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It is Halloween, and the doorbell will signal an importunate child, trick or treating, or a new guest at the impromptu party arranged by the celebrity ghost writer, Max Villiers (Matthew Marsh), in his comfortable north London home. Max is trying to make his new 65-inch plasma screen television work, juggling remotes.
Increasingly, the screen is invaded by images of his daughter Anna when young, a daughter who is now a peace activist in Ramallah, like Rachel Corrie, en route to Burma. It turns out that Anna was a human shield from an early age, trying to save her younger brother in a gnarled old yew tree during a thunder and lightning storm fifteen years ago.
A play which starts as a domestic comedy deepens in tone and mystery, until some painful revelations and arguments have taken us from Alan Ayckbourn territory deep into Edward Albee. But Jones, who has written the play with consummate skill, a bitter twang, and some very good jokes, is very much her own playwright here, developing in accomplishment beyond the promise of In Flame and the achievement of Humble Boy (The Dark at the Donmar was, for me, a muddled misfire).
Max and his wife Harriet (Eleanor David) are in marital meltdown. That afternoon, Harriet has bought an East Anatolian semi-antique rug, made love to the salesman (Simon Kassianides), and nearly killed herself. She was rescued by Max's friend, Eddie Fox (Lloyd Hutchinson), a former Carthusian monk who is now Max's personal assistant and beer buddy.
Eddie has hooked up with Jacklyn, a slightly weird rambler (Adie Allen), on Hampstead Heath. Max, meanwhile, on meeting the subject of his next book, a pneumatic glamour model (Christina Cole), who reminds him, disastrously, of his daughter, has also encountered Anna's old schoolfriend, Imogen Cumberbatch (Katherine Parkinson), heavily pregnant, who turns up at the party with her husband Marcus (Orlando Seale), a glib, but oddly repressed, civil servant from Surrey.
The scenes are ingeniously interlocked within a progressive structure that simultaneously looks over its own shoulder. Anna Mackmin's beautifully rhythmical production is set in a huge white room designed by Lez Brotherston and lit by Tim Mitchell to suggest other locations – the heath, the restaurant, the rug shop – by changing the colour, and the temperature, of the stage. The family video plays an increasing role, too, in turning the screw to a crescendo of birth, loss and dismay.
Matthew Marsh, looking a little trimmer than he was in the other really fine new play he graced this year, The Overwhelming, sets the pace with his brilliant comic timing, playing Max rather like one of Simon Gray's heroes, both lost in the past and befuddled in the present. Eleanor David is beautiful, sexy and vulnerable as Harriet, while Adie Allen as Jacklyn confirms her reputation as a comic talent to treasure.
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This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age )with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather ...more
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De Officiis, or "On Duties," was the second book printed on Gutenberg's printing press. Apparently, Gutenberg and his other contemporaries knew how important the press was so they wanted to give props to the Bible, as the most important book ever written/compiled—but along those lines he decided to print Cicero's classic shortly thereafter. Cicero wrote this book as a series of letters to his prodigal child, who had little ambition to be a correct man, like his father was. Consequently, it reads ...more
Jul 01, 2014 Yann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: antiquité, italie, philosophie
Difficile de lire sans émotion ce texte, le dernier que Cicéron a laissé avant son assassinat par les spadassins de Marc Antoine : rédigé après la mort de César, il s'adresse à son fils et traite de la morale. C'est également le testament politique d'un homme qui a consacré sa vie à la République et qui, retiré dans sa maison de campagne, est le témoin impuissant de sa dissolution progressive. Le ton est donc lourd, car l'auteur ne peut pardonner à Caius César d'avoir déclenché la guerre civile, ...more
Sep 09, 2010 Jon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
The original, and until about a century ago, the most popular discussion of why it's better to be admired than feared. From the 16th through the 19 centuries anyone in public life who considered himself educated and moral had to be intimately familiar with this book, written by Cicero as an essay to his son in his last year, before he was murdered by some of Mark Antony's thugs. Machiavelli wrote specifically against this book in The Prince. If you want to know why it's ALWAYS wrong to torture, ...more
Jun 12, 2008 Bruce rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
I hope that people still read Latin works. This is an especially good one, presenting Cicero's ethics as a letter written to his son. One gains insights in stoic philosophy, not irrelevant to our own times by any means. I like the Loeb Classical Library editions of Greek and Latin works; the original language on the left and English translation on the facing page enables one to read the original (If one can, and I'm somewhat limited with my Latin and a neophyte with Greek) and then easily check ...more
Cicero considered this work on moral duties to be his masterpiece. Given his large output, as well as the wide scope of his influence, this is saying something. The book is full of practical advice from an elder statesman. It is more practical and common-sensical than it is philosophically rigorous. That will likely only perturb the professional philosophers (well, many of them... it actually did not perturb this one too much). I enjoyed the book immensely - which is nice since I undertook its r ...more
Mar 28, 2015 Gregg Jones rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: philosophy, literature
Cicero was a small guy in a big pond where bigger fish lived. He did realize that most (including himself) were not equal under Roman Society and this brought him into trouble with guys like Ceaser and Anthony. Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume a ...more
Nov 14, 2008 James rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Recommends it for: all who aspire to understand justice
This is a book of political and philosophical advice from an internally-exiled father, a former ruler and lawmaker, to his coming-of-age son. It is by turns brilliant and maddening in its reasoning: if any reader can tell me what 'seemliness' actually means--aside from decorum and conventionality--I'd love to hear it. Book I at first reads like a Roman version of the speech delivered by windbag Polonius to his son Laertes in *Hamlet,* when Laertes is about to go off to school in Paris: good and ...more
Written in the fall of 44 BCE, when any hope of salvaging the republic was lost, Cicero, in virtual exile, composes a book which draws from the ethical precepts of the Stoics, especially Panaetius of Rhodes, the 2nd cent. Stoic philosopher. Cicero is not writing a philosophical treatise, as he admits, but a work aimed at the general reader, and in particular his son, currently studying in Athens; it is claimed to be a sort of help for certain moral/ethical dilemmas. Cicero is at his best when he ...more
Mar 12, 2015 Richard Thomason rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: philosophy
An excellent translation, with just the right of amount of introduction to set the context of philosophical thought. The prose is lucid and of utterly consistent register; it echoes Cicero well.
