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HP Pavilion DV6000z Review and Ratings
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At first glance, the HP Pavilion DV6000z looks like it should cost more than it does. The $999 configuration we tested features the company's slick Imprint finish (a smooth, high-gloss coating with a subtle, swirling wave design inlaid), an integrated 1.3-megapixel Webcam and mic, touch-sensitive media controls, a spacious keyboard, a big display, and a respectable number of ports, inputs, and outputs. The components inside didn't let us down, either, though battery life was disappointing.
The Pavilion DV6000z is a multimedia-friendly notebook with a bit more class than your average consumer system, thanks to the aforementioned finish. At 1 to 1.6 inches thick, 14 inches wide, and 10 inches deep, the 6.6-pound laptop won't win any prizes for mobility, but toting it along for latte time at Starbucks isn't out of the question. The bright 15.4-inch wide-screen LCD has a top resolution of 1,280x800, which gives you both roomy workspace and decent-looking DVD playback. The Altec Lansing stereo speakers located below the display provide fine audio.
Above the roomy, responsive keyboard is a row of touch-sensitive buttons that control not only the PC's Media Center features when the PC is on, but also HP's QuickPlay 3.0 software, which lets you view photos and play movies or music without booting up. Above the screen is a Webcam for videoconferencing or instant-message video chats.
Ports include one mini-FireWire and three USB 2.0 (two on the left side, one on the right). You'll also find a double-layer LightScribe DVD±RW drive; an ExpressCard slot; Gigabit Ethernet and modem jacks; VGA-monitor and S-Video outs; a multiformat flash-card reader; and a port for connecting one of HP's XB3000 Notebook Expansion Bases.
The front edge has a power switch for the integrated 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth radios, plus a microphone port and two stereo headphone jacks (one S/PDIF-capable) that enable you to hook up either surround-sound speakers or two sets of headphones. Finally, HP includes an infrared receiver, for use with an optional $20 HP remote control that stows away in the notebook's ExpressCard slot.
Our Pavilion DV6000z was loaded with internal components that take advantage of its external features. A 1.8GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 processor is accompanied by 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 120GB hard drive, and an nVidia GeForce Go 7200 TurboCache graphics card. This turned out to be ample power for Vista Home Premium, delivering Windows Aero glory without a hiccup. We tested out all of the new bundled apps for photo/video editing and management, and the laptop sailed through those as well, even when we ran several at the same time.
Casual gamers will be happy with the nVidia graphics solution, which can manage basic gaming at low resolutions. Note, however, that the graphics card has only 64MB of dedicated memory and borrows up to 192MB from system memory.
Battery life in our rundown tests was unimpressive; the Pavilion DV6000z held out for only about 1 hour and 40 minutes with the wireless off. While this notebook isn't made for battery longevity, getting less than two hours is disappointing. HP includes a nice bundle of third-party software and a few of its own apps, such as the HP Total Care Advisor, which displays at-a-glance system information. The company also provides a one-year parts-and-labor warranty, backed by 24/7 toll-free support.
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Weekly Events Calendar: 2.21.07
Last week to view Josef Hoffman Interiors at the Neue Galerie
Art & Design Events...
- It's Bedroom Month at Apartment Therapy
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- Architectural Digest Home Design Show
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- March 9 at 3pm Eva Zeisel, who celebrated her 100th birthday this November, will sign copies of her latest book.
- March 9th through 11th, 10am-6pm
- Pier 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street
- The Berlin Wall as public art
- Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny's original drawings on pieces of the Berlin Wall
- Urban Plaza, 520 Madison Ave. between 52nd and 53rd Sts.
- Josef Hoffmann at Neue Galerie
- Four of the Austrian architect's interiors between 1902 and 1913
- Through February 26th
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- Digital and Video Art Fair (DIVA)
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- February 22nd through 25th
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- Exhibit of vintage catalogues and pattern books from Sears Roebuck, Mongomery Ward, Alladin, and other sources featuring mail-order houses and plans from 1914 through the mid-20th century.
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Tiruchirapalli, Jul 23: Police have arrested a diploma holder in Computer Engineering on the charge of sending an obscene SMS to a woman here last month.
