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This year Shaolin training camp comes to her 24-year anniversary. The camp continues to take youth and children whose families believe well rounded character training through high disciplined Shaolin Kung Fu traditions, and oriental culture education. All camps start June 4th and come to a close on July 28 in 2012.
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Since the beginning of the Shaolin Summer Training Camp, there have been many stories of many children and youth who came to the Shaolin Institute training camp with various feelings, expectations and doubts when they were given the traditional Shaolin way of training, encountered with eastern way of discipline.
The Shaolin camp started as early as 1988 at Mobile University campus, then, moved to the University of South Alabama. The camp later experienced many locations such as Spring Hill College Campus, Shaolin Institute New Orleans Campus and Atlanta new campus in Georgia.
The institute various camps traveled to many cities from Pensacola, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana, from Daphne, Alabama to Washington D.C. and all the way to the Shaolin Temple of China.
Over thousands of kids went through the training camps. For many years the Shaolin camps were with the US national Sanshou team camps working together in various locations where some of the best world champions were produced under Grandmaster DeRu-Shawn Liu, the head coach of the US team.
Out of the thousands of Children who have come and gone through the years, they all have a story to share of their hardships as well as sweet moments they have experienced at the camps. This is one of the stories about a youth, named Dwight, who was struggling with obesity and diabetes, enrolled last year at the Shaolin Institute Atlanta Campus.
Dwight came far away from Texas to the Shaolin summer training camp with his two cousins, also from Texas Andrew and Oliver who had been enrolled previously at the Shaolin summer camp. They had enjoyed the eastern way of disciplined training along with many other benefits such as weight loss and Kung Fu self-protection skills.
Andrew and Oliver convinced their uncle and aunt to bring their cousin Dwight to go along to the camp with them. The training would be tough, strict, and demanding but their family saw the priceless values and firmly believed that Dwight could truly get many benefits in terms of his health and well-being from Shaolin training camp which saved his life later.
When Dwight stepped into the training camp, most people were skeptical about his ability to be able to participate in any of the classes or programs. He was very over weight (over 270 lbs), both of his feet were open, and terribly infected. He had severe diabetes. He could hardly walk.
Once Dwight´s fitness evaluation which included but not limited to his blood pressure and heart rate measurement and fitness testing, was completed, he was found to have a dangerously high blood pressure zone with 230 in systolic pressure and 169 in diastolic pressure. He had no flexibility and no endurance in any of the physical fitness evaluation. At most, he could walk slowly but even then his breathing was much labored and would have to build his stamina in very gradual pace.
The head master of the institute, Grandmaster DeRu, had a long talk with him, expressing that it was going to be a very challenging journey for both himself and the master.
"Together we must make some painful decisions, if you wish to get well, you must discipline yourself and shape yourself with the campus guidance; we must conduct many training segments a day starting from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm." The master continued, "You have to eat what I prescribe to you; no junk food is allowed".
Dwight responded with, "Yes, Sir". From that day Dwight started his hard training journey. He learned to meditate, to breathe, to walk and train in Tai Gong, Tai Chi, Kung Fu and eventually he even learned Sanda Kickboxing.
In the beginning almost every day, he struggled to just start the day at 8:00 am, he wanted to give up, give in to the temptation of easily quitting due to the lack of discipline, it was easier to believe he could not survive this long arduous journey. He would complain that his feet hurt just from walking not to mention being able to run.
"There is no way I can run", but the master would say, "yes, yes, you can, if you get over today you will feel better tomorrow". With the encouragement, support and guidance of his instructors, class mates, and his two cousins, Dwight did not give up.
Day by day week by week Dwight was getting stronger and his weight began to drop pound by pound. His energy was going up; his confidence went up and his complaining became less and less. His blood pressure continued to drop. Metrically his feet open infection from diabetes began to close and heal.
Little by little, step by step Dwight began to transform. Before he knew it, his first month training at the institute had past. He was indeed totally changed into an entirely different Dwight. One week before he left the camps, he wrote:
"I am finished with the Shaolin Warrior Summer Training Camp. It has been an enlightening experience that I will carry on past here. In six weeks I've lost 48 pounds and dropped 11% of my body fat. On top of that, I have brought my blood pressure down from 230/160 to 120/60! "
"I've also sharpened many skills such as my flexibility, endurance, concentration, will-power, strength, and discipline among many, many others. Under the training of such qualified and experienced people, I feel I have been given a unique experience to boost my learning while being immersed in the meanings."
"I've taken every class and they are all masterfully designed to fit any person. All in all, I have been taught a new lifestyle that I will carry on with me for the rest of my life." — Dwight Brisbin
Dwight continued his weight loss and healing. He is just one out of thousands who has benefited and enriched his life through the eastern traditions of the Shaolin highly disciplined training.
Dwight not only changed his physical appearance he also changed his mindset. He learned to respect himself and others, build confidence in what he could achieve and overcome. To gain respect for oneself, exude confidence, and be able to lead others is priceless.
For the past decade, this camp and this institute started and continued training many young men and women to overcome their life challenges and obstacles to eventually become US national champions, international champions and champions of the world.
Deforest, Terrell, Dominic and Jacob, students of the institute and the summer camps got their individual Gold medals and team silver medals at the Greeting Olympics Games in Hong Kong China in 2008. Deforest Denise is now enrolled at college in Birmingham preparing for his medical school. Kasey an 8-year old lovely girl got her gold medal in youth division at the International Chinese Martial Arts Championships in Orlando Florida in 2007.
K. J. Noon was a student of Mike Altman, a US National Sanshou team member under DeRu, has participated in the camps and went to China with DeRu, and got his silver medal in professional Sanda kickboxing in Shanghai, China in 2002. He was voted as one of the best western Sanda fighters by King of Sanda. He has won 4 time national and international Sanda championships, who is now a professional MMA fighter on Strikeforce & Elite.
