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"Minerality": Drilling Down on Wine's Buzzword
Forget about "terroir."Lettie Teague investigates the meaning of the descriptor of the moment
I RECENTLY TASTED a bottle of Chablis described by its accompanying fact sheet as "delicate, rich, rather mineral and dry." I understood the meaning of each adjective—except for one. What exactly is a "mineral" wine, let alone a "rather mineral" one?
While "minerality" has long been employed as a wine descriptor, it has only recently become quite popular. "It's a word everyone's using for everything," said Chablis producer Fabien Moreau, who started seeing its use rise around five years ago.
The word is popular among winemakers, wine retailers and sommeliers, not to mention wine drinkers, wine critics and wine columnists. Full disclosure: I've used it pretty often myself, mostly to describe wines with flavors of slate or flint or wet stone (though there is nothing of any of those elements in a wine—and those terms are up for debate, too). Perhaps minerality could be described as the meeting point of dry and wet.
Unlike other words that describe the taste of wine, such as "oaky," "flabby" or "bitter," a wine that is "minerally" is universally understood to be good. But what does everyone mean when they say it?
Doug Tunnell, proprietor of Brick House Wine Company in Newberg, Ore., makes wines that critics regularly describe as "minerally." Mr. Tunnell thinks minerality (which he calls the "M word") was created to capture an experience that's impossible to define. (It isn't even in Webster's dictionary.) Yet Mr. Tunnell thinks minerality still has credibility "not as a word of science but art."
Joe Salamone, wine buyer at Crush Wine & Spirits in Manhattan, also has a hard time defining the meaning of "minerality," which he said "serves as a catchall for many of the qualities of a wine that are hardest to put into words." Perhaps that is why Mr. Salamone uses the term so often. He found it especially helpful to describe wines that weren't something else like fruity, spicy or herbal. And it's an easy way to connect with his customers. "For a segment of wine buyers, calling a wine 'mineral' is an immediate way to show that you speak their language," said Mr. Salamone.
But what is this elusive language trying to articulate? Mr. Salamone rattled off some wines that fit, all of them wines I've called minerally myself: Chablis, Muscadet and certain Italian whites like Vermentino or Gavi. (To which I'd add Mosel Rieslings, Loire Valley whites, certain Pinot Noirs and even a few California Chardonnays.)
A minerally California Chardonnay is actually a pretty recent phenomenon, since most of those wines are still better described with fruit or oak words. But Stephen Krebs, a former vineyard manager and current director of viticulture and winery technology at the Napa Valley College in Napa, Calif., said that he was even hearing the M word used more often by local Chardonnay producers.
Dr. Krebs has performed soil experiments with Clark Smith, a California-based winemaking consultant who explores the topic of minerality in his new book "Postmodern Winemaking." Mr. Smith said he has found that minerally wines most often come from grapes grown in limestone, schist and granite soils. While he called minerality "indefinable," he had his own way of thinking about it: a wine with an "energetic buzz."
An "energetic buzz" is an evocative descriptor, but I think it would be quickly worn out. How often would you want to hear a sommelier say, "This wine has an energetic buzz," or read, "This wine has an energetic buzz," on a tasting note?
'It's a helpful word to describe wines that aren't fruity, spicy or herbal.'
Mr. Moreau likened the use of "minerality" to an earlier obsession with "terroir," another almost indefinable word (or at least it's a quality that takes a few paragraphs to describe). He believes that soil plays a part in the creation of a minerally wine—and that the soil of his Chablis (Kimmeridgian limestone) contributes to its minerality. On the other hand, he thought that "freshness" could also be used to describe a wine that was minerally. Freshness is certainly a component of minerality. Yet I'm not fully convinced that the two are synonymous; a muted freshness doesn't necessarily make for a less present minerality.
Germany's Mosel region is flush with minerally offerings. A quick read of some Wine Spectator tasting notes on Mosel Rieslings reveals wines that are "minerally" or "full of lime and mineral flavors" or possessed of "intense minerality" or even wines marked by "salty mineral notes."
Top Mosel winemaker Ernst Loosen isn't keen on the word of the moment. "I try to avoid saying 'minerality,' " he told me in a phone call. "I think everyone has his own meaning of the word." His preferred replacement words were "racy acidity."
Mr. Loosen had a good point. I can't think of a minerally wine that doesn't have lots of acidity, too. That may be one of the key factors to minerality, even if the two aren't fully synonymous—after all, a wine can be high in acidity (or "racy") yet lack the sort of stony, slatelike impression that I think of as "minerally."
Off Duty's Half Full
Josh Nadel, wine director of New York restaurants Lafayette, the Dutch and Locanda Verde, agreed that minerally wines are generally high-acid. Mr. Nadel estimates that the term comes up in about two-thirds of his conversations with customers each night. Like Mr. Salamone, he also uses it to connect with his customers and to gauge their level of wine knowledge. As Mr. Nadel said, "Minerality is an advanced tasting word."
More and more of Mr. Nadel's customers are employing the word themselves. "I've been in the wine business for 15 years and I'm surprised by how many people, and sometimes what kind of people, are using the word," he said. "It isn't just a bunch of other sommeliers."
As his clients use the word with increasing frequency, he's become better at understanding what they're requesting. "I know they're looking for wines with a lot of acidity but without a lot of fruit or new oak," he said. And they're likely to find them. Three-quarters of the wines on Lafayette's list would classify as minerally, according to Mr. Nadel.
Given how many minerally wines there are in the world, I figured it would be easy to pull a group of them together for a tasting. It was. I bought a few of the wines that are most often called "minerally" as well as some less obvious ones. Some were wines that I bought off the shelves just because they were called "minerally" on the attached tasting notes. (This proved perhaps the least reliable method.)
I found qualities that could be called "minerally" in Mosel Rieslings from producers like Ernst Loosen (notably his Erdener Treppchen, which Mr. Loosen called his "most minerally wine"), Kerpen and Weingut Stein, as well as Muscadets. There was a terrific minerally Sauvignon from Cheverny, an Albariño from Spain and a mildly mineral Gavi, too. Almost every one of the wines that I found could also be described as fresh and lively with lots of acidity. And yes, perhaps even possessed of an energetic buzz.


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DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) -- U.N. experts got to inspect the site of a reported chemical attack on civilians near Syria's capital Monday as the United States accused the Syrian government of trying to cover up the attack.