A police release here today said the woman's husband, an industrialist residing in Thillai Nagar, lodged a complaint in this regard through e-mail to the City Police Commissioner. Based on this, police registered a case and detected that Rajkumar of Kannathankudi Keezhaiyur village in Thanjavur district had sent the message from a missing cell phone of one Veeramani alias Pandi. He was arrested on Monday July 21 and remanded to judicial custody.


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Another photo diary from another beautiful European city. Lately I've been very much into discovering new places, especially those far away, but I must admit, we have so much beauty in Europe!It was my first time ever in Madrid and coming here was a really good idea (not mine, I must admit). It's such a beautiful, lively and colourful city. The architecture is amazing, and every corner of the city seems to be picture ready, so I did take a looot of pictures. Enjoy 😉
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The Jets brought back WR/KR Jeremy Ross on Tuesday, signing him for the third time this year.
Ross was with the Jets in the offseason and through training camp, but was let go during the final cutdown. They brought him back on Sept. 29, when returner Jalin Marshall was injured. He returned two kicks and then was released on Oct. 11.
Ross' return could be a signal the Jets intend to have a bigger offensive role for C.J. Spiller, who has been returning kickoffs. The Jets waived LB Taiwan Jones to clear the roster spot.


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Rooms, services Wanderhotel Erika Wagrain is offering 26 tastefully furnished rooms to those seeking accommodation in Wagrain. For those arriving by car parking is available nearby. The fans of actively spent leisure time may take the table tennis, bike rental and billiard opportunities nearby. Airport transfer can be requested upon preliminary notice. In the safe you can secure your valuables. You can also bring your laptop for the holiday, for there is wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. You can find the exact list of services provided by Wanderhotel Erika Wagrain (including those for extra fees) and the exact equipment of the rooms on the information sheet below.
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History of Garlini's
Leonello and Margaret Garlini immigrated to the U.S. in 1967 from Naples, Italy. They moved to Wenatchee in 1982. Margaret was the head chef and Neilo did everything else.
All the recipes were Mother's. She trained her son Richard and he and his wife Diane took over the restaurant in 1983. They grew the restaurant with their daughters Jenny and Rachel until 1996. Craig and Michelle Still were given "an offer they couldn't refuse" and the rest is history!
In the spring of 2010, the Stills moved Garlini's from it's original location in East Wenatchee, to Wenatchee, just across the Columbia River. In addition to traditional pastas and other menu items that were offered at the old restaurant, the new location features a wood-fired, stone pizza oven which is the centerpiece of the new restaurant.
At an operating temperature of 800 to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, the oven creates the unique Napoletana style pizza, bringing the restaurant back to the Garlini family's roots... Naples, Italy where it all began.
The addition of the oven, fresh new ingredients, and new menu items created a new and unique dining experience, thus "Garlini's" became "Garlini's Napoletana".


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Winds of change rippling thru county waters
Times, they are a changin' in Tunica County.
On Friday, Oct. 1, the Board of Supervisors formally acknowledged the retirement of Tax Assessor Betty Gayle Fields. They appointed Ken Murphree to fill the position until county elections are held in November 2011. A resolution honoring Fields' years of service was read at a reception following the board meeting. (See resolution in next week's edition.)
On Monday, Oct. 4, supervisors learned that county voting districts may change due to U.S. Census figures. Board attorney Andy Dulaney explained that the census bureau keeps ongoing county population estimates. Based on those, Tunica County will have to redistrict, but Dulaney noted there is a "low threshold" for changes. The official U.S. Census report is slated to be released by April 1, 2011.
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Now this one here is pretty awsome I just love the "GOLD" feel and touch you have added here it gives off more of an impact thats taking place and it all seems to be working out well with some good action going on, anyways nice work here and nice effort all around.
some pinch of other color but not too much.
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I can hear sound but mic isn't working
I recently just bought a dx11 turtle beach ear force headset to replace my old one. I got it in the mail today and I can hear sound perfectly and when I talk into my mic I can hear myself. However windows 7 isn't picking up me talking, no one in skype, vent, games can gear me at all. It uses USB to power itself and then audio/microphone jacks, I thought that maybe since I was using the jacks from my motherboard it wasn't working. I went and bought a RocketFish 5.1/7.1 sound card and plugged my mic in and it still doesn't work.
