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The Best 100 Comedians List is Up
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The Loch Ness Monster is said to be a plesiosaur that lives in Scotland's Loch Ness. Various eyewitness accounts and blurred photographs have testified to its existence over the years, but no scientific expedition has ever found definitive proof.
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Masters of Science in Education – Teaching and Learning
Students can add 18-21 credits to receive their Masters!
The Gifted & Talented Program is an accelerated graduate program that can be taken as a license or a minor within a master's degree. The goal of this program is to equip current teachers with the tools and training to challenge and support their gifted and talented students.
In order to thrive, gifted students require rich curriculum and trained teachers to prepare them for the future. Because most gifted and talented students attend regular classes, this program is designed to prepare general education teachers to help these students in typical classrooms, as well as in gifted and talented programs. Concordia's professors pass on their theoretical and practical knowledge to help teachers discover how to pace instruction with students' needs, provide structure and choice, and promote supported risks.
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Another animal has joined our menagerie -- a puppy this time, probably of mixed breed. Barely six weeks old, he's a furry ball with a hungry belly, loose tongue and sharp teeth. He's already made some unfortunate impressions on exposed shins, flower beds and the living room carpet; being cute and affectionate has been key to his survival.
In some households, people spend hundreds of dollars on specially bred and registered pets. They go to great lengths to seek out and find just the right animal. We might have too, I suppose, if we lived somewhere less rural.
But strays are likely any time of day and in many sizes. Stray cats, dogs, cows, horses, goats or even chickens are liable to show up at a rural home at any hour.
Stray livestock are usually reclaimed by an apologetic neighbor before the day is out, but dogs and cats are another matter. Only rarely does a notice in the newspaper or on the radio bring the rightful owner to your door. More often than not, no one misses the stray.
These animals pose all sorts of problems. Many are infected with parvo, distemper or other diseases. They compete with the resident pets for food and territory. Some even prey on livestock.
Most strays suffer horribly. Dogs slowly starve to death, are poisoned or shot. Cats are eaten alive by coyotes or run over by cars.
Taking your pet "for a ride in the country" is an act of cruelty, both to the animal and to the people who live in that area who have to decide its fate. Even the softest hearts harden a little after so many dozen drives to the pound to do someone else's dirty work. The .30-gauge in the gun cabinet would be much cheaper and just as lethal.
Adopting this puppy may not have been the right thing to do. Does it vindicate the creeps who abandoned its pregnant mother? I wish they could have seen how much she loved life and how badly she, too, wanted to be adopted. They should have been the ones to separate her from her pups. They should have made that long drive to the pound.
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Bengal name Ranji team for Andhra tie
The Bengal team for the Ranji Trophy match against Andhra Pradesh starting on Saturday was announced on Thursday. All-rounder Sanjib Sanyal has been dropped and Prosenjit Ganguly included in his place. The Andhra team is scheduled to arrive on Friday.
THE squad:
Rohan Gavaskar (captain), Deep Dasgupta, Subhomoy Das, Utpal Chatterjee, Sourashish Lahiri, Ranadeb Bose, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Shabbir Ali, Murtaza Lodhgar, Subhradeep Ganguly, Devang Gandhi, Nikhil Haldipur, Arindam Das, Prosenjit Ganguly.
Bagan win big
Mohun Bagan thrashed Wari by eight wickets in a CAB first division league match Thursday. Dibyendu Chakraborty (98) was the star of the show as Bagan cantered to victory.
n Wari 230. Mohun Bagan 231/2 (Dibyendu Chakraborty 98). Mohun Bagan won by 8 wkts.
n Shibpur Institute 259. Eastern Railway Sports Association 263/8 (Asif Murtaza 66, Biswanath Bose 53; Uttam Josh 4/85). ERSA won by 2 wkts.
n Tollygunge Agragami 417/7. DKS 217/5 (Goutam Shome 54, Probal Dutta 48 n.o.) Match drawn.
n BNR 224. Ananda Bazar Patrika SC 192/8 (Alokh Barik 66 n.o.; Swagatam Bhattacharya 3/36) Match drawn.
n Belgachia United 408/8. Burnpur CCC 192 (Sudip Palit 3/32). Belgachia won by 218 runs.
n Milan Samity 175. Kalighat 178/7 (Sanjib Sanyal 64 n.o., Sayan Dey 47; Chandrasekhar Kanungo 3/32) Kalighat won by 3 wkts.
n High Court 311. Netaji Subhas Institute 225 (T. Pramanik 80; Anil Verma 6/58) High Court won by 86 runs.
Port player debarred
Sanjeev Pandey of Calcutta Port Trust was debarred for two matches by the cricket committee of the CAB for misbehaving in a match against Kumrtuli last week.
Two other players, Indranil Chakraborty and Shiladitya Majumdar, have been handed one-match bans.
Sourav super genius
Sourav Chakraborty (8) won the boys crown of the Wipro Super Genius chess meet being held at Gorky Sadan.
In spite of his loss to runner-up Joydeep Dutta (8) in the final round Thursday, Chakraborty won with a better progressive score. Mary Ann Gomes won the girls title while Kiran Manisha Mohanti came second.
St Xaviers win
St. Xaviers beat Apeejay School 2-1 in the ESPN Premier League junior cup tournament being held at the SAI grounds. Jeet Mitla and Boris Antenn scored for the winners while S. Zaheed scored the reducer for Apeejay.
Other Results:
St James bt BD Memorial 3-0; Birla High School bt Cathedral Mission 5-0.
Merchants squash
J. Thomas and Kankaria Group moved into the finals of the 49th Merchants Cup squash meet being held at the Racket Club. While J. Thomas beat Services (Eastern Command) 3-0, Kankaria Group thrashed TISCO 3-0.
Schools athletics
The 11th annual athletics meet organised by the South Calcutta District Sports Council will start at the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium on Saturday. More than 2500 participants from 200 schools are scheduled to take part in the two-day meet.
Hockey camp
The 16th non-residential hockey coaching camp for the boys will start at the BHA ground from Saturday.
The camp will be on till June 30 on every Thursday and Saturday.
Postal cricket
The 16th All India postal cricket meet will start in the city from February 7.
Eighteen teams including Jammu and Kashmir Circle and the Army Postal Service team will also take part. The final of the five-day meet will be played at the Eden Gardens.
BRIDGE: All India Shree Cement meet at the BRC.
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Husky Safari is a soon-to-be-launched game developed for Activities Abroad, a local travel agency. Specialising in active adventure holidays, Activities Abroad commissioned Presence to design and develop an interactive game to promote their winter holidays in Norway, Finland, Canada and Sweden.
The game features different aspects of a winter adventure holiday - husky sledding, ice fishing, Northern Lights, polar bears, arctic wolves and the native Sami people. The game consists of 3 seperate games which can be played individually or together in a sequence.
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"During my years being actively involved with the Preserve I have seen it grow literally and figuratively. Thousands of plants were planted, pathways constructed and Boy Scout and Girl Scout areas were developed. The Preserve is a real treasure in Laguna Niguel. I would like to acknowledge the City of Laguna Niguel for its generous support over the years and the many volunteers who made it all possible."
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The singer we previously dubbed "The 21st Century's Most Underrated Pop Star" might just also be The 21st Century's Most Underrated Dance Talent, as show in the new music video for "Try". We've seen her perform up in the air, flying (while singing!) her way through "Sober" at The 2009 MTV VMAs. We've also seen her blow us "One Last Kiss" at this year's VMAs up in the rafters of Los Angeles' Staples Center.
