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It's extremely difficult for me to examine writer/director Matt Reeves' latest film, Let Me In, on its own merits and not through the lens of its Swedish source, the near perfect, Let The Right One In.
Ideally, remakes would be limited to flawed films or reinterpretations of good or great films that were made in decades past (as opposed to just two years ago) so Reeves was already courting my contempt. At best, his motivation might be pure respect mixed with hubris -- nothing about Cloverfield, as much as I liked it, indicated Reeves could top the Swedish original and, in fact, most of the people that might have a shot at it are dead -- and at worst, it might be opportunism; an easy layup. Interpret a great foreign film for American audiences too obtuse to be bothered to watch films in other languages and realize what they missed.
What made the Swedish original one of the best films of 2008 was its mastery of tone, atmosphere and its narrative elegance. Hell, the idea behind vampirism that makes it creepy and ultimately enigmatic is the sense of isolation. The act of living beyond the laws of nature and the humans by which one was once bound make vampires the ultimate outcasts -- and what better than an unfamiliar language, culture and landscape to reinforce that sense of isolation? Let the Right One In nailed that in spades, placing it firmly alongside the giants of the genre: Murnau's Nosferatu and Dreyer's Vampyr.
Where Let Me In suffers most is in its familiarity. Not just of the story, but the setting. Transplanting the story from the snow blown sterility of Sweden to the western familiarity of Los Alamos, New Mexico; casting familiar faces (albeit very talented ones) and transposing the culture of 1980's Sweden -- where for all the music and mores of its identity only the Rubik's Cube and school bullies seemed universal -- strips away the alien veneer. Instead, Let Me In is rendered in the close comforts of Ronald Regan speeches on television, Blue Oyster Cult blasting through the radio, and the solidly American need to give subtlety and nuance a B-12 shot.
But, despite this, Matt Reeves has remade a great film into a quite good one, more out of respect, I believe, than opportunism, though it still lacks any real reason to exist.
Taking a more typical approach, Let Me In opens in the middle of the story as The Father (Richard Jenkins) lay in a hospital bed, his face horribly burned by acid poured by his own hand. A detective (Elias Koteas) is interrogating him, concerning a series of cult-like murders for which he is responsible. Getting no answers, he leaves but quickly returns when an alarm goes off, to find that the man has apparently thrown himself from the tenth-story window.
Jump back two weeks where we meet Owen (Cody Smit-McPhee), a lonely, put upon 12-year-old. Bullied by his classmates while being smothered by his overprotective mother, Owen takes to fantasizing about stabbing his tormenters. He also spies on his neighbors through his telescope and it isn't long before he notices some new ones, a young girl and an old man, who move into the apartment next door.
Soon enough, Owen meets Abby (Chloe Moretz), an also lonely 12-year-old (though he has no idea how lonely), who almost immediately informs him they can't be friends. However, Abby has an affection for puzzles and Owen's nifty Rubik's Cube quickly thaws the ice.
Abby's got some strange habits. She's never out in the day and rarely wears shoes even though the ground is frozen. She has a knack for coming in through the window but won't do so until she's invited. Apparently, Owen never read Salem's Lot.
As the two draw closer to each other, and Abby's protector becomes more unreliable in procuring her meals, Owen finds the object of his virgin amour is in fact a vampire ("I'm 12 ... but I've been 12 for a very long time") whose affection for him may or may not be a façade. Is Abby a soulless pantomime or monster clinging to her last vestiges of humanity?
That idea was one of the creepier ones in the original, among a few that Reeves glosses over, dilutes, or omits entirely. Where Let the Right One In pared down the source novel by John Ajvide to its essentials (the novel was a bit of disappointment in that it revealed too much), creating a haunting ambiguity -- and that rare thing, a film adaptation that is superior to the book -- Let Me In prunes away the incertitude from that film. It is simpler, safer, and ultimately sacrifices its mysterious elegance in lieu of something more obvious.
Reeves aim to create "his" version of the original results in changes that are mostly cosmetic, be it the slight rearrangement of the story's structure or the changes (and again slight) in the events. One such scene finds The Father's final attempt at murder on Abby's behalf transposed from a creepy, darkened gym locker-room to a more familiar, masked killer in the backseat of the car, jack-in-the-box gag (set to Blue Oyster Cult's "I'm Burning for You"). It makes for a pretty cool extended take, shot from the inside of an out of control car -- and an obvious hat-tip to a similar shot in Alfonso Cuarón's great Children of Men -- but it also loses the precarious tension and The Father's disappointment in failing Abby yet again and putting her in danger.
Reeves direction is actually very good at establishing a dark tone, but his script doesn't really bring anything substantively new, instead subtracting, mostly in terms of mystery and elegance, but also with some of the more difficult narrative threads of the original (threads that Americans might find very uncomfortable). While Reeves has shot a lovely looking film --indeed one of its strong points and a total 180 from the hand-held frenzy of Cloverfield -- he dumps subtly and tension in the process, specifically making Abby look like a more stereotypical vampire at times, a bad decision the first film wisely avoided and which only added to its unique otherness.
Where Reeves gets it all right is in the casting (and in keeping Abby's origins a mystery, much like Eli in the original, or for that matter the beast in Cloverfield). While the addition of familiar faces is itself another problem for me, at least he picked some stellar actors.
Cody Smit-McPhee turns in a wonderful performance and makes good on the promise of his turn as Boy in The Road. He captures a preternatural intensity that is somewhat of an improvement on Kåre Hedebrant's unaffected turn in the original.
Chloe Moretz is also fine in her portrayal of Abby, though for some reason Lina Leandersson's darker look seems more in keeping with the character. However, Moretz's features actually play to one element of the film that Reeves never literally acknowledges; that she is not a girl.
