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- Sita's Agnipariksha in Ramayan
- Prophet in Hindu Scriptures – Bhavishya Puran (Part 2)
- Prophet in Hindu Scriptures – Vedas (Part 3)
- Prophet in Hindu Scriptures – An analysis (Part 1)
- Polygamy in Hinduism
- 'Concept of God in Hinduism'
- Introduction to Hinduism (edited with comments)
- FAQ on Hinduism – IITian thrashes Zakir Naik
There is a proverb in Sanskrit which states that if one mixes even a little poison in the food, the entire plate has to be rejected.
We shall understand the implications of this proverb through a case study. We shall take one of the articles of Dr Zakir Naik, the self-proclaimed scholar of comparative religion for this. We have already seen in previous series how Dr Naik has ably proved that Prophet Muhammad was predicted in Hindu scriptures, even if meant accepting that the Prophet was a ghost, demon, mass-murderer. You can review the analysis of Dr Naik's research at http://agniveer.com/featured/prophet-hindu/ as a three part series.
Today, we shall take the excellent research article: "Introduction to Hinduism" by Dr Zakir Naik. You can review the original article at http://www.irf.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145&Itemid=128
What we shall do here is to edit the article by strikethrough of certain portions and providing replacement in red color and comments in italics. By the end of the article, you would realize how a little poison makes the entire food deadly. You shall also realize this further when we analyze his next article on Hinduism in future.
So here we BEGIN:
INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM by Dr. Zakir Naik (Comment: We shall review his medical knowledge in a later post on Science in Quran and Vedas)
"The most popular among the Aryan religions is Hinduism."
(1. Very smartly, he has started by sowing doubts that Aryan and Hinduism imply different things. Later he says that Hinduism is based on Vedas.
2. Can Dr Naik or his IRF Team name few other religions which are Aryan but not Hinduism? Can they prove that the word Arya did not originate from Vedas? The strategy was Divide and Rule by sowing seeds of differences among smaller groups)
Dr Naik: "' Hindu' is actually a Persian word that stands for the inhabitants of the region beyond the Indus Valley. However, in common parlance, Hinduism is a blanket term for an assortment of religious beliefs, most of which are (which is) based on the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. "(as final authority and Upanishads and Geeta as other guiding texts)
(Even Upanishads and Mahabharat claim Vedas to be the Supreme authority and clearly state that all other texts including Purans are to be interpreted in lines with Vedas. This is important because, what IRF will do is to twist and try to manipulate the meaning of verses to suit their own agenda of proving Muhammad left, right and center!)
Dr Naik: "II INTRODUCTION TO HINDU SCRIPTURES.
There are several sacred scriptures of the Hindus. Among these are the Vedas, Upanishads and the Puranas.
1. The word Veda is derived from vid which means to know, knowledge par excellence or sacred wisdom. There are four principal divisions of the Vedas"
(although according to their number, they amount to 1131 out of which about a dozen are available)
(1. This sentence was deliberately put to prove that complete Vedas are not available and hence Hindus should accept Quran as full and final message of God.
2. But the fact is that there are only 4 Vedas and ALL are available in exactly same format as they were first given.
3. The 1131 number of branches being referred is those of explanations/ variants of original Veda Samhitas. The original still remain intact without change of even a single pronunciation or pitch) .
Dr Naik: "According to Maha Bhashya of Patanjali, there are 21 branches of Rigveda, 9 types of Atharvaveda, 101 branches of Yajurveda and 1000 of Samveda).
2. The Rigveda, the Yajurveda and the Samveda are considered to be more ancient books and are known as Trai Viddya or the 'Triple Sciences'. The Rigveda is the oldest and has been compiled in three long and different periods of time. The 4th Veda is the Atharvaveda, which is of a later date."
(1. All Vedas are considered to be of same age. They were revealed at inception of human civilization. There is no proof whatsoever to conclude that Vedas were written over a long period of time and some Vedas are older, some of later date.
2. Dr Naik has brought forth the baseless conjecture of western indologists and communists to suit his own agenda.
3. Fact remains that there is not one single evidence to support his hypothesis except that it suits the agenda of invaders to prove that even Aryans were invaders and Vedas are not revealed.
4. Dr Naik has been openly challenged officially to come for a debate on this, but he prefers to remain in hiding.)
Dr Naik: "3. There is no unanimous opinion regarding the date of compilation or revelation of the four Vedas. According to Swami Dayanand, founder of the Arya Samaj, the Vedas were revealed 1310 million years ago"(1.97 billion years ago)
(1. This is not Dayanand's calculation but as given in Manu Smriti and Surya Siddhanta and accepted by most traditional scholars irrespective of their philosophical beliefs.
2. Modern science cannot refute this estimate and admits that this is near to their estimates of evolution of life on earth.
3. Swami Dayanand was specifically mentioned to emphasize that he gave such ridiculously large number as age of Vedas. This is because Arya Samaj and Swami Dayanand have been the strongest critics of Islam for last 125 years, starting Shuddhi or reconversion movement to come back to Vedic Dharma and a prime force to combat Islamic Jehad. Even today, Dr Naik and his IRF is scared of facing Arya Samaj directly, despite several official challenges for debate.)
Dr Naik: "According to other scholars, they are not more than 4000 years old."
(1. These other scholars are none other than Christian indologists and their followers who have not one single proof to support their claim except that they believe Biblical genesis to happen few thousand years ago!
2. Again this is emphasized to prove Hindus that Vedas may not be as important as they believe, and that Quran is most perfect voice of God.
3. The fact is that Vedas are the only texts in world to have oral traditions running till date and a mechanism to ensure that not even a single syllable or pronunciation can be altered through 10 different Paath Vidhis. (Refer this article)
4. On contrary, Quran was written 20 years after death of Muhammad by those who were fighting against each other and killing each other to prove Islam to be a religion of Peace.
5. A large number of sects of Islam refuse to accept Quran to be perfect or even Muhammad to be final Prophet. Many have thus also developed new Qurans and new Prophets. Click this sentence to refer to this list for 73 divisions of Islam since its inception. Further Islamic hadiths say that only one of them is true and rest will go to Hell! I am not sure where Dr Naik will go!)
Dr Naik: "4. Similarly, there are differing opinions regarding the places where these books were compiled and the Rishis to whom these Scriptures were given. Inspite of these differences, the Vedas are considered to be the most authentic of the Hindu Scriptures and the real foundations of the Hindu Dharma."
(1. The first part of the sentence was put to emphasize that Hindu Dharma is on a very shaky foundation, and thus justifying his appeal to come to Islam. But truth is that these differing opinions come from foreign intellectuals and communists alone who have their own agendas.
2. And most importantly, they can cite not one single evidence in support of this claim except names of certain places in Vedas. And this amounts to saying that Mahabharat has been written in last 10 years because it contains words like Lal, Krishna, Atal, Vihari, Rahul, Arjun, Manmohan, Rajiv, Laal, Prasad and even Naik!)
Dr Naik: "2. UPANISHADS:
1. The word 'Upanishad' is derived from Upa meaning near, Ni which means down and Shad means to sit. Therefore 'Upanishad' means sitting down near. Groups of pupils sit near the teacher to learn from him the secret doctrines.
