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The ever inventive and unruly Max Fleischer, all wobble and flicker, all romp and sheesh!
Being a member of a [particular] party is not an obstacle. One may still be honest, correct, and capable of representing the people as a whole.
Maybe he doesn't want to. Once elected the President is officially independent. It's his business how he goes about representing national unity...The President of the country should be someone with values but, at the same time, capable of understanding other people's values. Áder fits both these descriptions.
You can't possibly say that about Áder, a figure regarded as the Charles Bronson of the angling world, not one of the elite but a man of the people...[On registering the scepticism of the interviewer] I'm sure you'll come round to him in due course.
Thank God parliament is full of representatives whose job is to write laws...If we make a mistake we put it right. We shouldn't forget that there has been an acceleration in legislative procedure. There is some justice in what what you say but we need to take quick decisions.
Most unfortunate. The electorate voted them into parliament nevertheless a party with a two-thirds majority should not regard such a party as fit for dialogue. Not with the Jobbik whose representatives have made the kind of statements we have heard these last two weeks. [He means the strongly anti-Semitic speeches, references to the blood libel and the questioning of the Holocaust].And did you say as much to your colleagues in the party?
I did.And?
They didn't agree with me.
[Such attacks] are only a problem in our society. They are everyday practice in the West.
That's not what history shows us. Someone who was a beneficiary of the Kádár system, enjoying all its advantages, should not go around telling people how bad that system was. History must be on the losers' side. Schiffer's family benefited from the old system. This is a matter of credibility.But why not discuss Schiffer's proposals [rather than make ad hominem attacks]?
Unlike Schiffer I was in Vásarhely revealing the names of seven hundred agents of the state with all the risks that entailed. I didn't make a big noise about it. Schiffer tried to make political capital out of that. If he does that he shouldn't be surprised when he is criticised...Schiffer's case shows how the left-liberal elite will not tolerate any opinion other than its own. [He then launches an attack on 'the sickening lies' of the 1989 change of system that, he asserts, failed to deal with ex-agents of the state]
|Not of Thursday's debate
...that we may wonder all over again what is veritable and inevitable and possible and what it is to become whoever we may be - Diane Arbus
The Mystic Barber teleports himself to Mars. Another carries
a noose and a rose wherever he goes. A third collects string
for twenty years. A fourth is a disinherited king,
the Emperor of Byzantium. A fifth ferries
the soul of the dead across the Acheron. There's a certain abandon
in asking, Can I come home with you?
like a girl who is well brought up, as she was, in a fashion,
who seems to trust everyone and is just a little crazy,
just enough to be charming, who walks between fantasy
and betrayal and makes of this a kind of profession.
It takes courage to destroy the ledge you stand on,
to sit on the branch you saw through
or to fly down the stairs like Lartigue's Bichonnade
while the balustrade marches sturdily upward, and laughter
bubbles through the mouth like air through water,
and the light whistles by, unstoppable, hard
and joyful, though there is nothing to land on
but the flying itself, the flying perfect and new.
The Owens are in Ireland, father chooses unfamiliar way through dense woods. Something 'large & animal like moving ... along a branch. They all see it. Wilfred trembling. Suddenly heavy rain then stops. Mother 'desperate' to..get out of wood. They are surrounded by cloudburst vapour. They walk between trees down seemingly endless tunnel...and suddenly come to clearing with 'what appeared to be a sheet of water'. High wall of mist cuts across in...perfect straight line, some menacing sense of danger. Father says it's all nonsense & walks ahead, they follow...noticing mist & water receding at precisely the pace they're walking. All trembling now. Father moves...ahead, water & mist retreat before him. Mother turns & screams. 10 yards behind shadowy figure of a tall..man, radiating same 'cold incandescent quality' as the lake. All feel 'desperately insecure'. Father...addresses the man. Man contorts 'into a frenzy of fury' raising his stick. Father speaks again to same...effect, another paroxysm. Father angry walks towards man who retreats keeping precisely same distance as if...the pair were synchronized. When father retreats figure comes forward etc. Father advances fiercely. Figure disappears...Mother cries, 'Tom, Tom, come back'. Father stands motionless, returns depressed. Lake has disappeared...
...My heart is perched on nothing's branch,
a small, dumb, shivering event:
the gentle stars jostle and bunch
and gaze on in astonishment.
Fat Drops of Rain...
Hizlalt esö
Fat drops of rain on the roof,
metallic pit-a-pat.
Cluck on old hen, brood me time,
hatch me some of that.
Produce the eggs, sweet mamma,
that any mother lays,
delicious soft blue, green,
and scarlet days.
I'll wait for you. I've got no cash.
There's nothing I can buy.
My heartbeat shakes me as I feel
your fluffy feathers fly.
It beats and shakes. I hear it,
gloomy, proud, aloof.
The thoughts of a tramp beneath
a first class carriage roof.
The silent machine
A hallgatag gép
Look, the silent machine has arrived
and rolls on across hulks that are still squealing.
The medium groans. Now, through the masses
come ranks of workers wheeling.
It's hard work. How can they squeeze through
when white-eyed gods in an advanced state
of decomposition, stand either side, to watch
bankers flit in and out at the gate?
The hoops of the world are cracking.
We'll found a workers' state of refined steel -
on a bed of polished rock
and see its symbol flitter across lined faces
like a snatch of song through a tenement block.
May the butcher's hefty cleaver
Dagadt hentes bárdja
May the hefty butcher's cleaver slice you open
so the snow falls down the gaping wound in your back,
tyrant of trembling hands and witless cack.
Airs for William Diaper
Here is a young fellow has writ some Sea Eclogues, poems of Mermen, resembling pastorals of shepherds, and they are very pretty, and the thought is new. Mermen are he-mermaids; Tritons, natives of the sea. Do you understand me? I think to recommend him to our Society to-morrow. His name is Diaper.
– Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella
My child, listen. When you and I arrived
fresh from our mothers' wombs we floundered
in red air and bawled our guts out, shocked
by everything: the fearsome slap of hands
we could not see, the barbarity of cold
we needed wrapping against; the light that pressed
hard fingers against our firmly shut eyes
though we did not know it. Air was dangerous,
the terrible air we needed for survival
yet needed first to survive. And you and I
we were together in this as was the one
who nurtured you in darkness, eely, frothed
and struggling like Blake's babe ready to sulk,
the alien familiar as we are still, my child,
you with your closed heart and I with mine.
He came to visit Swift who said: "It is a poor
little short wretch but will do best in a gown,"
though later he called at Diaper's door
and found him "in a nasty garret, very sick"
in an admittedly poor part of town,
so gave him "twenty guineas from Lord Bolingbroke"
for his considerable gifts and knowledge,
as appropriate for a fellow of Balliol College.
A deep-sea fishiness is half of sex,
all wriggle, squirm, thrust, muscle, ooze and flex,
plus otherness and drowning as if this
were necessary to perfect our bliss.
Now fish, now slime, spermatozoa swim
from rampant pecker into depths of quim,
and so our eelets swell and drowse in heat
their limbs more fin than human hands or feet.
Too long in genial beds, we rise for air
as fish might rise for bait that soon must tear
the delicate mouth. Then watery substance parts:
light shoots barbed arrows through our fishy hearts.
To silver poets scaled in silver, gaining
the silver medal of the moon
like a delicate staining,
the small fry
who die
unremarked and soon,
whose skin is pale and silvery as a pond,
whose hair is frond,
who dance
according to the slim chance
of names like Diaper, Edward Chicken, Stephen Duck
with a year or two of luck,
then greeted by no Gotterdammerung,
but by the greater silver
of John Crowe Ransom, Norman Cameron.
