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Gimpel liked to say that he lived between four cultures: those of France, England, the United States and the 13th century. He was born in Paris in 1918, the third son of the well-known art dealer Rene Gimpel, a friend of Monet, Renoir and Proust whose journals he would eventually edit. His mother was the sister of an even more famous English dealer, Lord Duveen. His two brothers, Peter and Charles, who was captured and tortured by the Germans and died in 1973, founded their own gallery in London in 1946.
Initially Jean shared the family enthusiasm for art, and contemplated a career as an expert on the chemistry of Old Master paintings. Eventually, however, he decided to combine earning a living as a diamond broker, first in Paris and then, from 1963, in London, with writing. His research for The Cathedral Builders confirmed his revulsion against art, later spelt out in his book-length diatribe The Cult of Art. Compared with the nameless craftsmen and unsung engineers and architects of the Middle Ages, artists from the Renaissance onwards were, he argued, egotistic and self-indulgent, if not actually fraudulent: for example, many of Leonardo da Vinci's "inventions" were borrowed from treatises by earlier engineers. To deify such pedlars of dispensable luxuries was, he believed, as logical as worshipping relics.
The Cathedral Builders was written in French as Les Batisseurs de Cathedrales and sold more than 100,000 copies in France alone. In addition to being stuffed with fresh and fascinating information, it demonstrated that France's great cathedrals were built not just to the glory of God but by the finest professional architects and craftsmen of the time.
In The Medieval Machine, a broader study, he sought to demonstrate that the technological revolution of the Middle Ages, focused on mills and especially water-mills, was no less remarkable than the Industrial Revolution. He found many striking parallels between the technological boom of the 10th and 13th centuries in Western Europe and the one that started around 1750.
After detailed comparison of parallel developments in France between 1050 and 1265 and the United States between 1850 and 1953, he concluded that America had subsequently entered a period of terminal decline that would bring Western civilisation down with it. These Cassandra-like warnings were the focus of an international conference on the decline of the West in Los Angeles in 1977 and were amplified in his last book, The End of the Future.
Gimpel was a man of deeds as well as words. Dismayed by the pre-medieval level of technology in the rural areas of many Third World countries, he sought to introduce patchily known inventions such as the Archimedean screw for lifting water from one level to another. To explain their benefits across language barriers he revived the concept of three- dimensional models, establishing in 1977 a charitable project, Models for Rural Development, to propagate them in partnership with Appropriate Technology Ltd. A miller in the foothills of the Himalayas, for example, rapidly recognised the greater effectiveness of the spoon-shaped blades of a 19th-century Romanian water-mill when compared with the 2,000-year- old Nepalese version. The former was soon adapted as part of the Nepalese government's five-year plan.
Gimpel also devised models to show how not to do things, such as allowing animals too close to a well, or coughing TB-infected sputum over children. These "negative" models were extensively used on the Indian subcontinent and in Africa.
Gimpel loved the stimulus of intelligent friends, especially female ones, and he and his wife Catherine, a Breton and former fellow Resistance member whom he married just 50 years ago, held a kind of Sunday afternoon salon several weeks of the year at their Chelsea Embankment flat. Among the assembled writers, scientists, doctors, historians and the like, their volatile host moved, firing off his enthusiasms and prejudices in rapid, French-accented bursts.
Few people can have more effectively or agreeably bridged the gap between C.P. Snow's "two cultures" of science and the humanities.
Jean Victor Gimpel, historian of technology: born Paris 10 October 1918; married 1946 Catherine Cara (two sons, one daughter); died London 15 June 1996.
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A major goal of social skills training is teaching Aspies (who may or may not have emotional problems) about the verbal - as well as nonverbal - behaviors involved in social interactions. There are many Aspergers teens and preteens who have never been taught such interpersonal skills as making "small talk" in social settings, the importance of good eye contact during a conversation, etc. In addition, many of these individuals have not learned to "read" the many subtle cues contained in social interactions (e.g., how to tell when someone wants to change the topic of conversation or shift to another activity).
Social skills training helps Aspies to learn to interpret these and other social signals so that they can determine how to act appropriately in the company of others in a variety of different situations. Social skills training assumes that when individuals improve their social skills or change selected behaviors, they will raise their self-esteem and increase the likelihood that others will respond favorably to them. The Aspergers child learns to change his social behavior patterns by practicing selected behaviors in individual or group therapy sessions.
