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Global Explorer enables you to fly with selected airlines outside the oneworld® alliance, including Aer Lingus, Alaska Airlines and its affiliate Horizon Air, Bangkok Airways, Fiji Airways, Jetstar, Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan, Jetstar Pacific, Air Italy and WestJet; plus, Qantas code-share flights operated by Air Tahiti Nui.
Global Explorer
More choice and flexibility with Global Explorer
With the ability to choose from additional airline partners, a Global Explorer fare gives you the flexibility to explore even more destinations around the globe.
How is my Global Explorer fare calculated?
Your Global Explorer fare is based on the total distance travelled throughout your journey, plus the cabin class you choose to fly, and is calculated using the following tier levels:
- Tier 1: Up to 26,000 miles (economy class only)
- Tier 2: Up to 29,000 miles (economy class only)
- Tier 3: Up to 34,000 miles (economy, business or first class)
- Tier 4: Up to 39,000 miles (economy class only)
Frequent flyers
If you are a member of any oneworld member airline's frequent flyer programme, you can earn points on eligible Global Explorer flights1 and enjoy rewards and privileges across the alliance network2.
Plan your trip
Giving you the freedom to select your route, plan your stopovers, choose your travel class and even change your itinerary, Global Explorer offers ultimate flexibility.
The information below on continental regions, routing and stopovers, will help you plan your Global Explorer round-the-world trip.
Global Explorer regions
Your Global Explorer fare is based on the following regions:
- Europe/Middle East including Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Russia west of the Urals, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen
- Africa (excluding countries named above)
- Asia including the Indian subcontinent, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia east of the Urals, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (excluding countries named above)
- Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific
- North America including the Caribbean, Central America and Panama
- South America
- Travel from continent to continent must occur in a continuous westward or eastward direction, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans once only.3
Flights and stopovers
- Select up to 16 flight segments on your round-the-world itinerary. Travel between two airports by surface transportation will count as one flight segment.4
- Each tier includes the following stopover allowances:
- Tier 1 – Minimum two. Maximum five (including a maximum of two within a region).
- Tiers 2, 3 and 4 – Minimum two. Maximum four within a region.
- All tiers – A maximum of two stopovers are permitted in the region of origin.5
Travel class
- Depending on the tier level you have selected, you may choose to fly in first, business or economy class.6
- For an additional cost, Premium Economy can be booked on American Airlines, British Airways (World Traveller Plus), Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines (between Asia and North America) and Qantas.7
- You may return to your point of origin after a minimum of 10 days.8
- You have up to 12 months to complete your trip.
- Your reservations and ticketing can be handled by any oneworld member airline.
- Following your first flight between Continental Zones, all subsequent flights can be left open-dated, allowing you to schedule your trip as you go.9
oneworld affiliate airlines
Global explorer also includes flights operated by all of oneworld's affiliate airlines.10
Sample itineraries
Every Global Explorer trip is unique. However, we have prepared some sample itineraries to give you an idea of the possibilities.
Tier 1: 26,000 miles
Los Angeles – Melbourne – Perth – Kuala Lumpur – Paris – London – Los Angeles
Tier 2: 29,000 miles
Sydney – Johannesburg – London – Miami – Dallas – Mexico City – Los Angeles – Sydney
Tier 3: 34,000 miles
London – Berlin – Moscow – Doha – Kuala Lumpur – Sydney – Nadi – Honolulu – Los Angeles – Santiago – Buenos Aires – London
Tier 4: 39,000 miles
Sydney – Auckland – Papeete – Los Angeles – New York – Buenos Aires – Lima – Santiago – Buenos Aires – Madrid – Rome – Olbia – London – Sydney
Book your trip
For ease and convenience, you can book your entire Global Explorer trip with a single oneworld member airline, regardless of how many oneworld flights you take.
Please click on the links below for airline contact information.
Itinerary changes
A Global Explorer fare enables you to modify your itinerary to accommodate changes of plan, giving you control and flexibility over your round-the-world trip.
For changes or cancellations prior to the start of your journey, please contact the member airline that issued your e-ticket.If you need to make changes to your itinerary during your journey, please contact the airline that has issued your ticket, or any of the airlines you are flying with on your itinerary.
Please note that change fees and/or service fees will apply to cancellations and/or itinerary changes which require rerouting11.
Terms and conditions
- Travel class restrictions may apply and miles/points can only be earned on purchased fares. Please check with your frequent flyer programme for further details. Each oneworld alliance member airline reserves the right to change its frequent flyer programme rules, regulations, travel awards and special offers.
- Access to some airport lounges may be restricted during peak periods and may not be available at certain third-party operated lounges. Access is available on the day of departure when the next onward flight is with a oneworld airline. Access is not available to AAdvantage members travelling exclusively on North American itineraries, defined as within or between the U.S., Canada, Mexico (except Mexico City), the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean.
- You may travel around within a continent provided you do not return to the point where your journey originated.
- If you choose to travel by surface transport between two airports, the most direct flown distance between the origin and destination point of the surface sector will be counted towards your total mileage flown.
- A maximum of one stopover is permitted in each direction in the country of origin. This is included in each tier level's maximum stopover limits.
- Please note that some aircraft may not offer first or business class cabins. You will be booked in the next lower cabin for this sector. Mileage and tier points will be accrued only from eligible fares in the cabin class you have flown.
- Premium Economy is available for a surcharge on American Airlines, British Airways (World Traveller Plus), Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines (between Asia and North America) and Qantas on flights operating that service.
- There are no minimum stay requirements, with the following exception: itineraries commencing in North America (including the Caribbean, Central America and Panama) and South America, intercontinental sector must commence no earlier than 10 days after commencement of the first intercontinental sector.
- All destinations you wish to travel to must be stated at time of purchase, before departure from country of origin. You must receive your ticket for your first flight between Continental Zones (and any preceding local flights) prior to the departure of your first flight segment. All remaining flights may be left open (i.e. without confirmed flight numbers and dates), as long as each flight is reserved prior to departure. Tickets can be booked or issued up to one hour before departure in some countries. Local service fees may apply.
- Members of oneworld airline frequent flyer programmes can earn mileage rewards on eligible Qantas-coded Jetstar flights. Please contact your frequent flyer programme for more details.
- Fees will apply to itinerary changes and cancellations:
- Changes to ticketed points are permitted at a charge of USD125.00 per transaction.
- If the fare level has increased since ticket issuance, the difference between the old and new fare will also be charged. If the fare level has decreased since ticket issuance, no refund will apply.
- No Show requires rebooking at a charge of USD125.00
- After ticket issuance, refunds on cancellations are permitted for any unused travel but will incur a fee of 10% in Economy Class and 5% in Business/First Class.
- NOTE where no change fee applies, a local service fee may still apply.
- Please note that all information, routings, available destinations and fares are subject to change without notice. Fares are limited to availability and capacity, and fees may apply to itinerary changes and cancellations.
- Global Explorer is available on scheduled flights that are operated and marketed by a oneworld member airline or an affiliate of a oneworld member airline i.e. a oneworld airline flight number must be on the ticket. This includes American Airlines (AA), British Airways (BA), Cathay Pacific (CX, KA), Finnair (AY), Iberia (IB), Japan Airlines (JL), LATAM (JJ, LA, LP, XL, 4C, 4M), Malaysia Airlines (MH), Qantas (QF), Qatar Airways (QR), Royal Jordanian Airlines (RJ), S7 Airlines (S7), SriLankan Airlines (UL), plus flights operated by Aer Lingus (EI), Alaska Airlines (AS), Bangkok Airways (PG), Fiji Airways (FJ), Jetstar (JQ), Jetstar Asia (3K), Jetstar Japan (GK), Jetstar Pacific (BL), Meridiana (IG) and Westjet (WS). All other codeshare flights are not permitted with exception of Qantas (QF) code-share services operated by Air Tahiti Nui (TN).
- Tickets must be issued on AA/AY/BA/CX/IB/JJ/JL/KA/LA/LP/MH/QF/QR/RJ/S7/UL/XL/4M stock.
- Currently, itineraries that include Jetstar (JQ) segments can only be ticketed by the following oneworld carriers: AA/AY/BA/CX/JL/LA/MH/QF/QR/RJ/UL.
- Currently, itineraries that include Jetstar Asia (3K) segments can only be ticketed by the following oneworld carriers: AY/BA/JL/MH/QF/QR/UL.
- Currently, itineraries that include Jetstar Japan (GK) segments can only be ticketed by the following oneworld carriers: AA/AY/BA/JL/QF/QR/UL.
- Currently, itineraries that include Jetstar Pacific (BL) segments can only be ticketed by the following oneworld carriers: AY/BA/CX/JL/QF/UL.
- When a QF marketed, NU operated flight is part of an itinerary, IB ticket stock cannot be utilized.
- When a PG operated flight is part of an itinerary, AA/IB/JJ/LA/LP/NU/XL/4M ticket stock cannot be utilized.
- If a ticket includes travel to/from/via Cuba, it may not also include flight segments for travel on American Airlines, American Eagle, AmericanConnection, Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air due to U.S. government restrictions.
- Children and infants: Children pay 75%. Infants pay 10%.
- The carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo is subject to the conditions of carriage and regulations of the relevant carrier.
- A Global Explorer fare may be upgraded to a higher-tiered Global Explorer or oneworld Explorer fare, or to a Global Explorer or oneworld Explorer fare in a higher cabin class without penalty. Upgrading by sector to business or first class is not permitted.
- Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent. Exceptions apply.
- Travel may not be via the original point of origin. Only one international departure and one international arrival to/from the country of origin is permitted.
- The same city pairs/sectors cannot be flown more than once in the same direction.
- Travel between U.S. and Canada is not considered an international arrival/departure for the purposes of this fare.
- Continental Zones include: TC1 The Americas | TC2 Europe, Middle East, Africa | TC3 Asia, South West Pacific.
- Global Explorer fares are subject to taxes, passenger fees and charges.
- Further conditions may apply. Please speak to a oneworld member airline if you have any questions.
- Please refer to the rule sheet for the full technical product details: Global Explorer rule sheet
All information is up-to-date as of 28 October 2017. Subject to change without notice.


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What do billionaires Eli Broad, Steven Cohen, Irwin Jacobs and David Geffen have in common? Other than a vast amount of disposable income, a craving for the luxurious, and the ability to turn lead into gold, that is? They are all part of a growing movement toward what's becoming one of the hottest commodity games on the international market today -- the buying and selling of contemporary art.
With recent contemporary art sales hitting a record $871 million in New York with 60% of the lots being sold for more than their highest estimate, there's no denying it – it's a new era for new art.
But what's driving art sales? The rich keeps getting richer and there's a lot of new money on the scene. Last year, there was a reported 371 billionaires worldwide; today that number has grown nearly threefold to 946 with 178 newcomers from Russia, India and China. Operating as a local gateway to the international art market, Christies recently opened offices in Dubai and Bombay to tap Middle East and Indian buyers. Reported first year sales reached 8.5 million for contemporary Indian and Middle Eastern art.
With novice collectors rubbing shoulders with top billionaire art collectors, contemporary art as an investment is becoming the status symbol du jour.
Why the affair with contemporary art? According to art experts, there's attractiveness to art that expresses, examines and challenges the world we live in today. Contemporary art appeals because of its connection to our daily life. And there's been a reshuffling of wealth away from traditional businesses toward a more global financial system, so buying contemporary art on the international market is seen as trendy and informed.
Another factor, according to Quint, has been the Internet. "It's changed the art market over the years. Auctions used to be where dealers got a good portion of their inventory. They would attend auctions and it was difficult to determine what they paid for a piece of art. The Internet opened the auction market with the purchase price for artwork being available on the Auction houses' website. If you're a collector, you're going to find out what people have paid," said Quint. Christies Live website allows anyone to log on at home, watch an auction and place a bid.
And lastly, as it pertains to the international market, Quint says Russian, Indian, and Chinese investors have been rediscovering artists of the last 20 years in an effort to grasp the importance of this time. These collectors are paying record breaking prices for art produced inside their country as well as out.
While spectators discern whether the superheated art market is a bubble or real, these investments are turning a pleasant profit both socially and culturally. Historically many great collections were later created into museums or museum wings benefiting society for generations. The Hearst Castle , The Frick Collection , and The J. Paul Getty Museum are known contributions to society, created posthumously. Today, you're seeing big money contributions to art houses and museums by collectors/investors who are still alive and want to find a home for their art for the public to enjoy. KB Homes and SunAmerica tycoon Eli Broad formed the Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica after several decades of personal collecting.
The Foundation's collection has appeared in exhibitions at over 400 museums, universities, and other public venues, and has been viewed by approximately a million people each year. Overseas, French retail magnate, Francois Pinault, owner of Christie's Auction House and Gucci, transformed the historic Palazzo Grassi in Venice to display his vast contemporary art collection – one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the world.
"[MCASD] visitors are drawn to the art of our time from 1950 to today," said Claire Caraska, communications coordinator at MCASD. "We're known for showcasing young, emerging artists as well as established artists. There are pieces on view for the first time and created specifically for the museum. This is a source of pride for San Diegans and a lure for tourists," said Caraska.
In keeping with the philosophy of providing an artist in residency program, the museum is premiering Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries, which opened October 21 at the MCASD downtown. The exhibit by Irwin, one of the founders of the West Coast Light and Space Movement of the 1960's, is a survey spanning over 50 years and will mark the largest exhibition of Irwin's work since 1993.
"It is an extraordinary honor to present such a range of Irwin's work to the public. We believe that the artist's transformative use of space in MCASD's Jacobs Building and 1001 Kettner will be revelatory for our visitors, as will their chance to see works from all periods of Robert Irwin's long and distinguished career," said Hugh M. Davies, the exhibition curator and The David C. Copley museum director. This will be the first time an exhibition takes up two entire downtown locations.
"At my gallery, I've noticed that the ones buying contemporary art are affluent baby boomers and they're buying emerging as well as mid career artists," said Quint . His advice for discovering the unknowns – join the museum, meet the curators, and ask a lot of questions. Quint also spends time with other artists. "They tell me what they like and what they've seen. Case in point, I was introduced to the unknown artist Adam Belt by artist Roman de Salvo. In turn, Roman was introduced to me by artist/UCSD professor Louis Hoch who said 'check out this student of mine'. Sure enough the MCASD bought Adam's work and commissioned Roman de Salvo to create a large scale sculpture for The David C. Copley Building."
It's hard to predict who the next Warhol will be, but without question that the contemporary art world is becoming an ever more global one. Non American artists like Damien Hirst ( Britain), Takashi Murakami ( Japan), Zhang Xiaogang ( China) and Miguel Angel Rios ( Argentina) are making a huge imprint in their respective countries and throughout the world. So whether a viewer or buyer, there is a world of contemporary mastery to behold, art created by post war visionaries who gave us images that commented on the culture of yesterday and art by emerging and mid-career artists who express the way we think and feel today. And for those with seven figures to knock about, it might be worth joining the party while the party's still hot.
Article courtesy of Luxveria Luxurious Living Magazine

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Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye
Kanye West Moves to Block Coinye Currency
Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week.
The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye -- a cartoon representation of West on a gold medallion. West's lawyer argues trademark infringement.
"Given Mr. West's wide-ranging entrepreneurial accomplishments, consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that Mr. West is the source of your services," wrote Brad Rose, a partner at Pryor Cashman LLP, which has previously worked for West.
Hoping to keep pace with the self-assured, brash West, the techies aren't backing down. Instead, they are moving up Coinye's release date to as early as Tuesday night. Looking for surer footing, they changed the name of the currency from Coinye West to just "Coinye" and moved their website from a .com domain name to one registered in India.
"We want to release this to the public before the man can try to crush it," one of the coders said in a Skype text interview Monday night. "They'll still come after us, but that's OK."
So, how did the world-famous rapper get in a legal feud with seven nerds who refuse to share their names or locations?
As virtual currencies like bitcoin and litecoin have taken off, copycats have emerged. Some offer slight tweaks to the bitcoin code to account for fraudsters or improve transactions. Others, such as BBQcoin and dogecoin, appear more as jokes than legitimate crypto-currencies.
Still, the proliferation of virtual coin prompted the group of seven coders to ask themselves, what else could you name a virtual coin? "We said Coinye West and we were like, 'Holy… we gotta make that,'" one of them said.
The Internet, predictably, became obsessed. West, an internationally known "musical artist, songwriter, producer, film director and fashion designer," stayed silent, according to his lawyer. Rose didn't return a request for comment.
In writing, Rose requested that the people behind Coinye stop using the name or any variation of it, hand over their website and deactivate Facebook and Twitter accounts for Coinye.
If they don't comply, Rose threatened to "notify the cryptocurrency community at large of your infringing actions and pursue all legal remedies against any business that accepts the purported COINYE WEST currency."
As with any virtual currency, there is a chance Coinye could take off if Internet users decide it has value. And the spat with West will certainly give Coinye extra publicity.
Or as West once sang: "That that don't kill me can only make me stronger."
Kanye West Moves to Block Coinye Currency


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A tradition with my mother is to go see a movie together and then talk about it afterwards over tea or ice cream. I saw maybe two seconds of the trailer for Hope Springs and decided that it would be a movie that my mother would enjoy and
I wouldn't hate completely. I was wrong on both accounts.
*Spoiler Alert*
An elderly couple goes to marriage counseling and we all laugh at the catty remarks and how old people do things funny.
What Actually Happened:
Oh, dear God… I have never seen so much old people sex in my life. It was about old people doing the dirty and learning how to give blow jobs. Did I mention that I took my 64 year old mother to see this? Also my parents are close in age to these characters.. FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD!
The main issue was that Tommy Lee Jones didn't want to have sex with Meryl Streep. This was the only thing I could relate to throughout the whole movie. The whole movie was un-relatable to me since I am 26 and have never had an issue of not wanting to fuck something that is willing. I found it rather boring, so I made the best of it by changing the way I viewed the movie. Tommy Lee Jones became Agent K once again, fighting aliens during the week and on the weekend he had to deal with a trip to Maine to see a marriage counselor. GIVE THE MAN A BREAK! Imagine the stress of killing aliens then having to deal with Meryl Streep fingering herself in the bed next to you at an EconoLodge. The man has to be a god of some sort.
There were no intended laughs in this movie. I on the other hand, chose to laugh at Meryl Streep looking at the camera lustfully. She did it so many times I was starting to think she wanted to fuck a theater full of movie-goers. I know I have typed the word fuck many times in this article and for that I am sorry but realize that I had to sit an hour and forty minutes with my mother as old people boned and moaned. I am still a little upset about this.
Between seeing a 63 year old's nipples through her "I want to fuck" gown and Tommy Lee Jones getting blown in a movie theatre, I was running out of things to talk about with my mother over tea. "So, she was giving that BJ all wrong; right Mom?" Which would have caused another gay scare like that of 1998 when I told them "I actually like the music the Spice Girls make." So we talked about how I should do more research on movies we watch together and how "That was not a movie you take your mother to." All in all today was a good day to kill myself.


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From Water Pumps in Cambodia to Global Social Enterprise Support
Combining the experience of running the DM2006 award winning social enterprise: Ideas-at-Work (IaW), the knowledge acquired with the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program (2007), and her recent completion of an MBA (2012), Angelique Smit decided to found the Social Enterprise Support initiative, a network group that provides support and advice to fellow social entrepreneurs in a variety of areas.
Created after intense consultation with social entrepreneurs about their support needs in their path to build successful business models, Social Enterprise Support (SE-Support) emerged as a place where social entrepreneurs from all over the world find fellow social-minded entrepreneurs for a sounding board, bouncing ideas, brainstorming or advice.
The SE-Support team is currently comprised of around 14 entrepreneurs and industry experts in areas such as organization development, personal development, operational challenges, finance, administration, marketing, sales, human resources, strategic thinking, public relations, social media, ICT and ISO/HACCP/VCA-certification and growing.
A key component of SE-support is building a community of like-minded partners where learning from each other's successes and failures is encouraged. SE-Support provides specialized expertise to assist in challenges that only social entrepreneurs face such as finding a balance between social and financial goals and determining the business model that works best for each situation. SE-Support works with all players in the social enterprise space including donors, foundations, impact investors and entrepreneurs.
Angelique Smit is the owner and managing director of IaW, a social enterprise that manufactures and sells rope water pumps in Cambodia. IaW closed 2012 with almost 75% more sales than the previous year before and, as a consequence of the work done by IaW, over 250,000 Cambodians have now access to easy and cleaner water.
For additional information please contact Angelique Smit or visit www.SE-support.org.


text: Lisa Alonzo's sugary technique obscures a dark symbolic core. The images are beautiful and the technique is divine. In fact, the technique is a refinement of one of the high points of Modern painting, Pointillism, and Alonzo adds another, almost hysterical layer to Seurat's Le Grande Jatte, by combining the beauty of Pointillism's ballet of color with the designer frosting florets of a confectioner. According to the press release from Claire Oliver Gallery, that excess of beauty, when compared with the otherwise violent or mundane subjects, a hand grenade, a gun, a beer can, is a critique aimed at consumer desire. As a painter who has often struggled with acrylic painting, I was really impressed by the freshness of these paintings. You can see Lisa Alonzo's new work at Claire Oliver until April 26th. Photos courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery.


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I remember that battle!..That was a fun one! still rolling a log 10x the size of a minifig=unfair! but you didnt run over my troops so i guess it was very epic and halarious.. so its cool
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Crusade to be held at fairgrounds
STANDISH — Thanks to community support, Standish Baptist Church is going on a crusade.
The City Wide Old Fashioned Bible Crusade will be held at the Arenac County Fairgrounds Sunday, Aug. 28 through Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 7 p.m. The crusade is free to the public and will feature sermons from and hymn music.
Standish Baptist Church Pastor Don Killey said he has been thinking about hosting a crusade for around two years.
"I did some studying on it and I just thought, 'You know, let's do something different,'" he said. "I believe that a person's faith is stretched when they step out of their comfort zone and that is why I wanted to do this."
Killey said volunteers and members of the congregation will be out advertising the crusade in the city of Standish to get as many people to the event as possible.
"We will be happy if 300 people show up or 50 people show up," he said.
Killey said members of Standish Baptist's congregation, comprised of around 35 members, are nervous about the crusade.
"We are not sure how this is all going to play out," he said. "We are all excited and we are hoping for the best, but we are stretching beyond anything we have ever done."
Killey said the City of Standish and the Arenac County Fair Board were a big help in getting the crusade started.
"I went to the city and asked them what I should do," Killey said. "I was not sure if there was a place inside the city where we could host this event."
Killey said he was referred to the Arenac County Fair Board to see if the fairgrounds would be a good destination for the event.
"The fair board told me that this was a great idea and the fairgrounds would be a great place for the event," he said. "It's still inside the city limits, it's close to where we are. It all worked out."
Arenac County Fair Board President Bill Daniels said the board was happy to accommodate the church for its event.
"We want the fairgrounds to be used for more than just the Arenac County Fair," he said. "It's a great piece of land and we are glad to help them. The more activities that are there, the better."
While talking to city officials and the fair board, Killey discovered that this crusade is the first of its kind in Standish.
"They told me that they have not heard of any church in the Standish area doing anything like this," he said.
Killey said the crusade will take place at a pavilion at the fairgrounds, and will be held in the Browns Building if it rains.
He said the public is welcome to bring lawn chairs, but seating will be provided.
"We got a lot of help from volunteers and other churches for this event," he said.
Killey said if the event is a success, the church will look to hold another crusade next year.
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Contact and Open Days
Music Studies (Arts and Culture)
Any questions? Get in touch and visit one of our Open Days.
Open Days
Get to know the Master's in Music Studies and the University of Amsterdam by attending our annual UvA Master's Day. You can also experience what it's like to be a Music Studies student by joining us for the UvA Master Week or attending one of our online information sessions (webinars).
Learn more about our Open Day activities at:
Central Student Service Desk
The Central Student Service Desk is your first stop for questions about studying at the UvA. They will be able to assist you with any questions when it comes to choosing your degree programme, enrolment, financial assistance, and living and studying in Amsterdam.
Have a question?
Programme coordinator
Prof. Julia Kursell
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Admissions Office
Should you have any further questions about your application and admissions, please contact the Admissions Office of the Graduate School of Humanities.
- Office hours: Monday - Friday from 13:00-16:00
- Visiting address: P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Room 0.11
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- Phone: +31 (0)20 525 3157 (Dutch students)
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Eagle Rants
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Eagle is not responsible for any of the statements made in any Eagle Rant.
I've been at this school for three years. In that time, I have never seen a more inept Student Government than the Cutter administration. Does anyone know what he has been doing/accomplished?
2Fix doesn't.
Spring hours at the Eagle's Nest are atrocious.
I don't understand why all the members of the sports teams need to just rock their damn sweats all day. Have any of them heard of jeans and a nice top?
A George Washington University student was discriminated against because he's gay. The Hatchet carried the story, the Hoya carried the story, the NW Current carried the story, The Eagle didn't care. When is The Eagle going to stand up for gay rights?
AU wants student involvement in the Strategic Plan, but there has been no student involvement and they release last minute details the day of Spring Break, give me a break!
Student Activities never stays open to 5 p.m., give me a freaking break.
Alex Knepper's articles give me a headache. Why doesn't he have any serious talking points?
Intramural basketball - the game is sexist. Why are women's baskets counted more than men's baskets?
Where's the sex column? Why do other papers have sex columns and The Eagle doesn't? I mean George Washington University is pretty simple: Pay the prostitute afterward. Georgetown's: Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. Catholic University's: It's okay, altar boys do it all the time. AU's: Our Eagle staff doesn't know what sex is, therefore there is no column.
The New Clawed: Seriously? It looks like a drowned pigeon. What a pathetic symbol.
I have had it with the rats on campus. I'm scared to sit on any of the benches or walk around at night and with spring almost here, that's a problem. I recently saw one as big as a wildebeest. It's gross and dangerous. There has to be something that can be done for the kind of tuition this place charges.
Last week my roommate masturbated in his bed when he thought I was asleep. I was wide awake.
My roommate left two half-eaten box lunch sandwiches on his desk for a week. I finally threw them out after the cheese started to melt. Our room now smells like a combination of ham and awful.
Why is it so difficult to open up a new CD? It's impenetrable. I almost cut off my finger when I finally had to use a knife. What's up with this???
Why on earth is AU building more infrastructures and cutting back on institutional financial aid during a recession when many kids might not be able to come back to school? I understand that it's supposed to attract more students, but why not try to retain as much of the CURRENT population as they can? They should be spending that money wooing alumni to donate more and to establish funds for scholarships and grants. Also, a note to financial aid: handing out millions of dollars in loans is NOT financial aid. It's postponing heavy debt.
Rants "cannot contain illegal or defamatory statements -Threaten any person or organization." These attributes are typically inherent in rants as a writing style/genre. Good luck.
Why can't I get Barbie's feet to bend? Every time I try to do it the feet break off and they just don't work so well. What am I going to do?
These damn Animal Crackers. Right on the box it says "Don't eat if seal is broken." I'm going through and eating my crackers and its going fine. Lion, looks great, tiger looks great, the seal? Broken in a million goshdarn pieces!
The Eagle's Nest has the worst types of jellies and jams. I ran out of Smuckers and needed some jelly for my toast in the morning. I tried this Kentucky Jelly and it was disgusting! If I was from Kentucky I would bitch, I wouldn't want my home state associated with icky jelly like that. Eagle's Nest, stop selling KY Jelly!
I can't stand that the study abroad office is so highly commended when its efforts don't surpass that of any other institutions. Students have more requirements to study abroad here than they do at most other schools to study the same material at overseas universities. There should be: 1. Classes that just give refreshers on language that are far less than four credits. 2. Research grant programs for overseas projects (We could use a few more Rhode Scholarships). 3. More open course selections for abroad courses. 4. People actually helping in the AU abroad office, as opposed to it almost entirely being done online.
I am tired of The Eagle not being funny. Can't there just be one page that resembles The Onion ... The whole mock Washington Post thing just makes it look pathetic. Along with rants, allow people to submit satirical articles; there's probably more journalistic integrity in that than in half The Eagle articles.
What if I am threatening the judges at American Idol? Clearly this is not a valid threat. It's not like I'm going to head to Hollywood and try to take them hostage for altering the format yet again and making it even easier to manipulate the contestants so that every possible stereotype is represented in the top twelve. Come on now!
An idea for underclassmen: invite your favorite juniors and seniors to Terrace Dinning Room more! Gain insights and feed the meal plan-less. It's a good in to off-campus dinner parties, too.
College kids are more cliquey than high school ones. Be more open. There are only more friends to be had.


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^^ I wouldn't be surprised if they had to do a shopping task of picking out 10 items from a different store in the many shops scattered around any of the malls.
For those of you who know the city, I noticed in a Wiki se tarch that TAR China Rush had a leg there in its first or second season. What places did they go to then, that might be used by TAR this time?
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Sept. 17, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - MIT's water polo team traveled to Colorado Springs this past weekend to compete against some of the best teams in the country, and while the Tech squad fell short against No. 18 Air Force, 16-2, and No. 20 Brown, 12-11 in overtime, the young Engineers (2-6) continued their progression.
Saturday's first match was against highly ranked Air Force (5-4), and the Falcons used their home pool advantage to put tremendous pressure on MIT. Knowing that their opponents from Massachusetts wouldn't be used to the high Colorado altitude, the Falcons came at the Cardinal and Gray full throttle. As a result, Air Force led 8-1 after the first half.
Fatigue wore on Tech and it could only manage one more goal in the second half. Freshmen Devin Lewis and Mark Artz supplied the team's goals.
The second game, against No. 20 Brown (3-1), was a different story. Trailing 5-1 deep into the third quarter, the Engineers went on a 7-2 run to briefly take the lead in the final period. Spearheading the comeback was Artz, who scored three goals in regulation, including the tally that sent the game into overtime deadlocked at nine.
MIT quickly fell down in overtime, 11-9, before rallying to re-tie the game at 11 on goals by Devin Lewis (his third of the game) and Palmer Rosemond (his second). However, with just 23 seconds remaining, the Bears drew a power play, which they converted to give themselves a 12-11 lead that they would not relinquish.
Helping keep the Engineers in the game early was freshman Nick Souza, who had 12 saves.
"Our power play again hurt us but I was happy with the way we bounced back against Brown," said head coach Felix Mercado. "I am very happy with the progression of this team. I still think we have a lot of work but I am happy."
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PetieMarie22 wrote:No I wasn't measuring. She just ate when she was hungry. I gave her 1 cup last night, she ate it all. I gave her 1 cup this morning. She ate it, then looked at me. So I gave her a half cup more, but she walked away. So I picked it up and figured when I get home I'll give her a cup again. How much should she be getting? She's not on "high Quality" so I was thinking 2 1/2 - 3 cups.
It really depends on the dog and the food. I would probably start with 1 cup (or a little less) morning and night and go from there to see how she does. I base how much I feed on the way my dogs look, not their weight (funny enough their weight never fluctuates more than a lb when we visit the vet each year). To me dogs are no different than humans. Their activity level and metabolism is totally different across the board, so following guidelines on the side of a bag makes little sense to me (that is just me so go with what you are comfortable with). I also wouldn't base your amount on if she still seems hungry after she eats what is in the bowl. You'll end up with a hippo after she gets used to the new feeding schedule.
Kayden's natural weight is around 50 lbs (although fairly lean) and he gets around a 1/2 cup of high quality kibble in the morning and at night with some yogurt or cottage cheese. He also gets a kong with peanut butter in it in the morning before I leave. He get some treats during the day based on the training we are doing and I always give him snacks throughout the day when I am eating stuff, so that makes up for the lower amount of kibble.


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Scientists hoping to mimic the life-extending qualities produced by a chemical found in red wine and dark chocolate say they have solved one of the mysteries about how this compound works to combat the effects of obesity, diabetes, certain cancers and a host of other maladies.
The findings, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, could lay the foundation for a variety of drugs that act like concentrated amounts of resveratrol, the compound that has inspired a $30-million-a-year supplement business. Pharmaceutical giants have invested millions of dollars in the quest to improve on the compound that helps rev up the body's cellular defenses against disease and aging.
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair and his colleagues have been working for more than a decade to uncover a chemical link between resveratrol and a group of enzymes known as sirtuins, which can trigger proteins that rejuvenate cells. The new results will help achieve a "more rational design" of resveratrol-related drugs, Sinclair said.
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Swizz Beatz: Technology Brings Freedom To Musicians; Those Not Embracing It Are Greedy
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I think the only reason why people wouldn't embrace technology is because of greed. And because of the old way of doing business, which is also greed. And then you have people running the business -- no disrespect -- that's 80 years plus. They don't even know how to operate an iPad, and they're making decisions on the younger generation's future.He's then asked a bit about "piracy" and actually getting people to buy, and he notes that if you make good music, people will support you. He says the problem is that people have gotten away from making good music. But when there is good music, people want to support "great music." He notes that people have no problem paying for those "timeless pieces," because they know they're supporting the artists. It's just that when musicians today are "bluffing," the public knows it, and isn't so interested in supporting it.
And my association with forward thinking technology is very deep. And it came up a little bit with Megaupload -- which still, today, is a big misunderstanding of technology. And the day that you mix the old business with the new technology, we'll have a better place. It's actually going to be a time when artists can come out and do 10 million records their first week. Because the technology is going to be so locked in tight globally. You have billions of people, all over the world. Why can't artists that everybody likes do 10 million a week? It's just that the communication and the technology and the old way of doing business is off. But once that catches up, which is going to happen in the next three years, it's going to be amazing.
And the cool thing is that technology equals freedom for the artist. And that's the best thing that could ever happen for artists that work hard and that really want to get their career off the ground.
It's a good interview, and it's good to see more people -- especially in the hip hop world -- speaking out about this, rather than merely accepting the lines from the 80 year old execs at the music labels.
Update: Apparently, Swizz is feeling talkative these days. He also did a nice longer interview on a radio show where he talks a bit more about all of this, again saying that the Megaupload situation was a misunderstanding -- and talked about how he had figured out a way for musicians to make "wow money" but it won't happen now because of the "miscommunication" that has the US government making it look like they were breaking the law.


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Eight Shades of Blue in the Bathroom
They were once called water closets because, well, bathrooms are all about water. Perhaps that is why the color blue makes so much sense in the bathroom. Icy cool blues bring an extra sense of sanitary sleekness, while inky deep blues give the bathroom the serenity and calmness of a deep ocean. But don't be afraid of the funky bright blues; after all, bathrooms are the ideal place to experiment with bold color and off-kilter design.
1 Elle Decor. Architect Steven Learner drew inspiration from the indigo tiles that line traditional Turkish hammams for the open shower in his downtown Manhattan apartment. Learner sheathed his master bath in shiny subway tiles of a deep cobalt, which he offset with a pure-white tub.
2 Here a very subtle and soft use of blue brightens up this classic bathroom from House of Turquoise.
3 Color doesn't have to be bright and garish. This rich deep blue gives depth to a classic bathroom in Lonny.
4 This bathroom from Lonny takes black and blue to new heights.
5 A positively funky, outrageous and original blue bathroom via Absolutely Beautiful Things.
6 For a very groovy vintage blue vibe, check out this Oakland bathroom via Sunset. The owners left all the orginal surfaces and fixtures and had the metal rechromed and the plumbing restored. Photos by Thomas J. Story; styling by Miranda Jones.
7 A modern, sleek incarnation of the color blue in David & Susie's Harlem Renaissance.
8 Several shades of blue in a single bathroom via Desire to Inspire.
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WEEK 8 - May15, 2013First Half #8West Park - Joliet24 Holes - Short Tees - Par 72 CONDITIONSAnother Picture Perfect Night! The night started out with the temperature around 82 degrees and calm. The SUN was out most of the round. The temp dropped to around 70 by the end of the night. The course is dry but the grass is as long as I ever seen it. NOTES Please dont be discouraged if youre an AM and had a rough night. Shake it off and try again next week. The more you play and learn from the leagues more experienced players the better your game will evolve. Weve all been through this stage. Paul Ulibarri the 8th ranked player in the world puts a good-old fashion ass whoopin on the Pro/Adv field. Paul ends up pulling the Cali card and shoots a fantastic round of 50 ( -22). Eric Fredricks & Kyle Greenfield win a close playoff battle to take the top honors. They end shooting a great round of 55 (-17). Cory Clements claims the only ace of the round on hole 14 and the first in 5-weeks! He takes home $255! PLAYERS64 Players29 PRO/ADV 35 AM/NOV TOP THREEPRO/ADVPaul Ulibarri cruises to a first place victory and takes home 122 bucks. We had a tie for second with the teams shooting great rounds of 52 (-20). Shawn Harmon & Jon Vargo win the ctp playoff on hole 1 and take the second place honors. They end up splitting $78. Shawn & Jon both make significant jumps in the points standings.They are now both in striking distance of the top four. Thor Batchelor & Josh DeLucio settle for third and take home 25 bucks each. Thor tacks on a much needed couple of points as he inches his way to the top of the points standings. TOP THREEAM/NOVWith their win Eric Fredricks & Kyle Greenfield end up taking home $33 each. Pete DellAquila & Steve Rachan end up in second they split 37 bucks. Pete now moves into a tie for second place for the first half. Shooting a very nice round of 56 (-16) were Tim Gujardo & Chad Ryan. They end up splitting 26 bucks. Tim cushions his lead a bit for the first half with this third place finish.CTPSDave Kociuba - CTP Party Fund hole #2 = $50Jason Gorzow - CTP Basket Fund hole #10 = $50Thor Batchelor - CTP Tournament Fund hole #16 = $46Ryan Gremillion - CTP CFR Disc hole #23 ACESCory Clements aces hole 14 = $255BIG MONEY NIGHTA couple of big pay days.Cory Clements and his hole 14 ace is the big one.. He takes home $255 for the night. Paul Ulibarri and his Cali Pro/Adv victory gives him a $122 pay day. Next Week - TRINITY LINKS, LOCKPORTSHORT TEESDONT FORGET 4:30 REGISTRATION AND 5:30 START!!See You Later,Jesse
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The Eagles knocked the Skyhawks off balance Saturday.
But the Fort Lewis College mens basketball team shifted just enough back onto its toes to pull away in the second half and beat Northern New Mexico 82-70 to wrap up the Colorado Mesa Thanksgiving Classic in Grand Junction.
We came out a little bit sluggish, but I think you should give credit to Northern New Meixco. They came out inspired and ready to play, FLC head coach Bob Hofman said.
They really put us on our heels.
The Eagles held a small lead over Fort Lewis for most of the first half and got up by as many as 9 before the Skyhawks cut the lead to 1 to end first-half play.
To start, Northern New Mexico was hitting more than 60 percent of its 3-pointers while keeping the Skyhawks from getting good looks of their own.
The Eagles (3-10) finished with 44 percent shooting from the floor and beyond the arc, while Fort Lewis hit just 4 of 26 from 3-point range to go with a 39 percent overall field goal percentage.
They did a really nice job of ball pressure, Hofman said.
They didnt let us get into a rhythm.
They made shots more than anything ... When you make shots, it really inspires your defense as opposed to the other way around.
But in the second half the Skyhawks made just enough free throws and shots and had just enough rebounds to turn the tide, aided by Alex Herrera who had 15 points and a game-high seven rebounds to contribute to FLCs 44-38 advantage off the glass.
FLC took its first 11point lead at 68-57 with 6:47 to go and didnt let it go.
I thought Alex Herrera really did a nice job on the boards and did a good job throughout, Hofman said.
Nick Tomsick led FLC (3-0) with 19 points, and Torrey Udall had 11. Matt Mazarei fed them from the point with zero turnovers and four assists.
Rodney Coles and Orlando Echave led the Eagles with 12 points apiece, while Daniel Molina added 11.
The Skyhawks open conference play at UC-Colorado Springs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.


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Arkbrik wrote:14. If the payload has its own Flying Move stat then it could use that after being fired. So yes, the drugboat would be screwed.
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Jessica Simpson rocked a pair of Daisy Dukes in L.A. yesterday ... begging the question, WHY WAS SHE AFRAID TO SHOW OFF HER LEGS IN THAT WEIGHT WATCHERS COMMERCIAL?
Simpson -- who signed a $4 mil deal with WW -- took some serious heat for not flaunting her revamped, slimmed down figure when her first WW commercial aired earlier this month.
But yesterday, Simpson finally showed off the goods during a mid-day shopping trip ... and the goods looked good.
As we previously reported, Simpson says she's lost over 40 pounds since giving birth to daughter Maxwell in May through diet and exercise.
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Mom tells of the early days of her interest in genealogy and the reactions she got from family members. Her Uncle Tuck found out she was nosing around her GG father, Samuel Albert House' history and told her that she better not go looking for something she might not like if she found out. Cryptic. Mom later added up all the pieces and came to the conclusion that her GGF was most likely illegitimate. I've written about that before and here are the links:
The basics of his father's identity:
A theory about why his natural father and mother didn't marry:
A funny story about how SA House enlisted in the Confederate Army even though he deserted after a couple of months, and argued with his relatives about the North versus the South all the days of his life:
Here he is looking quite reputable later in life, below.
Samuel Albert House (1832 - 1917)
But there are more secrets on the tree than Samuel Albert House! On Dad's side, his father's parents didn't marry until after the second child. The usual lust preceding nuptials, you might ask? Mom has a better explanation and one that's been verified. Here's the couple with their offspring, below.
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Mom and Grandma Kelly (Helen Gertrude Zeller Kelly 1894 - 1985) were pretty close and when they visited, GM would always ask Mom what else she'd found out in researching the family. Grandma loved a good story and doubly so if it was about the family! One day Grandma said: I know a secret about Lee's parents. Lee was Grandpa Kelly (John Lee Kelly 1892 - 1969.) That's them in the picture above: Christiana Eckhart Kelly (1861 - 1932) and Francis "Frank" P. Kelly (1854 - 1932). Mom replied, cool as the proverbial cucumber, Oh, do you mean that they didn't get married until after their second child was born? Grandma's mouth dropped! Mom knew the secret!!
So here's the story. Frank was Catholic: they were Irish, so whatta you expect? Her family were all German Lutherans, and stubborn! Both parents, especially hers, put up a fuss and forbade the marriage... so they went ahead and had two kids out of wedlock: Mary in 1880, and Eugene in 1888. Eventually the the parents gave in and the marriage was allowed on 23 Feb 1889. Finally! They went on to have 7 children in total.
Mom loved it that she and Grandma Kelly knew secrets together. Wonder how shocked Grandma would be to know I'm blogging about this for all the world to see? Oh, Grandma it's a very different world out there and today no one cares who da baby daddy!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Capital One Financial Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter profit vaulted versus the same period last year, when the lender set aside $1.7 billion to cover bad loans.
The company benefited from higher revenue from its credit card and commercial banking businesses, and ended the April-June period with higher loan balances at its auto lending division. But retail banking and home loans declined.
All told, Capital One's net interest income, or money earned from loans, grew to $4.55 billion in the quarter from $4 billion a year earlier. Non-interest income, which includes service charges and other customer-related fees, rose to $1.09 billion from $1.05 billion.
Results bested analyst expectations, and the stock added 95 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $68 in aftermarket trading. Shares closed up 15 cents at $67.05 in regular trading and are up nearly 16 percent this year.
Capital One, based in McLean, Virginia, is best known for its namesake credit card business, but it has taken steps in recent years to increase its profile as a national bank. The acquisition of ING Direct, a deal that closed in February 2012, made Capital One the sixth-biggest U.S. bank, based on deposits.
The U.S. economy has been showing more robust signs of growth, led by stronger job gains in the first half of the year versus the same period last year, and a housing recovery that appears to be gaining momentum.
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For the three months ended June 30, Capital One's net income after paying preferred dividends jumped to $1.1 billion, or $1.87 per share, in the three months ended June 30. That compares with net income of $92 million, or 16 cents per share, a year earlier.
Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.73 per share.
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Revenue grew nearly 12 percent to $5.64 billion from $5.1 billion. Analysts forecast $5.53 billion.
Capital One's domestic card business generated $3.27 billion in revenue, a gain of 16 percent versus the same quarter last year. Loans in the segment at the end of the quarter were down 13 percent from a year earlier.
Purchase volume for the domestic card business was up about 12 percent.
The lender is seeing more traction on new loans and opportunities to boost credit lines, which should help boost loan balances starting next year, Richard Fairbank, Capital One's chairman and CEO, told analysts during a conference call.
"As a result of our choices, as well as the cautious consumer and a recovering economy, the strong domestic card credit performance we are seeing is likely to continue," he added.
Fairbank noted that the company's brand conversion from ING Direct to Capital One 360 is going well and the company is seeing a pickup in checking accounts.
Even so, consumer banking revenue was flat versus the prior-year quarter.
Auto loans grew 16 percent during the quarter versus the prior-year period.
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Daring dud Joe Wright's version of?'Anna Karenina' fails ?to reach its potential
Joe Wright directed one of the most extraordinary moments I've seen in the last two decades of movies. In his 2008 film of Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement," he shows us, in one jaw-dropping continuous and unbroken shot, a full surreal panorama of the Battle of Dunkirk.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who could put THAT on screen is a man to be reckoned with, no matter what the circumstances.
That's why Wright's new film version of Leo Tolstoy's great masterpiece "Anna Karenina," with a script by Tom Stoppard no less, was one of those movies I most looked forward to in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
It opens here today, and it's fascinating.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it's good, because it's not.
It does something daring and wildly stylized that may also be pointless – or, at the very least, hopelessly self-defeating. What Wright and his brilliant screenwriter (let's not forget that along with being one of the great living playwrights, Stoppard also wrote the script for "Shakespeare in Love") did in more than half the film is to locate the action in a somewhat cheesy 19th century Russian theater, all to emphasize the artificiality of social convention in Russian society, circa 1874.
Society itself, then, is a theater containing nothing but actors whose performances will be good, bad or indifferent (not to mention inappropriate, as in Anna Karenina, the aristocratic wife who falls for the dashing Count Vronsky and leaves her husband, Alexi, one of the two best-known cuckolds in all literature, the other being eternally clueless Charles Bovary).
OK. But here is Tolstoy, almost at random in the great Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of "Anna Karenina": "The need to live, increased by her recovery, was so strong, and the conditions of life were so new and pleasant, that Anna felt herself unpardonably happy. The more she knew of Vronsky, the more she loved him. She loved him for himself and for his love of her. To possess him fully was a constant joy for her. His nearness was always pleasing to her. All the traits of his character, which she was coming to know more and more, were inexpressibly dear to her. His appearance, changed by civilian clothes, was as attractive to her as to a young girl in love. In everything he said, thought and did, she saw something especially noble and lofty. Her admiration for him often frightened her."
And if you're looking for any inkling of any of that in Wright and Stoppard's "Anna Karenina," you're in the wrong theater. This, for much of the way, is like opera without music – or even worse, a delirious operetta without music.
It isn't because Keira Knightley isn't game to give us one of Western literature's two most famous slaves to Romantic passion. In her slender, angular way, Knightley is a headstrong Anna, but very much a distance away from sensuality.
As for Aaron Johnson as the Vronsky who could inspire such devotion, he is, like so much of the film, an idea you have to take on faith rather than actually see in front of you.
Nor is it that Wright won't go beyond that narrative theater, on stage and backstage. Suddenly he'll also show you a vast snowscape, just to remind you that he knows where his story is set (either that or remind you that he's seen David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago," too).
Then again, some of the pictorial splendor might seem like a slick magazine ad or a spread in Vanity Fair.
What does it say about a version of "Anna Karenina" if the most impressive performance in the film is by the actor who plays proper cuckolded and correct Alexi – in this case Jude Law?
Lest you need reminding that it's always good to have Stoppard at the keyboard, you'll have plenty of lines to do that. This, from the standpoint of 2012, is very much a world where "laws are made by husbands and fathers" (not passionate wives), where romantic love is "the last illusion" of St. Petersburg society.
It is simply not possible to tell this story on screen with ANYONE AT ALL, ANY WAY AT ALL, and not have Tolstoy's story triumph tragically at its end.
But this "Anna Karenina" was a brave and daring cinematic feat that might have been so much better transferring all of its abundant energies to the art of cinematic illustration, Merchant/Ivory style.
Review: 2 1/2 stars (Out of 4)
Starring: Keira Knightley,?Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Domhnall Gleeson
Director: Joe Wright
Running time: 130 minutes
Rating: R for sexuality?and violence.
The Lowdown: Wildly stylized adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's literary masterpiece about passion, adultery and social constriction in 19th century Russia.
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Revision as of 04:46, 21 July 2006
Prague working Group
I've got 3 other volunteers who are going to be working with me on the Prague article. We'll be having our first meeting at The Globe on Tues Aug 16th at 1:30. Anybody else is welcome to join us. If you want to find us have a look at my page and then look for a similar face at the Cafe. Hopefully the Prague article will improve shortly. Aburda 03:32, 14 Aug 2005 (EDT)
First Thoughts by Aaron
Districts - We should get rid of using the Prague numbers, use the older region names instead and only add regions that we have good content for
(Not a comprehensive list, add more or remove if you think we should)
Does anybody have any drawing skills? We need a map (and we can't use any existing maps for copyright reasons). Just something simple that is kind of a copy of the metro map). It would have to be done in photoshop or something similar.
See - Most of this stuff will be moved under the District articles, anybody have any ideas as to what attractions should be put here and not under the Distric pages? i.e. do we want to have a blank 'see' section on the main page and have all content under the Districts or are there somethings (the clock, bridge, etc.) that are to universal for Prague to be put in a district?
Eat - Section totally sucks, need a better description of foods on the main page and under the Distric pages (to be created) specific restaurants (with links to mapy.cz).
Do - Pretty weak description of all of the things to do in Prague, this section on the main page (IMHO) should contain lots of information as things like Ultimate Frisbee, etc. should not be put into a specific district (even if the training may take place there). On the other hand, dancing at 'The country club' would seem to definitely belong in 'Haje'
Sleep - totally sucks we need specific info for:
Just my thoughts, in no way comprehensive, let me know what you think. BTW, if you want add a comment, at the end of the comment, to sign your name put for tildes (~) in a row and it automatically adds your name and the date and time. Aburda 04:52, 17 Aug 2005 (EDT)
Origin of material
It seems painfully obvious that the information added by the first anonymous contributor was copied verbatim from a book or an online source, most likely without the permission of the copyright holder. That contribution still forms the bulk of the contents of this page. Thus, it makes sense that it is removed. Dpol 19:28, 7 Jul 2004 (EDT)
I would like to take over the the Prague article but would like to find somebody to collaborate with on it, or at least to give me a bit of advice. All of my other articles have been just putting everything in my head down on paper, I'ld like to make this one a bit more professional. I'm in Prague and have the next month free (and can speak Czech) so its just a question of figuring out what information I should gather around the city and what needs to be cleaned up. If anybody is interested in cooperating email or skype me (info on my page). Aburda 07:27, 2 Aug 2005 (EDT)
Removed paragraphs
wow! this is a lot of great information! Maybe it should be organized into on of the Wikitravel:City article templates.
I removed the following paragraphs from the article because they're not relevant to travel. Put them back if you think they belong... KJ 21:47, 8 Sep 2003 (PDT)
Czech artists, writers and poets:
Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Dvorak, Smetana, Milos Forman, Josef Skvorecky, Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, the anonymous Czech Gothic painter known as the Master of the Vyssi Brod altar, Baroque artists Christopher and Killian Ignaz Dientzenhofer as well as Giovanni Santini, Gothic architect Petr Parler, Karel Capek, Viteslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Bohumil Hrabal, Bozena Nemcova, Karel Hynek Macha, S.K. Neumann, Jan Neruda and Ivan Klima.
Notable books:
Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Bartered Bride (opera), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Engineer of Human Souls, Letters to Olga, Grandmother, R.U.R. (the word 'robot' was used for the first time in R.U.R!)
The Hussites
[Removed by Hypatia 12:09, 7 Nov 2004 (EST)]
Depending on the sect, Hussites could be incredibly radical and forward-thinking for their time. Some sects, such as the Taborites, named after the town of Tabor where they lived, even advocated communal property, free love and the abolition of marriage! No wonder they got into such trouble. Hussitism threatened the Catholic status quo and for a time, Catholic rulers around Europe feared the Hussites almost as much as the Turks. The difference was that the Hussites were an "enemy from within." It was visually easy to tell a Turk from a Western European but not so the Hussites. Though their religious beliefs were similar to those of fellow Protestant Lutherans, for the Hussites religion became important as a national rallying cry against foreign (read: Catholic) oppression. This was the first time the Czechs chose to take a stand against those who wanted to enforce cultural values on them. The end result was the Battle of Bila Hora (see section on Hvezda above) and years of Catholic domination that was more thoroughly enforced here than elsewhere as a means of rooting out what the rulers saw as heresy and the Czechs viewed as freedom.
The Golem
[Removed by Hypatia 14:27, 7 Nov 2004 (EST)]
In 1580 Rabbi Loew, a scholar whose knowledge of the esoteric Kabbala interpretations of Hebrew scriptures was matched only by his leadership skills, decided the Jewish ghetto needed a protector who could be vigilant around the clock. These were dangerous times - the non-Jewish community believed Jews kidnapped and murdered Christian babies for use in their religious ceremonies, and accusations had reached a fevered pitch. The good rabbi decided to make a human-like figure from Vltava River mud which, Frankenstein-like, could be brought to life. Instead of the stereotypical lightning-bolt mad scientist laboratory scenario, the Golem was brought to life with a slip of paper in its mouth, on which a magic formula was written. One Sabbath Rabbi Loew forgot to deactivate the Golem and the monster went crazy, destroying the house and half the ghetto before his 'parent' got home in time to deactivate him.
Photos under by-sa
Not sure if this is the place to post this, but: if anyone wants photographs of Prague (and nearby areas), my brother recently took a trip there. About 500 photographs are available at http://www.vu.union.edu/~stodolan/prague_web/ under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license (or the GFDL). No model releases have been obtained, and some of the photos may be of copyrighted material (street posters, signs, etc.), so stay away from questionable material. Luke Stodola
Removed paragraphs?
I'm going to start splitting Prague into districts, starting with Praha 1: Old Town, New Town, Lesser Town, Jewish Town, and Castle. I'm not using the Czech names for them since the tour guides largely don't.
I'm not doing the other numbered districts at the moment, but they can be added in future, I presume -- Hypatia 11:11, 7 Nov 2004 (EST)
Praha 1
There's a really good list of attractions by quarter at http://www.prague.cz/prague-sights.asp -- Hypatia 12:11, 7 Nov 2004 (EST) Sleep - ads Why were the following paragrpahs removed? Are they against some policy (ads?)? --Prokonsul Piotrus
Jeruzalemska apartments, Jeruzalemska street (office address: Africká 16/616, 160 00 Praha 6). ph 0602 210 716. fax 0602 673 858. email [email protected] Prices for these apartments for two people range from €65 (Christmas, Easter and August), €55 (April - July, September - October), €45 (other) per night for a single room in a shared apartment to €150 (Christmas, Easter and August), €130 (April - July, September - October) and €110 (other) for a large apartment. Wireless broadband is available in the private apartments for €4 per day. http://www.accommodation-dasha.cz/ + Mid-range accomodation can be found in most of the Praha 1 quarters: check in particular the east bank: Jewish Town, Old Town and New Town. Prague Room Apartments. email [email protected] Reviews describe these apartments as excellent accommodation for the price. The Prague Room rooms and accommodation are very close to the city center and five minutes from the tram stop. Prices for two people range from €37 per night in summer and €28 per night in winter for the smallest rooms to €87 per night in summer and €64 per night in winter for a luxury self contained apartment. http://www.pragueroom.com/ Those look like perfectly appropriate sleep listings to me (we have listings, not ads). I think they should probably go onto the correct district page. -- Mark 08:39, 10 Nov 2004 (EST) They weren't removed, they were simply moved to district pages: look in Prague/New Town for the first one and Prague/Lesser Town for the second. Hypatia 09:59, 18 Dec 2004 (EST
184.108.40.206 removed the walking tour chunk of the page on an 18th December edit, with the message "- advertising". This doesn't make sense to me. We provide contact details for commercial services for travellers. That's what being a travel guide is about. In this case, we're providing details of a commercial provider of walking tours.
I was the one who added those particular walking tours. I have no association with the company. I'm happy to see them removed for any of a number of reasons (they're really bad, they've gone out of business, whatever). I'm happy to see competitors listed, and for the existing entry to be shortened. But I don't understand how it's an ad, or at least any more of an ad than any other listing that provides contact details for a travel-related service. I've reverted the edit for now. Hypatia 09:59, 18 Dec 2004 (EST)
I'm not a big fan of the understand section. I think the whole thing about foreigners is not really appropriate. We're trying to understand Czech's not the role of the expat community in Prague. There is no group that likes to complain more about itself (IMHO) than the expat community in Prague does. If the info is important it should get a subheading somewhere towards the bottom of Understand but even then it should probably be done more neutrally. The expat community has a lot of negatives about it but like any minority in a society also plays a valuable role. So request for comment, if I don't hear anything I'll modifty it. Aburda 18:02, 4 Jul 2005 (EDT)
Minor attractions
I removed the links to the minor attractions (in the "See" section), as each one deserves to be expounded upon in this article, but none deserve their own stand-alone article. I don't mind adding some background and history to many of the locations, but it will have to wait until I finish my clean-ups of Jerusalem and Jerusalem/Old City. - Cybjorg 02:01, 5 May 2006 (EDT)
Budget sleeping
Anybody having any idea what the suggestion "...or just go to Hlavni Nadrazi (main train station) and take a private sleeping place with a person you find trustworthy (price will be approx the same)..." in the "Budget" sleeping section means? Is it meant seriously? Hlavni Nadrazi is known for its abundance of various suspicious characters and only the very adventurous (and desperate) people should try that. I suggest removing that part of the sentence. 22.214.171.124 15:19, 6 July 2006 (EDT)
Address Conventions?
Does anyone know what the stardard format for Czech addresses is? I took a (preliminary) stab at cleaning up the sleep listings but the order seems to differ throughout the article and on external pages. Also, it's been so long since I was in Prague that I'm more than a little fuzzy on the districts. If I edit the sleep listings from the main Prague page, can someone with more local knowledge please move them into the correct districts? Thanks Thewayoftheduck 03:10, 19 July 2006 (EDT)
Pasted from my talk page: "I believe Czech addresses are written in this manner: Place, Street 334, Praha 12, Telephone, etc., etc. -- Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 03:17, 19 July 2006 (EDT)" Thewayoftheduck 02:27, 20 July 2006 (EDT)


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Nvidia response to Intel?s MCP79 claims
by Fuad Abazovic on07 April 2009
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Intel was not completely honest
Following Intel's anti-MCP79 (Geforce 9400M) presentation, we decided to ask Nvidia for an opinion and we got one. Nvidia mostly agrees with our comments in the story but at the same time, it underlines that the comparison that Intel did was quite misleading.
They are comparing GM45 with dual channel memory vs. MCP79MVL with single channel memory, and GM45, as Intel's top SKU, is compared to Nvidia's entry level MCP79 SKU. Furthermore Nvidia believes that Intel chose entry notebooks that were not optimised for power management in its presentation. How convenient and truthful.
According to Nvidia's test in 3Dmark 2006 1280x1024, GM45 scores around 1000 points, while the mainstream MCP79MVL scores approximately 1200 and MCP79MX scores over 2000.
In 3Dmark Vantage GM45 is at around 800 level, MCP79MVL scores 1700 while MCP79MX scores around 3200+.
In both PC marks Vantage and 2005 Nvidia clearly wins benchmarks and when it comes to battery life, Intel offers a bit better battery life but you can expect less than 10 percent better battery life where Intel can work approximately 3.20 minutes and Nvidia 3.10 minutes on the same CPU, monitor and configuration.
Now for the fun part, in the HQV HD video benchmark GM45 scores 20 points out of a possible 130, while MCP79MX scores 100 points and has CPU utilization of 30 percent. Intel takes more than 80 percent of CPU time to play this test on GM45.
If this is not enough for you the following games have issues or failing on GM45 even on low settings: World Of Warcraft, Age of Conan, WarhammerOnline, HL2 Titles (test EP2), Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Fallout 3, Call Of Duty, Crysis Warhead, Left 4 Dead, Bioshock, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Knight's of the Old Republic 2 and probably many more.
You can check out the full presentation here.
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What's Wrong With Just Competing In The Market? Zillow Sues Trulia For Patent Infringement
from the focus-on-innovation,-not-lawsuits dept
The patent, 7,970,674, is for "Automatically determining a current value for a real estate property, such as a home, that is tailored to input from a human, such as its owner." Got that? Basically, it's for Zillow's "Zestimator" that seeks to take a guess at what any particular house might be worth (an estimate that -- from my view -- often seems completely inaccurate in my own neighborhood, but others may differ). It's a nice feature, no doubt, and it's one that Trulia apparently added to its site... hence the lawsuit.
Even if we assume that Trulia saw what Zillow was doing and flat out copied it -- is that really a problem? Looking specifically at this example (and my experience with Zillow's estimates) this is the kind of thing where it seems like a really good thing to have more competition, driving each company to make their offering even better and more accurate and useful. In other words, just compete in the market and let the best service win. In the past I've been a big fan of Zillow, so I'm disappointed to see them going after competitors with patents, rather than focusing on innovating. It did get me to go check out Trulia again, however, something I hadn't done in years. Though I doubt that was Zillow's intention.