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BinaryReader.ReadByte Method
Reads the next byte from the current stream and advances the current position of the stream by one byte.
Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Exception | Condition |
EndOfStreamException | The end of the stream is reached. |
ObjectDisposedException | The stream is closed. |
IOException | An I/O error occurs. |
BinaryReader does not restore the file position after an unsuccessful read.
Because of data formatting conflicts, using this method with the following encodings is not recommended:
For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.
Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.


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Houzz is the new way to design your home.
Querini Stampalia Foundation
In the early 1960s architect Carlo Scarpa transformed the ground floor and courtyard of the Palazzo Querini Stampalia into the Querini Stampalia Foundation, a major cultural complex in Venice, Italy.
What Houzz contributors are saying:
John Hill added this to A Venetian Courtyard Shows Mastery in the Details
Scarpa's treatment of the room behind the two gates is truly remarkable. Not only does his design still let water inside the building (not uncommon in Venice), but it celebrates the water through a series of steps at different heights and with a cantilevered edge on the raised walkway. The walkway's surface actually coincides with the high-water line.
What Houzzers are commenting on:
Venice - water gate
Access from the canal in Venice
Gate pattern
another view of gate.
water pool/metal/glass
Dealing with the flood issue in Venice
I would love to see this in person.
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Still, the Simm case reveals just how much of a risk [NATO] was taking when it gradually expanded eastward after the end of the Cold War. Each of its current 28 member states now enjoys access to almost all the classified information within the alliance. For experts, this is already unsettling enough. But even more worrisome is the fact that members of the old elite — whose loyalties once lay with a completely different political system — now work in the security apparatus of some of the new member states. In other words, people like Herman Simm. –"Betrayer and Betrayed," Fidelius Schmid and Andreas Ulrich, Der Spiegel
The Hasidim made an offer he couldn't refuse;
Kagan's weakness: she chokes up;
her strength: the Brick Prison
Philippine Suffrage is a cadaver, madly piloting a gurney into an open grave. And being a cadaver, bloodless. Rather, instead of thinking corruption, nepotism, favoritism, cronyism, and fraud, think "royalty" out of which representatives are chosen. In this class, certain families dominate. Old Money. New Money. Old Money, the long-standing families that have owned 95% of the country's wealth for at least a century. Wonder why there are only two breweries in the Philippines? Cuz cousin cousin, beer is kept in the family, albeit only two. Think Cojuangco. That said, with sugar cane, old tobacco, banks, shopping centers, etc, Old Money has bought its seat in the Forum and there is no law that can evict them. You'd just have civil war. New Money, the actors/actresses of stage and screen. You can just trust the face that has beguiled you for years. As if their scripted dialogue, having moved a nation into the cinema can move a nation out of international debt. In Manila, performers do not retire; they form political parties around their cult of personality. So, whereas term limits are to shorten time in political office, rotate old blood with new blood, what it really does—just shuffle family members and drama queens. –"Conversations at a Wartime Café," Sean Labrador y Manzano, McSweeney's
Hoops — the other route into Philippine politics;
bigotry (perhaps lunacy) — the route into American politics;
another reason to carry a book on the Subway
"Vaht khappens to a dream deferred?" he began with a thick Russian accent. "Does it dry up like a raisin in zee sun?"
I was stunned. In a battered old schoolhouse in a tiny industrial city in a Muslim former Soviet republic on Iran's northern border in Central Asia, a skinny 15-year-old was demonstrating his English skills by reciting a Langston Hughes poem. Contemporary American pop culture spreads far and fast these days. So I hadn't been surprised to learn that even in an isolated, totalitarian country like Turkmenistan, 50 Cent's rhymes had snuck into the hearts of thousands of young people via satellite television. But it was a mystery to me how the work of a decades-dead African American writer – one who is growing more obscure in the US with each passing year – had slipped into its public schools. –"From Turkmenistan to America: How I Found Langston Hughes," Sam Tranum, Literary Traveler
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In Norfolk six black-tipped reef sharks, a bonnethead shark, a bowmouth guitar shark, six penguins, and a green sea turtle were evacuated from the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary because of flooding.
Notes on South Africa's failed revolution
"I will never know what goes on in your mind, or what that shield of a smile behind which we try to advance should tell us."


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Test... This work? =)
I will catch up to your stats, I will surpass them, this is a three day weekend.
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Rodney Brunet and Eric Pham on the hit film
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Crimson Throne
laughs..I'm sure he has the forums set to alert him to any mention of his name.
Front door?
Oh no little one, that knocking came from inside your head. And it's cosy in here.
Wellard, back to your tormenting, or you will be most severely punished with my cheesegrater of woe.
I'll get you Spicer, and your little dog too.
Front door? Oh no little one, that knocking came from inside your head. And it's cosy in here.
Oh that's OK then, it might give me a semblance of sanity ...
I went back and reread the fight against Davaulus and the Maidens. Dr D said nothing definitive. It wasn't until the seance that he really spilled the beans.
You do realize the last person to use those words wound up melting from a faceful of water, right? ;-)
"Mnaaaaa---aaaiieee, I'm melting! I'm meeeeltiiiing!"
"What a world, what a world..."
Just a heads up guys I'll be away from my computer from Friday till Sunday as I will be in London attending Dragonmeet on Saturday (for PFS games) and need the days either side for travel.
You guys are romping again, even though I beefed up the encounter. The disguises and continual achievement of surprise are depriving my casters of prep time. Of course now my two best combatants remain in a target rich environment. It'll be Wake island from here on out.
That flesh golem is going to be a problem, no mistake, but on the plus-side Emerion has a Plan ... if he survives. Conceivably the golem could kill him in two rounds, if it gets lucky, while it's DR makes taking it down much harder - it would take Emerion and Keliwyn combined at least three rounds to do enough damage to kill it. Hence we have to have another way of dealing with it, such as strategic use of terrain ...
Happy thanksgiving!
With the holiday and work I may be slow posting for te next week or two.
If you guys can keep it busy chasing you Heather can grease it round after round
If it goes berserk I was going to lure it into the zombie room, nip out the other door and heather can shatter the glass with her lightning wand ... close both doors, and wait.
Evil, evil meanies.
Us? (looks innocent)
Heads up, guys. With RPG Superstar underway, my availability over the next few weeks will be quite limited. I'm also tying off my Skull & Shackles deadline. It's due on Monday. So I may be a bit more silent than usual. NPC Istas where necessary. Clearly, she's on a mission to punish these Urgathoan cultists to the maximum penalty allowed by Pharasma... ;-)
She'll make mummy and daddy very proud!
Well killing them sends them to Gehenna and that means the total destruction of their black hearted souls..a fitting punishment I think.
It's just fitting that I'm reading the last few posts while listening to Slayer.
Doesn't their soul then empower more evil in the long-run though? It's the way I play a certain paladin, that to ultimately triumph over evil, you have to redeem it rather than kill it.
So, no one has posted since Wednesday. I imagine you're all feeling as pinched for time as I. Do we want to postpone the game until after the holidays?
Makes sense to me. I know I'm a bit tied down. Someone decided to run a contest over the holiday season and I'm a bit obligated by it. ;-)
Aye a little break while we are out off combat might be a good thing..
Done! I'll see you guys shortly after Christmas. Not sure of an exact date because my wife is planning a last minute holiday trip with my mother-in-law.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and not to mention, Happy Anniversary to all! Has it really been four years since you started this game, Tim?
Game play didn't start until January 2008, if you can believe the dates on the first page.
Hats off to all of you. It has been fun so far.
Merry Christmas! Looks like posting will be sketchy next week.
Maeery Christmas, Happy New Year and it's my Birthday on the 8th of January.
Happy New Year!
I'll post tonight.
In case I forget between then and now, Happy Birthday Wellard!
Neil Spicer, I know you're busy but do you care to take a guess at what happened to Istas if she cast detect thoughts?
Got it. Posted.
Happy Belated Birthday, Wellard!
Wellard and Neil haven't posted for a bit. Wellard has mentioned RL is busy in another thread and we all know Neil has a ton of extra work right now.
What do you guys want to do?
Istas lays down a blast of positive energy to harm undead, heather whacks a web spell to slow down the foe and we charge?
Sounds like a sensible plan, Dabbler, and hopefully they'll pick up in the meantime. If not, I don't mind waiting for them - you've all been more than patient with me, and I'm sure they'll pop in before long.
What I am worried about now is facing a foe using mental effects, as my current Will save is at +0 ...
Sorry Guys been going through a bit of a personal crisis the last week or so..should be back on an even keel soon.
Heather will web or use the haste wand depending on what she sees when the smoke clears.
