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Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, 2014
Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York Harbor. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.
Struggling to make their way in this strange new place, the Golem and the Jinni try to fit in with their neighbors while masking their true natures. Surrounding them is a community of immigrants: the coffeehouse owner Maryam Faddoul, a pillar of wisdom and support for her Syrian neighbors; the solitary ice cream maker Saleh, a damaged man cursed by tragedy; the kind and caring Rabbi Meyer and his beleaguered nephew, Michael, whose Sheltering House receives newly arrived Jewish men; the adventurous young socialite Sophia Winston; and the enigmatic Joseph Schall, a dangerous man driven by ferocious ambition and esoteric wisdom.
Meeting by chance, the two creatures become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful menace will soon bring the Golem and the Jinni together again, threatening their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice.
Marvelous and compulsively listenable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of folk mythology, historical fiction, and magical fable into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
©2013 Helene Wecker (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
"Enchanting Debut Novel - Delicious!"
I love fantasy and have been waiting with great anticipation for The Golem and the Jinni. I was not disappointed by this enchanting debut novel by Helen Wecker, but it was not what I expected either. This story is much more an allegory blended with historical fiction than it is a classic fantasy with a magical system driving the plot. It is a difficult story to describe in a meaningful way because the novel has many layers. On the surface it can simply be read as an interesting tale about magical creatures, evil wizards, spells, and the pursuit of immortality. (Aside to parents - this is definitely NOT a children's story.) But, woven throughout the novel are several much deeper themes to ponder long after you finish the book. On one level, this is truly an immigrant story - people throughout time moving to new places out of wanderlust, to escape a threat, or in pursuit of a better life and the challenges of creating community, maintaining cultural identity, and overcoming language barriers and prejudice that come with that. Ultimately, both the Golem and the Jinni end up as accidental immigrants to the wonderful/frightening place that was New York City of 1899 and their adventures as strangers in a strange land provide a fascinating allegory for all immigrants. On another level, The Golem and the Jinni is a study of human nature - the moral and ethical dilemmas, romantic and platonic love, faith, altruism, free will and enslavement, and the meaning of life and death. Wecker's mythical creatures are forced to tackle these big questions of humanity without the benefit of parents, religious training, or schooling that give most of us some foundation and watching them wrestle with those issues is surprisingly entertaining and thought-provoking. I suspect this is a book that could give you a new perspective each time you read it.
Initially, I was so anxious to understand what the big conflict would be (anticipating some type of magical culture clash or something), I almost missed the beautiful view along the way. I started the book over when I finally realized that Wecker is laying down a very intricate pattern that you have to appreciate from start to finish - this is not a book you'd play on double speed or you would miss much of the nuance, some of the deeper questions, and some very nice prose. Wecker takes disparate stories, multiple characters, several historical time periods and weaves them together to create a rather mesmerizing flying carpet of a tale that is part fable, part romance, and part historical fiction. And, when you get right down to what every reader hopes for, The Golem and the Jinni delivers - it has a terrific ending! Helene Wecker is really talented and for a debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni is quite well written - characters are nicely fleshed out, settings are vivid, and there is a nice fluidity moving between settings and different periods of time. In addition, the audio version benefits from the narration of the always fine, George Guidall - his seasoned voice is a great fit for this story.
I have no hesitation in recommending the book. This isn't your average fantasy fare, but most fantasy readers will find a lot to love. In addition, because of the bigger themes, the amazing characters, and the vibrant historical setting most people who enjoy an entertaining and meaningful story independent of genre will like The Golem and the Jinni. I am really looking forward to more from Helene Wecker!
"What does it mean to be human?"
This was a wonderfully creative interweaving of mythology, fantasy, immigrant history, and cultural understanding with some danger and romance thrown in. The relationship between Jinni and Golem is complex because they are so different in their natures (hot and cold, impulsive and reserved, selfish and serving) and yet also alike in their bafflement of the human race and the stress of needing to suppress their true natures. Their divergent viewpoints lead to very insightful debates on matters of ethics, morals, religion and free will, challenging each other's actions and motivations. They embodied both the best and the worst of the humans they were trying to figure out and this adds depth to what is essentially a stranger-in-a-strange-land tale. As is true with the best of mythology or folk tales, there is a lot to be learned by humans from the dilemmas threatening the Jinni and the Golem. Their struggles make you think about just what does it mean to be human.
While the tone is often dark and dangerous, there is also plenty of humor found in the recognition of small moments of everyday living, lending the supernatural a reassuringly grounded feeling. The supporting characters, good, bad or in between, are all wonderfully written. There wasn't one I felt was a misstep. Helene Wecker's writing is straightforward and assured, George Guidall's reading is perfection. I loved every minute of this book.
"Fine Romantic Urban Historical Immigrant Fantasy"
Helene Wecker's fine first novel The Golem and the Jinni (2013) opens with the separate unintentional immigrations to NYC in 1899 of a masterless female golem from Poland and a bound male jinni from the Syrian desert. Wecker recounts with fascinating detail the attempts of the two supernatural beings to pass as human in their new Jewish (golem) and Syrian (jinni) Manhattan immigrant communities. The golem has awakened to life on the ship over to America, so she is only a few days old, but the jinni has been imprisoned in a flask for a thousand years, and in addition to the 1899 plot strand, Wecker reveals little by little the jinni's past and how he came to be bound in human form and by whom. While sharing some traits (superhuman strength and agility, fluency in any human language, and the inability to sleep or digest food), the golem and the jinni also have different abilities and personalities. Because the golem's master dies en route to NYC, her innate need to satisfy a master renders her ultra-sensitive to the desires and fears of every person in her proximity. The jinni, essentially a creature of air and fire, chafes at being trapped in human form but excels at doing metal work and lighting cigarettes with his bare hands. The golem is more cautious, prudish, conservative, and empathetic, the jinii more irresponsible, liberated, creative, and selfish. One of the pleasures of the novel is watching the personalities of the two protagonists develop as their plot strands weave ever closer together.
I enjoyed the fresh perspectives of the jinni and the golem about such things as the puzzling human belief in irrational religions and inconvenient social codes, the mystifying construction of large decorative marble arches that lead to or from nowhere, the magical transformations into bread and cake of dough when baked, the dark fascination of aquariums, the claustrophobic nature of commuter trains, the perfection of chicken eggs, and so on.
I cared for the characters, from the two protagonists (so human despite their supernatural differences and belief in their own inhumanity) down to the supporting players like the kind and moral Rabbi Meyer and his honest and naïve nephew Michael Levy, the circumspect tinsmith Boutros Arbeely, the quiet boy Matthew, the tragic ice cream vendor Saleh, the bored and daydreamy heiress Sophia Winston, the heart-of-her-community coffeehouse mistress Maryam Faddoul, the bickering bakery owning Radzins, and even, at times, oddly enough, the abhorrent wizard villain. I enjoyed spending time with them.
I was also impressed by Wecker's evocation of sublime, filthy, and vigorous 1899 NYC, its different districts devoted to the detached wealthy, the squalid poor, and various immigrant groups; it's expansive parks and noisy elevated trains and sordid rooftop demimonde.
The novel also has plenty of good writing, many funny, moving, suspenseful, ironic, or beautiful passages. As when the jinni "comfort[s] himself with the thought that although he might be forced to live like a human, he'd never truly be one," speculates that "perhaps this God of the humans is just a jinni like myself, stuck in the heavens, forced to grant wishes," and rides the Elevated train between two cars: "The noise was deafening, a rattle and screech that penetrated his entire body. Sparks from the track leapt past, blown by a violent wind. Lamp-lit windows flashed by in bright, elongated squares. At Fifty-ninth street he jumped out from between the cars, still shaking."
Other choice passages are the detailed description of the jinni's mesmerizing tin ceiling map-picture of his home desert, down to "a miniscule boar, stout and barrel-chested, the last of the sun glinting off tin-plated tusks," and the moment when the golem sees the jinni for the first time: "His face--and his hands as well, she saw now--shone with that warm light, like a lamp shaded with gauze. She watched him come nearer, unable to take her eyes away."
