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Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea
by Christine Garwood
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Faith Rampant Over Science
May 22 2007
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Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea (Hardcover)
You remember the story about the frightened sailors who went with Columbus in 1492, but were sure that they were going to sail off the edge of the world. They almost mutinied, they were so scared. But Columbus got to land rather than to the enormous cataract, proving to the satisfaction of everyone ever since that the world was not flat but round. If you do remember all this, perhaps you also remember being told it was all bosh, but perhaps not; the story of Columbus bravely proving the world was round is such a satisfactory myth that it will probably never die. In _Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea_ (MacMillan), Christine Garwood, a historian of science, starts with debunking this myth, but then shifts to the modern flat-earthers, those from the nineteenth century until now who insisted, starting with the Bible as a foundation and attempting to co-opt science in the flat-earth cause, that the "globularists" were involved in a scandalous conspiracy to turn people away from the Bible. Garwood's often hilarious book is a serious look at an aberrant belief and those who took it up in modern times, centuries after the flat Earth had been scientifically dismissed. Flat-earthism may be nonsense, but it was an anti-science stance taken up by those who believed in a literal Bible, and as such, comparisons may be easily drawn between flat-earthers and creationists.
Educated medieval people did not believe the Earth to be flat. In fact, if they studied their Plato, Aristotle, or Euclid, they knew the shape of the Earth. The Columbus story was appealing to those who unnecessarily wanted to promote a view of science in eternal warfare with religion. The dispute between the two realms over the shape of our Earth seemed to be settled, but was revived in England by a loud, smart, confident, and energetic socialist quack from Lancashire, Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who started touring England in the 1830s. He urged people to take the Bible literally and also just to look around: anyone could see we were not walking around on a sphere. The Earth was a stationary disk, he taught, and the Sun was only 400 miles above it, and if ships disappeared over the horizon, it was just a play of refraction and perspective, not evidence that the surface of the water was curved. He had many followers, and Flat-earthism didn't stop with the Victorians. There were Flat Earth Societies of different kinds during the twentieth century. The American fundamentalist preacher Wilbur Voliva took over the utopian city of Zion in Illinois, and used his radio station in the 1920s not only to broadcast intimidations of hell-fire but also to spread such explanations of sunrise and sunset being only optical illusions. The Canadian Flat Earth Society is different from any other group described here, since it was not religiously inspired. It was a bunch of writers and philosophers who took up the cause as a bit of serious fun, to push concepts of epistemology. To poor, serious Samuel Shenton, founder of the International Flat Earth Research Society, fell the task of defending the concept of a flat Earth while astronauts went around it and to the Moon. He asserted that Christ himself had warned of "a great deception which might shake frail Christian faith," and he was furious that astronauts had radioed "the opening verses of Genesis... as a deceptive cloak" concealing the promotion of globularism. The new flat-earthers were eager to promote their own "scientific" views, but their arguments harked back to those of the previous century. For instance, they asserted that people could sail east to west around the world just like a needle sails around a phonograph record, but no one sails around it north to south, because that would take one into the edges of the disk, a realm of forbidden cold. Others also pointed out that in sailing from Australia to America, a passenger did not get on board ship upside down, and did not sail upwards around a globe. And of course, the ocean looked flat during the whole trip.
Almost all the flat-earthers here mount their beliefs from knowing that, as one wrote, "the Bible is a flat-earth book", and from feeling that God had called them to refute astronomical treachery. In many ways, they were more fundamentalist and more literalist than the current creationists; indeed, the head of the International Flat Earth Research Society of America denounced the Creation Research Institute as a "criminal gang" and "the worst enemies of the truth" for ostensibly defending the Bible while it was actually undermining it. The flat-earthers had faith that could not be shaken by anything scientists had to offer. Science eventually had even photographic proof, but the pictures of our orb were denounced as a hoax that "just makes the whole Bible a big joke." The faith of some flat-earthers was strong enough to withstand, for a while, at least, even science's photographic assault. Garwood draws analogies, of course, between them and our creationists whose faith is also currently great enough to withstand scientific objections, and who, like the flat-earthers, insist that accepting science is the same as discounting the Bible. In the current case, though, scientists can't muster, for instance, simple photographs that show evolution in progress. Garwood's book shows just how doggedly faith in an unscientific idea can hold.
Concertina: The Life and Loves of a Dominatrix
by Susan Winemaker
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Food and Discipline
April 23 2007
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Concertina: The Life and Loves of a Dominatrix (Hardcover)
Susan Winemaker describes herself as a "nice Jewish girl from Toronto". She majored in philosophy and the culinary arts, and presumably because the former would not pay, went to study the latter in London. But as everyone knows, learning to be a chef and being a chef-for-hire is not as lucrative as being a dominatrix, and this is where she turned her talents. In _Concertina: The Life and Loves of a Dominatrix_ (Simon and Schuster UK; the book is currently available only in a British edition), Winemaker gives an account of her work in a trade of administering discipline and pain to men who think it worth, say, 150 pounds an hour to be treated in such a way. It's an odd career, although it is one long associated with sexuality, especially in England. It has plenty of peculiar moments and fun which Winemaker enjoys and writes about with amusement; the first sentence of the book is, "It's 11:25 a.m. and I'm sitting on and suffocating Bernie". The work is delivering a service for a fee, and is full of day-to-day, practical tasks just to get the job done, as in "At 2:13 I was on my hands and knees, wiping semen off the dungeon floor. At 2:17 I was eating a hummus sandwich in the garden, and answering the telephone to a man who was interested in catheters and other medical procedures. At 2:30 I answered the door to a stranger named Robert ..." She was good at her trade, and had plenty of repeat clients handled with just the right degree of pain and remove. When she "blurred the boundaries" between mistress and client and took one on as a lover, the results are more disturbing than anything that happened in her dungeon.
