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Work detailsPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is an amazing book, a feat of style and form and, just because of that, no the easiest read. yet, it is rewarding and interesting. Not exactly satisfying, mind you, but I find Nabokov never is. I could only read it in the mornings. Before bed, my brain would go into overdrive if i attempted more than 10 pages. Yet, there is enjoyment in this book, there are poetic moments, divine details and wonderful revelations. The introduction - poem - commentary - index format is difficult to pull without looking gimmicky, but Nabokov does it with grace and elegance. Shade, Kinbote and Gradus will stay with me for a long time. I first read Pale Fire more than 25 years ago when it seemed wonderfully clever and amusing. Andrea Pitzer's marvellous study, The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov, led me back to read Pale Fire again. It hasn't worn well. The immense body of exegetical scholarship which it has accumulated over the years seems only to make the faults more painfully apparent. The book is certainly a puzzler's delight and it has some interesting implications with respect to the decline of Nabokov's powers as a novelist after Lolita. Neither of these interests is sufficient to redeem Pale Fire. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the structure or plot of the novel. Other reviewers have done so with admirable brevity. My comments will be mostly negative. First: Kinbote, the deranged critic/commentator who will occupy most of the reader's time, is a repellent creation and, far worse than that, he is consistently obtuse and almost always trivial. Nabokovian prose and a diverting set of word and plot puzzles aren't sufficient to place Charles Kinbote among the emotionally or intellectually engaging characters in the literary pantheon. Nor can Kinbote be defended as some kind of hilarious, biting or penetrating portrait of some recognisable variety of critic or commentator. He is too silly, too consistently wrong or obtuse. Second: John Shade's poem, from which the novel takes its title, sags terribly in its final canto. Even Kinbote concedes that Canto 4 is a failure. It begins with false grandiloquence: 'Now I shall spy on beauty as none as spied on it yet...&' and declines thereafter into the bathos of Shade shaving in his bathtub. What interest the last canto has derives from the reader's foreknowledge that it will never be completed and that Shade will be the unintended victim of the assassin Gradus or Grey. Three stars for the remnants of Nabokov's craft as a prose stylist. And, too, for the heart-searing pain of Canto 2 of Pale Fire, which recounts the life and suicide of John Shade's poor ugly duckling daughter, Hazel. Here, the cruelty of the novelist as creator goes hand in hand with his compassion for the suffering which he inflicts on his creations. I think it's best to ignore all the scholarship and just read this one, if you haven't. You can read that stuff later if you like. If you know English departments and the world of literary criticism, or just have some familiarity with the world of high-powered hypocritical academia, that certainly helps. It is hysterically funny, and creepy, subtle and theatrical, and the only experimental novel I know of whose form is truly intrinsically tied to its function. Many novels with strange forms could have been told in a more straightforward way. Not this one. You can just read it cover to cover. But I would strongly recommend reading it with two bookmarks, and following every endnote and cross-reference. Six-word review: Difficult, dazzling fictional coup by virtuoso. Extended review: No one with a shred less intellectual and literary confidence--even, I would say, arrogance--than the likes of Lolita's Nabokov would have dared to construct a 999-line verse that is at once brilliant and brilliantly bad and then append to it a novel in the guise of scholarly annotations. I read my first Nabokov novel (it was Despair, his characteristically unorthodox contribution to Doppelgänger literature) in the 1960s and immediately became a fan. I read his novels one after another, his autobiography, his criticism, his lectures. At one time I loved Ada above all other novels. I was dazzled by the author's erudition and his fierce, unforgiving intelligence. I was in awe of his command of our language, not even his native tongue, in which he moved as through a tesseract, inhabiting dimensions that most of us could not even conceive. He played with English like Thor playing with thunderbolts, handling them like toys, but never, ever in the absence of absolute control. And yet when I tried to read Pale Fire in about 1969 or 1970, I bogged down early and just could not push myself through it. Pale Fire sat on my shelf--or actually a considerable succession of shelves in two states--until a few weeks ago. After reading Danielewski's House of Leaves and finding myself stymied in my attempt to write a review, I became aware that I could not accomplish that feat without first knowing Pale Fire. And so at last I read it. Now I find myself oddly compelled (a) to give it five stars and (b) to not recommend it. There is something almost embarrassing about the spectacle that this work presents, as if we were accidentally to espy the speaker fondling a ladies' silken undergarment and realize a moment too late that we ought to look away. And yet we know that he knows we're watching, and catching us in the act of involuntary but fascinated voyeurism seems to be exactly his intention. We are the Biter Bit. Not that I would say to anyone "Don't read it." I think it's a great work and continues to merit major attention. But it possesses such a quality of autonomous self-sufficiency that it seems indifferent to opinion and makes fools of us for trying to express one: as if we were to emerge, speechless, from a stunning performance of an operatic masterwork and overhear a bumpkin behind us gush, "That guy wrote really good music." How dare we judge it? Story. The story. All right. It's a first-person narrative by one Charles Kinbote, putative professor of literature at a fictitious American college, who asserts a claim to the intimate friendship of a recently deceased poet by the name of John Shade. Kinbote takes it upon himself to publish a heavily annotated version of Shade's last work of verse. The annotations constitute not only an autobiography of Kinbote, whose