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Hamlet Contents
- Shakespeare, William
- 1564 - 1582: William Shakespeare's Stratford Beginnings
- 1582 - 1592: William Shakespeare's Marriage, Parenthood and Early Occupation
- 1592 - 1594: William Shakespeare's Life In London, part 1
- 1594 - 1611: William Shakespeare's Life In London, part 2
- 1594 - 1611: William Shakespeare's Life In London, part 3
- 1611 - 1616: William Shakespeare - Back to Stratford
Act I, scene ii
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
His further gait herein; in that the levies,
The lists and full proportions, are all made
Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
Giving to you no further personal power
To business with the king, more than the scope
Of these delated articles allow.
Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.
In that and all things will we show our duty.
We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
My dread lord,
Your leave and favour to return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in your coronation,
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
By laboursome petition, and at last
Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:
I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--
[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Ay, madam, it is common.
If it be,
Why seems it so particular with thee?
Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father:
But, you must know, your father lost a father;
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool'd:
For what we know must be and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we in our peevish opposition
Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd: whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father: for let the world take note,
You are the most immediate to our throne;
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son,
Do I impart toward you. For your intent
In going back to school in Wittenberg,
It is most retrograde to our desire:
And we beseech you, bend you to remain
Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.
I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:
Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;
This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,
Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
Exeunt all but HAMLET
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO
Hail to your lordship!
I am glad to see you well:
Horatio,--or I do forget myself.
The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?
My good lord--
I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.
But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
A truant disposition, good my lord.
I would not hear your enemy say so,
Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
To make it truster of your own report
Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
But what is your affair in Elsinore?
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;
I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
My father!--methinks I see my father.
Where, my lord?
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
Saw? who?
My lord, the king your father.
The king my father!
Season your admiration for awhile
With an attent ear, till I may deliver,
Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
This marvel to you.
For God's love, let me hear.
Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
In the dead vast and middle of the night,
Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Appears before them, and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled
Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
And I with them the third night kept the watch;
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
The apparition comes: I knew your father;
These hands are not more like.
But where was this?
My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
Did you not speak to it?
My lord, I did;
But answer made it none: yet once methought
It lifted up its head and did address
Itself to motion, like as it would speak;
But even then the morning cock crew loud,
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
And vanish'd from our sight.
'Tis very strange.
As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;
And we did think it writ down in our duty
To let you know of it.
Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
Hold you the watch to-night?
We do, my lord.
Arm'd, say you?
Arm'd, my lord.
From top to toe?
My lord, from head to foot.
Then saw you not his face?
O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.
What, look'd he frowningly?
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
Pale or red?
Nay, very pale.
And fix'd his eyes upon you?
Most constantly.
I would I had been there.
It would have much amazed you.
Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?
While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
Longer, longer.
Not when I saw't.
His beard was grizzled--no?
It was, as I have seen it in his life,
A sable silver'd.
I will watch to-night;
Perchance 'twill walk again.
I warrant it will.
If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
I'll visit you.
Our duty to your honour.
Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
Exeunt all but HAMLET
My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
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Courage in War. 1When you go out to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD, your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, will be with you.
2When you are drawing near to battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the army, 3and say to them, "Hear, O Israel! Today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies. Do not be weakhearted or afraid, alarmed or frightened by them. 4For it is the LORD, your God, who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and give you victory."a
5Then the officials shall speak to the army:b "Is there anyone who has built a new house and not yet dedicated it? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it. 6Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and not yet plucked its fruit? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another pluck its fruit. 7Is there anyone who has betrothed a woman and not yet married her? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another marry her."c 8The officials shall continue to speak to the army: "Is there anyone who is afraid and weakhearted?d Let him return home, or else he might make the hearts of his fellows melt as his does."
9When the officials have finished speaking to the army, military commanders shall be appointed over them.
Cities of the Enemy. 10e When you draw near a city to attack it, offer it terms of peace. 11If it agrees to your terms of peace and lets you in, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor. 12f But if it refuses to make peace with you and instead joins battle with you, lay siege to it, 13and when the LORD, your God, delivers it into your power, put every male in it to the sword; 14but the women and children and livestock and anything else in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder for yourselves, and you may enjoy this spoil of your enemies, which the LORD, your God, has given you.
