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Infinite Jest Reread, pages 49 – 87
As noted the other day, there's currently a group reread of Infinite Jest in progress on the wallace-l mailing list. We're only on the second week of it, so there's time to catch up if you're interested. I introduced pages 49 – 87 last night and have pasted in my introduction below. If you find it at all enticing, be sure to tune in via the list, as the discussion that follows these intro posts tends to be really good. If you fall asleep or die before you manage to get to the end of this thing, I'll hardly blame you. Since this is a reread, the spoiler rule's out the window.
Main things that happen and concepts that appear in this section:
- Hal gets covertly high.
- Oh look, an underworld in the form of tunnels (even including a sort of limbo for the poor protectors).
- Gately dons a toothbrush.
- A weird detached list on page 60 that I didn't give any attention to below but that maybe merits some attention for its weird detachedness.
- Note 21, the first of a series of inter-referential notes.
- A face in the floor (and other nightmares).
- Note 24, the filmography (brace yourself).
- Orin in cardinal gear, reluctantly.
- Pemulis teaches his little buddies about shrooms.
- Kate Gompert, reluctant to admit to a pot addiction, wants ECT.
- The medical attaché's wife comes home to find him enthralled. Others follow.
- Schtitt and Mario go for ice cream.
- Tiny Ewell goes to detox.
I actually write about very little of that stuff below.
A theme that runs through this section and in fact through the whole book so far is failure to communicate. It begins of course with Hal at the university and moves back through time to Hal being interviewed by a father who doesn't believe he speaks. But we also see it in things like Erdeddy's inability to choose between answering the phone and the door, his habit of cutting off communication with anyone he's dealt with before to get pot. We see it also in Gompert, who for example displays sometimes a flat affect and sometimes forced facial expressions (recall Hal at the beginning) while speaking with a singsongy voice that leaves the doctor (also trying hard to communicate using both voice and mannerism) confused.
I think there's also some interesting stuff pertaining to communication going on in the end notes. For one thing, they are themselves a sort of barrier to direct communication, and even today I think sometimes about skimming the ones that just give drug info or don't seem to relate in terribly important ways to the main story. In the big note 24, the matter of communication gets really out of hand, though. The editors of the book that the note quotes haven't seen some of the films they describe, for example (some of which weren't ever filmed), and yet they write about them, communicating in some cases non-information, which if you think about it is very strange indeed.
Consider the film Annular Amplified Light: Some Reflections. Well, its title is a silly pun, first off, but that's superficial. It's got sound and is sign-interpreted for the deaf, but although it purports to be a "nontechnical explanation of the applications of cooled-photon lasers in DT-cycle lithiumized annular fusion," it's hard to imagine that one could do such a topic any justice in a nontechnical film, much less in one whose almost certainly specialized language it's hard to imagine could be signed efficiently.
And: Union of Nurses in Berkeley, silent and closed-captioned interviews with hearing-impaired RNs and LPNs. I suppose it's silent either to elicit a sort of empathy with the interviewees or maybe to avoid what could be a comical treatment of audible interviews of people whose pronunciation and enunciation may have suffered thanks to their hearing impairment. It's a strange audiovisual blend, at any rate, that seems to be fooling around with ways in which people communicate.
And: Cage II in which a blind convict and a deaf-mute convict placed in solitary confinement attempt to figure out ways of communicating with one another. This is a bad joke, of course (and calls to mind the old Wilder/Prior movie), but it also demonstrates a concern with how people manage to connect. It's a wonder this one wasn't at least captioned if not signed.
And: Death in Scarsdale, in color, silent, with closed-caption subtitles, which almost becomes hard to visualize once you've got all this business on the brain. In this one, an endocrinologist begins to sweat excessively while treating a boy who sweats excessively, which again, with this stuff on the brain and maybe under no other circumstance, makes me think of things like how you never stutter until you find yourself speaking with somebody who stutters, when you suddenly start channeling Porky Pig out of maybe sympathy or self-consciousness.
A couple of the other films are sign-interpreted as well, and in general, JOI's films demonstrate an awareness of the interplay between sight and sound, different ways of perceiving things, of being perceived, and of being perceived while perceiving things such that you morph from subject into object and back into subject again.
All of this of course is mediated through films and (usually) soundtracks themselves devised by makers whose communication with you is from the past and not at all personal, which can be a little creepy if you think about it too much. And all of that is further mediated through a book of fiction and yet further through end notes that put it at an even greater distance.
Early in the book we're exposed to Hal's precocity with respect to grammar and usage, given to him by good old Avril. She and Steven Pinker make appearances in the filmography in a silent, closed-captioned film documenting a grammar convention. This strikes me as kind of funny and really quite interesting, since closed-captioning would have the effect of memorializing in print the words spoken by the grammarians. Grammar being generally a little looser for even the strident among us when speaking aloud than when writing formally, the idea of capturing in print any non grammatical speech by these super-grammarians would be kind of tantalizing, and of course I can imagine that making the viewers of the film read the language while connecting it to the images moving onscreen could have a weird effect (in the way that watching subtitled films if you're not accustomed to doing so can make a movie a lot of work and hard to trust that you've really grokked). I guess it's worth noting that though Hal speaks, his father hears no words coming from him, and this film seems to capture the effect.
Grammar of course is just a map of our language. Descriptivists will say that if it's spoken naturally by a native speaker, it's grammatical and ought to be recorded, while prescriptivists tend more to demand adherence to an existing set of written rules. (This is a gross oversimplification, I know.) In either case, we can see grammar as a sort of map of language, and the main thing at issue is whether the map ought to change along with the terrain or not. "Map" and "terrain" turn out to be loaded terms when talking about IJ, of course, and they make appearances in the filmography, if obliquely. In the most oblique treatment, we see Every Inch of Disney Leith, in which the eponymous man has his innards mapped. Comically, the title uses the Imperial measure, while in the film he listens to a forum on metricization in North America, which is another way of communicating the same things using different terms. Later, in No Troy, we learn about the erasure of Troy, NY from both terrain and map (by, explicitly, cartographers). Sort of humorously, archivists don't list the title by the name given here but variously use the names The Violet City and The Violet Ex-City.
So then to me the threads of language as communication, language as a construct (i.e., grammar), and map/terrain — which roughly corresponds to the relationship between language as construct and language as communication — begin to become intertwined very early in the novel in the notes about the filmography, which is itself, of course, nothing if not a map whose aim is to relate the technical features of JOI's films with what they communicated across his career.
Every time I read the filmography, I spot some new fun detail I had either overlooked or forgotten or just not given enough thought to on previous reads.This time it was the appearance of C.N. (presumably Charles Nelson) Reilly as a narrator in a couple of the early, sign-interpreted documentaries. The idea of CNR as a narrator on a documentary (even a whimsically titled, nontechnical one) is kind of a laugh, and then the idea of someone trying to interpret his self-interrupting, story-nesting style for the deaf is even more comical. Maybe he'd stick a bit closer to the cards in a documentary, though. But it's also worth noting that CNR was basically ubiquitous in the 70s and 80s, crossing stage, film, and TV shows in the form of game shows, talk show appearances, and television series, so that it's hardly inconceivable that an aging CNR would dip his wick into the documentary wax late in life (and yet no less the funnier). This inter-"text"-uality all seems kind of relevant to the sort of things Wallace was considering in "E Unibus Pluram," which of course informs a lot of IJ.
I also love how you can see little sub-plots within the filmography if you pay attention to the names. For example, P.A. Heaven becomes Paul Anthony and then goes back to using initials, and one wonders why. And Soma Richardson-Levy apparently marries an O-Byrne and later a Chawaf (also credited within the filmography) and just keeps collecting hyphenated suffixes to her name. Then of course there's the interplay of the films with things happening in JOI's life and at ETA.
Now moving away from the end notes for a bit, I'll note that I like how Wallace is already setting us up for things to come with little one-off references to things like the O.S.U.O.S, cartridges (note 18, page 58), DMZ/M.P. (note 8), DuPlessis, experialism, and annular hyperfloration cycles. These things are easy to read past but all become pretty important later, so it's neat on a reread to see where he's left these little breadcrumbs.
It'd be just short of criminal not to at least mention the face in the floor dream even if I don't say much about it. I love that whole passage, and the way he just slips the face in there is horrifying and I suppose embodies the thing we've read before about how the thing that's great about Lynch's surrealistic horror is that almost everything has to seem normal for the really bad thing to be really bad.
I haven't even touched on Schtitt and Mario or on similarities between some of the things we learn about Erdeddy and Gompert, but I'm really just out of wind, and so, I imagine, are you. I feel like the filmography tends to get short shrift, so maybe I've corrected that some (however clumsily and single-purposedly) and others can fill in the other huge gaps I've left.
September 22, 2012 at 12:58 am
currently on my third read of IJ. probably been about 10 years since the last read. Im a bit ahead of you as of 9-22-12. And i just came across your blog as i was thinking about lyle the guru and the possibility of he, lyle, and james incandenza communicating post-mort, JI. I can go into further detail, however i currently with to curtail my digression and instead i will comment on the filmography. I think that the art films (i group his films into three broad themes; art films [like various kind of flame and infinite jestV], educational [tennis docs], and cautionary after school specials [gay aids and raped nuns]) of JI are pretentious bore, [During Infinite jest academic intellectual are very often discredited in favor of street smart irregulars by DFW. (IE greg day v don gately or hal v michael penulas.) ] often there are references to JI's films positive reception, but you are never given the sense that any identifiable character (minus perhaps mpsycosis) has positive consideration of JI's films. I always thought that DFW wrote the filmography to be tongue in cheek ridiculous. and by extension infinite jest(film) is also super awful. the audience is unable to look away as one is unable to look away from a grotesque car accident or, more poinently, unable to look away from the hideously deformed. further, we are told that JI, himself was never satisfied with his own work. Even if it is well recieved by intellectual film buffs, we are not led to respect their praise.
what are your impressions of the films listed in the filmography wrt/ watchability?