Another goal of social skills training is improving the child's ability to function in everyday social situations. Social skills training can help these children and teens to work on specific issues that interfere with their school or daily lives.
Techniques in social skills training—
Therapists who use social skills training begin by breaking down complex social behaviors into smaller portions.
Next, they arrange these smaller parts in order of difficulty, and gradually introduce them to the clients. For example, a therapist who is helping an Aspergers teen learn to feel more comfortable at parties might make a list of specific behaviors that belong to the complex behavior called "acting appropriately at a party" (e.g., introducing oneself to others, making conversation with several people at the party rather than just one other guest, keeping one's conversation pleasant and interesting, thanking the host or hostess before leaving, etc). The teenager would then work on one specific behavior at a time, rather than trying to learn them all at once.
Such specific techniques as instruction, modeling, role-playing, shaping, feedback, and reinforcement of positive interactions may be used in social skills training. For example, instruction may be used to convey the differences among assertive, passive, and aggressive styles of communication. The technique of monitoring may be used to ask clients to increase their eye contact during a conversation. In role-playing exercises, group members have the opportunity to offer feedback to one another about their performances in simulated situations. For example, two members of the group may role-play a situation in which a customer is trying to return a defective purchase to a store. The others can then give feedback about the "customer's" assertiveness or the "clerk's" responses.
Some of the goals for social skills group training are helping Aspergers kids and teens to:
- read the body language of others
- play and have fun
- learn to cope with mistakes
- learn strategies for developing peer relationships
- learn peer group problem-solving
- become aware of their emotions
Aspergers kids are pliable to treatment because they tend to be compliant. Although their ritualistic behavior and rigidity may create obstacles to treatment, most Aspergers kids are able to learn the nuances of feelings, body language and behavior to assist them in their everyday functioning.
Content of social skills training—
Social skills training may be used to teach Asperers children and teens specific sets of social competencies. A common focus of social skills training programs is communication skills. A program designed to improve the teen's skills in this area might include helping him with nonverbal and assertive communication and with making conversation. It might also include conversational skills that are needed in different specific situations, for example job interviews, informal parties, and dating. The skills might be divided further into such subjects as beginning, holding, and ending conversations, or expressing feelings in appropriate ways.
Another common focus of social skills training programs involves improving a client's ability to perceive and act on social cues. Many Aspies have problems communicating with others because they fail to notice or do not understand other people's cues, whether verbal or nonverbal. For example, some Aspergers kids become unpopular with their peers because they force their way into small play groups, when a youngster who has learned to read social signals would know that the kids in the small group do not want someone else to join them, at least not at that moment. Learning to understand another person's spoken or unspoken messages is as important as learning conversational skills. A social skills program may include skills related to the perceptual processing of the conversation of others.
Social skills training may be given as an individual or as a group treatment once or twice a week or more often depending upon the severity of a client's disorder and the level of his social skills. Generally speaking, Aspergers kids appear to gain more from social skills training in a peer group setting than in individual therapy. Social skill training groups usually consist of approximately 10 clients, a therapist, and a co-therapist.
Culture and gender issues—
Social skills training programs may be modified somewhat to allow for cultural and gender differences. For example, eye contact is a frequently targeted behavior to be taught during social skills training. In some cultures, however, downcast eyes are a sign of respect rather than an indication of social anxiety or shyness. In addition, girls or women in some cultures may be considered immodest if they look at others, particularly adult males, too directly. These modifications can usually be made without changing the basic format of the social skills training program.
Generalization or transfer of skills—
Current trends in social skills training are aimed at developing training programs that meet the demands of specific roles or situations. This need developed from studies that found that social skills acquired in one setting or situation are not easily generalized or transferred to another setting or situation. To assist clients in using their new skills in real-life situations, therapists use role-playing, teaching, modeling, and practice.
Preparation for social skills training requires tact on the therapist's part, as Aspergers clients (especially older teens and young adults) may be discouraged or upset by being told that they need help with their social skills. One possible approach is through reading. The social skills therapist may recommend some self-help books on social skills in preparation for the treatment. Second, the therapist can ease the client's self-consciousness or embarrassment by explaining that no one has perfect social skills. An additional consideration before starting treatment is the possibility of interference from medication side effects. The therapist will usually ask the client for a list of all medications that he takes regularly.
