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The idea of empire, once so effectively used by Ronald Reagan to discredit the Soviet Union, has recently undergone a strange rehabilitation in the United States. This process, which started some years ago, has accelerated markedly since September 11. References to empire are no longer deployed ironically or in a tone of warning; the idea has become respectable enough that the New York Times ran an article describing the enthusiasm it now evokes in certain circles. It is of some significance that these circles are not easily identified as being located either on the right or the left. If there are some on the right who celebrate the projection of US power, there are others on the left who believe that the world can only benefit from an ever-increasing US engagement and intervention abroad; for example, in ethnic and religious conflicts (such as those in Rwanda and Bosnia), or in states run by despotic regimes or "rogue" leaders (e.g., Iraq). It is on grounds like these that the idea of a new imperialism has recently been embraced by Britain's Labour Party.
That elements of the left and the right should discover common ground on the matter of empire should come as no surprise. Contrary to popular belief, empire is by no means a strictly conservative project: Historically it has always held just as much appeal for liberals. Conversely, the single greatest critic of the British Empire, Edmund Burke, was an archconservative who saw imperialism as an essentially radical project, not unlike that of the French Revolution.
The idea of empire may seem too antiquated to be worth combating. But it is always the ideas that appeal to both ends of the spectrum that stand the best chance of precipitating an unspoken consensus, especially when they bear the imprimatur of such figures as the British prime minister. That is why this may be a good time to remind ourselves of some of the reasons imperialism fell into discredit in the first place.
To begin with, empire cannot be the object of universal human aspirations. In a world run by empires, some people are rulers and some are the ruled: It is impossible to think of a situation where all peoples possess an empire. On the other hand, the idea of the nation-state, for all its failings, holds the great advantage that it can indeed be generalized to all peoples everywhere. The proposition that every human being should belong to a nation and that all nations should be equal is not a contradiction in terms, although it may well be utterly unfounded as a description of the real world.
It is precisely the exclusivism of empire that makes it a program for ever-increasing conflict. If the mark of success for a nation consists of the possession of an empire, then it follows that every nation that wants to achieve success must aspire to an empire. That is why the twentieth century was a period of such cataclysmic conflict: emergent powers like Germany and Japan wanted empires as proof of their success. Those who embrace the idea of empire frequently cite the advantages of an imperial peace over the disorder of the current world situation. This disregards the fact that the peace of the British, French and Austro-Hungarian empires was purchased at the cost of a destabiliza-tion so radical as to generate the two greatest conflicts in human history: the world wars. Because of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, there can be no doubt that a twenty-first-century empire would have consequences graver still.
An imperium also generates an unstoppable push toward overreach, which is one of the reasons it is a charter for destabilization. This is not only because of an empire's inherent tendency to expand; there is another reason, so simple as often to go unnoticed. The knowledge that an imperial center can be induced to intervene in local disputes, at a certain price, is itself an incentive for lesser players to provoke intervention. I remember an occasion a few years ago when one of the leaders of a minor and utterly hopeless insurgency asked me: What kind of death toll do you think we need to get the United States to intervene here?
There can be no doubt that political catastrophes can often be prevented by multilateral intervention, and clearly such actions are sometimes necessary. But it is also true that in certain circumstances the very prospect of intervention can, as it were, become an incentive for the escalation of violence. The reason the idea of empire appeals to many liberals is that it appears to offer a means of bettering the world's predicament. History shows us, unfortunately, that the road to empire is all too often paved with good intentions.
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend's house for lunch and that I was going to come by his apartment to pick him up. Although he had been under treatment for brain cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: "Oh dear. I can't see a thing." There was a brief pause and then he added: "I hope this doesn't mean that I'm dying..."
Although Shahid and I had talked a great deal over the past many weeks, I had never before heard him touch on the subject of death. His voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: "No, Shahid--of course not. You'll be fine." He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: "When it happens I hope you'll write something about me."
I was shocked into silence, and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions: "Shahid, you'll be fine; you have to be strong..." From the window of my study I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away, where he'd moved to be near his sister, Sameetah, after learning of his tumor. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh, and it was then that I realized that he was dead serious.
"You must write about me," he said.
By the end of the conversation I knew exactly what I had to do. I picked up my pen, noted the date and wrote down everything I remembered of that conversation. This I continued to do for the next few months: It is the record that has made it possible for me to fulfill the pledge I made that day.
I knew Shahid's work long before I met him. His 1997 collection, The Country Without a Post Office, made a powerful impression on me. His voice was like none I had heard before, at once lyrical and fiercely disciplined, engaged and yet deeply inward. Not for him the mock-casual almost-prose of so much contemporary poetry: His was a voice that was not ashamed to speak in a bardic register. I could think of no one else who would even conceive of publishing a line like: "Mad heart, be brave."
In 1998 I quoted a line from The Country Without a Post Office in an article that touched briefly on Kashmir. At the time all I knew about Shahid was that he was from Srinagar and had studied in Delhi. We had friends in common, however, and one of them put me in touch with Shahid. But we were little more than acquaintances when he moved to Brooklyn. Once we were in the same neighborhood, we began to meet for occasional meals and quickly discovered that we had a great deal in common. By this time, of course, Shahid's condition was already serious, yet his illness did not impede the progress of our friendship. And because of Shahid's condition even the most trivial exchanges had a special charge and urgency: The inescapable poignance of talking about food and half-forgotten figures from the past with a man who knew himself to be dying was multiplied in this instance by the knowledge that this man was also a poet who had achieved greatness--perhaps the only such that I shall ever know as a friend. He had a sorcerer's ability to transmute the mundane into the magical.
Shahid was legendary for his gregariousness and his prowess in the kitchen, frequently spending days over the planning and preparation of a dinner party. It was through one such party, given while he was in Arizona, that he met James Merrill, the poet who was to radically alter the direction of his poetry: It was after this encounter that he began to experiment with strict metrical patterns and verse forms such as the canzone and the sestina. No one had a greater influence on Shahid's poetry than James Merrill: Indeed, in the poem in which he most explicitly prefigured his own death, "I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World," he awarded the envoy to Merrill: "SHAHID, HUSH. THIS IS ME, JAMES. THE LOVED ONE ALWAYS LEAVES." Merrill loved Shahid's cooking, and on learning that Shahid was moving to upstate New York, he gave him his telephone number and asked Shahid to call. On the occasion of Shahid's first reading at the Academy of American Poets, Merrill was present: a signal honor considering that he is one of America's best-known poets. "Afterwards," Shahid liked to recall, "everybody rushed up and said, 'Did you know that Jim Merrill was here?' My stock in New York went up a thousandfold that evening."
Shahid placed great store on authenticity and exactitude in cooking and would tolerate no deviation from traditional methods and recipes. He had a special passion for "Kashmiri food in the Pandit style." I asked him once why this was so important to him and he explained that it was because of a recurrent dream, in which all the Hindus had vanished from the valley of Kashmir and their food had become extinct. This was a nightmare that haunted him, and he returned to it again and again, in his conversation and his poetry.
