text:
Set up for travel to Tokyo
I have an opportunity to visit Tokyo for a two day visit, I cant decide whether to take my D800 or my easier to handle d7000? Any advice on best set up for the D800 with say 28-300mm for quick trip like this. Probably hand held for the duration. Thanks in advance.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#1. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0dickiederson Nikonian since 09th May 2009Sat 25-May-13 07:41 PM
If you have anything wider in DX I'd say take the D7000 just because it's a bit smaller/lighter/less expensive!
All I took around SE Asia was my D300s, 18-200 and 50 1.8 and I really didn't miss the D700 I had at the time. Looking through LR, most shots were taken below 70mm
I guess it depends what sort of shooting you want to do. I really like the idea of one body with one prime for travel...but then I'd end up throwing all sorts into a bag and never using any of it....
One thing I would highly recommend and that has recently changed my life is a Black Rapid strap...amazing!
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#2. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0walk43 Registered since 07th Feb 2012Sat 25-May-13 07:43 PM
I have visited there many time and actually lived there for about 6 months. Take your D800 and you will need a wide lens. You say you are going to Tokyo for 2 days....well trust me, you can't even see Ginza in 2 days....let alone all the (other integral 'suburbs'). So picking where you want to go and what you want to see will be a must.
IMO ...Tokyo is amazing for it's crowds of people on the main streets...getting those images of super huge intersections and hundreds of people crossing when all the lights turn red will require the widest lens you can get your hands on. Also the side streets (loads of them) are very narrow and crowded.....again wide is a must. An at night.... the same intersections loaded with people in the daytime are still crowded, but every subway station you come up will be like Times Square on steriods!! Again wide is a must to get the impact...trust me on this.
I can go on and on but it depends on what you want to see. If you want to go to a show/play then a fast prime would be good and you could also use it for a sightseeing trip to take tourist shots.
For me....the images of shrines etc. are cool....but the wide pictures of people in mass....and huge intersections lit up like Times Square, and the Tokyo Fish Market (largest in the world) will be the masterpieces and tell the story of your visit better than shrine pictures, Geishas, or Mt. Fuji.
If it were me and I was going back...I would take my D800 and 28-300 as a general walk-around ...with my 18-35 in my pocket for when I am on the streets. That's all you will need.
Good luck. Any questions just ask via email!!
(Nikon D800,V2,Sony HX400V,Lumix ZS40)
"I don't read, I just look at pictures" - Andy Warhol
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#3. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0hujiie Nikonian since 10th Apr 2009Sat 25-May-13 09:11 PM | edited Sat 25-May-13 09:12 PM by hujiie
I agree with Dan. Bring the set up as wide as you can get...
Japan is so packed with people in such small spaces. When I took people shots in houses or restaurants or streets, it needed the wide lens. My most used lenses there were 14-24 on D800e and 50, even though I brought 24-70 and 70-200.
#4. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0ajdooley Nikonian since 25th May 2006Sat 25-May-13 09:45 PM
Having lived in Japan for two years and looking at the assortment of lenses on your profile, I'd take the D800 and the 24-70mm. Japan is indeed crowded and "close." I'd be less concerned there about having my gear pilfered than just about any other place on earth. It has been 25 years since I lived there, but the Japanese then were intrinsically honest. In town, I never locked my car or house. When I moved aboard the Navy base, I locked both. I loved Japan and the Japanese. Enjoy.
Waterloo, IL, USA
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#5. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 4walk43 Registered since 07th Feb 2012Sat 25-May-13 09:56 PM
So many great photo ops in Japan!! I lived there in 2000. Neon lights, cemeteries, the wild section of Tokyo where the young dress WILD, bridges, amusement rides, side streets, inside department stores and groceries, the Geisha section in Kyoto, vertical signage on downtown buildings, sushi conveyors, rice fields, traditional homes. I could go on. Wherever you go take your camera!!
(Nikon D800,V2,Sony HX400V,Lumix ZS40)
"I don't read, I just look at pictures" - Andy Warhol
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#6. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0
As someone who lives in a major tourism destination and working with thousands of visitors every year, I agree, go wide. Visitors always complain of not bringing wide enough lenses and seldom use the telephoto lenses the do bring.
Rent a 24 1.4 or 14-24 2.8 and get a comfortable sling strap for the D800. Photography is a way of life there so you will not feel out of place with a large camera hanging by your side.
St Petersburg Russia
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#7. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 6OldCodger Registered since 15th Oct 2011Sun 26-May-13 10:08 AM
Stan is completely correct about needing wide angle lenses.
I left Yokohama in 1992 though Tokyo is very much the same. A very few wide junctions and a mass of small side streets, interesting signs, masses of people - all very disciplined as to where and who they walk. Crowded trains - that always run on time - do not get stuck in the door ways!
Oh do NOT jay walk against the lights.
There is simply so much to photograph almost all of which will appear quite alien to your eyes unless you have been there before. It is very doubtful that anyone could ever take too many pictures, views and interpretations. Do not hesitate you will regret it once you get home. I do not know if it has changed in anyway since I was there but many of the popular stores used to have garish flags and signs along with sound systems to draw in customers. Video of the sights and sounds will enhance your ability to recall the memorable aspect of your trip.
The train is a great way to get about in Toyko, most station signs were in English and Japanese so it is quite easy to travel point to point, but make sure you use the right line(s). Even the elderly are pretty active. While they are polite their elbows can be quite sharp when they need to get on or off the train! So make room before they move you!
As for a two day visit, whatever you do don't blink while you are there, put simply you will find out afterwards you missed too much during the blink!
I was there for four years but had travel limitations due two children being born in Yokohama. One arrived at about 3/4 term - yes medical care really works well. However, I found no subsequent use for my crash course in specialised medical Japanese language!
#8. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 7Dadorian Nikonian since 17th Jul 2011Mon 27-May-13 03:30 PM
Thanks for all of the responses and advice, wide it is !!! and from the posts it seems I am going to regret having such a short time, hopefully I will find an excuse to go back . Still anguishing over whether to take the D800 or D7000 though, got some nice images with the d800 over the weekend hand held with Zeiss 50mm manual focus, and its hand held I am usually scared of with the D800.The final test of course will be whether or not I have the courage to post a few of my pictures when I get back. Thanks again guys. Ian
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#9. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 8dhle Nikonian since 22nd Jun 2006Wed 29-May-13 12:21 PM
Hello Ian,
I have learned that lighten up the gear is the best choice for travel (especially with family). Seem like the D800 with 28-300mm is the best option. It is light, wide range, and VR.
I did not buy the 24-300mm VR due to "so so" review but it is going to be my main travel lens when I purchase it next month.
I just took a short weekend trip to Bangkok (from Singapore) with my D800 and the Nikon trinity. I mainly used the 24-70 mm. Took 10 pictures with the 70-200mm, and did not even mount the 14-24mm. The D800 with "so called" pro lenses yield better pictures than my beat-up D300s/18-250mm Tamron (which I accidentally dropped at Tokyo train station 2 years ago) but I do not see a huge difference. Frankly I am wondering if I should bring my light and robust D300 instead.
I toured India's triangle last March. They do not allow tripod and roller bag into the temples and Mosses so it was tortured to bring such heavy camera equipment. My HDR picture did pick up minor blur when I handheld (carefully) my 24-70mm.
I go to Japan 3-4 times per year for business and Tokyo is still one of my favorite cities. If you have time try to visit Hakone National Park, which is about an hour train from Tokyo (see my album). It would be funny to come across a Nikonian when I visit Japan next week.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
#10. "RE: Set up for travel to Tokyo" | In response to Reply # 0
I can't speak to kit for shooting in Tokyo but last year I wanted to travel light (one body, one lens) when I went to New Orleans. I took my D800 with a 28-300. My shooting included city architecture, street photography, plantations on the Mississippi River, and wildlife on a bayou tour.
The 28-300 might have not given me the shots that several lenses, each for the specific subject, would have given, but the tremendous focal length range make it a tremendously versatile lens that won't disappoint.
Hope you have a good trip to Tokyo. I'm making my first trip to southern Africa in September.
Best regards,
"Nothing can be recognized without light and shade. It is only through the eye, the window of the soul, that we can truly understand the complex workings of nature." - Leonardo da Vinci
Visit my Nikonians gallery.
Visit my Nikonians gallery.


