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The mating system of these lemurs has not been reported. However, other species in the genus Eulemur are either monogamous or polygynous. It is likely that E. fulvus is similar. Unlike other members of the genus, females are not usually dominant to males, so the degree to which females exert active mate choice is not known. (Nowak, 1999)
Brown lemurs reach sexual maturity between 1 and 2 years of age. Their mating habits are very seasonal with mating occuring sometimes in late May (Sanford's lemurs only) but usually throughout June and July (all subspecies). The gestation period for these animals is approximately 120 days. Infants are born in the fall, between September and November. Only one infant is born per year to each mother.
For the first three weeks of their lives, young lemurs hang onto the mother's bellies. They alter their grasp only to nurse. After three weeks have passed, they shift and ride on the mother's backs. They then begin to take their first steps. Following this, they start to sample solid food, nibbling on whatever the other members of the group happen to be eating. This is their first sign of independence. Nursing continues but its importance in the infant's diet tapers. The young lemur is weaned after approximately 4 to 6 months - usually by January.
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— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
A tipster sends this facebook post our way:
Two guys fighting with guns in Dolores park, right next to the playground!!! Tones of kids!!! WTF!!!!! I am in shock!!! Right in my neighborhood park!!! No mas!!!!!
We don't have any details, other than it happened around 1pm this afternoon, but multiple tweets corroborate:
Stay away from Dolores Park for now. Some asshole waving gun at cops.— Kourosh Karimkhany (@kouroshk) May 30, 2014
Literally the scariest moment of my life. Gunman @ Dolores Park earlier. Nobody hurt, but hiding for your life w/ your child is beyond scary— Melissa Jinaraj (@missy07) May 30, 2014
Apparently there was a gunman in Dolores Park and that's why I walked by two people being wrestled to the ground and 15 cop cars drove by.— Dan Luchi (@Looukey) May 30, 2014
We'll update when we learn more.
Update: Karen Solomon tweets, "Three guys tried to pull a holdup with a realistic-looking bbgun. Cops got 'em. No injuries. Just a lot of scared kids."
Comments (11)
Frank | [Permalink]
All you guys that wish you lived in the pre-tech bubble mission, well welcome to a taste
Chachito415 | [Permalink]
nah fool | [Permalink]
your agenda is showing.
slobdog | [Permalink]
I do.
Old Mission Neighbor | [Permalink]
Old Pissy Whiner | [Permalink]
I, too, always try to bring conversations back to my obsession with certain subjects.
don't worry folks, this was just some "youth" out playing with a "toy" and the City of San Francisco and the Sherrif's dept spends millions of dollars to make sure these kind of people are well protected:
"a 14-year-old boy, was referred by San Francisco to immigration for having a BB gun at school. His father had given the toy to him as a gift because of his improvements at school. The boy was planning on playing cops and robbers with his friends at the park after school."
see: kid's play
never mind that this "toy" was not purchased at a toy store because it is illegal in California so had to be obtained illegally.
This headline is tailor made fuel for the anti-fun, Dolores Park buzzkill crusade that has been gaining so much traction lately under the direction of DPWorks and Wiener.
Blexxxxcccchhh | [Permalink]
Right in MY neighborhood park? Your neighborhood? You really think you know the Mission. People think the Mission is all fancy restaurants, gourmet ice cream and tech start-ups. Surprise people! It's not sunny days for everyone here. Don't you see it? People are suffering here. There are problems that an app will not solve. Get your head out of your Iphone.
Old Mission Neighbor | [Permalink]
Personal pronouns make me angry as well.
What if you carry a can of soup into the park? | [Permalink]
Soupman @ Dolores Park!!!
Am hiding for yr life!!!!!!!


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On Saturday, March 2, Secretary of State John Kerry departed Turkey for Egypt, where this past weekend he met with representatives across the spectrum of Egyptian political and civil society -- as well as our employees at the U.S. Embassy. The Secretary's candor in all of his meetings was refreshing for politicians and businessmen alike. In his meetings, Secretary Kerry conveyed a simple but serious message: "The brave Egyptians who stood vigil in Tahrir Square did not risk their lives to see that opportunity for a brighter future squandered. The Egyptian people must come together to address their economic challenge."
In light of Egypt's urgent needs and President Morsy's assurance that he plans to complete the IMF process, Secretary Kerry announced that the United States will now provide the first $190 million of our pledged $450 million in budget support funds in an effort to help the Egyptian people at this difficult time. The United States is also committed to providing direct support to key engines of democratic change in Egypt, including Egypt's entrepreneurs and its young people. To that end, Secretary Kerry announced the launch of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund and that the United States will fund a higher education initiative to help students, especially women, earn undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and business.
The Secretary's visit also proved to be a great morale boost to the embassy employees who lined up for photos and handshakes. You can follow the Secretary's travel to Europe and the Middle East on www.state.gov.
Ashim C. in India writes:
450 million dollars... for keeping at bay forces of democracy & modernity.. many Muslim countries of Asia & Africa are watching and waiting for their opportunity...progress to democracy is a process and good democracy is an infinitely long process. Neither drone nor dollar will work ...kind of civil society activism that Tahrir square represented can lower the prestige and power of authority and even tear apart establishment like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt was but can hardly ever effectively and efficiently throw up institutions and leaders which can restore equilibrium in weak polities. In relatively stronger democracy like say India where everything seemed to work till strong one party dominant system encapsulated political pluralism of as extremely diverse society as India, much of civil society activism looks like so many acts of subversion. This may be true of many other countries in turmoil. The issue is who are the real forces behind them. Exposing them is the real challenge of international diplomacy. On the other hand look at an authoritarian regime like in China. Change of leadership and transition of power as it is unfolding seems so smooth. Who will listen to sermons for democracy ?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Ashim C.,
When you see a duck in a pond, all seems calm and peaceful on the surface, but underneath there are feet paddling furiously.
And that is the way of things in a repressed society.
In a democracy, the fish are jumping in a political feeding frenzy, and such is the duality of perspectives.
Ashim C. in India writes:
@ Eric Interesting analogy and you have a point.
Darby W. in the U.S.A. writes:
An Egyptian friend of mine has lived in the United States for decades. He is financially well off and more than able to care for his brother who lives in Egypt. his brother fears for his life and wants to leave that country and live with his brother in the U.S.
There are no more surviving family members in my friend's family except for a sister.
Is there a process in place for uniting them?
Darby W.
DipNote Bloggers reply:
@ Darby -- Based on your comment, it appears that your friend's brother is seeking to become a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States. If your friend is a citizen of the United States, he may be able to file an immigrant visa petition for his brother. Information about immigrating to the United States is available at http://www.uscis.gov.
Melissa writes:
I just read an article by Tom Perry from Reuters about the recent Egyptians laws and arrests that have occurred in Egypt. One line in particular has stuck out to me:
"Criticism from Washington has drawn a sharp response from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which accused the United States of meddling in Egyptian affairs."
If that is the thoughts of the majority in that nation, then I say we withdraw aid. If there are ones in the country that want our government's assistance, then let them apply for it. Handing out money to the Egyptian officials doesn't look like it is going to be spent on the intended purposes.
As a tax payer, I'm upset that tax dollars are being wasted. As long as there is a religious divide there will be violence- throwing money at the problem won't help.


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Topic: What's a good way to read =(x)?
Hey guys; beginner here. I'm trying to find a way to understand =(x) when it's applied to a class method. (in case you have it - Simply Rails 2 pg. 69).
In it, he refactors:
def set_mileage(x)
@mileage = x
def get_mileage
def mileage=(x)
@mileage = x
def mileage
...and I'm just trying to understand how I should "read" this code to myself to make sense. How do you read "def mileage=(x)" to yourself when looking over code?
