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After that it was amazing to see the KDE applications work pretty well natively under windows. And some KDE software is just really, really good and better than anything else you can get to run on windows.
Opera Link Disaster
Well, what was I going to do?
I tried to recover what was left. Many folders and files were just randomly spread across the Opera link directory where I at first couldn't find them, instead of deleted.
Then I tried to ease, but online editing is hardly possible. Trying to sync really deleted most of the bookmarks this time. At least there wasn't as much to sift through.
So I put everything in the trash and picked out the good stuff, put it into new folder and basically started over. Now I will backup my bookmarks and pray this won't happen again.
You really need to work on that sync code, guys at Opera!
The Incredible Dangers of the Buggy Opera Link
The problem is only that it's written so incredibly bad, that it's extremely dangerous to use. You must definitely make a backup of all your bookmarks before even thinking about using Opera link.
I had a database of about 550 bookmarks. They were neatly organized in the last few months and of course many were new. Because in the past Opera link often duplicated my bookmark folders, I created a new account to sync to.
The problem is I was too damn stupid to make a backup before using Opera link. And now the worst possible thing happened.
Opera did not use the newly created account I told it to use. It did not backup my bookmarks. It "synced" to the old account. It deleted all my bookmarks from the last 6 months forever. And it replaced them with the mess that had existed before.
I'm indefinitely frustrated right now, more than I have been in a very, very, very long time.
I think I will switch my browser.
Understanding Directory Rights in Linux
If you use ls -l it would display for example drwx--srwt someuser somegroup(...).
The first letter of the permission string is always d and stands for directory. Than come the letters for the user (rwx), the group (--s) and others, meaning everyone who is not the user of the group (rwt).
If you have only reading rights you can do nothing (chmod a+r-wx mydir). If you're the owner you can list the contents it seems.
If you have reading and execute rights (chmod a-w+rx), you can see cd into the directory and list its files. But you can not create any files.
If you have only writing rights, you can not do anything with it.
If you have writing and execute rights, you can create new files, but not list the directory's contents. But you can still access the files, if you know their name and have permissions for that.
rws (with x) or rwS (without x)
If the directory's group permission is set to super (chmod g+s), new files have are owned by the same group as the directory.
rwt or rwT(without x)
If the text bit is set (chmod o+t), files in the directory can only be deleted by their owner, not the group. But they can still be overwritten, if the files permissions allow that. So it's no real protection.
This means that usually there's little sense in a directory that's r-- or -w-, as that let's you do hardly anything. You should usually set the directory to r-x, -wx or rwx.
Important: A user needs to have at least execute (x) rights to all directories above the directory in order to be able to do anything in it.
Be aware that the handling is usually on the careful side, so if you are the user and your permissions are --- but the group's permissions are rwx and you're in the group as well, you won't be able to access the file or directory. Because the more restrictive rights for the user will be used in favour of the permissions of the group you are in.
Also notice that in the example commands, e.g. chmod a+r-wx, I usually set the permissions for a, which stands for all and means user, group and others. This is just to make sure you can reproduce what I have written here. Of course you should carefully select what the rights for the owner(o), the group(g) and the others(o) should be: E.g. chmod u=rwx g=rx o-rwx mydir.
Also check out Wikipedia on file permissions as well as these articles by LinuxExposed for files and directories.
The Internet
I just wanted to try out something I found on the DVD of my computer magazine. I don't know why, but I just went to the website to download it. The problem is just that I'm in Australia and the download limit for this month is already exceeded and thus the bandwidth throttled to 6kb/s.
And after I had downloaded half of the file from the Internet it occured to me: Why not copy it from the DVD? And so I did. Crazy how you can get accustomized to downloading everything online...
Pc speaker as sound card
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=pcsp
The sound is of course pretty bad, but also amazingly good when you think about the fact that it's only made beeping. ;-)
Undelete Files on the ext3 filesystem - Finally!
The funny part is that many people are not yet aware of this and you may thus still make interesting findings in partition images, e.g. the popular VMware images.
Check out the article at Linux.com for more.
Fork KDE?!
Now let's see if the people bringing the complaints will deliver this or just keep shouting and complaining about it.
Look at the well written plasma libraries and you will know what I mean. KDE4 is a huge step and it's just amazing I could install the great vocabulary trainer parley unter windows with just a few clicks. This means you write your application with the comfort of KDE4 but you can use it under Windows, OS X, Linux and possibly other operating systems.
Check out this groklaw article for more.
Plasma Clocks after Suspend to Ram
The answer to life, the universe and everything
"answer to life, the universe and everything"
and you shall get it. More, as always, on Wikipedia.
Many Applets in KDE Playground trunk are broken
I especially like wifi-signal-strenght: Easy but nice and rather pretty. Get it with
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/wifi-signal-strength
And compile it with:
cd wifi-signal-strength
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/lib/kde4/
You may have to replace with PREFIX with the one from your distribution.
Run Applications Faster in Wine
env WINEDEBUG=-all wine
it's a bit faster, because the debugging is turned off.
Intel Wireless Card not working in Ubuntu 8.04
sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
This might fix that wireless networks don't show up as well as other problems. Try the key combination for enabling/disabling the wireless card in your notebook again afterwards.
NX Remote Control Software.
It only needs one free port - the SSH port 22. And you can get your free server for Linux or Solaris(limited to two users). The two users which can use NX are chosen when you first connect as a certain user. If you want to free one user slot, just delele the user from NX:
/usr/NX/bin/nxserver --userdel user123
Another cool thing: Instead of the whole desktop environment you can also just run a single program. That makes it really easy to run a Linux program in a Windows environment. It supports printing over cups and has (rudimentary) sound and video support.
And this is not paid advertisement, I actually really like the software. And I think it's great the small company publish the library under the GPL. Of course you have to pay for enterprise level tools. But hey, they got to make money as well. ;)
µTorrent with Wine under Linux
Here's a little script to let you pass .torrent files comfortably over command line. I've got the same type of script for WordViewer and other software. Hopefully this will sometime soon by handled by wine directly.
WINE="env WINEDEBUG=-all wine"
if [ "$@" ]; then arg="z:`echo $@ | sed -e 's/\//\\\\/g'`"; fi
echo $arg > ~/logs/tmp
if [ "$@" ];
$WINE "$UTORRENT" "$arg" >> /dev/null 2>> /dev/null &
$WINE "$UTORRENT" >> /dev/null 2>> /dev/null &
Wine is called without debugging to save more resources. The argument is converted to a pathname that wine can handle better ("/" are converted to "\"). You probably need to adjust the path where uTorrent is saved.
Fork KDE?!
