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Dameware and other remote desktop connections allow for a small window to toast up (that can't be closed or is re-opened if closed) when there is an active connection with the name of the computer and ip address from the remote computer. This little dialog sits on top of all applications so people know they are connected to.
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Football is by far the most popular sport in the U.S. but it is also extremely popular across the world. With a obsessed fan base and some of the highest paid players in the world, Football's lineage can be delineated back to the early part of the 20th century when various leagues started cropping up in disparate areas across the U.S.
Today the NFL, or National Football League, is one of the best-known sports organizations on the planet and, depending on where you live in the states, if you're a football fan you generally have definite and distinct alliances to the particular team that either plays football in your city or an adjacent one.
If you live in San Francisco you are most likely a 49ers fan. 49ers fans are, to put it mildly, incredibly bombastic of their team and have no problem voicing their particular opinion about how great it is and how capable the San Francisco 49ers roster is. They will say that if you're an San Francisco 49ers fan you bleed 49ers colors and I would not dare test this theory on any dyed in the wool 49ers fan at game time.
There are thirty two teams around the country that are a part of the NFL and your allegiances usually will be formed predicated on either where you grew up or where you were born. This actually makes for interesting and gut wrenching games because, since Americans tend to move quite frequently, you may sometimes find fans of one city's team located in a completely different city but still cheering for "their" team when they are in town to play the local team.
Some states, and even some cities, have multiple NFL teams to represent them. Often you can find one of these teams representing the National Football Conference, or NFC, while the other represents the Atlantic Football Conference, or AFC.
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The San Francisco 49ers became the first major league professional sports franchise to be based in San Francisco. Since Morabito paved the way for professional sports in the West 60 years ago, the 49ers have won five NFL championships - all Super Bowls - for an NFL-best record in Super Bowl competition with no losses.
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Why Does Economy Grow More Under Democratic Presidents?
The U.S. economy has performed better since World War II when the president is a Democrat rather than a Republican, two prominent Princeton University economists conclude. The reasons, they say, involve more luck than successful policies.
Over the past 64 years and 16 presidential terms, the U.S. grew at an average rate of 4.35% when a Democrat was in the White House and at a 2.54% when a Republican was, a gap the economists call "astoundingly large."


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Coast getting little radiation from Fukushima disaster
Scientists reported Wednesday that low levels of radiation from Japan's Fukushima disaster first detected off the California coast two years ago have been declining ever since and remain well below any levels considered unsafe for humans.
The scientists, from UC Santa Cruz and Stony Brook University in New York, were responding to public concerns raised this week by an Internet video claiming that dangerously high radiation levels had been detected in the sands of Pacifica State Beach.
The video has gone viral and shows an unidentified man carrying a commercial Geiger counter that displays radiation counts purportedly rising to "alert" levels as he walks along the beach often frequented by surfers.
An Internet "news" site is claiming that news of the radioactivity is being suppressed by unnamed government sources.
Geiger counters are unsophisticated and do measure radiation levels, but they are unable detect the source of radioactivity. More sophisticated tests of beach sand in the Pacifica area by public health officials show that the radiation has come from natural sources - most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.
"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima," the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.
"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident," it said.
The first detection of low-level radiation crossing the Pacific from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami was reported in The Chronicle on May 29, 2012. The report was based on an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and interviews with its authors, Daniel J. Madigan, then a marine ecologist at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, and Nicholas Fisher, a marine scientist at Stony Brook University.
In a telephone interview this week, Fisher, an internationally known specialist in radiation hazards, said that continued sampling of low radiation levels from Fukushima on the California coast shows "they have gone down ever since." The most recent report from Fisher's group is published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
At UC Santa Cruz, Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy, called the low levels of radiation being reported now in California as "trivial."
"No one here in the Bay Area should be concerned about eating fish," he said in a phone interview.
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Action Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. You can register to receive these action alerts and more at the NAVS Web site.
As the year winds to a close, our last early edition of Take Action Thursday reviews the top legal developments for animals in 2014 and offers a roadmap for moving forward in the new year.
This year has seen a significant shift in how the law regards animals, particularly through court rulings and new legislative efforts. Many of these new initiatives will have an impact on animals used in research, product testing and education.
Progress for animals is a long and complicated process, fought and won on many fronts. Thank you for all you have done this year—and for all you will do in 2015—to use the legal system to help end the use and abuse of animals.
The status of animals
- On December 4, 2014, the New York State Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department, declined to extend legal rights to an animal, the first of three appeals brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project seeking a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of captive chimpanzees in New York. An appeal is already in the works.
- On December 19, in Argentina, the Court of Criminal Appeals granted a writ of habeas corpus to Sandra, an orangutan living in a zoo in Buenos Aires. This decision could be a major step forward in allowing courts to consider the rights of non-human primates around the world.
- In August, the Oregon Supreme Court determined in State v. Nix that animals (not just their owners) can be considered as victims of abuse.
Progress in ending product testing
- The Humane Cosmetics Act, HR 4148, was introduced on March 5 to phase out cosmetic animal testing and the sale of cosmetics tested on animals. While this bill did not move forward this year, it ended the year with bipartisan support from 56 co-sponsors and a NAVS commitment to support reintroduction in 2015.
- In 2014, India banned the sale of cosmetics tested on animals in the country, having previously banned animal testing for cosmetics within the country. Australia, Brazil and New Zealand also considered—but did not pass—bans on allowing the testing of cosmetics on animals.


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Sushi Question of the Month for Wesley Miyamoto
I am pregnant and want to know if it is ok to eat Sushi during this time?
Bibi Björnstrand, Sweden
Wesley Miyamoto replies:
Underlying bacteria in raw fish can be hazardous and some parasite infections can cause terrible flu-like conditions, which can lead to a miscarriage. So unless you feel 100% confident about your favorite sushi shop or restaurant, it is best to avoid eating raw fish or shell fish during a pregnancy. But remember - there are many other cooked items and rolls that one can eat during this time, such as California rolls, smoked salmon, etc.
I have found some informative articles concerning this issue, and list them below.
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Columbia University - The health risks of sushi and pregnancy.
WebMD - Can you eat seafood when pregnant?
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(Reuters) - Intertrust Technologies Corp, a software firm owned by a group that includes Sony Corp and Royal Philips Electronics, said on Wednesday it has sued Apple Inc for infringing 15 patents relating to security.
The lawsuit covers devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Mac computers and laptops, Apple TV and services including iTunes, iCloud and the Apple App Store, Intertrust said in a statement that gave no dollar figure associated with the lawsuit.
Silicon Valley-based Intertrust develops and licenses digital rights management (DRM) software, which is used to protect and manage content rights for companies that distribute music, movies and other digital content.
The company listed major tech companies, from Microsoft Corp and Samsung Electronics to Nokia and HTC among its licensees. On its website, it said it became a joint venture owned by Sony, Philips and Stephens Inc in 2003.
"Apple makes many great products that use Intertrust`s inventions," Talal Shamoon, Intertrust`s chief executive officer, said in the statement. "We find it regrettable that we are forced to seek Court assistance to resolve this matter."
