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Obama plan may boost Washington region's cybersecurity activity
President Barack Obama's proposal for new national cybersecurity policies could drum up more investment and business for the region's private sector.
Obama unveiled a legislative outline May 12 for measures to deal with breaches of private data and safeguard critical financial and electrical infrastructure. Companies in the local cybersecurity industry, and those who advise them, say that would likely boost spending from both the government and private companies on protection against attacks.
That's good news for Northern Virginia and Maryland, where the cybersecurity industry is particularly strong because of the large defense and intelligence presences there.
New federal policies, depending on how they shake out, could drive a buildup in cybersecurity investments and spending.
"The problem is very complex," said Doug Schmidt, CEO of investment adviser Chessiecap Securities Inc. in Bethesda. "And as long as it's a complex problem that requires complex solutions, the industry is going to have life."
It's a problem that in Maryland alone is attracting upward of $100 million in public and private investments.
Major industry players, such as McLean-based SAIC Inc., are looking at possible investments in smaller companies they can partner with to tap into billions of government contracts.
Another example of private sector activity is Catonsville-based Maryland Cyber Investment Partners, which set up a $25 million fund focused on investing in cybersecurity companies.
Meanwhile, the newly created Invest Maryland fund plans to raise about $70 million from insurance companies and pour it into venture capital funds investing in cybersecurity companies.
With a multiplier effect, experts say, the Invest Maryland fund could steer $350 million to $700 million into burgeoning cyber companies and create sorely needed jobs.
"We have had horrible brain drain over the last few decades," said Art Jacoby, one of three partners in Maryland Cyber Investment Partners. "We can not only stop that, we can reverse it. We're talking at least tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, maybe hundreds of thousands."
The increase in cybersecurity professionals could be helpful in the fight against hackers who have been attacking multinational corporations like Google Inc. and Sony Playstation Network, which revealed in late April a data breach that compromised names, addresses and possibly credit card information for 77 million users. The network is still yet to be fully rebooted.
"I think the commercial sector is still asleep on cybersecurity," Jacoby said. "By and large, the cyberwar has barely begun in the commercial sector."
Obama's proposed policies would govern the information that private companies must report and how they should resolve problems in cyberattacks.
The president's plan offers companies advice from federal homeland security officials, and it requires operators of "critical infrastructure" to establish cybersecurity plans that would get federal oversight. Critical infrastructure includes the electricity grid, financial system and transportation networks.
The impact of the policies is hard to predict because they are less about what companies should do to protect data than about how to oversee that protection, said Bill Anderson, CEO of Baltimore's Oculis Labs Inc.
"If the past is any indication, it might not have an immediate effect," he said. "It might take a long time before all the administrative, bureaucratic and management pieces are firmed up enough for this to actually start affecting information security."
In the meantime, many big defense contractors must meet small business requirements. Companies such as SAIC and Northrop Grumman Corp., which is moving its headquarters from Los Angeles to Fairfax County, have created programs to help emerging tech players get into federal contracting.
In September, SAIC opened a Cyber Innovation Center in Columbia, Md. The center is designed in part to help incubate emerging businesses in the field.
"It's in the realm of possibility, in the near term, to create a Silicon Valley here on the East Coast," said Larry Cox, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC. "We have every component to make that work. We have venture capital. We have facilities. We have brainpower."
Nationally, the industry has grown from $34 billion in 2009 to $40 billion in 2010 and could hit $120 billion by 2015, according to estimates by market research company Frost & Sullivan Inc.
Still, the demand will likely outweigh the amount of available funds in the region. It will take more than just a laptop and programming ability for a budding entrepreneur to sell cybersecurity wares to the federal government. The challenge will be matching investors with companies able to offer the cybersecurity expertise that others don't have.
"There are so many people out there talking cyber, but you've got to start talking to people on the smart side of it, not just the people with the money," said Chris Helmrath, managing director, Northern Virginia, of SC&H Capital. "What you've got to find out is: Is your technology really needed?"


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Dental Veneers
Dental veneers are small porcelain covers which can totally transform the look of your smile. Whether you just want to fix one or two teeth or need a complete makeover, veneers are a fast and easy way to completely change the appearance of your smile. Of all the different cosmetic dental procedures available, this one is able to provide some of the most dramatic results.
Who Might Want Dental Veneers?
Of course, a person looking for a Hollywood smile might choose veneers for a makeover. But this procedure can improve a multitude of other imperfections for people who have no Hollywood aspirations. Some of the reasons people might want veneers include:
- When a person has one or two teeth that are not as long as the other teeth, putting veneers on these teeth can make a smile more pleasingly even.
- Teeth can become discolored or stained to such a degree that no whitening product will improve them enough to make the patient happy. Veneers can cover these stains and the exact degree of whiteness of the final result can be controlled completely.
- When teeth are mildly misaligned, the placement of veneers on prepared teeth can quickly present a new, straighter alignment.
- Some people have gaps between their visible teeth. Veneers are an excellent solution to eliminating these gaps.
- If the edges of one's teeth are uneven or jagged because of genetics, wear or chipping, veneers will smooth out their appearance.
- Teeth that are irregularly or unattractively shaped can be made more uniform and pleasing.
- Some people want veneers to make their teeth a more attractive length if their natural teeth look short and blocky.
Of course, careful judgment of the cause of any problems must accompany the decision to place veneers. For example, if a person's teeth look misshapen because of excessive wear, it's possible that patient is grinding his teeth at night. The reason for night grinding must be corrected first.
As another example, a person who wants to reshape their teeth into a length that is considered more attractive must consider how this change will affect his bite. When helping a patient with these decisions, Dr. Murphy will take into account the health of your teeth and gums, any underlying problems that might need to be corrected before placing veneers and the final result you have in mind. He will advise you on the pros and cons of each way of addressing the cosmetic result you want so you can make your decision.
While veneers are versatile solutions for many problems, they are not the answer to every problem. Contact Dr. Murphy's office in Batavia, Illinois, to discuss this solution for your smile: 630-984-5605.
