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USA: Theater: "The Veiled Monologues"
"The Veiled Monologues" is a series of 12 intimate sketches of pious Muslim women discussing topics such as preserving virginity, undergoing female excision, suppressing desire — and giving into that desire. The monologues, which take the audience into bathhouses and bedrooms, reference rituals and superstitions that may seem antiquated and misogynistic to a Western audience. More often, though, they relate explicit tales of sexual initiation, and spousal intimacy — eliciting images of flesh and sweat that the same audience may not associate with veiled women.
The show provides an Oriental counterpoint to Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues," which comprised candid sketches about the female anatomy. Indeed, Ms. Roosen said it was her stint acting in a Dutch production of Ms. Ensler's play that prompted her to write "The Veiled Monologues," adapted from her interviews with more than 70 Muslim women living in the Netherlands. "They let me into their home; they cried with me and laughed with me; they fed me; and they really lived their stories with me," she said.
Ms. Roosen added: "You step into a world where there is violence, but also a world in which you want to belong."
And while the dress, the continents, and the rites (and some of the rights) may be different, Ms. Roosen insists the women portrayed in Ms. Ensler's play and her own exhibit striking similarities. "The love is the same, the falling in love is the same, the jealousy is the same; the revenge is the same," she said.
On stage, Ms. Roosen drives home this point, opening "The Veiled Monologues" with a line penned by the contemporary avant-garde writer, PeterHandke: "The strange woman was so beautiful, I recognized her."
Ms. Roosen based her script for "Is. Man" on her real-life prison meetings with Muslim men who had been convicted of "honor killings" — the traditional, infrequent, and widely condemned murder of a female relative whose sexual encounters are perceived to have marred her family's honor. An honor killing can be prompted by adultery, the refusal to accept an arranged marriage, or even a rape. A fictional, and surprisingly sympathetic, protagonist in "Is. Man" is in prison for committing a heinous murder in an effort to restore his family's honor.
"'The Veiled Monologues' is about women's erotic lives, and 'Is. Man' is about a very cruel situation — and the culture and tradition behind it," Ms. Roosen said."
By: Gabrielle Birkner
05 October 2007
"The Veiled Monologues," Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
"Is. Man" Saturday at 9:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Location: St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St., at Dock Street, Brooklyn, tel: +1-718-254-8779
Price: $30 or $50 for both plays
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Stop up your ears with beeswax -- or with a pair of SmartFit industrial ear plugs. Use whatever's available. Then lash yourself to your desk -- there's no time to waste. She's calling you.
She might be a lone barefoot maid wandering by a barren lake. You might find her on a deserted path in a thick forest. She's there in the doorway when Sam Spade looks up from his desk: She says she needs his help to find a missing sister (yeah, sure). Or else a soldier on leave meets her in a nightclub, spends the night with her and notices -- poor fool -- the red hourglass on her stomach only when it's too late.
Though the guises are many, "she" is one and the same: the siren.
Robert Graves calls the sirens "ones who bind or wither" -- an apt description for creatures whose singing assured the entrapment (and destruction) of any sailor chancing to hear it. "Siren" -- in the Greek, "Seiren" -- derives from "seira," a word meaning cord or rope. And why do they sing?
The man from Majorca also tells us they lost a singing contest to the Muses. ("American Idol" of the gods, maybe?) Being who they are -- daughters of Phorcys (hell) and cousins to the Harpies -- they just want revenge. They use their vocal powers, still beautiful in defeat, to lure humans to their sepulchral isles. In Homer there are two Sirens -- and to resist them, wax in the ears is what Circe tells Ulysses to use. For a lovely illustration of that episode, you might turn to Bimba Landmann's new children's book, "The Incredible Voyage of Ulysses" (Getty Publications: 60 pp., $19.95). Landmann depicts their song as long, violet-colored streamers that, yes, indeed, wrap like cords around the body of the wandering Ithacan.
Aside from the world of myth or those dangerous isles, the Siren is a creature most at home in one other place.
The mind of the adolescent male.
Some may dress her up in abstractions, she might become a wish for death for psychotherapists or an allegory of temptation for early Christian writers, but all that fails to hide what she really is: a combination of extremes, of lethality and erotica. It's the kind of combo appealing to the target audience for the "Saw" movie franchise and . . . to all those older males hopelessly stuck with adolescent minds.
Lethal and erotic. Lurid and visceral. Here's one college kid, trying to cope with the urges stirred by the Siren's song by writing a poem about it:
Around her fountain which flows
With the voice of men in pain,
Are flowers that no man knows.
Their petals are fanged and red
With hideous streak and stain.
They sprang from the limbs of the dead.
We shall not come here again.
Panthers rise from their lairs
In the forest which thickens below,
Along the garden stairs
The sluggish python lies. . . .
The kid is T.S. Eliot, and the poem, "Circe's Palace," dates from his Harvard days. Though not a Siren, Circe's effect, it is clear, is most Siren-like. I don't need to tell you what those flowers "fanged and red" might be, or that sluggish python, do I?
