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The Desert Speaks "Bats Among Us" Montezuma Castle, a five-story 20-room cliff dwelling, served as a " high-rise apartment building" for prehistoric Sinagua Indians over 600 years ago. Now it serves the same purpose to a colony of bats. Concern over the possible harm that these latter-day residents may be doing has led to some very interesting hands-on research to study the impact of bat habitats on cultural landmarks. D
8:30 am
Ciao Italia "Real Neapolitan Pizza/La Verace Pizza Napoletana" Pizza was invented in Naples, and Pizzaola Gennaro Nasti proves it when he invites Mary Ann to help him stoke his wood-fired oven at Venda Bar in Providence, Rhode Island to create absolute authentic Neapolitan pizzas like Pizza Margherita Classico, Pizza Margherita Moderna, Pizza Napolitana Marinara and his very own Pizza allo Genaro Nasti. D
9:00 am
Taste of History "Weekend Warriors" Reenactment brings history to life, preserving it for future generations. In this episode, we visit the battlefields, mess tents and riverside encampments for first-hand accounts by reenactors. Chef Walter is busy keeping the fire going in John and William Bartram's kitchen as he prepares Mushroom Toast, Venison Stew, Bread Dumplings and Fried Celery. D
9:30 am
Simply Ming "Azores: Eduardo Reis" Ming heads for the islands on this very special episode of Simply Ming. Traveling to the Azorean island of Terceira, Ming cooks with a celebrated local chef and learns the history of the very popular dish called Alcatra which is baked in a traditional Azorean wood oven. Influenced by the Portuguese discoverers in the 15th century, this dish is made with fish or beef cooked slowly in a clay pot with bacon, onion, and local spices. D
10:00 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Artful Artichokes" Host Laura Theodore prepares tempting dishes featuring artichokes. Recipes include; "Easy Artichokes with Lemon Dipping Sauce," "Baked Artichokes with Savory Walnut Stuffing," and "Italian-Style Stuffed Artichokes." "Chilled Artichokes with Dill Sauce" or "Caramelized Balsamic Artichokes" both make an elegant side dish for any special meal. D
10:30 am
Martha Bakes "Biscuits and Scones" Biscuits and scones are the perfect way to start the day; with Martha's recipes and tips, they're easy to make anytime. Learn how to make buttermilk biscuits, angel biscuits and cream scones. If it looks easy, that's because it is - the key is actually to work the dough as little as possible. D
11:00 am
Austin City Limits "Sonic Youth/The Black Keys" Elder statesmen of alternative/indie/punk rock, band members re-create the wall of guitars. Then the Black Keys exhibit the muscular, no-nonsense sound of their minimalist blues-rock.G
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Sesame Street "Latino Festival" There's a street festival on Sesame Street celebrating Spanish culture and language. Educational Objective: Self-Regulation. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Elmer Elasmosaurus/Dinosaur Block Party" Elmer Elasmosaurus - The Pteranodon family travels on the Dinosaur Train with the Aquacar to an underwater train station to transport Elmer Elasmosaurus back to his home in the ocean. At first Buddy is not enthusiastic about travelling underwater, but quickly becomes a convert when he sees the spectacular sights under the sea. Dinosaur Block Party - The Pteranodon family hosts a block party to introduce their new neighbors, the Lambeosaurus family, to all the other neighborhood creatures. D
1:30 pm
Super Why! "Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Mystery" There's a mystery in Storybrook Village - the case of the broken guitar strings! Jack thinks Whyatt is the culprit, but he knows he's innocent! The Super Readers fly into the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and meet up with Goldilocks, who is just as determined to prove that she didn't make the mess in the Three Bears' house! What will it take for Goldilocks, and Whyatt, to convince everyone they're telling the truth? Educational Objectives: To learn strategies for convincing someone, explore the practice the magic of spelling, and use the power to read to change the story. D
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Flight of the Penguin/Let's Go Fly A Kite" Flight of the Penguin - Sally and Nick are pretending to fly in their backyard. Oh wouldn't it be great if they really could? The Cat in the Hat brings them to meet his good friend Percy the penguin. After a fun race with a penguin and a bird, the kids learn that not all birds fly, but that doesn't mean they aren't fast! Let's Go Fly a Kite - Sally, Nick and the Cat are trying to fly a kite, but there's not enough wind. D
2:30 pm
Wild Kratts "Aardvark Town" When a young aardvark accidentally becomes a stowaway in Chris's backpack, the Wild Kratts team sets off on a "door to door" search to return him to his home burrow. Along the way, they discover the incredible (and valuable) service the aardvark provides to all the burrow-living creatures of Africa. Science Concept: Aardvarks manipulate earth materials and alter landscapes. D
3:00 pm
Science Trek "Mars" Mars is more like Earth than any other planet in the solar system. Known as the Red Planet, Mars has fascinated humans with its red soil, ancient rivers and hints of ancient life. Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Todd Barber, Lead Propulsion Engineer, and Matthew Heverly, Mobility Systems Engineer, answer students' questions about Mars.G
3:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "South Ireland: Waterford to the Ring of Kerry" As Rick travels the southern coast, he visits Waterford's crystal factory, the Kennedy family homestead, the Dunbrody famine ship, and Kinsale's star-shaped fortresses. Then he drives the Ring of Kerry.G
4:00 pm
Song of the Mountains My New Favorites; Travis Frye & Blue Mountain. D
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My Hero "Nothing to Hide" When the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Sundays' flat, George is arrested. A plan is hatched to steal the painting back and replace it with a fake.G
6:30 pm
Are You Being Served? "No Sale" Mr. Grace comes up with his least popular idea to date when he announces the latest plan to expand sales.G
7:00 pm
As Time Goes By Jean and Lionel continue to reminisce about their life together, recalling Jean's discomfort with any young woman who caught Lionel's eye, Judith and Sandy's tumultuous relationships, and Lionel's stubbornness regarding his health.G
7:31 pm
The Cafe "Deal Or No Deal" It is Carol's birthday and she has a very difficult decision to make.G
8:00 pm
The Red Green Show "Medieval Times" Camelot comes to Possum Lake. On Handyman Corner, Red makes a crossbow courier device. Adventures with Bill features fencing.G
8:30 pm
Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Seaside Fun" Hyacinth is at the seaside for the fair at a pleasure beach. She looks after a travel-weary elderly lady and deals with an amorous Italian pensioner.G
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Old Guys "Builders" While builders are working on Sally's house, she moves in with Tom and Roy.G
9:30 pm
My Family "The Parent Trap" Ben takes delivery of a neighbor's large plasma-screen television and falls in love with it. Meanwhile, Michael's current love interest may be expecting a delivery of a different kind.G
10:00 pm
My Hero "Nothing to Hide" When the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Sundays' flat, George is arrested. A plan is hatched to steal the painting back and replace it with a fake.G
10:30 pm
Are You Being Served? "No Sale" Mr. Grace comes up with his least popular idea to date when he announces the latest plan to expand sales.G
11:00 pm
As Time Goes By Jean and Lionel continue to reminisce about their life together, recalling Jean's discomfort with any young woman who caught Lionel's eye, Judith and Sandy's tumultuous relationships, and Lionel's stubbornness regarding his health.G
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The Cafe "Deal Or No Deal" It is Carol's birthday and she has a very difficult decision to make.G


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Ako si Karl Babe. Oo, Babe yan, wag kang kumontra! Under the pen name KaloyBaboy. Frustrated writer. Physician by profession, forever a student of life.
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text: Gobi Makhani or Gobi Butter Masala is another of the popular "Makhani or Butter Masala" recipes. Any "Makhani" dish speaks eloquently of the magnificence of the Indian cuisine. They all have a stately aura around them. In today's recipe, the cauliflower florets are cooked in a fragrant and silky sauce draped with cream.


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(the Cunning, the Mystic)
Greater God, NG
Portfolio: Fire, magic, community
Aliases: None
Domain Name: The Warm Hearth, Valingas
Superior: None
Allies: Quilian Knowais
Foes: Pogrillius Tosscobble
Symbol: A crystalline flame
Worshipper Alignment: Any
Topaz (TOE-paz) Firegem is the chief god of the Smallfolk pantheon. He is the longtime husband of Leesha Roseheart (though she has snubbed, cuckolded, and scorned him time and time again) and is less nicely known as the Hornéd God. He is a serious creature and a member of the youngest race of deities, the Vinthar.
