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Pritish Nandy: I understand you are quitting Bombay and going away to Khandwa…
Kishore Kumar: Who can live in this stupid, friendless city where everyone seeks to exploit you every moment of the day? Can you trust anyone out here? Is anyone trustworthy? Is anyone a friend you can count on? I am determined to get out of this futile rat race and live as I've always wanted to. In my native Khandwa, the land of my forefathers. Who wants to die in this ugly city?
Pritish Nandy: Why did you come here in the first place?
Kishore Kumar: I would come to visit my brother Ashok Kumar. He was such a big star in those days. I thought he could introduce me to KL Saigal who was my greatest idol. People say he used to sing through his nose. But so what? He was a great singer. Greater than anyone else.
Pritish Nandy: I believe you are planning to record an album of famous Saigal songs….
Kishore Kumar: They asked me to. I refused. Why should I try to outsing him? Let him remain enshrined in our memory. Let his songs remain just HIS songs. Let not even one person say that Kishore Kumar sang them better.
Pritish Nandy: If you didn't like Bombay, why did you stay back? For fame? For money?
Kishore Kumar: I was conned into it. I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated every moment of it and tried virtually every trick to get out of it. I muffed my lines, pretended to be crazy, shaved my head off, played difficult, began yodelling in the midst of tragic scenes, told Meena Kumari what I was supposed to tell Bina Rai in some other film – but they still wouldn't let me go. I screamed, ranted, went cuckoo. But who cared? They were just determined to make me a star.
Pritish Nandy: Why?
Kishore Kumar: Because I was Dadamoni's brother. And he was a great hero.
Pritish Nandy: But you succeeded, after your fashion….
Kishore Kumar: Of course I did. I was the biggest draw after Dilip Kumar. There were so many films I was doing in those days that I had to run from one set to the other, changing on the way. Imagine me. My shirts flying off, my trousers falling off, my wig coming off while I'm running from one set to the other. Very often I would mix up my lines and look angry in a romantic scene or romantic in the midst of a fierce battle. It was terrible and I hated it. It evoked nightmares of school. Directors were like school teachers. Do this. Do that. Don't do this. Don't do that. I dreaded it. That's why I would often escape.
Pritish Nandy: Well, you are notorious for the trouble you give your directors and producers. Why is that?
Kishore Kumar: Nonsense. They give me trouble. You think they give a damn for me? I matter to them only because I sell. Who cared for me during my bad days? Who cares for anyone in this profession?
Pritish Nandy: Is that why you prefer to be a loner?
Kishore Kumar: Look, I don't smoke, drink or socialize. I never go to parties. If that makes me a loner, fine. I am happy this way. I go to work and I come back straight home. To watch my horror movies, play with my spooks, talk to my trees, sing. In this avaricious world, every creative person is bound to be lonely. How can you deny me that right?
Pritish Nandy: You don't have many friends?
Kishore Kumar: None.
Pritish Nandy: That's rather sweeping.
Kishore Kumar: People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees.
Pritish Nandy: So you like nature?
Kishore Kumar: That's why I want to get away to Khandwa. I have lost all touch with nature out here. I tried to did a canal all around my bungalow out here, so that we could sail gondolas there. The municipality chap would sit and watch and nod his head disapprovingly, while my men would dig and dig. But it didn't work. One day someone found a hand – a skeletal hand- and some toes. After that no one wanted to dig anymore. Anoop, my second brother, came charging with Ganga water and started chanting mantras. He thought this house was built on a graveyard. Perhaps it is. But I lost the chance of making my home like Venice.
Pritish Nandy: People would have thought you crazy. In fact they already do.
Kishore Kumar: Who said I'm crazy. The world is crazy; not me.
Pritish Nandy: Why do you have this reputation for doing strange things?
Kishore Kumar: It all began with this girl who came to interview me. In those days I used to live alone. So she said: You must be very lonely. I said: No, let me introduce you to some of my friends. So I took her to the garden and introduced her to some of the friendlier trees. Janardhan; Raghunandan; Gangadhar; Jagannath; Buddhuram; Jhatpatajhatpatpat. I said they were my closest friends in this cruel world. She went and wrote this bizarre piece, saying that I spent long evenings with my arms entwined around them. What's wrong with that, you tell me? What's wrong making friends with trees?
Pritish Nandy: Nothing.
Kishore Kumar: Then, there was this interior decorator-a suited, booted fellow who came to see me in a three-piece woollen, Saville Row suit in the thick of summer- and began to lecture me about aesthetics, design, visual sense and all that. After listening to him for about half an hour and trying to figure out what he was saying through his peculiar American accent, I told him that I wanted something very simple for my living room. Just water-several feet deep- and little boats floating around, instead of large sofas. I told him that the centre-piece should be anchored down so that the tea service could be placed on it and all of us could row up to it in our boats and take sips from our cups. But the boats should be properly balanced, I said, otherwise we might whizz past each other and conversation would be difficult. He looked a bit alarmed but that alarm gave way to sheer horror when I began to describe the wall decor. I told him that I wanted live crows hanging from the walls instead of paintings -since I liked nature so much. And, instead of fans, we could have monkeys farting from the ceiling. That's when he slowly backed out from the room with a strange look in his eyes. The last I saw of him was him running out of the front gate, at a pace that would have put an electric train to shame. What's crazy about having a living room like that, you tell me? If he can wear a woollen, three-piece suit in the height of summer, why can't I hang live crows on my walls?
Pritish Nandy: Your ideas are quite original, but why do your films fare so badly?
Kishore Kumar: Because I tell my distributors to avoid them. I warn them at the very outset that the film might run for a week at the most. Naturally, they go away and never come back. Where will you find a producer-director who warns you not to touch his film because even he can't understand what he has made?
Pritish Nandy: Then why do you make films?
Kishore Kumar: Because the spirit moves me. I feel I have something to say and the films eventually do well at times. I remember this film of mine – Door Gagan ki Chhaon mein – which started to an audience of 10 people in Alankar. I know because I was in the hall myself. There were only ten people who had come to watch the first show! Even its release was peculiar. Subhodh Mukherjee, the brother of my brother-in-law, had booked Alankar(the hall) for 8 weeks for his film April Fool- which everyone knew was going to be a block- buster. My film, everyone was sure, was going to be a thundering flop. So he offered to give me a week of his booking. Take the first week, he said flamboyantly, and I'll manage within seven. After all, the movie can't run beyond a week. It can't run beyond two days, I reassured him. When 10 people came for the first show, he tried to console me. Don't worry, he said, it happens at times. But who was worried? Then, the word spread. Like wildfire. And within a few days the hall began to fill. It ran for all 8 weeks at Alankar, house full! Subodh Mukherjee kept screaming at me but how could I let go the hall? After 8 weeks when the booking ran out, the movie shifted to Super, where it ran for another 21 weeks! That's the anatomy of a hit of mine. How does one explain it? Can anyone explain it? Can Subodh Mukherjee, whose April Fool went on to become a thundering flop?
Pritish Nandy: But you, as the director should have known?
Kishore Kumar: Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one even knew the ABC of film making. How can you expect me to give good performances under such directors? Directors like S.D. Narang didn't even know where to place the camera. He would take long, pensive drags from his cigarette, mumble 'Quiet, quiet, quiet' to everyone, walk a couple of furlongs absentmindedly, mutter to himself and then tell the camera man to place the camera wherever he wanted. His standard line to me was:Do something. What something? Come on, some thing! So I would go off on my antics. Is this the way to act? Is this the way to direct a movie? And yet Narangsaab made so many hits!
Pritish Nandy: Why didn't you ever offer to work with a good director?
Kishore Kumar: Offer! I was far too scared. Satyajit Ray came to me and wanted me to act in Parash Pathar – his famous comedy – and I was so scared that I ran away. Later, Tulsi Chakravarti did the role. It was a great role and I ran away from it, so scared I was of these great directors.
Pritish Nandy: But you knew Ray.
Kishore Kumar: Of course I did. I loaned him five thousand rupees at the time of Pather Panchali-when he was in great financial difficulty- and even though he paid back the entire loan, I never gave him an opportunity to forget the fact that I had contributed to the making of the classic. I still rib him about it. I never forget the money I loan out!
