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Dame di Cartone, Cardboard Ladies, is a series of portraits where women mimic 17th Century, cubist, and fifties fashions – only they're wearing dresses made of cardboard and paper instead of fabric! Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini takes complete control of the entire creative process, including making the patterns, constructing the outfits, and photographing the subjects. He aims to invent, create, and ultimately produce innovative images that blend fine art and craftsmanship. Just looking at the details, you can see what a labor of love his method truly is.
Catbird Threadbare Rings Giveaway
There's no doubt Catbird is our favorite source when it comes to exquisite, well curated jewelry. We're especially devoted to their own collection of delicate gold rings – so much so that we've partnered with them to give away a trio of threadbare, slightly hammered 14k gold bands. Simply leave a comment below, follow Catbird on Twitter, and a winner will be selected at random on Monday, April 2nd. (Sorry, limited to US residents only. Good luck! xx ***Contest is now closed. Congratulations to Jen L!)) And until April 10th, everyone can take advantage of code LOVEWTF for 15% off everything at Catbird!
(Catbird Rose Gold Heart Ring $92, Catbird Rose Gold Knuckle Ring $64, Catbird 14k Gold Threadbare Rings $44 each; images by HonestlyWTF)
Anndra Neen
What started out as a unique jewelry line, founded in 2009 by Phoebe and Annette Stephens, has now evolved to include a collection of metal handbags. Not only were the sisters influenced by their own professional backgrounds in the arts, their grandparents provided much inspiration to the Anndra Neen aesthetic and approach. Their grandmother was the artist and jewelry maker Annette Nancarrow and their grandfather was the avant-garde composer Conlon Nancarrow; the two lived in Mexico City in the 1930s and '40s and were friends with the likes of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Anaïs Nin. Each of these incredibly unique clutches are hand crafted by blacksmiths and artisans in the sisters' native Mexico. Honestly, want!
(images from here, here, and here; Anndra Neen Cage Clutch $725 & Anndra Need Hammered Clutch/iPad Case $825)
Yago Hortal
I'm loving the smeared, marbled, and vibrant strokes in artist Yago Hortal's acrylic paintings . . . they're so wild and dynamic yet wondrously controlled. What visual eye candy!