personal history as a refugee from the fictitious European kingdom of Zembla is rife with political and sexual intrigue, but a catalogue of personal grievances by a self-avowed victim of endless private and public injustices. Converging paths lead to murder and leave the fate of John Shade's final opus in the hands of the quintessential unreliable narrator. As the layers of self-revelation unfold and coy hints become an ever-broader trail of clues, we are led to wonder whether there is any narrative truth to be found in this deeply paranoid fantasy whose self-delusion appears from the first moment, with expressions of abject admiration for a poet who writes such lines as this (183-194): =====(Excerpt begins) The little scissors I am holding are A dazzling synthesis of sun and star. I stand before the window and I pare My fingernails and vaguely am aware Of certain flinching likenesses: the thumb, Our grocer's son; the index, lean and glum College astronomer Starover Blue; The middle fellow, a tall priest I knew; The feminine fourth finger, an old flirt; And little pinky clinging to her skirt. And I make mouths as I snip off the thin Strips of what Aunt Maud used to call "scarf skin." =====(Excerpt ends) Nabokov knows exactly how banal this is, and yet he carries off the banality with such audacity of style and such intermittent exhibitions of genius that we cannot doubt he strikes precisely the note he means to sound. The first of many puzzles that the reader must solve is simply how to read this multidimensional work to which there is no such thing as a linear approach. I read it using two bookmarks, often with my fingers in several pages at once, and rereading sections in overlapping sequence while also following cross-references forward and backward. From foreword to index, I read every word, because every word from the beginning of the foreword to the end of the index is part of the story. When I reached the end, I felt both satisfied and mystified, as though I had dived into the depths and seen strange creatures not of land--but also sensed the merest fraction of the depths not yet attained. And those depths, if I could but see into them--I'm certain they'd be mocking me. A book in two parts: a 999-line poem in four cantos by the fictional American poet John Shade, and the "commentary" to the poem by narrator Charles Kinbote (or Charles the Beloved, last king of Zembla - or Charles the insane). The commentary has little to do with the contents of the poem but instead consists mostly of the commentator's - i.e. Charles' - autobiographical story of his royal life in Zembla, his escape and journey to America, and his "friendship" with his neighbor, the poet John Shade. The commentary also contains the story of Gradus the assassin as he makes his way from Zembla across Europe to America, and concludes this journey by assassinating the wrong target. Certainly, a unique structure for a story. The house itself is much the same. (line 58, p. 35) Life is a message scribbled in the dark. Anonymous. (lines 35-36, p. 41) All doors have keys. (crossed-out, commentary, p. 94) He, too, is to meet, in his urgent and blind flight, a reflection that will shatter him. (commentary, p. 135) "Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one." (John Shade, commentary, p. 225) "That is the wrong word," he said. "One should not apply it to a person who deliberately peels off a drab and unhappy past and replaces it with a brilliant invention. That's merely turning a new leaf with the left hand." (Shade, commentary, p. 238) We must assume, I think, that the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of all its possible consequences; ghost consequences...which have no effect whatever on his real moves... (commentary, p. 276) Here the narrator/commentator Charles Kinbote refers to the assassin Gradus (Jack Grey). It is an interesting observation about fixation upon an object or goal; the concentration on this object obscures logical thought and precludes thinking through consequences or results that may occur at a point in time after the goal has been accomplished.
If the introduction and notes are eccentric, the index is of a similar quality ... Kinbote's index is a symptom of his insanity. The integration of events described in the index into the text of Pale fire clearly qualifies this index as an example of indexes as fiction. The complex trail of cross-references by which the whole book may be alternatively read makes it possible also to regard this novel as an example of fiction as index. In fact, "Pale Fire" is a curiosity into which it is agreeable to dip rather than a book which can be read straight through with pleasure.
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0679723420, Paperback)Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus. In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:57:13 -0400) Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town. (summary from another edition) |
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In 1961 urbanist Jane Jacobs didn't pull any punches when she called city planning a pseudoscience. "Years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense," she wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Fifty years later the field is still plagued by unscientific thought, according to urban theorist Stephen Marshall of University College London. In a recent paper in Urban Design International, Marshall restated Jacobs's observation that urban design theory is pseudoscientific and called for a more scientific framework for the field.
Although urban design theory is unscientific, Marshall wrote, it is not because the ideas are based on nonsense—many of the classic urban thinkers used observations and small pilot studies to describe how cities work. Jane Jacobs, for example, proposed that a city needs four ingredients to be exuberant: mixed uses, short blocks, buildings that vary in age and condition, and a dense concentration of people. "At the core of this book is a four-part hypothesis that is demanding to be tested," Marshall says. "But when I went to look to see if it had been tested, there was virtually nothing." The problem with urban design, he adds, is that its theories are untested, yet accepted as fact. Marshall proposes to overhaul the way that urban design incorporates science into its fabric, calling for more and better urban science, and for the theories to be challenged with alternative hypotheses and rigorously tested.