According to Samkara, 'Upanishad' is derived from the root word Sad which means 'to loosen', 'to reach' or 'to destroy', with Upa and ni as prefix; therefore 'Upanishad' means Brahma-Knowledge by which ignorance is loosened or destroyed.
2. The number of Upanishads exceeds 200 though the Indian tradition puts it at 108. There are 10 principal Upanishads. However, some consider them to be more than 10, while others 18. "
(Again the same ploy to seed doubts over authenticity of our beliefs. Fact is that there are 10 Upanishads considered important, but even these are accepted to be authentic so far they agree with Vedas. This is because only Vedas have a mechanism that ensures they cannot be altered, and all knowledge started from Vedas.)
Dr Naik: "3. The Vedanta meant originally the Upanishads, though the word is now used for the system of philosophy based on the Upanishad. Literally, Vedanta means the end of the Veda, Vedasua-antah, and the conclusion as well as the goal of Vedas. The Upanishads are the concluding portion of the Vedas and chronologically they come at the end of the Vedic period.
4. Some Pundits consider the Upanishads to be more superior to the Vedas. "
(These must be Dr Naik's gang of Pandits. Otherwise, even Upanishads declare that Vedas are final authority. This forms the foundation of Sanatan Dharma which needs to shaken to get more converts to IRF brand of Islam!)
Dr Naik: "3. PURANAS:
Next in order of authenticity are the Puranas which are the most widely read scriptures. It is believed that the Puranas contain the history of the creation of the universe, history of the early Aryan tribes, life stories of the divines and deities of the Hindus. It is also believed that the Puranas are revealed books like the Vedas, which were revealed simultaneously with the Vedas or sometime close to it."
(1. Very smartly he has inserted 'tribe' with Aryan to demean it. Truth is that if one reads through Hadiths, he would realize what a tribe actually means!
2. No one considers Puranas to be either revealed like Vedas or as old as Vedas. Puranas themselves repeat innumerable times that Vedas are ultimate authority and revelation of God, and Puranas are to be interpreted only as per Vedas.
3. Further, most scholars agree that Puranas contain significant adulterations and/or misinterpretations. That is why, in matters of moral conduct, Puranas are not considered to be the benchmark for Hindu society. And that is why, despite stories of Radha-Krishna, the norm of Hindu society is to emphasize self-control and Brahmacharya in youth. These stories are either rejected by certain scholars or reinterpreted to mean something mystical. But no one takes stories of Puranas literally – this is an important aspect of Hindu Dharma.
4. The reason why Dr Naik wants to emphasize on Puranas being revealed is obvious – He wants to prove Muhammad in Puranas later. But if you read my article on Prophet in Bhavishya Puran, you would realize that it means Muhammad was a demon, ghost and a great nuisance! This may be 74th sect of Islam that would go to Heaven!)
Dr Naik: "Maharishi Vyasa has divided the Puranas into 18 voluminous parts. He also arranged the Vedas under various heads.
Chief among the Puranas is a book known as Bhavishya Purana. It is called so because it is believed to give an account of future events. The Hindus consider it to be the word of God. Maharishi Vyasa is considered to be just the compiler of the book."
(1. This crazy emphasis on Bhavishya Puran was put to prove Muhammad – as ghost and demon – in Bhavishya Puran later!
2. But neither do Hindus take Bhavishya Puran seriously nor does it predict anything. It is a forged Purana that continued to be written till late 19th century. Apart from Muhammad , it also contains stories of Shivaji, Aurangzeb, Mughals, Queen Victoria, her Parliament etc etc. This is the least authentic book of Hinduism and contains lots of stories with questionable authenticity.
3. Most people have not even heard of this Purana, and none consider this important for any religious activity or reading. Far from a word of God, it is considered fake by most.
4. The only word of God Hindus believe in are the Vedas. And Dr Naik should be thankful for this, because Bhavishya Puran calls Muhammad a demon, a ghost and a nuisance!)
Dr Naik: "4. ITIHAAS:
The two epics of Hinduism are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
A. Ramayana:
According to Ramanuja, the great scholar of Ramayana, there are more than 300 different types of Ramayana: Tulsidas Ramayana, Kumbha Ramayana. Though the outline of Ramayana is same, the details and contents differ. "
(1. Ramanuj was a communist who insulted Ramayana characters by bringing insulting descriptions from different folklores, most known only to him. The daughter of Manmohan Singh, our PM, introduced his chapter in Delhi University. That caused a big uproar and the matter went to Supreme Court. It is still being contested but the chapter has been withdrawn by Delhi University because the Dean got thrashed for defending this insult of Ramayan characters.!
2. Suddenly, this Ramanuj, who is unknown to all except communists, becomes 'great scholar' for Dr Naik for obvious reasons.
3. All consider only Valmiki Ramayan to be authentic. Further, even in Valmiki Ramayan, all verses are not considered authentic and many seem to have entered later. Thus, scholars conclude that episodes like Sita's Agni Pariksha and entire Uttar Ramayan that contains stories like Sita's exile and Shambook's death are later era figments of imagination having nothing to do with original Ramayan. We shall review this in a separate research.)
Dr Naik: "Valmiki's Ramayana:
Unlike the Mahabharata, the Ramayana appears to be the work of one person – the sage Valmiki, who probably composed it in the 3rd century BC.
(There is no evidence to date Ramayan to 3rd BC except tales of communist historians! Valmiki is mentioned in several works which are dated much before that!)
Its best-known recension (by Tulsi Das, 1532-1623) consists of 24,000 rhymed couplets of 16-syllable lines organised into 7 books. The poem incorporates many ancient legends and draws on the sacred books of the Vedas. It describes the efforts of Kosala's heir, Rama, to regain his throne and rescue his wife, Sita, from the demon King of Lanka.
Valmiki's Ramayana is a Hindu epic tradition whose earliest literary version is a Sanskrit poem attributed to the sage Valmiki. Its principal characters are said to present ideal models of personal, familial, and social behavior and hence are considered to exemplify Dharma, the principle of moral order."
(At last! finally so many lines without significant blunders!)
Dr Naik: "B. Mahabharata:
The nucleus of the Mahabharata is the war of eighteen days fought between the Kauravas, the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra and Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu. The epic entails all the circumstances leading upto the war. Involved in this Kurukshetra battle were almost all the kings of India world joining either of the two parties. The result of this war was the total annihilation of Kauravas and their party. Yudhishthira, the head of the Pandavas, became the sovereign monarch of Hastinapura. His victory is supposed to symbolise the victory of good over evil. But with the progress of years, new matters and episodes relating to the various aspects of human life, social, economic, political, moral and religious as also fragments of other heroic legends came to be added to the aforesaid nucleus and this phenomenon continued for centuries until it acquired the present shape. The Mahabharata represents a whole literature rather than one single and unified work, and contains many multifarious things.
C. Bhagavad Gita:
Bhagavad Gita is a part of Mahabharata. It is the advice given by Krishna to Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. It contains the essence of the Vedas and is the most popular of all the Hindu Scriptures. It contains 18 chapters.
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most widely read and revered of the works sacred to the Hindus. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiration for many thousands of Hindus.
The Gita is a dramatic poem, which forms a small part of the larger epic, the Mahabharata. It is included in the sixth book (Bhismaparvan) of the Mahabaharata and documents one tiny event in a huge epic tale.