There is plenty of food in the book, and many comparisons made between serving up a meal and serving up domination. Serving up something delicious for the client is part of both of her trades, and she writes that "pain, violence, discipline and a good grasp of the trade's tools could produce something succulent and beautiful". She does like the game she plays as Mistress Anna and she likes the men. She had a session with "Enema Larry" who liked her to be in rubber nurse uniform, and afterwards he went to kiss her goodbye on the cheek. "I backed away just in time," she writes. "'I don't want you to catch my cold, Larry.'" The response: "'Oh, but, Anna, I _want_ your cold,' he instantly volleyed. It was the kindest thing anyone had said to me in the cottage. A beautiful thing to say. I loved my job for moments like that, for unexpected intimacies born of strange circumstances." It is illuminating that when she was preparing for her career, she not only read fetish magazines and rope-tying manuals, but also Stanislavski's _Building a Character_ and _An Actor Prepares_. She writes of the accord between her and clients, "There will be no 'sex' as it's understood. It will be my job to administer pain erotically and expertly... a symphony in the background, a range of sensations assailing me, the brief connection, the spice of anonymous intimacy, the distilled concentrated moment. I respond to detail and subtlety, rules, roles, and melody. This is theater, finitude, and utterly otherly experience."
Though she is objective in describing her work, the most open and candid part of Concertina is the troubling account of her relationship with a client with whom she fell in love. In many ways, her job was no different from any other; it was demanding work with a good paycheck, but she realized that she was lonely: "I'm giving and I'm going home to no one." But Adam was gorgeous and responsive, liking especially the genital application of two score clothespins. Outside the dungeon, they developed an intense, sadomasochistic give and take. There is even (gasp) romantic and passionate _normal_ sex. They aren't able to abandon domination / submission, however, and the convolutions mount. "The thought of ordering my lover to pleasure me was vulgar. I want him to pleasure me because he wants to, not because he has to, and not because it's the role he's playing." The last straw is that Adam, who says he loves her cooking, admits he accidentally ate a raw chicken cutlet and didn't notice. Winemaker eventually sees the humor in such a denouement, but the resolution of their relationship is sad and cruel. Never mind; she wants to start up a luxury porridge bar in London, and that is not a euphemism for anything erotic but rather a culinary niche that she thinks is unexplored. It would be a simpler life, and I would trust her to write about it colorfully, recipes included, but I suspect it would not result in a memoir as strange or funny as this one.
Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by Larry Tye
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Lessons from a Lost Profession
July 17 2004
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Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Hardcover)
You can't see train porters anymore, except in the movies. Everyone knew the role of the ubiquitous porter, a role with duties, uniform, and demeanor. In the movies, actors played porters as porters had played their occupational roles, busy and even servile, humorous and fawning, wise to the needs and foolishness of their passengers and ignorant as members of their race were held to be. The paradoxes of the porters get a wonderful historical evaluation in _Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class_ (Henry Holt) by Larry Tye. A history of the porters was overdue, but Tye is squeaking this one in. There were generations of porters, but the last of them is slipping away, and some of them he interviewed for the book did not live to see it printed. Porters, for all their servility and for all the neglect that passengers often gave them, made an impression, and Tye makes the wonderful case of another paradox. The porter, whose attitude might be classed now as "Uncle Tom-ism", was a necessary element to bring about the Civil Rights movement.
The porters were, from beginning to end, creatures of the Pullman Rail Car Company. George Pullman brought out the first one in 1865, and by 1867, he was looking for a reliable way to staff the cars; Pullman needed one single worker who would be hotelier, waiter, chambermaid, butler, and information desk. There was a newly invented pool of workers to draw from, the former slaves from the South. Many had worked in plantation houses and were familiar with duties requiring close proximity to wealthy white folk. There was poor pay and atrocious hours, but many porters appreciated the opportunity to escape the south and trade overalls for bow ties and starched pants. Porters could read the business pages discarded by their passengers, and they learned how the Pullman Company was flourishing while they were barely getting by. Part of the porters' history involves eventual unionizing and developing themselves as a commercial force, and the indefatigable efforts of A. Philip Randolph to bring about a union are highlighted here. Randolph was a Civil Rights leader for decades, and eventually organized the March on Washington, for which Martin Luther King (who held Randolph in reverence) is better remembered.
By the time the porters had reached their greatest unified commercial strength, their profession was coming to an end. Road and airplane travel took passengers away, and Amtrak was just a ghost of past glory. Tye convinces readers, however, that the porters had a disproportionate effect on the black community. At their height, porters were 0.1% of blacks in America, and yet for any black American excelling in any field in the last half century, there is an odds-on chance that there was a Pullman porter in that person's past. They did it by the same means: "... sacrificing for their children, and deferring dreams of self-improvement for a generation or even two, but never abandoning them." They may have been underlings, but the best of them profited by being around even the most unpleasant passengers. About one incident, a porter explained that after some slight, he was able to hold his tongue: "It was an accomplishment. I kept from hating passengers like that. I called myself outsmarting them." Tye's impressive look at the influence of a long-gone profession is at its best when bringing back the words and stories of the porters themselves. "My mother taught me never to quarrel with a fool, but to humor him. That's what I do," said one. Another concluded, "You just gotta haul folks as they come. Some's good, some's bad, some's nice and some's crabby."
1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger
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Back to the Fundamentals
July 14 2004
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta (Hardcover)
One of the many documents that we honor without paying much importance to what it really was in its time is the Magna Carta. There is a meadow at Runnymede, near Windsor in England, where in 1215 King John was forced to sign the document, and among other memorials there now is a little temple placed by the American Bar Association. The American Founding Fathers reverenced the document, and indeed parts of the Constitution may be easily traced to sentences within the Magna Carta. But the Magna Carta in its time was a bust; it did not bring peace between King John and the barons suing for their share of liberty and was soon trashed in civil war. _1215: The Year of Magna Carta_ (Touchstone) by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham puts the document in context. We are right to hold it in reverence, but the authors make clear that the barons were looking after their property rights easily as much as the abstract values of freedom which have inspired patriots through history, and that the document enabled serfdom rather than actual freedom.
The surprising part about this book is that the Magna Carta does not really show up until the final chapters. The title is correct; the book is largely about the year and how people in England lived at that time. There are chapters on schools, families, tournaments, trials, the church, and other important aspects of life under King John, with mere hints in each about how the Magna Carta might have affected them. The details of life in that year come thick throughout the main part of the book. Astrology was promoted, but some monks and teachers thought it was bunk. People took part in religious rituals, but one prior wrote, "There are many people who do not believe that God exists" and said the universe was ruled by chance, not providence. No one knows how many the "many people" were. There were English colonies as far away as Alexandria. Summers were warmer by one centigrade degree than they are now, with milder winters and lower rainfall. If you were right handed, you would write with a quill from the left wing of a goose (and vice versa) so that the feather would curve outwards when you wrote. Wolves roamed the forests which covered nearly a third of England. Men wore underwear but women didn't. Hay was used for toilet paper. Chess was played with enthusiasm but with simpler rules than now. Adulterers would be whipped naked through the streets. This is a lively history, and fun to read.