Different Types of Veneers
There are two main types of veneers. There are conventional veneers and ultra-thin veneers. Teeth are prepared for conventional veneers by trimming off a very thin layer of enamel. This is necessary to keep the thickness of the teeth approximately the same as it was before placement of the veneers.
Ultra-thin veneers do not require as much preparation. When these veneers are ready for placement, the fronts of the teeth are roughened with an etching solution. The ultra-thin veneer bonds better with the tooth when the surface has been etched.
There are pros and cons to each type of veneer and the decision should be based on an analysis of the final result the patient wants and the process he or she is willing to experience along the way.
To trim away some of the enamel surface for conventional veneers, most dentists will numb the patient ahead of time. By contrast, ultra-thin veneers require no shaving away of the front of the tooth, so no injections are needed. If a person wants veneers, but they are anxious about dental treatment, they may favor the ultra-thin veneer.
On the other hand, conventional veneers will generally have a translucence that is more like that of natural teeth. If you look at your teeth in bright light, you will see that your teeth are not solidly white. You can see through the lower part of the tooth to some degree. Ultra-thin veneers must be made from a very durable ceramic material that will compensate for that thinness, but it does, not at this time, possess that translucence.
Conventional veneers are also thicker than ultra-thin veneers and this can add a little bulkiness to your teeth. If a person's teeth are too small or have gaps, adding a little bulk may not be a problem. One thing to keep in mind is that once conventional veneers are placed, there is no going back to bare teeth again because of the removal of enamel. In some unique cases, the placement of ultra-thin veneers can be reversed.
When you are considering veneers, Dr. Murphy will help you consider all these points so you can get the result you want.
Your New Veneers
The first step to getting veneers is the planning stage. What do you want corrected? What color do you want your teeth to be? What improvements can be made to your teeth without affecting your bite? Are there any underlying conditions to be corrected and is there any decay that needs to be repaired first?
Once the decisions and any needed repairs have been made, your new smile can appear quickly, usually in just a couple of visits scheduled two weeks apart.
At your preparation visit, the procedure will vary by the type of veneer you are to receive. If you are getting conventional veneers, you will be numbed and the selected teeth will be thinned down to permit the veneer to be placed over the front and tip of the tooth. It might be necessary to place temporary veneers over these teeth until the final veneers have been manufactured by the dental lab. Otherwise, the front of your teeth can feel rough and more sensitive until the final veneers are placed.
After thinning, the dimensions of the teeth and specifics of your bite must be recorded which can be done with soft plastic material pressed into the teeth or it can be done digitally. A special camera designed to fit inside the mouth will record every dimension in a format that can be used by the lab to create your veneers.
With ultra-thin veneers, temporary veneers will not be needed because no tooth material will have been removed.
When the manufactured veneers come back from the lab, you will be scheduled to return to have them permanently cemented in place. This process should not require numbing. First, Dr. Murphy will try them on and ensure that the fit and color are exactly what was specified. Small corrections might need to be made at this point. They can actually be test-glued to your teeth so you can make a final determination before permanent placement.
Once you and Dr. Murphy are happy with the color and fit, the permanent cement will be used to attach the veneers to the teeth. In the case of ultra-thin veneers, the etching process will be done just before this placement.
Your New and Improved Smile
The improvement you want to make to your smile is your choice. The best way to achieve that improvement comes from your discussion with Dr. Murphy on the materials and techniques available and the problems you want to correct. We invite you to contact our office and tell us what you want to change. Veneers can be a life-changing event for a person with uneven teeth that they felt were ugly. Veneers can mean more confidence and even professional advancement for a public figure or performer.
With the latest materials and dental technology, you can achieve a remarkable makeover in your smile in just a few weeks. Please call us at 630-984-5605 and let's look at how we can give you a brilliant smile you'll love to show off.

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Generic Export
The generic export somehow complements the other export types by adding more options.
Generic Export
Click the DVD Menu Export button or use from menu File - DVD Menu Export.
After selecting the NTSC or PAL system and choosing Generic as your export, click NEXT to go to the Generic Export export settings
Here you can choose what to export - either Subpicture or True-Color (Button) menu and you can select for each the preferred format.
Transparent Subpicture - If checked the Layer in PSD file with the subpicture will be transparent - that means only the Subpicture itself will be opaque, the border around it will be transparent. If unchecked the border around will be white opaque.
WideScreen Export
If your design is in 16:9 you can select how it ill be exported:
Anamorphic (no borders 16:9)
This is the default widescreen type. You have to also set widescreen option in the DVD authoring tool. This will be displayed in whole screen of 16:9 TV's
Letterbox (borders added 4:3)
This will be exported as a normal 4:3 menu and a black borders will be added to top and bottom. It is called Letterbox and on neither 16:9, nor 4:3 TV's will fill the screen.
Note: If Anamorphic option is set you can add Letterbox and Pan&Scan overlays. These will be another layers (files) of subpicture each formatted for letterbox or Pan&Scan. This is needed in software such as Scenarist if you are designing 16:9 menus. (The DVD specs call for 3 subpicture layers in case of 16:9 menus, each formatted for widescreen, letterbox and Pan&Scan)
PNG export. The buttons will be exported as transparent PNG's. Some authoring tools can read PNG's rather than PSD file.
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text: So my Mom won a trip to Hawaii, They were gone for a week and got back yesterday. After looking at some of my parents pictures I couldn't help but stop at these couple. Take a Look. So these pictures are taken of a huge field full of these Angus Bulls, No Cows in site just the red and black bulls. Where this picture was taken was up a mountain 3,500 feet up. So these are 2 of these unreal bulls: Another bull injoying the shade: And these are the pits that these bulls were digging in the field, some of these wholes are 3 feet deep: Melissa


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I spent Friday night with my gay posse. You might be wondering what kind of wacky hijinks four gay guys and their female friend got up to on a Friday night.
Did we hit the clubs? Drink wine out of a box? Cruise for hot men? Belt out show-tunes at a karaoke bar?
