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Talk about everything Sherlock Holmes. The movies, the cannon,the characters, everything!
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There is religious references in the cannon, the most famous the flower speech.
But it is ok in your oppinion to put religious references in your fanfiction?
And how did Watson feel about religion? Living with Sherlock Holmes, did he drag him to church, go alone by himself, or just not go? How did he think of God? A Savior, or something from childhood that's going to be there forever, something in the world to acknowlage and move on?
Is it possible Holmes underwent a conversion during his Hiatus?
Did Watson go through a time of religious trial after Holmes and Mary's death?
What religion was Watson's?
What religion was Holmes's?
8/24/2008 #1
Sheesh, AA, one question at a time! :)
Don't quote me seriously on this, because it's come off the top of my head; I might change my mind after studying the Canon more in depth, but for now this is my basic opinion:
1. Of course it's ok to put religious references in your stories - the definition of fanfiction decrees that anything and everything goes. Granted, it may end up OoC but it's perfectly acceptable.
2. Personally, I doubt that either of them went to church regularly - probably only when they were in rural surroundings and everyone in the village did, on occasions like Christmas Eve. Mentioning God and religion in public writing and everyday speech was fairly common in those days and didn't necessarily denote acceptance of the Christian faith in doing so.
3. I've heard it said that it's possible Holmes was 'converted' during the Hiatus - certainly, there's a shift in his focus post-Hiatus from himself and his own fame to helping others, and he's definitely a bit warmer than he was before Reichenbach. Other than that, there's no Canonical evidence to suggest conversion, however, at least not to the Christian faith. People have made a strong argument for Buddhism, based upon the Tibet connection and so on, but there's no real evidence.
4. I see Watson as the traditional type of Englishman - if anything, Anglican (Church of England) in all probability, just because he strikes me as a character of traditional ideals. Probably your average non-church-going Englishman. Spiritual trial after Mary's death, I can't say - I rather think he turned to writing rather than to a religion for therapy in grief.
5. Watson, as I said, I see as Anglican just because of his traditional English gentleman character. But there's no evidence to prove or disprove that.
6. Holmes...who knows, but probably either very basic Anglican (in name only, due to tradition) or, as some think, converted to some kind of Eastern religion. I doubt that he seriously thought about the matter regularly, only in moments like the rose bit and the end of BOSC, acknowledging a Higher Power simply on the scientific evidence that there must be One.
Again, just a sporadic answer, don't quote me as finalising an opinion just yet. :)
8/24/2008 #2
*randomly appears* hello!
i agree with KCS. i bleieve both gentlemen acknowledged a Higher Power, but likely not anything more than that. however, i am constantly throwing Christian references into my fics; being a Christian, i can't really help it ;-) and i want to.
8/24/2008 #3
Sorry for inundating you with all the questions. xD
I just wonder these things some times...
But for conversion, I wasn't talking about to Christianity. I was thinking that maybe he adopted certain ideals from Tibet, though probably not any gods.
I never saw him going to church, not even as a small child. In my mind I can see him bored and kicking the seats. xD
8/24/2008 #4
lol..i had a feeling you meant buddhism or something eastern AA. but you fell into a nest of Christians with these forums. so expect that kind of response ;-)
and...yeah, i can see him kicking the seats too. and probably getting a disapproving glare from his older brother as a result XD
8/24/2008 #5
I'm Christian too, so I'm not disaproving of it popping up. xD
I can also see him whispering to his brother as the logically impossible things in the preacher's sermon. 8D
8/24/2008 #6
Pretty much I agree with KCS. :)
And also bcb, in the fact that I do tend to throw in Christian tones, being a Christian myself...xD
8/25/2008 #7
I think it would be facinating to see someone write with Buhddist or Jewish overtones. 8)
8/25/2008 #8
i'm sure buddhist has been done somewhere.
if you want jewish, talk to smallrose. she'd likely oblige.
8/25/2008 #9
In this day and ange, everything's been done. XD
Really? Cool. :)
8/25/2008 #10
* wacks non-checking self xS *
8/25/2008 #11
*falls asleep*
8/25/2008 #12
'Night then! :P
8/25/2008 #13
I'm going to agree with the consensus that the Baker Street boys weren't church-goers. And that Watson was probably brought up Anglican. Of course, going to chapel was mandated by most schools at the time, and even into the 20th century.
I've heard the argument that Holmes was a lapsed Catholic, having French on his mother's side and because of the way he cited a Bible passage in CROOKED MAN. Personally I don't either of these are good arguments. For one, French ancestry does not a Catholic make. For another, the stories were "edited" ;) by lapsed Catholic so of course Doyle'd put his own spin on things.
We never get Watson's opinion of religion really. The three passages that spring to mind concerning Holmes are his speech in NAVAL about "much to hope for from the flowers"; his agonized "poor, helpless worms" in BOSCOMBE; and the "What is the meaning of it, Watson?" speech at the end of CARDBOARD. Although that may be more philosophy than religion.
9/25/2008 #14
Mac an bhaird
Towards the end of His Last Bow there is mention in one tale of Holmes saying he was on his way to 'chapel' before he met an old friend. Most people in the uk make the distinction between chapel as a catholic place of worship and church as the protestant place of worship. It's obscure but i hope it's of use to you.
Mac an bhaird.
2/10/2010 #15
Falco aesalon
I do remember him saying at the end of His Last Bow "It is God's own wind none the less..." so he probably believed in God and he did imply that he should have known the Bible well in The Crooked Man.
I think the idea of a young Sherlock kicking the pews is hilarious. I probably did something like that when my family would go to church every Christmas Eve. At my dad's request, we had to go somewhere where they light candles at the end and sing Silent Night or something. In contrast to the church my mom took me to regularly, it was extremely boring. That was the first time I tried wine by accident, I was old enough to do communion and I accidentally picked up wine instead of grape juice, and I think you can guess the rest.
6/14/2010 #16
That would make an interesting story. :)
6/14/2010 #17
Falco aesalon
Now I think about it, that would be really funny. The Holmes family attends the christmas Eve service. Sherlock is old enough to take part in communion (did they do that in Anglican churches? I'll have to find out) and gets a taste of wine. Or maybe he has a bored moment, kicks the pews, and gets in serious trouble.
But I'm not sure what I think of his family backround. I can't decide if I like them being abusive or eccentric. Like, so eccentric that he won't talk about them because they're so embarrassing. Two good reasons for him not to talk about his family much. Except the occaisional sane family member like Mycroft. And does anyone think Sherrinford Holmes exixts? It seems likely to me. Sorry, I'm getting off topic.
6/14/2010 #18
I like the stern more verbal abusive background then extreme abuse, but I also like there to be eccentrics in there too.
6/14/2010 #19
Falco aesalon
The reason I can't decide is that I've read two different people's ideas, both were really good. I read The Case of the Headmaster's Terrier by Eyebrows2 where his mother is abusive and Westron Wynde's fics where his family is extremely eccentric in a hilarious way. I'm sure about just verbally abusive because that wouldn't give him much reason to not talk about them. Maybe his origins were so scandalous that Watson couldn't publish them. I wodner if it's a good thing ACD left so much space for speculation or not.
6/14/2010 #20
I guess we will never know...
I was thinking about it some more and I decided that I like the eccentric option.
6/16/2010 #21
Falco aesalon
I guess my preferences depend whether in the mood for hurt/comfort or humor. Meh, I'm so wishy-washy.
6/16/2010 #22
I'm trying to write something about five year old Sherlock at church on Christmas with his family right now because of this conversation. :) I think anyone who had to sit in the big service when they were four or five can relate to something like that.
6/17/2010 #23
Falco aesalon
Haha I certainly could!
6/17/2010 #24
I know I can. :) My parents always used to give me paper and a pencil to draw when I had to sit in the big service. :) I am putting that into the ficlet. :)
6/17/2010 #25
Falco aesalon
I would have done that except that there weren't any pencils or anything so I had to sit through the whole thing.
6/17/2010 #26
Ah. I like sitting in the big service now that I am older though. :)
6/17/2010 #27
Falco aesalon
Yes, it's much more entertaining than running after 4 year olds when helping out with the child care. such as ones that pick your friend's nose. And especially ones that attempt to run you over with toy shopping carts. True stories, both of them.
6/17/2010 #28
Yeah agreed. :) I like going to the teen Sunday school class though. :)
6/17/2010 #29
Falco aesalon
My church doesn't have one. :( There is a youth group though. We've taped people to the wall, made some people eat something gross, and once the youth pastor brought a cow tongue. He said he was going to bring two and have an eating contest with it, though I don't know if he was joking or not.
6/17/2010 #30
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Class of data structures that can be traversed from left to right, performing an action on each element. See also * Applicative Programming with Effects, by Conor McBride and Ross Paterson, online at * The Essence of the Iterator Pattern, by Jeremy Gibbons and Bruno Oliveira, in Mathematically-Structured Functional Programming, 2006, and online at Note that the functions mapM and sequence generalize Prelude functions of the same names from lists to any Traversable functor. To avoid ambiguity, either import the Prelude hiding these names or qualify uses of these function names with an alias for this module.
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Functors representing data structures that can be traversed from left to right. Minimal complete definition: traverse or sequenceA. Instances are similar to Functor, e.g. given a data type > data Tree a = Empty | Leaf a | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a) a suitable instance would be > instance Traversable Tree > traverse f Empty = pure Empty > traverse f (Leaf x) = Leaf <$> f x > traverse f (Node l k r) = Node <$> traverse f l <*> f k <*> traverse f r This is suitable even for abstract types, as the laws for <*> imply a form of associativity. The superclass instances should satisfy the following: * In the Functor instance, fmap should be equivalent to traversal with the identity applicative functor (fmapDefault). * In the Foldable instance, Data.Foldable.foldMap should be equivalent to traversal with a constant applicative functor (foldMapDefault).
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What Can We Do If We Like Each Other?
There are lots of ways to keep Church standards and still build relationships with the opposite gender.
When You’re Not Yet 16
You’re at your first Church dance when it happens. You just worked up the courage to ask the new girl to dance. She’s recently moved into the ward, and you simply want to say hi to welcome her and get to know her better.
And that’s when you discover the two of you share the same love of volleyball, have the same taste in music, and enjoy the same favorite ice cream. She even laughs at your jokes. That’s when you realize you like her—and, unless you are wildly mistaken, that she likes you too.
Now what? You’re not old enough to start dating. Obviously, it’s time to flee the dance, rush home, and immediately start pretending you never met. You might also want to change your bike route to the park so you don’t have to pass her house. Right?
No, actually. In fact, you don’t need to do any of these things. Even if dating is still far away, you can always make a new friend. As explained in For the Strength of Youth, “Everyone needs good and true friends. They will be a great strength and blessing to you. They will influence how you think and act, and even help determine the person you will become” ([2011], 16).
“Your circle of friends will greatly influence your thinking and behavior, just as you will theirs. When you share common values with your friends, you can strengthen and encourage each other.” —President Thomas S. Monson
Sometimes it might be easy to misinterpret dating standards to mean that we can’t even form friendships with members of the opposite gender before we’re 16. But if we follow that way of thinking, we might miss out on rewarding friendships. So, yes, you can become friends.
Does that mean it’s all right to start hanging out nonstop with your new friend, doing everything together, from having homework sessions to going on long walks in the park? No. That strays into dating—even steady dating—no matter what you might call it instead.
Here are a few suggestions that can help you know when your friendship is following correct standards:
• Consider intent. So much comes down to intent and motives. Ask yourself: is the only reason you’re planning an activity with a group of friends so that you can spend time exchanging glances with one friend in particular? If so, that’s moving beyond friendship.
• Don’t pair off. Let’s say you are planning a board game night at your home (with parental supervision, of course). As it turns out, three boys—including yourself—and three girls can make it. Mathematically speaking, that’s three pairs. Do you need to hurry and find a seventh person to avoid the accidental pairing? Not necessarily. “Pairing off” doesn’t refer specifically to whether or not you have an exact number of boys versus girls. For example, you could easily have 5 girls in a room with 12 boys and still end up with several couples pairing off—focusing their entire time and attention on each other. You avoid pairing off when everyone is talking with everybody else. Yes, you can enjoy activities with friends of both genders. Yet when a group of friends gets together, make sure everyone feels included. The moment any two start ignoring the rest of the group, that’s when pairing off begins.
• Discuss with parents. When it comes to friendships and activities with the opposite gender, it’s best to work out specific guidelines and rules with your parents.
After You Turn 16
OK, the big birthday is finally in the rearview mirror. You are now old enough to ask the intriguing girl from the dance on a date (she turned 16 a few months earlier). Now what? Keep these ideas in mind:
• Group dates. As you are counseled in For the Strength of Youth, “When you begin dating, go with one or more additional couples” (4). Yes, you can go on dates with her. But the Church counsels youth to go in groups rather than date one-on-one, so make sure your date includes other people.
• Frequency. You know you should “avoid going on frequent dates with the same person” (For the Strength of Youth, 4), so what constitutes “frequent”? No more than one date a month? One every six months? How about a nice annual outing to the ice-cream parlor every first Friday in September? In some cultures, going out even one time signifies a serious relationship. It’s best to work out specifics with your parents and through prayer. As with many gospel principles, the Church provides guidelines with dating, but it’s always up to each of us to seek the Spirit to know how best to follow those guidelines. Yes, you can go on more than one date with the girl from the dance. But you still need to find the proper balance in the frequency.
• Friendship first. As you enter the dating years, you’ll find that forming good friendships is even more important than before. Good friends are a blessing at any age. Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught, “Each day of your life, strive to enlarge your own circle of friendship” (“Be Thou an Example of the Believers,” Ensign, Nov. 2010, 48). So yes, while you can indeed date each other when you’re both old enough and each committed to following Church standards, forming true and uplifting friendships—not finding a boyfriend or girlfriend—remains one of the most important talents we can develop in this life.
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Tuna has made headlines in years past as a controversial catch, but now it's the cans that are cause for conservationist's contemplation. Metal cans use up more raw material than plastic pouches do, and they require more energy to transport. Now, Sea Fare Pacific is bucking tradition by packing wild-caught fish in sleek eco-friendly, BPA-free pouches.
Popcorn bags may seem inconspicuous enough, but they're increasingly drawing scrutiny. It turns out that many commercial microwave popcorn bags are lined with PFOA, which the FDA labels a toxin. Other sketchy stuff in the bags ranges from plastics to Teflon, not to mention artificial butter substitutes. Into the breach Quinn Popcorn arrived with a Kickstarter campaign and plans to clean up the much-beloved snack.
Here's how the Quinn founders' site describes their mission: "First, we tackled the bag. Gone are the chemical coatings (PFOA, PFCs, Poly, etc.). We even pulled out the susceptor (gray metal/plastic patch). What's left is a bag that's made from paper and paper alone. Well, it is special paper that is pressed to make it grease proof. That wasn't easy to figure out. Did we mention, it's even compostable?"
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How to respond when companies contradict the Faith
A year ago, Starbucks made headlines when Kalen Holmes, executive vice president for partner resources, issued a statement that read in part: “Starbucks is proud to join other leading Northwest employers in support of Washington state legislation recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples …. This important legislation is aligned with Starbucks business practices and upholds our belief in the equal treatment of partners. It is core to who we are and what we value as a company.”
A few months later at the company’s 2012 annual shareholder meeting, Howard Schulz, the company’s founder, chairman and CEO respectfully defended its support of same-sex marriage as a core value. Fast-forward to the 2013 annual shareholders meeting. Schulz was asked whether it was wise for the company to be so public in its support of same-sex marriage, given that many shareholders and customers believe in traditional marriage, and that the stance had triggered a boycott by the National Organization for Marriage. This time, Schulz was more aggressive, telling the shareholder: “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much.”
How are we to respond when a company takes actions contrary to our faith, especially as aggressively as Starbucks has? When it comes to marriage, the Church’s teaching is clear: “The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ to the dignity of a sacrament” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1601).
We are called “to do what is good and avoid what is evil” (No. 1706), in this case supporting traditional marriage and avoiding the support of same-sex marriage. While we wish we could avoid all evil, we are a sinful people, and that sin permeates the culture. It’s unreasonable to think we can completely separate ourselves from the evil around us.
A matter of cooperation
This gets us to the issue of cooperation: both formal and material. Formal cooperation is when we help in some way and share the goal of the person or organization we are helping. Formal cooperation with evil is never allowed. Material cooperation is when we help a person or organization, but do not share their goals. The principle of material cooperation recognizes what has been described above: that it can be virtually impossible to completely separate ourselves from participating in sinful actions of others.
This brings us back to the example of Starbucks. If you believe in traditional marriage, you wouldn’t be formally cooperating with Starbucks’ goal of promoting homosexual marriage when you buy a cup of coffee from them; however, you would be cooperating materially. How do you decide whether it is acceptable to materially cooperate? Here are a few points to consider:
Is the issue of a serious nature? In this case, the answer is clearly “yes.” That should prompt us to avoid participating if it’s reasonable to do so.
What level of commitment is the company making? A $5,000 annual donation toward the cause of homosexual marriage from an organization with $12 billion in annual revenues represents a modest level of involvement. Saying that homosexual marriage is a core value of the company and supporting legislation promoting same-sex marriage raises the bar substantially.
To what extent do you need the product or service the company provides? I’ll leave the coffee question up to you!
Are there good alternative sources for the product or service of the company? In this case, there are several.
Recognize that although material cooperation with evil is allowed for sufficient cause, it is meritorious to take extra steps to avoid such cooperation.
Phil Lenahan is President of Veritas Financial Ministries (, host of Life and Money radio, and author of 7 Steps to Becoming Financially Free (OSV).
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Ahab and the Glamour of Evil: A Burkean Reading of Ritual in 'Moby Dick.'
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Numerous critics have commented upon the significance of ritualistic acts in Moby Dick, particularly in the "Quarterdeck," "Forge," and "Candles" chapters. Poet W. H. Auden writes that Ahab enacts "every ritual ... of the Religious Hero, only for negative reasons" (qtd. in Bloom 17). Tony Magistrale calls him the "high celebrant" of "each unholy rite ... a blasphemous parody of a religious ritual" (Bloom 50); Lawrance Thompson refers to the "inverted" rituals of communion, baptism, and prayer (Bloom 19). Henry A. Murray links the "Quarterdeck" directly to Christianity: Ahab acts as an Antichrist figure who performs a Black Mass (40-41).
Ahab performs these rituals to induce action in his crew. S. I. Hayakawa writes that we use verbal and nonverbal directive language to cause change, "to reach out into the future and control conduct" (244). Such directive utterances gain collective sanction in public ceremonies, where ritual and grandeur are "calculated to impress the occasion on the mind" (242). Some elements which accompany these collective directive utterances are activities or gestures; feasts, dancing, and other joyous manifestations; and appeals to supernatural powers (242). Clearly, then, Ahab designs his ceremonies to duplicate accepted rituals. He wants to convert the Pequod's crew to his quest for vengeance upon the whale that crippled him, so he enthralls them with the blessings, gold, and wine of "sacramental symbolism" but keeps the specific motive of self-destructive revenge hidden (Cowan 117).
Although such interpretations are accurate, they fail to address the necessity for ritual. Why does the austere, Quakerbred Ahab continually rely upon such extravagant display? He could track the whale from his cabin and with the reports from passing captains without creating a spectacle of Moby Dick. Other ships they encounter had lowered for the white whale, so in the normal course of business, the Pequod would also. The ceremonies, though symbolically rich, do not alter the crew's ability or willingness to hunt whales. In fact, the rituals almost backfire because they alert Starbuck to a drive in the captain that could cause the ship's destruction. Though the ineffectual Starbuck never acts on this information, the rituals do provide potential justification for mutiny.
One way to address the necessity for ritual is through Kenneth Burke's ideas about identification through courtship. In his description of the courtly intention, Burke writes that the courtier operates under two motivations: the social and the personal. The social deals with honoring the other, the courted. Through praise, the courtier seeks favors from the courted, whether prince or beloved. The personal motivation deals with the courtier's self-love. Through the interaction of courting, the courtier finds his "individual identity" in the rhetorical relationship (147-48). Earlier in the book Burke refers to this formation of the individual through the socialization of rhetoric; by identifying with an audience, the orator identifies himself through his own images and ideas (38-39). Through the ritual, then, Ahab courts his crew and wins them to his cause. Simultaneously, he identifies himself, with the ceremony, he binds himself to suicide by identifying with the crew, who is bound to the same quest. The ritual creates a reciprocal relationship which neither can break because of pressure from the other, a pressure generated from the use of rhetorical symbols.
Henry A. Murray has referred to the "Quarterdeck" ritual as a Black Mass; in the context of courting, it becomes more appropriate to consider it as a Wedding Mass. The symbols traditionally associated with the Mass, and more specifically with a marriage ceremony, are present. Like all sacraments, marriage is an initiation, "the entry -- accompanied by ritual practices -- into a new phase of life." The ceremony signifies transformation. The ring which Ahab commands the men to form around him symbolizes "joining, fidelity, or membership in a community and thus of distinction, office, and dignity"; it is an eternal union. …
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nicotine, C10H14N2, poisonous, pale yellow, oily liquid alkaloid with a pungent odor and an acrid taste. It turns brown on exposure to air. Nicotine, a naturally occurring constituent of tobacco, is the active ingredient in tobacco smoke. The amount of nicotine in tobacco leaves ranges from approximately 2% to 7%. In concentrated form, it is used as an insecticide.
Nicotine, which mimics the affects of acetylcholine, acts primarily on the autonomic nervous system. In a dose of less than 50 mg, it can cause respiratory failure and general paralysis. Smaller toxic doses can cause heart palpitations, lowered blood pressure, nausea, and dizziness. A person who smokes inhales approximately 3 mg from one cigarette. This amount increases the heart rate, constricts the blood vessels, and acts on the central nervous system, imparting a feeling of alertness and well-being. Although not considered carcinogenic, nicotine probably contributes to the increased incidence of heart disease seen in smokers and may enhance the growth of tumors caused by carcinogens.
People who use tobacco products develop a physiological addiction to nicotine. Research has shown that nicotine increases the flow of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain, creating pleasurable feelings and a craving to keep in the bloodstream levels of nicotine that will maintain these feelings. Lack of nicotine causes withdrawal symptoms (heart rate and blood pressure changes, sleeping problems, brain wave disturbances, and anxiety) in smokers.
Nicotine-containing chewing gums and skin patches that administer nicotine to people who are trying to cease smoking have been developed. Although the rate of absorption is slower with these methods than with smoking—smoking delivers nicotine to the brain within six seconds—and although nicotine obtained in this way does not provide the same pleasurable results as smoking, the gums and patches do help relieve some of the symptoms of withdrawal. Combining the use of patches or gum with continued smoking can result in nicotine overdose and toxicity, causing nausea, palpitations, and headache. Nicotine nasal sprays and inhalers more closely mimic the delivery and intensity of nicotine obtained by smoking. Some researchers have suggested, however, that prolonged use of nicotine replacement, especially inhalers, beyond the few months recommended to break the cigarette habit could damage cells lining the blood vessels and lungs. It is not clear if the use of nicotine replacement therapy is effective in enabling smokers to quit permanently.
See also smoking.
Nicotine: Selected full-text books and articles
David Kessler.
Public Affairs, 2001
Helping the Hard-Core Smoker: A Clinician's Guide
Daniel F. Seidman; Lirio S. Covey.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999
Librarian’s tip: Chap. Two "Nicotine Dependence and Its Associations with Psychiatric Disorders: Research Evidence and Treatment Implications"
Individual Decisions for Health
Björn Lindgren.
Routledge, 2002
Librarian’s tip: Chap. 4 "Rationality, Nicotine Dependence, and Adjustment Costs"
Handbook of Health Psychology
Andrew Baum; Tracey A. Revenson; Jerome E. Singer.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
Librarian’s tip: Chap. 14 "The Psychobiology of Nicotine Self-Administration"
An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology
Anthony Esgate; David Groome; Kavin Baker; David Heathcote; Richard Kemp; Mora Maguire; Corriene Reed.
Psychology Press, 2005
Librarian’s tip: "Nicotine" begins on p. 177
The Psychology of Health: An Introduction
Marian Pitts; Keith Phillips.
Routledge, 1998 (2nd edition)
Librarian’s tip: "Nicotine" begins on p. 132
Sarah W. Tracy; Caroline Jean Acker.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Librarian’s tip: "From Nicotine to Nicotrol: Addiction, Cigarettes, and American Culture" begins on p. 383
Prevention and Societal Impact of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Robert T. Ammerman; Peggy J. Ott; Ralph E. Tarter.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999
Librarian’s tip: "Therapeutic Effects of Nicotine" begins on p. 101
Biological Processes Underlying Co-Use of Alcohol and Nicotine: Neuronal Mechanisms, Cross-Tolerance, and Genetic Factors
Funk, Douglas; Marinelli, Peter W.; Le, Anh D.
Concurrent Alcohol and Tobacco Dependence: Mechanisms and Treatment
Drobes, David J.
Alcohol Research, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 2002
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LIFE FROM DEATH Even well-preserved mammoth remains, such as this calf mummy found in 2007, won’t yield enough DNA to make a clone. But there are other ways to bring mammoths back, according to evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro.
Nicole Stott
NASA astronaut Nicole Stott hovers near the Mice Drawer System aboard the International Space Station. Mice housed in the space cage developed thin skin after 91 days of weightlessness.
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Osteopilus septentrionalisCuban Treefrog
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Geographic Range
Osteopilus septentrionalis is native to Cuba and nearby islands. it has also been introduced throughout the Caribbean and into southern Florida (Bartlett, 1996).
Typical of tree frogs, O. septentrionalis spends most of its time in trees or very large plants, especially those with large leaves.They are found only where low temperatures stay above 10 degrees C, with daytime temperatures between 23-29 degrees. This species also prefers areas of high humidity, thus it is very common along waterways. As O. septentrionalis has been introduced, it has become particularly abundant around the pool areas of hotels, where the comination of large decorative vegetation and abundant food resources have made for a favorable habitat (Bartlett,1996).
Physical Description
This is the largest of the American tree frogs. Males generally have a maximum size of 5.1-6.3 cm (SVL), with females being much larger, attaining a size of 12.7 cm (SVL). Osteopilus septentrionalis is highly variable in color, but they are usually some shade of gray, tan or olive, occasionally with dark, marbled blotches dorsally. Their skin is very textured, and they have extremely large eyes and toe pads (Bartlett, 1996).
This species reproduces in late spring, as temperatures climb into the range of 27-29 degrees C. Males typically establish some kind of territory in a pond or flooded ditch, and call to females with vocalizations consisting of clucks, growls and squeaks. Mating occurs via inguinal amplexus, and eggs are laid in scattered masses underwater.
• Key Reproductive Features
• gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
• Average lifespan
Status: captivity
12.9 years
Osteopilus septentrionalis is an almost entirely nocturnal species, and spends its active time either searching for prey or defending their territories. For the most part, O.septentroinalis is arboreal, but is known to venture onto the ground to hunt and breed. During the day, they usually spend their time on the underside of large leaves or hidden in crevices in trees, where it is typically more humid (Bartlett,1996).
Food Habits
Osteopilus septentrionalis is a voracious predator, and will eat almost anything they can fit in their mouths. They are generally insectivorous, feeding mainly on large cockroaches and moths. however, large adults are known to consume everything from small lizards and snakes to young mice and even hatchling birds (Bartlett, 1996).
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Osteopilus septentrionalis does not appear to have much of an impact on human beings, aside from a very small representation in the American pet trade.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
This species has been widely introduced throughout the Caribbean and into southern Florida, and appears to be having a negative impact on the ecosystems it is invading. It has been observed that in the areas of introduction, there has been a marked decrease in the populations of native tree frogs, probably due to predation and competition for resources (Bartlett,1996).
Conservation Status
Currently, numbers of Osteopilus septentrionalis appear to be on the rise. They appear to be doing especially well in urban residential areas, and are spreading very rapidly throughout the Caribbean. This does not bode well for native species of tree frog, which don't appear to be able to compete with O. septentrionalis.
Gregg Barcelow (author), Michigan State University, James Harding (editor), Michigan State University.
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island endemic
animals that live only on an island or set of islands.
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
native range
Bartlett, R., P. Bartlett. 1996. Frogs, Toads, and Treefrogs. Hauppauge, NY: Barrons Publishing.
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The book "Is Work Killing You? A Doctor's Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress" looks at burnout. / Handout
Canadian physician and stress management specialist David Posen asks a question on the minds of many in his new book Is Work Killing You? A Doctor's Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress. He talks about how the recent economic slump and culture of downsizing has created more employee stress amid fear of layoffs, increased workload and the 24/7 work environment.
Q: What is it about the work environment today that seems to make it so much more stressful than in the past?
A: A lot of people talk about the fact that work is killing them. I would say it's killing their family life and their personal life. It's killing their spirit, and in some cases, it's causing very serious health problems. But the psychological effect of stress - after a while - is very damaging. They are not engaged and not enthusiastic. There's kind of an underlying resentment. There's a sullen compliance to the demands of work. They know they have to do it, but it's a struggle just to be there and be present and be focused.
Q: You've written about stress at work before. Now, though, you blame the workplace. Why?
A: I don't necessarily like the word "blame." I want to hold the workplace accountable and responsible for a good part of the problem. Too much of the onus been put on the employees to deal with their stress themselves, and their work-life balance. I believe now that the workplace is shirking its responsibility and generating stress that even the most expert stress manager can't dissipate. Downsizing is the biggest contributor to increased workload, which leads to longer hours. When researchers ask people why they're not taking better care of themselves, the No. 1 answer is "I don't have time."
Q: You identify three big problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity. What are they?
A: The first is the volume of work - the workload itself - which I attribute to too few hands to share the load. The volume of work contributes to longer hours that affects home life and family life. The second problem is what I call velocity - the pace of the workplace. Everything has gotten faster, largely because of technology, and expectations have increased. The third aspect is abuse. There's a pattern of being rude, embarrassing people in front of other people, of harassment, of bullying, of game-playing and head games. It can include sexism and racism and things like trying to steal credit for other people's work. It can come from colleagues, bosses and even subordinates.
Q: As a physician, you have insight into the biology of stress as well as the psychological effects. Why have some workplace changes contributed to individual stress?
A: First, people are expected to multitask. Really, what we're doing is switch tasking - toggling back and forth. But it's also very stressful for the brain and raises cortisol (a hormone released in response to stress) levels, which have damaging effects for the whole body. Cortisol, when there's too much, also affects memory. Another aspect is multiple and conflicting priorities. Deadlines are getting tighter. That's tremendously stressful. People are being asked at job interviews if they're good at multitasking. We have to stop thinking of it as a virtue, because when we try to multitask, we are inefficient and make more mistakes.
Q: What has technology done to our stress levels?
A: It has increased the speed of not only the workplace but life in general to a level that is uncomfortable for most people and not sustainable. It has contributed to off-hours work. It's increased work hours. It has interfered with sleep. Reading on a tablet in bed - the light is coming at your eyes and it is biologically stimulating the brain to stay awake.
Q: So what can we do, other than quit our jobs?
A: I'm trying to raise awareness of this problem and make it OK to talk about it. Stress is affecting everybody, all the way up the hierarchy. It's not just front-line workers. The second thing is to identify small things that can make a difference and can help. For example, taking breaks throughout the day. There should be a mid-morning break, a break at lunch, a mid-afternoon break and a break at supper. In other words, we need to pace ourselves. Every couple of hours, your energy and concentration start to flag anyway. Stress builds up and there's no time to let it settle. Taking time-outs through the day is crucial and everybody needs to understand this. What individuals can also do is get the sleep they need. Not enough sleep makes us less resilient in dealing with stress and makes us less productive. Another one is, people need to get regular exercise, which they are not getting - even walking around the block or walking at lunch or going to the gym.
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Infinite Loop / The Apple Ecosystem
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Same as it ever was
I wrote (and have been mercilessly linking to throughout this review) an entire article (see?) about what's wrong with the Mac OS X Finder's user interface, and how it can be fixed. I did not write about all of the things covered in the previous sections of this review: networking, appearance details, interface responsiveness, performance when dealing with large numbers of files, etc. Instead, I focused solely on the fundamentals of the file management user interface. If you have not already read that article, you many not understand everything in this section because I do not plan to repeat myself in (much) detail.
I wrote earlier that the Panther Finder has not fundamentally changed, and with respect with the issues discussed in the earlier article, this is indeed the case. The fact that many users, and even reviewers seem to think that this is not the case illustrates the widespread misunderstanding surrounding this topic.
And so I am fated and cursed to disagree with both my detractors as well as those who claim to be in total agreement with me on the topic of the Finder. Here's is a quote from the aptly-titled Panther editorial, Missing The Boat On Panther:
Apple has created a fused Finder, one that has a built in File Browser that obeys the interface conventions expected of such a Browser, and a built in "spatial" (Classic Mac OS) Finder that obeys the conventions expected of such a Finder.
[...] This is a truly revolutionary step. It gives us the best of both words.
I don't mean to pick on any single reviewer, but no, no, and a thousand times no! The Panther Finder does not provide "the best of both worlds." It provides exactly the same self-destructive combination of spatial and browser-style features as all of its Mac OS X predecessors. Perhaps people are so blinded by the metal appearance that they can't see that it is simply a new look for the Jaguar Finder's toolbar. The actual behavior is exactly the same as far as browser-style vs. spatial interaction is concerned.
Any window can still be "transformed" from a "file browser" to a "regular folder" and back again at any time. The metal appearance is still haphazardly tied to individual folders just as the toolbar was in Jaguar. And just as the Jaguar toolbar was essentially impossible to entirely banish, so too will metal Finder windows haunt you in the Panther Finder regardless of your wishes.
This mix of browser-style and spatial interfaces necessarily, by definition, undermines the spatial interface. A window's spatial qualities (i.e. appearance, size, and position) simply cannot be a reliable way to identify a folder when any window can become a file browser at any time, and then transform back to a "normal" window, all without changing any of its spatial attributes!
What's worse, the Panther Finder, like the Jaguar Finder before it, will arbitrarily deposit state changes across folders as they are viewed and manipulated from within a browser-style window. The upshot is that, once a single browser-style window is brought into the mix, it is effectively impossible to predict the future state of Finder windows based solely on your actions.
There is an extensive article at that attempts to explain the incredibly complex mechanisms that govern what any given Finder window will look like in the Jaguar Finder. The vast "truth table" of user inputs and resulting window states in the Panther Finder is subtly different than in Jaguar, but possibly even more complex. It's like some sort of sick game.
I doubt even the Mac OS X Finder development team would be willing to bet a month's salary that they can accurately predict what any given Finder window will look like the next time it is opened after an arbitrarily complex series of manipulations. The Mac OS X Finder is absolutely inscrutable.
I'm sure many readers will e-mail me and tell me that I'm wrong, and that they can always predict what a Finder window will look like in Mac OS X, Panther or otherwise. For a very limited set up actions, this is very nearly possible. But across the full range of functionally in the Finder, the house always wins. You will think you have it figured out, and then you will be surprised again.
This is because users are instinctively looking for a simple set of rules. But please look again at the policy and mechanism in the Jaguar Finder. Is that what you had in your head while using Jaguar? Can you even comfortably fit that set of rules in your head and call on it in a moment's notice to predict the state of Finder windows? (Never mind that there are many scenarios not covered at all by that article.)
Compare this to the classic Mac OS Finder, where there is no complex set of rules to be memorized, no strange mechanisms to understand, absolutely no "game" to be played at all. There is no 14,000 word treatise on the user actions that determine the subsequent state of windows in the classic Mac OS Finder. I doubt anyone even thought about the issue at all. Everything is always how you left it. What's to know?
I don't want to get bogged down in the details of any particular example (that's what the forums are for) but the central issue here is best summarized by the phrase, "What the heck did I just do?" (Feel free to substitute your own expletives.) If you don't know what your actions are actually doing, or, more importantly, where they are being applied, then a predictable system is impossible.
The classic Mac OS Finder didn't have a browser-style interface at all, a fact which further reveals the culprit in the Mac OS X Finder. What is a window in the Mac OS X Finder? Is it "a folder", in the simple, direct, classic Mac OS sense? Or is it "a device through which the contents of any folder can be viewed"? (i.e. a browser.) Well, it's both, and therein lies the problem.
Say you're using a metal browser-style window in the Panther Finder which is currently showing folder A. If you navigate to folder B and then change the view style (say, from list to icon view) what have you actually done? Have you changed the view style for folder A or folder B? Does it matter what view you used while you navigated to folder B, or which view you switched to or from? What about resizing a browser-style window? Which folder is that affecting, if any? What if you toggle the toolbar on and off as you navigate?
Where did this browser window come from anyway? How do you get a new browser window? The "New Finder Window..." menu item may or may not produce a metal window. If it doesn't, but just opens your home directory in a normal window instead, can you safely make it a metal window? Will that make your home directory a metal window every time you open it in the future? Does it even matter which folder you opened to get the initial browser window?
If you move a metal window, are you moving the window belonging to the folder that initially spawned the browser, the current folder, or none of the above? Or perhaps all of the above? Does it matter what folder you're viewing when you close the browser window? And what will all of the folders that you passed in your travels look like the next time you open them? Does it matter how you open them, whether by keyboard command, Dock click, title bar pop-up menu, keyboard shortcut, or double-click from within another window (and does it matter what type of window)? Where will these windows be on the screen? What view will they use? What size will they be?
And on and on...and this is without even considering situations where the same folder is open in multiple windows! Bottom line: if any window can be either a file browser or a folder, and if changes made in file browser windows have any effect on folder windows, then there is no Spatial Finder.
Now the inevitable reply is, "Fine, then just don't use the browser part of the Finder. Problem solved." That's not a solution for several reasons. As mentioned earlier, it's impossible to entirely banish browser-style windows from the Finder. Making a decision to avoid the browser is one thing, but being forced to do so manually as metal Finder windows inevitably and repeatedly appear before you is something else. But most importantly, why should the user be forced to forego all browser-style file management features? Browsers are useful! It is a fundamentally broken interface that asks the user to avoid half of its functionality in order to make the other half work in something approaching the correct manner.
The worst part of this whole mess is that the solution is so dead-simple! A window in the Finder must be one of two things:
1. The one and only direct incarnation of a specific folder.or ? important word!
2. A file browser that has no ties to any particular folder and has no effect on any folder's state.
That's it, just pick one! No magical transformations from one type of window to another. No confusion about what it is you're looking at or what you're actually doing. Put two menu items in the Finder, "New Folder..." and "New Browser...", and you're off to the races. (Selecting keyboard equivalents for those two commands is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Everything after that is details—making sure both kinds of windows are the best that they can be. But the Panther Finder doesn't do too well in that area either. I've already talked about the performance issues that span both kinds of windows. The browser-style functionality is no great shakes either. There's the new sidebar and a slightly different toolbar, but that's about it as far as significant browser-style features.
I don't know how many people are on the Finder development team, and I understand that they have to do a lot more than just create the user interface (i.e., threading, networking code, volume handling, disk image mounting, etc.), but I do find it puzzling that a single third-party developer can create a browser-style file manager with a feature list that puts the Panther Finder to shame. Say what you will about the wisdom of including so many features in a single application, Cocoatech's PathFinder unquestionably tops Apple's offering when it comes to sheer functionality. (I know some Mac users who would kill to have the sortable column-view feature alone, nevermind the huge pile of other features in PathFinder.)
Something is (still) very wrong with the Finder's development process.
Finder summary
The Mac OS X Finder is lost at sea. To borrow a line from Mr. Cube, the Finder's user interface designers either don't know, don't show, or don't care what's going on in the 'hood...or, at the very least, in my head. I would be more comfortable with this if the Finder team was aggressively pursing its own vision. But switching to a brushed metal appearance and adding a sidebar does not a vision make. The OS X Finder's user interface has made amazingly little progress in over three years of development, and the changes that have been made appear largely directionless. The Panther Finder is not a kick-ass file browser, and it certainly isn't any kind of Spatial Finder.
Despite the decade-old underlying implementation, it's nice to see labels finally make their return. The integration of network browsing was also long overdue. But the new browser-style features are prisoners of the flawed interface. I find myself wanting to use the live search capability, for example, but then not knowing where or how to "safely" get a browser-style window that I can manipulate without fear of hosing the state of my folders. Bleah.
Incremental performance improvements and feature additions make the Panther Finder better than its predecessor, but that is faint praise indeed.
