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Also, this. Jail cell? Secret al Qaeda operative headquarters? Nope. This is where Jonathan Franzen writes. And writes well. He's removed all distraction from the room (I'll say) and all hope of connection to the internet from his computer. I have ordered my copy of Freedom. And will wait, somewhat impatiently, for its release next week. You can read the Time profile here.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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Also, this. Jail cell? Secret al Qaeda operative headquarters? Nope. This is where Jonathan Franzen writes. And writes well. He's removed all distraction from the room (I'll say) and all hope of connection to the internet from his computer. I have ordered my copy of Freedom. And will wait, somewhat impatiently, for its release next week. You can read the Time profile here.
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- Kimberly T said...
P, I had to enlarge the pic of Agatha to check out her needle point shoes. I'm still not 100% sure. Ha! What intrigued me about the picture is that at her age she was sitting in front of a laptop. It reminded me that we are never to old to learn new tricks...and that's what probably keeps her young. Hope you had fun in NY. Kimberly
- August 22, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Susan Windsor Jones said...
That is precisely the setting I need in order to accomplish anything.
I love Franzen's work, but wish he hadn't introduced the phrase "scalpy smell" in "The Corrections". Hard to get the idea of that out of my head.
- August 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- Toad said...
The Christie profile, I will save forever.
- August 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- Mrs. Blandings said...
Kimberly - fast and furious, but, yes, fun.
Susan - still, he's sticking with you and that is something.
Toad - I know exactly what you mean. That first husband was a dope.
- August 22, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- pve design said...
priceless post mrs.b.
only wish I were locked up or delayed with you - with needlepoint, stacks of unread mags and a good beverage and a biscuit to share, or perhaps a salty bag of nuts.
- August 22, 2010 at 3:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
Love the picture of Agatha Christie! However, that is no laptop. Ms. Christie died in 1976 at the age of 85.
- August 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Kate from Party Resources said...
I am a New Yorker reader too and loved the piece on A. Christie!
- August 22, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- David said...
I love seeing how writers work. In Fiction I and II at KU my work was written either on my typewriter (really) in a completely quiet apartment, or longhand on a legal pad sitting at The Bourgeois Pig. The extremes seemed fine, the middle ground with just a few distractions, seemed to be a problem.
- August 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Just Verte said...
Such a coincidence, Pat! I read the NYorker issue last night, following an hour of watching David Suchet's special about riding the Orient Express.
Ms. Christie started me reading mysteries many, many years ago, and I've been hooked on them ever since. No one created the 'red herring" better than she did.
- August 22, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- Ragland Hill Social by Gwen Driscoll said...
Hope you are well. Can't believe summer is already on its way out. Love this image of Agatha Christie. Have a great week.
- August 22, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- Karena said...
I adore Agatha Christi's work, her class, and even her plays ( some of the longest running ever in London! Mousetrap being one!
Art by Karena
- August 22, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- home before dark said...
Writers and their homes. What a perfect crossroads. I have several books on this topic. Looking at them seems like looking at something sacred...and its flip side, profane. Glad you're home well read.
- August 23, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- Easy and Elegant Life said...
The whole issue ... cover to cover! I'm envious. I've had to give up my subscription, and I do miss it.
But I've got the online version that updates, so I'll look up the Christie piece. Thanks for pointing it out.
Glad to hear that you're home again, safe and sound.
- August 23, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am playing "catch up" because we were on holiday these past two weeks. I want you to know that I find your brand of honesty refreshing. Rude -- NOT! There is nothing wrong in being "tactful" or respectful of others. Glad you had such an interesting and great trip with the family. Hope that all goes well with putting the house on the market. And PLEASE Keep up the great work. Rebecca
- August 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- Henley on the Horn said...
I, too, like rings stacked to the knuckle! I'm not quite there, but hopefully hubs still has some time to help me get there. I love diamonds and sapphires best. I'm glad you had a great trip!
- August 23, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- betsy and emily said...
I'll have to find the piece on Agatha Christie..one of my favorite authors.
- August 25, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- Claudia Juestel said...
I inhaled Agatha Christie's stories as a kid and loved watching Miss Marple with Margaret Rutherford.
Thanks for the reminder, just added some of the movies to my netflix list.
- September 9, 2010 at 11:56 PM


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August 10, 2006
Please don't misinterpret this rant. I believe strongly in effective security screening at the airport. I welcome the checks as they help protect my safety in the air -- and I fly a lot. However, I wish those in charge of security lines understood a little more about queuing systems. And I wish just one reporter knew enough to ask an intelligent question.
With today's terrorism plot in London, security screening at airports has increased dramatically. Screening time has increased, and lines are longer. The message put out through the media is to arrive at the airport 2 hours before your flight. That might be fine if you have a 6 am or 2 pm flight, but for the rest of the day, you'd better camp out at the airport. Why is the 2-hour lead time bogus? Basic queuing theory.
Let's say an airport has 10 security screening stations, each fully staffed and operational. For simplicity's sake, let's say that under normal times each passenger takes 1 minute to get screen. (In reality that screening time would vary, but again this is a simple example.) That means that each station can process 60 passengers in an hour and the entire screening area can screen 600 passengers per hour.
