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If you're a millennial, you might think that, between student debt and credit card bills, you'll never be able to invest. Fortunately, there's good news. Millennials are saving more and saving earlier than their parents, despite the financial challenges they face, according to Elliot Weissbluth, CEO of HighTower Advisors, in an interview with The Daily Ticker. The next step is to leverage those savings by making smart investments. Keep these tips in mind if you have some savings that you'd like to grow into greater wealth.
Invest With the Right Broker
According to Weissbluth, about 90% of millennials plan to handle their finances differently from their parents, whether that means dumping their family's financial advisor or switching brokerages. Many are also choosing to manage their own investments. If this sounds like you, know that there are many brokerages available, and at least one can fit your investing style. But if you want the best possible fit, you'll have to do some research. Look for:
Minimum Balance Requirements. Some brokerages don't mandate an initial funding level. Others require you to deposit thousands of dollars before you can start trading – and if you fall below that amount, you might incur fees. If you're just starting out, try a firm with a low balance requirement. $1,000 or less can get you an account with a wide variety of big-name and deep discount brokerages. Account Fees. Consider how you'll want to trade and whether these preferences could cost you. If you're a beginner, you might want access to broker-assisted trades. At a few firms, this comes free. At others, each assist could cost you more fees. Will your brokerage charge you an annual fee for IRAs? Will you be subject to an inactivity fee? At some firms, you'll be charged even if you trade once or twice a year. Read the fine print and ask about fees for any service you might want. Promotions. If you're budgeting in retirement savings, along with paying off student loans and building an emergency fund, you don't want to waste the little you have to invest on sky-high commissions. But if you prefer a pricier firm, look for one that offers free trades for opening an account, or a specified number of free (or reduced rate) trades per year.
And remember: You don't have to go with a recognizable brand to get great results. Deep discount brokers can be just as good as the ones advertising on TV, and the amount they'll save you can really add up.
Opt Into Your 401(k)
Saving for retirement is critical, and smart millennials will maximize all of the options available, from IRAs to brokerage accounts, and, perhaps most importantly, 401(k)s . If your employer offers one and you can afford to participate but haven't signed up, don't keep putting it off. Opting in will give your retirement savings a huge boost in several ways:
Contributions are pre-tax. Because 401(k) contributions come out of your paycheck before taxes, they allow you to save more. And because they're withdrawn automatically, you don't have to decide whether to pay yourself first. Contributions might be eligible for an employer match. Many employers that offer 401(k)s also match a percentage of employees' contributions, typically half of what employees contribute, up to 6% of their salary. For millennials, this amount could amount to about half of their total retirement income. If you're in the job market, ask about companies' 401(k) benefits, and if possible, prioritize those with a generous match. Then contribute enough to get it. Contributions are automatically invested. 401(k) plans offer a menu of options that are appropriate for retirement investors, allowing employees to grow their contribution. Just be sure you're invested in inexpensive funds, or you'll be spending your nest egg on fees.
Don't Be Afraid To Take Some Risks With Your Investments
Having lived through a recession, many millennials are trying to preserve their savings by keeping out of equity investments. Though young investors should have the most aggressive portfolios, including a heavy weighting of stocks, 52% of millennials surveyed indicated low confidence in the stock market, according to CNN. While you won't lose money in a savings account, without investing it you also won't be able to help grow that money. The younger you are, the more you'll want to invest that money in equities because you can still afford to take the greater risk for higher reward than if you invested the money in bonds.
Risk aversion is understandable, but too much can work against you. Not only do the potential gains of investing in stocks outweigh the risks, but if you hold a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds and other asset classes, your odds of losing much money are greatly diminished.
The Bottom Line
It's true: Millennials are going to have a tough time reaching the same financial benchmarks that their parents did, from homeownership to retirement. Luckily, many have also learned valuable lessons about planning for the future from watching unpredictable markets. The trick for millennials is to make sure their cautious nature toward money doesn't handicap their investments. By continuing to save and accepting some risk, millennials can make the most of the hand they've been dealt.
This article originally appears on Nerd Wallet.


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@Lorien; If Marisa is OK with 'giving away' the previews before the 1st of April, I would love to see what everyone created thus far. Maybe we could do the same as we're doing in the weekly 'layout critique'? Give positive feedback on each others designs?
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Yes, I could also use a little inspiration...I also have 2 papers...
Beautiful colors... going to have to make something.
Ok I love these colors....
She said yes.. so here are my little kit previews.. Loved this theme for sure...
Thanks for the inspiration and letting me be a part of this train.
Love the swirls in the flowers and all the fun touches to your kit... I can't wait to use it
@Shelly, your kid couldn't get any cuter! I love love love it!
Thank you both so much sweet ladies~!! So glad you like it.
I can't wait to see how you interpret it... {It's gonna seem a long way away til April 1st
hugs to you both and again, Thanks so much~!
Shelly, your kit is great! I really love the swirly-centered flowers and the branch. It looks very professional! This is my first so I'm feeling really insecure. Are there any others out there who felt/feel the same way? I'm thinking I need to just "jump in" anyway.
okay, I'm gonna try and post my previews. (We'll see if I can do it before letting the blog go live.)
I didn't put all the monotone blocks or journaling cards in the preview. Also the previews have shadows added. I did supply BOTH a shadowed version and un-shadowed versions of the honey jar. Otherwise I left the elements to be shadowed by user, since sometimes I shadow differently depending on the layout.
I only did 5 papers, I wasn't pleased with the others I tired...so I just focused on the elements.
Excited about sharing my work for the first time.
Hope these previews encourage and inspire more folks to join us. I loved seeing ALL the stuff from the Feb Retro Kitchen.
oh yes, Lou Anne! Join us! I'm nervous about it still, but if you want I'll hold your hand as we both jump in!
Shelly, I really love your peaceful bird and the swirled journal piece!
here's my part! so fun we may show them earlier!
This is my preview, its my first contrib to a blog train ever
You all are doing wonderful!! I am starting mine tonight...soon.
These are all wonderful! I've been away from my computer for the last week. There may be a way to design on an iPad but I don't have that skill, so I'll be glad to get home in a few days and start designing my first kit.
Love them. I'm excited for this blog train!
Here's my portion
Ohh You ladies ALL did wonderful jobs~! It's all going to come together so cute
Lou Anne... Thanks so much....yes... jump in... you'll do great, and be sailing along before you know it {{{hug}}}
Thanks again for all of your kind words...
Laura.. all so cute...I especially love those blocks and cards~!
Dana... your kit is most adorable...cute little bees for sure~!
Saskia... love the elegance you have in your kit~!
Jenn... always wonderful... looks fabulous~!
I can see that I need to add the Pixel Scrapper Logo to mine...
Great to see all of the previews~!
I'm getting excited to hop on the train. Those previews are outstanding. Here's my part. I added the frame that I did for the designer challenge (that's why I didn't show it in that thread).
Wow Cat... super cute~!!
where did you get the quality checked button? I would love to get one
Can anyone point me to reading up on quality checking?
...where did you get the quality checked button? I would love to get one
I made it myself. The hand and the check mark are from the Windings font. I used the character map to copy them and then pasted onto my layout.
Can anyone point me to reading up on quality checking?
Check out these threads at Stuff to Scrap. There's some really good information:
I also have an action that Sugarbutt graciously had up as a freebie and it works great that checks a lot of things. You might also want to read this quick little article. It helped me...
Thank you Laura! Yours looks great. I love the cardinal.
I just looked at all of the others too. Wow! I can't wait to download them! Mine is going to be very different compared to everyone else (my life story) but I feel so supported by this talented group.
Thanks Cat, I saw Sugarbutt's freebie, but I use GIMP. If anyone knows about anything for GIMP, post a link? I'll see if I can figure out how to do this manually in GIMP. I've not figured out how to do anything like actions in GIMP yet either. I need to though, it takes me way back in time 25 years to when I was working in the Computer Support while my Hubby went to Seminary...I taught the secretaries how to make Macros.
I searched google for "pixelscrapper forum quality check" to find the threads where this was discussed before as well. Always something more to learn.
@Laura, unfortunately, PS actions won't run on GIMP. There have been a few GIMP plugins developed to handle PS actions, but they don't really work. I'm sure there are tutorials out there that can show you how to create a script/action in GIMP so you can do your quality checking. The first place I would start would be the community at OpenSource.
everything looks so amazing, can't wait to dowload them all!
Saskia It's also my first blogtrain ever, feeling nervous for sure!
Thanks for sharing everyone! Maybe now I'll get something made...
Wow, really awesome parts!!
@ Cat... Ahhh ok Thanks for the info... much appreciated.....I'll have to make one.
I use an action for quality checking as well, but it's for PS as well. {sorry, I don't know much about gimp}
Have a wonderful day everyone~!!