Some researchers are already studying cities in scientifically valid ways, but much of this work is being done by physicists and mathematicians who have little use for urban design theory.
"In urban planning, we're like physicists without a particle theory or doctors without a germ theory," says Michael Mehaffy, an urban designer at Portland, Ore.–based design company Structura Naturalis. "We don't have a unifying idea about the nature of what we're looking on. We say we're artists but it's as if we're medieval doctors with potions…. We need to recognize that we have a responsibility to use models that are more likely to produce better outcomes."
Urban designers traditionally have doubted the role that science can play in describing or predicting or fixing a city. They assert that cities have an emergent complexity that results from the interactions among people as well as between people and the environment, and that there is an element of human behavior that cannot be reduced to an equation. "I'm not really sure that the city can be studied and predicted any better than we can predict the weather," says Peter Laurence, an architect at Clemson University. "And cities are more complex than the weather."
Geoffrey West, a physicist at the Santa Fe Institute who studies urban growth, agrees. People who study cities "are dealing with maybe one of the most complex systems in the universe," he says. "The idea that you could reduce it to an equation is extremely hubristic." Yet he and others are using computer simulations, modeling and mathematics to begin to tease out the simple rules that give rise to urban complexity and diversity. For example, West has devised formulas that use a city's population to predict the size of the metro police force, the number of people with AIDs and the annual tonnage of carbon dioxide emissions. The predictions are accurate 85 percent of the time. That consistency is guided by universal social dynamics that govern the way people interact with each other and with the environment, West says. The other 15 percent is individual variation between cities.


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The major in Music Education consists of a minimum of 38 semester hours of course work, including each of the following:
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Bartlett girls fall to Millbury
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WEBSTER – The Bartlett Indians fell to the Millbury Woolies 53-14 last Thursday, Jan. 4, in girls SWCL action.
Junior Kayla Podell played a solid defensive game, blocking eight shots to go along with four points for the Indians, who stayed close to the Woolies early, trailing only 7-4 after one quarter.
Freshman Katie Kobel scored four points, while freshman Natalie Terranova, playing in her second varsity game, scored her first points in a varsity uniform for the Indians.
"We came out with high intensity and were able to pretty much execute our defensive game plan through three quarters, which is something we can build on," said Indians coach Chris Delvecchio. "Obviously we need to find a way to score more points, and cut down on turnovers. A lack of confidence with the basketball continues to hurt us in games. We are focusing on those areas during practice and we are making progress, but Millbury deserves a lot of credit for having an answer for every in-game adjustment we tried to implement tonight."
Delvecchio also praised the play of Podell, who has been playing consistently well all season. "Podell really stepped up for us again tonight, especially defensively. She's asserting herself as a defensive force, and did an admirable job tonight against (Payton) Bruegger, one of the best post players in our league."
Sports intern and Bartlett student Jacob Murphy interviewed Millbury coach Steve Reno following the game. Here is the Q&A:
JM: Started a little low slow in the first quarter. You had a little 5-0 run towards the end. What did you tell your girls going into the second quarter that kept that run going?
Steve Reno: We didn't make a lot of shots in the first half, but I thought we played very good defense. It was one of those things that I couldn't pause them because they were working hard. Shots weren't going in. In the second half, we made a lot more shots, which is always nice, but I was happy with our defense. I thought Bartlett did a nice job taking 42 there out of the game. They did a nice job collapsing on her in the first half. That kind of threw us off for a little bit, but I thought that the second half we made a few outside shots and forced them to come out a little more.
JM: All right, you had some good ball movement through the game and a lot of forced turnovers-
Steve Reno: Yeah, our defense was good. We hadn't played in two weeks, so they had a little more extra energy tonight. Yeah, and I thought we did a nice job on defense. We were all over the place.
JM: So what part of your game do you think is more important to repeating a performance like tonight's?
Steve Reno: Anytime you play good defense, you know you always have a good chance. I am most happy about that and hope we can keep that going.


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Mr. Greifeld's 2012 award through Nasdaq's executive corporate incentive plan was docked $542,100. His overall compensation for 2012 nevertheless climbed 18% from 2011 levels to $8.9 million, due to a more than $3 million increase in stock awards.
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Nasdaq officials in the filing cited the exchange's resilience in "difficult market conditions" and success luring companies worth a combined $135 billion to list shares on Nasdaq's stock markets over the course of the year.
Anna Ewing, Nasdaq OMX's chief information officer at the time of the Facebook flotation, took a $263,625 cut to her own award, according to documents filed by Nasdaq late Thursday.