Let's also assume that the airport has planes taking off each hour with a total of 600 passengers. In other words, the system is in perfect balance. The demand for security screening equals the demand for security screening. Since the passengers won't arrive at exactly the rate of 10 per minute, the length of the queue will ebb and flow. But when do you ever see the security stations idle? Only at very slow periods in the airport, such as 6 am (which isn't all that slow!) and mid-afternoon. The lack of idle capacity is critical to this argument, so keep that in mind.
Now the terrorist plot gets foiled, and security screening is beefed up.
Again, for simplicity's sake, let's assume that each individual screening now takes 2 minutes, twice as long. (That's probably an overstatement, but it keeps the analysis simple.) The capacity of the screening area gets cut in half to 300 passengers per hour (since the time required per passenger has doubled). If enough flights are cancelled combined with passengers canceling their trips, then the system could be near balance. But that large a drop in demand is unlikely. So, word goes out through CBS4Boston, Fox25, WNAC, and WCVB that passengers should arrive 2 hours ahead of their flight times. How would that help?
Answer: it doesn't. In fact, the effect is to create congestion that just adds to already frayed nerves. Here's why.
If everyone shows up 2 hours in advance, then everyone's relative position in the queue stays the same. Please reread that sentence. It's key. Remember, there's no idle capacity. If demand is still 600 passengers and capacity is 300, then the queue will build by 300 people each hour. In other words, after one hour, there would be 300 people in queue, after two hours, there would be 600 people in queue, after three hours, there would be 900 people in queue, etc. That last person -- the 900th -- in line after 3 hours won't be processed for 3 hours!
So, what's the impact of everyone arriving early? More people waiting longer in longer lines. Advancing the arrival of demand doesn't affect the capacity of the processing stations. That's the key point that seems missed by all, and the airport PR people who put out the "come early" message are doing a public disservice. Now we passengers aren't stupid. We recognize the situation intuitively. So what's our response? We arrive 3 hours ahead of the flight! Result, longer lines, more congestion. The people who arrive extra early do benefit. They advance their position in the expanding queue, and get through earlier -- and might make their flight. But if everyone follows suit, you gain nothing.
The only way everyone arriving early would help the situation is if -- IF -- there were occasional idle capacity in the screening area that would now be utilized because the queue is better stocked. How many times have you ever seen idle security screening during at the airport, especially during peak times? Exactly. The gain from advancing the queue is minimal.
So what is the answer? The capacity must be equal to or greater than the demand. (We really want capacity to exceed demand, but I'm keeping this analysis simple.) Either demand must be cut or capacity must be increased. If screening does take longer -- the 2 minutes versus 1 minute in this example -- then the only real answer is to increase the number of screening stations. (In this simple example, the number of stations would need to double.) Putting aside the cost of the equipment and extra staffing, we've seen how the architecture of the airports constrains this expansion.
I fly out of Manchester, NH (MHT) and Providence, RI (PVD), both "new" airports, but both built before September 11. The area for security screening wasn't designed to accommodate expansion. Passengers are all funneled through this narrow opening. From a bird's eye view, It is a literal bottleneck. The airports have gotten creative and experimented with different designs, but they are near their limit without radical reconstruction of the areas. (This is true for most of the airports I visit.) Regardless, are they able to increase capacity literally overnight? Unfortunately, no.
The other option is to work to decrease the screening time, which in effect increases capacity. Things that slow down the x-ray screenings could be addressed before they get into the system. We see the agents telling passengers in advance to remove items that will be confiscated. Without that, the screening times would really spike. But there's a limit. This limit is how long it takes the agent to process the bags viewed in the x-ray equipment. We don't want to shortchange that time. The only other option is to reduce the number of carry-on bags, as the British did today at Heathrow, but that means more checked luggage that must be screened at other stations and now be handled by the airlines.
Besides, the airlines don't want us to check bags. It increases their costs since they have to handle the luggage. Carry-on luggage keeps the task in the passengers' hands. You know the airlines won't increase staff to handle more checked bags -- though they may charge you for it.
Security is necessary, and increased security is very necessary so long as there are terrorists among us. But let's not make the situation worse by making recommendations to air travelers that have no impact and really only make matters worse. Airports and the TSA need to design airport screening areas to bring on added capacity during periods of surging demand. Having everyone arrive extra early just creates a more chaotic situation.


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Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
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'Australia's festival folk flagship, the 'National', draws together people from all around Australia and the world. They come to share in the songs, dances, tunes, and verse that have flowed through the ages from many communities into Australian folk culture.' Festival Australia's Maddi' Parker reckons that whilst it takes a bit of saving up to get a family of six there, it provides great value for an Easter Holiday with non-stop entertainment and educational opportunities galore.
The National Folk Festival in Canberra was a wonderful experience. With twenty two venues running a full schedule for over 4 ½ days, we arrived home exhausted and very elated. It was a feast for the eyes at every moment and definitely very good value for money for our family of 6.
There was a space where artisans could exhibit their magnificent handmade musical instruments from harp to ocarina, guitar and bouzouki. Sophie nearly got herself a beautiful first harp at the NFF but where was it going to fit in our trusty vehicle as we travelled around Australia this year visiting festivals? She had to settle on a tin whistle instead.
