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Mona Rivera has covered everything from politics, crime, and business, to human interest stories. She was proud to fly with the Navy Blue Angels and not throw up or pass out during the aerobatic maneuvers!
You first heard Mona on WINS in March 2001. Prior to that, her career included stints as the news director of WQXR, the radio station of The New York Times; a national network anchor for the CBS Radio network; and a street reporter and anchor at WNEW-AM & FM. She has freelanced for The Wall Street Journal Radio network, NBC Radio News, and WPIX-TV.
Mona has won numerous awards including the prestigious Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York, and broadcast awards from the National Commission on Working Women.
Mona has an MBA in finance and a BA in journalism, both from New York University, where she was appointed a Macmillan Fellow for business journalism.
Mona is thrilled to be part of the WINS team. "I love digging for stories and interviews. To be working for 1010 WINS, the most listened to station in America, is a dream come true. I realize our stories have an impact on people's lives and it's a huge challenge and responsibility." You can e-mail Mona at: email@example.com.
Long Island Father, Son Share A Business And Now A Kidney
A kidney transplant is the latest joint venture of Michael and Jamie Mazzei, the father and son who operate one of Long Island's premier beauty and style establishments, NuBest Salon and Spa in Manhasset.
Sisters File Sexual Harassment Suit Against Popular Long Island Restaurant
Three sisters from Port Washington filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ayhan's Fish Kebab Restaurant where they once worked.
Stunning Grave Mix-Up Leads To $25 Million Lawsuit Against N.J. Cemetery
Evelyn and Hortense Edwards have filed a $25 million lawsuit after discovering their mother was buried in a different plot from the one they purchased at the Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, N.J. after she died in 1990.
More 'Inappropriate Contact' Charges For L.I. Teacher John Benstock
John Benstock, a music teacher in the Locust Valley School District, has been indicted on 31 counts for inappropriate contact with 14 children.
Hempstead Police Investigating Firecracker Incident That Injured 6
Authorities said the the incident happened around 11 a.m. at the Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School in Hempstead while students were registering for summer classes.
Police: Medford Pharmacy Gunman 'Armed & Dangerous'; Hunt Continues
Police Commissioner Richard Dormer also issued a word of caution to pharmacies — especially smaller stores — to be extra vigilant.
Sole Valedictorian Named At Malverne High School After GPA Calculation Error
Thursday night, the Malverne Board of Education named Aalique Grahame as valedictorian for the class of 2011.
20 Melville Costco Employees Claim $202 Million Powerball Jackpot
The New York Lottery's Yolanda Vega awarded the $202 million prize to 20 Costco employees at the Melville store where they all work.
Jazz Musician John Coltrane's Home In Dix Hills Makes 'Most Endangered' List
John Coltrane's home on Long Island, where he wrote "A Love Supreme," has deteriorated due to a lack of funds.
Nassau County Names New Firm To Run Long Island Bus As Critics Protest Move
The plan is for the company to take over Long Island Bus next January, but opponents argue the deal will mean higher fares and fewer bus routes.
Nick Tropeano And Matthew Colantonio, Both Long Island Natives, Picked In MLB Draft
A pitcher from Suffolk and a catcher from Nassau have had dreams of making the big leagues. Now they're one step closer.
Charges Dropped Against Cab Driver Thomas Moroughan Shot During Dispute With L.I. Cops
Thomas Moroughan, 26, was arrested on February 27 in Huntington Station after the two Nassau County police officers said the cab driver confronted them and tried to run one of them over. He was planning to file a lawsuit.
Nassau County Police Officer Charged With Pointing Loaded Gun At Farmingdale Bartender
Farmingdale Bartender Charlie Ball describes how he felt the night an off-duty Nassau County police officer pointed a gun in his face and says he's relieved over the officer's arrest.
Mangano Signs Voter Referendum Bill For New Nassau Coliseum, Vote Set For Aug. 1
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano signed off on a county legislature bill authorizing an August 1 vote. Approval would clear the way for the New York Islanders to remain on Long Island until 2045.
New Yorkers Flock To Beaches On Memorial Day
With temperatures likely tipping the 90's, thousands were planning to to spend a much-needed holiday soaking up the sun and cooling off in the water.


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Being at this school has been a great opportunity. The teachers are always available to talk about a test, your grades, or just about the subject in general. Since I've been at SFA, I've visited all my professors and they have all helped me to improve my performance in class by giving me tips and helping me understand the material. I give an A+ to the teaching staff who works hard to cater to your learning needs.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Tyson Gay overcame a slow start to win the 100 meters on Friday night at the U.S. championships, surging past Justin Gatlin halfway through the race.
Gay proved once and for all his surgically repaired hip is just fine as he finished in a time of 9.75 seconds, the fastest in the world this season. Gatlin wound up second but there was a momentary delay to decide third place. Charles Silmon ended up holding off Michael Rodgers by two-thousandths of a second.
Oregon star and NCAA champion English Gardner, who just recently turned pro, captured the women's 100, breezing past the field. Octavious Freeman was second and Alexandria Anderson took third to round out the team headed to Moscow for the world championships in August.
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I've been having really sharp pains behind the left side of my head for two weeks. This morning when I woke up, the pressure behind my left eye was excruiating.... What is causing this pain???READ MORE
Sharp pains on left side of my head. Could it be a cluster headache?
Hi nawny,
I'm sorry that you are in such pain right now. Any head pain that's been going on that long really makes life much more difficult. Have you tried taking anything to relieve this pain, does that help? Have you spoken with your doctor about it?
You mention "sharp pain" - not headache or Migraine. Have you been diagnosed with either Migraine or a headache disorder? One of the most important things is to get an accurate diagnosis which will allow you to get information and treatment. To do this, doctors usually go by the gold standard for diagnosis, the International Headache Society's International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II). When you get a chance, take a look at The Type of Migraine Does Matter.
Sorry for all the questions, but the answers will help determine what direction to point you in. I wish I could tell you what is causing this pain, but I really can't. Only a doctor, who can go over your and your family's medical history, give you a complete neurological exam, and discuss your symptoms will be able to diagnose you. No one can diagnose over the internet, it is not safe.
Ice pick headache is a primary headache with intense, sharp, stabbing pain commonly on one side of the head. I'm not suggesting this is what you have, rather just providing you with information you can discuss with your doctor. Take a look at Ice Pick Headaches - The Basics.
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A week before Christmas my partner and I took our children to an underground Christmas grotto in some caves near where we live. It's the first time I've been but there's a display there every year. First you get your two minutes with Santa, then you wander from cavern to cavern, admiring the decorations. It's all very nice, but it's still really just for kids. Hence my partner and I devised a game to keep ourselves occupied: Christmas present shag bingo. All along the walls of the caves were fake presents with different names printed on them. The object of the game was to see how many names of former shags you could spot as you went along. By the end of the visit, my youngest had a cuddly turtle, my eldest a toy fighter jet and my partner a resounding shag bingo victory. Rather disappointingly, I'd only got one name out of the whole sodding cave. That said, I've actually slept with three different Simons, hence feel I should have been awarded a higher score for that. Plus I can't remember the name of everyone I've ever slept with (the sign of either a misspent youth or encroaching old age). Anyhow, I lost, but can't help feeling I deserve to have done better. (more…)
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The last thing Israeli leaders want is for Jewish and Palestinian citizens to develop shared interests, forge friendships and act in solidarity. That would start to erode the rationale for a Jewish state, especially one premised on the supposed need of the Jews to defend themselves from a hostile world – Israel's self-image as "the villa in the jungle". A Jewish state's future precisely depends on the anti-Arab stereotypes inculcated in young Israeli minds.