One of the most critical tasks in preparation for social skills training is the selection of suitable target behaviors. It is often more helpful for the therapist to ask the client to identify behaviors that he would like to change, rather than pointing to problem areas that the therapist has identified. The treatment should consider the client's particular needs and interests. Whereas social skills training for some clients may include learning assertiveness on the job, training for others may include learning strategies for dating. Therapists can prepare clients for homework by explaining that the homework is the practice of new skills in other settings, and that it is as relevant as the therapy session itself.
Some studies strongly suggest the need for follow-up support after an initial course of social skills training. One study showed that follow-up support doubled the rate of employment for a group of older Aspergers adolescents, compared to a group that had no follow-up.
Normal results—
Outcome studies indicate that social skills training has moderate short-term effects, but limited long-term effects. Social skills training programs that include social perspective-taking may have greater long-term effects than traditional social skills training programs based on cognitive-behavioral models. In general, social skills training tends to generalize or transfer to similar contexts rather than to contexts that are not similar to the training. Social skills training programs for Aspergers children and teens should include programming for generalization, so that these clients can transfer their newly acquired skills more effectively to real-life settings. One approach to improving generalization is to situate the training exercises within the client's school, work, living, or social environment.
The benefits of social skills training programs include flexibility. The treatment can take place either as individual or group therapy, and new trainers can learn the techniques of social skills training fairly quickly. An additional advantage of social skills training is that it focuses on teaching skills that can be learned rather than emphasizing the internal or biological determinants of social adequacy.
Future research should explore (a) the integration of social skills training with the needs of families from different cultural backgrounds, (b) the relationship between social skills training and different categories of mental disorders, (c) the transfer of skills from therapeutic contexts to daily life, and (d) improving the Aspergers client's long-term gains from social skills training.
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Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about Itby Richard A. Clarke, Robert Knake
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War! Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive/em>/em>/em>
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War! Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider's view of White House 'Situation Room' operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation's security. This is no X-Files fantasy or conspiracy theory madness—this is real.
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This book reads as if it was written by a person with an eight grade grasp of cyber security. Yes, the United States is vulnerable to cyber attacks but, despite the grandiose subtitle (The Next Great Threat and What to Do about It), the book offers no useful advise about what to do about cyber warfare. I suspect that is because the two authors are policy wonks who believe that policies and procedures can fix any problem. The authors style was annoying on several other counts as well. They repeated the same mantra that we need to protect our elecrical grid (ignoring the fact that we have several such grids, but who would expect a policy wonk to bother to know details>) and the authors rarely passed up a chance to bash former President Bush. Frankly, if Clarke was as annoying and as unknowledgable as this waste of $29.00 suggests, it is no wonder that President Bush did not want him giving advice on what has been a critical topic in Washington for about eight years. The most glaring omission in this book is that it contains on realization that the nation needs perhaps 50,000 highly skilled cyber warriors in the public and private sectors but has only about 1,000--and that 1,000 does not include either Mr. Clarke or Mr. Knake--and provides no indication that either of the authors understands that policies will not close the cyber skills gap though it will create jobs for ivy league consultants who only understand a small part of the problem. I would suggest anyone who thinks they need to read this book save their time and money and download the Lewis Commission Report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies website. That report is much shorter, much better written, contains ideas concerning how to address the problem, and is free.
The book is what the author states at the beginning, not a great in-depth examination of either technologies, policy workings or military defense strategy and implementation, but at a level that would be understandable to someone not well versed in any of these areas. Having worked in the telecommunications and data network delivery industry, I can well appreciate the author's view of just how vulnerable to attack many systems are, and their impact on everyday life. Imagine a winter storm that takes down your power lines, and then everything that requires power - and the storm lasts six months. This overview is distressing enough, but how can our government's various components continue to not make a coordinated effort to address it and properly defend our nation from these threats? Oh, sorry, that would be expecting acutal thoughtful and effective action from our political (total-lack-of) leadership. This book certainly met its goal, and I will be looking to see more in this area of public policy for (hopefully) greater future success in securing the nation and its infrastructure from attack.