Practical-tech.com suggests KDE should be forked because he doesn't like the KDE4.1 prerelease so far. It's easy to come along, look at a prerelease and say: "Nah, don't like it." But you must be pretty crazy to go further and say: If I don't like it, noone will. So it should be forked.
It's funny because the things he criticizes most are the ones I cherish most in KDE 4.1.


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President Barack Obama has urged Congress to back government action to revive the sluggish US economy, in his annual State of the Union speech.
The Democratic president promised "smarter" rather than bigger government for "the many, and not just the few".
He also called for action on gun violence, climate change and immigration reform.
In the Republican response, Senator Marco Rubio urged Mr Obama to drop his "obsession" with raising taxes.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, Mr Obama told his audience that his generation's task was "to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class".
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"We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is strong,'' Mr Obama said in an hour-long address.
Delivering growth and jobs will be the "North Star that guides our efforts", he added.
But he insisted that nothing he planned would raise the deficit "by a single dime".
Mr Obama proposed reforms to reduce the cost of Medicare, a federal healthcare programme for pensioners, but argued "we can't just cut our way to prosperity".
In his speech, Mr Obama went on to call for federal investment in infrastructure, clean energy and education.
And he vowed to act on climate change himself if Congress failed to enact legislation.
"I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change...," he said.
"But if Congress won't act sooner to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."
Mr Obama also said he would reduce by more than half the number of US troops in Afghanistan over the next year.
He asked Congress to raise the minimum wage $7.25 to $9 an hour, called for legislation to ensure women are paid equally to men and announced a commission to improve the voting process.
On gun control, Mr Obama said an "overwhelming" majority of Americans supported "common-sense reform" on firearms, including tighter background checks and restrictions on "weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines".
And he urged gun-control opponents to allow a vote in Congress on his proposals.
"The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote," he said.
Conservative divisions
He also praised bipartisan efforts to draw up an immigration reform bill, adding that if he is sent legislation, "I will sign it right away".
House Speaker John Boehner told US media on Wednesday said that immigration was the only issue on Mr Obama's state of the union list that had any chance in Congress this year.
He added he believed the president was more interested in getting a Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress in the 2014 mid-term elections.
Less than a day after North Korea tested a nuclear device, Mr Obama said the US will "lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats".
Mr Obama will take to the road in the coming days to push his economic recovery proposals, stopping in the US states of North Carolina and Georgia and in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, was not impressed by what he called "pedestrian liberal boilerplate".
"An opportunity to bring together the country instead became another retread of lip service and liberalism,'' he said on Wednesday.
Sen Rubio, a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, delivered his party's official riposte.
In it, he attacked Mr Obama's economic policies and said "more government isn't going to help you get ahead, it's going to hold you back".
The Cuban-American senator, who also made his address in Spanish, referred to the pain felt by residents of the working-class neighbourhood in which he grew up.
He told Mr Obama: "I don't oppose your plans because I want to protect the rich. I oppose your plans because I want to protect my neighbours."
The Florida senator also warned the president that the "tax increases and the deficit spending you propose will hurt middle-class families".
Underscoring conservative divisions, immediately after the Rubio speech Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul delivered the Tea Party's rebuttal to Mr Obama's address.
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Bowen therapy
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Bowen technique, Bowen treatment, soft tissue manipulation.
Bowen therapy, also known as Bowen treatment, is a technique that involves gentle, but precise, soft tissue manipulation. The approach was initially developed to treat musculoskeletal disorders. Later, it was used to treat other health conditions such as asthma.
In general, Bowen therapy does not aim to fix specific health problems, but rather to help the body reach a more harmonious state in which it can better cure itself. Short-term benefits are said to include a sense of relaxation. Long-term effects may include better overall well being or improvements in diseases.
Bowen therapists use their thumbs or fingers to make subtle rolling movements on the patient's body. Bowen sessions may last from 30 to 90 minutes and are often customized to the individual. Many Bowen practitioners see this approach as being complementary to other medical treatments, such as prescription drugs or surgery, rather than as a replacement for other treatments.
There are several theories as to how Bowen therapy may work. It has been suggested that Bowen therapy may correct faulty vibrational frequencies in the body and improve overall balance, improve connections between the nervous system and the brain, improve connections between different body systems, and facilitate overall harmony of the body. However, scientific evidence is limited in this area.
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These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
Early research suggests that Bowen therapy may improve the range of motion in patients with frozen shoulders.
Although Bowen therapy is popularly used for pain treatment, more scientific research is needed in this area to make a strong recommendation.
Bowen technique has been used in psychiatric inpatient care settings, but its effectiveness is unclear.
Bowen therapy has been used in healthcare settings to reduce job-related stress. Further research is needed before it may be recommended.
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The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Addiction, allergies, anorexia, anxiety, arthritis pain (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis), asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bedwetting, bunions, cardiovascular problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, colic (in infants), constipation, diarrhea, digestion problems, fibromyalgia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gynecological disorders, headache, hernia, hormonal disorders, indigestion, infertility, insomnia, joint pain (sacroiliac), knee pain, learning disabilities, lung diseases, menopausal symptoms, menstrual disorders, migraine headache, muscle pain, musculoskeletal conditions (hammertoes, spring ribs), plantar fasciitis, post-stroke rehabilitation, premenstrual syndrome, respiratory problems, sciatica, spine problems (scoliosis), sports injuries, sprained ankle, tennis elbow, well-being.
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
Bowen therapy is a minimally invasive technique and is generally believed to be safe in most people. However, safety has not been thoroughly studied. Bowen therapy should not be used for severe conditions or in place of more proven treatments. Use cautiously in patients with cancer or in those who are undergoing surgery.
There is not enough scientific study of the safety of Bowen therapy during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Caution is advised.
Some Bowen technique practitioners recommend that the "Coccyx Procedure" be avoided among pregnant women. Some also recommended that the "TMJ Procedure" be avoided among people whose jaws have been surgically altered at the condyles. Women with breast implants should avoid the "Breast Tenderness Procedure," according to some practitioners.
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Carter B. Clients' experiences of frozen shoulder and its treatment with Bowen technique. Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery 2002;8(4):204-210.
Dicker A. Using Bowen Therapy to improve staff health. Aust J Holist Nurs 2001;8(1):38-42.
Long L, Huntley A, Ernst E. Which complementary and alternative therapies benefit which conditions? A survey of the opinions of 223 professional organizations. Complement Ther Med 2001;9(3):178-185.
Carter B. A pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of Bowen technique in the management of clients with frozen shoulder. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2001;9(4):208-215.
Hyland PS. Family therapy in the hospital treatment of children and adolescents. Bull Menninger Clin 1990;54(1):48-63.