Israel has unveiled an ambitious plan to build in Nazareth the first Israeli branch of an American university. But despite the economic benefits, Nazareth officials are concerned. Not least they fear the new campus will be used to drive a wedge further between Palestinian Christians and Muslims; stymie efforts by Palestinians in Israel to win educational autonomy; and strike a powerful blow against mounting pressure from the international movement for an academic and cultural boycott.
Israel's right-wing government and its supporters stand accused of stoking an atmosphere of increasing intimidation and intolerance in schools and among groups working for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The government has also come under particular fire for its efforts to police the school curriculum to remove references to the Nakba and play down the rights of Israel's Palestinian citizens, who comprise a fifth of the population.
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups. The new initiatives are viewed as part of an ongoing drive to demand "loyalty" from the country's large minority population of Arab citizens. Critics have termed the measures, including a programme to provide financial aid exclusively to students who have served in the Israeli army, a form of "covert discrimination".
The Israeli government is facing legal action for contempt over its refusal to implement a Supreme Court ruling that it end a policy of awarding preferential budgets to Jewish communities, including settlements, rather than much poorer Palestinian Arab towns and villages inside Israel. The contempt case on behalf of Israel's Palestinian minority comes in the wake of growing criticism of the government for ignoring court decisions it does not like — a trend that has been noted by the Supreme Court justices themselves.
Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to "punish" any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of Israel. The backlash against Gideon Saar, a member of the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, comes after a series of moves suggesting he is trying to stamp a more stridently right-wing agenda on the Israeli education system.
Israel's finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the country's Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what he described as Arab society's opposition to women working. A recent report from Israel's National Insurance Institute showed that half of all Arab families in Israel are classified as poor compared with just 14 per cent of Jewish families. Eighteen per cent of Arab women work, and only half of them full time, compared with at least 55 per cent of Jewish women.
Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the "witch-hunt" tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. The watchdog groups IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor are believed to be stepping up their campaigns after the recent publication in a US newspaper of an Israeli professor's call to boycott Israel.
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country's 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike in several years. The one-day stoppage is due to take place on October 1, a date heavy with symbolism because it marks the anniversary of another general strike, in 2000 at the start of the second intifada when 13 Arab demonstrators were shot dead by Israeli police.
An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their child. Maysa and Shua'a Zuabi, from the village of Sulam in northern Israel, launched the court action last week saying they had been "shocked and humiliated" when the centre's owner told them that six Jewish parents had demanded their daughter's removal because she is an Arab.
A leading Arab educator in Israel has denounced the decision of Gideon Saar, the education minister, to require schools to study the Israeli national anthem. Officials announced last week that they were sending out special "national anthem kits" to 8,000 schools, including those in the separate Arab education system, in time for the start of the new academic year in September. The anthem, known as Ha-Tikva, or The Hope, has long been unpopular with Israel's Arab minority because its lyrics refer only to a Jewish historical connection to the land.
Obstacles to Israel's Arab minority participating in higher education have resulted in a record number of Arab students taking up places at universities in neighbouring Jordan, a new report reveals. Figures show 5,400 Arab students from Israel are at Jordanian universities – half the number of Arabs studying in Israel itself. Despite the fact that most Israeli Arab students in Jordan interviewed by the researchers expressed a preference to attend university in Israel, the numbers heading to Jordan have grown four-fold since 2004.
In the strange world of Israeli academia, an Arab college lecturer is being dismissed from his job because he refused to declare his "respect for the uniform of the Israeli army". The bizarre demand was made of Nizar Hassan, director of several award-winning films, after he criticised a Jewish student who arrived in his film studies class at Sapir College in the Negev for wearing his uniform and carrying a gun.


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I looks like good old China has accidentally once again released some toys FROM THE FUTURE! The upcoming brushable Nightmare Moon and three Alicorn blindbags are up for auction. If you just can't bring yourself to wait until August to pick them up, I guess this is the best way to get them! For everyone else, they have a bunch of neat views on their Ebay pages. Nightmare Moon especially is looking pretty awesome. Links below.
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A new animation studio out of London, Birdbox Studio, are making waves in the animation community with their comedic shorts, reflecting life's everyday and all too familiar conundrums with delightfully irreverent and ironic wit and a cute, attractive animation style.
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The Hattiesburg Public School District remained closed for a third day today because it had no way to transport its 4,500 students.
Twenty-five of the districts 27 school buses were damaged by Sundays tornado which hit Forrest and Lamar counties.
We would need at least 15 to 20 more buses to run our routes, said Hattiesburg Public School District Superintendent James Bacchus. We have been loaned five buses from Forrest County School District and four from Greene County.
We are hoping to hear from other local districts.
Bacchus said if the district can get the additional buses, he hoped to reopen on Thursday.
The districts bus barn also suffered damage, as did its transportation center and the transportation office, Bacchus said.
Damage was also discovered at the high school to the library, to the roof at the new Tiger Center and to the roof in the gym.
The roof is off the gym and it has 2 or more inches of water on the floor, Bacchus said. Were maybe looking at a total gym replacement $4 million plus for the gym alone.
The baseball stadium also was damaged.
We just recently finished a renovation at the baseball stadium this past summer, said Bacchus.
But he added it was the bus situation that was causing the district the most problems.
We dont see any hindrance once we get beyond the bus challenge that we cant open school, he said.
Classes resumed in the Lamar County School District today at all schools except Oak Grove High School, which was still closed to students because of damage suffered in the tornado. Teachers reported to the school today.
Lamar County School District Superintendent Ben Burnett was feeling better about the situation at the high school, following a cleanup there on Tuesday.
Im very encouraged right now, he said.
Debris had been cleared from the parking lots and the front of the school had been cleaned up, said Burnett.
Temporary patches had been put in the roof where it had been damaged in the gym, the new cafeteria and some classrooms.
Safety fencing was installed around the devastated baseball and football facilities. Burnett was looking for alternative places for the baseball and softball teams to practice and play.
Burnetts worry beyond the damage was the needs of the districts students whose homes had been hit by the tornado.
I believe there are several hundred students in Oak Grove who have been displaced from their homes homes that dont exist anymore, he said. Well have to account for those students and see if we can help in anyway.
Burnett said those students might need clothing or school supplies. He said the district would reach out to the community for resources for students in need.
One teacher back at the high school today for the first time since the tornado was yearbook adviser Joy Davis.
She was at the school with two of her yearbook students on Sunday when the tornado hit.
We were getting ready to wrap things up when I checked my Twitter feed and saw something about the storm headed our way, Davis said.
Davis realized the tornado was upon her when her classroom door slammed shut from the storm pressure.
We quickly got into the closet, she said. I wrapped my arms around (my students) and prayed.
We could feel the building shake and we could hear crazy noises. The whole thing lasted about 15 seconds.
Davis said she and her students emerged from the closet and went out the front door of the school. It was then that they walked around the side of the building and saw the damage to the athletic facilities.
We began to see how serious it was, she said. We couldnt believe how blessed and fortunate we were.
