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Universalism is the religious doctrine that all people will eventually be saved and go on to everlasting life. It contrasts with the doctrines of eternal damnation and annihilationism. Simply put, universalism is a denial of the existence of Hell, even though Jesus repeatedly emphasized its very real existence. The term universalism is normally used in the context of Christianity, but can also be applied to non-Christian religions which believe that everyone will be saved and go to heaven.
Universalism is rejected by most Christian denominations, although a small minority have taught it - it is popular at the more liberal extremes of Christian thought, such as Unitarian Universalism. It can be traced back to the first few centuries of the church, but has always been a minority view. It has been criticized as destroying the motivation for ethical and religious behaviour and individual responsibility - if it doesn't matter what I do or what I believe, and I will go to heaven anyway, then in this life I can do whatever I want and believe whatever I want and none of it matters.
Universalists either reject the idea of punishment after death entirely; or else they believe in hell, but believe it has only a limited duration, after which everyone in hell is admitted to heaven.
Compare universalism to annihilationism - annihilationists also deny eternal punishment, but they do not believe in eternal reward for the damned either. In universalism, everyone is eventually saved. In annihilationism, the saved go to heaven, the damned eternally cease to exist, either immediately after death, or at the end of a temporary period of punishment in hell. The Catholic belief in purgatory implies a limited period of punishment after death for some - but unlike universalists or annihilationists, Catholics still believe in everlasting punishment for the damned.
Origen taught that eventually everyone would repent, be saved, and be admitted into heaven - even Satan himself. But several of his views (including this) were declared heretical by many of his contemporaries in the church, even as his contributions in other areas of theology were valued.
The challenge for Christian universalism is how to explain the Biblical passages which talk about eternal damnation: Revelation 14:9-12 , Revelation 19:1-3 , Revelation 20:7-10 , Matthew 13:24-30 , Matthew 13:36-43 , Mark 9:42-48 , Luke 16:19-31 .


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Shifting dunes on Mars, especially those near the planet's north pole, may harbor layers of liquid water not far beneath their ice-encrusted surfaces.
That is the implication of studies of sand dunes in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park, some 380 miles northwest of Fairbanks. There, above the Arctic Circle, researchers using the dunes as stand-ins for dunes on Mars have found evidence for liquid water trapped between the dunes' icy winter coat and subsurface layers of ice or freeze-dried silt that form a temporary, cement-like barrier that prevents the water from percolating deeper into the dune.
The water remains liquid because it exists in an environment of temperature and pressure that allows liquid water, ice, and water vapor to exist side by side.
The discovery of this seasonal mechanism for storing liquid water on Mars-like features at Mars-like temperatures opens a window on processes that could have been at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.
And it could help explain debris flows scientists have spotted on sunlit sections of crater and canyon walls in various locations around the planet.
"Mars has likely had active sand dunes during every geologic era, and some of these eras were warmer and wetter than Mars is today," notes Cynthia Dinwiddie, a researcher with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
"There is some possibility that equivalent processes are currently occurring on Mars," primarily in dune fields in Mars' equivalent of the Arctic, she writes in an email. Still, "the likelihood is even greater that equivalent processes occurred on ancient Mars."
The dune field in Alaska that Dr. Dinwiddie and Southwest Research Institute colleague Don Hooper study sits on the boundary between boreal forests to the south and Arctic tundra to the north. Known as the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field, the sands were first formed during ice ages that occurred between 300,000 and 130,000 years ago.
Glaciers sculpted the Brooks Range to the north and left the sandy debris in the Kobuk River Valley. There, wind, meltwater, and more-recent ice ages would continue to rework the material to leave some 24 square miles of mobile dunes on the surface and another 250 square miles of sandy soils that don't get around much anymore.
NASA's small squadron of Mars orbiters revealed dunes in the planet's north polar regions, and they took enough images over a sufficient period of time to reveal that the dunes moved. But the pace was glacial, especially when compared with the movement of dunes in locations such as the Sahara Desert or the US Southwest.
Dinwiddie and colleagues looked to the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field for possible answers as to why Mars' polar dunes were such geophysical sloths – first exploring the Alaskan analogues via satellite remote-sensing, then in 2010, with a field trip in March, while temperatures still averaged about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit and the dunes' top, mobile layer was still frozen solid.
During the field trip, the researchers noticed water coming up through the bore holes they had drilled but that had not yet reached deep into the dunes to tap the region's aquifer. Ground-penetrating radar and measurements of the ground's electrical resistance revealed evidence for a layer of liquid water just below the frozen mobile layer.
As if to ice the cake, the team found water seeping out of mini bluffs where erosion or slumping exposed this layer to the increasing warmth of a March sun. They also found debris flows, which appeared to signaled brief bouts of melting from this layer.
Intriguingly, climate conditions for the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field in March are similar to the conditions NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity is experiencing at Gale Crater – which also has dunes. They migrate at a lethargic pace comparable to Alaska's dunes. But they don't get the seasonal frost cover that Alaska's or Mars' polar dunes do.
At the least, the mechanism generating the debris flows on Alaska's dunes could help explain seasonal debris flows researchers have detected on Mars, notes Dr. Hooper.
Since the first evidence for these flows was reported 13 years ago, researchers have debated the triggers. Some argue that they merely represent an avalanche of sediment that the slopes no longer could support. Others have suggested they are triggered by sudden outbursts from buried CO2 ice that rapidly turns to gas and punches through the soil and rock on slopes when sunlight warms them. Or they could result from the sudden release of water as the sunlit warmth of surrounding soils melts enough ice to trigger a large flow before the water quickly evaporates.
Flows that researchers have seen on the walls of Martian craters appear and disappear with the warm season, Dr. Hooper notes, just as "flow features commonly form under seasonally warming conditions" at the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes.
"By studying cold-climate dune fields on Earth, we will achieve a greater understanding of the full spectrum of possible origins for Martian gully systems," he writes in an email.
"Martian debris flows and their associated gullies are believed to be youthful geologic features," he adds. They serve as "a reminder that Mars is not a dead planet but still has active surface processes."

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A Student's Report on Universita Del Caffe, the Intensive Coffee Course at ICC
Editor's note: Serious Eater Rachel Felder chimes in to tell us about her experience at Universita Del Caffe last week. Take it away, coffee newbie-turned-expert Rachel! —Erin
The last time I drank six back-to-back espressos in the name of education, it was to get through an entire Thomas Pynchon novel the night before an English Literature final. But I found myself knocking back that many demi-tasses last week as a student at the Universita Del Caffe, an intensive coffee course at the International Culinary Center.
Aimed primarily at professional baristas, the two-day session was taught mostly by two professors from Trieste, Italy, "the port that 40 percent of Italy's coffee comes through," according to my scrawled notes. The class was chock full of tips on how to make a perfect espresso and cappuccino; how coffee beans are grown, harvested, and roasted; and how to choose the right equipment.