The cuts are the toughest penalty so far for Mr. Greifeld following what the Nasdaq board said were "widely publicized systems issues" with the Facebook initial public offering that Wall Street firms have blamed for some $500 million in losses.
Problems matching up orders to form the initial trade in the hotly anticipated securities forced Nasdaq several times to delay the opening of Facebook shares May 18.
Nasdaq officials eventually succeeded in opening the stock, but brokers were forced to trade for hours afterward with no confirmation of their transactions in the stock.
They were left guessing at their positions.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last month approved a plan by Nasdaq to repay $62 million to firms that took losses in the trading.
At least one firm, UBS AG of Switzerland , has opted to pursue full coverage of its losses through arbitration.
"The committee and board explicitly considered the Facebook IPO in connection with their review and determination of these reduced payouts," Nasdaq officials wrote in documents sent to Nasdaq investors ahead of the exchange group's annual meeting, set for May 22.
The annual cash incentive award paid to Mr. Greifeld dropped 62% to $1.4 million, partly because of the Facebook-related reduction.
The episode angered some of Nasdaq's biggest customers and deepened questions around the ability of exchanges to properly manage the complex electronic systems that underlie domestic share trading.
Total 2012 compensation for Ms. Ewing fell 17% to $2.7 million, mostly because of the cut to her cash bonus payment and no options being awarded.
In January she was named Nasdaq's head of global technology solutions, with some of her responsibilities shifted to a new chief information officer, Brad Peterson, who reports to Ms. Ewing. In keeping with Nasdaq's own rules for companies listed on its markets, Mr. Greifeld doesn't vote on executive pay matters and doesn't participate in discussions of his own compensation, according to the filing by Nasdaq.
Earlier this year., the company hired Exequity LLP, a consulting firm specializing in compensation issues, to weigh in on payment for Nasdaq OMX executives.
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Microsoft General Counsel Makes His Case for DiversityMicrosoft general counsel Bradley Smith chairs the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity's Pipeline Committee. In this Q&A he talks about the committee's work to develop a diverse law school graduate pipeline, the business case for diversity, and what Microsoft is doing to change the face of the legal profession.2012-08-16 12:00:00 AM The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity held one of several regional meetings in San Francisco earlier this month. One panelist who's been focused on improving diversity in the legal profession is Bradley Smith, general counsel for Microsoft Corp. Smith chairs the organization's pipeline committee, and during his visit to the San Francisco Bay Area he talked with The Recorder about some of the council's recent efforts and how Microsoft works to improve diversity. Q: How/why did you get involved with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity? A: My involvement really grew out of a meeting that took place in Phoenix, which was an outgrowth of the Call to Action. And it quickly became apparent that it was going to inject an important new voice into the national diversity discussion in our profession. What really is unique about the Leadership Council is that it brings together managing partners of law firms and general counsel. In fact, the membership just passed the 200 threshold, and there are now a total of 205 law firms and companies that are members. What attracted me to the organization was the strong focus on action and not just words, on bringing together the leaders of our profession. When I attended the initial meeting, I guess I expressed my opinions with enough comportment that someone thought they should invite me back. Q: Can you tell me more about the objectives of the Pipeline Committee and how the mentoring program is working? A: Our goal in the pipeline committee is to really try to build a pipeline that will make law firms as diverse as the nation's graduates. Right now there is really a shortage of African-Americans, Latinos and Hispanics in the legal profession, even in law schools. If you look at the data for California, they account for 7.1 percent of the lawyers in California, even though they account for almost 44 [percent] of the people who live in California. If you look at the passage rate for the bar, it's a little better but not much better. In 2010, they accounted for 9.7 percent of the individuals who passed the California bar. So what we have really focused on is developing a series of programs aimed at attracting more diverse students to law school and helping them go on to succeed in their careers. We've developed three programs in the last two years. One is for college students where we enlist volunteers who work with other groups to try to better inform college students about opportunities for a legal career and coaching on how to apply to law school. The first half of this year we were able to reach and work with just over 500 college students and 300 pre-law advisers, so we are already ramping up that program. The second is geared toward students after their first year of law school. We created a 1L scholar program that encourages law firms and companies to hire more diverse students after the first year of law school. This year we have 155 1Ls across the country participating, which is triple what we had a year ago. In some ways, the most exciting thing we've done is launch a mentor program. We now have over 1,400 mentors -- 706 mentors and 706 mentees. What this program does is match practicing lawyers with diverse law students and we now have people working together in 24 cities across the country. What this shows is that we're starting to build programs that can scale. Q: What's the business case for diversity in the legal profession? A: I think that if you look at the customers that American companies have, our customer base is very diverse. And our employees naturally reflect the diversity across the country. So it's really vital that we have a legal profession that reflects the diversity of the country, and that's perhaps even more true when you look at the needs of the more diverse population of the country. It's well established now that a majority of the Americans born in the country were in fact what we would previously call a minority, and if our profession