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John Singer Sargent
The remarkable portraits for which John Singer Sargent is most famous are only one aspect of a career that included landscapes, watercolors, figure subjects, and murals. Even within portraiture, his style ranged from bold experiments to studied formality. And the subjects of his paintings were as varied as his styles, including the leaders of fashionable society, rural laborers, city streets, remote mountains, and the front lines of World War I. This beautiful book surveys and evaluates the extraordinary range of Sargent's work, and reproduces 150 of his paintings in color. It accompanies a spectacular international exhibition--the first major retrospective of the artist's career since the memorial exhibitions that followed his death.
Sargent (1856-1925) was a genuinely international figure. Born of American parents, he grew up in Europe and forged his early reputation in Paris. Later, he established himself in England and the United States as the leading portraitist of the day, and traveled widely in North Africa and the Middle East. Contributors to this book assess Sargent's career in three essays. Richard Ormond presents a biographical sketch and, in a second essay, reviews Sargent's development as an artist. Mary Crawford Volk explores his thirty-year involvement with painting murals--in particular the works at the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that Sargent regarded as his greatest achievement.
The book arranges Sargent's paintings into sections that reflect every phase and aspect of his career. We encounter, for example, such famous early works as Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, Sargent's robust and brilliantly lit scene of fishing life in Brittany. We see many of his greatest American and English portraits, including his daringly posed portrait of Bostonian Isabella Stewart Gardner and his audacious painting of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, which caused a sensation in London in 1893. The book also includes important late works such as Gassed, his monumental painting of soldiers blinded by mustard gas on the western front, and many of his ambitious murals in Boston.
Sargent is a visually stunning, beautifully written, and perceptive work on one of the most important and admired artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"This lavish production boasts detailed commentary . . . covering all phases of the artist's career, from his early landscapes to his famous portraits . . . to his late images of the ravages wrought by advancing technology and WWI."--Publishers Weekly
"Admirers of Sargent will welcome John Singer Sargent and read it with the same relish and thoroughness that went into its writing. It is an intellectual and visual feast."--Gary Michael, The Bloomsbury Review
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Mesa State baseball, softball teams left looking out windows
It's fitting that Chris Hanks and Kris Mort have offices next to one another upstairs in the Maverick Center.
Their windows look out at Bergman Field, and Friday morning, they were commiserating with one another.
Mesa State Athletic Director Butch Miller stopped by at one point, asking, "How are the spring coaches today?"
He didn't get a cheery answer — both the Mesa State baseball and softball coach were alternately glancing out the window, scowling at the snow, and checking weather forecasts.
"It looks like the sun's trying to come out," Mort said, perhaps wishing it to be so. A couple of minutes later, the gray skies opened up and snow was flying.
Neither coach wanted to make the call to wipe out this weekend's games, but both finally had to face the fact the weather just wasn't going to cooperate, and canceled their home openers.
Mort, who was supposed to be in Kearney, Neb., this weekend to play against Northern Sun Conference teams in the second RMAC/NSIC Crossover tournament, made the decision first, scrubbing her three-team round-robin tournament early Friday afternoon.
After the tournament in Kearney was wiped out Monday, Mort called CU-Colorado Springs coach Scott Peterson, who agreed to make the trip. After talks with CSU-Pueblo didn't go anywhere — both coaches wanted to play at home — Mort called Adams State coach Dervin Taylor. The Grizzlies, who were supposed to play in the Crossover, jumped at the chance to get outside.
Within a few hours, she had six games scheduled, only to have to call them Friday with a "never mind."
"It didn't take me long," she said of scheduling the games, hiring umpires and arranging for hotels and meals for the teams. "Now the forecast has changed 12 times since Tuesday. Every six hours it changes."
Hanks, who had shuffled the weekend schedule and opponent, called off his weekend series against Colorado School of Mines a couple of hours later.
The Mavericks were originally scheduled to play the University of Mary (N.D.) in a four-game series, but the Marauders canceled, citing poor travel conditions. Hanks had made a contingency plan with the Orediggers, whose series in Emporia, Kan., was canceled, early in the week in case Mary balked at the trip.
Not only has the weather been a challenge to play games, it's been tough to even practice on the muddy, wet diamonds.
"Finally we went to Stocker. People had been playing flag football on it so the snow was broken up," Hanks said. "One Saturday we went over there just to take some ground balls.
"We're dodging a flag football game and a Little League practice, and nobody got mad at each other because we all just wanted to play. We're taking ground balls and somebody's running through the drill catching a pass. It was comical."

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Toys"R"Us, Inc. announced that it has filed a preliminary registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. It is anticipated that the offering will consist of newly issued shares sold by Toys"R"Us, Inc.; however, the number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. The company expects to use the net proceeds it receives from the proposed offering primarily to pay down certain existing indebtedness, and the remaining net proceeds, if any, for general corporate purposes.
Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse are serving as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters for this proposed offering. Deutsche Bank Securities, Citi, and Wells Fargo Securities are also acting as joint book-running managers.
Toys R Us Files for IPO
Toys"R"Us, Inc. announced that it has filed a preliminary registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. It is anticipated that the offering will consist of newly issued shares sold by Toys"R"Us, Inc.; however, the number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. The company expects to use the net proceeds it receives from the proposed offering primarily to pay down certain existing indebtedness, and the remaining net proceeds, if any, for general corporate purposes.
Target Debuts New Video Game Department Layout
Target is introducing a new open layout for its consumer electronics and video game departments, aiming to give visitors a convenient, enjoyable shopping experience with easy access to information and products. The new layout includes a video game section that will be expanded by 30 percent; a large, open format that will include new product-accessible fixtures organized by platform and game genres; and a majority of stores will include video game Learning Centers and Trial Stations.
The new Learning Centers will feature a 40-inch high-definition touch screen where guests can read reviews, learn about game features, sort by ESRB ratings, view in-store price and inventory, receive recommendations on best sellers, or page a team member for assistance. Trial Stations will allow guests to try out the latest titles before they buy.
Learning Express Plans to Open Up to 20 New Stores
After the success of opening 14 new locations and 12 temporary "pop-up" stores for the holiday season (five of which remain open with short-term leases), Learning Express plans to open 17-20 new toy store franchises in 2010. Exact locations have yet to be decided and the company is actively seeking additional applicants.
Demographic studies, says the company, indicate that Learning Express stores would thrive in locations throughout Long Island, NY. The areas include Glen Cove, Port Washington, and Great Neck on the North Shore; Rockville Centre, Garden City, and the Five Towns, Merrick and Long Beach on the South Shore; Hempstead, Commack, and Woodbury in central Long Island; and towns such East Hampton, South Hampton, and Bridge Hampton on the eastern tip.
DreamWorks Announces Ogre-Whelming Licensee Support for Shrek Forever After
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. has announced a full slate of promotional partners and licensees in support of Shrek Forever After, which opened in theaters on Friday.
Among the Shrek Forever After licensees are Activision for video games; Hasbro Games for a line of classic Shrek games and puzzles; Penguin for a variety of storybooks; Rubie's Costume Co. for Halloween costumes; and VTech, which continues to feature Shrek in new key hardware systems and will launch the character Shrek on the MobiGo & FLiP platforms. Playmates, the master toy partner for Shrek Forever After, offers a full array of toys ranging from figures and plush to dolls and role play toys.
For more information, please visit www.dreamworksanimation.com/shrek.
Mascots Unveiled for London 2012 Olympic Games
London 2012 Olympic Games organizers have unveiled two alien-like creatures, Mandeville and Wenlock, as the mascots for the 2012 Games.
Looking for something that would engage kids, London 2012 organizers created a cartoon and teamed with children's writer Michael Morpurgo to create a background story for the characters. According to the story, Out of the Rainbow, Wenlock and Mandeville were crafted by Grandpa George from the last drops of steels used to build the Olympic Stadium.