The class was made up mostly of pros, from Per Se to the coffee bars at Food Emporium, with some civilian espressoholics like me thrown in for good measure. That meant a few of the tidbits we learned, like how much of your three kilogram bean tub to grind each morning before the customers arrive, went a little over my head, but mostly the class was extremely informative.
I confess that I've got an inordinate amount of coffee makers at home (French press, electric espresso, stovetop Moka, and more) but now I know I've been using each slightly incorrectly.
One of the best tips taught: remove your Moka (also known as a Bialetti) from the stove with 20 percent of the brewing cycle left to go. Like so much cooking, the residual heat in the pot will complete the process even when it's away from the flame. The instructor who gave me this advice was nice enough to point out that many Italian households botch this up too.
A highlight of the class: the Italian teachers. Moreno Faina, who talks about coffee as if he were reciting a classic love poem, and Giorgio Milos, a former World Barista Champ, couldn't help but look a little disgusted at the mention of American inventions like soy cappuccino and lattes, made with half-and-half.
The passion of these guys was palpable and contagious, sort of like the deliciously caffeinated coffee aroma in the classroom, which, possibly psychosomatically, kept me up all night after both class sessions. Both professors are from Trieste, where the Universita Del Caffe is based. This was the school's second intensive course in New York, with another planned for June.
It's worth noting that the Universita is sponsored by illy, so there was a bit more brand discussion than some students might have liked. But since so many restaurants and coffee bars carry illy coffee—and it happens to be delicious—I really didn't mind. Plus, I happily left with an illy cupping spoon—which we used during the course's many taste tests—tucked surreptitiously in my pocket. Clearly I had no problems with the alliance.
And, I have to add, the best cameo: chef Wylie Dufresne of wd-50 wandered in for a few minutes during the first day's lunch break. Although I now understand why decaf tastes watery and how many factors go into making a perfectly rich crema, Dufresne's brief hello remains a mystery.
The next two-day Universita Del Caffe course will be offered June 1 and 2. For more information, go here. International Culinary Cuisine: 462 Broadway, New York NY 10013 (map); 888-324-2433.
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Malcolm Gladwell's next book will be David and Goliath (2013, Little Brown).
I haven't read the book yet, but he wrote a related article in the New Yorker entitled "How David Beats Goliath" detailing that Davids (underdogs) win a surprising 1/3 of the time against much stronger Goliaths. The article highlighted a poorly-trained California girls' basketball team who reached the state finals through unconventional defense like the press. [The article generated some controversy with Gladwell responding to some concerns about Rick Pitino.] Gladwell might have, but didn't discuss Grinnell Basketball's innovative strategy to take on better teams of running all out, "run and gun" and substituting in new players every 5 minutes so the team was always fresh.
In an interview with New Yorker's, Nicholas Thompson in Canada in October 2012, he noted that "Traits that we consider to be disadvantages aren't disadvantages at all. … As a society, we depend on damaged people far more than we realize. … They're capable of things the rest of us can't do [because] they look at things in different ways."
One key factor in underdog's success (in business or in life) is employing disruptive strategies that exploit their stronger opponent's weaknesses. They often move quickly, lay low, channel the opponent's energy against him or herself, or figure out dimensions along which their Goliath opponent will be slow to change. [Looks like it might help reprise some of the theories of Sun Tzu's The Art of War.]
He focuses on events like Americans and Soviets losing to Afghanistan. the Americans losing to the Viet Cong, or Steve Jobs vaulting out of nowhere and overtaking wealthy Xerox. Or Cezanne, who originally was a "failed painter" but comes from behind. His book relates a bit to Randy Pausch's advice that barriers are not put up to keep people from their goals but to separate out those who really want something from those who don't. [He might also have added to his list the success of the American minutemen in defeating the much better trained and funded British troops through a combination of knowing the terrain, early guerrilla warfare [hiding behind trees and rocks], wearing camouflage rather than bright red uniforms, etc.]
His mantra is embodied in the bible:
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]
He believes that Americans shouldn't focus on getting into the best colleges. [More on that when books comes out, although maybe he's generalizing from his rise to stardom from a degree from University of Toronto's Trinity College…]
I haven't read the book yet, but his book flies in the face of our research that suggests that over the last several decades, there is far less equality of opportunity in America than earlier. These low-income "underdogs" seem to be far less likely to break out of the low-education of the families they are born into than Gladwell's optimistic statistics seem to assert. Look forward to reading the book…
Here's an interview of Gladwell with CBC's Terry MacLeod.
Click here for interview with New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson on Underdogs.
For more on Outliers, his last book, click here.


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We share your personal information with third party service providers in order to provide the Services to you including third parties who assist us with information processing, credit and payment processing, fulfilment of your subscription order, managing and hosting data, conducting consumer research or satisfaction surveys. These disclosures relate to providing our Services, improving our Services and delivering targeted advertising to you. We do not provide your contact details to third parties for direct marketing by them to you without your express consent, which will be obtained from you at sign up process if you elect to provide this consent. As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy assets. In such transactions, the information we have collected about you will generally be one of the transferred business assets. Also in the event that our company or our assets are purchased, your information will also be one of the transferred assets. We may share information about you with: Other companies in the same corporate group as us. A buyer or prospective buyer of our business. Our professional advisers, such as our lawyers, where it is necessary for them to advise us. Other persons if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation.
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Newt and Callista Gingrich spend part of their weekend on campus
|Callista Gingrich reads her storybook to a group of children at the bookstore Saturday.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich visited Liberty University this weekend to present a lecture at the Helms School of Government and sign copies of his books at the Liberty University Barnes & Noble Bookstore along with his wife, Callista, who was promoting her new children's book, "Land of the Pilgrim's Pride."
Callista Gingrich held a special story time at the bookstore Saturday morning to present her book, which teaches children about America's proud heritage. She signed copies afterward, along with her husband, who signed copies of his books "A Nation Like No Other" and "To Save America."
The couple said they were drawn to Liberty because of its strong stance on upholding America's core values and Christian ethics.
Newt Gingrich called Liberty a "remarkable institution," citing its "depth of commitment to America, to the fact that we are endowed by our Creator, and the desire to give young people an opportunity to encounter the core values and the religious beliefs which are at the very heart of the American experience."
He arrived on Friday evening to present a special one-hour lecture on what it means to be an American, focusing on the country's rich heritage, distinguishing principles, and bountiful opportunities.
|Newt Gingrich lectures at the Helms School of Government Friday night.
The lecture was recorded and will be used in future course development. Newt Gingrich has already helped the university create a course, "American Exceptionalism" which is available through Liberty University Online.
He argued as citizens of this great nation, our rights come from God ultimately, not a president, Congress, or the Supreme Court. As such, we are to be responsible citizens, he said, hard working, with a commitment to benefiting society for the greater good. In America, there is a unique opportunity "to be business rivals in the morning and come together in the afternoon to benefit the community," he said, because as citizens we can balance the public and private sector.
"Liberty reassures me that there is a place where people are actually happy that you are in favor of classic American values," he said. "There are so many campuses now occupied by tenured faculty who despise America and who are opposed to American values."
