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Most streams that flow near cities and towns are laced with drugs that escape from sewage treatment plants or pharmaceutical factories.
There has been a lot of concern over the possibility of pharmaceuticals ending up in freshwater and disrupting populations of wildlife. Now, new research shows that these concerns may be completely legitimate
Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality.
Former Cary writer-in-residence Akiko Busch writes about modern citizen science endeavors and how individuals are getting involved by helping to gather data about the environment.
Bubbling brooks and streams are a scenic and much loved feature of forest ecosystems, but long-term data at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest suggests that more productive forests might carry considerably less water.
Sticker shock drove my family to start making maple syrup several years ago. In the long hours around the cooker, we figured out the science of maple sugaring. Satisfyingly, it takes biology, chemistry and physics to explain the process.
VideoThree members of Congress joined forces with a Lyme disease advocacy group to host a forum to discuss the fight against tick-borne diseases. As a panelist, Cary's Rick Ostfeld shared his research and insights.
One of the first signs of spring in the Northeast is the unmistakable calling of the spring peeper. The peeper is a small frog, weighing only a few grams, but its mating call is louder than many songbirds weighing 10 times as much.
Science is revealing just how important preserving a diverse array of plants and wildlife is to reducing the spread of infectious diseases.
Fog study workshop, spring Writer in Residence, staff distinctions and other Cary announcements.
The Cary Institute's Environmental Monitoring Station instruments track air pollution, precipitation patterns, and solar radiation, among other things. These measurements provide a window into powerful storm systems, like Hurricane Sandy.
Cary Institute staff members have developed a range of citizen-science initiatives in which benefits flow equally between researchers and volunteers.
In appreciation of the Cary Institute's most loyal donors, Irene and Jack Banning hosted the Aldo Leopold Society's annual Autumn Celebration at Black Sheep Hill in Pine Plains on October 13, 2012.
The theme for 2013 Summer Ecology Camp is "Journey through the Cycles of Life."
The inauguration of President Obama in late January, and his public emphasis on tackling climate change, brought new urgency to the scientific work at the Cary Institute.
On January 14, a week before President Obama said Americans must respond to climate change in his inauguration speech, a draft of the 2013 National Climate Assessment (NCA) was released.
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Huffington Post follows-up on disease ecologist Rick Ostfeld's warning of increased health risks related to urban rats being displaced by Hurricane Sandy.
Freshwater ecologist Stuart Findlay remarks on SPCA treatment of wastewater by a system that uses man-made wetlands, mimicking the water purification process that occurs in natural wetlands.
Microbial Ecologist Peter Groffman comments on a new study that links increased CO2 and nitrous oxide emissions with worm-ridden soils.
Projects that improve water quality by planting vacant lots, parking strips, and other urban spaces with trees and community gardens also bring people out of doors and teach local kids about their environment.
This summer, 10 undergraduate students will join the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies' research community to carry out science of their own design.
A new report warns that climate change is causing shifts in species composition faster than expected. Co-author and Cary scientist Peter Groffman comments, "cold temperatures are a critical regulator of species outbreaks and also of species distributions".
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The Common Root Community Support Circle was created to give folks a place to talk about what's troubling them in safe environment where they will be listened to and supported on their journeys.
The next circle will be held from 11 AM – 1 PM on Sunday, September 7th at Common Root.
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The way businesses communicate today is changing rapidly; advanced mobile devices, video solutions and cloud computing have opened the door to new and inventive communications capabilities. But these same unified communication technologies have also driven additional complexity into the IT department. Converged Technology Group, an award-winning managed services partner (MSP) serving clients throughout the Northeast, has put together an eight-step plan for CIOs and IT professionals who want a truly scalable, secure, and converged unified communications solution that can deliver business-critical voice, video and data to the next cube, office, building, branch, state or country.
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Floating License Sever Setup
Floating licenses allow a group of users to share T-VEC licenses on a network. The licenses are managed by a license manager which limits the number of concurrent users of the tools to the number of licenses specified in a license file. T-VEC tools use the the FlexLM license manager to manage licenses.
In a FlexLM floating configuration, the T-VEC tools communicate with the FlexLM license manager to obtain licenses. The machine running the FlexLM license manager is referred to as the license server.
There are three components of the license manager:
- FlexLM license manager (lmgrd)
- License File
- T-VEC license (vendor) daemon (tveclmd)
On Windows, the FlexLM license manager, lmgrd, typically runs as a service and starts as part of Windows startup. lmgrd reads the license file associated with it and loads any vendor daemons specified in the license file. The T-VEC license vendor daemon is tveclmd. Once tveclmd is started by lmgrd, it manages the licenses for T-VEC tools.
The License File
A typical license for T-VEC tools looks like the following example.