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Conservation issues are a growing concern for most scientists. As humans continue to consume natural resources, many organisms are headed for extinction. Conservation issues include the protection of trees, animals and wetlands.
How the Sierra Club Works
The Sierra Club lobbies for environmental preservation and engages members in fun wilderness excursions.
Can we replant the planet's rainforests?
If we replant rainforests, could we bring deforested areas back to life? Learn how you can replant rainforests and possibly help prevent extinction. See more »
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A college rock nod to the pre-fab four and others.
The Monkees turned 50 this year. Hey, hey, here's a heartfelt gift from Scott McCaughey, of indie rock stalwarts the Young Fresh Fellows and formerly R.E.M.'s fifth member. Under the Minus 5 moniker, with members of R.E.M. and the Smithereens onboard, McCaughey dedicates a song to each member of the pre-fab four, from a nine-minute country-rock tribute to Mike Nesmith to a Fifties swooner about Davy Jones always getting the girl. The back half continues the musical love letter but goes outside the Monkees' cage, encompassing Richmond Fontaine and tough guy actor Robert Ryan. It's like a shaggy Eighties college rock concept album.
Topics: The Monkees The Minus 5
Perth oddballs ramp up the rhythms – and songwriting.
Methyl Ethel find more focus here than on their 2015 debut. Producer James Ford bolsters frontman Jake Webb's increasingly danceable vision, from gleaming hooks ("L'Heure des Sorcières") to percolating synths ("Drink Wine"). The combination of funky production and spacey falsetto can evoke Broken Bells, but Webb has stepped up his songwriting enough to stand on his own. "Ubu" is a worthy entry in the pantheon of songs lamenting a subject's haircut, and other tracks balance entrancing mantras with lively contrast just as well. A lingering creepiness haloes all the catchiness too, as in the excellent "No. 28".
Twenty-five years into their career, the Waifs go long with a double album.
It's been 25 years since the Waifs busted out of a dusty Kombi on the Western Australian coastline to become one of the nation's most-successful folk bands, and now is as good a time as any to take a breath and reflect. Ironbark is the Waifs' celebration: of their endurance, of their relationships, of their deep and unwavering love for their fanbase. As befits a 25-year celebration, it unfurls languidly over two discs and 25 tracks – but don't mistake Ironbark for an intimidating listen. Rather, it is blissfully unhurried and comfortable, the pure distillation of the grown-up folk that the Waifs have been gently perfecting for a quarter of a century.
There are moments of utter loveliness (the wistful "Long Way From Home" and "Shiny Apple") and darkness too (the timely subject matter of "Syria"). After 25 years together, the strength of Vicki, Donna, and Josh's relationship is palpable, and for the first time ever they join all their vocals on the twisting opener and title track.
Releasing a double album is ambitious and fraught with danger, and where Ironbark fails to satisfy is for the same reason most fail: there is simply an excess of filler tracks. Their desire to stretch to 25 tracks is understandable, but Ironbark probably could have been served better if pared back to a single disc.
Carolina Chocolate Drops mainstay delivers sophomore solo album.
"Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you," urges virtuosic North Carolina vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and ethnomusicologist Rhiannon Giddens. Where debut Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) saw Giddens reimagining the songs of towering U.S. female artists from Odetta to Dolly Parton, this predominantly original follow-up centres on the African-American experiences that underpin and inform American music: from 19th Century slave narratives and the Civil Rights movement (Richard Fariña-penned Gospel-soul entry "Birmingham Sunday"), to Ferguson and beyond (smouldering R&B tune "Better Get it Right the First Time").
Aside from some bold and brassy moments (slinky Delta dance tune "Hey Bébé"), it's an often-brooding counterpoint to the string-band jaunts and rambles of CCD landmark Genuine Negro Jig (2010) – always rich and resonant, Giddens' old-time banjo parts are frequently urgent and ominous ("Julie"). Vocally, Giddens is a typically mesmerising presence throughout, proving a soulful stand-in for Mavis Staples in a deft take on the Staple Singers' locomotive 1965 anthem "Freedom Highway". Freedom Highway is an immersive wellspring of era-defining sounds drawn up and into the fraught light of 21st Century racial consciousness.
A solid debut from an inspired heavy collaboration.
Members of the Melvins and At the Drive-In felt so enamoured with the vocal stylings of Teri Gender Bender, frontwoman of Mexican band Le Butcherettes, that they formed this supergroup just so they could work together. It's no surprise, then, that Gender Bender's vocals are the focus on this riff-heavy album. TGB is a force of nature, an ungodly blend of Courtney Love, Kate Bush and Joan Jett, and her prickly girl-power anthems sound even more powerful with the masculine sludge of the Melvins backing her. Crystal Fairy aren't as groundbreaking as Le Butcherettes, but neither are they standard punk-fare. A solid intro to what could be a great band.
Fourth LP from Sydney rappers tackles the big issues.
In nine years Horrorshow have grown from earnest young hip-hop prodigies to veteran performers, and Bardo State reflects the confidence that comes with experience. Single "Push" is as big and sincere as they've ever been, but tracks like "Non-Stop" and the menacing "Ceiling Fan" reveal a fresh swagger and some serious One Day crew vibes. Guests like Omar Musa, Turquoise Prince and teenager Taj Ralph are only a few of the collaborators Horrorshow have brought into the mix but the set is stacked with talent, and on a record that's about transitioning between states they help elevate Horrorshow's sound to a higher plane.
Duo demonstrate sonic daring on confident second album.
The temptation when writing a follow-up to a successful album – in Holy Holy's case, their 2015 debut When the Storms Would Come – is to repeat the formula to consolidate that success. In keeping with the chaotic James Drinkwater painting that adorns the cover of their second record, Holy Holy have chosen a far more interesting approach.
There are enough familiar signposts to their past not to alienate their fanbase, but they're largely derived from inherently organic elements the band can do little to change: Tim Carroll's placid, soothing voice, for example, and the way in which it works with Oscar Dawson's fluid guitar work. Largely, though, Paint sees the duo embellishing the at-times pastoral sonic landscape of their debut, incorporating vague R&B elements ("The Message"), strident pop-rock (the wonderfully catchy "Elevator" and "Amateurs"), progressive rock ("Send My Regards") and pure Eighties soft-pop ("True Lovers"). That Paint pulls this off while still sounding like the work of one band, let alone the same band that released their debut less than two years ago, is a testament to the songwriting prowess of Dawson and Carroll. Clearly they have an inherent understanding about what Holy Holy is, and more importantly, what it can be.
Experimental pop maverick pushes boundaries.
David Longstreth has always been experimental, but this is a quantum leap from indie pop. Opener "Keep Your Name" serves notice – puttering beat, sparse piano and downtuned vocals that sound like a soul singer slipping down a rabbit hole of regret. Longstreth digs deep into his personal relationships, from initial attraction ("Up In Hudson") to bliss ("Little Bubble") to breakdown ("Death Spiral"). Fluttering woodwinds, shivering strings and parping brass wrap around glitchy beats, and although Longstreth bends and stretches his voice into weird and wonderful shapes, he reveals more soul than ever before.
Pennsylvania gutter-dwellers team up with Lydia Lunch.
Fittingly for a band named after soiled pants, Pissed Jeans have never made music for the masses, and on album number five their apocalyptic dirge is just as dense and impenetrable, thanks to input from producer and no-wave queen Lydia Lunch. Why Love Now is menacing and plodding with driving bass and spazzy vocals reminiscent of the Jesus Lizard or Killdozer. PJ are still dealing with the same themes of flawed masculinity as they were on earlier LPs like Hope For Men, but songs like "Ignorecam" show them moving on to themes of technophobia. Pissed Jeans are one of the only bands still making music like this, and it's an ugly, exhilarating thrill.
Americana stayer mines the past on first solo album in 18 years.
A departure from 2011's rustic nu-grass LP with Union Station, Paper Airplane, the 14th studio outing from Krauss revisits the classic songs of bygone decades. Windy City takes in the broad sweep of the Nashville sound's ascendency – bold piano lines, strings, chittering pedal steel, and well-deployed BVs from Jamey Johnson and others – while reprising country/bluegrass tunes from the Fifties, Sixties (a chic take on 1964 Willie Nelson tune "I Never Cared For You") and Seventies, along with soaring mid-century Broadway ("River In the Rain") and Hollywood melodrama ("All Alone Am I"). Krauss' spellbinding vocal makes for engrossing – if inessential – listening.
Chicago band deliver brilliantly discordant art-punk.
The follow up to 2015's Delusion Moon is a snarling, twisted, discordant indie-punk gem, full of brilliantly bare riffs and sweet and sour melodicism. Blessed by the production presence of Steve Albini, there's minimalist, plaintive bleakness ("No Light"), no-wave shredding ("Killing the Incessant") and scatter-brained riffage ("Glass Teeth"), and if the Cribs were raised solely on deep-dish pizza and Cubs fatalism the biting "Run You Out" might be the result. Best, though, are the drunk Gang of Four intertwined discordant guitar lines that disintegrate into a Mars Volta-y cacophonic mess on "Leopard Print Jet Ski".
Debut LP has strong handle on moody, melancholy pop.
The project of multi-instrumentalist Mark Zito, Fractures specialise in a form of melancholic pop that blends electronics and live instruments, all tied together by Zito's multitracked vocals that recall Bon Iver having a not particularly great day. It isn't all downcast moods and tempos: see the pacier "Alchemy", the light-at-the-end-of-a-dark-tunnel guitar pop of "Lowcast" and "Time Frame", which combines Eighties-Prince guitars and even Eighties-er drums for an effective dramatic pop number. The second-half doesn't offer the same kind of stylistic shifts, but that can't detract from what is a debut that boasts some undeniably accomplished songwriting.
Enchanting debut from Sarah Blasko/Olympia tour mate.
You may hear several clear touchstones on the debut album from Sydney-based singer-songwriter Sarah Belkner. There are touches of Kate Bush and Tori Amos to her voice and arrangements; there's a daring sense of musicality that suggests an allegiance to Bowie and Peter Gabriel. Satisfyingly, though, on But You Are, But It Has Belkner emerges as a singular artist; she is very much her own person, rather an amalgam of her influences. Created over a three-year period, a song such as "Chance" dazzles with instrumentation and cascading rhythms, but Belkner also knows the value of space, something she employs with expertise.
Melbourne mentalists unveil the first of their five albums due in 2017.
There's a fine line, they say, between fear and excitement. The unsettling existence of infinite so-called microtones in between the 12 legal notes of the western scale has been freaking out rock kids since George Harrison tripped over a sitar in 1965.
It was only a matter of time before some tricksy lizard magicians smuggled the spooky little critters into a metaphorical piece of airborne fruit and here it is, in nine hyperventilating slices of psychedelic terror conceived on cunningly modified instruments and no shortage of red cordial.
From whooshing segues to bad-acid imagery, the Melbourne jam freaks' ninth album feels like a sister to last year's Nonagon Infinity: a frantic nightmare of rattlesnakes, rising seas, oxygen deprivation, bloodthirsty bushrangers and nuclear fusion set to a bone-rattling pace for whipping festivals into a lather.
The furious tumble of drums, parrying and noodling electrics and volleys of staccato vocals are woven with some squawking cobra-taming pipe instrument making like an evil Pied Piper from "Open Water" and "Billabong Valley" to "Doom City".
The overall effect is plenty immersive without being all that progressive: a vaguely exotic continuation of an established sonic landscape that will spawn another four albums, they're warning, before the year is out. Whether all of them are strictly necessary is a question maybe only Lizard cultists, like Grateful Deadheads before them, can answer.
Swedish indie songwriter spins tales on fourth full-length.
Singer Jens Lekman has always revelled in quirky, whimsical storytelling, sort of like the indie-pop inverse of Tom Waits. His fourth LP, Life Will See You Now, presents 10 new vignettes with a bizarre cast featuring a Mormon missionary seeking the meaning of life, a pair of friends joyriding on a hotwired Ferris wheel in the middle of the night and a man curiously examining a 3-D printout of his own tumour. One disco-y tune recounts "How We Met, the Long Version," but it goes back to the Big Bang. Although Lekman's voice sometimes sounds like Morrissey doing a Kermit the Frog impression, he revels in strong songwriting and brilliant hooks played on steel drums, funky horns and hip-hop bells.