The book concludes with the actual signing of the Magna Carta itself and its effects. The rebellion by the barons in 1215 was quite different from the many rebellions against previous kings. Those involved fighting to restore a particular monarch to the throne. The barons had no such champion; the focus of their revolt was simply a program of reform. The document itself consists of 63 clauses, the first ten of which (and many of the subsequent ones) have only to do with maintaining the barons' property rights. There are ringing, lofty expressions of principle, but they are late in the charter, and while they are what we revere it for, they were evidently not uppermost on the minds of the barons. This does not matter, really; "To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice" and that no one will have action against him "... except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land" were important principles then and now. The Magna Carta was intended as a peace treaty, but John was eager to wiggle out of it any way he could, and was helped by the Pope, who declared the Magna Carta null and void. The all-out civil war that followed was capped by John's death a year later from dysentery. The Magna Carta was reissued, as it was again in 1225, and it is the 1225 text that entered the statute books. It was this version that bad kings had to reaffirm; public cries after royal infringements, for instance, forced Edward I to confirm the charter in 1297. This spirited introduction to thirteenth century history shows that the Magna Carta thus may be more eternally important not as a foundation for specific rights, but as the primal symbol for struggle against tyranny.
Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist, the Making of The Birds of America
by Duff Hart-Davis
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An American Classic From England
July 10 2004
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Let us say the Book Fairy comes and says you can be given one book, any book you want. Here's my advice: take John James Audubon's _The Birds of America_. Of course you want the original edition, the volumes that appeared between 1826 and 1838. Not only is it one of the most beautiful books ever printed, if you get tired of it, you can sell it. The last one that came up for sale, in 2000, went for $8.8 million. Just about everyone knows about this book, or has seen reprints from it, and has heard of Audubon (perhaps because of the Society that bears his name) and associates him with birds. He has had several biographies, but _Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America_ (Henry Holt) by Duff Hart-Davis takes a specific look at the extraordinary book, and how _The Birds of America_ could not have been made in America.
Audubon's own adopted country had no room for his huge project of a book to show all the birds of America life sized. Naturalists at the time actively discouraged anyone's support of Audubon's efforts, and there were not printers up to the task. So in 1826, Audubon sailed with his big watercolors to England. He became a celebrated American rustic, captivating the town of Edinburgh. He went about carrying his huge portfolio which weighed nearly a hundred pounds, slung over his shoulder. The first printer of the work, having see it, responded, "My God! I never saw anything like this before." He was right; Audubon's pictures had size, drama, and color no previous bird pictures even hinted at. The pictures caused a sensation, and Audubon was caught in a whirl of dining and socializing that he enjoyed enormously. The enormous work of getting subscribers, printing the pictures, and getting a team of colorists to hand tint each one was more than Audubon had counted on. He wrote, "I am thrown into a vortex of business that I never conceived I could manage."
Audubon and conservation have become synonymous, but his process of making his art will appall those many who belong to the Society bearing his name. Audubon probably killed more birds than any man in history, saying, "I call birds few when I shoot less than one hundred per day." He liked painting birds in action, but he posed them that way, killing them and mounting them so he could get the action stilled. A companion complained about Audubon working on his turkey painting, "The damned fellow kept it pinned up there till it rotted and stunk. I hated to lose so much good eating." Audubon kept a golden eagle in a cage to observe it, and having it seen alive sufficiently, tried to suffocate it with charcoal smoke, and when that did not work, pierced it through the heart with a pointed steel needle. As Hart-Davis realizes, Audubon did not lust for blood, but for knowledge. Imparting that knowledge through his art was his great goal, magnificently realized. _Audubon's Elephant_ is a much smaller volume than the original it describes, but it is still handsomely produced on fine paper and with fittingly copious illustrations. It is a vibrant account of an artist accomplishing his dream.
The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa
by Mick Brown
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Amazing Story of Selecting a Reincarnated Leader
July 7 2004
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The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa (Hardcover)
In 1992, a six-year-old son of a nomadic yak herder was thrust into history. His family knew him to be special somehow, so he was not given an official name; he was known by them as Apo Gaga ("happy brother"). And then the highest of the Tibetan Buddhists realized that he was the reincarnation of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, who had died in 1981. The resurrection line of Karmapas goes back centuries before that of even the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. Apo Gaga then became "His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje". The story of his selection and his headline-making flight from Tibet in 2000 is told in _The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa_ (Bloomsbury) by Mick Brown. Brown, a journalist who has covered religious subjects before, is not a Buddhist, and indeed his own religious ideas are not part of this book, which is an astonishingly impartial view of the sometimes controversial and (to those of a different religious persuasion) often utterly weird process of making a new divine hereditary leader.
Brown's book gives a history of Buddhism as it relates to the Karmapa line. The first Karmapa was born in 1110 CE, at the age of fifty. He was omniscient and was able to pass through rocks and mountains. He predicted he would be reborn many times, and starting a tradition, he left a letter specifying how the next Karmapa could be found. When the beloved 16th Karmapa died in 1981, there was a puzzling interval when no such letter could be found. One of his monks eventually produced an amulet the 16th had given him, and it contained a prediction that was to lead to Apo Gaga, who was enthroned as 17th Karmapa in 1992 at age seven. This succession has been controversial; another monk has claimed the amulet document was a forgery and has put forward his own choice of successor, but the Dalai Lama has given all official approval to the current 17th. The Chinese communists, who dislike all religions, amazingly accepted the 17th as a "Living Buddha", in an attempt to get a Buddhist leader under their sway. The 17th Karmapa and a few close associates made plans for a perilous winter trek over the Himalayas and into India. By foot, jeep, and helicopter, he made a daring escape to an eventual exile along with the Dalai Lama.
