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Thursday, March 08, 2012
You may not want to read this if you haven't already read The Sense of an Ending
And after I finished it last night I went looking for some discussion of the ending. I was totally blown away with how my interpretation differed from the interpretations that have been put forth on other blogs. Okay, I saw one person get around to mentioning the same idea I'd had in the comments to a post, but this comment didn't seem to snag anyone's interest.
Agree with me, argue with me, discuss with me. I'm throwing out what I think and hope you'll feel free to do that same.
The last email Tony's old girlfriend Veronica sends to him, near the end of the novel: "You still don't get it. You never did, and you never will. So stop even trying." This isn't the first time she's said these same lines to Tony.
Barnes is putting us on guard that any conclusions Tony reaches are apt to be wrong. So what does Tony conclude shortly thereafter?
That Veronica and Tony's old friend Adrian had a child together. That the deerstalker-helmeted mentally- challenged man that Veronica takes Tony to observe is the child that Veronica and Adrian had together before Adrian philosophically decided to end his life. Later, he modifies this conclusion when one of the caretakers of Adrian Jr. tells him that Veronica is actually Adrian Jr.'s sister. Tony's conclusion: Adrian had an affair with Veronica's mother. Tony's responsibility in all of this, he concludes (as many readers have as well), is that he wrote an ugly letter that sent Adrian to talk to Veronica's mother, who'd been nice to him, Tony, during one particularly trying weekend visit to his posh girlfriend's home, and who then subsequently must have been so nice to Adrian that she got pregnant by him. And then Adrian slit his wrists from shame, not philosophy.
Sorry, but I just don't see the nonpatronizing Sarah Ford, Veronica's mother, as a Mrs. Robinson simply because she waved goodbye to Tony that weekend in a way he interpreted as "not the way people normally do."
Remember how Tony points out that while these events were taking place in the Sixties, it was the Sixties "only for some people, only in certain parts of the country."
Back in the Sixties, in the places where it still felt like the Fifties, a daughter who got pregnant by a boy who didn't want to marry her, might very well find herself delegated into the role of sister to her own child while her mother raised her biological grandchild as her own. This was a common enough practice while I was growing up that whenever I wanted to be a smartass to my sister, who's 15 years older than me, I'd ask her to prove she wasn't really my mother. Yeah, I was a brat.
The importance of Sarah Ford's frying eggs, "in a carefree, slapdash way, untroubled when one of them broke in the pan," speaks of the ease she'd have of stepping in as mom after Adrian failed to provide legitimacy to the grandchild.
Remember how Adrian is the one who wonders whether Robson's girlfriend may have been pregnant by someone else. Why wouldn't he also wonder if his own girlfriend is carrying someone else's child, particularly after he receives Tony's letter? Adrian's so-called philosophical reasoning for suicide--"that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is a moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision"--certainly reads differently if we consider that maybe he doesn't want to be stuck raising a life that he suspects belongs to Tony.
Why waste so much time at the end of the book on Tony's misunderstanding of what "hand-cut" chips means, if that's not a clue that Tony still doesn't have a clue?
Why did Veronica insist Adrian write Tony and tell them they were going out if she wasn't trying some last-ditch effort to make Tony try to win her back before she'd have to switch gears and convince Adrian, who was falling in love with her, that the baby she was carrying was his?
I'm not so sure Barnes gives an indication of when exactly Sarah Ford would have learned that Veronica's baby was fathered by Tony instead of Adrian. My take is that she wanted Tony to know the truth; hence, the "blood money," as Veronica calls it, left to Tony in her will and the bequeathing of Adrian's diary. I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah never had the diary in her possession (although he could have left it there when he went down to Chislehurst), but used it as a mcguffin to spark Tony's interest in uncovering the truth. Unfortunately, Tony being Tony, even in his old age is unable to do more than see the barn owl in a poem, not the Eros and Thanatos. He's like unimaginative Robson, who by Tony's mother's standards, should never have killed himself, because he wasn't clever enough to become unhinged.
You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?
And for Tony, although he cannot see it, the answer to the question is everything; he's responsible for everything.
35 comments:
- Andi said...
Hmmm. . . I did think, with Tony, that Adrian and Sarah Ford had an affair that brought forth the mentally disabled man that Tony sees on his visit with Veronica. That said, your reading is interesting . . . but honestly, it never occurred to me that the baby could be Tony's. . . just didn't even enter my mind. I'll have to ponder that.
Very interesting . . . I really will have to ponder this more. Thanks. - 2:32 PM
- SFP said...
I find it fascinating how an ending can suggest such divergent readings. For me, it's no big deal that Tony suggested Adrian talk to Sarah. She was the mother of the woman he loved; at some point he was going to talk to her. But I can't make myself see how Adrian would immediately start an affair with her, or why Sarah wouldn't pass the child off as her husband's if she did have an affair, instead of blatantly naming the child Adrian Jr. after the presumed father.
- Girl Detective said...
Fascinating stuff to ponder on! And could Veronica being called "mary" be another clue that she is in fact the mother? Also, by taking Tony's conclusion at the end to be "the ending" we do only get "a sense of an ending"
- SFP said...
Could be. I've been wondering if the intent of having the son know V. by her middle name was so that she'd have further protection from anyone who knew her as Veronica (college friends) connecting her with a son named Adrian. . . and if he was named Adrian to throw anyone off in suspecting Tony to be the real father.
(And why wouldn't Veronica's father leave his wife if she'd gotten pregnant by Veronica's boyfriend and dared name the child after him?)
I absolutely agree that believing in Tony's conclusion only provides "a sense of an ending." Excellent point! - 2:25 PM
- Girl Detective said...
At the end of the book, I was wrestling with why the mother had left Tony money and the diary. These didn't make sense with Adrian being the father, either with the mother or with Veronica. They make more sense with him as the unwitting father. I'm wondering about reading it again, searching for clues.
- supratentorial said...
Hmmm, interesting. I like your thoughts. I did not read it this way, but I think I agree that it makes some things make more sense. I'll have to think about it some more.
- Sherry said...
I like your ending. I, too, wasn't intelligent enough to puzzle this out, but I have to say in my own defense that I was dissatisfied with the obvious conclusions that Tony came to at the end. I wondered if he might not be the father, but I couldn't quite figure out the timeline. How long did Veronica date Adrian before he committed suicide?
I do believe, though, that you've got the real story, expressed in "traditional narrative terminology." - 10:09 AM
- SFP said...
I need to reread. I was flipping through and saw that Veronica's mother had written to Tony after he and Veronica broke up. Don't know if we're supposed to take the rest of his memories of the letter at face value or not.
- SFP said...