15* That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to these nations here. 16g But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage, you shall not leave a single soul alive. 17You must put them all under the ban—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—just as the LORD, your God, has commanded you, 18so that they do not teach you to do all the abominations that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the LORD, your God.
Trees of a Besieged City. 19h When you are at war with a city and have to lay siege to it for a long time before you capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human beings, that they should be included in your siege? 20However, those trees which you know are not fruit trees you may destroy. You may cut them down to build siegeworks against the city that is waging war with you, until it falls.
* [20:15] Deuteronomy makes a distinction between treatment of nations far away and those close at hand whose abhorrent religious practices might, or did, influence Israel's worship. This harsh policy was to make sure the nations nearby did not pass their practices on to Israel (cf. chap. 7).
a. [20:4] Dt 1:30; 3:22; Ex 14:14; 15:3; Jos 23:10; Jgs 4:14.
e. [20:10–11] Jos 9:23–27; 11:19; 2 Sm 10:19.
f. [20:12–14] Nm 31:7, 9, 11; Jos 22:8.
g. [20:16–18] Dt 7:1–2; 12:29–31; Jos 10:40; 11:11, 14.
h. [20:19–20] 2 Kgs 3:18, 25.
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What A Way To Go: 25 Final Films From No-Longer-Living Legends
Everybody dies, even famous actors. Some have the common sense to phase out their careers while they're still at the top of their game and enjoy the fruits of their retirement, others milk their fame for all its worth and work 'til they drop, which is often well past their sell-by date, and, of course, there are those who die far earlier than anyone anticipated, least of all themselves, leaving their most recent project – whatever it may have been – as their last project. Bullz-Eye took a look at the filmographies of some of Hollywood's greatest actors and examined their swan songs, and, indeed, all three of the aforementioned categories are represented.
There were only two caveats used when citing these final films: they had to have been live-action works (i.e. no voiceover performances), and the actors had to have been playing someone other than themselves. You will no doubt find yourself asking, "Hey, why didn't [INSERT FAVORITE ACTOR'S NAME HERE] make this cut?" If you've got a favorite final film by an actor that was left out of the mix…hey, that's what the Comments section is for. For now, though, sit back and enjoy…
1. Humphrey Bogart, "The Harder They Fall" (1956): Although many tend to think of his definitive work as having taken place in the 1940s simply by virtue of the fact that it's when both "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon" were released, Humphrey Bogart continued to offer exemplary performances throughout the '50s, receiving his Oscar for "The African Queen" (1951), a nomination for "The Caine Mutiny" (1954). By the mid-1950s, however, the actor's health was failing, and he would soon be diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus…not that you'd know it from his work load: in 1955, he starred in "We're No Angels," "The Left Hand of God," and "The Desperate Hours."
Watching Bogie in his final film, "The Harder They Fall," it's easy to say that he looks tired and worn out, but it's just as easy to attribute that to the character he's playing. Eddie Willis (Bogart) is a former sports writer who's struggling to make ends meet after his newspaper shuts down, and when he's hired by Nick Benko (Rod Steiger), a boxing promoter known for his somewhat imprecise morality, to help promote his new fighter, a naïve Argentinean named Toro Moreno (Mike Lane), there's little question that Eddie's doing it for the money. Everybody knows that wrestling is fake, but you may be surprised to see the behind-the-scenes shenanigans that go on in boxing: Toro's a pretty rotten boxer, but Eddie promotes the hell out of him while Nick and his cohorts fix the fights, enabling Toro to steadily work his way up the ranks. The ending is pretty heavy-handed, with the music soaring as Eddie sits down in front of his typewriter to hash out the boxing expose that will help to clear his conscience, but Bogart is fantastic throughout the film. Sadly, it's out of print on DVD, but if you've never seen it before, you may find it worth the $14.99 it'll cost you to download it from iTunes. Eight months after "The Harder They Fall" hit theaters, Bogart lost his own fight, falling victim to his cancer at the age of 57. – Will Harris
2. James Dean, "Giant" (1956): George Stevens' massive adaptation of Edna Ferber's sprawling novel about ranchers and oil millionaires in the first half of the 20th century remains an especially poignant farewell, indicating the versatile actor 24 year-old James Dean would have become had he not died in an auto wreck shortly before production was completed.
