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Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets--and falls in love with--a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
The last time I saw Miguel Desvern or Deverne was also the last time that his wife, Luisa, saw him, which seemed strange, perhaps unfair, given that she was his wife, while I, on the other hand, was a person he had never met, a woman with whom he had never exchanged so much as a single word. I didn't even know his name, or only when it was too late, only when I saw a photo in the newspaper, showing him after he had been stabbed several times, with his shirt half off, and about to become a dead man, if he wasn't dead already in his own absent consciousness, a consciousness that never returned: his last thought must have been that the person stabbing him was doing so by mistake and for no reason, that is, senselessly, and what's more, not just once, but over and over, unremittingly, with the intention of erasing him from the world and expelling him from the earth without further delay, right there and then. But why do I say "too late," I wonder, too late for what? I have no idea, to be honest. It's just that when someone dies, we always think it's too late for anything, or indeed everything—certainly too late to go on waiting for him—and we write him off as another casualty. It's the same with those closest to us, although we find their deaths much harder to accept and we mourn them, and their image accompanies us in our mind both when we're out and about and when we're at home, even though for a long time we believe that we will never get accustomed to their absence. From the start, though, we know— from the moment they die—that we can no longer count on them, not even for the most petty thing, for a trivial phone call or a banal question ("Did I leave my car keys there?" "What time did the kids get out of school today?"), that we can count on them for nothing. And nothing means nothing. It's incomprehensible really, because it assumes a certainty, and being certain of anything goes against our nature: the certainty that someone will never come back, never speak again, never take another step—whether to come closer or to move further off—will never look at us or look away. I don't know how we bear it, or how we recover. I don't know how it is that we do gradually begin to forget, when time has passed and distanced us from them, for they, of course, have remained quite still.
But I had often seen him and heard him talk and laugh, almost every morning, in fact, over a period of a few years, and quite early in the morning too, although not so very early; indeed, I used to delay slightly getting into work just so as to be able to spend a little time with that couple, and not just with him, you understand, but with them both, it was the sight of them together that calmed and contented me before my working day began. They became almost obligatory. No, that's the wrong word for something that gives one pleasure and a sense of peace. Perhaps they became a superstition; but, no, that's not it either: it wasn't that I believed the day would go badly if I didn't share breakfast with them, at a distance, that is; it was just that, without my daily sighting of them, I began work feeling rather lower in spirits or less optimistic, as if they provided me with a vision of an orderly or, if you prefer, harmonious world, or perhaps a tiny fragment of the world visible only to a very few, as is the case with any fragment or any life, however public or exposed that life might be. I didn't like to shut myself away for hours in the office without first having seen and observed them, not on the sly, but discreetly, the last thing I would have wanted was to make them feel uncomfortable or to bother them in any way. And it would have been unforgivable and to my own detriment to frighten them off. It comforted me to breathe the same air and to be a part—albeit unnoticed—of their morning landscape, before they went their separate ways, probably until the next meal, which, on many days, would have been supper. The last day on which his wife and I saw him, they could not dine together. Or even have lunch. She waited twenty minutes for him at a restaurant table, puzzled but not overly concerned, until the phone rang and her world ended, and she never waited for him again.
It was clear to me from the very first day that they were married, he being nearly fifty and she slightly younger, not yet forty. The nicest thing about them was seeing how much they enjoyed each other's company. At an hour when almost no one is in the mood for anything, still less for fun and games, they talked non-stop, laughing and joking, as if they had only just met or met for the very first time, and not as if they had left the house together, dropped the kids off at school, having first got washed and dressed at the same time—perhaps in the same bathroom—and woken up in the same bed, nor as if the first thing they'd seen had been the inevitable face of their spouse, and so on and on, day after day, for a fair number of years, because they had children, a boy and a girl, who came with them on a couple of occasions, the girl must have been about eight and the boy about four, and the boy looked incredibly like his father.
