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Any sign of the musicians acting the least bit important while playing music the critics don't like it labeled as pretentious.
For most of Led Zeppelin's active career, they were panned by critics left and right as pretentious, to the point the band hired their own PR man just to deal with the negativity.
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I really had no idea Zep was so hated until I read Danny Goldberg's book. He was hired by Zep to do their PR before he went off and became a record company mogul. By the time I became aware of Zep in school, they were already considered legends.
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Didn't jazz spawn from the "Blues"?
So all contemporary music comes from Blues? Or did Blues and Jazz develop simultaneously?
I kind of like old drums:)
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When music is manage in a different and originally way, shape, it will be stigmatized and categorized as pretentious. Is it Rammstein, pretentious? for what they write, play and do.
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The only question is what gave him(her) the inspiration to pick up the stick and hit log in the first place.
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Blues came from the slaves who were kidnapped from Africa, and I would say that Blues and Jazz developed concurrently. The earliest known blues songs were in and around the turn of the century, and jazz, about the same time. Jazz was spauned in Nawlins, no? Blues first surfaced in the cotton fields of the Missippi Delta as field hollers, call and response type stuff.
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No wonder why we argue about it so much!
It can't be fully understood of defined.
I kind of like old drums:)
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Pretense = pretending to be something that you're not (IMO). It can be applied across the board......
Pollyanna - the box set of Henry Cow? that's news - I have quite a few of their albums on vinyl.... was Desperate Straights (Slapp Happy and Henry Cow) included in the box set?
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Interesting observation re: male/female. It could just as easily be said, Relationship focus = feminine, object focus = masculine. Many a marriage has crashed on the rocks of that schism :) although it's a broad brush stroke.
Re: KC ... to be fair, yep, LTIA --> Red didn't have the lush gorgeousness of, say, the buildups in Epitaph and ITCOTKC, there were some special moments like that wonderful spooky noodling with all the cool percussives in the middle of Easy Money, the wonderful spikiness of LTIA (esp Pt 1) and the grandiosity of Starless. Even my mum liked the first section of Starless ... or should I say "movement"? hehehe
Masses and masses of glorious pretension!
I still haven't worked out what music is included in what volume. I read somewhere that the third box includes all the studio albums but I've looked at other lists and it doesn't mention them. Confused!
On the plus side, they buy drinks (always helps the band's cause), they aren't violent and they don't scream PLAY SOME RAWK AND RAWWWWL!!! I reckon there are plenty of worse things a person can be than a wanker, and there are plenty worse things for a band than to have poseurs at their gigs - like having diddly squat people there!
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Still, as I say, they're harmless, buy drinks and they make the room look more full :)
Hey - I just thought of a pretentious musician! There was this guy in my local area around 1980 who fancied himself as a kind of Svengali character and would gather all these amateur players with nothing better to do to play in his band. He thought he was the ant's pants, but he was such an atrocious guitarist that I actually saw guys in the audience laughing when he played a solo.
Everyone in the band was a far more accomplished than he was but he called the shots and ruled with an iron fist. There was a very solid bassist and a female singer who'd been getting lessons at the Con. Jones, the band leader, fancied himself as a ladies man and kept on trying to crack on to her. A guitarist I'd played with in a previous band had taken up percussion lessons and was playing in this guy's band to get some experience.
Finally my friend got sick of Jones's idiocy and poached the singer and bassist, and I left the band I was in to join them in starting up a new group. We even played a song that our singer wrote about him ... :"Jones walks the streets, with that look in his eye" (to a sinister melody). It was hilarious but sadly I never got a recording of it :(
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I think they'd be pretty good if every song wasn't exactly the same with machine gun double kick and cheesy lyrics.
All subjective though.
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and yes coming to mind that Easy Money percussion interlude is fun. That band had something with Jamie Muir that they were unfortunately never able to fully realize. I think it came to pass in the 80s Crimson though that was more percussive and rhythmic.
Emerson's Tarkus was actually the subject of a concert in Japan where is was re-orchestrated for full orchestra.
The esteemed Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Keith Emerson's progressive rock composition "TARKUS" newly arranged to an orchestral piece by composer/arranger, Takashi Yoshimitsu.
Here is Keith's comment on this inaugural performance.
"This is a great honour for me to have my music played and presented with such esteemed players!!! Arranger Takashi Yoshimatsu and orchestra play my work in a land I have grown to love since I first visited Japan in 1972 with my band.
I wrote the 'Tarkus Suite" 1971 in England. Artist WIliam Neal originally provided the imagery after I came up with a fictitious name for the music I was writing. It was a unique time frame of musical composition and experimentation for me as the changing times and the time changes for England became out of time. I left England as we all had to deal with political issues in subtle ways and it all played its part in the way of things until it grew to define a historic mark as to what is now known as progressive rock music that now falls into contemporary classical." -- Keith Emerson
Emerson recognizes that what transpired in English popular music during the late 1960s and 70s was a little more influential than some critics would have thought. In the hands of a great arranger, some of that stuff could be quite good, and the height of pretension.
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Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo in 1953, and studied at Keio University (Department of Technology). He taught himself composition, joining a jazz and rock group, although he has studied under Teizo Matsumura for a short while. He became disenchanted with atonal music, and began to compose in a free neo-romantic style with strong influences from jazz, rock and Japanese classical music, underscoring his reputation with his 1985 guitar concerto.He argues for a "new liricism" and objects to unmusical "modern music". Yoshimatsu's supporters enjoy his easy, tuneful style and sense of the capacities of different instruments, although critics complain that his work is simply a post-modern jumble with little coherent theme.
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I felt SABB was nowhere near as good. If not for Starless I'd say the same about Red, although it seems most critics and pundits think that was a highlight for them, I guess 'cos it was more RAWK N RAWWWWWL *sigh*
Post modern jumble? Idjuts. It was a flexible ooze of lovely timbres. Perfect chill music. What's the problem? ... the key phrase in your post is "critics complain". Yes, they do. They listen to so much music that they have chronic indigestion, so they find any musical morsel that's richer than a dry cracker "overblown".
Their attitudes remind me of Mr Creosote at 5 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Bs1ZZ-7b8 ... BTW, love the Noel Coward takeoff at the start :)
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Interesting how much King Crimson (and ELP) comes up in this discussion of pretence....
I thought KC really had something on ITCOTCK (21st century.... and Epitaph in particular) they recaptured that bit of magic in Lark's Tongues (agree about Jamie Muir) - Fripp seems to have this ability to create very colourful music.
Does anyone else lament that Mr Giles gave away drumming? I loved his intricate playing on ITCOTCK.....
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Hercules yes, KC were (and are) the most self-consciously arty of prog bands. Bob Fripp's interviews are compulsory listening for fans of self-appointed visionaries :)
Mike Giles didn't quit drumming, he's just locked in a time warp and playing in the 21st Century Schizoid Band with his brother on bass. Check them out on YouTube. He plays the snare a lot and when the recording sound isn't good his playing clatters too much for my ear. When the sound is good, as per those studio albums ... brilliant.
