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Impressive Pair of Napoleon III Bronze Candelabra by Victor Paillard
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EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF VICTOR PAILLARD NAPOLEON III BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, Circa Third Quarter of 19th Century, Stamped "ÂÂV.P."ÂÂ under crown verso, Electrified
Item # 601CDU26S
An important and prolific artist, Victor Paillard learned the art of the chiseleur working for the bronzier Deniere as a youth. He opened his studio casting works in bronze in the 1830"ÂÂs, first appearing at the Exposition des Products de l"ÂÂIndustrie in 1839. He was a member of the jury at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 and was made a Chevalier of the Legion d"ÂÂHoneur. During this period he was known to employ nearly one hundred craftsmen. In 1874 he became mayor of Paris"ÂÂs third district. His work is generally noted with the stamped V.P. beneath a crown, as evident on the back of both putto in the present example. A most impressive and finely crafted pair of candelabra, the chiseling is absolutely top notch, both putto being dominated by a level of crisp and precise detail that is most inspiring. Every detail is perfectly defined, from the individual hairs on the heads of the youth to the wrinkles in their toes. The original patina is gorgeous, deep and glowing, preserved under wax and in exceptional condition. The five light candelabra retain a matte gilding of a wonderful even consistency - the influence of the motifs prevalent in the Napoleon III period are evident in the gothic taste of the branches. Curling acanthus with perfectly chased leaves furl along each of the arms, raising etched anthemion wells around a primary stem. This is embellished by three flame finials and the candle well is capped by an original gilded finial that is lifted out to allow a candle to rest within. The center stem has been electrified most carefully, a rod run through the center of the sculpture with a single tiny hole drilled at the base behind the putto. The entire structure rests over a stepped circular black marble base with a gilt bronze rim around the lowest edge. Exceptional in every sense, this is a magnificent investment grade selection for any very serious collector and connoisseur of the finest in French sculpture and decorative arts.
E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Grund, Vol. X p. 787;
Bronze Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, Dictionary of Artists, Pierre Kjellberg, p. 662
Measurements: 31 3/4"ÂÂ H (approx) x 11"ÂÂ D x 13"ÂÂ W
Condition Report: Topmost finial electrified, cords cut; brass plinth added beneath topmost candle well during wiring process. Three branches with some wiggle. Light tarnishing to gilding, most minor wear to original patina. Small chips around corners and edges of marble bases. Overall exceptional presentation ready condition. We have 114 images of this pair of candelabra available upon request.
Condition Report: Due to image limitations clients should visit our gallery website (www.sillafineantiques.com) prior to purchase to review all item images. Verbal condition reports are also available by calling (717) 658-8274 Monday through Friday 9a-5:30p or by emailing email@example.com
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Palm Inc: The Comeback Kid Of 2012
Palm Inc., The Comeback Kid Of 2012
Palm made an enormous comeback in the mobile device market starting around 2012. Fueled by their breakthrough in existing voice and sensor technology, Palm elevated the application of these technologies to a true semantic level. Palm's breakthrough technologies were patented under the names KeenVoice™ and WiseSensor™ accordingly. Palm's technical leap gave rise to an entirely new "next gen" of Smartphones commercially called Mobile Life Mates (MLMs.)
The Smartphone officially died somewhere around late 2012.
Palm's flagship Mobile Life Mate was called the Palm Tapestry™. Wildly successful, it surpassed even you-know-who in sales and brand power. The Tapestry name was in honor of the Palm software engineer responsible for the voice and sensor technology breakthroughs … her grandmother happened to be a huge fan of the Carol King Tapestry album.
Palm's KeenVoice technology enabled a very easy, natural and flawless voice login by the Tapestry's owner while keeping an "old school" login around – for old time's sake. The beauty of Palm's Semantic Voice technology was in how naturally human it seemed, while offering a quantum leap in ease-of-use and security.
Palm's roll-of-the-dice partnership with a US materials/design manufacturer for the Tapestry's unique and sleek skin casing paid off as well. The Palm Tapestry's skin is able to absorb and display photographically things (like a chameleon absorbing its surroundings) of personal liking to the Tapestry's owner. Women would coordinate their Palm Tapestry to a wardrobe item they were wearing, or match it to their baby's face. Teenage guys would cast their girlfriends, grandparents loved casting their grandkids on the skin canvas, and guys would do camouflage, tattoos, you name it - as for teenage girls, and what they'd display, well, the sky's the limit as they say. Palm Tapestry owners couldn't get enough of this feature (which became affably refered to as "casting") because it was so much fun, and, of course, very personal.
Palm Tapestry owners would experiment with all kinds of crazy imagery and some really over-the-top stuff (if you know what I mean) on the skin. Palm realized that those are the punches you sometimes have to roll with when you have a hyper-popular-state-of-the-art consumer technology working for you.
A few times a year Palm's Website would have a contest called "Show us your Tapestry" where Tapestry owners would pick winners amongst themselves for some slick prizes from Palm for the best and most creative skin canvas. A huge hit with Social Media, these contests were a natural for "going viral" because of their uniqueness and popularity.