Patrick Barry who was a long time student of DeRu, has participated in many camps, been to China camps for many times, and fought in China for numerous times. He won a silver medal in 2003 at the World Wushu-Sanshou Championship where over 70 countries participated. He was regarded as one of the most loved fighters in China by both audience and fighters who fought him. He is now fighting on UFC main card.
Cung Le, a world MMA champion, US National Sanshou Team Member and Captain under DeRu, and Melvin Guilard, US Sanshou B Team Member, have all trained at some of the camps and won national and international Sanshou/Sanda medals and now fighting on UFC main cards. Cung Le has been a large martial arts school owner and a well-known international actor for many years.
Robert Higginbotham and Kevin Nguyen, who trained in the early camps, have won many gold medals in youth Kung Fu national and international competitions. One is working at Wall Street in New York; another is a fitness gym owner in Birmingham, AL.
Stephen Chester, attended the institute and the camp, graduated from Harvard under graduate and graduate school, now continue his medical school education in University of Virginia, Steve Dang an institute senior who has participated many of institute camps, graduated from George Tech. now works and resides in Washington D.C.
Karma—de-Gruy, a senior student and a leader of many institute camps, is now a PhD graduate from Emery University ready for her graduation. There are hundreds of stories about the youth trained so diligently through the institute camps and the institute other programs, now making their way to life success. These are just a few brief stories.
This year is Shaolin training camp 24-year anniversary. Shaolin training camp continues to take youth and children whose families believe well rounded character training through high disciplined Shaolin Kung Fu training and oriental culture education. For camp details, http://www.shaolin-world.net
About the institute:
Shaolin Institute under the tutelage of Grand Master DeRu is directly derived from the ancient Shaolin Temple family in Henan Province, China which is the cradle of all martial arts, and is committed to teaching original Shaolin wisdom as has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 1,500 years.
Through the wisdom of Chan, Confucianism and Taoism combined with the discipline of traditional Kung Fu, the Shaolin Institute offers age-appropriate curriculum in: Shaolin Culture, Shaolin Kung-Fu (Gong Fu), Tai Chi (Taiji Quan), Qigong, Tai Gong (for Natural Healing) and Chan (Zen) Meditation. The mission of the institute is to empower and enlighten everyone who comes to the institute so as to assist them in conquering life´s challenges.
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Network Working Group B. Lilly Internet-Draft May 2005 Intended status: Informational Expires: November 3, 2005 Implementer-friendly Specification of Message and MIME-Part Header Fields and Field Components draft-lilly-field-specification-03 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract Implementation of generators and parsers of header fields requires certain information about those fields. Interoperability is most likely when all such information is explicitly provided by the technical specification of the fields. Lacking such explicit information, implementers may guess, and interoperability may suffer. This memo identifies information useful to implementers of header field generators and parsers. Discussion of this document should take place on the ietf-822 mailing list. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 Table of Contents 1. Introduction................................................... 3 2. Requirement Levels............................................. 3 3. Scope.......................................................... 3 4. Specification Items............................................ 3 4.1. Established Conventions................................... 3 4.1.1. Standard Terminology................................. 3 4.1.2. Naming Rules and Conventions......................... 4 4.2. Common Specification Items................................ 5 4.2.1. ABNF................................................. 5 4.2.2. Minimum and Maximum Instances of Fields per Header... 7 4.2.3. Categorization....................................... 7 4.3. Semantics................................................. 7 4.3.1. Producers, Modifiers, and Consumers.................. 7 4.3.2. What's it All About?................................. 7 4.3.3. Context.............................................. 7 4.4. Overall Considerations.................................... 8 4.4.1. Security............................................. 8 4.4.2. Backwards Compatibility.............................. 8 4.4.3. Compatibility With Legacy Content.................... 8 4.4.4. Interaction With Established Mechanisms.............. 8 4.4.5. Architectural Considerations......................... 9 5. Acknowledgments................................................ 9 6. Security Considerations........................................ 9 7. Internationalization Considerations............................ 9 8. IANA Considerations............................................ 9 Appendix A. Disclaimers........................................... 9 Appendix B. Change History........................................ 10 Normative References.............................................. 11 Informative References............................................ 12 Author's Address.................................................. 13 Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 1. Introduction Internet messages consist of a message header and a body [N1.STD11], [N2.RFC2822]. MIME content begins with a MIME-part header [N3.RFC2045], [N4.RFC2046]. Message headers and MIME-part headers consist of fields. While the Message Format and MIME specifications define their respective overall formats and some specific fields, they also have provision for extension fields. A number of extension fields have been specified, some more or less completely than others. Incomplete or imprecise specification has led to interoperability problems as implementers make assumptions in the absence of specifications. This memo identifies items of potential interest to implementers and section 4 of this memo may serve as a checklist for specifications of extension fields and field components. 2. Requirement Levels The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", and "SHOULD NOT", in this document are to be interpreted as described in [N5.BCP14]. 3. Scope This memo is intended to supplement various specifications, guidelines, and procedures for specification of header fields [N1.STD11], [N2.RFC2822], [N3.RFC2045], [N4.RFC2046], [N6.BCP9], [N7.BCP90]. It does not absolve authors of header field specifications from compliance with any provisions of those or other specifications, guidelines, and procedures. It offers clarification and supplementary suggestions that will promote interoperability and may spare specification authors many questions regarding incomplete header field specifications. 4. Specification Items 4.1. Established Conventions A number of conventions exist for naming and specifying header fields. It would be unwise and confusing to specify a field which conflicts with those conventions. 