Despite his repetitive delivery, Cicero offers a sensible guide for understanding how our words and deeds can be, and ought to be, useful and honorable.
As a historical figure Cicero's achievements are second to none (or to very few, should I say), but as a writer he is irritating--vain, snooty, and not the easiest to read because he uses terms that sound like they mean the same thing but don't quite mean the same thing. In the realm of ethical treatises this falls well short of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. I would therefore highly recommend his speeches--which made him the historical figure he is--above ...more
Oct 30, 2011 Aaron Crofut rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: political-theory-science, rome, philosophy, classics
Can't say I was really impressed. We live for pleasure, no matter what any Stoic may say. The last parts of Book 2 and most of Book 3 have some important points, in particular on the nature of the state and its maintenance, but most of that had already been covered in De Re Publica. I know Cicero had an important impact on philosophy (in particular in expanding the Latin language to include so many Greek concepts), but Cicero himself was not a first rate philosopher.
Sep 06, 2013 Christian Dibblee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: ancient-history, miscellaneous
Ancient, but one of the better treatises on ethics. For Cicero, justice is the ultimate virtue and anything that is honorable is also useful. I quite like the idea that men are bound by a common bond and that, therefore, honorable conduct is the most useful. Cicero is perhaps too Stoic for my taste, believing virtue to be the only good. That said, his advocacy for an anti-Macchiavellian political approach is encouraging.
Wisdom. Justice. Courage. Temperance. The parallels between Cicero's time during the disintegration of the Republic, and the rise of absolutist rule to the contemporary American (and to an extent, global) political situation should entice everyone to read his suggestions. Anyone seeking a little moral direction proffered in a straightforward manner need look no further.
May 25, 2012 mwr added it · review of another edition
Shelves: used-to-teach, pre-30-s, philosophy
That Machiavelli reverses several of this fellows maxims while in a similar political situation seems like more than coincidence to me. More evidence that The Prince is an occasional work.
But I've never taught this in relation to Machiavelli. Rather, it was a third and final step in preparing students to begin to take the Nicomachean Ethics said somewhat seriously.
But I've never taught this in relation to Machiavelli. Rather, it was a third and final step in preparing students to begin to take the Nicomachean Ethics said somewhat seriously.
Dec 06, 2011 Christopher rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Even two thousand years after it was written, this is still a paramount text on what an honorable man must do. Despite his lack of credentials as a philosopher, Cicero writes a very compact and concise discourse on duties and ethics that should be read by all people.
Apr 07, 2008 Victor rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
As far as sheer wisdom goes, I rank this book as on par with the collected essays of Thoreau. It's hard to imagine being able to live up to the virtuous man envisioned within, but it's a worthy goal.
Apr 14, 2008 Eric rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: outside-reading, greece-and-rome
A very readable translation of Cicero's book of advice to his son. While not all the advice applies to a modern world, it is an interesting book of lessons for people interested in ancient Rome.
Jun 23, 2012 Jeffrey Malone is currently reading it · review of another edition
Re-reading this again - though in a new imprint - for the first time in two decades. Main interest here for me is to situate it within the tradition of 'mirror for princes' texts.
One word...awesome. Cicero's letters to his son as the Roman Republic collapses. Every elected official should read this and reflect on the demise of republican Rome.
Nov 12, 2009 Erik marked it as to-read · review of another edition
Shelves: another-sort-of-learning
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Chapter 4, as one of several Books You'll Never Be Graded on Except by Reality.
Mar 22, 2007 William Prueter rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Political philosophy
Shelves: ancientromans
Go to prueter.org. Click on my Latin page. Click on books read. Click on Marcus Tullius Cicero. Scrool down to 545.
Apr 23, 2015 Jim Hurley rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: philosophy
A book that would benefit anyone that reads it. Amazingly, still pertinent today.
Dec 05, 2010 Rob Roy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: ancient-lit, 1000-bucket-list, essay
Interesting how advise given over two thousand years ago is still relevant.
May 08, 2011 H rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
I will have to read this a dozen more times before I can say anything about it.
to quote Eusebius, "bless that pure heart."
Not too far into this one, just yet...
Must be read once a year.
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The file command identifies all the files in the bin directory, and the grep command filters out everything not a script. Here are some more examples:
file core.4867 core.4867: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'abort' file /boot/initrd-2.4.20-6.img /boot/initrd-2.4.20-6.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression file -z /boot/initrd-2.4.20-6.img /boot/initrd-2.4.20-6.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression)
Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't assume the contents of a file based on its name.
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absolutely fantastico quick summary for interviews ... especially when people ask you to name your favorite unix/linux commands ... believe me, "they" do ...
Great article
This is the stuff I look for in LJ Magazine.
Kudos to Mr Fusco!
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many of your commands are more beneficial to system administrators than programmers, imho (as i wear both hats), so i add the following:
lsof is the opposite of fuser: instead of what processes have open a file, it tells what files a process has open.
netstat tells what ports are bound to, and will even list the specific processes if you own them.
for debugging network applications, nothing beats ethereal. it's the strace of networking.
i really enjoyed the article and learned some new things (fuser, od, xxd). it's general articles like these (applicable to any serious linux user) that keeps me subscribed to the dead-tree lj.
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Eno is a business owner. He is also former CEO of the Wausaw Chamber of Commerce.[1]
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He was defeated by Democratic incumbent Donna Seidel in the November 2 general election. Also defeated was Libertarian Jim Maas. Eno was unopposed in the primary election. [2]
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- Supports "closing the loophole that allows gun buyers to evade a criminal background check when they purchase a gun from an unlicensed dealer or individual".
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Will senior Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam campaign for the party in the Lok Sabha elections? Recently, Sena MP Anant Geete was quoted by sections of the media as saying that party chief Uddhav Thackeray has banned Kadam from taking part in the campaign. The reports created a huge flutter in the Sena circles because Kadam is a senior leader of the party hailing from the Konkan and was also opposition in the legislature. Shiv Sainiks from Konkan region were particularly upset over these reports.