Wrote couplets enough to furnish a whole choir
of scales and fins. His objects of desire
were human beings coupling, pair by pair,
each doubled vision swimming through the air.
now twisting, now cording like rope:
warmest flesh, the perishable face
packed with hope.
My child I sometimes despair of the loss
of that which is not clear to the naked eye.
When I myself was a child the table rose
like a giant, its sharp edges sky-high.
I did not know sky from ceiling, my mother
from God. The words would open and close
their fishy gills by my microscopic ear
until I learned to distinguish one from the other.
And so I watched the wordlings shuffling across
the deep spaces of my attention like specks
cavorting within the dimensions of their sex,
smaller than I was but more sweet and clear.
Rene Magritte / liked his rum neat / and would never think of adding Cola. / He'd sooner eat his bowler.
Pierre-August Renoir / simply adored Film Noir / and kept nagging at Jean / 'Make your old dad a Film Noir! Aw, go on!'
Claude Monet / Resisted all forms of donné. / When someone suggested he should paint the cathedral at Rheims, / he replied, 'In your dreams!'
Georges Braque / decided to pickle a shark / as a kind of tableau, / but then left it to Pablo.
Michelangelo Buonarotti / woke up feeling grotty / having painted an enormous fresco / for Tesco.
Fra Filippo Lippi / was kinda dippy / but succeeded in laying tons / of nuns.
William Blake / worshipped Veronica Lake / but secretly thought The Blue Dahlia / something of a failure.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti / was never mean or petty, / though he would occasionally fiddle / with Lizzie Siddall.
Jacques-Louis David / refused to read / Karl Marx. / 'Too many sharks'.
J M W Turner / liked a nice little earner / and was untroubled by greed, / painting Rain, Steam AND Speed.
Jack B Yeats / told all his mates / to ignore his brother Willie. / 'Those bloody fairies are just too fecking silly.'
Antonio Canaletto / could sing falsetto / but once he was off his face / he growled in bass.
The Day Lady Died
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me
I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly new world writing to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the golden griffin I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
and for Mike I just stroll into the park lane
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a new york post with her face on it
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 spot
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing.


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John Lanahan (1815 – December 8, 1903) was an American preacher.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)[edit]
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- The hand of God never tires, nor are its movements aimless. It makes all things subservient to its designs, and, at every turn, disappoints the calculations of man, causing the most insignificant events to expand to the mightiest consequences, while those that have the appearance of mountains vanish into nothing.
- God, who prepares His work for the ages, accomplishes it by the feeblest instruments. It is the method of His providence to produce great results from inconsiderable means. The law which prevades the kingdom of nature is discerned in the history of mankind. Truth makes silent progress, like the water that trickles behind the rocks, and loosens them from the mountain on which they rest. Suddenly the hidden operation is revealed, and a single day suffices to lay bare the work of years, if not of ages.
- In the study of such events we do well to remember that the hand once nailed to the tree holds the chain that binds the past, the present, and the future. His way is in the sea, His path is in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known. But wisdom marks His plans; truth and justice attend their development, and out of seeming evil He brings triumphant good.
- Says Oliver Cromwell: "What are all histories but God manifesting Himself, that He hath shaken down and trampled under foot whatsoever He hath not planted?" History is not a series of jumbled happenings. God is in the facts of history as truly as He is in the march of the seasons, the revolution of the planets, or the architecture of the worlds.
- All things are connected with all things throughout the universe, from the insect to the archangel; from the sand-grain to the mountain and the globe; from the dew-drop to the ocean; from the rain-drop to the rainbow; from the pebble on the shore to 'the sun that blazes in the firmament; from the zephyr that sings among the flowers of the field to the ocean that pours its wild bass in the great anthem of nature. Not only are all things connected with all things, but there is a concatenation of events, so that the character and effects of no one event can terminate in itself. As each event owes some portion of its nature to that which preceded it, so it imparts some of its nature to that which succeeds it, and thus perpetuates the blended good or evil of itself and its predecessors. The single event may thus live on in its influence along the line of all the ages, assuming new shapes, or if clothing itself in the drapery of new events, ever marching onward and upward in the continually growing affairs of time.


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Is the new world's tallest building going through some issues? While so far only the observation deck is open, it's been temporarily shut down due to "unexpected high traffic" and "electrical problems." Ruh roh!
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
Residential and commercial tenants are due to start moving in this month, but it's not clear just what the problems are with the building that's keeping it closed up. Will there be a delay? Will it turn into a big, empty symbol of overdevelopment? Or did something just get screwed up with the elevators that they're now fixing? I don't know, but it all makes me glad I live and work nice and close to the ground. [Houston Chronicle via Fast Company]


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Read and learn about the City of Elgin's history.
Enjoy a variety of shopping and dining in this National Register Historic District that includes some of the finest brick craftsmanship in the Southwest.
Home to artists and fine crafts people, art can be found throughout the community.
Discover a host of annual and recurring events held in Elgin. From Children's Activities to Sip, Shop & Stroll in the Historic Downtown District, there's something for everyone!
The Dr. I.B. Nofsinger House was built in 1906, and restored in 2003. It currently houses the City Administrative offices, Economic Development and Utility Billing.
Elgin offers a variety of lodging options in the area.
Located in the historic Union Depot, circa 1903, the museum includes an extensive archive collection and is the repository for historic photographs in the community.
The Elgin Main Street Board and the Elgin Chamber of Commerce host group tours throughout the year.
Located in the historic H&TC Freight Depot, the Visitor's Center was renovated in 2001, and can be found at 114 Central Avenue.


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'Indecisive' is practically my middle name. Between different types of breads, salad dressings, and even apples, it tends to take me an ungodly amount of time to buy groceries. Now, I'll have even more to waffle over because the folks at Larabar have created four additional flavors! Adding two bars to both their original and Jocolat lines has brought their count up to 20 total varieties- That's a lot to pick from even for the decisive! Luckily, I was able to get my hands on all of the newest bars, so there were no tough choices this time around.
Naturally gravitating to the chocolate-y side of the spectrum inherent in the Jocolat line, my first pick was the tempting Chocolate Hazelnut. Although the chocolate flavor turned out to be rather mild and more one-dimensional like cocoa, it still came through, proving to be a good medium between candy and granola bar. The sizable chunks of hazelnut would lead one to assume that they have a prominent flavor, but they were really only present as a nice textural element to me. Soft, chewy, and slightly sweet like their old offerings, this one will certainly fit right into my normal rotation.
Chocolate Cherry sounded pretty decadent, but this snack would certainly not be confused for a truffle or cherry cordial. Tart cherries dominate, almost entirely pushing the chocolate out of the picture. With virtually no sweetness to speak of, those who aren't quite so sugar-crazed might be happily surprised, but it wasn't quite my cup of tea.
Astonishingly, it was the non-chocolate varieties that really appealed to me. The Coconut Cream Pie was the unexpected favorite in this batch. Incredibly rich with coconut flavor, I daresay it's the next best thing to eating the fresh fruit itself. Studded with nuts and coconut flakes and yet so soft that it's almost like eating raw cookie dough, I couldn't get enough of these. As a fair-weather coconut enthusiast myself, I'm betting that even those wary of this tropical delight will even enjoy these bars.
The last flavor will undoubtedly find mass appeal as well, especially for those peanut butter lovers out there. Justly named Peanut Butter Cookie, it was just as incredible and nutty as you might hope. Admittedly a bit greasy and crumbly, all textural failings are swiftly forgotten as that intense, unadulterated peanut flavor spreads itself across your palate. Large pieces of peanuts surface every now and then to contribute a satisfying crunch, and trust me, it really does satisfy! Impossibly filling for such a tiny snack, one of the babies can keep you going for hours. Now, if only they came out with a chocolate version for this one…
It might be difficult to pick out only a few flavors from the overwhelming number of Jocolat and Larabars out there, but the good news is, it's hard to go wrong with whatever you choose!