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In-flight Internet access has had its up and downs, and, yes, this article will have its share of aviation-related puns. An aborted launch by Boeing in 2004 seemed to ground the idea, but a second attempt in 2008 has remained aloft. Each day, nearly 1,100 planes—totaling 4,000 flights carrying an average of 500,000 passengers—ply their way over America while carrying WiFi gear from Aircell. Meanwhile, other providers power a few hundred planes in the US and the rest of the globe with either full Internet access or, more commonly, limited GSM-based text and data service.
Despite the volume of equipped aircraft, we're still in the early days— and the continued availability of mile-high WiFi is certainly not guaranteed. It's an expensive, long-term investment to supply consistent and usable broadband Internet service at 35,000 feet. Surveys show people want access, but it's unclear how much (or even if) they'll pay for it. Aircell says that 20 percent of passengers on equipped cross-country flights use its service, but it's mum about numbers on shorter segments.
Nonetheless, installations are only increasing at the moment, and no airline has pulled the plug in more than two years of buildouts. Once an airplane has been wired for service, debt service on the installation and money to cover ongoing costs become the primary concerns. Momentum may carry onboard access through this bumpy period.
In this 35,000-foot overview, we'll look at the history of in-flight Internet, the state of the art, and where things are going, with a tour of the technology employed today and tomorrow.
Where it began
Once upon a time, Boeing had a brilliant idea to combine its satellite savvy and plane-building expertise into a separate business division that would carry high-speed signals from geostationary satellites into receivers that it would custom-fit into its own and others' planes. "Connexion by Boeing" was its name.
The problem? Boeing predicated the business on having substantial presence in the US market where record profits were being earned, and it signed agreements with three airlines a few months before September 11, 2001. The collapse of the airline industry and the larger economy after the terrorist attacks on that date led Boeing's partners to retreat from the Connexion deal, which undermined the financial viability of the offering. Boeing then refocused on over-water, long-haul flights, which seemed like the lowest-hanging fruit.
But Connexion had other problems. While bandwidth wasn't a problem‚ with reported speeds of about 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up per plane‚ installation and ongoing expenses were an issue. Initial installations could take weeks, which translates into money lost from a productive plane on which a lease is being paid, and total installation cost could reach $500,000 per plane, according to contemporary reports.
Boeing's retrofits eventually became faster, but they couldn't get around the weight of the gear plus its drag, which added up to an effective several hundred pounds. This placed a heavy burden on Internet revenue from each flight; if a few dozen people on every plane didn't pony up for access, Connexion was a net loss to carry.
Boeing also had to bear the massive cost of transponder leases. As I'll explain later, Connexion used Ku-band satellites, each of which can have dozens of transponders, all pointed toward an optimal region of the globe. For better capacity and coverage, Boeing reportedly leased 150 up/downlink pairs of transponders at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. (Boeing never confirmed this figure, which may be overstated.)
Pricing was troublesome. I never thought Boeing was overcharging for the kind of serious business user they were targeting for long-haul flights (from 6 to 14 hours), but there was a lot of carping about the cost. At launch in 2004, service was tiered between $15 for flights under three hours and $30 for six-hour-and-longer trips. Several months before the service was discontinued, pricing switched to a weird model for continuous access: $10 for 1 hour, $15 for 2 hours, and $18 for 3 hours; $26 bought 24 hours of access across any Connexion-equipped flights.
The cost to airlines‚ some of which was apparently absorbed by Boeing‚ led to few planes having the service installed at first. The final count was in the hundreds when Boeing pulled the plug in late 2006. The cost to passengers seemed to keep usage relatively low, and without knowing whether any given plane might have service, customers couldn't expect access, which might have driven up usage. Lufthansa was the most committed airline, with all its dozens of long-haul craft set up before Connexion shut down.
It didn't help that Boeing's service launched while WiFi was still ramping up as a ubiquitous mobile feature. (Some aircraft even included Ethernet jacks for the service.) Smartphones and organizers largely lacked WiFi, or burned battery life quickly if they used it. Laptops had WiFi, but users didn't have the same obsession with always staying online.
An early Tenzing connection kit
A new beginning
While it was clear that satellite-based Internet access was workable, the cost structure Boeing had established was not. As the industry shook itself out, and firms like Panasonic Avionics and OnAir also tried to figure out models that would work, the FCC finalized a plan to transform access in American skies.
The FCC had approved limited air-to-ground (ATG) radiotelephone service in the 1980s for in-flight calling, and then offered licenses to six firms in 1990. Few launched commercially. In the end, only AirFone‚ ultimately run by a division of Verizon‚ was left standing, charging dollars per minute for calls and low-speed dial-up data. Its use of a sliver of bandwidth was inefficient in two directions: as an analog service, it was capable of handling only 10 calls at a time, making poor use of the spectrum; by the end of its life, only two to three calls were made on each flight. Those seatback phones were becoming as redundant by the mid-2000s as pay phones in airports.
The FCC decided to auction off the 4MHz (in the 850MHz band) allotted to this service for digital air-to-ground use to provide services to passengers and airlines. It was assumed that Internet service would be the primary purpose, supplemented by onboard cellular base stations (so-called picocells) potentially providing voice, text, and data links for hardware without built-in WiFi. But airlines might piggyback on the system for non-critical communications, too.
In 2006, the FCC created a wacky kind of auction in which bids were accepted on different plans for splitting the band up into pieces. The winner was the most sensible offering: one firm paid for 3MHz and another for 1MHz. (The bandwidth was divided into 1.5MHz and 0.5MHz paired uplink/downlink channels.)
Aircell won the larger chunk. The firm had spent nearly 20 years trying to convince the FCC to allocate air-to-ground spectrum for provide greater competition and better utility. JetBlue's LiveTV in-flight entertainment division won the 1MHz, and we're still wondering what they'll do with it. (From a more exact business perspective, Aircell received a significant investment before the auction by a private-investment firm that created a separate spectrum-holding company to bid on the auction. That company won, and Aircell has assignment rights.)
Air-to-ground communications have a variety of advantages over air-to-space connections. Aircell had already built a network for general aviation (non-commercial, private) phone and other services, so it had experience. It was able to use existing cellular facilities used by other telecoms with antennas pointing up instead of around. And Aircell could own its equipment instead of lease usage, as with satellites.
Even though the license limited Aircell to the United States, that still encompassed a huge number of planes and flights and it kept the company from having to build a global business initially. Still, Aircell had to convince airlines that it could deliver on performance, generate revenue, and, potentially, fill more seats at higher prices for as long as Internet access was a bonus amenity offered only by specific airlines. (If it's a success and most planes have access, it's hard to advertise the feature to attract customers from other airlines.)
In November 2008, Aircell launched its service as Gogo Inflight Internet with nary a thigh-high white boot in sight. I was on the inaugural Virgin America flight, and filed this report from the air for BoingBoing TV. In between gaping at supporting actors from 30 Rock, trying to identify YouTube celebrities, and drinking non-virgin Virgin drinks, we found that even a planeful of journalists were able to connect to the 'Net most of the time.
It wasn't long before the service expanded.
Aircell's thousand-plane coverage
Virgin America was Aircell's launch airline, and it put the service on its couple dozen planes rather quickly. AirTran (currently being acquired by Southwest) later joined Virgin in (un)wiring its entire fleet of 138 mainline planes. Alaska Airlines also went for a full deployment for its 115 mainline planes; it's now about halfway there. (Mainline planes are the larger jets, like 737s or Airbus A320s used for regional and national travel. They complement regional aircraft, both jets and turboprops, with smaller passenger capacity that are used for short and medium hops.)
There's little else left up for grabs in the domestic market, as all carriers with over 50 mainline planes are signed up with one party or another.
A bigger coup for Aircell was a commitment from Delta, which eventually agreed to put Gogo on its entire mainline fleet of now 550 planes, accomplished earlier this year. American Airlines came along more slowly, first agreeing to put service in about 300 of 620 planes. In early May, however, American expanded that commitment to nearly its entire fleet. At least 200 planes are currently equipped, and all should be set with WiFi service by mid-2012.
United and US Airways have a small number of kitted craft. United's fleet of 13 cross-country 757-200s have had the Gogo service for some time, and US Airways put the service on a seeming trial on 50 Airbus 321s. (United has a total of 450 mainline planes, and US Airways nearly 320.)
Air Canada also has some in-flight service on an unknown number of its 37 Airbus A319s. The service is only legal to operate on portions of routes within the United States.
This accounts for the nearly 1,100 planes that Aircell totals up on its site. It's likely to increase that total to as many as 1,500 planes by the end of 2011, but current commitments put it to under 2,000 through 2012. Delta's regional planes (about 220) will be equipped by the end of 2011; the rest of Alaska will come this year; and Frontier will put service on 32 regional jets.
The upper limit, of course, is the number of planes actually in service. In 2010, US airlines had about 3,700 mainline jets and 2,600 regional jets and other types of craft. Regional jets generally have too little capacity for inflight Internet to make financial sense; Frontier and Delta are the two frontrunners experimenting with those smaller planes. (Hundreds of planes remain parked in desert landing strips, mothballed and possibly never to fly again. More may join them as airlines push a strategy of smaller fleets to push up scarcity and increase prices based on demand.)
Aircell's CEO Michael Small told me that regional jets of 70 or more seats fit into a profile where it might make sense to add service, partly because it completes a network like Delta, giving flyers service from one end of a trip to another on the same airline. That increases usage across the airline and leads to purchases of day passes and subscriptions. Smaller planes would be less profitable, but Aircell has its broadband service on 500 private planes (and an older voice and data service on 4,500 others), so it can be done.
While Aircell's license is only good for the United States, it expects that if the stars align it will partner with firms in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, just as the Airfone service operated. Aircell's Small said the traffic relative to the United States is low enough that the company has to find the right partner to make the business case. From a deployment perspective, though, it wouldn't be difficult at all.
There are also a couple thousand planes that routinely fly over water on international routes, and several thousand craft in use domestically and internationally over land. Satellite service will drive those markets‚ if it can prove viable. Which brings us to pricing.
Aircell pricing
Aircell's greatest achievement may be a single pricing structure across all the airlines with which it's partnered. Its biggest mistake may be the crazily large number of pricing options: 10 separate dollar amounts are listed on its pricing page. This is too many for any normal human being to integrate into decision making.
(One tip: if you're going to use Gogo on a flight, set up an account with credit-card information before you go using a computer's browser. It's much simpler to do so while you're not squeezed into a seat, and you don't have to expose your credit-card number to seatmates. You'll especially appreciate having an account set up when you use Gogo with a mobile device, like a smartphone. You can also install a BlackBerry or iOS app for a simpler connection process.)
Let's take this category by category:
• Unlimited service. Aircell offers four kinds of unlimited monthly services. For $35 a month with automatic renewal, you can use any number of sessions on all airlines. If you want to buy 30 days at a time, it's $30 for a single airline or $40 for all airlines with no automatic renewal. For mobile devices, 30 days costs just $20.
• 24-hour pass. For $13, you can use any number of sessions on all equipped planes. If you have at least two flight segments and any are longer than 1.5 hours, this is cheaper than buying two separate sessions.
• Laptop or tablet session. Gogo separates this out by duration: you pay $5 for flights of up 1.5 hours (or 650 miles), $10 for 1.5 to 3 hours (up to 1,150 miles), and $13 for anything over 3 hours or a longer distance.
• Smartphones and small mobile devices, like the iPod touch. Gogo apparently characterizes the iPad and other tablets as not being "mobile devices," for which you have to pay full freight. The Mobile Pass for smartphones et al. is $5 for flights 1.5 hours or shorter, and $8 otherwise.
Aircell once had a cheap redeye option for overnight flights, but it's no longer listed.
On a given flight, you're only presented with valid options, which could still total five on a laptop or tablet and four on a mobile device. Some airlines indicate at the time of booking whether WiFi is available on a flight, and some allow prepurchase of a session along with a ticket and discounts. Delta, for instance, sells the $13 24-hour pass for $11, limited to Delta flights.
The missing component in all these pricing options is bundling: if you're traveling with multiple bits of hardware, such as a smartphone, tablet, and laptop (don't laugh, because you know you've already done it), you could pay a separate fee for each.
Aircell says that with a laptop session or plan, you can switch between a laptop and a mobile device or tablet so long as you use only one active session at a time. You have to log out from one device to log in to the other. Mobile plans and passes can only be used among mobile devices.
Growing interest
Even while Aircell was setting up its network in the time between winning the FCC auction in 2006 and launching commercial service in 2008, other firms were trying to get their satellite-based projects off the ground.
The most notable of those in the US is Row 44, a firm full of executives from the satellite and chipmaking worlds, which decided to focus on making satellite-backed airborne service work in a limited area. By restricting service to just North America, the company reduced transponder costs enormously. It also has told me several times over the years that its gear and antenna are substantially lighter weight and have less drag than Connexion's, while it was able to ratchet up bandwidth substantially by using more efficient equipment.
The company started up in 2004, and it took until 2009 to begin trials. It initially garnered commitments from Alaska Airlines and Southwest, but lost Alaska to Aircell after long delays in deployment. Alaska flies a large number of overwater flights to both Alaska and Mexico, and Aircell wasn't a perfect fit, but apparently close enough, and it added several ground stations in that state. In a similar vein, geostationary satellite signals can barely reach most of Alaska, so ground stations likely provide more consistent and better service than a satellite approach.
Southwest expects all its 550 planes to have Row 44's service enabled by 2013, and hasn't announced milestones for service. For now, the price is $5 per flight regardless of duration. There are no day passes or other discount. That's blissfully simple.
Elsewhere in the States, JetBlue still mystifies me, if not other observers. The firm's LiveTV division, noted above, has 1MHz of air-to-ground spectrum over which they could offer certain kinds of services to passengers, but which, so far, has not been deployed for commercial aviation. It seems to be using it, at least in part, for private planes. (The auction requirements for the band had a specific buildout mandate for the larger band that Aircell won. JetBlue's sliver, which cost about $7 million, was exempted from a build requirement. But the license expires in 2016, at which point the FCC can demand reassignment if JetBlue hasn't produced a worthwhile-enough service.)
JetBlue has chosen, instead, to focus on satellite, which might make sense since LiveTV already uses a satellite system to pull in television programming for the airlines it serves. JetBlue's announcement in April was that it would hold out for a Ka-band satellite link, which requires waiting for a particular bird to be lofted this summer. JetBlue says it will start up the service in 2012 on its own planes, followed by those of Continental. But that may be an optimistic launch window.
If I sound dubious about LiveTV, it's because they spent a few years flying a single plane using the old narrowband analog AirFone technology to allow limited BlackBerry-based email, text-messaging, and instant messaging as a demonstration of Internet service. The BetaBlue plane was an odd throwback, and JetBlue flew it for far too long, finally abandoning the approach in mid-2010.
JetBlue's service will let it expand more easily outside North America, as satellites know no borders, although each country's air authority has to provide specific certification of airworthiness for any electronic gear and external antennas installed. In practice, that process has come a long way as more providers offer satellite-based services.
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The word of the day is … machinima
I've never heard of it until now, but apparently the Halo-movie equivalent of …
"Good morning, class!"
"Good morning, Miss Ellie!"
"Today, we're going to learn a new word. That word is 'machinima.' Without using Google, who in the class can tell me what it means? Anyone? Bueller?"
Yeah, I got nothing, too. Apparently, and this is with the help of Wikipedia, machinima is "both a collection of associated production techniques and a (film created by such production techniques)." Long story short, those Red vs. Blue guys and their videos? Yeah, that's machinima. And it's a big enough art form to have its own take on the Oscars—the Mackies. For those who prefer a slightly more indie take, the third annual "Rockets on Prisoners" awards were announced today to award golden Master Chief statues to this year's outstanding Halo machinima submissions.
Just so you know, you have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the good stuff—and that's just from the winners' list. The Codex series, which took him a relative boatload of the awards, was a bigger winner than Red vs. Blue, which I'd have called the odds-on favorite. If you have to suffer through watching any of them, I'd go for those.
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Gmail to Gmail
July 28, 2010 9:43 AM Subscribe
I got married two years ago and changed my name. This meant my email changed as well. It's been two years but I still can't break free from my dependence on the old email address. Right now I'm using the old email address while forwarding the new email address to it. What I'd like to do is reverse that - use the new one as my main account and forward the old one to it.
The problem? I have years and years of mail saved in the original email address that is very important to me. We're talking lots of email...5314 MB of mail. Approximately 638450 conversations.
So how do I download all that email, back it up for safekeeping and then add it to my new account? It's important to me to have all of the emails in the new Gmail account. I use it as a collection of data that I search regularly, using Gmail's robust email searching tools.
I used labels, albeit sparingly. It would be extremely helpful if those would transfer over, too.
The new account is currently empty. I occasionally go in and delete emails that would be redundant to the original account.
So what are my options? I found a similar question from 2008 on here, but it didn't exactly answer my special snowflake needs.
Thanks in advance for your help!
posted by bristolcat to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
Enable POP3 on the old account and use the Import mail in settings->Accounts and pull mail to your new account.
posted by wongcorgi at 9:57 AM on July 28, 2010
Will that preserve the labels?
posted by bristolcat at 11:11 AM on July 28, 2010
In MacMail, the labels all got imported as seperate boxes. Very handy, very painless and cool.
It take a VERY LONG TIME for my Mac to download all my Gmail going back to 2002 but the structure was preserved. It even took starred emails and flagged them.
posted by salishsea at 11:21 AM on July 28, 2010
The generic version is to open up both the old and new accounts in an email client, then copy and paste.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:00 PM on July 28, 2010
Once you turn on POP you don't even have to forward, it would just keep importing your mail from the old to the new account whenever your old account receives mail.
You can also set up gmail (the web interface) to send mail on behalf of another account you own, so you can add your old account to your new one.
Basically, I use this kind of thing to have a "master" account that can read and send email on behalf of my other accounts. Settings->Accounts has everything you need.
I don't know about labels. If you do labels via rules, just set up the same rules in the new account first, then they will be applied as POP pulls them over. If they're manual... not sure.
posted by wildcrdj at 1:10 PM on July 28, 2010
I'm messing around with POP so far. It's transferring over, albeit extremely slowly (like this is going to take a week slow). I didn't start using labels until about a year into Gmail, so I have quite a while before I know if that works or not. I think when I get home tonight, I'm just going to download it all to a mail client and do it the hard way. But at least that way, I will have a hard-drive backup.
My labels are all manual. Whee.
BTW, for anyone reading this, the "Import mail in settings>accounts" suggestion did not work. It said it could not import from a Gmail box.
Thanks, everyone!
posted by bristolcat at 1:18 PM on July 28, 2010
I'm a little late on this, but is useful for this.
posted by Erroneous at 1:39 PM on July 28, 2010
Yes, the POP transfer will take a LONG LONG time. But it will eventually finish. It's rate-limited a little slow, but that slowness is really just a one time thing, onve you're caught up future mail will transfer fine.
posted by wildcrdj at 1:55 PM on July 28, 2010
POP transfer will not preserve labels. You need to do an IMAP based copy with a tool like imapsync or a commercial offering.
posted by khedron at 3:03 PM on July 28, 2010
With Mac OS X Mail you can access both Gmail accounts as IMAP, then drag the messages from one folder (mailbox) to another. Much more reliable and forgiving than POP.
posted by markmillard at 7:17 PM on July 28, 2010
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HTML for Dummies
I remember seeing something, somewhere, that allowed non HTML savvy people to add a basic markup to text. This text is then parsed into valid HMTL by a javascript or PHP (perhaps) script. I can't refind it. Can you?
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How do I edit HTML source code with Firefox?
HTML editing: IE6 has been hijacked once too often so I've moved over to Firefox. But it's just not the same. When building websites in IE6, it was the work of a moment to bring up the html source in notepad, save it and refresh the open window to check the changes. Firefox is having none of this. Any suggestions?
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HTML Language Support
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How to play audio clip on mouseover?
Web tricks. This rather clever use of the "marquee" html tag made me wonder how I could code a really stupid and irritating effect : mousing over a link triggers a tiny, obnoxious audio clip.
" isn't there some way I could make a tiny little (2-3 sec) audio clip play when somebody mouses over a link?....Farts, shrieks, high pitched cartoon voices wailing "It's hopeless. I'll just crawl up my ass and die!", and so on."
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How you do you usually set font sizes in CSS?
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Search Engine Optimization?
My company retained a consulting firm to improve our search engine placement, but our web site is no longer showing up in Google searches that it definitely should. I believe the consulting firm screwed up royally by adding this line of HTML to our home page:
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Blogger Tracker
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a strange problem that causes Nautilus to crash: When Dropbox is active and I click (even just once) on the Dropbox folder in my Home folder Nautilus crashes. When I turn it on again it shows me hidden files and still crushes if I try to open the Dropbox folder again. Everything works just fine when the Dropbox client is not running.
When running Nautilus from the shell and trying to access the Dropbox folder, I get the following error:
$ nautilus
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 1.6.0
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
(nautilus:3835): Gtk-WARNING **: Refusing to add non-unique action 'NautilusDropbox::browse' to action group 'DirExtensionsMenuGroup'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
What may cause this and how should I deal with this? Thank you in advance!
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I had the same problem briefly. I need to force nautilus to quit...
$ nautilus -q
so that dropbox could finished installing and then start it again manually by clicking on the folder icon on the side panel.
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This didn't work for me. – NWT Adam Jul 4 '13 at 2:38
I managed to solve the problem in two ways:
1. Download and install the 32bit package of Dropbox (I had the problem with the 64bit version).
2. Download and use a newer beta version (here is the last stable one)
Hope it helps!
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Bash completion seems to be ignoring what I've typed (it tries to complete, but acts as if there's nothing under the cursor). I know I saw it work on this machine earlier today, but I'm not sure what has changed. Some examples:
cd shows all directories under my current folder:
$ cd co<tab><tab>
cmake/ config/ doc/ examples/ include/ programs/ sandbox/ src/ .svn/ tests/
Commands like ls and less show all files and directories under my current folder:
$ ls co<tab><tab>
cmake/ config/ .cproject Doxyfile.in include/ programs/ README.txt src/ tests/
CMakeLists.txt COPYING.txt doc/ examples/ mainpage.dox .project sandbox/ .svn/
Even when I try to complete things from a different folder, it gives me only the results for my current folder (telling me that it is completely ignoring what I've typed):
$ cd ~/D<tab><tab>
But it seems to be working fine for commands and variables:
$ if<tab><tab>
if ifconfig ifdown ifnames ifquery ifup
$ echo $P<tab><tab>
$PATH $PIPESTATUS $PPID $PS1 $PS2 $PS4 $PWD $PYTHONPATH
I do have this bit in my .bashrc, and I have confirmed that my .bashrc is indeed getting sourced:
. /etc/bash_completion
I've even tried manually executing that file, but it doesn't fix the problem:
$ . /etc/bash_completion
There was even one point in time where it was working for ls, but was not working for cd ... but I can't replicate that result now.
Update: I also just discovered that I have terminals open from earlier that still work. I ran source .bashrc in one of them and afterwards completion was broken. Here is my .bashrc:
# for examples
# Modified by Neil Traft
#source ~/.profile
# Allow globs to expand hidden files
shopt -s dotglob nullglob
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
# See bash(1) for more options
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.
#shopt -s globstar
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
# Color the prompt
export PS1="\[$(tput setaf 2)\]\u@\h:\[$(tput setaf 5)\]\W\[$(tput setaf 2)\] $\[$(tput sgr0)\] "
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
# sleep 10; alert
# Alias definitions.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
. /etc/bash_completion
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Found it. It's the line:
shopt -s dotglob nullglob
Specifically, it was nullglob that caused the problem. Running shopt -u nullglob fixes it.
I thought that was only supposed to add dotfiles as candidates for glob expansion? Well, I guess that's sort of a separate question, so we'll call this question answered.
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Modeling Objects with Identical Dynamics using For Each Subsystem
This example shows how to model multiple objects with identical dynamics using the For Each Subsystem. The number of objects is parameterized by the length of the input signal.
The example illustrates how you can implement the model sldemo_metrosldemo_metro, using one For Each Subsystem to model three identical metronomes and another to model the identical effect that the motion of each metronome has on the moving base.
The continuous dynamics of the three identical metronomes in sldemo_metro are modeled in identical subsystems: sldemo_metro/Metronome1, sldemo_metro/Metronome2, and sldemo_metro/Metronome3. You can represent these three subsystems as one For Each subsystem. The initial position of the metronomes is passed in as a mask parameter to the For Each subsystem, which is used as an initial condition for one of the integrators. The For Each subsystem is configured to partition this parameter along the first dimension. As a result, an input vector with three elements defines initial positions for three metronomes.
Figure 1: Metronomes modeled using three subsystems with identical dynamics
Figure 2: Metronomes modeled using one For Each subsystem
On examining the dynamics of the Moving base, note that it involves three identical second-order differential terms corresponding to each metronome. You can replace the three copies with one For Each Subsystem. Instead of nine input signals, the For Each subsystem requires only three input signals: the angular displacements, the angular velocities, and the angular accelerations for all metronomes. The For Each subsystem is configured to partition the input signal along the first dimension and operates on one element from each signal for one iteration (i.e. one metronome).
Figure 3: Second-order differential terms modeled using copies of the same subsystem
Figure 4: Second-order differential terms modeled using one For Each subsystem
After implementing the original model with two For Each subsystems, the model is now parameterized for the number of metronomes. To increase the number of metronomes, introduce a new value to the mask parameter.
For example:
Theta4 = 0.7568;
Double-click on the Metronome_i block to open the mask dialog and change Input Positions (Partitioned) to: [Theta1 Theta2 Theta3 Theta4]
Execute the model to see the displacement angles of the four metronomes and the position of the moving base.
Figure 5: Simulation animation with For Each subsystem parameterized for four metronomes
Figure 6: Simulation result with For Each subsystem parameterized for four metronomes
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Most of the Windows Workflow Foundation samples use workflows that are hosted in a console application, but this isn't a realistic scenario for real-world workflows. Workflows in actual business applications will be hosted in persistent processes- either a Windows service authored by the developer, or a server application such as IIS or AppFabric. The differences between these approaches are as follows.
Hosting workflows in IIS with Windows AppFabric
Using IIS with AppFabric is the preferred host for workflows. The host application for workflows using AppFabric is Windows Activation Service, which removes the dependency on HTTP over IIS alone.
Hosting workflows in IIS
Using IIS alone is not recommended, as there are management and monitoring tools available with AppFabric that facilitate maintenance of running applications. Workflows should only be hosted in IIS alone if there are infrastructure concerns with moving to AppFabric.
Hosting a workflow in a custom Windows Service
Creating a custom workflow service to host the workflow will require the developer to duplicate a lot of the functionality provided out-of-box by AppFabric, but will allow for more flexibility with custom functionality. This option should only be considered if AppFabric proves to not be an option.
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Here's a request I've received from Dhaval Patel
"I would really like to see some blog entries on how to handle messages greater than 4MB. I have heard some colleagues mention 'COM Wrappers' but I don't like the idea. To begin with, most of us were thinking that starting with Vista, the 4MB limitation would go away... it's a shame that this didn't happen! I was really looking forward to putting MSMQ to good use via WF and WCF, but seeing this limitation is still there, it seems folks like me will just need to stick to SOAP for eternity :)
Please feel free to enlighten me with the history of why MSMQ was forced to handle only 4 MB messages?"
OK, Dhavel, in this blog we will dip into the history behind this limitation.
The first place to start is the excellent MSMQ FAQ document:
3.5 Why is there a 4-MB message size limitation?
There are two main reasons:
• The Message Queuing driver (Mqac.sys) uses memory-mapped files for message storage, and the present implementation does not break a large message into several message fragments. The driver maps the files to kernel memory address space when Message Queuing runtime sends or receives a message. The kernel memory address space is limited to 16 MB, shared by all drivers and fonts. This is one of the main reasons for the message size limitation. The 16-MB kernel address space limitation also means that a cluster node can host up to three Message Queuing resources, assuming that Message Queuing is not running on the node computer. This is because each resource can consume its own 4-MB range from the kernel address space.
• The Message Queuing code that manages sessions is not designed to deliver large messages and handle session acknowledgements (ACKs) in the middle of message delivery. This can cause sessions to be closed while a large message is still being sent, because an internal session ACK is not received.
A bit more information on this 16 MB area can be found in the "Deploying Message Queuing (MSMQ) 3.0 in a Server Cluster" document:
Q. Are there any limitations for multiple MSMQ resources in a server cluster?
A. Yes. Each instance of MSMQ on a server node maps 4 MB of the system view space when handling message activity. This results in a default limit of three active, working instances of MSMQ in a cluster node. In a server cluster with three MSMQ resources, a node could have four concurrent MSMQ services running — the service running on the local node plus the three services associated with the MSMQ resources. In such a scenario, message activity might be limited, resulting in resource failures. To overcome this, you should increase the size of the system view space memory pool on each node of a server cluster that is running three or more MSMQ resources. We recommend that you do this even if your node is running less than three.
So we're talking about the system view space, the desktop heap for drivers. Although you can increase the size of this space with the SystemViewSize registry value, this will not affect the MSMQ message size in any way. The registry value is documented on the TechNet website:
Group and resource failure problems
• The Message Queuing resource fails to handle message activity correctly which may result in resource failures
Although there is another registry value that does seem to set the MSMQ message size, you shouldn't use it. This isn't one of those "It's not supported but here it is for you to try anyway" references - I do actually mean "you shouldn't use it". The value description for MaxMessageSize does say:
• Do not change the value of this entry. Increasing this value might prevent you from sending messages larger than 4 MB. Decreasing this value might block transports between Message Queuing computers.
So, in summary, the 4MB limit is there for good design reasons which are still valid in the 21st century.
In the next blog I'll go into ways to get around this limitation.
[[Edited 18th November, 2009]]
Here is an important note from the very useful Resource Management in MSMQ Applications article:
Message Size
MSMQ can support messages under 4 MB in size only, this includes Queued Components messages. Any attempt to send a message through the system that is larger than this will raise the insufficient resources error. Be aware that Unicode data takes up twice as much space as non-Unicode data, as two bytes are needed for each character.
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truly amazing day/b/drey/archive/2012/02/29/truly-amazing-day.aspx4 installations later and windows 8 is running on many of the touch devices i have at my disposal. so far i have loaded the windows 8 consumer preview on a lenovo x220t, samsung series 7 slate, acer 1420p (the 2009 pdc tablet) and a dell duo convertiblesharing technical information, learning, leadership7.x Production
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Narrative documentation
Narrative documentation
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For the Service Manager documentation, we are weaving a realistic (though fictional) scenario throughout the documents to help you understand context of a particular procedure. If you've looked at our Beta 1 documents, you may have noticed that we have named people (for example, Garret and Phil) that we talk about as we introduce procedures or product configurations. We also talk about a specific company that they work for (Woodgrove). Our hope is that as you're first learning the product, you'll recognize some of these people's roles from your organization and be able to quickly map the procedures we have in the guides to people and procedures in your organization. As we talk about why people are doing things, we want to make it easier to learn and remember how specific procedures fit into the big picture.
In addition, one of the early discussions the documentation team had was about the desire to include concrete examples for each how-to. We think learning information (such as learning a procedure) is easier when you're doing something specific instead of something abstract -- so you're not just reading about "creating an incident", you're "creating an incident for a broken printer". The tension here is that we can't write something so specific that it's unclear how to create a different sort of incident, or that requires knowledge of our overall narrative. (I don't want to be required to know Garret and Phil when I'm looking up a procedure for reference, and I suspect you wouldn't either.) We solve this by including copious "for example, type..." sentences in our how-tos. Because these examples relate to the Woodgrove bank scenario, you can follow the storyline from the introductory text down into the procedures. If you don't know or care about Woodgrove, they're easily skipped.
Early feedback on this approach has been positive, but we welcome additional feedback about our implementation. If you have a comment about the documentation or want to contact the doc team, feel free to drop us a line at smbdocs (at
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11:52 am ET
May 28, 2008
Numbers Guy Quiz: Guesstimation
• Question 2:
Infinite, given the fractal nature of the area.
• 1. For the 'crammed together' factor, I will assume 2 sq. ft. per person will be needed and 6.6B population. In sq. miles (~5280^2 ft2/mi2) this would mean about 500 square miles are required. I have no idea what the area of RI is, but I would guess it is larger than 500 sq. miles. For the other part, let's assume 5 people per and 0.3 acres (my house and yard). At 640 acres/mi2 we would need around 600K square miles, which I would imagine is hundreds of times bigger than RI.
• The answer for question 2 depends on whether you sum the surface area of each individual hair on the head, or just take the surface area of the skull. If its the former then the surface area of the hairs is a function of the weighted average number of hairs per person, in which the weights are the proportions of the respective populations in the world as a whole.
As for the surface area being infinite as someone else suggested, I don't see how that would work, for it would imply that a single person is infinitely large.
• Question 1:
Assumine we all take up about 2 square ft standing up and a world population of 6.6B, that translates into 473 square miles crammed together, about 1/3 the size of RI.
The second part depends on the size of the yard obviously. Is it 1/8 acre plots like found in cities, or 1 acre plots found in the distant suburbs? or 10 acre plots found in more rural areas?
For 1 acre plots it would require 10.3 million square miles or a little larger than the continent of North America. For 1/8 acre plots it would be 1.3 million square miles, or about 1/3 the size of the United States.
Question 2: I'll guess 50, based on a rectangular torso that is 3x1x0.5, 2 arms that are 0.5x0.5x3 and two legs that are 0.75x0.75x3, that gets 40, plus a few extra square feet for toes, fingers, head, ears, genitals, etc.
• Sorry, my calculations assumed each person got a house, not each family, so divide my answers to that part by the average family size, which I'm going to guess is close to five.
• For #2: Let's simplify and consider just the area of the skin underneath hair and nails, and also assume that this surface is flat, even though, as Joe points out, it's not.
• For Q.2 as originally posed: for our question in the book, we estimated only the surface area of the external skin. If one were to include the surface area of say, the hair, one would find a considerable increase!
Shameless plug: the very next question in the book deals with the total length of hair on a woman's head.
• By the way, I use a calculation like this when sparring with immigration restrictionists. They like to claim (with no factual basis) that the country is too crowded and we can't fit many more people. I like to show them calculations based on facts that the entire population of the world could move here and there would still be plenty of room.
• How long before such questions are relegate do the "So where do you want to be in five years" pile.
Here are some answers to questions I have been asked in interviews.
Because a round cover can't fall into the opening it is meant to cover
Not counting earth there are eight.
pi(rsquared)*length of the cylinder.
The Battle of Hastings.
Because Maine was once part of Massachusetts.
BTW - I turned down the companies where the screener asked me these questions.
• I'm deleting comments that use information from the web or other reference material. The idea is to get close to the answer using a reasonable process -- not to get an exact number.
• I assumed 9sq ft, a 3x3 box, (don't really want to be touching) and 6 billion people. That gives me a little more than 1900 sq miles. I don't know the size of Rhode Island, but 1900 sq miles would be about 45 miles square, so it's probably close to equal.
• Q1: I tend to use SD Dad's method for similar questions. But I've always wondered how many people you reasonably have live in a cubic space. For example, in Hong Kong, people tend to live in highrises without high ceilings. There are lots of restrictions around construction and strength of the ground beneath a building. (Bedrock vs. sediment)
Q2: I agree that the fractal nature of various objects makes the technical area infinite. Perhaps the question could be rephrased to 'how much paint would be required to coat a person all over, including each strand of hair and crevice, but not orifaces?'
• The answers for Q1 are pretty good, and I don't know that you could improve upon them much.
The second question is a little tricky, as it depends greatly on where you are. Are you talking a typical person in North America, Europe, the world? Also, male or female? Are we excluding children?
I base my guess on assuming we are talking about the world, and then making a distinction between men and women. Also, children are excluded.
I'm guess the average man is 5'9" worldwide, and the average woman 5'4". The latter might be a little high. Also, we're going to knock off some for the height of the head (10" for men, 8" for women). It's assumed that the surface area for the head and neck will be covered in our overestimation on the legs.
For men, a width of 18" and for women 16". In terms of thickness, men 10" and women 9". Treat them as rectangular boxes. I do this because I assume the extra surface are of the head/arms/fingers/toes, noes, etc. will balance out the fact that there will be a lot of surface area missing in the lower portion of the body (even accounting for the fact that the legs a cylindrical).
Putting this all together we get: Men ~ 74 sq. ft., Women ~ 56 sq. ft.
Guestimates probably still a little high, but it's something.
• Regarding the apparent fractal nature of things, remember that a fractal is essentially the resultant of an infinite number of iterations of the underlying "algorithm", whatever that may be. Anything in nature, while seemingly indistinguishable from the ideal mathematical object, is limited by the inherent "discreteness" of matter (though Larry and others may wish to correct me!), so what we see may have an extremely large, but finite length, area, or volume, etc.
• Can dunk the average person into a water bath, figure how many liters they displace, find out the surface area of the container that could contain the displaced water and use that.
Or we could answer that there is no such thing as a typical person.
on the other question -- how many people are in a family?
• So, for the first question, I assumed a population of 6BB and an area of 1 sq yd per person...not exactly crammed, but the guy in the middle really has to get to the outhouse, so...
6 BB people = 6BB sq yd. 3MM sq yd in a sq mile, so 2,000 sq miles.
RI is about 50x50 miles, but is around 20% water so estimated 2,000 sq mi, so the world's population would fill the state standing shoulder to shoulder.
Assumed a lot size of 30 x 30 feet for each person - small, but enough for a cabin and a small garden. Also assuming that a family would be granted contiguous lots for each member (don't want to disincentivize childbirth). This gives us 2000x10x10 = 200,000 sq mi. that is 100 Rhode Islands, or roughly the area of Oregon and Washington put together.
Fractals are not infinite, but might well be considered if we're including hair and such...but I think I'll just eastimate. Average person is about 5'6" (66")..about 3 feet of height is small girth - legs and head (16" around) - and 2'6" broad girth with a 32" girth. Arms assume a 6" girth for 5 ft for arms gives... 6*60+16*36+30*32 = 360 + 576 + 960 = 1900 sq in. Add in 10% for hair and appendages = 2000 sq in.
• Figures with the same volume do not necessarily have the same surface area.
In 2D, consider a 4x1 rectangle and a 2x2 square. Both have an area of 4 but differing 2D "surface area" (10 vs 8).
In 3D, consider a 2x2x2 cube and a 4x1x2 volume. Both have volume 8, but surface areas of 24 vs. 28.
• You know it's funny, you can't answer Q1 without at least guessing the total population. "The idea is to get close to the answer" So, if I'm too absorbed in my own world to care about the number of people in it, I'd be a NOHIRE. :-(
• Carl,
Since you censored my calcualtions at 1:54 pm, how about the calculations below? Remember, I am an engineer, so my head is filled with numerous stats, and I can still make a slide rule hot to the touch.
Cram us all together
Part 1
USA Population 300,000,000 people
I read USA is 5% of world population, so multiply by 20 6,000,000,000 people
Space per person 1x1 sq ft 1 sq ft per person
Square Feet in a Square Mile(5,280 ft x 5,280 ft) 27,878,400 sq ft
Land Area required, in sq miles 215 sq miles
Area of Rhode Island (I drove across the state 30 years ago, it is about 35 miles by 30 miles, and a lot of it is water) 1,050 sq miles
% of Rhode Island required 20.5%
Part 2
Number of families (assume 5/family) 1,200,000,000 families
Sq ft of House and yard if 1/4 of acre each (approximately 44,000 sq ft/acre) 9,000 sq ft per family
Square feet for all houses and land 10,800,000,000,000.0000000 sq ft required
Land Area required for fall families (convert to sq miles) 387,397 sq miles
Land area of USA (I have driven across the Lower 48 many times, it is about 1,200 miles by 3000 miles, and a lot of it is water) 3,600,000 sq miles
% of USA required 10.8%
• Silly Questions may have the closest answer. If we use a cylinder as a container, that would probably be our best approximation of a human.
• I'm assuming 12 sq ft per person, to provide a little personal space, chairs and portapotties; presumably by providing the bit of personal space, that would allow people to move around a little bit.
I'm curious though: regarding the concern for externally obtained stats, I'm not publishing an estimate on the size of RI at this time because I'm a bit of a geography nerd and have looked up RI's size on a prior occasion and happen to remember it. In the broader exercise, what's the take on that sort of thing?