is going to do an effective job of serving the country, it needs to reflect the diversity of the country. Q: How do you give diversity initiatives teeth and avoid people just paying lip service to the idea, but not making substantive changes? How do you avoid window dressing that can sometimes happen when law firms bring minority lawyers to pitches but they then aren't involved in the matter? A: I think that the general counsel community has become much more focused on expecting law firms not only to talk the talk but to walk the walk when it comes to promoting diversity. And you see this increasingly reflected in the hiring decisions clients are making, and you see it in the firing decisions companies are making. At Microsoft, we also pay our outside counsel a diversity bonus that's equal to 2 percent of the fees they charge, if they make quantifiable progress in diversity, either in population or in the number of diverse representatives working on our behalf. I think more and more we're seeing clients look at the hard data and look for real results. Q: What other kinds of diversity initiatives does Microsoft have internally and what do you expect from the law firms you hire? A: First, when it comes to Microsoft itself, we have programs that focus on recruiting, on the development of diverse attorneys, on the partnerships we have with law firms, and then on outreach in the profession more broadly. We are constantly seeking to innovate in those four areas. What I really look to do is have us become more diverse each year, both in total number of lawyers and in our leadership ranks. We have measured our progress, and we have been making progress year after year. When it comes to firms, I really look for three things. One, I hope the firm will become more diverse. Two, I expect to field each year a more diverse team of lawyers working on Microsoft matters. And three, we look to have more diverse people assume leadership roles in law firms, and that includes women, ethnicities, people with disabilities or people who are members of the LGBT community. We really want to see diverse individuals assume stronger leadership roles, and that is something we increasingly are seeing. We have to keep focusing on moving forward. You can never rest on your laurels because so much work remains to be done. Q. What other incentives do you use to encourage the staffing of diverse attorneys on legal matters you outsource to outside counsel? A: Another program is a mentorship program with Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle, which combines diverse in-house lawyers as mentors with young associates in the law firm. We've really looked for ways to cross the divide between law firm and client and engage in more collaborative work together. Another more concrete program is in the pro bono area, which is another area where we can pull together teams of lawyers who work in house with lawyers who work in firms and have them work in a different context together. Q: Have you ever fired a law firm for not meeting diversity objectives? 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6:40pm Sunday 20th October 2013
By Ian Whiting
Guiseley 1 Histon 1
Mark Bower almost got his first win as a manager but had to settle for his first point as Histon hit a second-half leveller at Nethermoor.
It was the former Bantams skipper's sixth game in charge and he saw his side leading with a little over quarter of an hour remaining.
The Lions could not see it over the line, however, although they broke their six-game losing streak.
The point earned was not enough to lift them out of the Skrill North relegation zone.
Bower made two more signings before the game, adding experienced former Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers and Bury defender Adam Lockwood to the permanent capture of on-loan Halifax Town forward Alex Johnson.
The Lions began in determined fashion and when Johnson broke the deadlock just after the half-hour mark, the goal had been coming. It was a neat finish from Johnson, who found the net with a shot after turning his marker.
Johnson had another chance soon after but his effort went agonisingly wide. Into the second half the home side were still threatening to extend their lead and a curling Wayne Brooksby cross-shot nearly left the Histon keeper embarrassed.
The visitors had their first real effort on Steve Drench's goal around the hour mark but Guiseley should have doubled their lead soon after. A Louie Swain shot had been parried and Michael Potts was onto the rebound, only to see his effort come down off the bar onto the post and back into play.
Defensive frailties came back to bite Guiseley when Histon grabbed their 73rd-minute equaliser. Shaquille McDonald was allowed space in the area and once he gathered the ball he rounded Drench before slotting in.
The Lions had two half chances to steal all three points in the dying moments but Bower's wait for a victory goes on.
The manager said: "We put in a performance that merited the three points. We created enough chances to win but we have to learn the lesson – you have got to put them away.
"I'm pleased with the performance overall and we had late chances but full credit to Histon, they defended well and got bodies in the way. If we could have gone 2-0 up when Potts went so close I think we would have gone on to win it."
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Even After Attacks on Humans, Sharks Should be Protected
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July 23, 2012
"The latest string of fatal shark attacks in Western Australia is creating a climate of fear that could haphazardly undo a very important environmental law that protects great white sharks.
Last weekend, 24-year-old surfer Ben Linden was attacked by a great white near Perth, becoming the fifth fatality off that coast in the past 10 months. In response, the Western Australia Fishing Minister, Norman Moore, promised to write the federal government "to know if there has been any update on the status of the white sharks and the sustainability level at which the Federal Government will lift protection." If Mr. Moore has his way, hundreds if not thousands of sharks will be killed in Australia. I have a problem with that.
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For years, Apple has touted security as a selling point for Macs. But to ensure that these claims remain valid, Apple has started rolling security technologies from the iOS side of the house into OS X. The goal, according to security experts, is to ensure Mac-specific threats remain firmly entrenched in the theoretical realm.