It's not all that far from Eliot's prurient, fantasy images to the erotic gore of slasher films -- nor is it all that far to the images in Chris Achilléos' "Sirens" (Titan Books: $19.95). The illustrator presents a panorama of lethal, alluring females. He gives us the tribal warrior Boadicea in gold chain mail and fur; while the exposed breasts of a Masai warrior blend with her shield and spear so that they look like a part of her armor. Others -- eagle riders, Amazons, gun-toting partisans, a chrome-colored robot girl -- also possess these smooth symmetries and knife edges.
"The Siren's Remorse," which can't be shown in a family newspaper because of clothing issues -- she isn't wearing any -- shows a mermaid staring down at the ashen face of a dead man floating in the shallows. Remorse? Her expression is hardly remorseful! Stoic is more like it -- or else her expression seems to say, "And you thought I really cared about you?"
In the accompanying text, Nigel Suckling (really) traces Achilléos' career as a creator of images for fantasy novels (his interpretations of "Lord of the Rings," for instance, and Michael Moorcock's Elric stories); for TV series (including "Dr. Who"); as well as for films (the original "Clash of the Titans," "Heavy Metal").
Achilléos, born in Cyprus in 1947 and raised in London, tells Suckling that the decade of the 1970s, particularly the years 1977 and 1978, were the "high spot of Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing, a period when anything in the genre was rushed into print . . . for an illustrator at the time it was exhilarating."
There were endless gigs, good money, plenty of opportunities to see your work on an assortment of book covers. Achilléos counts among his influences the work of Frank Frazetta, Jack Kirby, Moebius and Syd Mead. He also says he was lucky he left college to try his hand as a book-cover illustrator: If he hadn't, he might have wound up as a technical illustrator -- something he had been trained to be.
Achilléos' illustrations are compelling, unreal and oddly successful. Most often his Sirens are depicted as loners, and that seems right. In myth, when women aren't ruling goddesses or temptresses, they usually appear in clusters: There are the Muses, the Pleiaides, Maenads, the Norns, Valkyries . . . you get the idea. But a group of Sirens? That just seems wrong -- how could there ever be a group of Sirens?
How could they, judging from the haughty looks on the faces of some of Achilléos' subjects, ever tolerate the company of other women?
CLARK ASHTON SMITH: At the end of January, Cory Doctorow posted at BoingBoing about a public domain manifesto drafted by the Communia network -- a manifesto calling for guaranteed free, unrestricted use of cultural materials "without restriction, in the absence of copyright protection." The comments thread is worth checking out for what people have to say about both sides of this issue.
For the purposes of this column, though, it would have been darkly poetic if Doctorow's post had appeared on Jan. 13, not Jan. 26. The former is the birthdate of Clark Ashton Smith in 1893 -- the 117th anniversary of the writer's birth was celebrated last month by several sites, with the Cimmerian leading the charge.
At the Cimmerian, you find posts about Smith as part of a trio that also includes H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. "There are some authors who can tell a new story, and yet make it feel as if it's been told for eons," writes Al Harron in the post "Emperor of Dreams." Jeffrey Shanks, in "Collecting Clark Ashton Smith," provides an overview of the writer's publication history -- it's a post you can't really read without also looking at what Deuce Richardson says about the availability of Smith's work and at Jackson Kuhl's post, "The Obscurity of Clark Ashton Smith."
While Del Rey, Bantam and others continue to release new editions of Howard's work, Smith's has mostly languished. What you learn from the Cimmerian is that "stalemate and stagnation are the order of the day" when it comes to Smith's literary estate. When Kuhl approached the estate seeking permission to use some of Smith's stories for a collection, he writes in his post that his efforts were rebuffed. One of the problems seems to center on what work by Smith is considered under copyright and what's in the public domain -- which made me think of Doctorow's post.
It's disappointing that Smith flies so low under the radar of publishing and reading audiences when, in a variety of inexpensive editions, the writer's profile could easily be raised -- and even flourish. Is it going to take Hollywood to one day rescue Smith's work? I could see animation crews champing at the bit to create the alien city of Ydmos and some of his other fantastic scapes and interplanetary creatures. The posts on why Smith remains in obscurity are enough to give anyone who appreciates the genre a case of heartburn.
Owchar is deputy book editor of the Times. The Siren's Call appears at www.latimes.com/books.

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The battle is on the see whether Justin Bieber can beat Lady Gaga to the one billion mark on YouTube, but it looks like Last.fm listeners have already made their preferences known. Last.fm Trends reveals who's on top.
First up, it's worth leveling the playing field. Lady Gaga has been in the spotlight a lot longer than Bieber, so their total plays were never really going to match up. Even so, the Pop Queen's 86,118,945 plays totally dwarfs Justin Bieber's 7,134,564.
No, a fair fight might be found in more recent plays. Taking a look at their top three tracks in the last seven days might be a better comparison.
Ouch. Bieber gets beaten across the board. Although his songs "Somebody To Love," "Baby" and "One Time" scrobble very closely, they just can't beat the likes of "Alejandro," "Telephone," and "Bad Romance."