And the novel is often very funny, as when Radzin and his wife talk about a boy who compulsively counted everything until he died young:
"But he died, the year before we left. A mule kicked him in the head. " She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it deliberately."
Radzin snorted. "Suicide by mule."
"Everyone knew that animal had a temper."
Upon reflection, I suppose that the climax of the novel, though suspenseful and satisfying, is a little too iffy and cinematic, but the book pulses with human life, wisdom, stories, and interesting themes, like the balance between autonomy and servitude in our souls and lives, the nature of love, the quality of community, and the vigorous attraction of the modern city.
This is the first book that I have heard Robert Guidall read, and I quickly became enamored of his savory and compassionate voice. In fact, I suspect that his intelligent, restrained, and sensitive reading of the novel (from his quiet golem to his flighty jinni) increased or enhanced my appreciation of it. I will listen to more books read by him.
Fans of romantic historical urban fantasy (if it is a genre) would probably enjoy this book.
"I loved the story, the writing and the narration."
This is probably the most enjoyable book I have read/listened to all year and the year is 2/3 complete. For those among us who gravitate to fantasy, this is certainly that. For those looking for something quite unique this is that also. For those among the hopeless romantics, you have come home. I loved everything about this book: the story, its depth and its ending. And narrated by George Guidall; what more could one ask for?
The nature of my world these days has caused me to cut back on the number of reviews that I am able to write. But I just have to share what I find to be the truly wonderful books I come across and this is one of them.
"Loved everything about this!"
I guess this qualifies as historical fiction, since it's set in turn of the century NYC or fantasy, since it has supernatural qualities in it, but I don't think it needs a set category -- it's just a really good story.
George Guidall is quickly becoming one of my favorite narrators and he does an amazing job on this story as well.
This book did the two best things for me: Made me feel like I was there while I was reading it, and made me sad to reach the end.
I had to get this because of all the great reviews. Once again I did not dig deep enough. Through the first half this was an excellent story with an excellent narrator. The story had a fairy, fantastical feel with a historical aspect to it. The development of the Golem and her reaction to the world were wonderful. At first the Jinni was a separate story, with an Aladdin type of feel. Both characters were opposites in nature. There were some jerky transitions in times and places, but not bad enough to ruin the story.
Some interesting things happen when they get to New York City. In New York we meet some nice American characters. We also get a feel for the horrifying way in which immigrants had to enter through Ellis Island and how strange the New World would have felt for them. We also see how hard it was for new people and not everyone was so inviting. Then in the middle of the book one of the sub characters die and the mood of the book changed. The Jinni and the Golem meet and they start taking long walks together. My wife saw the movie Tess, I did not, but she said it was boring and all they did was take long walks and talk, talk ,talk. This turns into that. There was the beginning of the development of a bad guy and I thought that would be interesting, but it took forever. This novel was in strong need of an editor. I am not sure the editor read the manuscript all the way through. The book turns into a soap opera and the magical feel it had earlier goes out the window. With four hours and forty minutes left, I gave up. I had suffered through several hours of dialogue and soap operaness and lost patience.
George Guidall adds class to everything he narrates, for a debut novel to score one of the best was very lucky for Wecker.
"Different and interesting but not exciting"
I was very excited to read this book based on the number of high reviews. It is not the genre of book that I didn't care for but rather the style of the writing. The mystical and historical parts of the story were fascinating. However, the flow of the story made it a painful read. I mostly listen while commuting. The story didn't seem to come together until the middle of the book. The beginning was rather dull and several times while listening I needed to switch to music just to stay awake. By the middle of the book the characters became more interesting and listening became more enjoyable. Overall, a different book and somewhat interesting but definitely not a riveting tale.
"Not My Usual Genre--So Happy A Friend Recommended!"
I have a friend that reads Sci-fi, I read hoaky romance stories and British mysteries. Why she recommended this book to me I will never know, I'm just glad she did. I found myself "sneaking" to listen at work! I knew nothing about Golems or Jinnis before this book. This book is set in 1927 New York. In addition to the fascinating lifes of the Golem and the Jinni, it provides a very interesting peep into what life was like for Jewish, Syrian, etc. immigrants. There is magic, a little romance, religious angst, culture, class differences, 1927 morality, and even the hunt for immortality! I can't wait to hear more from SW. To top it off, one of my all time favorite narrators, George Guidall. I can't say enough about this book. I wouldn't tell Audible this, but this one is worth 2 credits!
I have pretty high standards for audio books. I want great narration...lively and interesting characters and a plot that moves along at a solid pace.
You get all of that and much more in this outstanding story.
19 plus hours and I wasn't bored once.
This one is a keeper.
"Read this Book - It is a Wonder!"
I can't hardly believe this is a first book ... this author made magic on the page come to life ... what a wonderfully imaginative and fresh way to spin a tale about mythical characters that make you think your hearing about them for the very first time ... the historical time frame was woven in the story perfectly ... I can't say enough how much I enjoyed this book ... fresh, imaginative, creative - adjectives just escape me ... George Guidall did a masterful reading of this title ... forget what ever else you have a your wish list move this title to the top of your list & listen to this book - you won't regret it.
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Why Would my Shifter Cable Tension INCREASE?
Problem Solved... see Post #29.
My Giant Hybrid has a triple in the front cassette.
In the last ride in Fall 2013, everything was fine. The bike has been stored indoors at room temperature for all Winter. The bike has not moved, no derailleur adjustments made since Fall 2013.
Now I've noticed that the shifter will not shift into the granny gear (smallest cog in front). You press the shifter lever and it does not click and the derailleur does not move. The other 2 cogs can still be reached.
Based on my research on forums and watching many YouTube derailleur videos, it appears the cable tension must be reduced. But this brings up a better question: What caused the tension to mysteriously INCREASE?! I could see cable stretch over time causing a tension reduction, however, the tension increase at constant temperature and no adjustment makes no sense to me.
Any ideas on how this increase happened? Could it point to a larger issue that must be fixed?
Derailleur: Shimano Deore LX
Shifters: Shimano SLX
Bent the housing ? Corrosion of the cable, perhaps, ?
buy new die drawn Stainless steel cables , greasing them is also a decent Idea.
It's probably not related to cable "shrinkage" t all, but rather to corrosion and friction.
You might get away with running some light oil into the cables from the ends and working the mechanism back and forth helping the spring move it in with some hand pressure applied directly to the FD. If this reestablishes the range of travel, continue to shift back and forth until it works freely without help.
BTW- some oil of the FD pivots also will probably help, but be sure to wipe off excess.
Cable tension may not have increased at all. It's more likely that it is not being allowed to retract fully due, as fietsbob mentioned to poor grease or something else that is causing friction. If, for instance, the cable in the brifter moved out of its slot/area the cable would not be able to fully detension. If the housing became dirty or the got a bend it in it would similarly fail to retract fully. A cable might be frayed internally. Someplace within the cable routing may be contaminated. All sorts of things could be involved. Chances are if you clip the end of the cable and release the cable you'll find it is not moving freely and smoothly. Time for new cables and/or housing. That's a project I just finished on two bikes.
My money's on misdiagnosis and a sticky pawl in the shifter preventing it from dropping into first.
I'd say it's riding in the wet that gets crap up inside the housings more than anything, and if you find that an issue in particular, grease may be worth a try as a means to minimise it.
Easy enough to troubleshoot:
1. Disconnect the shift cable from the derailleur. Does the derailleur move inward on it's own? If so, it's not the derailleur.
2. Hold the shift cable with your finger and cycle the shifter. Can you feel all 3 positions?
3. If the shifter doesn't want to move to the granny position (my bet) then that's it! Find a way to shoot some WD40 into the shifter innerds and cycle the shifter a few times while you pull on the shift cable with your other hand.
Reconnect the shift cable, readjust the cable tension and you're dont.
OP should check for a bent der hanger or cage too. Andy.
Cheaper and more easily soldered where I cut the end, Zn Treated Cables Greases Is what I often use.. greased, in fully housed cable Runs.