Zerbe KJ, Fabacher JE. Benefits and limitations of Bowen therapy with psychiatric inpatients. Bull Menninger Clin 1989;53(6):522-526.
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Although I had dedicated my life to being a surgeon, the climate in clinical medicine is dismal..
I know the time and expense that law school would involve...med school, internship,
residency and fellowship have topped all of that...
I just want to take my life into a better direction and get back to the east coast,
specifically washington dc area where my husband has just taken a high level
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For starters, it sounds like you're considering this with your eyes open, and have pretty compelling reasons for a geographical - not to mention professional - change.
From my perspective, with the idea of leveraging my engineering experience in law practice, I'll give you the only advice I can offer is the bottom-line answer I gave myself after all of the soul-searching and evaluating: If I didn't do it, I knew I'd go to my grave regretting it. My first year has validated my decision.
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Buffalo's waterfront is a vibrant, ever-changing world of private and public investments, dwarfed only by the length of its shoreline and frustrated by the lack of access to it.
I saw this firsthand today on while on a tour sponsored by the Buffalo Niagara Partnership's Young Professionals group. We traveled as far south as the Bethlehem Steel property and north to Squaw Island. In between there was some amazing development, made even more so by Luke the bus driver's needle-threading precision maneuvering around roads not ever meant for bus travel.
The Bell Slip, a tranquil cove adjacent to a staging area piled high with stone curbing. In the calm and soothing natural setting you could almost ignore the deafening bellows of the front loader working on the Route 5 redevelopment nearby.
The Outer Harbor Parkway Project, which punches holes into the soon-to-be new Furhmann Boulevard so that traffic will eventually be able to move east/west under Route 5, connecting the outer harbor to South Buffalo, possibly allowing South Buffalonians to flee west.
The Antique Boat Club, nestled inside and behind Nanodynamics, the old Ford Plant. One would think that the Antique Boat Club area is a perfect spot for a boat launch, inside the breakwall, were it not for the fact that the water is 15 feet below the rusted steel pilings that make up the abrupt and artificial shoreline in that area.
The Old Freezer Queen (cum next condominium, if the economy ever improves and the Outer Harbor starts to take shape) complex, taking up oodles of space on the water, almost directly across Furhmann Boulevard from the Tifft Nature Preserve. The amazing Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park, a huge plot of reclaimed brownfields encompassing the Union Ship Canal, parkland and brand new facilities courtesy of Sonwil Distribution, Certainteed, Cobey and a dozen yet to be claimed undeveloped and spooky-being-in-a-city parcels. The Riverwright complex, which while shockingly ugly and even uglier up close still holds promise as a future biofuel manufacturing center until we Buffalonians litigate it to death or controlled nuclear fusion is realized, whichever comes first.
There's the cobblestone district, Canal Side and Buffalo Harbor, condos on the lake, LaSalle Park, the Black Rock Channel, Towpath Park, Cotter's Point and that tiny part of the Erie Canal that sticks out by the Scajaquada and is full of driftwood and old tires.
And there's a most tortuous trip between really ugly Navy property and the no-man's land adjacent to the tracks which are adjacent to the I-190, to the West Side Rowing Club and an absolutely spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fontana Boathouse next door. I now know how to get to this place but it would be impossible to give someone directions to it. Frank's secret is safe with us.
These and other small parks, slips and marinas pepper the waterfront among the ruins of a once booming shipping and transportation center. What's lacking is a great many small things. For instance, there were a total of three restaurants along this 7-mile stretch, one of which was the Hatch which no one in their right mind would consider a restaurant. There are rusting and crumbling industrial properties looking for a buyer. There are still huge brownfield areas begging for reclamation dollars. There's barbed wire, concrete walls and debris strewn everywhere.
But the big thing that's lacking is easy access. Squaw island via a narrow one-lane steel-decked bridge? The West Side Rowing Club via a snaky drive past some snarky buildings? Buffalo Harbor via streets that twist and turn under the elevated I-190? Who dreamt up this road map?
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TIPS, as they are known, protect against rising inflation, with the securities growing in principal alongside rising consumer costs as measured by the consumer price index. Inflation barely existed last year, so investors fled the asset class, leading the way in a broader selloff in the Treasury market.
But TIPS have stabilized this year amid signs of rising inflation -- and Yellen's comments during a press conference this week could signify more gains to come for the recovering market, according to Wilmer Stith, co-manager of the Wilmington Broad Market Bond Fund.
Inflation has been on the rise, with the Labor Department's CPI outperforming forecasts in recent months. CPI rose by an unadjusted 2.1% over the past 12 months, data for May showed on Tuesday. That added to questions for the Fed, which has an annual 2% target rate for inflation.
But Yellen seemed unconcerned about the return of cost pressures. She said:
"I think recent readings on, for example, the CPI index have been a bit on the high side, but I think the data that we're seeing is noisy. I think it's important to remember that broadly speaking, inflation is evolving in line with the committee's expectations."
Some investors think those comments mean the Fed is behind the curve, responding to inflation only after it gets out of hand. Those in the TIPS market aren't waiting to react to the CPI reading.
"The market is going to be pressing and saying this isn't just noise," said Stith.
One way to measure market expectations of inflation is by looking at breakeven rates, the term for the yield difference between an inflation-protected security and its plain-vanilla counterpart. That also doubles as a market expectation of inflation because it represents the annual CPI rate that is necessary for TIPS to outperform nominal Treasurys. In recent weeks, breakeven rates have climbed, and the 10-year rate currently projects inflation of a 2.29%, according to Tradeweb. Here's what that looks like:
In other words, "the bond vigilantes choose to respectfully disagree with Yellen's 'noisy' CPI assessment," says Adrian Miller, director of fixed-income strategy at GMP Securities, in a note.
Of particular mention is that TIPS investors and the Fed are looking at different indicators. TIPS are based on CPI, which continues to climb, while the Fed likes to use personal consumption expenditures, which stills lags the Fed's target. In April, it had an annual reading of 1.4% -- still well below 2% -- and the next data is due out on Thursday. That disconnect means the Fed may let CPI continue to rise past 2% before acting to rein it in, Stith notes.
If CPI keeps climbing, TIPS only look more attractive. And if the Fed is willing to overlook rising inflation, or at least wait until its preferred gauge hits the target, TIPS could see growing demand, Stith says.
Already they are getting more expensive, with the 10-year TIPS yield dropping from 0.418% on Tuesday to 0.328% on Friday. The nominal 10-year Treasury note yield dropped form 2.653% to 2.621% during those days.