I'm still not sure that my reading is the correct one. It's just much more satisfying for me to read it this way!
- SFP said...
I need to reread and pay more attention to the timeline, although I'm not sure how much stock we should put into it when it's based strictly on Tony's memories.
I'm still unsure when Tony and Veronica were together at the Severn Bake. - 1:34 PM
- Teresa said...
I just finished reading the book yesterday--the opening of your post piqued my interest, so came back today to read your theory and I like it! My mind was grasping at the idea that Tony was the father, but I hadn't put all these details together. I too wonder about the timeline, but I'm not sure it's all that important since Tony himself as good as admits that he might be tweaking the timeline when he says he could just as easily have said he broke up with Veronica after they had sex, instead of before. (And indeed everything about the encounter and the following conversation makes it seem like they broke up after. He says before, but he doesn't convince me.)
I think, though, that Barnes is leaving all the doors open and that there's no "right" reading. All those references to history and documentation make me think that he's really going after the idea that we can't know, so some of us, like Tony, just choose to believe something, even if it isn't convincing. - 7:37 PM
- Melody said...
I'm glad to have happened across your review. I recently read this book and the ending has been bothering me--feeling like what Tony concluding was missing the point somehow, but not sure how. I can tell you that Veronica's constant "you don't get it" comments were irritating! I kept thinking "I don't get it either--how can I when nobody really communicates??" Your thoughts work for me though. Thanks for giving me another angle from which to look at it!
- Jibbsull said...
Very interesting, I didn't really get it either but your theory makes sense. Except if Veronica was the child's mother and Sarah raised it as her own, why would Sarah have had Adrian's diary? I still don't understand the $500 blood money, the definition of which is "money given in exhange for an illegal deed". So Sarah thinks she owed TOny a token of payment for not having told Tony that he had a son?
And when Tony saw the adult child, he immediately recognized Adrian's physical features. So how can we explain that? - 11:32 PM
- Jibbsull said...
Oh that is very good, the part about her being called Mary, referring to the mother of Jesus. Very good, I didn't pick up on that. Thanks for pointing that out.
- whisperinggums said...
Interesting theory, but I'm not sure I buy it. However it's a while since a while since I read the book. I read the "you just don't get it" repetition to be more about Tony's general emotional/social cluelessness. That makes sense to me, whereas saying he doesn't get some facts he's never been told doesn't make sense to me. That said, you've teased out some good ideas.
- Ernest Hook said...
I think the many comments on the blog indicate that Julian Barnes' "The sense of an ending" work is flawed in not providing a sufficiently convincing explanation of events. Of course perhaps that was the author's intent. If so he should have signaled it, perhaps by titling the work "A sense of ambiguity" if the author MEANT to leave things as uncertain as some readers felt. Most of those commenting on this blog state in essence that the "solution" Barnes provides at the end is not consistent with aspects of the character and "plot" he has described before. That is the sign of a flaw in construction of a book. But note if you take the book at face value, then Barnes treatment of the reader is similar to Veronica's treatment of Tony! "You just don't get it" might be his sly dig at the reader up to the very end! So I think it best and simplest to accept his explanation of events he wrote about as what he intended, and any apparent inconsistencies or discrepancies as simply flaws in his construction.
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- Wen Shi said...
It's interesting? The only thing is that how does this explain the equations in Andrian's diary?
- gregchase said...
I think the biggest problem with this reading is that Tony mentions how much Adrian Jr. looks like Adrian. It seems like the only way to read this detail is that Adrian is the father--though, of course, this does not clear up the ambiguity as to the mother's identity.
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- Saatci said...
Is the disabled child son of Sarah ford and Adrian? Was Sarah Adrian's mother?
my thoughts are based on tony's comment on how Adrian Jr resembles Adrian. I guess Adrian and Veronica had a son - but Adrian committed suicide before the son was born. That is probably because of Tony's letter that made him question if Veronica had been with other men and the baby wasnt his. The family wanted to protect Veronica so they told everyone the baby was Sarah's and called Veronica ' Mary' so that others would not relate the past events to Veronica...
cant explain blood money though...
Fascinating thinking! Thank you so much for sharing your conclusion with us, it has thrown definite light on what was only a sense of the ending to the book. It does make sense looking at it that way, except it still doesn't tie in with why veronicas mother would have had Adrian's diary in her possession if she had not been close to him, surely veronica would have had it in her care after Adrian's death. And more intriguingly why would Sarah ford pay Tony blood money, as it doesn't really make sense why she saw him as the victim? Or does Veronica's mother see Tony as a victim of Veronicas treating of Tony, the fact that her Sarah advises him to not let Veronica 'get away with too much' suggests this. So the blood money paid and the diary in the mothers possession still causes confuses to me? Any thought??
Interesting take on the novel, but the idea of the child being Tony's would contradict that he saw Adrian's features in the younger man. Unless he was so blind to it being his child that he was merely convincing himself of such similarities?
'Don't let Veronica get away with too much'is a clue. What if, Veronica was actually pregnant by her father and went back to sleep with Tony to 'hide' the truth? The incest produces a disabled child who is raised by Sarah as her own. The diary could hold the key to the who the real father is. Veronica will not share the diary because she doesn't want Tony to know the truth. The blood money could be left because Sarah does really feel badly about how Tony was treated and she wants tony to help Veronica deal with her past. Barnes says' when we are old, we invent different pasts for others'. This is also a clue. Tony (Barnes) has invented different pasts for all of the other characters in the novel. It doesn't solve the equation, unless Sarah didn't know who the father really was? or why Adrian committed suicide? unless Veronica had convinced Adrian that he was the father. Veronica could be the one character lying throughout.
Just read this book today, and first conclusion was: it's your son with Veronica, Tony! Then I thought, no wait, maybe it's Adrian's (with Veronica). Then I found this website, because now I'm completely lost: maybe there's something going on in Veronica's family, incest of some sort (father, or even brother? who tells her "he'll do" when he meets Tony). And now I'm even more confused, but I found a lot of clues here, and will probably re-read it at some point to try to figure something out. Either way, Tony really should just ask her "Well WHAT DON'T I GET?". It seems he is content with just a "sense of an ending" indeed.
- SarahJane said...
Interesting conclusion worth considering. Personally I think Tony slept with Sarah and blocked it from his memory, like the letter he wrote long ago and gets back from Veronica. Sarah has Tony's child. That's the only thing that for satisfactorily explains the blood money, the broken egg yolk in the frying pan, the "you still don't get it," and the "great unrest."