Brown has interviewed the 17th Karmapa (as he has the Dalai Lama, and most of the individuals he profiles), and has been impressed. "He was, patently, a fifteen-year-old boy; yet like no fifteen-year-old I had met before." He had composure and authority to a disconcerting degree: "There is something dazzling about him." He has had a life of study rather than play, but devotees have donated to him plenty of toys through the years. Amusingly, when he made his prediction of where the reincarnated descendant from another line would be found, to show the house that should be targeted, the Karmapa made a model with his Lego set. It is this sort of clash between modern and ancient or religious and worldly that makes _The Dance of 17 Lives_ so fascinating. The Dalai Lama is now 69 years old, and when he dies, Tibetan exiles all over the world will be looking toward the 17th Karmapa as a unifying symbol and perhaps a successor. We are used to seeing the Dalai Lama as an elder statesman, but if this description of the 17th Karmapa is true, we can expect a young man to fit in just as well.
Outlaw Sea
by William Langewiesche
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A Free Sea, and a Dangerous One
July 6 2004
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As Melville knew, we look to the sea as a symbol for freedom, and "freedom of the seas" is proverbial. But freedom at sea can lead to such manifestations as piracy, and not just in the swashbuckling days of yore; it could also lead to corporate irresponsibility and malfeasance. William Langewiesche's _The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime_ (North Point Press) collects and expands upon his previous magazine articles on this theme. All of us are dependent upon international trade, and few of us understand how it works or in what ways it is working badly or dangerously, unless we hear about a capsizing or an oil spill. There are a lot more of those than we hear about, and a lot more crime on the sea than even governments acknowledge. Langewiesche's book is a fine way for lubbers to get to know how traditional maritime freedom is endangering them.
Before World War II, ships were customarily built in a country, were registered in that country, flew the flag of that country, and sailed for the profit of businessmen in that country. Ironically, the United States began the current anarchical system in a pretense of neutrality during the pre-Pearl Harbor war, registering in Panama ships bringing needed supplies to Britain. The practice became widespread in the succeeding decades, with many ships now sailing under "flags of convenience." They might be registered in countries that have no navy and even no coastline, and the countries involved can get relatively small fees, which are actually almost pure profit. The countries don't pursue administrative niceties like taxes, labor laws, safety inspections, and so on, and the corporations which own the ships don't mind avoiding such things, either. Among the cases described here are a too-old ship (with full inspection documents) broken in half by stormy seas. Pirates can take advantage of the lax laws by making a ship disappear; capture, repaint, rename, and reflag the vessel, and it vanishes from the seas. Seas are big, ships leave no tracks, and patrol ships and aircraft can see only a tiny percentage of any hunting ground. Policing the oceans from such attacks is not now possible.
The longest episode in the book tells of the _Estonia_, a giant luxury ferry that sank in the Baltic in 1994, with a loss of 852 of 989 passengers and crew. A victim of faulty design, poor maintenance, or even a bomb (none of the extensive investigations afterwards has satisfied everyone), the narrative here of well-chosen characters trying to escape from the swiftly-sinking ship is fast and terrifying. The book ends with a part of the maritime business that few people ever consider: what happens to the worn-out ships? Salvaging used to be a thriving business in our country and others; reclaiming the metal and reusing it was good for profits and good for the environment. However, showing the same pattern of lack of regulation and reduction of the job to the cheapest source available, shipwrecking has gone to places like India, where poorly equipped and poorly paid workers are glad of the job, even if it means almost constant danger from the unplanned movement of heavy objects or the inhalation of poisons. The shipping industry, Langewiesche writes, is "not exactly a criminal industry, but it is an amoral and stubbornly anarchic one." This is a deeply disturbing book, written with cool detachment. Technology and international organizations have not made improvements in the way the vital global trade is conducted. Profits are more important than anything, the sea promises the freest of trading, no one seems to be learning from the lessons described here, and no one should expect these dangerous situations to be changed anytime soon.
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
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A Ghoulish, Entertaining History
July 4 2004
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They were known as "grabs", "lifters", "exhumators", and especially as "resurrection men." The number of euphemisms for their trade indicates a distaste for it; they were bodysnatchers, and in nineteenth century London, they had a good, if not respectable, trade. Sarah Wise, in _The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London_ (Metropolitan Books), has revived (so to speak) a story that has not been retold since the newspapers and broadsheets made it a sensation in its time. Far more famous is the case of the "Edinburgh Horrors" wherein William Burke and William Hare had not only snatched bodies but had manufactured them by murdering the victims first. Their crimes have entered literature and the movies, and "to burke" is even a term for the act. Three years later in 1831, similar crimes in London came to light and horrified and fascinated Londoners. Wise's book will do the same for the modern reader.
For medical students and anatomists in England, there was only one legal supply of cadavers for dissection, the gallows; getting cut up for show was another particular indignity that could be extended to the condemned. This might have been enough in years gone by, but in 1831 only 52 people were executed. A freshly exhumed corpse would fetch around ten guineas, at a time when a well-paid workingman might bring home eighty guineas a year, so the trade could be lucrative. Carlo Ferrari was a pretty fourteen-year-old street urchin who walked the city with his cage of white mice (and maybe a turtle) until he ran into the villains of this tale. The resurrectionists involved lured him to a home in a semi-rural part of the city, drugged him and drowned him, and then set off to peddle his body. When it looked too fresh, the police were called, and an investigation showed that Ferrari had not been the only victim. Less than a month after the murder was made public, John Bishop, James May, and Thomas Williams stood trial in the Old Bailey. In a fitting conclusion to their careers, the resurrection men found guilty were resurrected onto the anatomist's table. It was discovered that Bishop "... had an extraordinarily good physique, proving far more useful as a specimen than the produce he used to deliver."
The trial was a big case for the new London police force, and the role of the Police Inspector, then a novelty, was highlighted and began its acceptance by the public. The trial threw light on the horrid trade, its prevalence and the medical men who were accessories in its perpetuation. It served as a spark to reformation, contributing to the passing of the second Anatomy Bill in 1832, which allowed bodies other than those of the hanged miscreants to be a source of instruction. The unclaimed bodies of paupers could thereupon be used for dissection, and thus the "horrors" of the dissecting table started becoming less horrible; today enlightened future corpses often will their bodies for anatomical teaching. Wise's startling tale, well illustrated and fetid with cesspools, abattoirs, dissecting rooms, prisons, and Tudor slums, opens again a grotesque and brutal underworld and makes for an entertaining, gruesome history.