Welcome back, Wellard. FIgured RL was giving you trouble. Hope it turns out well.
Sorry to hear that mate, hope things are better now!
Forgot I was arching last night. Didn't get to those notes, but I did bring them to work. Hopefully I can get it together at lunch.
Hey, gents, just wanted to let you know that due to work constraints, for the next month or so, I will probably only be able to post at night, so you have my apologies if it slows things down any.
Guys, you may have noticed my posting has slowed. We've got a big job due in March. Expect slow posting through the end of that month.
I'll be away for the weekend at a wargames show in York..back on Monday Morning my time
Thanks, Wellard.
Billzabub, I seem to remember you were a Giants partisan the last time these teams met in the SUperbowl. If so
Billzabub, I seem to remember you were a Giants partisan the last time these teams met in the SUperbowl. If so , congratulations. NY played well.
Nah the Patriots played badly..and that last play..shakes head in sorrow..
But then I'm a Cowboys fan..sighs
Will post tonight
I am a Giants fan, and it's amazing that we've been playing that long. It was a great game just from a football fan's perspective. It's always good to see a SuperBowl come down to the final plays.
Now on to better sports, like hockey & EPL soccer!
work explosion
no worries
Strange as it may sound from the party fighter, can Emerion call dibs on the headband of intelligence? When Emerion goes Duelist it'll be quite important to get his intelligence up, and waste not, want not.
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The Office of National Statistics survey has revealed that residents are happier and more satisfied living in Hart than in neighbouring Rushmoor
You are happier if you live in Hart than if you live in Rushmoor, a survey has found.
According to results published by the Office of National Statistics on Wednesday October 23, residents living in Hart are 'happier', 'satisfied', less 'anxious' and feel that their life is 'worthwhile'.
The Hart district was also rated as the second happiest and second most satisfying place to live in the whole of the UK.
Coming runners up to Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, James Arbuthnot, MP for North East Hampshire, said he was 'really proud' to represent Hart.
He said: "This survey confirms what I known for a long time; that my constituents are some of the most content, least anxious people in the country.
"The recent announcement that Hartley Wintney was found to be the best place to live is now supported by the findings reported.
"You can only be happier if you live Northern Ireland, Shetland or the Orkneys, although there are pockets of happiness to be found in central London.
"I prefer Hampshire myself and am really proud to represent it."
As part of the survey, more than 100 people in Hart and 100 people in Rushmoor were asked to rate their wellbeing on a scale of 0 to 10 on four questions - how satisfied they were with life, how worthwhile life was, how happy they were yesterday and how anxious they were yesterday.
A score of 0 was deemed the lowest and 10 was the highest, representing those who were most happy.
Some 106 residents in Hart scored themselves an eight out of 10 on the happiness scale. Rushmoor was rated as a less happy place than Hart, with 108 people scoring themselves 7.4 out of 10 for happiness.
On the worthwhile and the life satisfaction scale, Hart scored higher again both with 8.1 compared to Rushmoor with 7.7 and 7.9 respectively.
Both Hart and Rushmoor residents scored themselves similarly on the anxiety scale, with 2.5 out of 10 in Hart and 2.8 out of 10 in Rushmoor.
Hampshire as a county saw some of the highest levels of personal wellbeing and low levels of anxiety in England.
Areas of North Yorkshire, Norwich and Winchester were found to be among the happiest areas, with Liverpool, Belfast and Manchester most unhappy cities.
The survey was carried out between April 2012 and this March. The same survey carried out the year before showed Hart to have improved more in the last 12 months than Rushmoor.
Out of 10 on the happiness scale, Hart scored itself 7.1 and Rushmoor 7.4, on the worthwhile scale Hart was 7.5 and Rushmoor 7.7, on the life satisfaction both areas were rated as 7.3 and on the anxiety scale Hart scored itself 2.9 and Rushmoor scored 2.5


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I think this should be interesting data since the fundamentals of the economy are how much gold is introduced into the economy at what rate.
Note that these statistics are purely the amount of gold you pick off the floor. Does not count auction house, does not count selling stuff to vendors. However, these are the stats you can readily look up.
Include your level since it will also be interesting to see what levels pre-60s are collecting at.
Look up Gold Collected by clicking on your character.
Look up Time Played by going to "Switch Character" and noting the time played (probably round to the nearest hour)
Gold/Hour is done by dividing gold collected by time played.
My stats so far:
Level: 55
Gold Collected: 607,850
Time Played: 31 Hours
Resulting in: 19600 Gold / Hour
This is all before the farming of level 60 of course. That should ratchet the gold / hour earned up. And of course AH and vendoring aren't included. But over the next few days / weeks it'd be interesting to get streamlined data of just how much gold one picks up per hour on average.
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Thread: Gold Collected
17-05-2012, 17:49 #1
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Gold Collected
18-05-2012, 16:48 #2
Re: Gold Collected
I passed 1,000,000 at some point this morning. I have a Barb in hell with 38 hours played, and a DH I use with my friends with 12 hours played. I would probably be in inferno now if I just blew off my friends and focused only on that, but with the RMAH not being live at launch I figured I could afford to pace myself a bit and have some fun with them.
Gold: 1,023,224
Hours: about 50 split between 2 characters
GPH: about 20,464
No where near where it should be, but really, gold per hour while leveling doesn't count for much.
18-05-2012, 17:30 #3
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Re: Gold Collected
Myself (DH-38, Nightmare-2). Most of my time was spent with incidental +30-40 GF gear and only rushing the quest line (not farming)
Gold: 291917
Hours: 17.1
The most progressed person on my friends list (Monk-42, Nightmare-2, mild farming, but with no meaningful +Gold):
Gold: 392899
Hours: 21.4
19-05-2012, 15:34 #4
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Re: Gold Collected
Just hit 1 million : ) now lvl 45
Now we just have to see the price per 1k when the market goes live.
Just bought a 168 dps pole arm with +60 intelli for my WD paid 10k lol stupid noobs listings things way below value. There is many bargins to be had on the AH, take advantage people and farm that content : )
19-05-2012, 18:36 #5
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Re: Gold Collected
See Enlil? I told you so (about how much gold a medium player will make / hour).
When people argued me that they can make in Beta 40k / hour...i so laughled
So, back to my estimates : a very good player will reach 45-50k hour, and the gold will stabilize at 29-30k for a buck or euro.
Leave aside the wild dreams of 100k / hour...won't happend.
19-05-2012, 19:48 #6
Re: Gold Collected
Gold: 132,475
Hours: 20 hours
leave it to me to mess with what was looking like a nice average of about 18k an hour. This is a level 28, 1 character with no +to gold or not much to magic find ~10 max.
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Sup dude, that million was not even trying with rubbish gear just lvling. I'm lvl 52 now and just entering hell, soon as I hit 60 I'll start gearing up with mf and gf gear then the farming begins.
Also found two legendrys so far.
Still can't wait too say I told you so, when we see a 0.01 per 1k price floor all your crazy talk of 0.00001 lol. ; )
19-05-2012, 21:35 #8
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Re: Gold Collected
Reached Inferno, Level 60
Gold Collected: ~1,400,000
Hours Played: ~54 Hours
Worth noting if you take the last 23 Hours, the GPH becomes 34782. And it is going up.
I've now settled into "farming" Inferno Act 1 without dying like mad and the GPH will likely become higher and more "relevant" to what farmers could get.
19-05-2012, 22:13 #9
Re: Gold Collected
Dude, no one is farming yet, these are leveling GPH. Hell, in my case it's GPH for leveling 2 characters at the same time. Give it till after the weekend for max level and real farming gear, and look at that in isolation not with the leveling up.
Also, all my friends are always broke. No one has any gold and they think I am somehow magic because I'm working on my 2nd million. One friend, who's from a rather well off family, said he'd probably only use the RMAH to buy gold then just craft or use the GAH. It would be nice if the gold demand was high enough to not be $1 per 100,000g.
20-05-2012, 01:12 #10
Re: Gold Collected
Just did a little experiment, with my current leveling gear, selling all the drops, I got an average of about 78,000 an hour. That's not even doing the hardest parts of them game, and honestly about half my gear is a bit ****. 100k an hour is not just doable, it will probably be easy at max level with the right gear. Then again, "easy" is a relative term. I think at this point we've all run into a number of elite mobs with afix combos that just ruin our day and make us hate life. I dare say botting Hell or Inferno is probably damn near impossible.


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Numerous St. Marys Area High School fall sports athletes were introduced to fellow students, family and friends as part of the school's annual Meet the Dutch event held Thursday evening. Shown walking onto the field are senior members of the team.
Students, family and friends paraded to the ECCHS football field where all fall sports athletes were introduced as part of the Elk County Catholic School System's annual Family Picnic and bonfire.