The husband dressed with a slightly old-fashioned elegance, although he never seemed in any way ridiculous or anachronistic. I mean that he was always smartly dressed and well coordinated, with made-to-measure shirts, expensive, sober ties, a handkerchief in his top jacket pocket, cufflinks, polished black lace-up shoes—or else suede, although he only wore suede towards the end of spring, when he started wearing lighter-coloured suits—and his hands were carefully manicured. Despite all this, he didn't give the impression of being some vain executive or a dyed-in-the-wool rich kid. He seemed more like a man whose upbringing would not allow him to go out in the street dressed in any other way, not at least on a working day; such clothes seemed natural to him, as though his father had taught him that, after a certain age, this was the appropriate way to dress, regardless of any foolish and instantly outmoded fashions, and regardless, too, of the raggedy times in which we live, and that he need not be affected by these in the least. He dressed so traditionally that I never once detected a single eccentric detail; he wasn't interested in trying to look different, although he did stand out a little in the context of the café where I always saw him and even perhaps in the context of our rather scruffy city. This naturalness was matched by his undoubtedly cordial, cheery nature, almost hail-fellow-wellmet, you might say (although he addressed the waiters formally as usted and treated them with a kindness that never toppled over into cloying familiarity): his frequent outbursts of laughter were somewhat loud, it's true, but never irritatingly so. He laughed easily and with gusto, but he always did so sincerely and sympathetically, never in a flattering, sycophantic manner, but responding to things that genuinely amused him, as many things did, for he was a generous man, ready to see the funny side of the situation and to applaud other people 's jokes, at least the verbal variety. Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they don't intend to, largely because their very presence pleases us, and so it's easy enough to set us off, simply seeing them and being in their company and hearing them is all it takes, even if they're not saying anything very extraordinary or are even deliberately spouting nonsense, which we nevertheless find funny. They seemed to fulfil that role for each other; and although they were clearly married, I never caught one of them putting on an artificial or studiedly soppy expression, like some couples who have lived together for years and make a point of showing how much in love they still are, as if that somehow increased their value or embellished them. No, it was more as if they were determined to get on together and make a good impression on each other with a view to possible courtship; or as if they had been so drawn to each other before they were married or lived together that, in any circumstance, they would have spontaneously chosen each other—not out of conjugal duty or convenience or habit or even loyalty—as companion or partner, friend, conversationalist or accomplice, in the knowledge that, whatever happened, whatever transpired, whatever there was to tell or to hear, it would always be less interesting or amusing with someone else. Without her in his case, without him in her case. There was a camaraderie between them and, above all, a certainty.
There was something very pleasant about Miguel Desvern or Deverne's face, it exuded a kind of manly warmth, which made him seem very attractive from a distance and led me to imagine that he would be irresistible in person. I doubtless noticed him before I did Luisa, or else it was because of him that I also noticed her, since although I often saw the wife without the husband—he would leave the café first and she nearly always stayed on for a few minutes longer, sometimes alone, smoking a cigarette, sometimes with a few work colleagues or mothers from school or friends, who on some mornings joined them there at the last moment, when he was already just about to leave—I never saw the husband without his wife beside him. I have no image of him alone, he only existed with her (that was one of the reasons why I didn't at first recognize him in the newspaper, because Luisa wasn't there). But I soon became interested in them both, if "interested" is the right word.
Desvern had short, thick, very dark hair, with, at his temples, just a few grey hairs, which seemed curlier than the rest (if he had let his sideburns grow, they might have sprouted incongruously into kiss-curls). The expression in his eyes was bright, calm and cheerful, and there was a glimmer of ingenuousness or childishness in them whenever he was listening to someone else, the expression of a man who is, generally speaking, amused by life, or who is simply not prepared to go through life without enjoying its million and one funny sides, even in the midst of difficulties and misfortunes. True, he had probably known very few of these compared with what is most men's common lot, and that would have helped him to preserve those trusting, smiling eyes. They were grey and seemed to look at everything as if everything were a novelty, even the insignificant things they saw repeated every day, that café at the top of
Príncipe de Vergara and its waiters, my silent face. He had a cleft chin, which reminded me of a fi lm starring Robert Mitchum or Cary Grant or Kirk Douglas, I can't remember who it was now, and in which an actress places one finger on the actor's dimpled chin and asks how he manages to shave in there. Every morning, it made me feel like getting up from my table, going over to Deverne and asking him the same question and, in turn, gently prodding his chin with my thumb or forefinger. He was always very well shaven, dimple included.