As the chief male in the Vinthian pantheon, Topaz bears great responsibility to ensure that the evil things from the monstrous realms that despise halflings and gnomes are kept at bay. He often fights alongside Halmun Deepdelve, Beryl Ironfoot, and Solmon Woodhome when the monstrous gods press close.
The Vinthar are an interfering race, and Topaz is one of the most interfering Vinthar of all. Like Leesha he often appears to his followers and even deigns to disguise himself and walk amongst them, masquerading as a gnomish magic-worker.
He despises the heros and gods that win his wife's affections, so he is often at odds with Pogrillius Tosscobble (her current fling) and Lapris Cleverfingers (one of her old paramours).
Topaz appears as a red-bearded gnome with a face heavily lined with cares. He generally wears flashy robes and curly slippers and carries a wand with a ruby on its tip carved into a fantastic flickering fire.
The Church
Clergy: Speciality priests, evokers
Clergy's Alignment: Any good
Turn Undead: Yes
Command Undead: No
Lapris' church is worshipped solely by gnomes. Halflings have no interest or capability with magic and so they would rather worship his rivals, Tosscobble or Cleverfingers. Amongst gnomes, however, his is one of the most common churches.
Temples to the Firegem are generally made in warm dry caves or the hollow boles of ancient trees. They are bedecked in reds and oranges, supplied with braziers which burn brilliantly, and wrapped in mystical atmospheres. Gnomish wizards of all colors, illusionist and evoker both, visit these temples with some frequency.
The chief priest of the Firegem is known as the Firekeeper. The Firekeeper is the high priest of the temple at Craftsman's Reach called the Labyrinth of Flames. All other high priests must bow before him, and he has the authority to summon what are known as the Mystic Synods to discuss the contents of the ancient but revered Books of the Spell.
Dogma: To learn, to know, to contemplate magic is the stuff of life.
Day-to-Day Activities: The priests of Topaz spend their days praying, tending to the community and its members. When not engaged in this activity, magical research and the preservation of tomes is their order of the day.
Major Centers of Worship: Craftsman's Reach, particularly the Labyrinth of Fire.
Affiliated Orders: None.
Priestly Vestments: Red robes and the ruby fire-gem are the common symbols of Topaz. Full fledged priests often wear a circlet of bronze as well.
Adventuring Garb: The circlet of bronze and the flame-like gemstones are the only thing that are common amongst all adventuring priests.
Priest of the Sacred Flame
(Specialty Priest)
REQUIREMENTS: Intelligence 12, Wisdom 8
PRIME REQ: Wisdom
WEAPONS: Staff, club, knife, dagger, sling
MAJOR SPHERES: All, divination, elemental (fire), guardian, healing, necromantic
MINOR SPHERES: Combat, elemental (air), protection, sun, time
MAGICAL ITEMS: Any priestly, any wizardly that is not a book or scroll
REQ. PROFS: Spellcraft
BONUS PROFS: Reading/Writing (any one), Firebuilding
Priests of the Sacred Flame are naturally protected from cold and can kindle a fire almost anywhere save a glacier as long as they have fuel.
At 3rd level, the priest of the sacred flame may affect normal fires or use a pyrotechnics spell once per day for every three levels of experience.
At 5th level, the priest of the sacred flame receives a +3 bonus to dispel any evocations or fire-based magic. They also receive a +2 bonus to save against fire-based attacks.
At 7th level, the priest may cast a chromatic orb once per day as though he were a wizard of the same level. He doesn't require the gem normally necessary for this spell.
At 10th level, the priest can summon a fire elemental from any flame source that is potent enough once per day as though he were casting conjure fire elemental.
At 15th level, the priest can produce flame at will.


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Villages without power supply are easy to find though the government says there are none. The lines are laid, but many villagers are too poor to pay for electricity. BPL (below poverty line) families, entitled to free supply, are waived the installation charge. But they don't have money to wire their
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This is my short list of "Big Lies" — propaganda which is promoted by major movements, and which denying often gets one tagged as a lunatic, denier, hatemonger, or simply irrelevant.
If you're looking for me to put the Holocaust of European Jewry or Jihadis being responsible for 9/11 on this list, look elsewhere.
I'm 56 years old, born in April 1953. So I'm limiting myself to Big Lies present in my own lifetime.
Here we go, not in any chronological order.
1. The biggest threat to the human race today is man-caused global warming.
Every assumption behind this statement is either provably false or unproven. It's uncertain whether the long-term climate trend is towards global warming rather than global cooling. It's false that carbon dioxide and methane are the major "greenhouse gases." (The major greenhouse gas is water vapor.) The most reliable climate-change models on planet earth don't track with production of greenhouse gases as closely as they do with changes in solar radiation, and measurements of climate change on other planets in this solar system tend to match up with our own planet's climate change. Industrial particulate air pollution reduces solar radiation so would produce global cooling rather than global warming. And the global warming crowd reveal themselves as a subset of the Zero Population Growth movement when they advocate not having children as a method of reducing global warming. Which brings us to Big Lie #2.
2. Human population growth must be curbed because it is increasing faster than the availability of resources needed to sustain itself.
No human being on planet earth is starving or sick because of the technological inability of the human race to feed, clothe, or treat most of their epidemic diseases. Third-world famines and epidemics of diseases no longer epidemic in the developed world are caused by warfare, theft of private property and relief supplies by warlords who sell them for personal luxuries and weapons, and anti-capitalistic policies which exterminate all attempts to invest or entrepreneur the creation of newly existing wealth. The assumption of a zero-sum game whereby one partys gain is assumed to be stolen from another party is one major false premise underlying this cause of endless human tragedy; another is that technological advances caused by economic growth play no part in reducing demand on finite natural resources by multiplying the efficient use of these resources and creating artificial alternatives which also reduce demand on natural resources.
Nor is there any actual limit to growth when you bring in the virtually unlimited space, energy, and mineral resources available starting as close as earths own moon and asteroids in permanent earth-moon orbit, then expanding out to the entire solar system and eventually other solar systems. Star Trek got this, at least, right. The technology to harvest these resources is off the shelf and the cost would be less than what the United States has spent on the War in Iraq.
3. Abortion is murder.
The assumptions behind this statement require religious people to substitute the concept of eternal life with a secular biological one that defines life as mortal. The statement that a new human life begins with conception is biologically true but not true according to anyone who actually believes in the existence of an immortal soul. If one believes in an immortal soul then a new human life begins the first moment that an immortal soul exists within a human body. The Hebrews believed that the soul enters the body with its birth and first breath — thus the English word inspiration comes from roots meaning intake of breath. Christianity and modern Judaism often abandon the roots of their own religions and substitute the revisionist argument that the soul is present from the moment of conception — an absurd and actually horrible idea if you look at it from the point of view of an active conscious being imprisoned within a tiny cluster of cells.
Furthermore, the idea that an embryo or fetus has human rights can only go back to the beginnings of the concept of human rights with the English Levellers movement in the 17th century — a decidedly modernist development. Nowadays there are attempts to extend the idea of rights beyond the human species to all other living things (including microbes) and even to inanimate objects including the earth, itself. The self-named pro-life movement which attempts to extend human rights to the unborn use the same logic and arguments as the animal rights and Gaia-rights movements. Which brings us directly to #4.
4. Animals have the same fundamental rights as humans.
The concept of opposing cruelty to animals has morphed away from this noble and purely human esthetic concept into an attempt to make the idea of human rights absurd and deniable by forgetting their origins and meaning, debasing them like fiat money replaces mediums of exchange possessing intrinsic utility.
Rights are a moral concept, and morality is meaningless if split off from the concept of moral actors. Unless one is ready to accept dogs, cattle, and fish as having the mens rea to be held accountable for their actions, the concept of animal rights is an absurdity, and the animal rights movement is a criminal racket that relies on the empathy of human beings to attack the individual property rights and civil liberties of other human beings.
5. Disarmament promotes peace and security.
From disarming the airline passengers who flew on September 11, 2001 to the disarmament by both the Nazis and Soviet Union of the Estonians, there is no policy which has directly enabled more genocide, holocausts, and mass murders than reducing the general supply of weapons that can be used to resist and combat armed and aggressive statists, gangsters, terrorists, madmen, and free-lance predators than the unilateral disarmament of civilians and defense forces. Im not even going to argue the point. I simply challenge anyone to study history, note how disarmament universally precedes mass violence, and challenge anyone disputing this statement to find me a counter-example where a disarmed population suffered less than the armed one which preceded it.
