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Ever since Daniel Defoe set the paradigm for the shipwreck in Robinson Crusoe, desert-island lists have remained a popular setting for apocalyptic scenario decisions. Considering the books he would choose should he suffer the fate of the character, the poet André Gide included Cousin Bette, Dangerous Liaisons, and Madame Bovary. Faced with the same problem, G. K. Chesterton's sensible selection was Thomas' Guide to Practical Shipbuilding. In a query made by The New York Times at the turn of the nineteenth century, the ten most popular books for a desert island included "the Bible for comfort, . . . Boswell in lieu of society," and—with self-conscious irony—"Robinson Crusoe for guide." Doubting the sincerity of its readers, the article qualifies these as "books of the silent times," adding that "The suburbanite . . . would die so soon on a desert isle, where there were no trains to run for; that the burial service should be all the literature he could want."1 Notably, the character of Robinson Crusoe himself did not subsist on such a strict textual diet, since he was able to rescue several volumes from the shipwreck. Aside from books on navigation, he found "three very good Bibles," "some Portuguese books. . . two or three Popish prayer-books, and several other books."
In the short essay "La biblioteca de Robinsón" ("Robinson's Library"), an unpublished manuscript recently acquired by the Ransom Center, readers can now discover Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges's take on this issue.
Despite the slightly facetious title, Borges considers the task of selecting these life-sustaining texts rather seriously. The act of reading was essential for the erudite author, who in fact claimed that his had been "a lifetime dedicated less to living than to reading," adding in his poem "A Reader": "let others boast of the pages they have written; / I am proud of the pages I have read." Libraries were of primordial importance to him, and in his "Aubiographical Essay," he remarked that "if I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library." Although he frequently contributed to literary magazines in Buenos Aires and had become an established writer in his forties, Borges was forced to take on a job as cataloger for 10 years at a minor municipal library. The Perón regime to which he was opposed later fired him and appointed him Inspector of Poultry and Rabbits at a public marketplace, a position that Borges declined, declaring himself incompetent. To remedy this humiliation, after Perón was deposed in 1955, the writer was appointed director of the National Public Library in Buenos Aires, although, ironically, by this time he was almost completely blind due to a congenital eye disease. Repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize, rumors have it that his conservative political views kept him from winning the award. Borges visited the United States for the first time when he held the Tinker Foundation visiting professorship at The University of Texas at Austin from 1961 to 1962, and, after the death of his mother, with whom he had a very close relationship, he travelled widely, giving lectures on literature and writing.
As a poet, essayist, and short-story writer, Borges was known for creating metaphysical fantasy worlds in which men search for meaning in an infinite universe. In his famous short story "The Aleph," which tells the story of a writer who discovers a peephole that contains all the points of view in the universe, past, present, and future, Borges quotes Hamlet as an epigraph: "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count / myself a King of infinite space." A believer in the Hinduist and Buddhist idea that reality is illusive and anchored in the mind, Borges appreciated the richness held in the world of imagination. Riddled with labyrinths, Borges's texts convey the disquieting sense that ultimate knowledge is elusive, residing in textual codes guarded by confused librarians. The short story "The Library of Babel" imagines the universe as a library, which includes the dizzying catalog of all possible books:
All: the detailed history of the future, the autobiographies of the archangels, the faithful catalog of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogs, the proof of the falsity of those catalogs, a proof of the falsity of the true catalog, the gnostic gospel of Basilides, the commentary upon the gospel, the commentary on the commentary on that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation of every book into every language, the interpolations of every book into all the books, the treatise Bede could have written (but did not) on the mythology of the Saxon people, the lost books of Tacitus.2
Borges's fiction often turns into mystical disquisitions that lend themselves particularly well to the essay form, in which his intricate style shines through with polished eloquence. The manuscript of "Robinson's Library," which is signed by Borges and displays his small neat handwriting, is dated circa 1940, at a time when the author's eyesight was starting to show signs of fading. Given his obsession with books as repositories for knowledge—both actual and potential—this brief piece is a rare exercise in minimalism.
Borges begins by setting the rules of his quest, with the warning that the three individual volumes are not supposed to be "the three most important books in the universe or even. . . the three most memorable books in our personal experience." Since his selection is not based on the desire to maintain a historical record of literature, nor act as a biographical composite of his personality, he finds little sense in choosing books from the established canon or books he already knows by heart. Playfully toying with several answers, Borges is sobered by the daunting thought of choosing texts that will accompany him for all eternity. Dismissing famous novels and books of verse for their dangerous nostalgic value, the author bans texts that discuss human relationships altogether and suggests instead those that deal with "the relationship man-God, man-numbers, man-Universe."
The metaphysical concerns that appear in Borges's fiction form the basis of his required island literature. On his last visit to Austin in April 1976, he gave an interview to The Daily Texan where he commented on his writing methods and offered suggestions to future writers. Asked about his idea of God, he stated: "I say what Bernard Shaw said, 'God is in the making.' God is not something prior to the universe. We are all creating God. When we think, when we feel, when we write, we are simply creating that being." In a similar philosophical vein, in his essay he selects books that will provide eternal food for thought, "books that one must conquer little by little and that can populate the unchanging years."
His list results in a lucid, yet unexpected trio: a metaphysical book (his examples are spearheaded by Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation, which is influenced by Eastern mysticism), a book "on history that is sufficiently remote" (Plutarch, Gibbon, and Tacitus battle it out for this title), and a good algebra text, with many exercises—the latter a revelation that can be traced to his fascination for the elegance present in mathematics, and that has been recently explored by scholars.3
The Jorge Luis Borges collection at the Ransom Center includes some early letters and manuscripts, a notebook containing a collection of poems, and five of Borges's personal notebooks dating from the period 1949–1960: four in Borges's own hand, the fifth dictated to his mother. The collection also comprises working drafts of a number of published works and several manuscripts of texts, such as the first draft of one of his best known short stories, "Emma Zunz," which forms part of El Aleph (1949). Also in the collection is a fair copy of his sonnet "Texas," dated 1967, which was donated to the Ransom Center by Edward Larocque Tinker, an author and philanthropist whose collection of art, books, and artifacts focuses mainly on South America. Illustrating the curiously appropriate position that Borges holds as a unique figure in the Ransom Center's archive, this poem recognizes the similarly vital tensions that arise in two distant places and backgrounds, the Texas plains and the Argentine pampas: "Here too. Here as at the other edge / of the hemisphere. . . / Here too the never understood, / Anxious, and brief affair that is life."4
1September 22, 1900. The New York Times.
2Translated by William Goldbloom Bloch in The Unimaginable Mathematics. Oxford UP, 2008.
3This theme is explored in the collection of essays Borges y la matemática (Borges and Mathematics, 2003) by Argentine mathematician and writer Guillermo Martínez, and books such as The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch (2008) and Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics by Floyd Merrell (1991).
4Borges, Jorge Luis. Texas. Trans. Mark Strand. Austin: Humanities Research Center, UT, 1975.


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There was a time when the city shouldered about two-thirds of the school system's budget. That percentage flipped in the past decade, with the state now carrying the lion's share of the school budget and the city seemingly content with finding creative ways to dial back its funding obligation.
Allowing city administrative offices to act as independent contractors in their dealings with the school system is one of those creative city policies. As explained by city officials, the policy proclaims that since the school budget represents more than 50 percent of total city expenditures, over 50 percent of the city's administrative staff salaries and fringe benefits should be funded from the school budget.
This move worked for the city because it was able to count the money spent on non-school employees' salaries and fringe benefits as net school spending, but it was disastrous for the schools because it meant less money going to the classroom.
On Monday, the state shot down this funding strategy, telling the city that while it is allowed (not that it should) to count non-school employee salaries as net school spending, it cannot count those employees' fringe benefits as such.
Rather than being $139,000 above, the state's decision now leaves the school system $2.75 million below the minimum spending level authorized by the state.
"We thought we had taken three steps forward, but we ended up taking five steps backward," Thomas Zidelis, the chief financial officer, said.
Mr. Zidelis' response was telling because it is a perfect summation of the bait and switch strategies the city has been using to pick its children's pockets and to scandalously keep school spending below the minimum required level for years.
In addition to the bogus policy in question, the city tripled the fees it charges the school for handling grant programs and commandeered the millions of dollars the school system generates each year in Medicaid reimbursement.
The good news for city children is that the antagonistic relationship of recent years between City Hall and the school system has largely dissipated, thanks to the leadership of School Committee member Jack Foley, who is chairman of the board's finance committee, and District 1 City Councilor Tony Economou, chairman of the council's education committee.
Superintendent Melinda Boone has also opened the books so everyone can see that the concern over inadequate school spending is not manufactured.
"The move by the state is a setback, but I feel positive that we can work this out,"Mr. Foley said.
"But there are positives. We no longer have that 'us against them' mentality. We can argue where the money is going to come from, but we all believe the schools are vitally important to the city."
The school has an ally in City Manager Ed Augustus, who said he needs to be convinced that the aforementioned controversial policies are the right path forward.
"I have publicly said our schools are a priority," he said.
"I think we would all like to close the spending gap, and to increase spending above the minimum level. The challenge will be in how to do it in context of the budget numbers I will have to work with this year."
School Committee member Tracy O'Connell Novick is also pleased with the more amicable working relationship between the school and City Hall, but action speaks louder than words, she said.
"Now it is a question of whether they will do more than just say they support education, whether they will put money behind the rhetoric."
Contact Clive McFarlane at email@example.com