Apple declined to comment.
Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore and Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Dan Grebler


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This thesis is concerned with practical issues surrounding the application of reinforcement learning techniques to tasks that take place in high dimensional continuous state-space environments. In particular, the extension of on-line updating methods is considered, where the term implies systems that learn as each experience arrives, rather than storing the experiences for use in a separate off-line learning phase. Firstly, the use of alternative update rules in place of standard Q-learning [Watkins] is examined to provide faster convergence rates. Secondly, the use of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural networks [Rumelhart] is investigated to provide suitable generalising function approximators. Finally, consideration is given to the combination of Adaptive Heuristic Critic (AHC) methods and Q-learning to produce systems combining the benefits of real-valued actions and discrete switching.
The different update rules examined are based on Q-learning combined with the TD-lambda algorithm [Sutton]. Several new algorithms, including Modified Q-Learning and Summation Q-Learning, are examined, as well as alternatives such as Q-lambda [Peng]. In addition, algorithms are presented for applying these Q-learning updates to train MLPs on-line during trials, as opposed to the backward-replay method used by [Lin] that requires waiting until the end of each trial before updating can occur.
The performance of the connectionist algorithms is compared on a larger and more complex robot navigation problem. Here a simulated mobile robot is trained to guide itself to a goal position in the presence of obstacles. The robot must rely on limited sensory feedback from its surroundings and make decisions that can be generalised to arbitrary layouts of obstacles. These simulations show that the performance of on-line learning algorithms is less sensitive to the choice of training parameters than backward-replay, and that the alternative Q-learning rules of Modified Q-Learning and Q-lambda are more robust than standard Q-learning updates.
Finally, a combination of real-valued AHC and Q-learning, called Q-AHC learning, is presented, and various architectures are compared in performance on the robot problem. The resulting reinforcement learning system has the properties of providing on-line training, parallel computation, generalising function approximation, and continuous vector actions.
Watkins, C. J. C.H. (1989). Learning from Delayed Rewards, PhD thesis, King's College, Cambridge University, UK.
Rumelhart, D.E., Hinton, G.E. and Williams, R.J. (1986). Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol.1, MIT Press.
Sutton, R.S. (1988). Learning to predict by the methods of temporal differences, Machine Learning 3:9--44.
Peng, J. and Williams, R.J. (1994). Incremental multi-step {Q}-learning, in W.~Cohen and H.~Hirsh (eds), Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference (ML94), Morgan Kaufmann, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, pp.226--232.
Lin, L. (1993b). Reinforcement Learning for Robots Using Neural Networks, PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Barto, A.G., Bradtke, S.J. and Singh, S.P. (1993). Learning to act using real-time dynamic programming, Technical Report CMPSCI 93-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003.
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Woman Makes Progress After Being Burned In Chemical Attack
The father of the woman brutally attacked with a chemical during a domestic dispute said his daughter is amazing doctors with her healing progress.
Joe Blandin told Newschannel 5 that doctors are "cautiously optimistic" that his daughter, Carmen Tarleton, is improving.
Blandin said doctors are preparing Tarleton to breathe on her own. She is currently breathing through a respirator. Doctors said they are trying to clear fluid from her lungs, and that if they are able to do that, she will be on the road to recovery.
Tarleton remains in critical condition at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Blandin said she can't communicate orally, but has been able to signal using her hands and feet.
Blandin also said anonymous donors have set up funds for her medical bills and benefit funds for her daughters.
Police said Tarleton's estranged husband, Herbert Rodgers, beat her with a baseball bat and poured lye on her body during a domestic dispute early in June. Doctors said she was burned so severely that she lost her eyes, nose and ears. Blandin also said that during the attack Rodgers bit Tarleton's hand so hard a tendon was severed. In addition to her other wounds, Tarleton suffered a broken arm and fractured eye socket.
Rodgers is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to burglary, domestic assault and first-degree aggravated domestic assault in the attack.
Tarleton worked as a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Tarleton's children, ages 14 and 12, are currently living with a family friend. They were at the house at the time of the attack.
To Donate:
Mascoma Savings Bank (All Mascoma banks are taking donations) P.O. Box 36 Lyme, NH 03768 Attn: Carmen /Blandin Fund Account
Merchants Bank East Thetford PO Box 226 East Thetford, VT 05043 Attn: Benefit for Carmen Tarleton
A fundraising event will also be held July21 from 1 pm. to 3 p.m. at the River Valley Club, Lebanon, NH For More Information Call Leila Marceau 603-643-7720 x 249 The event is open to the public. All proceeds will go directly to Carmen Tarleton.


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Carphone's music service to seek and destroy freetards?
We know where you've been
Carphone Warehouse's music streaming and locker service has plenty going for it - not least the price. The £29 a year subscription offers much more than Spotify, but at a quarter of the price. But one small item in the terms and conditions has caused a fuss.
The service uploads the metadata from your music library to Music Anywhere's servers. Music Anywhere is the service provider for Carphone Warehouse. If a song is licensed and part of Music Anywhere's catalog of six million songs, you can then hear it streamed to another PC or a mobile device. You can listen to any of the songs on that device. If one of your songs isn't licensed, or is unrecognized, then it's still stored in the locker.
So far, so good. The alarming T&C is this one:
"In extreme cases where it becomes apparent that most of a person's music collection has been fact pirated, Music Anywhere reserves the right to terminate the service."
So, er… how can they tell that your MP3s have been illegally obtained?
We asked, and didn't get a clarification - the technical process remains a mystery. So we'll continue to ask. But a spokesperson told us:
"Catch Media / Carphone Warehouse will abide by all privacy laws, and do not pass any private information to any entity including music labels or retailers."
Of course, to terminate your service, they don't have to. Many rippers who upload to Torrents, P2P services or unlicensed lockers such as Rapidshare can't help boasting about it: they leave an indication of the file's origins in the MP3's ID3 tags - "
R1pp3d by Wa77ock", for example. Presumably, if you've been helping yourself to the large collections on the Torrents, then many of the files will bear this telltale mark. At what point Carphone or Music Anywhere decide that you're not merely a casual infringer, but have gone the whole nine tards, remains unclear.
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It appears that nothing is scared these days, not even the image of one of the world's most iconic superheroes.
The All-American Superman is being updated for "the Twilight Age" by D.C. Comics, which means the trademark cape is going to be hidden under a hoodie, and the nerdy deemeanor of Clark Kent is being replaced with a more sullen, brooding attitude, reports The Independent.
The new-look Man of Steel will make his debut in the forthcoming graphic novel, "Superman: Earth One," which will be a reimagining of the hero's origins. While the basic back story will remain the same - an infant Kal-El ends up on Earth under the care of the Kents after his home planet of Krypton is destroyed - the story of his young adulthood and how he announces his presence as a superhero to the world will be the focus of the new storyline.
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DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio explained what was behind the update.
"He's young, he's hip, he's moody. He really fits in with the types of stories people are looking for today," he said. "We always knew that we wanted to do a real, contemporary interpretation of Superman."
The artist, Shane Davis, expanded on the new look.
