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The local stock market may continue consolidating this week as investors await further clues on the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy.
Last week, the main-share Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) inched up a mere 0.5 percent to close at 6,500.48 on Friday. Trading volumes were thin for most of the week.
This week, investors will anticipate Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke's speech, looking for a clearer indication on when asset purchases will start to taper from his testimony, according to AB Capital Securities analyst Gregg Adrian Ilag.
After adjusting for actual 2012 earnings, Ilag said the PSEi was trading at 16.3x P/E (price to earnings) for 2013 and 15x for 2014. This means that investors are trading at 16.3 times the amount of money they expect to make for this year and 15x for 2014.
"Based on our estimates, Philippine earnings growth is twice the regional peer median. However, that is already reflected in our premium valuation to the regional peer median at 14.51 times 2013 earnings," Ilag said.
From a technical perspective, Ilag said the PSEi had retraced half of the downtrend from the high of 7,400. He added that key resistance and support levels were near 6,600 and 6,300 based on exponential moving averages.
"With the market still at high valuation multiples, we choose to wait for another pullback before going long. We think that price multiples will revert to long-run average near 14x, which should enable favorable buying opportunities across the market," Ilag said, adding that the strategy should be to stay liquid in the meantime. Doris C. Dumlao
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Displays a constantly updating list of London event medals.Put your WordPress site into London olympics 2012 .
The 'London 2012 Olympics' plugin will display constantly a updating list of medals country wise on whichever page you like just use shortcode[oly_london_2012]. It has also been widgetized for drag-and-drop use on your sidebar.
A webservice is used for display constantly updating list of medals from olympics
The listing can be styled to match your site there is no CSS box so its follow your current style,easy to fit your current layout .


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Front-end application for the powerful iptables Linux firewall.
Allows you to restrict which apps can access the network.
This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer.
For advanced users, it also allows you to manually define custom iptables rules.
Please remember to disable the firewall before uninstalling, otherwise you will need to reboot your device to turn it off.
What's New
AFWall+ (Android Firewall +)
AFWall+ (Android Firewall +) is a front-end application for the powerful iptables Linux firewall.It allows you to restrict which applications are permitted to access your data networks (2G/3G and/or Wi-Fi and while in roaming). Also you can control traffic within LAN or while connected through VPN.
ACCESS_SUPERUSER Permission
More info on new permission - android.permission.ACCESS_SUPERUSER
INTERNET permission is only required for LAN functionality (API limitation)
Android 5.0/5/1 Support
Please do the following on 126.96.36.199
* Download Busybox by Stericson from playstore
* Preferences - Binaries - Busybox Binary and select System busybox
* Log notification doesn't work currently and some devices nflog doesn't work.
Features added
- Supports 2.2 to 4.4.x
- Import/Export Rules to external storage
- Import DroidWall Rules
- Search Applications
- Filter Applications
- Multiple Profiles with custom names
- Tasker/Locale support
- Select All/None/Invert/Clear applications on each column
- Revamped Rules/Logs Viewer with copy/export to external storage
- Preferences
> Highlight system applications with custom color
> Notify on new installations
> Ability to hide application icons( faster loading )
> Use LockPattern for application protection.
> Show/Hide application ID.
- Roaming Option for 3G/Edge
- VPN Support
- LAN Support
- Tether Support
- IPV6/IPV4 Support
- Device Admin Support ( Protect AFWall+ from uninstall)
- Choose able languages
- Choose able iptables/busybox binary
- Support x86/MIPS/ARM devices.
- New Widget UI - Apply profiles with few clicks
- Blocked packets notification - Displays blocked packets
- Support for wifi only tablets
- Improved Log statistics
Translations & Languages
- German translations by chef@xda & user_99@xda & Gronkdalonka@xda
- French translations by GermainZ@xda & Looki75@xda
- Russian translations by Kirhe@xda & YaroslavKa78
- Spanish translations by spezzino@crowdin
- Dutch translations by DutchWaG@crowdin
- Japanese translation by nnnn@crowdin
- Ukrainian translation by andriykopanytsia@crowdin
- Slovenian translation by bunga bunga@crowdin
- Chinese Simplified translation by tianchaoren@crowdin
- Polish translations by tst,Piotr Kowalski@crowdin
- Swedish translations by CreepyLinguist@crowdin
- Greek Translations by mpqo@crowdin
- Portuguese translations by lemor2008@xda
- Chinese Traditional by shiuan@crowdin
- Chinese Simplified by wuwufei,tianchaoren @ crowdin
- Italian translations by benzo@crowdin
- Romanian tranlations by mysterys3by-facebook@crowdin
- Czech translations by Syk3s
- Hungarian translations
- Turkish translations
- Indonesian translations by mirulumam
BIG THANKS for all the translators and http://crowdin.net for supporting opensource !
Please help me to translate to more languages - http://crowdin.net/project/afwall
- Droidwall Bug fixes ( Continue)
- More languages
- Integrate with Network Log/ Detailed Log statistics !
- Advance IPtables rules builder
AFWall+ is open source software, you can find the source here : https://github.com/ukanth/afwall
tags/keywords: firewall,android firewall,network firewall,network blocker,roaming,vpn,ipv6,iptables,ip6tables, network tether, network block, firewall for tablets, block network, malwares, firewall for tablet, firewall root
Offical Support XDA forum - > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957231
Mobiwol: NoRoot Firewall
Thanks to everyone who has already contributed to our translation project! We'll soon be releasing an update with localization for Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Turkish, Hungarian and Swedish.
Want to help us expand that list? We still need volunteers to QA completed translations and help us complete the remaining languages. Help us make Mobiwol the best Android Firewall by helping us make it available in your language. Join our translation project on CrowdIn -
IMPORTANT: In the last update, a NEW NOTIFICATION ICON WAS ADDED FOR STABILITY. We are working on finding a way to retain the stability without the icon, but please be aware that THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE.
Look no further for your Android Firewall. Mobiwol can be used to save battery, reduce data usage to stay within your data plan, and secure your privacy by limiting the network access permissions required by apps.
With Mobiwol No Root Firewall you can -
* Take Control Of Your Mobile Apps
* Easily Allow/Block App Connectivity
* Block background app activity
* Be Alerted When New Apps Access the Internet
Secure your phone or tablet, with reliable Android firewall protection - No ROOT access required!
Regain control of your mobile device and what is being accessed and shared with the world.
Features List
Android firewall protection with **NO** ROOT REQUIRED!!
Automatic launch on device start up
Automatically identifies applications currently installed on your mobile device
Identifies and Notifies when newly installed apps access the Web
Set Allow/Block, on a per-application basis
Disable background activity for selected apps
Get full data usage visibility
Install Mobiwol No Root Firewall for Simplified Android Security
Why does Mobiwol No Root Firewall show as if using a VPN connection?
This is superficial. We've used technology available to us from within the VPN packaging module offered by Android to be able to gain visibility to your applications' network activities and apply firewall rules without having to ask for root permissions like other Android Firewall apps. However, no actual VPN connection is being made, no data is being sent externally by our application, and we do not tamper with the security of your personal data, so you can continue using your apps with peace of mind, and confidence that you will not end up with a higher than usual data bill at the end of the month.