At first, Dean's Jet Rink is in line with his other roles, a rebellious, troubled ranch hand who shyly flirts with beautiful Leslie Benedict (Elizabeth Taylor) and generally runs afoul of her cattleman husband, Bick Benedict, Jr. (Rock Hudson). As a couple of decades progress, however, Rink strikes it rich — richer than the Benedicts. Wearing a mustache and with his head partially shaved to suggest a receding hairline, Rink becomes a villain of sorts as he falls for the Benedicts' beautiful college-age daughter (Carroll Baker) and his resentments against the clan congeal into alcoholic sentimentality, jealousy, and virulent racism. Not that he's all bad or all sad. Speaking in a mumbly Texan patois reminiscent of Boomhauer from "King of the Hill," Dean's Rink is highly vulnerable but full of the impish humor Dean only hinted at in "Rebel Without a Cause." Even if the part seems artificial compared to Dean's other roles and even if director Stevens felt it was necessary to have a key speech posthumously looped by Dean's friend, Nick Adams, "Giant" reminds us that Dean was a lot more than a pop-culture icon or a pretty-boy emoting-machine, he was an actor. – Bob Westal
3. Grace Kelly, "High Society" (1956): Like James Dean, Grace Kelly only had to make a few films to become an immortal. Fortunately, her career wasn't ended by death but by her "fairy tale" marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco — although she would eventually die as the result of a car accident a quarter century later.
A musical remake of the romantic comedy classic "The Philadelphia Story" with new songs by Cole Porter and co-starring Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, "High Society" was a box office success and, in theory, a perfect filmic swansong. The part of romantically confused heiress Tracey Lord fit Grace Kelly very nicely, and she had actually performed the part as her graduation performance from the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Nevertheless, she was stepping into enormous shoes — the part was written for and remains forever associated with Katherine Hepburn — but Kelly, still only 26 years old, seems to effortlessly make the part her own, adding an element of wholesome sensuality that Hepburn couldn't quite match. She even sang nicely in a duet with Crosby of Porter's "True Love." For all of that, the musical comedy got mixed reviews. Director Charles Walters was not one of the greats of cinema and Sinatra and Crosby arguably had better chemistry with each other than they did with their absurdly beautiful lead. Maybe the fact that "High Society" was just okay made it easier for Kelly to attend to her royal duties and charity work and leave acting behind forever. – BW
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It's hard to find socks that will stay on babies' feet. Generally, I anchor Jasper's socks on with a pair of shoes because he is a sock monster and can lose them in seconds. He also has two of the chubbiest legs I have ever seen. So chubby, in fact, that he wails in horror if I try to stick him in the Bumbo baby sitter. It pinches his tender thighs. His four year old sister can sit in the thing with no problem. Most socks, especially the cute ones that match outfits at the baby stores, leave terrible welts on his ankles. It makes me feel like a terrible mommy.
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Nix are technically meant for shoe sizes 2-7, although Roo can wear them and she is somewhere between an 8 and 9 these days. Not that she would deign to be photographed wearing her brother's socks. They're BOY colors! You know, the charcoal grey or brown might stain her feet or something…
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Felix Erlacher and Falko Dressler, "FIXIDS: A High-Speed Signature-based Flow Intrusion Detection System," Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2018.
Signature-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are the state-of-the-art when it comes to precise attack detection and intrusion prevention. However, they experience critical performance problems in modern high-speed networks. At the same time, flow-based network monitoring has been investigated for high data rates. In the last years, such flow-monitoring went beyond collecting statistical information about network connections and more recent techniques are able to include selected samples of the payload of these flows. Most recently, we extended this concept to HTTP flows. We now go one step further and combine IPFIX-based flow monitoring with NIDS. We developed IPFIX-based Signature-based Intrusion Detection System (FIXIDS), a system that exploits the recently introduced HTTP related flow Information Elements (IEs) to do signature-based flow intrusion detection in high-speed networks on commodity hardware. FIXIDS makes use of HTTP intrusion signatures from the widely used Snort NIDS and applies them to incoming IPFIX Flows. In the experimental evaluation, we are able to show a performance gain of a factor of three compared to Snort while maintaining the same detection ratio.
