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Paul M. Scott | |
Paul Scott in 1977 | |
Born | Southgate, London | 25 March 1920
Died | 1 March 1978 | (aged 57)
Occupation | literary agency |
Nationality | British |
Education | Winchmore Hill Collegiate School |
Subject | Novel |
Notable awards | Booker Prize |
Spouse | Nancy Edith Avery |
Paul M. Scott | |
Paul Scott in 1977 | |
Born | Southgate, London | 25 March 1920
Died | 1 March 1978 | (aged 57)
Occupation | literary agency |
Nationality | British |
Education | Winchmore Hill Collegiate School |
Subject | Novel |
Notable awards | Booker Prize |
Spouse | Nancy Edith Avery |
Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 in Southgate – 1 March 1978 in London) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.
Paul Scott was born in Palmers Green, Middlesex, the younger of two sons. His father, Thomas (1870–1958), was a Yorkshireman who moved to London in the 1920s and was a commercial artist specialising in furs and lingerie. His mother, Frances, née Mark (1886–1969) was the daughter of a labourer from south London, socially inferior to her husband but with artistic and social ambitions. In later life Scott differentiated between his mother's creative drive and his father's down-to-earth practicality.
He was educated at Winchmore Hill Collegiate School (a private school) but was forced to leave suddenly, and without any qualifications, when aged 14 his father's business met severe financial difficulties. He worked as an accounts clerk for C. T. Payne and took evening classes in bookkeeping, but started writing poetry in his spare time. It was in this environment that he came to understand the rigid social divisions of suburban London, so that when he went to British India he had an instinctive familiarity with the interactions of caste and class in an imperial colony.
Scott was conscripted into the British Army as a private early in 1940 and assigned to the Intelligence Corps. He met and married his wife Penny (born Nancy Edith Avery in 1914) in Torquay in 1941. She also became a novelist.
In 1943, two-thirds of the way through the Second World War, Scott was posted as an officer cadet to India, where he was commissioned. He ended the war as a Captain in the Indian Army Service Corps, helping organize the logistical support of the Fourteenth Army's reconquest of Burma, which had fallen to the Japanese in 1942. Despite being initially appalled by the attitudes of the British, by the heat and dust, by the disease and poverty and by the sheer numbers of people, he, as many others, fell deeply in love with India.
After demobilisation in 1946, Scott was employed as an accountant for the two small publishing houses Falcon Press and Grey Walls Press. His two daughters, Carol and Sally, were born in 1947 and 1948.
In 1950, Scott moved to the literary agent Pearn, Pollinger & Higham (later to split into Pollinger Limited and David Higham Associates) and subsequently became a director. Whilst there, the authors he was responsible for representing included Arthur C Clarke, Morris West, M. M. Kaye, Elizabeth David, Mervyn Peake, and Muriel Spark.
Scott published a collection of three religious poems under the title I, Gerontius in 1941, but his writing career began in earnest with his first novel Johnny Sahib in 1952; despite seventeen rejections, it met with modest success. He continued to work as a literary agent to support his family, but managed to publish regularly. The Alien Sky (US title, Six Days in Marapore) appeared in 1953, and was followed by A Male Child (1956), The Mark of the Warrior (1958), and The Chinese Love Pavilion (1960). He also wrote two radio plays for the BBC, Lines of Communication (1952) and Sahibs and Memsahibs (1958). All the novels were respectfully received, though selling only moderately. Nonetheless, Scott decided in 1960 to try to make a living as a full-time author, and resigned from his literary agency.
His novels persistently draw on his experiences of India and service in the armed forces with strong subtexts of uneasy relationships between male friends or brothers; both the social privilege and the oppressive class and racial stratifications of empire are represented, and novel by novel the canvas broadens. The Alien Sky remains the principal fictional exploration of a very light-skinned Eurasian (mixed race, British-Indian) woman who has married a white man by pretending to be white; A Male Child is set principally in London and deals with the domestic effects of losing a family member to imperial service; and The Chinese Love Pavilion, after an Indian opening, is largely concerned with events in Malaya under Japanese occupation. In retrospect these novels can be seen as studies towards the Raj Quartet, and one of its minor characters appears by name in The Birds of Paradise (1962), but the lack of commercial success forced Scott to broaden his range. His next two novels, The Bender (1963), a satirical comedy, and The Corrida at San Feliu (1964), comprising multiple linked texts and drawing extensively on family holidays to the Costa Brava, are a clear attempt to experiment with new forms and locales. However, while still well received neither was especially successful, either financially or artistically, and Scott decided that he must either write the novel of the Raj of which he believed himself capable, or return to salaried work.
Scott flew to India in 1964 to see old friends, both Indian and Anglo-Indian, make new acquaintances in independent India, and recharge his batteries by confronting again the place that obsessed him. Artistically he felt drained and a failure, feelings that were reinforced by financial straits and physical weakness. Scott had since serving in India suffered from undiagnosed amoebic dysentery, which can seriously affect mood as well as digestion, and had managed to handle it by what his biographer, Hilary Spurling, describes as "alarming" quantities of alcohol. The condition was exacerbated by the visit and on his return he had to undergo painful treatment, but afterwards felt better than he had for years.
