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tag:www.mathworks.com,2005:/matlabcentral/fileexchange/feed MATLAB Central File Exchange icon.png logo.png MATLAB Central - File Exchange User-contributed code library 2014-11-28T13:18:47-05:00 22442 1 100 tag:www.mathworks.com,2005:FileInfo/3582 2003-06-10T16:07:40Z 2014-11-28T18:14:54Z Adaptive Filtering MATLAB files to implement all Adaptive Filtering Algorithms in this book.
MATLAB files to implement all Adaptive Filtering Algorithms in the book by Paulo S. R. Diniz,Adaptive Filtering Algorithms and Practical Implementation, Third Edition, Springer, New York, 2008
This book presents a concise overview of adaptive filtering, covering as many algorithms as possible in a unified form that avoids repetition and simplifies notation. It is suitable as a textbook for senior undergraduated or first-year graduate courses in adaptive signal processing and adaptive filters.

The philosophy of the presentation is to expose the material with a solid theoretical foundation, to concentrate on algorithms that really work in a finite-precision implementation, and to provide easy access to working algorithms. Hence, practicing engineers and scientists will also find the book to be an excellent reference.

This third edition contains a substantial amount of new material: Two new chapters on data-selective and blind signal processing. It also contains an enlarged discussion of linear-constrained Wiener filters and LMS algorithms, and affine projection algorithms. MATLAB codes for are available for all algorithms.

An instructor`s manual, a set of master transparences, and MATLAB codes for all of the algorithms described in the text are also available. Useful to both professional researchers and students, the text includes hundreds of problems, numerous examples, and over 150 illustrations. It is of primary interest to those working in signal processing, communications, and circuits and systems.

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 Paulo S. R. Diniz http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/9277 MATLAB 6.0 (R12) MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox Image Processing Toolbox Control System Toolbox Communications System Toolbox Robust Control Toolbox Signal Processing Toolbox false tag:www.mathworks.com,2005:FileInfo/48593 2014-11-28T17:09:44Z 2014-11-28T17:11:37Z Save entire command history - Updated, Fast Saves a complete record of all commands.
Inspired by http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9291-save-entire-command-history.
`preserve_history.m` maintains a complete record of the command history (MATLAB only maintains the last 20k worth of commands, so old commands are lost).
This package is much faster than the above original (uses regexp to match all content instead of line by line) and is compatible with Matlab R2014a and R2014b which save history in XML format. There is also no need to edit/copy any files, the entire process is automatic. You also don't need to copy the files to $MATLAB/toolbox/local/, which usually requires admin permissions.

To install, just extract the attached files to `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\MATLAB` (on Windows) or `~/Documents/MATLAB` (Linux, MacOSX), which should already be in your Matlab path by default.

The preserved history file is called `history_preserved.m` and will be placed in `%APPDATA%\Mathworks\MATLAB\R2014a` (Windows) or `~/.matlab/R2014a` (Linux, MacOSX).

If all goes ok, quitting/exiting Matlab will trigger `preserve_history.m` automatically. You can also manually execute `preserve_history.m`.

Tested in Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
 Alex R. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/109169 MATLAB 8.4 (R2014b) MATLAB 9291 false tag:www.mathworks.com,2005:FileInfo/41688 2013-05-08T22:04:15Z 2014-11-28T16:28:08Z plotRarefaction(tabla) Herramienta para obtener curvas de rarefacción, utilizando un método estocástico.
Con la utilización de datos, se realizan curvas de acumulación, se obtiene el promedio entre ellas y se obtiene la curva de rarefacción. La curva de rarefacción tiene que tener como propiedad que sea cóncava hacia abajo, por lo tanto se dice que la segunda derivada sea menor que cero, para que cumpla con está propiedad.
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AFW testdata availble at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xzhu/face/
Even though it is good practice to check whether the bounding box after detecting face,eyes,mouth,nose is not empty, i have not checked. I want to keep the code simple and has the basic steps and i feel this would be easy for a beginner to trace the file.
The performance of the above code depends upon the viola jones face,eyes,nose and mouth detectors.
The code works fine for people with glasses and tilted faces. I didn't chek the code for closed eyes.
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OptiPt is a function for fitting and testing (multi-attribute) probabilistic choice models, especially the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model (Bradley & Terry, 1952; Luce, 1959), elimination-by-aspects (EBA) models (Tversky, 1972), and preference tree (Pretree) models (Tversky & Sattath, 1979).
Features of OptiPt are:
-- easy model specification
-- high-precision parameter estimation
-- goodness of fit test
-- covariance matrix of the parameter estimates
Reference:
Wickelmaier, F. & Schmid, C. (2004). A MATLAB function to estimate choice model parameters from paired-comparison data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(1), 29-40.
See also: http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/florian.wickelmaier/
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This submission contains a list of scripts that reproduce the figures included in chapters 2 and 3 of seminal J.Ward's technical report on STAP. This set of scripts may be valuable to any STAP newcomer because it demonstrates the fundamental STAP concepts. Also, the performance of the basic Sample Matrix Inversion (SMI) algorithm is demonstrated by use of relative metrics.
 Ilias Konsoulas http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/128396 MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b) false tag:www.mathworks.com,2005:FileInfo/46827 2014-06-02T15:21:04Z 2014-11-28T07:01:04Z nicolasayotte/MatlabGDSPhotonicsToolbox A library of functions to facilitate the design of Photonics Integrated Circuits GDS layouts
Matlab GDS Photonics Toolbox
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This is a Matlab library of functions to facilitate the design of Photonics Integrated Circuits GDS layouts that I have developped with Alexandre D. Simard during my PhD.