The dynamism of Palm's skin feature seemed to bring an inanimate object to life. It unleashed the personal creativity in just about every Tapestry owner, adding its own unique touch to Palm's successful comeback.
Not to rest on their laurels, Palm was "seeding" the Internet and the Social channels about their soon-to-be-released Tapestry Studios Website - made just for all those Palm skin artist aficionadas.
Palm was not about to confine their technical leaps to the new MLM market which they created. After all, Palm's ingenuity revolutionized the handheld computing market in the 90's.
Early in 2013 they looked at other industries and markets, both horizontal and vertical, where their KeenVoice and WiseSensor technologies could be applied.
Palm's discussion with Ford Motor Company near the end of 2013 previewed how their WiseSensor technology could alert a mechanic in the service area when a tool is inadvertently left under the hood, a mechanic could be alerted when the radiator cap isn't on tight enough, or if he forgot to put the cap back on, the same with lug nuts and any part of a car that needs disassembled and reassembled for service.
Ford's VP in charge of global product development issued a memo in early 2014 to all C-level personal, including Ford's CEO, highlighting the potential of Palm's WiseSensor technology for the betterment of Ford's Quality Control and Assurance Program. He said: "Integrating Palm's WiseSensor technology into Ford's Quality Control Program would mitigate inventory loss, save time, improve Ford customers after service safety and reduce lawsuits. In summary, Palm's WiseSensor technology would help cut down on human error to a relevant extent."
Ford saw Palm's WiseSensor technology fitting well with their DNA, and would serve to fortify Ford's already strong "brand position" in the delivery of the highest quality products and services while incorporating a distinct competitive advantage.
All in all, capitalizing on their technical advantage, Palm passionately believed their Tapestry was much more than an "accessory," but a true mate – there, just for you, helping you weave the "tapestry" of your life. Palm's brand messaging centered on this philosophy, and successfully so.
Palm's successful reemergence and growth in the marketplace didn't go unappreciated with their people at the top. In the spirit of "giving back" Palm's relentless work to use its technology to improve the lives of the physically impaired and handicapped was considered to be a "sacred cow" at the highest levels of management, which they refused to taint by profit.
Fast Company, Inc, Business Week, Wired, and all the major US business publications loved letting the world know that Palm was the "Comeback Kid," thanks to good old Yankee Ingenuity. The biggest accolade though came from Time Magazine, who christened the Palm Tapestry as their "Mate of the Year."
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Right now, some of the best and most experienced fund managers in the UK have completely different views on the stock market. As the saying goes, "That's what makes a market." Last week, I covered Neil Woodford, Invesco Perpetual's equity income manager, who has positioned his portfolios defensively because he believes the economic backdrop is extremely poor.
This week, I shall discuss Richard Buxton's Schroder UK Alpha Plus Fund. While he also believes things are poor in economic terms right now, he feels that by the summer, some evidence of an improvement should start surfacing. Thus his portfolio is somewhat differently positioned.
The Schroder UK Alpha Plus Fund was launched in July 2002, and its record since its launch ranks it 11th out of 216 funds in its sector, although recent performance has certainly been disappointing. However, this fund is always likely to be volatile over short periods; it is highly focused, with between 20 and 40 stocks (mostly larger companies) and fairly high turnover. It is, in other words, the antithesis of a tracker fund.
Much of the fund's recent poor performance can be attributed to an 8 per cent position in domestic banks, although because their share prices have fallen so far, this now amounts to about 4 per cent. Now, I know that politicians love to blame the crash in bank shares on shorting by hedge funds, but by and large this hasn't been true. In fact, the biggest sellers of the shares have been traditional institu
tional managers who have simply lost all faith in the banks. They would prefer to sell rather than have to explain to their trustees and investors why they are still holding a bank that may shortly be nationalised.
Despite these concerns, Mr Buxton believes there is every chance for the banks to rise dramatically. This was illustrated this week by the huge rise in Barclays shares, although by the time you read this, who knows what else has happened? We really are in extraordinary times when a blue-chip stock such as Barclays can rise by 73 per cent in one day. It is a huge headache for fund managers, who can be a hero to their investors one day and a villain the next.
Apart from banks, Mr Buxton has also been hurt by not investing in pharmaceuticals. His large holdings include the likes of BG Group, Shell, Shire, Charter and Dana Petroleum. He also favours Invensys, a company which he believes illustrates how much the market is taking the problems in the economy into account. It has a market capitalisation of £1bn and is valued on a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.5 times, which makes it appear cheap considering that it has £300m of cash on its balance sheet. The problem, of course, is that every time we believe all the bad news is already in the price, more bad news appears and the market falls even further!
Perhaps we are in a slightly different environment in that the market, instead of trying to discount the future, has given up and is merely responding to good or bad news. However, what Invensys tells us is that, at the present time, there is very little differential between stocks with large amounts of cash on their balance sheet and those without. All seem to have been hit indiscriminately. Clearly, at some stage this will change and stronger stocks should be re-rated.