Loved his playing on thos first two KC albums. His playing on Cat Food (a wonderfully pretentious track :) has some of my fave drumming sounds and dynamics ever.
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We should start a Michael Giles fan club. From my understanding, he just does not like the road. That is why he quit Crimson and that is why we rarely see him perform live.
Cat Food was a good one. As silly as though songs were, there was some nice playing on many of those tracks. Who was the keyboardist on that one?
People say Fripp is quite a reclusive nut these days; but even those who are not a fan of avant-garde rock can find his extreme sense of detached obscurity quite refreshing in a world of overblown celebrity.
I think that the Brits had a greater sense of the dramatic role in popular music due to the long theatrical history and that Shakespeare dude. You didn't have that as much in the states except maybe for Morrison who had a BA in film through the theater department of UCLA.. Then you see it in the Alice and the LA scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. I don't know though. I don't really take the theatrics of Alice, Kiss or performance artists like Madonna that seriously. It's less pretense and more shock value.
It's also the case that in Britain the music itself was more dramatic and American rock really did not have anything in comparison to Webber, Townsend or Waters. We had Grease, and Hair. many people argue rock music destroyed American musical theater. I think a big part of that has to do with rocks demagoguery. The free-ness of a band like Henry Cow really worked against that authoritarianism stance, which of course has a gender if not also a racial undercurrent. it is no mystery that The Ramones reacted specifically against r and b of the mid 1970s, not against prog rock, and wanted to create white music, you know stuff with no rhythm, no blue notes and only three chords.
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Great post, Ken. You'd be thinking of Keith Tippett. He also played on all of the Lizard album (Cat Food was clearly a preview for that album). Bolero is my fave track on that album and Keith's playing is a big reason for that. It's poodling along as a quasi classical piece and then Keith slips in this subtle, offbeat jazz chord that changes the entire mood leading to the song morphing into ... um, prog bolero trad :)
I wasn't mad on Andy McCulloch's playing at times on that album but he had some moments, notably that gorgeous cymbal crash at the end of Bolero, and he was great in Cirkus at times and played some very nifty bits in Indoor Games.
Oh yeah, Frippy is an odd guy. In a way he reminds me of Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory. I have a soft spot for socially inept but insanely brainy men :)
I think you hit the nail on the head re: Brit & US scenes, something I was groping for on the other thread. That's why I'm so keen on European music - it's less earthy and more pretentious!
Yeah, there was a RnR orthodoxy, now that you mention it. IMO a lot of that was created by risk averse record companies looking for formulas and critics who were stifling in their conservative "rebellion". If you're a rebel because being a rebel is compulsory are you really a rebel?
Had a big smile on my face reading the last sentence of that post - ha!
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It was also the Mellotron. That's why I love The Moody Blues. You get out the Mellotron and it's Strawberry Field's Forever . . . there's no sense of realism left.
The other bold instrument that was such a fixture to early prog, and also soul jazz, was the flute. The flute is not a masculine instrument. Plato warned long ago about the seductive dangers of flute music and its ability to make reality disappear.
I was reading on Wikipedia that Tippet had an early jazz band with Elton Dean. The Centipede orchestra was his creation.
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Yeah, no one could ever replace it, not Moog, not Yamaha not Korg. :)
That's because it was actual, 'real' recordings. :P There nothing like real live recording . . .
The Moodies were actually the template for many of the early prog bands, like Genesis and King Crimson. Genesis didn't use the mellotron as much; but Crimson really modeled themselves after what the Moodies were doing.
One of the differences I think between early Crimson and Bruford Crimson is the change that happened from well-rounded musicianship to virtuosity in prog. The Moodies, like the Beatels, exemplified a consort of musicians who could dabble on various instruments if need be. The concentration was not on virtuosity but on timbre and sound scape painting:string, flute, mellotron, or sitar. In some sense, it was sound tracking.
Crimson took up that mantle adding Sax, English horn, chamber orchestra, jazz improvisation, sometimes with a N'Orleans flair. You had the same pseudo romantic poetic imagery, sea imagery, love and armageddon.
Then Mahavishnu Orchestra came about, and things changed. For me, the earlier albums worked better because it was silly pretense masking as great art that was sometimes a lot of fun. I think they were quite a aware at how sardonic it often was. I think the latter stuff was conceived as art. It tried to be avant-garde but came of as silly pretense and seemed overly simplistic in comparison to what others were doing at the time. I think if Jamie Muir had not left the band things would have been very different. And look what happened to John Wetton.
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While the lauded virtuoso had been around for a long time, great musicianship was till largely a tool to provide scope and depth to performances. In time virtuosity started being focused on in its own right - the scope and depth mattered less than the ability to play many notes with challenging syncopation, modes, intervals etc. The attitude became more sport-like with ability being as valued, sometimes more so, as artistry. Unless it's mind-blowing like MO, I'll go for artistry, ideas, atmosphere and emotions over ability every time.
That's the area where I ran into trouble in the infamous Feel vs Technique thread in my early days at the forum. If I'd articulated my ideas then as well as you just did, then my comments may not have been misinterpreted as anti-technique. The whole idea of anti-technique is perverse (which has its own appeal and character in a way, (eg. early punk) but technique's elevation from being a tool to being sought after in its own right didn't give me joy.
To be fair, Bruford era Crimson was far from being all about technique. In fact, I'd argue that the technique on display in Lizard was higher than than in the mid-70s band. The music in LTIA had an exotic, edgy, introverted character that resonated strongly with me. It's as though all those tritones and crazy sounds expressed a dark side of my soul that wasn't allowed overt expression (unless I fancied spending time behind bars :)
I don't think KC were sardonic in the early days. They were simpler times, when bands could sing "All You Need Is Love" with a straight face, and the Crims were even more naive still :) The were aiming to be arty right from the start ... elaborate arrangements set to Pete Sinfield's poetry.
Look at the idiotic, crude schoolyardish nyah nyah lyrics in Ladies of the Road in the 70s. Are you going to tell me that these guys were worldly enough to be sardonic about their vaguely analogous "purple pipers" and "yellow jesters" in 1969? They were simply that naive and pretentious, and I thought it was fabulous. Still do :)
Their later pretensions in the mid 70s were consistent with that naivete. But ultimately, none of this silliness would have worked except that the group consistently provided some of the most varied, imaginative and wonderful timbres and textures around. The 80s incarnation continued in that tradition.
If the music was more modest, less pretentious, then I doubt I'd have been interested. Good taste is wonderful but without inspiration (or a healthy infusion of conscious artiness :) tastefulness can be like a straitjacket that results in one-dimensional, predictable songs where you know what it will sound like at the end after hearing the first few bars. That might suit Rolling Stone reviewers but it doesn't suit me :)
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Good taste seems to mean restricted taste in this instance. All music that's well-constructed deserves to be enjoyed.
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Sorry about that.:)
For me, the enjoyment is in the sardonic aspect. I was going to say that it speaks to the first question, if it is consciously pretentious does that take away from its enjoyment as opposed to being pretentious through naivete?