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'You Can Leave Your Hat On'
Born on a military base in Fort Carson, Colo., singer-songwriter Michael Grimm has paid his dues to get where he is today. But despite winning season 5 of America's Got Talent in 2010, which earned him $1 million and contract with Epic Records, the soon to be 32-year-old Grimm still says he has much to prove.
Before entering the show, Grimm had released three independent albums from 2007-10 and America's Got Talent was his big chance.
During audition week in Los Angeles, he performed "You Don't Know Me" by the late Eddy Arnold. In Week 2, he sang "Try a Little Tenderness," recorded by Otis Redding in 1966, which sent Grimm to the Top 48.
Once in the quarterfinals, Grimm did Al Green's "Tired of Being Alone," and his semifinal performance of Randy Newman's song "You Can Leave Your Hat On" guaranteed him a spot in the Top 10.
Another Al Green song, "Let's Stay Together," helped Grimm advance to the finals where he won with "When a Man Loves a Woman," popularized by Percy Sledge, also in 1966.
"I was shocked, but not surprised," said judge Piers Morgan after the show in 2010. "He's very talented and will have a great career."
Judge Howie Mandel said he had a feeling it would be Grimm. "I am thrilled to get a chance to see him perform," said Mandel. "It's exciting to watch someone blossom like he did."
Grimm will perform in Beaumont and open for the Little River Band on Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Julie Rogers Theatre at 8 p.m. The show is presented by the Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, and tickets are $50-$40.
The Little River Band has sold more than 25 million records and have had over a dozen Top 10 hits including "Help is on the Way," "Reminiscing," "Lonesome Loser," "Down on the Border" and "Paper Paradise."
In advance of his performance, Grimm talked to The Examiner about his musical journey thus far.
Has it been difficult to shake the reality show tag?
It was a very good thing for me to win the show, but it has been tough. I've noticed that a lot of the music business frowns on the reality show stuff. I knew that before going into the show but up to that point, I wasn't left with many options. I wanted to get out and do my thing and be heard, and it's been difficult to do my thing before getting a chance with this show. It was a good tool to show America who I am and actually show them what I can do. But back to the question, it has been tough to prove to the business what I can really do.
When did music become a part of your life?
My grandmother inspired me. She had a lot to do with it, really. She helped raise my sister and me, and we would sing in a southern Baptist church while my grandmother played piano. Somewhere along the way, she kept encouraging me to sing. I come from a blue-collar family and I realized it was a way for me to vent and release troubles, especially when I hit my first heartache. Then I made a transition from singing country music, which I was raised on, to soul music.
While working on this new album, which came out in May, how important was it to include some covers and how did you choose those particular songs?
After winning the show, I always wanted to work with Don Was. He has worked with artists like The B-52's, Carly Simon, Iggy Pop, Bob Seger, Garth Brooks and The Rolling Stones. I asked Epic Records if we could get him, and there he was. Don and I put our heads together and came up with an idea to do half and half — half original and half cover songs. The covers songs were some of the songs that influenced me, so I wanted to bring them back. There's a duet with Travis Tritt on there where we do a Lynyrd Skynryd song. I just wanted to have a good time with it. I also did "Stay With Me (Baby)," and Ian McLagan actually came on the record and played. I wanted an Americana sound, and that's why I went to Don. He was very inspirational to work with.
About the show, what went through your mind when one of the judges, Sharon Osbourne, told you that you were her husband Ozzy's favorite during the competition?
It's still hard to believe. To have his approval meant a lot to me at that time and told me that I was on the right track. It just felt good, you know? Even Piers Morgan, one of the other judges, would could up and say, 'Just keep doing what you're doing.'
How important is your live show?
The live show is what I do. I just spoke with Barry Manilow about this, and we've become friends since the show. Barry asked me where I was most comfortable, and I told him on stage. He replied, 'Then that's where you need to be.' I can play five or six hours a night on six or seven days a week. I'm used to doing that in Las Vegas alone. The stage is a place that I can release all my emotions.
Speaking of shows, you just got off a big tour opening for Stevie Nicks.
It was absolutely amazing. I mean people come to see Stevie, including tons of celebrities. I've been blessed to tour with her and meet a lot of people in the business. Oddly enough, I met Bill O'Reilly at one of the gigs.


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While I use "looks well" because of good being an adverb here, I mainly read "looks good" in the web.
I'm quite unsure about the ngrams chart, has the grammatically incorrect "looks good" simply superseded "looks well", as English became a world language? Or are there subtly (probably colloquial, slang) differences in meaning of both phrases?


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Nov. 10, 2006
Santa Clara Head Coach Jerry Smith
Opening Statement: "I'm very proud of my team, I think they played well today. We have to take our hats off to USC and congratulate them on their victory. They were a very tough defensive team. I think the lesson for us today was that you can't control everything. We did a lot of things right today, but like all sports, soccer is a game of inches, and we hit the post once, had some close misses."
"I'm disappointed that this team is not going on because it is a very talented team, one that earned a top seed, that was one of the top three or four teams in every poll in the country, and I'm disappointed they won't go on and get the chance to go to the Final Four."
On the second half adjustments: "The team was tentative in the first half, USC is a physical team, and we haven't played them in awhile, but at halftime we asked our forwards to be more aggressive and take their players on, and try to initiate contact and take advantage of free kicks."
On the missed penalty kick: "Marian is one of the best at penalty kicks in the country, and after the match I reminded Marian of Brandi Chastain. Brandi's last touch in a Santa Clara uniform was in the 1990 semifinal when she missed her penalty kick in almost the exact same spot. In Marian and Brandi I don't think you can find two better people at making penalty kicks. I think today it just proved that Marian is human, and I know she'd like to have that back."
On drawing USC in the first round as a No. 1 seed: "We're never concerned with who we have to play in the first round, we've had some tough first-round opponents before. Our geography here isn't like it is say in the East Coast or in the Northeast where there is a large density of teams, so you end up playing an automatic qualifier 20 minutes down the road out there, while here we end up with Pac-10 teams, usually a Cal or Stanford, and this year USC."
"We would be concerned with a first-round opponent if our goal was to make the second round, but our goal is to win the national championship. You've just got to be able to beat a team like USC on your home field to win the national title."
Forward Meagan Snell
On the match: "It was a very upsetting result today, like Jerry said, USC was very good defensively. I just can't believe it, we're such a good team and we worked so hard to get that No. 1 seed, but when it comes down to it, seeding doesn't matter. Soccer is a funny game, I thought we played very well, and I'm disappointed for our seniors."
On the USC defense: "They were solid defensively, I felt that in the first half it took awhile for things to settle down but after 20 minutes we settled down and got a couple of chances."
Defender Marian Dalmy
On the match: "It was a back-and-forth battle, but they were able to hold us and then got one in at the end."
On the missed penalty kick: "Jerry and I talked about it the day before, we thought they might know my tendencies. I still went to my usual side, I just wanted to hit it a little harder, but I think I hit it too hard and got a little too pretty with the post."
USC Head Coach Jim Millander
On the match: "Our team played a complete game for 90 minutes, we dodged a few bullets but got the `W.'" It is unfortunate for Santa Clara as a No. 1 seed that they had to match up against us, but again, demographically we get matched up with them. We're pleased to advance, our kids did an awesome job tonight, weathered some storms and showed great character and heart and persevered. It's a great win for the program."
On the gameplan: "Santa Clara is such a great team, and I think we frustrated them by not giving them the space to play, especially around the box, and Meagan [Holmes] did a great job of denying balls. We didn't give them a chance to get into their rhythm and in goal Veronica has been big-time for us all year long, so it's a real credit to everybody."
Forward Amy Rodriguez
On the win: "The team came out with a lot of fire today. Coming in as the underdog, not expected to win, I think we all put it out there on the field and brought our A-game. We worked hard and that enabled us to stay tied at halftime and then go ahead in the second half."
On her goal: "We crossed it in, and the defender deflected it right to my foot. I looked up and saw [SCU keeper] Julie Ryder coming at me, saw the near post open and slotted it in."
Defender Meagan Holmes
On the win: "Every single on of us knew whatwas on the line, either you win and go on, or you go home. Every player on this team didn't want this to be their last game, and in the end I think it just came down to heart and we ended up having more of it."
On the defensive effort: "Our defense has been solid all season, we didn't really do anything differently, we just stuck to our gameplan and we did everything we were supposed to do."
Goalkeeper Veronica Simonton
On the win: "We knew what we were up against and we fought through it. This is a big win for us, it was an emotional game and we just didn't want it to end for our seniors."
On the defensive effort: "Our defense never allowed them to get completely free or let them have an open shot."