In an alternate universe, Elias Koteas is what Robert De Niro would be if he never achieved self-parody. His quiet, smoldering turn as the detective is at once intense and subtle.
The great Richard Jenkins is underutilized but makes the most of just a few scenes, though knowing his true torment is not possible with what the script gives him. When Reeves said that he wanted to make something completely different I had hoped maybe The Father's motivations would be a part of that difference. Here, again, his script avoids most everything resembling uncomfortable.
I know it sounds like I really didn't like Let Me In when I actually did. If I hadn't seen and loved the original so much I'm sure I'd be more impressed with Reeves work here, but there it is. It is a very well made film (that kicks the shit out of anything in Stephanie Meyer's vapid imagination) and it's also a clear case of swinging for the fences.
But those fences are so mountainously high.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Oliver Stone gets a lot of heat for being some kind of uber-liberal, pro-communist conspiracy theorist and, while some of that may be understandable, what his political detractors seem to overlook is that the evenhandedness which Stone applies to figures like Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro also carries over to right-wing luminaries like Richard Nixon and George Bush. He doesn't vilify them in the respective films Nixon and W. While I have no that doubt he doesn't agree with what they stood for, it's obvious he finds them fascinating and it's easy to see that he admires them; even likes them.
Imagine that: Treating divisive political figures with respect even when you might be diametrically opposed to what they stand for. Stone really doesn't earn his rep for being a polemicist.
So Stone isn't revisiting the same turf of his 1987 film Wall Street out of some timely need to comment on the bursting of the sub-prime mortgage bubble with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps --though that is a backdrop -- just as the impetus for the original wasn't the insider trading scandals of the '80s. His father was a stockbroker, and he was in the business himself for a while. He respects these people, so if you go in looking for Stone to scratch your anti-capitalist itch you'll be disappointed. Money Never Sleeps is barely about money. It's a character drama and a morality play.
Six years after Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison, for what turns out to be more than charges of insider trading, we meet Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a seriously on-the-fast-track proprietary trader for the firm Keller and Zabel, who has risen under the tutelage of his mentor Louis Zabel (Frank Langella).
Jake is on the verge of proposing to his girlfriend -- and Gekko's daughter -- Winnie (the radiant Carey Mulligan) when his firm is laid low due some shady market manipulations by Bretton James (Josh Brolin). Zabel is forced to sell the company to James at a pittance and the next morning throws himself in front of a train.
Meanwhile, Gordon Gekko is out promoting his book ("Is Greed Good?") and Jake shows up to meet his future father-in-law. Winnie and Gekko have long been estranged and Jake wants Gekko's help in avenging Zabel against Bretton James. They come to an agreement where Gekko will help Jake unearth James' dirty laundry, if Jake will help Gekko try and mend the rift with his daughter.
There's more to it, of course, as the script by Allen Loeb and Stephen Schiff contains more than a couple of twists and turns, but part of the attraction of Money Never Sleeps lies in the easy way in which it weaves its multi-layered tale, while Stone elicits an appropriate sense of gravity on the proceedings. It's refreshing, really, to see Stone dial back some of his noted excesses and tell a tale that's at once complicated (though never overly so) and yet conventional. The closest thing to a media pop culture reference is the cameo by Charlie Sheen, gamely reprising his role as Bud Fox, showing up to the party with two dates.
Stone has dialed back the excess (no hyper-cut scenes utilizing everything from three different film formats to pinhole cameras -- just kidding) but that doesn't mean it's a visually chaste affair, as the vibrant and lovely (indeed it's been a long time since New York was this gorgeously photographed) cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto (he's worked for Ang Lee and Pedro Almodóvar, what else do you need to know?) literally hypnotizes while Stone gets positively dexterous with the camera, providing some visually exciting sequences that don't overpower the tone of the story in the least.
The original songs by David Byrne and Brian Eno are pleasant enough, though I would have just as well preferred Fear of Music be used instead. That's really not a criticism, I just love that album.
But the heart of the film is in the performances by LaBeouf, Douglas and Mulligan (though Brolin and Langella are typically excellent). LaBeouf has haters, though I have no idea why --Transformers 2 and Indy IV couldn't have helped -- because he has screen presence to burn and enough of it to hold up against Michael Douglas reprising the role that won him an Oscar.
Carey Mulligan is the 21st Century's Audrey Hepburn and she is wonderful as Winnie Gekko. Mulligan's imbued with a sort of angelic glow and her chemistry with LaBeouf goes a long way to pulling you into their relationship. One scene with Mulligan on the steps of The Met was a great interplay between her and Douglas, who proves why he is forgotten Hollywood royalty. The man is still magnetic.
It's a little too conventional at times, and the ending feels contrived, but Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was a sort of blindside to my expectations (I didn't think it needed to be made, a theme this week, seemingly), and in that regard, blew them out of the water -- in a very good way.
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-- three weeks since sandy pummeled the northeast and people still struggling today Vice President Biden visiting areas torn apart by the storm.
Biden taking a helicopter tour of her new Jersey's damaged coastline meeting with first responders and seaside heights.
Stopping on the boardwalk there saying he understands the need to rebuild along the shore the vice president also traveling north and visiting Hoboken.
And from Jersey to parts of Manhattan particularly downtown were businesses flooded things are tough.
Store owners there really suffering seeing a lot less foot traffic and fewer sales and a claimant is in the beauty -- fork area.
Which looks a lot different than it did before super -- Santa -- It certainly does hair's good evening to you and good evening to everybody at home according to a brokerage company about a quarter.