The Moody Blues were pretentious not only in their overly orchestrated rock and roll; but also that they did believe they were creating 'great art.' Remember the House of Four Doors: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, The Moody Blues, "Legend of a Mind." Yes similarly came to believe with CTTE and TFTO that they were creating "great music." Whereas Emerson has always been upfront with the fact that he didn't see his music as akin to the great classical masters or the great jazz artists. I've always said that the music does have a place in the popular classical realm, and have spoken to Keith about this. As an aside, you had those recordings of David Palmer, which in my book didn't work because even if you are playing rock and roll with a full orchestra, the drumming needs to be over the top. :) all those guys Bonham, Paice, Moon, Palmer, Bruford, Giles, Hiseman etc. were full of classical gestures and classical overtures in their playing. I think that is another thing that separates Europe from the States.
It would be fun to ask Fripp of Bruford what they thought about the question . . .
Ladies of the Road is an interesting example because it is one part "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" and one part "Norwegian Wood," which was about a one night stand. They had to know what they were doing there. The sax in Crimson often beckons back to Coltrane. I really think they were conscious of this, and many of these guys probably had more musical chops than they led onto. It was a big thing to be a naive romantic back then, I kind of raw talent. So musicians often did not want to admit they had been taking lessons at the conservatory..
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A vulnerability introduced by wildcard matching mechanism or double evaluation of OGNL Expression allows remote command execution.
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Remote command execution, remote server context manipulation, injection of malicious client side code
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Highly Critical
Developers should immediately upgrade to Struts 188.8.131.52
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Struts 2.0.0 - Struts 22.214.171.124
Jon Passki from Coverity Security Research Laboratory reported directly to firstname.lastname@example.com and via blog post
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Struts 2 allows define action mapping base on wildcards, like in example below:
If a request doesn't match any other defined action, it will be matched by
* and requested action name will be used to load JSP file base on the name of action. And as value of {
1} is threaten as an OGNL expression, thus allow to execute arbitrary Java code on server side. This vulnerability is combination of two problems:
TextParseUtil.translateVariables when combination of
$ and
% open chars is used.
As you can notice, action name is resolved based on user input and you can put any arbitrary code to perform attack.
execute() method as below:
foobar header, it should be
As you can notice, passed value of
message parameter was used to set value of
foobar header and the value was double evaluated - first time when
${message} was evaluated, secondly when parsed value (
${%{1+2}}) was evaluated again.
With the new version actions' names whitelisting was introduced and by default is set to accept actions that match the following regex:
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Double evaluation of passed expression was removed from
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Pickens County Meals on Wheels announces the 4th Annual Wings and Wheels for Meals.
The event will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pickens County Airport in Liberty. This event has a track record as a proven community favorite, and this year promises to be another day of fun for the entire family. Attractions will include:
Airplane and Helicopter Rides and custom car shows, food, a display of radio-controlled aircraft by the Raptors RC (radio controlled) Club; and the chance to win exciting giveaway items.
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Pharaoh is worried! His tomb at Giza is behind schedule and he fears it will not be done in time for his funeral. He is offering great rewards to the faction that contributes the most work on his pyramid in the next 10 years. If your people work the hardest and work the smartest you shall earn Pharaoh's favor!
In Giza, the Great Pyramid™ you are the leader of one of four factions vying for Pharaoh's favor. You have 10 years to outperform the other factions and contribute the most to his great pyramid, earning eternal gratitude and glory. You shall need to balance your labor! Farm and fish to feed your people. Sweat and struggle with the back-breaking labor of moving the giant stone blocks into place. Task your folk with the creation of exquisite artworks to beautify Pharaoh's eternal rest.
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Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data
All of the changes you make in Firefox, like your home page, what toolbars you use, saved passwords and your bookmarks, are all stored in a special folder, called a profile. Your profile folder is stored in a separate place from the Firefox program so that, if something ever goes wrong with Firefox, your information will still be there. It also means you can uninstall Firefox without losing your settings and you don't have to reinstall Firefox to clear your information or troubleshoot a problem.
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How do I find my profile?
At the top of the Firefox window, click on the button, go over to the menuOn the menu bar, click on the menuAt the top of the Firefox window, click on the and select menu . The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.Click the menu button , click help and select . The Troubleshooting Information tab will open.
- Under the Application Basics section, click on filesfolder will open. . A window with your profile
Finding your profile without opening Firefox
- From the Start Screen, click the Desktop tile. The Desktop view will open.
- From the Desktop, hover in the lower right-hand corner to access the Charms.
- Select the charm. The Search sidebar will open.
- In the search box, type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\, without pressing Enter. A list of profiles will appear.
- Click on the profile with "default" in the name to open it in a window.
- Click the Windows %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in the Search box at the bottom of the Start menu, without pressing Enter. A list of profiles will appear at the top of the Start menu. button and type
- Click on the profile with "default" in the name to open it in a window.
- Click the Windows
button, and select .
- Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click .
- A window will open containing profile folders.
- Double-click the folder with "default" in the name to open it.
- Open the Library folder for your Mac user account:
- (OS X 10.6 or previous) Click the Finder icon in the dock. Your home folder will be selected, (usually the name of your Mac user account). In the right side of the window, click the Library folder to open it.
- (OS X 10.7 or above) Click the Finder icon in the dock. On the menu bar, click the option or alt key and select . A window will open containing your Library folder. menu, hold down the
- Open the "Application Support" folder, then open the "Firefox" folder, and then the "Profiles" folder.
- Open the folder with "default" in the name to open your profile.
- (Ubuntu) Click the menu on the top right of the screen and select . A File Browser window will appear.
- Click the menu and select if it isn't already checked.
- Double click the folder marked .mozilla.
- Double click the folder marked firefox. Your profile folder is within this folder.
What information is stored in my profile?
- Bookmarks and Browsing History: The places.sqlite file contains all your Firefox bookmarks and the list of all the websites you've visited. The bookmarkbackups folder stores bookmark backup files, which can be used to restore your bookmarks. For more information, see Create bookmarks to save your favorite webpages and Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.
- Bookmarks, Downloads and Browsing History: The places.sqlite file contains all your Firefox bookmarks and lists of all the files you've downloaded and websites you've visited. The bookmarkbackups folder stores bookmark backup files, which can be used to restore your bookmarks. For more information, see Create bookmarks to save your favorite webpages and Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer.
- Passwords: Your passwords are stored in the key3.db and signons.sqlitelogins.json files. For more information, see Password manager - Remember, delete and change saved passwords in Firefox.
- Site-specific preferences: The permissions.sqlite and content-prefs.sqlite files store many of your Firefox permissions (for instance, which sites are allowed to display popups) or zoom levels that are set on a site-by-site basis. For more information, see Permissions Manager - Give certain websites the ability to store passwords, set cookies and more and Font size and zoom - increase the size of web pages.
- Search engines: The search.sqlite file and searchplugins folder store the search engines that are available in the Firefox Search bar.
- Personal dictionary: The persdict.dat file stores any custom words you have added to Firefox's dictionary. For more information, see How do I use the Firefox spell checker?.