SERVER license_server 00a02471cf70 TCP: 27007 DAEMON tveclmd c:\t-vec\license\tveclmd.exe PACKAGE TVGSCore tveclmd 1.0 0CC8812AF01F COMPONENTS="T-VECcomp \ T-VECvgen T-VECapi T-VECcov T-VECmake T-VECtdvr T-VECmap" \ OPTIONS=SUITE SIGN="0074 C705 80D7 32B1 0298 F40B 3FD3 CE00 \ 8AAA 6B26 540F B898 B352 77C7 9CBD" PACKAGE TVGSInterface tveclmd 1.0 94B2F00BEFA9 COMPONENTS="T-VECse \ T-VECcmd" OPTIONS=SUITE SIGN="000F 77D1 374F F534 99E3 06E1 \ 7046 A400 C77D 81E0 7425 D062 36F4 9BF5 28A5" FEATURE TVGSCore tveclmd 1.0 15-jan-2010 2 752D4BC5529B SIGN="008D \ F667 6345 965D DEE2 8F8B 6AF6 1400 F575 35D2 A2BD 8E01 C1B2 \ DD05 BDAF" FEATURE TVGSInterface tveclmd 1.0 15-jan-2010 2 8AFF7C916F24 \ SIGN="000C 6B8F 3EEB 4445 731C 337D 41CB 2E00 9A6E F706 0D54 \ BA2E 504B 13E5 09C7" FEATURE sl2tvec tveclmd 1.0 15-jan-2010 2 723000EB9CA9 SIGN="000C \ 4BAF C49E CC80 37BE 63E2 DB89 F800 B1B3 80C3 C074 2CF5 077B \ DC68 057D" FEATURE TTM_STD tveclmd 1.0 15-jan-2010 2 68A665466A72 SIGN="00C7 \ 376B 30B0 473C ADDE F958 2AB3 EC00 9242 783F 0974 FD30 CEEC \ 99AF 2453"
In this example, the license server is named "license_server". The server's ethernet address is "00a02471cf70". The license manager listens on port 27007 for client license requests. The vendor daemon for managing the license requests is tveclmd.exe. The information following the first two lines of the license file contain details on the licenses managed by this file.
The server name, port and path to the vendor daemon can be updated without invalidating the license file. It is good practice to use the full path to specify the vendor daemon.
SERVER [server] 00a02471cf70 TCP: [port] DAEMON tveclmd [path to vendor daemon]
Installing and Configuring the License Manager
The files necessary to install and configure the license manager are included in the "license" directory of the T-VEC installation. These files include:
- lmgrd - FlexLM license manager
- tveclmd - T-VEC vendor daesom
- lmtools - Utility for configuring the license manager (GUI)
- lmutil - Command-line utility for configuring the license manager
It is possible to download and use the latest versions of the FlexLM software. Distribution of FlexLM has been handled by a couple different companies. A google search is probably most effective for finding the latest downloads. Find the Latest FlexLM
While the license manager can be configured in the T-VEC license directory, the default location for FlexLM license manager installations is c:\flexlm.
Obtain a License File
In addition to these files, a valid license file for the T-VEC tools is required to complete the setup. License files are obtained from T-VEC support. They are generated based on the license server's hostid which is typically it's ethernet (MAC) address. Send the server name and ethernet address to T-VEC Support to obtain a license file. See License_Management#Obtaining_Licenses for information on obtaining a license file for the license server.
Configuration through LMTools
The lmtools application which is included in the license directory of the T-VEC installation is the easiest way to configure the license manager. Start the license manager by double-clicking it.


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What ho one and all,
I have downloaded a TV series as 8 x mp4 episodes and from the internal hdd, they all play with MPHC.
I want to move them to another computer that we use for 'entertainment' so have copied all to a thumbdrive. But here's the thing; if I test run them from the thumbdrive, they all give a 'File cannot be rendered' message in MPHC. They also don't play in VCL.
However, I also have some other mp4 files on the same thumbdrive and they all play with no issues. They were also copied from the hdd to the thumbdrive.
What's going on?
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2012 Rochester Hall of Fame Class Announced
October 8, 2012 -
From Press Release - The Greater Rochester Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame will welcome four new members with the induction of Jacques Monte, Patty Queener, Brent Rothfuss and John Hayes as the Class of 2012. The 19th Annual US Lacrosse, Greater Rochester Chapter, Hall of Fame Dinner will take place on Friday, November 2nd at the Burgundy Basin Inn at 1361 Marsh Road in Pittsford.
The cost is $35 per person prior to October 15th, and $45 after the early bird date. The social hour begins at 6:00 p.m. with the welcome and dinner scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Introductions will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m. To make reservations, please go to www.uslacrosserochester.org.