On the street, musicians busked at every opportunity and street performers gave polished and hilarious performances. Finn and Sophie were 'discovered' while playing their flute and harmonica on the sidewalk and invited to perform on stage that night in a youth concert where a number of ten year olds got their first gig at the folkie. Internationally known fiddle players The Davidson Brothers were such buskers only a few short years ago we heard a compere saying.
The Piazza was a central dance floor that programmed a variety of workshops and performances including English clog, Argentinian Tango, Bellydance, Welsh dance, Australian Colonial, North West Morris and Cotswold Morris dance and Swing. We enjoyed a tango workshop one evening that left us feeling in awe of the professionals but very proud that we had a go. Our children engaged in a story about orphan girls called 'The Girls from the Shamrock Shore' by the Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble one afternoon also.
The Kids' festival area was a very gentle space where our two younger girls stayed for hours at a time. There was plenty of engaging craft activities such as finger knitting, painting, jewellery and lantern making, musical toadstools and an interactive box city that continually morphed over the four days. The kids' stage had continuous workshops and performances of storytelling, humour and music. Peter Combe is well known for the silly song 'Wash your Face in Orange Juice' and had a wider aged audience with those reliving their happy childhood memories.
Performances that we enjoyed included the Volatinsky Trio, Stringmansassy, Battlefield Band and Kristina Olsen. We also had a great time kicking back at some of the blackboard events to see all sorts of great acts including a ten year old singer song writer called Lucy Sugerman, a school teachers band (all from one school) and the owners of the delicious Corn Fritters food venue doing a gig. What talent!
Twenty workshops a day were also on the program. We went to Singing with Katie Noonan, Harmonica with Doug Lyons, Tin Whistle for beginners and song writing. Our daughter Sophie attended the Festival Choir rehearsals each day with world music harmony and rhythm master, Andrea Khosa. Sitting in the front row at the final concert and watching her sing in Zulu on the big screen was truly memorable.
In our opinion, the National Folk Festival is definitely a great way to spend the Easter school holidays which is well worth the saving effort beforehand.
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Energy drinks are cold, refreshing, and packed with electrolytes. But there's something else inside these popular drinks that's worrying.
"It concerns me that they have questionable chemicals in their products," said Aveyca Price.
The chemical Price is referring to is brominated vegetable oil, or BVO for short. BVO contains an element found in flame retardants and studies have linked the chemical to neurological impairment, reduced fertility, thyroid changes and early puberty.
Price started a petition on the website change.org, urging Coca-Cola to drop the ingredient from their Powerade drinks. Part of the petition read: "I and surely others would like to know if any action has been taken to remove the chemical."
The response to the petition was overwhelming.
"50,000 people ended up signing it within the month," Price said.
Coca-Cola says its ingredients comply with FDA regulations, and they use BVO to keep their drinks well-mixed. In a statement, the American Beverage Association said, "The current conversation surrounding brominated vegetable oil is more sensational than substantive. It is a safe ingredient permitted by the FDA."
Meanwhile, Price, an artist who is currently battling cancer, said she's surprised by all the attention she's received.
"I'm just a small town kid from New York who likes to draw," Price said.
Pepsi recently dropped BVO in Gatorade after a similar petition gained 200,000 signatures.
100 countries have already banned BVO and Price is hoping her efforts will lead to big changes in the United States.
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BVO, which stands for brominated vegetable oil, is found in many citrus-flavored beverages in order to prevent the flavoring from separating from the rest of the soda or sports drink. The main ingredient which causes concern is bromine. Studies have found the bromine from BVO can actually build up in the body over time reaching levels that could be dangerous to people's health. In particular, individuals who drink more than two liters a day of beverages with BVO have reported memory loss, skin complications, and nerve problems. While the FDA continues to allow BVO to be used as a food additive, Japan and many European countries have banned their use in foods and drinks. (Source: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bvo/AN02200)
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This is one of those book where the less you know about it, the better it is, so I recommend reading it without reading reviews first.
But if you really want to know what I thought.. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It starts as a very convincing WWII/Cold War spy novel, and for the first quarter of the book it could easily be a Le Carre novel. However, some things are a little bit out of place, and Andrew Hale, the main character, slowly comes to realize that he is dealing with ancient magic.
I often don't like magical realism, because few authors can gracefully let magic intrude into the real world. However, in this book, it is totally convincing. The world of Cold War espionage is so secretive, so self-important, that magic fits in perfectly. I was even more delighted to get to the author's afterward and realize that many of the characters in this book are actual historical figures whose biographies have some unexplained episodes in them, and magic is a wonderful solution to the questions left by the historical record.
I listened to the audiobook, and Simon Prebble is the perfect narrator for this book.
My reactions to reading this novel in 2002.
A very accomplished novel and now, of the Powers' I've read, my favorite.
There are some typical Powers techniques and themes.
