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While the entire world focused solely on the Jake and Vienna reunion showdown that took place on Monday night's episode of the Bachelorette, a certain eliminated contestant got lost in the shuffle.
Ty Brown, a 31-year-old medical sales rep from Nashville, TN, found himself the latest bachelor to be eliminated by Ali Fedotowsky, right before the hometown visits on the show.
In a new interview with EtOnline, Ty discusses his elimination, who he predicts will win Ali's heart in the end, and if he's open to being the next Bachelor.
Excerpts from his interview below –
When Ali let you go, you didn't seem to be that emotional. Were you more shocked than sad? Or did it sink in later?
Ty Brown: Nobody wants to get let go, especially at that stage in the show. I suppose you are right. I was shocked. At the same time, if I was going to be going home before being the last person there, it was almost relieving because I didn't have to get my family involved. At the same time, I was disappointed that I went home. She made the decision she made. I had a great time doing it and it was fun. I didn't get as emotional as people do, but it was overwhelming at the time.
You have always had a music career. How receptive are people now that you have been on "The Bachelorette"?
Ty Brown: It is funny how country music fans accept you. I have been playing around for a long time, but it definitely hasn't hurt anything. When I got back and we finished the song that I wrote on the show, it was amazing to see how many people jumped on board and were like, "This is a great song. This is a great opportunity. You've got a great story with this." They have been very welcoming. The opportunities I have had because of the show are wonderful. I have met and written with some of the best artists and writers in Nashville.
Do you think your conversation with Ali about your first marriage, and the fact that your family was very traditional, and your ideas of what a wife should be going into that first marriage, raised red flags for her?
Ty Brown: I think you are absolutely right. I think it did raise a lot of questions for her. And I wanted to do address that with her and I did the very next week because I did grow up in a traditional lifestyle. My mom was a school teacher, but she waited until the kids were in school to work. My dad, of course, always worked — sometimes two jobs. My mom cooked dinner every night. I did tell her that I grew up in that traditional lifestyle. Does that mean that is what I am looking for? No. I wanted to get that across to her. It thrills me to see somebody who is so ambitious, who knows what she wants and is not scared to speak up and go get it. Someone who has goals set for themselves. That is very attractive to me. I like that. I was trying to get that across to her and maybe I didn't do such a great job. I think that may be one of the things she was concerned with.
Which of the four remaining guys do you see with Ali?
Ty Brown: There are things about every one of those guys that I like. If I had to pick one, I think Chris L., in my opinion, is one of the better fits for Ali. He is a good guy. It took them a while to hit it off and really get into good conversations. I didn't know that, but after watching the show, they had good chemistry and a good time together. They had a lot in common. I think his family life was a little different than most everybody else's.
Do you think she will actually pick someone?
Ty Brown: I have no idea. I hope she does. I hope she picks someone and they are very happy, but who knows?
If they asked you to be the next "Bachelor," would you?
Ty Brown: If they ask me to be the next "Bachelor," I would definitely consider it. I am ready to move on with my life and I don't have anybody. It would be exciting. After being on the show already, I know it is very difficult.


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James Higginbotham
Associate Professor of Classics on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and Curator for the Ancient Collection
Professor Higginbotham's scholarly interests focus on ancient Greek and Roman colonies as well as the social history of the late Roman Republic. In addition to teaching courses in Archaeology and the Classical Languages, Professor Higginbotham has excavated on Classical sites in Israel, Greece, and Italy, where he has been Field Director of the joint University of Michigan-Bowdoin College excavations at Paestum from 1993 to the present. His recent publications include contributions in J. G. Pedley and M. Torelli, The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum I, (Rome 1993) and Piscinae. Artificial Fishponds in Roman Italy, (Chapel Hill 1997).
- Ph.D, Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI

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Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda
Known to most visitors as the Museum's grand entrance, the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda is an interior New York City landmark.
At its center, the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda features an iconic dinosaur exhibit: a dramatic representation of an imagined prehistoric encounter: a Barosaurus rearing up to protect its young from an attacking Allosaurus. The Barosaurus skeleton, which is the tallest freestanding dinosaur mount in the world, is composed of replica bones cast from actual fossils, which would be too heavy to support in this fashion. As part of the restoration of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, this display mount was divided in two, allowing visitors to walk between the famous combatants for the first time.
Quotations from Theodore Roosevelt's writings are displayed on four walls under the headings Youth, Manhood, Nature, and The State. Three monumental canvases depicting milestones in Theodore Roosevelt's public life, completed in 1935 by William Andrew Mackay, returned to view in October 2012 after extensive conservation. They are some of the largest indoor murals in a New York City public building, covering an area of more than 5,200 square feet.
The west mural, which hangs above the entrance to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, depicts Roosevelt's African expeditions in 1909 and 1910. The south mural illustrates the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 to end the Russo-Japanese War; for his role in resolving the conflict, Roosevelt was the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The north mural portrays the building of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt is shown conferring with Chief Engineer John F. Stevens; next to Stevens, an army medical officer is depicted holding a test tube, an emblem of scientific research. As yellow fever swept Panama, Roosevelt lent his support to then-controversial findings that the mosquito, and not poor sanitation, spread the disease, saving thousands of lives. On the far right is a depiction of Roosevelt's arduous expedition to map Brazil's River of Doubt in 1914, on which he was accompanied by Museum naturalists.
Reenacting a hypothetical drama between predator and prey, the Museum's popular Barosaurus display shows the enormous plant-eating dinosaur rearing up to protect its young against an attacking Allosaurus.
The hall's three murals depict Roosevelt's leadership in building the Panama Canal; his role in negotiating the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, for which he became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906; and his 1909-1910 expedition to Africa.
In this room, part of New York State's official memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, aphorisms inscribed on the walls reflect his thoughts on nature, youth, manhood, and the state. A prolific writer, Roosevelt published dozens of books on natural history, American history, his outdoor adventures, and more.


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Fates of hydrocarbons in the deep-sea hydrothermal environments: Insights from molecular mechanical simulations
ORI Funded Research: 2011
AbstractUnderstanding the chemistry of hydrocarbons in the deep-sea hydrothermal environments is important, not only because of their roles in the marine carbon cycle, but also because of their astrobiological implications since several theories propose that life on Earth originated in submarine hydrothermal systems. However, despite intense research, the exact origins and reaction dynamics of these hydrocarbons remain difficult to determine. This is mainly due to the complex reaction networks involved in hydrothermal environments and the difficulty to precisely control experimental conditions in the laboratory experiments.
To circumvent these difficulties, I propose to model the hydrocarbon production and decomposition under hydrothermal conditions based on molecular mechanical methods (i.e., the ReaxFF reactive force field), using the high performance computation facility recently established in WHOI. With these theoretical modeling, I will identify and select individual reactions of most interest, study them in detail under precisely controlled conditions, and, more importantly, gain mechanistic understandings of the reaction processes.
This project constitutes the first systematic effort to theoretically model the hydrocarbon chemistry under hydrothermal conditions using molecular mechanical methods. With the ReaxFF reactive force field simulations, I will investigate the role of heterogeneous catalysts, the temperature and pressure dependences of hydrothermal reactions, and the polymerization of simple hydrocarbons to form longer-chain hydrocarbons under hydrothermal conditions. Results from these theoretical modeling will produce valuable insights on the mechanisms of hydrocarbon production and decomposition in these environments, and provide a general framework to understand their concentrations and isotope compositions in natural hydrothermal systems. This work will greatly complement WHOI's existing research strength in hydrothermal chemistry and the ongoing experimental efforts in the Institution.


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By Sarah N. Lynch and Aruna Viswanatha
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel will likely consider the nomination of former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission the week of March 11, a Senate aide told Reuters on Monday.
The Senate Banking Committee has not yet selected an exact date, the aide said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
White, a petite 65-year-old with an outsized reputation for prosecuting terrorists and mob bosses as the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is not expected to face major opposition by senators.
She may, however, face some questions about her recent work as a partner at law firm Debevoise & Plimpton defending Wall Street banks and executives.
White was nominated in January by President Barack Obama, who touted her credentials as an aggressive prosecutor and said she was not someone to be messed with.
If confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, White would replace current SEC Chairman Elisse Walter, who took over the post in December after predecessor Mary Schapiro stepped down.
(Reporting By Sarah N. Lynch and Aruna Viswanatha; Editing by Leslie Adler)


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Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Terrebonne Sheriff's Office
Christopher Glen Falgout, 28, 4415 Boquet St., Bourg, failure to appear.
Melissa Marie Masingale, 38, 120 Domangue Court, Houma, two counts failure to appear, probation violation.
Cody Von Walston, 17, 148 Pitre St., Houma, seven counts simple burglary.
Ronald Joseph Johnson Jr., 54, 407 East St., Houma, failure to appear.
Gilbert Jones Jr., 32, 3257 Adams Drive, White Castle, failure to appear.
Jardon Lee Smith, 25, 629 Wilson Ave., Houma, failure to appear.
Ernest Jerome Brumfield, 27, 437 Hanson St., Houma, failure to appear.
Heather Lynn Folse, 27, 204 Kitty Court, Houma, simple burglary of inhabited dwelling, theft by unauthorized use of access card.
Lisa Ann Guerrero, 47, 319 Rosemary St., Chauvin, failure to appear.
