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Haven't posted here in years, but I wanted to post an article I wrote for a Music of the '70s class I'm taking. Any comments are welcome. By the way, ProgArchives forum is my first citation.
-A. Noah
Prog Goes Punk
Prog Dies a Nasty Death:
and aggression. Its songs were loud, fast, and over before you knew it. Punk music appealed to a different class of music fans, both in Great Britain and the United States. They took comfort in punks three-chord song structure and literal lyrics, often expressions of frustration with authority or the system. Prog music, for many, represented the bourgeoisie. Its musicians were generally from middle-class, not lower class backgrounds, and its songs about dragons and wizards did not speak to a generation fed up with the financial, social, and political situation. More and more, critics and fans panned progressive rock for its pretension and inaccessibility. By 1975, classic prog was very much on its way out, and the New York punk scene was in full tilt.
Perhaps the style that best exemplified prog in its golden age was symphonic prog. In contrast with the darker, avant-garde brand of progressive rockepitomized by King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator symphonic prog used instrumentation and composition techniques influenced by classical music. The three icons to exemplify this style were Genesis, Yes, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (ELP). The bands, despite their influence and mainstream success, all began to decline by the mid-70s. Peter Gabriel, the flower-wearing visionary of Genesis early period, departed from the band in 1975, and guitarist Steve Hackett left two albums later to pursue a solo careerthe same year as the releases of The Clashs seminal debut and The Sex Pistols riotous Never Mind the Bollocks, Here s the Sex Pistols. Genesis, now a trio now led by drummer-turned-vocalist Phil Collins, took to a simpler, pop rock style, losing touch with their progressive roots. Yes faced a similar fate. Between 1969 and 1974, the band released seven acclaimed albums, after which many members recorded their own solo albums. Yes 1978 album, Tormato, released at the apex of Britains punk scene, was almost universally knocked by critics. More pop- oriented than any of their previous records, Yes still seemed to many to represent the failings of progs excess and pretension. Perhaps the most tragic tale of symphonic progs demise was that of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Among the showiest and most obnoxiously virtuosic, the band put out a number of critically acclaimed albums during the 70s. After a three-year hiatus, the band returned to the studio but suffered from internal conflicts, evident in their 77 album Works, in which each member took control of a side of the double-LP. Their final album, Love Beach, whose art featured the three members, open-shirted near the shoreline, dismayed even their most loyal fans. Critic John Kelman stated that in their fall from grace, [ELP] represented everything wrong with progressive rock,2 and DJ John Peel even described the band as a waste of talent and electricity.3
By the mid-to-late-70s, prog had more or less faded into the underground. The golden age had ended, and besides Yes, Genesis, and ELPs poppier releases, the best selling prog records were now by the bands that dominated the new FM format, album-oriented rock. In England, there were Electric Light Orchestra and The Alan Parsons Project, led by the producer of such titles as Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon; in the US, there were Styx and Journey. And lets not forget Canadas own Rush. The exception to the rule was Pink Floyd, who had been making weird sounds since progs inception. In the latter half of the 70s, they put out three platinum albums, each with a more ambitious concept than the last, culminating in November 1979s The Wall. Pink Floyd successfully seemed to evade the allure of pop and AOR. Moreover they gave not a single nod to the punks whose riffs and sneers had all but drowned out progs synths, a movement at least in part intended as a metaphorical loogie in the face of every Dark Side fan-boy. During their heyday, Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten was known to sport his Pink Floyd shirt with I HATE scrawled above the logo. In his 2004 autobiography, Floyd bassist Nick Mason explained the heavier, darker sound on Floyds 1977 Animals as a subconscious reaction by the punk genre that Pink Floyd made dinosaur rock.4 In a 2010 interview-editorial, Rotten, now John Lydon, told The Quietus that he loves Floyd. What I didnt like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of Oh, were so great. Theres no room for anybody else... [but] theyre not like that at all.5
Proto-Punk Glory:
One month before King Crimsons debut, Manchesters Van der Graaf Generator released their own debut. Like Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator employed a harsher sound than many of their contemporaries, in part due to singer and frontman Peter Hammills distinctive vocal delivery, similar to the yelling and talk-singing later emblematic of punk. The band excelled within progressive rock circles, admired for their lush instrumentation and unique compositions, though they differed in sound from their symphonic contemporaries. Part of the drive was just for it to be visceral, immediate, active, Hammill said in a 2008 interview-editorial with NPR. And actually, I think we picked up quite a lot of audience at that time who wouldnt have remotely dreamed of going to see ELP or Yes.8 After two more acclaimed albumsboth of which would feature Robert Frippthe group disbanded in 1972. Peter Hamill would go on to pursue a solo career, paying close attention to the explosion of new rock music, in particular New York Citys budding punk scene across the pond.
A third progressive band to employ a heavier, psychedelic sound was Londons Hawkwind. Like Pink Floyd, the band played a trippy, atmospheric brand of prog, known as space rock. They quickly garnered a following in the UK underground and became known for their impressive live performances, complete with extended jams, droning riffs, and a bevy of hallucinogens. Their third studio album, Doremi Fasol Latido (1972), and first live album, The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London (1973), recorded one month later, epitomized this sound, drawing upon a heavy brand of 60s garage-rock. Indeed, Hawkwind had some intriguing ties to punk. In a 1977 interview with Sounds, 70s Hawkwinds singer and frontman, Robert Calvertwhose second solo album was produced by Brian Enoconfessed that Johnny Rotten used to hang out with the band in their early days. He even asserted that the icon is proving that freedom of speech cannot be taken for granted in this country. In the same interview, Calvert described Doremi Fasol Latidos Urban Guerilla (track 1 on Companion CD) as a dangerous piece of work.9 The track, homage to the horrors of Northern Irelands Bloody Sunday, features a heavy riff and raucous vocals with a distinctly punk mentality. In Piero Scaruffis, A History of Rock Music: 1951-2000, the critic labels Hawkwinds gargantuan sound...[a] liaison between hippy culture and punk culture.10
Occupying a very different sphere of Londons progressive rock scene was Roxy Music. The band, whose members included Bryan Ferry (frontman and guitarist) and Brian Eno (synthesizer and treatments), among others, took influence in equal parts from pop/glam rock and progressive rock. Eno, whose treatments added to the bands experimental, electronic sound, found inspiration in New Yorks psychedelic/proto-punk heroes, the Velvet Underground, whose influence on both punk and art rock cannot be overstated. In a 1982 interview with Musician magazine, Eno said of the band: I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years...I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!11 Eno only stuck around with Roxy Music for their first two albums, Roxy Music (1972) and For Your Pleasure (1973), but these recordsand the bands subsequent few recordswould have a profound influence not only on later progressive rock but also on punk rock and New Wave. Re-Make/Re-Model (track 2 on Companion CD), the opener of their self-titled debut, features a traditional 50s song structure and punk talk-singing vocals by Ferry. The track, while certainly experimental in nature, demonstrates how early progressive bands were adopting punk-like musicality long before punks formal establishment. Editions of You, (track 3), from Roxys follow-up album, further exemplifies their punk leanings. The song, a short, bouncing rocker again features a very punk-like vocal delivery. Listening to Ferry yelping, And boys will be boys will be boy-ee-oy-oys, one cannot help but be reminded of David Byrne. Ultimately, Eno was put off by Ferrys controlling demeanor so, chock-full of ideas, Eno left the band, embarking on a fruitful solo career whose impact would be felt across a spectrum of musical eras and genres.
