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ST 75 Analog Desoldering Station with SX-100 Sodr-X-Tractor
Self-Contained, Expandable Desoldering Station
There are no complicated controls to worry about with PACE's ST 75 ... just
turn a dial to the temperature you need and you're ready to desolder!
The ST 75 is a completely self-contained desoldering system ideal for users having to deal with a wide range of applications. The unit is an economical, yet durable desoldering system with simplified dial and single channel featuring IntelliHeat technology. Designed for easy operation, there is no programming, no display, just a simple twist of a knob! A color-coded diode tells you when you have reached target temperature.
Incorporating PACE's famous no-clog SX-100 Sodr-X-Tractor Desoldering Handpiece (see video at right), the system comes standard with PACE's patented SNAPVAC desoldering technology to ensure quick, clean removal of solder from any through-hole joint. The Hi-Flo pump is so powerful that you won't lose vacuum in continuous use applications when removing residual/excess solder from surface mount or BGA pads. A high resolution pressure control valve delivers the widest range of adjustable airflow available on the market today. So if you're using the optional TJ-85 ThermoJet Hot Air Pencil to reflow a PLCC or an 0201 resistor, you always have the precise level of control that you need to get the job done right! The ST 75's capabilities can be easily expanded a variety of optional IntelliHeat compatible soldering irons and rework handpieces (TD-100, MT-100, TJ-70, TJ-85, TT-65, TP-65 and TP-100). The heavy-duty, durable metal housing ensures years of service and the sloped face of the front panel is a standard feature for ease of use. Tips supplied separately.
SX-100 Sodr-X-Tractor: A Better Way to Desolder
PACE revolutionized the electronics industry in the 60's by creating the first self-contained continuous vacuum desoldering system. Now PACE has taken the best desoldering handpiece on the planet and made it better! The SX-100 Solder Extractor has been improved so that is does not clog! The modular heater has been re-engineered to transfer heat better through the length of new SX-100 Tips. SX-100 Desolder Tips will not clog because the isolated hot solder path is designed to stay well above solder melt temperature, preventing even Lead-Free solder from solidifying.
PACE has taken the best desoldering handpiece on the planet and made it better!
Designed for high volume desoldering operations, the SX-100 features an environmentally friendly/disposable collection chamber to maximize productivity. When the filter is full, just pull out the chamber, pop out the old filter and replace with a new one - all within 15 seconds! If you prefer, the SX-100 can also be used with a re-cleanable glass chamber (included). Optional 2 and 4-sided Pik-Tips allow safe, rapid reflow and removal of a wide variety of TSOP's, QFP's and Flatpacks. Pik-Tips are designed to reflow all the leads on the component simultaneously and incorporate a unique vacuum pick. Once reflowed, the vacuum is activated and the component is lifted off the PCB.
Easily Expands to Increase Capabilities!
The ST 75 is far more than a desoldering station. Its functionality can be easily expanded by adding any one of 8 IntelliHeat compatible handpieces including:
1.) SX-100 Sodr-X-Tractor Desoldering Handpiece (comes with ST-75) 2.) TD-100 Tip-Heater Cartridge Soldering Iron (optional) 3.) MT-100 MiniTweez Micro Tweezer (optional) 4.) TJ-70 ThermoJet Hot Air Handpiece (optional) 5.) PS-90 High Capacity Soldering Iron (optional) 6.) TP-100 ThermoPik (optional) 7.) TT-65 ThermoTweez Thermal Tweezer (optional) and 8.) TJ-85 ThermoJet Hot Air Pencil (optional).
230 V Part #: 8007-0520
- IntelliHeat Control Technology
- Includes SX-100 No-Clog Sodr-X-Tractor Desoldering Handpiece
- Simplified analog temperature dial with C°/F° Temperature Scales
- Temperature Adjustment Lockout
- Tip & Tool Stand with Sponge, Stay-Moist Well, non-abrasive Brass Wool to clean oxidation from tip, holds up to 6 tips
- Dual Purpose Vacuum/Pressure Pump includes patented Snap-Vac technology
- High Resolution Pressure Control for hot air soldering/heat shrinking capabilities
- Auto-Off Safety System
- Completely ESD/EOS safe; ESD Grounding jack
- Durable aluminum extrusion housing incorporates "T-Slots" for mounting
- Completely self-contained, no shop-air needed, just plug it in!
- Can be mounted under bench or shelf with optional Bracket pn 1321-0609-P1
- Expand capabilities with optional IntelliHeat handpieces: MT-100 MicroTweez, TD-100 Tip-Heater Cartridge Iron, TJ-70 ThermoJet, TT-65 ThermoTweez, TP-100 ThermoPik, PS-90 Soldering Iron and TJ-85 ThermoJet Hot Air Pencil!
- Power Requirements97-127 VAC, 50/60Hz, 120 Watts Max/197-253 VAC, 50/60Hz, 120 Watts Max
- ControlDial
- Control TechnologyIntelliHeat
- Tip to Ground Resistance2 ohms or less
- Temperature AccuracyMeets or exceeds ANSI-J-STD
- Absolute Temperature Stability° 1.1°C (° 2 °F) at idle tip temp.
- Temperature RangeTip Heater Compatible Handpieces = 205° to 454°C (400° to 850°F) Nominal
SensaTemp Compatible Handpieces = 176°(Dial)or 37°C (Digital Display) to 482°C (350°(dial)or 100° (Digital Display) to 900°F) Nominal
- System Can be CalibratedYes
- Vacuum/Pressure Source TypeSelf Contained Pump
- Vacuum Rise Time150 ms Average
- Vacuum (Nominal)20 in Hg Max
- Flow Control ValveHigh Precision Needle Valve
- Pressure (Nominal)18 p.s.i.
- Air Flow (Nominal)8 slpm Max


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Working for the IRS doesn't sound so wimpy anymore.
The IRS apparently has plans to buy 60 Remington Model 870 police 12 gauge pump action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Unit.
According to the federal business government website, these guns are serious.
The Remington parkerized shotguns come fully loaded with:
- A fourteen inch barrel
- Modified choke
- Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight
- XS4 Contour Bead front sight
- Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock
- Speedfeed ribbed black forend
We're not sure what kind of IRS duty requires this kind of combat artillery, but it sounds badass.
And oddly, these are the only guns the IRS is allowed to use, "based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory."
(Via the Drudge Report)

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Instead of pressing charges against an alleged attacker, a 20-year-old Tampa woman decided to publicly embarrass the man she says beat her.
The unidentified man sat on a stool at a street corner in a dunce cap for hours, holding a sign that read: "I BEAT WOMEN. HONK IF I'M A SCUMBAG," reported NBC affiliate WPTV.
The alleged victim told police that two friends of hers brought him along when they went clubbing Saturday night, and on the way home, he punched her, police told NBC 6 South Florida.
"We responded to her home. She did have visible injuries. The officer initiated a report for battery, and rescue personnel transported her to a local hospital," said Tampa Police spokeswoman Janelle McGregor.
Police initiated an investigation and gathered information to arrest the man, police said.
When they told the victim to bring her medical records to detectives so they could determine if he was to be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, she stopped responding, McGregor said.
"Come to find out from the media, that's because she was with the alleged attacker out on the corner," McGregor said.
McGregor said that detectives tried repeatedly to make contact with her.
