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While driving to Digha we had Lunch at this great place called Azad Hind Dhaba. Dhaba means eating place. In olden days Dhaba used to cater to the Truckers only and the food was Typically Punjabi style like Roti, Tadka( lentils) & Chicken. In the Last about 30 years Indian roads have developed a lot and now they are almost at Par with their Asian counter parts. So many people travel, many new cars have also come and eating out has become a fashion. The ordinary food for the Truckers have become food for the Gods. Now everybody, even the very rich in India wants to try these simple dishes sitting at Dhaba. The sitting style is simple on Charpoy, but the modern Dhabas use table, chairs and some of them even have Air- Conditioning facility. Since the development of Indian roads from BJP regime ( 1999), Indian Petrol Pumps and Roads have gone into a sea of changes. Almost all oil companies have come up with Petrol pumps of International style with all amenities, such as, Restaurant ( Dhaba), Grocery, medicine, Toilet, STD/ISD, Playing area for children etc. Bharat Petroleum ( earlier Burmah Shell) has also come up with Chain of such pumps with all amenities, such as Dhaba .................... contd------2.
Favorite Dish: Azad Hind Dhaba serves mostly Indian dishes. They are all very tasty, believe me they will even suit the European palate as they do not put much oil or chilli in the food. Their cooks are trained and throughly professional. They will serve exacly what you want.
we had Masala Kulcha( stuffed with vegetables, cottage cheese & chicken shreads), Chicken Tadka ( Lentils with Chicken), Mix Vegtables, Palak Paneer( Spinach with cottage cheese). All these dishes are excellent and even the children enjoyed a lot. They also have a Menu and the cover design is made by the Great Painter Maqbool Fida Hussein ( M.F. Hussein). No drinks are allowed here a sthe families eat here. The other side is for the Truckers. Sometimes even the RICH & FAMOUS eat here incognito. To experience their food many people drive 45kms from Kolkata. This place is worth trying.
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Biryani House.: Digha Restaurants.
We had all meals at hotel only. But Digha has many restaurants. While coming back we thought we shall have Biryani ( Mutton or Chicken), at Biryani house. The food is just average and not at anything near to Quality what is available at Kolkata. But this place is worth trying while in Digha, only for Indian Mughlai Food.
Favorite Dish: Mutton Biryani & Chicken Chapp. Spiced rice cooked with marinated Mutton Chunks in a perticular style of Mughals of India in slow fire to obtain a tasty delight called Biryani. I shall explain it later after obtaining it's recipe from my wife.
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What's the best 8 bit computer?
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Let the 8 bit war commence. I've left a 'other' category as i've bound to miss out someones favourite system.http://www.retrocomputers.eu/2015/02/07/whats-the-best-8-bit-computer/http://www.retrocomputers.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_7609-1024x530.jpghttp://www.retrocomputers.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_7609-300x300.jpgAndyAmstradAndys Retro ComputersCommodoreOld Computers8 bit,8bit,Amstrad,Apple,best,Commodore,computer,cpc,poll,system,texas instruments,ti
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Stuart - February 7th, 2011 at 22:01 none Comment author #6164 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Amstrad CPC (464/664/6128) just because it is.
Alflavor - February 7th, 2011 at 22:37 none Comment author #6167 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
I voted for the speccy! Filled many happy days in my teens, dizzy series, chase HQ, type in adventures, yoursinclair mag…..!
thedamnedunited - February 7th, 2011 at 23:18 none Comment author #6169 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Most popular, best games, best sound, best graphics – simples !!
Nick Sharratt - February 8th, 2011 at 08:43 none Comment author #6172 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
For me it has to be the BBC micro. Built in assembler, well designed basic, good solid hardware with lots of expansion options suitable for hacking, and best of all, a very well designed OS that taught me lessons about how computing _should_ be done that still hold true today. Eg, write once and keep it simple but reusable, make it open and well documented and allow the community to extend it (sideways roms designed in from the start).
Sure, other machines had some bits of hardware that were better (C64 sound, CPC just because it was later), but the 6502 used in the Beeb was a delight to learn how to write really tight optimised code on, the teletext graphics chip was practically unique and Fred and Shelia became like old friends.
The games often came out first on platforms with more sales, but the Beeb ports were almost always crisper and more polished.
It also spawned truly innovative games such as Elite and Exile which were ported to other platforms.
The Social significance and impact of the C64 and Spectrum can't be dismissed, but their popularity was built on price and games, they didn't have the elegance of the Beeb which as a computing scientist I still appreciate today.
lastkill3r - February 8th, 2011 at 09:39 none Comment author #6173 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Voted for c64, but i was thinking about Speccy and A8. Also, Apple II is good. I wanted to vote for Commodore Plus/4 (excellent!), but when i thought about it, i already voted for C-64.
lizardb0y - February 8th, 2011 at 09:40 none Comment author #6174 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Do you want the right answer, or the real one?
Naturally the Spectrum was the best computer ever, because it was just like the ZX81, only with some colours, and a noise, and it was surprisingly cheap for all that. Even the keyboard was better, feeling like recently deceased flesh instead of the fossilised flesh of million year old dead plastic dinosours.
But then again the Commodore 64 really amped things up with its 16 shades of brown and properly arcade quality synthesizer, even though the BASIC couldn't actually do anything and the floppy drive was slower than a three legged rocking horse.
Atari did a pretty good job with the 800 and the XLs, and really let things rip with the XEs – which in practical terms didn't seem to do anything mush different from the original 400 other than have BASIC in an actual ROM and a keyboard you didn't want to puke on. At least the 400 looked like something Buck Rogers would land on.