The Bhagavad Gita tells a story of a moral crisis faced by Arjuna, which is solved through the interaction between Arjuna, a Pandava warrior hesitating before battle, and Krishna, his charioteer and teacher. The Bhagavad Gita relates a brief incident in the main story of a rivalry and eventually a war between two branches of a royal family. In that brief incident – a pause on the battlefield just as the battle is about to begin – Krishna, one chief on one side (also believed to be the Lord incarnate), is presented as responding to the doubts of Arjuna. The poem is the dialogue through which Arjuna's doubts were resolved by Krishna's teachings."
(As a smart covert hypnotist, Dr Naik ends up the article without seeding further doubts so that it all appears unbiased and normal. This also gives time to plant the ideas that he has previously introduced subtly:
a. Aryans were tribals
b. Authenticity of Vedas, the primary texts of Hindu Dharma, are questionable
c. Vedas are not as old as they are assumed to be
d. Swami Dayanand and Arya Samaj make ridiculous assumptions about Vedas
e. Bhavishya Puran is most important text of Hindu Dharma
f. Other texts apart from Vedas are also considered equally authentic
g. Ramayan and Ram may not be authentic
Now these subtle suggestions are to serve his future agenda, as also obvious in his research on Prophet in Hindu Scriptures!)
This is nothing but a variant of a technique permitted in some schools of Islam which allows you to use deceit and confusion to defeat the enemy. But I hope everyone shall accept truth and truth alone! Because a little poison is a dangerous thing!
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This is going be a week to remember. The Vibes will be at an all time high as we join forces in London and get ready to hit the road; our Oktoberfest extravaganza kicks off NOW! You didn't think this trip would be ALL about the beer halls and pickled ham, did you? Gosh no. We have to cram in a bit of sightseeing on the side. First spotting: the White Cliffs of Dover in all their chalky brilliance.
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The Edited Transcript of the Most Venerable Rector, Dr. Phra Dharmakosajarn's Opening Speech for the Symposium of Buddhist Universities, for the UN Day of Vesak 25
Our intention and the theme is to get to know each other – and try to make a joint effort to do something together. If possible: we expect to see a new phenomenon – to create a common platform where we can come to meet with each other to share our ideas, to have dialogues – to enable us to share with and support each other. Developed institutes can help our Buddhist friends who are not quite so developed, to provide better education to the members of the Sangha and Buddhists throughout the world. As we will discuss in our Buddhist Contribution to Good Governance and Development, man is the center of development. If we want to see development in our religion of Buddhism, the most important factor to be developed now is not to construct new temples, but to develop manpower, that is our monks, nuns and laypeople. What would be the best way to develop them by means of Buddhist education? So far we have to accept the fact that although we have good messages of the Buddha to convey, the means and ways to train our people need to be developed. I expect those that have experience in this field, who have successes in running educational institutions can tell our friends here how to achieve that and what would be the complementary role that we expect from our friends – that is to think about the exchange programs, visiting professors, and whatever else there is. Before we achieve that we expect to invite all of you to come here and think about setting up a platform for that purpose. From my own conviction, I think this is possible, and having seen all of our faces here I hope that we can achieve something from this symposium and meeting.
The point is that if we have that platform of the International Association of Buddhist Universities, we need to organize it with good governance. What are the main factors of good governance?
The first thing is participation. We expect that participating universities and colleges will come forward to join our movement. It is not on an individual basis, but on the basis of institutions. We want to draw as much participation as possible from the existing institutions in the world. Maybe in the future you have to be open for new members to discuss in our platform. So participation is the first factor of good governance. Participation not only from the far developed institutions, but for whatever possible ways we can help each other we open our platform, we open our hearts to welcome [all members] – and to pledge for the developed institutions to help us, to guide us, so that we can have something to provide support to each other.
The second aspect of good governance in our association would be accountability. If there is any difficulty and someone asks for our help, this association must be ready to provide assistance, not to avoid the crying voice to help us here or there… In poor countries, we must be ready to help them, to develop them. If possible we can set up information technology or computer networks – networking our institutions together – so that we can have teleconferences or whatever is necessary and possible through information technology. The way that our Venerable Friend from Australia, Panyavaro can set up a Buddhist E-Library can serve our purpose here. That is for accountability.
The other factor of our platform would be transparency. Our working together must be transparent, we must have check and balance, so that we can have confidence in each other. That means whatever we are doing we must be doing it with concentration, with contributions from our friends within equal rights to know what we are doing.
The last factor that we expect from the new platform is efficiency – invest less, put less money, less energy and effort with more productivity. We don't have to spend much time, much money to run this platform, but with our contributions from each institution we can have something "more multiplied" – that is, efficiency.
So, if we have these guidelines in our minds in the Buddhist way, we expect that our association will continue to serve our purpose with much success. So, If I may join you, I think that it is necessary to lay down these guidelines of good governance to run our own association and also societies, so that we can invite newcomers into our association and work together on equal terms, with the aspects of Buddhism helping each other, not to exploit [each other], not to do anything [that is] against Buddhist principles.
Maybe institutions in rich countries can have independent bodies without relying on others, but according to the law of paticcasamuppada – dependent origination – we have to depend on each other for our survival in the present-world. The Buddha has taught us this, and we ask you all here, according to the law of dependent origination that we will stick to the law and work it with discipline. I hope we can achieve our objectives, of coming here and doing something together. With this, I open the meeting and welcome you to this symposium.
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Here's yet another brilliant infographic from Flip Flop Fly Ball, this one documenting the last player from each baseball team to wear Jackie Robinson's uniform number, #42, which was retired league-wide in 1997. Twelve players were allowed to continue to wear the number "per a grandfather clause," and, as indicated by the final name on the graph, only one of the twelve remain in the league thirteen years later. However, it is fitting that the one player who still wears #42 to this day (and who will be the last player to ever wear #42) is Mariano Rivera, the Yankees legendary relief pitcher, who will almost undoubtedly go down as the greatest closer of all time.
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I always enjoy my MMS Pick of the month for Decor Steals and this one is no exception. The piece that they're offering up for sale today is very special. It's a 1920's wooden water bucket. Yes, a true antique.
I love the warmth of old wood. Anyway, pieces like this have so much possibility. It's the perfect spot for some magazines by a comfy chair or it could be a waste paper basket in a powder room…
(Check out the detail on that handle!)
…and it's perfect to keep rolls of toilet paper handy.
Don't wait too long on this steal…I bet it will sell out quickly.
And here's a preview of tomorrow's steal…a set of four nesting wooden herb crates.
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As most emacsers probably know, emacs 23 allows you to use anti-aliased fonts, in effect making emacs beautiful and even more of a pleasure and a joy to use. Dagobart recently wrote a post, explaining how to set this up on Linux.
I've seen a few posts like this before, ever since version 23 was in alpha so I thought it would be a good opportunity to do a quick roundup.
Way back at the start of 2007, Alexandre Vassalotti packaged up an early version of emacs23. Later on he updated it.
Oscar Bonilla wrote posts on how to prettify emacs for OS X and later on for Windows. The rather excellent EmacsW32 package is now based on a build of Emacs 23.
Dagobart's post references these Linux setup instructions at sevenever.