In June 1964, Scott began to write The Jewel in the Crown, the first novel of what was to become the Raj Quartet. It was published in 1966 to minor and muted enthusiasm. The remaining novels in the sequence were published over the next nine years – The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971) and A Division of the Spoils (1974). Scott wrote in relative isolation and only visited India twice more during the genesis of the Raj Quartet, in 1968 and in 1971, latterly for the British Council. He worked in an upstairs room at his home in Hampstead overlooking the garden and Hampstead Garden Suburb woodland – a far cry from the archetypal administrative province, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalaya, in which the novels were set. He supplemented his earnings from his books with reviews for The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and Country Life.
The Jewel in the Crown engages with and rewrites E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), and so is necessarily set in a small, Hindu-majority rural town with an army garrison, but the wider province is implicit, and the later novels spread out to the cold-weather capital on the plains, the hot-weather capital in the hills, a neighbouring Muslim-ruled princely state, and the railway lines that bind them together – as well as Calcutta, Bombay, and the Burmese theatre of war. The cast also expands to include at least 24 principals, more than 300 named fictional characters, and a number of historical figures including Churchill, Gandhi, Jinnah, Wavell, and Slim. The story is initially that of the gang-rape of a young British woman in 1942, but follows the ripples of the event as they spread out through the relatives and friends of the victim, the child of the rape, those arrested for it but never charged and subsequently interned for political reasons, and the man who arrested them. It also charts events from the Quit India riots of August 1942 to the violence accompanying the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1946-47, and so represents the collapse of imperial dominance, a process Scott describes as "the British coming to the end of themselves as they were."
Scott's wife Penny had supported him throughout the writing of the Raj Quartet, despite his heavy drinking and sometimes violent behaviour, but once it was complete she left him and filed for divorce. Forced to reassess his life and options he turned to teaching, and in 1976 and 1977 he was visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. His coda to the Raj Quartet, Staying On, was published in 1977 just before his second visit. Soon after its publication, and while he was in Tulsa, Scott was diagnosed with colon cancer.
At the time of their publication, the novels of the Raj Quartet were, individually and collectively, received with little enthusiasm. Only The Towers of Silence and Staying On achieved success with the award of the Yorkshire Post Fiction Award and the Booker Prize in 1971 and 1977 respectively. Sadly, Scott was too ill to attend the Booker presentation in November 1977. He died at the Middlesex Hospital, London, on 1 March 1978.
Scott stated that "For me, the British Raj is an extended metaphor [and] I don't think a writer chooses his metaphors. They choose him." From his earliest experiences in north London, he felt himself an outsider in his own country. As his biographer comments,
Probably only an outsider could have commanded the long, lucid perspectives he brought to bear on the end of the British raj, exploring with passionate, concentrated attention a subject still generally treated as taboo, or fit only for historical romance and adventure stories. However Scott saw things other people would sooner not see, and he looked too close for comfort. His was a bleak, stern, prophetic vision and, like Forster's, it has come to seem steadily more accurate with time.
The Jewel in the Crown has at its heart the confrontation between Hari Kumar, the young, English public-school educated Indian liberal, and the grammar-school scholarship boy turned police superintendent Ronald Merrick, who both hates and is attracted to Kumar and seeks to destroy him, after Daphne Manners, the English girl who is in love with Kumar and has been courted by Merrick, is raped. Critics have seen this conflict as one fundamentally influenced by Scott's own bisexual nature,[1] with Kumar representing everything young, bright, and forward-looking that had been brutally crushed in Scott's own youth. At the same time Merrick, probably (but not absolutely certainly) a repressed homosexual, with authoritarian leanings and an arrogant sense of his own racial standing, is partly a self-portrait, in which Scott confronted his own and his compatriots' defensive impulse to racial and personal self-aggrandisement, and to moral and political pretence. The result is widely seen as a substantial, and to date definitive, fictional exploration both of the underbelly and of the moral workings of the Raj in India.
In 1980, Granada Television filmed Staying On, with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson as Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy, famously advertised at the time as "Reunited for the first time since Brief Encounter". The success of its first showing on British television in December 1980 encouraged Granada Television to embark on the much greater project of making The Raj Quartet into a major fourteen-part television series known as The Jewel in the Crown, first broadcast in the UK in early 1984 and subsequently in the US and many Commonwealth countries. It was rebroadcast in the UK in 1997 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Indian independence, and in 2001 the British Film Institute voted it as 22nd in the all-time best British television programmes. It was also adapted as a nine-part BBC Radio 4 dramatisation under its original title in 2005.
While Scott was teaching creative writing at the University of Tulsa in 1976, he arranged to sell his private correspondence to the archives at McFarlin Library, thus making available some 6000 personal letters. The materials begin in 1940, when Scott was enlisted in the British Army, and end only a few days before his death on 1 March 1978. In the David Higham Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Resource Center at the University of Texas at Austin can be found Scott's correspondence with clients Arthur C. Clarke, M. M. Kaye, Muriel Spark, children's author Mary Patchett, Peter Green, Morris West, Gabriel Fielding, and John Braine.
Extensive collection of letters to correspondents and their responses, University of Tulsa McFarlin Library


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LONDON - A decision by the European football association to grant Israel the right to host a youth championship is prompting calls for boycotting the international event over Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian lands.