"Clark's hood is there as a bit of foreshadowing to the cape. It's bunched down around his neck like the cape will eventually hug his neck," he said. "I did want him to hide his body type a bit, so I gave him some layers of clothing. I wanted to focus on the 'man' in Superman rather than the 'super.'"
Superman isn't the only character getting a makeover. Jimmy Olsen, the goofy Daily Bugle photographer who pals around with Clark Kent, is going to be a more serious figure. He'll be known as Jim Olsen and is willing to put himself in harm's way to get a shot, a change from the cowering figure in the comic books. Metropolis is also being updated with a more modern feel.
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Manchester IT was started 17 years ago with a single purpose in mind.
I'm passionate about helping people get the most out of IT. It's not just about fixing broken systems, though of course that comes into it, it's far more than that. Unfortunately, many regard their IT provider as an unwelcome overhead and cost on their business, and I'm sure with many IT providers it's exactly that, but I started Manchester IT because I knew it could deliver so much more value than just business continuity.
IT should be an enabler in the business; a means to improve efficiency, remove cost and reduce risk and IT changes so quickly that it's highly unlikely most businesses are even scratching the surface of what they could be doing and the benefits they could be seeing. That's what we're here for… And fixing it when it breaks, naturally.
Today, Manchester IT is a highly skilled team of like minded individuals who share the belief that your IT IS your business, and more importantly, it should be treated as such. The service and support services we provide reflect this ethos.
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Convinced that current lifestyle ads aren't generating enough "recall" among Canadian consumers, the leadership of Go RVing Canada has informed the all-industry Go RVing Coalition that it will be developing its own ad creative for the next round of the Go RVing marketing campaign.
After the most recent coalition meeting at the RVDA Con/Expo in Las Vegas, however, Go RVing Canada spokesmen were downplaying the long-term significance of the decision and any negative impacts it might have on the growing cooperation between the two countries in partnering on the market expansion program which amounts to media buys this year of $10.3 million in the U.S. and $2 million in Canada.
The Canadians just think there might be a more effective creative approach for reaching their consumers versus the softer lifestyle imagery projected by the most recent slate of ads created last year by the coalition's creative sub-committee and its Dallas-based agency, The Richards Group.
"It's all about recall," says current Go RVing Canada Chairman Darren Gelowitz of Village RV, Regina, Saskatchewan, who also serves on RVDA of Canada's board. "In our studies, we found the recall on the 'Away' campaign wasn't as memorable as some of the previous studies. That's the only reason."
Consequently, says Gelowitz, Go RVing Canada plans to go into production shortly with its own 2013 creative.
"It will have a slight slant on things," he added. "'Away' was a great commercial but it was more about destinations, where ours is going to do a little more tugging on the heartstrings of Canadian families. We really embrace the cooperation we have with Go RVing in the States, and trust that, going down the road, things will turn out good."
"I see the Go RVing Away campaign in the U.S. as a huge success," Chris Mahony, executive director of Go RVing Canada, told RVBUSINESS.com. "For us in Canada, it was very well liked. Some of the recall was OK, but when we really delved into our tracking study for our recall number — and we are doing a sample size of around 2,000 people — the recall was the lowest we've seen in the last few years.
"It was significant for us because we just pumped up our media budget by 129%," Mahony explained. "We've been tracking these results for about 10 years. Essentially, with those recall numbers where they were, despite the likability of the ads, the board of directors and our (Canadian) agency felt it would be best for Go RVing Canada to potentially look at new creative for 2013."
Go RVing Canada, in turn, will work for more of an "emotional hook" that better appeals to Canada's own demographic. "We are going after an alarming societal trend where we see over-programming, over-scheduling and overly busy families," Mahony commented. "So, we want to start the ad with a very detached, disconnected family and show how they can connect with one another through the RV experience.
"It's a bit younger approach," he added, "and we are using some dialogue which we hope will add some comedy into it as well. In speaking with industry members and a lot of consumers, the (current 'Away') ad was very well liked. It was a super ad. It's just that, for our numbers, our demographic, the recall wasn't quite there. We just didn't quite get their attention."
RVIA Reaction
Asked to comment on the Canadian decision, RVIA President Richard Coon, whose association owns the campaign along with RVDA and currently collects and distributes seal fee assessments for both countries under an agreement reached within the past year, issued the following statement:
"We've worked hard the last three years or so to ensure that the Canadian entities — the dealer organization and manufacturer organization — are hand in hand with us as we developed the 'Away' program. They used one of the ads this past year. And it's my understanding, even though it was successful and people liked it, that the retention wasn't where it ought to be in their opinion, so they are thinking perhaps of doing something different next year. We would hope that they keep us advised about what they are going to do as we continue to work together as a team on Go RVing and promotional advertising. We'll see where it goes."


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China surpasses Korea in scientific technology competitiveness
Singapore: A report published on February 11 by the Hyundai Economic Research Institute titled, 'Comparison of Korea-China Science Technology Competitiveness', has highlighted that China's level of science and technology has overtaken that of Korea.
The report pointed out that, "In terms of absolute numbers, China's science and technology prowess has surpassed that of Korea." It also added that China's R&D spending in 2010 was $104.3 billion, which is almost three times more than that of Korea's $38.0 billion.
Chinese R&D spending volume has grown at a rate of 24 percent-a-year for 16 years from 1995-to-2010. In terms of the number of patent applications, China reported 390,000 cases as compared to Korea's 170,000. Furthermore, the number of articles published in SCI-level journals was 140,000 in China, which is four times more than that for Korea.


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Photography is a lot less involved in Martial Arts, but possibly way more time consuming. Unlike Martial Arts, however, it can make you a substantial profit; certainly a more regular profit than Martial Arts. While all Sims can take pictures with their cell phones, it doesn't help at all with gaining Photography skill. For that, you'll need to travel abroad.
Pyro decides he's had enough of writing for a bit, and books a flight to Egypt. There, he hits up the general goods merchant, who is selling three types of cameras. Now, before we go further, an aside: prior to the first patch for World Adventures, all three types of cameras were available randomly in all three countries. Since we've patched, it seems that the better types of cameras are only available at Egypt… and not always. If the cameras don't appear in the general goods merchant's inventory, wait until the next day: their stock tends to change daily (and the relics merchants always get new stuff every day), and you may get lucky.
Pyro lucks out here, as all three camera types are available. All three countries always sell the cheapest camera, which is basically a disposable one. However, better pictures lead to bigger skill gains, and of course the best pictures come from the best camera. Further, the cheapest camera really is cheap: it can't do much but take pictures, and the frame size is pretty small, just a hair bigger than your cell phone. All in all, it's a poor choice… which is fine, because the Falkons have nearly $200,000 in the bank, so Pyro just goes ahead and buys the best camera. He also runs over to the Egyptian bookstore nearby and buys a book to teach the Photography Skill.
Now, some skills are best taught using the associated action. For example, Martial Arts and Painting are best taught just smacking a training dummy and painting a picture respectively rather than reading about it. Photography is the opposite: you'll see the fastest initial gains and the most money by just reading about it first. Part of the reason is practical, which we'll get to in a moment.