"The definition of the method mileage, if an argument is passed (that's how I'm reading =(x) at the moment), is to set the @mileage instance variable to the argument."
Would that be accurate?
Edit: Ok, so just confused myself even more. He doesn't pass the argument like normal, it's passed like this:
kitt.mileage = 5950
And this won't work:
Is this just a syntax thing; something I need to remember when using =(x) or is there some form of explanation behind it?
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Tate, Nahum
Nahum Tate c. 1652-1715
(Born Nahum Teate; also known as Nathaniel or Nat Tate; wrote as N. Tate) Irish playwright, poet, essayist, and librettist.
Tate's History of King Lear (1681) is widely considered the best-known, most successful, and most maligned adaptation of a Shakespeare work. For 150 years after its first production, Tate's adaptation dominated the stage, and contemporary audiences preferred it to the original. Nevertheless, the term "Tatefication," coined in the nineteenth century, describes the practice of attempting to improve upon, but actually harming, Shakespeare's texts. Modern critics have shown interest in Tate's work mainly because of the insight it offers on the stage history of King Lear—much contemporary staging of Shakespeare's Lear is indebted to Tate's version. While Tate produced an enormous body of work in many genres, only his adaptations of Shakespeare have garnered critical attention—Tate's adaptations of Shakespeare provide insights into seventeenth-century tastes and the stage history of Shakespeare's plays.
Biographical Information
Tate was born in Dublin in 1652, the son of Faithful Teate, a clergyman, and Katherine Kenetie Teate. Faithful Teate was rector of Castleterra, Ballyhaise, until the Catholic rebellion of 1641; when Teate informed on a group of rebels, they responded by plundering the Teates' home, resulting in the deaths of three of their children. Tate probably spent his early childhood in both England and Ireland, although details of his life before 1672 are uncertain. He likely entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1668, and in 1672 moved to London to become a writer. It was at this time that he changed his name to Tate. He began publishing poems in 1676, issuing a volume of collected verse in 1677. The following year, his first play, Brutus of Alba; or, The Enchanted Lovers was produced. It was by all accounts a critical and commercial failure. After the failure of his second dramatic effort, The Loyal General (1679), Tate turned from composing original dramatic works to adapting Renaissance texts. In 1681 his adaptations of Shakespeare's King Lear, Richard II, and Coriolanus were produced for the stage. Tate's Lear was a success, but his Richard II was banned after two performances and his version of Coriolanus failed to attract audiences. Tate continued to compose and adapt plays, but apart from the modest popularity of the farce A Duke and No Duke (1684), they failed to achieve popular success. In 1692 Tate was appointed poet laureate, and spent much of the rest of his career writing poetry to commemorate birthdays and other occasions for noble personages. He also collaborated with his mentor John Dryden, among others, on translations of Latin classics, edited various collections of poetry, and wrote literary criticism. He produced two important works during this period, A New Version of the Psalms of David (1696) in collaboration with the clergyman Nicholas Brady, and the mock-heroic A Poem Upon Tea (1700). Despite his appointment as laureate, Tate was plagued with financial problems during his last years. In 1713 he founded a poetry journal, The Monitor, but it published only a few issues. Tate died at the Mint, the area of London where debtors could stay without fear of arrest, on July 30, 1715.
Major Works
Tate produced an enormous body of work, but little of it is thoroughly studied by modern critics. The work for which he is best known is The History of King Lear. In his preface to the play, Tate describes Shakespeare's text as "a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd that I had seiz'd a Treasure," and explains the principles underlying his changes, which he would later apply to his other adaptations of Renaissance texts. Tate rejects Shakespeare's disregard for poetic justice, and thus provides the play with a happy ending: Cordelia and Edgar marry, and Lear leaves his kingdom to them. Tate also adapted Shakespeare's language for the more refined taste of the late seventeenth century, and clarified the motivations for characters' actions. One of the most significant omissions in Tate's version is the character of the Fool, who brings an element of levity to Shakespeare's play. The changes Tate made in his version of Lear were intended to bring the play closer to seventeenth century tastes in tragedy. Although the work has been maligned by critics through the ages, it has also been the most successful Shakespearean adaptation of all time. For 150 years, well into the eighteenth century, audiences preferred it to the original; as Johnson noted, "In the present case, the publick has decided." In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, theaters returned to Shakespeare's originals, and there was considerable resentment against the many Restoration writers who had attempted to improve on the Bard's works. The word "Tatefication" was coined to describe such revisions. However, Tate's Lear continued to play a such major part in the performance history of Shakespeare's play that elements of his version are retained in stagings to this day.
King Richard II, Tate's second Shakespeare adaptation, did not enjoy the same success. Tate's Richard II is a far more sympathetic character than Shakespeare's, as he tries to spare his subjects from civil war. Plays about usurpation were never popular with the crown, however, and the timing of Tate's Richard II was particularly bad—the play appeared during the Exclusion Crisis, when political parties were divided over whether to exclude the duke of York from the royal succession. The play was banned after two performances, but Tate reissued the play after changing the names of the characters, moving the location to Sicily, and retitling it The Sicilian Usurper and The Tyrant of Sicily. However, the changes made were not significant enough, and the authorities reimposed the ban. The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth, Tate's version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, is a melodramatic work of political intrigue. The central character represents the duke of York, and the play is an apology for Tory political ideas. Although the authorities did not ban the work, it failed to become a popular success.
Tate's original dramatic works, Brutus of Alba, a reworking of the story of Dido and Aeneas, and The Loyal General, about a weak king opposed by his adulterous queen, were not popular during their own time and are of scant interest today. Tate's libretto for the opera Dido and Aeneas, a collaboration with composer Henry Purcell, has achieved some measure of critical success. The work was adapted from part of Virgil's Aeneid. Dido and Aeneas, was the first true English opera and is generally considered a masterpiece. Although the significance of Tate's contribution to the work is considered minimal by many, some critics have argued that he deserves credit for writing one of the great librettos in English. Tate's other adaptations of dramatic tragedies were failures, but his comic farce A Duke and No Duke (1684), adapted from Trappolin Supposed a Prince by Aston Cokain, was well liked by audiences. Tate's "Preface Concerning Farce"—the introduction to the 1693 edition of A Duke and No Duke—was one of the first attempts in English to explain and defend the genre.
Critical Reception
Despite his status as poet laureate and the enormous popularity of The History of King Lear, critics have generally considered Tate a poor writer. Alexander Pope attacked his poetry in the Dunciad, and Sir Walter Scott said of him: "He is one of those second-rate bards who, by dint of pleonasm and expletive, can find smooth lines if any one will supply ideas." There has been general critical agreement that Tate was not an original writer or thinker, and that his strongest efforts were produced in collaboration with those who supplied the creative ideas. The first full-length study of Tate's life and career, by Christopher Spencer, appeared in 1972, and acknowledged the inferior quality of the laureate's writing. The vast majority of critical studies on Tate have centered on his adaptations of Shakespeare, particularly his King Lear. The interest in the work is less a testament to Tate's abilities as a playwright than an abiding interest in Shakespeare. Critics have noted that Tate's adaptation has had a significant impact on the reading and staging of Shakespeare's work. It is argued by some critics that the interiority of King Lear as he is presented by most actors is not so much a product of Shakespeare's script as audiences' and actors' familiarity with the character as he is presented in Tate's version. The "heath" on which so much of the important action in stagings of Shakespeare's play takes place is also a construct credited to Tate. Some critics have maintained that Tate's adaptation is better than it is often assumed to be. They claim that the play must be read as an individual work, not merely in relation to Shakespeare's original. Tate is also praised by several scholars for his talent as a librettist. They argue that while the verse dialogue in Dido and Aeneas is not particularly interesting if read as poetry, Tate's words are appropriate for a musical drama. In general, critics regard Tate as a mediocre writer, but continue to take interest in his works because of the light they shed on those he imitated and collaborated with.