"How did UEFA [Union of European Football Associations] give this to Israel?" Mahmoud Sarsak, a talented striker who had once been called up to the Palestinian national team squad, told CNN."Why did they think it was acceptable despite knowing the violations of human rights the Israeli state conduct on a daily basis?"
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Sarsak, who was held for three years in Israeli jails without charges, has arrived in London for campaigning against UEFA's decision to grant Israel the right to host the under-21 football championship.
Testing Israeli brutality at first hand, the 23-year-old football player was still recovering after losing half of his body weight in a three-month hunger strike after being held without charge in administrative detention by Israeli authorities for three years.
Sarsak's suffering started in 2009 when he was offered a professional contract with a team in the occupied West Bank.
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They took me with my chained arms and legs down into what felt like a big bunker underground. When I got there and took the glasses off I was sitting on a chair in front of an interrogator.
"I was harassed, brutalized, hit on the head with the guns they were using. They took me off into an army center where they called my brother and told him I was in prison. I spent 45 days there. I saw death many times throughout that period."
During the three-year imprisonment, the Palestinian player was physically and psychologically tortured.
"This (hunger strike) was the only way left to achieve my liberation," he said.
"The Israelis killed my hope, killed my dreams, killed everything. It was either to live in dignity or be buried underground."
Sarsak laments that hosting the EUFA championship was a prize for Israel's human rights violations in the Palestinian lands.
"Michel Platini [UEFA president] came to Palestine and saw the real situation. He said that he will carry the Palestinian cause and would advocate against the oppression of the Palestinian people," he said.
"He has completely changed his mind. He has given Israel a present on a platter of gold by giving them the honor of hosting the tournament."
His efforts were not the first to this end.
For much of the past year, campaign groups and famous names in football, including former Mali international Frederic Kanoute, have called for a boycott of the U21 tournament due to Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
A petition was raised by the pro-Palestinian campaign group Red Card Israeli Racism, attracting more than 8,000 signatures.
An open letter was also sent to British newspaper The Guardian in May, signed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as well as a raft of other politicians and celebrities.
"UEFA is rewarding Israel's cruel and lawless behavior by granting it the honor of hosting the European Under-21 finals next month," the letter read.
"UEFA should not allow Israel to use a prestigious football occasion to whitewash its racist denial of Palestinian rights and its illegal occupation of Palestinian land."
Leading protests and speaking in public meetings about his experience in the Israeli prisons, Sarsak wanted to show the world a face they usually ignore about Israel.
One year after his release, the football player is still haunted by the memories inside Israeli prisons.
Despite the time he has lost and the mental scars he still endures, he hopes to play football again."I still want to pursue my dream, because the Israeli intention was to destroy my dream and stop me playing football.
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That's the question that we hope to answer with the International Research Ships Schedules & Information project. Imagine with me if you will a site where we can log metadata about the research adventures of all oceanographic research vessels. Think of the opportunities that it would open up for researchers wanting to know who has been exploring in a specific region of the ocean, what they were looking for and, if we can get the metadata exposed, what data they collected with possible links to where it can be discovered. I'm proposing that we continue to develop the pot where all of that ship information and cruise metadata can be cooked, blended together with just the right seasonings (algorithms), and develop the scoops (tools) that would help users, agencies and researchers pull out a portion that suits their needs. I like to call the concept Stone Soup Science. I love the Stone Soup story and think the concept that it conveys in this data context is a perfect fit. (It's much better than my other depictions – "Show Me The Data!" or <cue AC/DC music>"Dirty Data…Done Dirt Cheap" ;?)
No, I am not proposing that we build a data warehousing site to hold all of the oceanographic data that's being collected. There are agencies and organizations all of the world that are doing a great job of doing that already. What I am proposing is that we continue the modernization of the Research Vessels site to help users mine for and discover where RVs have operated in the past. The next step would be to expose links to those data warehouses. I certainly wouldn't want to have to try to comb through the holdings of NOAA, R2R, IFREMER, CSIRO, etc to find out who has been doing what oceanographic research, where they went and when they were there. I think this is a better one-stop RV shop solution. All research vessels would be added to the site, not just vessels over a certain size, not just vessels that belong to a certain agency, not just vessels that specialize in one facet of science. We can create customized views of those most certainly, but they'd be done by creating queries to the vessel database to return just those vessels that are of interest to the user or association.
A students Ocean Bytes article shows one of the benefits of being able to leverage and repurpose underway ships data. Eric Geiger pulled together the underway surface mapping data from four regional research vessels to create his satellite salinity modelling algorithm as part of his research thesis. It took Eric a significant amount of time to figure out what research vessels had been working in the region that he wanted to investigate, and even more time to be able to get access to the data that the ships had collected. Imagine if we were able to put together a set of online tools that facilitated that type of investigation. That's part of what we hope to accomplish with the International Research Vessels Schedules & Information site.
Rather than regurgitate the information on the history and future modernization thoughts on International RV project, I'll refer you to the About Ships page, which does a pretty good job of explaining things.
The visualization above was a plot that I made of a subset of research vessel cruise tracks from 2002-2011. In blue are the vessels designed as US RVs and in red are the non-US vessels. I think it's quite intriguing to be able to visualize the locations where we are conducting research, transiting to the location where we plan to research (sensors still collecting underway data) and, sometimes more telling, the gaps in coverage where nobody seems to be going. Many thanks to SailWX.info for the data dump.