In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite
by Andrew Brown
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Explaining Life at the Molecular Level
June 29 2004
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_Caenorhabditis elegans_, happily better known as _C. elegans_ and affectionately known by the researchers who study it as "the worm," would not seem to have potential for being the focus of groundbreaking biological studies. It is only a half a millimeter long, for instance, and is a lowly nematode, living on bacteria and slime mold in temperate regions all around the world. It does, however, display rapid growth and production of subsequent generations, which made it perfect for genetic studies, and transparency, which made it perfect for microscopic analysis. But even the original researchers on the worm would have been surprised at all the work that has been done in the last forty years. _C. elegans_ is now "the most completely understood animal in history." That assessment comes in _In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite_ (Columbia University Press) by Andrew Brown. In fact, the worm looms even larger in biological research; work on its genetic map grew directly into the human genome mapping project. So its story is worth telling, and Brown, a science journalist, has told it largely through descriptions of the personalities and work of the main researchers. There is little technical detail here about the worm itself, but much interesting history about how the researchers came to understand it so well.
Chief of the characters is Sydney Brenner, who designated the worm as a fit source of research in the mid-1960s. Not everyone thought that the worm was the way to go, or even that trying to understand it at the molecular level was a promising avenue of research. There was more glamorous work and ostensibly more productive work going on researching fruit flies, for instance, but Brenner's team showed astonishing dedication. Almost everyone who worked in the lab came away happy, and Brenner and his main colleagues came away with Nobels. One of the most pleasing aspects of the research was how public it was. The researchers were in favor of free trade in ideas within the team, of course, but there was a high streak of idealism in sharing results with the outside world. They truly believed that the unfettered exercise of their talents was for the benefit of humanity. They insisted that sharing results (rather than, say, copyrighting or licensing them) meant it was more likely that someone would latch on to something interesting which needed further work. No one owned the genetic map they produced, and it was from the beginning available to all takers (although it is now much more accessible since biologists can log into it on the web). It is not just that free release is generous and right, but it works. John Sulston, one of the Nobel winners, said, "It was not a theoretical concept, it was a pragmatic way of moving forward."
The importance of the worm in all subsequent genetic research cannot be overstated, and so this is a welcome volume to recount how the worm got to be so well understood. There have been distinct effects on the research on humans themselves. Vertebrates like humans are not descended from nematodes, but we are distant cousins with an ancient common ancestor which eight hundred million years ago solved the problems of living as a multicellular organism, and every animal ever since has inherited those solutions. In a real sense, looking at the worm is a way of looking at ourselves, with all the potential for practical knowledge that this brings. But Brown's book is an inspirational story about researchers who gambled all on the detailed understanding of a humble worm not for practicality, or for riches, but for the sake of knowledge alone.
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
by David Carter
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The Definitive History of the Spark to Gay Rights
June 24 2004
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In the old days (and some would insist they were the good old days) homosexuals were subject to dismissal just because of sexual preference. Sexual acts between members of the same sex were specifically illegal, and cops would bait homosexuals to see if they were interested in such acts. Professionals who were found to be homosexuals lost their licenses. Homosexuality was a diagnosable psychiatric illness. A consensual homosexual act could get even life imprisonment, and a risk of castration. There may still be discrimination against gays in many ways, but some are now even legally married; societal acceptance is not total, but it is vastly better than it was on 28 June 1969. That date, regarded as epochal by homosexuals insisting on their civil rights, saw the Stonewall uprising; in _Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution_ (St. Martin's Press), David Carter has given a spectacularly detailed and well-researched history of an event that has been often misunderstood even by those interested in the history of the gay civil rights movement.
In the sixties, Greenwich Village was a center for homosexual life; the bohemian residents were simply more accepting of unusual behavior. Within Greenwich, the Stonewall Inn was one of the gathering places especially for male homosexuals. The ambience was "trashy, low, and tawdry," but unpretentious, and all from any margins (including the exaggeratedly effeminate men who were a fashion at the time) were free to go there without risk of feeling alienated. Patrons and the bar staff accepted that the place was going to get raided. Police thought of gays as easy targets in their humiliating sweeps of the bar. Carter is careful to show that the confrontation that night was somewhere between inevitable and fortuitous, but what set the crowd off was a lesbian resisting arrest and being beaten. The initial response was tentative; one man could stand it no longer and yelled, "Gay Power!" only to be shushed by his partner. The cry, however, was taken up, and the outcasts stirred into action. The chapters of the book dealing with the riot itself are often tense, with the police being forced back into Stonewall and barricading themselves in, and the gays outside pounding the heavy doors with a parking meter while chanting "Liberate the bar!" Many who were there shared the view of one participant, who called the newspapers during the riot: "I immediately knew this was the spark we had been waiting for for years."
Carter details the changes in attitude that came after the riots, fostered by the too-inclusive Gay Liberation Front through the more successful Gay Activist Alliance. Political action, confrontation, and street theater were taken up by a group of citizens that had previously kept covert ways. Having shown up at the scene of the riot to see what all the fuss was about, Allen Ginsberg himself said of the participants, comparing them to homosexuals a decade before, "They've lost that wounded look." Carter clears up myths that have grown up around the event. It was reported, for instance, that the rioters breaking back into the bar where the police were besieged were merely trying to get back in and party. There was a further widely reported story that the riots were in response to the funeral the day before of Judy Garland, an idol to some gays. These stories represent the sort of trivialization that society might well attempt to impose on a revolution that it found unwelcome. The revolution isn't complete, but at Stonewall the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights got a real political start. Carter's book is the essential work on an important historical event.
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The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable links to the Web.
Curbs to Villa?
Former West Ham and Charlton boss Alan Curbishley is the lead candidate for the vacant Aston Villa manager's job, the Daily Mirror said.
Villa owner Randy Lerner and chief executive officer Paul Faulkner spent three days in London interviewing candidates, with Curbishley believed to be among them, to replace Martin O'Neill, the Mirror said. Lerner wants someone with Premier League experience and that would rule out Kevin MacDonald, who was named interim manager when O'Neill quit Aug. 9.