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Kenya women beat Tanzania in 2014 FIVB World Championship Qualifier
Nairobi, Kenya, July 28, 2013 - Uganda beat Burundi 3-0 (25-10, 25-6, 25-11) on day three of the Pool H Africa qualification tournament for the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship 2014 on Sunday.
Uganda, who had lost their first match of the qualifier to the more experienced Egypt, controlled the match from the beginning and did not relent until the end. Burundi showed glimpses of brilliance, but were no match for their East African neighbours.
In the second match of the day, hosts Kenya beat Tanzania 3-0 (25-10, 25-11, 25-16) after having triumphed over Burundi on the first day of the competition to edge Egypt at the top of the standings with both teams tied on six points from two matches but with a slightly better points ratio.
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Miami, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/09/2013 -- Justin Bieber has scheduled two performances at the American Airlines Arena this month in Miami, Florida. The singer, who is currently touring the country and other parts of the world as part of his "Believe" tour, will perform at the arena on January 26 and 27.
The popular singer has sold so many records and tickets that it may seem like he has taken over the pop music genre. Teen girls worldwide love Bieber and his voice and songs.
According to an article on Wikipedia, Bieber has already sold more than 15 million albums and has won many awards, including Artist of the Year at both the 2010 and 2012 American Music Awards. The young singer is also the second most popular celebrity account on Twitter, getting a new follower every other second. His current "Believe" tour, which is the second for Bieber, also reached the number one spot of the top-grossing list of concert tours. It began in September of last year and is scheduled to play over 80 shows throughout North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Fans who are interested in purchasing tickets to his "Believe" tour, or who want to learn more about the AmericanAirlines Arena can do so through the VenueNote website. The site also offers in-depth information about various event locations across the United States.
With its great location on Biscayne Bay right in the heart of downtown Miami, AmericanAirlines Arena hosts hundreds of events throughout each year. According to the VenueNote website, when popular bands and musicians come to Miami, they typically perform at there. Since it first opened in 1999, some of the biggest names in music and entertainment have played at the arena.
The number of seats that are available for events at AmericanAirlines Arena vary and depend on the type of show or sporting event that is scheduled. For concerts, the venue can seat just over 20,000 people, while during the Miami Heat basketball games, 19,600 seats are available. As an article on the VenueNote website noted, it is not unusual for major events to sell out very quickly, so it is a good idea for those with Bieber fever to buy their tickets to this month's shows as soon as possible.
About VenueNote
VenueNote provides comprehensive data for event venues all around the country. From tickets and event scheduling to seating charts, area hotels, and nearby restaurants, people can get all of their vital event information at one place online: VenueNote.com. For more information, please visit http://venuenote.com/americanairlines-arena


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Salmonella poisoning has triggered a nationwide recall of alfalfa sprouts. The sprouts, produced by Caldwell Fresh Foods, were sold in at least 18 states.
Twenty-three people, including an infant, in 10 states have reportedly become ill, according to the Maywood, Calif., food maker who issued the voluntary recall on Friday.
The sprouts were sold at stores including Walmart, Trader Joe's and other locations as well as distributed to a variety of restaurants nationwide. The recalled sprouts are labeled and packaged as:
- Caldwell Fresh Foods: 4-ounce plastic cups and one pound plastic bags, and 2-pound and 5 pound plastic bags in cardboard boxes with sticker affixed with the printed words Caldwell Fresh Foods.
- Nature's Choice: 4-ounce plastic cups
- California Exotics brands: 5-ounce plastic clamshell containers
Maurie Thomas, Caldwell's general manager, said that a 4-month-old infant, who'd been fed a blended mixture of spouts and water, was the first to become ill. None of those who became sick died but four were hospitalized. The last known illness was reported on May 2, according to Caldwell.
Consumers who are experiencing illness after consuming our sprouts should seek medical attention. Consumers that have purchased alfalfa sprouts manufactured by Caldwell Fresh Foods are urged to return them to the place of purchase for refund or dispose of them. Consumers with questions may contact Maurie Thomas at 323-589-5008 from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST or 562-858-1201, 24 hours a day.
This story is developing and will be updated.


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The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for a generation, is getting a completely different look that will force users to learn new ways to get things done.
Microsoft is making a radical break with the past to stay relevant in a world where smartphones and tablets have eroded the three-decade dominance of the personal computer. Windows 8 is supposed to tie together Microsoft's PC, tablet and phone software with one look. But judging by the reactions of some people who have tried the PC version, it's a move that risks confusing and alienating customers.
Tony Roos, an American missionary in Paris, installed a free preview version of Windows 8 on his aging laptop to see if Microsoft's new operating system would make the PC faster and more responsive. It didn't, he said, and he quickly learned that working with the new software requires tossing out a lot of what he knows about Windows.
"It was very difficult to get used to," he said. "I have an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and they never got used to it. They were like, 'We're just going to use Mom's computer.'"
Windows 8 is the biggest revision of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system since it introduced Windows 95 amid great fanfare 17 years ago. Ultimately, Windows grew into a $14 billion a year business and helped make former Chief Executive Bill Gates the richest man in the world for a time. Now, due to smartphones and tablets, the personal computer industry is slumping. Computer companies are desperate for something that will get sales growing again. PC sales are expected to shrink this year for the first time since 2001, according to IHS iSuppli, a market research firm.
The question is whether the new version, which can be run on tablets and smartphones, along with the traditional PC, can satisfy the needs of both types of users.
"I am very worried that Microsoft may be about to shoot itself in the foot spectacularly," said. Michael Mace, the CEO of Silicon Valley software startup Cera Technology and a former Apple employee. Windows 8 is so different, he said, that many Windows users who aren't technophiles will feel lost, he said.
Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 on Oct. 26, and it doesn't plan to cushion the impact. Computer companies will make Windows 8 standard on practically all PCs that are sold to consumers.
Speaking to Wall Street analysts on Thursday, Microsoft's chief financial officer Peter Klein said he isn't very concerned that user confusion could slow the adoption of Windows 8. When Microsoft introduces new features, he said, people eventually realize that "those innovations have delivered way more value, way more productivity and way better usability." That's going to be true of Windows 8 too, he said.
Instead of the familiar Start menu and icons, Windows 8 displays applications as a colorful array of tiles, which can feature updated information from the applications. For instance, the "Photos" tile shows an image from the user's collection, and the "People" tile shows images from the user's social-media contacts. (Microsoft is licensed to use AP content in the Windows 8 news applications.)
The tiles are big and easy to hit with a finger — convenient for a touch screen. Applications fill the whole screen by default — convenient for a tablet screen, which is usually smaller than a PC's. The little buttons that surround Windows 7 applications, for functions like controlling the speaker volume, are hidden, giving a clean, uncluttered view. When you need those little buttons, you can bring them out, but users have to figure out on their own how to do it.
"In the quest for simplicity, they sacrificed obviousness," said Sebastiaan de With, an interface designer and the chief creative officer at app developer DoubleTwist in San Francisco.
Technology blogger Chris Pirillo posted a YouTube video of his father using a preview version of Windows 8 for the first time. As the elder Pirillo tours the operating system with no help from his son, he blunders into the old "Desktop" environment and can't figure out how to get back to the Start tiles. (Hint: Move the mouse cursor into the top right corner of the screen, then swipe down to the "Start" button that appears, and click it. On a touch screen, swipe a finger in from the right edge of the screen to reveal the Start button.) The four-minute video has been viewed more than 1.1 million times since it was posted in March.