Pyro makes his purchases, then heads all the home to Pyroville. This is because he's impatient and stupid: he doesn't realize that the best subjects for the Photography Skill are foreign, though there are more subjects for Photography domestically. As it is, once Pyro gets home, he pulls out his book and reads like crazy (helped, of course, by his Bookworm trait). Pyro hits Photograph level 3; when he hit level 2, he gained the ability to take black and white photos. That's nice and all, but theory is one thing: Pyro needs to put it into practice.
Pyro calls up Aralia Rose and invites her over. He corners her in the front lawn and insists on taking a picture. Because of his Photography Skill, he can actually use a social interaction called "Ask To Pose," and followed up with "Do This Pose…" to make her stand a certain way. Unlike The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, Sims will not hold this pose indefinitely. In fact, Ara gets pretty bored waiting for him to get into position to shoot a picture, so he has to ask her to do the pose again.
Pyro stands in position, and I press Shift + C. This queues up a command for Pyro to take a picture using the best camera in his inventory… which of course, in Pyro's case, is the best camera in the game. An alternate way is to interact with the camera in inventory and select the "Take Photo" interaction, though Shift + C is quicker. Either way works the same.
Now, the game camera will snap to a first-person perspective. This, of course, is important: you aren't getting any aerial photos like the standard game camera can provide, and your subject's distance will have to be somewhat realistic. Just like you can't take a good photo with the camera's lens being shoved against your subject's nose in reality, so to you cannot take a good photo in The Sims 3 when your Sim is standing a couple pixels away from the subject. Pyro stands about two tiles away from Ara when I give the command, which is the perfect distance. Here's a shot of the screen that appears…
The white box, naturally, is the frame, with the inner box being the (sort of) targeting reticule. At the top center of the screen is information about the current mode your camera is in, as well as how much pictures cost to take. Yes: pictures cost money to shoot, and it can get a bit pricy if your Sim is new to the neighborhood. It also takes awhile to get a substantial profit going, so this is certainly not something to undertake if your Sim doesn't have several thousand in the bank in case something delays you.
Anyway: also at the top of the screen is how many more pictures your camera can take. This is partly based on hard drive space, partly the quality of your camera; I wouldn't worry too much about that, because if you're shooting over 100 pictures and aren't doing anything with them, you probably have more time on your hands than I do.
Across the bottom of the screen are the controls for your camera. Zooming in and out, changing the filter, pausing the game so your subject stays still, and so on: it's all pretty simple. Note that although your camera imposes some limits on settings, your Photography Skill limits others. Although Pyro can take black & white photos, he can't do much more, so some of his buttons are disabled. As your may have guessed, better filters and so on make for more valuable photos and larger skill gains; that means for pure profit, Pyro should be taking nothing but black & white pictures for now.
Though Pyro wanted to shoot Ara, her arm is clipping through a tree. I'm a perfectionist, so I cancel the command. (Ara is in tears still. He's so mean to her.) Pyro walks over to his growing apple tree and decides to shoot that instead…
Now, under the frame, the phrase "Apple Tree" appears in green. This symbolizes that our subject is part of one of the many collections in the game. These objects are worth more money than random pictures. Luckily, Pyroville (or whatever neighborhood you may reside in) contains tons of valuable subjects; the apple tree is just the first of many. Pyro takes the picture (in black & white, of course), and he gets a couple pop up boxes that reports how much money the photo is worth as well as the name of the collection it's a part of. His apple tree photo, it turns out, is worth $16, and it's part of a collection called "Plants and Flowers." Sweet.
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With the photo in the camera's memory, I press the J key to bring up the job skills page. Under the Photography tab, in addition to basic information and what the challenges are, you can view all your unlocked collections and what photos remain to complete them. The photo titles are pretty self-explanatory, and you always get hints whenever you shoot a new one… however, the collection names are a bit more hidden with no hints.
But, of course, that's where IGN Entertainment comes in. These are the 13 collections in the game, as well as an overall description of what to look for, as well as an easy sample photo so you can unlock the collection to get started…
Architectural & Buildings Collection: Pretty self-explanatory here. Start this one by taking a picture of the school; be sure the front door is in the frame, as that's how it's counted whether the picture has been taken. Note that you'll need to go to France to finish off the collection.
Around Town: This collection is comprised of various objects or buildings around the city. Try shooting the front door of any store: some, like the Spa, get their own special place in the collection; others get the generic "Places Around Town" entry.
Best in Class: This collection depicts the best stuff for or of your Sims. You can shoot Sims who hit the top of their careers, a luxury car, or even just an expensive stereo.
Collectables: This is a collection of various gems and relics. You'll need to go on vacation to each country to eventually complete it. Pretty much any gem you see on vacation will unlock the collection.
Everyday Moments: This is one of the largest collections in the game, but there are plenty of common actions you can snap to complete it. Unlock it by shooting a Sim using a computer or fishing.
Family & Friends: This collection is for your Sim's closest relationships. Know that some may require you to break some hearts and do some magic with your household. For example, one photo is called "Spouse" and another is "Main Squeeze." If you're married and photograph your wife or husband, it does count as "Spouse," but it does not count as "Main Squeeze." That means if you want to complete this collection, you'll need to have a spouse at some point and merely a boyfriend or girlfriend at another point.
Home Sweet Home: This is a collection of various objects around the house. Finally, Pyro's golden toilet serves a purpose!
Oh, the Calamity!: Only eight pictures, this collection depicts emergencies. Refuse paying your bills, and when the repoman comes to jack one of your precious belongings, take his picture to unlock the collection.
Paranormal: This collection is for some of the weirder stuff around the game. By far, one of the toughest pictures here is the "Double Dead" picture, which requires you to photograph the ghost of a mummy. You'll have to get a playable mummy, kill them, then use the science center to resurrect them and make them a playable ghost, then shoot the picture. Crazy, huh? A much easier opening picture is a simple death caused by any means; starvation in a single locked room is always a classic.
Plants & Flowers: This one is self-explanatory. Pretty much anything you can plant in the ground and tend will be a picture for this.
Sims in Motion: This one is a bit tough just because it requires you to be in the right place at the right time. It's best to have a second playable Sim to do the action while you, as the camera guy, ready yourself. Remember that P key to pause the action in place so you get that perfect shot! You can start this one off by photographing someone working out or dancing.
Still Life: These are somewhat random inanimate objects, such as a television.
Travel: This collection can only be completed while on vacation. To complete it will require at least one visit to each country, so it might take awhile. Shoot any floor switch in any tomb to get started.
Once Pyro finishes his shot, he interacts with his camera in his inventory with the "View Photos" command. From there, he can click-drag the photos out and place them around the house, on desks or even hanging on walls. Alternatively, he can sell the photos individually from there, or he can even just do a "Sell All" command to clean out his camera and make some cash.
Note that you don't get any bonuses for completing a given collection, nor do you get anything for the completing all the collections. Photography is basically a hobby, it's just that you can get a decent income from doing it eventually. Also, taking multiple pictures of the same subject in the same day diminishes their value. However, pictures on subsequent days will restore the value. So Pyro won't bother taking any more pictures of his apple tree today, but he might tomorrow, and he'll still earn some cash.