I also have a comment/question/discussion pt on the hals meeting with JI, as professional conversationalist. that might expand into a discussion on paticulars of DFW's writing style were he often does a bob newhart/will gaddis thing of only presenting half of the conversation/description.
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A Word From Upland Borough Council President Christine Peterson
Greetings and welcome to our Borough. This website is a window into our past, present and future.
Upland Borough has a strong established history within the County, State and Country. We hold pride in the ties given to us by Caleb Pusey, William Penn, the Crozer Family, and Martin Luther King Jr.
The Caleb Pusey House was built in 1683 and still sits on its original site. Mr. Pusey had ties to William Penn, the namesake of our great state of Pennsylvania, who assisted in forming the very roots of the democracy we have today.
The Crozer Family is the namesake of the Crozer Keystone Health Systems, one of the largest employers within Delaware County. Upland can "brag" that we are the home of the network's largest entity, Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
We are honored to remember that Martin Luther King Jr., received his Theological training at the Seminary, located at Old Main on the Crozer-Chester Medical Center campus.
Today, Upland is a diverse, forward thinking, safe, family oriented, financially stable, Community. We hold dear our past, learn from our present, and embrace our future.
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Following is a brief write-up from the session, including photos. 2010-01-24T23:00:00Z Bibliographic control of foreign languages: the case of displaying Cyrillic characters in online catalog at the University of Florida http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1299 Titolo: Bibliographic control of foreign languages: the case of displaying Cyrillic characters in online catalog at the University of Florida Autori: Aissing, Alena Abstract: Libraries hold foreign language collections that include non-Roman alphabets (e.g., Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, etc.). Students are faced with challenges when they wish to access these publications due to transliteration schemes that have been used for many decades. While there are various different transliteration systems in the world, the American libraries use the Library of Congress system. The libraries' integrated systems could only display the Romanized text in bibliographic records. This creates barriers for students to access, for example, Russian publications in online catalogs. Today, there is a new universal multi-script character set, International Standard ISO/IEC 10646 – the Unicode. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that coordinates Unicode's development, has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes are limited in size and scope and are incompatible with multilingual environments. This standard, if implemented in the library system, enables not only to convert Romanized bibliographic data into a linguistically accurate display in the original alphabet but also users would be able to search and print in non-Roman scripts. Libraries are slowly implementing systems based on this new standard. There are some crucial issues that involve Unicode implementation in the libraries. 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Similarly, the effects of the program on their personal development have been evaluated by a group of questions. In consequence of the evaluation, it has been seen that the personal development-oriented expectations of the students who have participated in the Erasmus program were higher than their academic expectations. In this study figure the demographic distribution of Hacettepe University students who have participated in the Erasmus program along with measurements relating to their academic and personal development expectations as well as assessments regarding the degree of their satisfaction. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z Access for all and for how long? http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1286 Titolo: Access for all and for how long? Autori: Serbanuta, Claudia; Chao, Tiffany; Takazawa, Aiko Abstract: The paper presents a case study of the "Twitter Revolution" that took place in Moldova in April 2009. The fight for democracy in a small country with a totalitarian history received global attention also because it was portrayed as an event in which Web 2.0 tools were empowering the citizens. Online commentary through Twitter posts (that included video recordings and images of the protests) were made in tandem with the onsite events. Blogs and youtube.com provided additional venues for commentary and access for individuals following the events. However, there is no process or device to effectively gather the rich contextual information generated by these online sources in a structural way and save it for future research use. Many of the electronic documents that circulated, such as some video recordings from the events and thousands of twitter messages, cannot be accessed online anymore. 2010-01-26T23:00:00Z Undergraduate LIS education in the U.S. and Europe: practices and trends http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1285 Titolo: Undergraduate LIS education in the U.S. and Europe: practices and trends Autori: Dugan, Charlotte Abstract: Literature will be reviewed to analyze the LIS undergraduate programs in the U.S. and Europe. 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The Arctic matters to all of us #save the arctic. June 2012 Greenpeace hosts guests and crew from around the world as they head into the Arctic.
From Girl Guides to Chinese pop stars, from filmmakers to Cambridge University scientists, we have ambassadors on board from Peru, Ghana, Hong Kong, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, US and Spain among others, to bear witness to this disappearing world. Greenpeace is calling on the United Nations to create a global sanctuary to protect the uninhabited area around the North Pole.
Launched from Svalbard, Norway, 78 degrees north of the equator, the ship has begun a month-long expedition to the ice edge. Arctic sea ice has already disappeared by 75 percent in the last 30 years, and scientists on board the Arctic Sunrise will be working with 3D scanning experts and engineers to capture the true shape of Arctic sea ice for the first time. This cutting-edge research will help the world understand the rapid changes currently taking place at the very top of our planet.
Instead of seeing the sea ice retreat as a grave warning to humanity, industrial fisheries, oil companies and governments are trying to capitalise on this crisis. The 20th Century saw a devastating scramble for resources on every continent on earth. Now we have to stand together, from every corner of the world, young and old, to say enough is enough, we will protect the Arctic before it befalls the same fate.
Find out more about some of the passengers on-board:
Haiquan is one half of Yu Quan; perhaps one of the most famous pop duos in mainland China. Born in the city of Shenyang, Hu Haiquan paired up with Chen Yufan in June 1998 to create Yu Quan. Together they have released 12 albums in total, with over 10 million pieces sold, and have built up a huge social media following in China.
Fred is a popular social activist from Hong Kong with numerous regular columns in Hong Kong newspapers. Fred is joining Greenpeace of the Arctic Sunrise to see this pristine region for himself, to learn about the ecology of the Arctic and to find out more about vital sea ice research.
At 19 years old Sena, from Agona-Swedru in the central region of Ghana, is the youngest passenger on the ship. Currently studying Information Studies and Sociology at the University of Ghana she has been a Girl Guide since High School. She loves singing, reading, dancing, making friends and of course guiding. She plans to train as a lawyer specialising in cases of abuse against women.
Miryam became a Guide when she was 9 years old and hasn't stopped being involved in guiding since. Miryam holds a bachelor's degree in Forestry Sciences and has a keen interest in conservation and education. She considers being selected to go the Arctic with Greenpeace as a once in a lifetime opportunity and she hopes to gain a deeper understanding of this special environment.
Is a postdoctoral researcher in Polar Oceanography at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses in the use of satellites to determine the thickness of the Arctic sea ice. Roughly speaking, this is done by bouncing a radar pulse off the ice surface and timing how long it takes to return to the satellite. It is fair to say he is the geek on board; computer programming, mathematical modelling as well as conducting experiments on the sea ice are all in a day's work.
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This homemade costume for boys entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Shidoshi, the 'Dante from Dante's Inferno' costume creator:
I made this costume for my son Gabriel who said (after seeing the image of Dante on the cover of the XBox 360 video game) that he wanted to be him for Halloween. Because the game itself is intended for mature audiences, there was clearly no "Dante" costume in his size that I could find anywhere, so I was tasked with having to make it from scratch. Using the image of Dante on the game cover as reference, here's how I did it:
(1) The Cross: This was the first element of the costume that I made. I drew the cross outline on a piece of double-ply cardboard and cut it out with an Xacto blade. I then traced this cross on two pieces of thick cardstock for reinforcement and then used a silicon glue to adhere those pieces to either side of the cardboard cross. I then used wood putty to seal the corrugated edges and interior, trimmed the excess with an Xacto blade and then sanded it down for a uniform look. I used a metallic silver enamel paint for the color and then placed a single dot of metallic gold enamel paint for the "rivet" look. I took a bit of artistic liberty with the painting design and decided to keep it simple.
(2) The Crown: I started by using a cardboard crown that I picked up from Burger King! I sized it to my son's head and then cut off the excess pieces so that I had only a uniformly-sized cardboard band wrapping around the head. I cut the nose guard out of a separate piece of cardboard and folded it over the headband - cutting it to shape. I then used rubber cement to seal the nose guard and set the sizing on the crown. Each "spike" was individually cut out of single-ply cardboard and then painted with a couple different shades of paint to give it a 3D effect (had to notice in these pics). I then used metallic silver and metallic gold paint to create rivets on cardboard "dots" that I cut out separately and then attached to the nose guard with rubber cement.
(3) The Chest Piece: The muscle shirt was purchased from a local Halloween store for $20 and the red stripes were painted on using a burgundy-colored fabric spray that I purchased at a fabric store. The application took a couple coats and was by far the messiest part of the fabrication process, but once it dried out enough to work with, I used a black fabric pen to outline the stripes and then used black "puff" fabric paint to put in the stitches. The belt across the chest is actually from a Captain Jack Sparrow costume my son wore a couple years earlier - but it worked for this one as well.
(4) The Tunic & Red Strips: The tunic and stripes were cut from fabric purchased at a local fabric store for $5. The strips were cut individually and purposefully left ragged for effect and then tied to each wrist and elbow which helped to keep the chest piece in place. The tunic was simply a length of fabric that was tied around his waist and fastened with safety pins.
(5) Extras: The scythe was purchased from a local Halloween store as I simply didn't have the time or the resources to create anything as complex as the one that is seen in the game. I also didn't think anything that large would allow Gabriel the ability to collect his candy as effectively either! I also bought a $3 gold costume cross that wrapped around his hand as well that was as close as I could find to a Roseary – though it didn't last too long into the tick-or-treating foray due to a flimsy gold chain.
All in all, I was pretty satisfied with the results and my son - who loved the costume as well - was able to spend a night out as Dante.