text:
Quick Specs
Total Downloads:926
Date Added:Mar. 14, 2003
Price:Free to try (30-day trial); $10.00 to buy
File Size:345.2KB
Downloads Last Week:1
From Infovibe: ComBonus enhances combo boxes by expanding the size of the drop down area to utilize all available screen space. Say goodbye to the frustration of only being able to see 3 or 4 entries at a time, having to use a cumbersome scrollbar to see the remaining entries, while the rest of your screen space goes to waste. The expanded height of the drop down area allows more entries to be displayed on the screen at the same time. This reduces the time required to locate a desired entry. The expanded width allows the contents of each entry to be viewed in full, eliminating the clipping that can occur when the combo box is too narrow. Without ComBonus, it can be impossible to differentiate one entry from another if the two entries begin with the same text. ComBonus requires no work to use. Simply install it and forget about it. ComBonus enhances your combo boxes automatically.
read more +
see all reviews +
read more +
More Products to Consider
- Clean up junk files and invalid Registry entries.Speed up a slow PC, shorten startup time, and protect online...Take full control over RAR and ZIP archives, along with unpa...Move, resize, copy, explore, and recover hard disk drive par...
- Take full control over RAR and ZIP archives, along with unpa...Update PC drivers automatically using cloud technology.Search and find required files on PC.Clean up your PC and improve system performance.
- Recover files deleted from your Windows computer.Download, update, and back up all your Windows drivers and i...Fix, speed up, maintain, and protect your PC.List out your PC's components and solve the related problems...
- Create entries in T account format and display entries on fi...Copy folder contents with ease.Find and fix incorrect or obsolete information in the Window...Manage files and directories on your PC with ease.
- Simplify the tracking of your nutritional intake.Zip and unzip files, protect them by encryption, connect to ...View, manage, and archive your files and folders.Manage your freezers content.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Patent Absurdities
The last word in the first draft of Thomas Jefferson's most famous sentence was "property", not "happiness" Perhaps that's because Jefferson always had a problem stretching the meaning of "property" over things that are not material—especially the good ideas we call inventions.
An inventor himself, Jefferson administered the country's first patent law in 1790. Historian David F. Noble says Jefferson and his colleagues applied the law "under very strict standards, and relatively few patents were issued." Jefferson explained some of his concerns in a letter to Isaac McPherson in 1813. The letter concerned a disputed invention by Oliver Evans, called a "hopper-boy".
After detailing the debts Mr. Evans' invention owed to past inventors ranging from Archimedes to a Virginia farmer, Jefferson wearily wrote, "The hopper-boy is a useful machine, and so far as I know, original." Then he launched into a digression that has haunted patent law ever since, and it also described principles of creation that would not see full expression until they produced the Internet nearly two hundred years later:
It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea.
The moment [an idea] is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
Coming early in the Industrial Age, this was not a catchy idea. The truth of it may have been self-evident to Jefferson, but it was lost on nearly everyone else. The material nature of property was beyond dispute. Even Karl Marx, that great enemy of private property, was a devout materialist who made a big deal about who ought to own what.
Now Jefferson's second revolution is underway. While the first one overthrew a colonial government, the second one overthrows an industrial economy. While both sought to create ideal conditions for free expression, the second one does it by creating a whole new world—one based on the principles Jefferson described in his letter to McPherson.
By the terms of these principles, this revolution is not about e-commerce, dot-com startups or money lavished like free cocaine on every zero billion-dollar entrepreneurial impulse that connects with the venture capital syndicate on Sand Hill Road. It's about the kindlings of wealth those venture dollars ignite: ideas which catch and spread across the globe, illuminating everything and darkening nothing—and inventions which put those ideas to work.
This new world, the Internet, is a work of nature—our nature, as social and original beings. It is, without a doubt, the best thing we have ever done for ourselves. It connects across every space that divides us and gives us efficient new ways to meet, talk, teach, learn, gossip, argue, tell stories and do business.
As a natural habitat for business, the Internet is utopia. For proof, just step back twenty years and take a look. The threshold of enterprise is approximately zero. New business concepts catch and spread at the speed of gossip. The average distance from idea to wealth is reduced from decades to months, millionaires are minted by the minute and billionaires by the day. Vast quantities of fresh money are lavished on every credible ambition, with instructions to set bonfires with it in the midst of the marketplace, without collateral and with minimal personal risk. New companies with negligible revenues are valued entirely for their promise without regard for material intrinsics, turning Wall Street into a casino where the house hardly stands a chance (and in fact does not exist).
In the midst of it all, unprecedented sums of work get done.
The great irony here is that this utopia was not built like an empire, or by people who were, in Walt Whitman's words, "consumed with the mania of owning things". It was built like an Amish barn by hackers who made it because they needed it, and it sure wasn't going to come from the old software industry. The result was a second world—one made with code rather than matter—that embodied and expressed the long-overlooked virtues of the first:
No one owns it.
Everyone can use it.
Anyone can improve it.
These principles are so basic, they undermine all efforts to deny them.
The gears of the old patent system can't get a purchase on this new world, even though the Supreme Court decided in 1998 that software and "business methods" were patentable. It has been amazing to watch the patent stampede that followed this wacky decision. Thousands of patents were filed to stake out claims in empty space. Now that the first of these patents are getting approved, we're starting to see lawsuits. The Amazon and Priceline suits are only the most familiar ones. There will be many more.
There will also be much garment-rending and teeth-gnashing over the "threats" these patents and lawsuits pose to our new "World of Code". These new patents are patently outrageous, but they are also futile. Nature will take care of business.
Markets are conversations. You have to talk with them. If you try to command and control them the old-fashioned way, they'll get bored and move on. The rules of Darwin still apply: if you want to evolve, you have to adapt or else you die.
Companies that choose to evolve will need to adapt to the gift culture that produced our utopia. "Gift cultures," Eric Raymond says, "are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance.... In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control but by what you give away." The italics are his. This gift is ours.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal
Trending Topics
|Happy Birthday Linux
|Aug 25, 2016
|ContainerCon Vendors Offer Flexible Solutions for Managing All Your New Micro-VMs
|Aug 24, 2016
|Updates from LinuxCon and ContainerCon, Toronto, August 2016
|Aug 23, 2016
|NVMe over Fabrics Support Coming to the Linux 4.8 Kernel
|Aug 22, 2016
|What I Wish I'd Known When I Was an Embedded Linux Newbie
|Aug 18, 2016
|Aug 17, 2016
- Happy Birthday Linux
- Download "Linux Management with Red Hat Satellite: Measuring Business Impact and ROI"
- ContainerCon Vendors Offer Flexible Solutions for Managing All Your New Micro-VMs
- What I Wish I'd Known When I Was an Embedded Linux Newbie
- Updates from LinuxCon and ContainerCon, Toronto, August 2016
- New Version of GParted
- NVMe over Fabrics Support Coming to the Linux 4.8 Kernel
- All about printf
- Tor 0.2.8.6 Is Released
- Blender for Visual Effects
Geek Guides
With all the industry talk about the benefits of Linux on Power and all the performance advantages offered by its open architecture, you may be considering a move in that direction. If you are thinking about analytics, big data and cloud computing, you would be right to evaluate Power. The idea of using commodity x86 hardware and replacing it every three years is an outdated cost model. It doesn't consider the total cost of ownership, and it doesn't consider the advantage of real processing power, high-availability and multithreading like a demon.
This ebook takes a look at some of the practical applications of the Linux on Power platform and ways you might bring all the performance power of this open architecture to bear for your organization. There are no smoke and mirrors here—just hard, cold, empirical evidence provided by independent sources. I also consider some innovative ways Linux on Power will be used in the future.Get the Guide


text:
Triarchy introduces
Atelier Denim
Handcrafted textiles come together with vintage denim to create an exclusive collection of relaxed luxury.
Triarchy Atelier Denim.
Runway Show March 17th.
This is the story of two brothers and a sister.
TRIARCHY is about remembering to enjoy the journey of life in comfort and style…
…One leg at a time.Shop MenShop Women