Despite the disconnect between gauges, cost pressures may be beginning to rise across the board, helped along by rising oil costs amid intensifying conflict in Iraq. That could be a tipping point for the broader investing community to take notice. As Jonathan Gibbs, head of real returns at Standard Life Investments, puts it: "It doesn't matter until it does."
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Lotus For The Masses Global ISP Terra Lycos is building an instant-messaging service based on Lotus' Sametime app.
Microsoft's Fate Could Be Decided Friday The judge weighing a settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case is expected to issue her ruling.
Business-Software Piracy Climbs Trade group says piracy rate rose slightly in 2001, costing the United States $1.8 billion in retail sales.
Office 11 Drops Support For Older Windows Microsoft's newest productivity suite won't work with pre-Windows 2000 versions of the operating system.
CFOs' Turnover Accelerates Faster Than CEOs' CFOs are often "scapegoated" for a company's problems, outplacement firm head says.
Microsoft Makes More CRM Inroads Vendor expands agreement with Pivotal to target midsize businesses.
Feds Tout Open Source's Role In Security Government seeks open-source approach to programming to make software engineers accountable for their programs' security.
GAO: Government Agencies Adhering To Privacy Laws The report addresses the flow of management information at four federal departments: Agriculture, Education, Labor, and State.
Big Drop-Off In Profit For EDS Third-quarter profit falls 59% and new contracts are down by more than half.
IBM Pushes Its Vision For E-Business Version 2 On-demand computing, built on uniquely flexible infrastructures, will be the difference between surviving and perishing, the company says.
Microsoft Tries To Make Vox Popular Voice recognition is a languishing technology that Microsoft apparently sees as a ripe opportunity.
Government Workers' IT Skills Improve Government workers' skills outstrip private-sector employees in several areas, Brainbench report says.
Langa Letter: Wireless Poachers, Wireless Guests Sharing your wireless connection should be a conscious choice, Fred Langa says. Too often, it's accidental.
Vignette Snatches Up Epicentric The combined companies will attempt to build momentum as a platform for building real-time Web apps.
Gerstner Gives Up Chairman Spot At IBM Already having abdicated the CEO slot, Lou Gerstner is exiting altogether by year's end.
Tightrope For Federal IT Budget The feds are in the same IT vise that state governments experienced last year.
Hershey's Biggest Treat: No Tricks The $4.6 billion company is now able to track daily sales and shipments of classic Halloween candy.
Eliminating Roadblocks To Information Access Tonic Software is shipping an app upgrade that includes probable-cause isolation and testing of specific network components.
Oracle Releases Java Tools Upgrade JDeveloper complies with newest Java standards.
Cobol Vendor Targets .Net Micro Focus plans 2003 release of version of Net Express that lets Cobol apps run in Microsoft's .Net.
Palm Moves Toward Wireless, Away From PDAs Vendor unveils new products and strategies to combat the challenge from Pocket PC handhelds.
Feds Weigh Establishment Of Interstate Communications System Government will link existing networks to create the system and will pay for entry and exit points for those who use agreed-upon standards, White House CIO says.
IBM Hopes New Financing Options Spur End-Of-Year Sales Vendor offers deals to spur sales to midsize and large companies.
Japan Airlines Brings Enigma To The Gate JAL hopes to reduce aircraft downtime by making it easier for ground personnel at its gates to access repair and maintenance data.
More Venture Capitalists Keep Their Wallets Closed Volatile markets and spending cuts prompt investors to stay away from startups.
Server Market Experiences Some Growth Gartner reports slight growth in third quarter from year-earlier figures.
IT Confidential: Even The DMA Has Had Its Fill Of Spam "We're getting hit -- left and right -- with legislation," Weintzen said.
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Oracle Taps Database To Deliver The Goods 11i's Supply-Chain Management improves business-process automation and analysis
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Linux Clusters Power Virtual Crash Tests Car companies look for higher server performance to reduce simulation costs
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The way the system works now, local Child Protective Services agencies get money from the Federal Government if they place at-risk youngsters with foster families but none if the child is sent to stay with family members.
Changing that system is just one of the reforms a group of parents and grandparents is pushing in Yuba and Sutter Counties. Activists marched through Yuba City Tuesday demanding changes in the way CPS conducts its work.
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Okay, so I know its July and Grayson Boy doesn't turn one until September- but I would be lying if I didn't tell you I've already been planning for like two months.
What can I say, I love me a party with a theme.
Since Grayson was born I was wondering what I would do for his first birthday- the possibilities were endless. Until of course, Grayson became obsessed with Super Why.
Then it became clear, this is his favorite thing ever- it needs to be his birthday.
So here's a little of my inspiration- sources listed from L to R top to bottom.
1. I fully believe a party is won and lost in the details. One detail I am drooling over are theres Celebrate Stamped Wooden Spoons from Sofies Big Day on Etsy. Gah. These are so cute, I cant stand it. I love handmade touches like this, its that little something extra that no one expects. Everything she makes is amazingly cute, and really affordable. I want these, along with her super cute striped paper straws. Sofie is the way to go if youre looking for straws, popcorn bags, twine or candy cups as well. Do yourself a favor and go check out her creative genius.
2. I bought a wooden high chair to paint so that we could take first birthday pictures like this- I love the bright colored chair (which will also make an appearance at the party) in the natural setting. This amazing redo was done by Katie over at Loves of Life. Check out her sweet blog here!
3. Every Super Why Party needs a book club! This idea, along with the capes in picture 8, came from Katie over at Kate's Kitchen. She had a super cute Super Why party for her little guys 1/2 birthday and it came off brilliantly! The capes are a must make, as I have already bought the fabric. Each child will have their own initial on the back of their cape so that they can all be super heroes.
4. I used to love having my picture taken in wooden cut outs- so I knew I wanted one for Graysons party. This is one possible idea that came from Chrissie over at Clever Faeries. She threw an adorable Princess Presto Tea Party for her beautiful little girl. Now I just need to find someone with some art skills to paint something like this...cause this Momma only does stick figures.
5. How awesome are these? Super hero face cupcake toppers from Shelly over at Bug and Boo on Etsy. I can't wait for her to come back from vacation so I can order these- I wasn't even planning on having cupcakes until I saw these.
6. Cake inspiration found on Pinterest with no link home- see the pin here.
7. Another cake inspiration picture from Luisa Maria found on Cake Central. The cake is actually the part of the party that I have the least control over. My amazingly talented and beautiful friend Julie will be creating it, and Ive pinned a few photos for inspiration and I'm leaving it up to her. She made my super sweet baby shower cake, so if you check that out here, you'll understand why I'm not worried at all.
So here's my starting point. I know I have a long way to go, but Ill get there. I just need to figure out invites, center pieces, food...oh heck. A lot. If you have any ideas, please feel free to share them with me! Or if by chance you happen to create custom invites, shoot me an email as I'm trying to find the perfect ones!