VM Global Signs as Licensee for Jeep
The Joester Loria Group, on behalf of Chrysler Group, LLC, has signed VM Global as the licensee to manufacture and market non-battery powered, foot-to-floor ride-on toys under the Jeep brand. The toys will depict the likeness of the Jeep Wrangler.
VM Global plans to release the first shipment of Jeep toys in September and distribute them to mass market retailers, mid-tier chains, specialty, and sporting good stores in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Author Todd Parr Teams with Sesame Street For Animated Segment
Children's author Todd Parr and Sesame Street's creative team are collaborating to produce a one-minute segment for the show that will be designed to help children deal with their innate childhood fears. The animated segment will debut on the 41st season (2010-2011) of Sesame Street and will be written and designed by Parr.
Parr is known for taking potentially complex subject matter and making it kid-friendly. His title, The Peace Book, explains to children the meaning and some aspects of world peace, and his most recent title, The Earth Book, deals with the environment and ecology.
Parr has recently announced he has teamed with Stouffer's to release a limited-edition children's book entitled Let's Fix Dinner. The book, published by SupperTime Entertainment (Parr's worldwide marketing/licensing partner), will be released this August.
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California Creations' Z Wind Ups
California Creations is introducing new wind up toys under its line, Z Wind Ups.
Above is a video of Lizzie (split dancer, Sliders brand), Tucker (chimp, Not So Grand Band brand), Spacy (special function of "No Fall"), Molly (cabbage patch dancer, Noggin Bops brand), and Sasha (spinning marine mammal, Spinners brand).
Look at them go!
"WordGirl" Nominated for Three Emmy Awards
Scholastic Media's WordGirl has been nominated for three 2010 Emmy Awards, the third year the series has been nominated. The series is nominated for "Outstanding Children's Animated Program," "Outstanding Writing in Animation," and "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" for Ed Asner's performance as Kid Potato. In 2008, WordGirl won an Emmy Award for "Best Writing in Animation."
The series airs five days a week on PBS KIDS GO!. New episodes are set to air in July.
The Daytime Emmy Awards will be telecast on June 27th on CBS from the Las Vegas Hilton.
Walker Books Announces New Where's Waldo Publishing Program
Classic Media has appointed The Walker Group, consisting of Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press, and Walker Books Australia, to create a new global publishing program for the popular Where's Waldo? books.
This first-ever spin-off program for Where's Waldo? will feature new material that will be released across a variety of formats. The new range, to debut in 2012 in honor of Waldo's 25th birthday, will be designed to complement the original Where's Waldo? collection, which was designed by Martin Handford.


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On The Independent Peter York writes an article entitled "How the weight of the world killed British creativity". British agencies still win prizes, but they no longer dominate the scene as it used to be in the past. Globalization is the cause to blame, says John Hegarty, Chairman and Worldwide Creative Director at BBH:"Eighty per cent of the briefs that come my way are global. As soon as you get more than a small group involved in deciding on a creative idea, you're in danger of reverting to a lowest common denominator approach. Things get e-mailed and faxed around the world and there'll be someone in Taiwan who doesn't like it. And that means there's a lot more reliance on technique than on ideas and narratives."
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My (almost) fiance's name is Brandon. We both live in the same apartment complex by BYU, but didn't officially meet until one Sunday when I spoke in church. After the meeting he told me he really enjoyed my talk, but I didn't think much of it. (I had already decided that I didn't want to date anyone that I met in my ward). I didn't get a chance to talk to him again until a few weeks later when I saw him outside while I was walking to my apartment. He stopped me and said, "Hey, it's Bridget, right?" Upon seeing him again, I thought, "wow…he's really cute!" and asked him to remind me of his name. He told me and had me promise to not forget! So I promised and added him as a friend on Facebook a few days later–just to prove I remembered.
Not long after that, we both were on the Facebook chat and talked a little bit. He had made a comment about being chivalrous, so when he later asked for my phone number, I joked that asking for a number on Facebook wasn't very chivalrous. A few minutes later, I heard a knock on my door. When I answered, there was Brandon to ask for my number. It was a pretty good way to get my attention!
We went out to lunch for our first date–nothing special–but I hadn't enjoyed a date that much in a long time! The more time I spent with him, the more I grew to love him. He treats me like a QUEEN! We can be complete goofs around each other, talk about anything, and couldn't be happier. There's no one else I'd rather spend eternity with!
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Get Deep Anchored Lag! Shawn Clement You Tube #1 Golf Coach
www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, 2011 Ontario PGA Teacher of the Year Nominee and Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, CLASS A CANADIAN PGA MEMBER, shows you how to use a door frame to become aware of how fast your lag will release when anchored properly!
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NCAA Football 13 – Road to Glory Major Coach Trust Issues (Please Fix EA)
Road to Glory on NCAA 13 is very frustrating right now because of the Coach Trust mechanic that is used to control how your player progresses the depth chart and in the mode. The harder gameplay difficulties come with ridiculous expectations for Coach Trust that penalize you too much for poor plays and don't reward you enough for good plays. In many cases, bad plays aren't your fault. This is very frustrating right now and it's keeping me from starting my Road to Glory series. Follow me on Twitter www.twitter.com Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com Check out my channel for more awesome content DAILY! www.youtube.com
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Go behind the scenes in the 49ers weight room with Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Duane Carlisle.
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In this episode, Ben builds a specialized laptop computer you can comfortable use in the coach section of an airplane. He also begins the final wiring of the Xbox 360 laptop.
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you might be asking yourself, why so many updates? simple answer. as I use the app more, small things needed some improvement, I made a few graphic changes (that I missed) and the app now checks for updates automatically.
for those in a hurry, here's the latest version, you can download it here.
for those new to shortner, let me give you a brief explanation of what it is, and why you might want to use it. shortner is a URL shrinking platform. basically we can take long URLs (website links) and shrink them down to something easier to remember; a short-link. because we're a true platform (not just a website application), we have developed an API (XML or JSON), and we can bind a shortner site to any DNS address (shortner.com, qrk.me, podcamp.me, etc). we even built the option to host private shortner sites and more. I won't cover every feature, as the details will bore most of you reading this.
here's an example:
now this isn't a new technology. TinyURL.com was the first that I know of to do this. I produce a podcast and we use shortner to track URL stats, and to share links during the show. once you have set the expectation, you really only need to read the short-code URL. we have also added a handful of other options not common to most URL shrinking sites: we automatically check each submitted link to see if it's a malware site, generate QR codes (for your link), you can set a NSFW flag, add tags, add a description, and password the shortner link.
every link has a tracking page (example: http://qrk.me/_track/67) so you can track your stats. I use shortner when I want to share or tweet a link. it's interesting to see how fast people look at the link after you tweet.
as I mentioned before, shortner is a platform. so if you choose to create an account, your user/pass works for all shortner sites. in addition to this, because of the API we have created several applications on different platforms (Windows Mobile, Android, Windows, Google Talk bot, Adobe Air, a .net library for developers and more). coming soon: a Silverlight based version, an updated Windows Mobile version, a Windows Phone 7 version and an iPhone application.
hopefully you see the flexibility we can offer with shortner. we would love for you to give it a try. and give us feedback. we're always open to suggestions. if you're a fellow youtuber or podcaster (with thousands of subscribers) don't hesitate to contact us about a personal shortner site; we're always looking for someone to try out shortner on a large audience to see how well the platform performs.
if we still haven't lost your attention, check out the quick video tour. it's a little outdated, but can provide you with more insight to what has been mentioned here.
the last thing on my mind… sometime in the near future, I plan to do a video on the Shortner (desktop) application. for now I'll just give you a quick run-down of features that might not be so obvious.