Now, Pink hints that perhaps she'll be joining the cast of "So You Think You Can Dance" (she's way beyond "Dancing With The Stars" at this point) with an impressive modern dance performance in "Try" -- as she and her dance partner throw each other around an empty house, mimicking the violent throws of a tortured romance.
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Sweet Potato Nut Bread
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Joyce Lowery
This was a favorite of my brother, Donald. He had a friend that he called"Big Mama" that would make it for him. she would not share her recipe, but I kept fooling with this one until he was satisfied with it. The last step of leaving the bread to cool overnight...never happened. He was at the stove cutting him a piece as soon as it came out of the oven.
- 3 c
- plain flour
- 2 c
- sugar
- 1 c
- brown sugar
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- baking powder
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- baking soda
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- pecans, chopped
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- ground nutmeg
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- eggs, beaten
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- margarine, melted
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- sweet potatoes, baked, peeled, and mashed
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- coffee, strong brewed and cold
How to Make Sweet Potato Nut Bread
- 1Sift flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl. Stir in pecans and set aside.
- 2Using electric mixer at high speed beat sugars, margarine and oil until light. Add eggs, one at a time. Beating well after each addition.
- 3Add sweet potatoes. Beat until well blended. Reduce mixer speed to low.
- 4Beat in dry ingredients alternately with coffee until well blended.
- 5Pour batter into three greased loaf pans. ( I use a bundt pan).
- 6Bake in 350 degree oven for one hour or until loaves are golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.
- 7Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove to rack to cool completely. Wrap each loaf in foil. Let stand overnight, in a cool dry place before serving.
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Discussion in 'Punto 1.3 MJD' started by anicaution, Oct 15, 2010.
New Linea coming home today...
Sad...I am not there to take delivery.
Congrts man. Its okay that ur not present but u ll drive her a lot.
Hi All,
Thinking to sell my Punto...
3 years will complete on 29-09-2013 and KM 1,18,000.
1.3 MJD Emotion.
What will be valuation.
1,20,000 In 3 Years!
Hi All,Today my lovely Punto became 3 year old.Yesterday it has reached milestone of 1, 20,000 KMS. It's been lovely owning her.On 23rd September carried out paid servicing at SKY MOTO, Chinchwad. It was wonderful experience.I started from Kolhapur morning at 0600 Hrs for Pune. I reached the SKY MOTO service center at 0930 Hrs. Appointment was taken in advance. I was attended by Anuradha with great smile at reception.Within 10 minutes SA Ujwala attendee the car and job card was prepared.Following was work asked.1. Paid servicing of 1,20,000 KMS2. Mirror change of left rear view mirror3. Left front power window switch was not functioning.4. Metallic TAK TAK sound from rear left side.5. Hard ClutchEstimated cost given was around 10,500/-.And delivery of car forced for next day.I requested that I am leaving for Nashik immediately after servicing so please give delivery today itself. Agreed then with concern it will be delayed may be around 1830. I said OK.I left for office meeting.Evening I reached to SKY MOTO around 1800 Hrs. Car was almost ready; except washing. I thought not bad. But it took to complete almost 1930 Hrs and then I left for Nashik.All issues resolved.SA advised to get work done for Clutch in next servicing; at present no problem with Clutch plate little wear to Pressure plate.Bill was 16,864/-. Addition was change of Brake Pads and Brake Discs.Now total maintenance cost stands for Rs. 1.20 per KM.May be little at higher side.No Problem…Thanks & Regards,Anicaution
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1,20,000 KMS on ODO...
Congrats for the new milestone Aniket
Aniket many congratulations for this milestone. :up
Except routine service was there any other major expense on the car.
No extra expenses:
Replacement so far :
1. Suspension strut pad : 1 time in warranty
2. Master Slave Cylibder : 1 time in warranty
3. Brake Pads : 3 time
4. Disc Brake : 1 time
5. Tyres : 2 times
Nothing else...
Hi All,
Sell of Car...
Anyone interested...or any reference...PM me
Model : 1.3 Emotion
Year : September 2010
Colour : BNW
Thanks & Regards,
how was the work done on timing chain ? how is your car running after timing chain change ? any issues.
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Discussion in 'UPS Union Issues' started by kingOFchester, Feb 23, 2013.
KOC, thank you for posting this link.
I urge everyone to click on the link and read the proposed changes, which are underlined in bold print. No more golf carts. Idling when the outside temp is 32 or below. Size and weight limits on Surepost going to Post Office.
This sounds good:
"Section 6. Building Heat
Centers will be heated, where practical. All buildings (including satellites) will have building heat and be reasonably heated, with a minimum maintained heat of fifty (50) degrees."
Week language:
"Except for serious accidents, where the driver may be presumed to be at fault, a driver will not be removed from the payroll or his/her classification during an investigation of the accident."
This is good:
"All Package Cars will be equipped with in-cab fans; all package cars currently equipped with fans shall be repaired and replaced as needed. No fan shall be removed from a Package car that is currently equipped with a fan."
Yuck, 5 more year:
"All package cars without power steering, adequate ventilation and lower cab entry steps will be replaced by the end of this Agreement."
More weak language:
"Package Car and Feeder drivers will be allowed to idle their respective vehicles while on lunch and/or break when the outside temperature is below or near 32 degrees Fahrenheit."
Just some of what I got from the proposal. Will finish reading it later.
This is good:
"Part-time employees shall be given the opportunity to fill full-time jobs before hiring from the outside on a six eight for-one basis (six (6) eight (8) part-time to every one (1) outside hire)."
Will save some workers a few bucks:
"Additionally, an employee shall not be subject to any additional fees imposed by the Employer if the garnishment or wage assignment is for court ordered child support or alimony."
KOC, was the 6:1 crossed out in favor of the 8:1?
YES, it did not copy the way it reads. Or at least my poor PC skills could not duplicate it the way it was written.
Some pretty costly proposals in there and I can understand why economic proposals will not be submitted until a later date ... there may not be any money left!
I guess this is the equally outrageous response to UPS's initial proposal.
some truth to what you say.
hall just up the ante.
They cant be hurting too bad, they just spent another 200 million on the new dividend raise.How can UPS cry poor?They are just trying to hide money!.....$10 an hour raise for everyone!!
Ya hoax, there is "no money left" get serious, UPS just spent 10's of millions of dollars to sponsor the Ferrari Race team in F1! You think thats money well spent vs. spending it on the employees?
To you, sounds like that is another "Optimal Decision", eh?
I totally disagree w the 8 to 1 language. All new hires should have to start part time. As a former casual. It is a sell out. My 1st ten years. No vacations (now w 25 yrs just got my 4th week). No rovers. No nothing. All hires should start from the part time ranks. Sell out!!!!
Costly to whom exactly? Not the people whose blood sweat and tears (literally) make this company what it is. So who is it costiing in your opinion?
My center would be finding a new home for our satellite, currently housed in an unheated storage unit with no bathroom.
It might be money well spent, if it generates more revenue than it costs.
Hoaxster is the King of sarcasism.
I assume your kidding ... costly in that it costs money.
You have solid gold faucets in your home? Probably not because it is too costly.
Geez, I guess this goes to show we let anybody post on here don't we?