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I would also like to note that the mic is working on my xbox 360 and on my netbook, it only doesn't work on my main computer. I also just freshly installed windows 7 64bit again and it still is not working.
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Me & my boyfriend have been together 2 years now nearly 3! I am a year younger so I will be going to university next year! The same uni infact, as before we met it was both our plans! The uni is an hour away! However, Im still scared he will get bored of me!
I know his first week will be busy but he never seems to have time to talk to me, always get short replies! I understand he needs to fit in but where will i fit in? I trust him but theres always something in my mind telling me that something will go wrong! Our problem was we saw each other nearly everyday & we never spoke much about him going uni! But when I say how i feel he puts even shorter replies with either sorry or i love you & he never answers what i text him & he told me its because all i go on about is him & uni but thats because we never spoke about him leaving! He never parties either but he is excited about partying & that makes me nervous cause he never tells me when hes out only when he half way through the night so im messaging him cause im worried! He is also adding lot of girls on facebook & it worries me that he will lose interest in me! Even though he tells me he loves me!
He doesnt seem that bothered that im upset he isnt here! Im happy for him, i really am! He is thinking too much of what is happening in freshers week! I dont want to keep pestering him to say i cant do this without him because we were so close! He isnt just a boyfriend but a friend too!
I just feel like he will never have time for me anymore? I know its an hour away but both of us will alway be busy!
I dont know what to do? Im feeling like this because im not used to it yet? I just need to find a way to cope? Can anyone help?
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Spoiler:ShowThis whole reply is going to sound so harsh, but I've been through a similar situation and ended up in a lot of trouble because I couldn't be happy for someone when I was missing them so much, and he was out having so much fun. This led to me venting my pain as anger towards him for not prioritising me. I've felt guilty about it every day since and it will take a while for them to forgive me, if they ever do
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You've got to force yourself let go of your own worries this week and be happy for him. Trust me, if you make him feel guilty for having fun, you'll push him away and potentially ruin his freshers' week. He won't always be as busy as this, but he won't be able to talk to you as much as he used to for the next few years. If this makes you very unhappy, maybe you should consider reevaluating what you want. You can either get used to it, or get rid of it.
I don't want to call it selfish, because it sounds so mean, and I know you're hurting, but you've got to put his happiness before yours for a bit because 1st year freshers' only comes around once. Give him some time to adjust. You'll never feel guilty for doing the right thing and letting him get on with it, but you would feel immense guilt if you thought you were getting in the way.
If he says he loves you, you have no choice but to trust him. If he were to "lose interest", then you'd be better off finding someone who will never do that to you, so really it would be doing you a favour. I doubt that would happen. His replies are only short because he is busy trying to find his feet. I expect the same thing will happen to you when you get to uni.
All that pain you feel from missing him, acknowledge it and then deal with it without him. You need to learn coping skills for this because otherwise you'll encounter this problem for the next few years. You must distract yourself and talk to other people when things get bad. Don't talk to your boyfriend about it until after freshers' and only if it's still an issue then. You CAN adapt, and this feeling WON'T last forever if you don't let yourself ruminate on it.
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I remember specifically on another occasion, after Super Mario Sunshine came out that I could not sleep for a full night for nearly a week after playing it. That was the worst. I've never had anything bleed into my waking life though, but could see that possibly happening to a person that plays video games more frequently.
I'm glad you're studying and writing about this, as I have noted it in my daily life and have been confused as to what was happening on those sleepless nights.


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On a formal level, comics are generally shorter and stapled, whereas graphic novels are longer and bound like a book. In terms of content, a comic depicts an episode of an ongoing story featuring consistent characters, where a graphic novel presents a more complete narrative; it tends to be a one-off, or an anthology that encompasses an era of a certain story. The term 'graphic novel' is attributed to Richard Kyle, an American comic critic and publisher, in 1964. Inspired by the popular tradition of French 'bande dessinee' and Japanese Manga, he attempted to "galvanize American creators and readers to aspire to similar ambition and sophistication" as their foreign, more respected counterparts. However, this description is a prime example of what some critics use to disparage the graphic novel movement – they argue that it is a vain attempt to legitimise the comic form by slapping on a label that bestows a sense of cultural importance. It's easy to argue that the label is an inappropriate one: many graphic novels are neither graphic (in terms of their content or their visual style) or novels (many are autobiography, historical non-fiction, etc). Many writers and illustrators of graphic novels reject the label, but no one has yet offered a suitable replacement. Though I like Art Spiegelman's definition: "comic books that need a bookmark".
