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John Sides says that at conventions, a journalist's job is to measure how well politicians have riled up their supporters. But, polls take time, while coverage of speeches starts minutes after the speakers open their mouths. So how should journalists fill the void? Should they be striving, as they do, to be the nation's emotional first responders? Novelist Walter Kirn covered the DNC for The New Republic. He said that watching reporters take the emotional temperature of the room was an alienating experience.


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Tip - How to get the log file and paste it for the developers
Well, if good things come out of the Intel GMA X3100 problem it is that we now know that one should get to the log file in the /var/tmp directory using finder so we can copy the log file to the XBMC developers.
If you are Unix-command rusty, you can use finder...
1) In the Go menu, select "Go to folder"
2) type /var/tmp (this will open the hidden directory in Finder)
3) Open the log file, the copy the entire contents and paste it into http://www.pastebin.com
4) post the link to paste bin here so the developers can see what is happening.
Anyway this is probably obvious to most people, but if it helps anyone then I am glad to do my part.
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I saw that someone had asked how to get to the profiles.xml and it occurred to me that it would be useful to have in the FAQ since I had to search for this info on my own at one point.
1) Click on XBMX in the Applications menu while holding down the "control" key
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"Contents->Resources->XBMC" contains the folders and files you would find in the Xbox installation of XBMC
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Lava pointed out an error in my posting... it turns out that in the newer versions, sources.xml has moved... it currently (in ver 0.1.2) does not exist in my implementation since I didn't move it to the proper location. In any case, this is the method you need if you want to add skins to XBMC, currently.
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Feel free to populate the FAQ in our wiki.
Quote:All users who wish to continue providing a valid contribution to the XBMC Online Manual, please contact a member of Team-XBMC and ask for "Ninja" status on the wiki to get full write access, (the easiest way to get in touch is via #XBMC on freenode IRC network), thank you for understanding.
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Calibration Tip: TURN OFF "Enhance Contrast" in System Preferences... Universal Access. Turn it down to Normal from its default one notch up before you start calibrating. If you're doing full on calibration of your display using a colorimeter (e.g. the Gretag Macbeth i1 using the Eye One Match software). This software charges $200 extra for the key to activate projector calibration. Eye One Match is ok, I tried it mostly because it came along with the eye-one display LT calibrator. People like ColorEyes or Calman but those are also costly. A popular free alternative is HCRF from http://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre/index_en.php
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Have you checked your servlet logs to see if the UnavailableException errors actually are being thrown? You don't say what version of Tomcat you are using, but (if I remember correctly) version 3.1 did not actually honor UnavailableExceptions thrown from init(). Craig McClanahan Tom O'Connor wrote: > In the init() method of my Servlet class, I populate 2 String instance > variables that are later used in the doPost() method. The String values are > populated by calling .getInitParameter() on the ServletConfig instance > passed into init(). I verify that the String returned from > .getInitParameter() != null inside init(). > > After tomcat starts, I start a client program that generates HTTP requests > aimed at the servlet. More often than not, these requests fail with 500 > Server Error as the response. For each failed request, in > $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/tomcat.log there is a > NullPointerException and a stack trace, and the stack trace points me to a > line in my servlet where I invoke a method on the String instance variables > that should have been initialized in init(). > > This is *NOT* a configuration file issue. I can say this because in the > same webapp, I have 2 servlets that each have the same servlet-class element > in web.xml. The first servlet will generate failures (sometimes) but the > second servlet (which is the same class, but a different instance) will > succeed. The only thing different between the two instances are the > init-param values in web.xml. I also swap which servlet I invoke first and > it's the first servlet invoked that fails. > > I've tried this using both Apache+mod_jk over Ajp13, and invoking the > servlet directly through Tomcat's HTTP adapter. > > Doesn't the servlet spec say that no thread shall enter Servlet.service() > until Servlet.init() has successfully completed? If that's true, how can my > instance variables be null? > > The servlet looks like this: > > public class S extends HttpServlet { > private String n = null; > private String v = null; > public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ... { > super.init(config); > n = config.getInitParameter("n"); > v = config.getInitParameter("v"); > if (n == null) throw new UnavailableException(); > if (v == null) throw new UnavailableException(); > // snip > } > public void doPost(...) throws ... { > // this.n and this.v are used in here > } > }
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Date: January 3, 2013
Location: Colorado Springs, CO.
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KRDO NewsChannel 13, in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, is looking for a nightside Executive Producer. This is an exciting position for a journalist who is looking to take their career to the next level.
Job Purpose and Objective
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By Naomi K. Bonman
Family members, extended family, friends, and community residents came together on Friday, May 29 to celebrate the life of Riverside community trailblazer, Dorella Anderson, better known as Dorie to most, or Mrs. And Sis. Anderson to others. The homegoing services were all that the late community leader would have wanted. The sanctuary of Park Avenue Baptist Church in Riverside was overflowing to capacity, filled with those that loved and cherished Dorella, Godmother Dorie (as I called her).
Mrs. Anderson, 79, served has a champion and advocate for families and youth on the Eastside of Riverside for the past 35 years at the Community Settlement House, just minutes away from Downtown Riverside. She played a pivotal role in assisting immigrants adapt and settle into life in the States by helping them obtain citizenship and addressing issues that assited them to remain in the country legally. Her work with families on the Eastside spans two generations.