- Autocomplete history: The formhistory.sqlite file remembers what you have searched for in the Firefox search bar and what information you've entered into forms on websites. For more information, see Control whether Firefox automatically fills in forms.
- Download history: The downloads.sqlite file remembers what you have downloaded. For more information, see Where to find and manage downloaded files in Firefox.
- Cookies: A cookie is a bit of information stored on your computer by a website you've visited. Usually this is something like your site preferences or login status. Cookies are all stored in the cookies.sqlite file.
- DOM storage: DOM Storage is designed to provide a larger, more secure, and easier-to-use alternative to storing information in cookies. Information is stored in the webappsstore.sqlite file for websites and in the chromeappsstore.sqlite for about:* pages.
- Security certificate settings: The cert8.db file stores all your security certificate settings and any SSL certificates you have imported into Firefox.
- Security device settings: The secmod.db file is the security module database.
- Download actions: The mimeTypes.rdf file stores your preferences that tell Firefox what to do when it comes across a particular type of file. For example, these are the settings that tell Firefox to open a PDF file with Acrobat Reader when you click on it. For more information, see Change what Firefox does when you click on or download a file.
- Plugin MIME type: The pluginreg.dat file stores Internet media types related to your installed plugins. For more information, see Use plugins to play audio, video, games and more.
- Stored session: The sessionstore.js file stores the currently open tabs and windows. For more information, see Restore previous session - Configure when Firefox shows your most recent tabs and windows.
- Toolbar customization: The localstore.rdf file stores toolbar and window size/position settings. For more information, see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.
- Toolbar customization: The xulstore.json file stores toolbar and window size/position settings. For more information, see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.
- User preferences: The prefs.js file stores customized user preference settings, such as changes you make in Firefox OptionsPreferences dialogs. The optional user.js file, if one exists, will override any modified preferences.
- User styles: If they exist, the \chrome\userChrome.css and \chrome\userContent.css files store user-defined changes to either how Firefox looks, or how certain websites or HTML elements look or act.
Working with profiles
The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information. Consider using it before going through a lengthy troubleshooting process.
The Refresh Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information. Consider using it before going through a lengthy troubleshooting process.
- Use the Profile Manager to create and remove Firefox profiles explains how to do things like create a new profile and delete an old one.
- Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles explains how to back up and restore a profile. It also explains how to move your profile information to a different location on your hard drive or to another computer.
- Recovering important data from an old profile describes what information is stored in each of the files in your profile and explains how to copy them to a new profile.
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Pricing on air-conditioners will depend on the size and BTUs (British Thermal Units) it puts out. Calculating the size of the room that needs to be cool is key to energy consumption. If the unit is too small the air-conditioner will operate continually and the electrical bill will be a shocker.
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What does it take to become a successful writer? Well, that depends on your definition of success. I've always believed that just putting pen to paper every day is a silent victory. There are others who live and die by seeing their name in print. I won't lie to you — publishing your work can be sweeter than that first schoolboy crush could ever hope to be. In my Nov. 18 column, "Community Responsibility," I talked about many of the ways Toledo's literary community has been coming up short; this time out let's focus on what we're doing right.
While poetry readings around the city have been closing down at a rather alarming rate, that is sure to change. In the meantime, a number of our community's finest wordsmiths have been finding other outlets for their work, in print. I recently opened up my e-mail to discover that Rusty Truck Magazine had published a new poem by local favorite Michael Kocinski.
Kocinski may live in Michigan now, but he left his heart here in Toledo. Publishing our local authors seems to be a growing trend for Rusty Truck publisher Scot Young, who has also run work by Michael Grover, Craig Firsdon and myself. Firsdon, a Holland native, has also recently had work in the online magazine Red Fez; the same issue included work by UT student Nick Bruno and Simply Poetry's Michelle "Mikki" Williams.
The past few years have also seen work published by Caroline Gauger, Timothy Geiger, Star Bowers, Bob Phillips, Ray Patrick, and the late Rane Arroyo. The list goes on and on. There are countless others who I've spoken with, who have sent work out and who are now just waiting by their virtual mailbox for reply.
Now, I'm not saying that publishing is anything new to the area. Etheridge Knight once called our city home, and poets like Nick Muska and Lucas County Poet Laureate Joel Lipman have certainly done their share to make our region's literary community more visible. What excites me most about this latest wave of activity, however, is
that it seems to be all about new blood and on a national level.
When I started bringing in published poets from out of town a few years ago, what I wanted the local authors to see is that this city can be bigger than itself, that if we reach out, others will reach out to us. While this experiment has had mixed results, our community is expanding and going out into the larger world and I couldn't be prouder.
Now, if we could do the same thing in terms of readings, we'd really be cooking.
So just how can you get involved in publishing? There are a number of resources available to you just by going online or visiting your local library. Here are just a few:
- Duotrope's Digest, www.duotrope.com
- Writer's Digest Magazine, www.writersdigest.com
- Poets and Writers Inc., www.pw.org
- Laura Hird, www.laurahird.com
- Poet's Market, www.poetsmarket.com
Do any of these resources actually work for the unpublished writer? I can tell you from personal experience that they do. When I started submitting my own work back in the early 1990s, I found my very first publishing success as a result of a listing in Writer's Digest.
You're afraid that you'll be rejected … you probably will be. I was the first few dozen times. All you can do is move forward and find moments of success where you can.
Until next time … keep your pencil sharp.
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Skateboarders using the Summerville town parking garage will need to bail.
Summerville Police are clamping down on skaters' usage of the garage and, as of Jan. 1, will be issuing citations to anyone skateboarding in it.
"We will begin by giving warnings, over the next month," said SPD Public Information Officer Jon Rogers. "But as of January 1, they will be charged."
Rogers said there have been some near misses with skaters and cars colliding and it is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.
He said the town is posting signs and giving the skaters a month to get the word out.
The town recently installed a purpose built skate park for skaters, which is at the corner of S. Magnolia and E. Richland Streets, just off the Berlin G. Myers Parkway. Skaters still using the town garage face fines of up to $1087.50 or 30 days in jail.
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ESA just wrapped up its annual Day on Capitol Hill, bringing to the attention of lawmakers several topics of consequence for the security industry, including school security.
The ESA has positioned itself as a partner with Security Industry Association in developing a comprehensive guide to help end users and legislators better understand what electronic security technologies they have at their disposal to bolster school security.
"Most school districts don't know what type of security to install, and many legislators don't understand all the technology that's out there and what exists," said Daniel Gelinas, who attended the event in his capacity as government liaison for Rapid Response Monitoring. ESA's Electronic Security Guidelines for Schools, he said, were designed as an authoritative resource to address that knowledge gap.
The timing of the school security guide is especially good, in light of the latest appropriations act cleared by Congress in January, which contains $75 million in funding for assessing methods to improve school security.
But ESA's activities on the Hill weren't limited just to school security matters. The association and industry members are also pushing for expanding the industry's access to the FBI's background check database, allowing security companies to better vet their employees for prior criminal activity.