In fact, you have to Gaga's twenty second most-played track – "Disco Heaven" – before you can find a song that Bieber can beat. Justin's videos might draw a lot of viewers, but the little monsters definitely rule the playlists.
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At the reception, attendees sampled a buffet of American offerings and Burmese delicacies. Then, Moe Chan, executive director of the Committee for International Movement of Burma Point - whose strength comes from the 10,000-member Burmese community living in Woodside, Sunnyside, Elmhurst, and East Elmhurst - briefed participants on the political and social conditions in Burma, both in an historical and present-day context.
He also outlined steps the American and international public could take to alleviate the harsh conditions the Burmese are living under today and the prospects for future democratization.
Two documentaries on Burma visually dramatized the severe realities in that country. Produced by the National League for Democracy (NLD), the "Saffron Revolution: Fight for Democracy by the People Under the Brutal Crackdown of the Regime" portrayed the monk-led Saffron Revolution peaceful demonstrations for food and democracy.
In August and September of 2007, sudden rises in government-controlled fuel and commodity prices, triggered demonstrations throughout the poverty-stricken country of Burma. In a plea for their survival, and with a severe humanitarian crisis looming, thousands of peaceful protestors took to the streets in Rangoon, Pakokku, and other cities.
The world watched aghast as soldiers responded with a heavy, and sometimes lethal, hand against them. Troops stormed monasteries, beat and humiliated monks, and killed some 200 people and hauled over 2,000 off to detention facilities. The film showed riot police, government militiamen, and soldiers firing into the demonstrators, bodies being hauled off, and blood staining the concrete.
The next film, "Freedom from Fear," which was narrated by a Buddhist monk, documents the same sanguinary period but with more of a religious-philosophical approach. In the end, one is left with the impression that things might just work out better in the future.
Next, two nationally known Burmese figures were teleconferenced in to the event. Toc Lwin, an ex-political prisoner and former bodyguard of democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, offered his personal experiences of the regime's strong-arm tactics and his life behind bars for seven years before his release two years ago.
Htun Myat Oo, co-founder of the National League for Democracy, briefed attendees about the present status of the Burmese democracy movement and what message he thought Daw Aung San Suu Kyi would give to the world if she could speak freely.
One important goal of the Burma Point fundraiser was to help the growing number of political prisoners and their families in Burma. There is an estimated 2,100 human rights activists and politicians who were arrested and sentenced to prison terms of between 50 and 100 years. In recent weeks, about 270 activists - including monks, student leaders and NLD members - were jailed for joining in peaceful calls for democracy.
The iron-fisted military regime of Gen Than Shwe not only barred much of the international humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in May, but also jailed Burmese citizens who aided the relief effort without official government approval. Nargis, which killed more than 100,000, has left about 2.4 million people homeless and still in need of basic necessities like food, clothing, medicines, and permanent shelter.
Chan explained, "Just last week, nine National League for Democracy members were arrested for holding a banner asking for freedom for our incarcerated leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi," said Chan. "Political prisoners are mistreated by the government and their families are discriminated against as well. Often they are unable to find decent work because they are related to a political prisoner."
The Burma Point Information Specialist May Lynn, who is from Elmhurst, further described the harsh jail conditions.
"The government doesn't even provide prisoners with food and water, medical attention, anything at all," he said. "Inmates have to look after each other. Monthly, the family must pay the prison warden to feed their relative or maybe all they'll get is a little rice. Any medication, even aspirin, must be provided from outside. And since detainees are heads of the household and nobody is providing for the family, our help is badly needed."
The second goal of the fundraiser was to continue the constant awareness of the Burmese freedom movement in the U.S. and elsewhere.
"The plight of my people has been going on for more than forty years," Lynn explained, "and nothing much changed in all that time."
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The current junta came to power in 1988 after crushing a nationwide pro-democracy uprising. In 1990, in a free election, democratic candidate Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory, but the junta never allowed her to take office. Instead, the 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate has been under house arrest in Yangon for most of the past 19 years.
On the political/diplomatic front, Burma Point is pushing for a U.N. resolution against the continued seating of the Burmese delegates on the basis that do not represent the will of the people. However, this session it was not voted on due to a technicality.
"China and Russia always defeat resolutions at the Security Council level," explained Lynn. "So the U.S. and the international community must put more pressure on those two countries."
Lynn stressed that Burmese domestic political unity was still an evasive goal. Looking forward to the national elections scheduled for 2010, he said, "The opposition parties are not united - some say they will participate, others won't. There must be a common, democratic political front and hopefully elections held under U.N. or similar group supervision."
Headquartered in Win Shwe Hall on 73rd Street in Woodside, Burma Point is also taking on a social mission.
"Many Burmese refuges - both legal and illegal - are settling in the United States and we are trying to educate and integrate them into the community," explained Chan. "We are offering them basic English language instruction and computer training skills to help newcomers find a better job here.
"We want them connected to the heart of the Burmese-American community while remaining aware of conditions back in Burma," he continued. "We want to bring people together socially and politically as a community."