In an effort to pacify the cadres, the Sena had to issue a press release denying any ban on Kadam. Sena MP Sanjay Raut issued a statement, saying the reports were baseless and were aimed at creating confusion. He said words were put into Geete's mouth. Raut claimed that Sena leaders were fully involved in the poll campaign. Interestingly, Geete has not denied having making the statement. Kadam, on his part, is closely watching the developments. In the past also, there were reports that Kadam was close to former Sena leader and current Congress minister Narayan Rane. There were even suggestions that Kadam may quit the Sena. These were denied by him. There is an anti-Kadam lobby within the Sena which has been gunning for him for long and trying to create suspicion in the minds of senior party leaders about his loyalty to Uddhav.


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Good articles on von Cramm. Yes, von Cramm is often reduced to his 3 Wim final losses to Perry and Budge. He was however, certainly since the times of Cochet, the best clay courter of the 30s. I know, that some historians like Robert Geist, who wrote a book on Nuesslein, refer to the pro Hanne Nuesslein as the better German player, but all German sources like Kleinschroth, Najuch or Menzel prefer von Cramm, who beat Nuesslein in their pro-am encounter at Rot Weiß in four sets. With a bit of luck, von Cramm could have challenged Cochets title haul at RG. He was forced to scratch RG in 1937 by his federation, on order to focus on Davis Cup duties. His team-mate Henner Henkel won RG instead of him. In 1938 and 39 he was banned, then came the War. He would surely have beaten Bill McNeil (i think he actually had beaten him shortly before RG 1939 at Cairo), and would have given Don Budge a run for his money in 1938. He had beaten Budge twice in team matches in Australia begin 1938. He also won a ton of German titles at Rothenbaum, Hamburg.
Two aspects, which are mentioned in the articles, seem to me contradicting some myths and cliches about von Cramm:
One, that he had a formidable serve, probably the best twist serve before the War, which contradicts, that he was a pure baseline or clay artist
(i heard even Perry making such a statement). And second: He won a lot of 5 set matches, so contradicting any rumor of mental weaknesses, which i often read about him.
I've always heard that von Cramm's serve was superb. Players like Kramer, Sidney Wood and Budge ranked his serve very highly. His stamina was such that he felt he had a huge advantage in the fifth set.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, the photographs of 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green and her alleged killer, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, may speak volumes about American youth culture.
Christina was the third grade victim of the shooting that took place at the Congress on Your Corner event sponsored by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday in Tucson. The image of Christina released to the media is the picture of innocence and wholesomeness - her sweet smile and wide eyes conveying the kind and capable spirit for which she was known.
Christina's friends point to her fun sense of humor and willingness to talk with anyone as traits they will miss at Mesa Verde Elementary School. Recently elected to the student council, she had started to develop an interest in government, which prompted her neighbor and friend Susan Hileman to take Christina to Mrs. Giffords' event.
Born amid fear and foreboding on September 11, 2001, Christina was the picture of possibility and promise. A baseball player who also took ballet lessons, Christina was being raised in a faithful home and recently received her First Communion. By all accounts she exhibited a zest for life that was fed by the love and encouragement of her family and friends.
The portrait of her alleged killer is a stark and scary contrast, indeed.
Mr. Loughner is variously described by friends and acquaintances as a loner, a nihilist and a "pothead." His anti-social behavior, revealing a fairly obvious case of mental illness, is well documented, though he appears not to have been treated.
And while political pundits on the left eagerly attempt to attach Mr. Loughner's motives to right-wing causes and conservative beliefs in a grotesque effort to exploit the Tuscon tragedy for their own purposes, there's virtually no evidence thus far to connect Mr. Loughner to any belief system except "crazy." That is, unless you consider the satanic alter that was found on the patio behind his house.
It's interesting to note that the mainstream media is quick to promote a political explanation for Mr. Loughner's actions, but doesn't seem even remotely curious about other influences that might have inspired his rambling, irrational thoughts and threatening behavior.
So far, only the Rev. Franklin Graham's statement about the Arizona shootings suggests the cultural connection to the dark and disturbing persona that has emerged in Mr. Loughner's profile: "What frightens me is that our country has accepted murder, violence and rape as entertainment which we see portrayed every day on TV, movies and video games [...] If we as a nation are not careful we could see the destruction of the foundation this nation was built upon."
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1-15 March 2013 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Other troubles for system administrators: March is confirming the 2013 dangerous trend with several high profile breaches against industrial, financial and governmental targets.
The first two weeks of March have begun with the breach to Evernote, and continued with (among the others) the third phase of the infamous Operation Ababil, targeting U.S. Banks and an alleged Chinese attack against the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Additional noticeable events include a wave of DDoS attacks against several Czech Republic's targets (belonging to media, news and financial sector), a breach suffered by the NIST Vulnerability Database (unfortunately not an isolated example of the attacks against US governmental targets happened in these two weeks) and also the leak of 20,000 records from an Avast! German distributor.
Last but not least, the examined period has also confirmed the role of Twitter as the new mean to make resounding attacks against single individuals or organizations. Qatar Foundation, Saudi Aramco, and France 24 are only several of the organizations fallen victims of accounts hijacking.
Of course, these are only the main events, feel free to scroll down the list to analyze in detail what happened in these two weeks.
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
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May 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)
As usual, here it is the second part of the Cyber Attacks Timeline for the month of May 2012: a month particularly rich of Cyber Events. As you will probably know, the Flame malware has monopolized the attention, deserving the most attention from the Information Security Professional.
Nevertheless the scene has offered many interesting events, among which it worths to mention the breach of 123,000 federal employees records, the breach affecting University of Nebraska, and, last but not least, the breach against WHCMS (which, as we will soon see, has proved to be fatal for its author).
The hacktivist front is still hot and preannounces another hot summer. On the other hand the authors of several remarkable cyber-criminal actions are probably going to leave the scene: the long trail of arrests made by Law Enforcement Agencies against hackers has continued in this month and has hence led to the arrest of Cosmo, the leader of the infamous group UGNazi, which claimed to be the author of the Cyber Attack against WHCMS.
In your opinion are the arrests against hackers really going to stop the growing number of Cyber Attacks (acting as a deterrent)?
