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Truth and disclosure is meaningless,... deception and control is everything.
What Henry Markham is talking about (i.e. simulating a brain on a computer) is a technology that was published, patented and commercialized about 25 years ago. It was called "Holographic Neural Technology", based on non-linear phase coherence/decoherence principles, and so simple that almost any high school math student could code it onto a computer.
Now the powers that be,.. do not REALLY want Joe public to understand how very simple it is to build a cognitive, yet synthetic or silicone brain.... infinitely simpler than initially has been thought.
AND most certainly they do not want China, Russia, or any other such threatening competitor to the "status-quo".... to understand that either,...
You see.... In the real world, things are never as they seem.
Don't think scientific process, verifiability and reproducibility, due diligence, open debate, unbiased reasoning,..... Think politics, power, control, obfuscation, money, hidden agendas, deception... and thus you shall be delivered..... Hahahaha
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• Jul 10 2013: 是的，..充分披露，...这将是非常好的
• Jul 9 2013: Mr. Sutherland,
Google has again provided some interesting information.
I am guessing that you are the John G. Sutherland of the AND Corporation, who wrote "A HOLOGRAPHIC MODEL OF MEMORY, LEARNING AND EXPRESSION" available at:
The web site for the AND Corporation: http://www.andcorporation.com
If my guess is correct, then apparently you do not believe in full disclosure for yourself.
Mr. Markram's short talk provided no technical details, but at first glance it does appear that his work is very similar to your work. I can certainly understand why that would concern you, but I cannot understand how that would lead to "Truth and disclosure is meaningless,... deception and control is everything." and especially your remark about threatening competitors.
Your papers, and many other papers regarding your technology, are available to the public, and I am sure that international competitors have access to them. Furthermore, the AND Corporation provides your technology to its customers. In short, it appears to me that nothing is hidden and no one is deceiving anyone.
When you say this technology is simple, that seems deceptive to me, but that may be because I do not find it simple at all.
The tone of your explanation gives me the impression that it is based on experiences that go far beyond this one talk. If you actually value disclosure and openness, perhaps you would be more open with us about yourself and the basis for this conversation.
Perhaps I am taking this too seriously. Does that "Hahahaha" mean that this conversation is a joke?.
Or perhaps, you are not really John Sutherland, and you are being completely deceptive.
• Jul 9 2013: Do the math,.. you idiot !
• Jul 9 2013: Just as the invisible and the non-existent look the same, hidden agendas and paranoid fantasies also look the same.
• Jul 9 2013: It's a very brave new world, Edward,... Good luck to you.
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Jul 8 2013: I refuse to be deceived by your assertion. The very qualities of Truth and Disclosure which you deny demand that you truthfully disclose the supporting premises for your conclusion. This idea you present is precisely what it seems to be, contrary to your assertion that nothing is. "Holographic Neural Technology" cannot defeat Critical Thinking and Logical analysis performed by an informed, aware, human being. For example, when you ask a clear thinker to put-on the "magic" HNT glasses, they will immediately consider everything they experience while wearing the glasses to be most probably immaterial, synthesized images. Only a profoundly defective thought process would lead to acceptance of anything and everything "seen" while under the influence of HNT. Truth and Disclosure is only meaningless to Sheeple. Ba-a-a-a-! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/13912 | Sophisticated system: Cicadas have come out en masse this year, as seen by the number of insects and empty shells on this tree in Church Point. Photo: Nick Moir
The male cicada's mating call is as romantic as an AC/DC concert. It's more a slap in the face than sweet serenade. This summer's bumper crop is so overwhelming some National Parks rangers have taken to wearing earplugs.
The insect's racket - as lovely as hugging a jackhammer or jet engine - turns the head of friend and foe alike. The louder it bellows, the more potential partners and predators it attracts.
''It's a pretty risky business sitting up in a tree calling for a mate,'' says Australian Museum entomologist Dave Britton.
Cicadas are the suicidal lovers of the insect world, risking death for several weeks of singing and sex. ''It's a compromise: like a lot of sexual behaviour in animals, the males perform dangerous behaviour to advertise they are strong and virile and represent the best chance of producing lots of children,'' Dr Britton says.
''But you are basically training up a whole bunch of predators, such as birds and wasps, to track you down and eat you, so it is pretty suicidal.''
Cicadas spend most of their life underground before emerging from the soil for their final few weeks to mate. Some cicadas in North America have employed mathematics to overcome the perils of love. Periodic cicadas have evolved to emerge only at prime number intervals - every 7 years, 13 years and 17 years - to evade predators with shorter lives.
This love affair with prime numbers - numbers that can be divided only by themselves and one - makes these cicadas relatively immune to predators with a two-, three-, four- or six-year life cycle. ''They are actually able to detect how many years they are underground from changes in the sap flow and temperature,'' Dr Britton says.
''It is really odd because people tend to think of insects as being basic robots but they are much more sophisticated.''
Unfortunately, Australian cicadas are less patient when it comes to partnering up. Cicadas such as green grocers, floury bakers and razor grinders are thought to emerge every four to six years, Dr Britton says.
This summer has delivered the largest number of cicadas along the east coast in years, presumably because of favourable breeding conditions between 2007 and 2009. There is, at least, safety in numbers - even if they are not prime ones. The racket generated by a gang of cicadas might deter predators.
Alternatively, emerging en masse can sate the appetite of the most hungry foe. ''A lot of cicadas end up surviving because birds become so sick of eating them,'' Dr Britton says. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/13922 | In praise of ... Sosigenes of Alexandria
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Spare a thought for the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, about whom little is known but without whom today would not exist. For it was after consulting Sosigenes about the increasingly misaligned Roman calendar in 46BC that Julius Caesar imposed reforms that, with some later tweaks by Pope Gregory XIII, still shape western diaries today. Sosigenes was evidently no gradualist. He told Caesar to boldly extend 46BC to 445 days to get the calendar back in sync with the seasons - which is unlikely to have played well with Roman focus groups - and then to start afresh in 45BC with the 365¼-day year we still observe today. The upshot of his advice is the leap year and our February 29, the bissextile day when, according to a probably apocryphal Scottish law of 1288, women can propose marriage to men. It is to Sosigenes, though, that we indirectly owe the happy reappearance on French newsstands today of La Bougie du Sapeur, a cult satirical newspaper which appears only on February 29 and which boasts this year that it is the only publication in France never to interview Nicolas Sarkozy. Sosigenes also gave us the leaplings, that select group of people born on February 29 - of whom the composer Rossini (class of 1792) is perhaps the most famous. That fine actor Joss Ackland is another of them, 80 today. Or perhaps, given his date of birth, merely 20 and thus, like the forlorn Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, unable to begin his adult life until he completes his apprenticeship.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/13923 | Russell Brand v Thomas Hobbes: no wonder the BBC is floundering
At least the 17th-century philosopher had some editorial guidelines for 'edgy' comedy
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It would be wrong to imagine that Radio 2 broadcast the Russell Brand show of October 18 unedited. This Thursday, the ever diligent Daily Mail published a section that had been cut (although some podcasts subscribers may have heard it). Brand and his guest Jonathan Ross are discussing ways to appease character actor Andrew Sachs, on whose answerphone they have just left offensive messages. "M********e him to say sorry," says Ross towards the end (the asterisks are the Daily Mail's). "Make him feel better." (Bursts out laughing.) Brand replies, "So sorry, Andrew Sachs, this will make up for it. Go on finish it, into the palm of my hand. Good girl for uncle daddy, good girl for uncle daddy." (Laughs.)
This might be called a Hobbesian example of humour; the 17th-century philosopher declared that laughter was one of mankind's worst attributes because it boosted self-esteem at the expense of the less fortunate, in lives that were generally nasty, brutish and short. It was a narrow view, later denied by all kinds of sunny humorists from PG Wodehouse to Ken Dodd via Arthur Askey, but the "edgy" comedy to which the BBC is so tremblingly devoted thrives on it.
No mention of Hobbes in the BBC's editorial guidelines, however. They are intensely practical documents, up to a point. Before the 9pm watershed, the most offensive language (cunt, motherfucker and fuck) is banned. Post-watershed, "careful judgments" are required and the most offensive language must be approved by "a senior editorial figure or [for independent productions] by the commissioning editor and the relevant output controller". In these terms, the only problematic thing about the Brand show was Ross's message to Sachs: "He fucked your granddaughter!"
No specific editorial guideline, so far as I can tell, covers the possibility of two BBC comedians devising entertainment by broadcasting their lewd messages to an unsuspecting member of the public, other than the general words of the introduction that commit the BBC to "the highest ethical standards" and the need to balance the right to freedom of expression "with the responsibility to respect privacy and protect children".
Spare a thought for the producer and compliance officer at this point. They've cut what they see as the worst bit: the image of Brand masturbating Sachs. Perhaps the highest ethical standards and the need to respect privacy have been met. In any case, what do these phrases mean? Expressed in comparative salaries, Ross is worth 100 times more to the BBC than his producers, and precedent would suggest to them that ethical standards could in his case be applied flexibly. In 2006, he asked David Cameron about his boyhood sexuality: "Did you or did you not have a wank thinking 'Margaret Thatcher?'" If ever a question called for a repeat of the John Nott moment - politician throws down his mike and exits - this was it. But Cameron sat smiling, too bemused to reply.
The pattern, though not the volume, of complaints was similar to the Brand case. Only seven were received by the BBC after the broadcast, swelling to about 360 after news reports of the interview. Ofcom got a few hundred more and investigated whether there had been a breach of its code. No, was the answer. Ross had "a well-established presenting style which is deliberately provocative" and Cameron was a senior politician used to handling the media. Moreover, neither he nor Baroness Thatcher had protested. The Ofcom report noted that in a later BBC interview Cameron had said he would happily appear on the Ross show again - it was watched by millions of people. "I don't agree with all the questions he asks, but my point is to go on the programme and put my point across," he said.
What was at work here was fear of the demographic. For Cameron, that he might shut himself off from potential voters; for the BBC, that it might lose a section of its audience. The ethical standards of Britain at large, whatever they may be, didn't come into it. What mattered was offence to particular subjects, Thatcher and Cameron, and a particular audience, that for Jonathan Ross. A similar case could be made for the Brand show. The offence may have been greater and Sachs may have complained and the BBC's director general may call it "utterly unacceptable ... a very, very serious failure of judgment", but very few (five in all) of the people who actually listened to Russell Brand found it deplorable. A common sentiment online is that it was only two guys having a laugh - comedy demanding, as Henri Bergson said in his seminal work on laughter (though it gets no blogging mention), "something like a momentary anaesthesia of the heart".
Assuming Brand's audience knows what they are, can ethical standards be divided by generation? I grew up when the most daring comedy in British broadcasting was The Goon Show, which operated under the proscriptions of the BBC variety programme policy guide for writers and producers, devised in 1948 and unrevised until the 1960s. No ambiguity about the highest ethical standards here. The guide placed an "absolute ban" on jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men and immorality of any kind. Suggestive references were outlawed to, quoting exactly, "honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, prostitution, ladies' underwear eg winter draws on, animal habits eg rabbits, commercial travellers." There could be no personal abuse (however it was construed) towards government ministers, party leaders or MPs.
All that changed with the first edition of That Was the Week That Was in October, 1962. Ted Heath said later that the programme marked the end of deference. What I remember was the enthralment of late Saturday nights, when the BBC, previously a teacher or a preacher, reached down to reflect and stimulate a growing scepticism towards previously untouchable institutions: the church, what remained of the empire, a Tory government on its last legs. None of this was easily accomplished. The then director general, Hugh Greene, faced political lobbying and barrages of viewers' protests, so much so that he grew weary of vetting each week's script in detail and eventually cancelled TW3.
A liberal history of the 20th century might describe Greene's decision as a blow against social progress and a victory, if only a temporary one, for the establishment. But there were other concerns that would find an echo in today's BBC. Donald Baverstock, controller of television, complained that while TW3's writers were so robustly attacking other people's behaviour and beliefs, they had only "muddled standards and cheapjack values". As Peter Cook remarked to his fellow satirist, Christopher Booker, "Britain is in danger of sinking giggling into the sea."
Out of the militant ironies of satire came stand-up and its associated forms of reckless performing, elevated to an importance in Britain as nowhere else as both entertainment and social criticism. Mark Thompson and other BBC voices this week talked as though comedy had always depended on its "edginess" for its creativity; the days of Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and Dad's Army might never have been. That view is as narrow as Hobbes's. Worse, at least for the future of the world's greatest public-funded broadcaster, is that edginess depends on the continual finding of new edges, breaking taboos and conventions that comprise ethical standards, which, however much they vary between generations, most of us hope will always be there.
The BBC can have one or the other; it has been greedy and desperate of it to try to have both.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/13934 | Dan Deacon: America – review
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Dan Deacon's America is ‘a study in hopeful euphoria’: Photograph: Sonia Recchia/Getty Images
There's something about the phrase "electro-acoustic composer" that makes you want to beat arts festival programme-writers about the ears with a heavy piece of sound sculpture. But an electro-acoustic composer is what Dan Deacon is, for lack of a more immediate term.
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This guy from Baltimore in big owl glasses used to employ mostly electronic equipment for his experimental synthetic compositions that veered, occasionally, into dodgy comedy. He has since moved into writing for orchestras, recently soundtracked a Francis Ford Coppola film (Twixt, 2011), and has now made a record – his eighth, all told – that seriously rocks. A study in hopeful euphoria, America also comes with that most highfalutin of things – an artist's statement, full of talk about "layering dichotomies". Don't let that put you off.
Envisioned as two halves, America is a full-on ecstatic romp with machines and "real" instruments through the American landscape. Uncannily, Guilford Avenue Bridge starts ever so faintly like a more avant-garde take on the Pistols' Anarchy in the UK, before taking a surprise detour into modal bluegrass. Then it fades into a fuzz-laden percussive workout that makes you want to punch the air with glee.
With its driving beats, over-saturation, distortion and shifting euphorics, America openly welcomes fans of Animal Collective but recalls the loving, lysergic twinkle of the Flaming Lips, and even the sunny sense of manifest destiny that drove Brian Wilson. Much of it references the evolving structures of Steve Reich. True Thrush is the hand held out to neophytes – a beatific, surging piece of pop. You can take or leave the cutesy video.
Deacon's heavy joy isn't merely simplistic, however. He played Carnegie Hall in March, then a few weeks later led some interpretive dancing at an Occupy Wall Street rally. In his artist's statement Deacon makes the point that touring in Europe for the first time made him feel truly American, despite being the sort of American who habitually eschews the corporatism and apple pie. He's part of Baltimore's Wham City arts collective and is a firm believer in mass action, musical or public. Instead of responding to the American economic crisis by turning out explicitly political songs – the approach of Bruce Springsteen and the forthcoming album by Ry Cooder – Deacon has co-opted the surges of the dancefloor, of sped-up motorik beats, of punkoid experimental music to soundtrack his view of the prairies and canyons and his sense of bleary hope.
This is not a difficult album to get; certainly, the first half is an easy listen. Connoisseurs of percussive pummelling (or fans of Japanese drum-orgyists Boredoms) will find plenty here to unleash their endorphins. The second half grows slightly more serious with a string-laden suite of songs called things such as USA I: Is a Monster. By the time you're at the mantric, tribal-psych climax of USA IV: Manifest, and some muted brass and strings turn up at the rave, you are putty in his hands. A musical reaction to strife and scandal that comes from a quarter where pretension often trumps fun, America is that unlikeliest of things: a feelgood summer album.
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I agree.
"Oh I'm sorry that my step-cousin in-law beat up my your lawyer."
They apologize for stuff that's not even their fault.
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NJ Nailbunny
That's freakin lovely. The army apologizes for some jerk who stalked Ryan Seacrest when they found out he was one of their own. When is the US Marine Corp gonna apologize for Nathan Gale murdering DimeBag Darrell?
1595 days ago
I think if someone stalks me or someone I love and ends up hurting them I will forget the poleeece and take care of them myself.
1595 days ago
Tyra Banks
it's not the army's fault for god's sake. i just wish he had gotten closer to ryan. i think he's a douche.
1595 days ago
I've actually known two men who were in the US Special Forces, and, yes, they were, in a sense, "dangerous men". Both of them knew things, and had experienced things, that, in the appropriate situation, could have made them exceedingly dangerous if threatened (not provoked...these men were not psychotic, or killing machines). They were not braggarts, and did not like to discuss their past lives and training. Quiet men leading quiet lives.
Btb, #5, most people consider me a liberal (although most "liberals" cringe at my attitude toward "gun control", amongst other things). I read for amusement...and for the sometimes ludicrous and often hateful comments of my fellow humans. I don't read it to get bottom-line, serious information, although I do find TMZ to be more honest, and willing to admit errors, than most "celebrity news sites". I don't revile our armed forces. My father served in Korea, my husband's father in Vietnam. Neither had a wonderful experience, both came away scarred, and both raised families despite everything and made their way in the world. I have deep respect for the men and women who serve, and put their lives, and worse, on the line for me and mine. I don't think the Army need apologize for a stalkers predilections. They didn't make him what he is, and, as a Reservist, he's barely under their watch at all, and his "civilian" activities are not their fault, however aberrant they may be.
I don't like labels. Labeling is for ignorant people who just have to pigeon-hole people in order to deal with those who differ from themselves. It is a very foolish and often dangerous practice. Humans are extremely complex.
1595 days ago
Why should the military (any branch) have to apologize just because one of their members turns out to be a kook? What if the guy had been a school teacher? Should the superindendent of public schools have to issue an apology, too? I get that he has skills that could hurt someone more than the average but the military should not have to apologize for training someone years ago and now that guy/gal has gone off the deep end...
What if the guy was an expert in Kung Fu? Should a spokesperson for the Kung Fu Federation (I'm making that up) have to issue an apology? This is ridiculous!
1595 days ago
One point for clarification: This man has been honorably discharged and is not active so it especially makes the Army not culpable for this guy has become. I could ALMOST see them having to apologize say, if he went AWOL or something but that is not the case.
1595 days ago
Uh, the guy is a mental patient who somehow made it into the elite forces of the military. Don't you think they should be concerned that they didn't recognize his mental instability? Or maybe that is what makes the special forces so special.
1594 days ago
huh? Is he dangerous because he is in a speical forces unit?
If the guy is a nut he is no less dangerouse if he worked at Taco Bell!