In other parts of Europe, progressive rock did not follow the trend of English symphonic progs shift in the direction of pop rock. Perhaps the most eclectic and developed movement outside of England was Germanys Krautrock scene, which included bands like Can, Faust, Neu!, and Kraftwerk. Krautrock, an umbrella term to describe the experimental music coming out of Germany in the 70s, took influence from a variety of sources, chiefly psychedelic, jazz, and electronic music. The term itself holds few connotations about the stylein an interview in The Wire, Faust stated, When the English people started talking about Krautrock, we thought they were just taking the piss...and when you hear the so-called Krautrock renaissance, it makes me think everything we did was for nothing.12yet many of the bands shared musical and production techniques. One such trait was Krautrocks motorik beat, a term adopted by Anglos to describe the driving, ostinato 4/4 rhythm associated with certain German bands, similar in many ways to rhythms used by New York punk bands and later post-punk bands.
One oft-cited proto-punk album is Fausts fourth release, aptly titled Faust IV (1973). While no doubt a prog record, full of stylistic and tempo changes, it has a markedly punk feel to it. In addition to the rhythms, its uneven, dark vocal delivery in certain tracks, especially on The Sad Skinhead (track 4) is reminiscent of what would later become a staple of post-punk. The songs backbone, a motorik beat and repetitive, twanging guitar line, is complemented by its consciously obtuse lyrics describing a Neo-Nazi. Likewise, Düsseldorfs Neu!, an early offshoot of KraftwerkAutobahn, anyone?took a similar proto-punk approach, in particular on their 1975 album, Neu! 75. Its side-two opener, Hero, (track 5) despite being seven minutes in length, is pure punk, complete with sneering, unintelligible vocals, motorik beat, and distorted guitar riff. Unlike most prog rockand like punk rockKrautrock relies on simpler lyrics with more concrete themes, though in other cases the lyrics are merely placeholders, often incomprehensible, with no definite meaning.
By early 1975, Peter Hammill, a solo artist with renewed interest in reforming Van der Graaf Generator, had already released his fifth solo album, Nadir s Big Chance. In the liner notes, he referenced his beefy punk songs and can therefore lay claim as the first British musician to use the term on an album.13 Nadir s Big Chance, unlike its predecessors, assumed a punk-like style. Its punk-inspired title track and opener (track 6) assumes the stance of a young rocker who is fed up with rocks glam side: I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance / to tell you what I think about the music thats gone down / to which you madly danced. / Frankly, you know that it stinks. / Im gonna scream, gonna shout, gonna play my guitar / until your bodys rigid and you see stars. / Look at all the jerks in their tinsel glitter suits / pansying around; look at all the nerks / in their leather platform boots, making with the heavy sound. / I'm gonna stamp on the stardust and scream till Im ill / if the guitar don't get ya, the drums will. It ends with the line, Smash the system, smash the song! Rikki Nadir is in fact one of Hammills many alter egos; this one a sixteen year old with a strong penchant for disorder and noise.14 Sound familiar? Nadir s Big Chance even made an impact on Johnny Rotten, who described Hammill as a true original while guest DJ-ing a British radio show in 1977. He selected two tracks by Hammill in his set, including Nobodys Business, (track 7) which Rotten explained as being about punks. He didnt mean it to be, but its true.15 In the final line of Pushing Thirty, from his 1978 album The Future Now, Hammill declares that he can still be Nadir.
Fripp and Eno Take on NYC:
Everything about [Brian Eno] is a contradiction. He's a Serious Composer who doesnt know how to read music. A rock star who doesnt have a band and never tours...A man who (artistically speaking) goes to bed with machines and lets chance processes shape his creations, yet dismisses most other modern experimental composers as lacking heart, dead from the neck down. Everybody's favorite synthesizer player, who says he hates the instrument.16
And that only begins to describe Enos contribution. He was a self-proclaimed non-musician yet remained at the forefront of musical discovery throughout the 1970s and beyond, immersing himself in and revolutionizing every style from art rock to ambient to electronic to punk. In the late 70s, graffiti began to appear all over the New York subways, stating: ENO IS GOD.17
Less than a year after parting with Roxy Music and only two months after the release of his first ambient collaboration, (No Pussyfooting) (1973), with his pal Robert Fripp, Eno released his provocatively titled solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets in January 1974. The album was an ambitious project; it featured John Wetton and Fripp of King Crimson, Simon King of Hawkwind, all the members of Roxy Music minus Ferry, and many others. Eno claimed that he got them together merely because I wanted to see what happens when you combine different identities like that and allow them to compete...organized with the knowledge that there might be accidents, accidents which will be more interesting than what I had intended.18 The album was met with almost universal acclaim. Even Robert Christgau, then of Creem, conceded that the album was actually...quite engaging in a vaguely Velvet Underground kind of way.19 Eno pays respect to a variety of disparate styles, from the pop/glam rock of Roxy Music to avant-garde to50s rock n roll. The lyrics were formed from nonsense and free-association words and phrases that Eno would sing over the mixed tracks, a style far removed from the proper vocal delivery of bands like Genesis and Yes. In the Bo Diddley-inspired Blank Frank (track 8), Enos Cockney accent and whiny, inexact vocals evoke a certain Johnny Rotten/John Lydon, while in Babys on Fire, he sings with a nasally sneer, sounding a little too much like Tom Verlaine. Indeed, while in New York later that year, Eno met with Television. Having liked what he saw at CBGB, Eno put together a demo of the band. However, Verlaine disliked the final product,20 and Enos label, Island Records, decided not to sign the band, which in part led to Richard Hells departure from Television. When asked about the demo in a 2002 interview with Rocks Backpages, Hell replied, It was really excruciating going in and doing that. I mean, that has nothing to do with me. Im just a robot playing bass.21
One month after the release of the Eno-produced Fear by Velvet Underground veteran John Cale, Eno released his second solo effort, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), also from 1974. On it, he picked up where he left off with Here Come the Warm Jets, further honing his musical experimentation, electronic treatments, and production techniques. To stimulate the creative process in the studioagain, Eno elicited the help of many guest musicianshe and fellow artist Peter Schmidt developed Oblique Strategies, a set of cards (still published today) containing phrases or cryptic remarks intended to provide artistic inspiration, such as What would your closest friend do? or Ask your body. The album demonstrates Enos ambient leanings, featuring more instrumentals than its predecessor, but also hints at punk, especially with his fantastic proto-punk track Third Uncle, (track 9) the side-two opener. It begins with rapid, repetitive bass guitar interplay, and after 80 seconds, the snotty vocals come in: There are tins. / There was pork. / There are legs. / There are sharks. /There was john. / There are cliffs. / There was mother. / Theres a poker. / There was you. / Then there was you. The track sounds like something that would come out of the post-punk era five years later, yet it fell right in the middle of an album by a glam-rocker-turned- ambient-wizard. On The True Wheel, Eno chants, We saw The Lovers / The Modern Lovers / And they looked very good. / They looked as if they could. In hindsight, its obvious to which city Eno would soon turn his attention.
After another solo release, September 1975s Another Green World, Octobers ambient Discreet Music released on Enos own label, Obscure Recordsand Decembers new collaboration with Robert Fripp, Evening Star, Eno traveled in late 1976 to Germany to aid David Bowie in what would later be known as his Berlin Trilogy. The trilogy would explore Bowies most avant-garde side with extensive contributions from Eno, who helped out with both composition and production. Low (1977), the first in the trilogy, was influenced both by Krautrock acts like Kraftwerk and art punk acts like Londons Wire. The album was a favorite of many post-punk groups, like Joy Division, who initially called themselves Warsaw in tribute to Bowies track Warszawa. Similarly, the next Eno/Bowie record in his series, Heroes, was a nod to Neu!s 1975 rocker, Hero. Robert Frippwhom Eno flew in for a single day to recordperforms prominently on guitar, especially on the famed title track. After recording, Heroes, Eno moved to New York for good.