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On February 22, 1942, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and his second wife went to the bedroom of a rented house in Petrópolis, Brazil. They lay down—she in a kimono, he in a shirt and tie—after taking an enormous dose of barbiturates. When news of their suicides broke, it was reported as a matter of worldwide significance. The New York Times carried the news on its front page, alongside reports of the rout of Japanese forces in Bali and of a broadcast address by President Roosevelt. An editorial the next day, titled "One of the Dispossessed," saw in Zweig's final act "the problems of the exile for conscience sake." Zweig, a Jew, had left Austria in 1934, living in England and New York before the final move to Brazil, and his work had been banned and vilified across the German-speaking world. In his suicide note, he spoke of "my own language having disappeared from me and my spiritual home, Europe, having destroyed itself." He concluded, "I salute all my friends! May it be granted them yet to see the dawn after the long night! I, all too impatient, go on before."
Zweig's death arguably marked the high point of his literary standing: to most English-speaking readers, he is now little more than a name. Yet, for a time, in the nineteen-twenties and thirties, he was the most translated writer in Europe. Along with the fiction and the biographies on which his reputation chiefly rests, he produced a seemingly effortless stream of plays, translations, poems, travelogues, and essays—on subjects ranging from manuscripts to Moscow theatre. An energetic literary spokesman and PEN member, he lectured, in several languages, around the world. He also championed many other writers, helping them financially and with glowing appraisals of their work.
Beside contemporaries like Thomas Mann and Joseph Roth, Zweig can seem like an also-ran; he left no single, defining masterwork. But, in the past few years, it's become possible to appreciate anew the variety and ambition of his writing. New York Review Books and Pushkin Press have reissued most of Zweig's important fiction, often in fine new translations by Anthea Bell, and a number of his biographical studies. They have also published translations—the first ever—of an abandoned novel, "The Post-Office Girl," and of a long-lost novella, "Journey into the Past."
Now Pushkin Press has released a revealing new biography of Zweig, "Three Lives," by Oliver Matuschek (translated, from the German, by Allan Blunden). The story of Zweig's life has always been dominated by the version of it he told in his memoir, "The World of Yesterday," one of his best-known works. Completed less than a year before Zweig killed himself, "The World of Yesterday" is less an autobiography—he mentions his two marriages only in passing—than a manifesto about his era. He portrays himself as an idealist, devoted to the cause of international brotherhood, even as Europe collapses around him. Subsequent books largely bolstered this narrative—first, memoirs by Zweig's first wife, Friderike; then, in 1972, a comprehensive biography by D. A. Prater, produced under Friderike's watchful eye. But Matuschek shows the extent to which Zweig's public façade masked a tormented and unpredictable private self. The Zweig that emerges isn't quite the moral authority he avowedly aspired to be. He's far more lively and human, and his frailties, rather than his noble aspirations, emerge as the source of his best work.
The defining fact of Stefan Zweig's life was the great wealth to which he was born. This gave him the freedom to arrange his existence as he wished, shuttling restlessly around Europe and maintaining a careful independence from personal and professional ties. A friend once remarked that, no matter where you met Zweig, his manner suggested a half-packed suitcase in the next room. He was born in Vienna in 1881, the second son of a successful textile manufacturer and a woman from an Italian-Jewish banking family. While still at school, he began submitting poems and articles to literary journals and sending off ingratiating letters to the great literary men of his day. He also started a manuscript collection: by the time he was sixteen, he owned material by Goethe and Beethoven, and over the years the collection became one of the most important in Europe, containing such treasures as a catalogue of Mozart's works in the composer's own hand and Beethoven's writing desk. Zweig wrote that his collecting grew out of his fascination with "the biographical and psychological aspects of the creation of a work of art." Friderike took a subtly different view, noting that it manifested a desire for "escape from everyday things into the realm of great achievement, evident in his whole mode of life."
When he was still a university student, Zweig published his first volume of poetry, and his work appeared in the most illustrious Viennese newspaper of the day. (Theodor Herzl was his editor.) His success persuaded his parents that he could be excused from working in the family business. He went on from Vienna to study in Berlin, and was stimulated by its seedy social life, a stark contrast to Vienna's religion of bourgeois propriety. So began a mode of life that continued for a decade or more—a quiet bachelor existence in Vienna interspersed with sojourns abroad, making the acquaintance of important artistic figures of the day. In Brussels, he befriended the French-Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren and immediately set about translating his works; in Paris, he got to know Rainer Maria Rilke and Romain Rolland. He met Rodin, Yeats, Pirandello, Valéry, and many others. It is tempting to see his sedulous gathering of eminent friendships as a counterpart of his manuscript collecting.
In "The World of Yesterday," the chapter covering this period is titled "Detours on the Way to Myself." Zweig writes that "my life was still governed in some odd way by the idea that everything was only temporary. Nothing that I did, I told myself, was the real thing—not in my work, which I regarded as just experimenting to discover my true bent, not the women with whom I was on friendly terms." But, though a good deal of the early work feels tentative, most of it was successful at the time, and he quickly achieved considerable celebrity. After poetry, he tried drama, and his memoir has several faux-ingenuous descriptions of how, having sent this or that play to a theatre, he was amazed when the theatre decided to put it on, or by the public acclaim that followed. He also wrote his first novellas, a form that came to dominate his fictional output.
Zweig called the novella "my beloved but unfortunate format, too long for a newspaper or magazine, too short for a book." But in German literature, which largely missed out on big nineteenth-century novels, it's a genre with a venerable literary pedigree—invented, more or less, by Goethe, and refined by figures like Heinrich von Kleist and Paul Heyse. The novella's pared-down format, its atmosphere of tightly controlled sensationalism, and its focus on a single, dramatic turning point suited Zweig's sensibility. In "The Burning Secret," the most successful of his early novellas, a young boy on vacation at a spa resort with his mother fails to realize that a man who befriends him in the hotel has done so purely to have a chance of seducing his mother. Gradually excluded from the developing relationship, the boy furiously decides to thwart the adults, while remaining innocent of the true nature of the relationship. Zweig generates tremendous suspense by evoking the perplexity of the boy's mind, as his vengeful actions threaten to have disastrous consequences that he cannot understand.
The First World War marked the point at which Zweig's love of Europe started to coalesce into something like the pacifist and internationalist creed that he later espoused in his memoir. Conscripted and assigned to work in Austria's War Archive, he was shocked by what he saw—towns laid waste on the northern edge of the Austrian Empire and mutilated soldiers in a hospital train. His response was a fervently antiwar drama, based on the life of the prophet Jeremiah, who vainly urges Jerusalem's populace to make peace with the besieging Chaldean forces. The play now seems dated and grandiloquent, but it had real impact at the time, and was described by Thomas Mann as "the most significant poetic fruit of this war I have yet seen." It couldn't be performed in wartime Vienna, and Zweig travelled to Zurich to work on the first production.
In "The World of Yesterday," Zweig claims to have been immune from "the sudden patriotic intoxication" that swept the country. But, as both his biographers have shown, the real story is more nuanced. At first, he was caught up in the nationalistic fervor, publishing pro-war articles and suspending his friendships with writers in enemy countries. His turn toward pacifism, Matuschek shows, had roots in a growing despair at his own situation. Work in the archive kept him from his writing, and he was alarmed that, as the military situation worsened, more and more workers around him were being called up for the front. Matuschek gives a careful account of the strings Zweig pulled to get to Switzerland and to stay there until the end of the war, a catalogue that certainly complicates the steadfast image that Zweig projected.