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Prince Harry: Back Because of Blabbers
Prince Harry: Back Because of Blabbers
Long live the Prince! Prince Harry arrived back in Britain today after a 10 week stint in Afghanistan -- withdrawn after the details of his secret deployment became public.
The Prince did not speak to reporters as he left the troop carrier. Surprise, surprise! According to the AP, Harry was greeted by his father and brother at the Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire, southern England.
Prince Charles spoke about Harry and the media leak saying, "I feel particular frustration that he was removed unexpectedly early because, apart from anything else, he had been looking forward to coming back with the rest of his regiment."
Officials say the Prince could be deployed later this year, but won't pinpoint exactly where. Shocker!


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The Internet is poised to undergo the biggest upgrade in its 40-year history: from the current version of the Internet Protocol known as IPv4 to a new version dubbed IPv6, which offers an expanded addressing scheme for supporting new users and devices.
However, it will be difficult for Internet policymakers, engineers and the user community at large to tell how the upgrade to IPv6 is progressing because no one has accurate or comprehensive statistics about how much Internet traffic is IPv6 vs. IPv4.
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RELATED: What if IPv6 simply fails to catch on?
The issue of IPv6 traffic measurement is timely given that the Internet engineering community is preparing for its biggest trial of IPv6: World IPv6 Day on June 8. So far, 225 website operators -- including Google, Yahoo and Facebook -- have agreed to participate in the event by serving up their content via IPv6 for 24 hours.
Without accurate IPv6 traffic statistics, neither the sponsors nor the participants of World IPv6 Day will be able to tell for sure how much IPv6 traffic is sent over the Internet on June 8 or how much difference the event has on IPv6 traffic volumes afterward.
"Being able to measure IPv4 vs. IPv6 is very important," says John Brzozowski, distinguished engineer and chief architect for IPv6 at Comcast, which has deployed an emerging tool called NetFlow 9 in parts of its network to measure IPv4 and IPv6 traffic volumes. "We as a community need to be able to measure our progress and success. IPv4 vs. IPv6 traffic is one of many important metrics."
IPv6 traffic data "is useful in understanding the trend of adoption, but I don't think it's critical for a carrier to understand that they have to properly support their customers," says Dave Siegel, vice president of IP Services Product Management at Global Crossing. Siegel adds that "it's most important to have tools available to troubleshoot IPv6 issues."
IPv6 traffic volumes are likely to remain a hot topic as the pressure intensifies for network operators to deploy IPv6, a 13-year-old standard whose primary advantage over IPv4 is an expanded addressing scheme. While IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses and can connect up a virtually unlimited number of devices: 2 to the 128th power.
The Internet needs IPv6 because it is running out of IPv4 address space. The free pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses expired in February, and in April the Asia Pacific region ran out of all but a few IPv4 addresses being held in reserve for startups. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which doles out IP addresses to network operators in North America, says it will deplete its supply of IPv4 addresses this fall.
DETAILS: Asia out of IPv4 addresses
But as necessary as IPv6 seems, there is a major stumbling block to its deployment: It's not backward compatible with IPv4. That means website operators have to upgrade their network equipment and software to support IPv6 traffic. So far, most have been unwilling to do so because IPv6 traffic has been so scarce.
One of the only regular surveys of Internet traffic is compiled by Arbor Networks, which recently reported that IPv6 represented less than 0.2 percent of all Internet traffic. Arbor said IPv6 traffic -- both tunneled and native -- had declined 12 percent in the last six months, even as momentum for World IPv6 Day was building. Arbor gathered this data by surveying six carriers in North America and Europe.
Not everyone believes Arbor's assertion that IPv6 traffic is declining while so many website operators are preparing for World IPv6 Day.
"I did not see this [data], and I am also very surprised if it is accurate," says Russ Housley, chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards body that created IPv6. "I am aware of many organizations preparing for World IPv6 Day."
Martin Levy, director of IPv6 strategy at Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP that claims to have the world's most interconnected IPv6 backbone, says he is struggling with how the Arbor Networks data can be true given the network industry momentum behind IPv6. "Where Arbor measures is not where the predominant IPv6 usage is," Levy says.
BACKGROUND: The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6
What's preventing the Internet engineering community from coming up with more complete IPv6 traffic statistics is the fact that few ISPs or their hardware suppliers have deployed a network management tool called NetFlow 9. This industry standard export protocol sends data about traffic flows through the router to an external collection host so that the flow information can be analyzed. NetFlow 9 can be used to separate out and measure IPv6 and IPv4 traffic flows.
NTT America, a leading provider of IPv6 transit services, concedes that it doesn't measure the IPv6 traffic it is carrying separate from overall Internet traffic, so it doesn't know the rate at which its IPv6 traffic is growing.
"Most routers don't have support for counting IPv6 traffic separate from IPv4 traffic on their physical interface counters," explains Dorian Kim, vice president of IP engineering, Global IP Network at NTT America. "By and large, bits are bits to interfaces, and there's been no particular driver for us to track IPv4 and IPv6 separately, especially when measuring IPv6 in the network requires one to instrument NetFlow 9 collection of traffic from the routers."
Kim says NetFlow 9 is "the most likely way we'll be able to account for IPv6 traffic separately from IPv4 traffic. ...We are working with our equipment vendors to have NetFlow 9 export capabilities across all of our network, but that is something that'll happen over time."
NTT America isn't the only ISP that hasn't been able to deploy NetFlow 9. "I heard from a significant cable operator that they don't run NetFlow 9 and hence can't measure IPv6 flows," Levy says.
One reason most carriers don't have NetFlow 9 gathering statistics across their peering and edge routers is because it can cost millions of dollars to deploy.
"It's pretty expensive to do complete traffic measurement across your entire network," says Siegel, pointing out that Global Crossing has deployed NetFlow 9 in Europe. "It's kind of a luxury."
Siegel says Global Crossing will have NetFlow 9 deployed across a third of its network footprint by the end of the year. He says the carrier has run into trouble deploying NetFlow 9, including the discovery that its edge routers didn't have enough horsepower to collect data on every port, resulting in a limited view of traffic patterns. Global Crossing plans to use NetFlow 9 to create customized billing models rather than to monitor IPv6, which represents only 0.1 percent of its traffic in Europe.
"We only started making [traffic measurement] more of a priority lately as a way of analyzing customer profitability," Siegel says, adding that measuring IPv6 traffic flows is not a driver for the purchase. "The variability of how a customer is using the network plays an extremely large role in whether or not we see profit at any given price point. That's our primary purpose behind ponying up the cash to buy the [NetFlow 9] software and the hardware platform."
Some experts argue that measuring IPv6 traffic with NetFlow 9 is not the best way to determine the rate at which IPv6 is being adopted.
Traffic is too ephemeral, says Geoff Huston, chief scientist at APNIC, the regional Internet registry for the Asia Pacific Region. Huston prefers to measure how many end users have IPv6 enabled on their devices. He points out that this figure is as disappointingly low as the Arbor Networks IPv6 traffic data.
"When you look at end users and their predilection to use IPv6, the story is pretty bad," Huston says. "I see 0.2 percent of clients prefer to use IPv6 on a dual-stack environment. ... Since November, that number has risen by a little under 0.1 percent. Yes, that's a 50 percent jump. No, these are still tiny numbers and cannot be interpreted as a wave of IPv6 adoption."
Huston says end user IPv6 adoption rates are not rising faster because recent versions of the Windows and Mac operating systems prefer to use IPv4 in dual stack environments where IPv4 and IPv6 are running side-by-side, rather than using IPv6-based tunneling techniques such as 6to4 and Teredo.