I believe that, in the short term, defensive stocks (such as those in Neil Woodford's portfolio) are definitely the place to be. However, on a longer-term view there could be some great value in more cyclical areas. It seems like a risky call to make at the moment, but if you've got a fairly positive outlook and want a foot in the potential recovery camp, then Schroder UK Alpha Plus is a fund to consider.
Mark Dampier is the head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown, the asset manager, financial adviser and stockbroker. For more information about the funds included in this column, visit www.h-l.co.uk/independent
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Hi im 21 years old and 4th pregnancy. My first ended with a miscarriage at 12 week, 2nd was a sucessful pregnancy delivering at 37 weeks due to preeclampsia, another miscarriage 4 months ago due to a low progestrone level. I am 6 weeks 1 day pregnant now. Started spotting last night, automatically thought oh no not again. Was seen at the er they checked my cervix it isn't bleeding and the spotting has stopped. My hcg is 66216 which they said was really good. My progestrone hasn't been checked yet. I then followed up with the doctors office today they did an ultrasound and said that the amnio sac is abnormal. it isn't round like it should be, and that puts me at a high risk of having another miscarriage. The doctor also said it was caused from a placenta bleed. Has anyone heard of this, and if so did it end in a misscarriage. I go wednesday to have my hcg checked again, and to the doctors office on monday for another ultrasound. Oh in the ultrasound they did find the yolk sac and fetal pole and did get a heartbeat of 132 beats per minute. Should I worry?
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Welcome to the forum. I am really glad to help you out. On your next visit, you should ask your radiologist to look for the subchorionic hematoma. A subchorionic hematoma is just like a mini placental abruption. The 2 important factors which determine the outcome in such a scenario is the size of the clot and secondly the distance from the placenta.
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I've just found out that there's a remake of V being made starring the, uh, "companion" from Firefly and the bitch from Lost. I loved the original series that had Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) in it and I can't wait to see what this new one will be like. It'll be nice to have Elizabeth Mitchell playing a character I'll actually like. (I loathe Juliet.) Morena Baccarin looks gorgeous as always. Here's a YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZLiNa4KzsY
I hope it features visitors that sympathize with the humans the Fifth Column and break the cliche of aliens=bad. A plot point I always wanted to see fleshed out in V is the alien race that the visitors are at war with and need to convert humans into troops to fight them.
That sounds a lot like Earth: Final Conflict. The Taelons (referred to as the Companions) were at war with the Jaridians and needed to convert Humans into troops to fight them. In V, the Visitors just needed food and water because their planet was dying.
I suspect there will be a "Willie" or "Martin" character who is at least partly responsible for forming a resistance movement while keeping his alien identity a secret.
As someone who watched V in its original run I can only guess that you are very unfamiliar with what this story is about. I mean seriously, did you even look up anything about the original miniseries before you posted? They wanted us for food...and all of our water! I call that a well-rounded meal.
As I recall when Donovan first sees the humans in suspended animation he is told that many of them are to be used as troops in the Visitors war with another alien species. This leads to a sub plot where the Resistance try to signal the other race for help (this was never followed up on). Those humans not suitable for use as troops would be food.
^That's right -- in the original miniseries, the Visitors were at war with another race, and the climax of the miniseries was the humans sending a signal to that other race and hoping they would prove to be allies. It's a thread that was completely dropped in the sequel miniseries and weekly series, which were made without the involvement of V creator Kenneth Johnson. I believe Johnson revived the concept in his recent sequel novel, which ignores everything after the initial miniseries. But we definitely did see alien Fifth Columnists in V, characters such as Martin and Willy who resisted their leaders' policies and worked to defend the humans. Heck, it was V that introduced me to the term "Fifth Column" in the first place. And I'd be happy if the remake ditched the whole "We need your water" thing, though I don't think they are. It's very, very scientifically ignorant. There are thousands and thousands of times more water (in the form of ice) to be found in the moons and comets of the outer Solar System than you'd ever find on Earth, and it's much easier to obtain because you don't have to fight the gravity of the Earth and the Sun to get it out of the system. Heck, you could find huge amounts of water ice around practically any star in the galaxy. So there's just no reason why an inhabited planet would be the only place the Visitors could go to find water. If anything, that's the last place they should look for water, because the water on an inhabited planet is going to be far from sterile.
Yes, but the inhabited planet has a native labor force -- not to mention technology -- which can be exploited to help gather and process the water at a fraction of the cost of building a whole operation and importing the labor into a hostile planetary/cometary environment -- or trying to extract sparsely distributed water vapor in the harsh vacuum of deep space. Plus, it's difficult to find good hors d'oeuvres on moons, comets or in orbits around stars. As for the show itself, the previews are mixed. The "announcement" from the bottom of the spaceships looks terribly ridiculous. But some of the other sequences, the interview for example, are intriguing.