Sounds similar to our satellite.. a vacant lot with a connex storage trailer. The sort is done outside in the elements and yes this means packages piled up on the ground and/or in the snow.
plus 1. anything that makes a driver more comfortable. cuts down fatigue. makes them more productive in the long term.
would be a good investment for the company. listen up Atlanta.
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The water crystals absorb water and release it on-demand to the roots. This drastically reduces water consumption by up to 50%. Applying the fertiliser at root depth also helps to prevent run-off, thus making the fertiliser more effective and also helping to make our water ways cleaner and greener.
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Instant Market value
Is the instant market value based on the location of the vehicle or the location
of the buyer? The vehicle I am interested in is $4200 over the instant market
value. I'm in PA and the dealer is in CT and the salesperson is telling me the
difference is due to the fact that we are in different states. Just wanted to see if
this was accurate.
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https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/Discussion- t34717_ds523869
So local market as in where the car is being sold?? Or local as in where I live?? In other words, does the IMV take into consideration the location of the vehicle and the zip code it is being sold from??
We are users like you. You can contact Cargurus themselves by using the "contact us" at the bottom of the page for more info. The way I understand it, is the number is not an absolute. It's based on the ads selling prices of similar cars in an area. The IMV gives you an idea if the selling is price is too high or low. It doesn't take into consideration of things like condition and other little things. So mainly price, and mileage. The ultimate price you end up paying for a vehicle is the agreed amount from the seller. If you think the seller in CT is too High, and you don't want to drive up there to test drive it, find another. BTW: CT is a higher priced market than in PA. The whole south west end is basically a suburb of NYC.
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Sydney Impression.
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A few from Big Sur:
(Arca Rm3Di, 40mm HR W, IQ160) Lots of fall on the 2nd and 3rd shots.
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Unique perspective on an iconic building Ed, great.
Graham, those shots make mine seem a little boring you guys have some spectacular coastline which you have done a great job of capturing.
These are from one of the few rocky bays around Victoria in Australia.
Alpa SWA, Schneider 35XL, P45
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Graham, nicely done. It is hard to make something new of such an iconic and photographed location. And in such a short time. It is great that Rodenstock has not fixed that flare problem.
Thanks for the feedback for the Sydney image. Definitely a challenge to find something new there plus what you can't see are all the people milling around! Long exposure to the rescue!
Ah yes, the Rodie flare. I cleaned up the most dramatic part of it (a little bright blue demon appeared) but left the rest as I felt it kind of added to vs detracted from the scene. Anyway, it's art not documentary
Here's the flare demon. Quite unusual - I'm sure someone can explain the optics behind this particular shape and colour!
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As Oscar Wilde said, "my tastes are simple, I only like the best"
Graham. Stunning! I live within glancing distance of the Opera House and have never thought of that angle. If I call you a swine, I mean it in the most complimentary way possible...
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Next time you are in Sydney, say hello!
Two from the same spot this evening, same equipment as above:
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One more picture from Switzerland. I took it last Saturday with the help of a Horseman SW-D II Pro a P45+ and the Rodenstock Apo-Sinorar 35mm.
3 Images vertical stitched and corrected via LCC.
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Native 25 ISO, ambient light only and things that move. Not easy. Oh well, why not compose and focus on something static, make the long exposure and hope something creative comes out
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That's quite a neat shot, Dan.
It has a vitality that is too often lacking in "documentary" photos.
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Two from Mt. Rainier NP:
Mt. Rainier Appearance:
Alpa MAX, SK 150SB, IQ160
Bench View- Longmire Trail
Alpa MAX, SK 80SB, IQ160:
Other photos from this trip can be found at Robert Adler Photography
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IQ260 + ALPA Max + Rodie HR 32 F4
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Robert, beautiful lighting on the second image.
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Bob, both picture were amazing!!!
Thanks Gareth and Rey and for all who liked. Much appreciated!
First try IQ260
Alpa Max + HR50 + IQ260
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The "like" button wasn't enough. I really love this photo.
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IQ260 + ALPA Max + Rodie HR 32 F4
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Looks like HK is an IQ260 hot spot!
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P1 first shipment to HK consists 3 sets IQ260, including me, other 2 are all friends :-)
Would you mind posting some raw files with high dynamic range and deep shadows?
Thinking of upgrading, but it has to be worth it in terms of IQ improvement for me!
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Cambo Wide DS, Apo Sironar 55, P40+
OK, I know, this is not high art, but....
I feel like a giddy kid. Almost all this used equipment is new to me (P40+ is a refurb, I consider that as new), I am getting so excited about how nicely the detail is rendered with virtually nil sharpening. And it prints sweet! This is why I swallowed hard and bit the bullet with MFDB. This look is why I troubled myself with sheet film so many years ago and I am so jazzed that I have this look available to me again (without having to use sheet film).
OK, I'll shut up now
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Horseman SWD PROII D | 35mm | P45+ | ISO 50 | f/11 | 1 Minute 30 seconds.
Copenhagen Nights by altdo
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Sunrise in Hong Kong with IQ260
The Peak, Hong Kong
Alpa Max, HR50, IQ260, 3in1
Leica | Angenieux | Alpa | Hasselblad | Phase One
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Wow, nice!
I think this one is a good illustration showing what IQ2 is capable of:
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Original capture:
Untouch original capture
Alpa Max + HR50 + IQ260
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Been quite a while since I've posted. But its a good thing, been extremely busy with work
Alpa Max
34mm Tilt Adapter
Profoto Lighting
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I can taste it!!
An Old District - Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
Max + HR50 + IQ260
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Very nice picuture! I began to love the IQ260. I can't afford me this today - but perhaps begin to save some money... And perhaps in some years...
I love the cable of the bridge in the background; it looks very pretty and with much, much details!
Had you tried out to shoot via ipad + live view? Did this really work with technical cam...? This could be a dream of me.
Thanks for showing!
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Last day in Sweden today. Tomorrow I am heading south and do not have a return ticket I thought a no parking sign was appropriate....
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ALPA Max + Schneider 120 M + P45
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A studio shot of the flower with one light and a mirror as fill. (This was a test shot for the 120 Schneider that arrived today from Son [FSOT]). The image was brought into LR from C1, tweaked, then into Photoshop for masking out the background and the paper background brought in under the flower layer. Then tweaks with filters and the Japanese type for 'hydrangea' added. Layers, filters and about 2 hours from start to finish.
"Creativity takes courage." ~ Henri Matisse
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IQ260 + ALPA SWA + Rodie HR 40 F4
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scary shot, considering 9/11 in NYC
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Alpa SWA 35 APO-Digitar XL P45
B+W Linear polariser, Lee 2.5 Stop soft grad, Singh-Ray 3-stop reverse ND grad
Another two from the same morning here: http://www.aeos-photo.com.au/blog/20...ondalup-again/
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Kanting, Taiwan
5 degree fall, 1 degree tilt, F11, 1s, iso50
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Tsang Ma Bridge, Hong Kong - A popular place for sunset during the summer months.
Tsang Ma Bridge 2013 by yatlee, on Flickr
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In 1993 a four-wheel drive truck and fifth-wheel trailer were purchased through an LWML grant. Pastor Ken Schauer was called as the first circuit rider/missionary pastor. He and his wife, Sandi, ministered on the road system. Early in their ministry it became apparent that children's ministry was a good in-road into a community. In 1995 Sandi Schauer became the first servant events' coordinator. Some of the annual 100 plus servant events have included Vacation Bible Schools, Christian athletic camps, and hammer and nail projects.