Body swapping of a sort shows up in the confused identities protagonist Andrew Hale experiences when he meets his half-brother, Kim Philby, after the latter has escaped to Moscow. This notion also shows up with the notion of split identities and doubles throughout the book: Kim Philby's ability to be in two places at once until Andrew is born when Kim is ten; John Philby being confused, as an infant, with another child (as usual, when Powers includes real people in his novels, the given details of their lives are drawn from actual histories and biographies -- here, in the unusual step of having an afterword, he explicitly states where many of the details about Philby's life came from), the suppression of identity often felt when in the presence of the djinn, particularly when Hale and Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga (her last name translates into English as Ashbless so another installment is added to Powers' and James Blaylock's joint myth of the Ashbless family) are psychically merged with the djinn during the 1948 expedition to Ararat. Guy Burgess is also said to have killed a double of his.
Powers once again relies on analogies of electricity and general physics to rationalize his magic. The djinn of Mount Ararat are said, because of the presence of anchor stones, to be in a "grounded state". Some djinn inhabit the Heaviside Layer so important in bouncing radio signals around. The importance of a direction of rotation is also here as in Power's Expiration Date.
I liked the notion that the djinn expressed thought as a marcoscopic kinetic animation of surrounding matter -- and the symmetrical idea of imposing thought and experience on them with matter associated with their fellow djinn. I wouldn't classify anything by Powers since his Dinner at the Deviant's Palace as sf -- and neither would he, but he tries very hard to suspend disbelief in his magical worlds by using concepts like symmetry from physics as well as external trappings like the language of electricity. If his magic is not rationalized into sf, associations with the language of rational science is certainly used.
Once again, the chapter epigraphs, here mainly drawn from Gilgamesh and, especially, Rudyard Kipling's Kim (the source of Kim Philby's first name) are very appropriate. When the young Andrew Hale first hears the ritualistic phrases of the secret spy network that exists in the British Special Operations Executive (particularly the wonderful phrase, drawn from Arab myth, "O fish, are you constant to the covenant?", we immediately sense something very important even if Hale doesn't. It reminded me of Scott Crane's first card game on Lake Mead in Last Call when he is reminded that his hand has been assumed. Andrew Hale being raised for great purposes and manipulated and threatened by outside forces reminded me of Kootie in Expiration Date.
Declare also involves family matters, specifically the revelation (not really a surprise to me) that Philby and Hale are half-brothers. (I liked the split of a unified personality into, respectively, an obsession with family and, in Hale, a concern for duty and loyalty). However, in Declare it is the relationship between Hale and Elena and questions of faith, not the exorcism of spirits, that is addressed in the epilogue after the djinn of Mount Ararat have been killed:
In the unusual structure of this novel, which bounces from the 1930s to the 1960s and points between, is the story of the strange relationship between Elena and Hale. Normally, I don't like the stories where men and women are thrown accidentally together and, under stress, become lovers, but I didn't mind this one which is especially surprising because Powers not only doesn't describe their two nights of sex but doesn't really describe how they come to love each other. It just happens as they work as spies in Nazi-occupied Paris.
The novel has four or five passages of beautiful prose, and one is when Hale, listening to the tapping of cryptic signals on the radio wonders if his old lover Elena is at the keys. Another is when he thinks it would just be better if he never saw Elena again.
A key part of the novel is the question of faith and why anyone would deny, if not the existence, the authority and company of God. Elena's early faith in Communism, including a statement that she would willingly obey a command to return to Moscow to be executed because she has faith that such a fate would help bring about a better, Communist world, is clearly stems from the betrayed Catholic faith of her childhood (her parents were killed by Catholic loyalists during the Spanish Civil War). She looses her faith in Communism when she is exposed to the cryptic, secret order that exists in Soviet Intelligence to preserve and extend a deal Russia has made with the flesh and blood devouring Mistress of Misfortune, Russia's protective djinn. (Powers, in a chapter epigraph, literalizes Karl Marx's famous line about the specter of communism). Elena surprisingly recovers her old Catholic faith. Hale drifts out of his Catholic faith but discovers it again confronting the djinn of the Arabian wastes and the dangers during his 1963 Ararat expedition. Hale is tempted by the power and immortality the djinn offer, that his brother Kim Philby seeks. And he despairs, at times, of winning. However, he eventually realizes he must press on with hope if not always with faith. His faith is rewarded when he finds Elena at St. Basil's on her fortieth birthday, a promise she made many years ago to the Virgin Mary if she survived Lubyanka Prison.
think it is significant that the novel simply ends Hale's and Elena's story with them embarking on a walk out of the Soviet Union. We have no idea if they make it or not. I think Powers' point is that it's not important whether they make it. It's that they are loyal to each other and try to make it out together. As Hale notes, you have to play the hand dealt by life. Both reject the notion of immortality.
The ideas why Philby and others reject such a faith strike me as powerfully believable. Hale meets a descendant of the Nephiliim in the desert. His top half is like that of an immortal man, his bottom half a stone rooting him in place. Yet he is glad of his situation because he means he will not die and be called to judgement. This same fear and resentment of final judgment motivates Philby against Catholicism. Elena, on the other hand, realizes that it is partially pride that has kept her away from her childhood faith. She hates the idea she must approach God as soiled as any other sinner.