LBS buys that sort in Bulk, SS as an each package.
Some very good suggestions here. I'm not ruling out misdiagnosis.
Considering that I still have the original 1 year guarantee on it from the LBS, I don't want to go monkeying around.
Tension is just a twist knob, but I have never actually disassembled anything on a bike before, so I prefer to do that when it's out of warranty.
I'm about to go out for a ride- the bike's been sitting for a month in the garage. I'll probably have shifting issues. :twitchy:
Un hook the cable , feel it sliding through it's path .. independent of the part it is Operating.
By the time you get symptoms the OP describes it is more likely the problem is more than just needing to lube a cable. That said, I agree that a very light lube, graphite or otherwise, is more efficient and less likely to allow further dirt to accumulate. It takes a pretty dirty/rainy/dusty environment to get enough gunk into cables to cause a problem like that described and if it is dirty cables it's probably dirty housing and even more likely frayed housing or cables. This really -is- time to put in new housing and cables unless something obvious and easily cured rears it's head. You can't see inside a worn cable housing so even after removing all the cable housing the problem might not be obvious.
The next step, before anything else is to diagnose the problem, and it doesn't have to be taken apart for that. The lever can be wokd against tension by pulling the wire away from the frame like a bow string, to see if it provides three positions, and shifts leanly between them.
The FD can be tested the same way, shifting by pulling the wire directly and seeing if it works smoothly through it's range of travel. (shift to low first).
The actual cause could be the lever, cable, BB turnaround guide, or the FD itself either being sticky or having dirt packed in and hdried there. A proper diagnosis will point out where to look closer, and the direction to a fix.
Indeed, diagnosis is not a guessing game, a competition where people try to be the first to post the right answer, or a "this happened to me once" exchange. It is a simple, logically driven process. Whether it is the OP or a shop mechanic, the best route is to eliminate possible explanations until the correct conclusion is reached.
Seen it heaps.
OP, don't worry about voiding your warranty - just grab a small philips head and some WD40, and remove the two screws holding the cover on the left shifter (which you likely need to do if you wanted to change the cable anyway), and look for a little sprung pawl that moves with the lever - you'll see it sticking and failing to engage when the desired shift doesn't occur. You just need a drop or two of WD40 on its pivot, then just use the screwdriver or something pokey to work it back and forth a bit until it moves freely again; hey presto.
FWIW both Shimano and Camagnolo recommend greasing cables on installation.
Greasing cables is fine for the summer and maybe year round in the south, but is a problem during northern cold weather months.
Plain SS cables in fresh lined housings run pretty smooth without any lube; IMO the lube just extends the life of the liner. Also, (at least some) Shimano housing is supplied pre-greased too.
There was good justification for greasing some cables where they passed through housing into the 90's. Neither cables nor housing were predominately stainless, and housing still was not all lined. There was a significant difference in diameter between cable and unlined housing, especially for shift cables, because the same housing was often used for both. That was particularly true for department store bikes. The result of metal-to-metal contact, combined with friction and water, was that it was very easy for corrosion to occur inside the housing. Housing that pointed up at the ends, such as that for the front derailleur and the rear brake on a women's (open) frame was particularly vulnerable, but the micro environment inside any housing section inevitably included some moisture.
Our shop standard was originally to grease all cables where they passed through housing, and we even added an additional "plug" of grease at the cable stop if the housing pointed upward, as a barrier toward entry of water and contaminates. I did the same for bikes I assembled in a contract I had with Sears - their maintenance contract claims went down precipitously as a result, because cables had not been lubricated at all previously.
With the advent of lined housing some lubrication was (and is now) still needed for non-stainless cables, though the tighter tolerances call for oil rather than grease. That is especially true with the sometimes lighter springing of more recent rear derailleurs and indexed shifting, which depends on free movement of the derailleur by spring action alone.
No one seems to have mentioned this, but what about checking the derailleur stop screw?? Those change while riding at times and we just don't notice since we're using it and the change is so gradual. Make sure your derailleur CAN move to that last chain ring and that the stop screw isn't doing it's job!
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With more than 2 million unique visitors per month to its websites, InternetCorp has a market share of more than 10% of the Romanian online advertising market. The company was established in 2005 and demonstrated significant growth during the last three years.
InternetCorp has successfully addressed the market with a unique combination of an integrated business model and an impressive portfolio of sites in the categories of business, news, and lifestyle, which are all ranked in the top five in their respective segments. Out of the portfolio of 14 websites, the company's flagship products are www.wall-street.ro, www.kudika.ro and www.9am.ro, reaching a well defined target audience and offering a highly effective advertising environment.
"InternetCorp is a great complement to the existing portfolio of the 3TS Cisco Growth Fund, given the fund's focus on small and medium-sized technology, media and communications companies across the CEE region. Romania is the second largest CEE EU member country, where the development of internet usage shows a fast growing trend. We are confident that through our investment we can help InternetCorp continue on its growth trajectory," commented Mr. József Kövér, Partner of 3TS Capital Partners.
"We believe that having 3TS Capital Partners on board is of great value to InternetCorp. Our partner's track record proves their strong commitment to further developing the businesses they invest in. We are convinced that they will support the growth of InternetCorp not only through investments, but also through know-how, based on their deep understanding of the online media landscape across CEE and via other successful investments throughout the region. Also, having concluded a deal of significant size during the recession sends a signal that while Romania's online space is maturing, there is still plenty of room left for potential growth," added Mr. Mihai Seceleanu, CEO of InternetCorp.
3TS Capital Partners (www.3tscapital.com) is one of the leading private equity and venture capital firms in Central and Eastern Europe operating in the whole region through offices in Budapest, Bucharest, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw. 3TS primarily targets expansion capital and buyout investments in high growth sectors including Technology & Telecoms, Media & Marketing, Services and Environment & Energy. Investors in the Funds include 3i, Cisco, Sitra, EBRD and KfW among others.
InternetCorp is Romania's leading independent online publisher, with a strong presence in the business publishing, women's Lifestyle and general news segments, where its online properties secure top positions. The company was incorporated in 2005 and it's currently ranked among the top players in both terms of audience and online advertising market share, having developed a portfolio that currently includes fourteen successful products in the Romanian online space, such as Wall-Street.ro, 9AM.ro, Kudika.ro, Yuppy.ro, Garbo.ro, Envy.ro, Condo.ro, CorporateNews.ro, Sotto.ro, Kidz.ro, Healthy.ro, Grace.ro, Delly.ro, Lazy.ro.
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It was another typical sports day for Indiana sports fans. While the Indianapolis Colts were completing an improbable comeback, the Indiana Pacers were completing their own typical comeback against the New Orleans Pelicans.
In front of a sellout crowd, the Pacers got off to a slow start, something fans are accustomed to seeing this year. An early 14 point deficit didn't sit well with fans, but if you've watched this team at all this season, then you would know it's how they typically start. Lance Stephenson led the second half charge by scoring 12 of his 19 points in the third quarter and the Pacers surged to a 99-82 victory.
When these two squads met in October, it was Jrue Holiday and Anthony Davis that gave them the most trouble, but last night, it was hometown kid Eric Gordon and the unknown Alexis Ajinca. Gordon dropped 21 points and Ajinca was unstoppable from the top of the key on his way to scoring a career-high 17 points.
For Indiana, Roy Hibbert and David West were nonexistent on the offensive end, scoring a combined 14 points. But on the defensive end, they made their mark with their interior defenses, seven total blocks, while holding Holiday and Davis to a combined 18 points.
Paul George did what he does, scoring 24 points and grabbing 10 boards. The bench even got into the scoring groove as Danny Granger finished with 13 points, Luis Scola had eight, and C.J. Watson had six.
After losing to the Toronto Raptors to start the new year, the Pacers got back to winning and stayed atop the NBA with the league's best record.
Mathew Muncy is an Indiana Pacers writer for RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @MMuncy, "Like" him on Facebook or add him to your network on Google.


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Whether you are setting up a printer for the first time in Windows, or adding a new (or replacement) printer, Windows 10 makes the steps pretty easy…at least most of the time.