They took far less notice of me, infinitely less, than I did of them. They would order their breakfast at the bar and, once served, take it over to a table by the large window that gave on to the street, while I took a seat at a table towards the back. In spring and summer, we would all sit outside, and the waiters would pass our orders through a window that opened out next to the bar, and this gave rise to various comings and goings and, therefore, to more visual contact, because there was no other form of contact. Both Desvern and Luisa occasionally glanced at me, merely out of curiosity, but never for very long or for any reason other than curiosity. He never looked at me in an insinuating, castigating or arrogant manner, that would have been a disappointment, and she never showed any sign of suspicion, superiority or disdain, which I would have found most upsetting. Because I liked both of them, you see, the two of them together. I didn't regard them with envy, not at all, but with a feeling of relief that in the real world there could exist what I believed to be a perfect couple. Indeed, they seemed even more perfect in that Luisa's sartorial appearance was in complete contrast to that of Deverne, as regards style and choice of clothes. At the side of such a smartly turned-out man, one would have expected to see a woman who shared the same characteristics: classically elegant, although not perhaps predictably so, but wearing a skirt and high heels most of the time, with clothes by Céline, for example, and earrings and bracelets that were striking, but always in good taste. In fact, she alternated between a rather sporty look and one that I'm not sure whether to describe as casual or indifferent, certainly nothing elaborate anyway. She was as tall as him, olive-skinned, with shoulder-length, dark, almost black hair, and very little make-up. When she wore trousers—usually jeans—she accompanied them with a conventional jacket and boots or flat shoes; when she wore a skirt, her shoes were low-heeled and plain, very like the shoes many women wore in the 1950s, and in summer, she put on skimpy sandals that revealed delicate feet, small for a woman of her height. I never saw her wearing any jewellery and, as for handbags, she only ever used the sort you sling over your shoulder. She was clearly as pleasant and cheerful as he was, although her laugh wasn't quite as loud; but she laughed just as easily and possibly even more warmly than he did, revealing splendid teeth that gave her a somewhat childlike look, or perhaps it was simply the way her cheeks grew rounder when she smiled—she had doubtless laughed in exactly the same unguarded way ever since she was four years old. It was as if they had got into the habit of taking a break together before going off to their respective jobs, once the morning bustle was over—inevitable in families with small children—a moment to themselves, so as not to have to part in the middle of all that rush without sharing a little animated conversation. I used to wonder what they talked about or told each other—how could they possibly have so much to say, given that they went to bed and got up together and would presumably keep each other informed of their thoughts and activities—I only ever caught fragments of their conversation, or just the odd word or two. On one occasion, I heard him call her "princess."
You could say that I wished them all the best in the world, as if they were characters in a novel or a fi lm for whom one is rooting right from the start, knowing that something bad is going to happen to them, that at some point, things will go horribly wrong, otherwise there would be no novel or fi lm. In real life, though, there was no reason why that should be the case, and I expected to continue seeing them every morning exactly as they were, without ever sensing between them a unilateral or mutual coolness, or that they had nothing to say and were impatient to be rid of each other, a look of reciprocal irritation or indifference on their faces. They were the brief, modest spectacle that lifted my mood before I went to work at the publishing house to wrestle with my megalomaniac boss and his horrible authors. If Luisa and Desvern did not appear for a few days, I would miss them and face my day's work with a heavier heart. In a way, without realizing it or intending to, I felt indebted to them, they helped me get through the day and allowed me to fantasize about their life, which I imagined to be unblemished, so much so that I was glad not to be able to confirm this view or find out more, and thus risk breaking the temporary spell (my own life was full of blemishes, and the truth is that I didn't give the couple another thought until the following morning, while I sat on the bus cursing because I'd had to get up so early, which is something I loathe). I would have liked to give them something similar in exchange, but how could I? They didn't need me or, perhaps, anyone: I was almost invisible, erased by their contentment. A couple of times when he left, having first, as usual, kissed Luisa on the lips—she never remained seated for that kiss, but stood up to reciprocate it—he would give me a slight nod, almost a bow, having first looked up and half-raised one hand to say goodbye to the waiters, as if I were just another waiter, a female one. His observant wife made a similar gesture when I left—always after him and before her—on the same two occasions when her husband had been courteous enough to do so. But when I tried to return that gesture with my own even slighter nod, both he and she had looked away and didn't even see me. They were so quick, or so prudent.