Students are back in class today in the Jones County School District, after being out of school Monday and Tuesday due to localized flooding in the southern part of the county.
Jones County School District Superintendent Tommy Parker said about 12 roads are still blocked, but bus drivers were making their way on different routes so they could bring children to school today.


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Erlang-style Supervisor Module for Scala Actors
In this post I will explain how you can build fault-tolerant systems using Scala Actors by arranging them in Supervisor hierarchies using a library for Scala Supervisors that I just released.
But first, let's recap what Actors are and what makes them useful.
An actor is an abstraction that implements Message-Passing Concurrency. Actors have no shared state and are communicating by sending and receiving messages. This is a paradigm that provides a very different and much simpler concurrency model than Shared-State Concurrency (the scheme adopted by C, Java, C# etc.) and making it easier to avoid problems like deadlocks, live locks, thread starvation etc. This makes it possible to write code that is deterministic and side-effect-free, something that makes easier to write, test, understand and reason about. Each actor has a mailbox in which it receives incoming messages and can use pattern matching on the messages to decide if a message is interesting and which action to take. The most well known and successful implementation of actors can be found in the Erlang language (and the OTP platform) where it has been used to implement extremely fault tolerant (99.9999999% reliability – 9 nines) and massively concurrent systems (with hundreds of thousand simultaneous actors).
So what are Supervisor hierarchies? Let's go to the source; http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.html#5.
A supervisor is responsible for starting, stopping and monitoring its child processes. The basic idea of a supervisor is that it should keep its child processes alive by restarting them when necessary.
It has two different restart strategies; All-For-One and One-For-One. Best explained using some pictures (referenced from erlang.org):
Naturally, the library I have written for Scala is by no means as complete and hardened as Erlang's, but it seems to do a decent job in providing the core functionality.
The implementation consists of two main abstractions;
Supervisor and
The GenericServer is wrapped by a GenericServerContainer instance providing a necessary indirection needed to be able to fully manage the life-cycle of the GenericServer in an easy way.
So, let's try it out by writing a small example in which we create a couple of servers, configure them, use them in various ways, kill one of them, see it recover, hotswap its implementation etc.
(Sidenote: I have written about hotswapping actors before, however this library has taken this approach a but further and provides a more flexible and powerful way of achieving this. Thanks DPP.)
This walk-through will only cover some of the API, for more details look at the code or the tests.
1. Create our server messages
import scala.actors._ import scala.actors.Actor._ import com.jonasboner.supervisor._ import com.jonasboner.supervisor.Helpers._ sealed abstract class SampleMessage case object Ping extends SampleMessage case object Pong extends SampleMessage case object OneWay extends SampleMessage case object Die extends SampleMessage
2. Create a
We do that by extending the
GenericServer trait and override the
body method.
class SampleServer extends GenericServer { // This method implements the core server logic and naturally has to be overridden override def body: PartialFunction[Any, Unit] = { case Ping => println("Received Ping"); reply(Pong) case OneWay => println("Received OneWay") case Die => println("Received Die..dying...") throw new RuntimeException("Received Die message") } }
GenericServer also has some callback life-cycle methods, such as
init(..) and
3. Wrap our
SampleServer in a
Here we also give it a name to be able to refer to it later. We are creating two instances of the same server impl in order to try out multiple server restart in case of failure.
object sampleServer1 extends GenericServerContainer("sample1", () => new SampleServer) object sampleServer2 extends GenericServerContainer("sample2", () => new SampleServer)
4. Create a
Supervisor configuration
Here we create a
SupervisorFactory that is configuring our servers. The configuration mimics the Erlang configuration and defines a general restart strategy for our
Supervisor as well as a list of workers (servers) which for each we define a specific life-cycle.
object factory extends SupervisorFactory { override protected def getSupervisorConfig: SupervisorConfig = { SupervisorConfig( RestartStrategy(AllForOne, 3, 10000), Worker( sampleServer1, LifeCycle(Permanent, 1000)) :: Worker( sampleServer2, LifeCycle(Permanent, 1000)) :: Nil) } }
5. Create a new
val supervisor = factory.newSupervisor
12:25:30.031 [Thread-2] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Configuring supervisor:com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49
12:25:30.046 [Thread-2] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Linking actor [Main$SampleServer$1@1b9240e] to supervisor [com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49]
12:25:30.062 [Thread-2] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Linking actor [Main$SampleServer$1@1808199] to supervisor [com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49]
12:25:30.062 [main] DEBUG Main$factory$2$ – Supervisor successfully configured
6. Start the
This also starts the servers.
supervisor ! Start
12:25:30.078 [Thread-8] INFO com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Starting server: Main$sampleServer2$2$
1479feb 12:25:30.078 [Thread-8] INFO com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor - Starting server: Main$sampleServer1$2$97a560
7. Try to communicate with the servers.
Here we try to send a couple one way asynchronous messages to our servers.
sampleServer1 ! OneWay
Try to get a reference to our sampleServer2 (by name) from the Supervisor before sending a message.
supervisor.getServer("sample2") match { case Some(server2) => server2 ! OneWay case None => println("server [sample2] could not be found") }
Received OneWay
Received OneWay
8. Send a message using a future
Try to send an asynchronous message – receive a future – and wait 100 ms (time-out) for the reply.
val future = sampleServer1 !! Ping val reply1 = future.receiveWithin(100) match { case Some(reply) => println("Received reply: " + reply) case None => println("Did not get a reply witin 100 ms") }
Received Ping
Received reply: Pong
9. Kill one of the servers
Try to send a message (Die) telling the server to kill itself (by throwing an exception).
sampleServer1 ! Die
Received Die..dying…
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] ERROR c.j.supervisor.AllForOneStrategy – Server [Main$SampleServer$1@1b9240e] has failed due to [java.lang.RuntimeException: Received Die message] – scheduling restart – scheme: ALL_FOR_ONE.
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG Main$sampleServer2$2$ – Waiting 1000 milliseconds for the server to shut down before killing it.
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG Main$sampleServer2$2$ – Server [sample2] has been shut down cleanly.
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG c.j.supervisor.AllForOneStrategy – Restarting server [sample2] configured as PERMANENT.
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Linking actor [Main$SampleServer$1@166aa18] to supervisor [com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49]
12:25:30.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG Main$sampleServer1$2$ – Waiting 1000 milliseconds for the server to shut down before killing it.
12:25:30.093 [main] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Helpers$ – Future timed out while waiting for actor: Main$SampleServer$1@1b9240e
Expected exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Time-out
12:25:31.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG c.j.supervisor.AllForOneStrategy – Restarting server [sample1] configured as PERMANENT.
12:25:31.093 [Thread-8] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Linking actor [Main$SampleServer$1@1968e23] to supervisor [com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49]
10. Send an asyncronous message and wait on a future.
If this call times out, the error handler we define will be invoked – in this case throw an exception. It is likely that this call will time out since the server is in the middle of recovering from failure and we are on purpose defining a very short time-out to trigger this behavior.
val reply2 = try { sampleServer1 !!! (Ping, throw new RuntimeException("Time-out"), 10) } catch { case e => println("Expected exception: " + e.toString); Pong }
The output of this call (due to the async nature of actors) is interleaved with the logging for the restart of the servers. As you can see the log below can be found in the middle of the restart output.