After the lecture, Newt Gingrich held a Q-and-A session for the students. He fielded questions ranging from Social Security issues to energy independence, international relations, and the economy.
He also responded to a question about those who choose not to support one of the two primary candidates: "Any vote not for Mitt Romney is a vote for Obama. … Ask them if they are comfortable with four more years of Obama."
Newt Gingrich explained even he and Romney had their differences as he vied for the Republican nomination earlier this year, but shared many ways in which he agrees with the presidential candidate on policy and even boasted Romney's credentials as a former governor (Mass.).
When asked about crossing party lines to get things done, he explained when he was speaker of the house his relationship with President Bill Clinton was not the greatest, but they went behind closed doors, argued it out, and made compromises. Again, Newt Gingrich gave Romney a nod as he said a governor understands how to do this, for the greater good of this country.
As the formalities subsided, he took time to interact with the students and take pictures with them.
"(Liberty) is going to become one of the great intellectual institutions in the world and an institution which stands for key values and is not at all afraid or ashamed to stand up for what it believes in," Newt Gingrich said. "I look at where you are today, it is beyond (Dr. Jerry Falwell, Sr.'s) wildest dreams … and he had pretty wild dreams."
Newt Gingrich has visited Liberty several times and has been featured as a Convocation speaker and delivered the May 2007 Commencement address. He recently participated in a simulcast lecture with residential and online students at Liberty's Helms School of Government.


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RAATH, Schalk and WARNICH, Pieter. From a concentration camp to a post-apartheid South African school: A historical-environmental perspective in developing a new identity. Y&T [online]. 2012, n.7, pp.139-167. ISSN 2309-9003.
The overall goal of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014, as proclaimed by the United Nations, is to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning. This integrated and multi-dimensional approach is supported in South Africa by the White Paper for Education and Training and the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for History as part of the Social Science learning area. The aim of this article is to report on how a historical-environmental approach to education had been realised in the context of Eenheid primary school in Nylstroom (Modimolle) located on grounds used for a concentration camp during the South African War (October 1899 to May 1902)1. In particular, the researchers wanted to establish how a diverse group of learners experienced and internalised their historical-environmental events in creating their present identity. The findings of the school's learners (n=51) who participated in a case study suggest that the historical memory which developed from the unique location of the school not only expanded the learners perspectives on intercultural understanding, but also contributed to a better appreciation and responsibility of environmental and socio-cultural issues in a post-apartheid South Africa. In the process an ethic of sustainable living and the creation of a "new" South African identity developed.


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ANC planning Zimbabwe style land invasions after World Cup
zim_farm_takeover.jpgHARARE - South Africas ruling party ANC is planning Zimbabwean style land invasions after the FIFA 2010 World Cup, amid reports Zimbabwes Zanu PF and War Veterans Association will provide crucial support for the programme, sources in Zimbabwe said on Monday.
Controversial African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President, Julius Malema, is set to visit Zimbabwe for a series of meetings with Zanu PF counterparts. The crucial meeting will go a long way in exchanging ideas and preparatory stages for both logistics and mobilisation for sporadic land invasions across the country.
A member of the Zanu PF security department told our reporter that the basis of Malemas visit to Harare is a follow up to a secret discussion between President Mugabe and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma, three weeks ago.
The source said when South African President Jacob Zuma visited Zimbabwe during the coalition talks between Zanu PF and the MDC, he discussed at length, matters ranging from the British medias personal attacks on his private life during the recent visit to the United Kingdom and the need to expedite South African land reform.
It is at this stage that Mugabe converted Zuma into his camp, and the two leaders agreed to join hands in actively assisting each other in the land reform and indigenisation process.
This week, a high-level delegation in the South African security forces, intelligence and media with close links to the ruling party ANC are travelling to Zimbabwe and they will spend three months training at the Zimbabwe National Armys Staff College.
Senior Zimbabwe National army officers who led Zimbabwes land invasions will train their South African counterparts and impart knowledge based on their experiences.
A source said, South African land invasion factor is the reason why Zimbabwean President Mugabe has identified Jabulani Sibanda as the prefered choice to lead the Zimbabwe War Veterans Association in the associations reported power struggles.
Sibanda's speaks Ndebele and this is an important factor in his abilities to communicate with South Africa's ANC land invadors, the source said.
Zanu PF Youth League national secretary for administration Leslie Ncube said Malema was visiting Zimbabwe to discuss and share ideas on "youth empowerment and revolutionary tactics".
"The ANCYL president will be arriving next week. It will be a three-day visit and other executive members of the ANC youth league will accompany him," Ncube said.
The Zanu PF youth official said the ANC and his party have enjoyed cordial relationships that date back to the liberation struggle adding these ties would be further strengthened by Malemas visit.
"We share the same revolutionary history and they (visiting delegates) are coming to learn from our agrarian reform and indigenisation.
"The ANC is about to expand its land reforms, and we will share advice and discuss how resources should be equitably distributed to the youth and also how they can benefit from natural resources such as mining," Ncube said.
Speaking to South African media, Gugule Nkwinti, the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform accused white farmers of scuttling the land reform programme by frustrating governments willing buyer willing seller policy through inflating prices.
He warned South Africa risks sinking into chaos as the patience of new black farmers is running thin as evidenced by sporadic farm invasions.
"If South Africans who own land dont recognise the reality on the ground and can no walk the mind with government in terms of what is proposed right now then in fact they are the ones who will be responsible for creating conditions of chaos which can be worse than what has been witnessed in Zimbabwe," said Nkwinti.
Africas economic giant needs R 75 billion to acquire 80 million hectares of land by 2014 but this target will not be reached as national coffers are running dry as a result of a litany of service delivery issues that needs to be addressed such as a long housing back log, water and electricity deliveries to millions of households.
Nkwinti said the South African government is working on a policy aimed at addressing the land inequalities urging farm owners to be more flexible in land redistribution negotiations.
He said the new policy is about preventing going the disastrous way of distributing land like the one witnessed in Zimbabwe where President Robert Mugabes government forcibly took land from previous white owners in chaotic scenes that left many dead since the inception of the programme in 2000.
"This about preventing Zimbabwe," said Nkwinti.
He did not elaborate on whether his government will consider amending the constitution to enable it to forcibly take land like what happened in their northern neighbours where the government had to pass legislation to change the constitution allowing it to compulsorily acquire land from white farmers.
Nkwinti said just like in Zimbabwe where about 4000 white farmers owned most of the countrys arable land, land in South Africa is concentrated in the hands of a few land owners, most of whom are foreigners.
"We have a major monopoly of land ownership in South Africa and we must break that monopoly," said Nkwinti.
Nkwinti earlier this month told parliament that the government was adopting a "use it or lose it" policy to encourage increased production capacity but his weekend comments appear to be a shift towards a more radical policy.
Thousands of poor black South Africans, most of whom still live in abject poverty because of the apartheid era system are waiting for land promised at independence in 1994 and often repeated in campaign speeches by current President Jacob Zuma in his quest for political office last year.