text:
SINGAPORE — The high-flying world of travel retail has spotted the future over the horizon, and it is the Chinese consumer.
For the second year, the Tax Free World Association commissioned a study by ACNielsen on the shopping habits of Chinese travelers. There also was an analysis on Indian consumers. Both studies stoked an already buoyant mood at TFWA's Asia-Pacific exhibition here in May.
"The future is bright," said Alain Cadet, operational marketing director of travel retailing for Christian Dior Parfums. "If you look at the prospects of the demographics traveling in Asia, especially the Chinese, the potential is great."
"This is the fastest-growing region in the world [for travel retail]," said Andrew Ford, chief executive officer of TFWA. "One main reason is an increase in travel: While the global increase is about 4.7 percent, in Asia it's above 8 percent annually. There are also rising income levels."
Chinese travelers are estimated to number 36 million this year, and this figure is expected to jump to more than 100 million by 2020, according to the World Tourism Organization. Already, customers are spending an average of $928 per person when they travel, and nearly half are buying cosmetics products, according to the ACNielsen study.
"China will be [a significant demographic], just from the sheer number of travelers," said Art Miller, managing director for global travel retail and Asia-Pacific distributor markets for Revlon. "It's just a matter of time — whether it's the short or medium term, but certainly not the long term — before the primary force in travelers throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and maybe further abroad than that, will be the Chinese consumer."
Beauty exhibitors agreed that Asia's duty free and domestic markets are the industry's main focus at the moment. According to the TFWA, consumers spent an estimated $7.56 billion on perfumes and cosmetics in duty free and travel retail outlets worldwide in 2005, and shoppers in Asia and Oceania accounted for $2.2 billion of those sales. In addition, new travel retail prospects — including an airport in Bangkok scheduled to open later this year, and airport developments in hubs like Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing and New Delhi that are now in the works — have made the region ripe for progress.
This story first appeared in the August 4, 2006 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
"There are a lot of new opportunities here," said Markus Stauss, operational marketing director for travel retail worldwide at Coty Prestige, which holds the fragrance licenses for brands like Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Vera Wang. "Big changes are happening all the time. Europe is a strong market and it does very well, but there's not an increase in business like there is here."
Coty Prestige hopes to bank on this growth with the fragrance Calvin Klein Euphoria Blossom, which just recently rolled out. Euphoria Blossom — a lighter, more floral fragrance than Calvin Klein Euphoria — was developed to suit Asian tastes. The company is also focusing on increasing the presence of its Lancaster skin care line in Asia, which it is building in domestic markets like Singapore, Thailand and China.
The airports are also offering brands more retail opportunities, starting with Singapore's own Changi International, which saw nearly $630 million in retail and dining sales last year. "The way they do the airports here is so different from Europe, and they're doing an excellent job," said Frédéric Garcia-Pelayo, director general for Inter Parfums, which holds the licenses for brands like Burberry and Lanvin. "There's a lot to be learned from this region. They're very retail- and service-minded, which is something that can be missing in other parts of the world. Everything is done here to keep the consumer happy."
Coty Prestige and Inter Parfums are not the only fragrance-focused companies looking to make inroads in the Asia-Pacific market. Traditionally, fragrance sales have been much weaker in Asia than the rest of the world, but brand executives say that is beginning to change.
"Fragrances are progressing a lot in Asia," said Luc Delfosse, vice president of international sales for Selective Beauty, whose scents include Agent Provocateur and Sonia Rykiel. "There's a big difference between even a few years ago and today. One main reason is gifting. People might not be using large amounts of fragrances like in the Middle East, but more and more they are buying fragrances as gifts, particularly if it's a prestigious name."
Fragrance companies said that, in general, Asian consumers prefer lighter floral or fruit scents to the heavy, musky smells that are popular elsewhere.
The importance of the Asian market has led many beauty companies to develop more products with those consumer preferences in mind. YSL Beauté is launching its first Asia-focused fragrance this fall. The fragrance will appear in domestic markets in September and in travel retail outlets in October, according to a YSL spokesman. Ferragamo Parfums, riding the success of its Asia-focused fragrance Incanto Dream, which launched last year, and this year's Incanto Charms, considers Asia a key market for its new signature fragrance, F by Ferragamo, which will make its debut in September.
"Our involvement and investment here are absolutely increasing," said Paolo Bevegni, export director for the company. "In particular, we are going to do a very big advertising investment in Asia for the first time this year. That will include, for example, TV advertising in Korea for the first time for the launch of F by Ferragamo."
Christian Dior Parfums expects its travel retail exclusive fragrance, Forever and Ever Dior, which launched last month, to be very popular in Asia. The brand is also introducing Asia-specific products, including a lipstick line called DiorAddict Ultra-Shine 2, which also made its debut in July. The lipstick is the first product created in collaboration with the company's Asia Innovation Center, a research and development unit that opened last year in Tokyo, according to Cadet.
Claudio Tenan of Euroitalia, which holds the fragrance licenses for Versace and Moschino, said he is also concentrating on Asia this year. The company is focusing on two Versace scents: the new Versace Man Eau Fraiche, and Versace Bright Crystal, which will roll out in the region in September.
"When we took over the Versace brand a year ago, [Asia-Pacific] was one of the key weaknesses of the brand," said Tenan. "There is a huge focus on Versace in Asia this year for us. We are aiming to more than double the business in Asia compared to last year."
"China is one of our biggest focus areas this year," said Jessie Teng, assistant marketing manager for Shiseido. "The past two years have involved a lot of planning and development for us, and we're expecting to move into travel retail in the country very soon. There are so many more Chinese travelers than ever before."
As competition increases, companies say a strong domestic presence in China is necessary to get the attention of the Chinese when they're abroad. And even those who are still developing a presence in the market are finding that Chinese travelers are rising on their radar.
"We do have a domestic presence in China, but it's not fully developed," said Caroline Cheung, president of Escale, the worldwide duty free agent for Jurlique. "With that in mind, it's mind-boggling how quickly the Chinese are learning about the brand and the products. In the late Eighties and early Nineties, we'd see Japanese tourists coming to shop with a long list of products to buy; now we're having that same experience with Chinese consumers."
Confirmed Paul Tager, travel retail manager for Europe and Asia for Kenzo Parfums: "Wherever the Chinese are going, we're seeing growth."
But some brands said their Asia focus remains on developing markets like Korea, Thailand, India and Taiwan. One reason is that China's high product registration costs and lengthy process still make it difficult for brands, particularly smaller ones, to consider entering the market.
Smashbox Cosmetics, which has expanded to nearly 50 new countries in four years, is one company that is skipping China for the moment. Instead, Smashbox is looking to finalize distribution deals for Thailand and Taiwan, with Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore coming up next. The company is also growing its presence in markets like Korea and Hong Kong, where the first Smashbox stand-alone store worldwide opened in the fall.
One major new market for the company this year could be India, where it sees more immediate potential than China. "Personally, we don't believe that the spending power to buy products is there yet [in China]," said Norm Barsky, vice president, international, for Smashbox. "All the big companies are there and the stores are beautiful, but they're also empty. We think the money it would cost to register in China could be better used to develop our products, image and awareness where we can be sold right away, and I believe that India is one of those places."
To be sure, India holds a lot of potential for beauty companies. Its burgeoning middle class now numbers about 300 million, and Indian international travelers amount to about seven million and are expected to grow by 10 percent per year, according to industry reports.
The TFWA study by ACNielsen found that Indian travelers spend an average of $900 per trip, with 84 percent buying fragrances and 46 percent buying cosmetics.


text: BOISE – It was a tight race for the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League (PNCLL) championship and the results of the conference awards illustrates that fact. The conference accolades were revealed this week.Oregon State, which won the PNCLL title for the second consecutive year and earned a bid to the 2016 MCLA National Championship powered by Under Armour, placed three players on the 14-man first team All-PNCLL squad. In addition, senior goalie Nick Widner was named the Defensive Play


text:
Blood Bag Heart. Donate Concept.
Credit: BlackJack3D
Creative #: 143568107
Licence type: Royalty-freeRoyalty-free pricing is based solely on the size of the product you need, not the specific use. You don't have to pay any additional royalties on a use-by-use basis. Once you license a royalty-free product, you may use it multiple times for multiple projects without paying additional fees. (Pornographic, defamatory, libellous or otherwise unlawful use of any image is, of course, prohibited.)
Collection: Vetta
Release info: No release required
- A Helping Hand,
- Backgrounds,
- Blood,
- Blood Bag,
- Blood Bank,
- Blood Donation,
- Built Structure,
- Carrying,
- Close-Up,
- Colours,
- Concepts,
- Concepts & Topics,
- Conceptual Symbol,
- Container,
- Digitally Generated Image,
- Donation Box,
- Electric Light,
- Emergencies and Disasters,
- Equipment,
- Event,
- Geometric,
- Healthcare And Medicine,
- Heart Shape,
- Hospital,
- Human Body Part,
- Human Body Substance,
- Ideas,
- Illustration,
- Inspiration,
- Internal System,
- Lighting Equipment,
- Man Made Object,
- Material,
- Medical Building,
- Medical Equipment,
- Medical Procedure,
- Medical Supplies,
- Medical Symbol,
- Medicine,
- Moving Activity,
- Organised Group,
- Physical Description,
- Plastic,
- Public Building,
- Red,
- Red Cross,
- Rescue Services Occupation,
- Sayings,
- Shape,
- Shiny,
- Spotlight,
- Surgical Equipment,
- Symbol,
- The Human Body,
- Three Dimensional,
- Touching,
- Vertical,
Same seriesView all
Similar imagesView all
Blood Bag Heart Donate Concept Stock IllustrationA Helping Hand,Backgrounds,Blood,Blood Bag,Blood Bank,Blood Donation,Built Structure,Carrying,Close-Up,Colours,Concepts,Concepts & Topics,Conceptual Symbol,Container,Digitally Generated Image,Donation Box,Electric Light,Emergencies and Disasters,Equipment,Event,Geometric,Healthcare And Medicine,Heart Shape,Hospital,Human Body Part,Human Body Substance,Ideas,Illustration,Inspiration,Internal System,Lighting Equipment,Man Made Object,Material,Medical Building,Medical Equipment,Medical Procedure,Medical Supplies,Medical Symbol,Medicine,Moving Activity,Organised Group,Physical Description,Plastic,Public Building,Red,Red Cross,Rescue Services Occupation,Sayings,Shape,Shiny,Spotlight,Surgical Equipment,Symbol,The Human Body,Three Dimensional,Touching,VerticalPhotographer BlackJack3DCollection: Vetta Evgeny TerentevA blood bag looks like heart on the wall. Include a clipping path. 3D render.


text:
Discussion in 'Purchasing DVC' started by chrisd596, Feb 25, 2003.
Any updated info on the disney credit card?
What number can you use to register?
Log in or Sign up to hide this adverts.
You may want to take a look at this: Disney Visa
Here is website to apply for new Disney Rewards visa card
Separate names with a comma.