It is also the same sort of pride, a sort of , Hale notes, aristocratic pride, that keeps Philby away from worshiping God. (I also liked the wonderful legends of fallen angels hanging on or being pulled behind Noah's Ark and thus avoiding destruction.) Ultimately, Philby goes for the option of being a sort of king to the Gray People of Moscow, pathetic traitors and Western ex-patriates deprived of their passports and inhabiting, as Powers wonderfully describes it, the same sort of joyless existence as the hell of Babylonian myth. (In fact, in the epilogue's scene in Moscow, Powers does a very good job conveying the sad, pathetic, horrible nature of Soviet Communism. Though Powers doesn't do it, but Milton might as well be invoked in his line about better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
I liked the Catholic influence on this novel. I also liked the phrase about sinning sensuously is sinning like a beast, sinning by deceit is sinning like a man, and sinning by pride is sinning like an angel (and pride is the grandest and most common sin of this novel).
Powers has described this book as "tradecraft meets Lovecraft". It's more tradecraft than Lovecraft, but Powers love of that author shows up at the beginning when members of the 1948 Ararat expedition have, in best Lovecraftian tradition, gone mad. The djinn being drawn to certain mathematical shapes reminded me of Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch-House". The passages where Hale feels like something old and powerful has been drawn down from the stars is like Lovecraft. The descriptions of whirling heavens also reminded me of Lovecraft though, according to the afterword, they are probably more inspired by a dream of John Philby's. Some of the language describing the sensation of being on Ararat's glacier in 1963 reminded me of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness".
Thematically and by depth of research and skill of characterization, the best Powers' secret history I've read.
A strange fantasy novel about shifting alliances among spies in a world where supernatural entities exist. It's interesting to think about because it's generally hard to figure out what the hero wants. There's a love story. And he's a dedicated spy trying to infiltrate ... something ... but the story unfolds in back-and-forth time -- 1948, then 1963, then 1941, then 1945, then 1963 again. And it changes main characters halfway through. I don't know what the stakes are.The hero is a bit of cipher, as spies sometimes are. What am I rooting for?
In other words it bends all sorts of narrative rules and even arguably breaks some.
Somehow it gets away with it. I wasn't sure why I kept reading it, but I did. Maybe because I wanted to find out what the supernatural powers are, and what exactly happened on Mount Ararat in 1948.
I wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery. That must be it.
There's a fascinating epilog, too. The book creates a whole mythology around the British spy turncoat Kim Philby. It was interesting to read how Powers came up with the story. He was reading biographies of Philby, and kept running across events that suggested a much more interesting story hidden just behind what was written. Why did Philby weep for two days when his pet fox died -- when he had only wept so much for the death of his father? Why did a Saudi sheik give Philby, as a child, a twenty carat diamond? And what was the real meaning between Solomon's offer to split the baby in two?
Powers set himself a rule, as he constructed the story of DECLARE, to abide by all the historical facts, and only conjure up what was behind them.
Fascinating. Worth a read.
I thought this book was utter drivel. The parts of the book about spying were unconvincing as a spy novel and the parts that were about the supernatural were unconvincing for that genre. Frankly I'm frustrated with myself that I bothered finishing it but the rules say if I start a book I have to finish it. Blah
*note to self.copy from Al.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0380798360, Mass Market Paperback)This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it's 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah's ark. James Theodora is the über-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There's plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of A Thousand and One Nights, which is Hale's guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and amonon plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There's a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.
This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers's many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time. --Jane Adams
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Bonnie Ray says she is armed with guns and isn't afraid to use them just like the famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley if burglars, thieves and vandals who have been terrorizing Dunbar residents threaten her or her grandchildren.
"If I came out of my house at night and I saw someone, I don't know what I would do," Ray told Dunbar Borough Council members during Tuesday night's meeting. "When it comes to my grandchildren, I will shoot to kill."
Ray was one of three women who voiced concerns about the recent crime spree in the borough.
"We just want the borough police to do something about this problem," Shannon Brame said.
Susan Watson said borough residents are staying up all night because they are afraid vandals will damage their vehicles and thieves will break into their homes.
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Council President Norm Gordon acknowledged that the borough has been plagued by a recent crime spree. Many of the incidents have occurred on Railroad and Church streets, but Gordon said the entire borough has been affected.
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The Mt. Pleasant Area Cultural Trust recently became an official local organization. The group's primary goal is to complete projects designed to promote historically significant aspects of Mt. Pleasant Borough and surrounding areas.
"There was a gap between what people would like to see happen and having a vehicle to make things happen," said Cindy Stevenson, a borough councilwoman and member of the trust, regarding the need for such a group.
"(The trust) is a place where people can bring their ideas to the table and the group will decide what the next project will be.
"This could be a key to bringing tourism into our town."
The group — composed of Stevenson and several other citizens and community leaders in Mt. Pleasant — began as an informal committee about a year ago.
Since then it has become an official organization focusing on several projects to better the Mt. Pleasant region.
The group recently completed its first project, the creation of a brochure and signage program which details historic Braddock Road in the Mt. Pleasant area.
The group is also exploring the possibility of creating a museum which would detail the area's glass industry history.