Here are short bios as provided by the foundation on each of the inductees:
John Hayes has experienced success in every aspect of his life and not just on the lacrosse field, although that's what earned him a spot in the Greater Rochester Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. An entrepreneur, husband, father of 10, and grandfather of 12, Hayes still embodies the passion for the game of lacrosse, playing Grandmasters and Super Grandmaster lacrosse. Hayes began to receive recognition for his lacrosse exploits at Clarkstown High School, as a four-year varsity letterman. He earned back-to-back Team MVP honors (1972-73) and was All-County and team captain in 1973.
Hayes moved on to play his college lacrosse at powerhouse Hobart for four seasons and was named an All-American in 1977. While with the Statesmen, he won two national championships (1976-77) and was a finalist the other two seasons (1974-75). He still holds the distinction of captaining the 1977 National Championship team, which was Hobart's last undefeated team at 15-0. That season, Hayes played in the North-South Game and was the recipient of Hobart's Lt. John Vandeverg Memorial Award as the Most Improved player. Hayes finished his college career 12th in all-time goals at Hobart with 118, and 17th in career points with 152 points.
After graduating from Hobart, he broke into the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at the University of Rochester. While completing his MBA, he coached the Yellow Jackets from 1978-79. In the 1980s, he returned to the field as a player with the Westchester Lacrosse Club. Hayes has also continued to coach, overseeing Irondequoit Youth Lacrosse and McQuaid Lacrosse at the modified and junior varsity levels.
Jacques Monte enters the Hall of Fame after achieving success at the local and national level. For the past two seasons, he has worked the sidelines, along with Tim Soudan, as assistant coach for the Rochester Rattlers. For the past 11 years, Monte has dedicated his life to his alma mater, Fairport High School. Not only has he trained future scholar-athletes in the classroom as a physical education teacher with the Fairport Central School District, but also on the gridiron and lacrosse field as a coach for both Red Raider teams. The former Fairport standout excelled at football, wrestling and lacrosse. He graduated from Hobart College with a B.A. in economics and a master's degree in sports management from Ohio State University. Jacque won three national championships while at Hobart College, and played professional lacrosse for the Detroit Turbos. He lives in Fairport with his wife Elizabeth, daughter Emma, sons Jackson and Mitchell.
Patty Queener remembers her 1995 girls' team at Penn Yan with great pride, as they fought to play the game at the high school level. The mother of four began her lacrosse career as a head coach after her daughter Sarah took an interest in the game. With her husband as her mentor, she resorted to fundraising, even wearing football jerseys that first season, in order to found a modified and a club team that first season. In only her second season, she led her team to the sectional playoffs, and would have had her first win, if eligible, with just seventh and eighth graders. In her fourth season, Queener, who was learning lacrosse on the job, won her first of two state titles. Her 1998 team finished with an impressive 24-0 record, defeating powerhouse Garden City. The matriarch of her lacrosse family is in her 18th season as the head girls' lacrosse coach for the Penn Yan Mustangs. During her tenure, she has also won two Empire State Games gold medals and two silvers in six attempts. Patty also is the mother of Penn Yan Academy and professional lacrosse standouts Brett and Brice Queener, and former girls' stars Sarah and Sylvia Queener. She joins her husband, Harry, as a member of the Greater Rochester Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Rochester native Brent Rothfuss enters the Hall of Fame after excelling in every facet of his lacrosse career. Rothfuss established himself as a premier player while playing at Penfield High School, winning back-to-back sectional titles (1992-93) along with two First Team All-County selections and an All-American nod his senior year. After high school, Rothfuss stayed local and helped the Nazareth College Golden Flyers to consecutive national titles in 1996 and 1997. In the process, he was named a three-time All-American, which included a first team selection from 1996-97. He graduated as the highest-scoring midfielder in Nazareth history with 200 career points, including 126 goals. His finest season was in 1997 when he scored 49 goals and added 35 assists en route to Division III Player of the Year honors. His list of accomplishments also includes back-to-back Division III Midfielder of the Year and team Offensive MVP honors from 1996-97. He continued his lacrosse career with the NLL's Rochester Knighthawks and Can-Am's Rochester Greywolves. Rothfuss also played five seasons in Major League Lacrosse, which included two seasons with the Rochester Rattlers. Over the past three seasons, he has won two sectional titles while coaching girls' lacrosse in Pittsford.
The Greater Rochester Chapter Hall of Fame has inducted individuals based on outstanding lacrosse achievement and/or contribution since 1992. The mission of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame is to honor men and women, past and present, who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of the sport of lacrosse to our way of life.
US Lacrosse is the national governing body for lacrosse in the United States. The National Hall of Fame is housed in the Lacrosse Museum in Baltimore, Md.


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Jonathan Creek
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Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show stars Alan Davies as the titular character, an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism. No matter how magical the mystery — a locked-room murder or a seemingly impossible theft — the detective would come up with a very down-to-earth explanation as to what happened. Although a crime drama, the series contained often broadly comical touches as well.