Excerpted from The Infatuations by Javier Marias. Copyright © 2013 by Javier Marias. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. The recipient of numerous prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger, he has written thirteen novels, three story collections, and nineteen works of collected articles and essays. His books have been translated into forty-three languages, in fifty-two countries, and have sold more than seven million copies throughout the world.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent . . . Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."--New York Times Book Review
"The Infatuations is mysterious and seductive; it's got deception, it's got love affairs, it's got murder. . . sheerly addictive."—Fresh Air/NPR
"Haunting. . . . Evokes verbal puzzle-makers like Borges, and Marías's ingenious chessboard plots bring to mind the 20th century's grand-master strategist, Vladimir Nabokov."—Los Angeles Times
"An arresting story of love and crime."—San Francisco Chronicle
"The unspoken romance at the heart of Marías's work is the recuperation of old-fashioned adventure within perfectly serious, cerebral contemporary fiction."—The Daily Beast
"Great art often emerges from breaking, or at least tweaking, rules. A work that transcends its conventions can produce special results. Here's such a book . . . The Infatuations takes you where very few novels do."—Paste magazine
"A masterly novel . . . The classical themes of love, death, and fate are explored with elegant intelligence by Marías in what is perhaps his best novel so far . . . Extraordinary . . . Marías has defined the ethos of our time."—The Guardian, UK
"Marías has created a splendid tour de force of narrative voice. . . . A luminous performance."—Wichita Eagle
"Javier Marías is a master of first lines. He's a master of other things as well . . . All Marías books feel like chapters in one much longer book. And it's one you should start reading, if you haven't already."—Slate
"Beyond the interesting ideas his work draws on, Marías's novels are simply a pleasure to read . . . The Infatuations, containing the qualities of Marías's best work, is an important addition to his oeuvre."—The Millions
"Marías's novel operates on so many levels simultaneously, it becomes a piece of evidence itself, an artifact that proves its own argument."—The Onion, A. V. Club
"Marías's novel weaves an intricate web, but its triumph is in the power of its narrator. Marías has found the ideal voice—detached, inquisitive, and vigilant—for one of his finest novels."—Los Angeles Review of Books
"A haunting masterpiece."—The Observer, UK
1. Over the period of a few years, María has spent part of every morning watching a married man and woman in a neighborhood café. She is drawn to them because of their seeming happiness, "as if they provided me with a vision of an orderly or. . . harmonious world" (4). Is this a strange thing to do? What does it reveal about María?
2. The "Perfect Couple," as María calls Miguel and Luisa, is abruptly severed when a homeless man stabs Miguel to death in a seemingly unmotivated attack. When María learns that Miguel was killed on the same day she last saw him, she realizes that "his wife and I had said goodbye to him at the same time, she with her lips and I with my eyes only" (30). What do you think of María's reaction to the murder? Is María in love with Miguel?
3. When María visits Luisa, both speculate on what Miguel might have been thinking as he was being stabbed and as he lay dying (50-51). María's projection of Miguel's state of mind proceeds in single sentence of more than two pages in length (52-54). What role does the imagination—especially imagining the thoughts or experiences of others—play in this novel? Why do you think the novel is occupied with questions about different possible paths and outcomes?