At a certain point I lost track of you.
You needed me. You needed to perfect me:
In your absence you polished me into the Enemy.
Your history gets in the way of my memory.
I am everything you lost. Your perfect enemy.
Your memory gets in the way of my memory...
There is nothing to forgive. You won't forgive me.
I hid my pain even from myself; I revealed my pain only to
There is everything to forgive. You can't forgive me.
If only somehow you could have been mine,
what would not have been possible in the world?
This was at a time when his illness had forced him into spending long periods in bed. He was on his back, shielding his eyes with his fingers. Suddenly he sat up. "I wish all this had not happened," he said. "This dividing of the country, the divisions between people--Hindu, Muslim, Muslim, Hindu--you can't imagine how much I hate it. It makes me sick. What I say is: Why can't you be happy with the cuisines and the clothes and the music and all these wonderful things?" He paused and added softly, "At least here we have been able to make a space where we can all come together because of the good things."
Of the many "good things" in which he took pleasure, none was more dear to him than the music of Begum Akhtar. He met the great ghazal singer when he was in his teens, through a friend, and she became an abiding presence and influence in his life. In his apartment there were several shrinelike niches that were filled with pictures of the people he worshiped: Begum Akhtar was one of these, along with his father, his mother and James Merrill. "I loved Begum Akhtar," he told me once. "In other circumstances you could have said that it was a sexual kind of love--but I don't know what it was. I loved to listen to her, I loved to be with her, I couldn't bear to be away from her. You can imagine what it was like. Here I was in my mid-teens--just 16--and I couldn't bear to be away from her." It was probably this relationship with Begum Akhtar that engendered his passion for the ghazal as a verse form. Always the disciplinarian in such matters, he believed that the ghazal would never flourish if its structure were not given due respect: "Some rules of the ghazal are clear and classically stringent. The opening couplet (called matla) sets up a scheme (of rhyme--called qafia; and refrain--called radif) by having it occur in both lines--the rhyme immediately preceding the refrain--and then this scheme occurs only in the second line of each succeeding couplet. That is, once a poet establishes the scheme--with total freedom, I might add--she or he becomes its slave. What results in the rest of the poem is the alluring tension of a slave trying to master the master." Over a period of several years he took it upon himself to solicit ghazals from poets writing in English. The resulting collection, Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, was published in 2000. In establishing a benchmark for the form it has already begun to exert a powerful influence: The formalization of the ghazal may well prove to be Shahid's most important scholarly contribution to the canon of English poetry. His own summation of the project was this: "If one writes in free verse--and one should--to subvert Western civilization, surely one should write in forms to save oneself from Western civilization?"
For Shahid, Begum Akhtar was the embodiment of one such form, not just in her music but in many other aspects of her being. An aspect of the ghazal that he greatly prized was the latitude it provided for wordplay, wit and nakhra (affectation). Begum Akhtar was a consummate master of all these, and Shahid had a fund of stories about her sharpness in repartee. He was himself no mean practitioner of that art. On one occasion, at the Barcelona airport, he was stopped by a security guard just as he was about to board a plane. The guard, a woman, asked: "What do you do?"
"I'm a poet," Shahid answered.
"What were you doing in Spain?"
"Writing poetry."
No matter the question, Shahid worked poetry into his answer. Finally, the exasperated woman asked: "Are you carrying anything that could be dangerous to the other passengers?" At this Shahid clapped a hand to his chest and cried: "Only my heart."
This was one of his great Wildean moments, and it was to occasion the poem "Barcelona Airport." He treasured these moments, and last May I had the good fortune to be with him when one such opportunity presented itself. Shahid was teaching what turned out to be the last class he ever would. I had heard a great deal about the brilliance of his teaching, and it was evident from the moment we walked in that the students adored him: They had printed a magazine and dedicated the issue to him. Shahid, for his part, was not in the least subdued by the sadness of the occasion. From beginning to end, he was a sparkling diva, Akhtar incarnate, brimming with laughter and nakhra.
Toward the end of the class, a student asked a complicated question about the difference between plausibility and inevitability in a poem. Shahid's eyebrows arched higher and higher as he listened. At last, unable to contain himself, he broke in. "Oh you're such a naughty boy," he cried, tapping the table with his fingertips. "You always turn everything into an abstraction."
But Begum Akhtar was not all wit and nakhra: Indeed, the strongest bond between Shahid and her was, I suspect, the idea that sorrow has no finer mask than a studied lightness of manner. Shahid often told a story about Begum Akhtar's marriage: Although her family's origins were dubious, her fame as a beauty was such that she received a proposal from the scion of a prominent Muslim family of Lucknow. The proposal came with the condition that the talented young singer would give up singing: The man's family was deeply conservative and could not conceive of one of its members performing onstage. Begum Akhtar--or Akhtaribai Faizabadi, as she was then--accepted, but soon afterward her mother died. Heartbroken, Akhtaribai spent her days weeping on her grave. Her condition became such that a doctor had to be brought in to examine her. He said that if she were not allowed to sing she would lose her mind: It was only then that her husband's family relented and allowed her to sing again.
Shahid was haunted by this image of Begum Akhtar as a bereaved and inconsolable daughter, weeping on her mother's grave; it is in this grief-stricken aspect that she is evoked again and again in his poems. The poem that was his farewell to the world, "I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World," opens with an evocation of Begum Akhtar:
A night of ghazals comes to an end. The singer
departs through her chosen mirror, her one diamond
cut on her countless necks. I, as ever, linger
Shahid's father's family was from Srinagar and they were Shia, a minority among the Muslims of Kashmir. When Shahid was 12, the family moved to Indiana (his father was getting a PhD), and for three years he attended school in Muncie. After that they moved back to Srinagar, which is where Shahid completed his schooling; it was that early experience, I suspect, that allowed Shahid to take America so completely in his stride when he arrived as a graduate student years later. The idea of a cultural divide or conflict had no purchase in his mind: America and India were the two poles of his life, and he was at home in both in a way that was utterly easeful and unproblematic.
After 1975, when he moved to Pennsylvania, Shahid lived mainly in America. His brother was already here, and they were later joined by their two sisters. But Shahid's parents continued to live in Srinagar, and it was his custom to spend the summer months with them: "I always move in my heart between sad countries." Traveling between the United States and India he was thus an intermittent but firsthand witness to the mounting violence that seized the region from the late 1980s onward:
It was '89, the stones were not far, signs of change
everywhere (Kashmir would soon be in literal
The steady deterioration of the political situation in Kashmir--the violence and counterviolence--had a powerful effect on him. In time it became one of the central subjects of his work: Indeed, it could be said that it was in writing of Kashmir that he created his finest work. The irony of this is that Shahid was not by inclination a political poet. I heard him say once: "If you are from a difficult place and that's all you have to write about then you should stop writing. You have to respect your art, your form--that is just as important as what you write about." Another time, I was present at Shahid's apartment when his longtime friend Patricia O'Neill showed him a couple of sonnets written by a Victorian poet. The poems were political, trenchant in their criticism of Britain for its failure to prevent the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey. Shahid glanced at them and tossed them offhandedly aside: "These are terrible poems." Patricia asked why, and he said: "Look, I already know where I stand on the massacre of the Armenians. Of course I am against it. But this poem tells me nothing of the massacre; it makes nothing of it formally. I might as well just read a news report."