The Apple IIs, at least in our market, were horrendously expensive and didn't seem to be especially functional for the money. They were like the giant beige plastic battletanks of the moderately expensive home computer world.
Then there were the Beebs. Cheaper than Apples, beiger than Speccys and more educational than an evening out with my 5th Form maths teacher they had one of the best BASICs on the market, the best game ever made (Elite of course) and the most Owly logo known to mankind. The pinnacle of 8-bit computer has to be the Master 512 – a BBC Master 128 with more RAM and a 80186 co-pro built in.
So, in conclusion, I vote for the ZX81. 'Coz it was my first computer, dammit, and nothing beats that.
Gary - February 8th, 2011 at 14:02 none Comment author #6177 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Tough call between the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC – Speccy wins on nostalgia value alone, simply because of the design of the system, but I think on merit the Amstrad is a better machine.
Lawrence Woodman - February 9th, 2011 at 16:01 none Comment author #6202 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
I Can't believe the Commodore 128 hasn't been mentioned. All the fun of the 64, plus in 128 mode you get higher res colour graphics, more speed and an extra 64k to play with.
Darren Wilson - February 20th, 2011 at 20:33 none Comment author #6432 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
The great thing was that me and my friends all had different machines. I had an Amstrad 6128 whilst others had spectrum or C64's. We enjoyed the fact we could play on the different machines and there wasn't the fatboy mentality that accompanies consoles. The Amstrad was let down by the strange mode set up whereby the more colours you had, the blocking the graphics. But some games still managed to look gorgeous. The Speccy had great innovative and payable games despite the hardware limitations whereas the Commodore was probably the best overall machine. Can I.vote for all three as they all trigger an immense sense of nostalgia and a huge smile on my face.
Jon Veal - February 21st, 2011 at 23:26 none Comment author #6446 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Voted for the spectrum.
Any poll like this is likely to have a high degree of bias based on what systems people owned at the time. I think that having all the BASIC keywords show on the keyboard of the speccy was a good way to encourage programming (when it was still called programming and not 'coding').
Eventually moved onto BBC's. A much better basic and more powerfully system overall but high cost and out of the reach for many at home.
Would be interesting to see what 8 bit machines people who now have IT careers started with.
Robert Johnson - October 7th, 2011 at 09:41 none Comment author #18173 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
C64, because of it's SID chip and full-colour graphics. It did have it's faults, such as 'blocky graphics', slow running speed and also it was hard to program. However, despite this it was most definitely the best 8-bit computer.
Julian Skidmore - February 9th, 2012 at 21:05 none Comment author #26419 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Spectrum. The BBC Micro was technically more capable, but it always seemed to me to be although solidly designed, somewhat over-engineered, with too much TTL.
The Spectrum gave access to computing for millions of children in a way the Beeb couldn't – because it was cheap, because the design was more efficient. Or maybe it was 'cos I had one and I actually liked the single keyword entry
-cheers from julz
eck - February 16th, 2012 at 14:19 none Comment author #26786 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
the c64 ,it had great games like exploding fist and barbarian etc way ahead of the the others in terms of graphics and awesome sound.
Although i did enjoy looking at different versions of games on other machines ,you could usually tell which machine a game was for just by looking at a screenshot .Anyway i'm sure there were great games for other micro's ,but me i had a c64 which is probably why it will always be the best 8bit in my book
NLS - June 3rd, 2012 at 20:44 none Comment author #35046 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
No question about it.
In soooooo many levels.
Martin - August 2nd, 2012 at 22:03 none Comment author #36309 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Don't forget non gaming software, the CPC had a great mode for word processing and wrote a lot of college work back in the day on it. You could run your business on it (and if I ever start one I just might to be an awkward bugger). So CPC for me as an all rounder although if you judge it on games only… then too close to call, so many playable games on C64 and Speccy… I just think the 640×200 mode and CP/M gives it an extra edge… what you think? PS I'm now a programmer and learned how to on this machine so yes I'm biased but wow, what an amazing time to get a computer for christmas.. whichever one
Andy - August 3rd, 2012 at 09:31 none Comment author #36318 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
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abraXXious - June 20th, 2013 at 23:54 none Comment author #43826 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Definitely the C64. It had hands down the most sophisticated sound and graphics hardware of the lot.
The Amstrad CPC was a nice machine with more colours than the C64, but poorer sound and no sprite hardware etc.
The BBC was very well built with the most powerful native Basic language and incredable upgrade options.
Actually the only machine in the list that "wasn't much chop" is the poor old Speccy. It had the most primitive graphics hardware and sound hardware, was incredably cheaply made with un unusable keyboard, no built in joystick ports, limited expandibility etc etc. It's ONLY saving grace is that it was dirt cheap, but realistically, if you look at VALUE FOR MONEY, it wasn't actually cheap at all – you just got a LOT LESS for your money.
Anywho, definitely the C64 – it was also quite cheap, but with a decvent build quality, nice keyboard, expandibility, two built in joyports, a full 64 kb ram, dedicated sprite and scrolling hardware and the mighty sid chip. Nothing else could compare.
Scott Hood - August 29th, 2013 at 20:28 none Comment author #47880 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
It was the Sam Coupe actually.
It ran at 6Mhz, had compatibility with 48K Spectrum games and had games with graphics almost on par with the Atari ST. They could have up to a full megabyte of RAM as standard and I think it could even be upgraded above that. They also had pretty good disk drives (after all, the original manufacturer Miles Gordon Technology were a disk drive maker) and the design of the machine was pretty nice.