"She led a life that supported the Eastside children for more than 50 years. She was talented, beautiful, athletic, and had a confidence that drew people towards her. The events at Lincoln Park and the Community Settlement Association continued the work of a prior generation of local families who truly made the area a community," Dorella's cousin, Craig Goodwin stated.
Anderson was the founder and lifetime member of the Riverside African American Historical Society and will be remembered for bringing "Toys for Tots" to Riverside, teaching crafts, dancing, and for her involvement in numerous community affairs.
As a personal extended family and church member of Anderson's I will miss her gentle and sweet spirit and her willingness of speaking her mind to anyone and saying how she felt, and because she was not afraid to speak her mind and speak out you felt even more comfortable around her.
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Last season both of football's major cup finals - the FA Cup and Worthington Cup - were played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, as well as the three divisional play-off finals.
But some members of the FA were apparently unhappy with traffic chaos before and after the games and are eager to bring their showpiece games back to England.
They could yet face resistance from Twickenham, who have previous said they will not allow football to be played at the home of rugby union.
Any change of location would be a temporary measure until the now defunct Wembley is replaced by a new national stadium.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, an FA source said: "There have been mutterings at Soho Square about the suitability of the Millennium Stadium and there have been discussions about taking the cup final back to England.
"There is a get-out clause which would let the FA out of their agreement with the Millennium Stadium.
"That agreement has two years to run but some people think we should take the final back to an English venue, possibly Twickenham.
"Everything about the Millennium Stadium is excellent apart from its location and transport infrastructure.
"At first the FA envisaged staging finals in Cardiff for three years but the Wembley fiasco means that English clubs could be travelling to Wales for an awful long time if a suitable venue isn't found in England.
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Anyone had the chance to handle both of these guns in .45 ACP? What were your impressions?
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Anyone had the chance to handle both of these guns in .45 ACP? What were your impressions?
Well, I may have answered my own question this afternoon. I was out in the field working and swung by Picket weaponry and they had a new M&P .45. Man, that is a slick dude right there. Comparing it to the XD just by look and feel it is crazy how nice the M&P feels. It just sits nice in your hand and in my opinion is a much more handsome gun. If it shoots as good as it looks, I may just have to pull the trigger (Pun intended) on one of those. It also seems to be a little more comfortable to carry, as it is much smoother and looks to be narrower than the XD.
I shot the XD45, the Glock 21, the HK45, and the M&P 45 before I bought my XD.
I shot the XD MUCH more accurately than the others, I liked the trigger better (probably why).
Make sure you shoot them first if you can. Not all people shoot all guns naturally well.
I wish i could shoot them, but the one place that does have a shop and range at the same location seldom has XD's. I typically have to base my decisions on fit and feel of the gun.
The M&P had a really nice short double action trigger pull, and had a good fit to it. The XD also had a nice trigger and good fit, gut the slide release lever was a stamped steel piece that had very little texture for my thumb to get a hold of, to the point that I had to pull the slide back to get it to release.
The slide release is something I like to have work right of the box with no break in. The one on my Kel-tec P11 drives me nuts because it's too heavy for my thumb to work without pulling back on the slide. I guess everyone has their quarks and I suppose that is mine.
Some instructors recommend avoiding using the slide release at all, and simply yanking the slide after each speed reload. It's a little slower but it works with every gun, and is less dexterity-intensive than finding the slide release.
I did not know that, good to know. But I still think that I would prefer if I had the option to use it. What if I only had one hand to use the gun? It would be almost impossible release the slide on Kel Tec with one hand, it would take much more hand strength than I have. By the way I am not a weak man so I know it's not me.
Im with Mike, The slide release is seldom used. You should train to yank the slide back to release it. The Reasoning behind this is that it works on any auto you pick up, no time spent looking for the release cuz you had to pick up a gun you've never had your hands on before. Same motion also clears jams and missfires so it make one skill into a multi use operation.
Our instructor said the same thing. Yanking the slide is a gross motor skill. In times of stress, like a confrontation, fine motor skills deminish. He promotes the KISS approach to things. I have come to favor yanking the slide, and can't see ever going back to the release.
I have fired both of these weapons. I like the idea that the M&P is an American made pistol. I like the stainless construction. I don't like the overall feel of the M&P, or the trigger. I expected better from S&W in that respect. The sights are great , compared to allot of the factory offerings these days in a pistol under $800.00.
I bought the XD. I was shopping for a poly/striker 45, and this is the one I went with. The ergonomics are great. The trigger is better than average, and there are upgrades readily available for it. Springer has parts and or services available. He will be tweaking a pair of XDs for me after the shooting season here in PA. The sights pretty much suck,but it seems everyone is going aftermarket there too. I shot the XD much better than the M&P. Both bagged and offhand. This was a very early production M&P, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not.
I won't say I would never buy an M&P. I just may in the future,but in the 45 the XD got the vote. I would like to see S&W produce a longer version of the M&P in 9mm with an improved trigger. That would be on my "to do" list.
i also have read that you should use the slide and not just the button
then i have observed all the professionals that are on the outdoor channel's gun shows pull the slide
i do not own a shootable 45 but in the months of being a member an awful lot of people have chosen the XD45 over the Glock, M&P, Sig, et al
see this thread
You are also not supposed to drop the slide on an empty chamber on many SA guns, so the slide relese is shunned. You can lower the slide under control with the off hand.