4.1.1. Standard Terminology Terms related to the Internet Message Format are defined in [N2.RFC2822]. Authors specifying extension header fields should use the same terms in the same manner in order to provide clarity and avoid confusion. For example, a "header" is comprised of "header fields", each of which has a "field name" and usually has a "field body". Each message may have multiple "headers", viz. a message header and MIME-part [N4.RFC2046] headers. A message header has a Date header field (i.e. a field with field name "Date"). However, there is no "Date header"; use of such non-standard terms is likely to lead to confusion, possibly resulting in interoperability failures of implementations. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 4.1.2. Naming Rules and Conventions Several rules and conventions have been established for naming of header fields. 22.214.171.124. Naming Rules Some RFCs define a particular prefix, reserving use of that prefix for specific purposes. 188.8.131.52.1. Content- prefix This prefix MUST be used for all MIME extension fields and MUST NOT be used for fields which are not MIME extension fields [N3.RFC2045]. 18.104.22.168.2. Resent- prefix Specified for certain standard fields as given in [N1.STD11] (also used by [N2.RFC2822], although not specifed as a prefix therein). If a Resent- version of a field is applicable, an author SHOULD say so explicitly, and SHOULD provide a comprehensive specification of any differences between the plain field and the Resent- version. 126.96.36.199. Naming Conventions Some prefixes have developed as conventions. Although not formally specified as reserved prefixes, these conventions are or have been in use in multiple fields with common semantics for each prefix. 220.127.116.11.1. Accept- prefix This prefix SHOULD be used for all extension fields intended for use in content negotiation [I1.RFC2295] and SHOULD NOT be used for fields which are not intended for such use. 126.96.36.199.2. List- prefix Used to indicate information about mailing lists when a list expansion takes place. Examples of defined fields can be found in [I2.RFC2369] and [I3.RFC2919]. 188.8.131.52.3. Illegal- prefix This prefix provides a record of illegal content in a field when fields are transformed at a gateway [I4.RFC886]. 18.104.22.168.4. Disposition-Notification- prefix Specification of information used in conjunction with Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) [I5.RFC3798]. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 184.108.40.206.5. Original- prefix Used to reference some content from a related message. Examples include Original-Message-ID as used by [I6.RFC3297] and [I5.RFC3798], Original-Encoded-Information-Types [I7.RFC2156], Original-Envelope-ID [I8.RFC3464], and Original-Recipient [I5.RFC3798]. 184.108.40.206.6. Reporting- prefix Specifies a host that generated a type of report, such as those defined in [I5.RFC3798], [I8.RFC3464]. 22.214.171.124.7. X400- prefix Used in conversion from X.400 environments by gateways [I7.RFC2156]. 126.96.36.199.8. Discarded-X400- prefix Also used by gateways from X.400 [I7.RFC2156]. 188.8.131.52.9. P1- prefix Was used by X.400 gateways [I9.RFC987]. 184.108.40.206.10. Delivery-Report-Content- prefix Also used by legacy X.400 gateways [I9.RFC987] 4.2. Common Specification Items Several items are specified for standard header fields; these items SHOULD also be specified for extension fields. 4.2.1. ABNF [N1.STD11] is vague about where whitespace is permitted or required in header field syntax. [N2.RFC2822] addresses that issue by defining grammar productions such as FWS and CFWS, in conjunction with formal ABNF [N8.RFC2234] and in accordance with the necessity for specificity of such issues as noted in section 3.1 of [N8.RFC2234]. Extension field ABNF SHOULD clearly specify where comments, line folding, and whitespace are prohibited and permitted, and SHOULD use the [N2.RFC2822] grammar productions in ABNF for that purpose. All ABNF MUST be carefully checked for ambiguities and to ensure that all productions resolve to some combination of terminal productions provided by a normative reference [N9.CKLIST]. [N8.RFC2234] provides several productions that may be useful. While use of suitable productions defined and in use is encouraged, specification authors are cautioned that some such productions have been amended by subsequently issued RFCs and/or by formal errata [I10.Errata]. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 Authors and designers should be careful not to mix syntax with disparate semantics within a single field. Examples of disparate semantics are [N2.RFC2822] comments (which use parentheses as delimiters), [I11.RFC2533] feature sets (which also use parentheses as delimiters, but not for comments), and [I12.RFC3986] URIs (which permit parentheses in URI text). It is sometimes necessary or desirable to define keywords as protocol elements in structured fields. Protocol elements SHOULD be case-insensitive per the Internet Architecture [I13.RFC1958]. Keywords are typically registered by IANA; a specification using registered keywords MUST include an IANA considerations section [N10.BCP26], [I14.RFC3692], and SHOULD indicate to readers of the specification precisely where IANA has set up the registry (authors will need to coordinate this with IANA prior to publication as an RFC). In many cases, it will be desirable to make provision for extending the set of keywords; that may be done by specifying that the set may be extended by publication of an RFC, or a formal review and registration procedure may be specified (typically as a BCP RFC). If keywords are defined, and if there is any chance that the set of keywords might be expanded, a registry should be established via IANA. If a registry is not established initially, there is a good chance that initially-defined keywords will not be registered, or will subsequently be registered with different semantics (this has happened!). Provision may be made for experimental or private-use keywords. These typically begin with a case-insensitive "x-" prefix. Note that [N11.BCP82] has specific considerations for use of experimental keywords. If some field content is to be considered human-readable text, there MUST be provision for specifying language in accordance with [N12.BCP18]. Header fields typically use the mechanism specified in [I15.RFC2047] as amended by [I16.RFC2231] and [I10.Errata] for that purpose. Note, however, that that mechanism applies only to three specific cases; unstructured fields, an RFC 822 "word" in an RFC 822 "phrase", and comments in structured fields. Any internationalization considerations SHOULD be detailed in an Internationalization Considerations section of the specification as specified in [N12.BCP18]. Some field bodies may include ABNF representing numerical values. Such ABNF, its comments, and supporting normative text SHOULD clearly indicate whether such a numerical value is decimal, octal, hexadecimal, etc., whether or not leading and/or trailing zeroes are significant and/or permitted, and how any combinations of numeric fields are intended to be interpreted. For example, two numeric fields separated by a dot, exemplified by "001.100", "1.1", "1.075", and "1.75" might be interpreted in several ways, depending on factors such as those enumerated above. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 4.2.2. Minimum and Maximum Instances of Fields per Header Some fields are mandatory, others are optional. It may make sense to permit multiple instances of a field in a given header; in other cases at most a single instance is sensible. [N2.RFC2822] specifies a minimum and maximum count per header for each standard field in a message; specification authors SHOULD likewise specify minimum and maximum counts for extension fields. 4.2.3. Categorization [N2.RFC2822] defines categories of header fields (e.g. trace fields, address fields). Such categories have implications for processing and handling of fields. A specification author SHOULD indicate any applicable categories. 