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Cember Hardison, an environmental science major, was awarded an $850 scholarship by the American Association of University Women. Congratulations, Cember! AAUW is a national organization dedicated to encouraging higher education for women.
On March 1, 2003, Fort Lewis College held its 19th annual programming competition. New Mexico Tech sent four teams. Out of the 13 teams there, Tech took the top four places. Team members were:
1st: Paul Ming, Evan Nelson, James Kearney
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The New Mexico Tech Physics Club won the Blake Lilly Award from the Society of Physics Students (SPS) this year. The award is given to SPS chapters that have outstanding outreach activities. SPS only gives these awards to two chapters each year.


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Wartime enthusiasts can discover how Doncaster played its part on D-Day as aircraft museum Aeroventure marks the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum in Dakota Way has special displays and a trail marking the contributions of two of the town's air squadrons which took part in the historic events of June 6, 1944.
Both 616 and 271 squadrons were involved in the push into Northern France which eventually proved the turning point in World War Two and helped pave the way for the Allies' victory.
Among the pilots billeted at Doncaster in 271 squadron was Jimmy Edwards, the radio and TV comedian from the 1950s and 60s, who was shot down at Arnhem later in 1944.
On the night of D-Day, seven 271 Dakotas towed gliders carrying 25 troops each from the 3rd parachute brigade who were landed in the dark to take the bridge crossing the Orne river, not too far from the famous Pegasus Bridge while another ten carried paratroopers to other drop zones. Meanwhile, Spitfires for 616 squadron were used for ground attack, destroying locomotives and army lorries.
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Hampton University's journalism school has a new advisory board that includes senior executives at Facebook, The New York Times, CBS and News Corp.
The 27-member board was assembled by Brett Pulley, the new dean of HU's Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. He began in January and worked on creating a board immediately, he said.
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Reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel is the leading favorite to win next year's award, according to betting website Bovada.
The Texas A&M quarterback made history this past December, becoming the first red-shirt freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. He beat out Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o for college football's most prestigious honor.
Ohio State running back Archie Griffin is the only two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy, taking the honor in 1974 and 1975.
Manziel is listed as 4-1 odds to win the honor.
He's followed by Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller (7-1), Southern Cal receiver Marquis Lee (9-1), Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray (10-1) and Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas (10-1).


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Cover Shot! is a regular feature here at the Café. I love discovering new covers, and when I find them, I like to share. More than anything else, I am consumed with the mystery that each new discovery represents. There is an allure to a beautiful cover. Will the story contained under the pages live up to promise of the gorgeous cover art?
I'm really behind on Jennifer Ashley's Mackenzie books, but who can resist all of though wicked, stunning men? I love the cover for The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie.
In stores October 2013
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Daniel Mackenzie lives up to the reputation of the scandalous Mackenzie family—he has wealth, looks, and talent, and women love him. When he meets Violet Bastien—one of the most famous spiritual mediums in England—he immediately knows two things: that Miss Bastien is a fraud, and that he's wildly attracted to her.
Violet knows she can't really contact the other side, but she's excellent at reading people. She discerns quickly that Daniel is intelligent and dangerous to her reputation, but she also finds him generous, handsome, and outrageously wicked. But spectres from Violet's past threaten to destroy her, and she flees England, adopting yet another identity.
Daniel is determined to find the elusive Violet and pursue the passion he feels for her. And though Violet knows that her scandalous past will keep her from proper marriage, her attraction to Daniel is irresistible. It's not until Daniel is the only one she can turn to that he proves he believes in something more than cold facts. He believes in love.


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Thorough coverage of basic digital communication system principles ensures that readers are exposed to all basic relevant topics in digital communication system design. The use of CD player and JPEG image coding standard as examples of systems that employ modern communication principles allows readers to relate the theory to practical systems. Over 180 worked-out examples throughout the book aids readers in understanding basic concepts. Over 480 problems involving applications to practical systems such as satellite communications systems, ionospheric channels, and mobile radio channels gives readers ample opportunity to practice the concepts they have just learned. With an emphasis on digital communications, Communication Systems Engineering, Second Edition introduces the basic principles underlying the analysis and design of communication systems. In addition, this book gives a solid introduction to analog communications and a review of important mathematical foundation topics. New material has been added on wireless communication systems -- GSM and CDMA/IS-94; turbo codes and iterative decoding; multicarrier (OFDM) systems; multiple antenna systems. Includes thorough coverage of basic digital communication system principles -- including source coding, channel coding, baseband and carrier modulation, channel distortion, channel equalization, synchronization, and wireless communications. Includes basic coverage of analog modulation such as amplitude modulation
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Make sure the object store is connected to the Administration Console (see Connecting to an Object Store).
Click on the Destinations item under the object store's name in the Administration Console window's navigation pane and choose Add Destination Object from the Actions menu.
Alternatively, you can right-click on Destinations and choose Add Destination Object from the pop-up context menu. In either case, the Add Destination Object dialog box (Figure 2–14) will appear.
Enter a name for the destination administered object in the Lookup Name field.
This is the name that client applications will use when looking up the destination with JNDI.
For this exercise, type in the name MyQueue.
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A French interministerial website informs about GMOs in France: www.ogm.gouv.fr.
Seed producers and chemical companies are officially in favour of establishing co-existence in order to permit consumer choice. They promote GM plants as a "key to the future".
The FNSEA (the traditional farmers organisation) and the JA (YouthFarmers) defend a pragmatic approach. They favour co-existence based on consumer choice.
The "Confédération Paysanne" is the leading movement against GMOs. They reject co-existence proposals, because they consider accepting co-existence as a form of accepting GMOs.
The organic farmers movement (FNAB) has published a catalogue of strict technical requirements for co-existence, which they consider necessary to preserve the existence of organic farming. Because the suggestions of the organisation were too strict to be practical, it was concluded in October 2003 that co-existence is impossible.
Consumers are in favour of labelling and traceability for GMOs. They support the "freedom of choice" approach.
Since 2002, two major campaigns against GMOs have been launched.
The first, "Ni essai, Ni culture OGM. Pour ma commune je m'engage", demands of local authorities that GMO field trials and commercial use be banned. Claiming that local governments lacked the authority to make such decisions, the federal government responded by demanding that the court invalidate GMO bans enacted by local authorities. The Administrative Court has cancelled most such bylaws.