I bought this book thinking it would be interesting and insightful, but it was just mediocre. Someone with Richard Clarke's experience and access should be able to do better. My chief compliant is that everything was grossly simplified and repetitive. Yet, I respect the book's message that the U.S.A. is VERY VULNERABLE to a cyber attack given our 'connected' society & industries. It's the next battlefield.
Cyber War is an eye opening book about the next potential threat to the U.S. We often feel comfortable and secure online, but Knake and Clarke demonstrate that we are so vulnerable online in so many ways. They addressed issues in our most basic functioning levels of society, our infrastructure, and how we are not doing anything to correct these mistakes. Overall the question this book left me with is "Is our dependance on technology going to end us?" Unfortunately, Knake and Clarke do not give solutions to the problems in our dependance on technology in our infrastructure, and I would have liked to hear opinions on how to solve these issues. Overall, a slow read, but very interesting and downright chilling towards the end.
Well written...makes you rethink all the cyber things we do....
This books brings our minds into some potential future problems we humans may face. Cyber attacks are among one of them. The Author of this book, Richard Clarke gives us some scenarios where cyber attacks can turn into real life, warfare attacks. These, of course involving guns and machinery that could potentially kill people. The whole process may be frightening to some, but to others, cyber attacks can be overlooked and not seen as a threat. The scary idea that one person, with the right knowledge of technology, has the ability to hack entire corporations or even governments!
Reads like a detective story, except it's real digital attacks on the United States and allies. I was unaware how serious this type of warfare is until I started reading Richard Clarke's book. It's a must read for all those concerned about the security of this country and our friends.
Richard Clarke's Cyber War is a tale of the digital end-of-days of sorts, of the online battlefield ungoverned by normal rules of engagement. He warns of the well-disguised threat of cyberterror, and the only recently tapped-into power of code in virtual warfare. He provides a harrowing example of the complete shutdown of Estonian internet due to a DDOS (distributed denial of service attack.) A normally workaday "nuisance," only a series of hacked lines of code was able to completely crash the servers of the most visited Estonian webpages and effectively shut down communication for a night. These "zombie botnets" are the future of warfare, and " [computer] owners usually cannot even tell when their computers have become zombies or are engaged in a DDOS." In today's digital world, Cyber War reminds us that we must be careful with our technology and our information, and that danger lurks in seemingly safe internet corners.
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Her mother had the same brown hair as her daughter. Except, her mother's was curly and went down to her shoulders. Her face was a long oval. She had green eyes. They were slightly close together and wide. To the side of her eyes, were gentle crows feet; they would be barely distinguishable from afar. She looked not more than 40. Her mother was also very small, for her age. She had the same thick lashes as her daughter, too.
Besides her physical appearance, her mother's face was red, as if she was holding her breath. Her eyes were staring intensely into mine. Her lips were pursed.
I was careful not to show any emotion in my face such as fear or annoyance. I was good at that.
Continuing to stare back at her mother, I waited for a response. I would've sworn we were standing here for already an hour.
Her mother let out a deep breath and her face went back to its normal skin tone. She broke her stare with me and dropped her head to look at the ground, as if in defeat.
"How did you- Where was- Did-" Her sentences broke off before they were finished, like she was trying to find the right question to ask me. "Who are you?" she simply concluded to.
Her eyes were back on my face. Her brows were curved upwards, showing worry.
I took a deep breath. "I was jogging around the neighborhood when I saw your daughter." I was careful not to imply any details that might give this woman some sort of heart attack. "She said she was... lost," Her mother didn't seem to notice my hesitation on that last word. Elaine thanked me with a small smile of relief and gratitude. Apparently, her mom would've done so much more than just freak out. "and so I brought her to my house for a while and then you called and here I am."
Her mother didn't say anything. She was staring intently at me, trying to find something wrong with me.
"Why did you bring her to your house? Why didn't you just ask her where she lived?" She asked without showing any emotion.
I was thinking about this earlier. There was really no point in taking her to my house.
I glanced at my car. I could use it for an excuse, I guess.
"I needed my car. To drive her to where she lived." She didn't say anything. "My name is John." I stretched out my right hand to her, hoping being polite would ease her down a bit. For I was no harm to her or her daughter.
She glanced down at my hand. Her eyes seemed more gentle and sincere. She shook my hand unwillingly and slightly rolled her eyes. She was defeated, again.