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Being assigned to a Special Forces unit and being Special Forces qualified are entirely two different things. This guys is assigned to a Civil Affairs unit which likely means his job is clerical, public affairs, etc. Of course, it's a better headline to scream out that he's "Special Forces!!!" OMG, everybody run!!! Being in the military doesn't make this guy dangerous. Being a whack job stalker is what makes him dangerous. That being the case, no one walking down the street in L.A. is safe.
1594 days ago
Let me clear something up for TMZ. There is no "Special Forces" in the reserves, so what are you talking about? and how does being assigned to a SF unit make you dangerous? finally, if he was SF he won't do what he did, please keep SF and SOF out of this non-sense.
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1594 days ago
This guy is a translator assigned to an SF unit - is not "SF trained" as a war fighter and is not a "Green Beret" as in he didn't earn it at Camp Mackall or similar SF Q-course sites.
BUT "Special Forces" makes for a great headline, so they run with it. Go figure. Remember people, even an elite unit like SF needs translators, secretaries and supply people...those aren't the ones that swim with the snakes in the swamps of the US just to get into SF, fall from perfectly good airplanes from above 10k feet (HALO), etc. They're just support personel. Important, to be sure, but no more dangerous than your average "guy next door" with a steak knife or hunting rifle.
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I'm trying hard not to be cruel here, Space Siege, but the fact is that you're just not all that good looking. Maybe I've been spoilt by the likes of Mass Effect and Age of Conan but these days I expect an RPG with a bit of eye candy. As an action RPG you really have no excuse, and your dull, repetitive textures and low-detail models just don't do anything for me. I know you've tried to use lighting and particle effects to cover up the blemishes and wrinkles, but – while it might be hard for you to accept – you look quite a bit older than your age. I mean, even Titan Quest, which launched over two years ago, is easier on the eye than you. It had great scenery, a huge cast of savage monsters and some fairly luscious surface effects. Do you have any of this stuff? Nope. Just dull spaceship corridors, dull industrial walkways and dull, poorly decorated chambers featuring the sparsest furniture, most of it completely non-interactive. I'm sorry, Space Siege, but you've taken a fall from a branch a good halfway up the ugly tree.
Of course, looks aren't everything, but you're not too hot in the other departments, either. I can see that you're trying to be a kind of friendly action RPG that can appeal to the Diablo fanbase and the FPS crowd, but you're not really doing anything that well. I mean, just look at your controls! Point-and-click movement and firing works OK in a melee-centric Diablo clone, but this is a game where the player is under constant fire from ranged weapons. Wouldn't it be nice if they could strafe and dodge, like in an FPS? Why, then, have you made W, A, S and D the camera controls and only allowed a simple forward roll manoeuvre for those wanting to evade incoming laser blasts. If some alien fiend is shooting at me, the last thing I want to do is roll straight into his line of fire.
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One of my dream projects is to design the Mushaf (the Quran in print). In searching for a digital version of the Quran over the internet, I came across Abdul Samee' Rajab Salem,who calls himslef Abdo, and is an Egyptian typographer. Abdo has devised a prorpriety font to render the text of the Quran, which he named "Mushaf Misr" or the Mushaf of Egypt.
What caught my attention is the high resemblence of the font he devised to that of Mushaf Al Madina, which is rendered using calligraphy. The letter forms are very balanced and elegant, and capture much of the beauty of the calligraphic version.
I was interested in communicating with Abdo, and eventually I agreed with him to conduct an interview and publish it on my blog arabictype.wordpress.com.
Another interesting thing that I discovered about Abdo is his way of designing the font. Abdo based his design on a digital calligraphic scheme where he uses the digitizer as a calligrapher would use his pen. His glyphs are based on paths that exhibit calligraphic charatersitics such as the ductus contrast among others. He does not design the glyphs using outlines.
Abdo called the approach "digital calligraphy", and further search on the internet led me to Inkscape, which is OpenSource software that provides a calligraphy feature. Something worth investigating.
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Anthony McGill, the clarinetist who introduced the "Simple Gifts" theme at the inauguration of Barack Obama, leads pianist Caroline Stoessinger and vocalists Monica Yunus and Terry Cook through love songs by Schubert and Schumann. Judging by the sheer emotiveness of the selections, all of these folks are hung up on the teenage doldrums. From Schumann's "Dichterliebe": "On a sunny summer morning I went out into the garden: the flowers were talking and whispering, but I was silent. They looked at me with pity, and said, 'Don't be cruel to our sister, you sad, death-pale man.'"
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14273 | Facebook mines Adobe breach data for reused passwords, warns users to change them or disappear | ZDNet
Summary: Facebook is mining the leaked Adobe file containing over 100 million email and password combinations to improve its users' password security.
Facebook has concealed the profiles of anyone on the social network who used the same email and password combination as those exposed after the recent Adobe hack — at least until they change their passwords.
The Adobe hack, revealed in October, and the subsequent leak of a file containing over 100 million encrypted usernames and passwords of Adobe account holders could be the best illustration of the number one rule of good password security: pick different passwords for different accounts.
To keep things simple, users not only pick easy-to-guess passwords, but they often use the same passwords for multiple online accounts. The problem with that is, if hackers nab a password for one service, they can typically use it to enter another.
As reported on Krebsonsecurity.com, Facebook's security team is currently mining the data leaked from the Adobe breach to find its users who relied on the same email and password combination to login to both Facebook and Adobe.
Thanks to the team's efforts, some of its users are receiving this message: "Recently, there was a security incident on another website unrelated to Facebook. Facebook was not directly affected by the incident, but your Facebook account is at risk because you were using the same password in both places."
They'll then be asked to answer a few security questions and then change their password. The message notes that for their safety, "no one can see you on Facebook until you finish".
A spokesperson for the company told Krebsonsecurity that Facebook is always watching out for data breaches that may impact its users and has acted similarly in response to earlier breaches.
Adobe has confirmed that 38 million active accounts were affected by the breach. However, the leaked file that Facebook and other security researchers have used to discover the passwords reportedly contained details for around 150 million accounts.
And while Adobe said it encrypted the passwords, password security experts — including Jeremy Gosney who uncovered the most popular Adobe passwords — note that Adobe should have hashed them instead. Gosney was able to use password hints listed in the leaked file to derive many of the passwords.
Facebook hasn't officially said how it's figuring out who to message, however, Chris Long, a security incident response manager at Facebook, gave this explanation in a comment on Kreb's post:
"We used the plaintext passwords that had already been worked out by researchers. We took those recovered plaintext passwords and ran them through the same code that we use to check your password at login time. Like Brian’s story indicates, we're proactive about finding sources of compromised passwords on the internet. Through practice, we’ve become more efficient and effective at protecting accounts with credentials that have been leaked, and we use an automated process for securing those accounts."
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The Bush family in the Red Room of the White House (January 2005). Seated left to right: Marvin Bush, Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, George H. W. Bush, Jeb Bush. Also pictured, from left: Georgia Grace Koch, Margaret Bush, Brian Berzins Walker Bush, Jenna Bush Hager, Doro Bush, Barbara Pierce Bush, Robert P. Koch, Pierce Bush, Maria Bush, Neil Bush, Ashley Bush, Sam LeBlond, Nancy Ellis LeBlond, Mandi Bush, George P. Bush, and Columba Bush.
Ethnicity Primarily English and German descent
Current region Texas, United States
Place of origin United States
Notable members Samuel Prescott Bush
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The Bush family is a prominent American family. Along with many members who have been successful bankers and businessmen, across generations the family includes two U.S. Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, two Governors and two Presidents (one of the two presidents also served as Vice President). George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush have been married for 69 years, holding the record for the longest-married presidential couple. Peter Schweizer, author of a biography of the family, has described the Bushes as "the most successful political dynasty in American history".[1] According to some online sources,[2] the Bush family is of primarily English and German descent.
Barbara Bush, Jeb Bush, George H. W. Bush, Laura Bush, and George W. Bush, and Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller watch tee ball on the White House lawn.
Patrilineal line[edit]
• Richard Bush (c. 1676–1732 in Bristol, Plymouth Colony) is the earliest known patrilineal member of the Bush family.
• Timothy Bush (1728–1821 in Springport, New York) may have been the son of Richard Bush.[citation needed]
• Timothy Bush, Jr. (1761–1850 in Penfield, New York) was the son of Timothy Bush.
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2. ^ Ancestry of George W. Bush (b. 1946) from wargs.com
3. ^ Kelly, Jacqueline. "The Untold Story of Mary Ayer Parker: Gossip and Confusion in 1692." Revised for presentation at the Berkshire Conference. June 2005.
4. ^ Robinson, Enders A. "Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables." pp. 251–5. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books. 1992.
5. ^ Herskowitz, Mickey (2003), "Bush Family Tree", Duty, Honor, Country: The Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush, Thomas Nelson, p. 9, ISBN 9781401600099
6. ^ Harrison, Bruce (2005), The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort, Kamuela, Hawaii: Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc.
7. ^ Kelley, Kitty (2004), "Bush / Walker / Pierce / Robinson / Family Tree", The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, Random House, ISBN 9781407095691
8. ^ Philadelphia, Desa (August 7, 2000), Republican Convention: The Family Tree, Time
9. ^ Phillips, Kevin (2004), "The Bush–Walker Family Tree", American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Penguin Books, ISBN 9780143034315
10. ^ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Otto, Julie Helen (1995), Ancestors of American presidents, New England Historic Genealogical Society / C. Boyer, 3rd, ISBN 9780936124193
11. ^ Rechcigl, Mila, Czech Roots of President Bush, Washington, D.C.: Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, retrieved June 11, 2012
12. ^ Weisberg, Jacob (2008), "The Bush Family Tree", The Bush Tragedy, Random House, ISBN 9780812978353
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This is a java plugin for the Minecraft server software Bukkit.
It allows you to create your very own guns and ammo for these!
The properties of the items can be set in the configuration files.
Enjoy! :)
* ---NEW---
* 1. Hook into certain plugins: Citizens(request that npcs can held guns an use them), Chestshop(guns should be buy/sellable)
* 2. Make magazines as ammo, which contains a specific amount of bullets to safe inventory space
* 3. Add "Number of Bullets" option (fireing takes config amount of ammo each shot)
* 4. Add Area of Effect option (such as targetenity in effects, area that is influnced) # but perhaps also add configurable
* amount for each axis.
* ---FIX---
* 1. HUD should overlay the zoomtexture
* 2. The file data.dat has a bunch of empty lines before the actual data, perhaps add sql support for storing the data
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14355 | Bug 34116 - Example XML syntax for Ant manual + matching XSLs
Example XML syntax for Ant manual + matching XSLs
Status: NEW
Product: Ant
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation
Other other
: P2 enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Ant Notifications List
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Reported: 2005-03-21 23:56 UTC by Dominique Devienne
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ZIP file with XML+XSL files (+comparison HTML files) (12.20 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-03-21 23:57 UTC, Dominique Devienne
Updated XSLs (13.01 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-03-22 18:52 UTC, Dominique Devienne
Description Dominique Devienne 2005-03-21 23:56:51 UTC
As I've written, I think XML+XSL is the way to go for the future Ant
documentation. Enclosed are the preliminary results of my recent
experimentation with defining an XML vocabulary (no DTD or schema, and one
might be impossible given the choices I'm made...) with matching XSLs.
There's a processing instructions so it loads in an XSL compatible browser. The
HTML files are original Ant ones for comparison. Note that IE garbles the XML
because it does not preserve whitespace-only nodes (needs special setup to load
conformant XSL engine) and that I did not finish the <ant> XML doc example, as
I was not expecting such a weird example format.
So far I've mostly mimicked the existing Ant docs, but once we have semantic in
the documentation, we can go crazy with the formatting.
Also enclosed is a XML+XSL prototype for the WHATSNEW file. Provides neat
little features.
Both of these are addressing the Ant doc issue from the other spectrum I
started with introspecting the tasks/types from the AntLib definition. This
will eventually spit more XML to be merged with the manually maintained docs
(to complement them).
Please feel free to comment or ask questions. Thanks, --DD
Comment 1 Dominique Devienne 2005-03-21 23:57:50 UTC
Created attachment 14529 [details]
Comment 2 Jan Mat 2005-03-22 09:39:53 UTC
Nice stuff in it. Especially the google and bugzilla search :-)
When looking into the WHATSNEW I played a little bit the these templates. It
would be nice if the taskname could be linked to the manual page. Because it´s
not easy to find the right link destination (CoreTypes|OptionalTasks|...) I
adopted the google search.
I didn´t change the WHATSNEW.xml, but made two modifications in the XSL:
1) a new template
<xsl:template name="w:manual">
<xsl:param name="name"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$name" />
2) call of that template
<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(namespace-uri(), 'antlib:')]">
- <span class="tag"><xsl:value-of select="local-name()" /></span>
+ <span class="tag">
+ <xsl:call-template name="w:manual">
+ <xsl:with-param name="name" select="local-name()"/>
+ </xsl:call-template>
+ </span>
When looking into the manual I see a problem with more complex examples. E.g. in
<script> (last example).
Comment 3 Dominique Devienne 2005-03-22 16:01:19 UTC
I know the formatting of the examples is still a bit broken. I've fixed one
value-of into a copy of already, but there's still whitespace issues. It's
strange, because this XSL code is derived from a stylesheets that correctly
styles whole build files. I'll investigate.
Nice idea about linking to a Google search for Ant external cross-ref to other
tasks. I was thinking of creating links, but I wanted to postpone this until
the final structure of the manual emerges.
I was hoping for some comment on the XML manual files though (and also the
whatsnew vocab too). Too verbose? Should be able to have a DTD/Schema? Etc...
Or put another way, is this prototype going in the right direction or not? And
should I persue it or abandon it because it's not what the community wants. --DD
Comment 4 Stefan Bodewig 2005-03-22 16:30:10 UTC
I'm looking forward to (not really ;-) eight+ hours of train driving tomorrow and
will come back after that.
Comment 5 Dominique Devienne 2005-03-22 18:52:41 UTC
Created attachment 14540 [details]
Updated XSLs
Fixed the example space issue + add build.xml. --DD |
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Re: wireless-applet patch
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:11, Chipzz wrote:
> > It doesn't currently *support* Debian... we don't have consolehelper
> Yes it DOES
> Read planet.gnome.org
This still only works on Red Hat systems due to the usage of
consolehelper. You can fix that by putting appropriate
root-getting-and-essid-setting-and-renew-dhcp-lease bits for
your distro in the wireless-applet-helper script.
Not exactly a trivial task I'd imagine. Work on making James's patches
non-RH specific and getting them upstream would be the way to go of
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14397 | plotting large datasets
Rick Walker walker at
Sat Aug 22 02:03:43 UTC 2009
> > I've got a need to plot "value vs time" data for 32 channels
> > simultaneously. Gnuplot isn't up to the task (not enough uniqueness,
> > even mixing lines and points, or control - the graph is just a mess).
> > What else is there?
You might try the pdplot program at
It takes ascii datafiles and plots them to X11, postscript or
PNG. The file format is x,y ascii data interspersed with
commands like:
title my plot
xscale 1 time
yscale 1 voltage
0 0
1 1
3 3
yscale 1 current
0 8
2 2
3 4
yscale 1 pressure
0 -1
3 3.99
the pdplot program is a daemon associated with a persistant
plot window. You communicate with the daemon by sending data
to it with "pd". For instance, to plot the above file you'd save
it as "myplot" and do one of the following:
pd myplot
cat myplot | pd
If you want to add new data to an already existing plot you cat
do it with "cat newdata | pd -n".
The general style and format works extremely well with awk(1) or
perl(1) for massaging ascii data files.
It's got a few rough edges because it is a brand new program, but
I promise to jump on any bug reports if you want to give it a try.
> > Ideally, I'd like something I can interact with - enable/disable
> > channels, highlight channels, change the time range, etc. The data
> > comes from processed log files, so either file or API input is OK.
Sounds like a good use for Tcl/Tk. Write a front end to pd()
with lots of options. Each time you make a change, Tk runs
through the data a replots it with the desired format.
kind regards,
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SubjectRe: [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections
David Schwartz wrote:
> For most real-world loads, M is some fraction of N. The fraction
> asymptotically approaches 1 as load increases because under load it takes
> you longer to get back to polling, so a higher fraction of the descriptors
> will be ready when you do.
Ah, but as the fraction approaches 1, you'll find that you are
asymptotically approaching the point where you can't handle the load
_regardless_ of epoll overhead.
> By the way, I'm not arguing against epoll. I believe it will use less
> resources than poll in pretty much every conceivable situation. I simply
> take issue with the argument that it has better ultimate scalability or
> scales at a different order.
It scales according to the amount of work pending, which means that it
doesn't take any _more_ time than actually doing the pending work.
(This assumes you use epoll appropriately; there are many ways to use
epoll which don't have this property).
That was always the complaint about select() and poll(): they dominate
the run time for large numbers of connections. epoll, on the other
hand, will always be in the noise relative to other work.
If you want a formula for slides :), time_polling/time_working is O(1)
with epoll, but O(N) with poll() & select().
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14404 | File Locking Forced? Newbie question.
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Sparky wrote:
> Hello! I am writing some software that will have many users accessing
> the same file resource at once for reading purposes only. I am
> programming on (Ubuntu) Linux and my question is in Windows, can I
> have it so that the same file can be open in read mode by more than
> one person or could Window's file locking system get in the way?
Assuming your question is: can processes A, B & C read
from the same file at the same time, then: Yes. (You
can try it out yourself fairly easily if you want. Just
open a clutch of interpreter windows and do some
open ("abc.txt", "r").read () stuff in each one).
But I'm surprised you think that anything might get
in the way of that. It would be a fairly limiting file
system which prevented multiple simultaneous readers.
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Ok, so here in Ireland, we're only on the third ep, so forgive any inconsistencies with the series, though it's probably too short to hold any.
Just a drabble that came into my head one night.
A Little Less Conversation
By Chaimera
Jaye rolled over and growled as her 'room mates' began to sing. Again.
The wax lion glanced at her as she mumbled a curse under her breath and stuffed her head under her pillow.
The monkey looked over his glasses at her as the entire chorus of animal decorations fell silent. Jay jumped out of her bed and glowered around her room at the assortment of stolen items that regularly talked to her.
"What is it that you want from me? You haven't even asked me to do anything at the moment. You're just singing."
She threw her arms up in the air as she paced up and down the length of her trailer. "I cant take the singing anymore. Talk amongst yourselves why don't you. I don't care if you even have a normal (or as normal as you can get) conversation with me. I really don't care. Just NO MORE SINGING. Not to mention you're horribly out of tune."