6. Police forces are necessary to prevent crime and keep the peace.
Going back to the prefects of ancient China and the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire, police forces have always been extensions of imperial power, providing despots internal domestic control while traditional military forces conquered and controlled foreigners.
The framers of the American system of government were well aware of the millennia-long history of police forces and rejected the concept in favor of civilian self-defense. Local criminals were to be apprehended by raising a hue-and-cry whereby the civilian population formed themselves into temporary law-enforcement units under the concept of posse comitatus (translation from Latin is power of the county) to arm themselves and bring suspected criminals to a magistrate for trial. How these posses functioned can be seen in western movies and TV shows, where an elected sheriff or U.S. marshal had no forces of their own to enforce law or keep the peace, but had to rely on deputizing the local population to maintain law and order. This reliance by government officials on civilians tended to act as a brake on criminal gangs taking over frontier towns, and also prevented organized criminal gangs such as the Black Hand from extending their reach beyond the borders of cities like Chicago and Kansas City, whose police forces were agents of the local power brokers.
Todays police forces are better trained, more professional, and less reliant on direct bribery than earlier police forces, and in private life are often good neighbors, but when on duty they are still enforcers of political power who shake down the civilian population through draconian fines for parking and minor traffic infraction (for example, $100 fines for failing to feed a parking meter 25 cents), eminent domain abuses, asset forfeiture laws, and the unconstitutional war on the individuals right to determine ones own self-medication, mood alteration, and state of consciousness on private property.
Common myths about police are that they have a duty to protect you (they dont; all states immunize police for failure to protect); that police will save you when you phone 911 (if youre being held hostage by an armed criminal the police will set up a perimeter outside and not go in until its safe for themselves, no matter whats being done to you by your captor); and that violent crime rates are lower the more police there are per population unit (the opposite is true; rural areas with fewer police per population unit commonly have a lower violent crime rate per population unit than urban areas with more police per population unit).
One cant argue that increasing legal availability of civilian firearms automatically decreases violent crime (to do that one would have to explain how one city with identical laws to another city can have five times its sister citys violent crime rate) but one can show that increasing the cop-to-criminal ratio is no more effective than increasing the civilian-gun-to-criminal ratio — and the latter is a whole lot cheaper and far less injurious to civil liberties.
7. Gay couples should be treated exactly the same as straight couples.
Beginning in the 1930s, Alfred Kinseys groundbreaking studies of human sexuality showed human sexual behavior to be almost infinitely varied. I carefully say sexual behavior rather than sex, because only human acts which have the potential of reproduction actually qualify as sex. Perpetuation of the species demands that all other behavior be called something else. I favor the anthropological term pair-bonding, the sociological term coupling, and the informal terms sex play and love play.
Human beings who engage in same-sex coupling have the exact same rights as human beings who engage in opposite-sex coupling: the natural fruits of their coupling. Since biology requires opposite-sex coupling to produce offspring, same-sex coupling is naturally discriminated against for this purpose, and social institutions like monogamous heterosexual marriage that have evolved to protect and encourage the perpetuation of the human species must either reflect this biological reality in custom and language or devalue human reproduction. Its obvious to me that the agenda to equate same-sex coupling with opposite-sex-coupling in movies, television, and other mass media is at least as much to discourage human population growth as it is to oppose the hateful bigotry against same-sex couples which results in denying same-sex couples the right to enjoy their lives together in a free and tolerant society.
I am not a partisan for monogamous heterosexual marriage. Id be perfectly happy if marriage laws and customs were entirely divorced from both state and church. I have no personal objection to norming any and all partnering or group affiliation between or among consenting adults of any sexual persuasion. Gays have no more right to pride in their sexual lifestyle than a completely heterosexual degenerate like myself, who wants only adult women to do perverted things with me. Were still hiding in the closet, thank you very much.
But to lie about biology, history, anthropology, sociology, and all other attempts to quantify and classify the human experience in order to promote a narrow and ephemeral minority political agenda is wrong and I will continue to expose these lies when they deny that social customs, language usage, and economic institutions should reflect the biological truth that making a baby requires at least one participant from each of the two sexes.
8. The Holocaust of European Jews is unique in human history.
Im Jewish, and I cant think of any idea quite as absurd to me as the idea that my kin are superior to the rest of the human species. Thats an ancient Jewish meme that got turned around by the Nazis, with devastating results just before I was born.
Im not going to argue that Jews and Judaism havent made unique and valuable contributions to the human experience. That would be equally false and absurd. But its illogical to extrapolate from this that the Jewish contributions to human history are uniquely valuable. The Greeks contributed as much. So did the Chinese. So did the Arabs. So did the English. So did the Americans. The Irish. Can I stop now before this essay turns into a roster of the ethnicities seated in the United Nations?
Nor is the Jewish experience for being discriminated against, enslaved, and massacred unique. Blacks got it as bad. So did the Estonians, the Tutsis, the Kulaks, the Gypsies, the Pariahs, the Christians, the Irish, the English, the Armenians, the Native Americans, the Sicilians, the Cherokee again, Id find it hard to find an ethnic group that hasnt had the crap kicked out of them one time or another.
Having the crap kicked out of your own kind is probably the one most common bond that each of us has with everyone else.
The maximum estimate for the extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis is six million. Thats dwarfed in the twentieth century alone by mega-exterminations in the Soviet Union and China, with seven-figure ethnic genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, and Rwanda trailing not far behind.
My people: Good job. You gave the world Torah and many more non-Jews than Jews follow its teachings — and that includes our historical enemies. But enough already with the chosen people crap. Its gotten old and pisses off others, which makes it hard to have friends.
9. America is a Christian country.
This one wont take very long to refute at all. Draw a Venn diagram. A big circle with the population of the United States. In that circle a smaller circle with Christians. Inside the big circle another circle with everyone else — Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccens, Odin-worshippers, atheists, agnostics, etc.
Doesnt matter how large the circle containing Christians is. America is founded on the idea of individualism, not collectivism. That the majority should be able to impose its values on the minority is un-American even if it were down to half a billion Christians and a single non-believer. And Christians might consider that a turn of the wheel might make them a minority, and a record for tolerance might be useful when dealing with a new majority.
Your ancestors came here for freedom of worship. Honor them by extending the same freedom to everyone else. Keep your peanut butter away from my chocolate unless I specifically ask to make a Reese.
10. America is the last superpower and runs the world.
Im not even sure I need to refute this one anymore, although its been the general assumption in most places for most of my life, both by Americans and foreigners.
By now it should be obvious this isnt true.
Remember the Doolittle Raid in World War II? A few army planes stripped down to the bone manage to fly off an aircraft carrier and bomb Japan? It was mostly a symbolic attack because there were far too few planes to damage Japans war effort. But the reason for the raid was that Americas war ally, Josef Stalin, refused President Franklin Roosevelt permission to use Russian soil to launch a sustained bombing attack on Japan.
At the end of World War II when both the Nazis and Imperial Japan were defeated, and even though the United States had a monopoly on atomic bombs until 1949, the Soviet Union managed to occupy half of Europe and foment communist revolutions throughout the world creating a worldwide opposition to the power of the United States and its allies.
This standoff continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, when there was a brief illusion that the United States was the last remaining superpower. But during that period, Cuba remained communist and though any agreement President Kennedy might have made with Premier Khrushchev would have died with the USSR, the United States made no attempt to take the island.
Nor did the United States have universal success in staving off communist coups in Central and South America or even in its own universities.
If anyone thinks that situation fundamentally changed any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, ask yourself how Turkey got away with telling the United States to piss off when President Bush wanted to invade Iraq via Turkey.
When the United States was most influential was not when the United States was most aggressive militarily but when its goods were most craved by foreigners: when a luxury car in Japan was not a Lexus but a Pontiac, when Russians drank Pepsi and the Chinese drank Coca Cola, when the gold standard of cigarettes was Old Gold and other American brands.
The United States was once the worlds shopping mall. Not anymore. Not for a long time. The path back to the glory days is when the American people get shut of the debt its government and corporations have run up in their name, and instead use their money to invent and make new things the rest of the world wants.
J. Neil Schulman is author of the classic novel of agorist revolution, Alongside Night, which can be downloaded free from www.alongsidenight.net, and writer/producer/directer of the comic thriller, Lady Magdalene's (www.ladymagdalenes.com). Full bio information can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, IMDb, Amazon.com, and his personal website at www.jneilschulman.com/.