At program's end, Diana Heller, who donated her loft as venue for the cause, made some generally shared points.
"It's very important people understand what's going on in Burma," she said. "Knowledge is paramount."
Burma Point can be reached via theirwebsite.


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(Jan 27, 2009)--As The University of Texas at San Antonio strives to become a Top-100 research institution, students soon will see data in a whole new way. A plan to modify current curricula in core classes to include quantitative learning has been selected for the university's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP is one of two components required for the university's reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS COC).
Of the 14 QEP proposals submitted in 2008, three were chosen as finalists and presented to focus groups within the university. The final proposal, "Quantitative Scholarship: From Literacy to Mastery," was selected in late fall to be adopted by the university for the Quality Enhancement Plan. The QEP Committee, headed by Sandra Welch, vice provost for accountability and institutional effectiveness, gave the plan high marks with nearly all members selecting it as their first choice.
The Quantitative QEP includes two components: (1) quantitative literacy encompassing basic analytical skills such as data interpretation and (2) quantitative mastery, which addresses ways to gather data, identify sources of error and conduct other advanced analyses. These critical thinking and problem solving skills are the same skills used by successful researchers. They also are tested on the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
College of Sciences professor Kay Robbins, a member of the winning proposal's committee, believes UTSA's students must possess strong quantitative skills to draw accurate conclusions from data if UTSA is to become a top research university.
Committee chair and biology professor David Senseman added, "It is about using arithmetic to solve everyday life problems and about being able to make informed decisions based on data."
UTSA will spend time in Spring 2009 to finalize the new QEP plan before presenting it to the SACS COC accreditation reaffirmation committee at a site visit in 2010. If approved by the accreditation team, formal implementation of the plan will last five years, beginning in 2011.
Ultimately, UTSA's goal is to catalyze long-term instructional change. Undergraduates will complete their degrees possessing stronger quantitative skills while graduate teaching and research assistants will reinforce their quantitative skills as they facilitate undergraduates' mastery of those same skills.
"Quantitative Scholarship: From Literacy to Mastery" was submitted by an interdisciplinary team that included David Senseman, associate professor, College of Sciences (committee chair); Nandini Kannan, professor, College of Business; Nancy Martin, associate professor, College of Education and Human Development; Kay Robbins, professor, College of Sciences; and Joleen Reynolds, director of testing, UTSA Testing Center.
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In the late '90s and early 2000s, Tisdale moved into TV and film work, appearing on shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210, The George Lopez Show, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Hughleys, as well as the cult movie Donnie Darko. However, it was the role of babysitter Maddie Fitzpatrick in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody that turned her into a teenaged star in 2004. The show's popularity made her a fixture on the Disney Channel, leading to appearances on Hannah Montana and her 2006 breakout role as High School Musical's Sharpay Evans. The massive popularity of the TV movie's soundtrack meant that Tisdale became the first female artist to debut with two songs, "Bop to the Top" and "What I've Been Looking For," on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time. Along with lending her voice to the animated series Phineas and Ferb, Tisdale recorded her solo debut album and released its first single, He Said She Said, in late 2006. Early in the following year, both the album (Headstrong) and a second single (Be Good to Me) arrived. Tisdale appeared in the High School Musical sequel later that year and, in 2008, returned once more for the series' third installment. She continued to balance acting with her recording career, however, and issued her second album in 2009. Guilty Pleasure found the 23 year-old assimilating a number of pop influences into her own work, from Britney Spears and Fergie to the spunky provocations of Katy Perry. ~ Heather Phares
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Hello Bob, I too am unable to print to my Deskjet 720C from my HP desktop PC after upgrading to Windows 8 Pro 64 bit (W8P4) from Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit (W7H4) and am hoping you can help. I was able to use the 720C successfully for several years with a Cables to Go USB-parallel cable (model 16898) on this PC under W7H4 after applying your patch. I've documented my attempts to date to resolve the problem in the hopes that it will assist you in your efforts to solve the problem.
- After upgrading to W8P4, I tried to print using the 720C with no success. The document seemed to appear in the print queue very briefly before disappearing.
- I then applied your patch since my W8P4 install had reverted the hpvdb720.dll back to an earlier version than your patch version. Still no success.
- I then tried using the cable and 720C with Windows 8 Pro 32 bit (W8P2) on a Toshiba laptop that I had upgraded from Windows 7 Home Edition 32 bit (W7H2). This worked without a hitch.
- I then made the printer "shared" on the Toshiba, logged onto the Toshiba via my home network from the HP desktop, opened a document on the HP desktop, then selected the shared 720C. This also worked!
- I then tried defining the shared printer on the HP desktop as you suggested in your November 18 proposed test. This did not work.
- In addition to the above, I also installed the 720C and cable on the desktop PC ensuring that the port was the USB001 virtual port but this did work either.