For a moment, silence reigned in the small trailer and for the briefest of seconds, Jaye thought that it might be over. That her out burst had silenced those damn plastic animals once and for all. And then….
Jaye looked around her room for the source of the noise.
It was the wax lion, looking up at her expectantly. It jerked it's head, indicating her to lean down to it's level.
She raised an eyebrow. "You wanna talk?"
It nodded and she knelt down beside it leaning in close. It looked around, as if checking for listeners and then whispered to her.
"I think the monkey's cute."
Jaye jumped back and looked at the monkey who quickly hid behind its book with a smile.
She wasn't sure that originally inanimate objects could have sexual urges, of course there was the distinct possibility that they were trying to mess with her head again. She shook her head.
"You know what? Forget it. Forget I said anything. Go back to you're singing. It's less disturbing. I'm going out for a drink."
"It's three am."
She looked at the stuffed lizard, surprised. "Since when did you care?"
It shrugged and Jaye rolled her eyes. "I'm going, and I'm probably going to sleep at the bar."
With that, she swept out of the trailer leaving the animals to their own business.
The wax lion looked around at his cohorts.
"One… Hundred of bottles of beer on the wall, one hundred bottles of beer…."
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Summary: Who will listen to cries of the lost souls? Some things remain forever unsaid. Draco's POV after the events in the tower. HBP spoilers!
Lost Laments
Fear drove him on, lending him the energy he no longer possessed. He had started to run, just like he had told him to, obeying blindly because he could no longer think. He ran like the coward he thought himself, barely noting that Snape wasn't there anymore, not hearing, not thinking, just wanting to run away so fast so as to run away from himself and his guilt. The boy ran and ran and ran until he could no longer hear the ominous sounds of a war already begun.
Wrong wrong all wrong I never should I could have but I didn't but now it has started and I've already lost and I can't I never really wanted to and I'm sorry and now I don't know
Deep in the forest, veiled by the darkness he stopped, breathless and shaken, trying to block his thoughts, ignore the emotions which would obscure his reason, trying to think without remembering…
But I can't do it I can't run away from my thoughts from what I've done from what I've caused from what I am
He dropped to his knees and vomited again and again, the sound of a body crashing through the glass, the dull thud of the soft flesh hitting the hard, unforgiving stones, echoing through his mind again and again and again and again.
He's dead and I should have wanted it but I didn't and I still don't and I'm sorry I'm sorry I don't know what to do anymore
He thought of his mother, and he dug his fingers into the dirt, suppressing the involuntary cry of misery which escaped his lips. She had cried the last time he had seen her, he had made her cry because she knew that he would fail, she knew that they were doomed ever since he had told her why the Dark Lord had sent for him. He had been angry, his pride hurt by her beliefs, afraid that she considered him too weak, unable to live up to his father's expectations, unable to save his family.
I'm strong I know I am and I'll make it I'll show everyone and even my father will be proud of me and I'll beat Potter I swear I will I will I will..
But he had failed.
He had never told her that he too was afraid and that he wanted to cry with her because he knew that they were damned; he couldn't show any more weakness because he knew they watched him, ready to break him and his family, leaving them to the Dark Lord's wrath.
She would be as good as dead by now, taken to the Dark Lord who would torture her, make her scream and scream and beg for him to kill her. The boy had seen it happen to others; he had watched and listened and bit his hand hard to prevent himself from screaming out loud, wishing that he could hate them and enjoy their pain but knowing that he couldn't. He was pathetic, so weak that he pitied them because he thought that no one really deserved it, not really.
Oh God I'm so sorry mother so sorry so sorry I couldn't kill so sorry I failed I failed I am nothing but a failure just like he always said and now you'll die and I love you so much and I never even told you
His mother would die because he couldn't find the strength within to cast the curse. It should have been so easy to kill a feeble old man, to forget pity, forget his conscience, forget everything but what the Dark Lord commanded.
But I didn't because I couldn't live with myself knowing that I had taken away a life because I didn't want to kill anyone not even him even though I never liked him I thought I could but I couldn't
He had allowed him to talk, half-believing the old man's words, half-hoping that there was another way, that even he had a choice. The boy knew that he also hoped that the longer he stalled, the greater the chances that someone from the Order would burst in and kill him, freeing him from the task he had to do, saving him from everlasting hell.
But no one came and I wanted so much to give up and accept another way I thought I might have a choice I never had any choice before and I was so stupid so stupid to believe that I ever would
The soft rustling of leaves made him start and his hand flew to his wand instinctively… It was Snape, watching him, face cold and impassive. The boy got up unsteadily, wiping his mouth with the sleeve of his robes, ashamed that again he had shown his weakness. Was Snape there to take him to the Dark Lord?
He followed him without question – putting up resistance was futile. The boy walked quickly alongside the man, avoiding his gaze, afraid of seeing the contempt and anger he knew he deserved. He burned with humiliation when he wondered what his father would have thought, had he known that his son was nothing but a spineless coward. He had lost any chance of proving that he could be like his father.
I am nothing I never was all the time that I tried I knew that I never could never be like him because I am only myself and I am nothing
Snape had dealt the final blow; he had shown his true colours by this final act, dispelling any rumours of his actually being on Dumbledore's side and yet… the boy stole a glance at the man's face. That brief exchange of looks between the two men, both legilemens, the instant before the act of one defined them as a murderer and a victim… a small seed of doubt had planted itself in the boy's mind.
But it didn't really matter now. Not to him anyway. Those last few words, unheard, unknown would remain hidden to all. If he were caught by the Order, he would be killed. No one would ask him why - Snape had murdered; the deed was all that mattered, not the cause. The boy had been there and he had caused his headmaster's death; he was as guilty as though he had cast the final curse. Guilt tainted his soul just as the Dark Mark disfigured the skin on his arm.
He followed the man mutely, hiding his thoughts behind a blank façade, trying to at least maintain the last bit of dignity which he possessed. But inside, he screamed with every step, allowing terror and guilt to rage unabated in his soul. Every step was taking him down, down, down, deeper into the unforgiving darkness in which he would eventually drown.
I'm nothing now but lost soul forever damned, bound irrevocably to the dark side
Dying inside never forgiven branded forever no one cares no one knows lost lost nothing left nothing anymore no one hears no one I'm scared I'm alone I'm afraid..
I couldn't help writing this… HBP is by far my favourite Harry Potter book. :0) Thanks you for taking the time to read -I would appreciate your comments.I might put upanother chapter, taking it this time from Snape's POV. What do you people think? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14455 | I got a call from Haruhi late Saturday night. I was trying to sleep and so I ignored it; but it would keep ringing and ringing and so I had sit up and groggily grab the phone.
The sonic boom that was Haruhi cleared up any grogginess in my head. She wasted no time with such silly things as 'common curtesy' or 'apologies' and went straight into how she wanted to see everyone at shopping mall early in the morning; she didn't tell me why though. I bet she expects Sith lords to suddenly show up, beaming down on the mall. She also wanted to discuss, I.E tell,what demons in diguise looked like. I told her I couldn't do as she ordered if I didn't get any sleep and so she finally hung up.
" Come on Kyon! Wake up!" That shout and feeling of being jumped on can only mean my little sister has invaded my room(again).
"... It's Sunday!" I moaned. " Go away!"
" But you have a date don't you?" Date?...Oh yeah, Haruhi. I sat up and my sister jumped off
" It's not yawn a date."
" Then what is it?" has Koizumi been dropping by? His smile sems to have rubbed off on my sister.
" Orders." That smile of hers got wider
" Sounds like a date to me. I doubt Haruhi-oneesan would call it a date anyway." Yeah she's probably right...wait a minute!
" How do you know I'm meeting Haruhi today?"
"Well" She puffed out her chest proudly, "...as a junior brigade member it's my job to make sure you get your lazy but out of bed and do your duty to the Brigade!"Oh no! My little sister's been drafted! "That's why Haruhi-onnesan called me late night with orders to get you up on time." ! And how come she gets to be called 'Big sister?' I'm her big brother damn it!
"All right already. I'm going!" With Haruhi at school and my little sister at home, I'm never going to get any peace. Sigh. Such is my fate.
Well, there is one good thing about being God's henchman: traveling is convient. There was no line at the station, the train arrived early and the trip was shorter then usual. Haruhi must really want me to come if she's working all this subconsciously. I still would have prefered to stay in bed though, maybe I can get a nap once her latest scheme is over and done with.
When I arrived I saw Tsuruya-san was walking by. Behind her was some poor slob carrying a mountain of packages at her heels. I felt sorry for the guy; nice though Tsuruya-san is, she's just as hyper as Haruhi. One of the packages fell and-oh it's Taniguchi. Huh, didn't think he'd go for someone as energtic as Tsuruya-san. Well, she is rather pretty...she could make quite a ponytail with hair that long... I shivered as a chill ran down my spine.
" Good afternoon Kyon."
" Oh hey Koizumi." Maybe the chill was just nothing " Listen, we need to talk."
" Sure, what's up?"
" Haruhi started thinking about demons durring class the other day."
" Suzumiya-san is always thinking about paranormal things like that." That smile of his never seems to falter. Well this should do the trick.
" She thinks they really exists and wants one for the club. Her powers being real makes her think demons are too." Koizumi actually bothered to open his eyes this time.
" Are you sure?"
" Positive."
" Hmm, this could be a problem." Ya think? " I'll have to inform the Organization." And what will the Organization do? Nothing. They're all too scared of provoking Haruhi further-except for the ones want to use her.
" Do you know where Ashina-san and Nagato are?"
" No I haven't seen them." I started looking for the angel of the club, but instead all I saw was the Computer Club. They were spread out all over the mall. What were they doing here?
Warning, Incoming Game. Warning, Incoming Game.
Was that in my head?
"Look!" Koizumi pointed up. A giant blue-grey cube was descending down upon us: a Closed Space. But Haruhi's been happier then I've ever known her. How could-"We'll figure it out later. Now we have to get rid of it." Within momments, The Closed Space descended and everything went black.
When I came to, I was sitting in a forest, wearing the brown robes Haruhi had forced on the others that day in the club. I felt something in my pocket and pulled it out: a metal clyinder. Oh no...oh please no. I hit the switch and blade of light shot out.
A light saber.
Wait a minute, if we were swallowed by the Closed Space why am I in a forest?
" As Suzumiya-san develops her powers, so it seems her Closed Spaces develop as well." I saw Koizumi sitting up as well. He was dressed as I was. But there was still no sign of Nagato or Asahina-san. Everyone else had disapeared as well.
" You mean they get more dangerous." I countered.
" Not neccesarily. You have a light saber now don't you? In additon to becoming more dangerous, this Space seems to empower us as well." Koizumi pointed his finger at a boulder and it shot up into the air. " As I thought, my powers have been modified to that of Jedi. You should be able to do it as well."
Feeling like an idoit I pointed my finger at a rock and tried to get it to move and-nothing happned. Move damn it! But the rock never budged. I heard Koizumi chuckle, well excuse me for not being an esper.
" Well let's explore this Space a bit, it would be a good idea to learn as much as we can about this new kind for future reference."
And so we walked through the forest. Haruhi must not have been paying attention in Geography; forests aren't supposed to be this humid! My Jedi robs are sticking to me.
Maybe Haruhi knows the difference but though it was too boring. Yeah that would be just like her.
" You may have a point there." Koizumi said as he looked around, geez he looks like a tourist. " I prefer reasearcher."
" Sure, and just what exactly are you researching Professor?"
" The development of the Harutisams Suzumiyais spieces and the habitats it creates for itself. " He was forever touching trees and plants, as if making sure they were real.
" Can we just kill the Shinjin and get out of here?" Mosiquites shouldn't be here either as I swated my neck.
" I don't think there is a Shinjin." Koizumi replied. " Shinjin are the manifestations of Suzumiya-san's wrath and if she is happy right now then there should be no Shinjin."
" Then how do we destroy this Space?" Koizumi opened his mouth when a familar voice shouted
"Kyonobi, Koizumi. Where have you been?" I looked to see Haruhi. She was dressed just like how she was in the clubroom as well: Long white robes. She floated over to us and shouted, " I had scout parties sent out hours ago!"But we just got here."Do you have any idea how worried I was?" Wait a minute, Haruhi was worried about us? Something's wrong here I opened my mouth to ask her what was going on when Koizumi stopped me.
"Forgive us, Master. We were practicing and didn't want anyone to get hurt." Haruhi smirked.
" I see...yes, the padawon just might hurt someone. So little control he has." She shook her head smiing, as if at some great joke; it annoyed me but then again, I'm usually the but of her jokes anyway " Return to base when you are finished, the mission begins at 1800 hours." She turned on her heel and flew away. " And be careful." Putting Haruhi's unusual concern for our well-being aside for the mommnet I asked Koizumi what the heck he was thinking.
" I though it best to play along with Suzumiya-san's game."
" You think this is a game?"
" To her this is a game. That's what the voice said before the Closed Space dropped on us. This must be Suzumiya-san's game. No, that's not right... Perhaps it's a game to us..."
" You're gonna go on wordy lecture about perspectives again aren't you?"
" No, we don't have time for that. Suffice to say this might not be the real Suzumiya-san, but a fragment of the whole. One that was 'born' in this Closed Space out Haruhi's fasincation with Star Wars. If that were the case, it would make sense that her persona was different. But more importantly she wouldn't know anything about the SOS Brigade or anything that goes on outside this Space. Questiong her belief about reality could cause a great deal of mental stress and that means the Closed Space will expand faster."
" So we have to play Jedi for a figment of Haruhi's imagination or the world will be destroyed."
" In short, yes."
" One more question: how come you don't have a stupid nickname like 'Kyonobi'?" Koizumi laughed. It IS a stupid name.
" I thought of it more as an affectionate petname."
" Sans 'affectioante' and empahisis on 'pet'." Koizumi just smiled that annoying smile of his.
" You're right, it must be that my name doesn't sound like one of the Star Wars characters."
It took a while but we eventually found the 'base', if one could call it that. It was little more the a bunker. Haruhi was waiting for us and said that password that gave us entry.
Within the bunker was a single room filled was people dressed like me and Koizumi, Jedi apparently.
" Attention! Serving all Over Space Brigade!" Haruhi shouted. This is the SOS Brigade? " I have called you all here for a very important purpose." Haruhi gestured to a giant screen on the wall: it had Asahina-san's picture in it. Haruhi's not going to kidnap her is she? These are Jedi, but Haruhi- " Our objective is to free the Princess Mikuru from The Empire's most heavilly armed fortress. She will be well guarded and watched at all times, it will not be an easy mission."
Way to inspire moral, Master.
" But If we succed, we will have dealt The Empire a devastating blow: Taking so vauluable a treasure from their best fortress will shatter their mantle of invinciblity and more planet-nations will rally to our cause. The Princess herself will be able to win over many others. It will be beginning of the end for The Empire. If we succed, not only will we gain glory for ourselves and honor for the Jedi Order, but enough power to finish off The Empire once and for all. Are you with me?!"
"YES!" I had to ring my ears out after that one. Are these guys figments of Haruhi's imagination too? They argreed with her rather quickly.
" Then here's the plan." The screen changed to a map of the fortress as Haruhi pulled out a laser pointer. " I've arranged for the Imōto-chan army- " Did she say 'Imōtochan army'? to attack the main gate here." She pointed at the front of the fortress. " I would like a few of you to go with them, any volunteers?" She's asking for volunteers? That doesn't sound like Miss Voluntary Arrest. A number of hands went up." Good. This will be a distraction to draw them out, very important. Once we have their attention three smaller teams will approach the other three walls and attempt to scale them. This will also be a distraction, if you get in try sabotaging whatever you get your hands on, the rest of you will handle this. By now The Empire's forces should be split and the guard on the princess should be lighter. That's when a team consisting of Jedi Koizumi, Padawon Kyonobi, and myself will sneak up in an underground tunnel here." She pointed to the center of the fortress. " Once we are in, we'll get the princess out. Any questions?" Silence. It was a simple plan after all. "Then one more thing: I hope you all come back alive from this mission. Remember you are to be a distraction, no heroics okay?" That doesn't sound like the Haruhi I know. "Dismissed, and may the Force be with you." The Jedi left and Haruhi turned to me." Now there are two more people joining us but I didn't want the others to know. Come on in."
Tsuruya-san and Taniguchi entered the room but they were different. Tsuruya-san's hair floated around like it was alive and her odd tooth was an actual fang. Please don't tell me Haruhi turned Tsuruya-san into a demon. Taniguchi looked the same, just a difference in clothing and some kind of gun at his side.
" The deal was we show you where the entrance is." Taniguchi said "We're not going in there."
" But I already know where it is. If you want to get paid you're gonna have to come with us." Haruhi walked over to a high-tech computer thing. "And we'll need a droid to help us with hacking so I brought this." Haruhi presed a button and something came up the chute-It was Nagato! Only she was wearing some strange white armor and blue helmet. " She's the latest in bio-droid technology, what do you think?"
"Impressive as always Master Suzumiya." Koizumi the sycophant replied.
I was expecting something exciting and werid to happen to us on the way to this fortress. After all, The Haruhi I know would want exitement all the way: like some tribal warriors or tree/vine monsters. Images sprang to life in my mind of Haruhi caught by a monster with tentacle-like vines. I shook my head; Taniguchi's the pervert, not me! But I felt heat all over that had nothing to do with the 'Too humid to be a forest' forest.
Eventually untill Tsuruya-san stopped us at a tree trunk. One long strand of hair grabed a root and pulled, revealing a hidden passage.
" I'll go first, to make sure it's safe." And with that Haruhi descended down that ladder. Okay, this is really getting werid; I was expecting her to practically push me down there. Well, after Haruhi said all was clear we each went down one by one.
Did I mention the underground tunnel Haruhi talked about was a sewer? Yeah, as in a river of other people's waste. Haruhi, of course, marched through it as if it were water and Koizumi, I can never tell what's he thinking behind that smile of his. I don't think Nagato noticed the slime, or she didn't care. Well at least Taniguchi shared my misery-Tsuruya-san grabbed the ceiling with that long hair of hers and monkey bared across. Haruhi has some imagination, it absoultely reeks in here. It has to be some kind of Closed Space Super Stench. No way anything could smell this bad in the real world.
Eventually Tsuruya-san dropped down to the muck, but only Taniguchi and myself were splashed, everyone else mad a shield. I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
" Pay attention!" Haruhi shouted. " Tsuruya's found the ext!"