A new primter may come with an installation disk. If so, that's probably the best route to choose, since Windows 10 may not have an applicable printer driver installed yet. Also, the installation disk may include the PDF manual for the printer as well as special diagnostic or utility software for it.
If you are going to use the printer manufacturer's software, read the printer installation instructions first! Some manufacturers, HP as an example, want you to delay connecting the printer to the computer until the installation software tells you to connect it.
Tech Tip
This prevents Windows from getting to a point where it registers the printer as an Unknown Device (and forces you to solve that problem).
If there is not an installation disk, or if you don't want to use it, the first step is to open Windows 10 Settings.
Left-click on the Start button. Then click the Gear icon on the left to ope Settings. Select Devices. Alternatively, you can type
install printer in the search bar at the top of the Settings window.
Either option will open the Devices page of the Settings app.
The first item on the Devices page is Add printers & scanners. Just beneath it is the active link to actually do the work. Click on Add a printer or scanner or click on the plus(+) icon to its left.
Windows 10 will search for printers and scanners that are directly connected to the computer and for ones with wired or wireless connections to the same network that the computer is on.
It will display a list of the printers that it finds, allowing you to choose the printer you want to Install in Windows 10; that is, the printer you want to make usable by the computer running this installation of Windows 10.
Tech Tip
You will not have to do separate installations for different user IDs on the same Windows installation.
The printer will have to be Installed separately on any other Windows 10 computers you have, in order to be available to them.
Similarly, if you have another version of Windows 10 installed in a separate partition or virtual machine, you'll have to install it there, too.
In the example shown in the image above, Windows 10 was unable to locate any printer that was either directly connected or on the local wired/wireless network.
All is not lost, however. Just click the link The printer that I want isn't listed and Windows 10 will provide additional options for finding the printer.
THe first option is the easiest, if it works. Select it and then click Next (if you have assigned a static IP address to the printer, the third option will work also, but do not use it if your printer uses a dynamically assigned IP address (DHCP address), which is usually the default network setting.
In my case, the "My printer is a little older" worked — it located my old HP Color Laser Jet CP1518ni printer (the toner I use), as shown in the image below.
After selecting the printer, click Next for Windows 10 to install the printer driver.
At this point, Windows 10 will identify the driver (if it has it available) and whether it is installed or not. If it has already been installed (e.g., if you have previously installed that printer or that type of printer), Windows 10 will give you a choice of using the installed one or replacing it.
I selected Replace the current driver.
Even though I selected Replace the current driver, Windows 10 did not allow me to choose a driver. It simply reinstalled that driver. Now, it allows me to set the printer name in Windows 10.
The default printer name is the printr driver's name. I chose to change that to the printer's model name.
The next step allows you to choose whether to share the printer or not. With a directly-connected printer (connected to your computer via a USB cable), sharing will allow other computers on your home network to use the printer.
Of course, in order for another computer to use the printer via Windows printer sharing, the hosting computer (the one to which the printer is connected) must be running and booted into Windows.
However, since this is a network printer (directly connected to the network via an Ethernet cable), there is no need to tell Windows to share the printer.
The final step is the confirmation that the printer has been successfully added to Windows 10 on this computer. The Print a test page button functions as a test allowing you to make sure everything really works.


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1952 Fender Esquire. Who needs two pickups anyway? Leo definitely got it right the first time; ash body, maple neck, single pickup and so much attitude. Super comfortable neck, big but not as ridiculous as the modern '52 necks. 3 very usable sounds with the 3 way switch and god it sounds mean through a Tonebender. Instant Jimmy. Keep an eye on the website for more details soon!
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1967 Gibson ES 330 TD
1967 Gibson ES 330 TD. Very cool and pretty unique ES 330/ES 335 hybrid, modded years ago with a great sounding set of period pat. no Gibson humbuckers and the tuners have also been swapped out to a set of double ring Klusons. Someone really wanted a 335. Being fully hollow, it's lightweight, it's pretty lively but sounds oh so sweet set up on light Flatwounds.
1963 Gretsch Tennessean.
1965 Fender Jaguars
Basking in the rare British Summer Sun are our pair of 1965 Fender Jaguars. Both early 65 guitars with non-bound dot fingerboards. One is less faded, very clean and set up on roundwound strings. The other has more edge wear, has lost some of its target burst and is strung with flatwounds. It's amazing how different they feel and sound for two vintage guitars so close to each other in production. Which would you choose?
Gibson Custom '57 Les Paul Custom Reissue and Victoria 20112
Potent Pairing No 2.
Neither of these have a great deal of age to them but both are about as Vintage accurate as you can get circa 1957. The tweed amp is a Victoria 20112 5e3 narrow panel tweed deluxe replica. A classic circuit built with Victoria's renowned attention to detail with the added bonus of a Dr Z Airbrake Lite. All the tones a 5e3 is known for but with the option to reign the volume in a touch. The LP is a 2013 Custom Shop 57 reissue Custom. Gibson made 100 of these to celebrate 20 years of Custom Shop production of the 57 reissue. It has a real ebony board and the Gibson Custom Historic level of build quality. Together these two sing!
1952 & 1954 Gibson Les Pauls
2 early 50s Goldtops just in store, we've got a 1952 and 1954. For me these early Les Pauls are the bee's knees. All the vibe and tone of later examples without the eye watering price tags.
The 52 spent most of its life in Chicago until a few years ago; just imagine the player's hands it could have gone through. It's had the Joe Glazer mod to the tailpiece so it plays like a dream; the original is still with the guitar in the original brown case.
The 54 started life as an all gold Les Paul but like a lot of the all gold guitars has had the back and sides stripped and refined, other than that it's a nice straight guitar with no issues at all.
Both are good weight and sound incredible through any amp you plug into, cleaned up they sound woody, crisp and chimey all the way through to full on sensory overload with the controls maxed!
Which would you choose?
1998 Gibson Custom 59 Les Paul Reissue
Monster Top 'Good Wood Era' Gibson Les Paul 59 reissue from 1998. These late nineties Custom Shop guitars are getting highly sought after, much lower production numbers and fantastic timbers make these guitars really shine over the guitars the Gibson Custom Shop is producing today.
The top on this thing is incredible, deep, 3D flame that's really set of by the Stanley Burst finish.
So clean it looks like it was made yesterday.
1965 Fender Jaguar
1965 Fender Jaguar. Very nice and honest Jaguar just in, on display and ready to demo.
We've sold many vintage Jaguars in the past and I've got to say I never got into them until we got this one in. It's amazing! The pickups sound clear and crisp, the back of the neck is played in and silky smooth. Cleaned up, restrung with some flats and set up. It's killer.
A bit of fading to the 3-tone Sunburst, reproduction tuners, some edge knocks and dings and that's about it.
Sweet guitar for about the same price as a brand new Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster or Telecaster.
Brook Guitars at Vintage n Rare
We are very pleased to welcome Brook guitars to our select number of new brands at Vintage N Rare.
Fresh from the Devon workshop we have our first two offerings and two of Brooks most popular, a Taw and a Torridge
The Torridge is one of Brooks earliest designs, it's a fine fingerpicker and in this combination of timber the guitar really shines.
24 3/4 scale length, 14 fret with a 3 piece walnut and cherry back, Walnut sides and lovely Sitka top.
The Taw is slightly larger than the Torridge with a slightly rounder bass response.
14 fret with a 24 3/4 scale with walnut back and sides and a beautiful Sitka spruce top.
Both guitars come priced with Hiscox Cases
Call 01225 463777 for all Enquiries of emails to enquiries@vintageandrareguitars
1963 Fender Stratocaster
1963 Fender Stratocaster. This ones a true players Strat. Jet black refin with matching headstock to match the jet black rosewood fingerboard. On early 60s Pre-CBS guitars, examples can almost look like ebony. Original 'green' cellulose guard with some changed parts. This thing is mean!