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What Politicos Are Reading This Summer
32 heavy hitters tell us what they're taking to the beach.
Summer vacation is underway, and many of us are off to sunnier climes. We asked dozens of political types to tell us what kind of brain food they'll be taking along for the ride—and what they recommend to the rest of us.
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Condoleezza Rice, professor of political economy and political science at Stanford University and former secretary of state
I'm writing this summer about democracy—re-reading (for I think the fourth or fifth time), de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Also Lynne Cheney's wonderful biography of James Madison, Charles Murray's Coming Apart and—for fun— The Sports Gene, by David Epstein.
Madeleine Albright, chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University and former secretary of state
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, by Margaret MacMillan, is the perfect way to mark the centennial anniversary of World War I. Wilson, by A. Scott Berg, is a fantastic portrait of one of my favorite presidents. Hard Choices, by Hillary Clinton, is one of the best choices you can make this summer. The manuscript of Havel: A Life, written by my friend and current Czech ambassador to the United Kingdom, Michael Zantovksy—few people knew President Havel as well as Zantovsky, and his book is a must-read for fans of one of the Czech Republic's greatest heroes.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, minority leader and Kentucky senator
I'm reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri senator
Right now: The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War, by Jeff Shaara. Next up: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick.
Rep. John Boehner, Ohio congressman and speaker of the House
I just finished Lynne Cheney's book on James Madison.
Gen. David Petraeus, chairman of KKR Global Institute, visiting professor of public policy at the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College and former CIA director
I recommend the just-published Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert O'Connell—a superb examination of the many facets of the iconic Union general who emerged as Ulysses S. Grant's most trusted battlefield commander. O'Connell's biography of Sherman brings to life an enigmatic, fascinating figure who emerged a brilliant strategist and a master of maneuver, and whose victories in 1864 helped to ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election and ultimately turned the tide of the Civil War.
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana
I recently finished reading Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. The story of Olympian Louis Zamperini is almost too fantastic to be true. Zamperini ran in the 1936 Olympics, was shot down over the Pacific in World War II, drifted in a raft for nearly two months and survived multiple Japanese prison camps. The horrors of war left him a tortured, hollow shell of a man, haunted by the past. But a Billy Graham tent revival led Louis to Jesus, lifting the weight of his past and giving him peace and freedom he had never experienced. Unbroken details one of the most harrowing and inspiring tales to come out of WWII, and I would recommend it to anyone for their summer reading list.
Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago
Current reading list: Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, by Eric Larrabee; Making Make Believe Real, by Garry Wills; American Romantic, by Ward Just; Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront, by Lois Wille.
All-time favorites: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel; Ecstatic Nation, by Brenda Wineapple; My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit; The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto; The Wars of Reconstruction, by Douglas Egerton; Chicago Skyscrapers, by Thomas Leslie; Gettysburg, by Allen C. Guelzo; The Guns at Last Light, by Rick Atkinson; Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder.
Tom Brokaw, NBC News correspondent and former anchor of NBC Nightly News
An eclectic mix: James Carroll's Warburg in Rome, a historic novel about the Catholic Church and its treatment of Jews during World War II. Also, going back to The Histories—Herodotus—a new translation by Tom Holland. I first began reading Herodotus during sailing trips along the Turkish coast, and with all that's going on in that part of the world now, it is as instructive as ever. And I am enjoying The 40s: The Story of a Decade from the New Yorker archives. As David Remnick reminds us, that was when this great American publication began to take serious notice of the alarming changes in geopolitics. (Not even the New Yorker gets everything right. The review of Casablanca was tepid.)
Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter
Two espionage greats. No. 1 is Daniel Silva's Heist, out soon. Silva is a true genius with his portrait of the Israeli assassin-art restorer facing new, real world complexities. No. 2 is The Director, by David Ignatius. Few understand the CIA and espionage culture as well as Ignatius. If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller and reconsider any investing strategy you might have. Also, War of the Whales, by Joshua Horwitz, a brilliant, deeply reported true story about the struggle between the U.S. Navy and the whales. This is a landmark book that could alter forever how we view our role as stewards of the seas.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and anchor
I'm planning to escape ISIS and Iraq and read The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling's pseudonym for her detective narrative). Now reading Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine and Vernon Loeb; Michele Zackheim's Last Train to Paris; The Boy Detective, by Roger Rosenblatt; and An Untamed State, by Roxanne Gay—a novel about Haiti, where I spent a lot of time reporting in the 1990s. And every summer I treat myself and re-read some Austen. Don't know what yet— Mansfield Park? Emma? For a complete escape.
David Gregory, host of NBC's Meet the Press
I've just finished Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon. I'm very interested in Turkey, particularly in the postwar years. This was a fun thriller. I'm reading Robert Caro's Master of the Senate to better understand how Congress worked when it worked better. I'm also reading Lit by Mary Karr. She's just a brilliant writer, and her story of addiction and redemption is compelling. I've put The Sabbath by Abraham Heschel on my list because, whether you are Jewish or Christian, I appreciate the pursuit of quiet, holy time on a weekly basis. Finally, a book I have read and highly recommend is A Peace to End All Peace, by David Fromkin, about the making of the modern Middle East. On the 100th anniversary of World War I, his book is essential to understanding how the great powers divided the region. Now that work is unraveling. Oh, and Dan Silva's new book The Heist is coming soon. That's a must-read.
Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent
I tend to read a number of books at once, including some for work. For an ancestry project I'm working on, I'm reading A Huff Genealogy: Descendants of Engelbert Huff of Dutchess County, New York and Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte. For pleasure, I just finished Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and picked up Jo Nesbo's The Bat.


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Dan Walters: Four-way contest for state controller creates drama
In the pecking order of statewide offices, controller falls somewhere in the middle – below the governor or the attorney general, certainly, but higher in political stature than the insurance commissioner, the state schools superintendent or, at the very bottom, the lieutenant governor.
The controller writes state checks, oversees some audits and sits on some influential boards and commissions – but the position's political clout comes from being a bully pulpit on state financial matters.
Controller John Chiang has certainly used that pulpit and, facing term limits, is poised to segue into the state's other financial position, state treasurer. Meanwhile, who follows him as controller has become one of the year's most watched political situations.
On primary election night, four contenders – two Democrats and two Republicans – were virtually tied, but a million votes remained to be processed.
Each day since then has provided a new fix for political junkies and number-crunchers as the fortunes of the quartet have ebbed and flowed with every county vote report.
Just two of the four can appear on the Nov. 4 ballot, and 10 days after voting ended, it's evident that a Republican, Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, will finish in first place while the other three vie for second place.
Initially, it seemed possible that the second Republican, a little-known Southern California accountant named David Evans, would join Swearengin.
However, it's now virtually certain that a Democrat, either former Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez or Board of Equalization member Betty Yee, will make it.
Yee had opened a 3,563-vote lead over Pérez by Thursday, but if the final tally is very close, a recount may be on the horizon.
Swearengin would probably prefer to face Pérez. He carries the burden of the Legislature's unpopularity, and facing him might help Swearengin get women's votes, regardless of party.
Yee wouldn't carry any obvious negatives into a duel with Swearengin other than coincidentally and unfortunately sharing a surname with Leland Yee, an unrelated state senator facing federal criminal charges.
Could that make a difference? That would depend on whether voters are paying attention. After all, Leland Yee garnered more than 350,000 votes for secretary of state even though he had publicly quit the race after being indicted.
But the biggest question of the forthcoming contest, regardless of who Swearengin's rival turns out to be, is whether she can re-establish a Republican toehold in statewide office and thus help restore her party to some relevance.
Swearengin represents a new, more moderate and more inclusive image that party leaders want to develop as they seek to regain traction in the face of declining voter registration and a right-wing image that alienates many voters, including many independents.