I always knew what to do to get my way.
"Well, John. Thank you for helping Elaine get home."
Our hands dropped back to our sides.
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"Well, we better go on inside, Elaine. Thank you so much, John. Good bye."
Elaine glanced back at me, before they left, and smiled. I smiled back.
As they sauntered to their front door, I just stood where I was, watching them.
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I stared back at her.
Her light brown, almost blonde, curly hair flipped around as she hopped from behind the front door. She looked a lot bigger behind the door. Now, she was just probably a merely 4'11. Very petite. Her face, although, showed that she was probably around my age. I couldn't see any precise details besides the obvious size and hair because of the distance. In her arms was a big white fluffy piece of clothing. It was probably the dress she wore to the wedding. She was just smiling at me, stupidly. I was annoyed. Did I look funny?
Elaine and her mother were already in the house as they called for the smiling girl.
"Alexis! Are you coming inside?"
"Yes." She simply said. Her voice was very high. She twinkled her small fingers at me in a wave and danced back inside the house.
I still stood in the same spot, dumbfounded.
Well, okay. This isn't really how I planned my day to begin. I was just hoping for a little jog, cook some hot dogs up maybe, read a bit, and sleep. Come to think of it, this was the most awkward event that happened to me since I moved in this neighborhood.
I awkwardly walked back to car, sat in the driver's seat and started the car.
"What's up, Mr. Johnathon Staffield?" Caroline called from the kitchen.
I smelled Chinese frying up.
"Welp, Ms. Mom Staffield, I went to drop to drop off Elaine, like I said."
I tossed the keys onto the counter.
Caroline turned away from the big pan on the stove. She just looked at me questioningly.
"Okay, first of all, I didn't do anything." I started out, my palms up towards her, showing innocence. "I was jogging around the neighborhood, I saw that she was lost, I took her here, and then drove her home."
I sheepishly knew Caroline could sense the lie in my statement. Other than her, nobody could sense when I lie. I was a good liar.
"What really happened, John?" she asked kindly.
"If I tell you, you cannot make a scene out of it. It's over and done with."
She didn't say anything. Obviously, if it's bad enough, she will make a scene out of it. Caroline was just that type of person.
A small flame flew up from the pan.
"Mom, you might want to watch your cooking."
She turned back on her pan and nearly jumped.
"Good Lord," she muttered as she put out the flame with her spatula. She turned the dial on the stove to a simmer and faced me again.
Caroline raised her eyebrows, anxiously waiting for me to answer.
"I saw her with a bunch of big guys that looked as if they were going to hurt her. So I rescued her." When I said the word 'rescued', it seemed as if I considered myself as some kind of super hero.
Caroline snatched her cell phone from the counter. "John, how do you not expect me to make a scene out if it when it's that serious? I have to call the police! Do you remember what those guys looked like?" She waited for an answer with the phone in her hand.
"Mom, I don't want to make a big deal out of it and neither does Elaine. Her mom is worrying enough already. So are you."
She let go of a big breath and shook her head to herself. "Okay. I trust you, Johnathon, but," Her voice raised on that word. Oh no. "don't go jogging out there anymore. Do it somewhere else. I'll get you a gym membership. I'll buy you tread mill." She tried to hide the begging in her voice.
Oh, great. Her motherly instincts are kicking in.
"Mom, it's okay. I can take care of myself. You don't need to get me anything. You said you trusted me, didn't you?"
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If you've never heard of Franco Alfano, let alone the dozen operas to his name, the first staging of Cyrano de Bergerac in Covent Garden's long history will soon explain why. Apart from a few memorable setpieces, Alfano's perplexing score is largely without distinctive character, at best derivative. But it provides a wonderful vehicle for the great Placido Domingo to create what may prove to be his last new stage role.
'I know that voice,' says a character in the opening scene, and so do we all as that famous nose enters a quarter of an hour (in Cyrano's own words) before the world's most enduring tenor. Domingo is one of the few top-notch singers who is also a truly accomplished actor, internalising the role to the point of inhabiting it, so we are excitedly aware that we're in for a memorable evening.