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Irteza Binte-Farid
Areas of Interest
Irteza Binte-Farid is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the experience of Muslim youth in Philadelphia high schools and religious spaces. She is particularly attuned to scholarship at the intersection of urban education, religion, and race. Irteza is also interested in the education of secondary history teachers and in particular how teacher education programs in urban areas approach the teaching of history in culturally diverse classrooms that include Muslim students of color.
Jane Abell
Areas of Interest
Jane Lief Abell is a thirdyear doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores Islam in the United States, with a particular focus on how race and religion inform relations among "native" and immigrant Muslim groups. Currently, she is working with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arabic language and arts organization based in West Philly, and conducting fieldwork in Northeast Philadelphia. Prior to entering graduate school, Jane held several research and editorial positions at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University; Harvard Divinity School; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights; and Law People Management, LLC. Jane holds a BA with High Honors in Sociology & Anthropology and Islamic Studies from Swarthmore College.
Arthur Acolin
Areas of Interest
Arthur Acolin is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the University of Washington with a broad interest in housing economics and a focus on international housing policy and finance. He completed his PhD in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California in 2017. Recent research projects include a study of the presence of discrimination against different immigrant groups in the rental market in France with Raphael Bostic and Gary Painter, an examination of the effect of non-traditional mortgages on homeownership in the US with Xudong An, Raphael Bostic and Susan Wachter and the development of housing affordability indicators incorporating location for the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, Brazil with Richard Green. Prior to doing his Ph.D., Acolin was a Research Associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research working on housing, urbanization and economic development issues. He obtained a master in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Publications
Acolin, Arthur, and Domenic Vitiello. "Who owns Chinatown: Neighbourhood preservation and change in Boston and Philadelphia." Urban Studies (2017): 0042098017699366.
Acolin, Arthur, Xudong An, Raphael W. Bostic, and Susan M. Wachter. "Homeownership and Nontraditional and Subprime Mortgages." Housing Policy Debate 27.3 (2017): 393-418.
Acolin, Arthur, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter. "A field study of rental market discrimination across origins in France." Journal of Urban Economics 95 (2016): 49-63.
Acolin, Arthur, Jesse Bricker, Paul Calem, and Susan Wachter. "Borrowing constraints and homeownership." The American Economic Review 106.5 (2016): 625-629.
Acolin, Arthur, and Richard K. Green. "Measuring housing affordability in São Paulo metropolitan region: Incorporating location." Cities 62 (2017): 41-49.
Stefan Al
Areas of Interest
Stefan Al is an architect, urban designer, urban planner, scholar, educator, and author, currently serving as Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. In his research, Professor Al aims to understand pressing issues in architecture and urban design, such as urbanization in developing countries, new forms of consumerism, compact city form, and adapting cities to climate change.
His recent sole-authored book The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (The MIT Press) investigates the city's experiments with architecture and branding. He is acclaimed for his work on Asian urbanism with published books investigating China's informal settlements and Hong Kong's compact urban form, including Factory Towns of South China, Villages in the City, Mall City, and Macau and the Casino Complex. He co-authored the book Beyond Mobility, making the case to connect people with places through transit-oriented development. His latest research is focused on designing compact and more resilient cities, most notably in his forthcoming book Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise. Besides his academic publications, his work has been featured in influential media outlets including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Marketplace, and Dezeen.
Al's career as a practicing architect includes work on renowned projects such as the 2,000-feet high Canton Tower in Guangzhou, the preservation of world heritage in Latin America at the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, and an 11,000-acre new eco-friendly city in India. He has also served as an advisor to the Hong Kong government, consulting on the development of the city's harbor and external lighting guidelines, the Chinese government, advising on new urban design guidelines, and the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
Selected Publications
Al, Stefan. 2017. The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream. The MIT Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2016. Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. University of Hawaii Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2014. Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements. University of Hawaii Press; Hong Kong University Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2012. Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook. Hong Kong University Press.
Frank S. Alexander
Areas of Interest
Frank Alexander is the Sam Nunn Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law. His areas of expertise include property, real estate sales and finance, state and local government law, law and theology, federal housing policies, and homelessness. Alexander is the Director of the Project on Affordable Housing and Community Development, and Co-founder and Senior Advisor of the Center for Community Progress. Alexander served as a Fellow of The Carter Center of Emory University (1993-1996), Commissioner of the State Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless (1994-1998), Interim Dean of Emory School of Law (2005-2006), and as Visiting Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University (2007). He also has testified before Congress concerning the mortgage foreclosure crisis (2008). He is the author or editor of eight books and more than forty articles in real estate finance, community development, and law and theology.
Selected Publications
Alexander, Frank. 2013-2014. Georgia Real Estate Finance and Foreclosure Law (8th ed). Thomson Reuters.
Alexander, Frank. 2011. Land Banks and Land Banking. Center for Community Progress.
Alexander, Frank and Leslie A. Powell. 2011. Neighborhood Stabilization Strategies for Vacant and Abandoned Properties. Zoning & Planning Law Report, 34 (September).
Alexander, Frank. 2009. Neighborhood Stabilization & Land Banking. Communities & Banking, 20(3). Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Alexander, Frank. 2008. Land Banking As Metropolitan Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
Francesca Ammon
Areas of Interest
Francesca Russello Ammon is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation in the School of Design. As a cultural historian of the built environment, her teaching, research, and writing focus on the changing shapes and spaces of the 20th- and 21st-century American city. She grounds her interdisciplinary approach to this subject in the premise that the landscape materializes social relations, cultural values, and economic processes. In particular, she is interested in the ways that visual culture informs planning and design, the dynamic relationships between cities and nature, and the politics of place and space.
Before joining the School of Design faculty, Ammon was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also held the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, jointly sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). While completing her Ph.D. in American Studies, she held long-term fellowships as a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and John E. Rovensky Fellow with the Business History Conference.
For the past year and a half, Ammon has been a Researcher on the Mellon Foundation-funded project on "Photography and/of Architecture" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She is also currently a colloquium member of the Penn/Mellon Foundation Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, and she is a recent past fellow of Penn's Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
Ammon is on the board of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).
Selected Publications
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2016. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2015. "Post-Industrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey." Journal of Urban History 41(2): 158-174.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2012. "Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children's Books." Technology and Culture 53(2): 306-336.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2009. "Commemoration Amid Criticism: The Mixed Legacy of Urban Renewal in Southwest Washington, D.C." Journal of Planning History 8(3): 175-220.
Elijah Anderson
Areas of Interest
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is widely considered one of the best urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association's Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology, and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978, 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson's most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in March 2012. Anderson is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award of the American Sociological Association. His research interests include inequality, race relations, urban ethnography, sociology of culture, and crime, and social control.
Selected Publications
Anderson, Elijah, Dana Asbury, Duke W. Austin, Esther Chihye Kim, and Vani Kulkarni, eds. 2012. Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642 (June). Sage Press.
Anderson, Elijah. 2012. The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2009. Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future. Ethnography 10(4), Special Double Issue. Sage Press.
Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2008. Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones, eds. 2004. Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 595 (September). New York: Sage Press.
Stuart Andreason
Areas of Interest
Stuart Andreason is senior community and economic development adviser, specializing in human capital and workforce development, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His major fields of study are workforce and human capital development policy and economic development policy, with a specialization in labor market and socioeconomic conditions in metropolitan areas. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Andreason was a research associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania (PennIUR). There, he helped develop a set of indicators of livable and sustainable communities for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funded by the Ford Foundation. He was a predoctoral fellow of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences at Penn and a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss dissertation fellow. Previously, he led two nonprofit organizations focused on economic revitalization in small towns in central Virginia and worked as a research associate for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in urban and environmental planning from the University of Virginia and a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Publications
Andreason, Stuart and Laura Wolf-Powers. 2012. "Aligning Secondary and Post-Secondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy or 'If Low Educational Attainment = Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, What Can be Done About It." In Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America, Laura W. Perna, ed. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lynch, Amy, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, Kenneth Steif, and Eugenie L. Birch. Sustainable Urban Development Indicators for the United States. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011
Birch, Eugenie, Amy Lynch, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, and Kenneth Steif. Measuring U.S. Sustainable Urban Development. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011.
Morse, Suzanne, Stuart Andreason, Tom Cross, and Joanne Tu. Southern Virginia: Building Competitive Advantage. Civic Change Incorporated. 2010.