A couple of years back, we helped the RV Hugh R Sharp set up a ship-to-shore data transfer mechanism up using their newly acquired fleet broadband. Every hour or so, the transfer scripts zip up the ships underway data files and transfers the data ashore. It dawned on us that we could peek inside the data archive sent ashore, parse out a subset of the ships underway data in 10 minute intervals, and display the ship track and its underway data in near real time. The RV Sharp Ship Tracker site was born out of this effort (see screenshot above). We'd like to prototype a more user customizable open source version of this code and allow others to use the code for their own ships. This data feed could then be pulled into the Research Vessels site to show a higher resolution ship track for the RVs that participate as well as exposing the ships underway data for possible re-use by other students and researchers. For those institutions that already have a ship tracking application in place, we could develop services that would allow for harvesting and repurposing those data as well. The thought would then be to expose all of the ship information, schedule and track metadata via a web api that would allow others to use and repurpose the data as well. Whether it be on their own sites, displaying just a subset of the ships that they are interested in, or for use on mobile apps. Open data!
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I've been involved in the development and operation of the International Research Vessels Schedules & Information project since around 1998 or so. The project was previously funded by a collection of sponsors including NSF, NOAA, ONR, NAVO and the USCG, with each of them contributing funds towards the operation of the project until around 2005. Budget cuts at the time plus the reluctance to share upcoming ship schedules post 911 by some agencies resulted in our program losing its funding. I put the project into hot-standby until funding could be obtained to resume project development and metadata collection. The site stayed online and new ship information was added as it was received, but no major reworks of the site underpinnings happened. I've done the dog-and-pony show showcasing the site and its potential to a few groups since then attempting to get funding to move forward and while nearly everybody seemed to agree that the project should be funded, no funding ever came.
Well, I'm tired of waiting. Web technologies are advancing at breakneck speeds and it's time to move this project forward. Funding or no funding. (It's either that or start working on a Flappy Ships app, make millions, but not contribute towards science ;?)
I'll be working on the projects on my own time (after work hours and on weekends) as an open source / open data effort. This will be my citizen science contribution in support of ocean research. I'll lay out a plan of attack on upgrading the backend database, moving it into a SQL Server database for easier scalability as well as access to the geography data types it provides. A couple of most excellent developers have offered to give me assistance and guidance in the quest to modernize the project site and its underpinnings. Currently that's the ever awesome Chris Woodruff, Rachel Appel and <insert your name here> ;?)
I'm always open for more help and ideas to maximize the projects capabilities and potential, so if you'd like to lend a hand, do some research, contribute some code, or offer up some other resources (cash, software, training), please let me know by emailing me at email@example.com. The project needs re-architecting, the data tables need normalizing/denormalizing, the web design needs to be majorly spruced up, GIS/mapping strategies and tools need to be figured out, ship data needs to be refreshed, web APIs need to be written, etc. Lots to do!
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July 12th, 2014
Will Yevgeny Kafelnikov Ever Get Into The Tennis Hall Of Fame?
Does the former Russian great Yevgeny Kafelnikov deserve a spot in the Tennis Hall Of Fame?
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July 12th, 2013
Verdasco Stays Hot; Haas Upset; Isner v Hewitt On Hall Of Fame Saturday In Newport
Fernando Verdasco eyes a title in Sweden while John Isner and Lleyton Hewitt meet on the grass in Newport.
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July 14th, 2012
Kuerten, Capriati Enter Tennis Hall Of Fame; Shunned Kafelnikov Waits Outside
Gustavo Kuerten and Jennifer Capriati will be inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame today.
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April 14th, 2012
Jennifer Capriati Elected To The Tennis Hall Of Fame
Jennifer Capriati will be inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame this summer.
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July 9th, 2011
Roddick Rocked in Hometown as US Goes Down 0-2 to Spain; Agassi Gets Inducted
Roddick stumbles, Spain on top of USA 2-0 in Davis Cup.
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July 12th, 2008
Chang Enters Tennis Hall of Fame, But How?
I am quite certain that at some point today, Thomas Muster, Sergi Bruguera and perhaps a few other former Grand Slam champions all scratched their head upon hearing the news that Michael Chang officially entered the Tennis Hall of Fame.
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New neuroscience research shows that distractions can drastically decrease your fluid intelligence. In fact, this research demonstrates that distractions can literally make you dumb!
Other research shows that certain interruptions (distractions) can change fluid IQ as much as 13 to 14 points. This is huge! It represents an increase in intelligence from average to superior or a decrease from average to borderline deficient. Remember a time when you were continually distracted — did you feel at your brilliant best or less than that?
Terri Griffith, in a Harvard Review blog, reported that Stefan Groschupf, founder and CEO of Datameer, created a culture to help reduce negative interruptions and increase flow. He promotes consciously engaging with work and encourages people to turn off email, hold fewer meetings and focus on smaller chunks of work. This helps create a higher-performance organization.
What is fluid intelligence?
Fluid intelligence is slightly different from what we normally think of as intelligence. It is directly linked to creativity and innovation, which are two of the most valuable traits in progressive organizations today. Christopher Bergland defines fluid intelligence as the capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.
Two types of distractions
There are two types of distractions: external and internal. External distractions are obvious; they include anything that is external to your thinking. External distractions include:
- Meetings.
- Email.
- Instant messaging.