The strength of this book is that the author makes it very clear in the comment that history is incomplate documentation coupled with equally bad memory. We are free to question any of the narrator's statements. i think that Adrian is an alter ego invented by Tony. He importantly turns up after Tony makes a pedantic answer to the what is history question: Adrian is the voice in the middle of the night that says "here is what you should have said" and we are presented with the novel's version of how the iconic statement could have occurred in class. Importantly, the memory of the suicide of the unknown teenage father was highly significant to him. To these sheltered students it represents the end of innocence which the students struggled to understand. Later Tony becomes involved with Veronica whose family is as dtsfunctional as she is. After the second rendezvous with Veronica's mother, now as Adrian, which resulted in the pregnancy, Tony killed off Adrian in his mind with a suicide. I see this as his attempt to "renounce" Adrian, an image suggested by the earlier death, and separate from Veronica. He continues the rest of his sadly ordinary life more or less as planned. Then of course Adrian Jr and Veronica turn up and he is stuck trying to reconcile his "memory" and the "documents". Veronica says he just doesn't get it, but probably she doesn't get it either. This type of fiction with ambiguous information is actually one of my favorites. Think The French Lieutenant's Woman, Life of Pi, and Atonement. By the way, I think 7the broken egg represents a Sarah miscarriage, and with the husband now infertile, both Veronica and her brother are involved in lining up a suitable sperm donor.
- Meera said...
The story is not so great. But, the way it is told is brilliant. It is full of surprises and a little suspense, but at the end, the story does not appear worth of remembering. It finely narrates some events that started some half a century ago and enter in the present. The journey of a man from the childhood in the fifties/sixties to getting aged in the present world has been well-depicted (Although the story has a jump in time for about 30/40 years).
There is a reality unknown to the narrator. The unwrapping of that reality is done fantastically. Besides, the issues raised in different contexts are extra-ordinary, unconventional. Everyday-things appear in new colors. So, it is an experience reading this novel.
I will recommend this work to all those in search of a different taste in reading, but not to those who are in search of a new story. At the end, I felt that I did not read the whole novel to reach at this event which was to me quite boring and unworthy of my labor reading it. Although, I was entertained by how the whole story was told. - 2:00 PM
Just finished this book last night and I also had the need to hear others ideas as to what it all means.
I think that there were other dysfunctional things going on in Veronica's family. From her alcoholic father who made up points of interest to Tony as he was driving him around, to Veronica's brother, to Sarah and her mysterious comments about her daughter to Tony. Warning him to be careful. When Tony wrote Adrian cruelly warning him about Veronica's family, I don't think Tony had any idea that what he wrote was true. He was just trying to get back at both Adrian and Veronica, but in fact, there was some type of deception going on in Veronica's family.
I think the impaired young man named Adrian, was in fact Adrian's and Sarah's son. I thought she sent Tony the 500 pounds as a thank you for sending Adrian to her. Did Veronica bring young men home to try out on her family to see if any of them wanted them? Why did she seem so devoted to her brother when she brought Tony home, but all those years later, showed no interest in him? Had there in fact been some type of incest going on in that family?
I am going to reread this book to see if I can gain some more clarity in the story. - 8:30 PM
- Mirza Ghalib said...
It's a very interesting story? Actually the way the story has been presented is great. The only thing is that how does this explain the equations in Andrian's diary?. This story has lots of surpises and a bit of suspense. Well enjoyed reading it.
Please can someone share their thoughts on the equations in Adrian's diary. How does it makes sense for Tony?
It took me until tonight, in 2015, to finally read this novel (which i liked much more than my last Barnes novel, 'England, England'). The theory I formulated as soon as I reached the point where Adrian commits suicide is totally out of sync with every other blogpost I've seen on the subject -- i.e. I was convinced that Sarah was the first Adrian's mother (now also the mother of a second family, which he's never met) and that when Adrian and Veronica hook up, they have no idea (until it's too late) that they're brother and sister. And at the end of the novel, this still seems at least as plausible a theory as that of Sarah the seductress.
It took me until tonight, in 2015, to finally read this novel (which i liked much more than my last Barnes novel, 'England, England'). The theory I formulated as soon as I reached the point where Adrian commits suicide is totally out of sync with every other blogpost I've seen on the subject -- i.e. I was convinced that Sarah was the first Adrian's mother (now also the mother of a second family, which he's never met) and that when Adrian and Veronica hook up, they have no idea (until it's too late) that they're brother and sister. And at the end of the novel, this still seems at least as plausible a theory as that of Sarah the seductress.
Apparently I posted this twice.
- Axica Tyagi said...
Excuse my insolence of not reading each and every comment, since I'm in a hurry to acknowledge this. In the formula that Adrian gave, there's a variable, s. Tony is able to give an explanation to all of the other variables, and very subtlety suggests that s stands for Sarah. That must mean that Sarah is the mother of Adrian jr. And since she must've conceived the child in her late 40s or 50s, that also explains the anomaly.


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Kick off your night with Gambas al' Parilla (jumbo shrimp grilled Catalan-style—in the shell—with garlic aïoli and gray salt) from Mas Tapas (mastapas.com).
End with a bacon ice cream-and-root beer float at Brookville Restaurant (brookvillerestaurant.com).


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I've been to many weddings in my day, but I have to say, backyard weddings totally steal my heart. They are intimate, heartfelt and filled with darling details that never fail to fill me with happiness. Take this beauty from Lisa Rigby Photography for example, it's practically perfect in every way, and you can see even more right here.
From the Bride…With our families living so far apart (London and Boston) we wanted to create a really intimate and personal atmosphere where everyone could come together and just have a really fun evening. One way we did this was by including some small, subtle details that would represent different aspects of us both. The sailcloth tent by Sperry Tents spoke to the grooms love of sailing, while the homemade strawberry jam guest favors were a nod to the bride's love of crafts and baking. With both of us working in environmental fields, we wanted the event to have minimal impact by choosing vendors with similar values. Season to Taste, who catered the event and specializes in locally sourced food, served a delicious vegetarian/pescatarian dinner. Our wedding planner/floral decorator, Whim Events, perfectly captured the feeling of a garden party with delicate flowers and lots of tiny tea lights. To top it all off, Darlingside, a local band who are really growing in the Boston music scene, collaborated with the bride's brother and sister to play a surprise cover of the bride's favorite song, setting the tone for an evening of wild dancing.
Photography: Lisa Rigby Photography | Coordination: Whim Events | Floral Design: Whim Events | Catering: Season To Taste Catering | Hair & Makeup: Kacie Corbelle | Band: Darlingside | Tent: Sperry Tents | Invites And Day Of Materials: Ladyfingers Letterpress | Rentals: New England Country Rentals


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When was the last time you actually wanted to fill out a customer satisfaction survey?
MicroMetrics executives (from left): Andre Richards, Martin Kratky-Katz, Artem Abramov, Tomasz Ogrodzinski and Nakul Nayak.