RIDGWAY – The replacement of old water lines in a portion of Wilcox will be partially funded by Community Development Block Grant [CDBG] monies following a public forum and approval at a board of commissioners meeting. The project will benefit 32 families on four streets in Wilcox: Cherry, Jarrett, Lawrence, and Maple streets.
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader tennis team saw their record slip to 2-2 on the young season as they lost an 8-1 contest to the Warren Lady Dragons Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Park. ECC hosts Johnsonburg this afernoon at 3:30 p.m.
RIDGWAY – Barry J. Schoch, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation [PennDOT] announced last week that officials will implement or expand weight restrictions to roughly 1,000 structurally deficient bridges statewide in an effort to guarantee bridge safety and preserve the aging bridge system.
KERSEY – The 2013 Elk County Farm Bureau Legislative Farm Tour showcased the talents of Dave and Diane Gillen as part of their horse training, boarding and recently created riding lesson program on the Double D Farm located on Frey Road in Kersey. As the host of the tour, the Gillens welcomed attendees to the small family farm. The event took place inside their large indoor horse riding arena.
Small businesses play an important role in communities, and throughout St. Marys' history there have been a variety of businesses that have come and gone that area residents still recall fondly. The Daily Press recently asked users on Facebook which former small businesses are most memorable to them. One business that was mentioned often was Auman's Store, which was located on Benedict Street.
The 22nd annual Ladies Member-Guest was held recently at the Bavarian Hills Golf Course. A total of 44 women participated in the two-person scramble, best-ball event that was sponsored by the Bavarian Hills Ladies Auxiliary. The team of Kristy Hanes and Maryann Feldbauer were the low gross first place winners with an even par score of 72. Low net honors went to Nancy Pistner and Jen Greenthaner with a 55.
STATE COLLEGE — At the May 19 Pennsylvania Wrestling Coaches Association banquet, St. Marys native Tim Wittman was inducted into the PWCA Hall of Fame. The banquet and induction ceremonies were held at the Ramada Inn in State College. Wittman is a 1987 graduate of St. Marys Area High School and a 1992 graduate of Penn State University with a B.S. degree in Landscape Contracting. Wittman was born and raised in St. Marys. The fourth oldest of six children, his parents, Maureen and John "Elroy" Wittman still make their home in St. Marys.


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London may ban 'snoopy trash cans that track smartphone signals' for targeted ads
London, Aug. 13 : The City of London Corporation has reportedly asked a company to stop using smartphone tracking recycling bins in the name of serving targeted ads to passerbys.
The company, Renew London, has fitted devices into 12 such bins, featuring LCD advertising screens to collect footfall data by logging nearby phones through their media access control (MAC) address, the BBC reports.
Chief executive Kaveh Memari of Renew London said that the devices had only recorded 'extremely limited, encrypted, aggregated and anonymised data' and the current technology was just being used to monitor local footfall for advertisers who can buy space on these screens, in a similar way as a web page monitors traffic.
However, the city corporation officials said that irrespective of what's technically possible, anything that happens like this on the streets needs to be done carefully with the backing of an informed public.
Memari said that more capabilities to the tracking system could be developed in the future but the public will be made aware of any changes and insisted that the current system does not hold any personal information about the smartphone owners.
Nick Pickles, director of civil liberties and privacy pressure group, Big Brother Watch, said that he was pleased to know that the city corporation has called a halt to this scheme adding that questions need to be asked about how such a blatant attack on people's privacy was able to occur in the first place, the report added.
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Juchimiuk M, et al. (2010) Defect in dolichol-dependent glycosylation increases sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae towards anti-fungal drugs. Yeast 27(8):637-45
Abstract: Two temperature-sensitive Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants, sec59-1 and dpm1-6, impaired, respectively, in dolichol kinase (Sec59p) and dolichyl phosphate mannose (DolPMan) synthase (Dpm1p), have an aberrant cell wall structure and composition. We tested their sensitivity to four classes of antifungal drugs used in clinical practice: 5-fluorocytosine, amphotericin B, caspofungin and itraconasole. The strains were resistant to itraconazole and sensitive to the other drugs used. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of caspofungin and amphotericin B was two-fold lower for sec59-1 and dpm1-6 than for the respective wild-type strains. The sensitivity of both mutants could be brought back to the wild-type level by a multicopy suppressor of the thermosensitive phenotype, the RER2 gene, encoding cis-prenyltransferase involved in dolichol biosynthesis. Biochemical analysis revealed slight changes of the cell wall composition, different in the mutants as compared to the wild-type in response to the drugs. Our data strongly support a relationship between dolichol phosphate level, protein glycosylation and antifungal sensitivity. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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| Problems navigating Windows 7...Loosing things :( Okay, so I have a new dell laptop with windows 7 home premium. I am having a lot of problems navigating windows 7 (I had XP before). The most pressing problem associated with this is that I keep loosing things and being unable to find them. I know that seems silly, but it is true. I make a document..it is there...i email it to someone. then I go to view the document later, and it is not in the folder. This is true with several documents...documents that have been created on this computer. if they were transferred to this computer from my old system, they are still there. Does this sound familiar to anyone? |
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| Save everything you do to your desktop. When you`re sure you`re done with it, drag and drop it into My Documents and you will never loose a file again. |
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| I am sure this sounds stupid, but i can't figure out how to make it let me save things to my desktop. when you press "save as" in word, it won't let me get to a place where the desktop is the choice. i have tried choosing the different options listed on the left side to find the desktop and i can't...i have to assume that there is a way, but this goes back to me not understanding this system. besides, i am 28 years old and i would rather learn how to use the damn thing then be crippled by it. i want to know WHY i can't find documents that i clearly created. I want to know HOW to fix it so that i can do this on my own in the future. I want to be able to use this computer the right way. (I am sorry if my anger is coming out, but I have been trying to do a simple document for my job for the last 3 hours!) |
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| werforpsu, Let's go at it one by one. When you create a document, you tell the program that created the document to save the document. What program are you using to save the document? Also I NEVER save anything to the desktop, but some people like a cluttered desktop where everything is madly lumped together. Do me a favor please. | on the right-hand side you should see an item labeled "Documents". Right-click on that "documents" and choose Properties. In the resulting window, where does it show your default documents location to be? |
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| okay under library locations it has one choice and it is checkmarked it is: My Documents (C:\Users\Meghan) |
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| good. Now, Quote: What program are you using to save the document? |
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| Word 2010 Starter, which came with my pc |
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| I do not have the starter version, but let's hope the starter is the same as the pro version in this regard. Open word | click on FILE in top lelt click on Options (directly above Exit on my version) click on Save For Default File Location, what is shown? You might want to use the browse button, then choose Library->Documents->My Documents |
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| okay i did that and made the default file location C:\Users\Meghan\Documents\My Documents\ |
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| Now anytime you want to access one of your documents, then you can either click on Documents in the right-side of the start menu or with windows explorer choose Documents and then the desired file. |
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"And the same old lie!" chortled Wise.
It continues that way – the same old lies. Mind lives through lies, mind feeds on lies. Mind cannot encounter truth. All knowledge is of the mind, so all knowledge is bound to be illusory. All knowledge is maya, it is not real. It is a pseudo coin invented by the mind to fill the gap; otherwise you will feel very, very ignorant and stupid, otherwise you will feel you don't know anything. It will be difficult for you to stand, struggle in life. Mind says, "Forget all about ignorance. Knowledge is possible. It is simple: you just cram in a few facts – labels, names. Get acquainted with more information, accumulate information, go to the library, and become knowledgeable."
Knowledgeableness is not knowledge, and all your knowledge is nothing but knowledgeableness. You have gathered information from without – from tradition, from the university, from the society, civilization. You say somebody is a Mohammedan, and you say somebody is a Christian, and then you have figured out who he is? Just by calling a man Christian or calling him a communist, have you known him? Have you known anything about him? But you have a feeling that you know now: this man is a communist – dangerous, and this man is a Christian – very good.
This stupid effort to drown your ignorance by a false knowledge is the only barrier between you and reality, between you and the truth. And if you go on with these lies, believing in them, you will never come across truth – these lies won't allow you. These lies will function as barriers.
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Once Mulla Nasruddin lived next to a lunatic asylum. One of his regular afternoon naps on the lawn was rudely interrupted when a beautiful young lady, completely without clothes, came bursting through the hedge, hotly pursued by three interns dressed in white. The old Mulla was just recovering from his astonishment when a fourth intern dashed into view carrying in each hand a heavy pail full of sand.
The Mulla noticed that a considerable gallery was watching from the other side of the hedge, so he called out, "What is the idea of the fourth intern with the pails of sand?"