text:
Your Day Just Got Better: Tutu-Wearing Hedgehog Does 'Harlem Shake'Joslyn Gray
I don't exactly know what's going on here, but it's awesome. I think it's a hedgehog, wearing a tutu, doing a little dance to "Harlem Shake" by Baauer.
I also think it made my day infinitely better. Of course, I spent the morning trying on pants, and pretty much everything is an improvement after that.
There's this whole bizarre viral video scene related to "Harlem Shake," but please let me save you some time by telling you that this is by far the least disturbing of the bunch.
Enjoy. Hope it brightens your day, too.
(via: Buzzfeed)
Read more from Joslyn on Babble and at her blog, stark. raving. mad. mommy. You can also follow Joslyn on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Recent posts:
On Milestones, Deadlines, and Public Bathrooms: There Is No "Right Age" for Anything
Genuine Role Models: 16 Current NFL Players and Coaches Our Kids Can Look Up To
Dog Fashion Now Available in Husky Sizes: 16 Looks for Larger Breeds
My Interview With a Dog: Insanely Adorable Dachshund Is a Celebrity in His Own Mind


text:
- Report: #138025
Report - Rebuttal - Arbitrate
Complaint Review: PUBLIC STORAGE
PUBLIC STORAGE1107 Goethals Road North STATEN ISLAND, New York U.S.A.
PUBLIC STORAGE RIPOFF, RIPOFF,RIPOFF THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY STATEN ISLAND New York
*Consumer Comment: Boy, am I lucky!
*Consumer Comment: Same thing happened to me CA
*Consumer Comment: Change of Address
Ripoff Report
About you?
Ripoff Report
A business' first
line of defense
on the Internet.
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
Does your business have a bad reputation?
Fix it the right way.
Corporate Advocacy Program™
Never once mentioned to us that our things would be auctioned and sold, I mean everything that we owned. I could not express how shocked and hurt and upset I was. I was at a loss for words, all of my personal belongings and personal items were just violated. Instances like these are reasons why identity theft occurr.
When we spoke to the manager regarding the situation she stated that she tried to contact us and could not reach us. If I can recall when my fiance spoke to the same person via telephone he gave all of our new out of state contacts and in state contacts should something happens and we needed to be contacted. Apparently the manager did not make notes of the new information on the account, and for that lazy irresponsible act everything that my fiance and I owed are gone. All memories of my family my father who is dear to me his family airlooms, are all gone. These people did not try to contact us at all they just sold our stuff and and didn't think twice about it.
Public storage customer service was very rude to us, so was the management office. We called them on several occassions, no response. RIPOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If someone comes in contact with the same problem or have come in contact already please contact Us. We are looking a lawyer to handle our case, to help us recoupe some of our things, right now we have nothing, i mean nothing .
COLLEGE PARK, Georgia
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 04/08/2005 07:33 AM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/PUBLIC-STORAGE/STATEN-ISLAND-New-York-10303/PUBLIC-STORAGE-RIPOFF-RIPOFFRIPOFF-THATS-ALL-I-HAVE-TO-SAY-STATEN-ISLAND-New-York-138025. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report.
Click Here to read other Ripoff Reports on PUBLIC STORAGE
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:Search Tips
In order to assure the best results in your search:
- Keep the name short & simple, and try different variations of the name.
- Do not include ".com", "S", "Inc.", "Corp", or "LLC" at the end of the Company name.
- Use only the first/main part of a name to get best results.
- Only search one name at a time if Company has many AKA's.
#1 Consumer Comment
Boy, am I lucky!
AUTHOR: Bob - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, April 09, 2007POSTED: Monday, April 09, 2007
The trip to and from the house was largely uneventful. The trouble arose when I arrived at the facility. The office had just closed, and I had no entry code. I called the 800 number in the folder I received, and the call jockey asked me about a card in the folder. You guessed it--not there! Am guessing that girl behind the computer didn't know or didn't care.
Anyhow, a family that was there let me in, and I drove around to my assigned unit, when lightning struck twice. This time, a huge PS lock was on the door, and there I was with no keys to it. What's more, the lock had an incuse red-painted warning stating that breaking the lock constituted burglary.
Darkness was falling fast on this facility, and I was deciding that this was a bunch of malarkey. I didn't have an exit code to leave, either. Fortunately, I was able to leave after another customer came in. I had to store the truck overnight at my place. The next morning, I went to a competing storage facility with which I was already doing business. I unloaded the stuff and swept out the truck per PS rules.
When I returned the truck, I didn't raise a stink. I just dropped off the keys and left. I was charged for having the truck overnight, and yes, I am miffed at that. Nevertheless, am now reading these ROR horror stories, and I am now very glad that I didn't put my stuff in that unit.
Long story short, I am not pleased with my PS experience and will NOT return. Public Storage is a joke.
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
#2 Consumer Comment
Same thing happened to me CA
AUTHOR: Scott - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, August 24, 2006POSTED: Thursday, August 24, 2006
Join with me and let's make them pay for what they did.
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
#3 Consumer Comment
Change of Address
AUTHOR: Larry - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, August 08, 2005POSTED: Monday, August 08, 2005
Arizona requires that I send notices of default and/or lien sales to the tenant's last known address. That is either the address they gave me when they filled out the rental agreement or the new address they gave me in writing. The rental agreement clearly states that a change of address must be in writing.
Notifying the storage company (or any other business) of a change of address over the phone is risky if the contract requires a written notice.
What if someone calls me and says he is one of my tenants but is really an ex-spouse out to cause trouble? What if a tenant calls and says his new address is 123 Hobson and I hear 123 Dobson? If I change a tenant's mailing address based on a phone call I have no proof that he requested the change and no way to verify that I entered it into my records correctly. I would incur much more liability changing an address based on a phone call than I would by sending notices to an old address.
The nature of this business is that many of our tenants are moving from one place to another and the address that they gave us when they moved in is not the same one they now receive mail at. But how am I to know? Even when I know that a tenant is living at some place other than the address I have in my records I cannot change their mailing address without their written notice. I have tenants who live a block away who want all their mail sent to a PO Box in South Dakota 1500 miles away. It is the tenant's job to tell me where he wants his mail sent; it is not my place to make that decision for the tenant.
When you called Public Storage and gave them your new address, they should have told you that you needed to put it in writing. Regardless of whether they told you or not, you are going to have a major problem trying to prove that you called them, that you gave them notice of a new address, that they understood that it was a change of address, and that they accepted your telephonic notice in lieu of a written notice if a written notice was required.
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.


text:
Sought by Authorities
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 1:18 a.m.
NAME: Chad Anthony Henry.
CHARGES: 19 counts issuing worthless checks.
AGENCY: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office.
LAST ADDRESS: 623 Marya St., Chauvin.
STILL AT LARGE (15): Ann Prattini, Byron Charles Shelby, Clarence Scott III, Harold George Payne Jr., Isaias Alvarran Escobar, James Earl Samuels, Jamie Howard Davis, Javier Aguilar Macedo, Joseph Howard, Matthew Basin Mitchell, Randy Joseph Gorley, Rashawd James Ramsey, Ronald Joseph, Rosella Angela Foret, Torrance Ronell Williams.
If you have information, call the Sheriff's Office Detective Bureau at 876-2500.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


text:
I have a rustik theme and I can't find the page.php file. I want to duplicate it as well. How can I do that?
I have a rustik theme and I can't find the page.php file. I want to duplicate it as well. How can I do that?
You'll need to ask the developers of your theme about this:
We don't have access to commercial themes - one reason they aren't supported on these forums.
@Four La: Are you having the same issue I am having with Rustik theme and page.php? My SHOP page is showing the Products Archive page instead of the Products page (page.php)? I cannot figure out how to get that page to display properly. It was displaying the page.php file but changed overnight and now only loads the archive.php file, which puts a description above the actual product thumbnails and ruins the SHOP page.
If anyone has any ideas, please share. Mojo Themes and https://smashed.desk.com/ are terrible at getting back to people. I've been in contact with them a couple times, the rest of the problems/questions, they have ignored. It's super frustrating!!
This topic has been closed to new replies.


text:
Angela Brav – Chief Executive, Europe
Joined the Group: 1988
Skills and Experience: Angela has over 24 years' experience in the hospitality industry, including hotel operations, franchise relations and technology solutions. She has held various senior roles in the Group's US and European businesses prior to becoming Chief Operating Officer, North America. She was appointed Chief Executive, Europe in August 2011.
Key Responsibilities: These include business development and performance of all the hotel brands and properties in Europe.
Michael Cockcroft – Chief Financial Officer, Europe
Michael has been with IHG for 11 years, most recently as Vice President Corporate Finance & Business Development, AMEA. Based in Singapore, he was responsible for providing analysis to inform decision making on hotel development activity.
Robert Shepherd – Chief Development Officer, Europe
Robert leads development for all of IHG's brands in Europe for franchised and managed hotels, overseeing deals through the design and pre-opening phases until the hotels open into the IHG system.
Matt Luscombe – Chief Commercial Officer, Europe
As Chief Commercial Officer, Matt is responsible for developing and delivering IHG's brand and commercial strategies in Europe, driving performance through leadership of the sales, brand marketing, revenue management, commercial marketing and loyalty functions in the region.
Stephen McCall – Chief Operating Officer, Europe
As Chief Operating Officer, Stephen McCall is responsible for operations and performance support across IHG's managed and franchised hotels in Europe. He is also responsible for our European Food & Beverage strategy, acts as Chair of IHG's Global Operations Council and is a Board member of the British Hospitality Association. Stephen also sits on the UK Tourism Industry Council.
Nigel Stocks - Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Europe & AMEA
Nigel is Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Europe & AMEA, responsible for the provision of legal advice, the compliance function and development and transaction support across these regions. He is a member of the Business Reputation and Responsibility leadership team.
Craig Preston - Vice President, Technology Operations, Europe
Craig Preston is Vice President, Technology Operations Europe. Craig is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of technology solutions, projects and infrastructure services throughout Europe. He also oversees Europe's property rollout conversions and manages the relationships with our local IT and owner groups and the partnership with IHG's regional teams.
Tom Andrews – Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Europe
Tom is Vice President, Strategy & Planning. He joined IHG in 2012 as Director of Global Strategy & Corporate Development, before being appointed Vice President in October 2014.
Elaine Wilson – Vice President, HR Europe & Group Functions
Elaine was appointed to the European Regional Operating Committee in April 2016. Her remit covers leadership of all aspects of IHG's HR strategy and talent management.
Emma Corcoran – Vice President, Corporate Affairs Europe
Emma is responsible for building IHG's internal and external reputation, strengthening the profile of IHG and our portfolio of hotel brands across Europe. Emma oversees corporate, brand, internal and owner communications.
Last updated 19 May 2015
*IHG® Rewards Club not applicable to Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants; to be included at a future date.