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- Unknown said...
love the candles & cupcake liners-going to check them out right now!
- September 28, 2009 at 6:24 AM
- jessica said...
What a fun site. Thanks for sharing! I am bookmarking this for sure!
- September 28, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- Heather said...
Cute! I love the icing kit...so professional looking!
Hope the move is going well!
- September 28, 2009 at 7:31 AM
- Mrs. P said...
L.O.V.E. the animal print cupcake liners!!
- September 28, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Jill said...
OOOOOH!!! delightful!
Thanks for sharing!
- September 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- Karen - lillybelle Custom Designs said...
Oh my....I love the assorted cupcake papers and those too cute polka dot candles. I am off to check out the website/blog! Thanks for sharing....I love baking muffins, too, so the cupcake papers will look awesome with my muffins....Can't wait!
- September 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Sally said...
her polka dot cupcake liners are a must-have for any kids' party! :)
- September 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- the Italian Dish said...
Ooh, thanks for the great links!
- September 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Chelsea Van Tol said...
soo cute!
- September 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Sissou said...
I wish I had the same shop for the cupcake party I made yesterday for my girl's eighth birthday. Ans inspired by the tomkat studio I made some lovely lollipop invitations ;-) Enjoy the photos !
- September 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- CAKE Creative Co. said...
i love this site too. i dream of someday having a kitchen big enough that i can devote an entire cabinet to pretty baking supplies like these.
- September 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM
- Aimee Friedrich said...
they do have amazing stuff.
- September 29, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- Ashley Brooke said...
And guess what! There is a giveaway for some of this Bake It Pretty stuff I just found at Whatsoever Things Are Beautiful, to launch her new blog!
It ends Oct 7th if you want to enter :)
- September 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM


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So not so much Irish as Irish-ish? I suppose on the plus side, it does now make it fine that it's in the British tech tree.
But, that price tag! I was so looking forward to buying the tank - not any more.
I'm not paying that for a TT tank with a fancy paint job - You haven't even given us a Commander wit a tick Orish accent be'jaysus! to lessen the blow.


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As ten generations prospered on the earth from Adam to Noach, we unfortunately see the force of kindness dwindle to but a drop in the ocean.
Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth became full of robbery. And God saw the earth, and behold it had become corrupted, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth. And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of robbery because of them, and behold I am destroying them from the earth."
–- Bereishit 6:11-13
Our Sages teach us that the gravity of this pervasive sin was not merely law breaking through theft. The people found a way to steal from one another that was permissible within the bounds of the law. There was no accountability or justice.
What were the habits of the Generation of the Flood? If a man brought out a basket full of peas, he would soon be surrounded by a mob snatching them away. Each one cleverly took a small amount less than a pruta (small coin). The man's basket was soon empty. Yet the victim was unable to present the matter to a judge because each culprit could claim that he had stolen an amount so minute that he was not liable to punishment by law. –- The Midrash Says, Vol 1. Beraishis, page 84
Robbery (chamas in Hebrew) represents a new height of selfishness. In Noach's generation, there was a complete reversal of chesed, for no one cared for their brother. Theft within the letter of the law breaks the vital social fabric. When the justice system is unable to correct these kinds of sins, all hope is lost.
restoration of chesed
Because of this state of affairs, the most kindness Hashem could do for humanity was to cleanse it and start over with a new creation, a creation founded on kindness. Noach followed Hashem's instructions in constructing the ark and brought the animals inside. Here Noach creates an inside-out Garden of Eden, caring for the animals as they entered this new universe.
As they were all shut up in the ark for over a year, what were Noach and his family doing during this time? According to B. Sanhedrin 108b, they were meticulously caring for the animals. Animals which normally would eat at night were fed at night. Animals which normally would eat during the day were fed during the daytime. There was one animal, however, which would not eat and Noach didn't know what to feed. One day, Noach was cutting up a pomegranate and a worm came out. The animal snatched up the worm, and from that day on Noach fed the animal worms.
Noach and family barely slept and all the while they meticulously cared for the unique needs of each animal. This is true chesed. Hashem's new world, fresh and clean, was founded again on kindness. As partners with God, we must remember the tikkun (repair) that Noach and his family brought to the world. God cleansed a world of selfishness and replaced it with one founded again on loving-kindness.
This should be the world we create around us. If Noach cared for the animals with each of their special needs in mind, how much more so should we with the people in our lives? Challenge youself to begin and end your day with loving-kindness, just as Noach and his family did, and see what kind of world you can create.


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For the sake of brief entries, I am not footnoting the facts in this ongoing memorial. Sources have been noted either in other blog posts or in my family history books.
2 January 1962: Marija Jurikas Freiberg died in Port Arthur, Ontario. She was two months short of her 90th birthday when she died, and had suffered from a form of dementia in her last years. Marija had lived at Krumini farm, Limbazi parish, Latvia; St. Petersburg, Russia; New York City; and finally settled to domestic life in Canada. She was my maternal grandmother; more information was written about her here.
3 January [Julian calendar]1843: Ansis Freibergs of Koneni farm, Kastrane, Latvia, married Trute Grunfeld at Malpils Lutheran Church. They were my great-great-grandparents.
11 January [Julian calendar] 1798: Jurri Jurikas of Allika farm, Tori parish, Estonia, died. He had married Marri, daughter of Peet, probably of a farm known as Tohivere nor Tohera or Tehver. Research in this family grouping is incomplete (and difficult without surnames in usage---to be another story) but for the one firm date. Jurri and Marri were my 4th great-grandparents.


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Fires on Canary Islands force thousands to flee
More than 11 000 people have been evacuated from two of Spain's Canary Islands – Tenerife and Gran Canaria – as firefighters try to get the blazes under control, according to local authorities.
Fires have burned some 14 000 hectares on the western part of Tenerife since Monday, while some 10 000 hectares of woodland in the southwest of Gran Canaria have been charred since Friday, Paulino Rivero, head of the regional government, said.
Winds of 65 kilometers per hour and temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius have hampered efforts to smother the blazes, authorities told the Associated Press.
There are seven islands in the Canary Island archipelago, located some 95 kilometers from the northwest coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. Tenerife is the biggest island in the region, while Gran Canaria is the most populated.
These images were acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) optical instrument working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres and are available on ESA's MIRAVI website, which gives access to Envisat's most recently acquired images.
MIRAVI, short for MERIS Images RApid VIsualisation, tracks Envisat – the world's largest Earth Observation satellite – around the globe, generates images from the raw data collected by MERIS and provides them online within two hours. MIRAVI is free and requires no registration.
Envisat circles the Earth in a polar orbit at an 800-km altitude, allowing MERIS to acquire global coverage every three days.


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Cavium SOC
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NITROX SoHo
Cavium Networks acquired Brecis Communications' MIPS-Basedâ"¢ Secure Communication Processor product line at Q4 2004. Through the acquisition, Cavium received Brecis' MSP2000, MSP2010 and MSP2100 processors. Cavium Networks sells these products under its NITROX SoHo brand as the CN200, CN201 and CN210 respectively. These processors include:
- MIPS 4Km or 4Kc processor core
- 16 kbytes of I-cache, 16 kbytes of D-cache, 16 kbytes of scratchpad memory
- 32-bit SDRAM interface
- one to three fast Ethernet interfaces
- PCI interface
- UARTs
- GPIOs
- VPN engine
Currently linux-mips.org does not support any RMI SOC.
Products are based on Cavium/Brecis
- D-Link DWL-2000AP+ H/W Ver:A2 (GlobalSun GL2454AP ver:T3.0) - Brecis MSP2006; TI 1130 WiFi Mini-PCI card
- Hawking HNAS1 Net-Stor Network Storage Center
- OvisLink WMU-9000VPN - Brecis MSP2006, 8MB Flash, 32MB SDRAM, WiFi Intersil 3880IK,USB,Linux
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Painting your Brick:
Although brick is beautiful and classic in lots of homes, sometimes it doesn't exactly fit your style. A great way to get a completely different look, without having to spend a lot of time on demolition and materials cost, is to simply paint your brick. White seems to be the trend lately, but any shade of medium or light gray would also look beautiful.
If you're still not satisfied with a mostly brick fireplace, you can opt to build out around it. Using inexpensive MDF material you can design a high-end looking fireplace on a small budget. This technique also helps to give your mantel more bulk and space for those fun decor items.
If you've got a large bare wall in your space that you wish had a fireplace on it, then try this fun idea of building a fake one. This method gives you complete freedom to choose exactly what you want your fireplace and mantel to look like, and since you don't actually have to worry about the surrounding materials getting too hot or being compatible with fire codes, you can pretty much use whatever you want.
As you know, for us, there isn't a ton of extra room to add much of anything in the way of a full blown OR Faux fireplace, but we really wanted a spot in our home that we could use to change out decor from time to time. After a little brainstorming, we decided to incorporate some free standing decorative shelves into our kitchen nook. You can scatter them in a few different sizes on a wall like we did, or simply find a chunky store-bought one and dress it up for all the different seasons and holidays.


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1932 Ford highboy painted in Canary yellow color is powered by a V8 Chevy 327 engine and a seriously cool rake from behind. Used in the movie American Graffiti.
1932 Ford 3 window coupe, built "old school" – fan submission from Skip Perry. Thanks Skip!
This gorgeous old car is a fan submission from Johnny Nettles. 1938 BUICK ROADMASTER. Thanks Johnny, what a great car.
Beautiful 1932 Ford convertible. Wouldn't you like to park this old classic car in your driveway?
Caddy my Daddy. This old car is a fan submission from Sam Burgess. Thanks Sam. She's a beaut. Submitted by: sam Burgess
1937 Ford Custom Roadster. Awesome old car. Who wouldn't want to take a ride in this hot looking convertible?