" It's right-" One of Tsuruya's hairs poised like a javelin, " Here!" she jabbed with the hair and a section of cieling moved out of the way." That's the end of our bargain." Tsuruya-san said.
" Very well." Haruhi concedded. You're letting them go? " Here's your pay." Taniguchi and Tsusrya-san vanished back down the tunnel. Another odd trait of this 'Star Wars' Haruhi.
We emerged in some kind of building. I could hear the sounds of battle still raging at the gate, so our distraction is holding; though I'm worried what she meant by the Imōto-chan army. " Now be quiet! Our distaction must be working." Haruhi motioned us down the hall and to a computer counsol.
" Yuki, here's where you come in."
" Affirmative." Nagato put her hand on the panel and it lit up. " Searching...searching...Princess Mikuru Asahina found. Detention Area Level 5. It is accesible through this build, up five floors."
That seemed rather simple.
" Great! Thanks Yuki, let's get moving." Haruhi's thanking people? Well anyway we moved the several floors to where Asahina-san was being held. There was a suspicious lack of guards-either the distraction is working better then I thought it was or we were going into a trap. I voiced my concerns to our great leader but she brushed them aside.
" We have to go this way, if there's a trap we'll handle it then." Easy for you to say! You're the one with the super powers.
" Here." Nagato said. " This bridge will take us to the Primary Detention Level."
Nagato released the lock into the prison and crept through. Unlike before there were guards here but Haruhi handled them all easily. Not by charging in like she usually did, but by actually thinking ahead and planning out her movements. That settles it, This had to be a different part of Haruhi.
" This lock too Yuki!" Nagato placed her hand on the lock but was repealed. Even she seemed surprised by this turn of events, though it was hard to tell. " Ohh, move aside! I'll do it!" What are you gonna do? Haruhi closed her eyes, took a deep breathe and posed like some martail art character from an anime. It was a good thing I held back a smile or we could have been in trouble. Haruhi's eyes snapped open and thrusted her hands against the door, causing it to burst off its hinges and slam against the wall. While it was impressive how she did that, it would be pointless if she harmed Asahina-san!
" Wh-who are you?" A timid, yet sweet voice asked.
" I am Jedi Grand Master Haruhi Suzumiya." Our fearless leader boasted. "Are you alright?"
" I-I'm all right." Haruhi grabbed Asahina-san and dragged her out of the cell.
" Then let's go!" Haruhi lead the way out of detention area and back to the main prison.
The doors behind us slam shut and troopers appeared from every nook and cranny, in momments we were surrounded. I knew it, I knew it was a trap. But no one listens to the 'Padawon'. Asahina-san hide between me and clutched my arm. Normally I'd protest if someone used me as a human shield but with Asahina-san...
" Hahahahah! You stupid brigaders fell right into my trap!" A figure in a full body suit of blue and red armor came out from within the crowd. " I knew you would come for the princess and recognized your second hand stragedy immediately." This guy must be what Haruhi thinks of Darth Vadar. "We meet again Haruhi Suzumiya, for the last time!"
" And just who are you?" Haruhi didn't seem worried at all that we we're hopelessly trapped.
" You don't remember me?! You snuck aboard my ship and stole my most advanced android!"
" Oh yeahhhh, that computer geek." Haruhi nodded.
" Darth Computer!" Andriod...computer...Is that the Computer Club president?
" That was so long ago!" Haruhi continued, "I was still recruiting for my SOS Brigade back then."
"I, Darth Computer, challenge you Suzumiya, to a duel! A duel! A DUEL!" Yep, defintely the Computer Club President. First Tsururya-san and Taniguchi, possibly my little sister, and now the Computer Club President, how'd they all get roped into this?
" I accept!" Darth Computer drew his light saber and Haruhi did as well. For a momment they circled each other before clashing in a...Oh I really don't want to describe the whole fight. Just say that they exchanged blows for a while.
Haruhi disarmed Darth Computer of his light saber and caught it in her free hand. Now dual wielding she stared down her weaponless enemy. " You lose." She mocked. I had a sudden bad feeling, something wasn't right. Getting here, defeating the Computer Club President, it was all too easy. I looked around and saw a sniper squeeze off a shot from above.
Use The Force Kyonobi!
I don't have the Force! Although right now I wish I did, then I wouldn't be in all this pain. The two of us hit the ground with a thud.
" Kyonobi!" Haruhi shouted, her turned my face to hers, she looked terrified...are those tears in her eyes?
" Troopers! Finish them off!" The Computer Club President shouted. An air vent burst above us and Tsuruya-san and Taniguchi dropped in. Tsuruya was using her as a whip while Taniguchi had his blaster. Together with Koizumi and Nagato they moped up all the troops. " I'll get you next Suzumiya! Next Time!" Darth Computer retreated. My vision got dark...hard to focus...
" Kyonobi! Get up! Kyonobi!" My body felt cold all off a sudden. " You'll pay for this!"
The crackle of lightening. A sharp scream.
" Whooa...Whooa... If I go down...Whooa... I'm taking you all with me!" Someone picked me up.
" If we don't get out of here nowwe're all gonna die!" The air fizzed by us; me and my carrier. An explosion...so...sleepy...
Game Over. Game Over.
My eyes snapped open and I took a deep breath. I had a dizzy spell and had to sit down. When I loked around I was back at the mall.
" Welcome back." I turned to see Koizumi smiling at me. Suddenly my back started aching horribly and I hissed in pain. "Yeah, that's gonna sting for a while."
" What the heck was that?!"
" I'm not quite sure myself. No one in The Organization has heard of something like this happening. But if I had to guess I'd say that was Suzumiya-san's daydream."
" Her daydream?"
" Yes, her daydream. You remember when I told you that some in the Organization believe the world to be Suzumiya-san's dream? And how she could change the world as easily as a dream?" I nodded. " Well my guess is that Suzumiya-san temporarily recreated the world. Daydreams are similar to nightdreams but less... potent, so to speak. When her excitment about becoming a Jedi reached a certain limit, her fantasy manifested in reality. Thus creating a a kind of Closed Space unlike those we have previously experienced. Those were made to allow her to vent frustration, while these new ones-let's call them 'Games'- are made to allow her to live out fantasies."
" And the reason my back hurts?"
" Ah yes, that would residue of the shot you took for Suzumiya-san." That' right. I saw the sniper and I just...reacted. "That was very noble of you."
" So...what happened after that?"
" Suzumiya-san was furious and used Force Lightening on Darth Computer-fatally injurying him. He activated the Fortress' self-destruct and we had to high-tail it out while Suzumiya-san carried you. We don't know if Darth Computer actually died though. As soon as we were clear of the explosion, it was pretty close by the way, a voice announced the game was over. Then I woke up right next to you." I tried to sit up and another lance of pain shot through my back.
" Ah yes. Kyon listen to me because this is very important: Even though we call these Closed Spaces 'Games' they are very real. In fact, while they exist, they are the real world. Anything that happens to you there will naturally be just as real. So don't do anything reckless; you just might die." I gulped hard.
" You mean that... if Haruhi hadn't ended the game so soon after I was shot..." Koizumi nodded and I shivered. I almost died today!
" Where were you two?!" I looked to see Haruhi glaring at us, still wearing those white robes. As soon as I got over my sense of deja vu I noticed she looked like she just woke up. " I've been waiting for hours!"She must have gotten here early to make sure she wasn't last. "You really do deserve a penalty for making your brigade chief waste her time!" But then her face softened and she smiled at me. " But I don't feel like giving you one-this time."
" Why did you call us here again?"
" There's a new Star Wars movie playing." Haruhi explained. " And we all need to do research on what else my powers are capable of!"
I looked over at Koizumi, and to my great satisfaction, I saw that annoying smile of his twitch for a momment before he reset it. Now he'll take what I sad about the demon more seriously. Asahina-san and Nagato walked up to me; Do they remember what happened? Haruhi doesn't seem to know, but she probably thought it was a daydream. Then I saw my little sister, she was walking behind Asahina-san and holding her hand. My heart skipepd a beat when I saw she was covered in band aids.
" What's my little siter doing here? And what happened to her?!"
" We found her laying around the mall; she was covered in scraps and bruises." Haruhi said. "You really should take better care of her!" That confirms my suspicons. My little sister was an entire army in Haruhi's daydream and hurt because of it! I'll have to make sure to keep her away from Haruhi's games in the future.
" Yes Ma'am."
" Good. Now off to the theather!"The pain in my back had subsided. I still stung like Koizumi said, but at least I could walk. On our way to the movie I saw the Computer Club gather around its president. He was laying on the ground, breathing hard and clutching his chest. But if I survived my fatal wound, he should too. So no one was hurt by Haruhi's fantasy, let's keep it that way.
For now it's off to the ticket Counter and for once I'm not paying.
" Kyon, Pay up!" What? " You still owe two penalties from before!"
Sigh. I should have known it was too good to be true. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14456 | 16. Reunion
Danette straightened the curtains one last time, allowing for maximum light, then glanced at the hourglass. Its weights had turned it over three times since Gig and Revya had left that morning for Astec to bring Father Valerio back with them. Danette would've liked to go with them, but Ben had her teaching the children fighting now and she hadn't wanted to miss even one morning of instruction. She clip-clopped around the small sitting room Lady Virtuous had allowed her to use for this visit, dragging the chairs closer to the window, arranging the plates of thick sandwiches and the bowl of raw hotpods. She always enjoyed seeing Father Valerio; she'd liked him the first time they'd met six years ago. She wondered if he subconsciously reminded her of her own priest father, Mosley.
There was knock on the door post, and, turning, Danette saw Father Valerio standing in the door. "Hello, dear child."
Danette clattered over. "It's great to see you again, Papa V! Your last letter was so long, I never got time to read all of it." She pulled him towards the chairs and table. "Here, sit. Are you tired? Do you want something to drink? We have currant cordial, or I could get you some crinkleberry wine."
"Cordial will do nicely - thank you." He took a deep draft. "Ah, it was a long walk indeed. The roads are not always kind to such old feet."
"You should've made them carry you," Danette rebuked him. "That's what they're there for. Speaking of which-" she looked around "-where are the others? They knew I was getting enough food for them too."
Valerio chuckled. "I expect they're still in Astec."
Danette looked at him as though he'd just spoken backwards. "What? But - you mean they didn't escort you back? They were supposed to protect you!"
"No, but they kindly hired some archers and soldiers to take care of me; they were coming up to visit the Village anyway."
"B-but - they're snubbing us?" Danette bit a hotpod in two. "I'm going to kill them when they get back. That's just rude."
"Maybe so." Valerio picked a sandwich. "But I believe a little snubbing is excusable in this instance."
"In this instance...?" Danette's anger dribbled away, replaced with wary confusion. "Just - what are you talking about?"
Valerio frowned. "You mean you didn't know? Oh! Dear me." He began to rummage through one of his pockets. "I expect that's why she asked me to give you this. I totally forgot in my pleasure at seeing you." He passed a folded scrap of paper across the table.
Wordlessly, Danette opened it.
Hi Danette-
We just got married by Fr. Valerio. Don't feel snubbed. We decided to go for it this morning on the way down, otherwise we would've invited you. We're bumming a wedding lunch off of Vitali, so we'll probably see you around dinner.
- You and You in There
PS. You in There says don't eat all the hotpods this time.
"What?" Danette wailed. "WhatwhatwhatWHAT? You - they - how could - holy cow!"
Valerio blinked quickly. "My dear, there's no need to resort to such vulgar language! Aren't you happy for them?"
Danette lowered the note and glared at the mild priest. "You - you - how could you marry them?"
He spread his hands. "I agree, I normally ask a couple to wait a week or so before I marry them, just so they can question their hearts and decide if they're making the best decision. But I thought that, given Gig and Revya's unique...history, it was unnecess-"
"I can't believe this!" Danette nearly upset the table as she leapt to her hooves. "They're - She didn't even tell me - Damn, how could they - Didn't get my permission - Didn't even make sure I was there - Totally went off without me and - They're going to gang up against me in every argument now - and - and - didn't even invite me to Vitali's-"
"There, there," Valerio said, putting his hand on her arm. "You're overwrought. You'll feel differently when you see them tonight."
Danette blinked mutely, as if seeing a vision of her reunion with her two closest friends in the entire world. "Right." She sat down. "You're right. I sure will feel different." She dragged over the bowl of hotpods. "I'll feel full."
She then ate every last hotpod. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14457 | Testing out second person, because it's a cool style. Please excuse mistakes. Normal disclaimer applied. Neither of the two kids have names, mainly because their names don't matter.
You sit on the floor of an abandoned classroom in the Academy, with nothing to do to pass the time but to stare at your grimy hands and wait. Outside, explosions rock the ground at random intervals, but the Academy was well made, prepared to withstand as much as—or more than—the people inside. But even that isn't saying much.
Most of the beams that held up the ceiling have collapsed under the weight of the battle royal outside. The falling pieces of the building have crushed all of your classmates but one, and you know that the red that stains the floor now will stay with you and haunt you all the rest of your life. No amount of scrubbings will ever wash the crimson off of your hands, out from under your nails.
The boy huddled against your chest grasps your shirt with trembling hands, peering up at you with trusting eyes. Since the day you met him, you took care of him and helped him around the Academy and with his classes because it was your duty as upperclassmansempaineechan. Maybe he sees you as an older sister; maybe as a surrogate mother. Either way, he looks up to you. Knowing this, you clasp him more tightly to yourself and bow your head over his upturned face.
A boom echoes throughout the shattered classroom. You hear Uzumaki Naruto's loud cry of pain, and the anxious screams of the Godaime Hokage-sama—and a worried Hyuuga Hinata, though you don't know that. All you know is that Naruto-san's opponent—Pein? Is that it?—'s latest attack has loosened further the remaining beams that support the room's ceiling, and that it is falling onto you.
You bite your lip until it bleeds in an effort to keep from screaming—that would panic the boy in your arms, and if nothing else, you don't want to frighten him. You crawl forward over the bodies that litter the ground, hushing the child with soft, gentle tuneless humming you picked up from your mother before she died on a mission. He quiets, perhaps sensing the urgency of the situation.
The beam that narrowly misses you breaks in half over your Chuunin-sensei's body and knocks over a lamp on his desk. It shatters; the bodies of three classmates spontaneously burst into flame.
Now you feel panicked. The flames are spreading, and each time Naruto-san or his opponent makes an attack, the building shakes and the fire roars forward. You can feel the heat scorching your back; luckily, the boy is clutched to your chest. Desperately looking for an exit, you spot a tiny, narrow opening in the wall between the closed off door and the burning window. Your sensei always did say you had the sharpest eyes of your graduating class.
And this is a depressing thought. In a few weeks, you and your fellow classmates would have had a chance to become Genin. You would have been able to take a hitai-ate and tie it upon your forehead. But now you labour to draw enough breath in the smoky air, and you can hear the greedy sounds of the fire behind you.
And you and your classmates would have been proud to be shinobi, would have worn your hitai-ate with pride, because all you knew of being shinobi was the glory, the promise, the idea of being a loyal soldier.
No one ever told you about the pain that would come of it, because you were too young to understand and they thought they could wait just a little longer to tell you (when in reality it was just sensei who was so tired of losing his students that he couldn't bear to tell you).
No one ever told you about the fear, about the dread. They told you that you would die, because all shinobi know this, but you always thought of death as something vague, something that would take you gently. You didn't expect the flames that lick your skin now, that will consume you before you are even close to death.
When your parents were declared dead, all it meant to you was that they were gone and they weren't coming back. You never saw their bodies, because there wasn't much left of them, and Hokage-sama didn't want to scar you for life. How pointless now, because the tongues of flame that curl around you will definitely leave scars.
No one ever told you about this aspect of being shinobi, and now you must grit your teeth and bear it because this child depends on your ability to keep your cool now. You're not so sure if you want to be shinobi after all.
As you reach the crack in the wall, you can feel the blistering heat on your skin, burning your shirt off your back as you crawl. When you look at the wall, you see that the opening is just big enough to shove a small child through. With a sudden clarity, you know that you can't get out; that you're going to die.
Tears well up in your eyes, the way they haven't since your parents both died when you were six, and your hands clench, wanting something to hold onto as you die, as you burn. You want to wrap your arms around the whimpering boy and keep them there forever, to be together even unto death.
But that is selfish, and as a shinobi you can't afford to be selfish. You place a kiss—the kiss you always wished your mother had given you before she left—on his forehead before pushing him out the wall. You can just barely reach, and as you slump down into the flames, you can see the twinkle of the sunlight that shines down upon Naruto-san, the child you saved, and the ruins of the Academy.
There's no way for you to know that the child you saved will survive and grow up to be an average shinobi who will live an average life, and that he will marry an average civilian, with whom he will have many children, to whom he will repeat the story of a brave soul who saved him many, many years ago, whose name he never knew but who he remembers fondly up until the day he dies peacefully as a retired jounin, and that you'll never be publicly revered, and that your name will be carved into the memorial stone as just another poor student victim to Pein's wrath, but that you will be honoured by a family whose father was saved from a burning inferno one bright, sunny day. You don't know this. You can't know this. You will never know this.
But as you feel the flames envelop you, you stare up into the light blue sky—soratokumoskyandcloud—and know that you saved the boy who could have been your brother or your son, and you reflect that, really, this isn't a bad way to go.
the clouds are without
in the darkening sky
Tell me what you think? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14458 | Authors Note: It's been a long time since I have updated, but I have been busy with things outside of fanfiction. Not sure when I'll update really, and besides I want to revise earlier chapters since I think they just suck. I'll revise this one as well when I have the time. I just really want to finish this as soon as I can even if it means short chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.
Long Time Friends
Hikaru did not take long to reach a forest which was odd because usually forests were never nearby plains. Would they? It had only taken him five minutes to actually reach one too. Hikaru decided not to question or ponder at the thought, and just hide himself and Ami from that gigantic bug that had attacked them. It was a good thing that he played soccer which meant he had to be capable of running long distance. He found a tropical tree to rest at. Setting down Ami on the ground, he panted for breath.
Those five minutes of his life must have broken his running track record in his physical education class. He had overrun that flying bug monster!
Knees weakening, he fell on the ground. He wiped the sweat off his forehead with his forearm, and continued to catch his breath.
"Where are we..." Hikaru questioned as he glanced at his surroundings. "Is … Is this the digital world?"
Hikaru's posture stiffened when he heard a loud cry out in the sky. Quickly, he went to Ami's sleeping side. His head moved in many directions trying to see if the area was really safe. He didn't notice Ami struggling to open her eyes. Once she opened them she quickly blinked, and moaned. Hikaru's attention was now on the little red head.