The only problem was that there wasn't a huge amount of software available specifically for the machine but certain companies did work a lot on it and Enigma Variations were the dominant publisher on the machine. Games like Prince of Persia, Defenders of the Earth and Lemmings were converted.
Barry Nelson - October 16th, 2013 at 21:33 none Comment author #49176 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
I voted for "other" and typed in Tandy's Color Computer 3, abbreviated as CoCo3. It had better graphics than the Commodore 64 or 128, better disk speed, and could run a multi user OS, OS9. The Commodore had more software and a better sound chip though.
Sophie Ann Fretter - November 15th, 2013 at 22:50 none Comment author #49366 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Spectrum for me, I love the attribute based graphics, AY chip and the current demo scene.
Steve - March 25th, 2015 at 02:00 none Comment author #61125 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Didn't realize I was voting on a two year old thread, but CoCo 3 for me, w/ maybe T/S 1500 as a second choice, or Tandy 100 portable, or, ,
Tim Trzepacz - April 29th, 2015 at 11:39 none Comment author #61527 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
The Atari 800 was the best machine ever. Multiple graphics and text modes that could be mixed on the same screen via the display list. The ability to get 256 colors on the screen using vertical blank interrupts. Color indirection. Sprite graphics with collision detection that could be the full height of the screen. Redefinable character graphics. Fine scrolling in hardware. Four channel sound. The first true plug-and-play peripheral bus. Easily expandable memory. The ability to take software on cartridges. Actual S-Video style Luma and Chroma signals before S-Video was even a thing! Four joystick ports! Which could also serve up to 8 paddle controllers. Which could also act as serial or parallel I/O ports! Which could also take a lightpen or gun controller!
When it came out, it was the only machine that had bloody LOWERCASE LETTERS! (Apple ][ and TRS-80 didn't have them until awhile later unless you modded the machine).
Atari actually had a concept of device drivers way ahead of their time; some devices actually defined themselves by letters the same as disk drives and then you could use all the standard file I/O commands with them.
Seriously, this was one beast of a machine!
Fonz - April 29th, 2015 at 19:55 none Comment author #61528 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
The best 8bit computer is the computer you had the most fun with.
David Wyn Davies - April 30th, 2015 at 08:24 none Comment author #61540 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
I chose the Atari. It was years ahead of its time. It wasn't until the C64 came out a few years later that another computer came close to being as technically advanced, The A8 had several custom chips, some of which were used in arcade machines of the time.
Even when the C64 came out there was an article in one magazine which asked some of the most prominent developers of the day which they thought was the best system on the market. I think it may even have been a Commodore magazine celebrating the launch of the 64. Most actually out the Atari 800 ahead of the 64.
Mark - May 22nd, 2015 at 20:11 none Comment author #61839 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
I voted for the Vic-20. I long for it still. I was joyfully writing real programs with it. It was small enough to wrap my little mind around. Getting a C64 actually ended my career prematurely, I think. If I hadn't replaced my Vic, I might still be a programmer.
Jim - July 27th, 2015 at 19:57 none Comment author #62503 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
(These old threads are still cool)
Ah the 80's and the 8 bit computers. C64 (C128 was cool too), TRS 80, TI994A the Atari computers. Wow! What an era.
Each had strengths and weaknesses. I think for gaming the C64 probably was the best.
Now for a poll on the 16 and 32 bit machines. Amiga's and Atari's
Mark H - September 8th, 2015 at 23:14 none Comment author #62946 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Technically it's probably the Enterprise 64/128. Out of the mainstream successful computers, it has to be the Commodore 64, though, due to its hardware scrolling, sprites and advanced sound chip (for the time). The C64 didn't have "blocky graphics"; it had the same resolution as the spectrum when not in multicolour mode. The more pixelated graphics were caused by the decreased resolution when showing more colours in multicolour mode. Skilled programmers could get around this using sprite masking, which was used in later games.
PaulC - September 25th, 2015 at 03:43 none Comment author #63086 on What's the best 8 bit computer? by Retro Computers
Having owned, used and programmed the Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and C64 over the years, my vote is for the Spectrum simply for its all-roundedness and efficient design compared to the others. There is no one thing that it does better than the others but it excels with everything working in unison. For example the combination of CPU and screen buffer memory is genius in its design.


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The aberration should appear in the viewfinder, but of course it'll be small. Hmm, disasembling the lens doesn't sound promising though....
What kind of lens/camera is it?
The aberration should appear in the viewfinder, but of course it'll be small. Hmm, disasembling the lens doesn't sound promising though....
What kind of lens/camera is it?
Nikon F100 shot through a Nikkor 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5.
Ah, crap. I've noticed that the rear lens element (the part that slides in and out with adjustment the zoom ring) is a little "loose" on the wide end of the zoom and it jiggles a bit inside the lens. Since I was shooting these inside the cramped quarters of a semi-abandoned building, all of the photos that I took on the problem roll were at or around the wide end - 28mm. Could the loose lens element be causing this? If so, this may just be a matter of tightening some screws.
Did you get a CD of the scans which were used to make the prints? If it's the lens, then the problem would also be on the scans of the negatives.
I guess the ultimate question here is whether or not the chromatic aberration could be caused by a mistake or two in my disassembling/reassembling of the lens and/or a loose rear lens element (not sure if that's the correct terminology)...
The lines are too sharp to be chromatic aberration. The colour isn't quite what you see in chromatic aberration either (though that's hard to judge through a computer image).
I wouldn't think the lens is at fault.
It could be something you did, sorry to say, but if you have some way to print or scan your negs yourself that would be very helpful. Then you would know if it is a lens issue or just poor printing on their side. All machine prints these days are from scans so there are two ways things can go wrong on that end.