This is oriented towards intuitive and adaptable creation of GDS layout files for fabrication in different facilities across the world. The toolbox creates a GDS based on a general layer map, but can be set up to export to any other layer map once the design is done.

Nicolas Ayotte and Alexandre D. Simard have used this library to efficiently create multiple layouts for different fabrication facilities across the world with successful results.

Features
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- Relative orientation group waveguide routing including turns, tapers, s-bends and the possibility to customize inter-waveguide distance at any point.
- Access to the travelled distance (physical or optical) of any waveguide offering a quick way to measure your devices.
- Possibility of referencing premade structures (fiber couplers, directional couplers, detectors, etc.)
- Possibility of referencing custom structures created on the fly.
- Premade functions for microrings, Bragg gratings, multi-mode interferometer, contra-directional couplers, output array of fiber couplers, etc.
- Tutorial project with many cells showcasing the features.
- A PDF presentation presenting the library's purpose and principles.
- Intuitive relative cell placement in the master floorplan for easy teamwork.
- Relative and scalable routing solution.
- Includes functions to export to other layer maps, including boolean operations on the layers.
- Easy scripting language (i.e.: Matlab).

It is strongly encouraged to get the free software KLayout to look at your GDS files:
http://www.klayout.de/

Suggested first steps
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- Look through the PDF presentation
- (Optional) Run the command "mex -setup" to install a C compiler in matlab.
- Run the makemex.m function in the main folder to compile all the C functions needed for the library.
- Open the tutorial project folder: Project - New Project
- Go through the Cells script, run them, look at the resulting .gds files.
- Look at the Cell_RoutingWG.m script that places the cell in the floorplan.
- Read at the ProjectDefinition.m file.
- Run the Main.m to merge the gds cells and export to the ouput layer map.
- Duplicate the Project folder and make your own!

License
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Copyright © 2014 Nicolas Ayotte and Alexandre D. Simard. MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Chebfun is an open-source software system for numerical computing with functions. The mathematical basis is piecewise polynomial interpolation implemented with what we call "Chebyshev technology". The foundations are described, with Chebfun examples, in the book Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice (L. N. Trefethen, SIAM 2013). Chebfun has extensive capabilities for dealing with linear and nonlinear differential and integral operators, and also includes continuous analogues of linear algebra notions like QR and singular value decomposition. The Chebfun2 extension works with functions of two variables defined on a rectangle in the x-y plane.

Most Chebfun commands are overloads of familiar MATLAB commands — for example sum(f) computes an integral, roots(f) finds zeros, and u = L\f solves a differential equation.

To get a sense of the breadth and power of Chebfun, a good place to start is by looking at our Examples (http://www.chebfun.org/examples/) or the introductory Guide (http://www.chebfun.org/docs/guide/).