Pritish Nandy: Well, some people think you are crazy about money. Others describe you as a clown, pretending to be kinky but sane as hell. Still others find you cunning and manipulative. Which is the real you?
Kishore Kumar: I play different roles at different times. For different people. In this crazy world, only the truly sane man appears to be mad. Look at me. Do you think I'm mad? Do you think I can be manipulative?
Pritish Nandy: How would I know?
Kishore Kumar: Of course you would know. It's so easy to judge a man by just looking at him. You look at these film people and you instantly know they're rogues.
Pritish Nandy: I believe so.
Kishore Kumar: I don't believe so. I know so. You can't trust them an inch. I have been in this rat race for so long that I can smell trouble from miles afar. I smelt trouble the day I came to Bombay in the hope of becoming a playback singer and got conned into acting. I should have just turned my back and run.
Pritish Nandy: Why didn't you?
Kishore Kumar: Well, I've regretted it ever since. Boom Boom. Boompitty boom boom. Chikachikachik chik chik. Yadlehe eeee yadlehe ooooo (Goes on yodelling till the tea comes. Someone emerges from behind the upturned sofa in the living room, looking rather mournful with a bunch of rat-eaten files and holds them up for Kishore Kumar to see)
Pritish Nandy: What are those files?
Kishore Kumar: My income tax records.
Pritish Nandy: Rat-eaten?
Kishore Kumar: We use them as pesticides. They are very effective. The rats die quite easily after biting into them.
Pritish Nandy: What do you show the tax people when they ask for the papers?
Kishore Kumar: The dead rats.
Pritish Nandy: I see.
Kishore Kumar: You like dead rats?
Pritish Nandy: Not particularly.
Kishore Kumar: Lots of people eat them in other parts of the world.
Pritish Nandy: I guess so.
Kishore Kumar: Haute cuisine. Expensive too. Costs a lot of money.
Pritish Nandy: Yes?
Kishore Kumar: Good business, rats. One can make money from them if one is enterprising.
Pritish Nandy: I believe you are very fussy about money. Once, I'm told. a producer paid you only half your dues and you came to the sets with half your head and half your moustache shaved off. And you told him that when he paid the rest, you would shoot with your face intact…
Kishore Kumar: Why should they take me for granted? These people never pay unless you teach them a lesson. I was shooting in the South once. I think the film was Miss Mary and these chaps kept me waiting in the hotel room for five days without shooting. So I got fed up and started cutting my hair. First I chopped off some hair from the right side of my head and then, to balance it, I chopped off some from the left. By mistake I overdid it. So I cut off some more from the right. Again I overdid it. So I had to cut from the left again. This went on till I had virtually no hair left- and that's when the call came from the sets. When I turned up the way I was, they all collapsed. That's how rumours reached Bombay. They said I had gone cuckoo. I didn't know. I returned and found everyone wishing me from long distance and keeping a safe distance of 10 feet while talking. Even those chaps who would come and embrace me waved out from a distance and said Hi. Then, someone asked me a little hesitantly how I was feeling. I said: Fine. I spoke a little abruptly perhaps. Suddenly I found him turning around and running. Far, far away from me.
Pritish Nandy: But are you actually so stingy about money?
Kishore Kumar: I have to pay my taxes.
Pritish Nandy: You have income tax problems I am told….
Kishore Kumar: Who doesn't? My actual dues are not much but the interest has piled up. I'm planning to sell off a lot of things before I go to Khandwa and settle this entire business once and for all.
Pritish Nandy: You refused to sing for Sanjay Gandhi during the emergency and, it is said, that's why the tax hounds were set on you. Is this true?
Kishore Kumar: Who knows why they come. But no one can make me do what I don't want to do. I don't sing at anyone's will or command. But I sing for charities, causes all the time[Note: Sanjay Gandhi wanted Kishore Kumar to sing at some Congress rally in Bombay. Kishore Kumar refused. Sanjay Gandhi ordered All India Radio to stop playing Kishore songs. This went on for quite a while. Kishore Kumar refused to apologize. Finally, it took scores of prominent producers and directors to convince those in power to rescind the ban]
Pritish Nandy: What about your home life? Why has that been so turbulent?
Kishore Kumar: Because I like being left alone.
Pritish Nandy: What went wrong with Ruma Devi, your first wife?
Kishore Kumar: She was a very talented person but we could not get along because we looked at life differently. She wanted to build a choir and a career. I wanted someone to build me a home. How can the two reconcile? You see, I'm a simple minded villager type. I don't understand this business about women making careers. Wives should first learn how to make a home. And how can you fit the two together? A career and a home are quite separate things. That's why we went our separate ways.
Pritish Nandy: Madhubala, your second wife?
Kishore Kumar: She was quite another matter. I knew she was very sick even before I married her. But a promise is a promise. So I kept my word and brought her home as my wife, even though I knew she was dying from a congenital heart problem. For 9 long years I nursed her. I watched her die before my own eyes. You can never understand what this means until you live through this yourself. She was such a beautiful woman and she died so painfully. She would rave and rant and scream in frustration. How can such an active person spend 9 long years bed-ridden? And I had to humour her all the time. That's what the doctor asked me to. That's what I did till her very last breath. I would laugh with her. I would cry with her.
Pritish Nandy: What about your third marriage? To Yogeeta Bali?
Kishore Kumar: That was a joke. I don't think she was serious about marriage. She was only obsessed with her mother. She never wanted to live here.
Pritish Nandy: But that's because she says you would stay up all night and count money..
Kishore Kumar: Do you think I can do that? Do you think I'm mad? Well, it's good we separated quickly.
Pritish Nandy: What about your present marriage?
Kishore Kumar: Leena is a very different kind of person. She too is an actress like all of them but she's very different. She's seen tragedy. She's faced grief. When your husband is shot dead, you change. You understand life. You realize the ephemeral quality of all things.. I am happy now.
Pritish Nandy: What about your new film? Are you going to play hero in this one too?
Kishore Kumar: No no no. I'm just the producer-director. I'm going to be behind the camera. Remember I told you how much I hate acting? All I might do is make a split second appearance on screen as an old man or something.
Pritish Nandy: Like Hitchcock?
Kishore Kumar: Yes, my favourite director. I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here. Do you know any spooks?
Pritish Nandy: Not very friendly ones.
Kishore Kumar: But nice, frightening ones?
Pritish Nandy: Not really.
Kishore Kumar: But that's precisely what we're all going to become one day. Like this chap out here (points to a skull, which he uses as part of his decor, with red light emerging from its eyes)- you don't even know whether it's a man or a woman. Eh? But it's a nice sort. Friendly too. Look, doesn't it look nice with my specs on its non-existent nose?
Pritish Nandy: Very nice indeed.
Kishore Kumar: You are a good man. You understand the real things of life. You are going to look like this one day.


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You know the saying, "It's not rocket science."
Well, today's retirement planning is rocket science. It's often confusing and overly complex. There's so much you need to know.
Let me put you to the test. How much do you know about the following?
When to take your Social Security. Securian Financial Group surveyed baby boomers 50 to 65 about their plans for claiming Social Security retirement benefits. Only 18 percent knew how or when to go onto Social Security.
The cost to have Medicare. Nearly three-fourths of boomers surveyed by Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for a Secure Retirement didn't know that most Americans on Medicare pay premiums, co-pays and deductibles.
Long-term care insurance. Only 14 percent of participants in the Bankers Life and Casualty survey knew that Medicare generally does not cover long-term care. Long-term care insurance can help cover the cost of nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and in-home care. The insurance pays expenses for those who need assistance with daily activities such as eating, dressing and bathing, or who have a severe cognitive impairment such as Alzheimer's disease.
Your company pension. Have you considered whether to take a lump-sum distribution instead of guaranteed monthly payments? Could you manage the money if you take a lump sum?
Even some people with strong financial backgrounds aren't prepared enough for their own retirement.
If anyone should have mastered the science of retirement, it would have been Stan Hinden, who spent the last 12 years of his 45-year journalism career as a financial columnist for The Washington Post. Yet Hinden, now 86, admits that he was not prepared with the breadth of knowledge he needed to handle his affairs in retirement.
But, oh, what experience can teach you.