Here are three examples from popular graphic novels. The far right, Watchmen, is what most people expect a graphic novel to look like; primary colours, speech bubbles and it even has men in tights. But this was an ambitious and pivotal work in 1986 which changed the way people read, talked about, and envisioned graphic novels. The other two examples are perhaps more artistic than most would expect, but equally considered graphic novels.
To qualify as a graphic novel, the work needs to be presented as what Spiegelman calls "sequential art"; action takes place in frames, and the size and composition of the frames gives a sense of duration, of passing time. For this reason, I'd argue that graphic novels are more closely linked to cinema than literature, a point supported by the recent proliferation of graphic novels being adapted as films. Many would be aware that Batman, X-Men, Sin City and maybe even Ghost World or American Splendour were graphic novel adaptions, but also Tim Burton's From Hell, about Jack the Ripper, Road to Perdition and A History of Violence. That these graphic novels are being adapted to film is arguably a combination of factors – the largest movie going demographic is 15-18 year old males, the stories are already in a cinematic form with consideration of action and movement, there is great potential to serialise them and create marketable spin offs. But also, and more importantly, there is now a generation of adults who grew up in a time where graphic novels are considered by many to be a legitimate cultural form, not just light entertainment for children.
In an address to the Bristol Literary Society about the "Death of the Novel" in 1969, author and reviewer John Updike speculated: "I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip masterpiece." And he has been proven correct. There are literally hundreds of articles from librarians and educators advocating the value of graphic novels and providing lists of appropriate works for different age groups. Graphic novels are even being recognised in literary circles:
Art Spiegelman's Maus, which shows parallel narratives of Spiegelman's father, an Auschwitz survivor and Spiegelman's present-day life in New York City, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992; Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid in the World, won the Guardian's First Novel Award in 2001, a controversial decision that apparently divided the judging panel.
New York Times reviewer Charles McGrath, whose quotation at the start of this lecture questioned what literary form may soon replace the novel, suggests graphic novels as a possibility, they are, he says: "what novels used to be—an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal—and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit."
Although I'm sceptical that graphic novels could replace the traditional novel as the major printed storytelling medium, the comic-strip masterpieces envisioned by Updike have arrived, as evidenced in the commercial growth, visibility and accolades for graphic novels. Yet the medium is still not widely respected in Australia. I spent the first six months of this year hurrying to assure people that I wasn't researching comics. Because that would have been a bad thing? There seems to be a prevailing sense in Australia, and many other Western countries, that images cheapen – or distract from – good writing. Images in books are either for children, the illiterate, or gimmicky add ons – a good piece of writing for an educated audience should stand alone as a written text.
Garrett-Petts and Lawrence (2000) describe an historical resistance to visual culture, claiming that "visual images are said to offer only superficial snapshots of reality – sight without insight." (ix) They continue: "Any integration of visual and verbal literacies…presents a potentially disruptive challenge to the hegemony of word over image – and openly suspicious (even hostile) characterizations of the visual should be seen… as an anxious reaction to that challenge." (3)
I want to pause here for a moment and clarify a term. Many contemporary schools of thought would appear to contradict this statement, arguing that we live in an image-centric world: Steve Johnson, in Interface Culture, states "If you live your entire life under the spell of television, the mental world you inherit from the TV is the supremacy of images over text."
We constantly interpret complex iconic interfaces: on mobile phones, computers, menus on digital television, even buying a train ticket. Using a desktop computer, we have a choice of fonts, we can add images to documents and we can choose from and alter designed templates to make power point presentations and web pages. We can edit video footage and compose our own soundtrack to go with it. There is a growing awareness, certainly in the Western world, of how visuals work. As a designer I'm not necessarily advocating this as a good thing, I think all clip art and the font Comic Sans should be globally deleted. But I think it's undeniable that as our entertainment and information technologies become increasingly visually demanding, we develop a more visually literate culture, more capable of interpreting visual texts. And we're only now seeing the emergence of a generation who've never known the world any other way. Kress and Van Leewin argue in their significant book, Reading Images, that visual literacy will begin to be a matter of survival.