No Trust
Former Manchester City midfielder Martin Petrov said there "is no trust" at the Premier League club, the Sun said.
The Bulgarian, who moved to Bolton this season, said City's squad isn't playing as a team because it's full of millionaires with no relationships, the newspaper said.
No Turkey
Tottenham striker Robbie Keane turned down a chance to join Turkish side Besiktas, the Daily Mail said.
The transfer period didn't end in Turkey until yesterday and Besiktas made an 8 million-pound bid for Keane, who was offered a three-year contract, the Mail said. Keane considered the deal before deciding to remain at Spurs, the newspaper said.
Still Young
Newcastle defender Sol Campbell says he's not too old for a recall to the England national team, the Daily Star reported.
Campbell, 35, last played for England in 2007 and has set his sights on rejoining the squad, the Star said. He felt his performance for Arsenal last season was good enough to earn a place on the World Cup team, the newspaper said.
Ancient Treatment
Everton striker Louis Saha has turned to a 5,000-year-old practice to help with his chronic knee problems: leeches, the Sun said.
Saha, 32, put leeches on his swollen knee when he went to visit his grandparents in Guadeloupe and said they have left him feeling like a 20-year-old, the Sun said.
"It swells up less, I feel fine now," the newspaper quoted Saha as saying.

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After months of speculation, H&M made it official today. Beyoncé is the company's new cover girl, replacing singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey who held that position for about a year. Not only is Bey fronting the ad campaign, but she worked on the new collection as well. H&M head designer Ann-Sofie Johansson revealed, "what makes these pieces even more special is that Beyoncé herself had input in the designs, and they are full of her own personal style." The new collection is tentatively slated to hit stores in the beginning of May.
"I've always liked H&M's focus on fun affordable fashion. I really loved the concept we collaborated on to explore the different emotions of women represented by the four elements — fire, water, earth and wind. It was a beautiful shoot on a tropical island. It felt more like making a video than a commercial." – Beyonce
Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin better known as Inez & Vinoodh shot the print and billboard images in the Bahamas. The Swedish retailer unveiled the first image today with Mrs. Carter wearing the "key pieces you need for life in the sun this summer." The ads will feature the tagline, "Beyonce as Mrs. Carter in H&M." Obviously an attempt to tie her latest endorsement deal with her upcoming "The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour." The campaign will also include a commercial directed by Jonas Akerlund and will feature a new track from B titled, "Standing On The Sun." Check out the first image below.
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Our PSPL NU match, my friend.
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Tv-rocka apparently had PC problems, and he said i could take the win.
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UNDER THE Succoth at Congregation Sons of Israel are, from left Audrey Jacobson, Porter and Natalie Broudy, Andi Lieberman and Rabbi and Mrs. Samuel Cywiak. Contributed photo
Services at the Congregation Sons of Israel, 161 Cordova St., begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday with Semini Atzeret and Simchat Torah at 7:30 p.m.
All are welcome to come sing, dance with the Torahs and enjoy free flags, apples and chocolate bars.
Recently set up at the synagogue was the Succoth booth.
Originally an agricultural holiday, now booths are put up as a reminder of the generations in the desert who finally reached Israel. The booths commemorate the 40-year journey.
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Road trip starts at U.S. Cellular Field
Dear Diary,
OK, that's not what my editor at ESPN.com meant when he said, "Let's do a daily diary from your baseball park trip," but I can't help it.
Say "diary" to me, and I think of the one I had in eighth grade: black and yellow with a big Hello Kitty on the front and a lock that my brother picked so he could read all about my crush on Shane Doyle.
I wonder what Shane is doing now. Does he watch "First Take"? Does he know I had a crush on him?
Well, he may know now, and for all I know, he may have been one of the thousands on hand at U.S. Cellular Field on Sunday when my ballpark adventure began.
I had hoped to write about catching a foul ball or some miraculous pitching performance or even the best bratwurst I'd ever tasted. But like my eighth-grade crush, it just wasn't meant to be.
Instead, all I got was a perfect day at the ballpark. Seriously.
It was sunny, our seats were great, and so was the conversation.
Yes, I'm one of those. When I go to a baseball game, it's not just about the game. It's about the atmosphere.
For me, the atmosphere started on the train ride there. Public transportation is so underrated, especially when you're talking about getting to and from a game. It's what I loved while living in New York, taking the 7 to see the Mets or the B to see the Yankees.
On Sunday in Chicago, it was the Red Line to the White Sox. The crowd on the subway when I went to games in New York City seemed to have a little more to say than the combination of Cubs and White Sox fans on the "L," but maybe that's just a Midwest thing. Even without the cheers or -- let's be honest -- train trash talk, I got excited as we arrived at The Cell: A new park for me and crosstown rivalry is a great combination. Sadly, the park itself was a bit of a disappointment.
To me, a ballpark needs to have character. Fenway has old-school appeal, while Comerica and AT&T have the wow factor: big gloves, oversized tigers, bright colors and food stands every two feet. But U.S. Cellular was bland.
When I looked around as I entered, it felt sterile, as though I could have been anywhere.
Now, I must admit I failed to follow one piece of advice and seek out the crustless PB&J sandwiches that they sell there, but even if I had, I'm not certain I would have felt differently.
The brats and even the pizza looked like what you'd find at any other park. I was looking for but didn't find that quintessential Chicago thing that I wanted to see. In San Francisco for me, it's Gilroy Garlic Fries; in Detroit it's Coney Island chili cheese fries or even Little Caesars pizza.
Heck, The Cell didn't even have great cell service! I had trouble sending friends pictures. But all was not lost not even close. As I said, it was a perfect day.
As we walked around the concrete concession jungle to our seats, I realized that my friend and colleague Scoop Jackson had done me a solid. The seats he got us were great. Third-base line, 20 rows up, perfect view of home plate and everything else for that matter except the few times the hot dog hawker stopped right in front of us. It wasn't to sell a dog -- he just stopped. Yeah, I know that case is heavy. But I digress.
The seats were a sign of things to come. The curly fries I started the day with were fresh, perfectly seasoned and just the right appetizer for the brat to come. Now, I don't know about you, but for me, a brat needs to be dressed. Onions, peppers, sauerkraut and mustard, and man, was it good.