Gelinas said the pair of bills addressing this (one in the House, another in the Senate) would not be a mandate. Rather, if enacted, they would allow security companies in the 26 states without the licensing requirement for the database to access it.
The organization was also in the Capitol promoting funding measures that would protect against elderly abuse through expanded use of video surveillance in nursing homes. Gelinas noted that this would not be a mandate for health care facilities, but would instead give concerned families the option to use electronic security systems to ensure that elderly relatives are getting proper medication and care.
The final area of focus for ESA was getting Congress to back a balanced approach for smoke alarms and other early fire detection systems, putting them on "the same footing as sprinklers" when it comes to receiving tax incentives and government grants, Gelinas said. That would involve amending the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act to include life safety, fire and smoke alarms.
I plan to give more space to this final issue, and some of the aforementioned ones, in an upcoming legislative roundup.
National distribution company ADI's newest branch office in Omaha, Nebraska features a much smaller layout and a new concept. Assuming the "ADI Express" concept works well in Omaha, ADI will be opening up a lot of new branches in secondary markets, Michael Flink, ADI president told me.
The Omaha branch is ADI's 100th branch. "ADI has 99 regular-size branches in 65 major markets," Flink said. Typically, ADI branches are about 8,500 square feet and have six or seven employees. The new ADI Express office is about "half the size, half the number of employees," Flink said.
Every couple of years, ADI does real estate research. Recent findings led the distribution company to explore the idea of a smaller store in smaller markets. "Initially we thought the smaller stores would also have half the inventory as well, " Flink said, but good design enabled ADI to carry "almost as much merchandise [in the smaller ADI branch as in the larger branches]."
"One thing we did not want to do is lose value in the what ADI offers," he said. So, while most of the merchandise is moved behind the counter, the ADI Express still has a small training room, a 7/24 pick up room for dealers and a small show room. "Dealers like to come in and see, feel and touch the products," he said.
In smaller markets a dealer's staff may not get to travel to trade shows, but a local ADI Express showroom is a good place to see a variety of new products and technology, Flink said."It's like bringing a mini version of a trade show into the branches," Flink said. "We carry a lot of products."
ADI currently offers 1,800 training classes. The smaller branches will enable ADI to bring more training to secondary markets. "We can get the manufacturers to come to the smaller markets for training, [because] we can fill up a class if they come."
ADI plans to open up one more ADI Express branch in Q3. It will then take about six months to evaluate and tweak the smaller branch concept. Flink predicts ADI Express "will dramatically increase the number of markets we can open in," he said.
Dealers are invited to attend the grand opening at the Omaha branch tomorrow, May 1. The event will include training events, sales specials, and free giveaways. The ADI Omaha Express Store is at 12112 Centennial Road, Suite 7, in La Vista, Nebraska
I've written here before about former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who is charged with killing his friend Odin Lloyd, apparently failing to realize his home security camera was recording him with a gun both hours before—and minutes after—Lloyd was shot to death last summer. Now a home security system could be a key piece of evidence in the murder case against another sports star, the "Blade Runner."
The security system in the home of Oscar Pistorius, the South African double-amputee track star accused of murdering his girlfriend, came under scrutiny in his trial in Pretoria, South Africa in early April, news reports say.
Pistorius, 27, known as the "Blade Runner" for the high-tech artificial legs he uses, was being grilled by prosecutor Gerrie Nel when, according to Alliance News, "Nel went into details about whether the alarm system at Pistorius' home was in order and whether he had turned it off."
"A functioning alarm would contribute to discrediting Pistorius' claim he mistook his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp for a burglar when he shot her dead through the bathroom door in February last year," Alliance News said. "Pistorius said several times he was unable to remember all the details and complained he was tired."
The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that Pistorius "acknowledged that he must have deactivated the house's alarm system when he carried the injured Ms. Steenkamp down his stairs after the shooting, although he said he doesn't remember it."
And the Globe and Mail reported: "Nel said the alarm system was functioning and should have alerted him to any intruder. Mr. Pistorius said his external motion-detectors were sometimes removed when the house was painted, and ladders were sometimes left in the garden that could have been used to enter his bathroom window, but he admitted that he hadn't checked on either on the day before the shooting."
Pistorius, who lost his legs below the knee because of a congenital abnormality, was the first double-leg amputee to compete against able-bodied athletes in the 2012 London Olympics.
His trial began in March and is expected to continue into May.
Greater visibility, broader market acceptance and (for some central stations) more wholesale monitoring accounts are just some of the benefits often mentioned in connection with the entrance of cablecos and telecoms into security.
A recent Wholesale Monitoring study by the Barnes Associates (co-sponsored by the CSAA and SSN) largely attributed the 19 percent growth the segment enjoyed in 2013 to the influence of the new entrants. To be sure, there seems to be a prevailing belief that the rangy, big-money advertising campaigns of such companies can be the proverbial "rising tide that lifts all boats."
That's not to say there's no ambivalence. That was apparent enough in a recent SSN News Poll that dealt with the topic. A number of readers expressed concern about the long-term viability of smaller players in the home security space, given the influx of these major corporations who have already made inroads into the home through Internet and cable, and thus have that previously established "stickiness."
That ambivalence was also reflected in a recent analysis by Rajiv Bhatia on Seeking Alpha, a crowdsourced platform for investment-based ideas, who discussed what the new market players could mean for Ascent Capital, the holding company of Monitronics. Bhatia acknowledged that the company faces "increased competition" from the large new cableco/telecom entrants, which he says are gaining traction despite unsuccessful forays into the market in the past.
Regarding Monitronics' business model, Bhatia offered a mixture of encouraging and somewhat cautionary words:
"While management and sell-side analysts believe that Ascent is better insulated from competition via its dealer-only business model, Ascent faces upward pressure on the multiple it pays for its dealer contracts from competitors. Additionally, its growth through its internal channels is weakening."
Those multiples, he noted earlier, are based on an RMR multiple of 50. Ascent faces "upward pressure on the multiple it pays to acquire contracts," he said.
With more than 1 million subscribers, Monitronics trails only ADT in terms of marketshare in the alarm monitoring space. It will be interesting to watch what happens to the market presence of both companies as the cableco/telecom ads continue to appear on our television screens.
ISS is growing, expanding and rebranding
Integrated Security Systems of Miami is getting ready to add 10,000 square feet of space to its headquarters here.
"We're growing into new territories, but our back office and design center [work] is all done here," Jeff Nunberg, ISS CEO said.
"We're finalizing plans with the architect now," Nunberg said. "In ten months we should have the new space."
In business since 1962, ISS is a PSA Security owner, that does CCTV, fire, access, and life safety and mass notification systems. It specializes in design-build projects and has in-house engineering, consultation, AutoCAD, construction and service departments.
ISS has two branch offices and employees "stationed throughout Florida and the Carolinas," he said. ISS has more than 70 employees; its revenues exceed $20 million,
The company is also getting a new look. ISS has a new logo that was designed by a student.
Nunberg said he'd spent two years and "tens of thousands of dollars" hiring professional ad agencies to design a logo for his business, but he was not happy with any of the designs.