4. Luisa tells María that Miguel's death has changed her way of thinking: "It's as though I've become a different person since then . . . with an unfamiliar, alien mentality, someone given to making strange connections and being frightened by them" (49). She now hears a siren and is overcome with dread, not knowing who might be ill or wounded or dying. Has her husband's death made Luisa think more like a novelist?
5. María imagines that in thinking of the bizarre misfortune of being attacked by a stranger, Miguel might have thought of María herself as one of a number of people "who are merely vague extras or marginal presences, who inhabit a corner or lurk in the obscure background of the painting and whom we don't even miss if they disappear" (53). If María, as our narrator, is such a vague extra or marginal presence, do her first-person narration and her presence as a central character in the story dispel the notion of her obscurity?
6. Luisa says she would feel better if someone had plotted against her husband. She has looked up the word envidia—envy—and reads a part of the dictionary entry to María: "Unfortunately, this poison is often engendered in the breasts of those who are and who we believe to be our closest friends, in whom we trust; they are far more dangerous than our declared enemies" (61). Luisa later introduces Javier to María as "one of Miguel's best friends" (59). Do you have suspicions of Javier at this point, or only later?
7. The second time María meets Javier they are in Madrid's Natural History Museum, where dead animals preserved in the attitudes of life stare out of their cases. Why is this unusual setting relevant to Javier's view that the grieving Luisa is holding on to "the image of Miguel, (106)" but that she will eventually assign him "a place in time, both him and his character frozen for ever" (107)? Do you agree with Javier that "the only people who do not fail or let us down are those who are snatched from us"?
8. María becomes sexually involved with Javier, and is drawn more deeply into the intrigue surrounding Miguel's death. Look at the description of Javier on pages 85-86 and discuss what is appealing or provocative about him. How would you characterize María's feelings toward Javier (117-121)? Is she obsessed? In love? Infatuated?
9. After Miguel's death, María expresses the idea that the moment of death changes the identity of the person who dies. Javier is convinced that it's only a matter of time until Luisa realizes that her husband is gone forever. How does Balzac's novella Colonel Chabert demonstrate Javier's view that something fixed and permanent divides the living and the dead—even if, as in Colonel Chabert's case, the dead return to life (131-140)?
10. One night, some time after she and Javier have become lovers, María says, "I found myself wishing or, rather, fantasizing about the possibility that Luisa might die and thus leave the field open for me with Díaz-Varela, since she was doing nothing to occupy that field herself (147). I, for example, could launch an offensive against Luisa behind her back, one so oblique that she wouldn't be aware of it because she wouldn't even know that an enemy was stalking her" (151). The novel implies that all human beings are capable of fantasizing about the deaths of people who stand in their way. Do you believe this is true? Is it easy to understand or identify with these thoughts?
11. María is the first female narrator in a Marías novel. In an interview in The Paris Review, Marías noted that his female characters were "always seen through the eyes of a male." In a scene in which María and Ruibérriz are talking, María has to decide whether she will emerge from the bedroom wearing only her skirt (166-175). Why are her thoughts about her body and her sexuality important in this scene and elsewhere? Why is it effective that the narrator in this novel is a woman?
12. Midway through the novel, Javier's secret emerges when María overhears him talking to Ruibérriz, who was his intermediary with the homeless man who killed Miguel. Her reaction to this new knowledge is complex. Does she now think of Javier as a murderer, or does she think that Javier set up a chain of events that might well not have resulted in Miguel's death, so he is not a murderer (176-194)?
13. Marías has said that literature is the "filter" through which he thinks and writes: "What I present to the reader comes from my experience and from what I have invented, but it has all been filtered by literature. That is what matters: the filter" (Paris Review interview). Discuss how the line "She should have died hereafter," from Macbeth and the quote "Yes, a murder, nothing more" from The Three Musketeers, focus on the philosophical concerns of the novel (See 107-116, 218-219, 229-230).