Rebecca Lynn Guidry, 31, 5312 Rudy St., Chauvin, bond surrender.
Breden Blomberg Rapoza, 33, 29326 Winton Wood Way, Spring, Texas, improper driving on left, two counts possession marijuana/synthetic cannabinol, DWI.
Bryan Dewey Boudreaux, 31, 704 Prevost Drive, Houma, cruelty to juvenile.
Houma City Police
Tyrrell Martin, 21, 515 Woodside Drive, Houma, two counts failure to appear.
Quanist Sneeze, 28, 3462 Grand Caillou Road, Houma, second degree battery, simple criminal damage to property.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
Jason Ougel, 22, 326 E. 87th St., Cut Off, contempt.
Treyon Williams, 20, 217 Brocata Ln., Raceland, contempt.
Blair Daigle, 29, 115 E. 150th St., Galliano, contempt.
Elliott Lewis, 24, 109 Sherman St., Houma, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, fugitive of Terrebonne Parish.
Jovi Boudreaux, 18, 552 Dantin St., Raceland, illegal possession of stolen firearm, possession of unidentifiable firearm.
Frederick Gray, 40, 115 Bertha Ln., Raceland, 2 counts contempt.
Eric Guillot, 28, Gary St., Pierre Part, terrorizing, resisting an officer.
Franjesca Morgan, 28, 309 Carol St., Thibodaux, probation violation warrant.
Thibodaux Police Department
Da'vonte Miller, 18, 111 Ribbon Cane Dr., Thibodaux, simple battery, 2nd degree battery.
Trent Harris, 24, 357 Little Choupic Rd., Thibodaux, domestic abuse battery involving strangulation.
Louisiana State Police
Hiedonald Davis, Sr., 39, 324 Brocato Ln., Raceland, contempt.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
Patrick Billiot, 39, 182 W. 182nd St. Lot 2, Galliano, parole violation warrant.
Vergice Bergeron, Jr., 42, 159 East 143rd St., Galliano, contempt.


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== XML Denial of Service Protection ==
== XML Denial of Service Protection ==
XML Denial of Service is probably the most serious attack against web services. So the
XML Denial of Service is probably the most serious attack against web services. So the must provide the following validation:
'''Rule''' - Validation against recursive payloads
'''Rule''' - Validation against recursive payloads
Revision as of 12:25, 7 October 2011
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Transport Confidentiality
- 1.2 Server Authentication
- 1.3 Transport Encoding
- 1.4 Consumer Authentication
- 1.5 Message Integrity
- 1.6 Message Confidentiality
- 1.7 Authorization
- 1.8 Schema Validation
- 1.9 Content Validation
- 1.10 Output Encoding
- 1.11 Virus Protection
- 1.12 Message Size
- 1.13 Message Throughput
- 1.14 Endpoint Security Profile
- 1.15 Audit Logging
- 1.16 XML Denial of Service Protection
- 1.17 Administration
- 2 Authors and Primary Editors
This article is focused on providing guidance to securing web services and preventing web services related attacks. Please notice that due to the difference of implementation between different frameworks, this cheat sheet is kept at high level.
Transport Confidentiality
Transport confidentiality protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks against web service communications to\from the server.
Rule - All communication with and between web services containing sensitive features, an authenticated session, or transfer of sensitive data must be encrypted using well configured TLS. For more information see Transport Layer Protection Cheat Sheet .
Server Authentication
Transport level authentication verifies the identity of the user or the system trying to connect to the service. Usually, transport authentication is a functional of the container of the web service.
Rule - Basic Authentication has to be conducted using HTTP over SSL
Rule - Client Certificate Authentication using HTTP over SSL to be used if the client and server need to authenticate each other
Transport Encoding
SOAP encoding styles are meant to move data between software objects into XML format and back again.
Rule - Enforce the same encoding style between the client and the server.
Consumer Authentication
Rule - The Message Authentication over SSL mechanism attaches a cryptographically secured identity or authentication token with the message and use SSL for confidentiality protection.
Message Integrity
Encryption does guarantee confidentiality but it does not guarantee integrity as the message can be changed en route. In addition, encryption does not ensure the identity of the sender.
Rule - Use XML signatures to ensure message integrity using the sender's private key. Signature can be validated by the recipient using the sender's digital certificate.
Message Confidentiality
Data elements meant to be kept confidential must be encrypted using a strong encryption cipher with an adequate key length to deter brute forcing.
Rule - SOAP Messages must be encrypted using a strong encryption cipher.
Web services need to authorize web service clients the same way web applications authorize users. A web service needs to make sure a web service client is authorized to: perform a certain action (coarse-grained); access the requested data (fine-grained).
Rule - A web service should authorize its clients whether they have access to the method in question. This can be done using one of the following methods:
- Having clients authorize to the web service using username and password
- Having clients authorize to the web service using client certificates
Schema Validation
Schema validation enforces constraints, syntax and semantics defined by the schema.
Rule - Web services must validate SOAP payloads against the web service schema.
Content Validation
Rule - Like any web application, web services need to validate input before consuming it. Content validation include:
- Validation against malformed XML entities
- Validation against XML Bomb attacks
- Validating inputs using a strong white list
- Validating against external entity attacks
Output Encoding
Web services need to ensure that output sent to clients is encoded to be consumed as data and not as scripts. This gets pretty important when web service clients use the output to render HTML pages either directly or indirectly using AJAX objects.
Rule - All the rules of output encoding applies as per XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet .
Virus Protection
SOAP provides the ability to attach files and document to SOAP messages. This gives the opportunity for hackers to attach viruses and malware to these SOAP messages.
Rule - Ensure Virus Scanning technology is regularly updated with the latest virus definitions / rules.
Message Size
Web services like web applications could be a target for DOS attacks by automatically sending the web services thousands of large size SOAP messages. This either cripples the application making it unable to respond to legitimate messages or it could take it down entirely.
Rule - SOAP Messages size should be limited to an appropriate size limit. Larger size limit (or no limit at all) increases the chances of a successful DoS attack.
Message Throughput
Throughput represents the number of web service requests served during a specific amount of time. Obsviously this depends on many factors including the hardware, the containser of the web service ... etc.
Rule - Configuration should be optimized for maximum message throughput to avoid running into DoS-like situations.
Endpoint Security Profile
Rule - Web Services must be compliant with Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile at minimum.
Audit Logging
Rule - Security related activities such as successful and unsuccessful login attempts must be logged into a protected environment..
XML Denial of Service Protection
XML Denial of Service is probably the most serious attack against web services. So the web service must provide the following validation:
Rule - Validation against recursive payloads
Rule - Validation against oversized payloads
Rule - Protection against XML entity expansion
Rule - Ensure access to administration and management functions within the Web Service Application is limited to Web Service administrators.
Authors and Primary Editors
Gunnar Peterson
Sherif Koussa
OWASP Cheat Sheets Project Homepage


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From LinuxMIPS
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The SB1 (SiByte-1) core is a highperformance implementation of the MIPS64 architecture. It features 32kB instruction cache, 32kB data cache, 2 integer pipelines, 2 load/store pipelines and 2 fp pipelines. An SB1 core can issue upto 4 instructions per cycle.
The SB1 core is being used in Broadcom's BCM1250 system on a chip. The BCM1125 is similar but only contains a single SB1 core. The BCM1480 core contain four slightly updated SB1A cores making it the highest performance SOC using the SB1 core family.


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Every year during National Poison Prevention Week (March 17 - 23), I think of my younger brother, Jim. And sometimes I even call to remind him of what happened 30 years ago.
My grandmother was babysitting my daughter, Jennifer, who was three-years-old at the time. Jim stopped by between law school classes and my grandmother asked him to look after Jennifer -- my grandmother had to run a quick errand. No problem for Jim, he'd done it plenty of times.
My grandmother was a wonderful woman. As she got older, she developed arthritis in her hands, which made it difficult to open the child-resistant medicine bottles. So instead, she placed her medicine in a container that was easier to open, and left it on the kitchen table.
Well, Jim ran upstairs quickly, leaving Jennifer alone for just a minute or two. When he came back down, Jenny was sitting on the floor with my grandmother's blood pressure medicine scattered all around her.
Jim had just started to panic when I walked in the door. When he explained what happened, I started to panic as well. All these horrible thoughts raced through my mind: How does blood pressure medicine affect a child? What do we do? Who do we call?
Then my grandmother walked in and the three of us were all panicking together. Had it not been so serious, it probably would have been funny: Three adults, running around, trying to figure out what to do next.
We called 911 and the operator directed us to the poison control center. The people at the poison control center were great and gave us the perfect advice. In the end, Jennifer was fine but the experience was one I'll never forget and one I wouldn't wish on any parent, let alone an uncle and a grandmother.
But these kinds of situations continue to happen far too often. According to a report released this week by Safe Kids, a young child goes to the emergency room for accidental medicine poisoning 67,000 times a year. That's one child every eight minutes -- a 30 percent increase over the past ten years.
Most parents will tell you they know to store medicine where children can't get it. Why then is accidental poisoning occurring so often? According to our research, when parents think about safe medicine storage, they don't always consider pills stored in purses, vitamins left on counter tops or a diaper rash remedy near a changing table. And many times, well-meaning parents may also want to keep medicine close at hand so it will be convenient for the next dose.