The U.N. inspectors entered the town of Moadamiyet al-Sham and appeared to be examining the area accompanied by doctors, according to videos posted on social media by Syrian activists. The team had a "very productive" day and will continue its work Tuesday after examining its findings Monday evening, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York.
Government and opposition forces have accused each other of unleashing poison gas last week in the suburban Damascus area of Ghouta. Syria's opposition said that as many as 1,300 people were killed, prompting new calls for Western powers to intervene in the country's 2-year-old civil war.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the use of chemical weapons a "moral obscenity" that could not go unanswered, and he said Syrian actions are "not the behavior of a government that has nothing to hide."
John Kerry stopped short of directly accusing President Bashar al-Assad's government of a massacre. But he said, "We know that the Syrian regime maintains custo2dy of these chemical weapons. We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets. We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place."
Meanwhile, he said that Syria was "systemically destroying evidence" of last week's attack by continuing to shell the area and that the danger the team faced Monday "only further weakens the regime's credibility." The Obama administration is now weighing how to respond in talks with U.S. allies and members of Congress, he said.
"Nothing today is more serious, and nothing is receiving more serious scrutiny," Kerry said.
Monday's examination took place after unidentified snipers shot multiple times at a vehicle used by the U.N. team and after an explosion near the site inspectors planned to visit, the United Nations said. There were no reports of injuries.
U.N. officials did not say who was behind the shooting or the explosion, which witnesses said may have been caused by a mortar shell. The Syrian government accused "terrorists" of firing on the inspectors, Syrian state TV reported.
The Syrian government agreed to grant the inspectors full access on Sunday, pledging to cease all hostilities as long as the team was on the ground, the United Nations said. And an umbrella group for the Syrian opposition, the Syrian National Coalition, said rebel forces would ensure the safety of any U.N. personnel in the area.
But the government would not let U.N. inspectors approach the site for days, and the team feared that the chemical evidence may have dissipated.
Middle East analyst Richard Haass told CNN's "The Lead" that Kerry's comments "went far out on a limb" and indicate that a U.S. strike on Syria was in the works, with or without U.N. Security Council backing. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said military action was needed "to underscore the principle, the norm, the taboo that these weapons ought to have."
"No one, Syria or anybody else, now and forevermore, should be able to use such weapons, much less biological or nuclear weapons, with impunity," he said. But he said Washington should limit its intervention in the conflict, "so we don't get enmeshed in what I think could become a quagmire."
"If we want to help the opposition, the best way to do it is through considerable arming of those elements of the opposition with agendas we can support," he said.
Earlier Monday in Seoul, South Korea, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the use of chemical weapons was a crime against humanity that must be punished.
"Every hour counts. We cannot afford any more delays. We have all seen the horrifying images on our television screens and through social media. Clearly, this was a major and terrible incident," Ban said.
"We owe it to the families of the victims to act."
The United States may be preparing to take on the role of the punisher, if reports that the Syrian government was behind the chemical attack are verified. The Pentagon has sent four warships armed with cruise missiles to the region, and two key foreign affairs officials expect the United States to strike Syria if the reports of chemical weapons attacks firm up.
But as U.S. muscle has plowed the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, al-Assad on Monday repeated his government's denial that his army had anything to do with the use of poison gas.
"The area of the claimed attack is in contiguity with the Syrian army positions, so how is it possible that any country would use chemical weapons in an area where its own forces are located?" he asked in an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia.
Al-Assad accused the United States, Britain and France of exploiting the incident by trying to verify rebel allegations instead of verifying facts.
The use of a large amount of chemical weapons would cross a "red line" and threaten U.S. interests in the region, Obama has said. Washington is all but certain that al-Assad's embattled government has done so, a U.S. official said. But Obama has said he does not envision U.S. troops on the ground in Syria.
Opposition members say rockets with chemical payloads were among the ordnance government troops unleashed at the rebel stronghold of Ghouta early Wednesday. More than 1,300 people died, most of them by gas, according to opposition spokesman Khaled al-Saleh.
The opposition backed up the allegations with gruesome video of rows of dead bodies, including women and children. They had no visible wounds, and some appeared to be bloated.
The aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres said three hospitals it supports in Syria's Damascus governorate reported having received about 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms on Wednesday morning.
But according to Syrian state-run television's depiction of events, government forces came into contact with a gas attack on Saturday in Jobar, on the edge of Damascus. Several of the soldiers were "suffocating" from exposure to gases as they entered the city, according to state TV.
"It is believed that the terrorists have used chemical weapons in the area," Syrian TV reported, citing an anonymous source. The government uses the term "terrorists" to describe rebel forces.
Broadcast video showed a room containing gas masks, gas canisters and other paraphernalia that could be used in a gas attack. The army said it uncovered the cache in a storage facility in the area.
CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of video shown by the government or rebels. A U.S. official who was not authorized to speak to the media said the evidence pointing to government forces goes beyond images and open-source reporting from doctors and others.
"There is nothing credible to indicate that the rebels, either the Syrian National Council or even al-Nusra Front, have used chemical weapons," the official said. "Only the Assad regime is responsible for chemical weapons use."


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Arrested: Anthony Hill, 34, Weirton, civil contempt of court; Dec. 16.
Arrested: Gregory W. Robinson, 43, New Cumberland, public intoxication, disorderly conduct; Dec. 15.
Arrested: Nathaniel S. Lawson, 18, New Cumberland, driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident; Dec. 14.
Arrested: Mark R. Guio, 50, New Cumberland, driving under the influence; Dec. 14.
Arrested: Richard W. Foster, 73, New Cumberland, driving under the influence; Dec. 13.
Arrested: Daryl W. Brinkley, 40, East Liverpool, capias; Dec. 11.
Arrested: Ricky Wilson, 22, Chester, domestic battery; Dec. 7.
Arrested: Michael W. Geibel Jr., 29, Chester, domestic battery; Dec. 7.
Arrested: Gary L. Roseberry Jr., 29, Weirton, felon in possession of a firearm, receiving/possession of stolen property, possession of marijuana; Dec. 6.
Arrested: Andrew R. Reeder, 23, Newell, domestic violence; Dec. 5.
Cited: Shyann Bonar, 18, 7117 township Road 263, Bergholz, failure to yield.
Arrested: Lawrence Garrison, 35, 1022 McNeil St., domestic violence, Wednesday.
Arrested: Susannah Riley, 55, 246 S. Fourth St., possession of drugs, today.