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John Updike celebrates the Fourth in the spirited children's poem "July," which begins: "Bang-bang! Ka-boom! / We celebrate / Our national / Independence date." The poem is one of 12, one for each month, collected in A Child's Calendar (Holiday House, 32 pages, $17.95 hardcover, $6.95 paperback, ages 4–8). Beautifully illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, this picture book won a Caldecott Honor for its images of four seasons in the life of members of an interracial New England family and their friends. Don't miss Updike tending the barbecue grill in the full-page picture next to the poem.
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Noel Perrin's Vermont: The Last Harvest
The late, great essayist on life with cows, maple syrup, woodstoves, and the neighbors who cherished them all
Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer. By Noel Perrin. Selected and with a foreword by Terry Osborne. Godine, 175 pp., $24.95.
What book would you give to friends who yearn to live amid covered bridges, weathered red barns, and church suppers to which nobody brings a dish that includes rumaki? I'd give Best Person Rural, a collection of two dozen of the most memorable essays by the late Noel Perrin, America's unofficial laureate of rural life in the late 20th century.
Perrin died on November 21, 2004, after a distinguished but unpretentious life as a professor of English at Dartmouth College and 41-year resident of a Vermont farm graced by apple trees, stone walls, and a sugarhouse. And no eulogist summed up his work better than Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, who said he might have had "the best plain prose style in America." There is nothing fancy about Perrin's writing on topics like calving, maple sugaring, and woodstoves. But neither is there any affected folksiness or sentimentality about life on a New England farm.
In Best Person Rural, Perrin admits that Vermont has a "rotten climate." A fine old covered bridge "secretly rests on new steel I-beans, set in concrete." And he once saw "a storekeeper spend half an hour taking crackers out of plastic-sealed boxes and putting them in the barrel he thinks summer visitors expect him to have." His writing has an authenticity that sprang from loving New England enough to want to pay it the compliment of depicting it honestly.
A theme running through many of the pieces in Best Person Rural is the clash between tradition and modernity in the years from 1964 to 2004, when he wrote the essays in the collection. Progress has the upper hand, and it's all the more reason to give this book to friends who fantasize about rural life. Others may envision Vermont as a kind of Arcadia with Internet connections. Perrin reminds us that the day is coming – if it is not here – when much of Vermont will look "like central New Jersey with hills."
Best line: "Despite the vast changes of the last twenty years, I think it is still accurate to say that the basic New England characteristic is a kind of humorous stoicism. You expect it to snow just before you have to drive a hundred miles, and to be sleeting when you have a day off to ski."
Worst line: None.
Recommended if … you admire essayists with an unadorned prose style, such as E.B. White, or are looking for a gift for a reader with a passion for rural life.
Editor: Terry Osborne chose the essays from Perrin's First Person Rural, Second Person Rural, Third Person Rural, Last Person Rural and added five uncollected pieces.
Published: October 2006
Consider reading also: A Reader's Delight (Dartmouth, 1988), a collection of 40 brief and elegant essays that Perrin wrote for the Washington Post about some of his favorite books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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A short history of Bettie's life: Bettie Page: An American Icon
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I just read that she died. Its just a shame to hear that the original Catwoman died. R.I.P. dear.
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Actor Ricardo Montalban, star of the hit TV series "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said.
Ricardo Montalban attends the opening of a theater named for him in 2004 in Hollywood, California.
Montalban, 88, was in deteriorating health over the past several days but "died peacefully" at 6:30 a.m. at his home, son-in-law Gilbert Smith said.
He understood "it was his time," Smith said. The cause of death was not given.
Montalban rose to prominence as one of the most visible Hispanic actors in post-war Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. But his star grew as he took on television roles as the mysterious host Mr. Roarke on the hit drama "Fantasy Island" and as Captain Kirk's archnemesis Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 25, 1920, Montalban knew at an early age that he wanted to be an actor. He moved to Hollywood as a teenager, and his first big break came when he was cast in a small part in a 1941 play, Tallulah Bankhead's "Her Cardboard Lover."
After starring in 13 Spanish-language films in Mexico, Montalban made his American feature film debut in 1947 in "Fiesta."
Montalban became a member of the MGM stable and was often cast in the role of the steamy Latin lover opposite such female stars as Lana Turner and Esther Williams.
While working on "Across the Wide Missouri" with MGM's biggest star, Clark Gable, Montalban suffered an injury to his spinal cord that, despite surgery, would plague him for decades to come, according to Turner Classic Movies.
It was during this early stage in his career that Montalban dedicated himself to changing Hollywood's stereotypes of Latinos.
"When I first came to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under contract in 1945, that's when the image was at its worst," Montalban said. "They didn't realize that by trying to be colorful, they were very insulting."
Montalban played a wide range of film roles over the years, often relishing the chance to play in comedies.
As he approached midlife in the 1960s, Montalban made numerous guest appearances on television shows including "The Untouchables" and "The Lieutenant," eventually landing a recurring role as Damon West on the popular medical drama "Dr. Kildare."
During this period, Montalban secured his place in science-fiction history playing the evil but charismatic Khan in the first season of "Star Trek."
Montalban's dignified demeanor and rich accent added flair to the small screen on a number of television shows. It also established him as a popular pitchman for Maxwell House Coffee and Chrysler.
It was the role of the wise and benevolent Mr. Roarke on the 1970's hit TV series "Fantasy Island" that perhaps earned Montalban his greatest number of fans, something he called "very rewarding." iReport.com: Share your memories of Montalban
But he said he tired of hearing fans shouting "Zee plane, zee plane" when they saw him. The line was featured in the show's opening credits by another character, Tattoo.
"They think they are the only ones that thought of saying that," he told CNN during the 1990s. "People mean well, but the joke gets a little tired at times."
Montalban never tired of fighting for the rights of Latinos in Hollywood. For almost 20 years, he served as president of Nosotros, an organization he founded for the advancement of Hispanics in the entertainment industry.
"The ideals of Nosotros continue. As our community of Latinos in show business increases, so will our participation in all of the many aspects of our industry," he said in 1987.
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Lux Interior Dies At 60
By August Brown, LA Times
Lux Interior, the singer, songwriter and founding member of the pioneering New York City horror-punk band the Cramps, died Tuesday. He was 60.
Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, died at Glendale Memorial Hospital of a heart condition, according to a statement from his publicist.
With his wife, guitarist "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, Interior formed the Cramps in 1976, pairing lyrics that expressed their love of B-movie camp with ferocious rockabilly and surf-inspired instrumentation.
The band became a staple of the late '70s Manhattan punk scene emerging from clubs such as Max's Kansas City and CBGB, and was one of the first acts to realize the potential of punk rock as theater and spectacle.
Often dressed in macabre, gender-bending costumes onstage, Interior evoked a lanky, proto-goth Elvis Presley, and his band quickly became notorious for volatile and decadent live performances.
The Cramps recorded early singles at Sun Records with producer Alex Chilton of the band Big Star and had their first critical breakthrough on their debut EP "Gravest Hits.
The band's lack of a bassist and its antagonistic female guitarist quickly set it apart from its downtown peers and upended the traditional rock band sexual dynamic of the flamboyant, seductive female and the mysterious male guitarist.
The group was asked to open for the Police on a major tour of Britain in 1979 and reached its critical apex in the early '80s with such albums as "Psychedelic Jungle" and "Songs the Lord Taught Us.