4.3. Semantics In addition to specifying syntax of a field, a specification document should indicate the semantics of each field. Such semantics are comprised of several aspects: 4.3.1. Producers, Modifiers, and Consumers Some fields are intended for end-to-end communication between author or sender and recipient; such fields should not be generated or altered by intermediaries in the transmission chain [I17.Crocker05]. Other fields comprise trace information which is added during transport. Authors SHOULD clearly specify who may generate a field, who may modify it in transit, who should interpret such a field, and who is prohibited from interpreting or modifying the field. Internet Message Format [N1.STD11], [N2.RFC2822] message header fields are generally part of an end-to-end protocol [I13.RFC1958]. It is inappropriate to define new message header fields to affect the behavior of message transport. It may, however, be appropriate to define new message header fields to affect transport layer components which have application layer functions (with authorization from the originator or recipient), such as format conversion or content filtering mechanisms. 4.3.2. What's it All About? When introducing a new field or modifying an existing field, an author should present a clear description of what problem or situation is being addressed by the extension or change. 4.3.3. Context The permitted types of headers in which the field may appear should be specified. Some fields might only be appropriate in a message header, some might appear in MIME-part headers as well as message headers, still others might appear in specialized MIME media types. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 7]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 4.4. Overall Considerations Several factors should be considered regarding how a field interacts with the Internet at large, with the applications for which it is intended, and in interacting with other applications. 4.4.1. Security Every specification is supposed to include a carefully-considered Security Considerations section [N13.RFC2223], [I18.BCP72]. 4.4.2. Backwards Compatibility There is a large deployed base of applications which use header fields. Implementations that comprise that deployed base may change very slowly. It is therefore critically important to consider the impact of a new or revised field or field component on that deployed base. A new field, or extensions to the syntax of an existing field or field component, might not be recognizable to deployed implementations. Depending on the care with which the authors of an extension have considered such backwards compatibility, such an extension might, for example: a. Cause a deployed implementation to simply ignore the field in its entirety. That is not a problem provided that it is a new field and that there is no assumption that such deployed implementations will do otherwise. b. Cause a deployed implementation to behave differently from how it would behave in the absence of the proposed change, in ways that are not intended by the proposal. That is a failure of the proposal to remain backwards compatible with the deployed base of implementations. There are many subtleties and variations that may come into play. Authors SHOULD very carefully consider backwards compatibility when devising extensions, and SHOULD clearly describe all known compatibility issues. 4.4.3. Compatibility With Legacy Content Content is sometimes archived for various reasons. It is sometimes necessary or desirable to access archived content, with the semantics of that archived content unchanged. It is therefore important that lack of presence of an extension field or field component should not be construed (by an extension specification) as conferring new semantics on a message or piece of MIME content which lacks that field or field component. 4.4.4. Interaction With Established Mechanisms Header fields are handled specially by gateways under various circumstances. Message fragmentation and reassembly [N4.RFC2046] is one example. If special treatment is required for a header field Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 8]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 under such circumstances, it SHOULD be clearly specified by the author of the specification. [I5.RFC3798] is an example of how this might be handled (however, because that specification requires deployed RFC 2046-conforming implementations to be modified, it is not strictly backwards compatible). 4.4.5. Architectural Considerations Messages are long-lived; many are archived for decades, and may be read at any time. Messages may be read in an off-line environment. Header field content other than address fields SHOULD NOT rely on availability of DNS [I19.RFC1034], [I20.RFC1035] or similar distributed databases for interpretation of field body content. DNS records are ephemeral; domains come and go frequently, and DNS records are subject to change at any time. DNS is only available to applications when online; consequently it is unavailable when messages are being read offline. 5. Acknowledgments The author would like to acknowledge the helpful comments provided by members of the ietf-822 mailing list. In particular, Peter Koch and Keith Moore have made useful comments. 6. Security Considerations No new security considerations are addressed by this memo. The memo reinforces the need for careful consideration of security issues. 7. Internationalization Considerations This memo does not directly have internationalization considerations, however it reminds specification authors of the need to consider internationalization of textual field components. 8. IANA Considerations While no specific action is required of IANA in regard to this memo, it does note that some coordination between IANA and specification authors who do require IANA to set up registries is at least desirable, if not a necessity. IANA should also closely coordinate with the RFC Editor so that registries are set up and properly referenced at the time of publication of an RFC which refers to such a registry. IANA is also encouraged to work closely with authors and the RFC Editor to ensure that descriptions of registries maintained by IANA are accurate and meaningful. Appendix A. Disclaimers This document has exactly one (1) author. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 9]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 In spite of the fact that the author's given name may also be the surname of other individuals, and the fact that the author's surname may also be a given name for some females, the author is, and has always been, male. The presence of "or she", "/SHE", "each", "their", and "authors" (plural) in the boilerplate sections of this document is irrelevant. The author of this document is not responsible for the boilerplate text. Comments regarding the silliness, lack of accuracy, and lack of precision of the boilerplate text should be directed to the IESG, not to the author. Appendix B. Change History [[This change history will not be part of a published RFC]] -02 to -03 (Last Call comments and final tweaks) o added suggested discussion forum to Abstract o replaced two instances of naked RFC 2822 with reference tags o separated prefix discussion into standardized prefixes and mere conventions o clarified requirements for standardized prefixes, with references o added several conventional prefixes o clarified specificity of CFWS specification as noted in RFC 2234 o updated date in reference to Crocker mail architecture draft o clarified purpose of message header fields o added disclaimers of boilerplate silliness, etc. -01 to -02 o added this change history o added text regarding Accept- prefix o added paragraph about mixed semantics within a field o added paragraph regarding initial establishment of keyword registry o added paragraph about numerical value semantics Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 10]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 o updated references o Internationalization Considerations section is emphasized to correspond to RFC 2277 o revised boilerplate -00 to -01 o revised reference numbering scheme o updated Requirement Levels text to correspond to text changes o added "and confusing" to introductory text re. Established Conventions o Added paragraph about standard terminology o (RFC 2119) emphasis added for common specification items text o minor wording changes o changed ABNF checking to a requirement o IANA Considerations section is a requirement if keywords are registered o provision for specifying language of text is a requirement o added architectural considerations regarding DNS etc. Normative References [N1.STD11] Crocker, D., "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages", STD 11, RFC 822, August 1982. [N2.RFC2822] Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001. [N3.RFC2045] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996. [N4.RFC2046] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046, November 1996. [N5.BCP14] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [N6.BCP9] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 11]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 [N7.BCP90] Klyne, G., Nottingham, M., and J. Mogul, "Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields", BCP 90, RFC 3864, September 2004. [N8.RFC2234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997. [N9.CKLIST] "Checklist for Internet-Drafts (IDs) submitted for RFC publication", http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html [N10.BCP26] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, October 1998. [N11.BCP82] Narten, T., "Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful", BCP 82, RFC 3692, January 2004. [N12.BCP18] Alvestrand, H., "IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages", BCP 18, RFC 2277, January 1998. [N13.RFC2223] Postel, J. and J. Reynolds, "Instructions to RFC Authors", RFC 2223, October 1997. Informative References [I1.RFC2295] Holtman, K. and A. Mutz, "Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP", RFC 2295, March 1998. [I2.RFC2369] Neufeld, G. and J. Baer, "The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields", RFC 2369, July 1998. [I3.RFC2919] Chandhok, R. and G. Wenger, "List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists", RFC 2919, March 2001. [I4.RFC886] Rose, M., "Proposed standard for message header munging", RFC 886, December 1983. [I5.RFC3798] Hansen, T. and G. Vaudreuil, "Message Disposition Notification", RFC 3798, May 2004. [I6.RFC3297] Klyne, G., Iwazaki, R., and D. Crocker, "Content Negotiation for Messaging Services based on Email", RFC 3297, July 2002. [I7.RFC2156] Kille, S., "MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME", RFC 2156, January 1998. [I8.RFC3464] Moore, K. and G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 3464, January 2003. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 12]
Internet-Draft Specification of Header Fields May 2005 [I9.RFC987] Kille, S., "Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822", RFC 987, June 1986. [I10.Errata] RFC-Editor errata page, http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html [I11.RFC2533] Klyne, G., "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets", RFC 2533, March 1999. [I12.RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [I13.RFC1958] Carpenter, B., "Architectural Principles of the Internet", RFC 1958, June 1996. [I14.RFC3692] Narten, T., "Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful", BCP 82, RFC 3692, January 2004. [I15.RFC2047] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text ", RFC 2047, November 1996. [I16.RFC2231] Freed, N. and K. Moore, "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations", RFC 2231, November 1997. [I17.Crocker05] Crocker, D., "Internet Mail Architecture", Work in progress (March 2005). [I18.BCP72] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552, July 2003. [I19.RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities", STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987. [I20.RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. Author's Address Bruce Lilly Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. Lilly Expires November 3, 2005 [Page 13]
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5 Biometric Technology Market- By Type
6 Biometric Technology Market By Application
7 Biometric Application Market By Technology
8 Biometric Technology Market- By Function
9 Biometric Technology Market By Geography
10 Competitive Landscape
11 Company Profiles (Overview, Products and Services, Financials, Strategy & Development)
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11.5 Fujitsu Ltd.
11.6 Fulcrum Biometrics
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11.8 RCG Holdings Limited
11.9 Safran SA
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Pick up a history of the Texas oil industry, or of the big figures in oil, and chances are it will include a photograph taken one day in October 1930 showing a group of men in front of an oil rig. Sometimes the photograph is cropped to show only two of the men: Columbus Marion Joiner (called Dad), the man who promoted the well, and A.D. Lloyd (called Doc), a self-taught geologist who provided the "scientific" support for Joiner. Usually they are the only two people identified in the captions. But there is another man in the picture, a tall, heavy man with a boater straw hat on his head, a big cigar in his mouth, wearing a white shirt with a tie blowing in the breeze. That man is H. L. Hunt, who had come over from Arkansas to see what Joiner was up to. Hunt had heard about the Joiner promotion from some people he knew in
El Dorado who had developed a tool for testing oil wells that they were going to use in Joiner's well. He came over to Rusk County, where Joiner was drilling, took a room in a hotel in nearby Henderson, the county seat, and watched and waited. When the well test showed oil in the well, Hunt bought some cheap leases near Joiner's well. They had to be cheap, because he was just about broke. Then on a humid Sunday in early October, before an audience of local farmers and sightseers, Joiner's crew got the well to erupt over the top of the slapdash wooden derrick, and another boom was on, the one that H.L. Hunt had been waiting for.
It wasn't much of a well, despite its initial roar, but it was enough to start the usual hysterical rush for leases, beds, food, booze, and money. The Joiner well—known as Daisy Bradford No. 3, after the woman on whose land Joiner had drilled three times in three years—had tapped the largest pool of oil ever found in the United States. But the boom began before anybody knew that, for reasons that had little to do with what was under the ground. That part of East Texas always had been a poor country of small farmers trying to make a living from patches of corn and cotton. It was the Texas equivalent to Appalachia, out of the mainstream and going nowhere. There had been oil in the region before, in Van Zandt and Navarro counties and elsewhere. And oil people had taken a look at Rusk and Gregg counties over the years, even drilling some wells sometimes. But nobody authoritative figured there was anything there, though the Humble company held onto some leases because they were cheap.