FYI typically, the Event Log has the following Application error (Event ID 1000, Task Category 100) after a print attempt:
Faulting application name: PrintIsolationHost.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50109d59
Faulting module name: HPVSCP50.DLL, version: 220.127.116.11, time stamp: 0x4431bcd4
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000004ec1
Faulting process id: 0xe94
Faulting application start time: 0x01cde5fc4cd0ea04
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\PrintIsolationHost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\DRIVERS\x64\3\HPVSCP50.DLL
Report Id: 8a8bbcd3-51ef-11e2-be98-78e7d1ce1e67
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Also in the Device Manager under USB Controllers, there is an entry "No Printer Attached" with the same driver version (6.2.9200.16384) as in the above error message. This entry is "grayed" out on the desktop PC but not on the Toshiba. I'm not sure if this is relevant.
Personally, I'm wondering if the cable is not compatible with W8P4 IEEE-1284 driver. Hope you can help. If you need any more information please let me know.
By the way, I'd like to take this opportunity to commend you on your work solving these computer problems for us less technical folks. With your patch for W7H4, I was able to extent the life of my trusty old workhorse 720C and avoid the scrap heap for several additional years. Thank you for efforts.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
Hi Bob,
Thank you for the great help you provide.
I too have a Deskjet 722c work horse and am writing to see if you have had an opportunity to work on the windows 8 driver issue?
Again thanks for you do.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
I also have a trusty Deskjet 722c and am unable to use it on Windows 8 (64bit).
The Deskjet 722c is attached to a computer running Windows XP SP3 (32bit).
The XP Computer shares the printer to my home network.
I have several Windows 7 (64bit) laptops which work correctly using the Deskjet 720c drivers and the patch found in the this thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-Drivers-e-g-Windows-8/Deskjet-710-720-810-8...
I tried to set up the Windows 8 machines the same way as the Windows 7 machines. I used the 720c drivers. I applied the patch. I made sure that all the files from the patch are unblocked.
When I attempt to print a test page, the Print Spooler service immediately goes to the stopped state.
Looking in the Event Viewer, I find:
System Error: (Event ID: 7034)
- The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.
Application Error: (Event ID: 1000)
- Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x501080ef
Faulting module name: HPVSCP50.DLL, version: 188.8.131.52, time stamp: 0x4431bcd4
Exception code: 0x0000005
I would be very greatful for any assistance with this issue.
Thank you.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
Just an update on the issue - I have duplicated the issue on Windows 8 x64 and have gotten things to work on Windows 8 x86. It does appear that hpvscp50.dll is an issue, I get errors in the event log with hpvscp50.dll when trying to print from any Windows 8 application on my test x64 system.
The patch I had for x64 versions of Vista and Windows 7 does not help the issue here.
I will likley update my progress in the thread here.
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Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
I will be following in the other thread.
Thanks again.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
Hi Bob. Thanks for the update and glad to hear you were able to duplicate the problem and isolate the cause. Good luck in solving the problem. I echo the apprecation for your continuing to work on this issue as the HP 722C is a great little work-horse printer. Thanks.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
Hi Bob,
Many thanks for your update and continued efforts. Excited to hear you are able to isolate the problem.
Kudos to you for your persistance!
Thank you, Tred3.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
I'm having the same problem. Contacted Startech about the adapter cable, which is working...but the printer driver is not accepting the adapter cable. both are listed as working. I'd appreciate any help. I have $100 in toner to use and it seems silly to buy another printer.
Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
anetb wrote:
I'm having the same problem. Contacted Startech about the adapter cable, which is working...but the printer driver is not accepting the adapter cable. both are listed as working. I'd appreciate any help. I have $100 in toner to use and it seems silly to buy another printer.
Regardless of the USB-parallel cable there is an issue with the printer driver in Windows 8 x64. I did some testing in a Windows 8 machine with a parallel port. You can see the results in this post, and subscribe to the other thread as well.
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Deskjet 720c and Windows 8
A possible work-around solution to using your HP 722c Printer with an Windows 8.1 computer.
I run a network that includes an HP Windows 8.1 computer and an IBM laptop that is running Windows XP Professional.
Attempts to install the HP 722c on the Windows 8.1 failed for all the reasons previously noted in this forum.
The workaround that is now working for me is as follows:
1. Install the 722c Printer on an IBM Computer with XP Professional using a USB cable (I anticipate that the regular cable installed on the LP1 Port should work too) .
2. Print a Test Page to confirm that the 722c Printer works on the IBM XP computer.
3. Share the 722c Printer on your local network.
4. Open "Printers & Devices" on the computer running Windows 8.1 and verify that the 722c Printer is visible on the network.
5. Right click on the 722c Printer icon in Printers and Devices.
6. Click on Properties.
7. Click on Print Test Page.
This has worked for me. It is a good alternative that allows access to the HP 722c until a driver patch allows a direct working connection to the Windows 8.1 computer.
Keep working on a better solution and let me know if/when it is available.
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A couple of updates - the source code for the Augen Android tablets I wrote about still hasn't been released, but the vendor does seem to be doing their best. Their supplier seems to be refusing to hand over the source code (they were given a tarball that was supposed to be it, but in fact just turned out to be the various GPLed bits of Android) and they're obviously stuck between a rock and a hard place. The obvious observation is that they should have done due diligence before starting to ship these things, but given that they're out in the wild and they're trying to improve things it seems reasonable to carry on working to try to obtain the source rather than insisting that kmart stop selling them.