Most competition shootes use the button now-days, from what I've seen.
Old habits die hard for 1911 guys...
Racking is a defensive pistol technique so that you can operate any pistol you pick up without thinking about "now where is the button to make this thing work" it is a gross motor skill that always work when fine button using motor skills are shut down due to stress and anxeity.
At least starting with Ray Chapman (who basically invented the modern speed reload), 1911 guys have usually hit the slide release rather than racking. The 1911 slide release is perfectly positioned and easy to operate when used correctly. When I shot competition, I always used my weak thumb to hit the release. After the mag is inserted, the weak thumb just depresses the release as it moves into the correct shooting position. It is very fast, and at one point I was doing speed reloads under 1.2 seconds from slide lock without even trying hard (using an exposed mag pouch, of course).
It was only when pistols like the Glock, with its small slide release, became popular did racking really come into favor.
I don't really buy the whole "gross motor skill" argument for slide racking, though. The mag release is usually smaller than the slide release, so if you can find that button to eject the mag, you can also find the slide release and depress it.
xd45 would be my vote
Alot of good info here, but i still stand by my statement that if is on the gun it should function. It may be better to rack the slide, but if this is to be a self defense weapon (at least some of the time) then I need to able to operate it with one hand. I have seen folks rack the slide on various objects and parts of their anatomy, but this method seems a little cumbersome as oposed to just popping in the magazine and hitting the release with your thumb.


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In the Eye On Baseball Top 10s, here's what we do: rank players according to criteria. Those criteria change depending upon week and whim, but the Top 10 always will be informed by some angle or another. (Note that the absence of an angle is itself an angle!)
And that brings us to this week's guiding query: Among the players eligible for free agency this past offseason, which have provided the most "bang for the buck" in 2013 ("bang" being productivity at their chosen craft and "buck" being their 2013 salary)?
Note that we're ranking them with no regard to their future performance or, say, how much they'll be paid in 2017. It's all about excellence in 2013 at a nominal cost for 2013. Again, though, these are only players who were eligible for free agency this past winter, so don't flip out when you don't see Miguel Cabrera's name. Or do. Whatever.
Also not on the list? Mariano Rivera. As great he has been and as (very) good as he is right now, he's being paid $10 million to pitch 70 innings or so. He's headed for Cooperstown but not the hallowed contents of this list.
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The InnoBev Global Soft Drinks Congress met in Moscow in April where the Carbon Action Plan was launched. The Plan provides beverage companies and their supplies with a common way to measure their carbon emissions.
Zenith Chairman Richard Hall said, "For the first time anywhere in the world, we have proposed five key genuine green rating scores to go beyond carbon footprints. These are:
the amount of renewable energy used
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the extent of a company's carbon reduction in the previous two years and
the amount of carbon emissions verified as having been offset.
Leading British bottled water producer Highland Spring undertook the first Carbon Action Plan pilot. "The biggest benefit of the CAP scheme is that we can now identify greenhouse gas hot spots in our supply chain — by managing them, we will reduce our carbon footprint with certainty," said Highland Spring technical manager Bryan McCluskey.
Silk Soy
The green cap on the Silk Soy milk cartons symbolizes the company's commitment to offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions. The Whitewave Foods Company, which produces Silk Soy, purchases carbon offsets from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) which go towards wind farms.
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt seem to think that the British public totally detest them.
The US couple, who shot to fame on MTV's reality TV show The Hills, are up for eviction from the Celebrity Big Brother house tonight and they think most viewers would love to see them go, because people tend to react negatively to them in general.
Heidi moaned to her hubby saying:
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He agreed saying:
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Montag said she felt the bad vibes from the moment they stepped out of the car on launch night and continued:
"I think if we're complaining it makes them ten times want us out more. "
"When we walked down that way I felt it from everyone. Like 'why are they even here? They shouldn't even be here.'"
The pair then speculated about what might happen after tonight's eviction and they think Big Brother will have the housemates nominate again straight away. They seem to have a fair idea about who they'll vote for if they stay in the house and Heidi said:
"If we were here we wouldn't need to figure out who we would vote for."
Speid are up against Paula Hamilton and Frankie Dettori this evening and bookies think it will be the ageing former model that leaves.
Hamilton is the 1/2 favourite to be the first celebrity booted off the show, with Heidi and Spencer 13/8 and the show's second favourite Frankie Dettori 12/1.
Meanwhile Rylan Clark is the 6/4 favourite to win with William Hill with the others sitting at:
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Re: default options, OptionsPattern[], and FilterRules[]
Hi Roman,
the simplies way to do what you want is to specify:
If you nevertheless want to write your own function, you must not forget
to give the default options in the plot command:
Options[myplot] = {PlotRange -> {-5, 5}};
myplot[F_, opts : OptionsPattern[]] :=
Plot[F, {x, -1,
1}, (Evaluate[
Join[FilterRules[{opts}, Options[Plot]], Options[myplot]]])]
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> dear group,
> I am trying to set up a plotting function which has a different
> default behavior than the standard one. Here's a simple example:
> Options[myplot] = {PlotRange -> {-5, 5}};
> myplot[F_, opts : OptionsPattern[]] :=
> Plot[F, {x, -1, 1}, Evaluate[FilterRules[{opts}, Options[Plot]]]]
> What I would like to achieve with this is that when I don't specify
> the PlotRange option, as in
> myplot[Sin[x]]
> then I would get a plot with a default plot range of {-5,5}.
