another restaurant! Drink yes, but food?
jennanng 5 years
I had never really thought about it until I went to dinner with a friend (no longer a friend...but for other reasons than this story) at a sushi restaurant. We both ordered water and when she finished her water, she pulled a can of soda out of her bag & poured it into the cup! The waitress looked strangely at her when she came back to fill the water cup and, I guess, she assumed that my friend got the soda from another waiter. When the bill came sure enough, my friend was charged for the soda (rightfully so because the waitress didn't know otherwise at that point). My friend told the waitress that she didn't order a soda (which confused her even more & by now the soda was long gone) so the waitress had to take the soda off the bill. I am sure that that poor waitress was totally confused & thinking she was seeing things. I was so embaressed by it all & wouldn't ever bring any type of food or beverage into a restaurant.
POPSUGAR-Pets 5 years
I voted for "It Depends" because I did this over the weekend – we waited 40 minutes to get seated at brunch on Sunday and no one blinked an eye when we went in with the Starbucks we bought to keep us warm while standing outside in the cold.
LaLaLaurie06 5 years
I would never bring outside food into a sit-down restaurant/diner. I have however brought in my own food to enjoy with a Starbucks beverage and I'll sit in Starbucks and eat my food and drink the thing that I bought from them. I won't go into Starbucks with outside food without having plans to buy something from the coffee shop.
tlsgirl 5 years
No way, it's so tacky! I mean, having a water bottle or something in your purse that you always keep there is fine as long as you don't whip it out at the table, but bringing in beverages or food from another restaurant - so totally rude.
GlowingMoon 5 years
I think it's okay to bring outside drinks into an establishment. Many people casually buy drinks anyways when they're out. I see people toting coffee blends, smoothies, sodas, etc. all the time when they're out. That's the social culture. I think restaurants would be alienating a lot patrons if they enforce this rule. In my opinion, it's unnecessary and over-controlling.
TidalWave23 5 years
Absolutely not. I let my 2 year old niece eat McDonald's chicken nuggets inside of a Chipotle once, but I figured since McDonald's Corp has shares in Chipotle AND she's only 2 years old... it wouldn't be rude, right? ;)
iamangiepooh 5 years
I said it depends. The only time I can remember doing this was when my friend and I went to Starbucks to get coffee and chat. After a little while, we were ready for dinner and went to a restaurant. I wasn't finished with my coffee so I brought it in, and I was a bit nervous that they would say something, but they didn't. I wouldn't do this at a fancy restaurant, but casual places? Yeah, I will. Just not anything over the top like a full blown meal, but maybe a water bottle or a small snack if I'm studying at a coffee shop.
Tami715 5 years
I was visiting Austin this weekend and had lunch at this BBQ place tht encourages customers to bring their own beer. They even pointed us to the nearest place we could buy some to bring back and enjoy with our ribs :) Apparently there are several BYOB restaurants there, but I wouldn't do it unless there was express permission from the restaurant.
wren1 5 years
I've never thought this was OK. It seems so rude.
Spiderlove 5 years
If I've gone for coffee with friends before dinner and I haven't finished it, I sure as heck bring it with me... I'm going to be spending a good chunk of money at your restaurant, I'm not going there to just sit at a table and sip whatever I brought in!
Jezebell 5 years
You shouldn't bring outside stuff into a restaurant; it's just rude. Water shouldn't count, though.
xtinabeena 5 years
my nalgene bottle is like my security blanket! i don't go anywhere without it!
356UIK 5 years
I always thought it was a health code violation.
lawchick 5 years
I wouldn't bring a starbucks coffee to a place I was going to eat breakfast, but I would bring a bottled water with me to the coffee house.
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A Royal Navy bomb disposal expert from Southsea in Hampshire has been awarded a Commendation for his work with the Afghan National Army .
Leading Seaman Martin Platts, 34, was given the rare award for outstanding achievement during Operation Herrick.