- 1 Series 1
- 2 Series 2
- 3 Christmas Special (1998)
- 4 Christmas Special (2001)
- 5 Series 4
- 6 External links
Series 1[edit]
The Wrestler's Tomb[edit]
- Jonathan is posing as a camera operator
- Maddie: It's called a Steadicam. It eliminates jerks.
- Jonathan: So does Clint Eastwood, I wouldn't want him strapped to my chest.
- Jonathan: My big passion. The golden age of illusion: Robert Houdin, Makelyne, Devant. I was born a hundred years too late, basically.
- Maddie: [Seeing Jonathan's collection] I take it this is a disease that struck in childhood?
- Jonathan: I never wanted to be a magician as such; swanning about with silk hankies. It was... I dunno... The ingenuity at the back of it. Always fascinated the hell out of me.
- Jonathan: People beg me to explain something; it's the last thing they want to hear, 'cause you're disproving a miracle. Houdini walked through a wall two bricklayers had built onstage: People swore he had the power to dematerialise. You find out he he used a trapdoor under a carpet, it's too mundane: you feel cheated. That's all magic is, an illusion.
Jack in the Box[edit]
- Maddie: You know Jack Holliday died?
- Jonathan: Yeah, it's the only thing he ever did that made me laugh.
- Maddie: Oh, that's great! The poor man's dead!
- Jonathan: I bet that won't stop him overacting, though.
- Jonathan: I nearly rang you. I'd get as far as the last digit, but something would always stop me. I suppose it was the thought of getting sucked into another one of your grisly murder investigations. You know how you always fear the worst
- Maddie: [laughs brightly]
- Jonathan: Stop this car.
- Maddie: Jonathan...
- Jonathan: [scoffing] 'Flush out the carbon monoxide with some sea air'?
- Jonathan: No Time to Lose.
- Maddie: Right. Where are we going?
- Jonathan: Anywhere! As far away from here as possible. That could have been my head skewered to the matress!
- Maddie: Now just hang about. You can't tell me you've unravelled this whole thing and then bugger off! What kind of spineless cretin are you?
- Jonathan: No special kind. Just your average cretin... with a train to catch.
- Jonathan: We mustn't confuse what's impossible with what's implausible. Just about everything I dream up for a living relies on stuff that's highly implausible. That's what makes it so hard to work out; no-one thinks you'd go to that much trouble to fool your audience.
The Reconstituted Corpse[edit]
- Maddie: [Talking to her Publisher] I've got this theory that Jonathan Creek is himself an illusion. Just when you think you've found him, he drifts through your fingers like smoke.
- Shelford: That was unfortunate. I completely misjudged the water pressure on those taps and, of course, it went everywhere. Fortunately! It's not urine, so it won't stain.
- Jonathan So let's run through this from the top. The wardrobe was empty; you closed the door, brought it upstairs, through this door... along here... around here... and into this room, against that wall. By which time, somehow or other, the cupboard has aquired a body. Brutally battered to death across the back of her head. Hmm. [Pause] It's a good one isn't it?
- Maddie: 'A Good One'?! Is that all you can say? Somewhere between here and the ground someone's planted a corpse in my cupboard and I didn't even see it happen!
- Jonathan: [After checking out the wardrobe] Nope. All seems pukka. No panels, no breakaways, no phantom joints... just a wardrobe really. [Pause] You want to know how it was done?
- Maddie: Yes.
- Jonathan: That makes two of us.
No Trace of Tracy[edit]
The House of Monkeys[edit]
Series 2[edit]
Danse Macabre[edit]
- Maddy: Come on, I've admitted defeat. Let's get on with it; the bit you enjoy, treating me like a moron.
- Jonathan: No. The bit where you enjoy making me feel like I'm treating you like a moron. When you're perfectly capable of reasoning it out for yourself if only you'd stop taking things at face value.
- Maddy: I'm sorry, Jonathan, what level of surrealism are we operating on here?
- Jonathan: Y'see, this is where you and everyone else give up. You're making the big mistake of sticking to what's likely rather than what's logical.
Time Waits For Norman[edit]
- Woman: You're saying there's actually a real person called Jonathan Creek, he's not just a narrative conceived for story telling purposes?
- Man: All that stuff, he invents all those tricks.
- Madeline Magellan: And he lives in a windmill, it's all for real.
- Woman: Right. Isn't that funny?
- Madeline: What?
- Woman: Suddenly I find him less believable.
- Jonathan: She made all of the moves and now I'm boxed in. We've got nothing whatsoever in common and if I try and break it off she'll think it's because of you know what [her baldness]. Which she's obviously very sensitive about.
- Madeline: I'm not surprised! Didn't you get suspicious when you were running your fingers through her hair and she wasn't even in the room?!