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
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I have basically exhausted Ancestry.com for the Rugito surname. In fact, if you find a Rugito or Ruggito in the USA anywhere, they are my family (very few of us). I have reconnected with Rugito cousins in Ripacandida and Torino today, however they know about as much as I do about our great-grandparents.
So...what I know is this:
Abt 1886 (?) - Pantaleone Rugito born. He married Arcangela Martino. I do not know where.
1894 - Donato born to Pantaleone and Arcangela - but various documents conflict on birthplace. It is either Rionero or Ripacandida in Potenza.
1909 - Pantaleone Rugito left Naples, arrived at NYC Feb 1909 on the Prinzess Irene, last residence listed as Ripacandida, Potenza, final destination is Altoona, PA and closest relative at home is wife, Maria Martino (perhaps Maria is a nickname - family living in Italy today confirm her name was Arcangela). He takes a job with the Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona.
1910 - His son, Donato Antonio Rugito left Naples, arrived in NYC April 1910 on the Barbarossa, living last residence as Ripacandida, Potenza and nearest relative at home as Arcangela Martino, mother and his final destination as Altoona, PA. H
1910 - Both Donato and his father, Pantaleone are living as boarders in Altoona, PA on the 1910 census. The funny part about this is the only reason I really looked into Altoona is because my long lost cousins in Italy today remembered stories that my gr-grandfather went to Altoona, and that was all that they knew about him.
After 1910, I can not locate Pantaleone anywhere. I assume he returned to Italy. He and Arcangela (Maria?) Martino did have other children: Michele, Teresa, Virginia, and another daughter - that information came from my present day cousins, who are also under the impression that Pantaleone never came to America.
1916 - Donato marries my gr-grandmother, Augusta Derenne in Westmoreland County, PA, They reside in Jeannette, PA for the rest of their lives.
1917 - WWI Draft card for Donato - He is listed as being born in Ripacandida, Potenza but he also files a Declaration of Intention that year stating that his birthplace and last residence was Rionero, Italy.
1920 Census - can't locate Donato. Might he possibly have been someplace looking for work? Wife and child are living with wife's family in Jeannette, PA.
1923 - He files a Petition for Naturalization - states he was born in Rionero, Italy.
1924 - He received Certificate of Naturalization
1930 Census - living with wife and children in Jeannette, PA.
1942 - WWII Draft card for Donato - He is listed as being born in Ripacandida, Italy, living in Jeannette, PA.
1950 - Donato passed away. My father never even knew him and he remains a mystery to us today. He never spoke much about his home land, and my present cousins tell me that they were always told that he didn't want to be found.
First, I would like to clarify where he was born - Rionero or Ripacandida?
Next, I would like to know when Pantaleone returned to Italy.
I would like to know more about Arcangela Martino and her family.
There were siblings born in Torino and some family still live there today, so I am also wondering if the Rugito family was originally a northern family that settled in Potenza. My AncestryDNA came back 92% central European with no mention of southern European or Italian at all.
Then there are the Rugito immigrants that seemed to have migrated to Argentina....and I am sure there are some that went to Brazil....and I can only imagine the potential name variations.
I used to think that my VERY small family of just my pap-pap, dad, sister, and myself were the last of the Rugito clan in the world! LOL
I have not been to a FHC yet. I just found one in my locality, so I do plan to visit, but it looks like it's going to be quite expensive to order all the films for Rionero and Ripacandida, and honestly, it's looking like for the time being, I need more recent rolls than the years listed in the catalog.
I know this post is long - I apologize. It's taken me 15 years to get what little information that I have thus far. The Italian phone directory and Facebook have helped this along considerably. It gets very frustrating, because it's not like I can just hop into a car and visit some courthouse or ask any family if they know anything, but when I do make a breakthrough - it tickles me! Finding cousins has been the best part so far.


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I'd rather have amazing base notes. I'm not nuts about most fragrances' top notes.
Would you rather wear a cologne that has amazing top notes but has kind of mediocre or lame base notes, or would you rather wear a cologne that has kind of meh top notes but amazing base notes, which one would you wear? There are specific colognes I'm talking about but just in the general sense I want to know what you think.
I'd rather have amazing base notes. I'm not nuts about most fragrances' top notes.
I think I'd vote for the basenote on this one. It seems to me that top notes don't last as long as the basenote phase so I'd rather have the highlight of the fragrance for the longest duration :P
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Simple, the latter for me, if I had to choose between the 2. Top notes tend to blow away within an hour tops anyways, in most cases.
Two steps forward. One step back.
The basenotes. The topnotes are usually gone within an hour..
8/10 times I'll choose the basenotes.
Sometimes you just have to have those topnotes.
And in the case of Eau D'Orange Verte, thanks to Hermes fro not burdening those who wish to frequently re-apply with a strong base, as we're more than willing to re-apply often to get those incredible topnotes.
I'd definitely prefer outstanding basenotes.
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Basenotes: top notes are fleeting.
good basenotes make you forget about the top notes
For me, the answer is obvious and definitive- even mediocre scents might have appealing top notes, to leave potential buyers with an initially favorable impression, not knowing they have been lured into using and buying something plain, at best (now I am not saying that all frags with great top notes are either mediocre/and or suspected not to have great base notes).
On the contrary, it might be subjective and a highly personal impression, but have you noticed how in many frags- irrespective if male, unisex or female- the first impression of the top notes might smell mediocre or even unappealing, or too spirituous, or too nondescript or too light, yet after a while usually and hour or a couple of hours, at most, the impression left by the base notes is lush, complex, long-lasting and enthralling, thus both demanding the wearers time, patience and connoisseur skills, while creating a personal relationship of interdependency and constructive anticipation between the fragrance and the user.
Base notes for sure. Top notes are the trailer before a movie.
Absolutely the base notes.
"Wovon man nicht lesen kann, darüber muss man schreiben."
Basenotes. Think Versace Dreamer. Nuff said.
For much the same reasons everyone else has noted, I'd go with the one with the great basenotes.
"I don't know what the different scents is. I just know what I like." -- Sephora SA
Even if I don't like the top notes of a fragrance,but love the basenotes I still want to experience the whole progression of the fragrance as it was intended by the perfumer.So like a politician I guess my answer is a little evasive.