The trust recently opened a glass exhibit at the In-Town Shops on Main Street in the borough to help gauge interest in a museum.
"This museum is the first step. It goes hand-in-hand with the (Mt. Pleasant Area Glass & Ethnic) Festival and it goes hand-in-hand in bringing people to Mt. Pleasant," said Mt. Pleasant Mayor Jerry Lucia. "With 17,000 vehicles a day going through town we need something to make them stop, park their cars and come in and see the museum."
Trust member Cassandra Vivian of Mt. Pleasant agreed.
"One of the restaurant owners said that, on any given day, 70 percent of his business is from out-of-town," Vivian said.
Other projects include additional small museums to celebrate the area's coal and coke and candy making histories.
"We can really expand of things such as the coal and coke industry," Lucia said.
The group is also exploring the possibility of bringing creative artists to the community such as potters, jewelers, photographers.
Vivian said she and other trust members are hoping their enthusiasm for celebrating the town's history and their drive to boost tourism will influence others.
"The trust will help them get started and develop their plan," Vivian said. "We will announce efforts for additional projects soon."
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Why does there seem to be a lack of interest in Musepack?
Why does there seem to be a lack of interest in Musepack?
Aug 19 2009, 01:08
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Musepack is still as good as mp3 if not better and on par with modern codecs and vorbis and aac so why does no one talk about it? I was murking around the forum wiki and found out musepack was opensource which is a big plus for me... and older abx tests have it on par with aotuv or lame so why no talk? is it becuase of slow development? I think this is unfair if the codec is already so good no more tuning is needed..... any reason why people don't use mpc anymore other then compatibility? (converting from lossless to another format isn't too trivial... lol....)
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I think the world continued to be dominated by the iPod, while the things that weren't iPods started to play Vorbis and/or FLAC as well as mp3 (and usually WMA). MPC support didn't spread as fast.
If you want a lossy collection that is sure to outlive your current choice of DAP, mp3 has always been the only choice.
If you want a high quality collection on your PC, you've got more choice than ever, but rapidly diminishing disc prices make it increasingly silly not to use lossless.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but CDs are heading towards obsolescence. Now is a great time to make a lossless backup of your valuable collection. In five or ten years time, I don't think the tools are going to be so easily available - for instance, having an optical drive that can rip CDs quickly and securely won't be a huge selling point when most normal people have thrown their CDs in the bin! The time to rip to lossless is now (if you haven't already). 1.5TB HDD = £86 = about 3 pence per CD lossless.
As for what lossy to use, I'm with Soap:- it doesn't matter. Pick a fast encoder, leave some quality headroom, and do it on the fly.
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but rapidly diminishing disc prices make it increasingly silly not to use lossless.
What is at all silly about striving for efficiency? If I want to cut on wasted disk space and file size -which are both very reasonable choices-, it is not at all silly if I then go out and convert my big fat music files to ones that are only half as big with no level of signal deterioration that is in the slightest practice-relevant. In fact I should argue that it is very silly indeed to be unwilling to use so called lossy formats when those do not actually present a loss in audio quality.
And if you are among the economical bottom it is generally preferable to save those 50 for that extra HDD, even when you live in a country where hitting bottom doesn't mean living on foodstamps in a cockroach-infested poorly isolated apartment with mould croaching up everywhere. THey could just go into that book that helps you acquire the last inch of professional skill that puts you atop that one main competitor, potentially elevating you into a real, cozy middle-class life. Or maybe you're saving up for a stock investment at the right time. As we say very poetically here in Germany: "Small livestock makes droppings too."
Eh, it just doesn't sound good in English.
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|Background/Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST) can be usefully and safely performed in elderly patients aged 80 years or older. Methodology: The eligible patients with pancreatic and biliary diseases who required EST were divided into two groups depending on their age: under 80 (group A) and 80 or older (group B). Patient characteristics, EST success rate and incidence of the related complications were evaluated. Results: Of the 720 patients who required EST, 522 patients were in group A and 198 in group B. Group B incidences of patient characteristics at baseline disease and anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy were significantly higher than in group A (p<0.05). The EST success rates were 97.1% (507/522) in group A and 96.5% (191/198) in group B. The incidences of the related complications were 8.8% (46/522) in group A and 4% (8/198) in group B, respectively, again without significant difference. Conclusions: The EST success rate and the incidence of related complications were comparable between patients in groups A and B, indicating that EST can be safely performed even in the elderly aged 80 years or older.
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Stark County Auditor Alan Harold said that due to the lawsuit filed by former Sheriff Timothy Swanson against Sheriff George T. Maier, it would be inappropriate for his office to recognize Maier's appointment as sheriff until a decision is rendered by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Stark County Auditor Alan Harold said Wednesday that his office cannot recognize George T. Maier as the county sheriff.
Harold, a Republican, said due to a lawsuit filed by former Sheriff Timothy Swanson, it would be inappropriate for his office to recognize Maier's appointment as sheriff until a decision is rendered by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Swanson's lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday, challenges whether Maier, a fellow Democrat appointed by party members last week, meets the statutory experience and education requirements for sheriff.
"I just don't know what to do and this seems the safest course of action," said Harold, who sought guidance from colleagues and the Ohio Auditor's Office.