"I wanted something that hit me emotionally," he said. "Something iconic, so when you see it, you know it's us."
Last November, Nunberg spoke to fashion students at a Florida art college about running a business, as a favor to his cousin who works at the college. "While I was there I asked if they had a graphic art department and she said yes."
Nunberg ended up sponsoring a logo contest. Tiffany Campos, the student-designer of the winning logo received a $1,600 scholarship, and ISS finally got a logo that Nunberg is excited about.
The logo will figure prominently at ISS's expanded office, on its new Web site, its 60 vehicles, all of its literature and lapel pins and "other trinkets we give out," he said.
It's a big project and it's "reinvigorating employees," he said. "Change is good."
"At the end of the day, we're a service company and it's hard to copy our model, what we deliver," he said. However, he believes the logo will "help my business stand out even more," Nunberg said.
Alarm Relay, a UL-listed alarm monitoring company based in San Diego, became the latest central station to earn Five Diamond Certification from the Central Station Alarm Association, the company recently announced. Fewer than 200 central stations in the country have the certification.
Among the most rigorous requirements for completing the Five Diamond program include the commitment to random inspections by a nationally recognized laboratory, such as FM Global, Underwriters' Laboratories or InterTek/ETL, and central stations must also comply with quality criteria standards developed by those same organizations.
Five Diamond Certification also testifies that 100 percent of central station operators at a given company have been certified through the CSAA online training course, which covers all phases of central station communications with law enforcement, customers, and fire and emergency centers.
For an operator to achieve certification, they must demonstrate (among other things) proficiency in alarm verification, which helps reduce false dispatches, and in communications with Public Safety Answering Points.
That latter requirement is bound to be vitally important as central stations around the country forge more partnerships with PSAPs, allowing the ASAP to PSAP program to expand.
I wrote recently about Barry Bruce becoming Guardian Protection Services' new senior VP of corporate sales. Bruce formerly was VP of national sales for Devcon Security, the residential security company that ADT acquired last summer.
Now Warrendale, Pa.-based Guardian has hired another former Devcon VP, Guardian announced today.
Michael Brand, who was VP of sales at Devcon, joined Guardian on April 3 to become director of Guardian's southern region, assuming responsibility for all sales and operations, the company said. The region includes branches in Austin, San Antonio, Tampa, Charlotte and Philadelphia.
Brand was hired by Devcon in 2010 and then worked for ADT after it bought that company. "During his tenure," Guardian said in a news release, "Mr. Brand held the positions of area manager, regional director and vice president of sales, including responsibilities for sales and field operations for the residential, commercial and HOA (home owners association) business segments."
Before he joined Devcon, Brand worked for Brink's, where he was general manager for that company's Deerfield, Fla. branch, the news release said.
His previous experience includes leading New Jersey and Massachusetts branches of Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and being a sales training coach with AT&T's broadband division, according to the news release. It said Brand has a B.A. in communication from Hofstra University.
In a prepared statement, Bruce praised his new (and former) colleague: "I have worked with Mike Brand in the past and have great confidence in his capabilities. I have no doubt he will help us achieve new levels of success in our southern region."
This is an old-fashioned industry in too many ways, so I'm always thrilled when I hear news like this: the Security Industry Association, ISC and the Women's Security Council will be awarding a full scholarship for a woman student enrolled in the new Mercer County Community College security degree program in 2015.
"This scholarship program is made possible with financial support from SIA and ISC and we are incredibly honored by their support and generosity," Rhianna Daniels, founding committee member of the WSC, told me. "The overall goal of the program is to increase diversity in the industry and allow more women to gain access to the great opportunities available in today's security market."
The scholarship was announced at the Women's Security Council reception at ISC West by Ed Several of Reed Exhibitions, which produces ISC events, and Don Erickson, CEO of SIA.
"The lack of women in the security industry is not a new problem, but in this role [CEO of SIA] I really believe it's something we need to draw more attention to. This is a small example of how we're doing this," Erickson said.
The Mercer County Community College security degree program will be launched in the fall of 2015. It is a two-year program that will award degrees in: project management; security integration; product technology and security sales.
A SIA committee came up with the idea for the program last summer. Key participants on that committee are Dave Lyons of System Sensor, Pierre Trapanese of Northland Control Systems and Frank De Fina of Samsung.
De Fina said the industry continues to struggle to find qualified candidates, even though jobs in this industry pay well and offer advancement opportunity.
In addition, De Fina said there's a "tremendous lack of diversity in the security industry" and said one of the reason organizers chose Mercer County Community College for this program is because it "draws a higher-than-normal percentage of African Americans, Hispanics and women," De Fina said.
SIA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mercer and is in the process of recruiting industry professionals to teach courses at Mercer.
De Fina pointed out that high grades in the associates degree program at Mercer can lead to a bachelor's degree. "If you go through the program with a 3.5 GPA or better, you're assured spot in a four-year program at Rutgers [University]," De Fina said.
Both the scholarship and the degree program are smart moves for the security industry. Congratulations to SIA, ISC and the WSC.
I'm here in Alabama, my first time in this state, for a Tyco event—the ribbon-cutting ceremony for it new Global Center of Excellence (GCoE) in Birmingham. The event starts in an hour, so I'll have more info later: Below is some stuff from the press release.
"The GCoE enables multinational companies to streamline and standardize their security systems around the world. The GCoE develops standards, technical specifications and detailed work plans that enable consistent security installations globally, while also providing customers with remote system audit services to verify functionality and compliance to corporate standards.
With the increasing number of global clients supported by the GCoE, the expansion of the center will allow Tyco to better serve clients with a single point of contact for their global security needs. Fortune 500 customers are seeking to streamline and standardize their global integrated security systems by consolidating the number of local system integrators they work with worldwide. Managing multiple integrators across hundreds of locations can lead to operational redundancies, quality degradation, compliance issues, and increased costs.The center will also play a key role in the company's effort to create comprehensive solutions for customers that encompass a range of building systems.
The new 24,000 square foot facility currently houses 90 employees, including certified design engineers, computer-aided design operators, program managers, system engineers and other specialists, who design and document global security standards for enterprise-level intrusion security, access control, video management, fire systems and integration. The GCoE's diverse team has multiple competencies, including fluency in 14 languages, and is well-versed in the business and cultural nuances required to successfully conduct business in the 38 countries the center supports, so customer standards and technical specifications can be maintained and updated as needed."
It was big news early this year when Google decided to buy Nest Labs, a California-based maker of smart smoke detectors and thermostats, for $3.2 billion. But now it appears that Nest Lab's intelligent new smoke/carbon monoxide detector isn't as smart as billed. News reports say sales of the device have been stopped because it's possible users can deactivate it without meaning to do so.
The smoke/CO detector, called Nest Protect, is so smart it can talk to home residents to warn them if there's a fire or dangerous levels of CO. But now a feature of the device that allows users to simply wave at it to turn it off has been identified as a potential problem and sales have been halted, Reuters reported this week.