- you can drag and drop (a URL; in text form) on to the application
- you can drag and drop an internet shortcut (from the desktop or a folder)
- you can right-click and paste a URL from the clipboard
- you can right-click and specify an API key (if you have one)
- it remembers the last shortner site you used and is selected by default
- it restores its last location and is multi-monitor sensitive
- sticky mode lets you retain the last tags used
- it remembers your username and password
- it can be set to auto-login on start
- it keeps an on-going history of your links (with quick access to the tracking pages and etc)
- …and more
I'm proud of shortner and we plan to continually add, change and improve. it's worth nothing that the "we" is @webdevvie and @chaeseco (also @chaess); 98% John and 2% me. if you're a developer, please check out our wiki we would love to see what you do with the platform. John and I will be at Google I/O 2010 (I'll be wearing a shortner shirt); say hello if you see us walking around.


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ROMULUS, MICH (WXYZ) - Police in Romulus are investigating the discovery of human remains.
Just before 6 p.m. Sunday, a woman who was out with her dog in a wooded area of Tyler and Hannan Roads found what appeared to be a human skull and bones.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner will have to make a final determination, but the bones appeared to have men's clothing on them.
The Romulus Police are looking for any information. If you know something, give them at call at: 734-941-8400.


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Here's my pics from Edition 38, hope you like...
wow, there's some great pics, and great cars there mate!!!
I think I need to get myself to this sometime! My car would be a mockery though, I'd park it up a few miles away and walk over.
Thanks for the pic of mine! Excellent skills man, superb photos
No worries dude, lovely car you have there, definitely stands out lol
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The highly-anticipated Philippine Military Academy Entrance Examination for the year 2013 will be held this coming August 25, 2013. The application schedule is currently open and will end two weeks before the examination dates.
We have received various inquiries about the designated testing centers of the PMA for the Entrance Examination. We tried our best to supply the exact testing centers nationwide, so far this are the following testing centers.
Note: Please download the PMA Application here for more information or you can visit the official website of the Philippine Military Academy. Just click the highlighted characters.
Here's the PMA Entrance Exam 2013 Testing Centers: (AFP-PAO/RJB/JEG-PIA-NCR)
- Zamboanga City (Western Mindanao State University);
- Butuan City (Agusan National High School);
- Cagayan De Oro City (Camp Evangelista Gymnasium, 4ID PA);
- Ozamis City (Cong Hilarion J Ramiro Jr City Gymnasium);
- Davao City (University of Southeastern Philippines);
- Gen. Santos City (Mindanao Polytechnic College);
- Tacurong City (Notre Dame of Tacurong College);
- Iligan City (Iligan City National High School);
- Cotabato City (Notre Dame of Cotabato-Boys);
- Jolo Sulu (Notre Dame of Jolo College)
- Basco Batanes (Batanes National Science High School);
- Tacloban City (Tacloban Normal University)
- Tawi-Tawi (MSU Bongao Campus Prep High Gym).
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OK, last try: A gang leader (or maybe it's a representative of a government overstepping its constituted authority?) with the means to follow through comes to your family and says, "I'm taking all your property and rights. But I'm a reasonable guy: Just tell me what you really need and I'll let you keep it."
It's a chaotic time, you're not of age, and when the dust settles you learn that the gang has decided, among other things, that you are not allowed to own "assault weapons." It also says you can carry guns for self defense but it requires a "permit" to do so and makes it clear that you're not getting one. Oh, and you're not allowed to take any of your guns outside of its area of control, which happens to be your homeland.
Some time passes, and the gang undergoes leadership changes, and you grow up. The new leaders had nothing to do with the original restrictions, but enforce them by default. One day you learn that there are some factions in the new regime that seem disturbed by the fact that you're allowed to continue to buy magazines of arbitrary capacity. Silly, I know, but you would really like to get back one of the rights the old gang took, and the new gang doesn't seem as concerned about those.
The gang has been known to make "compromises," and since it fastidiously honors them, you approach them to ask for one of your other rights back. The current leader responds, "Well we're not in the business of handing out rights, but it's no problem to change things around so long as on net it doesn't look like you've gotten any new rights. If you really want this what would you give up to placate my anti-gun members?"
My question: What would you ask for, and what would you propose?
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Seeing news from polluted beaches and animals starving and dying with stomachs full of plastic waste, are pictures I'd rather avoid. If we want to make them disappear we can ignore newspapers and turn off the internet or start thinking about how we can help the earth to get rid of plastic waste. I believe strongly in the power of each person to make little changes which may lead to big ones one day.
As I have written before, it is up to each of us to make our lives better and the earth we live in a better place. Before we join a beach cleaning group or start demonstrating for more ecological politics we might want to have a look around in our house. I am sure we all shop and store plastic without realising how much it is in total and which could be replaced by glass or cans. In the following I want to point out 10 ways on how I reduced my plastic waste by shopping for alternatives.
- I am a yogurt person and I used to by my non-ecological greek yogurt in a six pack of 125g plastic cups, now I switched to ecological full-fat yogurt in a glass jar. This works also very good with milk, honey and marmalade.
- When shopping it is very easy to accumulate plastic bags, I love to look chic and some years ago I got me a hand-crafted shopping basket from Morocco and use it since then. My farmer knows by now that I prefer my shopping to be packed directly into my basket without extra plastic bags.
- Traveling can be a pain when you just have carry-on luggage. With the 100ml restrictions it is really difficult to only buy shampoos and other cosmetic products in big packages and reduce the plastic waste. Soap doesn't really work for everybody either. I got myself 100ml reusable plastic bottles I can fill up every time I travel from my bigger packages. Avoid the small shampoo, deo and face cream bottles made for traveling with carry-on luggage at the supermarkets. Even though there are small products, most of them end up in the trash afterwards as plastic waste of the worst kind.
- Hidden plastics are really mean and you can check out my article on reducing hidden plastics here.
- I love to store and reuse. When buying furniture that is wrapped in protective plastic and carton I try to keep this material stored somewhere in case I can reuse it. Every time I move reusing these things saves me money and plastic.
- Take-aways are a great invention and I couldn't live without them. The plastic packages they give me at my favourite sushi place are the down-side of it. If possible eat at the take-away/restaurant instead of taking home more than you really want ( in this case the plastics).
- Getting bread at the bakery, eating home-made cookies and shopping at places where they pack your goods in paper or a small amount of plastic is a good way for me to reduce my amount of plastics.
- Buy music and movies online and go to your bookstore for books. CD's and DVD's (some of you might remember) are packed in more plastic than they actually need and buying them online reduces the plastic waste to zero. Books bought online are packed in plastic (Amazon sends them in carton, which I admire) while buying at bookstores they come pure, without any packaging most of the times. Libraries are much better though. The less you ship the more eco-friendly you are.
- Even though I said before that soap doesn't work for everyone, you should try it yourself before judging. I like the soaps from Lush and The Body Shop and you should also have a look at the article from SmallerFootprints on soaps.
- Whenever you shop have a look on how much plastic you accumulate and ask yourself if you can reduce this by choosing another product. I don't buy orange juice and press it myself from fresh oranges, for example. It is often a bigger effort but once we manage it going back is becoming impossible as we would have to give up the benefits of a more healthy lifestyle.


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Security Watch: VML Bug Imperils IE Users
top phish of the week for monday, september 25, 2006
name: superphish
date: september, 2006
type: everything
target(s): aol
subject line: aol - billing address
description: surprisingly broad in scope and taking on an unusual target, this phish nevertheless displays all the usual signs that should tip you off to the fact that it's not on the level.
the phishing e-mail appears to come from america online, not a usual target of such attacks, but not an unreasonable one, except for the fact that this e-mail was sent to a non-aol address and i am not an aol member. the e-mail is reasonably well-written, although the content is typical of phishing anti-fraud gobbledygook. two things are of note at the bottom of the e-mail: first, notice in the tooltip that the link labeled "www.aol.com" goes in fact to a page on linkhoekje.nl. that page, incongruously, is a paypal phishing site.
just above it in the e-mail is the link to the "alternate billing address confirmation page" and this one clearly tries to be an aol link (www1-aol-com-billing-update.tavli.co.uk). click the link and after a series of "processing" screens you are brought to the fake aol billing center . here you are asked for personal information, including credit card and bank account information .
at the end you are asked for your aol screen name . note that they are asking for all this information and you haven't logged in to anything. you can also provide helpful feedback. click submit and, after a warning not to click it again , you are redirected to the real aol.com home page .
recommended action: be very skeptical of e-mails from vendors with links in them. if you need to get to a site like this, enter the url manually or use one of your bookmarks. don't enter private information on a page that is not ssl-protected, and scrutinize the address of the site.