The second campaign is the Florence charta from February 2005. The "charta of the regions and local authorities of Europe on co-existence of genetically modified crops with traditional and organic farming" identifies regional governments that have taken a clear stance against GMOs, and promotes GM-free agriculture. In France, the following regions are members of the charta: Aquitaine, Bretagne, Île de France, Limousin, and Poitou-Charente. The relevance of these declarations is unclear, because the European Commission decided that regional governments have no competency to ban GMOs.
Moreover, several operations to destroy transgenic corn plantations are the talk of the town in newspapers during the summer 2006. Several anti-GMO militants, mainly members of the action group who are signatories to the charter of the Voluntary Reapers, also were put under investigation, and set free under legal surveillance. The former leader of the country confederation had called for the continuation of civic disobedience.


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Mar 20, 2011
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga.—The Birmingham-Southern women's golf team placed second this weekend at the Jekyll Island Invitational behind defending national champion Methodist University, who has won 13 straight and 23 total national titles.
The Panthers hit a three-round total of 974 behind Methodist's 951. Freshman Ellen Chun was BSC's top golfer, placing sixth overall with 235. Senior Ashley Lovell finished 12th with 240, freshman Katie Skeeles was 25th with 249, freshman Kaleigh Toole was 32nd with 253, and junior Michelle Morris was 34th with 254 in the field of 118 golfers.
Methodist's Kelsie Carralero was the individual champion with 229.
Fellow SCAC schools Centre, Southwestern, Rhodes, Trinity, and Oglethorpe all participated as well, with Centre placing third, just three strokes behind BSC. Southwestern was eighth, Rhodes was ninth, Trinity was 11th, and Oglethorpe was 15th.


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Brand GB – a good games
Ask foreigners to describe Britain and they will often reflect on a people obsessed with their past and resigned to their fate. We have a reputation for reserved introspection.
The Diamond Jubilee presented a familiar British face to a watching world - street parties and formal ceremonial held, as might be seen as traditional, in the rain.
It was "red and gilt Britain", as one US journalist based here described it to me. And we are very good at it.
The expectation was that the Olympics would be conducted within the same colour palette. A London games, it was widely assumed, would resound to the echoes of past glories - a retrospective of an ancient island people.
But almost from the moment the clang of a giant golden bell announced the opening ceremony, it was clear that stereotypes were being challenged. The history was there. So was the Queen. But the tone was optimistic and self-deprecating - a portrait of a country aware of its shortcomings but surprisingly confident about its future.
And the games began - draped in dazzling pink and purple, orange and poppy-red. It was an audacious statement. London 2012 would be determinedly contemporary.
For a moment the country held its breath. We had been warned to expect travel chaos, security meltdown and organisational incompetence. When a coach driver got lost bringing athletes to the Olympic Park, it seemed as though Britain was lining up for at least a bronze in bungling.
But it didn't happen. In fact, the teams of pandemonium correspondents assigned around the capital were forced to kick their heels or quickly develop an understanding of the finer points of dressage and rhythmic gymnastics.
Let's be clear. Putting on an Olympics is a massively complex task - what is known in the jargon as a "mega-project". It requires collaboration and planning on a breath-taking scale. And just one oversight or error has the capacity to destroy a host city's reputation and damage a country's image.
What we have seen over the past fortnight is an amazing success story. Far from exposing mediocrity and incompetence, the games have challenged lazy assumptions about what kind of country we are - not just to foreigners but to ourselves.
Each time we look at the medal table, we are encouraged to believe that we still have the capacity to punch above our weight in the world. Each time the TV cameras swoop over the smiling crowds in the Olympic venues, we are reminded that we can match anyone when it comes to putting on a show.
There is a danger of becoming giddy, like a love-struck teenager who assumes too much from a fortnight of summer adventure. The sugar-rush of sweet success is likely to be swiftly followed by the sickener of remembering just what economic and social challenges lie ahead for this country.
But let's not forget what some people predicted would happen: an embarrassing and chaotic two weeks during which all the flaws of our declining nation would be exposed.
Brand GB would have been horribly undermined and this country's reputation and prospects damaged for decades.
As it is, we have presented ourselves as competent, successful, confident and fun. To paraphrase Brucie - it's been a good games, my love, good games.


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You've been tinkering with a short story for a while. Maybe you aren't sure how to market it. Maybe you've never submitted a story anywhere before. Maybe it has already been rejected a few times. It's sitting there on your hard drive, doing nothing.
It's time to send that story out.
I just got a rejection. This week, I'm going to submit the story someplace else, and I encourage you to share in the submission process with me and do the same.
April 3-7 is now officially "I Submit Week." Your job is to find a market for your story and submit that sucker by Friday.
So polish it up. Make sure it conforms to submission guidelines. Write a query. Squelch the fear and self-doubt.
Then send that puppy out there.
The market doesn' t have to be a paying market. It can be to a fiction website. It can be a small publication. It can be to a contest (unless you have to pay---don't pay to submit anything, ever!)
You don't even have to have a story in mind. Five days is more than enough time to whip something up.
If anyone needs advice on queries or markets, I'll be around.
Need more incentive? I'm still working on the rewrites to DIRTY MARTINI, to be published in June of 2007.
The first five people who submit stories will get characters named after them in this book. I'll plug you right into the rewrite.
Now move your butt---your writing won't get published on its own.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
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Strolling through the ruins of street art
In Athens earlier this year I attended the opening of an improvised gallery space for street artists. Athens's built environment is covered in graffiti — predominantly hastily scrawled tags, but also ambitious, colorful, and often large examples of public art. Many of these works are very prominent, and some of the artists responsible have made names for themselves, both inside Greece and, in one or two cases, internationally.
Stelios Faitakis, for instance — a Greek artist who combines a Byzantine visual idiom with hot political content — had a mural prominently placed at the last Venice Biennale, and now has a flourishing career on the international contemporary art circuit. But at the opening I attended, two short blocks away from Faitakis's earliest extant mural (now just a weather-beaten fragment), an art critic I spoke to insisted that the "golden age" of street art in Athens had ended 10 years ago. "You are among the ruins!" he concluded with a flourish.
Given our location — a 10-minute walk from the Acropolis — and Greece's current economic plight, I thought this was wonderfully droll.
Otavio Pandolfo and his brother Gustavo, who call themselves Os Gemeos (Portuguese for "the twins," which in fact they are), are street artists from Brazil. They have a sprightly, one-room show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which is complemented by three murals around the Boston area.
The largest covers the exterior wall of a giant air intake structure on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. It's by far the most successful piece of public art I've seen in Boston in the more than four years I've lived here.
Another is on the façade of the Revere Hotel Boston Common a few streets away, and a third — a collaboration with artists RYZE, Todd James, and Caleb Neelon — is on the wall of Mama Gina's restaurant in Union Square, Somerville.
Like Faitakis and America's Barry McGee and Shepard Fairey, who all started out as street artists, Os Gemeos are now feted in the contemporary art world, requiring that they straddle a sometimes awkward divide: between the prestige (and oftentimes the pretension) of contemporary art and the edginess (and oftentimes the illegality) of street art.
Does such art-world recognition inevitably entail the domestication of all that makes street art dangerous and interesting? Does it signal an end of things, even a whiff of cultural ruin?
It all depends on your perspective. After all, one man's cultural ruin is another man's restoration of law and order. But it's an interesting moment in the evolution of the street art phenomenon from "urban blight" to institutional co-option.
Os Gemeos grew up in Sao Paolo, where they absorbed an ethic of improvisation — a defining characteristic of their work even now — and a love of Brazilian traditional dress and patterning. They discovered American hip-hop culture in the mid 1980s.
"Wild Style," an influential film about hip-hop, was a big early influence, reports curator Pedro Alonzo in the exhibition catalog. So was the humorous and socially critical work of McGee, one of the first graffiti artists to use figurative imagery in his work. McGee contacted the twins on a trip to Brazil in 1993.
The Os Gemeos show is the latest in a series of shows the ICA has dedicated to popular street artists, including Fairey and the Mexican tattoo artist Dr Lakra. (McGee is to be the subject of an upcoming show.) Fairey, in particular, proved controversial, and so already have Os Gemeos. A local television news segment about their Greenway mural included interviews with members of the public who thought the mural resembled a terrorist or "Bart Simpson in a Mujahideen outfit."
Nice, but slightly off the mark. It actually shows a boy in patterned pajamas, huddled up against the edges of the giant wall. Yes, he also wears a shirt wrapped around his head, mouth and nose; but many of Os Gemeos's unwaveringly cute characters wear similar headwear.
The face covering, of course, is obligatory street artist gear, originally adopted both to protect the airways from spray paint fumes and, like the similarly ubiquitous hoodie, to conceal identity (spray painting is, at least in its illegal forms, necessarily a hit-and-run affair). Now it's a symbol: a sign of tribal belonging as much as an emblem of urban defiance.
What I love about the mural is the way it takes possession of its site so confidently and, in doing so, completely transforms it. Unlike the modernist abstract steel sculptures one routinely sees in gray and disconsolate corporate plazas, this is an intervention that feels entirely unexpected and frankly joyous. It stirs the heart and — in its play with color and scale — it's wonderfully witty.
It also has a slightly disturbing edge: Why is the boy huddled like that? Could it be that he is a fearfully defiant street kid hiding from nearby police? If so, his inflated scale and vivid coloring combine to trigger the classic street-artist challenge: Just whose city is this?
But such questions are, finally, rhetorical. They are effectively sidelined by Os Gemeos's delirious patterning and cartoony drawing — and by the palpable civic chutzpah the piece embodies. (Just think of all the draining meetings with mayoral staffers, law enforcement officials, museum curators, and corporate sponsors required to pull off a commission like this! No wonder fans of street art look back with nostalgia upon a putative golden age!)
The ICA show adds depth and complexity to our view of these artists. A few of the works in it are a little on the twee side. But they make it easy to see why these twins are now, as Alonzo puts it, "the face of the Brazilian graffiti movement."
The best of the works manage to be both ironically knowing and sincerely openhearted. They are full of trompe l'oeil effects and other shifts in visual register, from stenciled patterning to conventional perspective and even relief carving.
There is a children's picture book quality to much of what they do — an impression cemented by their signature yellow, skinny-limbed protagonists. And one could perhaps argue that the fundamental requirements of successful street art (recognizable style, ubiquity, repetition) can feel like fetters on genuine creative expression: that these things should be, if anything, byproducts, not explicit ambitions.
But what is exciting about Os Gemeos is that, starting gleefully from within the parameters of street art, they are constantly busting out of those parameters.
If (and I don't really buy this) their institutional acceptance signals the ruin of a genuine — and genuinely oppositional — street aesthetic, so be it. Ruins can still be enthralling, and of lasting fascination. After all, people still seek out Lord Byron's graffiti on the ruins of the Temple of Poseidon, just outside Athens.
Sebastian Smee can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Correction: Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this story about the Brazilian artists Os Gemeos misspelled the name of the street artist Ryze, and mischaracterized the residences of Ryze and fellow street artist Todd James. They live in New York.


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In what is essentially a single five-and-a-half-hour film (released in two parts), it's strange how little attempt there is at sustained character development. Partly, that's because of the sheer size of the canvas – perhaps as big as any Hindi film has ever had. The narrative, with its panoply of characters, spans six decades, and the use of a voiceover (by Piyush Mishra's sutradhaar Farhan) facilitates a speedy recording of events: courtships are hurriedly conducted, children are born, they grow up and we learn all the essential things about them in a few minutes (or seconds); vignettes flash by in the time it takes for a revolver to be cocked. Colourful characters (like an adolescent thug with a speech impediment and the nickname Perpendicular) hold the screen briefly and then exit, the main purpose of their existence being to amuse the viewer. Which in itself is fine (the totla Perpendicular's mangling of cuss words - bhen tod - provides a superb laugh-out-loud moment), but it can become problematic if they divide the film's running time among themselves in such a way that one doesn't get to spend enough time with the principal characters.
Consequently Gangs of Wasseypur can be a confounding film to watch. There are so many brilliant things in it (and regardless of everything I say here, I look forward to watching Part I and Part II back to back on DVD at some point). There are the performances, notably by Manoj Bajpai, Richa Chadda, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and especially the film's co-writer Zeishan Qadri in an (ahem) author-backed part as the imperturbable Definite. There is Sneha Khanwalkar's versatile music score, ranging from the 1940s-style ballad "Ik Bagal" (written by the multitalented Mishra) to the reggae-hippie song "I am a Hunter" (which incorporates elements from Trinidadian music with what sounds – to my ears – like a hint of the classic children's song "Nani teri morni").
In Part II the music becomes noisily contrapuntal, and by this point the film in general is defined by constantly clashing tones. Many of the darkest scenes are treated with humour, occasionally to the point of inappropriateness (so that it's common to find audience members laughing during moments of extreme violence, as they would during a Tom and Jerry cartoon). Admittedly, some of the little touches of levity are well done. When a sleeping (and probably ganja-addled) Faisal Khan is told that his father has been killed, he jumps off the charpoy and dashes down a stairway and out of the frame, looking very much the purposeful hero about to assume a responsibility – but a second later he scampers back awkwardly because he has forgotten to put on his shoes. It's a nice touch – a pointer to the mundane things that can interfere with the playing out of the dramatic "scenes" in our lives, and the kind of shot one wouldn't see in the Bachchan-starrer Trishul, which Faisal is so obsessed with. (More about that in this post.)