The Scented Room[edit]
- [Jonathan has refused to reveal the solution]
- Maddy: It's no sweat, y'know. I'll work it out for myself. I've seen everything you've seen. I'm not a complete and utter moron.
- [Jonathan starts to leave]
- Maddy: Yes?
- Jonathan: I never said anything.
- Maddy: Look, just give me a leg-up to get me started. Please? Just one tiny hint?
- Jonathan: Look to Eric's Spam sandwich. It contains the key to the whole affair.
- Jonthan: Did it ever occur to you that someone could have cut it without actually being in the room? Using a high-powered laser through the glass in the ceiling.
- Maddy: You are Kidding!
- Jonathan: Of course I am, the idea's ridiculous. In fact the way this was worked was so sublimely simple, when I tell you, you'll wonder why you didn't get it in five seconds flat.
- Jonathan: You mean Pot Pourri? One of the biggest cons of the Twentieth Century. People pick it up in a shop, what's the first thing they do? [Mimes sniffing a bowl of Pot Pourri] "mmm, smell this one! That's sensational! I'll have some of that!" Of course it is if you shove your face in it. Put some in a bowl in the middle of the room, you can't smell a bloody thing. There should be a label on the packet "only effective when inserted up nostril"
- Adam Klaus: [On the phone to Jonathan] If you could choose the manner of your own death, would it be (A) Peacefully in your sleep? (B) Breathlessly with Nicole Kidman? or (C) Being dismembered by a homicidal illusionist? If 'c', simply hang up now.
The Problem at Gallows Gate[edit]
- Jonathan: How come when I stay at your place you get the bed and I get the sofa, but when you stay at my place you still get the bed and I get the sofa?
- Maddy: Because you were being terribly chivalrous and gentlemanly and very solicitous of my welfare [Pause] Don't I get anything to eat?
- Maddy: Where do you keep your salt?
- Jonathan: See that cupboard just above you? Top Shelf. Right at the back... there's a leaflet from the hospital explaining why it's bad for your arteries.
- Jonathan: I'm trying to achieve a level of abstract thought here. Trying to prise this whatever-it-is out of my memory.
- Maddy: Well what is it? Let me have a go.
- Jonathan: I told you, I can't put it into words. It's purely intuitive. It's just a feeling. It won't come into focus until it's ready.
- Jonathan:But what you see isn't always what's happening. And what you all saw that night, I've got a horrible feeling, was a very brilliantly concieved hoax.
- Maddy: Here we go, he's gonna tell us how it was done.
Mother Redcap[edit]
- Investigator: Ever since the man who owned and ran this place died, it was 1969 - a man named William Amberghast, the old Mother Redcap pub in Edmonton has been property market poison. Whether it's superstition or what, I don't know. Would you buy a hundred year-old building where seven men have been quite literally terrified to death?
- [Pause]
- Investigator: The way it's told: the first one, Mr Clifford Jennings, managing director of a big clothing firm, was staying overnight with a lady friend in a special guest room that was kept for visitors. Round about midnight he was preparing for bed. The death certificate said it was his heart. The truth was, no-one knew what had killed him. The girl was convinced he'd seen something... outside. "Something so utterly horrible it set off a fatal seizure". Between 1947 and '51 there were five other cases, deaths that which have never been explained from that day to this. All in the same room. All after they'd looked out of the window in the middle of the night.Not a mark or scratch on any of the bodies. No evidence they'd been poisoned or suffocated. Four of them were found on the floor the next morning. Three were actually seen at the moment of death, collapsing in what appeared to be a fit of mortal terror.
- [Jonathan has been abducted and brought to a police station]
- DCI Ken Speed: I'm sorry about the neanderthal tactics of my two constables. They were under the impression they were bringing a suspect in.
- Jonathan: So I gather. I confessed to two armed robberies before we reached the first set of traffic lights.
- Jonathan: So the deal, as I see it, is this: If I come up with a solution that leads to the killer's arrest, by next week I'm highest new entry on the Tong's UK death list. Not much of an incentive really.
- Maddy: What's that theory? That absolutely everything that happens in the world is connected to everything else. I read an article once. If a man breaks wind in Hounslow, it can effect a hurricane in Java. I think I know the man they're talking about, he travels on the Circle Line.
- Jonathan:What was it Sherlock Holmes said to Watson?
- Maddy: Get your kit off and give us a kiss?
Christmas Special (1998)[edit]
Black Canary[edit]
- Adam Klaus: [To Jonathan] I always thought your love life would make a great play by Samuel Beckett, a great nihilistic quality it has.
- Maddy: So what's the story on this mother of hers, Marella Carney, the 'Black Canary'? She was big business back in her day, wasn't she?
- Jonathan: The problem with Marella Carney was that most of her tricks relied upon the fact that she had a twin sister.
- Maddy: Don't be ridiculous.