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author = {Erlacher, Felix and Dressler, Falko},
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title = {{FIXIDS: A High-Speed Signature-based Flow Intrusion Detection System}},
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The Arabic number 18938 in roman numerals is XVIIICMXXXVIII.
That is, if you want to write the digit 18938 using roman symbols, you must use the symbol or symbols XVIIICMXXXVIII, since these roman numerals are exactly equivalent to the arabic numeral Eighteen thousand nine hundred thirty eight.
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If you own a business, then ownership transition should definitely be a central topic in your planning. A few years ago, MassMutual Life Insurance Company conducted a very interesting and thought-provoking survey of family-owned businesses. Obviously, family-owned businesses have their own unique needs and challenges. The MassMutual Life Insurance Company survey certainly underscored this fact. While the survey was conducted a few years ago, the information it contained is more relevant and actionable than ever. Let's take a closer look at some of the key conclusions and discoveries.
Founder Control
One of the most important findings of the survey was that a full 80% of family-owned businesses are still controlled by the founders. The survey also discovered that 90% of family-run businesses intend to stay family-owned in the future.
Lack of Leadership Plans
Leadership is another area of great interest. Strikingly, approximately 30% of family-owned businesses will in fact change leadership within just the next five years. Moreover, 55% of CEOs are 61 or older and have not chosen a successor. When a successor has been chosen that successor is a family member 85% of the time. Succession is often a murky area for family-owned businesses. A whopping 13% of CEOs stated that they will never retire.
Failure of Proper Valuations
According to the survey, valuation is another surprise area. 55% of companies fail to conduct regular evaluations, meaning that they are essentially flying blind in regards to the true value of their company. Adding to the potential confusion is the fact that 20% of family owned businesses have not completed any estate planning and 55% of family-owned businesses currently have no formal company valuation for estate tax estimates.
Lack of Proper Strategic Plans
The financials for family-owned businesses are often just murky as their succession issues. The MassMutual Life Insurance Company survey also discovered that 60% of family-owned businesses failed to have a written strategic plan and a whopping 48% of family-owned businesses were planning on using life insurance to cover estate taxes.
Simply stated, many family-owned businesses are not organized properly and are, in the process, not fully taking advantage of their opportunities. In short, family-owned businesses are frequently insular in their approach to a wide range of vital topics ranging from succession and leadership to valuation, planning and more. In the long term, these vulnerabilities may serve to undermine the business making it harder to sell when the time comes or opening it up to other problems and issues. Family-owned businesses are strongly advised to work with professionals, such as experienced accountants and business brokers, to ensure the long term profitability and continuity of their businesses.
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The Canary species is called Serinus canaria and is actually a member of the finch family, native to the Canary Islands. The wild canary is greenish yellow over most of their body with yellow underparts. The domestic canary comes in an array of bright colors and can live up to 10 years. Male canaries sing better than females, although the canary may not sing as much during a molt. The canary does not require a great deal of attention and are suitable for beginning pet bird owners. Canaries are not social birds so a single pet canary will be happy.
Housing Canaries
Get the largest cage possible, that allows for room for flight (a pet canary should never have his or her wings clipped and should be able to fly in the cage for exercise). "Flight" type cages are the best (home built or commercial) since they are designed to provide room to move. Remember that a long cage is better than a tall narrow one (the height is not all that important). Try to get a cage at least 24 inches long. Watch the spacing between bars - no more than 1/2 inch. Wire cages are best, wood or bamboo cages are too difficult to keep clean. Wood perches of varied diameter work best (3/8 to 3/4 inches). Some canary keepers alter smooth round perches by scraping them with a saw blade or utility knife, just enough make the surface slightly irregular (easier to grip and the variety may make the perches more comfortable for the canary's feet). Do not use sandpaper perch covers. Canaries are pretty hardy and can be kept at room temperature. Keep the cage away from draft, air conditioners and windows that receive direct sunlight (the cage and canary can get overheated). Cover the cage at night, at the time the sun goes down (unless you live in an area with extremely long nights or days such as the far north). Canaries need their rest and will do best if given a light/dark cycle that approximates natural changes. Keeping them up late with artificial light is not healthy for them. Provide toys, but place them in the cage in such a way as they do not obstruct flight space. Your canary might enjoy swings, mirrors, bells, and hanging wooden or acrylic toys. Fresh water should be available at all times. A shallow dish of water or a special bath bought at the pet store should be provided at least 3-4 times a week for bathing.