Why Can't I accept the VPN Prompt?
You will need to select the checkbox first and then the button becomes enabled. If you are having problems selecting the checkbox, it is likely that you have another app that creates an overlay on the active screen that is preventing you from selecting the checkbox.
These two threads explain the problem further and give some examples of apps that do this-
For more FAQs go to http://www.mobiwol.com/faqs.html
Why does Mobiwol top the data usage chart?
It's an illusion. Mobiwol uses your device's VPN package to create a firewall. As every data packet sent or received by your apps passes through the VPN, all the incoming and outgoing data traffic gets attributed to Mobiwol.
The good part, however, is that Mobiwol now comes with its own Data Usage feature which allows you to check data usage for each app. To view the usage, choose Data Usage from the home screen.
Have a question not answered here? Visit mobiwol.com/faqs.html for more answers to top questions about Mobiwol - the original root-free Android firewall.
NoRoot Data Firewall
* NO ROOT REQUIRED mobile and Wifi data firewall.
* Control the access permission for each app to access internet with mobile network and WIFI network.
* Support to only blocking background data and let foreground data go.
* Record, analyze and sort the data usage for each app.
* Show the history data by hour, day or month in bar chart.
* Notify when one app has new internet connection.
* Set temp permission for just 1 hour.
* Support mobile network only mode which disable firewall automatically in wifi network.
* Analyze the accessed websites for each app.
* Startup automatically.
* Capture data packets, which means you can sniffer the internet data on your device with no-root needed.
* Support Lollipop(Android 5.0).
* Manage app permissions for 4.3, 4.4 devices.
1. This app is based on VPN interface, which is the only way to implement the firewall on noroot devices. It works as the proxy between the common apps and the servers. The app doesn't steal you data or send even one bit of its own.
2. The app needs the permission to read/write sdcard for two features: 1). Backup/Restore the firewall rules to/from the sdcard. 2. Store the captured package pcap file in the sdcard. It doesn't steel your data on the sdcard.
If you still think it's not secure, please DO NOT install it.
If you meet any issue or have any suggestions, please mail us at email@example.com.
Many thanks for volunteer translators:
Ragga Muffin@xda),
Russian(gaich@xda, Serbul@getlocalization),
Welcome translation at http://www.getlocalization.com/norootdatafirewall/.
Discussion Forum
1. Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/norootdatafirewall
2. XDA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-noroot-data-firewall-t2996614
Root Firewall
☆ Block Internet access for any apps:
☆ Separate 3G and WiFi data
☆ One-click widget enabled
☆ Test blocked app in a touch
☆ Rooted devices
More details
☆ Block Internet access for any apps:
One can select to block a selected application or applications, application running as root. Since it blocks Internet access per application ID (UID in regular Linux system), several applications may be assigned the same ID, you should block all of them or nothing.
☆ Separate 3G and WiFi data
For each application, you can select to block Internet access via either 3G or WiFi channel. It' s extremely helpful if you don't have an unlimited data plan. It saves you from over-billing because of background application accessing Internet such as Google+, Google Play or Amazon Music.
☆ One-click widget enabled
One-click widget is the easiest way to toggle blocking status. It's useful when you don't want to use data connection and occasionally turn it on for a while.
☆ Test blocked app in a touch
Once you block an app, tap on it to see if the application can access to Internet or not.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Root-Uninstaller/200912803368166
Keyword: firewall, internet firewall, ad-blocker, url filter
Kaspersky Internet Security
Core, essential protection is absolutely free, just as it was in Kaspersky Mobile Security Lite – but now it has even more security features:
✔ Kaspersky Lab's latest protection technologies against viruses, spyware, Trojans and more
✔ An Antivirus Scanner - runs an on-demand malware scan of your device
✔ Advanced Anti-Theft Protection – Lock&Locate, Wipe, Full wipe, Mugshot.
• A new 'Alarm' feature has been introduced – you can remotely sound the alarm, helping you to find your device if it is somewhere nearby. The alarm works even in 'silent' mode.
• Anti-Theft Web Management Portal. Using a personal online account you can manage all the anti-theft options from a single point.
• Call&Text Filter for smartphones – protects you from unwanted calls and text messages
If you want to try premium features you can activate a 30-day trial or simply make an in-app purchase. Premium mode offers:
• Real-Time Protection – ensures that your device is always protected. No matter what you download or install, our powerful antivirus engine detects and neutralizes mobile malware
• Cloud-enabled protection – reacts fast to new and emerging threats
• Web Protection – protects you from malicious and phishing websites
• Text Anti-Phishing – automatically detects malicious and phishing links in incoming text messages
• Privacy Protection – allows you to hide confidential information from prying eyes
Kaspersky Internet Security for Android protects your smartphones and tablets against theft, loss, viruses and real-time Internet threats – all without impacting the performance of your devices.
Visit our website https://www.kaspersky.com to learn more about us!
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kaspersky
Mobile Security & Antivirus
Secure your phone and tablet with our top-rated free mobile security app with both antivirus and anti-theft protection.
✔ Security tools like virus scanner, virus removal, protector, network meter, app manager, app lock, and even firewall (on rooted phones) give you total control for staying clean.
✔ Protects against general infections, app vulnerabilities and Wi-Fi-based threats to your OS.
✔ Locate lost phones or tablets through our web-based phone locator feature.
✔ Remote lock and memory wipe features (just two of its many advanced Anti-Theft components) keep your data safe from theft.
It's totally FREE.
Recommended by leading Android authorities:
■ Android Authority: "The best antivirus just got better… nothing comes close."
■ Android and Me: "The best anti-theft solution on the market."
■ Android Police: "Anything you would want if your device gets lost or stolen."
Available in 20+ languages.
■ Antivirus Engine: Virus scanner automatically scans installed apps, memory card content and new apps upon first use. Schedule automatic scans for when you sleep. Includes SMS/file scanning for complete mobile protection, and also protect against avg spyware and removes viruses.
■ Privacy Report & Apps Manager: Provides insights about installed apps and helps you understand your apps' access rights, intentions, and permissions.
■ SMS and Call Filter: Allows you to retain your privacy. Block numbers from those you don't want to be able to contact you.
■ Web Shield: Blocks malware infected links, as well as trojans, adware and spyware (for safe web browsing) and even USSD numbers (which have the ability to wipe your device's memory). Also fixes mistyped URLs.
■ Network Meter: Measures incoming/outgoing data transfers.
■ Firewall (rooted devices only): Blocks hackers from getting in.
■ App Locking: Locks any two apps with a PIN/gesture (unlimited in Premium).
■ Backup: Allows backup of contacts, SMS/call logs, and photos (Premium version provides backup of music, video, and apps).
The best free cell phone tracker on the market. If you're thinking "How can I find my Android?" you can use the cell phone locator features to find it, control it remotely, and much more.
■ Control your Android remotely via a web-based interface or SMS (to later control your device remotely, go to: http://my.avast.com).