Just like Zimbabwe, South Africa inherited an unjust land ownership system from the apartheid governments which parceled out all the best farm land to white farmers, leaving blacks to arid land not fit for agricultural purposes.
The South African government has in the past said it will not go it the Zimbabwe way and often move quickly to crush land related protests and attempts at invading farms owned by white farmers though it has largely been unable to stop farm murders but this time it appears it is starting to feel the people power.
Farm seizures are blamed for plunging Zimbabwe once a net exporter of the staple maize grain into severe food shortages since 2001 after black peasant farmers resettled on former white farms failed to maintain production because the government failed to support them with financial resources, inputs and skills training.
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I totally get a pass on today's blog. Why, you ask? Because I did a tutorial video yesterday and I get to post that for you. This one is on split rings and Josephine chains and is already linked over in the pattern list in the right column. I got the filigree pieces in to remake the Copper Princess necklace and used the the chain portion of that to film. Also, I talk in this one and according to early feedback this is a good thing. In fact, I may redo my other video with the talking as well since I apparently do not sound like an idiot...unless they're all lying to me and I do sound like an idiot.
The video is also posted at Instructables if you'd like to go rate it there. I may also go ahead and do a series of these though they do already exist by other folks. I suppose sometimes having a choice of who to learn from is a good thing.


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Beyond Distance first began to research the use of e-book readers in higher education back in 2008 at the beginning of the DUCKLING project. From our research, distance students overwhelmingly reported that accessing course materials on the e-reader was a very flexible, convenient study method which helped them target the most relevant readings, well suiting their busy, on-the-go lifestyles. Yet, especially in the earlier stages of the project, I wondered about the long-term viability of e-books and e-book readers. E-book reader prices were not terribly far off from the price of netbooks, and publishers did not seem to be in a rush to make books available as e-books.
Today, especially since the UK launch of the iPad in May and Amazon dropping the price of the Kindle in June, the scene looks very different. But it isn't just the low price of the Kindle or the cool tech of the iPad. It's the fact that huge players like Apple and Amazon are managing to persuade publishers to make books, even textbooks, available as e-books. It's also the fact that Amazon wisely made its Kindle App (the programme which nicely displays the e-book) freely available for iPad, iPhone, Android, and both Mac and Windows computers (and it seems to be do-able in Linux as well).
So now, students can take their reading list, check titles on a growing list of online e-book vendor websites including those of W H Smith and Waterstones, and download the e-book right now and likely for a lower price than the paper version. If they are lucky enough to have a reading list filled with the old classics such as Plato's Republic or Huckleberry Finn, the e-books are free. Some good sites for free e-books are Project Gutenberg, Manybooks.net, and feedbooks.com, and most of the e-book sales sites also feature free e-books.
E-books won't be pushing paper books out of the picture anytime soon. However, with their mobility, convenience, instantaneous delivery, and (usually) lower prices, they have managed to permeate the marketplace and complement the use of traditional books. They are here to stay, and their presence and use will only grow.
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The end of anonymous clicks (but don't be afraid)Recently [Google has enabled events tracking for all Analytics accounts](http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/06/event-tracking-now-available-in-all.html) – that opens [a whole new world](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/google_analytics_flash.html) for the click hunters – just imagine how useful it might be for usability testing – you can find out if anyone is actually interacting with the new interface that took you 3 weeks to develop. The [official Google Analytics for Flash guide](http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/flashTrackingIntro.html) covers pretty much everything what you need to know to set it up for your SWFs and it's all easy peasy when you've got
ga.js handy on your HTML page.
But what if you want to give your SWF away (by providing the embed code that links to your SWF) and still be able to track the referrer? You don't know who will be embedding your SWF thus you can't tell if the
ga.js will be available.
Fortunately Google covers that matter as well – all you need to do is to import the whole
AnalyticsTracker class (which is 100% compatible with the latest
ga.js tracking code – at least that's what Google says) available at [http://code.google.com/p/gaforflash](http://code.google.com/p/gaforflash/), set the
MODE to
AS3 and stop worrying about any Analytics specific Javascript on the HTML page.
All pretty. The only thing is **that there's no (direct) way of getting the referrer URL of the SWF that generated the event** into your stats, so you won't know who had embedded your file. You could check
loaderInfo.url but this will ONLY return the SWF's host location aka your site address and that's no use.
**How to get the URL of a page that embeds my SWF then?**
There's a [simple trick](http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/01/tutorial/get-current-url-to-flash-swf-using-an-external-interface-call/) – the page URL is stored in
window.location.href and you can use
ExternalInterface to get that out. It's actually pretty easy.
**Let's go with the example code:**
import com.google.analytics.AnalyticsTracker;
import com.google.analytics.GATracker;
const TRACKING_CODE:String = "UA-XXXXXXX-X";
const MODE:String = "AS3";
const DEBUG:Boolean = false;
var GAtracker:AnalyticsTracker;
var referrer:String;
GAtracker = new GATracker(this, TRACKING_CODE, MODE, DEBUG);
if (ExternalInterface.available)
referrer = ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href.toString");
if (referrer && referrer.indexOf("file:/") != -1) referrer = "localhost";
if (!referrer) referrer = "unknown";
catch (error:SecurityError)
trace("A SecurityError occurred: " + error.message);
catch (error:Error)
trace("An Error occurred: " + error.message);
} else {
trace("External interface is not available.");
As we don't use any Javascript **we have to set the tracking code in AS3** along with the
MODE set as
AS3. Also, there's built-in debugger in the
GATracker library which might be actually pretty handy.
**Castles in the sand... box**
Then we'll try to get the referrer URL – it's important to set
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> on the
<object> tag, and the attribute for the
<embed> tag
allowscriptaccess="always" in your embed code to allow
ExternalInterface access Javascript, otherwise Flash Player will spit out this
SecurityError: **A SecurityError occurred: Error #2060: Security sandbox violation: ExternalInterface caller [your SWF's host address] cannot access [the URL of the site where your SWF is embedded on]**.
We can catch it (which we do) but ain't get no URL then.
**Got ya, how do I get to track events?**
Easy tiger! For example, if you want to track the event of user pressing the video play button to start playback, just fire up this line:
GAtracker.trackEvent("Video", "Play: " + referrer, fileURL);
fileURL is the video file URL.
**And finally...**
Make sure you **deploy your SWF on the live site**, nothing gets tracked when the SWF is tested in Flash IDE or the local file system as Google explains:
>Currently, Flash tracking is available for any Flash content embedded in a web page. Tracking of data sent from Adobe Air, Shockwave, or via the Flash IDE (e.g. using Test Movie) is not supported at this time.
Oh, well.
**Any example/demo?**
Sure, try to embed the code below on your blog (i.e. as a private post) to see how it works.