text:
Great plugin! Thanks for creating.
I was wondering if it would be possible to integrate into the sidebar with Varnish cache whilst using ESI? - Thus to correctly rotate ad on every page whilst maintaining page cache on other elements of the site.
I've found a pretty helpful guide but not sure exactly how to go about doing this: http://timbroder.com/2012/12/getting-started-with-varnish-edge-side-includes-and-wordpress.html
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


text:
Skip to Top Navigation
Skip to Left Navigation
Skip to Main Content
Skip to Main Content
Contact Us
BOHSI Home
About BOHSI
BOHSI History
BOHSI Members
BOHSI Staff
Our Sponsors
News & Events
Upcoming Events
Summer 2015 Newsletter
30th Anniversary
Meeting Archive
Our Work
Current Projects
BOHSI Reports
Report Briefs
BOHSI Brochure
Newsletter Archive
Work With Us
Our Study Process
Study Process Brochure
Getting to Know the Committee Process
Overview for Sponsors
Guide for Study Sponsors
Health, Safety, and Performance
Human Centered Design
Industry and Workforce Staffing and Systems
Military and Government
Research and Evaluation
Featured BOHSI Reports
Review of Disability and Rehabilitation Research: NIDRR Grantmaking Processes and Products
Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors
The Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue
Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions: Toward a Unified Social Framework
Human-Systems Integration in the System Development Process: A New Look
Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace: Low Back and Upper Extremities
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
500 Fifth Street, NW | Washington, DC 20001 | T. 202.334.2000
Copyright © 2016. National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
BOHSI Home
BOSE Home
BOTA Home
CPOP Home
CNSTAT Home
CLAJ Home
BBCSS Home
BECS Home
BCYF Home
TAC Home
About BOSE
BOSE Mission
BOSE Members
BOSE Staff
Our Sponsors
Visiting our Buildings
About BBCSS
BBCSS History
BBCSS Members
BBCSS Staff
Our Sponsors
About CPOP
CPOP Mission
CPOP Members
CPOP Staff
Advisory Committee
DBASSE Staff
DBASSE Brochure
Visiting our Buildings
About CNSTAT
CNSTAT Members
CNSTAT Staff
CNSTAT Mission
Other Sites of Interest
About BOTA
BOTA Mission
BOTA Members
BOTA Staff
Visiting Our Buildings
About CLAJ
CLAJ Mission
CLAJ Members
CLAJ Staff
Other Sites of Interest
About BECS
BECS in Brief
BECS Brochure
BECS Statement of Task
BECS Members
BECS Staff
About BOHSI
BOHSI History
BOHSI Members
BOHSI Staff
Our Sponsors
About BCYF
BCYF History
BCYF Graphic Illustration
BCYF Members
BCYF Staff
About TAC
TAC History
TAC Members
TAC Associates by State
TAC Staff
News & Events
Upcoming Events
Summer 2015 Newsletter
30th Anniversary
Meeting Archive
News and Events
Impact News
Projects in Development
Current Activities
New Project Announcement
Upcoming Events


text:
I installed the Theme-Switcher plugin and it's very nice -- thank you.
My WP installation is the "front door" to a bigger site. The theme switcher, of course, only works for the WP portion of it.
The stylesheets of all of my themes are compatible with the rest of the site -- but I don't know how to make the theme/stylesheet selection global?
I know a little PHP, but zilch about cookies. Is there some way I can read the WP theme-switcher cookie so the rest of the site can use the same stylesheet as the one in the selected theme?
Thanks for any help. :-)


text:
A figure of a man made of iron and fiberglass by British sculptor Antony Gormley is seen on a rooftop of a building with the background of the cityscape in downtown Rio de Janeiro. The artwork is part of "Still Being", an exhibition of 31 life-size statues mounted at the edges of buildings and in squares and sidewalks. It is an attempt by the artist to encourage people to view the inner city with fresh perspectives.
Reuters photo
Copyright © 2016, The Morning Call


text:
Access member benefits and ADA policy
Purchase ADA products
Attend ADA's premier event
Access member-only practice content
Find evidence to support your clinical decisions
Take advantage of endorsed, discounted business products
Make a difference with dentistry's premier charitable organization
Find oral-health information for the public on ADA's award-winning site
Learn about the examinations used in licensing dentists and dental hygienists
Explore CODA's role and find accredited schools and programs
Learn about ADA CERP recognition, look up CERP recognized CE providers and find CE courses.
View the campaign and resources for children's oral health
Visit the Ad Council's children's oral health website
The ADA Foundation provides charitable assistance to dentists in the form of Emergency Disaster Assistance Grants, and to dentists and members of their immediate family in the form of Relief Grants. It also provides Emergency Disaster Assistance Grants to 501(c)(3) organizations delivering care following a disaster. Please read the grant guidelines and application for each grant for complete information.
Charitable Assistance is one of the four pillars of the ADA Foundation. The other pillars are Access to Care, Research, and Education.
To Apply:
Purpose: To provide a small measure of immediate financial assistance to eligible dentists who are victims of a disaster at their primary residence (as defined in the Emergency Disaster Grant Guidelines and Application, above). Emergency grants are to address the following personal needs: food, bottled water, clothing, blankets, medicines and medical supplies, emergency shelter, and toiletries.
Application Period: The application period is open.
Eligibility Requirements: Any dentist who is a victim of a disaster at their primary residence may apply to the ADA Foundation for a grant for their personal necessities (see Guidelines for complete information).
Dollar Amount and Number of Grants Available: Grants of up to $2,000 are available. The number of grants is dependent on available funds.
Purpose: To provide needed emergency dental care in communities affected by a disaster (as defined in the Emergency Disaster Grant Guidelines for 501(c)(3) Organizations, below).
Eligibility Requirements: Any U.S.-based dental-related organization exempt from tax under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code that provides emergency dental services within the U.S. to victims of a disaster is eligible to apply (see Guidelines for complete information).
Dollar Amount and Number of Grants: Up to $10,000
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to dentists and their dependents who, because of accidental injury, a medical condition, disability or advanced age, are unable to meet basic living expenses.
Eligibility Requirements: Dentists, their dependents, and former dependents of deceased dentists are eligible to apply for financial aid from the ADA Foundation if an accidental injury, advanced age, physically debilitating illness, or medically-related condition prevents them from gainful employment and results in an inability to be wholly self-sustaining. See Rules and Criteria for complete information.
Dollar Amount and Number of Grants: Varies.
Please see rules, criteria and/or guidelines for each particular grant for complete information. Questions? Contact the ADA Foundation at 312.440.2547.


text:
The Beauty Queen of Leenane: Dark Irish Tragicomedy
* Additional fees apply. No coupon or promo codes necessary to enjoy the displayed discount price.
The last date listed for The Beauty Queen of Leenane was Sunday September 15, 2013 / 3:00pm.
Most Popular Theater Event Nearby
Shear Madness: The Hilarious Whodunit
- Full Price:
- $50.00
- Our Price:
- $30.00
Set in a local hair salon and with lines as up-to-date as the morning's news, Shear Madness is a… More
Venue Details
Reviews & Ratings
Featured review from Amy TRed Velvet
view more less of this review
Excellent performances from the two leads, but be warned: the play at times is very hard to watch.
star this review starred report as inappropriate
Laugh and cry, be appalled and be amused... The Irish playwrights have it all. My mother in law was from Donegal and now is 99 years old and a beloved matriarch. If she (and her 2 daughters and 3 sons) had never left Ireland, this story could...continued
star this review starred report as inappropriate
A huge disappointment for me--I am a Sarah Marshall fan, and even though I had read some of the mixed reviews about this black Irish dramedy-it was really not a good production!-
The worst part was not being able to understand any of the first 20...continued
star this review starred report as inappropriate
Excellent production, wonderful cast and great setting, framed by an insightful and informative pre-production discussion and a thoughtful discussion after the production. A most enriching theatre experience all together.
Quotes & Highlights
"Extraordinary … deeply affecting … you don't know whether to laugh, cry or gasp with horror." —Daily Telegraph