Feeding Canaries
A good quality seed mixture suitable for canaries can be the mainstay of their diet. Pelleted diets suitable for a canary can be offered as well - these are not as palatable as seeds but many owners keep a dish of pellets in the cage along with a dish of seeds. Fresh foods and greens should also be offered. Good choices include apples, oranges, bananas, green peppers, canned corn, fresh corn on the cob, cooked broccoli, raw spinach, raw dandelions, raw collard greens, raw Swiss chard, pears, peaches, strawberries, cucumbers, squash, etc. Bits of hard boiled egg can also be offered occasionally. Sprouted seeds are an excellent treat for your canary. As seeds are eaten the hulls may be left in the dish, so at a quick glance the seed dish may look full when in fact it is just hulls. Blow the hulls off the seed dish at least daily and replenish the seeds as necessary.


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OCEAN CITY – Coming off a summer with numerous pedestrian accidents, city officials sat down this week with state authorities to come up with solutions.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Mayor and City Council met with the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) for their annual fall meeting.
SHA Assistant District Engineer Ken Cimino said the SHA hired a consulting engineering firm to do a pedestrian safety study on MD 528, or Coastal Highway, between 62nd Street and Convention Center Dr. The Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) played a vital role in the study providing real time information, according to Cimino.
Cimino said on Coastal Highway between Convention Center Drive and the Route 90 bridge includes a corridor that the SHA has identified as a high-pedestrian active location. In this corridor, police reports show 41 pedestrian related crashes and one pedestrian fatality from Jan. 1, 2008 to Aug. 20, 2012. Located along this corridor are large restaurants and bar establishments that generate significant amount of pedestrian traffic at night. Within the 41 pedestrian-related crashes, 22 involved alcohol, 27 occurred at night and 11 involved bicycles.
Cimino started off saying one of the concerns that came up immediately following the fatal collision in May was existing lighting along Coastal Highway, which provides corridor lighting via cobra head fixtures mounted on utility poles that are owned and maintained by Ocean City.
Existing light levels were evaluated to determine if proper light levels are provided for pedestrians along the study corridor. Field measurements were found to be fairly consistent, but several areas were found to have light measurements below the standards, northbound 41st Street, 42nd Street and southbound 45th Street and 46th Street.
Next, Cimino discussed potential safety strategies identified in recent pedestrian safety studies that may be implemented. First is to increase the SHA's public/media outreach.
"We are currently working with our customer relations to receive information to craft a message, identify the markets we need to reach, and get that implemented," he said.
The SHA is also currently working with the OCPD, State Police, and the Maryland Highway Safety Office to procure additional grant money that can be used to target Ocean City's corridor for education and enforcement.
Along with that, Cimino said there are some more obvious changes to the highway being considered.
"There are several possible engineering solutions," Cimino furthered. "One of them would be to place a physical barrier along the median."
A physical barrier along the center median on Coastal Highway within the study area could come in several different ways, such as a decorative rod iron fence, an aluminum fence, low level shrubbery or a combination of both.
"We would like to move forward with a conceptual plan for a physical barrier in the median to develop several concepts to bring to the council for further discussion and possibly approval," Cimino stated.
Councilman Dennis Dare, formerly the town's city manager for 21 years and city engineer for eight years before that, recalled when a barrier was placed in the median on Coastal Highway from 9th to 15th streets during the last phase of the median's construction.
"I have noticed over the years that the pedestrian issue has not been between 9th Street and 15th Street," he said. "If you look at it, it is continuous landscaping … so I don't think people are doing a lot of jaywalking there because of that, because it is a physical barrier like a fence … so I think your last design has been effective from a pedestrian safety stand point."
Dare added that lighting has also been a concern regarding pedestrian safety along Coastal Highway.
"Most of the instances have been at night and it is extremely hard to see anybody on that highway," he said.
Mayor Rick Meehan agreed the barrier from 9th to 15th streets could be an option for the study area.