Andreason, Stuart. May 2014. Dissertation: "Will Talent Attraction and Retention Improve Metropolitan Labor Markets? The Labor Market Impact of Increased Educational Attainment in U.S. Metropolitan Regions 1990-2010." University of Pennsylvania.
Cameron Anglum
Areas of Interest
Cameron Anglum is a Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He pursues an interdisciplinary line of research in economics of education, school finance, and urban public policy focused particularly on policy effects experienced by disadvantaged students and the communities that serve them. In particular, Cameron uses quasi-experimental methods of analysis to examine how American governments at the local, state, and federal levels invest in inputs to K-12 public education, the largest public expenditure at the state and local levels. His prior work has examined equity and adequacy considerations in school finance reforms, technology integration in urban schools, and reforms to school discipline policies. His dissertation research examines school district debt issuance, credit constraints, and their relationships with school capital investments, investments which have been shown to improve a range of important public policy outcomes. Previously, Cameron earned a B.A. in Economics and an M.S.Ed. in Education Policy both from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sydney Baloue
Areas of Interest
Sydney Baloue is a William Fontaine Fellow of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research explores Black dance and music subcultures and Black queer geographies within urban landscapes. He has a particular focus on the usage of oral histories to document genealogies of Black and Latinx LGBT communities in New York City and in Europe, which constitute ball/house culture and voguing. His research methods include oral histories, performance ethnography, data analysis and international/regional comparative research. Prior to entering graduate school at Penn, Sydney was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Study Scholarship in 2011. He was a Transatlantic Fellow at Ecologic Institute in Berlin from 2012 to 2014. Sydney holds a dual-degree MSc/MA in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Political Science and French & Francophone Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.
Selected Publications
Sydney Baloue, (2016) Black and Latin@ Queer Geographies and Oral Histories of Ballroom Culture in New York City. (London, UK: Masters Thesis, London School of Economics and Politics, 2016).
Haut Conseil d'Egalité Entre Femmes et Hommes – Premier Ministre, (2015) Avis sur le harcèlement sexiste et les violences sexuelles dans les transports en commun. – Report for French Prime Minister's Office No. 2015-04-16-VIO-16 (Paris, France: Haut Conseil d'Egalité Entre Femmes et Hommes, 2015)
Sydney Baloue and Cecile Moore, Think Tanks in a Time of Crisis and Paralysis: On the Sidelines or Catalysts for Ideas and Actions? (Philadelphia, PA: Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, 2013).
Ecologic Institute, E.On, Policy Studies Institute (2013): Consumer preferences for smart homes: a comparative study between the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. – Report for E.On under E.On International Research Initiative 2012.
Daniel Barber
Areas of Interest
Daniel Barber is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the School of Design. He is an architectural historian with a research interest in the relationship between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture across the 20th century. His research looks at the role of architectural technologies in the infrastructural and territorial transformations of the immediate post-World War II period in the United States. Barber's first book, A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War, documents the brief but dynamic interest in solar houses in the 1940s and 50s. His second book, Climatic Effects: Architecture, Media, and the Planetary Interior will explore climate-focused architectural design methods from the 1930s to the 1960s. Barber approaches research and teaching from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating narratives and methods from histories of technology, science, politics, economics, and environmentalism.
Selected Publications
Barber, Daniel. 2018 (forthcoming). Climatic Effects: Architecture, Media, and the Planetary Interior. Princeton University Press.
Barber, Daniel. 2017. "The Nature of the Image: Olgyay and Olgyay's Architectural-Climatic Diagrams in the 1950s." Public Culture 29(1): 129-164.
Barber, Daniel. 2016. "Introduction to Architectural History in the Anthropocene." The Journal of Architecture 21(8): 1165-1170.
Barber, Daniel. 2016. House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press.
Barber, Daniel. 2016. "The Form and Climate Research Group; or, Scales of Architectural History in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, edited by James Graham, Caitlin Blanchfield, Alissa Anderson, Jordan Carver, and Jacob Moore, 303-318. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
David Barnes
Areas of Interest
David Barnes is Associate Professor and Director of the Health and Societies Major in the Department of History and Sociology of Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches the history of medicine and public health. Prior to joining Penn, Barnes taught for a year at the Institute for Liberal arts at Emory University and for seven years in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. His current research is concentrated in the history of infectious disease, epidemiology, and public health; nineteenth-century urban European social and cultural history; and the politics of international disease control programs. He has a forthcoming book on the history of the Lazaretto Quarantine Station, located outside of Philadelphia.
Selected Publications
Barnes, David. 2014. "Cargo, 'Infection,' Cargo, and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88(1).
Barnes, David. 2010. "Targeting Patient Zero." In Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease, 49-71, edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Barnes, David. 2006. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Barnes, David. 2002. "Scents and Sensibilities: Disgust and the Meanings of Odors in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris." Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 28: 21-49.
Barnes, David. 1 995. The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France. University of California Press.


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CENTENNIAL, Colo.—Attorneys for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes say detectives "peppered" him with questions like, "Is there anything we should know about?" before he was read his rights.
They say in court documents filed Wednesday that something could be inferred about his mental state from the responses, so his answers should be suppressed.
Prosecutors have said officers asked certain questions to protect public safety, not as an interrogation.
Holmes' statements haven't been publicly disclosed.
Court documents say Holmes also asked about a sign at the police station. Details haven't been publicly disclosed.
Defense attorneys say Holmes' question shouldn't be allowed at trial because he spoke after asking for an attorney and after a detective told Holmes to ask if he had questions, which they contend provoked Holmes to speak.


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Several students barricaded themselves inside of a vacant University of California at Berkeley building on Tuesday to demand support for minority programs on campus, according to protesters.
A statement of demands distributed by protesters over the Internet said that the six protesters who have locked themselves in Eshleman Hall are seeking increased support from the administration for minority recruitment and the Multicultural Student Development offices.
The protest began around 4:30 p.m.
Banners have been hung from the building, and protesters said that police have been unable to get to the sixth floor, where the protesters have reportedly chained themselves.
Protesters have also gathered in the plaza outside of the occupied building, lighting candles and cheering on the demonstration inside.
Eshleman Hall is slated for demolition this fall to make way for planned improvements for the Sproul Plaza area of the campus, according to school officials.
About 9:39 p.m., the protestors emerged from the building. They will not face charges.
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Howard Hawks, in full Howard Winchester Hawks, (born May 30, 1896, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.—died December 26, 1977, Palm Springs, California), American motion-picture director who maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the '70s. Although his films starred some of the American film industry's most notable actors and were almost unremittingly popular, Hawks was long considered little more than a very competent journeyman before the critics-turned-filmmakers of the French New Wave began celebrating him as one of the quintessential Hollywood auteurs in the 1960s and '70s.
Hawks made all of his 33 sound pictures without ever being under contract to a studio, although he relied almost entirely on cannily chosen studio talent. His signature was so distinctive that almost all his movies can be identified within moments as a Hawks film. Hawks was able to impose his style on nearly every viable genre that was in vogue during his long career—westerns, musicals, screwball comedies, war pictures, historical epics, romantic adventures, films noir, gangster sagas, and even science fiction. Many other directors were asked to do the same, but none enjoyed Hawks's rate of success. He did not always manage to turn out a classic, but, arguably, he came close more often than any other American director, and his range significantly exceeded that of rival John Ford.
Early life and work
Hawks was born in a family whose considerable wealth was derived largely from the paper industry and who moved from northern Indiana to Wisconsin before finally settling in Pasadena, California. Hawks attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated from Cornell University in 1917 with a degree in mechanical engineering. During summer vacations from college he worked for the property department of Famous Players–Lasky (which later became Paramount Pictures). Hawks also had become a barnstorming pilot at age 16 and served during World War I in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Following the war he designed and raced automobiles professionally. Hawks then worked as a production assistant and independent producer for directors such as Allan Dwan, before beginning a two-year stint as the head of the story department at Paramount Pictures.
Having signed with Fox Film Corporation, Hawks directed his first film, The Road to Glory, in 1926. Even in some of his first silent films he began to put into place themes that would recur throughout his career: A Girl in Every Port (1928) examined the special bond between two men that supersedes their rivalry for the love of a woman. The Air Circus (1928) explored the romance of flight. The Dawn Patrol (1930), another film about flying, was Hawks's first true sound film. It was based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman's Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I. The aerial footage (much of it shot from a plane piloted by Hawks) was outstanding and would be recycled in several films, including Edmund Goulding's 1938 remake of The Dawn Patrol. Hawks's next effort was The Criminal Code (1931), starring Walter Huston as a prison warden whose daughter falls in love with one of his prisoners. In a much-heralded interview in 1962, Hawks told future director Peter Bogdanovich that in pursuit of authenticity he had hired 10 convicts to critique the story.