Zweig's fiction, though, gave voice to all the panic and uncertainty that his memoir suppressed. In 1918, he wrote a story, "Compulsion," about an Austrian artist who has been living in Switzerland but knows that he can be called up at any time. When the dreaded papers arrive, he goes to the consulate prepared to give a high-minded speech and imagining the confrontation that will ensue. But the functionary on the other side of the desk is informal, genial, and bored: "I hope you've enjoyed your stay here in Switzerland. . . . You're really supposed to leave tomorrow, but I don't suppose it's all that urgent. Let the paint dry on your latest masterpiece. If you need another day or so to put your affairs in order, I'll take the responsibility for that. A couple of days won't matter to the Fatherland." The artist finds himself smiling politely and his convictions evaporate. He returns home, where his wife upbraids him for his spinelessness. The novella ends, somewhat didactically, with the artist regaining his pacifist resolve, but there is no missing the fact that he has arrived at it almost entirely through weakness.
The end of the war instilled a new sense of purpose in Zweig, and the following decade saw his greatest success. He married Friderike von Winternitz, an occasional writer with two children from an unhappy first marriage; she had caught his attention in 1912 by sending him a fan letter. Moving into a palatial house in Salzburg, he decided that his long apprenticeship was finished. Over the next decade, he wrote mostly novellas and biographical essays, often linked in thematic cycles. The novellas are typically stories of obsession that move feverishly toward crises. In "Fear," an adulterous wife is driven to the point of suicide after receiving blackmail demands—ostensibly from one of her lover's other conquests, but arranged by her husband, who hopes to effect a reconciliation. In "Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman," a respectable widow in her forties catches sight of a young compulsive gambler losing in a casino, sees in a flash that he will kill himself, and ends up spending the night with him in order to save him. Much of Zweig's skill resides in shrewd narrative pacing. In his memoir, he writes about drawing the reader in by cutting out as much material as possible.
Often, the stories hinge on humiliation. In "Moonbeam Alley," a man drifts into an unsavory quarter of town and goes to a bar, where he meets a prostitute who keeps hurling insults at an old man hovering timidly nearby. The old man turns out to be her husband, who blames himself for the life she leads and is desperate to win her back. A recurrent scenario involves narrators who are well-heeled and aloof (rather like Zweig) deciding to flirt with danger and surrender control. One of the purest examples is "Fantastic Night," in which a young dandy notes that he has been overtaken by a "curious paralysis of my feelings." He no longer takes genuine pleasure in his luxurious life. Even the death of an old friend doesn't grieve him:
I felt as if I were made of glass, with the world outside shining straight through me and never lingering within, and hard as I attempted on this and many similar occasions to feel something, however much I tried, through reasonable argument, to make myself feel emotion, no response came from my rigid state of mind. People parted from me, women came and went, and I felt much like a man sitting in a room with rain beating on the window panes; there was a kind of sheet of glass between me and my immediate surroundings, and my will was not strong enough to break it.
Before long, he is stumbling around a Viennese pleasure garden in pursuit of the one sensation that still stimulates him: shame. He picks up an indigent prostitute, allows himself to be set upon by her pimps, and, in a final ecstasy of abasement, begs them not to report him to the police. The pleasure, he says, "filled me as no emotion had ever done before."
The frequency and the intensity with which Zweig imagines situations of sexual slumming make it tempting to speculate about his life. He did not attempt to hide from Friderike the fact that his travels were often the occasion for sexual adventure, and Matuschek, digging through Zweig's youthful diaries, comes up with evidence of threesomes and possibly some homosexual contact. One acquaintance recalled, without any substantiation, that Zweig was a sexual exhibitionist. Thomas Mann, when he heard of Zweig's suicide, wrote, "I suspect that sex had reared its ugly head again, and that he feared some kind of scandal." Mann was wrong, but it's easy to see why he leaped to this conclusion when one considers a work like Zweig's poem "Ballad of a Dream," in which a dreamer sees the message "You are found out!" on the wall in front of him and believes that "my secret vice and darkest deeds" have become visible to everyone. At the very least, Zweig's nocturnal wanderings surely account for the nightmarish atmosphere of furtiveness that underlies much of his work.
Sometimes in the novellas there's a danger that the schematic will overwhelm the free play of human idiosyncrasy, leaving us with something that feels glib and contrived. Zweig's habit of pointing up morals at every turn must have seemed a little dated even when he was writing, but it also gives his writing its distinctive feel. The reader is almost always half inside the characters' turmoil and half outside, observing them. For Zweig, behavior is contingent on circumstance: time and again, protagonists declare themselves powerless to change a course of action. Seen this way, the programmatic shape of much of his work results from an intuition about human weakness. "Compulsion," the title of his wartime novella, would be an apt title for almost everything he wrote.
Zweig's ability to trace the patterns in human lives is also strongly apparent in his short biographical essays. In the current Zweig revival, these have so far been comparatively neglected, but they are some of his best work. The start of his essay on Kleist vividly conjures the life of the tortured German writer by itemizing his travels for a page and a half:
There was no point of the compass toward which Kleist did not travel in Germany, nor any town of note in which he, a homeless wanderer, did not sojourn for a time. . . . From Berlin he drove by diligence to Dresden, into the Erzgebirge, to Bayreuth, to Chemnitz; then he was off again to Würzburg; thereafter, athwart Napoleonic campaigns, to Paris. He had planned to spend a year in the French capital, but within a few weeks he set out for Switzerland, moving from Berne to Thun, to Basel, and then back to Berne. . . . He zigzagged back to Dresden, whence, during the full blast of the Austrian campaign, he started for Vienna, was arrested at Aspern while the battle was in progress, but escaped, and fled to Prague. Sometimes he vanished like a river that runs underground, to emerge at an immense distance; but always, again and again, a sort of gravitational force drew him back to Berlin. . . . Nowhere could he rest. For the last time, therefore, he climbed into a post-chaise (which had been his only true home during the thirty-four years of his life) and drove to Potsdam, where, beside the Wannsee, he blew out his brains. He was buried by the roadside.
This feat of compression—the evocation, through an itinerary, of a whole existence—gets close to the heart of Zweig's sensibility. As in his novellas, his fixation on extreme psychological states coexists with something more distanced. Zweig relishes both the tumult of feeling and the way that even the most inchoate emotions, seen from the outside, tend to form a pattern. And, of course, a similarly expressive list could be made of Zweig's own wanderings: Ostend, Zurich, Calcutta, London, Bath, Moscow, Ossining, Rio, Buenos Aires, Petrópolis. Hermann Hesse called him the Flying Salzburger.
At the height of his career, Zweig was an object of admiration, envy, condescension, and outright contempt. In German literature, the boundary between the commercial and the worthy has tended to be more stringently policed than in English, and for many the popularity of Zweig's books was automatic cause for suspicion. One contemporary critic called them "railway-carriage reading." The great poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whom Zweig tried and failed to cultivate, considered Zweig's career, in its precocity and range, a plagiarism of his own career. (The joke was on him: after Hofmannsthal died, Richard Strauss, needing a new librettist for his operas, got in touch with Zweig.) Even among Zweig's friends, an edge of irony crept in when describing his carefully husbanded success. One wrote:
In every city of more than 5,000 inhabitants this unobtrusive, smooth character had a friend—bookseller, member of the local literary society, editor of the local paper—who would be waiting on the platform when Zweig arrived, introduce his lecture, and write the dithyrambic feuilleton for the next day's local journal.