Artem Abramov and Martin Krátký-Katz are anticipating it wasn't any time in recent memory.
That's why they've started MicroMetrics, an Ottawa-based startup that is selling a tablet-based customer survey program.
Instead of asking for feedback long after a customer has interacted with a particular business, the MicroMetrics solution seeks to check in with them while they are still at the store or restaurant.
Traditional surveys have a number of drawbacks, according to Mr. Krátký-Katz.
They often happen a long time after the customer has interacted with the business, which skews the reliability of the data.
"The people who really remember their experiences most vividly are the ones who either have a really terrible experience or a really great experience," said Mr. Krátký-Katz.
MicroMetrics's solution offers customers free products as an enticement to fill out a survey before they leave on an iPad located at the business. The initial returns have been promising: the company has been able to get response rates of up to 27 per cent, much higher than what they say is the industry standard of three per cent.
Since then, MicroMetrics has managed to convert 80 per cent of the businesses that were using a free version of the service into paid customers. The firm now has 10 clients in Ottawa and four clients in Kingston.
With our notification system, they'll be able to address any of the concerns that the patient may have to make sure that by the time they actually leave the premises of the hospital, they'll be fully satisfied. Artem Abramov, co-CEO of MicroMetrics
It has also expanded into the field of data analytics. Now the company is offering to crunch the numbers and highlight areas where clients need to improve their customer service.
There is also a customer loyalty component.
The survey system allows businesses to develop a profile of particular customers and then tailor marketing campaigns towards them. For example, a steakhouse could e-mail a mid-week coupon to a customer who comes in every Wednesday to enjoy a steak.
Now, the company hopes to expand its product offerings so that businesses have options beyond the iPad solution the company has developed. In addition, MicroMetrics is also targeting the health-care sector.
Founded: 2013
Local head count: 13 paid, full-time employees, plus advisers and part-time employees
Funding: $500,000 from Startup Garage, GrindspaceXL, IRAP and the federal government's Youth Employment Fund, plus money from family and friends
Selected client list: Ottawa Health Group, the Flying Banzini
Brief description of the service: Tablet-based customer survey program


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Products from Adobe have an amazing popularity, and if you're looking forward to the new releases of Adobe's software, today we have some good news for you. Continue reading »
Adobe has released their new Photoshop app for the Apple iPhone. Those who enjoy using new ways to edit pictures directly on their iPhone prior to uploading to various social networking websites will definitely appreciate this new tool. Photoshop for iPhone will include features such as gesture-based editing tools–from the basic flip, rotate and crop to more subtle image editing such as tint control and filters and effects.
Is this the real deal? We have absolutely no idea whether this is just another photoshop mock up calling it the MacBook Mini. Mind you, April Fools is coming up! These are spyshots of what is allegedly the Apple netbook which we have all been waiting for, they were leaked and printed in a Russian magazine. What's more is that the specs revealed showed no signs of on board 3G wireless connectivity, that's odd for a netbook these days. Inside the supposed MacBook mini, there's a 10.4″ screen with a 1,280×768 screen that handle HD videos. There's also an Atom processor, 2 GB of RAM, WiFi, running Geforce 9400M, bluetooth, a 64GB solid state drive for storage, a USB port and a Mini DisplayPort.
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Just wanted to show you guys something a bit geeky this morning, the tie you see below features the key buttons and functions from the popular software Adobe Photoshop. Its actually very fashionable, what do you think?
We've featured all sorts of robots before, sexed robots, really real like fish robots but none with a pretty face as real as this robo-girl. This pretty Robot girl was done by Tamar and Rob Sheridan. Tamar took the photos and Rob did the special effects using Photoshop.
This project shows us what our favourite graphics creating / editing software Adobe Photoshop would look like if the user interface were rendered in real life.
For those who have doubts on whether the above image could have been just another 'photoshop' gimmick, check out the gallery featuring the entire process of how this was done here…


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Why Ban on Cow Slaughter Is More Scientific Than Religious
There are numerous reports running around Indian media that banning cow slaughter is denying beef eaters their freedom to eat. These commies always take different stand from the point of views that originates from Vedas and ancient India wisdom. The same bunch of foolish writers go into comatose and are almost dead to question the terrorist attack on freedom of expression - Charlied Hebdo cartoons. The reason being they do not have courage to ask questions to muslims, they are spineless stupids and
A Welcome Move. "Cow Urine Cure Cancer" Says BJP Member
Cow urine is effective in curing cancer completely, BJP member Shankarbhai N said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday while pressing for stopping cow slaughter.
"If you want to save yourself from cancer, there is a need to protect cows on a priority because cow urine is effective in curing cancer completely. It can cure cent per cent. I can vouch for it. Nobody wants to hear this," he said while participating in a debate on Budget.
[ Read Also Why Hindus Consider Indian Cow Sacred ]
Cattle Smuggling Violence on Rise at India-Bangladesh Border
Recent clashes of BSF jawans at Indo-Bangla border with muslim cow smugglers are not new incidents. But since the Cow Slaughter Ban is imposed in Haryana and Maharashtra. The smugglers are becoming violent and aggressive.
The latest report comes from Hasnabad. The BSF's decision not to shoot cattle smugglers on the India-Bangladesh border appears to have emboldened the criminals who are now more brazen and violent too. Estimated at Rs.5,000 to 10,000 crore, cattle smuggling is a flourishing business
Muslims Defying Cow Slaughter Ban In Maharashtra
Serious doubts were raised by devout Hindus on the Mlecchas (muslims) to facilitate and support on proper implementation of Cow Slaughter Ban. They were right as soon several incidences of voilating Cow Ban act were reported, one of the incidents happened in Ratlam, where muslim cattle smugglers in tandem with their Maharashtra counterparts wanted to smuggle cattle to illegally push cow slaughter business.
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I have a short attention span; and enjoy Eric Church, Johnny Cash, Zac Brown, Kid Rock, Pink Floyd, 80s hair bands, coffee, beer, scotch, and long sunset walks on the beach. (One of those isn't true.)
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Brian Domitrovic looks at the real cause of the 2008 economic crisis and the continuing instability we've experienced afterward and concludes that it really is George W. Bush's fault (although not in the way most would imagine):
As goes alternative scenarios, it is perfectly conceivable that had Bush cut taxes the right way – at the margin, immediately, and permanently, in 2001 – the Fed would have never panicked into taking rates so basely low for so long. The good tax cut would have been sufficient to ward off a recession in the context of normal interest rates, even given 9/11. There would have been no housing and commodities bubble, because rates would never have been so close to zero as to invite these things. And the quicker boom would have made unnecessary the desperate dollar-devaluation ploy that became a Bush administration hallmark.