> Unfortunately this does not work, since the call to FilterRules[] does
> not access the default rules defined in Options[myplot], but only
> those options explicitly specified in opts (i.e. none at all in this
> call example).
> Since this seems like such a standard use of the Options framework of
> Mathematica, I would expect there to be pre-defined functionality for
> what I am trying to achieve. Of course I can manually merge the
> contents of the opts variable with those of Options[myplot] and
> eliminate duplicates, but I'd like to avoid such hacks if possible.
> Do you know a simple solution for this problem?
> Thanks!
> Roman.


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Michael Bradley's transfer from AS Roma to Toronto FC is edging closer, NBCSports.com reports. The USA international was initially named in Roma's squad for Thursday's Coppa Italia quarterfinal against Sampdoria, but he later pulled out. In a radio interview, Alberto Faccini, an Italian-based agent, said the 26-year-old American has agreed personal terms with Toronto and is just waiting for the teams to iron out the transfer fee.
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The Marquis de Sade is one of the few men in history whose names have spawned adjectives: Machiavelli, Plato, and Masoch
are others who come readily to mind. The books of this 18th-century debauchee have received more mixed reviews than
any other writer's; he has been called "the freest spirit who ever was,"
"a professor emeritus of crime," "the most lucid hero in the history of
thought," an "abominable assemblage of all crimes and obscenities."
And although his physique remains nebulous we know only that he had blond hair and a round, winsome face and stood approximately five feet two Donatien-Alphonse-François,
Marquis de Sade, is one of those public figures whose geographical origins are easily traceable. His most cherished landscapes, his emotional terrain,
lie in the Vaucluse, the ravishing region of Provence east and north of Avignon. There, for centuries, his ancestors had exercised their seigneurial
rights with legendary hubris, seldom letting anyone forget that they belonged to Provence's most exalted aristocracy and were among its largest landowners.
To his credit (and he had few redeeming graces), the Marquis was as candid about his inherited hauteur as he was about his unleashed libido. "Haughty,
despotic, and choleric," he described himself, "imperious…extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike
any the world has ever known.…Kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change."
Like most men known primarily as sexual ogres, Sade has inspired so many lurid tales that the basic facts of his life tend to be obscured. He was
born in Paris in 1740 at the home of the Condés, his mother's distant cousins and princes of the royal blood. (Sade's arrogance was heightened
by his remote kinship with the French crown.) He spent six childhood years with relatives in Provence, first with his paternal grandmother in Avignon,
in the beautiful mansion that now serves as the Musée Calvet, and later in the nearby castle of Saumane with his uncle the Abbé de
Sade, a cleric and scholar of notorious dissipation, a trait shared by the Marquis's own wastrel father. At 22, the penurious young dandy was forced
by his family to marry a plain, prim young woman of the wealthy Paris bourgeoisie, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil. She worshiped him for the next
quarter-century of their marriage, and the couple had three children.
Sade's Paris years were tainted by a few arrests caused by his orgies, which
included such activities as whipping women. Fleeing from his disgraces,
the 31-year-old Sade moved with his family to his château at Lacoste,
his favorite among the several Provençal estates he had inherited.
It is at Lacoste that any meditation on the Marquis de Sade must begin.
Trace your way across a road map some 25 miles east of Avignonand roughly
10 minutes by car from Ménerbes, the setting of Peter Mayle's Provence
seriesand you will find the village of Lacoste, surmounted by the Marquis's
ancestral castle. Far less exploited than nearby tourist meccas such as
Gordes or Roussillon, Lacoste has changed little since Sade's time: even
its population, approximately 400, is about the same. Its rocky terrain
has always made it poorer than neighboring settlements; here the economy
is based on stonemasonry rather than farming. The only commercial establishments
in this austere, steep-pathed pinnacle of pale golden stone are a tiny bakery,
a stamp-size newspaper-and-tobacco store, and a few quiet cafés,
of which the most popular is called the Café de Sade.
The château itself, whose foundations date from the ninth century,
once served as a stronghold against Saracen invaders. It is set on a rocky
two-acre plateau that dominates the cliffside village like a hovering eagle.
Sacked in 1792 during the revolutionary era, and plundered repeatedly into
this century, the castle retains only its moat, sections of its walls and
ramparts, and a few half-demolished rooms. From a distance the structure
evokes the toothless face of a ravaged colossus, and the climb to it can
be arduous ("accès pénible," as French guidebooks
put it). But the nearly 360-degree views are as breathtaking as those from
any other summit in Provence. Looking down and east from Sade's castle in
the glorious month of April, you will see, for miles on end, groves of pink
and white cherry trees, budding vineyards interspersed with crimson poppies,
and violet Judas trees. A few miles beyond, the handsome village of Bonnieux
tumbles down its hillock toward the Lubéron range, whose slopes yield
some of the Vaucluse's loveliest wines. To the north, majestic forests of
spruce and oak, more hilltop hamlets, and orchards redolent with rosemary,
thyme, and lavender stretch toward the white-capped peaks of the Ventoux
The shell of Sade's castle, ever so tauntingly sinister, offers fresh insights
into his enigmatic personality and his work, for these ruins retain the
savage, feudal aura that sparked the Marquis's muse. Along with his family
domain at Saumane, the far more forbidding 12th-century château where
the young Marquis spent part of his childhood, Lacoste may have helped to
inspire the settings of Sade's most famous novels: Justine, Juliette, and
that monumental catalogue of sexual perversions The 120 Days of Sodom. These
gothic narratives of persecuted damsels, bloodthirsty monks, and gruesomely
debauched noblemen are most often set in places strikingly similar to the
ancestral estates where Sade lived during his Provençal yearslandscapes
filled with isolated fortresses, dizzying precipices, and impassable moats.