Don't panic. Just stay calm, and reload....
Definitely amazing basenotes ......
For sale. Carnal Flower and Vero Profumo Onda.
Heart/basenotes over topnotes any day! Aramis Havana, Versace The Dreamer, etc...
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Makes no difference to me.
I cannot like a scent with bad basenotes. But I love many with odd and unpleasant topnotes. In fact, I enjoy the anticipation.
What are top notes? LOL.
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The only exceptions I can think of to the general vibe of this thread are select Jean-Claude Ellena creations where there don't seem to be "top notes" and "base notes" to the perfume, rather a very much whole experience that seems to lose value if cordoned off into a pyramid. Like Angeliques sous la Pluie and Sel de Vetiver, where notes fade in and out along a few hours that don't strike me as being in any kind of competition with themselves. What are other people's thoughts?
I'm guessing if the Top notes were more important this website wouldn't be called Basenotes...
It's all in the drydown, baby!
I do agree there are fragrances which are less classically structured, where the heart and sometimes even base notes bleed into the top. I'd then consider the quality and wearability factors.
I'm with everyone else. I love the top notes of Hugo, but don't care much for the Heart/Base at all. The result? I rarely wear it.
The ones I wear all the time Bvlgari Aqva, Versace Pour Homme, Bvlgari Pour Homme, Gendarme, etc. all have excellent dry downs.
I guess I'll make it unanimous.
Most definitely, basenotes.
I'm looking at you Tabarome Millesime!
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Wearing just one fragrance, I'd go for the basenotes. If the top notes were mindblowing and unique, I'd consider buying it and layering with something that had the better basenotes and mixed well with the top note frag.
Your nostrils, which will dilate immesurably in unspeakable contentment, in motionless ecstasy, will ask nothing better for space, for they will be full of fragrance, as if perfumes and incense; for they will be glutted with complete happiness, like angels who dwell in the peace and magnificence of pleasent heaven.
(From Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont)
The latter.
I love The Dreamer!
Below average top.
Beautiful bottom.
Just like JLo.
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Generally the basenotes, since they stick around longest, and usually develop from the very beginning. But I have many notable exceptions in my collection, too. Neroli Sauvauge - my my, exquisite opening. The drydown is great, too, but ahhhhh, that opening. . . it haunts my dreams. . ..
Basenotes, for sure. But really, we're biased around here. To get a balanced view, ask the folks at the Topnotes forums, too.
Obviously basenotes
I want amazing notes thru-out the whole body of the scent.....but if I had to make a choice it would be for Basenotes.....Gary
Neither. A fragrance has to be great from top to bottom for me to wear it. There are enough fragrances with excellent top and bottom notes that one needn't settle for something that's lopsided.
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Until the summer of 2013, the primary sources of technology support services at Fairfield University in Connecticut were the reference librarians and circulation staff at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library—not the technology help desk.
Until the summer of 2013, the primary sources of technology support services at Fairfield University in Connecticut were the reference librarians and circulation staff at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library—not the technology help desk.
The setting was big, the company was good and the technology talk was buzzing at this year's UBTech Conference, held June 16 to 18 at The Mirage Las Vegas.
The accompanying infographic provides some of the key numbers for UBTech 2014, which took place in June at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
Textbook publishing has long been seen as an impenetrable business, with five major players controlling most of the nearly $14 billion industry.
Four major university systems will share online courses, analytics and learning-management software through a cloud-based digital education platform called Unizin, portions of which launched in July.
What if you could create a new kind of university? What would it be like?
When mapping out how wayfinding should be incorporated into digital signage on campus, ease of use for students and visitors should be the top concern.
In today's higher ed world, no department can work in a vacuum, least of all IT. From understanding the business plan to knowing how a web page or application will be used and by whom before it is designed and built, the days of CIOs and their teams working independently are gone.
While the benefits of lecture capture and the flipped classroom model have caught widespread attention in higher ed, it is crucial to note its risks—particularly in the area of privacy and copyright violations.
Within the next few years, as the ROI of collaboration becomes increasingly known, expect cross-departmental teamwork to be integral to the way all IT projects are handled, says Kamalika Sandell, associate CIO of American Uni
It's a fact: Responsive websites solve the challenge created by a world of multiple connected devices—from the latest smartphones to the newest tablets and the largest screens of desktop computers or TVs.
Budget crunches and crowded courses are two reasons online science labs are becoming more popular in higher ed. Some online labs require little or no equipment, and take up no space on campus.
Students learning to investigate aircraft accidents can sift through the debris of simulated crashes on eight acres of land at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's campus in Prescott, Ariz.
The IT department at Widener University in Chester, Pa., was at a crisis point. Unexpected IT staff turnover and high demand for more technology resources intersected, leaving the university grappling with how to provide help desk support.
Tech support is rarely fun—even, apparently, if it's a lot closer than an overseas call center.


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Public safety to be focus of council meeting
Johnson could not be reached Friday for comment.
Financial impacts
In addition to the budget discussion, Councilman Jim Wood has asked for a discussion on how adding 40 officers would affect the city's budget.
Wood, who has criticized Poehlman's possible promotion, said Friday that he wants to know the impact on other portions of the budget if the city hires 40 more officers. He said borrowing from the water fund to hire more officers could potentially raise water rates and other fees.
Wood said he wanted to "continue the conversation about hiring 40 new officers" and ascertain exactly how the city could afford to hire the officers.
At this week's workshop, Wood took a jab at his council colleagues by voicing concerns that this is an election year and that "all of a sudden" public safety is important. He also said that "every election year, police and fire are a priority" and then forgotten about after the election.
Councilman Rocky Chavez on Friday said he wasn't advocating adding 40 police officers over the next year, but that he'd like to be in favor of adding between eight and 10 officers per year until the city can get up to the ratio of 1.3 officers per 1,000.
Chavez said he is eager to see the different proposals that the city staff will engineer to pay for new officers.
"Clearly (the staff) heard that we want more public safety," Chavez said.
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Judge bans VIA P4 chipsets in Germany
The Inquirer has a story reporting that a Dusseldorf judge ruled that VIA chipsets that work with the Pentium 4 processor cannot be sold or imported into Germany. As expected, VIA will appeal, keeping lawyers grinning.