Of the office space here in lower Manhattan is unusable at the moment because of -- storms in the aftermath.
They have no power no water and no -- we -- in this historical area many of the buildings built in the seventeen hundreds and eighteen hundred's normally full of tourists but -- you -- now.
It's Jack -- you hear the hum of generators and -- also.
Pumping out water -- we did talk to one business owner who has the bike rental shop he says he's not sure -- his business.
Is going to survive you've got from about a hundred Reynolds today did just -- What's come out fifth fifth fifth fifth we wish to stay and so we don't know we really -- business is based on stories and so it doesn't make sense.
To hang around for a year making very little.
And some residential and hours and business towers don't even have.
Re open dates that get -- in they're telling us that it could be months here.
Yeah all those people out of work -- those owners struggle to you.
This is an area of Manhattan though that has seen disaster before.
-- over the last eleven years this area's been evacuated some three times of course the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hurricane Irene last year and then -- and sandy and that we're told by community leaders here downtown that about 35% of businesses.
Do indeed have the business interruption insurance but of those that -- -- they're having a hard time.
Accessing it of course the resilience of this community has been tested before like with the 9/11 terrorist attacks the community leaders say.
They will come back stronger than ever.
After 9/11 we have our Manhattan -- -- sixteen acre hole in the heart of our neighborhood and we -- pick up the pieces that we did we go to.
We've been down this road before it's gonna take a long time it's going to be very challenging that we will go to our neighborhood.
Some of the residents here Harris telling us that their landlords aren't letting them break their leases or offering them rebates but of course that's just a case by case basis -- Now you mentioned business interruption insurance I -- there's some people tonight writing that down and equipment thank you.
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KIRKSVILLE, MO -- Record heat across the Heartland this summer have allowed researches at the University of Missouri to put the final touches on a new smartphone app that aims to help cattle producers monitor the extreme conditions.
Livestock researchers at the University of Missouri's College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources have developed a smartphone app called "ThermalAid," enabling cattle producers to more conveniently and reliably monitor livestock conditions in relation to local temperature and humidity levels.
Easy access to temperature and humidity index readings will help producers more quickly determine when their cattle are heat stressed. ThermalAid is designed for use with beef or dairy cattle in pastures, feedlots or barns.
"Producers can use this app to reduce the heat stress in their animals. Producers can go in and detect which animals are more heat stressed in a particular setting and go to additional means to reduce the levels in those animals not necessarily do it for the entire heard; the entire population of animals," University of Missouri Animal Science Professor Don Spiers said.
A stopwatch-like feature of ThermalAid allows producers to count the number of breaths for an animal over a short interval. The producer then records the number and the app calculates the breaths-per-minute.
Heat-stressed cattle reduce their feed intake or stop eating completely, which lowers growth rates in beef cattle and reduces milk production in dairy cows. Also, heat stress can compromise cattle immune systems and jeopardize overall health.
ThermalAid is tied to a website, ThermalNet, that the research team has developed to offer extensive information on how to detect and reduce livestock heat stress. It is also an area that data from producers can be input.
"The beauty of the app over time is what we'll be collecting data from the producers that will go into a large database that allows us to make even better predictions of how the animals will respond not only in Missouri, not only in the Midwest, but all over the country," said Spiers.
Eventually a global network will be created between producers and heat stress specialists to provide specific site recommendations to alleviate the problem, and ultimately reduce costs to the producers and consumers.
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Last night I did some Gears of War on Xbox Live, and proceeded to get my ass handed to me repeatedly. It seemed no matter what game I joined, I A) got stuck on the Locusts team, and B) ended up on the team where everyone was new, and C) played against professional gamers. Any kills I got were pure luck on my part. It...it didn't do a lot for my self worth, I tell you what.
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Everyone -- a Fox News alert on this chick filet story that has swept across the country.
Folks waiting in long lines to get their chicken fix in a show of support for the company's president.
This really has caught fire on Bill Hemmer welcome as we enter.
-- great to be where I'm in today for Martha MacCallum and chick filet CEO Dan Cathy of course created a firestorm when he publicly said he was against gay same sex marriage.
And now supporters of Kathy.
Flocked to a stores during what was dubbed -- chick filet appreciation day.
I think it's great that people are standing up the first amendment -- and get sand that bring the -- telling a classless thing which you wanna hear and you don't respect other people have other people have to -- I don't believe that I'm not gonna.
Can -- me because of it.
There's kind of a culture war going on.
-- people are really respecting each other and and differences but there's of opinion there's no dialogue really taking place to.
To get to the heart of what what we believe as a nation what what his troops it's.
Some of these lines they went around the building and down the sidewalk -- across the street.
The crowds of supporters yesterday counter protest.
Is set now for tomorrow.
Our senior national correspondent John Roberts live in Atlanta you were out there yesterday count what you -- now.
I wasn't there yesterday -- without that was that this is about so much more than just a chicken sandwich this really is at the intersection of religion politics civil rights.
And first amendment rights if not thousands upon thousands of people showed solidarity with -- the -- CEO Dan Cathy.
Coming out just -- vote with their wallets basically this wasn't just in the south which is the -- play it was in New York.
In California.
Here in the Bible Belt a lot of people did show up to express solidarity with -- -- these traditional or biblical views of marriage but after the -- of Chicago Rahm Emanuel Tom Menino.
-- Boston and it's in -- of Washington basically said to chick -- you're not welcome here you don't share our values this really did become a free speech issue.
The whole day was suggested.
By Fox News host in former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee who appeared this morning on FOX & Friends here's what he said.
It was just getting out of hand the hate speech and and -- and -- language that was being pearl.