In the archaic vistas of Lacoste, Sade could retain that illusion of anarchic
autonomy he bestowed on his fictional characters, feel like the feudal suzerain
whose most deviant whims could remain unpunished. Yet a close study of Sade's life at Lacoste
reveals a surprising, quieter aspect of his characterhis strong ties to family. Abhorring the hypocritical
fawning of court life, disdaining most of his aristocratic peers (his delusions
of grandeur made him feel vastly superior), Sade was a rather domestic man.
For one thing, his marriage was outstandingly harmonious. His wife, the
sturdy, homespun Marquise, hated Parisian society as violently as her husband
did, and shared his passion for Lacoste. She calmly endured his debauches,
being so enamored of the Marquis that she even abetted some of his deviant
practices. Though Sade was hardly even-tempered, part of the time their
devotion was mutual. In his letters from jail the Marquis called his wife
"ambrosia of Olympus," "miracle of nature," "light
of my life," "dove of Venus," while the Marquise most frequently
addressed him as "my good little boy."
So, during his years in Provence, when not partying with strumpets, the
Marquis felt far more at ease with his doting spouse and a few Provençal
cronies than with urban high society. He hobnobbed with his doctor, who
lived in the village of Bonnieux, a 15-minute canter from Lacoste, and with
his lawyer in the nearby city of Apt, the site of one of Provence's most
colorful weekly markets. Despite his virulent atheism, he enjoyed discussing
theology with local priests, particularly the vicar of the lovely little
village of Oppède, just beyond Ménerbes.
But above all Sade loved to tend his estate, having personally planned and
supervised its remodeling, down to its decoration and its landscaping. "I
wish to enjoy the fruits of the garden next summer, and this will not happen
if you neglect to follow my directions concerning the plantings"; thus
he scolded his business agent in Provence shortly before he moved there
in 1771. "Garden, farmyard, cheeses, firewood, etc.get all that moving."
So, when one visits this barren ruin today, one must imagine it the way
Sade had renovated it by the 1770's: a 45-room residence staffed by some
20 domestics, filled with cozily upholstered sofas and bergères,
replete with creature comforts such as card tables, copper water heaters,
a bathtub, andthe 1778 inventory is specificmore than a dozen portable toilets
and bidets. The walls were hung with tapestries depicting popular 18th-century
themes: the death of Alexander the Great, the story of Mary Magdalene. Sade
was an avid reader and scholar, and, though he remained deeply in debt throughout
his life, his library included all the pornographic best-sellers of the
time, and most of the classic writersVirgil, Pascal, Cervantes, Montesquieu,
Diderot. Sade also lavished much expense on the "park" he designed
for the northern end of his estate, with its labyrinth of evergreens copied
from the black-and-white design of the floor in Chartres cathedral.
Another of Sade's indulgences at Lacoste was his passion for the theater.
Amateur dramatics had been the rage since the late 17th century; almost
every gentleman of substance in France had a theater on his estate (Sade
himself had been stagestruck since adolescence). One of the first amenities
he added to Lacoste was a 60-seat salle de spectacles. In 1771 he hired
12 second-rate but thoroughly professional actors and actresses and inaugurated
a repertory theater season that shuttled between Lacoste and another of
his family domains, the Château de Mazan, in the town of that name.
The energy involved in these voyages is mind-boggling: Mazan, which adjoins
the historic city of Carpentras, lies some 28 miles northwest of Lacoste,
even now a 50-minute drive. The trip must have taken the entourage at least
12 hours by muleback or horse-drawn coach.
Once arrived in Mazan with his retinue of family, servants, and actors,
Sade had barely two or three days to mount a brand-new production. While
preparing to take a leading role in each play, he had to rehearse his actors,
attend to sets and lighting, and, being always nearly broke, approach creditors
to find additional funds for his extravaganzas. Then he would head back
to Lacoste. As we follow Sade's footsteps on this demented project, we pass
through some of the most gorgeous landscapes of the Vaucluse.
Sade's route from Lacoste to Mazan is easily traced, because few stretches
of flat valley lie between the two towns. His cortege would have headed
to the little river, the Calavon, that now runs parallel to Route N-100.
The party might have crossed the stream on Pont Julien, a beautifully preserved
Roman bridge from the third century b.c. that is still used today, and then
turned northwest toward L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Called "the Venice of
Provence," this gracious, airy city is crisscrossed by tributaries
of the Sorgue River, which originate a few miles away in the resurgent spring
of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse. (The Sorgue today offers some of the best trout
fishing in France.) For centuries "Isle" throve on the weaving,
dyeing, and oil-pressing industries empowered by the water-driven wheels
that still adorn its beautiful canals. Since it was the market town for
surrounding communities, the young Marquis must have visited L'Isle several
times a month while living with his uncle the Abbé de Sade at the
Château de Saumane, just three miles outside of town.