Here are more examples as promised:
The original, for scale:
I don't exactly have EXIF data but I can tell you that all of these were taken w/ my Nikon F100 through a Nikkor 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 at around f/3.5 in about 1/40 or 1/60. The film, again, was Fujicolor C200.
Tough to tell, too bad about the negs. The fringing does seem sharp, but there is sharpening that is applied both in scanning and in printing so it's hard to judge. The B&W still could tell you something, if it is the lens it would show as softness, something like a "glow" that true soft focus lenses give. If nothing else, you would have some negs to look at, so you can eliminate any digital effects. Eliminating digital, what apug is all about.


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He was barking to the beat of "I like to fuck" and then chugged 3 beers and fell off the deck.. I should have gotten community service hours
My boss just called me for legal advice. What has my life become?
He told me he wanted a penis beard so that he could look at girls faces when they gave him blowjobs. i have to say, i kind of admire his creativity
I'm in this weird masturbatory haze making onion rings. If you want to come over we can eat these suckers and play TF2.
Going to an AA meeting just so I can fuck him...That's dedication
He asked for a foot job. Whatever. I guess I'm swimming in new slut waters tonight.
I think they took out their livers years ago and replaced them with like cheese graters or something. Only explanation.
True but, who really needs money in europe? Just barter with sexual favors. A bowl of cereal is worth a blowjob.
I found your knife. It was stuck in my bedroom ceiling.
We all make mistakes. Just lock them up deep down inside your mind so they can surface as weird sexual fantasies it takes your therapist years to decipher when your 40
At one point they were sandwiching me, both petting my stomach, mad dogging each other. Then they somehow telepathically decided to both try to pull my pants down. Such nice guys.
If you're in the liquor store 5 minutes before close, and you have to ask the cashier for a coin to flip to make a life decision because "vodka takes you to a bad place," you need to reevaluate your life.
Dude you were tripping so badly we put a pretend box around your head and you spoke silently for the rest of the night. I think pterodactyls were involved.
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Gordon Baxter an independent consultant who was hired by the Department of Engineering and Building Services (DEBS) to assist correct construction blunders on various stadium projects around the country said this in an interview with Mmegi Sport last Thursday. Baxter was among officials, including Minister of Infrastructure,Science and Technology (MIST) Johnnie Swartz who toured the Francistown Stadium, which has been under construction since 2007.
Construction and design blunders that have led to cost overruns and delays at the Lobatse, Gaborone and Francistown stadiums have raised questions over the country's ability to construct and oversee sports facilities of international standard."The scenario where there are construction blunders in big projects particularly stadiums is not unique: it happens all over the world.
It is just that in Botswana, there was an oversight when the projects were implemented. It does not mean that skills are not there to oversee big projects. When such situations arise, the best thing is to rectify mistakes and learn from them," he said.He further stated that the country has enough engineers, technicians and architects to supervise big projects like stadium constructions. He also stated that construction officials in the country should in future,
maintain high sense of vigilance when supervising projects to avoid cost overruns and unnecessary delays when constructing, for example, stadiums.
The spokesperson from MIST Christopher Nyanga echoed Baxter's sentiments that the country has enough expertise to supervise and construct stadiums of international facilities.Meanwhile, Minister Swartz told a media briefing that the stadium might be ready in six months. He said the change-rooms have to be modified to accommodate a sizeable number of players as the current set-up accommodates only 11. He revealed that the VIP and media lounges also had to be modified.According to the minister the lounges do not allow the spectators to have a full view of the pitch."We are currently in negotiations with the contractor to see how the remaining work will be done. We hope the negotiations will end soon and construction begin, which will take nearly six months to complete," he said.
Swartz also noted that progress has been made on the pitch, which he said was not level during his last trip, late last year.The athletic track is also among things that will be re-done at the Francistown Stadium so that it meets the required standards.


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Latin American Leaders Converge on Venezuela, Without Chávez
January 10, 2013
Though Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will not be present, Uruguayan President José Mujica, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega will be in Caracas today for the Venezuelan leader's intended—and now postponed—inauguration.
As the ailing Chávez remains in Cuba recovering from a respiratory infection that followed his December 11 cancer surgery, hemispheric well-wishers are arriving in Venezuela to express support for the president, who was re-elected to a third six-year term as president in October despite concerns that he could soon become too ill to rule the country.
Vice President Nicolás Maduro said yesterday that Venezuelan officials have planned an event in honor of Chávez, who has not been seen in public for about a month. Chávez' Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party of Venezuela—PSUV) said that it would convene a rally in front of the presidential palace. Meanwhile, Henrique Capriles, Chávez' opponent in last year's presidential elections, urged heads of state not to attend the proceedings.
Yesterday, the Venezuelan Supreme Court announced that Chávez' absence from Venezuela on the date of his intended inauguration was legally permissible and would have no impact on his claim to the presidency. Supreme Court President Luisa Estella Morales rejected opposition claims that postponing the president's swearing-in ceremony until after January 10—the inauguration date stipulated in the constitution—would violate Venezuelan law.
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As his January 10 inauguration approaches, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez remains shielded from the public in a Havana, Cuba hospital—prompting calls for transparency on President Chavez' state of health and contingency plans should he not be ready for his swearing-in ceremony.
Though he was re-elected last October to another six-year term as president, Chávez' silence has raised concerns that he may not be able to take the oath of office next Tuesday to begin his new term. Ramón Aveledo, leader of the opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (Coalition for Democratic Unity—MUD) group, said yesterday in a press conference that "it is essential that the government act in a manner that gives confidence."