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Case Modification FAQ by confedx 19
Version: .6 | Updated: 05/27/04 | Search Guide | Bookmark Guide
::::::::::By: Confedx19:::::::::
Disclaimer: This guide is only to be used as personal
reference and not to be distributed, sold, altered, or
broadcasted on any site without my concent. Any violation
of these terms is a punishable offense, and can result in
fines, lawsuits, jail-time, ect. Thank You.
Notice: I take NO RESPONSIBILITY for any personal harm,
damage to any property including you X-Box. By doing any
of the mods in this tutorial, you take full responsibility
for the outcome of your work. You should also know that
once you open your X-Box, any existing warrentys will
be null and void. Thank You.
~Table of Contents~
0. Version History
1. Introduction
2. A Few Helpful Ideas
3. Basic Knowlege and Tools
a. Things to Know
b. Things to Have
4. The Mods
a. Opening and examining the X-Box
b. Painting the Case
c. Changing the Front LED's to Red
d. Adding new Front LED's
e. Lighting the Jewel
i. Preparing the Jewel
ii. Option 1, The LED Method
iii. Option 2, The Cathode Method
5. Credits
0. Version History xxx
Current Version - .3
Version .3 - 5/25/04 - Sections 0,1,2,3 and
5 Complete, Section 4: parts a,b and c
Version .6 - 5/27/04 - Section 4: part d
1. Introduction xXx
Welcome to my first tutorial. In this tutorial, I will
show you how to turn you boring, dreary, ugly X-Box, into
a gleaming, hot, X-Box God. I will cover painting, and
lighting your X-Box. I hope you have as much fun doing these
mods as I did! When reading the ASCII diagrams, you may see
a legend which instructs you on what symbols mean, please
pay attention to those. Also, in the legend, if you see
"Connect points A, B, C, ect." That means those letters
are connecting points on wire that you can't see. Example:
:::Connecting Points A
Although the box is in the way of the wire, the wire actually
looks like:
This is because the two A's are connected.
CONTACT ME AT: email@example.com
I will be more than happy to help, just as long as you
keep it polite. Also, please do not ask when the next
version is due. I will get to it when I do so don't
bother me, it wont help.
2. A Few Helpful Ideas xxx
In case you are not too inventive, creative, or imaginative,
here are some ideas for colors for Modding. (Primary refers
to the "X" color, secondary is everything else [see 4-b])
Primary Secondary Front LED's Jewel Color
Chrome Black Blue Blue
Chrome Dr. Blue Blue Blue
Silver Silver Purple Purple
Chrome Black Purple Purple
Silver Silver UV UV
Chrome Black UV UV
Red Blue Red Red
Red Gld./Org. Red Orange
Silver Gold Orange Orange
Hey, this is just a list of ideas. Use it if you like. If
you're not, the go ahead, be creative, have fun! Anyway,
it is your X-Box that you modding.
(Gld. = Gold, UV = Black Light)
3. Basic Knowledge and Tools xxx
a. Things to Know
LED's: Just to let you know, the positive leg is small on
the inside, negative is big.
/ \
| _ |
||/ ||
|| ||
| |
Negative--->| |
| |<---Positive
| |
| |
You should also find that the LED's positive leg is slightly
Soldering: Although it is possible to do most of these mods
without soldering, it is good to know how because you will
need to do some soldering in some of these mods.
Wiring: Hey, I'm not asking you to be a mega genius at wiring
and electronics, and I am telling you basically what to do, but
it never hurts to know, or at least sort of know what you
are doing.
Painting: Well, I can tell you how to paint the damn thing, but
you should at least know how to correctly paint, or have someone
else who does know what they are doing paint it for you,
'cause you can ruing a good case with
some bad painting if you know what I mean.
b. Things to Have
Torx Set (Not going to go into exact sizes, just do yourself a
favor and get the set).
Dremel Tool With: Cleaning, and Grinding/Sanding sets
Soldering Iron
Flux (Optional)
Hot Glue Gun (Preferably with Glue)
(Everything else needed will be addressed with the mod itself)
3. The Mods xxx
a. Opening and Examining the X-Box xxx
Tools Required:
1 Torx Set
Alright, before we can actually mod, we should get inside the
X-Box and see whats inside, MmmmmKay. First Look for the screws
Diag. 1
| +-------+ |
| +-------+ |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| +-------+ |
The screws on the squares are under the stickers and
the corner onesare under the pads. Lift up and were
in business. See the aluminum casing, well, you can
get rid of it once you pop it off of the case if
you want. what you should see on the inside is this.
Diag. 2
:::|, /, \, -, and "=" = Wires
:::v = Plugin Ports
:::Connecting Points A
||Yellow Wire
|| Gray Ribbon
|| =========================
|| ||||| // ||||| \\
vv vvvvv VV vvvvv ||
+---------------+ +------------------+ ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| DVD Drive | | Hard Drive | ||
| | | | vv
| | | | Power
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+---------------+ +------------------+
To get the drives out, you'll need to hit some screws
around the outside
of each drive. Once you have the drives out, you should
see somthing like
Diag. 3
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Mother-Board |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Daughter-Board |
If you want to take the front plate off, first, look for
a yellow wire group connected near the daughter-board,
unplug that, then unplug the controller port
wires from the daughter-board. Now, pry out each side
of the front plate until it pops out. Congrats, you
successfully took apart your X-Box, wasn't that easy.
Now, you are ready for som real modding.
b. Painting the Case xxx
Tools Required:
2 Cans of Spray Paint (Preferably Krylon for Plastic)
1 Roll of Masking Tape
1 Rag
1 Bowl of Warm Water and Dish Soap Mix
1 Craft Knife
1 Torx Set
1 Flathead Screwdriver
1 Ball of Blu-Tac
Now we are ready to make our X-Box look cool. First, after
taking off the case of the X-Box, wash off the case using
the rag, and the dish soap water mix. Let it air
dry before you continue. Next, decide what two colors you
will use. For this mod, we will refer to the "X" part of
the case as the primary color and the other parts the
secondary color. Next paint the whole case using the SECONDARY
color. Make sure you do at least 3 coats, and remember, DO NOT
USE TOO MUCH PAINT!!! Let each coat dry inside
in a well ventilated area. After you finish that color,
tape all secondary colored areas with the masking tape.
Use the craft knife to get a nice clean cut. Also
cover the Jewel, because you REALLY do not want to paint
the outside of it. Now, paint the rest of it with the PRIMARY
color. After you are done with that, peel off
the tape and your done! Now for the front plate. As you did
in the first section, pop the front plate. Continue to
paint as you did with the top cover. To get the DVD drive
cover out, just pry the side with a small flathead
screwdriver until it comes out, this part will be primary.
To get the back, simply use some Blu-Tac to cover the ports.