In 1998 Corbie and Nancy Cross were called as full time missionaries to southwest Alaska. During the summer of 1999, and for two more consecutive summers, they lived on a houseboat on the Kuskokwim River. However, their village contacts moved quickly beyond the river and the houseboat was no longer a useful tool for their type of ministry. It was then sold but Corbie and Nancy continued ministry in the Southwest until 2009 when Corbie took a call to become the pastor of Star of the North Lutheran Church in Kenai, Alaska. AMC hired David Grosz to continue the ministry in Southwest Alaska.
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Here's Chapter One from The Complete, Annotated Mysterious Affair at Styles. Note that the links that lead to word definitions are underlined, while those that give deeper descriptions are footnoted.
By Agatha Christie and Bill Peschel
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.
I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair.
I had been invalided home from the Front;1 and, after spending some months in a rather depressing Convalescent Home,2 was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. I had seen very little of him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed at Styles, his mother's place in Essex.
We had a good yarn about old times, and it ended in his inviting me down to Styles to spend my leave there.
"The mater will be delighted to see you again–after all those years," he added.
"Your mother keeps well?" I asked.
"Oh, yes. I suppose you know that she has married again?"
I am afraid I showed my surprise rather plainly. Mrs. Cavendish, who had married John's father when he was a widower with two sons, had been a handsome woman of middle-age as I remembered her. She certainly could not be a day less than seventy now. I recalled her as an energetic, autocratic personality, somewhat inclined to charitable and social notoriety, with a fondness for opening bazaars and playing the Lady Bountiful. She was a most generous woman, and possessed a considerable fortune of her own.
Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons. Their step-mother, however, had always been most generous to them; indeed, they were so young at the time of their father's remarriage that they always thought of her as their own mother.
Lawrence, the younger, had been a delicate youth. He had qualified as a doctor but early relinquished the profession of medicine, and lived at home while pursuing literary ambitions; though his verses never had any marked success.
John practiced for some time as a barrister, but had finally settled down to the more congenial life of a country squire.3 He had married two years ago, and had taken his wife to live at Styles, though I entertained a shrewd suspicion that he would have preferred his mother to increase his allowance, which would have enabled him to have a home of his own. Mrs. Cavendish, however, was a lady who liked to make her own plans, and expected other people to fall in with them, and in this case she certainly had the whip hand, namely: the purse strings.
John noticed my surprise at the news of his mother's remarriage and smiled rather ruefully.
"Rotten little bounder too!" he said savagely. "I can tell you, Hastings, it's making life jolly difficult for us. As for Evie–you remember Evie?"
"Oh, I suppose she was after your time. She's the mater's factotum, companion, Jack of all trades!4 A great sport–old Evie! Not precisely young and beautiful, but as game as they make them."
"You were going to say?"
"Oh, this fellow! He turned up from nowhere, on the pretext of being a second cousin or something of Evie's, though she didn't seem particularly keen to acknowledge the relationship. The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers! But the mater cottoned to him at once, took him on as secretary–you know how she's always running a hundred societies?"
I nodded.
"Well, of course the war has turned the hundreds into thousands. No doubt the fellow was very useful to her. But you could have knocked us all down with a feather when, three months ago, she suddenly announced that she and Alfred were engaged! The fellow must be at least twenty years younger than she is! It's simply bare-faced fortune hunting; but there you are–she is her own mistress, and she's married him."
"It must be a difficult situation for you all."
"Difficult! It's damnable!"
Thus it came about that, three days later, I descended from the train at Styles St. Mary, an absurd little station, with no apparent reason for existence, perched up in the midst of green fields and country lanes. John Cavendish was waiting on the platform, and piloted me out to the car.
"Got a drop or two of petrol still, you see," he remarked. "Mainly owing to the mater's activities."
The village of Styles St. Mary was situated about two miles from the little station, and Styles Court lay a mile the other side of it. It was a still, warm day in early July. As one looked out over the flat Essex country, lying so green and peaceful under the afternoon sun, it seemed almost impossible to believe that, not so very far away, a great war5 was running its appointed course. I felt I had suddenly strayed into another world. As we turned in at the lodge gates, John said:
"I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings."
"My dear fellow, that's just what I want."
"Oh, it's pleasant enough if you want to lead the idle life. I drill with the volunteers6 twice a week, and lend a hand at the farms. My wife works regularly 'on the land'7 She is up at five every morning to milk, and keeps at it steadily until lunchtime. It's a jolly good life taking it all round–if it weren't for that fellow Alfred Inglethorp!" He checked the car suddenly, and glanced at his watch. "I wonder if we've time to pick up Cynthia. No, she'll have started from the hospital by now."
"Cynthia! That's not your wife?"
"No, Cynthia is a protégée of my mother's, the daughter of an old schoolfellow of hers, who married a rascally solicitor. He came a cropper, and the girl was left an orphan and penniless. My mother came to the rescue, and Cynthia has been with us nearly two years now. She works in the Red Cross Hospital at Tadminster, seven miles away."
As he spoke the last words, we drew up in front of the fine old house. A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach.
"Hullo, Evie, here's our wounded hero! Mr. Hastings–Miss Howard."
Miss Howard shook hands with a hearty, almost painful, grip. I had an impression of very blue eyes in a sunburnt face. She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match?these last encased in good thick boots. Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style.
"Weeds grow like house afire. Can't keep even with 'em. Shall press you in. Better be careful."
"I'm sure I shall be only too delighted to make myself useful," I responded.
"Don't say it. Never does. Wish you hadn't later."
"You're a cynic,8 Evie," said John, laughing. "Where's tea to-day?9–inside or out?"
"Out. Too fine a day to be cooped up in the house."
"Come on then, you've done enough gardening for to-day. 'The labourer is worthy of his hire',10 you know. Come and be refreshed."
"Well," said Miss Howard, drawing off her gardening gloves, "I'm inclined to agree with you."
She led the way round the house to where tea was spread under the shade of a large sycamore.
A figure rose from one of the basket chairs, and came a few steps to meet us.
"My wife, Hastings," said John.
I shall never forget my first sight of Mary Cavendish. Her tall, slender form, outlined against the bright light; the vivid sense of slumbering fire that seemed to find expression only in those wonderful tawny eyes of hers, remarkable eyes, different from any other woman's that I have ever known; the intense power of stillness she possessed, which nevertheless conveyed the impression of a wild untamed spirit in an exquisitely civilised body–all these things are burnt into my memory. I shall never forget them.
She greeted me with a few words of pleasant welcome in a low clear voice, and I sank into a basket chair feeling distinctly glad that I had accepted John's invitation. Mrs. Cavendish gave me some tea, and her few quiet remarks heightened my first impression of her as a thoroughly fascinating woman. An appreciative listener is always stimulating, and I described, in a humorous manner, certain incidents of my Convalescent Home, in a way which, I flatter myself, greatly amused my hostess. John, of course, good fellow though he is, could hardly be called a brilliant conversationalist.