Nope. We drove out to the suburbs to watch a high school play. And then we went back to Paul's place and ordered pizza. You'd never see that on an episode of Queer as Folk.
My friend Dale, who is a high school drama teacher in Richmond, invited us to watch his production of Macbeth ("production" meaning "modern interpretation"). I originally told him "no thanks" ("no thanks" meaning "I'd rather gouge my eyes out than watch a bunch of no-talent teenagers butcher Shakespeare.")
I changed my mind when I found out there would be free pizza afterward.
I normally spend Friday nights curled up on the couch watching Laguna Beach. So I suppose it's fitting that I ended up inside a real high school this weekend instead of watching one on TV.
It was kind of fun to go back to high school. The kids were cute in an awkward and/or over-confident kind of way. They all called my friend Dale "Mr. E." This was kind of confusing at first. I kept looking around, thinking, "Who the heck is Mr. E?"
It didn't take long to realize that my friend is the cool teacher. I suddenly saw Dale in a whole new light. Or maybe it was just because it was the first time I saw him wearing a blazer and an ironed shirt.
After we made our way to our seats, I looked around and realized the audience was entirely made up of parents, grandparents and students.
"Did anyone bring a flask to help us through this?" asked Mick.
It turns out we didn't need alcohol to have a good time (and I'm not just saying that in case any of Dale's students are reading this).
The play itself exceeded my expectations. Oh sure, there was plenty of high school histrionics and over-acting, as well as some stumbled lines and missed cues. But a few of the kids were extremely talented actors and a joy to watch.
Who knows what kind of wacky hijinks we'll get up to next weekend? Maybe dinner at White Spot followed by bingo at the community centre.


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Kyabram is focused on moving out of its slump tomorrow.
The Redbacks have not registered a win since a round-five victory against the lowly Shepparton United, making sub-par scores since then.
But Kyabram coach Glenn Hart hopes a game against reigning premier Old Students at home will be the turning point.
''We've got to get a win, pretty much that's it for us, we've got to turn it around,'' he said.
''They are a good-quality side as the reigning premiers and their form's not so good at the moment, but this is the time of the year they turned it around last year, so they're always a dangerous side with capable batsmen.''
The past two completed rounds have had the Redbacks post just 118 and 127, failing to bat the full 45 overs in both matches.
''I've really emphasised to the top four in particular that they need to get us off to a good start and not put the pressure on the lower order, it's two-day cricket now, so they need to do their job and protect their wicket,'' he said.
''There's some depth there (in the lower order), but they shouldn't be relied upon to do that, they should just be there to finish off an innings more than anything, not to sustain.''
With the fun of Schoolies over, Hart welcomes back talented teenagers Kyle Fitzgerald and Kyle Mueller, who will greatly assist putting on a big total, while Curtis Ryan looks to do damage with the ball.
Old Students have been forced to travel this weekend, after last week's heavy rain made the new wicket at Kialla unplayable until after Christmas.
While the Students have not yet reached the heights of last season, they were looking strong against Numurkah before rain washed out the second day of play.
Captain Luke McPhillamy said it was a shame an ideal chance to claim a win went begging.
''For sure (it was disappointing) because I think we were in the game after the first day, so it'll be good to see how we fare in a full two-day game,'' he said.
''We certainly bowled well last week and the guys are really keen to get into two-day cricket with the bat and ball.''
McPhillamy welcomes back batsman Riley Michel, while Brendan Crouch will aim to make an impact with the ball.


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John Rhind
Chief Executive Officer
General Council
Paula M.A. Campkin
Vice President and Chief Safety Officer
Rick Shatosky
Vice President, Finance and Chief Privacy Officer
Murray Elliott
Ron Genereux
Vice President, Operations
Carol Howes
Vice President, Communications and PetroLMI
John Rhind
Chief Executive Officer
As CEO, John Rhind provides vision and leadership for Energy Safety Canada, the merger of Enform Canada and the Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA).
With more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, John has held a variety of successive senior leadership roles primarily focused on oil sands operations.
John retired from Shell Canada in 2015. As the CEO for Albian Sands Energy, John was responsible for integrating Albian into Shell Canada. In his most recent role at Shell, he led the Athabasca Oil Sands Project during which time he provided strategic direction for Shell's research and development activities. As part of that portfolio, John was actively engaged in regulatory and government affairs. His work involved bridging provincial and Canadian governments at all levels, including regulators and industry to develop critical policies.
John was a member of a small group of senior executives from across the globe accountable for improving Shell's upstream asset reliability system. He was a member of the Shell Canada Board and Country Management Team, leading several initiatives for advancing workplace culture, diversity strategies, aboriginal relations and inclusion strategies for Canada.
John has close ties to Fort McMurray, having raised his family in the community. His community involvement has included serving on the Board of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). John current sits on the Board of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).
Murray Elliott
As President, Murray Elliott will oversee the implementation of the strategic direction and the overall success for the merged organization of Enform Canada and the Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA).
Murray was appointed President effective September 1, 2017. Over his 30-year career in the oil and gas industry, Murray has held a variety of progressive leadership roles in oil and gas development and production. Murray joined Shell Canada in 1986. In his most recent role as General Manager, Greater Deep Basin, Murray served as the integrated business leader for the development and production of Shell's regional oil and gas asset.
Murray has also served as Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainable Development for Shell's Heavy Oil division and as Crisis Chief of Staff for Shell in Canada. He has held a broad range of asset management, upstream engineering, commercial, strategies, operations and development roles.
Murray's active leadership in industry associations has included representing Shell on Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' (CAPP) Board of Governors, Alberta Executive Policy Group (EPG) and Oil Sands EPG, as well as chairing and participating in Industry-Regulator Committees. As President, Oil Sands Developers Group (OSDG), he led the industry review that later transformed OSDG into the present-day Oil Sands Community Alliance (OSCA). Murray has also served on Enform's Board of Directors since 2016.