"That is his handicap," was the explanation. "He caught her the last time."
And even when I look at you, I see you with pails of lies – searching for truth. You are never going to catch it; your handicap is going to be too much. It is impossible. You have to drop all handicaps. Your mind is the root cause of all your handicaps – your mind is a deceiver. It creates a magical world, a false world of knowledge.
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BRENDAN Nelson wouldn't talk party politics yesterday but spoke instead of the key values many Australians wanted to embrace.
The former Liberal Party leader holds a strictly impartial, non-political role as director of the Australian War Memorial, though says he will always be a Liberal Party member.
After being head of the Australian Medical Association, an MP, education minister, defence minister, party leader, ambassador and diplomat, he is now focused on war history and teaching it to young Australians.
He encourages the war memorial to reach out from Canberra by using virtual images and "live" coverage of events such as the daily sounding of the Last Post.
He said the 2/23rd Battalion's history was a microcosm of the Australian war experience, sharing the factors identified by historians at Gallipoli in determining the Aussie character in battle and in life.
Without holding his breath, he listed: " Resources, candour, devotion, curiosity, dependence, ancestry, comradeship, patriotism, chivalry, loyalty, coolness, control, audacity, endurance and decision."
"The 2/23rd men (in Albury) in 1940 were young men and boys most of them had no idea what would lie ahead, though they would have realised it would be difficult and certainly very dangerous," he said.
Dr Nelson said he didn't want to see students simply learn war history's bare statistics.
"It's very easy to allow the past to become a distant stranger," he said.
"What is extremely important is that we don't ever allow though neglectful indifference that we lose sight of the individual sacrifices that have been made in our name."
Dr Nelson, 55, said his generation was the last given "a pre-packaged set of values based on God, King and Country".
Since then, various factors had broken down the old set of values, including the marginalisation of ethics-based organisations and the diminishing role of parenting as a full-time occupation.
However, youngsters still looked for purpose and what it meant to be an Australian — and found them in the men and women of the three services, including today's veterans of Afghanistan.
"And the young today are able to differentiate what they regard as the absurdity of some of the wars — certainly not World War II — but some of the wars that Australia decided at the time to be engaged," he said.


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ABC is not paying enough attention to "Dancing with the Stars." Even though this special program is now in its 17th season, the staff is making a lot of mistakes. Besides the continued mistakes on YouTube (mostly in the form of double-posting of team performances), last week the ABC DWTS staff forgot to include the sound to some of the videos (again, there was double posting as well) AND incorrect phone numbers were posted on the East Coast. For that reason, some votes might have gone to the wrong couple.
Yet another reason to stick to online voting either on the ABC website or on the ABC DWTS Facebook page. Although the staff must have known about this before the start of the show, they attempted to create false tension by making it seem as if there would be an elimination this week.
It was a particularly cruel moment when one couple thought they had been eliminated. Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind, but this wasn't one of those times. So...No eliminations this week, but six tens were awarded and one couple earned a perfect score. This week, there was a new challenge: the switch-up.
Elizabeth Berkley Lauren and her partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy earned a perfect score. This week during the rehearsal background footage, Lauren talked a bit about her fall from grace when the first feature film she was in was trashed by the critics. She and Chmerkovskiy have been careful to go for classy instead of sexy, but this week they went for sexy. Lauren's cha cha cha had plenty of hip movement below and a lot of sinuous sexy movement above. With her long limbs, she was elegant will full extensions and her nude dress with cut outs on one side and lots of fringe to emphasize the hip action really worked well. Chmerkovskiy went for basic black with a plunging neckline.
Lauren and Chmerkovskiy danced to "Put Your Hands on Me" by Joss Stone. There were three more tens given out.
Two of those tens were awarded to Amber Riley and Derek Hough. Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli thought Riley and Hough performed their samba to perfection. Head judge Len Goodman disagreed. He felt there wasn't enough content and the performance was repetitive. He gave the couple an eight.
When she began her performance, she was at a microphone singing, but even on "Glee" she sometimes stands awkwardly. Moving down the steps, she lost her didn't make that part of the performance. I felt that Riley should have brought her feet together more and sometimes she had sickle feet. She also doesn't always remain in dancer mode.
While I think her dress helps with the song, I'm not sure if it really captures the flavor of the samba. Her big hair hides that her shoulders aren't always down and back. I don't think her frame is good enough to earn a 10
Tonioli thought she did everything perfect. Inaba thought that Riley is fierce and all the elements were there. Goodman told the crowd to boo. His comment was mostly about the content and that it was repetitive.
Riley does prove that she can dance and follow in the switch up challenge.
The other ten didn't go to the Disney kid Corbin Bleu. Their Viennese waltz only received eights from easy-going judges Inaba and Tonioli. Bleu doffed his shirt in a "Game of Thrones" themed performance. The performance was great, but his posture wasn't and the couple wasn't in a ballroom hold for enough of the performance. There wasn't enough waltz to merit a good score for Goodman. He gave Bleu and her partner Karina Smirnoff a seven. In this case, the fault is clearly with Smirnoff as the choreographer.
Goodman did like Brant Daugherty and Peta Murgatroyd and their tango. This is a ballroom tango and not an Argentine tango. The couple performed to "The Night Out" by Martin Solveig. Inaba called Daugherty a "perfect dancing Ken doll." I know she meant that as a compliment, but does anyone want to be the neglected Ken next to the superstar Barbie?
Goodman liked Daugherty's lines and technique, but Tonioli thought Daugherty stumbled.
Goodman gave Daugherty and Murgatroyd a ten, but Tonioli and Inaba gave them nines.
In the switch-up, four couples competed against each other and were placed from 1 to 4 and received extra points with the best couple earning 4 points. The couples didn't know the dance style and the music switched tempo and song four times. It's no surprise that people with previous dance or performing in musical numbers should win this. The groups were as follows:
- Bill Engvall & Emma Slater (first eliminated).
- Jack Osbourne & Cheryl Burke
- Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi & Sasha Farber
- Corbin Bleu & Karina Smirnoff (winner)
The other group consisted of:
- Leah Remini & Tony Dovolani (first eliminated).
- Elizabeth Berkley Lauren & Valentin Chmerkovskiy
- Brant Daugherty & Peta Murgatroyd
- Amber Riley & Derek Hough (winner)
This kind of competition tends to favor the couples with a male professional dancer. However, Brant Daugherty and Peta Murgatroyd were able to do well enough in their group to finish second behind Amber Riley and Derek Hough.
- Elizabeth Berkley Lauren & Valentin Chmerkovskiy: 30 + 2 = 32
- Amber Riley & Derek Hough: 28 + 4 = 32
- Brant Daugherty & Peta Murgatroyd: 28 + 3 = 31
- Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi & Sasha Farber: 27 + 3 = 30
- Leah Remini & Tony Dovolani: 27 + 1= 28
- Corbin Bleu & Karina Smirnoff: 23 + 4 = 27
- Jack Osbourne & Cheryl Burke: 25 + 2= 27
- Bill Engvall & Emma Slater: 24 + 1= 25
The order, scores and music of the performances.
- 23 (8,8,7)
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Elizabeth Berkley Lauren & Valentin Chmerkovskiy
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- Cha-cha-cha
- "Put Your Hands on Me"—Joss Stone
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- 27 (9,9,9)
- Quickstep
- "Man Wanted"—Copacabana
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Brant Daugherty & Peta Murgatroyd
- 28 (9,10,9)
- Tango
- The Night Out"—Martin Solveig
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- 28 (10,8,10)
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- 25 (8,9,8)
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Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi & Sasha Farber
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- 23 (8,7,8)
- Viennese Waltz
- "Game of Thrones Theme"—Ramin Djawadi
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You can still vote for your favorite couple.
How voting works
During the live show every Monday night, the stars dance and fans get to vote.
The following week, the stars will perform again, and the judges will give each couple a score based on several factors, including technical execution. Those scores will be added to your votes from the previous week, and the couple with the lowest combined score from judges and viewer votes will be eliminated from the competition toward the end of that week's episode.
So for example, your votes after Week 2 will be combined with the judges' scores from Week 3 to determine who goes home at the end of Week 3. That means these dancers will have to bring it every week. If they had a bad week followed by a good week, the judges might be their saving grace. But a terrible performance might be enough to cancel out a solid performance the week prior -- you'll have to watch to find out.
You can vote online two ways. You can vote by going to the ABC website, but you need an account and must sign in. You can vote on Facebook. You can vote by phone. See the phone numbers below.
Phone voting begins during the show on Mondays, and is open until 60 minutes after the conclusion of that show in your local time zone.