Principal Works
Poems (poetry) 1677; revised and enlarged as Poems Written on Several Occasions, 1684
Brutus of Alba; or, The Enchanted Lovers (play) 1678
The Loyal General (play) 1679
*Ovid's Epistles, Translated by Several Hands [co-translator] (poetry) 1680
The History of King Lear [adaptor; from King Lear by William Shakespeare] (play) 1681
†The History of King Richard II [adaptor; from Richard II by William Shakespeare] (play) 1681
The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth [adaptor; from Coriolanus by William Shakespeare] (play) 1681
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Wiltshire Stanton Austin and John Ralph (essay date 1853)
SOURCE: Austin, Wiltshire Stanton, and John Ralph. "Nahum Tate." In The Lives of the Poets-Laureate: With an Introductory Essay on the Title and Office, pp. 196-222. London: Richard Bentley, 1853.
[In the following essay, Austin and Ralph offer an overview of Tate's life and literary career, suggesting that while his literary merit is limited, he has been misrepresented and deserves more respect than he has received.]
It is amusing, if not edifying, to observe the manner in which all works of general reference, save a very few, repeat in regular succession the idlest inventions, and the clumsiest distortions of fact. In literary history this is especially the case,...
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Hazelton Spencer (essay date 1927)
SOURCE: Spencer, Hazelton. "Tate's Adaptations." In Shakespeare Improved: The Restoration Versions in Quarto and on the Stage, pp. 241-73. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1927.
[In the following excerpt, Spencer presents an analysis of Tate's adaptations of Shakespeare, detailing how his versions of King Lear, Richard II, and Coriolanus differ from the originals.]
For half a century after the death of Sir William D'Avenant, every one of the poets laureate took a hand in improving Shakespeare. … The name of [Nahum Tate] lives in the hymnals. His treatment of Shakespeare's lines is even worse...
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H. F. Scott-Thomas (essay date December 1934)
SOURCE: Scott-Thomas, H. F. "Nahum Tate and the Seventeenth Century." ELH 1, no. 3 (December 1934): 250-75.
[In the following essay, Scott-Thomas argues that Tate's work clung to the Elizabethan past, that he struggled unsuccessfully to explore in his writings newer ideas and modes, and that his psychological and intellectual preoccupation with the past resulted in a superficial quality in his writing.]
The Restoration contains an appreciable quantity of literary expressions irreducible to the dominant forces at work in the epoch. … The Restoration is unable to forget the Renaissance. Not only does it preserve in its innermost self this...
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Christopher Spencer (essay date winter 1963)
SOURCE: Spencer, Christopher. "A Word for Tate's King Lear." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 3, no. 1 (winter 1963): 241-51.
[In the following essay, Spencer claims that Tate's King Lear should not be dismissed as hackery and a mutilation of Shakespeare's version, arguing that the play is coherent, entertaining, and has its own plan.]
In 1959 Kenneth Muir remarked of Tate's King Lear, "The beautiful scene in which the King of France receives the despised and rejected Cordelia is cut, presumably because there was no room for a rival to her affections. … [And Tate] provides a scene with Lear and Cordelia in prison, lest we should be...
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James Black (essay date summer 1967)
SOURCE: Black, James. "The Influence of Hobbes on Nahum Tate's King Lear." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 7, no. 3 (summer 1967): 377-85.
[In the following essay, Black examines the influence of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes on Tate as he was writing his King Lear, maintaining that Hobbesian ideas are seen most clearly in the character of Edmund.]
Nahum Tate's famous adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear has recently been the object of renewed critical attention.1 Up to now, however, no one has commented upon the decided influence which the writings of Thomas Hobbes appear to have had upon Tate at the time2 when...
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Peter L. Sharkey (essay date December 1968)
SOURCE: Sharkey, Peter L. "Performing Nahum Tate's King Lear: Coming Hither by Going Hence." Quarterly Journal of Speech 54, no. 4 (December 1968): 398-403.
[In the following essay, Sharkey examines a 1967 staging of Tate's King Lear, revealing the influence of stage history on modern versions of Shakespeare's Lear.]
Producing Nahum Tate's seventeenth-century adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear illustrates how much past stage history affects our modern view of Lear. Over the years popular tragedians of the English and American stages developed a declamatory acting style that was born of Tate's modifications, and their success...
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Lawrence D. Green (essay date spring 1972)
SOURCE: Green, Lawrence D. "'Where's My Fool?'—Some Consequences of the Omission of the Fool in Tate's Lear." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 12, no. 2 (spring 1972): 259-74.
[In the following essay, Green argues that the omission of the Fool in Tate's King Lear resulted in more focus on the internal workings of Lear's mind, an element that has been retained in productions of Shakespeare's play.]
The major differences between Shakespeare's King Lear and Nahum Tate's redaction of it in 1681 are often viewed with either amusement or horror, and then dismissed as long-gone aberrations of little consequence. Tate's substitution of a...
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Christopher Spencer (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: Spencer, Christopher. "Short Poems and Translations of Ovid and Juvenal" and "A Poem upon Tea." In Nahum Tate, pp. 41-53; 141-45. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972.
[In the following essay, Spencer discusses the two editions of Tate's Poems and his translations of Latin classics, which the critic says show that Tate was not particularly creative or original but had considerable talent for collaboration. The critic then examines Tate's mock-heroic poem, A Poem upon Tea, and offers a brief assessment of the author's place in English literary history.]
Of the...
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Ruth McGugan (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: McGugan, Ruth. Introduction to Nahum Tate and the Coriolanus Tradition in English Drama, with a Critical Edition of Tate's The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth, pp. v-cvii. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
[In the following excerpt, McGugan comments on Tate's life and reputation, and discusses his adaptations and scholarly responses to his works.]
Perhaps the most striking similarity between Tate and Shakespeare is the paucity of intimate biographical details that historians can provide for either man. Official documents contain some vital statistics, and their publications testify to how they spent...
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Timothy J. Viator (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Viator, Timothy J. "Nahum Tate's Richard II." Theatre Notebook 42, no. 3 (1988): 109-17.
[In the following essay, Viator presents a stage history of Tate's Richard II, which he says reveals important facts about the monarchy's attitude toward the stage and censorship practices during the Restoration.]
The stage history of Nahum Tate's The History of King Richard the Second has long been improperly understood. According to The London Stage, the King's Company produced Tate's adaptation as The Sicilian Usurper in December 1680 and, after the censors banned it, as The Tyrant of Sicily in January 1681. Robert D. Hume...
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Thomas G. Olsen (essay date summer 1998)
SOURCE: Olsen, Thomas G. "Apolitical Shakespeare; or, The Restoration Coriolanus." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 38, no. 3 (summer 1998): 411-25.
[In the following essay, Olsen argues that Tate's Coriolanus is particularly important because it is representative of political and aesthetic tendencies on the Restoration stage.]
Several recent critical studies of Shakespeare's historical evolution into the figure Michael Dobson calls "the national poet" have considerably enriched our understanding of how Shakespearean adaptations functioned politically and culturally on the Restoration stage. Previously, and in the shadow of...
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Sonia Massai (essay date summer 2000)
SOURCE: Massai, Sonia. "Nahum Tate's Revision of Shakespeare's King Lears." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 40, no. 3 (summer 2000): 435-50.