Hugh Hooker
General Council
Hugh Hooker was appointed General Counsel and Corporate Secretaryon October 3, 2017. In this role, Hugh is responsible for all legal matters across the organization and works closely with Energy Safety Canada's Board of Directors on matters of corporate governance.
Hugh has practiced corporate, commercial and resource law for more than 40 years and has held senior legal executive positions in large oil and gas organizations, including Petro-Canada, Amerada Hess Canada and Home Petroleum. Hugh has provided legal support related to governance, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and financial matters.
He holds degrees in law from the University of Alberta and in political science from the University of Calgary.
Hugh was a steward of the merger between Enform Canada and Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA) as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, providing legal and business guidance.
Paula M.A. Campkin, MBA, CRSP, ICD.D
Vice President and Chief Safety Officer
As Vice President and Chief Safety Officer for Energy Safety Canada, Paula provides strategic leadership over the development of safety training and initiatives to reduce injury and illness in the Canadian oil & gas industry.
Prior to joining Energy Safety Canada in 2007, Paula gained valuable experience in the in the areas of human resources and environmental health & safety working in the oil and gas, construction and utilities sectors.
Paula holds a bachelor degree (BA) in psychology from the University of Calgary and an master's degree in business administration (MBA) from the Haskayne School of Business. She also holds certificates in occupational health & safety from the University of Alberta and project management from SAIT. Throughout her career, Paula has attained the following professional designations; Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP), Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Canadian Risk Management (CRM) and Institute of Corporate Directors Designation (ICD.D).
Paula served as a Governor on the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP) from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, Paula became a founding member and Chairperson of the Women in Occupational Health & Safety Society (WOHSS), an organization with the mission to foster the advancement of women working in health and safety in Alberta.
Ron Genereux
Vice President, Operations
Ron joins Energy Safety Canada as Vice President, Operations. With more than 30 years of oil and gas industry experience, Ron builds on his extensive operations and project management knowledge to champion operational performance for Energy Safety Canada. Formerly on secondment from Suncor as a member of the Oil Sands Safety Association (OSSA) leadership, he joined our team when OSSA and Enform merged to become Energy Safety Canada in October 2017.
Ron was an integral part of the Suncor senior leadership team, and was a key team member that created the Major Projects group. As Vice President, Productivity and Construction, Ron was most recently accountable for ensuring all Suncor growth projects were executed in a safe manner to support improved productivity and sustainability.
Ron holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), holds an Alberta First Class Power Engineers' Certificate, is a board member and Best Practices Chair with the Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA), and a board member of the Alberta Construction Safety Association and Buildforce Canada.
Carol Howes
Vice President, Communications and PetroLMI
As Vice President of Communications and the PetroLMI division of Enform, Carol is responsible for stakeholder relations, brand and communications management. She is also responsible for providing leadership and strategic oversight in all aspects of management and operation for the PetroLMI division.
Prior to joining Enform, Carol worked as a business journalist; as vice president of a communications consulting firm; as manager of media relations for one of Canada's largest energy companies; and as vice president of strategic communications for a large, fully-integrated national public affairs firm.
More than 30 years of experience in all aspects of business gives Carol a unique perspective on the workforce issues of the oil and gas industry. Carol currently serves on the board of directors of the Lougheed House as well as Hospice Calgary.
Among Carol's main priorities at PetroLMI, is to increase the division's focus on its mandate. She believes that collaboration with industry, government, educators and training agencies is the best way to support and advance the development of a sustainable, skilled and productive workforce in the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors.
Rick Shatosky
Vice President, Finance and Chief Privacy Officer
As Vice President, Finance and Chief Privacy Officer, Rick is responsible for Enform's accounting, contracts, business analysis and the operation of its Calgary facilities.
Prior to joining Enform in 2003, Rick was a Senior Accountant at Price Waterhouse, then Controller at Indel-Davis Ltd. where his strong analysis skills and leadership resulted in significant cost efficiencies for the organization.
Rick earned his bachelor degree in Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified General Accountant. When not attempting to keep up to his four grandsons, Rick enjoys travelling, hiking, cycling and cheering on the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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This kit is in white with white
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(one cartridge can support about 160 mouthfuls, which is equivalent to 10 tobacco cigarettes)
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Spot the difference! These two photos, of the same scene, were taken around 0.2s apart. The camera has, nevertheless, moved slightly in that period, as you can see by comparing the tree branches. But look at the orbs. Some of them appear to be partially obscured by the branches.
I have stated elsewhere that orbs that appear to be behind other objects in a photo are not (see here).
That's because the objects producing the orbs, such as dust particles
or insects, are very close to the camera. And it's true for the vast
majority of photos where orbs appear to be behind objects. They look as
though they are behind because they blend into the background.
But here is a highly unusual case that is an exception to the
rule. These orbs really ARE behind the branches. Where they appear to be
partially obscured it's because they really are behind the branches.
How is that possible?
In the orb zone theory (see here)
orbs are out of focus highlights of objects very close to the camera.
They show up because they are strongly illuminated, usually by a flash.
But the bit about being close to the camera is not crucial, just the
usual arrangement. You could have an orb zone remote from the camera. So
long as it contains out of focus highlights and strong illumination, it
will work. And that is what is going on here.
The branches in the photo are in the foreground and in focus.
However, the background is out of focus and illuminated by strong
sunlight. It is a river. The orbs are out of focus highlights in a
stationary mat of algae sitting on the surface of the river.
If you look closely you'll see that all the orbs move slightly
between the two frames. The move slightly to the left. The highlights
causing the orbs are not really moving. It is the slightly different
angle of the photo that produces the apparent motion. Actually, there is
one exception. The orb in the top left corner appears to move
vertically as well as horizontally. This is probably due to a localized
movement in the algal mat.
So, there is a rare case where the orb zone is distant from the
camera. Why don't we see more examples like this? It's because of the
large depth of field in most digital cameras that keeps distant objects
in focus. This particular photo was taken with a telephoto which has a
smaller depth of field than other lenses. Note how a detailed knowledge
of the circumstances of taking this photo was necessary to explain it.