A Royal Navy diver by trade, Martin spent the first half of his six month tour of duty teaching a bomb disposal operator how to neutralise IEDs – who later went on to clear more than 100 devices in just a few months.
Martin also cleared bombs for patrolling ISAF forces in Khar Nikah during a particularly busy spell of insurgent activity.
Martin, 34, said: "I am glad to have been involved in the training and mentoring programme and really proud to have been picked for this award.


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New Badger quarterback and Maryland transfer, Danny O'Brien, embarked on the long drive from North Carolina to Madison with his mom last Thursday. With summer workouts beginning this past Monday -...
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Transferring Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien has picked...Wisconsin? Damn it.
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Source: Maryland QB Danny O'Brien is leaving. Met with Randy Edsall today and will transfer. #Terps— Dan Hellie (@DanHellie) February 8, 2012
Dan Hellie of NBC4 in DC is reporting that Danny O'Brien is indeed leaving Maryland. Apparently O-Lineman Max Garcia is also leaving. Hellie says both met with Edsall today. There is a lot of questions about all of this, especially the 800 lb "why was DOB hosting the #8 recruit in the country if he was transferring" one. More to come shortly. Until then...wow.
Boston College senior running back Montel Harris was named the 2011 ACC Preseason Player of the Year by a vote of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association on Monday.
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Yet another journalist evaded the police embargo, though his story involved luck as well as pluck. Carlos F. Hurd of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch happened to be aboard the Carpathia for a vacation with his wife when it rescued the Titanic survivors. En route back to New York, he interviewed many of them, and then, defying the crew's orders, hurled his copy, which he'd tied to a buoy, onto a tug sent alongside in the Hudson River by the paper's fiercely competitive owner, Joseph Pulitzer.
Although Titanic news would remain on many front pages for weeks, it became a different story now.
There was coverage of the return of the dead. From Halifax, Nova Scotia, AP's Frank Elser described the "rough coffins" stacked at the stern of a recovery ship.
Newspapers closely followed a U.S. Senate investigation, at which, among many others, some top editors were called to testify about how well or poorly the public had been informed. AP's Stone spoke against withholding information from the public in a major disaster, calling it a "mistake to make merchandise out of that."
When the Senate inquiry turned to whether aid might have reached the Titanic sooner, it got an explosive assist from a news story.
There were suggestions that the ship Californian, which had stopped for the night because of the ice danger, might have been close enough to make a rescue; its captain waved the notion away. But a crewmember, Ernest Gill, told The Boston American a devastating version of events: The Californian, its wireless turned off for the night, saw the Titanic's repeated distress flares, and the captain was informed but took no action before going back to sleep. In the story, Gill estimated the ships were just 10 miles apart.


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When Petrarch first gratified his eyes with a view of those monuments whose scattered fragments so far surpass the most eloquent descriptions, he was astonished at the supine indifference of the Romans themselves; he was humbled rather than elated by the discovery that ... a stranger of the Rhône [i.e., Petrarch himself] was more conversant with these antiquities than the nobles and natives of the metropolis. [1]It might seem self-aggrandizing to say that the post-industrial and post-millennial metropolis of Detroit works in much the same way; but it does. I can think of no other American city that feels at once familiar historically, and also alien. Familiar because this is the place where the life we all live — cars, strip malls, shopping centers, freeways, exurbia — was invented; alien because nobody here seems bothered that so many recognizable signs of wealth and culture — things that really matter elsewhere — have been so thoroughly abandoned, as if they had suddenly lost all meaning.