Please contact us with any questions/comments at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Face Recognition [Wavelet and Neural Networks ] V2 : Simple and Effective Source Code for Face Recognition Based on Wavelet and Neural Networks.
The code has been tested with AT&T database achieving an excellent recognition rate of 97.90% (40 classes, 5 training images and 5 test images for each class, hence there are 200 training images and 200 test images in total randomly selected and no overlap exists between the training and test images).See More :http://matlab-recognition-code.com/face-recognition-based-on-wavelet-and-neural-networks-matlab-code/
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This is a repost dedicated to Ben Sen who wrote a most excellent St Patrick's Day post called A St. Patrick's Day Valentine, about working in an Irish bar. My poem was written a couple of years back for a St Patrick's Day open call. It's been rewritten and tweeked so many times, it almost qualifies as new. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed (re)writing it.
a song of flatbush, st paddys, the living and the dead
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I suppose it's bad form to repost but it's NEW I say. it's practically a whole new poem! and even if it isn't. so what?
btw, those bars were real places. I had hoped to find pictures online: o'brians was truly a bucket of blood on flatbush and newkirt ave. you went there if you were a down and dirty drinker. it was dark and there were a lot of fights that happened there, between old guys. you didn't want to TOUCH the peanuts on the bar. gilmores was right across the street, on the corner, had more of the old crowd, mostly irish, some from the other side, some born here, some non irish, but it was essentially an real neighborhood bar, much loved. the owner was pat gilmore. moriarity's was owned by billy moriarity, was on newkirk plaza right by the train station and that was a young irish and young neighborhood crowd that went there. we loved it there too. all those places would hold a tab for you but you didn't want to be known as someone who needed a tab.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Achievement
To contextualise: I am a big Austen fan and I teach "Pride and Prejudice" every year so I can be hard to please! For example, "Death Comes to Pemberley" was better on the TV in my opinion. What makes "Longbourn" a success is that it doesn't try to reimagine Elizabeth and Mr Darcy's courtship. In fact, the latter barely features which many will...
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68 of 71 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Reworking of the classic from the servants' point of view
'There could be no wearing of clothes without laundering, just as surely as there could be no going without clothes, not in Hertfordshire anyway, and not in September.'
I liked the premise the opening sentence makes clear - seeing the events of Pride and Prejeudice from the point of view of the servants and gaining insight into the lives of the ordinary classes...
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Achievement,
sharona27 (Scotland) - See all my reviews
To contextualise: I am a big Austen fan and I teach "Pride and Prejudice" every year so I can be hard to please! For example, "Death Comes to Pemberley" was better on the TV in my opinion. What makes "Longbourn" a success is that it doesn't try to reimagine Elizabeth and Mr Darcy's courtship. In fact, the latter barely features which many will hate, but why the novel works. Baker also avoids massacring Austen's original characters - PD James's reworking of Colonel Fitzwilliam anyone? For diehard Lizzie Bennet and Mr Darcy fans - this is not for you. Naturally, both characters are remote. There will be some fans appalled by one or two plot twists involving Mrs Hill which are a bit more risqué. An enjoyable novel which tackles the criticism levelled at Austen: no awareness of the lower / servant classes, little awareness of the Napoleonic war and slavery / money from plantations. If you want more than 'P&P: The Redux' this is well worth your time.
68 of 71 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Reworking of the classic from the servants' point of view,
Purpleheart (UK) - See all my reviews
'There could be no wearing of clothes without laundering, just as surely as there could be no going without clothes, not in Hertfordshire anyway, and not in September.'
I liked the premise the opening sentence makes clear - seeing the events of Pride and Prejeudice from the point of view of the servants and gaining insight into the lives of the ordinary classes that Austen barely mentions. The novel opens well but is somewhat formulaic. It's as if Baker decided to make a list of what Jane Austen leaves out: war, politics, sex with overworked servants and then wrote a novel to address those. Clearly Austen didn't write state of the nation novels but her dialogue was great, her characters always believable, and her wit sparkling. Despite the current fashion of considering P&P to be chick lit, it is a sharply observed novel on one strata of society. It is pitch perfect. This novel strained my credulity - can you imagine Mr Collins having a chat about his choice of Bennet girl with a maid? For me, it added few new insights into Jane Austen's novel despite key references to slavery and fortunes made from sugar. Those are important issues, as were the difficulties of dismissed servants and I would have felt that more if Jo Baker had been able to simply concentrate on her own characters. I suppose that is the key point. A book like Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) casts new light back on our reading of Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) and particularly its view of women and the exploitation of the colonies. I don't think this novel pulled that off - perhaps because it tried to pack too much in.
The strongest section is the first - a well imagined account of laundry day from the point of view of Sarah, the maid and main protagonist. 'If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them,' is a good example of where we gain a different view of Elizabeth Bennet's trampling over muddy fields to her sister. The drudgery that supports the lives of the Bennets is well described, as is the contrast with the much larger house of the Bingleys.
I think an important question is whether the novel could stand on its own without the link to the original. In my view it doesn't, despite some enjoyable passages. The ending of Longbourn departs entirely from Pride and Prejudice and is the weakest part of the novel. I suppose I should learn my lesson from this, and Death Comes to Pemberley, and leave this sub genre of Austen prequels, sequels and re-imaginings alone.
Having said that, I seem to be in the minority of the reviewers here.
94 of 104 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Richly Imagined, Engaging and Entertaining,
Susie B - See all my reviews