Here's more of what that news service had to say:
Nest co-founder and Chief Executive Tony Faddell said that, under a unique set of circumstances the alarm's "Nest Wave" feature, which allows a user to switch off the device with a wave of the hand, could be inadvertently activated.
Faddell, one of the creators of Apple Inc.'s iPod, apologized in the blogpost for a problem that was discovered during recent laboratory testing. He added that no customer had complained so far.
"We observed a unique combination of circumstances that caused us to question whether the Nest Wave could be unintentionally activated. This could delay an alarm going off if there was a real fire," he said. "The fact that it could even potentially happen is extremely important to me and I want to address it immediately."
He did not specify that set of circumstances.
Nest will immediately disable the Wave feature—one of many innovative design elements that has won the company and its devices acclaim—in all smoke alarms that are Wi-Fi-connected while it works on a software update to fix the possible defect. It said the fix, plus regulatory approvals, could take two to three months to complete.
Customers without Wi-Fi-connected devices should either disable it or return it for a full refund, the company added.
Nest co-founder and Chief Executive Tony Faddell said that, under a unique set of circumstances the alarm's "Nest Wave" feature, which allows a user to switch off the device with a wave of the hand, could be inadvertently activated.
Faddell, one of the creators of Apple Inc.'s iPod, apologized in the blogpost for a problem that was discovered during recent laboratory testing. He added that no customer had complained so far.
"We observed a unique combination of circumstances that caused us to question whether the Nest Wave could be unintentionally activated. This could delay an alarm going off if there was a real fire," he said. "The fact that it could even potentially happen is extremely important to me and I want to address it immediately."
He did not specify that set of circumstances.
Nest will immediately disable the Wave feature—one of many innovative design elements that has won the company and its devices acclaim—in all smoke alarms that are Wi-Fi-connected while it works on a software update to fix the possible defect. It said the fix, plus regulatory approvals, could take two to three months to complete.
Customers without Wi-Fi-connected devices should either disable it or return it for a full refund, the company added.
Security experts have said the industry should take note of Google's Nest Labs buy, saying this first venture by Google into the connected home could portend more Google home automation products and possibly a security offering.
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Despite its 562 rooms and 54 floors, the London NYC has a bit of a boutique feel -- friendly service, chic and modern suites, and notable restaurants.
The London NYC isn't so named because it has a sister property near Buckingham Palace, though it does have a sister property in West Hollywood. The Union Jack flies out front, next to a flag bearing the hotel's name in a stylish sans serif, and Scottish celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has two restaurants here, but the hotel doesn't feel distinctly British -- at least not in the "God save the queen" and "tea time while reading Jane Austen" sense.
Rather, the hotel's name seems intended only to make it feel hip and international, or at least more unique than, say, the W Times Square, with whom it shares a bright, modern aesthetic. While it's managed by LXR Resorts & Hotels -- a large company with properties in the US, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean -- the London brand isn't a "chain" in the sense that the W or the Marriott is.
The hotel's guest rooms are all large, 500-square-foot suites, stylishly decorated by Irish designer David Collins with mod velvet couches and bathrooms shimmering with white mosaic tiles. Despite the hotel's massive size, it feels more like a boutique property thanks to all the stylish touches both in and outside of the guest rooms.
A number of celebrity guests have reportedly graced the hotel with their presence, including Halle Berry, Jennifer Hudson, and Usher. Non-celebrity guests typically include style-conscious business travelers during the week and style-conscious leisure travelers on the weekend.
The London's best characteristic these days, however, isn't style but value. As Puff Daddy would say, it's all about the Benjamins. When the hotel opened in late 2006 after extensively renovating the old RIHGA Royal Hotel building, the standard suites went for closer to $500 a night. But the hotel has since cut its rates significantly to keep occupancy up in the wake of the economic crisis.
Hotel staff is friendly, attentive, and ever-professional but not over-the-top. Expect 24-hour room service and turndowns.
In Midtown West, five short blocks from Central Park and a short walk from the Broadway theaters as well as shopping, fine dining, and transportation aplenty.
The hotel is centrally located near many of the city's top attractions. Times Square is close, but not too close -- about a dozen blocks away. Better yet, Central Park is just five short blocks north. The Broadway theater district begins a block and a half to the west of the hotel and stretches south down Broadway.
An all-suite hotel, the London's standard suites are amazingly spacious and stylish for the price.
The 500-square-foot standard London suites -- twice the size of many New York hotel rooms --- are some of the biggest and best rooms for the buck in NYC, at least since the hotel dropped its rates by a couple of hundred dollars in early 2009.
With curved velvet sofas, mirrors and modern lamps aplenty, and a mix of carpet and oak floors, the decor asserts that London (both the hotel and the British capital) equals groovy. The feel is young and fun, upscale but not over-the-top luxurious.
Free Wi-Fi, plus an expansive fitness center and a nice business center, both open 24 hours.
Suites are spacious and easily fit rollaway beds, but the hotel does little to accommodate younger children.
Dogs, but not cats, under 20 pounds are allowed, provided you pay a $125 cleaning fee.
In addition to the cleaning fee, two-legged guests must sign a pet waiver saying they'll take financial responsibility for any damage caused by Fido. Cute pet amenities aren't part of the deal (try the Muse or the W for that), but the hotel can provide dog bowls if needed.
The first Gordon Ramsay restaurants in the US are on-site. They're consistently pricey, but great food and service are less certain. Guests should consider exploring the neighborhood's many other fine-dining options.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is at the London ... sort of. His business ventures oversee all food operations at the hotel: the fine-dining restaurant Gordon Ramsay at the London, the slightly more casual Maze, the London Bar, and the hotel's 24-hour room service and catering.
But although Gordon Ramsay has made quite a name for himself with his restaurant empire and profanity-laden television show, Hell's Kitchen, the quality of the food under his name at the London varies. Since it opened, Gordon Ramsay at the London has garnered mixed reviews. Guests considering dropping $150 for the seven-course menu at the restaurant, or $110 for the three-course menu, might also want to consider dining at some of the city's other fine-dining restaurants. (Six blocks away from the hotel, The Shops at Columbus Circle contains some of the city's best, and most expensive, restaurants, like Thomas Keller's Per Se and Masayoshi Takayama's Masa, along with slightly more reasonable options like Porter House New York and Landmarc.)
The hotel website describes the other restaurant, Maze, as a "less formal and lively gathering spot." It may well be less formal than Gordon Ramsay at the London, but it's still pretty formal and not all that lively. The prix fixe menus are less expensive -- $60 for four courses or $75 for six -- but there's still an emphasis on long, laborious dinners. This isn't the place to simply grab an entree, as a companion and I tried to do late one night. We were made to feel a bit awkward for not ordering wine and multiple courses, and the food itself was disappointing. My Carnaroli risotto of lovage, broad beans, steamed mussels, and chives ($20) was topped with a messy mound of foam, a bit of a cliche in foodie circles, and the overriding taste was simply salty. A companion's roast breast of duck ($24) was better but not amazing. And while the place bills itself as a sharing-small-plates sort of place, our server urged us instead to order an appetizer and a main.