"Trying to make the country believe that the president is governing is absurd to the point of being irresponsible," Aveledo said.
Chávez has not been heard from since undergoing surgery in Cuba three weeks ago, allowing rumors to percolate that the leader's health is drastically failing. Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro returned from Cuba yesterday to reassure Venezuelans that Chávez is "totally conscious" but faces "a complex and delicate situation."
National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello paid a visit to Chávez yesterday, while Minister of Science and Technology Jorge Arreaza tweeted that "the comandante Chávez continues battling hard and sends all his love to our people." Venezuelan journalist Nelson Bocaranda reported that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner visited her Venezuelan counterpart in secret last month.
Before departing for Cuba last month, Chávez asked his supporters to vote for Maduro, his appointed heir, if he cannot assume the presidency. The U.S. State Department has expressed its desire for a transition of power in accordance with Venezuela's constitution, which expressly mandates that new elections should be held within 30 days if the president-elect is unable to take the oath of office.
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People who want to keep track of the continually growing number of network objects have a whole world of software products at their disposal. These products are generically referred to as IPAM (IP Address Management) tools, and none of them is really popular. Admins initially resist using them before finally giving in. This process typically takes several years and is divided into three levels.
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Johannesburg - The Johannesburg city council has rejected an attempt by the mayoral committee to prohibit street trading in the city centre, a trader organisation said on Thursday.
"We thank all Johannesburg city councillors for rejecting an idea that was not the product of an all-inclusive engagement process," the SA National Traders' Retail Alliance (Santra) said.
Spokesman Edmund Elias said the rejection of the motion was the result of pressure from Santra and its support team.
The city rejected the motion at a monthly council meeting on Wednesday.
Elias said all political parties united in rejecting the proposal.
He said informal trading management was in a state of collapse.
"Only an all inclusive engagement process that includes the city, big business and trader leadership will resolve a worsening situation."
Last year, the city removed more than 6000 traders from streets in the central business district in a bid to have them registered.
The Constitutional Court ruled in December that the traders could return to their pavement spots. The city was ordered, at the time, to not to interfere with informal traders operating on the streets, and to pay the costs of the application.
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We often call Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) a 'Masonic opera' – but 'magic opera' is just as appropriate. Mozart's librettist Emanuel Schikaneder took much of his inspiration and several characters from Christoph Martin Wieland's fairytale collection Dschinnistan. It wasn't the first time Schikaneder had worked on a fairytale opera, and the sub-genre of opéra féerie had been thriving in France since 1771. But Die Zauberflöte is arguably the first masterpiece of the genre – and it heralded a growing interest in fairytales and magic as operatic subjects.
Charles Perrault's L'Histoire ou contes de temps passés launched a fairytale craze in France upon its publication in 1697. From the late 18th century various composers wrote operas based on Perrault's stories but, visually spectacular though they were, they have not remained in the repertory. Offenbach's hilarious 1870s operettas Le Voyage dans la lune and Le Roi Carotte, parodies of the fairytale genre, have had more success. But perhaps the most effective French fairytale opera is Massenet's Cendrillon (Cinderella), which combines humour with vocal virtuosity, sparkling ballets and romantic lyricism. Dukas, meanwhile, brought a touch of feminism to the genre with his Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.
19th-century German composers were particularly drawn to magical tales. A folktale about a hunter who makes a pact with the devil inspired Weber's hit Der Freischütz, with its terrifying 'Wolf's Glen' scene. Like Mozart, Weber looked to Wieland for his final opera Oberon, a superb theatrical spectacle that includes spells, pirates, mermaids and villainous Arabian potentates. Even myth-loving Wagner was not immune to fairytales: his first opera Die Feen depicts the love between a mortal king and a fairy princess, and Siegfried was partly inspired by the Brothers Grimm's 'The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear'. Later on, Wagner's erstwhile assistant Humperdinck shot to fame with Hänsel und Gretel, adapting one of the Grimms' most popular tales. Humperdinck's other operatic masterpiece was also inspired by a fairytale (this time invented by his librettist Elsa Bernstein-Porges): the dark, exquisite Königskinder.
Russia's rich folklore fuelled the work of many 19th-century Russian composers. Glinka led the way with Ruslan and Lyudmila, an exotic odyssey featuring a knight on a quest to save his bride. But it was Rimsky-Korsakov who was the king of the genre – his seven fairytale operas include the farcical The Golden Cockerel and the epic, mystical The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya. Rimsky-Korsakov's pupils Stravinsky and Prokofiev carried on the tradition, with Le Rossignol (to a story by Hans Christian Andersen) and the satirical L'Amour des trois oranges respectively.
Fairytale opera also thrived in Central Europe. Dvořák's Rusalka is a particularly tragic take on the genre, its beautiful melancholic music reflecting the water nymph Rusalka's desperate attempts to win a soul and her beloved prince. But Dvořák also brought robust comedy to fairytale opera in The Devil and Kate, about a bossy girl who outwits a clueless devil. Bartók provided a dark, psychological interpretation of 'Bluebeard' with Bluebeard's Castle. On the other hand, examples of Italian fairytale opera are rare – the few exceptions include Rossini's La Cenerentola, which focuses more on morals than magic, and Puccini's Turandot, loosely based on a Persian fairytale.
Die Zauberflöte's most direct descendent is Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, which Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal regarded as their version of Mozart and Schikaneder's masterpiece. The works have many parallels, including the fantastical Eastern setting, the trials endured by two couples (one noble, one humble) and the radiant finales praising the power of love. Above all, both achieve the full potential of fairytale opera: to use a magical setting to tell a moving, profound and very human story.