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Sammath Naur was formed in 1999 by Uzurpator - vocals, Saturnus - guitars, Sigmar - guitars and Lestath - drums. The name of the band has been adapted from JRR Tolkien's works and means 'Chambers of Fire', the only place where the One Ring could be destroyed.
The band recorded its first 6 track demo, "Through the Mountains of Mordor, " that same year. The music on this demo was very raw and simple. It was reminiscent of Immortal and Emperor's early works. Due to the poor sound quality, the demo has never been released.
In 2001 Sammath Naur greeted its new guitarist Tempter, keyboard player Demetrius and bassist Morgoth. Saturnus decided to change his role from a guitar player to a vocalist, thereby replacing Uzurpator. In this new lineup, the band started working on new material and getting ready for a recording session. The result was a second demo, "The Wall of Sleep". It was self-funded and released in 2001. It contained 6 new compositions, somewhat faster and more mature, in which electric organs played a more prominent role. "The "On the Altar of Mars" music video was attached to this release. The author of the music video was Patryk Chyla. It won second prize at the Berlin music video festival in 2002. It was Sammath Naur's first major success. Many positive reviews were written after the release of The Wall of Sleep. The material has been intensively promoted at concerts throughout Poland with bands like Esqarial and Lost Soul.
Work on a new release was started in 2003. The process of creating and recording new material took a long time. The band was troubled by personal problems throughout the whole time. Saturnus left at the very beginning of the recording session. Soon after the bass tracks were recorded, Morgoth went in Saturnus' tracks, leaving the band. Work on the third release was completed in 2004, unfortunately without Tempter, who was replaced by Valeo (aka. V), and with a brand new vocalist, Levan. The new album was titled "The Forever War". It consisted, once again, of 6 tracks, however this time a certain innovation was introduced. The Forever War was a concept album. The tracks all made up a consistent whole. They combined various music styles, intertwining in a natural way, such as black/death metal, soundtrack scores and symphonic music. The material was a sure step forward in the development of the band, although the real breakthrough was yet to come. In this new lineup, Sammath Naur's members started promoting their new material on numerous concerts. Having been invited by Effect Murder and Deception, they set out on their first tour of Poland. An intensive search for a record company started at about that time. The band eventually decided to sign a contract with Redrum666 Records. The cooperation, however, proved ill-fated. The premiere of The Forever War kept being postponed. The album wasn't released.
By the end of 2004 the band decided to record their first professional album. Composing music this time didn't take so long. It was completed on the break of June-July 2004. Sammath Naur was joined by bassist Tas at that time. The recording session started in February 2005 and was planned out into 3 stages. During its course, important changes in the lineup occurred. Keyboard player Demetrius, who took part in the recording of the new material, left the band. His absence forced guitarist Valeo (aka V) to record the keyboard parts on the album. Hitherto vocalist Levan was removed from the band during recording. As a result of this, most of the vocal parts were arranged and performed by drummer Lestath. There was one more new musician, Revisque - composer and producer of game soundtracks, with whom the band started to co-operate already by the end of the recording session. That's why only one of his compositions, "Grand Space Opera, " can be found on the new CD.
Everything was completed by June 2005. Soon afterwards, Polish Empire Records grew interested in the material from SN, thanks to whom the album "Self Proclaimed Existence" was released in December 2005 in conjunction with THRASH'EM ALL magazine. The CD comprised of 11 tracks. The music was faster and far more aggressive - it's really didn't sound anything like the first two demos. The style of creating music by merging various musical genres, first attempted in The Forever War, was explored more deeply on this album. The assimilation of such diverse styles as black/death metal, classical rock, new age, film scores, symphonic and choir music resulted in a unique creation that couldn't be categorized, stereotyped or pigeon-holed.
Thanks to this album, the true potential of Sammath Naur's musicians has been noticed very quickly by other artists. Presently, Valeo plays with Vesania and Rootwater and Lestath has been a drummer of Esqarial and Darzamat.


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God does not simply give us "rules and regulations." He gives us himself. All his teachings and commandments reflect who he is, and for the same reason, they all hold together in an organic unity – like the body itself – and every commandment in some way includes every other commandment. In this column, we conclude our reflections on how abortion violates every commandment, and how the commandments strengthen us to be pro-life.
The Seventh Commandment declares, "You shall not steal." Whenever we violate the right to life, we steal. We rob the person of what is his – the recognition of his rights, the protection of his life.
Actions like abortion also rob God himself of what is his. Once when I was praying at an abortion facility with a group of people, and one man had his toes over the property line, a clinic worker shouted, "Get your feet off our property." I responded, "And when are you going to get your hands off God's property?"
God alone has dominion over human life. When an abortionist reaches into the sacred space of the womb to rip the child apart, he is stealing from the Almighty, and is also robbing society of the respect it owes to life.
The Eighth Commandment declares, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." Everyone has a right to his good name and reputation, and this commandment forbids us to lie about what someone has or hasn't done, or about who someone is.
The culture of death violates this commandment in a profound way. By allowing court decisions like Roe vs. Wade that says, "the word person…does not include the unborn," society bears false witness against the unborn. It is a lie.
Abortionists go even further and call our unborn brothers and sisters names like "parasites," or "products of conception" or "medical waste." They bear false witness.
And anyone who says an abortion is justified is bearing false witness by denying that the child has the right to be protected from the abortionists' knife.
The Ninth and Tenth Commandments forbid us to covet what belongs to our neighbor, whether it be his spouse or his possessions. This commandment, in other words, requires us to limit our desires by respecting the boundaries between what is ours and what isn't.
That is a sacred boundary that is completely shattered by abortion. The boundary between what is the mother's and what is the child's completely disappears. Some, for instance, will justify abortion because the mother has to get on with her life. But so does the child.
Some will justify it because the mother has freedom not to be burdened. But so does the child. And in denying that the child has the same freedom she claims to have, she destroys the meaning and foundation of her own.
Those who want to nourish their pro-life spirituality with reflections like this for every day of the year can obtain my book Pro-life Reflections for Every Day at priestsforlife.org/store.