■ Locate your phone on a map using GPS tracker.
■ Lock device, activate siren, or wipe memory to keep your private data safe.
■ Get notification of a SIM card change.
★ App Locking: Locks an unlimited number of apps.
★ Ad Detector: Detects ads and provides full details of their tracking systems.
★ Password Check: Automatically locks after 3 failed attempts to unlock.
★ Geo-Fencing: Phone performs specified actions (e.g. lock, activate siren, send location) when outside the set perimeter (e.g. you go to a cafe and enable it with a 500m perimeter, so if somebody steals your phone and takes it away, it triggers your specified actions).
★ Remote SMS: Remotely send text messages from the phone.
★ Remote Data Recovery: Remotely retrieve data from the phone.
★ Remote Identification: Take picture of the thief when he/she tries to unlock it (using front or back camera, with face recognition). Record audio, with voice recognition.
★ Backup Features: Allows backup of video, audio, and apps (including settings and data for rooted phones, e.g. game progress).
★ Premium pricing (auto-renewal): $1.99 monthly, or $14.99 yearly.
NoRoot Firewall
NoRoot Firewall may not work on LTE because it NoRoot Firewall currently doesn't support IPv6. I'm working on the fix.
NoRoot Firewall requires NO ROOT. It protects your personal information from being sent to the Internet. NoRoot firewall notifies you when an app is trying to access the Internet. All you need to do is just press Allow or Deny button.
NoRoot Firewall allows you to create filter rules based on IP address, host name or domain name. You can allow or deny only specific connections of an app.
- No root required as the name NoRoot Firewall says.
- Fine-grained access control based on IP/host name/domain name.
- Simple interface. Easy to use.
- Minimal permissions. No location, No phone number.
This is the perfect solution if you want a firewall for android without root. It gives you a complete protection for your Android. NoRoot Firewall is like Drodwall for no root users.
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My Android
1. My Apps: Provides a list and count of applications installed on your phone / tablet with options to:
- Easily Search & Sort
- Uninstall the app (very useful feature!)
- Launch an App
2. Memory: Provides memory info for both Phone and SD card. How much memory is free / available and how much has been used?
3. Call History: Information about outgoing, incoming and missed calls for today, yesterday and last one week. Plus, it separately shows calls from known (the ones in your address book) and unknown contacts (the ones which are not in your address book). This is a very practical feature.
4. Camera Information: How much is the megapixel of back and front cameras. This info usually is buried in marketing material, but here you could easily find out. Plus, a very useful info on the number of photos that can be clicked from the camera based on megapixel of your phone camera and remaining memory on your phone.
5. Internet connection (2G, 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi) device is connected to.
6. Screen size: Size / resolution of screen in pixels and inches.
7. Screen density: Low, Medium, High, Extra High, Extra Extra High.
8. RAM: RAM of the device.
9. Android Version: Android OS name (Ex. Jelly Bean, KitKat) and version number.
10. Manufacturer and Model number of the device.
My Android app presents the above information in a very neat and simple manner so that anybody can easily understand. Cool user interface with some cute animations.
Supported in 16 languages:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Hope you like My Android!
Lost Android
* read sent and received SMS messages
* wipe phone
* lock phone
* erase SD card
* locate by GPS or network
* start alarm with flashing screen
* send SMS from web page
* message popup
* forward calls
* phone status: battery, imei, etc.
* remote SMS alarm
* remote SMS lock and unlock
* remote SMS erase SD card
* remote SMS wipe phone
* remote SMS APN control
* start/stop GPS
* start/stop WIFI
* hide from launcher
* email when SIM card is changed
* get call list
* take picture with front camera
* take picture with rear camera
* make your phone speak with text-to-speech
* SMS message command
* SMS speak command
* lock timeout
* restore settings on boot
* record sound from microphone
* start and stop data connection from SMS
* start and stop WIFI connection from SMS
* content browser prototype
The app does no polling to a server, so there is no extra battery usage.
More details on the control web site: http://www.androidlost.com.
Have a question? Please use the forum: http://groups.google.com/group/androidlost
If you have trouble uninstalling, please read the FAQ - there are several one-click solutions!
Android Device Manager
● Locate Android devices associated with your Google account
● Reset your device's screen lock PIN
● Erase all data on the phone
Terminal Emulator for Android
This is a new version of the popular "Android Terminal Emulator" application. Same great program, just with a new name.
Top Features
+ Full Linux terminal emulation.
+ Multiple windows.
+ Launcher short cuts.
+ UTF-8 text. (Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Thai, etc.)
+ Completely free. No ads, no in-app-purchases, no nag screens, nothing.
Quick FAQ:
+ If you are having trouble entering text, try installing the free "Hacker's Keyboard IME". (Especially if you have a Samsung or HTC device.)
+ This app isn't a game emulator.
+ This app won't help you root your phone or change your phone's IMEI.
+ You need to know (or be willing to learn) how to use the Linux command line to use this app.
+ You may want to install a set of command line utilities like "Busy Box" or "Debian chroot" in order to add commands beyond the commands that come built into your Android device.
+ If you get a -505 error when trying to install this app under Android 5.0, it means that some other app is using the same permissions. You will have to uninstall the other app in order to install Terminal Emulator for Android. (People tell me that "jrummy's Toolbox Pro" causes this problem.)
Want to know more about Terminal Emulator for Android?
Join the G+ community: #Android Terminal Emulator
Or check out the documentation wiki:
Want to add or improve a translation of Terminal Emulator for Android? See https://github.com/jackpal/Android-Terminal-Emulator/wiki/Translating-to-Other-Languages for instructions.
Find My Android Phone!
• Track a lost, stolen or missing device whether it belongs to you, your spouse or your child
• Locate smart phones and regular (also known as feature) phones via Find My Android Phone's superior phone tracker technology
• Enjoy a more diverse array of features and benefits than those currently available from Androidlost, the Free Android Phone Tracker, Plan B, the Lockwatch Find Stolen Phone, Lost Droid Finder or SeekDroid
• Determine the location of any family member's phone. The ability to track other member's phones is a unique feature not found on many other phone tracker apps
• Keep tabs on a lost or missing device with real-time location updates. When the missing or stolen phone is moved, its location is updated instantly on the app's map and the Find My Android Phone website
Find My Android Phone contains a superior phone tracker tool and uses state-of-the-art GPS navigational technology to locate lost or stolen phones. It is the essential app for anyone who has experienced the stress, worry, and inconvenience associated with a lost phone or even worse, a stolen phone. What's more, the app is a free download for iOS, Android and Windows devices.
Lost Phone Found, With Find My Lost Phone
Find My Android Phone makes it easy to pinpoint the location of a missing phone whether it's a smart phone or a feature phone. Better still, the app's navigational assistance can guide you to it, making lost phone retrieval quick and easy. To locate smart phones, Find My Android Phone uses state-of-the-art GPS tracking technology. For lost feature phones, the app accurately pinpoints the phone's location via "triangulation," just like they do on the television programs "CSI" and "Law and Order"! Essentially, cell phone companies know a mobile device's distance from cell phone towers. Find My Android Phone secures this data from cell phone companies and displays the phone's whereabouts on the app's map. From there, it's easy for you to retrieve the lost feature phone.