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Wow! My favorite poem of the night! This is great! I really like the style, flow, and rhythm. This is very good poetry! :)
What a beautiful poem - one of my favourites so far. I could just hear the songbird singing and the writer dancing - so so lovely. Definitely get my vote. xxxx
This was good infact it was absolutely beautiful, a flawless poem which gets my vote 10/10.
You describe the innocence of a young child viewing one of god's lovely creatures in such a way that makes one feel all warm inside bless you.
congratulations, you have won joint second place in the competition! the results are here (as i cannot be bothered to say it twice :D :L): http://www.booksie.com/other/miscellaneous/iwanmacbride/poetry-competition-results
So beautiful, so insightful. I could see this being taught in schools someday. This is simply amazing.
this was very good! i like the imagery of the dancer and the bird. it's a visual that i was able to hang on to through the poem. gave the poem a softer, more intimate feel. but there is sadness in the life of the ballerina - the lost shoes, being caged in by the glass. and the conversation is so aching, so needful of answeres. glad it ended on an uplifting note. i have a poem, oddly enough, that was inspired by watching a bird from behind a window. you might like it. it's called "a bird of spring"
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Having recently released his latest Nike Sportswear Dunk collaboration, The Roots's ?uestlove shares his thoughts regarding the project. The event originally took place on March 4 at Nike Sportswear Mercer. The collection features three separate Dunk models with ?uestlove's own insights into what the Dunk means to him and its versatility being worn both brand new and fresh out of the box. The first five people also get a nice gesture on behalf of ?uestlove with their shoes on the artist himself.
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Question. Is it okay for my child to go to sleep with a nightlight? I have heard reports that using a night light can cause cancer or make it more likely that he will grow up and need glasses. Is that true?

Answer. It is usually okay for kids to sleep with a nightlight, especially as it often eases any bedtime fears they may have.

Night Lights

By 'sleeps with a nightlight,' I am assuming you don't mean that she is sleeping with her regular, bright, bedroom light on and is instead sleeping with a dim nightlight, which shouldn't cause any problems...

The only real harm would be if it were interfering with her sleep. If she sleeps well and is well rested the next day, then it may not be a big issue.

Experts are recognizing that not getting enough sleep can have significant effects on children. In addition to appearing sleepy, they may have a short attention span, be hyperactive, or irritable.

Is she having any of these problems?

Most people should sleep in the dark or in a dimly lit room though. The reason is that melatonin, a natural hormone that our body produces and which helps stimulate our going to sleep, can be inhibited by bright light.

Nightlights and Cancer

There was once a report that suggested that exposure to light at night may be a cause for the increased incidence of childhood leukemia. However, this was not really a research report and was simply a discussion among childhood leukemia specialists at a medical conference in London. There is some research behind this idea, including that adult night shift workers, who have an increased exposure to bright lights at night, have an increased risk of breast cancer and colorectal cancer. But it seems a far stretch to concluded that the dim light from a child's nightlight could have the same effect.

To be sure, the rate of childhood leukemia has been increasing. According to the National Cancer Institute monograph, Cancer Incidence and Survival among Children and Adolescents: United States SEER Program, 1975-1995, the average annual rate of childhood leukemia has risen almost 1% a year from 1977 to 1995, mostly because of an increase in rates of acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL.

Looking at the numbers more closely leads one to question the link to nightlights though. For example, while the overall rate of ALL increased at a rate of about 1% per year for white children, there was almost no increase in ALL rates for black children. Do white children use night lights so much more frequently than black children, and if not, then why doesn't using a nightlight have an affect on the rate of leukemia for black children?

Also, the average annual rates for ALL peaked in 1990 and then steadily went down over the next few years. Were more parents using night lights just before that time and then decided to use them less frequently afterwards?

Then there is the fact that the incidence of leukemia is highest when children are two to three years old. Plenty of older toddlers and preschool age children continue to use a night light, so why isn't the rate higher for them too?

Since the increase in cancer rates from exposure to light at night is supposed to be caused by abnormal melatonin levels, one simple study that could be done is to see if children who use a night light actually have abnormal levels of melatonin.

And it would be helpful to know if childhood leukemia rates are higher in children that live in the 'Land of the Midnight Sun,' or Artic and near-Artic Regions where they experience constant daylight for two months out of the year or areas where it just doesn't get very dark at night.

Unfortunately, not much is known about what puts a child at risk for developing ALL. Among the known risk factors are a:

male sex

age less then 5 years

white race

higher socioeconomic status

prenatal diagnostic x-ray exposure

postnatal ionizing radiation exposure

genetic conditions, such as Down syndrome, neurofibromatosis, Shwachman syndrome, and others

Since many of these risks can't be controlled, discovering other risk factors that can be controlled or eliminated would be very welcome. So if it is possible that exposure to a night light can increase a child's risk of leukemia, then further research should be done to confirm that it is true.

Still, it is not a good idea for preliminary talk or research to be released to the public like this story was. All that does is cause parents to worry unnecessarily or make unneeded changes in their child's routine.

Sleeping with a Nightlight

There is usually a good reason for having a nightlight on in your child's room. Getting rid of it may raise your child's fear of the dark and cause trouble getting them to sleep.

Even the association between nightlights and myopia or nearsightedness was made by a single research report that worried many parents, even though later reports found that the link wasn't true.

So at this point it is probably okay to still use a nightlight and not make your child sleep in the dark.