"H-Hikaru-san...?" said Ami, as she turned her head towards his direction. She slowly lifted herself in a sitting position. "What h-happened..."
Her onyx eyes widen as she stared at her surroundings. She concluded that they were in a forest, but then there were some trees that didn't belong in the forest like those tropical types of trees. Not to mention those tropical plants looked way too exotic to survive in a forest. "W-Where are we..."
Once more there was a cry in the sky, and Ami was about to cry out as well. That was if Hikaru's hand didn't cover her bottom half of her face. His eyes narrowed slightly. "Shh! There's a monster in the sky trying to … well eat us or something like that … wait stop crying Ami … !"
He heard her hiccup, and tears were streaming down her cheeks. The poor girl was trying her best not to make a sound as she cried, but utterly failed. She let out small muffled sounds as Hikaru still had his hand covering her mouth – trying to prevent loud wails of crying. Completely nervous, Hikaru tried to calm down the younger girl. "Please Ami, please don't cry!"
Vrrmmm, Vrrmmm
"That noise is …!"
It was a sudden event when the ground began to shake, and trees had been tumbled down by orange claws. Ami instantly got closer to Hikaru for some type of protection. In front of the children was a giant orange stag beetle. It gave a loud cry to the sky before speaking.
"I'll smash you human children!"
Just as those orange claws were about hurt both Ami and Hikaru, a loud voice cried out: "Lighting Paw!"
A small white kitten, with large yellow and red stripe gloves and black nails sticking out of it, had punched the stag beetles claw, and was pushed away by such a strong force. The cat had done a back flip before landing on the ground. Quickly, the walking two feet cat had spread her arms almost in a protecting stance in front of Hikaru and Ami. The cat spoke in an older matured voice. "Stay away from these kids!"
Ami gently tugged on Hikaru's shirt. The brunette boy glanced down at the red head. "C-Cats can t-talk?"
Hikaru shook his head dazed. "They're not supposed to."
"You're back."
"Yeah …"
"How was … the talk, Takeru?¨
"…There was no talk at all. Taichi forbade me to talk to enter the house, and then … that happened."
"What happened?"
"Catherine, Taka is asleep right?"
"Yes, I put him to bed hours ago. But Takeru, what happened?"
"Apparently Hikaru and Koushiro's daughter – Ami, are in the digital world right now. They somehow entered the world with Koushiro's digivice. I couldn't properly talk to Hikari after that."
"Oh no! What – "
"Mom? Dad? What's the digital world? What's going on?"
Both Taichi and Mimi stared at the hallways suspiciously. The two could not help but think of this whole building as a studio set for making an action film or perhaps something out of a science fiction movie as well. The outer design and architecture was very modern and looked rather futuristic. The interior design was very much the same as well – sophisticated furniture that Mimi was almost envious of - the two wondered how much money employees would get paid in such grand place. Taichi and Mimi could not help to keep their eyes on Koushiro's back as he talked to Hikari beside him.
"Just how much is he making?" muttered Taichi suspicious at his longtime friend.
Mimi frowned, as she crossed her arms. "Is he making more than me?"
"Just what do they do here?" muttered the two in unison as they continued to stare at the red head in front of them.
"You know," whispered Mimi next to Taichi. "I bet the janitors at this place make 500,000 yen monthly."
"That's half of what I make!" cried out Taichi in shock.
Koushiro and Hikari glanced back at the two other brunettes. Hikari frowned at the sudden noise her elder brother was making, and Koushiro only raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about Taichi-san?" questioned Koushiro, as the group entered inside the elevator. The red head pushed the number five button before crossing his arms. "So?"
Taichi took a good look at his friend. "How much do you get paid monthly Koushiro?"
Blinking his onyx eyes a couple of times, he responded. "At the end of the year I make about 10 million yen."
The digital world researcher stared at the Yagami siblings and Tachikawa as they had fish like faces. Suddenly more expressions showed up: Mimi gave an anger type of look; Hikari had more of a depressing one, and Taichi a determined feature.
"That's more than what I make! I think..."
"I only get 150,000 yen a month and 200,000 if I stay longer hours at school..."
"Koushiro hire me dammit! Aren't I your best friend? !"
Koushiro tried his best to ignore them, as they made it to the destined floor. He led them to his office as they still continue to talk about his yearly payment. Turning on the lights, he suggested for them to sit on whatever chair they could find. His office was wide, but there were lack of chairs, mainly because he would go to the lab to do most of his work. Just as they were looking for some chairs, Koushiro turned on his computer, and let out a small curse. He had forgotten his yellow laptop back home.
'Oh well, I can still communicate and open a digital portal here. Or I could … no it's still in a testing process.'
"So what now?" questioned Taichi as he took a sit between the two women. "How do we get Hikaru and Ami back?"
Koushiro bit the insides of his cheek, as he typed on his keyboard with a magnificent speed. "I'm contacting Tentomon and Gennai right now. Taichi-san can you look for a projector in those cabins, and Mimi-san can you pull down the screen that's on top of the wall over there?"
Hikari sat uncomfortably on her chair as she felt useless since she was not helping one bit at all. Couldn't Koushiro order her to at least tune down the lights or something? She really disliked the feeling of being useless.
"Mimi-san, can you turn down the lights? Taichi-san please bring the projector here."
Before Mimi turned down the lights, Koushiro had plugged in the desktop computer to the projector. Once turning off the lights, Hikari and the others could see what Koushiro was doing in his computer. Her lips formed a frown as she noticed one folder that read "Ami Pictures". Although she knew Koushiro would never be the type to dote his daughter publicly, she was still surprise that he had a folder that was probably filled with pictures of his daughter. Perhaps he even had pictures of his wife, Yoshino.
They continued to watch whatever Koushiro was typing on his computer by paying attention to the screen. Suddenly they were staring at a black screen, and then a face appeared. A face very familiar to them that Hikari, Taichi, and Mimi had to scream out the name: "Gennai!"
"It's been quite a while chosen digidestined!" said a young looking Gennai just a bit younger than they last saw him.
"It's been almost a billionyears since we saw your face around!" exclaimed Taichi happy to see Gennai again. For some reason Taichi began to feel excited as he greeted Gennai.
Koushiro decided to correct his friend. "Actually Taichi-san it's been..."
"Are you still living in that nasty out dated fish house?" questioned Mimi with all seriousness in her voice. "If you need anyone to remodel that house, feel free to call me!"
The people in the room and in the screen chuckled out nervously. Mimi had a strange taste in interior design that was rather unique. Not that anyone would speak out that opinion unless they were like Miyako who always tended to praise Mimi's design skills. Instead of giving a definite answer to the older brunette mother, Gennai quickly changed the subject. "So what brings you guys to contact me?"
"My daughter and Hikari's son have entered the digital world with my digivice," announced Koushiro to his old friend. "Is there any way you can pin point where exactly they are, and send Tentomon or one of the other digimon to protect them while Taichi-san, Hikari-san, and Mimi-san go to the digital world?"
Gennai looked thoughtful, and soon he nodded his head. "I will send that application to your email. Koushiro, you should install this to Taichi's digivice, Mimi's, or Hikari's. It will make it easier to find those children since I believe you have already installed it to your own digivice."
"What application? What's going on?" questioned Taichi glancing at his red head friend.
"It's just a program that I installed in my computer and digivice," said Kousiro as he kept the screen where Gennai appeared, and began to click in another icon, and typed out furiously. "Can all of you give me your digivices so that I can install the application?"
The three adults gave their digivice to Koushiro as he installed the program he and Gennai created to their digivices. He began to explain what this application was for. "With this," he said as he handed Mimi's digivice back. "It will help us detect Hikaru and Ami since they're not any type of a digimon race or species. Meaning that we can pin point where they are because they're humans."
"So this is like an application to find humans in the digital world?" observed Taichi as he was handed back his digivice. "That's pretty advanced."
"Yes," said Gennai once Hikari's digivice installed the program. "This was to make sure the digital world will be safe from humans for the time being."
"What do you mean?" questioned Mimi as she tilted her head to the side. "Are digimon going to start living with us or something? Or are more of us going to start popping in the digital world?"
The young Yagami sibling stared at Koushiro for a moment. The small fond smile he had on caught her off guard.
"Yes, something like that," whispered the redhead as he was done typing something on his computer.
"Really?" both Taichi and Mimi cried out in surprise.
"Done," announced Koushiro as he ignored the looks he received from his friends. "I found the location where Biyomon and Hawkmon are at the moment. I'll send them a heads up in advance that you guys will be there in a few minutes."
Mimi placed her hands on her hips. "You make it sound as if you're not going."
Koushiro gave his friend a long tired stare. "Mimi … Hikaru and Ami have my digivice. How do you think I'll be able to –"
Mimi cut him off. "Yeah, they got in because of one digivice meaning that a digivice can take two people in the digital world!" Her lips formed a proud grin as she had won an argument with Koushiro which she never does. Taichi being next to the honey haired brunette gave a warm pat on the back.
"Good going Mimi!" grinned Taichi proud at his friend.
Hikari gave her own smile. "Besides I'm sure Ami would want to be with her dad after being overwhelmed with the digital world."
Scratching the back of his neck, Koushiro began to protest. "I can't. I have to –"
Mimi quickly went to Koushiro's side, and linked her arm to his. "Is that the portal?" questioned Mimi with a determined look as she stared at the screen that had a perfect image of a random place in the digital world.
"Eh? Yeah uh, Mimi-san…wait stop! What are you – !"
"Taking you to the digital world idiot," said Mimi as she placed her digivice in front of the computer screen.
"I'm home! Sora? Is something wrong?"
"Takeru just called…"
"Hmm? Is that so? What did he say?"
"Yamato…do you think it should be time to tell Shizuko about … the digital world?"
"…She's a bit too young still, but – hey what brought this talk anyway?"
"Well, I just got off with Takeru and Catherine and … they told me about how Hikari's son and Koushiro's daughter got into the digital world."
"Wait … Hikari I can understand, but Koushiro has a daughter? !"
"Hurry!" cried out Gatomon to the children as they tried to find a way to hide until it was safe. The two children behind her were panting for breath, and the little one was barely keeping up. The cat like digimon found a simple cave to hide for the mean time. "This way, hurry!"
The two human children soon found themselves inside a cave where they would be protected fom that orange stag beetle that was chasing them down. The taller of the two, spoke to Gatomon. "What … is that thing?" he said as he was trying to catch his breath. "What are … you?"
Also catching her breath, the little girl spoke next. "You can talk," she stated.
Gatomon, who was making observations of the cave to - make sure the cave was really safe, turned around to face the two human children, "That thing is called Kuwagamon and he's a champion level digimon. I'm a digimon, and yes I'm a digimon that can speak. Now, what are two human children doing in the digital world? We haven't had human children in … years."
The boy fell down to the floor, and just stared at the cat digimon.
Gatomon eyed the boy suspiciously. He seemed familiar to the champion level digimon, and Gatomon was sure that he gave off a familiar scent. A scent that only one person could smell like that. Trying to fight of the nostalgic feeling, Gatomon turned to the little girl who began to cough uncontrollably.
"Ami?" asked the boy in concern. "Are you alright?"
The girl continued to cough not being able to respond. Fearfully, the boy stood up and went over to her side. "Ami…? Ami are you alright?"
The young girl shook her head, and that's when the boy noticed her red cheeks and hitched breathing. Alarmed the boy turned to the digimon. "Help her; I think she needs a doctor to see her!"
Panicked, Gatomon turned to the entrance of the cave. "One of the ways out is unsafe; we have to see if there is an exit at the end of this cave. Can you carry her?"
The boy nodded his head, and tried his best to give Ami a piggy back ride. Without a moment to lose, they headed deep into the cave. Ami began to have coughing fits, and she tried to suppress them since it was the only noise being made. The brunette boy turned to give a small smile to the sick girl, but he soon frowned when her only focus was at the ground.
"What's your name anyway?" questioned Gatomon as she was leading the two human children out of the cave.
"Hikaru," responded the young boy feeling responsible for Ami being sick. "Yaga–"
Ami began to have another coughing fit.
"…and this is Ami. What about you?"
Gatomon responded nonchalantly, "Gatomon."
Hikaru nodded his head. "Gatomon, are you sure there's another exit to this cave? Will we find someone to look at Ami?"
"If my cat instincts are correct I believe we might be going to the Koromon village. I have a friend there who might be able to help."
"So you're a cat?" questioned Hikaru as he curiously watched the digimon. "I thought you said you were a digimon."
Gatomon's ears twitched. "I'm a digimon with a cat like appearance."
"But you said you had cat instincts!"
The poor digimon gave a playful glare at the boy. "Tentomon is better at explaining it to human children than I am! No big deal! Now move!"
Hikaru decided to keep his lips sealed as he followed the cat digimon deeper into the cave. He only hoped that there would be a way to heal Ami. He felt responsible for bringing her to this world while she was ill. There had to be someone in this world that would make her better. He regretted ever pulling a stunt like this now. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14459 | Perfect Tragedy
by Edmondia Dantes
Disclaimer: Gormenghast belongs to Mervyn Peake and the BBC.
AN: Gift-fic for my darling Mandykins. Kind of an odd blend of book(s) and movie, stylistically based on the 20 Random Facts thing that's been floating around. Fuchsia, Steerpike, and the world.
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He is not her hero, though he's pretended to be, and she's played along, because she wants to, because she needs to, because even though he's false, he's also true, and that is a rare and precious thing, to be cherished forever, even if she fears him. He is not her plaything, though he's played the part before, and she's laughed and embraced that too, because even if he's not hers, he doesn't belong to anyone else, either. He's not anything that he should be, although he could be anything he wanted, and he tries, for her. She revels in it - it doesn't matter, none of it matters, because at least he's there and he's real and he's alive in the same way that she is, and she envies him his freedom.
There are days when she's certain she's being smothered to death, and so she runs, and he's the only one who'll ever follow her. She doesn't know why - he needs no one, he's not like anyone else in the history of ever - so she clings to him, greedy, even though she should always push him away. He's like fire, to her fascinated eyes, destructive and reckless except that he's not, he never will be, he's far too controlled to let himself be careless the way she is, and he'd never take her away from all of this, though she wishes he would.
But he's not anyone's hero, not even hers, and she hates him for that, for being her fantasy and failing her, like everyone else. Everyone else is just pretending, too, they just don't want to admit it - dear, foolish Titus, blinded by his own dreams, and he's too stupid to realize that he's as stuck as she is, maybe even worse, because at least no one cares when she flees the castle, at least no one needs her for anything else than her puppet-purpose.
Sometimes it makes her laugh, when she's alone, when she suspects she's slowly going mad the way her father did, the way her father died, and he too had died in fire, because what was left in the ashes of the library wasn't her father anymore. It wasn't anything, and she hates that, she hates the tears that don't quite come, that never truly have. Sometimes, she thinks she's been lost in a dream all these years, and when she wakes up, bleary-eyed and confused, nothing has changed, and she's still dreaming.
One day she clawed at the walls of her room until the paper was cracked and peeling, her poetry dashed and shredded, and she ran to her attic when nanny came to scold and clutch and exclaim over the mess she'd made. She didn't need to hear, didn't need to see, and if she destroyed another ancient artifact, who would care? It's all rotten anyway.
She keeps the rose he left her pressed in her book of fairy tales. It's a dream, the sweetest one, and she knows it will never come true. Kitchen boys are not brave knights, and princesses are loved and protected, not left to wander the endless grounds like wild madwomen, like the fairy she is too ugly to be.
Darling Dr. Prune is the only sane person she knows. He confuses her terribly, and though he's dear and kind, he's not like her, and she'll never understand him.
Once, she touched his cheek, startled by the warmth and life she felt beneath her fingertips. It was one of the few times she'd ever shocked him, and in the frozen silence before she'd fled, she stared into his eyes and suddenly realized that he loved her.
This is nothing like a fairy tale.
Sometimes, when she's going through the motions of another empty ritual, she'll try to catch his eye, see if there's still the spark that she felt those ages ago when she first found him. Sometimes, when her mother and Barquentine and Titus are arguing their way through another gloomy conversation, he'll glance at her, and she knows it's there, maybe stronger than before, maybe cooler than before, and maybe they're both getting older, but he's still strange and she's still wild and maybe, just maybe, they could have a chance.
Sometimes she's absolutely terrified of him, and sometimes she's revolted by him, but most of the time, she just wants him to notice her. He's all that she has, all that could even be considered to be hers, and she's desperate to keep him. Sometimes she laughs herself into tears, because he's all that she has, and he isn't hers at all. She locks herself in her room, sometimes, clings to her attic and all that she's collected and treasured, and even if her things aren't beautiful, it doesn't matter because no one else wants them, and that makes them just like her.
He's just like her, and they couldn't be farther apart.
She loves Titus, she knows, and Dr. Prune, and she loved her father, once. She does not love Steerpike, and Steerpike does not love her, except in those times in which she adores him, and those fleeting, terrifying moments in which the only truth in the world is that he loves her and she cannot escape him.
This is not a romance.
She's watched him change, and she knows she's changed, and she knows that they're all changing, and that means something strange and terrifying in this place. She shouldn't be changing, the world shouldn't be changing, and if she dragged him to her, he would freeze in her arms, and then he would start pretending, and then everything would blur into what shouldn't be and what could be and that is why she will never reach for him.
There are days when she thinks that Gormenghast is festering, and it gives her chills to see Steerpike, slicing through the world like a surgeon through a wound, and that brilliant clarity terrifies her, sends her scurrying back to the safety of her toys and games, and she won't see him unless he softens his focus, gentles himself for her sake, and she loves that he plays this game for her and her alone.
Once upon a time, she stumbled on a stranger in her attic. Intruder once, intruder twice, and if he's not her knight he could be a dashing pirate, or a brave rebel, courting the princess so far above him, and his boldness and brilliance would be for her favor alone.
She is so far above him that she finds herself straining to chase after him.
Because her dreams can't come true, she dreams them all the harder, and when the world falls short, she runs away again, because she can't bear the ugliness she sees.
Because it began in sunlight, it ends in rain, and at the end of all things, she loves him as fiercely as she hates him.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14463 | HEY-LOO! Yeah,I know I haven't updated my other two stories but those are just going to be 3 or 4 chappies long! Now this baby is going to be a full-out story! :D Dis iz a coolio prologue that doesn't even seem like one but WHO CAREZ IN DA WORLD? :DDD
I've had this idea for days but when I finished typing it,I didn't like it soooo I re-wrote it! So tell me whatcha think about it! And Hikari doesn't seem so childish now but I promise to give what I wrote. :) Happy reading everyone!