14. What elements does The Infatuations share with mystery or detective fiction? How is it not at all like those genres? What do you make of the long discursive digressions? Are they always relevant to the larger questions and investigations of the novel?
15. Javier tells María, when she asks "what happened" to Colonel Chabert: "What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matters are the possibilities and ideas that the novel's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention" (227). Discuss this important statement in terms of your experience of this novel.
16. The entire story is transmitted through the perspective of María. Does this call into question her authority or her reliability? What is the effect of being inside a single consciousness throughout the novel? To what degree can the story be read as the projection onto a fictional world of the activity of a novelist's mind, María standing in for Marías?
17. Miguel knew, says Javier, "that the fact we are here at all is entirely thanks to an improbable coming-together of various chance events, and when that coming-together ceases, we cannot really complain. . . . No one can complain about not having been born or not having been in the world before or not having always been in the world, so why should anyone complain about dying or not being in the world hereafter or not remaining in it forever?" (283). How does Miguel's philosophy about the contingent nature of human life resonate through the whole novel? Is it an appealing perspective on life and death?
18. Once Javier agreed to do Miguel the favor of arranging his death, he says, "My mind had to start working and plotting like the mind of a criminal" (292). Does his explanation of the circumstances make Javier, in the mind of María, any less a murderer? Does she even believe that Miguel was ill? Discuss her statement "Everything that has been said to us resonates and lingers" (295).
When María sees Javier and Luisa in a restaurant, apparently now married, the novel comes full circle (326-331). She recalls the statement of the lawyer Derville in Colonel Chabert: "Far more crimes go unpunished than punished, not to speak of those we know nothing about or that remain hidden, for there must inevitably be more hidden crimes than crimes that are known about and recorded" (334). What do you think about the resolution of the plot, and María's sense of the story's ending?


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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are groups of computers with similar software programmed to communicate and share files with each other. They differ from other kinds of networks because they are not controlled by common server computers, and thus are essentially, peers.
There are different types and uses for P2P networks. The Internet is a good source for finding out more about these networks and how they work. While there are valuable and convenient uses associated with P2P networks, users should be aware of security issues and the risks associated with sharing copyrighted material. Peer-to-peer network users should learn about these concerns before they participate, and children should get a parent or guardian's permission before start trading files on these networks.
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Among the most common uses of some P2P networks is the sharing of music, movies, software programs and other copyrighted material. If done without permission of the copyright holder or if not done for a lawful fair use, this kind of sharing is illegal and can lead to serious liability.
Groups of copyright owners have filed lawsuits against some P2P network providers. These industry groups are the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The US Supreme Court has a case before it now to decide whether Grokster and other P2P networks like it are guilty of copyright infringement because of the file sharing done by users.
In recent months the RIAA and the MPAA have filed lawsuits against a number of P2P members who have made copyrighted files available for download over P2P networks. Thousands of individuals, including several hundred Cox High Speed Internet customers, have been sued across the country and also in other countries. RIAA and MPAA search P2P networks for files with copies of works they own. They identify the Internet Protocol address of the person sharing or receiving, which is then recorded and used to track the person back through their Internet Service Provider (ISP). Once a lawsuit is filed, they then subpoena the records of the ISP to learn the identity of the user assigned that IP address.
Cox and some other ISPs have about the legality of the procedures used in some of these cases, but the RIAA and the MPAA have succeeded in forcing some providers to turn over the names and locations of some P2P users that have allegedly shared copyrighted material. Both groups have used this information to pursue potentially costly infringement claims and some P2P users have had to pay thousands of dollars in damages.
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Illegal Content
Many types of files can be shared through P2P networks. Some P2P users have downloaded or made available child pornography or other illegal data. Contrary to what some Internet users believe, sharing files using P2P does not provide complete anonymity. You should be aware that storing some such files on your computer or trading them is a crime that can hold severe consequences.