By not recognizing Maier, the office will not pay him his $94,691 salary and will not process any bills or financial transactions, including new hires, that Maier approves.
Harold said he worried that if he paid Maier his sheriff salary and the Supreme Court ruled in Swanson's favor, his office then would have to seek a refund from Maier.
"For all intents and purposes, he would cut me a check right back, but that's not the safest course of action," Harold said. "The safest course of action is to wait until the court gives us some direction."
Maier said he's "shocked and appalled" by Harold's decision and believes it could jeopardize the safety and security of his staff and the Stark County community if he cannot authorize purchases needed to operate the county jail.
"First, this case is in the courts and until the courts render a decision .... I am the legal, commissioned and bonded Sheriff of Stark County," Maier said.
Maier noted that he's already received a commission from the Secretary of State issued by the governor that recognizes him as sheriff and empowers him to execute the duties of the office. Stark County commissioners also have approved his state-required bond that protects taxpayer money up to $50,000.
This isn't the first time that Harold has chosen not to recognize an officeholder. In 2011, Harold refused to recognize Treasurer Gary Zeigler, who had been removed by county commissioners and then reinstated by the Ohio Supreme Court, until questions about Zeigler's state-required bond had been resolved. Zeigler resigned three months later as part of a legal settlement with commissioners.
"In the Zeigler case, it happened to the bond, and in the Maier case, it happens to be the service and education (qualifications)," Harold said. "Those each being requirements to take office."
Earlier Wednesday, commissioners had set a special meeting for 11 a.m. Tuesday to consider hiring legal counsel to defend Maier in the lawsuit, and Maier had planned to ask commissioners to retain Thomas Rosenberg of Roetzel & Andress in Columbus to represent him. Rosenberg last month had been hired by Maier to review his qualifications for sheriff and issued an opinion that concluded that Maier met the qualifications.
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Maier, a longtime trooper with the Ohio Highway Patrol and former safety-service director for Massillon, was selected by a divided Stark County Democratic Central Committee last week to fill the position vacated by Michael A. McDonald, who was unable to assume the sheriff's job due to health reasons.
Swanson and Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero, both members of the Democratic Central Committee, backed Sheriff Lt. Louis Darrow for the post.
Maier said earlier Wednesday that he holds no grudges against Darrow. He said he has worked with Darrow daily since becoming sheriff and praised his work ethic and knowledge of the office.
"I never had any thought of him not being an employee here," Maier said. "What his role is here is up to him. He's a bright officer and has a lot of potential."
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RE: Hardening NIS+From: Small, Jim (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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From: "Small, Jim" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:12:21 -0400
Thank you for all the replies for information regarding hardening NIS+.
Here is some background info:
Platforms being used:
Solaris 7 Sparc, Solaris 8 Sparc
Possibly Solaris 9 Sparc in the future
Probably not but possibly Solaris 2.6 Sparc
O Strongest most secure encrypted authentication
O Strongest most secure authorization
O For all NIS+ file system data (/var/nis) and executables/libraries/etc...
- setting the most restrictive permissions possible. The ideal scenario
would be only the owner has any access, although I have discovered for many
files/directories this is not possible.
O For all NIS+ internal data (directories, tables, groups, links, objects,
...) - setting the most restrictive permissions possible, especially
eliminating world and nobody access where possilbe/feasible.
O No form of anonymous access. (Unfortunately, this does not seem to be
What I've done so far:
As far as general O/S hardening, there are many great sources of information
including the Sun Blueprints, so I'm fairly well set here.
I have read through most of Rick Ramsey's All About Administering NIS+. I
have taken Sun's SA-385 - NIS+ Administration. I have also scanned through
several NIS+ FAQ's and all the SunSolve documentation I could find. I have
also read through the NIS+ Transition Guide, and scanned through the Solaris
Naming Configuration and Setup Guide and the Solaris Naming Administration
Guide for both Solaris 7 and 8 (docs.sun.com).
I believe the bulk of the work is when setting up the Root Master Server.
Here is what I have so far for hardening NIS+ on it:
nisauthconf dh1024-0
(Incidentally, my SA-385 book says there is a way to use Kerberos for
encryption, but the details are not in the book. My instructor also did not
know. Does anyone know if this is possible?)
NIS_GROUP=admin; export NIS_GROUP
(Necessary or some things get put in NIS+ without a group. Not sure about
nisserver, but definitely true for nispopulate)
nisserver -r -d <domain>
Use nisopaccess to lock down commands that don't normally check for
Note that I am also planning on using ntp with encrypted keys. The Sun
Blueprints do a great job of explaining how to do this.
Use nistbladm and nischmod to remove all world access from the passwd and
group tables and the password column in the passwd and group tables
I also started playing around with file permissions and noticed thet
/var/nis must be 755 and /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START must be 644 for NIS+ to
work. Any form of world/other access makes me queasy...
I find it troubling that anyone can use nisinit to get a coldstart file,
either by directly talking to a server or even worse, through a broadcast.
Is there a way to disable a response to nisinit from NIS+ servers or better
yet, only allow a response to clients with existing, valid credentials?