Online voting at both ABC.com and Facebook opens each Monday when the show begins on the East Coast at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) and stays open until 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) the next day. During the season's final week on Monday, November 25, online voting will open when the show begins on the East Coast at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) and will stay open until 11 a.m. ET (8 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, November 26.


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By Nicholas Winning and Christopher Bjork
Two diplomatic squabbles in as many weeks between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar suggest the European Union's call on Nov. 15 for the two member states to work together to solve their long-running dispute has fallen on deaf ears.
Last week, the British protested the entry of a Spanish research vessel into Gibraltar's territorial waters; this week the spat has centered on two U.K. government bags.
David Lidington, Britain's Minister for Europe, said two clearly marked British diplomatic bags containing official correspondence and communications were opened by Spanish officials as they were taken from Gibraltar to Spain on Friday.
A new report from the European Commission timidly suggests what many economists believe to be true: Sky-high unemployment in Europe's crisis-hit countries is due mainly to the economic crisis – and not the result of a fundamental decline in the ability of these economies to employ their workforces.
The report could add momentum to recent attempts to change the method the commission, the European Union's executive arm, uses to calculate countries' long-term, "natural" unemployment rate. If adopted, it could take pressure off crisis-hit states like Spain or Ireland to implement steep budget cuts and other austerity measures.
For the past few years, the commission has been attributing much of the sharp increases in European unemployment to structural issues in national economies, rather than cyclical declines in economic output. As a result, governments were forced to slash their budgets and adopt far-reaching changes to their labor markets and other parts of their economy.
In the controversy over how the European Union calculates the structural budget balance, much of the attention has focused on Spain. The European Commission's formula for calculating the Spanish figure spits out the result that most of Spain's budget deficit is structural — that is, due to the overall structure of the Spanish economy, rather than a cyclical recession. Yet that calculation assumes that Spain's natural rate of unemployment is close to 24% — an estimate that many economists believe is wrong.
But the figures for Ireland are equally strange. The commission estimates are that almost all of Ireland's actual deficit is structural, attributing just 0.6 percentage point of the overall 7.5% deficit to cyclical factors. The country's current unemployment rate, 13.3%, is actually below the commission's estimate of the natural rate, 14%. And the economy is seen running at full capacity, with almost no output gap. Next year, the commission predicts the Irish economy will actually be operating above capacity.
Read on ….
Visibly moved, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso spoke to reporters Wednesday from Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island off the coast of Tunisia. He'd just seen the lines of coffins of the hundreds of African migrants who perished on their way to Italy last week. He was shocked.
So was Cecilia Malmström, the commissioner in charge of migration, who sat next to him.
"I will never forget the sight of 280 coffins today. I will bear this with me for the rest of my life and I think they express something that we need to think about in the European Union, this isn't the European Union we want," she said.
Shock and doubt at Europe's moral standing when it comes to those desperate enough to flee home on unsafe boats to get to Europe dominated a debate at the European Parliament Wednesday morning.
But shock doesn't necessarily translate into policy, or, for that matter, into substantial funding.
Mr. Barroso said the commission would give Italy an additional €30 million this year to help refugees there. It is, by all accounts, a small amount. But at the end of the EU budget period, Mr. Barroso is constrained.
A new study of democracy in the European Union labels Greece and Hungary the most worrisome "backsliders" on democratic values, but also urges special attention to Bulgaria, Romania, Spain and Italy.
The report, conducted by the Demos think tank for the European Parliament's Socialists and Democrats group, says the current financial crisis has heightened antidemocratic trends, but that this isn't the sole factor.
The EU should embrace its role as a watchdog of democracy, the paper says, and not see itself as solely an economic bloc. The report cites five major areas of democratic "backsliding."
Sailing across the Bay of Gibraltar, the tiny British enclave in the Mediterranean, offers lots of new experiences. Before you even exit the marina, there's a flashing light to inform you if a jet is about to land at Gibraltar airport, where the runway sticks out across the edge of The Rock as if a giant had been playing Tetris. (Better avoid the planes if you want to keep your mast!)
Then there's watching dolphins splash around, dodging the colossal ships anchored in the bay to stock up on bargain fuel, and the crazy combination of winds coming over The Rock itself to deal with.
But this summer, mariners also got to witness some political high drama, sailing straight into a territorial dispute between European Union members U.K. and Spain. The fight began with the laying of an artificial reef and has slowly escalated all summer.
Changing euro-zone labor-market institutions has been one of the main goals of the bailout programs managed by the International Monetary Fund and euro-zone authorities over the last three years.
The thinking is: Europe's labor markets – particularly those in the euro-zone periphery – need overhauls to allow wages to keep pace with changes in productivity and economic circumstances. This sounds like dry stuff, but it's been one of the fund's more controversial bailout recommendations. Making labor markets more "flexible" has in practice meant reducing the role of labor unions in wage-setting across much of southern Europe, leaving unions none-too-pleased with their more limited powers.
In a paper published on Friday, IMF economists led by Olivier Blanchard took a somewhat soul-searching look at the fund's labor-market advice over the last three years. One interesting finding: The fund should "tread carefully" in its recommendations on collective bargaining, the paper suggests, since evidence about what kinds of bargaining institutions work best is mixed.
On a day German Chancellor Merkel was in town and the European Commission released a new dreary outlook on the European economy, it may be surprising that the little-known head of a regional government could draw a crowd in Brussels. But as the president of the Spanish region of Catalonia, Artur Mas managed to dip into one of the topics du jour in the European Union capital: Just like many people in Scotland and Flanders, Mr. Mas wants Catalonia to split from the nation state that has long been its home and determine its own political, cultural, and economic destiny.
But unlike the more than a million demonstrators that took to Barcelona's streets in September, Mr. Mas doesn't use the word "independence." Instead, he's lobbying for Catalonia, one of Spain's wealthiest regions, to become "its own state within the framework of the European Union." Catalonia will hold snap elections on Nov. 25, which Mr. Mas hopes will give the necessary momentum for a referendum or consultation over the region's future within the next four years.
Life and work in the European Union is coming to mean increasingly different things to its 500 million citizens, depending on where they live, with divergence in unemployment rates, child poverty, hours worked and household disposal income widening.
In its quarterly review of employment and social conditions, a deeper overview of various previously released indicators published today, the European Commission found that already-evident social divergences within the EU have continued to widen.
A prime example is unemployment: The report says that the gap between the country reporting the lowest rate–Austria, at 4.5%– and that reporting the highest rate–Spain at 25.1%– is at an all-time high of 20.6 percentage points.
Just three member states are now reporting youth-unemployment rates below 10%: Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. More than 30% of Slovakian, Portuguese, Italian and Irish youths are out of work. But for young Spaniards and Greeks, prospects are even worse, with more than half of them jobless in each country.
There was much surprise among many euro-crisis watchers Tuesday night, when the finance ministers of Germany, the Netherlands and Finland issued a statement. In it, the ministers appeared to quash the hopes of Ireland and Spain that they may be able eventually to offload to the region's bailout fund the billions of euros they have pumped, or are about to pump, into their banks.
"The ESM can take direct responsibility of problems that occur under the new supervision, but legacy assets should be under the responsibility of national authorities," the three ministers said.
Unless you're a hardcore euro geek, you will be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the significance of that statement. So let's backtrack a bit.
The Wall Street Journal's Brussels blog is produced by the Brussels bureau of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. The bureau has been headed since 2009 by Stephen Fidler, who was previously a correspondent and editor for the Financial Times and Reuters. Also posting regularly: Matthew Dalton, Tom Fairless, Naftali Bendavid, Vanessa Mock, Daniel Michaels, Laurence Norman, Frances Robinson, Gabriele Steinhauser and Matina Stevis.


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H/T to Eric Kirkland for the link.
December 2, 2013
October 30, 2013
QotD: The career of Karl Marx
[Karl Marx] was also an unemployed professor, a scholar in the German tradition with a first-rate brain, a vast depth of learning and considerable obscurity of thought. Of his intellect and scholarship there can be no doubt at all. He knew many languages and had read widely in many subjects. A very learned man indeed, he was admirably fitted for the life of a German university. Marx's complete absorption in his philosophy, history and economics was quite typical of the sort of professor he should by right have become. That mixture of scholarship, vagueness, poverty and practical inexperience would have graced a chair at Heidelberg or Bonn. But for the death in 1840 of Frederick William IV, a man of strictly orthodox views on religion, Marx might have had an academic career. Barred from this, however, as an atheist, he had no class to teach, no pupils from whom he might have learned. There is a sense, of course, in which a professor lives apart from the world. But his duties, even in the mid-nineteenth century, involved some contact with other people. The most professorial of German professors would have examinations to set and appointments to keep. Sessions of Senate and Faculty might give him scope for eloquence or intrigue, and he would find for himself the need to compromise, concede and persuade. Howbeit painfully and slowly, the professor comes to know something of administration and finance. But this was the practical knowledge which Marx was denied. All the experience he had was in his own home, where his failure was catastrophic for his wife and family. Of his children some died of slow starvation and two committed suicide. Retaining and increasing all his professional learning, he became more purely theoretical than even professors are allowed to be. Of the difficulties of organizing human society he knew practically nothing. There was in fact no human society — no province or city, no school or club — of which he could be said to have been a member. His whole life was bounded by the printed page.