So when I'm talking about a culture which values word over image, I'm referring to a literary, print culture. I'm interested in books, and specifically fiction with integrated graphic elements. To discuss these books, I can't ignore media arts like film, television and the Internet, just as I can't ignore graphic novels and comics, because their influence on the wider culture is pervasive.
I'm also not saying that all writers and literary critics are anti-visual – they are in the middle of the same cultural shift, but literary print culture seems to be the last bastion of the mediums where the hegemony of word over image remains. And many want to keep it that way. Kress and van Leeuwin summarise; "the opposition to the emergence of a new visual literacy is not based on an opposition to the visual media as such, but an opposition to the visual media in situations where they form an alternative to writing and can therefore be seen as a potential threat to the present dominance of verbal literacy among elite groups."
So perhaps it's a sense of literary elitism of word over image that prevents people from accepting graphic novels as valid literary forms. Or perhaps it's simply a lack of eduction on how to read them.
Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, a bestselling graphic memoir of her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, didn't start reading or making graphic novels until she was 25.
In this page, a bomb has gone off on her street and she's panicked that her family is dead. The longer panel shows her fear and shock being drawn out across that frame. By fluctuating the figure and ground in the next panel as she moves into darkness, with the speech bubble breaking through, you see very simple graphic elements can show a lot of drama. The blackness represents her fear, the white bubble the voice of hope, her mother.
On reading graphic novels, Satrapi says, "Like anything new, you have to cultivate your interest. It's like in Opera. You have to go a couple of times to appreciate it." I think what she means here, is that you have to learn how to read the language of a graphic novel before you can appreciate one. You need to be able to read and look at the same time, which is especially difficult if you're used to reading quickly. This is not an easier form of reading, because it has pictures like a children's book, it is a different way of reading. The sparseness of the written language requires the reader to draw a significant portion of the narrative from the images – not dissimilar to how we read life; by interpreting environments, gestures, body language, and facial expression. I define the term graphic novel as a description of a format, but also as a unique way of narrating, where word and image are integrated and inseparable.
Like it or not, graphic novels are emerging as a serious storytelling format. To discuss the potentials of integrating images in written storytelling, comics or graphic novels shouldn't be ignored. Examining graphic novels and the discourse around them offers us a model for how to read images as narrative. They are the precursor, or older cousin, of a new writing style that incorporates graphic elements, which is my primary focus here. So, again, the two main issues to take from graphic novels when looking at works of contemporary illustrated fiction are:
1. Their plight for validity in a literary culture which values word over image;
2. The complex interplay between word and image in these multi-modal works.
Use of graphic elements in fiction is certainly not new: the history of word and image in print would fill volumes and I don't have time to discuss this here. To grossly oversimplify, I'd argue that images have traditionally been used as decorative elements in fiction. Fancy title pages, or illustrated plates depicting characters or situations from the narrative were standard fare in Victorian literature, added or subtracted in different editions with no real effect on the narrative. What's different about the emerging narrative style now, is that graphic elements are being used in a way intrinsic to the narrative, much in the way graphic novels use a combination of word and image that is inseparable.
These graphic elements are used as literary devices – they are integrated into the text as part of the narrative, rather than as accompanying illustrations. The image is no longer merely illustrating, or reflecting the written text, but elaborating, interrupting and sometimes contradicting it. You cannot remove these elements without losing essential parts of the narrative.
> Typographic experiments
An exceptionally early example of this style is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. Author Laurence Sterne uses an array of typographic and graphic elements to interrupt his written narrative, including: a blacked out page to represent the death of a character; a marbled paged to represent his father's contribution to his conception; a blank page for the reader to draw his or her own likeness of one of the characters; elongated m-dashes and asterixes to insert pauses in dialogue and diagrams of how his storyline has meandered across the different books. These graphic interruptions are comparable to narrative asides (Schiff, 54) to consciously distract the reader, forcing a consideration of the "experience of interacting with the book as a consciously constructed object" (Schiff 30)
Peter de Voogd: "The text's verbal and visual elements are so intimately interwoven that they form an aesthetic whole. Text and picture cannot be divorced from one another without serious loss: the picture is the text, the text the picture." (in Schiff, 2005) Sterne uses typographic elements as literary device – they are not decorative, they are an integrated part of the narrative. Many contemporary books seem to continue from Sterne's conceptual typographic playfulness to interrupt the flow and pace of a novel in an attempt to manipulate the experience of reading.