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How do you tell a story without words? If you've ever been embarrassed by how bad you are at charades, you'll know it's no easy feat. But choreographers have been doing it for centuries – sometimes with mime but also without, giving dance its own eloquence. They've sought inspiration from a remarkable range of sources – whether folktales, literature, real life or their own imaginations.
The most longstanding literary ballet must be Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes's novel, published 1605–15, has been inspiring ballets since at least 1743, when an unknown choreographer mounted Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse for the Paris Opera. He was the first of many, though the version with the most longevity has proved to be Marius Petipa's 1869 version (used by Carlos Acosta in his production for The Royal Ballet). Balletic Don Quixotes tend to sacrifice Cervantes's philosophical consideration of the human condition for a cheerful rendition of one of the novel's many absurd episodes – in Petipa's, where Don Quixote helps two young lovers get together despite the wishes of her parent.
Another of the oldest ballets still going strong is Jean Dauberval's 1789 La Fille mal gardée (though modern audiences know it best through Frederick Ashton's 1960 version). Unlike Don Quixote, the origins for this are entirely obscure – suggested sources includes an opera of the same title but with a different story and different music, or an 18th-century print of a mother scolding her child. Slim pickings indeed. You might recognize the story, though: Lise loves impoverished Colas; Lise's mother wants her to marry wealthy Alain; the lovers find a way (this time without a wandering knight's help) to get the mother to forget Alain and give her blessing to their wedding.
In fact, much like commedia dell'arte, 19th-century ballet tended to use the same recognizable characters in different contexts – a handy tool for audiences to figure out what's happening. In a ballet fantastique you could expect to find the hero, the good woman, the bad woman and various mischievous magicians to keep the plot going. Petipa's 1877 La Bayadère is a prime example. He took his story from the ballet Sacountala, created by his brother Lucien in Paris in 1858, which itself was based on a 5th-century Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. None of that really matters, though: all it adds is local colour for a story where the demure Nikia loves the heroic Solor who is tempted by the extremely bad Gamzatti who, with the help of the scheming High Brahmin, eventually brings about her and everyone else's deaths, with the lovers united in paradise.
The same character tropes underpin a key preoccupation of 19th-century ballet – fairytale, determined by the Romantics' obsession with folklore. Théophile Gautier's libretto for Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli's 1841 ballet Giselle was inspired by Heinrich Heine's account of a Slavic folktale, in which the ghosts of jilted maidens dance to the death any man they come across. Tchaikovsky's three balletic masterpieces also have fairytale origins – the Russian-inflected German fairytales of Swan Lake, Charles Perrault's fairytale 'La Belle au bois dormant' for The Sleeping Beauty, and a section of an E.T.A. Hoffmann folk-inspired story for The Nutcracker (director Ivan Vsevolozhsky providing Tchaikovsky's reading list for the last two).
As ballet diversified in the 20th century, so did its influences. Leading the way was the Ballets Russes, who drew not only on a more ambiguous kind of folklore (The Firebird) but also the real world (Les Noces), myth (Daphnis et Chloé) and much else besides. Special mention should also go to Kenneth MacMillan, who adapted familiar tales (Romeo and Juliet, Manon), uncovered less well-known works (Las hermanas), drew on real-life stories (Mayerling, Isadora, Anastasia) and created entirely original works (The Judas Tree).
MacMillan was swimming against the tide, but choreographers today have almost completely free rein – from Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Will Tuckett's The Wind in the Willows to Liam Scarlett's The Age of Anxiety and Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works. The stories these choreographers use might be different, but they're driven by the same desire as their forebears – to tell a captivating story through movement.
Romeo and Juliet runs 19 September-2 December 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is supported by Boodles and staged with generous philanthropic support from Peter Lloyd, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson and the Jean Sainsbury Royal Opera House Fund.
Cinema-going opera fans, you shall go to the ball as Massenet's fairytale Cinderella hits cinemas this month as part of the Royal Opera House Cinema Season.
Starring Joyce DiDonato in the title role alongside Prince Charming Alice Coote, Laurent Pelly's production of Massenet's opera is both funny and touching, with a spectacular storybook set inspired by a large red volume of fairytales owned by the director's grandmother. Eglise Gutierrez also stars as a sassy Fairy Godmother.
Sections to watch out for include the gorgeously scored roof-top meeting of the two lovers, the appearance of the strikingly designed carriage and the farcical parade of the would-be princesses.
This co-production premiered at Santa Fe Opera in 2006 and the 2011 performance at the Royal Opera House marked the work's first appearance on the Covent Garden stage. For a fascinating insight into the production process, take a look at Joyce DiDonato's behind the scenes rehearsal photography.
Interestingly, an opera which is unashamedly French was conceived in London, while the composer and librettist Henri Cain were staying at the Cavendish hotel around the premiere of Le Cid, giving a sense of 'homecoming' to the premiere of this production last year.
Cendrillon is a true Cinderella story, unlike Rossini's realistic and restrained La Cenerentola - with all of the elements from Charles Perrault's childhood favourite fairytale intact - the slipper, the dress, the comedic pomp and ceremony.
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Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon, Alice Coote as Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Joyce Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon and The Royal Opera Chorus in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Kai Rüütel as Dorothée, Ewa Podles as Madame de la Haltière in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Dawid Kimberg as Surintendant des Plaisirs, Alice Coote as Le Prince Charmant in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Kai Rüütel as Dorothée, Madeleine Pierard as Noémie in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Kai Rüütel as Dorothée, Ewa Podles as Madame de la Haltière, Madeleine Pierard as Noémie in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Joyce DiDonato as Cendrillon, Eglise Gutiérrez as La Fée in The Royal Opera's Cendrillon © Bill Cooper/ROH 2011
Massenet's fairytale opera Cendrillon will be screened in cinemas this month, so we have called upon Bill Gray, a Professor of Folklore and Fables, to discuss the enduring appeal of this magical genre. Why is the Cinderella story so embedded in our psyche and what is its origin?