text:
Władysław Syrokomla
|Ludwik Kondratowicz
Władysław Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla by Adam Szemesz
|Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz
September 29, 1823
|September 15, 1862
(aged 38)
Vilnius (Wilno)
|Resting place
|Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius
|Pen name
|Władysław Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla was the pseudonym of Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz (1823–1862), was a Polish romantic poet, writer and translator working in the Russian Empire and Congress Poland.
Syrokomla was born September 29, 1823 in the village of Smolków, Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire (now Smolhov, Minsk Voblast, Belarus), to an impoverished noble family.[1][2][3][4] His parents were Aleksander Kajetan Kondratowicz (d. 1858) and Wiktoria (née Złotkowska).[5] His uncle was Hilary Kondratowicz (1790–1823), a Polish teacher of maths in gymnasium in Vilnius, who published some articles in Wiadomości Brukowe.[5][6] A year after his birth his parents moved to another village (Jaśkowicze).[4] In 1833 he entered the Dominican school in Nesvizh (Nieśwież).[4] He had to give up his studies due to financial problems. In 1837 he began work in a Marchaczewszczyzna folwark.[4] Between 1841 and 1844, he worked as a clerk in the Radziwiłł family land manager's office.[3][4] On April 16, 1844 in Niaśviž he married Paulina Mitraszewska, with whom he had four children; three of them would die in the same year (1852).[4]
In 1844 he published the first of his poems – Pocztylion – under the pen-name Władysław Syrokomla, coined after his family's coat of arms.[3][4] The same year he also rented the small village of Załucze.[3] In 1853, after the death of three of his children, he sold it or gave his manor to his parents, and settled in Vilnius itself.[2][3][4] After a few months he rented the village of Bareikiškės, near Vilnius.[4] He became one of the editors (1861–1862) of the Kurier Wileński, the largest and most prestigious Polish-language daily newspaper published in the Vilnius area.[3] In 1858 he visited Kraków, and some time later he visited Warsaw.[2] For taking part in an anti-tsarist demonstration in 1861 in Warsaw he was arrested by the Okhrana and then sentenced to home arrest in his manor in Bareikiškės.[3][4] He died on September 15, 1862 and was buried in the Rasos Cemetery in Vilnius.[2][4]
Throughout his life, Syrokomla would remain impoverished; Czesław Miłosz wrote that he was "forever struggling against his lack of education and his poverty".[4][7] Despite that, Syrokomla had many influential and even wealthy friends; his manor was visited by count Eustachy Tyszkiewicz, Stanisław Moniuszko, Ignacy Chodźko, Mikołaj Malinowski, Antoni Pietkiewicz and others.[4]
Syrkomla was influenced by Adam Mickiewicz.[8] In his prose he supported the liberation of peasants and secession of the lands of former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Imperial Russia, which had annexed portions of the Commonwealth, including its Lithuanian areas, during its late 18th-century partitions.
Among the most notable of Syrokomla's works are translations of various Russian, French, Ukrainian, German and Latin poets, including works by Goethe, Heine, Lermontov, Shevchenko, Nekrasov, Béranger and others. His translations are considered a "great service" for Polish language.[9] Syrokomla also produced a number of works about Lithuania's rustic nature, people and customs.[1][8] The vast majority of his works were written in the Polish language, however, he also wrote several poems in Belorussian.[7] During his lifetime, his works were translated into several languages, including Lithuanian.[10] The composer Tchaikovsky adapted one of his works expressing a sympathetic view of the then-unliberated peasants – The Coral Beads – into a song.[11] He also wrote of the Karaite community in Lithuania and its mosques and of a Jewish bookseller in Vilnius.[12][13]
Some of his works are classified as gawęda (a story-like Polish epic literary genre).[7]
- Translations of Polish-Latin poets of Sigismund's age like Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Przekłady poetów polsko-łacińskich epoki zygmuntowskiej m.in. Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego)
- Chats and rhymes elusive (Gawędy i rymy ulotne) (1853)
- Born Jan Dęboróg (Urodzony Jan Dęboróg)
- Poetries of the last hour (Poezje ostatniej godziny)
- Liberation of peasants (Wyzwolenie włościan)
- Margier. A poem from Lithuania's history (Margier. Poemat z dziejów Litwy) (1855)
- Good Thursday (Wielki Czwartek) (1856)
- Janko the Cemetery-man (Janko Cmentarnik) (1857)
- Kasper Kaliński (1858)
- A house in the forest (Chatka w lesie) (1855–1856)
- Hrabia na Wątorach (1856)
- The magnates and the orphan (Możnowładcy i sierota) (1859)
- Politicians from the countryside (Wiejscy politycy) (1858)
- Wojnarowski
- A journey of a familiar man through his familiar land (Podróż swojaka po swojszczyźnie)
- The history of literature in Poland (Dzieje literatury w Polsce)
During Syrokomla's burial ceremony, Lithuanian poet Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (Jakub Dakusza) emphasized that while Syrokomla was influenced by Polish culture, he was a Lithuanian poet, closest to Lithuania after Adam Mickiewicz.[4][10] His birthplace was located within the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania,[7] and he referred to himself as a Lithuanian when expressing own regional identity.[14] Teofil Lenartowicz wrote a memorial poem on his death referring to him as a "lirnik Litewski" (Lithuanian lyricist).[15] While majority of sources refer to him as a "Polish poet", his legacy is best understood in the context of the multicultural Polish-Lithuanian identity.[16] His works were often translated into Lithuanian and Belarusian languages.[17]
In Warsaw's residential district Bródno (city district Warszawa-Targówek) there are two streets dedicated to the poet: Ludwik Kondratowicz St and Władysław Syrokomla St.
In Vilnius, a Polish-language school of the Polish minority in Lithuania is named after him.[17][18] Also in Smolgowo in Belarus is school named after Syrokomla.[17]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Michael J. Mikoś (June 2002). Polish romantic literature: an anthology. Slavica. ISBN 978-0-89357-281-5. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Paul Soboleski (1881). Poets and poetry of Poland: a collection of Polish verse, including a short account of the history of Polish poetry, with sixty biographical sketches of Poland's poets and specimens of their composition. Knight & Leonard, printers. pp. 389–. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g (Polish) Syrokomla Władysław, Encyklopedia WIEM
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n (Polish) Irena Rusakiewicz, WILNIANIE ZASŁUŻENI DLA LITWY, POLSKI, EUROPY I ŚWIATA: Syrokomla Władysław (Ludwik Kondratowicz) (1823–1862). Litwa w twórczości Władysława Syrokomli
- ^ a b Kiśliak, Elżbieta. "Władysław Syrokomla". Polski Słownik Biograficzny. 46. Polska Akademia Nauk & Polska Akademia Umiejętności. p. 300.
- ^ Więsław Witold (2002). "Matematyka wileńska za czasów Adama Mickiewicza" (PDF). Roczniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego. Seria II Wiadomości Matematyczne. 38: 165.
- ^ a b c d Czesław Miłosz (1983). The history of Polish literature. University of California Press. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-0-520-04477-7. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ a b William Fiddian Reddaway (1971). The Cambridge history of Poland. CUP Archive. pp. 332–. GGKEY:2G7C1LPZ3RN. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ Paul Soboleski (1881). Poets and poetry of Poland: a collection of Polish verse, including a short account of the history of Polish poetry, with sixty biographical sketches of Poland's poets and specimens of their composition. Knight & Leonard, printers. pp. 388–. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ^ a b (Lithuanian) Birutė LISAUSKAITĖ,"Vladislovas Sirokomlė (1823 – 1862 m.)". Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2009. . 2007
- ^ Richard D. Sylvester (January 2004). Tchaikovsky's complete songs: a companion with texts and translations. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-253-21676-2. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
- ^ Christoph Marcinkowski (2009). The Islamic world and the West: managing religious and cultural identities in the age of globalisation. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 100. ISBN 978-3-643-80001-5. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
- ^ Aleksander Hertz (1988). The Jews in Polish culture. Northwestern University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-8101-0758-8. Retrieved April 5, 2011.
- ^ Peter J. Potichnyj; Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies; McMaster University. Interdepartmental Committee on Communist and East European Affairs (1980). Poland and Ukraine, past and present. CIUS Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-920862-07-0. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
- ^ Narcyza Żmichowska (1894). Kwiaty rodzinne. Nakład G. Gebethnera i spółki. p. 249. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
- ^ Tomas Venclova (March 1999). Winter Dialogue. Northwestern University Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-8101-1726-6. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ a b c Kiśliak, Elżbieta. "Władysław Syrokomla". Polski Słownik Biograficzny. 46. Polska Akademia Nauk & Polska Akademia Umiejętności. p. 307.
- ^ (Polish) O szkole > Historia, Szkoła średnia im. Władysława Syrokomli w Wilnie / Vilniaus Vladislavo Sirokomlės vidurinė mokykla
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Władysław Syrokomla.
Polish Wikiquote has quotations related to: Władysław Syrokomla
|Polish Wikisource has original text related to this article:
|Belarusian Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- (Polish) Patron szkoły (biography at the Vilnius High School dedicated to him)
- (Polish) Irena Kardasz, Patron szkoły (biography at the Michałowo Elementary School dedicated to him, with a chronological table of his life)
- (Polish) Józefa Drozdowska, Władysław Syrokomla (krótka bibliografia) (Short bio, also contains a list of further bibliographical sources)
- 1823 births
- 1862 deaths
- Clan of Syrokomla
- People from Lyuban Raion
- Imperial Russian poets
- Imperial Russian male writers
- Imperial Russian writers
- Imperial Russian translators
- Latin–Polish translators
- French–Polish translators
- German–Polish translators
- Russian–Polish translators
- Ukrainian–Polish translators
- 19th-century translators
- 19th-century Polish poets
- Polish male poets
- 19th-century male writers


text:
Rent Physics Laboratory Experiments 6th edition today, or search our site for other textbooks by Leslie Wilson. Every textbook comes with a 21-day "Any Reason" guarantee. Published by Brooks Cole.
Need help ASAP? We have you covered with 24/7 instant online tutoring. Connect with one of our Computational-Physics tutors now.


text:
Tænk at skvatte på en madras og få "patten"fræset af. Av for satan & god bedring @Mattibreschel pic.twitter.com/6wR1nVpvdZ— Brian Holm (@brianholm1962) February 24, 2014
Matti Breschel may just have suffered the most bizarre sporting injury of all time after he was hit by a flying mattress.
The Danish cyclist had competed in the Tour Oman and was heading back to the team hotel before he was knocked off his bike and sent to the deck.
Fortunately for the 29-year-old, the injuries were not too serious but this image uploaded on Twitter shows he would have been in a world of pain.
Breschel said after the incident: "After the stage, we were riding back to our hotel and on a descent when I was going 70 kilometers an hour, a mattress flew into my front wheel and brought the bike to a standstill.
"I hit the asphalt pretty hard and lost a lot of skin on my legs and the wound on my knee had to be stitched up."
You can imagine the cyclist wasn't in much comfort when he made contact with his mattress in bed later that night.
As for the original, there has been no detail as to why it was flying through the air, or whether is is a normal occurrence in Oman.