Oh, one more thing: if you have low Photography Skill, there is a chance that the photo turns out "bad." This could mean it appears blurry (as if your Sim couldn't steady his hands), or you may even have a gnome magically appear and take up most of the frame. These bad shots will disappear more as you gain Photography, to the point where they won't appear at all once you hit level 10. Some of the shots are pretty amusing (the gnome one especially) and you may want to keep them for posterity, but they aren't valuable cash-wise and won't gain your skill very fast.


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The son of Kobad found his kingdom involved in a war with the successor of Constantine; and the anxiety of his domestic situation inclined him to grant the suspension of arms, which Justinian was impatient to purchase. Chosroes saw the Roman ambassadors at his feet. He accepted eleven thousand pounds of gold, as the price of an endless or indefinite peace: some mutual exchanges were regulated; the Persian assumed the guard of the gates of Caucasus, and the demolition of Dara was suspended, on condition that it should never be made the residence of the general of the East. This interval of repose had been solicited, and was diligently improved, by the ambition of the emperor: his African conquests were the first fruits of the Persian treaty; and the avarice of Chosroes was soothed by a large portion of the spoils of Carthage, which his ambassadors required in a tone of pleasantry and under the color of friendship. But the trophies of Belisarius disturbed the slumbers of the great king; and he heard with astonishment, envy, and fear, that Sicily, Italy, and Rome itself, had been reduced, in three rapid campaigns, to the obedience of Justinian. Unpractised in the art of violating treaties, he secretly excited his bold and subtle vassal Almondar. That prince of the Saracens, who resided at Hira, had not been included in the general peace, and still waged an obscure war against his rival Arethas, the chief of the tribe of Gassan, and confederate of the empire. The subject of their dispute was an extensive sheep-walk in the desert to the south of Palmyra. An immemorial tribute for the license of pasture appeared to attest the rights of Almondar, while the Gassanite appealed to the Latin name of strata, a paved road, as an unquestionable evidence of the sovereignty and labors of the Romans. The two monarchs supported the cause of their respective vassals; and the Persian Arab, without expecting the event of a slow and doubtful arbitration, enriched his flying camp with the spoil and captives of Syria. Instead of repelling the arms, Justinian attempted to seduce the fidelity of Almondar, while he called from the extremities of the earth the nations of Aethiopia and Scythia to invade the dominions of his rival. But the aid of such allies was distant and precarious, and the discovery of this hostile correspondence justified the complaints of the Goths and Armenians, who implored, almost at the same time, the protection of Chosroes. The descendants of Arsaces, who were still numerous in Armenia, had been provoked to assert the last relics of national freedom and hereditary rank; and the ambassadors of Vitiges had secretly traversed the empire to expose the instant, and almost inevitable, danger of the kingdom of Italy. Their representations were uniform, weighty, and effectual. "We stand before your throne, the advocates of your interest as well as of our own. The ambitious and faithless Justinian aspires to be the sole master of the world. Since the endless peace, which betrayed the common freedom of mankind, that prince, your ally in words, your enemy in actions, has alike insulted his friends and foes, and has filled the earth with blood and confusion. Has he not violated the privileges of Armenia, the independence of Colchos, and the wild liberty of the Tzanian mountains? Has he not usurped, with equal avidity, the city of Bosphorus on the frozen Maeotis, and the vale of palm-trees on the shores of the Red Sea? The Moors, the Vandals, the Goths, have been successively oppressed, and each nation has calmly remained the spectator of their neighbor's ruin. Embrace, O king! the favorable moment; the East is left without defence, while the armies of Justinian and his renowned general are detained in the distant regions of the West. If you hesitate or delay, Belisarius and his victorious troops will soon return from the Tyber to the Tigris, and Persia may enjoy the wretched consolation of being the last devoured." By such arguments, Chosroes was easily persuaded to imitate the example which he condemned: but the Persian, ambitious of military fame, disdained the inactive warfare of a rival, who issued his sanguinary commands from the secure station of the Byzantine palace.
Whatever might be the provocations of Chosroes, he abused the confidence of treaties; and the just reproaches of dissimulation and falsehood could only be concealed by the lustre of his victories. The Persian army, which had been assembled in the plains of Babylon, prudently declined the strong cities of Mesopotamia, and followed the western bank of the Euphrates, till the small, though populous, town of Dura presumed to arrest the progress of the great king. The gates of Dura, by treachery and surprise, were burst open; and as soon as Chosroes had stained his cimeter with the blood of the inhabitants, he dismissed the ambassador of Justinian to inform his master in what place he had left the enemy of the Romans. The conqueror still affected the praise of humanity and justice; and as he beheld a noble matron with her infant rudely dragged along the ground, he sighed, he wept, and implored the divine justice to punish the author of these calamities. Yet the herd of twelve thousand captives was ransomed for two hundred pounds of gold; the neighboring bishop of Sergiopolis pledged his faith for the payment: and in the subsequent year the unfeeling avarice of Chosroes exacted the penalty of an obligation which it was generous to contract and impossible to discharge. He advanced into the heart of Syria: but a feeble enemy, who vanished at his approach, disappointed him of the honor of victory; and as he could not hope to establish his dominion, the Persian king displayed in this inroad the mean and rapacious vices of a robber. Hierapolis, Berrhaea or Aleppo, Apamea and Chalcis, were successively besieged: they redeemed their safety by a ransom of gold or silver, proportioned to their respective strength and opulence; and their new master enforced, without observing, the terms of capitulation. Educated in the religion of the Magi, he exercised, without remorse, the lucrative trade of sacrilege; and, after stripping of its gold and gems a piece of the true cross, he generously restored the naked relic to the devotion of the Christians of Apamea. No more than fourteen years had elapsed since Antioch was ruined by an earthquake; but the queen of the East, the new Theopolis, had been raised from the ground by the liberality of Justinian; and the increasing greatness of the buildings and the people already erased the memory of this recent disaster. On one side, the city was defended by the mountain, on the other by the River Orontes; but the most accessible part was commanded by a superior eminence: the proper remedies were rejected, from the despicable fear of discovering its weakness to the enemy; and Germanus, the emperor's nephew, refused to trust his person and dignity within the walls of a besieged city. The people of Antioch had inherited the vain and satirical genius of their ancestors: they were elated by a sudden reenforcement of six thousand soldiers; they disdained the offers of an easy capitulation and their intemperate clamors insulted from the ramparts the majesty of the great king. Under his eye the Persian myriads mounted with scaling-ladders to the assault; the Roman mercenaries fled through the opposite gate of Daphne; and the generous assistance of the youth of Antioch served only to aggravate the miseries of their country. As Chosroes, attended by the ambassadors of Justinian, was descending from the mountain, he affected, in a plaintive voice, to deplore the obstinacy and ruin of that unhappy people; but the slaughter still raged with unrelenting fury; and the city, at the command of a Barbarian, was delivered to the flames. The cathedral of Antioch was indeed preserved by the avarice, not the piety, of the conqueror: a more honorable exemption was granted to the church of St. Julian, and the quarter of the town where the ambassadors resided; some distant streets were saved by the shifting of the wind, and the walls still subsisted to protect, and soon to betray, their new inhabitants. Fanaticism had defaced the ornaments of Daphne, but Chosroes breathed a purer air amidst her groves and fountains; and some idolaters in his train might sacrifice with impunity to the nymphs of that elegant retreat. Eighteen miles below Antioch, the River Orontes falls into the Mediterranean. The haughty Persian visited the term of his conquests; and, after bathing alone in the sea, he offered a solemn sacrifice of thanksgiving to the sun, or rather to the Creator of the sun, whom the Magi adored. If this act of superstition offended the prejudices of the Syrians, they were pleased by the courteous and even eager attention with which he assisted at the games of the circus; and as Chosroes had heard that the blue faction was espoused by the emperor, his peremptory command secured the victory of the green charioteer. From the discipline of his camp the people derived more solid consolation; and they interceded in vain for the life of a soldier who had too faithfully copied the rapine of the just Nushirvan. At length, fatigued, though unsatiated, with the spoil of Syria, he slowly moved to the Euphrates, formed a temporary bridge in the neighborhood of Barbalissus, and defined the space of three days for the entire passage of his numerous host. After his return, he founded, at the distance of one day's journey from the palace of Ctesiphon, a new city, which perpetuated the joint names of Chosroes and of Antioch. The Syrian captives recognized the form and situation of their native abodes: baths and a stately circus were constructed for their use; and a colony of musicians and charioteers revived in Assyria the pleasures of a Greek capital. By the munificence of the royal founder, a liberal allowance was assigned to these fortunate exiles; and they enjoyed the singular privilege of bestowing freedom on the slaves whom they acknowledged as their kinsmen. Palestine, and the holy wealth of Jerusalem, were the next objects that attracted the ambition, or rather the avarice, of Chosroes. Constantinople, and the palace of the Caesars, no longer appeared impregnable or remote; and his aspiring fancy already covered Asia Minor with the troops, and the Black Sea with the navies, of Persia.