Regardless of how it happens, it only takes a few seconds for curious children to get into medicine that could make them very sick or worse. That's why it's important to take a look around your house to make sure all medicines and vitamins are up and away and out of sight - even when you use it every day.
My brother has a lovely wife now and is the father of three terrific kids. He still feels guilty about that day with Jennifer, and being the good big sister, I'm still there to tease him about it. But the truth is we both understand that this could happen to anyone, and just how lucky we were that things turned out OK.
We don't want to rely on luck when it comes to keeping our kids safe. Here are a few practical tips to think about during National Poison Prevention Week and beyond:
- Put medicine and vitamins up and away and out of sight. (In 67 percent of emergency room visits for medicine poisoning, the medicine was left within reach of the child, such as in a purse, on a counter, or under a sofa cushion.)
- Look around your home for products you might not think about as medicine, such as diaper rash cream, vitamins, rubbing alcohol, or eye drops, and store them out of the reach of children.
- When you have guests in your home, offer to put purses, bags and coats up high and out of sight to protect visitors' property from a curious child. In 43 percent of emergency room visits for accidental medicine poisoning, the child got into medicine belonging to a relative, such as an aunt, uncle or grandparent.
- Be alert to medicine in places your child visits. Take a look around to make sure there isn't medicine within reach of your child.
- Program the nationwide poison control center number (1-800-222-1222) in your home and cell phones and post it in your home where babysitters can see it.
For more tips on safe storage, safe dosing and safe disposal of medicine, visit SafeKids.org.


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Midnight in Paris
Owen Wilson is a charming Woody Allen.
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics) is a trifle in both senses of the word: a feather-light, disposable thing, and a rich dessert appealingly layered with cake, jam, and cream. It's the first Woody Allen movie in a long time that feels good going down, even if it doesn't stay in your stomach for long afterward.
After an exquisite opening montage showing Paris in different lights and weathers (the lambent cinematography is by Darius Khondji), we meet Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a successful but creatively frustrated Hollywood screenwriter on vacation in Paris with his fiancee, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and her parents. Once there, the couple meet up with an insufferable professor friend (Michael Sheen, having a grand old time) and his girlfriend. On a tour of Versailles, they talk about Gil's novel in progress, which centers around the theme of historical nostalgia; Gil is obsessed with Paris in the '20s, the era of Cole Porter and Gertrude Stein. That night, Gil skips a post-dinner nightclub outing to wander the streets of the city in a pleasantly tipsy haze. When a vintage Peugeot full of partyers pulls up and invites him to join their revels, Gil asks few questions—until he finds himself at a party attended by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, with Cole Porter himself at the piano. Somehow—never mind how, as science fiction is not Allen's beat—Gil has discovered a crack in the time-space continuum that opens between the '20s and the present when the clock strikes midnight.
At the legendary Polidor restaurant that night, Gil also meets Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll), who communicates, hilariously, only in short, Anglo-Saxon bursts of speech about courage and manliness. Hemingway agrees to look at Gil's manuscript, but when Gil comes back after fetching it at his hotel, not only has Hemingway vanished, so has the Polidor. Over the course of the next few days, Gil's life becomes divided between the long, dull days with the increasingly irritated Inez and the brief, magical nights when he dances the Charleston with Djuna Barnes and frequents salons at Gertrude Stein's (Kathy Bates). Gil also begins to fall for Adriana (Marion Cotillard), an impossibly beautiful all-purpose muse who bounces from Modigliani's bed to Picasso's to Hemingway's.
For its first half, Midnight in Paris comes close to being a conflict-free fantasy, a space of pure play. The encounters between the naive, awestruck Gil and his impossibly glamorous literary heroes read like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby way of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (and the luscious production design by Anne Seibel is a time-travel machine all its own). But right around the midpoint, a melancholy note creeps in: As happened in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Allen's earlier, much deeper exploration of the dangers of the romantic imagination, our hero begins to learn that there's no such thing as an ideal era, a time free of conflict and regret. Adriana herself idealizes the Belle Époque of 19th-century Paris; the denizens of that era (as we learn from a too-brief visit with Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin at Maxim's) disdain their own degraded modernity and look back longingly on the Renaissance.
A huge part ofthe charm of Midnight in Paris derives from the finely calibrated casting, long one of Allen's superpowers as a director. Adrien Brody has a delightful cameo as Salvador Dalí, who longs to create a Surrealist painting of Gil next to a rhinoceros. And though Zelda Fitzgerald disappears far too quickly after her initial appearance (what better Woody Allen character than the fascinating, unstable Zelda?), choosing Alison Pill to play her was a masterstroke. Owen Wilson, against all odds, makes a sensational Allen proxy—instead of impersonating those famous vocal cadences as Kenneth Branagh did in Celebrity (shudder), he leavens the director's trademark melancholia with his own sunny Texas charm. (Midnight in Paris also makes you realize just how dreadfully Owen Wilson is currently being used by Hollywood. Here we have this smart, funny, urbane young man in his prime—who also happens to look like a surferboy angel—and we're watching him in Marley & Me and Hall Pass?)
"I'm having an insight," Gil tells Adriana one night, as they whisper behind a red velvet curtain at Maxim's. "It's a minor one, but still." Midnight in Paris is a minor Woody Allen film, but still. For a director whose recent work has at times seemed irredeemably contemptuous and bitter (after Whatever Works, I almost swore him off for good), this small, delicately realized fable feels—appropriately enough—like a visit to another time.
Read Juliet Lapidos on watching all of Woody Allen's films. Yes, all of them.


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The House of Representatives approved the Water Resources Reform and Development Act Wednesday on a 417 to 3 vote, sending the bill to conference with the Senate.
The House version of the act would spend about $8 billon on waterways development projects such as deepening waterways and lock and dam repair and upgrades. The bill also contains provisions intended to speed up the project review process, which should improve the efficiency of shipping goods like wheat.
There's no word yet on when a conference process could start, though it's expected to be somewhat bumpy due to differing provisions and spending priorities. The Senate passed its version of the bill, worth about $12 billion, on May 15. More on the act is at http://transportation.house.gov/WRRDA.


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A new Los Altos-based program is tackling the problem of adolescent eating disorders – one teen at a time.
Opened in mid-June by Pam Carlton, M.D., and a group of her medical colleagues, The Healthy Teen Project at 919 Fremont Ave. aims to address the unique needs of teens ages 13-18 struggling with eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia, among other illnesses.
Carlton, a board-certified pediatrician with more than 15 years of experience in the field, said she helped start the program to fill what she sees as a growing need not only in the Bay Area, but nationally as well.
According to the Eating Disorders Coalition (EDC), anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness among American adolescents and has the highest mortality rate among all mental illnesses – with 10-20 percent dying from it. The number of children under age 12 admitted to hospitals with eating disorders rose 119 percent in the past decade, the EDC reported.
Carlton noted that The Healthy Teen Project is the only program in the greater Bay Area to offer a partial hospitalization program (PHP) for severe cases, as well as an intensive outpatient program.
"It's a humungous problem," said Carlton, who also runs her own private practice – the Carlton Clinic – in Mountain View. "I opened my practice six or seven years ago figuring I'd work a couple of days a week. Within a year, I was working full time. … There's a tremendous need."
Katie Bell, the program's medical and psychiatric nurse practitioner, said teens suffer from eating disorders as a result of trying to meet societal and family pressures to have the "ideal" body.
"They've really internalized some of our cultural expectations about bodies and family expectations about bodies," Bell said. "This has become an avenue for them to manage their emotions and try to be the best they can be. Unfortunately, it becomes a destructive coping tool. … It really leads to some dangerous behaviors."
Pressures and expectations, Bell added, can also be found in the education system.
"Interestingly enough, some teens are actually being weighed in their schools and there are grades being associated with their weight and their BMI (body mass index)," she said. "I've met students who have failed a class because their BMI was outside of the normal range. … What's happening is there's this major focus on a number as opposed to how you're feeling and how you're eating."
A multidisciplinary approach
Carlton said she and her colleagues designed the program to meet the needs of their teen patients, pointing specifically to its multidisciplinary approach. The program offers on-site medical staff, a dietitian, a therapist and a psychiatrist to address each patient's unique requirements. The program also offers an on-site educational consultant for patients who are homeschooled while receiving treatment.
In addition, the program strives to educate the families of teens suffering from eating disorders. Among other efforts, counseling and education are provided to parents and siblings.
"Siblings are usually the ones who are ignored," Carlton said. "These are kids living in a family with someone who has a chronic illness. They're affected tremendously. We want to make sure we're giving them support as well."
"Everyone has a chance to be heard – the kids and their families – and be effectively treated," added Dr. Jennifer Zumarraga, the program's medical director.
A community of support
The program hosts a weekly multifamily dinner to help establish a community of support among patients and their loved ones. Sharon Stafanson, the program's co-clinical director, said the weekly event offers "in-the-moment support and feedback for families."
"We're also able to kind of procure the things that are challenging for them. … We're really trying to work intensively with them when they're in our program to give them tools that they can carry forward," said Stafanson, who added that PHP patients are also fed two snacks and two meals daily while in the program.
And while Carlton and her colleagues hope to heal teens and inspire them to live healthy lives, it's the patients themselves who inspire them to continue their work.