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Under current law, all patients who give themselves injections at home (home users) are offered two options for disposal of their used needles and syringes. Your first option is to participate in a sharps exchange program through a local pharmacy. Through one of these programs you would purchase a sharps container for a $2 or $3 fee, then return it to the pharmacy for disposal when full. This is the safest option for everyone involved. Your second option is to place your used sharps into a closed coffee can, soda bottle, or other puncture-proof container and put this container out with your regular trash collection. This option is perfectly legal, but may potentially cause problems for your trash collector or the environment. Therefore, we recommend the sharps exchange program.
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Sexting amont college students is becoming increasingly popular and there are plenty of statistics to prove it.
Its funny how technology changes things sometimes…
We went from "love letters" to phone sex and, now, we're back at text based sexual conversations know as "sext messages".
The problem with sexting? First of all, the conversations that you assume are between you and your partner, are saved and recorded for anyone to read if they really want to.
Sexting can also be a considered a form of sexual harassment if both parties are not okay with the content of the text conversations.
See Also: Text Messaging Statistics 2012 [Infographic]
With that being said, the sexting phenomenon is something that can't be avoided or stopped so the next important step to take is to increase awareness.
An infographic (posted below) was recently published by BestCollegesOnline.com and it provides us with some insight into the prevalence of the sexting epidemic.
Although the study sited in the infographic only included 200 or so college students, it is a good start and, having been through college myself during the sexting era, the numbers seem pretty accurate!
Click on the infographic below for the full size version.
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terrible twos...at 1 years old? HELP
Tristan turned 1 on 6/11. and i hope i'm not the only one having trouble with their 1 year old. he's refusing to eat anything (he IS teething, getting his eye teeth and 6...
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I have root, and I've heard there are ways to use scripts to edit init.d to allow the internal and external memory on the GSIII to be switched. How do you do that and should new apps download from Google Play onto the external sd card (which the phone would think was internal memory) after the scripting switch was made? I'm trying to get large apps like games running on my phone and that obviously leads to storage issues. I feel like Google does not consider this anymore and assume that most people are using cloud storage for larger files.
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JimmyMAC: 2 Thumbs Up For Ciao Mambo
My wife and I had drinks and dinner at Ciao Mambo's this evening. Of course with any new restaraunt in Koot Co., it was packed. I had no idea what to expect. We were told about a half hour wait at 6:00 but we were glad to sit in the bar and check it out over a few drinks. Our table was early but we we decided to wait for a while as I was enjoying Carmel Valley Pinot Noir and my wife was loving the house martinis. To make a long story short-Great atmosphere, great food, and great service considering it's only been open a week or two. Didn't know I was on Govt Way in Hayden, felt like I was in a great metro establishment. We live in Hayden and I love downtown CDA but sometimes I like new faces and eating closer to the homestead. Bottom line, it was fantastic and I intend on making it a regular spot. Worth a review by OTV. They have quite a few people helping open it from Whitefish but I hope the manager, Micheal, stays here for good. Our server, Laura and the bartender, Garrett earned high praise from both my wife and I/JimmyMAC.
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Tax credit reform is the topic of the Missouri School Boards-Association's Fall Regional Meetings to be held throughout the state in October and November.
The Region 8 meeting will be held at 7:15 p.m. tonight at the Eldon R-I Middle School, which is located at 1400 N. Grand Ave. in Eldon.
Tax credit spending is out of control in Missouri, crowding out revenue that otherwise would be available to-K-12 education and other purposes. Reasonable limits on tax credit spending would provide more state revenue without a tax increase.
School board members and administrators will learn more about this issue and discuss ways they can influence efforts to reform tax credits in our state during the regional meetings.
Tax credit reform will be a major legislative priority for the Missouri School Boards-Association during the 2013 legislative session.