Anguished as he was about Kashmir's destiny, Shahid resolutely refused to embrace the role of victim that could so easily have been his. Had he done so, he could no doubt have easily become a fixture on talk shows, news programs and Op-Ed pages. But Shahid never had any doubt about his calling: He was a poet, schooled in the fierce and unforgiving arts of language. He had no taste for political punditry.
Such as they were, Shahid's political views were inherited largely from his father, whose beliefs were akin to those of most secular, left-leaning Muslim intellectuals of the Nehruvian era. Although respectful of religion, he remained a firm believer in the separation of politics and religious practice.
Once, when Shahid was at dinner with my family, I asked him bluntly: "What do you think is the solution for Kashmir?" His answer was: "I think ideally the best solution would be absolute autonomy within the Indian Union in the broadest sense." But this led almost immediately to the enumeration of a long list of caveats and reservations: Quite possibly, he said, such a solution was no longer possible, given the actions of the Indian state in Kashmir; the extremist groups would never accept the autonomy solution in any case, and so many other complications had entered the situation that it was almost impossible to think of a solution.
The truth is that Shahid's gaze was not political in the sense of being framed in terms of policy and solutions. In the broadest sense, his vision tended always toward the inclusive and ecumenical, an outlook that he credited to his upbringing. He spoke often of a time in his childhood when he had been seized by the desire to create a small Hindu temple in his room in Srinagar. He was initially hesitant to tell his parents, but when he did they responded with an enthusiasm equal to his own. His mother bought him murtis and other accoutrements, and for a while he was assiduous in conducting pujas at this shrine. This was a favorite story. "Whenever people talk to me about Muslim fanaticism," he said to me once, "I tell them how my mother helped me make a temple in my room. What do you make of that? I ask them." There is a touching evocation of this in his poem, "Lenox Hill": "and I, one festival, crowned Krishna by you, Kashmir/listening to my flute."
I once remarked to Shahid that he was the closest that Kashmir had to a national poet. He shot back: "A national poet, maybe. But not a nationalist poet; please not that." If anything, Kashmir's current plight represented for him the failure of the emancipatory promise of nationhood. In the title poem of The Country Without a Post Office, a poet returns to Kashmir to find the keeper of a fallen minaret:
"Nothing will remain, everything's finished,"
I see his voice again: "This is a shrine
of words. You'll find your letters to me. And mine
to you. Come soon and tear open these vanished
This is an archive. I've found the remains
of his voice, that map of longings with no limit.
The pessimism engendered by the loss of these ideals--that map of longings with no limit--resulted in a vision in which, increasingly, Kashmir became a vortex of images circling around a single point of stillness: the idea of death. In this figuring of his homeland, he himself became one of the images that were spinning around the dark point of stillness--both Sháhid and Shahíd, witness and martyr--his destiny inextricably linked with Kashmir's, each prefigured by the other.
I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir,
and the shadowed routine of each vein
will almost be news, the blood censored,
for the Saffron Sun and the Times of Rain....
Among my notes is a record of a telephone conversation last May 5. He'd had a brain scan the day before that would determine the future course of treatment. When he answered, there were no preambles. He said: "Listen Amitav, the news is not good at all. Basically they are going to stop all my medicines now--the chemotherapy and so on. They give me a year or less."
Dazed, staring blankly at my desk, I said: "What will you do now, Shahid?"
"I would like to go back to Kashmir to die." His voice was quiet and untroubled. "It's still such a feudal system there, and there will be so much support--and my father is there, too. Anyway, I don't want my siblings to have to make the journey afterwards, like we had to with my mother."
Later, for logistical and other reasons, he changed his mind about returning to Kashmir: He was content to be laid to rest in Northampton, Massachusetts, in the vicinity of Amherst, a town sacred to the memory of his beloved Emily Dickinson. But I do not think it was an accident that his mind turned to Kashmir in speaking of death. Already, in his poetic imagery, death, Kashmir and Sháhid/Shahíd had become so closely overlaid as to be inseparable, like old photographs that have melted together in the rain.
Yes, I remember it,
the day I'll die, I broadcast the crimson,
so long ago of that sky, its spread air,
its rushing dyes, and a piece of earth
bleeding, apart from the shore, as we went
on the day I'll die, past the guards, and he,
keeper of the world's last saffron, rowed me
on an island the size of a grave. On
two yards he rowed me into the sunset,
past all pain. On everyone's lips was news
of my death but only that beloved couplet,
broken, on his:
"If there is a paradise on earth
It is this, it is this, it is this."
Shahid's mother, Sufia Nomani, was from Rudauli in Uttar Pradesh. She was descended from a family that was well-known for its Sufi heritage. Shahid believed that this connection influenced her life in many intangible ways. "She had the grandeur of a Sufi," he liked to say.
Although Shahid's parents lived in Srinagar, they usually spent the winter months in their flat in New Delhi. It was there that his mother had her first seizure--from what would prove to be a malignant brain tumor. The family brought her to New York, where an operation resulted in her partial paralysis. Shahid and his siblings moved her to Massachusetts, where they were living. When she died two years later, in keeping with her wishes, the family took her body back to Kashmir for burial. This long and traumatic journey forms the subject of a cycle of poems, "From Amherst to Kashmir," that was later included in Shahid's 2001 collection, Rooms Are Never Finished.
During the last phase of his mother's illness and for several months afterward, Shahid was unable to write. The dry spell was broken in 1998, with "Lenox Hill," possibly his greatest poem. The poem was a canzone, a form of unusual rigor and difficulty (the poet Anthony Hecht once remarked that Shahid deserved to be in Guinness Book of World Records for having written three canzones--more than any other poet). In "Lenox Hill," the architectonics of the form creates a soaring superstructure, an immense domed enclosure, like that of the great mosque of Isfahan or the mausoleum of Sayyida Zainab in Cairo: a space that seems all the more vast because of the austerity of its proportions. The rhymes and half-rhymes are the honeycombed arches that thrust the dome toward the heavens, and the meter is the mosaic that holds the whole in place. Within the immensity of this bounded space, every line throws open a window that beams a shaft of light across continents, from Amherst to Kashmir, from the hospital of Lenox Hill to the Pir Panjal Pass. Entombed at the center of this soaring edifice lies his mother:
they asked me, So how's the writing? I answered My mother
is my poem. What did they expect? For no verse
sufficed except the promise, fading, of Kashmir
and the cries that reached you from the cliffs of Kashmir
(across fifteen centuries) in the hospital. Kashmir,
she's dying! How her breathing drowns out the universe
as she sleeps in Amherst.