• I think that the previous answers to the second part of Question 1 neglect the need for extra space to be set aside for things such as roads, schools, hospitals, shopping/commercial districts, power generation, factories, etc.
I understood the latter half of the question to be more real-world oriented than the former.
• #1 - 6 billion people at 2x2=4 sq.ft. each = 24 billion sq. ft.
Rhode Island, I'm guessing, is roughly 50 miles by 80 miles or 4000 sq. miles, and 1 square mile = 5280x5280~ 28 million square feet. So, 4000 square miles = 112 billion square feet. So, then all the people in the world crammed together would take up 24/112 or roughly 1/5 the state of Rhode Island. Assuming a family of 4 on a small city lot of 5000 sq.ft., 6billion /4= 1.5 billion families x 5000 square feet = 7.5 trillion square feet or 270,000 square miles. Thats about 70 Rhode Islands.
#2 - Really back of the envelope. Average height = 5.75 feet or 69 inches. Estimated diameter of a person is, lets say, 20 inches so the circumference is 20*3.1= 60 inches. Lets take an "air factor" of 75%, so 45 inches * 69 inches = about 3000 square inches or (/144) about 22 square feet.
• Comments by Another Fad -
You are correct it not taking employment with these companies. I wager the companys asking these questions are the ones that hire the geniuses that invested in sub-prime!
• For Q2:
Instead of a cylinder, I think of the body more as two cones. If the average person is 5'9" and I round that to 68 inches, then the cones have a height of 34 inches. I'll assume that the average person is 30 inches around in the middle, which implies a radius of 5 inches (using circum = 2*pi*r). Pythagoreans theorem says that the side of the cone is the sq rt of 34^2 + 5^2, or sqrt(1181), round to 35. The area of a cone (not counting the base) is pi*r*the side length = 3*5*35 = 525. Multiplying by two gets 1050 square inches.
• Those are some great answers! The point of the first part of question 1 is to see just how little physical space we humans occupy ourselves. The second part is definitely more 'real world'.
The more numbers you remember, the easier it is do these estimates. If you remember the world population, that's all you need. If you remember the US population, then you also need to estimate the US fraction of the world population (about 5%).
Similarly, you can remember the size of Rhode Island (or Virginia Beach or LA or ...) or you can estimate the time it took you to drive across that region, or you can compare the East-West size of RI to the E-W size of the US from looking at a map (less than 1/10, more than 1/1000, so we could estimate 1/100).
• Carl, assuming it's flat doesn't get rid of the issue. You have to decide how much flattening you're going to do. If you assume each person is completely flat, then you're asking for the area of a life-size cardboard cutout of a person, which is a lower bound. You'll get progressively higher answers as you flatten to smaller and smaller tolerances: if you ignore fluctuations smaller than an inch, you'll get a bigger answer; cut it to a millimeter, and you'll see much more area; down to a micron and still more. People are presumably not actually fractal, given the atomic nature of matter, so there is some upper bound, but it's much bigger than any useful number; it becomes difficult to talk about the surface area at very small scales (do we mean the "surface" of the nucleons themselves? Do you trace down into sub-atomic spaces?).
A reasonable question to ask would be the surface area of the smallest convex enclosure around a person, but that's not a very natural question for people to think about.
• 1. 1 acre. but the building is REALLY tall. But the rest is all green space.
2. 20 sq ft. sounds about right.
• Going with my prior estimate of 12 sq ft/person, at 6.7 billion people, that's 80.4 billion sq ft, or 2884 sq mi. Expanding to suppose a house with a yard, I'm guessing about 1/6 acre / family, and that between single people and marriages with 0-18 kids, the average household has 4.5 people, such that on average, each person takes (1/6 acre) / 4.5, or 1/27 acre of land. One acre is 43560 sq ft, so that comes out to about 1613 sq ft / person. That is roughly 134.5 x the prior answer, so the total should be 2884 x 134.5 sq mi, or 387898 sq mi.
Q2: I'd guess the average person world-wide, taking into account babies, children, men, women, malnourished and obese, is probably about 4'10" tall and 95 lbs. (disproportionately high number of children in poorer areas of the world). I'll go with a six-cylinder approach: two for the legs (plus feet), average of 34 inches long and radius of 3 inches (2x34x3.14x3x3=1922 sq in); two for the arms (plus hands), average of 32 inches long and radius of 1.5 inches (2x32x3.14x1.5x1.5=452 sq in); one for the torso, average of 35 inches long and radius of 6 inches (really approximated given elliptical cross-section, vertical fluctuation within each torso and wild variations between children and adults) (35x3.14x6x6=3950 sq in); and the head plus neck, with average height of 8 inches and radius of 3.5 inches (8x3.14x3.5x3.5=308 sq in), for a total of 7032 sq in, or about 49 sq ft.
• #1. Take the 6B people and make them all cheerleaders. Then assemble them into 10 row high pyramids of 55 people each. The 110 million pyramids times the bottom layer (10 people x 2.5 ft x 2.5 ft) of 60 sq ft shows we need about 7B sq ft or a 250 sq mile area. RI is the smallest state, 1000 square miles. So we need 1/4 of RI. We build pyramid houses around the people and the lawns are on the roofs so no change for the house and yard. Efficient.
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• I live in RI. It is indeed close to 1500 sq miles.
For the human surface area, I have a peculiar method. I remember my high school physics teacher telling me that the air pressure on a human body is equal to four elephants. I remember that air pressure at sea level is about 15 lbs./sq. in. Unfortunately, I don't have a good guess at the weight of an elephant. Is it more like a ton or more like ten tons?? I think a big horse weighs about a ton, so the elephant must be much more. So that makes the 20 sq feet estimate for human surface area about right.
• James, that's a great way to think about it!
• Question 2: If the average person weighs 150 lbs and has the same average density as water, then that person would occupy 150/62 = 2.4 cubic feet. That's equivalent to a cube with a side of 1.34 ft. Such a cube would have a surface area of 1.34^2 * 6 sq ft, or about 11 sq ft. Of course, a person is not a cube (generally speaking). I would use an arbitrary fudge factor of 1.5 to estimate a surface area of about 16 sq ft.
• I want to try a different approach - I guess I weigh about 2 kg more with my clothes on (excluding shoes) from what I remember. Paper's area density is about 100 gm/m2. Assume clothes is approximately 3-5 times that. Then my clothes area would be about 4-6 m2. So, adding hands and face, I would guess about 5 to 7m2 at most. I would make my final guess 6 m2. At about 3 ft per meter, that would give just over 54 ft2.
• 1. If all the humans in the world were crammed together, how much area would we require?
A long time ago I read that we would all fit in a cubic mile, and that cube would easily fit inside the grand canyon. So if you make the cubic mile 10 feet high, we would easily fit inside 528 square miles. Rhode Island is almost three times as large, at 1545 square miles.
How does that compare to the area of Rhode Island? How much area would we need if we gave every family a house and a yard (i.e., a small plot of land)?
1545 square miles is enough to give all 6.5 billion of us a little over 6 square feet. The entire united states, at just under 3.8 million square miles, would give us all just over a third of an acre. The land area of the whole planet, with about 958,000 square miles, would be enough for all of us to have 5.6 acres, but with my luck I'd get desert or arctic wasteland. And no mineral rights.
2. What is the external surface area of a typical person? (Include only the outward-facing part of the body — i.e. skin, hair and nails — and not, say, the digestive tract.)
• oops the land area of the planet is about 148 million square miles. But the 5.6 acres number is right, assuming 6.5 billion people.
For question two, the way to measure is pick a finite minimal limit first. If we use an electron microscope, the total surface area on a molecular scale would be nearly infinite. Its a variation on the "angels on the head of a pin" question.
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If you must port to .NET 2005, read this thread.
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After much pain and suffering , I finally found some info on porting apps from previous versions of MSVC to the current .NET 2005.
Many of the articles failed to address the main issue which is an incorrect build environment. I falsely assumed that clicking on the old MSVC 6 IDE file and allowing 2005 to convert it would work.
However, this does not work. Follow these steps and you should be ok.
First define this in your C/C++ pre-processor settings to ensure you don't get complaints from the MS gods about the C/C++ standard library functions being deprecated. They are attempting to force you to use their own custom versions of the self-same files that, probably, only run better on Windows and have next to nothing to do with pure C/C++.
To get rid of all that deprecated crap define: _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
This essentially will get your compiler environment back to normal and out of what Bill thinks is best mode. We all know Bill doesn't always know what's best nor do his cronies.
In order to ensure a successful port I recommend doing the following:
• Clean your old project folder up and remove all non-essential elements like folders containing non-resource bitmaps, data, etc. All non-build related files and folders should be removed.
• Select File->New->Project from existing code.
• Follow the rest of the dialogs and respond according to what support you need. Be careful of the files you add because if your project folder has a lot of non-essential items it will all be added to the project.
• Now manually copy back all the folders and data that your app needs to run, but doesn't need to build.
• Add your directories (C/C++ tree), library dependencies (Linker tree), defines, etc, etc.
• Ensure your manifest is being generated by selecting manifest from the Linker tree in project properties. My manifest was not being generated correctly because of what was on this line.
• Now copy the correct DLLs from your VisualStudio/Redist folder. If you are using the debug DLLs, use the debug_noRedist folder. Copy the DLLs from those folders (if you need both crt and mfc) into your application folder.
This should create a valid project that should run with no problem.
The manifest created should work as generated. I did all of this and finally after about a day of messing with 2005, my editor application now works correctly and calls out correctly to my DirectX engine DLL.
There are other ways to do this, but so far this seems to be the easiest. I don't like having multiple copies of all these dlls every time I create a project, but the other methods are just a giant mess. Porting, any way you slice it, is an exercise in frustration and get's worse when you are using DLLs and porting them as well. So far I've had to re-build the DLLs inside of MSVC 2005 in order to get them to work correctly. This is directly stated in the documentation. You MUST rebuild any DLLs or LIBs inside of 2005 if your 2005 application depends on them. You can use the depends.exe utility in the bin folder of your visualstudio/vc folder.
The STL in 2005 will also still complain about DLL-interfaces when using any of it's classes. There are several documents on the web about this, but based on my research these warnings are simply an annoyance. There are work-arounds but all have drawbacks and side-effects. I would simply use #pragma to turn this warning off. Note that there are times when this warning will lead to a build error so shutting it off may suppress vital information, but only in certain cases.
You can build your project without using CLR or the common language runtime by specifying this in the project properties. There is a combo box in Project properties->Configuration->General->Common Language Runtime Support. This should keep you in the world of ISO C/C++ rather than MS's bloated extensions to C++.
This has been a major headache and I pity the poor fella out there that has to port thousands of lines or even millions of lines of code to .NET 2005.
In order to deploy this application correctly I recommend following the guidelines and examples provided in the help file under Setup and Deployment. The famous MSVCRT.DLL is no longer used by MSVC and is now considered a system level dll that only the operating system will use. Don't ask me why.
I'm not totally impressed with 2005's IDE and it seems they've taken all the good things from 6.0 out and replaced them with completely assinine methods of doing the same operation. I can't wait to try to distribute my tools and game code to my dev team. That's a disaster just waiting to happen right now.
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Wow, thanks for putting that much effort into this thread.
Just wondering, what exactly made you start using .net 2005? I'm guessing it has more to do with alleviating the feeling that you are too old school than anything else? That's the only real motivation I have for even considering switching, but I've done the free visual studio online thing and decided to give it a go (what you've just posted will help me *very much*).
Thanks again!
As with other stuff Bubba has posted, I think this is certainly worth making into a sticky...somewhere.
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As an update to this thread I have one more recommendation to make regarding porting.
I would highly recommend building a new project from scratch inside of 2005 and then slowly adding your own source files back into the project.
This will ensure a correct manifest is auto-generated by the IDE and that it will correctly link with VC80/VC80D.dll, etc, etc. The other method I mentioned requires a lot of voodoo magic to get it working and you end up with a mess of files to include the VC libs.
By creating a new project, all references to MSVCRT.DLL are gone or never created. This ensures a flawless compilation and link process.
I've tried converting old projects and it just doesn't work right.
Enjoy. If you have any questions regarding porting to 2005 I'll be happy to answer them, provided I have the knowledge to do so.
BTW: If your controls are not themed when you run your application, your manifest is incorrect. Check your project options.
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well hello, im new to programming and i just started coding in C.. I just want to know is game programming different from C and c++ programming or what.. I just need some more info about game programing and a simple game writen in C if possible so i can get an idea what is it all about
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The purpose of the forum is to discuss programming of games, rather than technical issues in C or C++. So if you have a question of "How do I sort my game objects in the 3D world", then it's a game programming question.
If you have a question about C++ that is also about games, then it's borderline - make your best guess of whether it's more game or more C++ - and if you get it wrong, the moderators will move the post. Most people read all the forums anyways...
Most commercial, big, games are written in C++, but games can be (and are) written in just about any language ever produced.
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If that is the question then no, the syntax of C and C++ is the same regardless of what type of programs you write. So if you know how to program in C or C++ you can use these languages also for writing games.
Game programming however is a complex field, uses many specific algorithms and techniques, and often relies on third-party libraries for graphics and sounds. That is probably why there's a separate board (you might get better advice from Gamedev forums - and tutorials - when it comes to programming games).
I might be wrong.
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...(you might get better advice from Gamedev forums - and tutorials - when it comes to programming games).
It's not that we do not dole out good advice for games but this board is not specifically geared to game programming. The number of members here that actually code games in their spare time is quite minimal and thus the experience base from which questions are answered is equally as minimal.
The best thing to do when researching games and techniques for games is to use multiple sources. You may find something at gamedev that just doesn't suit your needs but you might find something somewhere else that does. Often times you will find older code that simply does not work with modern hardware or is not optimized for it for clarity's sake. Tutorials are a good place to learn but they also are quite limited in scope. Most tutorials are so hard-coded that actually integrating them into an engine is quite difficult.
My recommendation to you for learning to program games in C++ is to first learn the language like the back of your hand. So buy books on C++, design patterns, anti-patterns (patterns that go against design but are common pitfalls), coding practices, etc, etc. These will help you immensely. And you are going to have to go far beyond "C++ for Dummies" to program games or anything useful in C++. I wouldn't even bother with a book like that. www.gamedev.net has excellent articles, reviews, and suggestions about books. They also link to the book on amazon so purchasing it is a snap. So go check out gamedev's articles and resources section as well as their book recommendations.
Once you have a sufficient grasp of C++ I would then recommend buying books on graphics programming either in OpenGL or Direct3D. The choice is yours.
Once you gain more experience in games and have moved far beyond what is readily available in books you will have to hunt for more books with more depth but perhaps less sales and thus less readers (which makes them hard to find). www.gamasutra.com is an excellent source for more advanced topics in games and many professional game programmers regularly post there and write articles for the site. It's not for the faint of heart since they do assume you have quite a bit of experience with game algorithms and graphics algorithms.
As with any topic the more sources you use and research the more complete your understanding will be. One source is never going to tell you exactly how to do the specific task you want but you will find little nuggets here and there that you can incorporate into your final design. Fact is there isn't a book out there that tells you everything but across the spectrum of books available you can learn pretty much everything. I hope that makes sense.
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i advice you to learn C++ for game programming. imho, OOP makes it much easier to program a game than C
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Also, if you search the board, you will find that anotymouse posted some code that does the job a while ago.
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Dec 5, 2009 02:11 AM
Cross and Blackwell---PICALLILLIE
Mum can not find her fav. in Toronto,does any one know where i can find it in Toronto.
Any help,Thanks
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1. I saw some piccalilli at But 'n' Ben bakery the other day. They have a few locations around town. I'd call first. Also call Mrs. Bridges British Bakery; I believe they carry it.
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I've seen it at Mrs Bridges (Eglinton & Victoria Park).
2. My local Metro (Front & Church) carries both the Piccalilli and the Branston Pickle. Also you can get it in the St, Lawrence Mkt. Lively Life has it, and probably other places do as well.
1. I believe I've seen it at Loblaws in Pickering (Kingston/Liverpool).
1. I've always been able to pick this up at any Loblaws store (although I haven't been recently)
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What's the treasure value of a feat?
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I try and limit the physical magic items I grant my players, instead focusing on boons, themes and innate power boosts.
Does anyone have a good rule of thumb when granting a bonus feat as treasure? Is that the equivilant to a single magic item?
It seems that at the heroic tier in general feats give a +1 to ATK, +2 under limited circumstances or a +2 to DMG or +3 in limited circumstances.
That seems about on par with a heroic-level magic item to me, but I was wondering you other GMs thought?
I'd probably say a single treasure parcel.
There are items like the Bracers of Archery (levels 6, 16, 26) that are actually better than any feats you can pick at the same level (giving +2, 4, 6 to bow/xbow damage rolls, as opposed to +1/2/3 from Weapon Focus, or even +2/3/4 from a racial feat), so a single parcel seems about right, considering the player also has the freedom to choose which feat they'd like. The rule of thumb is that players should gain items above their level from the DM (DM's choosing of item), while gaining items below their level from enchanting/forging/alchemy (player's choosing of item), so a single feat for a single player (of the player's choosing) would make sense as a treasure parcel.
Personally, I've only given out feats as rewards a single time, and I picked the feats for the various characters at that time, since it fit the plot (as a thanks from the Raven Queen, she allowed one of her followers to pluck out a strand of a timeline that might have been, and then give it to the players).
However, I counted giving one feat to each of the four players at that time as a single treasure parcel. They were feats that the players themselves wouldn't have thought of because of feat economization, but which added flavor (like the vampire/paladin hybrid gaining the Vampire bloodline, and the paladin/warlock hybrid gaining the Vistani heritage, since he had already been in a Vistani Blooding earlier). They all seemed very happy with their bonus feats.
..I do not know about 4th edition but I do that alot in my campaigns....
say for instance the first leg of the quest deals with alot of poison, or disease; in conjuction with xp and tang, uh.. tangi.... uh real magic items I would give each player say +2 fort save vs poison..
..now ive never handed out a feat, buuuut my first inclination is to say, make it pretty valuable.. ..feats build off each other, giving a PC a low level feat may give them access to a feat 3, 6 levels faster than their class and race would otherwise gain access to it.. ..feats can not be taken or destroyed or stopped..
..I gots to tell ya, if I was playing in your campaing and I got a feat as a reward, I would be pretty stoked...
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka
Since you only get a feat every two levels, I'd say it's worth about 2 uncommon magic items of around your level. It's a very powerful reward.
It greatly depends on the feat in question. As others have said, the first step is looking at similar items. It is never a 1-on-1 comparison though, since items give item bonusses, tend to take up a slot (you can have only a max number of items active at the same time) and items can theoretically be removed/destroyed. Unless your campaign regularly involves imprisonment, and/or infiltration into areas where magic items would draw a lot of attention, I wouldn't worry about the fact that items can be removed (especially not in 4e that virtually lacks item destruction powers and monster abilities). Slots and stacking is something you do need to take into account though.
For example, Skill Focus gives a +3 feat bonus on a single skill. The first time an item gives a similar bonus is around level 11, but it is item bonus and virtually always a specific slot. For example, skills such as Bluff, Diplomacy, Insight, Intimidate, Knowledges and Perception are tied to the head slot and few (if any items) give a bonus to all these skills as such a PC needs to select two or three of these skills that they want to give a boost. The feat lacks this limitation.
Of course, if you hand out feats as a reward, you have full control over it, and simply assigning it the level 14 item value is fine as long as you keep an eye on stacking. The +3 bonus is probably worth that amount of gold, but getting the +3 on 6 skills is not ;)
The rules in the DMG II for Reward-based games specifically says to remove the highest level and the lowest level magic item from the list of treasure parcels. That's all you need to worry about. Once you've done that (Hell, the highest level item is usually level+4 or +5) you've taken so much power out of the list of treasure parcels that I'd argue your free to do almost anything you want. You've given yourself a lot of room to move around, a lot of flexibility.
I run a low magic campaign, too. Once my players have taken their first multiclass feat, I give them powers from that class as Rewards, or Grandmaster Training, which is essentially a feat, though even a little more powerful since they aren't swapping powers for it. Or, I'll give them extra powers from their class, like if they want one of the more defensive Dailies but don't want to pass on the good offensive ones. As long as I dole out the medium level magic items to the other PCs I find that everything stay's pretty balanced.
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One thing to consider is that instead of offering actual feats, offer additional backgrounds. They're typically not overly mechanically powerful, and can pack a lot of fluff to help round out a character's back story.
I sometimes wish there were specific non-combat feat slots alongside the typical feat selection. Something that boosts skills or things like movement modes. I mean, who's really going to blow a feat on something like a swim speed, or an additional language, or a specific bonus against one type of creature or terrain. Things that are usually totally dependent on what the DM puts you up against, but might be fun to have nonetheless.
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Round 2, Pick 46.. Cowboys selected one Larry Allen
Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by 44cowboys22, Apr 28, 2013.
1. 44cowboys22
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Cowboys selected one Larry Allen
10th lineman overall selected
9 lineman selected in rd 1 this year
We had the chance to grab a complete road grading LA type at pick 47
But we seem to forget how a dominant O-Line wins Superbowls
Wright-Donovan-Gregg-Allen-Newton-Williams etc etc
And yet we wonder why we can't win
2. Parcells4Life
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Will you be happy if we get Clabo and Moore this week? Clabo probably more likely than Moore unless Costa has no chance of being healthy.
This offense will be bar none the best in the league if we get him. Romo doesn't need the 90s wall, just enough time to look down the field without puncturing a lung in the process.
3. big dog cowboy
big dog cowboy THE BIG DOG Staff Member
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Who are you talking about?
4. Frozen700
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So what should we do as fans? Cry and Panic about it?
Let me know, I'm curious
5. JPostSam
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are you suggesting that warford or waters is the equivalent of larry allen?
and are you aware that not a single offensive guard was taken in the 2nd round?
6. Idgit
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The only player with a shot of a Larry Allen type career was drafted, to our dismay, before we ever got on the clock.
As to your other points of reference, not exactly a walking advertisement for taking OLs all that early:
Wright- 7th round, drafted as a TE
Donovan- 4th round, drafted as a DE
Gregg- 2nd round
Allen- 2nd round
Newton- UDFA
Williams- 3rd round
7. speedkilz88
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I thought he was talking about Frederick. He's a road grader. Little higher than 47 though.
8. cowboysfan31
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He's probably thinking of Larry Warford...who may not have any better of an NFL career than Ronald Leary.
9. Yuma Cactus
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WT Frederick has Larry Allen type strength but not the feet. Allen was probably one of the best examples of a "dancing bear". Warmack was the closest prospect to Larry Allen this year but he would be hard pressed to play T.
10. CowboyFan74
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Cooper or Warmack?
11. Ratmatt
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If we get a FA lineman,it will be the cheapest one.Someone we can neatly fit under the cap.
12. Idgit
Idgit Ice up, son. Ice up! Staff Member
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Neither, really, but I was thinking Warmack when I posted that. But Cooper's got a shot at being a very good player, too. Maybe great. They probably won't both be all-time greats, though.
13. MonsterD
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Is this some kind of code?
The 10th Olineman selected was Menelik Watson
1st-Eric Fisher
2nd-Luke Joeckel
3rd-Lane Johnson
4th-Jonathan Cooper
5th-Chance Warmack
6th-DJ Fluker
7th-Justin Pugh
8th-Kyle Long
9th-Travis Frederick
10th-Menelik Watson
11th-Larry Warford
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so who we gonna get #1?
Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by lane, Dec 16, 2005.
1. like a dog
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Bing is coming back for his senior season. There also is alot of talk of moving him to tailback if both Bush and White bolt.
2. Hiero
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I think we can get Eslinger 2nd rd, but he may have hte same problem Al J did, that he is not big enough. Marcus McNeill would definitely be my pick. Mike Haas is not even a 1st rd guy.
Ahmad Brooks if he fell to us in the 1st, if he even came out would be a really good pick.
3. hendog
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chad greenway or carpenter
4. BigWillie
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Eslinger is way too dominant of a center to fall to the 2nd rounder. Late 1st, early 2nd round guy.
Greenway is a top 10 pick, guranteed.
Also, I don't get the deal with Pettiti. So what if we started him for a year? He has underproduced, even for a rookie. You evaluate all your options and if a player like a Eric Winston is available you DEFINETELY look at him as a real possibility.
Winston was easily a top 10 talent last year before tearing his acl. His slow start thanks to that injury has dropped his stock, but he got better and better as the season went on. If you can steal a talent like that, you take him.
McNeill is the same. A HUGE man with a big wingspan, he could easily be a dominant blocker.
Man Jean Giles would serve the same purpose as that of Eric Winston or anyone by the above logic. Rivera has been far from spectacular, but is it worth spending a 1st round pick to replace Rivera and take the cap hit at the same time? I personally do not see how Giles is that much of an upgrade.
Lastly, playing Pettiti has become more out of necessity. I'm sorry to pittdawg, but if Pettiti had any competition at his position besides midseason scrubs we had signed, he wouldn't be the starter right now. I'm sure everyone would agree as well.
The only truely pressing needs we do have is OT, FS, ROLB and MAYBE a center. Even then, I wouldn't be opposed to taking Greg Eslinger at all. For the linebacker, I've always held the thought that quality LB's can as easily be found in the later rounds as they can earlier rounds.
5. Put Henson In
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Mike Haas will be lucky to go day 1. I think we'll look towards tackle in the first round as there are 5-6 1st round tackles available.
6. StarMan
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Hello? I can't believe nobody has even mentioned Jay Cutler in this thread.
Sure, we can squeeze another 1 or 2 years out of a mediocre Bledsoe. But we need a QB for the pretty near future. What about Romo or Henson? Please. Spare me.
We have no shot at Leinart, Young or Quinn (if he comes out). I say draft Cutler in the first and upgrade the OL and LB with the rest of the draft and free agency.
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Some guys I really like, though I haven't been able to watch many college games:
Santonio Holmes
Dqwell Jackson
Jay Cutler
8. jbsg02
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probably an OT like Winston, Scott, McNeill, Thomas
9. Snaggletooth
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Anyone think we should draft a kicker? I am tired of missing 30 something yard field goals. As everyone knows, we have lost a few games because of our kicking game and I would love to see someone who is more consistant. I forgot his name but who is that kid from Colorado?
10. jbsg02
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It's hard to see this team spending a draft pick on a kicker
11. baj1dallas
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I'd like to see an inside linebacker drafted in the first round, and Dat broght back to play in passing situations. Hopefully by next year Fujita and Burnett are alright on the outside. Draft a WR or FS in round two and pick up a big but raw RT in the later rounds to challenge Petiti. I think unless Rivera retires he's back at guard. Only draft a guard if you get rid of Peterman.
12. C-BoysFaninMIA
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olineman, fs, or lb
13. MrPhil
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I think with where we will most likely be picking, in the 16-20 range, we will probably be looking at:
QB - Jay Cutler
WR - Santonio Holmes, Derek Hagan
OT - Eric Winston, Winston Justice, John Scott, Marcus McNeil
OG - Max Jean-Gilles
LB - Bobby Carpenter, Chad Greenway, Thomas Howard, DeMeco Reyns
I think I would honestly be happy with any of those guys right now but, I think I lean more to the OL, LB, QB areas.........
14. ghst187
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if the kicker from Colorado is available in the fourth, we should trade up to get him. He's VERY Good and we have to find someone else...have to
15. Hiero
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Mason Crosby would be a great choice, hes got a hell of a leg. I'd trade into the 4th to get him.
16. CrazyCowboy
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This is the guy at that position I was thinking of.......but, I really think a OL would be in our best interest.
17. JPM
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I'm hoping for a big fat O-lineman.
I've asked the mall Santa for one so we will see what happens...
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If you look at this team and say the most important need is anything other than the O-Line you seriously need to watch more games.
19. jazzcat22
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I can live with that.
20. Hiero
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I would much rather get one of the top tackles or offense rd 1. Carpenter might be a bit of a reach at where we are gonna pick likely around 18-20.
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use 5.010; # re::regexp_pattern use strict; use warnings; package PIR; # ABSTRACT: Short alias for Path::Iterator::Rule our $VERSION = '1.008'; # VERSION # Dependencies use Path::Iterator::Rule; our @ISA = qw/Path::Iterator::Rule/; 1; # vim: ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 et: __END__ =pod =encoding UTF-8 =head1 NAME PIR - Short alias for Path::Iterator::Rule =head1 VERSION version 1.008 =head1 SYNOPSIS use PIR; my $rule = PIR->new; # match anything $rule->file->size(">10k"); # add/chain rules # iterator interface my $next = $rule->iter( @dirs ); while ( defined( my $file = $next->() ) ) { ... } # list interface for my $file ( $rule->all( @dirs ) ) { ... } =head1 DESCRIPTION This is an empty subclass of L. 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The expressions are applied to the file's contents as a single string. For large files, this is likely to take significant time and memory. Files are assumed to be encoded in UTF-8, but alternative Perl IO layers can be passed as the first argument: $rule->contents_match(":encoding(iso-8859-1)", qr/BEGIN .* END/xs); See L for further details. =head3 C $rule->line_match(qr/^new/i, qr/^Addition/); The C rule takes a list of regular expressions and returns files with at least one line that matches one of the expressions. Files are assumed to be encoded in UTF-8, but alternative Perl IO layers can be passed as the first argument. =head3 C $rule->shebang(qr/#!.*\bperl\b/); The C rule takes a list of regular expressions or glob patterns and checks them against the first line of a file. =head2 Other rules =head3 C $rule->symlink->dangling; $rule->not_dangling; The C rule method matches dangling symlinks. Use it or its inverse to control how dangling symlinks should be treated. =head2 Negated rules Most rule methods have a negated form preceded by "not_". $rule->not_name("foo.*") Because this happens automatically, it includes somewhat silly ones like C (which is thus a less efficient way of saying C). Rules that skip directories or version control files do not have a negated version. =head1 EXTENDING =head2 Custom rule subroutines Rules are implemented as (usually anonymous) subroutine callbacks that return a value indicating whether or not the rule matches. These callbacks are called with three arguments. The first argument is a path, which is also locally aliased as the C<$_> global variable for convenience in simple tests. $rule->and( sub { -r -w -x $_ } ); # tests $_ The second argument is the basename of the path, which is useful for certain types of name checks: $rule->and( sub { $_[1] =~ /foo|bar/ } ); "foo" or "bar" in basename; The third argument is a hash reference that can be used to maintain state. Keys beginning with an underscore are B for C to provide additional data about the search in progress. For example, the C<_depth> key is used to support minimum and maximum depth checks. The custom rule subroutine must return one of four values: =over 4 =item * A true value -- indicates the constraint is satisfied =item * A false value -- indicates the constraint is not satisfied =item * C<\1> -- indicate the constraint is satisfied, and prune if it's a directory =item * C<\0> -- indicate the constraint is not satisfied, and prune if it's a directory =back A reference is a special flag that signals that a directory should not be searched recursively, regardless of whether the directory should be returned by the iterator or not. The legacy "0 but true" value used previously for pruning is no longer valid and will throw an exception if it is detected. Here is an example. This is equivalent to the "max_depth" rule method with a depth of 3: $rule->and( sub { my ($path, $basename, $stash) = @_; return 1 if $stash->{_depth} < 3; return \1 if $stash->{_depth} == 3; return \0; # should never get here } ); Files and directories and directories up to depth 3 will be returned and directories will be searched. Files of depth 3 will be returned. Directories of depth 3 will be returned, but their contents will not be added to the search. Returning a reference is "sticky" -- they will propagate through "and" and "or" logic. 0 && \0 = \0 \0 && 0 = \0 0 || \0 = \0 \0 || 0 = \0 0 && \1 = \0 \0 && 1 = \0 0 || \1 = \1 \0 || 1 = \1 1 && \0 = \0 \1 && 0 = \0 1 || \0 = \1 \1 || 0 = \1 1 && \1 = \1 \1 && 1 = \1 1 || \1 = \1 \1 || 1 = \1 Once a directory is flagged to be pruned, it will be pruned regardless of subsequent rules. $rule->max_depth(3)->name(qr/foo/); This will return files or directories with "foo" in the name, but all directories at depth 3 will be pruned, regardless of whether they match the name rule. Generally, if you want to do directory pruning, you are encouraged to use the L method instead of writing your own logic using C<\0> and C<\1>. =head2 Extension modules and custom rule methods One of the strengths of L is the many CPAN modules that extend it. C provides the C method to provide a similar mechanism for extensions. The C class method takes three arguments, a C for the rule method, a closure-generating callback, and a flag for not generating a negated form of the rule. Unless the flag is true, an inverted "not_*" method is generated automatically. Extension classes should call this as a class method to install new rule methods. For example, this adds a "foo" method that checks if the filename is "foo": package Path::Iterator::Rule::Foo; use Path::Iterator::Rule; Path::Iterator::Rule->add_helper( foo => sub { my @args = @_; # do this to customize closure with arguments return sub { my ($item, $basename) = @_; return if -d "$item"; return $basename =~ /^foo$/; } } ); 1; This allows the following rule methods: $rule->foo; $fule->not_foo; The C method will warn and ignore a helper with the same name as an existing method. =head2 Subclassing Instead of processing and returning strings, this module may be subclassed to operate on objects that represent files. Such objects B stringify to a file path. The following private implementation methods must be overridden: =over 4 =item * _objectify -- given a path, return an object =item * _children -- given a directory, return an (unsorted) list of [ basename, full path ] entries within it, excluding "." and ".." =back Note that C<_children> should return a I of I, where the tuples are array references containing basename and full path. See L source for an example. =head1 LEXICAL WARNINGS If you run with lexical warnings enabled, C will issue warnings in certain circumstances (such as an unreadable directory that must be skipped). To disable these categories, put the following statement at the correct scope: no warnings 'Path::Iterator::Rule'; =head1 PERFORMANCE By default, C iterator options are "slow but safe". They ensure uniqueness, return files in sorted order, and throw nice error messages if something goes wrong. If you want speed over safety, set these options: %options = ( loop_safe => 0, sorted => 0, depthfirst => -1, error_handler => undef ); Alternatively, use the C and C methods instead, which set these options for you. $iter = $rule->iter( @dirs, \%options ); $iter = $rule->iter_fast( @dirs ); # same thing Depending on the file structure being searched, C<< depthfirst => -1 >> may or may not be a good choice. If you have lots of nested directories and all the files at the bottom, a depth first search might do less work or use less memory, particularly if the search will be halted early (e.g. finding the first N matches.) Rules will shortcut on failure, so be sure to put rules likely to fail early in a rule chain. Consider: $r1 = Path::Iterator::Rule->new->name(qr/foo/)->file; $r2 = Path::Iterator::Rule->new->file->name(qr/foo/); If there are lots of files, but only a few containing "foo", then C<$r1> above will be faster. Rules are implemented as code references, so long chains have some overhead. Consider testing with a custom coderef that combines several tests into one. Consider: $r3 = Path::Iterator::Rule->new->and( sub { -x -w -r $_ } ); $r4 = Path::Iterator::Rule->new->executable->writeable->readable; Rule C<$r3> above will be much faster, not only because it stacks the file tests, but because it requires only a single code reference. =head1 CAVEATS Some features are still unimplemented: =over 4 =item * Untainting options =item * Some L helpers (e.g. C) =item * Extension class loading via C =back Filetest operators and stat rules are subject to the usual portability considerations. See L for details. =head1 SEE ALSO There are many other file finding modules out there. They all have various features/deficiencies, depending on your preferences and needs. Here is an (incomplete) list of alternatives, with some comparison commentary. L and L are subclasses of C and operate on L and L objects, respectively. Because of this, they are substantially slower on large directory trees than just using this module directly. L is part of the Perl core. It requires the user to write a callback function to process each node of the search. Callbacks must use global variables to determine the current node. It only supports depth-first search (both pre- and post-order). It supports pre- and post-processing callbacks; the former is required for sorting files to process in a directory. L can be used to help create a callback for L. L is an object-oriented wrapper around L. It provides a number of helper functions and there are many more C modules on CPAN with additional helpers. It provides an iterator interface, but precomputes all the results. L provides iterators for file, directories or "everything". It takes two callbacks, one to match files and one to decide which directories to descend. It does not allow control over breadth/depth order, though it does provide means to sort files for processing within a directory. Like L, it requires callbacks to use global variables. L walks a directory structure with an iterator. It is implemented as L subclasses, which adds a degree of extra complexity. It takes a single callback to define "interesting" paths to return. The callback gets a L or L object for evaluation. L and companion L are like File::Find and File::Find::Rule, but without File::Find inside. They use an iterator that does not precompute results. They can return L objects, which give a subset of the utility of Path::Class objects. L appears to be a literal translation of L, including oddities like making C<-M> into a boolean. L recursively descends a tree, calling a callback on each file. No iterator. Supports exclusion patterns. Depth-first post-order by default, but offers pre-order option. Does not process symlinks. L is based on iterator patterns in Higher Order Perl. It allows a filtering callback. Symlinks are followed automatically without infinite loop protection. No control over order. It offers a "state file" option for resuming interrupted work. L has declarative helper rules, no iterator, is Moose-based and offers no control over ordering or following symlinks. L has no iterator, does matching via callback and offers no control over ordering. L builds up a set of files to operate on from a list of directories to include or exclude, with control over recursion. A callback is applied to each file (or directory) in the set. There is no iterator. There is no control over ordering. Symlinks are not followed. It has several extra features for checksumming the set and creating tarballs with F. =head1 THANKS Thank you to Ricardo Signes (rjbs) for inspiring me to write yet another file finder module, for writing file finder optimization benchmarks, and tirelessly running my code over and over to see if it got faster. =over 4 =item * See L =back =head1 AUTHOR David Golden =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by David Golden. This is free software, licensed under: The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004 =cut
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package Catalyst::Request::Upload; use Moose; with 'MooseX::Emulate::Class::Accessor::Fast'; use Catalyst::Exception; use File::Copy (); use IO::File (); use File::Spec::Unix; use namespace::clean -except => 'meta'; has filename => (is => 'rw'); has headers => (is => 'rw'); has size => (is => 'rw'); has tempname => (is => 'rw'); has type => (is => 'rw'); has basename => (is => 'ro', lazy_build => 1); has fh => ( is => 'rw', required => 1, lazy => 1, default => sub { my $self = shift; my $fh = IO::File->new($self->tempname, IO::File::O_RDONLY); unless ( defined $fh ) { my $filename = $self->tempname; Catalyst::Exception->throw( message => qq/Can't open '$filename': '$!'/ ); } return $fh; }, ); sub _build_basename { my $self = shift; my $basename = $self->filename; $basename =~ s|\\|/|g; $basename = ( File::Spec::Unix->splitpath($basename) )[2]; $basename =~ s|[^\w\.-]+|_|g; return $basename; } no Moose; =for stopwords uploadtmp =head1 NAME Catalyst::Request::Upload - handles file upload requests =head1 SYNOPSIS my $upload = $c->req->upload('field'); $upload->basename; $upload->copy_to; $upload->fh; $upload->filename; $upload->headers; $upload->link_to; $upload->size; $upload->slurp; $upload->tempname; $upload->type; To specify where Catalyst should put the temporary files, set the 'uploadtmp' option in the Catalyst config. If unset, Catalyst will use the system temp dir. __PACKAGE__->config( uploadtmp => '/path/to/tmpdir' ); See also L. =head1 DESCRIPTION This class provides accessors and methods to handle client upload requests. =head1 METHODS =head2 $upload->new Simple constructor. =head2 $upload->copy_to Copies the temporary file using L. Returns true for success, false for failure. $upload->copy_to('/path/to/target'); =cut sub copy_to { my $self = shift; return File::Copy::copy( $self->tempname, @_ ); } =head2 $upload->fh Opens a temporary file (see tempname below) and returns an L handle. =head2 $upload->filename Returns the client-supplied filename. =head2 $upload->headers Returns an L object for the request. =head2 $upload->link_to Creates a hard link to the temporary file. Returns true for success, false for failure. $upload->link_to('/path/to/target'); =cut sub link_to { my ( $self, $target ) = @_; return CORE::link( $self->tempname, $target ); } =head2 $upload->size Returns the size of the uploaded file in bytes. =head2 $upload->slurp Returns a scalar containing the contents of the temporary file. Note that this will cause the filehandle pointed to by C<< $upload->fh >> to be reset to the start of the file using seek and the file handle to be put into binary mode. =cut sub slurp { my ( $self, $layer ) = @_; unless ($layer) { $layer = ':raw'; } my $content = undef; my $handle = $self->fh; binmode( $handle, $layer ); $handle->seek(0, IO::File::SEEK_SET); while ( $handle->sysread( my $buffer, 8192 ) ) { $content .= $buffer; } $handle->seek(0, IO::File::SEEK_SET); return $content; } =head2 $upload->basename Returns basename for C. =head2 $upload->tempname Returns the path to the temporary file. =head2 $upload->type Returns the client-supplied Content-Type. =head2 meta Provided by Moose =head1 AUTHORS Catalyst Contributors, see =head1 COPYRIGHT This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; 1;
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Mariotti Now Universally Acclaimed As Lazy, Slobbish, Gassy
It's tough to decide whom to dislike more: White Sox catcher AJ Pierzynski or Chicago Sun-Times and "Around The Horn" gasbag Jay Mariotti. Particularly if you're a Cubs fan. After the big interleague tussle last weekend, Pierzynski was on "Pardon The Interruption" yesterday and went after Mariotti full-bore:
[Pierzynski says] "Your guy Jay Mariotti wrote an article about me the other day saying how it was all my fault. So Jay, here's an open invitation to come to the clubhouse and say 'hello' to me. If you want to write an article about me, then come speak to me face-to-face."