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It is the recurring temptation of self-confident, insular elites to assume that the whole country loves what they love, hates what they hate and believes what they believe. "The American people are not going to elect a 70-year-old, right-wing, ex-movie actor to be president," explained Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan in 1980. This view was universally shared — except by voters in 44 states.
In early 2010, Paul Ryan's "A Roadmap for America's Future" was seen as a boon to Democratic midterm prospects. Focus groups found elements of the plan unpopular. Republicans who endorsed it were subject to attack ads. Democratic campaign chairman Chris Van Hollen described the "Roadmap" as a political "gift" — before Republicans achieved the largest partisan shift in the House since 1948.
Many in politics and the media are now convinced that the selection of Paul Ryan will chain Mitt Romney to an unpopular House budget, shift attention away from an anemic economy, alienate independents and undermine Republican prospects in Florida.
It is possible they are right. Over the past few years, Republicans have often been divided on the benefits of Ryan's relentless budgetary specificity. Nearly all believe a national debate on entitlements is inevitable. At least some believe it is politically premature, at least on the presidential level.
Thanks to the bold, controversial Mitt Romney, we are about to find out. (If nothing else, the Ryan nomination has led to an outbreak of previously improbable adjectives.) The Romney/Ryan case is not easy but the conclusion of the debate is not foregone. The Democratic ticket will go small — detailing how Ryanism will hurt this group and that. The Republican ticket will go large — arguing that budgetary indiscipline creates uncertainty that undermines current growth, while eventually leading to fiscal crisis and economic catastrophe. This is a more complex argument than, "Economy, bad." It is also more likely to yield a governing mandate, which seems to be Romney's admirable, unexpected goal.
In the fight Romney has picked, Ryan is an advantage. He is the best policy thinker and best communicator among the rising generation of conservative reformers. He combines a sober realism about a teetering, unsustainable entitlement system with a bubbly, Jack Kemp-like belief in the promise of unleashed enterprise. (We both worked for Kemp at the same time in the 1990s.) Unlike a recent Republican vice presidential nominee, you can't put him on the spot. He is informed, levelheaded and persuasive.His neighbours say he is a nice man. And he is already Barack Obama's most persistent, effective economic critic.
The charge of radicalism will not survive exposure to Ryan himself. The notion that he is merely a "base pick" is lazy. This base pick has consistently won in a congressional district that was carried by Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Obama. This base pick voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the auto bailout and supported George W. Bush's attempt at comprehensive immigration reform. In fact, Ryan is a moderate conservative, of unusual creativity, likability and influence, accustomed to addressing non-Republicans.
But no election is a referendum on a vice president, which explains why few historians refer to the tenure of Teddy Roosevelt as the "Charles Fairbanks era." Romney has now embraced an economic argument that cannot be delegated — and there are serious questions about his ability to carry it. But Romney is not without some advantages.
In his single-minded pursuit of health reform, Obama sacrificed many things, including his purity on entitlement cuts. More than $700 billion in Medicare savings was devoted not to shoring up Medicare but to funding Obamacare. Republican proposals for Medicare reforms, in contrast, exempt seniors 55 and older from changes. So only one candidate has pursued Medicare cuts that undermine services to current seniors — and it is not Romney. Sen. Marco Rubio, by the way, won election in Florida after endorsing Ryan's "Roadmap," with a variant of this message: Protect current seniors without bankrupting their grandchildren.
And Romney happens to have economic reality on his side. The long-term entitlement crisis is seeping into the short term. Social Security slipped into the red last year. Medicare follows suit in roughly a decade. And Europe is demonstrating that creditors' patience with political and fiscal dysfunction is not infinite.
Americans say they are concerned about the most predictable economic crisis in our history. Romney — who has so often stroked the voters in the past — has suddenly called their bluff. It is both the assumption of a risk and the emergence of a leader.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) Kurt Hess completes 20 of 28 passes for 248 yards and two touchdowns, and Jermaine Cook runs for 124 yards and score as Youngstown State pulled away late to beat Indiana State 27-6 Saturday in Missouri Valley Conference play.
After Tanner Fritschle's 32-yard field goal tied the game for Indiana State (7-4, 5-3) at 6-all early in the third quarter, Youngstown responded by scoring the final 21 points of the game.
Youngstown (7-4, 4-4) broke a 6-6 tie when Hess found Andrew Williams for a 30-yard touchdown and a 13-6 lead.
Cook extended that lead to 20-6 with 14:18 left in the fourth quarter with a 24-yard touchdown run.
Youngstown's final touchdown came with 8:17 left when Hess and Williams connected again, this time for 43 yards to push the final margin of victory to 27-6.
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Long lines formed at water distribution centers and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie.
The warning effectively cut off the water supply to 400,000 people in Toledo, most of its suburbs and a few areas in southeastern Michigan.
Worried residents told not to drink, brush their teeth or wash dishes with the water emptied store shelves and waited hours for deliveries of bottled water from across Ohio as the governor declared a state of emergency.
Gov. John Kasich pledged that state agencies were working to bring water and other supplies to areas around Toledo while also assisting hospitals and other businesses impacted. The state also was making plans to make more deliveries if the water problem lingered, he said.
"What's more important than water? Water's about life," Kasich said. "We know it's difficult. We know it's frustrating."
The Governor said it was too early to say how long the water advisory will last or what caused toxins to spike suddenly in the drinking water. "We don't really want to speculate on this," Kasich told The Associated Press. "When it comes to this water, we've got be very careful."
Samples of water were flown to the federal and state Environmental Protection Agency offices in Cincinnati and Columbus and a university in Michigan for additional testing, officials said.
Residents waking up to the warning on Aug, 2 lined up outside just about any store selling water. Some were mothers concerned about how they would make formula for their infants and other were worried about their elderly parents.
"It looked like Black Friday," said Aundrea Simmons, who stood in a line of about 50 people at a pharmacy before buying four cases of water.
Families toting empty coolers, milk jugs and even cookie jars topped them off with well water funneled out of the back of a pickup truck.
John Myers, a farmer from nearby Swanton, loaded 450 gallons of well water into a container in the back of his pickup truck and gave it out for free in a high school parking lot.
"The more you got, the more we'll fill," he told residents carrying empty containers. "I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be giving water away."
Myers said his concern was that the advisory could go one for days. "This is a lot more serious than anybody's thinking about," he said.
Tyshanta DeLoney, of Toledo, filled up a big plastic container after spending much of the day searching for water. "That was a blessing," she said.
Late Aug. 2, Kasich ordered the state's National Guard to deliver water purification systems, pallets of bottled water and meals ready to eat, or MREs, to residents in Lucas, Wood and Fulton counties.
Toledo issued the warning just after midnight Aug. 2 after tests at one treatment plant showed two sample readings for microsystin above the standard for consumption.
The city also said not to boil the water because that would only increase the toxin's concentration. The Mayor also warned that children should not shower or bathe in the water and that it shouldn't be given to pets.
The first tests indicating trouble came the night of Aug. 1 and additional testing confirmed the elevated readings, said Craig Butler, director of the state's Environmental Protection Agency.
Water coming from the lake into Toledo's water plant had relatively low toxicity levels this summer compared with a year ago until this sudden spike.
Algae blooms during the summer have become more frequent and troublesome around the western end of Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes.
The algae growth is fed by phosphorus mainly from farm fertilizer run-off and sewage treatment plants, leaving behind toxins that have contributed to oxygen-deprived dead zones where fish can't survive. The toxins can kill animals and sicken humans.
Scientists had predicted a significant bloom of the blue-green algae this year, but they didn't expect it to peak until early September.
The state began delivering water to the Toledo area Aug. 2. Containers were being filled with water at a prison near Columbus and trucked about 130 miles north, said Nancy Dragani, Director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency.
The state also asked major grocery chains to divert as much water as they can to northwest Ohio, she said. The Ohio National Guard planned to send units that can turn pond water into drinkable water to three hospitals and a state prison in Toledo.
As truckloads of water came in from across the state, Toledo leaders set up distribution centers at schools around the city, limiting families to one case of bottled water. Some stores were receiving new shipments of water and putting limits on how much people can buy.
"We're going to be prepared to make sure people are not without water," said Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins. There were no reports yet of people becoming sick from drinking the water, Collins said.
Stores in cities up to 50 miles away were reporting shortages of bottled water. Some neighboring communities that aren't connected to Toledo's water system were offering their water to people who brought their own bottles and containers.
Operators of water plants all along Lake Erie, which supplies drinking water for 11 million people, have been concerned over the last few years about toxins fouling their supplies.
Almost a year ago, one township just east of Toledo told its 2,000 residents not to drink or use the water coming from their taps. That was believed to be the first time a city has banned residents from using the water because of toxins from algae in the lake.