- Phone calls.
- Unexpected visits.
- Getting something to drink.
- Eating.
- Going to the restroom.
Internal distractions are not obvious and include negatively focused thoughts. Internal distractions include:
- Things you worry about.
- A fear that grabs your attention.
- Anything that preoccupies your mind.
Research also shows that it takes at least 23 minutes to get back on track after being distracted. How can you be your best and be a high performer when continually being distracted and losing focus?
Fluid intelligence is critical for leaders and managers to be better problem solvers, strategists and visionaries. It helps everyone be higher performers.
Minimizing distraction is a new individual high-performance characteristic and is necessary to build a high-performance organizational culture. How might minimizing distractions help you be a higher performer?
Dr. TC North is co-author of the Amazon bestseller Fearless Leaders. For 28 years, he has been a high-performance executive coach and speaker who helps individuals and organizations identify and attain their visions and dreams. He also has coached professional and Olympic athletes in the art of creating thoughts and emotions that maximize success. He's a professional speaker on "Fearless Leaders™" and "Master Fear." Dr. North's work has been featured on TV and radio and in business and scientific journals. Learn more at www.TCNorth.com. Contact Dr. North at 303-665-8920 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or connect on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.


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Jul 30, 2010 9:36 AM by Bea Karnes, News First 5
Canadian authorities say they've recovered the body of a Longmont man who crashed in the Northwest Territories on his way back to Colorado.
Authorities say a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter spotted the crash site Thursday about 80 miles southeast of Norman Wells, Canada, and Terry Johnson,75, was confirmed dead at the scene. The crash is under investigation.
Johnson last had contact with air traffic personnel Saturday morning. He was returning by himself from a family canoeing and fishing trip. Johnson founded the data-storage MiniScribe company in 1980 from his Longmont home.
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With a 41MP shooter on-board the Nokia Lumia 1020 is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the camera phone world. We wanted to find out just how good that camera is and see how the 1020 measures up as a smartphone. Now that Nokia has been bought up by Microsoft this may be one of the last true Nokia phones.
The Lumia 1020 looks just like another member of the Lumia family. The curved sides and square corners are a familiar design language now. The body of the 1020 is a single piece of polycarbonate in yellow, white, or black. The right spine is home to the volume controls, power button and a dedicated camera button. Up top there's the headphone jack, down bottom there's the micro-USB charging port. The left spine is naked.
When you turn the 1020 over it becomes obvious what this device is all about. There's no way to hide a 41MP camera. There's a gigantic round camera module that protrudes from the back, ensuring that the Lumia 1020 can't lie flat. It's quite a big phone and it's heavy too. The Lumia 1020 measures 130.4 x 71.4 x 10.4mm and weighs in at 158g. To put it in context the Galaxy S4 is 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9mm and 130g.
The main event is obviously the camera. If this is not your main reason for considering the Lumia 1020 then you'll definitely get more for your money by looking elsewhere. The 41-megapixel PureView camera has a built-in shutter to protect the lens when it's not in use. There's also a really powerful Xenon flash which is capable of lighting up the darkest of environments. The video camera can capture full HD 1080p footage at 30 frames per second. There's also a secondary front-facing 1.2MP camera for video calls.
You don't need to be a photographer to benefit from this camera. Nokia has included a tutorial to highlight the camera functions and offer up a few tips on capturing great shots. You can fiddle with the shutter speed or the white balance if you want to, but the automatic settings will get you great results. Depending on the aspect ratio you choose, 16:9 or 4:3, you'll get 34MP or 38MP photos. Since they are too big to share, you'll also get a 5MP image.
Clarity, detail, and colours are all fantastic. You can't take better photos than this with any other smartphone on the market. If you don't get perfect results first time then you can always edit the photos you captured, there are plenty of post-shot editing options.
You'll find a 4.5-inch AMOLED display on the Lumia 1020 and it has a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels. It looks very bright and sharp with impressive colours and deep blacks. The 332 ppi (pixels per inch) is very respectable and Nokia's PureMotion technology helps it handle frenetic action smoothly.
There's a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor in the Lumia 1020 and that's backed up by 2GB of RAM. It's generally fast and smooth, although the camera can take a second or two to fire up, which is disappointing when you want to capture something quickly. You'll find 32GB of storage for your photos, but sadly there's no microSD card slot for expansion. Connectivity is standard with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, and 4G LTE all present and correct. There's even a built-in FM radio.
The 2000mAh battery cannot be removed. It sounds big, but that camera will drain it fast. If you plan on using it extensively then you have to look into getting the Nokia Camera Grip accessory. It fits the back of the Lumia 1020 perfectly and provides a camera grip, a tripod attachment, and an extended battery that promises an extra 55 minutes of shooting time.
Windows Phone has captured third place, but it's a distant third behind Android and iOS and it still feels like it. You'll find Windows Phone 8 on the Lumia 1020. Customization options and live tiles are good, and the platform performs well, but the choice of apps and games is still limited. They also tend to cost more on Windows Phone than they do on Android. If you don't really use a lot of apps then the platform probably won't disappoint, although the notification system is also a weak spot.
The Verdict
We're still waiting for the UK price to be confirmed, but expect the Lumia 1020 to go on sale this month. Stateside it has been priced at $300 on a two-year contract. We've seen the SIM-free Lumia 1020 priced at £550 here in the UK, and both O2 and Three have confirmed they'll be offering it, but contract pricing has not been announced.