"The reason why modern end host systems prefer to use IPv4 is that auto-tunneling using either 6to4 or Teredo is lousy. The experience simply is atrocious!" Huston says. "So when we measure the amount of end hosts that prefer to use IPv6 in a dual stack scenario we are in fact looking at old end host systems that are not being maintained in terms of software releases from the vendor and a small number of end hosts that have native IPv6 service from their service providers."
Huston says observers shouldn't expect IPv6 traffic volumes to rise significantly on or immediately following World IPv6 Day. That's because IPv6 traffic volumes will only rise for end users with native IPv6 service from their ISPs.
"How many folk will see a difference [on World IPv6 Day]?" Huston asks. "At most 0.3 percent of folk. It's hardly a shattering number."
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Instead, Huston recommends that the Internet engineering community measure the success of World IPv6 Day in terms of reducing the fear that website operators have about the cost and hassle of upgrading to IPv6.
World IPv6 Day "is intended to turn the Internet, or at least the Web content delivery part of the network, into a laboratory for 24 hours [so we can] see what happens when a mono-stack world turns into a dual-stack world," Huston says. "In and of itself, it won't get the IPv6 ball rolling."
Read more about LAN and WAN in Network World's LAN & WAN section.
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All About Leather Seats
It's amazing that, after over 100 years of car production, the material most car buyers dream of having on their seats remains unchanged: leather. But is it really unchanged?
In fact, the leather used for car seats now is very different from those early days. It's still cow hide, but the way those cows are bred and the way their hides are treated have changed dramatically over the years. Even Connolly hides, for 125 years the ultimate British car leather until the company's demise a few years ago, became thinner and softer with production and processing developments, while other manufacturers went even further.
The thickness of the hide is the biggest difference. Hides now are grown larger, with intensive farming techniques; they are stretched significantly to increase their size and they are split to extract two layers of leather (the lower layer being sold as suede, or nubuck). The result is that leather seats on modern cars feel far softer and more compliant than the seats on cars of the 1960s and earlier ever were. The leather is more elastic and can be stretched over more complex shapes without the need for stitched seams.
Some of that softness comes from the chemicals used in the tanning process, which 'cures' the leather to prevent it rotting or smelling. Modern processing chemicals are different from those used in the past and, as well as making the leather look different, make it smell different too: gone is that wonderful aroma that greets you when climbing into any leather-trimmed classic. If you want it, you have to add it: some leather treatments such as Gliptone are specially perfumed to give that old car leather smell.
Protection and care
If you have leather seats in your car – old or new – a little time spent looking after them will save untold misery later when they dry out and start cracking and splitting. There are quite a few products available for cleaning and protecting leather, but it is important that you use the correct ones. The wrong type of cleaner can take all the natural oils out of it and even the color, leaving it weak and brittle. Saddle soap, beloved of horsey folk, is not suitable for car leather, being too aggressive and designed for thicker, tougher (and dirtier) leather surfaces.
The leather care products suppliers listed at the end of this article can supply gentle cleaners that will lift dirt off the surface of the leather without damaging the natural oils. Even so, it's important not to clean too often or too aggressively. A gentle wipe with a damp cloth is usually all that's necessary – only use the cleaner when the seats are actually dirty. Equally, don't use a wet cloth, as too much water will wash out the oils from the surface of the leather and make it go hard.
Some products, such as the original Connolly-spec leather cleaner from Leathercare Direct, specify that they are only suitable for pre-1990 leather. Other cleaners are available for newer leather. More important than cleaning is protection and preservation. 'Hide Food' from Connolly used to be the only product for this; now there are more, but the original is still available from saddlers and others listed, now called Connolly Hide Care. A largely natural product, its main active ingredient is lanolin, derived from the natural waterproofing grease found on the fleece of sheep.
Popular now and highly recommended is Gliptone Liquid Leather, which soaks effectively into the surface of the leather to soften it and also leaves it smelling good. Don't think, though, that a one-off application on seats that have been neglected for years will do for the next few years: Gliptone recommends re-treating every three months and, if you don't, you may find that the leather will deteriorate more rapidly than before.
Repair and restoration
So, you've got leather seats that are badly creased, with the brown undercoat of the leather showing through the creases, worn almost through the color in places and even split on the top where the sun has dried them out. Ditch them?
Absolutely not. All this damage can be retrieved to a point where the seats will look lightly worn, with a patina that suits the age of the vehicle. If you want it to look like new, get it retrimmed, but most people prefer patina to the new look of retrimmed seats.
First, you need to clean the seats (as above). If you have any splits, the covers will have to be removed so that you can glue a patch, or even a small new section of leather, to the back.
Once the seats are clean and damage is repaired (re-stitching, which is often all that is needed, must also be carried out with the covers off the seats), the next stage of the process used to be called Connollising. The specialists listed can still supply dyes and pigments to enable you to color damaged areas to match the original seat colors.
One suitable product is Woolies' Car Leather Trim Renovation Kit but there are several others. A very inexpensive kit for minor repairs is Frost's Leather & Vinyl Kit, containing colors that you must mix yourself to the correct shade. Beware of some cheaper non-specific recoloring agents, which will end up looking like paint on the surface of the leather.
If your seats are beyond redemption, you will have to resort to replacement. You can still buy hides in all colors and grains and even Connolly hides are still stocked (by Neumann Leathers), but the leather is actually quite different from that originally used in a classic.
One option is to have all the seats retrimmed in new leather, but it will never be exactly the same as the old leather: it will be softer and more supple and it may not have the same grain.
If originality and patina are of more importance to you, then the answer is to find old leather of the same type that can be patched in. Classics with leather seats are still being broken for spares – it can always be recolored.
If you're really lucky, you may find a seat with a suitable piece of leather in exactly the right color that can be stitched in, magically restoring the original appearance of your seats.
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It's basically a ritual now: Fresh feature debuts on new Android phone; hack-happy G1 owners see new feature, develop seething jealousy; said owners work tirelessly to steal new feature. Last week, Google Maps Navigation hit the Droid. Today, the G1.
Google Maps Navigation will be part of Android 2.0, and Android 2.0 is expected to come to most—if not all—Android handsets on the market eventually, so given how complicated this hack is (fairly!), and that it requires a rooted phone, it'd be prudent for most folks to just wait this out. That said, there's no saying how long it'll be until Eclair seeds out to older handsets, and there's no guarantee that the G1—and old fart in its little corner of the universe—will ever get it. Anyhow, here's what you need to do, from XDA:
Download here
Make sure you have CyanogenMod 184.108.40.206, by the way.
1) Unzip zip to desktop
2) Run Part 1.bat
3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot
4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat
5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done.
6) Make sure GPS is enabled
7) Open Maps and press OK
8) Press Menu
9) Press Directions
10) Enter an end point
11) Click Go
12) Just under "Show on map", click Navigate.
13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so.
And there you have it: Free, not terrible turn-by-turn navigation for your G1, without Android 2.0. Early reports say it runs well; let us know how it goes for you in the comments. [XDA via
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When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? (And Who Named It?)History Q & A
The Great Depression: Where, exactly, did this term so present in the American lexicon, and so connected to America's historical narrative, come from? Who said it first?
In The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972, author and historian William Manchester argued that Herbert Hoover deliberately chose to use the word "depression" when discussing the economic situation of the time. Although similar economic downturns in American history had been referred to as panics or crises, Manchester explained that Hoover believed that the word depression sounded less alarming.
Manchester is not alone in his assertion. Many have argued that Hoover was, in the words of one historian, "the person most responsible" for associating the economic collapse of the 1930s with the word "depression." But he was not the first president to use the word "depression." Preceding presidents had long used the word depression in reference to a slumping economy. Particularly noteworthy are instances in which presidents used the word "depression" during periods of economic turmoil that were later remembered as "panics."