While Mac malware isn't yet a widespread problem, Apple is thinking ahead to ensure that it doesn't become one. In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple added Gatekeeper, a security mechanism that allows OS X developers to digitally sign their apps, as well as application sandboxing, which keeps apps from accessing important system components and data. Both of these features debuted in iOS.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment on its security strategy. But experts have plenty to say about the moves Apple is making.
Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky sees Apple's introduction of Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion as a step in the right direction. "Gatekeeper essentially brings the iOS App Store model of verifying the legitimacy and security of apps to OS X, and I believe it will be a big turning point for keeping malware off OS X," he said.
Marc Maiffret, CTO at BeyondTrust, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based security vendor, says Apple's approach to securing applications in iOS is a solid strategy. "One thing Apple has done very right on the mobile side is how they control applications, and the way they have set up the App Store to limit malware. They are bringing that into the desktop with the App Store for OS X," Maiffret told CRN.
In Apple's first version of iOS, every process, and the Web browser, ran at root with no randomization, no data execution prevention, no sandboxing, and no code signing. Apple iOS 5, released last October, had all of these features included. Charlie Miller, former principal research consultant for Accuvant Labs, Denver, sees this as a sign of the progress Apple has made.
"The whole system has been slowly, over the last five years, getting better, in terms of the architecture and general security. You see more security being included," said Miller, who earlier this month joined Twitter in an as-yet unspecified capacity.
Dr. Robert Watson, a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and member of the FreeBSD core team, says Apple's porting of security from iOS to OS X is a wise move. "Before the iPhone, the idea of running every application on a general-purpose computing platform in a tight sandbox was unthinkable in the commercial software world," Watson said in an interview. "Now they've begun to pull some of the benefits of that approach back onto the desktop platform."
Watson said DARPA-funded security technologies developed in the research community, and released as open source, became central foundations for mobile and conventional system sandboxing. Apple contributed significant improvements as it developed its own extensions, according to Watson, who is also a member of the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Apple doesn't talk much about security but is clearly making it a priority to stay ahead of emerging threats, Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, a Phoenix-based security research firm, told CRN in June. "There is recognition on Apple's part that security is essential to the platform," said Mogull. "Apple realizes if they fall too far behind and malware becomes an issue, it will affect sales."
Apple has pulled off a delicate balancing act when it comes to its security marketing. It still touts the "proven, secure Unix foundation" of OS X on its website. For years, Apple fueled the flames with its "Get A Mac" advertising campaign, which centered on the notion that Macs were immune to the never-ending parade of Windows malware. But in June, comparisons between Macs and Windows PCs vanished without explanation.
Apple's partners believe the arrival of mature security threats, such as the Flashback botnet, have caused the company to adjust its message to match with the current reality.
"There is a sense of security in the Apple community that Apple itself promoted. Attacks have been so minimal that the OS has always been perceived as safe," said Marc A. Wolfe, CEO of Proactive, an Apple partner in Oakland, N.J. "But as Apple becomes more popular and gets bigger market share, there are going to be more attacks."
The perception that Mac users are more secure is still commonplace in businesses, according to David Sockol, president and CEO of Emagined Security, San Carlos, Calif. "Macs are based on Unix, which has been around a long time and has had lots of vulnerabilities that have been addressed," he said. "But any system has vulnerabilities, and we're seeing more malware being aimed at the Mac, so the idea that Mac users are more secure is a fallacy."
Nearly every debate on the issue of whether Macs are more secure than PCs begins with the observation that Apple's market share is far less than Microsoft's. While that argument contains some truth, experts say it does not tell the whole story.
Dave Schroeder, a senior systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology, and a noted Apple security expert, says perceptions about Mac security are not always based in reality.
"Take the analogy of a country farmhouse with an unlocked door and an urban apartment with barred windows and locked deadbolts. The country house may be safer, but not necessarily more secure," Schroeder told CRN. "In the past, some have likened Mac OS X to the country farmhouse -- only safer because it's less of a target than the urban apartment. But that's not entirely accurate, either.
"The truth is that Mac OS X is an inherently secure operating system, but like any software it can have vulnerabilities which need to be addressed. It's also clear that far more malware targets Windows, and phishing and other social engineering attacks can impact users of any operating system," Schroeder said.
Apple does not schedule a regular patch update, nor does it have a public-facing security incident response team. Given Apple's notoriously slow response to patching Java, which led to the Flashback botnet in April, some experts believe these mechanisms could help the company avoid problems down the road, while also increasing its engagement with the security research community.
"While Apple has been quick to respond to threats, they never seem to discover them. They always seem to be in reaction mode. Stuff has slipped by them, which makes me wonder what level of monitoring they are doing," Andrew Plato, president of Anitian Enterprise Security, a Beaverton, Ore.-based security solution provider, told CRN.
Some researchers feel Apple's longstanding secrecy around security has put it on track for the type of comeuppance that Microsoft had a decade ago, when it was besieged by the Code Red worm and other security threats. That precarious situation prompted Bill Gates to pen his landmark Trustworthy Computing memo, and Microsoft eventually instituted its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) model, in which security is built in from the earliest stages of the process.