Bloomberg later quoted Via CEO Wenchi Chen, speaking at a press conference in Taiwan, as saying that it will appeal against the decision by a Dusseldorf court, and other patent cases in Germany are still not resolved.More information @ The Inquirer
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Actual AMD Opteron benchmarks?
German site 3D Center claim to have the first actual benchmarks of AMD's up-and-coming Opteron processor running at 2GHz. Benchmarked from within AMD labs, they compare the Opteron against an Athlon XP, Athlon Thunderbird, Pentium 4, Pentium 4 Xeon, Itanium 1 and 2 under SPEC CPU2000. The translation is fairly shady but all we really need to see are the numbers, which I stress, should be treated as speculation at this stage. Don't ask me how they managed to run the tests, for all we know an AMD employee could have done them.
On the Microprocessor forum in San Jose, California, announced AMD first of bench mark to 2,0 GHz of a Opteron of processor. Contrary to not at all estimated values uncommon with server processors in the preparatory phase (which however mostly nevertheless are correct) this bench mark on a material Opteron system in the AMD laboratories rule-fairly and offer after the values Clawhammer prototypes on 800 MHz from June this yearly the first halfway reliable numbers were measured to AMD's of new processor generation.More information @ 3D Center (translated)
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Intel i845GE Chipset Overview
accelenation.com has their first look at Intel's new i845GE chipset. Head on over and see how the new chipset stands up to its predecessors plus a Shuttle SS51.
Much like the i845PE, the i845GE adds an integrated graphics core which uses shared memory. With the upcoming Pentium 4's rumored to have Hyper Threading Enabled, the i845GE receives support for Hyper Threading technology, which the i845G lacked.More information at accelenation.com
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AMD Athlon XP 2700+ and 2400+ Processors Reviewed
Today GotApex? not only has got their hands on an Athlon XP2400+ but also an Athlon 2700+ and then went to work to see how these two CPU's could stand up to a little workout.
A rap on the office's front door and a gentle thud of a dropping box caused us to spring to life, as we rushed to see what the good 'ol UPS lady had left for us. Knowing full well that the launch of the new 333MHz FSB AMD chips were looming on the horizon, we had hoped that we could have a peak at just how beneficial the move to the 333MHZ FSB would prove to be. Sure enough, the contents of the oversized box was the standard AMD CPU review kit. The CPU to be the subject of the review, and already fastened to the mainboard, was the AthlonXP 2700+.More information at GotApex?
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Dell Considers Opteron a Possibility
Dell, who has always been a huge Intel supporter, may now be leaning towards using AMD's 64bit Opteron processors in their servers. While Dell has made no firm commitments as of yet, they have confirmed this as a possibility. Dell expects to come to a decision by the end of this year.
The first indication from Dell that the AMD Opteron MPU was being considered appeared in the New York Times last Sunday, in a story on Intel's Itanium processor. That story contained comments by Randy Groves, vice president for the enterprise systems group, that "This is the first time AMD has had a value proposition that is more than just price. That's something we have to take seriously." The Dell spokesman confirmed the quote today.More information @ EBNews
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New Intel Chipset Driver - Do NOT Install
There's a newish Intel Chipset INF Driver file being reported about on several news sites today, that is being mirrored at some French website I had never heard of before now. Anyway, I installed the driver (dated 9/3/02) on my PC and as a result experienced nothing but problems - It installed without a problem, but after rebooting the system was very sluggish and programs were not responding. For example, Internet Explorer was taking a minute to load - what fun. I have a feeling it wasn't detecting the IDE controller properly and was operating at ATA33, even though it felt as if it was running much slower.
Dreading the worst (a format), I checked out the Intel website and downloaded the latest OFFICIAL Intel Chipset INF Driver more info (dated 6/7/02) hoping to install over the top of the newer unofficial driver which is floating around today. After downloading, I went ahead and tried to install the older driver, but it wouldn't pass 30% through installation. Thinking I was in for a format, in a last ditched effort, I rebooted and started up in Safe Mode and tried to install the older official drivers, again - It worked, and fixed all the problems aforementioned.
If you were unlucky enough to install this new Intel Chipset Driver floating around, I hope this information has proved useful for you. I just wish news reporters would bother to test new drivers first before they post about them and give many users, like myself, an unneeded headache!
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Intel introduces 2.6 and 2.8GHz Xeon processors - DigiTimes
Is Intel out to shutdown AMD? Or do they just love taking more and more market share from AMD? It seems every market AMD used to have a lead on, Intel is shattering it... You know those beautiful Athlon MP's dominating the server and workstation market? According to Digi Times, it seems Intel has introduced the 2.6 and 2.8 ghz Xeon processors. The new Athlon MP killers... BOOYA!
Intel on September 11 introduced two of its latest Xeon processors, running at 2.8 and 2.6GHz, to target the workstation and server markets. Built on Intel's 0.13-micron process, the new products support 512K L2 cache memoryMore info @ DigiTimes
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Intel said to sample Springdale chipsets this month - Digi Times
Umm excuse me but is Intel on Crack? What I mean is, they seem to be sending out new chipsets/cpus faster then you can say Intel! According to Digi Times, Intel will be sampling the new springdale chipsets this month...
Intel is reportedly planning to send out samples of its new-generation, Springdale-core chipsets to motherboard clients this month for product design purposes.More information @ Digi Times
Scheduled to hit the market in the first half of 2003, the Springdale chipsets are Intel's latest products for its forthcoming Prescott-core Pentium 4 processors.
As for the 845GE, 845PE and 845GV chipsets, probably the last batch of products to be released this year, the chip giant has decided to officially start volume shipments on October 7. Intel began providing the products in small quantities after mid-August.
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Intel takes almost 60% of the chipset market in 2Q - Digi Times
Can Intel be stopped? Maybe Cyrix can step up :P?It seems like intel has taken 60% of the chipset market in the second quarter.. Read more about it at Digi Times.
Intel further consolidated its dominance in the chipset market with its global share rising from 57% in the first quarter to 59.6% in the second, according to figures released by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).More info at Digi Times
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New AMD Athlon XP 2400+ & 2600+ CPU Reviews Out Now!