An affordable way into the world of pre-CBS strats. Details on request at email@example.com


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Waterborne Trailer (2005)
13 March 2005 Drama, Action, Thriller 80 mins
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
Watch the official Waterborne 2005 trailer in HD below or find more Waterborne videos on Vidimovie.


text: Im getting everything on my computer ready to flash the stock rom back to my phone in case I do something to it. My question is about the di18file download. In the directions it says to rename and take off the md5. I have no clue how to rename and take it off. I downloaded it and saved it to the desktop and when I choose to rename it doesn't have the md5 at the end. If I put the file in Odin it has the md5 and all the example pics don't have it at the end. How to I get it off?


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UDP Organizational Structure
The U District Partnership is a 501 (c)(3) Non Profit Organization governed by a Board of Directors. In its articles of incorporation the UDP has mandated that the Board have a broad representation from throughout the District including, two property owners, two business owners, two residents, one social service provider, one business tenant, up to four "at-large" representatives in the District, and four UW representatives. The UDP Board meets on a monthly basis and is governed by bylaws to over see the work plan of UDP staff and address issues arising in the neighborhood.
The U District Partnership is funded through the use of a Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs are self taxing mechanisms enabled by Washington State Law. The U District BIA was expanded in early 2014 to include a larger swath of the U District Community, the official city ordinance was passed in April 2015. The BIA has its own Ratepayer's Advisory Board who contracts with the U District Partnership to execute a Strategic Plan. The U District BIA has a tiered assessment structure, every property owner inside the BIA boundaries pay a base rate of $0.25 for every $1,000 of Total Taxable Value into the General BIA Fund, additional if a property is located within one of two cleaning areas there is an additional fee based on the total Lot Area of the property. The Ratepayers Advisory Board meets on a quarterly basis. The BIA Budget can be found here.
Sally Clark: UW Director of Regional and Community Relations; Co-Chair
Miles Richardson: Audi Seattle; Co-Chair
Andrew McMasters: Jet City Improv Director; Outgoing Chair
Barbara Quinn: Resident; Secretary; UHCC Board;
Alfred Shiga: Shiga's Imports Owner; Treasurer;
Rebecca Barnes: UW University Architect – Campus & Capital Planning
Doug Campbell: Bulldog News Owner; Business Tenant
Cory Crocker: Resident & Business Owner; U District Square
Kristine Scott: ROOTS;
Theresa Doherty: Senior Project Director, Campus Master Plan & U District Collaborations, UW Planning & Management
Jeanette Henderson: UW Director of Real Estate
Lois Ko: Sweet Alchemy Owner; Business Tenant
Louise Little: University Book Store CEO
Rob Lubin: UW Associate Director of Facilities & Capital Planning, Housing & Food Services
Don Schulze: Shultzy's Owner
Patricia Simpson: Pastor University Temple United Methodist
Roger Wagoner: Resident; UHCC
Elizabeth McCoury
President & CEO
From Virginia Elizabeth joined the U District Community in late 2014. As President & CEO of the UDP, Elizabeth McCoury is responsible for executing the community's vision and Strategic Plan.
Marcus Johnson
Clean & Safe
Marcus joined the UDP team in November of 2015, as the director of the Clean and Safe program, the neighborhood has been steadily improving every day since.
Chase Landrey
Community Engagement
Chase joined the UDP team in April of 2017, as the Community Engagement Coordinator. Having been involved in the U District for the last decade, Chase is excited to do all he can to grow and strengthen the already great community in the local neighborhood.
Meetings & Documents
UDP Board Meeting Packet November 2017
UDBIA Meeting Agenda September 2017
Ratepayer Advisory Board Work Session August 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes July 2017
UDP Board Meeting Agenda August 2017
RatePayer Advisory Board Meeting Minutes June 2017
UDP Monthly Board Meeting Agenda July 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes June 2017
UDP Monthly Board Meeting Agenda June 2017
UDP Special Board Meeting Agenda June 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes May 2017
UDP Board Meeting Agenda May 2017
UDP & Ratepayer Advisory Board Meeting Agenda April 2017
UDP Board Meeting Agenda April 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes March 2017
UDP Board Meeting Agenda March 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes February 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes January 2017
UDP Board Meeting Minutes December 2016
UDP Board Meeting Minutes November 2016
UDP Board Meeting Minutes October 2016


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Keller, TX (PressExposure) June 03, 2009 -- towPartners is pleased to announce that it has renewed the legislative research tool service offering for its towing, repossession and road service members. This tool, purchased from Legicrawler and powered by that firm is available to all towPartners Gold Level Members and Association Partners. The tool searches for active legislation containing a variety of keywords in all 50 states as well as at the national level including those containing information about wreckers, tow trucks, automotive repossession and much more. It then organizes the results to make research of legislation impacting the towing and asset recovery industries easy for our members. The results can be searched, printed, e-mailed and more. Members can even review the legislation in other states and use this in the efforts in their own states.
âOnce again we are proud to provide this valuable tool to our members and to all of our industry Association Partners. This tool allows them to not only research the legislation in their own states but provides access to information from across the country,â stated Jeffrey Godwin, Vice President of FTI Group, Inc., which manages both the towPartners and repoPartners programs. âThrough recent changes we are also offering information on legislation affecting the asset recovery industry in order to provide further benefit to our repoPartners program. We hope to promote an environment where more member companies work together to affect positive change in the legal arena on issues ranging from Move Over laws to matters related to procedures and rates. We are here âFor the Industryâ and free tools such as this one for members and partners are just a small part of what we have planned.â
The legislative research tool has been collecting data for towPartners members since towPartners first provided it in February 2007. With thousands of past searches and a considerable amount of current legislation to review, it is expected that the tool will continue to be widely used by the towing and recovery industry as well as the asset recovery industry whose interests are also part of the search functions.
Access to this legislative tool is free to Gold Level Members of towPartners and repoPartners as well as to towPartnersâ Association Partners. For more information on either Gold Level Membership or Association Partnership, visit http://www.towpartners.com.
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Press Contact: Jeffrey Godwin TowPartners P. O. Box 2349 Keller, TX 76244 817-337-8111 email@example.com http://www.towpartners.com


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iPhone X review
need help with opening powerpoint files
hello to all,
this is the first time i have posted here as i really need some advice.
i have a home computer which my son says works with XP,my problem is i am having trouble opening the presentations at:
click here
i do charity and volunteer work for my local st.johns ambulance and would like to see the current thinking in this area.i have downloaded the 97viewer from the bottom of the above page.
i thought i would need to click on the presentations and they would open but i keep getting told that powerpoint cant open the file represented by-then the name of the file.
does anyone know what i have done wrong or what i should do now?
thanks for your time,
i forgot to say,i have even tried to save the link to my computer and then open it with powerpoint but keep being told powerpoint cant open it.
"i have downloaded the 97viewer from the bottom of the above page."
Thats okay to use if the presentations were written in Powerpoint 97, but if they were written with a later version, then you will need a later version of reader. Try looking around Microsoft.com and search for something like viewer2003 they can always look back at earlier versions.
Try this Powerpoint viewer click here
hello to you both,
i went to the 2003 link and tried to download it but got the following message:
"c:/documents and settings/a/local setting/temporary internet files/content/ppviewer etc" is not a valid Win32 application.
i tried to save 2003pp also but with the same result.
as an aside,when i saved the presentation links the box i was viewing said:
filename:2004 dr gareth davies
save as type:microsoft powerpoint presentation
should there not be a ppt.code in the file name may be also???
i dont know what i have done may be i am too old for this- but i appreciate you trying to help me.
I'm getting a bit confused thinking about this because in your original message you said "powerpoint cant open the file represented by-then the name of the file". If there was an error I would have expected it to say "Powerpoint Viewer can't...". Are you sure that you do not have Powerpoint (the full version, not the viewer) installed on the PC?
When you downloaded the 2003 viewer did you select to Run or Save the file?
Well thats strange, I have just clicked on Vog's link I then clicked on the download button to the right of the screen andthen it just let me download the viewer.
This definately what you need June, because I have Powerpoint 2003 already installed on my PC and I can view your Blue Light Files without even downloading. Just give it another try.