12:25:30.093 [main] DEBUG com.jonasboner.supervisor.Helpers$ – Future timed out while waiting for actor: Main$SampleServer$1@1b9240e
Expected exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Time-out
Server should be up again. Try the same call again
val reply3 = try { sampleServer1 !!! (Ping, throw new RuntimeException("Time-out"), 1000) } catch { case e => println("Expected exception: " + e.toString); Pong }
Received Ping
Also check that server number 2 is up and healthy.
sampleServer2 ! Ping
Received Ping
11. Try to hotswap the server implementation
Here we are passing in a completely new implementation of the server logic (doesn't look that different tough, but it can be any piece of scala pattern matching code) to the server's hotswap method.
sampleServer1.hotswap(Some({ case Ping => println("Hotswapped Ping") }))
12. Try the hotswapped server out
sampleServer1 ! Ping
Hotswapped Ping
13. Hotswap again
sampleServer1.hotswap(Some({ case Pong => println("Hotswapped again, now doing Pong") reply(Ping) }))
14. Send an asyncronous message that will wait on a future (using a different syntax/method).
Method returns an
Option[T] which can be of two different types;
Some(result) or
None. If we receive
Some(result) then we return the result, but if
None is received then we invoke the error handler that we define in the
getOrElse method. In this case print out an info message (but you could throw an exception or do whatever you like…) and return a default value (
val reply4 = (sampleServer1 !!! Pong).getOrElse({ println("Time out when sending Pong") Ping })
Hotswapped again, now doing Pong
Same invocation with pattern matching syntax.
val reply5 = sampleServer1 !!! Pong match { case Some(result) => result case None => println("Time out when sending Pong"); Ping }
Hotswapped again, now doing Pong
15. Hotswap back to original implementation.
This is done by passing in
None to the hotswap method.
16. Test the final hotswap
sampleServer1 ! Ping
Received Ping
17. Shut down the supervisor and its server(s)
supervisor ! Stop
12:25:31.093 [Thread-6] INFO com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Stopping server: Main$sampleServer2$2$
1479feb 12:25:31.093 [Thread-6] INFO com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor - Stopping server: Main$sampleServer1$2$97a560
12:25:31.093 [Thread-6] INFO com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor – Stopping supervisor: com.jonasboner.supervisor.Supervisor@860d49
You can find this code in the
sample.scala file in the root directory of the distribution. Run it by invoking:
scala -cp target/supervisor-0.3.jar:[dependency jars: slf4j and logback] sample.scala
Check out
The SCM system used is Git.
1. Download and install Git
2. Invoke
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:jboner/scala-supervisor.git.
Build it
The build system used is Maven 2.
1. Download and install Maven 2.
2. Step into the root dir
3. Invoke
mvn install
This will build the project, run all tests, create a jar and upload it to your local Maven repository ready for use.
Runtime dependencies
Automatically downloaded my Maven.
1. Scala 2.7.1-final
3. LogBack Classic 0.9.9
That's all to it.
Have fun.Jonas Bonér 16 June 2008


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Writing Fiction - Setting
( Originally Published 1918 )
Evolution of Background in the History of Painting—The First Stage—The Second Stage—The Third Stage—Similar Evolution of Setting in the History of Fiction: The First Stage—The Second Stage—The Third Stage: 1. Setting as an Aid to Action—2. Setting as an Aid to Characterization—Emotional Harmony in Setting —The Pathetic Fallacy—Emotional Contrast in Setting—Irony in Setting—Artistic and Philosophical Employment—1. Setting as a Motive toward Action—2. Setting as an Influence on Character
Setting as the Hero of the Narrative—Uses of the Weather—Romantic and Realistic Settings—A Romantic Setting by Edgar Allan Poe—A Realistic Setting by George Eliot—The Quality of Atmosphere, or Local Color—Recapitulation.
Evolution of Background in the History of Painting : The First Stage.—In the history of figure painting it is interesting to study the evolution of the element of back-ground. This element is non-existent in the earliest examples of pictorial art. The figures in Pompeüan frescoes are limned upon a blank bright wall, most frequently deep red in color. The father of Italian painting, Cimabue, following the custom of the Byzantine mosaicists, whose work he had doubtless studied at Ravenna, drew his figures against a background devoid of distance and perspective and detail; and even in the work of his greater and more natural pupil, Giotto, the element of background remains comparatively insignificant. What interests us in Giotto's work at Padua and Assisi is first of all the story that he has to tell, and secondly the human quality of the characters that he exhibits. His sense of setting is extremely slight; and the homely details that he presents for the purpose of suggesting the time and place and circumstances of his action are very crudely depicted. His frescoes are all foreground. It is the figures in the forefront of his pictures that arrest our eye. His buildings and his landscapes are conventionalized out of any real reference to his people. These are examples of the first stage of evolution—the stage in which the element of background bears no significant relation to the main business of the picture.
The Second Stage.—In the second stage, the back-ground is brought into an artistic, or decorative, relation with the figures in the foreground. This phase is exhibited by Italian painting at its period of maturity. The great Florentines drew their figures against a back-ground of decorative line, the great Venetians against a background of decorative color. But even in the work of the greatest of them the background exists usually to fulfil a purpose merely decorative, a purpose with immediate reference to art but without immediate reference to life. There is no real reason, with reference to life itself, why the "Mona Lisa" of Leonardo should smile inscrutably upon us before a background of jagged rocks and cloudy sky; and the curtains in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" are introduced merely as a detail of composition, and are not intended as a literal statement that curtains hung upon a rod exist in heaven.
The Third Stage.—In the third stage, which is exhibited by later painting, the background is brought into living relation with the figures of the foreground,—a relation suggested not merely by the exigencies of art but rather by the conditions of life itself. Thus the great Dutch genre painters, like the younger Teniers, show their characters in immediate human relation to a carefully detailed interior; or if, like Adrian van Ostade, they take them out of doors, it is to show them entirely at home in an accustomed landscape.
This stage, in its modern development, exhibits an absolutely essential relation between the foreground and the background—the figures and the setting—so that neither could be imagined exactly as it is without the presence of the other. Such an essential harmony is shown in the "Angelus" of Jean-François Millet. The people exist for the sake of giving meaning to the landscape; and the landscape exists for the sake of giving [meaning to the people. The "Angelus" is neither figure painting nor landscape painting merely; it is both.
Similar Evolution of Setting in the History of Fiction: The First Stage.—In the history of fiction we may note a similar evolution in the element of setting. The earliest folk-tales of every nation happen "once upon a time," and without any definite localization. In the "Gesta Romanorum," that medieval repository of accumulated narratives, the element of setting is nearly as non-existent as the element of background in the frescoes of Pompeii. Even in the "Decameron" of Boccaccio the stories are seldom localized: they happen almost anywhere at almost any time. The interest in Boccaccio's narrative, like the interest in Giotto's painting, is centred first of all in the element of action, and secondly in the element of character. But his stories are all foreground. When the scene is out of doors, it is set vaguely in a conventional landscape: when it is indoors, it is set vaguely in a conventional palace. Because of this, his narrative is lacking in visual appeal. Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels, setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it. He tells you what happens, instead of making it happen before the eye of your imagination. His characters are drawn in outline merely, instead of being livingly projected in relation to a definite environment. The defect of his narrative, like the defect of Giotto's painting, is mainly lack of background.