These hopes might have been realized, if the conqueror of Italy had not been seasonably recalled to the defence of the East. While Chosroes pursued his ambitious designs on the coast of the Euxine, Belisarius, at the head of an army without pay or discipline, encamped beyond the Euphrates, within six miles of Nisibis. He meditated, by a skilful operation, to draw the Persians from their impregnable citadel, and improving his advantage in the field, either to intercept their retreat, or perhaps to enter the gates with the flying Barbarians. He advanced one day's journey on the territories of Persia, reduced the fortress of Sisaurane, and sent the governor, with eight hundred chosen horsemen, to serve the emperor in his Italian wars. He detached Arethas and his Arabs, supported by twelve hundred Romans, to pass the Tigris, and to ravage the harvests of Assyria, a fruitful province, long exempt from the calamities of war. But the plans of Belisarius were disconcerted by the untractable spirit of Arethas, who neither returned to the camp, nor sent any intelligence of his motions. The Roman general was fixed in anxious expectation to the same spot; the time of action elapsed, the ardent sun of Mesopotamia inflamed with fevors the blood of his European soldiers; and the stationary troops and officers of Syria affected to tremble for the safety of their defenceless cities. Yet this diversion had already succeeded in forcing Chosroes to return with loss and precipitation; and if the skill of Belisarius had been seconded by discipline and valor, his success might have satisfied the sanguine wishes of the public, who required at his hands the conquest of Ctesiphon, and the deliverance of the captives of Antioch. At the end of the campaign, he was recalled to Constantinople by an ungrateful court, but the dangers of the ensuing spring restored his confidence and command; and the hero, almost alone, was despatched, with the speed of post-horses, to repel, by his name and presence, the invasion of Syria. He found the Roman generals, among whom was a nephew of Justinian, imprisoned by their fears in the fortifications of Hierapolis. But instead of listening to their timid counsels, Belisarius commanded them to follow him to Europus, where he had resolved to collect his forces, and to execute whatever God should inspire him to achieve against the enemy. His firm attitude on the banks of the Euphrates restrained Chosroes from advancing towards Palestine; and he received with art and dignity the ambassadors, or rather spies, of the Persian monarch. The plain between Hierapolis and the river was covered with the squadrons of cavalry, six thousand hunters, tall and robust, who pursued their game without the apprehension of an enemy. On the opposite bank the ambassadors descried a thousand Armenian horse, who appeared to guard the passage of the Euphrates. The tent of Belisarius was of the coarsest linen, the simple equipage of a warrior who disdained the luxury of the East. Around his tent, the nations who marched under his standard were arranged with skilful confusion. The Thracians and Illyrians were posted in the front, the Heruli and Goths in the centre; the prospect was closed by the Moors and Vandals, and their loose array seemed to multiply their numbers. Their dress was light and active; one soldier carried a whip, another a sword, a third a bow, a fourth, perhaps, a battle axe, and the whole picture exhibited the intrepidity of the troops and the vigilance of the general. Chosroes was deluded by the address, and awed by the genius, of the lieutenant of Justinian. Conscious of the merit, and ignorant of the force, of his antagonist, he dreaded a decisive battle in a distant country, from whence not a Persian might return to relate the melancholy tale. The great king hastened to repass the Euphrates; and Belisarius pressed his retreat, by affecting to oppose a measure so salutary to the empire, and which could scarcely have been prevented by an army of a hundred thousand men. Envy might suggest to ignorance and pride, that the public enemy had been suffered to escape: but the African and Gothic triumphs are less glorious than this safe and bloodless victory, in which neither fortune, nor the valor of the soldiers, can subtract any part of the general's renown. The second removal of Belisarius from the Persian to the Italian war revealed the extent of his personal merit, which had corrected or supplied the want of discipline and courage. Fifteen generals, without concert or skill, led through the mountains of Armenia an army of thirty thousand Romans, inattentive to their signals, their ranks, and their ensigns. Four thousand Persians, intrenched in the camp of Dubis, vanquished, almost without a combat, this disorderly multitude; their useless arms were scattered along the road, and their horses sunk under the fatigue of their rapid flight. But the Arabs of the Roman party prevailed over their brethren; the Armenians returned to their allegiance; the cities of Dara and Edessa resisted a sudden assault and a regular siege, and the calamities of war were suspended by those of pestilence. A tacit or formal agreement between the two sovereigns protected the tranquillity of the Eastern frontier; and the arms of Chosroes were confined to the Colchian or Lazic war, which has been too minutely described by the historians of the times.