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Some games choose to take their time, easing us in gently and deciding to keep their best bits well hidden until many hours have been invested. We're not saying it's a bad thing, it's just that sometimes it can feel a bit... slow. Like painfully slow. These are seven great games that we have enjoyed immensely, despite them taking longer to get going than a bonfire made of snow.
7. Okami
There aren't many things to moan about when it comes to Okami. Connoisseurs will appreciate that it's a damn fine sexy game. But if we had to moan about one thing (besides the fact no one bloody well bought it), it would be that the start of the game drags like a wet sock full of moderately-sized pebbles.
Ploddy in the extreme, it could turn players with an impatient constitution off the game completely. Maybe that's why it sank faster than, funnily enough, a wet sock full of moderately sized pebbles.
Above: Amaterasu is saying "Just get on with it, for f***'s saaaaaaaaake"
The first 15 minutes is all story-telling, soothing lute music and pretty-looking Japanese painting. And it's all narrated by Okami's not-really-talking talking noise. Which is kind of cute when you get into the game, but when it's being used to retell a long-winded legend in its entirety, it just comes off as irritating.
And things take a while to improve when the game does finally begin. It's all meaningless getting-to-know-you gameplay. Headbutt some pots. Learn how to use a paint brush. Eat a few dumplings. It's a generous couple of hours before any sign of Okami's true brilliance begins to shine through like a celestial sun beam of joy. But then its good times all the way. (Cheap, naughty boss run at the end notwithstanding.)
6. Batman: Arkham Asylum
I might be on my own with this one, but it's my list. So shit off. After countless disappointments, only the most desperately optimistic comic fan could've been expecting developer Rocksteady Studios to finally make a game worthy of wearing Batman underpants. It was approached tentatively, with professional, cautious cynicism.
On first play, I had this one pegged as a better produced re-run of the 2005 game, Batman Begins and nothing more. It was just Batman doing the same old Batman stuff. Observe:
Yes. It was awesome to be up against the Joker. Yes. It was awesome to be inside Gotham's premier psychiatric institution. But the initial corridor plodding, straightforward stealth set-pieces and learn-through-repetition scuffles against identi-kit buzz-cut thugs was decidedly sub-awesome.
But then... Scarecrow joins the party with some of his trademark psychotropic mischief and things finally begin to kick into gear. In an instant the experience is no longer a by-the-numbers Batman adventure, but a master class in how to do a superhero game right. It was deserving of GamesRadar's most coveted'Game of the Year' Platinum Chalice Award. And there's no higher acclaim than that.


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An expectant mother's beliefs about her infant's negative intentions, such as soiling diapers on purpose, were associated with child abuse, researchers found.
Moms who said their children had negative intentions were more likely to maltreat their child by the time the baby was 26 months old, according to Lisa Berlin, PhD, of the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore, and colleagues.
In addition, more hostile attributions were significantly associated with harsher parenting behaviors, they wrote online in JAMA Pediatrics.
The authors noted that parental maltreatment is an increasing problem as abuse in childhood has been associated with abusive behaviors in adulthood.
The study analyzed pregnant women's attributions to children as a predictor of maltreatment and harsh parenting during an infant's first and second years, they wrote, as well as offering healthcare professionals methods of assessing hostile attributions through a community-based sample of 499 pregnant women.
Participants were mostly non-Hispanic black (34 percent) and white (35 percent) women with a mean age of 27. Most had a college degree (23 percent) or greater (18 percent) and did not report notable social isolation during pregnancy.
Almost all of the children (92 percent) were born at a gestational age of 37 weeks or more and 54 percent were boys.
Researchers interviewed mothers during the second half of their pregnancy about attributions of infant behavior, family demographics, mental health, and social isolation. Interviews were conducted again at follow-up during their child's second year about the child's date of birth and sex, as well as mother's self-reported parenting behaviors.
Attributions were recorded in questions such as 'Do babies seek praise when they do something clever?' and 'Do babies ignore their mothers to be annoying?' and were measured on a five-point scale.
Maltreatment outcomes were measured through county records and included 79 incidents of abuse among 40 children, including 62 allegations and 18 substantiations.
Harsh parenting was measured through a four-item, five-point scale of 'hostile-reactive' behaviors, such as responding to periods where the infant was particularly fussy with anger directed at the child, spanking, shouting at, or shaking the child.
Hostile attributions were significantly associated with child maltreatment.
On the five-point scale, children of mothers who received the minimum score of one for hostile attributions had a 4 percent chance of being maltreated.
Children of mothers who received the maximum score of five for hostile attributions had a 15 percent chance of being maltreated.
'Almost one-quarter of the children in this sample (113 of 499 ) had mothers who received the maximum score of 5 for hostile attributions,' the authors said.
Maternal age, income, race, education, mental health status, and social isolation were not significantly associated with child maltreatment, though there were 'significant bivariate correlations between mothers' hostile attributions and their mental health problems and social isolation.'
The authors also found that 'mothers' hostile attributions increased the likelihood that their child would be maltreated,' adding that 'for every one-point increase in mothers' hostile attributions, their children had a 26 percent greater odds of being maltreated.'
The authors said their research was limited by lack of rigorous analysis of maltreatment data and missing diagnostic mental health information. In addition, the patient population was a small, homogeneous sample and the study relied on self-report for assessing maternal attributions and parenting behaviors.
They added that 'our study highlights the value of practitioners attending to mothers' and expectant mothers' attributions about infants' intentions. This practice can be accomplished on informal and formal bases.'
For instance, if a new mother reports that the baby is repeatedly waking her up during the night because the child is 'spoiled' or 'naughty,' a practitioner could immediately discuss the mother's attributions and responses, they said.
In an accompanying editorial, Joel Milner, PhD, and Julie Crouch, PhD, both of the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, pointed out that 'cognitive models of aggression propose that when an individual attributes hostile intent to another person's behavior, these attributions increase the likelihood of aggression toward that person.'
They noted that practitioners need to be able to make a distinction between changing attributions of hostile intent or focusing on helping the parent 'develop a clearer understanding of intentionality as it relates to young children.'
'There remains a need for additional research on the methods that might have the greatest efficacy in changing the maternal belief-based attributions, especially hostile attributions related to children's behaviors,' they wrote.
This storyoriginally appeared on EverydayHealth.com. Republished with permission from EverydayHealth.com.


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The Radisson Blu Royal in Copenhagen has got some serious celebrity credentials.
Not only has just about everyone from the Beatles to JFK to Take That stayed there but the building itself is famous in its own right.
These days it looks fairly uninspiring from the outside, but when it was opened in 1960 it was Copenhagen's first skyscraper and it was ground breaking – with its reflective façade towering above its surroundings.
The hotel is the creation of Arne Jacobsen, who in architectural terms is about as celebrity as it gets.
But far from simply designing the outer shell, he also designed just about everything inside the hotel, right down to the wine glasses and the cutlery.
Although most of the bedrooms have now been modernised, they still pay homage to his design principles, and most of the public areas are still as he envisaged.
One bedroom however has been left intact and is a shrine to 70s style – with all the original furniture, fixtures and fittings still place. You can stay there if you want – although you could probably get a similar experience at a fraction of the cost by going to stay with your granny, or hotel guests are able to take a look if it's not being used.
It's a popular location for film and photo shoots though so you've almost certainly seen it at some point before on the pages of a glossy magazine, in the background behind some insanely glamorous model.
On the top floor of the hotel is the recently opened Alberto K restaurant. Not only does it boast fantastic views over the neighbouring Tivoli Gardens and the rest of the city.
It's chasing a Michelin star, and is hotly tipped to win one in the next round, so is booked up well in advance. Sadly, my trip was too impromptu to bag a table, and like most of Copenhagen's top eateries a meal there comes with a hefty price tag.
If you haven't got cash to burn though you can still get a taste of the hotel's style in the Royal Bar in the lobby where you can sit on Jacobsen designed furniture and drink from Jacobsen designed glasses without breaking the bank.
There's even a cocktail named after the architect. There's nothing to suggest that he ever drank it himself, but its green colour is reminiscent of the décor in the preserved bedroom. The glace cherry at the bottom of the glass is a lovely retro touch too.
Hit is on the right day and you might even spot a celeb or two in the lobby. If not, you can always just look at the photographs.
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text: TROY -- The forecasts were dire, triggering snow emergencies, airline cancellations and preparations throughout the region for a combination storm that promised high winds, lots of snow and plunging temperatures. But when a bright sun rose Saturday morning, the storm labeled 'Nemo' by some TV weather outlets had mostly missed our area, dumping most of its snow east of the region. The massive storm battered Long Island with 2 1/2 feet of snow, knocked out power to thousands and stranded hundreds of motorists on its highways. Upstate, 10-12 inches of snow fell in the Hudson Valley and Adirondacks, 8 inches in Buffalo and a foot in Rochester. According to the National Weather Service in Albany, the official snowfall tally at the airport stood at 7 inches Saturday morning, considerably less than predictions as high as two feet. Dave Barocsi, a business traveller in town since Thursday, was among those expecting a blizzard. "I'd been hearing about it since Thursday," Barocsi said, sipping a coffee at a doughnut shop in downtown Troy. "When I came out this morning, I have to say the City of Troy does an outstanding job of clearing the streets and roads and sidewalks. There was no problem travelling." A Utica native, Barocsi is accustomed to heavy snowfall. And like almost everyone else, he thought there'd be more snow on the ground this morning. "It was a slight little worry, but I believed it would clear and eventually let me go on my way." A few blocks away, at the Spill 'n the Beans coffee shop, Heather Patrice was busy stacking away materials from the farmer's market, where the shop keeps a booth. "A lot of the vendors were not there today," Patrice said. "We're local, so it's convenient for us. But a lot of the farmers have to use mountain roads to get here, so a lot of them weren't there today because of the weather." Patrice said market organizers put all the vendors on the lower floor of the Atrium downtown, where normally both floors are used. "The weather definitely hurt our business," she said, glancing around a near-empty dining room of the cafe. "By this time we're usually a lot busier." Patrice wasn't planning on letting the weather stop her from enjoying the day as she shared her plans for the rest of her day. "It's sunny and there's lots of new snow, and I'm probably going to do some sliding in Frear Park." Charles Sweeney may also be reached at 270-1252.