[In the following essay, Massai examines Tate's use of different versions of Shakespeare's King Lear in his revision of the play.]
In his 1975 edition of The History of King Lear (1681), James Black could still claim that Nahum Tate's notorious adaptation was "one of the most famous unread plays in English."1 Since then, mainly as a result of an unprecedented interest in the afterlife of the Shakespearean text,2The History of King Lear has been studied both in...
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C. B. Hardman (essay date October 2000)
SOURCE: Hardman, C. B. "'Our Drooping Country Now Erects Her Head': Nahum Tate's History of King Lear." Modern Language Review 95, no. 4 (October 2000): 913-23.
[In the following essay, Hardman examines the changes made by Tate to Edmund, Edgar, and Albany in King Lear, considering how Tate's audience might have responded to the characters in light of contemporary political events.]
It was once thought that 'political considerations' had 'a minimum of direct effect' on Tate's rewriting of King Lear.1 However, for some time now critics have attended to the play's contemporary political significance, placing it squarely in...
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Deborah Payne Fisk and Jessica Munns (essay date spring 2002)
SOURCE: Fisk, Deborah Payne, and Jessica Munns. "'Clamorous with War and Teeming with Empire': Purcell and Tate's Dido and Aeneas." Eighteenth-Century Life 26, no. 2 (spring 2002): 23-44.
[In the following essay, Fisk and Munns explore issues of gender and imperialism, the costs of conquest, and the emotional experience of loss in Dido and Aeneas.]
Two notorious problems have beset Dido and Aeneas: assessing its possible political allusions and possible political meanings, and assigning a date for its premiere performance. Early in the last century, W. Barclay Squire argued that the epilogue pointed to the revolution of 1688.1 Other...
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Further Reading
Adler, Doris. "The Half-Life of Tate in King Lear." Kenyon Review 7, no. 3 (summer 1985): 52-6.
Argues that many of the conventions in Tate's King Lear remain in modern stage productions of Shakespeare's version.
Black, James. "An Augustan Stage History: Nahum Tate's King Lear." Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research 6, no. 1 (May 1967): 36-54.
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James Mercer of Broken Bells performs at LC Pavilion Thursday (photo by Andy Downing)
In a recent interview, Broken Bells frontman James Mercer spoke of learning to open up to a world he'd long shut out. But Thursday at LC Pavilion, the characters in the band's songs tended to walk a far more solitary path, struggling to locate a tangible, human connection.
"What a lovely day to be lonely," Mercer sighed on the shimmering, disco-tinged "Holding on for Life."
The duo, which consists of Mercer, best known for his work with Portland indie-rockers The Shins, and producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse (real name Brian Burton), who has teamed with The Black Keys and is currently in the midst of producing the new U2 album, appeared here in support of its sophomore album, After the Disco, a mellow effort inline with its late-night title.
Much of the band's hourlong set mirrored the low-key personalities of its twin creative forces. Mercer, for one, tended to keep the banter to a minimum — "We're Broken Bells," he offered early on, "but I suppose you knew" — while Burton remained silent throughout, rotating between keyboard, bass and drums with ghostly efficiency. The music, in turn, tended to simmer rather than boiling over, the group, fleshed out to a four-piece for this tour, crafting a woozy soundscape flecked with retro-futuristic synthesizer, languid bass and Mercer's pliable vocals, which on occasion flirted with vintage soul.
As a producer, Burton has made funkier records (see: his work with Cee-Lo in Gnarls Barkley) and ventured further into hazy psychedelia (Sparklehorse's Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain), but his work alongside Mercer almost better shows off his craftsman's hand. The songs here were colored with unexpected textures: the spaghetti western guitar that closed out "Control"; the sticky, molasses-smooth bassline that rippled through "Angel and the Fool"; the horror-flick organ that briefly disrupted the peace on "Mongrel Heart."
In general, the songs were crisply arranged, and even in those rare moments when a player broke free — on "The Mall & Misery" the band's supporting guitarist let loose a rumpled solo that loosened its collar and tousled its hair just so — they quickly fell back in line.
Yet, even amidst this order, Mercer sounded freed. He flashed a surprising falsetto on a slinky "The Ghost Inside," leaned into "Control" like a blossoming soul man, and, on "Leave It Alone," a song far more shattered than its glossy finish would have one believe, he growled the line "You can't change me" like a man determined to stand his ground.
Of course, considering his recent personal development, it's a safe bet Mercer felt more closely tied to the narrator in "Vaporize," a punchy tune where he offered up a lyric that felt especially apt on this night: "It's not too late to feel a little more alive."


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In short: More Scenic than Snowdon Marathon and 6 Miles Shorter :-)In full: What is not to like about this, ups, downs, spectacular views, variable weather, expertly organised. It is the highlight of my year. Go do it !Date of review: June 30, 2016
In short: Lots of downhill, and overall negative gradient so how can you fail ?In full: Basically 3 climbs, mile 2 - 5, Mile 13-16 and miles 21.5 to 24. Shuffle your way up these and the rest is plain sailing. Blow your bollox on those climbs though and you are in for a world of pain.Can be quick but you need balls of steel and you need to be prepared to suffer from half way if you want a 'good' time. For those prepared to run it sensibly it is a really jolly friendly and well supported outing. Got to be the best marathon in the UK.:-)Date of review: October 29, 2015
In short: I take my hat off to the organisers - silky smooth !!!In full: Really enjoyed ... and a lesson in how to organise a large half marathon. Date of review: November 24, 2013
In short: Will be there next year but lack of signs / arrows and incorrect instructions from a marshal messed it up for a few of us.In full: I really enjoyed the race despite the following blunder. Marshals were really nice but they need to point where to go rather than clap. As once of the front runners I repeatedly had to shout at marshals "which way". It was bound to go wrong and it sure did later on in the race.Things got worse when one marshal on a bike told 3 of us "straight up and turn at the end". There was a junction half way up where we should have turned right but we went straight up and turned at the end. Correct turning was not signed and there was no marshal there, arrow on road.Only ran 12 miles in the end. Cost me a possible 3rd or 4th place cost the leading lady (who was in the lead by minutes) her win.Still, I did really enjoy despite this and I am sure next year everything will be fine.Date of review: August 12, 2012
In short: It's all downhill, after the first climb :-)In full: :-)Love it, trails, grass, road track. See you next year !Date of review: May 23, 2012
In short: A three year old could have done a better job of organising it.In full: :-(And to think Welsh Athletics were involved here too somehow. Strewth !I bailed at 3 miles (injury issues) but even by the time I had jogged back to the start there were still people only a couple of hundred meters in to the race : shows how many were running it.So, knock entries back to, say, 8000. Start it in waves, do away with the turn just before the finish (everyone slated this last year) and cut the price of entry. I know it is for charity but in all honesty, in an age of austerity, £27 is far too much especially for something that gets it all so basically wrong.:-(Date of review: October 19, 2010
In short: Another excellent Cardiff Half Marathon :-)In full: ....But broken grenola bars, a marshall who didn't release the water cup soon enough and no yellow sign at the exit of the A345 (for those of you who can't read maps and only read yellow signs ...I only need to read a complaint, as per the Swansea 10k a few years back, of 'one two few singers on the course' and I will die laughing, or of indignation, or both !:-)Date of review: October 17, 2010
In short: It's All downhill, Apart from the big hill in the middle.In full: :-)Stunning scenery, superb organisation and a really fun day out. A really cracking race and getting more and more popular each year.See you in 2011:-)Date of review: September 6, 2010
In short: Mostly on Sand, which is Hard, Accidentally Short CourseIn full: :-)We ran up the beach for a few k then on to the footpath on the front. Some random cyclist on his way home from work, who happened to be wearing a yellow jacket, had stopped to pick his nose. No-one was more surprised than him when everyone mistook him for the turnaround point and headed home 1k short of the half way water station !At least I ended up with a PB for 7.8k !:-)Date of review: August 23, 2010
In short: You need a race plan, or it's gonna hurt !In full: :-)With an awful lot of downhill between the start and 6 miles it is easy to shoot your bolt before the climb back up to Brecon. This can make for a very unpleasant experience.On the other hand, run the first 6 sensibly and you will be overtaking from 6 to 8.5, whereupon you can enjoy a gentle 1.5 mile roll-in to the finish.:-)Date of review: August 3, 2010
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Before a deep cleaning, you must sort and toss, professional organizers say. They promise it will be liberating.