With The Crowd Roars (1932) Hawks melded two of his obsessions, filmmaking and auto racing. James Cagney played a driver who tries to keep his younger brother away from the sport, with tragic results. Tiger Shark (1932) starred Edward G. Robinson as a good-hearted Portuguese fisherman who helplessly watches his young bride fall in love with another man. Although The Crowd Roars was viewed by most critics as the first landmark film of Hawks's career, Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932) had actually been completed before it but was held up for several months while Hawks and coproducer Howard Hughes struggled with the censors, who argued that the film glorified its central character, a gangster. Arguably the best of the "big three" early gangster epics (Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar [1931] and Wellman's Public Enemy [1931] were the others), Scarface was, as Hawks conceived it, "the Borgias set down in Chicago," with Paul Muni as a thinly disguised Al Capone. The principal contributor to the screenplay was one-time Chicago journalist Ben Hecht, who would work often with Hawks. The extra scenes shot for the film to satisfy the censors were exquisitely lit by cinematographer Lee Garmes and as such were uncharacteristic of the unadorned visual style employed by Hawks throughout his career. He almost always used eye-level camera placement and was extremely judicious in his use of close-ups. (The story was "updated" in 1983 by Brian De Palma, with Al Pacino in the Muni role and cocaine, rather than Prohibition-era alcohol, as the criminal commodity.)
Hawks took an active role in the writing of the screenplays for his films but seldom asked for a screenwriting credit: the Screenwriters Guild required a director to contribute at least half of the writing to receive credit, but Hawks had no interest in tracking attribution during the screenwriting process. He had great respect for writers, and he worked with a number of well-known dramatists and novelists on his screenplays, including William Faulkner, whom Hawks introduced to the motion-picture industry so that Faulkner could adapt one of his own short stories for Hawks's Today We Live (1933). Among the soon-to-be notable actors who appeared in this World War I drama were Gary Cooper, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone.
Films of the mid-1930s
Until the mid-1930s Hawks was known primarily as a director of dramas and action films. However, working with a script by Hecht and Charles MacArthur, he crafted Twentieth Century (1934) into an enduring screwball comedy, establishing (along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night [1934]) the genre's conventions: seemingly mismatched lovers at the centre of unlikely romances, off-the-wall characters and behaviour, and zany situations. Carole Lombard gave a classic comic performance as a shop girl who is transformed by her lover, a manic Broadway director (John Barrymore), into a superstar but who grows tired of his control over her life and deserts him for Hollywood. Their confrontation during a coast-to-coast train ride is a model of exquisite slapstick timing and machine-gun repartee. Indeed, this is the film that would cement overlapping dialogue as one of Hawks's trademarks as a filmmaker. While Twentieth Century was not a huge commercial success, it gave Lombard's career a new direction, establishing her as, arguably, the preeminent screwball comedienne. Hawks, meanwhile, would go on to become the master of the new genre.
Barbary Coast (1935), also written by Hecht and MacArthur, followed but was an unremarkable period romance. Ceiling Zero (1936), an adaptation of a play by former pilot Frank Wead, was better. It starred Cagney as an indomitable airmail pilot and Pat O'Brien as his hard-boiled boss. Hawks's next project, The Road to Glory (1936), was unrelated to his earlier film of the same name. A World War I drama based on another screenplay by Faulkner, it told the story of a father (Lionel Barrymore) and son (Warner Baxter) who end up fighting in the same unit. The lively Come and Get It (1936), from an Edna Ferber novel, was shot primarily by Hawks, but toward the end of the production, Samuel Goldwyn fired him (or Hawks quit; their accounts of the event differed), and William Wyler shot the final scenes.
Hawks returned to comedy with the lunatic Bringing Up Baby (1938). Widely recognized as the definitive 1930s screwball comedy and as one of the masterpieces of American cinema, it is the ultimate expression of Hawks's connoisseurship of the zany. Cary Grant was at his funniest as a hapless paleontologist trying to recover a purloined dinosaur bone. Katharine Hepburn (in a tremendously appealing performance) played the dotty heiress who falls for him but succeeds only in making his life miserable. The scenes shared by the two performers are electric, and the comic timing of their often nonsensical banter and their reactions to wildly improbable situations resulted in among the most memorable moments in the history of film comedy.
Grant served Hawks well again in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), an engaging adventure scripted by Jules Furthman about airmail pilots working at a remote station in South America. Grant and Jean Arthur, playing a stranded showgirl, provide the romance, while Rita Hayworth, in one of her first featured roles, injects steamy sensuality into this hazardous, hypermasculine environment. In many of his films, including some of his most memorable works, Hawks depicted similar scenarios in which men bravely, uncomplainingly, do a job only to slowly realize that they need a special woman to complete them. For Hawks in these films, as for so many of the literary protagonists created by his good friend Ernest Hemingway, grace under pressure was paramount.
Films of the 1940s
At the peak of his storytelling powers, Hawks reimagined the Hecht-MacArthur-scripted newspaper comedy The Front Page (1931) as His Girl Friday (1940), cannily changing the gender of the editor and reporter at the centre of the story from two men to a man (Grant) and a woman (Rosalind Russell), respectively. By adding romantic bickering to the incisive satire of the ultracompetitive business of tabloid journalism, Hawks found new avenues of humour, and His Girl Friday is one of the funniest, fastest-paced comedies of its era thanks to the rapid-fire delivery of its dialogue.
Hawks spent a few weeks working on Howard Hughes's The Outlaw in 1940, finally removing himself from the production after he found Hughes's meddling to be intolerable, and then happily moved on to the Jesse Lasky production of Sergeant York (1941), which would become his biggest hit. Gary Cooper starred as the eponymous hero of this biography of Alvin York, the pacifist who became one of the greatest heroes of World War I. Although he seemed too old for the part, Cooper was York's choice to play himself, and he won the Academy Award for best actor. Moreover, Sergeant York earned Hawks the only Academy Award nomination of his career, for best director.
Ball of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks's Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young, and Arthur Kennedy as part of the heroic crew of a B-17 bomber.
Hawks's next big film, To Have and Have Not (1944), was the first pairing of one of cinema's most iconic couples, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Hawks had signed Bacall to a personal services contract after his wife, Slim, noticed the arresting teenager in the pages of Vogue. Reminiscent of Casablanca (1942), the story, set in the Caribbean during World War II, concerns a charter-boat captain (Bogart) who sneaks an underground leader off Martinique while romantically fencing with another passenger (Bacall). Loosely based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Hemingway, Hawks's film jettisons the book's existential outlook and much of its plot. Instead, the focus is on the sassy romantic dialogue written by Faulkner and Furthman. For much of at least one generation of filmgoers, the term screen chemistry was virtually defined by what Hawks's cameras captured between Bogart and Bacall.
Hawks called on Faulkner and Furthman again—along with Leigh Brackett, a writer of pulp-detective and science-fiction stories—to help adapt Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mystery The Big Sleep. Fashioned as a follow-up showcase for Bogart and Bacall, Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946) offered the same sort of entertaining romance and mayhem as To Have and Have Not.
As with Hawks's Bogart-Bacall films, it was the screen chemistry between two actors—this time John Wayne and (in his first screen role) Montgomery Clift—that fueled the powerful epic western Red River (1948). Wayne and Clift played a father and his adopted son who are leading a cattle drive, and the Oedipal interplay between them had overtones of Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
A Song Is Born (1948) was Hawks's musical remake of his own Ball of Fire, with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo substituting for Cooper and Stanwyck. It was followed by the riotously funny I Was a Male War Bride (1949), set in the aftermath of World War II. It starred Grant as a French army officer who marries an American serving in the Women's Army Corps (Ann Sheridan). The only that way he can accompany her to the States is to masquerade as a woman.
Films of the 1950s
Although Christian Nyby was credited as the director and Hawks only as the producer of The Thing from Another World (1951; also known as The Thing), this chilling adaptation of John W. Campbell's classic science-fiction story "Who Goes There?" bears all the hallmarks of a Hawks film (not least in its overlapping dialogue). It marked Hawks's only foray into that genre, but it has been recognized by many cineasts as one of the best science-fiction films of the 1950s. The Big Sky (1952) starred Kirk Douglas as a fur trapper working his way along the Missouri River, while Monkey Business (1952), a goofy yarn about a scientist who discovers a rejuvenation serum, was a collaboration between Hawks, Grant, rising star Marilyn Monroe, and scenarists Hecht, Charles Lederer, and I.A.L. Diamond.