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BOSTON – It's not like Jake Peavy didn't have enough on his mind. He didn't need to go up against a pitcher with serious intent on tossing a no-no Monday night at Fenway Park.
But that's how it shook out, the way Cubs' righthander Jake Arrieta took matters into his own hands. Arrieta got to two outs in the eighth inning with only a fifth-inning walk to blemish his outing, but the no-hitter eluded the ex-Oriole when Stephen Drew drilled a single to right on a 2-2 count.
It was Arrieta's 120th pitch. He was done for the night and left to a raucous ovation. The Cubs would take a 2-0 lead to the bottom of the ninth. Arrieta struck out 10. He was just 0-3 with a 5.90 ERA against Boston. This time, he was almost pitcher-perfect.
The last no-hitter against the Red Sox was tossed by Seattle's Chris Bosio in 1993. Ironically, Bosio is now the Cubs' pitching coach.
"(Arrieta) kept every pitch out of the zone," said Dustin Pedroia. "We just ran into a guy at the top of his game. He located everything. He had great stuff."
"He was really moving the ball around well," said David Ross. "There's a reason he has a low ERA." Arrieta is 5-1; his ERA dropped to 1.81.
In the bottom of the 9th, A.J. Pierzynski pinch-hit for Ross and singled against reliever Hector Rondon. But Brock Holt rapped into a 3-6-3 double play and Daniel Nava grounded out to finish it.
Arrieta created the buzz on a sweet summer night. "He wasn't missing (with his pitches)," said Holt. "That's the best I've seen since I've been up here. He had everything going for him."
You didn't have to read the tea leaves to Peavy. He gets what's going on. He was 1-6 with a 4.93 ERA when he threw the first pitch. Rubby De La Rosa was in Triple-A after a couple of impressive starts with the big club. Patience with the veteran Peavy had worn thin, at least with the fans.
He desperately needed a solid outing, and the Cubs seemed as good a team as any to steer Peavy back on the right track. The Cubs' team average is .232. Not that Boston's is way better (.243).
The good news was that Peavy was 7-4 lifetime against the Cubs with a 2.76 ERA. The bad news: Last time he faced them, May 30, 2013, pitching for the White Sox, he gave up six runs in four innings at Wrigley Field.
Peavy (1-7) went six innings giving up five hits and the two runs. He walked two ands struck out seven. "He kept us in the game," said Holt.
Nate Schierholtz's two-run homer, his fourth of the season, gave the Cubs a 2-0 edge in the fourth. Peavy had fanned the first two batters in the inning before walking Wellington Castillo after he had drilled a deep foul to left that exited the park. Holt chased Schierholtz's drive to the bullpen wall, leaped, but wound up with an empty glove.
A sizzling double play helped Peavy in the fifth. With one out Chris Coghlan singled. He was on the move on a hit-and-run with Ryan Sweeney up. The ex-Red Sox hit a grounder headed to centerfield, but Pedroia gloved it backhanded and flipped it the same way to Drew for the force. Drew's throw got Sweeney at first.
The execution brought the house down. There hadn't been anything else to cheer about. The Red Sox were still hitless. Pedroia's become quite adroit at the backhand flip, and Drew's been an accomplished partner in it.
Third baseman Xander Bogaerts made a terrific play coming in on Darwin Barney's roller, barehanded it and firing across his body for the out at first to end the seventh.
Manager John Farrell liked what he saw from his pitcher too. "Jake was really good. He's had a number of good games with little to show for it. He had command of his changeup and his fastball was better than it was five days ago."
But the Boston offense is still lacking. "It's got to come," said Holt. "Once it does, it'll be a good thing."
The visitors had the game's first threat. Peavy (1-7) struck out the first Cub in the second before Schierholtz doubled. But the veteran righthander got out of it by striking out Junior Lake and Barney.
NOTEWORTHY: According to Elias, in the 96 games David Ortiz and Pedroia have played together against the Yankees, Saturday night was the first time they drove in at least three runs in the same game against the Bronx Bombers… Clay Buchholz ("come on down!") faces Edwin Jackson Tuesday. Jackson's having almost as bad a year as Buchholz…. Brandon Workman vs. Travis Wood in the Wednesday finale… The Red Sox get the Cubs and White Sox on this homestand. The Blackhawks were unavailable… Mike Carp turned 28 Monday.
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Cheers cull, well needed.
In decidedly un-emo news, it's my 2 year wedding anniversary this coming week!
Still emo about my job tho
Dunno what else she thinks we could do on a Monday night when I have work in the day.
Happy anniversary, you two!
(Smuggo, perhaps she wanted you to arrange for a weekend getaway to some hotel or something?)
To answer a question - yeah, it's just a regular one. It's been over 2 years since the last one, no symptoms since the original episode. The neurologist wants to know what my brain looks like, me not so much. In my mind, I gain very little out of this. Worst -> diagnosis (which brings no joy, instead a hassle). Best -> my brain reflects my lack of symptoms. There is no one on one relationship between lesions and symptoms, although a large lesion load does not say good things about your disease progression/severity. Anyway, I finally did agree to have the MRI because I know that the previous is possibly a tad too negative view and there is some power in even this knowledge. I did tell him that a positive outcome may mean I stop my yearly visits to him. I just sit there and tell him I'm fine, which is to be expected because I have to call him immediately if a symptom presents. So not much point really.
This is 9th so not a landmark or anything. Plus I just bought her a £1000 Surface Pro and £350 worth of uni books so she's not getting anything else cos I can't afford it.
The MRI was in the early morning, so it's over and done with. Even the massively annoying intravenous contrasting fluid shit was bearable. I do think I'll have a nice shiner at the inside of my arm again, but oh well. Friday around noon we'll have the results.
(As usual the staff was surprised I wasn't screaming, having a fit inside the tube or in need of weird rituals to calm down. Makes you wonder about the average MRI customer)
Yeah the wife got some big list of help you should get to do her MRI scan and people acting like she was going to be placed in a burning pit or something but it was like, no big deal.
I dozed off in the MRI machine earlier this year. Not really sure what peoples' problem with them is if you aren't claustrophobic. Which most people aren't.
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Other than that, I guess most people are more claustrophobic than they let on so they treat it as if it's a burning pit?
I'm pretty sure your tattoos are only an issue if you had them done in a prison.
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Jerusalem: A Cookbook is a culinary journey back to the food of this London restauranteur's and his head chef Sami Tamimi's home city. Ottolenghi and Tamimi share dishes and stories about food from the many cultures that inhabit this ancient and astonishingly diverse city, all with their characteristic love of good ingredients and wonderful flavors — it's actually a pleasure to read even if you don't make anything from it. But as with the previous two books, the recipes in Jerusalem are all straightforward and typically elegant in their simplicity, letting just a few fresh ingredients combine with a handful of seasonings to create spectacular dishes.
This simple warm chickpea salad with white and wild rice, dried cranberries and spices is just such an example of a simple mingling of ingredients into something that is greater than the sum of its parts, but without losing the unique contributions of flavors that each ingredient has to offer. Adapted from Jerusalem, it's easy to make, absolutely delicious, and a perfect light meal for any time of year and certainly a shining addition to your festive table.
This is my contribution to this month's My Legume Love Affair, a popular monthly event started by Susan of The Well Seasoned Cook that celebrates the goodness and diversity of legumes. The host this month is Sukanya of Saffron Streaks.
I am also sharing this with Jac's Bookmarked Recipes monthly event.
|Chickpeas with White and Wild Rice, Cranberries and Spices
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Jerusalem: A Cookbook
Cuisine: Israeli
Published on December 10, 2012
Simple and elegant warm salad of chickpeas, white and wild rice with spices and dried cranberries
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Other recipes you may enjoy:
Ottolenghi's Chickpea Sauté with Greek Yogurt
Chickpea, Olive and Feta Cheese Salad
Wild Rice and Asparagus Salad
On the top of the reading stack: "Simply Satisfying" by Jeanne Lemlin
Audio Accompaniment: Sima Deep - Make Me Flow