Cinderella is probably the best known of all fairy tales, with literally thousands of variants all over the world, the most famous being that penned by the 17th-century French author Charles Perrault (albeit based on the pre-existing folk tales). In Massenet's opera Cendrillon, he and his librettist Henri Cain stick pretty closely to Perrault's version, though they introduce Cinderella's flight to the fairy's magic domain in the country.
The great variety of the versions of the Cinderella tale all centre round an ill-treated heroine, usually recognized by the prince by means of a shoe. The heroine's magical helper or donor doesn't necessarily take the form of a fairy godmother, but can be a magical bird, cow, fish or tree. Grimms' version of Cinderella (Aschenputtel, sometimes translated Ashypet) has a magic hazel tree instead of Perrault's fairy godmother.
It is interesting to note the differences between Perrault's French Cinderella and the Grimms' German version, which in several respects has been eclipsed by the former, especially in popular culture. The Grimms' version—which has no fairy godmother, but a magical tree—is, indeed, much grimmer, with the stepsisters hacking off bits of their foot in order to fit the slipper (the dripping blood gives them away), and having their eyes pecked out at the end of the tale. By contrast, Perrault's Cinderella, which Massenet follows, has a conciliatory ending, with Cinderella, 'who was as good as she was beautiful', taking the repentant sisters to live with her in the prince's palace and arranging advantageous marriages for them.
But why do we keep returning to the story of Cinderella and her fabulous transformation? Whole academic institutes exist to study the importance of fairy tales, (including my own Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairytales and Fantasy at the University of Chichester). Various theories have been proposed to explain why such tales are so deeply embedded in our culture. Such explanations include psychoanalytical theories, expounded by the likes of Freud himself, and other eminent psychologists. The Austrian theorist Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment demonstrated how such tales foster psychological development, while Jung's archetypes explain the repetition of symbols in myth and folklore.
Some scholars worry that precisely because fairy tales are so deeply embedded in our psyches and our culture, they have an untold impact on how we experience the world. This is of particular concern to feminist scholars who are critical of the gender stereotypes passed on in fairy tales. They tend to prefer other versions of Cinderella than Perrault's (and Disney's) because this Cinderella is too 'goody-two-shoes' in comparison with other, more assertive or feisty Cinderella-figures.
Yet, perhaps most fundamentally, Cinderella has survived as a story for children, passed on from parent to child at bedtime. It still bears repetition, and still works - on a very immediate level – whether as Cendrillon, Cinderella, Aschenputtel or Ashypet. Massenet's operatic retelling harnesses a very powerful and ancient narrative, and should appeal as much to the seasoned opera goer as a child on their first outing to the opera house.
Bill Gray is Professor of Literary History at the University of Chichester and runs the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy. He is working on an edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Fables and Fairy Tales, and is Folklore Advisor to the film Snow White and the Huntsman currently in production by Universal Studios.
Further reading for fairytale fans:
Surlalunefairytales.com - 49 annotated fairy tales and over 1,500 illustrations.
The Folklore Society - a London-based learned society devoted to the study of all aspects of folklore
Sussex Folktale Centre - a forum to discuss folk narratives, fairy tales and fantasy works.


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One of my first film cameras I brought was a Diana F+...and I loved it, it's what got me in to film photography.
The next step was a Canon AE1-P, and even recently a Kiev 4...
I understand the...annoyance? at the lomo brand, but I don't think it's an entirely bad thing...I showed my mum my Diana F+ and she laughed, and remembered when she had one as a kid.
Since moving on from it, it now sits proudly on my wall unit, as a cool looking camera (it glows in the dark!)
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Re: Weeze, Kleve, Emmerich - general advice please
Considering the interests you mentioned I would recommend Xanten. It is a small town with a lot of history dating back to the romans. It is situated at the Rhine only a few kilometers from Weeze. You can go there by train from Weeze (www.bahn.de). Between Weeze train station and the airport there is a shuttle bus.
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Re: Weeze, Kleve, Emmerich - general advice please
Xanten for sure. The town, the cathedral, and the archeological park with the ancient Roman excavations. I second Bernd's recommendation.
Then there is Germany's second largest pilgrimage centre with three interesting churches next-door to Weeze: Kevelaer. This is worth seeing if you are interested in church art and history.
Official website with all details: http://www.wallfahrt-kevelaer.de (click the union jack for the English version).
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Thanks for the helpful advice
Thankyou very much for your suggestion. I will consider going to Xanten - the only town in Germany to start with an 'X' (it says in Wikipedia). As an ex-classicist (I studied Latin, Greek and Ancient History a LONG time ago), perhaps I really should visit what was once a major Roman town. Thinking about it, perhaps I could get down my old copy of Tacitus and go a bit further afield to Kalkriese and the site of the battle of the Teutoburg Forest. "Well done, Arminius!" is my general sentiment...
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen seems a really pleasant place. My apologies for never having heard of it before now - despite it's significance to Germany's nuclear reseach industry. And Andreasbräu seems like a very fine brewery...
Perhaps I should get round to visiting Baden-Württemberg one day.