At that moment a well remembered voice floated through the open French window near at hand:
"Then you'll write to the Princess after tea, Alfred? I'll write to Lady Tadminster for the second day, myself. Or shall we wait until we hear from the Princess? In case of a refusal, Lady Tadminster might open it the first day, and Mrs. Crosbie the second. Then there's the Duchess–about the school fête."11
There was the murmur of a man's voice, and then Mrs. Inglethorp's rose in reply:
"Yes, certainly. After tea will do quite well. You are so thoughtful, Alfred dear."
The French window swung open a little wider, and a handsome white-haired old lady, with a somewhat masterful cast of features, stepped out of it on to the lawn. A man followed her, a suggestion of deference in his manner.
Mrs. Inglethorp greeted me with effusion.
"Why, if it isn't too delightful to see you again, Mr. Hastings, after all these years. Alfred, darling, Mr. Hastings–my husband."
I looked with some curiosity at "Alfred darling". He certainly struck a rather alien note. I did not wonder at John objecting to his beard. It was one of the longest and blackest I have ever seen. He wore gold-rimmed pince-nez, and had a curious impassivity of feature. It struck me that he might look natural on a stage, but was strangely out of place in real life. His voice was rather deep and unctuous. He placed a wooden hand in mine and said:12
"This is a pleasure, Mr. Hastings." Then, turning to his wife: "Emily dearest, I think that cushion is a little damp."
She beamed fondly on him, as he substituted another with every demonstration of the tenderest care. Strange infatuation of an otherwise sensible woman!
With the presence of Mr. Inglethorp, a sense of constraint and veiled hostility seemed to settle down upon the company. Miss Howard, in particular, took no pains to conceal her feelings. Mrs. Inglethorp, however, seemed to notice nothing unusual. Her volubility, which I remembered of old, had lost nothing in the intervening years, and she poured out a steady flood of conversation, mainly on the subject of the forthcoming bazaar which she was organizing and which was to take place shortly. Occasionally she referred to her husband over a question of days or dates. His watchful and attentive manner never varied. From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Presently Mrs. Inglethorp turned to give some instructions about letters to Evelyn Howard, and her husband addressed me in his painstaking voice:
"Is soldiering your regular profession, Mr. Hastings?"
"No, I was in Lloyd's."
"And you will return there after it is over?"
"Perhaps. Either that or a fresh start altogether."
Mary Cavendish leant forward.
"What would you really choose as a profession, if you could just consult your inclination?"13
"Well, that depends."
"No secret hobby?" she asked. "Tell me–you're drawn to something? Every one is–usually something absurd."
"You'll laugh at me."
She smiled.
"Well, I've always had a secret hankering to be a detective!"
"The real thing–Scotland Yard? Or Sherlock Holmes?"
"Oh, Sherlock Holmes by all means. But really, seriously, I am awfully drawn to it. I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. My system is based on his–though of course I have progressed rather further. He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever."
"Like a good detective story myself," remarked Miss Howard. "Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last chapter. Every one dumbfounded. Real crime–you'd know at once."
"There have been a great number of undiscovered crimes," I argued.
"Don't mean the police, but the people that are right in it. The family. You couldn't really hoodwink them. They'd know."
"Then," I said, much amused, "you think that if you were mixed up in a crime, say a murder, you'd be able to spot the murderer right off?"
"Of course I should. Mightn't be able to prove it to a pack of lawyers. But I'm certain I'd know. I'd feel it in my fingertips if he came near me."
"It might be a 'she,'" I suggested.
"Might. But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man."
"Not in a case of poisoning." Mrs. Cavendish's clear voice startled me. "Dr. Bauerstein was saying yesterday that, owing to the general ignorance of the more uncommon poisons among the medical profession, there were probably countless cases of poisoning quite unsuspected."
"Why, Mary, what a gruesome conversation!" cried Mrs. Inglethorp. "It makes me feel as if a goose were walking over my grave.14 Oh, there's Cynthia!"
A young girl in V.A.D.15 uniform ran lightly across the lawn.
"Why, Cynthia, you are late to-day. This is Mr. Hastings–Miss Murdoch."
Cynthia Murdoch was a fresh-looking young creature, full of life and vigour. She tossed off her little V.A.D. cap, and I admired the great loose waves of her auburn hair, and the smallness and whiteness of the hand she held out to claim her tea. With dark eyes and eyelashes she would have been a beauty.
She flung herself down on the ground beside John, and as I handed her a plate of sandwiches she smiled up at me.
"Sit down here on the grass, do. It's ever so much nicer."
I dropped down obediently.
"You work at Tadminster, don't you, Miss Murdoch?"
She nodded.
"For my sins."
"Do they bully you, then?" I asked, smiling.
"I should like to see them!" cried Cynthia with dignity.
"I have got a cousin who is nursing," I remarked. "And she is terrified of 'Sisters'."
"I don't wonder. Sisters are, you know, Mr. Hastings. They simply are! You've no idea! But I'm not a nurse, thank heaven, I work in the dispensary."
"How many people do you poison?" I asked, smiling.
Cynthia smiled too.
"Oh, hundreds!" she said.
"Cynthia," called Mrs. Inglethorp, "do you think you could write a few notes for me?"
"Certainly, Aunt Emily."
She jumped up promptly, and something in her manner reminded me that her position was a dependent one, and that Mrs. Inglethorp, kind as she might be in the main, did not allow her to forget it.
My hostess turned to me.
"John will show you your room. Supper is at half-past seven. We have given up late dinner for some time now. Lady Tadminster, our Member's wife–she was the late Lord Abbotsbury's daughter–does the same. She agrees with me that one must set an example of economy. We are quite a war household; nothing is wasted here–every scrap of waste paper, even, is saved and sent away in sacks."16
I expressed my appreciation, and John took me into the house and up the broad staircase, which forked right and left half-way to different wings of the building. My room was in the left wing, and looked out over the park.
John left me, and a few minutes later I saw him from my window walking slowly across the grass arm in arm with Cynthia Murdoch. I heard Mrs. Inglethorp call "Cynthia" impatiently, and the girl started and ran back to the house. At the same moment, a man stepped out from the shadow of a tree and walked slowly in the same direction. He looked about forty, very dark with a melancholy clean-shaven face. Some violent emotion seemed to be mastering him. He looked up at my window as he passed, and I recognized him, though he had changed much in the fifteen years that had elapsed since we last met. It was John's younger brother, Lawrence Cavendish. I wondered what it was that had brought that singular expression to his face.
Then I dismissed him from my mind, and returned to the contemplation of my own affairs.
The evening passed pleasantly enough; and I dreamed that night of that enigmatical woman, Mary Cavendish.
The next morning dawned bright and sunny, and I was full of the anticipation of a delightful visit.
I did not see Mrs. Cavendish until lunch-time, when she volunteered to take me for a walk, and we spent a charming afternoon roaming in the woods, returning to the house about five.
As we entered the large hall, John beckoned us both into the smoking-room. I saw at once by his face that something disturbing had occurred. We followed him in, and he shut the door after us.
"Look here, Mary, there's the deuce of a mess. Evie's had a row with Alfred Inglethorp, and she's off."
"Evie? Off?"
John nodded gloomily.
"Yes; you see she went to the mater, and — Oh, here's Evie herself."
Miss Howard entered. Her lips were set grimly together, and she carried a small suit-case. She looked excited and determined, and slightly on the defensive.
"At any rate," she burst out, "I've spoken my mind!"
"My dear Evelyn," cried Mrs. Cavendish, "this can't be true!"
Miss Howard nodded grimly.