The years of comfort and eminence came to an abrupt end with Hitler's rise to power, in 1933. Zweig's books were widely denounced and later banned. National Socialists were on the rise in Austria, too, agitating for a union with Germany. During political disturbances early in 1934, policemen arrived at Zweig's house, demanding to search it for weapons. As soon as they had gone, Zweig packed his bags for London, where he had recently rented an apartment, and he never lived in Austria again. In his memoir, he wrote, "Behind this intrinsically insignificant episode I sensed the present gravity of the state of affairs in Austria, and saw what enormous pressure Germany was putting on us."
As usual with Zweig, though, there was a personal reason for his departure: a desire to escape his marriage. Zweig treated Friderike as a secretary, loathed her daughters, and was constitutionally unsuited for marital life: he once threatened to shoot himself if Friderike became pregnant. Now he wrapped up his life in Austria hastily, dispersing his papers and selling off most of his manuscript collection. Soon after settling in London, he began an affair with his secretary, a sickly young woman named Lotte Altmann, who became his second wife.
Zweig, as a prominent literary exile, was often asked to lend his voice to anti-Nazi and Jewish causes. He was anything but outspoken, however, and his silence frustrated other writers of the time and has been much criticized since. Klaus Mann, who failed to get him to contribute to an émigré journal he was running, was disparaging of Zweig's decision to remain " 'objective,' 'understanding,' and 'just' toward the deadly enemy." Hannah Arendt, reviewing Zweig's memoir years after his death, wrote that "not one of his reactions during all this period was the result of political convictions." Zweig tried to justify his silence, writing in his memoir, "I hate emotional public gestures on principle," and adding that he didn't want to make trouble for Richard Strauss, just before the première of their opera. He seems to have clung to the hope that, if he didn't draw attention to himself, his work could somehow continue unimpeded, and his actions at this time hint at deep denial. One bizarre detail mentioned by Matuschek is that, in 1933, Zweig, ever the diligent collector, bought the thirteen-page manuscript of a speech by Hitler.
Starting in the early nineteen-thirties, Zweig wrote a number of full-length biographies, mostly of historical figures caught in perilous times—Erasmus, Mary Queen of Scots, and (the best of them) Marie Antoinette. He also completed two of his finest pieces of fiction, "Beware of Pity," his only completed novel, and the novella "Chess Story" (also known in English as "The Royal Game"). Crisis had always been Zweig's subject, but in his years of greatest success he had tended to handle it by means of plots that operate slightly too efficiently. Now, in genuine crisis himself, he produced work more compelling than anything that had come before.
In "Chess Story," a group of men on an ocean liner bound for South America find that a great chess master is aboard and form a team to play him. At first, he easily defeats them; then, during a rematch, a stranger appears and prevents the opponents from making a disastrous move. The stranger takes control and manages to force a draw. Later, he tells the narrator his story: an Austrian lawyer, he was arrested by the Nazis, interrogated, and kept in solitary confinement. To while away the hours, he memorized a compendium of great chess games and played them in his head. He progressed to playing games against himself, splitting his mind down the middle, the stress of which brought him close to breakdown. The next day, on the ship, he beats the chess master, but between moves he starts to pace, his steps marking out the dimensions of his former cell. The chess master, noticing that his opponent becomes discomposed when he is forced to wait, exploits this weakness in their second match. As he draws out his moves to unendurable lengths, the stranger appears to enter into a feverish combat with himself:
From one pause to the next our friend's behavior became ever more bizarre. He no longer seemed to be taking part in the game: he was involved in something quite different. He had left off his excited pacing and sat motionless in his chair. Staring before him with a vacant, almost crazed expression, he murmured incomprehensible words to himself in a continuous stream; either he was engrossed in an endless calculation of moves, or else (this was my deepest suspicion) he was working out entirely different games. . . . I was beginning to suspect that he had actually long since forgotten . . . the rest of us in this quiet madness.
This is melodrama, but of a very high order—the tension of the narrative rising inexorably with the stranger's gathering psychosis. There is an unmistakable urgency, too. It feels less finished and reserved, more naked, than almost anything else Zweig wrote. Biographical readings are perilous, but with Zweig, a master biographer, they seem essential, and it is hard not to see in this story of mental disintegration a self-portrait. Its author had recently sailed to South America, where he relieved the isolation of his new life by playing his way through a book of famous chess games. He mailed the final typescript of the story to his publishers the day before he killed himself.
Zweig had spent his life running away from home, but once exile became a way of life—once there was no secure base from which to escape—the strain wore on him. He lived his final years in a state of continual flight. He secured British citizenship, but then decamped with Lotte to New York. The city, full of refugee intellectuals, should have been ideal, but it depressed Zweig: there was no respite from brooding about the fate of Europe. After a tour of South America, he decided that Brazil would be a fresh start. (He even wrote a book in its praise, "Brazil: A Land of the Future.") But it's hard to imagine anyone less suited to life there. The recently collected "Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters," edited by Darién J. Davis and Oliver Marshall (Continuum), gives a picture of the daily trials the couple endured. Zweig was isolated from everything that gave his life meaning, deprived of books and like-minded colleagues; the climate was bad for his spirits and for Lotte's fragile health. Furthermore, Brazil was a dictatorship, with growing anti-Semitic leanings. The regime was proud that a famous writer had taken refuge there, but Zweig was attacked for his apparent complicity.
In "The World of Yesterday," which he completed in Brazil, he gives a chilling assessment of the hopes that refugees placed in the New World. He recalls seeing a group of European Jews in London—"ghosts" amid the "pitiful ruins of their lives"—frantically trying to obtain passage to various distant countries. He sees a man he knows, a prominent Viennese industrialist and art collector, who hopes to get a visa for Haiti or Santo Domingo. "It wrung my heart," he writes, "an old exhausted man with children and grandchildren, trembling with the hope of moving to a country he could hardly even have located on the map, just so that he could go on begging his way there, a stranger without any real aim left in life!" This withering objectivity about the futility of the situation is perhaps what enabled Zweig to give up the struggle.
Zweig's stock-in-trade was reading human lives, both historical and fictional, in search of a moral. His life, ending as it did, acquired just such a meaning, becoming a cautionary tale about the fate of the artist in the face of totalitarianism and coloring all subsequent views of his work. But, just as his pacifism in the First World War and his flight from an Austria imperilled by Fascism had both principled causes and personal ones, so, too, the public message of his suicide note tells only one side of the story. Matuschek's biography makes especially clear how much depression afflicted Zweig throughout his adult life. He had often spoken of killing himself, and twice, in the grip of despair, had asked Friderike to join him in death. In his work, suicide is everywhere, and often closely linked to exile. In "Twilight," a novella written when he was still in his twenties, a lady at the court of Louis XV is banished from Versailles and kills herself, unable to tolerate her provincial new life in Normandy. In the unfinished novel "The Post-Office Girl," a young woman starts to plan a suicide pact with a disaffected young man, after her rich relatives briefly treat her to a luxurious life and then drop her. In the short story "Incident on Lake Geneva," a Russian soldier, displaced during the First World War and desperate to return home, wades into the lake and drowns. Zweig's demise is a story he had told many times.