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Trotter ascribes the failure of the left to the reactionary tendency of New Zealand voters:
So, what was it in the end? What led a majority of the New Zealand electorate to reject a government that has not only done it no great harm (as National-led governments are historically prone to do), but might even be said to have done it some good? Why did voters reject a prime minister with nine years of hard-won experience in government, for a chap who's barely spent six years in parliament?
Last night's result was manufactured out of the besetting sin of the last 150 years of western history - the crisis of masculinity. What, exactly, is a man in a world of corporate and public bureaucracies? A world of tin-pot bosses, impossible schedules, and unrealistic expectations? A world where to show your feelings is to reveal your weakness? A world where girls can do anything, but boys make a virtue out of boorish stupidity? A world where cynicism trumps heroism, and where simple human decency is dismissed as political correctness?
It was these: the men who just couldn't cope with the idea of being led by an intelligent, idealistic, free-spirited woman; the gutless, witless, passionless creatures of the barbecue-pit and the sports bar (and the feckless females who put up with them); who voted Helen Clark out of office. (2)
First of all - I have to say it - how he can describe Helen Clark as 'idealistic,' is beyond me. For the last time, she signed a free trade agreement with the Communist despots of the P.R.C. There was nothing iidealistic in that, just pragmatic economically motivated hypocrisy. Which exposes Trotter's column as the ideological ideal-illogical exercise it is.
(For record, the voting system isn't there to "save us from ourselves" as Trotter puts it (3) - it is there to reflect the will of the people. MMP is not perfect, as the bump in the wasted vote this year showed - but it is better than many. If Trotter wants a system where the good and the wise get to decide what is good for everyone else, I suggest he visit Helen's friends in Beijing.)
He can't be honest and attribute Labour's defeat to its true source - a rudderless party who on;ly purpose had become to maintan its position in power, on the benighted principle that' "We might be slightly better at mismanaging things than the other team." There was nothing fundamentally distinctive about Labour in 2008. The fact John Key was able to "Mee, too!" almost every policy of Labour's showed that. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why they lost - because there was no reason for them to win. No compelling reason why people would vote for them. No Big Idea to excite people.
Admitting that, however, would mean Trotter and Labour have to admit that they failed, and they don't have the courage for that - the same lack of courage that cost them the election. SO it is easier to blame the electorate, in a singular display of graceless disgruntlement.
1 - "The night MMP couldn't save us from ourselves," by Chris Trotter, published in the Sunday Star Times, 9th of November, 2008. Reproduced on stuff.co.nz. (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4754717a1861.html)
2 - ibid.
3 - ibid.


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Comic #1014
August 13th, 2007, 12:00 am
Author's Comments:
Reply mybrainhurts, August 12th, 2007, 11:31 pm
Ask and ye shall receive!!
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Reply The_Great_Yoshi_Rider, August 13th, 2007, 1:48 am
It's true, Chris is the only one who can bail them out.
Reply Ocil, August 13th, 2007, 7:16 am
This will definately be... intresting to see how Chris can help them.
Reply L-RAC, August 13th, 2007, 5:16 pm
Maybe... but when Chris does something insanely stupid tommorow, we'll know it's not N.A. Just remember, I called it. ^_^
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What I used:
- 9 graham crackers, crushed into crumbs (or an equivalent amount of graham cracker crumbs)
- 1 stick of butter, melted
- 1 cup of walnuts, chopped
- 1 cup of milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup of Reese's peanut butter chips
- 1/3 cup of heath bar toffee bits
- 1/3 cup of coconut flakes
- 1 [14 ounce] can of condensed milk
What I did:
- Preheat the over to 350 degrees.
- I took the graham crackers and put them in a large ziploc bag and crushed them (you can also just get the crushed graham crackers, i just happened to have these at home and i made up this recipe as I went along). Once it is all crushed, mix the graham crackers with the melted butter well (I did it with my hands because it was the easiest way to mix it and keep it from clumping).
- I used a 9 by 13 dish to make this in (spray with non-stick spray). So in it, I put in the graham cracker mixture and pressed it in well covering the whole bottom of the dish in a thin even layer.
- From here on, it's adding on layers of what you like. This is what I did and in this order:
- I chopped up a cup of walnuts and sprinkled it evenly over the graham crackers.
- On top of the walnuts, I sprinkled 1 cup of milk chocolate chips.
- On top of the milk chocolate chips, I sprinkled 1/2 cup of peanut butter chips (the reese's one).
- On top of the peanut butter chips, I sprinkled 1/3 cup of heath bar toffee bits.
- On top of the heath bar bits, I sprinkled 1/3 cup of coconut flakes.
- And finally, on top of the flakes I poured one can of condensed milk all over it, making sure the whole dish was covered evenly.
Other possible layers you could try/substitute: white chocolate chips [or semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips], other nuts [such as peanuts, pecans, or almonds].
By the way, here are the recipes for a few of the other items I made on Thanksgiving Day [2012]:
Slow Cooked Whole Chicken
Spinach and Cheese Swirls


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Part 5 of 5 – Checkmate – part 1
"If a ruler pays attention to false information, all his officials will be liars."
Proverbs 29:12 – Scripture.
It takes considerable effort to verify and validate the existence of project deceit. Painfully though, it carries on being ignored because of that very same word, "pain". The costs of not confronting or trying to avoid this pain, is cataclysmic. Lives connected to projects running on deceit have been destroyed. The project itself runs into millions of pounds in wastage. Yes, I scare "professionals" intent on continuing to fuel deceit on a project because I am qualified to do it. If I do nothing, then I am no better that those in senior positions turning a blind eye to it. From the bottom upwards we all know that it goes on, yet many in senior management just do not want to see it "the board are always the last to know when things go wrong."
Across the next 72hrs following on from the project suspension, I was on fire. I was too excited to sleep. This was a pivotal moment, the opportunity that was needed to take control of this failing project had finally arrived. I was completely in my stride when all around me was crumbling under this cleverly induced chaos and subsequent stress. I knew the plan, and so did my three trusted genius level colleagues (without whom I would never be able to pull this off).