Who said anything about "sparsely distributed water vapor?" There are vast amounts of H2O quite nicely concentrated in the form of ice. The amount of ice available on the asteroid Ceres alone is greater than the total amount of fresh water on the entire Earth. Most of Saturn's moons consist primarily of ice. Don't think in terms of vapor or even liquid. In the outer Solar System, water is a mineral. It's a rock you can mine, and it's just about the most abundant kind of "rock" available beyond the Main Asteroid Belt. And the environment of an outer moon or asteroid is probably a lot less hostile than an inhabited planet surface -- no harsh weather, no dangerous animals, little solar radiation hazard, and again, much less gravity to fight. There's also the matter of distance. It would take far less energy and effort for the Visitors to mine the outer moons and comets of their own star system -- which, again, should provide thousands of times as much water as a single inhabited planet would ever need -- than it would take to travel across light-years to another star system. There's no sensible reason why any species would ever need to leave its own system for a resource as basic as water, because water ice is going to be one of the most abundant geological constituents of any planetary system in the galaxy. And even if, for some reason, their water demands were so great that they needed more than one star system could provide, there are still at least five star systems closer to the Visitors' home system of Sirius than Sol is. Although of course Sirius is only 300 million years old and couldn't possibly support advanced life anyway, unless they weren't native to that system and their world is terraformed to begin with. In which case their technology would be so advanced that they wouldn't need anything as primitive and inefficient as human labor to help them acquire water.
I've seen the first mini the Final Battle and some of the god awful TV show. If I've never seen the mini there is no way I could have mentioned The Fifth Column. I am concerned tptb would change that to make things more black and white. In the first mini the Visitors wanted us for shock troops in addition to food and water but it was dropped after the first mini. The very end scene was the resistance sending a signal out into deep space so the other aliens could receive it and come to their aid. I want to see it fleshed out evidenced by the fact a lot of people have forgotten it.
My mistake. You said "you could find huge amounts of water ice around practically any star in the galaxy" after commenting on comets, moons, etc. and I took that to mean you were commenting on a more nebulous kind of phenomenon. Here I have to disagree. Harsh weather and hostile environments on Earth as compared to the moons and comets of space? I don't see too much clamor for beachfront property on, say, Europa. Besides, why build an entire mining operation from scratch (or several of them) on the frozen surface of a comet or moon when you could make use of tech and labor from an already-inhabited world (one which has a relatively mild and hospitable environment) with a decent industrial infrastructure, but is technologically inferior? Particularly when that labor force is renewable and can be used as both food and fodder for future imperialistic operations? If you were to siphon water on Earth, and didn't want to do all the labor yourself, and wanted to use your operation as a base of operations for an imperialistic agenda, where would would you go? To exploit an industrial center or to Antarctica? Sure, there are other options for water, but even so, do they have a ready supply of food? Labor? Industry? The point is, while I agree there could be better options for the Visitors if all they wanted was just water, it isn't "scientifically ignorant" to suggest that they might come here for their water, food and imperialistic needs -- all of which are stated in the original V mini-series and in KJ's sequel book. Besides, isn't science fiction inherently about what is possible, more than it is about what is probable? And, in truth, while it's highly improbable that an alien force will arrive a week from next Tuesday to subjugate the planet, take the water and use us for food, it is possible.
How anyone can call loyal, steadfast, brave Juliet a "bitch" is beyond me but maybe you'll fare better with her character in V (who I have a hunch will be fairly Juliet-like; that's probably part of the reason why they cast her in the role.) Most bitches I know would react, uh, with a bit less maturity to Sawyer's googly-eyes problem vis a vis Kate. Juliet's a rock; she's a female version of Sam Anders, doesn't matter how they get kicked around romantically, they always behave in a classy manner that is beyond the capacity of 90% of the population.
Reread the sentence you just quoted. You'll see it includes the word "ice." Ice is not vapor. We're talking about the needs of an interstellar mining expedition, not a travel agency. Any civilization capable of traveling to the stars would have long since mastered the mechanics of operating in deep space. The problems involved in mining asteroids and comets are trivial compared to those involved in travelling across interstellar distances. Any civilization so primitive that it couldn't handle a little vacuum would not be travelling here from another star system in the first place. For that matter, any civilization that advanced would probably use mostly robotic mining equipment anyway, so life support isn't even an issue. Because it's about a kajillion times easier to any civilization of the technological level we're talking about. Because the amount of water available on Earth's surface is a fraction of a percent of what you could get from the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt, and it's vastly more energy-intensive to lug it up out of the Earth's gravity well and then the Sun's gravity well. Earth is the largest solid body in the entire Solar System. Our gravity is comparatively intense. From the perspective of a space-based operation, that makes Earth one of the least desirable planets to extract materials from. It's just not worth it for such a comparatively tiny quantity of water. You're evidently not aware of just how easy it is to move things around in space when you don't have to worry about fighting Earth's gravity. It's said that if you can get into low orbit from the Earth's surface, that puts you halfway to anywhere, because it takes as much energy just to travel that few hundred kilometers out of our intense gravity than it does to travel on a freefall trajectory just about anywhere else in the system. And again, it would be immensely easier for the Visitors just to go to their own cometary belt or Oort Cloud. I find it thoroughly absurd that a civilization could've so thoroughly exhausted its own star system's water reserves that it would need to travel nine light-years to find more. Water is simply not scarce in the galaxy. That's a fantasy. And how could they possibly run out of water? It's not like water ceases to exist once it's been used. If it's polluted, it can be cleaned. If it's converted into other substances, it can be converted back. Yes, we have water shortages on Earth, but that's not because the water ceases to exist; it's because it's expensive and difficult to clean it, desalinate it, or move it to where it's needed. But the difficulty of doing those things is about a million times less than the difficulty of travelling across interstellar space. If I were a member of a civilization advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances, I'd either use robots or I'd use a replicator-type technology to extract hydrogen and oxygen from materials around me and create water. You're assuming modern-day technological limitations that are fundamentally incompatible with the premise of interstellar travel. Not to mention that your analogy is illegitimate, because we're talking about a situation where you'd have literally millions of "Antarcticas" that were hundreds of thousands of times closer than the nearest "industrial center." In that context, the "Antarcticas" are immensely more convenient and practical to exploit. Again, you're assuming a limited technology that's incompatible with an interstellar civilization. Anyone that advanced should be able to synthesize food or water and use robotic labor, and they'd have to have an incredibly robust and efficient industry that would easily outperform our entire planet's industrial output by a factor of thousands. Sorry, you're wrong. The water thing is just monumentally stupid on every level. As for food, it's unlikely that the life forms of one planet could gain nourishment from those of another planet; at best it would be like junk food, not very nutritious and toxic in excess. The only way in which interstellar conquest makes any sense is if it's motivated purely by imperialism. There's just no material gain that can't be met within your own star system if your technology is advanced enough to synthesize needed substances from raw elements -- and that's a given if you're capable of interstellar flight. Science fiction is not a license for sloppiness and stupidity. Would you apply that argument to another genre? Sure, maybe it's possible that, say, some of the absurdly convoluted romantic entanglements and inane plot twists on TV soap operas could happen, but just because they're not impossible doesn't mean they aren't worthy of criticism for being unbelievable and unintelligent. As a career SF author myself, I am deeply offended by the pervasive attitude in our society that SF isn't worth holding to the same standards of quality as any other genre, or that it's not "supposed" to make sense or be treated with care and intelligence. SF authors have as much obligation as authors in any other genre to make their work believable and grounded in good research. If you were writing a romantic comedy in Paris, you wouldn't say the Eiffel Tower was 50 miles tall, painted neon orange, and located atop Mt. Everest. You'd put enough basic care into it to make it reasonably consistent with reality. The same should go for science fiction as for any other genre. And saying that SF is somehow exempt from basic standards of competence and believability is an insult to the entire genre.
And apologies if Christopher's already made this point or something like it and I've missed it, but even five mile-wide ships, even an armada of 50-odd of them, has a fairly minimal carrying volume compared with the open water on Earth. It'd take a lot more than the generation Martin mentions to cart it all to Sirius by mothership, even assuming they've got FTL drives (which doesn't seem to be the case in the mini-series, but must be the case later on).
^Right. Far less energy-intensive just to go to their own asteroid belt and use solar sails or ion thrusters to redirect the courses of a few dozen large ice-bearing asteroids or protocomets to fall inward, then park them in orbit around their home planet. It'd take a few years, but it'd be comparatively easy for any spacefaring power to achieve.
Like I said, my mistake. You wrote "water ice" and I misread it. Mea culpa. The horse is dead already. No need to keep beating it. You know all of this for a fact? From which examples of civilizations with interstellar flight are you basing these conclusions? My point is that while you clearly have spent a lot of time researching this, and while you have a great resource of current scientific fact and theory, many of these ideas are conjecture. You're making inferences -- well-informed inferences, but inferences nonetheless. I actually agree that your conjecture is a heckuva lot more scientifically plausible than what we see in V. I'm not disputing that now, nor was I before. But that doesn't mean the motivations for the Visitors are entirely without merit, as you seem to suggest. And, actually, that doesn't mean that a story is better served by always presenting the most scientifically accepted conjecture as a plot device. Honestly, I think you're missing the forest for the trees, mate. There's nothing wrong with holding stories to high standards, and I commend you for trying to do so. Maybe you really do see the motivations of the Visitors as equating to describing the Eiffel Tower orange, but I don't. Quite frankly, considering your stated vocation as a "career SF writer" your dismissive attitude regarding this is rather startling. Are you then as dismissive of Asimov's Foundation? Of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles? Of Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey? Of Star Trek? Of any science fiction in which the science isn't presented in a matter which would endure rigorous challenges from the scientific method? Science fiction is at its best, at least in my opinion, when it is about the people, the characters, involved in the story -- when it is about the humanity of the story -- not when it is purely a description of scientific theory and conjecture. As a point of fact, the original V was about humanity's reactions to oppression. It opened with "To the heroism of the Resistance Fighters — past, present, and future — this work is respectfully dedicated" and then proceeded to explore that very human drama, using space aliens as a plot device. The rationale was plausible enough for the story -- meaning that, even if it's highly unlikely, it could happen -- which was the point. I can't say I've read any of your work but, as a career SF writer, I do hope you're spending as much time and effort on the human equation as you do on scientific research. If you do, then I may check out some of your work.
You don't really have to look at interstellar civilizations to make that extrapolation, you can look at our own. We "synthesize needed substances from raw elements". But what you seem to be focusing on is not the important part of his statement. There are so many resources available in a typical Sol-type system it's mind-boggling... enough minerals and water to supply hundreds of billions of people. If you have the need to expand beyond your own planet for minerals and water, and you have the technology to send a fleet of ships across light years and to other star systems to get them, you'd have the technology to do the same thing at home. Even if they had to come to our system to access such resources, it certainly wouldn't be worth the hassle to bother us here in the inner solar system when all the good stuff (that would be most energy efficient to remove from the solar system) is from the orbits of the asteroid belt to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. Unless they were building an enclosed Dyson Sphere 10 miles thick and had to support a population in the trillions, the resources available in their home system should suffice quite nicely for a very long time.
Oh, I agree you can easily make that extrapolation. My point, however, is that it *is* an extrapolation, not a "given." It's in the nature of science fiction to extrapolate. And while some extrapolations are going to be more scientifically sound than others, that doesn't mean that stories which incorporate less plausible ideas ought to be dismissed out of hand. So while it is more likely that an advanced civilization would stop elsewhere for water, even raw materials, it's not impossible that a civilization that needed not just water, but food, and an inhabited, industrialized planet as a base of operations for an imperialistic agenda (all of which were stated reasons for the arrival of the Visitors in the original miniseries) would choose Earth as a place of conquest. To be dismissive of the story on that basis alone seems, to me, an overly stringent standard for science fiction stories.
What a bizarre question. I'm talking about differences in energy usage, travel time and distance, and the like that are matters of fundamental physical law. Just because nobody's ever jumped off the cliff at the edge of Olympus Mons on Mars doesn't mean it's impossible to predict quite accurately what would happen to someone who did. If you think you have to witness something directly to have any information about it, then you don't even understand what science is. No, they're not. That word does not mean what you think it means. It is not "conjecture" that our planetary system contains huge amounts of ice; we can see it directly. It is not "conjecture" that Sirius's own planetary and cometary bodies would be far, far closer to an inhabited planet of Sirius than Earth would be; that's just plain obvious. It is not "conjecture" that it takes energy to thrust against a gravity well; hell, you should know that to be an indisputable fact if you've ever so much as gotten winded going up a flight of stairs. There are a lot of things that apply to this discussion that we know for an absolute, indisputable fact, and it's those known facts that demonstrate the absurdity of the premise here. You're twisting it. I'm not making some blanket statement about SF in general. I said simply that the idea of aliens needing to take our water is scientifically absurd. You claimed it wasn't, and I rebutted that mistaken impression. And it's got nothing to do with being "dismissive." I like Kenneth Johnson's V. I think it's a good story, a good allegory for the Holocaust. I'm just annoyed by the water thing and wish they'd come up with something more credible. If a writer were doing that love story set in Paris, he or she would probably do enough research to get the geography, language, and culture of Paris close enough to reality to be believable. That doesn't mean the story would be about the geography, language, and culture of Paris. It just means the writer would be professional enough to do the research, even if it only contributes to subtle background texture. Because even if most readers won't notice that background texture, some of them will, and they'll be pleased by a story that gets it right and bothered by a story that gets it wrong. So your interpretation of my comments is completely absurd and wrong. Whether the research is done right has nothing whatsoever to do with whether the focus of the story is on the material being researched. For your information, I care just as much about "the human equation" as I do about the science. But I reject the school of thought that the setting and universe of the story don't have to make sense so long as the characters are well-drawn. That's just as lazy as getting the science right but writing shallow characters. The setting affects your characters and their actions, so if you want to draw the characters richly and believably, you can't neglect their context. You're just not getting it. You're saying "If A were the case, then B could be the case." But the point is that A could never credibly be the case to begin with. No interstellar civilization is ever going to have water-scarcity issues, period. I mean, as I said, water scarcity doesn't arise because water ceases to exist, but because our ability to deliver and recycle it is finite. But if you have interstellar starships capable of supporting thousands of crewmembers, then you must have licked any and all water-recycling issues already, because those ships need effective water recycling far more than a planet surface ever would. The basic premise is just fundamentally self-contradictory. Water scarcity is a trope from stories set in Earth's past and present. Some writers assume they can transplant such tropes whole to a science-fiction setting, but this is one trope that simply does not make sense in that setting. You're also misunderstanding the question. The question is not whether aliens might choose Earth as a world to be conquered. Of course they could, for reasons of political or cultural imperialism or colonization, for instance. Maybe, possibly, you could justify food being a factor, say, if they had a need for live prey and our biology were reasonably compatible. But water would never be a reason for interstellar conquest. Water is just too damn commonplace in the galaxy for anyone to need to come to Earth specifically in order to obtain it. It's as nonsensical as Voyager running out of deuterium in "Demon."


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A long-simmering conflict between two of Russia's wiliest oligarchs came to a head yesterday when Viktor Vekselberg walked away from his role as chairman of Rusal, the world's largest aluminium company.
He said the company, controlled by Oleg Deripaska, is in crisis. Mr Vekselberg's departure is the latest development in a complex chain of oligarchic rivalries and personality clashes in the Russian metals sector that show no sign of abating.
"I regret to say at this time that Rusal is in a deep crisis, caused by the actions of the management," said Mr Vekselberg in a statement in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The billionaire, who is said by Forbes magazine to be Russia's eighth-richest man with a fortune of $12.4bn (£7.88bn), owns a 15.8 per cent stake in Rusal along with his investment partners.
Rusal responded yesterday that Mr Vekselberg was simply jumping before he was pushed, after the board had got irritated by the oligarch's non-attendance at meetings over the past year.
"In this respect, the decision of Mr Vekselberg to resign as chairman of the board pre-empted the anticipated consideration of this matter by the board," said Rusal.
One of the main bones of contention between the two men has been Rusal's quarter-share of Norilsk Nickel, another metals giant.
Mr Deripaska bought a 25 per cent stake in the company through Rusal four years ago, as part of a long-term strategy to create a mega metals company by merging the two. Then the financial crisis hit, making the loan-financed purchase appear foolhardy, and Mr Deripaska was only bailed out by huge state loans.
Since then, Mr Deripaska has refused to consider selling Rusal's stake in Norilsk back to the company, despite an offer from Norilsk and calls from Mr Vekselberg to do so.
Rusal has not paid out dividends as it seeks to reduce its £7.2bn debt, and its shares have lost 43 per cent of their value since its initial public offering in Hong Kong in January 2010.
Selling the Norilsk stake would flood the company with cash, something that Mr Vekselberg has been keen to see happen.
"Deripaska is a strategic investor whereas Vekselberg is a financial investor," said Robert Mantse, metals and mining analyst at Otkritie, a Moscow-based brokerage. "There has been a number of disagreements between them, but the two main ones are over the stake in Norilsk and the dividend policy. As a financial investor, Vekselberg is looking to monetise his ownership."
Ultimately, many of the disputes come down to personality clashes among men who often have egos to match their wallets.
Aside from Mr Deripaska's dispute with Mr Vekselberg, he also does not see eye to eye with Vladimir Potanin, whose Interros company controls Norilsk Nickel. In turn, Mr Potanin had a long and acrimonious falling out with his long-standing partner in Norilsk, Mikhail Prokhorov, with the two men now operating separately, and Mr Prokhorov picking up a 17 per cent stake in Rusal.
Mr Prokhorov, who has a playboy reputation and also owns a US basketball team, stood for the Russian presidency against Vladimir Putin in elections earlier this month, winning around 8 per cent of the vote. Many speculated that his candidacy was aimed at sponging support away from the street protests that have grown up in Moscow recently and diverting them towards a "reliable" opposition candidate.
After the election, Mr Putin said he may well consider giving Mr Prokhorov a role in government.
Mr Vekselberg has also been busy with a government-assigned role in recent years, after being appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev to head the Skolkovo project, which is meant to emulate California's Silicon Valley in Russia, and wean the country off dependence on exporting natural resources.
But while the lives of Russia's richest men are often influenced by behind-the-scenes squabbles or orders from the Kremlin, analysts said this latest dispute was unlikely to involve the hand of the Russian government.
"I don't see any government involvement here at all. This is a dispute between two core shareholders," said Mr Mantse.
Despite emerging a winner from the ruthless "aluminium wars" of the 1990s and at one stage the richest man in Russia, Mr Deripaska has had a rough ride of things in recent years, especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
In 2009, he was on the receiving end of a public dressing down from prime minister Mr Putin, as he was summoned to a meeting in the town of Pikalyovo and forced to sign a contract to ensure that an idling factory in the town renewed operations. Mr Putin likened the oligarchs to "cockroaches" and threw a pen down for the meek Mr Deripaska to sign the paper.
Analysts have also forecast possible tough times for metals and mining companies when Mr Putin returns to the Kremlin in May. The Russian leader's election programme featured a number of generous social spending promises that may be difficult to fund without increasing taxes. With plans to cut levies in part of the oil sector, this leaves metals as a vulnerable area.
Yesterday's news may not have too much effect on Rusal in the short term, as the differences between the two men have long been public knowledge. Shares fell 1.3 per cent yesterday before trading was suspended.
In the longer term, however, Mr Deripaska still has a number of challenges to face, including a battle in the London courts with Israel-based businessman Mikhail Cherney.
Mr Cherney claims that he was a shareholder in Rusal, and is demanding the equivalent of one-fifth of the company in compensation.
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Thanks ! We've started needing a map indeed :)
But why are youy skipping some of the version : e.g. there's the twitter version, the google version, the facebook versionYeah, ICP, MRR, BKA etc all are 6.0 features that are ported to 5.6. And group commit and some other patches are incorporated into Percona Server from MariaDB.
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We've had some snow here at Our Little Acre already this season, even though winter doesn't technically arrive until Wednesday morning. It hasn't been anything that we needed to shovel by any means, but it's only a matter of time before we get a snowfall that requires a method of removal.
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Although he previously refused to dish on his sexuality, Sean Hayes has finally come out as gay after learning that his partner was diagnosed with stage four cancer.
"Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes was driven to finally open up about his homosexuality in early March after his longterm boyfriend suffered a cancer scare, according to reports. The actor has long refused to comment publicly about his sexual orientation, despite playing flamboyant gay character Jack McFarlane on the hit U.S. sitcom.
But he confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in show business in an interview in the March edition of The Advocate magazine, in which he revealed he was gay. He said, "I am who I am. I was never in (the closet), as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody... I spend time with a special someone in my life. That's it. That's all I need. I don't need events. I don't do a lot. I live my life like an 85-year-old man. I'm just quiet. It's fantastic."
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Costume analysis
I have to confess to being a bigger fan of the TV series and the more eccentric Carrie outfits from it. The movie costumes are too polished and contrived. Does this reflect the lifestyle development of Carrie's story? Remember how her style changed when she met the Russian! Oh well I will no doubt bustle along to the cinema to watch it ....
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I started watching SATC in the late 90s and always loved the outfits. One of the most exciting things ever was walking down 5th Ave in Noo Yawk in 2003 and seeing an episode being shot with Sam and Carrie. I agree that the movie outfits are more polished. I loved seeing Pat Field being interviewed in the early noughties saying she was sick of people asking how C could afford the outfits on her salary she said "I don't know-a designer gave them to her?" Looking forward to the movie. xx
ReplyDeleteI don't really see much point in going to see the film seeing as we already know everything Carrie wears and where we can buy an exact copy. I hated all the product placement in the first film and this time there are all these naff SATC lines which just give me a headache. I love SJP but I really think she let this go too far....
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Possibly the most common complaint we receive in the Crime Prevention Unit pertains to the recurrence of crime on or near rental properties, and how that crime affects the quality of life of those residents in the surrounding area. Obviously, not all-or even most-rental properties are "bad" properties renting to "bad" people, and not all are run by unconcerned landlords. But Evansville contains nearly 22,000 occupied rental units. It's easy to see how even a small percentage of these properties that are run recklessly, or without adequate supervision, can wreak havoc on the Evansville community as a whole.
In an effort to combat the problems that arise from distressed rental properties, the Evansville Police Department is sponsoring a creative, successful program developed in Mesa, AZ back in the early 1990's. This program, Crime Free Multi-Housing©, is currently used in approximately 2,000 cities worldwide, in more than a dozen countries. It's a new way for EPD, local landlords, and tenants to work together to combat the issues of crime and nuisance behavior at duplexes, apartment communities, and other rental properties. It addresses these issues through better tenant screening, attempting to ease eviction processes, better sharing of information between communities and EPD, education on criminal behavior and its infectious nature, and involving the community residents and landlords together by assigning them both responsibility and accountability, without decreasing their voice in how their community is run.
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The Crime Free Multi-Housing© program, when applied correctly and with cooperation between law enforcement, property managers/owners, and property residents, can result in a significant drop in calls for service, not only for those properties, but for surrounding areas as well.
We thank you for your interest, and look forward to working successfully towards our common goal of a better Evansville.
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This Institutional Research Training Grant provides postdoctoral research training opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing research careers in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. Conducting meaningful translational science requires a new level of interdisciplinary teamwork among clinicians, basic scientists, and educators. To foster this effort, in 2004 the M.I.N.D. Institute began an NIH-supported postdoctoral training program to prepare future autism scientists. The primary goal has been to develop a new generation of scientists who can freely converse with each other at levels from basic science to clinical practice. This proposal will support seven postdoctoral positions, offering each trainee two years of training that will foster their disciplinary and interdisciplinary research development focused on autism through a combination of individual training plan design, didactic training, primary and secondary mentorship, and participation in disciplinary and interdisciplinary research activities with mentoring faculty members. | Project Status NEW 2009 |
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Fiscal Year Funding | $342,831.00 |
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Principal Investigator | Rogers, Sally |
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Strategic Plan Question | Question 7: What Other Infrastructure and Surveillance Needs Must Be Met? (Infrastructure) |
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Federal or Private? | Federal |
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State/Country | California |
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History/Related Projects | Interdisciplinary training for autism researchers |
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