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MySQL System Architecture
In this article, we're going to take a look at MySQL internals. It will be a fun, informative examination of how all the different pieces and parts of the MySQL server operate together. MySQL's implementation is a fascinating mix of technology that is truly a remarkable achievement—an achievement born from the sweat and inspiration of numerous developers over many years.
One of the joys of open-source technology is just that: it's open source! On a system as large as MySQL,1 taking a look at the source code gives you a true understanding of the dilemmas faced by the developers over the course of the software evolution. In this article, we'll investigate the source code of the server itself, so put on your hard hat. We encourage you to take a look at the source code, even if you have no intention of making any changes. You will gain an appreciation of the enormity of the tasks undertaken by the development team at MySQL AB, as well as gain a much deeper understanding of how the software works, and thus how you can optimize your programs to best utilize MySQL's strengths and avoid its weaknesses.
The information presented in this article comes from an analysis of both the internal system documentation and the actual source code for the MySQL database server system. Because MySQL is an evolving code repository, since press time, some of the design features explained here have likely changed and will continue to do so over time. If you look at the source code from one version to the next, you'll notice variations in the implementations of subsystems and how they interrelate; however, much of the way in which the system generally functions has persisted over the evolution of the software.
Even if you're not a C programming guru, you should be able to follow most of what we'll cover here. The focus will be less on the code itself and more on the structure and flow of operations within the server, and how the different code libraries interact with each other. Our intention is to provide a basic road map from which you can navigate the source code and documentation yourself. However, there are a few sections of this article that require a significant knowledge of C and C++ programming, and are meant for more advanced readers. If you don't have a whole lot of experience in C programming, just do your best to follow along, and don't worry about it too much!
The MySQL Source Code and Documentation
Since we're going to be looking at the MySQL server source code, you'll want to download a copy of the latest MySQL source code so that you can follow along, as well as embark on your own code review adventures. The source code used in this article comes from a copy of the source code for version 5.0.2. To download a copy of the source code, head over to MySQL's download site (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html) and download the version of interest to you.
Caution: The source distribution we used for this article's analysis came from the 5.0.2-alpha source tree. Bear in mind that MySQL is an evolving piece of software, and as such, various implementation details discussed in this article may change over time. Always obtain the proper source versions of development documentation before you assume anything is the case for a particular version of MySQL.
The Source Code
The source code is organized into a shallow directory tree containing the major libraries of the MySQL server and its different extensions.
Top-Level Directories
Table 1 shows all the major top-level directories, with a brief description of the files contained in each directory and the general purpose of those files. As we progress through the article, we'll break down the information in this table into smaller groups that relate to each subsystem, but you may use this larger table as a reference.
Table 1. Top-Level Directories in the Source Tree
|The Berkeley DB storage engine handler implementation files
|Program compilation files
|The mysql command tool (client program) implementation files
|The mysql database (system database) schema, data, and index files
|Debugging utility code
|The documentation, both internal developer documents and the MySQL online manual
|The MEMORY storage engine handler implementation files
|Core system header files and type definitions
|The InnoDB storage engine handler implementation files
|The old ISAM storage engine handler implementation files
|The MySQL C client API (all C source and header files)
|The MySQL server core library (C, C++, and some header files)
|A simple program to test MySQL
|The old Merge storage engine handler implementation files
|The MyISAM storage engine handler implementation files
|The MyISAM Merge storage engine handler implementation files
|The core function library, with basic low-level functions
|The regular expression function library
|Shell scripts for common utilities
|Internationalized error messages
|The meat of the server's implementation, with core classes and implementations for all major server and client activity
|/sql- bench
|MySQL benchmarking shell scripts
|Lower-level string-handling functions
|Preconfigured MySQL configuration files (such as my-huge. cnf)
|Test programs and scripts
|Network/socket utility functions, virtual I/O, SSL, and so on
|Compression function source files
You can take some time now to dig through the source code a bit, for fun, but you will most likely find yourself quickly lost in the maze of classes, structs, and C functions that com-pose the source distribution. The first place you will want to go is the documentation for the distribution, located in the /Docs directory. Then follow along with us as we discuss the key subsystems and where you can discover the core files that correspond to the different system functionality.
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Topic: Macworld
First-ever Macworld Mobile to be held at 2011 Mobile World Congress
09/07/2010, 08:09 am
The biggest mobile trade show in the world, the Mobile World Congress, will host the first-ever Macworld Mobile next February in Barcelona, Spain.
11 products earn 'Best of Show' distinction at Macworld 2010
02/12/2010, 04:02 pm
Macworld 2010 is being held in San Francisco this week, and 11 different products featured at the event have been declared the best by the editors of Macworld.
CEA says Apple, Jobs not attending CES 2010 conference
07/30/2009, 02:07 pm
Despite reports to the contrary, Apple will not be exhibiting at next year's Consumer Electronics Show, nor is Chief Executive Steve Jobs expected to deliver the show's keynote, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
Steve Jobs asked to keynote CES 2010 in January [Updated]
07/29/2009, 10:07 pm
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who was photographed leaving the company's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters Wednesday, has been asked to keynote next year's Consumer Electronics Show. But will Apple even attend?
Macworld Expo moving from January to February
03/30/2009, 05:03 pm
IDG World Expo announced Monday that next year's Macworld Expo -- the first without headliner Apple -- will take place February 9th through the 13th rather than January 4th through the 8th, as was previously announced.
Analyst urges Apple to add cable box support to Apple TV
02/04/2009, 07:02 pm
As sales triple year-over-year and a new cable communication standard arrives on the scene at the same time, a new-and-improved Apple TV could become the center of your digital home, according to a Wall Street analyst.
CES tempting Apple-related electronics makers from Macworld
01/11/2009, 10:01 pm
No matter Apple's plans to attend CES on its own, those accessory builders who once only attended Macworld are being offered a chance to exhibit in a special section of the larger Las Vegas show.
Source: Apple plans to attend CES in 2010
01/09/2009, 06:01 pm
On the heels of announcing its plans to bail on Macworld Expo next year, Apple will be instead attending the more generic Consumer Electronics Show in 2010, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Several new Mac, iPod, iPhone gadgets debut at Macworld
01/09/2009, 12:01 pm
New gadgets seen at Macworld can help organize household items, record meetings and lectures, charge your iPod in an emergency, and more. This overview includes products from Griffin Technology, Shure, XtremeMac, and more.
Livescribe Pulse smart pen demos crowd aisles at Macworld
01/09/2009, 11:01 am
A new "paper-based computing" device from Livescribe packs a PDA into an old fashioned writing pen to deliver a programmable computer and voice recorder that remembers everything it writes, can translate text and formulas, and syncs everything it jots with your desktop PC.
Eye-Fi adds WiFi, geotagging to any camera
01/09/2009, 11:01 am
Apple gave a lot of airtime this week to the new geotagging features in iPhoto 09, which allows users to organize and search photos based on the GPS data assigned to them. Eye-Fi's SD memory cards will enable any camera to tag photos with a location, making the cards a great camera upgrade for iLife 09 users.
New storage options playing big role at Macworld
01/08/2009, 10:01 pm
Checking out the latest in Mac-friendly gear is a big part of Macworld, and this year was no exception. Here's our roundup of new storage options, ranging from external to networked from names like HP, Iomega, LaCie, Verbatim, and more.
Mac industry gathers to discuss future of Macworld Expo
01/08/2009, 07:01 pm
Macworld Expo organizers hosted a Town Hall meeting last night, featuring an open discussion with Macworld Conference & Expo vice president and general manager Paul Kent.
Microvision's tiny video projector wows Macworld attendees
01/08/2009, 06:01 pm
While Apple demonstrated some cool new technologies in its consumer software packages, one of the most impressive new technology introductions at Macworld Expo was hidden away in Moscone Center's North Hall: a tiny video projector the size of an iPhone.
iTunes DRM-free, but upgrading comes with strings attached
01/07/2009, 06:01 pm
Even though Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' long-stated desire for DRM-free iTunes music has finally been realized, some observers and users are questioning Apple for the way it's handling certain aspects of the change.
An extensive look at Apple's new iWork.com service
01/07/2009, 06:01 pm
Apple's new iWork.com service lifts one of the biggest obstacles facing its iWork office productivity suite by making it easier for iWork users to collaborate with others using Windows PC and Microsoft Office. Here's a first look at how the service works and what it does.
Analysts: Macworld "underwhelming", "evolutionary"
01/07/2009, 03:01 pm
Apple watchers on Wall Street are weighing in on Tuesday's Phil Schiller-led keynote address at Macworld, which they found disappointing but somewhat reassuring when it comes to the continued role of Steve Jobs as the company's primary spokesperson.
Apple's final Macworld booth in photos
01/06/2009, 08:01 pm
Macs and iPhones are driving the the latest chapter of the Apple growth story but that's not the pictured painted by the company's exhibit at this year's Macworld Expo, where the usual suspects have taken a back seat to the latest innovations in consumer media and productivity software.
A closer look at Apple's advanced notebook battery tech
01/06/2009, 08:01 pm
The new 17" MacBook Pro claims an industry leading 8 hours of battery life, thanks to a series of innovations Apple highlighted in the new notebook's introduction. Even so, many of the advancements are not actually new, but rather the product of Apple's incremental engineering efforts to increase its notebooks' usability and desirability by thinking differently.
First look: unibody 17" MacBook Pro (with photos and video)
01/06/2009, 06:01 pm
It was no surprise to see a unibody refresh of the 17" MacBook Pro; many wondered why the model wasn't included with the 13" MacBook and 15" MacBook Pro released last fall. Apple's belated high end notebook refresh did give Phil Schiller "one more thing" to introduce in his keynote however.