Both Kornheiser and Wilbon immediately burst into laughter, with Tony responding, "He's not my guy!" and Wilbon jibing at his cohort, "Tony will love that!"
Pierzynski added that as far as he knew, Mariotti had never been inside the White Sox' clubhouse. Tony Reali (aka 'Stat Boy') did not deny that fact near the show's finish, but did say that Mariotti was in the interview room when Pierzynski was speaking to the press after the game.
Putting aside, for a moment, that what we've always thought — both Kornheiser and Wilbon know full well Mariotti is a talentless hack — we can understand Pierzynski's (and other Chicago athletes') dilemma. On one hand, it must be frustrating to be constantly attacked by someone who calls himself a journalist but never deigns to ask a question, research a fact or do much of anything but apply pancake makeup. On the other hand ... jeezus, who wants to talk to Jay Mariotti?
AJ Pierzynski vs. Jay Mariotti: Evil Versus Pure Evil [Bleed Cubbie Blue]
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Simon Cowell made what word trend?
infantile scurvy
infantile scurvy in Medicine
infantile scurvy n.
An acute form of scurvy in infants resulting from malnutrition, marked by pallor, fetid breath, coated tongue, diarrhea, and subperiosteal hemorrhages. Also called Barlow's disease.
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Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Release Notes
Cannot change connector service and connector connection pool monitoring level. (ID 6089026)
Using the Monitoring Level setting page, if you change either the Connector Service or Connector Connection Pool monitoring level to LOW or HIGH and then save, both are not changed in the domain.xml file for the domain. However, if you change the JMS Service monitoring level to LOW or HIGH and save, the values for Connector Service and Connector Connection Pool are also changed at the same time. This problem does not occur when running the equivalent commands from the command line.
Only use the JMS Service component on the Monitoring Level page to change monitoring levels.
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Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6 NSAPI Programmer's Guide
This guide discusses how to use Netscape Server Application Programmer's Interface (NSAPI) to build plug-ins that define Server Application Functions (SAFs) to extend and modify Sun JavaTM System Web Server 6.1. The guide also provides a reference of the NSAPI functions you can use to define new plug-ins.
This preface contains the following topics:
Who Should Use This Guide
The intended audience for this guide is the person who develops, assembles, and deploys NSAPI plug-ins in a corporate enterprise. This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:
Using the Documentation
The Sun Java System Web Server manuals are available as online files in PDF and HTML formats from the following location:
Table P–1 Sun Java System Web Server Documentation Roadmap
For Information About
See the Following
Late-breaking information about the software and documentation
Release Notes
Getting Started Guide
Performing installation and migration tasks:
• Migrating from Sun ONE Web Server 4.1 or 6.0 to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1
Installation and Migration Guide
Performing the following administration tasks:
• Using the Administration and command-line interfaces
• Configuring server preferences
• Using server instances
• Monitoring and logging server activity
• Using certificates and public key cryptography to secure the server
• Configuring access control to secure the server
• Deploying applications
• Managing virtual servers
• Defining server workload and sizing the system to meet performance needs
• Configuring the server for content compression
• Configuring the server for web publishing and content authoring using WebDAV
Administrator’s Guide
Using programming technologies and APIs to do the following:
• Extend and modify Sun Java System Web Server
• Dynamically generate content in response to client requests
• Modify the content of the server
Programmer’s Guide
NSAPI Programmer’s Guide
Implementing servlets and JavaServer Pages™ (JSP™) technology in Sun Java System Web Server
Programmer’s Guide to Web Applications
Editing configuration files
Administrator’s Configuration File Reference
Tuning Sun Java System Web Server to optimize performance
Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide
How This Guide Is Organized
This guide has the following chapters:
Documentation Conventions
This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide.
Product Support
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Disease Information for Nephrotic syndrome: Clinical Manifestations
Signs & Symptoms
Edema of Lower Extremities
Signs & Symptoms
Edema Children
Facial edema/swelling
Bilateral ankle swelling
Bilateral leg edema/swelling
Bilateral severe leg edema
Diastolic hypertension
Dizzy on Standing/Giddy Response
Fluid retention/Mild edema
High blood pressure child
High blood pressure/sign
Mobile edema/shifts overnight
Orthostatic drop in blood pressure
Beau's lines/Mees lines fingernails
Nail Striations
Striae/Purple striae
Yellow nails
Yellow skin discoloration
Scrotal edema/swelling
Swelling of scrotum
Abdominal Distension
Abdominal distension/protrusion/sign
Abdominal Distention
Abdominal fullness feeling
Abdominal Pain
Abdominal wall edema
Anorexia Decreased appetite
Protruberant Abdomen
Weight gain in Children
Yellow skin/white sclera
Edema of Lower Extremities
Swelling all extremities
Swollen Limb
Dark urine
Frothy urine/Foamy
Nocturia in Children
Nocturia in Elderly
Oliguria/Decreased urine output
Fatigue Tiredness Exhaustion
Fatigue Tiredness in Children
Muscle Wasting/Diffuse
Weight gain
Bilateral Eyelid Edema
Difficulty Focusing Eyes
Diplopia Double vision
Periorbital edema/Puffy eyes
Retinal lipid deposits
Retinal sheen
Visual symptoms
Floppy ear/soft cartilage
Clinical Presentation & Variations
Presentation/High Salt Intake
Fever and High Sed Rate
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2003 San Simeon earthquake
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2003 San Simeon earthquake
2003 San Simeon earthquake is located in California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
San Simeon
San Simeon
Paso Robles
Paso Robles
2003 San Simeon earthquake
Date December 22, 2003 (2003-12-22)
Origin time 19:15:57 [1]
Magnitude 6.6 Mw [1][2]
Depth 16 kilometers (10 mi) [2]
Epicenter 35°37′N 121°04′W / 35.62°N 121.07°W / 35.62; -121.07 [2]
Type Blind thrust
Areas affected Central Coast (California)
United States
Total damage $250–300 million [2][3]
Max. intensity VIII (Severe)
Casualties 2 killed
40 injured [2]
The 2003 San Simeon earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 6.6 on the Central Coast of California, about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of San Simeon. It occurred at 11:15 PST (19:15 UTC) on December 22. The earthquake occurred probably on the Oceanic fault zone in the Santa Lucia Mountains. It was caused by thrust faulting and propagated southeast from the hypocenter for 12 miles (19 km).[3] The most violent ground movement occurred within 50 miles of the epicenter, though the earthquake was felt as far away as Los Angeles. It was the most destructive earthquake to hit the U.S since the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The area where the quake struck displays complex faulting, between the Oceanic Fault and Nacimiento Fault zones, along with possible interaction from the Hosgri fault and San Simeon Fault zones.[4]
The area around the epicenter is sparsely populated and the most severe damage occurred in Paso Robles, 24 miles (39 km) east-northeast, where the earthquake's only fatalities occurred. The Acorn Building, an unreinforced masonry building built in 1892, completely collapsed, killing two women, Jennifer Myrick and Marilyn Frost-Zafuto. Other unreinforced masonry buildings, some more than a century old, in the city's historic downtown area also had extensive damage. However, none of the buildings that had even partial retrofitting collapsed. There was a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the relatives of the deceased women against Mary Mastagni, and several trusts which owned the Acorn Building. The jury found Mastagni negligent in the care and maintenance of the Acorn Building and awarded nearly $2 million to the plaintiffs.
Damage at Pan Jewelers
Two sulfur hot springs in Paso Robles erupted after the earthquake. One was underneath the parking lot of City Hall. Hot water and sediment were released at a rate of about 1,300 gallons per minute (4,900 liters per minute), forming a large sinkhole. There was formerly a bath house at the location and the spring was capped after it closed down. Another hot spring flowed out of the embankment at the Paso Robles Street exit on U.S. Route 101.
Outside of Paso Robles the damage was less severe, with unreinforced masonry buildings taking minor to moderate damage. Buildings even 40 miles from the epicenter in San Luis Obispo suffered minor damage such as ceiling tiles falling. Brick veneers were also disproportionately affected. In addition, water tanks in Paso Robles, Templeton and Los Osos were damaged. Residential buildings, predominantly one to two story wood frame structures, weathered the quake with little or no damage. The damage that did occur was mostly limited to chimneys, although a house in Atascadero suffered severe damage when it moved off its foundation. The damage was probably caused by poor construction. There were fewer nails connecting the plywood siding to the sill than is required and many of them did not actually hit the sill. The building that housed Atascadero's City Hall was damaged and vacated shortly after the quake. Some wineries, especially those near the epicenter along State Route 46, reported damage such as barrels toppling and bursting. This earthquake also damaged Mission San Miguel Arcángel, causing $15 million worth of damage. The earthquake also caused extensive damage to George H. Flamson Middle School. The main building was damaged and had to be demolished in 2004. A new building reflecting the original 1924 building was opened for use in August 2010. In Templeton, Bethel Lutheran Church (ELCA), sustained major damage to its 110+ year old building and the apse had to be rebuilt.
Following the event, California enacted A.B. 2533, amending the California Business and Professions Code § 8875.8, requiring that certain unreinforced masonry buildings that have not been seismically retrofitted have posted notice of the potential earthquake hazard.[5][6] The law was called Jenna's Bill, after Jennifer Myrick, who died in the quake.[7]
1. ^ a b ISC (2014), ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900-2009), Version 1.05, International Seismological Centre
2. ^ a b c d e USGS (September 4, 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
3. ^ a b Mark Yashinsky, ed. (2004). San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003. American Society of Civil Engineers. ISBN 978-0784407479.
4. ^ McLaren, M. K.; Hardebeck, J. L.; van der Elst, N.; Unruh, J. R.; Bawden, G. W.; Blair, J. Luke (2008), "Complex Faulting Associated with the 22 December 2003 Mw 6.5 San Simeon, California, Earthquake, Aftershocks, and Postseismic Surface Deformation", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (Seismological Society of America) 98 (4): 1659–1680, doi:10.1785/0120070088
5. ^ California A.B. 2533, chaptered version, Sept. 21, 2004.
6. ^ California A.B. 2533, Analysis, August 2421, 2004.
7. ^ Wilkens, John (2005-01-30). "Hitting a brick wall: Parents turn grief into action, but 'Jenna's Bill' to post quake risk has yet to take hold". San Diego Tribune. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
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Adenylosuccinate lyase
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Adenylosuccinate lyase
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
External IDs OMIM608222 HomoloGene12 GeneCards: ADSL Gene
EC number
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 158 11564
Ensembl ENSG00000239900 ENSMUSG00000022407
UniProt P30566 P54822
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000026 NM_009634
RefSeq (protein) NP_000017 NP_033764
Location (UCSC) Chr 22:
40.74 – 40.76 Mb
Chr 15:
80.95 – 80.97 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Adenylosuccinate lyase
ASL active sites.png
'The homotetrameric structure of ASL in Thermotoga maritima Domain 1 is in red, Domain 2 is in blue, Domain 3 is in yellow. This structure was inspired by a paper by Toth and Yeates[1]
EC number
CAS number 9027-81-0
IntEnz IntEnz view
ExPASy NiceZyme view
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
Gene Ontology AmiGO / EGO
Adenylosuccinate lyase (or adenylosuccinase) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADSL gene.[2]
Adenylosuccinate lyase converts adenylosuccinate to AMP and fumarate as part of the purine nucleotide cycle. ASL catalyzes two reactions in the purine biosynthetic pathway that makes AMP; ASL cleaves adenylosuccinate into AMP and fumarate, and cleaves SAICAR into AICAR and fumarate.
Adenylosuccinate lyase is part of the β-elimination superfamily of enzymes and it proceeds through an E1cb reaction mechanism. The enzyme is a homotetramer with three domains in each monomer and four active sites per homotetramer.
Point mutations in adenylosuccinate that cause lowered enzymatic activity cause clinical symptoms that mark the condition adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency.
This protein may use the morpheein model of allosteric regulation.[3]
This flow chart shows the steps in the biosynthesis of AMP.Steps in green show steps catalyzed by ASL Steps in red show the dephosphorylation of ASL's substrates
Adenylosuccinate lyase (ASL) is an enzyme that catalyzes two reactions in the de novo purine biosynthetic pathway. In both reactions it uses an E1cb elimination reaction mechanism to cleave fumarate off of the substrate. In the first reaction, ASL converts 5-aminoimidazole- (N-succinylocarboxamide) ribotide (SAICAR) to 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (AICAR) and fumarate. AICAR proceeds through three more reactions before it becomes adenylosuccinate (also called succinyladenosine monophosphate or SAMP), which ASL then splits into adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and fumarate.[4] ASL is important to cells not only because of its involvement in creating purines needed for cellular replication, but also because it helps regulate metabolic processes by controlling the levels of AMP and fumarate in the cell.[5]
ASL cleaves SAICAR into AICAR and fumarate, and adenylosuccinate into AMP and fumarate. This figure was inspired by one from a paper by Toth and Yeates.[1]
Adenylosuccinate lyase belongs to the β-elimination superfamily, and as such its structure is a homotetramer . The monomer of adenylosuccinate lyase has three domains. In Thermotoga maritima, domain 1 contains 7 α-helices in residues 1-93, including the His68 which is highly conserved and was previously thought to be the catalytic acid in the active site.[1] More recent studies have posited that the His171 in domain 2, previously thought to be a catalytic base, may in fact be acting as the catalytic acid, at least in Escherichia coli.[5] Domain 2 is made up of residues 94-341, and contains 5 α-helices and the monomer’s only β-sheet. Domain 3 is made up of 7 α-helices. The core of the tetramer is made up of the four domain 2 copies, and there are two copies each of domains 1 and 3 on each end of the tetramer giving the tetramer D2 dihedral symmetry. The tetramer has four active sites, each where three domains meet.[1]
Adenylosuccinate lyase in humans and Bacillus subtilis can be competitively inhibited by the substrate analog adenosine phosphonobutyric acid 2’(3’), 5’-diphosphate (APBADP). APBADP is a competitive inhibitor for both of the reactions catalyzed by adenylosuccinate lyase, and kinetic studies with APBADP show that the substrates for both reactions use the same active site.[6] In the ASL-catalyzed reaction splitting adenylosuccinate into adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and fumarate, the AMP must rotate slightly after the reaction is complete and before fumarate is released in order for both products to fit in the active site.[7]
Adenylosuccinate lyase mutants can have considerably reduced activity whether the mutation is in or away from the active site. Disease-causing ASL mutants R396C and R396H are at the entrance to the active site and have lower Vmax than the wild-type ASL, but the mutants K246E and L311V which are away from the active site also cause decreased Vmax. ASL mutant R194C is away from the active site, and though it maintains a Vmax similar to wild-type ASL, it was shown to be the least conformationally stable of the five mutants in vitro and still causes disease.[8]
It was previously thought that the mechanism of action for adenylosuccinate lyase was a concerted catalysis where the hydrogen on the β-carbon (with respect to the leaving nitrogen) was abstracted by the catalytic base at the same time that the leaving nitrogen was protonated by the catalytic acid for E2 elimination.[1] More recent data conflicts with this idea and has confirmed that the mechanism is not in fact concerted, but that the abstraction occurs first and there is an intermediate carbanion species which is resonance stabilized. For both ASL-catalyzed reactions deprotonation of the carbon β to the leaving nitrogen occurs first, then the formation and resonance stabilization of the carbanion occurs, and lastly the protonation of the leaving nitrogen which causes the C-N bond to break.[5] Experimental confirmation of the deprotonation, carbanion formation, and the rate-limiting step of protonation causing cleavage means this is an E1cb mechanism. The most recent data suggest that the catalytic acid is His171, which was previously thought to be the catalytic base, and that somewhat unusually it is a serine at position 295 acts as the catalytic base. The cleavage of adenylosuccinate to AMP and fumarate is an ordered uni-bi mechanism, which means that after cleavage the fumarate leaves the active site before the AMP does.[9]
ASL's mechanism of action. First the acid deprotonates the β-carbon, then a carbanion forms and is resonance stabilized, lastly nitrogen accepts a proton and the C-N bond is cleaved.This figure was inspired by a paper by Tsai et al.[5]
Role in disease[edit]
Mutated adenylosuccinate lyase (ASL) causes clinical disease in patients that is referred to as adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency. This condition is rare, and it presents with varying degrees of psychomotor retardation, autism, muscle wasting, and epilepsy.[10][11] The exact cause of disease is unknown, but possibilities include not enough purine nucleotide synthesis for cell replication, malfunctioning of the purine nucleotide cycle, and a buildup of substrates to toxic levels. Several disease-linked point mutations have been identified, and those who are heterozygous for a point mutation are healthy, but those who are homozygous develop clinical disease.[12] The number of disease-causing genotypes keeps increasing as more mutations are discovered, and now thirty different point mutations have been identified so far, and one deletion, that cause adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency.[13]
When the substrates of ASL (adenylosucinate and SAICAR) build up due to enzyme deficiency, they are dephosphorylated and turn into succinyladenosine (S-Ado) and succinylaminoimidazole carboximide riboside (SAICA riboside).[14] Normally these compounds are not present in the cerebrospinal fluid or urine because ASL acts on the majority of the substrate molecules before they can build up and be phosphorylated.[11] In the past there has not been a good test for adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, making the rare disease difficult to diagnose, but recently a test was developed to detect SAICA and S-Ado in the urine. The test is inexpensive and had no false positives or false negatives in the researchers’ small sample.[15]
It is thought that SAICA riboside may be the more toxic compound as it is found at higher levels in patients with severe clinical symptoms, and some researchers think S-Ado may even be protective. More research needs to be done on what determines disease severity, but the instability of human ASL in the lab setting has been an obstacle to this research.[13]
Therapeutic applications[edit]
As resistance to anti-malarials increases, researchers are looking for new strategies to target the Plasmodium parasites which cause malaria, especially the more lethal P. falciparum. Some researchers suggested that ASL be looked into as a potential drug target because though interruption of the de novo purine biosynthesis pathway is toxic to the host, Plasmodium ASL has a low level of sequence homology with human ASL which may make any anti-Plasmodium ASL drugs specific enough not to harm human hosts.[16]
1. ^ a b c d e Toth EA, Yeates TO (February 2000). "The structure of adenylosuccinate lyase, an enzyme with dual activity in the de novo purine biosynthetic pathway". Structure 8 (2): 163–74. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00092-7. PMID 10673438.
2. ^ "Entrez Gene: Adenylosuccinate lyase". Retrieved 2012-03-01.
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5. ^ a b c d Tsai M, Koo J, Yip P, Colman RF, Segall ML, Howell PL (July 2007). "Substrate and product complexes of Escherichia coli adenylosuccinate lyase provide new insights into the enzymatic mechanism". J. Mol. Biol. 370 (3): 541–54. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2007.04.052. PMID 17531264.
6. ^ Sivendran S, Colman RF (July 2008). "Effect of a new non-cleavable substrate analog on wild-type and serine mutants in the signature sequence of adenylosuccinate lyase of Bacillus subtilis and Homo sapiens". Protein Sci. 17 (7): 1162–74. doi:10.1110/ps.034777.108. PMC 2442012. PMID 18469177.
7. ^ Kozlov G, Nguyen L, Pearsall J, Gehring K (September 2009). "The structure of phosphate-bound Escherichia coli adenylosuccinate lyase identifies His171 as a catalytic acid". Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. 65 (Pt 9): 857–61. doi:10.1107/S1744309109029674. PMC 2795585. PMID 19724117.
8. ^ Ariyananda Lde Z, Lee P, Antonopoulos C, Colman RF (June 2009). "Biochemical and biophysical analysis of five disease-associated human adenylosuccinate lyase mutants". Biochemistry 48 (23): 5291–302. doi:10.1021/bi802321m. PMC 2745324. PMID 19405474.
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10. ^ Maaswinkel-Mooij PD, Laan LA, Onkenhout W, Brouwer OF, Jaeken J, Poorthuis BJ (August 1997). "Adenylosuccinase deficiency presenting with epilepsy in early infancy". J. Inherit. Metab. Dis. 20 (4): 606–7. doi:10.1023/A:1005323512982. PMID 9266401.
11. ^ a b Lee P, Colman RF (February 2007). "Expression, purification, and characterization of stable, recombinant human adenylosuccinate lyase". Protein Expr. Purif. 51 (2): 227–34. doi:10.1016/j.pep.2006.07.023. PMID 16973378.
12. ^ Stone RL, Aimi J, Barshop BA, Jaeken J, Van den Berghe G, Zalkin H, Dixon JE (April 1992). "A mutation in adenylosuccinate lyase associated with mental retardation and autistic features". Nat. Genet. 1 (1): 59–63. doi:10.1038/ng0492-59. PMID 1302001.
13. ^ a b Palenchar JB, Crocco JM, Colman RF (August 2003). "The characterization of mutant Bacillus subtilis adenylosuccinate lyases corresponding to severe human adenylosuccinate lyase deficiencies". Protein Sci. 12 (8): 1694–705. doi:10.1110/ps.0303903. PMC 2323956. PMID 12876319.
14. ^ Jaeken J, Van den Berghe G (November 1984). "An infantile autistic syndrome characterised by the presence of succinylpurines in body fluids". Lancet 2 (8411): 1058–61. PMID 6150139.
15. ^ Maddocks J, Reed T (January 1989). "Urine test for adenylosuccinase deficiency in autistic children". Lancet 1 (8630): 158–9. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(89)91172-0. PMID 2563072.
16. ^ Marshall VM, Coppel RL (September 1997). "Characterisation of the gene encoding adenylosuccinate lyase of Plasmodium falciparum". Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 88 (1–2): 237–41. doi:10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00054-6. PMID 9274883.
Further reading[edit]
• Marie, S.; Cuppens, H.; Heuterspreute, M.; Jaspers, M.; Tola, E. Z.; Gu, X. X.; Legius, E.; Vincent, M. -F. O.; Jaeken, J.; Cassiman, J. J.; Van Den Berghe, G. (1999). "Mutation analysis in adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency: Eight novel mutations in the re-evaluated full ADSL coding sequence". Human Mutation 13 (3): 197–202. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(1999)13:3<197::AID-HUMU3>3.0.CO;2-D. PMID 10090474. edit
• Kmoch, S.; Hartmannová, H.; Stibůrková, B.; Krijt, J.; Zikánová, M.; Sebesta, I. (2000). "Human adenylosuccinate lyase (ADSL), cloning and characterization of full-length cDNA and its isoform, gene structure and molecular basis for ADSL deficiency in six patients". Human Molecular Genetics 9 (10): 1501–1513. doi:10.1093/hmg/9.10.1501. PMID 10888601. edit
• Race, V.; Marie, S.; Vincent, M. F.; Van Den Berghe, G. (2000). "Clinical, biochemical and molecular genetic correlations in adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency". Human Molecular Genetics 9 (14): 2159–2165. doi:10.1093/hmg/9.14.2159. PMID 10958654. edit
• Tabucchi, A.; Carlucci, F.; Rosi, F.; Guerranti, R.; Marinello, E. (2001). "Determination, activity and biological role of adenylosuccinate lyase in blood cells". Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 55 (5): 277–283. PMID 11428554. edit
• Marie, S.; Race, V.; Nassogne, M. -C.; Vincent, M. -F.; Van Den Berghe, G. (2002). "Mutation of a Nuclear Respiratory Factor 2 Binding Site in the 5′ Untranslated Region of the ADSL Gene in Three Patients with Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency". The American Journal of Human Genetics 71 (1): 14–21. doi:10.1086/341036. PMC 384970. PMID 12016589. edit
• Castro, M.; Pérez-Cerdá, C.; Merinero, B.; García, M. J.; Bernar, J.; Gil Nagel, A.; Torres, J.; Bermúdez, M.; Garavito, P.; Marie, S.; Vincent, F.; Van Den Berghe, G.; Ugarte, M. (2002). "Screening for Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency: Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Findings in Four Patients". Neuropediatrics 33 (4): 186–189. doi:10.1055/s-2002-34493. PMID 12368987. edit
• Palenchar, J. B.; Colman, R. F. (2003). "Characterization of a MutantBacillus subtilisAdenylosuccinate Lyase Equivalent to a Mutant Enzyme Found in Human Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency: Asparagine 276 Plays an Important Structural Role†". Biochemistry 42 (7): 1831–1841. doi:10.1021/bi020640+. PMID 12590570. edit
• Edery, P.; Chabrier, S. P.; Ceballos-Picot, I. N.; Marie, S.; Vincent, M. F. O.; Tardieu, M. (2003). "Intrafamilial variability in the phenotypic expression of adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency: A report on three patients". American Journal of Medical Genetics 120A (2): 185–190. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.20176. PMID 12833398. edit
• Stone, R. L.; Aimi, J.; Barshop, B. A.; Jaeken, J.; Van Den Berghe, G.; Zalkin, H.; Dixon, J. E. (1992). "A mutation in adenylosuccinate lyase associated with mental retardation and autistic features". Nature Genetics 1 (1): 59–63. doi:10.1038/ng0492-59. PMID 1302001. edit
• Sivendran, S.; Patterson, D.; Spiegel, E.; McGown, I.; Cowley, D.; Colman, R. F. (2004). "Two Novel Mutant Human Adenylosuccinate Lyases (ASLs) Associated with Autism and Characterization of the Equivalent Mutant Bacillus subtilis ASL". Journal of Biological Chemistry 279 (51): 53789–53797. doi:10.1074/jbc.M409974200. PMID 15471876. edit
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All About My Wife
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All About My Wife
Revised Romanization Nae anae-ui modeun geot
McCune–Reischauer Nae anae-ŭi modŭn gŏt
Directed by Min Kyu-dong
Produced by Park Joon-ho
Min Jin-soo
Lee Yoo-jin
Written by Heo Sung-hye
Min Kyu-dong
Based on Un novio para mi mujer
by Pablo Solarz
Starring Im Soo-jung
Lee Sun-kyun
Ryu Seung-ryong
Music by Lee Jin-hee
Kim Jun-seong
Cinematography Kim Dong-young
Edited by Kim Sun-min
Release dates
• May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)
Running time
121 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office US$29,370,622[1]
All About My Wife (Hangul: 내 아내의 모든 것; RR: Nae anaeui modeun geot; MR: Nae anae ŭi modŭn kŏt) is a 2012 South Korean romantic comedy directed by Min Kyu-dong, about a timid husband who hires a professional Casanova to seduce his seemingly perfect but fearsome wife, hoping this will make her divorce him.[2] Starring Im Soo-jung, Lee Sun-kyun and Ryu Seung-ryong,[3][4] the movie was released in theaters on May 17, 2012.[5]
It is a remake of the Argentinean film Un novio para mi mujer ("A Boyfriend for My Wife").[6]
After seven years of marriage, mild-mannered Doo-hyun (Lee Sun-kyun) is at the end of his rope. Jung-in (Im Soo-jung), his wife, is beautiful, sexy, and a fantastic cook, but drives her husband crazy with her endless nagging and complaining. He can’t even bring himself to ask for a divorce because of the fights that will follow. When Doo-hyun’s company transfers him out of state, it seems like his dream of getting away is coming true. But to his horror, Jung-in surprises him by moving across the country to be with him. Desperate but too afraid to ask for a divorce, Doo-hyun recruits his next-door neighbor and legendary Casanova Sung-ki (Ryu Seung-ryong) to seduce his wife and make her leave him first. After scoping her out, Sung-ki is intrigued by the challenge and confidently agrees to seduce Jung-in as his career finale. Meanwhile, to give her something to do, Doo-hyun has already arranged for Jung-in to get a spot on the local radio station, shooting her mouth off about life's injustices. True to his reputation, Sung-ki eventually succeeds in grabbing Jung-in’s attention, and the two slowly develop feelings for each other. But though Doo-hyun asked for it, he grows to regret his decision and decides to spy on his wife and her lover.[7][8][9]
• Im Soo-jung - Yeon Jung-in[10][11][12]
• Lee Sun-kyun - Lee Doo-hyun[13]
• Ryu Seung-ryong - Jang Sung-ki[14]
• Lee Kwang-soo - PD Choi, radio host
• Kim Ji-young - Song, radio writer
• Kim Jung-tae - Park Kwang-shik, Doo-hyun's colleague
• Lee Sung-min - Company Director Na, Doo-hyun's boss
• Kim Do-young - Na's wife
• Jung Sung-hwa - newspaper delivery man
• Lee Dal-hyeong - captain at police station
• Park Hee-von - female cop at police station
• Jo Han-cheol - public officer at divorce court
• Nam Myung-ryul - judge at divorce court
• Lee Do-ah - Pyeongchang Company employee
• Kim Sun-ha - waitress at noodle shop
Box office[edit]
With 594,195 tickets sold during the opening weekend of May 18 to 20, the film's debut made a splash atop the local box office, putting up a strong fight against Hollywood films The Avengers and Men in Black 3.[15] Benefiting from positive word-of-mouth, it continued its impressive commercial run, with over 4.5 million admissions in total.[16][17][18][19]
Awards and nominations[edit]
2012 Buil Film Awards
2012 Grand Bell Awards
2012 Blue Dragon Film Awards[20]
• Best Actress - Im Soo-jung
• Best Supporting Actor - Ryu Seung-ryong
• Nomination - Best New Actor - Lee Kwang-soo
• Nomination - Best Screenplay - Min Kyu-dong, Heo Sung-hye
• Nomination - Best Art Direction - Jeon Kyung-ran
• Nomination - Best Music - Kim Jun-seong, Lee Jin-hee
2012 Women in Film Korea Awards[21][22]
2013 KOFRA Film Awards (Korea Film Reporters Association)[23]
2013 Baeksang Arts Awards[24]
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6. ^ Lee, Claire (5 April 2012). "Actress Im’s upcoming film revealed to be Argentinean remake". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
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8. ^ Elley, Derek (23 May 2012). "All About My Wife". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
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10. ^ "Nagging Wife Role Lets Lim Soo-jung Explore Hidden Side". The Chosun Ilbo. 12 May 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
11. ^ Oh, Seol-hye (3 May 2012). "Everything About My Wife Lim Soojung "I had major headaches because of long scripts"". StarN News. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
12. ^ Lee, Kyung-nam (26 April 2012). "The Secret Behind Im Soo Jung′s Baby Skin". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
13. ^ Oh, Seol-hye (11 May 2012). "Everything About My Wife Lee Sun-gyun transform into an awkward and weak husband from Angry Chef". StarN News. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
14. ^ Jung, Hyun-mok (21 May 2012). "Ryu Seung-ryong moves beyond stereotypes". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
15. ^ Hong, Lucia (21 May 2012). "All About My Wife makes debut atop local box office, pushes The Avengers moves down to No. 2". 10Asia. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
16. ^ Oh, Mi-jung (3 June 2012). "All About My Wife Hit 2.5 Million Mark Faster than Architecture 101". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
17. ^ "All About My Wife Hits 3 Million Viewers". Soompi. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
18. ^ "All About My Wife Having Breakthrough Of 4 Million Domestic Audience Comes To Theaters In North America". Korea Portal. 24 June 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
19. ^ "Box office, June 16-30". Korean Film Council. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
20. ^ Ji, Yong-jin (4 December 2012). "PIETA Wins Best Picture at Blue Dragon Awards". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
21. ^ "Byun Young-joo Picked as Director of the Year by Female Film Critics". The Chosun Ilbo. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
22. ^ Kim, Hyun-min (6 December 2012). "BYUN Young-joo Selected as the Woman Filmmaker of 2012". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
23. ^ Ji, Yong-jin (1 February 2013). "PIETA Regarded as the Best Film in 2012 by Reporters". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
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Ambriel is an angel[1] who is associated with the sun sign of Gemini and the month of May.[2][3]
Catholicism regards an angel as a pure spirit created by God and this angel inspires clear communication and is also considered to be an angel of general protection.[4][5][6]
Ambriel is referred to in the Magickal Calendar. Planetanum Sigilla, from Harl. 3420(27v). Ambriel is also attributed to the Queen of Cups in the Tarot (according to Aleister Crowley and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn).
1. ^ "Angel names"
2. ^ "Celestial Angels". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25.
3. ^ "Today's Horoscope", New York Daily News, November 9, 2006
4. ^ Angeology
5. ^ "Gemini: Guardian Angels"
6. ^ Angels A-Z
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BK Racing
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Not to be confused with BK Motorsports.
BK Racing
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Owner(s) Ron Devine
Wayne Press
Mike Wheeler[1]
Anthony Marlowe
Base Statesville, North Carolina
Series Sprint Cup Series
Race drivers No. 23 J. J. Yeley
No. 26 Jeb Burton (R)
No. 83 Johnny Sauter
Matt DiBenedetto (R)
Sponsors No. 23 Dr Pepper
No. 26 Livedeal
Estes Express Lines
No. 83 Burger King/Dr Pepper
Dustless Blasting
Manufacturer Toyota
Debut 2012 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Latest race 2015 FedEx 400 (Dover)
Races competed 226
Race victories 0
Pole positions 0
BK Racing is a stock car racing team, that competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The team fields the No. 23 Dr Pepper Toyota Camry for J. J. Yeley, the No. 26 Camry for Jeb Burton, the No. 83 Burger King Camry for Johnny Sauter and Matt DiBenedetto.
Ownership and sponsorship[edit]
BK Racing is owned by a couple of investors who were formerly involved in the ownership of TRG Motorsports Sprint Cup Series team, which closed after the 2011 season. Burger King franchise owner Ron Devine and tomato grower Wayne Press joined Thomas Uberall, former race director of the Red Bull Racing Team, to acquire the assets and race shop of the former Red Bull operation following its closure after the 2011 season.[2][3][4]
Like Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins, principal owner Devine's many Burger King franchises allow him to advertise the brand on the cars when there is no outside sponsor.[2][4][5][6] Prior to the 2012 Daytona 500, Burger King announced a "licensing agreement" with the team, authenticating the paint schemes of the 83 and 93 and the usage of the company's logos, though it is unclear whether or not the company and/or franchisee Devine funds the team. According to a 2013 Autoweek article, the partnership is limited to the licencing agreement, with Burger King not sponsoring the team.[6][7] The Burger King partnership includes the branding of Dr Pepper, a soft drink served at Burger King restaurants. Dr Pepper has appeared as the primary sponsor of the team on various occasions (typically the 93 car), and expanded to a newly renumbered 23 car for 2014 (signifying the drink's 23 flavors).[8]
In May 2014, the team expanded to three cars and added another owner and investor in Anthony Marlowe.[2] Formerly a partner in the recently-exited Swan Racing, Marlowe founded outsourcing company TMone, and is currently the managing partner in Iowa City Capital Partners.[9]
No. 23 Team[edit]
Alex Bowman was signed to drive the 23 car in 2014.
What's now the 23 began as the 93, with David Reutimann driving in the 2012 Daytona 500.[10] Travis Kvapil took over the No. 93 after Daytona and the remainder of the 2012 season,[11] with the exception of one race at Darlington where Reutimann returned to the 93, while Kvapil raced a third #73 entry.[12][13][14] The 93 finished 28th in owner standings,[15] and Kvapil finished 27th in the drivers standings.[16] Kvapil returned to the 93 for the full 2013 season in a new blue scheme (the 83 ran a red car, the two primary colors of the Burger King logo), with Todd Anderson returning as crew chief.[17] Prior to the second Charlotte race in October, Kvapil was arrested for a domestic dispute with his wife. Kvapil was ultimately allowed to drive at Charlotte.[6] Overall, Kvapil fell back to 31st in points,[18] while the 93 slipped to 34th in owner points.[19]
For 2014, up-and-comer Ryan Truex tested the No. 93 at Daytona.[20] Truex would wind up in the 83, and fellow up-and-comer Alex Bowman (who had tested the 83) would take over the renumbered No. 23 to run for Rookie of the Year. Dr Pepper stepped up as the full-time primary sponsor of the car, the No. 23 applying to the soft drink's original 23 flavors.[8][21][22] When Truex's 83 missed the Daytona 500, his sponsor Borla Exhaust moved over to the 23, which Bowman drove to a solid 23rd place finish in his Sprint Cup debut.[23] Houston-based Dustless Blasting came on to sponsor Bowman at Watkins Glen and the second Talladega race.[24] During July and August, BK Racing hosted an effort to field a Bitcoin-sponsored car at Atlanta with a goal of fundraising $100,000.[25] The goal was subsequently listed at $25,000,[26] but failed to raise enough money.[27] In October, DipYourCar.com, a retailer of Plasti Dip automotive finish products, signed to sponsor both the 23 and 83 cars at Martinsville and Homestead.[28] Both cars would promote the film Dumb and Dumber To at Phoenix in November, with Bowman's 23 car featuring the face of Jim Carrey's character Lloyd Christmas.[29] Bowman finished 2014 35th in the driver points,[30] while the No. 23 slipped again to 36th in the owner points.[31]
On January 27, 2015, it was announced that J. J. Yeley, who had been the interim driver of the No. 83 following Ryan Truex's release in late 2014, would be joining the team full-time. It was subsequently revealed that Yeley would be driving the No. 23, with Bowman departing for Tommy Baldwin Racing.[32]
No. 26 Team[edit]
Further information: Swan Racing
On April 23, 2014, during a two week hiatus between the spring Darlington and Richmond races, it was announced that Anthony Marlowe had acquired the No. 26 team from Swan Racing and merged his ownership with BK Racing. The 26 team's driver Cole Whitt was carried over in the transaction, with Marlowe being listed as the owner on the No. 26.[2][33] The team inherited Swan Racing's Speed Stick GEAR sponsorship, and the company proceeded to extend their sponsorship for six additional races starting at the Coca-Cola 600.[2][34] Additional sponsors (that were absent when Whitt and Marlowe were with Swan Racing), came on race by race, leaving only two races to be filled by Burger King logos. Scorpyd Crossbows joined the team for its first two races under the BK Banner.[35] Iowa Chop House partnered with the team at Kansas.[36] Rinnai Water Heaters came on to sponsor the team at Sonoma,[37] then returned for Atlanta Motor Speedway and Loudon.[38] Scorpion Window Film sponsored the car at Daytona in July.[39] Axxess Pharma and their TapouT Muscle Recovery brand signed on for multiple races in June, starting with the first New Hampshire race.[40] Anthony Marlowe's Iowa City Capital Partners came on to back the car at Michigan and Chicagoland. At Watkins Glen, local New York winery Bully Hill Vineyards sponsored the 26.[41] A strong road course racer, Whitt qualified a solid 18th and was running in 19th when his brakes failed entering turn 1, sending him into the distant tire barrier in an eerily similar fashion as Jimmie Johnson's notorious Busch Series crash in 2000.[42]
At Richmond in September, Standard Plumbing Company signed on to sponsor. Uponor would sponsor the fall races at Dover and Martinsville, the latter of which resulted in an 18th place finish. Moen was on the car for the second Kansas race. At Talladega, with Bad Boy Mowers sponsoring, Whitt led his first lap in Sprint Cup competition after staying out under caution. He would go on to post his career-best finish of 15th in the race. Fuelxx was on the hood for the penultimate race at Phoenix, unfortunately Whitt would be caught up in a mid-race wreck after an earlier parts failure. Whitt and the No. 26 finished the season 31st in both driver and owner points.[30][31] Whitt did not return to the No. 26 for the 2015 season,[43] moving to the No. 35 at Front Row Motorsports.