If you want to have the best smartphone camera around, then you'll pay the premium to own the Lumia 1020. If you want to have the best smartphone around, then you'll look elsewhere.
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Florida Tupelo Honey - 13oz
Country of Origin: United States
Region: Florida
City / Village: Wewahitchka
This tupelo honey is produced by Don Smiley in Wewahitchka Florida. He produces the best tupelo honey we've found by carefully timing the movement of his hives so his bees can capture the purest white tupelo nectar possible.
The bloom season (April - May) is short and the swampy environment of the Apalachicola River basin makes collection much more challenging than other honeys.
In order to certify a honey as tupelo, it only has to be certified as containing 50% tupelo honey. In a good season, Don's honeys are certified as containing 95% or more.
Tupelo honey does not crystallize because of its sugar makeup which is higher in fructose and lower in glucose than many other honeys. Because it doesn't crystallize even in its raw form, tupelo is a highly prized honey.
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In this example we are find user home directory.
We are using System class to get the information about system. System class extends Object class. System class allow us to get or set system information.
The method used into this example:
getProperty(String Key):
This method is used to get the property of system for passing Key
In this example we are passing "user.home" as key to get the user define home directory.
The code of the program is given below:
public class UserHomeExample
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The Next Iron Chef Caption It: Final Four
by Maria Russo in Shows, December 9th, 2011Sunday's next-to-last episode of The Next Iron Chef brings the finalists to Montauk. But for the four remaining contestants — Chef Chiarello, Chef Falkner, Chef Zakarian and Chef Guarnaschelli — this trip is anything but a day at the beach.
Here, the rival chefs take a moment to regroup and think about the last seven weeks of the competition. Are they reminiscing about past challenges? Guessing what's to come next?
Before you tune in this Sunday at 9pm/8c to watch the final four face off for a spot in the finale, we're challenging you, Next Iron Chef fans, to write your best captions (tastefully appropriate, please) for this moment in the comments below.
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The bandaids, so they show and we can know they cut themselves too!!
Now……. Gripping, entertaining, wonderful – I have loved this show and have been so sad to see the fantastic chefs go. I hope this is somewhat fair (not like ANTM…). I think chef G. should have had a cook-off too, wish she had.
Please do this again with top chefs, it's been really great.
Chef GZ was wearing the bandaids, given to him by his girls, as a symbol of good luck, not because he was cut!
I have enjoyed this season a lot. I was sad to see Alex G. go.. I think they are all great chefs. I can't begin to comment on who should have won, who should have lost. I can't taste the food they have cooked so what can I say? No matter their personalities, it's the food they cook that is important.
Well will admit that I have done a bit of looking into Elizabeth Falkner do I detract any of my statements No but felt a need to look her up and see what some of her backround is I still feel that she is very harsh she is definately experienced is owner of one and co-owner of another restaurant.so Kudoes to her for that and since she is basically a shoe in for the open spot I can only say she needs to be as I have already said more gracious supportive of her fellow chefs and for God's sake take that chip off your shoulder. I am sorry to see Cat go had hoped for more than one female Chef. I hate that she is the token female no matter how good she is she is still the token female and the sacrificial lamb. If there is more than one female Iron Chef I'd love to see a showdown with the female only chefs. I still like Geoffery Zakarian better I understand why Falkner will win. I will watch because I love to watch them cook, but again I hate the reason she was preselected to win.
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I think whoever is deciding the programming is only going by ratings and they are in a programming funk. When our favorites were on once a week, that was great……but now you see them 7days a week and nothing new to add to whatever dish they are preparing. Same dish, different ingredients but will end up the same as before. I dont stay on FN that much anymore but have switched to TLC, Bravo and PBS for my cooking entertainment. They need to poll the viewers to see what they want instead of deciding for us. Please no more Triple D.
See Scott your nasty rude comment WAS deleted by the administrator! Thanks again to the administrator for deleted these totally un -called for rude comments!
Scott, Jylie remember one thing….KARMA!!!-
kiddie bandages stick better. Since he was not using a glove, have to guess it was aminor cut or burn than wasn't bleeding, but needed covering. Think he grabbed a hot pan handle.
Chef Michael Chiarello should win Iron Chef. I and others will be disappointed if he does not win.
You do realize that he was eliminated last week don't you?
Maybe not. Still wanting hint win and all. If you don't mind my asking, and without being too specific, where on the west coast are you?
Guys, I have been watching CHOPPED for a long time now and I have a comment. It is my observation CHOPPED is prejudice towards women chefs. When CHOPPED has a rule that ALL ingrediants must be on all the plates when presented to the judges-then that's the rule. I have watched over and over again this arbitary enforcement of the rules. Would you please be consistent!
I guess alot of you armchair quarterbacks are eating the egg on your own faces now that Geoffry Zacharian has won, and not Chef Faulkner. Maybe it would be better not to speculate so publically when you have no idea what you are talking about.
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KC's Life in Comics
- Posted by Johanna on December 4, 2007 at 8:14 am
- Category: KC, Superhero Reviews
KC has written a very lengthy piece on how he got started in comics, featuring a bicycle and a monkey. (No, really!) It's his latest column at Westfield Comics. But first, some comic reviews.