It will probably be best to have the cover on at this point
and have masked the top part of the cover to ensure not
getting paint on it. Make sure you leave some tac left
outside of the port so you can grab hold of it. Paint that
and guess what? You're done! Now we can get on to Part C
(If you want the LED's Red), Part D (If you want the LED's
to be another color other than red), or Part E (If you want
the front LED's green)
c. Changing the Font LED's to Red xxx
Tools Required:
1 Torx Set
1 Flathead Screwdriver
1 small Needle
Alright, lets just skip to the chase, this is a damn easy mod,
so lets get to it. Open the box and get to the mother board (
take the drives out). Pop the LED wires and the controller ports
and pop off the front cover. Now, see the chip on the front? Take
that out by just pushing the Tab and pulling it out. Now, see
where the wires are connected to the chip? Notice the numbers
on the wires. 1, and 9. Now, find 8 and 7, 6 and 5. We are going
to switch these. Use a small needle or somthing to push back the
tabs holding the lil suckers in to get to the wires. Make sure
you switch the wires on the end that plugs in. The new order
should be:
Old: 123456789
New: 123465879
Plug her back in, get you X-Box put together, and WOW, your front
LED's should now be an evil Red. Majik I tells ya.
d. Changing the Front LED's xxx
Tools Required:
1 Torx Set
1 Flathead Screwdriver
1 Soldering Iron
1 Roll of Solder
1 Can of Flux (Optional)
2 3mm LED's (Your Choice of Color)
Just to make things clear, this mod is for anyone who wants LED's
that are not Red, or Green. This time you will need to install
your own Diodes. Open the box and get to the mother board (
take the drives out). Pop the LED wires and the controller ports
and pop off the front cover. Now, see the chip on the front? Take
that out by just pushing the Tab and pulling it out. Now you
should have the LED board. Okay, look at the LED's; see anything
odd? The LED's have three legs! This will make a few problems
but don't worry, we can get it to work (If you have the wires
in a different order [changing the LED's to red] switch them
back, I don't know if it really effects anything so it's always
good to be safe with your X-Box). Now, cut the existing LED's
out, preserving as much of the legs as possible. Now, there will
be a special way to soldering the LED's so pay attention to
the diagram.
Diag. 4
:::R = Red LED Wire
:::G = Green LED Wire
:::M = Middle Leg
:::(+) = Positive
:::(-) = Negative
:::E = Eject Button
:::P = Power Button
| |
| |
If you have soldered it correctly, It should work just fine. Make
sure that nothing is touching the Red LED wire. If you do not know
how to solder, just have a friend who does know how do it for you.
If the connections are bad, big deal! It just won't light up.
Just find out whats wrong, and fix it. Now its on to the fun stuff,
lighting the Jewel.
5. Credits xxx
I would like to thank:
Me, for writing the guide
www.xbox-scene.com, for teaching me to mod my box
Microsoft, for hours of mind-melting fun
Krylon, for awesome paint
LSDiodes.com, for cool diodes
Direction.com, for the awesome Cathodes
Notepad, for the good text editor
My mom, for giving birth to me
Everyone that has read this mod, because without you, I have done this
for no reason at all.
Copyright, 2004
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We are using SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64
We have a fairly large SQL-based system for archiving e-mails. The primary data file is approximately 278GB in size, and we are running in "Full Recovery" mode with transaction log backups every 30 minutes. There are four full-text catalogs
that currently have the following sizes:
The two at the top concern me because of their size. Most of the time, the space within the files is less than 50% utilized (as presented by the "Disk Usage" report for the database). The exception is during the weekly job that re-populates the
full text catalogs. During this time, the space within the full text catalog files becomes increasingly more utilized, occasionally triggering an auto-growth event. Also affected is the transaction log, which has ballooned to 70GB+ in size.
After the catalog repopulation is complete, the transaction log has a ridiculous amount of free space within. (Only a few hundred MB out of the 72GB reserved are being used).
Is this normal behavior? The vendor has shrugged their shoulders and indicated that we should ask Microsoft, even though we followed their recommendations is setting up the full text catalog rebuild process. Is our only option to throw more storage
at the problem, or is something causing this that shouldn't be happening?
Unfortunately this is normal.
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Jean-Michel POURE wrote: [ PGP not available, raw data follows ] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > My question is, "What can we learn from MySQL?" I don't know there is > > anything, but I think it makes sense to ask the question. > > Dear Bruce, > > Taking the example of pgAdmin III, which reached nearly one million hits in > December (http://www.pgadmin.org/stats/webalizer), nothing seems impossible > for PostgreSQL. > > Why not create an all-in-one bundle offering PostgreSQL, Apache, Php and > PhpPgAdmin for Win32 and ... mass-release it. > > There is no need to create a complete installer. There could be a single > installer executing other installers (like it is sometimes the case in the > Win32 world). So that installers remain different. > > A single web page like "http://win.postgresql.org" in 40 languages is enough > to mass-release PostgreSQL. > > With an installer and a single web page, PostgreSQL Win32 could quickly reach > one million downloads every month. > > There is no need to look for complicated strategies. Every month, there can be > 10% more downloads. In the end, people will even forget the name of MySQL. That seems like a good idea. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
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Lee Thomspon Young dead: 29-year-old actor dies in Southern California
Lee Thompson Young, the 29-year-old actor who starred in shows such as The Famous Jett Jackson and Rizzoli & Isles, was found dead Monday inside his Southern California apartment.
Los Angeles Police Department officials tell ABC News that they don't yet know how or why Young died.
Young also appeared in prominent films including Friday Night Lights and Akeelah and the Bee.
Most recently, Young played Detective Barry Frost on Rizzoli & Isles on TNT since the show began in 2010.


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From: Pat Ballew
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 27 Mar 1995 02:05:01 -0500
I think that the relationship between the physical, the image and the abstract are important in learning for conceptual reasons but the conjecture that physical, the image and the abstract are forever tied together in the student's mind is more difficult to assume if we progress beyond the more simple operations. It may be that a student visualizes 8 stacks of 5 to multiply 8x5 but I think this quickly evaporates into a mechanical process which is independent of origin. I think there are few people who have a clear geometric picture of 5 ^ (7/3) or (2+3i)^(3-2i) in mind when they do the calculations.
I think the same process is true in the basic operations for most daily calculations. We may be able to explain why the methods we use "without thinking" are based on some more primitive geometric structure, but in fact our skill is based on the fact that we can do them "without thinking" about the underlying structure. We have internalized the procedures and accept them.
I really doubt that most people who ever solve 730/10 visualize 730 of anything ( or 10 of anything either) . We see the problem, cross out the zeros in our mind, and announce the answer. If we didn't believe in the truth of the abstractions, none of us could balance their own check book... "Okay, I remove 3729 counters for the check you wrote at Sears and 400 for the one you wrote the paper boy, and Add 15006 for the tax refund and...... Honestly, no matter how many times we tell students to think, we still do most of our math by rule of thumb, and eventually so should they.
Pat Ballew "lovin' what I do"
Edgren HS, Misawa, Japan
From: Judy Roitman
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 27 Mar 1995 11:33:10 -0500
I have to disagree with Pat Ballew that "abstract" means "rule of thumb" or "not thinking." "Reify" means "to make real." One goal in mathematics teaching is to have students make the abstractions of mathematics real. Certainly for most people "2" is real, as is "1/2." When the child says "half of what?" we know they have not reified "1/2." Geometric pictures are not the only reality, although they are certainly very helpful. "5^(7/3)" is quite meaningful -- I even have a sort of geometric picture of it -- and real to me, as is "(2+3i)^(3-2i)" -- where I have no instinctive geometric picture, although folks who think comfortably in 4D can come up with one. They make sense within an abstract system that I have a fairly good understanding of.
Also real to me are the first uncountable cardinal number, and the cardinality of the set of real numbers, because I have done a lot of work with these infinite numbers. Less real to me are some of the very large cardinal numbers, because I have not thought about them very much, although I can listen intelligently when someone tells me something about them.
The analogy with language might be helpful here. Much as we might like to deny it, language is a semi-free-floating system that we understand on its own terms. There are many connections with reality, but also many ways in which language misleads us if we take it too seriously. (Think of the notion of "race" which is finally being deconstructed in the mass media.) So too with mathematics, a semi-free-floating system that has many (in fact, astonishingly many) connections with reality, but which can also mislead us if we take it too seriously (think of the controversy about race and IQ).