The primary question we must ask about the 2000s is not what caused the crisis as the decade came to a close, but why was growth so subpar the whole time? Ultimately financial crises reflect the declining potential of the real economy to deliver. The Bush presidency was perfectly set up after the 2000 election to let the real economy run, but what we got was cold feet on taxes, Hail Marys from the Fed, a bias toward spending, and lack of support for the dollar. By rights, today we should not be mired in economic malaise; rather, we should be enjoying a fourth decade of prosperity on the heels of the roaring 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.


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They say you can't go back, but the Pittsburgh Dance Council is ignoring that with its upcoming 2013-14 season. Executive director Paul Organisak, perhaps inspired by the Pittsburgh Festival of Firsts (exciting news in itself!) this fall and which he curated as well, has gone back to the adventuresome, experimental, what-the-hell-was-that programming that many of us knew and loved.
It appears that the PDC companies will include their own list of firsts: two North American premieres in partnership with the Festival, four new companies/projects out of six and seven new choreographers armed with local premieres.
Montreal's Marie Chouinard will open both the Dance Council season and the Festival of Firsts. Gymnopedies, set to Eric Satie's minimalist piano pieces, is the North American premiere, and will be paired with Michaux Mouvements, based on the poetry and drawings of Belgian Henri Michaux, which served as the literal jumping off point for the choreography. This will be the Quebec choreographer's fourth visit to Pittsburgh, which has in the past produced The Rite of Spring and 24 Preludes by Chopin (a personal favorite of Organisak's), among others (Sept. 28, Byham Theater).
Another sneak peak at the Festival line-up comes with Swiss artists Zimmermann & de Perrot, a physical theater duo, who will be literally thinking out of the box and inside it during Hans was Heiri. According to Organisak, Pittsburghers will see this event before it gets to New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music (Oct. 18, Byham).
On to the debut of the Brazilian group Compagnie Käfig, an international sensation that takes hip hop and puts it to samba and bossa bova. A company guaranteed to raise the spirits, it has appeared at Jacob's Pillow and the Spoleto Festival, among others. What more can you do with plastic cups? (Feb. 1, Byham).
One of the highlights of the season is sure to be Ballet du Grand Thèâtre de Genéve and the start of a balletic finish to the season, but showing us where ballet is headed. Yes, this is the only company where George Balanchine served as artistic advisor (1970-78), but it has worked with numerous artists, including Baryshnikov, Kylian and Forsythe. Founded in 1962, the 22-member company brings two emerging artists on the international scene — Andonis Foniadakis's Gloria, which will create a stylish new symbiosis with music by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, and Ken Ossola's Sed Lux Permanet, with sculpted shadow play to Fauré's Requiem. (Mar. 8, Byham)
Acclaimed New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan will be bringing her Restless Creature project, set to debut at Jacob's Pillow this summer. She will dance four duets with four emerging choreographers — Pittsburgh's Kyle Abraham, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks and Alejandro Cerrudo, whose Lickety Split was a sensation recently at Point Park University's annual Byham concert. This one is creating a lot of buzz in the dance community. (Mar. 22, Byham)
The final contemporary ballet event will mark the return of Wayne McGregor l Random Dance, (Apr. 26, Byham). He is the resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet in London and it is his company. He has a scientific bent on ballet — using film, music, visual art and technology — that is truly unique (Apr. 26, Byham).
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Thomas Driscoll, Vancouver Jail Guard, Should Have Faced Assault Charge: Review
VANCOUVER - A retired judge has ruled that a former Vancouver jail guard who used a key to punch a handcuffed prisoner should have faced a criminal charge in the incident.
No charges were laid against guard Thomas Driscoll in the 2010 incident, and Vancouver police later determined he abused authority, and they ordered a written reprimand and retraining.
The B.C. Police Complaints Commissioner then appointed former provincial court judge Alan Filmer to review the case.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, Filmer said charges of assault causing bodily harm or assault with a weapon should have been laid against the man.
"The complainant, handcuffed behind his back, was completely vulnerable and offered only mild resistance," Filmer said of the assault.
"The assault, it is suggested, resulted either from frustration on the part of Driscoll or 'to teach the complainant a lesson.'"
The ruling said Driscoll used a four-inch handcuff key, sticking out from between the fingers of his right fist, to punch the complainant, Hayden Wood, injuring the victim's forearm.
"The blows caused small puncture wounds and slight bleeding."
Filmer said while Wood was intoxicated and abusive, Driscoll's actions were "at the very least, reckless."
While Driscoll no longer works at the jail, Filmer has ruled the man should receive a five-day suspension without pay in the matter.
He noted the lawyer for the police complaints commission also took issue with the suggestion that Driscoll accepted responsibility, because the man didn't report his conduct, didn't fill out a use-of-force report and didn't offer first aid to the prisoner.


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Hi There. I'm planning a trip next spring (first week of May) to Orlando with my family of 5. 3 daughters ages 20-13-10. This will be our first time doing Disney. We are driving down from Ontario, Canada. I'm looking for advice on where to stay. My tentative plan is to rent a house... but I'd love to hear from others and get opinions regarding the advantages to staying onsite versus offsite ; condo versus house versus hotel or resort. All advice welcome. This is all brand new to me. Thank you all in advance! p.s. Should this be posted somewhere else?
Hello and welcome! I live across the little pond known as Lake Ontario. Driving with 3 daughters! My one is a handful. You should ask your questions in specific forums. I can tell you my opinion: I've stayed in all types of places. Almost all people here will advise you to find a way to stay onsite you you get the magic 24 hours a day. For a family of 5, there are not a lot of choices. Art of Animation has the new familty suites, after that, you would be crowded in any standard room, or you need to jump up to an expensive DVC villa (they can be rented as a hotel room too with more limited availability.) You can get a DVC villa for a more reasonable price by renting timeshare points one time from an individual or from a person who brokers free points from people. I would not stay at an offsite hotel, if you can get onsite for a reasonable price. Finally, a house offsite can be an awesome deal and a great experience. You typically get a nice place with a screened in pool! Research carefully and go with a house that has specific reviews you can read so you know what shape it is in. Sometimes there are gotchas, like someone who is slow to return your damage deposit or a place that is more worn that pictures suggest. We had a great house once, where the only thing wrong was the gas grill, which was not safe to use (all parts rusty). I know a lot about driving routes and advantages/disadvantages, feel free to ask me about that too or post on the Transportation board.
Thank you so much for the reply! I really appreciate it. I will re-post this on the accomodations thread I guess. I live very close to that big pond you are referring to, but on the other side Three daughters for that kind of drive will for sure be fun, but they are older now so it's not too bad. We have a comfortable vehicle with double DVD/blu-ray screens so that should help as well. This trip will be the "break in" trip for this new vehicle. I was leaning towards the house because we will also be heading over to Universal for a couple of days, so I didn't want to be "stuck" on one site or the other. The plan is 3 days at Disney and 1 or 2 days at Universal and maybe throw a beach day in between somewhere. I got a name of a housing rental "agency" from my boss who drives down every year and rents a house and I've heard good things. But part of me still likes the idea of a hotel with room service and daily cleaning. Well thanks again for the help. I'll post a more specific question on the transportation boards, I'd love your tips. :
For driving you can head down I-90 then go south on either I-79 past Pittsburgh or I-77 south just before Cleveland. I-79 is a bit more hilly and you need to take the cutover of US19, but that means you can stop at one of the Tudor's Biscuit World retaurants on US 19 (just pick up a biscuit each if nothing else!) I-77 is flatter through Ohio, but you get more of the West Virginia Turnpike which is hilly and curvy. I don't enjoy that part at night. When we stop, we usually target Charlotte NC or Columbia SC, making a longer first day of driving and a shorter second day. We did drive straight through once but had to switch off every hour by Florida... and stop at every Starbucks. Enjoy the planning!


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I always appreciate finding an author, being mildly entertained, and then seeing him or her raise their game in a new book. That's more or less what I found in this novel, the third in a series. I read Brown's second Bengal Station novel, Xenopath, last summer and enjoyed myself. In this case, however, Brown took what worked best previously and trimmed away the rest.
The last book, set on a space station hovering high above the Indian Ocean, was basically a sci-fi whodunit. The action was interesting and, in places, the station was as much a character as anything else. What I liked best about it, though, was the thoughtful character development of Jeff Vaughn, telepathic P.I. The attentions Brown gave his leading man spilled over to the secondary characters and went a long way to making the book readable. In Cosmopath, he has taken that strength and used it to anchor an otherwise mild space-thriller.
Jeff Vaughn has it made. He's working at his leisure for a high profile investigation firm, has a doting family, and can read people's minds (but only when he's switched on). This is where the killer enters, of course, but it comes with a much more personal twist hot on its heels: one of Jeff's daughters has leukemia. At first glance this, like the Indian backdrop, may seem trite, but the execution overcomes any serious banality. There are no scenes of Li fighting for her life and, mercifully, no use of the phrase "brave little soldier." Instead, Brown uses the illness as a powerful personal motivator to send Jeff in the direction the plot needs him to go.
In this distant future, the human race has been steadily pushing into new territories, new planets, in an ever-growing sphere called the Expansion. Just at the edge of it, a ship has gone missing and Vaughn is hired by a space-liner tycoon to accompany the search party. Vaughn's role in the mission is to play the part of necropath, someone who can read the thoughts of the dying or recently dead. It's a rather gruesome task and one Vaughn has taken on before. While I was not a fan of Brown's attitude towards life's final moments, I did find his character's revulsion to the deed complex and deftly handled. As a reader, I was able to share Vaughn's terror at the prospect of reading someone's mind at the moment of death while also pitying him from a safe distance. In general, I found Brown's conceptualization of telepathy interesting. It is not an evolution of human physiology, but rather a technological innovation. Furthermore, it is not an all powerful omnipotence. Characters have to deal with the ethical dilemmas of reading those close to them and the occasional frustration of being blocked by someone with vital information.
With Jeff off-world, his wife, Sukara is left to tend to their daughters. The tycoon, Chandrasakar, is paying for the medical care, but that doesn't stop killers from going after Sukara, trying to find out what she knows about her husband's mission. On the whole, I found this plot line the weak point in the story. In Xenopath, one of my favorite parts of the book was the development of the relationship between Jeff and Su. With them separated for so much of this novel, a continuation along those lines is impossible. And while I understand the need to avoid retreading familiar ground, I couldn't help but feel that this thread acted more as filler than anything else. The killers chasing Su were motivated by forces tangential to the central players and added little, if anything, to the story. Besides, as soon as they entered the scene, they are constantly referred to as "bastards," virtually exclusive of any other descriptor. It's not that I object to that particular curse, mind you, but it was so out of character with the rest of the narration as to feel jarring.
As in Xenopath, Jeff heads to an alien planet and encounters a species new to humans. Unlike the previous trip, this current voyage is much better executed as a story. The plot twists, driven largely by political machinations coming from about half a dozen different groups, are interesting, exciting, and (for the most part) less predictable than the last book. Part of the improvement, I think, comes from the development of Parveen Das, another telepath on the trip, whose loyalties are muddied by her personal feelings and a fair bit of self-delusion. Her interactions with Vaughn create a lot of tension and confusion in both characters, and the resolution is all the more interesting as a result.
The aliens found on this far away world have more substance about them as well. Indeed, all the sci-fi aspects are vastly improved. The planet is covered in an ever-changing fungal landscape which is much more complicated than it first appears. On the initial read, I was bowled over. I mean, who thinks of covering a planet in mushrooms? But, that's why I love sci-fi. The handling of the physical world as well as the characters' journey through it had something of a Tolkienian feel which, if intentional, was more homage than plagiarism. Likewise, some of the alien technology smacked of Stargate, but with it's own attributes. As a reader, I don't mind finding traces of other stories in my sci-fi/fantasy novels, as long as they are carefully managed. Brown walks that line throughout this book and, on the whole, does it well.
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On 31 May 1997 15:52:04 -0400, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica you wrote: >Series[1/(I x-p),{x,0,5}] > >produces something like > >-1/p + - I x/p^2 etc. > >with lots of +- in there. > >Actually, did anybody ever got any response by Wolfram's support? I mailed >them a long list of bugs months ago, I never got any non-automatic answer. > >Best regards > >Kai Koehler > I can't find anything wrong with Mathematica's answer. I expect a radius of convergence of Abs[p], and that's what I get. If I add a few more terms, then the resulting Normal[series] approximates the original function within a unit circle around 0. Tom Burton


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Hey Phil iam having somewhat the same problem as you, i bought a little dot mkIII for my D2000.
And later found out that the little dot can go to 32ohm, i looked on the little dot forum and read that the MKIII powers the 25 ohms no problem.
David told people there that its best that you order the MKI if you only have low impedance ones, the MKIII would do fine on low and high impedance ones.
I would search on the little dot forum if i where you, you can find like 5 posts on the same problem.
I read allot of people experiencing problems with the mark IV and the Denons, something with background noise.
So i wouldnt go for that one.
I can tell you if the mkIII works as soon as it gets here, but that might be a while (week or so).