-- Dan Cathy the CEO because in an interview with a Christian newspaper.
He took a stand for traditional marriage which is by the -- the same standard Barack Obama had until just a few months ago and and for that he was just being.
That bullied economic bullying was was the way this was going down.
People try to put him out of business.
And the -- Chicago Rahm Emanuel heard from the archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Francis George riding in the archdiocese blog look at this.
I was born and raised here in my understanding of being -- Chicago and never included submitting my value system to the government.
For approval bill expect more reaction throughout the day and again tomorrow job but you talked to a lot of people out there wouldn't they tell you about us.
It -- most people told me that this really was an an issue of a first amendment rights in in free speech they don't think.
That the politician should have weighed -- -- -- and the politicians in particular should not have threatened retaliation because Dan Cathy expressed his views.
I talked to one fellow Stephen -- he is actually -- youth pastor was there with a couple members of of his ministry.
He sees something bigger at work here here's what he told.
I think that there's a greater issue going on in America right now there's kind of a culture war going on.
-- people are really respecting each other and and differences but there's of opinion there's no dialogue really taking place.
To get to the heart of what what we believe as a nation what what is truth.
Now critics -- chipped it AAA say this goes well beyond just what Dan Cathy said about same sex marriage it's also the fact that the Philanthropic arm of chick -- wind shape is donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Two outside organizations that actively campaign against gay rights in particular same sex marriage.
And they want to make that point they're going to have their opportunity to protest tomorrow.
A massive nationwide kiss in -- -- the ladies and they're United States there worse a smattering of counter protest yesterday but really nothing as big -- what we're expecting tomorrow -- John thing.
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"I believe in the saying 'from those who have been given much, much will be expected,'" Henish Bhansali, MD, says. "And I have been very blessed. I give back to others because I had the most incredible parents, and I have a lovely fiancée. This is my one small way to continue giving back."
In addition to his role as a Barnes-Jewish Hospital chief resident at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, Dr. Bhansali regularly visits with underinsured, elderly men and women to talk about chronic diseases. He explains the complications and prevention tactics related to high blood pressure, diabetes and kidney disease through the Residents and Fellows Diversity Initiative, which is part of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence.
After three years of working in homeless shelters, outreach efforts are expanding their reach further into the community through organizations such as the Urban League. An anesthesiology resident, Charlene M. Blake, MD, PhD, volunteers her time with the Urban League Young Professionals. As part of the Urban League's Young Blacks Give Back community service initiative, Dr. Blake works with local young adults who participate in different volunteer opportunities, such as helping to restore homes for Lydia's House, an organization that offers transitional housing for victims of domestic violence.
"As a resident, the hospital tends to become a microcosm because we spend much of our time here caring for patients," says Dr. Blake. "When able, it's refreshing and fulfilling to give of yourself in a way that makes the community stronger and safer. You remember what it means to be a person, not just a doctor; you're stepping outside of the medical community and entering the St. Louis community as a whole. Almost every physician I know here volunteers in some manner; I am but one link in the chain that strengthens the bond between Barnes-Jewish and the St. Louis community."


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This is a tribute video I made for one of the best franchises out there, well specifically the last 2 games of the franchise, Battlefield. I made it a few months ago before I played the alpha and all the new footage came out, but I still think it turned out great. The music is by Nero, and the song is titled "Ghosts n' Stuff". Here's the link to the 1080p version! [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bumS5Qf4NQA[/url] Thanks for watching, rate, comment, and enjoy!
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Mail at the command line
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The simple mailx command-line mail client handles mail either interactively or via command-line options. Although it lacks the convenience of a GUI-based tool, mailx compares well in scripting.
Thunderbird, Evolution, or Kmail are not the only options as mail clients. Although the major graphical mail clients offer users a great deal of convenience, sometimes a command-line solution is an advantage – both Mutt [1] and the lean mailx [2] program support batch options in the shell.
Most distributions include mailx by default. OpenSUSE and Debian include the package on their installation media. On openSUSE, /bin/mail is a symlink that points to /usr/bin/mailx, whereas Debian systems do things the other way around: /usr/bin/mailx points to /usr/bin/mail. The following commands and command options were all tested on Debian 4.0 "Etch."
Launching the mail client with mailx at the shell prompt takes you into an interactive environment. The client shows the content of your inbox; the default setting for this on most systems is /var/mail/username. Then you will see an overview of the messages, including the sender, date, size, and subject line.
Typing ? and pressing Enter outputs a quick help file about using the mailer. Entering the number and pressing Enter is the the easiest way to display a message. The Enter key also scrolls down, although you can use the up and down arrows, too. Pressing Q quits the display and takes you back to the main screen. If the messages have scrolled out of the window, you can press H and Enter to display them again.
Mailx has two approaches to terminating the program: pressing X and Enter quits the mail client without removing messages you have read from the inbox, and Q plus Enter does the following:
Saved 2 messages in /home/petros ilie/mbox Held 3 messages in /var/mail/pet rosilie
Typing D and pressing Enter deletes messages. Again, you can select messages to delete by specifying their numbers. For example, d 1 3 deletes the first and third messages. Also, you can select a range, as in d 1-10, which deletes the first 10 messages, or d *, which deletes all messages. If you mistakenly delete a message, u will undelete it. The command uses the same combinations of digits as the d option. Entering R lets you answer a message, and pressing M starts a new message. To specify the target address, use the m command:
m email@example.com
Mailx then prompts you to enter the subject line before you can move on to the message itself.
When you are done, type a period followed by Enter to add more recipients after Cc: (carbon copy):
If you prefer to launch your favorite editor to compose messages, type ~v directly after the subject line. Mailx evaluates the $VISUAL environmental variable to identify your favorite editor. If you like to work with, for example, Joe, you can set up the editor for mailx by entering export VISUAL=joe.