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Florida Gators (29-5) vs. Jackson State Tigers (21-13)
When: Friday
Where: New Orleans
1. Joakim Noah has a MILF. To oversimplify, there are three types of hot college sports groupie. There are The TV Fame-Whores (ex. J. Sterger). There are The Celebrities. (ex. A. Judd) And then there is that rarest (and loveliest) of sightings: The MILF. Last March, Joakim Noah's mom, Cecilia Rodhe, dropped on an unsuspecting Madness-watching nation as suddenly has her son. (Three words: "Former Miss Sweden.") This year, Mom — like Son — won't sneak up on anyone. If you're looking for a fun Tournament-watching drinking game, try sipping every time the camera cuts to her in the stands. It's a toast to moms!
2. You Know Me, Al. Of Florida's "Big Four" juniors that everyone talks about, the best Gator NBA prospect is ... Al Horford. Just ask Dickie V, who a few weeks ago inadvertently let it slip that Florida coach Billy Donovan (allegedly) told him that Horford was a better NBA prospect than Joakim Noah. But I'd argue: Perhaps not just Noah. Let's face it: Greg Oden, once you see him, is softer than you thought he would be. (On one good leg, Horford dominated Oden when the Gators thumped the Buckeyes by 26 in December.) And Kevin Durant, while oozing the Holy Trinity of "length," "upside" and "Simmons-love," is still one selfish shoot-first teammate away from being the next Rashard Lewis rather than the next Dirk Nowitzki. Given Horford's size, speed and versatility (watch him grab a defensive rebound, then lead the fast break with the dribble), he is the most NBA-ready player not just on this Gators team, but arguably in ALL of college basketball — a more athletic Elton Brand. Horford is not a screamer or sexy, but double-doubles rarely are. His presence is the reason Noah becomes a vastly tougher matchup, and Horford provides the Gators with unmatched depth in the post, freeing up the team's 3-point shooters.
3. Repeat After Me. The return of Florida's entire starting five from last year's title team (plus the top reserve from both the frontcourt and backcourt) has created the expectation that this could be the first team to repeat as champs since Duke in '91-92. But the last title team to return all five starters was Arizona in 1998. That 1-seeded Wildcats team got out of the first weekend with two wins by an average margin of 36 ppg. All seemed clear. But then, in the regional final, they were shocked and awed by Utah (by 25!) Why will Florida avoid Arizona's fate? That Arizona team was guard-heavy, dependent on outside shooting (6-for-36 FG shooting in the loss to Utah) and, backcourt neutralized, unable to match the Utes' advantages inside. However, just as in last year's run, there isn't a team in the field that can match the Gators' size and depth advantages in the frontcourt (in addition to solid — if not spectacular — guard-play that is presumed to be a prerequisite for title contention). It's tougher to neutralize interior size than outside shooting. To wit: Look to Florida's three ugly late-season losses at Vandy, at LSU and at Tennessee for the template of how to KO the Gators: The common factors in all three losses? Cold outside shooting by the Gators (27 percent 3-pt), hot shooting by their opponents (56 percent FG) and Florida's brutally slow starts. — Dan Shanoff
1. Sweetness. Jackson's State's most famous graduate is, of course, the great Walter Payton. It is a little known fact that his brother, Eddie Payton, is the head golf coach of the Tigers and has built them into a powerhouse in the golf crazy SWAC.
2. Oil Can. Of the many great academics who have attended the university, the most famous quote by an alum is by former major league pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, speaking to Bo Jackson: "I am The Can, and I am going to come right at you with my best shit, and if you can hit it, I want to see how far Bo Jackson can hit The Oil Can." Jackson hit Boyd's first pitch over the 71-foot high score board in straight away center at Fenway (the ball landed 515 feet from home plate).
3. Priorities. The Tigers, also known as the Blue Bengals, last appeared in the NCAA's in 2000. That year, the school sold more tickets to alumns to attend the Jackson State Alumni Jazz Brunch Hair and Fashion Show than to the NCAA tourney. — Nation Of Islam Sports Blog
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Here's a good one: Asia is comedy's next frontier
In a café in Bangalore, a comedian leads off with a joke about Kingfisher Airlines stewardesses, and gets mild titters from the audience.
"The men are smiling," he teases.
The comic, Sanjay Manaktala, then tells a story about dressing up as a police officer to play out a sexy fantasy with an Indian girlfriend: "I told her 'You've been a naughty girl.' She said, 'Oh my god! Here's a hundred bucks.'"
This time, the crowd erupts into a roar, the bribery reference, a common problem within India's police force, hitting its mark.
Comedy has long been a barometer of social consciousness and in Asia, recent development of this most nuanced of art forms can provide enlightening glimpses into local life.
India's comic progression
U.S.-born Manaktala is part of the Asian comedy circuit, which has moved beyond its origins as an outpost of the London and New York scenes to develop its own brand.
Open mics are proliferating in venues where there might once have only been a cover band or DJ.
While international acts like Russell Peters remain a cash cow for large venues, smaller shows, such as those run by The Polished Bottoms, Manaktala's Bangalore-based troupe, foster local acts.
Papa CJ is perhaps the best known Indian comic who regularly fills out venues in the country.
With 125 million English speakers to court, stand-up has gained a strong foothold in India's pubs and clubs, progressing toward "intelligent observational humor," according to Manaktala.
On a given night, there may be jokes about the IT Industry, reverse outsourcing, Bollywood, arranged marriage or John Mayer.
In Doha, Qatar, Halal Bilal (the stage name of Bilal Randeree), a South African comedian of Indian descent, works to engage the crowd: "Are there any Israelis here?"
A hand goes up. "I thought so -- I saw an 'occupied' sign on the toilet."
After a crash of laughter, he moves on to being stopped by airport security, where he's questioned: "Did you pack your own bag?" A pause. "What Indian man under age 25 packs his own bag?" he yells.
Comedy in Asia and the Mideast offers useful insights not just into the issues of the local society, but also about the nature of comedy in these cultures.
Said Purple, a rookie comedian and new addition to Stand Up Comedy Qatar (SUCQ), Bilal's troupe in Doha, begins by instructing the crowd, "First things first, you are allowed to laugh. It's a comedy show!"
It's a learning experience for both audience and comedian.
Muslims in religious dress aren't allowed to attend the shows put on by London's Laughter Factory at the nearby Ramada Plaza hotel, and SUCQ is just two years old.
Bilal began performing on his own and now has two dozen comedians and audiences of 200.
SUCQ comedians experimented with performing in Arabic, but found that jokes, along with audience expectations, don't always translate.
"With such mixed audiences at our shows, the content needs to fit," Bilal explains. "It's a lot of Doha-based material."
'Comedy a healthy part of society'
Quill Potter, an English-born comedy promoter in Singapore, argues that comedy is a bellwether for the opening of these markets.
"The [Singapore] government has a pragmatic approach," he says. "We're connected by the Internet and [comedy] is a healthy part of a functioning Western society. It shows that Singapore is opening up."
Potter sees the emulation of stand-up as a natural step for societies mimicking the West through technology and fashion, especially when that comes alongside greater political freedom.
He's watched local talent mature through the open mic scene.
"They're not stealing jokes off the Internet, they're doing intelligent comedy about their lives," he says.