- Jonathan: Who, from what I hear, did all the difficult bits. Marella was claustrophobic, so it was her sister who had to climb into all the cabinets and coffins. You can do amazing stuff when you work with a double, but it's not exactly a test of ingenuity.
- Maddy: You're telling me there were two of them? They kept that quiet, didn't they?
- Jonathan: Well they're hardly going to put in the program notes, are they? 'NB: whilst miraculously escaping from a locked trunk, Miss Carney will be assisted by her twin sister Beryl!' Anyway that was all before the accident of course.
- Maddy: What accident?
- Jonathan: It's a bit on the grisly side. Best not discussed.
- Maddy:[Forcefully] What accident?
- Jonathan: Not sure you've got the stomach for it.
- Maddy: I've got the stomach for it? Don't give me that macho protective number!
- Jonathan: Rehearsals one day for one of their big routines. Sister Beryl's strapped down to a bench with an electric buzz saw coming at her. [Maddie looks queasy] Mechanism jammed, the thing just kept coming. She was literally sawn in half.
- Maddy: Oh my god!
- Jonathan: Lengthways.
- Maddy: LENGTHWAYS!?
- [Jonathan and Maddy are driving through a snowstorm]
- Jonathan: How anyone can drive a car at this time of year without a windscreen washer.
- Maddy:It's got a windscreen washer!
- Jonathan:Yeah, but it's not much use on the back seat is it?
- Maddy: The guy who was gonna fit it did a runner, it's not my fault. A bit of fresh air won't harm you.
- DI Gideon Pryke: I can smell guilt on a man like dung on a donkey.
- [Maddy's interrupted Jonathan's evening]
- Maddy: I thought I might be useful.
- Jonathan: What as? A contraceptive!
Christmas Special (2001)[edit]
Satan's Chimney[edit]
- Carla Borrego: Have you ever slept in a castle with a moat before?
- Jonathan: I once passed out in front of a block urinal.
Series 4[edit]
The Chequered Box[edit]
- Jonathan: (To Adam, who is buried underground) You all right down there still? Your brain's not getting starved of oxygen or anything?
- Adam: (Drowzily) Who is this?
- Jonathan: It's me, Adam.
- Adam: Right. I knew that, of course. And tell me Adam, how long have I been down here?
- Jonathan: Just coming up to four days now and, to be honest, I think the disorientation is starting to kick in.
External links[edit]
- Encyclopedic article on Jonathan Creek at Wikipedia


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When the Penguins knocked off the Red Wings in Game Seven last week, it extended what has already been a special sports year in the Steel City. The Steelers won the Super Bowl in February, of course, and that double (no city has ever won three titles in the same year) has Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journalwondering if that doesn't make for the best sports year for a city in the history of American sports.
He thinks it does. What makes it better than Pittsburgh's 1979, when the Steelers and Pirates each reigned supreme in their leagues? Bialik argues that the size of leagues now makes it harder for teams to win titles, let alone two teams from the same city. He doesn't explicitly mention the expansion of playoffs, but that would be another vote in favor of the 2009 Pittsburgh squads.
That's a fair argument, but it doesn't explain what makes it better than Boston's 2004. The Patriots and the Red Sox each won that year, but, to Bialik, they fall short because the Patriots play 20 miles outside Boston and don't have Boston in their name. That argument would make more sense if they weren't seen by everyone as a team from Boston, or if the Pats played in a different state a la the Jets and Giants in New York.
That doesn't mean Bialik is wrong. It's almost impossible to have a "right" answer to questions designed to spur debate and reconsideration as time marches forward. It just means that there are a couple of other strong bids out there.
There's also no credit given for a couple of other things that help Boston's bid a lot. Football is a problematic inclusion because the regular season and playoffs are in different calender years. The Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2005 as well, however, which means they should be getting credit for each part of the seasons that bookended the Red Sox win.
That Red Sox win also had a historical significance that can't be touched by either of Pittsburgh's 2009 champions. No one needs to be told what the history of baseball in Boston was like between 1918 and 2004, and that ultimate release certainly outweighs whatever demerits you want to place on the distance to the Patriots' home field.
Historical significance also plays a huge role in New York's 1969. The Jets were the second team in what was considered a second-rate football league when they won Super Bowl III, an event that had massive implications on the world of sports going forward. The Mets were a punchline before 1969, seven years removed from both their birth and one of the worst seasons in baseball history. The seeming impossibility of those two titles, when compared to the mighty Steelers and a Penguins team with two of the best players in hockey, is worth some extra credit even if the leagues were smaller.
And, since distance seems to matter, they did it while playing in the same stadium!
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Enough about me. What do you think of me?
One of the signals that sounded very clearly came at the conclusion of the first every seminar I attended. The session Proctor handed out audit forms that we were encouraged to fill out. Did the presentation meet expectations? Was the presenter skilled and knowledgeable? Would you invite her back next year? Standard questions and vital data, data that I am sure that SCC staff and management will act on and optimize.