The Second Stage.—Somewhat later in the history of fiction, as in the history of figure painting, we find in-stances in which the element of setting is used for a decorative purpose, and is brought into an artistic relation with the elements of action and character. Such a use is made of landscape, for example, in the "Orlando Furioso" of Ariosto and the "Faerie Queene" of Spenser. The settings depicted by these narrative poets are essentially pictorial, and are used as a decorative background to the action rather than as part and parcel of it. If we seek an example in prose rather than in poetry, we need only turn to the "Arcadia" of Sir Philip Sidney. In this again the setting is beautifully fashioned, but is employed merely for a decorative purpose. The back-ground of pastoral landscape bears no necessary relation to the figures in the foreground. It exists for the sake of art rather than for the sake of life. This employment of the element of setting for a purpose essentially pictorial subsists in many later works of fiction, like the "Paul and Virginia" of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. In this the setting is composed and painted for the sake of its own sentimental beauty, and is obtruded even at the expense of the more vital elements of character and action. The story is, as it were, merely a motive for decorative composition.
The Third Stage: 1. Setting as an Aid to Action.—It is only in fiction of a more modern spirit that the element of setting has been brought into living relation with the action and the characters; and it is only in the last century that the most intimate possibilities of such a relation have been appreciated and applied. Of course the most elementary means of making the setting "part and parcel of the business of the story" is to employ it as a utilitarian adjunct to the action. Granted certain incidents that are to happen, certain scenery and proper-ties are useful, in the novel just as in the theatre; and if these are supplied advisedly, the setting will, as it were, become a part of what is happening instead of remaining merely a decorative background to the incidents. The first English author to establish firmly this utilitarian relation between the setting and the action was Daniel Defoe. Defoe was by profession a journalist; and the most characteristic quality of his mind was an habitual matter-of-factness. Plausibility was what he most de-sired in his fictions; and he discerned instinctively that the readiest means of making a story plausible was by representing with entire concreteness and great wealth of specific detail the physical adjuncts to the action. The multitudinous particulars of Crusoe's island are therefore exhibited concretely to the reader one by one, as Crusoe makes use of them successively in what he does.
2. Setting as an Aid to Characterization.—But though in Defoe the element of setting is merged with the element of action, it is not brought into intimate relation with the element of character. The island is a part of what Crusoe does, rather than a part of what he is. But the dwelling-room of the Boffins, which was described in the paragraph from "Our Mutual Friend" quoted toward the end of the preceding chapter, is a part of what the Boffins are, rather than of what they do. The setting in the latter case is used as an adjunct to the element of character instead of to the element of action. Fielding and his contemporaries were the first English novelists to make the setting in this way representative of personality as well as useful to the plot; but the finer possibilities of the relation between setting and character were not fully realized until the nineteenth century. The eighteenth-century authors, in so far as they elaborated the element of setting, seem to have done so mainly for the sake of greater vividness. The appeal of setting 'being visual, the element was employed to illustrate the action and to make the characters clearly evident to the eye. By rendering a story more concrete, a definite setting rendered it more credible. This the eighteenth-century novelists discerned; but only with the rise of the romantic movement was the element applied to subtler uses.
Emotional Harmony in Setting.—A new and very interesting attitude toward landscape setting was disclosed by Rousseau in the "Nouvelle Héloise" and developed by his numerous followers in early nineteenth-century romance. The writers who advocated a "return to nature" spelled nature with a capital N and considered it usually as an anthropomorphic presence. As a result of this, when they developed a natural background for their stories, they established a sympathetic interchange of mood between the characters and the landscape, and imagined (to use the famous phrase of Leibnitz) a "pre-established harmony" between the shifting moods of nature and of man. Thus the setting was employed ne longer merely to subserve the needs of action or to give a greater vividness of visual appeal, but was used rather to symbolize and represent the human emotions evoked in the characters at significant moments of the plot, When the hero was suffering with sadness, the sky was hung with heavy clouds; and when his mind grew illumined with a glimmering of hope, the sun broke through a cloud-rift, casting light over the land.
Dickens is especially fond of imagining an emotional harmony between his settings and his incidents. Consider for a moment the following well-known passage from the funeral of Little Nell ("The Old Curiosity Shop," Chapter LXXII) :--
"Along the crowded path they bore her now; pure as the newly-fallen snow that covered it; whose day on earth had been as fleeting. Under the porch, where she had sat when Heaven in its mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, she passed again; and the old church received her in its quiet shade.
"They carried her to one old nook, where she had many and many a time sat musing, and laid their burden softly on the pavement. The light streamed on it through the coloured window—a window where the boughs of trees were ever rustling in the summer, and where the birds sang sweetly all day long. With every breath of air that stirred among those branches in the sunshine, some trembling, changing light would fall upon her grave... .
"They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down. Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place —when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave—in that calm time, when outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them—then, with tranquil and submissive hearts, they turned away, and left the child to God."
Here the mood of the scene is expressed almost entirely through the element of setting; and the human emotion of the mourners is realized and represented by the aspect of the churchyard.
The Pathetic Fallacy.—The excessive use of this expedient is deplored by John Ruskin in a chapter of "Mod-ern Painters" entitled "The Pathetic Fallacy." His point is that, since concrete objects do not actually experience human emotions, it is a violation of artistic truth to ascribe such emotions to them. But, on the other hand, it is indubitably true that human beings habitually translate their own abstract feelings into the concrete terms of their surroundings; and therefore, in a subjective sense at least, an emotional harmony frequently does exist between the mood of a man and the aspect of his environment. The same place may at the same time look gloomy to a melancholy man and cheerful to a merry one; and there is therefore a certain human fitness in describing it as gloomy or as cheerful, according to the feeling of the character observing it. Doubtless to a man tremendously bereaved the very rain may seem a weeping of high heaven; and surely there are times when it is deeply true, subjectively, to say that the morning stars all sing together. What we may call emotional similarity of setting is therefore not necessarily a fallacy. Even when it subverts the actual, as in the fable of the morning stars, it may yet be representative of reality. In its commoner and less exaggerative phases it is very useful for purposes of suggestion; and only when it becomes blatant through abuse may it be said to belie the laws of life.
` Emotional Contrast in Setting.—Frequently, however, emotional similarity between the setting and the characters is less serviceable, for the sake of emphasis, than emotional contrast. In the following passage from Mr. Kipling's "Without Benefit of Clergy," the serene and perfect happiness of Holden and Ameera is emphasized by contrast with the night-aspect of the plague-infested city:
" `My lord and my love, let there be no more foolish talk of going away. Where thou art, I am. It is enough.' She put an arm round his neck and a hand on his mouth.
"There are not many happinesses so complete as those that are snatched under the shadow of the sword. They sat together and laughed, calling each other openly by every pet name that could move the wrath of the gods. The city below them was locked up in its own torments. Sulphur fires blazed in the streets; the conches in the Hindu temples screamed and bellowed, for the gods were inattentive in those days. There was a service in the great Mahomedan shrine, and the call to prayer from the minarets was almost unceasing. They heard the wailing in the houses of the dead, and once the shriek of a mother who had lost a child and was calling for its return. In the gray dawn they saw the dead borne out through the city gates, each litter with its own little knot of mourners. Wherefore they kissed each other and shivered."