A few nights ago, prior to the suspension meeting, we had gone out for a few "Pivas" (beers). I wanted to let them in on what was expected to happen – namely the suspension (although at the time, I identified it as the intent to "oust us out of the project"). I explained, from previous experience, what would occur, and persuaded them not to react in panic. Their job was to maintain focus on development of the priority 'deliverables' for the project. It was my job to dealwith our imminent ousting. "All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." Sun Tzu
Of course they questioned me in great depth, how could I possibly know all that I was telling them would happen? In reality, my postulations were based upon the living project documents, the varying differences in stakeholder bodily communication, the tones within the meetings, my visit to the client's high tech facility and the fact that I was now in possession of proof that we were being lied to. The whole project was being lied to! "At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. He carries his men deep into hostile territory before he shows his hand." Sun Tzu
The figures had not quite added up after the exhaustive audit my team and I had undertaken. Several documents for project equipment (AIX machines, RAID arrays, etc) were telling me that the project was being heavily cheated on. These were vastly expensive pieces of equipment ($23,000 and upwards for just one array – CLARiiON, ServeRAID or OmniRAID). As such for example, they should have come with installation and maintenance agreements – but where were these agreements?
The production environment was claimed to be fully delivered. There were even people inside the client's high-tech facility (under nuclear plant level security) standing around these large machine arrays. I did not see any of the equipment actually running – but the people standing around them made it look as if the equipment was functioning normally. The question was, why had they not been able to assign the laptop they had given me to their own network?
Then there were the Meteo content providers supplying the portal with weather data. They had been sending data since the agreement had been signed – right at the start of the project. The data stream was pointing to the staging environment as planned, but nothing was recorded on the master project plan. In fact, no contracted content providers were assigned to tasks in any plan – apart from mine. Why did I not have copy of the overall plan despite my requests?
Just two weeks into the project, a distraught woman came to the lobby of my hotel to meet me. She was from the client side. She claimed that she had attended a meeting where she informed the client senior management that users publishing content would require training on whatever content management system they would procure. The result of that meeting was that only one person on the client side would attend training, and that person would train the rest! How much time was that going to waste? Why could only one person be trained?
The client side IT Director was also on my mind. He had always been amicable towards me. His sudden turn of character was disturbing. Why? What had he been told that would cause his change of behaviour? When I had inspected their hi-tech facility why had he insisted at the end of the visit that our tech team remain behind? One of my tech savvy team members was too upset to return to the facility on his own. Why? What was happening there to cause this fear?
The Sheraton Zagreb had become my home for almost a month now. I had discovered a little corner in the downstairs lounge where I could see everything, and few people could see me. I sat there thinking as my mobile buzzed in and out of life. London and India were both calling. I ignored the calls. My mind had to remain focussed on figuring out my next set of moves and the impact each would have. I ordered another pot of tea and asked for some pen and paper to do some working out. There were so many options to restart the project, but I needed to start thinking from the end of the project as opposed to thinking from the project suspension.
What outcome did I want? Who would benefit from the outcome? How much trouble was I really in with London and the gossips back there? I had gotten to this point – the project suspension point – because I had told the truth. I held nothing back, because the project demanded that everything be open. If I had lied, then the distraught woman would never have come to tell me what she told me – and thereby providing a much wider opening to the opportunity for taking control of the project. I would never have gotten the huge amount of project information, delivering the project required, if I had curried the truth – even just a little.
From my very first steps on Croatian soil I had set the vision and strategic pace of the project. The feedback was a relief, as Lisa and I had correctly deduced the state of the project from as far away as London – and several weeks prior to landing there. The client side technicians and many lower level stakeholders trusted me. The local advertising agency used by the Client trusted me. Their support, given that the design division of my company was a competitor, was invaluable. I was not going to disappoint any of them now by being obscured from the real goals of the project by the project suspension smoke screen.
Around midnight I was still in the same part of the Sheraton lounge, and with a roughly scribbled mind map. I had worked out the project's endgame, and traced several opportunistic routes back to the current project suspension status. Now I had to get up to my suite and back into its strategic bunker. In the strategic bunker, my mind map raised even more questions. For example, the equipment in the facility finally did look like it had just been dumped there. Some of the equipment was still in it transport polystyrene and plastic sheathing – Why? When I had asked about visiting the facility, there was heavy resistance, why?
That morning the answer to everything was clear. I was out of bed at 05:00. I could only manage 4 hours sleep. I had to live the plan every waking moment if everything was going to work. I did a few laps around the hotel which helped me power down the continuous rush of adrenaline, showered and was at breakfast by 07:30.
At 08:00, I was back up in the strategic bunker.
09:00, I picked up the phone to directly interrogate the project saboteurs, ultimately responsible for the project suspension, and before that, sabotage of the projects' early beginnings!


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Recent guest reviews
We switched rooms because the first was dirty, there were holes in the shower wall that were still wet from being patched. Stains on the pillow. Spoon in the air conditioning unit. Lock was broken.They switched us right away after apologizing. Second room: pack light because there isn't an elevator. Pregnant and carrying a bag up and down the stairs wasn't fun...do-able but not fun! Black mold in second room bathroom, there are no exhaust fans in there. The refrigerator didn't work. We had to ask for a trash can. Ceiling was peeling away. Both rooms had hard water stained in the shower and the showers were grimy. The nonskid mat in the shower looked like cardboard. The good things about the trip were the pillows were comfortable and the staff was helpful to the best of their abilities. We checked out early. Not worth the savings.
I have been a member of Choice Hotel's Rewards program since 2000. I have been upset that the chain has been increasing the number of points required for a free stay to the extent that it is triple what it was even a few years ago. We decided spur of the moment to go to the NC Seafood Festival in nearby Moorehead City for the weekend. I checked, and there was a Quality Inn for 10,000 points. Great! I want to use up all my points and not deal with the chain again, so spending 20,000 points for a weekend was great. Or. not. The grounds are ill-kept. The hotel says that it was renovated but that was only the lobby and the first floor. I was on the second floor which smelled of tobacco. All of it. The bed was sagging in the middle, the bedding was worn. When they re-did the lobby area, it was a fortunate choice for black countertops in the breakfast area. It took me a while to notice the roaches. I dumped the place of food I had gotten and ate only packages yougart. This is definately an example of you get what you pay for. I have another 25,000 points and I'm wary of using them. Stay away from this hotel!!
