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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Inter-American Dialogue released a study today naming Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) a top ranking consumer remittance services provider. Wells Fargo tied for first place with two other companies, out of a field of 37. This is the only industry study focused on evaluating remittance services providers based on price, foreign exchange rates, convenience, distribution and quality of service.
"We're thrilled that the Inter-American Dialogue has acknowledged Wells Fargo for being a leader in providing remittance services," said Daniel Ayala, head of Wells Fargo Global Remittance Services. "Despite the pending regulations that are causing some large banks and traditional remittance companies to exit the business or reevaluate their strategy, we want our customers to know that Wells Fargo is committed to meeting all of their financial needs and that means continuing to provide an economical, convenient and dependable way to send money home to key remittance receiving countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia."
The Inter-American Dialogue is the leading U.S. center for policy analysis, communication and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs. The study was prepared by Dr. Manuel Orozco, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue, and the research was conducted between April 2012 and October 2012. Dr. Orozco is the senior associate and director of remittances and development at the Dialogue. He has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances, and migration and development worldwide.
"In 2010, Wells Fargo was named the top bank-managed remittance provider," said Dr. Orozco. "Since the last study, Wells Fargo has managed to increase its transparency, breadth of service and the number of locations, making it well deserved of being named among the top three companies of all remittance providers, not just banks."
Earlier this year, Wells Fargo announced record growth for its Global Remittance Services and reported total consumer remittance value remitted in 2011 at $1.8 billion.
Wells Fargo is celebrating this industry accolade by extending its end of year holiday free transfer offer campaign to January 31, 2013. Wells Fargo is giving a fee rebate to all customers remitting over $300 from an eligible checking or savings account when sending money to friends and family. More details can be located at https://www.wellsfargo.com/jump/credit/grs_expresssendholidayrebate?mplx=6878-37455-3408-27.
Wells Fargo ExpressSend customers can send funds to their beneficiaries in most countries through their choice of four remittance alternatives– account to account, account to cash, cash to cash, or cash to account. Customers can send money to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and China. The Wells Fargo ExpressSend service is available via most key customer channels including all Wells Fargo Bank store locations, https://www.wellsfargo.com/per/intl_remittance/ and the Wells Fargo Phone BankSM at 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-556-0605).
Wells Fargo has been active in the international remittance market since 1994 when we began offering the Philippines ATM remittance account for customers sending money to the Philippines and in 1995 when we launched the InterCuenta Express® consumer remittance product to Mexico. In subsequent years we have improved customer choice and convenience by introducing new ways of remitting money using the Wells Fargo ExpressSend service and extending our remittance capabilities to include 14 countries in Latin America and Asia.
Wells Fargo was the first bank in the United States to promote the use of the Matricula Consular as a form of identification to help Mexican Nationals move from the risky cash economy to secure, reliable financial services. Since then — with the active support of the U.S. Treasury Department and hundreds of local police departments and municipalities — Wells Fargo expanded the program to include immigrants from Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala.
About The Inter-American Dialogue
The Inter-American Dialogue is the leading U.S. center for policy analysis, communication and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs. Since 1982, in successive Republican and Democratic administrations and through many changes of government in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Dialogue and its 100 members from throughout the Americas have helped shape the agenda of issues and choices in hemispheric relations. The Dialogue seeks to promote informed debates on hemispheric problems, advance opportunities for regional economic and political cooperation, expand channels of communication among the countries of the Americas, and bring fresh, practical proposals for action to the attention of governments, international institutions, and private organizations.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank's customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 265,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 26 on Fortune's 2012 rankings of America's largest corporations. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy all our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially.


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Newlywed Sneha had a close encounter with fatality, as she narrowly departed from drowning. The celebrity, who went back to the shoots just recently for her forthcoming Tamil film Haridas, was filming her movie at Dhanushkodi, the Eastern coast of Tamil Nadu.
The actress was shooting a track with her co-star Kishore at the southern pointer of the Rameswaram tropical isle, when giant wave hit their sail boat as well as overturned it. Having said that, just before the situation appeared of control, Sneha was delivered to the coasts through a lifeboat, but cinematographer Rathnavelu as well as a couple of others delved the sea as well as began swimming before the nearby fishers came to their rescue
Luckily, the Haridas unit had a fantastic escape and also got to the shores carefully. It is stated that the abrupt development shocked Sneha and it spent some time for her to bounce back. At the same time, the movie system is planning to kick-start its following schedule in Pondicherry from tomorrow.

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Solveig Leithaug's goodnight song "Faraway Lullaby" has been chosen to ring nightly from the bell-tower of Oslo City Hall at 8pm over the streets of Norway's capitol. This first took place October 13, and was played till advent, 2014. Again it is now featured from January 6th till the end of spring, 2015. The ritornelle was created by Carillonist Laura Marie Rueslåtten who gave Solveig recently a private tour of the majestic bell-tower and to see the bells first hand that plays her goodnight song over her old hometown.
Solveig is in the fine company of composers such as Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, Debussey and Hovland. The original recording of Faraway Lullaby is found on her latest CD Finding Home.
The song was composed by Solveig Leithaug with Sarah Hart in 2013.
Finding Home is available digitally at Amazon, iTunes, Wimp, Spotify, and in stores such as Platekompaniet or can be purchased online via www.gaither.com.
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Oh Lee McQueen…you are still very dearly missed. The industry is still dealing with the loss of the creative genius. Although, Sarah Burton is very nicely carrying on in his stead. In Vogue's May issue, Meisel profiles pieces from the Costume Institute's tribute to Alexander McQueen's legacy, aptly titled "Savage Beauty." And what a savage beauty Lee's work was. His work has intrigued me, awed me, confused me, provoked me, and above all, moved me. Even when I disliked what I saw, I could not deny his incredible design technique. I still recall that 1999 opening where Shalom Harlow was on a turntable, wearing a white dress, and being paint splattered by two robots. It was creepy yet thrilling, fantastical and provocative; I was riveted by the performance. Now that he is gone, his legacy is in his work left behind. And in the people he influenced. Sarah Burton is fantastic technician because his tutelage, and she carries on that technique and vision today.
Meisel has stayed true in this editorial. I love how he has propped this set; it's quirky and perhaps a little out-of-sorts which suits the mad genius of McQueen. Moreover, the pieces Grace Coddington chose, on top of being beautifully wrought, each has a story. They are striking, weird, magical, and romantic at times. I love it. Check the Vogue article for the fully story [although the site coding is a little hard to read so I've posted it here as well]. Here's what Sarah Burton has to say about each [in order]:
- Widows of Culloden, Fall 2006: "The collection was about the 1745 massacre of the Scottish Jacobites by the English, which Lee felt so passionately about because of his Scottish family heritage, which his mother had researched. The women were the widows of the slaughtered army. This dress was actually based on my wedding dress—I got married two years earlier. We had to figure out how to make lace work in the round with those ruffles because Lee hated gathering. So we cut out all of the flowers from the lace and reappliquéd it on tulle to make our own fabric. This is the collection most people remember as the one with Kate Moss in a hologram. Oh, my God, it was so beautiful. He loved that show."
- Voss, Spring 2001: "So much of this show was about the collective madness of the world. It was presented in a two-way mirrored glass box in London, and the girls had bandaged heads, acting like inmates of a mental asylum. Lee wanted the top of this dress to be made from surgical slides used for hospital specimens, which we found in a medical-supply shop on Wigmore Street. Then we hand-painted them red, drilled holes in each one, and sewed them on so they looked like paillettes. We hand-painted white ostrich feathers and dip-dyed each one to layer in the skirt."