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9. What's the best part of your rig?
To me it has to be the Unique Dual Loop Water-cooling. The way it is set up is Very Unique. It actually travels up through the roof of the build and shows the coolant flowing the the edge of the top. Also it has 2 Pumps and 4 reservoirs.Yup that's right 4 !
10. Any dislikes, things you should not have bought?
Nah I think I'm pretty happy with the parts in the build and it performs very well.
11. Did you modify anything ? cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.
Oh boy this would take forever to explain all the mods. I will try to Narrow it down. The NZXT Switch 810 Case has been totally ton down and Modded everywhere to allow tubing to run through the roof of the build. Also all the drive bays had to be Modified for the tubing and pumps to be mounted in the drive bay area. Also the top of the Case had to be Modded to fit the EK XTC 420 Rad with 6 140 mm fans.
The whole motherboard tray i made from scratch, Modded the PSU,All fans where taken apart and painted, everything was sleeved or Paracorded, Made a whole new PSU Rad cover for the bottom which is holding a EK XTC 280 rad with 4 140mm fans. Custom Decals ,Custom Painting, Di noc there is just so many things to lists like led's i made up and wiring harnesses and it keeps going.
12. Your 3DMark06 / 3DMark Vantage score (P+GPU)
I haven't run these tests yet with the build. I ran Cinebench at 5.2Ghz 8 Threads 104 for graphics and broke 10 points for CPU.
Wasn't really planning on benching this build but can later if necessary. (I have other builds for benching, not that this wont wont do well)
13. Do you have any Future updates planned ?
Yes some Decals may be added to the Outside , All the Razer Mass Effect 3 Gaming gear is in the mail (Keyboard,Mouse,Mouse Pad)
Also a Window but that's still kinda a secret at the Moment.
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The Shortest Way Home: A Novelby Juliette Fay
Sean has spent twenty years in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he'd always felt was his life's mission. But when burnout sets in, Sean is reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Fay's much-loved/b>
Sean has spent twenty years in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he'd always felt was his life's mission. But when burnout sets in, Sean is reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Fay's much-loved Shelter Me. There, he discovers that his steely aunt, overly dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own. When he reconnects with a woman from his past, Sean has to wonder if the bonds of love and loyalty might just rewrite his destiny. Completely relatable, The Shortest Way Home is another perfect serving of a slice of life from the irresistible Fay.
Winner of the Library Journal Award for Best Women's Fiction
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"Fay is one of the best authors of women's fiction, and her novels are not to be missed. A moving, introspective look at what it means to be family, and to be truly home."
—Library Journal, starred review
"Fans of Fay's first novel, Shelter Me (2009), will spot a familiar face in Sean's hometown, and readers old and new will fall in love with the flawed, endearing cast of characters. A beautifully written novel infused with Fay's generous spirit."
"Fay's third novel (after Deep Down True) is a touching exploration of a damaged family working to repair itself, with universal appeal."
—Publishers Weekly
"Full of humorous and tender moments as well as subtle revelations, The Shortest Way Home is a quietly powerful exploration of one man's journey back to himself."
"The Shortest Way Home is as complex and full of surprises as the well-examined life. This is one beautiful novel, rich with depth and heart."
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"The Shortest Way Home is Juliette Fay's best yet and shows us that loving the people in your life can be as exciting, as daring, as difficult an adventure as any."
—Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Together and Love Walked In
"The Shortest Way Home is full of heart and of understanding about the often awkward collection we call 'family.'"
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"With trademark wit and grace, Juliette Fay portrays a man forced to rescue his family as he reaches for his own freedom. She keeps you turning the pages, even as you want to stop and admire her writing."
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"A smart, sincere look at the meaning of home, the complicated nature of family ties, and how the things we run from are often what we need the most."
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"Heartfelt... Juliette Fay does a wonderful job creating this quirky, lovable cast of characters finding their way in life and love."
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"Powerful, beautifully written, and at times heartbreaking… a meditation on the impossibility and the inevitability of finding our way home."
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"Sincere, powerful and heartfelt, Deep Down True will resonate with women everywhere . . . I loved Fay's true-to-life characters and her ability to portray the intricate dynamics of friendship and family in such an immediately recognizable way."
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"I love Deep Down True for its intensely human characters and for the way the author grants them their flaws as generously as she celebrates their daily decencies, their persistent hopefulness, their moments of personal grace."
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"Fay imbues Dana with the smarts and insecurities that war within most of us. Highly recommended for fans of women's fiction featuring resilient heroines."
—Library Journal
"Heartwarming, funny, well-penned . . . a solid page-turner, right through to the touching end."
"Tackles a host of serious issues in a remarkably thoughtful fashion . . . What's more, it's just a genuinely good story."
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"Fay keeps the reader engaged with a vivid descriptive palette evoking the little details of life in a small town. She also does a beautiful job capturing the ebb and flow of single motherhood, from small miracles and little annoyances to the big ordeals."
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"A wise and inspirational debut. Readers will be charmed."
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"What a gorgeous paradox of a book: a deep, thoughtful exploration of a young mother's first year of widowhood that is as much a page-turner as any thriller. The translucent beauty of the writing and the sheer humanity of the characters pulled me along."
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"Juliette Fay can hit the high notes of emotion with unexpected moments of redemption and wry humor."
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- Edition description:
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- Pages:
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- Product dimensions:
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Meet the Author
Juliette Fay's first novel, Shelter Me, was a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award Book of the Year. Her second novel, Deep Down True, was short-listed for the Women's Fiction Award by the American Library Association. She received a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a master's degree from Harvard University. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and four children. The Shortest Way Home is her third novel.
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The Shortest Way Home was a really sweet, tender family novel. It is rare for a Women's Fiction book to be told from a male viewpoint, but Juliette Fay has done just that. Sean is a good guy who was, first, glad to be home around the familiarity of his past, but then realized just how badly Kevin needed a father figure and how badly Aunt Vivian needed a caretaker. The realization of how badly they needed him was a bit suffocating at first and that is where you can really see the transformation in Sean. Going from this guy who thought he was on vacation visiting family, to this guy who realizes the weight of the responsibility waiting for him. I especially enjoyed the relationship between Sean and Kevin. Kevin is such a unique little boy and I love the way Sean starts to realize just how unique Kevin is and that to leave him alone with Aunt Vivian would do irreparable damage. Bottom line, The Shortest Way Home, is a sweet and tender novel about the ties that bind, family. The story itself is well written and obviously written from the heart. If you are looking for a good novel about the importance of family, no matter what the age, then you simply must read The Shortest Way Home.
In THE SHORTEST WAY HOME the author shows how family and friends intertwine over the years--how friend become family, how family ties require sacrifice--and all of it written so well that the pages turn until you realize you should have turned the light off hours ago. Juliette Faye is generous with her characters, even when they are acting in the most foolish of ways. A beautiful book.
Lovely book with well developed, believable characters, but I did like "Shelter Me" (also by Juliette Fay) a bit better although that may be because I tend to gravitate to stories with a female protagonist over a male. I did like how Ms Fay interwove the concept of being called by the higher power to our life's work but being open to a changing message into the story.
I honestly could not put Juliette's newest novel down. I was laughing, crying and most of all, thinking. It is a fascinating, moving and heartfelt story. I am counting the days until her next book is published!
I happen to believe that anything written by Juliette Fay is a win. I believed that since I read Shelter Me. She develops characters and shows you the side that is imperfect and impatient, the depth of a character that you don't always get in a contemporary novel. As much as Huntington's was a big piece of this story, the sensory issues that Kevin lived with were so enlightening. I really learned a lot about that. I felt like it tied in well with the whole family dysfunction and dynamics. I'm a nurse, so I identified with Sean in that way. I felt overwhelmed by all the issues he was dealing with for his various family members, in the same way that you might feel overwhelmed in real life. About the time that I was half way through the book...I felt like I wanted to stop. Not because is wasn't good, but just because I wanted to be in the middle of this story for a while longer..I wanted to put the brakes on this story to stay in it. Now I'm done and I'll likely be thinking about it for a long time.
Have re-read this book sevrral times and slways enjoy it!
It was well written and kept my interest. I loved Shelter Me so much though, I found myself comparing the two constantly.
You might think that a guy who makes his living as a nurse in remote, poverty-stricken countries would be able to come home for a little bit of rest and recuperation from the toll such difficult work has taken on his body. Yeah, not so much. Sean is at a crossroads. He has apparently outrun the likelihood of having inherited Huntington's Disease from his mother but his body is wracked with constant pain and he seems to have lost some of the drive that has led him to spend years giving service to others in dire need. Home is where he needs to be for a while, especially since things are not so good there, either, with his aunt showing signs of dementia, his orphaned nephew withdrawing from the world and his sister becoming angrier every day that she has had to give up most of her dreams to watch over Aunt Vivvy and Kevin. Sean's faith is taking a hit, too, and his prayers just don't seem to mean as much as they used to. Little by little, though, Sean begins to make connections with his past through friends old and new, even with those issues that will probably never be fully resolved, and he finds that the present may not be in such depressing shape as he thought. Coming home started out as an obligation to family as well as an escape from physical pain and emotional bleakness. Could it be that coming home will turn out to be his salvation? Author Juliette Fay has already established herself as a writer who has that special touch with words, who can pull the reader into the story she's telling, and this book is no exception. Her rich prose and her insight into people's behavior are what make this true comfort fiction and men will enjoy it just as much as women. One of the pleasures of The Shortest Way Home is a cast of characters that are mostly very likeable and even those who are not so appealing still engage the reader's interest. In short, Sean and his family and friends are the sort of people you can find in your own surroundings and so they feel "real" for lack of a better word. I was engaged with Sean from the beginning and, as time went on, I found myself rooting for this man who had fled his own uncertain future but had, as a result, become a man dedicated to helping others. Perhaps it's now Sean's turn to find happiness and peace. Reviewed by Lelia Taylor, November 2012.
Juliette Fay is at her best in The Shortest Way Home. It's an irresistible read. Bravo for her vivid and quirky cast of characters, her keen eye for interesting details and, most of all, her wit throughout. I highly recommend all of her books, but this one especially warmed my heart!
I would NEVER have bought this if I knew it was about Huntington's. I have suffered enough with the disease in my family. What a complete waste of money.