Eno quickly immersed himself in New York Citys rich musical culture. In Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, Will Hermes asserts, Eno would stroll Lower Manhattan like a native New York flaneur: he might see Philip Glass eating fries at Phebes, chat a bit, then drag him to CBGB. There, he might run into David Byrne, and head off with him for a nightcap. He liked this town.22 He and Fripp even took Bowie to see the unsigned art punk/New Wave band, Devo; Eno would later produce their 1978 debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Around this time, Eno released his fourth vocal solo album, Before and After Science (1977), two years in the making. It featured a number of Krautrock musicians, including the group Cluster, with whom Eno had released Cluster & Eno the previous year. The album, overall smoother and more sterile than Enos previous vocal albums, still demonstrated a punk influence. In his 1978 review for Village Voice, Lester Bangs described Kings Lead Hat (track 10)an anagram for Talking Headsas a song that embodied Eno's affinities with New Wave in its rushed mechanical rhythms.23 The most boisterous and dynamic of any on the album and featuring a blistering solo courtesy of Fripp, the track is very reminiscent of the Heads. Indeed, it had been originally intended for the Talking Heads to play on, though this never worked out due to scheduling conflicts.24 Unruffled, Eno pursued the next best option.
Eno went on to produce the CBGB headliners subsequent three albumstheir second, third, and fourth to much critical success. Eno took the band in new, creative directions, enabling experiments in New Wave, post- punk and even afro-beat, inspired by Nigerian musician and composer Fela Kuti. Eno descried his collaboration with the Talking Heads as the best working relationship I've ever had within rock music.25 Eno would go on to release two more collaborations with Byrne, the experimental/electronic My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) and the gospel-inspired Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008).
Perhaps Enos most unique production effort, and certainly the furthest removed from his proggy origins, was the 1978 compilation album, No New York. No New York featured songs by four different bands and is considered the best example of New Yorks late-70s No Wave scene. No Wave, part of the larger post-punk category, drew on a variety of influencespunk, jazz, funk, and avant-gardeto create some of the noisiest and most abrasive punk rock to date. Eno, witnessing the scene unfold, proposed he produce a compilation to document it. Unlike many of Enos other collaborations, Eno did not play on the album or attempt to inspire the musicians, and he did very little mixing for the bands. In an interview with Musician, Eno told Bangs that, in No Wave, things sound really messy, and its a kind of mess that Ive never had on anything before. I like it a lot, its a sort of jungle sound, really. And theres a peculiar perspective to it, so that everythings upfront but theres this very wide space behind it: it's a new production technique Ive discovered.26 There was truly no end to Enos experimentation. Through his method of organized chaos and accidental structure, Eno defied the way musicians typically approached composition and production. In a 1992 interview with Reflex magazine, Robert Fripp stated: [Enos] set of procedures is not as formally defined as a set of procedures which a musician would use. Which is one reason why Eno is very refreshing to work with. Musicians tend to know what theyre doing, and sometimes thats terrible.27
Robert Fripp was a bit little later to the punk game than Eno. After disbanding King Crimson and a couple mandatory Eno collaborations, Fripp took a few years away from the music industry. He returned to the studio to play guitar on Peter Gabriels post-Genesis, untitled debut (1977). During Gabriels tour in support of the album, Fripp, the unassuming eccentric that he was, would remain out of sight, either in the wings or behind the curtain. For the follow-up album, also untitled (1978), Gabriel invited Fripp to play guitar as well as produce. One of its tracks, Exposure would become the title of Fripps solo debut. At this time, Gabriel was known perform a punk-inspired version of Procol Harums A Whiter Shade of Pale, but it was likely in jest. It had to be. It was just too bad.28
In 1977, Fripp officially relocated to Hells Kitchen and plunged headfirst into its now flourishing punk scene. ...When I came to live in New York in 1977, and there was punk and New Wave, it was alive! he told Reflex. When asked why a prog musician would embrace punk and New Wave, Fripp responds It's a question of what nourishes you in music, what is alive. In terms of eclecticism, musical form is secondary.29 Fripp fell in love with the New York punk bands, even making an unsuccessful attempt to revive Television with himself as lead guitarist in 78; they had disbanded shortly the release of their poorly selling sophomore effort.30 It seems oddly poetic that Fripp and Eno would bookend Televisions career, both with unsuccessful attempts to vitalizeor revitalizetheir sound. Fripp went on to play with CBGB darlings, Blondie, both live and on their 1978 album, Parallel Lines, as well as on the Eno-produced Talking Heads album, Fear of Music (1979).
Exposure, also from 1979, launched Fripps solo career a full ten years after King Crimsons debut; Hammill and Eno waited only two years. The album was an oddball collection of sounds and collaborations, and while perhaps a tad closer to prog than punk, the style truly defies classification. Its opener, You Burn Me Up Im a Cigarette (track 11), is a 50s-sounding punk rocker, sung by Daryl Hall, of all people. Fripp had produced the ex- Hall and Oates vocalists 1980 debut, Sacred Songs (recorded in 1977), and considered Hall to be the best vocalist he had ever worked with. The album, along with Exposure and Gabriels sophomore effort, formed a loose trilogy of Fripp-induced madness, featuring his patented system of tape-looping, inspired by minimalist Terry Riley, which came to be known Frippertronics. Other prominent guests on the album were Gabriel, who rerecorded a sparser version of the track Here Comes the Flood from his debut, and the lovely Peter Hammill, who is featured on two tracks. The latter, titled I May Not Have Had Enough Of Me But I've Had Enough Of You (track 12), a duet with Hammill and Terre Roche (of the Fripp-produced folk act, The Roches) is a raucous and repetitive track with harsh punk-like vocals: That is / the way it / is because / it is / that way. / It is / that way / in that / it is / the way / it is. The track Hååden Two, among the more experimental on the album, features a spoken-word sample by Fripp himself: incredibly dismal, pathetic chord sequence. If anything, the album proved that Fripp did not take himself too seriously, something that had become a serious affliction for many prog musicians.
In 1980, Fripp finally achieved his dream of forming a New Wave band, called The League of Gentlemen, featuring members with ties to post-punk/New Wave bands Gang of Four, The B-52s, and XTC. The act toured extensively but was short-lived, surviving only their self-titled debut (1981). Later that year, Fripp opted to reform King Crimson (which had been previously been over for ever and ever), employing a second guitarist, Adrian Belew, previously of David Bowie and Talking Heads fame. The first three albums of Crimsons new incarnation, while prog to the bone, absorbed some of the New Wave influence Fripp had picked up during his stint in the Big Apple, a city he described as working three times the speed of London.31
In a 2004 interview with Peter Hammill, regarding Exposure, Daryl Easlea comments: You were as cool as anything at that point. There was a certain glamourous coterie with you, Eno, Fripp, Bowieyou could have changed everything? Hammill replies with great insight:
I suppose it was the last time when there seemed to be a lot of alternate possibilities in music. David Byrne, Eno; there were a lot of people who were trying to do something with the broad church of rock musicit encompassed everything from King Crimson to punk. That was probably the last time that that happened, mainly because the music business became the music industry shortly thereafter, and absolute niche marketing began to come in. It was a totally natural thing for me at that point to go to New York...32
Hammill touches on a number of points essential to this essay. First, New Yorks punk scene, far more artistic and robust than Londonsand certainly more hip than its waning prog scenewas the clear destination for any musician wanting to embrace the new wave. Secondly, the mid-to-late-70s, despite the demise of classic prog, were truly an era of unbridled invention. While symphonic prog did not survive the onset of punk, prog had by no means died off. It had indeed manifested into an even more eclectic mix of art rock, experimental, electronic, and even straightforward pop. Brian Eno never slowed for a second; Hammill reformed Van der Graaf Generator in 1975 to release four more successful albums in addition to countless solo efforts. Even Fripp, a little late to the scene, eventually reformed King Crimson. Despite their efforts, as the 80s rapidly approached, the music business became the music industry as Hammill puts it, and more than ever, music-making was synonymous with moneymaking. But even as punk became New Wave and New Wave became synthpop, the spirit of experimentation lived on. If anything, Hammill, Eno, and Fripp proved that to stay contemporary, we must both have an openness to new ideas, mainstream and underground, and a regard for those who came before us. In doing so, these musiciansor non-musicianscreated a realm in which prog and punk could not only coexist; they could even thrive.