The romantic hilltop settlement of Saumane-de-Vaucluse, where the Abbé
de Sade could have offered refreshments to the Marquis's cavalcade, is crowned
by yet another crenellated feudal fortress, which had belonged to the Sades
since the 15th century. It was given to them by one of the Avignon popes
as a reward for their services. (For the five centuries preceding the Revolution
of 1789, a good segment of what we now know as Provence constituted part
of the papal territories.) Vaster and more forbidding than Lacoste, the
castle of Saumane has been restored recently and opens to the public in
the middle of this month. The château's brooding exterior almost certainly
served as the model for the fictional Castle of Silling, in which the morbid
orgies of Sade's 120 Days of Sodom are held: "A very narrow, very steep
spiral staircase with three hundred steps…descended into the entrails
of the earth and a kind of vaulted dungeon sealed by three iron gates and
containing all that the cruelest art and most refined barbarity could invent
in the way of atrocity."
The trip north from Saumane or L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue to Carpentras would
have been the longest leg of Sade's journey. The most handsome medieval
town in the Vaucluse after Avignon, Carpentraspopulation 30,000still contains
vestiges of its large community of Jews. Tens of thousands of Jews were
expelled from France by King Philip IV in the late 13th century and sought
refuge in Provence's papal territories. They were warmly welcomed by the
shrewd pontiffs, who saw, besides the possibility of new conversions, financial
advantages in these émigrés' talent for banking and commerce.
(Sade himself often borrowed from Carpentras's moneylenders.) The synagogue
of Carpentras, built in 1367, reconstructed in the 18th century, and superbly
preserved, is the oldest in France; the equally beautiful one in the town
of Cavaillon, 20 minutes from Lacoste, followed it by a few decades.
The Château de Mazanbirthplace of Sade's father and uncleswas the
troupe's ultimate destination. But only the most hard-core Sade aficionados
would find it worth a detour. A spacious but dreary 17th-century dwelling
set in the middle of an equally lackluster town, it now serves as a rest
home for the aged and, like Saumane, cannot be visited without special permission.
Those eager for another Sadean frisson are instead advised to head for Fontaine-de-Vaucluse,
only three miles from either Saumane or L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; after Lacoste,
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse may well have been the place closest to the Marquis's
Sade's attachment to this village was derived from his fascination with
a favorite ancestor: the 14th-century beauty Laure de Sade, the fabled muse
of the poet Petrarch. It was in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse that Petrarch lived
for 16 years while nursing his chaste passion for "Laura," and
where he wrote his famous sonnets to her. A charming little museum, said
to stand on the site of Petrarch's house, commemorates the poet's devotion.
The many visits the young Marquis made hereSade's uncle the Abbé
was then writing a pioneering biography of Petrarch seemingly made a strong
impression on him. At the age of 38, in a letter to his wife from prison,
he recounted a vision he'd had about his forebear:
"Listen to a dream I had of [Laure] yesterday. …Suddenly she appeared
to me…I saw her! The horrors of the tomb had not impaired the brilliance
of her charms, and her eyes had the same fire as when Petrarch saw them.
…`Why do you groan on earth?' she said to me. `Come and join me.'…I flung myself at her feet calling out, `O my mother!' "
The extraordinary sight of the Fontaine-de-Vauclusethe natural phenomenon, rather than the tourist-glutted village
that bears its nameoffers a gripping allegory for anyone interested in the
Marquis de Sade.
Set in a narrow gorge, the fontaine-de-Vaucluse, one of the world's most
powerful resurgent springs, first appears as a calm pool of eerie greennessa
lustrous peacock-feather green, the most radiant green I've seen in any
liquid element. And then, from the edge of that deceptively tranquil basin,
its waters bound down the mountain with thunderous speed, generating huge
mounds of white spume, surging over rocks and wooded banks with a force
that seems supernatural. This foaming green fury eventually flattens out
and flows into the plain, becoming the Sorgue River, which rushes through
miles of Provence with an imperiousness that always strikes me as Dionysian
and utterly male. Until early medieval times, the Sorgue's numerous tributaries created thousands
of acres of swampland noisome to the local population. But eventually these
waters were coerced into irrigating some of Provence's richest valleys,
land that yields the cherries, melons, pears, apples, and wines that abound
in the markets of Apt, Gordes, and Lacoste itself. As I stood at the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
one day, watching the green cascade romping savagely from its clandestine
source, I was struck by its affinity with the saga of the Marquis de Sade:
sexuality and water power are only two of the countless manifestations of
energy that society must curb and rechannel in order to survive. This is
the lesson of the Marquis's fate.
For in 1778 Sade's Provençal idyll was forced to end. Remarkably,
during his years in Provence Sade was officially accused of only two offenses:
sodomy and the attempt to poison. (At one particularly festive series of
orgies, he had offered aphrodisiac candies to some prostitutes, which made
them ill.) He was cleared of the first charge because he was a high-ranking
noble with influential relatives, and exonerated of the second through due
process of court. But in the eyes of his mother-in-law, the vindictive,
consummately proper Madame de Montreuil, Sade was guilty of dishonoring
her family, a crime that in her estimation deserved nothing less than a
life sentence. Enraged by the Marquis's increasingly lewd escapades, she
had him imprisoned through that most despised legal feature of the Ancien
Régimea lettre de cachet. This was a royal decree that could mandate
the incarceration of any citizen for life without trial, and was frequently
used by powerful families to dispose of their more fractious relatives.