The poem is packed with the devices that he perfected over a lifetime: rhetorical questions, imperative commands, lines broken or punctuated to create resonant and unresolvable ambiguities. It ends, characteristically, with a turn that is at once disingenuous and wrenchingly direct.
For compared to my grief for you, what are those of Kashmir,
and what (I close the ledger) are the griefs of the universe
when I remember you--beyond all accounting--O my mother?
For Shahid, the passage of time produced no cushioning from the shock of the loss of his mother: He relived it over and over again until the end. The week before his death, on waking one morning, he asked his family where his mother was and whether it was true that she was dead. On being told that she was, he wept as though he were living afresh through the event.
In the penultimate stanza of "Lenox Hill," in a heart-stopping inversion, Shahid figures himself as his mother's mother:
"As you sit here by me, you're just like my mother,"
she tells me. I imagine her: a bride in Kashmir,
she's watching, at the Regal, her first film with Father.
If only I could gather you in my arms, Mother,
I'd save you--now my daughter--from God. The universe
opens its ledger. I write: How helpless was God's mother!
I remember clearly the evening when Shahid read this poem in the living room of my house. I remember it because I could not keep myself from wondering whether it was possible that Shahid's identification with his mother was so powerful as to spill beyond the spirit and into the body. Brain cancer is not, so far as I know, a hereditary disease, yet his body had, as it were, elected to reproduce the conditions of his mother's death. But how could this be possible? Even the thought appears preposterous in the bleak light of the Aristotelian distinction between mind and body, and the notions of cause and effect that flow from it. Yet there are traditions in which poetry is a world of causality entire unto itself, where metaphor extends beyond the mere linking of words, into the conjugation of a distinctive reality.
Shahid thought of his work as being placed squarely within a modern Western tradition. Yet the mechanics of his imagination--dreams, visions, an overpowering sense of identity with those he loved--as well as his life, and perhaps even his death, were fashioned by a will that owed more perhaps to the Sufis and the Bhakti poets than to the Modernists. In his determination to be not just a writer of poetry but an embodiment of his poetic vision, he was, I think, more the heir of Rumi and Kabir than Eliot and Merrill.
The last time I saw Shahid was at the end of October, at his brother's house in Amherst. He was intermittently able to converse, and there were moments when we talked just as we had in the past. He was aware, as he had long been, of his approaching end, and he had made his peace with it. I saw no trace of anguish or conflict: Surrounded by the love of his family and friends, he was calm, contented, at peace. He had said to me once, "I love to think that I'll meet my mother in the afterlife, if there is an afterlife." I had the sense that as the end neared, this was his supreme consolation. He died peacefully, in his sleep, at 2 AM on December 8.
Now, in his absence, I am amazed that so brief a friendship has resulted in so vast a void. Often, when I walk into my living room, I remember his presence there, particularly on the night when he read us his farewell to the world: "I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World." I remember how he created a vision of an evening of ghazals, drawing to its end; of the be-diamonded singer vanishing through a mirror; I remember him evoking the voices he loved--of Begum Akhtar, Eqbal Ahmad and James Merrill--urging him on as he journeys toward his mother: "Love doesn't help anyone finally survive." Shahid knew exactly how it would end, and he was meticulous in saying his farewells, careful in crafting the envoy to the last verses of his own life.


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Ok, I'm not a smarthost, and I assume Zimbra doesn't do deep parsing of the received headers.
However, I've got a standard Zimbra 6.0.5 server that is used by out-of-office users that make use of SMTP AUTH (from their homes, hotels, airports, etc.). In Zimbra, does that mean that authenticated SMTP users will get blocked by the zen.spamhaus.org RBL because the IP of the internet connection they're on may be blocked? Or is it smart enough to exempt authenticated users from the RBL lookup?


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Washington Times writer Sonny Bunch has released a very controversial article saying that instead of trying to bolster the PS3 and Blu-ray as much as possible, Sony is hindering and sabotaging the system and the format. Sounds crazy, right? Well, he actually makes a few good points.
First of all, he criticizes Sony because in these bad economic times, instead of releasing a cheaper console, they released a more expensive SKU:
We're dealing with the worst economy since the Carter years. Deflation looms. Businesses desperately need a big holiday push to boost the bottom line. The Nintendo Wii remains the most popular system in the land, and, at $250, isn't necessarily a budget buster. Xbox 360 has made serious inroads by dropping the price of its core system to $199. So how did Sony respond?
By releasing a new version of the PS3... that's $100 more expensive. Yes, it comes with a game, and yes, it has more hard-drive space, to which I respond: Who cares? Was the marketplace clamoring for more memory from the PS3? Is that why its market penetration is so low compared to its predecessors and competition? What were the Sony execs thinking?
I agree with the author fully on this point. Releasing a more expensive SKU in this economic climate wasn't the best decision in the world.
Then, he goes on to blame Sony for not including Netflix streaming abilities in their console:
Now consider the following facts: Samsung has just released a Blu-ray player that will stream Netflix movies. (In other words, you can pick a select number of movies from the Netflix library and watch them instantly on your TV.) The Xbox 360 has just added the same capability.
How does Sony respond? By allowing PS3 owners to stream Netflix movies? No, that would make too much sense. Instead, Sony said Netflix couldn't stream any title from Sony's library to the Xbox. That'll show 'em!
I don't agree with this point somewhat because we have no idea whether or not some type of exclusivity deal was made between Microsoft and Netflix that would keep the service only on the Xbox 360. However, Sony could always court Blockbuster and their online service, so he may have a point.
And lastly, he faults Sony for their marketing of Blu-ray, saying that the customer is still very ignorant about the service:
Sony also has done a terrible job of marketing Blu-ray players as a whole. Consumers don't seem to understand the benefit Blu-ray offers to owners of large standard-definition (SD) DVD collections. I have had conversations with reasonably tech-savvy people who didn't realize Blu-ray would upconvert the image of an SD-DVD to near-HD quality.
Sony and the rest of the Blu-ray manufacturers need to implement a radical shift in their marketing strategy: Hammer home the fact that not only will their new Blu-ray player play high-definition movies, it also will vastly improve the picture quality of their previously purchased libraries.
This is where I disagree with the author mostly. He says that people are so ignorant about Blu-ray players, citing an example of someone telling him they bought an HD-DVD player (after the formats demise) because he "wanted something that would play old DVDs".
I think Sony has done everything they can to market Blu-ray; just look at Best Buy. Walk into that store and you are fully blasted by Blu-ray marketing. The consumers that don't understand the format now must be living under a rock because it is being advertised everywhere, and one of the biggest features that I've seen in the advertisements is the players' ability to upscale DVDs.