The extreme length of the Euxine Sea from Constantinople to the mouth of the Phasis, may be computed as a voyage of nine days, and a measure of seven hundred miles. From the Iberian Caucasus, the most lofty and craggy mountains of Asia, that river descends with such oblique vehemence, that in a short space it is traversed by one hundred and twenty bridges. Nor does the stream become placid and navigable, till it reaches the town of Sarapana, five days' journey from the Cyrus, which flows from the same hills, but in a contrary direction to the Caspian Lake. The proximity of these rivers has suggested the practice, or at least the idea, of wafting the precious merchandise of India down the Oxus, over the Caspian, up the Cyrus, and with the current of the Phasis into the Euxine and Mediterranean Seas. As it successively collects the streams of the plain of Colchos, the Phasis moves with diminished speed, though accumulated weight. At the mouth it is sixty fathom deep, and half a league broad, but a small woody island is interposed in the midst of the channel; the water, so soon as it has deposited an earthy or metallic sediment, floats on the surface of the waves, and is no longer susceptible of corruption. In a course of one hundred miles, forty of which are navigable for large vessels, the Phasis divides the celebrated region of Colchos, or Mingrelia, which, on three sides, is fortified by the Iberian and Armenian mountains, and whose maritime coast extends about two hundred miles from the neighborhood of Trebizond to Dioscurias and the confines of Circassia. Both the soil and climate are relaxed by excessive moisture: twenty-eight rivers, besides the Phasis and his dependent streams, convey their waters to the sea; and the hollowness of the ground appears to indicate the subterraneous channels between the Euxine and the Caspian. In the fields where wheat or barley is sown, the earth is too soft to sustain the action of the plough; but the gom, a small grain, not unlike the millet or coriander seed, supplies the ordinary food of the people; and the use of bread is confined to the prince and his nobles. Yet the vintage is more plentiful than the harvest; and the bulk of the stems, as well as the quality of the wine, display the unassisted powers of nature. The same powers continually tend to overshadow the face of the country with thick forests; the timber of the hills, and the flax of the plains, contribute to the abundance of naval stores; the wild and tame animals, the horse, the ox, and the hog, are remarkably prolific, and the name of the pheasant is expressive of his native habitation on the banks of the Phasis. The gold mines to the south of Trebizond, which are still worked with sufficient profit, were a subject of national dispute between Justinian and Chosroes; and it is not unreasonable to believe, that a vein of precious metal may be equally diffused through the circle of the hills, although these secret treasures are neglected by the laziness, or concealed by the prudence, of the Mingrelians. The waters, impregnated with particles of gold, are carefully strained through sheep-skins or fleeces; but this expedient, the groundwork perhaps of a marvellous fable, affords a faint image of the wealth extracted from a virgin earth by the power and industry of ancient kings. Their silver palaces and golden chambers surpass our belief; but the fame of their riches is said to have excited the enterprising avarice of the Argonauts. Tradition has affirmed, with some color of reason, that Egypt planted on the Phasis a learned and polite colony, which manufactured linen, built navies, and invented geographical maps. The ingenuity of the moderns has peopled, with flourishing cities and nations, the isthmus between the Euxine and the Caspian; and a lively writer, observing the resemblance of climate, and, in his apprehension, of trade, has not hesitated to pronounce Colchos the Holland of antiquity.
But the riches of Colchos shine only through the darkness of conjecture or tradition; and its genuine history presents a uniform scene of rudeness and poverty. If one hundred and thirty languages were spoken in the market of Dioscurias, they were the imperfect idioms of so many savage tribes or families, sequestered from each other in the valleys of Mount Caucasus; and their separation, which diminished the importance, must have multiplied the number, of their rustic capitals. In the present state of Mingrelia, a village is an assemblage of huts within a wooden fence; the fortresses are seated in the depths of forests; the princely town of Cyta, or Cotatis, consists of two hundred houses, and a stone edifice appertains only to the magnificence of kings. Twelve ships from Constantinople, and about sixty barks, laden with the fruits of industry, annually cast anchor on the coast; and the list of Colchian exports is much increased, since the natives had only slaves and hides to offer in exchange for the corn and salt which they purchased from the subjects of Justinian. Not a vestige can be found of the art, the knowledge, or the navigation, of the ancient Colchians: few Greeks desired or dared to pursue the footsteps of the Argonauts; and even the marks of an Egyptian colony are lost on a nearer approach. The rite of circumcision is practised only by the Mahometans of the Euxine; and the curled hair and swarthy complexion of Africa no longer disfigure the most perfect of the human race. It is in the adjacent climates of Georgia, Mingrelia, and Circassia, that nature has placed, at least to our eyes, the model of beauty in the shape of the limbs, the color of the skin, the symmetry of the features, and the expression of the countenance. According to the destination of the two sexes, the men seemed formed for action, the women for love; and the perpetual supply of females from Mount Caucasus has purified the blood, and improved the breed, of the southern nations of Asia. The proper district of Mingrelia, a portion only of the ancient Colchos, has long sustained an exportation of twelve thousand slaves. The number of prisoners or criminals would be inadequate to the annual demand; but the common people are in a state of servitude to their lords; the exercise of fraud or rapine is unpunished in a lawless community; and the market is continually replenished by the abuse of civil and paternal authority. Such a trade, which reduces the human species to the level of cattle, may tend to encourage marriage and population, since the multitude of children enriches their sordid and inhuman parent. But this source of impure wealth must inevitably poison the national manners, obliterate the sense of honor and virtue, and almost extinguish the instincts of nature: the Christians of Georgia and Mingrelia are the most dissolute of mankind; and their children, who, in a tender age, are sold into foreign slavery, have already learned to imitate the rapine of the father and the prostitution of the mother. Yet, amidst the rudest ignorance, the untaught natives discover a singular dexterity both of mind and hand; and although the want of union and discipline exposes them to their more powerful neighbors, a bold and intrepid spirit has animated the Colchians of every age. In the host of Xerxes, they served on foot; and their arms were a dagger or a javelin, a wooden casque, and a buckler of raw hides. But in their own country the use of cavalry has more generally prevailed: the meanest of the peasants disdained to walk; the martial nobles are possessed, perhaps, of two hundred horses; and above five thousand are numbered in the train of the prince of Mingrelia. The Colchian government has been always a pure and hereditary kingdom; and the authority of the sovereign is only restrained by the turbulence of his subjects. Whenever they were obedient, he could lead a numerous army into the field; but some faith is requisite to believe, that the single tribe of the Suanians as composed of two hundred thousand soldiers, or that the population of Mingrelia now amounts to four millions of inhabitants.
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missing text wrote: Contagion is the inseparable symptom of the plague; which, by mutual respiration, is transfused from the infected persons to the lungs and stomach of those who approach them. While philosophers believe and tremble, it is singular, that the existence of a real danger should have been denied by a people most prone to vain and imaginary terrors. 93 Yet the fellow-citizens of Procopius were satisfied, by some short and partial experience, that the infection could not be gained by the closest conversation: 94 and this persuasion might support the assiduity of friends or physicians in the care of the sick, whom inhuman prudence would have condemned to solitude and despair. But the fatal security, like the predestination of the Turks, must have aided the progress of the contagion; and those salutary precautions to which Europe is indebted for her safety, were unknown to the government of Justinian. No restraints were imposed on the free and frequent intercourse of the Roman provinces: from Persia to France, the nations were mingled and infected by wars and emigrations; and the pestilential odor which lurks for years in a bale of cotton was imported, by the abuse of trade, into the most distant regions. The mode of its propagation is explained by the remark of Procopius himself, that it always spread from the sea-coast to the inland country: the most sequestered islands and mountains were successively visited; the places which had escaped the fury of its first passage were alone exposed to the contagion of the ensuing year. The winds might diffuse that subtile venom; but unless the atmosphere be previously disposed for its reception, the plague would soon expire in the cold or temperate climates of the earth. Such was the universal corruption of the air, that the pestilence which burst forth in the fifteenth year of Justinian was not checked or alleviated by any difference of the seasons. In time, its first malignity was abated and dispersed; the disease alternately languished and revived; but it was not till the end of a calamitous period of fifty-two years, that mankind recovered their health, or the air resumed its pure and salubrious quality.