Perhaps Vog might have a suggestion or two.
hello hillybilly and vog,
thanks for the advice.i have been to the link vog suggested again and downloaded the 2003viewer it is in start up menu fine.
but when i click on the presentation links i get the following message:
powerpoint cant open the type of file represented by c:/documents and settings/a/local settings/temporary internet files/content.ie5/s4bk3vct/2004%20dr%20gareth%20davies[3].ppt.
when i click on the 2003veiwer icon on the start up menu and locate the davies ppt and click open it just says:
powerpoint veiwer cannot open the file 2004 dr gareth davies ppt.
i dont know what i have done wrong but the viewer just wont open it.
That file of Gareth Davies is a very large file , what I did wa o right click on it and then click on save file as. Ithen saved it into my documents not any temp older once that was done it will open with the viewer.
My thoughts exactly hillybilly - it is a pretty huge file.
What happens, june66, if you try the one underneath it "Ellaine Young" which is much smaller.
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This year our family is focusing on the Articles of Faith and memorizing all 13 of them. We print out the following cards, slap some tape on them, and put them in a place where the whole family can see them!
We switch out the cards as we all pass them off and we've found it's a great way to achieve this goal together!
Click the following links to download each file:
Why stop there? Here's some punch cards that are a great motivation for the kids...


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Winterborn Trailer (1978)
01 September 1978 Drama 100 mins
A drama about a group of women preparing to give birth who meet and bond at the hospital. Based on the best-selling Danish novel by Dea Trie Moerch and directed by acclaimed Danish filmmaker Astrid Henning-Jensen, "Winterborn" was considered one of the best movies of the decade in Denmark.
Watch the official Winterborn 1978 trailer in HD below or find more Winterborn videos on Vidimovie.


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Welcome back to this read of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Here we enjoy a great book and examine the techniques Gabaldon uses to improve our own writing.
To catch up or review previous parts of this read, click here.
Chapter 9: The Gathering
Summary: Castle Leoch, and with them Claire, prepare for the coming Gathering, an important event of which Claire is still largely ignorant. However, she helps other castle girls pick cherries and apricots in preparation to feed so many. She works in the garden, sometimes in the kitchen, and, when needed, as castle doctor.
On her first expedition into the orchards, she asks one of the girls she has become friendly with how many come to the Gatherings. The girl isn't certain, but she figures it'll be more than the ten score men that came the last time Leoch hosted a Gathering, plus their families.
Claire frequents the stables and the impromptu fair set up for the event in hopes of catching a horse and a chance to escape.
Writer Comments: This scene accomplishes two primary functions: scene setting and the passage of time. Let's look at those separately.
Scene Setting:
The Gathering is clearing an important even in the story, and based on the fact that the next section of the book follows it, I'm assuming it will be a significant turning point for Claire. Thus, Gabaldon needs to establish a shift in setting. No, Leoch isn't going anywhere, at least not at this point in history, but the castle undergoes a change in atmosphere, inhabitants, and focus. Establishing this through a brief scene like this builds anticipation for the coming big event and helps establish the look, feel, scent, taste, and atmosphere readers will need to fully experience the coming events.
To accomplish this, Gabaldon provides rich, textured exposition. She utilizes all five senses heavily, and this keeps the scene from being boring. She talks of sweet cherries and apricots, both of which I can almost taste while I read. She mentions smoke, which I can smell. She talks of wet leaves in misty morning, which I can feel on my skin. Claire has a brief conversation with a girl at the orchard, providing sound. Activity is described from work in the garden, preparing meat, carting in ale and flour, picking fruit. All this provides a sense of motion, which also safeguards against dullness.
The Passage of Time:
No author should write everything that happens during the course of a story. That would make the narrative drag on in long boring stretches. By the time a reader reached an interesting part, assuming he were patient enough to get that far, his brain would be so dulled that the impact and excitement of the interesting scene would lose its power. This necessitates the skipping or summarizing of time and information at strategic points in a story. This is when "telling" has its uses.
In this instance, Gabaldon quickly summarizes how Claire passes her days. Since it's brief, she doesn't risk becoming boring. Then she utilizes a technique that helps with the scene setting I mentioned above: motion.
Motion automatically carries with it the passage of time. It's a basic rule of the universe. The fourth dimension is time. If something moves, we understand time to have passed. So by describing various activities in progress, Gabaldon automatically creates a sense of time's passage.
Yet she does not linger on details. She includes rich verbs, nouns, and carefully chosen adjectives to provide texture and interest. Because she employs such vivid language, even when she "tells" what's happening, it seems more like "showing." The combination of vividness and motion creates the sense of action playing out before the reader and thus being "shown." This is really when the two concepts of show and tell blend in a productive way.
So when a writer needs to summarize and show the passage of time, employing textured, colorful language, motion, and being brief can keep transition scenes like this interesting and effective.
Summary: On another fruit collecting expedition, Claire spots a useful mushroom and begins collecting it. However, a woman name Geillis Duncan, stops her, claiming the mushrooms are poisonous. Claire explains she knows this, but that the mushrooms are good for stopping bleeding once dried and applied topically.
This initiates the beginnings of a friendship. Geillis, a wealth of knowledge concerning herbs and healing herself, shows Claire places where certain herbs and mushrooms grow. She's cynical but cheerful, and though she frequently teases Claire, Claire finds her a pleasant companion.
But Geillis isn't just a purveyor of medicinal lore. She's a gossip as well. One of the juicy tidbits she shares with Claire is the belief that Colum's son is not actually his. She and many others claim the boy's actual father is none other than Jamie MacTavish.
Writer Comments: Geillis is fun to read. She adds an energy to the page that no other character thus far has managed. She must have been fun to write as well. In fact, that's the secret to making characters fun to read. They first have to be enjoyable to write.
Beyond that, Geillis provides another mouthpiece for sharing information with readers. Whether Jamie is really the boy's father or not, it's clearly an important belief Gabaldon must get across. I presume it will come into play for Claire later on. Regardless, as before, we have another minor character providing key information, but she isn't just a talking head. She has personality and provides more to the story than mere knowledge and rumor. She clearly offers Claire the possibility of friendship and a peer. In a world where she's very much the outsider, such might become precious to Claire. At the very least, it's a need all readers can understand. We get the idea of loneliness and the need to fill out lives with those we enjoy.
But notice that Gabaldon does not spend pages and pages examining Claire's loneliness. I believe she has only used the word alone, or some variant, once. A character does not need to philosophize about his inner working for an author to imply their existence. Emotions and mental states can be demonstrated in all sorts of indirect and powerful, though sometimes subtle, ways. Claire is constantly reminded of her alienness to this world. She's cheerful about her predicament and naturally leans toward optimism, which means she's unlikely to brood or monologue about her troubles. But Gabaldon uses situations and the contrast between Claire and this new world to demonstrate her inner emotions. She uses action in how Claire interacts with the people of Castle Leoch to reveal inner conflict. Only occasionally does she resort to exposition to explain Claire. Remember that navel gazing is not a requirement for revealing a character's inner struggle.
Now, let's take a step sideways to Jamie. Why does Gabaldon reveal this gossip about him now? It accomplishes a whole score of things, but they all come down to two things: they add conflict and they give Jamie greater value in the stakes of the story and in the other characters' eyes.
Like in gardening, conflict must be planted like seeds before it can grow and reach satisfying maturity. And like a seedling or older plant, an author must water conflict by adding to it, by revealing more dimensions of it, and by increasing the stakes of the story, thus the value of what that conflict threatens or impacts. As to the exact conflict Gabaldon has in mind, I don't know, but the mere possibility of Jamie being the father of the laird's heir is enough to make it interesting. It's enough to create delicious complications for other conflicts as well, such as the romance Gabaldon is clearly implying will develop between Claire and Jamie. Such as the relationship between Colum and Jamie, perhaps even between Dougal and Jamie. The possibilities are endless.