I've spoken about emerging generations who have grown up with a very different sense of primacy between word and image; who belong to a complex visual culture. Douglas Copeland knows this.
In his novel J-Pod, about a group of cynical 20-something computer-game developers who speak in movie quotes and advertising slogans, Copeland shows us that language looks different now; that dialogue looks different now; that some language has begun to resemble imagery. He switches typeface constantly, includes text fragments reminiscent of text message and computer languages like html, and pages of seemingly nonsensical numbers or symbols. I haven't finished reading J-Pod, and will admit to skipping sections.
For example, a page that repeats "ramen noodles" in roughly 12 pt type for the whole page. I understand that the act of reading this page intends to impart a sense of boredom, of mundane repetition. I understand the concept without having to go through the process of reading it … in the same way I remember skipping meandering descriptions of the weather and country side while enduring Tess of the Durbervilles for high school English, and I don't think I'm any worse off for it. Though I did count how many times 'ramen noodles' appears on that page; is it significant that there are seven columns of repetitions and 52 rows—reflecting the number of days in a week and number of weeks in a year—or am I trying too hard to make something of this? Perhaps this is the joy of unconventional elements; we're not told how to read them, so meaning is open to many interpretations.
I'm not suggesting this use of truncated and coded language, spawned by new communication technologies, is a technique with much longevity. It grows tiresome quickly (for some by page one of the novel). But it is a technique appropriate to this story; it reflects the language and culture of its characters.
Likewise, Salvador Plascencia's People of Paper, (McSweeney's, 2005), includes several typographic devices that visualise aspects of certain characters. Passages obscured by black blocks of ink, reminiscent of Sterne's black page, show Baby Nostradamus's meditative state (a soothsayer who sees only blackness). Die-cuts removing words, (perhaps reminiscent of Derrida's sous-rature, or 'under-erasure' technique) and passages with the ink fading away.
Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves and more recently Only Revolutions are highly experimental typographic novels. In House of Leaves, four narratives are distinguished by using four different fonts: this graphic element is practical one, to help the reader navigate. Complex grids and pages with very few words reflect what's occurring in the narrative: characters make their way through the claustrophobic labyrinth of a house that defies real world logic, so the text is a claustrophobic grid of sections; at another point, characters are pursued by an unseen enemy, and a few words appear over a 25 page section, forcing the reader to flip quickly and engage with the pace of the novel. It also uses a colour coded system for some words, which is never explained. The word house always appears in blue – a reference to hyperlinks? The Internet abounds with theories, and there are online fanclubs … . Rick Poyner declared, "The positive reaction to House of Leaves suggests the degree to which readers' tastes have already been transformed by exposure to devices, texture and rhetoric of contemporary graphic culture." Only Revolutions tells two stories simultaneously. Reading the book forward is one character writing, flipping it over shows the other; supposed to read 8 at a time. Two book marks to keep your place in each story. For some people, this would be a nightmare to read, the constant physical disruption of turning the book too much to take. For others, an interactive reading experience. Not unlike playing a computer game.
A different approach to typographic experimentation is Graham Rawle's Woman's World, a 437 page novel created from 40,000 text fragments cut out from 1960s women's magazines, reminiscent of the compositional experiments of 20th Century avant-garde movements such as Futurism, Dadaism and Constructivism. I haven't read it, but according to many critics, it's a "surprisingly absorbing thriller". Design theorist Rick Poynor describes in Eye: "Despite its unconventional and perhaps initially daunting appearance, Rawle's narrative grips as a reading experience from start to finish." The use of graphic elements here actually drives the narrative from the outset.
Visually, Woman's World may appear similar to Tom Phillips' cult classic A Humument, first published in 1980, which he refers to as a 'treated Victorian Novel', but is actually conceptually the reverse.