But he bemoans the red tape he faced putting on shows in Mumbai a few years back, including endless license fees -- the kind of corruption Manaktala hit on in his act about police.
It is these "I get it" moments between audience and performer that make the scene.
"Five years ago it was karaoke," Manaktala says. "Comedy is something different."
Tokyo-based comedian Spring Day, a U.S. expatriate and performer at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, began her career in Tokyo a decade ago after seeing an ad in the paper, later joining the Tokyo Comedy Store.
Day is enthusiastic about Tokyo's appeal for up-and-comers.
"(In Los Angeles) you go to an open mic and they see you as a paycheck," she says, adding that New York has a similarly competitive scene, driven by the push to turn pro or turn a profit.
"In Tokyo, there's no money involved," she says. "We want to help you get started."
Tokyo also boasts good-sized audiences, in contrast to open mics in New York or Los Angeles that may be attended only by other comedians looking for stage time.
Jokes for all markets
David Corbin, an organizer of Mad Cows of Tokyo with Adam Shaw, is on the circuit between Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where there are standing invitations for comics to perform.
"When comedy is not localized it's actually highly transferable," he says.
Still, there's a market for jokes about Japan's obsession with cute things, and the foibles of dating between locals and foreigners.
Just don't mention the war.
Chris Musni, who runs Comedy HK with Michael Dorsher, credits a highly educated youth base for stand-up's success in Hong Kong and imagines that young, educated Chinese people will be a big audience in the future.
Jami Gong has been producing the Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival for six years (the festival has ties to New York's Gotham Comedy Club), runs the Take Out Comedy Show in Soho and hosts open mics in Cantonese and English.
He describes Hong Kong as an untapped market being molded by audiences and performers, week by week.
A comic in New York, for example, might take the scene for granted, and must figure out what works for his or her particular persona.
A comic in Singapore or Mumbai must first probe the audience to learn where to push the boundaries, and strike a balance between appealing to and subverting expectations.
Comedy, after all, happens in the space where the surprise occurs.
For Potter, unchartered territory is key to the appeal of Asia's comedy scene.
"It is in and of itself interesting to hear a Singaporean, where things have been in the past repressed, talk about the government or race," he says.
"Now they're really finding their voices."
Where to see or perform comedy in Asia
Last Fridays at The Crocodile, Sekiguchi Bld B1, 6-18-8 Jingumae, Shibuya (¥2,000 (US$22))
Every third Thursday at The Hobgoblin, 3F Ichiban Bldg. 1-3-11, Dogenzaka, Shibuya (free, requested to buy one drink), tokyocomedy.com/stand_up_comedy_at_the_hobgoblin
Every first and third Tuesday at Double Tall Cafe, Shibuya East Side Building
2F, 3-12-24 Shibuya (free, requested to buy one drink), tokyocomedy.com/new_material_night
Big Night Out at Pink Cow, 5-5-1 Roppongi, Roi Building B1F, Minato-ku, Tokyo (¥1,000-1,500 (US$11-16) -- includes one drink)
Open Mic at Vega Wine Bar, 150-0021, Shibuya Ku, Ebisu Nishi 1-10-16, Westpark Building B1, Tokyo (free, drink recommended)
Third Saturdays, every other month, Night Near the Beach, Soundmarket, Kugenuma-Ishigami 1-13-13, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa (¥1,000 (US$11)-- includes one drink)
SUCQ, Bistro 61, West Bay, above BMW showroom, Al Fardan Towers (QR35 (US$10))
Laughter Factory at Ramada Hotel, Al Muntazah, Doha (QR110 (US$31), plus drink) http://www.ramadaplazadoha.com/press&news/detail.php?id=61
Thursdays, Fight Comic, and Wednesdays, Stand Up for Singapore, at BluJaz Café, 12 Bali Lane, Singapore ($10 (US$8.10))
Tuesdays, Comedy Masala, at Home Club, 20 Upper Circular Road, #B1-01/06, the Riverwalk, Singapore ($10, $6 students)
Wednesdays, Urban Solace, 32, Annaswamy Mudaliar Rd, Halasuru, Bangalore, Karnataka (free)
B-Flat in Indiranagar 100 Feet Road, Above ING Bank, HAL 2nd Stage, Bangalore, Karnataka (Rs200 (US$3.70))
Thursdays, Comedy Central HAHAthon Open Mic, Counter Culture, 2D2, 4th Cross, Dyavasandra Industrial Area, Whitefield, Bangalore (free)
Alliance Francaise, opp: U.N.I Building, P.B 108, Thimmaiah Road, Millers Road, Millers Road, Bangalore, Karnataka (Rs200)
Jagriti Theater, Ramagondanahalli, Varthur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka (Rs250)
Hong Kong
Wednesdays, Open Mic, first Saturdays, BrewHaHa, Hong Kong Brew House, 21 D'Aguilar St., Lan Kwai Fong Central, Hong Kong (free)
Tuesdays, Take Out Comedy Club, Basement, 34 Elgin St., Soho, Hong Kong (HK$50-150 (US$6.45-20))
Comedy Story, 3/F, Palladium Mall, High Street Phoenix, Senapati Bhapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra (Rs400-500 (US$7.45-9.30)


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Title: Allen Ginsberg Letter,
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One autograph letter signed (ALS), on the back of a picture postcard, from Allen Ginsberg to Cid Corman, mostly about poet W. S. Merwin, Naropa Institute, and fellow author Tom Clark, who had interviewed Ginsberg. Lake Louise [Canada], 7 May 1980.
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We walked out of our bare rooms at dawn on New Year's Day 1994, to be greeted by hundreds of worshippers, all in white, gathered above the 11 subterranean, 700-year-old churches cut out of red rock in the Ethiopian village of Lalibela. Bearded priests with piercing eyes rocked back and forth over their leathery, palm-sized Bibles, the light streamed through little cross-shaped windows, rainbow umbrellas fluttered above them, and the clouds of frankincense made us feel as if we were in the realm of myth.
When Condé Nast Traveler sent me to Ethiopia—on Christmas Day 1993, no less—the country was just emerging from years of civil war, and few foreigners were visible. On our way to Lalibela, a new Jerusalem, built on Ethiopia's high plateau for those who could not make the long trip to Palestine, we sometimes drove for hours without seeing a single foreign face. In Lalibela, unquestionably one of the wonders of the world, three intrepid Swiss travelers shared a simple New Year's Eve meal with me and a friend from high school in a barren dining room.
Nearly everything in Ethiopia had a devotional passion and intensity I've seen only in Tibet. I remember moments from every second of the trip—the long lines of petitioners in simple robes we saw walking across the empty spaces of the highlands; the people gathered in graveyards on Ethiopian Christmas, holding candles and singing hymns; the boat trip to a monastery in Lake Tana, to see its paintings.
But Lalibela was Ethiopia distilled and intensified, and going there felt like stepping into a hand-lettered, illuminated copy of the Book of Kings. Pilgrims with names like Abraham and Bethlehem proceeded among the windowless "beehive" cells of nuns; shouting boys played tag along the underground passageways of the chapels; men dressed in purple closed their eyes, hands clenched around golden crosses.