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The Nizam's city of Hyderabad is famous for many things. Biryani, Chandrababu Naidu, Satyam, the Charminar and the Golconda fort. I have visited Hyderabad several times for a day's trip to the corporate Hitech city so aptly named for all the major IT firms that are housed there. However, I never had the opportunity to stay for more than a day at work.
The past week however, I got a chance to go around seeing this buzzing metropolis of Hyderabad and getting a feel of what it was even if it was for just a few hours in the wee morning. Hyderabad is divided into five parts – east, west, north, south and the central zone. The picturesque Hussain Sagar lake with its tall misty fountains and the Buddha statue in the middle is at the center of the city. Most affluent neighborhoods such as the Banjara hills, Jubilee hills etc. lie around the lake in the central zone. The old city of Hyderabad lies at the south of the Musi river and is vastly different from the cleaner Hitech city, Banjara hills, and cantonment part of Secunderabad.For the couple of hours I had, and with the couple of foreign visitors accompanying me, I decided to go to the Charminar, the Birla temple and the Hussain Sagar lake. Charminar is much touted as the symbol of Hyderabad and is displayed magnificently on travel posters at the airport and outside. Quite honestly, as I neared it, I was totally not impressed. Apart from creating a hype about it the Andhra Pradesh government has done nothing to maintain it the way it should be. This ancient structure which was built by Sultan Qutb Shah more than 400 years ago is in the sorriest part of the town. From the outside, its walls look crumbling and dilapidated and a tiny not-very-old temple is built right adjacent to it and sadly is the cause for many riots. The market is not clean, and hawkers, and beggars throng the streets jeering at and harassing tourists. The day after my visit, there apparently were even riots and police firing happened around there. It is a pity that such a highly touted tourist spot is in such a sensitive area to scare away any tourists and is simply not secured or preserved well enough. Even taking photos wasn't as simple as it should have been with the milling traffic and crowd.
The market nearby, the 'Laad Bazaar' was just opening up when I went and I hear there are lots of bangle shops, pearl shops and in season, kite-maker shops.
The old mosque, the Mecca masjid near the Charminar looked much more ancient and charming than the Charminar itself, but again, we could not go in because of much scaffolding and maintenance work going on there.
Our next stop at the Birla temple was much nicer. The Birla temple in Hyderabad was built of lovely pristine white marble. The temple on a hill offered panaromic views of the city in several directions, and one could see how the city of Hyderabad had grown in size over the years.We took a final round of the city around the peaceful Hussain sagar lake before we returned to the hi-tech city.
This is what I did in the 3 hours I had at Hyderabad. If you have the same time constraints if you visit, I suggest you visit a few alternate places
- The Golconda fort – check the lights and sound show in the evening which is supposed to be quite good (and really as told by other tourists and not just as advertised). The fort will take a minimum of 2 hours to see.
- The Chowmahalla palace in the old city is a great place to see and I had many recommendations to visit this.
- If you are a museum fan, the Salar Jung museum, one of the biggest museums in India is the place to go to.
- For a whole days visit, the Ramoji film studio is a fun theme park to hang out and see different film sets from different eras. Guided tours can be booked right from the airport.
Eating options – Being a modern city, Hyderabad has plenty of places to eat for all palates. Hyderabadi Biryani is particularly very famous. To eat the best biryani, do go to the immensely popular 'Paradise Biryani' at Secunderabad where they even pack the biryani in special packages for travelers! Don't forget to pack baked goodies, particularly dry-fruit biscuits from the 60 year old Karachi bakery to share back home. On the way back, I particularly enjoyed the 'idlis' of Idli Factory at the airport with all their accompaniments of different 'chutneys'.
Overall, I was quite impressed with most areas I went around in. The Hi-tech city, with all its IT software parks, beautiful roads, hardly felt like the dusty, grimy India that is better known! The Banjara hills and the Jubilee hills are a verdant mass of foliage and beautiful houses. I wasn't exactly wowed by the 2-3 touristy places I went to, but I liked the overall feel of the city to want to visit again.


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Breeders rights protected in 'Breeders Trust'
Without innovation, no future. But innovation requires a lot of money. The development of a new potato breed for instance, takes at least 10 years and costs up to 3 million euros! And what if someone else then runs off with it? This is where Breeders Trust comes in.
Breeder's Trust was founded in 2008 out of dissatisfaction with the fact that around the world seed was reproduced and marketed illegally and breeders' rights were violated. Initiators were nine leading seed potato breeding and trading companies, including HZPC. Together they count for over 80% of the newly developed potato varieties within the EU. Breeders Trust Ltd. is a rather small organization based in Brussels with the world as her playing field.


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Remote control it is not, press I well
Surfing channels of reason, my eyes fail-
If Nature stayed true to will and please
My senses-Ah it would be worth my while.
In this age of instant gratification can Omar Khayyam be relevant to us? I believe the quatrain form could be used to convey our spiritual confusion or love for Immensities that comes in byte-size, only we call it passing time. Nature changes: seasons after seasons on the treadmill of Time, is the riddle that was poets of every age and clime had to come to terms with.
Who is using the remote control, by the way?
It is somewhat like the theatre of the Absurd. One who makes Nature keep renewing the face of the earth affects us as well. Lacking in time we require certainties and only certainty that we end up with is what one might call as Chance.
Thanks to our attention-deficit we also keep checking out what is all available whenever we want some entertainment. Instead we are inundated with bits and snatches of man's art, news of the mart that would not even feed the appetite of a louse. Who is using the remote control and what for?


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3 leeks, sliced (white parts only!)
1 bunch rapini, chopped
6 cups chicken stock
3/4 cup (uncooked) jasmine rice
1/4 cup dry vermouth
1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
2 bay leaves
juice and zest of 1 Meyer lemon
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
In a wide-bottomed pot or dutch oven, heat the olive oil and butter. Add the garlic, rapini, parsley, rice and leeks. Saute until the leeks start to soften and the rapini starts to wilt. Pour in the broth, vermouth, juice, zest and spices. Cover and cook until the rice is fully cooked, about 15 minutes.