James Monroe, for example, during the Panic of 1819, referred to the onslaught of bank failures and a depreciating currency as "the depression." In 1874, during the Panic of 1873, Ulysses S. Grant expressed his concern over "the depression in the industries and prosperity of our people." Rutherford B. Hayes similarly remarked during his inaugural address in 1877, that "the depression in all our varied commercial and manufacturing interests throughout the country... still continues." These are but a few examples. Monroe, Grant, Hayes, and many other presidents that came before Hoover, did not refer to the faltering economies they inherited as crises, but rather as depressions.
Not only is "depression" not a Hoover original, neither is "Great Depression." This label was also used in pre-Hoover American history. James Monroe first used the phrase in 1820 in his Fourth Annual Message. In 1928, the Republican Party Platform boasted, "Under this Administration the country has been lifted from the depths of a great depression to a level of prosperity." Calvin Coolidge, as well as Hoover himself, referred the post-WWI recession as "the great depression of 1921."
In the beginning stages of the Great Depression, Hoover remained in a state of denial over worsening economic conditions. Shortly following Black Tuesday, Hoover remarked that the "conditions are fundamentally sound." Even as late as December 1930, Hoover maintained that "the fundamental strength of the economy is unimpaired." It was not until 1931, when it became impossible to deny the economic train wreck transpiring, that Hoover began to refer to the economic situation of his own time as a "great depression." Excerpts of Hoover's use of the term "great depression," however, contain a feeling of generality. In a speech in the fall of 1931, for example, Hoover remarked, "I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression." The presence of the indefinite article "a" is important to note.
The term, the Great Depression, is, as we know it today, a proper noun. It is a term used to refer to a specific historical era, and hence requires a definite article, the, when referring to it; not the indefinite article, a. In all of Hoover's usages of the phrase "great depression," none contained a definite article. The phrase, "the great depression," in reference to the 1930s, did not appear till after Hoover left office. Some historians argue that the true inventor of the phrase, the Great Depression, is Lionel Robbins, a British economist who lived during the Depression. In 1934, after Hoover's tenure in office, Robbins wrote the book, The Great Depression, which contains what some historians, notably David F. Burg, consider to be the fist usage of the phrase we now use to to describe the economic meltdown on the 1930s.
Robbins was unique because of his use of capitalization. In all the instances when presidents, including Hoover, used the term "great depression" prior to the 1930s, it was not capitalized. Even during the 1930s, when Hoover, and later Roosevelt, discussed the economic situation, "the great depression" remained un-capitalized. In 1936, for example, Roosevelt lamented the suffering citizens went through "in the days of the great depression." By comparison, in 1952, with the national election nearing, Harry Truman lambasted Republicans for having "brought on the Great Depression." It was only later, once the Depression had subsided and could be remembered as a historical era thankfully in the past, that the term "great depression" could fulfill its proper noun potential and take on the capitalized form that we know today.
Although Hoover did not quite invent the term the Great Depression, he did play a role in its formation. Hoover's decision to refer to the economic situation as a depression was not as original as William Manchester claims, but it did set the tone for the way in which Americans would refer, and later remember, that period of economic downturn.
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vaughn davis bornet - 6/19/2009
I just don't remember the origins of "relief, recovery, reform" at this time. I think I knew at some point.
If I were doing it, I would look first in Schlessinger, Jr. and then in Friedel, both orderly historians. I had no luck with Edgar Eugene Robinson, The Roosevelt Leadership, 1933 to 1945.
I thought the essay on Depression a very good piece of work. I am of opinion that Hoover did not know of the several earlier instances the author dug up, and that he thought he was pioneering in its use. Still, I could be wrong.
I will look in Robinson and Bornet, Herbert Hoover: President of the United States, but I would not expect the subject to have come up there.
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Oscar Chamberlain - 2/18/2009
Interesting article. Thanks!
Lately I have been curious about the origin of the division of FDRs programs--in particularly the early New Deal--into categories of "relief", "recovery," and "reform."
Was that part of the Administration wordplay from the outset, or was it first used by others to explain it?
If you could shed light on that, I would be appreciative.
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To mark Older Americans Month, the Voices for Better Health project has debuted a new video highlighting an important strategy to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable older adults. "Building Bridges to Better Health" tells the story of an innovative collaboration between consumer advocates and providers to infuse geriatrics best practices into the Demonstration Projects for people with both Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligibles).
Working nationally and with Voices for Better Health state partners, this powerful partnership draws on the expertise of leaders in the geriatrics community – physicians, gerontologists, nurses, social workers and other providers and researchers – sharing best practices to improve efficiency, quality and outcomes in the demonstration projects. This collaboration has increased the effectiveness of state advocacy efforts around these demonstrations. With people of color making up a disproportionately large percentage of the dually eligible population, we also see this work as helping to build another important bridge – to health equity for all.
While "Building Bridges" focuses on the dual demonstration projects, it affirms that breaking down silos and strengthening alliances with providers is an indispensable approach to creating a path to a people-centered health system, both for older Americans, and those of all ages.


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Fans of the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff will have a chance to play his likeness in the follow-up to "Guitar Hero." The Grammy award winning DJ has been added as a digital character in the new "DJ Hero" video game. The game, from Activision Publishing, Inc. allows players to scratch, blend and sample like some of the greats including Grandmaster Flash, DJ AM, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Shadow and the newly added, Jazzy Jeff. Jeff revealed his excitement for the project in a statement:
"I am very, very excited DJ culture is finally getting its due. To have a song in 'DJ Hero' is a dream come true; to be a character someone can pick up the controller and select you and play is probably the biggest thing to happen to me in my career. Music is so much a part of everyone's life, 'DJ Hero' is going to appeal to almost everybody."
The legend has two exclusive mixes that fans can master on the game. The first mix will include "Shout" from British band Tears For Fears and "Eric B. is President" by Eric B and Rakim. The second mix will be "Rock The Bells" by LL Cool J and "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Aranbee Pop Symphony Orchestra.
The game will be released this fall and available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2 and Wii.
Jeff recently made headlines in June after concert officials cut his set short at a Bacardi B-Live Concert in the Power & Light District of Kansas City. Officials claimed that his sound levels were too high and were threatening to blow the speakers. Jeff claimed otherwise, and cited racism as the reason he was asked to leave.
"My road manager walked up to me and said they were having problems with the music I was playing. I played three more songs and he comes back. I knew something was wrong. They said I had to kick touring rapper Skillz off the stage, change the format of the music I was playing or quit. They said if I continued playing they had 30 cops ready to come escort me offstage. So I stopped."
When Mad Skillz heard they were being kicked off stage, he apologized to the crowd saying:
"They don't was us to play Hip-Hop y'all."
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In case you haven't ever seen the series, NGE is a long-running anime series which tells the tale of giant robots controlled by teenagers in a fight against chaotic-neutral beings called angels. So, you know, standard Japanese anime stuff. The series has grossed over $1.6 billion worldwide since 1995 and therefore deserves a brightly-painted race car, or something.
Team Eva racing has applied an appropriate color scheme and all the right nerdwords and now they're hoping it pays off by requesting sponsorship support from the nerdverse. How that sponsoring action works we have no idea since the team's website is in Japanese, but if you're a true fan, you'll have learned the language it order to watch the series as it was intended. [Eva Racing via NihonCar]


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Doctors warn about un-needed medical tests, treatments
By: Maggie Fox
Source: NBC News
You don't need an MRI for lower back pain. You don't need antibiotics for a sinus infection. And you don't need to be screened for osteoporosis, either, if you're under 65.