Aside from that, there was no major oil company interest in what Joiner was doing. That part of East Texas just didn't look like serious oil country.
For Joiner, that didn't mean anything. In fact, the absence of any major company interest probably even made the place more appealing to him, because he was the classic promoter for whom the raising of money and the search were the game. Joiner had leased up about 10,000 acres in the Twenties and raised money by selling off pieces of his leases. He had been an oil promoter for 30 years or so, and he had even drilled in a couple of places where oil later was found by others. But that probably was sheer luck, though some people think it indicated some special sense about where oil was. What Joiner unquestionably did have was the ability to talk people, especially women, out of money and whatever else he needed from them. That talent may have been his most important resource, but it was well enough known so that it also became a weak point, a way to get to him.
So here is this old-time oil promoter, 70 years old by this time, with nothing to show for his years of wandering and hustling except this broken-down oil rig that barely made a hole. Joiner had hustled just about everybody in the area over the years he drilled on Daisy Bradford's farm. He traveled to El Dorado, to Dallas, to Oklahoma, peddling shares in his scheme. He paid for haircuts, clothing, and meals with the pieces of paper that represented interests in what he was going to find. A college boy vacationing in his father's oilfield supply house once lent Joiner a hundred dollars and couldn't even get him to sign the document that would give him a quarter interests in a lease in return for the loan. As it turned out, five other people also had quarter interests in the lease, so Joiner gave him a sixty-fourth interest in something else instead.
"Joiner knew when he sold more than he had. I'm sure he always had it all in his head," this man told me.
But in those days, the local people and the widows took Joiner's funny paper and put up money and haircut and food and firewood for the boiler that powered his drill and hard labor too—because his crew often got leases instead of pay. But they wanted to believe in this smooth talker who kept promising that he was going to find an ocean of oil for them. The Roaring Twenties and the marvelous speculative orgy in Wall Street had passed them by. They desperately wanted a piece of some kind of dream, and Joiner's was the only one in town, so they kept buying in. When Joiner turned the dream into reality for a change, the burst of excitement was inordinate, even for an oil boom, because it was fueled by all that local hope and by the fact that the major companies had passed it by, so the price of leases was still relatively cheap.
About all that many of Joiner's backers knew or cared about his project was contained in a geological map of the area prepared by Doc


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I realized I was gay when I was eleven. Summer was over and I couldn't wait to see my good friend John O'Connell when school started. We had lots of fun – strictly platonic – in Mrs. Rothshield's 5th grade class and we didn't see each other much over the summer. But the fates had a different plan in store. John and I we were in different 6th grade classes. At first I didn't understand why I felt so sad, so bad, so crestfallen. And then suddenly I understood, realizing that this was going to make life complicated.
However even before that "uh oh" moment I was honing my skills at getting people to like me. I was fat, naturally predisposed to be nice and loved to be funny. Along the way to wearing husky-size slacks a part of me I only understood years later started honing my natural inclinations as a way to protect me from the slings and arrows of childhood. I decided that getting people to like me and 'cracking them up' was the perfect way to get along in life.
Thanks to the charismatic DNA of my father and grandfather I became what friends later called the 'mayor,' the guy who remembered everything about you, asked about your Mom, girlfriend, baseball game, or anything else that let you know without any doubt "hey I'm your pal." I'd listen, I'd laugh and I'd have your back.
Like my father and his father before me, I've always been a people person. I'm endlessly curious about people and love sharing a laugh on an elevator, or an observation on the subway. Somehow that 'kinetic-emotive-connection' always wakes me up to something I believe stems from the fact that we all emerged from the same primordial ooze and personal connections big or small reinforce our natural community.
Matt's grandfather and father
But too often this part of me wasn't about connecting. It was about avoiding being real, saying what I thought. I became an expert at bullshitting, or what someone more polite would call feigning fascination with ease. Disagreement of any kind was dangerous, a threat to my fragile ego and wellbeing.
To give you an idea of how phony and scared I was, once I told a first date, I'd love to see a movie – I think it was Beverly Hills Cop – even though I had already seen it and thought it was about as interesting as dry toast. I'd built my friendships on being liked, honed by instantaneously censoring my preference to such a degree that sometimes I wasn't even aware I was doing it.
In other ways it was easy to be liked. I enjoyed watching and playing sports, my appearance or mannerisms didn't stand out except that I was sloppy, which of course is a benefit when being in the closet.
But despite my 'fitting in' at high school and the ability to take the train to NYC on Saturdays to attend a a Gay and Lesbian Youth Group (Bixseuals and Trans weren't part of the cohort then) my loneliness was severe. Its hard to remember how frightened I was that someone would see me entering the NYC office building on 23rd and Madison (where the youth group met in the offices of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force) and know this high school senior from Connecticut was actually a faggot.
Family friends lived in Manhattan so I would stand across the street for five or ten minutes at a time before daring to enter the building and take the elevator to the 4th floor. I wonder why I didn't make any lasting friends at the youth group. I was probably too scared.
While I got along with my peers in high school, NYC bars were a cruel place for me. Except for the youth group meetings I had no peers to confide in and was both obsessed and afraid of my desire. Too scared to go to clubs with kids my own age, I went to bars with older men. I would start at Uncle Charlie's on Greenwich Street in the West Village but was never able to talk to anyone there so I'd walk around the block to Julius' where men twice my age would always say hello.
I never understood that "come over for coffee" was actually a trick I didn't understand. But I'd try not to act surprised when, while offering me a beer or scotch, my host was taking off his clothes in a hurry and grabbing at my ass. In addition to my people pleasing I thought sex was what made me gay and didn't understand why I wasn't hard and couldn't wait for it to end. And like many of the teenage girls I was in school with, the fact that fucking never led to friends left me sad but I would try and try again.