"But that area is completely different then the area from Convention Center Dr. to 62nd Street," the mayor said. "It is basically just residential areas … whereas the area they are referring to are destinations where people are trying to get to from each side of the highway."
Another safety strategy being reviewed are signal timing changes for both pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
Ocean City contains four different signal timing systems along Coastal Highway. Within the study corridor, there is two separate systems. One is system B, which runs from Convention Center Drive to 56th Street, and the other system C, which runs from 56th to 62nd streets
The SHA is currently reviewing the timing of these two signal systems to determine the effects on traffic. If the SHA were to reduce the amount of green time on Coastal Highway, it would give more time to the side street movement, which in effect would give more time to pedestrians if they push the buttons to cross the street.
The SHA is also taking into consideration extending pedestrian crossing time during the summer while there are more heads crossing the highway. The signal timing study is in progress at this time and results will be reported at a later date.
The next safety strategy presented was a "road diet". Currently, Coastal Highway has three lanes of traffic and a bus lane on each side of the highway. The diet would eliminate travel lanes on each side between 41st and 59th streets to allow for wider sidewalks, a dedicated bike lane and a dedicated bus lane along the corridor.
"We think it is a really good opportunity to incorporate the 'road diet' with the street scape project and give a lot more pedestrian accessibility," Cimino said.
Dare added another option would be to keep all three lanes of traffic but eliminate the bus lane and have the buses use the right-hand slow lane instead.
Cimino explained currently the distance between the traffic signal at 52nd and 56th streets is the longest distance between traffic signals in Ocean City. As part of the study, a pedestrian signal location analysis was included and there is significant pedestrian activity in that area to warrant additional pedestrian signals at three key locations.
Cimino said he is also currently working with Ocean City Public Works Department in the idea of relocating bus stops in regards to pedestrian safety.
There had been a thought to reduce the speed limit on coastal highway from 62nd to 33rd streets to 35 mph in the past and Cimino brought it back up to the Mayor and City Council's attention. In 2000, the speed limit was reduced to 35 mph from 33rd to 17th streets.
"As all of you know, we have seen a huge increase in building and activity in mid-town Ocean City … so we feel that while we didn't do a traffic engineer study to reduce speed limit we feel that it would be a logical breaking point to make the speed consistent below MD 90," Cimino said. "We also feel that lower speeds mean a potential for the severity in accidents to drop by giving drivers more reaction time."
Cimino said the SHA is also continuing to secure funding to remove mid-block median "cut through" locations and are looking at installing sidewalk and curb markings, where the curbs would be painted yellow and marked with "Do Not Cross."
The final item presented was the concept to install pedestrian bump outs on MD 378, also known as Baltimore Avenue, between 9th and 15th streets.
Last year the SHA conducted a Road Safety Audit on MD 378, and one of the results was a suggestion to construct pedestrian bump outs from 9th to 15th streets. They are similar to what has already been constructed on Philadelphia Avenue to 9th Street and Ocean City Engineer Terry McGean has concurred.
The council voted unanimously to have the SHA move forward in developing conceptual plans to create a median barrier along Coastal Highway from Convention Center Dr. to 62nd Street, as well as develop a "Road Diet", and to construct pedestrian bump outs from 9th to 15th streets.
The council also voted unanimously to approve the installation of three additional pedestrian signals between 52nd and 62nd streets before March 15, and to reduce the speed limit from 62nd to 33rd streets to 35 mph. The SHA and council were in consensus to implement the speed limit reduction closer to next summer, by May 1, and an announcement will be made.
"Thank you for being so proactive," Council President Lloyd Martin said. "Pedestrian safety is number one for us."


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MICHELLE RINDELS Wednesday, 23 April 2014 06:18 AM EDT
As bans against gay marriage crumble and public opinion on the issue shifts rapidly, some Republicans are pushing the party to drop its opposition to same-sex unions, part of a broader campaign to get the GOP to appeal to younger voters by de-emphasizing social issues.
This month, the Nevada Republican party dropped statements on marriage from its party platform, making it the second state party in the nation to do so after Indiana's GOP quietly jettisoned its plank in 2012. A gay-rights group last week launched a $1 million campaign to get the national party to remove from its platform a definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, while a group of major Republican donors is pushing for the GOP to become more supportive of gay rights across the board.