Arrested: Natasha Lester, 28, 1218 Pennsylvania Ave., assault, criminal mischief, Wednesday.
Theft: Flat-screen TV, leather couches and morphine pills stolen from residence in 2900 block of Sunset Boulevard.
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Arrested: James Oxley, 27, 1560 county Road 152, Dillonvale, failure to appear, no license, expired registration, today.
Arrested: Steven Wilson, 34, 112 Edward St., Mingo Junction, failure to appear, today.


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Shared leave recipients and donors must meet certain eligibility requirements and follow University of Washington (UW) procedures to request to receive or donate shared leave. UW employees may receive shared leave from and donate leave to UW employees, Washington state agency employees, and employees of Washington state school districts and educational service districts. All requests to donate and receive shared leave are subject to the supervisor's or administrator's approval. You may receive and use a maximum of 522 days of shared leave during your entire period of state employment.
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Let $C_{\ast} : \cdots \to A_{2} \to A_{1} \to A_{0} \to 0$ be a chain complex of finite dimensional vector spaces over a field $K$.
And let $f_{\ast} : C_{\ast} \to C_{\ast}$ and $g_{\ast} : C_{\ast} \to C_{\ast}$ be two chain endomorphisms of $C_{\ast}$ satisfying $\det (f_{n}) \neq 0$ and $\det (g_{n}) \neq 0$ for any $n$.
Assume that the homology group $H_{n}(C_{\ast})$ is zero for all but finitely many $n$. Then, the induced homomorphism $H_{n}(f_{\ast}) : H_{n}(C_{\ast}) \to H_{n}(C_{\ast})$ is zero for all but finitely many $n$, and so the alternating product $\prod_{n}\det (H_{n}(f_{\ast}))^{(-1)^{n}}$ is well-defined (of course, the same holds for $g_{\ast}$).
Moreover, assume that $\det (f_{n}) = \det (g_{n})$ for any $n$.
My question is:
Under the above conditions, does the next equation hold up to sign?
$\prod_{n} \det (H_{n}(f_{\ast}))^{(-1)^{n}} = \prod_{n} \det (H_{n}(g_{\ast}))^{(-1)^{n}}$.
Note that if the chain complex $C_{\ast}$ is bounded above, the statement can be proved as follows:
$\prod_{n} \det (H_{n}(f_{\ast}))^{(-1)^{n}} = \prod_{n} \det (f_{n})^{(-1)^{n}} = \prod_{n} \det (g_{n})^{(-1)^{n}} = \prod_{n} \det (H_{n}(g_{\ast}))^{(-1)^{n}}$
Here, the first and the last equation can be shown by using induction on the length of $C_{\ast}$, snake lemma and the multiplicativity of $\det$ for short exact sequences. The middle equation is the result of the assumption.
The problem is that, in general, $\prod_{n} \det (f_{n})^{(-1)^{n}}$ and $\prod_{n} \det (g_{n})^{(-1)^{n}}$ are not well-defined.
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There is a counterexample if one does not admit the difference of sign.
Please give me any advice.


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WEIRTON - An outmanned St. John Central boys basketball team stayed with Madonna in the first half, but the Blue Dons put the game away with a 27-point third quarter to come away with a season-opening 80-44 victory Wednesday night in the Dube Dome.
The Fighting Irish were behind by 35-28 at the intermission because freshman point guard Guy Pagano got hot, scoring 13 points including three from beyond the arc.
"St. John played a good first half," said veteran Blue Don coach George Vargo, who was pleased with his team's opener. "Those kids hustled and really were quicker than us in the first half.
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HEADS UP — Madonna's Will Bowser attempts to block a shot by Bellaire St. John point guard Guy Pagano on Wednesday night.
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READY TO PASS -- Madonna guard Ross Comis looks to pass around Malik Ford of Bellaire St. John. Comis led the Blue Dons to their first win of the year in the season opener.
-- Matthew Peaslee
"That little freshman (Pagano) was hurting us. He kept them in the game until we decided to go box-and-one with (Will) Bowser on him. That defense was really the story because St. John couldn't figure out how to break the box-and-one. Then Bowser is such a good defensive player on anybody. The box-and-one changed the whole complexion of the game."
Irish second-year coach, Kevin Lahna, was pleased with his team's first half.
"The first half is what we've been trying to get our players to buy into for the summer and really the whole two years I've been here," he said. "We don't have many shooters. We have a freshman point guard who's going to be pretty good.
"Coach Vargo threw that box-and-one on us and we didn't adjust. I don't know whether we expended too much energy in the first half and came out flat, but that third quarter was a big deal.
"We knew our backs were against the wall, but at least we came out and fought that first half. That's what we're trying to get and it's getting better. It might have ended up 80-44, but to me it was a lot closer than that."
Seniors Ross Comis and Bowser, who were the featured passing combination for Madonna's state champion football team, led the way for the Blue Dons with 22 and 17 points, respectively.
"It was nice to see Comis, who is our leader, start the season off with 22 points," said Vargo. "And then Bowser pitched in with 17. They are athletes. They've been around for a long time and have played a lot of basketball for us.
"I just thought the whole team played well. I don't think anybody played great, but they all played well."
The Blue Dons were without starting forward, Nate Guio, who is nursing a football injury, but is expected to be ready to play Friday when the Blue Dons travel to Steubenville Catholic Central.
All 12 players who dressed got into the scoring column.
Pagano, who had 13 first half points, finished with 15 to lead the Irish. Garrett Holubek was right behind with 11.
St. John hosts Jefferson Christian in a varsity game at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Madonna 80, Bellaire St. John 44
St. John 9 19 7 9 - 44
Madonna 16 19 27 18 - 80
ST. JOHN (0-3): Murray 0 1-2 1, Holubek 4 1-2 11, Ford 1 2-4 5, Pagano 5 2-2 15, Clark 4 0-2 8, Bossell 2 0-0 4. TOTALS: 16 6-12 44. 3-pointers: Pagano, 3, Holubek, 2, Ford; Rebounds: 15 (Clark, 6); Turnovers: 17.
MADONNA (1-0): Biondillo 2 0-0 4, Comis 9 1-2 22, Antinone 1 0-1 2, J. Ewusiak 2 0-0 5, T. Ewusiak 2 2-2 6, Retton 2 1-2 5, Bowser 6 4-4 17, Lyons 1 0-0 2, Higgins 2 2-2 7, Silvestri 2 0-0 4, Stakias 2 0-0 4, Martin 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 32 10-13 80. 3-pointers: Comis, 3, J. Ewusiak, Bowser, Higgins; Rebounds: 27 (T. Ewusiak, 7; Turnovers: 11.