The audit forms asked for a little demographic information having to do with identity. I cannot recall the particulars exactly. Transitioned Post-op, and Living 24/7 come to mind. Female-to-Male, Supporter / Significant Other too. And nestled in between these clearly defined communities, "Recreational Cross Dresser".
This really caught my attention. You might know that I rather like words, and think of them as possessed of remarkable power.
Recreational Cross Dresser.
Now, for me, Cross Dressing is recreational. It is recreational in so for as I really have fun becoming and being Petra. Terrific recreation and highly encouraged. In another and more important sense, Cross Dressing has helped me to literally re-create myself. I am a warmer, more empathetic, happier person now than I was in years gone by. There is enough evidence to tie cause and effect together, and much of that evidence has back-zips and shoulder straps. Hooray!
But in the context of a demographic survey, the term Recreational Cross Dresser does connote something else, and that something else is not quite so serious and impactful as I believe Cross Dressing to be. Or at least, how it has been, and is for me.
Recreation, in this context, also speaks to motivation for the act of Cross Dressing. It is difficult, really, to know peoples motivations, and if motivations are to be addressed, then surely there are other valid ones (sexual pleasure, theatricality/incurable exhibitionism, power exchange, sedition, etc.) Stop me if I sound a little brittle on the matter, but the check boxes clashed with my stripes (ed. …too late to stop you m'dear).
Now friends, I do have thick skin, and even thicker with a plastering of Dermablend beard cover on, but the words are there, black and white, and they do have meaning, yes?
It is not difficult to understand and empathize with the roots of this minor infraction against my sensibilities. The lives of Transwomen have been made more awkward, more of a lightning rod for ridicule, prejudice, ignorance and hatred then they ought to be in part as a result of the broad public perception of Cross Dressers.
If you have ever hit a gay bar on Halloween, you know what I mean. Over the top, over-exposed, under-dressed, boobs-out, booty-calling, flaming Technicolor travesties of femininity abound. Sadly, these visions are much of what the rest of the world calls to mind to deal with and understand Transpeople. How about media depictions? Cross Dressing Bank Robbers are thwarted somwhere thrice daily it seems.
In this way, sad to say, some elements of the Cross Dressing spectrum truly do totter, hand on hip, directly in the path of broader acceptance of the differently gendered. Ouch.
And therefore I understand, fully, how even the most "live and let live" transitioning and transitioned women, would want the recreational Cross Dresser to just live elsewhere. There must be another planet with good vanity mirrors and a Karoake machine out there, in another Galaxay preferably, yes?
Perhaps this contributes to the somewhat guarded welcome that the Cross Dresser is extended in the company of (some) Transwomen. There is always more though, is there not?
I suspect, that the brave woman who has been through or who is a few appointments short of HRT, FFS, electrolysis, silicon implants and injections, nips, tucks and the complete, traumatic up-ending of family lives, social order and commercial prospects that goes along with all of those things must look at the Cross Dresser with care and concern. Perhaps we are seen with a sense of ... "o god, you poor lamb, you are playing with fire and really have no idea of what you will have to endure ...".
Hmmm. If 'twer me on the far side of gender re-assignment, I suspect that I too would be quite guarded in my society with Cross Dressers. I would feel terrible if I said or did something that tampered with the jury, said or did something that unknowingly influenced a decision of such gravity. A deeply personal decision that a fragile, precious, delicate human life would need to live with, by and for themselves.
Other contributors? Sisterhood and sympathy aside therefore, this embryonic person, the Cross Dresser might appear to the fully enlisted Transwoman as a green platoon recruit, freshly dropped into savage jungles of combat, not yet battle tempered. Perhaps the circle does not widen and welcome fully until we display calm and cool in the firefight we have willingly walked in to, until our true colors have been shown.
Fair enough. Again, if 'twer me, with Drivers License and Passport indicating "F", I would hold a little back from the Cross Dresser, recreational or not. See where they are after a real tour of duty.
These feelings were to me, atmospheric, and subtly evident, very early in my week at Southern Comfort. I did, therefore, what I could to have a seriousness of purpose, a listening posture, and as well as I can muster, a genuinely womanly, ladylike attitude and approach to each moment and encounter. Fortunately, all of that comes readily to me these days, much more so than in younger years.
Showing up, smiling and not falling off ones bar stool goes a long way. The circle did widen and welcome more and more over the course of the conference. For this I am grateful. As different as my path today seems from the paths of many new friends and acquaintances, we did, on the whole, manage to focus on commonly held experiences, perceptions, material and emotional desires, and the random bric-a-brac of everyday things miles away from matters of chemistry and biology, gender and wardrobe.