"True enough! Afraid I said some things to Emily she won't forget or forgive in a hurry. Don't mind if they've only sunk in a bit. Probably water off a duck's back, though. I said right out: 'You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money! Well, don't let him have too much of it. Farmer Raikes has got a very pretty young wife. Just ask your Alfred how much time he spends over there.' She was very angry. Natural! I went on, 'I'm going to warn you, whether you like it or not. That man would as soon murder you in your bed as look at you. He's a bad lot. You can say what you like to me, but remember what I've told you. He's a bad lot!'"
"What did she say?"
Miss Howard made an extremely expressive grimace.
"'Darling Alfred'–'dearest Alfred'–'wicked calumnies' –'wicked lies'–'wicked woman'–to accuse her 'dear husband'! The sooner I left her house the better. So I'm off."
"But not now?"
"This minute!"
For a moment we sat and stared at her. Finally John Cavendish, finding his persuasions of no avail, went off to look up the trains. His wife followed him, murmuring something about persuading Mrs. Inglethorp to think better of it.
As she left the room, Miss Howard's face changed. She leant towards me eagerly.
"Mr. Hastings, you're honest. I can trust you?"
I was a little startled. She laid her hand on my arm, and sank her voice to a whisper.
"Look after her, Mr. Hastings. My poor Emily. They're a lot of sharks–all of them. Oh, I know what I'm talking about. There isn't one of them that's not hard up and trying to get money out of her. I've protected her as much as I could. Now I'm out of the way, they'll impose upon her."
"Of course, Miss Howard," I said, "I'll do everything I can, but I'm sure you're excited and overwrought."
She interrupted me by slowly shaking her forefinger.
"Young man, trust me. I've lived in the world rather longer than you have. All I ask you is to keep your eyes open. You'll see what I mean."
The throb of the motor came through the open window, and Miss Howard rose and moved to the door. John's voice sounded outside. With her hand on the handle, she turned her head over her shoulder, and beckoned to me.
"Above all, Mr. Hastings, watch that devil–her husband!"
There was no time for more. Miss Howard was swallowed up in an eager chorus of protests and good-byes. The Inglethorps did not appear.
As the motor drove away, Mrs. Cavendish suddenly detached herself from the group, and moved across the drive to the lawn to meet a tall bearded man who had been evidently making for the house. The colour rose in her cheeks as she held out her hand to him.
"Who is that?" I asked sharply, for instinctively I distrusted the man.
"That's Dr. Bauerstein," said John shortly.
"And who is Dr. Bauerstein?"
"He's staying in the village doing a rest cure,17 after a bad nervous breakdown. He's a London specialist; a very clever man–one of the greatest living experts on poisons, I believe."
"And he's a great friend of Mary's," put in Cynthia, the irrepressible.
John Cavendish frowned and changed the subject.
"Come for a stroll, Hastings. This has been a most rotten business. She always had a rough tongue, but there is no stauncher friend in England than Evelyn Howard."
He took the path through the plantation, and we walked down to the village through the woods which bordered one side of the estate.
As we passed through one of the gates on our way home again, a pretty young woman of gipsy type coming in the opposite direction bowed and smiled.
"That's a pretty girl," I remarked appreciatively.
John's face hardened.
"That is Mrs. Raikes."
"The one that Miss Howard?"
"Exactly," said John, with rather unnecessary abruptness.
I thought of the white-haired old lady in the big house, and that vivid wicked little face that had just smiled into ours, and a vague chill of foreboding crept over me. I brushed it aside.
"Styles is really a glorious old place," I said to John.
He nodded rather gloomily.
"Yes, it's a fine property. It'll be mine some day–should be mine now by rights, if my father had only made a decent will. And then I shouldn't be so damned hard up as I am now."
"Hard up, are you?"
"My dear Hastings, I don't mind telling you that I'm at my wit's end for money."
"Couldn't your brother help you?"
"Lawrence? He's gone through every penny he ever had, publishing rotten verses in fancy bindings. No, we're an impecunious lot. My mother's always been awfully good to us, I must say. That is, up to now. Since her marriage, of course?" he broke off, frowning.
For the first time I felt that, with Evelyn Howard, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security. Now that security was removed–and the air seemed rife with suspicion. The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of every one and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Footnotes
Front: Captain Hastings had been wounded on the Western Front. Styles is set during World War I (1914-1918) when Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire fought Russia on the Eastern Front, France and Great Britain on the Western Front, and Italy on the Southern Front. Return
Convalescent Home: A hospital for wounded soldiers. During the war, many country homes were turned into convalescent homes where patients received medical treatment and could recuperate in pleasant surroundings. Return
Essex: A county northeast of London. Return
yarn: Swapping stories. The word was inspired by sailors during the age of sail, who would pass the time during the tedious process of making ropes by telling tales. Return
mater: British schoolboy slang for mother, from the Latin word mater.Return
Lady Bountiful: A character from the romantic comedy The Beaux' Stratagem (1707) by George Farquhar. Lady Bountiful was a charitable but patronizing woman from an aristocratic family. Return
ascendancy: Controlling influence. Return
barrister: With solicitor, one of two classes of lawyers in the British legal system. The solicitor works with the client and communicates the facts of the case to the barrister, who speaks on the client's behalf in court. In other words, barristers stand at the bar before the judge and solicitors solicit work from clients. Return
congenial: Pleasant. Return
country squire: The word squire has changed drastically in meaning since its origins in medieval times as a stage a boy moves through to become a knight. By the late 17th century, the squire was the head of the family that owned much of the land around a village. Over time, it mutated into an informal title for men who were not members of the nobility but who still commanded authority or respect, then as a role (e.g., "playing the country squire"). Return
whip hand: A colloquial phrase meaning to hold an advantage over another. Probably derived from the way drivers of wagons or carriages use a whip to direct their horses. Return
bounder: A socially unacceptable or ill-mannered man, probably derived from the idea that the miscreant has stepped beyond the boundary of good behavior. Return
factotum: A general servant with wide-ranging responsibilities. From the Latin for "do everything." Return
Jack of all trades: A person capable of performing many skills. The phrase appears in print as early as 1612 in a book of prison experiences that talks of "Some broken Cittizen, who hath plaid Jack of all trades." Soon afterwards, it began its path toward the derogatory variation "Jack of all trades, master of none." The name Jack has been used to represent the common man as early as the 14th century. The name shows up in folklore — Jack Spratt, little Jack Horner, Jack Frost — and a number of trades, such as lumberjack and steeplejack. Return
game: Eager to do anything. Return
patent leather boots in all weathers: Patent leather is a fine-grained cow hide that's been polished to a waterproof glossy finish. The locals would never think to wear such fancy shoes and would be suspicious of anyone who did. Return
cottoned: To take a fancy to or agree with. Possibly derived from the habit of cotton threads to adhere to rough or napped material. Return
great war: The term was in common use before it was applied to what we now call World War I. After Germany won the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the next "great war" was anticipated by a genre of invasion literature with England as the target. Germany played the villain in George Tomkyns Chesney's The Battle of Dorking (1871), but in William Le Queux's The Great War in England in 1897 (1894), it was a coalition of French and Russian troops that attacked and Germany who came to England's rescue. Return
lodge: A small house or cottage on the grounds of a large home reserved for the gatekeeper, gardener or other workers. Derived from the medieval Latin lobia or laubia for a hall or lobby (that is, a room near the entrance of a building). Return
drill with the volunteers: The Volunteer Training Corps was a militia formed during the war to repel a possible German invasion. The government issued uniform guidelines and regulations, but required the units to provide their own clothing and, until 1917, their own weapons. Return
on the land: Mary Cavendish was working as a volunteer helping a farmer with the chores. The war caused a severe shortage of agricultural workers, and women were recruited to fill the gap. See the essay An Army of Land Girls in the appendix for more details. Return
protégée: The female form of protégé, meaning a person who is guided by another. From the French word protéger for "protected." Return
solicitor: A class of lawyer that did legal work outside of court. When an advocate was needed in the courtroom, the solicitor would call in a barrister and "instruct" him on the particulars of the case. Return
came a cropper: To fall. Derived from falling "neck and crop," a variation of "head over heels." The phrase eventually became applied to a major failure or a fatal injury. Return
Tadminster: A fictional village. Christie rarely set her books in identifiable locations, apart from major cities such as London and her native Devon. Return