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Gareth Stevens Pub., 1997 - Juvenile Fiction - 86 pages
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a sacred amulet must be returned to a museum mummy before the mummy notices that it is missing.
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
The HTTP Accept-Header of Mozilla's HTTP Requests currently looks like this:
That means that text/xml, application/xml and application/xhtml+xml are all
equally preferred.
That's not really true, not intended and not convenient. The generic types
text/xml and application/xml should not be preferred over the more specific type
application/xhtml+xml (and image/svg+xml in SVG-enabled browsers).
Instead they should have slightly lower priority.
I suggest changing the Accept header like this:
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Send an HTTP Request
2.Look at the Accept header
Actual Results:
Mozilla prefers generic XML MIME types (application/xml and text/xml) with same
precedence as specific ones (e.g. application/xhtml+xml).
Expected Results:
Specific XML-based MIME Types (e.g. application/xhtml+xml) should be preferred
over generic XML MIME Types (application/xml and text/xml).
Confirming as an apparent non-dup valid enh req.
Gerv, this is all you
Relevant comment from n.p.m.browser:
Seairth Jacobs wrote:
> I didn't say that one should be preferred over the other. I said that
> "text/xml" should no be preferred over "text/html". Give them the same
> quality value. That way, the server can make the decision. If a server
> decides to return text/xml plus stylesheet, it can. If it still wants to
> return text/html, it can.
> If you want to give text/xhtml+xml a higher quality than text/html, that
> makes sense. In this case, you are specifying a preference between two
> specific vocabularies.
> As for when "text/xml" should have a higher preference to "text/html", my
> answer is "never". Like it or not, legacy HTML formats are going to be on
> the web for a long, long, long time to come. Making them second-class
> citizens to the generic text/xml format will only cause users to find
> another browser that doesn't (again, imho).
i'm keen on anything that will reduce the length of our Accept header (the fewer
bytes we send with each and every request the better), so if i follow gerv's
point, he's suggesting that we do away with the q=0.9 following text/html? in
fact, i don't really understand why we make such a big deal out of saying we
prefer this type more than that type. heck, we are simply able to handle any of
these types, so why differentiate? we don't need to tell servers that xhtml is
better than html, they already know that. /sigh/
Why would you want to do content negotiation with a specific type vs. a generic type?Mozilla prefers XHTML over HTML in order to allow content negotiation of real XHTML + MathML vs. IE + ActiveX soup.OTOH, the XML content sink doesn't support incremental loading, yet. So in that sense it would make sense to prefer text/html.The entire HTTP request fits in one TCP packet and dropping " en-US;" from the UA string would save us 7 bytes. After all, sniffing for UI language is bogus, because servers should use Accept-Language.
The original point in this bug suggests a change to (with some edits to reduce
In other words, xhtml+xml first, then xml, then html, then plain.
The comment I quoted from the newsgroup suggests making text/xml (and presumably
application/xml) the same priority as text/html; i.e. changing the 0.8 to a 0.9
in the string above.
Re: the length, I agree (and have been working hard to make it so) that we
should keep the length down. But, we had a big discussion about this last time
round and the current set are all in there for good reasons.
Re: length
I think saving a few bytes is not a good reason for fiddling with the q values.
There are better ways of saving a few bytes here and there such as omitting
Accept-Language on style sheet and script requests and omitting Accept-Charset
on image requests.
To put things into perspective, Mozilla's HTTP requests are tiny compared to the
HTTP requests WAP gateways can make. A Nokia cell phone accessing a Web site
through a WAP gateway can advertise dozens of MIME types in the Accept header!
(Take a look at http://nds.nokia.com/uaprof/N3650r100.xml and imagine most of
that information plus some more formulated as HTTP request headers.)
Of course, the difference is that Mozilla's HTTP headers travel end-to-end in
any case--even when Mozilla is behind an old-fashioned PPP dialup connection.
Re: what to accept and with what q values
Should Mozilla be advertising application/xml and text/xml in the Accept header
at all? As for sending out q values, does it make any sense to do content
negotiation with the other alternative being */xml?
Mozilla really should prefer text/html over arbitrary, a priori unknown in
meaning, make-up-tags-as-you-go XML. HTML tags carry meanings that are generally
known. (Arguably the meanings could be better defined, but that's not the
point.) OTOH, private XML vocabularies may seem to have meaning to whoever wrote
the document, but for something that doesn't have any idea of the meanings of
the elements a priori, the private vocabularies are effectively meaningless.
(Adding a CSS presentation to a document tree with unknown namespaces and
generic identifiers does *not* fix this basic problem.)
So *if* the generic XML content types are kept in the Accept header, it would
actually make sense to make their q values lower that the q value of text/html.
Is explicitly accepting */xml any more useful than explicitly accepting
application/octet-stream? If the resource typed */xml is the only resource
available and there's no negotiation, */* catches it anyway and the resource is
sent to Mozilla. But are there any good use cases where there are two or more
resources one of which has the type */xml and content negotiation makes sense?
WE could add multipart/x-mixed-replace.. Tahts somethign people are likly to
want to sniff on.
I really don't think that we're going to have people doing server side sniffing
for bmp files. We should only have html(/xhtml/etc), and then other 'uncommon'
file formats. Then in 5 years time when all browsers upport mngs, and noone
bothers to do server side parsing, we can remove that, and add something else.
That isn't the intent of the http sepc, mind you, but I think that it does make
logical sense. I think.
One thing about the length / size of the header:
As long as the whole header does not exceed one MTUs / TCP packets, I really wouldn't
bother making the Accept header a bit longer.
The current header of Mozilla is this:
Host: localhost:3129
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-gb;q=0.6,en;q=0.4,pl;q=0.2
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
The header size is approx. 400 bytes. That's not half of an MTU. Wether the request header is
400 or 800 bytes does not make so much difference. Even with an 28.800 bps Modem you get
3600 bytes per second.
So 100 bytes more take only 1/36 seconds for a 28.800 bps Modem, which is 28 ms. For 10
subsequent requests, e.g. a page containing 9 images, it's 1000 bytes more, which still takes
less than half of a second to transmit.
I'd really not be picky about 10 or 20 bytes more of a header, especially if the difference
between the current size and the previous size as less then the size of some URIs.
> WE could add multipart/x-mixed-replace.. Tahts somethign people are likly to
> want to sniff on.
Problem is, most browsers which do support it don't advertise it.
It's becoming clear to me that the Accept: header should contain non-universal
formats, and should contain them as soon as we start supporting them (for
avoidance of the above situation.) I suppose this is an argument for retaining
MNG (see bug 189872).
Henri: no-one is suggesting fiddling with q values to save length; my slightly
reduced version and the original mean exactly the same thing.
Christian Wolfgang Hujer: the fact that it fits into a single packet is not the
end of the story. If you load a complex web page, we can issue a lot of requests
at once. On a slow connection, every byte counts a little bit. We should
certainly not say that we can keep filling up Accept: until we hit the MTU limit.
even if you issue several requests at once using HTTP/1.1 keep-alive, the speed from the
server to the client will always be the bottleneck, not the other way round. You issue the first
request, and after issueing the 4trh request you're probably still receiving response data from