As mentioned, I would start at Uncle Charlie's, but rarely talk to anyone, then move on to Julius' and think this time I might meet someone 'right'. The story never changed. Wham Bam, Later Kid and when I'd call my new friend the next day . . . "The Number You Have Reached Is Not in Service"
Once there was a man who could see through my façade. Perhaps he was just a thoughtful lover. Thirty-something, handsome, raised money for the arts, his loft on 11th near Broadway was beautiful and something out of Conran's. We drank scotch, listened to jazz and talked. I asked him about the autographed photo of Robert F Kennedy inscribed "Thanks for your hard work."
His bed was big and white. I was tired but did my part. Halfway through he asked me if I was having fun. I struggled thinking for an answer. It was quiet for a while until he added, "You know you can say no, don't you?" I never thought of that before. Never.
Old bedroom habits die hard – no pun intended
A few months later I was gritting my teeth in bed with Daniel, older as usual, a fashion designer who had his own small line of men's clothes, handsome, sexy and drunk, at least every time we fucked. most every night. I'd think of something else while he pounded my ass, hoping he'd finish quickly, sometimes silently singing my go to song of the era, James Taylor's song "the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
After college living in Jersey City and driving a taxi in Manhattan I made gay friends who I mostly met at The Bar on 2nd Avenue and 4th Street. It was a hangout, gay but friendlier than cruisy though sex was always in the air. It was fun, I was a semi-regular and loved the friends I made there who I sometimes thought would be nice to date but I was too scared to ask out.
I had free coupons for the car wash at Houston & Broadway and would sometimes take one of my friends from the bar for a ride and we'd go through the carwash, both in the front seat. I must have been an odd bird, charismatic, chatty with the gift of the gab but like a deer in the headlights when the moment would approach as the darkness of the carwash engulfed us, John or Patrick or Johnny on the passenger side, lighting up a joint but never touching hands or kissing, and nervous me talking more and more.....
When I did date things were confusing. I didn't know what I wanted. My self-programmed trying to figure out the needs of others caused as many problems as the bad sex, which was mostly masturbating side by side.
Fifteen years later, starting work as a sales rep for a specialty grocery wholesaler, I'd start work at 5.30, but often got up earlier, hook up with guys on the phone-sex line who were partying and wondered why I could never get a hard-on, even when the guys were sexy despite the random cruelty of meth.
Today some surface things remain the same. According to a quiz in The Advocate Magazine I'm butch, like Tom of Finland but in fact much more like John Goodman in Roseanne, but thinner and less handy with tools.
But recently I've come to see how in other ways my behavior, though still influenced by neurotic memories of days gone by, is blessedly different.
Seven years ago after a rave in Treasure Island, (the former naval base in San Francisco Bay, not the porn company), I ended up at a house party. People were sexy and nice. The loft was lathered with naked men lounging on pillows, sharing drugs, massaging feet and making out. Drugs were shared, while others passed out Vitamin C powder, bottles of water and toothbrushes too.
Later that morning, at an apartment in The Mission, at the age of 46 I got fucked for the first time since I was a kid. I got fucked and for the first time I liked it, I liked it, yes I liked it. I was wrong. It wasn't getting fucked I didn't like. What I didn't like was sex with selfish men. What I didn't like was my inability to navigate the waters that lie between the sheets.
For thirty years I thought I knew what I liked, I knew something about my sexual preferences – top, bottom, rough, tender – but I was wrong. My ideas were built with lousy tools and shaky roots, the residue of lonely nights, nervous drinking, lousy sex, futile longing and being in my head trying to do the right thing so whoever had my ankles in the air would be got off.
These days I'm still a scared kitten in the bedroom. But I know how to talk - what to say, at least a little bit. Yes I know it's pretty simple. Not this. Yes, that. Maybe. And the first time we go to bed together I'll be wearing my t-shirt and my boxers. Shy is in my DNA too.
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moreThis is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics. less
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Betting on Major League Baseball this late in the season can be difficult if you don't know the mindset of the teams that you are betting on. This is why it is important to do your research and try to pick your spots when betting on the Boys of Summer.
Here are the Free MLB Picks for Saturday August 16th
Seattle Mariners at Detroit Tigers
The Seattle Mariners are starting to fade away in the playoffs as they are now 7.5 games out of first place in the American League West. They trail both the Athletics and the Angels and it does not look good, but they do have a shot of getting the A.L. Wildcard. One of the teams that they are fighting for the Wildcard is the Detroit Tigers. In fact only one half games separate these two teams in the race for the playoffs. In a game of this magnitude look for a hard fought game with a playoff atmosphere and this often indicates a low scoring game. It helps that both Felix Hernandez and David Price will face off and both are capable of throwing a shutout. The under is 21-5-4 in Mariners last 30 games when they face a left-handed starter and this game will go under the posted total.
Free Pick: Seattle Mariners at Detroit Tigers under 6.5
Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago White Sox
The Toronto Blue Jays had such high hopes when the season started and they jumped off to a quick start by Mark Buehrle. Those days are long gone and now the Jays are struggling at the wrong time as the Baltimore Orioles are catching fire. They Jays have lost seven of the last tean games that they have played and the pitching has failed them. Buehrle is partly to blame allowing 18 earned runs in his last five starts. John Danks goes for the White Sox and he has been awful this season and of late posting an ERA over 9 in his last three trips to the mound. The over is 11-4 in White Sox last 15 home games when they play a team with a winning record and 5-2-1 in Buehrles last 8 starts as a favorite of -110 to -150. Both pitchers get lit up and this game soars over the total.
Free Pick: Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago White Sox Over 9 -105
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As mentioned in the pick above, the Baltimore Orioles are on fire and they are on top of the American league. On Saturday they face the Indians a team that is now 5.5 games out of the Wildcard. Ubaldo Jimenez starts for the O's and you think he would be excited to face his former team, but the last time he faced the Tribe he allowed five earned runs in just four innings. The O's historically struggle in this park as they are 15-35 in the last 50 meetings in Cleveland. The Tribe stays in the hunt for a wildcard with a win against the Orioles.