By ELIZABETH BETTENDORF
Published March 4, 2007
Spring is in the air.
And so are the layers of dust that burrowed into all those out-of-the-way places we can't see - and tend to ignore.
Is a layer of spongy grunge clinging to the ceiling fan?
Medicine cabinet so crammed it's a public health hazard?
Screens so dirty it looks like twilight even at noon?
Answer yes to any of the above and it means it's time to take on that dreaded domestic task:
Spring cleaning.
What makes it different than a good monthly scrubbing is that spring cleaning requires a thorough - and sometimes soulful - examination of one's life over the past year.
Melanie Prest, a professional organizer from Meadow Pointe who owns Clutter Solutions www.clutter-solutions.com, says that before you even pick up that mop and dust rag, take stock of what has been piling up around the house. A buildup of paperwork not only crowds a home but it can get in the way of a thorough cleaning.
"Paperwork can infiltrate every single room of a house. Some people even hang on to cable bills, and they don't need to," Prest says. "I tell people to burn it, shred it, toss what they don't need."
Trish Turner became an organizer for hire while in business school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she would help professors declutter their offices.
Today, she's a professional organizer in South Tampa whose business, Simplicity Please (www.simplicityplease.com), helps people get organized so they can really clean.
She suggests surveying all the junk that has accumulated on the floors, coffee table, mantle, closets and under the beds. The goods, she says, should be given away, thrown away or put away.
Then start scrubbing.
"Spring cleaning is really a deep cleaning in a home, a time to get rid of dust, mold, grime and stuff you don't do every week," said Turner, 26.
She's often called in by professional cleaning services to help a client eliminate clutter so intense cleaning can begin.
"You want to be able to actually clean, not just shift around clothes or books," she says. "By paring down, you can really get in and deep clean."
Next, go through utility closets, bathroom cabinets, medicine chests, pantries and the refrigerator, Turner advises. Get rid of out-of-date medicines and foods, dirty brooms or mops, dingy linens, old cosmetics, and half-empty bottles of shampoo and lotion that long ago lost their appeal.
Only keep what you need, use and love.
"That's my mantra," says Turner, who describes her approach to living as extremely minimalist. "I'm not a knickknack person, and I like to limit surface areas to three objects."
It makes for easier cleaning and peace of mind. Hard-to-reach surface areas are often the biggest magnets for dirt and are commonly overlooked in lieu of more routine cleaning tasks.
At the Clean Home Journal, SC Johnson's online newsletter devoted to cleaning tips, experts recommend a 10-step approach to nook and cranny cleaning. For starters, they suggest taking a ceiling survey of each room and checking for dust and cobwebs.
And rather than trying to tackle all your spring cleaning in one day, set aside time each day and tackle one room at a time, says Jenny Taylor, director of global public affairs for SC Johnson. "Don't forget about the nooks and crannies that usually get ignored because the focus is on the big cleaning jobs."
Kyna Morrison, a professional organizer from Zephyrhills who owns Apt Organizing for Businesses and Homes (www.aptorganizing.com), says a good spring cleaning means not overlooking things that only you might see. Ugly hard-water stains on a shower head, she says, can be easily eliminated by pouring vinegar into small watertight plastic bag and rubber-banding it to the shower head. She also suggests cleaning dirty upholstery (spot-test this first) with a little rubbing alcohol applied to a rag. And rubbing hard-water rings in your toilet with a pumice stone, she says, helps make the bowl sparkle once again.
Finally, make sure you've spring-cleaned your paperwork, too. When preparing tax information this year, get it in order and establish a good filing system, Prest says.
"And don't forget to get rid of your computer clutter," she advises.
"Get old documents off your hard drive and back them up onto CDs. Check your folder hierarchy and eliminate anything that's in duplicate or triplicate."
Clear off your desk for good. You'll be much more productive in the long run.
"But don't just shove stuff in drawers. Really, really clean."
Elizabeth Bettendorf can be reached at email@example.com.
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Officer Jeffrey Kocab was pronounced dead at a Tampa hospital after the incident about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday. Officer David Curtis was pronounced dead later, although police said he would remain on life support for a few hours, as his family had chosen to harvest his organs. Both officers were 31, according to the department.
Kocab's wife is due to give birth next week, while Curtis leaves behind his wife and four sons, ages 9, 6, 5 and 8 months.
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Hours after the deadly encounter, the wife of one of the slain officers went into labor with the couple's first child.
Sometimes you just pull over an oft-misunderstood young man like this:
The path of Dontae Rashawn Morris has crossed those of countless police officers, who have pulled him over for traffic violations and arrested him 17 times in the state of Florida on charges ranging from cocaine possession and sales to attempted murder.
Morris was first arrested at 16 on charges of disturbing the peace on a school campus. As a juvenile, he was also charged with vehicle theft, battery on a school employee, drug possession and the possession of a weapon at school.
Court files state that he completed school to the 11th grade. He was in a juvenile detention center in Oct. 2003 when a fight broke out. He and another juvenile were watching the fight when, for no apparent reason, Morris punched the juvenile, records show. He pleaded guilty to the battery and was sentenced to time served.
According to Steve Hegarty, spokesman for the Hillsborough County School district, Morris bounced around several different schools between time behind bars.
He began at King High School in 1999, but also spent time at Chamberlain, Armwood and the Richard Milburn Academy, a charter school that closed in 2006. Morris left the charter school about two months before it closed.
On Feb. 15, 2004, a Tampa Police Officer saw Morris getting out of an SUV that had been reported stolen three days prior, the arrest report says. As the officer approached Morris in a marked patrol car and ordered him to stop, Morris ran. The officer caught him five blocks away.
Morris said he gave a Puerto Rican $200 worth of crack cocaine for the car three days earlier. Once taken into custody, police said they found a small baggie with four white rocks in his possession.
In 2006, a jury acquitted him on charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, attempted robbery and possession of a short-barreled shotgun. Police said Morris tried to rob 50-year-old James Harvey Wright. When Wright said he didn't have any money, a man shot him in the left arm.
On Tuesday, Wright said he still bears the physical and mental scars of that night. He now has three video cameras keeping watch at his home, he said.
"I wanted to see that guy behind bars five years ago," he said. "I'm lucky to be alive."
On March 18, 2008, Tampa Police were searching for an auto theft suspect when they observed a group of 10 men, including one that matched the description of the suspect.
When police approached him, Morris immediately fled through backyards, records show. He was caught after a brief foot chase and officers learned he had five outstanding warrants. He pleaded guilty to obstructing or opposing an officer without violence.


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Topic: SOLVED: complex meta_search problem
I just implemented meta_search to create an advanced search on a model and its relations.