After 17 years in retirement, Hinden is well versed in many issues and shares his wisdom in the Color of Money Book Club selection for April — "How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire" (McGraw Hill, $20).
Be sure to get the updated fourth edition, which contains the most recent information about Medicare. The chapter on health insurance covers the new deductibles for Medicare Part A (pays for hospital stays) and the new deductible and new premiums for Medicare Part B (pays for medical tests, doctor and preventive services). It also gives details on the new monthly premiums for Part D (prescription drugs). The new edition also explains some of the salient facts about the new health care law.
Also new to the book are the health issues affecting his wife of 59 years, Sara. She suffers from Alzheimer's and lives in a small group home for dementia patients.
"Signs of Sara's illness first appeared in 2007, when she was 78," he writes. "Needless to say, Sara's condition dramatically changed both her retirement and mine. Until then, we had been poster children for a happy, upbeat retirement. My experience with Alzheimer's disease has given me a new perspective on how one prepares for serious illness during retirement."
One way to prepare is consider getting long-term care insurance. Sara's policy, which she took out at age 62, is helping defray the cost of her care, which runs about $4,000 a month. The insurance pays $130 a day or $3,900 a month. But her maximum total benefit is $260,000, which equates to 5.5 years. The chapter on long-term care is scary and depressing. Yet it is a must read.
Hinden invites you into the retirement life he and his wife have experienced. Their personal journey is what makes this book so readable and relatable. He nicely weaves their financial decisions and dilemmas around the most important information you'll need to go over before and during your retirement.
I asked Hinden what one piece of advice he would give someone close to retiring (within five years).
Start working on your retirement budget now, he said.
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So, Who Takes Care of the Calf?
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Bryan McMurry, with Cargill Animal Nutrition, earned his Masters Degree in Animal Breeding and Genetics, and a PhD in Animal Science from Texas A&M University. The short, simple answer to this question is of course, the cow. That's her job. As cattlemen, taking care of the cow is our job. The answer to taking care of the cow is neither short nor simple.
The calf depends entirely on the cow from conception until weaning and given the proper environment she is capable of providing nearly everything the calf needs. If we understand the cow's needs we can provide for the needs of both her and the calf.
We take care of the calf through our management of the cow. Our entire management efforts center on providing the inputs required for the cow to do her job. Not providing these inputs diminishes her chances of successfully playing her role in the cow/calf production system. The role of the cow specifically, and cow/calf production systems in general, is to profitably turn forage (plant matter) into beef (animal protein) through the production of calves.
Like every living thing, the cow needs water, which is the most important nutrient. Water is essential to maintaining all bodily functions and if limited results in lower productivity and performance. Clean water should be provided ad libitum. Production systems that rely on surface water are at the mercy of adequate runoff from rainfall to provide the cow's drinking water. The quality of surface water can vary greatly, especially during times when the quantity is limited. It is important to understand water quality through occasional testing. Well water should also be tested at least once for elements that can cause health or nutritional issues. Critical elements found in water that, if excessive, can cause health or nutritional problems are sulfur, iron, nitrates, sodium and heavy metals.
The nutritional status of the cow throughout the year is critical for success. The majority of the nutrients are most economically derived from grazed forage. Therefore our entire management plan should focus on providing a sufficient quantity of grazed forage of a quality closest to the cows' requirements.
The cow's requirements vary throughout the year as she moves through the four phases of production; calving to breeding, late lactation, mid gestation, and pre-calving.
Likewise, the quality of the forage, and level of nutrients available to the cow, varies throughout the year and are categorized into four growth stages; early vegetative, late vegetative, mature, and dormant. From a nutritional perspective we manage cattle to ensure that when the cow's requirements are highest, calving to breeding, she has the highest quality forage, the early vegetative stage, available to her. Therefore the timing of calving is critical in providing the needed nutrients at the lowest cost, meeting the cow's requirements to ultimately care for the calf.
The nutritional care of the calf is primarily delivered through milk. Milk constitutes nearly all of the calf's nutrient supply for the first four months of its life. Cows genetically capable of supplying high quantities of milk mobilize body fat to ensure that the milk production is adequate, even when high quality forage is available to them. Body conditioning scoring (BCS) is how we assess the amount of body fat available for mobilization during early lactation. In addition to providing energy for milk production, higher body condition scores (BCS 5 and 6) at calving result in higher reproductive performance than cows with lower scores (BCS 4 or less).
Managing cow BCS is how we begin taking care of the calf, even before it's born. During mid-gestation the cow's nutritional requirements are at their lowest of the production cycle. This is the most opportune time to replace body condition lost during lactation before the cow's requirements increase substantially in the pre-calving phase. The pre-calving phase, the sixty days prior to calving, is when approximately seventy percent of fetal development occurs. By ensuring that the cows are in good body condition and that the diet meets their increasing nutritional requirements, we're indirectly taking care of the prenatal calf. The calf's neonatal vigor, the ability to quickly rise and nurse, and health status are impacted by the nutritional status of the cow during the pre-calving phase.
The nutritional status of the cow pre-calving, along with a complete cow vaccination program, determines the quality of colostrum or first milk provided to the calf. Colostrum provides the sole source of antibodies, providing passive immunity from pathogens until the calf's active immune system begins functioning. The health of the neonate calf is entirely dependent on how well we take care of the cow pre and post calving.
The first time we routinely directly intervene in the care or the calf is when we vaccinate to prevent common infectious disease. These vaccinations are administered after the calf develops a functioning immune system, about three months of age, and before weaning. By three months of age the passive immunity provided by the colostrum is no longer providing immunity and it is time to directly intervene.
Putting it All Together
The way we manage the above factors begins with the establishment of the production calendar. For the herd the calendar begins with the birth of the first calf, which in most cases should be about thirty, but not more than sixty days before forage is in the early vegetative stage of growth. The cow's nutrient requirements are highest in the third month after calving, coinciding with her peak milk production. Maximum forage quality and quantity begins about a month after first green up. Cows calving thirty days before green up are peaking in their milk production at the time when the forage is most capable of meeting the higher protein and energy requirements, and the calf is of sufficient size to handle the volume of milk. The critical nutrients lacking at this time are mineral elements, both macro and micro minerals. A high quality, weatherized, loose mineral designed for the region offered free-choice is essential in filling the mineral shortcomings in the forage. Mineral supplementation should continue through the grazing season.
After weaning the cow's nutrient requirements drop to the lowest levels during the production cycle. Even though the mature forage is of relatively lower quality than earlier in the season, this is the best time for the cow to regain body condition due to her low nutrient requirements. Late season, mature forage is often capable of meeting the cow's protein and energy requirements, while dormant forage is more often marginal. If the grazed forage contains a minimum of 7% crude protein and 45 – 48% total digestible nutrients (TDN) the only supplementation required is mineral until about sixty days prior to calving.
The cow's nutrient requirements increase substantially during the pre-calving period, driven by the developing fetus and associated tissues. It is important to make sure we are meeting the cow's requirements during this period to ensure proper fetal growth, maintain the cow's body condition and promote the production of high quality colostrum. Dormant or lower quality forages won't meet the requirements during this period. Supplemental feed is often required during the pre-calving phase and a high quality, free-choice mineral is essential. As the cows calve, the entire process begins anew.
So, who takes care of the calf? If we do a good job of taking care of the cow, meeting her needs pre and post calving, she can raise and wean a quality calf.


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I would have to say no, I wouldn't do it to feed my child. Not even if we were starving. I would wonder why it was there in the first place, just like you. Besides, if there's "nothing wrong with it", why doesn't the grocery store donate it to a food pantry? They can write it off either way. Just my 2 cents.
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Answering this question: How do I import/export KML to ArcGIS Desktop? raised another one. There are loads of tools to import/export kml/kmz. Are there tools available for native viewing of KML in ArcMap?
I'm curious if anyone has built a custom featurelayer(s) that reads kml, similar to the way ZigGIS uses PostGIS as a data source.
Or maybe something like inmemoryworkspacefactory, which probably doesn't count as native, but would have some advantages: http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/consuming-georss-in-arcmap-with-inmemoryworkspacefactory/


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HAWKERIDGE (Hawkridge), WILLIAM, English navigator, made voyage to Hudson Strait in 1625; fl. 1610–31.