So all in all, some of the author's points are valid, particularly the one regarding the expensive SKU. However, the current state of the economy is a much bigger factor in the lower than expected sales of the PS3 and the lower install base of Blu-ray, not Sony "sabotaging" the system. That's just a little melodramatic. More PlayStation 3 News...


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Wal-Mart and other large retailers won't be required to pay their employees a "living wage" of at least $12.50 an hour in the District of Columbia.
The D.C. Council failed to override Mayor Vincent Gray's veto of the wage bill on Tuesday, signaling an end to an effort that made the nation's capital part of a national debate over compensation for low-wage workers.
A two-thirds majority was required to override the veto. The council fell two votes short, voting 7-6 to override. The bill was approved in July by an 8-5 margin.
Gray called the bill a job-killer, saying it would drive Wal-Mart and other retailers out of the city. Debate over the bill has led the council to consider a minimum wage increase for all workers.
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Novak Djokovic will be the newest face of Sergio Tacchini starting in January 2010, leaving longtime sponsor adidas and putting to rest rumors of a switch to K-Swiss.
The Serb announced the brand-spanking new 10-year sponsorship deal with the Italian sports apparel brand this weekend in London where he's seeking to defend his title at the ATP World Tour Finals.
"My own idols Pete Sampras and John McEnroe have won almost all titles... wearing the Sergio Tacchini logo", said Novak.Nole joins ballers Tommy Robredo, Ivo Karlovic, Victor Hanescu, Olivier Rochus, Steve Darcis, Flavia Pennetta and Sara Errani in the ST stable.
"I am pleased to partner with Sergio Tacchini, a strong brand with a true tennis DNA and am honoured to become a part of this legacy."
This partnership with a Grand Slam champ and potential World No. 1 is a total coup for Sergio Tacchini and should help their product get global exposure and brand recognition. They make stylish, well-made gear and should be a great fit for the Serb.
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WholeFoods Magazine SourceBook: The Natural Products Directory
Orlando, FL—The Southeast Natural Products Association (SENPA) held its annual SOHO Exhibition, here, in December. With over 300 exhibitors (including 100 new ones), the event was even bigger than last year. "Exhibits sold in [the 2011] show increased by 10% ending with a total of 320 companies participating," stated Carylene Reed, executive director of SENPA. "The show sold out in October and we decided to add an additional eight booths to accommodate everyone."
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Defense announced it will not take any chances with supplements containing DMAA, as it has decided to pull such products from stores on its bases, according to Army Times. This ban included GNC shops on bases worldwide, and will stay in effect until an investigation is completed.
New York, NY—Shoppers may not consider natural health and beauty care (HBC) products discretionary purchases; rather, they're essential. According to market research firm Packaged Facts, sales in the natural HBC market hit $8.5 billion in 2011. This marks a double-digit growth (11%) since 2005.
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Silver Spring, MD—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cracking down on companies selling over-the-counter (OTC) HCG as weight-loss aids by making the product illegal, citing that fads and diets promising fast weight-loss often do so with unsupported claims and potentially unhealthy ways.
Harvests of maize, rice and wheat, the three leading grain crops in the world, last year came in at levels below those of 2008, marking an overall dip in production. While both maize and rice set record production highs, the dramatic drop-off in wheat production left the total for all three lower, according to research found in Vital Signs Online, a publication of the Worldwatch Institute.
Savannah, GA—The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the policy recommendation body for the National Organic Program (NOP), decided on several organic food issues at its most recent meeting, including sulfites in wine, outdoor access for poultry and, controversially, DHA algal oil and ARA fungal oil as organic additives. The move to allow Martek Biosciences Corporation's branded life'sDHA ingredient, derived from algae, and life'sARA, from a species of fungus, in certified organic food products was met with some criticism.
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Fire Prevention Week: 6 Home Fire Prevention Tips
It is Fire Prevention Week. Here are six important tips/practices for fire prevention and safety in your home. Practice these safety tips in your home to decrease the chances of a home fire.
1. Use Electricity Safely: Check all electrical cords (including extension cords) in your home and replace any that are cracked, frayed or show signs of other damage. If an electrical appliance starts to smoke or smells like it is burning, unplug it immediately. Replace the appliance or have it repaired. Never run cords under rugs and do not overload extension cords or outlets. Fuses and circuit breakers protect you from fire. Do not tamper with the fuse box or use fuses of the improper size.
2. Cook with Care and Attention: Keep all cooking areas clear from combustibles including the barbecue grill. Never leave anything cooking unattended. Turn handles of pots and pans inward to keep them out or reach of children and prevent someone from bumping the handle and knocking the pot or pan off the stove.
3. Make Space for Space Heaters: If you use a space heater, it should be place three feet from anything that can catch fire and burn such as curtains, bedding, clothing, paper and furniture. Do not let space heaters run when you are not home or when you are sleeping. Also, keep children and pets away from them.
4. Candle Safety: While many view candles as a decorative item, they are a huge hazard in homes. Use common sense with candles. Never leave a burning candle unattended in any room in the house, even if you are in the next room. Do not burn candles when you go to bed. Never place a lit candle near combustibles such as curtains, bedding or cabinets. Place lit candles out of reach of children. Do not place burning candles in places like the coffee table or end tables where they can easily be knocked over by people or pets.
5. Matches are for Adults: Matches and lighters are extremely dangerous when in the hands of a child. Keep them stored in a place out of reach from children and do not leave them in view. Teach children from early on that they are for adults only. If a child finds matches or a lighter, they should tell an adult immediately.
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I have a piece of code that allows for
BB-Code and replaces it with
someurl
It takes two precautions to prevent XSS.
- It replaces '<','>' and '"' using a simple str_replace
- Uses a Regex to detect 'javascript:' and 'data:' protocl handlers
Since browsers decode the attribute value before further interpreting it, you can get around the regex check by encoding the URL using : [url]j ... [/url]
So I get:
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Long story made short: I want more than a steenkin attribute tage (who would click a link looking like that?!)
Can I somehow encode my '"' '<' etc. so it won't be replaced by the str_replace but still be interpreted in the context of HTML.


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Marge Graser was named Frannie Ashburn Volunteer of the Year, according to information from Onslow County Public Library. She is treasurer of the Swansboro branch Friends of the Library.
The award is presented to outstanding volunteers in public libraries statewide, according to the library. The recognition certificate and cash award was presented at the Annual FONCPL Awards Meeting at the Durham County Library on Oct. 26.
Friends of the Swansboro Library President Mary Kay Gardener said the Swansboro branch nominated Graser based on her service as treasurer for the last eight years and president for nine years prior.
�She has been a faithful worker, sorting and shelving for book sales and keeping the group going when there was a lag in membership,� Gardener said. �Our group would have dissolved without her influence.�
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Just goes to show how well sorted that Honda is this year. Credit where credit's due to Pedro though, cracking lap from him.
Pretty good from Marquez, he must be having nightmares from that crash yesterday. Decent from Bradl as well.