Microsoft officials have been calling out Apple on security for years. In a February 2007 interview with Newsweek, then-CEO Gates insisted that Macs were less secure than Windows PCs. "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine," Gates told Newsweek.
In 2006, Stephen Toulouse, head of communications for security response at the Microsoft Security Response Center, called on Apple to appoint a head of security and adopt a more proactive approach to handling security vulnerabilities and updates. "The only way you can tackle security issues is by getting out ahead of them and clearly communicating to your users the threat, and the clear guidance on how to be safe," Toulouse in a 2006 post to his personal blog.
So does Apple need to create and deploy its own SDL? According to Kaspersky, doing so could pay dividends down the road.
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Things I liked:Overall fit, finish and function are AWESOME! I am really impressed by the looks and operation, and it's a really nice piece of walnut for the stock. All controls are positive and work well. Tru Glo sights work really well. Things I would have changed:It is what it is, and it is heavy! I don't mind- some may! I think a GREAT improvement would be to make a rear sight that fits on the picatinny rail, so it can be removed to make room for a scope if desired.This would also increase the sight radius. Rear sight had to be removed for my scope anyway! What others should know:This rifle seems to hit hard and shoot well- I am learning this "artillery hold" method of spring piston shooting- it makes all the difference. I am still in the break-in period, but it is definitely capable of ragged 1-hole 5 shot groups at 10m. At 25 yards I am getting about 1" groups, but I think it is capable of better- my inexperience, time constraints, and a windy range time conspired against me. Things I liked:This gun is georgous. Beautiful stock and metal work. Mine is in .22 cal. and loves the inexpensive Crossman HP and also the JSB Jumbos. At my 20 yard range it will constantly stay at .40 or less. Things I would have changed:Nothing. What others should know:I would like to thank Rick Eutsler at AirGun Web.Com for the great video review he has done on this rifle. He stated that although it is a springer it will shoot just as well of sandbags and gun rest. I found this statement to be true. It shoots the same either way. Thanks Rick for all your help. Things I liked:I got one of these in .22 caliber, and let me just say that I am impressed. First of all, the nice checkering, blued steel, brassy trigger, and attractive wood make the rifle itself a very pretty piece.
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The hammer-style safety is intuitive and attractive, and the sights are good. The 11mm/Weaver combination scope rail is also a nice touch. Things I would have changed:My Torpedo is picky about what fits in its breech. Two kinds of RWS pellets and H&N Barracudas have fit quite nicely, but the H&N Crow Magnums won't fit without a great deal of force applied. The Gamo Rockets I tried also had trouble fitting. I'm curious to see if other people have this issue; maybe this rifle just has a narrower-than-usual breech. Also, to get the irons to function properly I had to adjust the rear sight really far to the left. What others should know:For me, the best-performing pellets in this gun have been the H&N Hollowpoints, followed by the H&N Barracuda Match pellets. My rifle will shoot either one near-perfectly without adjusting the sights in between. I suspect that at ranges longer than 10m, the Barracudas will do better because of their higher weight. RWS Super-H Points did almost as well as the H&N pellets. The RWS Lead-free Hyper Velocity pellets were also really, really accurate, but they shoot so differently from other pellets that a lot of sight adjustment is necessary to use them. Comments
I have a Hatsan 125 and Iv never had a problem getting any pellet in the breech.
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An industry group sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is pressing the clearing exchanges that bind together much of the financial system for greater openness and standardization, in a bid to boost the overall market stability.
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The recommendations aren't new regulations–industry participants aren't obligated to follow what the committee suggests would be the best path forward.
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All too soon, we're herded back to the bus. Next stop: Buckingham Palace. "If you get lost," the tour guide says, "go back to the Queen's Gallery, and the bus will be there." Why is he staring at me?
We keep our guide's hat in sight as we race past the swans and geese and palace guards. Then we spot the elephant.
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No hat. No guide. No daughter.
"We should go this way, Mom." My son tries to pull me forward. Wait – didn't the guide say the bus would wait at the Queen's Gallery? So we rush back the opposite direction.
After 20 minutes, it seems obvious the bus is not coming. The friendly Rubens Hotel concierge helps us call the tour company. My daughter is with the tour, having lunch at the Silver Cross Pub. Lunch! We're famished. We can't even grab a cab, because the streets are closed.
Blame the elephant.
So we run through the streets of London for the second time that morning. My son's pulling me, and we make it – just in time to board the bus. No lunch. Donna saves the day again, with bread she's slipped into her bag from her complimentary hotel breakfast. The loaves that feed the multitude – or at least the five of us.
We ferry down the Thames, stare at Big Ben, and explore the famous London Tower.
Later, Donna and Jeff help us navigate the underground – "mind the gap" and all – and we make it back to Hyde Park Square. We even smile when someone asks how the tour went.