Jane Austen is a favourite author of mine and, as such, I have always avoided reading any sequels, prequels or retellings of her novels, as I feel they would only disappoint - however Jo Baker's 'Longbourn' is something rather different and I must admit that I was pulled into this book from the very first pages. 'Longbourn' focuses on the lives of the servants who work for the Bennet family (from 'Pride and Prejudice') and the story is told almost entirely from the servants' perspective, so there is a lot of gritty 'downstairs' life and very little of the more genteel 'upstairs' variety.
In the servants' quarters we meet our main heroine, the housemaid Sarah, an attractive and determined young woman, similar in age to the older Bennet girls, but obviously leading a very different life. Then there is the cook/housekeeper, Mrs Hill (who has a painful secret she has had to keep hidden for years), her husband, Mr Hill, the butler (a man with secrets of his own) and lastly, twelve-year-old Polly, the kitchen maid. Into their busy, but quiet and uneventful lives arrives a new footman, James Smith, a dark, attractive man with a rather mysterious past, who finds himself falling for Sarah. However, Sarah, although initially attracted to James, feels a little rebuffed by his reluctance to discuss his past life, and consequently she finds herself becoming rather interested in the very good-looking Mulatto manservant, Ptolemy, who works for the Bingleys at Netherfield Park. But what is it that James is trying to hide from Sarah and should Sarah really be considering Ptolemy in a romantic light? (No spoilers, we learn most of this early on in the novel and there is a lot more for prospective readers to discover and enjoy).
This is a very atmospheric and wonderfully described story where the reader follows the servants in their day-to-day work, so we experience Sarah's back-breaking work with the family laundry ("If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields"); we feel the pain of Sarah's chapped and chilblained fingers; we clean and blacklead the grates; we beat the Turkish carpets and sprinkle tea leaves to gather the dust; we even have to empty the evil-smelling chamber pots that the genteel folk upstairs leave for Sarah to dispose of. And, as the author cleverly weaves threads from the original 'Pride and Prejudice' into her story, we also experience certain aspects of Bennet family life and are able to eavesdrop on family conversations, which makes for very entertaining reading.
In addition, Jo Baker is not just adept at describing indoor life - her descriptions of the Hertfordshire countryside were a pleasure to read, and her brief, but powerful depiction of a certain soldier's wartime experiences revealed during the course of the book was an interesting and involving aspect of the story. This, therefore, is a novel which works on different levels: as an exploration of injustice, inequality and poverty, but also as a romantic story of love and loyalty; it's not Jane Austen, of course, but it's not meant to be, and despite my initial misgivings I am pleased to say that I was entertained by this novel and read the entire book in one enjoyable sitting. Attractively presented and with each chapter headed with an extract from the original novel, Jo Baker's 'Longbourn' is a richly imagined story that makes for an engaging weekend, bedtime or anytime read, and one for which the film rights have already been acquired.
4 Stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A stunningly good book,
This is the other side of Pride and Prejudice - seen from the point of view of the servants and domestic staff, who have their own lives and loves, but who are constantly vulnerable to those 'above' them. For them, life is 'a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually fails'.
This book succeeds in every facet. It is full of historical detail, whether of the drudgery of daily life or the horrors of an early nineteenth century war. The great and well known story of Austen's book is always relevant, but deftly kept in the background of this tale. Sarah and Smith, the lead characters are beautifully drawn, the former innocent but knowing and the latter more worldly but anchored in decency. There is immense confidence in the writing, which is not afraid to take its time to tell the story, yet rarely drags. An outstanding achievement - highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Below stairs at Pemberley,
Ms. P. J. O'CONNOR "Pen" (London UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a wonderful story of the servants of Pemberley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. IT is a romantic story as is P and P, with a socio-political stance, showing how the lower classes loved and lived. Hard work. Nicely plotted, intelligently written, but not hard work to read.
38 of 45 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Assured, absorbing, and completely respectful of Austen's original,
Confession; I love Pride and Prejudice (not quite as much as Persuasion, but...) It's the book I've read and reread more than any other. So I must admit to more than a slice of apprehension on first reading Longbourn, in which Jo Baker tiptoes below stairs to reflect the servants' story. I need not have worried. Baker takes the original and respectfully, assuredly serves up a new tale full of hope, betrayal, anxiety, war and (yes) while the Bennet family play out their own histories upstairs. This is very much a fresh and completely satisfying entire novel all its own, with Baker's own voice. We have a new, richly drawn heroine and hero, not without their own flaws. There's no flinching from the grimier and grittier side of life in servitude, but there are so many light moments of hopefulness and blossoming romance that keep the reader turning the pages. One for Austen fans, yes, absolutely - but read it for itself, I really urge you. Longbourn deserves that and so much more. Wonderful!
5.0 out of 5 stars The invisibility of servitude,
Susan Glazier (London) - See all my reviews
Longbourn sets Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice" in it's socio-political and historical context. It is a very finely crafted story written as a parallel but interlocking account to P&P. It is a story set in the same location, the same household and the same time-period (with some very relevant preceding events also included) but it's ingeniously centred around the Longbourn servants. It is set in the years immediately after the enclosure of common land when a vast number of people were driven from their homes and land and deprived of their means to subsist, consequently having to seek out work as wage slaves for landowners or early industrialists. The action also takes place during the time of the Napoleonic wars, and in the time of the slave-trade on which the fortunes of landowners were primarily based. I know the P&P story inside out and so very much appreciated this "alternative history" of P&P which includes the harsh realities of life for those below stairs, those not rich. The Bennet family, who own Longbourn, do display a certain fondness for their small retinue of servants, but nevertheless, to a large extent, they treat them as objects and do not recognise their full humanness. Here is a quote about the central figure, Sarah's, reaction to being