Irony in Setting.—An emotional contrast of this nature between the mood of the characters and the mood of the setting may be pushed to the point of irony. In a story by Alphonse Daudet, entitled "The Elixir of the Reverend Father Gaucher," a certain monastery is saved from financial ruin by the sale of a cordial which Father Gaucher has invented and distilled. But the necessity of sampling the cordial frequently during the process of manufacturing it leads the reverend father eventually to become an habitual drunkard. And toward the end of the story an ironic contrast is drawn between the solemn monastery, murmurous with chants and prayers, and Father Gaucher in his distillery hilariously singing a ribald drinking-song.
Artistic and Philosophical Employment. The uses of setting that have been thus far considered have been artistic rather than philosophical in nature; but very re-cent writers have grown to use the element not only for the sake of illustrating character and action but also for the sake of determining them. The sociologists of the nineteenth century have come to regard circumstance as a prime motive for action, and environment as a prime influence on character; and recent writers have applied this philosophic thesis in their employment of the element of setting.
1. Setting as a Motive Toward Action.—The way in which the setting may suggest the action is thus discoursed upon by Stevenson in his "Gossip on Romance"
"Drama is the poetry of conduct, romance the poetry of circumstance. The pleasure that we take in life is of two sorts—the active and the passive. Now we are conscious of a great command over our destiny; anon we are lifted up by circumstance, as by a breaking wave, and dashed we know not how into the future. Now we are pleased by our conduct, anon merely pleased by our surroundings. It would be hard to say which of these modes of satisfaction is the more effective, but the latter is surely the more constant.
"One thing in life calls for another; there is a fitness in events and places. The sight of a pleasant arbour puts it in our mind to sit there. One place suggests work, another idleness, a third early rising and long rambles in the dew. The effect of night, of any flowing water, of lighted cities, of the peep of day, of ships, of the open ocean, calls up in the mind an army of anonymous desires and pleasures. Something, we feel, should happen; we know not what, yet we proceed in quest of it. And many of the happiest hours of life fleet by us in this vain attendance on the genius of the place and moment. It is thus that tracts of young fir, and low rocks that reach into deep soundings, particularly torture and delight me. Something must have happened in such places, and perhaps ages back, to members of my race; and when I was a child I tried in vain to invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. Other spots again seem to abide their des-tiny, suggestive and impenetrable, `miching mallecho.' The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying river—though it is known already as the place where Keats wrote some of his "Endymion" and Nelson parted from his Emma—still seems to wait the coming of the appropriate legend. Within these ivied walls, behind these old green shutters, some further business smoulders, waiting for its hour. The old Hawes Inn at the Queen's Ferry makes a similar call upon my fancy. There it stands, apart from the town, beside the pier, in a climate of its own, half inland, half marine—in front, the ferry bubbling with the tide and the guardship swinging to her anchor; behind, the old garden with the trees. Americans seek it already for the sake of Lovel and Oldbuck, who dined there at the beginning of the "Antiquary." But you need not tell me—that is not all; there is some story, unrecorded or not yet complete, which must express the meaning of that inn more fully. I have lived both at the Hawes and Burford in a perpetual flutter, on the heels, as it seemed, of some adventure that should justify the place; but though the feeling had me to bed at night and called me again at morning in one unbroken round of pleasure and suspense, nothing befell me in either worth remark. The man or the hour had not yet come; but some day, I think, a boat shall put off from the Queen's Ferry, fraught with a dear cargo, and some frosty night a horseman, on a tragic errand, rattle with his whip upon the green shutters of the inn at Burford."
In this way, the setting may, in many cases, exist as the initial element of the narrative, and suggest an action appropriate to itself. But it may do more than that. In certain special instances the setting may not only suggest, but may even cause, the action, and remain the deciding factor in determining its course. This is the case, for example, in Mr. Kipling's story, "At the End of the Passage," which opens thus:
"Four men, each entitled to `life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' sat at a table playing whist. The thermometer marked—for them—one hundred and one degrees of heat. The room was darkened till it was only just possible to distinguish the pips of the cards and the very white faces of the players. A tattered, rotten punkah of whitewashed calico was puddling the hot air and whining dolefully at each stroke. Outside lay gloom of a November day in London. There was neither sky, sun, nor horizon—nothing but a brown purple haze of heat. It was as though the earth were dying of apoplexy.
"From time to time clouds of tawny dust rose from the ground without wind or warning, flung themselves tablecloth-wise among the tops of the parched trees, and came down again. Then a whirling dust-devil would scutter across the plain for a couple of miles, break, and fall outward, though there was nothing to check its flight save a long low line of piled railway-sleepers white with the dust, a cluster of huts made of mud, condemner' rails, and canvas, and the one squat four-roomed bungalow that belonged to the assistant engineer in charge of a section of the Gaudhari State Line then under construction."
The terrible tale that follows could happen only as a result of the fearful loneliness and, more especially, the maddening heat of such a place as is described in these opening paragraphs. The setting in this story causes and determines the action.
2. Setting as an Influence on Character.—But in many other tales by recent writers the setting is used not so much to determine the action as to influence and mold the characters; and when employed for this purpose, it becomes expressive of one of the most momentous truths of human life. For what a man is at any period of his existence is largely the result of the interaction of two forces,—namely, the innate tendencies of his nature and the shaping power of his environment. George Meredith, and more especially Mr. Thomas Hardy, therefore devote a great deal of attention to setting as an influence on character. Consider, for example, the following brief passage from Mr. Hardy's "Tess of the D'Ubervilles":
"Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of Froom Vale, at a season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready hearts existing there were impregnated by their surroundings."
Zola, in his essay on "The Experimental Novel," states that the proper function of setting is to exhibit "the environment which determines and completes the man"; and the philosophic study of environment reacting upon character is one of the main features of his own monumental series of novels devoted to the Rougon-Macquart family. His example has been followed by a host of recent writers; and a new school of fiction has grown up, the main purpose of which is to exhibit the influence of certain carefully studied social, natural, business, or professional conditions on the sort of people who live and work among them.
This incentive has been developed to manifest advantage in America by such novelists as Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Hamlin Garland, Mrs. Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Jack Lon-don, Mr. Booth Tarkington, and Mr. Stewart Edward White. Each of these authors—and many others might be mentioned—has attained a special sort of eminence by studying minutely the effect upon impressionable characters of a particular environment. The manifold diversity of life in the many different districts of the United States affords our fiction-writers a predestined opportunity to endeavor to make the nation acquainted with itself.
Setting as the Hero of the Narrative.—If the setting be used both to determine the action and to mold the characters, it may stand forth as the most important of the three elements of narrative. In Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris," the cathedral is the leading factor of the story. Claude Frollo would be a very different person if it were not for the church; and many of the main events, such as the ultimate tragic scene when Quasimodo hurls Frollo from the tower-top, could not happen in any other place. In Mr. Kipling's very subtle story entitled "An Habitation Enforced," which is included in his "Actions and Reactions," the setting is really the hero of the narrative. An American mil. lionaire and his wife, whose ancestors were English, settle for a brief vacation in the county of England from which the wife's family originally came. Gradually the old house and the English landscape take hold of them; ancestral feelings rise to dominate them; and they remain forever after in enforced habitation on the ancient soil.