Very little is known about William Hawkeridge, except that he came from Devon and was a cousin of Phineas Pett, master shipwright of the Deptford dockyard. In 1610 he sailed with Capt. Richard Whitbourne, as servant, in the Newfoundland trade, and it is recorded that they both encountered a creature they supposed to be a mermaid in the harbour of St. John's, which Whitbourne described as "a strange Creature . . . looking cheerefully as it had been a woman, by the Face, Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Chin, Eares, Necke and Forehead; . . . the same came shortly after unto a Boate, wherein one William Hawkridge, then my seruant, was, . . . and the same Creature did put both his hands upon the side of the Boate, and did strive to come in to him and others then in the said Boate: . . . Whether it were a Maremaid or no, I know not; I leave it for others to judge." (A discourse and discovery of New-found-land (London, 1620).)
Hawkeridge sailed with Sir Thomas Button in 1612–13, as volunteer, to Hudson Bay. A few years later he was in command of a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage under the auspices of Sir John Wolstenholme and the East India Company. There is some question as to the date of this voyage. Rundall notes that, according to his own research, it was 1619. However, Christy states that the voyage probably took place in 1625. The expedition sailed in two pinnaces (whose names are not recorded according to Luke Fox, but one of which is listed as Lions Whelp by Dodge) from the west coast of England and reached the entrance to Hudson Strait on 29 June, after first having sailed, in error, into Frobisher Bay (called Lumley's Inlet). However, it was not until 22 July that Hawkeridge actually entered the strait. He sailed to the Western extremity of Hudson Strait, and then seems to have cruised aimlessly about, making no new discoveries, until 16 August when he turned around for home, passing Resolution Island on 7 September. The only extant record of Hawkeridge's voyage was made by Luke Fox, either from Hawkeridge's own log, or with the help of Hawkeridge himself. Though full of detail, the account is very confused and Hawkeridge's course is almost impossible to chart on a map. It is not known whether Hawkeridge was incompetent and lacking in ability, despite his many years' experience, or merely extremely unlucky. However, the results of his voyage were completely valueless to those who followed him. This voyage is considered the last of the "Golden Age of Arctic Research." The dismal failure of this well-equipped expedition dampened the enthusiasm for arctic exploration until 1631 when Fox and James set sail.
Of Hawkeridge's later life there is no record other than that he was the owner of a cargo ship that was captured in 1631 off Algiers and that he himself was held in slavery for ransom.
Accounts of Hawkeridge's voyage can be found in the three following books: Danish arctic expeditions (Gosch), II: The expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in search of a north-west passage in 1619–20. Narratives of voyages towards the north-west, in search of a passage to Cathay and India . . . , ed. Thomas Rundall (Hakluyt Soc., 1st ser., V, 1849). Voyages of Foxe and James (Christy), I, 248-59. See also: Miller Christy, "Captain William Hawkeridge and his voyage in search of a north-west passage in 1625," Mariner's Mirror, XIII (1927), 51–78. Dodge, Northwest by sea.
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What's new in Tornado 3.0¶
Mar 29, 2013¶
callbackargument to many asynchronous methods is now optional, and these methods return a
Future. The
tornado.genmodule now understands
Futures, and these methods can be used directly without a
New function
IOLoop.currentreturns the
IOLoopthat is running on the current thread (as opposed to
IOLoop.instance, which returns a specific thread's (usually the main thread's) IOLoop.
New class
tornado.netutil.Resolverprovides an asynchronous interface to DNS resolution. The default implementation is still blocking, but non-blocking implementations are available using one of three optional dependencies:
ThreadedResolverusing the
concurrent.futuresthread pool,
tornado.platform.caresresolver.CaresResolverusing the
pycareslibrary, or
Tornado's logging is now less noisy, and it no longer goes directly to the root logger, allowing for finer-grained configuration.
New class
PipeIOStreamaccess to the child's file descriptors.
IOLoopnow has a static
configuremethod like the one on
AsyncHTTPClient, which can be used to select an
IOLoopimplementation other than the default.
IOLoopcan now optionally use a monotonic clock if available (see below for more details).
Backwards-incompatible changes¶
Python 2.5 is no longer supported. Python 3 is now supported in a single codebase instead of using
tornado.databasemodule has been removed. It is now available as a separate package, torndb
Functions that take an
io_loopparameter now default to
IOLoop.current()instead of
Empty HTTP request arguments are no longer ignored. This applies to
RequestHandler.get_argument[s]in WSGI and non-WSGI modes.
On Python 3,
tornado.escape.json_encodeno longer accepts byte strings.
On Python 3, the
get_authenticated_usermethods in
tornado.authnow return character strings instead of byte strings.
tornado.netutil.TCPServerhas moved to its own module,
The Tornado test suite now requires
unittest2when run on Python 2.6.
tornado.options.optionsis no longer a subclass of
dict; attribute-style access is now required.
Detailed changes by module¶
Multiple modules¶
Tornado no longer logs to the root logger. Details on the new logging scheme can be found under the
tornado.logmodule. Note that in some cases this will require that you add an explicit logging configuration in order to see any output (perhaps just calling
logging.basicConfig()), although both
tornado.options.parse_command_linewill do this for you.
On python 3.2+, methods that take an
ssl_optionsargument (on
TCPServer, and
HTTPServer) now accept either a dictionary of options or an
New optional dependency on
concurrent.futuresto provide better support for working with threads.
concurrent.futuresis in the standard library for Python 3.2+, and can be installed on older versions with
pip install futures.
tornado.autoreloadis now more reliable when there are errors at import time.
tornado.autoreload.start(or creating an
debug=True) twice on the same
IOLoopnow does nothing (instead of creating multiple periodic callbacks). Starting autoreload on more than one
IOLoopin the same process now logs a warning.
Scripts run by autoreload no longer inherit
__future__imports used by Tornado.
On Python 3, the
get_authenticated_usermethod family now returns character strings instead of byte strings.
Asynchronous methods defined in
tornado.authnow return a
Future, and their
callbackargument is optional. The
Futureinterface is preferred as it offers better error handling (the previous interface just logged a warning and returned None).
tornado.authmixin classes now define a method
get_auth_http_client, which can be overridden to use a non-default
AsyncHTTPClientinstance (e.g. to use a different
Subclasses of
OAuthMixinare encouraged to override
OAuthMixin._oauth_get_user_futureinstead of
_oauth_get_user, although both methods are still supported.
New module
tornado.concurrentcontains code to support working with
concurrent.futures, or to emulate future-based interface when that module is not available.
Preliminary support for
tornado.curl_httpclienton Python 3. The latest official release of pycurl only supports Python 2, but Ubuntu has a port available in 12.10 (
apt-get install python3-pycurl). This port currently has bugs that prevent it from handling arbitrary binary data but it should work for textual (utf8) resources.
Fix a crash with libcurl 7.29.0 if a curl object is created and closed without being used.
On Python 3,
json_encodeno longer accepts byte strings. This mirrors the behavior of the underlying json module. Python 2 behavior is unchanged but should be faster.
New decorator
@gen.coroutineis available as an alternative to
@gen.engine. It automatically returns a
Future, and within the function instead of calling a callback you return a value with
raise gen.Return(value)(or simply
return valuein Python 3.3).
Generators may now yield
Callbacks produced by
gen.Taskare now automatically stack-context-wrapped, to minimize the risk of context leaks when used with asynchronous functions that don't do their own wrapping.
Fixed a memory leak involving generators,
RequestHandler.flush, and clients closing connections while output is being written.
Yielding a large list no longer has quadratic performance.
AsyncHTTPClient.fetchnow returns a
Futureand its callback argument is optional. When the future interface is used, any error will be raised automatically, as if
HTTPResponse.rethrowwas called.
AsyncHTTPClient.configureand all
AsyncHTTPClientconstructors now take a
defaultskeyword argument. This argument should be a dictionary, and its values will be used in place of corresponding attributes of
HTTPRequestthat are not set.
All unset attributes of
tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequestare now
None. The default values of some attributes (
allow_nonstandard_methods, and
validate_certhave been moved from
HTTPRequestto the client implementations.
max_clientsargument to
AsyncHTTPClientis now a keyword-only argument.