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Spring Break 2015 - South Africa
March 5 - 14
Spring Break is a nine-day study tour of the European community or other countries. Class meetings are conducted on Tuesday nights before the trip. Since it is offered for college credit, readings, papers, and journals are required. It is available for non-credit participants, too.
This programwas originally designed for Mississippi College students, faculty, staff , alumni and friends for a brief experience in significant countries in the UK and in Europe. Now, the program is expanding to other parts of the world.
The program was introduced in 1990 by Dr. Edward McMillan as tour director and has completed over fifteen very successful tours. Over 500 individuals have participated in the the trips beginning in 1990.
Join Professors Beth Stapleton, Susan Lassiter, and Rob Ward on the Explore South Africa tour during MC's 2015 Spring Break. Departure is Thursday, March 5 with return on Saturday, March 14. This trip is open to all MC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community friends. Participants may select courses for college credit or participate as a non-credit enrollee.
Classes are offered in conjunction with the trip at the graduate and undergraduate level. Please contact Dr. Stapleton (email@example.com) for specific class information. Enrollees may take no more than 4 hours. Those enrolled for credit must attend the class meeting at 6:00 pm each Tuesday from January 20 to February 24 and complete all other requirements as designated by the instructor. Scholarship applications are available on the MC Spring Break trip website www.mc.edu/academics/study-abroad/spring-break/ on a first come, first served basis and should be submitted to Dr. Stapleton (firstname.lastname@example.com). Students should check with the professors first and then register as usual for the Spring class. You must be enrolled in a Spring Break class to qualify for the scholarship.
Non-credit enrollees are not required to attend any of the classes, but are strongly encouraged to do so because of the general travel/tourist information discussed and the meaningful background information about the history, culture and literature of the area provided.
What are the dates of the MC 2015 Spring Break Trip?
- Thursday, March 5 – Saturday, March 15, 2015
Who may go on the trip?
- Mississippi College students, faculty, staff, alumni, family members, and friends
What is the price of the trip?
- The price is $4375.00 per person
- The deposit is $575.00 and is non-refundable and payable to Continuing Education at MC
- The payment schedule is listed on the online brochure and all other monies are paid directly to Contracting Agency (this information will be sent once deposit has been paid to MC)
- The registration form for the trip is on the brochure and should be submitted to Continuing Education
- The brochure is on the spring break webpage
Are scholarships available?
- Scholarships of $250 are available to participants who take the designated courses for the trip
- Scholarship applications are available on the spring break webpage or from Dr. Beth Stapleton
- Scholarships will be awarded on a first come first served basis
- The scholarship money goes directly toward the cost of the trip
What is the itinerary?
- The itinerary is listed on the brochure which is on the spring break webpage and around campus.
Where can I contact more information?
- The brochure is on the webpage
- There are posters around campus with links listed
- Contact Dr. Beth Stapleton at firstname.lastname@example.com or 601.925.7664.
Some of you may be concerned with the latest news on Ebola. Rest assured… you are safe and will be safe going to South Africa. The continent is a huge place! Where we are going is several thousand miles away from the Ebola zone. You can't catch this in the air, only through bodily fluid contact. Besides that, we will not be anywhere remotely near anyone with Ebola. It would be like someone in Alaska worrying about a sick person in Texas. It just won't be possible to catch this.


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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom SynopsisSet on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore -- and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girls parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.
Moonrise Kingdom Release Date
In Theaters May 25, 2012
Moonrise Kingdom Credits
Starring: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel, and Bob Balaban
Written by: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Produced by: Wes Anderson, Molly Cooper, Jeremy Dawson, Sam Hoffman, Octavia Peissel, Steven M. Rales and Scott Rudin
Distributor: Focus Features
External Info: Moonrise Kingdom Official Website
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Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out Wes Anderson For Not Casting More Black People, Volunteers
Wes Anderson continues to put out quirky and colorful award-winning films every couple years, but for Whoopi Goldberg, theres a certain aspect of color that is blatantly missing from his films.
by Catarina Cowden June 22, 2015 comments
Dive Into Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom With This Awesome Interactive Script
Despite being one of the best films to come out last year, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be sadly underrepresented at this year's Academy Awards. While movies like Lincoln, Argo, Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook picked up spots in just about every category, Anderson's film received only one nomination: Best Original Screenplay.
by Eric Eisenberg January 17, 2013 comments
Skyfall Gets Some Award Season Recognition As Producers Guild Awards Announces Nominees
For the most part this years award season race is a total toss-up there were simply so many great movies released last year that its nearly impossible to determine the frontrunner for Hollywoods top prizes. That said, however, its been the same group of titles that has been getting nominations from various organizations...
by Eric Eisenberg January 2, 2013 comments
The 10 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2012
For the last two weeks we have been applauding the best work of the year, from our individual critical top 10s to lists of our favorite action scenes, on-screen couples, facial hair statements, lines of dialogue, breakthrough performances and much more. And now its time to celebrate those very special moments of 2012 when cinema and music fell into perfect harmony.
by Eric Eisenberg December 31, 2012 comments
The 10 Best On-Screen Couples Of 2012
As we put a cap on the cinematic year, we wanted to go back and single out the duos who turned our heads with combustible on-screen chemistry. We admit to cheating in at least one selection, and we admit an over-reliance on the Hollywood bromance. But we think its a great list.
by Sean O'Connell December 31, 2012 comments
Silver Linings Playbook And Matthew McConaughey Dominate Indie Spirit Award Nominations
With a ton of prizes to hand out and a splashy ceremony just before the Oscars in February, the Independent Spirit Awards are the biggest night of the year for independent film, and the best chance for many small-scale films to get into the spotlight, But the word "independent" has been fuzzy in these awards for years now
by Katey Rich November 27, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom And Beasts Of The Southern Wild Win Big At Gotham Awards
The Gotham Awards are among the first prizes handed out in the annual Hollywood awards season, but if you're already sick of Oscar bait and pre-canned speeches, the Gothams are something a little bit different Honoring the best in independent film, the Gotham Awards frequently highlight some of the oddballs that won't get attention in the wider awards season
by Katey Rich November 27, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Beasts Of The Southern Wild Lead Gotham Award Nominations
The first movie awards show of the season also tends to be one of the most interesting, as every year the Gotham Independent Film Awards showcase some of the most fascinating and under appreciated indie films released-- including many that have absolutely zero shot at Oscar attention. They've kept up that tradition this year, announcing a slate of nominees
by Katey Rich October 18, 2012 comments
Exclusive Moonrise Kingdom Blu-ray Bonus Clip Shows A True Khaki Scout Resignation
Wes Andersons Moonrise Kingdom is an amusing tale of twelve-year-old love, written not for makeup-caked tween girls or surprisingly confident boys but for the adults who can totally appreciate the films subtleties. Moonrise Kingdom is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on October 16 and, to celebrate the release, Universal Home Entertainment has brought us an excusiveand super cute clipto share with fans.