Fusion Garage, on the other hand, are still failing to provide source and seem entirely unconcerned about it - they've failed to respond to any of my emails since the first. Augen aren't providing source because they can't, while Fusion Garage aren't providing source because they won't. Irked by this, I've decided to try Don Marti's suggestion and file a case with US Customs. I'll admit that I have absolutely no idea how seriously these cases get taken, and so I've no great expectation of any sort of interesting outcome. But even so, if you're in the US and try to buy a Joojoo then there's a chance that it'll be seized by US customs on the way in.


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Quinn Wants Funding Guarantee in Pension Bill
Gov. Pat Quinn says any overhaul of Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem should have a funding guarantee.
He spoke Monday just days after House lawmakers approved their third pension-related bill. The latest would reduce and delay cost-of-living increases in state employees' retirement pay.
Pensions have been Quinn's top issue for more than a year. He says lawmakers' work last week was a step in the right direction but there's further to go.
Quinn says any reform package should address retirement age and pensionable salary.
Illinois has nearly $100 billion in unfunded pension debt because lawmakers skipped or shorted pension payments for years.
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If the problem is that the gnome's access to several mana potions makes the boon too powerful, how about changing the cost from mana potions to something else?
I think it wouldn't be too far from JJ's theme, and it would also be much fairer overall, to have it cost something like a glyph rather than a mana potion. Of course, the piety cost/mp bonus would have to be changed to account for that, and there would be a need for some way to choose which glyph to sacrifice (unless it was chosen at random, which is even more fitting for JJ, but way too steep)


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Pentagon furloughs pinch bases from pharmacies to weapons repair
WASHINGTON -- Furloughs of the U.S. military's civilian workers that began Monday will start to show their effects as the week unfolds, from elimination of Saturday hours at a base pharmacy in Washington state to a possible slowdown in work on Patriot missile interceptors in Pennsylvania.
Months after the Pentagon began warning that the automatic cuts called sequestration would force unpaid leave, the rolling furloughs took effect for 85 percent of its civilian workforce.
"Our core mission is to defend the American people and U.S. national security interests," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters at the Pentagon Monday. "It's not going to be easy" under the reductions, which will be staggered over each two-week pay period.
The move will cost as many as 651,542 employees 11 days' pay through Sept. 30, according to Pentagon figures. The goal is to generate $1.8 billion of the $37 billion in reductions the Pentagon must come up with in the current fiscal year under the cuts.
The effects range from the 72,000 civilian defense workers facing furloughs in Virginia, the hardest-hit state, to one U.S. worker in Ghana, according to a Pentagon report released last week.
"Make no mistake about it: We're in a rough period," Little said. While he said the Pentagon won't be able to provide day-by-day totals for furloughs, "my assumption is that the vast majority of that population will be on furlough at least one day this week." Little said he is going on furlough on Fridays starting this week.
For investors and analysts of defense stocks, "a minor unknown" is how furloughs will affect the award and oversight of defense contracts for the remainder of the year, said industry analyst Byron Callan.
"It's an issue that analysts will be drilling down on when defense companies report" earnings this month, Callan, director of Capital Alpha Partners in Washington, said in an e-mail.
The forced leave also is hurting production at some government facilities, according to Bill Dougan, president of the Washington-based National Federation of Federal Employees.
At the Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Pa., work on Patriot anti-missile interceptors is being slowed and "that could have a direct impact on military readiness," he said in an interview.
Letterkenny is responsible for repairing and resetting Army equipment including the Patriots, route-clearance vehicles, and power-generation equipment, Lindsay Bryant, a spokeswoman for the depot, said in a phone interview.
Even with people taking one day a week off for furloughs, the "workload is there, so getting it done in the same time frame is a challenge," she said.
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle, the base posted a series of office and service closures on its website.
The outpatient pharmacy at the Madigan Army Medical Center on the base will be closed on Saturdays and customers were warned that they may experience longer waits due to reduced staff.
In the base's military personnel division, the pass and identification office, retirement services, and soldier readiness center will be closed on Fridays.
Altogether, about 16,000 Army, Air Force and Navy civilian employees face furloughs in Washington state, according to Pentagon figures.
At MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Col. Scott DeThomas, commander of the 6th Air Mobility Wing, said furloughs will affect everything from family services to maintenance and flying operations, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
The 72,000 workers placed on furlough in Virginia will lose a combined $237 million in wages, according to Pentagon data. California will see about 57,000 civilian workers furloughed at a cost to them of about $189 million, followed by Texas with 45,000 workers idled with losses of $149 million, according to the data.
Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania fill out the ranks of the 10 states set to experience the biggest furlough impacts.
The National Federation of Federal Employees, one of the oldest unions representing U.S. workers, has started a Fight the Furloughs campaign. It's intended to "gain Congress's attention and action" to avoid further furloughs throughout government, Dougan said in an interview.