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Rein in e-mail storage
With new government regulations and users' gigantic e-mail attachments, new approaches for storing e-mail are called for.
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In fact, some users are still keeping 2GB mailboxes containing four-year-old e-mail messages. But with new compliance regulations, explosive e-mail growth rates and little money for new storage, the tolerance for user excess is at an end. As a result, management wants something done now.
Doing something is always the easy part--not infuriating users is the difficult part. Avoiding outages and minimizing the downtime for general maintenance procedures becomes extremely critical with e-mail now a 24x7 mission-critical application in almost every business. So, do existing or new features in Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise offer any hope?
E-mail administrators need experienced storage managers to start to intervene to help them manage the burgeoning storage growth behind their e-mail infrastructure. The latest releases of the major e-mail packages do give e-mail administrators some additional options for limiting and reducing message retention periods and storage requirements. Yet for large or rapidly growing environments, organizations need storage experts to help them better manage their e-mail databases, content and aging messages.
As storage managers step in, they should look to third-party providers such as KVS Inc. in Arlington, TX, Lucid8 in New Castle, WA, and ZipLip Inc., located in Mountain View, CA, to help them. For example, Lucid8's GOexchange software automatically checks Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003 databases for consistency, while correcting errors and reducing the e-mail database size in the process. KVS' Enterprise Vault for Exchange allows users to think they have a mailbox of unlimited size, but transparently archives and compresses their storage in the background.
Another product, ZipLip's Unified E-mail Archival Suite, includes built-in security that encrypts and authenticates archived e-mail for Domino, Exchange and GroupWise databases.
With products like these now available to support mission critical e-mail applications, organizations need to rethink how--and who--should be managing their back-end e-mail storage problems. Storage managers can make a major contribution toward solving them on four fronts.
First, they can help organizations measure and report on their e-mail infrastructure to give them some direction on how to proceed. Second, they can reduce the amount of e-mail currently under management by filtering, deleting, compressing or just plain deleting it. Third, they can deploy the appropriate backend levels of storage to house the data. And lastly, they can improve the quality and types of backups and restores available by incorporating advanced snapshots and replication features into their products.
Mailbox measurement
So, what should be your first step? First, you need to gain greater visibility into your e-mail database. While different tools provide different kinds of reports, administrators should at a minimum expect any e-mail management tool that measures their environment to be transparent to users and produce some statistics such as the average user's mailbox size, message content and the average length of message retention.
Sherpa Software, Bridgeville, PA, has a product called Mail Attender 6.0, which brings these types of capabilities into Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange environments. It reports on the age, size and content of messages, including message attachments. It also measures space utilization and reclamation statistics. Additionally, the product examines and reports on the growth rate of e-mail at both enterprise and individual levels. And most attractively, it can also generate these reports without any end user disruption.
Other specialized tools exist that provide additional insight into each organization's e-mail environment. For those companies looking to meet legal reporting requirements, E-mailXaminer from Legato Systems Inc., Mountain View, CA, enables administrators and auditors at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) to monitor both incoming and outgoing electronic communications.
Meeting new legal e-mail requirements is a huge job. Mary Kay Roberto, KVS Inc.'s North America general manager, says that the SEC requires the capture of every e-mail coming in and out of the system before the user even receives the e-mail. Under SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4, financial institutions must keep information for three years, with two years of the information remaining easily accessible. More specific requirements exist for broker/dealers under NASD regulations 3010 and 3110.
The compliance officer tasked with the supervision of that data scans some incoming and outgoing e-mail messages manually and runs key word scripts that search all of e-mail to ensure regulatory compliance.
|E-mail backup management
For reporting at an operating system level, storage administrators may want to turn to Double-Take, a product from NSI Software, which is located in Hoboken, NJ. While this product usually gets billed as a Windows-based replication tool, it can also unobtrusively gather more technical statistics on e-mail databases. It can gather statistics such as the amount of read and write I/Os generated by the e-mail application, how long an e-mail database file system replication would take and it can also identify peak periods of e-mail activity.
From data gathered, Jason Buffington, the director of business continuity at NSI Software, located in Hoboken, NJ, says that NSI has found that in many of its customer environments, 95% of e-mail I/O traffic is read and only about 5% is write.
These kinds of statistics will help storage managers to better determine exactly where to place the e-mail data on arrays and figure out how to configure the arrays themselves. In cases such as the 95% read I/O statistic, storage managers will probably want to place this e-mail data on mirrored disk to expedite I/O traffic. They may also want to load these arrays with extra cache to further improve performance because if the e-mail message is prefetched from disk to cache, the response will be even quicker.
The e-mail server's performance may take a hit, depending on the nature of the e-mail management software running. NSI's Buffington reports that NSI's Double-Take software usually results in an average CPU utilization hit of 2% to 5%, although that percentage will certainly vary, depending on the mail server's write I/O load.
Others such as Sherpa Software caution users that the load users will experience will be a direct correlation to the number of mailboxes on the server, what reports users run, how many reports they run and the conditions and actions of the rules users put in place. Sherpa Software finds that most of its customers usually choose to schedule rules to be run late at night, when e-mail traffic is at its lowest point.
|E-mail management
|Cutting down on spam
Mailbox management
As storage managers help e-mail administrators document and understand their e-mail environment, the next step is to proactively manage their e-mail servers. Before managers begin to deploy any management tools, however, they should first identify what tasks they want to accomplish.
Initial tasks will most likely include spam filtering and deletion, along with a cleanup and compression of older messages located in the e-mail database. From there, storage managers will want to start archiving these older messages and improving the quality of the backups and restores. Once these tasks are identified, storage managers should then see if the management tools existing in the current e-mail application meet their needs before looking to deploy additional third-party software.
Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise all contain management tools that allow administrators to perform certain basic administrative tasks. For instance, the latest release of each e-mail product allows users to set policies that delete e-mails after they have reached a certain age. Exchange 2003 gives users the option to choose when the online database compaction runs. This procedure compacts the database by defragmenting the data in the database files.
Novell GroupWise offers the GWCheck utility that has options for everything from analyzing and fixing databases for a post office to purging all messages that contain a specified subject.
The problem with most of these utilities is that once you get into larger environments with multiple e-mail database instances, it may become much too laborious for a single group of storage administrators to manage. Also, as e-mail messaging becomes more regulated, organizations will need to rethink any existing policies that automatically delete all e-mails that are 60 or 90 days old or enforce user mailbox quotas. At these points, companies need to simplify the management of these tasks through the use of third-party tools.
Some products tag e-mails for compliance reasons and automatically archive older e-mails by placing them on appropriately-priced storage. For example, Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek), in Louisville, CO, has a product called Email Xcelerator, which contains an ArchiveMaster option that enables administrators to meet either advanced business or legal requirements for e-mail message archival. In addition to the automatic archiving of older e-mails, it permits administrators to set up policies that allow for messages and attachments to be migrated to the appropriate level of media. For instance, if certain messages need to be kept on write once, read many (WORM) media, policies can be set within ArchiveMaster that migrate messages from its current location to the WORM media.
Another area that administrators need to exert more control over is the e-mail's content. For example, Sherpa Software's Mail Attender 6.0 filters some content by preventing a user from sending e-mail to certain recipients.
ZipLip's Content Filtering Suite manages archived e-mail by generating a hierarchically searchable index on headers, messages and attachments that allows administrators to audit their existing e-mail message stores for Exchange, Domino and GroupWise environments.
E-mail attachments also need to be better controlled. Some of these issues are now handled in the e-mail applications themselves. For instance, if a user sends out an e-mail to 50 other users with a 2MB attachment, this attachment could in theory consume 102MB of disk space, 2MB in the sent mailbox of the user who sent it and 2MB in each recipient's mailbox.
The latest releases of Microsoft Exchange address this issue. Rather than sending a copy of the attachment to each user's inbox, it keeps one copy of the attachment and puts a link to the attachment in the other users' e-mails. Both Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise have offered similar single store functionality for a number of years, but even here third-party products complement this feature.
Take AttachStor Inc.'s StorOnce, for example (see "AttachStor reclaims e-mail storage"). StorOnce, which is part of the AttachStor Suite, is installed as an add-on to Microsoft Outlook clients. It transparently compresses and encrypts e-mail message attachments, presenting the user with a link to the file stored on the central AttachStor server.
This technology especially shines for mobile users. Road warriors can download all of their e-mail with a thumbnail view of their attachments. If they want to view an attachment, they can choose to download the ones they want, as opposed to downloading every single attachment in their inbox.
In Lotus Notes environments, Exivity Inc., Westford, MA, has a product called AtomicDispatch, which provides a similar single instance message store capability. However, it handles the message store differently than StorOnce in two ways: First, it intercepts the message before the mail router and scans the size of the message. If it exceeds the established threshold, it replaces the message with a link and stores the message in its central database.
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Second, because it intercepts and scans the message on the Lotus Notes server, it does not require an agent to be deployed on each client, thus reducing the administrative work that's needed to deploy the software. The problem with this approach is that the recipient only gets a link to the e-mail message. So, they may be unable to determine the value of the text which is in the message.
Some companies may consider it a less painful alternative to take a less-refined approach to regulatory compliance and opt to archive everything and then urge users to delete all old messages. That approach should reduce the storage required for "active" e-mail, but only if the users complied. Establishing an official company policy would help encourage users to delete old missives, but you'd still be relying on them to find the time to be good corporate citizens. You might also find that you can narrow the scope of your storage-control efforts by determining which business units need to comply with legal regulations. By concentrating on those users, you may be able to reduce the amount of e-mail that needs to be filtered.
The bottom line here is that e-mail retention requirements are only going to get more and more stringent in the future. And with the cost of storage steadily dropping and litigation fees and penalties almost certain to rise, e-mail archiving is going to become a requirement for any conscientious organization. Of course, it's not the storage administrator's job to decide which e-mails should be kept and which ones should get deleted. That is the job of the company's compliance officer and members of various business units. (See "Save everything?")
Mailbox protection
Data protection is, of course, a storage admin's No. 1 responsibility. Backing up and restoring e-mail databases down to the mailbox, calendar, address book and individual message levels all present varying degrees of difficulty with ever-shrinking backup windows. Some major backup software programs such as CommVault Systems' Galaxy, Legato Networker, Tivoli Storage Manager, and Veritas Software's NetBackup offer enhanced e-mail integration tools with a new native feature in the Windows operating systems.
Microsoft Corp. offers a new API on Windows Server 2003 that allows access to the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service. Volume Shadow Copy enables a snapshot of the Microsoft Exchange database in just seconds. In conjunction with this new API, Veritas Software plans to release an update to its NetBackup product to capitalize on this new functionality with support for Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise to follow if the does demand exist, a company spokesperson says.
Some users like Ken Marsh, who is the IT Manager of the construction firm T.B. Penick & Sons Inc., located in San Diego, could not wait for this functionality to appear in traditional backup products. With users irate anytime the e-mail system went down, he chose San Diego-based StoneFly Networks' i3000 Storage Concentrators to store his Exchange database. He found it was both an economical and efficient method in which to grow storage capacity for users, while it gave him the flexibility to create disk-to-disk backups. These options reduced the number of times he needed to take his Microsoft Exchange server offline for these administrative tasks.
EMC offer users who store their Exchange and Domino databases on their Symmetrix arrays the ability to either instantly backup or restore their databases using a combination of EMC's software products such as Data Manager, Data Manager client and TimeFinder.
Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) also offers similar functionality for Exchange users who store their databases on NetApp Filers. They offer their SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange that makes Exchange snapshot-aware and creates the ability for online backups and rapid recovery of Exchange databases.
Using native and third-party tools to gain an understanding of the data in your e-mail application will go a long way toward better managing data. The challenge for current e-mail administrators will come in how they translate this insight into new management policies. Yet with ever-improving e-mail management tools and storage skills, organizations should be able to keep user angst to a minimum, meet increasingly stringent retention requirements and e-mail growth and still protect the company's valuable e-mail infrastructure.
Related Resources
- Gartner: Reducing storage costs –ComputerWeekly.com
- General-Purpose Disk Array Vendor and Market Analysis –Hitachi Vantara Corporation
- 5 Essential Tips for Considering a Cloud Service for Your Company –Magenic