Has anyone played around with locking down file/directory permissions,
especially under /var/nis?
I would like to eliminate all anonymous (nobody) access from NIS+.
Unfortunately this does not seem possible. According to the man page
[nis+(1)], for bootstrapping reasons the following must grant read access to
directory objects that are NIS+ domains, the org_dir subdirectory, and the
cred table
The ideal situation would be that a machine not in the NIS+ domain would not
be able to obtain any NIS+ information whatsoever.
As Akop stated, since the encrypted secret key is world readable, passwords
can be cracked:
"On the easier side, you don't really even need to get the encrypted
password to check a password -- you can do the check with the encrypted
secret key, which is sitting in the world- and nobody-readable cred table.
You don't need to do an expensive multiple-precision modular exponentiation
to check if your decrypted secret key matches the public key, since the
secret key has a built-in checksum -- the last 8 bytes are always the same
as the first 8."
Besides the objects mentioned above, is there any reason other objects need
to grant any form or nobody access? What about world access? Can this be
restricted for some objects?
It would be nice if you could only grant NIS+ access by owner and group
access, but I believe each NIS+ object can only have 1 group. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
I am transitioning a domain from NIS to NIS+. I realize that if I run NIS+
in compatibility mode that all bets with security are off. However, as soon
as the transition is complete, this hole will be closed. Is there anything
special that I should be aware of here?
Darren, you also mentioned better trust between NIS+ principles, but I'm not
sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
Any information or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
<> Jim
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From: Darren Moffat [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:54 PM
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Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: Hardening NIS+
>Has anyone seen any articles/papers on hardening/locking down NIS+?
You need to be a bit more specific in what your end goal is and why
the default configuration of NIS+ is not sufficient.
Do you want to:
1. Harden the NIS+ servers ?
2. Get better trust between NIS+ principles ?
3. Restrict access to parts of the NIS+ tree to cetain user groups ?
4. Restrict access to fields within a record.
5. Other
All of these are possible but the answer depends on what you want to do.
I would recommend that you read the Ramsey NIS+ book (a bit old but still
All About Administering NIS+ (2nd Edition)
by Rick Ramsey (Paperback)
Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0133095762
there is also a wealth of information on docs.sun.com.
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A person parks a vehicle and begins canoeing at a point along a stream, B, which is equidistant from two points on the stream, A and C. The stream flows from point C toward point A and beyond. If the person canoes to point C, "up" stream, and loses all means of locomotion then the person can simply ride the current back to point B. However, if the person canoes from point B to point A, "down" stream and loses all means of locomotion then the only way to get back to point B is by portaging the canoe. Therefore, the idiom should be "DOWN shit creek without a paddle." QED.
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WordPress 2.7 + cformsII 10.1 plug-in
The cformsII 10.1 plug-in is designed for PHP 5 and will not work with PHP 4.3 until it's updated. If you're trying to use the cformsII 10.1 plug-in with wordpress and you're not having any luck getting it to email, then you might not have PHP 5 on your webserver. If you do have PHP 5 and you're still not having any luck then this isn't the place for you.
If your webserver is running PHP 4.x then the cformsII 10.1 plug-in needs to be updated to work with PHP 4. There are two files in the wp-content/plugins/cforms/phpmailer directory that you must update:
- class.phpmailer.php
- class.smtp.php
Open the files in your favorite text editor and change all of the variables from "public"/"private" to "var" and remove the access specifiers on all of the functions, including the static.
public $Priority = 3; becomes var $Priority = 3; private $smtp = NULL; becomes var $smtp = NULL;
For functions:
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November 28, 2015
Kearney, Neb. – Nebraska-Kearney junior outfielder Brian Wuest has been named to the 2012 Rawlings/American Baseball Coaches Association All-American Team.
The Lopers right fielder was selected to the ABCA third-team. He joins second baseman Cody Lusero (2007) and first baseman Andrew Haake (2011) as the only UNK baseball players to earn All-American honors at the Division II level.
Besides Wuest, Colorado Mesa outfielder Jeff Popick (first-team) and Colorado State-Pueblo second baseman Chase Lacomb (3r-dteam) were the RMAC players to make the squad. Senior first baseman Nate Minnich of Shepherd (W.V.) was tabbed as the Player of the Year.
This spring, Wuest (Prosper, Texas) batted .394 with 11 home runs and 52 RBI's. He also led the team in doubles (17), triples (four), walks received (30), slugging (.725) and on base (.483) percentages. In the field, he recorded 88 put outs and three assists.
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Look under you pillow
My favorite band of all time! So glad they're back from the dead (literally in Brad's case).
I agree; Pandora needs to get the rest of the FIF discography on here!! I am grateful they have Engine of A Million Plots, but they need EVERYTHING in order to achieve Pandora perfection. :)
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Reese: A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Your lyrics and your songs are awesome.' But check it out. It's not us, we like it man, but It's the LORD.
Five Iron praises God every time the take the stage, whether it is dancing like fools, singing about Canada or being pelted by blue combs.
If you disagree, it's simple, you are wrong. Enjoy being wrong.
Just found out that they're back together, and largely non-religiou s ! When their new album comes out, I bet it'll be awesome :D


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