While the Cramps' lineup revolved constantly, Interior and Rorschach remained the band's core through more than three decades. The Cramps never achieved much mainstream commercial success, but instead found a reliable fringe audience for more than 30 years -- they even played a notorious show for patients at Napa State Hospital in Napa, Calif.
"It's a little bit like asking a junkie how he's been able to keep on dope all these years," Interior told The Times some years ago. "It's just so much fun. You pull in to one town and people scream, 'I love you, I love you, I love you.' And you go to a bar and have a great rock 'n' roll show and go to the next town and people scream, 'I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.' It's hard to walk away from all that.
The band's influence can be clearly felt among lauded minimalist art-blues bands, including the Black Lips, the White Stripes, the Horrors and Primal Scream, whose front man, Bobby Gillespie, allegedly named his son Lux.
The Cramps' most recent album, a collection of rarities, "How to Make a Monster," was released in 2004, and the band continued to tour well into the later years of its career, wrapping up its most recent U.S. outing in November.
Interior was born in Stow, Ohio, on Oct. 21, 1948. A Times report in 2004 said that he and Rorschach (born Kristy Wallace) met in Sacramento, where they bonded "over their enrollment in an art and shamanism class and a shared affection for thrift-shop vinyl before hitting the road for New York City.
In 1987, there were widespread rumors of Interior's death from a heroin overdose, and half a dozen funeral wreaths were sent to Rorschach. "At first, I thought it was kind of funny," Interior told The Times. "But then it started to give me a creepy feeling.
"We sell a lot of records, but somehow just hearing that you've sold so many records doesn't hit you quite as much as when a lot of people call you up and are obviously really broken up because you've died
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CHICAGO - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.
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Craig, a 6-foot-1, 205 pound senior defensive back was instrumental in the Knights 27-9 upset of No. 1 Saint Xavier (Ill.) on Nov. 5. He led the nation's top defense with a team-high 10 tackles (five solo) and had two crucial interceptions of Jimmy Coy, the conference's top passer. The native of Indianapolis, was part of a defensive unit to limit the Cougars to 276 total yards of offense, well below its 500-yard per-game average entering the game. Saturday's win earned Marian its first-ever Mid-States Football Association Mideast League championship and first undefeated regular season. His six interceptions on the season rank fifth in the NAIA.
Giesen, a 5-foot-11, 175 pound junior running back posted a career day for the Coyotes in their 38-37 win over McPherson (Kan.). He rushed 32 times for a career-high 256 yards (6.7 ypc). Giesen equaled his career high for touchdowns in a game with four. The native of Laguna Niguel, Calif., established the best single-game rushing yardage mark in the NAIA this season and eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark (1,186) for the first time in his career. He scored the first three touchdowns of the contest and then notched the eventual game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter that broke a 31-31 tie. Giesen ranks third in the NAIA this year in rushing yards per game (118.6) and fourth in all-purpose yards per game (159.8).
Murray, a 5-foot-8, 165 pound freshman placekicker hit a 30-yard field goal in overtime to send the Fighting Saints to a 30-27 victory over NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Georgia State in the Georgia Dome. Overall, he was 3-of-4 on field goals, which also included a 31-yarder as time expired in regulation. The native of Phoenix, Ariz., executed a successful on-side kick after St. Francis trimmed its deficit to 27-24 with 1:24 left in regulation. The team overcame a 10-point hole in the final five minutes for the programs first victory over a NCAA Division I FCS opponent. Murray ranks ninth in the NAIA in kick scoring per game (6.9).
Offensive Nominees: Bobby Brenneisen, Quincy (Ill.); Anthony Hubert, St. Francis (Ill.); Jeremiah Saffold, Doane (Neb.); Neal Pawsat, Georgetown (Ky.); Brady Wardlaw, Southern Nazarene (Okla.); Jordan Jackson, Benedictine (Kan.); Kevin Sampson, Eastern Oregon ; Chris Hart, Webber International (Fla.); John van den Raadt, Azusa Pacific (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Michael Hicks, Southern Nazarene (Okla.); Colby Henderson, Morningside (Iowa); Justin Vargas, Tabor (Kan.); Wayne Williams, Missouri Valley ; Jacob Batterson, William Penn (Iowa); Darius Skinner, Campbellsville (Ky.); Nick Magrone, Eastern Oregon ; Nate Keller, Webber International (Fla.); Sean Barber, Azusa Pacific (Calif.).
Special Teams Nominees: Tim Donegan, Bethel (Tenn.); Austin Coleman, Saint Francis (Ind.); Steven Lopez, Mayville State (N.D.); Austin Ledy, Southwestern (Kan.); Zach Thomas, Missouri Valley ; Mason Prater, Webber International (Fla.); Tom Yaremko, Carroll (Mont.); Jordan Delbaugh, Nebraska Wesleyan.
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Week 5: Jimmy Coy, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Nate Collier, Graceland (Iowa); Tom Lynch, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
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October 13, 2012
Youth Media Festival today in Oakland
I'm a fan of democratizing storytelling, and this event (2-5pm today) helps uncover otherwise hidden voices:
For its first public festival, the Bay Area Youth Media Network (BAYMN) will be showcasing youth-produced videos about social change with two specific categories on The 2012 Presidential Election and The High School Dropout Crisis on Saturday, October 13 at the Kaiser Center in Oakland from 2-5pm. It will be an afternoon dedicated to celebrate the great work of young people. There will be awards for the filmmakers as well as raffle prizes for the audience.
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Create and manage room mailboxes
A room mailbox is a resource mailbox that's assigned to a physical location, such as a conference room, an auditorium, or a training room. With room mailboxes, users can easily reserve these rooms by including room mailboxes in their meeting requests. When they do this, the room mailbox uses options you can configure to decide whether the invite should be accepted or denied.
To create a room mailbox, you need to be an administrator who's a member of either the Organization Management or Recipient Management role groups.
If you want to grant someone access to a room mailbox so they can directly manage its calendar (for example, an assistant who needs to make room for an executive meeting), you can do so using the instructions in Manage permissions for recipients. After a user's been granted permissions to access a room mailbox, they can open the mailbox using the instructions in Open and use a shared mailbox in Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2013.
IMPORTANT Room mailboxes should never be set as the organizer of a meeting, nor should room mailboxes be accessed directly by users in order to make changes to a meeting. Rooms should only be added to meetings in the Attendee or Location fields. Otherwise you will override the Resource Booking Assistant (RBA), which manages and processes all calendar items sent to the room mailbox, and unexpected errors may occur. If your organization has one or more users who need to manage a room and its mailbox, then assign users to the room as resource delegates for the room mailbox, as described later in this article. When a delegate is assigned, all items sent to the room's mailbox will be directed to the booking delegate, who can then accept or decline from their own Inbox. If your organization wants to use a room mailbox like a team calendar, consider using Exchange's shared calendar features.
If you want to learn about the types of recipients that are available in Exchange Server, check out Recipients. For info about another type of resource mailbox, check out Manage equipment mailboxes.
What do you need to know before you begin?
Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes.
To open the Exchange admin center (EAC), see Exchange admin center in Exchange Server. To open the Exchange Management Shell, see Open the Exchange Management Shell.
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the"Recipient Provisioning Permissions" section in the Recipients Permissions topic.
For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see Keyboard shortcuts in the Exchange admin center.
If you're using room or equipment mailboxes in Office 365, see this article.