Athlon XP 2400+ and 2600+ "Thoroughbred" cored CPU's are now out.
SUNNYVALE, CA -- August 21, 2002 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today celebrates the third anniversary of the award-winning AMD Athlon processor by announcing the world's highest-performing processor for desktop PCs, the AMD Athlon XP processor 2600+. AMD also introduced the AMD Athlon XP processor 2400+.Reviews can be found at -
"The introduction of the highest-performing PC processor in the world is a victory for application performance and a resounding defeat for the 'megahertz myth,' " said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "As the performance leader, the AMD Athlon XP processor 2600+ reigns as the superior choice and delivers outstanding application performance for richer, high-powered digital computing."
Since its debut three years ago, the AMD Athlon processor has achieved widespread industry acclaim as its architectural superiority continues to deliver award-winning performance. The processor and systems based on it have won more than 100 awards worldwide, including PC Magazine's Reader's Choice Award, Product of the Year 2001/2002; Microprocessor Report's Analyst's Choice Award for Best PC Processor in 2001; and Maximum PC's CPU of the Year in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
"Microprocessor cognoscenti have long understood the folly of using megahertz as a proxy for performance," observed Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64. "Processors used in today's high-end servers run at approximately one gigahertz, but outperform the fastest desktop PC designs. Even within the PC processor segment, differing approaches to chip design make simple megahertz-based performance comparisons somewhat ambiguous. This problem will only get worse over time. PC buyers should rethink their purchasing criteria, and focus on how fast their applications run, rather than on the PC processor's megahertz rating."
The AMD Athlon XP processors 2600+ and 2400+ feature QuantiSpeed architecture, which delivers performance advantages versus competitive PC processors on a broad array of real-world applications, including digital media, office productivity and 3D gaming.
AMD has begun shipping samples of the AMD Athlon XP processors 2600+ and 2400+ to major computer manufacturers worldwide with expected system availability in September.
The AMD Athlon XP processors 2600+ and 2400+ are priced at $297 and $193, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.
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By Paul Reidinger
"IN GERMANY" my young German friend was saying, "if you go into an Indian restaurant, the people doing the cooking are from India, or if it's a Turkish restaurant, they're from Turkey. Here it doesn't matter what kind of food it is, the cooks are all from Mexico or Central America."
I wondered about that while he paused for a sip of white wine a glass of fairly buttery Falanghina ($5.75), from Campania and a bite of the pizza we were sharing, which was surprisingly excellent. Or maybe not that surprising, since we were sitting in Pizzeria Delfina, whose owner, Craig Stoll, was all over the place, seating, serving, supervising, training his new staff, making sure the place's early days (it opened in mid-July) are good ones. Opening a restaurant is like laying a linoleum floor or raising a baby: Those first moments determine much of what will come after. So the strong beginning is highly desirable, highly sought-after, and perhaps essential.
Were the pizzeria's peel-wielding chefs native to, or descended from natives of, one of our hemisphere's many Spanish-speaking lands? It was difficult to tell in all the blurring, though pleasant, commotion; Pizzeria Delfina is, among other things, an echo of the original Delfina (which, now expanded, is next door) in its narrow, hectic, youthful space. It is generally understood, though, that many of the people who actually do the city's restaurant cooking are of Mexican or Central American heritage, and this tends to be true whether the restaurant is Postrio or a Chinese take-out place operating in a storefront in the vague borderland between North Beach and Chinatown.
To help these people many of whom are immigrants or do not speak fluent English or both find their way through the labyrinth of San Francisco's restaurantland, the Mission Language and Vocational School operates a culinary school, the Latino Cuisine Culinary Academy, whose courses of instruction include cooking, baking, and restaurant management and, if appropriate, English as a second language. The academy, in turn, operates a breakfast-and-lunch restaurant, the Florida Street Café, that provides on-the-job experience and rather winningly emphasizes the academy's preferred cooking styles: California and Latino.
The lunch menu has a mishmashy quality like that of a potluck party. You could open with a tortilla salad ($4.75) of fresh, freshly chopped romaine leaves bathed Caesar-style in a thick, milky ranch dressing and nested in a deep-fried shell with guacamole, pico de gallo, and cubes of queso blanco before moving on to trout papillote. Fish cooked in paper seemed a little grand for the moment; we drifted away from the papillote, heading lazily downstream toward the bottom of the menu, where we found such stalwarts as an excellent Cuban sandwich ($6.25) and a well-seasoned turkey cheeseburger ($6.25). The former consisted of roast pork loin and ham slices on a soft baguette, with pickles, Swiss cheese, hot mustard, and crisp home fries on the side. The latter had a little less personality, as is often the case with turkey burgers, but that and everything else washed down nicely with watermelon aguas frescas in which we detected a nippy undertone of cucumber, one of watermelon's closest relations.
The setting, an airy, dimly lit box of a room, could be a hotel restaurant in a Graham Greene novel set in the sleepy capital of some politically unstable, postwar, backwater land. Table service is efficient and correct (water glasses refilled without asking, et cetera), and the kitchen swiftly responsive. There is also sidewalk seating, which has the effect of reminding one how appealingly warm, sunny, and unwindy the Mission's weather is, particularly when it is cold, windy, and foggy in other, more high-end neighborhoods. ("Sunny" Noe Valley!) Over at Pizzeria Delfina the splendid summer weather has also been noted and a sidewalk-café scene set up; with Tartine at one corner, Pizzeria Delfina, Delfina, and Bi-Rite in the middle of the block, and the Dolores Park Café at the other corner, that passage of 18th Street now is like one of those stretches of Melrose just west of La Cienaga.
There is, for me, a powerful confluence of memory around the combination of good, thin-crust pizza and good Italian beer and Pizzeria Delfina actually has Peroni's Nastro Azzurro ("blue ribbon"), which is more or less the official beer of Rome, though Romans enjoy it on tap while we must make do with bottles. But the blistered excellence of the pizza has a way of erasing such minor indignities. A salsiccia pie ($13.25), lightly swabbed with a sanguinous tomato sauce and dotted with bits of house-made sausage exhaling a strong perfume of fennel, could easily have been served to sing-song acclaim at one of those trattorias where Neapolitans and Romans so festively gather on warm summer evenings. Instead it came to us, at lunch, in the Mission, and I made no complaint and heard none, even if we were seated inside, amid a sleekness of blond wood, stainless steel, and chalkboards.