One relation search is rather puzzling me and I was wondering if it is possible to implement the search I want:
I have a parent model which has many children:
class Workingwell < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :analytical_results, :dependent => :destroy
class AnalyticalResult < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :workingwell
Analytical results is used by an external program to save key-value pairs related to a workingwell via workingwell_id
:name => 'efficiency', :value => '0.5', :workingwell_id => '1'
:name => 'level', :value => '1', :workingwell_id => '1'
What I would like to do is the following:
1. I want to list all existing analytical_results name fields as label for a multiparameter_field (AnalyticalResult.uniq.collect{|x| x.name})
2. let the user search the values on a per name base
So in my example I would like a multiparameter_field for efficiency and level and then the search would return all workingwells that fit the search parameters for either one of them.
So instead of searching the all values of analytical_results I would like to search the values of those records where the name is set to either efficiency or level, respectively.
So something like this:
<%= f.label :analytical_results_value.where(:name => "efficiency"), "Efficiency"
<%= f.multiparameter_field :analytical_results_value.where(:name => "efficiency"),
{:field_type => :text_field}, {:field_type => :text_field}, :size => 5 %>
Reading up on the documentation I read about custom "Wheres". Unfortunately the name of analytical results are completely custom, meaning I dont know about them as they are created dynamically as users see fit.
Is there a way to do what I would like to do using meta_search?
Thanks Juergen
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Anal Cunt -- Los Angeles, CA -- April 16th, 2011
This is the show ive been waiting for. ANAL FUCKIN' CUNT at the Blvd! And To make stuff 69 Times better Wormrot played here(again since they loved it here so much and wanted to do one last show before they went home) in the afternoon for $5 with amazing opening bands. Sadly there ain't a flyer so ill add it to this show since it was at the same place/day. Think of it as a sick Grind fest(I sure do). And since I went to to Wormrot,i got to see AxCx half off. $6! Fuhhhh this show ruled.
First band was playing and they were a good Grind band. I was into them and so was the little bit of people that were there so far. Pretty good. a great way to open the show up. No idea who they were but pretty good.
Up next was one of my favorite local bands got up. BruceXCampbell(badass name i know). They started playing and the crowed seem to dig em. They use to be a 3 piece. They lost the Pig Squealer/bass player. Now they have a hot chick as a bass player,I think she was in a punk band called Joe Pesci. They also got a 2nd guitar player who played in the first band and is a former drummer of Suffering Luna. They really need to find another squealer . They were fuckin amazing when it was duel vocals. It hit ya like a boomstick. You must pick there album We Are All Kamikaze ASAP! Chances are you'll find it as S-Mart.
Now the band I was looking forward to seeing for a 2nd time was my favorite local band. And probably my favorite Grindviolence band in general ACxDC or Anti Christ Demon-Core. These guys kick so much ass. First time I saw em they blew me away. Singer Sergio goes totally nuts and jumps around with the fans. These guys are loved worldwide but still aren't big enough for a full tour. This is band is gonna get places for sure. I was begging people to get these guys on the Anal Cunt bill,didn't work but at least they got on Wormrots. They played for like 6 min. Download ACxDC's discography now!
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So LA got its third chance to see Wormrot of Singapore. I told you last month at Scion Fest how fuckin' much I loved them and how nice they were. Well since then they've released their second album Dirge for free download. Thats how nice they are. When I went to go tell them to kick ass today and how much I loved em at scion fest,they right away said how they remembered me. Now the tour was supposed to be finished. But since they really loved this place they decided to do their last show here for cheap(also shot their first music video here). They played right away and they were great as always. The audience(mainly young adults) were being lame. The pit went crazy and hard but you couldn't tell who was just having fun or actually trying to fight. Big macho guys choking each other getting butt hurt cause they accidentally got kicked in the head. Whether your a macho man or a wimpy shrimp like me,you have to know what your getting your self into at these shows. So that kinda pissed me off. The band kept playing and I kept screamin'. During the set I got a bloody nose,Punched in the jaw,kicked in the head,got my glasses bent,and someone even managed to pop one of my pimples. They were sick as fuck. At the end I hugged em and tried to get a setlists. No luck,they apologized cause I didnt get one. Thats how fuckin nice they are. I told the drummer that Dirge is the album of the year. Big Smile lit up on him. They also told they will be back next year,you better go! Wormrot loves America,Wormrot we fuckin love you.
So after they kicked us out. Luckily the place had a change of heart and let everyone there who was gonna come back for Anal Cunt get half off. Me and my girlfriend to McDonald's so we can eat,pee,and poop. We walked back and they let us in. We waited a bit. Most people who went for Wormrot had left and here come the old timers. Believe it or not,the people this time were nicer and more civilized. So first DeathGrind local band plays. They're called Cotex Nektur. Name doesn't catch my attention but I check em out anyway. Lead singer looked like Phil Anselmo. Everyone was young and bold and they played reallly good DeathGrind. Think Death mixed with Repulsion. Singer ended up being in every other bands pit. And like all good local bands should be,they gave thier demo out for free. It has like 9 songs.
Next up was a Tech DeathGrind band called Bedlam Of Cacaphony. Hehe caca...anyway they were cool. People really seemed to dig em. They have a little reputation already playing with Cattle Decapitation and others. I dig em. A-OK guys.
Now The Touring bands started. By this time I was pooped and I wanted my dose of AC already. These guys went up and I noticed it was the same singer and bass player from Panties. And the guitar player was also the bartender there. They said they haven't played in a year and a lot of people were excited for them. They played pretty good Grind and the singer still reminds me of Ice Cube. They were good but id rather listen to Panties. Still a great band tho and Id recommend anyone to check em out. Plus any band that sells shirts for $5 is cool is my book. Ill be seeing them again in June with Doom(which I hear people are complaining about).
Maryland's Strong Intention was next. Vegantopher told me they were good and I agree. Grindviolence done by an old man is great. Half the place seemed to love em. I wanna tell you more but I was just headbanging. Check em out. And I always find it strange when I see an old man play Grindcore. Guy took his shirt off and screamed for his coffe.
Up next was super group Murder Construct. A band thats been in the works for many years but barly started playing. How super are they? They have memebers of Cattle Decapitation,Exhumed,Phobia,D.I.S.,Fetus Eaters,Bastard Noise,Bad Acid Trip. Now ya know we got some real good DeathGrind. The place went to a pit and I had trouble seeing. They only have a EP out and you should get it if your into all their badass bands. Hopefully ill be seeing them again.
Now to the part that matters. All day I was nervous and excited of seeing AxCx. Like a roller coaster,its gonna be fun but all hell can brake loose. I finally got to get an official real shirt. Most of them were based on their new parody Glam album Fuckin' A. I got one with the logo and around it it said :Junkie,Raciest,Alcoholic,Asshole,Troublemaker,Roc kstar. Plus it had some silhouettes of hot chicks in random places. Back had a censored version of the new infamous picture of singer,legend,role model Seth Putnam and tour dates.
I got my girlfriend a tank top that said the band name all cute. Back said: Groupie,Slut,Junkie,Scum. We sat and Vegantopher texted me "He's here!". Right away I go back and I see the king himself. We made quick eye contact and I got nervous. I had asked the merch guy if he was gonna punch me or anything. He said nah that hes the coolest guy ever. Right when we're about to ask for a picture he stood up and almost fell. He grabs on to Vegan's shoulder hard. He's fucked up on some hxc shit right about now. He later goes back and has all these random sluts kissing his ass. We finally ask him for a pic and he says yes. I never smiled so big in my life. I ask about a Siege reunion. He said "I Doubt it maaaaaaaaaan!". He kept lifting up his shiny glittery pants to show off his tattoos. The band was setting up.