Seventeen of the top medical specialty groups, representing pediatricians, ear, nose and throat specialists, family doctors and others released their latest list of common tests, treatments and procedures that people don't need.
Some can do harm, like unnecessary antibiotics. Others are simply helping to drive up medical costs.
"Millions of Americans are increasingly realizing that when it comes to health care, more is not necessarily better," says Dr. Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the ABIM Foundation, a non-profit set up by the American Board of Internal Medicine that helps sponsor the what-you-don't-need campaign.
"Through these lists of tests and procedures, we hope to encourage conversations between physicians and patients about what care they truly need."
Here are some of the things the groups say patients don't need:
- Antibiotics for a sinus infection. While 80 percent of patients with sinusitis get one, most such infections are caused by viruses, which antibiotics don't affect. You also usually don't need an X-ray, CT scan or MRI, the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery Foundation says.
- Induced labor or a cesarean section before a full 39 weeks of pregnancy, unless there's a medical reason to do it. Babies delivered early can have lung problems, learning difficulties and other issues, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Academy of Family Physicians both say.
- A stress test when there's no sign of heart disease. There's no evidence it shows anything in a healthy person, the American Society of Echocardiography says.
- A feeding tube in patients with advanced dementia. Studies show it's of no help to the patient, theAmerican Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and American Geriatrics Society say. Hand-feeding is better.
- A routine annual Pap test if you're 30 or older, or under 21. You only need one every three years, unless you've had an abnormal test, theAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says. And women under 21 are extremely unlikely to have cervical cancer.
- DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) screening for osteoporosis in women under 65 or men under 70, unless there's a suspicion of bone loss.
- A CT scan for a child with a minor head injury. While50 percent of children who visit hospital emergency departments with head injuries get one, they can raise the risk of cancer down the road, the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
- An EEG (electroencephalography) for patients with recurrent headaches. There's no evidence it provides any benefit, theAmerican Academy of Neurology says.
- Any kind of imaging for lower back pain unless there are special circumstances, such as neurological deficits, or if the pain has lasted for more than six weeks.
- Antibiotics for pinkeye (conjunctivitis). It's almost always caused by a virus, the American Academy of Ophthalmology says.
- PET or CT scans to screen for cancer in healthy people. "The likelihood of finding cancer in healthy adults is extremely low (around 1 percent), based on studies using PET/CT for screening," the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging says.
The full list is available at www.ChoosingWisely.org.


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Homs and Damascus are the deadliest places in Syria, according to an opposition group that keeps a running total of those whose lives came to a bloody end in 20-month armed conflict.
Read more: Syrian opposition leader expects more from U.S.
Of the 37,387 who have perished since fighting began, 6,992 were killed in Homs and 6,750 in the suburbs of Damascus, the Violations Documentation Center said.
The total number includes 3,061 government soldiers, which the group only recently started to include in its count.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry published harsh criticism in its active Twitter feed of the recent show of support by the United States, France and Arab states around the Persian Gulf for fighters trying to topple Assad.
"The Syrian opposition has been given a false signal, strengthening the positions of extremists, including terrorists," a tweet reads. The ministry said the decision went against international principles on Syria established in Geneva.
Quoting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the ministry tweeted: "If the priority is Assad's fate, it will be paid for with new casualties in #Syria. Our key priority is to prevent such sacrifices."
Lavrov met with the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday. Russia has shown support for its long-standing ally Assad, while the GCC openly backs the opposition. Both sides have been accused of supplying weapons to the conflict parties.
The conflict raged on Thursday in Syria's perpetual flashpoints with no sign of losing intensity. The killing continues to drive civilians to flee over the country's borders.
The U.N. refugee office says 414,838 Syrians are in neighboring countries registered as refugees or waiting to register. Turkey has the single highest number, with 114,944, it says.
The Violations Documentation Center regularly publishes a meticulous tally of those who have been killed during Syria's armed conflict, claiming to include in its count only those whose deaths are documented on video or with an ID card. It works closely with the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a source commonly cited in reports on Syria.
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The figures in their statistics will continue to rise. Ninety-five people died Thursday, including 46 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 14 in Homs, according to the LCC.


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The mouth or 'oral cavity' is the opening of the alimentary canal, where animals take in food and begin the digestive process generally with both motor and chemical aspects of digestion. In mammals, it is also connected to the respiratory system. The human mouth includes the lips, teeth, tongue, salivary glands, and mucus membranes.
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On Thursday, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its estimates for October dairy product production in the U.S.
Total cheese output, excluding cottage cheese, in October was 896 million pounds. This is up 1.7 percent from October 2010 (881 million pounds) and 3.3 percent over September 2011 totals (867 million pounds). Italian-type cheese accounted for 382 million pounds of total production, up 2.3 percent over last October and 3.7 percent above September. Over three quarters of the Italian total is attributed to Mozzarella production, totaling 296 million pounds in October, a 3.4 percent jump over September production. American-type cheese production totaled 352 million pounds, down 1.2 percent from last year but 4 percent above September totals.
In October, Wisconsin (221 million pounds) and California (189.7 million pounds) had the highest cheese production totals. South Dakota had the strongest production gains over last year with a 12 percent surge in production. Illinois saw a 20.6 percent drop in production in the past year.
Butter production boasted the most significant gains over last year. Production, totaling 146 million pounds, was up 19.6 percent over last October. The total was 6.4 percent above September production. Of this total, California accounted for 50.1 million pounds of total butter production, a 10.1 percent jump over September.
While total yogurt production rose 7.6 percent compared to the same month last year, it is down 11.5 percent from this September. Production totaled 346 million pounds in October, while September production was 391 million pounds.
Frozen products compared to a year ago also saw gains. With 60.5 million gallons, hard ice cream production was up 2.1 percent, while low-fat ice cream was up 10.9 percent.
Skim milk powder production compared to last month was up 139.6 percent to 42 million pounds.


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Like so many spaghetti Westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a tough-minded tale about changing loyalties and pure human greed. It follows the adventures of three men who are after hidden gold: a mysterious loner (Clint Eastwood), a bandit (Eli Wallach) and a bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef). Of course it's not quite that simple. Neither of the men trust each other--with good reason--and there's a little matter of the Civil War raging around them. Leone stated, "What do 'good', 'bad' and 'ugly' really mean? We all have some bad in us, some ugliness, some good. And there are people who appear to be ugly, but when we get to know them better, we realise that they are more worthy."
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was the third film director/writer Sergio Leone made with Clint Eastwood, a cinematic trilogy of sorts that established the actor as a major star and put Leone on the international map. In fact, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly originally was intended to have the word "dollars" in the title to capitalize on the previous two films (A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). They made a great impact in the U.S. because even though made over a space of several years the three films were released here in barely a single year (January to December 1967). Unfortunately, conflicts between Eastwood and Leone came to a head during the dubbing sessions for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the two never worked together again, though Eastwood has always been quick to point out his debt to Leone.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly had a budget of $1.2 million (more than the previous two films combined) with $250,000 and a percentage of some profits going to Eastwood. (Shortly before filming, Eastwood worked with the great director Vittorio De Sica for a segment of the anthology film The Witches, 1966.) Leone was always a history student and did extensive research into the period, using some of Matthew Brady's famous photographs among other documents in the Library of Congress. Leone claimed with some truth that his films were more accurate than most American-made Westerns (even if they were filmed in Spain). They aren't documentary re-creations, though, since you can find a few anachronisms like dynamite a few years before it was invented.
When shooting started, the film's working title was The Magnificent Rogues which didn't quite fit the three gritty, sometimes ruthless characters; screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni eventually came up with the famous final title (which is the same in Italian with only the order changed). Though Leone usually followed scripts very closely, Wallach's character was given more and more space as production progressed, something that couldn't have pleased Eastwood. In fact some of this uncertainty lasted into the final editing and dubbing stages when parts of the story were still being reworked by Leone. (Several filmed scenes, including a love scene with Eastwood's character and a local woman, were eliminated entirely.)