C. Northcote Parkinson, "Internal Contradiction", Left Luggage, 1967.
September 27, 2013
Matt Cassel to start London game against the Steelers
The Vikings announced earlier today that quarterback Christian Ponder's rib injury is severe enough that he won't be playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend. In his place, backup Matt Cassel will get the start:
Cassel, who is replacing an injured Christian Ponder (ribs), will try to steer the Vikings towards their first win of the season, and comes into a situation that few expected a month ago. The Vikings are 0-3 and on the verge of their season imploding, if it already hasn't. With issues at QB, offensive line, and all over the defense, the Vikings have stumbled badly out of the gate, and they really need a spark.
Will Cassel provide that? It remains to be seen. This is the reason Cassel was signed in the off season. Last year, the Vikings had serious deficiencies at the backup position, as was evidenced by the tire fire that was Joe Webb in the Wild Card playoff game against Green Bay. As a starter, Cassel 29-33. In his career, he has a completion percentage of just over 58%, with 82 TD passes and 57 interceptions.
There's already fan speculation that this is a "designed" play:
Love the people who think Ponder's injury is an elaborate ruse. Like the guy would go along with a pretend injury when career's on the line.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 27, 2013
Update: The cynics are already hard at work:
Only two and a half days until #Vikings fans call for Cassel to be benched and MBT to be the starting QB.
— John Kriesel (@johnkriesel) September 27, 2013
Of course we're not forcing you to watch Matt Cassel because you burned down the first White House, England. That's crazy talk.
— sir broosk (@celebrityhottub) September 27, 2013
September 22, 2013
QotD: The personal alienation of Karl Marx
Almost any Jew can be stateless, but Marx was particularly so — born of alien parents in a frontier region between Germany and France, educated in the Rhineland and in Prussia, a student at Berlin but a graduate of Jena, exiled by the age of thirty-two. Nor was this domicile chosen from any love of England or of anything but safety. He knew next to nothing of the English when he died, preferring to live among German exiles, talking German, thinking in German, and for preference writing in German. He knew of the toiling masses only from blue books and parliamentary reports. We hear nothing of his travels among the Lancashire cotton mills and as little of his talks with the London poor. There is no record of his visiting the coal mines, the docks, or even a public house. He was essentially homeless, offering no loyalty and expecting no aid. And with his scorn went hatred. He despised and loathed his rivals, quarreled with this allies and condemned all sympathizers who deviated even by a little from the doctrine he held to be sacred. Karl Marx had no country.
C. Northcote Parkinson, "Internal Contradiction", Left Luggage, 1967.
August 5, 2013
A morbid bit of railway history
I read about the London Necropolis Railway in The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross. I foolishly assumed he'd made it up for the purposes of the story. Not at all:
[Sir Richard] Broun was fascinated by the recently-emerged technology of steam trains. In 1848, Waterloo Station had only just been opened, and the railways themselves were still considered something of a novelty. Broun, along with his partner Richard Sprye, concocted a plan to ease the overcrowding issue with the help of this new invention. Buying up a 1,500 acre site outside Woking, they proposed the creation of a dedicated railway of the dead: a line (serviced by London & Southwest Rail) used for the sole purpose of transporting the deceased from London to 'Brookwood Cemetery' for burial.
The railway was inaugurated on 13th November 1854, with its own dedicated platform at Waterloo Station. A timetabled service would transport coffins down at night and mourners by day, delivering them to one of two stations: the Conformist station on Brookwood's sunny side; or the non-conformist station on its dark north face. To prevent upsetting any delicate Victorian sensibilities, each 'coffin train' was divided into classes to separate the dead from their poorer neighbours. Even in death, it seemed, the idea of sharing a carriage with a pauper was anathema.
Until the 1940s it remained a weird London institution, a ghoulish Victorian hangover that resisted time, social change and falling demand. Ultimately, it took the Luftwaffe to close it down: during the heavy bombing raid of 16th April 1941 the Waterloo terminus was obliterated. The LNR had shipped its last cadaver.
H/T to Dave Slater for the link.
May 26, 2013
Reporting (and omitting to report) certain news items
Mark Steyn on what was top of the issue-sheet for journalists discussing the Woolwich murder and the Swedish "youth" riots:
For the last week Stockholm has been ablaze every night with hundreds of burning cars set alight by "youths." Any particular kind of "youth"? The Swedish prime minister declined to identify them any more precisely than as "hooligans." But don't worry: The "hooligans" and "youths" and men of no Muslim appearance whatsoever can never win because, as David Cameron ringingly declared, "they can never beat the values we hold dear, the belief in freedom, in democracy, in free speech, in our British values, Western values." Actually, they've already gone quite a way toward eroding free speech, as both prime ministers demonstrate. The short version of what happened in Woolwich is that two Muslims butchered a British soldier in the name of Islam and helpfully explained, "The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day." But what do they know? They're only Muslims, not Diversity Outreach Coordinators. So the BBC, in its so-called "Key Points," declined to mention the "Allahu akbar" bit or the "I"-word at all: Allah who?
Not a lot of Muslims want to go to the trouble of chopping your head off, but when so many Western leaders have so little rattling around up there, they don't have to. And, as we know from the sob-sister Tsarnaev profiles, most of these excitable lads are perfectly affable, or at least no more than mildly alienated, until the day they set a hundred cars alight, or blow up a school boy, or decapitate some guy. And, if you're lucky, it's not you they behead, or your kid they kill, or even your Honda Civic they light up. And so life goes on, and it's all so "mundane," in Simon Jenkins's word, that you barely notice when the Jewish school shuts up, and the gay bar, and the uncovered women no longer take a stroll too late in the day, and the publishing house that gets sent the manuscript for the next Satanic Verses decides it's not worth the trouble … But don't worry, they'll never defeat our "free speech" and our "way of life."
One in ten Britons under 25 is now Muslim. That number will increase, through immigration, disparate birth rates, and conversions like those of the Woolwich killers, British-born and -bred. Metternich liked to say the Balkans began in the Landstrasse, in southeast Vienna. Today, the Dar al-Islam begins in Wellington Street, in southeast London. That's a "betrayal" all right, but not of Islam.
May 25, 2013
James Delingpole, that intellectual lightweight
Here he is again, banging on about his failings, particularly over the Woolwich murder:
On occasions like this I really do feel a bit of an intellectual lightweight, I must say. There am I, stuck in the fuddy-duddy mindset where you see a 25-year old father of a one year old boy being hacked to death with meat cleavers on a busy London street and all you can do is respond with the gut feeling that "This is wrong. This is totally wrong!"
Whereas if I were a bit younger, less reactionary and I'd had a proper educational grounding somewhere serious like the LSE, what I would have realised is that you just can't judge things like this at face value. Sure, there's a temptation to dwell on what a terrible way to go it must have been for that poor young man; to think about what his family must be going through — his wife and mother especially, who will surely be re-living his imagined death every day from now on till they die; to get quite angry, even, about the perverted political values and warped mindset that led to this barbaric act — and also about the cultural relativism that helped make it possible. But succumbing to this temptation would, of course, be a serious mistake.
No, if you're a truly enlightened citizen of the modern world, the correct way to respond is the way all those sophisticated intellectual types on Twitter did. You recognise straightaway that the horror of the murder is just a distraction from the real issue. The real issue being, of course, that this regrettable event was the sadly inevitable consequence of Britain's racism, intolerance and Islamophobia — as demonstrated by Nick Robinson's bigoted, ignorant and inflammatory use of that reprehensible "of Muslim appearance" comment on BBC news for which he has since, quite correctly, apologised.
Until, as a society, we learn to face up to our collective responsibility for Drummer Lee Rigby's death, young men like Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale ought to have every right to go on drawing attention to this rampant injustice in whatever way they deem fit. It is frankly outrageous that in order to make their point they had to resort to the blunt instrument of execution by motor vehicle and butcher's knife. A truly considerate society would have made public funds available for them to afford some properly functioning automatic weaponry. That way these gallant, oppressed freedom fighters could have made their vibrant and refreshingly direct contribution to our national debate with a lot less fuss and a lot less mess — perhaps preventing the disgraceful public overreaction we have witnessed over the last couple of days, everywhere from the hateful, violent racist English Defence League to the hardcore, fascist right-wing BBC.