stout: Fat in this case, although the word could also mean firm, brave and sturdy. Return
tweed: A rough woolen fabric woven in a check or herringbone (V-shaped) pattern. Return
stentorian: A very loud and powerful voice. Inspired by Stentor, the herald in the Iliad whose voice, according to Homer, "was as powerful as fifty voices of other men." In Book 7 of Politics, Aristotle wrote, "For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?" Return
telegraphic: Concise or terse. A telegraph is any device used to send messages through signals seen by sight. (It was Samuel Morse who took the word and applied it to his invention that used electricity and wires to send signals). The need to send messages fast and accurately required boiling down the message to as few words as possible. Return
cynic: Someone who believes a person is motivated solely by self-interest. Named for the Cynics, the school of philosophers in ancient Greece who believed in living a simple life free of possessions, rejecting sex, wealth, power and fame. The Cynics' habit of lecturing and scorning others for not following their example probably inspired the negative attitude that we regard as cynicism. Return
to-day: The word "today" was originally two words that over time was melded into one. People speaking Old English, an early form of the English language from roughly 650 to 1150, would say "to dæge" for "on (the) day." Sometime during the 16th century, the word came to be written with the hyphen and would stay that way until the early 20th century. The same process happened with "tomorrow," which you will see written as "to-morrow" (or, in the Old English, as "to morgenne" for "on (the) morrow"). Return
Labourer is worthy of his hire: From Luke 10:7, in which Jesus appointed 70 disciples — 72 in some versions — and told them to travel "as lambs among wolves" to spread his message: "And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire." A similar phrase also appears in 1 Timothy 5:18: "For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, the labourer is worthy of his reward." Return
basket chairs: A chair for outdoor or porch use made from woven rattan or wicker. Return
tawny: A warm, sandy color. From the Anglo-French word for "tanned." Return
French window: A single or matching pair of frames with panes of glass set in an outside wall that are large enough to act as either doors or windows. Return
school fête: We see Mrs. Inglethorp playing the Lady Bountiful as she plans two events: a charity bazaar — a two-day affair in which donated items will be sold — and a school fête — an event featuring entertainment activities to raise money for the local school. For the bazaar, she plans to ask a princess to officially open the event the first day and Lady Tadminster, who she identifies later as the wife of the local member of Parliament, to perform the same duty on the second. Princess: A title bestowed on the wife of a prince, the daughter of the sovereign or the granddaughter of the sovereign through the male line. In 1917, there were at least 20 princesses for Mrs. Inglethorp to ask, including several daughters and granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Duchess: The wife of a duke, the highest rank in the English peerage. Even though she doesn't have a title, Mrs. Inglethorp's comfort in inviting duchesses and princesses to open her charity bazaar says something about the firmness of her character. Return
deference: Showing respect or esteem to a superior or elder. Return
effusion: Unrestrained or heartfelt. Return
pince-nez: A pair of glasses consisting of two lenses connected by a metal bridge, sometimes with a string attached that is looped around the neck or a vest button. They stay on the face by pinching the upper part of the nose. Not surprisingly then, the word is derived from the French pincer, "to pinch," and nez, for "nose." Return
impassivity: No appearance of emotion. unctuous: Smooth and greasy, from the Latin unctus for "anointing." wooden hand: Not literally a hand made of wood, but a handshake that is very stiff and without emotion. Christie loves to emphasize unpleasant people, to draw your attention to them as potential suspects, and this paragraph nicely portrays Alfred Inglethorp as a villain. Return
volubility: Capable of a rapid flow of speech. Return
Lloyd's: An insurance and reinsurance market. Not a company in the traditional sense, but a corporate body where its members pool their money and spread the risk of providing insurance. Founded at Edward Lloyd's coffee house about 1689, it was more formally organized in 1774 as the Society of Lloyd's and incorporated in 1871 by Parliament. Return
consult your inclination: Although she was in her mid-twenties when she wrote Styles, Christie sometimes used phrases more familiar to earlier generations. "Consult your inclination" — meaning considering what you want — was commonly in use from 1820 to 1850 but also appears in the Colonial-era papers of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Return
Scotland Yard: London's Metropolitan Police. Although its original location was at 4 Whitehall Place, its rear entrance opened onto Great Scotland Yard, hence the name. Return
dandy: A man who pays considerable attention to his appearance and is willing to spend money and time to always appear better dressed than you. Derived possibly from the 17th century phrase "Jack-a-dandy" for a conceited fellow. Return
hoodwink: To deceive. Its earliest known use from 1562 suggests blinding or obscuring a person's vision with a hood as in during a robbery. In Elizabethan times, blind man's buff was called the "hoodwinke game," adding the elements of groping about and deception to the definition. Return
walking over my grave: Mrs. Inglethorp is shivering. In medieval times, the connection between the living and the dead was closer, and it was believed that a person's final resting place was predetermined. The earliest recorded use of "somebody walking over my grave" was by Jonathan Swift in 1738. The use of a goose is a contemporary variant from America — interesting, since Christie's father was born there — to add the implication of feeling goose bumps on one's skin. Return
V.A.D.: Voluntary Aid Detachment. An organization founded by the Red Cross and the Order of St. John in 1909 to provide nursing services, particularly in hospitals, during wartime. Drawn from the middle and upper classes and given only a few weeks of training, volunteers worked at local hospitals, auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes. Their duties included changing linen, sterilizing equipment, serving meals and assisting doctors and senior nurses. These genteel women — Christie included — found that nursing was not as romantic as the propaganda portrayed it, but a rough profession that exposed them to war's horrible consequences. Christie served in the V.A.D. from 1914 to 1918. Return
Sisters: A senior nurse. The name survives from the early Christian era, when nuns took care of the sick and injured. Return
dispensary: A room where medicines are stored and prepared. From the Latin dispensare for "to weigh out" or "to disburse." Return
dependent one: A person who needs financial support from another, especially a family member. Return
Member's wife: A member of Parliament, Britain's legislative body. Return
sent away in sacks: To help the war effort, households were encouraged to recycle as much as possible. Wastepaper was reused for various forms of packaging, including corrugated containers. Return
park: A tract of land that could include lawns, woodlands and pastures used for recreation and as a game preserve. Return
started: Give a sudden jerking movement out of surprise or alarm. Return
melancholy: A feeling of sadness, sometimes from no particular cause. Return
enigmatical: Someone or something difficult to understand. Return
Smoking-room: A room set aside in a home or club for that purpose. Smoking rooms were generally for men only, which served the dual purpose of keeping the smell away from the rest of the place and giving men an excuse to gather away from the ladies. Return
deuce of a mess: Devil. A way of invoking Satan without being blasphemous. Return
row: Argument. Of unknown origin. Return
water off a duck's back: Duck feathers are very resistant to water, so the phrase implies that the hurtful remark did not wound Mrs. Inglethorp's feelings. Return
no fool like an old fool: A very old proverb, implying that, if people gain wisdom through age, an old fool is worse than a young fool. The phrase was first recorded in 1546 as "But there is no foole to the olde foole, folke saie." Return
a bad lot: A group or person of an unsavory kind. Return
calumnies: False accusations intended to damage someone's reputation. Return
look up the trains: Examine the train schedule. Return
overwrought: Anxious or excited and nervous. Return
rest cure: Although Dr. Bauerstein doesn't seem to be following the regime, a rest cure was a medical treatment developed during the 19th century to treat mental disorders, especially post-childbirth depression in women. Patients would be required to stay in bed and be fed, clothed, massaged and washed by a nurse. Their diet would emphasize fatty dairy products in the belief that it would revitalize them. It was found that the treatment did not help, and could hurt the patient by causing the muscles to atrophy through lack of exercise and creating blood clots in the legs. Return
irrepressible: Unable to be controlled or restrained. Return
plantation: An area set aside to cultivate plants, particularly trees. Return
gipsy type: A European ethnic group also called the Romani, believed to originate in the Indian subcontinent from about the 11th century. Their ethnicity and apartness — traits shared with Jews — has subjected them to curiosity, suspicion and sometimes exclusion and persecution. Return
impecunious: Habitually poor. Formed by adding "in-" (meaning "not") to the Latin word pecunia for "wealthy." Over time, the word evolved to impecunious.