Reviews by KC Carlson
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #41 (Marvel Comics) — Annnnnd we begin with a big ol' SPOILER WARNING. All I'm gonna say here is that we finally get a BIG idea of what exactly is going on here, and that's it's significant. And you should check it out! For the rest of this review, scroll down a couple of pages to the end of this column (but NOT all the way down to the bottom of the page –That's TOO FAR!) See you there!
In the meantime, let's talk about another Spidey Book…
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #116 (Marvel Comics) — And now, here I have to write a DISCLAIMER: Stuart Immonen and I are pals, and have been for many, many years, ever since we worked together on Legion of Super-Heroes and Adventures of Superman for DC Comics. So take however many grains of salt you want, but for my money Stuart Immonen is the most underrated artist in comics. There is no reason whatsoever that he should not be among the biggest superstars in this industry. And some of those guys should be worshipping at his feet.
I mean, have you looked at this series? Have you looked at Nextwave? Have you looked at Superman: Secret Identity? Have you looked at ShockRockets? And therein may lie some of the problem: Stuart either likes to take on some of the quirkiest projects in the field, or he has the rotten bad luck of signing on to a potential major work, and the publisher declines to promote it properly. Either way, he hasn't gotten the major exposure that an iconic character can give an artist. Until now.
Since beginning his run on Ultimate Spider-Man, Stuart has been putting the shine on Brian Michael Bendis' freewheeling scripts, which, in turn, has given Stuart a major chance to shine! I'm especially impressed at the repeating motif of a couple of pages of teenie-weenie panels, which explodes out into a bangtasic double page spread (see pages 3-6 of this issue), where the book actually seems to rock in your hands. Stuart doesn't skimp on the details in his extra-large panels — the fantastically elaborate Time Square scenes — and he's putting his "camera" through the paces with one unique angle shot after another.
A lot of credit should also go to Stuart's long-time inker, Wade Von Grawbadger, who is the most underrated inker in comics. These two have been honing their buddy-act into one of the most seamless penciler/inker collaborations in recent years. I'm less familiar with the work of colorist Justin Ponsor, but the fine "hueage" shown here meshes well with what the pencil-and-ink boys are trying to accomplish.
And while Bendis' chirpy dialogue drives me crazy on other projects, it is the absolute perfect "voice" for this book, starring the most wiseacre, frightened and out-of-control teenage kids in comics. And the ease at which Bendis can switch from a goofy scene with Peter feeding his SHIELD "minders" junk food in their silly van to one of the most chilling dialogues between Peter and Norman Osborn ever (Great expressions, Stu!), gives me whiplash from spinning my head around too fast.
After over 100 issues, most comic series are breathing in fumes, but these guys are spitting out rocket fuel!
TEEN TITANS GO! #49 (DC Comics) — The perfect way to end a really bad day!
The dedication that creators J. Torres, Todd Nauck and Lary Stucker put into this title warms my heart. Far more than just another kids super-hero book, Teen Titans Go! represents something truly special — a comic specifically aimed at young kids that open-minded adults can enjoy just as much. How refreshing is it to read a story where super-powered kids resolve a conflict by just talking it out? And further — actually invite a character with villainous tendencies to join their ranks as a sign of confidence in a person obviously in need of friends! Yes, it sounds like the usual moralistic stuff, but the care in which these creators take with the characters and stories is remarkable and humbling.
And they have been rewarded with a fanatic following that rose up to dispute DC's rumored cancellation — and succeeded in getting the book a stay of execution. There is a huge fan following for these characters, who are still saddened that the animated series has shut down production. In fact, at RC, sales of TTG! double the amount of a large number of other DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm titles. That's a lotta love to just throw away, DC!
As much as I'm looking forward to the new Tiny Titans book from Johnny DC (out in February!), there is no reason that the two titles can't co-exist. As shown in this issue, it's obvious that the two sets of characters are perfectly capable of working out their differences! Titans Together!
DC NATION PAGE #89: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 29 (DC Comics) — Okay, just to be clear, this is the text page of current DC information, usually written by Dan Didio, that appears on the last page of most of the DC Universe titles this week. Why am I bringing this up? Well, for the first time, DC is publishing its "definitive" list of the known DC Universes, but "known" is the key word here as only 26 of the 52 stated-to-exist-Universes (from the end of 52: The Comic Book) are listed. So, now we know half.
The interesting thing about this is that 11 of these Universes are being mentioned for this first time here — and that 1O of them are said to be making their DC Universe debuts (post-52) in COUNTDOWN: ARENA #1, scheduled to ship next week. Most of these Universes are based on the worlds first encountered in many of DC's classic Elseworlds stories, including Batman: Darkest Knight, Thrillkiller, Justice Riders, Amazonia and New Frontier, as well as incorporating some of DC's classic "Imaginary" stories from a previous generation, such as the world of the Super-Sons.
Although DC's solicitation copy for the series indicated that many of these worlds were to be incorporated into the storyline, we were unaware of the significant amount of "first appearances" scheduled for this first issue. Pre-order for this series were very light at the store and because of that, we did not significantly over-order. Based on this new information, and in an effort to avoid an instant sell-out next Wednesday, if you are now interested in getting a copy of COUNTDOWN: ARENA #1, it is important that you contact the store, either by phone or email, as soon as possible to help us judge how significant a reorder (if any) we need to make.