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A good read, but I do disagree on your position on Rush:
That sounds like you lump them in with the Prog bands that went AOR/pop, while Rush in 1980-1984 stands as one of the greatest examples of a Prog band adapting to the times and producing some of their best work in the process.
Tracks like 'Vital Signs', 'Subdivisions' and the entire 'Grace Under Pressure' are a great mix of new wave and prog.
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Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, or Hugo de Groot; Delft, 10 April 1583 – Rostock, 28 August 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.
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- Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.
- As quoted in The Word Book Complete Word Power Library, Volume 1 (1981), p. 324
- Even God cannot make two times two not make four.
- As quoted in Delbert D. Thiessen (ed.), A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides, p. 18
- Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.
- As quoted in Wendy Toliver (ed.), The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes, p. 466
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Here is the complete text of this article from page 4 of The Denver Post, April 19, 1912:
Archibald Butt is dead.
The man who was so proud of the uniform he wore for Uncle Sam died a death that will make the nations of the world respect that uniform; the man so chivalrous in the grand places of the world stood with death staring him in the face and was still chivalrous.
There he stood on the deck of the sinking Titanic, watching the lifeboats loaded and with the bravery unequaled, forcing crazy men to stand back and make room for women and children.
Every man who wears the uniform of the United States, whether on sea or land, must feel his heart swell with pride when he reads the story of Archibald Butt. The captain of the ship stood on the bridge of his pride and waited for the summons of death that would come with the final plunge of the vessel, while Archibald Butt was down on the deck working with a desperation that death alone knows to save life. Not his life, but the lives of the women in the first, second and third cabins, and in the steerage.
Self-preservation is the first law of cowards, and Archibald Butt was no coward.


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xargs command in unix or Linux is a powerful command used in conjunction with find and grep command in UNIX to divide a big list of arguments into small list received from standard input. find and grep command produce long list of file names and we often want to either remove them or do some operation on them but many unix operating system doesn't accept such a long list of argument. UNIX xargs command divide that list into sub-list with acceptable length and made it work. This Unix tutorial is in continuation of my earlier post on Unix like 10 examples of chmod command in Unix and How to update soft link in Linux. If you haven't read those unit tutorial than check them out. By the way In this tutorial we will see different example of unix xargs command to learn how to use xargs command with find and grep and other unix command and make most of it. Though what you can do with xargs in unix can also be done by using options provided in find but believe xargs is much easy and powerful.
Unix Xargs command example
Following is list of examples of xargs command which shows how useful knowledge of xargs can be. Feel free to copy and use this command and let me know if it didn't work in any specific Unix operating system like AIX or Solaris.
Xargs Example 1- with and without xargs
in this example of xargs command we will see how output changes with use of xargs command in unix or Linux. Here is the output of find command without xargs first and than with xargs, you can clearly see that multiline output is converted into single line:
devuser@system:/etc find . -name "*bash*"
devuser@system:/etc find . -name "*bash*" | xargs
./bash.bashrc ./bash.bash_logout ./defaults/etc/bash.bashrc ./defaults/etc/bash.bash_logout ./defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc ./defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile ./postinstall/bash.sh.done ./setup/bash.lst.gz ./skel/.bashrc ./skel/.bash_profile
devuser@system:/etc find . -name "*bash*" | xargs
./bash.bashrc ./bash.bash_logout ./defaults/etc/bash.bashrc ./defaults/etc/bash.bash_logout ./defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc ./defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile ./postinstall/bash.sh.done ./setup/bash.lst.gz ./skel/.bashrc ./skel/.bash_profile
Xargs Example 2 – xargs and grep
Another common use fo unix xargs command is to first find the files and then look for specific keyword on that file using grep command. here is an example of xargs command that does it
find . -name "*.java" | xargs grep "Stock"
This will first find all java files from current directory or below and than on each java file look for word "Stocks"if you have your development environment setup in Linux or unix this is a great tool to find function references or class references on java files.
Xargs Example 3 – delete temporary file using find and xargs
Another common example of xargs command in unix is removing temporary files from system.
find /tmp -name "*.tmp" | xargs rm
This will remove all .tmp file from /tmp or below directory. xargs in unix is very fast as compared to deleting single file at a time which can also be done by using find command alone. By the way this is also a very popular Unix interview question.
Xargs Example 4 – xargs -0 to handle space in file name
Above example of xargs command in unix will not work as expected if any of file name contains space or new line on it. to avoid this problem we use find -print0 to produce null separated file name and xargs-0 to handle null separated items. Here is an example of xargs command in unix which can handle file name with spaces and newline:
find /tmp -name "*.tmp" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Xargs Example 5 – xargs and cut command in Unix
Though most of xargs examples in unix will be along with find and grep command but xargs is not just limited to this two it can also be used with any command which generated long list of input for example we can use xargs with cut command in unix. In below example of unix xargs we will xargs example with cut command. for using cut command let's first create a .csv file with some data e.g.
devuser@system:/etc cat smartphones.csv
Now we will display name of mobile companies from first column using xargs command in one line:
devuser@system:/etc cut -d, -f1 smartphones.csv | sort | xargs
HTC Iphone LG Samsung
HTC Iphone LG Samsung
xargs Example 6 – command convert muti line output into single line
One more common example of xargs commands in Linux is by converting output of one command into one line. For example you can run any command and then combine xargs to convert output into single line. here is an example xargs in unix which does that.
devuser@system:~/perl ls -1 *.txt
devuser@system:~/perl ls -1 *.txt | xargs
derivatives.txt futures.txt fx.txt options.txt stock.txt swaps.txt
devuser@system:~/perl ls -1 *.txt | xargs
derivatives.txt futures.txt fx.txt options.txt stock.txt swaps.txt
Xargs Example 7 - Counting number of lines in each file using xargs and find.
In this example of xargs command in unix we will combine "wc" with xargs and find to count number of lines in each file, just like we did in our previous example with grep where we tried to find specific word in each Java file.
devuser@system:~/perl ls -1 *.txt | xargs wc -l
0 derivatives.txt
2 futures.txt
0 fx.txt
1 options.txt
3 stock.txt
0 swaps.txt
0 derivatives.txt
2 futures.txt
0 fx.txt
1 options.txt
3 stock.txt
0 swaps.txt
Xargs command Example 7 - Passing subset of arguments to xargs in Linux.
Some commands in unix can only work at certain number of argument e.g. diff command needs two argument. when used with xargs you can use flag "-n" to instruct xargs on how many argument it should pass to given command. this xargs command line option is extremely useful on certain situation like repeatedly doing diff etc. xargs in unix or Linux will continue to pass argument in specified number until it exhaust all input. here is an example of unix xargs command with limited argument:
devuser@system:~/perl ls -1 *.txt | xargs -n 2 echo
derivatives.txt futures.txt
fx.txt options.txt
stock.txt swaps.txt
derivatives.txt futures.txt
fx.txt options.txt
stock.txt swaps.txt
In this example, xargs is passing just two files at a time to echo as specified with "-n 2" xargs command line option.
Xargs example 9 - avoid "Argument list too long"
xargs in unix or Linux was initially use to avoid "Argument list too long" errors and by using xargs you send sub-list to any command which is shorter than "ARG_MAX" and that's how xargs avoid "Argument list too long" error. You can see current value of "ARG_MAX" by using getconf ARG_MAX. Normally xargs own limit is much smaller than what modern system can allow, default is 4096. You can override xargs sub list limit by using "-s" command line option.