Most water treatment plants along the western Lake Erie shoreline treat their water to combat the algae. Toledo spent about $4 million last year on chemicals to treat its water and combat the toxins.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker Lady Cobras basketball team broke out of their 11 game slump on Saturday afternoon, thanks to a dominating 88-65 win over the Converse College Valkyries. The Conference Carolinas win, is the first for Coker in 29 days, have last won back on Jan. 7 at home against St. Andrews.
The win improves the Lady Cobras to 3-17 overall and 2-13 in the conference, while the loss drops the Valkyries to 3-16 on the year and 3-11 in the conference.
Coker entered the game firing on all cylinders and quickly jumped out to an early lead, only once in the entire game did the Lady Cobras relinquish that lead, but they were quick to regain it and end the first half up 36-28.
A 20-4 run to start the second half gave Coker its largest lead of the game and gave them the momentum needed to secure the victory.
The Lady Cobras outshot Converse in nearly all categories but one, free throw percentage. Coker shot 56.6 percent from the floor compared to Converse's 33.8 percent, Coker was also 4-for-9 (44.4%) from 3-point range, while Converse was just 6-for-26 (23.1%). The Valkyries did outshoot the Lady Cobras from the charity stripe, hitting 75.0 percent of their free throws compared to Coker's 68.6 percent.
Henna Koponen (Vantaa, Finland) had a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Kiesha Beavers (Williamstown, N.J.) also put in 23 points, had five steals and dished out five assists. Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) was the third player in double figures for Coker with 12 points and three assists and Megan Thomas (Cresskill, N.J.) handed out a game high 10 assists. As a team the Lady Cobras moved the ball extremely well throughout the game, racking up 23 total assists.
Converse had four players reach the double digit mark, led by Jessica McMahan and Ashley Arff, who each had 14 points. McMahan also added seven rebounds to her stat totals. Katie Vaughn had 12 points and five rebounds, while Ashley Day came off the bench to give the Valkyries 10 points and six assists. Morgan Sarcharski pulled down a team high 10 rebounds in the game.
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In all likelihood, my decade long tenure as chairman of Beaufort County Council will end shortly after the upcoming election as I move my public service portfolio to the statehouse. I want to leave you with a brief retrospective, as well as one strong recommendation to help preserve and protect this special part of the Lowcountry.
In 2003, Beaufort County was in crisis. As a result of rapid development and consequent population increases, our roads and bridges were well beyond capacity, calling into question our ability to evacuate in a timely manner. Daily gridlock was a feature of even the shortest commute. Our waterways and estuaries were threatened with runoff created by all the new development, as well as an ineffective regulatory regime to address the challenge. In addition, public confidence in government was strained as disputes and lawsuits prevented meaningful cooperation in the solution of these pressing matters.
In the midst of this, we hired a new county administrator and charged him with promoting responsiveness and transparency to encourage the public's trust. Without public trust, our massive deficiencies would continue to defy solution.
Today, we have redefined ourselves as one of the most open and responsive county governments in the state. All our meetings are televised and available online. Our financials are equally transparent.
With transparency and openness replacing parochialism and lawsuits, we have been able to address our pressing issues. We passed countywide impact fees and our citizens approved a sales tax to raise the dollars necessary, with leverage, to address our $300 million in roadway deficiencies. Daily gridlock is in the past. With the completion of the flyover project connecting U.S. 278 and the Bluffton Parkway, future evacuation will be facilitated.
As intergovernmental cooperation improved, we have been able to institute the most sweeping and forward-looking stormwater management regime in the state to protect our precious estuaries. With municipal buy in, jurisdiction shopping is almost a thing of the past, as well. There were also profound improvements in our resident's access to higher education and vocational training, improvements in parks and recreational facilities, voter services, and in a host of other ongoing initiatives.
However, when my youngest child is my age, the most enduring legacy of my chairmanship and that of Beaufort County Council, will be our resolute support of the Rural and Critical Lands Preservation Program. In two prior referendums, our citizens overwhelmingly approved $90 million to buy land and development rights, resulting in more than 21,000 acres of rural and undeveloped properties being protected for future generations. Not only has rural and critical preserved those stunningly special places that make our part of the Lowcountry so biologically rich and scenically unsurpassed, we have also partnered with federal agencies and private foundations to dramatically reduce our costs and accomplish shared missions. For example, we purchase land around Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort with a 50 percent match from the Department of the Navy. That federal investment is always a consideration when force reduction threatens to close bases. It serves to protect both military and civilian jobs in our county. The same is true for Department of Agriculture as they strive to keep small farmers farming on and around St. Helena Island. By any objective measure, rural and critical is a tremendous success, whose value to our community only increases as time passes. Please consider voting to continue this immensely successful program with your approval of the $25 million referendum on the November ballot. It is a shared legacy for our children and grandchildren.


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"Soop" Surname
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2000 US Census
The surname "Soop" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
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Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century. Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry and of molecular biology.
Pauling is one of only four individuals to have won multiple Nobel Prizes. He is one of only two people awarded two Nobel Prizes in different fields (the Chemistry and Peace prizes), the other being Marie Curie (the Chemistry and Physics prizes), and the only person awarded two unshared prizes.
Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, as the first born child to Herman Henry William Pauling (1876–1910) and Lucy Isabelle "Belle" Darling (1881–1926). He was named "Linus Carl," in honor of Lucy's father, Linus, and Herman's father, Carl. Herman and Lucy—then 23 and 18 years old, respectively—had met at a dinner party in Condon. Six months later, the two were married.


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Corel WordPerfect Office X5 is the only PC-based office application suite that doesn't try to mimic Microsoft Office. It provides a true alternative to Office, not a watered-down imitation, and that's exactly why it survives in a Microsoft-centric universe. Open-source, freeware application suites like OpenOffice.org (Free, ) try to act as much as possible like pre-Ribbon-Interface versions of Microsoft Office, but the main reasons for using such programs are that they cost nothing and don't keep your data in proprietary formats. WordPerfect Office is a commercial application that's still worth paying for because—despite its many limits and inconveniences—the WordPerfect word processor gives the kind of predictable, fine-tuned control over the format and appearance of documents that's almost impossible to achieve in Microsoft Word.
Few individual users and fewer companies are ever going to switch away from a world-standard like Office—especially in its new and gleamingly usable Office 2010 release—and move instead to an outlier like WordPerfect. But thousand of government and legal offices have been using WordPerfect for decades, and they don't see any reason to give up its very real benefits. The latest version of Corel's WordPerfect suite offers the familiar interface that government and legal communities require, plus a few well-chosen new features that mostly match long-established features in Microsoft Office.
New Features In WordPerfect Office X5
For example, the suite now works smoothly with SharePoint servers, providing revision-tracking and version-comparison features, plus the ability to use a Web browser to view documents on the server (WordPerfect can now import data from Web services). The suite also finally gets a smooth-running, integrated "Reference Center" help system that provides clearer and better-organized help than Microsoft's Web-based grab-bag.
The Standard version of the suite ($249.99; $159.99 upgrade), which I tested under Windows XP and Windows 7, contains the familiar three core applications: WordPerfect X5 as its word-processor, Quattro Pro X5 as its spreadsheet, Presentations X5 as a combined graphics editor and presentations creator. Also included are: WordPerfect Lightning, a minimal digital notebook that doesn't try to match Microsoft's sleek, high-tech OneNote; a licensed version of Nuance PaperPort SE 12, a highly capable application for scanning and managing documents; and a minimally-tweaked version of Mozilla's Thunderbird (Free, ) e-mail client, with the Thunderbird Lightning calendar add-in pre-installed. Thunderbird replaces the proprietary e-mail clients in earlier versions, which won't be missed. A Home/Student version (SRP $99.99, no upgrade price) omits PaperPort and SharePoint support. A Professional version (SRP $399.99, upgrade $259.99) adds the Paradox database and a software developer's kit.
WordPerfect Office X5 vs. Microsoft Office
Quattro Pro and Presentations are both adequate and efficient apps, closely comparable to Excel and PowerPoint as they existed circa 2001. In contrast, the unique features and manageability of the WordPerfect word processor provide a compelling reason to choose WordPerfect Office over Microsoft Office. It may not be as powerful as Word, but it's a lot more manageable and predictable. WordPerfect outclasses Word in its ability to manage and format long and multi-chapter documents. It also includes a few features that don't have a comparable counterpart in Word. One that I find particularly useful is WordPerfect's ability to store printer settings with a document, which means that I can set WordPerfect documents to automatically print on both sides of the page. Microsoft Office, in contrast, makes you select duplex printing from the options in the Print dialog every time you print a document on both sides.
Unlike Word, WordPerfect never leaves you in doubt about why a block of text is formatted the way it is, or leaves you baffled when you delete a word at the end of a paragraph, and the whole paragraph changes its format. In WordPerfect, you merely open the Reveal Codes window at the foot of the screen, and the formatting code is easily visible. Double-click on a code to modify formatting; drag a code out of the window to delete the code and remove the formatting that the code applies.