text:
Definición de diatonic en inglés:
1(Of a scale, interval, etc.) involving only notes proper to the prevailing key without chromatic alteration.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Harmonically, the added notes are needed to provide a major or minor triad for each note of the diatonic scale.
- In music, India gave to the world her system of notation, with the seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale, all of which we enjoyed as early as 350 B.C., while it came to Europe only in the eleventh century.
- As Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist exercises strengthen the fingers through varying linear progressions, Jazz Chord Hanon moves sequentially through diatonic and chromatic scales and progressions from three through five voices.
1.1(Of a melody or harmony) constructed from a diatonic scale.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- There is little dramatic impulse, but, especially when sung in German, the solo music is reminiscent of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in its simple direct melody and clear diatonic harmony.
- There is dissonance, beautiful dissonance, mixed with more diatonic harmony.
- Over two massive sections - with the second encompassing an evocative slow movement and a dramatic finale - the argument is based on two contrasted motifs that, with satisfying logic, resolve at the end in a warmly diatonic melody.
Early 17th century (denoting a tetrachord divided into two tones and a lower semitone, or ancient Greek music based on this): from French diatonique, or via late Latin from Greek diatonikos 'at intervals of a tone', from dia 'through' + tonos 'tone'.
Palabras que riman con diatonicanachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, sardonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, tonic, transonic, ultrasonic
For editors and proofreaders
Saltos de línea: dia|ton¦ic
Definición de diatonic en:
¿Qué te llama la atención de esta palabra o frase?
Los comentarios que no respeten nuestras Normas comunitarias podrían ser moderados o eliminados.
Muy popular en Reino Unido
Muy popular en Australia
= de moda


text:
Sounds Like: The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sufjan Stevens
Bio: All songs written, played and recorded by Genene Edwards. More Film/TV/Ad music available. Vocals are beautifully given by Samira Mohamed, Olivia Suki Brown, Stella Davis, Giles Pilgrim Morris, Kirsten Morrison. My heartfelt thanks to you all for bringing my songs to life! XXX
"Rock that viola!.. Your music could stop wars.. Your music moves me, truly beautiful....Popalicious!"


text:
FiltersShow / Hide
- All Events
- Music
- Comedy
- Theatre & Shows
- Sport
- Cinema
- Festivals
- Days Out
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Anywhere In The UK
- Location: Anywhere in the UK
Radius: ... miles
Wed 27th Mar at 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Alex Hutton Trio
@ No.1 Shakespeare Street Bar & Kitchen, Stratford Upon Avon
This event has been and gone!
Catch the next one:
Check out the info below for future tour dates, and track them to receive alerts when they tour near you
Never miss another 'Alex Hutton Trio' show
Stratford Jazz Presents: Alex Hutton Trio
"Alex Hutton Trio, line up: Alex Hutton (p) Yuri Goloubev (b) Asaf Sirkis (d)."
Info provided by the Event Organiser
Alex Hutton Trio
Alex with Yuri Goloubev on bass and Nic France on drums.
Alex Hutton Trio tour dates
Track this event
- Event has been added to your calendar
- Any important updates will be sent to your email address
- Add to your personal Ents24 calendar
- Sync with iCal, Outlook and others
- Receive important updates
- 2 people currently track this event
Venue Facts
Venue: No.1 Shakespeare Street Bar & Kitchen
Website: shakespearestreet.co.uk
Enquiries: 01789 264787
→ Stratford Upon Avon 7 min walk


text:
Is your resume in need of a little disruption?
Startups are all about
making things work better.
Our resume writing service is all about doing that for your CV.
StartUpHire is the place to find Client-Services-Analyst jobs in and near . Review the list below of Client-Services-Analyst jobs. These Client-Services-Analyst jobs represent some of the most rewarding careers available. You can refine your job search for Client-Services-Analyst jobs in by adding a job title, company name, or keyword to the search box above … or click the "Advanced Search" link for more options. Don't see the employment opportunity you're looking for? Check back soon for more Client-Services-Analyst jobs in , or sign up for an email alert (link in upper left) to receive periodic updates on new Client-Services-Analyst jobs in , .
San Francisco, CA, United States Build software. Reach 500 million users. Change lives. That?s what we?re doing at Lithium. And you can do it, too. If you want to put your stamp on the digital customer space and enjoy yourself along the way, come join the team. We?re looking for7/14/2016 San Francisco, CA Save This Job


text:
I've been using Fancybox but today I noticed that the full size images in the gallery don't have a title tag, only an alt tag.
Since the title tag is more important for SEO purposes I'd like to enable it.
Is there some option to do so that I'm missing or will I have to hack the plugin's code?
Thanks in advance!