If you're running Exchange 2013 in a hybrid scenario, make sure you create the room mailboxes in the appropriate place. Create your room mailboxes for your on-premises organization on-premises, and room mailboxes for Exchange Online should be created in the cloud. > Having problems? Ask for help in the Exchange forums. Visit the forums at: Exchange Server, Exchange Online, or Exchange Online Protection.
Create a room mailbox
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Resources.
To create a room mailbox, click New > Room mailbox.
Use the options on the page to specify the settings for the new resource mailbox.
- Room name: Use this box to type a name for the room mailbox. This is the name that's listed in the resource mailbox list in the Exchange admin center and in your organization's address book. This name is required and it can't exceed 64 characters.
Although there are other fields that describe the details of the room (for example, Location and Capacity) consider summarizing the most important details in the room name using a consistent naming convention. Why? So users can easily see the details when they select the room from the address book in the meeting request.
Alias: A room mailbox has an email address so it can receive booking requests. The email address consists of an alias on the left side of the @ symbol, which must be unique in the forest, and your domain name on the right. The alias is required.
Location, Phone, Capacity: You can use these fields to enter details about the room. However, as explained earlier, you can include some or all of this information in the room name so users can see it.
When you're finished, click Save to create the room mailbox.
After you've created a room mailbox, you can Change how a room mailbox handles meeting requests (including whether it responds automatically or someone needs to decide what to do). By default, it'll automatically accept or decline requests depending on whether the requests conflict with any existing meetings on its calendar. It'll also allow meetings that repeat, and allow meetings up to 180 days from the current date (and decline any requests beyond that) that are up to 24 hours in duration. If you want to change other options, head down to Change other room mailbox properties.
For information on how to create a room mailbox using the Exchange Management shell, see Examples 2 and 3 in New-Mailbox.
Change how a room mailbox handles meeting requests
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Resources.
In the list of resource mailboxes, click the room mailbox that you want to change the properties for, and then click Edit .
On the room mailbox properties page, click Booking Delegates (allow automatic responses or not) or Booking Options (allow repeating meetings, decline meetings that are scheduled too far out, etc).
Use the Booking Delegates section to view or change how the room mailbox handles meeting requests and to define who can accept or decline booking requests if it isn't done automatically.
Select one of the following options to handle meeting requests.
Accept or decline booking requests automatically: If this is selected, the meeting request will automatically be declined if there's a scheduling conflict with an existing reservation, or if the booking request violates the scheduling limits of the resource, for example, the reservation duration is too long.
Select delegates who can accept or decline booking requests: If this is selected, one of the people you added to the Delegates list below will be responsible for accepting or declining meeting requests that are sent to the room mailbox. If you assign more than one resource delegate, only one of them has to act on a specific meeting request.
Use the Booking Options section to view or change the settings for the booking policy that defines when the room can be scheduled, how long it can be reserved, and how far in advance it can be reserved.
Allow repeating meetings: This setting allows or prevents repeating meetings for the room.
Allow scheduling only during working hours: This setting accepts or declines meeting requests that aren't during the working hours defined for the room, which are, by default, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. You can configure the working hours of the room mailbox either by logging into the mailbox using Outlook on the web and going to the Options > Calendar > Calendar appearance page, or by using Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration.
Always decline if the end date is beyond this limit: This setting controls the behavior of repeating meetings that extend beyond the date specified by the maximum booking lead time setting.
If you enable this setting, a repeating booking request is automatically declined if the bookings start on or before the date specified by the value in the Maximum booking lead time box, and they extend beyond the specified date. This is the default setting.
If you disable this setting, a repeating booking request is automatically accepted if booking requests start on or before the date specified by the value in the Maximum booking lead time box, and they extend beyond the specified date. However, the number of bookings is reduced so bookings won't occur after the specified date.
Maximum booking lead time (days): This setting specifies the maximum number of days in advance that the room can be booked. Valid input is an integer between 0 and 1080. The default value is 180 days.
Maximum duration (hours): This setting specifies the maximum duration that the room can be reserved in a booking request. The default value is 24 hours.
For repeating booking requests, the maximum booking duration applies to the length of each instance of the repeating booking request.
There's also a box on this page that you can use to write a message that will be sent to users who send booking requests to reserve the room.
Change other room mailbox properties
After you create a room mailbox, you can make changes and set additional properties by using the Exchange admin center or the Exchange Management Shell.
Use the Exchange admin center to change room mailbox properties
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Resources.
In the list of resource mailboxes, click the room mailbox that you want to change the properties for, and then click Edit .
On the room mailbox properties page, click one of the following sections to view or change properties (for booking options, see Change how a room mailbox handles meeting requests.
Use the General section to view or change basic information about the resource.
Room name: This name appears in the resource mailbox list in the Exchange admin center and in your organization's address book. It can't exceed 64 characters if you change it.
Email address: This read-only box displays the email address for the room mailbox. You can change it in the Email Address section.
Capacity: Use this box to enter the maximum number of people who can safely occupy the room.
Click More options to view or change these additional properties:
Organizational unit: This read-only box displays the organizational unit (OU) that contains the account for the room mailbox. You have to use Active Directory Users and Computers to move the account to a different OU.
Mailbox database: This read-only box displays the name of the mailbox database that hosts the room mailbox. Use the Migration page in the Exchange admin center to move the mailbox to a different database.
Alias Use this box to change the alias for the room mailbox.
Hide from address lists: Select this check box to prevent the room mailbox from appearing in the address book and other address lists that are defined in your Exchange organization. After you select this check box, users can still send booking messages to the room mailbox by using the email address.
Department: Use this box to specify a department name that the room is associated with. You can use this property to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups and address lists.
Company: Use this box to specify a company that the room is associated with, if applicable. Like the Department property, you can use this property to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups and address lists.
Address book policy: Use this option to specify an address book policy (ABP) for the room mailbox. ABPs contain a global address list (GAL), an offline address book (OAB), a room list, and a set of address lists. To learn more, see Address book policies in Exchange Server.
In the drop-down list, select the policy that you want associated with this mailbox.
Custom attributes: This section displays the custom attributes defined for the room mailbox. To specify custom attribute values, click Edit . You can specify up to 15 custom attributes for the recipient.
Contact Information
Use the Contact Information section to view or change the contact information for the room. The information on this page is displayed in the address book.
You can use the State/Province box to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups, email address policies, or address lists.
Email Address
Use the Email Address section to view or change the email addresses associated with the room mailbox. This includes the mailbox's primary SMTP address and any associated proxy addresses. The primary SMTP address (also known as the reply address) is displayed in bold text in the address list, with the uppercase SMTP value in the Type column.
Add: Click Add to add a new email address for this mailbox. Select one of following address types:
SMTP: This is the default address type. Click this button and then type the new SMTP address in the Email address box.
EUM: An EUM (Exchange Unified Messaging) address is used by the Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service in Exchange 2016 to locate UM-enabled recipients within an Exchange organization. EUM addresses consist of the extension number and the UM dial plan for the UM-enabled user. Click this button and type the extension number in the Address/Extension box. Then click Browse and select a dial plan for the mailbox. (Note: Unified Messaging is not available in Exchange 2019.)
Custom address type: Click this button and type one of the supported non-SMTP email address types in the Email address box.