Where Rawle creates a narrative by repositioning phrases from magazines, Phillips takes an existing book—W.H. Mallock's 1892 novel A Human Document—and visually 'treats' it, painting and drawing over pages to cover and reveal strands of text, again, using the graphic elements to generate the narrative from the outset. He writes, "I plundered, mined and undermined the text to make it yield to the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents and surrealist catastrophes which seemed to lurk within its wall of words."
Rather than just typographic experiments, these books are artworks in themselves – the text becomes image.
Umberto Eco's dense tome, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, was release with the strap line, 'an illustrated novel'. The book's protagonist, Yambo, suffers an incident that leaves him with profound memory loss of his personal life, yet he can remember the plot of every book he's ever read and quote extensively from them. To retrieve his lost memory, Yambo returns to his childhood home and spends much of the book riffling through boxes of ephemera in the attic: old comics and newspapers, record covers, photo albums and diaries. The book is peppered with reproductions of the ephemera, and described on the jacket as taking "the form of a graphic novel". In some editions, the cover actually resembles a graphic novel. Eco's book needs the graphic elements to tell his story convincingly, but they are used in a more traditional illustrative way – the images are visual aids, in the sense an art or design book would contain illustrations of the work being discussed. They are interesting elements that add richness to the book, and it's certainly a beautiful book, but they don't contribute to narrative in a challenging way. It's worth considering the fact that Eco is a prolific cultural theorist as well as novelist, and you have to question whether this use of cultural ephemera is more to do with sentimental indulgence than innovative writing.
To find more innovative, or challenging, integration of graphic elements, it's worth turning to new writers. Marisha Pessl's début novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, also uses 'visual aids' – and even labels them as such, but these are more playful than Eco's. The narrator and protagonist, Blue Van Meer, is an obnoxiously well read late-adolescent. She has been raised by her father, a college professor and Blue's idol, who tells her; "Always have everything you say exquisitely annotated, and, where possible, provide staggering Visual Aids…" The story is a murder mystery, of sorts, and the reader is very conscious they are reading Blue's interpretation of events. The visual aids are Blue's drawings, and the fact that they are drawn is significant. Rather than photographs, they are the narrator's interpretation—often from memory—of people and places. This visual technique mirrors the written recollections of events; you must ask not only why she has written about a character in a certain way, but also why she has drawn them as she has. You find yourself flipping back to the visual aids, looking for clues. And there are some. In particular, the second of three parts of the book, characters are ghosted on top of each other and into the environments depicted. This gives a sense of foreshadowing and perhaps implies that some of these characters may be more connected than you initially suspect. And I'll say no more.
Why are these visual aids, not illustrations? They do more than just depict something described in the text – they expand or elaborate on the text in a way that Eco or Picoult do not. It's closer to a social scientist's use of visual aids than a novelists, which is appropriate for this novel.
Pessl was 27 when she wrote Special Topics, and Jonathan Safran Foer was in his late 20s when he wrote his much-lauded second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I'm using these two authors as representative examples from a generation of writers who have grown up in a visually conscious culture.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close uses an array of graphic devices, from photographs to proofreading marks and blank pages, to a flip book at the end which shows a man falling from the Twin Towers on September 11, in reverse. Oskar is the deliberately precocious 9-year-old protagonist of one narrative strand. His father dies in the Twin Tower tragedy and Oskar spends the novel on a quest to find the lock that fits a mysterious key he discovers in his father's closet. He keeps a scrapbook he calls 'Stuff That Happened To Me', and images we assume are from this scrapbook are scattered through the novel. Included are photos Oskar takes of things he encounters during his quest, as if allowing the reader to see more accurately what he sees. But also included are images he finds on the Internet and in newspapers, where he sources much of his knowledge, occasionally inaccurately. A picture of Steven Hawkings, turtles copulating, Leyton Hewitt in what could either be a moment of victory or defeat. The fact that these are included in his 'Stuff That Happened to Me' book shows his inability to disconnect his personal life from the media. The photographs are a literary device that work with the text, and as a part of it. Safran Foer also includes typographic elements similar to Sterne – extra spaces, punctuation and almost blank pages to alter the pace of the reading. He says: "Most of what I do in my books I do exactly because I can't explain in any other way." (Gerber and Triggs, 2006)
ELIC was the 2005 Overall Winner in the V&A Illustration Awards. One of the judges, Mark Jones, described the book as, "A rare and really impressive example of a text with fully integrated visual elements. I like the way in which you encounter things that you don't expect." Safran Foer didn't actually take the photos – they were mostly found images, or commissioned. And although he apparently worked closely with the designer, he didn't design the book himself. So we have an interesting blurring of territory.