- Number 13, Spring 1999: "This was from the amazing show in London where Shalom Harlow stood on a turntable and was spray-painted by robots. This particular look was made from wood to form the shape of a fan: It was all about the craftsmanship. The wooden wings were in this show, too, and the prosthetic legs he had carved for Aimee Mullins, who walked in the show. That was so moving. There were so many ideas in there. Each of his shows was like ten of anyone else's."
- Sarabande, Spring 2007: "The collection was based on Handel's 'Sarabande' in the film Barry Lyndon. It was held in the round at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione in Paris, with classical musicians playing onstage under a giant chandelier. This dress had fresh flowers on it. We put them on just before she went out, and they started to fall off one by one as she walked. I remember people saying Lee timed it. We had a laugh about that. It was an accident!"
- It's Only a Game, Spring 2005: "All the girls were dressed as chess pieces, and the show was choreographed as a chess game. It was about the chessboard of fashion. Lee did have foresight and a sense of humor! This is one of the two horse pieces. He made it by commissioning Steve Powell, a hospital prosthetics expert, to make the body. And the horsetails were from the same suppliers who make the plumes for the queen's Royal Horse Guards."
- Voss, Spring 2001: "This is a straitjacket, a kimono with the sleeves strapped around the back, embroidered with raised birds and flowers, and the flowers on the hat were real. I saved all the showpieces from every collection because I'm an obsessive, obsessive hoarder. Sometimes Lee would look at them again, just to remember what he'd done with something. It was his dictionary he was building, really."


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Gas from ruptured well remained trapped in deep waters
Perhaps it should have been called the Gulf of Mexico gas spill.
A vast majority of the natural gas that billowed out of BP PLC's failed well in the Gulf this summer did not escape to the surface and atmosphere. Instead, the gas -- including its main component, methane -- remained trapped deep underwater, priming the bacterial response to the spill, according to research published online yesterday in Science.
Oil has long been the most visible component of the hydrocarbon rush that gripped the Gulf this summer, even when invisible, in the form of underwater mists of oiled water. Natural gas, billowing out from the Macondo well alongside oil at double the amount, often received scant attention from the public, press and government.
Fortunately, scientists were not so easily fixated on the crude.
In June, while the well resisted control, scientists led by David Valentine, a microbial geochemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, took several hundred samples of natural gas at 31 sites in a large circle around Macondo, extending to a maximum of 8 miles from the spill's epicenter. Data from their cruise, sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation, amount to the first independent snapshot of the immediate, short-term response triggered underwater by an onslaught of gas.
The majority of the methane, they found, remained dissolved more than 2,600 feet underwater, and the gas likely accounted for two-thirds of all the microbial activity in the undersea plumes. Based on government and BP data, some 206,000 metric tons of methane, 35,700 tons of ethane and 28,400 tons of propane snaked out into the subsurface, they estimated.
"The concentrations in the deep plumes were typically more than 500 times the concentrations in the shallower water," Valentine said. "This is good evidence that the majority of methane was trapped and is consistent with most other works on the matter."
Scientists have long predicted that gas leaked from deepwater wells would fail to reach the atmosphere. (One prominent researcher, Samantha Joye at the University of Georgia, has stressed the importance of subsea methane for months, though her research has not yet been published.) The long, dark ascent gives gas plenty of time to dissolve into the ocean's cold stretches, even when it does not form into ice-like hydrate formations, Valentine said. And while this behavior had been seen in natural seeps, the BP spill provided the perfect laboratory to test these assumptions on a grand scale.
At several locations near the well, methane concentrations were so high that they equaled the amount of oxygen in the water, Valentine said, a disturbing balance. At the same time, however, the more volatile gas components were disappearing, their chemistry enticing to a host of deepwater bacteria, many closely related to known hydrocarbon degraders.
The study also highlights uncertainty as to which hydrocarbons, after propane and ethane, were next to be degraded in the undersea plumes, said Rich Camilli, the lead author of a report out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution last month that first delineated the boundaries of large hydrocarbon plume that stretched southwest from the well.
"This suggests that most all of the microbial degradation that is happening there is just the natural gas being utilized, which suggests that there is proportionately less microbial degradation of the oil itself," Camilli said.
"This is where [this spill] is really unique," Camilli added. "For most oil spills, it's just oil, it's not natural gas, but there is so much natural gas that came out of this leak. It appears as though the microbes are just interested in the natural gas. So it suggests that the oil may persist longer than we would like."
Few bugs degrading methane
Unlike previous studies, which tracked the southwest plume and laid out the bacterial response to that mist, Valentine's survey provides a snapshot of a limited radius and does not speak to the plume as it grew more mature farther from the well. Like past studies, his report makes no claim on the current state of the Gulf's waters, nor does it attempt to quantify the ecological impact methane could have on the ocean's wildlife.
Simpler than crude oil's stew, natural gas is a mix of several small chemicals, each assembled out of hydrogen and carbon. Sturdy methane is the most abundant gas, accompanied by ethane, propane and butane, all more complex, larger and unstable hydrocarbons. Unlike methane, these gases can be eaten up by a wide variety of bacteria.
"Put something like propane or butane into a natural environment and it tends to be consumed very quickly," Valentine said.
Indeed, chemical analysis of the well's surrounding waters found that ethane and propane degraded rapidly after emerging into the ocean, causing a bloom in bacterial activity. This surge, however, may have come at the expense of methane, which initially resisted degradation. As ethane disappeared, though, methane loss began to expand at an exponential rate, leaving uncertainty about how quickly it would degrade in more mature plumes.
It is unknown whether the loss of ethane could directly influence methane degradation, but it "could indicate active inhibition," Valentine said. Either way, the methane loss did appear "to be increasing as these other gases were disappearing," he said.
Whatever its ultimate degradation rate, it is not surprising that methane, which is the simplest and least reactive hydrocarbon, would not be devoured by the mongrel group of bugs degrading propane. Those volatile gases can easily be shunted into standard metabolisms, while methane requires a breed apart, Valentine said.
"The bacteria that consume methane basically have to devote their entire lifestyle to degrading methane," he said.
Typical methane-degrading microbes have highly stacked membranes surrounding their cells, which they pump full of enzymes that only target their preferred snack. Essentially, they need a "sledgehammer" to crack the methane, Valentine said, while propane only requires a "plastic knife." Even then, the methane eaters must evolve a unique metabolism to consume the gas.
Biological sampling from Valentine's group revealed two dominant microbe strains related to the Cycloclasticus and Colwellia bacteria groups. These bugs bloomed thanks to their ability to degrade propane and ethane, the researchers suspect, though Cycloclasticus is also known for its ability to chew through aromatic hydrocarbons, circle-shaped molecules that are typically found in crude oil in low amounts, and carry high toxicity concerns.
The strains found by Valentine contrast with the Oceanospirillaceae relatives identified by Terry Hazen, a microbiologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in a study published late last month. (Valentine, though, also detected Oceanospirillaceae in some of his unpublished data.) Hazen marshaled a wealth of genetic evidence to support conclusions that his bacteria were decaying common oil components, known as alkanes, but, like Valentine's report, Hazen did not identify a direct causal link.