Like many a memorable trip, the journey to Lalibela was not an easy one. We had to drive for several days, often on barely paved roads, to get there. The hulks of tanks from the recent fighting were everywhere. My first day in Ethiopia, I learned that the Somali warlord Mohamed Aidid, who months earlier had been the world's most wanted man, was staying in our hotel. In Harar, to the east, I ended up in a desert town where the onetime resident and celebrated poet Rimbaud was remembered in shops and a café called Rambo.
Yet Lalibela was worth every hardship. I will have been writing for Condé Nast Traveler for 25 years come January (my work first appeared in the fifth issue), and while writing dozens of essays from home, I've been lucky enough to have been sent by the magazine to Lhasa and La Paz, to Jerusalem and Varanasi, to Bhutan and St. Petersburg, to Rio and Bangkok, and to Vietnam and Tierra del Fuego. But if travel is ultimately about going to a place from which you'll never entirely come back, then Lalibela belongs in a category all its own.
—Pico Iyer, contributing editor, at CNT since 1987
To see Lalibela for yourself, book a trip through travel specialist Cherri Briggs (970-871-0065; exploreafrica.net).
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I collect unusual home decor pieces, so when I saw the Autoban Flying Spider chandelier in a British magazine in 2006, I fell in love: How could it be so whimsical and yet so minimalist? I needed it. Bad. That summer I was in Istanbul visiting family, and I found the Autoban design collective's tiny shop. Autoban hadn't yet designed the House hotels and every hip hangout in Istanbul, and the chandelier I coveted was a prototype that I somehow convinced them to let me buy. But I had to get the three-foot-long fixture back to Brooklyn. I stored it in Turkey, returned to the States, and discovered that shipping it would cost more than the thing itself. So I sent my daughter to Istanbul to transport it. When she was stopped by airport customs, she sweetly explained that it was meaningful to her Turkish mother, a homesick expat. And thanks to her teenage innocence, the first-ever Autoban chandelier became the most complimented item in our home (autoban212.com; from $745).
–Esin Göknar, photo editor, at CNT since 1997
Photo: Courtesy Autoban
How could anything compare to donning a scratchy little skirt and a pair of wood-soled sandals and being pummeled and scrubbed by a burly Turk who then swaddled me like a baby, spread out towels on a divan, and brought me tea? That was my very authentic experience at the hidden Örücüler Hamam in the grand bazaar. And the whole thing cost about $10.
Step 1: The Scrubbing After a few minutes in the sauna, I wore my skirt into a centuries-old domed room, where several men were undergoing this ritual: Masseurs industriously sloughed off dead skin with a rough sponge and a rich soap.
Step 2: The Rinsing My masseur laid me on a marble slab on the periphery of the room, poured buckets of warm water over me, then pounded my limbs and kneaded my shoulders. Was it serene? No. tension-erasing? Definitely.
Step 3: the tOWeLINg A man wrapped towels around me. I had a strange, sweet flashback to my mom doing that when I was a toddler. Sprawled on a chaise longue, I drank strong, minty tea.
–Kevin Doyle, deputy editor, at CNT since 1993
It was early on Fat Tuesday in 2011, and after Dixies at Bud Rip's (900 Piety St.) and king cake at the Mystic Krewe of Montegut gathering, we heard the Storyville Stompers Brass Band. The surreally costumed Societé de Sainte Anne was beginning its Mardi Gras parade, and we joined in. Amid the shiny post-Katrina repairs, the lingering seven-year-old destruction, and a changed population, the city's arcane rituals survived: Secret in habit, unrestrained in manner, and unconcerned with reputation outside the Ninth Ward, Sainte Anne marched on.
–Tom Brown, copy editor, at CNT since 2008
My husband and I found the gate to Petra open at 5:30 a.m. and snuck in. For an hour, we were the only people around, Indiana Jones–type explorers who had traveled back in time and discovered a lost city. There were no tourists to detract from the ancient Nabatean city's majesty or to spoil our photos, and this was the perfect time to take pictures: The dawn light brings out the sandstone's rich colors. By 11 a.m., thousands of tourists were crawling over the site's every inch. I can't say that Jim Berkeley, a travel specialist I've worked with many times, can get you this experience, but he can plan an excellent Jordanian itinerary (800-659-4599; firstname.lastname@example.com).
–Wendy Perrin, director of consumer news and digital community, at CNT since 1989
For Berkeley's discounted Egyptian trip, see the The World on Sale.
I'll never forget summer skiing: schussing down a glacier with a serious Swiss instructor in tow—booked through **AER Snowboard & Ski School **(41-27-967-70-67; lessons from $227 per person)—and tramping through Sound of Music–style fields, all in the same day. The skiing was slushy, of course, but still beautiful. After a few hours on the slopes, I stripped down to a T-shirt and leggings to do some hiking, and then had a delicious burger at the perfectly rustic mountainside restaurant Chez Vrony (Findeln 3920; 41-27-967-25-52; entrées from $11). It was a lovely and unusual take on a traditional Swiss ski trip.
–Eimear Lynch, Word of Mouth editor, at CNT since 2008
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Two of my friends, amateur pilots from North Carolina, rented a four-seat Cessna in Windhoek, Namibia, and invited me to tag along on a DIY safari across Namibia and Botswana. You can charter an aircraft through Wilderness Air (264-61-255-735). In the mornings, we'd fly for a few hours, winging over serpentine rivers and herds of elephants, and hop from lodge to lodge. In some small way, we felt that we had earned the pampering at the lodges since we'd arrived on our own steam, sometimes navigating perilous dirt landing strips (technically, the pilots did that; I was in charge of snacks). For me, the most memorable parts of the trip were the unplanned pit stops—like a refueling station en route to the Okavango Delta, where the "gas jockey" was a woman dressed in her Sunday best (she had just come from church).
–Deborah Dunn, features editor, at CNT since 1999
The diamonds were the size of small hen's eggs, and there were four long strands of them clasped together. I was wearing $2 million around my neck. "These look good with a T-shirt and jeans," Gem Palace co-owner Munnu Kasliwal suggested as I stared in addled disbelief at my reflection in the mirror. I'll say.
The table in front of us was strewn casually with countless other private-vault-worthy pieces—the kind of stuff that anywhere but here would not be brought out without a highly visible (and heavily armed) security detail. We'd just walked through rooms where craftsmen sat amid little plastic bags filled with aquamarines, citrines, sapphires, amethysts, rubies, peridots, emeralds, and more, fitting them into rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets.
I didn't have $2 million to drop, but I still walked out of Gem Palace—jeweler to maharajas and royals from around the world since 1852 and a must-stop on any Indian trip—with not just a lesson in the craft and culture of fine Indian jewelry-making but also plenty of consolation prizes. A blue topaz ring in 24-karat brushed gold, along with matching earrings and three pairs of chandelier earrings, set me back just a few hundred dollars each. And if nothing suits perfectly in the downstairs shop of ready-made pieces, you can pick your stone and choose a setting (matte or shiny, thin or thick, rounded or oval) and collect the finished product a few hours later, all tied up in the Gem Palace's signature little maroon cloth bag—it's India's answer to Tiffany blue (M. I. Rd.; 91-141-237-4175).