With the exception of X.400 addresses, Exchange doesn't validate custom addresses for correct formatting. You must make sure that the custom address you specify complies with the format requirements for that address type.
When you add a new email address, you have the option to make it the primary SMTP address.
Automatically update email addresses based on the email address policy applied to this recipient: Select this check box to have the recipient's email addresses automatically updated based on changes made to email address policies in your organization.
Use the MailTip section to add a MailTip to alert users of potential issues before they send a booking request to the room mailbox. A MailTip is text that's displayed in the InfoBar when this recipient is added to the To, Cc, or Bcc lines of a new email message.
MailTips can include HTML tags, but scripts aren't allowed. The length of a custom MailTip can't exceed 175 displayed characters. HTML tags aren't counted in the limit.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to change room mailbox properties
Use the following sets of cmdlets to view and change room mailbox properties: Get-Mailbox and Set-Mailbox cmdlets to view and change general properties and email addresses for room mailboxes. Use the Get-CalendarProcessing and Set-CalendarProcessing cmdlets to view and change delegates and booking options.
Get-User and Set-User: Use these cmdlets to view and set general properties such as location, department, and company names.
Get-Mailbox and Set-Mailbox: Use these cmdlets to view and set mailbox properties, such as email addresses and the mailbox database.
Get-CalendarProcessing and Set-CalendarProcessing: Use these cmdlets to view and set booking options and delegates.
For information about these cmdlets, see the following topics:
Here are some examples of using the Exchange Management Shell to change room mailbox properties.
This example changes the display name, the primary SMTP address (called the default reply address), and the room capacity. Also, the previous reply address is kept as a proxy address.
Set-Mailbox "Conf Room 123" -DisplayName "Conf Room 31/123 (12)" -EmailAddresses SMTP:firstname.lastname@example.com,smtp:firstname.lastname@example.com -ResourceCapacity 12
This example configures room mailboxes to allow booking requests to be scheduled only during working hours and sets a maximum duration of 9 hours.
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'RoomMailbox')} | Set-CalendarProcessing -ScheduleOnlyDuringWorkHours $true -MaximumDurationInMinutes 540
This example uses the Get-User cmdlet to find all room mailboxes that correspond to private conference rooms, and then uses the Set-CalendarProcessing cmdlet to send booking requests to a delegate named Robin Wood to accept or decline.
Get-User -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'RoomMailbox') -and (DisplayName -like 'Private*')} | Set-CalendarProcessing -AllBookInPolicy $false -AllRequestInPolicy $true -ResourceDelegates "Robin Wood"
Create a room list
If you're planning to have more to have hundreds of rooms, use multiple room lists to help you organize your rooms. If your company has several buildings with rooms that can be booked for meetings, it might help to create room lists for each building. Room lists are specially marked distribution groups that you can use the same way you use distribution groups. However, you can only create room lists using the Exchange Management Shell.
Although there is no hard limit to the number of rooms you can have in a Room List, the maximum number of rooms that can be returned in request for a Room List is 100. A possible workaround would be to further break down your rooms into smaller lists.
Use the Exchange Management Shell to create a room list
This example creates a room list for building 32.
New-DistributionGroup -Name "Building 32 Conference Rooms" -OrganizationalUnit "contoso.com/rooms" -RoomList
Use the Exchange Management Shell to add a room to a room list
This example adds confroom3223 to the building 32 room list.
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "Building 32 Conference Rooms" -Member email@example.com
Use the Exchange Management Shell to convert a distribution group to a room list
You may already have created distribution groups in the past that contain your conference rooms. You don't need to recreate them; we can convert them quickly into a room list.
This example converts the distribution group, building 34 conference rooms, to a room list.
Set-DistributionGroup -Identity "Building 34 Conference Rooms" -RoomList
How do you know this worked?
To verify that you've successfully changed properties for a room mailbox, do the following:
In the Exchange admin center, select the mailbox and then click Edit to view the property or feature that you changed. Depending on the property that you changed, it might be displayed in the Details pane for the selected mailbox.
In the Exchange Management Shell, use the Get-Mailbox cmdlet to verify the changes. One advantage of using the Exchange Management Shell is that you can view multiple properties for multiple mailboxes. In the example above where booking requests could be scheduled only during working hours and have a maximum duration of 9 hours, run the following command to verify the new values.
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'RoomMailbox')} | Get-CalendarProcessing | Format-List Identity,ScheduleOnlyDuringWorkHours,MaximumDurationInMinutes
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...except to go, and do.
Loose ends are tied up, hatches are battened, bike and gear have arrived safely (?) in ANC, I'll be in the air in a few hours and, hopefully, moving forward along The Trail on Monday AM.
Sick of talking about, answering questions, or speculating on how it'll go. Time to act.
I'll be carrying a beacon that should, in theory, send out a 'beep' every ~10 minutes when I'm outside of the tent and moving. Scott Morris will be monitoring that beep throughout the trip and will be posting a daily update (right here) of the progress that I've made. There will be no communication between us other than the beeps that he may or may not even receive. I write it that way because if you look at the coverage map you can see that the beacon will most likely stop being 'seen' by the satellites around about Kaltag. Potentially sooner.
For me, when out there, that's fine. The 'crux' of this trail from a remoteness perspective is the Interior from Takotna to Ruby. Once on the Yukon at Ruby there is regular (and, relative to what came before) often heavy traffic between villages. The rivers and lakes and portages that The Trail follows are the everyday highways for those living in NW AK. Point simply being that once I hit the Yukon the need for the beacon will decrease just as it's functionality takes a nosedive. At least that's what I'm expecting. There is some very small possibility that one or two 'beeps' will get through to Scott daily even as I traverse the coast--just enough to let him know that I'm still moving.
Scott has some GPS info about the route, an idea of what to expect for timing, and links to weather stations along the way. Scott is the creator of Topofusion, an impressive and useful piece of software that I've come to depend on when planning any trip. Updating my progress daily will give Scott the opportunity to showcase what TF can do. Atop all of that, Scott is a pro-level geek (<-his word) when it comes to maps, GPS, and tracking down info on the net, so I'll be amazed if what he posts here daily is anything other than mesmerizing.
There will be LOTS of on-trail coverage of the Iditarod Trail Invitational, which starts about 24 hours before I do. There are nearly 50 athletes competing in that event this year, and we'll all be following the same trail with the same end-goal in mind. I can really only guess, but I suspect that my progress will likely mirror that of the back-of-the-pack racers in that event. Only you will know for sure as it happens--by following Scott's updates here and also checking in on the many websites covering the race. If you happen to notice or find any mention of my progress on the race websites (not likely, but quite possible), PLEASE send that info to Scott so that he can update here.
Lastly, the reason for the beacon, the updates, and Scott's work is to keep those who might worry about or miss me somewhat assured that all is well. I find myself in a strange headspace today--guilty for leaving them to pursue such a selfish, hedonistic endeavor.
I just have to accept that the best part of going on any trip is getting to come home again.
Amundsen wrote that "Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck."
I don't believe that I could be any more prepared than I am, but still--I'll take all the luck I can get.
See y'all real soon.