I will make my review, short and sweet. We checked into this Nasty Roach Motel. I complained about finding roaches in the room in middle of the night. Kam B General Manager, could never be found to meet with me. I complained several times, to the front desk. I was given another room, after the first night.. Big Deal, I demanded compensation from this Dive of a motel, in the end after complaining to The main Corporate center, I received one nights stay refund, that wasn't enough for me. The second room, was better, but not by much. Believe me, this cheap Nasty motel owner/ Kam B thinks he has won the battle, however, he only won the fight. I am going to let every contact I have, in the various organizations, that I belong to, not to stay at This quality Inn. I have already informed friends, that travel for government agencies, not to stay at this property, when visiting the MCAS at Cherry Point, NC. In addition, I have contacted my business contacts, that travel to The region on business, to avoid this Pig Pen of a motel.! I am personally going to Boycott the Brand Name. Ahh one more thing, the house keepers didn't make my room up for one night, during our stay either. Kam B doesn't represent Quality Inn Brand name our their guest treatment statement either. The statement in the guest folder, states, if your not happy for any reason, contact the front desk. We will make it Right.!! I hope Kam Reads this review, because, without a doubt, I wouldn't let this guy manage any business.! Oops, did I forget to mention, that Kam B is not just the Gen. Manager, he is also the OWNER! Any negative reviews here, are Dead on Accurate.
The rooms are dirty. The floors haven't been swept, plaster peeling off the walls. Mold on the ceiling. Smells like someone puked in the chair. Will never stay here again. They changed our original room because of uncleanliness and the 2nd is just as bad. The staff is really friendly but not worth the stay.
If I can rate it "0" I would!!! Horrible from the front door!!! We had two reservations and neither of the reservations were correct! My sister needed a handicap room and the Front Desk Clerk stated, "we had to give your room to someone else." So now we have to walk up flights of stairs!?!?!!! Ended up needing cash and she points me to the ATM, which was out of service! No elevators! No phone in room! Dangerous outlets! Menstruations (period) stains on chair and ottoman! Broken fixtures! Dirty Dirty Dirty!!! Coffee pot was absolutely disgusting!!! Is that mold near the ceiling? I am so done!!! We paid entirely too much for my family to stay in this nasty property! The Owner should be ashamed!!! Your website does NOT reflect this property! DISGUSTING!
Very nice and knowledgeable staff, nice TV in room, great water pressure in the shower, comfy bed and great breakfast. Even got a light workout in in the fitness room. I'd like to come back in the summer to use the pool. What else can you ask for?
OMG! This was one of the worse hotels we have ever stayed in. When we arrived to check in, the clerk said we were in room 110, a smoke and pet free room. I told him we booked the room online and indicated we travel with our 2 Shelties. So he changed our room to the back and on the second floor. The entry way was blocked open, There was trash in the stairway, the walls and floors were FILTHY and the hallway was shabby and dirty. Once in our room the floors were stained in the carpet areas. The drapes hung on very few hooks and let light in. They did little if any good. Also, there was water on the floor in the bathroom.....I had to keep a towel on the floor to keep my feet dry! The faucet in the sink came right out when you turned the water on or off. And, the security latch on the door was broken off. The only positive was the breakfast! This hotel is a classic example of how PET FRIENDLY hotels usually treat us! We paid $25 per night to have them with us. We should not get the worse room in the worse location! Our dogs behave better than most kids we see traveling and people don't pay more for them and get moved into the worse room!
the electrical outlets lose on wall and some had no covers. refrigerator didn't work correctly. there is no military discount and next to a military installation. the owner refused to do nothing about the refrigerator. no discount at all. would not recommend it at all.
We arrived late, walked into a lobby where the air was not working. When we inquires about our room we were assured that the air was already on and running. The room was about 80 degrees while the hallway had to be in the 90's. No exaggeration. Our room was dirty. The shower head was a mess. And the tub would not drain. Make your reservation and pay the extra to stay at holiday inn or Hampton.
The hotel was ok the lobby was clean. My room upon inspection was not. I had a dirty hand print on the shower wall and tub. There was a dirty water droplet on toilet. There was a smear of some sort of what could have been the big dead roach by bathroom door. I always carry cleaners so i wasnt going to complain, it was late at night however when I turned on the AC it blew hot air. I went to desk they were nice and gave me the room accros the hall. That room was clean with a clean smell no roaches and cold AC.
Hotel highlights
- Free continental breakfast
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
Quality Inn Havelock places you 6.8 mi (10.9 km) from Lake Road Winery. This 102-room hotel has free breakfast along with conveniences like free in-room WiFi and free self parking. In central Havelock, the hotel is also within a 30-minute drive of New Bern Firemen's Museum and Tryon Palace.
Start your day off right with a free continental breakfast. In addition to a meal at the onsite restaurant, you can also enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service.
All 102 air-conditioned rooms feature microwaves, refrigerators, and coffee makers. TVs come with cable channels and DVD players, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Free local calls, hair dryers, and ironing boards are also standard.
Property features
Guests of Quality Inn Havelock enjoy a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and conference space. If you decide to drive, there's free parking. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to help secure valuables, and answer any questions about the area. Additional amenities include a seasonal outdoor pool, coffee/tea in a common area, and an arcade/game room.
Reviews from Trip Advisor
47.0% of guests recommend this hotelTotal of 51 reviews


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that only 64,000 tonnes mangoes were exported in 2015 against the 120,000 tonnes export in 2013. He said this was the "lowest export" in last five years.