I changed the title. I tend to do that. Deal. :P
When I met her, I never knew she would change my life so quickly. When we talk, she always seems like such a foolish, immature girl. I never knew she would be the one to teach me something else about life, other than hardwork and being serious. She opened up something else inside of me. She brought a new side of me out.
Hikari changed me. And it started that day at the dock.
I crossed my arms and tapped my foot. "Father, why do I need to meet the new farmer now? She'll walk around town introducing herself, anyways," I said, annoyed.
"Oh, Gilligan," my short, rotund father started. "You're just like your mother. She was impatient, as well."
"My name is Gill," I gritted through my teeth. One more name like 'Gilly' or 'Gilligan' and I'll stuff him up the chimney again.
"Of course, Gilly," he said, obviously not hearing what I said. I was about to pick him up and throw him off when he ran further onto the dock. "Oh, look! Pascal's here with our new resident!"
As soon as the ship docked, a girl about my age ran off. She was a head shorter than me. Her short red-brown hair had a cowlick like my own head. If you looked closely, I think you could see the word 'excitement' written in her bright brown eyes. She was quite skinny, she didn't look like farming material.
She looked around, amazed at what she saw. Then she looked over at us, smiled softly, and bowed.
"Hello. Um, you must be the mayor, right? I'm Hikari," she said, looking at me.
I stared at her. "No, I am not the mayor. What part of me makes you think so?" I demanded. I actually liked that someone thought I was the mayor, but this girl wasn't about to know that.
She raised her eyebrows. "Oh, I'm sorry. It just the way you dress and your fancy hair..." she trailed off. "I'm sorry."
Beside me, my father chuckled. "My Gilly has plenty of time until he is mayor. But of course, he has to find a wife to support him first."
I looked at him. He had a mischievous glint in his eye. "You never told me that before!"
"Well, that is because I never thought any females on this island were good enough for you...until today when we met you future wife a few minutes ago!"
"WHAT?" I yelled. "I don't even know her and you are probably planning our wedding already!"
"N-no, I'm not..."
That Hikari girl just stared at us. "Well, this is a pretty interesting island so far. I'm sure glad I didn't go to Forget-Me-Not-Valley." She giggled and I rolled my eyes.
"Of course it is! Mayor Thomas cannot run such a great place like this! Now, my son will show you around Castanet," my father said.
"You are the mayor. Why don't you do it?"
"Because this will give you some alone time." He winked and I glared at him. "And besides, you'll have to do this when you become mayor. Hikari, I will have your luggage sent to your house, alright?" She just nodded in response.
I sighed and started walking. "Follow me."
I took her around the whole island. We had to take time for her to introduce herself and talk. She seemed to really hit it off with Kathy. They practically became best friends then and there.
When Luke saw her, he got so distracted that he walked into a tree. Then he blushed when Hikari walked over to check on him. I felt jealous for some reason. But I didn't know why. I barely knew her. And I would never have feelings for someone like her. I already like someone, anyways.
"And to end this tour, your house," I concluded, after hours of running around. It was now 6:00 pm. "Good day."
"Wait! Do you know where Angela is?" Hikari asked, stopping me from walking away.
"How do you know Angela?"
"She's my older sister. Well, half-sister. We're from the same dad. Didn't you know? Hasn't she been talking about me coming?"
"No. Well, we don't talk much."
"It's probably 'cause-" I shot her a glare. "...nevermind."
How could I not know they were sisters? Of course, they are nothing alike. Angela is sweet and kind of cute. Hikari is, well, not. But then again, they only have one mutual parent. But I thought Angela would be talking about her sister. I guess not. And I also wondered where she was when we were walking around.
"Does this mean I'm going to live seperately from my sissy?" Hikari asked. She is so immature. I gave her a curt nod then started to walk away again.
"WAIT! Thanks for showing me around, Gilly."
"...Please don't be my father and stop calling me that," I snapped.
"'Kay, Gilligan! See ya tomorrow!"
I could already tell that girl was going to be a handful.
This wasn't the best I've ever written, but it will(hopefully)be better! :D And I apologize in advance for when I don't update for a long time. It's either I have writer's block or I'm being lazy. So I give you permission to yell at me when I don't update. :)
OH! I almost forgot!Some of you may have realized I changed my pen name from xRoseDewx to MidnightxMusic. Please don't get confused,alright? Ok,thanks you guys! :D I hope you read this... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14464 | Authors note: Hey guys! Just to inform you, this fic is simply the episode 'Midnight', but with the Eleventh Doctor instead. Donna isn't involved, sorry guys, but River, Rory and Amy are. I will stick to the actual episode as close as I can. However, both Eleven and Ten would react differently to some things, meaning I may have to change simple things, plus, River is on-board The Crusader aswell, meaning different dialogue and stuff. There may be 'extra scenes' that I add in there. =) So I hope you enjoy.
Midnight, such a beautiful planet. A resort, which was in the shape of a ring, consisting of glass domes inside of it, was placed exactly in the middle of the planet, and was surrounded by diamonds. The blinding light would bounce off the diamonds and twinkle, making it look like there were thousands of tiny little stars, creating beautiful scenery.
Inside, both Amy and Rory were relaxing. They were both wearing white robes, making Amy's hair stand out even more, and some white fluffy slippers to go with it. The room they were inside was absolutely stunning. Light shining from above was reflecting off the swimming pool, creating an almost shine to the room. Rory had fallen asleep, with his face mask still on, Amy still can't believe she managed to persuade him to wear one. Amy smiles at him and closes her eyes, leaning her head back on the chair for full relaxation. After all, there was peace, quietness, champagne to her left, and her husband to her right; you can't really blame her for relaxing. It's definitely different compared to other adventures, even if it was The Doctor's idea to come here in the first place. She sighs slowly in relief. She hears footsteps coming her way; she opens one eye, too relaxed to open the other. A waiter, wearing black trousers and a white shirt, he did look very 'posh' in a way, walks over to her. His left hand holding up a blue object, curious, Amy props up on her chair and looks at the man. He bent over to her, revealing the object.
"A phone call for you Madame," he informs her, placing the blue object to her waist. She looks at the phone confused for a few seconds, who would call her here, then realises it could only be one person.
"Hello Doctor," she greets him warmly, placing the phone to her ear. The butler walks away, giving her privacy. She can literally hear the smile on the other end of the phone.
"Hello Pond, you sure you don't want to come?" He asks again, for the twenty second time that day.
"I said no." She states firmly, yet she still smiles at his determination. Trust him. She hears a sigh across the phone,
"Oh, come on Pond! Sapphire waterfall, it's a waterfall made-of-sapphire. Isn't that brilliant?" He says excitedly, jumping up and down slightly. Amy gives a cheeky grin.
"This enormous jewel, the size of a glacier, reaches the Cliff of Oblivion and then shatters into sapphire at the edge, then falls one hundred thousand feet into the crystal ravine." He tries again to persuade her with his intellectual facts.
"Oh, I can see why River wanted to come now. You know what, can she stay with you, I've changed my mind. Sapphires and River just don't-"
"She's a good girl," Amy reminds him, interrupting his sentence. The Doctor laughs at her words, because quite frankly she's the opposite. Not wanting to start an argument, over the phone, he decides to get back to the real reason he called her.
"Oh, come one. They're boarding now," he pleads, now looking over his shoulder, to see a group of people, making their way into the shuttle-like vehicle. The station looks very similar to a sub-station you would find on Earth; 21st Century anyway, it was just alot cleaner.
"I don't want to be stuck on my own with River Song, she's easily influential, she could influence me into anything... Oh, come on, four hours, that's all it'll take," he begs, flailing his arms around frustrated, which accidentally grabs River's attention. She is on the other side of the platform, sorting out her carrier's bag. The Doctor asked what she would possibly need on a cruise around Midnight, in a carrier's vehicle. As usual she just replies with her usual catchphrase, 'spoilers'.
"Doctor that's four hours there and four hours back, with you. I think I'll pass. Anyway, I'd rather be sunbathing, seeming we never did go to Space Florida," She reasons with him, making sure he could pester her no further. He huffs,
"Fine, fine. Just be careful, that's extonic sunlight," he warns her, making a serious face over the phone.
"Oh, I'll be fine. Says in the brochure this glass is fifteen feet thick. So stop worrying about me and go on your date with River." She demands him in a soft tone.
"It's not a date!" He exclaims, flailing his hands again. Only did he not notice River was now exactly behind him, she pouts,
"Oh, really, shame. Would have been a nice date," she says cheekily in a sarcastic tone. The Doctor turns to the phone,
"Amy, look what you've done," he cries accusingly, making his eyebrows, if he has any, rise up his brow so far that they may come off his face. River shakes her head and takes the phone off him, much to The Doctor whining, River just places her finger to his lips, shutting him up.
"Hi mother, and don't worry, we'll be back for dinner," she asserts her. Amy nods her head, then realises that she wouldn't hear that so she says,
"Okay." She can hear the Doctor in the background,
"When we're back, we can try that antigravity restaurant, with bibs." He shouts over the phone so Amy can hear. Amy laughs, and then takes a sip of the champagne, that was placed on the glass table next to her.
"See you in a few hours then. And behave," she warns them both. The Doctor then snatches the phone back and replies to Amy,
"Ah, don't worry about us. We're on a space truck with million strangers across the diamond planet Midnight- What could possible go wrong?" He jokes, Amy rolls her eyes and with that joke hung in the air she ends the call. Finally, after all that hassle, she can truly relax…
Ten Minutes Later….
Once on board The Doctor rushes to get some seats.
"Doctor, don't worry, the seats won't fly away." River reassures him, apologising to the strangers his roughly budged past. He plonks himself down on a seat, jumping on it slightly to check if it's 'comfy' enough. River shakes her head at him and places a hand on his chest.
"Sweetie, there's nothing wrong with this seat, you've been moving about the place for ten minutes now. We're staying here." And with that she sits next to him in a huff and places her carrier bag under her seat. The air hostess starts to give the complimentary objects to the passengers. She walks over to the woman at the front,
"Complimentary juice pack and complimentary.."
"Just the headphones, please," the blonde woman informs her, politely taking the headphones off her and plugging them in to the device. The woman walks over to River and The Doctor, giving them both packets of food and drink.
"That's the headphones for Channels 1 to 36, modem link for 3D vidgames, complimentary earplugs, complimentary slipper, complimentary juice pack, and complimentary peanuts." She lists the items, piling them on top of him; he just looks at her as if to say 'Anything else?'
"I must warn you some products may contain nuts." She states finally, the Doctor bursts out laughing, then realises he was the only one laughing.
"Complimentary peanuts; some may contain nuts?" He points out, looking at the woman with an innocent face. "It's funny." River chuckles to herself quietly, enjoying his awkwardness.
"Enjoy your trip." The air hostess says roughly, yet with a false smile.
"Oh, I can't wait! Geronimo," he replies excitedly, smiling to himself.
"I'm sorry?" The woman asks with a confusing face.
"Oh, it's an English word. Used to express exhilaration," he explains with a smile. The woman smiles back and walks over to other passengers, giving them their complimentary treats. As soon as she was out of sight River starts laughing out loud. The Doctor turns to her feeling patronised, and taps her on the nose. He can hear an elder man talking behind them while taking their seats. The elder man was accompanied with a girl. Brown hair, round glasses, young, looks to be the odd couple. However, you can never judge on looks, the Doctor learnt that the harder way. He once asked a 'man' how he was doing, just being polite, when it turned out to be a woman! He can still feel the smack now.
"They call it the sapphire waterfall, but it's no such thing." The man states, while sitting down on the seat closest to the window, no doubt to get a better view.
"Sapphire's an aluminium oxide, but the glacier is just a compound silicon with iron pigmentation." He explains, laughing hoarsely. The Doctor turns away from the man for a second, to look at the other passengers in the ship. A man and woman are not far behind them, probably husband and wife, guessing from their interactions with one another. His attention goes back to the people behind. The man's talking about pills, his probably got travel sickness; trust River to make him stay in the seat in front of him… River turns around and greets herself to the older man, shaking his hand.
"Hobbes. Professor Winfold Hobbes," he announces kindly to her. The Doctor rolls his eyes, not a professor for god's sake.
"Doctor River Song and this is The Doctor," she replies back, pointing to the timelord. The Doctor smiles and gives a little wave,
"It's my fourteenth time," Hobbes confesses while shaking the Doctors hand. The Doctor looks at him impressed.
"Oh, it's my, or our should I say, first time." He admits, smiling at the man. The younger woman pops out from nowhere, all pearly white teeth and good enthusiasm.
"And I'm Dee Dee. Dee Dee Blasco," she says quickly, trying not to feel left out. Hobbes narrows his eyes at her.
"Don't bother the man." He orders her firmly. "Where's my water bottle?" He asks as they sit back down. The Doctor and River look at each other and shrug their shoulders. He notices the woman at the front is staring at him, he simply smiles and she turns her head back to her book. How nice of her? River turns around to hear a woman rambling to her, what she thought, was her son.
"Don't be silly. Come and sit with us. Look, we get slippers." River laughs, how awkward parents can be right? The man looks over at his son,
"Jethro, do what your mother says." He says in an almost angry voice. The boy, well not really a boy, more so a teenager, shakes his head.
"I'm sitting here." He concludes, not making any sign of movement. He had black hair, which covered his eyes very slightly, and wore black clothing. River remembers somebody like him in her secondary school.
"Oh, he's ashamed of us, but he doesn't mind us paying, does he?" The man retaliates, quite hurt. The Doctor, who had also been listening in, poked River in the belly, making her fall back into her seat.
"Stop ear wigging," he whispers to her, smiling, because he knows full well he is to.
"I hate you," she whispers back, trying to look insulted or offended in some way, which fails. He pokes her arm,
"No you don't," he mumbles, looking into her eyes. She smiles at him and was about to answer back but was interrupted by the air hostess.
"Ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon," she announces striding down the middle of the ship. "Welcome on board the Crusader fifty."
She reaches the front of the ship, so as she can talk to everyone at once,
"If you would fasten your seatbelts," the woman instructs. River laughs quietly at the gesture, making the Doctor elbow her in the stomach playfully.
"We'll be leaving any moment." The woman finishes. All the passengers buckle their seatbelts as told, even River, who hates seat belts, or anything that prevents danger. The air hostess looks over,
"Doors." She simply says, leaving the doors to just shut functionally, like magic. "Shields down." The ship makes a beeping sound as the shield go down as ordered.
"I'm afraid the view is shielded until we reach the Waterfall Palace." She informs the passengers. "Also, a reminder. Midnight had no air, so please don't touch the exterior door seals."
"So much for exploring round the place," the Doctor mutters under his breath disappointed.
"Fire exit at the rear and should we need to use it, you first." The woman says almost as if it were forced out of her mouth. River moves to the Doctors ear, close enough he can feel her breath on him.
"Yeah right, I'm sure if there were to be any crash, they'd be the first to run through the fire exit." She whispers, leaving the Doctor laugh through his nose. The air hostess looks at her watch on her wrist,
"Now I will hand you over to Driver Joe," She finishes.
"Driver Joe at the wheel. There's been a diamond fall at the Winter With Canyon, so we'll be taking a slight detour, as you'll see on the map." The man on the radio addresses. The map at the very front of the ship shows the new directions.
"The journey covers five hundred kilks to the multifaceted coast. Duration is estimated at four hours. Thank you for travelling with us and, as they used to say in the olden days, 'Wagons roll.'" The ship then starts to rumble, shaking a bit as they set off.
"For your entertainment, we have the music channel playing retrovids of Earth classics." The air hostess says, clicking a button on the remote, turning on the TV screens, which appear from the ceiling.
"Also, the latest artistic installation from Ludovic Klein," she adds clicking the button on the remote again. A light from the corner of the ship shines, showing the instillation.
"Plus, for the youngsters, a rare treat. The animation archives." Then she pulled down a projection screen, showing cartoons, even though there were no children in the ship, although, the Doctor did find it very entertaining.
"Four hours of fun time. Enjoy." Then the woman walks off towards the back off the ship. All the music, animating and the art exhibition blare at the same time, four hours of this would cause a massive migraine. River places her hands to her temples, already getting a headache. The Doctor could just tell by the others passengers expressions that they were not enjoying this 'entertainment' either. The woman at the front of the ship looked at the Doctor, her eyes pleading with help. River leans over to The Doctor again and mumbles,
"Use the sonic for crying out loud." Normally the Doctor would have said something like 'if you ask nicely', but right now, he just wants the music to stop. He secretly gets out his sonic and sonics the machinery. Automatically, the music stops and the lights are no longer flashing, the blonde woman looks at him suspiciously but doesn't say anything.
"Well, that's a mercy," Professor Hobbes says out loud in relief, smiling. The air hostess walks down the aisle again,
"Uh, I do apologise, ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon. We seem to have had a failure of the entertainment system."
"Oh," The Doctor bawled sarcastically.
"Well, what do we do?" The blonde parent, who is sitting at the back, asks.
"We've got four hours of this? Four hours of just sitting here?" The man next to her complains, his legs crossed as he sits. The Doctor thinks of an idea, he jumps up from his chair to look at everyone, a big grin on his face.
"Tell you what. We'll have to talk to each other instead," he insists…..
Ninety Eight Kliks later.
They're all laughing, the husband and wife in tears telling their story.
"So Biff said, 'I'm going swimming.'" The woman says, inbetween deep breaths to control herself.
"Oh, I was all ready. Trunks and everything. Noseplug." The husband points to his wife, who giggles again. River laughs along with the woman, her laugh was contagious.
"He had this little noseplug. You should have seen him." The Doctor stares at the couple intrigued by their story, smiling himself along the way.
"And I went marching up to the lifeguard, and he was a Shamboni, you know, with those big foreheads." The man carries on, pointing to his forehead while he explains the story. "And I said, 'Where's the pool?' And he said, 'The pool is abstract.'" He finishes off laughing. Both Dee Dee and Professor Hobbes were in hysterics. River looks over at their son, who looks bored out of his mind; it appears he's heard this story before. She walks over to him, and asks if she can sit next to him. He looks at her up and down, and he soon sits up properly and takes his headphones out. Bless.
"S-Sure," he stutters, clearing the seat of rubbish and objects, River sits down.
"Take it you've heard this all before? Parents right. Can be so embarrassing," she admits, looking over at his parents.
"It wasn't a real pool!" She hears the woman yell.
"It was a concept," her husband adds. She looks at the Doctor, who seems to enjoy this little story.
"And you were wearing a noseplug?" He asks, squishing his nose with his fingers to imitate the object. They nod; they don't have the oxygen to answer properly, laughing too hard.
"Nose plugs are cool," The Doctor states, turning to River. She shakes her head immediately,
"No. The answer is no. Definitely not. I'll shoot it off you if you even dare pick one up, understand." She jokes, but the Doctor can't really tell if she's being serious. After all, look at what happened to the Stetson and fez. River puts her attention back to Jethro.
"So are you two married or a couple or just friends or something?" He asks shyly, pointing to the Doctor with his head. River sighs and smiles at the same time.
"You'd have to ask him that." She confirms, winking at him…
One hundred and fifty kliks later….
"I'm just a second year student, but I wrote a paper on the lost moon of Poosh. Professor Hobbes read it, liked it, took me on as researcher, just for the holidays." Dee Dee explains to River and The Doctor, while handing them drinks made from the coffee machine. River was very interested, The Doctor could tell, her eyes never leaving Dee Dee as she talked of University and being with a professor. Of course, The Doctor knew she wanted to be a professor herself, in fact, he's even met her as a professor.
"Well he says researcher, but most of the time he's got me fetching and carrying, but it's all good experience," She confesses while making her own coffee. River holds onto her arm fragilely, looking her directly in the eye.
"Don't ever let anyone order you round Dee Dee, it's your life, your decisions," she suggests in a calm voice, yet getting the message across. She nods in response. The Doctor interrupts their moment, fiddling with his bowtie as he talks.
"And did they ever find it?" He asks.
"Find what?" Dee Dee replies with a confused face.
"The lost moon of Poosh," he enunciates, rocking on his heels slightly. Dee Dee laughs in response,
"No, not yet."
"Well, maybe that'll be your great discovery one day," he lies, knowing full well that it's him and Donna that find the missing planet on the Medusa Cascade, along with the other twelve planets. He smiles and raises his cup of coffee,
"Here's to Poosh." River and Dee Dee clank their cups together with his.
"To Poosh," they say in unison.
Two hundred and nine kliks later…
"No, no. I'm with a… She's urm.." The Doctor scratches his cheek nervously. The blonde woman looks up at him with a smirk.
"Doctor River Song, am I'm not correct," she says, while taking a mouthful of food. The Doctor looks at her with a puzzled face.
"She talked to me earlier, lovely young woman. Very nice, easy to get on with, and that's saying something with me," she admits. The Doctor puts some food into his mouth.
"What about you, you travelling with anyone?" He asks innocently, trying to avoid the subject on River Song. He can just guarantee that she would be listening in, even if she is talking to the couple at the back of the ship.
"No. It's just me." She replies vaguely, no sign of sadness to her face.
"Oh, I've done plenty of that, travelling on my own. I love it. Do what you want, go anywhere." He lies, of course he's lying. He hates travelling alone, his only saying it to comfort the woman.
"I'm still getting used to it," she confesses. "I've found myself single rather recently, not by choice." She adds on, unwrapping a napkin at the same time.
"What happened?" He questions, feeling quite sad for her, she may not be everyone's cup of tea, but she definitely doesn't deserve to be alone. Nobody does.
"Oh, the usual. She needed her own space, as they say. A different galaxy, in fact. I reckon that's enough space, don't you?" She remarks, wiping her mouth with the napkin.
"I'm not really the one to give advice on relationships," he jokes back nervously, pulling at his collar awkwardly. The woman chuckles,
"Are you not with that woman?" She replies with a question. The Doctor gulps.
"We're sort of married," he confesses. The woman raises her eyebrow, "it's a long story." The woman laughs again, and looks at the box in her lap. Inside was her main course meal.
"So what's this then? Chicken or beef?" She asks curiously, looking at the meat strangely. The Doctor takes some in his fork, from his own box, and shoves it in his mouth. He nods, approving of the taste.
"Bit of both," he states.
Two hundred and fifty one kliks later….
"So this is Midnight. Do you see? Bombarded by the sun," Professor Hobbes demonstrates to the whole ship, pointing to the graph and symbols on the projection screen.
"Extonic ray, raw galvanic radiation. Dee Dee next slide," he orders. River looks at Dee Dee, trying to remind her of what she said earlier. She shrugs her shoulder and clicks a button on the control, moving the slideshow on.
"It's my pet project. Actually, I'm the first person to research this because, you see," he sits down on the chair, "the history is fascinating because there is no history." He states matter of factly. "There is no life in this entire system. There couldn't be. Before the Leisure Palace Company moved in, no one had come here in all eternity. No-living-thing." He rambles on. River sits there gobsmacked by this information. She looks at The Doctor, who is also intrigued by his presentation.
"But how do you know? I mean, if no one can go outside…" Jethro question the inevitable. His mum sighs,
"Oh, his imagination. Here we go." She complains as if it happens all the time. River looks at the woman annoyingly,
"He's got a point, though." She backs up his opinion. The Doctor nodded in agreement.
"Exactly!" Mr Hobbes exclaims, raising his finger in the air. "We look upon this world through glass, safe inside our metal box. Even the Leisure Palace was lowered down from orbit. And here we are now, crossing Midnight, but never touching it." As soon as he stops speaking the ship starts to bang and rattle, the lights flickering on and off.
"We've stopped," the wife points out obviously, looking around the room nervously. Suddenly all the passengers, even the Doctor, seem a bit freaked out.
"Have we stopped?" The woman speaks again. Biff, her husband, stands up from his chair.
"Are we there?"
"We can't be. It's too soon." Dee Dee acknowledges, pulling up her glasses from falling down her nose.
"No, they don't stop. Crusader vehicles never stop." Mr Hobbes, informs them, disagreeing with the situation. The air hostess walks over to the middle of the ship,
"If you could just return to your seats, it's just a small delay." She tells them, walking to the telephone at the end of the ship. The passengers all look at each other, quite scared.
"Maybe it's just a pit stop," Jeff suggests, sitting down in his chair.
"There's no pit to stop in. I've been on this expedition fourteen times. They never stop," he reassures everyone. River was staring to get annoyed with him denying the truth; she was going to say something before Skye interrupted.
"Well, evidently we have stopped, so there's no point in denying it." She remarks sharply, making the professor shut up. River smiles at the woman, she was going to say near enough the exact same. Jethro laughs, finding this all funny,
"We've broken down."
"Thanks Jethro," his mum says sarcastically. He turns to his mum smiling,
"In the middle of nowhere."
"That's enough. Now stop it," Jeff warns Jethro, holding on to his wife's hand. The air hostess walks in on their conversation.
"Ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon, we're just experiencing a short delay. The driver needs to stabilise the engine feeds. It's perfectly routine, so if you could just stay in your seats…" The Doctor looks at her with a puzzles face. He gets up from his seat and walks to the front door, where the pilots are. The air hostess block his way,
"No, I'm sorry,sir,I…" She objects. He flashes the psychic paper at her quickly,
"There you go. Engine expert. Two ticks," he says before she could speak. River rises from her chair, ready to follow him.
"Madame if you could just.."
"Where ever he goes I go," she informs her, pushing her to the side. The Doctor proceeds to walk into the room, with River Song behind.
"Sorry, if you could just sit down… You're not supposed to be in there!" The air hostess yells at them, they take no notice and enter the room. The room is lit up from the random coloured button on the walls and ceilings. There are two men at the front, obviously the pilots, the one turns around on his wheelie chair.
"Sorry. If you could just return to your seats, sir and madame," he proposes, pointing to the door. The Doctor flashes his psychic paper at the man,
"Company insurance. I'm The Doctor and this is Doctor River Song." He informs then, the second man gazes at River, liking what he's seeing. The Doctor furrows his eyebrows,
"Right, let's see if we can get an early assessment. So what's the problem, Driver Joe?" He says quickly, trying to get the man's attention away from River.
"We're stabilising the engine feeds. Won't take long," he confirms, while pressing some buttons. River and The Doctor looks at the scanner,
"Um, no, because that's the engine feed, that line there, and it's fine," he informs them. "And it's a micropetrol engine, so stabilising doesn't make sense, does it?" He asks, looking around the room, tying to see what cause the stop.
"Sorry, he tends to do that a lot," River says, pushing The Doctor so as she can take a look to, "he's very clever, so what's wrong?"
"We've just stopped. Look, all the systems fine." The second man replies, looking rather worried. "Everything's working, but we're not moving." The Doctor retrieves his sonic and sonics the buttons and scanners,
"Yeah, you're right." He agrees, looking at the sonic's results. "No faults. And who are you?" The Doctor asks the second man. He looks up at River,
"Claude. I'm the mechanic," he admits, smiling at her, she smiles back half-heartedly.
"Trainee?" The Doctor asks. He just wants to make him seem less impressive to River, if his being honest.
"First day," the man replies quietly.
"Nice to meet you," he says with a smile.
I'm going to stop there folks, hopefully that wasn't too dull, but if you've seen the episode, you'll know it gets better. =) Please review so as I know if I've taken the episode in my own sort of way, and if I'm doing it alright. Took a while to write, but oh well. It's fun! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14467 | God's Canvas
Every morning and evening
I notice the different shades and hews
The clouds have their unqiue formations as well
Each day a new masterpiece comes into view
Before His own creation, He paints
Every dawn and dusk, a new gift
Another way He shows us how much He loves us
He's in everything, even in the smallest pebble
Especially in the beauty of the sky
It's all clearly evident of His generosity
It reminds me never to forget how blessed I am
And that no matter where I go that I'm loved.
April 14, 2006 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14468 | When I swallowed your chocolate covered lies,
I took them greedily, letting them melt in my mouth
and ignoring the poison rushing through my unworthy veins.
Then one day came the symptoms;
cold lonely empty shell defined be a pale frame,
sleepless eyes falling deeper in an ashen face,
unshed tears building a dam in an unsuspecting mind.
And even as I waste away from your oh so beautiful devilry,
I die to please you and your unforgiving gaze
that's piercing my soul with a hint of fiery ice.
But I forgive you because it is self destructive
to expend a hateful emotion on someone
you still, and always will, care for.
Because I love you. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14469 | Vanishing Life
There's a tan-line on my wrist
where your watch used to be.
There's a kiss on your lips
from when we used to be.
There's the casings broken off
the chain where they should be.
There's your shirt in my closet
where your memory used to be.
I'm crying at the thought
of losing you.
Can't you see me weep?
Though you say we'll always be…
There's a hole in my life
where your heart used to be.
There's a slot on the shelf
where the textbook used to be.
There's a case in my bag
where my pencils should be.
There's the picture with dust
where the students used to be.
There's a time during the day
where my school life used to be.
The school year's ending now
after all these months.
Why did time have to speed?
…and they said we'd never be…
There's a hole in my heart
where my companion used to be.
There's an ache in my head
where the pleasure used to be.
There's still that side of my bed
where I thought that you should be.
There's my notebook in hand
where my writing never will be.
There's this yearning for you
where your presence used to be.
Summer's near over now
and I've got three weeks.
Why can't anyone see?
There go the plans that never can be.
There's a will to be gone
where my life—it used to be… |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14473 | Kitchen Krafts
Make Your Own … Bubbles
(Note: Do this activity outdoors.)
1/4 cup good quality liquid dishwashing detergent4 cups water
large container (for dipping the straw frame)
35″ (89 cm) length of cotton kite string
2 plastic drinking straws 7 3/4″ (19.7 cm) long
1. 1.
In a bowl, mix the dishwashing detergent with the water and pour into the container.
2. 2.
Thread one end of the string through each straw and tie both ends in a knot.
3. 3.
Holding one straw with each hand, form a frame and put it into the solution. As you slowly take it out, a film will form on the frame (see illustration). Hold your arms out in front of you and slowly pull the frame to the side. The air will force the film off and make bubbles. You can change the bubble patterns by the way you move or shake the frame. To close off one large bubble, twist the frame towards you. The bubble will form a sphere and drift away.
Make Your Own … Baking-Soda Clay
2 cups baking soda
1 cup cornstarch
food coloring (optional)
1 1/4 cups water
1. 1.
In a saucepan, mix the baking soda with the cornstarch.
2. 2.
Stir a few drops of food coloring in the water, if desired, then add it to the mixture and stir. Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring continuously. When the mixture looks like moist mashed potatoes, remove the pan from the stove.
3. 3.
Put the clay on a large plate and cover it with a damp cloth. As soon as the clay is cool enough to handle, knead it until it is smooth. It can be used several weeks if it is stored in a tightly closed plastic bag in the refrigerator.
Make Your Own … Finger Paint
2 cups water
food coloring
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup warm water
1. 1.
In a saucepan, bring 2 cups water and desired coloring to a boil.
2. 2.
Put the cornstarch into a small bowl, dissolve it with 1/3 cup warm water, then gradually stir it into the boiling water. Stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil again. Then remove the pan from the heat and let it cool.
[photos] Photos by Welden Andersen, posed by models |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14475 | As Though I Had Been There
As Though I Had Been There
Music from the Friend
1. Once Jesus sat upon a hill and taught a multitude
Of faith and love and peace and joy—He taught them to do good.
2. Once Nephi, Alma, Samuel, John were prophets God had sent.
They taught His children faith and hope; They taught them to repent.
The scriptures bring these words to me as though I had been there,
And when I read them, I can feel my Savior’s tender care.
Text: Annette Dickman
Music: Annette Dickman
Artist: Dickman
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1998-05-01
More Info: Friend
Scriptures, Jesus Christ, obedience, prophets |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14481 |
No Happy Ending for Gannett Reporters Past or Present
We all know what would have happened if a BuzzFeed staffer had been the one purchasing a legal ounce of “Blue Dream” in Colorado. We would today be watching a split, comparative video contrasting the high effects of legal vs. illegal marijuana.
Instead, Trevor Hughes of the Fort Collins Coloradoan nonsensically purchases $27 worth of legal Colorado weed and then, as agreed with his reimbursing boss, takes it straight to a local sheriff’s office to be destroyed. That’s just Cheech and wrong.
Exasperated reactions to this video have come far and wide. Over on a certain Gannett-focused blog, an anonymous commenter recalls an even better Gannett reimbursables scenario:
Many years ago, before they were common, I was a news manager when we heard whispers about our area’s first illegal massage parlor. A massage was $15, but for another $10, the pitch went, you could get “completely relaxed.” You think I could get any one of a good sized group of male reporters to make me a legend – likely the first Gannett manager to approve a chit for a “happy ending?” Not one. They blew my chance at immortality.
[H/T: Romenesko]
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Los_Angeles/2008_Meetings/August_19 August 19, 2008
Speaker: Jeff Williams
Topic: Don't Write Your Own Security Code
September 17, 2008
Speaker: Ryan C. Barnett
Topic: The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) 2007 Report
October 29, 2008
Speaker: Jonathan Gershater
November 19, 2008
Speaker: Stephan Chenette
Topic: A new web attack vector: Script Fragmentation
December 10, 2008
Speaker: Samy Kamkar
Topic: The MySpace Worm |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14495 |
> Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> Hi Vivek,
> that simple request:
> $ select count(*) from LINEITEM;
> runs. Before each run, the cache is flush:
> first second first second first second
> CFQ 48.4s 48.4s 48.2s 48.2s 48.1s 48.5s
> Noop 138.0s 138.0s 48.3s 48.4s 48.5s 48.8s
> AS 46.3s 47.0s 48.5s 48.7s 48.3s 48.5s
> Deadl. 137.1s 137.1s 48.2s 48.3s 48.3s 48.5s
> scheduler. There is big improvement for noop and deadline schedulers
> (why is that happening?). The performance with anticipatory scheduler
> is a bit lower (~4%).
Ok, I think what's happening here is that by default slice lenght for
a queue is 100ms. When you put two instances of DB in two different
groups, one streaming reader can run at max for 100ms at a go and then
we switch to next reader.
But when both the readers are in root group, then AS lets run one reader
to run at max 250ms (sometimes 125ms and sometimes 250ms based on at what
time as_fifo_expired() was invoked).
So because a reader gets to run longer at one stretch in root group, it
reduces number of seeks and leads to little enhanced throughput.
If you change the /sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/slice_sync to 250 ms, then
one group queue can run at max for 250ms before we switch the queue. In
this case you should be able to get same performance as in root group.
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Watch where you step??? Why? Small cheese walking around?
Beware the Rott-Cheese... Or even the Pit-Cheddar.
Oh my, this must be hunger. Off to lunch now!
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Hmm, unhygenic factory ...
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It's a dairy farm, don't step in the cow pies.
Nice work.
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I like this kind of random collage lay out.
Very american.
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Yeah I agree - and I am American. HA HA! You are right, though it has the kind of ivy league, east coat, Abercormbie & Fitch, American Eagle kind of look going on. It is ratty and not overly profession while looking professional.
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It does look very "American" doesn't it? I mean I could tell just by looking at the thumbnails that these came from here. Personally, I hate this type of layout UNLESS the concept necessitates it. This kind of visual hemorrhage in art direction was pretty popular in the nineties. The look was copied heavily back then. It still is today. (you're looking at it..) Takes a lot of discipline to show restraint in designing a page. You can ALWAYS add, add and add some more. (I think the art director stopped halfway with this ad if you ask me.)
That's why I'm a huge fan of British advertising (and I'm generalizing here of course.) Also, a lot of
work from Singapore. Quick and to the point in their visual (and verbal) communication. There aren't very many extraneous elements in their ads. Sometimes they suffer from their unintended "barren-ness" of the design. But you always knew what the art director had intended to do with his layout. And your eyes IMMEDIATELY went where he wanted them to go. And that's true craftsmanship. Not some kind of self-indulging, masturbatory excess that they pass off as "art direction" these days.
That was a little too harsh a comment. But I stand by every word of it.
Oh, and one more thing. Almost exactly the same headline has been written before. I think it was for a cattle ranch or something...
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Wow. An artisanal cheese makers that has cows. Just like - any other artisanal cheese maker.
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This campaign will be in the 2007 Communication Arts Advertising Annual.
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I am using Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I have installed Cpu SPY. I have noticed that when I leave the tab in the night, WiFi OFF, flight mode on, it does not go to Deep Sleep but stays on 216Mhz. I guess it is an app or something, however I do not know how to investigate this.
I run 4.0.4 stock, rooted.
What can I do to have the device on Deep Sleep the time that it stays on 216Mhz?