On February 8, 2015 the team announced that former Camping World Truck Series driver Jeb Burton would be the replacement for Whitt and would compete for the series Rookie of the Year award.[44] Burton failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 after being involved in an accident during his Budweiser Duel qualifying race.[45] Burton would qualify for the next five races afterward, before failing to qualify at Texas Motor Speedway. Shortly afterward, Estes Express Lines, who had sponsored Burton at ThorSport Racing in the Truck Series, announced that they would sponsor the No. 26 beginning at Richmond.[46] When he failed to qualify at Richmond, Burton and Estes moved to the 23 for one race, supplanting Yeley and regular BK sponsor Maxim Fantasy Sports.
No. 83 Team[edit]
The #83 driven by David Reutimann at Richmond International Raceway in 2013
After spending the majority of the 2011 season driving Phoenix Racing's 09/51 car, former JR Motorsports driver and Hendrick test driver Landon Cassill was signed to drive the 83 car for the balance of the 2012 season.[47] Cassill drove all 36 races in the number 83, finishing 31st in driver standings while the team finished 32nd in the owners points. Cassill had 14 finishes of 25th or better, including a best finish of 18th three times.[15][16] One of these 18th place finishes came at Kansas Speedway in October, when Cassill was involved in several incidents with then-part-time Cup driver Danica Patrick, eventually leading Patrick to attempt to wreck Cassill, though she ended up collecting severe damage herself.[48]
Cassill departed the team in January 2013 after a new deal could not be achieved for the upcoming season.[49] Cassill later sued the team and principal owner Ron Devine for unpaid winnings and salary in excess of $205,000, in addition to Cassill's claim that he was misinformed about his employment status with the team until January 16 of that year. Meanwhile, owner Devine stated that Cassill's demands to be the team's number-one driver led contract negotiations to go sour, while claiming teammates Travis Kvapil and David Reutimann were content with sharing two rides among three drivers. Cassill ultimately signed with Hillman-Circle Sport LLC to be their primary driver.[50][51]
For 2013, David Reutimann, who had driven the number 73 for BK Racing in select races during the 2012 season (when Danica Patrick was driving the 10), replaced Cassill in the red No. 83 for the 2013 season with Pat Tryson as the team's crew chief.[17][52] The 83 dropped to 36th in the owner points,[19] while Reutimann finished 33rd in driver points,[18] the lowest ranked driver to run all 36 races. Reutimann and the team mutually parted ways after the season.[53]
2013 Nationwide ROTY runner-up Alex Bowman tested the No. 83 at Daytona testing in January 2014.[20] Bowman moved over to the new 23 team, while former MWR and JGR development driver Ryan Truex was signed to drive the 83 during the 2014 season and run for Rookie of the Year.[21] In January, California-based Borla Exhaust was signed to a five race sponsorship, sporting a unique black paint scheme with flame-emitting exhaust pipes adorning the sides of the car.[54] The flames were retained even in races where usual sponsor Burger King was on the car. VooDoo BBQ & Grill returned to the team for the spring races at Richmond and Talladega.[55] Truex's rookie season was a struggle, as he missed three races including the Daytona 500 and was marred by crashes and mechanical failures that led to 8 DNFs.[56] When running, the 83 was often the slowest of the three BK cars, with an average finish of 36.3.[57] The high point of his season was at Richmond, where qualifying was cancelled and Truex started 8th based on practice speeds, though he would finish 31st. Truex was taken to the hospital after a hard practice crash at Michigan in August.[58] J.J. Yeley replaced Truex in the race, finishing 30th.[59] At New Hampshire in September, Truex was entered in the race, but was pulled from the car on the Friday prior to the race, with the team no citing a reason for the driver change. Former BK driver Travis Kvapil, scheduled to drive the #93, was moved into the 83 for the race.[60] Prior to the Dover race the following weekend, several reports surfaced that Truex had been dismissed from the ride after his name was once again left off the entry list, and Truex ultimately parted ways with the team.[57] Chatter from within the team stated that Truex was giving unsatisfactory feedback to the team, while Nick DeGroot of Motorsport.com tweeted that the team owed Truex "a good amount of money."[61][62]
Owner Ron Devine stated that Truex's release was an attempt "to put a little more seniority in the car,"[57] with Kvapil running the 83 again at Dover. Yeley stepped back in starting at Kansas, running the rest of the season in the 83. In October, DipYourCar.com, a retailer of Plasti Dip automotive finish products, signed to sponsor both the 23 and 83 cars at Martinsville and Homestead.[28] The two cars would promote the Dumb and Dumber To film at Phoenix in November; Yeley's 83 car featured the face of Jeff Daniels' Harry Dunne character, and Yeley sported a firesuit mocked up as a powder-blue dress suit.[29] The 83 would end the season 41st in owner points, lowest among cars that attempted every race in 2014.[31] Truex's partial season resulted in a driver rank of 39th.[30]
In February, the team announced that Camping World Truck Series driver Johnny Sauter would attempt the Daytona 500 in the car, with Doug Richert as crew chief.[63][64] It was later revealed that Sauter would run a select amount of races that don't interfere with his truck schedule. Former Joe Gibbs Racing development driver Matt DiBenedetto signed to drive the car beginning at Atlanta.[45] Dustless Blasting, which sponsored the 23 car in two races in 2014, would return for all four restrictor plate races including the Daytona 500.[63] DiBenedetto missed his first two attempts at Atlanta and Las Vegas, making his series debut at Phoenix.
No. 93 Team[edit]
The current #93 team began as BK's third car, a part-time entry numbered 73. At the 2012 Bojangles' Southern 500, David Reutimann drove the #93 car with his regular ride at Tommy Baldwin Racing being occupied by Danica Patrick. The team fielded the additional #73 car for full-time driver Travis Kvapil, qualifying 33rd and finishing 32nd. On May 21, 2012, BK Racing announced that they would run Reutimann in the #73 in the eight remaining races he was not scheduled to drive the #10 for TBR, beginning at the Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte.[65] The #73, however, failed to make the 600. Reutimann later decided to take further weekends off that he was not driving for Tommy Baldwin, and the #73 was not run for the rest of the year.[52]
The team announced that this team would return on a part-time basis in 2014, bearing the #93 due to the team's previous #93 changing to #23.[21] The car was driven by Morgan Shepherd for the 2014 Daytona 500 in collaboration with Pat MacDonald, with sponsorship from the Support Military Foundation.[66][67] However, Shepherd failed to qualify.[68] Though the team had already expanded to three full-time cars with the addition of the #26, the #93 returned later in the year as a fourth BK car. Veteran Mike Bliss drove at both Kentucky and Loudon with Dr. Pepper on the car.[69] Johnny Sauter then drove the car with Dr. Pepper at Pocono in August, and J. J. Yeley drove a Burger King-branded #93 at Richmond in September. At Loudon in September, Travis Kvapil was scheduled to return to BK's #93, but moved over to the #83 and was replaced with Clay Rogers. Rogers returned to the car again at Martinsville. Except for the Daytona 500, the part time car was a start-and-park ride used to fill the sponsorship gaps on the other three cars. Since the team failed to qualify in its first attempt and its next three appearances were late-entries, team had no owner points prior to Richmond in September.[70]
For 2015, Sprint Cup Series rookie Matt DiBenedetto will race the 93 car part time while running part time in the 83 car sharing that car with Camping World Truck Series driver Johnny Sauter, driving the 93 in races that Sauter is in the 83.
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The Beta Band
Origin Edinburgh, Scotland
Genres Folktronica, experimental music, downtempo, indie rock, Scottish, folk
Years active 1996–2004
Labels Regal
Associated acts King Biscuit Time, The Aliens, Black Affair, The General And Duchess Collins, Lone Pigeon, The Roman Noseband
Past members John Maclean
Richard Greentree
Steve Mason
Robin Jones
Gordon Anderson
Steve Duffield
The Beta Band were a Scottish musical group formed in 1996. They were critically acclaimed and achieved a cult status. Their style was described as being "folktronica", a blend of folk, Scottish, electronic, rock, trip hop, and experimental jamming.
The Beta Band disbanded in 2004 but during the course of their career, they were hailed by both Radiohead and Oasis.[1]
The Beta Band formed in 1996 around St Andrews Scotland musicians Steve Mason (vocals, guitar) and Gordon Anderson. The two had plans to call their group The Pigeons but later changed their minds. As they pulled together songs for their debut EP, Champion Versions, they added Robin Jones (drums) and John Maclean (DJ, sampler, keyboards). Steve Duffield was the original bassist but quit the band soon after recording Champion Versions. Not long after they were signed to Regal/Parlophone, Anderson became ill and decided to quit the band. He would later produce recordings under the name Lone Pigeon. The remaining members added Englishman Richard Greentree (bass) and solidified their lineup.
Champion Versions was released in July 1997 to critical acclaim not only for the music but also for the record's innovative cut-and-paste sleeve design (the work of John Maclean). The trumpet solos recorded for Dry the Rain on Champion Versions were played by Jonathan Levien, credited as Jon Levien on the record. Jonathan was attending the Royal College of Art in 1997 where he met John Maclean in the Art Bar and mentioned that he could make some interesting whale sounds on his trumpet. Jonathan Levien was invited to the Chalk farm recording studio shortly afterwards where he was asked to play three riffs on his trumpet for Dry the Rain.
Two further EPs followed in 1998: The Patty Patty Sound in March and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos in July. The EPs were all subjects of widespread critical praise,[2] and all three appeared on the appropriately titled The Three E.P.'s collection in September 1998. The compilation was rated by Pitchfork in the Top 10 Albums of the year.[2] The song 'Dr Baker' featured on the acclaimed soundtrack of the first series Trigger Happy TV.
The band soon commenced work on their ambitious first full-length recording, pulling inspiration from sources as diverse as Jamaican reggae, Disney's movie The Black Hole and Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". The record, simply titled The Beta Band, was released in June 1999. The first track, "The Beta Band Rap", managed to tell the band's back story over alternating bubblegum pop, rap and rockabilly backing tracks. Its eclecticism was representative of the rest of the album, which was widely perceived to be more stylistically diverse than the initial EPs. The mixed press turned decidedly negative when the band announced their own disdain for the record. They claimed that Regal's unreasonable deadline and tight budgets kept them from refining their improvisations into coherent songs.[3]
Nonetheless, the album had not generally been as well-received as the preceding EPs, and the band returned to the studio with something to prove. The result of that session was the double A-side single "To You Alone"/"Sequinsizer", recorded by future The Go! Team producer, Gareth Parton. As early as August the previous year, Mason had discussed the possibility of releasing the tracks as a single and had urged fans to lobby Regal for the release. It was released on 24 January 2000. The single was received favourably and was widely regarded as a return to form for the band. The NME made it their "Single of the Week", and would later select it as one of the 50 greatest singles of 2000 in their end-of-year awards. "To You Alone" was also included on the soundtrack of the 2000 remake of the television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), released in March.
Even higher profile soundtrack exposure was to follow, with the band's music featuring prominently in a scene in the film High Fidelity (based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name), released in late March 2000 in the U.S. and July in the UK. In the film, a record store owner played by John Cusack mentions the band by name ("I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.'s by The Beta Band") and plays a minute or so of the song "Dry the Rain". This exposed the band to a wide range of new listeners, particularly in the U.S., where the band's profile had previously been borderline nonexistent.
A hiatus followed, during which Mason released his second King Biscuit Time EP. The band gradually gravitated back into the studio, this time recruiting noted UK producer Colin Emmanuel, aka C-Swing, to oversee the process. The album, Hot Shots II, appeared in summer 2001, and was warmly received by critics and fans alike. It sacrificed much of the first album's experimentation for more boiled-down pop structure and hooks. The band had originally intended to release "Squares" (b/w "Won"), which featured a sample from the Günter Kallmann Choir's 1970 version of Wallace Collection's "Daydream", as the lead single. A video had been filmed and promo discs issued, but when it transpired that another single ("Daydream in Blue" by I Monster) featuring a sample from the same Günter Kallmann Choir recording was to be released at around the same time, the band opted to release "Broke" instead. Two other singles were released from the album: "Human Being" in October 2001 and "Squares" in February 2002 (with the I Monster track long out of the charts). The band embarked on a long tour to support the album, at one point supporting Radiohead. In August 2002, they made No. 3 on Q magazine's list of "50 Bands to See Before You Die".
The band began demo sessions for their third album in September 2002. They entered the studio with producer Tom Rothrock in 2003 and managed to complete a number of tracks. However, the band were not pleased with the results, and nor were Regal executives. Famed producer Nigel Godrich was called in to mix the album, which was finally completed in early 2004. Lead single, "Assessment", was released on 12 April 2004, followed by the album Heroes to Zeros on 26 April. One of the tracks, "Liquid Bird" is based on a sample of Painted Bird by Siouxsie and the Banshees.[4] A second single, "Out-Side", followed in July. To the surprise of most fans, the band announced their breakup on their official website on 2 August 2004. In November, they performed at the Summer Sundae festival and commenced a farewell tour. Their final show was at Edinburgh's Liquid Rooms venue on 5 December 2004.[1]
Since the split, Steve Mason has released music with his solo project King Biscuit Time, as well as new projects Black Affair and Good Face. In May 2010, he released the first record in his own name entitled "Boys Outside". Robin Jones and John Maclean have become The Aliens along with former Beta Band member Gordon Anderson (a.k.a. Lone Pigeon) and Richard Greentree is working with his new band The General and Duchess Collins.
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Compilation albums[edit]
• "To You Alone"/"Sequinsizer" (January 2000)
• "Broke"/"Won" (July 2001) (UK No. 30)
• "Human Being" (October 2001) (UK No. 57)
• "Squares" (February 2002) (UK No. 42)
• "Assessment" (April 2004) (UK No. 31)
• "Out-Side" (July 2004) (UK No. 54)[5]
1. ^ a b Dave Simpson (2004-11-24). "I always thought we'd be as big as Radiohead". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-12-12. They have put on live extravaganzas, won fans from Oasis to Radiohead, and created pop songs out of everything from psychedelia to barking dogs
2. ^ a b Brent DiCrescenzo (2001-01-01). "Top 10 Albums of 1999". pitchfork. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
3. ^ Jason Ankeny, Jason. "The Beta Band by the Beta band". Retrieved 2011-12-12.
4. ^ Scott Lapatine (April 2004). "Beta Band interview". Earlash. Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-12-12. EL: On previous albums you’ve used some left-field samples as a jumping off point to do something new and original. JM: Yeah, we’ve got Siouxsie and the Banshees on this record. It was Robin’s idea.
5. ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 55. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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The service was developed by a team of students and scientists from the Institute of Knowledge and Data Engineering, the DMIR group at the University of Würzburg and the L3S Learning Lab Lower Saxony in Hannover and is mainly hosted by the University of Kassel.
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Bruce Lee
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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lee.
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee as Kato 1967.jpg
Lee in 1967
Chinese name (traditional)
Chinese name (simplified)
Pinyin Lǐ Xiǎolóng (Mandarin)
Jyutping Lei5 Siu2 Lung4 (Cantonese)
Birth name Lee Jun-fan
Lǐ Zhènfān (Mandarin)
Lei5 Zan3 Faan4 (Cantonese)
Ancestry Shunde, Guangdong, China
Origin Hong Kong
Born (1940-11-27)November 27, 1940
Chinatown, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong[1]
Resting place Lakeview Cemetery
Years active 1941–73
Spouse(s) Linda Emery (1964–73)
Children Brandon Lee (1965–93)
Shannon Lee (born 1969)
Parents Lee Hoi-chuen (1901–65)
Grace Ho (1907–96)
Alma mater University of Washington, Seattle
Official Website Bruce Lee Foundation
Bruce Lee official website
Early life
Bruce Lee as a baby.
Bruce's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, (李海泉) was Han Chinese, and his mother, Grace Ho (何愛瑜), was of half Chinese and half Caucasian.[14] Specifically, Grace Ho was purportedly a half-German Catholic.[15] Grace Ho was the daughter of Ho Kom-tong (Ho Gumtong, 何甘棠) and the niece of Sir Robert Ho-tung, both notable Hong Kong businessmen and philanthropists.[16] Bruce was the fourth child of five children: Phoebe Lee (李秋源), Agnes Lee (李秋鳳), Peter Lee (李忠琛), and Robert Lee (李振輝). Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old.[17]
Bruce Lee and his family, when he was a child.
Lee's Cantonese birth name was Lee Jun-fan (李振藩).[18] The name homophonically means "return again", and was given to Lee by his mother, who felt he would return to the United States once he came of age.[15] Because of his mother's superstitious nature, she had originally named him Sai-fon (細鳳), which is a feminine name meaning "small phoenix".[19] The English name "Bruce" is thought to have been given by the hospital attending physician, Dr. Mary Glover.[20]
Wing Chun
Lee, before the age of 18.
The largest influence on Lee's martial arts development was his study of Wing Chun. Lee began training in Wing Chun when he was 16 years old under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1957, after losing several fights with rival gang members. Yip's regular classes generally consisted of the forms practice, chi sao (sticking hands) drills, wooden dummy techniques, and free-sparring.[23] There was no set pattern to the classes.[23] Yip tried to keep his students from fighting in the street gangs of Hong Kong by encouraging them to fight in organized competitions.[24]
After a year into his Wing Chun training, most of Yip Man's other students refused to train with Lee after they learned of his mixed ancestry, as the Chinese were generally against teaching their martial arts techniques to non-Asians.[25][26] Lee's sparring partner, Hawkins Cheung states, "Probably fewer than six people in the whole Wing Chun clan were personally taught, or even partly taught, by Yip Man".[27] However, Lee showed a keen interest in Wing Chun, and continued to train privately with Yip Man and Wong Shun Leung in 1955.[28] Wan Kam Leung, a student of Wong's, witnessed a sparring bout between Wong and Lee, and noted the speed and precision with which Lee was able to deliver his kicks. Lee continued to train with Wong Shun Leung after later returning to Hong Kong from America.
Leaving Hong Kong
Lee and his teacher Yip Man.
Lee in 1958, dancing Cha-cha.
In the spring of 1959, Lee got into yet another street fight and the police were called.[29] Until his late teens, Lee's street fights became more frequent and included beating the son of a feared triad family.[citation needed] Eventually, Lee's father decided his son should leave Hong Kong to pursue a safer and healthier avenue in the United States. His parents confirmed the police's fear that this time Lee's opponent had an organised crime background, and there was the possibility that a contract was out for his life.
New life in America
With son Brandon in 1966
In March 1961, Lee enrolled at the University of Washington, majoring in drama according to a 1999 article in the university's alumni magazine,[30] not in philosophy as stated by Lee himself and many others. Lee also studied philosophy, psychology, and various other subjects.[31][32] It was at the University of Washington that he met his future wife Linda Emery, a fellow student studying to become a teacher, whom he married in August 1964.
Martial arts career
Jun Fan Gung Fu
Lee began teaching martial arts in the United States in 1959. He called what he taught Jun Fan Gung Fu (literally Bruce Lee's Kung Fu). It was basically his approach to Wing Chun.[33] Lee taught friends he met in Seattle, starting with Judo practitioner Jesse Glover, who continued to teach some of Lee's early techniques. Taky Kimura became Lee's first Assistant Instructor and continued to teach his art and philosophy after Lee's death.[34] Lee opened his first martial arts school, named the Lee Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, in Seattle.
Lee dropped out of college in the spring of 1964 and moved to Oakland to live with James Yimm Lee (嚴鏡海). James Lee was twenty years senior to Bruce Lee and a well known Chinese martial artist in the area. Together, they founded the second Jun Fan martial art studio in Oakland. James Lee was also responsible for introducing Bruce Lee to Ed Parker, American martial artist, and organizer of the Long Beach International Karate Championships at which Bruce Lee was later "discovered" by Hollywood.
Long Beach International Karate Championships
Fight with Wong Jack Man
In Oakland, California in 1964 at Chinatown, Lee had a controversial private match with Wong Jack Man, a direct student of Ma Kin Fung known for his mastery of Xingyiquan, Northern Shaolin, and T'ai chi ch'uan. According to Lee, the Chinese community issued an ultimatum to him to stop teaching non-Chinese. When he refused to comply, he was challenged to a combat match with Wong. The arrangement was that if Lee lost, he would have to shut down his school; while if he won, then Lee would be free to teach Caucasians or anyone else.[41] Wong denied this, stating that he requested to fight Lee after Lee issued an open challenge during one of Lee's demonstrations at a Chinatown theatre, and that Wong himself did not discriminate against Caucasians or other non-Chinese.[42] Lee commented, "That paper had all the names of the sifu from Chinatown, but they don't scare me".[43]
Wong Jack Man published his own account of the battle in the Chinese Pacific Weekly, a Chinese-language newspaper in San Francisco, which contained another challenge to Lee for a public rematch.[42] Lee had no reciprocation to Wong's article, nor were there any further public announcements by either, but Lee had continued to teach Caucasians.
Jeet Kune Do
Main article: Jeet Kune Do
Fitness and nutrition
At 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) and 64 kg (141 lb),[46] Lee was renowned for his physical fitness and vigor, achieved by using a dedicated fitness regimen to become as strong as possible. After his match with Wong Jack Man in 1965, Lee changed his approach toward martial arts training. Lee felt that many martial artists of his time did not spend enough time on physical conditioning. Lee included all elements of total fitness—muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility. He used traditional bodybuilding techniques to build some muscle mass, not overdone that could decrease speed or flexibility. At the same time in balance, Lee was careful to admonish that mental and spiritual preparation are fundamental to the success of physical training in martial arts skills. In Tao of Jeet Kune Do he wrote,
Acting career
Main article: Bruce Lee filmography
Bruce Lee in The Kid.
Publicity photo of Williams and Lee for The Green Hornet.
In 1964, at a demonstration in Long Beach, California, Lee had met Karate champion Chuck Norris. In Way of the Dragon Lee introduced Norris to movie-goers as his opponent in the final death fight at the Colosseum in Rome, today considered one of Lee's most legendary fight scenes and one of the most memorable fight scenes in martial arts film history.[57] The role was originally offered to American Karate champion Joe Lewis.[58]
Bruce Lee's star at the Avenue of Stars, Hong Kong.
Robert Clouse, the director of Enter the Dragon and Golden Harvest revived Lee's unfinished film Game of Death. Lee had shot over 100 minutes of footage, including out-takes, for Game of Death before shooting was stopped to allow him to work on Enter the Dragon. In addition to Abdul-Jabbar, George Lazenby, Hapkido master Ji Han-Jae and another of Lee's students, Dan Inosanto, were also to appear in the film, which was to culminate in Lee's character, Hai Tien (clad in the now-famous yellow track suit) taking on a series of different challengers on each floor as they make their way through a five-level pagoda. In a controversial move, Robert Clouse finished the film using a look-alike and archive footage of Lee from his other films with a new storyline and cast, which was released in 1978. However, the cobbled-together film contained only fifteen minutes of actual footage of Lee (he had printed many unsuccessful takes)[63] while the rest had a Lee look-alike, Kim Tai Chung, and Yuen Biao as stunt double. The unused footage Lee had filmed was recovered 22 years later and included in the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey.[64]
Bruce Lee's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Lee is best known as a martial artist, but he also studied drama and philosophy while a student at the University of Washington. He was well-read and had an extensive library. His own books on martial arts and fighting philosophy are known for their philosophical assertions, both inside and outside of martial arts circles. His eclectic philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings. He believed that any knowledge ultimately led to self-knowledge, and said that his chosen method of self-expression was martial arts.[67] His influences include Taoism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Buddhism.[68] On the other hand, Lee's philosophy was very much in opposition to the conservative worldview advocated by Confucianism.[69] John Little states that Lee was an atheist. When asked in 1972 about his religious affiliation, he replied, "none whatsoever".[70] In 1972, he was asked if he believed in God, and responded, "To be perfectly frank, I really do not".[67]
Aside from martial arts and philosophy which focus on the physical aspect and self-consciousness for truths and principles,[71] Lee also wrote poetry that reflected his emotion and a stage in his life collectively.[72] Many forms of art remain concordant with the artist creating them. Lee's principal of self-expression was applied to his poetry as well. His daughter Shannon Lee said "He did write poetry, he was really the consummate artist".[73] His poetic works originally handwritten on paper, later on edited and published. John Little being the major author (editor), for Bruce Lee's works. Linda Lee Cadwell (Bruce Lee's wife) shared her husbands notes, poems and experiences with followers. She mentioned "Lee's poems are, by American standards, rather dark-reflecting the deeper, less exposed recesses of the human psyche".[74] Most of Bruce Lee's poems are categorized as anti-poetry or fall into a paradox. The mood in his poems show the side of the man that can be compared with other poets such as Robert Frost, one of many well-known poets expressing himself with dark poetic works. The paradox taken from the Yin and Yang symbol in martial arts, also integrated in his poetry. His martial arts, and philosophy contribute a great part to his poetry. The free verse form of Lee's poetry reflect his famous quote "Be formless ... shapeless, like water."[75]
On May 10, 1973, Lee collapsed during an ADR session for Enter the Dragon at Golden Harvest in Hong Kong. Suffering from seizures and headaches, he was immediately rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnosed cerebral edema. They were able to reduce the swelling through the administration of mannitol. The headache and cerebral edema that occurred in his first collapse were later repeated on the day of his death.[76]
Later Lee complained of a headache, and Ting gave him an analgesic (painkiller), Equagesic, which contained both aspirin and the tranquilizer meprobamate. Around 7:30 p.m., he went to lie down for a nap. When Lee did not turn up for dinner, producer Raymond Chow came to the apartment, but was unable to wake Lee up. A doctor was summoned, who spent ten minutes attempting to revive Lee before sending him by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. By the time he reached the hospital, Lee died at the age of 32.
There was no visible external injury; however, according to autopsy reports, Lee's brain had swollen considerably, from 1,400 to 1,575 grams (a 13% increase). The autopsy found Equagesic in his system. On October 15, 2005, Chow stated in an interview that Lee died from an allergic reaction to the tranquilizer meprobamate, the main ingredient in Equagesic, which Chow described as an ingredient commonly used in painkillers. When the doctors announced Lee's death officially, it was ruled a "death by misadventure".[79][80]
Lee's wife Linda returned to her hometown of Seattle, and had him buried at lot 276 of Lakeview Cemetery.[81] Pallbearers at his funeral on July 31, 1973 included Taky Kimura, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Chuck Norris, George Lazenby, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, and Lee's brother Robert.
Controversy surrounding Lee's death
Around the time of Lee's death, numerous rumors appeared in the media.[82] Lee's iconic status and untimely demise fed many wild rumors and theories. These included murder involving the Triads and a supposed curse on him and his family.[83] There is also a theory that Bruce Lee used electrical muscle stimulation and that may have exacerbated or resulted in his condition.[citation needed]
Dr. Donald Langford, a Baptist missionary and Lee’s doctor in Hong Kong, has said, "Nobody dies from one tablet of Equagesic. No analgesic killed Bruce."[82] He added: "[P]eople weren't about to step up and say Bruce Lee had died from eating cannabis [which was found in his stomach, and which he had consumed regularly for some time due to the stress of his fame] or some related product. At the beginning of the inquest proceedings, Dr. Wu and a couple of other doctors and I were pulled to the side and asked to play down the role of cannabis in Bruce’s death."[82]
The preliminary opinion of Dr. Peter Wu, the neurosurgeon who treated Lee during his first seizure in May 1973, was that the cause of death should have been attributed to either a reaction to cannabis or Equagesic. He has stated that "We removed quite a lot of hashish from his stomach [in May]. In Nepal there have been all kinds of neurological problems associated with hashish, especially cerebral edema."[82] However, Wu officially backed off from his position, officially stating that:
At the 1975 San Diego Comic-Con convention, Bruce Lee's friend Chuck Norris attributed his death to a reaction between the muscle-relaxant medication he had been taking since 1968 for a ruptured disk in his back, and an "antibiotic" he was given for his headache on the night of his death.[86]
The book The Death of Bruce Lee: A Clinical Investigation presents the belief that Bruce Lee was already "sensitized" to the use of Equagesic by the time of his first "acute hypersensitivity reaction" on May 10, 1973. Lee refrained from using the drug again until that fateful evening of July 20, 1973, when he took Equagesic and later died of cerebral edema.[87]
Certified instructors
Hong Kong legacy
Awards and honours
Martial arts lineage
—Danny Inosanto[95]
Lineage in Wing Chun
Ng Mui
Yim Wing Chun
Leung Bok-chau
Leung Lan-kwai
Wong Wah-bo
Leung Yee-tai
Leung Jan
Chan Wah-shun
Yip Man (葉問)
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (李小龍)
Founder of Jeet Kune Do
Certified by Bruce Lee
as instructors of Jeet Kune Do
Taky Kimura
James Yimm Lee
Dan Inosanto
Notable students of
Jun Fan/Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do
Brandon Lee
Jesse Glover
Dan Inosanto
Yorinaga Nakamura
Taky Kimura
Richard Bustillo
Jerry Poteet
Ted Wong
James Yimm Lee
Rusty Stevens
Chuck Norris[96]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
James Coburn
Joe Lewis
Roman Polanski
Lee Marvin
Stirling Silliphant
Mike Stone
Main article: Bruce Lee filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1969 Marlowe Winslow Wong
1972 Fist of Fury Chen Zhen Also known as The Chinese Connection
1973 Enter the Dragon Lee Posthumous release
2015 Ip Man 3 Himself Bruce Lee will be recreated using CGI
Year Title Role Notes
1966–1967 The Green Hornet Kato 26 episodes
1966–1967 Batman Kato 3 episodes
1967 Ironside Leon Soo Episode: "Tagged for Murder"
1970–1972 Enjoy Yourself Tonight Himself 2 episodes
1971 Longstreet Li Tsung 4 episodes
1971 The Pierre Berton Show Himself
See also
4. ^ "Bruce Lee Lives Documentary".
8. ^ Lee 1989, p. 41
11. ^ Dennis 1974
15. ^ a b Lee 1989, p. 20
16. ^ a b "Kom Tong Hall at 7 Castle Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong" (PDF). People's Republic of China. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
17. ^ "Bruce Lee: Biography". Retrieved January 22, 2010.
18. ^ 振藩; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhènfán)Lee 1989
22. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 14
23. ^ a b Black Belt: Bruce Lee Collector's Edition Summer 1993
24. ^ Black Belt: Bruce Lee Collector's Edition Summer 1993, p. 18
25. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 26
26. ^ Sharif 2009, p. 56
27. ^ Black Belt: Bruce Lee Collector's Edition Summer 1993 p. 19
28. ^ Campbell 2006, p. 172
31. ^ Little 2001, p. 32
32. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 42
37. ^ Vaughn 1986, p. 21
38. ^ Nilsson, Thomas (May 1996). "With Bruce Lee: Taekwondo Pioneer Jhoon Rhee Recounts His 10-Year Friendship With the "Dragon"". Black Belt Magazine 34 (5): 39–43. Retrieved November 19, 2009.
39. ^ Uyehara 1993, p. 27
42. ^ a b c Dorgan 1980
44. ^ Bishop 2004, p. 23
45. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 81
46. ^ "Bruce Lee". Retrieved July 2, 2014.
47. ^ "Martial Art Disciplines at Hybrid Martial Arts Academy". Hybrid Martial Art. Retrieved May 30, 2008. [dead link]
48. ^ Little 1998, p. 162
49. ^ Little 1998, p. 163
52. ^ Lee 1975a
54. ^ "From Grasshopper to Caine" on YouTube
56. ^ Tale of the Dragon (Channel 4), directed by Jess Search
57. ^ Lee 1989
60. ^ Enter the Dragon at the Internet Movie Database
61. ^ "Inflation Calculator". Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved May 30, 2008.
64. ^ Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey at the Internet Movie Database
65. ^ "Shaw Brothers Film Project". Retrieved January 6, 2011.
67. ^ a b Little 1996, p. 122
68. ^ Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey at 31m45s
69. ^ Bolelli 2008, p. 161
70. ^ Little 1996, p. 128
71. ^ Lee, Bruce (1996). John Little, ed. The Warrior Within. Martial arts-Philosophy: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-8092-3194-8.
72. ^ Lee, Bruce; Linda Lee Cadwell (1999). John Little, ed. Bruce Lee Artist of Life (Book). Tuttle. pp. 93–116. ISBN 978-0-8048-3263-2.
74. ^ Lee, Bruce; Linda Lee Cadwell (1999). "Part 4 Poetry". In John Little. Bruce Lee Artist of Life (Book). Martial Arts: Tuttle. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8048-3263-2.
75. ^ John Little (1996). "Five: The Running Water". In John Little. The Warrior Within (Book). Martial arts-Philosophy: McGraw-Hill. p. 43. ISBN 0-8092-3194-8.
76. ^ Thomas 1994
77. ^ Campbell 2006, p. 205
78. ^ Lee 1989, pp. 156–157
79. ^ Campbell 2006, p. 206
81. ^ Lakeview Cemetery website. Search for Lee. Only use last name.
82. ^ a b c d SHIH, LEE HAN. "The Life of the Dragon" (*Special to asia!). Lee Han Shih is the founder, publisher and editor of asia! Magazine. asia! Magazine. Retrieved Jun 1, 2009.
83. ^ Bishop 2004, p. 157
84. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 209
85. ^ Thomas 1994, p. 228
86. ^ Chuck Norris Explains What Really Killed Bruce Lee At The 1975 San Diego Comic-Con Convention
87. ^ McKenzie R.N., Duncan Alexander (2012). The Death of Bruce Lee: A Clinical Investigation. pp. 42–45; 100–105. ISBN 9781300108863.
88. ^ Little 2001, p. 211
90. ^ "Bruce Lee's home to become a museum". The Hollywood Reporter. January 6, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2010. [dead link]
92. ^ Winners at the Asian Awards
96. ^ Lee 1989, p. 83
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Unlike proprietary off-the-shelf software, which comes with restrictive copyright licenses, open source software can be given away for no charge. This means that its creators cannot require each user to pay a license fee to fund development. Instead, a number of alternative models for funding its development have emerged.
Software can be developed as a consulting project for one or more customers. The customers pay to direct the developers' efforts: to have bugs prioritized and fixed or features added. Companies or independent consultants can also charge for training, installation, technical support, or customization of the software.
Another approach to funding is to provide the software freely, but sell licenses to proprietary add-ons such as data libraries. For instance, an open-source CAD program may require parts libraries which are sold on a subscription or flat-fee basis. Open-source software can also promote the sale of specialized hardware that it interoperates with. Some example cases are the Asterisk telephony software developed by a manufacturer of PC telephony hardware Digium, or the Robot Operating System (ROS) robotics platform by Willow Garage and Stanford AI Labs.
Many open source software projects have begun as research projects within universities, as personal projects of students or professors, or as tools to aid scientific research. The influence of universities and research institutions on open source shows in the number of projects named after their host institutions, such as BSD Unix, CMU Common Lisp, or the NCSA HTTPd which evolved into Apache.
Companies may employ developers to work on open-source projects that are useful to the company's infrastructure: in this case, it is developed not as a product to be sold but as a sort of shared public utility. A local bug-fix or solution to a software problem, written by a developer either at a company's request or to make his/her own job easier, can be released as an open-source contribution without costing the company anything.[1] A larger project such as the Linux kernel may have contributors from dozens of companies which use and depend upon it, as well as hobbyist and research developers.
Also, there exists stipends to support the development of open source software like Google's Summer of Code founded 2005.[2]
A new funding approach for open source projects is crowdfunding, organized over web platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or Bountysource.[3]
Open-source software can be sold and used in general commercially. Also, commercial open-source applications are a part of the software industry for some time.[4][5] Despite that, except for Red Hat and VA Software, no other pure open-source company has gone public on the major stock markets. While commercialization or funding of open-source software projects is possible, it is considered challenging.[6]
Main article: Multi-licensing
Dual licensing offers the software under an open-source license but also under separate proprietary license terms. The proprietary version can be sold to finance the continued development of the free open-source version.[7] Customers can be attracted to a no-cost and open-source edition, then be part of an up-sell to a commercial enterprise edition. Further, customers will learn of open-source software in a company's portfolio and offerings but generate business in other proprietary products and solutions, including commercial technical support contracts and services. A popular example is Oracle's MySQL database which is dual-licensed under a commercial proprietary license as also under the GPLv2.[8] Another example is the Sleepycat License.
Selling professional services[edit]
The financial return of costs on open-source software can also come from selling services, such as training, technical support, or consulting, rather than the software itself.[9][10]
Another possibility is offering open-source software in source code form only, while providing executable binaries to paying customers only, offering the commercial service of compiling and packaging of the software. Also, providing goods like physical installation media (e.g., DVDs) can be a commercial service.
Open-source companies using this business model successfully are for instance RedHat and IBM;[11] a more specialized example is that of Revolution Analytics.
Selling of branded merchandise[edit]
Some open-source organizations such as the Mozilla Foundation[12] and the Wikimedia Foundation[13] sell branded merchandise articles like t-shirts and coffee mugs. This can be also seen as an additional service provided to the user community.
Selling of certificates and trademark use[edit]
Another financing approach is innovated by Moodle, an open source learning management system and community platform.[14][15] The business model revolves around a network of commercial partners[16] who are certificated and therefore authorised to use the Moodle name and logo,[17] and in turn provide a proportion of revenue to the Moodle Trust, which in turn funds core development.[18]
Selling software as a service[edit]
Because of its lack of software freedoms, Richard Stallman calls SaaS "inherently bad" while acknowledging its legality.[19][20] The FSF called the server-side use-case without release of the source-code the ASP loophole in the GPLv2 and encourage therefore the use of the Affero General Public License which plugged this hole in 2002.[21][22] In 2007 the FSF contemplated including the special provision of AGPLv1 into GPLv3 but ultimately decided to keep the licenses separate.[23]
Partnership with funding organizations[edit]
Other financial situations include partnerships with other companies. Governments, universities, companies, and non-governmental organizations may develop internally or hire a contractor for custom in-house modifications, then release that code under an open-source license. Some organizations support the development of open-source software by grants or stipends, like Google's Summer of Code initiative founded in 2005.[2]
Voluntary donations[edit]
Main article: Donationware
Also, there were experiments by Independent developers to fund development of open-source software donation-driven directly by the users, e.g., with the Illumination Software Creator in 2012.[24] SourceForge, for example, allows users to donate money to the projects it hosts that opt to accept donations.[25] Internet micro-payments systems like PayPal, flattr, and Bitcoin help this approach.