Keyword arguments to
AsyncHTTPClient.configureare no longer used when instantiating an implementation subclass directly.
AsyncHTTPClientcallbacks (
header_callback, and
prepare_curl_callback) now respect
HTTPServerno longer logs an error when it is unable to read a second request from an HTTP 1.1 keep-alive connection.
HTTPServernow takes a
protocolkeyword argument which can be set to
httpsif the server is behind an SSL-decoding proxy that does not set any supported X-headers.
tornado.httpserver.HTTPConnectionnow has a
set_close_callbackmethod that should be used instead of reaching into its
Empty HTTP request arguments are no longer ignored. This applies to
RequestHandler.get_argument[s]in WSGI and non-WSGI modes.
New function
IOLoop.currentreturns the
IOLoopthat is running on the current thread (as opposed to
IOLoop.instance, which returns a specific thread's (usually the main thread's) IOLoop).
New method
IOLoop.add_futureto run a callback on the IOLoop when an asynchronous
IOLoopnow has a static
configuremethod like the one on
AsyncHTTPClient, which can be used to select an
IOLoopimplementation other than the default.
IOLooppoller implementations (
kqueue) are now available as distinct subclasses of
IOLoop. Instantiating
IOLoopwill continue to automatically choose the best available implementation.
IOLoopconstructor has a new keyword argument
time_func, which can be used to set the time function used when scheduling callbacks. This is most useful with the
time.monotonicfunction, introduced in Python 3.3 and backported to older versions via the
monotimemodule. Using a monotonic clock here avoids problems when the system clock is changed.
New function
IOLoop.timereturns the current time according to the IOLoop. To use the new monotonic clock functionality, all calls to
IOLoop.add_timeoutmust be either pass a
datetime.timedeltaor a time relative to
IOLoop.time, not
time.time. (
time.timewill continue to work only as long as the IOLoop's
time_funcargument is not used).
New convenience method
IOLoop.run_synccan be used to start an IOLoop just long enough to run a single coroutine.
New method
IOLoop.add_callback_from_signalis safe to use in a signal handler (the regular
add_callbackmethod may deadlock).
IOLoopnow uses
signal.set_wakeup_fdwhere available (Python 2.6+ on Unix) to avoid a race condition that could result in Python signal handlers being delayed.
IOLoop.running()has been removed.
IOLoophas been refactored to better support subclassing.
add_callback_from_signalnow take
*args, **kwargsto pass along to the callback.
IOStream.connectnow has an optional
server_hostnameargument which will be used for SSL certificate validation when applicable. Additionally, when supported (on Python 3.2+), this hostname will be sent via SNI (and this is supported by
Much of
IOStreamhas been refactored into a separate class
New class
tornado.iostream.PipeIOStreamprovides the IOStream interface on pipe file descriptors.
IOStreamnow raises a new exception
tornado.iostream.StreamClosedErrorwhen you attempt to read or write after the stream has been closed (by either side).
IOStreamnow simply closes the connection when it gets an
ECONNRESETerror, rather than logging it as an error.
IOStream.errorno longer picks up unrelated exceptions.
BaseIOStream.closenow has an
exc_infoargument (similar to the one used in the
loggingmodule) that can be used to set the stream's
errorattribute when closing it.
BaseIOStream.read_until_closenow works correctly when it is called while there is buffered data.
Fixed a major performance regression when run on PyPy (introduced in Tornado 2.3).
New module containing
LogFormatter, moved from the options module.
LogFormatternow handles non-ascii data in messages and tracebacks better.
New class
tornado.netutil.Resolverprovides an asynchronous interface to DNS resolution. The default implementation is still blocking, but non-blocking implementations are available using one of three optional dependencies:
ThreadedResolverusing the
concurrent.futuresthread pool,
tornado.platform.caresresolver.CaresResolverusing the
pycareslibrary, or
New function
tornado.netutil.is_valid_ipreturns true if a given string is a valid IP (v4 or v6) address.
tornado.netutil.bind_socketshas a new
flagsargument that can be used to pass additional flags to
tornado.netutil.bind_socketsno longer sets
AI_ADDRCONFIG; this will cause it to bind to both ipv4 and ipv6 more often than before.
tornado.netutil.bind_socketsnow works when Python was compiled with
--disable-ipv6but IPv6 DNS resolution is available on the system.
tornado.netutil.TCPServerhas moved to its own module,
The class underlying the functions in
tornado.optionsis now public (
tornado.options.OptionParser). This can be used to create multiple independent option sets, such as for subcommands.
tornado.options.parse_config_filenow configures logging automatically by default, in the same way that
New function
tornado.options.add_parse_callbackschedules a callback to be run after the command line or config file has been parsed. The keyword argument
final=Falsecan be used on either parsing function to suppress these callbacks.
tornado.options.definenow takes a
callbackargument. This callback will be run with the new value whenever the option is changed. This is especially useful for options that set other options, such as by reading from a config file.
--helpoutput now goes to
stderrrather than
tornado.options.optionsis no longer a subclass of
dict; attribute-style access is now required.
OptionParserinstances generally) now have a
mockable()method that returns a wrapper object compatible with
tornado.options.enable_pretty_logginghas been moved to the
New module containing an asynchronous implementation of the
Resolverinterface, using the
New class
tornado.platform.twisted.TwistedIOLoopallows Tornado code to be run on the Twisted reactor (as opposed to the existing
TornadoReactor, which bridges the gap in the other direction).
New class
tornado.platform.twisted.TwistedResolveris an asynchronous implementation of the
New class
PipeIOStreamaccess to the child's file descriptors.
SimpleAsyncHTTPClientnow takes a
resolverkeyword argument (which may be passed to either the constructor or
configure), to allow it to use the new non-blocking
When following redirects,
SimpleAsyncHTTPClientnow treats a 302 response code the same as a 303. This is contrary to the HTTP spec but consistent with all browsers and other major HTTP clients (including
The behavior of
SimpleAsyncHTTPClienthas changed and is now the same as that of
CurlAsyncHTTPClient. The header callback now receives the first line of the response (e.g.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK) and the final empty line.
tornado.simple_httpclientnow accepts responses with a 304 status code that include a
Fixed a bug in which
SimpleAsyncHTTPClientcallbacks were being run in the client's
stack_context.wrapnow runs the wrapped callback in a more consistent environment by recreating contexts even if they already exist on the stack.
Fixed a bug in which stack contexts could leak from one callback chain to another.
Yield statements inside a
withstatement can cause stack contexts to become inconsistent; an exception will now be raised when this case is detected.
Errors while rendering templates no longer log the generated code, since the enhanced stack traces (from version 2.1) should make this unnecessary.
{% apply %}directive now works properly with functions that return both unicode strings and byte strings (previously only byte strings were supported).
Code in templates is no longer affected by Tornado's
__future__imports (which previously included
New function
tornado.testing.bind_unused_portboth chooses a port and binds a socket to it, so there is no risk of another process using the same port.
get_unused_portis now deprecated.
New decorator
tornado.testing.gen_testcan be used to allow for yielding
tornado.genobjects in tests, as an alternative to the
waitmethods of
tornado.testing.AsyncTestCaseand friends now extend
unittest2.TestCasewhen it is available (and continue to use the standard
unittestmodule when
unittest2is not available)
tornado.testing.ExpectLogcan be used as a finer-grained alternative to
The command-line interface to
tornado.testing.mainnow supports additional arguments from the underlying
The deprecated
--autoreloadoption of
tornado.testing.mainhas been removed. Use
python -m tornado.autoreloadas a prefix command instead.
--httpclientoption of
tornado.testing.mainhas been moved to
tornado.test.runtestsso as not to pollute the application option namespace. The
tornado.optionsmodule's new callback support now makes it easy to add options from a wrapper script instead of putting all possible options in
AsyncHTTPTestCaseno longer calls
AsyncHTTPClient.closefor tests that use the singleton
LogTrapTestCaseno longer fails when run in unknown logging configurations. This allows tests to be run under nose, which does its own log buffering (
LogTrapTestCasedoesn't do anything useful in this case, but at least it doesn't break things any more).
tornado.util.b(which was only intended for internal use) is gone.