Xargs Example 10 – find –exec vs find + xargs
xargs with find command is much faster than using -exec on find. since -exec runs for each file while xargs operates on sub-list level. to give an example if you need to change permission of 10000 files xargs with find will be almost 10K time faster than find with -exec because xargs change permission of all file at once. For more examples of find and xargs see my post 10 frequently used find command examples in Linux
Important points on xargs command in Unix and Linux
Now let's revise some important points about xargs command in Unix which is worth remembering :
1. An important point to note about xargs is that it doesn't handle files which has newlines or white space in its name and to avoid this problem one should always use "xargs -0". xargs -o change separator to null character so its important that input feed to xargs is also use null as separator. for example gnu find command use -print0 to produce null separated file names.
2. Xargs command receives command from standard input which is by default separated with space or newlines and
execute those commands, you can still use double quotes or single quote to group commands.
3. If you don't give any command to xargs in unix, default command executed by xargs is /bin/echo and it will simply display file names.
4. One rare problem with xargs is end of file string, by default end of file string is "_" and if this string occurs in input the rest of input is ignored by xargs. Though you can change end of file string by using option "-eof".
5. Use man xargs or xargs --help to get help on xargs online while working in unix or Linux.
In short xargs command in Unix or Linux is an essential tool which enhances functionality of front line commands like find, grep or cut and gives more power to your shell script. These xargs command examples are good start for anyone wants to learn more about xargs command.Though these xargs examples are tested in Linux environment they will applicable for other Unix systems likes Solaris or AIX also. let us know if you face any issue while using these examples.
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In case anyone was worried that Disney and Marvel wouldn't make a sequel to the film with the highest opening weekend gross of all-time (by far, I might add), Disney CEO Bob Iger is here to alleviate your concerns. Per Deadline, Iger announced that the studio is developing a sequel to The Avengers, adding that the film's success "is a great illustration of why we like Marvel so much." Anyone who sat through the film's credits should have a good idea of where The Avengers 2 could go villain-wise, but I think the key to a follow-up will be the return of Joss Whedon as writer/director. He is the reason The Avengers is a good film as opposed to simply an expensive film, and his recipe of humor, character development, and pure entertainment made for one of the most enjoyable moviegoing experiences in a long time. Hit the jump for more.
[Update: It appears Iger's quote was taken out of context, and he actually said that there will "hopefully" be another Avengers. Nevertheless, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion at this point. More after the jump.]
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has already talked extensively about building towards The Avengers 2, and during an interview with Steve he mentioned that they have an option to bring Whedon back as director for The Avengers 2. Steve asked Whedon himself if he would consider returning for the sequel, and he confirmed that Marvel does have an option. I sincerely hope that everyone at Disney and Marvel understands how integral Whedon was to the success of this film, and I'm crossing my fingers that he comes onboard to develop The Avengers 2 from the ground-up.
You can catch up on all of the development towards The Avengers 2 right here, and be sure to check out the latest episode of our podcast The Collision in which we talk about all-thing Avengers and where things might go for the sequel. Also, if you missed it, check out Matt's rundown of which Avengers rumors turned out to be true and which ones were way, way off.
[Update: Coming Soon hipped us to the actual interview between Iger and CNBC where said Avengers talk took place, and here's the quote of interest:
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So in essence, Disney hasn't officially announced the commencement of development on The Avengers 2, but it's still going to happen. There's still an untitled Marvel movie slated for release in 2014, so hopefully at this year's Comic-Con the studio will announce that property and possibly confirmation of (or a release date for) The Avengers 2.]


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Week fourteen of the session is done. We have run through nearly all the minor bills and work continues on the remaining four major issues. These four issues are: the budget, property tax reform, education reform, and medical care for poverty level citizens (Healthy Iowa Plan vs. Medicare Expansion). One other issue remaining is the Farm Landowner Liabili
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Late this past week the House members of the Education conference committee made another offer to their Senate counterparts in an effort to find common ground and achieve an agreement on the plan. The House stood firm on supplemental state aid and one-time funding plan as well as the policy outlined in House File 215, but yielded on several policy points the Senate had indicated they needed, as well as yielding on beginning teacher pay salary minimum by increasing it from $32,000 per year to $33,500. If accepted, this agreement would provide significant funding increases to the schools as well as implement a teacher career ladder and other reforms. It also would provide our Homeschool and Private school families with significant improvements in policy. Hopefully we will reach an agreement this coming week.
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Oh no! It looks like the Little Mermaid's fishy bottom half was severed from her body and drifted ashore. Paw Nation reports that this creature washed up on South Carolina's Folly Beach.
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Phil Everly never got to be his own man. He was always - and always will be - Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers.
Phil and Don Everly, who had been singing together since they were children on their parents' radio show, were tied together in ways few brothers ever were. And it was a constant source of frustration and anger for both of them.
After the duo broke up - rather publicly, during a farewell performance at Knott's Berry Farm in 1973, with Don so drunk he couldn't remember lyrics and Phil smashing his guitar and walking offstage halfway through the show - neither could find any work as a solo act. Nobody wanted to see one Everly brother.
Phil Everly, who died last week at age 74 of heart failure, wrote a book with his brother on harmony vocals in rock 'n' roll. The Beatles were only one of the many singing groups who modeled their vocal sound on the Everlys. Their hits from the '50s and '60s remain among the most effervescent, richly emotional vocal performances in rock.
Their harmonies began in their DNA - blood harmony - a trait the Everlys shared with the Wilson brothers of the Beach Boys and the Gibb brothers of the Bee Gees, among others. Don Everly sang the leads and Phil found the harmony. They sang from a place that can't be learned - it was instinctive.
After they broke up, Phil Everly made a handful of fine solo albums. He cut one song, "The Air That I Breathe," that was covered by the Hollies in 1974 and became a Top 10 hit. Phil Everly's musical director was a young, unknown musician named Warren Zevon (Phil Everly apparently once suggested to Zevon that he write a song called "Werewolves of London"). Nobody noticed the albums.
His brother Don had already discovered that the same fate awaited his superstar-laden 1970 solo album, supervised by Hollywood producer Lou Adler, about the same time that Adler produced Carole King's "Tapestry," the biggest-selling album ever at the time.
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These two brothers could fight. They refused to do joint interviews and posed for photographs together only by appointment. Their contract called for not only separate dressing rooms but also separate stage entrances. "I don't know," Phil Everly once told me. "You're up there nose-to-nose at the microphone and pretty soon, he starts breathing your air."
It was a biblical torture. Two brothers forced together, unable to make their separate ways in the world, dependent and resentful of each other the whole way.
When the pair reunited in 1984 - and British rocker Dave Edmunds produced the lovely comeback hit written for them by Paul McCartney, "On the Wings of a Nightingale" - they were at the absolute height of their powers. The concerts were transcendent. Their voices were welded together, floating and spinning around each other with an almost mystical connection. The reunion was short-lived.
Their last appearances came as special guests on the 2004 reunion tour of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, another singing duo familiar with conflict. The Everlys sang background vocals on the title track to Simon's 1984 album, "Graceland."Read Full Article
Opposite personalities
The two brothers couldn't have been more dissimilar. When they were out on the road together, Don was a raucous, outgoing, life-of-the-party type, while his brother was a quiet, cordial and soft-spoken gentleman.
A mutual friend, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, sent me to meet Phil Everly backstage at a show at the Circle Star Theatre in the late '80s. A loud party spilled out of one dressing room into the hallway. A bunch of biker types and their ladies crowded into the room, drinking bourbon out of Styrofoam cups. In the center of the throng was Don Everly.