"I've been invited to a couple of patients' weddings (who) were so entrenched in their disorders that they stepped away from their friends and said they would never have a relationship – that really makes it worth it," Carlton said.
"I can't tell you what an honor it is to be able to meet with somebody and their family to just offer some support and guidance, watch something shift over time and see people improve to the extent that they can get back to their lives and be the amazing persons that they are," Bell added.
For more information, visit www.healthyteenproject.com.
The Healthy Teen Project - Photos By Ellie Van Houtte/Los Altos Town Crier


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Mirror needs quick phonebooth trip to change Superman gaffe
June 14th, 2011Posted by Joel Gunter in Editors' pick, Funny, Online Journalism
A quite spectacular picture mix up is still going strong on the Mirror website this morning, despite having been outed late last night.
Here's a screengrab, because the page is surely going to change back into its proper civilian clothes any minute now.
Elsewhere on the site there appears to be a story about the superhero with no image, which just might give us a clue as to what's happened here.
(hat tip: the Media Blog, via Gareth Winchester and Dick Mandrake).
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Facebook held its widely anticipated press event on Tuesday to show the press what it is working on, unveiling a new search service. The service, named Graph Search, will allow users to search by people, photos, places and interests.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented, "Graph Search is a completely new way for people to get information on Facebook," noting that he had used it to find other fans of the TV show "Game of Thrones."
The market didn't seem to be impressed by the announcement, sending Facebook shares lower. Heading into the event, rumors swirled about what Facebook could be working on with some speculating it could be a Facebook-branded smartphone.
One analyst noted that while the new search could enhance the user experience for Facebook, it is likely going to leverage member data, which could create concerns surrounding privacy.
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Diane Kruger & Joshua Jackson: Gelson's Grocery Shoppers
Diane Kruger is supremely summery in a white sundress as she and Joshua Jackson step out on Sunday (July 29) in Los Angeles.
The 36-year-old German actress and model and her 34-year-old beau stopped by Gelson's market to pick up a few groceries after reportedly enjoying brunch in Los Feliz.
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Josh recently finished work on a movie called Inescapable. The drama is about a father's desperate search for his daughter and the chaos of the Middle East he left behind. It's slated to hit theaters later this year.
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LRG: How many adult films have you done?
Daisy: In my career of nine years I've done about 200 films. I stopped shooting adult films in 2008 and now I just do appearances and magazine print work. I'm also trying to go mainstream and hopefully be cast in the next big movie.
LRG: Does being an adult star help or hurt you when it comes to mainstream work?
Daisy: It does both. I've taken a break to let it simmer down before I take a leap into mainstream but I can't shy away from it because it's always going to be there. It's a lot of disappointment sometimes when you go to a casting and they know who you are and you don't get the part. It can be discouraging. It's almost like starting over again. I feel like I've worked so hard for my name and now it's like I have to start all over in a new kind of industry. Everyone has such a stereotype of the adult industry. You're always trying to prove yourself. I still want to make it. With the right people helping me I'm sure I'll get the parts. It's all worth it in the end.
LRG: Why did you want to shoot for Lowrider Girls?
Daisy: I've always wanted to shoot for Lowrider Girls and
LRG: Do you have a pretty big fan base already? How do you try and keep them happy?
Daisy: I try and keep up with my fans as much as possible. I also do a lot of appearances. Even though I'm not shooting, it keeps them informed of what I am doing. I post updates on Twitter on a daily basis.
LRG: Where would be the best place to meet you on a personal level?
Daisy: I have to choose you. You can't choose me. The guy has to be good looking, but I'm not too picky. I don't like short guys though and I don't like young guys. I've only dated one guy my age and it didn't work out. I like men 12-15 years older than me.
LRG: Why is that?
Daisy: Less BS. There's still BS, just less of it. They are real men who know what they want and most of them have their life on track. I feel I'm more mature than my age. I need someone that can be on my level.
LRG: So where would you meet a potential man?
Daisy: I met guys at some of the most random places. I don't meet guys at a club. I don't even give them the time of day. I met a guy hiking once. He ended up being a stalker weirdo though. Don't ever approach me at the gym and I hate when guys come up and tap you. I have my earphones on for a reason. Also, I hate pick up lines. I get the worst of them.
It was the biggest orgasm I have ever had. It was like a river that kept flowing and flowing and I didn't want it to stop.
LRG: What's the worst one you've heard?
Daisy: 'Hey you dropped something.' I didn't drop anything. He was just trying to make conversation. That was so stupid I almost punched the guy. You just have to have swagger and confidence. If you have confidence and be calm and collective when you meet someone and not let a woman's beauty affect the way you talk to them, you're good. Most guys get too nervous and stumble over their own words and make fools out themselves.
LRG: If all else fails what about the old whistle and click?
Daisy: No! I hate that. It reminds me of the gardeners that grew up on my block. It's so annoying. I hate that "eh". I'm sounding like such a bitch right now. (laughs)
LRG: So is it a sprint or a marathon to get you in the sack once a guy passes the screening process?
Daisy: It depends. I've met a guy and on the first day took him home and rocked his world. He hasn't left my side since. (laughs) I said 'You! Come here! You're going home with me!' I literally snatched him up. I saw him at a concert and waved at him. He acted like he didn't see me and tilted his hat down. So I waved again. At that point I was tipsy and was like, if you're not going to say hi to me then I'm going to say hi to you. I'm the type if I want something I'm going to get it.
LRG: What's the craziest thing you've ever done sexually?
Daisy: I squirted for the first time. I didn't know I could do that. It was the biggest orgasm I have ever had. It was like a river that kept flowing and flowing and I didn't want it to stop. I just knew it felt good. I was like 'Wow I have a spot I didn't know I had.'
LRG: Do you like girls too?
Daisy: I do. Before I lost my virginity to a guy I was with a girl. I definitely like men more. But I love women and their beauty. I'm like a guy when I see a hot chick walking down the street.
LRG: What's the strangest shoot you've ever been on?
Daisy: I had to beat up this fat guy. He liked to be degraded. He wanted me to throw food at him and call him a disgusting fat bastard and kick him in his balls. He got off on it and I walked off set. I'm not a mean person so I couldn't do it. It's not in my nature.
LRG: Any thank yous or shootouts?
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Family Medicine Residency Program celebrates 20-year anniversaryUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Director of Communications, Office of Dean of Medicine, JABSOM
The John A. Burns School of Medicine's Family Medicine Residency Program celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, coinciding with national "Primary Care Week."
The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa (UHM) Family Medicine Residency Program was created in 1994, with its major focus to train doctors who practice in under-represented communities within the Hawaiian islands and the Pacific Basin. In the case of Family Medicine, residency training is a three-year program, during which MDs practice medicine under the supervision of experienced faculty as they acquire the skills needed to become board-certified family medicine doctors.
The Family Medicine Residency Program has produced 106 family physicians—70% of whom remain in Hawai`i caring for patients and offering their own practices as teaching sites so that JABSOM medical students can experience front-line clinical care.
Many program graduates hold leadership positions in community health centers that serve uninsured, minority patients and/or in academic sites training medical students and residents for this challenging field.
The Family Medicine Residency Program enrolls six new resident physicians annually, seeking young doctors committed to improving the health of the people of Hawai`i. In addition, the residency program hosts physicians from Japan who are interested in learning about the U.S. health-care system.
"Our Department of Family Medicine and Community Health has always been a leader in helping nations across the Western Pacific build their health-care services, too," said Dr. Allen "Chip" Hixon, Family Medicine Chair. "We particularly have worked to improve prevention and treatment for breast and cervical cancer in the Western Pacific."
Closer to home, Family Medicine hopes to expand its residency training program to address the shortage of primary-care providers statewide and meet the increased health-care demands of Hawai`i's aging population. The Hawai`i Physician Workforce Assessment estimates the state is already short 700 physicians based on the size of its population. Almost one-third of doctors currently treating patients could exit the workforce at any time, because they themselves are of retirement age.
The JABSOM Department of Family Medicine and Community Health is marking the Residency Training Program's 20th anniversary by offering a Primary Care and Health Equity Symposium on Wednesday, October 9, at the UH medical school in Kaka`ako. The half-day sessions include "Primary Care: National Trends" at 1:45 p.m. with Dr. Allen "Chip" Hixon, MD; "Role of Family Medicine in Population Health and Health Equity" at 2:00 p.m. with Dr. Neal A. Palafox, MD, MPH; "Cancer Health Disparities in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Island Populations" at 2:45 p.m. with Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD; and "Priorities for Health and Well-Being of Native Hawaiians" at 4:00 p.m. with faculty from the JABSOM Department of Native Hawaiian Health. All sessions will be in Room 301 of the Medical Education Building.
On Friday evening, October 11, the medical school's dean is hosting a reception to honor faculty, graduates, staff and community partners who have helped the Family Medicine program thrive in Hawai`i.
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Londonderry woman injured by I-93 highway sign crashing through windshiedBy April Guilmet
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LONDONDERRY - A Londonderry woman is recovering at a Massachusetts hospital after being struck by a highway sign while traveling on Interstate 93 earlier this week.
Police said Kristen Patch, 28, was traveling southbound in the Salem area earlier this week when a three-legged constructions sign went airborne, crashing through her windshield and striking her face with one of its tripod legs.