in servitude: "To live at the mercy of other people's whims and fancies was, she thought, no way to live at all". Life below stairs unfolds as one full of drudgery, dirt, long hours, exhaustion, lack of security and fear of eventual penury. It is striking how mostly the servants are invisible to their master and mistress, their friends and relatives, and how often the servants' strenuous efforts are very much taken for granted. There are many examples of servants' invisibility in the book, but this one particularly stood out for me, showing as it does how individuals are moulded by it - Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley are passing Sarah on horseback: "They clipped past the orchard, in profile and oblivious to the housemaids: Sarah felt herself fade. She could see the leaves and branches through her hand; the sun shone straight through her skin". Although the gross inequalities and injustices in the story are set in the past, Jo Baker's strong political messages are still applicable today, in a world of "haves" and "have nots", where a huge amount of people still live lives of servitude, deprivation and hardship in a hidden world not visible to the more privileged in society.
4.0 out of 5 stars The downstairs to Austen's upstairs,
A brilliant novel, showing us the cogs in the marriage making machine that is the Bennet household. After all, who fetches all those endless trays of teas and delivers the interminable letters? This novel only really works, of course, if you didn't realise that Pride & Prejudice was satire, and not meant to be taken seriously as the great romance it is today.
You become quickly bound to these people who have hopes and dreams of their own, but are powerless to do anything about it while they remain in service. Jo Baker has crafted an excellent setting where the world seems constrained to the outer fence of Longbourn, despite the characters' desire to travel beyond this boundary. It also manages to entertain while completely removing the shine from P&P. If you didn't like Mrs Bennet before, you certainly won't after reading this. She even managed to make me take a dislike to Lizzie and Jane.
I didn't enjoy the ending - I'm not sure why, but it just didn't seem to click with me. Other than that, it is a perfectly practical, realistic counterbalance to the fantasy of P&P and most definitely worth the read. The author's obsession with "that time of the month" did wear on me slightly, but I imagine it is something that would have been a concern of women at the time and that modern women would like to know more about.
3.0 out of 5 stars You can only take so much of callouses and slop pails,
If allowed I would give this novel only two and a half stars - in my (very much in the minority) view it hardly merits a three. Am I really virtually alone in finding the middle sections of Longbourn actually boring? I could only take so much of incessant drudgery, calloused hands and trudges through mud. There was not sufficient plot to enliven all the painstakingly researched minutiae of running the Bennet household and (very unusual for me) I resorted to skipping through the final chapters till I found interesting bits to read. The main thread, i.e. the 'mysterious' James' history could be pretty well guessed from the start by most assiduous readers of crime novels, the revelations regarding the other characters were .....out of character, and the ending was pure Lancashire cheese, Unbelievable cheese.
However, everything, boring or not, is beautifully written, particularly the descriptions of the Hertfordshire countryside (though the weather seemed to be surprisingly harsh for an English September in the opening chapters). I hope Jo Baker applies her undoubted writing skills to a more interesting subject next time - less intensive research material, more story please.
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Beneath the sunny surface of Pride & Prejudice lies another story...,
Roman Clodia (London) - See all my reviews
In a mash-up between Pride & Prejudice and Upstairs, Downstairs, this delves beneath the sunny surface of Austen's beloved novel to reveal another story peopled by the unnamed, invisible and silenced servants who keep Longbourn running.
This is a subversive re-telling, and one which runs alongside P&P rather than being a sequel. In the Longbourn parlour-maid Sarah, the mysterious new servant James Smith, and Bingley's glamorous black footman from Netherfield Hall we at first are given a story which shadows the familiar one. James' pride and Sarah's prejudice, especially, are interestingly done and throw light back on the original.
The last third of the book detaches itself from P&P and wanders far from Longbourn in both time and place, revealing some of the realities of early nineteenth-century life which Austen writes out. This is the least successful part of the book for me, and some of the plot workings are too obvious to hold any narrative tension.
That Austen's fiction erases the political both in terms of the Napoleonic wars, colonialism and the slave-trade upon which many of her characters' fortunes are based (particularly obvious in Mansfield Park) is almost a common-place of academic criticism, and this book picks up on that. It's more concerned, though, with the domestic realities of the servants who scrub Elizabeth's famously muddy petticoats and boots, who sit up half-asleep while waiting for the Bennetts to return from a ball, and who still have to start their working day at 4.30am while the Bennett girls are warmly tucked up in bed.
Baker makes no attempt to mimic Austen's style (thankfully) but this is an intelligent intervention into a famous novel which critiques it even while re-telling it from a transgressive angle. For a darker, though ultimately recuperative, story which reveals the shady undertow to the glossy glamour of Austen, this is highly recommended.
(This review is from an ARC courtesy of the publisher)
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Alleged Arsonist: On July 22, Amanda was detained by police and placed under a 5150 hold—a 72-hour hospitalization for mental evaluation-- because she allegedly lit a fire in a stranger's driveway in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Witness Andrew Liverpool told reporters he pulled his car over after seeing a trail of fire and gas at the property. "It's dark, it's 8:45 and…I saw this girl laying right there with her left pant leg on fire. I look at her and I'm like, 'it's Amanda Bynes!' She was, like, really frantic like she wanted to get out of there." After the incident, a source told RadarOnline the troubled starlet's worried parents "are now considering going to a judge and attempting to get a conservatorship of Amanda."
No pants?! Before Amanda was found standing by the fire in Thousand Oaks, Calif. and then taken into custody on July 22, she went shopping in what looked like a tee-shirt and no pants at the ritzy Bloomingdale's department store in Santa Monica, CA. The star appeared disheveled in paparazzi photos.