Down the hall, at the far end of the corridor, in another dressing room, sitting on an upended suitcase and looking at a magazine all by himself, was Phil Everly. He was glad to have company.
Joel Selvin is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior pop music correspondent. E-mail: email@example.com


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How to feed SQL batchfiles to MySQL as a Tool menu command
Using MySQL from Textpad.
Thanks to Textpad Support for the pointer : Run mysql from a .BAT file
Setup:1. Write a batch file (mysql.bat) which contains the one line:
mysql -vvv < %1 Place it anywhere on your PATH - I use C:\2. In textpad:Configure:Preferences:Tools:Add...
Command: c:\mysql.bat Parameters: $File Initial Folder: $FileDir Capture Output ON
3. Write your sql file, but the first line must say which database to use.
use test; create table noch_try( jnum int, jwrd varchar(50) ); show tables;4. Run the Tool.
5. Result :
-------------- create table noch_try( jnum int, jwrd varchar(50) ) -------------- Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) -------------- show tables -------------- +-----------------+ | Tables_in_test | +-----------------+ | event | | imptest | | noch_try | | pet | +-----------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)Of course, thereafter, for any alterations to the table you will have to write a drop table or something before the CREATE command.
Putting data into MySQL tables from TextpadUse:
mysqlimport [options] database textfile1
[Section 14.6 of mySQL Manual gives options]
Configure for MySQL import in Textpad:Configure:Preferences:Tools:Add...
Command: C:\mysql\bin\mysqlimport.exe Parameters: --local --fields-terminated-by=^ -v database $File Directory: $FileDir Set prompt ON, to edit in the 'database' you are using each time.Name the base name of your file same as the table you want to write to :
Example Session ;
mysql> use test; -- This is the database I am going to make the table in Database changed mysql> create table try_it(num int, wrd varchar(50)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) -- that's the table made.
2. Create your input data in Textpad, and save (UNIX format) with same basename as the table (So in try_it.txt)
1^This is the first one^ 2^A second Entry^ 3^My separator is seldom used in text^ 4^Note that separator is used also at the end^ 5^Because it marks cell termination.^ 6^Far handier for inputting data to tables^ 7^Also, save in UNIX format for correct^ 8^Line endings (Record Termination)^ 9^Pretty useful.^
3. Run the Tool from Textpad : (At the prompt set database to test).
Connecting to localhost Selecting database test Loading data from LOCAL file: C:/Windows/DESKTOP/try_it.txt into try_it test.try_it: Records: 9 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 9 Disconnecting from localhost Process completed successfully
4. Check the table back in mysql :
mysql> select * from try_it; +------+======================================-------+ | num | wrd | +------+======================================-------+ | 1 | This is the first one | | 2 | A second Entry | | 3 | My separator is seldom used in text | | 4 | Note that separator is used also at the end | | 5 | Because it marks cell termination. | | 6 | Far handier for inputting data to tables | | 7 | Also, save in UNIX format for correct | | 8 | Line endings (Record Termination) | | 9 | Pretty useful. | +------+======================================-------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
This tip was contributed by: John Montgomery
How to Configure Ctags as a tool in TextPad.
Ctags can generate an index table and send it to TextPad's command results window. You can download Ctags from:
In TextPad configure a DOS tool with the following setup:
Parameters: ctags -x -R | grep "^$Sel\>"
Regular Expression: ^[[:alnum:]_]+ +[a-z ]+\([0-9]+\) +\([^ ]+\)
File Register = 2
Set your initial folder to point to the top of your source code tree that you wish to search.
Note: for this to work, both ctags and grep must be in your path. We use the "grep" available when you install the cygwin toolset. Availble from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ (you could use MKS tools as well.) The beauty of the ctags tool is that it supports C, C++, PERL, Java, Fortran, and many more.
To operate, highlight the keyword you wish to search for, invoke the tool, and double click on the resulting line in the command results window.
This tip was contributed by: David Vanden Heuvel, Software Designer, Zucotto Systems, Inc.
How to utilize Ctags to jump to the definition of any identifier.1. Download "Exuberant Ctags" to create the ctags file. Its available free from: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
2. Create a ctags file for your software. Use the -n option so the file will contain line numbers.
3. Compile the C++ program listed at the end of the e-mail. If you need a C++ compile, DJGPP is free from: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
4. Create a Tools entry for the program:
Command: <enter the name of the C++ program> Parameters: <ctags file name> $SelWord Initial Folder: $FileDir Options Set: Capture Output and Suppress Output Until Complete Regular Expression: ^.*, (.*), ([0-9]+) File: 1 Line: 25. Now you can just place the carat on the identifier and execute the tool. When the Output screen appears just double-click on the entry you wish to jump to.
C++ program to file the ctags file:
// C++ program to dump ever occurrance of a given tag in a tag file // Usage: <prog> <tag file> <tag> #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <cstring> #include <cctype> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { // check for correct number of arguments if (argc != 3) { // strip path from progam name const char* prg = argv[0]; const char* const fslash = strrchr(prg, '/'); const char* const bslash = strrchr(prg, '\\'); if (fslash && bslash) prg = fslash > bslash ? fslash + 1 : bslash + 1; else if (fslash) prg = fslash + 1; else if (bslash) prg = bslash + 1; cerr << "Usage: " << prg << " <tag file> <tag>" << endl; return -1; } ifstream f(argv[1]); if (!f) { cerr << "Failed to open file." << endl; return -1; } string tag(argv[2]), ftag, file, type, tmp; unsigned line; while (f && !f.eof()) { f >> ftag; if (ftag == tag) { f >> file >> line; getline(f, tmp); // get remainer of line // look for type infomation type = ""; int pos = tmp.find(";\""); if (pos >= 0) { // skip whitespace pos += 2; while (isspace(tmp[pos])) ++pos; type = string(", ") + tmp.substr(pos); } cout << ftag << ", " << file << ", " << line << type << endl; } else getline(f, tmp); // disgard line } return 0; }
This tip was contributed by: Rich Herrick, Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems, Owego, NY
TextPad can be used as a great editor for VBScript code.
You can run your VBScript (*.vbs) file from within TextPad by by creating a new tool.
1. From the "Configure" menu select "Preferences"
Add "Explorer.exe" with $File and $FileDir parameters.
Add "cmd" with $File and $FileDir parameters. Windows NT/2000 users. Win 9x users should use "command".
As long as you have Microsoft Windows Scripting Host (WSH) installed, you will be able to run your VBScript from within TextPad.
This tip was contributed by: Peter Gomis, Senior Developer, Skandia AFS IT - Global Systems Engineering Services, Shelton, CT
User defined tool settings to allow the user to commit changes to a CVS repository.
All examples assume that the DOS client is installed on your machine, and you've checked out the module you're working on. The WinCVS program includes the dos client programs. These definitions are not intended to replace the use of WinCVS or DOS CVS, just make it easier to commit changes from TextPad.
CVS Login
Command: drive:\path\to\cvs\cvs.exe Parameters: -z9 -d :pserver:user@host:/path/to/cvs/repository login Initial Folder: $FileDir
Do not capture the output of this command - this is an interactive command that prompts for your password
CVS Update
Command: drive:\path\to\cvs\cvs.exe Parameters: -z9 update Initial Folder: $FileDir
CVS Commit File
Command: drive:\path\to\cvs\cvs.exe Parameters: -z9 commit -m "" $FileName Initial Folder: $FileDir
You will need to prompt for parameters here, and insert the log message between the quotes.
This tip was contributed by: Dave Weiner - Chief Technology Officer, WebMasters, Inc. - www.webmast.com
Automating the Installation Process
By following the steps described here, you can create a standard installation, which can be run on each workstation, without user interaction. This tip is only valid for TextPad versions up to and including version 4.5.