The fleeting images that help us understand mathematics are just that, fleeting images -- as Pat points out, we don't manipulate markers to figure out our checking account balance. Tremendously useful fleeting images, which are fantastically helpful when used well in the classroom, but fleeting images nonetheless.
Judy Roitman, Mathematics Department
Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049
From: Joshua Silver
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 28 Mar 1995 16:06:29 GMT
I want to enter this discussion, being a student who, having reached a certain level of mathematics, was no longer able to follow because I was taught by and with people who easily understood the concepts on an abstract level, whereas I did not.
I am a big proponent of using "real" concrete knowledge to help students understand concepts. At least at a certain level for all students, and at all levels for some (myself as an example), it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to understand mathematical operations without some clue as to what they actually mean. In Ginsburg's book Children's Arithmetic he gives an example of a child unable to add two and three when asked "How many is two and three?" However he gives the right answer when asked how many are two lollipops and one more. Then the original question is repeated, yet he still gives the wrong answer.
The numbers and symbols used in mathematical operations don't exist in the real world, except when we right them down. You can't go to the store and by a 3, or a +, or any operation. For this reason, people need something in their understanding which they can tie the processes, thereby helping them to see what the operation does.
However, I agree with Pat Ballew that as a teacher you do want to eventually bring the student to the abstract understanding. This brings us back to what Hannah Freedberg was talking about with the three levels to help comprehension. This concept has been suggested by a few authors who have helped in the field of education. Bruner is the first to come to mind. The point being that students can understand the abstract better after they have mastered the concept at the concrete and representational levels.
I want to add another twist. What I would have found helpful as a student of math would have been something of a loop. After the abstract is taught, I would find it helpful if the concept is brought back around to its real world use, thereby cementing it even further in the students understanding.
Joshua Silver
Swarthmore College
From: John Conway
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 28 Mar 1995 18:55:53 -0500
I remember my own nephew, who was having difficulties with fractions. He could say that 3/4 of 12 pence was 9 pence (he lives in England), 3/4 of 12 pigs was 9 pigs, but (even straight after these) 3/4 of 12 seventeenths completely floored him.
I got him past this as follows: "Stephen, you obviously know what a penny is, and what a pig is, but aren't quite sure what a seventeenth is. That doesn't matter. Do you know what a snark is?"
Stephen: "No."
"Well, that doesn't matter either. I do, so let's just agree that a snark is something I know about, but you don't. Then what's 3/4 of 12 snarks?"
Stephen (hesitantly): "9 snarks?"
"GREAT!!!! What's 3/4 of 9 boojums?"
Stephen: "What's a boojum?"
"I'll tell you later."
Stephen: "9 boojums."
After a few more such questions, we got back to seventeenths, and this time, Stephen was fairly happy that the answer was 9 seventeenths.
(He was really annoyed when I told him that snarks and boojums were just mythical objects in a poem by Lewis Carroll, but later on he really loved that poem!)
I think this illustrates some of Joshua Silver's points, and also one that I made some time ago about using words rather than letters when introducing algebra. What was holding Stephen up was that a "seventeenth" was just a meaningless blank to him, and he thought he had to understand its meaning. I think the letters in algebra have the same effect on most kids. They just aren't used to things that have no particular meaning, and so can't operate at all with them.
So "(the number in the) BOX" is a better name for a variable than "X". So is "PIG", so is even a nonsense word like "BOOJUM".
The last one might seem to contradict what I've just said - because nobody understands the meaning of "BOOJUM", since it hasn't actually got a meaning!
But the point is that we know it's not supposed to have a meaning. What worries the kids, I think, is that they think that "x" has a meaning they're supposed to know, when the truth is that is hasn't.
(What IS "x"? An unknown number? Give me an example of an unknown number? Is 3 one? No. There isn't any unknown number!!! That's roughly what I mean by saying that x has no meaning. ) "The number in this box" is much better.
"I know a number I'll call boojum, but I won't tell you what it is" is also better, and might be more fun.
John Conway
From: Pat Ballew
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 28 Mar 1995 22:27:32 -0500
John Conway's remarks about using "Box" instead of a variable or blank box remind me of a suggestion I once made to elementary teachers about adding fractions. I suggested that before they ever gave students problems like 3/8 + 2/8 they should give them practice with problems like 3 "eighths" + 2 "eighths". I felt that students in fourth to sixth grade would do these almost automatically from their previous experience with units. If they had difficulty, I suggested writing out problem sets with mixes of 3 feet + 2 feet and 6 dogs + 4 dogs and others where the units were in words rather than some shorthand.
They seemed to think I was totally insane and reminded me that I had no experience with elementary teaching. They were right so I went on my way, but still I wonder.....
Pat Ballew "lovin' what I do"
Edgren HS, Misawa, Japan
From: Judy Roitman
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 29 Mar 1995 12:27:48 -0500
When I taught in a program affiliated with Project SEED 25 years ago in regular Berkeley elementary classrooms, we used boxes instead of variables with absolutely no trouble, as early as second grade.
Judy Roitman, Mathematics Department
Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049
From: Harry Sedinger
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 29 Mar 1995 14:15:23 -0500
With all you people drawing rectangles and calling them boxes, no wonder students have difficulty in three dimensions.
Harry Sedinger
St. Bonaventure University
From: F. Alexander Norman
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 29 Mar 1995 18:30:04 -0500
By the way, my New World Dictionary (2nd College Edition) makes a similar reference in its first definition for box:
1. any of various kinds of containers, usually rectangular and lidded ...Clearly they meant "rectangular parallelepipedal" or "rectangular prism" or some such thing.
I assume your comment is more jest than criticism, but I see no problem with referring to a rectangular image as a box. I've seen cylindrical boxes, heartshaped boxes, octagonal prism-shaped boxes, I even have a spiroid toolbox. Rectangular prism is only one of many kinds of boxes. Perhaps, instead of worrying about its colloquial usage, we should enjoin the use of the word "box" as too imprecise for descriptions of 3-dimensional objects.
Then again, maybe not.
Sandy Norman
University of Texas at San Antonio
From: John Conway
Newsgroups: geometry.pre-college
Date: 29 Mar 1995 23:41:30 -0500
"Box" is a damn' sight more convenient than
"rectangular parallelepiped"which must be one of the longest phrases for such a simple shape that has no official shorter equivalent.
I don't know whether I've already put on the forum my comments on the origin of the second word here? It was a bit longer until about 1850:
parallelepipedonwhich breaks up into 4 or 5 bits:
para + allele + epi + pedonmeaning beside . other . upon . ground
The "al" of the second bit is the same as in "alternative". (The entire word has been adopted in genetics for the alternative genes that may appear at a given locus.)
The Greeks very early combined the first two bits to get "parallel" for two lines that kept beside each other, i.e., were parallel.
The meaning of the entire word seems to be that however you put this shape down, the top face is parallel to the ground.
I remember the meaning of "pedon" as being the thing you put your foot (ped) on.
The Greek and English words here are really the same indo-European word
f oo t(indeed, that e is often an o, as in "tripod").
p e d
So for "upon" and "epi"
So also for "allele" and "other", which is easier to see if you interpose the Latin:
allele (gk)and so, I think, even
aliter (lat)
alter (lat and eng)
other (eng)
"para" and "by".So we could translate 5 pieces into essentially the same words, but now in English!
par allel epi ped onSorry for taking your time, but I just love the way that words work out like this, especially the mathematical ones, and this is a particularly good one. You should hear me on "parabola" and "parlour" some time! (They're the same word!)
by other upon foot-on
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Jātakamālā or Garland of Birth Stories
4. The Story of the Head of A Guild (Dāna)
(Compare the Pāli Jātaka, No. 40, Fausböll 1, 231-234)
The pious wish to exercise almsgiving even in spite of imminent peril; who, then, should not be charitable when safe? This will be taught as follows.