text:
Content count308
Last visited
Community Reputation36 Neutral
About Beaver
Blue Falcon
- Birthday 03/24/1974
Profile Information
The South
Personal Info
Tell us a little bit about yourself...
Jets fan but never lived in NY
Where do you live?
The South
What are your interests? Hobbies?
Ole Miss sports, NYJets, fishing
Jets Info
What is your favorite Jets related memory?
Beating the Patriots in the 2010 divisional playoffs
Do you have season tickets?
What Jets memory broke your heart?
A lot but the biggest was the 2010 AFC championship loss to the Steelers
Beaver replied to Villain The Foe's topic in New York Jets Message BoardLaquon Treadwell - Ole Miss
Beaver replied to joewilly12's topic in New York Jets Message BoardYeah geno sucks... But so does my very one else today including the golden boy revis
Beaver replied to joewilly12's topic in New York Jets Message BoardFitz couldn't come back from the way this defense is playing
Beaver posted a topic in New York Jets Message BoardCredit to reddit /r/nfl for the post. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but there's a bit of a disturbing trend going on with this guy's career. Everywhere Ryan Fitzpatrick goes, misfortune rains upon anyone who stands in front of him on the depth chart. Let's review how things have gone for all four teams Fitzpatrick has played with: St. Louis Rams - Fitzpatrick, a Harvard grad with a perfect Wonderlic score, is drafted in the 7th round of the 2005 draft as an intriguing project pick. The team who drafts him, the St. Louis Rams, is already set with a franchise quarterback. Marc Bulger, a Pro Bowler who has led them to back-to-back playoff appearances, is in the prime of his career. However, Bulger injures his right throwing shoulder after a 2-4 start to the 2005 season. He returns a few weeks later, but after losing two more games, he re-injures his shoulder and is out for the year. Bulger is replaced by Jamie Martin in Week 12, but Martin quickly succumbs to injury himself in the first quarter. In comes Ryan Fitzpatrick. The unheralded 7th round rookie shocks the world with a brilliant performance, throwing for 310 yards on just 30 attempts, and delivers a 56-yard bomb in Kevin Curtis to win the game in overtime. This, however, is just a tease. Fitzpatrick plays horribly over the next three games, tossing five interceptions in his second start and throwing for 69 yards on 24 attempts in his third. He is relegated back to the bench, and never sees the field again for the Rams before being let go after the 2006 season. As for Bulger, his career quickly falls apart. He rebounds with a pretty strong season in 2006 despite failing to reach the playoffs, but this doesn't last. Starting in 2007, the Rams plummet toward the bottom of the NFL and Bulger's numbers instantly crash for the next few seasons. With a horrible team surrounding him, Bulger appears shellshocked and never plays like his old self. Once Bulger is let go by the Rams, he never gets another starting job. Cincinnati Bengals - Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, finds himself in Cincinnati by the 2007 season, where he is backing up another franchise quarterback. Carson Palmer, who has made back-to-back Pro Bowls, appears to have recovered just fine from his torn ACL and is right back on track to being a superstar....until 2007. Palmer throws 20 interceptions in a 7-9 season for the Bengals, an unexpected decline from the young superstar. But while 2007 was merely disappointing, 2008 was a disaster for Palmer. He is plagued with an elbow injury early in the season, later revealed to be a torn ligament, and aggravates it in a Week 5 loss before being placed on IR. Many believe this elbow injury has permanently affected Palmer, taking away some of the arm strength he once had. He has never been the same since. Fitzpatrick again enters the starting lineup following Palmer's injury, but doesn't play well enough to warrant serious consideration as a starting quarterback. Buffalo Bills - In 2009, Fitzpatrick signs with Buffalo to back up a somewhat promising young quarterback in Trent Edwards. While Edwards had not been spectacular in his first two seasons, he had performed reasonably well in what was thought of by some as a game manager role as Buffalo's starting quarterback. Until 2009, of course. Edwards regresses in his third season and, at the halfway point, is benched. Fitzpatrick once again enters the lineup and starts most of the second half of the season. Despite the benching, the story remains the same one year later: Edwards once again wins the starting job in 2010. It doesn't last. Edwards ends up playing two of the worst games of his life to start the season, and is surprisingly released by the Bills afterwards. After a disastrous midseason stint with Jacksonville, Edwards' career in the NFL is essentially over. Fitzpatrick, back in the lineup once again, surprises everyone with a decent performance to close the 2010 season. While that performance was promising, he then shocks the world in 2011 with a dominant 3-0 start capped off by a miraculous comeback victory over the Patriots. The Bills prematurely reward him with a massive contract extension, and Fitzpatrick immediately proceeds to regress back to his old self. He throws 20 picks in the last 13 games as the Bills go 3-10 to close out the season. He continues to languish in mediocrity in 2012 before being released. Tennessee Titans - Once again, Fitzpatrick finds himself in a situation where he's backing up a young, potential franchise quarterback when he signs with Tennessee for 2013. The results, so far, are eerily similar. While Jake Locker appeared to have turned the corner on the field, he has now been struck down with injuries twice this year and is now out for the season. Yet again, Ryan Fitzpatrick returns to the starting lineup. To recap, nothing but terrible things have happened to the quarterbacks Ryan Fitzpatrick has backed up in his career, regardless of how good they were thought to be at the time. Marc Bulger, Carson Palmer and Trent Edwards all saw their fortunes collapse quickly and unexpectedly once Fitzpatrick came to town. Then, Jake Locker has also been lost for the season. Houston Texans - Fitzpatrick was slated to be the Texans starting quarterback for the 2014-2015 season. However, Ryan Fitzpatrick was benched in Week 11 in favor of Ryan Mallet, a trade acquisition from the Patriots. After only starting a couple games, however, Mallet suffered a season-ending injury in Week 12 against the Bengals. Case Keenum finished the season as the starter. New York Jets - August 11, 2015 only a couple weeks into training camp Geno Smith was sucker punched by a fellow player. This resulted in a broken jaw for Geno, and a minimum 6 week recovery time. Geno probably won't start until Week 3. TL;DR Rams - Bulger and Martin both injured by week 11. Fitz starts 3. Bengals - Palmer injured most the season. Fitz starts 12. Bills - Edwards injured. Fitz starts 9. Titans - Locker injured week 4, Fitz starts 9. Texans - Starts season as QB1, Mallet takes over then injured after 3 starts. Fitz is QB1 again. Jets - Geno punched. Fitz starter in the preseason.
Beaver replied to johnnysd's topic in New York Jets Message Board
Beaver replied to indygirl4jets's topic in New York Jets Message BoardFunny, the Pats fans were quick to defend the allegations, but since the release of information that 11 of the balls were found to be deflated they haven't shown up.
Beaver replied to Villain The Foe's topic in New York Jets Message BoardI was wrong on Kelvin Benjamin. I thought he would be another Mike Williams. I was never a fan of Manzel and he may still prove me wrong. I did think Blake Bortles would be something. Looking like I pulled a Sanchez on that one.
Beaver replied to T0mShane's topic in New York Jets Message BoardIs no one else concerned with the fact Tomshane follows or even listens to what Cannizaro writes?
Beaver replied to The Troll's topic in New York Jets Message BoardI would think Gary Patterson would be a better option. Here is a guy who changed up his whole offensive system to win. Not many coaches are will to do this and admit they need to change. http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/94341/how-tcu-built-its-breakthrough-in-9-months How TCU built its breakthrough in 9 months FORT WORTH, Texas -- Gary Patterson got grief for it from coaching buddies all season long. They are glad that, after 31 years in the business, the guy finally wanted to have a little fun on offense. "People are shocked Gary Patterson can have an offensive team," he joked. "'Have you lost your mind? What are you doing?' I like to win. It's a very simple situation." His not-so-simple New Year's resolution to develop a thrilling spread offense set TCU on course for a transformative journey that will end with a New Year's Eve bowl. Mapping the path to a Big 12 championship trophy, a No. 6 ranking and spot in the Chik-fil-A Peach Bowl against Ole Miss required foresight and fortune. The process began on Dec. 1, 2013, the first day of the offseason for a 4-8 team. Patterson had exactly nine months to rethink what winning the Big 12 required. After 15 years in Fort Worth -- and two tough ones in the Big 12 -- he had to reimagine TCU football. He had realized this in November. After a last-second loss to Kansas State guaranteed TCU would not go bowling, Patterson warned his staff that change was imminent. "But it wasn't just 'let's go get an offense,'" Patterson said. "I'm big on chemistry. It was about guys that would fit the staff, guys that could recruit the Metroplex and the state of Texas and were respected." His search ended up being easy. By Dec. 3, word of Doug Meacham leaving Houston for TCU had already leaked. Before that addition became official on Dec. 12, Patterson met with AD Chris Del Conte and laid out his plan. "I was probably the most proud of that, because football coaches are creatures of habit," Del Conte said. "He said he had to evolve and change how we go about it. I was like, 'Wow. OK.'" Meacham told Patterson the man he trusted most to coach quarterbacks was Sonny Cumbie. Until this season their paths had crossed only on the recruiting trail. West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen deserves some credit for the pairing -- he's the one who first introduced Meacham to Cumbie. By Dec. 18, Patterson had both on board. By April 5, he was nervous. The Air Raid, while incredibly simple in terms of its playbook, isn't easily taught in less than a hundred days. TCU's vanilla spring game hinted at the difficulty. "We weren't very good on offense at the end of spring," Patterson says bluntly. Too many balls on the turf, too many interceptions, too many incorrect routes. Teaching the system is largely a mental challenge that requires constant repetition. Meacham and Cumbie could only teach Trevone Boykin so much in 15 practices. Plus, it didn't help that TCU's scholarship backs were all banged up. "Some days, you'd just say, "We're bad,'" Patterson recalled. "Oh yeah, there was a lot of concern. But you went down a path. This is the path." Quarterback Matt Joeckel understood the path. Two weeks after TCU's spring game, the Texas A&M transfer picked the Horned Frogs. His arrival was supposed to spell trouble for Boykin, maybe even prompt a move to receiver. Instead, the two bonded and competed. Linebacker Marcus Mallet says he saw this team's rebound coming by June. The buy-in was intense and pervasive. Joeckel was an unsung hero, teaching his new teammates the offensive system in workouts and 7-on-7 at a time when coaches were required to be hands-off. By August, not even the departure of Devonte Fields could shake TCU players' faith. Three of their most talented and troubled peers -- Fields, Brandon Carter and LaDarius Brown -- were dismissed during the offseason. Their absence never proved to be an issue. But the quarterback conundrum remained. TCU's eventual Heisman Trophy candidate separated himself in scrimmages with his accuracy. Boykin had been a headache to defend in practices for years. He had yet to prove enough on Saturdays. Battling with Joeckel upped his game to another level. "That's one of the reasons why Boykin is where he is now," receiver David Porter said. "He had pressure on him, and he had to be on his p's and q's." By the second scrimmage, Patterson knew. TCU's offense started shredding his defense in the red zone. The sloppy project was turning into a slick, speedy operation just in time. "Two weeks into fall camp, oh my god, they got it," Del Conte said. "They looked really good." How good? Just ask Jason Verrett. TCU's Big 12 co-Defensive Player of the Year and first-round pick a year ago watched this season's Kansas State game in awe from the sideline. He didn't expect this. "If we had this offense last year, I don't think a team would've beaten us," Verrett said. "That's just the truth." Chucky Hunter warned him, though. Verrett didn't believe the Frogs' defensive tackle when he called during two-a-days in August. "All he kept saying was, 'Bro, our offense is real as s---.'" Hunter called Verrett again the week of the Oklahoma game and predicted a Big 12 title. Patterson wasn't thinking nearly that big. Heck, he just wanted to win six. An eight- or nine-win season to set up a 2015 breakthrough? Even better. On Wednesday in Atlanta, TCU plays for its 12th win. On Jan. 1, another offseason begins in Fort Worth. This one should be a bit easier. "We're built for success now," Del Conte said. "It's fantastic. It's no flash in the pan. We're in this for the long haul."
Beaver replied to Maxman's topic in New York Jets Message BoardChecking in, but it's not really fair since I am halfway around the world.
Beaver replied to Klecko73isGod's topic in New York Jets Message BoardI think Rex would be good for the Raiders. His personality fits and Carr does look good. The jes would kill to have Carr's stats from their QB. That is how sad the Jets QB situation has been the last 6 years.
Beaver replied to Seth's topic in New York Jets Message Board"Blame John for this season, go ahead. But then give him the credit for last year too." The problem is Idzik's first draft was still with the previous scouts reports and work. This past draft was all with Idzik's hand-picked scouts and it was bad.
Not at all. I just disagree with the statement that short players can't be good in the league when there is plenty of evidence they can be.
OK MJD, Steve Smith, jeremy kerley, WAYNE CHREBET. Height helps but isn't a requirement.
Sproles says hi


text:
I dare you to watch more than thirty seconds.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell recently released a video montage of him doing various daily activities that are boring, but look great in a political ad. The video contained no words and was dubbed over with some generic techno music.
Seeing this, Jon Stewart dubbed over the video and then issued the challenge out to the internet to make more. All you have to do is add your own soundtrack over his creepy political video.
Here are some of the best videos so far:
Did you know Mitch McConnell was originally on Full House but at the last minute walked away to pursue his famed political career?
Here are the highlights... if you could call them that.
Real women read real messages from Grindr, SCRUFF, and GROWLr.
Editor's Note: Lots of adult language. Very, very not safe for work.


text:
May 30th, 2006, 11:18 AM
Many people have wanted a new region recently, so ive been trying to design one, but i can't do it alone. make a city, island, ect. for a new city/route in the region and post em hear! ill combine them into a new region! Plz name your city and ill give a # to any routes. Plz make it in Fire red/Leaf green and/or Ruby/Sapphire graphics. You may also help me try to find a new name for my new region. (You will be creditted!)


text:
The Next Great Generation?
'Millennials' are hopeful and helpful, not coarse and cynical, book argues
It may be hard to believe now, but in the early 1960's, it was still possible to find a Pat Boone record at the top of the pop charts or an Annette Funicello movie at the...
This content is available exclusively to Chronicle subscribers
Already a subscriber?
Log in now
Not a subscriber yet?
Subscribe now for instant access to this article and thousands of others, data tables, and interactive charts — all available exclusively for Chronicle subscribers. Plus your subscription includes weekly print or digital delivery of The Chronicle and The Review and the Chronicle iPad® Edition.Subscribe Today