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Exporters had set a target of 100,000 tonnes export this year with an expected earning of over $75 million foreign exchange for the country, he added. He said that exporters should try to tap new markets such as China, Russia, Iran, Belarus and Middle East countries, besides catering to traditional markets.
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I have 3 Dish(2 ku band and C band) (one for Hotbird, one for NSS and other one INSAT) and all working with single switch.
The problem - If I want to scan the channel of C Band I need to choose the LNB mode from the installation menu as "SINGLE-SH" to get only 6 Channels(Asianet, Asianet Global, News, Kairali, Jeevan etc). If I put "SINGLE" instead of "SINGLE-SH" I need to put a different frequency(certainly these frequencies are not listed with Lyngsat INSAT2E section) for Asianet and related channels, more than 6(including CALCUTTA TV AND BBS). At the same time for NSS6 DD DTH signal is very week if I keep SINGLE for INSAT. There is no problem with Hotbird KU dish.
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Then, I visited another pond but got skunked there. I got home at 06:30 am, and would like to have a good rest from now.
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In 1994, the Internet was mainly a text-based medium. "GUIs" or graphic user interfaces were relatively uncommon. The first major web browser "Mosaic Netscape 0.9" was not released until October of that year. Still, the prospect of the ubiquitous use of the Internet to browse linked documents was being discussed with great excitement, at least within academic circles. Luddites were hard to find. For that reason alone, Sven Birkerts's The Gutenberg Elegies now appears to be a remarkably prescient warning of the downside of our new device-obsessed society. At the same time, many of his observations seem quaint. Birkerts got the main picture right, but he can hardly be faulted for mistaking the details or not seeing just how far down the road to digital hypnosis we would traveled.
The first half of the book tells the back story. Birkerts, in an early chapter, recounts how he became attracted to books and writing, including his attempts to become a novelist and how he ultimately discovered his aptitude for writing essays. In any case, we learn early on that Beikerts is devoted to print books, reading, and writing. He goes on to describe the phenomenology of deep reading or reading in which we become thoroughly immersed in the text. He provides an account of how reading can be instrumental in "self-formation," how reading and interpreting texts is related to our life activities apart from reading, and how the activities of reading and writing are not so very different.
In the second part of the book, Birkerts explores the coming new world of digital reading and as you might guess, he greets it with apprehension. Birkerts fears that the beneficial habits and frame of mind created by deep reading will be undermined by the new electronic media. He predicts the erosion of language. He writes that "the complex discourse patterns of the nineteenth century" are becoming "flattened by the requirements of communication over distances. That tendency runs riot as the layers of mediation thicken. Simple linguistic prefab is now the norm, while ambiguity, paradox, irony, subtlety, and wit are fast disappearing....Verbal intelligence, which has long been viewed as suspect as the act of reading, will come to seem positively conspiratorial. The greater part of any articulate person's energy will be deployed in dumbing-down her discourse." It's hard to deny that his prediction has come to pass. The 140 character twitter message has joined the 30 second sound byte to dominate much of our communication. Worse yet, the cell phone text has returned us to the age of brief telegraphic wire messages, except everyone is able to send these messages hundreds of time a day.
Birkerts fears that with the loss of physical books will undermine our sense of the past. No longer will the past be represented to us in surviving artifacts, but it will be stored in databases "flattening" our historical perspective. The extent to which university students are turning their backs on physical books is, indeed, striking. Their work relies very significantly on texts that can be viewed online. This is, perhaps, a product of the ready availability of electronic journal literature. Not long ago, libraries had access only to a limited number of journals and student research relied significantly on books. Now, back issues of journals are sold to libraries in extremely cost effective packages. Money is made mostly on expensive access to recent issues. This is a boon to humanities research, but Birkerts's point that our historical perspective is flattened seems credible, particularly when one views a pdf of an 80 year old journal article in contrast to an original paper version of it.
Perhaps Birkerts's most worrying prediction is of "the waning of the private self." He detects "a process of social collectivization that will over time all but vanquish the ideal of the isolated individual." He writes, "for some decades now we have been edging away from the perception of private life as something opaque, closed off to the world; we increasingly accept the transparency of a life lived within a set of systems, electronic or otherwise....One day we will conduct our public and private lives within networks so dense, among so many channels of instantaneous information, that it will make almost no sense to speak of the differentiations of subjective individualism." I'm not entirely convinced that we are losing the notion of subjective individualism. Much of our social networks are designed to create at least an image of ourselves as individuals, but at the same time we are becoming conduits for memes that waft through the electronic social space; and if Birkerts's concern about "the waining of the private self" was really a concern about the waning of privacy itself, he could not have been more prescient.
The more quaint aspects of Birkerts's work appear in this latter half, where he describes Perseus 1.0 as the "hot new thing in the classics world." Perseus 1.0 was an early an interactive multimedia database for the Classics. The "Perseus Project" is still going, but it has been overtaken by so many new and more sophisticated databases. Still, Birkerts's "curmudgeonly" remarks about the use of such tools in education, particularly humanities education remain worth considering and continue to be discussed among teachers and researchers. Birkerts also has chapters on hyperlinks and audio books. The observations about how hyperlinks change the character of writing and reading are worthwhile; however, his prediction that audio books would supplant print books is obviously mistaken.
The third part of The Gutenberg Elegies laments the demise of literature and the educated reader. My knowledge of literature is far too shallow to comment on his points, though they seem a tad overstated. Regarding the disappearance of the educated reader, I suspect he has a point. In decades past, reading had far less competition. Now, finding an avid reader is rather difficult. This is surely a function of the time we spend looking at text messages, screen-shots, and Youtube video clips, not to mention downloadable movies, audio files, and much more. The ubiquity of cell phones means that people seldom find themselves separated from people with whom they would like to converse and so carrying around a pocket sized paperback to fill the odd empty 20 minutes isn't something we do.
All in all, The Gutenberg Elegies is becoming (or has become) a classic, early work in the expanding debate over the social and personal consequences of our new digital culture. Any one interested in this debate would do well to read it.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age / Sven Birkerts -- Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994
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