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BB is 6,000. 2 callers. I go all in (36,000) on the button with AKo. Also included in the bet are about 30,000 in bounty chips which can't be used till the final table. I'm fairly sure that was the right move on a short stack with a premium hand. Everyone folds except a big stack (>120,000) with 57o. I am a tight player so big stack knows I have him beat before the flop. AKo is ahead of 57o 63/37% before the flop according to poker stove. And he is a good player. Even with much less than AKo I still had a good lead before the flop. As I look at the numbers it seems his pot odds (counting the bounty chips, blinds, and other caller) might be better than 2:1. Is that the reason for the call or might there be other factors?
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Since you have 6 big blinds, you should be going all in with more hands than just AK so the caller should put you on a range of hands that varies based on his experience and his view of the tournament/you. Since most of those hands will be pairs bigger than his cards or two overs (especially since you are a tight player), his odds won't really be any better than that ever, and sometimes much worse (your pairs).
If he knew that you had AKo, this is a marginal fold, which he could have gotten wrong "in the heat of battle" with all of the chips flying around, or maybe he just felt like gambling. However, because you could have also had pairs, this should have been a clear fold and was probably just a player who didn't make a very good decision, for whatever reason (he isn't very good, he needed to leave to meet his girlfriend and was just trying to finish the tournament, etc.).
On the contrary of the answer above, the answer is yes, is the right move. Calling 36000 to win 87000 means that you have must have at least 29% if equity. The hands that has this equity against AK are
22+, A2s+, KTs+, Q2s+, J2s+, T2s+, 92s+, 82s+, 72s+, 62s+, 52s+, 42s+, 32s AKo, Q2o+, J2o+, T2o+, 92o+, 82o+, 72o+, 62o+, 52o+, 42o+
even taking in to account the bubble factor and the ICM, the call is correct.
From a most general point of view you are able to go all-in from the Button with 9 BB, with almost 36% of hands. In this general case an opponent would had call with almost any two cards.
It seems that your opponent's play is a "concession" that you are the better player, and that he is trying to win using his bigger stack.
You have 36,000, he has 120,000, and matches you all in when his chances compared to yours are 3 to 5. There is a 3/8 chance that you will lose on this round. If you win, you double up to 72,000, but he's got you covered with 120,000-36,000= 84,000, and will try to put you all-in again.
The chances of your "surviving" (winning both rounds) are only (5/8)*(5/8)= 25/64, or less than 50-50. If your opponent is an inferior player, he'd have to like those odds.
Another way of looking at it, he goes "all in" with you for 36,000, with a 3/8 chance of breaking you. If you survive, he plays "rationally," with 84,000 chips to your 72,000. Let's say for the sake of argument that the odds are now 50-50, with your superior skill outweighing his greater chips. Your chances to win overall are only 5/16th (one half of your 5/8th chance of survival). And if he had more than 120,000 chips, there is some number X greater than 120,000 for which this would be good play.
It was the only move you could do with your 6BB's , what do you need more ? want to bet first with good hand ? like let me say 4-5 bb's? ^^ there are "169" different worth starting hands in poker. if you have one of the top ten when you are belows 10bb's , go all in...
let's see what else you could do :
call ...so you give others the opinion to improve their hands on flop with cards they dont want to play for 6 bb's
fold .. i dont need to explain
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I use a unibody Mac laptop to read recipes or listen to music while in the kitchen. The wireless disconnects sometimes. How can I prevent this?
This really has nothing to do with unibody or Macs, but is rather due to physics. I'm guessing that you're cooking using a microwave oven or have it running nearby when you're using your laptop.
The 802.11b WLANs operate in the 2.4 GHz band. Unfortunately, microwave signals also fall in the same frequency band, and hence can cause interference with your wireless signal. If the interference is too high (depending on how your home is setup, how close the microwave oven is, etc.), your receiver can drop the connection.
An alternative to this would be to use a routing device that uses 802.11a. This operates at 5 GHz, which is outside the interference band and you won't notice this problem. However, the drawback is that since it's higher it frequency, it attenuates faster. This means that it will not travel as far as the 802.11b and will not penetrate through walls, etc. So if you have a big house, this might not be feasible unless if you want to set up multiple hotspots. From the linked wiki article:
You can also programmatically test this. You can get your wireless details from the command line with
The entries corresponding to
In the figure, you can see the change in wireless signal strength and interference as I walk from near the router (at time 0) into the room farthest away. The point to note here is that signal decreases, but noise background remains at the same level.
Then I return to the dining (next to the kitchen) and turn the microwave on for a minute (highlighted time periods). You can see how the interference increases and is higher in the next trial, when I move it to the kitchen (but not near the microwave). Note that these levels are in decibels, which means that a 3dB increase implies a doubling of interference.
The third time, I put it right next to the microwave and my laptop dropped the signal because the interference was just way too high. You can get a glimpse of how high it was, when you see it drop down to normal levels after turning the microwave off. All this while, the signal strength remained the same.
Summary: Your kitchen appliances are interfering with your signal and if you happened to be far enough from the router that your signal levels are also low, you can experience difficulties even without being that close to the appliance.
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When you are running the microwave oven, your wireless network may sometimes be disrupted enough to disconnect until the microwave finishes cooking.
If it happens at other times, another electrical appliance may be creating enough interference to cause a disconnect. For instance, if your laptop is too close to an induction cooktop, or to a particularly old high power blender, such as an old vita-mix. Older generation applicances aften do not follow the latest EMC and FCC standards for electromagnetic noise and radiation, and older devices with electrical motors often produce a significant amount of noise due to old brushes.
Narrow down which appliance is the problem by trying them out one at a time and seeing which one causes the disconnection.
If it's the microwave, you can try relocating the laptop or wireless router, but a new microwave will probably have the same issue.
I resolved the issue in my home by installing a wireless router capable of the 802.11a or 802.11n band, which run at 5GHz, which the microwave does not conflict with. Make sure your Mac supports 802.11a or n before trying this.
If it's another appliance, you should be able to resolve the problem by replacing the appliance.
You may also find good results by moving your laptop to another area in the kitchen away from the problem appliance, and letting it run on battery power, since some of these emissions can be carried over the AC wiring. A higher power or more recent router may also resolve the problem, as well as relocating the router closer to the kitchen.
Simple Version of the other answers:
You're kitchen appliances' microwaves are jamming the Wi-Fi from your router and preventing it from getting to your mac.
I got mad today and started to test my microwave. I just placed 2 baking plate on the top of microwave like one covering backside and another covering right side gap because my microwave is placed in the corner of kitchen. So I just covered the gap on the top 2 sides only. I started to heat my coffee for 1 min and I do see this worked and did not disconnect my wireless connection.
I again did the test one more time to make sure it works and worked. So my conclusion is that you need to shield your microwave is the simple solution.
Yep, the Microwave is interfering with the WiFi. If you have an Apple Time Capsule, you can use the 5GHz Network, or Broadcast either 2.4GHZ or 5GHz on another Channel. Please note that Cordless Phones and Other Devices can also interfere with your WiFi. It's also important to note the Hardware on the Network--what Wireless Signal Standard they have (a/b/g/n/ac), and what the Neighbors have that could also be a factor.


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The Pirates collected 212 canned food items which added up to 290 pounds and will provide 244 meals to community members in the Greenville community as well as surrounding areas.
After ECU's drop off Wednesday morning, the Pirates hit the court to prepare for their annual Thanksgiving Tournament which will take place Saturday, Nov. 24, and Sunday, Nov. 25.
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Board Chairman Bob Chapman said the landfill has not paid tipping fees to the solid waste authority for the past two months.
"That is approximately $390,000 in unpaid fees due to the JB Green Team. That is a major revenue source for us and we have a contract that they are not following," said Chapman following the meeting.
"The board has instructed me to send a letter to the Jefferson County Prosecutor's office seeking its opinion on possible criminal charges against the landfill. The landfill owners have a statutory and contractual requirement to pay those fees. When solid waste is brought to the landfill, the operators are paid a fee. They are the trustees for that money. The landfill is now two months in arrears and my understanding is they haven't paid fees to the state as well. And we have also assessed late fees that have not been paid," explained John Mascio Jr., legal counsel for the JB Green Team.
The Jefferson County Board of Health was set to meet this morning and was expected to discuss the same issues.
"We are fortunate because Cliff Meyer, our executive director, has started developing other revenue sources. But we are in the beginning stages of that process. We approved major expenditures tonight to improve our operations, but if we are not paid by Apex we will see financial problems in the future," noted Chapman.
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Fiscal Officer Dave Hays reported waste tonnage accepted at the landfill decreased by 3 percent in August, "and was down 14 percent in September."
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"There are good used trucks available and I would like to have that budget available in order to look for a truck. I don't anticipate making a move on a truck until January, but I want to be ready if a good deal is there," said Meyer.
The board approved a $61,330 expenditure for a compactor to be installed at the recycling cell in Wintersville along with two roll off containers.
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Meyer described that equipment as a, "a safety issue for the employees who are now handling the glass recyclables."
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Building Committee Chairman John Abdalla told the trustees the former Don's Restaurant will have space available for rent.
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Meyer was instructed by Chapman to look at the building and surrounding property to see if it is suitable.
Chapman also asked the personnel committee to conduct a six-month review of Meyer's job performance.
"Cliff has been on the job for six months now. I think he is doing a good job and a very diligent review of our operations. He took this job when we had issues and is doing excellent work. We are required to conduct the six- month review so I will ask the personnel committee to do the review and have a report ready for the December meeting," Chapman said.


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Does anyone know of any good tilesets for hex-based maps that are available for free use? The tiles from Battle for Wesnoth seem to be under a license that would allow others to use them in their games, but the game I'm developing is on a scale where a hex would be about equivalent to the area that a person would stand on, whereas the Wesnoth tiles are on a larger scale (for example, there are forest tiles with multiple trees on the hex). Are there any other games or other sources that have hex tile graphics available?
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Take a look at the Might and Magic Online game, it uses hexagon tiles but they are transparent.
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Chantel Courtney, daughter of DeeDee and Shane Courtney is one year old and doing what any normal one year old would do. Chantel was born two months early and weighed only 3 pounds, one ounce.
A Trimble County man was among more than 2,400 Americans who were killed in the Japanese attack on U.S. military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 70 years ago this month.
I love a good reunion story.
A few years ago The New York Times ran a story about then-New York Giants head coach Jim Fassel and a young man named John Mathieson.
Thirty-four years prior to Fassel and his wife Kitty meeting Mathieson they had been 19 and unmarried — and the parents of a baby boy whose birth and adoption they kept secret from all but their immediate families.
And for 34 years, every April 5 the Fassels privately wished their baby boy a Happy Birthday, adding, "Wherever you are, we hope you're OK."
30 Years Ago (Dec. 24, 1981)
Melissa Miller won the honor of All State Band Person and will be going to Cincinnati, Feb. 4-5-6 to participate in a musical clinic under direction of a guest conductor, who will conduct a concert as a climactic crescendo.
It was a jolly ole Santa Day Friday at the Farmers Bank of Milton as kiddies came by the score to talk with Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas
This week I turned 57.
I thought by this age I'd get the hang of the whole sainthood thing. The Protestant definition of a saint is simply a follower of Jesus.
However, that doesn't seem enough. There should be more to it than that. For instance, by now I should have at least the beginning buds of a halo or be able to say no to temptation eight out of 10 times — or two out of 10!
But the truth is, I still struggle.
Years Ago (Dec. 17, 1981)
Glen Perkinson took over the duties of Property Valuation Administrator on Dec. 7. His office staff includes Shirley Ginn and Tammi Hatton.
Northbank Ski Management plans to open Dec. 16-18 depending on the weather and the snow machines. This will be the first major alpine ski slope in the Bluegrass State and it can be used at Butler State Park.
Trimble County Bands from 5th grade through high school and Jazz ensemble had a concert Dec. 13.
In the past few years, my husband and I have made it a tradition to eat Christmas dinner at a nearby inn that serves a humungous buffet.
Without fail, every time we go I bemoan the fact that my stomach can't accommodate large quantities of food.
I've seen people eat stacks of pancakes the size of Rhode Island and whole sides of beef and think that maybe I can do that too, but I can't.
30 Years Ago (Dec. 3, 1981)
Approximately 1,000 users on the current water system in Milton has necessitated the construction of a 100,000 gallon standpipe and work is expected to commence on the project as soon as advertising procedures are finalized by Irene P. Long, attorney for the City of Milton.
Leigh Etta Staples received All Tournament Team plaque in the Capital City Classic.
Milton's sewer system work is expected to commence in the spring.
30 Years Ago (Dec. 3, 1981)
Farmers Bank of Milton honored four employees last week with tokens of appreciation for years of service: Roger Bradley, Cashier and Director 15 years, Judy Burkhardt, Assistant Cashier, 20 years, Jeanette Pirtle, Assistant Cashier 30 years and Marie Strasmeier, 25 years.
30 Years Ago (Nov. 26, 1981)
School board members Carole Martin, Glenn Fisher, James McMahan, Jack Carder, Wendell Williams and Superintendent Bill Stout were optimistic about Trimble's educational facilities Thursday night at the new high school building's open house. The school, nearly completed, will cost $2,700,000. Construction funds were generated from a special voted school building fund tax and a $933,525 grant from the Kentucky School Building Authority.
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An acclaimed woodcrafter from Canton, Woody will be one of the featured artists at the Village of Yesteryear — a live demonstration showcasing the storied craft history of North Carolina. In conjunction with the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts, the village will be displayed at the Shelton House in Waynesville on May 11 as part of its annual membership drive and patron appreciation day.
The event will feature craftspeople dressed in period clothing. They will demonstrate their traditional activities, many of which are talents and skills passed down through several generations.
"Preserving these traditions will provide a richness and texture to our lives that cannot be found anywhere else," Woody said.
Artisans create an educational atmosphere where attendees can ask questions and learn the history of what they are witnessing.
"The knowledge and wisdom of our forefathers will help us to grow and progress," Woody said. "If we don't teach our young people these traditions and values, they when they become our leaders, they will have no foundation for making appropriate decisions."
In connection with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, the Village of Yesteryear was created in 1951 for the state fair. It was designed to cultivate and nurture heritage crafts, serving as a working artist community — one that educated the public about the production of handmade items. Haywood County resident Mary Cornwell was the first director of the fair's Village of Yesteryear. Cornwell later founded the handicraft museum in 1977, which was placed in the Shelton House. She wanted a place where the ideals and traditions from the village would grow and flourish.
"Mary envisioned the Shelton House museum as a place to house crafts from all over the state and, in particular, to serve as a permanent repository of the Village of Yesteryear art pieces," said Evelyn Coltman, who serves on the Shelton House board.
Alongside Woody, other crafters include whittler Cary Pace, rug maker Mary Ann Silvey (the niece of famed Haywood County rug maker Virginia Boone), and ceramicist June Wiggins of Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro.
"It's important to know where you come from in order to have a clear idea of where you're going. History is always important, even crafting history," Pace said. "It's about sharing the skills with the world, and especially the children because they are the one who will carry it to the next generation."
A resident of Saluda, Pace has always held an interest in art. While in the Navy, he was stationed in Japan and learned how to watercolor. It was something to not only pass the time, but also put his soul at ease during wartime. Whittling since he was 11, Cary got more involved in the craft after returning home from Vietnam.
"[Whittling] became my nerve tonic," he said. "I'm always carving, I can never just sit without doing something with my hands, and I like to say I always have something to show for my time."
A woodcrafter of a different sort, Woody specializes in marquetry, which is known as "painting with wood." The art form involves using the natural colors and grain of a variety of woods to piece together into a picture. Introduced to the craft some 40 years ago, Woody was fascinated by all the things so could create with different species of wood.
"Every piece of veneer is different and, like people, every piece is beautiful," she said. "It's very satisfying to find the right piece of veneer to use in pictures so that they compliment each other."
Reflecting on the current craft scene in Southern Appalachia, Woody feels the traditions are thriving and spreading across the globe.
"People are always looking for the unique, the different, the beautiful, and our craftsmen today are providing that," she said. "The future is wide open for anyone willing to learn a craft and then use their imagination to take it as far as they can."


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Wear your ashes to work day
The celebrant of the Mass I went to yesterday said that if people asked us afterward if it was Ash Wednesday, we had permission to answer: "No. Why do you ask?"
It was the kind of benign joke meant to fade faster than the smudge on your forehead, but it came back to me last night while watching a local political news show on which one of the regular guests made sure to note the ashes on his forehead and declare it a true sign of what he called "RC" – "real Christianity, baby! Roman Catholicism!" The guest was Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and by now just another more-or-less tolerated presence on the New York media and politics scene. So maybe it was only to be expected that he'd follow this by bending his bicep and proclaiming (here I paraphrase, because the clip isn't available) that Ash Wednesday is the day "we RCs get to flex our Catholic muscle!"
Another joke, more stupid than benign, but maybe less benign than bellicose. I can imagine many viewers not recognizing it as humor, and maybe others willing to see it as an attempt at such, but also identifying in it something defensive if not hostile (never mind at odds with the gospel message of the day). Plus, he did it on TV.
Sliwa wore his ashes to work on Wednesday, like many other Catholics, as this National Catholic Register story details. Among them was another TV personality, Tony Reali of ESPN sports talk show "Around the Horn." He's done it for a number of years, though he notes in the story that he's struggled "with the publicness" of it, his main worry being that non-Catholics might criticize his decision as an effort to force his faith on others.
Are there degrees of "publicness"? Is walking along the sidewalk different from sitting at your desk or running a large meeting—or going in front of the camera and into people's living rooms? Forget about workplace policies. When and where does the silent or quiet evangelization become too noisy, the public expression of faith too pushy? Is it only at the point when someone like Sliwa comes in off the street and gets on the air?
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I think that one of the first things I would observe is that the ashes are not "religious garb," per se What I mean is that they mark identity or fulfill an obligation in a way different than, say, hijab.To be honest, I am not 100% cerain why it is important to me to remark on that, but I suspect that it is because I am a Quebecker, and here many are trying to legislate on religious garb on the principle that it as "an effort to force [...] faith on others." The two things just seem different, though there are obvious places for overlap.
I suppose that internal disposition (conscience?) can be the only thing that regulates how people approach wearing the ashes, unless local convention or actual rules play a prescriptive role. Surely, anyone wearing the ashes with the hope of getting attention (positive or otherwise) who did an honest self-evaluation would struggle to endorse their decision. While I doubt that anyone acting from a triumphant tribalist position (e.g., Silwa) will evaluate himself, it seems fair for others to fault his decisions. That said, there may be something to say for keeping the ashes on as a way of saying, "Yes, we are even here," which could have evangelizing potential depending on context. Is that the wrong thing to do? Again, it seems like it's the responsibility of everyone to judge for themselves the basis of their decisions.