Mailx shows its strength, flexibility, and speed in the shell. The generic command line is:
mailx [Option] firstname.lastname@example.com
Users can define options, such as the subject line (-s), the mail address for the bcc (blind carbon copy) field (-b), further recipients to cc (-c), and so on. Don't forget to use quotes for blanks and non-standard characters.
The mail body – that is, the message text – is still missing. For a short message, echo is probably a good choice. Swapping the body text out to a file makes sense for longer texts. Mailx can read the file from standard input.
If you need to troubleshoot your setup, -v is a big help. On Debian systems, mailx just tells the user that it has sent a status report, which then turns up a short time later in the inbox. The "Using Mailx Options" box shows an example of the use of mailx options.
Using uuencode is the only way to add an attachment to a message. This tool converts binary files, such as images or executables, into printable ASCII characters. After doing so, the text file can be mailed (see the "Sending Attachments" box). The recipient then sees the file as a text block between the keywords begin and end. Uudecode converts the file back. The command uudecode attach_image.txt results in the file hej.jpg.
Things are easier if you run Mutt in batch mode. The Mutt mail client not only offers -s for subject, -c for copy, and -b for blind copy options referred to in this article, but also the -a parameter for simple attachment sending. See the "Sending Attachments" box.
Using Mailx Options
Sending a copy
nonumber $ mailx -s 'Hello!' firstname.lastname@example.com -c firstname.lastname@example.com [...]
Message with echo
nonumber $ echo 'Hello, this is a test.' | mailx -s 'Hello!' email@example.com -c firstname.lastname@example.com
Swapping out a message text
nonumber $ mailx -s 'Hello!' email@example.com < mail.txt
Troubleshooting via status report
nonumber $ <B>echo 'Hello, this is a test.' | mailx -v -s 'Hello!' firstname.lastname@example.com<B> Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to <huhn>.
Sending Attachments
Attachments with uuencode and mailx
nonumber $ uuencode hej.jpg hej.jpg > attach_image.txt $ mailx -s 'photo' email@example.com < attach_image.txt
Attachments with Mutt
nonumber $ mutt -s 'Photo' -a hej.jpg email@example.com < mail.txt
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100 Ideas that Changed Architecture is a handy new title that offers insight into the evolution and history of the built world around us. The ideas are arranged roughly in chronological order in the form of concise illustrated essays which can be read happily from beginning to end or randomly sampled.
The author begins with the simplest elements of construction, like fireplace, floor, door and window. Then there are ideas about spatial types, from the Roman basilica which became the pattern for most Christian churches to the introduction of the corridor, a relatively recent innovation.
He explores the impact of design and drawing techniques, like computer-aided design, and also social ideas and innovations, such as universal design which provides for those with disabilities.
The book also covers philosophies that have made a big impact, for example, humanism and phenomenology. The essays are written in layman's prose with a glossary at the back of more obscure terms.
It's a nifty little book that will help you pepper your conversation with words like 'zeitgeist' and 'postmodernism'. How cool is that?
Today's blog comes from Candace Weir, Central Library staff:
Who doesn't dream of a secret hideaway in some remote spot, where you are surrounded by the beauty of nature? More fodder for those dreams is encapsulated in one small book entitled Under Arizona Skies: the apprenticeship desert shelters at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen West.
It starts, "Tucked away in the desert surrounding Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West is a landscape of architectural experiments." For seventy- five years, students from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesen West have been building and living in experimental designs. Conceived as an alternative to dormitory rooms, they are spaces where students can experience the natural environment and learn to design in response to it.
Some of the more adventurous students have taken the miniscule start-up money provided by the school. Then, they scrounged materials from the School junkyard, from the surrounding desert or found builders to donate materials for these fascinating little shelters.
Some of the shelters are identified by the name or nationality of the builder like Lath Shelter or Japanese Shelter. Other names refer to the type of structure or place like Desert Perch, Lotus and Ironwood. The Brittlebush Shelter really caught my eye with its graceful amorphous canvas roof, elevated sleeping platform and fireplace. I also found a blog which offers an in depth perspective to the design.
It is nice to dream and maybe plot and plan. How lovely it would be to live in a climate where an open-sided tent seems like a great idea for most of the year. Sigh.
- Candace
Vancouver is a gorgeous city and one of my favourite places to visit. Lucky for me, my son and his family live in Seattle; I love to include a trip to Vancouver on my way there.
I think we are fortunate in Calgary to have Vancouver so handy and I sometimes wonder whether Vancouverites feel the same way about Calgary. Calgary is a great city to live in and Vancouver is a great city to visit. (This reminds me of my daughter's characterization of her two dogs: "Arthur is smart and Dudley is sweet.")
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You learn that the market on Granville Island "was among the first waterfront revitalization schemes to recycle industrial buildings, setting the tone for similar projects around the world".
So much to see in this great Canadian city.
Today's blog comes from Janet, Central Library staff, who explores exhilarating architecture at her coffee table:
One of the most memorable moments of my life was a rainy cold June day in Westminster Abbey. The exterior looked massive and very dark in the wet, but inside the stone arches just soared up and away from my eyes like nothing I had seen before.
At the time I felt awe and wonder. Now that I am older I feel even more awe and wonder at the master builders who raised these abbeys and cathedrals up from their paper plans. New and urgent problems had to be solved as the stone rose higher with the weight always pushing out and down. In fact many buildings did collapse often to be started again.
In Guided by a Stone-Mason: exploring the cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Britain, Thomas Maude tells the story. A stone mason by trade, he takes the reader on tour through British sites and reveals the intense medieval competition to build the finest and the tallest religious building in the land. It's a fascinating account by a man who looks at the buildings as a builder and explains the extraordinary problems and solutions in plain language.
If you want to see beautiful colour images of these buildings, try books such as Cathedrals of the World by Graziella Leyla Ciaga, Churches and Cathedrals of London by Stephen Humphrey or High Gothic: the age of the great cathedrals by Gunther Binding.
Many of our fine art books are weighty and oversize as a result of the high standards in the publishing industry; so please handle with care. The images are crystal clear and the lighting and details are so perfect it makes me want to go see the world again.
The world is a scary place.
"Two hundred million people … have been affected by natural disasters and hazards in the last decade…Ninety-eight percent of these victims are in the developing world."
This sobering information comes from the introduction to Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity. The book presents 25 reports from the field by experts who work on disaster prevention and recovery.
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In Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the earthquake of 2004, 190 temporary barracks were built by the military. The sites selected were chosen by fear of new quakes and tsunamis. However, these sites were so remote that refugees could not return to work or assist with reconstruction.
When project planners began working with the community, women were initially excluded. Residents were opposed to building traditional stilt houses which are climatically efficient and earthquake safe. They favoured modern houses with masonry walls that are often fatal during an earthquake or tsunami.
Providing the building materials threatened to exhaust local resources which could potentially cause a secondary environmental disaster. And the construction boom sent the price of materials soaring.
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Partial skeletal remains of a human being were discovered in a wooded area in Fleming Island on Sunday, the Clay County Sheriff's Office said.
Children walking through the woods near the Kohl's department store on East West Parkway found the remains in what the sheriff's office called a "major decomposition state."
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quote Angyles CerddoriaethTo be fair rogues were pretty op last content, they are bleh now but will be buffed. Happens every expansion.
quote SuperwalnutHunters are the new rouges.
quote SuperwalnutPeople still run rouges?
quote Avalithquote SuperwalnutAvalith; Whenever I try, they always run to a guard or whatever. :LPeople like that shouldn't be rolling on PvP servers to begin with. It's almost comical how many people QQ about PvP happening on a PvP server. If they didn't want it to happen, they should have never rolled there. My reply to anyone doing that on the forums is to either pony up $25 to transfer to a PvE server or just reroll elsewhere.
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Policewoman Tegan Mobbs looks at the remains of her home in Yellow Rock in southern Australia's Blue Mountains on Tuesday. The granite slabs that were once a kitchen bench are still warm five days later, and a chimney-stack and fireplace are all that remain upright in the ruins of what was once a five-bedroom home.
KATOOMBA, Australia – In a desperate race to stay one step ahead of the wildfires raging in southern Australia, firefighters in the town of Katoomba were on the offense Tuesday. They were fighting fire with fire.
The winds were already picking up in the Blue Mountain town ahead of the expected arrival Wednesday of extreme conditions described as "about as bad as it gets," by New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.
That could mean not only searing temperatures, but winds gusting at up to 60 mph.
So crews were taking advantage of a fall in temperature and some light rain to light fires of their own, which they hope will act as buffers to slow or stop a blaze that can travel at incredible speed.
"The idea is to cut it off down there," volunteer firefighter Tim Parsley told NBC News as he looked down over a wide valley filled with smoke.
Strong winds threaten to fan the relentless fires this week in Australia as residents have been given until midday Wednesday to leave, and firefighters spark controlled fires as their "last line of defense." NBC's Ian Williams reports.
Volunteers like Parsley, normally an engineer working on geostationary satellites, form the backbone of the fire service in Katoomba. Parsley has been a volunteer for 20 years and says he has seen nothing like this.
The fires this year touched him personally, when the flames engulfed his sister's house. She and her family escaped unscathed.
"My sister losing her house has made it difficult – a family issue as well," he said.
In addition to burning large tracts of forest to deprive the advancing fire of fuel – a process known as back-burning – the firefighters have been clearing smaller areas. These are known as containment lines, typically close to houses.
Residents in the worst affected mountain areas have been told they have until midday Wednesday to leave safely but many are reluctant.
Chris Chinn, who has lived in the Blue Mountains all his life, built his family's home overlooking the bush. He has set up a water pump by his swimming pool and in spite of official warnings he is determined to stay.
"It's your home, so you want to stay and protect it," he said.
The State of Emergency declared in the mountains gives the authorities the power to order them out.
"If they do that, we will go," his wife Mandy said.
"The firefighters are doing a good job. We don't want them to put their lives at risk if we have to be rescued. But this is our home," Chris Chinn said.
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Jennifer Schweinsberg and her son David look at their gutted house in Winmalee in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday.
That is a fairly typical attitude in the bush – but the ferocious fire already covering an area the size of urban Sydney is far from typical.
More than 60 fires are raging in southern Australia at last count, 15 of them out of control – and they have already been described as the worst in New South Wales in more than four decades.
The blaze in the Blue Mountains is the largest and most dangerous and is only around 60 miles west of Sydney. It could threaten the city's western suburbs if it sweeps down from the mountains.
"I've been fighting fires for 33 years," said Rob Rogers, Commissioner Fitzsimmons' deputy. "And this is the most challenging fire scenario I have ever faced."


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Mon, Oct 26, 2009 | 09:19 GMT
Wolfmother, Rob Zombie coming to Rock Band this week
EA's announced that your dosage of Rock Band this week will come in the form of track packs Wolfmother and Rob Zombie.
Liz Phair and Morningwood make up for the rest of the Rock Band pack. While over on Rock Band: Unplugged for the PSP, you get Sonic Youth and Steely Dan.
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Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | 14:37 BST
Wolfmother track pack lands on Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 5 has some new tracks available for it on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It should be up on PSN later today as well, if not already.
It's a Wolfmother Track Pack, but you can get them individually as well.
Here's what you'll get for 160 MS Points ($2.00/£1.36/€1.86) each or 440 ($5.50/£3.74/€5.12) for the whole thing:
- Cosmic Egg
- California Queen
- Pilgrim
Via the Major.
Tue, Sep 29, 2009 | 22:19 BST
Activision announces upcoming DLC for Guitar Hero 5
Activision has sent over a schedule of DLC for Guitar Hero 5 expected for the month of October.
It's quite a list too, and includes a track pack for Halloween.
There's Wolfmother, Queens of the Stone Age, Peter Frampton, The J. Geils Band and Billy Squier.
Here's the full thing for PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360:
October 1
- Queens Of The Stone Age Track Pack: Mexicola, Avon, How to Handle a Rope
October 8
- Billy Squier Track Pack: The Stroke, Everybody Wants You, When She Comes To Me
October 15
- Wolfmother Track Pack: Pilgrim, California Queen, Cosmic Egg
October 22
- Classic Rock 2 Track Pack: The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame, Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way (Live), Triumph – Lay It On The Line
October 29
- All Hallows' Eve Track Pack: GWAR – Gor Gor, Marilyn Manson – Beautiful People, The Misfits – Astro Zombies
Each Track Pack will run you 440 MS Points ($5.50/£3.74/€5.12) and individually for 160 MS Points ($2.00/£1.36/€1.86).
Tue, Mar 10, 2009 | 15:35 GMT
Rock Band Wii adds 14 new tracks, gets KISS
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of fourteen tracks, ranging from metal to country, for the Wii version of Rock Band.
Here's what you're getting:
- David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
- Drive By Truckers – 3 Dimes Down
- Garbage – Why Do You Love Me
- KISS – Calling Dr. Love
- Lucinda Williams – Can't Let Go
- Metallica – Blackened, Ride the Lighting
- Neko Case – People Got a Lotta Nerve
- Old 97s – Time Bomb
- Radiohead – My Iron Lung
- Sonic Youth – Kool Thing
- Steve Earle – Satellite Radio
- The Clash – Train in Vain
- Wolfmother – Joker & the Thief
Each master track will cost 200 Wii Points ($2.00).
Hooray for diversity.


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Most of you will have heard about the recent super moon – a full moon that's larger than normal because the moon is closer to Earth. Hubby and I were disappointed when we checked it out last night. The moon looked pretty, but not much larger than normal. The photos didn't come out that well but you'll get the idea. Bella, our puppy, came along to see what the fuss was about. (Click on the photos to get a larger version)
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Posted by Creepy Query Girl , Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:40 AM
Ha, ha! Cute post. Me? My grandmother who was senile, caught me and my fiance naked down in the basement doing, ahem. When my parents came home she told them, but I countered with, "Not true. You know Nana's senile. You can't believer her." Don't know if my parents believed me though.
I haven't been caught like that, but I do have kids, so it's probably bound to happen sooner or later, right? ;)
Cute post!
OMG! Be thankful it was just a delivery man. While the story is amusing, you must have been so freaked out when she told you "there's a man at the door". I know I would have been. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I understand where you're coming from. Mine are 7 & 9 and still, every time I go to the shower they get the lecture of not opening the door.
Can you not get back in the shower? I don't know. It's hard for me to understand, because I have pretty much - no hair.
Hm... No. If I'm naked, I'm naked, and others just have to deal with it. ;) I answer the door in a towel if necessary.
Haha...he didn't look sorry. I bet you could tell.
My son did that a few weeks ago. He answered the door for a delivery man with a package. The guy scolds him, telling him he shouldn't open the door to strangers.
Yeah, I felt like mother of the year.
LOL!!!!!! I can honestly say I've never been caught unsuspectingly naked! LOL! But it's in my bucket list! LOL! Take care
It has gotten to the point where I have a phone in the bathroom. I know the second I get into the shower someone is going to call me.
Funny now but I would've totally freaked out! I don't even like taking showers when I'm alone in the house b/c you never know who stops by! Of course, then I lock the doors. Glad it made a funny story later though!
LOL this made my day. I also am now prepared for when I have a child and they turn four. At least I know what punishment is their own personal hell. Those tips can be invaluable!
"He didn't look sorry."
I'll bet he didn't! You probably made his day.
Funny, funny, funny -- and why can't daughters learn not to answer the door to unknown men or tell strangers on the phone: "Sorry. Daddy's away on a business trip. It's just Mom here."
That's why you have to get a big dog with sharp teeth, like we did. :D
Ha! I bet that got a chuckle! When I was in the Bahamas last year, I was showering in a clear glass shower. I get out and I notice a window washer line just out the window! The guy was washing the window above me & had washed mine while having a full view of the shower! My family all had a good laugh out of that!
OH NO! I swear I'm not laughing.
I can't think of a story that's happened to me where I've been caught naked. Lots of other mortifying stories though.
That scenario is in my fear landscape. ;)
(Just finished Divergent. Sorry.)
Chuckle chuckle... But if it had been a delivery of something Very important - like from a publisher....???
My kids do the same thing all the time. It really makes you wonder, just how much of what we warn them about do they truly consider? I have always had an odd feeling that delivery men know how to time a woman's shower,lol. But, you gotta love it when the kiddos capers lend a hand in our blog post.
You just made that man's day. I'll bet he's probably re-telling the story about a beautiful naked American girl on Twitter or Blogging about it himself, right now, with all of his friends!
Maybe you should check to see what's trending right now.. :)
Who hasn't? My kids have pulled this on me too. I know exactly how you feel. :)
Somewhere, Some time I read that it was unwise to sleep naked. I found this out long before I read about it.
My two kids and I were living on a yacht in Durban harbour, sounds so cool, but then of course there was the naked surprise. The damn thing sank with us on board. Imagine my embarrassment running around a yacht marina stark naked trying to save my home.
Oh well, we did save the boat and the next day everyone was very friendly and helpful, especially the ladies.
Children can really put you in a spot, boats are much better at it though, ha, ha, ha.
Blessings and thanks for a good laugh, Geoff.
lol I don't remember anything like that ever happening to me... I'm sure I'd remember!
I love Geoff's story, just above :-)
LMAO! Ehem...I mean...that's terrible. :) Oh yeah, I've been caught naked more than once. Last time though was a neighbor. I hear the knock and ignored it...was in the shower...the pounding kept getting louder so I was thinking maybe something was wrong in the neighborhood, who knows. So I slide across the floor and stick my dripping wet head around the door. It was really important...they wanted to know if I had any extra milk. Oh yeah, that totally made my day. :)
Ha ha ha! At least you got a good story out of it!!
I once got caught naked when I was a teenager because my window was open and my sister was jumping on the trampoline, therefore getting high enough in spurts to peek at me. She called out to me and I just dived to my floor (out of sight) and stayed there until she left...
This exact thing happened to me just the other week. Fun, ain't it? No.
Ugh! I couldn't imagine being caught like that. So embarrassing, although I'm sure you gave the mail delivery person a story to tell his friends. :)
Gotta love a 4 yr old. It's their job to embarrass and terrify you. But,life is fair, they will be teenagers one day, then it's your turn.
Yes, once. No details will be provided. lol
When I did sales as a teen you would be surprised of all the naked or scantily clad people who were caught when I came a knocking. Since deliverymen and sales people are used to these things, we are generally sorry, it's just that we've seen and said it so many times so as to appear lackadaisical.
I guess I can count myself lucky my 3-month-old can't answer the door yet. But I'm not too worried about when that day comes because I have a 10-pound dog who's been trained to kill and another who supervises.


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Our son found a tux at our local thrift store, and a formal shirt at another. We picked up a cumberbund and matching tie online. He not only wore it to both proms but more recently, to several friend's weddings. It's been a great investment.
Frugal and Fashionable: Penny-Pinching Prom Ideas
If the magazines and television shows are any indication, parents are required to dress and transport their teens to prom in a manner worthy of a Hollywood awards ceremony. The event itself, of course, needs to be on par with the latest celebrity dinner parties. Seriously? I find the level of opulence at these events overdone to say the least. This will probably make me sound like the token old fart, but back in my day, we really didn't get this worked up about prom season.
Sure, it was a big deal. Sure, we all wanted to look nice, have great photos, and experience a great evening. We just never would have dreamed of asking our parents to dish out the equivalent of a used vehicle for a single night of memory-making entertainment. Here are some cost-saving tips for guiding your teens towards a great evening they'll always remember. (See also: Classy Weddings on the Cheap)
As with weddings, proms are mainly about the clothes. And let's face it, if you're blessed with a daughter, you already realize that finding the perfect dress is FAR more stressful than locating a great tuxedo. Hopefully, you've already scored a great dress in advance by shopping the post holiday sales this past winter. If not, here are a few additional ideas to help keep you on budget.
Cocktail Length
Cocktail dresses can be cost effective for a couple of key reasons. First, there's far less fabric required than there is when creating a floor-length gown with a full skirt. Second, if you opt for a cocktail dress, your shopping selections are far more diverse. Rather than being restricted to formal wear retailers, you are free to explore other options such as shopping at Marshalls, hitting the clearance racks at Macy's, or perusing the latest offerings at Nordstrom's.
Vintage Style
Opting for gently-used formal wear is a strategy many people prefer when trying shave some money off their bottom line. One way to avoid looking a few years behind the fashion curve when you go this route is to skip a few decades and go straight for that vintage look. It will appear at a glance that you are purposely choosing your retro look by choice, rather than by financial necessity. Besides, vintage formal wear looks amazing if you accessorize it properly. So why not save some scones and be the belle of the ball at the same time?
Fab Recycling
If you or your teen is the DIY type, consider saving money by making your own prom dress with fabric from an older dress or gown. You can pick up them up affordably at thrift stores, and by using the fabric only, you avoid the issue of dealing with worn trim and the fraying of satin-covered buttons if the gown has been worn a few times. Just choose a pattern that's in fashion, and you're in business.
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As I discussed in 25 Fun and Cheap Entertainment Ideas Rrom "The Vampire Diaries", there's no reason your chosen event venue needs to run your prom budget off the rails. Ditto with decorations and entertainment.
Party Tent
Proms and after-prom parties can easily be held in formal tents, especially if your graduating class is a small one in a rural community. Consider some of the same money-saving venues you might try for a wedding where an event tent would be appropriate, and think about having your prom at that location. Romantic farm settings and formal parks could both work well.
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The venue needs to fit the size of your class, of course, but having your prom in a period home can be an affordable way to go. Many of these places are already accustomed to wedding rentals, so proms are an easy extension. They are also quite decorative to begin with, and require minimal stress when it comes to decorating for the big day. Bonus? You can make do with elegant local flowers and skip the tacky streamers.
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Getting dolled up sort of comes with the prom territory. We all want to look great for less, but the pressure to look posh for this teen event makes many parents feel like they have to overspend when supporting their children on the big day.
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