RequestHandler.set_headernow overwrites previous header values case-insensitively.
tornado.web.RequestHandlerhas new attributes
path_kwargs, which contain the positional and keyword arguments that are passed to the
post/etc method. These attributes are set before those methods are called, so they are available during
tornado.web.ErrorHandlerno longer requires XSRF tokens on
POSTrequests, so posts to an unknown url will always return 404 instead of complaining about XSRF tokens.
Several methods related to HTTP status codes now take a
reasonkeyword argument to specify an alternate "reason" string (i.e. the "Not Found" in "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found"). It is now possible to set status codes other than those defined in the spec, as long as a reason string is given.
DateHTTP header is now set by default on all responses.
If-None-Matchrequests now work with
StaticFileHandlerno longer sets
Cache-Control: publicunnecessarily.
When gzip is enabled in a
tornado.web.Application, appropriate
Vary: Accept-Encodingheaders are now sent.
It is no longer necessary to pass all handlers for a host in a single
Application.add_handlerscall. Now the request will be matched against the handlers for any
host_patternthat includes the request's
Client-side WebSocket support is now available:
WebSocketHandlerhas new methods
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Tower, the insurer that's 34 percent owned by Guinness Peat Group, posted a 67 percent jump in full-year profit and said it will return $120 million to shareholders after the sale of medical insurance business. The shares climbed 4.2 percent as the market opened.
Profit rose to $55.8 million in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, from $33.4 million a year earlier, the Auckland-based company said in a statement. Revenue from ordinary activities rose 23 percent to $483 million.
Profit is within the guidance of $51 million to $56 million given by managing director Rob Flannagan on Nov. 2 when he announced the sales of Tower Medical Insurance to ASX-listed nib holdings for about $102 million. Profit tumbled in the previous year on costs of the Christchurch earthquakes and reduced revenue from investments.
"The result reflects improved performance across all business units, compared with the same period last year," Flannagan said. "The group is recovering well from the Canterbury earthquakes."
Tower will pay a final dividend of 6 cents a share, bringing payments for the year to 11 cents, up from a total of 6 cents last year. The shares rose 8 cents to $1.98 and have gained 25 percent this year. The stock is rated a 'hold' based on a Reuters poll of three analysts, with a median price target of $1.955.
The capital return means Guinness Peat, which is selling down its portfolio of assets, will get some $40.8 million. GPG shares rose 0.9 percent to 59 cents and are little changed this year.
Profit in the latest year includes a $9 million gain from the discount rate used when valuing life risk policy liabilities.
Total net premium revenue rose to $272 million from $235 million, led by a 15 percent increase in general insurance premiums to $238.9 million and a 5.9 percent increase in life premiums to $94.2 million.
Investment revenue surged 86 percent to $118.9 million, driven by a gain from equity securities and 'other' which includes derivative financial assets and liabilities. Property and fixed income both record declines.
Revenue from investment and management fees fell to $31.4 million from $33.8 million.
The $120 million capital return will use the sale proceeds and existing surplus capital and is likely to be via a scheme of arrangement, the company said today.


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Caesar died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness, family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said.
In his two most important shows, "Your Show of Shows," 1950-54, and "Caesar's Hour," 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame in their own right - including Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
"The one great star that television created and who created television was Sid Caesar," said critic Joel Siegel on the TV documentary "Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age Of Comedy," which first aired in 2001.
While best known for his TV shows, which have been revived on DVD in recent years, he also had success on Broadway and occasional film appearances, notably in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."
If the typical funnyman was tubby or short and scrawny, Caesar was tall and powerful, with a clown's loose limbs and rubbery face, and a trademark mole on his left cheek.
But Caesar never went in for clowning or jokes. He wasn't interested. He insisted that the laughs come from the everyday.
"Real life is the true comedy," he said in a 2001 interview with The Associated Press. "Then everybody knows what you're talking about." Caesar brought observational comedy to TV before the term, or such latter-day practitioners as Jerry Seinfeld, were even born.
In one celebrated routine, Caesar impersonated a gumball machine; in another, a baby; in another, a ludicrously overemotional guest on a parody of "This Is Your Life."
He played an unsuspecting moviegoer getting caught between feuding lovers in a theater. He dined at a health food restaurant, where the first course was the bouquet in the vase on the table. He was interviewed as an avant-garde jazz musician who seemed happily high on something.
The son of Jewish immigrants, Caesar was a wizard at spouting melting-pot gibberish that parodied German, Russian, French and other languages. His Professor was the epitome of goofy Germanic scholarship.
Some compared him to Charlie Chaplin for his success at combining humor with touches of pathos.
"As wild an idea as you get, it won't go over unless it has a believable basis to start off with," he told The Associated Press in 1955. "The viewers have to see you basically as a person first, and after that you can go on into left field."
Caesar performed with such talents as Howard Morris and Nanette Fabray, but his most celebrated collaborator was the brilliant Coca, his "Your Show of Shows" co-star.
Coca and Caesar performed skits that satirized the everyday - marital spats, inane advertising, strangers meeting and speaking in clichés, a parody of the Western "Shane" in which the hero was "Strange." They staged a water-logged spoof of the love scene in "From Here to Eternity." ''The Hickenloopers" husband-and-wife skits became a staple.
"The chemistry was perfect, that's all," Coca, who died in 2001, once said. "We never went out together; we never see each other socially. But for years we worked together from 10 in the morning to 6 or 7 at night every day of the week. What made it work is that we found the same things funny."
Caesar worked closely with his writing staff as they found inspiration in silent movies, foreign films and the absurdities of '50s postwar prosperity.
Among those who wrote for Caesar: Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Simon and his brother Danny Simon, and Allen, who was providing gags to Caesar and other entertainers while still in his teens.
Carl Reiner, who wrote in addition to performing on the show, based his "Dick Van Dyke Show" - with its fictional TV writers and their temperamental star - on his experiences there. Simon's 1993 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" and the 1982 movie "My Favorite Year" also were based on the Caesar show.
A 1996 roundtable discussion among Caesar and his writers was turned into a public television special. Said Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: "None of us who've gone on to do other things could have done them without going through this show."
"This was playing for the Yankees; this was playing in Duke Ellington's band," said Gelbart, the creator of TV's "M-A-S-H" and screenwriter of "Tootsie," who died in 2009.
Increasing ratings competition from Lawrence Welk's variety show put "Caesar's Hour" off the air in 1957.
In 1962, Caesar starred on Broadway in the musical "Little Me," written by Simon, and was nominated for a Tony. He played seven different roles, from a comically perfect young man to a tyrannical movie director to a prince of an impoverished European kingdom.
"The fact that, night after night, they are also excruciatingly funny is a tribute to the astonishing talents of their portrayer," Newsweek magazine wrote. "In comedy, Caesar is still the best there is."
His and Coca's classic TV work captured a new audience with the 1973 theatrical compilation film "Ten From Your Show of Shows."
He was one of the galaxy of stars who raced to find buried treasure in the 1963 comic epic "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World," and in 1976 he put his pantomime skills to work in Brooks' "Silent Movie."
But he later looked back on those years as painful ones. He said he beat a severe, decades-long barbiturate and alcohol habit in 1978, when he was so low he considered suicide. "I had to come to terms with myself. 'Yes or no? Do you want to live or die?'" Deciding that he wanted to live, he recalled, was "the first step on a long journey."
Caesar was born in 1922 in Yonkers, N.Y., the third son of an Austrian-born restaurant owner and his Russian-born wife. His first dream was to become a musician, and he played saxophone in bands in his teens.
But as a youngster waiting tables at his father's luncheonette, he liked to observe as well as serve the diverse clientele, and recognize the humor happening before his eyes.
His talent for comedy was discovered when he was serving in the Coast Guard during World War II and got a part in a Coast Guard musical, "Tars and Spars." He also appeared in the movie version. Wrote famed columnist Hedda Hopper: "I hear the picture's good, with Sid Caesar a four-way threat. He writes, sings, dances and makes with the comedy."
That led to a few other film roles, nightclub engagements, and then his breakthrough hit, a 1948 Broadway revue called "Make Mine Manhattan."
His first TV comedy-variety show, "The Admiral Broadway Revue," premiered in February 1949. But it was off the air by June. Its fatal shortcoming: unimagined popularity. It was selling more Admiral television sets than the company could make, and Admiral, its exclusive sponsor, pulled out.
But everyone was ready for Caesar's subsequent efforts. "Your Show of Shows," which debuted in February 1950, and "Caesar's Hour" three years later reached as many as 60 million viewers weekly and earned its star $1 million annually at a time when $5, he later noted, bought a steak dinner for two.
When "Caesar's Hour" left the air in 1957, Caesar was only 34. But the unforgiving cycle of weekly television had taken a toll: His reliance on booze and pills for sleep every night so he could wake up and create more comedy.
It took decades for him to hit bottom. In 1977, he was onstage in Regina, Canada, doing Simon's "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" when, suddenly, his mind went blank. He walked off stage, checked into a hospital and went cold turkey. Recovery had begun, with the help of wife Florence Caesar, who would be by his side for more than 60 years and helped him weather his demons.
Those demons included remorse about the flared-out superstardom of his youth - and how the pressures nearly killed him. But over time he learned to view his life philosophically.
"You think just because something good happens, THEN something bad has got to happen? Not necessarily," he said with a smile in 2003, pleased to share his hard-won wisdom: "Two good things have happened in a row."
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With the first signs of the silly season getting started for 2010, I thought it would be a good time to start a new series of Friday debates on the subject of team driver pairings.
Starting today, we?������ll look at each of the teams and ask at which point in their history did they have their strongest driver line-up?
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Toyota?������s driver line-ups, 2002-2009
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2002 ?����ǣ Mika Salo, Allan McNish
2003-2004 ?����ǣ Olivier Panis, Cristiano da Matta
2005-2007 ?����ǣ Ralf Schumacher, Jarno Trulli
2008-2009 ?����ǣ Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock
Toyota also changed its line-up late in 2004, when Ricardo Zonta briefly joined the team and Jarno Trulli arrived early ahead of his 2005 signing.
But when did they have their strongest driver pairing?
Which was the best?
There was widespread surprise late in 2002 when Toyota ditched the partnership of long-time F1 driver Mika Salo and sportscar ace Allan McNish. Both have continued to have successful careers in sportscars.
Their replacements, Olivier Panis and CART champion Cristiano da Matta, achieved little besides briefly leading the 2003 British Grand Prix. The team paid huge money to partner Jarno Trulli with Ralf Schumacher ?����ǣ prompting some to jokingly asked if they?������d realised which Schumacher they were getting for their money.
However it did prove their most enduring partnership and ?����ǣ on paper at least ?����ǣ their most successful. But how much was that down to Toyota producing one of their race decent F1 cars in 2005?
Trulli is now in his fifth season with the team and paired with the ever-improving Timo Glock. It?������s been a strange season for the pair: locking out the front row at Bahrain, bringing up the rear at Monaco.
My pick
I thought the Salo-McNish pairing had great potential and was disappointed to see them dropped. Trulli and Ralf Schumacher were both somewhat mercurial talents and neither consistently had the upper hand over the other season to season or, often, race to race.
Toyota?������s current line-up has potential to be even better. Glock has potential ?����ǣ he shone in the wet at Sepang this year and took an excellent second at the Hungaroring in 2008.
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Go ahead and laugh at Detroit because you are laughing at yourself.
-Charlie LeDuff, Author of Detroit: An American Autopsy
As Andrew Burleson was putting the finishing touches on his post here last week about Detroit's pending bankruptcy, I was on vacation pondering a powerful book by Charlie LeDuff (twitter) that I had just finished called Detroit: An American Autopsy.
For me, Detroit is both a fascinating and scary place. Fascinating because it is a glimpse into America's future and scary because the future is grim. I've long held that Detroit is not some one off place that we can discount but that it actually represents the logical outcome of the Suburban Experiment. Here's something I wrote about a simplistic explanation of Detroit back in a 2012 Friday News Digest:
It is more complex than simply (1) we were successful and grew, (2) people left and now (3) we don't have enough money to maintain everything. There is something between the growing and leaving that is critical… I've long seen Detroit as the canary in the coal mine and not some type of anomaly we can all sneer at.
And even way back in 2009, I wrote:
And if you think it can't happen, that we can't over-subsidize, overbuild and over-extend ourselves into collapse, just take a look at Detroit. While there are many complexities to the situation there that make simple analysis somewhat questionable, at that basic level, the rest of the country is trending towards Detroit, not away.
It was stunning to me, therefore, when LeDuff opened his book with the same basic argument. We can pretend that Detroit is a case of corruption or incompetence or racial issues or globalization — and there are certainly many nuances and complexities — but at the end of the day, what has happened and is happening in Detroit has a lot of commonality with nearly every other city in this country.
LeDuff summarizes this succinctly in an interview he did on the Colbert Report (minute 3:10):
You better look at Detroit because that's what happens when you run out of money. And we're all scared to death what they're doing in Washington…you're printin', we're spendin', we're not spendin', sequestration…. Get the money together or the kids don't have a future.
There's an entire group of our readership here that simply checks out when we start talking about finance or Federal Reserve policy. I get the emails from you guys. Hey Chuck, get back to bashing engineers and planners….that's what people want….they want to hear you say that sprawl is bad…they don't want all your goofy thoughts on the economy… To those readers, I'm sorry, but we have to get the money together. If you don't understand that, you don't understand Strong Towns.
Our local governments are going broke. And I'm not just talking about the Harrisburgs, San Bernardinos and Detroits. I'm talking about basically all of them, the only possible exceptions being a handful of anomalies I'm simply not confident lumping in with the rest (NYC, DC and SF being the primary ones). The rest are clearly "all in" on the Suburban Experiment to one extent or another, fully committed to maintaining miles and miles of unproductive STROADs, sewer systems and water lines for an asteroid belt of strip malls, big boxes and sheetrock palaces surrounding a downtown dependent on direct subsidies and a sea of asphalt parking for a subsistence existence.
The process here is pretty clear. In the name of growth and efficiency, cities embrace the auto oriented pattern of development. This weakens the bonds of the traditional neighborhoods, changing the value paradigm from being one of neighborhood vitality to one of automobile mobility. Now the most valuable places are the ones with the most stuff, the biggest parking lot and the quickest in/out time. Let this approach simmer for a generation and the community, with the support of zoning codes, will segregate into pods based on income and level of affluence.
Now you have the recipe for full decline. As the second life cycle of the Suburban Experiment kicks in, more growth and a little debt is used to make ends meet. Declining neighborhoods are gradually written off as being places where "those people" live, and they just don't have the same ethics and values as the rest of us. (By the way, identifying "those people" transcends race as I see the same labeling of the disadvantaged here in my 99.5% Caucasian community.) This all makes it easier to divert precious resources to growing (read: affluent) neighborhoods and neglect the others.
As those declining neighborhoods continue to grow as a percentage of the community, we try heroic interventions. Perhaps we build a stadium or label something an entertainment district. Maybe we simply tear down buildings and pay someone a subsidy to come in and rebuild something less offensive. Either way, the decline continues because the vitality and natural mechanisms for maturing have been sucked out of the neighborhoods and what has replaced them on the periphery is not financially viable. The clock is ticking.
Eventually the affluent coalesce in a handful of neighborhoods. Where they are outside of the city limits, the collapse of the place may accelerate, but even when these wealthy neighborhoods are within, one type of corruption (mob or gang style) is simply replaced with another (crony). Police and fire cutbacks. Reductions in park budgets. Public buildings in decline. Streets that are in such disrepair they are essentially abandoned.
Look around. Don't you see it?
Eventually, we reach the condition of Detroit. As LeDuff describes it, it feels a lot like some of the third world. Call the police, they don't show up. If they do, it takes thirty minutes or more. Same with the fire department. People who can hire their own security. The rest carry weapons and travel in groups. Money is allocated for fixing things like the cracked floor at the fire hall, but nobody knows where it went. The floor is never fixed. City hall is distant and clearly corrupt, but who among decent people would step up and try to fix it. Decent people need to survive, or they are already having their needs met and, in that case, there is little to be gained for the enormous trouble.
For most of the city and most of the people, things just stop working. A lot of resourceful people find work arounds. A lot of others don't. LeDuff's book is full of both. It will break your heart.