May 23, 2013
Identity politics and the Woolwich murderers
Brendan O'Neill on yesterday's brutal murder in Woolwich:
One of the most shocking things about the brutal attack in Woolwich yesterday was the arrogance with which one of the bloodied knifemen claimed to be acting on behalf of all Muslims. In what sounded like a South London accent, this British-seeming, casually dressed young man bizarrely spoke as if he were a representative of the ummah. He talked about "our lands" and what "our people" have to go through every day. He presumably meant Iraqis and Afghanis, or perhaps the broader global "Muslim family".
How can a couple of men so thoroughly convince themselves that they speak for all Muslims, to the extent that they seriously believe their savage and psychotic attack on a man in the street is some kind of glorious act of Islamic resistance? Perhaps because they live in a country in which claiming to speak "on behalf of" a community, even if you've never been elected by or even seriously talked to that community, is taken seriously. A country where one's identity, one's racial or religious or cultural make-up, now counts for everything, certainly for more than what one does or what one believes. A country in which the politics of identity, the narrow and deeply divisive communal politics of shared cultural traits, has been privileged over all other kinds of politics.
The Woolwich murderer's impromptu claim to be acting on behalf of the grievances of Muslims everywhere echoes the statements made by the 7/7 bombers. "Your democratically elected governments continue to perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world", said chief bomber Mohammad Siddique Khan. "My people" — what extraordinary arrogance and self-righteousness. Did Khan ever talk to "his people" or win a mandate from them? Of course not, no more than the knife-wielding nutter in Woolwich engaged with the inhabitants of what he thinks of as "his lands". Rather, in this era in which any old fool can claim to be a "community spokesperson", and can be treated seriously as such, these murderous loners seem to be trying a psychotic version of the same trick — claiming that by dint of shared skin colour or common religious sentiment they have the authority to speak on behalf of millions of people they have never met or whose lands they have never visited.
February 17, 2013
A shocking, lurid tale of depravity that transfixed Victorian London
In History Today, Richard Canning reviews a new book on the trial of Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, aka Mrs Fanny Graham and Miss Stella Boulton in 1871:
McKenna provides what is certainly the definitive account of the Boulton/Park story, drawn not only from contemporary journalism but also from the full legal transcript, a miraculous survivor housed in Kew's National Archives. It is a miserable tale, if leavened both by McKenna's dramatic verve and, during the show trial held in Westminster Hall, by Fanny and Stella's black humour. The establishment account – that the pair's persistent cross-dressing importuning was a scandal to public morals that must be stopped – soon breaks down. McKenna shows clearly how the men were effectively set up and, to some degree, even entrapped.
Police confidence in pressing the serious charge of 'conspiracy to solicit, induce, procure and endeavour to persuade persons unknown to commit buggery' (as opposed to the minor offence of outraging public decency) was nonetheless misplaced. Buggery had until lately incurred the death penalty and still carried a lifelong penal sentence. No such charge had been brought for 240 years. The problem which attended the endless, farcical medical examinations of Boulton and Park reflected sodomy's millennial history as the nameless or invisible crime. Few Victorian doctors could claim to have seen evidence of the extreme anal dilation which purportedly occurred after the 'insertion of a foreign body'. Of the half dozen who inspected the pair – both inveterate sodomites, as McKenna concedes – only one remained certain that the corporeal evidence supported conviction. They were acquitted and the notion that 'the impurities of Continental cities' had reached London was rooted in legal terms for a quarter-century – if paradoxically seeming somehow to be affirmed.
McKenna lays bare a fascinating tapestry of interrelated personal histories, only partially capable of reconstruction. Frederick's elder brother Harry, already twice disgraced, was hiding in Scotland under an assumed name. Their father, a judge, was urgently shipped off to South Africa during the trial of his younger son. Impressively, Frederick's mother – amusingly a literal 'Mary Ann' – took to the stand to defend his moral character. So successful was she that the identification of Frederick/'Fanny' as a theatrical mother's boy exonerated him entirely from the imputation of vice.
November 10, 2012
Minimum wage and "living wage"
Tim Harford discusses the image and reality of Britain's campaign for "living wages":
Living wage?
The minimum wage, £6.19 an hour for those 21 and over, is a legal obligation. The living wage, £8.55 an hour in London and £7.45 an hour elsewhere, is the result of a very successful publicity campaign and can count Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson among its advocates. There are no legal sanctions for paying less than the living wage, although Mr Miliband did announce plans to "name and shame" those companies who didn't. Apparently that is helpful, because "name" rhymes with "shame".
Why do campaigners say that you can't live on the minimum wage?
Try living on £6.19 an hour and see how you get on.
For an economist you're getting very high-minded all of a sudden.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to point out that £6.19 an hour isn't a lot of money. £8.55 an hour isn't a lot of money, either, but a lot of people have to get by on less. Unfortunately we economists have to ask awkward questions — for instance, whether these campaigns are likely to help people without much income.
[. . .]
Perhaps we should just raise the legal minimum wage to the same level as the living wage.
Perhaps. Perhaps we should raise the legal minimum wage to a £100m an hour. I think if we did we'd find unemployment might rise. A minimum wage does two things. It will shift money from employers in an imperfectly competitive market to low-paid workers and it will induce some employers to sack workers, even if both employer and employee would prefer a deal struck at an illegally-low wage rate. There's a case that for the good of low-paid workers, there should be no minimum wage at all. There should be one but it needs to be modest if it isn't to cause too much unemployment.
Is there any evidence on the right level?
There's lots, and it is mixed, but on balance it's in favour of the idea that if you raise the cost of employing people, fewer people will be employed. It is worth bearing in mind that, for a lowly paid worker shifting from job to job, having less work available but at a high hourly rate, isn't a bad deal. The concern has to be that certain types of people — especially young unskilled workers — will be shut out completely and denied the chance to learn on the job.
November 5, 2012
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Today is the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot:
Everyone knows what the Gunpowder Plotters looked like. Thanks to one of the best-known etchings of the seventeenth century we see them 'plotting', broad brims of their hats over their noses, cloaks on their shoulders, mustachios and beards bristling — the archetypical band of desperados. Almost as well known are the broad outlines of the discovery of the 'plot': the mysterious warning sent to Lord Monteagle on October 26th, 1605, the investigation of the cellars under the Palace of Westminster on November 4th, the discovery of the gunpowder and Guy Fawkes, the flight of the other conspirators, the shoot-out at Holbeach in Staffordshire on November 8th in which four (Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy and the brothers Christopher and John Wright) were killed, and then the trial and execution of Fawkes and seven others in January 1606.
However, there was a more obscure sequel. Also implicated were the 9th Earl of Northumberland, three other peers (Viscount Montague and Lords Stourton and Mordaunt) and three members of the Society of Jesus. Two of the Jesuits, Fr Oswald Tesimond and Fr John Gerard, were able to escape abroad, but the third, the superior of the order in England, Fr Henry Garnet, was arrested just before the main trial. Garnet was tried separately on March 28th, 1606 and executed in May. The peers were tried in the court of Star Chamber: three were merely fined, but Northumberland was imprisoned in the Tower at pleasure and not released until 1621.
[. . .]
Thanks to the fact that nothing actually happened, it is not surprising that the plot has been the subject of running dispute since November 5th, 1605. James I's privy council appears to have been genuinely unable to make any sense of it. The Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke, observed at the trial that succeeding generations would wonder whether it was fact or fiction. There were claims from the start that the plot was a put-up job — if not a complete fabrication, then at least exaggerated for his own devious ends by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, James's secretary of state. The government's presentation of the case against the plotters had its awkward aspects, caused in part by the desire to shield Monteagle, now a national hero, from the exposure of his earlier association with them. The two official accounts published in 1606 were patently spins. One, The Discourse of the Manner, was intended to give James a more commanding role in the uncovering of the plot than he deserved. The other, A True and Perfect Relation, was intended to lay the blame on Garnet.
But Catesby had form. He and several of the plotters as well as Lord Monteagle had been implicated in the Earl of Essex's rebellion in 1601. Subsequently he and the others (including Monteagle) had approached Philip III of Spain to support a rebellion to prevent James I's accession. This raises the central question of what the plot was about. Was it the product of Catholic discontent with James I or was it the last episode in what the late Hugh Trevor-Roper and Professor John Bossy have termed 'Elizabethan extremism'?