Raising A Ruckus With Retirees: Before allegedly starting a fire in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Amanda was reported to have bugged some elderly residents of a retirement community in the city on July 22. According to one report, management at the senior citizen community ordered Bynes to leave, believing she was intoxicated. Bynes attempted to return after telling a cab driver she didn't have any money to pay him. Although cops were apparently called, Amanda wasn't arrested for trespassing.
Red Light District: Ana Rivera, who says she's a former friend of Amanda, recently came forward to reveal more of the disturbed star's odd behavior. She told the New York Daily News that Amanda changed all her light bulbs in her New York apartment to red! Amanda even put red bulbs in her chandelier. "She said she liked the way it made her look," Rivera recalled.
Another Hit and Run?: Amanda just kept getting implicated in car incidents! On August 6, 2012, L.A. police investigated reports she was involved in an accident where she rear-ended another car and took off without providing the other driver with her insurance information. Then on Sept. 4, 2012, she was charged with two misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run over the April and August accidents. Two days later, the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked Amanda's driver's license.
Lights Out/License Revoked: On September 9, 2012, police pulled the All That star over yet again--for driving without her headlights on. And Amanda got her car impounded when she was caught driving with a suspended license on September 16. Five days later, the L.A. City Attorney's Office charged her for the offense. In May 2013, Amanda pled no contest to driving with a suspended license and received three years probation.
It Weighs On Her Mind: Starting March 2013, Amanda unleashed a series of bizarre tweets concerning her weight. She wrote on March 1, "I'm on that 24 hour walking diet," and on April 4, "I have an eating disorder so I have a hard time staying thin." Later, on April 30, Amanda confided to her followers that she weighed 135 but "I need to be 100 lbs!"—while also sharing a revealing photo of herself standing in her bathroom wearing a black bra and leggings.
More Oversharing: The actress showed off her cleavage on Twitter in a tacky printed bustier top and black skirt with gold trim on March 26, 2013. Amanda told her followers, "Looking pudgy and I broke my nail."
Amanda's Doppelganger: The What a Girl Wants star asserted that photos of her taken in New York on April 3, 2013 were NOT really her! "My hair is blonde, I've never been a redhead! ... Somebody keeps posing as me!" she wrote on Twitter. The problem was, the real Amanda had been spotted wearing identical sweatpants and slippers a day earlier
Not Ready For Her Close Up: This April 10, Amanda tweeted in a rage, saying she would sue In Touch, US Weekly, and Perez Hilton "for hiring paparazzi who follow me then take the worst photos with the worst angles." She also wrote, "there is NO story, just an awful photo posted…they say I have erratic behavior when I do NOTHING wrong."
Trash talking: In the midst of Amanda's long meltdown, she has released a bizarre series of insulting Tweets about the appearance of other celebrities. The actress took to Twitter to write: Rihanna was attacked by Chris Brown because she is "not pretty enough"; Jay-Z has an "ugly face"; Drake has "ugly gums, uneven teeth, ugly eyes"; Miley Cyrus is "ugly"; Zac Efron "has an ugly face"; Courtney Love is "the ugliest woman I've ever seen"; and to Jenny McCarthy, "ur ugly…u look 80 compared to me."
Fixation On Drake: Amanda's celebrity-related Tweets have often discussed rapper Drake, and she appears to have an erratic fixation on the star. Although she has called him ugly, on March 21, Amanda shocked followers by tweeting, "I want @drake to murder my vagina." Earlier this year, she also apologized for needling her crush and wrote: "I'm sorry about the tweets I said about @drake I didn't mean what I said. I hope to become friends with him instead of smashing him!"And just days before her firestarting incident, Amanda suddenly gushed on Twitter, "Drake is gorgeous."
Nude Selfies: Amanda continued her tweeting misadventures by releasing topless photos of herself on May 1, 2013. She didn't bare all, but close--hiding her chest with her arm in one picture, and with her long blonde hair in another. "Long hair don't care," she wrote, not making any sense.
Now We Nose: The troubled former child star told her Twitter followers in May that she had had a nose job. While not saying when she had the surgery, Amanda complained, "In Touch[magazine] used a photo from years ago on their cover and I hate it! The reason I've asked all magazines and blogs to stop using old photos of me is I don't look like that anymore! I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos!"
Party Girl: Although Amanda has denied drug use, photos recently surfaced of the star partying up a storm inside her New York apartment. The pictures, published by In Touch magazine, showed Amanda and a friend holding a suspicious looking cigarette. And guests told In Touch they saw Bynes smoking marijuana on her bed. Amanda tweeted that the photos—although very clear—were not of her! "That's not my bed! Those aren't my toes! My toes are pedicured!" Amanda protested via Twitter on May 22, 2013. But she had a much bigger problem the very next day!
Bong's Away!: On May 23, 2013, Amanda was involved in her most explosive incident (well, at least until the alleged arson) when she was arrested for allegedly throwing a bong out the window of her New York apartment. She was charged with reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence, and marijuana possession. Amanda also was hauled into Roosevelt Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Sexual Harrassment Claim: In a disturbed rant on Twitter on May 25, Amanda denied doing drugs or throwing the bong out the window. She claimed the alleged bong was just a vase. And she charged police brutality. "I was sexually harassed by one of the cops…who then arrested me," the 27-year-old wrote. "He slapped my vagina."
New Career Plans: In a May 27 Twitter explosion where she once again proclaimed her innocence in the bong incident, Amanda revealed her improbable new career plans. "I'm getting in shape and getting a nose job! I'm looking forward to a long and wonderful career as a singer/rapper."
Puppy As Human Shield: Amanda has fruitlessly tried to avoid the paparazzi by holding her little dog up to her face, as a photo taken this July 10 in New York showed. But the maneuver didn't help, as paps got their pictures anyway—of the actress in her typically odd getup of long blonde wig, oversized black sunglasses, and baggy sweatpants, with a dog in front of her head.
Disorder In The Court!: Amanda wore a blue wig and was seen talking to herself as she headed to Manhattan Criminal Court this July 9 for a legal proceeding regarding her notorious May 23 bong arrest. Incredibly, the former Nickelodeon star looked like an unmade bed for her court appearance, wearing black sweatpants and basketball sneakers with an oversized tank top.
From crazy wigs to DUIs, Amanda Bynes has had her fair share of (more than) bizarre moments.