The latest WordPerfect version can both open and save in Microsoft Word 2007 format; the previous version could open but not save in Word 2007 format. (Quattro Pro and Presentations can also import and export in Office 2007 formats.) Also, unlike Office, WordPerfect can import PDF files and convert them into editable documents. This feature was powerful and effective when I used it with uncomplicated PDF files. However, it refused to open some PDF files I had tweaked in Adobe Acrobat by changing some text, and it ignored the images embedded in other PDF files. Still, it's a lot more convenient than buying a converter program or add-in as you need to do with Office. Another feature that legal and government users will like is WordPerfect's built-in redaction tool for permanently blanking-out sensitive text. Microsoft Word, by contrast, provides an optional (and not officially supported) downloadable add-in to supply the same feature.
WordPerfect's new ability to download data from a Web server is a feature that Microsoft has had for years in Excel, but WordPerfect one-ups Microsoft by letting users import data directly into a WordPerfect table through a lucid wizard-style interface. WordPerfect's tables have been more flexible and powerful than Word's for decades, ever since WordPerfect folded its once-separate spreadsheet program directly into the word processor. Of course, Microsoft Word can embed Excel tables, but WordPerfect's built-in tables are more powerful and more portable.
WordPerfect Office X5's Shortcomings
Elsewhere in the suite, I found a well-designed template browser that provides training wheels for home and SOHO users who don't want to build document layouts on their own. In place of WordPerfect Lightning (not to be confused with the Thunderbird Lightning calendar add-in for Thunderbird) is a minimal note-taking app with a mixture of features that may or not be what you need. You'll probably use it most often for dragging text or links from a browser into notes that Lightning arranges in a tree-structured list.
One minor annoyance is that any link or Web address that you drag into Lightning isn't automatically formatted as a "live" link that you can click on so that the link opens in the browser. Instead, you need to press the Enter key after dragging the link into a Lightning. Only then does Lightning figure out that the text string should be reformatted as a live, blue-underlined hyperlink. Lightning also works as a screen capture program, and as a file viewer that lets you read Microsoft Word and WordPerfect documents without opening them for editing (and select text from them to the Windows clipboard). Amazingly enough, a year after its first release, Lightning's document viewer still harbors a bug that makes the program crash when you click on a footnote in the document.
Despite its many useful features, WordPerfect lags far behind Word in some crucial features. For example, Word 2007 and 2010 have a "live" word count that's always up to date; WordPerfect has a word-count field on the status bar that you need to click to get an updated count. Word lets you split a document window and edit the first page of your document in the upper pane and the last page in the lower pane. WordPerfect's architecture probably makes that feature impractical—though I would like to see Corel give it a try. I've been complaining for decades that WordPerfect didn't have a built-in way to replace all underlines with italics, and it still doesn't—you have to find an attribute-replacement macro on line and install it on the menu.
In addition, Corel only minimally integrates the Thunderbird mail client into the rest of the suite. You can use a Thunderbird address book in a WordPerfect mailmerge, but that's about all the integration you get. One way Thunderbird falls short of Outlook is that it completely lacks Microsoft Exchange support. Still it took me only ten minutes to add Exchange support via the open-source DavMail project. Corel doesn't mention this option, and you'll need some technical skills to get it working, but it's a lot better than nothing.
The Verdict
If you're a Windows user who's ready to start using an office application suite for the first time, or if you're not satisfied with what you've got now, you've got four basic choices. One choice is to move away from the office-suite model entirely, and create your documents in the cloud with GoogleDocs or a similar service. Another is to stick with the office-app model and use the unchallenged world standard, Microsoft Office, which does more than anything else, and also costs a lot more than anything else. Another choice is OpenOffice.org, the Office alternative preferred by governments, institutions, and individual users who prefer free, open-source software. The fourth—and very much the minority–choice is WordPerfect, a suite that continues to go its own way, with a small but intense core of loyal users.
GoogleDocs is a terrific choice for netbook users with minimal needs for advanced formatting and long-document features, who'll never need to use endnotes or cross-references (as in "see page 9," where the correct page number is inserted by the word-processor), and who'll never need to print an envelope or send out mass mailings. GoogleDocs also has far better revision-tracking than desktop-based word-processors. But GoogleDocs won't satisfy anyone who wants tight control over formatting or who needs to write anything more complex than a term paper.
Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org are both juggernauts, with Microsoft far ahead in power, flexibility, and ease of use. Both create files that can easily be shared with everyone else; both can build complex documents; both include automation features that let you cut down the time you spend on mind-numbing repetitive tasks. But Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org's word-processor share the same basic fault—if you build complex documents, or you want tight control over formatting, both will leave you banging your head on the desk as you try to figure out why you can't make your document look the way you want it to look, or why a change you make in one paragraph causes changes elsewhere that you didn't want to make.
That's where WordPerfect comes in. No other software gives such tight control over formatting. When someone sends me a Word document for me to edit or revise, I find it's far easier to clean up the document's formatting by opening it in WordPerfect than by opening it in Word. Few long-term Office users will ever switch to WordPerfect, but everyone who does a lot of Word files ought to have a copy of WordPerfect as an emergency repair tool.
WordPerfect existing users will want to know whether the new version is worth the upgrade price. Home and small-business users can continue to use the previous WordPerfect version, WordPerfect Office X4, without missing out on anything essential, although Windows 7 users should get X5 for its improved integration with preview and touch features. Also, if you're using any version older than X4 on a modern computer, you owe it to yourself to upgrade to a more reliable recent version. For organizations that need SharePoint and web compatibility, and for government and legal offices that rely on reliable and well-honed software, WordPerfect Office X5 is the best upgrade in years.


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Securing a wireless network isn't a hard task. The cheat sheet is relatively small. However, the technical press continues to be flooded with articles and blogs containing technical mistakes. Take, for example, everyone's trusted information source, Consumer Reports magazine. I'm a big fan of the magazine, having subscribed to the hard copy edition for years. But they seem out of their league, when it comes to computers.
using WEP security for wireless networks. This is very poor advice. A week after the posting, an editor corrected it, to say they recommend WPA security. This too, is not the best option. Even after being shamed into a correction, they still got it wrong.
So, let me try to offer up just what most people (and Consumer Reports) need to know about securing a wireless network.
Starting at the beginning
To begin with, there are four types of Wi-Fi networks (a, b, g, and n). But the security is not tied to any one type.
If you can connect to a wireless network without entering a p***word, then there is no security. In this con****, the term "security" refers to encrypting data as it travels over the air.
The idea being to prevent a bad guy from capturing all the information coming into and out of a victims' computer and, in effect, looking over their shoulder despite being a few hundred feet away.
Wi-Fi networks offer three security options: WEP, WPA, and WPA2. As a simplistic introduction, think of WEP as bad, WPA as just fine, and WPA2 as great.
WEP is the oldest security option and it has been shown to be very weak. It may be better than no security at all, but not by much. Don't use it. Other than Consumer Reports magazine, the last recommendation to use WEP was issued in 2005.
WPA is technically a certification, not a security standard, but since it includes only one security protocol, TKIP, they are often confused. When people refer to WPA security, they are really referring to the TKIP protocol.
The combination of WPA and TKIP is not the best, but it's reasonably good. If you have a choice, you should opt for the best security (next topic), but if you don't have a choice (more later) TKIP is reasonably strong.
WPA2 is also, technically, a certification rather than a security standard. WPA2 includes two security standards: TKIP and CCMP. If you are using TKIP, it doesnt matter whether the router is WPA or WPA2. TKIP is TKIP either way.
The best security option is CCMP and it's only available in WPA2, so, here again, the security protocol is often confused with the certification. When people refer to WPA2 security, they are really referring to CCMP.
But no one refers to CCMP (don't ask what it stands for). For whatever reason, the CCMP security protocol is referred to, incorrectly, as AES. So, when you are configuring a router, you need to first select WPA2, then you need to select AES (rather than TKIP) to get the best possible security and encryption.
WPA TKIP flaws
The TKIP security protocol (often referred to as WPA) is flawed. The first flaw came to light in November 2008, the second one just recently. But neither flaw is serious.
The first flaw can be defended against simply by disabling Quality of Service (QoS) in your router. Very few people make use of QoS.
The second flaw was described by security expert Steve Gibson as mostlytheoretical. For example, it requires that the victims computer be out of radio reception range from the router. The bad guy has to connect to the router on one side and the victim on the other side. The bad guy has to be logically and physically positioned between the victim and the router.
Neither flaw lets the bad guy recover the p***word and they only support decrypting very small data packets. None of these small packets will contain any of your data.
It's not the flaws themselves that make WPA2-AES the best option, but the fact that they are cracks in the dam. Who knows what will turn up next? There are no known flaws in WPA2-AES, which was developed last and built on and improved the work in the earlier security protocols.
Problems getting to WPA2
Everyone who can should opt for WPA2-AES, but there may be roadblocks.