So although things might have looked generic, Chicago and The Cell know how to make and dress a brat. And the food wasn't the only piece of perfection; it was also the people in those great seats with me.
As I mentioned, the conversation was as good as the seats. My friend Michel joined me on the trek along with his friend John and John's girlfriend, Shannon.
We ate, talked and laughed our way through nine innings of baseball.
And although we never realized my dream of catching a foul ball or John's dream of winning the raffle and the 13 grand or so that went with it, here are nine realizations we came to during those nine innings:
1. No matter how hot it is, some men really should keep their shirts on.
2. A brat, polish sausage, hot dog, whatever always tastes better when eaten at a ballpark.
3. Red ropes really are as good as we remember but what was up with those wax lips?
4. Catching a foul ball is not that easy, even when you're in foul territory.
5. On a hot day at a game, 7 bucks for a beer seems cheap.
6. Bob the Bachelor has made a career out of, well, being Bob the Bachelor seriously?
7. Jeans on an 85-degree day in Chicago is a bad idea. Sneakers with those jeans is a worse idea. (Sorry, Michel, you know it's true.)
8. The woman at the airport who wanted to charge me $100 because my bag was 1 pound overweight must have been having a bad day on Saturday.
9. The driving part of my ballpark adventure might not have been the best idea I've ever had.
So that's where I am, about to leave for St. Louis well, after a workout and a quick repack of my bags.
I'll do my best to control my lead foot but if I get pulled over for speeding and the cop is named Shane Doyle, it certainly will make for a great diary entry tomorrow.
ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson, who hosts "First Take," will document her five-game baseball road trip on ESPN.com. You can follow her on Twitter here.


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States May Recognize Same-Sex Marriages, But Navajo Nation Won't
States May Recognize Same-Sex Marriages, But Navajo Nation Won't
The Navajo Nation has prohibited same-sex marriage since 2005, when the Diné Marriage Act was passed. Now, critics are challenging that ban.
As the largest reservation in the U.S., the Navajo Nation straddles the borders of three states: New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Utah has been embroiled in its own same-sex marriage battle recently (the state halted gay marriages Monday).
But these state laws do not affect the Navajo Nation ban.
Michel Martin, host of NPR's Tell Me More, recently sat down with Deswood Tome, a special adviser to the president of the Navajo Nation, and activist Alray Nelson of the Coalition for Navajo Equality.
What could have been a contentious debate instead sounded like a friendly discussion. Nelson and Tome are former colleagues and think of each other as friends. Nelson even went so far as to say that he has always looked to the elder Tome as a bit of a father figure.
Still, the conversation between the two revealed both differing generational perspectives and the debate that folks around the country continue to grapple with.
Interview Highlights
Deswood Tome on why same-sex marriage isn't a top priority of the Navajo Nation
I spoke to some people out in the community, including a chapter secretary in western Navajo, and she said to me that this is not an issue that affects us here, at the local, grass-roots area. They're more concerned about job creation, health, education. Even my colleague at the speaker's office, Darrell Tso, says that this is not on the agenda of the Navajo Nation Council at this time.
Alray Nelson on why this issue is personally important to him
I grew up traditional, my grandparents taught me about love, they taught me about respect, as well as the sacredness of having a family. So ... let's say that my partner and I decide to get married in California, or let's say we go to Albuquerque ... the state recognizes it, and so I can come back here home ... and the Navajo government will not recognize the rights and the benefits I deserve. They will not recognize the rights and the benefits my partner deserves.
Deswood Tome on what must happen if the Navajo code is to change
Here's the challenge I want to put to Alray. Alray, if you go out there and make this an issue, then the Navajo government will address it. Start at the grass roots. Start at the chapters. Go to the agency council meetings ... there's a process, and you know that. You know how to effectively organize. And that's how this will come up.
Alray Nelson on why the Coalition for Navajo Equality will continue to push for marriage equality
This call for an end of discrimination because of the Diné Marriage Act comes from the roots of what family means ... It comes back down to health care choices, your life benefit choices, Navajo child adoption (currently, right now, it says that a Navajo man and woman ... can only adopt in the Navajo nation.)
And lastly, of course, is this idea of having a homesite lease. To have a homesite lease here on Navajo, it's a piece of paper where your community members, your family members acknowledge a union that you both share. It's for you to build a home where you're from. Navajo Nation is always going to be a home for LGBTQ individuals, we have always had a role here in a Navajo society and we are not going nowhere.
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Ghana Fuel-Price Hike May Boost Inflation to 10%, Standard Says
Ghana's inflation rate in January may reach double digits for the first time in eight months after fuel prices were increased 30 percent, leading to higher costs for transport and gasoline, said Standard Bank Group Ltd.
The rate may rise to 10.2 percent in January, said Stephen Bailey-Smith, London-based emerging markets strategist. Inflation was 9.1 percent in November, the most recent data available. December prices will be released by the Ghana Statistical Service Jan. 12.
High costs of fuel imports helped push Ghanaian inflation to a five-year high of 20.7 percent in June 2009. The rate has fallen steadily since then and has remained below 10 percent since June 2010.
"By its nature, an increase in the ex-pump price of crude affects the prices of all other goods and services, basically because of the push it gives to transportation cost," Bailey-Smith said in a phone interview yesterday.
The price of premium gasoline was increased to 1.52 cedis ($1.02) a liter (0.26 gallons) from 1.17 cedis, according to an e-mail from the state-controlled National Petroleum Authority, which regulates the distribution of fuel in the West African nation.
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union increased fares by 18 percent after the price hike, Alhaji Tetteh, national chaiarman, said by phone yesterday.
Easing Pressure
The fuel-price increase, the first in 14 months, will ease pressure on spending by the government, which had covered the cost of rising international oil prices, said Sampson Akligoh, an economic analyst at Accra-based Databank Group. Consumer prices may rise to 9.6 percent in January in a "one-off jump before inflation stabilizes to its recent trend again," Akligoh said by phone yesterday. He forecast a December rate of about 9 percent.
Crude oil for February delivery declined for the second day, shedding $1.05 or 1.2 percent to $88.33 per barrel by 11:23 a.m. in London. The commodity traded at $77 per barrel on Oct. 30, 2009, a day before Ghana's last fuel price increase, when it was raised 5 percent.