My apologies for not writing this in German. I could, honestly - if I had the time, and access to my dictionary and grammar-book! My next German lesson is tonight! More on 'Konjunktiv II', and on the formation of 'das Passiv' - I can't wait! The only problem with a rule-based language, which German is and English most definitely is not, is learning the rules...
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You are welcome, James. And if you decide to visit Baden-Württemberg drop us a line and we'll see if we can arrange a VT-meeting.
And there is nothing wrong with posting this in english. Here in the forum it's the lingua franca. But as you are dealing with 'Konjunktiv II' and 'Passiv' I'm sure your German must be pretty good already. Enjoy your lessons. ;o)
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Xanten for sure! Another nice city is Nijmegen just behind the Dutch border. If the choice is between Kleve and Emmerich, I'd choose Kleve. There is more to see and do, also a couple of indoors options in case the weather turns really bad.
BTW there is also a bus connection from Weeze airport to Cologne.
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You must be advanced indeed! 90% of all Germans have no idea how to use Konjunktiv I and II correctly.
Enjoy your trip!
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I saw Schindler's List again over Christmas, for the first time in some years. It's a flawed movie – exactly how flawed is a subject deserving of its own post – but gets a lot more right than wrong and remains, I think, mainstream Hollywood's best attempt to portray the Holocaust.
While the film is rightly remembered as Liam Neeson's big break, for my money the standout performance is Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Goeth. The story of Schindler himself, while portrayed to a high standard, is a very familiar screen archetype: the amoral man who redeems himself in a time of crisis.
Goeth is something much more unusual: a character study of a villain with no redeeming features whatsoever. Fiennes' performance achieves an unlikely combination of pathetic and terrifying, a snivelling, vain, pot-bellied psychopath who never shows a glimpse of humanity yet remains compelling, rather than the stock comic-book villain those traits should add up to.
The high point of the performance, perhaps of the whole film, is the scene where Goeth goes down to the cellar to terrorise his Jewish slave/maid, played by Embeth Davidtz. Everything about the scene suggests he's going to rape her, and the audience unconsciously steels itself for this. What actually happens is almost worse (TRIGGER WARNING: the following video contains disturbing images):
It's a truly chilling piece of cinema, very nearly unbearable to sit through. The first time I saw it, I was shell shocked, but on subsequent viewings, I came to think of this scene as the history of anti-Semitism in microcosm. Fiennes is the eternal Jew-hater; in a position of absolute power over the object of his hatred, yet bizarrely projecting onto her, and all Jews, this mysterious sense of power.
Crucially, her half of the conversation takes place entirely in his head. Even as the actual, living Jew in front of him is shivering in terror and merely hoping to escape with her life, he enacts an elaborate psychodrama in which he is the one being seduced or bewitched. Not only does he terrorise her, but she is held responsible for provoking it, even though she barely moves and never speaks. Finally, it ends with an outburst of extreme violence, just as anti-Semitism always has in history. To underline the point, this is intercut with a scene of actually-existing Jewish life – something Jew-haters have never troubled themselves to learn about – a makeshift wedding in the labour camp barracks.
It's all there, in a scene less than four minutes long. The key element here is the caprice of bigotry; the oppressor's actions are entirely independent of any action taken by the oppressed. This is why Israelis are right to be wary of putative peace deals, since a large element on the Palestinian side hates the Jewish state simply for existing. It is also why Jews, nearly 70 years after Hitler's death, can still never entirely relax. The beast is always there, coiled like a lamprey and ready to strike again on any pretext or none.
When American friends expressed alarm about the rate of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, I used to reassure them. Yes, I'd say, it's very worrying, but it's hardly the 1930s all over again. The bigots are still a tiny and isolated minority with all of civil society ranged against them and sanity will prevail.
This belief has been badly shaken by recent events, as touched on in two previous posts. It feels like each day brings new and worse portents. I urge you to read this account, by the Independent's own John Lichfield, of a performance/rally by Cameroonian-French "comedian" Dieudonné M'bala M'bala:
Dieudonné's world view is as follows: the Jews run the world; they are responsible for the suffering of blacks and poor whites. Why? Because they have created a global monopoly of pity by manipulating the Holocaust.
A crucial line has been crossed here, for this man isn't some fringe ranter from an Islamist or neo-Nazi sect, but a popular entertainer with a large following. Dieudonné is also responsible for the "quenelle", a quasi-deniable alternative to the Nazi/Roman salute. This is risibly claimed to merely be an "anti-Establishment" gesture (the socialism of fools, remember?), but this is belied by the countless online images of Dieudonné fans making it at the gates of Auschwitz and other unmistakably provocative contexts, and most of all by the man's own words.
All this was preying on my mind when I came across this story a day or two ago, which finally convinced me to write this. The text is disturbing enough, but please, whatever you do, watch the embedded video. This is really happening: massed crowds baying for the Jews on the streets of Western Europe, in 2014. This is a sight I hoped never to see in my lifetime.
What do we do about it, then? I wish I knew. I'm just a sympathetic gentile with a blog, hardly in a position to rally the troops. But what can't be done is nothing. The Jews of Europe and the world must know they won't stand alone this time, that decent people are still the majority.
Of all the tarnished weapons in the arsenal of the old Left, the noblest was solidarity, a human bond transcending nations, classes and creeds. Whether we show it on the streets, in print, online or in Parliament, this is the least we can do. The fightback must start now, before it's too late, or we shall never forgive ourselves. Nor should we.Tagged in: anti-semitism, antisemitism, bigotry, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Embeth Davidtz, fascism, israel, Jews, Liam Neeson, nazism, quenelle, racism, Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List, solidarity, Steven Spielberg
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I don't mind the color, but I think I prefer her true red shade.
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