Hawks saw Monroe's comedy potential and guided her in her breakthrough vehicle, the effervescent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). In it Hawks cleverly juxtaposed an essentially deglamourized Monroe with the iconic sex symbol Jane Russell. Land of the Pharaohs (1955), a handsome but unremarkable account of the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, was Hawk's least-favorite of his films.
It would be several years before Hawks took on another project, but his triumphal return to filmmaking, Rio Bravo (1959), was hailed as one of the best westerns ever made. Scripted by Brackett and Furthman, Rio Bravo was unlike many other classic westerns (The Searchers [1956], Shane [1953], or High Noon[1952]) in offering humour as well as action. The story, which is not highly original, is fundamentally an inversion of the plot of High Noon, which Hawks patiently allowed to unspool slowly, making the most of many semi-improvised bits of business by the actors. Wayne turned in a well-rounded performance as a gruff-but-caring sheriff who helps a rummy (Dean Martin in arguably his best screen performance) earn back his self-respect. In the process the sheriff learns how also to accept help himself—from a sultry dance-hall girl (Angie Dickinson), a cocky gunfighter (Rick Nelson), and a cantankerous deputy (Walter Brennan).
Final films
Hatari! (1962) was steeped in the colour of big-game trapping in Africa, with Wayne as the head of the team and Elsa Martinelli as the fearless photographer who earns his grudging admiration. In the comedy Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), Rock Hudson played a role in the Grant vein of an expert department-store fly caster who is sent by his boss to enter a fishing competition—a sport he knows nothing about. Red Line 7000 (1965) was Hawks's disappointing return to the world of race-car driving (last visited in the 1930s in The Crowd Roars), although then-unknown James Caan is well cast as the troubled hero. El Dorado (1966), with Caan, Wayne, and Robert Mitchum, was either a sequel to or a remake of Rio Bravo, with Mitchum in Martin's role. Rio Lobo (1970), yet another variation on the formula, found Wayne supported by an odd cast that included Jennifer O'Neill and future studio head Sherry Lansing. It would prove to be Hawks's last picture, some 45 years after he completed his first. In 1975 he was presented with an Academy Award for lifetime achievement.


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justinemond necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
A logo for a brand new web-based tool for higher education.
We are looking for a logo for a new web-based tool we are soon launching. We will use the logo on the application public pages, and will use a small version of the logo in the application itself.
Kindly DO NOT try to match the logo to the place-holder logo I have on the site currently, or to the site's color scheme. I'll be re-applying the sites color scheme to match the new logo.
The application is a web-based prospect database management tool to allow higher-education admissions counselors to track their inquiries (people they are trying to get to apply to their college or university).
A prospect is an inquirer, a potential applicant.
- Large logo
- Color scheme to which I can match the site
- Easy to read
- Should convey something like recruitment, prospect management, inquiry conversion, etc
- Professional, but fun
- Vibrant style, not staid
- Not required, but might be nice to include the tag line
"Prospect management for higher ed"I would like the source files in some vector file format, preferaly Photoshop.
- Nothing like a comic style
- Nothing too busy
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. – The United States Merchant Marine Academy grinded out a win over Baruch College, 8-7 at home on Thursday. The Mariners improve to 7-6 overall and 2-1 in Landmark Conference play while the Bearcats fell to 7-8 on the season.
The Bearcats jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning off of Mariners sophomore pitcher Danny Collins. The Mariners responded immediately in the bottom of the inning as Collins helped out his own cause with a two-run single to tie the game at 2-2. The Mariners took the lead an inning later on an RBI single from sophomore Warren Hartmann.
The Bearcats tied the score again in the top of the fourth on an RBI single from senior Steve Hession, but the Mariners would battle back in the bottom of the fifth, retaking the lead on an RBI single from junior Dustin Thomsen. The Mariners added some much needed insurance as Collins again helped take back some of the runs he gave away with a two-run home run, bringing the score to 6-3 heading into the sixth.
Despite giving up an additional two runs in the top of the sixth, the Mariners wouldn't relinquish their lead, holding on for an 8-7 victory over the Bearcats. Danny Collins earned the win for the Mariners, giving up five runs on 11 hits over five and a third. Junior Eric Peralta took the loss for Baruch, surrendering six runs on nine hits over five innings of work.
Next up for the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the Mariners will travel to Scranton University for three conference matchups this weekend.


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How To Build A Teardrop Trailer For Two
http://jalopnik.com — As with Costco, bulging SUVs, and childhood obesity, toy haulers bother me. They're just too much. I get why someone might want one: comfort + capacity = fun. But I'll wager that many of us could have a pretty enjoyable experience without schlepping so much stuff around.


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Mazroui needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We are an IT company and we are about to launch our products in the market (server cabinets and racks) and need a logo for our products
Our target audience are companies and organizations.
Need a mature logo. No cartoons or anything of that sort. Logo should convey quality and reliability. We are open to colors and designs.
Best of luck to all
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FORKS, Wash. (AP) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the last of a 65-foot long dock that traveled across the ocean after the Japanese tsunami has been removed from a remote beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
The Undersea Co. of Port Townsend began the work March 17, cutting up and airlifting out pieces. Company President John Nesset says it was like opening a 185-ton concrete package filled with foam packing peanuts.
The job was finished Thursday.
Japan paid most of the $628,000 removal cost. A serial number showed the dock came from Aomori Prefecture during the March 2011 tsunami. A similar dock was removed last summer from a beach at Newport, Ore.
The Washington dock landed within a wilderness portion of Olympic National Park and also within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.
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Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey has asked a judge to reconsider his decision to close the preliminary hearing for the 17-year-old charged with killing Jessica Ridgeway.
Judge Stephen Munsinger ruled that the preliminary hearing for Austin Sigg will be closed to the media and the general public after Sigg's attorney said media coverage had been pervasive and extensive. The judge said coverage of the preliminary hearing would taint the jury pool.
Storey's motion says Munsinger made a decision without receiving any evidence to base a decision on and notes that court hearings can be closed only in "extraordinary circumstances," such as protecting a victim of sexual assault.
"The people believe the public has a right to know how the investigation and prosecution of (Sigg) is proceeding, especially in light of the public resources which have been dedicated to this murder," the motion says.
Several media organizations, including The Denver Post and 9News, are contesting the judge's decision. Colorado Press Association attorney Chris Beall said closing Sigg's preliminary hearing would violate the public's First Amendment right to attend court hearings.
Sigg is charged with 13 counts related to the death of Jessica and six counts, including attempted murder, related to an attack on a jogger over Memorial Day weekend.
Jessica was kidnapped on her way to school Oct. 5. Her body was found five days later in a field in Arvada. Authorities say Sigg confessed to the kidnapping and slaying. He was arrested Oct. 23.


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In this hands-on experiment, students will investigate the basic principle of photosynthesis and learn how light intensity diminishes as a function of distance from the light source. Questions help learners connect these two ideas to determine if... (View More) photosynthesis could occur at Saturn. (View Less)
Keywords: Photosynthesis; Inverse square law
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ANTIOCH — A neighborhood was evacuated Sunday afternoon after a 53-year-old man's homemade pipe bomb operation went awry, police said.
Frank Trout was arrested on suspicion of possession and manufacturing explosive devices after being treated at a hospital for third-degree burns, Sgt. Robert Quintero said.
Trout was apparently injured when he dropped a lit fuse into a bucket filled with a mix that included gunpowder inside a home in the 1400 block of G Street, police said.
Witnesses told police he walked out and left in a car about 1:56 p.m. He showed up a short time later at Sutter Delta Medical Center with burns to his hands and face, admitting that they resulted from an accident while making pipe bombs, according to police.
About the time Trout reportedly left the house, Contra Costa Fire crews were called to the house for reports of smoke. Streets were closed and nearby homes evacuated while the Walnut Creek police bomb squad located and disposed of nine completed pipe bombs and a small bucket of an explosive powder, Quintero said.
Trout told police that he was making the devices because he liked fireworks and wanted to see them explode. He was alone in the house at the time and no other injuries were reported.
The home, which sustained flash damage and a few broken windows, is located about a block away from both Fremont Elementary and Antioch high schools.