"There are people with sincerely held beliefs on both sides of the marriage issue, and that seems to be where the party is heading," said Jeff Cook-McCormac, an adviser to the American Unity Fund, which has been financed by wealthy donors such as hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer to push the GOP to back gay rights. "The Republican Party in Nevada is doing something that I think we're going to see a lot more of, which is appealing to the things that unite Republican voters across the country — bread and butter issues."
But social conservatives warn that if the GOP abandons its core moral principles, it may also lose loyal voters.
"It is very much a mistake for the GOP to step away from marriage. The rank-and-file Republicans, mainstream Republicans, very much believe marriage is between a man and a woman," said Chris Plante, spokesman for the National Organization for Marriage. "For the GOP to give in to elites, to promises of money, and to progressives within the party is the wrong thing. It's bad politics. Marriage is a winning issue."
The greatest test will come in Nevada, a swing state where the state party also dropped its opposition to abortion during its biannual convention on April 12. The push arose from Clark County, home to libertine Las Vegas and three-quarters of the state's population.
"Younger people believe they're getting screwed by the Democrats on fiscal issues, and screwed by Republicans on social issues," said Nick Phillips, the Clark County party's political director. "Take that away, and you've got a party you can get behind."
The state has no organized bloc of socially conservative voters. The state's Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, supports abortion rights, recently decided to drop the state's defense of a lawsuit challenging its gay-marriage ban, and is so popular that no significant Democrat is challenging him for re-election this year. But there is still some bitterness over the platform within the party, which has been riven for years by infighting among rival conservative factions.
"If they come up with a totally neutered, watered-down platform that stands for nothing, they're going to disgust the base," said Ira Hansen, a Republican Nevada assemblyman. "They alienate them and humiliate them and then expect them to vote."
Seventeen states allow gay marriage and 59 percent of Americans supported it in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. That's a sharp turnaround from a decade ago, when same-sex marriage was a Republican wedge issue that galvanized social conservatives and was widely unpopular with voters. Although a majority of Republicans remain opposed to gay marriage, the dynamic is reversed among younger members of the GOP. A Pew Research Poll found 61 percent of Republicans ages 18 to 29 supported gay marriage.
Even before Nevada's vote, activists in other local Republican parties were trying to shed the gay-marriage issue. Oregon Republican activists at an annual conference last month endorsed a ballot measure to legalize gay marriage in that state, though social conservatives boycotted the event. In liberal Marin County, Calif., where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-1, the county party issued a statement last summer saying it supported legalizing gay marriage.
"No one really knows where you stand on something until you tell them," said Kevin Krick, chair of the Marin County Republican Central Committee.
Still, pushes to change course on same-sex marriage have provoked staunch resistance. In Broward County, Fla., a Republican party secretary who tried to rally support for pro-gay-marriage Republicans last summer faced fierce internal backlash and has since left the post. In Illinois, then-Republican party chairman Pat Brady took heat last spring when he made statements supporting gay marriage, and he stepped down to become a lobbyist. In party elections last week, however, six of the seven committeemen who had called for Brady's ouster were themselves replaced.
One of the main national gay-rights groups, Freedom to Marry, argues that Republicans now are like Democrats a decade ago — they want to support gay marriage but are afraid of possible political repercussions.
Freedom to Marry is helping fund a campaign to change that by urging delegates to remove opposition to same-sex marriage from the party's national platform. Campaign manager Tyler Deaton said the goal is simply to remove the language opposing gay marriage rather than replace it with an endorsement of a union that remains opposed by some members of the GOP.
"Our aim is to make the national platform less divisive toward gay people and their families — and more focused on unifying all conservatives around our core beliefs," Deaton said.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said the party platform "stands for traditional marriage" and potential changes won't come up until the next national convention in 2016.
Mark McKinnon, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, said that even if Republicans are balking at publicly accepting gay marriage, they are clearly walking away from the issue.
"The heat is off, the wedge has lost its edge," said McKinnon, who is helping Freedom to Marry promote same-sex union support in the South. "Republican candidates this cycle may not be running on the issue of gay marriage, but they're not running against it."