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Church: Santa Rosa's Thoroughly Modern Marching Band
I first time came across Church after stumbling out of Stark's Happy Hour with a couple of friends. Down the street they came, skipping past Western Farm Center and hanging a right into Railroad Square. It was a motley crew, held together by a few lopsided grins, an accordion (played by Kalei Yamanhoha from the Crux), clarinet, a couple of saxophones, snare drums, trombones and a big, ole' sousaphone. They looked like a bunch of wily mutineers, the Goonies of marching bands, and as we grinned and walked towards the railroad tracks, with Church behind us on the street, we claimed them for a moment as our own personal soundtrack. As they rounded the corner onto Sixth street and headed up into the West End neighborhood, I texted my husband and said, "Look out the window, a marching band is about to pass by!" For a second, everything felt shiny and good in the world.
The next time, I literally ran (or biked) into Church while navigating through dumb Santa Rosa Plaza to get into downtown. As I approached Macy's, the glass entrance doors burst open, and Kalei the accordionist, came barreling out, still playing his accordion, followed by a tumult of ragtag marching band hooligans, all laughing and breathless—and probably being chased by an humorless department store security guard who didn't appreciate the charm of being serenaded in the shoe department with off-kilter Russian folk songs. The best part… Church played the theme from "Cops" on the way out the doors.
That's the great thing about Church: you never know when they'll perform. The last time I saw them, they were playing guerilla-style at the Tour of California "Lifestyle Festival." They were making bank in tips, I'm sure without a permit, and I thought, "Ah, now this is a lifestyle I can get behind." Hopefully, next time I see Church they'll be playing the shit out of a Ratatat song on the top of Hugh Codding's tribute arch until the damn thing rumbles down…
Here's what they say about themselves on their Facebook page: "One rainy night the idea was formed to create a marching band of friends. Why not? Everyone we know plays music, so why not get everyone together for it? We practice hard, perform harder, and create a redonc party everywhere we go."
And here's the official 12 -piece line up: Jesse Shantor (Sousaphone), Gaven Hayden-Town (Baritone Saxophone), Ben Weiner (Drums), Ricky Lomeli (Drums), Zak Garn (Drums), Joey Lynch (Drums), Travis Hendrix (Clarinet), Annie Cilley (Alto Saxophone), Adam Lessnau (Trombone), Jeremy Lessnau (Melophone/Trumpet), Josh Jackson (Trumpet), Kalei Yamanoha (Accordion)
While spontaneous, surprise Church sightings are the most fun, you can see them in a more "official" capacity when they play the Arlene Francis Center on Friday, May 25. The show is a benefit to send the West County-based marching band Hubbub Club, along with Church, to this year's HONK! festwest.
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BERLIN, April 7 (Reuters) - Luxembourg is prepared to ease its banking secrecy rules and work more closely with foreign tax authorities, Finance Minister Luc Frieden told a paper, in a comment welcomed by Germany which wants to crack down on tax havens.
Frieden told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung there was an international trend towards automatically exchanging information about depositors, adding; "We no longer strictly reject this, in contrast to before."
"Luxembourg does not rely on clients who want to save tax," he said.
Last month's 10 billion euro bailout of Cyprus, whose banking system was swollen by foreign deposits attracted by low taxes and easy regulation, has put the spotlight on tax havens.
Austria and Luxembourg are the only European Union states that do not share with other EU members the identities of EU residents with cross-border bank accounts.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he was pleased with the comments from Luxembourg.
"I welcome every step towards automatic information exchange," he told the Saarbruecker Zeitung newspaper.
Amid growing outrage over the scale of tax evasion, Schaeuble said last week Berlin would push the EU to take legal measures against tax havens. The German government this weekend also urged several German publications to hand over details they have obtained on suspected tax cheats. (Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Jason Webb)


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