No facts have been preserved to sustain an account, or even a conjecture, of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find, that during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; that many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian; and his reign is disgraced by the visible decrease of the human species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe.
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Hospitalized Boston mayor says he's on the mend
Menino hospitalized since Oct. 26
The longest-serving mayor in Boston history says he's recovering from a viral infection and a compression fracture in his back even though he was "a pretty sick guy" when he first checked into the hospital almost two weeks ago.
Mayor Thomas Menino told The Boston Globe from his hospital room on Wednesday that the illness he came down with on a vacation cruise in Italy to celebrate his 46th wedding anniversary sapped his energy. He offered no timetable for a discharge.
He first checked into Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 26. He suffered the compression fracture last week while in bed.
He has been in communication with his staff either via telephone or through visits to the hospital.
The Democrat was elected to a fifth four-year term in 2009.


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So since I closed this place down, in fact, just recently, domestic terrorism hit close to home. One of the reasons, in fact, that I decided to start blogging again. I'm talking, of course, about the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber. Oregon's in the national spotlight, and not just because the Ducks are kicking ass all over the west.
Here's the thing that disturbs me the most about the whole thing: as part of their sting operation, the FBI sold him the bomb he tried to use -- albeit, a fake one. that means the kid was buying a bomb from them.
And that's what's wrong with kids today: they want everything done for them. No work ethic, no patience, just instant gratification. What happened to the days of terrorist nutjobs with work ethic and pride in their craftsmanship, like Ted Kaczynski or Timothy McVeigh? Sure, they were psychopathic monsters, who deserve everything they got, but among all their evil faults, laziness was not one. On top of all the misanthropic psychosis of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, he was also a slacker, and a stupid, lazy one to boot.
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There's nothing quite like taking advantage of the drunk, or the stupid, or the drunk and stupid. And these bets are, if not the best way to do that, at least one of the most amusing. Weird-trick extraordinaire Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of bets you can't lose, and they're just as technically-something-you-might-get-away-with as ever.
As clever as some of them are, they're not exactly the kind of thing you'd want bring up to the burly, rowdy sportsfan in the corner. So please, consider restraining yourself to using them to con small children and simpletons into doing their (or your) chores. That's a gold mine all its own. [Quirkology]


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The exceptional handmade Champagne Wine glass of the eye-catching glass collection Fatto A Mano R.Q. stands out due to a black stem. This glass allows the wide range of Champagne to unfold. The larger rim diameter enables the aromas of Champagne to be released, in a way which is not achieved when using a narrow flute. The glass also includes a 'sparkling point' to aid the formation of the Champagne bubbles. Combining the sophistication of handmade glass in the style of the ancient Venetian tradition with the very latest glass making technology. All RIEDEL glasses are dishwasher safe. RQ = this item is supplied as 'Restaurant Quality' meaning that it may contain small imperfections when compared to the same item in 'best quality' and, as such, is offered at a special purchase price exclusively for use in restaurants.
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CINCINNATI -- Turns out, Homer Bailey has never actually been to Saltillo, Mexico, but he has read about it.
The Cincinnati right-hander had writers searching the Internet for the correct spelling of the town's name after saying he'd been "bit harder by bedbugs" there while describing his brush with a line drive during the Reds' 4-0 win over Cleveland on Thursday.
"That's a line from 'Lonesome Dove,'" Bailey said before Friday's game. "That's my favorite book and movie."
The mark on Bailey's right cheek and neck left by Indians shortstop Jose Ramirez's fifth-inning liner -- which the pitcher was able to slow down with his glove -- had virtually disappeared, but some soreness still lingered.
"Talking to y'all and chewing at the same time doesn't make it feel so good," said Bailey, who improved to 9-5 with a 3.71 ERA with his fourth straight quality start. His next start is scheduled for Wednesday against Boston in the finale of Cincinnati's seven-game homestand.
Manager Bryan Price credited better "pitch execution" with Bailey's recent surge, during which his ERA has fallen just over a half a run from 4.22.
"There was a point in time earlier in the season when we thought he might've been tipping his pitches earlier, but that's been addressed," Price said.
Bailey didn't disagree with Price's assessment, but he also allowed for a change in fortune.
"Early in the season, the balls were falling in," he said. "Now, they're falling into gloves.
"I'm locating my fastball really well. I guess you could say all the things that I'm supposed to do, I'm doing a lot of them."


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OPEN FOR BUSINESS: When times get tough, and profits are not seen, and financial goals are not met, what's a business owner to do? An owner can hang a "closed forever" sign on the front door, lock it, and walk away. But what if the business a) doesn't have a front door and b) is still much beloved by sporty families and people looking to strap on a pair of skis for the first time? Some downtime is taken to consider solutions and then? A reopening. That's just what June Mountain did and is doing. The Eastern Sierra peak has struggled to turn a profit over the years, and management opted to close for the 2012-2013 season to explore what could be done. It was announced on Tuesday, April 23 that the peak, which is overseen by the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, will reopen for the 2013-2014 season. "Mid-December" is the probable week when the proverbial door will be thrown wide once again.
NEW ADDITIONS: "(T)he possibility of a new lift and enhanced snowmaking" may greet returning skiers, says June Mountain general manager Carl Williams. Regardless of fresh additions, the patrons who enjoyed June Mountain the most have to be happy. It was known as a family favorite, and an a-ok place for a first-timer to try out their fledgling stuff (whether that first-timer is a skier or snowboarder).
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Oh, so you tore off the cardboard flaps from a carton of beer and spent 59 cents on some glitter, did you? I hope you're red-faced after hearing this Halloweener spent over $1,000 and 250 hours on his costume.
YouTube user "DrWormsie" broke the costs down for his costume:
Sheet metal, aircraft aluminum, and other parts: $600.
Rivets, bolts, hardware: $250.
Tool purchases/rentals: $200.
Spraypaint: $90.
Truck rental to carry costume: $210
Hours: 250+.
Looking like you could take down a tank: priceless.
That's one committed chap. I wonder where he went for Halloween? It certainly befits some sort of carpark mecha rave. If he just went down to his local pub I'm going to weep into my comedy Halloween afro wig. [Reddit via Boing Boing]


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"A brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world:a corner of someone's mind." - John Hegarty
The University of Michigan brand occupies a great many corners of a great many minds. Thus, its value is incalculable.
We are understandably careful about the way the University of Michigan brand is represented. There are specific guidelines. There are some "dos" and "don'ts."
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