Patch was transported to Lawrence General Hospital, where she was treated for severe facial injuries, according to police reports.
She underwent surgery on Wednesday and remains hospitalized as of Friday afternoon, a call to the hospital confirmed. Word on Patch's condition wasn't immediately available.
Contacted on Friday morning, Bill Boynton, public information officer for the State Department of Transportation, said Patch had retained legal counsel and he declined to comment on the matter.
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Sadlier's Biography
Sadlier had an extremely long and prolific literary career that lasted from the age of eighteen to eighty. Relatively little is know about the personal details of her life, as she never wrote an autobiography and left no collection of letters, although letters written to her by her friend Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the Irish-Canadian poet and statesman, have been preserved in the Public Archives of Canada (Lacombe, Frying Pans and Deadlier Weapons, 15). The few extant biographical sketches are often contradictory and always spare. It is possible to piece together a basic outline of her life from various records, as well as her public writings, but her private thoughts will most likely remain a mystery.
Sadlier was born in Cootehill, County Cavan, in the Irish midlands, on December 31, 1820, the daughter of Francis Madden, a "man of refinement and literary tastes, and a highly respected merchant" (Kelly, 1) who could afford to have his daughter privately tutored (Lacomb, Dictionary, 293). Sadlier's mother, who died while her daughter was a child, "shared her husband's love for poetry and the legendary lore of their native land" (Kelly, 1). Little is known of Sadlier's childhood, or whether she had any brothers or sisters. Francis Madden encouraged his daughter's literary pursuits, and she published her first poems at the age of eighteen in a "genteel" London magazine, La Belle AssemblŽŽ (Anna Sadlier, 31). Francis Madden suffered a series of financial setbacks, and died in 1844 when Sadlier was 23 (Fanning, 13). More than one biographer suggests that "business embarrassments and financial troubles hastened Mr. Madden's death" (Kelly, 1).
Left impoverished and without any other family, Sadlier left Ireland in 1844 and emigrated to Montreal (Kelly, 1). She supported herself for two years, at least in part, by publishing for the Canadian journal The Literary Garland, although scholar Colleen MacDannell has speculated that Sadlier also might have worked as a domestic servant. Publication records suggest Sadlier contributed poems, short articles and sketches to the Garland on a monthly basis, eventually writing longer pieces serialized over a period of six months in early 1847. Sadlier soon found a larger audience for her work in the three million Catholics of the United States: in addition to the Garland, Sadlier published stories in such Catholic newspapers as the New York Freeman's Journal, McGee's New York-based American Celt and the Boston Pilot, the largest Catholic periodical in North America (Anna Sadlier, 331). Sadlier began to write survival guides for immigrants only six years after arriving in the New World herself. Her own disillusionment most likely played a part in the pessimism and anxiety that fills her novels. In one of her early poems, "The Village Bell," Sadlier writes an elegy for her lost homeland: "I hear thee now when time has damp'd/ The hopes of earlier youth,/ And cold experience shown the world/ In all its chilling truth" (Lacombe, 98).
Sadlier published her first book, Tales of the Olden Time: A Collection of European Traditions, serially in the True Witness, later publishing it by subscription in 1845 (Lacombe, Dictionary, 292). Sadlier's preface insists that she wrote Tales of the Olden Time because of financial need. "Had it been my fate to belong to that fortunate class which is happily exempt from the necessity of working, I should, in all probability, never have presented myself before you" (Lacombe, "Frying Pans," 99). Sadlier is thus in good company with Susan Warner, Fanny Fern and most of the American women novelists of the nineteenth-century, who began writing largely out of financial needs. As the panic of 1837 prompted women authors such as Susan Warner to write her best seller The Wide, Wide World, Irish economic depression in the 1840s, and most forcibly the Famine of 1845-1850, led many Irish women to emigrate to America to seek their fortunes (Tompkins, 589; Warren, xiv; Baym, 35).
At some point after she settled in Canada, the young writer met James Sadlier, junior partner and Montreal branch manager of the New York Catholic publishing house D.& J. Sadlier & Company. The couple married in 1846. The Sadliers appear to have had a profound impact on each other's literary careers. Mary Anne Sadlier was both a contributor and editor for her husband's magazine and many books; James published, promoted and advised her on most of her books after their marriage. James frequently gave his wife advice on the reading habits of the Irish Catholic market, using his "wise counsel, keen business instincts and truly Catholic spirit," most likely focusing her novels on themes that would sell (Kelly, 1). Anna Sadlier, who became an author in her own right, notes that her mother "usually consulted with her husband as to the nature and scope of the story, and his practical business instincts, combined with the unerring judgment which led many to call 'the ideal publisher,' were of immense help" (Anna Sadlier, 335). The younger Sadlier may here simply be inflating her father's influence in order to conform with patriarchal marriage roles that demand the husband make all family decisions. It does appear, however, that Sadlier was responsive to her readers' demands; she changed the ending of Alice Riordan; the Blind Man's Daughter (1851) while preparing it for publication as a book, and gave her heroine a traditional happy ending -- marriage -- in addition to the good end Sadlier had planned -- spiritual salvation -- in response to reader requests (Lacombe, "Frying Pans", 107). In this light, it does appear likely that Mary Anne Sadlier adapted her writing to popular taste in order to increase sales.
Like Mary Anne, the Sadlier brothers were Irish immigrants. James and Denis had emigrated from Rock of Cashel, in County Tipperary, to New York with their mother in January, 1830. Their father died en route to America in Liverpool, a frequent mid-point for many Irish immigrants. Denis and James opened their own book-binding business in 1836 as D. & J. Sadlier, becoming publishers in 1837. James moved to Montreal several years later to open a branch office, of which he was the manager (Adams, 283). D. & J. Sadlier marketed their editions specifically toward Irish, French and German Catholic working-class immigrants. They produced two editions of a German bible as well as numerous translations from the French, mostly produced by Mary Anne Sadlier. The Sadliers' first publishing endeavor was Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, followed by a quarto Bible and a series of Catholic school texts and religious books. In addition to Sadlier's lavish, "superb new edition" of the bible for $22 -- a fortune in 1866 -- they also sold "Sadlier's Extraordinary Cheap Edition of the Holy Bible," which sold for $2.25, and "for cheapness and durability, cannot be equaled," as well as still cheaper bibles for only a dollar. D. & J. Sadlier even sold books on installment plans: "For the convenience of persons who do not wish to buy a volume at a time, we are issuing an edition in semi-monthly parts, at 25 cents each, thus placing those splendid creations of Irish genius within the reach of even the poorest." Sadlier's novels were sold as 30-cent paperbacks as well as $1.00 and $1.50 hardcover cloth editions (Sadlier's Catholic Directory, 1866, advertisements).
Literary Influences and Sadlier's Didactic Purpose
It is significant that Sadlier, although best-known for her Catholic books, appears to have written mostly romances and historical works before marrying James. The slant of his publishing house or his perception of the market for Irish literature may have led her to redirect the focus of her writing. Indeed, Mary Anne Sadlier received literary advice from a wide variety of male publishers and journalists, and frequently wrote her books on their request. One of her first and best-selling novels was written at the suggestion of editor Orestes Brownson in the January 1850 edition of his Quarterly Review, in which he called for someone to write a story for boys. Patrick Donahoe, editor of the Boston Pilot, responded by offering a $50 prize and serialization in his magazine. Brownson judged the contest and awarded the prize to Sadlier for Willy Burke, or the Irish Orphan in America, claiming it heralded the birth of a new literary genre: "A new literature, equally popular, but far more Catholic and healthy, is beginning to make its appearance among us" (Fanning, 538). Willy Burke also appeared in McGee's American Celt. Two other publishers, in addition to Donahoe, issued it in book form in 1850, but Donahoe retained the copyright, reprinting it in 1851 (Lacombe, "Frying Pans", 101). It sold 7,000 copies within the first six weeks alone; and, like most of Sadlier's novels, was in print throughout the rest of the century (Anna Sadlier, 331). Willie Burke was Sadlier's first American tale, but her first novel, The Red Hand of Ulster; or, The Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, had been published in 1850 on the front page of the Pilot before being issued as a book. Donahoe used The Red Hand of Ulster, Sadlier's first long work of fiction, to advertise for subscribers in December, 1849, promising that the next month's edition would include "an Irish Prize Tale of thrilling interest, written especially for the Pilot" (Fanning, 115). McGee, who wrote heavily on the "schools question" in the 1850s, suggested the idea for The Blakes and Flanagans, serialized in his American Celt in 1850 (Lacombe, "Frying Pans," 101) and published in book form in 1855 (Blain, 939). The Toronto Bishop de Charbone hailed The Blakes and Flanagans as "written with a pen of gold." Sadlier also wrote Bessy Conway on request, after Rev. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers and a publisher in his own right, suggested she draft an instructive tale for Irish serving girls, and wrote Aunt Honor's Keepsake in 1866 on the instigation of Dr. Silliman Ives, in the interest of creating support for the Catholic Protectory, a charitable organizations. Catholics such as Ives and Sadlier were concerned that Protestant benevolent associations such as the Juvenile Delinquent Society were proselytizing to Catholic boys, and wished to raise enough money to establish alternative Catholic institutions. An the time, and by those chiefly interested, as a most effective ally in the good cause (Anna Sadlier, 331). Upon closer examination of Sadlier's novels, however, we will see that most of Sadlier's work actually contain multiple narratives. While Sadlier's male colleagues had one goal in mind for her writing, it appears she had additional goals of her own.