On one hand, graphic novelist Chris Ware wins the Guardian First Novel Award and a writer wins the V&A Illustration Award. Amongst aggressive claims that just about everything is dying – the end of print, the end of fiction, death of the book, death the author … we're at fascinating point in the history of literature.
The technology exists for a writer to produce their entire book themselves: they can compose, edit and layout their manuscript on a desktop computer, or portable laptop; they have access to digital cameras, scanners and pictures libraries to create or source images; they can output the whole thing as a pdf and send it to print. It's possibly not too far from a point where they have a machine that binds the books in their printer, along with the scanner and fax machine, or dare I say it, they skip the printing process and email it straight to whatever ends up being the descendant of the Blackberry. Suddenly, I'm sounding very much like John Updike, suggesting that a doubly talented writer could produce a work of graphic and literary mastery. But just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Prophecies aside, at this stage, it's time to ask what this increasingly popular narrative style means for; A. the writer, B. the publisher, C. the reader and D. the designer. Although there are some fascinating considerations for the publisher and especially the reader, I'm most interested in the effect on the writer and designer.
In 1923, amongst the compositional experiments of 20th Century avant-garde movements like Dadaism, Futurism and Constructivism, El Lissitzky declared, "the new book demands a new writer…the book finds its way into the reader's brain through the eye, not the ear." He titled himself a 'book constructor', and I think, expected this 'new writer' to emerge from the ranks of visual artists. Similarly, after the chest-puffing bonanza in the design world around the 1990s, when many called for the label 'designer-as-author' to be worn proudly, design critic Rick Poyner wondered in his book No More Rules (2003), where all these design-authors are?
There are designers who write, just as there are writers who design and illustrate. Generally, these people are the exception to the rule rather than the norm. I don't think merging the two disciplines is a realistic future. I think it's collaboration. To explore this narrative style in a way that won't render it a passing trend, writers and book composers (to borrow El Lissitzky's term) need to reconsider their relationships.
If it's appropriate for a novel to include graphic elements for narrative, rather than decorative purposes, the writer and the book composer must consider the book's graphic elements from the initial stages of the process, rather than cake decorating a manuscript once it has cooled. In the tradition of literary pairings from Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake to Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman, I think writers and book composers need to develop closer working relationships; they need to understand the way each other work and think. It's something that graphic novel writers and illustrators do well.
What I've discussed is an interesting development in new writing that may be influenced by mainstream acceptance of graphic novels, or perhaps it's print's way of competing with the complex, interactive visual culture developing around it. Will illustrated novels usurp the traditional novel? No, I don't think so. Because this isn't a new genre or literary form, it's style, and unless the graphic elements are appropriate to the content of the novel, it will only ever be a passing fad.


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Unanswered: DTS-copy without dropping indexes?
When copying all tables of a database from a server to another using DTS, is it crucial to drop the indexes before copying?
If "just" a performance issue, is there any other way to postpone index updating until the DTS has finished copying?
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This depends on the type of data transfer you choose.
if you choose to append records to destination tables it's not necessary to drop indexes.
if you choose to drop tables the correlated indexes are dropped too.
if you choose to copy objects from one DB to another usually existing objects (tables and indexes ) are dropped.
If indexes exist it's not possible to stop index updating, I think.
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What I intended to do was to copy a database from one instance to another this way:
- 'alter table nocheck constraint all' on every table
- 'truncate table' on every table, to make sure that no data from before DTS-copying can be left.
- DTS (which replaces data, not appends)
- 'alter table check constraint all' on every table
However, I now realized Truncate Table requires the Foreign Keys to be dropped, disabling them through Nocheck is insufficient.
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