The average federal worker earns $25,000 to $75,000 a year, and a 20 percent cut in pay hurts the ability to pay routine bills and meet home mortgage payments, Dougan said.
"A lot of them are not higher-grade employees and a lot of folks are living paycheck to paycheck," he said. "Forcing them to sit at home is bad for the country and bad for the economy."
For the Pentagon, the group is calling on lawmakers to "grant the Defense Department the flexibility they need to shift funds between accounts, to drastically reduce furloughs or potentially eliminate furloughs."
Asked about the possibility that a continuation of sequestration next year will require eliminating jobs, Little said that "at this stage we are in the furlough period and no decisions have been reached about what may happen going forward."
The Pentagon is planning to send Congress a letter outlining the impact of the additional $52 billion in sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Oct. 1.
This report is "very important as ideally it will provide more granularity to what has so far been a vague discussion about the fiscal 2014 sequester cut," Callan said. "At the least, it should show the hits to procurement and research and development and ideally will highlight specific program impacts."


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damhooligan wrote:
Uploading and comparing files/riding data is fine.
There are plenty of other ways then just strava to do this.
Thats not the issue.
The issue is that it promotes racing on public roads.
It promotes cyclists to take more risks.
They promote it.
That i see as a concern.
Really? In the group I ride with, when anybody puts the hammer down it's on! Should they be regulated too?
The nice thing about road cycling is that you can safely race on a public road, without breaking any laws, with or without Strava.
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Are You Financially Literate? Maybe Not So Much
The problem with National Financial Literacy Month is that 30 days isn't enough time to become knowledgeable about finances, Chuck Jaffe reports.
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... I ... Wall Street you all know the New Stock Exchange floor ... you've seen in its islands in the news all the time the movie is ... very famous ... one knows that you all know about your finances to your checkbook your pocketbook but ... are you financially literate MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe to the top of the above is ... the financial literacy in general and ... what you really need to know to be considered ... financially literate up and you are ... well I am but it's not because I can do all the fancy stuff for the things there it's really because you can do the basics I mean ... you talk about people knowing their checking account things like that but the fact is let's be honest ... almost nobody balances their checkbook anymore they don't really understand how insurance works ... on all too often what they're concerned about its pay what's this got her a ... firm to me without doing any of the underlying thing so ... a lot of times people from a jump in at the high levels of me forget all the big stuff that you really need I mean I was stunned ... its national financial literacy month which is kind of a joke that they do it in April right when none of us understand our tax isn't ... worth paying money to a government that can live within its means ... but yet ... when you talk to financial advisors they see the number one thing is just basically understand how much you make and how much you have to spend and how to live within your means for I he I give a shout out to my wife who balances our chapel to the penny ... of I'll give it every single receipt I hear it that can balance it gets all ... fall ... so we're financially literate my household when people need to do to me isn't really that simple is just ... you know ... keep track of your basic finances to store ... before you start talking about ... the Alpine high zone law all ... in all it really is that simple fact that they ... give you don't understand how it works you have to go get the basic level because the truth is you couldn't go up and say hey I've done all the pre planning things all the things you get the ready and I can hire a financial advisor to help me get the portfolio construction and what I'm going to do to build a portfolio but if you're not saving enough ... if you don't have the basic insurance coverages and you're you're protecting your family you can think you're financially literate be cuz I won't even talk about the price earnings ratio one some stock ... but you're not ... because you have to have a basic understanding and I think the important thing to remember is ... they don't teach in school ... the show that there should be a national curriculum says ... before you ever have ... much money to deal with ... you understand how to deal with money your wife ... and her balance the checkbook she learned that an early age ... there may be some other reasons why she's got it but that actually really help spur a new state where no matter what you do with the higher levels if you buy a bad stock or you do something long enough blowing up your finances because you never let yourself get into a position where one mistake at the high level ... of all you want ... I didn't know until you that that that there is the one key point is that no one is going TP this where is everybody wants to sell you a stock everybody wants to sell you a strategy ... that nobody is no money in it for people to just keep to the basics ... there you go there's no one in it then ironically ... no less Twitter if you wore them more money to raise for somebody else in many respects because ... you're much more likely to be victimized are much more likely to fall to a pitch ... for racial something that will sounds great but again because you don't know how a ... bit thinner or ... anything else in the chest economy means you ... would get plenty of people in this country so I can afford to invest rubbed too nervous to invest ... they got money in it sitting in some sort of a checking account or savings account courts earning nothing ... photo by the way they have credit card debt on which they're paying fourteen percent interest ... and yes I understand that they think they're being smart about will have a little bit of debt on how my savings ... but they're not because if they understood how where to go but paid off my debt ... to be getting a return of that fourteen percent interest rate might otherwise have been accruing ... more ... debt ... and so ... really understand the basics and we need to sort of park on that and it's not sexy it's not anything else ... financial advisors I was stunned at how many of them said ... that less than twenty five percent ... of their clientele ... truly these with they would consider financially letter to ... Heineken in a last question one yet to thank you very much appreciated ...