In the time, when our Lord was still a Bodhisattva, he was a head of a guild. In consequence of the excessive favour of his destiny, and owing to his own great activity, he had acquired a large estate. His fairness and integrity in commercial transactions procured him the highest esteem among the people; he was born of an illustrious family; he had acquainted himself with various branches of learning and art, and by them purified his mind. These qualities and his noble virtues caused him to be honoured by the king. As he was always keeping the precept of almsgiving, he shared his opulence with the people.
1. The mendicants loving him, praised his name far and wide, so as to fill all parts of the horizon with the high reputation of his prowess as an almsgiver. [26]
2. With him, no one indigent was floating on the swing of doubt as to whether he would give or not. Trusting in this benefactor of renowned exploits, the mendicants were bold enough to put forth their wants freely.
3. And he, for his part, did not keep his wealth from them, neither for his own pleasures, nor striving to emulate others, nor overcome by avarice. It was impossible for him to see the suffering of the mendicants, and for this reason he avoided saying no to them.
One day, at meal-time, when the Great Being had just bathed and anointed himself, and a complete dinner made up of various dishes of hard and soft food and the rest, dressed by skilled and excellent cooks, and so prepared as to please by their colour, smell, taste, touch, and so on, was served up, a mendicant came near his house. It was a Pratyekabuddha, who by the fire of his knowledge had burned away all the fuel of innate evil passions, and now desired to increase the merit of the Bodhisattva. He placed himself in the gateway.
4. There he stood without apprehension, without agitation, looking firmly and quietly Read praśama- instead of praṇama-, an error of print of course01 to no greater distance before him than the length of a yoke, Cp. Lalitavistara (Bibl. Ind.), p. 230 infra, Buddhacarita 10, 13.02 in a quiet attitude, holding his lotus-white fingers clasped on his almsbowl.
Now Māra, the Wicked One, could not bear the Bodhisattva to enjoy that bliss of almsgiving. In order to put an obstacle in his way, he created by magic between the Reverend and the threshold of the entrance-door a very deep hell measuring several fathoms in width. It offered a dreadful sight, accompanied with terrible sounds; tremulous flames were burning awfully within; it contained many hundreds of men in great agony. [27]
In the meanwhile the Bodhisattva, seeing the Pratyekabuddha come in search of alms, said to his wife: "My dear, go yourself and give an abundant portion of food to the holy man." She said she would do so, and went off with excellent hard and soft food; but beholding the hell near the gateway, she suddenly turned on her heels, terror-stricken and with bewildered looks.
When her husband asked her what was the matter, she could hardly tell; the sudden fright had almost barred her throat. As the Bodhisattva, however, was uneasy at the thought that this holy man might turn back from his house without receiving his begged meal, he did not heed what she told him, but taking the excellent hard and soft food, came himself, desiring to fill with it the almsbowl of the Great-Minded One.
When he arrived near the gateway, he saw that most dreadful hell between. And whilst he considered what could be the meaning of this, Māra, the Wicked One, went out of the house-wall, and showing his divine and marvellous shape, stood in the air, and, as if he wished to do good to the Bodhisattva, spoke: "Householder, this is the great hell, named Mahāraurava.
5. Here is the abode - an abode, out of which it is difficult to escape - of those who, greedy of the praising voices of the beggars, desire to give away wealth, indulging in the vicious passion for charity. In this hell they must stay for many thousands of autumns.
6. Material prosperity (artha) is the principal cause of the world's regular striving after the triad of objects. Whoso injures artha, injures righteousness (dharma) too. The idea which underlies this assertion is often met with in Brāhmanical literature. If practising dharma is the same thing as performing the sacrifices to the dieties, material prosperity may be justly styled the foundation-ground or substratum of dharma; for the right performance of sacrifices requires the possession of goods.03 How is it possible, then, that the injurer of righteousness by destroying material prosperity, should not stay in hell? [28]
7. Thou hast sinned, being attached to charity and destroying thy wealth, which is the root of dharma. For this reason this flame-tongued hell, that looks like the face of Narakāntaka, See Viṣṇupurāṇa IV, chapter XXIX (Wilson, p. 581).04 has come to thy encounter in order to devour thee.
8. Well then, desist from giving, lest thou immediately fall down and share the fate of those alms-givers, who shrink away from pain and are weeping piteously.
9. The recipients, on the other hand, who have ceased from the bad custom of giving, obtain the rank of Devas. Therefore, desist from thy effort for charity, which obstructs the way to Heaven, and rather apply thyself to restraint." The Evil One uses ambiguous expressions purposely. The worthy recipients of the gifts are indeed on the way that leads to salvation; and the 'restaint' saṁyama he recommends, may imply the meaning of the self-restraint of the monks. The Bodhisattva in his well-turned answer takes care to keep the same ambiguous word (see stanza 15, saṁyamayiṣyatāpi).05
The Bodhisattva, however, knew him: "Surely, this is an attempt of the Evil One to thwart my alms-giving." And understanding so, he made, in truth, a vigorous reply, yet in accordance with his firm attachment to virtue, without breaking modesty and kindness of words. He spoke thus to him:
10-12. "It is with respect to my welfare, that thou hast had the kindness to show me the path of the pious. Indeed, it is most proper for divine beings to show by their actions their skill in feeling compassion for others.
Nevertheless, it would have been wise to use that way of stopping the illness before its appearance, or immediately after its first symptoms. For if a sickness have already made progress The reading prayāmam, proposed by Prof. Kern in the various readings of his edition, is undoubtedly right. Cp. pp. 78, 2; 96, 23; 111, 16; 171, 15; 182, 3; 238, 11 of his edition.06 by the fault of bad treatment, the desire for cure will but tend to calamity.
So this passion of mine for charity has already spread, I fear, beyond the compass of medical [29] cure, inasmuch as my mind will never shrink from almsgiving, notwithstanding thy well-wishing counsel.
13, 14. As for what thou saidst about unrighteousness arising from charity and wealth being the principal cause of righteousness my weak human understanding cannot grasp how wealth without charity can be called the path of virtue.
Why, tell me, please, at what time is it that wealth produces virtue? whether when laid up as a treasure, or when robbed violently by thieves, or when sunk away to the bottom of the sea, or when having become fuel for fire?
15, 16. Further, thou saidst, 'the giver goes to hell and the receiver to the celestial abodes.' Speaking so, however, thou hast increased my longing for works of charity, though endeavouring to restrain me.
Yea, may that word of thine be fulfilled, and those who beg from me rise to heaven! For it is not as a means of procuring my own happiness that I give in charity, but I love charity that I may do good to the world."
Then Māra, the Wicked One, once more addressed the Bodhisattva, speaking earnestly as though he were a well-meaning friend.
17. "Decide thyself, whether I have spoken for thy good or idle talk, and afterwards go as thou desirest. Thou shalt remember me with high regard - either happy or remorseful."
The Bodhisattva said: "Sir, thou must excuse me.
18. I will fall of my own accord into this fiercely blazing hell headlong, a prey to the flames, that will lick at me, rather than at the due time of honouring the mendicants, who show me their affection by requesting from me, incur the guilt of neglecting them."
After so speaking, the Bodhisattva - relying on the power of his destiny and knowing that almsgiving cannot at any rate entail evil - stepped forth across the hell without heeding his family and his attendants, who were eager to withhold him; his mind was not overcome by terror, and his desire of giving was still increased. [30]
19. Then, owing to the power of his merit, in the midst of the hell a lotus sprang up, not rooted in mud like other lotuses. In the original there is a pun, puṁkaja, 'originating in mud, born from mud,' being a common word for 'lotus'.07 With its row of stamen-teeth Instead of danti- I read danta-.08 it seemed to laugh contemptuously at Māra.