First, record a file containing your setup choices:
Next, configure TextPad to your requirements, as follows:
Now, extract TextPad's settings from the registry:
Finally, install TextPad on each workstation, by clicking on start and running setup from the DISK1 subfolder on the server as follows:
SETUP.EXE -s
Tip to Run Java Programs With an Automatically Closing MSDOS Window.Applies to Textpad Version 4.1, running on Windows 98.
Straight after installation, the "Tools | Run Java Application" menu option does not close the MSDOS window automatically after you close your Java application.
To add a Tool menu option to do this, follow the steps below:
When this Tool option is used to run your Java programs, closing your Java program will automatically close the MSDOS program too. Unfortunately, any output sent to the MSDOS console is lost. If you want to keep this output, replace step 11 above with:
(alternate step)
This tip was contributed by: Jim Burton
Using with MS Visual Sourcesafe 5:To check the active file in and out of Visual SourceSafe, you can add commands that run SS.EXE to TextPad's Tools menu. You will first need to add the following two lines to SS.INI (which can be found in the folder with your user name in the \VSS\USERS folder):
Comment_Editor_Prompt = Yes Comment_Editor = notepad.exeDo not use TextPad as the comment editor, as SS waits for it to terminate before completing the command.
To run the commands from a DOS prompt, you would type:
C:\VSS\win32\ss.exe checkin file-name C:\VSS\win32\ss.exe checkout file-nameThe equivalent commands can be added to the TextPad Tools menu as follows:
Document Publishing with WS_FTP:To publish the active document to your web site with WS_FTP, add a tool to TextPad's Tools menu, with the following settings:
Command: C:\Program Files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP95.EXE Parameters: -p My-Profile-Name -s local:$FileName -d My-Profile-Name:/www/htdocs/$FileName Initial Folder: $FileDirIt took a lot of sweat to get this right, so make sure you only put spaces in the Parameters line exactly as above, and note that it's actually a single line. All of the check boxes on the Tools dialog box should be cleared. Replace My-Profile-Name with the name of a profile you have configured in WS_FTP, but note that its title must not contain any spaces, otherwise it won't work. If necessary, replace "/www/htdocs" with the path to your files on your web server. The parameter following "-s" is the source file name, where "$FileName" gets expanded to the name of the active document, and the parameter following "-d" is the destination file name, using WS-FTP's syntax.
This tip was contributed by: Christopher Locke, Entropy Gradient Reversals, All Noise - All the Time, http://www.rageboy.com/
(David J. Evans adds: "I've only managed to get this to work by modifying the remote path to exclude the leading / .... assuming that the path is a subdirectory from the home directory then the / should not be needed. The error messages from WS_FTP are particularly unhelpful !")
Document Publishing with WS_FTP alternative settings:I tried the tip provided by Christopher Locke on using WS_FTP with TextPad. His set up somehow does not work for me. Instead I changed the setting to:
command: E:\Program Files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP95.exe parameters: -p My-Profile-Name -s Local:$File -d My-Profile-Name: $UNIXPath/$FileName initial folder: $FileDirThere are two differences between my setting and Christopher's setting:
1. with -s Local, I used $File instead of $FileName;
2. I used $UNIXPath instead of hard coding the unix path. I did this because I mirrored the directory structure of the unix server on my local machine, this way the $UNIXPath obtained from local $Path will match the file path on the unix server.
This tip was contributed by: Feng Wu firstname.lastname@example.com, Systech Solutions Inc., Glendale, CA, USA.
@-Files:When working with "@-files", including the name of the "@-file" in the list makes it easy to add and remove files, each time you use it.
Thanks to Ron "Quinn" Straight for this tip.
Print All:TextPad has is a Print All command, but it's not on a menu. To use it, you must assign a shortcut to the command as follows:
Browse Equivalent Page on Web:If you maintain your web site on a hard disk mirror that uses "relative URL addressing" -- that is, the file names in URLs are just the basic filenames, not fully qualified web addresses -- you can take advantage of the following user tool:
Menu text: Browse equivalent page on web Command: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe Parameters: http://www.MyWebSite.com/$FileNameWhen you are editing a local copy of a web page, run this command to see the page on your web site.
This tip was contributed by: Christopher Locke, Entropy Gradient Reversals, All Noise - All the Time, http://www.rageboy.com/
Search & Replace; Converting META NAME Elements
Some times you need to transform each META NAME line into another form. In following example, we take the header information from a Microsoft Knowledge Base article and convert it to XML. Note the conversion is not complete, but it is a start. Be sure to correct "dangling" content. The regular expression cannot convert elements in which the content is split across lines.
<TITLE>Q10022 - OFF97: EPS File Is Not Printed or Is Printed Incorrectly
Under Windows NT</TITLE>
<TITLE>Q10022 - OFF97: EPS File Is Not Printed or Is Printed Incorrectly
Under Windows NT</TITLE>
This tip was contributed by: Anthony Missico, Jr., Independent Consultant, Missico Information Systems, www.missico.com
Extra tip for "How can I make Notepad use TextPad instead of WordPad for big files?"
Users of TextPad v4.x who have read the Help Menu/FAQ and executed the tip under "How can I make Notepad use TextPad instead of Wordpad for big files", will now find that TextPad is called to open Windows Write files (files with .wri extension) and may find this unwieldy due to them being binary files and TextPad will therefore show them in HEX format.
If you would STILL PREFER for WORDPAD to open Windows Write files giving "plain text" presentation, this can be achieved by:
In Windows Explorer:
This I have found to be the best all-round combination of Windows and TextPad v4.x
This tip was contributed by: Dave Rudd, AMIEE
How to use the thumb buttons on Microsoft's IntelliMouse Explorer:
The small and large thumb buttons on this mouse generate the same messages as using Alt+Right arrow and Alt+Left arrow respectively. Hence, you can assign them to, for example, TextPad's Page Up/Down commands as follows:
How to Compile Java Applications that have environment variables set:Suppose you are wanting to use servlets and the oracle database, and compile your java application using Textpad. You may end up having your command line so long that it becomes hard to manage, so you want to set some environment variables to store the jar files you will be using, and the classpath. Using the normal javac that TextPad sets up will not be able to find these environment variables, so you need to do the following:
If you have the following information in your c:\autoexec.bat
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\oracle\ora81\bin;c:\java\jdk12~1.2\bin;c:\java\classes SET CLASSPATH=c:\java\classes SET JARFILES=c:\java\classes\servlet.jar;c:\java\classes\oracle.jar
In the Settings for this, you should setup the following information:
This tip was contributed by: Garth Fielding
TextPad and LaTeX
The main goal while editing LaTeX source is of course to make the edit-compile-view-edit cycle as quick as possible.
To achieve this, we have to set up all the involved tools. TextPad (to launch the TeX compiler and the DVI viewer), the TeX compiler (so that we can jump directly to a reported error with typing "e") and the DVI viewer (so that double clicking in the document will jump to this paragraph in TextPad).
I illustrate the necessary settings with the TeX distribution MiKTeX because that is the one I have. This should work with other distributions as well. You just have to find the right place for the settings.
Working with LaTeX
As TextPad is not specially designed for LaTeX, we have to work in a certain way to get all the advantages of our settings.
First you have to decide what you normally do in LaTeX. Do you have a main file that includes several other files? Or do you have single-file LaTeX "projects".
I describe here how to set up TextPad for working with a main file that includes other files. If you work with single files, you have to change the settings accordingly.
The reason for this is, that we can give the current file or the current workspace name to our tool. If we do the first, we have to switch to the main file of our project to invoke the TeX compiler. Awkward if you have several files open.
So the working principle is to create a TextPad workspace for each LaTeX project that has the same basename as the main file of the LaTeX project. By that we can be in any file of the project and always compile the main file. Another solution would be to use always the same name for the main file (like main.tex).
