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here's a little titbit that yer actual Keith Telly Topping completely forgot to mention when it was first publicly announced about six weeks ago (mainly because Keith Telly Topping was, you know, busy ... with stuff). The great David Suchet will guest star as a character called The Landlord in an episode of the next series of Doctor Who written by Mike Bartlett. Sharp.
1 The Great British Bake Off - Wed BBC1 - 13.12m
2 Strictly Come Dancing - Sat BBC1 - 10.13m
3 The X Factor - Sat ITV - 8.40m
4 Coronation Street - Mon ITV - 7.71m
5 Victoria - Sun ITV - 6.88m
6 EastEnders - Mon BBC1 - 6.86m
7 Poldark - Sun BBC1 - 6.54m
8 Cold Feet - Mon ITV - 6.50m
9 Emmerdale - Wed ITV - 6.39m
10 Antiques Roadshow - Sun BBC1 - 5.97m
11 Our Girl - Wed BBC1 - 5.54m
12 Casualty - Sat BBC1 - 5.39m
13 Paranoid - Thurs ITV - 5.16m
14 Countryfile - Sun BBC1 - 5.00m
15 Mrs Brown's Boys - Sat BBC1 - 4.82m
16 Six O'Clock News - Mon BBC1 - 4.81m
17 BBC News - Sun BBC1 - 4.74m
18 Holby City - Tues BBC1 - 4.56m
19 Paul O'Grady: For The Love Of Dogs - Thurs ITV - 4.48m
20 DIY SOS: Th Big Build - Tues BBC1 - 4.41m
21 DCI Banks - Wed ITV - 4.37m
22 Ten O'Clock News - Fri BBC1 - 4.36m
23 Pointless Celebrities - Sat BBC1 - 4.29m
24 National Treasure - Tues Channel Four - 4.28m
25 Match Of The Day - Sat BBC1 - 3.84m
26 Would I Live To You? - Fri BBC - 3.70m
These consolidated figures include all viewers who watched programmes live and on catch-up during the seven days after initial broadcast, but do not include those who watched on BBC's iPlayer or ITV Player via their computers. I dunno why, they just don't, all right? Don't blame me, this blogger doesn't make the rules! Strictly Come Dancing's Friday night episode attracted 9.30 million viewers whilst The X Factor's Sunday night programme had 7.94 million. On BBC2, University Challenge was, again, the week's most-watched programme with 2.91 million viewers. From The North favourite Only Connect was seen by 2.63 million and the latest episode of Ripper Street by 2.53 million. Note, once again, that the channel's top three performing programmes are all broadcast back-to-back on Monday evenings. The Great British Menu drew 2.23 million punters whilst Trust Me, I'm A Doctor had 2.03 million, Conviction: Murder At The Station, 1.94 million and Gardeners' World, 1.87 million viewers. Great Continental Railway Journeys and The Hairy Bikers: Chicken & Egg were both watched by 1.84 million. The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice ... Of Greed attracted 1.79 million and Mock The Week, 1.72 million. Mastermind was seen by 1.56 million viewers, Brexit: A Very British Coup? by 1.53 million and Coast: The Great Guide by 1.52 million. Aside from the outstanding figure brought in by the opening episode of the Robbie Coltrane drama National Treasure, Gogglebox was Channel Four's highest-rated broadcast of the week (3.53 million viewers), followed by Celebrity Island With Bear Grylls (2.98 million). Grand Designs was seen by 2.72 million viewers, whilst Hunted had 2.52 million, Location, Location, Location, 2.24 million, Speed With Guy Martin, 2.15 million, Nine Nine Nine: What's Your Emergency?, 2.10 million and George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 2.01 million. Nasty Penelope Keith's Horrible Hidden Villages attracted 1.28 million punters. Every single one of whom needs th bloody head examining for watching Tripe the likes of this. Channel Five's top performer was, Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away! - with 2.13 million - ahead of The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (1.49 million), On Benefits (1.37 million), Eamonn & Ruth: How The Other Half Lives (1.27 million punters) and both Police Interceptors and The Dog Rescuers With Alan Davies (both 1.24 million). When Magic Goes Wrong drew nine hundred and sixty one thousand viewers whilst a repeat of TV's Fifty Greatest Magic Tricks had seven hundred and fifty four thousand. After those three weeks of not bothering to get their figures sent in, the Sky Sports channels again got their collective finger out and submitted their data to BARB. On Sky Sports 1 coverage of The Scum against Leicester City was watched by nine hundred and forty two thousand whilst West Hamsters game against Bournemouth drew eight hundred and sixty nine thousand. The EFL Cup tie between Leicester and Moscow Chelski FC attracted seven hundred and ninety nine thousand. Yer actual Keith Telly Topping's beloved (though unsellable) Magpies draw at Aston Villains had five hundred and twenty four thousand. Live Fight night: Crolla Versus Linares on Sky Sports 2 had one hundred and sixty thousand. Live SF: Barcelona Versus Atletico Madrid drew one hundred and forty nine thousand. Gillette Soccer Saturday was watched by four hundred and fifty nine thousand on Sky Sports News HQ and a further four hundred and seventy four thousand on Sky Sports 1. Unbelievable, Jeff. Ted's Notebook: Singapore was seen by sixteen thousand on Sky Sports F1. Midsomer Murders was ITV3's top-rated drama (seven hundred and forty seven thousand viewers). Doc Martin was seen by six hundred and sixty three thousand, Foyle's War by five hundred and sixty five thousand and It'll Be Alright On The Night's Best Of by five hundred and four thousand. Benidorm headed ITV4's weekly list with three hundred and nineteen thousand viewers whilst a repeat of the funniest ninety minutes in TV history, An Audience With Billy Connolly attracted three hundred and seventeen thousand - all of whom, hopefully, were singing along with the opening lines of The Gebrovian National Anthem like this blogger was - the movie Jaws had two hundred and fifty one thousand and Licence To Kill was watched by two hundred and forty eight thousand viewers. Another James Bond movie - and, a far better one at that, Dr No - had two hundred and thirty nine thousand whilst Life Inside Jail: Hell On Earth was seen by two hundred and twenty nine thousand. ITV2's most-watched broadcast was the worthless steaming infested shower of rancid, lousy stinking diarrhoea Celebrity Juice (watched by a staggeringly sad 1.47 million people, every single one of whom should be bloody well ashamed to show their face in public after viewing so much as a second of this risible horseshit). The film Nanny McPhee drew seven hundred and seventy nine thousand. The Xtra Factor drew six hundred and fifty four thousand viewers whilst Family Guy had six hundred and twenty five thousand. DCI Banks headed ITV Encore's top ten with sixty eight thousand viewers, ahead of Downton Abbey which had fifty five thousand and Vera with forty four thousand. BBC4's list was headed by Michael Wood's documentary, King Alfred & The Anglo-Saxons with five hundred and fifteen thousand viewers, followed by The Brecon Beacons With Iolo Williams (four hundred and seventy six thousand), London: The Modern Babylon (four hundred and forty nine thousand), Johnny Cash: The Man & His Music (three hundred and fifty nine thousand) and Top Of The Pops 1982 (three hundred and twenty six thousand). Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? drew two hundred and ninety three thousand and Keith Richards' Lost Weekend, two hundred and seventy six thousand. Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps was watched by two hundred and seventy two thousand, Rome: A History Of The Eternal City, two hundred and sixty nine thousand and Keith Richards: The Origin Of The Species, two hundred and fifty five thousand. Sky1's weekly top-ten was headed by utterly worthless, unfunny, full-of-its-own-importance vomit A League Of Their Own with eight hundred and thirty five thousand, followed by the second episode of Hooten & The Lady (seven hundred and ninety seven thousand punters), Zoo (four hundred and sixty eight thousand), The Last Ship (four hundred and thirty six thousand), Mount Pleasant (four hundred and twenty six thousand) and The Simpsons (three hundred and eighty thousand). Sky Atlantic's list was topped by Ray Donovan (three hundred and ten thousand). The fourth episode of The Night Of was seen by two hundred and forty three thousand and Ballers by two hundred and seven thousand thousand. A broadcast of the original 1973 movie version of Westworld prior to the start of the much-anticipated TV adaptation next week, drew one hundred and forty five thousand whilst a Game Of Thrones repeat had one hundred thousand. On Sky Living, Chicago Fire drew four hundred and forty thousand, Shades Of Blue had four hundred and twenty four thousand, Nashville, two hundred and fifty two thousand and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, two hundred and seven thousand viewers. Sky Arts' Discovering Film had seventy three thousand viewers. 5USA's Chicago PD was watched by five hundred and seventy nine thousand viewers. NCIS: Los Angeles attracted five hundred and thirty seven thousand, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour, five hundred and sixteen thousand, Castle, four hundred and sixteen thousand and NCIS, three hundred and forty nine thousand. NCIS also topped CBS Action's list (one hundred and three thousand) and featured in the top-tens of FOX (one hundred and forty three thousand) and The Universal Channel (one hundred and twenty thousand). FOX's most watched programmes were American Horror Story (four hundred and ninety five thousand), Wolf Creek (one hundred and ninety eight thousand) and Tyrant (one hundred and sixty thousand). The Universal Channel's list was headed by Major Crimes with three hundred and eighteen thousand, Private Eyes, two hundred and fifty thousand and Motive, one hundred and thirty six thousand. The movie Along Came A Spider was watched by one hundred and fourteen thousand. On Dave, the return for an eleventh series of the cult favourite Red Dwarf drew the largest mutlchannels audience of the week across all channels, 1.46 million viewers. The third episode of Dara O Briain's Go Eight Bit was the second highest-rated programme with six hundred and ninety nine thousand punters. Twenty thousand punters up on the previous week's episode, whilst was, itself, watched by more viewers than the opening episode. And all after this blogger confidently predicted that ratings for the show would not so much drop as plummet like a brick. Shows how much Keith Telly Topping knows about such malarkey. That was followed by Mock The Week (four hundred and thirteen thousand), the movie Shooter (four hundred and four thousand), Qi XL (three hundred and twenty three thousand) and Top Gear: Africa Special (three hundred and ten thousand). Drama's New Tricks was watched by four hundred and ninety nine thousand viewers. Death In Paradise had four hundred and seventy seven thousand, Murdoch Mysteries, three hundred and eighty five thousand viewers, Judge John Deed three hundred and seventy one thousand and Dalziel & Pascoe three hundred and sixty eight thousand. Alibi's highest-rated programme was Rizzoli & Isles (four hundred and sixty one thousand), followed by Rosewood (two hundred and seventy one thousand), King & Maxwell (ninety eight thousand), Lie To Me (ninety five thousand) and Body Of Proof (eighty five thousand). Yesterday's 'Allo 'Allo repeat run was seen by two hundred and sixty nine thousand. Great British Railway Journeys was watched by two hundred and thirty thousand, Unearthing WW1 by two hundred and thirteen thousand, Africa by one hundred and ninety six thousand, Yes Minister by one hundred and eighty nine thousand and Murder Maps by one hundred and eighty one thousand. On the Discovery Channel, Fast 'N Loud's latest series continued with two hundred and forty three thousand viewers. Gold Divers (featuring that really annoying Emily woman who 'wants all the gold') drew one hundred thousand whilst Marooned With Ed Stafford (& His Camera Crew) was seen by seventy five thousand and Running Wild With Bear Brylls (& His Camera Crew) was seen by sixty nine thousand. Discovery History's Industrial Revelations topped the weekly-list with thirty nine thousand viewers and figure also achieved by Air Wars. Tony Robinson's Time Walks was watched by twenty six thousand, whilst Bullet Points and Time Team all attracted twenty two thousand. On Discovery Science, How it's Made was seen by fifty eight thousand viewers. Discovery Turbo's most-watched programme was, as usual Wheeler Dealers (forty nine thousand, the best performing of the ten episodes featuring Mike and Edd in the channel's weekly top ten). National Geographic's list was headed by Yukon Gold which had one hundred and nineteen thousand viewers and Wicked Tuna (sixty seven thousand). The History Channel's top-ten was led by Barbarians Rising (two hundred and twenty four thousand). The Bastard Executioner was seen by one hundred and twenty six thousand and Ice road Truckers by one hundred and twenty three thousand. On Military History, Rome's Lost Legion was watched by twenty seven thousand and Hooked - Illegal Drugs by twenty five thousand. JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery, Murder On CCTV and I Am Homicide were ID's top-rated programmes of the week (with one hundred and sixty seven thousand viewers, one hundred and twelve thousand and eighty thousand murder-lovers respectively). Footsteps In The Snow, Killer Kids and On The Case With Paula Zahn headed CI's list (ninety six thousand, fifty four thousand and fifty thousand). GOLD's repeat of Only Fools & Horses drew one hundred and fifty eight thousand. Comedy Central's largest audience of the week was for Impractical Jokers (three hundred and fifty nine thousand). Your TV's Corrupt Crimes had sixty one thousand viewers whilst Sensing Murder drew fifty seven thousand. On More4, My Floating Home was the highest-rated programme with five hundred and thirty eight thousand. Sarah Beeny's Four Rooms attracted three hundred and eighty nine thousand punters, Eight Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown, three hundred and fifty five thousand, Twenty Four Hours In A&E, three hundred and thirty eight thousand, Grand Designs by three hundred and sixteen thousand and Nasty Penelope Keith's Horrible Hidden Villages, three hundred and one thousand. E4's latest episode of Hollyoakes drew 1.15 million viewers. The Horror Channel's broadcast of Triangle attracted one hundred and eighty eight thousand. Their top-ten list for the week also included the abysmally wretched Lesbian Vampire Killers (one hundred and seven thousand), the 1958 classic The Blob (ninety thousand thousand) and Hammer's The Devil Rides Out (seventy six thousand). Dark Matter, headed Syfy's top-ten with three hundred and thirty seven thousand whilst Killjoys had one hundred and sixty two thousand. The Mekong River With Sue Perkins and Killer Whales Beneath The Surface were both watched by forty eight thousand viewers on Eden. Tanked was the Animal Planet's most-watched programme with sixty three thousand. On W, John Bishop In Conversation With Alex Brooker was seen by two hundred and sixty eight thousand. The Strain attracted two hundred and fifty seven thousand. On Spike, the movie Jason & The Argonauts was watched by two hundred and seventeen thousand. Katie Price's Pony Club - possibly the most offensively dreadful TV programme made since ... TLC's last Katie Price vehicle - was watched by one hundred and thirteen thousand people who really do need to have a good, hard look at themselves in the mirror. The Vault's Saved By The Bell: College Years was seen by fourteen thousand punters.
ITV's Victoria narrowly pipped BBC1's Poldark by two hundred thousand overnight viewers to keep its crown in the battle of the Sunday night period dramas. The penultimate episode of the eight-part royal drama drew an overnight audience of 4.8 million viewers between 9pm and 10.05pm. Poldark drew 4.6 million between 9pm and 10pm with the fifth episode of the second series. Louis Theroux's documentary exploring Jimmy Savile's past, fifteen years on from his film When Louis Met Jimmy, drew 2.7 million viewers and a twelve per cent audience share for BBC2, a very strong performance given the competition in the 9pm slot. Meanwhile, earlier in the evening BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing drew 8.1 million viewers. The results show, which saw DJ and TV presenter Melvin Odoom leave without a dance-off - see below - drew a thirty six per cent share of total TV viewing between 7.15pm and 8pm. It easily outperformed Wee Shughie McFee, the sour-faced Scottish chef off Crossroads' The X Factor which attracted 6.4 million overnight punters between 9pm and 10pm.
teaser trailer for Twin Peaks is every bit as haunting and beautiful as the original series.
Almost Everyone Who's Ever Worked On Star Trek Is Begging You Not To Vote For Trump is well-worth a few moments of your time and, if you're an American dear blog reader, serious consideration. 'In one of the least surprising turn of events in history, the people who worked on Star Trek - a show which envisions a future Earth without sexism, racism, religion, and even money - find the thought of a Trump presidency abhorrent,' the article states. No shit?
'Whatever you do, however, resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue. By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump.' Earlier this week, the Arizona Republic tore up more than a century of history and told its readers to vote for a Democrat. The newspaper declared: 'The 2016 Republican candidate is not conservative and he is not qualified.' The paper said that Senator Clinton's flaws 'paled by comparison. The challenges the United States faces domestically and internationally demand a steady hand, a cool head and the ability to think carefully before acting. Hillary Clinton understands this. Donald Trump does not.' And, while ripping into Trump, it highlighted his rival's 'tenacity and professionalism.' The Cincinnati Enquirer, in the crucial swing state of Ohio, called Trump 'a clear and present danger to our country,' despite having backed only Republican candidates for the presidency for nearly a hundred years. The paper criticised both candidates as having 'troubled relationships with truth and transparency,' but concluded: 'We need a leader who will bring out the best in all Americans, not the worst.' Trump and many of his supporters have seemed at times to be engaged in open warfare with much of the media. Reporters are regularly jeered at Trump's rallies, by both the candidate and his followers. But, while criticism from traditional liberal voices such as the Washington Post and New York Times has fuelled that animosity, the Trump campaign will find it harder to dismiss the condemnation from die-hard Republican newspapers. Several, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia's state capital, opted to endorse the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. He is a two-term Governor with far more political experience than Trump, but has been mocked for claiming not having heard of the Syrian battlefront of Aleppo or freezing when, in a TV interview, he was asked to name a world leader that he admired. A handful of newspapers including the New York Post endorsed Trump during the Republican primaries, but have yet to recommend voting for him in the presidential election.
a headline to truly cherish.
Twitter account showing him at a warehouse.
Sports Direct's response in the programme was that there were only twenty four calls specifically to the warehouse. The programme also revealed that three of the calls were about women having pregnancy difficulties, including one who gave birth in the toilets at the site. Sports Direct lodged a whinge with the BBC Trust arguing that there was 'no proper basis' for including a reference to the warehouse toilet birth and that the BBC 'misled' the audience by 'implying' that it was 'an example of someone turning up to work when they were unfit to do so.' The BBC Trust's editorial standards committee agreed that some viewers 'may' have made the connection between the birth incident and pressure to turn up at work but said that the incident was 'factually accurate' in the way it was reported. 'The programme went no further than the known facts and therefore the BBC had not knowingly and materially misled the audience,' said the BBC Trust. 'The content was duly accurate.' The company had also whinged that the programme-makers did not provide it with an opportunity to respond to the 'serious allegation' about the birth incident. The BBC Trust said that it 'might have been preferable' for the programme-makers to have given Sports Direct 'fuller detail' of the incident in their 'right of reply' letter sent to the company a month before the episode was broadcast. 'On balance, the complainant had been provided with sufficient detail about the nature of the allegations being made in the programme to give them a fair opportunity to respond,' said the BBC Trust. 'Sports Direct had been afforded an adequate right of reply in the programme in that [the company] was able to say that it did not penalise workers for being unwell.' The BBC Trust said the broadcast 'did not breach the editorial guidelines on fairness' and rejected Sports Direct's whinge.
Tony Close, director of content standards at Ofcom, said: 'People draw the line at racist and discriminatory language - participants felt this was the most unacceptable of all. Most people see these words as derogatory and insulting. Many were concerned about them being used in programmes at any time, unless there's very clear justification for it in the programme and how it's presented to the audience.' The study, which was the biggest of its kind ever conducted by Ofcom, looked at one hundred and forty four words, exploring what people were likely to find 'unacceptable' and why. As part of the research, the regulator conducted online surveys as well as focus groups and detailed interviews. Participants were played clips from broadcasts which had been deemed controversial and asked participants how offensive they found the language used. Recent excerpts from Big Brother and Don't Tell The Bride as well as old episodes of Father Ted and Fawlty Towers were among the clips played to audiences. The context, intent and tone that 'offensive' language was spoken in were considered important factors to viewers, as well as whether there had been a warning about bad language before broadcast. For example, a 2014 episode Big Brother was considered 'acceptable' in its original post-watershed slot but 'offensive' when the same episode was repeated in a weekend lunchtime slot. In the case of Fawlty Towers, audiences also took into account the 'historical' nature of the show and the fact the comedy 'made fun' of the ignorant character using the racist language, but some viewers still took offence. Sexual terms were viewed as 'distasteful' and 'often unnecessary,' but respondents said they found them 'more acceptable' if used after the watershed, when they would be 'more prepared.' Another finding of the survey was words which were bleeped out had the power to be just as offensive as hearing the word itself. The research found most people 'would understand' which word was being obscured, especially if repeated. The survey also suggested audiences felt 'offensive' language was 'more problematic' on radio than TV. Several participants said they considered radio 'a more intimate medium,' where 'offensive' language was 'rarely' heard. As a result, they thought that 'strong language' would feel 'more intrusive and unexpected' on radio than it did on TV. Radio was also considered more likely to be heard by children, as it was often heard in the background in public spaces.
So, Soo was introduced in 1965 - originally voiced by Harry Corbett's wife, Marjorie - and she has been at Sooty's side ever since. The documentary, titled Sooty Ungloved, will have its world premiere in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, on Saturday, with profits from the screening going towards providing a defibrillator for the area. Corbett and his family lived in the town for thirty five years. He and the puppet found fame on TV in the early 1950s. When Corbett suggested introducing a female character in the 1960s, the show's producer, Trevor Hill, dismissed the idea 'on the grounds that sex would be creeping into the programme,' according to a letter written by Corbett in 1965. The tabloid press picked up on the disagreement, causing a row between Corbett and Grahame Miller, the BBC's Head of North Regional Programmes. Miller accused Corbett of 'orchestrating a campaign' in the press for Sooty to be allowed a girlfriend, letters from the BBC archive reveal. As a result, he told Corbett that the BBC was prepared to 'hold up the contractual negotiations which are in-train' and 'urgently review the future of the Sooty series in BBC Television.' One of the BBC's governors, Dame Anne Goodwin, was also 'strongly' opposed to Sooty having a female friend. In May 1965, Hill wrote to Miller: 'I was left in no doubt as to her feelings in this matter! DG, however, said to me, "I think you are wrong not to let Sooty have his girlfriend!"' The Sooty Show was cancelled by the BBC two years later, before being picked up by ITV.
The makers of the James Bond movies want Daniel Craig to remain in the title role, one of their executive producers had said. Callum McDougall, who has worked on nine Bonds, said Craig was 'absolutely the first choice' of series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson. 'I know they're hoping for him to come back, McDougall told Radio 4's Today programme on Friday. Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where many of the Bond films were shot, is celebrating its eightieth birthday. The facility has been a significant part of the British film industry since opening in 1936. Craig made his debut as Bond in 2006's award-winning Casino Royale, returning to the role in Quantum Of Solace - which was really bad - and then Skyfall and Spectre - which were both rather good. He has yet to commit to another film, prompting speculation as to who might replace him. Asked on Friday morning who would be the next James Bond, McDougall said: 'I wish I knew.' But he insisted the role was 'absolutely' Craig's should he choose to continue as Ian Fleming's legendary spy. Pinewood Studios was founded when Charles Boot, a builder with movie ambitions, bought Heatherden Hall and its estate in 1934. A year later, Boot met J Arthur Rank and the two became partners in the studio project, releasing their first film, London Melody, in 1936. The James Bond movies have a long history with Pinewood, beginning with the first Bond movie, Dr No, in 1962. In addition to the Bond franchise, Pinewood has hosted Superman, Star Wars, the Harry Potter franchise and the Carry On films. 'It's literally a dream factory,' said McDougall, who has been a part of the Bond 'family' since The Living Daylights in 1987. 'People will be staggered by the films we've made here.'
a blog for the British Library. But now they say they have restored it to how it actually would have sounded in 1951. The Ferranti Mark One may not have been the first computer to have played music - that distinction, it's been widely claimed, went to an Australian machine called CSIRAC which played 'The Colonel Bogey March' some months previously. But, no recording has ever surfaced. The music program was written by a maths master at Harrow called Christopher Strachey, a friend of the computing pioneer Alan Turing, who had written the Ferranti Mark One's instruction manual in his role as deputy director of Manchester University's Computing Machine Laboratory. The Ferranti had the capacity to produce an instruction called a 'hoot', which produced short burst of sound lasting a fraction of a second. Turing realised this could be used to produce musical notes. He intended that this would be used to issue alerts when a job was finished, but Strachey saw the potential to perform proper melodies. As well as being fascinated by computer programming - he would go on to become one of the UK's foremost computer scientists - Strachey was also a skilled pianist. Turing trusted Strachey enough to leave him alone with the computer for a night. 'I sat in front of this enormous machine,' Strachey later recalled, 'with four or five rows of twenty switches and things, in a room that felt like the control room of a battleship.' There is some dispute about what he did next. Chris Burton of the Computer Conservation Society suggests Strachey wrote a program for playing draughts on the machine and, when the program terminated, it played 'God Save The King'. Others claim that Strachey's program was purely for playing music. The result was crude at best. The machine could only approximate the pitch of many notes. 'It was fairly imprecise,' says Burton. But word spread that a computer was capable of performing music and a BBC outside-broadcast team arrived later in the year to record a segment for Children's Hour. It's not clear who programmed the three pieces of music they recorded. A number of technicians had begun programming melodies into the machine and even Strachey's version of 'God Save The King' may have been amended. After the recording, a university engineer called Frank Cooper asked the BBC team for a copy of the recording. They cut him a version of the original and this disc was eventually passed to the CCS and the unrestored version was made public in 2008. By analysing the recording, Copeland and Long realised it was playing at the wrong speed, possibly as a result of the recorder's turntable running too quickly as the acetate was cut. As they knew the notes the computer was actually capable of playing, the pair were able to calculate exactly by how much the recording needed to be speeded-up in order to exactly match the sound made by the Ferranti Mark One. They also removed extraneous noise from the recording - though not the engineer's voice. 'It was a beautiful moment when we first heard the true sound of Turing's computer,' Copeland and Long wrote. Now everyone can hear it in all its somewhat ramshackle glory.
this clip shows, she as standing in front of the weather map when she suddenly decides to break out into a jog. For no obvious reason that this blogger can fathom. But, tragically, as she changed her routine into a jumping jack, her bra failed to hold her. In a way that Carol Kirkwood, sadly, never had to worry about. The twenty five-year-old quickly tried to re-adjust her clothes as the focus of the clip changes to her 'shocked' colleagues. The footage has been watched more than four million times since it was uploaded to the Internet. In fact, the video first emerged in 2011 but has gone viral once again in recent days which is, presumably, why the Daily Mirra felt this constituted 'news'. Well, it makes a change from hacking phones, one supposes.
Bon Prix advert, featuring that really annoying simpering, wet a slap in the mush with a haddock posh lass in her 'lovely' dress who thinks she's so 'gorgeous' and 'looks great.' And also, for some completely twatty reason, speaks in iambic pentameter when passing her 'ex' in the street. One wonders why, exactly, he gave her the push in the first place? Could it be anything to do with the fact that she's nasty and so is her dress? It's certainly a possibility.
lights went out in Reykjavik on Wednesday night to give people a chance to enjoy one of the night sky's most impressive spectacles - the Aurora Borealis. Reykjavik council announced that street lighting would be switched off for an hour in the city centre and several other districts from 10pm local time, in order to cut out the light pollution which can hamper sky-watching. It also encouraged the capital's residents to join in by turning off their lighting at home. In the event, the Northern Lights' timing was predictably unpredictable and they didn't materialise until the end of the black-out period, so the council extended it to midnight, Morgunbladid newspaper reports. The city has witnessed some spectacular displays in recent days. It is thanks to the Earth being in the path of the solar wind - a stream of charged particles escaping from the Sun. 'It's quite similar to a garden sprinkler and we're currently inside a stream,' astronomy educator Saever Helgi Bragason told the BBC. The aurora appears when the particles interact with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. 'Switching off the street lights was a great gesture by the city council. I hope this will be done more often as it was very successful, especially for those who were patient enough to wait for the lights to appear,' he said. 'It also encouraged more people to go out and look up to the night sky, which is great!'
Neither work was insured at the time and both were on loan to the Van Gogh museum from the Dutch government. Two Dutch citizens were jailed for theft but always maintained their innocence. The museum said it was 'so far unclear' when the works would be returned to Amsterdam but in a statement it said that they appeared to be 'in relatively good condition.' Dutch and Italian ministers were 'overjoyed' by the news and praised Italian investigators. Van Gogh (1853 to 1890) is widely considered the greatest Dutch artist after Rembrandt and, certainly, the best to have an episode of Doctor Who written about him. Seascape At Scheveningen was one of only two seascapes he painted while he lived in the Netherlands. It shows a foaming, stormy sea and thundery sky and was painted in 1882 while he was staying in The Hague. Congregation Leaving The Reformed Church At Nuenen (1884) was painted for Van Gogh's mother and father who had become a pastor at the church in 1882. When his father died in 1884, Van Gogh added churchgoers, including a few women wearing shawls used for mourning. Van Gogh committed suicide in France in 1890. The 2002 Van Gogh museum raid was one of a series of thefts which shocked and stunned the art world. In 2004, two Edvard Munch masterpieces, The Scream and Madonna, were nicked by armed tea leaves who raided the Munch museum in Oslo. Several men were jailed and the paintings later recovered after painstaking detective work in 2006. Another version of The Scream was stolen from the National Art Museum in Oslo in 1994 and that, too, was later recovered in a sting operation by UK detectives. In 2012, seven artworks were stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum, including paintings by Picasso, Monet and Matisse. Two Romanians were later jailed, telling a Bucharest court that security at the museum had been lax. Some of the paintings were destroyed in an oven. Earlier this year, four paintings out of a haul of twenty four stolen from a Dutch gallery in 2005 were recovered in Ukraine.
told the BBC on Friday that his previous claims that eight current and ex-Premier League managers took bribes was 'a lie.' On Thursday, Southampton's assistant manager, Eric Black, was alleged to have given advice on how to bribe officials at other clubs, with the Premier League club requesting a full transcript of the meeting from the Torygraph. Black denies the claims. Barnsley's assistant manager Tommy Wright was sacked by the club on Thursday over claims that he took cash for trying to 'engineer' certain transfers, allegations which he has 'categorically denied.' And, in what appears to be the weakest of the Torygraph's claims, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, manager of Queens Park Strangers, has denied 'any accusations of wrongdoing' after being filmed apparently negotiating a fee to travel to Singapore to speak to the Far East firm. The club's internal investigation into the conduct of Hasselbaink is currently on hold as they await all of the Torygraph's evidence. A Torygraph spokesperson said that it remained the newspaper's intention to release the information but that the police had asked to review it first. City of London Police later confirmed that 'discussions' had already taken place with the Football Association and the Torygraph. Former Moscow Chelski FC striker Hasselbaink issued a statement on Thursday when first implicated by the newspaper and denied 'any accusations of wrongdoing on my part.' He added: 'I was approached by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell of the Telegraph purporting to be players' agents. They offered me a fee to make a speech in Singapore. I do not see anything unusual in being offered to be paid to make a speech. I did not make any promises in return. I did not ask QPR to purchase any of the players who were said to be managed by Mr McGarvey and Ms Newell and did not and would not recommend the purchase of a player for my personal gain.'
extremely lost his job. Which was funny. The FA had already thrown out four thousand T-shirts (triple X large, one imagines) which the ruling body was planning to give away to fans at Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Malta because they had a 'similar' Allardyce quote on the front. Allardyce, meanwhile, has gone on holiday to 'reflect' on his misfortune. Whether or not he sends any more postcards to players remains to be seen.
claimed that Nigel Pearson's relationship with Derby County owner Mel Morris 'hit rock bottom' when the multi-millionaire 'began using drones to spy on training sessions.' Pearson is set to be extremely sacked as the Rams' manager after 'a huge row' with Morris reportedly took place following a run of just one win in eleven games for The Rams after Pearson took over at Pride Park in the summer. The paper states 'it is believed that the former Leicester boss became disillusioned with life at the club when Morris started using drones to keep tabs on his training methods.' The Candy Crush tycoon, who is reportedly 'worth five hundred million knicker' employed the technology 'so that he could watch Pearson putting his first-team squad through their paces from anywhere in the world,' the Mirra claims. Asked about the so-called 'spying missions,' Micky Walsh, Pearson's agent, said: 'Nigel's suspension is in the hands of his lawyers and we're also speaking to the LMA.' Derby County officials declined to comment.
Hamilton appeared to be cruising to victory on an unexpected one-stop strategy when his engine - and, perhaps his title hopes - literally went up in a puff of blue smoke. He had converted pole into a lead at the first corner and the day seemed to be going his way when Rosberg was hit by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel as a move by the German to try to pass Max Verstappen down the inside went badly wrong. Vettel is to be investigated after the race for his role in the collision. Rosberg he race rejoined at the back and set about climbing through the field as Hamilton appeared to be set to reclaim the championship lead. An early virtual safety car when Romain Grosjean's Haas suffered apparent brake failure tempted Red Bull to roll the dice and bring Verstappen in early for a fresh set of 'soft' tyres. That made him de facto race leader for a while, a position he assumed on track when Hamilton made his own first pit stop on lap twenty. But, Verstappen stopped again seven laps later and from then on Hamilton appeared to be in total control, only for his car to suffer an internal combustion engine failure. Team boss Toto Wolff held his head in his hands in the pits as Hamilton trudged disconsolately away from his smouldering car. Mercedes said that there had been 'no prior warning' of the problem. Verstappen had been on Ricciardo's tail and asking his team to 'do something' and the Australian had already fended off an attack by his team-mate as they ran side-by-side from turns four to eight. But, when Hamilton's engine failed, that triggered a virtual safety car and the team to pit stop both cars for fresh tyres. This meant Ricciardo went into the last thirteen laps of the the race with a two-second lead. Ricciardo was on new tyres, while Verstappen's were three laps older and that may have given the Australian the edge he needed to hold off his team-mate, who appeared to have a slight pace advantage over the course of the weekend. However, it remains to be seen whether Red Bull imposed any team orders on Verstappen - perhaps as payback to Ricciardo, whom they cost two potential victories earlier this season with a strategy call in Spain and a pit error in Monaco. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner claimed that there had been no team orders: 'It made total sense, after Lewis had blown up, there was a free stop for both of them - give them both fresh tyres and then flat-out to the finish. They have great respect for each other. They are young, they were racing hard and it was right to let them race today.' Rosberg drove well to get back up to fourth place and then snatched third from Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari in a late move at turn two on lap thirty eight. The two cars collided, however, and stewards decided that Rosberg should be penalised with a ten-second time penalty. But, he managed to extend his lead sufficiently to ensure he took the final podium place. Williams' Valtteri Bottas took fifth, ahead of Force India's Sergio Perez and an excellent drive from Fernando Alonso in his McLaren after starting from the back of the grid. Alonso's team-mate Jenson Button took ninth in his three hundredth Grands Prix, a little unfortunate on strategy with the way the pit stops and late virtual safety car for Hamilton's retirement played out. Had it not happened, Button's long middle stint on hard tyres - much longer than Alonso could manage - might have meant he finished ahead of the Spaniard.
Daily Mirra, 'the bizarre food contains pork, alongside Red Chinese & Siberian Ginseng, L'Arginine and Horny Goat Weed.' All of the extra ingredients are said to 'aid with the issue of erectile dysfunction.' The big porkers are the invention of Matt O'Connor, from Fathers4Justice. He believes, the Mirra states, 'the sausages can help raise awareness of serious health issues affecting men.' His idea was put into motion by The Butchery, based in Forest Hill in London, who have now put them up for sale.
take court action against what he considers an 'illegal charge.' King Arthur Pendragon - probably not his real name - is suing Wiltshire Council, English Heritage and Wiltshire Police for having to 'pay to pray' at Stonehenge. This involved a fifteen quid charge, which he refused to pay, leading to his ban from the UNESCO World Heritage Site. His story was shown on the ITV show Parking Wars on Tuesday night. It followed King Arthur and his 'supporters' (whether they are k'niggets or not is not, at this time, known, nor do we know if they dance when'er they're able) in their 'protest' against the charge. He decided to challenge the 'authorities' because of what he said was an 'affront against my and many people's religion, that is paganism.' King Arthur said: 'I am banned from the site because I refuse to pay what I consider to be an illegal charge. Because of this I will be suing Wiltshire Council, English Heritage and Wiltshire Police under articles nine, ten, eleven and fourteen of the European Convention of Human Rights.' King Arthur believes that there is a conspiratorial link between all three parties concerned. He said: 'They conspired to make it impossible for me to park anywhere else than the car park that they were charging money for. Because the police stopped me from parking on all the other roads in and around Stonehenge, I couldn't get in. This meant I had to go home and did not celebrate the Solstice and for that, I intend to take them to court.' A Wiltshire Council spokesman said: 'We have received a claim, however it would be inappropriate to comment further.' English Heritage released a statement saying: 'We can confirm that Mister Pendragon is proceeding against us and it would be inappropriate to comment while legal proceedings are ongoing.' Wiltshire Police said: 'We have received a claim, and as proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate for us to make any further comment at this time.' All three then added that King Arthur's mother 'was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries,' before telling him to go away or they would taunt him some more. Probably. The protests in May against English Heritage's changes to the summer solstice celebrations caused major disruption for coaches visiting the stones, leaving visitors to walk from the visitors' centre to the stones.
reportedly advised the school board to allow the Satanic Temple's After School Satan Club to be formed at the Centennial Elementary School. 'I think that if the school district denied that application, you would face costly litigation that would be distracting from your mission,' said Duncan Fobes, the lawyer hired by the district to 'assess' the school's legal standing to deny the formation of the club. Fobes pointed out that the district has a policy that encouraged community groups to use the district's facilities. A spokesperson for Satan was unavailable for comment. Because he was burning in Hell.
Independent. The Daily Scum Mail earlier reported that the fifty nine-year-old former Sky Sports presenter - before he got very sacked for sexist malarkey - had a relationship with a twenty seven-year-old he met in Qatar on Saturday. The Sun, meanwhile, claimed that the 'disgraced football pundit' could be 'jailed for fifteen years or publicly flogged after cheating on his cancer-stricken wife in Qatar.' And, they put the word 'flogged' in capital letters just to ram home the point. Julia Keys, who has thyroid cancer, also spoke to the Mirra saying that what her husband and Lucie Rose, the woman with whom he allegedly cheated, had done to her was 'disgusting', especially given that they knew about her 'condition.' She also claimed that Keys has been 'bombarding' her with 'desperate' pleas to 'get back together' and she had 'instigated' divorce proceedings. 'The scorned wife of love rat football pundit Richard Keys told how he begged her to give him another chance from the doorstep of their family home after their split following his affair with a younger woman,' the Mirra sneered. The Metro, meanwhile, reported that Julia had 'spoken out' about 'her husband's alleged affair.' Keys himself attempted to get his side of the story out but, only a few websites appear to have picked that up. Keys has 'accused reports' of his marital situation of containing 'many inaccuracies', claiming that is something which he 'expected.' Sorry, this blogger just has to ask, was there no real news for newspapers to report this weekend, or what? Just wondering?
Paris is set to have an official nudist park after officials voted in favour of the plans on Monday. The park could open as soon as next summer, AFP reports and two wooded areas on the outskirts of the city, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes, are being considered as possible options. Naturism is popular among some Parisians but public nudity is forbidden unless taking place in specified areas and can carry a penalty of fifteen thousand Euros or up to a year in prison.
'He is a unique broadcaster and has always been a central character in the Radio 2 family. We will miss him, as will his adoring audience.' According to the station, Carrington has battled cancer and Alzheimer's disease for several years and suffered heart failure for the second time on Christmas Day 2015. However, he was operated on within two hours and was back behind his microphone just ten days later, with neither Radio 2 management nor his audience aware of what had happened. 'I'm eternally grateful to the superb doctors and nurses of the Scottish NHS for saving my life,' he said. The broadcaster's career began almost by chance. While serving as an army officer in World War Two, he heard some broadcasts on British Forces Broadcasting Services in Sri Lanka. Claiming he was an experienced broadcaster - which he wasn't - he managed to secure a posting to Colombo and started working on the station. On his demobilisation and return to Britain in 1946, Carrington picked up his acting career and appeared in stage shows and several short films including Calamity The Cow. He was first heard on BBC Radio in 1946 as a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company and later began broadcasting on The Light Programme, presenting the popular request show Housewives' Choice, among others. On television, he landed the role of national heart-throb Doctor Anderson in ITV's medical soap opera Emergency Ward Ten. His weekly Friday evening programme, The Music Goes Round, has been broadcast on Radio 2 for thirty five years - although it first appeared on Sunday afternoons under the title All Time Greats. Originally pre-recorded, Carrington began to broadcast live from home on the day Princess Diana died - 31 August 1997 - after agreeing with Radio 2's controller that a pre-recorded programme would not be appropriate given the day's events. BBC Director General Tony Hall paid tribute to Carrington's 'huge contribution' to broadcasting. 'He is a natural broadcaster who exudes great charm and his weekly programme brings joy to listeners both at home and around the world,' Lord Hall said. 'As for Golden Paws Sam,' added Carrington, 'his days of singing to a pussycat audience are gone now but he still has human admirers, and he knows it.'


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with these?
Mint Chocolate Cookies: (You thought I was going to say cake huh?)
I was experimenting yesterday and made some St. Patrick's Day cookies. They were super easy and really good (if you like the combo of chocolate & mint). Here is the recipe:
Cake Mix Cookies
1 box cake mix (I used German Chocolate)
1 egg
1/3 c. oil
3-4 Tbsp. Water
Mix cake mix, water, egg, and oil together by hand (mix will be stiff). Stir. Drop by tablespoons onto cookie sheet. Bake at 360 for 9 minutes. Really hard so far right!?! Did I lose anyone in those complex instructions? Moving on...melt a bag of (Guittard) green mint chips either over the stove or in the microwave. Drizzle on the cookies and let let them set up. The mint frosting will harden on the cookies. Once the frosting has hardened enjoy! (or enjoy before if you can't wait that long). I thought they were de-lish!

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I am the biggest slacker but life gets so busy and as the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun! Which we are, tons of fun! I cannot believe that you are 18 months old….Holy crap, kid! Everyday you remind me just how fast you are growing. You speak new words, understand more than you can say, act like a little person, have a bad attitude at times, so independent and to top if off your freakishly beautiful. I know I'm your mom and I might be a little biased but everywhere we go, other people just gauk at you. These last two months have been really busy for your daddy and I. I've been working a lot, too much actually. I hate being away from you but when I work extra shifts it really helps fatten our poor old bank account. Your daddy has been really busy opening his new restaurant. Its been difficult for you, you have asked for him a lot these last few days. We are also trying to buy a house. Its been really stressful and we thought we had the perfect one. However, it's a bank owned and they are really dragging their feet on letting us know if they are going to accept our offer. We are practicing patients and acceptance for whatever God's plan is for our family. If it is in his plan for our family to be in this house he will see to it. If not I am sure he has something much better in store for us : ) That sums up the big stuff, lets talk about you and what you're doing…
Your dolly's, their bottles, their cloths and your stuffed turtle from Aunt Lin. We sleep with all of these things every night. I refer to it as your entourage. You still love your "cookies" better known as organic strawberry rice biscuits. You love to dress yourself in our cloths. You like to go for walks and love your Yo Gabba Gabba! You also like to put small items (dog food or dried pasta) in "baby bottles" and dump them into other containers. Keeps you busy for a long time. You also love your real turtle.
Food, boo hoo my good eater has gone away and a crazy toddler has taken over. Your appetite has greatly decreased. You also don't like to listen very well. Time out has become a part of our lives.
Clothing Size:
Your still in 24 months/2T, shoes are still size 5.
Potty Learning:
You use the potty almost every other day at least. I think you are starting to get it. I have been trying to put you in panties and work with you anytime we are home and hanging out. Pretty sure we will get there very soon.
You say a lot of words and understand a lot more. You mimic a lot of things that we say but your pronunciation is still pretty babyish. That okay your doc said that is normal until about 3yrs old.
You are a little less than 25% percentile for weight about 23.5lbs and a little bit higher than 50% for height. Your head is the norm 50% percentile.
You are the love of my life my sweet girl. You make my world go round and sun shine. I am so thankful for everyday that I get to be YOUR mother. I thank God for giving me such a beautiful blessing there is truly nothing I could ever do or say to really express just how amazing it is to have you as my daughter.
Love forever and always,
Your Mommy


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Here we have a great new addition for your Renaissance wardrobe! This skirt is just the thing to add some more color to your faire outfits.
This skirt is one of our super flowy gore skirts, which are so awesome to dance in. It can be made with a split front so that you can keep showing off your other skirts, and is made shorter to be a great overskirt. It is 100% cotton, so you can wash and dry it normally in the washer and dryer- no drycleaning needed!
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Before joining FAO, Olcay was the coordinator of the UN World Water Assessment Programme and the director of the UNESCO Programme Office on Global Water Assessment. Prior positions include a professorship with Kent State University, Ohio, where he founded the Euphrates-Tigris Initiative for Cooperation between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. While he was president of the Southeastern Anatolia Project Regional Development Administration in Turkey, Olcay transformed a large infrastructure project into a sustainable socioeconomic development program. In 1999, he was listed among 19 "European Visionaries" by Time Magazine.
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text: National Maidens is the biggest novice debating competition in Ireland, where first years from all major institutions compete individually. Its location rotates each year, so every university in Ireland has a chance to host the contest. This year it came to Trinity, where it was co-hosted by the Phil and our friends in the Hist, and took place on Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd of April. The Phil's freshers performed strongly, with Andrew Linn and Shauna Maguire both reaching the semi-finals. Ultimately, the final – on the topic of microchipping individuals at birth – was won by Dearbhla O'Gorman from UCD's Literary and Historical Society, with the runner-up prize going to UCC Philosoph's John Beechinor. The competition was of a very high standard, and all speakers are to be congratulated!


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|Seed selection for sprouting
|Sprouts - day 4
They certainly fullfil the "fresh" requirement, and yet there is something missing. Perhaps it is the kiss of sunshine? The waft of a fresh breeze across them? The occasional nibble by a snail?
|Beetroot micro greens
|Cress micro greens
Similar to sprouts, micro greens are sprouted seeds but they are germinated in soil and are eaten when they are 10 - 14 days old - when they have their 2nd set of leaves. After actual sprouts, they are the quickest food crop any one can grow - even urban gardeners. The are even more of a powerhouse of nutrients, and certainly give me that crunchy kick.
|Kale micro greens - don;t you love the purple stems
I love the different shapes textures and colours - of the stems or of the leaves.
|Mustard micro greens
Sprinkled in a salad, or just as they are on a slice of fresh homemade buttered bread.
|Pointed leaves - spinach micro greens
I just can't get enough. The snails, too, can't get enough...
But, on to other things.
I was approached by a journalist a few weeks ago. She asked whether I would be interested in sharing some info on recycling / zero waste.
As a pic of me was required (which didn't please me) to accompany the article, but is apparently protocol in these types of articles, after chatting with RMan, I decided I'd give it a go.
A friend in Cape Town saw the article in the weekend paper and sent a pic of it through to me.
|Green Granny Guide 😂
I never expected a full page article. And I know that space is limited. But, there is so much info that was omitted. My fresh produce bags for one. And, this...
Does anyone know their purpose...?


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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ― C.S. Lewis
Owned and Unread Project
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Native Son by Richard Wright
That is my first reaction to this book. I've tried my best to avoid spoilers, but if nothing else, I will say that this is one of the most shocking, horrifying books I've read. I wanted to stop reading it, but I couldn't. I had to find out what was going to happen to Bigger Thomas, who must be one of the most famous train wrecks in literary history, and deservedly so.
A short setup: Bigger Thomas, a young African-American man, is scraping out a miserable existence as a criminal in 1930s Chicago. He lives in a rat-infested one-room tenement with his mother, brother, and sister, and has no job. On the first day of our novel he is trying to decide whether he should commit an armed robbery, not his first. His mother is pushing him to accept a job to get the family off welfare -- a job as a chauffeur for a wealthy white family, who ironically own the overpriced, sleazy tenement in which they live. Bigger decides not to commit the robbery and go for the job, so for a few pages it's almost hopeful that he'll break the cycle and lead a better life. Sadly, before he finishes his first day on the new job, Bigger commits a horrible (though possibly accidental) crime that leads to a downward spiral of deceit and crime. Native Son has no chapters, but it's divided into three books: Fear, Flight, and Fate. The first book is largely centered around the development of Bigger's character and his crime. The second book concerns his attempts to escape; and the third is his trial and judgement.
I was really surprised that Bigger was such a horrible character. I won't sugar-coat it, Bigger is really unpleasant. For a protagonist, I could not find one redeeming quality in him. He is mean, devious, and completely self-centered. Apparently author Richard Wright didn't want to create someone who people could find sympathetic and cry over, then forget about. Believe me, you will not forget about Bigger. But Wright turns the tables and uses Bigger to make some really important and uncomfortable points about racism and race relations.
This book has been on my to-read list since 2005, when I decided to read the entire Modern Library list of the top 100 novels. (This brings me to 45 completed on that list, 55 on the Radcliffe Top 100). There's a lot of debate about what makes something a "best" novel, but I have finally decided that these two lists aren't necessarily the best novels of the 20th century, but really the most important, the most groundbreaking, because most of them have achieved something noteworthy that hadn't been done before. Though I can't really say I liked this novel, I can respect and appreciate its importance in the literary canon. In a way I'm sorry I took so long to read it, but I'm glad that I waited since I was able to discuss it with real people in our February book group meeting. My good friend Amanda at The Zen Leaf is also a member, and you can read her thoughts about Native Son here.
This book is not for everyone -- not for the squeamish or easily offended. It's one of those riveting stories that are just horrible, but the writer is so talented he made me want to finish it. I'll admit, the book is very intense and several times I had to put the book down and step away. I did read this book in just a few days, so despite its length (430 pages of text in my paperback edition, plus lots of extra stuff) it's a really fast read.
I can't say it's one of the best books I've ever read -- the third book in particular has some very long speeches in which Wright gets up on his literary soapbox, and I'll admit I skimmed parts of this -- but certainly, it is a book that I will never forget. I have no desire to read it again, but I'm glad I read it.
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I've read 24 of the ML list (not the reader's choice list) and started but abandoned 2 (Brideshead and Tobacco Road). I don't think I could commit to read the entire list, though, because there are too many James Joyce books on there! :DReplyDelete
I'm glad we got to discuss this with our book group. It was such an interesting discussion and such a confusing book for me. Wright did an excellent job with what he meant to do...
Oh and I checked out that Radcliff list and apparently have read 36 on there including a couple abandoned books.ReplyDelete
I know I'll never finish the entire list -- Joyce and Faulkner, for starters, plus Tropic of Cancer and A Clockwork Orange. No, thank you. But there are a lot of books that pleasantly surprised me, so I'll keep trying them. It may take me 20 years but I'm going to attempt most of them.ReplyDelete
Which do you recommend from the list?
You've probably read all the ones I've read. I'd recommend Lolita but I thought I remembered you saying you didn't like Nabokov...ReplyDelete
I feel like such a bad Chicagoan because I've never read this. It sounds like an important book, even if the subject matter is difficult. It sounds like something that might be best read in a group or with another person, actually, because otherwise I may be tempted to set it down.ReplyDelete
I read about this one last month in a cultural history of the Great Depression, and it sounded like a book I absolutely needed to read even though it would probably drive me crazy.ReplyDelete
Your review totally confirmed that, and while I'm jealous you had a r/l book club to talk about it with, I'll just e-mail you and Amanda once I've read it. ;)
Maire -- I am a bad former Chicagoan (10 years) because I dislike the works of Saul Bellow. But I agree that the book group kept me reading it. Otherwise I probably would have put it off forever. I still haven't gotten through The Jungle, one of our selections fromlast year.ReplyDelete
Eva -- please email me or comment when you have finished. I would love to hear your perspective when you've read it.
ugh. sounds like a horrible book that I should read some time. Although I don't think I'm looking forward to it, I do think it's one I should read...ReplyDelete
I respect your strength in finishing this one! I tried many years ago to read Native Son and it made me, literally, physically ill from the horrifying claustrophobia of it all and I just couldn't manage it. I respect your toughness - props!ReplyDelete
Have you read American Tragedy? I find Bigger and the main character in Dreiser's book similar.ReplyDelete
I just did a quick google on Native Son and I learned Dreiser and Wright both wrote naturalistic fiction. Makes sense why I connect the stories. Drieser was not required reading. Don't know how I picked him up.
Native Son is one of those books where I find criticism is very useful.
In many high schools, including mine, Native Son or Black Boy was required.
Books like NS was one of my earliest lessons that literature is sometimes meant to provoke, disturb and challenge us.
I wish I could have heard the comments during your discussion.
Thanks for the review.
Rebecca & Colleen -- yeah, this was tough. I am glad I've read it, but every time I think about it I feel the overwhelming urge for a shower. It's not just because Bigger was so horrible, but also because of the shocking racism of the time -- Wright created fictional newspaper headlines and articles about the crime that were strongly inspired by an actual case. Pretty disgusting.ReplyDelete
Susan - I did read an American Tragedy, last summer, and I found it tragically long -- it started out great and then dragged on forever. I did think about it when I was reading Native Son -- and I meant to bring it up at book group but we had so much to talk about I forgot.
And I'm sure Native Son has been banned or challenged as high school reading -- it's pretty intense. Wish I'd read it in college, though.
Native Son was a hard book -- as was and Studs Lonigan), the other two monuments to American naturalism. Heavy sledding. But, like you said, important.ReplyDelete
I found your blog when looking for bloggers reading the books on the Modern Library list. This list inspired me to start my Rose City Reader blog, so I like finding book bloggers with similar interests.
Good luck with the list! There are 121 books on it, by the way, if you count all the trilogies, quartets, and the 12-volume Dance to the Music of Time, which you should -- it was my favorite.
If you would like me to link to your ML progress report on my main Modern Library post, please leave a comment with the link and I will add it to the list.


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New Jordans 2018, Micheal Jordan's favorite silhouette, the Air Jordan 1, continues to expand its lineup with an all-new Air Jordan 1 6 Rings colorway. One major difference is the use of materials used to construct the shoe. Although leather takes care of the White and Black portion of the shoe, a microsuede is used for the Red overlays noted on both the heel on Nike Swoosh. The shoe also comes with a Black tongue, Nike Air on the tongue and Black Wings branding on the ankle collar. The left insole comes with a graphic that displays a set of Air Jordan playing cards said to represent MJ's competitiveness while playing cards with his teammates, while the right insole comes with a set of cards with the number "6" and trophy logos as a nod to Jordan's "6 Rings" earned. A White midsole and Red outsole complete the design of the shoe.
New Jordans 2016, The Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 6 Rings comes dressed in a very similar color scheme and color blocking as the OG Black Toe. Dressed in the classic Chicago Bulls color scheme. This Air Jordan 1 features a White and Black leather upper with Red suede overlays. Nike Air tongue tags and the classic Wings logo gives the shoe its original style. Additional details is found on the insoles which displays a set of Air Jordan playing cars to represent MJ's competitiveness while playing cards with his teammates. Found on the right insole is a set of cards with the number "6" and trophy logos as a nod to his Airness' "6 Rings" earned.
Inspired by MJ's six ring achievement, New Air Jordan Shoes will be releasing an Air Jordan 1 dubbed "6 Rings" for the new year. The Air Jordan 1 is done up in a Chicago Bulls theme of red, black and white with suede panels making up the entire silhouette. The insoles feature card graphics that represent MJ's competitiveness as well as the number 6. Similar to a black toe, The Air Jordan 1 features a red swoosh on the side panels that connects to the heel. Looking closer they feature a White and Black combination using leather while Red suede wraps the overlays. Following we have Nike Air on the tongue and Wings branding on the collar. On the right insole we have a set of cards with the number "6" and a trophy paying tribute to MJ's 6 Rings earned.


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Bzzy aka Bizzy Crook is one of the few rappers to dedicate music to the victims of the travesties happening in Aleppo, Syria right now. The South Florida recently released "Letters From Syria" to address the mass murders of those innocent people. First released on TIDAL, track begins with a young girl singing in Arabic before an explosion sets Bzzy's rhymes off.
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He's great with kids
There are tons of photos of President Obama with children who have been lucky enough to visit the White House. He's not afraid to get down on their level and wrinkle his suit rolling around on the floor with them. He even let a young African-American boy touch his hair to make sure that it felt the same as his, and the image of their encounter is striking.


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Bayern beats CSKA 3-1 in Champions League
MOSCOW (AP) — Defending champion Bayern Munich beat CSKA Moscow 3-1 on Wednesday, setting a new Champions League record of 10 straight victories.
Bayern, which had already qualified for the knockout stages from Group D, took the lead through Arjen Robben in the 17th minute. Mario Goetze made it 2-0 with a solo effort early in the second half.
Keisuke Honda scored a penalty for CSKA in the 62nd, but Thomas Mueller converted one for the visitors just three minutes later to restore the German side's two-goal advantage.
CSKA, which couldn't qualify for the knockout stages, opened strongly on a frozen pitch under a heavy snowfall at the Arena Khimki in Moscow's suburbs.
Kirill Nababkin met Honda's corner kick and the ball fell for Zoran Tosic. But his low shot in the box was deflected away by Dante in the sixth minute. Four minutes later, keeper Manuel Neuer blocked Pontus Wernbloom's header from another Honda corner.
However, Bayern gradually seized the initiative and Mueller broke down the left flank to send in a cross for Robben who gave Igor Akinfeev no chance, hitting the back of the net with a left-foot shot from seven meters on the visitors' first scoring opportunity.
Honda created a chance for an equalizer one minute into first-time injury time, putting Ahmed Musa through on goal, only for Neuer to smother the Nigerian striker's poke.
The Japanese midfielder had two clear chances to equalize early in the second half but failed to beat Neuer in a one-on-one after latching on to Akinfeev's long kick and then missed again a minute later with the goal wide open following a cross from the right.
Goetze added Bayern's second after he rounded four CSKA players and curled the ball into the far corner of the net in the 65th minute.
CSKA, which 3-0 lost in Munich, finally scored but from the spot after a handball by Dante.
But there was soon a spot-kick at the other end after defender Georgy Schennikov fouled Robben in the box and Mueller beat Akinfeev with a low shot into the left corner.
The home side created several more chances but had no luck, with Tosic hitting the crossbar in the 78th.
"We had several clear scoring opportunities in the second half," CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky said. "But it was all about capitalizing. Unfortunately we failed to convert them. I'm really pleased with the way we played in the second half."
Bayern coach Pep Guardiola focused more on the conditions.
"It was a difficult game on a tough pitch and under a heavy snowfall," he said.
Bayern had equalled Barcelona's 2002-03 record of nine wins in a row three weeks ago
Bayern leads Group D with 15 points. CSKA has three points for third, six points behind second place Manchester City which has also reached the last 16 and was playing Viktoria Plzen later.
Bayern will next face Manchester City on Dec. 10, while CSKA will be on the road to Plzen to play for a spot in the Europa League.


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Untangling matted hair requires patience, several combs of varying tooth widths, conditioner, detangler and an anti-frizz serum. A small pair of scissors also helps to cut out the most matted areas.
Spray and pat the conditioner or detangler into a small section of the hair. It is important not to rub the hair as that increases the chance of further matting.
Apply the serum to the problem hair is the next, and follow with a gentle combing. Start with the widest toothed comb and slowly work from the ends to scalp in sections less than 1 inch. Continue this process, gradually switching from the wide-tooth comb to medium width and, finally, a two-ended styling comb. A vertical snip helps release problem knots.


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Jon Granik (1926 - 2003) was a Canadian actor who appeared in Jim Henson's TV drama The Cube (billed as Jon Granic). He played the dual roles of the brutish sergeant and the white-faced straight man, paired with Guy Sanvido.
Granik was a veteran of CBC Radio, performing on the air waves for over 35 years. As a voice actor, he narrated documentaries, played the title role in the 1995 classical music audio release Mr. Bach Comes to Call, and was a frequent bit player on the radio horror series Nightfall (1980-1983). In films, he played a villainous Indian in the 1966 melodrama The Trap (with Rita Tushingham) and a colonel in Power Play (1978, with Peter O'Toole). On CBC television, he hosted the judicial anthology The Verdict.


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10 Best Selling Maybelline Baby Lips Lip Balms – (Updated 2019)
Lip balms moisturize lips and protect them from chapping. Lip balms also work great as a primer. Nowadays, even tinted lip balms are available and you don't need to top them with lipstick. There is a rather temptingly large range of maybelline lip balm that comes is some very attractive fragrances, flavours and packaging too!
Top 10 Maybelline Lip Balms
Here are the Top 10 Maybelline Baby Lips Color Lip Balms.
1. Maybelline Baby Lips Coral Flush:
Everyone is going coral these days and when you're getting a coral tint along with a lip balm, how can you resist? This lip balm moisturizes your lips for 4-5 hours. Isn't that awesome? The formula is not sticky and the lip balm has SPF 16. The cute packaging is like icing on the cake.
2. Maybelline Baby Lips Lip Balm–Pink Lolita:
The name Pink Lolita is funny – somehow the name reminds us of Shakti Kapoor. As the name suggests, it is a light pink shade. Though it's not very pigmented, you can build the color with 2-3 swipes. It keeps your lips moisturized and that packaging is very girlish. At such affordable price what more can you ask for?
[ Read: Get Rid of Dark Lips Naturally ]
3. Maybelline Baby Lips Mango Pie:
This lip balm is colorless with a mango fragrance. The texture is so smooth that it glides like butter on lips. Even after 5-6 swipes, you won't feel you have applied something on your lips, it's very lightweight. It has SPF 20 and there is no white tint on lips unlike other lip balms. You can use it underneath lipsticks also.
[ Read: Best Maybelline Products in India ]
4. Maybelline Baby Lips Cherry Me:
This is a much pigmented lip balm and it will work great for people with pigmented lips. It has a red tint that you can build on. The formula is non-sticky and your lips will feel light even after multiple swipes. The packaging again is very cute and it has a mild fragrance which is not overpowering. It keeps lips moisturized for 5 hours.
5. Maybelline Color Bloom Lip Balm – Pink blossom:
A pretty pink lip balm for 'pink lovers'. They look sheer but there are pigmented though not much. You can get 'cherry pink' color with multiple swipes. It does not settle in fine lines even when applied multiple times. It protects lips from chapping, has SPF 16 and the moisturizing effect stays for 3 hours. The texture is very smooth and non sticky.
6. Maybelline Baby Lips Berry Crush:
It is a tinted lip balm with berry tint. It's lightweight and smooth in texture. It also has SPF 16 but no whitish tint (yippie!). The packaging is travel friendly and thus you can reapply it again and again. It prevents lips from chapping and keeps them moisturized.
[ Read: Top Maybelline Lipstick Shades ]
7. Maybelline Baby Lips Soothing Cherry Lip:
This lip is for sheer lovers as it is colorless. The texture is very smooth which glides easily on the lips and it does not have oily or greasy feeling at all. It is super moisturizing and also protects lips from chapping. The fragrance is similar to cherries but it's very mild. The packaging is hygienic and very cute.
8. Maybelline Baby Lips Berry Blast:
This is the only lip balm which is highly pigmented (obviously you can't compare it with lipsticks). If you're looking for a lip balm which can hide your pigmentation, then you'll definitely love it. The application is very smooth without any stickiness. It keeps your lips moisturized for 3 hours which is good enough (what more can you expect at this price?).
9. Maybelline Lip Smooth Color Bloom- Mandarin:
Mandarin has a nice orange tint which is almost sheer. You can build the color according to your preference. Doesn't matter how many times you swipe it, you'll never feel waxy or greasy. It moisturizes lips well and can also be used under orange lipsticks.
[ Read: Best Tinted Lip Balm ]
10. Maybelline Baby Lips Pink Punch:
"A girl can never have enough of pink lipsticks" this is the new slogan. Pink punch is a perfect 'Barbie pink' shade with a lovely fragrance. It protects lips from drying and chapping. The smell is similar to strawberries and not overpowering. It keeps lips moisturized for 4-5 hours.
For more details, read the review of Maybelline Baby Lips Lip Balm.
So not only are they popular for good care but the maybelline lip balm shades are also creating an uproar now. Who ever would have thought that a day will come when the lip balm will also turn into a tint and colour!
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Happy first birthday, sweetheart!!! I can't believe it has been a year already. We celebrated your birthday with our close family members last week and initially, you were so shocked and scared by the sudden number of people entering our house that you started to cry. But after 30 minutes or so, you started to calm down and felt more at ease. We had seafood dinner and unfortunately, you couldn't eat any of it because you're still too young for that. As usual, you had your plate of porridge and ate it all heartily.
These past 365 days has been a complete joy with you. After 10 months and 3 weeks, you started walking. At 11 months, you could even play "catching" with your elder brother! It's so funny and silly to see the both of you screaming and trying to catch each other. You'll always scream and try your best to "run" (walk as fast as you can with your arms flailing up and down) while your brother pretends to catch you from the back. Whenever you hear the phrase "Nathan.... I'm going to catch you!!", your eyes will immediately light up and you'll walk away excitedly as fast as you can. It's really adorable and amusing at the same time.
You have brought so much joy and laughter in our lives, and your brother loves to play with you every single day. You'll shriek in joy whenever you see your brother return home after school and both of you will start to play/disturb each other. Once, your brother was quietly playing with his toy soldiers and out of nowhere, you starting walking towards him, picked up one of his toy soldiers and started chewing on it. Haha! Shayne was horrified and he kept telling you to spit it out from your mouth but you wouldn't listen to him (ok, it was more like you didn't understand him...). Needless to say, Shayne was furious and you were so confused that you started crying, with the toy soldier still in your mouth. Haha. (don't worry, the toy soldier was too big to be swallowed and yes, we took it out from your mouth and you cried even louder when we did that.)
You still love to eat all types of food but surprisingly, you don't like cake! We tried to feed you some of your birthday cake but you refused to taste it at all. So I guess cakes are not really your thing, or maybe you'll only eat them when you're older. ;)
You love to read books and sometimes, we'll catch you quietly reading a book all by yourself in the room. You love to flip the pages and stare at the big words and pictures. Whenever we read to you, you'll quietly listen to us and sometimes look at us with your big brown eyes. It's really the cutest thing ever.
So here's wishing you a very HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, NATHAN! This is just the beginning of many wonderful exciting years to come! I love you so much, and you're forever my sweet cheerful little boy.
Your one and only,
Mummy :)


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I'm getting Punkbuster kicked out of the game by random game integrity violations. I'm trying to identify a solution, until then I figure what's wrong I can't recommend following this how-to.
If you're reading this and manage to fix the problem, please let me know in the comments.
Update 04/06/2012:
Installed ET on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 both the manual way and using the get-deb package and the result is the same: random PB kick on servers running Punkbuster.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free multiplayer FPS that takes place in the World World II pitting two teams (Allies and Axis) against each other for victory.
In this post I'll detail the steps required to install and update Enemy Territory on 64-bit CentOS, namely:
1) Download the necessary files
2) Install i686 libraries
3) Install and update Enemy Territory
4) Install updated Punkbuster files
5) Generate an etkey
6) Fix sound problem
7) Setup widescreen resolution
8) Bonus section: troubleshooting
It should be noted that the steps were performed on CentOS 6.2 x86_64 thus should translate to RHEL and Scientific Linux..
1) Download Enemy Territory 2.60 and 2.60b updateDownload et-linux-2.60.x86.run, et-2.60b.zip update, updated Punkbuster and the et-sdl-sound.gz sound fix:
$ wget -c http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/hosted/et/official/et-linux-2.60.x86.run
$ wget -c ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/et/ET-2.60b.zip
$ wget -c http://etkey.org/et_linux.zip
$ wget -c http://nullkey.kapsi.fi/~stuff/et-sdl-sound/et-sdl-sound.gz
2) Install i686 librariesEnemy Territory is a 32-bit application as such for a 64-bit CentOS a few i686 libraries are needed:
# yum install glibc.i686 libX11.i686 libXext.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686
Enemy Territory requires 3D acceleration which commonly implies NVIDIA or AMD/ATI graphic cards and associated proprietary drivers.
User of NVIDIA cards are required to install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit which provides the compatibility 32-bit files for the 64-bit proprietary NVIDIA driver:
# yum install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit
I'd assume that users of AMD/ATI graphics card need to install fglrx-x11-drv-32bit which provides similar files for the proprietary AMD driver, however I don't have an AMD/ATI card to verify.
3) Install and update Enemy TerritoryChange to root, attribute execute permissions to the installer, install Enemy Territory 2.60, install the 2.60b update, create a profile and check the game's version:
$ su
# chmod +x et-linux-2.60.x86.run
Press OK in the popup. Agree with the License Agreement by pressing ENTER at the License Agreement prompt and choosing YES on "Do you agree with the license?" popup that follows. Choose NO at the "Would you like to read the CHANGES file?" popup. You can always read the CHANGES file latter on if you want. Choose the installation path and press OK in the Symlink Path popup. Install both Enemy Territory and Punkbuster. Choose to install the startup menu entries. After this the game installs. Don't choose to start the game immediately as we haven't finished installing everything.
Install the 2.60b update:
# unzip et-2.60b.zip
# cp Enemy\ Territory\ 2.60b/linux/* /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/
# exit
Now start the game, create a player profile identifying profile name, connection speed and clicking on Enable Punkbuster; exit the game. By doing so a .etwolf directory will be created in your home directory which includes a folder containing PunkBuster.
Inside the game you can check the installed version by pulling the console down by pressing ~ and typing version. It should output the following:
"version" is:"ET 2.60b linux-i386 May 8 2006" default:"ET 2.60b linux-i386 May 8 2006"
4) Install updated Punkbuster filesRemove old Punkbuster files, extract the last Punkbuster update and place it in the created profile:
$ rm -rf ~/.etwolf/etmain/pb
$ unzip et_linux.zip -d pb
$ cp -R pb ~./etwolf/etmain/
5) Generate an etkeyPoint to http://etkey.org/pages/etkey-home.php, press the Get an ETKEY button, download the file and store it under ~./etwolf/etmain/.
6) Fix sound problemThe most dreadful any Linux Enemy Territory player can witness:
Luckily we can use the SDL backend which Enemy Territory will use as audio device replacing /dev/dsp and OSS.
------- sound initialization -------
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
Could not open /dev/dsp
Install SDL, extract the et-sdl-sound script, make it executable and accessible to all and edit the et launcher to have Enemy Territory use SDL instead of OSS:
# yum install SDL.i686
# gzip -d et-sdl-sound.gz
# chmod a+x et-sdl-sound
# chown root:root et-sdl-sound
# mv et-sdl-sound /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/
# vim /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/et
# Needed to make symlinks/shortcuts work.
# the binaries must run with correct working directory
cd "/usr/local/games/enemy-territory/"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
./et-sdl-sound "$@"
The et-sdl-sound script needs to be edit so that PulseAudio is used has the SDL audio driver.
# vim /
7) Setup widescreen resolutionIf you have a widescreen monitor follow the instructions on my previous blog post HowTo: Widescreen resolutions on Enemy Territory.
And we're done installing Enemy Territory!
Lately I've been playing at [fp].:Demolition_Centre as tangram"FreeBSD~ or tangram"GNU/Linux~. See you on the battlefield :D
8) Bonus section: troubleshootingError:
/lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
# yum install glibc.i686
./et.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# yum install libX11.i686
./et.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# yum install libXext.i686
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
...loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
----- CL_Shutdown -----
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
# yum install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit
# yum install fglrx-x11-drv-32bit