Like any American pizzeria worthy of the name, Pizzeria Delfina does a take-out business, and because an element of the place's identity is Lunch at Delfina (the mother ship has never served lunch), the menu also features various Tuscan-flavored lunchables such as pastas and bean salads. Yet Pizzeria Delfina is also open for dinner a useful factoid to have in hand in case a walk-in attempt on Delfina itself turns out to be mission: impossible.
Florida Street Café. 710 Florida (at 19th St.), SF. (415) 648-5227, mvls.org. Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-3 p.m. No alcohol. MasterCard, Visa. Not noisy. Wheelchair accessible.


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Dept. of Things You Didn't Know: Roger Clemens' kid raked last year
Jan 1, 2010, 3:00 PM EDT
Sure, it was at a very hitter-friendly park in a very hitter-friendly league, but Koby Clemens hit the cover off the ball last season:
Say what you want about the Astros' eighth-round pick of the 2005
Draft, that he's a product of a hitting league and a very friendly
ballpark, but it's difficult to look past the fact that he finished the
season with the most RBIs in all of the Minor Leagues, won the
California League batting title with a .345 average and led the Class A
Advanced circuit in RBIs (121), doubles (45), slugging percentage
(.636) and OPS (1.055).
Clemens was an 8th round pick by in 2005, he tends to have to repeat levels before he does anything solid and he isn't even the Astros' top-rated catching prospect (that would be Jason Castro). Still, he has power and some patience at the plate and may just manage to make it to the bigs someday if the stars align just so.
Not bad for someone who seemed like a nepotism pick at the time.
- scatterbrian - Jan 1, 2010 at 4:13 PM
That .425 BABIP can't last.
- GimmeSomeSteel - Jan 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM
That's true, scatterbrian (great name, BTW), but the kid still has some talent, and that's the exception with the Astros rather than the rule. Don't hold the fact that his father is such an a** against him. I'm rooting for him.
- Gelardia - Jan 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Check him for HGH.
- scatterbrian - Jan 1, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Oh I agree. Good on-base and contact skills, though I think we need another season to see if the power's for real. Do the Astros see him as a C or 3B long-term?
- Old Gator - Jan 1, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Wonder if he's got some sort of chip on his shoulder over the reversal in his father's fortunes. Sometimes it just takes a jolt or two to bring out the tiger asleep in the pussycat. As far as the Astros seeing "long term," that's a new one on me.
- scott from peekskill - Jan 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Kid soes have a chip on his shoulder and ice water in his veins…oh, and of course, his Dad shooting him in the ass with HGH.
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A common lung condition, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) diminishes the heart's ability to pump effectively even when the disease has no or mild symptoms, according to research published in the Jan. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study is the first time researchers have shown strong links between heart function and mild COPD. The research was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers have long known that severe cases of COPD have harmful effects on the heart, decreasing its ability to pump blood effectively. The new results suggest that these changes in the heart occur much earlier than previously believed, in mild cases and even before symptoms appear. One in five Americans over the age of 45 has COPD, but as many as half of them may not even be aware of it.
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COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and it is strongly associated with smoking. COPD often involves destruction of lung tissue, called emphysema, as well as narrowed airways, persistent cough, and mucus production, known as chronic obstructive bronchitis. These abnormalities impair the flow of air in the lungs and make breathing more difficult.
Although damage to the airways from COPD is not fully reversible, treatments can substantially improve a patient's daily life. "COPD is one of the big killers in the United States, yet it is unknown to many," said James P. Kiley, Ph.D., director of the NHLBI Division of Lung Diseases. "Unfortunately, many people with COPD don't recognize common symptoms such as having shortness of breath while doing activities they used to be a
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From 'Knocked Up' to Nyquil Ads, Can TV Save Katherine Heigl's Career?
From 'Knocked Up' to Nyquil Ads, Can TV Save Katherine Heigl's Career?
This story first appeared in the Sept. 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Is there television life after box-office death for Katherine Heigl?
NBC announced Sept. 9 that it will develop a television project written by Alexi Hawley, co-executive producer of Fox's The Following, in which the 34-year-old Heigl would play the CIA's chief liaison to the president.
It's hardly unusual for a film star to turn to the small screen at this stage in the industry's evolution, but most of those who have done so (Kevin Bacon, Dennis Quaid, Glenn Close) will never see 50 again. Heigl could still have enjoyed years of film success, says one executive who made a movie with her. "She was poised," says this person. "I still see her sometimes when I flip around the channels, and she has it. She's got real big movie-star charisma."
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What's soured many in the industry, according to several executives and producers who have worked with Heigl, is more than just the exceptionally difficult behavior and demands of Heigl and her manager mother, Nancy. There also is Heigl's habit of airing her grievances in public, including her 2008 denunciation of her first hit film, Knocked Up, as "sexist," as well as her announcement later that year that she would not seek an Emmy for her performance in ABC's Grey's Anatomy because the writing wasn't good enough.
Not even five short years ago, Heigl commanded $12 million for a movie. Her 2009 romantic comedy The Ugly Truth pulled in more than $200 million worldwide. But her most recent effort, The Big Wedding, topped out at $21.8 million domestic with a paltry 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, that was something of an ensemble effort with a cast that included Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton. Her most recent film before that, One for the Money, managed only $37 million worldwide with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 2 percent.
Hollywood has infinite patience with difficult talents -- until the box office stops booming. Asked about the state of Heigl's career, a top executive at a studio that made one of her movies says tartly, "I think she's doing the perfect thing -- going back to television."
Heigl and her mother declined comment, but a source close to the star says Heigl knows she needs to rebuild. "She's really determined to put everything behind her," says this insider. "The only way to do that is to go to work in film or television with good people and for those people to have good things to report back. And it's not an overnight thing." But this source adds that Heigl's problem primarily is with the industry. "There's a really loyal, huge fan base that's waiting to see her," he says.