If Zweig's death wasn't quite the political act it seemed, the popularity of that interpretation is understandable. A man in whom genuine modesty and a genius for self-publicity existed side by side, Zweig spent his life backing into the limelight, and his death followed the same pattern. The day after their bodies were discovered, Stefan and Lotte Zweig were given a state funeral. President Getúlio Vargas attended, along with his ministers of state. Petrópolis shuttered its shops as the cortège passed and deposited Stefan and Lotte in a plot near the mausoleum of Brazil's former royal family. A day or so later, a friend received a farewell letter from Zweig, asking that his burial "should be as modest and private as possible." ♦


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Okay, here we go. Each block is made from one 6" square and one 1" strip (about 32" long).
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Quilt Along - Asterisk Quilt (Post #2)
Okay, here we go. Each block is made from one 6" square and one 1" strip (about 32" long).
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oh wow, I am going to do some right away
love it
- June 14, 2010 at 1:45 AM
- Alia said...
Man oh man! You weren't kidding on how easy it is! I spent far too much time trying to figure it out! I'm so confused because I wanna cut fabs but need to sort out my studio because the kids and I head for America next Monday! It's like, do I start it now and continue when I get back or just start when I get back??? Oh heck, maybe JUST ONE!! For now....
- June 14, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Deb said...
That looks so easy it makes me laugh! I think I will have to try it.
- June 14, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- Stephanie said...
I want to play but I need my sewing machine. I really love this block.
- June 14, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Dorothy said...
Super, super block! One question -- looks like all the pressing is away from the center?
- June 14, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Barb said...
I'm not much into solids so while I appreciated the other pic of these blocks, it didn't motivate me till I saw this one with the polka dots and the black and white. LOVE IT! I have so many things I need to do but first off I wanna play with a couple of these blocks. Thanks!!
- June 14, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- Selvage Quilter said...
Hi Dorothy,
I think it looks nicer if all the seams are pressed toward the center. That makes the asterisk strips rise up just a bit.
The first strip I made (in the first photo) has the seams "open" but then I switched to pressing the seams toward the strips. Sorry for the confusion.
Play around with it and see what you like best. Have fun.
- June 14, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Darlee Byron said...
Oh my... this really looks so much easier and fun then I first thought! This is just the kind of motivation I need to get that mending/adding additional pockets to a jacket so I can get back to quilting. Thanks!!
- June 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Stacy (S.E.W.Butterfly) said...
Easy, Peasy! Can't wait to get started! LOVE it!
- June 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Kathleen C. said...
Karen, thanks very much for the mention in your post.
I can verify that this is a quick and fun block to make: I'm not a big patchworker (mostly do applique), but I can't stay away from the machine now!
I'm really looking forward to seeing photos of everyone's blocks and color choices. I keep thinking of other color combos I could have used--but I'm glad I stuck to my "old" fabrics to use them up.
- June 14, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Magnolia Bay Quilts said...
This block looks like so much fun! And it's gorgeous!
- June 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- Cindi said...
Oh my goodness! That block is so stinkin' CUTE! I will make some for sure!!
- June 15, 2010 at 2:08 AM
- Kelly said...
So easy when you show it that way! Think I'll have to whip this up!
- June 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- prashant said...
I wanna play with a couple of these blocks. Thanks!!
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- June 15, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- a.niza said...
wowzee! that's really easy! Thanks a lot for the tute! I'm in for the QAL ...
- June 16, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- Béa said...
I finished my set of 25 blocks with my hand dyed fabrics.Thank you so much for this quilt Along, this block is very easy & fun !
Hugs from France.
- June 16, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Martys Fiber Musings said...
Great little block....loved it enough to share in my blog today.
- June 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- LindaB said...
I was going to give this block a miss until you showed us how easy it is...wow...now I am off to find some fabric to make some...LOL..won't have to go far...stash is overflowing...thanks for the tutorial...LindaB (aust)
- June 16, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Ryan said...
This block is way fun! Would you mind if I show my quilting bee the online tutorial? I would like them to make these blocks for me during my month.
Thank you!
- June 26, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Not a Princess said...
Wow! That block is gorgeous! I wandered onto your blog via Pat Sloan's FIU Challenge. I WILL FIU something this weekend but I think I just found yet another project! This may make its way into my guild's challenge quilt which has very challenging fabric and rules.
- July 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- RED PEPPER QUILTS said...
Fun block and great tutorial! Thanks so much - I have used it to make my "Bee Imaginative" swap blocks for Ryan.
- August 5, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- del.dar.pho said...
Hey, I tried it and its pretty easy. Suggest you try a sample first.
- February 24, 2011 at 4:34 AM
Thank you for your "How to do lesson"! I have posted a link to your blog in the norwegian blog NLQ Photo. It is the blog for our quilt club with more than 60 members.
- March 25, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- susiloci said...
Que tutorial tan maravilloso. Me encanta y parece fácilk de hacer.
- April 30, 2011 at 7:43 PM
- sallgood said...
Hi! So I'm a bit behind in the quilt along, but I've made my first two blocks- one for a friend, and now I'm starting on my polka dot asterisk quilt! Thanks for sharing!
- June 30, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- patriciaarra said...
Hola Karen ,estoy feliz porque encontré tus explicaciones tan faciles de este bloch.Soy nuevita en el patchwork ,pero ya hice 2 edredones y uno para mi futuro nietiro,te mandaré las fotos.Hago blockes sacados de internet,pero uso mi creatividad `para armarlos.Tengo 5 hijos varones y uno es Diseñador Grafico y me dá ideas de como quedrá mejor el edredon.Saludos para vos y gracias por los tutoriales son muy claros patrciia
- July 31, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Irene G. said...
I just made my first "sample"! It is so easy and so sweet looking. Can't make just one...I think I'm addicted now!
- August 13, 2011 at 11:18 PM
- Carol Browne said...
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I made a square today and loved it. I can't wait to make more. I'm in love!
- November 3, 2011 at 2:09 AM
- Debbie Littlejohn said...
May I ask a question? It seems as if the asterisk block SHOULD be symmetrical, but mine are not. On one side of the block the "arms" are offset from the other. Does this make sense? Is this how it should be or do I continue to do things wrong? (my second try) Thanks so much.
- February 27, 2012 at 10:27 AM
- OZquilter said...
Thank you very much. Your images make the task look so easy.
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I'm grateful for the free moments, but I'm not quite ready for the letting go. I get restless waiting for her to snap back to me. I'm not sure of my place anymore. I want to offer comfort and guidance, but she's not as forthcoming with what she wants or needs. I don't want to lecture but I'm not done teaching. I don't want to keep my distance, but she needs space to become her own person – the person she'll be without me.
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Your first and last name, username, company name, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, email address, mobile phone number, payment information, favorite Member Club and Member Club players, a photograph, and/or your use of our Services. If you use a "share with a friend" or "invite a friend" feature on our Services, we may collect your name and email address, as well as the name and email address of the recipient. We do not use the names or email addresses submitted in these circumstances for any purpose other than sending an email on your behalf, unless we obtain your consent or the recipient's consent. Information We Collect or Receive When You Use Our Services. We also may collect or receive information when you use our Services. We collect some of this information using cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. This information that we collect automatically may be combined with information that you provide us directly in order to personalize content and advertising based on your interests. Depending on how you access and use our Services, we may receive:
Log information. This is information we automatically collect and store when you use our Services. It may include, for example: Information about your interactions with our Services, including the content you view, the products you bid on or purchase, the amount of time spent on our Services, the date on which you accessed our Services, and information in cookies and similar technologies. Information about how you access our Services, including your browser or operating system, your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, and the websites you visit before and after visiting our Services. Device information. This is information we automatically collect and store concerning the device you use when you access our Services. (Note that by "device," we mean anything you use to access our Services). Device information may include, for example:
The type of device you are using (e.g., your particular brand of phone or tablet);
Certain device identifiers which may be unique to your device; and Your Internet service provider. Location information. This information may include specific location information drawn from your device's GPS or Bluetooth signal and information about nearby WiFi networks and cell towers. We receive this information when you use location-enabled services. Information from third-party sources. We may receive additional information about you from the NHL and/or Member Clubs and information about you that is publicly or commercially available, and we may combine that with the information we have collected or received about you in other ways. Also, we receive information about you when you choose to connect with social networking services while using our Services.
2. How We Use the Information We Collect or Receive
We use the information we collect and receive for the following purposes:
To provide our Services. We use the information we collect or receive to provide you with the Services you use or request. For example, we use this information to: Create accounts; Process transactions; Provide technical support and respond to user inquiries;
Send you electronic and other marketing communications that may be tailored to your preferences and interests; Administer your participation in our contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions; Notify you about updates to our Services or send other communications that are relevant to your use of our Services; and Enhance our ability to detect and prevent fraud and potentially illegal activities in connection with our Services and otherwise enforce our Terms of Service. To improve our Services. We also use the information we collect or receive to provide content you may find relevant and interesting and to maintain and upgrade the operation of our Services. For example, we may use this information to: Solicit input and feedback about our Services; Identify and address technical issues on our Services; and Customize your experiences based on location information or your online activities, including the content you view, the products you bid on or purchase, other Services of ours you use, and other information we collect or receive. To provide effective advertising and marketing. We also use the information we collect and receive to provide ads for our Services and certain third-party services and to send you promotional communications. For example, we may use this information: To show you ads (on and off our Services) based on location information or your online activities, including the content you view, the products you bid on or purchase, the other Services of ours that you use, and other information we collect or receive. To send you electronic and other marketing messages about the Sharks, the NHL, Member Clubs, or other third-party business partners that may be tailored to your preferences and interests.
3. How We Share the Information We Collect or Receive
We may share information we collect or receive with third parties when we have your consent or as described below. We may share information with the following types of third parties: Our affiliates. We may share information with "affiliates," a term that includes our parent and subsidiary companies, joint venture partners, or other companies we control, are controlled by, or with which we are under common control, including without limitation: the San Jose Sharks; San Jose Sharks, LLC; SJSHARKS.com; SAP Center at San Jose; San Jose Arena Management, LLC; Sharks Minor Holdings, LLC; San Jose Barracuda; SJSHARKIE.com; Sharks Shop Online; Sharks Foundation; Sharks Ice, LLC; Sharks Ice at San Jose; Sharks Ice at Fremont; and Oakland Ice Center. Our service providers. We may provide information about you to service providers that perform certain functions or services on our behalf (for example, hosting our Services, storing our data, fulfilling orders, providing products and services, managing databases, performing analyses, processing credit card payments, providing customer service, or sending communications for us). These companies are contractually limited in the ways in which they may use this information. Our business partners. With your consent, we may share information about you with select business partners that are not service providers, such as our sponsors, our broadcast partners, and our retail licensees, so that they can provide you with special offers, promotional materials, and other materials that may be of interest to you. Business partners are expected to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of any information we share with them. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of our business partners, which may use your information for their own purposes. Other parties in response to legal process or when necessary to protect us or our Services. We may disclose your information -- including the contents of your communications -- to other parties when required or permitted by applicable law, such as when we have a good faith belief that:
Doing so is necessary to respond to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant, or subpoena); The information is relevant to a crime that has been or is being committed; An emergency exists that poses a threat to your safety or the safety of another person or persons; or Doing so is necessary to protect our rights or property or to enforce our Terms of Service. Other parties in connection with certain business transactions. In the event that the ownership of the Sharks (or any portion of our assets) changes as a result of a merger, acquisition, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, your information may be transferred to another entity. If such a transaction occurs, we will notify you in an update to this Privacy Policy or through another appropriate means. Interactive features. We may share information with third parties when you post information to a public user profile or a public area of our Services, such as a chat room, forum, blog, social networking services, or other community tool. If you post information to these interactive features, it will be publicly available and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. We cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when using these features.
4. Third Parties That Provide Content, Advertising, or Functionality On Our Services
Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our Services may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with us. Such third parties include, for example: Content providers, which may operate contests, sweepstakes, fantasy or interactive games, or public forums on our Services; Retail companies (such as those that operate our Shop and Auctions services), which may process transactions, provide customer service, and perform other related functions;
Advertising providers, which help us and our advertisers provide ads (on our Services or elsewhere online) that are tailored to users' interests and understand users' response to those ads; Audience-measurement companies, which help us measure the overall usage of our Services and compare that usage to other online services; and Social networking services (such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+), which enable you to log in to certain of our Services, to comment on content available on our Services, and to share things you find on our Services with your social network. These and other third parties may collect or receive information about your use of our Services, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other technologies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected on different websites and online services. Social networking services may be able to collect information about you, even if you do not click on or interact with their content on our Services or have an account with the social networking service. Note that some of these companies participate in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers with choices about whether to receive targeted ads. To learn more and to opt-out of such targeted advertising, please visit the websites of the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada.
The third party social networking services with which we partner may notify your friends and other connections, both on our Services and on the social networking services themselves, that you are a user of our Services or about your use of our Services. If you choose to access or make use of third-party social networking services, we may receive information about you that you have made available to those social networking services, including information about your friends and other contacts on those social networking services. We may use the information pursuant to this Privacy Policy, but the main purpose for our use is to enhance your personal and social experience on our Services. For example, we might show you content that is popular among your friends or connections on a social networking service or provide you with a snapshot of the responses of your friends and other connections to that content.
You also may be able to link an account from a social networking service to an account through our Services. This may allow you to use your credentials from the other site or service to sign in to certain features on our Services. If you link your account from a third-party site or service, we may collect information from those third-party accounts, and any information that we collect will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
5. "Do Not Track" Signals
Some web browsers may transmit "do not track" signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. There is no standard that governs what, if anything, websites and online services should do when they receive these signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a standard for responding is established, we may revisit our policy on responding to these signals.
6. Your Choices
You have a number of choices about how we handle information we collect or receive about you. Please note that it may take up to ten business days to process your requests.
Email. You may opt out of receiving future promotional email communications from us by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link in the footer of email communications and updating your preferences. Please note that we may continue to send you transactional or service-related emails regarding your account.
SMS and MMS. You may opt out of receiving promotional SMS and MMS messages (i.e., text messages) from us by replying "STOP" to any message, which is free of charge. Please note that we may respond to your opt-out request with a free message confirming that you have successfully opted out.
Direct Mail. You may opt out of receiving direct mail communications from us by filling out the following form: SJSharks.com/contactus. Please select the "Digital Media/Marketing/Internet" option in the department section and include your first name, last name, and address in the body of the email.
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to Third Parties. You can opt out of having your personally identifiable information shared with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes by filling out the following form: SJSharks.com/contactus. Please select the "Digital Media/Marketing/Internet" option in the department section and include your first name, last name, and email address in the body of the email.