The mix of acting styles and Leone's epic visual sense are perfectly complemented by the music of Ennio Morricone. The composer worked on all but one of Leone's films (his first, The Colossus of Rhodes, 1961) and stamped his unique style so thoroughly on the genre that spaghetti Western parodies always try to mimic him. For the final shoot-out of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone filmed to Morricone's pre-recorded music, a technique he would take much further in the next film, Once Upon a Time in the West. (Leone reportedly didn't like to be in the screening room with Morricone because the composer would laugh at everything, intentionally funny or not.)
In an interview with Gregory J. M. Catsos for Filmfax Magazine, Eli Wallach recalls the making of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: "It was a dirty, hot location. We filmed in Rome, Italy, and Almera, Spain. That was the most exhausting film I ever did. The studio had no concept of time. You'd go to work when the sun came up, and worked until the sun went down. We worked this way, six days a week, for four months. The living conditions weren't that good, either. They didn't have any trailers or air conditioning and didn't provide for the social amenities. One day, we were shooting out in the hot desert in southern Spain. After one scene, I said to the director, Sergio Leone, "I have to go to the bathroom, Where is it?" Leone pointed to the desert sand and shouted, "There!"
"Leone was very particular about how to make this film. He wanted it to have strong visual moments, and it did, likeme about to be hanged, or the closeups on the eyes. He used a lot of close-ups instead of dialogue....When I met Leone, he was wearing a belt and suspenders. I thought, "How unusual that is!" So I told him I wanted my character 'Tuco' to dress that way. Leone's answer was that he wanted me to play this scummy outlaw with "no holster for his gun!" I asked, "Where do I carry the gun, then?" He explained, "You'll have a concealed gun tied to a rope; a lanyard, around your neck." "So," I asked, "the gun dangles between my legs, right?" He said, "Yes. When you want the gun you twist your shoulders and then the gun will be in your hands." I asked him to show me how I could shoot a gun this way. He said "Like this!" He put the lanyard on, twisted his shoulder, and the gun hit him right in the groin! Undaunted, he said, "On second thought, just put the gun in your pocket." (Oddly enough, Wallach wasn't even the first choice for the role: Leone had wanted Charles Bronson who was already committed to The Dirty Dozen but would later appear in Once Upon a Time in the West.)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly confused most critics when it first appeared, getting mostly negative reviews ("dramatically feeble and offensively sadistic" according to Variety). There were even concerns about its length - whether audiences would sit through the whole thing and whether theatres could schedule enough showings in a day to turn a profit. But The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was a popular success and its true value as a modern classic became recognized with such folk as Leonard Maltin rightly proclaiming it the "quintessential spaghetti Western."
Producer: Carlo Bartolini (assistant producer), Alberto Grimaldi (producer), Federico Tofi (assistant producer)
Director: Sergio Leone
Screenplay: Sergio Donati (uncredited), Agenore Incrocci, Sergio Leone (also story), Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni (also story)
Production Design: Carlo Simi
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Costume Design: Carlo Simi
Film Editing: Eugenio Alabiso, Nino Baragli
Original Music: Ennio Morricone
Principal Cast: Clint Eastwood (The Man With No Name), Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza), Aldo Giuffrè (Northern officer), Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez), Luigi Pistilli (Padre Ramirez), Rada Rassimov (Maria).
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Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike
Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem
Fake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.
The UK-based security vendor said in its Security Threat Report 2012 (PDF) released today that fake AV levels were 50 per cent lower at the end of 2011 than they were at the start of the year.
Vice president of SophosLabs, Mark Harris, told The Register that although fake AV levels had dropped, it was still the second-most common threat. He said it may just be experiencing a blip as a result of the FBI's raid on a prolific scareware gang and the arrest of the co-founder of dodgy Russian payment firm ChronoPay in June.
"It's a dip but they will adapt and move onto other mechanisms. We've already seen a technique in Russia where users are encouraged to download an application for free but in order to complete the process they have to text a premium SMS number," he explained.
"It's a new trend we've seen over the past couple of months and is an example of how malware authors are adapting to get payments another way."
Drive-by downloads have now become the number one web threat, Sophos said. Ten per cent of threats are now exploit sites, with two-thirds of these the result of popular crimeware kit Blackhole, which generates polymorphic, obfuscated malware that is difficult to detect.
Typical payloads generated by Blackhole include rootkit droppers, fake AV and malware to turn infected machines into botnets, while Java, Flash and PDF vulnerabilities are among the most commonly targeted.
"I fully expect drive-by-downloads to grow this year. It's partly about end user education filtering through," said Harris.
"The spam emails the cyber criminals sent with malicious attachments were working but users are now getting more sophisticated and suspicious so they're forced to move to other techniques. It's harder for the criminals because once the infection is found the website can be blocked."
Surprisingly, Sophos also revealed in the report that old timer Conficker is still causing mischief over three years after it was released into the wild. According to the vendor it is the most commonly encountered piece of malware, representing 14.8 per cent of all infection attempts.
Conficker's continued survival is a result of its aggressive propagation capabilities compounded by poor basic security measures such as patching, and a less than rigorous approach to managing removable and mobile devices, said Harris. ®


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The Old Flame by Robert Lowell
Remember our lists of birds?
One morning last summer, I drove
by our house in Maine. It was still
on top of its hill -Now a red ear of Indian maize
was splashed on the door.
Old Glory with thirteen stripes
hung on a pole. The clapboard
was old-red schoolhouse red.Inside, a new landlord,
a new wife, a new broom!
Atlantic seaboard antique shop
pewter and plunder
shone in each room.
A new frontier!
No running next door
now to phone the sheriff
for his taxi to Bath
and the State Liquor Store!
No one saw your ghostly
imaginary lover
stare through the window
and tighten
the scarf at his throat.
Health to the new people,
health to their flag, to their old
restored house on the hill!
Everything had been swept bare,
furnished, garnished and aired.
Everything's changed for the best –
how quivering and fierce we were,
there snowbound together,
simmering like wasps
in our tent of books!
Poor ghost, old love, speak
with your old voice
of flaming insight
that kept us awake all night.
In one bed and apart,
we heard the plow
groaning up hill –
a red light, then a blue,
as it tossed off the snow
to the side of the road.


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Nigeria is battling an Islamist insurgency that has claimed 3,000 lives since 2009
Boko Haram is fighting for stricter Sharia law in Nigeria's predominately Muslim north
Nigeria's military suspect Boko Haram was behind an attack on a college this week
At least 29 students were killed and several buildings torched in the Buni Yadi attack
Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group waging a campaign of violence in northeastern Nigeria, particularly in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
The group's ambitions range from the stricter enforcement of Sharia law – which is derived from the Koran as the "world of God" – across the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria, to the total destruction of the Nigerian state and its government.
The Nigerian government is struggling to control the bloodshed between the mainly Muslim north and Christian south that has claimed more than 3,000 lives since Boko Haram came to prominence in 2009, according to Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have also accused Nigeria's military of committing atrocities against civilians.
After raising concerns with Nigeria's foreign minister last May, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: "The government has acknowledged that there have been some problems … they're working to try to control it."
Days after a deadly attack on a college in northeastern Nigeria, which the military suspects may have been committed by Boko Haram, we look back at the past year of attacks blamed on – or claimed by – the group.
February 26, 2014: At least 29 students die in an attack on a federal college in Buni Yadi, near the the capital of Yobe state, Nigeria's military says.
Authorities suspect Boko Haram carried out the assault in which several buildings were also torched.
February 15, 2014: Dozens of residents in northeastern Nigeria are killed in two separate attacks launched by Boko Haram, according to officials and residents.
They say scores of militants dressed in military uniforms storm the Christian farming village of Izghe, in Borno state, and open sporadic fire on residents, killing at least 106 people in an attack specifically targeting male residents.
In the second attack, suspected Boko Haram gunmen open fire on Doron Baga, a fishing village along Lake Chad. "They opened fire from all directions, forcing residents to jump into the lake in a bid to escape, and many drowned while others were gunned down," a survivor says.
February 11, 2014: Suspected Boko Haram militants torch houses in the village of Konduga, killing at least 23 people, according to the governor of Borno state.
January 26, 2014: Militants open fire on a village market and burn homes in the village of Kawuri, killing at least 45 people, Borno state police commissioner Lawan Tanko says.
Tanko says the suspected Boko Haram members were on all-terrain vehicles and shot at people while traders were closing shop for the day.
December 2, 2013: Hundreds of Boko Haram militants attack an Air Force base and a military checkpoint in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, according to government officials.
November 13, 2013: French priest, Georges Vandenbeusch, is snatched from his parish church in Nguetchewe, Cameroon, about 11 kilometers (7 miles) from the Nigerian border. He is released at the end of the year.
October 20, 2013: Gunmen suspected of being members of Boko Haram attack motorists in northeastern Nigeria, killing four, authorities say. A Nigerian Army spokesman says the men – dressed in military clothing – launched the attack on a remote road in between Ikwa and Gamboru-Ngala in Borno State, close to the border of Cameroon.
September 29, 2013: Gunmen approach a dormitory at the College of Agriculture Gujba in Yobe state and open fire on sleeping students. At least 40 students die, local media says and a military spokesman says the evidence points to Boko Haram.
August 11, 2013: Gunmen attack a mosque in Konduga, Borno state, with automatic weapons, killing at least 44 people, a local police official says.
July 6, 2013: Gunmen storm a school in Yobe state, killing 20 students and a teacher, state media reports.
June 2013: An attack on another Yobe school takes the lives of seven students and two teachers, state news reports. Boko Haram claims responsibility, according to local media.
May 7, 2013: Two soldiers are killed in Bama, Borno state, during coordinated attacks on multiple targets. Nigeria's military says more than 100 Boko Haram militants armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft weapons mounted on vehicles carried out the attack. President Goodluck Jonathan says dozens of people were killed and police say at least 13 suspected militants were among the dead.
February 19, 2013: A French family of seven is kidnapped in Cameroon. Boko Haram releases a video of the hostages in which a spokesman demands that Nigeria and Cameroon free jailed members of its group. The family was later released.


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-Celia Rowlson-Hall in her mind-bending PROM NIGHT-
Hi Celia, first of all thank you so much for agreeing to participate in this Q&A. I just recently discovered your work and I must say that your short-films are some of the most exquisite and haunting pieces I have seen in some time, so it's a thrill to have you stop by here.
To start off, can you tell us where you are from originally and what sparked your initial interest in the arts?
I'm from a very small town called Urbanna, Virginia. My parents definitely caused that spark. They put me into ballet, piano and art classes at a very young age and immediately I was drawn to dance.
Who were some of your early influences were growing up?
The poet Shel Silverstein, I wanted to be him. I signed my papers at school Celia Silverstein.
My babysitter, Christine Williams, was (and still is) simply the most loving person ever.
Before we talk about your films can you tell us a bit about your life as a choreographer and a dancer?
I went to college, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, for modern dance and choreography. After graduation I moved to New York and danced with two incredible choreographers- Monica Bill Barnes and Faye Driscoll. During that time I also choreographed my own work and presented it in various theaters and venues. I then began choreographing for film and music video, which opened me up to that world.
I know you won the prestigious Bessie Award in 2010. Can you talk a bit about that and what you were specifically awarded for?
Yes, I was a performer in a show called 837 Venice Blvd which was directed/choreographed by Faye Driscoll. All collaborators in the show, from the performers to the set designer, were awarded Bessie's for their contribution to the work. So I was awarded for my performance. I did a lot of singing, kicking, crying, punching, screaming and dancing in that piece so it felt really nice to be acknowledged!
One thing that really impresses me about your films, specifically Prom Night, is the remarkable way you incorporate your work as a choreographer, dancer and model into them. How important is your background in dance to your work as a filmmaker?
-Celia in her dazzling A STUDY IN COLOR-
It's essential. You don't see me speaking in my films for a reason! I best know how to communicate with my body and movement- so yes, it's very important! I also feel that the more I put "me" into my work, the clearer I can be with my story and intention.
Speaking of choreography and film, I loved the work you did with one of my favorite modern-bands Sleigh Bells. How did that come about and how were they to work with?
Sleigh Bells "Infinity Guitars" from Phil Pinto on Vimeo.
The casting director for that video, Zan Ludlum, is a friend of mine and got me that job. Since I was choreographing on the models, I didn't work with the band. I also enjoyed working with the director, Phil Pinto, he's very fun and laid back.
Moving to your work in front of and behind the camera, tell us about your early filmmaking ventures and perhaps mention a few favorites.
A still from Celia's mesmerizing PINATA-
Goodness, I feel like I am still in my early filmmaking ventures. I'm not working on any different "level" (budgets, collaborators etc.) than I was a few years ago when I started, so I feel like I'm still in the first phase.
Although it's easier to be out of the work for me to properly direct it, I must say I love being in the work- it's an additional challenge I really enjoy.
Are there any particular filmmakers that influence your work behind the camera? Also I sense a real love for both fashion and music in your films and I was hoping you might discuss that a bit as well.
When I got into filmmaking I didn't know a thing- but the past couple years I've been voraciously watching movies. I really love the work of Andrea Arnold, Roy Andersson, Lynne Ramsay, and Giorgos Lanthimos.
They influence me by reminding me to push myself to BE SPECIFIC, and keep going past your comfort zone- get deeper, get uglier, get weirder, get dangerous.
Okay, onto the amazing Prom Night. I was recently introduced to this startling film by a friend at Facebook and I have to give you big congratulations on it. Outside of how technically great it is, there is something about it that is both extremely moving and quite unsettling. How did the film come about and can you discuss some of the aspects that went into making it?
I have always wanted to be someone other than me and thought it was time to explore that. Somehow exploring it in the context of prom seemed right to me so I developed the dance solo first and then figured out the women I wanted to be and then worked with my amazing collaborators- Jae Song and Lindsey Hornyak. We spent many hours rehearsing, questioning, costuming, set dressing.
One of the major things that I loved about Prom Night is how open-ended it is as far as interpretations go. There was a comment over at Vimeo that echoed my thoughts on it in that it was a Ghost-story focusing on a young girl who plays out these particular prom-night fantasies on an endless loop for all eternity. I also had the thought that it could just be commenting on the different roles and stereotypes women are often forced to play…of course, both interpretations could be wrong, which is something I really appreciated about the film! Are there any thoughts on the meaning of the film you would like to share or are you happy with the ambiguity?
I'm really happy with the ambiguity and rather not say. It's very clear in my mind what I am communicating but it's neat to see all the interpretations!
You are clearly a very gifted young artist. Can we perhaps look for a feature-length project at some point in the future and what are some of your upcoming career plans in general?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your words and interest in the work. That means a lot to me.
Yes you can expect a feature length from me soon. There's that tricky thing called "funding" to deal with first. Ha! But I'll figure out a way.
-Celia in her lovely ONE SUNDAY-
Thanks so much Celia for this! I hope it leads some more folks to your work and I can't wait to see more of it. I wish you the best for 2012 and thanks again!
Thank you Jeremy!