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Also referred to as the SGI (Species Generalisation Index), this describes the habitat niche breadth of the species. Species with values less than 15 are found in a relatively narrow range of reef habitat types (specialists), while those over 25 may be found on most hard substrates within their range (generalists). Learn more here.
Conservation and Rarity
IUCN Status: N/A
Occurrence: Widespread (50% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Few (3 per transect)
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No, I mean the one with the footsies. And don't try to deny it, 'cuz I know you're out there: loitering around the pedicure station, being overly helpful at the Payless, getting WAY too excited about peep-toe pumps coming back into style - yeah, you know who you are. Well, my foot-fondling friends, it's time for a little sole searching.
And for the rest of you: put down that coffee and prepare to skip breakfast (or possibly revisit it, depending on your constitution).
This is a groom's cake, which begs the question: is the groom really that enamored with his own toe hair? And I know there's no good way to show severed appendages, but those ankle stumps are freaking me out juuust a little.
Side note: The words "cake" and "ankle stumps" should never, EVER, be used to describe the same thing.
Hahahahahaha! See, it's like a dead person's feet! With a toe tag! To remind you of your own mortality! Isn't that hysterical? Hahhahahaha!
Right. Two things:
1) What's up with the blue drapey bits?
2) Just for fun, try to imagine the position you'd have to be in to get your feet at that angle.
There is only one word to describe this next one:
Then there's the delectable world of toe fungus, which I think you'll all agree is not only a great ice-breaker at parties ("Hey, wanna see something cool?"), but also really hits the spot come dessert time.
I'm not sure why he would order a "cake" made from upholstery foam, though: that somehow detracts from the otherwise yummy-looking toenails.
Side note: Dr. Pachman is quite possibly the coolest doctor name ever. Right up there with Dr. Spacemen.
Ok, guys, this is it: time for the most disgusting, fungus-riddled foot cake mine eyes have seen. Proceed with extreme caution and strong intestinal fortitude.
What's more horrifying: the green bugs crawling under the toenails...[pausing to swallow repeatedly]...or the fact that this is for a girl? Poor Teresa: I don't think the pretty pink icing nearly makes up for that yellowish... gelatinous...layer....
[sound of running feet]
UPDATE: Whew! Sorry, folks: my constitution just gave out, if you catch my drift. On the plus side, I just may lose those 5 pounds this week!
Hey, Sara S., Julie R., Christina B., and Jessica M., it's time to cut loose. Foot loose.


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Independent Carpet One Floor & Home of Westland, Michigan has joined forces with Turn the Towns Teal to help raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer. For the month of September, teal ribbons will be tied around trees all over the country to raise awareness during National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
Turn the Towns Teal is a national campaign to promote awareness of ovarian cancer and its symptoms. The campaign was spearheaded 10 years ago by Jane MacNeil when her sister Gail MacNeil passed away from this terrible disease in 2008.
The slogan on their website 'The Earlier the Diagnosis ~ the Better the Prognosis' highlights the importance or raising awareness of this disease, because if caught in time, there is a 94% survival rate. Unfortunately, many women experience the symptoms in everyday life and it goes unrecognized sometimes until it is too late.
Catherine Buchanan, owner of Independent Carpet One, got involved five years ago after speaking with founder Jane MacNeil. She said this has been an incredibly rewarding experience for her and her staff,
"My entire staff takes the morning off, closing the store and we tie ribbons along Wayne Road, Michigan Avenue and Ford Road. This is our fifth year doing this and it has brought to us so many wonderful experiences. People in the city come up to us and ask what the teal ribbons signify and they proceed to tell us stories of women they know suffering from Ovarian cancer or have passed.
A wonderful young lady Annette Siese's mother in-law called the second year and asked how she could get involved since Annette was struggling with OC. She came in, picked up a few bolts of ribbon and started just tying on her street. Now the family helps us in their city of Wayne. This year every ribbon tied is in her honor of her strength and determination to beat cancer. She has an amazing spirit and we've become friends.
As we tie ribbons we also hang posters in local businesses windows and pass out symptom cards."
For more information, or to get involved, go to www.turnthetownsteal.org
Thank you for contacting Carpet One Floor & Home. Your local flooring expert will reach out to you regarding your inquiry.


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