Use the Phone Tracker To Locate Missing Phones. It's easy to locate missing or stolen phones with Find My Android Phone or our website.
Find My Android Phone's phone tracker feature helps you pinpoint the location of a missing phone using state-of-the-art GPS technology. Note: For this phone tracker feature to function, the app must be installed on the phone you're looking for and on your own phone. Simply check the app's map on your phone and there will be an icon indicating the location of the lost or stolen phone.
In the event a family member is not reachable, you can also locate the lost or stolen phone via our website. Once you've installed the app on your iPhone, Android or Windows Phone, just log into our website. You'll see a map showing the location of your lost phone. The map also features directions to the device's exact location. Another key feature is real-time updates on both the app's map and our website. These maps are instantly updated whenever the phone moves.
Find My Android Phone Can Find A Stolen Phone.
Nothing is more worrisome and upsetting than a stolen phone. Thankfully, Find My Android Phone includes a navigational setting that, as long as the location app is running, tracks the whereabouts of a stolen phone and guides you (or better yet, law enforcement) to its exact location, quickly and easily.
Android Lost? Find My Android Phone Works with a Lost Android!
Droid users benefit from Find My Android Phone. Simply use a family member's phone to track the location of the lost Android. As long as Find My Android Phone is running, it can provide the navigational assistance needed to locate your missing or lost Android.
Find My Android Phone Finds Feature Phones, Too.
Even if you or another family member don't have smart phones, Find My Android Phone can still help.
AirDroid: File & Notifications
Recommended by PCWorld, BGR, LifeHacker, CNET, Gizmodo, XDA, Phandroid and many more technology media/websites.
AirDroid allows you to access and manage your Android phone or tablet from Windows, Mac or the Web, wirelessly, for free. Transfer files between your devices, and share files to your friends.
★New feature: Quick reply to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger message on computer from the notifications. (Telegram, Kik and more apps will be supported in future version.)
Better focused: Calls, SMS, and the app notifications you allowed, mirrored to the large computer screen you are focusing on.
Better equipped: Type with full physical keyboard and control with a mouse. Transfer things faster without looking for a cable. Better equipments, better life.
Better connected: Control your Android from computer and use any apps on computer, like WhatsApp, WeChat, and Line. (root required for some devices)
Things you can do with AirDroid from PC/Mac client (http://goo.gl/tB6V84):
✔ SMS: Send and receive individual or group messages.
✔ Files: Transfer files between Android and computer from any network. Share files and chat with friends.
✔ Notification Mirror: Mirror phone notifications from any allowed apps to computer.
✔ AirMirror (beta): Complete control of Android, and use any apps, like WhatsApp, WeChat and Line. (Root required)
Other things you can do with AirDroid Web (http://goo.gl/1mXdlr):
- Contacts: View and edit all the contacts.
- Photos: Transfer photos between Android and computer.
- Music & Videos: Play and manage music & videos on Android and transfer them between Android and computer.
- Ringtones: Set music as ringtone and export ringtones.
- Screenshot: View the real time screen of Android devices, take static screenshots. (requires root)
- Apps: Import and export .apk files.
- Camera: See through the lens of both front and back cameras.
- URL: Push url to Android and open it with default web browser.
- Clipboard: Share clipboard content between Android and computer.
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---aFirewall basics---
☆ To make sure aFirewall has higher priority to monitor incoming messages, please install aFirewall before other third-party messaging applications such Go SMS Pro, Handcent etc.
☆ Black list is the default list to be blocked. By default, you only need to put the number into black list if you want to block it; Check on "Unknown and private" in black list to block unknown/private/restricted/anonymous calls;
☆ Number in protected list will never be blocked; Protected conversation supports to hide protected list numbers' call/SMS/MMS;
---What can rule do?---
☆ How to hangup call; Multi hangup mode are supported. You can forward the blocked calls to voicemail or a non-existing number. And you can set aFirewall to accept and hangup blocked calls to avoid forwarding to voicemail;
☆ how to block group lists; You can set Call Blocking lists and Message Blocking lists separately;
☆ how to response blocked calls and messages;
---aFirewall data---
☆ Support to backup all aFirewall data to sdcard directory with xml format; and restore aFirewall settings from sdcard directory;
☆ Based on BackupToEmail application, support to backup blocked log and protected log to Gmail;
---aFirewall security---
☆ Password/Fake password supported;
☆ Support to hide aFirewall application icon, you can open it with SimpleDialer or system dialer;
---More features---
☆ Outgoing call blocking supported;
☆ Prefix wildcard supported;
☆ SMS keywords Block is supported;
☆ Support to block SMS message from Email address; But aFirewall does not support to block Email;
☆ Following android permissions are only granted to system or signature applications by android system, based on these changes from Google, you maybe need to root your phone and convert aFirewall to system application to fix related issues in your phone although aFirewall tried its best to workaround them.
1). android.permission.MODIFY_PHONE_STATE: changed from android 2.3 and required by answerCall and cancelMissedCallNotification;
2). android.permission.WRITE_APN_SETTINGS: changed from android 4.0 and required by queryApnSettings to download MMS attachments;
3). android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS: changed from android 4.2 and required by on/off airplane mode;
☆ You can use free link2SD(free), apps2ROM(free) to convert aFirewall to system; and I will also release a related application to Google Play to convert aFirewall to system later;
Rooting your device will void its warranty. In addition, performing the rooting procedure incorrectly may have unexpected consequences. Thus root your device at your own risk. I will not be responsible if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.
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SMART (Smart Monitoring and Rebooting Tool)
Listing 3. Sample Output of the smart -d Command
[sysman@server ~]# ./smart -d SERVICE PID PROCS STATUS PROBLEM ------- ----- ----- ------ ------- CRON 451 1 [OK] DISK ? 0 [OK] No start command. DHCP 444 1 [OK] DNS 442 1 [OK] HTTP 625 53 [WARN] Too many processes (>30). LPD 474 1 [OK] MRTG 27017 1 [OK] MYSQL 627 1 [OK] NAGIOS 640 1 [OK] NMB 633 1 [OK] NTP ? 1 [OK] POSTFIX 619 0 [DOWN] No response from service. [Starting...] ->POSTFIX 23945 1 [OK] POSTGRES 560 3 [OK] SLAP 643 1 [OK] SMB 631 6 [OK] SNMP 635 1 [OK] SNMPTRAP 637 1 [OK] SSH 654 3 [OK] SYSLOG 402 1 [OK] XINET 462 1 [OK]
There are some optional executables files, the check scripts, responsible for checking whether the monitored services really are operative and responding to petitions. These files are written in Shell (.sh extension) and Expect (.exp extension). Expect is a tool that requires Tcl and allows for automation of interactive applications that use textual representation.