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Bulls and Strongmen at India's Rural Olympics
India's Rural Olympics are a spectacle of sportsmanship, replete with bullock-cart racing, men tugging cars with their ears and athletes lifting heavy items with their teeth. WSJ's Amol Sharma and Preetika Rana report.
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I ... the the ... the main invented India's ruling fix is underway ... bulls racing down the three hundred meter track the the the jockeys shrieking to get the animals to accelerate ... the winning time is just under twenty seconds ... it's the main attraction for tens of thousands of visitors to this annual sporting festival ... in India's Punjab state ... this is the seventy seventh edition of the gains ... after the single card events ... it's for the time the the the the blue car races attracted unwanted attention ... locals are thrilled it's even happening this year ... rights groups and races ... I ... a local court lifted the ban ... after the event organizers and competitors ... convince the judges that they're taking good care of animals ... jockey Nash on saying ... says his bowl EADS the diet of omens clarified butter ... milk and boil chickpeas to get ready for races ... he denies allegations that the bulls here get injected with performance and hinting drugs ... only people who aren't familiar with the scheme say these things ... has anyone ... watched how we treat the school for twenty four hours ... we take care of him better than a child why would I drug him ... farmers and bowls of any bond since the very beginning ... that's why this race is famous people's seven farmers companions for years ... but there's no guarantee that all goes according to plan on race day ... some bulls on shore with the finish line is ... and jockeys be where ... this isn't for the faint of heart ... the ... meant to be injured ... their bones break their teeth also break it's very risky ... the rural Olympics may look small time ... but they've got some big time corporate sponsors ... for entertainment the audience is treated to a dancing camel ... and a troop of Under folk dancers ... fans come for the Bullock cart races the state for events like pulling carts ... few years ... in all Saints is he's won several billet ornaments ... we do this for money trophy Spain and respect ... saying started your polling motorcycles before graduating to cars ... he said his ears go numb after the act ... there are also demonstrations of dental fortitude Aquaman listers still sag with his teeth ... another balances the plough with a bicycle ... organizers say though showcases of skill ... to nicely alongside Olympics Stiles sports like the hundred meter dash ... there's so much variety here ... you'll see min steadily worse is the modern games like hockey Netflix we have all led to ... try to balance both traditional and modern ... and tonight for India ... this is um old charm of The Wall Street Journal ...


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Welcome back to Sunday with Sarah! It's really nice to be with you again.
This has really become a highlight of my week — to just sit down, and connect with you, and share my thoughts.
It's been a really busy week for me, and I bet it has been for you, too! It's pretty hard to avoid this time of year, even if you don't own a toy business. There are just so many events competing for our attention this time of year, it can become so stressful. With the commercialization of the holidays, it's become just an orgy of buying and spending and parties and overeating.
I woke up this morning thinking about the word "holidays", and what's that's come to suggest in this day and age, and remembering the root of the word: "holy days." Holy days. So how do we find time, how do carve out time during this crazy time of year, to find what my friend Lynn Jericho calls "Inner Christmas?" (She's got a great website I invite you to check out at InnerChristmas.com.)
And how do we do that with children? How do we help them connect with the true meaning of this season?
I was grateful this week to my dear friend, Marcia Kimpton, another Waldorf early childhood teacher, who sent me a list that her former assistant created. It's a list of activities she does with her children during the Advent season — one that can be performed each day during the weeks leading up to Christmas.
That list included things like:
- Bake Cookies
- Make a Paper Window Star
- Make Cards
- Make something for a neighbor and deliver it
- Visit the Elderly
- Make a Wreath
I'm sure you get the idea, and I'm sure you can think of many great ideas to add to such a list.
And I had a further thought: As a family you could write down one activity on a card or piece of paper, then put them all in a jar or a basket, and let your children pick one activity from the basket each day. It might be in the morning, after your children open the door on the Advent calendar.
Choose one activity from the basket to perform that day. Not a big task, not an all-day thing, but an activity that will let you take time away from the busyness, do something fun together, something that may be for others, something that helps bring the joy back into the season.
I would like to leave you with a passage from one of my favorite books on Waldorf education. It's called The Recovery of Man in Childhood by A.C. Harwood.
I was reading this week a chapter about celebrating festivals with children, and he writes:
"The festivals, which have survived from older times, have become commercialized orgies of spending, and present-giving, and eating, and drinking. The child needs more than this. Civilization needs more than this. If we nourish the soul of the child by providing a spiritual experience of the rhythm of the seasons, it is also feeding a starving world."
So, I invite you to reflect on that, and I welcome your comments this week. What other activities can you suggest that you can perform as a family with children, — simple activities to bring meaning to this time of year? And what ways have you found of slowing down during this busy time and connecting with the true meaning of the season to find soul nourishment for yourself?
Let me know, let others know. I welcome hearing from you. Have a peaceful and meaningful week., and see you next Sunday!
Please visit Lynn Jericho's website for inspiration in finding your own Inner Christmas.
What other activities with children can you suggest for a more meaningful holiday season?
What ways do you find to keep your inner light burning at this busy time of year?