'When I rest,' says Domingo, 'I rust.' Cyrano is his 25th role in more than 200 appearances at the Royal Opera over 35 years, since he first appeared as Cavaradossi in a 1971 Tosca. Last year, he sang Siegmund in Die Walküre; the previous season he sang Canio in a Zeffirelli production of Pagliacci one evening, then conducted it the next. The indomitable Spaniard is director of the Washington and Los Angeles opera companies; in the Covent Garden programme, he even advertises Rolex watches.
Coy about his age - he admits to 65, but is said to be pushing 70 - Domingo can still muster a hypnotic stage presence, as well as a voice with the resonance to fill a house as large as Covent Garden. It is hard to take your eyes off him as he delivers a classic example of what Kenneth Tynan first defined in this newspaper as 'high-definition performance'.
In the process, he is also doing justly neglected opera a debatable service by rescuing from oblivion the name of Alfano, whose music you are, in fact, likely to have heard without realising it. He is best-known for finishing Puccini's last opera, Turandot, from the sketches of its last 15 minutes left by the dying composer. On its first night, at Milan's La Scala in 1926, Toscanini laid down his baton after the last bar Puccini wrote himself, thus bringing the show to an abrupt a halt, along with Alfano's hitherto promising career. Yet those last 15 Alfano minutes remain in the version still performed in most opera houses throughout the world.
Before that traumatic moment, Alfano had enjoyed a couple of hits, notably an adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, Resurrection, performed in Italy more than a thousand times before his death in his 80th year in 1954. By then, he was an understandably bitter man, forgotten outside Italy, who had spent most of the rest of his musical career as an academic. But he still composed the occasional opera, including Cyrano in 1936. Its problem, musically, is that it is a mélange of conflicting contemporary influences:Richard Strauss, Ravel and Debussy (but surprisingly little Puccini) all fight to be heard amid the lush orchestration, on which Mark Elder lavishes the dedication and respect he would reserve for much accomplished composers. Few conductors can wring playing as fine from this outstanding house orchestra.
Cinematic music was well into its stride by the mid-1930s, and echoes of Korngold also bubble beneath the aimless sweep of Alfano's score, a soundtrack to buttress visuals given blue-chip treatment by Peter J Davison's lavish sets and Anita Yavich's stylish costumes in this swashbuckling co-production with the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Director Francesca Zambello's staging is so ultra-traditional that we could be sitting in a Covent Garden of countless previous eras - the glory days of proudly, self-consciously grand opera when the show was, like this one, built primarily around the star performer in the title-role. It works only if he or she chooses to deliver, which Domingo certainly does.
As his bubbly haired Roxane, American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is long on vocal power, if short on subtlety; as Christian, American tenor Raymond Very displays as much character as the handsome but inarticulate cypher he portrays. But the three combine majestically in the great setpiece beneath Roxane's balcony; at its end, Domingo's Cyrano collapses heartbroken at the foot of the ladder up which Christian is climbing to claim the rewards of his eloquence.
Rostand's elemental tale remains irresistible: a variant of Beauty and the Beast in which a brave but ugly soldier loves a woman so much that he helps another man woo her. Even after they are married, Cyrano braves enemy lines every day to get a letter to her in his rival's name.
Fifteen years after Christian has been killed in action, the elderly Cyrano pays his regular visit to Roxane in her widow's retreat at a convent. Not until he himself lies dying, struck from behind by a cowardly assassin, does she finally grasp the truth and declare her love for him. As Alfano milks the moment for every last drop of Italian sentimentality, there cannot be a dry eye in the house - the perfect, perhaps parting compliment to the great artistry of Placido Domingo.


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You can find an affordable guesthouse in tightly packed North Cha-am with your eyes closed. Things become more spread out and generally pricier in South Cha-am, though Soi Bus Stop has a good collection of budget options to choose from.
Running from the railway rd north to the fishing village, North Cha-am is the more developed of the two halves of Cha-am Beach and is packed with cheap guesthouses and deckchairs.
We walked past this place a couple of times thinking it was just a trendy cafe, but when we stopped in for a super-sized iced latte and discovered they had rooms we had to have a look -- and found one of our Cha-am favourites. Oversized rooms (for a shopfront set up) are reached by broad wooden staircases with exposed steel supports (they must have totally gutted the existing building to craft... Read our full review of Cha Inn Cha-Am .