WPA2-AES requires more computational horsepower than WPA-TKIP. Older routers may not have sufficient horsepower. If your router does not offer WPA2, you can check for a firmware update, but most likely you'll have to buy a new router to get the best security. Then too, since it is the latest and greatest, WPA2-AES may not be supported on the computer, smartphone, gaming machine, Internet radio or whatever other device you want to use with your wireless network.
For example, Windows XP SP2 does not support WPA2, even if it has been kept up to date on patches. A "hotfix" (KB893357) needs to be installed to add WPA2 support to Windows XP SP2.
A WPA2 router may offer both TKIP and AES simultaneously. Start with AES only and hope for the best. Only chose this option if you have to, to support an older device.
The AES-CCMP security protocol was a long time coming. Rather than wait, some hardware manufacturers added early versions of the protocol to WPA routers. Since these were ****d on draft, rather than final versions of the protocol, they may or may not work with newer hardware and software.
Still, if replacing an old WPA router is a big deal, I suppose it's worth a try.
Two other aspects of security
WPA and WPA2 both come in two flavors, Personal and Enterprise. In the Personal version there is a single p***word, in the Enterprise version each user of the wireless network gets their own p***word. The Personal version is also known as Pre-Shared Key or PSK for short.
So, technically, the best security for consumers and small businesses is WPA2-PSK-AES-CCMP.
However, this entire alphabet soup falls down if you chose a poor p***word.
Data is still traveling over the air and can be captured and saved by a bad guy who can then try to guess the p***word offline thousands of guesses a second for days on end.
Perhaps no one will attack the network you connect to this way, but if they do, the only defense is a long, reasonably random p***word. WPA and WPA2 support p***words up to 63 characters long. Better yet, think "p*** sentence" rather than p***word
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Do you have to run the water in the shower for several minuets before you get in the shower. If you answered yes, you need a Hot Water Circulating Pump for your home in Surprise? This system can deliver hot water to fixtures quickly without waiting for the water to get hot. Rather than relying on low water pressure, common in most water lines, recirculating systems use a pump to rapidly move water from a water heater to the fixtures. Not only do you not have to wait, you save money by not running water down the drain. Once you have a hot water recirculating pump installed, you will never want to go without one again.
HOW IT WORKS - Hot Water Circulating Pump
Are There Different Recirculating Pumps Available In Granite Reef Estates?
• A basic "always on" recirculating pump that uses the same amount of energy as a 40 watt light bulb.
• A recirculating pump with a timer allows you to set times when the system is to be on for peak use and efficiency.
• An "on demand" recirculating pump is designed with a remote control that is pushed any time you want to circulate hot water through your system. This type of pump shuts off when it senses that the water at the faucet farthest away from the heater has reached the appropriate temperature (approximately 10 - 15 seconds after you start the pump, depending on the size of the house.)
• Recirculating Pump designed for Tank-less Water Heaters. This unit is designed for use with tank-less water heaters and is similar in function as the recirculating pump with timer listed above.
Unfortunately, not all plumbing contractors and big box stores are very knowledgeable about the installation and maintenance of recirculating pumps. One of the more common mysterious problems we are asked to diagnose seems to be why hot water is coming out of the cold water faucets. Frequently, we find this problem is caused by an incorrectly installed recirculating system. Call the plumbing professionals at Option One Plumbing for installation of a new hot water recirculating system.


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Julia Gillard's ''captain's pick'' is a bold move and, at one level, very hard to dispute.
Of course Labor should have a well-qualified indigenous candidate in a winnable federal seat. It should have had an indigenous MP in the national Parliament long ago.
And there is no doubt that Nova Peris is a good name.
But the process is unfortunate.
Admittedly backbencher Trish Crossin has had a good innings, and was never going to rise further in her parliamentary career.
Politics is a tough business, and sometimes people get rough treatment.
But for a party that has been agonising over ways to reinvigorate its membership, it is not a great look to have the preselection process so dramatically hijacked. The one real power rank-and-filers have is selection of candidates.
For Gillard, her demand that Peris be put into the Senate spot is double-edged.
She is taking an important and historic step. As yet no Aboriginal woman has sat in the Federal Parliament. The PM has asserted her authority in a good cause.
But the way she has treated Crossin will raise a comparison with what she and her supporters did – on a much greater scale – to Kevin Rudd. The negotiations with Peris have been under way for weeks. But it was only on Monday that Gillard told Crossin what was happening. There is, however, some protection for the PM.
It will be hard for the opposition to make too much of the ''coup'' against Crossin, because there are risks for it in going in too hard against Peris. The Gillard exercise is more than about history and having an indigenous MP. It is also about appealing to the Aboriginal voters in the marginal Labor seat of Lingiari, held by minister Warren Snowdon. Lingiari is winnable for the Coalition, one reason Tony Abbott was so anxious to get NT Aboriginal politician Alison Anderson to stand for him (an offer she rejected).
Last year's Northern Territory election, which Labor lost, showed that the indigenous vote is no longer something the ALP can rely on. It will be up for grabs from one election to the next.
So Peris is a pawn in a larger political game, as well as now being destined to set another personal record.
She has been accorded the rare privilege of a gold-plated ride into Parliament. Her preselection is guaranteed, as is her seat.
But she is also being used by her new political patrons, and within Labor some will resent the way she is sliding in. (Ask Peter Garrett about the legacy of the fast track for a star candidate.)
Her inexperience showed in the acute nerves on display at Tuesday's news conference. The months ahead will be hard learning. Her big long-term challenge will be to show she is not just someone else's lustre but a woman who can perform strongly in her own right, for indigenous people and her non-indigenous constituents, too.


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Coaching career
The 2013 season will mark his first full season as Detroit's assistant hitting coach...Harrah joined the major league club as assistant hitting coach in June of 2012 ... Prior to joining the major league staff in his current role, he spent nine seasons (2004-12) as the organization's minor league hitting coordinator...previously held the position of minor league hitting coordinator for two seasons (1997-98)... Harrah joined the staff in Detroit as the hitting coach on July 31, 1998, after Larry Herndon was dismissed ... Served as a coach for the Fort Worth Cats, an independent league club in the Central League, in 2003 ... Spent three seasons (2000-02) as the bench coach with the Colorado Rockies ... Served as the roving minor league hitting instructor for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1999 season ... Spent the 1996 season as the third base coach for the Cleveland Indians ... Named the International League's Manager of the Year in 1995 after leading Triple A Norfolk of the New York Mets organization to an 86-56 record ... Spent eight seasons (1987-94) as a manager, coach and hitting instructor in the Texas Rangers organization following his retirement in 1986...he managed Triple A Oklahoma City for two seasons (1987-88) before joining the Rangers major league staff as the first base coach in 1989...after three seasons as the first base coach, he was named the bench coach for the 1992 season...Harrah served as the club's interim manager during the second half of the 1992 season following the firing of Bobby Valentine on July 9...he spent his final two seasons (1993-94) in the Texas organization as a roving minor league hitting instructor.
Playing career
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as a non-drafted free agent on December 27, 1996, he played 17 seasons at the major league level with the Washington Senators (1969, 1971), Rangers (1972-78, 1985-86), Indians (1979-83) and New York Yankees (1984)...Harrah was selected as an all-star four times during his career (1972, 1975-76, 1982).
Inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 ... Participated in the Tigers Winter Caravan ... He and his wife Janet reside in Azle, TX during the off-season...the couple has four children, Toby, Haley, Katie and Thomas.


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Obama's drone program escapes liberal scrutiny in campaign
Liberal protests against the tactics Bush used to target terrorists have given way largely to silence.
Liberals had plenty to say about the moral and legal implications of torture, wiretapping and other tools that George W. Bush employed to fight the war on terror. But President Obama's equally controversial escalation of drone strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan has been almost completely absent from presidential politics this year.
"This is a central issue in American foreign policy, it is vital to the way in which the United States responds in the short term to potential terrorist threats, and to the long term nature of the U.S. response, as well as the legal framework that will control—or not—drone use by other countries," said James Cavallaro, a law professor at Stanford University who co-authored "Living Under Drones," a study analyzing the impact of the strikes on civilians in Pakistan. "It should have been an issue that was debated much more robustly and it warrants much greater attention by the presidential candidates."
Voices that may have been eager to jump on the issue four years ago are hesitant to criticize a Democratic president, one who has worked to erase the Republican Party's longstanding national security advantage. Cavallaro put it this way: "It's curious at least that many who have spoken out about suspect national security policy in the last administration have chosen not to do so in the past few years."
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, is one of the only vocal opponents of drone policy in Congress. "Parties are always about supporting their own first, in everything," Kucinich said. "What you have is a new pseudo philosophy of national security which is devoid of constitutional underpinnings, sweeps aside international law and is morally depraved. There is no defense, there is no justification, there's just no debate."