Uses of the Weather.—All that has been said thus far of setting in general applies of course to one of the most interesting of its elements,—the weather. In simple stories like the usual nursery tale, the weather may be non-existent. Or it may exist mainly for a decorative purpose, like the frequent golden oriental dawns of Spenser's poem or the superb and colorful symphonies of sky and sea in Pierre Loti's "Iceland Fisherman." It may be used as a utilitarian adjunct to the action: at the end of "The Mill on the Floss," as we have already noted, the rains descend and the flood comes merely for the purpose of drowning Tom and Maggie. Or it may be employed to illustrate a character: we are told of Clara Middleton, in "The Egoist," that she possesses the "art of dressing to suit the season and the sky"; and therefore the look of the atmosphere at any hour helps to convey to us a sense of her appearance. Somewhat more artistically, the weather may be planned in pre-established harmony with the mood of the characters: this expedient is wonderfully used in the wild and wind-swept tales of Fiona MacLeod. On the other hand, the weather may stand in emotional contrast with the characters: the Master of Ballantrae and Mr. Henry fight their duel on a night of absolute stillness and stifling cold. Again, the weather may be used to determine the action: in Mr. Kipling's early story called "False Dawn," the blinding sandstorm causes Saumarez to propose to the wrong girl. Or it may be employed as a controlling influence over character: the tremendous storm toward the end of "Richard Feverel," in the chap-ter entitled "Nature Speaks," determines the return of the hero to his wife. In some cases, even, the weather itself may be the real hero of the narrative : the great eruption of Vesuvius in "The Last Days of Pompeii" dominates the termination of the story.
Although the weather is a subject upon everybody's tongue, there are very few people who are capable of talking about it with intelligence and art. Very few writers of fiction—and nearly all of them are recent—have exhibited a mastery of the weather,-a mastery based at once upon a detailed and accurate observation of natural phenomena and a philosophic sense of the relation between these phenomena and the concerns of human beings. Perhaps in no other detail of craftsman-ship does Robert Louis Stevenson so clearly prove his mastery as in his marshalling of the weather, always vividly and truthfully described, to serve a purpose al-ways fitting to his fictions.
Romantic and Realistic Settings.—Let us next consider the main difference between the merits of a good romantic and a good realistic setting. Since the realist leads us to a comprehension of his truth through a careful imitation of the actual, the thing most to be desired in a realistic setting is fidelity to fact; and this can be attained only by accurate observation. But since the romantic is not bound to imitate the actual, and fabricates his investiture merely for the sake of embodying his truth clearly and consistently, the thing most to be desired in a romantic setting is imaginative fitness to the action and the characters; and this can sometimes be attained by artistic inventiveness alone, without display of observation of the actual. Verisimilitude is of course the highest merit of either sort of setting; but whereas verisimilitude with the realist lies in resemblance to actuality, verisimilitude with the romantic lies rather in artistic fitness. The distinction may perhaps be best observed in the historical novels produced by the one and by the other school. In the setting of realistic historical novels, like George Eliot's "Romola" and Flaubert's "Salammbô," what the authors have mainly striven for has been accuracy of detail; but in romantic historical novels, like those of Scott and Dumas pčre, the authors have sought rather for imaginative fitness of setting. The realists have followed the letter, and the romantics the spirit, of other times and lands.
A Romantic Setting by Edgar Allan Poe.—As an ex-ample of a pure romantic setting, far removed from actuality and yet thoroughly truthful in artistic fitness to the action and the characters, we can do no better than examine the often-quoted opening of Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" :—
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium: the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. . . . It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression; and acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows."
Certainly this setting bears very little resemblance to the actual; but just as certainly its artistic fitness to the tale of terror which it preludes gives it an imaginative verisimilitude.
A Realistic Setting by George Eliot.—As an example of a realistic setting, closely copying the actual, let us ex-amine the following passage from "Adam Bede" (Chapter XVIII):
"You might have known it was Sunday if you had only waked up in the farmyard. The cocks and hens seemed to know it, and made only crooning subdued noises; the very bull-dog looked less savage, as if he would have been satisfied with a smaller bite than usual. The sunshine seemed to call all things to rest and not to labor; it was asleep itself on the moss-grown cowshed; on the group of white ducks nestling together with their bills tucked under their wings; on the old black sow stretched languidly on the straw, while her largest young one found an excellent spring-bed on his mother's fat ribs; on Alick, the shepherd, in his new smock-frock, taking an uneasy siesta, half-sitting, half-standing on the granary steps."
There is no obvious imaginative fitness in this passage, since in the chapter where it occurs the chief characters are going to a funeral; but it has an extraordinary verisimilitude, owing to the author's accurate observation of the details of life in rural England.
The Quality of Atmosphere, or Local Color.—These two passages differ very widely from each other. In one thing, and one only, are they alike. Each of them exhibits the subtle quality called "atmosphere." This quality is very difficult to define, though its presence may be recognized instinctively in any work of graphic art, like a painting or a description. Without attempting to define it, we may discover the technical basis for its presence if we seek out the sole deliberate device in which these two passages, different as they are in every other feature, are at one. It will be noticed that in each of them the details selected for presentation have been chosen solely for the sake of a common quality inherent in them—the quality of sombreness and gloom in the one case, and the quality of Sabbath quietude in the other—and that they have been marshalled to convey a complete sense of this central and pervading quality. It is commonly supposed that what is called "atmosphere" in a description is dependent upon the setting forth of a multiplicity of details; but this popular conception is a fallacy. "Atmosphere" is dependent rather upon a strict selection of details pervaded by a common quality, a rigorous rejection of all others that are dissonant in mood, and an arrangement of those selected with a view to exhibiting their common quality as the pervading spirit of the scene.
This is obviously the technical basis for the "atmosphere" of a purely imaginary setting like that of the melancholy House of Usher. The effect is undeniably produced by the suppression of all details that do not contribute to the central sense of gloom. But the same device underlies (less obviously, to be sure) all such descriptions of actual places as are rich in "atmosphere." What is called "local color"—the very look and tone of a definite locality—is produced not by photographic multiplicity of details, but by a marshalling of materials carefully selected to suggest the central spirit of the place to be depicted. The camera frequently defeats itself by flinging into emphasis details that are dissonant with the informing spirit of the scene it seeks to reproduce: so also does the author who overcrowds his picture with multifarious details, however faithful they may be to fact. The true triumphs of "local coloring" have been made by men who have struck at the heart and spirit of a place —have caught its tone and timbre as George Du Maurier did with the Quartier Latin—and have set forth only such details as tingled with this spiritual tone.
Recapitulation.—We have studied the many uses of the element of setting, and have seen that in the best-developed fiction it has grown to be entirely coordinate with the elements of character and action. Novelists have come to consider that any given story can happen only in a given set of circumstances, and that if the setting be changed the action must be altered and the characters be differently drawn. It is therefore impossible, in the best fiction of the present day, to consider the setting as divorced from the other elements of the narrative. There was a time, to be sure, when description for its own sake existed in the novel, and the action was halted to permit the introduction of pictorial passages bearing no necessary relation to the business of the story,—"blocks" of setting, as it were, which might be removed without detriment to the progression of the narrative. But the practice of the best contemporary novelists is summed up and expressed by Henry James in this emphatic sentence from his essay on "The Art of Fiction": —"I cannot imagine composition existing in a series of blocks, nor conceive, in any novel worth discussing at all, of a passage of description that is not in its intention narrative."


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Different types of vehicles are used in Antarctica, with special features needed in the extreme conditions.
See information about getting around at Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island and Mawson.
- Research the type of vehicles that are used for travel in Antarctica. What special features do they need, and why?
The following are some examples of these special features:
- As they need to travel over snow and across glaciers and sea ice, some vehicles run on tracks to reduce the ground pressure. (Older students could calculate and compare the ground pressure of for example a person walking, a person skiing, a wheeled vehicle and a tracked vehicle.)
- Hagglunds float, so if they fall through the ice, driver and passengers can escape and the vehicle can be retrieved.
- Hagglunds and tractors use very high grade diesel as some of the additives in the normal diesel used in Australia solidify in the low temperatures. Smaller vehicles such as quads and utes use petrol, which has a very low freezing point.
- Most of the vehicles are brightly coloured so they can be seen in conditions of poor visibility.
- They have to be parked carefully to allow for blizzards and strong winds. Otherwise doors can be blown off or the vehicles can be buried in drift.
- Engines have to be wrapped up to keep out the snow and to help keep them warm. Some vehicles have heating elements inside the engine to warm the oil so they'll start.
- Expeditioners may have to dig snow out of the engine before start up.
Helicopters are used to deliver expeditioners and supplies from ships to stations when the sea ice prevents the vessels from getting close to the land. They are also used to deploy scientists and their equipment and camping gear into the field and to collect them again at the completion of their programs or when the ship arrives to take them back to Australia.
Sometimes the helicopters must travel distances that are beyond their range. Extra depots of fuel must be placed beforehand to allow them to extend their range. The 200 litre drums are slung underneath. Sling loading is used to carry items that will not fit inside the helicopter.
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In spite of a scattering of funny lines, a game performance by Catherine Zeta-Jones and amusing walk-ons by Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken, this crowded, glossy comedy lacks both the bite of real satire and the giddy effervescence of screwball. John Cusack and Ms. Zeta-Jones are a pair of narcissistic movie stars whose real-life breakup threatens the profitability of their new movie. Billy Crystal plays the over-the-hill publicist who organizes a press junket at which all manner of not terribly surprising complications ensue. Julia Roberts plays Ms. Zeta-Jones's ugly-duckling sister, who is also her long-suffering assistant and her rival for Mr. Cusack's affections. - A. O. Scott


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- The return of Arrested Development is nigh! Check out the latest promo posters.
- Voting is open for the 2013 Webby Awards. Here are the nominees.
- Meet the 5 worst types of guys on Instagram. Or try not to.
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If there is a place where everything happens at a different pace, it is called La Vieja Esquina (the Old Corner) and it is located in the junction of Streets 25 and 28 in the City of Mercedes.
Grocery Store's Customs
Inexplicable for some, this journey to the past starts only 100 kilometers away from the City of Buenos Aires. Opposite the Court Building in Mercedes, which has been operating in this small city for almost 150 years, there stands this old pulpería or grocery store that has been a meeting point for several generations of Argentinian people.
Vermouth and snacks are a daily custom enjoyed both by locals and strangers. In recent times, this place has been visited by "tourists" who wish to watch how time has stopped.
Snacks are served all around the store and all tables are indulged with a piece of salami or cheese. According to the owners, everything is produced here in Mercedes: from the dry chorizos, the bacon, the cheese and the salami to some patero wine or other.
If there is a classical football match, such as Boca vs. River or the national team plays, the site is filled with the typical characters from town. Not attending a great event at the old corner means not wanting to be a part of it.
First Time
"The look of whoever steps in for the first time is a piece of art", the bar tender says as he stands by the hundred-year-old cash register, the star of the store, which is still working.
The old hardwood floors groan when somebody steps on them, either to approach the counter, to go to the restrooms, or simply to watch some of the many photographs that decorate the site, just like the pieces of ham and the salamis that seem to have been hanging there for ages.
"A snack for four", the waiter says to the owner. No sooner does the preparation start than the spirit of this place seems to come back to life. Bottles of Coca Cola and aperitifs such as Cinzano and Fernet are distributed around the tables as customers wait for their servings of cheese and cold cuts.
After a while, everyone starts to leave. Many of them head for the new downtown coffee-shop to watch a match in the largest screen in town. La Vieja Esquina has survived modern times and progress. Deep inside, it knows that customers will come back.
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Thornton's Pre-Game Ritual
Zach Thornton's spectacular save helped Chivas USA preserve a draw vs. Seattle.
Chivas USA Goalkeeper Zach Thornton, who is listed at 6'3" and 230 pounds, had one of the best seasons of his career last year at the age of 35, being named the MLS Goalkeeper of the Year and the Comeback Player, because he takes care of his body.
Before every game, he eats the same healthy meal: chicken, pasta, and vegetables.
Besides his dinner, Thornton does not have an extensive pregame routine. He does not listen to music, nor does he have any superstitions. He just puts on his game face and mentally prepares himself for the upcoming match.
"I rest and eat properly before the game," Thornton said. "Nothing too complicated."
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Saratoga Springs officials heard a financial forecast that urged cautionary spending in the coming year.
Commissioner of Finance Kenneth Ivins Jr. pitched his State of the City Finances to Saratoga Springs City Council members at the Tuesday, Feb. 19, meeting. The outlook wasn't bad, but also not good, said Ivins.
People in this state think we are a real affluent community. We are not doing bad, but we are not as affluent as they think, said Ivins.
Ivins' financial warning is in part sparked by the growing difference between the city's general fund budget and funds raised via taxes, heavy bonding for city projects and a growing middle-class that is ever more susceptible to the increasing cost of living, in and outside of the city.
A key concern that the Republican majority soon entering its third month in office is pointing to is bloated sales tax revenue projections in the 2008 budget and a near nonexistent rainy day fund, or unappropriated general fund balance. However, Ivins pointed out that in addition to those, parking ticket incomes, racetrack admission, hotel occupancy and mortgage taxes could play a role in an early projected $1,045,000 budget shortfall by year's end.
Ivins and Mayor Scott Johnson both admit that it is still early in the year, and some of the numbers could eventually pan out.
Ivins said if bloated sales tax projections, at 8.5 percent in 2008 -- nearly double the revenue brought in year's past, don't pan out, the city could find itself $700,000 short on tax revenue. However, Ivins added that the city was recently awarded a $747,000 grant and renegotiated interest rates on bond accounts to free up $40,000 annually to the city capital account.
Since dropping from Saratoga County's sales tax formula in 2002, the city has seen a steady increase in sales tax revenue, according to Ivins' figures, but Johnson, in his State of the City address, entertained the idea of going back to the county formula.
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Also highly reccomended.
Do you mean Erimem? If so, she's not new. She was introduced six years earlier.
Six years? Blimey I've got some catching up to do.
In all fairness, this is only the fourth Davison story I've listened to.
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I first heard the Anonymous 4 on KUSC Classical (91.5 Southern California) many many months ago.I typically run without any music, I'm somewhat of a minimalist/purist in that category. But I recently put on my shuffle for a long road run (read: boring...I hate running road) and listened to their 2008 album Miracles of Compostela on repeat. What a run....Now I'm not a Christian, but if the songs of these four women don't convert me...Here's a youtube clip of them.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEb7gt7FIKsCheers.
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