premonition: A feeling, without reason, that something will happen, most likely unpleasant. Return


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Iterating Display Advertising, Optimal Part 2
In part 1 of the story, I started talking about starting CPM Advisors (which later became XA.net and then finally Optimal). From 2009 to 2011 we mostly focused on "display" advertising – 'banner ads' – on Yahoo!'s Right Media Exchange (RMX), Google's Adwords and various other exchanges. The goal was a completely self-serve interface for buyers that allowed media buys to be made with a credit card across multiple display exchanges, where our system would optimize the ad allocations and get the best results for the customer. In no particular order, some of the things we encountered:
- Icky tech choices. We wanted the app to feel integrated and stateful, and at the time Ajax-like UIs were nascent, so we chose Flex/Flash. It was initially a pretty good user interface and felt very different from 10-page ad creation flows that had previously frustrated me and our customers, but it bogged down and slowed development down since you had to recompile SWF files (!). At one point in 2010 I talked to a developer advocate for Flex/Flash at Adobe about promoting our app as someone doing something interesting with Flex. He liked it but thought that developers were unlikely to be excited since "most of them hate advertising". Ouch!
- Being called a "DSP". Or "Demand Side Platform". Yahoo! coined this term and conveyed it to us in a partner update meeting we had with them. They'd been looking for a name for tech companies who were somewhere in between an agency and an ad network model. It stuck.
- Credit card shenanigans. We were lucky not to get any really big fraud hits on credit cards, but we learnt a lot more about chargebacks than we ever wanted to – and for a small startup a few thousand dollars can be a big deal. The main learnings here: a) it's almost impossible for a tech/media company to be able to win a chargeback case with no physical product and a "terms of use" or "service order" and electronic signature to show, b) when someone pays with a credit card, the money isn't really yours for up to 6 months after they pay, c) when you start ramping up and charging a lot on credit cards, get ready for your processing terms to change overnight. At one point thanks to our friends at PayPal, overnight we went to having 15% of all the non-Amex money we took in be held by PayPal for 120 days. This sucked big time, and the only fix would be to rip out our PayPal Payflow integration and use another processor. Luckily we were able to strike a separate deal with American Express directly, encourage users to use Amex, get a better rate AND still be able to use PayPal. This seemed bizarre.
- Impressions fraud on exchanges. AdECN (while it still existed) and OpenX were targeted for impressions fraud by various unscrupulous folks running hidden 1×1 iframes. RMX had some companies selling ad inventory on it that seemed to manufacture impressions from thin air. Before we built our own view- and click-tracking system from scratch, we partnered up with the folks from IPonWeb who'd built a lot of the backend of RMX, in order to scalably track traffic performance at the line-item and site level. By having RMX macros we could insert into ad tags that let us dynamically track traffic, and see suspicious IP addresses, we were able to find potentially fraudulent traffic far more easily. But still, the amount of work this was was part of what convinced us to pivot the entire business to social media ads on Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn.
- Breaking the Doubleclick Exchange. One day early on we got a call from our Doubleclick Exchange rep, (after the Google buy but still on the old DCLK tech) saying that we needed to reduce the number of campaigns we were running because we had helped to crash their servers. We'd set up lots of campaigns, one per website, to (1) figure out which sites worked best, and there was no way to see performance at a site-only level unless you could restrict your campaign and conversion tracking to that site only (no site-ID macros!) and (2) try to figure out what all the "anonymous" websites were. We were able to do enough of this to figure out which sites actually performed and in some cases to find out that the same sites (many of which performed very well) were listed multiple times as both anonymous and attributed (in the latter case usually with a very high floor CPM). But what was great for many publishers was that we'd discovered the good quality inventory and were able to spend a lot more, and to get more of the good inventory we were willing to pay well in excess of those floor prices.
- The Lumascape Before There Was a Luma. Terry Kawaja was doing the rounds with his logo-laden slide of the adtech universe when he was at GCA Savvian; it was brilliant marketing. Putting all those logos on a single page scared a lot of people out of our space. The good news was some of them were potential competitors, and the bad news was that a lot of them were acquirors or investors who now had their own version of the famous jam "decision paralysis" study.
- Invite Media gets acquired for too little, too early. When Invite Media got acquired in 2010 for (apparently) somewhere between $70 million and $80 million, since some investors thought they were the market leader in a nascent space (DSPs) they then thought this set a ceiling on possible exits. This wasn't great for us.
We hadn't raised a lot of money, and were able to stay close to profitability for the first few years, albeit growing more slowly than many of our competitors who'd raised upwards of $5 million and $10 million. One of our investors, Mike Walrath, reassured me that fundraising and success were not the same thing. Our first year saw over $1 million of revenue which we grew to over $8.7 million in 2010, winning a San Francisco Business Times award for being one of the 10 fastest-growing private companies in the SF Bay Area, on the backs of (almost all) display advertising revenue. (I like to say we were one of the 10 fastest growing companies that applied… cause obviously some darn big/fast growing ones didn't!)
By the time of that announcement, we'd already started the shift to social as you could see from that press release.


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Selected Originals (offcuts, out-takes, selected scenes, rushes) for newsreel story "Rolling Stones Gather Moss" - 64/80.
Various mute Technicolor shots of the Rolling Stones pop group playing live. Shots of Keith Richard, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman on stage in Hull.
Long shots of the band on stage taken from the upper tier.
Mid shots of the band on sage.
This gig, which took place at the ABC Cinema in Hull, took place on 21st September 1969.