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Hard-hit Westport businesses work to restore normalcy
After Sandy: Hard-hit businesses take stock, clean up, rebuild
WESTPORT -- Elbows slumped on the Black Duck Cafe bar, Tracy Sagar lets out a sigh and recalls the moment she heard her place of work had been swept out to sea by Hurricane Sandy.
"I cried my eyes out," said the mother of four. "I thought: `How am I going to put food on the table?' "
Then the phone rings, allowing the bartender of 10 years to inform probably the 30th customer of the week that -- contrary to initial TV reports and Internet rumors -- the Black Duck actually hadn't floated across Long Island Sound or, as one story went, somehow washed six miles inland to her hometown of Trumbull.
"We were open for business the next day," she said, hanging up.
Inside the Black Duck, a 34-year-old pub inside a barge on the banks of the Saugatuck River, laughter ripples down the bar.
"Oh. My. God," Sagar declared.
Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy, Westport's wealth of waterfront businesses are waiting for a return to normal. Store owners are scrambling to re-open their doors and to get the word out when their businesses are back up and running. For almost three miles up the Saugatuck River, the town's mix of family-owned shops and high-end boutiques continue to face a drop in customers and a spike of construction trucks.
"This has been the worst I have ever seen," said Lee Papageorge, who's owned Oscar's Deli for 38 years -- and worked here for 45 years -- at the northern end of downtown Main Street. While his upstairs deli did fine, his basement filled with nine inches of water when his sump pump shut off.
Many of his neighbors fared far worse.
By Friday morning, 11 of the 38 stores along Main Street, from Post Road East up to Oscar's Deli, were still closed. Pottery Barn just re-opened, decked with Christmas trees. Other stores, such as Banana Republic and Loft, were undergoing major work.
From the narrow parking lot behind Main Street Thursday, the sky was blue, the river was sparkling, and the cool air was filled with flying sawdust and the whirr of power saws. One man in a facemask presided over more than 25,000 pounds of concrete mix. He poured the contents into a loud machine, which fed a tube of cement into the store Theory, ordinarily a place to buy $200 button-down shirts and pants.
Two doors down, men had stripped the Nike Running floor to its joists, walking between the beams on the earthen floor.
Nearby, as a truck yanked a teeming Dumpster onto its back, a row of cars snaked through the narrow hole, looking for parking: a BMW, a Lexus, a Mercedes-Benz, a Range Rover.
"I can't get over how many stores have paper in their windows," said Miriam Luck, a longtime Westport resident, strolling up the sidewalk for the first time since Sandy. "It's such a gorgeous town."
Arguably worst hit was the Westport Weston Family Y, whose cellar filled with enough water to scatter sticks and leaves amid a labyrinth of exposed pipes. The water climbed 10 basement stairs and ruined the childcare center and lower gymnasium. By Thursday, the basketball court had taken on the contours of a miniature golf course, its wooden slabs warped into a series of waves.
"This is more than we've ever experienced," said CEO Rob Reeves.
The Y's flood insurance covers up to half a million dollars, but the damage will certainly exceed that, he said. The damage won't affect the Y's plan to move to a new facility in fall of 2014, he added. Within the next couple of weeks, he hopes to be able to offer members everything but childcare, aquatics and activities in the lower gymnasium.
Many of the small businesses up and down the Saugatuck were similarly trying to stay open as they cleaned up or remodeled.
Henry Lehr, a women's denim store, remains in business for now, even with its white, wood-slatted floors warping into four speed bumps of sorts, lined with caution tape. Employees hope to replace the floor in two phases, each time keeping the other half of the shop functioning.
"This is just a bummer," said Noel du Pont, 53, who runs Francois du Pont Jewelers, a Main Street staple for 30 years.
In his career, du Pont has watched several times as floodwater wrapped its way to his front door, but it's never come inside. Until he can get a new carpet Monday, he's forced to sell his diamonds in display cases that stand on stained cement flooring. To take his mind off the eyesore, he woke up at 5 a.m. Thursday and wrapped 53 boxes with green-and-red gift paper, stuck bows on them, and placed them on a shelf near his ceiling.
"I prefer looking up," he said.
Across the Saugatuck, Helene Kurtz listened to Mozart Thursday afternoon as she recounted how several feet of floodwater had cost The Age of Reason toy store nearly $40,000 of merchandise.
One of the toughest losses: half a dozen "Quadrillas," wooden rollercoasters of sorts for playing with marbles. Kurtz placed those toys, which run from $65 to $165, up in a closet, expecting they would be safe. But the store got too much water.
"You have to understand, if you're going to live on the river for its views," Kurtz said, "you're going to have trouble."
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Iowa's growing economy has allowed us to cut taxes while balancing the state budget and protecting local services and schools.
The changes we made during the 2013 session will put more money in the pockets of middle-class Iowans and make it easier for businesses to invest and grow. We approved tax cuts that are good for every employer and taxpayer in the state, including:
Saving Iowans $4.4 billion over 10 years by overhauling our state's property tax system. Every class of property will get a permanent tax cut-commercial, industrial and agricultural properties, as well as homes, apartment buildings and nursing facilities (SF 295).
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Helping low-income Iowa families work their way out of poverty by increasing the state's Earned Income Tax Credit from 7 percent to 15 percent of the federal credit (SF 295).
Putting some of the state's budget surplus back into the pockets of eligible Iowa income taxpayers with a $30 to $60 tax credit any year the Iowa Taxpayers' Trust Fund exceeds $30 million (SF 295).
Encouraging rehabilitation of Iowa's historic commercial properties and business districts by expanding eligibility for State Historic Tax Credits (SF 436).
Attracting more businesses to locate and expand in Iowa by providing an additional $50 million in tax credits for this purpose (HF 620).
Helping promising startup businesses get off the ground through a tax credit for investment in early-stage, innovative companies (HF 615).
Cleaning up abandoned, blighted or contaminated industrial and commercial properties with $10 million in tax credits for so-called "brownfields" and "grayfields" (HF 620).
Financing economic development by allowing municipalities to establish reinvestment districts where a portion of the sales tax revenue helps boost local projects (HF 641).
Feeding hungry Iowans with healthy food through a tax credit for growers who donate produce to Iowa food banks and other emergency feeding organizations (SF 452).
Ensuring a strong future for Iowa farming by expanding a tax credit program in which retiring farmers lease or rent land to beginning farmers (HF 599).
Expanding the definition of agricultural property for tax purposes to include land used for the cultivation and production of algae for animal feed, nutrition or biofuels (HF 632).


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The power of Knowledge Engineering
At SKF, empowering our customers is vital. In the cement industry, producers find themselves under constant pressure to reduce costs and minimise their environmental impact.
SKF Engineer Keith Meyers applies SKF's lifecycle management approach to the industry and results have been outstanding with major reductions in energy consumption and equally dramatic increases in equipment efficiency.
"For me, these results prove two points - that our approach to environmental issues leads to results and that Knowledge Engineering is rightly at the heart of everything SKF does."
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An updated & *eye popping* brochure is needed for our home health care agency. We send nurses, doctors, physical therapists, medical labs etc to the home of the elderly.
You can get a brief overview by visiting our website: http://www.northshorehomehealth.com
Target audience for the brochure are doctors, nurses and medical social workers. These are the people who will refer us patients - so we need to impress them and catch their eye right way.
It has to be professional looking enough but also eye popping so that they we will leave a good lasting impression. The goal is to get them to call us or fax us patients that will need home health care.
Secondary goal is to leave a good impression on anyone who comes across this brochure - to know that it's from one of the top agencies in the city/state/country.
Use your best judgment. I will just give you basic framework requirements:
* Contact information (company name, address, phone number, fax, google map) important
* I want it to be image rich & testimonial rich. Testimonials can be from http://www.northshorehomehealth.com…timonials/
* Less wordy, simple elegant and sleek. Should not be overwhelming to look at.
* List brief summary of services provided (ie: nurses, doctors, physical therapy, etc)
*Emphasize that our patients consistently rank us 9/10 and 10/10 on surveys - maybe in the form of a graphic.
* Mention briefly how we're family-run instead of a big corporation - we care about quality not quantity etc.
Everything else - I trust you will know how to do - our website has all the info
PS: I'm attaching our current brochure - which I DO NOT like. It is too wordy, boring, not enough flow, etc. Also has our old address on there.
Just for reference: