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Highly important 19th-century Italian micromosaic is centerpiece of Myers Auction Gallery's Jan. 30 European & Asian sale
January 18th, 2011 by adminArtwork attributed to Vatican artist Roccheggiani remained in Tampa home for 90 years
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A remarkable Italian micromosaic artwork depicting the Roman Forum and attributed to Vatican artist Cesare Roccheggiani has emerged from a Florida residence after nearly 90 years of unobtrusive display and will be auctioned on Jan. 30, 2011. The important estate discovery will be offered at Myers Auction Gallery in St. Petersburg as the star attraction in a 500-lot sale of fine European and Asian antiques.
Measuring 59 inches wide by 32 inches long and weighing over 100 lbs., the circa-1870s panoramic depiction of Rome was composed from hundreds of thousands of minute pieces of non-reflective glass. It is believed to be the work of master mosaicist Cesare Roccheggiani, who was active at the Vatican workshops from 1856 to 1864.
"While unsigned, we believe it is almost certainly the work of Roccheggiani," said Michael Myers, founder and co-owner of Myers Auction Gallery. "An 1879 micromosaic nearly identical in size and subject matter, artist-signed by Rocchegiani, was auctioned in December at Christie's London gallery for more than half a million dollars."
Quite likely, the glass mosaic to be auctioned by Myers was a commissioned work created for a wealthy nobleman or aristocrat visiting Italy during a Grand Tour of Europe. "Many Italian artists capitalized on the opportunity to sell mosaic jewelry and miniatures to the influx of well-heeled visitors of that period, but few possessed Roccheggiani's ability to produce a monumental micromosaic of such superior quality," Myers said.
"It's so luminous, it almost looks like a photograph. It even fooled a visitor who walked into our gallery and thought they were looking at a picture on a flat-screen TV," added Mary Dowd, Michael's wife and business partner.
Since the 1920s, the artwork attributed to Roccheggiani had rested above a mantel in the residence of a prominent Tampa businessman. When the home was sold in the 1980s, the buyer was given the option of purchasing some of the existing furnishings. The micromosaic was among the pieces selected. Now, through descent, the estate artwork is headed to auction with a conservative $100,000-$200,000 estimate.
Among the paintings on the auction roster are a Jean Ferdinand Monchablon (French, 1855-1904) oil-on-canvas wildflower landscape estimated at $8,000-$12,000; and a pre-1920 Edouard Leon Cortes (French, 1882-1969) gouache on board street scene of Paris in wintertime, from the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Douglas Moore (1893-1969). Its estimate is $8,000-$10,000. The fine art section also includes a pair of handsome equine paintings by British artist Harry Hall (1814-1882), each estimated at $1,500-$2,500.
Approximately 30 lots of Asian and European carved ivory works are scheduled to sell. Within the grouping are fans, figures and four extremely desirable 19th-century miniature portraits, each depicting a member of Russia's Romanov family.
A selection of period European bronzes is led by two Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1875) sculptures, including the 22-inch-high Allegory of Friendship, $4,000-$6,000; and Jean Baptiste Carpeaux's (French, 1827-1875) Winkle Gather, 28 3/8 inches high and estimated at $4,000-$6,000. The category also features a 31-inch bronze rooster by Jules Moigniez (French, 1835-1894), $2,000-$3,000; and a collection of 19th-century Austrian cold-painted bronzes of Arabs, animals and other figures.
An extensive array of excellent-quality 18th- and 19th-century European sterling silver will be offered, with highlights including a 1797 George III sterling tea caddy by Daniel Pontifax, London; an 1819 Rebecca Emes, London, sterling decanter set; and a variety of ornate hollowware and flatware by various Continental makers. Four hallmarked sterling serving platters by Jean Emile Puiforcat (French, 1897-1945) will cross the auction block, as well. Three will be auctioned as one lot with an estimate of $3,000-$5,000; while a fourth platter will stand on its own with an estimate of $1,500-$2,000.
A featured attraction in the sale is the selection of antique Japanese cloisonné by master makers, a category that Mary Dowd said "has really been bringing premium prices lately." A Namikawa Sosuke (1847-1910) artist-signed tray to be auctioned is similar to one that sold for $33,000 in 2008. Other Japanese highlights include samurai swords, sterling silver, scrolls, and silk embroidered with monkey and tiger motifs.
Other Asian antiques include an exquisitely carved rosewood Chinese throne chair with possibly original silk damask upholstery; Chinese carved stands, and an altar table. A beautiful assortment of Asian porcelain reveals designs by Imari, Satsuma, Canton and Rose Medallion. Estimated at $3,000-$5,000, a pair of 19th-century Chinese blue and white double-gourd vases stands 29 inches tall.
European ceramics by Meissen, Royal Vienna, KPM, Sevres, Dresden and Delft will go under the hammer. Several sets of ornate service plates are included in the grouping, as is a George Jones majolica doves centerpiece, estimated at $1,000-$2,000.
A top lot within the selection of 19th- and early 20th-century gold gemstone jewelry is a circa-1825 bracelet by Austrian Crown Jeweler Piote et Kochert. The enameled 18K gold bracelet is set with stones and bears an Islamic inscription. Estimate: $4,000-$6,000.
The auction offering is completed with a lineup of fine 18th/19th-century European clocks and more than 25 fresh to the market 19th- and early 20th-century Oriental rugs, all from estates. Among them are Tabriz, Kashan and room-size Chinese and Persian carpets. A noteworthy addition to this portion of the sale is an early Kai-tag Daghestan Persian textile.
Myers Auction Gallery conducts only two sales per year. "We're very particular about what we sell," Mary Dowd explained. "We would rather take our time and present only top-quality estate material. It takes a commitment to do this properly, but it's the reason we have such a faithful following of buyers."
All forms of bidding will be available for the Sunday, Jan. 30 auction, including live in the gallery, absentee, phone and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.com. For additional information, call 727-823-3248 or 727-823-3249, or email email@example.com. Visit Myers online at www.myersfineart.com.


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Pressure for an early increase in interest rates intensified last week with the publication of new figures showing that economic growth was much stronger in the first three months of the year than had been forecast.
The impact of a further rise will be felt more than the last one in February, because at that time the mortgage lenders did not pass on the rate increase to borrowers.
However, the Council of Mortgage Lenders warns that this in itself will make it more difficult to hold the line again.
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Vol.33 No.3 August 1999
Large Networks Present Visualization ChallengesBill Hibbard
Large networks pose an increasingly important visualization problem. So for the first guest column during my tenure as VisFiles columnist, I asked Stephen North to contribute an article about the great work at AT&T Labs - Research. Bill Hibbard
James Abello
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Figure 3: A graph surface. |
What is a Hierarchical Graph Surface?The main idea is to view a weighted multi-digraph as a discretization of a two dimensional surface in 3-space. Under this view and for a fixed ordering of the vertex set, the corresponding rectangular domain is triangulated and each point is lifted to its correct height. This provides a piecewise linear continuous function forming a polyhedral terrain. The terrain is used as an approximation to a surface representing a multi-digraph. An example is shown in Figure 3. In order to handle very large graphs, a hierarchy of surfaces is constructed. Each of them represents a multi-digraph obtained from an equivalence relation defined on the edge set of the input graph. Operations are provided that allow the user to navigate the surfaces. Construction of a Hierarchical Graph SurfaceTo simplify the exposition, we concentrate on multi-digraphs. (The adaptation to weighted multi-digraphs is straightforward.) A multi-digraph is a triplet G = (V, E, m), where V = V(G) is the set of vertices, E = E(G) is the set of edges, and m is a function from E to the non-negative integers giving the edge multiplicity. For a rooted tree T, we let height (T) be the maximum distance from a vertex to the root of T and let T(i) be the set of vertices of T at distance i from the root of T. Given a multi-digraph G = (V, E, m) and a rooted tree T such that the set of leaves of T equals V(G), the i-slice of G is the multi-digraph with vertex set T(i) and with a multi-edge (p,q) defined to represent the collection of edges in G running from the sub-tree rooted at p to the sub-tree rooted at q. The multiplicity of the edge (p,q) is the sum of the multiplicities of the edges (x,y) that it represents. Similar to the approach of Duncan et al [3], we construct the hierarchical view of G given by T, H(G,T) as T plus the collection of i-slices. The novelty now is that each slice is represented as a surface and T is used as a road map to move from surface to surface. We describe next the main navigation operations. | ||||||
Figure 4: Graph surface navigation. |
Navigating the Surface HierarchyGiven a multi-edge e = (u,v, m(u,v)) in the i-slice of G, the operation ZoomIn(e) deletes e from H(G,T), returns the set of edges in the (i+1)-slice that are represented by e, displays the corresponding surface and registers in a navigation log file information about this operation This operation is exhibited in Figure 4. The operation ZoomOut takes as input a subgraph of the (i+1)-slice that is registered in the navigation log file, deletes the corresponding surface and inserts back the corresponding representative edge e. Handling the I/O and Screen Bottlenecks When G is an external memory graph residing on disk there are three cases to consider:
In the first case, the edges of G are read in blocks and each one is filtered up, through the levels of T, until it lands in its final slice. This can be achieved with one pass over the data. The second and third case are handled by setting up a multilevel external memory index to represent T. Filtering the edges now requires several passes over the data. The I/O performance depends strictly on the I/O efficiency of the access structure. The visualization of a data set that is several orders of magnitude more than the available screen resolution calls for some form of hierarchical graph decomposition. Graph surfaces by definition provide a geometric view of a very large graph in a manner that is amenable to hierarchical browsing via the ZoomIn and ZoomOut operations. This makes it feasible to explore deeper hierarchy elements at a finer level of detail. Also, a graph surface provides both a uniform global and local view. ImplementationThe graphical engine generates polyhedral terrains that correspond to individual edges in H(G,T). Initially, a suitable slice in H(G,T) is chosen as the root of the visual hierarchy, depending on the available screen resolution. The polyhedral terrains are generated with a triangulation algorithm and are displayed using several visual cues and dynamically generated labels. The graphical engine is implemented in C++ and uses the OpenGL standard library for the rendering portion. Currently, a mouse/keyboard interface is used. The use of joysticks and gestures to navigate the environment is currently under consideration. ApplicationsCurrently, graph surfaces are being used experimentally for the analysis of several large multi-digraphs arising from the AT&T network. These graphs are collected incrementally. For example, in the call-detail multi-graph, vertices correspond to phone numbers and edges represent a call from one number to another. The graph grows by daily increments of about 300 million edges, defined on a vertex set on the order of 300 million vertices. The aim is to process and visualize this type of multi-digraph at a rate of at least a million edges per second. Internet data is another prime example of a hierarchically labeled multi-digraph that fits quite naturally the graph surfaces metaphor. Each i-slice represents traffic among the aggregate elements that lie at the ith level of the hierarchy. The navigation operations can be enhanced to perform a variety of statistical computations in an incremental manner. These in turn can be used to animate the traffic behavior through time. When the vertices of the multi-digraph have an underlying geographical location, they can be mapped into a linear order using, for example, Peano-Hilbert curves, in order to maintain some degree of geographical proximity. In this way, the constructed surface maintains a certain degree of correlation with the underlying geography. References
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Dinner knifes MaFe style
Long waiting project finally done.
This is our new dinner knifes, an old wish of making a bunch of dinner knifes with same blades but different styles, shapes, but all handles of wood with contrasting woods in so none will be the same.
Because I think it will be fun to have a choice, because I have made many knifes but never the basic dinner knifes, but most of all because I think it will be wonderful as a guest to be able to choose of perhaps as a family member to have a favorite knife.
So yes for pleasure, for making the dinner even more interesting.
Here they are close up.
1. The knifes.
2. Different woods cut up for the project.
3. A cut made and contrasting woods matched.
4. First shaping.
5. Final shaping.
6. Oil and finish.
We have used them for a couple of weeks now and really enjoy them, at first I was a bit nervous if they were too sharp, but it seems fine.
It is a joy and I have found my favorite…
What knife is your favorite?
Hope it can be to some inspiration, at least to my guests,
Best thoughts,
-- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.
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#1 posted 12-08-2011 10:12 PM |
As usual, very nice work Mads. :=) Pension settled = eat more steak (and what nice knives to cut it with) ;=) -- If you're going to stir the pot, think BIG spoon or SMALL boat paddle. David Grimes, Georgia |
#2 posted 12-08-2011 10:13 PM |
Great work as always. -- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois |
#3 posted 12-08-2011 10:26 PM |
I love it … I really like the idea of them being different. -- Paul , Calfornia |
#4 posted 12-08-2011 10:57 PM |
when i look at those beautiful big knives….....boy howdy do i want a big thick steak….and i know by the way you sharpen those knives, they will cut like butter…....very nice handles…....i might do some like those along the way…and show you my knife…with a nice huge steak…...grizz -- GRIZZMAN ...['''''] |
#5 posted 12-08-2011 11:01 PM |
Very very nice. What a load of fun. Good on you. Now I am hungry, -- -- I'm no rocket surgeon |
#6 posted 12-08-2011 11:05 PM |
Very nice project. I was digging through my tool box and found several used blades from my jointer. I was thinking they would make nice knives. Now you've inspired me to put that on my list of things to do. Another use for all of the cut offs in the scrap box. Thanks for the post. |
#7 posted 12-08-2011 11:07 PM |
Contrasting for sure! :) -- Thomas - Pondering the inclusion of woodworking into physics and chemistry classes... |
#8 posted 12-08-2011 11:31 PM |
Pretty cool knives Mads1 -- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch |
#9 posted 12-09-2011 01:17 AM |
Great job, brother, as usual! I hope your guesses will not fight to have a particular knive for dinner! Your benchtop already spread the news about the fact you're using oil to finish most of your projects! :-) Best, Serge http://atelierdubricoleur.wordpress.com -- Learn from yesterday, work today and enjoy success tomorrow. -- http://atelierdubricoleur.wordpress.com |
#10 posted 12-09-2011 02:36 AM |
Hi MADS Kiefer |
#11 posted 12-09-2011 02:38 AM |
:-) thank´s for sharing Mads … looking good … and with the trend of having those candy plasticcontainers are great ain´t they … take care |
#12 posted 12-09-2011 02:46 AM |
My favorite is the second from the right in the first picture. Nice job on them. -- Hand Crafted by Brett Peterson John 3:16 http://www.TheCrookedNail.blogspot.com |
#13 posted 12-09-2011 02:48 AM |
A well thought project, as usual. |
#14 posted 12-09-2011 02:51 AM |
Very nice knives. I wish I could make those cool knives like that! Where do you get the blades? How are the handles fastened to the steel? Nice going, my friend!! -- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!! |
#15 posted 12-09-2011 03:05 AM |
Nice job Mads. You're right – everybody will develop a preference for their own favourite. I like the look of the curves of the one fourth from the left, with the one on the right close behind. More importantly though, have you found a favourite yet? -- I may have lost my marbles, but I still have my love of woodworking |
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Arjun Vajpai was in the "death zone".
It's here, in the wastelands of rock and ice above 8,000m in the world's highest mountains, that the human body stops adapting to the extremely low levels of atmospheric pressure and available oxygen, and begins, quickly and inevitably, the process of dying.
Vajpai was a little over 500m from the summit of Lhotse, at 8,516m the world's fourth highest mountain, dragging himself up a vertical gully. With each step, he kicked the tip of his crampons (metal claws attached to boots) into the ice, and with increasing fatigue, drove his ice axe into the snow. His heels hung in thin air, his body weight entirely on his toes and his ice axe. Below him stretched a horrific 2km drop—"You don't want to look," Vajpai says. "I looked down once, and went no, no, no, no." So Vajpai looked up, like he had done every day for more than a month now—up at the windswept, desolate summit, sucked on his oxygen tube, and climbed on.
After three-and-a-half hours, he was standing on the summit of Lhotse, the youngest climber ever to do so. It was 20 May 2011. From the top, a mesmeric view: some of the world's highest peaks, all framed under an improbably blue sky, in a 360-degree sweep (there are only 14 peaks in the world, including Lhotse, that rise above 8,000m).
"There was Makalu behind me, Manaslu further behind," Vajpai says. "Everest on one side and Cho Oyu on the other, K2 up ahead…and that's when it occurred to me—I have to climb them all!"
Vajpai is 18, with a mop of tousled hair, an easy smile and the hint of a swagger. In 2010, he became the youngest Indian to summit Everest which, at 8,848m, is the world's highest mountain. In 2011, just four months after summiting Lhotse, he climbed Manaslu, 8,156m, becoming the youngest person in the world to climb three peaks over 8,000m. Vajpai is moving mountains to become the first Indian to climb all 14 "8,000ers", as they are popularly known. Only 27 climbers have done it. As you read this article, Vajpai is attempting something only a handful of climbers have ever tried: climbing two 8,000ers, Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Shishapangma (8,027m) in Tibet, back to back.
Beyond the gloss of Vajpai's remarkable personal achievements, there is the hope of a deeper impact—of bringing mountaineering into the mainstream in India, something that generations of gifted climbers before him have failed to do. Companies want to sponsor his climbs, he is becoming a regular speaker at business and media conclaves, and his climbs are being widely covered by newspapers and television channels. Today, the general public can name five Indian mountaineers with as much ease as it can name five modern poets.
Climber Arjun Vajpai. Priyanka Parashar/Mint
Where are the climbers?
Despite India being home to hundreds of Himalayan peaks, no Indian features on any list of great climbing feats. Mountaineering in India remains a fledgling affair, marked by the lack of pioneering ascents, and the pervasive belief that Indians are just not cut out for such a high-risk endeavour. But guts and grit are not in short supply here.
Take Basanta Singha Roy, 50, for example. Lean, intense and sporting a carefully groomed salt-and-pepper beard, the climber from West Bengal has been tackling some of the toughest technical climbs in India for over two decades. Roy, who works for Punjab National Bank, his climbing partner Debasish Biswas, 41, who works for the income-tax department, and sherpas Pasang Phutar and Pemba Chuti form the most formidable climbing team in India right now. Though they have climbed two 8,000ers, Everest in 2010 and Kanchenjunga (8,586m) in 2011, their most significant achievement to date has been the successful ascent of Thalay Sagar, a 6,904m peak near Gangotri in Uttarakhand.
"I had been eyeing Thalay Sagar since 1999," Roy says. "That year we were climbing Bhrigupanth, which is right next to Thalay, when we saw a Russian team on a vertical bivouac (a makeshift sleeping/resting arrangement on a rock face) high up the mountain. I looked up at them and thought, 'We Indians can't do this, this is not for us.'"
But the thought rankled. It was exactly what Roy was used to hearing from both climbers and non-climbers in India. In 2005, he found the courage to climb Thalay while negotiating a deadly 200ft-long ice wall prone to avalanches, on his way to becoming the first Indian civilian climber to summit Shivling (6,543m). From the top of the mountain, Thalay looked enticingly close. "Can we do that?" Roy asked Pasang. "Yes," he replied. "People thought I was too ambitious," Roy says. "They would say, 'Of course, they will go to Thalay, but let's see how many of them come back.'"
Thalay Sagar, which rises like an icy, jagged knife near Gaumukh, was first climbed as late as 1979 by an American team. Since then, the peak has continued to be a proving ground for elite climbers, and till 2007, had seen 75 foreign expeditions, only 15 of which were successful. No Indian team had attempted the mountain before Roy's 2008 expedition. Outside the Mountaineers' Association of Krishnanagar (MAK), the club that backs Roy's climbs, the successful summiting didn't create any ripples. "It's partly our own fault," Roy says. "We are incapable of promoting ourselves properly. If a foreign expedition climbs Thalay, there will be a flood of articles, books and documentaries."
The Garhwal Himalayas. Courtesy Indian Mountaineering Foundation
The army's playground
In 2002, Chhering Norbu Bodh, 42, a subedar major in the Indian Army, became the first Indian to summit Annapurna I. In 2003, he was the first Indian to climb Lhotse. He followed this in 2009 by summiting Dhaulagiri (8,167m), his sixth 8,000er. He had earlier climbed Everest, Kanchenjunga and Cho Oyu.
"When I first saw the list of people who have climbed 8,000ers, and there were no Indians in it, I was disheartened," Vajpai says. "Later, I found out that someone called Bodh has done six of them, and I said, 'Who's this man?'"
Bodh is an instructor at the army's High Altitude Warfare School in Srinagar. When he was conscripted in 1988, he had no idea that he would spend more time with crampons and ice axes than with guns and combat boots. He comes from a village called Chobran, with a population of around 30 (and not a single phone), high in the mountainous Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh and—like many local people living in India's mountains—he is a natural on the slopes.
Like Vajpai, Bodh too wants to be the first Indian to summit all the 8,000ers.
"I can't decide when I'll go on my next climb, because that's up to the army," Bodh says. "But I want to finish at least one more peak before I retire next year."
The Armed Forces are intimately linked with the story of Indian mountaineering. Ever since they made the first successful Indian ascent of Everest in 1965, the Armed Forces have launched at least two major expeditions a year. They don't lack funding for their expeditions, which often involve a large number of climbers. The Annapurna expedition, where Bodh and three others of his party reached the top, had 65 members, plus sherpas—12,000kg of supplies were used during the climb. In comparison, Vajpai and Roy both climb with small teams of four-five members.
Vajpai unfurls the Indian flag atop Lhotse. Courtesy Arjun Vajpai
It's no surprise then, that despite his feats, Bodh remains unknown.
Summits and headlines
This is where Vajpai scores over most mountaineers in India. He has the perfect public relations machinery behind him—his parents.
As a 16-year-old in 2010, when Vajpai first came up with the plan for climbing Everest, he needed Rs. 22 lakh for the expedition.
Despite knocking on many doors—relatives, corporate houses, the sports ministry—no help was forthcoming. Vajpai's family finally used their own savings to fund his climb and turned their attention to creating a media buzz around him. "At first, no one was interested," says Priya Vajpai, Arjun's mother. "All the reporters said, 'Let him summit first, and then we'll cover him.'"
After his successful attempt, the media swamped the Vajpai family. Priya Vajpai used this experience as a stepping stone, made an exhaustive list of contacts of reporters, and for Vajpai's subsequent climbs, she began sending out press releases, photographs and climbing information to everyone on the list.
Priya Vajpai's zeal, though, is tempered by a fear she keeps quietly hidden from journalists. "Before Everest, since there is no climbing history in our family, we really had no idea about the dangers of mountaineering," she says. "Then we realized that when he is climbing, if he takes one wrong step, it could be the end of his life."
Basanta Singha Roy (left) and Debasish Biswas on the summit of Kanchenjunga. Courtesy Basanta Singha Roy
Till the 1970s, Everest was the forte of elite mountaineers. Now it's a "tourist" peak—and adventure companies take hundreds of people, both climbers and non-climbers, up on guided expeditions to the summit. Such is the traffic on Everest that on one single day in May 2010, a record 169 people summited the mountain. Compare that to the total of 302 people who summited K2 (at 8,611m, the world's second highest mountain) from 1954 till 2010. Yet, summiting Everest immediately brings you to public attention and for Vajpai, it opened the door for sponsorships. All his subsequent climbs were funded by business houses like Essar Group, Aditya Birla Group, and his alma mater, Ryan International School.
How climbing lost its way
There was a brief period in the 1950s when there was a zest and zeal in Indian climbing that is only now beginning to seep back in. Gurdial Singh, 88, was part of that beginning. He led India's first mountaineering expedition—summiting Trisul (7,120m), a peak at the edge of the Nanda Devi National Park, in 1951. Age seems to have had little effect on his sharpness—he holds himself ramrod straight, recites the heights of mountains and their first-ascent dates with ease. He speaks in a clipped, stentorian growl and blames "overprotective Indian parents" for the lack of ambitious climbs by Indians.
"I was introduced to the mountains when I joined Doon School (staff) in 1945," says Singh, who now lives in Nagpur, Maharashtra. "There were three teachers in the school, John Martyn, Jack Gibson and R.L. Holdsworth, who were Alpinists. Every chance they got, they would take students out for a climb or a trek to nearby mountains." Holdsworth was already a pioneering mountaineer, having climbed Kamet (7,756m) in Uttarakhand in 1931 with the legendary British climbers and explorers Frank Smythe and Eric Shipton—at that time the highest peak ever summited. In close contact with the Alpinist-masters trio, Singh was sold on the mountains.
By 1946, Nandu Jayal, a student, also hooked on the mountains through the Alpine masters and Singh, had become an integral part of the "Doon School climbing team", along with a young sherpa who was quickly making his reputation as a wizard on the mountains—Tenzing Norgay. Till the early 1950s, Singh and Jayal were obsessively heading up peaks in Garhwal, making heroic first Indian ascents of various peaks, including Kamet in 1955.
Major HPS Ahluwalia on top of Everest in 1965. Courtesy Indian Mountaineering Foundation
Cho Oyu was summited, however, and the attention naturally turned to Everest. In 1960, the first Indian Everest expedition was beaten back by awful weather, and the pattern was repeated in 1962. Three years later, in 1965, Captain Mohan Singh Kohli, who was part of both the earlier expeditions to Everest, led India's first successful summit of the world's tallest peak (though he did not summit himself).
It was the beginning of the end.
"We used to climb for the fun of it," 81-year-old Kohli says, "but Everest became a matter of national pride." Harish Kapadia, 66, India's most celebrated explorer and mountaineer, and an avid chronicler of mountaineering in the country, says this nationalistic attitude meant that climbing quickly became an institutionalized pursuit, monopolized by the Armed Forces. "The spirit of Gurdial Singh—just four or five friends going out looking for adventure—that did not go forward," Kapadia says.
What's stopping us?
Mountaineering in India faces a wide range of impediments. The biggest one, according to Sir Chris Bonington, a British climber and one of the world's most eminent mountaineers, is the way climbing is regulated in the country. To attempt a peak in India, you require permits from the IMF. If the peak you want to climb falls within the "inner line", or the border areas, then the permit application has to go through a long-drawn bureaucratic process involving the IMF, the Armed Forces, the home and defence ministries, and the state government under which the peak falls. Since most of the Himalayan range is in the border areas, this puts hundreds of mountains mostly off-limits to civilian climbers.
"I've always been able to climb the mountain I've wanted in India, but often with a lot of hassles," says Bonington, 77, who has made numerous first ascents in India. "Climbing is an individualistic thing, it comes from the heart, it involves people who enjoy taking risks and love stretching the limits. Regulatory bodies tend not to like any of that. In the Alpine countries, there is no regulation whatsoever."
Throughout the 1990s, Bonington and Kapadia explored unknown and uncharted valleys and peaks in the Indian Himalayas. They did it all without GPS systems or satellite phones, which government regulations ban you from carrying into the Indian mountains. "These are ridiculous and outdated rules," Kapadia says. "If you have an accident or an emergency in the mountains, there is no way to ask for help. You can't get proper maps of the mountain areas because they too are restricted by the government, which makes no sense. Who will go and climb without maps and a sat-phone? It's almost suicidal!"
Members of the failed 1962 Indian Everest expedition. Courtesy Indian Mountaineering Foundation
The next peak
Can the precocious and record-chasing climbs of Vajpai and the hard-edged, boundary-defying ascents of Roy inject new life into mountaineering in India? Can Bodh shake off obscurity and become the first Indian to summit all the 8,000ers?
"The base is already there," Kohli says. "There are thousands of men and women in India who are climbers, much more than we've ever had. Vajpai is bringing climbing to the public eye, Roy is a fearless climber who is already moulding the next generation. So, like cricket, I feel a critical point will be reached, and out of that, strong climbers will inevitably come out."
Roy believes it is crucial that good Indian mountaineers shift their focus from commonly climbed peaks and routes to "virgin" peaks. "There is a lot of love for the mountains—for example, West Bengal has over a hundred mountaineering clubs, but there is no real drive to climb challenging peaks," Roy says. "After my Thalay expedition, at least three-four teams have tried it. Why didn't anyone do it before?"
Despite his disappointment, the fact that Thalay and Shivling have been attempted by civilians after Roy's success points to the fact that he is breaking down barriers for climbers in India.
For Vajpai too, the next logical step is to target unexplored peaks. "In a couple of years, once I have enough experience, I've got to go to the virgin mountains," he says. "There are more than 400 such peaks in India. If you have to be a climber in its absolute sense, then you have to open new routes."
In many ways, he is already leading the way.


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The Kite-Eating Tree is a non-human character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. As the name suggests, it is a large tree that eats kites. Charlie Brown began getting his kite caught in trees in the strip from April 12, 1956 but the Kite-Eating Tree was not named until March 14, 1965. It is often depicted with large teeth and grins when Charlie Brown approaches with a kite.
Charlie Brown constantly loses kites to the tree. He appears to be the only child who flies kites anywhere near it, therefore, as Charlie Brown notes in the Sunday strip from March 3, 1968, without him the tree would "starve to death." In a storyline from February to March of 1977, to take revenge on the tree, Charlie Brown takes a bite out of it. The tree later blows down in a storm. However, even after the tree blows down, it has made many more appearances, so there is most likely more than one Kite-Eating Tree.
In the strip from January 23, 1969, Lucy van Pelt throws Schroeder's piano into the tree, which it eats. Therefore, the two things that the tree is known to eat are kites and pianos.
The Kite-Eating tree is seen in the early parts of the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown, and is briefly seen in the game, It's the Big Game, Charlie Brown. It was featured as a ride at the former Camp Snoopy theme park in Bloomington, Minnesota.


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Even the city's most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so in the end, it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the worldwasp.
Take another trip to Virga.
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Among the guests are Jehane Noujaim & Karim Amer (The Square), Jason DaSilva (When I Walk) and the returning Zachary Levy (Strongman).
Join Filmwax, Zachary Levy and Stan "Stanless Steel" Pleskun for a special screening of Strongman in celebration of its long-awaited DVD and digital release this Wednesday, October 23rd.
Indie film actor Tim Blake Nelson & documentary programmer Thom Powers (DOC NYC) are the guests in this episode of Filmwax Radio.
If you're looking for great eclectic films by local filmmakers, look no further than The Filmwax Film Series, a Brooklyn-based film series founded and programmed by our friend Adam Schartoff. We have to say, we like his taste, especially considering all the Rooftop Alums he's got going on.
Zachary Levy's funny, gut-wrenching film Strongman (Rooftop Summer Series 2009), about professional strongman Stanless Steel, opens tomorrow at the IFC Center.
One of our favorite films from Rooftop Summer Series 2009 is screening tonight at Union Docs in Williamsburg
Getting back to Rooftop's roots as a guerrilla screening series, on Saturday May 30, following the screening of Zachary Levy's documentary Strongman, Stanless Steel, the star of the film, raced time and defied all laws of common sense and safety, in order to lie in the street (on a leopard print rug, no less) and let a truck [...]
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Outcome measures in early psychosis: relevance of duration of untreated psychosis
Singh, Swaran P. (2007) Outcome measures in early psychosis: relevance of duration of untreated psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.191 (Suppl.50). S58-S63. ISSN 0007-1250
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.191.50.s58
Background Duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is considered an important predictor of short-term clinical outcome.
Aims To explore the evolution of the concept of DUP, synthesise the evidence for its predictive value, highlight the problems in measurement, and consider the potential pitfalls of using DUP as a measure of the effectiveness of early intervention services.
Method A survey of recent literature was conducted.
Results Several studies and two systematic reviews confirm that DUP has a robust but moderate effect on outcome in schizophrenia. Studies vary widely in how DUP is defined and measured, since identifying precise time points when psychosis emerges and remits is conceptually ambiguous and clinically difficult.
Conclusions Standardised measurement of DUP is a vital first step in allowing comparisons between studies. Duration of untreated psychosis is a relevant measure only of the early detection function of early intervention services.
Declaration of interest S.S. has received honoraria and educational grants from several pharmaceutical companies.
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Psychiatry | ||||
Publisher: | Royal College of Psychiatrists | ||||
Official Date: | August 2007 | ||||
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Number: | Suppl.50 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | S58-S63 | ||||
Identification Number: | 10.1192/bjp.191.50.s58 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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Whether it's Karl on a car phone, or Debbie calling in from De Pere, Green Bay Packers' fans want Brett Favre and his Minnesota Vikings to lose this weekend, denying the Vikings the chance to go to the Super Bowl.
Steve (The Homer) True, sports-talk show host on WAUK-AM (540) certainly thinks so.
"If he was playing for the New York Jets, this would be entirely different," True said. "I just can't conceive the Vikings winning their first Super Bowl with Brett Favre.
"Just saying it sounds wrong."
He's right.
The rivalry between fans of the Packers and Vikings is real. And while the Vikings had the upper hand this year (they defeated the Packers twice), Packers fans can always say that the Vikings have never won a Super Bowl (they're 0-4).
True estimates that of the fans calling in to his show, the percentage breakdown is 90% want Favre to lose and 10% of them want Favre to go and win his second Super Bowl, cementing his status as one of the greatest players ever in the National Football League.
"It's real simple. If you are a Brett Favre fan, and nothing else matters, it's the only way you can root for him."
Bill Michaels, sports-talk show host on WTMJ-AM (620), said the majority of callers and e-mails coming to him "are hoping to see Favre go down in flames this weekend.
"It seems that most are looking for the Brett Favre that cost the Packers so many postseason games. The Brett that forces the ball into coverage and gets picked off 2-3-4 times. It's as if people are waiting to say, 'There's the Brett we came to know and love.' I also think the feeling is, 'Why didn't he play this well when he was with us?' "
Rich Halverson, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has done research on what it means to be a fan. Growing up in Manitowoc, he is the son of parents who followed the Packers closely. His father can't stand the Vikings; his mother loves Favre.
"For fans, there is a conflict between being a fan of Brett and being a fan of the team," he said. "He was a symbol of the hope of a whole area, especially central and northern Wisconsin. That was Brett country."
Halverson said sports plays an interesting role in popular culture. "We are an enormous country and we use sports teams to re-channel our feeling of loyalty and to express conflict," he said. "You are a Brett fan or a Packers. Fortunately, it's benign. Nobody gets hurt. But you can express your feelings in a non-threatening way."
Well, not entirely. Take a stroll through Facebook, Twitter and other social media, or sample the talk shows on any given day this week. Packers' fans want to put a pox on Vikings this weekend when they face the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans for the NFC championship.
Others let bygones be bygones, arguing that Favre is realizing a dream and a competitive spirit matched by few.
For Favre haters, it didn't help that Deanna Favre, Favre's wife, told Sports Illustrated in a cover story this week that the couple feel right at home in the Twin Cities.
"We were like fish out of water in New Jersey," Deanna told the magazine. "Here we picked up where left off in Green Bay. There's a small-town feel. We just seemed to fit in. I feel like God brought us here."
Aaron Nagler, who partners with Corey Behnke on the CheeseheadTV blog, says he's still trying to deal with Favre in a purple uniform. "The Packers' fan in me can't handle it," he said. "And having Favre makes it a thousand times worse."
"I love Brett," he added. "I totally understand why he did what he did. But I don't want him to win. And for Brad Childress to be a Super Bowl winning coach? That makes me sick."
But don't take Nagler's word for it. The final word goes to John O'Neill, otherwise known as St. Vince, Packer fan extraordinaire.
O'Neill is wintering in Arizona, and doesn't miss the Wisconsin winter one bit. He'll be watching the game on Sunday.
"Ever since the Vikings came into the league, I've never rooted for them," he said. "Having Brett Favre doesn't change that. If anything, it adds fuel to the fire."
Adds O'Neil: "He has tainted his legacy. There's no getting around that."


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John French was an English doctor known for his contributions to chemistry and in particular to distillation. He is generally regarded as transitional between alchemy and chemistry. |
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- French, John (1650), The Art of Distillation.
- French, John (1654), The York-shire spaw.
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- Sedziwój, Michal; French, John (translator) (1650), A new light of alchymie.
- Glauber, Johann Rudolf; French, John (translator) (1651), A description of new philosophical furnaces.
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius; French, John (translator) (1651), Three Books of Occult Philosophy. (this work was published in English with the author identified only as J.F., one of the few extent copies had the initials modified to say J.Freak.)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.


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"Sorry, he's out of the office, can I take a message?"
"I'd like to speak to him about a script I've been writing. I read in the Radio Times that The Liver Birds is being brought back, so I've written a sitcom called After Terry, the sequel to Terry and June. Would you be interested in that?"
"Erm, to be honest the likelihood of bringing back another one is pretty minor, as we've also got David Nobbs's The Legacy of Reginald Perrin going out in the autumn."
"But in this one, you see, Terry is obviously dead, he died in a gardening accident, and June is played by June Whitfield, of course. She moves to Spain and falls in love with a Spanish waiter and he's her toyboy. She lives out her repressed fantasies through him, and its got the mynah bird from the first series. I think its got the sort of ingredients that viewers want these days.
"It's got sex, sun and lots of funny domestic scenes where they repair plumbing and things like that."
"Um. As I said, I think the main problem would be the fact that it's actually resurrecting another one because we're already bringing back two."
"But I think this one would be so different. It would have June Whitfield, but it would be made in Spain."
"Erm, to be honest if you'd like to send it in that's fine. Personally I think that its pretty unlikely."
"But don't you think it has the right ingredients?"
"Well, possibly, but it's just purely the fact that they have already brought back two. We are going to get some criticism, without any doubt, from various quarters saying, 'Where's all the new stuff?', so to actually do three is pushing our luck a bit.
"I've also got a new version of Butterflies with Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer..."
"Well, again, if that were ever to be resurrected I think it would be done by Carla Lane. She's the one who has written the new Liver Birds series."
"What about Terry and June, then? What's June Whitfield doing at the moment? Is she against the idea?"
"That wouldn't be the point, it would be the department's thoughts about resurrecting another one."
"But it would be a vehicle to resurrect her career, and it would make her a much sexier character."
"Urm, to be honest, I think you're better off with starting something fresh, because you're going into something where people have guessed the idea before you've even started."
"I'll try ITV then."
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This delightful little bag can be spool knitted using either round or flat web. It is made using knitting cotton.
1Spool knit either round or flat web. A bag twelve inches deep and fourteen inches wide requires thirty yards.
2Measure twenty-four inches of web and turn.
3Begin sewing from this turn to the end of the twenty-four inches then turn again. So continue until this oblong piece measures fourteen by twenty-four inches.
4Fold this in two and sew up the sides. This will avoid any seam in the bottom of the bag.
5Make handles in the same way as for jumping-rope, or a double thickness of the web may be used for each handle and sewn to the top sides of the bag. Finish by sewing a piece of the web around the top.
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Here are three of our favorite children's poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. I doubt the poet meant these to be funny, but we always laugh out loud when we read them. Besides having a great deal of charm, they are so very English, you know! (Never mind the poet was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.) "The English are best, the English are best!"
Foreign Children
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
You have seen the scarlet trees
And the lions over seas;
You have eaten ostrich eggs,
And turned the turtle off their legs.
Such a life is very fine,
But it's not so nice as mine:
You must often as you trod,
Have wearied NOT to be abroad.
You have curious things to eat,
I am fed on proper meat;
You must dwell upon the foam,
But I am safe and live at home.
Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
Marching Song
Bring the comb and play upon it!
Marching, here we come!
Willie cocks his highland bonnet,
Johnnie beats the drum.
Mary Jane commands the party,
Peter leads the rear;
Feet in time, alert and hearty,
Each a Grenadier!
All in the most martial manner
Marching double-quick;
While the napkin, like a banner,
Waves upon the stick!
Here's enough of fame and pillage,
Great commander Jane!
Now that we've been round the village,
Let's go home again.
There we go: pillage and fame. That's what it's all about.
The Unseen Playmate
When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen.
When children are happy and lonely and good,
The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood.
Nobody heard him, and nobody saw,
His is a picture you never could draw,
But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home,
When children are happy and playing alone.
He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass,
He sings when you tinkle the musical glass;
Whene'er you are happy and cannot tell why,
The Friend of the Children is sure to be by!
He loves to be little, he hates to be big,
'Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig;
'Tis he when you play with your soldiers of tin
That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win.
'Tis he, when at night you go off to your bed,
Bids you go to sleep and not trouble your head;
For wherever they're lying, in cupboard or shelf,
'Tis he will take care of your playthings himself!
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Slash Appetite For Destruction Les Paul
Gibson release the full details 12-Mar-10
We brought you news of the prototype guitar from the NAMM show earlier in the year but Gibson have now released a full description. Here's what they have to say...
Bursting onto a scene rife with poodle hairdos, spandex pants, and pointy headstocks, Slash and Guns N' Roses saved rock in the mid '80s by bringing back the grease, leather, attitude, and some seriously heavy guitar chops. Their 1987 release Appetite for Destruction became the biggest-selling debut album of all time, with 28 million and counting sold worldwide, and the big riffs of "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," and "Sweet Child O' Mine" fired up the airwaves across the globe--riffs fueled by the most powerful rock tool of all time: a Les Paul.
The Axe That Launched a Thousand Riffs
From his groundbreaking work with Gn'R, to Slash's Snakepit, to Velvet Revolver and numerous acclaimed solo and side projects, Slash has continued to embody the ultimate rebel rocker, putting addictive licks and eviscerating tone above all else, and throughout he has continued to do it on a Les Paul. To honor this achievement, Gibson introduces the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul, a guitar equipped with the finest features of the original Les Paul Standards of 1958-'60, and the added punch of Seymour Duncan Signature Series Alnico II Pro Slash humbucking pickups. With looks to kill from a Grade AAA "reverse-chevron" figured maple top with nitrocellulose "Unburst" finish, amber top-hat knobs, rosewood fingerboard with traditional trapezoid inlays, and Slash headstock graphic, and enhanced resonance from a TonePros Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece at one end and a high-density Corian nut at the other, the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul is as prime a piece of eye candy as it is ear candy.
Playability, naturally, is flawless, thanks to a solid one-piece Grade A quarter-sawn mahogany neck with Slash's preferred slim '60s profile, and the 12" fingerboard radius and 22 jumbo frets that have made Les Pauls notorious for big, meaty rock bends for more the past 50 years. All Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Pauls come with plush-lined hardshell case with silkscreened Slash graphic and Owner's Manual.
Body and Finish
Crafted from a Grade AAA maple top with Slash-style "reverse chevron" figuring and weight-relieved mahogany body, the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul is finished in nitrocellulose lacquer that replicates a beautifully faded vintage Les Paul Standard. The maple-mahogany combination and thin nitro finish help to bring the most out of these guitars, both tonally and visually.
Neck and Headstock
The guitar's neck and headstock are made in the classic tradition of the original 1958-'60 Les Pauls. Carved from a single piece of quarter-sawn mahogany, and topped with a rosewood fingerboard, the design incorporates Gibson's lauded 17-degree back-angled headstock, which contributes greatly to the instrument's resonance and sustain.
Pickups and Electronics
To Slash's own specifications, the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul carries a set of Seymour Duncan Signature Series Alnico II Pro Slash humbucking pickups, which are made in the image of the original Gibson PAF humbucking pickups. From a rich, throaty wail at the neck position to a muscular, eviscerating roar at the bridge, these pickups offer all the tonal versatility that has made the Les Paul Standard famous. Their full splendor is transmitted via a Switchcraft selector switch, high-quality potentiometers with Orange Drop tone caps, and a robust Switchcraft output jack.
In the image of the great Les Paul Standards of the 1958-'60 the Slash Appetite for Destruction Les Paul wears a classic set of hardware, all enhanced for the tonal standards Slash demands. A TonePros Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece offer uncompromising resonant coupling between strings and body, while a set of Kluson-style tuners combines an authentic vintage look with efficient modern performance.
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My daughter has this problem she is married to a spanish man. Please help me understand. I'm an american white female, raised to be independent and get a education. My husband does not expect me to cook, clean or do his laundry because I contribute to the household finances by working My son-inlaw expects my daughter to work, cook, clean, do the laundry and take care of the kids. When he is with his friends she has to stay out of the way because the wife doesn't do things like that. He won't watch his own child because the women are supposed to do that. I would like to know are they evolved?
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Description•5 years ago
STR: 1. Load http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html 2. Press 'Go!' 3. Hear speech synthesis output 4. Look in about:memory. I see │ ├──232.70 MB (62.50%) -- workers(syntensity.com) │ │ └──232.70 MB (62.50%) -- worker(speakWorker.js, 0xb747d52c88536000) │ │ ├──225.34 MB (60.53%) -- compartment(Web Worker) │ │ │ ├──192.36 MB (51.67%) -- analysis-temporary Furthermore, the tooltip on analysis-temporary says it should be cleared away on GC, but none of GC, CC, or Minimize memory usage do anything to it. It is only cleared up when the worker is shut down (when the page is closed). This doesn't happen if the same code is *not* in a web worker. Without a worker, analysis-temporary remains very very small. Should I move this from JS Engine to the Workers component?
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Updated•5 years ago
Bug 706914 should help with reducing the analysis temporary information (that should land early next week, so can check then), but I would guess the about:memory GC buttons are not hooked into the worker runtimes (workers are basically totally isolated from the rest of the JS code in the browser) and that heuristics for triggering GCs in worker runtimes may need improvement.
Comment 2•5 years ago
The Minimize memory usage button generates a memory pressure event, which potentially could trigger some behavior in workers. I don't know if it actually does though.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
bent, do you know what the GC heuristics are for workers? The data in this bug seems to imply we can hold on to lots of memory for too long.
Comment 4•5 years ago
Most of our GCs come from nsJSEnvironment, which I think doesn't do anything for workers. So we only GC them if they hit the allocation triggers. We should have the worker event loop call JS_MaybeGC.
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Comment 5•5 years ago
Sorry, I was told that I didn't need to schedule explicit GC these days... Apparently that is not the case! I can fix this for workers.
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Comment 6•5 years ago
Nick, I think Bill was proposing a more general trigger than memory pressure: Workers should GC when the GC and Minimize Memory usage buttons are pressed, but also see if they should GC during the event loop.
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Comment 7•5 years ago
Created attachment 589028 [details] [diff] [review] Patch, v1 This patch does three things: 1. RuntimeService watches for "child-gc-request" and "memory-pressure" notifications. "child-gc-request" does a normal GC and "memory-pressure" does a shrinking GC on all workers. 2. Workers have a 30 second timer that will trigger a normal GC during continuous running scripts. If the event queue empties then... 3. Workers have a 5 second timer that will trigger a shrinking GC after the worker goes idle. If another event comes in then the timer is canceled and the 30 second timer starts again. Sound like a decent strategy to hit all the use cases here?
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Comment 8•5 years ago
Sounds like you're already doing this, but from a power usage perspective, please make sure the new timers here do not run all the time (even if just once per 30 seconds) if the worker is not active.
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Comment 9•5 years ago
Created attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] Patch, v1 Forgot to qref that patch.
Comment 10•5 years ago
Comment on attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] Patch, v1 I asked bent for some more comments over IRC (seeing as how I'm stealing this review from sicking, I thought it was appropriate). It'd be nice to change BROADCAST_ALL_WORKERS into a template, but my template-fu isn't strong enough to figure out the pointer-to-member-function jazz that'd be required.
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Comment 13•5 years ago
I verified that this is fixed on today's nightly. Thanks everyone!
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Comment 14•5 years ago
Comment on attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] Patch, v1 [Approval Request Comment] Regression caused by (bug #): bug 649537 User impact if declined: Workers don't GC properly, so memory usage can go way up and never come back down until leaving the page or closing the browser. Addons which make workers that last for the lifetime of the app will not free memory until shutdown. Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): m-c, alon's emscripten testing Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): No regressions on m-c and no bugs filed yet so I think risk is pretty low. If anything crops up we could always back this out later.
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Comment 15•5 years ago
(In reply to ben turner [:bent] from comment #14) > Comment on attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] > Patch, v1 > > [Approval Request Comment] > Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): No regressions on m-c > and no bugs filed yet so I think risk is pretty low. If anything crops up we > could always back this out later. Do we know how common this memory leak is in other sites/add-ons that use web workers? Are web workers used enough in add-ons and the web to warrant uplifting? I'm hesitant to uplift a memshrink code change like this without significant user impact (going by the # of dupes).
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(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #15) > (In reply to ben turner [:bent] from comment #14) > > Comment on attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] > > Patch, v1 > > > > [Approval Request Comment] > > Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): No regressions on m-c > > and no bugs filed yet so I think risk is pretty low. If anything crops up we > > could always back this out later. > > Do we know how common this memory leak is in other sites/add-ons that use > web workers? This memory leak happens in *every* website that uses web workers right now (unless the website has no garbage to clean up in the first place, I guess). > > Are web workers used enough in add-ons and the web to warrant uplifting? > I don't know about addons. But IE9 doesn't support web workers, so they aren't used in any major mainstream website AFAIK. (IE10 however, will support workers.) I think that fact goes both ways, though: One the one hand, not having many web workers on the web means there is little urgent need for this fix. But on the other hand, since the fix only affects those few websites (since it only modifies web worker code, not anything else in the browser), it is low risk. Note that while few websites use workers now, workers are very important to the future of the web. We really want people to use them, so that web pages are responsive and fast. And it's a very bad first impression if a developer tries web workers now and sees this leak.
Comment 17•5 years ago
Comment on attachment 589037 [details] [diff] [review] Patch, v1 (In reply to Alon Zakai (:azakai) from comment #16) > This memory leak happens in *every* website that uses web workers right now > (unless the website has no garbage to clean up in the first place, I guess). [Triage Comment] Given this and the low risk of regression given the number of sites using workers, approving for Aurora.
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Comment 18•5 years ago
Thanks! https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/cae62722a5e7
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Comment 19•5 years ago
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Verified with the steps from comment 0. analysis-temporary is cleaned up about 5 seconds after the sound stops playing, or when the user clicks the "GC" button.
Comment 20•5 years ago
Verified as fixed on: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 20120314195616
Comment 21•4 years ago
There appears to have been a regression for this bug. I'm using Firefox 24, and I've been noticing a similar behavior with a plug-in I maintain that uses speak.js. The web worker will often run out of memory and I have to either restart Firefox or go to about:memory and click "Minimize memory usage" in order to get the plug-in working again. Similarly, I have problems with demo pages using speak.js. STR: 1. Load http://projects.mattytemple.com/speak-js/ 2. Press "Say 'Hello World!'" 3. Hear speech synthesis output. 4. Go to about:memory in another tab and press "Measure". I have the following: │ ├──133.01 MB (34.97%) -- workers(mattytemple.com)/worker(speakWorker.js, 0x5337400) │ │ └──94.35 MB (24.81%) -- zone(0xebf3400) │ │ ├──93.51 MB (24.59%) -- compartment(web-worker) These numbers appear to stay at these levels indefinitely, but if I press "Minimize memory usage" and then "Measure", I get this: │ ├──24.68 MB (08.64%) -- workers(mattytemple.com)/worker(speakWorker.js, 0x5337400) │ │ └──15.30 MB (05.36%) -- zone(0xebf3400) │ │ ├──15.11 MB (05.29%) -- compartment(web-worker) Go back to the demo page and repeatedly press the "Say 'Hello World!'" button. You will see the memory used by the web worker continuously rise with each button press and never fall.
Comment 22•4 years ago
Please file a new bug for a new issue. You can use the "clone this bug" in the lower right corner to get started with filing. Thanks.
Comment 23•4 years ago
(Matthew Raymond filed bug 925343 for that issue.)


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On the face of it, this is all quite obvious. I think most of us admit, in private moments, that French lingerie is better than Yorkshire pudding, for example. A holiday in Tuscany sounds more enticing than a holiday in Torquay. Latins knowing more about the good life than Anglo-Saxons is a cliche as old as viticulture and olive oil production, and anyone who tries to deny it probably has a paranoid complex about the need to keep the Queen on their pound coins as well.
I am not sure if this means that the British lifestyle is, indeed, worse than everybody else's, or if it simply means that they are more self-deprecating than other people. But either way, what worried me about La Folie Anglaise was the tragic contradiction contained in the concept: that a hopeless infatuation for all things Mediterranean was, in fact, every bit as English as grey weather, scones and whipped cream. And it took those horribly sophisticated French to spot it.
In other words - speaking as an Englishman - I am caught in a French- style vice. No matter how crusty I bake my bread, no matter how smelly I cultivate my camembert, no matter how dark I stain my wine carafes and no matter how deeply I gash my kitchen table, all I ever succeed in doing is confirming my fundamental, boorish Englishness.
At this rate I might as well throw away my Italian silk T-shirt collection now and buy a bowler hat, frock-coat and umbrella. You thought that using a pestle and mortar and electric parmesan grater would improve your sex- life? Sorry. Being embarrassed about English cuisine turns out to be nothing more than an essential facet of what it was that made that cuisine so awful in the first place: namely, your Britishness.
I suppose the only sensible reaction really might be to go out and invest in an electric scone mixer, or lie down in a bed of wet stinging nettles in Dorset; or possibly even to go the whole hog and spend a fortnight holidaying in a boarding house in Torquay. Only by acting British, it seems, will I be able to escape from being British. Only by refusing to eat foie gras have I got any hope of emulating the French.
Confused? Depressed? Me too. Unless of course, the French have got it all wrong. Being British, I find that quite impossible to believe.
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Yeah, sure, casinos right on the city line will have major impacts on Boston, but Boston is not a "host community" for either of the proposed casinos, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission decided today. The vote means Boston will not be able to hold referendums on the casinos that could block them permanently.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Playful Tigers
On Saturday, we had the opportunity to make a cake for little Sophie in San Diego. She kept insisting that she wanted a tiger cake and when asked if it was because of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, she gave us a blank look. I was then pretty sure they were tigers she saw at the San Diego Zoo.
So keeping the tigers 'looking like tigers' and not like Tigger, this is the cake we came up with. Guess what was the only thing little Sophie ate off the cake? Yup, the tigers lol!
Cake was vanilla with a vanilla buttercream filling.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Flower Garden
After a long winter, we look forward to Springtime with the same yearning of a child longing to buy candy displayed in the candy store window. We put away our thick coats, bring out our spring clothes and buy a bunch of vegetable and flower shrubs to fill our pots and planters.
These cake balls were made for a spring party to celebrate the passing of winter and the beginning of color.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Spring chicks
Having said that, I have made more cake pops in the last six months and Spring Chicks are by far the cutest pops I've ever made. With it's little feet and feathers fluttering in green grass, it is just a joy to made these little bites. This is exactly why I LOVE my job!!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Graduation Mania
This weekend we were honored to be invited to attend the masters graduation of Ms. Hoong Yan See Tao at the University of Texas, El Paso. A cake was requested for her graduation party to serve at least 40 people and above is the cake designed for her. Having managed to extract information about the graduation colors, textbooks and desired cake flavors and filling, I created a 2 layered chocolate and vanilla cake with a raspberry filling for all 4 tiers of the cake. The edge of the cake board is also lined with cake pops in the shape of a mortar board with white tassels. Cake pops were moist chocolate cake with milk chocolate filling.
My surprise for her was the little figurine studying late nights with never enough coffee and books strewn all around the table. I though it was a perfect description of every college student's life. Below is a close-up of the sleeping figurine.
Congratulations again Ms. Hoong Yan See Tao!!! and all the best for your future pursue of a PhD.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Fashionista Bag
I had the most amazing opportunity to spend three days in New York City with Chef Elisa Strauss in a cake sculpting class hosted by the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE). The class was constructed to teach students how to structure, carve and ice cakes to make them look realistic, which is one of Chef Elisa's specialties. Lots of creativity was brought on by Chef Elisa during these three days and it was so much fun!
Having spent three days learning everything from basic information to cake decorating tips, I believe it was worth every minute being there. We interacted one to one with the instructor and realized that there is more to cake decorating than just icing the cake. It's the time, love, effort and details we put into each of these custom cakes that make each one special and different.
Above was the cake I designed. This cake was white vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling. Mark and I had the privilege of sharing this cake with some of our friends and it was heavenly!! Now I finally know what a minimum thousand dollar cake tastes like.
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MedicineA dry, dark scab or falling away of dead skin, typically caused by a burn, or by the bite of a mite, or as a result of anthrax infection.
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So I've decided to share some pix of my car....last time I've posted it looked like this http://photos.e46fanatics.com/data/5...95vr6exy-3.jpg Now I have an mk4 front, tint off, euro bumpers and some other small details.. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/...836b345d_b.jpg Lil bit of tuckage ;) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/...f5810b2fb3.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/...dc0cb4bf2e.jpg Enjoy and criticism is more than welcome... |
The tint removal is such a subtle mod but looks so good.
i saw your car at vagcraft... I was wondering if that was you or not... car looks really good, much better in person imho... Buddy of mine was down the aile like 6-8 cars. It was the only vr on driver edition rims
very nice ride. i like the rims.
Are those Audi wheels?
Audi Fat 5s
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Beautiful VeeDub!
i love it ! especially the roof rack !!
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Beautiful car man, good job, I have a soft spot for these cars.
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