The Marquis spent 13 years in jail, during which time he wrote or outlined
some of his major texts. He was liberated only in 1790, following the onset
of the Revolution of 1789. Upon his release, his once adoring wife, in an
enigmatic turnabout, decided she wanted no more of him; the couple separated
and probably never saw each other again.
After his long prison term the Marquis was never again able to live at his
cherished Lacoste. The château was eventually sold to a local peasant.
Sade died in 1814, aged 74, at the mental institution in which he had been
immured for more than a decade under Napoleon's ordersthis time on charges
that he had written and published immoral books ("novels that must
be read with one hand" as the French demurely refer to pornography).
Throughout Sade's incarcerations, the most poignant nostalgia expressed
in his letters concerned his longing to return to his cherished corner of
Provence. ("How is my poor cherry orchard?" was a typical query
about his estate at Lacoste. "See to it that the park be well tended.
…Tell them to replace that little hedge of hazelnut trees.")
Sade left behind scores of manuscriptsexecrable to many, admirable to otherswhose
publication was forbidden for more than a century after his death. It was
not until after the Second World War, after he had been championed and rehabilitated
by the Surrealists and all taboos on his work were lifted, that the writer
and his village finally had their renaissance. Though Lacoste had grown
increasingly poor since Sade's time, the lurid reputation of his texts began
to draw thousands of tourists there. Several struggling farms were converted
into bed-and-breakfasts. Whether they had ever read a word of his or not,
many visitors found the village such an amiable place that they eventually
settled there. (Nearly half of Lacoste's official residents are foreigners.)
In the 1970's an American art school was founded a few hundred feet below
Sade's castlethe School of the Arts in France, administered by the Cleveland
Institute of Art. And unlike their prudish forebears, contemporary Costains,
as natives are called, express opinions that range from bemused tolerance
to outright pride when queried about their views of Sade.
To Liliane Ségura, who owns and manages the community's most popular
restaurant and bar, the Café de Sade (where she always displays a
regional wine called Cuvée du Divin Marquis), the titillation evoked
by the ghost of this native son brings the town plenty of visitors: "Thousands
are drawn here by the romance of his namethe romance of the illicit."
Bernard Lamy, a native of Strasbourg, who runs Bonne Terre, one of the village's
most attractive B&B's, concurs: "His odor of sulfur draws the crowds,
particularly the Germans." As for the mayor, Gilbert Grégoire, a jovial Socialist who, like
many, finds the Marquis's works "boring and repetitious," he comes
to Sade's defense: "He never committed the crimes he describes in his
books. …Anyone has the right to jazz it up in his own home."
But here is what would give the Marquis the greatest pleasure of all: beginning in 1943,
the château at Lacoste and its surrounding terrain were purchased by a progressive-minded
local teacher, André Bouer, whose widow still owns it. The Bouers partially restored Sade's
domain and built a theater in the stone quarries just below the castle. With a seating capacity of 1,600 persons,
the Théâtre de Lacoste now has the largest public auditorium in the Vaucluse, equaled only by the
outdoor theater in Avignon's Palais des Papes. Jazz festivals, ballet performances, and avant-garde plays are
produced there in summer. So the Marquis's ambition to make Lacoste a mecca for thespians has finally been realized.
One recent dramatic venture might have particularly delighted him: a "fantastical melodrama" that concerns a love affair between the Marquis de Sade
and Saint Theresa of Avila, and in whose dénouement the saint follows the accursed writer into hell. The 1995 production, which originated at
Lacoste, received enthusiastic reviews and went on to tour in Berlin, Rouen, and Bucharest.
Strolling through the ruins of Sade's château, I often imagine the
Marquis's merriment upon hearing of this rather ironic posthumous success.
His laugh might have been savage, cynically amused.
Spring and fall are the loveliest times to visit the Vaucluse; beware of hordes of tourists in the intervening months. Don't forget sturdy walking shoes, for the Vaucluse has a vast network of hiking trails. One of the finest is the Forêt des Cèdres, a 20-mile path that stretches across the crest of the Lubéron and is accessible from Lacoste or Bonnieux. Each town's syndicat d'initiative (tourism bureau) can provide trail maps.
Where to Stay
Relais du Procureur Rue Basse; 33-4/90-75-82-28, fax 33-4/90-75-86-94; doubles from $117. A beautifully renovated 17th-century dwelling, in the village, with views of the valley. All rooms are equipped with TV's, minibars, direct-access phones, and bathrooms with tubsa rarity in this region.
Along with Lacoste, this beautiful medieval village is my favorite headquarters for a visit to the Vaucluse.
La Maison aux Volets Bleus Le Village; 33-4/90-66-03-04, fax 33-4/90-66-16-14; doubles from $76, including breakfast; no credit cards. Elegant Provençal style and superb vistas of Mont Ventoux.
Auberge La Fontaine Place de la Fontaine; 33-4/90-66-02-96, fax 33-4/90-66-13-14; doubles from $156. Five modern duplex suites, all with terraces, fireplaces, private kitchenettes, CD players, televisions, and VCR's. Cooking classes are held here year-round.