Access, Update, or Correct Information. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to access, update, or correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. If you would like to access, review, or update your information, please contact us at SJSharks.com/contactus. Please select the "Digital Media/Marketing/Internet" option in the department section and include your first name, last name, and email address in the body of the email.
Tailored Advertising. Some of the companies that provide advertising services on our Services may participate in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers with choices about whether to receive tailored ads that are based on your online activities. To learn more and to opt-out of such targeted advertising, please visit the websites of the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada.
7. Security
We have adopted physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to help protect against theft, loss, misuse, and unauthorized access to or disclosure of the information we collect and receive. However, please note that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information and privacy, we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to our Services and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your information, or any other disclosures out of our control.
Your online access to some of your information may be protected with a password that you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication (such as letters, phone calls, or email messages).
8. Children's Privacy
Our Services do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent, except as permitted by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
9. Third Party Links
Our Services may contain links to other sites that we do not own or operate. Also, links to our Services may be featured on third party services on which we advertise. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not provide any of your personal information to these third parties without your consent. We provide links to third party services as a convenience to our users. These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked services. The linked services should have separate and independent privacy statements, notices, and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. We do not have any control over such services, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the entities that operate such linked services may collect, use, disclose, secure, or otherwise treat your information.
10. International Transfers of Personal Information
The Sharks are located in the United States, and, regardless of where you use our Services or otherwise provide information to us, your information may be transferred to, maintained, and processed by the Sharks, its affiliates, or our service providers in the United States. Please note that U.S. privacy laws, regulations, and standards may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence and such information may be subject to lawful access by U.S. courts, law enforcement, and governmental authorities. By using our Services or by providing us with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to, in, and out of the United States.
11. Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices, so we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. If we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide appropriate notice to you.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Sharks Sports & Entertainment
Legal Department
525 West Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA 95113
13. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies
Our Services use online technologies called "cookies" and "web beacons," as well as other local storage technologies. This section explains what these technologies are and how they may be used.
Cookies and Other Local Storage Technologies
Generally speaking, "cookies" are text files that are placed in your device's browser, and that can be used to help recognize your browser across different web pages, websites, and browsing sessions.
Cookies are stored on your device or in "local storage." We also use other types of local storage technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (sometimes called "Flash cookies"), in connection with our Services. These technologies are similar to cookies in that they are stored on your device and can be used to maintain information about your activities and preferences.
However, these other local storage technologies may use parts of your device other than your browser, which means you may not be able to control their use using the browser tools and settings you use to control browser cookies. Your browser's privacy controls may enable you to manage other types of local storage.
Our Services may use cookies or other local storage technologies in combination with other information about you to enhance and personalize your experience on our Services (or elsewhere online), including: to help authenticate you when you use our Services; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of our Service, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through our Services.
Web Beacons
Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on Web pages, videos, and in emails that can communicate information about your browser and device to a server. Beacons can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit a Web page or read an email, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing a Web page or email.


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Leave a product suggestion
You can open a suggestion form for the product that you are working in from the header. To submit a suggestion, you may need to log in to the product first.
- Log in to your Web-Based Email, Calendar, Online Storage, or Fax Thru Email account.(Need help logging in?).
- Click the Feedback hyperlink.
- Click Product Suggestions.
- In the Suggestions field, enter your product suggestion.
Note: We automatically open a suggestion form for the product you are using. For example, if you access the Feedback menu from your email account, we open a Web-Based Email Suggestion form.
- Select Email or Phone for your Contact Preference.
- (Optional) In the Email Address field, enter your email address.
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SAP ABAP Training by Naresh SAP ABAP Training by Niveditha
ForSAP Training, Remote SAP Access or online SAP Access learn more by clicking on the links above.
- One Month of ABAP functional support (After training, During the practice).
- Mock Interviews.
- Interview Tips.
- Resume Marketing
- Sample SAP ABAP Resumes.
Basics of SAP & ABAP
(Week 1 )
- Basic SAP GUI Navigation
- Short introduction to SAP NetWeaver
- Navigating in SAP systems
- Logon and structure of the user interface
- Accessing functions in the system
- Personalization options
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server architecture
- Processing a user query
- Structure of an instance
- Work process types, server processes and their use
- Internet-based technology components:
- Overview of the SAP development environment
- Creating and editing Repository objects
- Transports between SAP systems
- Communication and integration technologies
- Introduction to SAP system administration
ABAP Workbench Fundamentals & ABAP Dictionary
( Week 2 )
- ABAP Workbench
- Create ABAP programs and the most important Repository objects using appropriate ABAP Workbench tools
- Navigate in the Workbench and use the syntax help
- Process source text with the ABAP Editor
- Test programs using the Debugger
- Project-oriented development using the Transport Organizer
- Overview of important ABAP statements
- Define elementary and structured data objects
- Working with internal tables
- Use function groups and function modules
- Use of classes, methods and BAPIs
- Database dialogs: information about database tables in the ABAP Dictionary, read database tables
- User dialogs: list, selection screen, screens. ABAP Web Dynpro (from SAP NetWeaver 7.0)
- Overview of the different options for adapting software
- ABAP Dictionary
- Terms and functions of the ABAP Dictionary
- Type definitions in the ABAP Dictionary
- Tables incl. includes and appends
- Performance aspects when accessing tables:
- Buffering
- Indexes
- Relationships between tables:
- Define and manage foreign keys
- Text tables
- Dependencies between objects in the ABAP Dictionary
- Views and append views
- Search help and append search help
ABAP Reports & Screens Development
( Week 3
- ABAP Reports
- Data retrieval:
- Selection screens
- Logical databases
- Open SQL
- Programming with the SAP list viewer (ALV):
- Using the ALV for displaying tables
- Starting ALV basic functions from the application
- Adjusting the layout
- Using display variants
- Processing user actions
- Screen Development
- Principles and ergonomics of user dialogs
- User interface and Menu Painter
- Screen objects: attributes, implementation, and processing
- Screen Painter
- Text fields, frames, status icons, input/output fields, dropdown list boxes, pushbuttons, checkboxes, radio button groups, subscreens, tabstrips, table controls
- Context menus
- ABAP Reports
Enhancements & Modifications
(Week 4 )
- Overview of the options for making customer-specific adjustments to the SAP sta
- Personalization (transaction variants)
- Enhancements to:
- Elements of the ABAP Dictionary
- SAP programs
- SAP screen menus
- SAP screens
- Enhancement techniques:
- Enhancements to elements of the Dictionary
- Customer Exits
- Business Transaction Events (BTEs)
- Business Add Ins (BAdIs)
- User Exits
- Modifications:
- Procedure
- Utilities (Modification Assistant, Modification Browser)
- Modification adjustment
BAPI Development
( Week 5 )
Business Application Programming Interface
- BAPI fundamentals
- Finding and using SAP supplied BAPIs
- Creating customer specific BAPIs
- BAPIs and RFCs
- Enhancements and modifications of SAP supplied BAPIs
- BAPIs and ALE
Performance Tuning & Advanced ABAP
( Week 6 )
- ABAP Performance Tuning
- Individual object analysis: transaction step analysis, SQL performance analysis, ABAP runtime analysis, ABAP Debugger, optimizing database accesses
- Unsuitable access path: introduction to database indexes; create, change and delete database indexes; DB views or ABAP joins and database indexes; Open SQL statements and database indexes
- Suitable access paths: accessing individual tables, accessing multiple tables, accessing pool and cluster tables, SAP table buffering
- Optimized use of internal tables: design and definition of internal tables, efficient structure, efficient access, applications
- SAP system analysis – overview
- SAP workload analysis (transaction profiles)
- Advanced ABAP
- ABAP runtime environment
- Program calls and memory management
- Shared Objects
- ABAP types and data objects in detail
- Unicode
- Work with internal tables in detail
- Work with field symbols and data references
- Dynamic programming
- Runtime type information, runtime type creation
- Complex Open SQL statements
- Analysis tools for programs
- Recommendations and conventions
- Performance rules


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South Sudan is a landlocked country in east-central Africa. It is also part of the North Africa UN subregion.
Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city; the capital city is planned to be moved to the more centrally located Ramciel in the future.
South Sudan is bordered by Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest, the Central African Republic to the west, and Sudan to the north. South Sudan includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd formed by the White Nile, locally called the Bahr al Jabal.
The modern states of South Sudan and Sudan were part of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, later being governed as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium until Sudanese independence was achieved in 1956. Following the First Sudanese Civil War, the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region was formed in 1972 and lasted until 1983. A second Sudanese civil war soon developed and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005. Later that year, southern autonomy was restored when an Autonomous Government of Southern Sudan was formed.
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. It is a United Nations member state, a member state of the African Union, and a member state of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. In July 2012, South Sudan signed the Geneva Conventions.


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Are you suffering from overstuffed bookshelves — or books laying around everywhere, not on any shelves? Here are some encouraging words from a variety of sources to help inspire you to deal with all those books.
It's not easy, but it's necessary:
Painful task: getting rid of books (as I did yesterday). Like severing friendships. But shelf space is finite, and new friends arrive. — Alexander McCall Smith, on Twitter
OK, sometimes it IS easy. Many of us have books we can quickly say goodbye to:
Outdated business books — I never liked you in the first place. Who needs two copies of Naked Conversations? Out.
Outdated computer programming and computer reference books — I have no lingering, nostalgic affection for you. Out. — Dave Coustan, Purging and De-cringing a Bookshelf
Here's how one person got rid of some knitting books:
Part of this was just being pragmatic: paring down books that basically repeated information I have in other, more frequently used books. Some had patterns I once thought I'd make but no longer fancied — and, in some cases, couldn't imagine why on earth I thought that was a good look in the first place. ...
I also realized that I acquired a number of these books at a time when there weren't so many knitting websites around. Now I can get a lot of these patterns — or similar ones — online. Or I can check the books out of the library. — Julia Smillie, Purging
You can tackle the bookshelf-decluttering project in small bites:
We're decluttering our books, one shelf at time. — SueBK
You can (almost) always find the books again, if need be:
Getting rid of books does not remove them from the universe. Have faith in libraries, bookstores (new & used), & swappers. Donate some now. — Discardia, on Twitter
Just got rid of a ton of legacy-format books. If I ever want them again (unlikely), I'll re-buy electronic versions. — Fraser Spiers, on Twitter.
You really don't have to finish every book you begin:
Sure, sometimes a book is bad. More likely, though, the book is a misfit, at least for this time and place in the reader's life. Neither reader nor writer has failed; the two are simply mismatched. ...
In her reading memoir, So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson calls deciding to allow yourself to stop reading a book "a rite of passage in a reader's life." It is, she says, "the moment at which you can look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions." — Cynthia Crossen, Wall Street Journal, via NomdeB
Related Posts:
Book Lovers: Stop Reading Books You Don't Like
Clearing Out the Bookshelves
3 Perspectives: Not All Books Are Keepers
Moving Books Along to Their Next Home
Books: Weeding the Collection
Is It Time to Bid Adieu to Some of Your Books?
Purging the Book Collection: The Nonfiction Edition
It's OK to Give Up on a Book


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This autumn stew of carrots, turnips, parsnips, onion, and plenty of spices is a vegetarian's dream but satisfies even the biggest carnivore. Gruyère-topped croutons are not to be missed.
I devised this tangy, chunky stew with vegetarians in mind, but it's not only for them; in fact it should satisfy even the most voracious carnivore. I know this because I'm just a notch away from caveman-ship myself and it hits me just right. What it lacks in protein it makes up for with tantalizing spices such as cumin and coriander.
You might not be familiar with millet because it isn't well known in the United States. It is, however, almost as common as rice in Africa and Asia. And, guess what?—millet is available in your local supermarket. I promise. Head for the rice and grains section, find the more unusual grains like couscous, and look left, right, up, and down. Somewhere in there you'll find millet. Buy a big bag because you're going to love what it adds to recipes: a pleasing bite that's just shy of a crunch, and a bit of starch that subtly thickens the liquid in which it's cooked. If you like, you can use barley in its place but, because it takes longer to cook than millet, add it with the other ingredients in step four.
This is an adaptation-friendly affair; vary the vegetables or add others to emphasize your personal favorites. Those that would work especially well are celery root, parsley root, and if you have a fondness for anise, fennel. Originally published April 19, 2003.–Tom Valenti
Autumn Root Vegetable Stew
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6
IngredientsEmail Grocery List
- For the stew
- 5 plum tomatoes, cut lengthwise into 6 pieces each
- Coarse salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 large carrot, peeled and cut on the bias into 2-inch (5-cm) pieces
- 4 small turnips, peeled and quartered
- 2 medium parsnips, peeled and cut on the bias into thirds
- 1 small Spanish onion, peeled and cut into 8 wedges
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
- 1/4 cup store-bought or homemade tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sherry vinegar
- 1 bay leaf, preferably fresh
- 4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 1/2 quarts homemade vegetable stock or store-bought, reduced-sodium vegetable broth
- 1 cup millet
- For the croutons
- 1 loaf country or peasant bread (about 1 lb), halved lengthwise down the middle and cut into 1-inch slices
- About 6 tablespoons unsalted butter (3 oz), at room temperature
- 1 cup grated Gruyère or Parmesan
- Make the stew
- 1. Thirty minutes before you want to cook, put the tomatoes in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- 2. Heat the olive oil in a wide, deep, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Add the carrot, turnips, parsnips, onion, and garlic and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring to prevent scorching, until nicely caramelized, about 15 minutes.
- 3. Add the tomato paste and stir for 2 minutes to coat the vegetables. Add the tomatoes and thyme and cook for 3 or 4 minutes longer.
- 4. Add the wine, white vinegar, and sherry vinegar, bring to a boil, and cook until nearly all of the liquid has evaporated. Add the bay leaf, cumin, coriander, and crushed red pepper. Stir in the vegetable broth and 5 teaspoons salt. Bring the liquid to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
- 5. Add the millet, bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat and simmer for 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft and the millet is tender but still a bit al dente. If not serving immediately, let cool, cover, and refrigerate for a few days or freeze for up to 1 month. Reheat before proceeding.
- 6. To serve, ladle some stew into each of 6 warm bowls.
- Make the croutons
- 7. Preheat the broiler.
- 8. Lay the slices of bread on a baking sheet and spread with butter. Broil in the oven until browned, about 2 minutes, then turn, butter the other sides and brown for 2 minutes. Top each slice with some cheese and season with salt and pepper. Place under the broiler until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- 9. If not serving immediately, let cool, cover and keep the croutons at room temperature for up to 2 hours. Reheat briefly on a baking sheet in a 220°F (105°C) oven just before serving.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.