by Jessica Rawden October 12, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom Finds Its Way Onto Blu-ray In October
Moonrise Kingdom will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on October 16, which means if you have not been able to catch the flick in theaters, you will have time to pick it up for home viewing extremely soon. Andersons eighth feature film endeavor follows Sam and Suzy, a 1960s troop scout and his 12-year-old love, as they attempt to run away from their respective island residences.
by Jessica Grabert August 15, 2012 comments
The Best Movies We've Seen In 2012 So Far
Were gearing up for the fall film season, when studios stockpile most of their possible awards contenders. The last few months of 2012 should be crowded with valuable viewing opportunities, so we wanted to take a moment and reflect on the best films weve seen so far this year. Hopefully, well spotlight a film you havent seen yet, and, if so, inspire you to go hunt it down as soon as you can.
by CB Staff August 14, 2012 comments
Funny Or Die Hosts Cousin Ben's Troop Screening Of Moonrise Kingdom
The spot does an amazing job showcasing the film's tone, color palette and signature Anderson dialogue without giving away any of the actual plot events. I also love the joke about the meaning behind the film's title. I wish more marketing material followed this formula where the writer and director (or in this case, writer-director) create something separate and special for the previews without using any material from the finished film.
by Jesse Carp June 19, 2012 comments
Weekend Box Office: Rock of Ages Crumbles Under Madagascar's Hooves
Rock of Ages didn't exactly rock it out this weekend. Proof that people would rather see Tom Cruise running fast and blowing things up than singing with major band hair, the movie opened with a dismal $15 million for a weak third place.
by Scott Gwin June 18, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom Director Wes Anderson Talks Inspiration, Collaboration And Bill Murray
Wes Anderson is a very special filmmaker. Every year Hollywood produces hundreds of projects that all look exactly the same, but Anderson has always worn his style on his sleeve, never afraid to be different and creating some incredible films in the process. But what inspires him to make movies the way he does? What is his inspiration? How does he build his ensemble casts and get them to keep coming back?
by Eric Eisenberg June 13, 2012 comments
Jason Reitman Rounds Out Labor Day Cast With Moonrise Kingdom Star
Casting for the production has finally concluded with Alexie Gilmore, Lucas Hedges, and Micah Fowler joining the ensemble that also includes James Van Der Beek and Clark Greg. Newcomer Fowler will play a boy named Barry, whose mother Evelyn is friends with Adele. Gilmore, who can be seen in Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America, will play Henry's step-mother Marjorie, while Hedges will play her son
by Kristy Puchko June 11, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom Animated Shorts Spotlight Suzy's Books And Bob Balaban
Inspired by the covers of the bookscreated specifically for the filmand their accompanying captions, this short offers not only an expansion on the world of Moonrise Kingdom but also an added insight into the enigmatic Suzy, who is far more guarded than most movie tweens
by Kristy Puchko June 11, 2012 comments
Weekend Box Office: Madagascar 3 Takes Center Ring
Summer generally brings on waves of sequels to fish extra cash out of audiences wallets without all the hassle of coming up with new characters or concepts. It's a proven technique that once again banked some solid box office results this weekend.
by Scott Gwin June 10, 2012 comments
Animated Moonrise Kingdom Companion Piece Coming This Week
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom has been scoring plenty of praise, not only from critics who have cheered his tender tale of two romance-fueled adolescent runaways, but also from the business end of the filmmaking industry as this limited release has recently broken the record for non-animated per screen averages. And as the limited release continues to expand to new cities, Focus Features is unveiling more and more online content...
by Kristy Puchko June 4, 2012 comments
Operation Kino Podcast #64: An Adventure With Moonrise Kingdom And Kevin Smith
This week on Operation Kino, we've packed some stolen library books, a cat in a basket and a lifetime's supply of blue eyeshadow, as we embark on the child-sized adventure that is Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom. From there we go on to discuss Kevin Smith's new review show for Hulu, and how his anti-critic attitude might be becoming more mainstream
by Operation Kino May 25, 2012 comments
Watch Bill Murray Take You Around The Set Of Moonrise Kingdom
While Bill Murray doesn't make a ton of movies nowadays, if there's a Wes Anderson film in development you know that he's going to be a part of it. Whether it's for an extremely small role (such as his cameo in The Darjeeling Limited) or the title character (such as The Aquatic Life With Steve Zissou), Murray has shown his love of working with Anderson by appearing in every single one of the director's features since Rushmore
by Eric Eisenberg May 22, 2012 comments
4 New Moonrise Kingdom Featurettes, Narrated Beautifully By Bob Balaban
Moonrise Kingdom doesn't open in theaters until May 25, but it's preparing for its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week, which means it's a perfect time to introduce some new featurettes about the movie. And because it wouldn't be a Wes Anderson movie if everything, including the marketing, didn't feel meticulously planne
by Katey Rich May 15, 2012 comments
New Moonrise Kingdom Clip Arrives Online, Featuring Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis And Edward Norton
Of the upcoming smaller releases, few are more anticipated than Moonrise Kingdom. The first live-action film from Wes Anderson since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited, the upcoming film looks phenomenal and hilarious, but what's most fascinating about the movie is that it groups together actors who you wouldn't necessarily ever imagine seeing in a project together.
by Eric Eisenberg April 19, 2012 comments
Bill Murray Calls Ghostbusters 3 A Possibility, But Don't Worry About It Ever Happening
Aykroyd had at long last admitted Bill Murray would have nothing to do with it. This sounded like the death rattle for Ghostbusters 3, and after hearing some of Aykroyd's horrifying pitchesincluding dispirited, crippled Ghostbusters, a dead Venkman, and some young blood in the form of female eye-candy
by Kristy Puchko April 16, 2012 comments
Moonrise Kingdom Cast Photo Forms The World's Oddest Scout Troop
I love so many individual little things in this, from Edward Norton's stern scoutleader to Bill Murray's shellshocked expression to the trio of kids in their pajamas who look ready to raise hell. If you look closely you can see Tilda Swinton in the photo that Jason Schwartzman is holding
by Katey Rich April 10, 2012 comments
First Poster For Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Is Painted And Gorgeous
I might be a little biased, seeing as I'm already very much looking forward to the new film from Wes Anderson, but this poster for Moonrise Kingdom is heart-burstingly beautiful. Yes it's twee and overproduced and a little goofy, but that's Wes Anderson for you, and if you like his previous work this poster is right in that ballpark
by Katey Rich March 8, 2012 comments
Wes Anderson Gets Sepia Toned And Romantic In Moonrise Kingdom Trailer
Though I wouldn't trade his The Fantastic Mr. Fox for anything, it's been far too long since Wes Anderson made a live-action film, which makes his new effort Moonrise Kingdom even more hotly anticipated than it might be otherwise. Starring a lot of his regular cohort, including Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
by Katey Rich January 12, 2012 comments
Christopher Guest Favorite Bob Balaban Joins Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom
he acclaimed producer and favorite of Woody Allens will play a yet undetermined role opposite Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis and Frances McDormand
by Mack Rawden June 8, 2011 comments
Set Photos From Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom
I find it hard to imagine that any real film fan isn't over-the-moon excited for Wes Anderson's next project. The story of a young, in-love couple that runs away and causes everyone in their hometown to panic, the movie's helmer alone is more than enough to raise interest, but the cast also happens to be the filmmaker's most notable cast since The Royal Tenenbaums
by Eric Eisenberg June 7, 2011 comments
Focus Features Picks Up Rights To Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom
If it were up to me, studios wouldn't hesitate in picking up a movie by Wes Anderson. Even the man's worst film is better than 90% of movies released in thousands of cinemas nationwide every weekend. However, not including Bottle Rocket (which was never released in more than 50 theaters), his movies only average a little over $25 million domestically.