These scripts could be written in any programming language, because only the exit status is taken into account. If it's not equal to 0, we suppose that there has been no answer or that the answer given by the service has not been the expected one. This means that a check script not only can monitor services, but it also can achieve any check that returns a Boolean value, for example, to check whether the size of a directory exceeds a certain value, whether the amount of logged users is greater than a desired number, whether a kernel module is loaded and so on (Listing 4).
Listing 4. A Sample of the nag and Shell Scripts
[root@server /]# ls /home/sysman/scripts/ disk.nag http-forb.nag nfs.nag pop3.nag smtp.nag disk.sh http.nag nfs.sh printer.nag snmp.nag dns.nag http.sh nmb.sh proxy.nag ssh2.nag dns.sh imap.exp ntp.sh slap.nag ssh.nag ftp.exp imap.nag pgsql2.nag slap.sh ssh.sh ftp.nag mysql.nag pgsql.nag smb.nag http-auth.nag mysql.sh pgsql.sh smb.sh http.exp nagios.nag pop3.exp smtp.exp
Files with the .nag extension are also Shell scripts, but unlike the former ones, they call an external program (plugin) passing to it the parameters received from check-service, following the order and format that the plugin expects. This checks the service and returns the information gathered to the check script, which will interpret and convert it into the exit status that check-service is waiting for (Listing 5).
Listing 5. nag scripts are handled by plugins.
[root@server /]# ls /home/sysman/plugins/ check_disk check_http check_pgsql check_snmp check_udp check_dns check_imap check_pop check_ssh check_ftp check_nagios check_smtp check_tcp
Plugins are programmed in C, Perl and Shell and belong to Nagios. Their sources can be downloaded independently of the Nagios distribution, and some of them require the additional installation of certain programs and libraries.
Software requirements include the following:
sudo: allows a user to execute a command as another user. This will be necessary if you are planning to allow a nonroot user to execute SMART.
awk: a pattern scanning and processing language. SMART uses it and expects to find it at /bin/awk. If that's not your case, edit the check-service and smart files of the SMART distribution and modify the line where AWK="/bin/awk" is specified.
Nagios plugins: sources can be downloaded independently of the Nagios distribution, and some of them require the additional installation of certain programs and libraries. You can use the plugins distributed with SMART or download the newest ones.
Some shell scripts (in the scripts directory of SMART) may require some specific commands to check some services, such as dig for dns, wget for Web services, nmblookup for nmbd (Samba), ntpq for NTP, ldapsearch for OpenLDAP and so on. The paths of these commands are defined in a variable at the beginning of each script, so you can change their location, use any other command that might work better for your system or even rewrite the whole script at your convenience.
With sudo you can permit another user to run SMART. If you're not interested in creating such a user, you can omit steps 1, 2 and 3 below.
Create user sysman and group sysman.
Create the SMART directory. It's a good idea to install it at sysman home and to set the appropriate owner and permissions:
mkdir /home/sysman chown root:sysman /home/sysman chmod 750 /home/sysman
Edit the sudo configuration file /etc/sudoers, and add the following lines:
... sysman hostname=(root) NOPASSWD: /home/sysman/check-service sysman hostname=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
Download the SMART software.
Untar and unzip the distribution:
tar -zxf smart-X.Y.tar.gz
Go to the distribution directory and copy the files to the destination directory. If you choose a destination different from /home/sysman, you will have to edit the smart file and modify the line where dir="/home/sysman" is specified:
cd smart-X. cp check-service /home/sysman/ cp smart /home/sysman/ cp host.conf.dist /home/sysman/host.conf cp services.conf.dist /home/sysman/services.conf cp -r scripts /home/sysman/ cp -r plugins /home/sysman/
Go to the destination directory, and check/set file permissions and owners:
cd /home/sysman chown -R root:root check-service scripts plugins host.conf services.conf chown root:sysman smart chmod -R 700 check-service scripts plugins chmod 750 smart chmod 644 host.conf services.conf
Configuration is as follows. First, edit the SMART host configuration file host.conf, and modify it according to your preferences (hostname, mail addresses, commands paths and so on). Then, edit the SMART services configuration file services.conf, and uncomment/modify/add any service/dæmon you want to check. Every line describes one service, with the following semicolon-separated parameters:
NAME (non-empty string): descriptive service name (for example, IMAP).
process_name[:port] (non-empty string[:integer]): parent process name and its operational port (for example, couriertcpd:143).
process_param (string): parameters of running process. Some services run with the same process name, so parameters are useful to distinguish them. For example, the parent process of Courier IMAP and POP3 is couriertcpd, but one is executed with the parameter pop3d and the other one with imapd.
max_procs (non-empty integer): the highest number of running processes allowed (for example, 10). Leave it at 0 if what you're monitoring runs no processes (for example, disk space).
min_procs (non-empty integer): the lowest number of running processes allowed (for example, 1). Leave it at 0 if what you're monitoring runs no processes (for example, disk space).
start_command (string): the command to start the service or script to be executed when the service is down (for example, /courier/libexec/imapd.rc).
pid_file (string): pid file path (for example, /var/run/imapd.pid).
sock_file (string): socket file path.
start_mode (0/1): the service can be started/stopped by adding start/stop to the start command (1), or it may not be necessary (0).
check_script (string): the name of the script used to check the service. This script has to be in the scripts directory (for example, imap.nag).
Leave the parameters empty if they are not applicable, except NAME, process_name, max_procs, min_procs and start_mode, which can't be empty.
Now, you should be able to run SMART as user root or sysman:
Try using -h to get more information about available parameters. Running SMART through crond might be a good thing. You can run it as frequently as you want, but doing it every five minutes seems to be reasonable enough.
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Situated in Houston, this hotel is 2.7 mi (4.4 km) from Houston Police Department Museum and within 6 mi (10 km) of Greenspoint Mall and Houston Grand Prix. Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens and Redstone Golf Club are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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This hotel features an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Other amenities include meeting rooms, laundry facilities, and a 24-hour front desk.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Comfort Suites provides a spa tub and a fitness center. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A complimentary breakfast is offered. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available on request). This Houston hotel also offers laundry facilities, a safe deposit box at the front desk, and an elevator (lift). Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Lakeside camping makes for great year-round funPublished 2:09pm Friday, July 6, 2012
For all of the activities I have reported on and encouraged our readers to attend, I may have done them an injustice by failing to mention what may be the best one of all. It can happen any weekend of the year: CAMPING.
I have declared that I wanted to go camping on the lake for the past several summers. It never happened. Until this past Tuesday.
My husband, John Howell, is an Eagle Scout and avid outdoorsman. The man loves to camp, hike and not shower. He was beyond pleased that I was iniating a camping trip and promised to handle all the details.
At this point, you are probably imagining all the many things that can go wrong on a camping trip, but I will preface by saying this was the most perfect experience. I did not get snakebite or catch my hair on fire.
We set sail on his parents' pontoon a little after 6 p.m. and set off in search of the perfect spot. We did not go far; in fact, you could see Willow Point from where we landed.
The flat expanse of sand was tucked beneath a canopy of pines, and I took to calling it Sandy Beach, because every place needs a name. I jumped off the boat into the shallow water and wiggled my toes in the thick red clay.