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As noted previously, Portage is configurable through many variables which
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of /etc/portage. Please refer to the make.conf and
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Code Listing 1.1: Reading the man pages
$ man make.conf
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2.b. Build-specific Options
Configure and Compiler Options
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variables to the compiler and configure script:
The USE variable is also used during configure and compilations but has been
explained in great detail in previous chapters.
Merge Options
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Portage's Protected Locations
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locations. The directory listing is space-delimited.
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More information about Portage's Configuration File Protection is available
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Excluding Directories
To 'unprotect' certain subdirectories of protected locations you can use the
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Server Locations
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A third setting involves the location of the rsync server which you use when you
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In the day and age of social media, where things can go viral extremely quickly, it might be time for Rockies fans to demand a boycott not of the team, but of any corporation who chooses to spend their money advertising with the Rockies. What if the Facebook and Twitter accounts for every company that has a painted billboard above the visitors bullpen was barraged by angry potential customers who let them know that they will not be doing business with that company until they are no longer associated with a brand that embarrasses the state of Colorado like the Rockies? Rockies fans could quickly show corporations that the statement made by the Rockies about aligning their brand with the Rockies is not something that they want to be a part of.
What if Southwest Airlines, who seemingly advertises between every inning on Root Sports got email accounts flooded and social media feeds jammed with people telling them that they will be flying a different airline until Southwest no longer purchases TV spots in Rockies games.
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A boycott of the team simply isn't the answer. No protest outside of the stadium, or some mid-game walk-out is going to do the trick. Those types of efforts might be noble, and no one can fault anyone with any idea that even has a slight chance of bringing change, but if the idea is that the Rockies won't make any changes until it hits the owners in the wallet, simply agreeing not to purchase a few $15 tickets isn't going to do it.
However, businesses hate to look bad. They hate bad publicity. Brands generally like to associate with a well-liked brand that is safe. If they start to get a feeling that the Rockies brand isn't just bad baseball, but a brand that doesn't value it's paying customers, then it might make these businesses, who spend big money, decide that they want to spend that marketing money elsewhere, or at least cut back.
If Rockies fans want to see change, wait until a few of the big-dollar huge-name sponsors tells the Rockies that they are pulling their sponsorship because of the negative viewpoint that the public has on the team. That might be the only way for Rockies fans to truly voice their opinion and force change.
Dick Monfort has made it clear that under no circumstances will anything change in the offseason. The only way that Rockies fans can make the point is to boycott the people who are lining the Monfort's pockets, their corporate sponsors.
Boycotting the Rockies sponsors might not make Dick Monfort make changes in the front office, but at this point, it couldn't hurt. It might be the only voice that Rockies fans have.
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A zoned comfort system is a superb device that allows you to manage every cooling and heating device that you have installed in the house. Not only that, such a system makes the controlling simple and fast, ensuring you maintain a proper level of comfort in the building by pushing one button. This guide will help you pay attention to the most essential details and select the system that will suit you perfectly.
The first thing to know about a zoned comfort control is that it has one switch, and many thermostats connected to it. Every thermostat is responsible for each zone of the house. The information that such a device shows is visible on the central panel. This means that you won't have to run around the house to switch all the heaters and air-conditioners manually and instead will be able to do it via one controller. In addition to showing the indoor temperature and humidity, zoned control is able to show the information from the outdoor environment as well.
Before you choose a zoned system for your home, you need to specify its type. The types that exist today feature central air or ductless installation. In order to choose a central air zoned system, your house should be equipped with proper ductwork. In other cases, a ductless control system is your only option.
Now that the type of a zoned comfort is specified, you need to specify the size of your air-conditioning system. In this case size does matter, since the more zones there are, the more devices they have installed and, the more thermostat and settings your future zoned comfort control should have. Not only that, bigger systems use more energy while operating, which means more money spent on utility bills.
After you know the essential details of your future zoned comfort system, it is time to find out what additional features it offers. The simplest systems allow you to control the temperature level of the devices in every zone, but that's about it. More advanced systems offer additional useful features such as automatic temperature adjustments, energy-saving modes of operation, notifications in case any problem occurs in the system and so on. You can even find a zoned system that can be programmed and controlled via smartphone application but such features are more of an entertainment than a necessity.