Indeed, it is possible that Hazen's bacteria fed on methane, with oil concentrations dropping due to ocean mixing, Valentine said. Or not. "We don't really know what the metabolism is for any of these organisms," he said, though all are related to known hydrocarbon degraders.
There remains the possibility that ecology could control the bacterial surges even more than the choice of food source, Valentine added. Microbial blooms are unstable formations, subject to grazing from larger organisms, or massive viral attacks.
"When one species dominates, that's not a stable situation," he said.
Puzzle pieces
Hazen, for one, was not surprised by Valentine's results. "I think it's just a different spot," Hazen said. "He was sampling areas a little bit different from where we sampled."
All three of the undersea studies published in Science over the past month remain complementary pieces in a larger puzzle, he added.
While Hazen suspected methane would linger underwater in ice-like hydrates, Valentine's data indicate that the gas has remained in a dissolved, gaseous state. Even at high concentrations near the well, the methane was dilute enough that it could not form hydrates, Valentine said. His team closely examined the underwater regions where the hydrates would have formed, he added, and found no evidence of hydrates.
The initial surge of ethane and propane degraders, and then, once their food had vanished, their subsequent deaths, could account for initial drastic drops in dissolved oxygen seen early in the spill, and the more stabilized levels seen by Woods Hole and Hazen in their studies of the mature plume. Persistent mixing with normal waters outside the plume also likely kept oxygen levels stable, Valentine added.
Much more research is set to be published on the spill in the coming months, and Valentine himself was recently back at sea, tracing the retreating edges of the oil and methane mists. Hazen, meanwhile, has had specialized microbe oil traps sitting underwater at the spill's center for weeks, and early this week launched a cruise to take soil samples at 48 underwater sites.
While his findings may surprise the layperson, Valentine's shock was that the hypothesis proposed by his team -- several of his researchers had already been studying methane seeps -- proved so accurate. Science often does not work that way, he said.
"We were surprised," Valentine said, "that nature was working the way we predicted it to work."
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Just how bad was the weather last month? Harsh weather kept 600,000 nonfarm employees from making it to work, more than double the number from a year earlier, according to government data released Friday.
That's a lot of snowball fights and Netflix binges.
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One of my competitive advantages in life was learning early that you do not need to know everything, it is sufficient to know where to find it [1]. I opted for the nimbleness of a "A well made rather than a well filled head " as Montaigne wrote [2] while other people confused themselves by learning everything.
However, now I must reconsider and ask again: Is that so? Is that sufficient?
The world changed. Finding becomes easy. Look at this pad in front of me! It contains many thousands of the best books in the world: writers of the great literature, sages, thinkers, legends, myth, fable, proverbs and sayings, sacred writ of great religions, history, philosophy, sculptures, paintings,... and also the best dictionaries, sources of quotes...* The sleeping wisdom of the World...
I made my father's dream come true and honoured his memory with a library larger than whatever he ever hoped. Only kings and Universities were able to have such libraries in the past. Here and now, the tomes are (almost as if) all laying in my lap. I posses the books, I have them, well, I have copies of copies of copies of them. Now what, Ioan?
Truth hits me right in the face, all this wisdom sleeps; I cannot own these books, they are not mine; when I touch them with my eyes they turn into deep forests, impenetrable tomes to explore. I can embrace my laptop but not the knowledge of humanity. The books would be mine only after I took time to absorb the marrow of the whole lot in my mind. A child can count on his fingers that in the best of cases I cannot hope enough days left in my life to read all this, and even less to assimilate it and make it mine.
In fact, even if the brigand rapacity of the copy right businesses, the impudent paywalls and the censorship of the tyrants or the snooping mania of terrorized governments do not choke the open access to culture on Internet, we still head into a Huxley-world of cheap zillion channel Television and mystified Internet and "mobile" civilization where people become unable to read books, in spite of all being available to them. As Neil Postman [3] wrote, George Orwell described a "1984" world where people were forbidden to read books, while Huxley drew one - much worse - in which people will be incapable to read.
This world is coming alive now.
Even without gate-keeping and censorship, another evil monster advances, the deluge of undiscerning quantity and purposeful confusion or fake, which dilutes the valuable culture in an ocean of rubbish. If you do not understand in advance what you seek, unprotected with a life buoy of critical spirit, you will drown. As if a subtle devilish adversary were working against humane civilization, against our passion to know and understand, with a perverse strategy: "If you want to grow it, water it. If you want to kill it, flood it!" We are flooded.
For the young Internautes of humanity this implies, now, a choice between a new kind of education and yet another middle age century of numerate illiteracy. This time it will be darkness in full light!
How to prepare for the flood? What to do under the deluge of confusion?
Obviously we must learn to float and navigate across a global ocean of disinformation. We must consider what deserves to be taken aboard to be saved.
To help myself across immensity, I devised my strategy: to go back to square one – in haste – and like legendary Noah - who saved exemplars of the essential species - to select and take aboard only the time-tested great books of humanity most needed to reproduce Culture, wisdom, and to save that humane erudition which I call Civilization. Read them first, I told myself, at the source, ad fons, all the rest can wait; This seems to work. Unfortunately. it only works for me in private, such passéism generalised would kill almost everything recent. How sinister it would be to drag humanity back into the past, how unfair to the bright new creators! They do bring new value into this world, and they keep civilization alive.
I gained temporary advantage though; from the time I started my cultural fundamentalism strategy, I felt less confused and I learned much quicker, with less spam in my eyes and ears. I feel relatively secure because I see the way and I have a key, a compass to orient me. A few great books are now mine too.
Gradually, I become a little more aware from where we come and what my words mean. Definitely, I know today much more about the immensity I do not know. With this, I am that much wiser.
Mine, is a strong survival strategy, for a while. (But understand me well - this is only a temporary strategy of urgency, not a long term solution.)
Seneca the philosopher was more radical, as he limited the choice to conformity:
"...reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of masterthinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends...
... So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day. This is my own custom; from the many things which I have read, I claim some one part for myself..." [4]
Another great thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, proposes another reason to only read selectively, by thinking first your own thoughts and reading afterwards to complete them:
"...much reading deprives the mind of all elasticity; it is like keeping a spring continually under pressure. The safest way of having no thoughts of one's own is to take up a book every moment one has nothing else to do. It is this practice which explains why erudition makes most men more stupid and silly than they are by nature, and prevents their writings obtaining any measure of success...
Reading is nothing more than a substitute for thought of one's own. It means putting the mind into leading-strings. The multitude of books serves only to show how many false paths there are, and how widely astray a man may wander if he follows any of them. But he who is guided by his genius, he who thinks for himself, who thinks spontaneously and exactly, possesses the only compass by which he can steer aright. A man should read only when his own thoughts stagnate at their source, which will happen often enough even with the best of minds. " [5]
If selective reading is not the remedy, what else?
The bad solution to the immensity of the past is certainly the current, dominant one: specialize yourself into a corner, live in a box and ignore the rest. This arrogant choice of expert ignorance is grounded by a blurred, unexamined belief that – with the progress of science and technology – the old writings, the past, grew obsolete and only recent things count because they carry the superior future. Worst than this technological cult are only the radical rejections of culture: "We don't need no education..." or the one-book-culture of the zealots.
On this mind-narrowing path of tight separation by disciplines we also lost the way of reasoning of the universal genius... We wait, I believe, for new giants of synthetic mind like Aristotle or Leonardo, Montaigne, Shakespeare or Newton, or Einstein, not blinded by technology, method and gain, to turn their genius towards the human condition and culture today.