Friday, February 22, 2008
8 comments:
Good luck Mike. I can't wait to read your tales of the trail when you get back.ReplyDelete
Stay safe, have fun. I am well aware of those feelings you speak of at the end. For me it may be the hardest part of any trip.ReplyDelete
Have a safe ride Mike, I am looking forward to the stories upon your return.ReplyDelete
stay safe and keep pedaling!ReplyDelete
Good journey, Mike.ReplyDelete
Good luck and have a safe trip. Can't wait to hear how your adventure goes.ReplyDelete
Best of luck, Mike. I'm looking forward to the war stories.ReplyDelete
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Fulton County Recorder Sandra Barber has been contacted by several residents about a solicitation letter from a company in Washington, D.C., which is referred to as a "Deed Processing Notice."
The company offers to obtain a copy of the person's property deed for $86. The mailing is made to appear as if it were from an official government records office. Residents are given a "Compliance Response Date," and if a request for the deed is made after that date an additional $35 fee is required.
"The wording in the letter implies that you may pay up to $86 for a copy of your deed at the Recorder's Office which I believe is very misleading, " said Barber. "Copies can be obtained any time from the Recorder's Office at a cost of $2 per page. A typical deed is one to three pages long and would cost $2 to $6."
Barber added that she has seen this type of letter before.
Barber reminds residents that once a deed is filed with the Recorder's Office it is a permanent record of ownership and protects the property owner's rights. Property owners do not have to have the original copy of their deed in their possession.
For more information, contact Sandra Barber at firstname.lastname@example.com or 419/337-9232.


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To understand the disconnect between California's governing system and its reality, consider two recent bits of news.
Recent jobs reports show that the state's economy, and hiring, are rebounding. And recent projections show that state tax revenues are coming up billions short of expectations.
Put those two things together, and the picture is dangerous.
Even a rebounding economy can't bring back state revenues. Which is evidence that the state's governing system, and particularly its tax system is broken.
Why? Because the tax system doesn't fit the economy particularly well.
This is especially true in sales. California is becoming more of a service sector economy, but there is no state sales tax on services -- even though services are, by many estimates, half the economy. The state sales tax is on goods.
This suggests the debate California should be having about taxes is about fixing the system. How do we capture more of the economic growth of the economy? How do we produce more revenues -- while keeping the state competitive on taxes? How do we make the system fairer?
But that's not the debate we're having. Instead, we're having an argument between two tax initiatives that keep the underlying tax structure in place -- and raise taxes temporarily, mostly on income (Gov. Brown measure also includes a small temporary hike in the sales tax).
That's too bad. California can't afford -- literally -- to wait to fix its tax system.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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This last weekend I attended my first SQL Server Saturday event. The event was held in The Jury's Inn in Exeter and was superbly arranged and organised by Jonathan (b|t) and Annette (b) Alan and the great team of volunteers from the SQL South West User Group.
Just after Christmas I submitted two sessions for this event one on AlwaysOn Availability Groups and another on SQL Server Virtualisation. My Virtualisation session got selected after a round of voting and discussion by the organisers which meant I was going be lucky enough to deliver a session at the event too.
I travelled down on Friday evening, it was later then I planned, I was hoping to make the speaker dinner but unfortunately time got away from me. By the time I had checked into the hotel and gone down to look at the room I was speaking most of the speakers and and organisers were getting back from the speaker dinner. I had a couple of beers in the bar (which was full of speakers and organisers) I met a few nice people too including a DBA who is a DBA/Developer for one the top Premier League sides – Not the mighty Pool though.
I was scheduled in the first slot of the day so I had an 8am start, so I didn't spend too long in the bar, I was quite happy with the 8am slot as it let me get up deliver my sessions and then enjoy the rest of the day.
My session seemed to go pretty well, there a few familiar faces in the crowd including my friend and former colleague David Postlethwaite who is a regular contributor to this blog. I didn't count the actual numbers in attendance but I think there was between 20 and 30 which I was happy with as it was the early session.
The sessions were 50 minutes long and I took up all the allocation of time. I did cover just about everything I intended to and people seemed to enjoy it. I'll know more about people's thoughts on the session when I get the feedback later in the week.
I skipped the keynote speech (naughty me) which was being held in the same room as my session straight after I'd finished. I wasn't staying in Exeter after the event so I needed to get breakfast and get checked out of the hotel.
After the keynote I had a tough decision to make, I wanted to see both Christian Bolton's session SQL Server 2012 HA and DR Architectures and Denny Cherry's indexing session. I chose Denny's session as he had travelled from California to attend and speak and I hadn't seen any of his sessions previously. Having seen Christian at several SQL Bits I thought I'd see someone new. It was a great session.
The before lunch I took in Dave Ballantyne's session on statistics and Mladen Pradjic's SQL Sever Injection session that were both great.
Lunch was plentiful and enjoyable, there was plenty of networking and chatting going on.
In the afternoon I took in Gavin Payne's session on how to be a better architect, Williams Durkins' first ever presentation on Replication and finally Neil Hambly's session on SQL Server Waits.
All-in-all it was a great day that I really enjoyed. I'd like to thank the all the guys that helped put on the event, they worked tirelessly to ensure everything run smoothly and their efforts paid off as the event was great. I hope they organise another one next year.


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|Andrew Dowton got 12 minutes in off the bench for Tufts
MEDFORD - The Tufts University men's basketball team allowed just 11 points in the first half and led comfortably throughout most of the contest as the Jumbos posted a 69-39 victory over UMass Boston in non-league action Tuesday night at Cousens Gym.
The Jumbos led 28-11 at halftime as the Beacons turned the ball over 16 times and shot just five for 19 (26.3 percent) from the field. Tufts used an early 11-0 run to take a 13-4 lead following a Matt Lanchantin (Natick, MA) jumper at 9:31 of the first half. The Beacons got within seven points at 13-6 following a jumper by Michael Mitchell Jr. (Boston, MA) at 6:45, but that's the closest they would be for the rest of the night. Tufts established a double-digit lead for good when senior tri-captain Matt Galvin (Floral Park, NY) scored on a lay-up to make it 20-9 with 4:49 to go until halftime.
Galvin's five points at halftime paced Tufts, which had nine players score points and shot 10 for 22 (45.5 percent) from the field in the first 20 minutes. The Jumbos scored 18 of their 28 first-half points off turnovers. Mitchell had six points, six rebounds and a steal at the break for the Beacons.
The second half was more of the same. The Jumbo margin surpassed 20 points (33-11) when junior Amauris Quezada (New York, NY) hit a three at 18:07. UMass Boston cut it down to 17, 41-24, on a three-pointer by freshman M.J. Bentley (Orlando, FL) at 13:55. The Jumbos netted the next eight points though to go back up by 25. Their lead hit 30 (63-33) on a jumper by freshman Tom Folliard (Richmond, VA) at 4:33.
Tufts was led by 12 points and six rebounds apiece from junior Alex Orchowski (Cornwall, NY) and Lanchantin. All 12 Jumbos who played scored points, including four points and two rebounds from junior center Peter Saba (Winchendon, MA). Freshman guard Kwame Firempong (Inglewood, CA) had seven assists to go with seven points.
Mitchell finished with 11 points, eight rebounds and two steals for the Beacons, who shot 28 percent (14/50) for the night. Bentley scored 10 points and junior Isaac Jenkins (Pordenone, Italy) finished with eight points and four rebounds.
Tufts (11-9) returns to NESCAC action on Friday night at Amherst College. UMass Boston (8-12) plays a Little East game on Saturday at Eastern Connecticut.