I spent last week in Mansfield, Texas, a growing and prosperous distant suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth. It was an odd juxtaposition to the book I was reading. The people I spoke with felt that Mansfield was a great place, that it was doing most things right. Just look at the new mall or the movie theater or the collection of chain restaurants. The idea that the place could ever fail — that it would ever reach the depths of decline of Detroit let alone follow the trajectory of the suburb up the highway (you know…the one that had been the new place a few decades ago) — was unimaginable to the people there.
But it will fail. It is simply not financially viable. Get the money together or the kids don't have a future.
It is important to understand that cities used to fail all the time. Not large cities — they had pretty much demonstrated a need to exist and could generally figure out a way to continue — but we used to have ghost towns all the time. These were small experiments that simply didn't work out.
As with any natural system, which traditional cities were as the product of thousands of years of trial and error experimentation, failure is a necessity for growth. Small scale failure is a chance to learn. What we've done with the Suburban Experiment and the parallel centralized financial experiment the United States has embarked on is to create a system where the only possible failure is large. Catastrophic. All other failures get bailed out, subsidized away or coaxed back to zombie status. This presents the same moral hazard to local governments (and society in general) as it does to too-big-to-fail banks. Go big or go home.
There's so much that needs to be done that sometimes I'm paralyzed by it all. I'm not sure if Detroit: An American Autopsy is inspiring me to work harder or putting me into a terrible depression over what I can clearly see coming. Is it unavoidable? Would we simply be better off getting it over with and then moving on?
Last year Charlie LeDuff golfed the length of Detroit, from 8 Mile Road to Belle Island. I watched the video last year and it felt like a simple stunt so I quit a few seconds in. After reading the book, I now understand what LeDuff was doing. I watched the entire video late one night last week, some tears in my eyes at the scenes as I thought back to the book, wishing the stupid news anchor would quit butting in and simply let Charlie tell the story of the city and its people. The tragic, but beautiful, story of a place that we all need to understand.
Two thousand, five hundred and twenty five strokes and I golfed every inch of it. I'm thinkin' back to what I saw behind me. A city, its people, holdin' on, waitin' for a savior, a savior who may not be coming. I wonder if the people know that the savior might be found within themselves, their neighbors maybe, their families most definitely? The old saying is true: no man is an island.
And that's the most important thing. None of us is an island. We can retreat back into our nice subdivisions, shop at our discount stores and borrow more money to keep it all going today, but eventually we'll discover that we're in this together.
Our historic way of buildings places was not perfect. It left many behind and treated many more unfairly. It was slow moving, chaotic and inefficient. Those weren't disadvantages, however. They were design features. It was the slow moving, chaotic and inefficient approach that strengthened cities, made them financially resilient and provided the platform for ongoing improvement of the human condition. It was that daily friction of people inhabiting the same space that made cities ultimately work. If we want our kids to have a future, we need to get that back.
We're all Detroit. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can commit ourselves to building a nation of strong towns.
Over at the Strong Towns Network, I'm going to follow this piece up with a short example on how lawlessness is induced by the Suburban Experiment in places during the decline phase. I'm also going to tell a story about a hotel I stayed in this past weekend in Kansas City and how it relates to this overall narrative.
And if you'd like more, check out my book, Thoughts on Building Strong Towns (Volume 1). It is a primer on the Strong Towns movement and an essential read for those wanting to get up to speed quickly.


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Contrary to established scientific thinking, you'd be roasted and not "spaghettified" if you stumbled into a supermassive black hole. New research being presented at the Institute of Physics conference Physics 2005 in Warwick will take a new look at the diet of the universe's most intriguing object, black holes.
Black holes stand at the very edge of scientific theory. Most scientists believe they exist, although many of their theories break down under the extreme conditions within. But Professor Andrew Hamilton of the University of Colorado says he knows what you would find inside, and challenges the traditional idea that gravity would cause you death by "spaghettification".
Most people have heard of the event horizon of a black hole, as the point of no return. But astronomically realistic black holes are more complex and should have two horizons, an outer and an inner. In the bizarre physics of black holes, time and space are exchanged when you cross an event horizon, but at a second horizon they would switch back again.
Traveling into a black hole, you would therefore pass through a strange region where space is falling inward faster than light, before finally entering a zone of normal space at the core. It's this core of normal space which Professor Hamilton has been working on.
A so-called singularity sits at the centre of the core, swallowing up matter. But according to Professor Hamilton, the strange laws of general relativity temper its appetite. If the singularity ate too quickly, it would become gravitationally repulsive, so instead, matter piles up in a hot, dense plasma filling the core of the black hole and siphoning gradually into the singularity.
Depending on the size of the black hole, this plasma could be the cause of a space traveller's demise. Most books will tell you that under the extreme gravitational conditions of a black hole, your feet would experience gravity more strongly than your head, and your body would be stretched out like spaghetti.
For a small black hole with the mass of several suns, this should still be true. But for a supermassive black hole weighing millions or billions of suns, explains Professor Hamilton, the tidal forces which cause spaghettification are relatively weak. You would instead be roasted by the heat of the plasma.
Professor Andrew Hamilton is Professor of Astrophysics at the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado.
Original Source: Institute of Physics News Release


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Winnipeg Jets escaped with a victory in their season opener despite some struggles on the defensive side of things.
Head coach Claude Noel knows his team will need a better effort on Friday night in the Jets' home opener against the Los Angeles Kings.
Winnipeg kicked off its season in Edmonton on Tuesday and trailed by two goals midway through the second period before scoring three straight to notch a 5-4 win over the Oilers.
Michael Frolik, acquired this past offseason from the Chicago Blackhawks, got the rally started with 3:42 to play in the second period with his first goal. Rookie defenseman Jacob Trouba added his first NHL tally in the third frame and Frolik put home the game-winner with 5:02 to play.
Mark Scheifele and Bryan Little added goals, Dustin Byfuglien had three assists and Ondrej Pavelec shook off a slow start in Winnipeg's Western Conference debut. The Jets moved to the Central Division following realignment this offseason.
Pavelec allowed four goals on 24 shots through the first two periods, but turned aside all 14 shots sent his way in the third.
"The game was pretty good, kind of up-and-down. I think we battled hard, especially at the end. It was a good finish by us and a good turnaround. Guys battled hard at the end and we came away with the win," Frolik said.
It was a rare win for the Jets when giving up at least four goals. They were 2-16-0 in 18 games last season when yielding at least four scores.
Set to play two straight and eight of the next nine at home, Noel knows his club will have to improve in tonight's game against a talented team like the Kings.
"I don't think you can go into too many nights playing the way we played in Edmonton and anticipating a win," Noel said on Thursday. "You don't win the special teams game. You go into the third period down 4-3. In the National Hockey League, those are recipes for not having success. We know we dodged a bullet and we know we have a lot of work to do to get better."
The Jets may have a slight edge given that the Kings were in action last night, recording a 3-2 shootout victory in Minnesota. Jeff Carter tied the game late in the third period and both he and Anze Kopitar scored in the shootout against Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom.
Drew Doughty also scored in regulation for the Kings and Jonathan Quick had 27 saves. He then stopped both Minnesota skaters in the shootout, including a poke check on Mikko Koivu's try.
"He played good," Kings head coach Darryl Sutter said of Quick. "It was good to see him in the shootout because I think the last time we were here we lost in a shootout."
Quick also got some help late in regulation to force overtime. He found himself out of position and Minnesota's Matt Cooke sent a shot on net looking to notch the go-ahead goal, but forward Trevor Lewis, minus a stick, made a diving stop to keep the game tied.
"I tried to make myself kind of big, and it hit me. I think it was a pretty good butterfly there," said Lewis. "Everyone kind of gave me a high five, but I was kind of saying I looked like a roller hockey goalie out there, so it was good."
The Kings will play their home opener on Monday versus the New York Rangers, but first will try to secure just their second victory over the Jets franchise in the last six meetings.
Los Angeles visited Winnipeg on Dec. 29, 2011 for the first time since the Jets relocated from Atlanta and lost a 1-0 overtime decision. The Jets' Evander Kane scored the lone goal to give his club its fourth straight home victory over the Kings.
L.A. has not picked up a road victory over the Jets franchise since a 4-0 triumph in Atlanta on Oct. 29, 2002.


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