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The Odeon Toronto opened 9th September 1949 with the North American Premiere of the Rank Organisation's production of "Oliver Twist", directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton & Alec Guinness. British film stars Patricia Roc and Trevor Howard attended 'in person'. It was described as the "Showplace of the Dominion". It was an enormous theatre with two spacious lobbies on the main floor and another one on the balcony level. Up the magnificent staircase at the first landing was a restaurant overlooking the lower level. It was equipped with a Hillgreen-Lane 3Manual/19Ranks organ which was opened by Al Bollington.
It was part of the Odeon building which housed the offices of Odeon Theatres Canada. It's name was changed to the Odeon Carlton in 1956, and it premiered some of the biggest films of the day. For years it showed reserved seat roadshow films such as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Oliver". It also was home of James Bond movies for several years and even had a few Cinerama movies starting with "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in 1963.
Sadly, in later years it could no longer attract the big crowds and it's last attraction before closing in 1973 was "White Lighting". It was offered to the city of Toronto for one dollar as a performing arts centre, but they passed saying it didn't have enough room for a backstage area. It was a real loss for movie lovers and for the city of Toronto.
It was demolished later that year and replaced with an apartment building. Ironically, next door Cineplex Odeon opened a nine-screen art house, also called the Carlton, so the name still lives on.
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The Odeon Carlton was managed by Victor Neow and he was a
three-time Quigley award winner. One time he had the
technical students at Ryerson Institute build a scale
model of the bridge featured in the film Bridge on the
River Kwai. It filled half the lobby!
Another time, Victor had James Bond's Aston Martin for
several weeks in the lobby. That really drew in the
The beginning of the end of the Carlton was when Victor
Neow disagreed about the ticket pricing of Oliver by
Sir Carol Reed. He wanted it to be priced like Disney
movies of the day (children $.50, anytime). Odeon
thought differently. It wanted reserved seats at
$2.00 and $2.50. The film didn't do well probably
because if it were a birthday treat for a child, it
could be a financial burden.
Victor Neow resigned soon after that affair and went
on to write a book about the films of Joan Crawford.
From that time onward, the Carlton died a slow death
showing less than first-run box office smash hits.
I don't agree with your statement that the Oscar winning film "Oliver!" didn't do well simply because it was released as a reserved seat, roadshow engagement all over, not just Toronto and not just because Odeon didn't agree with the pricing. After it's run at the Carlton, it moved over to the Odeon Danforth where it ran for many more months, so I wouldn't say that "it didn't do well".
The Carlton took in about $10 to 15,000 per week during the Oliver
run. During most other weeks with other films the take was in
the $40,000 range. The Bond films were in excess of $50,000.
The Carlton's house nut was $25,000.
Other theatre managers of the day like H Taylor, C Bolton and
B Goodwin all agree that the pricing structure was a great
The Odeon Danforth is a much smaller venue and the house nut
is reduced to about 12,500 per week (in those days).
There was an article about the Carlton in Boxoffice, May 1958:
The Humber Cinema will re-open Oct 29th 2010!
www.humbermovies.com – The site will be up soon.
More info coming soon! If only we could bring back the Odeon Carlton too!
Found this picture of the Carlton at City of Toronto archives.
This is a very good view of the marquee.
September 9th, 1949 grand opening ad has been posted in the photo section.
1963 photo added courtesy of Mike T. Cancemi.
Hmm. Its amazing how great buildings are replaced by total mediocrity
A major article about this cinema (En Français) can be found in the November 1948 issue of the Architecture-bâtiment-construction. http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2673612
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While down here in America, cops can (and do) routinely and easily get text messages from a mobile provider, in the Great White North it's a different story.
The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, agreed that police need a warrant order to obtain live, real-time text messages from a mobile provider. A warrant order is an even higher standard than a general warrant, which the Canadian government argued was sufficient.
The case involves Telus, one of Canada's largest mobile firms. As described in the decision, "unlike most telecommunications service providers, Telus routinely makes electronic copies of all the text messages sent or received by its subscribers and stores them on a computer database for a brief period of time."
As the result of a criminal investigation in Owen Sound, Ontario (119 miles, or 190 kilometers, northwest of Toronto) local police obtained a general warrant as defined under sections 487.01 and 487.02 of the Canadian Criminal Code. They wanted copies of "any stored text messages sent or received by two Telus subscribers." Telus, in defending its customers, applied to quash the warrant, "arguing that the prospective, daily acquisition of text messages from their computer database constitutes an interception of private communications and therefore requires authorization under the wiretap authorization provisions in Part VI of the Code."
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More than six out of ten organisations hit by data breaches take longer than three months to notice what has happened with a few not uncovering attacks for years, a comprehensive analysis of global incidents by security firm Trustwave has found.
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The report also found that it's not only dodgy horsemeat that comes out of Romania these days either; the country is the top source of criminal attacks, or at least the IP addresses that appear to be associated with them.
Seventy percent of all client-side attacks were connected to the Blackhole Exploit Kit, the leviathan of the cybercrime world. Six in ten attacks targeted software flaws in Adobe's PDF Reader.
Seeing what's leaving the networks isn't necessarily going to be easy as a quarter of data is exfiltrated (i.e. stolen) using an encrypted channel designed to hide activity.
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On July 22, 1934, infamous bank robber John Dillinger went to see a movie with two female companions at the Biograph Theater in Lincoln Park. When they exited the building, one of the women — the "Lady in Red"— tipped off police waiting outside. Dillinger, possibly recognizing one of the undercover FBI agents, bolted into a nearby alley and drew his pistol. He was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the back of his neck.
East Chicago police Captain Timothy A. O'Neil was one of the men responsible for Dillinger's death. And soon, his Colt Army Special revolver, which delivered one of the fatal shots, will be up for auction.
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The 5-inch-barrel gun is now stored at Shore Galleries in Lincolnwood. Because the City of Chicago bans handguns and automatic weapons within city limits, the gun itself will not be present at the auction (1338 W Lake). Instead, an image of the gun will be projected on a screen.
Dillinger reportedly once escaped from prison with a fake handgun carved from wood and blackened with shoe polish. However, this gun is very real, so all bidders must comply with state and federal gun laws.
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The Sun Devil harriers will compete against 19 of the top 30 men's teams and 20 of the top 30 women's teams on Friday.
Oct. 10, 2012
TEMPE, ARIZ. – The Arizona State University cross country teams will compete both "A" squads at the same competition this weekend as the men and women take part in the Wisconsin adidas Invitational on Friday, Oct. 12 in Madison, Wis. The meet is essentially a preview of the NCAA Championships with 19 of the top 30 men's teams in competition alongside 20 of the top 30 women's teams. For ASU, this weekend marks an opportunity to earn valuable "at-large" points towards a bid at the NCAA Championships as neither the men nor the women are ranked and could do themselves some favors with a strong finish at the Zimmer Championships Course. The women's race is slated to begin at Noon CT while the men will follow at 12:40 p.m.MEET HISTORY
This weekend will be just the second time the Arizona State teams have competed in the event, now in its fourth year of operation. Last season in Madison, both sides of the field featured 20 of the top 30 teams in the country. The ASU men were paced by Nick Happe's 40th-place finish to a 16th place team finish, beating five ranked teams in the process. Darius Terry was plagued by some back spasms early in the race but still fought back to a top-75 finish in an absolutely stacked field. Shelby Houlihan established herself as one of the top freshmen in the country, finishing 40th as well and leading the team to a 26th-place finish.
The field in Madison this weekend will look much the same as last year, with 19 of the top 30 men's teams will be in action, according to the most recent USTFCCCA poll, as well as 20 of the top 30 women's teams. Unlike the NCAA Pre-National meet that was previous hosted this weekend in the past as well, the Wisconsin Invite pits all teams against each other in one race as opposed to splitting them into two. As a result, it gives coaches a gage as to how their teams stack up against everyone as opposed to trying to compare results from two different races. The men's side features top-10 squads in No. 1 Wisconsin, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 5 Iona, No. 5 Portland, No. 8 Stanford and No. 10 Syracuse. The women's race features six top-10 teams, including No. 2 Arizona, No. 3 Washington, No. 5 Iowa State, No. 7 Stanford, No. 9 Cornell and No. 10 Michigan State.
Neither the ASU men nor the women are receving any votes in the current USTFCCCA national coaches' poll. In the USTFCCCA West Regional rankings, the men moved up to fifth following a strong run at the Pac-12 Preview at UCLA while the women remained in seventh.
Running its 'B' team, the Sun Devil women posted a fourth-place finish at the Grand Canyon Invitational in Buckeye, Ariz. Kayla Springford had one of her top runs as a Sun Devil, taking fifth among collegiate competitors with a time of 18:36.3 – the fastest 5,000m cross country race of her career. Carly Paracholski, competing unattached posted a top five finish in a time of 18:34.7 in her best cross country race as part of the ASU roster.
The Arizona State University men's cross country team ran their "A" squad for the first time on the season and the results were impressive as the team took third at the Pac-12 Preview in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Friday. Senior Darius Terry picked up where he left off last year before being sidelined with injury, clocking a third-place finish in 24:35 over the 8,000-meter course at the Robinson Ranch Golf Course – the site of this year's Pac-12 Championship.
There was no more dynamic freshman in the conference last year that Shelby Houlihan, and the sophomore was honored in 2011 as the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the Year before following that up with the 2012 Track and Field Newcomer Award as Well – becoming the first student-athlete in conference history to complete the sweep Houlihan was the top freshman finisher at the Pac-12 Championships (8th) and the NCAA West Regional (12th) and led the women to their 13th NCAA Championships appearance in the last 14 years. Houlihan kickstarted the 2012 campaign by winning the George Kyte Invitational in Flagstaff for her first career collegiate victory as she nearly set the course record with a time of 16:52.4. Houlihan would go on to pace the team at the Notre Dame Invitational a couple weekends ago with a 13th-place overall finish in 16:58. Houlihan has been the ASU's top finisher in every race of her collegiate career thus far.
It took senior Darius Terry one race to pick up where he left off last cross country season before injury limited him towards the end of the season. Terry was third at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:35 and was just five seconds shy of No. 18 Northern Arizona's Brian Shrader – regarded as one of the top runners in the country – who finished in 24:30 for the eventually team champion Lumberjacks. Terry was the Sun Devils top runner early last year, winning the George Kyte Classic and posting a strong run at the Roy Griak Invitational and looked prime for a potential All-American season before sturggling at the Pac-12 Championships and sitting out the NCAA West Regionals for precuationary measures. Terry will be pivotal to the team's success this season and a healthy Terry is a good thing for all parties involved.
Arizona State's biggest offseason pickup may prove to be University of Kansas graduate transfer Zach Zarda. An NCAA West Preliminary round 5,000m competitor for the Jayhawks in 2012, Zarda showed what he could bring to the Sun Devils with a strong sixth-place run at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:43. The finish prompted head coach Louie Quintana to say Zarda earned the "game ball" for the race.
Last season, Shelby Houlihan made history by being the first person in conference history to sweep the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year Award for both the cross country and track and field seasons. So who are ASU's candidates to challenge for that honor this season? CJ Albertson is a young man that men's coach Louie Quintana is very excited about. A freshman out of Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif. (the same school as former ASU great and OlympianKyle Alcorn and current teammate Macy Bricks) was among the top high school cross country runners in the season last year, qualifying for the Footlocker Nationals despite battling injury through the season. Adriana Olivas is a freshman out of Corona, Calif. (Centennial HS) who is the gritty, hard-working sort of runner that women's coach Ryan Cole says represents what the program is all about and could make a splash early as well. Other notable newcomers include Zach Zarda, a 2012 NCAA West Preliminary Qualifier on the track, and Garrett Seawell, the 2012 California State Junior College Cross Country champion.
After advancing to 12 consecutive NCAA Championship apperances from 1998-2009, the Sun Devil women's cross country team had one of the longest active streaks in the nation before missing out in 2010. Some might have thought it was an end to the dynasty, but the women regrouped last season to advanced to their 13th championship meet in 14 years and will look to restart the streak with another appearance in 2012.
Nick Happe was a pleasant surprise for the Sun Devils in 2011 and the senior will be looked upon as a leader this season. Happe was the team's top runner through most of last season and saw that come to fruition with an All-West Region finish at the NCAA West Region Championships. That momentum carried to the track for Happe as he set personal records indoors in the mile, 3000m and 5000m and moved up the ASU all-time top-10 list in all three events. He was a second-team All-American in the mile and looks primed for a solid senior campaign.
Coming into his ninth season as a head coach for Arizona State cross country, Louie Quintana has put together quite the program since taking over in August 2004. During his seven years leading the distance group, Quintana has worked with seven individuals that earned 10 total All-America honors in cross country, including the program's only three-time honoree Amy Hastings and Brandon Bethke who placed seventh nationally at the 2009 NCAA Championships. On the track, his athletes have been instrumental in helping the Sun Devils capture four national titles and three Pac-10 crowns. He has worked with four individuals that have collected five NCAA titles, including Kyle Alcorn, who won the indoor 3,000-meter run and the outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase in 2008 and more recently,Mason McHenry, who was the 2012 NCAA Indoor 800m champion.
Ryan Cole has built up a reputation as one of the most promising and exciting up-and-coming young coaches in the nation and was named as the head coach for the women's cross country team for the 2011 campaign as a testament to that. Now in his second year as head women's cross country coach, Cole began working with the Arizona State program during the 2007-08 campaign and had served as an assistant ever since. In that time, Cole worked with the ASU women's distance teams serving under Coach Louie Quintana while also handling many of the daily administrative aspects of the Arizona State program and working with the management of home meets. Cole led the ASU women back to the NCAA Championships in 2011 for the 13th time in the last 14 years.
The Arizona State cross country rosters feature a total of 33 student-athletes (16 men, 17 women). Of that total, there will be 12 brand new faces gracing the Sun Devil uniform. The women's squad features five true freshmen in Marcelle Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kaitlin Kaluzny (Yakima, Wash.), Adiana Olivas (Corona, Calif.) and Alexia Velarde (Rancho Mirage, Calif.). Dalanne Bartlette will join the Sun Devils with three years of eligibility after transferring from Shata Community College while Christen Collins will come on as a transfer out of the University of San Diego. On the men's side, CJ Albertson and Connor Vigil represent the line true freshmen while transfers Jeff Bickert (RS-Fr./Pleasant Hill, Calif/Cal Poly SLO), Garrett Seawell (Jr./Sacremento, Calif./American River JC) and Zach Zarda (Sr./Shawnee, Kan./Kansas) will debut for ASU this year. In addition to the new faces, redshirt freshmen Ryan Herson, Daniel Wong and Heyden Wooff could all contribute for the men this year in their first action with the Sun Devils.
Both the men's and women's rosters are loaded with underclassmen but both squads will look to the seniors to help lead the way. Coming into the year, Darius Terry and Nick Happe are far and away the top returning runners on the roster and among the top returners in the conference with Doug Smith expected to make contributions as well. For the women, two local products in Hailey Hanna and Natasa Vulic are the lone seniors, both walk-on's who have been priased by Cole for doing everything necessary to get to this point and providing the model work ethic for the younger women to follow.
One of the keys to building one of the top running programs in nation is the ability to recruit well from the areas around you. The Sun Devil teams have taken that task seriously and will field eight Arizona natives on the 2012 roster, several of whom will be expected to play a large role on this year's team. Mention as already been made of Hailey Hanna(Mesa, Ariz.) and Natasa Vulic (Phoenix, Ariz.) for the women. But the team also welcomes freshmen Marcella Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.) this season in addition to junior transfer Christen Collins (Phoenix, Ariz.). Redshirt freshman Daniel Wong (Tucson, Ariz.), redhsirt sophomore Garrett Baker-Slama(Tempe, Ariz.) and redshirt senior Josh Walker (Chandler, Ariz.) are some others that could play a pivotal part as the season progresses for the men.
Not only is the ASU cross country team looking to get things accomplished on the athletic side of things in 2012, but they have also started to put in work in the classroom as well. Four members of the Sun Devil women's squad and three men will take classes as part of Barrett, The Honors College, during the 2012-13 academic calendar. Barrett, which has been named among the top honors colleges in the nation, enrolls nearly 40 Sun Devil student-athletes in its highly selective program with almost a quarter coming from the cross country programs. The members representing the cross country team in the honors college consist of Natasa Vulic (Sr.), Marcella Cartledge (Fr.), Karlee Owens (Jr.) and Kayla Springford (So.) on the women's team and Garrett Baker-Slama (So.), Daniel Wong (Rs-Fr.) and Nick Happe(Sr.) for the men.
Nick Happe earned USTFCCCA All-West Honors as the ASU men came painstakingly shy of an NCAA Championship qualification last season. The team took eighth at the NCAA West Regional Championships after a disappointing last-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship just weeks earlier. The team opened strong on the heels of Darisu Terry's individual victory at the George Kyte Classic in the season opener. The team rode that momentum to a fourth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational. Terry was fifth at that event to lead the team before injuries slowed him down over the rest of the season, eventually knocking him out of competition at the regional meet.
A young Arizona State women's squad advanced to the 13th NCAA Championship appearance in 14 years for the program on the heels of freshman phenom Shelby Houlihan. Houlihan was named the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the year follow All-Conference and All-Region finishes on the year. The women took sixth at the Pac-12 Conference championships and followed that with a seventh place finish at the NCAA West Regional Championships to earn an at-large bid the the NCAA Championships.
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A friend calls perennials the gift that keeps on giving, but I don't think that quite does justice to their power:
This bed of Turkish veronica and wildflower tulips just finished its peak bloom. It started in late April and kept going, brightening the blessedly rainy, cloudy days of the May that's just now gone. A lot of folks advise planting something that's easy to grow and that lightens your heart and putting it right by your path to your door. My path to my door most often involves driving, and this lush mat is right where the driveway meets the sidewalk.
When I planted the veronica (instead of the plant-picker's selection of phlox — once you've ripped out a bunch of phlox you can't ever love it again) three years ago, it was one half-gallon plant and about seven babies. Now you can't tell who was who, or how I got those bulbs in. Well, I put them in before the plants obliterated any space between one another. That's the joy of ground covers; they earn their name (though these permit a few early dandelion invaders). I can't take any credit for the combination; I owe that to High Country Gardens in Santa Fe, whose website I learn so much from, I really should visit them in person more than once a year. It's based off the theory of taking the color that's in the throat of a flower, and choosing a companion that closely echoes that throat color.
And that lush bank of brilliant yellow behind the veronica? That's basket-of-gold.
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Posted: Thu 25 Aug 2005, 09:55
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How do I install Nero-Linux in Puppy?
i'm not a noob to puppy or linux. i just don't know anything beyond basics. could someone explain to me a bit further how to install applications in linux because i've never needed anything beyond whats already included in puppy. in particular i was wondering if its possible and how to install nero-linux?
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Not to sound negative about installing packages in Puppy, but Nero Linux is only a trial version. See the Nero page
The disclaimer also states "Our trial versions are fully functional during the trial period."
So, at some point you would have to purchase it at $19.99 to get a serial number.
Also, it comes in an rpm or deb package only, which lists very limited support. I would assume that it would be a bear to make a package that could be used in Puppy.
Are you running into problems with the default burner in Puppy?
P.S. I just installed NeroLinux in Suse. It took over 20 minutes to download via DSL for the 10mb rpm file. The trial period is for 5 days only!
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lol. i've only had a few problems with the default burner and i just wanted to try nero-linux because i am far more familiar with the nero interface. thanks for the reply
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Because of the licensing you will find that (for example) the latest (and stable) versions of RedHat and Open Suse /Novel and even Solaris Unix are free to download. Ubuntu (my secondary OS) will send you free CD of their Debian based system. I wonder if Barry got his free Ubuntu yet?
However a ram based OS (that is Puppy) is rather fast and seductive. There are others - Austrumi and DSL come to mind but they are not as usable as Puppy for most of us here.
DSL is making huge strides with the ability to download extra software and greater stability. Many of us try and continue to try other OS. Some are better than others. Some dissapoint.
Puppy never dissapoints when it comes to usability. If you are going to take the Linux route by all means explore - that is part of the adventure but count yourself lucky that you have started with something both unique and frisky.
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No one's really answered this guy's question!
If you really want to try it, go ahead and download it. I'd try the rpm first. You will need to extract the files. Since there are only two options (rpm or deb) you will need an additional utility to extract the files. Go to the wiki page on dotpup software and get the unrpm/undeb dotpup. Once you have unrpm/undeb and the Nero archive, do this.
Open up rxvt and navigate to the directory you downloaded the rpm
cd /root/nero
Use the unrpm command to extract the files there
unrpm nerolinux-184.108.40.206-x86.rpm
If you open up a rox window and go to the directory you extrcted the files at. There should be a new directory called usr there. Note that other software will put files in other places also. Basically what you want to do is move all of these files to the top level directory /usr. I'd just open up another rox window and go up, then drag usr there and keep clicking ok. You should then be able to run it from the command line just by typing nero.
Basically all Linux software packages, if they aren't source code, are some kind of compressed archive containing all of the files needed for the program to run. Package managers just use an automated system to decompress the archive and place the files in the right places. They may also optionally do other things like add menu entries or generate a list of files to make removal easier. All we did here was just perform the steps manually.
Be forwarned that any program you try out in this way may or may not work, is more than likely to have bugs, and will probably be deleted the next time you upgrade Puppy to the next version unless you register all of the files with pupget. You may get lucky, however, and find that it works.
If you run into any packages in the .tar.gz archive format they can also be installed using the pupget package manager. You just use the alien package option and tell pupget where to find the package. Examples of distros using regular tarballs are DSL and Slackware.
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Thank you Nathan, for that tutorial.
Nitestick, let us know if it works, will you?
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ok first extract the rpm, like mentioned in above post!
step 1
open the folder nerolinux-18.104.22.168-x86, now inside of that open the folder usr
now open the folder bin
now place the executable named nero in /usr/local/bin/
now go back to open the folder nerolinux-220.127.116.11-x86, now inside of that open the folder usr
now merge the folder lib with /usr/lib
now open the folder nerolinux-188.8.131.52-x86, now inside of that open the folder usr
now open the folder share and place the folder named nero in /usr/local/lib/
enjoy!!!!!!!! place the executable named nero on the desktop for easy access!!!!!!!!
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Sorry to ressurect such an old post!
i've just installed nero linux using klhrevolutionist's simple method above and all is well - except nero can't see my dvd writer!
All the other cd/dvd apps can see it, but nero's window is blank. It seems that nero uses the ide-cdrom method of finding the drive (which puppy uses) so there should be no problem and it looks for dev/hda.
I have a full hard drive install of 2.15ce alpha.
Can anyone help please?
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All right. I know this is coming too late for use to these guys but I am just one weeks into Puppy, and I am not very confortable with any command line process. So I did the next best. I relied on pet files. Here is how I have done it on Puppy 4.2.
You will require hard drive install of Puppy on ext partition for this to work. At least I did it on an ext.2 partition install.
Step.1 Download SFS combiner-plus-Gtkbasic003.pet and install it.
Step.2 Download SFS-Combiner.pup and install it. You will have to install dotpup-handler to install it. dotpup-handler can be installed from official pet of Puppy through pet installer.
Step-3 After installing this pup will open a directory automatically. You will see two files in this, namely pet2sfs and SFS-Combiner. Drage these two files to your desktop.
Step.4 Now extract Nero.rpm in a new folder Nero. It will give you two fiolders namely 'etc' and 'usr'.
Step-5. Click on pet2SFS on your desktop. It will open three windows. One of them will explain what to do next. Drage 'empty.sfs to the SFS-combiner window and click create the new_420.sfs.
Step.6 Now it will open further three windows. one of them will be blank windows. Just drage 'etc' and 'usr' folders into this blank window.
Step-7 in the xmessage window, click 'okay'
Step- 8 Now the action will start in the new third window 'buildsfs'. at the end of some 2 seconds it will ask you to press any key. Just click 'Enter' on your keyboard. A new windows will open with the name 'new_420.sfs'. Rename it to Nero_420.sfs.
Step.9 Copy this Nero_420. sfs to your hard drive. (click file on your desktop. you will see an icon hard-drive. Click on it and drage this sfs there.
Step-10 Reboot Puppy 4.2.
You will see the menu entry in 'Multimedia'. From there you can use it. If you have key then its your to use otherwise it will give you a trial period as decided by the Nero company.
If all this sound too basic or little too detailed then consider that I am only one week into Puppy. I hope it will help somebody....someday.
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One step to find jobs in this market is to check the job postings on Symplicity. However, the reality is that many of these positions are filled without ever posting, so students should research opportunities using other methods as well. Some smaller firms do post on other commercial job posting sites. Informational interviews and networking will be important components of your small or mid-sized firm job search. Few firms of this size devote funds to a recruiter, so the main hiring person is likely also very busy practicing law. It pays to do cold-calling to deduce the best time to send a resume, and a mass mailing may not be replied to immediately, but will give you a reason to follow up later.
A simple resource for attorney and firm information, which is not entirely comprehensive, is the Martindale-Hubbell Directory. The database provides background on firms and practitioners, and can be searched by geography, undergraduate institutions, law school affiliations, and areas of practice. This is particularly useful for identifying alumni and for obtaining cold-call or mass mailing lists.
Your Westlaw and Lexis representatives can guide you through another resource: electronic news searches. Both research systems can provide a ten-year search of news items in which a specific lawyer or law firm has been named. In this manner, you can discover what types of cases a firm has taken, if there has been any lawyer discipline, if a practice group has come or gone, and possibly find out connections a firm may have to clients, judges and corporations. This is an invaluable tool that should be used to search smaller firms, as well as other employers.
Local bar associations and the directories that they produce, both in print and on-line, can be useful tools in finding address information and affiliations for firms and individuals within the firms. When searching for jobs out of state, joining a local bar can give insights on job postings as well as access to directory information. Some local and state bars also keep directories specifically for and about small and medium sized law firms, as well as "areas of practice" listings that allow you to identify easily attorneys in a practice area in which you have an interest. Consider joining the small firm committee of the local bar where you intend to practice law.
If you do not have success with the methods above, consider a Google search using lawyer or firm names. Consider the Google "Yellow Pages" and "Google Local" searches. While Google and Yahoo news searches will not go as far back as a Westlaw or Lexis search will go, it may take you to other related sites that will be of use or interest to you.
You can also access many full-text news sources through Ohio State's Factiva subscription. Factiva offers the full-text of over 8000 sources including national, regional, and legal newspapers. First, if you are off-campus you will need to authenticate from the OSU Libraries homepage. To authenticate, go to www.library.ohio-state.edu and click "Off-campus sign in" and enter the required information. Now you're ready to access Factiva from the list of the Libraries databases.
As is true of any research process, you should consider consulting with the research librarians at the Moritz Law Library. They are well-versed in a variety of research methods and have extensive knowledge of resources and databases. Their expertise is a resource you should not overlook. This wealth of information will help you to conduct an efficient search.
Once you land a summer clerk or associate position with a small firm, you may find that reliable salary information is hard to find. Again, firms of this size often do not report salary information. Additionally, complicating the salary aspect of your job search is the fact that salaries at firms of this size tend to vary greatly from firm to firm. As such, it is difficult to find concrete information on which to rely. You may make less per hour while clerking in small and medium sized firms, but you may also be able to negotiate staying on and clerking throughout the school year, an option not generally available at large firms.
If you receive an offer to work as an associate upon graduation, you may have the opportunity to negotiate your starting salary. While it is difficult to find such information, the employment statistics for recent Moritz graduates may provide some salary guidance. Please note, however, these salaries are not separated by geographic location, and are merely a range of starting salaries of the graduates who reported them. There are many items to consider beyond merely salary when negotiating employment offers. Therefore, before you negotiate, please schedule a strategizing appointment with your career advisor.


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September 4, 2013
Reminder: General faculty meeting Sept. 5
A general faculty meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 in the Alumni Center ballroom.
The purpose of this meeting will be to vote on proposed Faculty Senate constitution revisions and to have a short 10-minute presentation from President Schulz followed by time for questions and answers.
On the following Web page you will find a document link with the background regarding the Faculty Senate constitution revisions and the changes themselves: http://www.k-state.edu/facsen/genfacmeetings/.
We look forward to seeing you on Sept. 5. However, if you are not able to attend in person, web streaming will be available at the following link, which will be live just prior to the event: http://www.k-state.edu/facsen/genfacmeetings/2013.html.
Thank you,
Julia Keen, P.E., HBDP, Ph.D.
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associate professor
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I'm looking for Dal Snuffs games compilations. They are the first G-Force disks (ie they have been made before issue #20). Is there someone with such menus?
I'll be very very grateful whenever someone sends one or two Dal Snuffs menus (don't send the utility disk from TCE Demos CD #1).
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Lynn Sakutori launches new 'a-line' apparel at Macy's
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We evaluated your closet and, well, we're just gonna spell it out for you.
Whirlwind sprees at Forever 21 and H&M mean you've got all the haute new trends down to the letter. Congrats, no zzzzs there. But having your clothes constantly fall apart after a few cycles in the wash? That puts your wardrobe on the D-list.
Thank goodness for Lynn Sakutori. This local designer has her hands full with several petite labels, including her Sakutori clothing line for Nordstrom. But a desire for high-quality basics in more contemporary silhouettes led her to launch a-line, a new, edited mix of sleek tunics, leggings, dresses and skirts.
Our initial reaction? We give Sakutori top marks for adding tiny details that give her basics an unexpected twist - think long-sleeved tops with twisted keyhole backs or two-toned maxi dresses with cropped overlays to elongate the body. She also offsets a striking, yet simple palette of bright corals, blues and purples with black and black-and-white stripes so mixing-and-matching is a breeze (now you can throw in those cheapy, trendy finds).
a-line also makes the grade when it comes to construction. Sakutori spent months researching knitting mills and yarns to develop a thick-knitted fabric that hits all the right notes: it's machine-washable and doesn't wear out, fade or pill over time.
You have our word.
$58-$128. [View more looks here!] a-line is available exclusively at the following Macy's stores: Ala Moana Center on Oahu, Queen Kaahumanu Center and Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa on Maui, Kings' Shops on the Big Island and Kukui Grove on Kauai. Photos: Steve Czerniak.


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The Only Way to See Hawaiiby Paul Motter | 08.04.11
Cruise ships offer the primest coastal perspective of Hawaii's magnificent natural wonders.
|The active volcano in Hawaii (the big island) is one of the most amazing sites in the world
The Only Way to See Hawaii
Everyone knows Hawaii is an extraordinary destination, but what is the best way to see it - staying in land-based resort or by cruise ship? The state of Hawaii is actually comprised of several hundred islands stretching nearly 1500 miles, but only four have a significant population. Oahu has the capital city Honolulu, Maui is one of the most popular, Kauai is considered the most beautiful, but the big island of Hawaii is arguably the most interesting because of its very active volcano.
Unfortunately, if you choose a land-based resort then getting from one island to another is a challenge. The ferry system between the islands was discontinued last year. Now the only option is to fly - the longest distance, between Hawaii and Kauai, requiring 90 minutes.
Our recommendation is to take a cruise in Hawaii, but not necessarily to cruise "to" Hawaii. Two obscure federal laws, The Passenger Vessel Services act and the Jones Act, restrict "foreign carriers" from transporting passengers between two U.S. destinations. Since all of the ports within the Hawaiian Islands are in the U.S. the only way a regular cruise ship can give you a Hawaiian cruise is to include a stop in either Mexico or Canada before heading across the Pacific to Hawaii, usually spending four or five days at sea, before you can even begin your Hawaii adventure.
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Only one ship complies with the arcane federal laws; Pride of America operated by NCL-America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines. The ship begins a seven day cruise in Honolulu - visits all of the best sites in the entire island chain - and ends in the same spot seven days later - spending every single day in port - with no days at sea and three overnights.
Pride of America sails out of Honolulu on Saturday nights. Sunday, it arrives in Maui at 8:00 a.m. and stays overnight to sail at 6:00 p.m. Monday night. Tuesday it reaches Hilo (Hawaii) at 8:00 a.m. The more adventurous people go to the volcano and hike over the cooled moonscape of black crystalline lava to reach a point where they can see the liquid gold with their own two eyes. I have done this and it is spectacular, but not for the faint of heart or less than physically fit. As you get deeper into the volcano area the oxygen in the air is replaced with sulfur and the temperature rises dramatically. The jagged terrain of solid rock means there is no marked trail and it is very easy to sprain an ankle or cut your foot.
The ship sails from Hilo at 6:00 p.m. You could stay on the Big Island overnight and catch the ship in Kona the next day, but you would miss sailing past the volcano at night - a spectacular sight with rivers of golden lava running for miles before they steam into the sea.
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Day six (Thursday) you arrive in Kauai, the "Garden Isle" where you can visit the famous "Fern Grotto" or Waimea Canyon, known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific." You sail from Kauai at 2:00 p.m., Friday, so you can see the most dramatic sunset of your life - along the striking red cliffs of the islands' Na Pali coastline. At sunset these red sandstone cliffs, rising as high as 4000 feet, glow as if on fire. The only way to see this view is from the sea upon a cruise ship.
NCL-America's one ship, Pride of America, is the only mainstream cruise ship (80,000-tons) in the world with an all-American crew. The ship has an "American" theme to its décor, which is fitting for its name, but in most respects it is a "Norwegian Free-style" ship. There are 10 restaurants on board, some with an extra service charge and some included in the cruise fare. The nighttime shows often feature true Hawaiian folkloric artists - one of the advantages to keeping the ship in port overnight. Because the cruise begins and ends in Honolulu you can also choose to arrive a day or two early and stay in a hotel to see Oahu before your cruise starts.
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Prices for the 7-day cruise start at about $1049 per person for an inside cabin, and about $1549 for a verandah cabin. The rates are slightly higher because it costs the company a lot more to operate a vessel within the restrictions of federal law. They must have an all-American crew and the ship must be registered and maintained in the United States.
The experience of cruising with an all-American staff is admittedly different from an average cruise, but we recommend this cruise highly as a way to see Hawaii. If all you are looking for is a "sit by the pool to drink pina coladas" cruise then you can go to Mexico or the Caribbean for less. But for a fantastic, destination-based cruise, seeing Hawaii on Pride of America is one of the "required" cruises for all experienced cruisers.


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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.
Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.
Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.
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- Jacobus
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2012-11-21
A learned, well-balanced postmodern history
I was pleasantly surprised to come across this Audible Inc. production of Prof. Peter Brown's newest book "Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Brown, the author of the best biography of Augustine of Hippo, is a careful meticulous and and well-respected historian of the late Roman Empire. He writes with authority.
In "Through the Eye of the Needle" Brown uses different sources (artefacts, catacombs, archaeological insights, written texts etc.) to reconstruct what has traditionally been seen as the time of the Roman Empire's decline. Already in the awkward dates that he uses in the sub-title of his book 350-550 AD and not for instance 324 (when Constantine was became emperor over the whole Roman Empire), Brown distances himself from traditional top-down historiography that focus important persons and places. While using important figures, like Maxentius, Augustine and others, he aims to document and interpret the way the not-so-important people of the late Western Roman Empire understood wealth.
He uses wealth at the key to sketch a different but more believable picture of late Roman Empire and its different churches' rise to prominence in its society. I found his take on the Pelagian controversy very interesting and enlightening.
Fleet Cooper did a fair job in reading the book. I am not sure if it is Brown's writing style or Cooper's way of reading, but it felt that some sentences were often to long and Cooper would break for breath making it difficult to comprehend a whole idea as a thought unit. That said, Cooper's pronunciation of foreign languages and the general ease of his reading made it pleasant to listen to.
Not everybody would like this book. At times it is very technical and might even be too thorough to some people's taste. It is an academic work and probably a trendsetter that cannot be ignored by historians reflecting on this part of history in future. Yet it might not be to the taste of someone who wants a light read.
It comes highly recommended. I hope Audible will see their way open to publish more of Prof. Brown's books in audio format.
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- "unknown"
- 2014-05-24
Detailed, yet fascinating and engaging
I am about half the way through the audio book and completely absorbed by it. It's a detailed story of a complex swath of history, yet it hasn't gotten bogged down itemizing battles and rulers. Instead, it reveals the spirits of the times through the lives of history's notable intellects. Even better, it explores what historical writers didn't say, but that historians have since deduced, to shed light on the realities behind the dogma.
The narrator's mispronunciations, however, are driving me nuts. His voice is excellent, his pacing and emphasis are good, and even some of his mispronunciations I could live with if he would simply stick with them. But instead, he ping-pongs back and forth, seemingly unable to decide. Is it AM-brose or Am-BROSE? Constan-TEEN or Constan-TINE? Will it be tree-AY or tree-AIR for Trier? Sometimes I find myself talking back to him: "Prelate rhymes with pellet, not relate!" "Per-VANE-us? Did you perhaps mean parvenus?" And I almost spit out my coffee when he tried to say "Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose". It was so funny I wish I'd bookmarked it.
Nevertheless, I'd rather listen to this very dense book, mispronunciations and all, than try to find the time and focus to read all 800 pages myself.
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- Tom
- New York, NY, United States
- 2012-10-16
A Remarkable Journey with an Amazing Guide
Where does Through the Eye of a Needle rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This is a book of outstanding scholarship written with great clarity by one of the most knowledgable and trustworthy historians of the period of the late Roman empire. Brown uses the issue of wealth as a key to enter a complex social and religious world that saw the emergence of Christianity into the ancient hierarchies of power, prestige, and vast wealth that had powered the Roman empire for many centuries.
Brown's narrative is fascinating and relatively easy to follow and brings to life the variety of characters and interests of the period in a wonderfully vivid way. He leads the listener to understand the nuances of primary texts while evaluating many current debates among historians with a sure touch.
Brown writes as a person who has lived in the world he describes for many years and understands its nooks and crannies like a native. I emerged from the long journey with a tremendous sense of gratitude for Brown's guidance through an important historical period in which modern prejudices could easily distort my perceptions.
Which character – as performed by Fleet Cooper – was your favorite?
Cooper reads the book with great clarity and articulation. My only problem with the narration was that quite a number of the names of ancient people or texts or technical terms seemed mispronounced. It did not seem in keeping with the high scholarly quality of the book otherwise.
Any additional comments?
I highly recommend this work. It is very substantive and assumes that the listener has a basic knowledge of the period covered. But it certainly rewards careful listening.
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- Philo
- San Diego, CA, United States
- 2015-06-23
Splendid match of author and subject
Almost all my interests are here, told with a sprightly and inspired grace and virtuosity I have NEVER (in hundreds of books) heard before. Here is top-notch history of things previously unseen; lucid art history; theology told as I've never heard it; economics and finance; vividly etched characters (geniuses, poets, rogues aplenty, the great and poor), an implicit grand sort of game theory (how did the players at all levels make their moves as Rome tottered and changed beyond recognition in every way, physically and culturally?), (on and on) .... This author is ever-scholarly yet can describe events, people and thoughts with such felicity, such vividness, I feel I am living through countless events, rich in nuances and levels, effortlessly from small details to grand sweeps of thought and event, transparently. Meaning, the immersion works so well, I forget I am listening to a book. Now I have some deep and nuanced comprehension of how Pagan Rome became Christian Rome, and how the material and spiritual interfaced in the minds of key actors along the way. The author will pause on a word, such as an earlier Latin version of today's "commerce" -- and show a former usage, as something that could flow in exchange between the people and things of earth and the divine. I am immensely enriched by this book.
I think also, rarely, this can be interesting and enlightening without rancor to both the pure classical scholar, the pure aesthete, the economist, and the religious believer. Most books by believers I have to filter some as the authors wriggle and wrestle more or less gracefully to retro-fit the historic record to pre-set religious doctrines. This author encounters no such problem in giving us a tour of the thinking of these characters, grounded in various writings, artworks, legal records, and public works. We can feel the earthly exultations of a rich 4th-century Roman of an earlier world-view, watching it evolve into more ethereal (yet very vivdly lived) Christian orientations, and often bit by bit. These people are assailed by doubts, contradicted by friends, fought by ecclesiastical competitors: this is the full drama of messy history. There were blends and hybrids of old and new thinking all along that are fascinating (and not unfamiliar in new-agey spiritual fellowships I've seen here in contemporary California). Yes, there are few really new things under the sun. But I have been given a new and much deeper view of things right in front of me.