the first request.
I don't wanna say okay, let's create a 1 MB request, but let's calculate the difference between
a 420 and a 440 bytes header: it's 20 bytes per request. On 100 requests, it is 2000 bytes
difference, that's two kB, with an old 28.800 modem it's still less than a second.
The bottleneck is the responses, not the requests.
I didn't want to say let's fill up the MTU limit. I just wanted to say hey, don't be picky about 10
or even 50 bytes in the Accept header.
Without wanting to complicate things further... is there any chance the XUL
media type could be added? ;o)
There is presently a discussion on news:netscape.public.dev.xul on how to best
detect a XUL-capable software agent -- see
At present, server-side code has to check the "User-Agent:" header; here's a
Java/J2EE example:
String agentHeader = request.getHeader("USER-AGENT");
if (null != agentHeader && -1 !=
agentHeader.indexOf("Gecko/")) {
out.println("XUL is supported.");
} else {
out.println("XUL is not supported.");
A saner approach would be if we could examine the "Accept:" header instead:
String acceptHeader = request.getHeader("ACCEPT");
if (null != acceptHeader && -1 !=
acceptHeader.indexOf("application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml")) {
out.println("XUL is supported.");
} else {
out.println("XUL is not supported.");
Taking Gerv's suggestion, removing the presently defunct "video/x-mng" then
adding "application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml" with the same level as
"application/xhtml+xml", we have:
P.S. "OS" should be changed from "Linux" to "All"
Now that we have Gecko browsers without XUL support, I can see an argument for
adding XUL. The problem is, of course, that it's not there in all the previous
Mozillas, so checking for it won't be very sensible.
Checking for "Gecko/" and then !"Camino|Chimera" might do the trick, I suppose.
Have we missed the boat on adding the XUL media type?
gerv: what about applications that embed gecko, but don't support XUL? the list
is not limited to chimera and camino... more to the point, the list of non-XUL
apps could increase over time, so sniffing for the application name just doesn't
seem like a good solution at all to me. sniffing for known applications works
if we can say that post |this version| of gecko, XUL will be advertized in the
Accept header. that way, servers can read the Accept header to check for XUL,
and if it is not there, they can optionally fallback on guessing based on the UA
It would be important to make sure that the Accept-string really matches the
capabilitites. For example, tehre's bug 188376, which wouldn't exist if
compile-time options could turn stuff on and off in the Accept header.
If XUL goes in the default Accept header, how do we make sure J. Random Embedder
takes it out if the embedding app doesn't do XUL?
> If XUL goes in the default Accept header, how do we make sure J. Random Embedder
> takes it out if the embedding app doesn't do XUL?
J. Random Embedder's browser doesn't work properly on sites which are sending
XUL to XUL browsers. J. Random Embedder's customers get irritated with J. Random
The same argument applies/applied to MNG, which could be compiled out for
embedding. Short of some very smart build-time way of building the header, we
just need to make sure it's documented that embedders should check that the
Accept header is still valid for their build.
Sadly, it doesn't work that way. Even a product released by mozilla.org itself
(Chimera/Camino) had (still has?) a bogus Accept header for months.
Henri: so what do you suggest? Some way of assembling the Accept: header at
build time, based on the build options?
Based on what I've seen people using or wanting to use, I'd say we need the
following types in the accept header:
XHTML (done)
MathML (unless --disable-mathml is specified)
XUL (unless --disable-XUL is specified)
SVG (if --enable-svg is specified)
Being able to detect on MathML is significant because not all XHTML browsers
support MathML (in fact, only Mozilla and Firefox support MathML; Camino builds
without and no other browser has support). Since MathML is namespaced directly
into the page, there is a strong need to do server side content-type negotiation
based on the presence, or not, of MathML. At present, this means doing
user-agent detection (see e.g.
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000309.html for the type of
hacks this involves).
Arguing that not including XUL in the accept header because "some builds did
support XUL but don't have it in the accept header" seems like a fallacy to me.
Putting XUL in the accept header can't possibly make the situation worse; if
anyone is actually serving XUL, they are still free to detect based on UA or
whatever they are using at present. However putting XUL in the accept header
makes it easier for people to design cool XUL-enabled features and be sure that
people without XUL won't get junk.
If SVG support is compiled in, that should be advertised as well (perhaps with a
low q value); after all an SVG enabled Mozilla browser does accept SVG, even if
the support isn't perfect. It also gives those who would like to serve SVG the
oppertunity to do so; at present there is no obvious way to distinguish browsers
where it is supported from those where it is not. This also means that SVG sites
are more likely to work with Mozilla if SVG ever makes the default builds.
I filed Bug 234170 on allowing the accept header to be set at build time.
> XHTML (done)
> MathML (unless --disable-mathml is specified)
Reiterating comment #5:
Mozilla prefers application/xhtml+xml over text/html, because
application/xhtml+xml can contain MathML (see old n.p.m.mathml archives). When
MathML is not enabled, preferring application/xhtml+xml is (arguably) wrong,
because then application/xhtml+xml provides no added value but text/html does
provide added value (incremental rendering).
Also, I'm inclined to think application/xml and text/xml are non-sensical as
conneg alternatives.
> Mozilla prefers application/xhtml+xml over text/html, because
> application/xhtml+xml can contain MathML
But a build containing SVG but not MathML would also 'prefer'
application/xhtml+xml over text/html because it could accept SVG content in the
XHTML. Opera or Safari might decide to 'prefer' application/xhtml+xml over
text/html, especially if support for, say, SVG appears in those browsers (or
even if it doesn't). None of this helps someone who wants to send MathML to
browsers that support it and png to browsers that don't. In fact, one might have
three versions of a page, one with MathML equations, one with SVG equations and
one with PNG equations. Content negotiation should allow one to decide which of
the three pages a browser can actually handle.
Having said that, I agree that, in general, application/xhtml+xml should be
prefered in builds that support MathML or SVG. I just don't think that's sufficient.
in all mozilla builds that don't use --disable-xul application/xhtml+xml can
contain xul as well...
(or so I hope. I haven't tested...)
See also bug 125682.
Untill everything is sorted out to be perfect, it would be nice if text/html is
preferred over generic XML. Example where this is annoying:
<http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/versioning>. It would also be nice if
application/xhtml+xml is preferred over text/html. (Like it is today.) Not only
for SVG and MathML builds but also because websites use it to serve Mozilla
XHTML with a somewhat more advanced style sheet and IE HTML.
Henri, are there bugs for Mozilla sending Accept-Language for style sheets,
scripts and such?
Anne, I am not aware of a bug about Accept-Language. Strictly speaking, sending
Accept-Language is not wrong, because images, style sheets and scripts can
contain things that depend on the natural language skills of the reader and in
theory someone somewhere could use conneg with them.
We currently have the following:
How about changing that too:
It is 12 characters longer and is a bit better IMHO. However, I think we can
drop application/xml and text/xml from the list. (At least, this solves the
problem when there is both a meaningless XML file and a semantic HTML one.)
Anne: but which is more likely - the case you mention, or the case where there's
both an legacy HTML and an modern XML version of a resource? That XML may well
not be XHTML.
I wouldn't want to rearrange the order of entries in the Accept: header (as
opposed to adding new ones) without a lot of discussion, because of potentially