–Klara Glowczewska, editor in chief, at CNT since 1987
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On a trip to Isla Mujeres, my then-wife and I took a boat ride to Isla Contoy, a nature reserve about 14 miles away. Captain Tony's Tours' small boat held only us and another couple, along with the captain and his mate. The mate threw a hooked fishing line over the edge of the boat while the captain mixed a rum cocktail in an old plastic bottle and passed it around. As we approached the coast, the mate reeled in the fishing line and showed us a large silvery barracuda—it would be our lunch. We explored the island, spotting iguanas and various birds, and then came back to shore to eat the fish, which was perfectly grilled, incredibly tasty, and served with sides of rice, beans, and plantains (along with more rum cocktails, of course). Gathered around a sun-bleached log on a white sand beach, gazing out at the still blue waters of the Caribbean, we'd never felt luckier (52-998-877-0229; day-trip, $60 per person).
–Haisam Hussein, graphics editor, at CNT since 2001
Most people book the two-day itinerary from Luang Prabang in Laos to Huay Xai, on the Thai border, as a downstream trip (because it's faster), but you'll be grateful you reversed the order when you pass the jammed boats heading in the opposite direction. You'll likely be the only passenger, which means you'll have the tribal village stops—not to mention Mekong Cruises' just-spicy-enough meals along the way—all to yourself (luangsay.com; two-day cruise, including an overnight at the Luang Say Lodge, $375).
–Priscilla Eakeley, deputy copy editor, at CNT since 2002
A perfect meal of oysters and ice-cold burgundy at Port de Larros, in Gujan-Mestras, was the holy grail of a trip that took my husband and me from Paris to Bordeaux to Biarritz and then up the coast. I had been eating Bernard Delis's oysters for decades at a wine bar in Paris called Le Baron Rouge (1 rue Théophile Roussel; 33-1-43-43-14-32; oysters from $11), but I wanted to see the home of the eight generations of oyster farmers who harvested them. We picked up oysters from Delis's shack (Port de Larros; 33-6-14-60-54-93), then ate on a blanket spread over the sand of the ethereal Dune du Pilat.
–Ondine Cohane, contributing editor, at CNT since 1998
Photo: Bela Borsodi/ Trunk Archive
My experiences of Provence were mainly of the bed-and-breakfast and baguette-for-lunch variety, but my eight-day, greatest hits tour was a little different. There was the lavender-scented, fleur-de-lis-sprigged accommodation—Aix-en-Provence's Villa Gallici has a spot on my favorite-hotels-of-all-time list (33-4-42-23-29-23; doubles from $476)—and the food, like bouillabaisse with a Mediterranean view, a daily slab of foie gras, and an oozing plate of cheese at Le Bistrot du Paradou, near Avignon (57 ave. de la Vallée des Baux; 33-4-90-54-32-70; prix-fixe lunch, from $55). And then there were the exclusive experiences travel specialist Jill Jergel had arranged: a private tour of papal Avignon, a chef's table that morphed into an amicable épée fight, a Châteauneuf-du-Pape tasting. It was total immersion in the richesse of Provence, pure plaisir from beginning to end. My best friend, Eloise, who had joined me from London, summed it up best when she remarked as we drifted over Haute Provence in a hot-air balloon one morning: "This is like our honeymoon" (800-245-1950; email@example.com).
–Kate Maxwell, contributing editor, at CNT since 2007
Photo: Dee Purdy
About ten years ago, on a warm spring night in Sicily, with the scent of orange blossom in the air, I found myself sitting down to a dinner straight out of the pages of The Leopard, prepared by the last monzù. Perhaps I should explain. Obsessed with Sicily ever since I discovered Giuseppe di Lampedusa's iconic novel, I had signed up to take a cooking class at an estate named Regaleali, owned by Anna Tasca Lanza, the queen of Sicilian cuisine. Every morning, we six students would meet in our teacher's kitchen and make lunch: arancini (rice and chickpea fritters) with sarde a beccafico (fresh sardines, stuffed and rolled up), or pasta con acciughe e mollica (pasta with anchovies and bread crumbs).
But on our last day, Anna announced that she had a surprise for us. That night her father's old chef, Mario lo Menzo—who had been with her family for 50 years and was known as the last monzù—was coming to cook dinner. Monzù? An honorific given to master chefs, it's a Sicilian bastardization of monsieur. Lo Menzo had been trained in the French tradition, like every chef who had worked for the Sicilian aristocracy for the past 200 years, but he was the only one still cooking. Forget the Mediterranean diet; this was Versailles by way of Carême—pâté de foie gras, lamb fricassee with a creamy sauce, followed by a tottering pyramid of profiteroles—and truly a meal fit for the Prince of Salina, a.k.a. The Leopard (39-0934-815-621; $1,266 per person for three nights, including meals and classes).
–Gully Wells, features editor, at CNT since 1987
One hot Brazilian night, I headed out by myself at about 11 to a dance hall called Democráticus to see what this samba thing was about. I walked up the marble staircase of an elegant, if dilapidated, nineteenth-century mansion to find a mostly empty vaulted hall with ceiling fans pushing around the humid air. I sat down and ordered a drink. One by one, musicians began filing in, carrying trumpets, guitars, trombones. By 11:30, the customers started to arrive. The band, now 12 strong, started up with a raucous samba tune. Couples shot to the floor: old married folks in baggy suits and dresses, Casanovas in bebop suits and white shoes and their heavily made-up sweethearts in tight skirts, hipsters in jeans and high-top sneakers and miniskirts. Everybody, all ages, swung their hips, stomped their feet, spun, and lunged. They just danced and danced and danced—and so did I, until 3 a.m. (Rua do Riachuelo 91, Lapa; 55-21-2252-4611).
–Dorinda Elliott, global affairs editor, at CNT since 2006
Interred together 4,300 years ago in a single rock–cut tomb, the two "Overseers of Manicurists of the Palace" of the pharaoh were either twin brothers or very intimate colleagues. In this tomb, exquisite relief carvings memorialize scenes from a beautiful friendship: Two young men go fowling in the marshes, hunt desert ibex, spearfish for giant Nile perch, and, unusually for pharaonic iconography, repeatedly and tenderly embrace. The tomb, which is often skipped by tour guides, shows that the pair shared an appetite for pleasure in eternity as they did in life. "A thousand of every good thing every day," reads a hieroglyphic inscription describing the funeral offerings (tickets at the booth next to the Step Pyramid of Djoser).
–Susan Hack, senior correspondent, contributor since 1987
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The following is popular on lists of "quotable quotes":
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
The Google Books drilldown gives its earliest record in Cohen & Cohen (1971) The Penguin dictionary of modern quotations.
Do we have a proper source for this, or is it spurious?