There are some other solutions to immensity:
We have a possibility to trust - for a while - some recent well read sages to select for us credible lists of books worth reading; they cannot be however technicians alien to the cultural heritage which "does not compute" and certainly they cannot be little-red-book politicians or firm believers of whatever exclusive creed.
If you make this choice there is good company available to join. Great writers use to share what they read and advise what is worth. Some lettered trials are the life-time reading plans of the Western Cannon and the Eastern one:
Harold Bloom proposed the Western literary Canon [6] Read the books he listed and you will be a cultivated Occidental... and a few years older. For a shorter kind of list, Italo Calvino would probably inspire you [7]
{UPDATE august 2018 } In 2018 as I revisit, all the web adresses are now obsolete- fatigue, life, small egos incapable to give away, indolence, copyright trolls devoured them. At this time try other excellent links (or learn to do web research):
An Eastern canon must be added to the Western, to speak meaningfully about a world culture: a trial among several is at Online Literature.
Indeed, how could you write about culture, without minimum minimorum reading sacred writs of the East, like the Koran, Tao te Ching, Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster, some Upanishads, some Egyptian and Tibetan books of the dead, to complete our Hebrew and Greek roots? How to ignore Gilgamesh, the Persian poets, The Chinese Arts of War, Zen haikus and the oceans of streams of "Indian" stories from which come most of our tales, fables and dreams?
If you chose this path of following mentors - and you should do it without haste - with some perseverance and while still young enough, you will find plenty of good leads and pleasure, rewarding juicy fruit. You will find even here on Earth, another, richer, world of spiritual elevation to complete this obtuse material one of the daily life, a world in which your mind has more words understood and thus more choice and freedom to think with your head and to act as a person.
To travel in the empire of books, we require an education of search for our own voyage.
We need to learn how to learn. That means going beyond learning what we are taught or whatever is cast under our noses.
Beyond just being instructed with what is given to us and beyond striving vainly to know everything, we need - to have a chance of freedom - to learn how to discern and chose, how to weigh critically, how to judge, how to discard and how to forget. We need to learn how to keep aware of what we do not know and find out and remember where to find the things we do not hold in mind - when we need them.
This learning means that you proceed to build your own head, a habit to ask questions and to evaluate what you found, to ask:
"Who says so? Based on what?" to say
"I like this, but not this." and
"Sorry, this I do not understand." and
"Interesting! Important! I keep in mind where to find this and who can help me to understand it when needed."
Such style of learning is built traditionally on being educated by example, in an educated family or by great mentors. For the art of reading books, you need masters, not instructors, certainly not instructions. "programmes" and "trainers".. The internet explorer deserves an aristocratic education, not a democratic one, else his intellect will become run-of-the-mill trash carried by digital tides.
To stay clean of litter coming our way, we also need a re-education of the quote-culture; most of the rubbish that pollutes the mind on Internet today drips from imbecile attribution of ideas and phrases to people who never said them. By some candid perversion, it became usual to "quote" boldly, without indicating who and where and when.
To really understand an idea you must know its parents.
Keep in mind that a quote quotes!
We also need the technology, the software, to turn towards content, with tools serving the seeker and not only the offerer, the client instead of the advertiser and the seller. We need applications to haunt and crawl the net and find what we want instead of landing on what is advertised or offered within a bubble confirming what we believe already. We need reliable references of seriousness and value, by credible people.
We need urgently search engines to search for us us not only on the Net but also home, on our own hard disks, to find things in our own overgrown treasure trove: to find what we need quickly and accurately enough, in the place where we know it to be hidden.
Today, I still do not find the simple decent private search engine which - like Google - would dig out the paragraph, the phrase, the idea I need, when I need it, not on Internet but here in my lap, on my own computer. A profusion of technicians do not seem to understand or better said do not care for the usefulness of helping us, private persons to find things in our own treasury chest.
Well, this being the disquieting state of the matter it is still true that a voyage of a thousand miles keeps starting with the one next step; any good book is a door to everything else. In spite of my anxious look at all those tomes, it is never too late in fact to start reading a great book, any good book, as a first step.
It was well said that even a little learning, no matter how late in life, makes radical difference, as in one of my favourite parables, like a small candle lit in the dark. It kindles a warm little nest of light, much friendlier and totally other than the chilling darkness of ignorance.
*and I left aside Music and Science and particularly everything else I forgot this day.
[1] "You don't need to know everything, just know where to find it."
No, it is not from Einstein, nor an American president! Exact quote with context: "A clergyman should be well equipped for indexing the best he reads in books and for filing clippings. Educated people are not those who know everything, but rather those who know where to find, at a moment's notice, the information they desire..." The Expositor and Current Anecdotes, Volume 16, Indexing and Filing, 1914-1915, [INDEXING AND FILING, Advertisement for Wilson Index Company of Lynn, Massachusetts] Page XX, Column 2, F. M. Barton, Publishing, Cleveland, Ohio. Quotation appears two pages after page 744 on a page labeled XX) This, cf. Quote Investigator to whom I thank again for their work.
Rectification on 3 October 2012: The original source appears to be Samuel Johnson: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries." — Samuel Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson, Ed, A Birrell, Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co, 1896). Thanks to John I. Spouge for looking deeper into the well of the past.
[2] Explains Montaigne: " For a child of noble family who seeks learning not for gain (...), or so much for external advantages as for his own, and to enrich and furnish himself inwardly, since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose for him a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head; that both these qualities should be required of him, but more particularly character and understanding than learning; and that he should go about his job in a novel way. (my bolding; IT) Michel de Montaigne, Of the education of children, in SELECTED ESSAYS TRANSLATED, AND WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY DONALD M. FRAME, Classics Club, WALTER J. BLACK, • ROSLYN, N. Y. , 1943
[3] Postman, Neil, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. USA: Penguin Books, N.Y., 1985. A book to read carefully, I am afraid. The exact quote from the Introduction: "Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right."
[4] Seneca, Epistles to Lucillius, II, Loeb, tr Gummere
[5] Schopenhauer, A., ON THINKING FOR ONESELF, in THE ESSAYS OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Tr T. BAILEY SAUNDERS, THE ART OF LITERATURE Volume Six, Penn State Electronic Classics Series
[6] Bloom Harold, The Western Canon, The Books and School of the Ages, Harcourt Brace, new York.., 1994 Harold Bloom's WESTERN CANON is outlined conveniently at THE BOOKLIST CENTER (not working in 2019)
[7] Calvino, Italo, Why Read The Classics?, Vintage Books, New York, 2001
There are many other credible sources:
The editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked 100 prominent authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature: THE 100 BEST BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE (lost in 2019)
Borges, Jorge Luis; Eliot Weinberger (ed.,tr.); Esther Allen (tr.); Suzanne Jill Levine (tr.); Selected Non-fictions Penguin, 2000


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CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday that investors who took his advice earlier this summer and bought Nokia stock should now sell it.
"I want people to sell Nokia because I've been recommending Nokia as a spec," Cramer told "Squawk on the Street," after Microsoft's $7.2 billion deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business. "I just think you ring the register."
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Although iStopMotion can be used for many different formal learning purposes in the classroom, sometimes the best things come from little to no guidelines at all. Nicky Bourgeois, a homeroom teacher at NIST International School in Thailand, allows students some "personalized learning time" during the day, or as she calls it, the "Wonder Workshop." During this free time, students are able to explore classroom tools and activities that might go unused during the day.
Nicky shared with us the work of three of her students, all of whom have been using iStopMotion regularly to develop their stories and animations 100% independently.
Oscar has been using iStopMotion to retell a story from The Global Oneness project about Edison Dardo, which includes his own ending. When asked what he likes most about iStopMotion, Oscar said, "I like that it is really easy to take the photo. I like the design of the app, as it is pretty easy to work out – it took me a short amount of time to play around with it and figure out how to use it."
Because iStopMotion is so easy to navigate, Oscar has been able to clearly convey his creative storytelling skills and even has plans for making his movies even better in the future. Check out his finished project above.
Chanwoo loves the idea of special effects making the improbable probable! "I'm interested in how it looks like something is happening on the screen, but that isn't exactly what is happening when it was filmed," he says. The theoretical capabilities of iStopMotion make Chanwoo's stunt ideas possible but the technical components of ISM make it streamlined.
"I liked the way you can use the slider to quickly get to different parts of your stop motion because I have 393 photos in mine," he says. Watch his special effects skills in action here.
Keita has dreams of travel when he gets older, so naturally he used iStopMotion to help visualize what some of his future adventures could look like! Keita explains, "I was finding out about New York City because when I grow up I want to go to other places, so first I will go to New York. If I know about the Empire State Building, then I can go there first!"
When asked if there was anything that he would change, Keita simply stated that he wants to put more characters into his story! Check out his envisioned adventures here.
"Wonder Workshop" has clearly inspired these students, not only by encouraging creative expression but also by fostering creative story telling skills. We hope that Nicky's students continue to express themselves with iStopMotion, and we can't wait to see what they come up with next!


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MONDAY, April 25, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A program promoting exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits that can help prevent chronic disease proved effective for black American couples in which one partner has HIV and the other does not, a new study finds.
Researchers divided 535 such couples -- known in medical language as HIV-serodiscordant couples -- into two groups. Two hundred and sixty couples participated in an intervention to reduce the risk of transmitting and getting HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, and 275 couples took part in a program to reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and certain cancers through healthy behaviors.
These healthy steps included physical activity, increased fruit and vegetable consumption and screenings for breast and prostate cancer.
Both programs involved eight weekly two-hour sessions. The couples reported their healthy behaviors at the start of the study, immediately after they completed the program, and six to 12 months after the program. The average age of the participants was 43, and the female was the HIV-positive partner in 60.4 percent of the couples.
The study appears in the April 25 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
"Health promotion intervention participants were more likely to report consuming five or more servings of fruits and vegetables daily and adhering to physical activity guidelines compared with HIV/STD intervention participants," wrote Nabila El-Bassel and colleagues from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health Multisite HIV/STD Prevention Trial for African-American Couples Group.
"In the health promotion intervention compared with the HIV/STD intervention, participants consumed fatty foods less frequently, more men received prostate cancer screening, and more women received a mammogram. Alcohol use did not differ between the intervention groups," the researchers said in a journal news release.
In 2007, blacks accounted for 48 percent of people in the United States with HIV. Because medicines, particularly highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), are so effective, many people with HIV are living longer and are therefore at risk for other chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
"In conclusion, African Americans are at high risk for morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases and are less likely to report engaging in behaviors associated with reduced risk of such diseases and to detect them at an early stage," the authors wrote.
"Moreover, the risk of chronic disease is of particular concern for African Americans living with HIV because HIV and its treatment with HAART are associated with increased risk," they added.
The study revealed low rates of fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity and cancer screening among the participants. "Accordingly, this study is important, demonstrating that [intervention] that teaches skills caused positive changes on multiple behaviors linked to chronic diseases in African American members" of this group, the researchers wrote.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about living with HIV/AIDS.


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Breaking News: Heeeere's Bobby!
Ok, all you guys who kept insisting the Popped-Eyes Sailor Blobs were actually Bob from Monsters-VS-Aliens, listen up.
Bob is blue.
Bob has one eye.
Well, he looks like this:
This is the "official" Bob cake, made by Sugar Butter Flour and served at DreamWorks yesterday to celebrate the movie's release. Fortunately Jessica G.'s hubby works there, which is why we get to share in the gelatinous joy.
Speaking of gelatinous, though, wouldn't it have been awesome if they'd made him completely out of Jello? Sure, I'd rather eat cake, too, but Bompass & Parr (creators of the infamous burger-on-a-donut) have some nifty "Jelly" creations, some of which even glow in the dark:
Heck, now I'm inspired to go make some blue jello mounds with eyeballs. Then I'll bring them to the IMAX theater, and chuck 'em at the candy-wrapper-crinkling, seat-kicking, cell-phone-answering, talking-the-ENTIRE-TIME pests who sit behind me. "Who's 3D now, jerk-faces? Huh? HUH? SHWA-POW! Bob in the face!"
Hm, maybe John's right. Maybe I'm not ready for the movie theater again yet.
Oh, and before anyone gives me grief, this is just Cake News, mmkay? Not Wrecks; Cake News.
UPDATE: Just learned from SuperPunch that Bob also visited the DreamWork's campus "in the flesh," as it were. Check out pics here.


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Oh, nature, so near and yet so far: the thing we live in and deny, worship and destroy. The nagging conscience of our modern dystopian times!
It is spiritually useful to be reminded that there is a world of animals that -- for the moment, at least -- live their lives independent of human interference, on land that has not been subdivided, strip-malled, strip-mined, plowed up or plowed under. So, although in its framing, editing and analogizing it does impose a human framework on the unknowable intelligences of its subjects, we are thankful (on balance) for the seven-part "North America," premiering Sunday on Discovery Channel.
The latest of Discovery's blockbuster nature documentaries, after "Planet Earth," "Life," "Frozen Planet" and "Africa," it's also the first to be made apart from the BBC, whose Natural History Unit leads the league in such endeavors. Born of the technological marriage of modern cameras and television monitors, these films are gorgeous from first to last; it's hard not to regard the images they offer -- not merely their content, but also the fact that anyone managed to take them in the first place -- as something like miraculous.
The fauna on display here ranges from great gray whales in the Bering Sea to colorful little birds in the Costa Rica jungle; in the first episode alone, there are bears and mountain goats and sea turtles -- oh my! There are wild mustangs, descended from the horses that Spanish explorers imported, and whose cousins, says narrator Tom Selleck at his croaky folksiest, "pulled the plow that broke the plains" and "gave the Native American a fighting chance against the white man. They are as American as the land itself."
Indeed, the "Americanism" of animals that happen to live in a place people call America is a theme often returned to, in tones redolent of a GM truck commercial. "The home of the brave demands courage and sacrifice [crocodile eats bird]; she tests all who set foot on her soil; only those tough enough, resilient enough and bold enough to fight for what's theirs [wolf bares teeth] earn the right to call her ... home."
This aggressive tone is not wholly inappropriate. Eating and trying not to be eaten are among the most basic activities of life on Earth, and among its most dramatic (and, for that matter, prosaic). Nevertheless, from the corny alternation of slow and fast motion familiar from modern action films to the titles of the episodes ("No Place to Hide," "Learn Young or Die," "Life on the Savage Edge"), there is an obvious, lip-smacking delight on the muscular brutality of it all -- almost as if to remind you that you are watching the network of "Deadliest Catch" and "Naked Castaway." (Sensitive children, not to say adult TV critics, may want to leave the room now and again. Fortunately, the bad moments are pretty clearly telegraphed.)
With a hectoring score (part fake Hans Zimmer, part bad rock music) abetting the overripe narration, "North America" is perhaps a trip best taken with the sound down.
It is interesting to learn of course that a grizzly's sense of smell is 2,300 times more sensitive than mine, or that a mountain lion can jump 40 feet, that some of the rocky spires of Monument Valley are the eroded magma cores of ancient volcanoes and that the extremes of the North American climate are the result of its lacking an east-west mountain range to keep the cold Arctic air and the warm tropical air apart.
It's less helpful to have the activity in a Costa Rican jungle be described in terms of a "Prohibition gin joint" or the dangerous passage of newly hatched sea turtles across the beach from the safety of their nests to the safety of the ocean compared at length to D-Day. The pictures will tell you what you need to know.


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Under rating threshold (hideshow) The Chaos Rune or "?" rune that doesn't change names even when you eat an identify rune is very rare or a secret part of the game. enchanting it to a weapon causes random effects on enemies you hit/attack like quickening, confusion, bleed (poison), stun, teleport, and sometimes when you're lucky, it even causes explosions like the bomb weapon.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Monsters only quicken when hit with an XP rune. most of the time that kills you. Or if you're lucky you survive but the monster's level is higher and it gets a sudden boost of Haste. The Lightning weapon doesn't cause quicken when hitting enemies unless it's enchanted with the "?" (Chaos) rune.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) @Toast_OfWar: I think you're getting hit with the special effect of the Lightning weapon. The lure says it's special is emitting quickening. I have one put I've yet to see the quickening activate.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Armor was the first thing I polymorphed. At first I thought it only changed the item's sprite because the item's name doesn't change. You have to check the description to see what it morphs into. I was right about sprites swapping when you're both wearing the "_" invisible armor.
Dec. 10, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Anybody have any idea what causes monster quickening? I feeling so confident this run and suddenly got killed by some vampire's quickening...
Under rating threshold (hideshow) If anyone's wondering about "Elbereth" here's the fun special effect from a wiki: http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Elbereth. No it does not cause the "Your Fury Takes Form" effect. The "Fear" rune or enchantment does that to your enemies. It creates a red nightmare form of themselves that attack until dead or for a short period. The effect "He comes..." however creates a nightmare of you that attacks/chases you and can come from the sleep action randomly or with runes and enchantments from enemies.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) if no one's figured out how to get the chest in overworld, level up and quicken, while floating up, hold right and fall onto the chest. So far I've gotten a +Fez, Harpoon, +Cog, and a Gun Leech.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) enchanting a portal rune to a weapon or armor opens a doorway to a small pocket dungeon with certain enchanted items. eating a portal rune opens a portal to overworld that carries over in case you die so you can go back to that level. feeding your minion a portal rune opens a door to the underworld where you can steal death's scythe.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) When you and minion our both wearing invisibility armor, your sprites swap. Is this a bug? It's annoying either way. :)
Under rating threshold (hideshow) @jiiberish. no. you can't give your armor invisibility. There is just AN ACTUAL INVISIBLE ARMOR. There's no such invisibility enchantment in the source code.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) You can give your armor invisibility. You can poly figure it out if you read this correctly. ;-)
Dec. 9, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) dude... level 20 dungeon level 21 on dogmatic mode, 2 runed-as-all-hell lightnings and CRAZZY armor... so im killing something easily and carefully (cause lord knows with rogue likes you if you face your problems head on you die...) gave my minion undead weaponry so he could heal himself when he gets killed. ANYWAYS so im tapping the move buttons staccato so I dont die somehow... i told myself this is the life I will kill the balrog... so a quiken comes from somewhere out of the shadows and kills me... in a 64th of a second... please fix that?
Dec. 9, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I had recently entered the dungeon... again. I had a hotkey set to some hearts, but I no longer had those hearts. I was fighting, and dying. I panicked and pushed my hotkey. Nothing seemed to happen, but then I soon found out that I had broken the menu. It would not open at all. Controls started becoming unreliable. And the worst part, was that doors no longer worked. TLDR; Don't push hotkeys for items you don't have anymore. :)
Dec. 9, 2012
Dec. 9, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Well. It appears that the item I equipped was cursed, but what was that other enchantment? OH. Oh. oh. teleport...
Dec. 9, 2012
Dec. 9, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) If anyone wants to know exact details about the runes, their effect when enchanted to weapon or armor or even what they do to enemies, PM. I've figured everything out.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Escaping without the Amulet of Yendor gives you a different ending. Also: The Overworld doesn't preserve the Amulet, the Balrog's Face, or the Death's Scythe across reincarnations. It removes those items AND it looks like it also removes all other items on the same stack. So be careful. (Either that or I hit an item limit. But I doubt it. Will double-check next ascension.)
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I'll need to stockpile and double-check rune effects now that I know the overworld trick. Undead on weapons looks like it might heal your minion through kill/"sacrifices". Not what I'd expect....
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Woo! It's true. Items left on the Overworld carry through reincarnation. Runes stay identified. Time to kill the Balrog again and test with the Amulet of Yendor or Death's Scythe.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Jiberish001: Looks like Heal Rune does heal enemies on weapons. And Stun/Bleed Rune on armor will stun/bleed you randomly for small amounts. It's very equal magic.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) "New Game+" and the epilogue is a nice touch. Now I just need to test the "Timeless Bubble Overworld" hint I heard of.
Dec. 9, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) "Drow blinded by soccer" More like Drow exploded by well kicked decapitated vampire head. :D
Under rating threshold (hideshow) What would be really great is if there was a Lore menu for runes, so you could use Identifying runes on other runes to get the details of their effects.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Why does closing the menu cause a very small passing of time, in dogmatic mode? Even this brief moment can be devastating in later levels.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Okay, I need to confirmed, please. Does enchanting a weapon with a Heal Rune, cause your target to regen HP? This seems to be the case as far as I can tell. Shouldn't that particular enchantment heal you when you attack with that weapon, instead of healing your target?
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Too bad the only runes that ever drop are freakin' light runes.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) @Toast_Ofwar If you use a Null rune on a cursed item it will uncurse the item, which you can then drop.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Hey Colorstyle, what is the point of that whole "Your fury will take form", "Elbereth" thing? Also, is there any way to drop a cursed item? I only lost my cursed knife because a nymph stole it from me. Lucky me.
Dec. 8, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) This game is amazing. The ways level can be generated are infinite, you will never get the same level! I loved this game. Max depth I went so far was 8.
Dec. 8, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) ...I never had a chance to use the scythe. I read the wallsign "Elbereth" and my fury took form and killed the Balrog before I even saw it. I love the RNG. When I don't hate it.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Awesome. The RNG polymorphed me into a Nymph and I stole Death's Scythe. Thanks for the tip, khfreak. Time to make another run at the Balrog!
Dec. 8, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) If your minion is wearing the dryad face (or nymph?) and you go to the underworld it can steal Death's Scythe for you. It's a level 20 behemoth.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) A portal to the Underworld lets your minion come back if it dies. Eating runes: Bleed - you take HP damage. Heal - fast HP regen. Light - you light the area for a while. Thorns - ???. Undead - if you are killed shortly after, you gain full HP and your character now looks like a skeleton.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Frrick. Finally had a good run and got too impatient with the running Balrog. And died. Sigh.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Anyone have any idea as to what the point of going to the underworld is? Does the Undead Rune have some effect?
Dec. 8, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) OrionFive - RNG sometimes changes your race, when at his altar you get "RNG dislikes Rouges"
Dec. 8, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Rogue feelings: I arrived to downfloor 12, this starts to desesperate my soul, monsters apearing and disapearing, the walls have live, total darkness, no light, He comes.. all the time, I start to lose the faith.. my minion died again, I have fear of what possibly I could see if I keep going... THIS GAME PUTS MY EMOTIONS TO 1000!!! <3333 desesperatly hard, put yourself in the shoes of the rogue, and u will live an incredible fear adventure. 10/5
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) i love the game, but i find myself wishing for an "easy" mode. i know, im a wimp.
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) This is an astonishingly well made game. The combat can be fast paced and fiercely tactical, and the developer gives you the choice between two combat types. The atmosphere is perfect, and when combined with the stellar soundtrack is well deserving of the horror tag. Superb presentation.
Under rating threshold (hideshow) The game should save just before you go home. I was told I couldn't take items, so I figured there would be more game play later. So I dumped all my items only to find that the last save was before that, so I wasn't able to take my good stuff to the post game.
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Great game, love the fact that you can enchant your armor and weapons. Very gloomy and "alone" feeling to it, which is something I enjoy about games.
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Dammit, made it into chaos but got balrog'd.
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Lol I love the randomness! I tried to enchant my dagger with an unknown rune and it teleported away! 5/5
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) I don't think I will ever win this game, but I appreciate that. Too many games are just one path - you keep on it for half an hour and your are done. I keep dying and dying, and come back to die again.
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) OMFG "Praying to the god of chaos" .... He Comes, lol
Dec. 7, 2012
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Some enemies (I think) cast random runes on you. Or the GNR or whatever does it. It turned me into a dreadfully slow goblin! :P Awesome game by the way. One of the most replay worthy games here in quite some time!
Under rating threshold (hideshow) Did I do something wrong? Long before I even knew of the balrog, I had ate a rune of undead and I thought that was why I came back as a skeleton when I died, no explanation was given. So much later after collapsing the dungeon the game says something about me using a rune of time, which I never saw. There were 2 runes I hadn't identified yet before going home. I killed the balrog by having a LOT of haste on my armor and a blessed gun blade. I was able to pin him against a wall with the blessed gun blade. :)
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Wave Music Limited Edition Box SetPhotographs by Clifford Ross
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This exquisite photograph is from Clifford Ross's Hurricane series, an explosive sequence of photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes. Clifford Ross provides an incredible, heuristic journey, from the ecstatic formalism of ocean waves to the abstract sublime of pure light. The photogravure, Hurricane I, by master printer Lothar Osterburg, is the striking first image from this series. Hurricane I is offered along with a limited-edition book entitled Wave Music (Aperture 2005) that also features Ross's Horizon and Grain series. Both the photograph and book are signed and numbered by Clifford Ross and enclosed in a specially designed clamshell case.


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Cruz Kicks Off CPAC Defending Ideological Purity
Video: Ted Cruz speaks at CPAC.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz kicked off the nation's largest gathering of the conservative grass roots with an impassioned defense of ideological purity over party-building.
Mocking GOP elders' calls for unity and inclusion as the "smart way, the Washington way," the tea party firebrand urged participants in the Conservative Political Action Conference to fight for their core beliefs above all else.
"They say if you stand for principles you lose elections," Mr. Cruz said, before adding that the party "got walloped" until the rise of the tea party in 2010. "That is a false dichotomy."
In a clear sign of his refusal to be a team player in "corrupt and broken" Washington, Mr. Cruz has said he won't make endorsements in contested incumbent GOP primaries. Notably, he refused to endorse fellow Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn until after he defeated tea party rivals in Tuesday's primary.
The audience of thousands of conservative activists at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center was hungry for red meat and Cruz delivered. He accused the U.S. of abandoning Israel, called Obamacare a "huge wealth transfer," and portrayed President Obama as a liar and a scofflaw. "We need to stop the lawlessness," he said, referring to the Democratic administration.
Mr. Cruz also presented a conservative wishlist that included abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, establishing a flat tax, expanding school choice and auditing the Federal Reserve. Playing to the crowd dominated by college Republicans, Mr. Cruz said, "If you were to sit down to try to design to hammer the living daylights out of young people, you couldn't do better than the Obama economic agenda."
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It's an ancient Mazatec secret passed down verbally from video editor to video editor: If you want your game to be a smash hit, end your trailer with something roaring. It can be an alien, a dragon, a balrog, a T-Rex, whatever; as long as it's roaring, you'll move a minimum of 20 million units, guaranteed.
Video editors like me know the sheer dramatic power that roars hold. But it's not just roaring! There are many different flavours of "Trailer Roar-Out" (Or TRO, as it's known in the biz). Here are just a few examples you can use to spice up the trailer for your multi-million dollar game trailer:
- Monster roars, then eats the camera.
- Monster roars at hero, who then does something badass like takes out a sword/gun/chainsaw/lightsaber/BFG.
- Monster (usually, but not always, a dragon) roars, then breathes fire at the camera, only to reveal title of game. Excellent transition!
- Giant monster slams on the ground, the trailer cuts to black and a roar is heard. What happened? You'll have to buy the game to find out!
- Trailer ends, then just when you think everything is safe -BAM!-: Monster roar. Bet you didn't see that one coming!
- Hero and Monster run at each other at full speed while Monster roars, weapons drawn. Hard cut to black just before impact.
- Hero, who is also a monster, roars and attacks other Monsters/Heroes/Hero-Monsters.
See? So many ways to spice up your trailer using roars! Now that the secret is yours, remember me when you're diving into a giant pool full of money, Scrooge McDuck style.


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- newtype Cancellable = Cancellable (ForeignPtr Cancellable)
- class GObjectClass o => CancellableClass o
- cancellableNew :: IO Cancellable
- cancellableIsCancelled :: Cancellable -> IO Bool
- cancellableThrowErrorIfCancelled :: Cancellable -> IO ()
- cancellableGetCurrent :: IO (Maybe Cancellable)
- cancellablePopCurrent :: Maybe Cancellable -> IO ()
- cancellablePushCurrent :: Maybe Cancellable -> IO ()
- cancellableReset :: Cancellable -> IO ()
- cancellableCancel :: Cancellable -> IO ()
- cancellableCancelled :: Signal Cancellable (IO ())
Cancellable is a thread-safe operation cancellation stack used throughout GIO to allow for
cancellation of synchronous and asynchronous operations.
newtype Cancellable Source
class GObjectClass o => CancellableClass o Source
cancellableNew :: IO Cancellable Source
Creates a new
Cancellable object.
Applications that want to start one or more operations that should be cancellable should create a
Cancellable and pass it to the operations.
Cancellable can be used in multiple consecutive operations, but not in multiple concurrent
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Checks if a cancellable job has been cancelled.
cancellableThrowErrorIfCancelled :: Cancellable -> IO () Source
If the cancellable is cancelled, throws a
GError to notify that the operation was cancelled.