breaking stuff - and it's really not a high priority right now...
I think my case is more likely. There is no such thing as "modern XML". It is
useless for people to use XML without any semantics on the web without having a
HTML or XHTML alternative, which can be understanded by most browsers. (Althouh
Google only understands the semantics of HTML (text/html) documents.)
With who would this need to be discussed?
For what it's worth, the original rationale for these changes was bug 58040 comment 28.
This bug has been plussed for 1.9 but there doesn't seem to be any consensus on what change to make, if any...
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If you have any desire to see important TV, pun intended, take a gander at this 6 episode comedy series(available on VHS & PBS) produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 'The Corp.' let writer/director Ken Finkleman(escaped from HOLLYWOOD hackdom) do whatever he wanted and it shows in a TV show that knows no bounds in its behind the scenes look at a Toronto TV Newsroom. Smashingly smart, searingly irreverant, better than Larry Sanders at giving you the inside scoop on the crap that makes (most) TV what it is. Lock up your sacred cows. Ken's knives are sharp and long. Also see 'More Tears'(1998) also by CBC and Finkleman.
The deadpan quasidocumentary feel of this series puts it solidly in an evolutionary chain from Canadian sketch comedy, perhaps most obvious among the SCTV and other Second City folk who've done so much that's been visible in the States, to such latter-day offerings as THE OFFICE, in its original UK form and US remake. The interplay of dialog is often as quick as anything I've seen in screwball or drawing room comedy in any medium, yet usually the build toward absurdity is held deftly in check till a rich payoff. The new season, offered to US television in 1995, may seem a bit familiar as a result of the first season's influence, and the first sequel project, MORE TEARS, was by intention somewhat more self-indulgent (parodically...and simultaneously not...Fellini-esquire), but all are well worth seeing, particularly this first season.
I would love to see more comedies out of Canada. Most of today's American comedies are downright dumbed down to the audience of the young and the restless. Anyway, I was surprised that I actually enjoyed watching this show mixed in with the British comedies on NJN. I love Canada. I was watching the episode which was well-written about pretty boy anchorman who enjoys doing stories on pets in Kabul. I love his school teacher who said that he had a great voice and looked great enough to be doing something that wouldn't require too much thinking or intelligence. Anyway, this anchorman gets kidnapped while on assignment. The ransom was 2 million American dollars not Canadian but it was brought down to 1700 Canadian dollars because the reporter captured wasn't anybody worth keeping. Of course, his boss was on the shortlist for an Order of Canada. If you don't know what the Order of Canada is, it's like the Order of the British Empire or Order of Australia with no knights or dames. Well the boss was on the shortlist until his anchorman gets kidnapped and he gets bumped. By the time the shortlist comes out after Jim Walcott's unflattering tapes of his past surface and he gets bumped off. Who gets on the list is the substitute female anchor. It's all political but it shouldn't be in the Order of Canada. Oh well, God Bless Canada.
"The Newsroom" is honestly one of the best-made television shows I've ever
seen. Brilliant writing; solid acting; dialogue that flowed more
realistically than you'll ever see. And the stinging commentary on office
politics and the cut-throat portrayal of the media was dead on. This
a show about nothing. There was no audience. There was no laugh track. It
didn't need any of these. It tackled real issues in the news, but gave you
the insiders look. The show takes place in Toronto, Canada at a local news
station. In one scene, the crew gets word of a train accident in the Congo
river. Instead of going with the big local story, they go with the
unrelatable, yet more interesting train wreck halfway across the world. In
trying to somehow relate it to Canada, they check to see if any Canadians
were on board.
Mark: We haven't even confirmed this Canadian. Jeremy: Well, we're hoping there's a Canadian dead. George: We're hoping he's dead.
Just an example of what goes on behind the scenes. Makes the network executives of Fox look like saints.
People have compared "The Newsroom" to Garry Shandling's "The Larry Sanders Show." Both similar; both excellent shows, "Sanders" coming before `the Newsroom.` But the Newsroom was done so much better in every way, that's there can be no comparison.
Like I said, one of my favorite shows of all time. Do yourself a favor and check your local PBS stations to see if they're playing "The Newsroom." Or, in Canada, beg the CBC to show some re-runs.
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Sid Robinovitch's theme song for The Newsroom is one of the best ever,
and the theme (instrumental) captured the mood and underlying solemnity
of a satirical series.
The Newsroom was unapologetically hard-edged for sure, and it was critically acclaimed. I'm a big fan of The Newsroom although the characters weren't exactly lovable.
One scene really disturbed me. It was when George Findlay, the executive producer, had an incredibly offensive discussion with a Canadian news anchor of Chinese descent. Interesting, when I saw an interview with the actor Ken Finkleman (who also created The Newsroom) he felt uncomfortable with performing the scene. He felt uncomfortable??!!! What about the poor Chinese actor who no doubt felt humiliated having to earn a Canadian dollar to be on screen?
I saw this years ago, so I'm reviewing this based on my response in the
This harsh satire of the news industry was pointed, dark and very, very funny. I don't remember too many details, but I remember that it was absolutely brilliant.
And then came the last episodes, in which the main character snaps. And they were awful. What had been a straight ahead comedy suddenly, inexplicably turned into an obvious tribute to/ripoff of Frederico Fellini. It was clear that series creator Finkleman, like so many humorists, felt humor wasn't enough and that he had to prove himself as an artist. And the result was tedious, pretentious and a complete misfit with the rest of the series.
But it's still worth watching all the episodes up until that point. It's just a shame Finkleman couldn't have been satisfied making a really funny satire of television news.
This show was excellent and had me until the completely unnecessary and
bizarre 8 and a half homage (the three episodes called the meltdown).
The entire purpose of which seemed to be to allow finkelman to pretend
to be the main character from the movie. Which was hopelessly
self-indulgent ("which was the point! get it?!") and devoid of anything
interesting to say.
Before that though the show lays the blueprint for one camera office politics satire which both the British and American Office have utilized (if not totally ripped off). The show features some of the best writing I've ever seen on Television, incredibly sophisticated and never broad, it still manages to be hilarious.
8.5 out of 10 (get it?)
The first time I attempted to watch "The Newsroom" I tuned out, bored. The second attempt was not only better, but I became hopelessly enslaved and devoted to the series which I have watched over and over, for therapy, a hedge against loneliness, and other times when I just want to be a part of Finkleman's wacky world. I love the man. He can do no wrong for me. For many of the cast it had to have been the "best of times" to have been part of this magnificent production. Along with Ken's "More Tears", and Dennis Potter's "Singing Detective" I know of nothing finer ever done on TV, and I could absolutely kill myself for not being able to write a more fitting tribute to this great artist.
Wit, an insider's view of the TV system, and great writing, directing, and performances collide to give auidences an absolutly BRILLIANT show that should be put out on DVD, already! Don't miss "Meltdown", the 3 episode tribute to Fellini's 8 1/2.
A superb and biting satire of the politics of a television newsroom. Ken Finkleman seems to have been born to play the role of the newsroom head and the supporting cast also play the roles convincingly.
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