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The battle lines have been drawn in Taraua District, it would seem.
The decision by the Horizons Regional Council to give TAG Oil the resource consent to drill two exploratory oil wells on private land is almost certain to stir up controversy.
Fracking is not included in the consent, but opponents to oil and gas exploration are not convinced that will remain the case.
Donald James, a spokesman for landowners fighting the exploration, reckons that "from the nature of the rock here, you have to frack". So it seems like the fierce fracking/oil and gas exploration debate that raged last year will be reignited. Mr James says the consent is already turning neighbours against each other with people being asked to sign confidentiality forms about drilling on their land.
TAG is assuring everyone that it will strive to leave the "smallest possible environmental footprint" when it begins drilling, but there is a fair amount of scepticism from opponents. Dr Nic Peet, group manager strategy and regulation for Horizons Regional Council, said the consents were not notifiable under the Resource Management Act because the environmental effects were deemed to be minor.
If this is guaranteed then I am sure many people would be keen to see what the potential is. At this stage it is probably best to keep an open mind on this subject. While no one wants to see our beautiful landscape scarred, who wouldn't want to see our jobless employed and our economy healthy. A recent government report said East Coast communities would be boosted by $2 billion annually if an industry similar to Taranaki's was developed.
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does anybody know when this ODB tribute track is coming out and on what?
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Yo man it was supposed to be on Dirty's new post-humous album but apparently thats not the case anymore.
I just asked about this on a separate thread and supposedly the track got cut from the album because all the members didnt get their verses in on time so it didnt make the final cut. I heard its gonna be on some mixtape......they shoudl ALSO post it in the audio section on this site.....hint, hint. |
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I hope they POST IT.
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i cant wait for this song!!!
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Fuck Dame Dash for taking that track off the album. "Not made in time" my ass.
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It might be my imagination, but this year's guests in the Royal Box at Wimbledon seem to have been more recognisably illustrious than ever before.
We're used to seeing those knights of the airwaves Wogan, Brucie and Parky, of course, and there's always a 21-gun salute, or whatever might be the collective noun, of rear-admirals and air vice-marshals, but with due respect to all of them, Diana Ross, Robert Redford, Sachin Tendulkar and Jack Nicklaus represent a boost in the celebrity wattage. In fact, there has been so much wattage that it has fair dazzled those responsible for the BBC TV coverage, at least if the endless close-ups are anything to go by.
Now, don't get me wrong. I got a thrill the other day from seeing two of my childhood heroes, the Golden Bear and the Sundance Kid, in the same camera shot, and if only Bob Latchford had been seated a bit further along the row, I might have been inhabited entirely by my schoolboy self, and deserted my grown-up post in the media centre in favour of loitering outside the entrance to the Royal Box with a ballpoint pen and a scrappy piece of paper.
Instead, I contented myself with the TV close-ups, and have delighted throughout the championships in the endlessly inventive, if sometimes hilariously contrived, ways in which the commentators weave sudden shots of this or that celebrity into their analysis of the tennis. Nobody is better at it than Mark Petchey. I can't remember the match, but I'm pretty sure it was Petchey who took an abrupt close-up of Redford perfectly in his stride during a nailbiting women's match, with the casual observation that he, Redford, had also experienced a few tight situations in his time. That's impressively deft improvisation, the commentary-box equivalent of Roger Federer hitting a winner through his legs. One second we were in the middle of a tennis match, the next we were holed up in Bolivia with Butch and Sundance.
All the same, the BBC are guilty of taking their eye off the ball, literally, by flitting so often to the crowd. After all, no matter how many Oscars or Emmys or major golf championships you've won, or even whose coach or mother or girlfriend you are, on Centre Court you're still part of the crowd. Yet the amount of camera time consumed by Andy Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears alone probably adds up to a set between a couple of unknowns on an outside court. If you throw in all the shots of Pippa Middleton, that's another set. But then the BBC cameramen have always had their lenses turned, if not actually misted, by female pulchritude. Maybe Lucy Henman ever so slightly regrets that no longer, for two weeks every summer, is hers one of the best-known faces in Britain.
All this might seem trivial, but it underlines a valid and serious serious point, and here it is: the BBC long ago became complacent in its football coverage, and was only shaken out of it by the fresher, more innovative approach of Sky. With no other broadcaster offering an alternative take on Wimbledon, maybe complacency has set in again. Maybe, fewer shots of Pippa Middleton smiling behind her designer sunglasses, or Sir Cliff Richard napping behind his, or, though it pains me to say it, Jack Nicklaus concentrating through his, might afford some time for the kind of graphics-assisted analysis that Channel 4 introduced to cricket, and that Sky do so well.
I'm always reluctant to join in the national sport of knocking the BBC, and there is much about their Wimbledon coverage that is irreproachable, including Sue Barker, the very definition of professionalism. But they should never overlook the main reason most of us tune in to Wimbledon. It is to watch tennis.
My son's 75-year wait for a champion
My 16-year-old son Joe attended Wimbledon on Thursday, and I was able to show him round the media centre, where the staircase is adorned by huge and striking photographs of former champions. He paused by the picture of Pete Sampras, and declared himself surprised that Sampras was so recent. "I thought he was, like, from the 1930s or something," he said. I felt about 108 years old.
Fourth man enters story of three Os in an England shirt
Last week I posed a little teaser: which three former England footballers have surnames containing three Os? Emails rained in with the right answer – Peter Osgood, Tony Woodcock and Ian Storey-Moore – although the correspondent who ventured Trevor Brooking and Bobby Moore was guilty of what I always warn my children about at this exam-taking time of year, not reading the question properly.
Still, if it's any consolation to him, the exam-setter goofed too. You can always be sure that at least one Independent reader will get the better of you, so hats off to Dr Tom Balfour (and our very own Sue Montgomery, of the racing pages), who referred me to Pelham von Donop, who played inside-left for the Royal Engineers in the 1874 FA Cup final, and was capped twice for England, in 1873 and 1875. He was also godfather to P G Wodehouse, hence the great man's first name, Pelham.
So there we are: in the long list of men who have played football for England, there are four with three Os in their surnames, not three. I like to think of readers finishing this column just a little more equipped with conversation stoppers than they were when they started it.
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Springing for Talbots
11 comments:
- A Flair for Vintage Decor said...
Oh, wow! Love the colors and the general cut on many of these outfits...yes I may go by and take a look at our local Talbots store in late January! Take care, Caroline
- January 12, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Katharine Fuchs said...
Um..LOVE IT ALL! But not sure this HUGE belly will fit into any Spring lines...hopefully by Summer/Fall wear! But the Chanel jacket look with shorts? TOO CUTE!
- January 12, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Betsy said...