Domesticity and the Woman Writer
Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sadlier combined motherhood with a busy writing career (Lacombe, "Frying Pans," 100-101). Sadlier's phenomenal productivity indicates she must have been working full-time. Sadlier and her family lived in Montreal for fourteen years, during which time she bore six children -- three boys, three girls and one foster son -- including Anna Teresa in 1854. Two of her sons later died young (James, 219). It should come as no surprise that Sadlier the working mother did most of her writing at home in her own library, and wrote most of her work as she went along, "chapter by chapter, often when an emissary from a too-exacting printer was waiting in the hall" (Anna Sadlier, 334-5). Indeed, Sadlier's literary pursuits, copious as they are, did occasionally take a backseat to her family's needs. "That Sadlier wrote her serial novels to weekly deadlines in the manner of Charles Dickens is clear from a note in the Tablet of April 1, 1865, temporarily suspending publication of this one, due to the 'dangerous and protracted illness of one of the author's children" (Fanning, 116)
Sadlier's lifestyle and her writing, like that of Stowe and most other female domestic novelists, were in stark opposition. Although Sadlier preached that women should stay home and tend to their families, she produced sixty books, edited a weekly newspaper, ran a business and was far more famous than her husband. In The Blakes and Flanagans, Eliza Blake is depicted as vain and foolish for learning French rather than acquiring domestic skills such as sewing; yet Sadlier not only read French fluently, she also translated at least sixteen French novels and religious works. Sadlier depicts Sister Mary-Teresa as the ideal woman, one who lives in retirement and selflessly devotes her talents to God and the benefit of others:
(Sister Mary-Teresa) was a woman of excellent understanding, with a strong and vigorous mind, well fitted to grapple with the most abstruse subjects, if such had been her taste . . . Had she been a Protestant, she would have been "a strong-minded woman," beyond all doubt; she might have taken the lead at public meetings, edited a daily newspaper in some of our great cities, delivered public lectures, and written huge volumes on metaphysics or philosophy. But being a Catholic . . . her mind was early imbued with the old-fashioned Catholic notions regarding feminine modesty and Christian humility. . . . her talents were hidden in "the bosom of her God," and devoted to him in the service of his creatures. Blakes and Flanagans, 106-7
Sadlier was often described in precisely the terms she used to evoke the true Catholic woman.
"She was not a literary woman in the sense in which that term would now be applied. She did not follow writing as a career; she lived in as much as in retirement as circumstances permitted. Her instincts were purely domestic, and in those early days, it was the exception for women to devote themselves to anything outside the home circle" (Anna Sadlier, 331)
Anna Sadlier's justification of her mother's career, or non-career as she describes it -- in spite of the fact that Sadlier single-handedly ran her husband's publishing house for ten years after his death -- reads as if Sadlier's public life was in need of defending. Indeed, Sadlier's male editors were not naturally inclined to hire a woman. The male writer of a biographical sketch touches on the difficulty women faced in gaining respect for their work when he discusses the editor of the Quarterly: "The late Dr. [Orestes] Brownson was always a great admirer of Willie Burke, and readers of Brownson's own writings do not need to be told it was no easy accomplishment for a woman to win his praises as a story-teller" (Kelly, 1). Women such as Stowe and Sadlier may have had to negotiate patriarchal conventions in this manner in order to take the unconventional roles they did. As productive as Sadlier was, all of her writing was anchored about the most traditional and conservative of roles
for women -- religion, family, children, education, and patriotism.
Sadlier's writing suggests that she was aware of these issues and grappled with them herself. In her preface to Tales of the Olden Time, written in 1845 before she was married and while she was supporting herself, confronts the position of the woman writer directly:
Authorship is a perilous craft . . . seeing that there are so many master to be pleased. It is foreign to a woman's nature, moreover, to ' move in the uncongenial glare of public fame' -- hers are, or should be, the quiet shades of retirement, and woe to her who steps beyond their boundary, with the hope -- of finding happiness. A fair young Poetess, who only appeared in the hemisphere of Literature, to vanish forever from our sight, has sweetly and truly sung, ' Yet, genius, yet -- thou art a fearful thing -- Madness -- a broken heart -- an early grave --These are thy portions'" Tales of the Olden Times, preface.
Sadlier ends the preface to Tales of the Olden Time with a quotation that underscores her anxiety, or at least mixed feelings: "And there is as much wisdom as melancholy beauty in the well-known wish of a distinguished writer, 'May my sons be talented -- and my daughters happy!' Alas! that the distinction should be so just" (Tales of the Olden Times, preface). Sadlier here appears to agree with Ruth Hall's advice to her daughter: "No happy woman ever writes." Six years later, in Alice Riordan, Sadlier again takes up the question of woman's proper public and private roles. In the "Epigraph" for that novel, however, Sadlier sounds as if she is reconciled to a domestic role and takes pride in it, in contrast to the anxiety of the earlier preface. "Warriors and statesmen have their meed of praise,/ And what they suffer men record;/ But the long sacrifice of a woman's days/ Passes without a thought, without a word" (Sadlier, Alice Riordan). Although Sadlier describes many working Irish woman -- domestic servants, wash women, sweatshop workers -- she never mentions a married woman who works outside the home.
Feminism and the Catholic Community
The Catholic press, and the Catholic community at large, were not receptive to feminism. Although many female suffrage activists were sympathetic to the plight of immigrant women, Irish women for the most part did not take part in the suffrage movement, which the Irish community regarded -- like most other reform movements, from temperance to abolition -- as a Protestant endeavor. The exception to the general Irish antipathy to progressive movements was the Labor struggle, of which Irish women were actually leaders (Diner, 150). Historian Hasia Diner notes the apparent contradiction in so many Irish Catholic women's lives: they often migrated to America alone, were economically independent and more likely than their Protestant counterparts to delay or forego marriage, yet scorned feminism. For Irish women, ethnicity nearly always superseded gender loyalty. Opposed to a largely Protestant society, one in which Protestants were often their employers, Irish women usually clung to their ethnicity as a way to differentiate themselves from mainstream society (Diner, 139). Irish women who favored suffrage would have gotten much resistance within their community, as Irish men were vociferously opposed to it. A leading Catholic newspaper, The Irish World, condemned feminism as anti-Catholic, suggesting that any Irish woman who supported it was a traitor to her people:
In this century of revolutions, not only political but social, when women of almost all nationalities were to be found in the pulpit and on the rostrum howling for imaginary rights which once obtained must necessarily degrade the sex and deprive them of that God-likeinfluence which they now possess over their husbands and brothers, be it to the eternal praise of noble Irish women, recorded, that not a single instance can be found, where she has so far forgotten her native dignity --so far forgotten her native modesty as to put heself forward as a champion of a movement. Diner, 139
In Old and New; or, Taste Versus Fashion, Sadlier draws a parody of the Protestant women who campaigned door-to-door for suffrage, whom she associates with other Protestant reformers who often mixed preaching with charity or "reform," in Sadlier's eyes. Sadlier scornfully names one of the proselytizers after the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Feminism, as a largely Protestant and British movement, may have been unpalatable to nationalistic Irish accustomed to regard them as the oppressor.
Sadlier experienced her most productive literary period after her marriage and was most creative after about the time all of her children were born. While living in Canada, Sadlier published eighteen books -- five novels, one collection of short stories, a religious catechism and nine translations from the French -- in addition to assorted magazine articles she contributed to the Pilot and American Celt free of charge. After moving to New York in 1860, she produced 26 books, including 14 novels, within nine years. Sadlier apparently donated her articles out of sympathy with the nationalistic causes of Irish journals. In addition to the novels already discussed, during her stay in Montreal Sadlier also wrote two novels set in Ireland: Alice Riordan; the Blind Man's Daughter (1851) and New Lights; or, Life in Galway (1853). In New Lights, Sadlier deals with the Famine for the first time. The book proved one of her most popular, going through at least eight editions in fifty years. In this novel, Sadlier focuses a polemical attack on the Protestant practice of converting Irish peasants by promising them soup, but condemns peasant retaliation and violence (Fanning, 116).
The history of D.& J. Sadlier is a story in itself. By 1850, the company stock had grown to include 30,000 books, which would swell by an additional 25,000 in 1860 (Lacombe, "Frying Pans, "100). In 1853, the company became the largest publishing house in America (Fanning, Voice, 114). D.& J. Sadlier then bought out McGee's ailing American Celt in 1857, changing its name to the New York Tablet and running it until 1881. Mary Anne Sadlier contributed heavily to the Tablet, writing and editing a large proportion of its article and recruiting Catholic writers from around the country (Kelly, 1). She "assumed full responsibility for its direction" in 1860, when she and James relocated to New York -- perhaps for that very purpose. Most of her novels appeared serially in the Tablet before being published in book form by Sadlier & Co. Mary Anne was publicly credited with The Tablet's success (Lacombe, "Frying Pans," 101). The Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart was inspired to write, on the occasion of Mary Anne Sadlier's death in 1903: "It was Mrs. Sadlier's organ. She conducted it, wrote its telling articles, its stories. . . The Tablet in New York under Mrs. Sadlier and the Pilot in Boston under Patrick Donahoe, her life-long friend, were the fortresses in America of Irish faith and Irish nationhood" (Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, June 1903). Mary Anne, in fact, was far more well-known than her husband. Biographical dictionaries often cite Denis and Mary Anne Sadlier, but never mention James other than as Mary Anne's husband. By 1860, Mary Anne Sadlier was "the best known Irish Catholic voice in American letters" (Fanning, Voice 115). Sadlier's role as a journalist would have given her a great deal of prominence in the Irish community, as the Irish newspaper played a key role in community life, serving at once as a library, a source of news about home as well as a support network. "The immigrant press, pious rhetoric aside, contributed significantly to sustaining the religious and racial distinctiveness of its readers." In 1849, the Irish American proclaimed its mission was to "defend and vindicate the interest of the Irish American and American Irish race" (Hueston, 139-140).