A notable thing about GoW is how its characters are influenced by cinema, and there is explicit commentary on this in one of the rare quiet scenes in Part II where the ancient Ramadhir Singh (looking increasingly like the old Don Ciccio, destined to be cleanly gutted by De Niro's Vito Corleone near the end of The Godfather Part II) mulls that one reason he has stayed alive for so long is "kyonke main cinema nahin dekhta" – he has never been swayed by the flair and the heroics he sees onscreen, played out over the decades by generations of movie stars from Dilip Kumar through "Bachchan Amitabh" to Salman Khan. Elsewhere, there is much evidence of personalities and relationships shaped by celluloid dreams, such as when Mohsina (Huma Qureshi) sees that Faisal has come to her house to ask for her hand in marriage, and reacts by pirouetting dreamily in slow-motion the way Madhuri Dixit might have done in a less self-conscious film of an earlier age. These scenes are notable as meta-commentary about a people's connection with their cinema, but it also means that most of the characters in Gangs of Wasseypur are about as fleshed out as movie-star posters.
The strongest emotional response I had to any killing in the film was when the imperial, dignified Shahid Khan is assassinated in Varanasi relatively early in Part I. And after watching Part II, just because of that "main cinema nahin dekhta" scene, I came away feeling like Ramadhir Singh was the character I knew best in the entire film. Perhaps it's no coincidence that both these moments involve members of the old guard – people whose heyday takes place very early in this epic story. This could be tied to the idea that there was a certain intrinsic honour in the earlier generations, even a rationale for violence, and that the younger lot – culminating in the amoral Perpendicular and the opportunistic Definite – have lost that grounding; nihilism has set in.
Caught between these two worlds is the Faisal Khan character, who might be called GoW's protagonist. The role is well-performed and Faisal's initial trajectory recalls Michael Corleone in The Godfather – the innocent sucked into a vortex of crime. Indeed he even has a scene late in the second part where he cries in his wife's arms about how he didn't want to have anything to do with this violent life. Yet there's something random about this scene: it comes out of nowhere, feels psychologically improbable given how far gone Faisal is by this point (besides, if he was initially unwilling, it was probably because he was immersed in ganja, not because of any moral compulsions) and I thought it existed only to give us a reason to feel sorry for Faisal in light of what will happen later. In any case this pathos-filled moment is soon rendered meaningless: the grim bloodbath that Faisal engages in at the end doesn't suggest someone who was ever a reluctant participant – this is killing for the fun of it, pure bloodlust combined with a boy's fantasy of cornering his mortal enemy in a no-escape position and emptying round after round into his body.
The outlandish, cartoon violence of that final sequence – blood rendered shinily aesthetic, so that Ramadhir Singh's ravaged corpse looks like it is studded with rubies – is a reminder that the film has stopped taking any of these killings seriously. Earlier, when the young widow Shama is shot dead in the Khan clan's house, the voiceover quickly tells us that this has come as a big shock to everyone because it's the first time ever that a woman has been killed thus during the gang wars; cut to a very brief shot of Faisal sitting by himself, looking despondent, and then everyone gets back to the business of revenge and the business of business. A little while later, Faisal's mother – a key character – is gunned down in the market, and this again is glossed over. And once you have heard faux-maudlin versions of Hindi-film songs like "Teri Meherbaniyan" being played alongside what are mean to be genuinely sad scenes (a family weeping over a young son's body), it's hard to take any of the emotions at face value. Gangs of Wasseypur encourages the viewer to chuckle at its violence and at the mourning that follows it, but also wants us to feel strongly enough about the main characters that there is a sense of genuine tragedy in the last act (and the last scene, which returns us to the plaintive "Ik Bagal"). Possibly this is my failing, but – much as I enjoyed many things about this epic film – I couldn't muster both feelings at once.


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- The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office would like your help to find a missing woman.They're looking for Anita Bucki, from the Town of Corning. Her husband Mark reported she was last seen Friday morning. Bucki says he and Anita stayed up late talking, and then he went to bed. He says when he got up early Friday morning she was gone, and all of her personal belongings, car, purse and cell phone were still in the house. Anita is 5 feet tall, between 120 and 150 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing jeans, glasses and a red shirt. Please call the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office with any information. 715-536-6272
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The backup quarterback is always more popular than the starter because he is an unknown quantity; he theoretically could be better than the starter. Tim Tebow is not an unknown quantity. We know exactly what his strengths and weaknesses are. His strengths include things like "being a teammate" and "being a leader." His weaknesses include "throwing a football."
In spite of, or likely because of all this, there will always be reports like this one from the NFL Network's Michael Lombardi. Earlier this morning Lombardi reported that, as of Friday, the Jets had 12,000 unsold tickets for Monday Night's surefire fiasco of a match up with Houston and speculated how this will factor into the Tebow as a starter dilemma. It is worth noting that although that many unsold tickets may have caused a blackout in New York, a team spokesperson said Lombardi's report was inaccurate and that all Jets games would be televised this year.
This report—which may or may not even be accurate—is the bellows to the Tebow Train. Per Mike Florio:
As Lombardi surmises, the struggles to fill the seats will make it more likely that Tebow will get a shot, at some point, to start at quarterback.
Or, how about the New York Post?
The empty seats will spark speculation that the team could make a change at quarterback in order to spark interest. The Jets are already hearing cries to replace Mark Sanchez with Tim Tebow because of the offense's struggles. There is also a belief Jets owner Woody Johnson could exert pressure on coach Rex Ryan to play Tebow at some point.
At this point, let's do it. Let's put aside, for a moment, that if people wanted to buy a ticket to see Tim Tebow play football for the New York Jets they would not have to wait for him to be the starter. Let's just put Tim Tebow in as the starting quarterback right now. Members of the media can pat themselves on the back for foreseeing this back in May and then when it turns into a flaming pile of shit we can hear about how Tebow never should have been inserted into the starting lineup. The Jets can then turn back to Mark Sanchez—who will by then be nothing more than a jellyfish in a green and white jersey—to mercifully end the season and start the cycle of mediocrity all over again by securing a draft pick low enough to take Matt Barkley.
Or, and just hear me out on this one, we can stop perpetuating the easy to sell headlines that Tim Tebow is anything but a sideshow, let alone a starting NFL quarterback. He will never save the New York Jets if for no other reason than Chaz fucking Schilens is a starting wide receiver right now.
Lombardi: Jets had 12,000 unsold tickets as of Friday [PFT]
Lots of tickets still available for Monday night's Jets-Texans game: report [New York Post]


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