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Gets the top cancellable from the stack.
cancellablePopCurrent :: Maybe Cancellable -> IO () Source
Pops cancellable off the cancellable stack (verifying that cancellable is on the top of the stack).
cancellablePushCurrent :: Maybe Cancellable -> IO () Source
Pushes cancellable onto the cancellable stack. The current cancllable can then be recieved using
cancellableGetCurrent .
This is useful when implementing cancellable operations in code that does not allow you to pass down the cancellable object.
This is typically called automatically by e.g.
File operations, so you rarely have to call this
cancellableReset :: Cancellable -> IO () Source
Resets cancellable to its uncancelled state.
cancellableCancel :: Cancellable -> IO () Source
Will set cancellable to cancelled, and will emit the "cancelled" signal. (However, see the warning about race conditions in the documentation for that signal if you are planning to connect to it.)
This function is thread-safe. In other words, you can safely call it from a thread other than the one running the operation that was passed the cancellable.
The convention within gio is that cancelling an asynchronous operation causes it to complete
asynchronously. That is, if you cancel the operation from the same thread in which it is running,
then the operation's
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cancellableCancelled :: Signal Cancellable (IO ()) Source
Emitted when the operation has been cancelled.
Can be used by implementations of cancellable operations. If the operation is cancelled from another thread, the signal will be emitted in the thread that cancelled the operation, not the thread that is running the operation.
Note that disconnecting from this signal (or any signal) in a multi-threaded program is prone to
race conditions. For instance it is possible that a signal handler may be invoked even after a call
signalHandlerDisconnect for that handler has already returned.
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My goal is to build vehicles that can drive. I work with both autonomous vehicles and intelligent teleoperation; with ground vehicles and with air vehicles; with perception and architectures and human factors.
For many years, my group concentrated on autonomous driving with the Navlab vehicles. Now, in the Navlab work we are placing more emphasis on driver assistance, such as helping bus drivers drive safely through crowded urban areas.
Our latest research vehicle is the Navlab 11, a robot jeep. Contrary to popular opinion, a flashy red jeep with lots of chrome is not a sign of midlife crisis; the chrome light bar and brush guard are high-tech mounting points for the various sensors we use, including ladar (3 of them simultaneously), light stripe rangefinder, radar, sonar, and omnicamera.
After 33 years in The Robotics Institute, I have moved to Clarkson University as Provost, effective July 2012. I remain an adjunct professor of The Robotics Institute, as well as a loyal alumnus. My new email is email@example.com


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I'm trying to learn cloud-computing, especially the idea of distributed operations (Grid Computing?) for a project I'm working on. We'll need to perform distributed fault-tolerant operations over a very large data set, which we will also be responsible for storing and maintaining in an optimized way.
If I'm trying to learn from books or white-papers, what types of things should I look out for and focus on to help me gain this knowledge as efficiently and effectively as possible?


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It's a tribute to organizer Tobie Orr that she was able to sell tickets to her annual Riverfront Park Fashion Show before even revealing what designers' lines would be on the runway.
This year's show will be from 5-9 p.m. Aug. 11 and tickets went on sale at a late May kickoff party hosted by the Four Seasons Hotel Denver.
But only on Thursday did Orr say that the event will feature evening wear designs from three top New York labels: Alberto Makali, presented by Mariel, and Tracy Reese and Halston Heritage, to be shown by Garbarini.


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School has started just about everywhere. My Twitter feed was awash the past few days with school supply shopping, teachers gearing up, librarians preparing, and parents rejoicing. It is a time of educational renewal, when all things are still possible and we still have hope that this year will be The Year of Something Wonderful.
Unfortunately, many of our students will come the first day, admittedly tired, but hopeful to a classroom that neither reflects learning or the real world outside of the classroom. One of my friends, a young teacher, sent this tweet from a technology training last week:
Now I know not every classroom or school has access to computers. Not every student has a computer in their home or a public library nearby. While the lack of technology in the classroom and in the school is an issue (a big lumbering issue), this is not an issue that most teachers can address. An understanding of that technology, how the technology affects students, and how technology is shaping our culture is something teachers should be well versed in and addressing in their teaching.
Sadly, many of them are not. There are a myriad of reasons for this, training, time, desire, but the reasons matter less than the lack. Something is missing from our educational system. That link is challenging, but keep some of those ideas in mind.
For teachers who want to address these issues, but do not have the technology resources to do so, there are still ways to use the ideals behind the technology in your classroom to engage your students. You can use ideas, like crowdsourcing, which stems from the connectivity of dispersed individuals, and use them in a non-wired environment.
Here is an example of how to apply crowdsourcing to a project in a History class:
Have the students brainstorm, as a class, current events and things they have seen and heard anywhere (online, tv, radio, Facebook, Twitter, WOM).
Then, instruct the students to rank the list, by multivoting. The top winners are the ones the class will focus on for the week, month, or year.
Depending on the number of topics and students in the class, break the class into groups and assign each topic to a group.
Each group then takes that topic and:
● researches the history of that event. For example, a story about civil rights might lead the students to research the Civil Rights Movement in this country.
● come up with possible solutions to the problem, conflict, event. What are the pros and cons of each choice. Which outcome do they think is the best? Which outcome do they think is the most likely?
● In some way, allow the students to evaluate each other's work. You could end the projects by having the students vote on their favorite solutions/project/presentation. You could have them present to other classes or teachers and have the entire school vote on the best solutions.
This project would be greatly enhanced with technology and being able to use the internet, but if that kind of access is not available to you or your students, a good reference section at your library will meet all the requirements of this project.
The key in the above example is that the students, not the teacher, chose what they believe are important events in their world, they chose what part of history to focus on, they chose the solutions, and they chose which project was outstanding. Choice matters to our students.
Think outside the classroom and put some faith in the abilities of your students. Crowdsourcing, even in small ways, can engage students of any age in the learning process.


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MIAMI, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Karen was weakening in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, but the White House said federal resources are preparing to deal with the storm if necessary.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami dropped a hurricane watch from the mouth of the Pearl River to Destin, Fla., replacing it with a tropical storm watch. Hurricane watches posted elsewhere were also discontinued, the center said.
A tropical storm warning was in effect for Morgan City, La., to the mouth of the Pearl River, and a tropical storm watch was posted for metropolitan New Orleans, Lake Maurepas, Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana and from the mouth of the Pearl River to Indian Pass, Fla.
Karen, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, was about 205 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and 230 miles south of Morgan City, La., moving north-northwest at 7 mph, the NHC said in its 10 p.m. CDT advisory.
Karen was forecast to turn north with a decrease in forward speed Saturday before gradually turning to the northeast and gaining forward speed Sunday. On its forecast track, the center is expected to be near the coast within the tropical storm warning area Saturday night.
Tropical storm conditions may occur in portions of the warning area Saturday afternoon.
The combination of storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising water, forecasters said.
Karen was expected to produce 4-8 inches of rain over portions of the central and eastern Gulf Coast through Sunday. Isolated amounts of as much as 12 inches of rain were possible.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Friday President Barack Obama has been briefed on preparations for the storm.
"To ensure that needs are met based on applicable legal requirements and consistent with its contingency plan, [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] is recalling certain currently furloughed employees necessary to serve functions of the agency that protect life and property in preparation for the potential impacts of extreme weather, including Tropical Storm Karen in the Gulf of Mexico and severe weather in the central United States," Carney said.
He said FEMA has activated its National Response Coordination Center in Washington and is "in close contact with local officials in potentially affected areas."