While few reliable sales figures exist, the number of editions Mary Anne Sadlier's novels went through indicate their popularity. The Blakes and Flanagans, which was translated into at least two German editions in 1857 and 1866 as Alt-Irland und Amerika, boasted on its 1855 frontispiece that 16,000 copies were in print (MacDannell, 53). The Confederate Chieftains (1860) went through five editions, and The Heiress of Kilorgan (1867) and The Old House by the Boyne (1865) each went through six (Fanning, 116). Bessy Conway's title page exploited Sadlier's popularity and reputation, advertising Sadlier's other books beneath her name: "Authoress of The Confederate Chieftains, Blakes and Flanagans, New Lights, Elinor Preston, Willy Burke, etc., etc., etc." The sheer volume of work Sadlier produced magnifies the significance of sales for individual books. Of the 39 new books advertised in Sadlier's Catholic Directory for 1866, Sadlier wrote at least 12. An advertisement for the Tablet devotes one-fifth of the page to a promotion for Sadlier's forthcoming novel, "written expressly for its columns." Sadlier's work helped fuel the growth of her husband's company. Even the Sadliers' rivals, P.J. Kenedy and Sons, respected Mary Anne Sadlier's major role in the firm's success. Mary Anne Sadlier is the only woman mentioned in Kenedy's history of Catholic book publishing. "Mrs. Sadlier, wife of James, was busy turning out the novels, translations and historical works which helped make the literary reputation of the house. The Sadliers were undisputed leaders in the field of Catholic book publishing" (Healey, 34).
The Sadlier's New York home became the hub of literary activity in the Catholic community, and Sadlier also enjoyed the company of the brightest Irish writers in the United States and Canada, including New York Archbishop John Hughes, editor Orestes Brownson and McGee. She held weekly salons in her Manhattan home, as well as her summer home on Far Rockaway on Long Island (James, 219). Her closest friend was McGee, a poet, Irish nationalist exile and Canadian statesman known as one of the founding "Fathers of Confederation" who helped bring about Canada's independence. McGee and Sadlier shared an interest in a "national poetry" that would not only capture the spirit of a people, but inspire them to political and national independence. While McGee, as a man, could take part in political rallies and organize Irish- American support for Home Rule, Sadlier, as a woman, directed her support for Irish independence into literature. McGee's associates in "Young Ireland" included Samuel Ferguson, who in the words of one critic "become a link with the Irish Literary Revival of Yeats's generation" and were the founders of the Dublin newspaper the Nation" (Klinck, 169-170). McGee's biographer notes that Sadlier's success inspired him to write emigrant novels, and was planning a novel on this subject at the time of his death (Phelan, 285). McGee's controversial politics that cost him his life, when an Irish-American radical who opposed McGee's shift to the right assassinated him in 1868. McGee, who sorely missed the Sadlier family after their move to New York in 1860, had been planning a visit when he was shot. His death was "a crushing blow to Mrs. Sadlier and her husband, who were his enthusiastic friends" (Anna Sadlier, 332). Sadlier edited a collection of McGee's poetry in 1869 in tribute to his memory.
McGee's death in 1868 was the first of two devastating losses; Sadlier also lost her husband James in 1869. D.& J. Sadlier began to decline during the 1870s. An index of D.& J. Sadlier's success was its publication from 1864 to 1896 of Sadlier's Catholic Directory, Almanac and Ordo, a listing of all the Catholic parishes in the nation, the privilege of printing accrued to the most powerful publisher. Rival directories began appearing in 1886 as the company's influence wanted. James's death in 1869 prompted Mary Anne to assume a more active role in running the company. Denis was able to carry on the business, and emerged from the Panic of 1873 unscathed (Adams, 283). Financial troubles brought on by increased competition and unfortunate real estate speculations began to plague the firm in 1879, however, and the company was never able to fully regain its stride (Healey, 39). In 1881, Denis Sadlier was forced to close down the Tablet to ease his burden of debt (Lacombe, "Frying Pans", 103). Mary Anne Sadlier was forced to run the company alone after Denis's death in 1885, managing to direct the firm from Montreal for ten years until she lost control of the business to William Sadlier, Denis's son. D.& J. Sadlier was then "swallowed up" by P.J. Kenedy, who bought out the copyrights, and proceeded to reprint all of Mary Anne's best-selling work. A new tide of Irish immigration in the 1880s made Sadlier's 30- year-old stories marketable once again -- although Sadlier herself reaped few of the profits. Even P.J. Kenedy's official history of the period credits Mary Anne for her valiant efforts. "Henceforth, all the tireless Mrs. Sadlier's own work appeared under the Kenedy label. The original Sadlier firm survived on a very subdued scale until 1912, when the remaining assets were sold to P.J. Kenedy and Sons" (Healey, 39).
Sadlier's literary output declined steeply after James' death in 1869; she wrote no novels after 1870. In addition to the emotional loss of losing McGee and her husband within a year of each other, James's death meant increased business responsibilities. With the exception of one historical novel and a collection a short stories, most of Sadlier's writing consisted of readers for Catholic school children, a few one-act plays and translations. During the 1870s, she devoted much of her spare time to public works, in effect creating the kind of Catholic charitable institutions whose lack she had lamented in novels such as Willy Burke and Aunt Honor's Keepsake. In these novels, Sadlier had "exposed" the practices of American Protestant relief agencies, which aided the poor but insisted on their conversion. To provide Catholic alternatives, Sadlier founded the Home for Friendless Girls, the Foundling Asylum and the Home for the Aged. After Denis's death in 1885, she moved back to Montreal to be closer to her adult children, particularly Anna, with whom she collaborated on Stories of the Promises (1895). The tragic death of Sadlier's son Francis Xavier, a Jesuit priest, in Rome in 1885 prompted her to write Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical and Poetical the following year (Lacombe, Dictionary 294).
Sadlier, once something of an affluent New York society matron, was reduced to financial straits in 1895, toward the end of her life, when she lost control of D. & J. Sadlier to her nephew William and control of her copyrighted material -- a lifetime of work -- to other publishers. Once again, Sadlier was forced to turn to writing as a source of income, fifty years after emigrating to North America. "It must have been with no slight pang of disappointment that she left the home on Sherbrooke Street [Montreal], where for so many years she had tasted with her children an unruffled peace and received so many distinguished guests, to seek a residence in lesser quarters" (Lacombe, "Frying Pans," 104). Concerned friends in Montreal responded to her plight by creating the "Sadlier Testimonial Fund," raising $1300 which, as "the times were not propitious," Sadlier accepted. Friends also recommended her for several awards, so that the last years of her life gave Sadlier some recognition for her work. In 1895, Notre Dame University awarded her the Laetare Medal for literature. In 1902, the year before she died, Sadlier received a "special blessing" from Pope Leo XIII in recognition of her "illustrious service to the Catholic Church" (Lacombe, Frying Pans 105). Sadlier died in 1903 at the age of 82. With the exception of a few Catholic and Canadian histories -- she and work were forgotten after her death.
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Hey everybody, welcome to CNET Top 5. I'm Donald Bell, and I just got back from a fairly underwhelming week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show: CES. I mean, I saw some beautiful TVs that cost more than my car. I played with toy helicopter that you can control with your mind. And I ate with a Bluetooth fork. Plenty of cool stuff, but nothing that's really going on my 2013 shopping list. Fortunately, there are plenty of products expected this year that are worth getting excited about. Here are my top 5 picks that will keep 2013 interesting. Staring off at #5: Google Glass. Google's augmented reality glasses are expected to hit software developers early this year. And with any luck, early adopters will have something to buy before the year is done. I mean, if you think you're addicted to the internet now, just wait until Facebook is literally on your face. Even if this thing is a dud, it's going to make for an interesting year. At #4: an iPad Mini, with a Retina Display. It?s a pretty safe bet that Apple will refresh their iPad Mini this year by giving it a higher resolution screen. The competition in 7-inch tablets right now is fierce, and if Apple wants to keep their tablet lead, they really need to make that iPad Mini something to shout about. But maybe they were too busy thinking about #3: the Apple HDTV. The rumors of an all-in-one Apple TV have been tossed around for years now, but there are a number of signs pointing to a 2013 release. With the TV manufacturers busy dialing in UltraHD and OLED TVs, this would be the perfect year for Apple to disrupt the market with their own take on things. Whether you actually buy it or not, is another question. But more exciting than that, and probably more affordable, is #2: the Sony PlayStation 4. The Playstation 3 has been with us since 2006 and even though Sony has slimmed it down a bit, it?s still due for a serious overhaul. The rumors are pegging this as a quad-core machine with a 1GHz graphics card. Whatever it is, if it's going maintain Sony's lead with hardcore gaming for the next 7 years, you can bet that Sony is going to throw in everything they've got. Now before we get to #1, let me prepare you for the most annoying gadget of 2013: the iPhone 5S - or whatever this year's iPhone is going to be called. Historically, this is Apple's off-year for the iPhone. Just like the 3GS or the 4S, this year's iPhone is probably going to look just like the iPhone 5, but with some slightly improved specs. In spite of that, it will receive more hype than last year's Mayan apocalypse. So brace yourself. Also take some comfort in a gadget that will probably be at the top of every family's holiday wish list this year. At #1: the Microsoft Xbox 720. Yes folks, the game console wars of 2013 will be epic. The Xbox 360 is currently the #1 selling console worldwide, and the next generation is bound to be a big deal. We're also expecting a new generation of Kinect to go with it that can track up to four people as they accidentally destroy your living room. So those are the top 5 technologies I'm looking forward to in 2013. If you have one to add to the list or if you take issue with how I ranked them, head over to Top5.CNET.com and leave me a comment, or flame me directly over on Twitter. I'm Donald Bell, thanks for watching.