by Eric Eisenberg May 2, 2011 comments
Jason Schwartzman To Work With Wes Anderson Again In Moonrise Kingdom
Ever since making his first feature film, Bottle Rocket, back in 1996, Wes Anderson has made a habit of casting the same group of actors in all of his movies. Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, and Jason Schwartzman have all appeared in no less than three of Anderson's six movies, and now the last name on that list is joining the cast of his newest.
by Eric Eisenberg March 23, 2011 comments
Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton And More Up For Wes Anderson's Next
Wes Anderson never has trouble getting a collection of talented actors to star in his films, but he may have even outdone himself with the initial
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Greensboro, NC (WFMY) -- A billboard prominently displayed on one of the busiest streets in Greensboro is turning heads.
The billboard on Battleground Avenue, near Wendover Avenue, reads:
"Michael --
GPS tracker -- $250, Nikon camera with zoom lens -- $1,600, catching my LYING HUSBAND and buying this billboard with our investment account -- Priceless.
Tell Jessica you're moving in!
-- Jennifer"
We don't know who Michael is. We don't know who Jessica is. And we don't know who Jennifer is. In fact, we don't know if they exist. This could be a publicity stunt for a brand new billboard.
But on Wednesday, we found a lot of people were curious.
"I thought it was kind of ingenious, then I was wondering if it was actually real," said Wil Gibbs. "I'm not sure if it was somebody actually doing it, but if it is, she got him."
"I don't know if it's true or not, but it kind of makes me laugh...if it's true, it also makes me kind of sad. But it's clever," said Annie Roberts.
"I actually had a friend of mine send it to me on Facebook earlier today, and I was on my way over here to meet some friends and I thought I'd take a good look at it for myself when I got here," said James Bohannon.
"I think that Michael has a tough couple of weeks coming," said Gibbs.
So if it is true, what was Jennifer thinking? WFMY News 2 asked Dr. Nannette Funderburk just that. Funderburk said assuming this is a real situation, it's all about power through exposure.
"She possibly felt pretty betrayed by this. We don't know all the details of what was going on, but betrayal is a strong emotion. And when you feel betrayed, that thought of vengeance comes back. I want to be able to get my power back," said Funderburk.
We don't know how much the billboard actually costs, but we did check with the sales department at WFMY News 2, which has purchased billboards in the past.
Billboards typically cost somewhere between $2,000 and $2,200 a month for one side. This message from Jennifer is on both sides of the billboard.
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Do you have a remote teammate? Is it hard for them to participate fully in meetings? Is it hard for you to keep track of what they're up to — and vice versa? An Embodied Social Proxy is a device to represent the remote person in the team's space. During a meeting it acts as a videoconferencing head, effectively giving the remote person a seat at the table. While idle, it shows the remote's recent activity, such as check-ins, bug edits, and status changes.
About Embodied Social Proxies
Embodied Social Proxy in use. (Click to view a larger image.)This project addresses some of the needs of teams that are partially collocated, that is, all teammates' offices are clustered together on the same floor, except for one person that's located at a different site, maybe in another building on the same campus or maybe on another continent. We call these teams "hub-and-satellite." It's often difficult for that satellite person to participate fully in meetings, they're often left out of the impromptu hallway conversations, and they don't have the benefits of overhearing what others are talking about. In short, they're out-of-sight and out-of-mind.
Remote person's experience using Embodied Social Proxy. (Click to view a larger image.)To combat these problems we've developed a device, which we call an Embodied Social Proxy, or ESP for short. It's just a computer on a cart in the hub team space, but it has a specific purpose: to always represent the satellite person. It has two modes of operation — in meetings it acts as a videoconferencing terminal; between meetings it shows information about the satellite person's availability.
We started this project by living it, as we are a hub-and-satellite team. We are deploying multiple ESP units to other teams and studying their use.
- David Sirkin, Gina Venolia, John Tang, George Robertson, Taemie Kim, Kori Inkpen, Mara Sedlins, Bongshin Lee, and Mike Sinclair, Motion and Attention in a Kinetic Videoconferencing Proxy, in Interact 2011, Springer, 7 September 2011.
- Gina Venolia, John Tang, Ruy Cervantes, Sara Bly, George Robertson, Bongshin Lee, and Kori Inkpen, Embodied Social Proxy: Mediating Interpersonal Connection in Hub-and-Satellite Teams, in Proceedings of CHI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010.
- Gina Venolia, John Tang, Ruy Cervantes, Sara Bly, George Robertson, Bongshin Lee, Kori Inkpen, and Steven Drucker, Embodied Social Proxy: Connecting Hub-and-Satellite Teams, in Proceedings of CSCW 2010, Microsoft Research, February 2010.
- A.J. Bernheim Brush, Brian R. Meyers, James Scott, and Gina Venolia, Exploring Awareness Needs and Information Display Preferences Between Coworkers, in CHI 2009 Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009.
- Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson, and Gina Venolia, What Still Matters about Distance?, in Proceedings of HCIC 2009, February 2009.
- Gina Venolia, Can We Make "Distance Matter" Less?, October 2008.
Learn More
- Embodied Social Proxies project videoJohn Tang, Gina Venolia, and Steven Drucker
00:05:05· 9 October 2009
- Embodied Social Proxies (and Remote Video Heads!) with Microsoft ResearchScott Hanselman, Gina Venolia, and John Tang
00:25:00· 28 January 2010
In the News
- How a Business Can Span the Globe and Stay Close-Knit: Microsoft's "Telepresence" Project
Xconomy, Gregory T. Huang, April 12, 2010


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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - The U.S. women's national team will conclude
2012 with a trio of games against China to cap their 2012 Fan Tribute Tour.
The first will take place on Dec. 8 at Ford Field in Detroit, while BBVA
Compass Stadium in Houston will host the second contest on Dec. 12.
FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla. will be the site of the final contest on Dec.
The U.S. has already played one game against China in 2012, a 4-1 win at PPL
Park in Philadelphia that saw Alex Morgan score twice, Abby Wambach net
another goal and China hand the U.S. an own goal.
The Sports Network


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