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Hey guys, I've had a modded 'Box since they came out and love it, but now I have to get my hands on Halo3 and COD4 ASAP.
Have a couple of questions. I only want the new, un-fuct system. (Falcon?) Are there any known lot #'s or date codes to look for? I assume this info is still accessible from a cutout in the box or something like the first one. Are the added fan coolers still a good idea?
Is it possible to flash the new systems? Is there a particular drive to look for?
I have been using Xlink Kai for years and love it, but there doesn't seem to be any 360 users there...what tunneling program are 360 guys using? It can't be XBL can it?
I plan on running optical audio and component video @ 1080i, (ultimately VGA, but I have a component to VGA adapter if MS doesn't offer it for the 360) should I get a premium system with some sort of advanced AV pack or what? I know there is an HDMI system too, but don't understand what the difference is.
Are the wireless remotes rechargeable or do they just take batteries?
Thanks guys!!!
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Looking in my 404 error logs I see a lot of failures to access:
Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
Looking in my 404 error logs I see a lot of failures to access:
Any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
I will correct this issue in a next release
Could you please test the new version ? shoudl solve your problem
I hope
Sorry I didn't get on this right away. I just tried and when I click what should be a zooming image image-zoom is not showing the image but instead I am getting a new tab in the browser opening with the image. I have Image-Zoom 1.6.6 installed on WP 3.5.2. I have not upgraded to 3.6 yet (waiting for bugs to settle).
Do you have any page where I can see the issue ?
The images of the ivory pig tusks should be clickable to enlarge. Currently they just open as a new page rather then enlarging like they used to. I have tried other people's web sites that use Image-Zoom and it works there in my browser so I'm sure my browser is not the problem. Image-Zoom used to work for my web site. Today I went through and tried disabling other plugins one at a time and then all to see if there was a conflict but I could not get Image-Zoom to work. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Mmmmm ... What is strange is that the file http://sugarmtnfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/image-zoom/core/load-scripts.php exists but your server says it does not ...
What have you changed ?
I don't know. I get that too but I'm not aware of any change I made that would do that. What should the permissions be?
Cleaning out my .htaccess doesn't fix Image-Access or make that page found.
Turning off all other or even all plugins doesn't fix it.
Other ideas?
I contacted my web host and they fixed the problem with the
file. That appears to have fixed the problem. I just tried it here:
and the magnifying glass shows and the image loads on the dimmed screen.
Thank you.
Wonderful ... do you know what was the problem with your host ?
I've asked them but they are historically very tight lipped about things they fix. Bit of a bother there.
I have a suggestion for a plugin. Where would you like ideas posted?
you shold have a feedback tab in the plugin :)
Thanks, done. Thanks for all the help and the plugin.
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With improved image quality and easier image management, the popularity of IP-based video surveillance solutions is on the rise. Here are 10 network-ready cameras to help keep an eye on things.
Intel Delays New Mobile Chips, ChipsetsFull release of Montevina, Intel's next-gen Centrino notebook platform, is pushed back from early June to early August though some parts will be available on July 14.
Phenom Triple-Core Processors Get To BuildersAMD makes available three new Phenom triple-core desktop processors as part of its packaging of high-definition computing platforms aimed at both enthusiasts and mainstream media users.
Businesses See Silver Lining In IT SpendingSmall businesses were the most optimistic on the economy, with more than 80 percent expecting their companies' business climates to remain steady or improve.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) _ The search continues for the body of a Kansas college student who jumped or fell into the Missouri River to avoid oncoming bridge traffic.
John Paul Forget, 20, of Chesterfield, was involved in a minor accident Dec. 16 on Interstate 70 near the mid-Missouri town of Rocheport. He and his passengers were walking off the bridge when Forget apparently tried to get out of the way of an oncoming tractor trailer.
The Water Patrol has said it's unclear whether Forget leapt directly off the bridge or tried to get up on the sides and slipped. Friends with him at the time have told family members he slipped because of the tight walking space between the edge of the bridge and traffic.
The patrol looked for Forget's body Wednesday and plans to search again next week.
Forget was a sophomore at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., on his way home for the holiday break.
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Awesome! La Merenda is one of, if not the, best restaurants in the city. Would love to see what they do for breakfast.Hide replies
Couldn't agree more. Continued success to Peter and Sonia.
Congratulations to Pete and Sonia! This has been a dream for quite a long time and I know you will make this another successful destination restaurant.
oh boy, another place to pay 9$ for french toast, 2 pcs o bread cut in half.....10$ for an omelette....fake syrup, fake butter, and lousy staff who are too busy visiting w their friends w their cup of coffee only to pay attention to their tables, just like your other place!!!!Hide replies
Really? So, is your preferred cuisine Taco Bell or Burger King? You probably haven't graduated from 8th grade yet since you place the $ sign in the wrong place.....you see junior, the $ goes BEFORE the number....
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i admit i didnt read the rest of the posts after this one, but i just gotta point it out.... that's a fake. lol
edit: LOL RIGHT JUST ABOVE ME....
i can never get my panorama shots that clear.......... very nice.
testing dropbox and macro shot!
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doing it as attachment now :p
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u think its Motorola n their CDMA dev got issues, or just Verizon?
so good support = fast updates?
but RAZR is better than iPhone, and GB is better than iOS, yes?
so he prefers an inferior device with faster...
so u prefer iOS than Gingerbread?
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Canada - Q2 2012.
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mod of .173?
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An old coast dwelling creature with a penchant for collecting things for his wife.
This is one of my favorites!!!
Love the look in his eyes ^^
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i love this one.
I love his expression.
In our folklore, there is a mythical creature who called "Abu Daria" (which literary means father of the sea). This creature lives in the sea and kidnaps children when they get near the coast at night. Obviously this legend was to protect children from drowning. The creature is supposedly a genie who looks like an old geezer with lots of chains to grab children with.
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just wanted to share with this amazing drawing
Oooh, interesting.
This guy is a bit nicer, even if he is a bit grumpy at times.
This guy is a bit nicer, even if he is a bit grumpy at times.
What culture is it from? I'm always interested in other people's mythology.
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