After being released from the hospital, Trout was taken to the Martinez Detention Facility and held on $200,000 bail. It's likely he will need more medical treatment for his burns, Quintero said.
Anyone with information on the incident may call the Antioch Police Department investigation's Bureau at (925) 779-6926. Information can also be texted anonymously to 274637 (CRIMES) using key word ANTIOCH.


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Slow-Cooker Mexican Beef With Lime Crema and Pinto Beans Recipe
Cooking projects for people who'd like nothing more than to spend a sunday afternoon surrounded by the wonderful aromas of the kitchen.
- Yield:Serves 6
- Active time: 8 to 10 hours
- Total time:30 minutes
- Rated:
- 3 pounds boneless bottom round or chuck roast (in one whole piece)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 cloves garlic, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
- 1 large onion, chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 or 2 jalapeño peppers, finely chopped
- 1 cup dried pinto beans, well-rinsed and picked over
- 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes, preferably San Marzano, crushed by hand
- 1 tablespoon ancho chili powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 cup low-sodium beef broth, plus additional as needed
- 1/4 cup tequila
- 1 cup sour cream, preferably Mexican crema
- 1 tablespoon juice from 1 whole lime
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro leaves
- Flour tortillas
Place meat in the slow cooker and add garlic, onion, jalapenos, beans, tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, bay leaves, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, beef broth, and tequila. Season with about a teaspoon of salt. Cook on low until beef is tender and beans are cooked, 8 to 10 hours, adding additional broth as needed to keep beans saturated and submerged.
Mix sour cream with lime juice and cilantro in a small bowl. When beans are tender and pot roast yields to a fork, taste and adjust seasonings. Serve meat and beans with warm tortillas and crema.
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Term: Simile
A simile is a comparison that claims the things being compared are similar, rather than the metaphor's claim that the two things are the same. This usually appears as "A is like B", or "C is as friendly as a D". Penelope Shuttle's description, in 'Thief', of "the forest like a perfumed, pampered room wet with solitude" is a simile, as is Charles Simic's 'Fork', as 'It resembles a bird's foot'.
A simile is a less forceful use of figurative language than a metaphor is - it is easier to believe that a heron is like an undertaker than to believe that a heron is an undertaker - which some people take to mean less good, or less powerful. It's worth holding in mind that a poet may want to create the subtler effect that a less forceful tool achieves, to use a comparison that draws less attention to itself, or to maintain that, although these two things are alike, they are not identical. In the case of 'Machines', by Michael Donaghy, the conceit of the poem is introduced as a simile, in a way that draws attention to the act of comparing them and the cleverness that maintains the comparison of two disparate things.


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It's Crudite Season
Source: Martha Stewart Living, March 2008
Create an hors d'oeuvre centerpiece that recalls a vegetable patch. Buy a large, deep galvanized-metal planter from a garden-supply center, line the bottom with sprouts, and pour in enough water to moisten them. Arrange vegetables, such as cherry tomatoes, carrots, radishes, asparagus, and cauliflower, in sections inside the container, varying the colors. Serve immediately with herb dip, or cover with moist paper towels and refrigerate up to 2 hours.


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Raspberry and vanilla friands with cacao nibs
Here's another delicious friand recipe, following the lingonberry and coconut friands and blueberry and lemon friands I wrote about last year. I'm still in love with those Australian little cakes, and whenever I have excess egg whites, I bake these as opposed to meringues or mini-Pavlovas.
Raspberry and vanilla friands with cacao nibs
(Vaarika-vanillifriandid kakaotükikestega)
Makes eight, suitable for freezing
100 g unsalted butter, melted (1 stick minus 1 Tbsp)
125 g icing sugar/confectioner's sugar (1 cup)
30 g plain flour/all-purpose flour (50 ml or 3 Tbsp + 1 tsp)
80 g finely ground almonds (1 cup)
3 medium-sized egg whites
1 tsp vanilla extract
50 g whole raspberries (a generous handful)
a handful of roasted cacao nibs (optional)
Preheat the oven to 200C. Generously butter eight non-stick friand or muffin tins.
Sift the icing sugar and flour into a bowl, add the almonds and mix.
Whisk the egg whites in another bowl until they form a light, floppy foam.
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, pour in the egg whites, vanilla and the cooled melted butter. Stir very gently to form a soft batter.
Divide the batter among the tins. Sprinkle some raspberries and cacao nibs over each cake.
Bake in the middle of a pre-heated 200 C oven for about 20 minutes, until just firm to the touch and golden brown on top.
Cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. To serve, dust lightly with icing sugar.
6 comments:
How do I convert your measurements to Cups and Teaspoons/Tablespoons?
- 2:08 pm, January 11, 2012
- Pille said...
Anon, I'll amend the recipe and add the American measures as well..
- 2:18 pm, January 11, 2012
- Juc said...
Millised armsad friandid. ma olen täielik vaarika fänn, eriti kui nad küpsetiste sees on! Pildid on ka väga ilusad!
- 10:22 pm, January 12, 2012
- L'angolo cottura di Babi said...
I really like your blog, and I want to try very soon this recipe. Thank you!
- 12:28 am, January 16, 2012
- Gitte said...
Looks simply wonderful. Cacao nips, are they sweet? Pure cacao, right?
- 2:44 am, January 17, 2012
- Pille said...
Juc, aitäh! Mul endal tulid nüüüd neelud vaarika-brownie'de järele :)
Babi - I hope you'll enjoy this!
Gitte, they're not sweet, just a wee bit bitter. Wonderful - both in terms of flavour and texture (yes, they're chopped roasted pure cacao beans).
- 12:05 pm, January 25, 2012
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This article outlines how to install djbdns (tinydns) on Arch Linux.
Currently the djbdns suite of tools are only available via AUR, but they are perfectly functional and up to date. The following three items are required to install and run djbdns on Arch Linux:
* daemontools * ucspi-tcp * djbdns - patched for use with ipv6 transport. Does not (yet) contain major security fixes. * djbdns ipv4 - includes all available security fixes and more, but without the ipv6 transport patch.
When choosing which version of the djbdns package to use, you have to determine if you need ipv6 transport support. The ipv4-only version does not contain the ipv6 patch because it would be a nightmare to combine the huge ipv6 patch with the other applied patches. Also, the ipv4-only version also install the command line tools included with the djbdns tarball, which the ipv6 version does not, but that could be easily fixed by modifying the PKGBUILD file.
After installation, the package will display some final instructions on how to get your dnscache or tinydns installation running.
>>> Configure and run dnscache: dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /etc/dnscache [myip] ln -s /etc/dnscache /service >>> Configure and run tinydns: tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns [myip] ln -s /etc/tinydns /service Note: Change myip to your public ip. If [myip] omitted dnscache will run on localhost. More help can be found at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html


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(CNN) -- The World Cup's most prolific goal scorer has hung up his golden boots.
Germany striker Miroslav Klose, who scored a total of 16 goals at four World Cup finals, announced his retirement from international football on Monday.
The 36-year-old scored two goals at this summer's tournament to surpass former Brazil striker Ronaldo's record of 15 as Germany lifted the trophy for the first time in 24 years.
Polish-born Klose scored five goals at the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan and five more in Germany four years later -- a feat that earned him the Golden Boot that year.
Four more followed in South Africa in 2010 before two goals -- a crucial equalizer in the group game against Ghana and a second in Germany's 7-1 rout of hosts Brazil in the semifinals -- completed his tally.
Klose also has the distinction of being Germany's all-time top goal scorer with 71 goals from 137 internationals.
"The success of the team stood and always stands for me in the highest place," Klose said in a statement published on the German national side's official website.
"With the national team I achieved our greatest goal, a goal which we had together within the squad.
"In addition, I achieved personal goals and those who know me know that I am very ambitious, but I am a striker and the task of a striker is to score goals.
"Therefore the records never concerned me, but it was always about giving my best for the team."
German national coach, Joachim Low heaped praise on the retiring marksman.
"He has given everything for Germany," Low said in a statement.
"I have the greatest respect for Miroslav's decision as well as (his) incredible national team career that will be hard to beat ... I am happy and grateful that I was able to work with Miroslav Klose.
The striker announced in July that he will play club football for one more season before retiring altogether.
Klose, who joined Lazio from Bayern Munich in 2011, signed a one-year extension to his contract with the Serie A side in May.
Read more: U.S. soccer legend Donovan retires