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Once the premier luxury hotel on Cha-am beach proper, the Methavalai is looking a little long in the tooth now, but it does offer some good online rates (especially on weekdays). Set about half way between the road to the beach and the fishing village to the north, the sprawling lounge/reception area seems at once refined and hastily thrown together, as from the street you end up walking along... Read our full review of The Cha-Am Methavalai Hotel.
Very central, with a great freeform swimming pool that comes with plenty of shade and backs onto the seaview restaurant, Bann Pantai offers solid resort value -- especially on weekdays. Rooms are of a very good size, with a wooden and white linen finish common in many Thai hotels, and come with all the mod-cons you'd expect at a resort of this level. The pool is really noteworthy here -- kids... Read our full review of Bann Pantai .
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From the railway Rd heading south, this strip is more spaced out, with some large resorts further south. You'll also find Soi Bus Stop this way which has some good cheap guesthouses to choose from.
Paso is set way, way, way towards the southern end of the beach. Don't give up! Keep on walking and you'll reach it eventually. Rooms are very smart in this modern hotel and the seaview rooms are great weekday value, with proper verandas and not too much passing street traffic to deal with. There's a ground floor lap pool situated a little oddly at the rear of the lobby -- it looks good, but... Read our full review of Paso Resort .
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It's difficult to miss the bright green Anantachai, a convenient spot located on the beach road, just to the south of Soi Bus Stop. All rooms have air-con and range in price according to both their size and location -- all are musty and feel heavily used and lightly maintained. We were shown a cheap standard and a seaview superior and neither were great value -- if anything we'd have gone for the... Read our full review of Anantachai Guesthouse.
An honourable mention for an off the beach budget option, the farang-Thai run Blue Lagoon has affordable fan-cooled and air-con rooms in a multi-storey building a five-minute walk from the beach. The ground floor is a pub, which runs a very popular trivia night every Monday and is otherwise a bit of a local hangout for the usual suspects. The fan-cooled room is pretty small, but the air-con... Read our full review of Blue Lagoon Guesthouse and Bar .
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Situated near the beach, this inn is within 12 mi (20 km) of Abberton Reservoir, Colchester Zoo, and Colchester Golf Club. Tymperleys Clock Museum and Colchester Castle Museum are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a business center are available at this smoke-free inn. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, tour/ticket assistance, wedding services, and a garden are onsite.
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The Victory at Mersea
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Property Amenities
The inn offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
A business center is on site at this 4-star property. This Colchester inn also offers tour/ticket assistance, a garden, and a picnic area.
The Victory at Mersea is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 7
- Number of floors - 2
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- Free breakfast
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
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- Shower only
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Onsite venue - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available.
A complimentary breakfast is offered.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Property Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
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Cats are a small species on the planet Earth they are part of a large family the smallest being the pet. These animals come in nearly all colours. They have no tenticals and four legs, they have a tail on the back to show how they are feeling
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I opened Coco de Mer just over a year after I bought my very first sex toy; a vibrator. Buying that vibrator was the reason I opened my shop, and I suppose you could say that single purchase changed my life.
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I am trying to compare two models in stata. They are non-nested and the number of observations are not same for both models.
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"Honey, you're back. How was the jog?"
"It was colder and there's more ice around. What is it?"
"I'd like you to come with me to a meeting, can you change into smart clothes?"
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"Honey, I don't mean your best jogging clothes."
"I know." Amelia opened another section then saw a row of full suits: green, blue, brown and black. She pulled out a black suit jacket and medium length skirt then got out some black tights.
"Oh you look smarter than usual." Her mother said from the bottom of the stairs. "I never thought it possible for you to be so smart. Well, thank you for taking the effort. The dog will…"
"Dog." The dog suddenly ran out to Nefertiti.
The mother turned then faced her again. "He's gone, how odd." Nefertiti was stroking the dog slowly while watching the scene. Amelia began to shake, had her mother not seen the girl? "Honey?"
"Sorry, shall we go?" They walked to the town hall but Amelia was looking around trying to see the girl. She had disappeared the moment her mother had stepped out of the door.
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"You are odder than normal." Her mother said in concern. "Maybe that dog is influencing you."
"It's just a dog." Amelia whispered but it wasn't true. He had become a friend and accompanied her everywhere. She would miss him.
"I'll let them know you've arrived." Her mother said then left her at the doorway.