Trip of a lifetime. Right! That was a few years ago – and it's enough to convince me to get lost in the UK again, in 2012. (The real question is whether my kids will want to come with me this time!)
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what is the sketchiest (strangest) thing you've ever ridden over?
what's the sketchiest (strangest) thing you've ever ridden over?
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This wasn't sketchy for me but my buddy got knocked the fuck out. We were racing on a run shaded by trees and came up to a spot where there was tons of sun and super sloppy slush. My friends board stopped dead and his bindings ripped right off of his board sending him into a super fast cart wheel. I was looking over him when he came to like 10 seconds later and he asked me why I'm in his room, then he realized he's not waking up in bed from a good night sleep.
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I'll play, the question seems legit, and I'd be interested in the answers of others. The most sketchy run I did was on a run I've done a thousand times. I would have claimed I know every inch of it and clould ride it blindfolded backwards, heavily drunk. Then there was this day with the thickest fog I've been in ever. You couldn't see the tip of your board. Getting off the chairlift, I was lost after few meters. I didn't know if I was riding up- or downhill, didn't expect bends to come and whats worst, one had no clue when to increase speed to make it over flats. We almost crawled down the run. What a relief when we finally managed to reach tree line and had a little lead, where we were
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Sktechiest stuff I've ridden was the runs at our local hill after a rain and then froze. My son and I took 2 runs, our backs hurt, our jaws were banging around and zero edge control. We immediately bailed on that night of riding.
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The Land Rover Defender began life back in 1948 and its basic design has changed little over the years, even if the name has been revised during its decades on the market.
But now these classic cars could be getting an update after the manufacturer showcased concept vehicles at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week.
The Land Rover DC100 and its Sport variant look very different from the classic cars which were their inspiration, although head designer, Gerry McGovern, said that a radical rethink was required to keep the car relevant.
Interestingly, the Defender, which entered its most modern phases back in the late 1980s, has been kept away from the US market for over a decade due to its lack of safety equipment such as airbags.
The Defender's design was definitely archaic, even when it was rebadged under its current moniker, but it is the movement towards improved safety in Europe that is causing Land Rover to completely alter this range, while retaining the name and off-road ethos.
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Greek god Apollo: McCain or Obama?
Since I had noticed in chart studies this week that asteroid Apollo was active due to 'his' nearness to Sun and transit Saturn (columns, architecture), I was interested in HuffPost blogger Bob Cesca's photos of Republican photographs with columns as backdrops suggesting Greek gods from on high…
You've probably heard by now of the RNC's 'DNC Rapid Response Headquarters' set up about one mile from the Pepsi Center in Denver, and their website which I don't care about passing on to America.
Well, when the R strategists got a gander at the stadium where Barack Obama will accept the Dem nom Thursday night and the fact that it was staged with Greek COLUMNS, they naturally assumed the Ds meant to reference Greece and Greek gods as being Obama-like (the other way round, but you know what I mean.)
Well, America did, for the most part, swipe their democracy concept, but it's the 'god' part the Rs are hoping to emphasize, not classical political thought orits continuance under a Democratic White House. Must be part of their 'style no substance/he's not ready/celebrity status only' ploy against Senator Obama.
If you follow the link to Cesca's photo collection, you'll soon see that Republicans fancy themselves as Greek gods, too, with as much right to pose in front of Greek columns as any popular Dem candidate ever claimed.
Now astrologically, Sun-linked Apollo has been traveling in tandem these last few days with Saturn, significator of the D-Party, and highlighted by the Virgo Sun. Anciently, Apollo was one of the pantheon of sun gods, the major one for the Greeks, and now serves as an indicator of the hero's journey in a chart.
There's an interesting mix here with natal planets being triggered by orbiting Apollo this week conjoined with John McCain's Sun 6Vir02 (his Solar Return is Aug 29, Katrina Day, with Mercury Return Aug 30) and Barack Obama's natal Pluto 6Vir59 – sorry, McBush, but Pluto's power and coping ability trump Sun's ego.
So if either of you fits the Apollo archetype in this modern day and age, it's Barack Obama, now nominated by acclamation as Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
Guess you'll want to find another emblem to use in your own staged presentation…maybe some body bag photo-ops would be more suitable for a hawkish neocon such as yourself.
And all this may be described, along with much else, as being part of the soon-to-come Saturn (past) opposition to Uranus (future.) For as honorable and stalwart as McCain's Vietnam service was (and is), His hero's journey was Then, and THIS, is Now.
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August 28, 2008 at 12:46 am
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Today at my school we had chapel and sang a few songs. My favorite was "the climb" by Miley Cyrus I think this song is very inspiering to everyone. It says life is hard, but the everything will turn out just right. "Lifes a climb, but the view is great" (Quote from the movie) This song gives me hope when I am down and I hope it means somehing to you too. The climb is a great song by Miley Cyrus. This song is from her movie Hannah Montanna the movie. It was about Hannah And Miley having trouble being a teen age girl and a famous singer.
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