Seth marched in the room(with help of coarse) with a shitload of the fans to the stage. He got on and people were yelling and screaming for him and he left. 5 min later he comes back and his friend has a chair. He was too fucked up so he had to sing on the chair like he did when he first got out of his coma. He started singing and the place went nuts. Girls began to hug him tightly and try to sing along. We all started screaming the offensive lyrics a long to to him,"Niggers!,Rape!,Haha!" He was still in charge on stage in his throne. Girls were all over the place. As well as us guys. Some random drunk girl who seemed younger than me was asked by the guitar player to flash us. She did. Her dumbass kept being on stage and the guitar player would randomly grab her and kiss her. She was all fucked up. The thing I loved most about this was they didn't have a setlist. They played whatever they wanted and what we wanted.They finished,then they decided to do a Manowar cover. They asked the sound guy for another song but they wouldn't give it to them. They did it anyway with 311 Sucks. Surprisingly they did play the full hour(or around there). Most people were betting 20 min max. Seth stood for that and people still surrounded him like the badass he is.
Set list included:
Body By Auschwitz
Haha Holocaust
You're A Cop
Beating Up Niggers That Sell Fake Crack
I Lit Your Baby On Fire
Pepe,The Gay Waiter
Flower Shop Guy
Delicious Face Style
Im Still Standing
Van Full Or Retards
Hitler Was a Sensitive Man
Crankin' My Bands Demo on a Box at the Beach(sang by some random old guy and a little help from me)
Gloves Of Metal
311 Sucks
Best show ever. Vegantopher help with this set or others?
1/28-Code Orange/Disgrace?
that fucking rules.
9/5-Altar of Plagues
9/25-St. Vitus
That show was very awesome! Great review turtley! I woke up tired as shit from seeing the Meatmen and Black Fag the night before. I didn't expect it to be so god damn hot outside. I called out of work and picked my friend up around 2 or so and headed to the Blvd. We picked up some beers and kicked it in my car for an hour. It was so damn hot had to risk leaving the car on so we ahd some air conditioning to sit in. My friend gave me some bomb ass weed and I was extremely baked by the time I walked into the Blvd. My friends and I missed BrucexCambell, but were there in time for ACxDC. When I'm high I become scared of intense pits just cause it gets to intense for my high to handle haha. I stood behind the bassist of the band, where I knew I would be completely safe. Well I just stood there amazed at how crazy everything was haha.
Next up was Wormrot. I was extremely excited to see these guys again since I missed their set at the Scion fest. I stood in the back this time cause I was still too high to really handle being close haha. People were going crazy! Someone was thrown so hard he wen head first into the drums and knocked them over Then a fight broke out shortly after. Wormrot just kept playing through the fight. The fight was next to the vinyl table and all I could think of was "someone should protect the vinyl!" haha. Wormrot played the same set as before.
At this point we have 3 hours till the next band went on. We were told we could get back in for half off, which sucked cause I already paid full price for presale Well we walked with my friend to his car to put merch away. The guys that were in te first earlier came up to one of my buddies and got in his face about kicking him in the head during Wormrot. Well this was the most idiotic thing I have seen. My buddy, who was getting shit, was in the back with me the whole set, so he couldn't have possibly kicked the guy. The best part was the guy trying to start a fight was about 5 foot 8 and maybe 160 pounds and had two smaller friends with him. My buddy is at least 6 foot and weights 250 pounds, he had two other friends bigger then him, then I had two friends who were big guys, then little me. So it was 6 on 3 and my friend had an aluminum bat in his car. The fight was about to break out when the kid starting shit decided it wasn't worth it to fight anymore and took off. Too bad cause those kids start fights with everyone at every show they go to at the Blvd. After this my two friends and I drove up to Truly Vegan in Hollywood and had some dinner. My friend was laughing at me telling me if I didn't appear stoned as fuck at the show, then the Pancakes with a side of fries and soy chicken didnt help my case hahaha. We went back to the venue, got some more beer, but at this point I wanted to knock out cause I was coming down from the high and tired as fuck. I found ot I had over two hours till the next band I wanted to see, so I took a nap and woke up completely sober and refreshed. Went back inside in time to see Strong Intention. They were awesome! I hadn't seen them since Murderfest in 06.
After this I went outside and got a picture with Turtley and Seth. Turtleyseemed over whelmed with excitement after the picture hahaha. Murder Construct with up next and played an awesome set. I grabbed a setlist.
I am Thought
Destroy Babylon
Tinkers Delight
No Saviou
New Song
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Next was Anal Cunt and they were awesome!!! I didn't recognize too many songs, but the ones listed are the ones I remember.
Who needs a god when you've got Big Macs?
If thats the set then doesn't that mean they only played for 15 minutes?
Sound like an awesome show. I wish I could have gone.
1.23 Ash Borer / Volahn
2.2 Obliteration
2.7 Mayhem / Inquisition
Who needs a god when you've got Big Macs?
This show sounds fucking nuts, lmao.
Lol @ Vegantopher.. I smoked some fantastic bud before Amon Amarth last night.. yeah, pits can be extreme while baked.. It's nice to chill back and enjoy some metal though. I love seeing stoners on this forum.
Oh man this concert sounds so awesome... I'm gonna be out of town Anal Cunt in Chicago next week or I'd definitely see it.
9/5-Altar of Plagues
9/25-St. Vitus
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
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Strategy: Tools and Strategies for File-Level Data Protection
The process of protecting individual files can be an arduous and thankless task. Users will surely complain about any additional hoops they need to jump through to share their data with others, and IT may complain about the additional overhead required to properly secure individual files. But more than almost any other security initiative you undertake, directly addressing the protection of file-level data will have significant return on investment. Some organizations spend millions of dollars on a tight security perimeter and ultimately experience data loss because they're just not focused on protecting data at the individual file level.
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Creator: Casa de Diego (Madrid, Spain)
Description: Folding fan. Plain shaped wooden sticks and guards. Leaf of cream paper with thin border of brown. On the leaf are three printed vignettes: 1) view of a street through an archway, titled "Calle de Cuchilleros"; 2) View of the exterior of a church/mission, titled "San Antonio de la Florida"; 3) Scene of a bear shaking a tree, entitled "Madrid". Maker's stamp on back of leaf at guard: "Casa de Diego" Created between 1950 and 1986.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Anita's Attic: Train, Train, Take Me On Out of This Town...
4 comments:
- Kari Lee Townsend said...
Wow, Anita! I always wanted to take a train somewhere. Never thought about taking it alone and that you would be seated next to someone you don't know. Yeah, I probably would have spent hours in the scenic car, too. Also really didn't think about the motion and how it would affect writing.
Hmmm,I think I'll make sure I have a friend go with me or get a sleeping car. Yikes!
Glad things went well in Chicago and glad you had some fun before heading back home.
Happy writing!
- February 7, 2012 at 4:01 AM
- Anita Clenney said...
Kari, the trip was actually kind of fun, but it was such a long trip. I was cramped all over. And next time I'll have to do it without the writing. I'll plot instead.
- February 7, 2012 at 7:43 AM
- Lindsay said...
Sounds like you had a sort of interesting but still fun trip. I'm glad you were able to get a little accomplished and had fun at the conference.
- February 7, 2012 at 10:26 AM
- Anita Clenney said...
Lindsay, the train was interesting, great for people watching. There were a few Amish (I assume Amish)people going both ways and their accents were shocking. I'm not sure if it was German. I'm going to research it.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM


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President Obama condemned the wave of violence in Chicago in a speech at Hyde Park Career Academy. He said "the solution is not only more gun laws, but community intervention and economic opportunity in impoverished neighborhoods." A few hours later, the sister of a student sitting behind Obama on the stage, was shot and killed in a North Chicago alley. Janay Mcfarlane, 18, had attended Hyde Park.