And with the aid of the lotus, produced out of the large amount of his merit, the Bodhisattva having reached the Pratyekabuddha filled his bowl with food, while his heart was expanding with gladness and joy.
20. The monk, in order to show his satisfaction, rose into the air. There he displayed his splendour, raining and flaming with as great a majesty as a cloud from which appears flashes of lightning.
21. Māra, on the other hand, seeing his design overturned was in low spirits and lost accordingly his splendour. He dared no longer look in the face of the Bodhisattva, and soon he disappeared with his hell.
Why has this been taught? (For this purpose): in this manner the pious wish to exercise almsgiving even in spite of imminent peril; who, then, should not be charitable when safe?
[Further this too is to be propounded; the virtuous cannot be induced even by fear to take the wrong way.]"
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IT'S ONE OF THE WORLD'S biggest diamond markets, veined with narrow medieval streets and rich in Renaissance monuments. There's a notable cathedral and a renowned zoo. But what really sets the Belgian city of Antwerp apart is its surprisingly oversized style footprint.
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Foot-and-mouth disease
The foot-and-mouth crisis forces the government to abandon any plans for a May general election. But there are the first signs that the authorities are beginning to get the epidemic under control. BBC News Online follows the story in Audio and Video.
30 April 2001
Northumberland Protestors are meeting MAFF officials on Monday to demand the closure of an animal burial site. They have already succeeded in suspending deliveries, after a lorry leaked blood onto surrounding roads.
29 April 2001
As it transpires that the army supplied waste food to the Northumberland farm at the centre of the outbreak, farmers in Devon are expressing relief at being allowed to sell livestock again.
26 April 2001
A 12-day-old calf which survived a foot-and-mouth cull on the farm where it was born is to be allowed to live. Downing Street granted a last minute reprieve to the white heifer, named Phoenix. after officials sought a court order to kill the animal.
25 April 2001
The future of a 12-day-old calf which survived a foot-and-mouth cull on the farm where it was born looks doubtful as government officials seek a court order to kill her. Phoenix was found lying next to the body of her dead mother on Clarence Farm in Devon.
24 April 2001
A further two suspected cases of human foot-and-mouth are currently under investigation, with a third British man still awaiting test results. The two new cases are not from the same area, but no specific details are yet available. The BBC's Richard Bilton reports.
23 April 2001
The carcasses of thousands of culled animals have been burning in Devon despite the concerns of residents and environmentalists. Up to 4,000 culled animals are being incinerated. The BBC's Val Jones reports.
Click here to watch Val Jones' report.
20 April 2001
The government says it is winning the battle to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. However, doubts are being raised over the efficiency of the disposal programme with major backlogs reported in Devon.
Click here to watch Sue Nelson's report.
18 April 2001
The government says it accepts in principle to a limited vaccination policy. Government advisers have been setting out the scientific case for a limited foot-and-mouth vaccination programme. Farmers leaders are resisting the move.
Click here to watch Tim Hirsch's report.
17 April 2001
After what should have been one of Britain's busiest holiday weekends, the tourism industry is busy counting its takings. The picture is mixed. Big attractions and the seaside have done well but the countryside is still suffering, as the BBC's Rory Cellan Jones has been finding out.
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14 April 2001
Ministers have been meeting to consider plans to use existing landfill sites to bury animals, slaughtered because of foot-and-mouth disease. More than 400,000 carcasses are awaiting disposal, but many authorities face oppostion from local residents to the digging of new pits.
Click here to watch Nicholas Jones's report.
13 April 2001
Scientists advising the government on foot-and-mouth disease have warned that almost one in three farms will become infected unless pre-emptive culling continues. They also say the disease would not have got out of control in some areas if the policy had been pursued from the start of the crisis.
9 April 2001
Almost two-thirds of people planning an Easter trip to the British countryside have cancelled their holiday because of the foot-and-mouth crisis. An internet survey by an organisation linked to the National Farmers' Union, shows many of those questioned are still unsure what is open to the public.
4 April 2001
On the day that the 1,000th case was announced, chief scientist Professor David King said Government measures were beginning to bite. Professor King told the Prime Minister that the spread of the disease was proving not to be as rapid as first feared.
3 April 2001
As cases of foot-and-mouth reached 943, Tory leader William Hague said that soldiers must take full control of the foot-and-mouth crisis as officials were "hopelessly overstretched".
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The Pinellas County Republican Party has made official its opposition to the Greenlight Pinellas transit referendum.
The party's Executive Committee on Monday unanimously approved a motion to oppose the plan that would increase the county's sales tax from 7 cents to 8 cents on the dollar to pay for expanded bus service and a 24-mile light rail system between St. Petersburg and Clearwater.
"Republicans stand for small, efficient, and effective government with reduced taxation and regulation," committee Chairman Michael J. Guju said in a statement. "We believe that this proposed sales tax increase would do more harm than good, especially to the county's poorest residents, disabled veterans and our seniors on fixed incomes. Though many Pinellas Republicans support public transportation, and want to see it expanded and made more efficient, a sales tax increase which would unduly hurt those who most use public transportation makes little sense."
The party notes in a new release that the tax increase would make the county's sales tax the highest in Florida "with minimal exclusions."
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Proponents of the plan also note that the sales tax would replace the property tax that currently funds the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority.
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THINK of cyclo-cross as a winter pastime? Think again.
The entries for the Yorkshire Cyclo-Cross Summer Series back that up, with 248 (156 seniors, 92 juniors) finishing round one at Newsome High School in Huddersfield.
Since then, the statistics have been 218 (158, 60) finishers in round two at Wharfe Meadows, Otley, 160 (110, 50) in round three at Colne Valley High School and 225 at Nunroyd Park, Yeadon (158, 67) for round four.
"I think we will get over 200 seniors (over-14s) starting a round before the series ends," says organiser Fred Rothwell.
"We have already had 173 at Yeadon – and that is before the Tour de France arrives in this area, after which everybody will fancy throwing their legs over a bike."
And do not be fooled either into thinking that it is any less serious than the winter version.
Just look at the finish of the senior race between Jack Clarkson and Nick Barnes at Yeadon for proof.
"They had a tussle down the finishing straight involving elbows and arms and the air was blue," said Rothwell.
"Someone complained about the bad language and said I should use my power as commissionaire to do something about it, although I believe they both apologised for it afterwards on social media."
Hope Factory rider Clarkson from Halifax won by a second from Zepnat RT ace Barnes, who won round one, with Clarkson third, the positions being reversed in round two.
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Among the riders rounding out the top ten this season were Keighley's Alfie Moses (seventh at Newsome, fourth at Wharfe Meadows and Nunroyd Park, ninth at Colne Valley), Bradford's Rob Thackray (ninth at Newsome, sixth at Wharfe Meadows and fifth at Colne Valley) and Haworth's Andy Peace (tenth at Newsome, fifth at Wharfe Meadows, third at Colne Valley and seventh at Yeadon).
Other interlopers in the top ten have been Bradford's Billy Harding (fifth at Newsome), Oxenhope's Matt Denby (tenth at Wharfe Meadows, ninth at Yeadon) and Ilkley's Ed McParland (eighth at Colne Valley).
East Bradford Cycling Club's Euan Cameron has dominated the under-14 races.
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Liverpool's Sebastian Coates joins Sunderland on season-long loan
Sebastian Coates has joined Sunderland on a season-long loan from Liverpool, the club announced Monday.
The defender has made 24 appearances for Liverpool since Aug. 2011.
Prior to joining Liverpool, Coates played for Nacional in Uruguay.
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Coates has also collected 15 caps for Uruguay, including playing in the 2014 World Cup. The 23-year-old played his first senior-level international match in the 2011 Copa America, where he won the Young Player of the Tournament award.
He is Sunderland's eighth signing of the summer.
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