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With the economy being what it is now, everyone's looking for a bargain, for value. That's the reason why a person would buy a Toyota Camry. It's not exactly an exciting ride, but it's relatively inexpensive, reliable and not without some aesthetic appeal—"some" being the key word there. After a while, this oh-so-average car can start to wear on the soul though. That's why we decided to turn this into our project vehicle for a budget system/install.
So what do you do with an '06 Toyota Camry to give it new life? You add an aftermarket audio system of course. It's still a Camry, but it doesn't sound like one with the audio system at high volume. In this case, we added all new speakers, woofers and amps from Rockford Fosgate, utilizing their Prime line of products. The total cost of the components was a little under $1,000 (we went for a little extra bass, but you can save a lot if you go with a single woofer and one monoblock—around $720 total). Add the expense for the box materials, a basic CD player, an amp wiring kit and you're right around $1,200 for our configuration. With some basic install skills you can make this a DIY project. If not, it still wouldn't be too pricey to have this installed at a shop. Either way, it's not too shabby for a full system that packs a lot of power, and completely revitalizes your car and your daily commute.
R250-1 Mono Amplifier ($179.99)
Amplification in the Camry starts with a pair of Rockford Fosgate Prime R250-1's. These mono amps feature a footprint that's as small as a ream of paper (2.40 x 7.67 x 11.54 inches). Still, they have enough power to run a few small subs in parallel or feed the center channel of a surround sound system. Rated power at 4 ohms comes to 150 Watts (66.1 percent efficiency) and 250 Watts (58 percent efficiency) at 2 Ohms. The dynamic power stacks up to 285 Watts.
For rich bass, Rockford Fosgate bundles the Prime 250-1 with a Remote Punch Level Control which corrects for the inevitable acoustic anomalies found in a vehicle. It's connected to the gain control when on. Crossover controls let you fine tune in the 40Hz-130Hz range and the Punch Bass can be adjusted from 0dB to +12dB at 45Hz. Overall frequency range is from 20Hz to 130Hz +/-1dB.
R300-4 Four-channel Amplifier ($229.99)
To accompany the dual monoblocks, the system packs a single 4-channel amp, the Prime R300-4. This versatile piece of equipment has a 2/4 channel switch depending on the setup you want to run. True to the model name, all four channels' rated power adds up to 300 watts, with 50 watts x 4 at 4 ohms, 75 Watts x 4 at 2 ohms and 150 Watts x 2 when bridged at 4 ohms. Average efficiency measures 59 percent at 4 ohms and 49 percent at two.
The R300-4 has a frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz +/-1dB. Crossover controls include High-Pass at 80Hz @ 12dB/octave Butterworth and Low-Pass at 50Hz-250Hz @ 12dB/octave Butterworth. As with the mono amps in the system, tone control can also be tinkered with. The R300-4 does take up a bit more room measuring in at 2.40 x 7.67 x 17.09 inches.
R1S412 4-ohm SVC Subwoofer ($99.99)
Matching up to the amplifiers, the Prime 12" subwoofers provide a great value. Upon inspection, the solid stamped steel frame and Parabolic polypropylene cone are immediately noticeable. Optimized for sealed enclosures, the R1S412 has a mounting depth of 5 inches and a displacement of 0.101 ft3.
The anodized aluminum voice coil former provides excellent heat dissipation (up to 100 degrees at full power levels), serving as a heat sink and keeping the sub cool even during high SPL conditions. Other features include 12-gauge quick release compression terminals. The speaker can handle up to 300 watts of power with 150 watts RMS.
R1693 6×9 Full-Range Speakers ($89.99)
Ideal for replacing factory speakers, these 6x9s found a home in the Project Camry thanks to their great sound quality and even greater value! Mica injected polypropylene cones in a foam surround and a Mylar balanced dome tweeter are cradled in a stamped steel basket.
This 3-way speaker has a frequency response of 48Hz – 22kHz and a power handling of 60 watts RMS (with 120 Watts max) and boasts a sensitivity of 89dB. With a depth of only 2.89 inches it's an easy fit either as a factory swap or an addition to a custom install.
R1652-S Components ($119.99)
Rounding out the system are the Prime 2-way components. Also ideal as a factory swap, these 2-ways still provide great sound. Like the R1693, these components sport the Mica injected polypropylene cones and half-inch Mylar balanced dome tweeters. The tweeter's in-line crossover (6dB high-pass) makes installation simple as does the numerous mounting options.
The stamped steel basket brings the midrange diameter to 6.5 inches while the depth reaches down to a mere 2.17 inches. The R1652-S comes with all the hardware you'd need for the install and the handsome grille is a given. More specs include the frequency response of 55Hz to 20kHz, sensitivity of 89dB and a power handling of 40 watts RMS with 80 max. See the pics in the gallery for a comparison of the factory 6x9s in the door next to this woofer. The factory speaker weighed next to nothing. The Rockford component is not a high-end speaker but it's far superior to the stock counterpart.
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The Prime amplifiers install very easily; they have four legs that allow the amplifiers to be secured down to a flat surface. Although it may be a very simple mounting method, the legs are very sturdy and allow plenty of support for the amplifiers no matter what position they are installed in. The terminals on the amplifiers are typical to those found on less expensive amplifiers; however, if used correctly they can provide a solid connection. When wiring up the amplifiers, I soldered spades on each of the wires and then screwed the spades down into the amplifier blocks.
The 12" Prime subwoofers have great terminals that allow for up to a 12 gauge wire to be inserted. I was very happy with these terminals. Being a budget subwoofer I was expecting something inferior which can be a pain to use when installing. The subwoofers mount easily with eight screws. Note: there is no trim ring to go over the mounting holes leaving the screws exposed when installed.
Coaxial Speakers
The Prime 6x9s fit snug into the factory Camry locations and did not require any cutting or modification to the rear deck. Be aware that the terminals are not very solid and bend easily if you are not careful when installing them. I decided to solder the wires directly onto the terminals for a very secure connection instead of using quick disconnects.
Component Speakers
The front doors in the Camry used 6x9s also, so in order to install them I cut out MDF baffles for the components to screw onto. I screwed the baffle into the door and sealed it off using some non-hardening clay to avoid the baffle from rattling against the door. The components have a built-in crossover which makes for an easier installation because you don't have to deal with the extra work of finding room for the crossover (and then have to worry about securing it). Even though the built-in crossover is a great idea for saving space, I did not like that they were not adjustable. Most crossovers have the feature to attenuate the output level on the tweeter; these did not have this feature making it difficult to help integrate the tweeter to the mid bass driver. However, this is a budget system/install. You may have to trade features for price, depending on your level as a car audio enthusiast.
The big question though is how does it sound. Well, first we'll give you an assessment of the factory audio system and then contrast with the Prime system: The factory Camry stereo consisted of two pairs of 6x9s, one pair in the front doors and the other pair in the rear deck. The speakers had plenty of cone area; however,
they did not pack much of a punch due to the fact they have a very low power-handling rating, and were constructed of a cheap paper cone and a plastic basket. When metered inside the car, the factory system peaked out around 90 decibels and had a decent frequency response considering the quality of the components. The overall sound was really weak and undermined any recording that has a big dynamic range. The factory system rolled off after 8khz , had some peaks around 1khz and obviously had very poor sub bass due to not having a dedicated subwoofer. If I had to score the system for output and SQ it would be a score of 4/10.
The Rockford Prime speakers we used in the rear deck were the same size as the factory speakers while up front in the doors we decided to go with 6.5" components with a .5" tweeter. With a power handling of 40 watts RMS they naturally packed much more a punch then the weak factory speakers. In addition to the speakers, the pair of 12" subwoofers we added made a dramatic difference in the low-end output of the car. The Rockford Prime system obviously metered much better than the factory stereo did, with a maximum SPL of over 120dB and a frequency response without any major peaks or dips after some tuning. If I had to score the system for output and SQ in contrast to the factory system it would be a score of 8/10. It was night and day. If you're looking to improve on your factory audio, then Rockford's Prime line is an inexpensive solution that will definitely provide new life to your tired daily driver.


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