"We're camping!" I proclaimed.
Lightning was flashing in the distance near Kowaliga Bridge but it appeared the storm would miss us by half a mile. After dabbing on a heavy perfume of Off, we began to gather firewood and rocks to ring the fire pit. The orange Coleman tent was soon assembled, and our smores sticks were whittled to fine points.
Once both the fire and the radio were going, pops were topped and we settled into our beach chairs. The temperature had cooled because of the storm, which was a welcome relief from the heat wave. I would be grateful for packing a long sleeve shirt.
The pre-prepared hobos wrapped in aluminum foil were tucked neatly into the coals. The chicken and potatoes had been smothered and covered in a can of Campbell's Chicken Soup. Caprese salads and a bottle of pinot noir rounded out our humble meal, which we quickly devoured. Being outside makes a person hungry.
For dessert, it had to be smores. What is camping without that classic ritual? My first marshmallow immediately burst into a ball of fire, much to my chagrin. Naturally, John's were perfectly brown and toasty.
Our evening was a relaxing one. After snapping some pictures, I cut my phone off and we hung out beneath a full moon and sky full of stars.
I highly recommend camping on the lake next time you are looking for something to do. It is great for a date or a child's birthday party. If you decide you prefer having access to an official bathroom and plumbing, Wind Creek is a fantastic option. All you need is a tent (or not – depending on how hard core you are), sleeping bag, cooler, chairs, lighter and a pocketknife. I may or may not have insisted that we take an air mattress and two pillows on our venture.
The next morning when I unzipped the tent, the sun was shining on the water and the birds were chirping. I took a deep breath of that fresh air, and I was so happy to be outside. Sometimes you don't have to go far to get away from it all.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy informed the Assembly on Monday that the State Government had promptly apprised the Prime Minister about the flood situation in the State and sought a visit by a Central team to assess the flood damage in different parts of Kerala.
Replying to a volley of submissions on the continuing flood situation and loss of life during the last few days, Mr. Chandy said a special meeting of the Cabinet was held on July 26, the day on which different parts of the State experienced heavy rain, to assess the situation and it was decided to submit a memorandum to the Centre. The very next day, a fax message was sent to the Prime Minister's office explaining the situation in the State and about the loss of nine lives, he added.
Mr. Chandy told A. K. Mony (Cong) that Munnar was worst-hit by the rain. Landslip had claimed eight lives in the area. Twenty roads were totally destroyed. The Government had opened three relief camps to accommodate around 1,615 persons belonging to 333 houses affected by the floods. It had also sanctioned Rs.50,000 to the next of kin of grown-up persons killed in the floods and Rs.10,000 each to next of kin of children who lost their lives. It had also sanctioned free ration for one month for the affected families. Those who had lost their houses would be given Rs.30,000 each. Those who had lost houses and land would be given 10 cents each if Government land was available and five cents if private land were to be acquired, he said.
The Chief Minister said there were some major lessons to be learned from the happenings. The most important of these related to the rampant encroachments in the area, indiscriminate construction activities taking place there and the environmental issues arising from human interventions. The Government wished to hold discussions with all political parties on ways to find long-term solutions to these problems, he said.
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Critical Essay by Robert Peters
SOURCE: "Gab Poetry, or Ducks vs. Nightingale Music: Charles Bukowski," in Where the Bee Sucks: Workers, Drones, and Queens of Contemporary American Poetry, Santa Maria: Asylum Arts, 1994, pp. 56-66.
In the following essay, Peters discusses the elements of Bukowski's poetry.
I once witnessed a Charles Bukowski first: the debut of the great raunchy poet as actor. The vehicle, The Tenant, was a two character drama written by Linda King. Bukowski contributed lines of his own, better developing his own image in the play. This line was his addition, as delivered by Miss King: "You may be the greatest poet of the century, but you sure can't fuck." In a lively way The Tenant turns upon the problem of whether a super-poet should move in with his girlfriend, who would then, one would suppose, buy him his beer, give him bj's, and let him abuse her. The event was choice. An actor scheduled to read the Bukowski role was unable to show, so Buk took over.
There were twenty people in the well of the Pasadena Museum—sad, alas, because of the significance of the event. Bukowski, script in hand, trod the boards. The props were a telephone—used with nearly as much frequency as Barbara Stanwyck's in Sorry, Wrong Number; a mattress upon which King and Bukowski, scripts in hand, fell to enact their erotic comings after dismal separations. The performance, pixie-ish, included a tender moment where Bukowski acted as W.C. Fields towards a child who had a brief moment of stage glory. Needless to say, the small audience chuckled, particularly over Bukowski's Bogart-like delivery. Ms. King, with various stunning Bridget Bardot-esqueries nicely foiled the poet.
The Tenant gave Bukowski a chance, under the guise of art and aesthetic distance, to extol his stature as a poet. Buk has never been known for his reticence, and his being utterly ignored hitherto by the literary establishment hasn't affected him in the least.
I remember how zapped I was when I first read him: I was teaching at the University of California at Riverside and had been given Crucifix in a Deathhand. I carried the book to a string quartet concert, began reading it before the concert, experienced chills, elevations, charismatic flashes, barber pole exaltations, and fevers in the groin. I had not read such poems since discovering Dylan Thomas in the fifties. Here was something awe-thentic at last! I nudged my companion who thought I was crazy. Bukowski was unafraid of life's terror meat-slabs, and he made the angels sing.
I began to ask others if they had heard of Bukowski. Yes, he was living in a Hollywood dump, they said, dismissing him as a charlatan steeped in booze, flop-gutted, and rancid-breathed. I gave up trying to explain his impact on me. Moreover, I didn't care whether he rolled in his own puke, or swallowed pints of maiden juice. He was a super poet. His example loosened my own writing. Lowell, Snodgrass, Wilbur, Ashbery, and Olson were dilettantes.
One afternoon, carrying a six-pack of Coors, I beat my way to Buk's door, four or five days before Christmas. He and his daughter were trimming a tree. There weren't many ornaments—half a dozen on the low branches. Bukowski asked me in. I found a man of charm—nothing of the horrible-retchable I had been led to expect. I have been a fan ever since. He, though, remembers the visit otherwise, and wrote about it in his collection Beneath the Fortinaria.
The appearance of Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 invites me to describe what I found so telling in his work and to point up what I find are unfortunate recent drifts. My remarks should dissolve some of the celebrity aura threatening his reputation. It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) and Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965), two Loujon Press books, are among the dozen most beautifully printed and designed books of poetry ever. Since they are out of print, and rare, it is great to have those reprinted.
"The tragedy of the leaves" propels us into Bukowski's world: hangover, desertion by his woman, the screaming landlady, and a world that's failed him utterly. Set up for the big blubbery whine of self-pity? No! He transmutes all raunchy conditions through unusual images: "I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead, / the potted plants yellow as corn…." How well dryness echoes awakened; the latter implies a grappling with the world, moving toward insight. Compression follows:
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled corpses
surrounded me with their uselessness….