Summary: When Claire returns to the orchard, Magdalen, another women she's friendly with, is waiting for her in some state of fright for what happened to her. Magdalen lets slip that Colum has given orders that Claire be watched, but Claire already suspected this.
The next day, a surge of food poisoning strikes the castle, and Claire is too busy tending the sick and tracking down the source of the bad food to go picking fruit. She finally discovers that a bad cow carcass is the result of all the trouble. While laying into the man in charge of meat preservation, Dougal finds her and invites her to accompany him into the village. He has business to handle, and she needs certain herbs for the sick, which she should be able to procure from Geillis. Claire jumps at the chance to escape the castle, even for just a little while.
Writer Comments: I have to wonder if Dougal and Colum are testing Claire by allowing her to ride into the village. Will she try to run away or not? But then, this is yet another small step or escalation in the subtle conflict between Claire and the MacKenzies. Even if Gabaldon doesn't intend to pique my suspicions in this manner, setting up that conflict earlier allow them fertile ground, and that's what helps generate interest in the story.
Too, by starting this section, barely a page long, with Magdalen slipping about Colum having Claire watched and ending it with this offer from Dougal, Gabaldon naturally pairs the two. Again, whether on purpose or by following her subconscious muse, the result is engaging and deft.
Summary: Geillie is delighted to have Claire visit and quickly whisks her off to the stillroom to help prepare herbs. While there, a commotion outside draws Claire's attention. A tanner's boy has been accused of thievery, and the priest and a good crowd bring him to Geillie's husband for judgment.
Claire inquires after what's likely to happen. Geillie tells her it depends on her husband's mood. If he's in good spirits, the boy will probably merely receive a whipping. If he's not feeling well, he might order the lad's ear or hand cut off. Claire is appalled. She asks Geillie to interfere on the boy's behalf and ask her husband for mercy. At first, Geillie finds this peculiar, but she promises to do her best as Claire is a friend.
Claire waits in the stillroom, pounding rosemary and in great anxiety over the situation. She recognizes that, if she were to get directly involved as an outsider, she would probably make the situation far worse. However, Geillie does not disappoint. When she returns, she tells Claire about how dramatic she was, the image of matronly concern for the boy, and how she convinced her husband to show leniency. Rather than a whipping or losing an appendage,the boy will merely have his ear nailed to the pillory and be required to stay there for an hour. This hardly seems lenient to Claire, but she tries to make her peace with it.
As dusk draws near, Jamie comes to fetch her back to the castle. Geillie sends a whole chest of herbs with them. However, before mounting the horses, Claire finds out that the reason the boy is still at the pillory is because he hasn't yet mustered the courage to jerk the nail from his ear, a gruesome task he must accomplish alone.
Quietly, so as not to draw anyone's notice, she asks Jamie to pull the nail for the boy. Jamie's up for the mischief but asks her to create a distraction so no one will suspect he interfered.
Together, they come to the lad to inspect his ear and give advise on his predicament. Jamie offers to jerk the boy's head for him so the nail will rip out the side of his ear, but the boy is terrified at the suggestion. At this cue, Claire pretends to grow dizzy. She intentionally steps on the toes of the person behind her, stumbles, grabs people to keep her balance, and then, pretending a final swoon into unconsciousness, pitching headfirst off the pillory, taking a girl with her.
The crowd turns to her aid, giving Jamie time to surreptitiously pull the nail from the pillory and the boy's ear. Claire is borne back to Geillie's house and plied with drinks, blankets, and sympathy. At last, Jamie insists they must leave and carries her out.
They ride back to the castle, and Claire thanks him for his help and insists that, when she originally asked, she had no notion it might put him in danger. He shrugs off her concern and insists that he wasn't about to be less bold than a Sassenach woman. And with all this, Claire sense a deeper friendship forming between them.
Writer Comments: First, let me say, "Ouch!" A nail through the ear! While I understand it rather trifling compared to many historical punishments, it's still enough to make one cringe. I'm sure many other readers did the same at this point in the novel, giving testimony to the fact that Gabaldon is good at making her readers feel what the characters feel.
Hurrying past that uncomfortable incident, however, take a look at the pages dedicated to Claire and Jamie's interactions. Whenever the two of them get together on the page, there's definitely chemistry. They certainly have a propensity for mischief, which makes them more fun, but there's a certain something in the way Gabaldon writes them that gives scenes energy and interest. I cannot point out quite how she manages this except to say it's all in the characters themselves. Just like in a movie, the audience can tell if characters have chemistry or not. Just because an author invents two people does not mean they'll work well together.
Before I go into two specific passages that highlight crucial points of the seen, note how Gabaldon is taking Jamie and Claire's relationship to a new level. They are by no means romantically involved at this point, though other characters have implied that they might be. However, this seen solidifies affection, trust, and a kindredness between them. That alone drives them closer.
Now, to those two passages. The first occurs shortly after Claire arrives in the village with Dougal:
In fact, I had amused myself on the ride to the smithy by imagining an aerial view of the village as a representation of a skeletal forearm and hand; the High Street was the radius, along which lay the shops and businesses and residences of the more well-to-do. St. Margaret's Lane was the ulna, a narrower street running parallel with the High, tenanted by smithy, tannery, and less genteel artisans and businesses. The village square (which, like all village squares I had ever seen, was not square at all, but roughly oblong) formed the carpals and metacarpals of the hand, while the several lines of cottages made up the phalangeal joints of the fingers. -- page 121
This is a fantastic example of an extended simile. It works so well because it's original and it fits Claire perfectly as someone who often thinks in medicinal terms. When choosing similes and metaphors, ensure they fit the voice of your point-of-view character and go for original. Too many cliches are made with old, threadbare similes and metaphors.
Now, take a look at the second quote. This second is from when Claire stands at the window watching the crowd, waiting to see how successful Geillie will be in getting mercy for the tanner's boy.
Looking down at the assembly, standing patiently in the drizzle awaiting a verdict; I suddenly had a vivid understanding of something. Like so many, I had heard, appalled, the reports that trickled out of postwar Germany; the stories of deportations and mass murder, of concentration camps and burnings. And like so many others had done, and would do so, for many years to come, I had asked myself, "How could the people let it happen? They must have known, must have seen the trucks, the coming and going, the fences and smoke. How could they stand by and do nothing?" Well, now I knew.
The stakes were not even life or death in this case. And Colum's patronage would likely prevent any physical attack on me. But my hands grew clammy around the porcelain bowl as I thought of myself stepping out, alone and powerless, to confront that mob of solid and virtuous citizens, avid for the excitement of punishment and blood to alleviate the tedium of existence.
People are gregarious by necessity. Since the days of the first cave dwellers, humans--hairless, weak, and helpless save for cunning--have survived by joining together in groups; knowing, as so many edible creatures have found, that there is protection in numbers. And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule. Because to step outside the group, let alone to stand against it, was for uncounted thousands of years death to the creature who dared it. To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed. -- page 123
What a powerful passage. This is an example of where internal narration is the best choice. This has emotion and impact. Yes, it uses the tools of exposition and "telling," but it's far from boring. In fact, conflict overflows from this passage, and that conflict draws us in. The dilemma Claire faces is universal. We all know the fear of contradicting the crowd. But Gabaldon heightens the conflict by placing it on the same stage as one of the greatest atrocities of the modern era, the Holocaust. This works because it's something Claire would known and understand and because it's something reader know.
But look at the last lines:
To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. And I feared I did not have it, and fearing, was ashamed. -- page 123
This is the crux of the conflict as well as the apex of this particular character revelation. Even though Claire believes she should possess the quality to stand against a mob to fight for what she believes is right, she comes to the realization that she does not have that quality. She is ashamed. I don't know about you, but I can very much understand this. I've felt shame for not being able to find the courage to do what I know is right, and sometimes that type of shame can haunt a person. This is also a conflict.
So Claire has multiple conflicts occurring at once. The conflict of the boy's fate. The conflict of her desires against the crowd's. The conflict that comes from realizing she hasn't the strength of character she hoped. Three conflicts in such a short space help make this passage rich and dense.