Larger donation campaigns also exist. In 2004 the Mozilla Foundation carried out a fundraising campaign to support the launch of the Firefox 1.0 web browser. It placed a two-page ad in the December 16 edition of the New York Times listing the names of the thousands who had donated.[26][27]
Bounty driven development[edit]
Main article: Open-source bounty
Another bounty source is companies or foundations that set up bounty programs for implemented features or bugfixes in open-source software relevant to them. For instance, Mozilla has been paying and funding freelance open-source programmers for security bug hunting and fixing since 2004.[28][29][30]
A newer funding opportunity for open-source software projects is crowdfunding, which shares similarities with the pre-order or Praenumeration business model, as well as the reverse bounty model. It is typically organized over web platforms like Kickstarter,[31] Indiegogo,[32] or Bountysource[3] (see also comparison of crowd funding services). An example is a successfully funded Indiegogo campaign of Australian programmer Timothy Arceri, who offered for $2,500 to implement in two weeks an OpenGL 4.3 extension for the Mesa library.[32]
Advertising-supported software[edit]
In order to commercialize FOSS, many companies (including Google, Mozilla, and Canonical) have moved towards an economic model of advertising-supported software. For instance, the open-source application AdBlock Plus gets paid by Google for letting whitelisted Acceptable Ads bypassing the browser ad remover.[33] As another example is SourceForge, an open-source project service provider, has the revenue model of advertising banner sales on their website. In 2006, SourceForge reported quarterly takings of $6.5 million[34] and $23 million in 2009.[35]
Selling of optional proprietary extensions[edit]
Main article: Open core
This approach is a variant of the freemium business model. The proprietary software may be intended to let customers get more value out of their data, infrastructure, or platform, e.g., operate their infrastructure/platform more effectively and efficiently, manage it better, or secure it better. Examples include the IBM proprietary Linux software, where IBM contributes to the Linux open-source ecosystem, but it builds and delivers (to IBM’s paying customers) database software, middleware, and other software that runs on top of the open-source core. Other examples of proprietary products built on open-source software include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Cloudera's Apache Hadoop-based software. Some companies appear to re-invest a portion of their financial profits from the sale of proprietary software back into the open source infrastructure.[37]
Some companies, such as Digium, sell proprietary but optional digital electronics hardware controlled by an open-source software product.[38]
Selling of required proprietary parts of a software product[edit]
A variant of the approach above is the keeping of required data content (for instance a video game's audio, graphic, and other art assets) of a software product proprietary while making the software's source code open-source. While this approach is completely legitimate and compatible with most open-source licenses, customers have to buy the content to have a complete and working software product.[39] Restrictive licenses can then be applied on the content, which prevents the redistribution or re-selling of the complete software product. An example is Kot-in-Action Creative Artel video game Steel Storm, where the engine is licensed as GPLv2 while the artwork is CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 licensed.[40] Doing so conforms with the FSF and Richard Stallman, who stated that for art or entertainment the software freedoms are not required or important.[41]
Re-licensing under a proprietary license[edit]
If a software product uses only own software and open-source software under a permissive free software licence, a company can re-license the resulting software product under a proprietary license and sell the product without the source code or software freedoms. For instance, Apple Inc. is an avid user of this approach by using source code and software from open-source projects. For example, the BSD Unix operating system kernel (under the BSD license) was used in Apple's Mac PCs that were sold as proprietary products.[43]
Obfuscation of source code[edit]
The Free Software Foundation, on the other hand, is clearly against this practice.[46]
Delayed open-sourcing[edit]
An extreme variant of "time-delayed open-sourcing" is a business practice popularized by Id Software[48][49] and 3D Realms,[50][51] which released several software products under a free software license after a long proprietary commercialization time period and the return of investment was achieved. The motivation of companies following this practice of releasing the source code when a software reaches the commercial end-of-life, is to prevent that their software becomes unsupported Abandonware or even get lost due to digital obsolescence.[52] This gives the user communities the chance to continue development and support of the software product themselves as an open-source software project.[53] Many examples from the video game domain are in the list of commercial video games with later released source code.
Popular non-game software examples are the Netscape Communicator which was open-sourced in 1998[54][55] and Sun Microsystems's office suite, StarOffice, which was released in October 2000 at its commercial end of life.[56] Both releases formed the basis of important open-source projects, namely the Mozilla Firefox and
This approach works only with own source code or with software under specific open-source licenses, namely the permissive licences, as there is no copy-left license available which allows the opening of source code in a defined delayed time-window after distributing or selling of a software product.
FOSS and economy[edit]
Main article: Open-source economics
According to Yochai Benkler, the Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, free software is the most visible part of a new economy of commons-based peer production of information, knowledge, and culture. As examples, he cites a variety of FOSS projects, including both free software and open source.[57]
Much of the Internet runs on open-source software tools and utilities such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, known as the LAMP stack for web servers.[citation needed] Using open source appeals to software developers for three main reasons: low or no cost, access to source code they can tailor themselves, and a shared community that ensures a generally robust code base, with quick fixes for new issues.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
1. ^ Holtgrewe, Ursula (2004). "Articulating the Speed(s) of the Internet: The Case of Open Source/Free Software.". Time & Society 13: 129–146. doi:10.1177/0961463X04040750.
2. ^ a b Byfield, Bruce (2005-09-21). "Google's Summer of Code concludes (first year)". Retrieved 2013-08-08. Google's Summer of Code (SOC), a program that matched computer science students with free and open source software (FOSS) projects and paid for results, is over.
3. ^ a b "Bountysource Raises $1.1 Million for the First Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software Projects". 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
9. ^ FOSS in the Enterprise: To Pay or Not to Pay? on By Jack M. Germain (Nov 5, 2013)
10. ^ 6 Reasons to Pay for Open Source Software By Paul Rubens on CIO "Open source software is free to download, modify and use, but that doesn't mean it's not worth paying for sometimes. If you're using open source software in a commercial, enterprise capacity, here are six reasons why you should pay for free software." (Feb 13, 2013)
14. ^ Moodle will always be an open source project Posted 06 Oct 2014 by Samantha Gartner on
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16. ^ How do the Moodle Partners work? on (accessed May 31, 2015)
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19. ^ Molla, Rani (2013-08-06). "Hacktivist Richard Stallman takes on proprietary software, SaaS and open source". Retrieved 2013-08-12. He also claims software as a service (SaaS) is inherently bad because your information goes through a server beyond your control and that server can add additional software when it likes.
20. ^ Johnson, Bobbie (2008-09-29). "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-08-10. Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner
25. ^ Donation System on
26. ^ Mozilla Foundation (December 15, 2004). "Mozilla Foundation Places Two-Page Advocacy Ad in the New York Times". Retrieved June 15, 2010.
27. ^ Marson, Ingrid (2004-12-16). "New York Times runs Firefox ad". Retrieved 2013-08-12. Fans of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser who funded an advertisement in The New York Times will finally get to see their names in print on Thursday.
33. ^ Callaham, John (2013-06-06). "Report: Google paying AdBlock Plus to not block Google's ads". Retrieved 2013-08-13. Google is paying money to Eyeo, the company behind AdBlock Plus, so that its ads get through the browser ad remover.
35. ^ "SourceForge Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 Financial Results".
39. ^ "TTimo/doom3.gpl". GitHub. 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2013-08-10. Doom 3 GPL source release [...] This source release does not contain any game data, the game data is still covered by the original EULA and must be obeyed as usual.
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Club Tropicana
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For the famous nightclub in Havana, Cuba see Tropicana Club
"Club Tropicana"
Single by Wham!
from the album Fantastic
B-side "Blue (Armed With Love)"
Released 23 July 1983 (1983-07-23)
Format 12", 7"
Recorded 1983
Genre Post-disco
Length 4:28
Label CBS
Writer(s) George Michael
Andrew Ridgeley
Producer(s) Steve Brown
George Michael
Wham! singles chronology
"Bad Boys"
"Club Tropicana"
"Club Fantastic Megamix"
"Club Tropicana" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1983 on Innervision Records. It was written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
The song was a mild departure from Wham!'s previous singles, which had all been motivated by social or political issues. "Club Tropicana", however, was a satire of the boom for cheap package holidays for younger, single people of a hedonistic nature. It was specifically seen in the UK as a swipe at the very popular Club 18-30 scheme.
A memorable video directed by Duncan Gibbins was made at Pikes Hotel in Ibiza, with scenes of George and Andrew on the beach, making eyes at bikini-clad girls played by their backing singers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman. They were also seen relaxing by a pool and sipping cocktails, along with the famous scene of trumpet-playing taking place in the pool itself. A twist in the sexual tension between the two men and two women was revealed at the end, when it turned out that Michael and Ridgeley were airline pilots and Dee and Shirlie were stewardesses.
The song was released in July 1983 and peaked at #4 in the UK, going on to become the 39th best selling single of 1983. It was the fourth and final single to be taken from the album Fantastic. Wham! went on to dominate the UK charts, achieving four #1 singles before splitting at their height in 1986.
The B-side, "Blue (Armed With Love)", is a semi-instrumental dub track of higher quality than is generally expected for B-side material, and would not have been out of place on Fantastic. It in fact appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese pic disc version of the album. During their "Club Fantastic" tour in late 1983 and in 1985 in China, they performed this song live, complete with sung verses, and the result was released as "Blue (Live In China)" on their 1986 LP Music from the Edge of Heaven as well as the B-side of 1985's single release of "Last Christmas." The studio version of the song has not appeared on CD except for a 3" CD single in Japan. It was also overlooked for the 25th Anniversary rerelease of The Final, even though this version claimed to be accurate to the original release.
Track listing[edit]
7": Innervision / A 3613 (UK)
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Club Tropicana" George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley 4:29
2. "Blue (Armed With Love)" George Michael 3:50
12": Innervision / TA 3613 (UK)
No. Title Writer(s) Length
2. "Blue (Armed With Love)" George Michael 3:54
3. "Club Tropicana" (Instrumental) George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley 3:31
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1983) Peak
Australian singles chart 60
Dutch Top 40[1] 8
Norwegian singles chart[2] 10
UK Singles Chart[3] 4
1. ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 42, 1983". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
2. ^ "". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
3. ^ " search results". Retrieved 29 November 2008.
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For other uses, see Cowden (disambiguation).
Cowden is located in Kent
Cowden shown within Kent
District Sevenoaks
Shire county Kent
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Kent
Fire Kent
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Coordinates: 51°08′41″N 0°05′36″E / 51.144765°N 0.093459°E / 51.144765; 0.093459
Cowden (/kˈdɛn/[1]) is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the northern slopes of the Weald, south-west of Tonbridge. The old High Street has Grade II listed cottages and village houses, and there is an inn called The Fountain.
The Romans built the London to Lewes Way across what is now the garden of Waystrode Manor. The first owners of the manor received it from King John in 1208.
Crippenden Manor, built in about 1607, was once the home of another ironmaster, Richard Tichborne (1568-1639), related to the Tichbornes of Tichborne, Hampshire. This branch of the Tichbornes descend from a younger son of John Tichborne and Margaret Martin, who inherited his mother's lands in Edenbridge and around, including Crippenden. Richard was the son of John Tichborne (c1549-1620) and Dorothy Chaloner, daughter of Thomas Chaloner of Lyndfield and Alice Shirley. Richard married Dorothy Saxbie, circa 1592, and had at least ten children, including Dorothy who married John Tillinghast (1604-55) son of the Rector of Streat and involved in the iron industry. Richard formally leased Crippenden from 1612 and built the house there. It descended to Captain Edmund Tichborne who sold the manor after 1721.
The village appears as Cudena in Textus Roffensis.[1]
In 1649 Robert Tichborne a nephew of Richard Tichborne, petitioned the House of Commons in favour of the execution of Charles I. He was one of the Commissioners who, in 1651, prepared the way for the union with Scotland and he was knighted in 1655 by Cromwell and made a peer in 1657. After the Restoration he was arrested and sentenced to death, but he was reprieved, imprisoned in Dover Castle and died, in 1682, in the Tower of London. The family, however, did not die out in Cowden until 1708, when John Tichbourne was buried there.
This is old Wealden iron country, recalled by the cast iron memorial slab in the church, to John Bottinge, dated 1622. This was a time when the area was producing guns for the Army and navy, as well as domestic and agricultural ware. Cowden had its own blast furnace from 1573 until sometime in the 18th century. The rumoured second 'upper' Cowden Furnace is now known to have been Scarlets Furnace nearby in East Sussex.[2]
The ancient parish church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, and has a restored shingle covered spire.
Parts of the parish straddle the Kent Water which forms the border with East Sussex and Surrey where the three counties meet.
It is centred on a 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene with its slender, wooden shingled spire, bomb-damaged during World War II and since re-shingled. The spire is barely perceptibly out of perpendicular, which gave rise to a rhyme:[3]
Cowden church, crooked steeple,
Lying priest, deceitful people.
The church is built of sandstone, its tower and steeple timber-framed inside. The old bells were recast and rehung in 1911 to commemorate the reign of Edward VII and a sixth bell was added at the Coronation of George V.
A stained glass windows given to the church in 1947 celebrates 'the remarkable preservation of this village during the years 1939-45' and features figures of St Bridget (representing the women of the parish), St Nicholas (for the sailors), St George (the soldiers and airmen) and St Mary Magdalene, all the company of Sir Walstan (the farmer bishop of Worcester Wulfstan 1062-95 representing the local farmers). Below them are 20th-century figures: a sailor, soldier, airman, a nurse and others making up a representative group of World War II characters, all turned towards a Christ-figure whose protection they seek.
The Queen's Arms[edit]
The Queen's Arms
The Queen's Arms is a mid 19th century Grade II listed public house at Hartfield Road.[4] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[5]
Its railway station was the scene of a fatal crash in 1994. There is a regular service to London and Uckfield.
Notable residents[edit]
The English author and illustrator of children's books, Roger Hargreaves, best known as the creator of the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books, lived at Sussex House Farm in Hartfield Road from 1982 to 1988. He is buried in the graveyard of the parish church, in an extension of land which he had donated the year before his death.
1. ^ Edward Hasted (1797). "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3". pp. 203–210.
2. ^ Pearce, H, Hammer and Furnace Ponds, Pomegranate Press (2011)
3. ^ "St Mary Magdalene, Cowden". Church of England.
4. ^ Historic England, "Queen's Arms, Cowden Pound (1387747)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 August 2014
5. ^ Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. p. 50. ISBN 9781852493042.
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DCC Alliance
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The DCC Alliance (DCCA) was an industry association designed to promote a common subset of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that multiple companies within the consortium could distribute. It was founded by Ian Murdock in 2005 and was wound up in 2007.
The main force behind the DCC Alliance was Ian Murdock, the original founder of the Debian project. The DCC Alliance was formed whilst Murdock was CEO of Progeny Linux Systems, and he remained the key spokesperson for the consortium during their visible existence. The founding of the DCC Alliance was announced at LinuxWorld San Francisco on the 9 August 2005, following a number of pre-announcements.
The stated intention was to assemble a standards-based core of Debian, provide a predictable release cycle and Linux Standards Base compliance.[1]
DCC Alliance shipped their first code 6 months after the original pre-announcements, providing a Linux Standards Base (LSB) 3.0 compliant set of program packages based on those available from Debian.[2]
The Alliance's primary goals were to:[citation needed]
• Assemble a 100 percent Debian common core that addresses the needs of enterprise business users
• Maintain certification of the common core with the Free Standards Group open specification, the Linux Standard Base
• Use the Alliance's combined strength to accelerate the commercial adoption of Debian
• Work with the Debian project to ensure predictable release cycles and features important to commercial adoption
There were two classes of membership in the DCC Alliance:
Membership remained open to additional organizations with an interest in Debian-based solutions. The most visible absent from any involvement was the Ubuntu distribution who declined to join the Alliance. The Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth, stated in 2006 that he did not believe that the DCC Alliance had any future.[3][4]
One of the founding members, MEPIS, later left the DCCA, citing "creative differences". MEPIS transitioned their SimplyMEPIS Linux distribution from a Debian Unstable/DCCA-provided core to an Ubuntu-based one.[5]
In 2006 Ian Murdock left the DCC Alliance to chair the Linux Standard Base workgroup[6] and later moved his employment to Sun Microsystems.[7] In 2007, Progeny, the original driver behind the consortium was wound up.[8][9] In 2006, Xandros was still claiming that Xandros "leads the engineering team at the DCCA".[10]
When originally formed, the names given to the media were that of the "Debian Core Consortium", and then "Debian Common Core". Following trademark notification from the Debian project, the name was withdrawn and replaced—without a formal announcement—by "DCC Alliance".[11] Ian Murdock explained that the D should no longer be treated as an abbreviation of Debian, but of DCC—becoming a recursive acronym for "DCC Common Core".[12]
Notably, the "Debian" trademark that was being denied to Mr. Murdock and the DCC Alliance originates from a combination of the -ian part of Mr. Murdock's own given name, concatenated to that of his wife's name; Debra Murdock, and the decision over the infringement of the trademark fell to Branden Robinson, then Debian Project Leader (DPL), who was an employee of Progeny Linux Systems (and of Mr. Murdock) during the time at which the decision was made. Mr. Robinson stated that this would not represent a conflict of interest.[13]
1. ^ ZDNet News, Consortium to push Debian to the fore, 2005-07-26.
2. ^ Eweek, DCC Alliance Leads Way to Linux Standard Base 3.0 Compliance, 2005-12-08.
3. ^ Ubuntu "Sounder" mailing list Mark Shuttleworth: Debian Common Core Alliance [sic], 2006-01-03.
4. ^ Linux-Watch, Debian, Ubuntu, and the DCC, oh my!, 2006-01-05.
5. ^ Desktop Linux, MEPIS founder plots transition to Ubuntu, 2006-03-21.
6. ^ Linux-Watch, Debian founder takes over LSB leadership, 2006-02-02.
7. ^ CNET News.com, Sun hires Debian Linux founder, 2007-03-19.
8. ^ Linux.com, Progeny Linux ceases operation, 2007-05-02.
9. ^ Linux Journal, Remembering Progeny, 2007-05-17.
10. ^ Xandros Partner Information Kit, published 2006.
11. ^ Linux.com, Ian Murdock responds to Debian-DCC Alliance trademark dispute, 2005-10-09.
12. ^ Ian Murdock, blog: What’s in a name?, 2005-10-05.
13. ^ SPI (Legal owner of Debian trademark) Board Meeting, August 16th, 2005, "Debian Core Consortium issues".
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Emily Smith (singer)
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Emily Smith
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Emily Smith, 2008
Background information
Born 25 March 1981
Origin Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Genres Celtic, folk
Occupation(s) Singer
Instruments Vocals, piano, accordion
Years active 2002–present
Labels Cadiz Music, White Fall Records, Proper Distribution
Associated acts Jamie McClennan, Darwin Song Project
Website www.emilysmith.org
Notable instruments
Vocals, accordion, piano
Emily Smith (born 1981) is a Scottish folk singer from Dumfries and Galloway. She went to school at Wallace Hall Academy and has a degree in Scottish music from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is married to New Zealand-born fiddle player and guitarist Jamie McClennan.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Emily's childhood was spent dancing to music, rather than performing it, in her mother's dance school. She grew up assuming everyone knew how to do a highland fling and weekends were spent dancing at ceilidhs rather than nightclubs. Aged seven she started out on piano; moved onto snare drum in the local pipe band and subsequently found a passion for piano accordion, where at the age of eighteen she was National Mod champion. But it wasn't until a solo with the school choir in her late teens that Emily discovered her singing voice. She moved to Glasgow in 1999 where she gained an Honours degree in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. With principal study of Scots Song, she also studied accordion and piano.
Musical career[edit]
Smith has released five solo albums.[3]
Solo albums[edit]
• A Day Like Today (2006)
• A Different Life (2005)
• Too Long Away (2008)
• Adoon Winding Nith with Jamie McClennan (2009)
• Traiveller's Joy (2011)
• Ten Years (2013)
• A Winters Night - EP (2014)
• Echoes (2014)
Collaborations and guest appearances[edit]
TV Appearances[edit]
Recent TV appearances include:[4]
1. ^ Emily Smith > Biography. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.
2. ^ Scotland's Joni Mitchell. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.
3. ^ http://www.emilysmith.org/about.html
4. ^ Emily Smith > Biography. Retrieved on 21 September 2011.
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Epigenetic regulation of neurogenesis
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Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression which do not result from modifications to the sequence of DNA. Neurogenesis is the mechanism for neuron proliferation and differentiation. It entails many different complex processes which are all time and order dependent.[1] Processes such as neuron proliferation, fate specification, differentiation, maturation, and functional integration of newborn cells into existing neuronal networks are all interconnected.[2] In the past decade many epigenetic regulatory mechanisms have been shown to play a large role in the timing and determination of neural stem cell lineages.[1]
Relevant Mechanisms & Definitions[edit]
Epigenetic mechanisms
Three important methods of epigenetic regulation include histone modification, DNA methylation and demethylation, and MicroRNA (miRNA) expression. Histones keep the DNA of the eukaryotic cell tightly packaged through charge interactions between the positive charge on the histone tail and the negative charge of the DNA, as well as between histone tails of nearby nucleosomes.While there are many different types of Histone modifications, in neural epigenetics there are two primary mechanisms which have been explored: histone methylation and histone acetylation.[1][3] In the former, methyl groups are either added or removed to the histone altering its structure and exposing chromatin and leading to gene activation or deactivation. In the latter, histone acetylation causes the histone to hold the DNA more loosely, allowing for more gene activation. DNA Methylation, in which methyl groups are added to cytosine or adenosine redisdues on the DNA, is a more lasting method of gene inactivation than histone modification, though is still reversible in some cases.[1][3] MicroRNAs are a small form of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) which often act as "fine-tuning" mechanisms for gene expression by repressing or inducing messenger RNA (mRNA) in neural cells but can also act directly with transcription factors to guide neurogenesis.[1][3][4][5]
Epigenetic Regulation in the Brain[edit]
Embryonic Neurogenesis[edit]
Histone Modifications[edit]
Neural Stem Cells generate the cortex in a precise "inside out" manner with carefully controlled timing mechanisms. Early born neurons form deep layers in the cortex while newer born form the upper layers. This timing program is seen in vitro as well as in vivo.[1][3] Histone methylation has been shown to be one of the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms which alters the proportionate production of deep layer and upper layer neurons. Specifically, deletion of Ezh2 encoding histone methyltransferase led to a twofold reduction of BRN2-expressing and SATB2 expressing upper layer neurons without affecting the number of neurons in layer V and VI. Similarly, histone acetylation through histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor Valproic Acid, an epilepsy therapeutic, in mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) derived neural proginetors not only induces neuronal differentiation, but also selectively enriched the upper layer neuronal population. As such, it has been proposed that HDAC inhibition promotes the progression of neuronal differentiation, leading to a fate-switch from deep-layer producing progenitors into upper-layer progenitors. However, the reasons behind this selective differentiation and timing control as a result of HDAC inhibition are not yet fully understood.[3]
DNA Methylation[edit]
DNA methylation's critical nature to corticogenesis has been shown through knockout experiments in mice. When DNMT3b and DNMT1 were ablated separately in mouse embryos they died due to impairment of neural tube development. DNMT3a silencing did not cause embryonic lethality, but did result in a severe detriment in postnatal neurogenesis.[1][3] This is largely due to the timing in which these epigenetic mechanisms are active. DNMT3b is expressed in early neural progenitor cells and decrease as neural development proceeds and DNMT3a is barely detectable up until embryonic day 10 (E.10). However, at E.10, DNMT3a expression increases significantly from E13.5 and well into adulthood. In the postnatal forebrain, DNMT3a is expressed in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and the hippocampal dentate gyrus, the primary locations for adult neurogenesis.[1][2] The loss of DNMT3a in post natal neural progenitor cells leads to the down-regulation of neuronic genes such as Dlx2, Neurog2, and Sp8; but upregulation of genes involved in astroglial and oligodendroglial differentiation, indicating a role in the cell-fate switch from neurogenesis to gliogenesis. DNA demethylation, as well as methylation, of certain genes allows for neurogenesis to proceed in a time dependent manner. One such gene is Hes5, hypermethylated in E7.5 Embryos but completely demethylated by E9.5, which is one of the target genes in the Notch Signaling pathway. GCM1 and GCM2 demethylate the Hes5 promoter, allowing it to respond to NOTCH signaling and initiating the generation of neural stem cells.[1] Another example is the Gfap gene which is required for astrocyte differentiation. The ability to differentiate into glial cells is repressed in neural stem cells with a neuronal cell fate. This repression is due largely to an irresponsiveness of neural stem cells towards astrocyte-inducing stimulations. The neural stem cells are non-responsive due to hypermethylated DNA in the promoter regions of astrocyte genes such as Gfap. The STAT3 binding site in the promoter region of Gfap is hypermethylated at E11.5 and barely so at E14.5, at which point it is able to receive astrocyte inducing stimulations and begin cytokine-inducible astrocyte differentiation.[3]
Mechanism of miRNAs.
Studies done by De Pietri Tonelli and Kawase-Koga have shown conditional knockout of Dicer, an enzyme largely used for miRNA synthesis, in mouse neocortex resulted in reduced cortical size, increased neuronal apoptosis, and deficient corticol layering. Neuroepithelial cells and neuroprogenitor cells were not affected until E.14, at which point they also underwent apoptosis. This doesn't show which miRNAs were responsible for the varying factors affected, but it does show that there is a stage-specific requirement for miRNA expression in cortical development.[1][5][6][7] miR-124, the most abundant microRNA in the central nervous system, controls the lineage progression of subventricular zone neural progenitor cells into neuroblasts by suppressing protein production by targeting Sox9. Another major microRNA player is miR-9/9*. In embryonic neurogenesis miR-9 has been shown to regulate neuronal differentiation and self-renewal.[1][4][5] Ectopic expression of miR-9 in the developing mouse cortex led to premature neuronal differentiation and disrupted the migration of new neurons through targeting Foxg1.[1]
Contrary to the idea that microRNAs are only fine-tuning mechanisms, recent studies have shown that miR-9 and miR-124 can act together to guide fibroblasts into neural cells. Transcription factors and regulatory genes, such as Neurod1, Ascr1, and Myt1l, which were previously thought to be responsible for this phenomena did not transform human fibroblasts in the absence of miR-9 and miR-124, but in the presence of the microRNAs and the absence of the transcription factors human fibroblast transformation proceeded, albeit in a less efficient manner.[1][4][5]
Adult Neurogenesis[edit]
DNA Methylation[edit]
Neurogenesis continues after development well through adulthood.[2]Growth arrest and DNA-damage-inducible, beta (GADD45b) is required for the demethylation of promoters of critical genes responsible for new-born neuron development such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2).[8] As such, upregulation of GADD45b leads to increased demethylation, increased BDNF and FGF2, and ultimately more neural progenitor cells.[1][8]
Histone Modification[edit]
Histone deacetylation also plays a large role in the proliferation and self-renewal of post-natal neural stem cells. Neural-expressed HDACs interact with Tlx, an essential neural stem cell regulator, to suppress TLX target genes. This includes the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor P21 and the tumor suppressor gene Pten to promote neural stem cell proliferation. Inhibition of HDACS by the antiepileptic drug valproic acid induces neuronal differentiation as in embryonic neurogenesis, but also inhibits glial cell differentiation of adult neural stem cells. This is likely mediated through upregulation of neuronal specific genes such as the neurogeneic basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors NEUROD, NEUROGENENIN1, and Math1. Conditional loss of HDAC1 and HDAC2 in neural progenitor cells prevented them from differentiating into neurons and their loss in oligodendrytic progenitor cells disrupted oligodendrocyte formations, suggesting that histone deacetlyation plays important but varying roles in different stages of neuronal development.[1]
miR-9 targets the nuclear receptor TLX in adult neurogenesis to promote neural differentiation and inhibit neural stem cell proliferation. It also influences neuronal subtype specification and regulates axonal growth, branching, and targeting in the central nervous system through interactions with HES1, a neural stem cell homeostasis molecule.[1][5] miR-124 promotes cell cycle exit and neuronal differentiation in adult neurogensis. Mouse studies have shown that ectopic expression of miR-124 showed premature neural progenitor cell differentiation and exhaustion in the subventricular zone.[5]
In Memory[edit]
Histone acetylation has a dynamic role in controlling memory formation and synaptic plasticity. HDAC inhibitors exhibited positive effects on mice with cognitive defects such as Alzheimers disease and improved the cognition of wild type mice. HDAC2 has been shown to play a negative role in memory and learning. Sirt1, a histone acetylase, reduces memory formation ability by promoting the expression of miR-134, which targets the critical activity-dependent transcription factor (CREB) essential for learning and memory.[8]
The Growth Arrest and DNA Damage inducible 45 (Gadd45) gene family plays a large role in the hippocampus. Gadd45 facilitates hippocampal long-term potentiation and enhances persisting memory for motor performance, aversive conditioning, and spatial navigation.[9] Additionally, DNA methylation has been shown to be important for activity-dependent modulation of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus, which is mediated by GADD45b. GADD45b seems to act as a sensor in mature neurons for environmental changes which it expresses through these methylation changes.[1] This was determined by examining the effects of applying an electric stimulus to the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) in normal and GADD45b knockout mice. In normal mice application of electrical stimulation to the DG increased neurogenesis by increasing BDNF. However, in GADD45b deficient mice the electrical stimulus had less of an effect. Further examination revealed that around 1.4% of CpG islands in DG neurons are actively methylated and demthylated upon electric shock. This shows that the post-mitotic methylation states of neurons are not static and given that electric shock equipment such as that used in the study has been shown to have therapeutic effects to human patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders, the possibility remains that epigenetic mechanisms may play an important role in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.[2][8] DNMT1 and DNMT3a are both required in conjunction for learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity.[8]
Epigenetic Misregulation & Neurological Disorders[edit]
Alterations on epigenomic machinery cause DNA methylation and Histone acetylation processes to go rogue, leading to alterations on the transcriptional level of genes involved in the pathogenesis of neural degenerative diseases such as Parkinsons Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disease.[1][10]
Alzheimer's Disease[edit]
MicroRNA expression is critical for neurogenesis. In patients with Alzheimer's disease miR-9 and miR-128 is upregulated, while miR-15a is downregulated.[4] Alzheimer's patients also show decreases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which has been shown to be repressed through DNA methylation.[8] Although what has been argued as the most evidence for epigenetic influence in Alzheimer's is the gene which controls the protein responsible for amyloid plaque formation, App. This gene has very high GC content in its promoter region, meaning that it is highly susceptible to DNA methylation. This promoter site has been shown to naturally reduce methylation with aging, exemplifying the parallels between aging and Alzheimer's already well known.[11][12] Heavy metals also seem to interfere with epigenetic mechanisms. Specifically in the case of APP, lead exposure earlier in life has been shown to cause a marked over-expression of the APP protein, leading to more amalyoid plaque later in life in the aging brain.[12]
DNA methylation's age relation has been further investigated in the promoter regions of several Alzheimer's related genes in the brains of postmortem late-onset Alzheimer's disease patients. The older patients seem to have more abnormal epigenetic machinery than the younger patients, despite the fact that both had died from Alzheimers. Though this in of itself is not conclusive evidence of anything, it has led to an age-related epigenetic drift theory where abnormalities in epigenetic machinery and exposure to certain environmental factors which occur earlier in life lead to aberrant DNA methylation patterns far later, contributing to sporadic Alzheimer's Disease predisposition.[12]
Histone modifications may also have an impact in Alzheimer's disease, but the differences between HDAC effects in rodent brains compared to human brains have researchers puzzled.[12] As the focus for neurodegenerative diseases begins to shift towards epigenetic pharmacology, it can be expected that the interactions of histone modifications with respect to neurogenesis will become more clear.
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Hu, X.L.; Wang,Y.; Shen, Q. (2012). "Epigenetic control on cell fate choice in neural stem cells". Protein & Cell 3 (4): 278–290. doi:10.1007/s13238-012-2916-6. PMID 22549586.
2. ^ a b c d Faigle, Roland; Song, Hongjun (2013). "Signaling mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1830 (2): 2435–2448. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.09.002. PMC 3541438. PMID 22982587.
3. ^ a b c d e f g MuhChyi, Chai; Juliandi, Berry; Matsuda, Taito; Nakashima, Kinichi (October 2013). "Epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell fate during corticogenesis". International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 31 (6): 424–433. doi:10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2013.02.006. PMID 23466416.
4. ^ a b c d Ji, Fen; Lv, Xiaohui; Jiao, Jianwei (February 2013). "The Role of MicroRNAs in Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis". Journal of Genetics and Genomics 40 (2): 61–66. doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2012.12.008. PMID 23439404.
5. ^ a b c d e f Sun, Alfred X; Crabtree, Gerald R; Yoo, Andrew S (April 2013). "MicroRNAs: regulators of neuronal fate". Current Opinion in Cell Biology 25 (2): 215–221. doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2012.12.007. PMC 3836262. PMID 23374323.
6. ^ De Pietri Tonelli, D.; Pulvers, J. N.; Haffner, C.; Murchison, E. P.; Hannon, G. J.; Huttner, W. B. (23 October 2008). "miRNAs are essential for survival and differentiation of newborn neurons but not for expansion of neural progenitors during early neurogenesis in the mouse embryonic neocortex". Development 135 (23): 3911–3921. doi:10.1242/dev.025080. PMC 2798592. PMID 18997113.
7. ^ Kawase-Koga, Y.; Low, R.; Otaegi, G.; Pollock, A.; Deng, H.; Eisenhaber, F.; Maurer-Stroh, S.; Sun, T. (26 January 2010). "RNAase-III enzyme Dicer maintains signaling pathways for differentiation and survival in mouse cortical neural stem cells". Journal of Cell Science 123 (4): 586–594. doi:10.1242/jcs.059659. PMC 2818196. PMID 20103535.
8. ^ a b c d e f Lv, Jingwen; Yongjuan Xin; Wenhao Zhou; Zilong Qiu (2013). "The Epigenetic Switches for Neural Development and Psychiatric Disorders". Journal of Genetics and Genomics 40 (7): 339–346. doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2013.04.007. PMID 23876774.
9. ^ Sultan, Faraz; Jing Wang; Jennifer Tront; Dan Liebermann; J. David Sweatt (2012). "Genetic Deletion of gadd45b, a Regulator of Active DNA Demethylation, Enhances Long-Term Memory and Synaptic Plasticity". The Journal of Neuroscience 32 (48): 17059–17066. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1747-12.2012. PMC 3518911. PMID 23197699.
10. ^ Dempster, E. L.; Pidsley, R.; Schalkwyk, L. C.; Owens, S.; Georgiades, A.; Kane, F.; Kalidindi, S.; Picchioni, M.; Kravariti, E.; Toulopoulou, T.; Murray, R. M.; Mill, J. (9 September 2011). "Disease-associated epigenetic changes in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder". Human Molecular Genetics 20 (24): 4786–4796. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr416. PMC 3221539. PMID 21908516.
11. ^ Balazs, R; Vernon, J; Hardy, J (July 2011). "Epigenetic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease: progress but much to do". Neurobiology of Aging 32 (7): 1181–7. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.02.024. PMID 21669333.
12. ^ a b c d Daniilidou, M; Koutroumani, M; Tsolaki, M (2011). "Epigenetic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease". Current medicinal chemistry 18 (12): 1751–6. doi:10.2174/092986711795496872. PMID 21466476.
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Eugen Bamberger
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Eugen Bamberger
Born (1857-07-19)19 July 1857
Berlin, Germany
Died 10 December 1932(1932-12-10) (aged 75)
Ponte Tresa, Switzerland
Nationality German
Fields chemistry
Institutions University of Munich, ETH Zurich
Alma mater University of Berlin,
University of Heidelberg, University of Munich
Doctoral advisor August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Known for Bamberger rearrangement,
Bamberger triazine synthesis
Eugen Bamberger (19 July 1857 – 10 December 1932) was a German chemist and discoverer of the Bamberger rearrangement.
Life and achievements[edit]
Bamberger started studying medicine in 1875 at the University of Berlin, but changed subjects and university after one year, starting his studies of science at the University of Heidelberg in 1876. He returned to Berlin in the same year and focused on chemistry. He received his PhD for work with August Wilhelm von Hofmann in Berlin and became assistant of Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg at Charlottenburg and in 1883 of Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich, where, after his habilitation in 1891, he became associate professor for chemistry.
The Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) appointed him professor in 1893, where he stayed until a severe illness forced him to retire from the position in 1905. He suffered from limited control of his right arm and severe headache for the rest of his life. Still he did research work in a private laboratory at ETH. In the last years of his life he lived at Ponte Tresa, Ticino. He died there in 1932.
Further reading[edit]
• Luis Blangey (1933). "Eugen Bamberger". Helvetica Chimica Acta 16 (1): 644–685. doi:10.1002/hlca.19330160195.
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1 (1970), S. 426 (incl. bibliography)
• Pötsch/Fischer/Müller: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker, Verlag H. Deutsch, 1989, S.26
External links[edit]
• Short bio of Bamberger for his 150th birthday at the ETH-Website here
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For the film producer, see Flechette (company).
A flechette /flɛˈʃɛt/ fleh-SHET is a pointed steel projectile, with a vaned tail for stable flight. The name comes from French flèchette, "little arrow" or "dart", and sometimes retains the grave accent in English: flèchette.
Air-dropped flechette[edit]
World War I air dropped flechettes, probably French[citation needed]
In WWI, darts, also known as flechettes were dropped from aircraft to attack infantry.[1]
Small-arms ammunition[edit]
Examples of various small-arms flechettes. (Scale in inches.)
Main article: Needlegun
Small-arms makers are attracted by the exterior ballistic performance and armor-piercing potential of flechettes. A number of attempts have been made to field flechette-firing small arms.
Work at Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s led to the development of the Direct Injection Antipersonnel Chemical Biological Agent (DIACBA), where flechettes were grooved, hollow pointed, or otherwise milled to retain a quantity of chemical biological warfare agent to deliver through a ballistic wound.[2] The initial work was with VX, which had to be thickened to deliver a reliable dose. Eventually this was replaced by a particulate carbamate. The US Biological Program also had a microflechette to deliver either botulinum toxin A or saxitoxin, the M1 Biodart, which resembled a 7.62 mm rifle cartridge.
Several underwater firearms were experimented using flechettes.
During the Vietnam War the United States employed 12 gauge combat shotguns that were used with flechette loads that consisted of around 20 flechettes per shell.[3][4] The USSR/Russian federation had/has the AO-27 rifle as well as APS amphibious rifle, and other countries have their own flechette rounds.
A number of prototype flechette-firing weapons were developed as part of the long-running Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) project. Some of these showed up as entries in the Advanced Combat Rifle project as well.
A variation of the flechette addressing its difficulties is the SCMITR, developed as part of the Close Assault Weapon System, or CAWS, project. Selective-fire shotguns were used to fire flechettes designed to retain the exterior ballistics and penetration of the standard flechette, but increase wounding capacity through a wider wound path.
Bulk and artillery use[edit]
Smaller flechettes were used in special artillery shells called "beehive" rounds (so named for the very distinctive whistling buzz made by thousands of flechettes flying downrange at supersonic speeds) and intended for use against troops in the open – a ballistic shell packed with flechettes was fired and set off by a mechanical time fuse, scattering flechettes in an expanding cone. They were used in the Vietnam War by 105 mm howitzer batteries and tanks (90 mm guns) to defend themselves against massed infantry attacks. There was also a flechette round for the M40 recoilless rifle, which was sometimes employed by American infantry.
Heavier artillery, including 155 mm howitzers, 8-inch howitzers, and 175 mm guns, did not have a flechette round.
The 70 mm Hydra 70 rocket currently in service with the US Armed forces can be fitted with an anti-personnel (APERS) warhead containing 96 flechettes. They are carried by attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and the AH-1 Cobra.
The Israel Defense Forces have been accused of using 105 and 120 mm flechette shells during the occupation of southern Lebanon and later in the 2009 and 2014 incursions into the Gaza Strip.[5][6] The Israel Defense Forces had drawn criticism for their use of tank-fired flechettes in urban areas.[7][8][9] In 2008, a flechette round from an Israeli tank fired at Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana'a killed him along with two adjacent civilians.[10] During the invasion in the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, numerous human rights groups documented the IDF'S use of flechette munitions and declared this use to be against international humanitarian law, due to the imprecise nature of flechettes. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, IDF tanks fired six anti-personnel munitions at the town of Khuz'a on July 17, resulting in the injury of one Palestinian woman.[11]
During the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, both countries claimed that the other was using flechette shells against urban targets, resulting in civilian casualties. While those claims are still to be investigated, it is known that several civilians (including at least one news reporter) were injured by flechette-type ammunition.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Dropping Darts From An Aeroplane". 12 September 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
2. ^ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May 1975 Vol. 31, No. 5 – 48 pages, "... using deliberately contaminated shrapnel or multiple-flechette – 'beehive' – munitions, as in the now defunct DIACBA development program of the US Army ..."
3. ^ Franklin D. Margiotta (1996). Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-087-X.
4. ^ Frank Barnaby, Ronald Huisken, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2nd Ed. (1975). Arms Uncontrolled. Harvard University Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-674-04655-2.
5. ^ Sherwood, Harriet (20 July 2014). "Israel using flechette shells in Gaza". www.theguardian.com (Guardian News and Media Limited). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
6. ^ Eitan Barak (2011). Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law: A Reappraisal Following Israel's Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001–2009). Brill Academic Pub. ISBN 9789004167193.
7. ^ Haaretz: Rights group: IDF must ban shell that killed cameraman in Gaza.
8. ^ B'Tselem: Flechette Shells: An illegal weapon.
9. ^ News24: Israel to use flechette shells.
10. ^ http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=80475&videoChannel=1
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Francis Fox
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The Honourable
Francis Fox
Senator for Victoria, Quebec
In office
August 29, 2005 – December 2, 2011
Appointed by Paul Martin
Preceded by Leo Kolber
Succeeded by Jean-Guy Dagenais
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Blainville—Deux-Montagnes
In office
Preceded by The electoral district was created in 1976/1977.
Succeeded by Monique Landry
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes
In office
Preceded by The electoral district was created in 1970.
Succeeded by The electoral district was abolished in 1976.
Personal details
Born (1939-12-02) December 2, 1939 (age 75)
Montreal, Quebec
Political party Liberal
Cabinet Minister for International Trade (1984)
Secretary of State of Canada (1980–1981)
Minister of Communications (1980–1984)
Solicitor General of Canada (1976–1978)
Portfolio Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1975–1976)
Francis Fox, PC, QC (born December 2, 1939) is a former member of the Senate of Canada, Canadian Cabinet minister, and Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, and thus was a senior aide to Prime Minister Paul Martin. He also worked as a lobbyist in the 1980s.
Life and career[edit]
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Fox is a lawyer by training. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 election as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes, Quebec. He was re-elected in the 1974 election from the same constituency. In the 1979 and 1980 elections, he was returned as MP for Blainville—Deux-Montagnes before being defeated in that riding in the 1984 election.
Fox was appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1976 when he became Solicitor General of Canada. Bilingual, Fox was seen as an up-and-comer in the Liberal cabinet, and even a potential party leader. However, he was forced to resign on January 27, 1978, when it became known that he had forged the signature of his then girlfriend's husband on a form granting permission for her to have an abortion. Although he was married at the time of the scandal, he subsequently divorced his wife, Joan Pennefather.[1] He later married a subsequent girlfriend Vivian Case. He is currently married to Vivian Case, who is an artist, and has three children, John Fox (with his first wife) and Daniel and Julianna Fox (with Vivian). Daniel is currently studying to become a chartered accountant and Julianna is a lawyer. John is the president and CEO of Batawa Development Corporation.
He returned to Cabinet after the 1980 election when Trudeau appointed him to the position of Secretary of State for Canada and Minister of Communications. He then served as Minister of International Trade in 1984 in the short-lived government of Trudeau's successor, John Turner.
With the defeat of the Turner government and the loss of his own seat, Fox returned to the private sector. He became a lobbyist, and a member of Government Consultants International, a consulting firm, with Frank Moores, Gary Ouellet and Gerald Doucet. Subsequently he was a senior partner in the law firm of Martineau Walker, and later as an executive at Rogers AT&T Wireless.
In 2003, he became a senior member of Paul Martin's transition team as he prepared to succeed Jean Chrétien as prime minister. In 2004, Fox became Martin's principal secretary, but it was announced on August 18 that he would be leaving the position on October 1 in order to return to private life.
In private life, Fox served as the President of former minister Liza Frulla's riding.
He was an early prominent supporter of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
Fox was appointed to the Senate on Martin's recommendation on August 29, 2005, and announced his resignation on November 30, 2011, effective December 2.[2]
1. ^ "Canadian official resigns". Associated Press (The Tuscaloosa News). Jan 31, 1978. p. 7. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
2. ^ "Francis Fox cites family reasons for early resignation from Senate". Huffington Post. Canadian Press. November 30, 2011.
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Pompeius Strabo
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Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (135–87 BC), whose cognomen means "cross eyed", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo the geographer, and was the father of Pompey the Great. He lived in the Roman Republic and was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum (modern Marche & Abruzzo) a rural district in Central Italy, off the Adriatic Coast. Strabo’s mother was called Lucilia. Lucilia’s family originated from Suessa Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca) and she was a sister of satire poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. Strabo’s paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was Sextus Pompeius. His elder brother was Sextus Pompeius and his sister was Pompeia.
Strabo became the first of his branch of the gens Pompeia to achieve senatorial status in Rome, despite the anti-rural prejudice of the Roman Senate. After proving his military talent, Strabo climbed the cursus honorum and became promagistrate in Sicily 93 BC and consul in the year 89 BC, in the midst of the Social War.
Strabo commanded Roman forces against the Italian Allies in the northern part of Italy. His three Roman legions were instrumental in Rome's victory. After his consulship and the war, he retired to Picenum with all of his veteran soldiers. Optimates gave his army to Quintus Pompeius Rufus, the new consul. This caused Pompeius Rufus to be murdered by Strabo’s soldiers. He remained there until 87 BC, when he responded to the Optimates' request for help against the Marian Party. Strabo had the habit of playing both ends against the middle in the intense politics of the period. For this Rutilius Rufus referred to him as "the vilest man alive".
In 87 BC Strabo was struck and killed by lightning. His avarice and cruelty had made him hated by the soldiers to such a degree that they tore his corpse from the bier and dragged it through the streets. Cicero describes him (Brut. 47) as "worthy of hatred on account of his cruelty, avarice, and perfidy."[1] His son took the legions back to Picenum once again.
Strabo married and his wife is an unnamed Roman woman. He had a least two children: a son, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey the Great or Pompey the triumvir who married Julia (the daughter of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar) as his fourth wife and a daughter called Pompeia.
In his honor his name was given to the cities of Alba Pompeia and Laus Pompeia.
1. ^ Smith, William (1867). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Boston, MA, USA: Little, Brown and Company. p. 477.
Preceded by
Lucius Julius Caesar III and Publius Rutilius Lupus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Porcius Cato
89 BC
Succeeded by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius Rufus
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High Rigg
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High Rigg
High Rigg is located in Lake District
High Rigg
High Rigg
Location in Lake District, UK
Elevation 357 m (1,171 ft)
Prominence c. 189 m
Parent peak High Raise
Listing Marilyn, Hewitt, Wainwright
Location Cumbria, England
Range Lake District, Central Fells
OS grid NY308220
Coordinates 54°35′18″N 3°04′20″W / 54.58843°N 3.07235°W / 54.58843; -3.07235Coordinates: 54°35′18″N 3°04′20″W / 54.58843°N 3.07235°W / 54.58843; -3.07235
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High Rigg is a small fell located in the English Lake District, approximately three miles southeast of the town of Keswick. It occupies an unusual position, surrounded on all sides by higher fells but not connected by any obvious ridge. This separation from its fellows ensures that it is a Marilyn (a hill with topographic prominence of at least 150m).
High Rigg is strictly the continuation of the ridge running up the western shore of Thirlmere, whose high point is Raven Crag. This forms the watershed between the Shoulthwaite and Thirlmere/ Vale of St John systems. The depression between High Rigg and Raven Crag to the south — at only around 550 ft (170 m) — is at Smaithwaite, just south of the A591 Keswick to Ambleside road.
High Rigg resembles a model of the Lakeland Fells in miniature, complete with crags, intermediate tops, tarns and even a 'pass' crossing the ridge halfway along, complete with church. The northern and southern aspects of the fell are largely grassed and gently rolling, in contrast to the western and eastern flanks which are steep with numerous rocky outcroppings and cliffs.
Travelling south to north the main features are Wren Crag (1,020 ft), overlooking the Vale of St John, Yew Crag (1,000 ft) facing west and then two tops at 1,125 ft (343 m) and 1,171 ft (357 m) respectively. The ridge then falls to the 'pass' and St John's church, before rising again to Low Rigg (836 ft). Finally comes Tewet Tarn as the ridge falls away to the river Greta. Also known as Tewfit Tarn, this shallow pool stands on a shelf, overlooked by higher rocks.[1][2]
The geology of the ridge is complex with much small scale faulting. Gravel and scree overlay much of the fell which lies between two branches of the Coniston Fault, with the plagioclase-phyric andesite lavas of the Birker Fell Formation beneath. Low Rigg exhibits intrusions of microgranite to the surface.[3]
The summit has a cairn set on an outcrop and commands a fine view of the surrounding fells. The giants of Skiddaw and Blencathra dominate the view to the north, and Clough Head and the Helvellyn range the view east. Thirlmere is visible to the south and Bleaberry Fell to the west, over which the Scafell group can be seen on a clear day.[4][5]
The Helvellyn range, seen from the summit of High Rigg.
The hill may be climbed in a short twenty-minute walk from the Church of St John's in the Vale. It only involves about 120 m (400 ft) of climb and is one of the shortest ascents in the Lakes. Alternatively, a traverse of the fell's three mile (5 km) long ridge may be made, starting at Tewit Tarn and finishing near Shoulthwaite.[4][5]
The word Rigg is from the Old English language and means a bumpy fell or ridge.
1. ^ Don Blair: Exploring Lakeland Tarns: Lakeland Manor Press (2003): ISBN 0-9543904-1-5
4. ^ a b Wainwright, A (1958). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 3 The Central Fells. Westmorland Gazette.
5. ^ a b Mark Richards: The Central Fells: Collins (2003): ISBN 0-00-711365-X
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Iron Realms Entertainment
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Iron Realms Entertainment
Limited liability
Industry Interactive entertainment
Founded 1996
Founder Matt Mihaly
Key people
Jeremy Saunders
Products Video games
Iron Realms Entertainment (formerly known as Achaea LLC) is a computer game development company that has created the MUDs Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands; Aetolia, The Midnight Age; Imperian, the Sundered Heavens; Lusternia, Age of Ascension; and Midkemia Online. Matt Mihaly is its founder and CEO and Jeremy Saunders is its President.
Games developed by Iron Realms Entertainment include:
Another game, Tears of Polaris, a text-based MUD game based in a science fiction/fantasy universe, was announced, but after four years of development it was put on hold in the summer of 2011. A lack of major progress as well as a major change in the codebase were cited as some of the reasons the project was put on indefinite hold.[1]
Rapture Engine[edit]
The Rapture Engine was created by Iron Realms Entertainment and is used by all of its MUDs, albeit heavily modified for those most recently in production.
Rapture was used to develop an interactive chat system in conjunction with a United Nations affiliated organization for the 7th Annual World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs.[2]
Iron Realms Entertainment LLC was originally founded as Achaea LLC in 1996. After the release of Aetolia in 2001, Achaea LLC was renamed Iron Realms LLC.
In 2004 IRE was featured in Computer Gaming World and on Wired News after the release of an "addictive" virtual drug called gleam.[3][4]
Achaea was featured in the June 10th, 2004 episode of The Screen Savers.[5]
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Irving Broughton
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Irving "Irv" Broughton is a publisher, writer, filmmaker, and teacher[1] known for having discovered the talent of poet Frank Stanford. The two met at the Hollins Conference on Creative Writing and Cinema in 1970.[1][2] Broughton read Stanford's poems there and agreed to publish the poet's first book, The Singing Knives, which was published in 1971 by Broughton's Mill Mountain Press.[3] Broughton published five more of Stanford's books of poetry between 1974 and 1976 on his press and co-published[1] (with Lost Roads) Stanford's magnum opus, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You, in 1977.[4] Broughton also made a film with/about Stanford titled It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood, which won one of the Judge's Awards at the 1975 Northwest Film & Video Festival.[1][5] Furthermore, the two interviewed and filmed writers together, the transcripts later appearing in The Writer’s Mind: Interviews With American Authors, a three-volume set for which Broughton was editor.[6]
1. ^ a b c d Irv Broughton in Spokane, Washington by phone on February 18, 2008.
2. ^ Broughton, Irv. "Tracing The Tale" (Letters To The Editor), Poets & Writers, September 2002.
3. ^ Stanford, Frank. The Singing Knives. Seattle, WA: Mill Mountain Press. 1971. ISBN 0-912350-50-4.
4. ^ Stanford, Frank. The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You. Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain/Lost Roads nos. 7-12, 1977. ISBN 0-918786-13-4.
5. ^ Ted Hurliman at the Northwest Film Center (which runs the Northwest Film & Video Festival) in Portland, OR by phone on February 21, 2008.
6. ^ Broughton, Irv, ed. The Writer's Mind: Interviews With American Authors. 3 vols. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press. 1989-90.
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Jean-Marc Lofficier
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Jean-Marc Lofficier
Born (1954-06-22) June 22, 1954 (age 60)
Toulon, France
Nationality French
Spouse Randy Lofficier
Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22, 1954) is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comics and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife, Randy Lofficier (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1953).
Jean-Marc Lofficier was born in Toulon, France in 1954. The son of a serviceman, he moved several times during his formative years, spending "a goodly part of my childhood in Bordeaux, and my teenage years in Fontainebleau."[1] A budding writer from an early age, Lofficier also
"drew my own little comic strips when I was 13, 14, and began being published in French 'zines at 16."[1] Recalling in 2005 that "writing wasn't deemed a respectable, economically sound way of making a living," he "got a MBA and a Law degree, then went to work in international banking."[1]
Graduating from the Sorbonne Law University and from ESCP Europe business school in 1978, Jean-Marc Lofficier worked for Barclays Bank in Paris for a year before being hired by Credit Lyonnais and moving to Los Angeles, California, where he met Randy. Jean-Marc and Randy were married the following year.[1] Jean-Marc recalled in 2005 that their writing partnership developed alongside their personal relationship; "Randy always wanted to write... [so] it evolved organically in a mutually complementary working relationship.".[1]
Jean-Marc left Credit Lyonnais in 1985 to join Starwatcher Graphics, a new company set up by French artist Moebius then living in Santa Monica. After Moebius returned to France, and Starwatcher Graphics was disbanded in 2000, the Lofficiers started their own company, Hollywood Comics,[2] which advises and counsels comic book professionals in their dealings with Hollywood. Jean-Marc and Randy moved to Chalabre, in the South of France, in 2005.
Magazines and Hollywood[edit]
In 1979, the Lofficiers built on Jean-Marc's earlier work for fanzines and French magazines - including Lunatique and L'Ecran Fantastique, for which he wrote a combination of articles, reviews and short stories - and began working as "film journalists" for a variety of "cinema/sf pro magazines."[1] Covering the Hollywood-based film industry (and particularly those aspects with a Sci-Fi or Fantasy bent), the Lofficiers wrote for a number of magazines created both for American and overseas audiences.
Their work appeared in such mainstream U.S. publications as Starlog, Cinefex, Heavy Metal and American Cinematographer, as well as more focused publications including T. E. D. Klein's The Twilight Zone Magazine. Overseas, the Lofficiers' work appeared in UK magazines including Dez Skinn's Starburst (the magazine of "Science Fantasy in Television, Cinema and Comix") and House of Hammer,[1] while in France, they continued to contribute to L'Ecran Fantastique.
Guides, books and novels[edit]
The Lofficiers' magazine work, which included short stories, retrospectives and TV program guides alongside journalistic articles, led naturally to them co-authoring a number of non-fiction books about film and television programs. Their first - The Doctor Who Programme Guide, published by W. H. Allen Ltd in 1981 - arose from their work for French magazine L'Ercran Fantastique. The pair produced
"a series of dossiers on SF TV series for L'Ecran Fantastique: The Prisoner, Star Trek, Twilight Zone and... Doctor Who. For that [Who] dossier [Jean-Marc Lofficier] interviewed Terrance Dicks and Graham Williams. Then I sent them a courtesy copy. Terrance passed it on to Christine Donougher at WH Allen who saw an opportunity to publish it as a book."[1]
This title in turn led to the Lofficiers producing several novelizations and editing various anthologies of science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Animation and comics[edit]
In 1985, Randy Lofficier completed Harry Love's Animation Writing Seminar at Hanna-Barbera, which led the Lofficiers to write a number of animation scripts for television series such as The Real Ghostbusters and Duck Tales. They also began to write numerous scripts for a variety of comic books, often in collaboration with other writers, notably Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman, for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Their best-known works include a trilogy of DC Elseworlds based on German Expressionism cinema incorporating characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, the Book of the Vishanti back-up feature for Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme, two stories for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and the Tongue*Lash series for Dark Horse Comics.
From 2000 to 2003, Jean-Marc Lofficier was editor and senior writer of a line of French comic books published by Semic Comics, redeveloping old French characters from the 1960s such as Wampus, Kabur, Phenix, Homicron, Dragut and Dick Demon into more modern versions, even gathering a number of them in the mini-series Strangers published by Image Comics in 2003.[3] This universe of characters is now gathered as Hexagon Comics. The Lofficiers also wrote "Blood Oath" a crossover between Phenix and Top Cow's Witchblade.[4][5] Starting in 2010, the Lofficiers started to reprint the "classic" stories from the 1960s and 1970s in a series of black & white trade paperbacks, as well as write new stories, mostly by relaunching the comic-book Strangers. Since that date, Jean-Marc has been editor-in-chief of Hexagon Comics.
Also for the French comic market, the Lofficiers wrote a trilogy of graphic novels based on the character of Robur created by Jules Verne. Illustrated by Gil Formosa, the first two volumes were nominated for the 2005 Jules Verne Award for Bandes Dessinees.[6] There were published in English in Heavy Metal.
In 1985, the Lofficiers were hired by French artist Moebius to translate and arrange for the publication of his works in English. This led to a series of 30+ graphic novels published mostly by Epic Comics until 1995. During that time, the Lofficiers also translated numerous French comics for Dark Horse Comics, co-editing their comic Cheval Noir, and for Renegade Press, co-editing their comic French Ice, featuring the series Carmen Cru by French artist Jean-Marc Lelong. In 1990, in recognition of their career as writers, translators and editors, the Lofficiers were presented with the Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts.
Pulps and science-fiction[edit]
In 2003, the Lofficiers created their own small press, Black Coat Press,[7] to translate and publish classics of French pulp literature into English, relying in part on the output of British writer/translator Brian Stableford.
In 2005, the Lofficiers started another small press, Rivière Blanche,[8] to publish French science fiction novels in the nostalgic style of the long-defunct Anticipation imprint of Editions Fleuve Noir.
Lofficier's official website includes a section entitled "Illustrated History of the French Saint Novels", a guide to French-language novels based upon the character of Simon Templar (alias "The Saint"), created by Leslie Charteris.[9]
Books include:
Comics (writing)[edit]
Comics work includes:
• UK publishers:
• The Last Party on Earth in A1 #4 (Atomeka, 1990)
Comics (translations)[edit]
Works by Moebius[10] :
• Moebius
• #1 - Upon A Star (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1987)
• #2 - Arzach (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1987)
• Legends of Arzach #1-6 (Tundra Press, 1992)
• Visions of Arzach (Tundra, 1993)
• Arzach (Dark Horse, 1996)
• #3 - The Airtight Garage (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1987)
• #4 - The Long Tomorrow (written by Dan O'Bannon) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1987)
• The Exotics (Dark Horse, 1997)
• #5 - The Gardens of Aedena (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1988)
• #6 - Pharagonesia (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1988)
• Rock City (Dark Horse, 1996)
• #7 - The Goddess (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1990)
• #8 - Mississippi River (written by Jean-Michel Charlier) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1991)
• #0 - The Horny Goof (Dark Horse, 1990)
• #1/2 - The Early Moebius (Graffiti, 1992)
• #9 - Stel (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1994)
• The Art of Moebius (edited by Byron Preiss, Marvel/Epic/Berkley Books, 1989)
• Carnet 3 and Interview '74 in A-1 #4 (Atomeka, 1990)
• Chaos (Marvel/Epic, 1991)
• Metallic Memories (Marvel/Epic, 1992)
• Fusion (Marvel/Epic, 1995)
• The Man From The Ciguri in Cheval Noir #26-50 (Dark Horse, 1992–94)
• The Man from the Ciguri (Dark Horse, 1996)
• Moebius Comics #1-6 (Caliber Press, 1996–97)
• Marie-Dakar in Dark Horse Presents #63 (Dark Horse, 1992)
• The Incal (written by Alejandro Jodorowsky)
• The Incal #1-3 (Marvel/Epic, 1988)
• In the Heart of the Impregnable Meta-Bunker in A-1 #4 (Atomeka, 1990)
• In the Heart of the Impregnable Meta-Bunker in Heavy Metal(1990)
• Metabarons #1 - Othon the Great (Heavy Metal, 1995)
• Blueberry (written by Jean-Michel Charlier)
• Blueberry #1 - Chihuahua Pearl (incl. The $500,000 Man) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1989)
• Blueberry #2 - Ballad for a Coffin (inc. The Outlaw) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1989)
• Blueberry #3 - Angel Face (inc. Broken Nose) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1990)
• Blueberry #4 - The Ghost Tribe (inc. The Long March) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1990)
• Blueberry #5 - The End of the Trail (inc. The Last Card) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1990)
• Young Blueberry #1 - Blueberry's Secret (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1989)
• Young Blueberry #2 - A Yankee Named Blueberry (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1990)
• Young Blueberry #3 - The Blue Coats (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1990)
• Lt. Blueberry #1 - The Iron Horse (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1991)
• Lt. Blueberry #2 - Steelfingers (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1991)
• Lt. Blueberry #3 - General Golden Mane (inc. The Trail of the Sioux) (Marvel/Epic Comics, 1991)
• Marshal Blueberry - The Lost Dutchman's Mine (inc. The Ghost with Golden Bullets) (Marvel/Epic, 1991)
• Blueberry - Arizona Love in Cheval Noir #46-50 (Dark Horse, 1993)
• The Magic Crystal #1-3 (written by Moebius; art by Marc Bati)
• #1 - The Magic Crystal (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1990)
• #2 - Island of the Unicorn (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1990)
• #3 - Aurelys's Secret (Catalan Communications/Comcat, 1990)
• M. Mouche in A-1 #3 (written by Jean-Luc Coudray, Atomeka, 1989)
• Eyes of the Cat in Taboo #4 (written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spiderbaby, 1990)
• The Madwoman of the Sacred-Heart in Dark Horse Presents #70-76 (Dark Horse, 1993)
• The Madwoman of the Sacred-Heart #1-#2 (Dark Horse, 1996)
Cheval Noir (Dark Horse, 1989–94)
1. ^ a b c d e f g h Christian Cawley, "Jean-Marc Lofficier Interview" for Kasterborous, March 13, 2005. Accessed December 29, 2008
2. ^ "Hollywood". Hollywood Retrieved 2014-05-25.
3. ^ Starnger No More - Lofficier on Semic/Image's Strangers, Newsarama, November 12, 2002
4. ^ Witchblade Teams With Semic Heroines, Newsarama, June 10, 2003
5. ^ Frenchblade: Semic's Witchblade: Witchblade , Newsarama, December 5, 2004
6. ^ "Google Translate". Retrieved 2014-05-25.
7. ^ "Black Coat". Black Coat 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
8. ^ "Rivière". 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
9. ^ "The Saint Novels in French". 2012-06-05. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
10. ^ MOEBIUS graphic novels; Translations by R & JM Lofficier. Accessed 31st December 2008
11. ^ "Despair: The Movie". Retrieved 2014-05-25.
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João Serrão
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For the Spanish flamenco guitarist, see Juan Serrano (Flamenco).
João Serrão, also known as Juan Serrano in the Spanish version, (Kingdom of Portugal - Cebu, 1521) was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator who sailed with Ferdinand Magellan during the first circumnavigation of the world (1519-1521).
Serrão was brother or cousin to Francisco Serrão, who was residing in the Spice Islands when the voyage began and whom Magellan hoped to meet (both died before this occurred).
Captain of the ship Santiago, Serrão was involved in the events that led to a massacre on Cebu allegedly instigated by Enrique of Malacca, but we cannot ascertained this by Antonio Pigafetta's accounts alone.
• Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
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Kingdom of Loathing
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Kingdom of Loathing
The Kingdom of Loathing logo.
Developer(s) Asymmetric Publications
Publisher(s) Asymmetric Publications
Designer(s) Zack "Jick" Johnson
Josh "Mr Skullhead" Nite
Platform(s) Web browser
Genre(s) Turn-based role-playing game
Mode(s) Single-player with some multiplayer interaction
Gameplay and features[edit]
A screenshot of combat against scarab beatles.
Player interaction[edit]
While Kingdom of Loathing 's player versus environment content is largely single-player, some features allow multiplayer interaction.
Players can buy a store in The Mall of Loathing and sell their character's items to other players.[10] Direct trading between two players is also possible, and in the trade chat channel users can auction items and advertise shops.[5] This functionality has created a complex in-game economy which author Ted Friedman, in his book Electric dreams: computers in American culture, described as "vibrant".[11] The Kingdom of Loathing economy was the subject of an academic study, Economics in the Kingdom of Loathing: Analysis of Virtual Market Data in 2011.[10]
Character classes[edit]
Plot and setting[edit]
The player takes on the role of an adventurer who is tasked with solving problems and killing monsters in a fantasy-based kingdom. The game is humorous in nature, and most quests, battles and individual item descriptions include jokes, witticisms, or references to popular culture.[13] Many quests parody the tropes found in other role-playing games.[14]
The premise is that the Naughty Sorceress has captured and "imprismed" (imprisoned in a prism) the Kingdom's ruler, King Ralph XI. The ultimate objective of the game is to defeat the Naughty Sorceress and free King Ralph.[8] In King Ralph's absence, most of the power in the Kingdom of Loathing is held by the Council of Loathing, which gives quests to characters as they increase in level,[15] with the final quest given when the character has reached level 13 and finished the other quests.[3] Players can also unlock quests from other sources, some of which are available only after ascending.[13]
Zack Johnson, the game's creator, developed several games before Kingdom of Loathing but did not feel that they were good enough to release online.[13] Deciding that he was taking the games he created too seriously, Johnson then set himself the challenge of creating one within a week and publishing the result online.[12] The result was more of a joke than a game, and the initial content including classes and even the name of the game were stream of consciousness.[13] The game was released in early 2003,[16] and Johnson soon invited his childhood friend Josh Nite to contribute content as a writer and designer.[16][17] Within a year, 300,000 player accounts had been created,[18] far exceeding Johnson and Nite's expectations; Johnson has referred to the game's success as "a never ending series of astonishments".[19] In 2008, the game had between 100,000 and 150,000 regular players.[13]
In the game's early days, Johnson would work on the game during breaks while at work, but eighteen months or so after launch, the game was bringing in enough money for Johnson to quit his day job as a programmer and develop the game full-time.[12] He then began to pay Nite for his work[13] and after approximately two years hired two more developers.[17] There are currently eight full-time employees working on Kingdom of Loathing, as well as three other employees who are working on a separate game. The game's creative process is fluid and loosely structured.[12] According to Johnson, "At this point, I provide the overall direction. I do about a quarter of the writing, a quarter of the coding, and almost all of the artwork."[12] The bulk of the writing is done by Nite, who also contributes design ideas,[20] while two other developers, known in the game as Riff and HotStuff, work on writing, design, and coding.[19]
The game has been in open beta since its initial release, and is continuously being worked on.[20] New content is released weekly or monthly,[12][20] and there is also unique holiday-themed content every Christmas, known as Crimbo.[19] Occasionally, the developers stage world events such as the Gray Plague, which was similar to the Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft.[21]
In November 2014, Nite was laid off from Asymmetric Publications.[22]
Business model[edit]
Kingdom of Loathing is advertising-free and does not charge subscription fees.[17]
Maintenance and development of the game is supported primarily through donations[23] and players who donate US$10 to the game receive a powerful item known as a Mr. Accessory.[24] Mr. Accessories can be equipped to give stat boosts or spent in the "Mr. Store" to buy powerful items (including special monthly items).[10] Mr. Accessories and Mr. Store items may be traded freely between players.[10] According to an interview with Zack Johnson from 2010, Johnson originally established the Mr. Accessory revenue model as "kind of an afterthought", but it became lucrative enough to allow him to work on the game full-time and eventually to hire several permanent employees.[12]
Kingdom of Loathing has been praised for its welcoming and active player community.[8][25][26] One of the most unique aspects of the community is the large number of female players: according to Johnson, approximately 40% of players are female.[23] Fans often gather at both official conventions, run by Asymmetric, and unofficial player-organized meet-ups,[12] including the annual KoLumbus event.[20] Players support the game by writing scripts to perform various in-game functions, using Greasemonkey, Java, Perl, and Lua, and have also developed a player-run wiki which offers puzzle solutions and walkthroughs.[3][27] Longtime player and nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot is active in the community[28] and included a Kingdom of Loathing-themed song on his 2010 album Zero Day.[29]
A Web-based SHOUTcast radio station, Radio KoL, is the "official unofficial" radio station of KoL. It is a 24/7 DJ-hosted station, with volunteer DJs drawn from the KoL user base.[12][31] Twice weekly, development team members host shows on Radio KoL in which they discuss the state of the game and answer questions from players.[8]
Review scores
Publication Score
Eurogamer 9/10[25]
NetJak 7.4/10[32]
ESCMag 7/10[33]
Play This Thing 4.5/5[8]
Gamezebo 3/5[2]
Common Sense Media 1.9/5[34]
Critical response for Kingdom of Loathing has been generally positive, with consistent praise for the game's humor and surrealism. The gameplay and content have been praised as "well designed" and having a "huge amount of content".[25] Matt Gallant of Gizmodo said that the game is "actually very full-featured" with "a lot of content",[35] and according to Worlds in Motion, "Kingdom of Loathing isn't just a great game, but a really unique and interesting MMO."[7] Jay Is Games called it "a 'must play' game for RPG fans who want something different".[36] The graphics have had mixed reception with some reviewers praising the decision to focus only on gameplay and others dismissing them as "functional, but nothing more".[32] Gamezebo criticized the interface as well, calling it "clunky",[2] and several reviewers expressed concern that the game might be confusing to new players.[2]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Mr. Card Game". Kickstarter.
8. ^ a b c d e "Kingdom of Loathing". Play This Thing. 9 September 2007. Archived from the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
10. ^ a b c d e Safferling, Christoph; Lowen, Aaron (2011). "Economics in the Kingdom of Loathing: Analysis of Virtual Market Data" (PDF). Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz (University of Konstanz). Retrieved 3 November 2011.
15. ^ a b Brett E. Shelton (2009). "Extensions of Interactive Fiction to the Social Sphere: Zork to the Kingdom of Loathing". Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
24. ^ "The Kingdom of Loathing: A Review for the Tragically Uninitiated". Indie Game Reviewer. 29 September 2009. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
27. ^ James Bishop (23 March 2010). "On One’s Own: For the Love of Community". DIY Game. Archived from the original on 27 March 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
28. ^ "MC Frontalot: Attendance is Mandatory!". Buzzbin Magazine. 12 August 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011. [dead link]
32. ^ a b LoBue, Chris (27 September 2007). "Kingdom of Loathing – Windows Review". Netjak. Archived from the original on 10 January 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
34. ^
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Marcantonio I Colonna
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Marcantonio I Colonna (1478 – Milan, 1522) was an Italian condottiero from the Colonna family.
He was the son of Pietro Antonio, prince of Salerno, and started his military career at the age of 24. He became a renowned condottiero, since 1502 in the service of Republic of Florence, and later of Pope Julius II.
He married Lucrezia della Rovere (1485–1552), the Pope's niece, receiving as dowry the castle of Frascati, where Colonna gave Frascati in 1515 its first statute, Statuti e Capituli del Castello di Frascati. The previous year he had also given to Nemi the "Statuti e Capituli del Castello di Nemi", the first city statute with rules and regulations to observe.
Later he distinguished himself fighting for Republic of Venice and then served the King of France, fighting his former employer, the Pope.
In 1522 he organized the defense of Milan against the Spanish, but while inspecting the front lines along with Camillo Trivulzio, was hit by a cannon shot and fell mortally wounded.
There are few depictions of Marcantonio Colonna in historical sources, but a picture of him can be found in a book of Philadelphus Mugnos.
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Marsamxett Harbour
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View of Marsamxett from Sliema
Map of Marsamxett
Marsamxett Harbour (Maltese pronunciation: [mɐr.sɐmˈʃɛt]), historically also referred to as Marsamuscetto, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It is located to the north of the larger Grand Harbour. The harbour is generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Harbour.[1]
The harbour mouth faces north east and is bounded to the north by Dragut Point and Tigné Point. Its northwest shore is made up of the towns of Sliema, Gżira and Ta' Xbiex. The harbour then extends inland to Pietà and Msida. Off Gżira lies Manoel Island, now connected to the mainland by a bridge. The south eastern shore of the harbour is formed by the Sciberras peninsula, which is largely covered by the town of Floriana and the city of Valletta. At its tip lies the 16th century Fort Saint Elmo. The Sciberras peninsula divides Marsamxett from the larger parallel natural harbour, Grand Harbour.
Along its partner the Grand Harbour, Marsamxett lies at the centre of gently rising ground. Development has grown up all around the twin harbours and up the slopes so that the whole bowl is effectively one large conurbation. Much of Malta's population lives within a three kilometer radius of Floriana. This is now one of the most densely populated areas in Europe. The harbours and the surrounding areas make up Malta's Northern and Southern Harbour Districts. Together, these districts contain 27 of 68 local councils. They have a population of 213,722 which make up over 47% of the total population of the Maltese islands.[2]
Marsamxett Harbour in the 19th century from a painting by Girolamo Gianni
In 1551, Ottomans landed at Marsamxett and marched upon the Grand Harbour, but did not attack as they found strong defences built by the Order of Saint John. This skirmish was followed by an unsuccessful attack against Mdina, and successful sacking of Gozo and conquest of Tripoli. After this attack, Fort Saint Elmo was built to guard both Marsamxett and the Grand Harbour.
A much larger Ottoman invasion came in 1565, in the Great Siege of Malta. During the siege, the Ottoman fleet was based at Marsamxett, and cannons were stationed at Tigné Point in order to bombard Fort Saint Elmo. During the attack, the Ottoman admiral Dragut Reis was killed by stray gunfire. The siege was eventually lifted and the Order and the Maltese emerged victorious. A new city was constructed on the Sciberras Peninsula, and was named Valletta after the Grandmaster who commissioned it. The suburb of Floriana was later built outside the city, and it has now developed into a town in its own right.
In 1592, a wooden quarantine hospital was built on Manoel Island, then known as l'Isola del Vescovo. It was dismantled a year later, but a permanent Lazzaretto was built in its place in 1643, which was improved a number of times until its closure in 1929.
Between 1723 and 1755, Fort Manoel was built on Manoel Island, while Fort Tigné was built on Tigné Point in 1792. British barracks were also built on Tigné Point, but these have since been demolished.
Royal Navy submarines at Manoel Island in World War II
In World War II, the British used Marsamxett, particularly Manoel Island, as a submarine base. The island was a stone frigate, referred to as HMS Talbot or HMS Phœnicia. Fort Manoel saw use once again, and it was bombarded by Luftwaffe bombers causing much destruction.
The towns of Sliema, Gżira and Ta' Xbiex on the northern end of the harbour have seen a lot of development in recent years. Marsamxett Harbour is now mainly used for smaller watercraft when compared to Grand Harbour. There are a number of yacht marinas including at Msida and Manoel Island, a yacht yard, as well as tourist cruise boats which operate from Sliema.
On 10 September 2006, during the Maltese round of the Aero GP series, a mid-air collision between two planes above the harbour caused the death of one of the pilots, Gabor Varga.[3]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Other Ports". Transport Malta. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
2. ^ "Estimated Population by Locality 31st March, 2013" (PDF). Malta Government Gazette 19,094. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
3. ^ "Stunt pilot dies in crash over Marsamxett". MaltaMedia News. 10 September 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
Coordinates: 35°54′6″N 14°30′29″E / 35.90167°N 14.50806°E / 35.90167; 14.50806
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Martin Ruhe
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Martin Ruhe
Born 1970
Occupation Cinematographer
Martin Ruhe (born 1970) is a German cinematographer known for his work on the film Harry Brown.[1] Ruhe has mainly worked on commercials and music videos, and is also known for features like Control with Chris Richmond, the UK production designer, a biopic about Ian Curtis (singer of Joy Division). He works mainly in England, the USA and Germany.[citation needed]
He worked on music videos for Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Herbert Grönemeyer and others; and on commercials for Mercedes, VW, T-com, Honda and others.[citation needed]
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Ministry of Health (Singapore)
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Ministry of Health, Singapore
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Logo of the Ministry of Health
Agency overview
Formed 1965
Jurisdiction Government of Singapore
Headquarters College of Medicine Building, 16 College Road, Singapore 169854
Employees 506 (2010)[1]
Annual budget Increase 7.5 billion (est) SGD (2014)[2]
Ministers responsible Mr Gan Kim Yong, Minister
Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State
Associate Professor Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, Parliamentary Secretary
Agency executives Mrs Tan Ching Yee, Permanent Secretary
Associate Professor Benjamin Ong, Director of Medical Services
Mr Roy Quek, Deputy Secretary
Child agencies Health Promotion Board
Health Sciences Authority
Singapore Dental Council
Singapore Medical Council
Singapore Nursing Board
Singapore Pharmacy Council
Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board
Specialists Accreditation Board
The Ministry of Health (Abbreviation: MOH; Malay: Kementerian Kesihatan; Chinese: 新加坡卫生部; Tamil: சுகாதார அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for providing information, raising health awareness and education, ensuring the accessibility of health services, and monitoring the quality of health services provided to citizens and visitors in the Republic of Singapore. In addition, it is also involved in the control of illness and disease in the country, coordinating the utilisation of resources and expertise where necessary. It is headed by the office of the Minister of Health, Gan Kim Yong.
Statutory boards[edit]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Head O: Ministry of Health" (PDF). Budget 2010: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance. February 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
2. ^ "Head O: Ministry of Health" (PDF). Budget 2014: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance. February 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
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Moni Mohsin
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Moni Mohsin (born 1963) is a Pakistani writer based partly in the United Kingdom.
Mohsin grew up in Lahore, and describes herself as being from a family of "educated, westernised people". When General Zia ul-Haq came to power in a coup in 1977, her family began to feel less comfortable in the new, religious Pakistan, where political repression against nonconformists became routine, but remained in Lahore. Mohsin left Pakistan at 16 to study at a boarding school in England, and later attended Cambridge University, where she studied anthropology and archaeology. Afterward she returned to Pakistan, where she founded the country's first nature magazine. After General Zia's death she moved more decisively into the public sphere, working for the independent "Friday Times", where she rose to the ranks of features editor.
Her books include "The End of Innocence", her debut novel '"Tender Hooks" AKA "Duty Free", and "The Diary of a Social Butterfly". Her writing has also appeared in "The Times", "The Guardian", the "Washington Post", "Prospect", "The Nation", and other publications.
She now divides her time between Lahore and London, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her sister, Jugnu Mohsin, is the publisher of "The Friday Times", an independent Pakistani weekly.[1]
1. ^ Emily Wax (28 November 2007). "How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically". The Washington Post. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
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Oakey, Queensland
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Campbell Street, 2014
Oakey is located in Queensland
Coordinates 27°25′52″S 151°43′08″E / 27.43111°S 151.71889°E / -27.43111; 151.71889Coordinates: 27°25′52″S 151°43′08″E / 27.43111°S 151.71889°E / -27.43111; 151.71889
Population 4,529 (2011 census)[1]
Postcode(s) 4401
Elevation 406 m (1,332 ft)
LGA(s) Toowoomba Region
State electorate(s) Condamine
Federal Division(s) Groom
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
25.4 °C
78 °F
10.9 °C
52 °F
628.3 mm
24.7 in
Oakey /ˈki/[2] is a rural town situated in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. It is situated 160 kilometres (100 mi) west of the state capital, Brisbane, and 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of the regional city of Toowoomba. At the 2011 census, Oakey recorded a population of 4,529.[1]
Oakey and the creek around which the town is located, were named for the river oaks that dominate the banks of the creek. The town was surveyed in 1868, with the first sale being 28 June 1870. Originally named Oaky, the spelling of Oakey was officially adopted in August 1940.[3] The area was first settled in the early 1840s when pastoralists moved into the area and found the land to be suitable for grazing. The building of the Western railway line through the area prompted the growth of a township to service the pastoral community. Growth of the town was slow, however featured some enterprising ventures, including a short-lived meatworks near the town, which planned to tin and export kangaroo and wallaby under the marketing name 'Australian Game'. The enterprise was unsuccessful and closed down in 1876.
In 1859, the Jondaryan Woolshed was built to the west of the town to service the rapidly growing wool industry.[4] The first shearing took place in 1861. The railway reached Oakey and Jondaryan in 1867.[5] Oakey Creek Post Office opened on 1 June 1869. It was renamed Oakey by 1878.[6] The Jondaryan pastoral station dominated the area, encompassing over 400,000 acres (1,600 km2). The Woolshed was responsible for over 200,000 head of sheep and could cater for in excess of 50 shearers working simultaneously. Following World War I, the homestead landholding was reduced and separated to allow for soldier re-settlement programs.