As I have the german TextPad the translations of edit-field labels are more of a general guideline :-)
Switch off "Allow Multiple Instances"! Otherwise jumping from the DVI viewer to TextPad will open a new instance of TextPad which will then not work because the workspace is not present.
Create 2 new tools:
TeX compiler as a DOS command:
Parameter: texify --src $WspBaseName.tex Initial directory: $WspDir
Saving all files would be a good idea, don't capture the output (!) and close the window after execution if you want.
--src inserts source specials that allow inverse search.
For single-file LaTeX projects just replace the workspace by the file (so use $FileName and $FileDir instead of $WspBaseName.tex and $WspDir).
The DVI viewer as a program:
Program: yap.exe Parameter: -1 -s $Line$FileName $WspBaseName.dvi Initial directory: $WspDir
Insert your favorite DVI viewer instead of yap.
-1 tells yap to reuse an open instance
For single file LaTeX projects use $BaseName and $FileDir instead of $WspBaseName and $WspDir.
DVI-Viewer (yap)
Under "View", "Options...", "Inverse Search", "Command line" insert
textpad "%f"(%l)
This will invoke TextPad when you double click in a document you view.
If TeX encounters an error, it prompts you on the screen and you can press "e" to edit the file. Which editor is invoked is set in the INI file of MiKTeX and other TeX distributions should have a similar setting somewhere.
Create a new file (mymiktex.ini) and put
[TeX] Editor=textpad "%f"(%l)
in it. Then call
initexmf --personal=mymiktex.ini
Then typing "e" will invoke Textpad instead of notepad.
Umlauts and accents
There is no need for a macro that replaces all the Umlauts or accented characters to the TeX representation (ä -> "a) if you use the inputenc-package
in the preambel of your LaTeX file. Then you may use all characters that you can type in, I think. I only tried it with the german Umlauts and the accents ´,` and ^.
This is it! Everything is set up so use TextPad as follows:
This tip was contributed by: Jens Hollmann. 12 October 2001.
Regular expression for the free Pascal compiler:
This tip was contributed by: Carl Eric Codere. 15 December 2003.
Regular expression for CCSC's PICC C-Compiler for Microchip PICs:
This tip was contributed by: Miki Grof-Tisza. 9 January 2005.


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Byron Womack, a very popular assistant principal at Port Chester Middle School, died overnight, officials said on Tuesday, Feb. 20. He was 49 years old.
Details about funeral services have not been announced, but counseling is being offered to students and staff at PCMS, which is in session this week.
Thirteen months ago, Womack's ability to "go long" was recognized when he was given the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee Humanitarian Award at a celebration of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The award recognized both Womack's longstanding role as a mentor for children and his leadership in the Steer For Student Athletes program.
From an early age, Mr. Womack knew that playing sports was much more than just learning how to throw a football or run the bases; it was a character-building experience that would frame the rest of his life.
Steer's mission is to help youngsters grow both personally, academically, and, of course, as athletes. The nonprofit organization and its sponsor role models provide funding and services that help student athletes make it through high school and prepare for college or jobs.
In this article by Daily voice, Womack said that he felt "blessed" to be part of the Steer team and to help it carry out its mission.
Steer started out as a pilot program in Port Chester and now is in the Yonkers school district and two schools in the Bronx.
The keynote speaker at Womack's celebration was then-state Sen. George Latimer, who was since elected Westchester County executive.
Womack, who grew up in South Windsor, Conn., was on his high school's varsity football and track teams.
He went on to set athletic records at Iona College in New Rochelle, where he earned a degree in social work.
After college he found his true vocation, counseling high school students and coaching local teams.
That led to other counseling gigs and eventually, to master's degrees in school guidance, counseling and administration and supervision.
He had been assistant principal at the middle school in Rye Brook for eight years, and was a guidance counselor prior to that.
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charge up(redirected from charge him up)
charge up
To excite or rouse. A noun or pronoun can be used between "charge" and "up." The loud music charged the fans up during the time-out in the game. Once you see how charged up she gets when she talks about art, I think you'll agree that it is truly her passion.
charged up
1. Literally, having a full battery. Let's take a picture with your phone—mine isn't charged up yet.
2. Excited and exuberant. The loud music kept the fans charged up during the time-out in the game.
3. Intoxicated, especially with drugs. That guy is acting so erratically that he must be charged up—did you guys see him take anything?
charge someone up
to excite someone; to make a person enthusiastic about something. (See also charged up.) The speaker charged up the crowd. He reread the report, hoping to charge himself up enough to make some positive comments.
charged up
1. Lit. [of something such as a battery] full of electrical power. The battery is completely charged up. If the battery isn't charged, the car won't start.
2. Fig. [of someone] excited; enthusiastic. The crowd was really charged up. Tom is so tired that he cannot get charged up about anything.
charge up
Excite, agitate, stimulate, as in The new preacher can really charge up the congregation, or Planning Beth's wedding got her mom all charged up. This term originally was used for narcotic stimulation but now is used more broadly. [Slang; early 1900s]
charged (up)
1. mod. slightly overdosed with drugs. (Drugs.) He was talking fast and nodding his head back and forth. I think he was charged.
2. mod. drug intoxicated. (Drugs.) Paul was one charged up guy after the session.
3. mod. excited. The audience was charged up and ready for the star to come out.


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Being a victim of crime can be a very traumatic experience. In addition, going through the criminal justice system as a victim of crime can be confusing, scary and at times a frustrating ordeal. The Orleans County District Attorney's Office provides assistance to victims and witnesses of crime through the Crime Victim Witness Assistance Program. The program is funded by the New York State Crime Victims Board and the County of Orleans.
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This week we have another wonderful guest designer. Please help me welcome Jess Willison. Here is a bit about her.
I am a SAHM of two little farm kids in Southwestern Ontario. I began cardmaking innocently, after getting engaged and wanting to make my own wedding invitations. After 6 years, the innocent beginning has become an amazing hobby (or obsession), and I am so fortunate my hubby and kids support (or tolerate!) me!
I was so flattered to have been considered to be a Guest Designer for Sparkle's Christmas Card Challenge. I have been playing along for a while, and just love that come Christmas time, my cards are already made! Thanks to Sparkle and her Design Team for all their inspiration!
Here is her beautiful card.
I love the image, and the sentiment is adorable. Here is what our fabulous design team have come up with today.
Each week we get closer and closer to Christmas. Just think of how stress free you'll be come December, knowing you're Christmas cards are done, or at least mostly done. What a relief, right? Hopefully, you'll be able to play along with us this week. We love seeing everyone's cards!
Please link directly to the blog post or gallery page where we can view/comment on your creation and not just the generic link to your blog. Generic blog links will be disabled or deleted. To get the full url, click the title of your blog post (which will load a page that has just that post on it), then copy and paste the URL. Don't forget to post a comment so we know you added a card!


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Review: "Trophy Wife" on ABC
"Trophy Wife," a sitcom that deserves a better title, premieres Sept. 24 on ABC. Really, why invoke a stereotype when it's not about that?
Based on the real-life blended-family experience of creator Sarah Haskins, this half-hour explores a third marriage with multiple kids and two ex'es in tow. Simple set up: Former party girl meets 20-years-older guy in a karaoke bar, marries him and must learn to deal with his baggage. Malin Akerman ("Suburgatory") plays Kate, the reformed wild child; Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing") plays Pete, the older man.
His baggage includes over-achieving, humorless wife No. 1, (played by Marcia Gay Harden), and his annoyingly New Age-y wife No. 2, (Michaela Watkins). Of course the half-hour is loaded with issues and it's all too sudden and sitcom-random…but these things happen.
Executive producers Haskins and Emily Halpern are sharp and the lines are funny and maybe, just maybe, there's a show here.