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #41 (Marvel Comics) — DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO FIND OUT IMPORTANT PLOT DETAILS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Okay, so the one person who can actually save Aunt May has stepped up and put himself forward — and he's big, red and ugly (No, not the new Hulk… please keep up!). It's Mephisto and he's actually got the juice to back up his claim of rescuing someone from the dead. But the price he wants for the rescue is high — and it's not somebody's life or soul — he wants Peter and Mary Jane's marriage!
It's no wonder why Joe Quesada had to do this very special story. It's pushing the same anti-marriage agenda he's been discussing ever since he became EIC of Marvel.
I've got to admit that it is kind of historical (assuming that it takes place at all — but it seems like a safe bet after reading the Free Comic Book Day issue). In a world where people return from the dead almost on a daily basis, why not be able to undo long-term romantic entanglements — and even sacred vows — at the drop of a hat.
If your creators can't find enough "conflict" in the depiction of a successful long-term relationship, might I suggest that changing decades of continuity is wasteful and unnecessary? Perhaps it would be easier to find more talented creators?
I really am looking forward to the upcoming issues done by new creative teams. I'd like to be able to enjoy reading Spider-Man again, but it is really difficult traveling the journey to get there. And I'm not sure if I'm going to like the reasons why it is being done. Doesn't Marvel already publish the adventures of a younger, unmarried Spider-Man? (see above) Why do another one? But I'm willing to give the new guys a shot…
What I do know is that is sad to see this Very Important Story being ruined by artist Joe Quesada having to rush through these last two issues (as well as forcing his talented inker, Danny Miki, to rush even more). If there were a "real world" One More Day, it should be Joe having to decide between being an artist and being the EIC. He's very talented at both jobs, but it's becoming obvious that he cannot do both things simultaneously well. Choose, Joe… Which one would you pick?…
SHORT TAKES — The back-up feature in Superman Annual #13 is a wonderful little story called "The Best Day" where the only thing that happens is that the extended "Superman Family" goes on a picnic in an exotic location. And it may be the best Superman story of the year. I'm thinking that the story only exists because of the delay in finishing up the "Camelot Falls" storyline (also in this issue), and having to move it into this "emergency" Annual. If so, it's a great way to say "Thanks for waiting!" … There's something really disconcerting about seeing a World Map with a giant underwater land mass labeled "Deviant Lemuria," courtesy of the Marvel Atlas. Also, did you know that there is not only a "Monster Island," but a "Monster Master's Island"? We should give thanks that, in this universe, we have hotels where pets can stay in the same rooms as their masters!… Naughty DC! You put Bat-Mite on the cover of Gotham Underground #2, but he's nowhere to be found in the issue itself! Boo! And also, I hope the touted appearances of some of the Bat-females in this miniseries end up being more substantial than the 1-panel appearance of Oracle, Huntress and the Question. But there's good stuff here too, as a possible "relative" of Matches Malone shows up, as well as the surprise re-appearance by a much-loved character. But I can't tell you who it is because that would spoil it!… Yay! I got my wish for a longer Colleen Coover art job in X-Men: First Class #6. It's not the whole issue, but 6 pages ain't nothin'!… One of the hoariest clichés in comics is "you can't tell the players without a scorecard." But it's never been truer than in Teen Titans #53 and the introduction of the "Titans Army." Thank goodness there's a scorecard on pages 4-5. Sheesh!… It looks like one of the main characters of Countdown is counted down for good in #22, while over in Death of the New Gods #3, a god returns from the dead! (Didn't they read the title of this mag?)
4 Responses to "KC's Life in Comics"
- Pitzer Says:
December 4, 2007 at 9:14 AMI LOVED KC's history of comics. Those were some wild times.
- Ed Sizemore Says:
December 4, 2007 at 3:38 PMKC,
Johnny DC titles still have a subscription service available. I just ordered Scooby-Doo for my nephew. I will let you know what shape they come in.
I used to have subcriptions to Arion, Lord of Atlantis and Swamp Thing in the late 80's. At that time, they shipped the comics flat in a brown paper sleeve. Suprisingly, my comics arrived in very good condition. Maybe, a small bend in the corner at worst.
I remember going to 7-11 and the pharmacies to scope out new comics. I got a subscription because those spinner racks tore up comics without mercy or remorse. Good times, good times.
By the way, you need to get a hold a good artist and turn your earlier history as a comic reader into a comic. Man, I would love to see the monkey story illustrated.
Awesome, column. Brought back a lot of memories.
- badMike Says:
December 4, 2007 at 8:40 PMI don't go as far back as KC does, but that was a great article. I also remember having to ride my bike to different 7-11s and various drugstores to make sure I never missed any issues — and of course I still did all the time. This was in the '80s. And then…
I answered a Westfield ad in a Marvel comic and started using their subscription service, which really saved me and introduced me to indie comics.
I also remember the awesome Westfield newsletter that KC edited, which introduced me to comics fandom and self-publishing.
Those really were the days, man.
- James Schee Says:
December 5, 2007 at 11:10 PMThose were neat stories by KC! I thought it neat that though decades apart he and I shared similiar feelings on first discovering a comic shop.
That feeling of "wow…" was just amazing back then, since it had been years since the local grocery store I had been buying comics at had stopped getting them.