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I'm not a "see the homes of the stars" kind of guy. However, while I was looking at a map to find my hotel I spotted a street right around the corner. I'd heard of Logan Place before and I knew that 1 Logan Place was a famous address.
I've been a huge fan of the music of Queen since the mid 70's when I lived in England and they topped the charts regularly. Some time in the 80's singer Freddie Mercury bought a mansion called Garden Lodge, 1 Logan Place.
Since I spotted in on the map I decided to take a look. The street is no more than 100 yards from my hotel. You can't see much of Garden Lodge. The stone wall is topped with another fence and even razor wire. he wall near the door has a plastic shield to prevent the graffiti that was a problem for years. There were a few handwritten notes slipped under the plastic, just a few so they're probably cleared away on a regular basis.
It was just interesting to see the place where a legend lived....and where he died in November of 1991. A girlfriend from his early adulthood reportedly inherited much of the a mercury estate, including Garden Lodge. I've read that when fans ring the door buzzer she sometimes answers and as politely as possible asks them to go away. I wouldn't even consider doing that.
It was just interesting to know that a man who created some amazing music came up with some of it right there within those walls.
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August 14 , 2004
Muffathalle September 9, 10, 11
Evan Parker first recorded for ECM in 1970, appearing on the fifth album issued by the label, Music Improvisation Company with fellow innovators Derek Bailey and Hugh Davies. Tomasz Stanko made his debut for ECM in 1975, with Balladyna, whose rhythm section uniquely brought together Dave Holland and Edward Vesala. And Roscoe Mitchell arrived in 1978, with the trail-blazing Art Ensemble of Chicago. The principals of Unforeseen, the International Symposium on Improvised Music co-curated by the City of Munichs Cultural Department and its University, have long relationships with ECM.
And not only the principals. Within the line-up that Roscoe Mitchell and Evan Parker have assembled for their history-making Transatlantic Art Ensemble, which ECM will be recording live in the Muffathalle, there are other associations that stretch back over time.
Barry Guy, for instance, has recorded as a leader for ECM, and as a sideman, so-called, over a 30 year period, with artists ranging from the Hilliard Ensemble and the Dowland Project to John Stevens and Barre Phillips. Along with Guy, Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton are charter members of Evan Parkers Electro-Acoustic Ensemble (three albums so far) and have also released a duo disc, Some Other Season. Craig Taborn and Tani Tabbal have both recorded with Mitchells Note Factory for ECM. Marcio Mattos appeared with Elton Dean on ECMs Japo affiliate way back in the 1970s, and Mattos and John Rangecroft worked with the band Talisker, who also recorded for us, in the same period.
Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and Michal Miskiewicz, respectively piano, bass and drums of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet appear with the veteran Polish trumpeter on his Soul of Things and Suspended Night recordings and have already recorded as a trio in their own right for the label on an album due in 2005.
Out in the supporting programme of the Symposium, in the workshops and workshop concerts radiating around the main events, ECM connections are also echoed with, for instance, trombonist Sebi Tramontana (of the Italian Instabile Orchestra) and violist Walter Fähndrich.
The complex frame of historical reference linking all this activity underlines a point perhaps too often overlooked: whether one wants to talk about improvised chamber music or free jazz, instant composing or free improvisation, the concept of making music in the moment has been central to ECMs musical philosophy from Day One. Even before that, in fact, for producer Manfred Eicher was recording free jazz including Evan Parker with Peter Brötzmann for other labels before starting his own, and also played improvised music himself, with Leo Smith, Marion Brown and others.
Of course, the free method is not the only one utilized in ECMs sessions today, but the extensive experience with improvisation, and the heightened awareness and intensity it can bring, has been of very great benefit along the way. Improvisation, after all, is effective decision-making in real time, and that is of relevance to every recording.
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