The long vowel sounds are well-spaced, and Bukowski, sensing the positive, remarks on the sunlight brightening the landlady's note in its "fine and / undemanding yellowness." The occasion, he observes, demands "a good comedian, ancient style, a jester/ with jokes upon absurd pain." There's wisdom here: "pain is absurd / because it exists, nothing more." He believes that as a poet he is stagnant: "that's the tragedy of the dead plants." In this concluding passage note the effective slant rhymes more and razor and the repeated dead, dead, dark, and stood accompanying some monosyllabic tough nouns, Execrating, waving, and screaming, mesh, as hall, final, hell, and failed weave subtle echoes. Here he manages to be tender towards a harsh landlady:
and I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world had failed us
Empathy is present in other poems. "For marilyn m." avoids sentimentality through a diction suited to the fey person Monroe was:
… and we will forget you, somewhat
and it is not kind
but real bodies are nearer
and as the worms pant for your bones,
I would so like to tell you
that this happens to bears and elephants
to tyrants and heroes and ants
and frogs,
still, you brought us something,
some type of small victory,
and for this I say: good
and let us grieve no more….
"The life of Borodin," grandly empathetic, is effective reportage on the miserable composer's life. Wife-hounded, he slept by placing a dark cloth over his eyes. His wife lined cat boxes and covered jars of sour milk with his compositions. Nothing is overstated in this taut free-verse poem. The parallels between Bukowski's life and Borodin's are implicit.
"The twins" evokes another tremulous situation, one that a lesser poet might easily have wrecked. Here Bukowski confronts his hatred of his father, immediately after the father's death: "A father is always your master even when he's gone." To cope, the poet moves through the house stunned, then proceeds outside where he picks an orange and peels it. Common day noises of dogs and neighbors bespeak sanity. Back inside, the poet dons one of his father's suits:
I try on a light blue suit
much better than anything I have ever worn
and I flap the arms like a scarecrow in the wind
but it's no good;
I can't keep him alive
no matter how much we hated each other.
we looked exactly alike, we could have been twins
the old man and I: that's what they
said. he had his bulbs on the screen
ready for planting
while I was lying with a whore from 3rd street.
very well. grant us this moment: standing before a mirror
in my dead father's suit
waiting also
to die.
The event is stark. To wear another person's clothes is, in a sense, to become that person. Bukowski's mimicry of death as scarecrow is macabre. Despite the hate, the survivor can't bring the dead man back to life.
"Old poet" treats Bukowski's distaste for aging (forty-two at the time) without a public to love his work. Finding his sexual energies diminished, he's reduced to pawing dirty pictures. He's had too much beer and has heard too much Shostakovitch. He swats "a razzing fly" and "ho, I fall heavy as thunder …" The downstairs tenants will assume "he's either drunk or dying." Despite his depression, every morning he packs off envelopes of poems, hoping to place them in magazines. Rejection slips annoy him briefly; but soon he's back at his typewriter:
the editors wish to thank you for
submitting but
regret …
the dark hall
into a womanless hall
to peel a last egg
and sit down to the keys:
click click a click,
over the television sounds
over the sounds of springs,
click click a click:
another old poet
going off.
"View from the screen" might easily have dissolved into narcissism; it has all the accoutrements. It shouldn't work, but it does. The death-whispers of the heron and the bone-thoughts of sea creatures dominate his universe as the poet crosses the room:
to the last wall
the last window
the last pink sun
with its arms around the world
with its arms around me….
The sun is benign. Its pinkness produces the pig-image, an unusual trope and one that eschews turning maudlin. The Platonic cave motif is obvious:
I hear the death-whisper of the heron
the bone-thoughts of sea-things
that are almost rock;
this screen caved like a soul
and scrawled with flies,
my tensions and damnations
are those of a pig,
pink sun pink sun
I hate your holiness
crawling your gilded cross of life
as my fingers and feet and face
come down to this….
Writing, for Bukowski, is for getting "feelings down." Now, that may sound like warmed-over Shelley. Bukowski's urge to write, prompted by a mix of sardonicism and angst, is as natural as defecation. An image allows him to translate pain into a testimony for his spirit, one fraught with "madness and terror" along "agony way." There's a time-bomb inside his chest, and if it doesn't go off as a poem it will explode in drunkenness, despair, vomiting, or rage. As long as he writes he leashes terror. "Beans with garlic" is about this. A terrific idea—beans as lovers! Beans as your words! Stirring them is like writing poems:
but now
there's a ticking under your shirt
and you whirl the beans with a spoon,
one love dead, one love departed
another love …
ah! as many loves as beans
yes, count them now
sad, sad
your feelings boiling over flame,
get this down.
"A nice day" deals with a knife the speaker carries inside him. Bukowski can't feel doom, so he goes outside "to absolutely nothing / a square round of orange zero." A woman says good morning, thereby twisting the knife:
I do notice though the sun is shining
that the flowers are pulled up on
their strings
and I on mine:
belly, bellybutton, buttocks, bukowski
waving walking
teeth of ice with the taste of tar
tear ducts propagandized
shoes acting like shoes
I arrive on time
in the blazing midday
of mourning.
The concluding pun is effective, and the lines are original. Bukowski produces (invents) his rhetoric, and this sometimes betrays him. Often, his latest voice, in the gab barfly manner, sounds like imitation Bukowski. His best poems discharge energy. We are touched by a vital creative mind prizing the creative act. Nothing, not even bad booze, can diminish it. Call this originality; for, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot on Tennyson, Bukowski has originality in abundance.
In At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968) there is evidence of deterioration. Bukowski's paranoia intensifies. He's nastier than he's hitherto been. His sympathies are with outrageous, destructive folks: the guy who emasculates himself with a tin can; "the nice guy" who cuts up a woman and sends the parts to people. Bukowski senses that a sycophantic public expects outrageous cartwheels and titillations, and he obliges. There is a discernible drifting off from the earlier tender humanity. And there is a troublesome loquaciousness; the honed work of the early manner is usurped by rambling, grotty passages of prose masquerading (chopped into lengths) as poetry. And he is vicious to other poets, as he is in a parody of Michael McClure and in a tasteless piece on Jack Hirschman as narcissist Victor Vania.
"Sunday before noon," though it concludes with a funny piece of hysteria, reflects Bukowski's current narcissism:
going down
are the clocks cocks roosters?
the roosters stand on the fence
the roosters are peanutbutter crowing,
the FLAME will be high, the flame will be big,
kiss kiss kiss
everything away,
I hope it rains today, I hope
the jets die, I hope
the kitten finds a mouse, I hope
I don't see it, I hope
it rains, I hope
anything away from here,
I hope a bridge, a fish, a cactus somewhere
strutting whiskers to the noon,
I dream flowers and horses
the branches break the birds fall the buildings
burn, my whore walks across the room and
smiles at me.