These new friends and acquaintances, above all, contribute to my happy anticipation of next years SCC. I will have another year of experiences tucked in under my belt, and perhaps be a better contributor to the life of our Pink Platoon. In the meantime, there will be a good handful of undercover sorties en Femme deep into Plain Vanilla territory. Not entirely friendly territory, and there are a growing number of sympathetic hearts out there too, partisans in the long battle for social justice, or something like it. I look forward to turning a few of them, and ducking whatever flack I might run into.
Comments from people who do identify as Transwomen particularly welcomed today. Thanks sincerely.
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As someone who has transitioned, I see "crossdressers" and all others as being at their particular stages of development. I don't look down on anyone.
- September 21, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Petra Bellejambes said...
Dear Jillian - thanks for the visit, the thought and the comment.
I agree, we are all at some stage of development.
I am not suggesting that any one group looks down on any other group. We all do look differently at one another sometimes, but hopefully with open eyes, hearts and etc.
Please visit again soon.
xxoo - Petra
- September 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Jerica Truax said...
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- September 21, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Petra Bellejambes said...
Dear Friend Jerica
You mention a wonderful word in your comment that somehow eluded the post. Respect.
You absolutely have mine, and I am glad to have earned yours.
So happy to see where you are today relative to a year ago, and how beautifully your voyage is going.
I will be sure to drop a line if I am up in the NW, but surely you will visit Atlanta next year so we can hang out a little. Won't you?
Love - Petra
- September 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Claire L Hallam said...
I like the idea of a Pink Platoon. I might try for a commission.
Jerrica made an insightful comment to your wonderful post.
I suppose those of us who are not on a journey of transition fall into a whole range between "would if I could" to "makes a better man of me". Even if I know I'll not make the journey, the latter description seems to miss something for me. Like a younger J, I am certainly confused, but crossdressing doesn't affirm or bolster a male "Me"; rather the me just seems to have more than one gender component. Not sure if this makes any sense, but thank you Petra for making me think again, and to your wonderful commentators for their insight.
- September 21, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- Petra Bellejambes said...
Claire, thanks so much for bringing your thoughts.
I think I get what you are saying. I think I suffer from it too, to a degree. The closer we look at something, the smaller the elements get, they atomize and disappear. But we have to try, yes?
Everyone else, please join in. This is the discussion I have been hoping for.
- September 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Petra Bellejambes said...
Claire, thanks so much for bringing your thoughts.
I think I get what you are saying. I think I suffer from it too, to a degree. The closer we look at something, the smaller the elements get, they atomize and disappear. But we have to try, yes?
Everyone else, please join in. This is the discussion I have been hoping for.
- September 21, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Couture Carrie said...
Gorgeous post, darling!
You look amazing!
And I love what you say about how cross-dressing has helped you re-create yourself!
- September 23, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Anne said...
I think this is a reat post and a GREAT and very important POV. There is a lot of acrimony ecause there are so many that simply choose to deny or fefuse to acknowledge the obvious differences of which you so clearly speak. This is not a question of hierachy or values, it is simply about different.
I salute you for your courage in admitting that..." if 'twer me, with Drivers License and Passport indicating "F", I would hold a little back from the Cross Dresser, recreational or not."
- September 26, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Tights Lover said...
Awesome post, Petra, and one I've been giving a lot of thought to the last few days.
It's a complex world you're discussing that involves so many people in so many different stages with so many ultimate goals in mind (to say nothing of those of us who still have no idea what the 'ultimate goal' is). Some 20+ years after this ride began, I often feel no closer to answering the 'motivation' question.
I particularly like the comment above from Jerica. Jerica certainly has my utmost respect as well for pushing aside all constraints and letting her true colors show.
I do understand the "make a better man out of me" argument. I think sometimes in life you can't give yourself exactly what you want but in these situations, often times, a little bit is better than nothing at all. You can't completely repress who you are forever. At least, not without the ensuing frustration and bitterness.
- September 27, 2010 at 12:43 PM
All in all, people no matter what label is put on them just deserve respect and happiness..if it makes you happy and complete, it is what is is.
Miss Neira
- September 27, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Another precious turn of phrase - yes, that check box clashes mightily with my stripes too - not so much the stripes on my clothes as the stripe of my being.
Forgive me for being blunt - at the same time both a failing and strength of mine - but "recreational crossdresser" is an awful phrase with very little nuance in establishing a hierarchy of tgirls with the "recreational" ones at the bottom.
Much too much to write in a comment - excellent fodder for a post of my own, no doubt - but suffice it to say I believe that we tgirls are far too varied in our experiences and attitudes and needs and motivations to be capable of being sensibly divided into just 2 groups.
And, please tell me if I am being overly sensitive when I translate that check-box choice into the following question: do you take yourself seriously at all?
- September 30, 2010 at 2:12 PM


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