Kucinich recently delivered a letter to Obama, signed by 25 other members, including Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, demanding legal justification for "signature drone strikes," where the identity of the targets is unknown.
The absence of the subject from the campaign stems from a number of factors. The drone program has a low profile among most voters, who are concerned most this year with the state of their pocketbooks. It costs the United States little in blood and treasure, and the precise details of drone use are scant.
The Obama administration has undertaken approximately 300 drone strikes in Pakistan. Some estimates put the number of civilian casualties as high as 800; the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London says 176 children have been killed in Pakistan.
There is an argument to be made that drones are the lesser of many evils when it comes to targeting terrorists. Research done by Avery Plaw, a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, makes the case that drone strikes are the best means available and result in fewer civilian casualties than other methods.
Still, civilian casualties have stirred powerful anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and Yemen, becoming an effective recruiting mechanism for terrorist groups; last year, an American citizen, teenager Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was taken out in a drone strike without a trial. Some analysts worry as well that the program could set a precedent for other countries to launch drone attacks in nations they are not at war with, just as the United States has.
In addition, the Obama administration has also recently taken to counting all military-age males within a strike zone as "a combatant" and expanded the so-called "kill list" of terrorist targets.
Many political observers expected Obama to be quizzed about his drone program during the foreign policy debate Oct. 22. But instead moderator Bob Schieffer merely asked Republican Mitt Romney what he thought about drones. "I support that entirely and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology and believe that we should continue to use it to continue to go after the people who represent a threat to this nation and to our friends," Romney said.
And then it was on to China.
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Favorite HBR "Imagining the Future of Leadership" Post #3 (How to Fix Leadership Talent Shortages)
Susan Ashford and Scott DeRue reveal that one in four corporate training dollars are spent on leadership deveopment ($12B dollars in total) and yet nearly 2/3 of firms are experiencing leadershp talent shortages that are impeding their performance. Something needs to shift.
They call for focusing development on five areas:
- Helping people learn leadership from life experiences (a related paper penned by sames authors, Power to the People, is here)
- Cultivating leadership principles, not just skills
- Rewarding leadership development
- Expanding leadership development to all parts of the workforce
- Simplicity – employees need to know what leadership skills, comptencies and attributes really matter and focus on those.
Note: The entire six-week Harvard Business Review blog series can be
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Malini wrote:From what I've seen in this thread, this site has the same problem as themagiccafe...
but this site is more beautifully designed.
Unfortunately, those who write 100% glowing reviews are encouraged,
and those who write a 100% negative review are accused of "being jealous,"
and their reviews are assumed to be "a deliberate hatchet job,"
before the moderator bans the critic from the site.
Now why would you assume I'd do that? If you don't like an item then that's all there is to say. As long as you give reasons and are suitably polite about presenting your thoughts and opinions then your views are as valid as any other. To be honest there are a lot of items being sold and strongly promoted which I don't like but I work on the basis that others may find such things to their taste so live and let live to a certain extent.Malini wrote:You can ban me now, Mandrake.
Mandrake wrote:Now why would you assume I'd [ban you]?.....Malini wrote:You can ban me now, Mandrake.
Anyway, now you're here how about you nip over to Introductions and tell us more about yourself?
Malini wrote:Because this was the conclusion of your reply to Brainbuster's critical review of AT:
" we'll deal with matters in quite a different way."
And then he was banned.
But that was 3 years ago, so we've all changed.
Mandrake wrote:In any event, that was all of three years ago, plenty of water under the bridge etc.
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To say that Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific dramatist would be an understatement. In his sixty-year career as a playwright, he wrote more than fifty works in the dramatic mode. He tried his hand at so many different styles that a classification of his dramatic output is essential. Tagore himself applied the following terms to his plays: ntak or ntya (drama), ntyakvya (dramatic poem), ntik (playlet), prahasan (farce), gitintya (musical drama), and nritya-ntya (dance drama). His conventional ntya can be further subdivided into two categories—the early blank-verse dramas The King and the Queen and Sacrifice. and the others, numbering twenty, all written in prose and, with one exception, published after 1907. Although Tagore separately classified seven of his works as "dramatic poems," they are technically similar to the two verse ntya. the only substantial difference being that the latter are in five acts. Because all seven "dramatic poems" were printed by 1900, it would be appropriate to categorize them chronologically, together with the two poetic plays, as his early dramatic work in verse. To them should be added two of Tagore's "playlets," both written in verse, published during this same period. The author also labeled as "playlets" four other dramatic works in prose, published after 1907, of which the most important is Chandlik. While Chandlik is a short play, two of the other "playlets" are about as long as some of the full-length plays. Once again, therefore, it may be more helpful in an analysis to place these four pieces with Tagore's later plays, which are exclusively in prose.
Tagore wrote four "farces," three of them during the 1890's. Of all of his plays, these lively and relevant social comedies were the only popular successes he had for a long time on the professional stage. Tagore also attempted several artistically successful adventures in fusing music with drama. Songs are incorporated into the scripts of virtually every Tagore play, but in some of his works, the music and songs command precedence over spoken dialogue. He initiated his dramatic career with three such "musical dramas" published in the 1880's. Six more exercises in this genre appeared between 1923 and 1934, but they were more in the vein of collected songs linked by a loose plot on a common theme, for example, the advent of a particular season. Finally, in the last five years of his life, Tagore introduced his "dance dramas," in which Indian dance and musical forms merge with stories borrowed from earlier writings. Two of the three dance dramas published before his death, for example, were based on Chitrngad and Chandlik. respectively. In addition, he wrote many minor dramatic miscellanea: sketches, dialogues, satiric and comic skits, and short riddles "in imitation of European charades."
Tagore constantly revised, reworked, or abridged his existing work and made dramatizations of his own fiction. Apart from the two pieces that became dance dramas, three plays (including Sacrifice ) had their origins in novels and five others in various short stories; Worship of the Dancing Girl had its genesis in a poem. Tagore's last dance drama began in the form of a poem written in 1899, metamorphosed into a dance drama in 1936, and was transformed a second time in 1939 to its present fully developed shape. Similarly, the play Paritrn started off as a novel published in 1883, was dramatized with a different title in 1909, and ultimately rewritten under another title. In the cases of five other plays, including The King of the Dark Chamber. Tagore constructed concise acting editions with altogether different titles, the stageworthy versions succeeding the originals sometimes by as many as forty years, sometimes by as few as six. In recasting The King and the Queen as Tapati forty years later, Tagore indicated his dissatisfaction with the verse original, observing that he had virtually to write a new play in prose in order to make it suitable as theater. Indeed, the very existence of his acting editions indicates his concern for the staging of his plays and should serve as compelling evidence against those critics who dismiss them as mere closet drama.
The literary influences of Tagore offer important insights into his plays. Above all writers, Tagore perhaps revered the classical Sanskrit master Klidsa the most; his early drama contains much proof of the impact of Klidsa's heroic themes, nature imagery, and lyric language. The mysticism of the fifteenth century poet Kabir attracted Tagore, too, as did the devotional fervor of Vaishnava religious poetry, presenting human love as simultaneously sacred and profane, and the folk songs of his native Bengal, particularly those with a spiritual flavor, as of the wandering minstrel bul. Among Western dramatists, he respected William Shakespeare. It is significant that he liked Antony and Cleopatra (pr. c. 1606-1607, pb. 1623) "very much" and found Othello, the Moor of Venice (pr. 1604, pb. 1622, revised 1623) fascinating, a "harrowing" experience. His early verse drama was to a great extent modeled after Shakespeare. Tagore admired as well the Romantic idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. In later years, he acknowledged the debt to Maurice Maeterlinck in his mature "symbolic" plays. Although the initial spark may have come from a reading of Maeterlinck, there is considerable difference between the uses of symbolism as practiced by the Belgian poet and by Tagore.
The Western concepts of illusionism and naturalism in the theater, much in fashion among Tagore's contemporaries in late nineteenth century India, did not find a place in Tagore's theory of drama. Many critics, ignorant of the principal consideration that realistic drama and the representational stage (a "childish intrusion") did not in the least appeal to Tagore, are quick to point out flaws in Tagore's dramaturgy. This well-entrenched vogue of Tagore criticism has rarely been opposed, fostering the article of faith among scholarly and theatrical circles that his plays are weak on stage. That this attitude is patently false has been proved on several occasions in the theater, especially in the capable hands of the Bengali director Sombhu Mitra. Tagore is no Henrik Ibsen, and his plays consequently should not be judged by realist standards. If a comparison must be made to a Western author, the proper analogy might be William Butler Yeats, perhaps the Yeats who composed Four Plays for Dancers (pb. 1921) and other such later works. Tagore derived his mature drama mainly from Indian traditions, from sources as apparently divergent as Bharata's ancient theoretical discourse, the Ntyashstra. and the indigenous folk theater of Bengal, the jtr. From Bharata, Tagore enlisted support to vindicate his practice of discouraging painted sets in productions of his plays; as for the jtr. he pointed out that "there is no forbidding separation of the actors from the spectators." Referring to the jtr. he noted that "The poetry, which after all is the main thing, flows like a spreading fountain through the medium of acting." Tagore insisted, "The art of acting has to be subservient to the poetry of the written word. But that should not mean that acting must be a slave to all the other arts." He thought that actors had a special responsibility to "draw apart the curtain of naturalism and reveal the inner reality of things. If there is too much emphasis on imitative naturalism the inner view becomes clouded." For this reason, he said, "I never humour the adolescent habit of frequently changing scenes and moving the curtain up and down."