October 17, 2012
The real story of the London Beer Flood of 1814
When the story isn't quite as juicy as the recounter would like, there is a common tendency to make shit up to amp up the tale:
I can stake a tenuous family link to the Great London Beer Flood disaster of 1814, which took place exactly 196 years ago today. My great-great-great-great grandfather on my mother's side, Maurice Donno, was living in Soho, a minute or three's walk from the Horse Shoe Brewery off Tottenham Court Road, when a huge vat of maturing porter at the brewery collapsed violently and flooded the surrounding tenements, killing eight people. Most, if not all, of those who died were poor Irish immigrants to London, part of a mass of people living in the slums around St Giles's Church, the infamous St Giles "rookeries" (later to be cleaned away by the building of New Oxford Street in 1847). Maurice Donno was very probably Irish, his surname most likely a variation of Donough or something similar (which would make his first name a common Anglicisation of the Irish Muirgheas). Perhaps he knew some of those who died, or were injured, in the Great Beer Flood, or knew people who knew them. It seems very likely he would have gone across the road at some point after the tragedy, to join the hundreds who came to see the destruction wreaked by that dreadful black tsunami of beer.
[. . .]
Thank you, Eugene Tolstov, for pointing to my mistake, and for not laughing too much at my inability to multiply 3,555 by 36 by 10 and divide by 2,240. But at least my narrative on probably the worst industrial accident involving a British brewery was more accurate than many. The late Alan Eames, for example, in The Secret Life of Beer, claimed that the vat burst "with a boom heard five miles away" – not mentioned in any of the many sources from the time that I've read – while "eyewitnesses told of besotted mobs flinging themselves into gutters full of beer, hampering rescue efforts" – no, newspaper reports of the rescue don't support this at all – and "many were killed suffocated in the crush of hundreds trying to get a free beer" – again, the contemporary reports don't say this – while "the death toll eventually reached 20, including some deaths from alcohol coma" – no, the newspaper reports from the time make it clear that only eight people died, all women and children, and all killed by the initial huge wave of beer and the destruction it caused to the buildings in the tenements behind the brewery.
Similarly there's a myth arisen that when those injured after the vat burst were taken to the nearby Middlesex Hospital, "patients already there for illnesses unrelated to the beer disaster smelled the ale and began a riot, accusing doctors and nurses of holding out on the beer they thought was being served elsewhere in the hospital", while another myth claims that when bodies of those killed were taken "to a nearby house for identification", so many people turned up to see them that "the floor collapsed under the sheer weight of onlookers" and "many inside the building perished in the collapse." None of this is in any reports of the accident from newspapers in 1814, and if any of it had happened, you can bet one of them would have written about it.
September 13, 2012
Cutty Sark now housed in "worst new building in Britain"
Andrew Gilligan tells the sad story of the Cutty Sark's new "home":
The architectural trade journal, Building Design, has announced that the historic tea clipper is the 2012 winner of the Carbuncle Cup, the wooden spoon for the dregs of British architecture.
The architects, Grimshaw, have taken something delicate and beautiful and surrounded it with a building that looks like a 1980s bus station. Clumsy and ineptly detailed, their new glass greenhouse around the Cutty Sark totally ruins her thrilling lines, obscures much of her exquisite gilding and cynically forces anyone who actually wants to see her to pay their £12 and go inside. The sight of people pressing their faces forlornly against the smoked glass to try to see something of the ship is one of the sadder in London.
Grimshaw have also punched a shopping centre-style glass lift up through the middle of the ship — and put two more lifts in a new square building, the size of a small block of flats, next to and towering over the ship herself. They've plonked a glass pod on the open main deck for a staircase (the old housing was wood, but that's so nineteenth-century). They've installed lights on the masts which make it look like a Christmas tree. Above all, of course, they've hoicked the ship up on girders, dangling above the dry dock to create an "unparalleled corporate entertaining space" underneath — an act of vandalism that prompted the resignation of the chief engineer, who said it would place the vessel under unacceptable strain and end in its destruction.
Cutty Sark was severely damaged in a drydock fire in May 2007.
September 6, 2012
Gentrification of Brixton
The Economist looks at the demographic and social changes underway in Brixton:
A good deal has changed in Brixton, a south London district, since Eta Rodney bought her Victorian terraced house in 1980. Then many of her neighbours were, like her, Jamaican. West Indians had settled in Brixton since 1948, when some arrived on the Empire Windrush. Today many of Mrs Rodney's black neighbours are selling up and moving out of the area, making way for predominantly white newcomers. Britain's historic black centre is being transformed — but in an odd way.
The Afro-Caribbean population of Lambeth, the borough where Brixton is located, is estimated to have fallen by 8% since 2001 even as the borough's overall population has risen by 9%. Interracial mixing explains only part of this: the main reason is black flight. Afro-Caribbeans have dispersed from other parts of central London too, such as Hackney and Hammersmith and Fulham. They move to escape crime, buy bigger houses and get their children into better schools — the familiar reasons people of all races head for suburbia. In the South East outside London, Afro-Caribbean numbers have jumped, albeit from a low base.
[. . .]
Mrs Rodney feels both pressures. Her husband would like to retire to Jamaica. She prefers Streatham, further south in London, where she could buy a palace for the money gentrifiers are keen to pay for her house, with its original cornicing and marble fireplaces. The former council house she bought under the Conservative Party's right-to-buy scheme—"I love Mrs Thatcher, God bless her soul"—would today fetch at least 20 times what she paid.
Of course, for many of us, the name Brixton has a very Clash-y context:
August 31, 2012
Where would London be without the Tube?
At sp!ked, Neil Davenport reviews a new book about London's iconic underground:
The closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics was notable for its groaning reliance on tourist-shop icons — all black cabs, bowler hats, Houses of Parliament, red pillar-boxes and Mini Coopers. In a dreary way, what could we expect? A tourist-shop portrayal of Britain is still internationally recognisable and, for the organisers, safe enough to avoid party-pooping controversy. Curiously, though, one famous figure of the capital was noticeable by its absence: the London Underground. With its roundel logo, distinctive trains and elegantly functional map, few landmarks of London are as richly iconic as this. Indeed, as a character player in umpteen films, novels and pop songs, no London setting would be complete without the Underground.
Throughout the network's history, though, Londoners' relationship with the Tube has often been uneasy and aggravating: overcrowding, delays, cancellations, the fare's dent on the wallet and, for the middle classes, striking tube workers and their 'inflated' salary. Nevertheless, it is only when the Tube is not working properly that we become aware of its magnitude. Unlike Tower Bridge or Beefeaters, the Tube isn't a remote or mythical symbol of London. It's the living, working and organic lifeblood of the capital. It is the way in which millions of Londoners are able to work and play and thus, unlike Parliament, has meaning to ordinary people's lives.
The boons and banes of the tube for Londoners (and visitors) are warmly captured in Andrew Martin's Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube. A novelist and former 'Tube Talk' columnist for the London Evening Standard, Yorkshireman Martin pithily combines an authoritative history of the network's development with personal reflections on his daily journeys. People can say they have become Londoners when they can navigate the vast system and reflect on its highs and lows, quirks and anomalies. Whether we admit it or not, Londoners will have their favourite stations and lines (the author's is the Central line, mine the Victoria). They will notice the art décor splendour of Arnos Grove station or the beautifully rich tiles at Baker Street. They will curse themselves for falling asleep on the last tube (it's that gentle rocking motion that sends you off to the Land of Nod) and waking up, as I have on numerous occasions, in High Barnet.


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Thanks Lolly.
I must admit my labelling was a bit sloppy so I hope I've got the ID's right.
These two are White-necked Jacobins
I think this was a Copper-rumped Hummingbird
I think this was a Ruby Topaz
Trinidad & Tobago is not usually regarded as a holiday destination but it's fabulous for birds especially at the Asa Wright centre.
This is not a Humming bird but a Violaceous Euphonea. Sounds as though it ought to be in an orchestra. How cool is that.
Brilliant Teejay
I believe all your id's are correct. These are stunning photos. I was wanting to take a nectar feeder with me as I thought I could maybe get some better photos. Just as well I didn't as the wee hummer at my apartment would not have been impressed! Might get one for next time though. There are over 300 different species of hummer now I have seen 3 over 297 to go on my wish list! "Violaceous Euphonea" what a wonderfull name. The yellow is so bright. I have been in Barbados, Jamaica,Antigua, St Martin, Haiti, St Lucia, St Thomas and I have been to a couple of others but can't remember the name. Unfortunately I visited these islands before I was really in to birds. Now I need to put Trinidad and Tobago on my list.
Hi lolly and T J just catching up on the forum, and this post is brilliant, thank's to both of you for posting ,and letting us all enjoy !!! (last hour at work and all up to date ) so filling in my time LOL
Regards Mick