One last note. In discussions like this, I observe that reference is often made to Jesus' remarks on public display of religious austerity. I think that there is real validity to talking about the ashes in light of that text, but I would also state that I've always been, dare I say it, a bit amused by the tendency to isolate statements made by Jesus and transform them into rules. I guess what I mean is that that text isn't a decisive key in-and-of itself.
Though ashes on Ash Wednesday are likely most associated with Catholics, there are other Christian denominations--e.g., Anglicans, Lutherans, some Methodist groups--that also follow the practice of the imposition of ashes. As long as someone isn't as in-your-face as Curtis Sliwa was, I don't see any problem with the presence of ashes in the workplace. I've had non-Christian colleagues ask me about the practice, and I regard such questions as a teaching opportunity rather than an evangelical one. Is the presence of ashes any different than the wearing of jewelry in the shape of crosses or menorahs or the Om symbol?
Is the presence of ashes any different than the wearing of jewelry in the shape of crosses or menorahs or the Om symbol?
Surely, it is. The ashes are significanty more marked as special than jewelry. For starters, ashes are worn one day out of the year, instead of (theoretically) daily. Also, the ashes are very unlikley to be received by casual onlookers as mere adornment or fashion (as could easily be the case with jewelry). Further, the ashes are an element of a particular ritual context and so are potentially laden with much more meaning than jewelry, which could be worn for any number of reasons. Finally, the ashes are on the skin, and not just the skin, but the skin of the foreheard: they are especially visible in that they are located on the face.
What does all of that mean? Well, that's up for discussion. But I don't think anything gets moved forward by failing to note the distinctiveness of the ashes when compared to jewelry.
I thought the "publicness" of it was central to the ritual; public witness that we're
mortal, sinful and, I guess, Christian.
Then what about a highly visible tattoo (perhaps on the face) in the form of a religious symbol? (I'm not trying to be facetious.) Perhaps because I don't have a problem with religious symbol adornment in general, I don't have any problem with people who wear their ashes and go about their daily routine in public on Ash Wednesday.
I think I would leave it up to each ash wearer (ashee?) to decide whether to publicize or keep private this acknowledgment of mortality, sinfulness, and the need for repentance. But one caveat: if I'm hoping the ashes will be a conversation starter that leads to an opportunity for evangelization in the workplace, I'd better try extra hard not to be a jerk there the rest of the year. Which could prove to be quite a penance in itself.
I agree with Abe that the ashes are a public identifier - although, as Bill C notes, it doesn't necessarily identify one as Catholic. I guess it identifies a person as religiously observant and situated in a liturgical tradition. And it is more than just an identifier, as the ashes themselves have a meaning (or maybe more than one meaning). And there is a historical meaning, too: the tribe of American Catholics who were more set-apart (and in some places discriminated against) a few generations ago than is the case now. So there might be an element of defiance in wearing ashes publicly?
I 'gave' ashes twice yesterday, and I was really struck by the facial expressions of the people who approached me. Some of them were really excited - they were glowing. It's the same when we bless throats on the feast of St. Blase. These things marry the physical and the spiritual in a way that approaches sacramentality, istm.
In New Orleans some non-Catholics get ashes. Or they used to.
I run with a very secular crowd; so when I show up with ashes, I get the same looks I would receive as if I unexpectedly came to work in a burka. I don't think of it as pushing my faith on people. I'm actually kind of embarrassed to be running around with this on my forehead; but I figure l shouldn't be ashamed to believe in God. Not wearing ashes because I'm uncomfortable feels like I'm not doing right by Him.
When I wore ashes at work this year (in Providence, RI), I received a nod from one Jewish colleague with whom I've discussed it in previous years, a question from an Israeli colleague who is visiting the US: "What is this? I have never seen this and don't know what it is about,", and a delighted remark from the woman downstairs cleaning the entrance doors to the building: "Oh, you're wearing ashes!! No one here does it. In my country, everyone wears ashes on Ash Wednesday." I asked where she comes from: Cape Verde.
My daughter had invited me to dinner. When she saw me, she remarked: "Oh, right, today is Ash Wednesday!" - she had not been aware of it. We had a delicious meal, with meat that was as good as sin.
Claire - I'd say you did the right thing by eating the meat. Not that you need my approval :-). But that's the kind of thing that will haunt some Catholics for decades to come.
On last night's Daily Show there was a brief clip of Rudy Giuliani on a Fox News program, obviously from Wednesday. He had the biggest black cross of ashes I have ever seen -- looked like it covered the entire width of his forehead. Made me think of Sliwa's RC muscle flexing meme.
Jack Marth's post reminded me of a former colleague who was walking towards me one Ash Wednesday with the largest and darkest smudge of ashes I'd ever seen. I asked if he had gone through the distribution line twice, but his reply indicated that he missed my attempt at humor: "As a matter of fact, I did. I didn't think the ashes were distinct enough after my first time through." I didn't bother to ask him how he had become aware of such inadequacy.
Had ashes on my forehead. The cleaning lady in an office I was visiting had them too. We saluted.
I noticed that Stephen Colbert who made a big deal of his ashes in the past didn't seem to have them this year!! Too much make-up? Unnecessary for America's most important Catholic (goes without doing, etc)?


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- It is not impolite, however, to add funny quotes to the quotes page.
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- For Windows: Download and install Pidgin (free IM chat software for Windows -- there's plenty of other free software to choose from for Windows and other OSs).
- For Macs - Colloquy (that also supports SILC) is Free Software Colloquy.
- For those who run Ubuntu and are not familiar with IRC (unlikely?): $ sudo aptitude install xchat
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 – April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman epic poet. In A.D. 65, at the age of 25, he was charged with treason against Nero, and was commanded to commit suicide.
Despite his short life, Lucan is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period. His youth and speed of composition set him apart from other poets. His epic poem Bellum Civile (or Pharsalia) deals with the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
- English quotations are taken from the translation by J. D. Duff, Lucan (London: Heinemann, 1962)
- Some of the English quotations are taken from the translation by Sir Edward Ridley (Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1896)
- In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebus
crescendi posuere modum.
- Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success.
- Book I, line 81.
- Stat magni nominis umbra.
- The mere shadow of a mighty name he stood.
- Of Pompey the Great.
- Variant translation: There stands the ghost of a great name.
- Book I, line 135.
- Sed non in Caesare tantum
nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus
stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
- But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.
- Book I, line 143.
- Leges bello siluere coactae.
- But silenced now
Are laws in war.
- Book I, line 277 (as translated by Sir Edward Ridley).
- But silenced now
- Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.
- His all, as not for self
Brought into being, but for all the world:
Such was his creed.
- Book II, line 383 (as translated by Sir Edward Ridley).
- His all, as not for self
- Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps,
nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum.
- But Caesar, headlong in all his designs,
thought nothing done while anything remained to do.
- Book II, line 656.
- But Caesar, headlong in all his designs,
- Discite, quam parvo liceat producere vitam,
Et quantum natura petat.
- Learn what life requires,
How little nature needs!
- Book IV, lines 377-378; translation by Sir Edward Ridley
- Learn what life requires,
- ...Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.
- ...The sword
Was given for this, that none need live a slave.
- Book IV, line 579 (as translated by Sir Edward Ridley).
- ...The sword
- Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est.
- The sin of thousands always goes unpunished.
- Book V, line 260.
- Multos in summa pericula misit
venturi timor ipse mali.
- But many are driven to utmost peril by the mere dread of coming danger.
- Book VII, line 104.
- Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
- Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds.
- Book VII, line 252 (as translated by Sir Edward Ridley).
- Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
- Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;
sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem
curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
- One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked
Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit
For one poor triumph.
- Book VII, line 278 (as translated by Sir Edward Ridley).
- One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
- ...Coniunx
est mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis.
- I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
- Variant translation: I have a wife, I have sons: we have given so many hostages to the fates.
- Book VII, line 661.
- Quod defles, illud amasti
- What you weep for, that you loved!
- Book VIII, line 85; translation from A. S. Kline
- Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
- Jupiter is whatever you see, whichever way you move.
- Book IX, line 580.
Quotes about Lucanus[edit]
- Lucan is the most philosophical, and the most public-spirited Poet, of all antiquity.
- Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1784), Lecture XLIV: 'The Pharsalia of Lucan', p. 413
- He displays the prolific exuberance of a young poet, who had not yet taught himself the multiplied advantages of compression. He had not learned the principle, Relinquere quae desperat tractata nitescere posse.
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The weather service office in Little Rock says the latest snow accumulation on record was at Corning on April 24, 2010, and the latest trace was at Fayetteville, Gravette and Harrison on April 30, 1903.


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Pretty huge to get 8 innings out of the starting pitcher. Bullpen is completely rested.
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Air Manis Beach is closely related to the legend of Malin Kundang in West Sumatra. Malin Kundang is a character fabled to have been turned to stone, together with his ship, after periods of disobedience to his mother. By the beach, there is a Malin Kundang stone and several pieces of equipment from his ship, which are also stones. Based on the story, Malin Kundang was cursed by his mother for his refusal to acknowledging her as his mother after traveling to another region and becoming rich.
Air Manis beach is a favorite tourist site for local and foreign tourists because it has low waves and beautiful views of Mount Padang. There is also a small island called Pisang Kecil (literally means "small banana" ) on its right side. From morning to afternoon, you can walk to this one hectare island through shallow water. In late afternoon, however, there is a tide and you must take a boat to return. On its right, there is another island called Pisang Besar (literally means "big banana" ). Local inhabitants on this island are mostly farmers and fishermen.
There are hotels near Air Manis beach. You could also make a one day trip to Padang, stay on Pisang Besar or Sikuai Island.
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Air Manis beach is located 15 km from Padang city center. From Minangkabau international airport, visitors can go to Air Manis by passing through Padang. If you want to use public transportation, you must first go to Plaza Sentral Pasar Raya from the airport exit gate in Simpang Ketaping. From the city center, you can take public transportation plying the Padang-Bungus route.


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In 1998, Deborah Haynes interviewed with Antonette ("Toni") Rosato for a position as a professor of art and art history at CU-Boulder. Not only did Haynes land the job, she began one of the most meaningful friendships of her life.
"Sitting at breakfast that first day," Haynes says," we initiated a tradition of conversation over meals about the mundane details of our lives, but also about art, the wider world, and spiritual life."
Work and conversation brought the two women closer. So it was a shock when Rosato was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in 2004.
Haynes was part of a team of friends who supported Rosato through the challenges posed by the disease and treatment. "On long drives to the medical center in Denver, I learned about chemotherapy and radiation, CT and PET scans, fMRIs and cyber-knife surgery," Haynes writes in her book, The Book of This Place: The Land, the Art, and Spirituality. "When, on the ride home, (Rosato) would ask, 'Didn't he say the lesions were disappearing?' I'd pull out my notes from that visit and say as gently as I could, 'No. The doctor said that the lesions are now multiplying and affecting different centers of your brain.' "
Haynes even assisted with personal care when Rosato's vision, hearing, and movement had sharply deteriorated. Wearing a bright orange jacket so Rosato could see her, Haynes writes, "Stretching across her bedrail, I told her how much I loved her and said goodbye. I could see that she understood me because a tear slid down the side of her face. When I returned... and drove up to her house, I knew Toni had died: her bed was no longer at its place beside the window."
Haynes began to think about a meaningful way to honor Rosato's memory. Inspired by the philanthropy of her husband, David Thorndike, Haynes had noticed the impact he had made with major gifts to his alma mater, and the fulfillment he found in the giving process. Inspiration also came from CU-Boulder's new Visual Arts Complex, the major upgrade to visual arts classrooms, studios, and display spaces Haynes and Rosato had watched develop together.
By making a gift to name a sculpture studio after Rosato, Haynes could ensure her friend's legacy would live on not only in her art, but also in a space bearing her name that would inspire great art. In addition to their own gift, Haynes and Thorndike rallied support from friends of Rosato. After several months, Haynes and friends were able to fund and name the Antonette Rosato Studio.
Haynes found the giving experience so fulfilling that she and Thorndike also funded the naming of the Deborah Haynes and David Thorndike Visiting Artist Studio for a visiting artist program that brings nationally recognized artists to the campus.
"Everything I have done has been to give back to this institution," she says. "The University of Colorado has given me so many opportunities, so much inspiration, and the friendship of Antonette."