One can glean from these comments the four major characteristics of Tagore's drama. First, it is meant ideally for a completely flexible, totally open (perhaps even open-air) stage. Second, it is fluid and imaginative in the widest sense, requiring an appropriately nonillusionistic production style. Third, whether written in verse or prose, its essence is poetry, demanding heightened participatory and auditory awareness. Fourth, it purports to "reveal the inner reality of things." As in his other writings, Tagore explores in his plays the nature of humankind and its relation to divinity or the spiritual world. Some themes are immediately indicative of Tagore's spiritual preoccupations—renunciation of the world (Sanyasi ), the realization of religious duty (Sacrifice ), the true attributes of divinity (The King of the Dark Chamber ), the death of a bed-ridden child (The Post Office ), the death of winter followed by the rebirth of spring (The Cycle of Spring ), the worship performed by a dancing girl (Worship of the Dancing Girl ). In many plays, Tagore's choice of key characters reveals his predilection for the spiritual side of life. Besides the ascetic in Sanyasi. the priest in Sacrifice. and the Buddhist dancing girl in Worship of the Dancing Girl. there is Dhananjaya, the ascetic who appears in Muktadhr and Paritrn. the Buddhist monk Ananda in Chandlik. and the spiritual preceptor Purandar in Bnsari. In other plays, Tagore deals with people's relations with other people. Human conceptions of love and feminine beauty are the themes of Chitra and Chandlik. The attachment between adults and children figures strongly in Sanyasi and The Post Office. Muktadhr treats the invention of the machine and its adverse effects on common people. In Red Oleanders. the subject is the dehumanizing impact of organization and of greed for wealth. Political repression is examined in Paritrn. and the duties of a ruler in The King and the Queen. He also examines the caste structure of Hinduism in Chandlik. and the conflict between love and duty in Bnsari. Despite the ostensibly spiritual import of many of Tagore's plays, he was actually involved with the ramifications of these issues in everyday life. Thus the undesirable aspects of organized religion are specifically attacked in several works: namely, ritual sacrifice in Sacrifice. religious intolerance in Worship of the Dancing Girl. and untouchability in Chandlik.
The adjectives commonly applied to Tagore's mature prose drama are "symbolic" and "allegorical," but the playwright frequently disclaimed these notions, stating instead that his plays were indeed "just like other plays. very concrete." The Post Office. perhaps Tagore's most famous play outside Bengal, presents a fine example of how commentators trip over themselves attempting to lace his plays with significant meaning. A generally accepted theory suggests that this short play symbolizes and fulfills in its action the human desire for union with God. Such an interpretation, if correct, would cruelly contradict the actual situation depicted. A terminally ill boy, the center of attention, dies in the course of this play. Amal (the name signifies "pure") is too young even to understand the concept of God, much less wish to be united with Him. On the contrary, he is full of genuine joie de vivre. constantly imagining what he would do once able to walk again. The ordinary person would feel only sadness, not joy, for Amal's passing. The meaning of the play, as Yeats observed, is "less intellectual, more emotional and simple." Tagore's sensitive portrayal, however, evokes a double response at the conclusion. Yeats also recognized that The Post Office "conveys to the right audience an emotion of gentleness and peace." Although the audience grieves for Amal, perhaps distressed that so young a boy could not have the chance to enjoy life fully, it simultaneously rejoices that he has been liberated—according to Hindu beliefs—from the shackles of the material world. The pathos in the play is like that of an epiphany, but thoroughly real and only remotely symbolic. There remains a final consciousness that life is tragic yet beautiful, in equal, counterbalanced proportions, and must be lived fully.
The idea of duality in life expresses itself with relation to divinity in The King of the Dark Chamber. This play is undoubtedly allegorical in intent, tracing the spiritual enlightenment of humankind from a one-dimensional vision of God to an all-inclusive vision. The figure of the nameless King whom no one has seen, which recurs in so many of Tagore's plays, represents the Supreme Godhead. His queen, Sudarshan ("the beautiful one"), stands for humanity, and they meet each other always in complete darkness. She is puzzled by the King's assertion that she will not be able to bear the sight of his face. Eventually she does get to see him and is horrified by the vision. Her spontaneous rejection of him leads her deeper into an already existing infatuation with a king manqué named Suvarna (which means "golden"). In the end, having learned through suffering, she returns to her King and accepts his appearance in total submission. Sudarshan's development in the play is analogous to the spiritual maturation of people during their lifetime. People's originally innocent conception of life and divinity as happy and benign is usually shattered at some point by a confrontation with the harsh, pitiless cruelty of reality, which leads people immediately to question God and to negate life, sometimes as a result embracing false ideals—as signified here by the impostor Suvarna. Experience makes people mature, bringing them to a full understanding of the fact that life and divinity are simultaneously terrible and beautiful, ultimately reconciling them with God. The spiritual allegory of growth from the state of innocence through experience to the state of acceptance is by no means original, but Tagore's treatment of it shows a simple and unfettered purity. There is also, as the characters' names imply, the secondary motif that people should look not at externals but at inner truths for spiritual inspiration and purification.
Tagore's preoccupation with life, death, and God in the first decade of the twentieth century gave way to a more overt analysis of political and social subjects during the 1920's. Red Oleanders epitomizes the best work of this phase. Set in an imaginary town called Yakshapuri (in Hindu mythology, the god of wealth rules over the city of this name), the play presents a society in which the hoarding of gold demands strict discipline and a stratified class structure based on the suppression of human rights. Tagore himself explained its several layers of meaning later to his English readers: He had condemned the principle of organization for utilitarian purposes, which subjugates the individuality of people and turns "a multitude of men. into a gigantic system"; the passion of greed among colonial powers, "stalking abroad in the name of European civilization," and humiliating subject races; and the impersonal attitude in modern humanity that transforms the spirit of science into the tyranny of the machine, preferring mechanization over humanitarianism. The playwright had become increasingly troubled by the evils of twentieth century civilization and seemed to offer an alternative solution in the person of Nandini, the heroine of this play. Nandini symbolizes spontaneity, love, altruism, and the spirit of humanity in communion with nature. The rebellion she instigates against the dehumanizing and exploitative order succeeds; the invisible King of Yakshapuri comes out and joins forces with her to destroy his own Frankenstein after he sees the havoc it has wrought. Red Oleanders has been variously interpreted as a call to Indians to take up arms against the British government and as a socialistic revolt against the agencies of capitalism. Such flag-waving restrictions of its theme only constrict its essential beauty, which exists in its universal qualities, applicable to all societies.
In his last prose plays, published around the early 1930's, Tagore appears to have withdrawn into a less strident, more contemplative mood, exploring the struggle between love and duty in his protagonists. The mode of these late plays is comparatively realistic, the dialogue bare and incisive, devoid of the poetic overtones of Tagore's earlier prose. Tapati. the rewritten version of The King and the Queen. serves as a typical example from this period. The story deals with the obsessive passion of a king, Vikram—significantly, the king is no longer anonymous—for his queen, Sumitr, at the expense of his royal duties. Sumitr feels he should not neglect his kingly responsibilities because of love for her and leaves the palace. The conclusion is tragic, precipitated by an almost malevolent transformation in Vikram's character, but the chief interest in the play lies in the characterization of Sumitr, who exemplifies the strong heroines of Tagore's later work. Although she has reminded critics of the liberated Nora in Ibsen's Et dukkehjem (pr. pb. 1879; A Doll's House. 1880), she fulfills a far more important role in Tagore's world, integral to an understanding of his canon. Tagore wrote,I have a stronger faith in the simple personality of man than in the prolific brood of machinery that wants to crowd it out. This personality—the divine essence of the infinite in the vessel of the finite—has its last treasure-house in woman's heart. Her pervading influence will some day restore the human to the desolated world of man. As in the animal world the physically meek has to-day inherited the earth, woman will one day prove that the meek in soul, through the sure power of love, will rescue this world from the dominance of the unholy spirit of rapacity.
Nandini and Sumitr, among others, are creations in this mold. In the final analysis, Tagore's drama reveals a powerful underlying current of optimism and a deep faith in the feminine principle. His affirmative feeling for life, the beauty of the natural world, and the inviolable relationship between humanity and the divine, contribute to the pervasive sense of harmony and the invincible spirit of hope in his plays.