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"Understanding the way in which AN2690 stops fungal infections has given us a wealth of information about how to fashion antimicrobial drugs, including other anti-fungal compounds and systemic antibiotics," said Dickon Alley, Ph.D., head of discovery biology at Anacor and an author of the Science paper. "These findings validate our scientific strategy of focusing on the largely untapped potential of boron-containing drug candidates for unmet medical needs."
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This item was posted here on 4th August 2014.
It is a registered cover bearing a date stamp of 4th August
1914. It was mailed by the Belgium Bank Abroad at 2 Bishopsgate, London to an
address in Austria - on the first day of the Great War. The cover carries a
boxed 'UNDELIVERABLE L.P.S.' cachet in purple ink and was stopped by a postal censor from continuing its journey to the continent.
A hundred years ago today, Britain declared war on Germany and also suspended the mail service to enemy countries and potential enemy countries. As the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was allied to Germany, a British postal censor blocked the onward transmission of the letter and would have returned it to the sender. Eight days later Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary too.
The website comprises of four main sections
The story behind a Great War postcard
The story behind a set/group of ww1 postcards
ww1 real photographic postcards
ww1 publications as eBooks
This link will take you to a page that describes and illustrates WW1 postal history.
This link will take you to a page of eBooks relating to prisoners of war and the camps they were in.
This link will take you to a site featuring prisoner of war postcards.
Picture Postcards from the First
World War 1914-1918
During the Great War, when the only means of communicating news to the masses was by newspapers and weekly illustrated magazines, the 'war' or 'military' picture postcard with its often colourful image and printed message or caption, was a welcome means of personal communication for many people.
In Britain, cards that showed the effect the war was having on the
home front were frequently on sale in the shops - within days of an 'incident'
Before the outbreak of the First World War, the trade in picture postcards was firmly established with numerous categories and themes available. People purchased them, not just to convey messages to friends and relatives but also to collect and save the cards in special albums.
When war
erupted in August 1914, picture postcards were already the perfect medium to
provide a link between the men on active service and their families and friends
at home.
Throughout the war, postcard publishers, printers, photographers and artists helped to boost the morale of the people both at home and the troops on the war fronts.
Click the above link to view some of them.
See The Daily Mail War Postcards page for an informative new 80-page illustrated digital book (eBook) about this extraordinary series of 176 First World War picture postcards.
You also receive three FREE eBooks relating to the 'Battle of the Somme' - when you buy The Daily Mail War Postcards eBook.
Each of the links below will take you to a page of ww1 postcards relevant to the link heading.
"Sketches of Tommy's Life" - Fergus Mackain
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The newsagents W.H. Smith displayed
numerous categories of war related cards in the postcard racks of its 2,000
shops. In addition, booksellers, cinemas, corner shops, stationary stores, newspapers,
public houses, haberdashery stores, post offices and branches of Boots the
Chemist and numerous other commercial outlets sold war related cards to the public.
By 1915, 'war cards' were also been displayed and offered for sale in the thousands of YMCA canteens and rest huts in military training camps at home and on the Western Front and elsewhere.
Many of the postcard images from the 1914-1918 War are not found
anywhere else except as picture postcards and are immensely informative and could even be considered as important
historical documents.
Almost every
conceivable subject about the Great War 1914-1918, can be found on
contemporary picture postcards and at present (2014) they are generally an
under-valued source of illustrative material from the conflict. At present WW1 cards are still reasonably priced starting at say, 50p for one showing battlefield destruction in France or Flanders to say, around £20 for a real photographic card depicting a British hospital ship.
However, an average price would be £3-£5 for the majority of ww1 postcards. As an example, this would be the price range for most of the 176 cards in The Daily Mail War Postcards series - which are extremely popular, well worth collecting and still available in reasonable numbers.
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During the holidays, there is a trendy sports programme every day from 3.00 pm for the coolest vacation in the mountains of Austria. It is supervised by our sports guides and is part of the Tauernhof kids guest package. There is a club meeting at the start of each week and every child gets a Tauernhof Fun & Action Club T-shirt to show, that they are part of the club.
Kids can try out in-line skates and skateboards in our FunPark, safely conquer the Tauernhof sports climbing wall, do jumps on the trampoline, take part in a beach volleyball match, run after the ball in a street hockey or street soccer match, have a high-jump contest on the trampoline, create a street course and much more to get into the holiday mood. But if the weather isn't on your side, you can also enjoy a game of water polo or a table football match.
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Maybe that's why the plebes do not take well to being turned down. When I was out at Cain with Zelda Kaplan, the 90-year-old club kid, I was trying to capture her ordering a drink at the bar when two thuggy types demanded I take their picture. When I turned them down, their menacing response was to play with my hair. "People who will go out of the way to grab you are not the people you want to have photos of," Tamindzic says. "They are not interesting, and they aren't going to be famous."
Sometimes clubbers simply take matters in their own hands and insert themselves in the frame. Or they do what one drag-queen did to me at Rated X Saturday nightafter assessing the result on my camera, she made me take another shot. Snap.
"(MisShapes DJ) Geordon and I have a saying," Meriam says. "'Just shoot everyone.'"
As for actual celebs, even local luminaries like Carlos D and Nick Zinner are notoriously finicky when approached with a camera. Even though they are public people, in New York they're also just a face in the crowd at an East Village bar. Sometimes it's easier to ask rather than shoot, and it's always nicer. "I don't like stealing pictures," Bronques told me at Rated X, where there were at least three of us shutterbugs for the Halloween party. "I ask. I'd rather get a good, clear shot. I've only been denied twice, once by Keanu Reeves."
For me, one denial stands out. The much photographed ex-Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha once requested I delete a photo I had just taken. "I'm so tired of being on blogs," he saidand watched as I erased his picture from my camera forever.
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