There's evidence of the old originality here in the juxtaposition of peanut butter and roosters, and in the branches and birds, and in the buildings that open the poem and close it. But the stance, the narcissism of "going down," the wish to be wiped out, and to wipe out, is dull. There isn't much in life now (petulance) worth grappling for. There's a nagging tone as Bukowski slips towards the next binge:
and I got out of bed and yawned and scratched my belly
and knew that soon very soon I would have to get
very drunk again.
Isolating soon and again with extra spaces emphasizes the sterility of the writing. Ditto for the repetition of very. Bukowski now cracks wise with editors who reject his poems. He becomes a rhino-skinned poet s. o. b.:
when a chicken
catches its worm
the chicken gets through
and when the worm
catches you
(dead or alive)
I'd have to say,
… that it enjoys
it's like when you
send this poem
I'll figure
it just didn't get
either there were
fatter worms or the chicken
couldn't see.
the next time
I break an egg
I'll think of
scramble with
and then turn up
the flame
if I
This poem has an attractive petulance, and the motif of chicken, worm, egg, is original. Also the minimalist lines work well. Yet, Bukowski drifts into cuteness; the starch in the initial images is smothered under narcissism.
Particularly off-putting is Bukowski's obsession with fame. In "The difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck," he regales us with his life in Philadelphia when he was broke, trying to write, and waiting for the ultimate handout to enable him to sit around "drinking wine on credit and watching the hot pigeons suffer and fuck." He hops a train to Texas, and busted for vagrancy, is dumped off in the next town where he meets a woman who gives him so many teeth marks he thinks he'll get cancer. In prime macho fashion, he greets a bunch of his mistress' cowboy friends:
I had on a pair of old bluejeans, and they said
oh, you're a writer, eh?
and I said: well, some think so.
and some still think so …
others, of course, haven't wised up yet.
two weeks later they
ran me out
of town.
He seems wistfully amused that trash men busy about their work don't know that he, Great Poet, is alive—a thought held, I would guess, by all great men who snicker in their martinis: "Oh, if they only knew how near to greatness they are banging those trash cans down there …" In "Lost" Bukowski waxes philosophical in the manner of a hip-Merwin. The Big Conclusion? "We can't win it." Who's surprised? "Just for awhile," folks, "we thought we could." This Life Significance Statement serves up duck-music as distinct from nightingale music. The loquaciousness is typical of his recent poetry. I call it gab poetry. The gab poem is related to Chaucer's fabliaux. Obscenities are sexual: a husband shoves a hot iron rod up his wife's lover's anus whilst the lover is taking a crap out her boudoir window; an old husband's young wife is being swyved in a tree just out of eyeshot of the old fart, standing amidst the flowers.
"Hot" is a good example of gab poetry. The speaker's been working at the post office, see, on a night pickup run. He knows Miriam the delicious whore is at home waiting for him, deadline 8 p.m. At the last pickup the truck stalls. Miriam is waiting. Speaker arrives late to find Miriam gone. She's left a note propped against his pillow, addressed to "son of bitch." The note is held in place by a purple teddy bear. Speaker gives the bear (heh heh) a drink and has one himself, the poem is prose cut up into boozy breath-groups. Nothing much poetically catches the ear—this is in a sense a one-shot (as in bourbon) piece.
Some poems, like "Burn and burn and burn," set in bars, exude an easy cynicism. Petulance accompanies the "vomiting into plugged toilets / in rented rooms full of roaches and mice":
well, I suppose the days were made
to be wasted
the years and the loves were made
to be wasted
Instead of the Victorian Ernest Dowson's roses and lilies of rapture (and vice), vomit and plugged toilets cram Buk's wasted days.
Perhaps, if we persist, we'll find the secret of life tucked inside a plastic envelope inside a box of Bukowski Creepy-Crawly, Vomit, Crunch Cereal. Jesus Christ, says Buk, "should have laughed on the cross." There's a secret here somewhere. When Bukowski equates himself with Christ, he's maudlin:
out of the arms of one love
and into the arms of another
I have been saved from dying on the cross
by a lady who smokes pot
writes songs and stories.
and is much kinder than the last,
much much kinder,
and the sex is just as good or better.
it isn't pleasant to be put on the cross and left
it is much more pleasant to forget a love which
as all love
doesn't work….
Beautiful people, says Bukowski, "don't make it … they die in flame … they commit suicide …" They "are found at the edge of a room / crumpled into spiders and needles and silence." They "die young / and leave the ugly to their ugly lives …"
One superb new poem, "the catch," is as good as any Bukowski has written. Guesses are that a strange fish is a Hollow-Back June whale, a Billow-Wind sand-groper, or a Fandango Espadrille with stripes. Folks don't agree. They examine the creature; it's "grey and covered with hair / and fat." It stinks like "old socks." Joyously, the creature promenades along the pier chomping hot dogs, riding the merry-go-round, and hopping a pony. It falls into the dust. "Grop, grop," it goes. Followed by a crowd, it returns to the pier where it falls backwards and thrashes about. Somebody pours beer over its head. "Grop, grop." It dies, and people roll it into the ocean and argue further over its name.
Charles Bukowski is an easy poet to love, fear, and hate. He develops personal legends as dude, boozer, and womanizer. And he can be winsome, almost childlike. By stressing his personality I perhaps short change his poetry. It shouldn't matter that he vomits a lot, gets laid less often than he'd like, that seventy-seven new poems appeared in little magazines this year, or that he's Black Sparrow's leading commodity. Many readers prefer his fiction to his verse. The latter, I think, even with the flaws, remains a more durable art than his prose.
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Two Blackfoot men were the top winners in the marathon and half-marathon at the Tommy Vaughn's Marathon and More competitions on Saturday.
Defending champion John Taberna repeated his marathon victory while Kohl Bingham won the half marathon.
"There was a headwind the whole way," Taberna said of his race, which he completed in 3 hours, 11 minutes and 5 seconds. "But the volunteers did great and the officers were great.


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Only 100 days to go until Canada 2015! To celebrate, the FIFA.com online store is giving the first 100 shoppers a 15 per cent discount on all FIFA Women's World Cup products!
Switzerland made a stunning competition debut to top Group B ahead of Mexico, while three-time champions Brazil went out along with Japan.
Group B
Teslim Balogun Stadium
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It's a season of sheer tops, embellished necklines and statement jewellery. While Kangana wore a lace blouse and a coral Manish Malhotra sari at the fashion week, Sonam opted for an ivory Anamika Khanna sari and sheer blouse.
Mini Mathur completed her colour blocked kaftan look with a statement necklace and Soha paired a pencil skirt with a full-sleeved top with a bejewelled neckline. Even though each one of these lovely ladies styled their looks differently - they all had some stark similarities.


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Whimsical Polymer Clay Turtle
By: Linda Peterson for Cool2Craft
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This Whimsical Polymer Clay Turtle is adorable and sweet. With a cheerful flower and a friendly ladybug on his back, this little guy is sure to brighten your day when you make him and every day after that. This video from Linda Peterson is helpful and easy to follow.
Follow this tutorial and learn how to creat this fantastic clay craft. You'll love decorating your home or office with this adorable project. In fact, you'll want to make more for family and friends.
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