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PlastiDip On Rims - New Brake Masking System!
What do you think about this video?
Jose Cisneros: Lol I drive a 2014 camaro, and my rims are stock, they have a nice silver
finish, but I really want them black. I'm convinced that plasti dip will do
a good job, but I'm not sure how many cans I will need. How many will I
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Martin Allen: Dipped tyres.
ThatFunnyFatty: Fonzie for the first time ever I blacked out all my rims, Thank you so much for the tips and tricks!
Joel Klavins: It takes about 5 minutes to take a wheel off... Why wouldn't you just take the wheel off and do a proper job (taking the cap and bolts out, etc)
liam stabner: will one can generally cover all wheels?
hjibuloibgiol987: Oh yeah, do any stores carry the glossifier or is it only available online?
kidzero1943: Is there a gloss finish?
niksarass: Spray distance isn't 30 cm as written on bottles
Javimeleshe Cruz: He only used matte black?? it looks very satin.
hjibuloibgiol987: Would plasti-dipping my wheels white look tacky considering my body color is white and I have stock rims? Wish I had money to buy a set of Volk ce28n, those r some badass wheels but $3400 for a set is not a smart investment for a college students budget. But I'm living that cheap life and plasti-dip seems like the way to go. For those of u wondering what car I drive, it's a FR-S.
Tom Evans: Do you have to prep the wheels with steelwork or anything? Or just clean really well.
jordan riggs: How many cans would you say you use per tire?
kidzero1943: Is there a gloss finish?
Eric Hou: Is it that product please? https://www.dipyourcar.com/Kit-Wheels-Matte-Finish.html Thank you in advance ! :)
THE RECKLESS JFAR: is this sit waterproff cause i got a beamer and i donot want this crap oeeling of in the rain or on a hot day u know ?
minddisturb: how many cans you used for all 4 wheels?
oldhess: nice to see you working on something other than an Audi.
Zack Zander: Go Chrome or Go Home! That garbage will take your wheels out of balance.
golfemperor: its funny, in the beginning you can see Fonzie's bicep size is small, but now in his newer vids his biceps are huge lol
Midwest UTV: Or you could just un bolt the lug nuts and take the wheel off the car and save time by not having to mask the brakes, AND not have the risk of getting overspray on the paint of the vehicle. Just seems quicker and easier to me...
Burner Bear: how many cans per wheel on average?
TVTara: Used this technique! Thanks!
David Smith: this dude got some guns
Jazc350: I have a 2014 mustang and I want to do this but anyone got advice of how to avoid overspray on the car paint I don't want overspray my mustang is silver and I don't want it to look like a zebra
Tiago Fur: O que ouço falar é que o PlastiDip dura por cerca de 6 meses, já o Power Revest aqui no Brasil bem cuidado passa de 1 ano, a fabricante diz até 3 anos!
outskirtscustoms: Will the neon color plasti-dip stick to chrome wheels? And remove cleanly? Also how durable is it on chrome wheels? I know many things such as spray paint don't like to stick to chrome but I don't know how well this sticks to chrome.
Dodge Man: Why not take off the wheel?!?!
1trucavalier: plasti dip FTMFW! I have dipped my car my friends cars and it will never come off unless you hit something. Just get 4 paper towels per wheel DONE! Make sure you cover your stem it will clog it up and you will have problems filling it up with air.
Max Wicked: This is a good idea but its just so much easier to take the wheel off and then paint them.
Cyz Walker: How many cans does it take to dip all 4 wheels?
Arturo Esquivel: What type of spray did you use bro?
kidnme91: Should I scuff my wheels first?
Carlos Ubando: If I scrub the wheels, will it come off?
Disphonic x: Do you guys sell these bags for $14.95? And promise this is only the best bag to get to cover your brakes?
Christian Chavez: How many cans should I get to dip my wheels?
alanrk1: can you put a glossifier finish after the coats? or no? I was thinking just 1 coat of glossifier...
Tyler d: hmm. I wonder who plasti dip is funded by.
CamelJackass: If you take the wheels off and then PlastiDip everything, will the PlastiDip come off the lug nuts when you're replacing the wheel?
Jeremy Freeman: I have chrome wheels on my Camaro and was curious how they would turn out with Black Plasti dip? I've been wanted black wheels for a long time but just heard about Plasti dip and it sounds amazing, anyone know how it would react being sprayed on chrome? +DipYourCar
John Jones: Fonzi did a nice job, but I like those wheels better the way they came. I think black only looks nice on certain rims with certain cars.
nerofirestorm: take the wheel off you lazy ladys lol
bear taylorgang: What happens if it gets on breaks?
MrInsanitydj: Can you do this if you have brembo calipers?
sarah olvera: Thank you for the video! Pretty informative :)
JayR Jumetilco: what is spray paint name..?
knottykid: I'am new to the plasti dip why after I apply my coat the wheel look black and few hours after I drive my car they start to look grayish is it because of the winter salt or I didn't apply it right ? I do at least 4 coats on each wheel
anthony nichols: does this type of paint not have overspray?...I noticed you didn't cover the car itself. that's the problem I always run into
brent syrkin: How the hell is something matte and satin at the same damn time , that's like saying it's smooth and rough.
Camaro0223: How well does the plasti dip stay on when you are getting your tires replaced?
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Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane may be in for a long stint behind bars as reports claim he has accepted a plea deal related to a gun possession arrest. #TheRealTrapHouse
According to reports, Gucci could spend the next two years in jail.
Gucci pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail, but under Gucci's plea deal, he's only expected to face 39 months … minus 10 months credit for time served. Gucci will officially be sentenced in July. (TMZ)
Last month, reports revealed talks and possible negotiations were in the works.
In new court documents obtained exclusively by Radar, Gucci Mane, real name Radric Davis, and the lawyers for the U.S. government have asked the judge to push the trial – currently set for April 15 — to a later date as they work out a plea deal. "All parties anticipate resolution without the need of a trial," the documents said. (RadarOnline)
Back in December, the ATL rapper received bad news in court after being indicted on felony charges.
Rapper Gucci Mane was charged in federal court Tuesday with two counts of possessing a firearm as a felon after two September incidents during which he showed a gun and threatened police, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Reports at the time indicated that the "Lemonade" rhymer was arrested in Atlanta on September 14 after a friend flagged down police to say he was concerned about the rapper's behavior. (CNN)
Mane found himself in handcuffs after a couple of September incidents.
Early Sept. 14, a man who said he was a friend of the rapper's called police to say Davis was walking down the street behaving violently, according to a police report. When police arrived, Davis smelled strongly of marijuana, cursed at them, called them names and threatened to shoot them, the report says. Police arrested him on a disorderly conduct charge and found a clear baggie with what they believe was marijuana and a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun, the report says. An ambulance was called, and Davis was sedated and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment. (ABC News)