Hotel Le Gordos Route de Cavaillon; 33-4/90-72-00-75, fax 33-4/90-72-07-00; doubles from $90. Beautifully appointed rooms; direct-access phones; no dinner service. Half a mile outside Gordes.
Les Bories Route de l'Abbaye de Sénanque; 33-4/90-72-00-51, fax 33-4/90-72-01-22; doubles from $240, including breakfast. Spectacular views and gardens; located about a mile from town, with the finest creature comforts in the Vaucluse.
Domaine Le Moulin Blanc Les Beaumettes, Gordes; 33-4/90-72-34-50, fax 33-4/90-72-25-41; doubles $94. Another inn just outside the town of Gordes, with beautiful grounds distinguished by a dramatic allée of Italian cypress trees leading to the main building.
La Bastide de Gordes Le Village; 33-4/90-72-12-12, fax 33-4/90-72-08-22; doubles $100-$225. The lovely terrace overlooking a hillside is the highlight of this 18-room inn.
Where to Eat
Café de Sade Lacoste; 33-4/90-75-82-29; dinner for two $20. Limited, uneven fare, but the coq au vin is very fine and the general coziness is irresistible.
Le Fournil Bonnieux; 33-4/90-75-83-62; dinner for two $40. The best food in the immediate area of Lacoste. Try the lotte rôtie À l'ail doux.
Auberge La Fontaine Venasque; 33-4/90-66-02-96; dinner for two $85. Gourmands travel from all over Provence to dine here. Magret de canard and parfait glacé aux dattes et sabayon are wonderful.
Auberge du Beaucet Venasque; 33-4/90-66-10-82; dinner for two $62. Homey decoration and cordial service. Specialties: ravioles des baumes, stuffed with succulent truffles, and ragoût de lapin sauce truffée.
Le Vert Galant Carpentras; 33-4/90-67-15-50; dinner for two $50. Great seafood and a thoroughly memorable canette aux coings (duckling with quince sauce).
La Prévôté 4 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; 33-4/90-38-57-29; dinner for two $50. Exquisite fare and decoration. The green waters of the Sorgue River running underneath the building can be seen through the floor, part of which is made of thick glass.
Le Jardin du Quai L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; 33-4/90-38-56-17; dinner for two $25. The best value in town. I saw the mayor of the town having his Sunday lunch there—always a good sign.
Café Grégoire Apt; 33-4/90-74-10-26; dinner for two $35. The Deux Magots of the Vaucluse, located on Apt's Place de la Bouquiné.
Sade by Maurice Lever, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The best biography of the Marquis to date.
Guide de Charme: Provence (Rivage) A guide to the region's best values; much better than the standard red Michelin.


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Lindsey Boldt Induces Us to Trance
Lindsey Boldt, author of Overboard (Publication Studio 2011), is the new guest blogger at Drunken Boat! Her first post is an incredible tutorial on "how to be a sacred monster." Or really, just how to care for yourself. Poets are not so great at this, let's be honest. Then she goes into the trance:
We (poets) tend to push our own boundaries, sometimes to the point of masochism (right?) so it is necessary to learn how to do cross our boundaries with care. There's no need to bully your self. Really. Stop that.
One way to play with your own boundaries in a safe way is to trance. Everyone has the ability to trance and chances are you already do it. When you "space-out", you're entering a light meditative state or trance. When you find yourself twenty miles down the road and don't remember driving that distance (highway hypnosis) that's a form of trance. I'm sure you can think of tons of other examples.
Everyone will experience a trance differently, all depending on which of your senses you're most tuned into and which sense you use most when communicating with your intuition. For example, you get goose bumps when a friend tells you about an uncanny experience or vivid mental images appear when you sense danger. Some people are very visual and will experience their whole trance as if inside a movie, but you may also hear sounds, feel physical sensations or strong emotions with or without any visual content. If you're very language orientated, like many of us poets, you may find that your trance manifests more like overdubbed narration (James Earl Jones, maybe?). There is no wrong or better way to experience a trance. Honestly.
If you're like me and fall asleep easily, you might try pre-recording the trance induction to play for yourself or have a buddy lead you down and back up. It's totally fine to fall asleep, but you just might not want to do it every time. Important subconscious work goes on while we're asleep, but if you're hoping to write about your experience you'll have a tough time remembering much if you doze off. Try sitting up if you think you might fall asleep. It turns out that I like sleeping so much that I can fall asleep sitting up while trancing, but, again, that's not so bad, just something to be aware of.
Here's an easy trance induction I learned recently called "The Rainbow Induction". You can use it for any trance and adapt it to your own purposes. Set aside 20 minutes to half an hour to do this. Take your time with it. Usually when someone leads you in a trance, they take time to pause between prompts so you can let images or sensations come to you. Be patient with yourself.
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How it happens: It's hot. Your scalp sweats. And its sebum, or natural oils, ride that wave, spreading throughout the hair and making it look a little too grunge for this decade. Even worse, "most styling products are water soluble, so your sweat can break them down until they no longer work," says stylist Keith Harold. That means your style falls flat, too.
To fix it now: Sprinkle a hair powder on the scalp to help absorb excess sebum. (Try Hair Fix, $20, myhairfix.com.) Apply a small amount to the roots, leave it in for one minute, then comb through or shake hair gently to remove any excess. If powder makes your hair look dull, finish with a shot of hair spray, which adds shine without any oil.
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