What we see taking place in [these] photographs is no doubt happening everywhere, but it would appear that in Detroit the process has such extraordinary velocity it seems to have stepped out of time to become the sole condition of being.Images stepped out of time, that's what turns tragedy into art. The poet continues:
These photographs are among the most beautiful I've ever seen: their calm in the face of the ravages of man and nature confer an unexpected dignity upon the subjects of his camera, the very dignity I had assumed daily life had robbed them of. [3]So things once tragic become beautiful — images for artistic appreciation — with the ravages of daily life being redeemed by photographic dignity. That's what art can do: it transforms this Everyman's catastrophe into "Nobody's Detroit," as the Harper's subtitle puts it — an object for aesthetic contemplation, like the Grand Canyon or a summer sunset.
Fear of the present leads to mystification of the past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act. Cultural mystification of the past entails a double loss. Works of art are made unnecessarily remote. And the past offers us fewer conclusions to complete in action. [6]That is precisely the point of Moore's work — to mystify into "poetic" inconsequence and remoteness the past that is represented by Detroit, and along with it the conclusions we might draw as a result. Those otherwise troubling conclusions, and the actions that might follow from them — actions undertaken in the name of shared responsibility — are now translated into matters of taste and technique. A sense of "bogus religiosity," to use another of Berger's terms, pervades the images; action is foreclosed, except for the connoisseur-like contemplations of the solitary spectator, who is freed to look at the worst, without any necessity of further exertion. The "naked" facts of Detroit, in all their frightening and accusatory detail, are turned into museum-piece "nudes," spot-lit on the gallery walls; they're titillating perhaps, but also unreal, just like a centerfold image is unreal; and the more gorgeous, the better. [7]
Anyone who shopped in Detroit's once bustling downtown Woodward corridor should have this book. Starting in the 1930s my grandmother would take the bus downtown at least once a week to shop at Hudson's and the surrounding stores. As a young girl in the mid 1960s, I occasionally traveled with her and some of my earliest and fondest memories are of wandering around the upper 12 floors and two basement levels of merchandise. You would drop your coats off on the forth [sic] floor, have lunch on the mezzanine or perhaps the basement cafeteria, shop all afternoon, catch an early dinner at the Riverview room on the 13th floor and then head home with your purchases shipped to your home within a day or two. It was truly an experience that no mall today can come close to. ... I cried the day the store was demolished and I am sure that Grandma was rolling in her grave. [10]The review is titled "Memories of a true shopping experience!" Nostalgia, of course, is just a higher form of forgetting. Hudson's failed because it ceased to attract shoppers; Grandma notwithstanding, the customers were at the mall.
My faith is not alone a faith in the store, the organization — it's a faith in the ideals of men, those who are responsible for this great house of industry. And so I stand, inspired with the blazing truth that I am taking an active part in building, through honest effort, one of the greatest institutions in this broad country — Hudson's Detroit. [12]The great department stores, and their owners, came naturally by the evangelizing mission. The making of shoppers, like the making of citizens, was an essential function of both store and city, especially the city of middle-class arrivals made possible by the flourishing of modern industry. In Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class, Jan Whitaker observes:
No longer primarily a purveyor of basic necessities, and by now a venerable and trusted establishment in a rapidly changing society, [the department store] took on a larger role as arbiter of middle-class taste and lifestyles. From the 1920s into the 1960s, stores exercised an almost moral authority to define in material terms what it was to live as a middle-class American. They poured creative energy into encouraging Americans to "trade up," to demand a higher standard of living. Marshaling their enormous promotional resources, they expanded their entertainment and educative roles. They broadened services, upgraded buildings. They emphasized style as never before. In short, department stores deployed their skills in interpreting and managing the symbolic significance of the goods they sold. [13]The mission of the department stores, with their encyclopedic arrays of "departments" (Hudson's had 200), was city-like: their goal was to teach people how to be together in an unprecedented condition of plenty and upward striving. The well-articulated "stories" of the great emporia told a compelling narrative of desire, with an infrastructure that mirrored the cities they proudly represented. But the pedagogy of these grand establishments had a perhaps unanticipated outcome. In Detroit, J.L. Hudson's taught its lessons so effectively that citizen-shoppers quickly graduated and were ready to set out for the suburban malls, effectively forgetting how to remember that they had ever needed the department store — or the city — to send them on their way.
Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia. ... This ... reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted. [14]In Detroit there is one place where the eternal return seems especially palpable, and also a little frightening, which is to be expected of a site where the past is undead, where it is neither thematized nostalgically nor banished outright. I'm thinking, of course, of the Michigan Theater, the great jazz age movie palace created by the architects C.W. and George L. Rapp, or what's left of it these days: the theater was shut in the mid-1970s and partly demolished and gutted and converted into a parking garage. In an earlier essay published in Places, I quoted a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, who exclaimed upon the building's opening in 1926: "It is beyond the human dreams of loveliness." I left out the next part of the review: "Entering it, you pass into another world." [15]


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ESSEX — Belden Noble Library at 2759 Essex Road will host a puppet show entitled "The Rainbow Pony" at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13.
The show, a fairy tale from the Andes, is presented by the Lakeside School of Black Kettle Farm. Attendees will be able to meet the teachers and the "puppets" and share a snack afterward.
The performance is free and open to all ages. Donations are accepted. For questions, call 963-8079.
Tumbling classes offeredat Lake Placid arts center
LAKE PLACID — Registrations are being accepted for tumbling classes in the Annex studio at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.
The classes are on Thursdays from April 11 to May 30. During the weekly sessions, youngsters 2 to 12 years old will be introduced to tumbling and basic gymnastic skills. The goal of the program is to develop strength, flexibility and coordination while building self-confidence. Instructors are Donna Walsh, Mary Heaverly and Debbie Neill.
Classes include: Tots A, ages 2 to 3 ½ (must be accompanied by an adult), from 1 to 1:45 p.m., with a course fee of $70; Tots B, ages 2 to 3 ½, from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m., for $70. Tots B will be filled first; Tots A will run only if Tots B is full.
Other classes include: Kinder Gym for ages 3 ½ to 5 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m., with a course fee of $80; Wiggle and Roll for ages 5 to 8 from 4 to 5 p.m., for $80; and Flips for ages 8 to 12 from 5 to 6 p.m., for $80.
For more information, call Walsh at 891-5909 or Heverly at 891-2973. To register, call the arts center at 523-2512.
Posters sought for annual Battle of Plattsburgh contest
PLATTSBURGH — The Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Committee is encouraging all fourth-grade students, including those who are homeschooled, to submit one poster to their art, history or homeroom teacher for the 16th-annual Poster Contest.
The poster must be in color and no larger than 12 inches by 18 inches. Judges will look for creativity and focus on key incidents of the land and/or naval battle.
The winning poster will appear on all admission buttons for the September 2013 Commemoration Weekend. The first-prize winner will receive $100; second place, $75; and third place, $50.
Submissions should be returned to the North Country Teacher Resource Center by Tuesday, April 30. Call 561-4296 for more information.
PLATTSBURGH — An orientation and informational meeting for prospective foster/adoptive and respite parents will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, at the Clinton County Department of Social Services, 13 Durkee St.
In addition, the Clinton County Department of Social Services Model Approach to Partnership in Parenting (MAPP) training for prospective foster/adoptive and respite parents will start Tuesday, April 23.
All are welcome to attend, and there is no commitment.
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ATLANTA (AP) - The organizer of a petition calling for a referendum to allow people to vote on financing for a new Atlanta Falcons stadium says the effort has failed to gather enough signatures.
William Perry of Common Cause Georgia said Thursday the group knew it was a longshot to gather 35,000 signatures in 60 days to qualify for the November ballot, but it was worth the effort.
Perry says the effort failed because of a lack of time and resources, and not from a lack of people who wanted the issue on the ballot.
State and city officials have signed off on the $1 billion stadium project that includes an estimated $200 million in public bonds.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has said the stadium is an important project to create jobs and revitalize downtown neighborhoods.
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