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In the following short report, we present a summary of the lecture presented by Professor Peter Adamson in the Muslim Heritage Awareness Group (MHAG) meeting organized by FSTC in London on 30 March 2011. In his lecture, Professor Adamson spoke about the research project he is currently running in the Philosophy Department at King's College in London: "Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World." The project aims to explore the broad notion of "natural philosophy" in Islamic philosophy, especially in the crucial period of the 9th-10th centuries CE, when Ancient philosophy was appropriated and naturalized in the linguistic and intellectual Arabic and Islamic context.
Professor Peter Adamson*
Professor Peter Adamson spoke about the research project he is currently running in the Philosophy Department at King's College in London, entitled "Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World." This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project is devoted to several areas in which the KCL Philosophy Department has long-standing expertise: ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and philosophy of science. In particular it will look at the broad notion of "natural philosophy" Muslim world, especially in the 9th-10th centuries CE (see Peter Adamson's Leverhulme funded project on Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World).
Figure 1: Professor Peter Adamson. (Source).
For philosophers of the ancient and medieval worlds, including the medieval Islamic world, natural philosophy included a wide range of disciplines we nowadays would be inclined to keep apart. The most fundamental part of Aristotelian natural philosophy was "physics" (from Greek physis, nature), the study of things subject to motion and change. But natural philosophy also studied all the various types of natural objects: the elements, the heavens, animals, and humans themselves. Thus natural philosophy was a large and varied terrain, stretching from psychology to cosmology, from mineralogy to medicine, from the study of plants to the study of the stars.
Figure 2: Depiction of Al-Kindi on an Iraqi stamp issued in 1962. (Source).
The main questions to be studied in the Project will be:
(1) How was natural philosophy understood to be a single branch of science, given its diversity?
(2) As a special case which sheds light on this larger issue, what was the relation between philosophy and medicine?
(3) How did Greek ideas about natural philosophy penetrate into the Islamic world?
(4) What alternatives were there to the mainstream Aristotelian approach to natural philosophy?
Figure 3: Introductory pages of the manuscript of Ilahiyat Aristutalis (Theology of Aristotle), the work of Plotinus in Arabic translation that was edited by Al-Kindi (Naskh script, 398 pages). (Source).
As part of the project, Professor Adamson has launched a podcast covering the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." This will in due course cover Islamic philosophy, though as it is chronological the first two years or so will deal with ancient philosophy. The podcast website is http://www.historyofphilosophy.net.
Figure 4: An old drawing of Avicenna from a manuscript dated from 1271 CE. (Source).
Further resources
1. Works by Professor Peter Adamson
- The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the 'Theology of Aristotle' (London: Duckworth, 2002).
- Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
- (Co-editor) of The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, with Richard Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
- Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries (London: Institute for Classical Studies in 2004).
Figure 5: Statue of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) honouring him in his home town, Córdoba, Spain. (Source).
2. Articles about Islamic philosophy on MuslimHeritage.com
- Obituary of Dr David C. Reisman by the Editorial Board (20 January 2011).
- Ibn Sina on Education by Abd al-Rahman al-Naqib (17 January 2009).
- The Ethical Theory of Education of Ahmad Miskawayh by: Dr Nadia Jamal al-Din (31 January 2009).
- Al-Farabi's Doctrine of Education: Between Philosophy and Sociological Theory by Professor Amar al-Talbi (14 February 2009).
- Mont Saint-Michel or Toledo: Greek or Arabic Sources for Medieval European Culture? by Charles Burnett (25 February 2009).
- Al-Ghazali's Theory of Education: Its Philosophy and Its Impact by Nabil Nofal (16 March 2009).
- Abu 'l-Barakat al-Baghdadi: Outline of a Non-Aristotelian Natural Philosophy by Lutfallah Gari and FSTC Research Team (24 June 2008).
- Al-Kindi by FSTC Research Team (6 May 2007).
- Al-Fârâbî as a Source of the History of Philosophy and of Its Definition by Mubahat Turker-Kuyel (11 March 2005).
- Muslim Contributions to Philosophy - Ibn Sina, Farabi, Beyruni by Mehmet Aydin (14 January 2005).
- Ibn Rushd: Harmony of Theological & Philosophical (Scientific) Truth by FSTC Research Team (27 April 2004).
- Ibn Hazm's Philosophy and Thoughts on Science by FSTC Research Team (11 September 2003).
3. General survey
Jon McGinnis, Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (19 December 2006).
* Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, King's College, London.


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In time-honored tradition, 22 young women, members of the Newport Chapter of National Charity League Inc., were presented to society at the 51st Newport NCL debutante ball on Nov. 26.
Resplendent in their white ball gowns and escorted by the gentlemen in their lives, who were attired in formal white tie, the debutantes danced the night away. They were marking a tradition, leaving youth behind and entering adulthood as accomplished women on a track for successful lives both in terms of personal achievement and community involvement.
The statistics associated with this model of success are impressive. Each of the debutantes are enrolled in colleges and universities across America. Cal Berkeley, Stanford, USC, Dartmouth, NYU and Auburn are among the institutions the 2011 NCL debutantes attend. Additionally, many of the women are college athletes, student body leaders holding office, and members of academic honor roll societies.
They come to the debutante ceremony after having collectively devoted more than 11,300 hours of service to some 30 Orange County philanthropies over a six-year program, which begins in the seventh grade.
Three crucial life lessons are imparted:
First, commitment to a long range goal.
Second, service to community as a multi-generational process involving mother and daughter — and in many instances also grandmother and even great-grandmother.
Third, and perhaps most important, developing a strong sense of self, hopefully built on values that are based on charitable and humanitarian pursuit.
In short, an old-fashioned tradition that may indeed be more important in today's society than in past times when this rite of passage was certainly more of a social event reserved only for the wealthy Anglo-Saxon Christian segment of the American landscape.
More than 400 guests, family and friends of the debutants, converged upon the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Irvine, for the elegant event. Each young lady was presented wearing her NCL Medallion, taking the St. James bow and walking the formal aisle on the arm of her escort.
Then it was time for the first dance, a traditional waltz where most of the debs took the arm of their fathers. Mothers across the Hyatt ballroom shed silent tears of joy.
A new tradition was inaugurated as the mothers were invited to join them on the dance floor as the debs turned over their fathers and sponsors to the mothers and completed the first dance with invited young men escorting them to the affair.
Following a sentimental toast, a three-course dinner was served as the crowd danced into the night to the music of society orchestra leader Jay Sterling.
Each of the mothers and all of the volunteers deserve credit for their dedication. Of special note, kudos to the 2011 debutante director Kathy Ursine, assistant director Aaron Searcy, and committee members Denise Labbé, Molly Calder, Corey Bakkila, Chris Luebke, Lisa Matar, Allison Olmstead, Betsy King, Nancy Vaughan, Carrie Young, Lori Junkins, Rosanna Chila, Lorraine Gyulay, Marivi Leonard and Kathleen Farmer.
Special NCL generational legacies in attendance included Cathleen Bledsoe with daughter Piper Bledsoe, Doreen Chandler with Hayley Mae Chandler, Becky Conway with Lauren Diane Conway, and Constance Davidson with Victoria Elizabeth Davidson. Younger sisters of former NCL debs included Nicole Frinzi, Madeline Anne Strutner, and Catherine Ann Sullivan.
The 2011 debutantes are Miss Chelsea Marie Barth, Miss Piper Cathleen Bledsoe, Miss Brooke Erin Braga, Miss Katrina Lee Burke, Miss Catherine Anne Carpenter, Miss Hayley Mae Chandler, Miss Kathryn Ann Conner, Miss Lauren Diane Conway, Miss Lauren Taylor D'Ippolito, Miss Victoria Elizabeth Davidson, Miss Katherine Elizabeth Fox, Miss Nicole Ann Frinzi, Miss Andrée LeCaron Keith, Miss Katherine Carol Leonard, Miss Matilda Ann Lumpkin, Miss Allyson Kristina Mason, Miss Katherine Marie Matthews, Miss Abigail Jane McBean, Miss Lauren Sara Stanton, Miss Madeline Anne Strutner, Miss Catherine Ann Sullivan and Miss Natalie Marina Swift.
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text: The_Mango55 664 Report post Posted December 4, 2012 When utilized effectively (like it was last year and over the last few games) the read option can actually be tremendously dangerous. It is not effective when the entire offense is based around it. The most dangerous part about the read option is its unpredictability and the radically different way that a defense has to adjust compared to standard pro option. But when teams only have to prepare for that its weaknesses are exposed. I made this comparison in another thread, but the triple option is like a changup in baseball. It can be very effective, especially with pitchers who have a very good changeup. But if you threw a changeup with every pitch it would just be a really slow fastball. In conclusion, keep the read option but only run it 5-8 times a game (more if its killing the other team and they are totally unprepared for it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites