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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
But in this abject distress, the emperor and empire were still possessed of an ideal treasure, which drew its fantastic value from the superstition of the Christian world. The merit of the true cross was somewhat impaired by its frequent division; and a long captivity among the infidels might shed some suspicion on the fragments that were produced in the East and West. But another relic of the Passion was preserved in the Imperial chapel of Constantinople; and the crown of thorns which had been placed on the head of Christ was equally precious and authentic. It had formerly been the practice of the Egyptian debtors to deposit, as a security, the mummies of their parents; and both their honor and religion were bound for the redemption of the pledge. In the same manner, and in the absence of the emperor, the barons of Romania borrowed the sum of thirteen thousand one hundred and thirty-four pieces of gold 50 on the credit of the holy crown: they failed in the performance of their contract; and a rich Venetian, Nicholas Querini, undertook to satisfy their impatient creditors, on condition that the relic should be lodged at Venice, to become his absolute property, if it were not redeemed within a short and definite term. The barons apprised their sovereign of the hard treaty and impending loss and as the empire could not afford a ransom of seven thousand pounds sterling, Baldwin was anxious to snatch the prize from the Venetians, and to vest it with more honor and emolument in the hands of the most Christian king. 51 Yet the negotiation was attended with some delicacy. In the purchase of relics, the saint would have started at the guilt of simony; but if the mode of expression were changed, he might lawfully repay the debt, accept the gift, and acknowledge the obligation. His ambassadors, two Dominicans, were despatched to Venice to redeem and receive the holy crown which had escaped the dangers of the sea and the galleys of Vataces. On opening a wooden box, they recognized the seals of the doge and barons, which were applied on a shrine of silver; and within this shrine the monument of the Passion was enclosed in a golden vase. The reluctant Venetians yielded to justice and power: the emperor Frederic granted a free and honorable passage; the court of France advanced as far as Troyes in Champagne, to meet with devotion this inestimable relic: it was borne in triumph through Paris by the king himself, barefoot, and in his shirt; and a free gift of ten thousand marks of silver reconciled Baldwin to his loss. The success of this transaction tempted the Latin emperor to offer with the same generosity the remaining furniture of his chapel; 52 a large and authentic portion of the true cross; the baby-linen of the Son of God, the lance, the sponge, and the chain, of his Passion; the rod of Moses, and part of the skull of St. John the Baptist. For the reception of these spiritual treasures, twenty thousand marks were expended by St. Louis on a stately foundation, the holy chapel of Paris, on which the muse of Boileau has bestowed a comic immortality. The truth of such remote and ancient relics, which cannot be proved by any human testimony, must be admitted by those who believe in the miracles which they have performed. About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: 53 the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against religious credulity. 54
The Latins of Constantinople 55 were on all sides encompassed and pressed; their sole hope, the last delay of their ruin, was in the division of their Greek and Bulgarian enemies; and of this hope they were deprived by the superior arms and policy of Vataces, emperor of Nice. From the Propontis to the rocky coast of Pamphylia, Asia was peaceful and prosperous under his reign; and the events of every campaign extended his influence in Europe. The strong cities of the hills of Macedonia and Thrace were rescued from the Bulgarians; and their kingdom was circumscribed by its present and proper limits, along the southern banks of the Danube. The sole emperor of the Romans could no longer brook that a lord of Epirus, a Comnenian prince of the West, should presume to dispute or share the honors of the purple; and the humble Demetrius changed the color of his buskins, and accepted with gratitude the appellation of despot. His own subjects were exasperated by his baseness and incapacity; they implored the protection of their supreme lord. After some resistance, the kingdom of Thessalonica was united to the empire of Nice; and Vataces reigned without a competitor from the Turkish borders to the Adriatic Gulf. The princes of Europe revered his merit and power; and had he subscribed an orthodox creed, it should seem that the pope would have abandoned without reluctance the Latin throne of Constantinople. But the death of Vataces, the short and busy reign of Theodore his son, and the helpless infancy of his grandson John, suspended the restoration of the Greeks. In the next chapter, I shall explain their domestic revolutions; in this place, it will be sufficient to observe, that the young prince was oppressed by the ambition of his guardian and colleague, Michael Palaeologus, who displayed the virtues and vices that belong to the founder of a new dynasty. The emperor Baldwin had flattered himself, that he might recover some provinces or cities by an impotent negotiation. His ambassadors were dismissed from Nice with mockery and contempt. At every place which they named, Palaeologus alleged some special reason, which rendered it dear and valuable in his eyes: in the one he was born; in another he had been first promoted to military command; and in a third he had enjoyed, and hoped long to enjoy, the pleasures of the chase. "And what then do you propose to give us?" said the astonished deputies. "Nothing," replied the Greek, "not a foot of land. If your master be desirous of peace, let him pay me, as an annual tribute, the sum which he receives from the trade and customs of Constantinople. On these terms, I may allow him to reign. If he refuses, it is war. I am not ignorant of the art of war, and I trust the event to God and my sword." 56 An expedition against the despot of Epirus was the first prelude of his arms. If a victory was followed by a defeat; if the race of the Comneni or Angeli survived in those mountains his efforts and his reign; the captivity of Villehardouin, prince of Achaia, deprived the Latins of the most active and powerful vassal of their expiring monarchy. The republics of Venice and Genoa disputed, in the first of their naval wars, the command of the sea and the commerce of the East. Pride and interest attached the Venetians to the defence of Constantinople; their rivals were tempted to promote the designs of her enemies, and the alliance of the Genoese with the schismatic conqueror provoked the indignation of the Latin church. 57
Intent on his great object, the emperor Michael visited in person and strengthened the troops and fortifications of Thrace. The remains of the Latins were driven from their last possessions: he assaulted without success the suburb of Galata; and corresponded with a perfidious baron, who proved unwilling, or unable, to open the gates of the metropolis. The next spring, his favorite general, Alexius Strategopulus, whom he had decorated with the title of Caesar, passed the Hellespont with eight hundred horse and some infantry, 58 on a secret expedition. His instructions enjoined him to approach, to listen, to watch, but not to risk any doubtful or dangerous enterprise against the city. The adjacent territory between the Propontis and the Black Sea was cultivated by a hardy race of peasants and outlaws, exercised in arms, uncertain in their allegiance, but inclined by language, religion, and present advantage, to the party of the Greeks. They were styled the volunteers; 59 and by their free service the army of Alexius, with the regulars of Thrace and the Coman auxiliaries, 60 was augmented to the number of five-and-twenty thousand men. By the ardor of the volunteers, and by his own ambition, the Caesar was stimulated to disobey the precise orders of his master, in the just confidence that success would plead his pardon and reward. The weakness of Constantinople, and the distress and terror of the Latins, were familiar to the observation of the volunteers; and they represented the present moment as the most propitious to surprise and conquest. A rash youth, the new governor of the Venetian colony, had sailed away with thirty galleys, and the best of the French knights, on a wild expedition to Daphnusia, a town on the Black Sea, at the distance of forty leagues; *_0015 and the remaining Latins were without strength or suspicion. They were informed that Alexius had passed the Hellespont; but their apprehensions were lulled by the smallness of his original numbers; and their imprudence had not watched the subsequent increase of his army. If he left his main body to second and support his operations, he might advance unperceived in the night with a chosen detachment. While some applied scaling-ladders to the lowest part of the walls, they were secure of an old Greek, who would introduce their companions through a subterraneous passage into his house; they could soon on the inside break an entrance through the golden gate, which had been long obstructed; and the conqueror would be in the heart of the city before the Latins were conscious of their danger. After some debate, the Caesar resigned himself to the faith of the volunteers; they were trusty, bold, and successful; and in describing the plan, I have already related the execution and success. 61 But no sooner had Alexius passed the threshold of the golden gate, than he trembled at his own rashness; he paused, he deliberated; till the desperate volunteers urged him forwards, by the assurance that in retreat lay the greatest and most inevitable danger. Whilst the Caesar kept his regulars in firm array, the Comans dispersed themselves on all sides; an alarm was sounded, and the threats of fire and pillage compelled the citizens to a decisive resolution. The Greeks of Constantinople remembered their native sovereigns; the Genoese merchants their recent alliance and Venetian foes; every quarter was in arms; and the air resounded with a general acclamation of "Long life and victory to Michael and John, the august emperors of the Romans!" Their rival, Baldwin, was awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on Daphnusia. Constantinople was irrecoverably lost; but the Latin emperor and the principal families embarked on board the Venetian galleys, and steered for the Isle of Euboea, and afterwards for Italy, where the royal fugitive was entertained by the pope and Sicilian king with a mixture of contempt and pity. From the loss of Constantinople to his death, he consumed thirteen years, soliciting the Catholic powers to join in his restoration: the lesson had been familiar to his youth; nor was his last exile more indigent or shameful than his three former pilgrimages to the courts of Europe. His son Philip was the heir of an ideal empire; and the pretensions of his daughter Catherine were transported by her marriage to Charles of Valois, the brother of Philip the Fair, king of France. The house of Courtenay was represented in the female line by successive alliances, till the title of emperor of Constantinople, too bulky and sonorous for a private name, modestly expired in silence and oblivion. 62
After this narrative of the expeditions of the Latins to Palestine and Constantinople, I cannot dismiss the subject without resolving the general consequences on the countries that were the scene, and on the nations that were the actors, of these memorable crusades. 63 As soon as the arms of the Franks were withdrawn, the impression, though not the memory, was erased in the Mahometan realms of Egypt and Syria. The faithful disciples of the prophet were never tempted by a profane desire to study the laws or language of the idolaters; nor did the simplicity of their primitive manners receive the slightest alteration from their intercourse in peace and war with the unknown strangers of the West. The Greeks, who thought themselves proud, but who were only vain, showed a disposition somewhat less inflexible. In the efforts for the recovery of their empire, they emulated the valor, discipline, and tactics of their antagonists. The modern literature of the West they might justly despise; but its free spirit would instruct them in the rights of man; and some institutions of public and private life were adopted from the French. The correspondence of Constantinople and Italy diffused the knowledge of the Latin tongue; and several of the fathers and classics were at length honored with a Greek version. 64 But the national and religious prejudices of the Orientals were inflamed by persecution, and the reign of the Latins confirmed the separation of the two churches.
If we compare the aera of the crusades, the Latins of Europe with the Greeks and Arabians, their respective degrees of knowledge, industry, and art, our rude ancestors must be content with the third rank in the scale of nations. Their successive improvement and present superiority may be ascribed to a peculiar energy of character, to an active and imitative spirit, unknown to their more polished rivals, who at that time were in a stationary or retrograde state. With such a disposition, the Latins should have derived the most early and essential benefits from a series of events which opened to their eyes the prospect of the world, and introduced them to a long and frequent intercourse with the more cultivated regions of the East. The first and most obvious progress was in trade and manufactures, in the arts which are strongly prompted by the thirst of wealth, the calls of necessity, and the gratification of the sense or vanity. Among the crowd of unthinking fanatics, a captive or a pilgrim might sometimes observe the superior refinements of Cairo and Constantinople: the first importer of windmills 65 was the benefactor of nations; and if such blessings are enjoyed without any grateful remembrance, history has condescended to notice the more apparent luxuries of silk and sugar, which were transported into Italy from Greece and Egypt. But the intellectual wants of the Latins were more slowly felt and supplied; the ardor of studious curiosity was awakened in Europe by different causes and more recent events; and, in the age of the crusades, they viewed with careless indifference the literature of the Greeks and Arabians. Some rudiments of mathematical and medicinal knowledge might be imparted in practice and in figures; necessity might produce some interpreters for the grosser business of merchants and soldiers; but the commerce of the Orientals had not diffused the study and knowledge of their languages in the schools of Europe. 66 If a similar principle of religion repulsed the idiom of the Koran, it should have excited their patience and curiosity to understand the original text of the gospel; and the same grammar would have unfolded the sense of Plato and the beauties of Homer. Yet in a reign of sixty years, the Latins of Constantinople disdained the speech and learning of their subjects; and the manuscripts were the only treasures which the natives might enjoy without rapine or envy. Aristotle was indeed the oracle of the Western universities, but it was a barbarous Aristotle; and, instead of ascending to the fountain head, his Latin votaries humbly accepted a corrupt and remote version, from the Jews and Moors of Andalusia. The principle of the crusades was a savage fanaticism; and the most important effects were analogous to the cause. Each pilgrim was ambitious to return with his sacred spoils, the relics of Greece and Palestine; 67 and each relic was preceded and followed by a train of miracles and visions. The belief of the Catholics was corrupted by new legends, their practice by new superstitions; and the establishment of the inquisition, the mendicant orders of monks and friars, the last abuse of indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals of their reason and religion; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable.
50 Under the words Perparus, Perpera, Hyperperum, Ducange is short and vague: Monetae genus. From a corrupt passage of Guntherus, (Hist. C. P. c. 8, p. 10,) I guess that the Perpera was the nummus aureus, the fourth part of a mark of silver, or about ten shillings sterling in value. In lead it would be too contemptible.
51 For the translation of the holy crown, &c., from Constantinople to Paris, see Ducange (Hist. de C. P. l. iv. c. 11 - 14, 24, 35) and Fleury, (Hist. Eccles. tom. xvii. p. 201 - 204.)
52 Melanges tires d'une Grande Bibliotheque, tom. xliii. p. 201 - 205. The Lutrin of Boileau exhibits the inside, the soul and manners of the Sainte Chapelle; and many facts relative to the institution are collected and explained by his commentators, Brosset and De St. Marc.
53 It was performed A.D. 1656, March 24, on the niece of Pascal; and that superior genius, with Arnauld, Nicole, &c., were on the spot, to believe and attest a miracle which confounded the Jesuits, and saved Port Royal, (Oeuvres de Racine, tom. vi. p. 176 - 187, in his eloquent History of Port Royal.)
54 Voltaire (Siecle de Louis XIV. c. 37, (Oeuvres, tom. ix. p. 178, 179) strives to invalidate the fact: but Hume, (Essays, vol. ii. p. 483, 484,) with more skill and success, seizes the battery, and turns the cannon against his enemies.
55 The gradual losses of the Latins may be traced in the third fourth, and fifth books of the compilation of Ducange: but of the Greek conquests he has dropped many circumstances, which may be recovered from the larger history of George Acropolita, and the three first books of Nicephorus, Gregoras, two writers of the Byzantine series, who have had the good fortune to meet with learned editors Leo Allatius at Rome, and John Boivin in the Academy of Inscriptions of Paris.
56 George Acropolita, c. 78, p. 89, 90. edit. Paris.
57 The Greeks, ashamed of any foreign aid, disguise the alliance and succor of the Genoese: but the fact is proved by the testimony of J Villani (Chron. l. vi. c. 71, in Muratori, Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. xiii. p. 202, 203) and William de Nangis, (Annales de St. Louis, p. 248 in the Louvre Joinville,) two impartial foreigners; and Urban IV threatened to deprive Genoa of her archbishop.
58 Some precautions must be used in reconciling the discordant numbers; the 800 soldiers of Nicetas, the 25,000 of Spandugino, (apud Ducange, l. v. c. 24;) the Greeks and Scythians of Acropolita; and the numerous army of Michael, in the Epistles of Pope Urban IV. (i. 129.)
59 They are described and named by Pachymer, (l. ii. c. 14.)
60 It is needless to seek these Comans in the deserts of Tartary, or even of Moldavia. A part of the horde had submitted to John Vataces, and was probably settled as a nursery of soldiers on some waste lands of Thrace, (Cantacuzen. l. i. c. 2.)
*_0015 According to several authorities, particularly Abulfaradj. Chron. Arab. p. 336, this was a stratagem on the part of the Greeks to weaken the garrison of Constantinople. The Greek commander offered to surrender the town on the appearance of the Venetians. - M.
61 The loss of Constantinople is briefly told by the Latins: the conquest is described with more satisfaction by the Greeks; by Acropolita, (c. 85,) Pachymer, (l. ii. c. 26, 27,) Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. iv. c. 1, 2) See Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 19 - 27.
62 See the three last books (l. v. - viii.) and the genealogical tables of Ducange. In the year 1382, the titular emperor of Constantinople was James de Baux, duke of Andria in the kingdom of Naples, the son of Margaret, daughter of Catherine de Valois, daughter of Catharine, daughter of Philip, son of Baldwin II., (Ducange, l. viii. c. 37, 38.) It is uncertain whether he left any posterity.
63 Abulfeda, who saw the conclusion of the crusades, speaks of the kingdoms of the Franks, and those of the Negroes, as equally unknown, (Prolegom. ad Geograph.) Had he not disdained the Latin language, how easily might the Syrian prince have found books and interpreters!
64 A short and superficial account of these versions from Latin into Greek is given by Huet, (de Interpretatione et de claris Interpretibus (p. 131 - 135.) Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, (A.D. 1327 - 1353) has translated Caesar's Commentaries, the Somnium Scipionis, the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Ovid, &c., (Fabric. Bib. Graec. tom. x. p. 533.)
65 Windmills, first invented in the dry country of Asia Minor, were used in Normandy as early as the year 1105, (Vie privee des Francois, tom. i. p. 42, 43. Ducange, Gloss. Latin. tom. iv. p. 474)
66 See the complaints of Roger Bacon, (Biographia Britannica, vol. i. p. 418, Kippis's edition.) If Bacon himself, or Gerbert, understood some Greek, they were prodigies, and owed nothing to the commerce of the East.
67 Such was the opinion of the great Leibnitz, (Oeuvres de Fontenelle, tom. v. p. 458,) a master of the history of the middle ages. I shall only instance the pedigree of the Carmelites, and the flight of the house of Loretto, which were both derived from Palestine.


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Gabe Ross is with the Sacramento City Unified School District, which is holding the ceremony.
"These kids deserve the same pomp and circumstance as their classmates who graduated in the spring."
Ross says the district is one of the few in the area to honor post-June graduates with their own ceremony.
"Too often we only celebrate those who go take the normal route and I think it's real important with this event that we focus on the kids who persevere and kids who work their tails off over the summer through credit recovery programs to make sure that they walk and they graduate and they get their diploma."
The ceremony be held tonight at district offices on Lemon Hill Avenue, and it'll include ROTC color guard, speakers and traditional caps and gowns.

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Well, that's one way to distract the competition at the Winter Olympics.
Estonian athlete Grete Gaim rocked some seriously creepy contacts when she competed in the women's biathlon 7.5km sprint event Sunday at Sochi, showing up with a faux eye hue that made her look like something out of a scary movie.
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In spite of Gaim's startling appearance, her crazy didn't give her much of an edge--the athlete finished in 71st place.
The winner in the competition was Anastasiya Kuzmina, who won the gold medal, less than 24 hours after her younger brother just missed out on an Olympic medal, according to The Associated Press.
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BPSC has published a circular for 37th BCS Exam.
Some 1,226 Class I government officials would be appointed under different cadres through 37th BCS. Of them, 300 will be recruited for the administration cadre while and 100 for the police cadre.
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The main text of this blog post is a letter I have sent to Tony Hey of Microsoft, asking him to use his influence to get specifications for older obsolete file formats published on Microsoft's Open Specifications Page. If you support this, please leave me a comment below endorsing the letter (note, the spam filter may delete or refer for moderation any comments containing URLs).
Dear Tony,
Open Letter on specifications for obsolete file formats
I am writing to you, as the most senior person I know in Microsoft, to ask you to use your influence to ensure Microsoft adds specifications for older Office (and other) file formats to the Microsoft Open Specifications page. I have put this Open Letter on my blog (https://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/), and (if you agree) would like to put any reply from you on that blog as well. I will also solicit further support for this letter on that blog, in the form of comments of endorsement.
Microsoft's Open Specifications page and the accompanying Open Specification Promise were both very welcome developments, for which Microsoft is rightly applauded. However, the Specifications only go back to Office 97-2003 formats. I have some MS Word and MS Excel documents from earlier versions of Office that seem to open well in more modern software, so perhaps their file formats are compatible, at least to some extent. However, PowerPoint 4.0 files do not open at all in modern MS Office applications, and the file format is understood to be very different.
I have been attempting to convert some 50 or so PowerPoint 4.0 files to more modern formats (to migrate them, in digital preservation parlance), and have documented the process in a series of posts on my blog. The post at https://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/powerpoint-4-0-story-so-far/ sums up the exercise, and there is one further post about a small company that has succeeded in converting some files for me. At present there appear to be only two routes for migration: one relies on technology preservation (or emulation) in the form of systems that can (and are licensed to) run a sufficiently early version of MS PowerPoint, and the second is via this small company, Zamzar. Neither of these solutions can be relied on for the long term.
While my main focus in this letter is on older formats within the basic Office set, the specifications for related software such as Microsoft Works and early versions of Microsoft Access would also be helpful for preservation purposes.
You might ask: why should Microsoft put effort today into making these specifications available? I believe Microsoft's software tools are not merely temporary mechanisms for profit in the marketplace, but (by dint of their flexibility and success) tools that the wider world has used to create billions of cultural artefacts that may be of lasting value. By declining to help make these obsolete file formats accessible, Microsoft is locking up this cultural content, and will eventually throw away the key.
Andrew Jackson of the British Library (who helped me with my initial attempts to convert my PowerPoint 4.0 files) has studied the population of older file formats in a dataset of 2.5B web resources from the UK Web Archive. He found that PowerPoint 4.0 has been persisting on the UK web until fairly recently. For ALL PowerPoint files with identifiable versions created from 1996 to 2010, PowerPoint 4.0 and PowerPoint 95 represent around 2.5%, and for PowerPoints created up to 2002 the proportion of the older formats was 27%. We can be confident that many, many more such resources will exist in private file systems.
Why should Microsoft act now? First, because the number of people within Microsoft who understand these formats must be declining. Second, the specifications themselves (to the extent that they exist as simple documents) must also be at risk of loss through accident or some grand tidy-up process that discounts older material as irrelevant. Third, because many of the early adopters who used these products in the 1990s are, like me, coming up to or past retirement. I believe there will be an increasing swell of documents from some of these people flowing into archives for preservation over the next several years. Many of these will be documents from people of much greater cultural and scientific importance than me, but who have less time and/or ability to pursue possible solutions to an obsolescence problem. Fourth, I think this is consistent with the direction you have helped Microsoft to take since joining them.
I'm also motivated by another factor: Jason Scott's call for action to "Solve the File Format Problem" scheduled for this November (original post here and wiki page here http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Just_Solve_the_Problem_2012). Jason is a member of the Archive Team of "rogue archivists", who attempts to save disappearing web sites, and is seeking a crowd-sourced solution to the lack of information on obsolete file formats. It would be wonderful if Microsoft could add to that information by making these specifications available in November.
What would this cost Microsoft? On the face of it, simply the staff effort to gather the relevant specifications and make them available. Of course, the documents may not exist as well-written specifications, in which case I would urge Microsoft to make as much information available as possible, allowing others to make sense of them against the "ground truth" of existing files. It would be wonderful if Microsoft could make available a migration tool, but this would obviously be a larger effort wth longer term implications. Indeed, in the long run it might be more cost effective to support an open migration tool.
The benefit to Microsoft in doing this would be in enhancing its reputation as a responsible company that understands and acts on the implications of its past work.
Possible outcomes could include input filters for open software such as OpenOffice or Libre Office, input converters for SlideShare and others, and possible Microsoft or commercial 3rd party migration tools.
The societal benefits of this would include better preservation of a subset of cultural artefacts, a better understanding of the content of presentations in early days, which may document discoveries or encapsulate persuasion arguments for significant change programs. Ultimately, this is about a richer cultural heritage. My own presentations in PowerPoint 4.0 date from the time when I was Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme, and document how we sought to persuade the community to go forward with that campaign, and some of the adjustments that were made to it.
I have found a previous Open Letter on a similar subject, from Rick Jelliffe on the O'Reilly XML blog, at http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/03/an_open_letter_to_microsoft_ib.html.
I would really appreciate your views on whether this might be possible.
Yours, Chris


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One year ago they were in boats and swimming through floodwaters to rescue the residents of south Queens as it was battered by Sandy.
On the anniversary of the superstorm, Vetro by Russo's on the Bay gathered the firefighter crews and recognized them for their bravery.
"Around 9:30 p.m. that night we got seven feet of water in the firehouse," said Deputy Chief Andy Zych of the West Hamilton Beach Fire Department.
The department's fire trucks, ambulances and equipment were ruined. So a neighbor lent the crew a fishing boat, and they got to paddling. Zych and a fellow firefighter rescued a woman, her mother and their two dogs from their flooding home and brought them to the firehouse.
"In a time like that, you don't think. You just try and do the best you can," he said.
Meanwhile, in Broad Channel, the local firehouse was also flooded with seven feet of water, but the crew set out into the night.
"On a regular, everyday basis, you don't worry about anything else other than the task at hand," said Deputy Chief Eddie Wilmarth. "But the majority of us live down here. You know as you're grabbing people out of their houses, you know your own house is being destroyed."
Before the storm, the Broad Channel Fire Department took a head count of everyone staying in town so they knew "who was where, and what they need," Wilmarth said.
As the wind and rain pushed on, the floodwaters were too deep for trucks to drive through, so rescue swimmers were sent out to respond to a fire that broke out on a flood-prone street. The current was too strong for them to make it, so they swung ropes around poles to pull themselves across the intersection.
In the end, the flood put out the fire.
"We were on our own. We were the only ones operating," Wilmarth said.
The Broad Channel department also lost all of its trucks and ambulances. But, as Wilmarth said, "the fire world is a big brotherhood," and all of the storm-affected firehouses received equipment from all over the country.
West Hamilton Beach received a fire truck from a crew in Mississippi, who had been given that same truck after Hurricane Katrina.
Both fire crews and others in the area are back up and running, but say they're still not back to 100 percent. Even still, they were back responding to calls just days after Sandy.
"If anything happens, we will be there," Zych said.
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Topita, among all challenges in all seasons of this show, which is your favorite? You've mentioned Mafia is among your favorite challenges, then what else?
I have two questions:1) Where do those contestants executed go? I mean, do they fly back to Netherlands or is there a place like Survivor Ponderosa for them to be on vacation?
2) Though the rule says that nobody but the winner can get all money in the pot, do other contestants get some rewards in accordance with their rankings?
ETA: Is there any way to download the video clip and the CC subtitles you've uploaded onto Youtube and combine them? Sometimes it's not convenient for me to watch it online.
Does Art know who the mole is this time? I know he knew it in the previous season.Sometimes whether the host knows who the mole is or not makes a difference.
Also I'm guessing whether it'll work this time: in S12 my favorite contestant was Liesbeth Staats and she finally became Show contentthe runner-up. This time my favorite contestant is Carolien Borgers (I really like her hairstyle and smile!), so she'll...
Is this true: the mole never takes the initiative to make alliances?
P.S. Is it that most contestants are recruited by the WIDM crew, or many celebs will ask the crew if they can participate?
My feeling is that in this season some contestants are not WIDM fans... When Tania said in her confessional about the elimination of her suspect that "There are two moles, definitely," I really didn't know what to say.
Joep and Tim really were big fans of the show.
Quote from: Topita on February 24, 2013, 04:00:18 PMJoep and Tim really were big fans of the show. Then it's one thing to watch the show and it's another thing to play in it.
QuoteAlso I'm guessing whether it'll work this time: in S12 my favorite contestant was Liesbeth Staats and she finally became Show contentthe runner-up. This time my favorite contestant is Carolien Borgers (I really like her hairstyle and smile!), so she'll... Well for what it's worth I definitely don't think she's the Mole.I definitely think there's a good chance she's a finalist (I had her pegged as such from early on).And I have been marking her the runner up for some time now. So I guess we'll see.
With the revelation of the last victim before F3, everything seems clear.I think most people have known who the mole is. If I'm right, maybe it's better for future contestants to understand one thing: while most pure contestants would make themselves suspicious as the mole, the real mole would always try to be like a contestant by, for example, earning some money while they could have earned much more, or putting other people look suspicious.
ETA: May I also remind you of your "% sure rates" of them being the Mole at the beginning of the series about your suspects.... Just saying.....
What if in an execution the number of the bottom two's correct answers are the same and they use the same amount of time?
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An exploration of pizza in and around Rochester, NY, one pizzeria at a time
Monday, July 27, 2009
Russo's Clubhouse Pizza, Long Pond Road, Greece
Russo's Clubhouse Pizza is near the northern end of Long Pond Road, in Cedarfield Commons in Greece. Their lunchtime slice choices are limited to plain cheese or pepperoni. I had a pepperoni slice.
This was a medium-to-thick slice, and fairly heavy. The underside showed some pizza-screen marks but was also a wee bit charred, which is unusual for a screen-baked pizza. It had some creases, kind of like fault lines in appearance, from where the dough seemed to have been folded onto itself while rising. It wasn't at all greasy, had a nice bready flavor, and a thick, chewy edge.
The sauce had a straightforward tomatoey flavor, and was applied enough to be noticed, but still remain mostly in the background behind the crust and the cheese. The latter was a chewy layer of mozzarella, on the thick side, but in balance with the thickish crust, putting this into what I would call Rochester-style pizza.
The wide-and-thin pepperoni was OK, a little crsip and a little greasy.
Russo's has a pretty basic menu, with pizza, wings, burgers, hot dogs, meatball subs, BBQ roast beef sandwiches, steak sandwiches, and a handful of sides, plus ice cream and lemon ice. They don't offer any specialty pizzas (aside from white pizza), although you're free to create your own from their toppings list, but they do have a "diet pizza" with a thin crust, "light" cheese and vegetable toppings. It may be good, but I think I'll stick with my pizza diet over diet pizza.
There are some tables and chairs, and they advertise a "limited delivery area."
My experience with screen-baked pizzas up till now has been almost universally disappointing, but this was one of the better ones I've had, maybe even the best. That may sound like damning with faint praise, but it's not meant that way. Mind you, it did make me wonder how much better it could've been had it been baked in a "hearth" oven, which might've added to the complexity of the flavors and texture of the dough, but I'm not complaining about this pizza. I'll give it a B-.
Russo's Pizza, 496 Long Pond Road, Greece. 225-3570.
Sun. - Thu. 11 am - 10:30 pm, Fri. & Sat. 11 am - midnight
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Russo's is closer to our house than any other pizzaria, so as a convenience we've been going there for years. Their pizza is among the least consistent of any we try on a regular basis, ranging from excellent to mediocre.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, last night they made me wait at the counter while they proceeded to overcook (scorch) $23 worth of pizzas. It wasn't inedible, but wasn't acceptable either. When I called them on it from home, they wanted to call me back later "at their convenience" to discuss remaking the order. Meanwhile, I had a table full of guests waiting to eat, so I suggested that a coupon for a few bucks off a future purchase would suffice, but much to my dismay they were unwilling to do that. Sorry, but there are too many other good pizzaria's in Greece to put up with that nonsense! Carbones, Mark's, Petrella's, La Famiglia, Pizza Americana, Caraglio's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut...here we come!
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Near Russo's is a bar named "The Retreat", which according to its online menu, also has pizza. I found it randomly looking for a bar to go to. Don't think its a lunch place tho.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tip. Their website says they open at 4. Not too conveneient for me for dinner but I might manage it some night.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Another Greece bar with pizza on its online menu:ReplyDelete
Tackles on the Bay
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Russo's has the BEST pizza in town. I have never has a problem and order 2-3 times a month.ReplyDelete


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Republicans say they've learned their lesson from November's drubbing: If they want to win the support of Hispanics, they'll need to bend on immigration.
And no GOP pol has bent more than Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman, who embodied his party's hard line on immigration — until he was thrust into a district with thousands more Latinos.
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It was only two years ago that Coffman, a conservative third-term lawmaker from the Denver suburbs, said the Dream Act would be a "nightmare" and proposed a bill that would ensure ballots were printed in English only. He even signed an amicus brief in support of Arizona's controversial immigration bill.
So it raised more than a few eyebrows when the congressman announced this month that he supports immigration reform. He came out in favor of granting legal status to immigrants residing in the country illegally, and allowing their children to become citizens.
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Coffman, who spent more than a decade in the Marines, has also proposed a bill that would allow noncitizens, such as foreign students in the U.S. on visas, to serve in the military. The conservative has teamed up with Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a liberal and outspoken backer of immigration reform, to push the legislation.
It's a stark reversal for the 57-year-old congressman, who in 2008 made opposition to immigration reform a central plank of his first campaign for Congress. Coffman succeeded Tom Tancredo, a former GOP presidential candidate who made a name for himself as a virulent critic of illegal immigration.
And it's no accident that it comes after Coffman's district was redrawn to include nearly three times the number of Hispanics it had before the 2012 election.
"My district dramatically changed," the congressman told POLITICO. "In the district I had until last month, there wasn't a significant Hispanic population, and with the population I had, immigration wasn't a significant issue. In the district I have now, there is a significant Hispanic population. And meeting with those people really put a face on it."
Coffman's shift underscores the broader pressures confronting the Republican Party at a time when Hispanics are rapidly gaining clout, particularly in critical Western battleground states like Colorado.
A report by the Pew Hispanic Center released after the election showed that Hispanics made up 14 percent of Colorado's electorate in 2012, up from 13 percent in 2008 and 8 percent in 2004. The report found that President Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney among Colorado Hispanics 75 percent to 23 percent.
"I think Mike Coffman is a very savvy guy — he always has been — and he's smelled the coffee, so to speak," said Mike Stratton, a longtime Democratic strategist in the state. "There has been a transformation on immigration, and Colorado … will be an incubator of how immigration will affect congressional races."
For most of his quarter-century in elected office, taking a hard line on immigrants was a natural call for Coffman.


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The Buy/Sell/Trade/Finds Forum Guidelines and Users Guide
Guidelines by Denise, updated by Jeremy (Copyright) and approved by Forum Staff. User's Tips and Guide by David (Daz Hoo), updated by Jeremy. Combined into one post to save space, yet each are separate documents and should be considered as such.
FBTB Buy/Sell/Trade/Finds Forum Guidelines - Updated 1.14.09
[*]Buy/Sell/Trade at your own risk. FBTB is not responsible for trades gone bad, and will not moderate disputes.
[*]At least one end of any transaction must involve (a) LEGO item(s).
[*]The intent of this forum is 'Members Helping Other Members'. No scalping. If your deal involves a personal profit, be honest. Example: If you bought something at 50% off and someone is willing to buy it at less than MSRP but more than you paid, that is up to you, your buyer, and your conscience.
[*]No posting auctions in the B/S/T/F. They're impossible to manage and there's no system to guarantee who gets what, what the bids are, and they're just plain messy. Please see the Code of Conduct for more information on what is acceptable on the forums in general, and the B/S/T/F in particular.
[*]For-profit businesses may not advertise here. If your business has an offer that might benefit FBTB members, please contact FBTB administrators; suitable offerings will be posted on the main page of FBTB. However, one exception: If someone posts a 'wanted' item that you happen to have in your Bricklink store or currently on eBay, you may
to that effect as long as you are clear that it is Bricklink or eBay, and only link
to that item. Otherwise, no linking to eBay auctions ~ if you find an auction that may be interesting or helpful to other members, please send the info to
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Things you Should Know When Trading on FBTB - Updated 1.14.09
This guide was written by a forum member and does not reflect the views of the FBTB staff. The advice is sound though and should be considered before you begin trading in this informal setting.
Here is a list of things you need to know before you start posting, buying, selling or trading in this section. These aren't rules per say, more like friendly advices on how to behave properly and how to avoid getting into trouble.
1 Proper behavior in the B/S/T/F Forum
Before considering even posting in this section of the FBTBforums, you need to know a few things:
Scammers and scalpers are not welcome here
, as this forum is for members helping other members to get items they might not get otherwise. Yes, everyone has the right to get the current value for their items, but be prepared to justify your demands. Unlike
, there are no fees here, so asking the average price for your item is hard to justify. If youre in it for the money, this is not the place for you.
Getting your facts straight
, as in knowing the current value and availability of the item you are selling, trading or looking for, is the foundation of an intelligent and fair deal.
is a good reference for price and availability for discontinued sets or specific parts. If youre not sure, just ask around. Many experienced traders and sellers will gladly provide you with the information you need.
Thread crapping
, as in publicly commenting on another members sale, trade demand or price they are willing to pay for a certain set, is not welcome here. If you dont like what someone is publicly asking for something, just walk away. If you just cant help yourself, use the Private Message function to let them know.
Stealing someone elses thunder
, as in using someone elses thread to sell your own stuff, to outbid another buyer or to ask for the same set, is also not welcome here. This also includes posting in another members thread or in the
Straight Shooters List
thread for no good reasons.
Wasting someone elses time
, as in pulling out of a sale or trade for no good reasons, is rude and impolite. If you want to deal with someone, be sure you have the intention and the means to fulfill your end of the bargain.
Clarity and courtesy
go a long way in landing the perfect deal. If you post an offer or write to someone, take a few extra seconds to write a well thought out message, with proper spelling, punctuation and grammar. If youre offering something, be specific about the item, the price and the terms (condition of the item, payment, shipping, etc.). If youre looking for something, also be specific, especially if youre referring to a set that went on sale somewhere. Oh, and always take the time to answer people who sent you offers, even if youre not interested.
Bumping has its limits
. Bumping your thread once is acceptable, but after that, if you didnt get any offers, its probably because no one here is interested. So there is no need to bump your thread again and again (and again) if you dont change anything in your proposal.
2 - Trading or buying online should not be taken lightly
It is important to realize that dealing over the Internet is a very serious thing, and that transactions completed online are as valid and as serious as when you buy something from the store. That also means that deals gone badly can lead to legal actions, including fines, criminal records or even detention or jail time.
Bottom line is that any transaction made online shouldn't be taken lightly. If you enter a deal, be prepared to complete your end of it.
3 - Make sure the seller/trader is a serious person
Someone with just a few posts selling a brand new 4483 AT-AT set for $50 is somehow a little suspicious. A seller/trader should always be able to provide you with some kind of feedback (from eBay, Bricklink or the Straight Shooters list) of his prior dealings to sustain his(her) reputation as a serious person to deal with.
If youre worry about the other members reputation (or lack of), you can ask them to send out their end of the deal first. Another solution is to use a trusted third party to handle the transaction for you, both sending to him and him sending out all the items when all received.
The bottom line is this: if the other person cannot provide any kind of feedback, be cautious. You can trust the person in good faith, but take as many precautions as you can to protect yourself if something goes wrong.
4 - Get all the facts before paying or sending anything
So, the trader/seller has the item you wanted for a long time, and his price fits you. OK, but did you get all the facts you needed before you hand out your item or your hard earned money? Here are some questions to help you out:
- Is the item new in a factory sealed box, or is it used? And if used, was it built once and displayed only, or used often by a 6 year old?
- Is the item complete or missing elements (parts, minifigs, instructions, box, etc.)?
- If you're buying, how much is it going to cost you in shipping and handling?
- If you're trading, how much will it cost you to ship your item to him?
- How will the item be shipped? Loose in an envelope? In a box? Bubble wrapped? If you're trading, how will you ship your end?
- By what type of service is it going to be shipped? USPS? FedEx? UPS? Ground? Air? Express?
- How long approximately will you have to wait for the set? How long will the other have to wait for his item to arrive?
5 - Get the other's information
First and foremost, deals should not be concluded over Private Messaging on an online forum. You should get the email address of the person you're dealing with and confirm it before going ahead with the transaction. That way, if something goes wrong with either the forum or your transaction, you can always contact the other person.
Also, it's not a bad idea to get the person's real name, home address and phone number. Serious dealers won't mind giving you that type of information as long as you agree not to use that information for other purposes. Again, if something goes wrong, you have multiple ways to contact the other dealer.
Finally, when dealing with someone with a P.O. box, its always a good idea to get the home address of the person as well, because a P.O. Box is not always easy to trace back to a "real" person if something goes wrong.
6 - Double-check everything
You should double-check everything before completing the transaction. Did the other person get all your information correctly? Did you both agree on the same things (price, shipping date and method, items involved, etc.)? Did you get the person's info correctly?
7 - The method of payment
The first and most important rule is that you should never ever send cash in an envelope to a stranger. Why? Because you have no way to prove you did send the money, and you have no proof that the seller did receive it. Also, although the regular mail is somewhat reliable in North America, it's not always the case, and money in an envelope is way too easy to steal.
That being said, there are lots of other methods of payment out there: money orders, personal checks, etc. The basic rule here is to be able to prove you have paid the amount required, and have proof that the seller did get his money. An even safer way is one that provides you with the possibility to get your money back if you don't receive what you have paid for. PayPal, Google Check and other electronic transfer of funds methods now provide you with that additional security.
8 - Follow-up on your transaction
Since dealing online is serious business, you should keep in constant communication with the person you are dealing with while the transaction is not completed. You have just sent him his payment/item? Send him an email to notify him of that. He didn't notify you of when the shipment went out? Ask him about it. You just got your package? Send the dealer a thank you note, and post your feedback for others to see.
Keeping the lines of communication open with the person you're dealing with is the best way to insure he will deliver the goods as promised.
In hope this will help you have safe and great deals over this section of the FBTB forums.
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I have only partial access to admin board, all I can do is keep cleaning. If we want phpbb updated, we're gonna have to ask one of real admins to do it.
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this award is humbling because there
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Harold B. White III, professor of biochemistry and director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program at the University of Delaware, is the winner of this year's American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education.
The annual award is granted to a scientist who excels in educational leadership, writing, educational research, mentoring or public engagement to teach the subjects of biochemistry and molecular biology effectively.
"Hal is a consummate teacher whose influence on his students goes well beyond the classroom. Indeed, many of his undergraduate students report that he has directly affected their career choices," said Judith Voet of Swarthmore College and Donald Voet of the University of Pennsylvania in their nomination of White for the award.
White's dedication to serving students is exemplified by his having been a program director with HHMI funding since 1998. He, with colleagues, has received numerous grants to implement the problem-based approach to learning. He is also a co-founder of the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education at the university. There, professors from colleges and universities attend workshops that use problem-based learning to teach undergraduates how to solve complex problems that connect to real-world issues.
White also spends a significant amount of time in the classroom. Marilee Benore at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, a former graduate student in White's lab, said, "Hal White is one of the most interesting, engaging and genuine individuals to ever grace a biochemistry classroom full of rapt students."
Prior to devoting his career to multiple dimensions of undergraduate education, White conducted research on the structure, function and evolution of vitamin-binding proteins and was an early advocate of the so-called "RNA World" hypothesis, publishing more than 100 papers on these and other subjects. White has had nearly 80 undergraduate research students in his laboratory over the years. Kathleen Cornely at Providence College noted, "About one-fourth of the undergraduate students in Hal's lab appear as co-authors on research papers resulting from the work of his group."
White started out as a curious undergraduate majoring in biochemistry at the Pennsylvania State University, where he conducted undergraduate research and was elected to honor societies in chemistry, biology and mathematics. His research career began in earnest during his graduate studies in biochemistry at Brandeis University. He then took a postdoctoral research fellowship in chemistry at Harvard University with Konrad Bloch, a 1964 Nobel Prize winner and 44th president of the ASBMB. White has been at the University of Delaware since 1971.
White has received multiple awards for his efforts, including the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences 2005 award for outstanding teaching and its 2007 award for outstanding service, and the 2011 Howard Barrows Award for exceptional undergraduate teaching from McMaster University. He was named the 2013 CASE-Carnegie Delaware Professor of the Year and recently was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He will receive his award at the 2014 ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego, where he will give a presentation. The presentation will take place at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, in Room 6A of the San Diego Convention Center.
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Welcome to MotionTribe. In these Conditions of Use and in any other document, the user, natural or legal person, whether Owner, Renter or simple visitor, can be designated as "You" or "User (s)" and MotionTribe can be referred to as "We", "Our" or "MotionTribe". By accessing and / or using the MotionTribe.com website (hereinafter the "Site"), you acknowledge that you have read and accept, for an indefinite period without reservation, our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy available via the following links https://motiontribe.io/en/belgium/infos/terms and https://motiontribe.io/en/belgium/infos/privacy. The User who accesses the Site on behalf of a legal entity is also personally liable for compliance with the Terms of Use.
MotionTribe explicitly excludes all other terms and conditions. These Conditions of Use may only be derogated from by means of a written form signed by each of the parties. MotionTribe reserves the right to amend and / or supplement these Terms of Use at any time deemed expedient by MotionTribe and without any formality necessary to You. In such a case, no indemnity or compensation of any nature whatsoever may be claimed by You.
MotionTribe also relies on its users to treat other users and transactions with honesty which warrants that they will follow through their contract, and guarantee that they accept liability in the event of theft or damage.
Article 1. Information and identity of Motiontribe
MotionTribe is owned and operated exclusively by Aurélien Troonbeeckx & Haroun Souirji. All intellectual property rights related to the Site and its use are exclusively reserved for them.
For any information concerning the Site, its use or any claim, please contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Article 2. Activity
MotionTribe is a technology company. MotionTribe is a third-party web-based service that allows Owners to make available to Renters, for consideration, the Materials they own or use and enjoy. The role of MotionTribe is strictly limited to this simple provision.
MotionTribe does not market any Hardware. MotionTribe is an intermediary third party that offers the possibility for Owners and Renters to lease their Materials on a contract basis. MotionTribe is not a party to these contracts and can not be held responsible in this regard, either contractually or extra-contractually. Through use of the Site, Landlords and Renters explicitly mandate MotionTribe to collect and distribute the Rents in accordance with these Terms of Use.
Article 3. Definitions
§ Service (s): Leasing and / or rental of Equipment (s) on the Site;
§ Renter (s): User who is a member of MotionTribe who receives a Owner's Equipment;
§ Owner (s): User who is a member of MotionTribe who offers to rent Material on the Site;
§ Profile (s): Your personal page on MotionTribe, containing a short biography, location, material and photographs;
§ Rent (s): Rental price of Equipment (s) and any related costs. The Rent is fixed by the Owner and varies according to the duration of the rental and the value of the Equipment;
§ Late fees: means the indemnities to be borne by a Renter who does not comply with the agreed schedule for the return of the Leased Equipment;
§ Material (s): any material used and / or marketed in the audiovisual field and leased on the Site;
§ User data: any content on the site www.MotionTribe.com posted by a User.
Article 4. Eligibility
The Services offered on the Site are (i) reserved for Users aged eighteen (18) years or more, with full legal capacity, and (ii) only for Belgian residents. (iii) are reserved for audio-visual professionals and audio-visual students.
Any registration, use or access to the Site by a person who does not comply with the eligibility conditions will be rejected and will be subject to sanctions.
The Users undertake to respect all the legal provisions and regulations governing the Services and all activities related to the Site but also those relating to their own professional activity. Any use contrary to the Terms of Use of the Site is strictly prohibited and constitutes a breach of which the User is personally responsible.
Article 5. Accessibility and use of the Site
MotionTribe allows you to use the Site and access the Services at the following cumulative conditions:§ that you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, exchange, resell or otherwise use information for any purpose other than those presented on the Site;§ You agree not to reference, create links, copy or distribute any part of the Site or the Services on any media without the prior written consent of MotionTribe;§ not to take and / or use screenshots of all or part of the Site without the prior written permission of MotionTribe;§ Use reverse engineering and manipulate to obtain or copy the source code of the Site;§ not to alter or modify the Site or any part of it and to compromise its security;§ To use information or contents of the Site in order to offer a service that is competitive there;§ To impose a disproportionate burden on the Bandwidth of the Site in order to disrupt its activity or to introduce viruses into it, in any way;§ comply with the Terms of Use, Legal and Regulatory.Furthermore, MotionTribe reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without having to justify its reasons, to suspend, modify, delete, replace or refuse any User account.MotionTribe is solely and exclusively the owner of the intellectual property rights of the Site and its content including, without limitation, its text, graphics, designs, images, videos, drawings, software, etc.You understand, and hold MotionTribe harmless from any and all liability and claims in this regard, that, through use of the Site and / or the Service, You expose yourself to User Data from a variety of sources and MotionTribe makes no claim whatsoever to their verification, accuracy or compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.The User is obliged to ensure, in accordance with the legal and regulatory provisions relating thereto, the conformity of his use of the Site and the Services.
Article 6. Obligations of Users
Users, under pain of civil and / or criminal prosecution, undertake to:
§ Use the Site and use the Services according to good morals and as a good father would do;
§ Do not spoof an identity and never use a profile of another User without prior authorization;
§ When creating a Profile, to provide true, accurate, complete information that is free of ambiguities or erroneous data;
§ Secure the profile and password according to usual usage;
§ Inform MotionTribe of any security breaches or unauthorized use of Your Profile;
§ Grant MotionTribe the right to use User Data contained in Your Profile for internal (and external?) Purposes, such as communication of User Data to other Site Users, statistics, advertisements and / marketing;
§ Do not use the content of the Site, such as User Data, for purposes that violate any privacy laws or regulations in effect;
§ Refrain from disseminating any data that may be listed as pornographic, defamatory, offensive, racist, xenophobic, obscene and, in general, any content that is contrary to laws, regulations and good morals;
Article 7. User Data
The MotionTribe Site supports the presentation of content by Users, including, but not limited to, videos, text, graphics, images, photos, or other communications and also supports the hosting, sharing, and / or publishing of such content User data on the Site.
Once communicated by the User, the User acknowledges and agrees that these User Data become public and MotionTribe does not guarantee their confidentiality. Users are solely responsible for their own User Data and the consequences of posting or publishing them.
As part of User Data you represent and warrant that:
§ you have all the licenses, rights, consents and authorizations required to authorize MotionTribe to use any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property rights;
§ You have the express consent of any person whose User Data is published on Your Profile;
§ By submitting the User Data to MotionTribe, you grant MotionTribe a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and execute rights within the Site, or any company that owns it, in all media formats and through all possible channels. You also grant each Site User a non-exclusive license to access your User Data, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform such User Data to the extent permitted by functionality of the Site and in accordance with these Terms of Use.
Moreover, You warrant that you will abstain:
§ make use of data protected by copyright, trade secret or otherwise protected by intellectual property rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you own the rights or if you own the explicit permission to publish and transfer them to MotionTribe without prior or specific permission;
§ post advertisements or business solicitations;
MotionTribe reserves the right to remove content submitted by Users without notice and without cause. MotionTribe also reserves the right to decide whether the content or publication of a User is appropriate and in compliance with these Terms of Use.
If you are the owner of the copyright or an agent of it and believe that a User of the Site violates your rights, you can submit a notification in writing to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Article 8. Reciprocal Obligations of Owners and Renters
Owners warrant that:
§ Information about the Materials they offer is an accurate and accurate representation of their Materials. The Owners acknowledge that the Renters rely on the veracity of this information within the framework of the Services;
§ the Materials they offer are available for hire and are operational according to their description;
§ they possess the Materials they offer or, at least, have the power to praise them.
§ Without affecting the liability of the Renter when it is attributable to it, the Owners acknowledge that the Rental Equipment may be slightly damaged. As such, an Owner can not invoke the liability of MotionTribe, the Renter or the intervention of a third party insurance when deterioration would result from normal wear and tear. MotionTribe may, in the event of disagreement between the Renter and the Owner in question and at their request, act as mediator in this respect. MotionTribe may also refuse to decide or intervene, but will not be held responsible.
Renters personally guarantee that they:
§ are fully responsible for the Materials they rent as part of the Services;
§ assume responsibility for any damage caused to a Material from the delivery by the Owner until it is returned to him;
§ assume responsibility for any loss or theft
§ will return the Materials at the agreed date and time, failing which they acknowledge that they are liable for a Late Fee that can reach the purchase price of the new product.
In the light of the foregoing, the Owner shall make an inventory of the entry and exit of the Equipment, failing which the Renter is deemed to have delivered the Equipment in the condition in which it was received.
Article 9. Payment and terms of payment
In consideration for the facilities granted by the Site, MotionTribe receives a commission on the Rent of Services. Taxes may also be charged. MotionTribe collects the Renter's payment as an agent of the Owners.
For the Services, MotionTribe levies a percentage equivalent to 15% of the Rent. In addition, MotionTribe charges 5% of the rent including taxes and insurance to open PayPal payment and other online payment fees. MotionTribe can not be held responsible for any delay in payment.
MotionTribe uses a third-party service, Paypal, to process payments. The processing of your personal data is carried out in accordance with the privacy policy of Paypal, available on its website). MotionTribe does not store credit card information on its servers.
The price suggestions offered on the MotionTribe site are default prices, but a lower transaction price may be agreed by both parties. This price will be communicated on the Site failing which, MotionTribe will calculate its commission on the price indicated on the Site.
If a Renter or Owner cancels a more
If a Renter cancels two days or more prior to the pick-up date, there is a full refund excluding MotionTribe charges. If a Renter cancels the day before the collection, there is a 50% refund of the rental price, except MotionTribe charges. If a Renter cancels on the pick-up date, there is no refund. Recidivists in terms of cancellation may see their account suspended or deleted.
The Late Fee is equal to the amount of the Daily Rent. The Deferral Fee is capped at the total value of the Leased Equipment. However, if the Equipment is not delivered within 21 calendar days of the end of the rental period, the Equipment will be considered as stolen or lost under the terms of these Terms of Use. Renters expressly agree to be charged by MotionTribe for Late-Time Fees.
Article 10. Taxes and charges
It is the responsibility of the Owners to pay all taxes and levies on the Rent collected within the framework of the Services.
MotionTribe does not advise in any way whatsoever and is not responsible for performing the obligations of the Users in such a case.
Article 11. Insurance
MOTIONTRIBE IS NOT AN INSURER OR AN INSURANCE BROKER. It is the responsibility of the Renters to be in possession of adequate insurance and at least a valid and orderly civil protection. MotionTribe assumes no responsibility for theft, loss or damage to Materials on the Site. Renters agree to hold MotionTribe free from liability.
Renters can take out insurance offered by a third party partner of MotionTribe. Users wishing to know the terms and conditions of the insurance can click on the following link: http://www.rbgroupe.be/motiontribe.
Owners and Renters have the option to provide proof of private insurance. If the Owner provides an insurance policy as part of the Services, the Service must be downloaded prior to the completion of the transaction. In this case Motiontribe can not be held responsible for damage caused or any loss resulting from the conditions of insurance provided by the users.
All claims for loss or theft must be reported to MotionTribe within 24 hours of the date of loss or theft.
The Users authorize MotionTribe to investigate any claim that may be brought back to us or any litigation that we may have knowledge of, without guaranteeing its assistance as a mediator.
Article 12. Liability
MotionTribe wants to provide its Users with an easy and reliable way to connect with each other. The Materials present on the Site are under the exclusive control of the Users. Thus, MotionTribe does not guarantee that a Hardware is what an Owner claims to be. MotionTribe does not warrant that the Renter will proceed with its reservation, return the Equipment, or return it without damage. MotionTribe does not warrant that the Owner provides accurate and correct descriptions of the Material or that the Owner transfers the Material to the Renter without defects or defects.
MotionTribe can not be held liable for the content or actions (or lack of action) of the Users or the Materials they rent. You acknowledge that we are not a User of the Site. On the contrary, MotionTribe is a place of exchange and We do not intervene in the transaction between Renter and Owner. Consequently, we have no control over the quality, safety or lawfulness of the Materials listed, the veracity or accuracy of the content or announcements of the Users, the ability of the Owners or Renters to use the Services. Nor can we ensure that the Owner or Renter will complete the transaction.
The rental agreements are concluded directly between the owners and the Renter. Furthermore, we can not guarantee a continuous and secure access to the Services, as the good functioning of our Site and Services can be affected by many factors that we do not control. We therefore exclude any warranties, conditions or other provisions and shall not be liable for any loss of money, goodwill or reputation, or for special, indirect or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with the use of Our Site and Services. We waive all warranties and liability to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Without prejudice to the stipulations in the preceding paragraph, if MotionTribe is held liable by a competent court, to You or a third party, Our liability shall not exceed the greater of: (a) the total amount of commissions you paid us during the 12 months preceding such action; or (b) EUR 150.
In the event of a dispute with one or more Users, You release us from all liability (including our directors, directors, agents, affiliated and associated companies, joint ventures and employees) for any and all claims and damages type or nature, known or not, resulting directly or indirectly from such disputes.
You further agree to indemnify and defend MotionTribe (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and our directors, officers, agents, affiliates and associates and employees from any claims or claims made by any third party arising out of or as a result of any breach by you of these Terms of Use or any document incorporated by reference herein or your violation of any law or right of such third parties.
Article 13. Intellectual property rights
The content of the MotionTribe Site, except all User Data, including, without limitation, text, software, scripts, graphics, images, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features and the like ") And the trademarks, service marks and logos contained therein (the" Marks ") are the property of MotionTribe and are subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under Belgian and foreign laws and international conventions. The Site Content is provided AS IS for your personal information and use only and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or exploited for any other purpose, MotionTribe's prior written consent. MotionTribe reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site and Content.
Article 14. UAVs and unmanned aerial vehicles
Under no circumstances may a Renter use a drone for illegal purposes. The Renter is responsible for compliance with any legislation concerning the use and operation of drones.
Article 15. Miscellaneous provisions
These Terms of Use represent the entire agreement between MotionTribe and You.
Any nullity or lapse of any of the clauses of these Conditions of Use does not invalidate or render null and void the other clauses contained therein, unless this clause constitutes an essential element and which infringes considerably to its nature.
All texts, comments, magazines, illustrations and images displayed on the Site are protected by copyright and related rights, as well as by every intellectual property right throughout the world. Any partial or total reproduction of the Site or its components is strictly prohibited and subject to the claim for damages by Us.
The Site may contain links to third party sites that are not owned or controlled by MotionTribe. MotionTribe disclaims any liability in connection with these third parties.
Failure to require the strict application of any of the provisions of these Terms of Use shall not be considered as a tacit waiver of Our Rights and shall in no way prevent us from further requiring strict compliance with these provisions.
Users may not assign, transfer their rights under the Terms of Use. MotionTribe and its Users agree to make every effort to find an amicable solution to any dispute that may arise.
Only Belgian law is applicable to these Terms of Use. Any dispute concerning the existence, execution and / or interpretation of these Terms of Use is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the borough in which We are established, in the French language.
Article 16. Referral Program
Motiontribe reserves the right to modify the rules and conditions of its sponsorship system at any time and without notifying its users. The invited and audited members must be professionals in the world of video, photography or creative active in the audiovisual sector. Audiovisual students are also accepted on the platform. But to put their equipment in rent, they must have a VAT number.
Qualifying Rentals A qualifying lease must be made for an amount of Minimum 100 £ excl. VAT and excluding insurance. You can use one coupon per purchase round of £100 on MotionTribe. This amount may vary during promotional periods. Use of your coupons Discount coupons can not be applied to past rentals. They expire one year after their issue date, and may only be used once. They are also not reusable if you cancel a reservation for which the discount vouchers are applicable. To be activated, guests must use the link, activate it and check their account on MotionTribe within 14 days of receiving the invitation email.


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After the success of La Bayadère, Rudolf Nureyev was back in John Tooley's office hoping to persuade him and Frederick Ashton to let him stage another Russian classic, Petipa's three-act Raymonda. This was a late masterpiece by the ballet master of the Imperial Ballet, according to the handful of people in the West who had seen it. "Fred would probably have described it as an 'old warhorse' and would have seen that it had both good and bad elements to it," Tooley suggests. "But this was going to be a huge investment and we kept asking ourselves, 'Are we right to invest this amount of money in a 19th-century ballet, even if it was choreographed by Petipa, when there are so many other works which we ought to think about doing?'"
Did Nureyev, coming from the Soviet system where budgets were as much political as economic, not understand the financial implications of staging Raymonda? "He was unaware of the cost of things," says John Tooley, "although he knew perfectly well about money. I vividly remember walking down Jermyn Street with him and we looked into a shop which had the most beautiful four-poster bed and Rudolf said, 'I'm going to get that!' And then he looked at it and said, 'No, I haven't got enough money, so I'll have to dance several times more so I can actually buy it!' He was aware of the fact that you had to get money to get things."
There was a compromise. If Nureyev wanted to make a three-act production of Raymonda then he would have to make it with The Royal Ballet's second company. It was agreed that Nureyev and Fonteyn would dance Raymonda with The Royal Ballet touring company at the Spoleto Festival. But how to secure the Kirov's version of the ballet with Petipa's original choreography? Doreen Wells, who danced the first night in Italy in August 1964, likens it to the plot from a James Bond movie. "Nureyev could not fully remember all the ballet from his early years at the Kirov so it was necessary to smuggle the original choreography from St Petersburg as it had been when Petipa created the ballet in 1898. [And it was done] through a young Canadian ballet dancer who had a scholarship and could come and go easily to and from the Soviet Union. It was brought out in an empty thermos flask; the notes were provided by Nureyev's great teacher and master Aleksandr Pushkin."
As rehearsals for Raymonda were under way, the plot thickened – to the point of curdling. John Tooley remembers the problems of trying to stage a full-length classical ballet away from the Company's base with Nureyev falling out with his designer Beni Montresor. "Rudolf kept saying, 'This is no good. This is not what I want.' But it was all too late because we had to go on with what Beni had designed."
The final blow came days before the first night. Margot Fonteyn had to leave the Company to fly to her husband Roberto Arias, whose life was in danger following a shooting incident in Panama. Doreen Wells took Fonteyn's place having learnt the title role in little more than 24 hours. The performance was a triumph.
Yet The Royal Ballet's main company never took Nureyev's three-act version of Raymonda into their repertory. A young Anthony Dowell saw the whole ballet in 1965 when Australian Ballet brought Nureyev's version to London. "I realized even with my junior eyes that there wasn't much substance to it in terms of story. Along with Don Quixote I think that it's one of the thinnest plots ever." By Act III the meagre plot has become an excuse for pure dance. "Curiously enough Act III stands up quite well on its own," says John Tooley. "It's a very good series of divertissements – a useful one-act addition to the repertory and a good representation of 19th-century Russian ballet."
So, as with La Bayadère, Rudolf Nureyev taught The Royal Ballet the final act of Raymonda. John Tooley often watched the rehearsals. "Rudolf was an immensely hard worker… He was endlessly demanding and he wouldn't accept it when a dancer said, 'I can't do this'. He would say 'Come on, you can'. And then he would stretch them beyond what they thought they could do."
Monica Mason agrees with the suggestion that not everyone could cope with Rudolf. "It was the people who really weren't afraid of working hard that he had the most patience with. If they were one hundred per cent committed, he would be the same. And he would go over and over something, just like he did for himself.
"He would always do full class in the morning and then take rehearsals at noon and sit on that chair at the front and jump up and demonstrate and then go back and sit down. He always watched from the front with his little woolly hat pulled down over his head to keep him warm."
But what about the famous Tartar temperament? "I don't think that I was ever nervous of Rudolf or frightened of him. Later on when he became very exhausted and was unpredictable, then his moods used to unsettle and scare me. But not that much, because one knew that he got rid of his furies, venting them brilliantly! The swearing was terrible but you knew it was never personal!"
If The Kingdom of the Shades and, above all, Raymonda Act III, are Nureyev's lasting legacy to The Royal Ballet, there is also something less tangible but just as important for the Company. Doreen Wells argues that, "he certainly changed the male dancer as far as The Royal Ballet was concerned. He made him more important." As Monica Mason will tell you, he also raised the bar for everyone in the Company: "Whenever he was on here at the Opera House everyone pulled their socks up; it always seemed to me the level just rose because of his great performing skills." Doreen Wells would go further: "He was a true star. It was his energy and his style. He really had the magic of the dance in his soul."