Last school year, 29 current and recent students at Chicago's Harper High were shot; eight died. This American Life looks at the violence that surrounds the high school. More than 15 gangs operate in Harper's attendance area, reports Linda Lutton. "Boys are nearly always assigned a gang affiliation, whether they want it or not, based on where they live," says Lutton. Many gangs don't sell drugs. They shoot each other over "girls, 'he said-she said' stuff, money owed, a fistfight."
In one story, staff and students learn at a Homecoming pep rally that a recent student was just shot a few blocks away. Principal Leonetta Sanders struggles to decide if she's going to hold two events – the football game and the dance – while everyone's worried about retaliation.
When a boy is tall enough — he has "hard legs" — he's a target says a gang member in the second episode.
Harper High's "After Action Review" team — the principal, social workers, the football coach and others — tries to contain the damage after each incident, reports Slate. Chicago school officials picked up the AAR idea on a visit to Fort Leavenworth to study military training.


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This portrait of unknown origin, depicting Davis in the 1880s, hangs in the office of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, located at Rice University in Houston, TX
Monter[r]ey [Mexico], Sept. 25th, 1846.
My Dear Brother:-- The town is ours after a severe conflict. The
Mississippians were brought into action on the 21st and performed some
brilliant service. On the 22nd preparations were made, and we held an
advance post. On the morning of the 23rd we (the Mississippians) opened
the action early, and continued firing and advancing into the town until
near sunset, when we were ordered to withdraw. On the 24th propositions
having been received to capitulate, Gen. Worth, and Gen. Henderson of
Texas, and myself, were appointed commissioners to arrange the terms of
capitulation. We agreed, and the papers have been exchanged. It was reported to us, by the Mexican General, that Mexico had received commissioners from the United States.-- They were whipped, and we could afford to be generous. We hope soon to return as the war is probably over.
With love to all--I am your brother.
From The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 3, pp. 24-25. Transcribed from the Vicksburg Weekly Sentinel, October 27, 1846.
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SESAR Team Validates 'Target Time of Arrival'
[Avionics Today July 1, 2014] A consortium co-funded by the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking has validated a new Air Traffic Management (ATM) procedure that can help better manage the flow of incoming flights during peak hours at congested airports in Europe, a time-based procedure called Target Time of Arrival (TTA).
The procedure was developed by a consortium known as Fair Stream, which included the French Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) DSNA, collaborating with DFS, Skyguide, Air France and Lufthansa among others. According to SESAR JU, TTA is a refined ATM planning element that enables information sharing between a network manager, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) and airlines.
TTA allows all stakeholders to perform arrival planning earlier in the flight progress, by collaboratively coordinating arrivals.
DSNA's CEO Maurice Georges said the initial live flight trials have been "promising," with nearly "1,000 commercial flights arriving at Paris-CDG, Zurich and Munich airports have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of this concept with the existing on-board and ground equipment."


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Faculty Profile
Allen Richardson, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies
Cedar Crest College Professor of Religious Studies Allen Richardson, Ph.D., has revised his 1988 work in a new edition titled, Strangers in this Land: Religion, Pluralism and the American Dream. The book, published by McFarland & Company of North Carolina, has a foreword by Diana Eck, Ph.D., director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and a foremost expert on the topic.
"When I first read Allen Richardson's Strangers in This Land, it was exciting and enlightening fare. Richardson was far ahead of his time in calling attention to the growing religious diversity of the United States and the challenges it poses to the complex vision of America," Eck wrote in the foreword. "It is timely to have this new version of Richardson's provocative book to set our current questions in the context of a longer historical perspective."
Richardson has been on the ground floor of researching a question that has existed since colonial times: What does it mean to be American? For some, America is a place where people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds can come to be free from oppression—with no strings attached. For them, the diversity that exists is to be celebrated and appreciated. For others, being American means assimilating into a Christian society that ascribes to a uniform set of values and practices.
This long-lasting national struggle with diversity is captured by two contradictory symbols both in view of the New York harbor, Richardson said. On one hand the Statue of Liberty welcomes people from all countries with the famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Meanwhile, the immigrants who came through Ellis Island often had their names "Americanized" and in many cases were encouraged to forget their old identities, he said.
The lasting societal debates of our day over free speech, alternative religions, and immigration continue to draw from the nation's struggle with the question of what it means to be American, and these issues will only intensify as the population of the United States becomes increasingly diverse, Richardson said. Strangers in this Land traces the history of this debate and the continuing impact it has had on the questions of religion, pluralism, and the American dream.


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Commerson's dolphin
Commerson's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) is one of four dolphins in the Cephalorhynchus genus. The species has also the common names Skunk Dolphin, Piebald Dolphin and Panda Dolphin. The dolphin is named for Philibert Commerson, who first described them in 1767 after he sighted them in the Strait of Magellan.[3]
Physical description
Commerson's Dolphin has a very distinctive patterning. It has a black head, dorsal fin, and fluke, with a white throat and body. The demarcation between the two colours is very clear-cut. This stocky creature is one of the smallest of all cetaceans growing to around 1.5 m (5 ft). A mature female caught off of south Patagonia, at 23 kg (51 lb) and 1.36 m (4.5 ft), may be the smallest adult cetacean on record.[4] Its appearance resembles that of a porpoise, but its conspicuous behaviour (see behaviour below) is typical of a dolphin. The dorsal fin has a long, straight leading edge which ends in a curved tip. The trailing is typically concave but not falcate. The fluke has a notch in the middle. This dolphin has no rostrum. It is not known why their distribution is limited to the southern coast of South America and the Kerguelen Islands.
Sexes are easily distinguished by the different shape of the black blotch on the belly - it is shaped like a teardrop in males but is more rounded in females. Females reach breeding age at six to nine years. Males reach sexual maturity at about the same age. Mating occurs in the spring and summer and calving occurs after a gestation period of 11 months. The oldest known Commerson's Dolphin died at age 18.
Population and distribution
The species is distributed in two locations. The larger population is found inshore in various inlets in Argentina, in the Strait of Magellan and near the Falkland Islands. The second population (discovered in the 1950s) resides near the Kerguelen Islands, 8,000 km to the east of their nearest special cousins. They prefer shallow waters. Global populations are unknown, but the species is accepted to be locally common. A survey in 1984 estimated there to be 3,400 individuals in the Strait of Magellan.
The dolphin is found in two geographically disparate areas:
- the southern coast of South America around Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, and
- waters near the Kerguelen Islands in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
The Commerson's Dolphin is very active. It is often seen swimming rapidly on the surface and leaping from the water. It also spins and twists as it swims and may surf on breaking waves when very close to the shore. It will bow-ride and swim behind fast-moving boats. They are also known to enjoy swimming upside-down, which is thought to improve the visibility of its prey.
This dolphin feeds on a mix of coastal and pelagic fish and squid. Those in the South American sub-population supplement their diet with crustaceans.
The IUCN lists Commerson's Dolphin as Data Deficient in its Red List of Threatened Species. The proximity of the dolphin to the shore makes accidental killing in gillnets a common occurrence. The dolphin was killed for use as crab bait by some Argentinian and Chilean fishermen in the 1970s and 1980s, but this practice has since been curtailed.[citation needed]
About two dozen Commerson's Dolphins live in aquariums in the world, including SeaWorld San Diego, Aquatica in Florida, Zoo Duisburg in Germany (until 2004), and several aquariums in Japan.
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