Wow--that's not how I remembered Talbot's! Love how they paired turq heels with a classic black/camel work outfit. That's a fun idea!
- January 12, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- teaorwine said...
Looking alot like JCrew these days. Apparently an executive from JC has scooted over to Talbots to renew its image and include a younger shopper. Just lovely things, for sure.
- January 12, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Grace said...
Wow, this is exciting! The dresses are a little long for my taste, but I adore that cropped jacket and the striped T's. So happy to see that Talbot's is stepping up their game!
xx Grace
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- Evie said...
wow, yes I will! It almost looks like a better quality J-Crew.....
- January 12, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Pagoda Press said...
WOW..who knew!?!? Great post!
- January 12, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- Moosette said...
I was thinking the same thing recently - Walked by a Talbots and almost didnt recognize the outfits in the windows!
- January 12, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- Leah Moss said...
I did a double take by a store window the other day too! Very, very exciting.
- January 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Looks promising. I love the nipped waists and full skirts. they seem to be taking a cue from Louis Vuitton's lines this season.
- January 13, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- kayce hughes said...
Yes! I love it.
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Avid, the Massachusetts-based creator of pro-level hardware and software for multimedia production, has unveiled a precision video editor for the iPad.
Avid Studio for iPad launched Thursday in the App Store. The app lets users take raw videos, photos, and audio in their iPad library--or accessed from a separate iPad camera connection kit--and arrange them into a slick-looking movie; the app can also use the iPad 2's camera to directly capture raw video. Those videos can be shared directly to YouTube or Facebook, or exported to a user's Windows computer for further editing using only the company's Avid Studio for PC software.
Avid Studio for iPad appears similar--in both price and capabilities--to Apple's own iMovie app, though it lacks iMovie's compatibility with the iPhone and iPod touch. Both apps use the tablet's multitouch screen to offer pinching-and-zooming for frame-by-frame editing of video clips. Avid also offers a number of 3D animations among its transition and title templates.
The launch of Avid Studio for iPad means that the fierce desktop video-editing rivalry between Avid and Apple's Final Cut Pro--both companies routinely tout the number of Oscar and Golden Globe nominees who use their editing products--is now playing out on Apple's own tablet playing grounds. Avid is being aggressive, suggesting its new iPad app is powerful enough for professional use; Apple's iMovie is aimed more at consumer-level editors--the company doesn't offer a tablet version of its Final Cut Pro app.
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Dr. Zhdanov is an Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management in the University of Connecticut School of Business. His research interests include information security and privacy, large-scale data analysis, design of intelligent agents and social impacts of information technology. His research appeared in leading management journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing and Decision Support Systems.
Dr. Zhdanov is a member of the University of Connecticut Center for Information Assurance and Computer Systems Security - an NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Research. He serves as an area editor for Electronic Commerce Research and Applications and Information technology and Management journals. He has also organized tracks and sessions on information security at major academic conferences such as INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Dr. Zhdanov is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2007. He is actively involved in the security community, with professional memberships in (ISC)2, ISSA and ISACA. Dr. Zhdanov received his PhD Degree from the University of Minnesota in 2007.
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MTS Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:MTSC): MTS Systems increases dividend 20% to 30c. MTS Systems announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 30c per share, an increase of 20%. The dividend is payable on October 1 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 10, 2012. This is the Company's 123 consecutive quarterly dividend.
Elmira Savings Bank (NASDAQ:ESBK): Elmira Savings Bank raises cash dividend to 23c from 22c per share. The cash dividend will be paid on September 28 to shareholders of record September 14.
Golar LNG Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLNG): Golar LNG raises quarterly dividend 14% to 40c per share. The record date for the dividend will be September 13, ex-dividend date is September 11 and the dividend will be paid on or about September 27, 2012.
WesBanco Inc. (NASDAQ:WSBC): WesBanco increases dividend to 18c from 17c. WesBanco announced an increase in the quarterly cash dividend rate to be paid to its shareholders to 18c per common share from the previous quarterly dividend rate of 17c per common share, or a 5.9% increase. The increased dividend will be payable on October 1 to shareholders of record on September 7.
C&F Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CFFI): C&F Financial increases dividend to 27c from 26c. The board of directors of C&F Financial has declared a regular cash dividend of 27c per common share, which is payable October 1 to shareholders of record on September 15. This dividend amount represents a 3.85% increase over the prior quarter's dividend amount of 26c per common share.
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Session 14. Prostate Cancer
Aim: To help participants understand how foods influence the risk of developing prostate cancer and how diet can help after diagnosis.
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Central Baptist Hospital Performs First 'Robotic' Catheterization
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LEXINGTON, Ky., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Baptist Heart Institute at Central Baptist Hospital announced it has performed the first 'robotic' catheterization procedure utilizing the Niobe Magnetic Navigation System, a recently FDA-approved technology that is used to navigate medical devices, such as catheters and guidewires, through the cardiovascular system to designated target sites in the heart and coronary vasculature. "We're excited to be the first in the nation to use this revolutionary catheterization system for cardiac applications," said Gery Tomassoni, M.D., cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Central Baptist Hospital. "We have begun the first of at least eight clinical trials using this innovative equipment." The system is based on Stereotaxis' innovations using computer-controlled magnets, positioned external to the body, to programmatically steer magnetically enabled catheters and guidewires, directly at their distal tip, throughout the cardiovascular system. The system is fully integrated with Siemens Medical Solutions leading AXIOM Artis dFC digital fluoroscopy system, which is used to visualize the devices as they are navigated. The system defines a new era in interventional medicine; one where computers are designed to help the physician navigate medical devices more rapidly and more precisely than they can be navigated manually, freeing the physician to focus on the patient and the outcome, rather than the mechanics of the procedure. This combination of the Siemens' and Stereotaxis' technologies is uniquely capable of helping cardiologists improve the ease and accuracy of catheter- based procedures to facilitate increased efficiency and productivity in interventional medicine. The fully integrated, image-guided, computerized, magnetic navigation and control system is aimed at addressing problems associated with manual catheter steering and positioning. This approach allows for 360-degree rotation of the catheter and is expected to increase the potential for greater precision. Advanced fluoroscopic technology integrated with distal tip catheter control allows the clinicians to better leverage the imaging information to ensure the catheter is positioned properly, without trial and error. The system fits into a standard cath lab room.
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- Durable backing system eliminates wrinkling and curling
- Bound and serged nylon edges
- 100% recyclable material
- Material: STAINMASTER® carpet fiber
- Shape: Rectangle
- Length: 5' 4"
- Width: 3' 10"
- CRI Green Label Plus™ certified
- Warranty: Lifetime limited wear and antimicrobial; 10-year stain