The racehorse Bernborough was foaled at Rosalie Plains in 1939.[7] He became well-known on the tracks around Toowoomba. Eventually the horse was sold to a businessman in Sydney and raced in three states, winning 15 consecutive races between 22 December 1945 and 19 October 1946.[7]
During World War II the requirement for aircraft maintenance and construction exceeded the capabilities of Brisbane-based facilities. To expand the capability, a 934-acre (378 ha) site at Oakey was purchased to facilitate the raising of Number 6 Aircraft Depot (6AD). An airbase was sited approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of the town, and runways were built. With a full complement of RAAF personnel, the base housed almost 2,000 troops. The Depot serviced, assembled and conducted test flights of Bristol Beaufort, P-51 Mustang, Norsemen, CAC Wirraway and Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. This airfield became an Army Aviation Training Centre in the 1970s, now Swartz Barracks, a major helicopter pilot and maintenance training facility for the Defense forces.
In 1975 Jondaryan Woolshed Historical Museum and Park was established to present the history of Jondaryan Station and its role in the development of pastoralism on the Darling Downs. The woolshed has been in continuous operation since it was built.
The Cooyar railway line serviced the areas to the north of Oakey between 1913 and 1968. Between 1914 and 1984 the area to the southwest was serviced by the Cecil Plains railway line.
The Oakey Power Station is a 332 MW dual liquid/gas-fired plant and was commissioned in December 1999.[8]
In 2014, The Department of Defense investigated a contamination caused by fire-fighting foams used at the Army Aviation Training Centre and warned residents not to drink bore water.[9] The chemicals have been identified as perfluorooctane sulphonate and perfluorooctanoic acid.[10]
Oakey Creek, 2014
The town is situated towards the middle of the Darling Downs and the Toowoomba Region local government area. Oakey Creek, a tributary of the Condamine River, passes through the town. In January 2011 the Oakey Creek flooded, impacting 120 homes and businesses. In 2014 a Flood Early Warning System was installed upstream. It is surrounded by farms, and an open cut coal mine is located at Acland, 10 km north of the town. Oakey is one of the towns contained in the Queensland State Electoral district of Condamine and at the federal level it lies within the Division of Groom. The Oakey Army Aviation Centre located at the airport, also includes the Museum of Australian Army Flying, which displays aircraft and memorabilia dating from World War I to the present.
The town is bypassed by the Warrego Highway (National A2), and is also on the main rail link connecting Brisbane and Toowoomba with south-western Queensland. Oakey is connected to Toowoomba and Brisbane by bus. The town is serviced by the Oakey railway station on the Western railway line. The airport, which primarily functions as the Oakey Army Aviation Centre is located on the site of the original World War 2 airbase. It was serviced by Macair Airlines commercial air services originating in Brisbane, however the failure of Macair saw services commenced by Skytrans Airlines being routed via Toowoomba. The establishment of the Wellcamp airport south of the town, servicing Toowoomba, saw Skytrans being replaced by Quantaslink and REX airlines, and the reduction of airspace for the Army Aviation Centre.
Oakeys climate varies through the year, ranging from hot, humid and stormy summers to cool, dry and sunny winters. Oakey frequently records temperatures below 0 °C, often approaching −5 °C in winter and above 35 °C in summer, occasionally rising to above 40 °C. Its lowest recorded temperature is −7.5 °C (18.5 °F) and its highest recorded temperature is 41.8 °C (107.2 °F).[11]
Climate data for Oakey (Oakey Aero 1970–2014)
Record high °C (°F) 42.3
Average high °C (°F) 30.8
Average low °C (°F) 17.8
Record low °C (°F) 9.2
Average rainfall mm (inches) 82.1
Avg. rainy days (≥ 0.2mm) 8.7 7.6 6.6 5.3 5.8 5.5 5.8 4.8 5.4 7.2 8.3 8.8 79.8
Source: Bureau of Meteorology[11]
Industry is rural based, processing livestock and grain. The district has a high concentration of cattle feedlots, two Abattoirs, a stockfeed manufacturer, grain trading and transport businesses. There is a coal mining operations in the surrounding district, and a businesses servicing the coal seam gas (CSG) industry further west have set up. The main town centre was redeveloped during 2005 by the council and now includes new shops, landscaping and tree plantings. The township also provides services for agricultural and mining activities in the local area. The Oakey Veterinary Hospital was established in 1952 and has developed a Specialist Equine Reproduction Centre.[12]
Facilities and attractions[edit]
The township has many amenities, including an Olympic-sized swimming pool and golf course. The golf course is located at the Cnr Warrego Hwy & Mt Tyson Rd. There are several motels and hotels in town providing accommodation, as well as a caravan park catering for tourists. The local RSL (Returned Services League) Club provides convention style facilities, and is the hub of the war remembrance activities for the local area on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. The town has well established daycare and pre-school centres. Oakey has a local hospital providing emergency services and inpatient care as well as a large co-located nursing home facility known as the EAF McDonald nursing home. There are two private GP practices in the town.[13] The Oakey Library is located in the Oakey Civic Precinct at 60 Campbell Street between the swimming pool and the Community Centre. It boasts a 500-seat capacity Cultural Centre, and two multi-purpose sports halls at the two primary schools.[14] Nearby attractions include the Jondaryan Woolshed and the Museum of Army Aviation.
Oakey State High School, 2014
There are three schools in the town. These are St Monica's Catholic School Oakey (P-7), Oakey State School (P-7) and Oakey State High School (8–12). The University of Queensland has a campus for Equine Studies in the town.[13]
Oakey State High School began classes on 28 January 1964.[15] In response to a skills shortage in transport and logistics Oakey State High developed an innovative program called "Transport and Logistics Employees for our Community". In 2007, the successful partnership between school, training organisations and industry was recognised as the winnder of the The Showcase Award for Excellence in Community or Industry Partnerships by the Department of Education, Training and Employment.[16]
Cultural references[edit]
Oakey has been regularly mentioned on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours, with characters both originating from the town and moving to the town. A storyline which aired in July 2009 saw the Parker family going on a road trip to Oakey, however the car crashed before it reached its destination, resulting in the tragic death of a family member. As a result the rest of the family decided to leave Erinsborough and move back to Oakey.
1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Oakey (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
3. ^ "Queensland place names search". Retrieved 24 October 2014.
4. ^ Cook, Penny (2006). Discover Queensland Heritage. Corinda, Queensland: Pictorial Press Australia. p. 12. ISBN 1876561424.
5. ^ The Oakey Region Tulk, Darren Australian Railway History, August 2008 pp251-264
7. ^ a b "Oakey – Culture and History". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Digital). 19 November 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
8. ^ "Generation". ERM Power Limited. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
9. ^ "Town to meet over water contamination". Retrieved 8 November 2014.
10. ^ "Defence warns Oakey residents not to drink bore water". Retrieved 8 November 2014.
11. ^ a b "Oakey Aero". Climate statistics for Australian locations. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
12. ^ "Oakey Veterinary Hospital". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
13. ^ a b "Oakey". Toowoomba Regional Council. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
14. ^ "Oakey". Toowoomba Regional Council. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
15. ^ Kevin Farmer (19 May 2014). "Oakey High celebrates half a century of education". The Chronicle (Toowoomba Newspapers). Retrieved 16 November 2014.
16. ^ "2007 Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools" (PDF). Department of Education, Training and Employment. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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Patuxet tribe
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Not to be confused with Patuxent people or Pawtucket tribe.
Patuxet Village
Historic area of the Patuxet tribe
Historic area of the Patuxet tribe
Coordinates: 41°57′30″N 70°40′04″W / 41.95833°N 70.66778°W / 41.95833; -70.66778Coordinates: 41°57′30″N 70°40′04″W / 41.95833°N 70.66778°W / 41.95833; -70.66778
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Plymouth
Settled Unknown
Defunct ~1617
Elevation[1] 187 ft (57 m)
Population 0
Historical Native American Tribal Territories of Southern New England
The Patuxet are an extinct Native American band of the Wampanoag tribal confederation. They lived primarily in and around modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Patuxet were wiped out by a series of plagues that decimated the indigenous peoples of southeastern New England in the second decade of the 17th century. The epidemics which swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes between 1614 and 1620 were especially devastating to the Wampanoag and neighboring Massachuset, with mortality reaching 100% in many mainland villages. When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, all the Patuxet except Squanto had died.[2] The plagues have been attributed variously to smallpox,[3] leptospirosis,[4] and other diseases.[5][6][7][8]
The last Patuxet[edit]
See also: Squanto
Some European expedition captains were known to increase profits by capturing natives to sell as slaves. Such was the case when Thomas Hunt kidnapped several Wampanoag in 1614 in order to sell them later in Spain. One of his captives, a Patuxet named Tisquantum, anglicized as Squanto, was purchased by Spanish friars; they freed him and instructed him in the Christian faith. After he gained his freedom, Squanto was able to work his way to England where he lived for several years, working with a shipbuilder.
He signed on as an interpreter for a British expedition to Newfoundland. From there Squanto went back to his home, only to discover that, in his absence, epidemics had killed everyone in his village.[2]
Squanto succumbed to "Indian fever" in November 1622.[9] With his death, the Patuxet people passed into history.
The Pilgrims[edit]
Squanto was instrumental in the survival of the colony of English settlers at Plymouth. Samoset, a Pemaquid (Abenaki) sachem from Maine, introduced himself to the Pilgrims upon their arrival in 1620. Shortly thereafter, he introduced Squanto (presumably because Squanto spoke better English) to the Pilgrims, who had settled at the site of Squanto's former village.[2] From that point onward, Squanto devoted himself to helping the Pilgrims. Whatever his motivations, with great kindness and patience, he taught the English the skills they needed to survive, including how best to cultivate varieties of the Three Sisters: beans, maize and squash.
Although Samoset appears to have been important in establishing initial relations with the Pilgrims, Squanto was undoubtedly the main benefactor towards the Pilgrim's survival. In addition, he also served as an intermediary between the Pilgrims and Massasoit, the Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag (original name Ousamequin [10] or "Yellow Feather"[11]). As such, he was instrumental in the friendship treaty that the two signed, allowing the settlers to occupy the area around the former Patuxet village.[2] Massasoit honored this treaty until his death in 1661.[12]
In the fall of 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast; this has been acknowledged today as the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. This harvest meal has been celebrated as a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans.[13] The event took place at the historic site of the Patuxet villages. Squanto's involvement as an intermediary in negotiating the friendship treaty with Massasoit led to the joint feast between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag. This feast was a celebration of the first successful harvest season of the colonists.[2]
See also[edit]
1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Town of Plymouth. Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved on 2007-07-31.
2. ^ a b c d e Sultzman, Lee. "Wampanoag History". First Nations Histories. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
3. ^[unreliable source?]
4. ^ Marr JS, Cathey JT (February 2010). "New hypothesis for cause of an epidemic among Native Americans, New England, 1616–1619". Emerg Infect Dis 16 (2). doi:10.3201/eid1602.090276. PMC 2957993. PMID 20113559.
5. ^ Webster N (1799). A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases. Hartford CT: Hudson and Goodwin.
6. ^ Williams H (1909). "The epidemic of the Indians of New England, 1616–1620, with remarks on Native American infections". Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin 20: 340–9.
7. ^ Bratton TL (1988). "The identity of the New England Indian epidemic of 1616–19". Bull Hist Med 62 (3): 351–83. PMID 3067787.
8. ^ Speiss A, Speiss BD (1987). "New England pandemic of 1616–1622. cause and archeological implication". Man in the Northeast 34: 71–83.
9. ^ "A history of the Wampanoag". Cape Cod Online. 16 February 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
10. ^ "Native People of Massachusetts". Retrieved 30 November 2008.
11. ^ Cline, Duane A. (2001). "The Massasoit Ousa Mequin". The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
12. ^ "History & Culture". Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. 23 June 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
13. ^ "The First Thanksgiving". The History Channel. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
Further reading[edit]
• Moondancer and Strong Woman. A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present. (Boulder, CO: Bauu Press), 2007.
• Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. (Boston, MA: Bedford Books), 1997.
• Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1982.
• Salisbury, Neal and Colin G. Calloway, eds. Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience. Vol. 71 of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. (Boston, MA: University of Virginia Press), 1993.
• Salisbury, Neal. Introduction to The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson. (Boston, MA: Bedford Books), 1997.
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Rifaat Turk
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Rifaat Turk
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Date of birth (1954-09-16) 16 September 1954 (age 60)
Place of birth Jaffa, Israel
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
1970–1972 Hapoel Tel Aviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1984 Hapoel Tel Aviv
1983 Hapoel Ramat Gan (loan)
1984–1986 Hapoel Jerusalem
National team
1976–1986 Israel 34 (3)
Teams managed
1997 Hapoel Tayibe
† Appearances (Goals).
Rifaat "Jimmy" Turk (Arabic: رفعت ترك; Hebrew: רפעת טורק, born 16 September 1954), Israeli Arab former football player, and manager and a former deputy mayor of Tel Aviv.[1] Turk was the first Arab to play for the Israel national team and to represent the country at the Olympic Games.
Football career[edit]
Born in Jaffa, Turk was the son of a fisherman and dropped out of school during the eighth grade.[2] After being spotted by a scout in 1970 at the age of 16, he joined Hapoel Tel Aviv's youth team, and made his debut for the club in 1972.
The following year he made his debut for the Israel national team, and also became the first Arab to represent Israel at the Olympic games when he played in the football tournament of the 1976 Summer Olympics.[3] Turk was subjected to anti-Arab abuse during nearly every game he played.[4] In 1980 he was named Israel's player of the year.[2]
After leaving Hapoel Tel Aviv in 1984, Turk signed for Hapoel Jerusalem. He retired from playing in 1987,[2] and went on to manage several clubs, including Hapoel Tayibe, the first Arab club to play in the top division.
• Israeli Championships (1):
• 1980–81
Political career[edit]
Turk is a member of Meretz and was elected to the Tel Aviv city council in 1998.[2] In 2003 he was elected the city's deputy mayor.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Turk's son Hanes is part of Hapoel Tel Aviv's youth system.
1. ^ Gutman, Matthew (11 March 2003). "Rifat Turk named Tel Aviv's first Arab deputy mayor". Jerusalem Post.
2. ^ a b c d Rifat Turk: Scoring for Arab Israelis World Press Review, June 2003
3. ^ a b 60 Sporting Heroes: No. 28 Rifat "Jimmy" Turk The Jerusalem Post, 7 April 2008
4. ^ "England and Israel join for anti-racism football campaign". European Jewish Press. 7 March 2006. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
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Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai
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Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai
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Established 2008 (2008)
Type Not For Profit
Affiliation Rochester Institute of Technology
President Dr. Yousef Al-Assaf [1]
Vice-president Dr. Khalid Khawaja
Academic staff
Administrative staff
Students 400
Undergraduates 300
Postgraduates 100
Location Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, UAE
25°07′21″N 55°22′42″E / 25.122362°N 55.378304°E / 25.122362; 55.378304Coordinates: 25°07′21″N 55°22′42″E / 25.122362°N 55.378304°E / 25.122362; 55.378304
Campus Urban
Colors Orange and Brown[2]
Nickname Tigers
Mascot RITchie (Tiger) [3][4]
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Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai (RIT Dubai) is a satellite campus of Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[5] The college, is located in the Dubai Silicon Oasis[6] and started offering part-time graduate courses in Fall 2008. In 2009, the university began its full-time graduate program. RIT Dubai's first graduating class was in 2010, with the graduation ceremony taking place in Rochester, NY.[7] In 2010, a full-time undergraduate program was started as part of the university's planned expansion. In the fall of 2011, RIT Dubai moved its campus to a new premises to accommodate the growing student body.[8] By 2019, RIT plans to expand the campus to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) to provide facilities for 4,000 students.[9]
The RIT Dubai campus is the Rochester Institute of Technology's third international campus. The university's other satellite campuses are American College of Management and Technology located in Croatia and American University in Kosovo.[10][11]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai was established in Dubai Silicon Oasis in 2008 [12] to provide quality higher education in the region. It has bachelors and masters programs for students and professionals in Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia.[13]
The founding president of RIT Dubai is Mustafa A.G. Abushagur.[14][15] who led the efforts to establish a satellite campus in the middle east. He mediated the negotiations between Rochester Institute of Technology - New York and the government of the United Arab Emirates to set up a campus at the Dubai Silicon Oasis in Dubai, UAE.[16]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai became the symbol of the understanding between the Rochester Institute of Technology president William W. Destler and officials from Dubai.[17] The Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority invited Rochester Institute of Technology to ensure a pool of skilled hi-tech professionals in the community.[18] On the other hand, it provided Rochester Institute of Technology with a chance to act on its strategic plan to enhance global opportunities for their students and extend their platform.[19]
In 2013, Dr. Youssef Al Assaf was appointed as the new president of Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai [20][21] following the leave of Mustafa A.G. Abushagur who became the first elected prime minister [22][23] in the modern history of Libya.
The academic programs offered in Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai are the same as those offered in New York campus and all students earn the same degree as those studying at Rochester Institute of Technology - New York.[11][24] All programs have been approved and accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) in the UAE.[25]
Undergraduate programs[edit]
RIT Dubai began offering Bachelor of Science degrees in fall 2010 with a range of major program options and concentrations.[26][27] The different majors offered at RIT Dubai are:
These undergraduate programs are designed for full-time study wherein students combine practical experience with academic foundations and an emphasis on modern and newly developed technologies. Students have the opportunity to study abroad at the New York campus and fulfill part of their degree requirement by attending classes there.[30]
Graduate Programs[edit]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai began offering graduate degree programs in September 2008 in several different disciplines.[27] The masters programs have been selected to support the need for professional development, economic growth and human capital development in Dubai and the gulf region.[26] All masters programs are part-time programs[31] and classes are offered in a variety of formats and timings to accommodate convenience for working professionals.[32]
The Masters programs offered are:[11][27]
The Foundation Programs[edit]
• The ‘Achievement Academy’ prepares students and community members in various fields including English, Math, Science, communication skills, leadership skills, and management skills.
• The Achievement Academy also offers English Courses for professionals, personal interest, international students and RIT Dubai Students.[33]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai offers internationally recognized degrees that are issued through its parent campus RIT in New York. The certification is accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) in the UAE for all its Master’s and Bachelor’s programs,[29] The mother Programs at Rochester-NY are also accredited by ABET and the middle states authority. As per ABET requirements, the Dubai is expected to apply for ABET accreditation on graduating the first batch of students in June 2015.
[34] as well as the US Department of Education, which has led to a significant increase in the number of students enrolling at the university.[8]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai is licensed by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority[31] the regulatory authority of the Emirate of Dubai that is responsible for the growth,direction and quality of private education and learning in Dubai.[35]
Rochester Institute of Technology is chartered by the New York state legislature[36] and accredited by: Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)[37] and by the New York State Education Department.[38]
In addition to institutional accreditation, bachelors and masters programs of the Rochester Institute of Technology - New York in engineering and business are accredited by accreditation bodies such as American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)[39] and Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).[40]
Facilities and Services[edit]
Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai provides facilities that include engineering and computing labs, bookstore, fitness center, outdoor and indoor sports facilities, cafeteria and a library.
• The library has an onsite collection of 3,000 volumes. In addition, RIT Dubai students have access to over 125,000 electronic books, 50,000 electronic journals and 250 databases from the main campus library in Rochester, New York.[41]
• Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai students have the possibility of living at Etisalat Academy, student housing, which is located near Al Rashidiya metro station that provides multiple facilities that include: Satellite TV, telephone line, free WiFi in every room, Room service, housekeeping, laundry, TV lounges on each floor, restaurant, outdoor and indoor leisure and sports facilities (gym, swimming pool, tennis court, basketball court, kids playground, lounge), Mosque and Free parking.[42]
• Transportation is provided to students if needed from three central locations in: Sharjah, Al Rashidya Metro station & Mall of The Emirates Metro Station.[43] There is a free university shuttle service that operates several times per day between the Etisalat Academy and RIT Dubai campus
• Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai also has a technology incubator that provides space, advice, technology and some funding to student technology start up companies.[44][45]
Activities on campus[edit]
University Challenge[edit]
RIT Dubai University Competition is the main event that occurs on an annual basis on campus.[46][47][48] High school students are invited to participate in various competitions in Knowledge, Engineering and Business. The winners of the competition win a scholarship to pursue their education at RIT Dubai.[49][50]
Orientation Days[edit]
At the beginning of the academic year in Fall semester, the University holds the orientation on days where students are introduced to the ins and outs of the university, register for classes and take the Math and English placement tests
Counselor Workshops[edit]
The counselor workshop aims at providing high school representatives with the right tools to make sure their students pick the right university whether they are heading abroad to various places such the US, Canada, the UK or even staying here in UAE.
Student Life[edit]
Student Government[edit]
The Student Government (SG) elections for President and Vice President took place on May 1, 2013 to represent the entire student body of the university and assist the Student Services department in all student related tasks. The elections for representatives took place in the first week October. The rest of the positions in the Student Government are External Communication Officer, Internal Communications Officer, Events Organizer, Athletics Director and the Treasurer and Secretary. Candidates applying for these posts are appointed.
The 2013-14 Student Government has the following members
• President- Rabeet Khan
• Vice President- Yara Hattab
• Secretary and Treasurer- Fayez Bawab
• Athletics Director- Tony Ghanime
• External Communications Officers- Zuhair Siddique and Muhammad Asim Kidwai
• Event Organizers- Farah Al-Okar and Zuhair Siddique
• Internal Communications Officer- Koshal Makhija
• Freshman Representative- Mashal Waqar
• Sophomore Representative- Omar Adil
• Junior Representative- Mechelle Jayawickrema
• Senior Representative- Nija Arora
Sports Club[edit]
The Sports Club participated in the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) Sports Cup 2013. About forty-five students took part in all sporting activities including basketball, volleyball, table tennis, athletics, football, cricket, tennis, squash, badminton and swimming.[51]
Palestinian Cultural Club[edit]
The Palestinian Cultural Club was created in 2012 whose goal is to represent the Palestinian community at RIT Dubai. Its main aim is to preserve the Palestinian history, heritage and revive the culture. We also aim to communicate with the different Palestinian organizations and figures inside and outside UAE and to connect the Palestinian community in the UAE to the Palestinian community in Palestine. One of the current projects that the club has started a charity campaign Donate to Educate to help educate students in Palestine.[52]
• The first event was the inauguration of the club where the General Consul of Palestine was invited for this opening ceremony of the club, followed by a rich night with the Palestinian Folklore.
• The club attended a charity dinner event at Atlantis that was organized by the General Consulate of the State of Palestine for the financial support box of the President of Palestine Mahmmoud Abbas to aid the Palestinian students in Lebanon.
• The club held the event RIT got Talent.
• Members attended the PCRF charity marathon which was organized by Standard Charter and held in Dubai Mall Boulevard.
• The club started a charity campaign Donate to Educate to help educate students in Palestine.
• Attended the DSO Bazaar for the charity campaign Donate to Educate.
• The club wanted to expand the charity campaign to get more support of people within the UAE, with the collaboration with the General Consulate of the State of Palestine and the other Palestinian Clubs in the UAE; the PCC-RIT could held an event "Voices from the Heart of the Land" on the same day of "Yawm Al-Ard/The Land Day" to help the blind children in Palestine.
Arab Orients Club[edit]
The Arab Orients club was created in March 2012 to introduce the different Arab cultures of the world to the universities in the United Arab Emirates. The Arab Orients Club held an ‘all you can eat’ event in April 2013 with the participation of staff and students.
The Humanitarian Club[edit]
The RIT Dubai Humanitarian Club was created in 2011 for students who share the common interest to collaborate and work towards making the community a better place. The club collaborated with the Sharjah book shelter in early 2012.[53]
• Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai is located in Dubai Silicon Oasis, a technological park located between Academic city and Mirdiff city center.
• The University is about 15 minutes away from the Dubai International Airport, and 15 minutes away from the student housing, Etisalat Academy.
Institute presidents
Name Tenure
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur 2008 - 2012
Luther Troell (Interim) 2012 - 2013
Yousef Al-Assaf 2013 - present
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Simon Drake
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For the Australian writer, see Simon Drake (writer).
Simon Drake
Born Simon Alexander
(1957-03-01) 1 March 1957 (age 58)
Surrey, England[1]
Occupation Magician, illusionist, director, producer, writer
Years active 1974–present
Simon Drake (born Simon Alexander 1 March 1957) is an English magician based in London. He is best known for the innovative and shocking television series The Secret Cabaret made for Britain's Channel 4.[2]
Early life[edit]
Born in Surrey, Drake is the son of a GP and both sides of his family were connected to the medical profession for some generations.[3][4] In an interview included in a recent book about Arthur Brown, Drake was working as a record plugger at Decca Records when he met Arthur Brown:
Arthur's single 'Fire' was the first record I bought at the age of 12. As the years went on I saw Arthur at the Rainbow with Kingdom Come. I was a huge fan...I was promoted to plugger. I took Arthur round for interviews with the radio, and got to know him as a person and he mentored my crossover between the security of a day job and the craft of magic.[5]
Performing career[edit]
He first came to wider attention in Kate Bush's UK live tour in 1979 for which he co-devised visuals and played seven characters.[6] He has a wide and diverse performing history, from Terayama's Tenjo Sajiki theatre in Japan to the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium before Queen Elizabeth II. He advised Nicolas Roeg for the film Castaway, with the tricky task of coaching Oliver Reed in sleight of hand, and was magic advisor to Harvey Keitel on Fairy Tale, A True Story.[7] In two series of the award-nominated The Secret Cabaret for Channel Four, he won an international cult following for his original and shocking presentation of illusions and manipulation routines. He worked alongside magician Pat Page[1]. He has performed and consulted with many stars including: Elton John, Phil Collins, Madness, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Steve Miller's Abracadabra, Darryl Hall, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Pamela Stephenson. In August 1993 he was seen on American TV in the special Raising Hell, in which he co-starred with Iron Maiden in their final show with Bruce Dickinson on vocals in those years (the singer rejoined the band some years later).[8] The same month Drake performed with Carl Davis and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Drake has met David Copperfield on several occasions, with Copperfield once saying Simon is "the English version of me, but from hell!".[2]
Drake has performed twice as a guest with The Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the London Coliseum. He has appeared at festivals and tours in Canada, New Zealand, Europe and in the UK and has had residencies at many London nightclubs as well as a month in cabaret at The Casino in Monte Carlo, Paris and Dubai. He was the magic and effects supervisor to Cameron Mackintosh for the West End production of The Witches of Eastwick and Ducktastic, directed by Kenneth Branagh.[9]
He was a consultant on the South London Theatre's Spring 2007 production of Dr Faustus. He was also a consultant on the production of episode 6 of the fourth series of the BBC television drama Hustle, broadcast in 2007, where he worked with producers and writers to resolve the problem of how to make $5 million in cash be stolen when it appeared to be actually still there. Inventing a complex and elaborate scam, the episodes final positioning in the series was testament to its effectiveness.[10] He was also a magic advisor on the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
House of Magic[edit]
In 1996 he opened his own 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) venue, Simon Drake's House of Magic, in a converted Victorian building at an unpublicised location in London.[11] Described by the Northern Echo newspaper (19 Aug 1999) as a "grey, anonymous-looking building"[12] This performing space specialises in corporate entertainment functions with twice monthly public performance nights. Shows feature Drake's trademark effects as well as light-hearted amputations and decapitations of senior executives and celebrity guests.[13] His regular warm-up act is piano-based comedian Adam Kay, aka Amateur Transplants.
Feb 2009 Drake travelled across 5 American states on a quest for the strange and very peculiar. He met, interviewed and photographed jesters, jokers, crazed hoarders, automata collectors, strippers, mechanical geniuses, several stars of magic, the inventor of the first computer game and a private astronaut. He said, "It was supposed to be my holiday but turned into damn hard work and about the most fascinating and fun time I have had in years!" Drake's photos and interviews appear in Dennis Publishing's Bizarre Magazine over the next 12 months as 3–5-page features.
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2. ^ "The Secret Cabaret information". at television production company Open Media. Retrieved 10 March 2007.
3. ^ Quinlan, Tim (3 October 2005), "Celebrity Interview: Simon Drake", Inside Magic ((link is to copy at, retrieved 10 March 2007
4. ^ "Interview with Simon Drake", Daily Mirror (Mirror Group Newspapers), 19 February 2000
5. ^ The God of Hellfire: The Crazy Life and Times of Arthur Brown by Polly Marshall, SAF Publishing 2005
6. ^ "High Band: Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith Odeon". British Film Institute database. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
7. ^ Simon Drake at the Internet Movie Database
8. ^ The show was shot at Pinewood Studios, near London, and broadcast live on American TV. It was later bought by the BBC for transmission in the UK and broadcast but heavily censored. See "Raising Hell". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
9. ^ Quinlan, "Celebrity Interview"
10. ^ "Hustle". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
11. ^ "Simon Drake's House of Magic News". Simon Drake. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
12. ^ Robinson, Karen (12 November 2006), "Mister spook", The Sunday Times online, retrieved 6 March 2007
13. ^ Robinson, Karen, "Mister spook", The Sunday Times online
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South Los Angeles
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South Los Angeles as mapped by the Los Angeles Times
Junction of the 110 and the 105 freeways.
South Los Angeles, formerly South Central Los Angeles, is a 51.08-square-mile region of Los Angeles County, California, comprising 25 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles and three unincorporated districts.[1]
The districts are:
City of Los Angeles[edit]
Unincorporated county[edit]
South L.A. is home to the University of Southern California, founded in 1880, as well as the Doheny Campus of Mount St. Mary's College, which was founded in 1920. The 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games took place near the USC campus at neighboring Exposition Park, which hosts the Los Angeles Coliseum. Until the 1920s, West Adams was one of the most desirable areas of the city. Then development of the Wilshire Boulevard corridor drew Los Angeles' development west of downtown. As the wealthy were building stately mansions in West Adams and Jefferson Park, the white working class was establishing itself in Crenshaw and Hyde Park. Affluent blacks gradually moved into West Adams and Jefferson Park as the decades passed.[2]
At the same time, the area of modest bungalows and low-rise commercial buildings along Central Avenue emerged as the heart of the black community in southern California. It had one of the first jazz scenes in the western U.S., with trombonist Kid Ory a prominent resident.[3] Under racially restrictive covenants, blacks were allowed to own property only within the Main-Slauson-Alameda-Washington box and in Watts, as well as in small enclaves elsewhere in the city.[2] The working- and middle-class blacks who poured into Los Angeles during the Great Depression and in search of jobs during World War II found themselves penned into what was becoming a severely overcrowded neighborhood. During the war, blacks faced such dire housing shortages that the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles built the virtually all-black and Latino Pueblo Del Rio project, designed by Richard Neutra.[4]
As in most urban areas, 1950s freeway construction radically altered the geography of southern Los Angeles. Freeway routes tended to reinforce traditional segregation lines.[2] The Harbor Freeway ran just to the west of Main Street, and the Santa Monica Freeway just to the north of Washington Boulevard. The Marina Freeway was originally to run near Slauson Avenue all the way to the Orange County line, but was deemed redundant and went unbuilt except for its westernmost portions.
This process accelerated after the Watts Riots of 1965. The riots resulted in an abandonment of southern Los Angeles and its neighboring cities by white residents and merchants. Middle-class blacks also left the area, moving to the north and west. By the late 1960s most of Los Angeles south of Pico Boulevard and east of La Brea Avenue had become overwhelmingly black. The Santa Monica Freeway formed the northern boundary of the "new" South Central, primarily dividing the middle-class blacks of Mid-Wilshire from the poor and working-class blacks to the south.
By the 2000s, the crime rate of South L.A. had lowered significantly. Community-based peace programs, gang intervention work, and youth development organizations lowered the murder rates to levels not seen since the 1950s. Nevertheless, South Los Angeles was still known for its gangs.[6] In 2003, the city of Los Angeles changed the area's name from South Central to South Los Angeles in hopes of removing the associations of urban decay and street crime with which the name South Central had become associated.[7]
On Aug. 11, 2014, just two days after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a resident of South Los Angeles, Ezell Ford, described as "a mentally ill 25-year-old man", was fatally shot by two Los Angeles police officers (see Shooting of Ezell Ford).[8] Since then, a number of protests focused on events in Ferguson have taken place in South Los Angeles.[9][10] Rev. E. Wayne Gaddis Sr. of Greater True Light Missionary Baptist Church helped diffuse a protest at an interfaith prayer service on Nov. 30, 2014 with the statement,
I heard somebody say black life matters ... I agree with you. White life matters. Brown life matters, Asian life matters. All life matters. When you are a human being, you matter. And you all are somebody in the eyes of God.[11][12]
Although tornadoes rarely occur in the area, on Dec. 12, 2014, a small tornado hit South Los Angeles, damaging at least five homes, and cutting power to over 1,000 homes.[13][14]
Population and ethnicity[edit]
By the end of the 1980s, South Los Angeles had an increasing amount of Hispanics and Latinos, mostly in the northeastern section of the region.[15] But it was not until the 1990s when Hispanic immigrants from Central America began arriving in substantial numbers to buy or rent apartments and houses, most of which were vacated by African Americans. In 1970, nearly 700,000 African-American residents called Los Angeles home. However, in the twenty-year period between 1990 to 2010, the city lost over 125,000 black residents, a number that continues to dwindle as more African-American families seek opportunities elsewhere.[16] Nonetheless, South Los Angeles remains home to the largest black community in the Western United States.
"Between 1970 and 1990 the South LA area went from 80% black and 9% Latino to 50.3% black and 44% Latino."[17] This massive and rapid residential demographic change occurred as resources in the area were shrinking due to global economic restructuring described above and due to the federal government's decrease in funding of urban anti-poverty and jobs programs, and other vital social services like healthcare. The socio-economic context described here increased the perception and the reality of competition amongst Asians, blacks, and Latinos in South LA. The results from the 2000 census which show continuing demographic change coupled with recent economic trends indicating a deterioration of conditions in South LA suggest that such competition will not soon ease."[18]
In the 2000 census, the area of South Los Angeles had a population of 520,461. Roughly 55% of the residents were Hispanic or Latino, while more than 40% were African American.[18]
The "Mapping LA" project of the Los Angeles Times reported that in 2000 the neighborhood had a population of 749,453 in 2000 in its 51.08 square miles, divided into 28 neighborhoods, with 14,671 people per square mile. The ethnic breakdown was Latino, 56.7%; black, 38%; white, 2.2%; Asian, 1.6% and other, 1.5%.[1] Despite the decline African-Americans continue to form a majority in Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills, Gramercy Park and Hyde Park. Together these neighborhoods have a population of 125,321 that is roughly 71% African-American as of the 2010 census. [1]
Notable people[edit]
Music and entertainment[edit]
Sports and athletes[edit]
• Frederick Madison Roberts (South Central, State Assembly 1918–32)
• Augustus Hawkins (South Central, State Assembly 1932–62, U.S. House of Representatives 1962–1991)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (South Central State Assembly 1962–68 & 2002–08, California State Senate 1969–74, Lieutenant Governor of California 1975–79, U.S. House of Representatives 1981–93)
• Gilbert Lindsey (South Central, Los Angeles City Council 1962–91)
• Tom Bradley (South Central, Los Angeles City Council 1963–73, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles 1973–93)
• Billy G. Mills (South Central, Los Angeles City Council 1963–1974, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge 1974–??)
• Julian C. Dixon (South Central, State Assembly 1973–78, U.S. House of Representatives 1979–2000)
• Robert C. Farrell (South Central, Los Angeles City Council 1974–91)
• Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (South Central, State Assembly 1967–73, U.S. House of Representatives 1973–79, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 1979–80 and 1992–2008)
• Horace Hiller (1844–1898), member of the Los Angeles Common Council
• Nate Holden (Crenshaw, State Senator 1974–78, Los Angeles City Council 1987–2002)
• Diane Watson (Hyde Park, Los Angeles Unified School District Board 1975–73, State Senate 1978–98, United States Ambassador to Micronesia 1999–2000, U.S. House of Representatives 2001–2011)
• Maxine Waters (Watts, State Assembly 1976–1991, U.S. House of Representatives 1991–present)
• Rita Walters (Crenshaw, Los Angeles Unified School District Board 1979–91, Los Angeles City Council 1991–2001)
• Mark Ridley-Thomas (South Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council 1991–2002, State Assembly 2002–06, California State Senate 2006–2008, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 2008–present)
• Curren Price (South Los Angeles, City Council 1993–97 and 2001–2006, State Assembly 2006–2009, State Senate 2009–present)
• Kevin Murray (Baldwin Hills, State Assembly 1994–98, State Senate 1998–2006)
• Roderick Wright (South Los Angeles, State Assembly 1996–2002, State Senate 2008–present)
• Herb Wesson (South Los Angeles, State Assembly 1998–2004, Los Angeles City Council 2005–present)
• Jan Perry (South Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council 2002–present)
• Karen Bass (South Los Angeles, State Assembly 2004–2010, U.S. House of Representatives 2011–present)
• Holly Mitchell (South Los Angeles, State Assembly 2010–present)
Artists, filmmakers and writers[edit]
Government and infrastructure[edit]
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the South Health Center in Watts, Los Angeles, serving South Los Angeles.[20]
See also[edit]
• James G. McAllister, president of the South Los Angeles Property Owners' Protective League and City Council member
• Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91, prepared report on unemployment in Watts
1. ^ a b "South L.A.", Mapping L.A. website of the Los Angeles Times
2. ^ a b c d e Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities, (Eds) Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon, New York University: New York. ISBN 978-0814737354
3. ^ Clora Bryant; William Green; Buddy Collette; Steven Isoardi; Marl Young (1999). Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-520-22098-0.
4. ^ Ehrhard Bahr (2008). Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. University of California Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-520-93380-4.
5. ^ Dunn, William. 2007 The Gangs of Los Angeles. ISBN 978-0-595-44357-4
6. ^ "Gangs of Los Angeles (map)". Google. 2007-05-07. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
7. ^ Matea Gold and Greg Braxton (2003-04-10). ""Considering South-Central by Another Name"". Los Angeles Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
8. ^ Mather, Kate, and others (2014-11-25). "Michael Brown protester handcuffed outside LAPD headquarters". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
9. ^ Nash, Jim (2014-08-14). "Protesters in Leimert Park Join Nationwide ‘Day of Rage’ Over Ferguson Killing". KTLA 5. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
10. ^ Mather, Kate, and Richard Winton (2014-12-09). "LAPD investigating officer's use of baton during protest". Retrieved 2014-12-14.
11. ^ MacBride, Melissa (2014-11-30). "Ferguson protesters disrupt South Los Angeles church service". Retrieved 2014-12-14.
12. ^ Gazzar, Brenda (2014-11-30). "South Los Angeles clergy call for calm, unity in wake of protests over Ferguson Grand Jury decision". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
13. ^ "Tornado touches down in South Los Angeles". 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
14. ^ Hamilton, Matt (2014-12-12). "Tornado touches down in South Los Angeles, damaging 5 homes". LA Times. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
15. ^ ""Latinos Move to South-Central L.A. : Drawn by Low Rents, They Replace Blacks," '',''". Los Angeles Times. 1990-05-03. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
16. ^ "Urban flight from Los Angeles: Straight outta Compton". The Economist. 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
17. ^ Grant, David M., Melvin L. Oliver, and Angela D. James. 1996. "African Americans: Social and Economic Bifurcation," in Waldinger, Roger and Medhi Bozorgmehr. Ethnic Los Angeles, New York: Russell Sage Foundation
18. ^ a b Grant, et al. (1996), "African Americans"
19. ^ ""John Cage's Los Angeles," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 1, 2012". Retrieved 2014-07-17.
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Coordinates: 33°55′39″N 118°16′38″W / 33.9275°N 118.27722°W / 33.9275; -118.27722
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Strong House (Vassar College)
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Strong House
Strong House (originally Strong Hall) is a dormitory at Vassar College named after Bessie Rockefeller Strong, the oldest daughter of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who was largely responsible for funding the building's construction.[1] It is the only all female dormitory remaining after Vassar went coeducational in 1969. The building was designed by Francis R. Allen and was completed in 1893.[2]
It is located at Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
1. ^ Boyd 1896, p. 22.
2. ^ Daniels 1996, p. 91.
• Boyd, Elizabeth E; Fanny Cohen (1896). Vassar, A College Souvenir. New York: The Chasmar Press.
• Daniels, Elizabeth A (1996). Main to Mudd, and More (second ed.). Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College. ISBN 0916663043.
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Coordinates: 41°41′19″N 73°53′46″W / 41.6886°N 73.8962°W / 41.6886; -73.8962
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