Thank you for joining me for this chapter of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. We'll resume this read next Monday. Until then, swing back by for further forays into fiction, the speculative, and life.
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Superman is bringing his otherworldly powers to British schools to teach godless children about Christianity. Religious education teachers are being encouraged to use the superhero as a modern-day model for Jesus Christ to give youngsters an insight into morality and religious thinking, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday. "Teenagers visit the cinema and see films on television and DVDs, so it's hardly surprising that their assessments of what is heroic and what is evil, possible or impossible, are partly based on what they watch," said Helen Cook, head of post-graduate teacher training at Sheffield Hallam University in northern England. Cook pointed to many parallels between the "Man of Steel" and Jesus: ·Both were sent by their fathers to Earth, both achieve prominent adulthoods after an obscure childhood, both help the humans they are sent to live with, both are champions of truth over injustice. Cook argued that with church attendance on the wane, it has become increasingly difficult to explain the basic tenets of faith to children, who require ''an identifiable point of reference." The Church of England's spokesman on religious education, John Gay, said that analogies could be highly effective as a teaching technique, but only if used carefully.
Pope Urges Renewed Respect for All Life
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged the faithful to develop a new respect for life. A Washington Post story reports that Benedict, marking the Church's "Day for Life," stressed that in our "so-called well-off societies,... life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged." The description "sick or damaged" refers to deformed fetuses, the severely disabled, terminally ill patients or people in vegetative states. The pontiff cited the 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae," in which the late Pope John Paul II delivered the
Charred by Fires, Alabama Churches Find Renewed Faith
The regional head of the ATF said all five fires that broke out early Friday in Bibb County, AL "obviously" were arson, and agents are trying to determine whether a sixth fire that broke out a day earlier at a church in neighboring Chilton County was set. Investigators said they had no suspects or apparent motive, but the FBI said it was looking at possible civil rights violations under laws focusing on attacks on religious institutions. Meanwhile, an AP story reports that members of the burned churches still held worship Sunday. Pastor David Hand of Old Union Baptist counted the blessings of his little country church. "I'm just so thrilled we have a building today," Hand said to "Amens" from the 60 people gathered. Worshippers struggled to make sense of the church fires, but their faith seemed stronger than ever. Members of
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New Delhi, April 4: The Election Commission has decided to vet political advertisements on television in the wake of the Supreme Court order of April 2.
At a three-hour meeting last night, the three-member poll panel decided to make it mandatory for all political parties to seek its clearance before telecasting political advertisements.
All national and recognised political parties will have to submit advertisements (to the commission) for a pre-telecast clearance 10 days before the scheduled telecast, panel sources said.
A committee, led by a deputy election commissioner, would be set up to vet the advertisements and have the authority to reject those it considers offensive to viewers. Registered, unrecognised parties could submit their ads to the chief electoral officer concerned, the sources said.
A similar process for monitoring print ads is also said to be on the cards, but officials refused to confirm this.
The proposal is expected to be presented to the apex court tomorrow. The court had on Friday banned telecast of all political advertisements that offend the viewers morality, decency and religious susceptibility and asked the poll panel to scrutinise such ads before clearing them for telecast.
The court order had followed an information and broadcasting ministry petition prompted by reports that an advertisement intended to hurt the image of the BJP and the Prime Minister was scheduled for telecast this week.
The government had argued for a blanket ban as expensive TV advertisements would destroy the level playing field for small political parties.
Earlier, non-government organisations sympathetic to the BJP had put out an ad taking potshots at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her foreign origin.
Faced with the vast cable network and multiple television channels, panel officials said sub-committees, including special observers, need to be set up in the states to make the monitoring effective at the regional level. How else can you monitor so many regional channels, many of which are backed by the regional political parties' asked one of the officials.
For instance, the Tamil Nadu rivals, the ADMK and the DMK, use their respective channels, Jaya and Sun TV, for political propaganda. In Kerala, the CPM runs the Kairali channel and state minister M.K. Muneer of the Muslim League runs India Vision.
The panel was earlier reluctant to take on the job of monitoring and had wanted the information and broadcasting ministry to step in.
The apex court had in its order also asked the poll panel whether the money a candidate spends on telecasting ads should be included in his election budget, which has been limited to Rs 25 lakh for each Lok Sabha constituency and Rs 10 lakh for an Assembly seat.
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Hi Everyone,
I work at a city agency which has DB2 available in the mainframe, but my department will not use it. my bosses insist that the status quo is the way to go. currently we match flat files all day long using batch processing, and no one has the guts to suggest that we do anything new. What can I do to get them to change????
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I do not know your entire situation, but if you can, and have the time and resources, develop something on DB2 that does what you currently are doing on a smaller scale. Then show those with their head in the sand the two systems side by side. I have alway found that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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If you're processing QSAM files, then that means batch, and that would mean table scans
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How can we track the changes users doing on tables?
I want to create a table so that it can track all the changes happening to the data\table and other objects with the respective user and timestamp,including the cange the user did.
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Direct answer to your question:
a) Triggers on the table
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Option a keeps the change capture within the application area and will be suitable for most environments.
If you have large number of tables to track, and have very large number of transactions, then option a will slow down your apps considerably ... Option b 'decouples' change capture from your app and is asynchronous .. But there is a overhead of defining and maintaining the replication setup ...
DB2 tools like Recovery Expert, High performance unload can read transaction logs to get the information you want
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The Pyramids of Giza - Al Haram
Okay no surprise there. One of the most historically significant and culturally rich sites is the pyramids in Egypt. Standing tall and proud on the vast sprawling sand dunes are these manmade marvel which leaves the tourist astound. The magnificence of these mighty structures together with Sphinx cannot even nearly be assessed from still or motion pictures. Set in the backdrop stories of world's ancient most civilization, The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. Cairo is extremely rich in culture and as long been known for its musical and dramatic talent and as the site of a renaissance in Arab theatre. And don't forget to bring back with you pristine Egyptian paintings made on papyrus.
Post your hotel pick up, we'll start the tour with our visit to the greatest wonder on earth- the Giza pyramids. Our visit will include all the 3 great pyramids- Cheops, Chefren and Macarinos. There will also be a special visit to the panorama spot to take photos of the three pyramids in one shot. After which, we'll head to the great Sphinx, which is the biggest Sphinx in Egypt followed by a visit to the valley temple, also called the mummification temple. The Giza pyramid is one of the main heritage buildings, which includes ancient wonders of the world. It is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. Built as a tomb for the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh, Khufu. It was constructed for more than 20 years, approximately around the year 2560 BC. Three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, and a pyramid of "satellite" smaller again, in the form of an elevated track, and mastaba tombs surround the pyramid.
Giza Pyramid Complex - Al Haram
The three pyramids are definitely impressive. Make sure to purchase admission into either the Great Pyramid or the pyramid of Khafre. The Solar Barque museum is also one of its kind, and should not be missed. The Sphinx and Valley Temple will be seen on your way out, but also get driven to the lookout point overseeing the plateau.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops, is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza.
The Great Pyramid at Giza - Al Haram
Today's stop was the GREAT PYRAMIDS! While the bus started back on the highway, I could see off in the distance the Great Pyramids, and never thought that our hotel was so close, and during the night we couldn't see them. It was a gorgeous day, a hot one, but the humidity wasn't bad at all, We got our tickets to enter the area for the pyramids, and away we went. They're huge! I can't believe that humans were able to create something that amazing so many years ago when they didn't have all the technology we have these days. I still believe it's Aliens!! With our ticket was included the access to go inside the largest pyramid, and you had to climb a path up along the wall, and there was a hallway you can enter. Photography is prohibited, which is too bad, I would have loved to take pictures of the tiny hall way and low arches we had to climb under. There was very little lighting, and after you had to crawl under these huge arches of stone, and climb up a very steep and high flight of stairs that could only fit one person at a time.Once we were up the stairs we were in a dark, black room. It had high ceilings, and it was cool inside. Once my eyes adjusted to the darkness I could see a black box in the back, side of the room. It was the place where the Tomb of Pharoah Khufu would have been placed.