Maze also serves breakfast until 11 a.m., but the "breakfast bar" (i.e., continental buffet) is only available until 10:30 a.m. My eggs were tasty, but service was less than scrumptious: It took a while to get water and then to pay the bill. A team of two servers delivered my eggs on a silver platter, but I wish they would have split up and brought me water in a timely fashion instead. As at dinner, the restaurant has the pomp and circumstance, but it doesn't quite deliver the goods.
Room service is also a bit disappointing. I wanted a beverage one morning, and had originally planned on a green tea, figuring the Anglo influence and Mr. Ramsay would make for a nice cup. Instead I was told that the tea brand on offer was Harney and Sons, a less-than-thrilling brand sold at Trader Joe's. I ordered a cappuccino instead, which came quickly enough, but the presentation was utterly lacking: It was served in a regular coffee mug without a saucer, and no sugar was brought with it. Considering it cost me more than $10, I was expecting a more elegant caffeine presentation, and it didn't taste that great, either.
This stylish, all-suite hotel is one of the best luxury deals around -- incredibly large rooms, two on-site restaurants from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, a central location near Central Park and Times Square, and a great fitness center. All that's missing is an on-site spa.
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Holler has added a fun twist to the challenge this month. It was her birthday earlier in the month, so for this special birthday edition, Holler has asked participants to come up with a birthday menu that includes their entry for April. I would love to cook a special meal for Holler, but as she lives on the other side of the globe, this hasn't yet been possible, though it was fun thinking up a special dinner for my treasured friend. Maybe someday I'll get to cook for Holler.
Without further ado, here is my birthday menu.
Every special gathering calls out for appetizers, so for starters, I would serve Olive Tapenade,
Wild Mushroom Tapas Served on Crusty Bread with Goat's Cheese and
Whole Meal Biscuits
For the first course, my Indian-Style Tomato Salad and
Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup
For the main component of the meal, Mushroom Pulao Rice,
Mung Beans with Paneer Cheese and
Paratha with Sweet Potato and Potato Filling
And for dessert, Frozen Mango Lime Lassi,
Jalapeno Cheddar Shortbread and
Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares
Of course, the entire meal is served with some robust red wine.
Indian-Style Tomato SaladMore salad's from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
For the salad:
3 medium-large tomatoes, chopped into chunks
1/2 cup of corn kernels
2-3 jalapeno peppers, sliced into strips
1/4 cup of fresh parsley, coarsely chopped
For the dressing:
1 shallot, sliced into strips
1/2 - 1 teaspoon of fresh ginger, sliced into very thin strips
juice from one lime
1/4 cup of olive oil
a splash of balsamic vinegar
2/3 teaspoon of chat masala
sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
Combine the ingredients for the salad in a medium bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the dressing. Pour over the salad and toss.
Serves 4 as a side dish.
Cannellini Bean and Grape Tomato Salad with Lemon Dressing and Rosemary-Garlic Infused Olive Oil
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Brooke Mosteller told a joke during her pressure-packed interview question at the Miss South Carolina 2013 pageant. She was still having fun as she was introduced as the state's new beauty queen Sunday.
Mosteller, who competed as Miss Mount Pleasant, won the crown Saturday night at the pageant in Columbia. Her platform is helping high school students apply and go to college, especially students with no one in their family who has ever been to a university.
Mosteller moves on to compete in the Miss America pageant in September, and she has some big high heels to fill. Miss South Carolina 2011 Bree Boyce became nationally known for losing more than 100 pounds before she won the crown. Miss South Carolina 2012 Ali Rogers, finished second in last year's Miss America pageant.
"Strap up," Mosteller said as she faked flexing her muscles when asked what she planned to do to get ready for the national pageant.
Mosteller, 23, is a Furman University graduate and was attending the University of South Carolina law school before her win Saturday night. She also was a preliminary swimsuit winner.
The runner-up Saturday was Miss Greenville County, Lindley Mayer. Third place was Miss Spartanburg, Clarka Wickliffe, fourth place was Miss Hilton Head Island, Lauren Cabaniss, and fifth place was Miss Greater Greer, Lanie Hudson.
Miss Mauldin Teen, Brook Sill, won the Miss South Carolina Teen crown.
Mosteller was still having fun Sunday morning when she was presented with jewelry, a new car, a fur coat and other gifts. After being given a strand of pearls, a medallion and a ring with a diamond shaped like South Carolina, she found her dad in the crowd.
"My birthday's on Friday. You're going to have to do a lot to top this," she said, as her father beamed with pride from the first row.
Mosteller thanked her parents and her pageant coach for believing in her. She lost four times before she finally won a preliminary pageant. This was her second try at becoming Miss South Carolina. She also thanked Taylor Swift, saying the pop star's songs about growing up as a girl inspired her.
Mosteller's platform is called "Go Higher." Its goal is to get guidance counselors and others in high schools to help students fill out college applications during the day. Mosteller said as salutatorian at Wando High School, the college application process was confusing, so she couldn't imagine how daunting it must be for someone in a family without any college graduates.
As her mother passed out eight pages of research and testimonials on the project, Mosteller posed for pictures with people in the audience. Her mother, Cyndi Mosteller, said her engaging personality and ability to handle any situation has always been evident.
"What you see is what you get. She isn't the kind of girl you expect for these kinds of things. We're so proud," said Mosteller, who is a former chairwoman of the Charleston County Republican Party.
Brooke Mosteller will now move into a three-bedroom apartment in Hartsville provided by the Miss South Carolina pageant. She was spending the summer as an intern in Attorney General Alan Wilson's office, but joked he fired her after determining she wouldn't be able to spend much time in the office now. Mosteller also plans to take a hiatus from law school, if administrators there will let her.
"I have spent the past year learning how to make an argument and that's one I will have to make to the law school," she said. "I think I will wear the crown while I am there."
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A federal appeals court has thrown out a move by the "Man in Black" to halt his sentencing for bank robbery.
Last week, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal by Sheikh Bilaal Muhammad Arafat to back out of a plea bargain he made with federal prosecutors last year.
Arafat, born Mark Edward Wetsch, admitted he held up 31 Minnesota banks over an eight-month period that ended with his January 2012 arrest after robbing the Brewster Bank. He and prosecutors struck a deal in which he would be sentenced for six robberies.
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Shine Stripe 3/4 Sleeve Dress
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Bold stripes never looked so chic and bold, this 3/4 sleeve bebe bodycon dress features a mix of cobalt blue and black. Offers a lightweight stretch. Try it with a trench coat and a pair of boots for an instant fall look.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 29" (74 cm).
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Hey there, Bratzies! Yasmin here, and I don't know about you, but I am SO not ready to stop wearing some of the cool clothes that I bought for the Summer! Just because it's Autumn doesn't mean our fun in the sun outfits have to "Fall" out of our closet.
It's all about pairing some breezy-weather items with our tanning outfits. Got a cool silk tanktop? Wear that with some cool skinny jeans, high heels, and some big jewelry.
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