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- Gerard A Lavin III
- 2013-05-10
An illuminating look at wealth in late Roman times
Again and again, Brown considers traditional interpretations major events and personalities in this period, and then offers a new interpretation, sometimes his own, but more often a condensation of an emerging consensus among Late Roman scholars. He is very much a cheerleader for recent developments in the study of this period, often citing and complementing, the work of others. This book is not simply a narrative study, although it does generally progress chronologically. It is also an exploration of how historians work, and a lesson in interpreting sources. Brown is a confident but unpretentious guide through a territory about which I knew nothing aside from a few offhand generalizations. As I near the end, I not only feel that I have a vivid and insightful understanding of some of the major figures (Augustine, Jerome, Paulinus of Nola), but also a real sense of how people's ideas and feelings about wealth evolved, and how these developments interacted with the wider context of a disintegrating empire and an emerging new order.
Brown studiously avoids both political history and discussion of doctrinal differences, both of which are fascinating, but available elsewhere. So you won't learn anything consequential about who the emperors were, or theological beliefs of the Manicheans or Arians or Donatists. It is a bit jarring at times to skip over what seems like essential information, but I have to grudgingly admit that Brown's precise, unwavering focus pays off. In the end, the vision of evolving attitudes towards wealth is unclouded by any distractions.
The book is long, and the topic obscure, but if that doesn't scare you off, this is a rewarding experience
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- driver8
- 2013-04-13
Wonderful book
Would you listen to Through the Eye of a Needle again? Why?
The author is perhaps the greatest living historian of this period. His literary style is poetically vivid and his use of metaphor makes voices long since silenced by death seem momentarily to tremble with life. He shifts between the grand vistas in which an entire horizon is laid before one, and darts down to show the smallest of details. It is truly an astonishing achievement.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Surely not. It's a lengthy audiobook but is so delicious that I could have wished it longer.
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The narrator has a lovely voice and I enjoyed listening to his reading. He often mangles pronunciation of words that are not English and it seems from other reviews that many find this grating. I noticed it but it found it a minor part of the experience of listening to the audiobook.
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- Donald
- 2014-09-09
fascinating study
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This is one of those books that sheds an astonishing amount of light on the evolution of the western world, in politics, religion, and the distribution of power and of wealth. It's much less about how Christian doctrine changed the pagan world, than about how Christian doctrine evolved to co-opt pagan wealth and power structures, letting the church emerge as a temporal power in its own right. Along the way we get marvelous peeks at life in late antiquity which animate the whole narrative. I found this book fascinating, and perhaps recommended best for those with a taste for thorough historical documentation and methodical argument. Peter Brown is clearly a master of this period of Roman history, deeply familiar with the latest archeological and textual discoveries, allowing him to overturn many long held misconceptions.
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- tdg
- 2015-02-13
Heady material
A gap in my historical knowledge, this book explores the interplay between Christianity and traditional Roman views on wealth and how this brought about modern thought and the Catholic church.
I also gleaned insight into some parallels between the decline of Rome and the decline of the United States, but I don't think the author intended that.
I can admit this book is in many ways over my head. The writer quotes copious amounts of Latin, at some points I'm unsure why it was necessary.
While this is not my century or region of interest, I can say I learned a lot.
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- Doug D. Eigsti
- Kansas City, MO United States
- 2013-08-08
The Economics of Roman Christianity
I really enjoyed the approach of this history. It is a history of Rome from the fourth to the sixth century from the perspective of the economics of a changing world in a state of flux caused by the rise of Christianity. The importance of Northern Africa to the Roman world was brought out in a way that I have never understood before. The fact that history is made by the rich and powerful is made profoundly clear in this work. The poor and down-trodden leave no mark save for the manner in which the rich are moved to bring them aid. This is a fine book.
Fleet Cooper gets kudos for his excellent diction. I could always understand what he was reading. Some of his odd pronunciation choices, however, rise to the level of annoyance after a time. He has obviously done some study of different languages and he pronounces foreign words with ease. The problem is that he lets this foreign language training influence the way he pronounces words that are to be spoken in a certain way in English. This is pervasively noticeable for names containing the letter "U." He insists on giving it the long vowel sound even when the short vowel sound is correct. Towards the end the historical figure Pelagius enters the narrative and I had to suffer through many pronunciations of "Pell-ay-gee-OOS" before he began to say it correctly: "Pell-AY-gee-us." These oddities of pronunciation were a distraction but did not detract from making this an excellent audio book.
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- Pierre
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- 2012-12-19
You need to be a real history buff...
This book wasn't for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I like history but this is way too particular for me to enjoy and keep interest for such a long listen. Someone with a major in Church history for that period might appreciate though.
What do you think your next listen will be?
something more general (in history still)
What three words best describe Fleet Cooper's performance?
The narrator is excellent and probably the reason why I could hold on until mid point in the book.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Through the Eye of a Needle?
I would use the abridged edition
Any additional comments?
The potential subject matter was very good, but I lacked knowledge of places and names to enjoy it.
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We're up to episode 4 in our 'Do It Yourself' vodcast series and we're going doco with a portrait of Market Hotel during its infamous "shut down" in February 2010. During a private shoot with QC last year, members of the bands Real Estate and These Are Powers, along with Market Hotel pioneers, broke down the venue and its importance in the Brooklyn music community.
Market Hotel served as a birthright for aspiring indie musicians in NYC and will forever remain a landmark for those who have passed through its walls and frolicked in the sweaty hipster-dancing and cheap beer. Though the venue remains currently shut down, plans have long been in the works to make it a co-opted art space with help from government and private grants. To get more information or to get involved email firstname.lastname@example.com. We leave you now to enjoy the piece, and as an added bonus you can check out a live mp3 from These Are Powers' private Market Hotel session, featured in episode 2 of our series.


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| September 16, 2010, 4:16 pm
It almost hurts thinking back to my first favorite car video game.
Back in the early 1980's, Spy Hunter was the cream of the crop and remained so for years. It offered not only a racing aspect, but the ability to use secret weapons to fight off opposition from all directions.
Ground-breaking stuff that qualified it as a classic.
Through the years, driving games have evolved and now come in countless variations, but I was honestly never drawn to them. After all, played one racing game, and you've played them all, right?


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