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Nickels, who was defeated in 2009 after two terms as Seattle's top elected official, says he's looking for a new challenge. He formally announced his candidacy Thursday. The Democrat Nickels says he wants to continue the tradition of nonpartisan administration of the state's election laws that Sam Reed, the current office holder, has established. Reed, a Republican, is retiring at the end of his current term.
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Neil Gaiman has written award-winning books for children and adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book and Coraline, Stardust, and Odd and the Frost Giants. His picture books include Instructions and Blueberry Girl, illustrated by Charles Vess; The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and Crazy Hair, illustrated by Dave McKean; and The Dangerous Alphabet, illustrated by Gris Grimly. A baby giant panda once sat on his lap and ate bamboo in Chengdu, China.
Praise for Chu's Day…
"Kids will find the idea of a monstrous sneeze funny, and it may prompt some attempts of their own. Rex's richly detailed illustrations are brimming with fantastic touches. Share this one at toddler storytime for lots of giggles, or one-on-one for spotting details in the art."
"Gaiman's comic timing gets a boost from strategic book design and from Rex's hyperreal paintings, which emphasize Chu's round, fuzzy form and apparent harmlessness. Gaiman and Rex deliver a classic one-two-three punch, making hay from the notion that a cuddly baby panda is not to be trusted."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)