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To have your device in Deep Sleep, you need to find out what applications are running and causing a wakelock that doesn't let the CPU go bellow 216MHz, thus preventing the device from entering into Deep Sleep mode.
I can recommend BetterBatteryStats by Sven Knispel available from Google Play Store:
• Spot drainers based on detailed information about the root cause
• measure the effect of actions to reduce drain
After finding out the applications that are causing your problem. Don't forget to disable BetterBatteryStats.
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Hello there. I have noticed that l2_hsic causes this but I do not know how to prevent it. – Kaoukkos Aug 21 '12 at 18:18
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Trying to run a script when my phone is plugged in via USB, a made a udev rule looks like this in /etc/udev/rules.d/85-lazydroid.rule
ATTRS{idVendor}=="22b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="428c", RUN+="/home/joel/.lazydroid"
And the script .lazydroid looks like this:
exec adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080 &
exec chromium-browser --new-window &
The script itself runs fine. The trick is I can't get the script to run up on insertion of the phone.
And it's the right ID according to: lsusb | grep Motorola
Bus 002 Device 042: ID 22b8:428c Motorola PCS
Any ideas?
[EDIT] Ok, know i know the udev rule is running, creates the symlink, made som changes to the rule, see below:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="22b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="428c", SYMLINK+="phone", RUN+="/bin/sh /home/joel/.lazydroid.sh"
But still the script wont run. And still if I run i separately it runs perfect.
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You can test if your rule will be hit or not by running
udevadm test /path/to/sysfs/dev
You can find the devices sysfs node by using this:
udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sda #To find sysfs node for first HDD
So to wrap that all together it'll be:
udevadm test $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sda) 2>&1 | more
Grep that for your script's name or read it line by line if you want. If your script is called but isn't executing then remember you don't have a typical environment in a udev script and so you must call all programs by their full path or otherwise recreate the environment to your liking. Try replacing adb and chromium-browser with their absolute paths (which adb and which chromium-browser)
Also the second exec in your bash script wont execute like you expect as the environment doesn't specify a window system for Chromium to launch in. I think I understand what you were trying to do here, but udev is designed to be non-interactive.
In response to your comment. There are a few abstract screens on every unix system referred to as displays. X11, which is the window manager (think explorer.exe, sort of) for Ubuntu occupies one of them (7 or 8 I think, I work via ssh mostly). When you run a graphical program from the command line (say gedit) it will check the DISPLAY environment variable to determine which display it will draw itself on.
There's more to it that this, and I've never personally gotten a firm understanding of what the 'other stuff' is going on back there, but I'd try to do a few diagnostic things from your script:
mkdir /tmp/udev-script
/usr/bin/printenv > /tmp/udev-script/environment.log
/bin/echo "My script was run!" > /tmp/udev-script/script.log
DISPLAY=:8 # or :7, play around with that
export DISPLAY # Promote shell variable to environment variable
exec /path/to/chromium 2> /tmp/udev-script/chromium.log 1>&2 &
exit # This is important for udev, see sources
source2(man udevadm)
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Thanks, starting to understand this now. But still no luck. Can see that the script is called, and change to the real paths inside the script. But still no go. What did you mean with "Also the second exec in your bash script wont execute like you expect as the environment doesn't specify a window system for Chromium to launch in"? – choel Apr 14 '12 at 21:54
It was frustrating the last time I did this too. There are environment variables that define lots of things in unix. Most of which I don't get, but some of which I do. One of them controls which 'display' applications should exist in. I believe X11 (the window manager) uses 8 by default, which is why CTRL+ALT+F1 puts you on tty1 and CTRL+ALT+F8 puts you back in your desktop. That is governed in some part by the DISPLAY environment variable, but there's more too it than that. you can try adding DISPLAY=:*; export DISPLAY in your script and see if that helps. – Huckle Apr 15 '12 at 3:20
(read the edit above first) I'm beginning to remember that the 'other stuff' had to do with who owned the display. The logged in user owns the display that X11 is in, but udev is run as root. Keep that in mind, might help, might not. – Huckle Apr 15 '12 at 3:35
Ok, the script runs fine, the problem is the opening of chrome on a display. Tries different displays but I think the problem is that the script is run as root and root does not own any displays. So the question now is how do I run a script from udev as user or make sure root can access the user display. Think I'll start a new question about that. Thanks for the help. – choel Apr 15 '12 at 8:38
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I think you are on the correct path.
You probably want to split this into two scripts -
Use a basic script in udev, which runs another script and exits; the exit is important, because the udev rule will otherwise wait for script one and two to finish before mounting.
Your .lazydroid should be
/home/joel/auto_mount.sh & exit
Give it execute rights:
chmod +x .lazydroid
Then /home/joel/auto_mount.sh should be the contents of your original .lazydroid file
Add a sleep 5 to wait 5 seconds before running the rest of your script.
Again give it execute rights:
chmod +x auto_mount.sh
full credit
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well, tried that, still no go. It looks like the udev rule isn't launched or the rule it self does not runt the script. As before the script itself runs fine. Is there a way of checking if the rule is being used upon connection? – choel Apr 14 '12 at 13:54
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I think the problem is in the way you specified RUN You should write RUN+="/bin/bash /home/joel/.lazydroid.sh" Also first try to run a simple script like copy a existing file to another location.
Hope it helps ;)
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I'm planning on building my first PC and I've decided on an ASRock z77 extreme4 motherboard. I've searched on google, but I haven't had any luck finding whether it's supported. Is there a new list of supported hardware? (I haven't been able to find any recent ones(about the 12.04).)
I also, checked to find the chips used on it (I read on a forums post that I should and then check if those chips are supposrted), for instance it has a Broadcom BCM57781 ethernet chip, but again through google I haven't been able to find anything on that. Is there a site to check for such things? What do you suggest I do? I've searched about anything I can think of but found no answers. Any help much appreciated.
(P.S.I tried to make the question as generic as possible-check about hardware, not check about my specific motherboard)
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There is the website http://linuxhcl.com hardware compatibility list, and if you search for "linux hcl" you will find other sites that keep other lists. The information on these sites isn't always the most up to date, but they are supported by the community. Don't forget to submit the information of your hardware and help make them better.
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I'm trying to submit my app for the app showdown, but I've just noticed that when I use the "submitubuntu" Quickly command, my dynamic quicklist entries don't work. I think this is because the desktop file gets renamed from tickit.desktop to extras-tickit.desktop
I'm coding a hacky fix to look for /usr/share/applications/extras-tickit.desktop and changing the argument for get_for_desktop_id() if it exists, but is there a better way? Can I stop Quickly renaming the desktop file?
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The App Review Board Guidelines say in the section "Packaging":
The .desktop file is installed in the standard location /usr/share/applications, but must have the prefix 'extras-' added to its name. Example: extras-foobar.desktop for a package named foobar.
So Quickly is doing The Right Thing here and you should rename your .desktop file.
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How big should a slice be for a DVD, assuming that the file system restricts the size?
should slices be 1GB or so? What's an efficient slice size?
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According to the Wikipedia article,
It is, however, possible to circumvent this limitation by using the multi-extent (fragmentation) feature of ISO 9660 Level 3 and create ISO 9660 filesystems and single files up to 8 TB. With this, files larger than 4 GB can be split up into multiple extents (sequential series of sectors), each not exceeding the 4 GB limit. For example, the free software such as InfraRecorder and mkisofs as well as Roxio Toast are able to create ISO 9660 filesystems that use multi-extent files to store files larger than 4 GB on appropriate media such as recordable DVDs.
So a slice can be as large as a DVD (about 4.3 GB binary for a single-layer disc).
Limited file size
If, for whatever reason, you need to limit the file size to no more than max_file_size and the disk holds disk_size, make your slice size the largest disk_size / s less than max_file_size, where s is an integer. That way, you can fit s slices on the disk exactly (ignoring round-off error), wasting no space. For disk_size ≈ 4.3 GB and max_file_size = 1 GB, you could then make each slice 880 MB, fitting 5 slices per disc.
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pardon, I meant to state assuming that the file system prevents large files, what's the optimum slice size? – Thufir Sep 16 '12 at 0:22
@Thufir: Okay. Edited. – Mechanical snail Sep 16 '12 at 0:41
I haven't tried that, so I've accepted the answer assuming your arithmetic is correct :) – Thufir Sep 19 '12 at 20:33
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I am trying to rip my music collection from CD into mp3. For this task I am using Rhythmbox but the process is taking a lot of time since Rhythmbox is ripping the CDs very slowly.
Are there ways to increase the ripping speed of Rhythmbox?
Can you suggest alternative software that may proceed faster?
computer specs:
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• i7 Proc
• 700GB Disk
• 8GB RAM
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For my part, I have found that abcde ( A Better CD Encoder) is a perfect tool for the task.
sudo apt-get install abcde
It will :
• rip the CD
• get the meta informations from the net (titles, artist, etc...)
• handle the encoding of your choice (if you have plenty of disk space, you can opt for a lossless ripping, and make smaller versions of your file later if needed)
• do it in background without bothering you
To be more precise (from the man page), it will :
• Grab an audio track (or all the audio CD tracks) from your CD
• Normalize the volume of the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
• Comment or ID3/ID3v2 tag
• Give an intelligible filename
• Calculate replaygain values for the individual file (or the album as a single unit)
• Delete the intermediate WAV file (or save it for later use)
The only drawback (well, I don't think it is, but some people might) is that it's a command line tool.
According to this page there is a GUI for abcde called XCFA.
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+1 for command-line and riddiculous name :D – cauon Oct 11 '12 at 8:33
thanks for the suggestion, will be be faster? – dotdawtdaught Oct 19 '12 at 20:21
Well, the process of reading the datawill be just the same, so if your cd driver is slow, it will remain so, but the rest of the process it pretty optimized, and yes, I think it is quicker than with rhythmbox. – alci Oct 22 '12 at 7:41
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I found that with new(er) Ubuntu installs, that even abcde ripped at very slow speeds when pointed at the default CDROM device, which was /dev/sr0 in my case.
Setting CDROM to /dev/disk/by-id/ata-PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-106D_CJDC269789WL allowed abcde to rip at full speed.
Note: You'll need to find the correct entry in /dev/disk/by-id/ata* for your exact make and model for this to work right.
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Possible Duplicate:
How do I install the Intel Graphics driver in my system?
My video card is an Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics card
How do I update it?
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Intel provides opensource drivers that are built into the kernel. There are no proprietary drivers to install and update. If you edit your question and describe the problem, someone may be able to help. – user68186 Nov 20 '12 at 17:26
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For Intel, the Open Source drivers that come with Ubuntu are always up to date. There is no need to update them (Very different than ATI or Nvidia for example). Ubuntu always comes with the latest Intel driver when it comes out and it also updates the Intel drivers with the most updated Open Source version available.
Intel is one of the many companies that work a lot in the Open Source world and delivers very good, stable drivers. They also do many updates every year for old and new video cards. Just in case you have any doubts, Ubuntu updates it's Intel video drivers to any still supported version of Ubuntu, that means that your 12.04 will have the latest open source Intel drivers.
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I have encountered a problem in Mozilla. I am unable to install/uninstall the plugins. I don't why it is happening. :( I am using Ubuntu 12.04. Please help me out
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Which plugin/addon were you unable to install/uninstall? – saji89 Dec 12 '12 at 9:45
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(I assume you are using firefox, but most of these troubleshooting steps like safe-mode will work for Thunderbird as well, so they should still be useful)
Don't delete your profile folder straightaway as there's a lot more you can do before you do something like that. There are several ways of resetting your firefox data.
1) Try going to help > troubleshooting and you will see this screen (do not go to about:support without going through the menu or the reset option won't be available):
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Just click the reset option and firefox will be returned to its initial state. I have just tested this and it does reset settings and uninstall addons, while retaining your bookmarks.
2) Use the special -safe-mode option to load firefox (this works with Thunderbird as well) Run from terminal,
firefox -safe-mode
You will receive a box like this, which should allow you to load firefox and see if it was an addon that was causing the abnormal behaviour. Restart firefox in safe-mode again a second time and this time click the left-hand reset button if you want to clear your settings and addons.
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3) If neither of these suggestions sorts your problem out, you could run profilemanager and create a new profile and run firefox from that.
firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
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Then you could launch firefox like this or create a new shortcut, giving the exact location of your new profile:
firefox -Profile /home/mike/.mozilla/firefox/55divdmr.Mike2 -no-remote
For more on using different profiles in firefox, please see my answer here:
In addition, when you create a new profile, our old profile will not be deleted, so you will still have the data and bookmarks. However, you could set the new profile as your default by placing Default=1 under your desired profile in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.
You could backup your bookmarks to a html file with your old profile by going to firefox > bookmarks > import & backup > export to html. You could then import these when you have launched your new profile.
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thanks a lot problem is solved :) – jaspreet Dec 15 '12 at 13:34
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Maybe something in you settings folder got corrupt.
You may delete it (you will loose bookmarks, history, saved passwords, extensions).
1. Close Firefox.
2. Open Nautilus, press ctrl + H to show hidden folders
3. Find the .mozilla folder and delete it.
4. Open Firefox (it should be like a fresh install)
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I am running Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME 2.30.2. This is a VMWare workstation image provided by another company that I do not have support in this regard. I am trying to access the graphical tools for configuring the network, users, and services but the System->Administration menu does not have these options listed.
The main issue I am trying to solve is to correct the problems with the GNOME menu options and network settings.
I have the gnome-system-tools package installed, and I am unable to run command-line versions of the tools, such as nm-applet (I get no GUI if I run that command, the process is running in the background).
I realize that I can perform many tasks command-line, but I would like to use the GUI for administrative functions as I am not overly proficient for all command for restarting services and setting a static IP with a specific gateway.
Further, I can run gnome-nettool, but I cannot change the IP, I can only see my network card. nm-connection-editor does not show any network cards that I can configure to change the IP.
Currently, I am getting a DHCP through my NAT in VMWare, I want to set it to a specific IP address though.
Preferences Menu (note some missing options)
Preferences Menu
Administration Menu (note some missing options)
Admin Menu
Network Tools (I can view but not change IP address)
Network Tools
Network Settings (Unable to change IP address)
Network Settings
Network Connections (no connections listed, not even my existing ethernet NAT connection through VMWare)
Network Connections
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I hope I got you right on what you are trying to do.
Network Connections is in Preferences but you can also start is from the terminal using nm-connection_editor.
Users and Groups is in Administration you can start this one from the terminal too using users-admin.
To manage applications which should start automatically on a system start you use the Startup Applications Preferences application which is in Preferences again.
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Thanks, I was able to find the command line applications (note the screenshots above), but I am unable to get to a view (GUI) where I can change the IP address. I believe I should see a wired entry in Network Connections to Edit, but as I illustrated, there is no entry – RussellW Feb 26 '11 at 18:04
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You can try some things.
• sudo /etc/init.d/networing restart to restart your network.
• sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart to restart your network-manager tool.
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure nm-applet gnome-nettool to remanufacture your network packages.
• sudo gnome-nettool to try open gnome-nettool in root mode, but it didn't work for me. If didn't try it yet, try to move to tty1 (Ctrl+Shift+F1), log in as your user, and type sudo xinit gnome-applet -- :1 to open a windows with gnome-applet tool setted as root.
If you can use or are using KDE, I recommend KNetworkManager (sudo apt-get install knetworkmanager); I use it and I like it very much.
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If my memory serves me for 10.04 the nm-applet provides the network icon in the right hand side of the top panel. You can initiate configuration functions and view connection information by clicking the network manager icon and the selecting the desired function which are performed in GUI.
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I believe Network Connections etc should be in Preferences not Administration. Users and Groups is not in Administration?
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I've downloaded opencv but unfortunately I've got no idea how to install it. All the pages I found online were only telling me how to download and install it directly from the console, not what to do when you already have it downloaded. Could anybody tell me what to do?
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There is a lot of opencv libs in the software center or in apt. Not sure whether it is a standalone as such too? – don.joey Aug 18 '13 at 15:19
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To Install OpenCV on Ubuntu, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev
If you do not care about having the latest version you could skip the rest.
Install Dependencies
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-numpy
sudo apt-get install libtbb-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libgtk2.0-dev
Download OpenCV for Unix to: ~/Downloads
cd Downloads
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencvlibrary/opencv-unix/
tar -xvf opencv-
cd opencv-
mkdir build
cd build
Configure using CMake.
If compilation finishes without errors, you can install by saying:
sudo make install
And then configure dynamic linker run-time bindings:
sudo ldconfig
Source:How To Install OpenCV on Ubuntu
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To install OpenCV using the terminal on Ubuntu:
$ su -
# apt-get update
# apt-get install build-essential
# apt-get install libavformat-dev
# apt-get install x264 v4l-utils ffmpeg
OpenCV should be installed in /usr/local/ Installation Directory
You may also want to compile and view examples
$ cp -r /usr/share/doc/opencv-doc/examples .
$ cd examples
$ cd c
$ sh build_all.sh
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Watch this video.. It'll help you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqQB5KKJCh0
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While this may answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – guntbert Jan 18 at 13:24
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Here's a script to help install opencv on ubuntu https://gist.github.com/olupotd/cd0c68f4c84153dffd16/download
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Is there any way to stop Chromium (or google chrome) from auto completing searches in the addressbar?
the best example of this I have seen is if you type fire and ice into chromiums omnibox and hit enter it searches for fire and ice then if you type fire into the omnibox and hit enter it "autocompletes" the search and again searches for fire and ice not fire. I find this very frustrating and would just like a way of stopping this behaviour.
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1 - Click on the Wrench icon
2 - Click on Under The Bonnet
3 - De-select Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar
Under The Bonnet
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Thank you for trying to help but I just tried this answer and it didn't work :( if it helps at all I'm using Chromium 14.0.812.0 (Developer Build 91482 Linux) Ubuntu 11.04 – Roo79x Jul 5 '11 at 11:37
select Clear Browsing Data and it will work, I have just installed the development build of Chromium to test this out and it does work. – scouser73 Jul 5 '11 at 12:50
Thank you again for your time I've been following your every instruction I've even tried this on my mac with google chrome , I've purged chromium on my linux laptop and reinstalled the stable build and that didn't help either?. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong I've taken some screen shots and they are here for you to see picasaweb.google.com/roo79x/… – Roo79x Jul 6 '11 at 5:12
and look here google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/… and here google.com.au/… to please from what I read I'm not the only one with this problem. – Roo79x Jul 6 '11 at 5:25
I was looking at the search engines under Preferences>Basics> Manage Search Engines. and I found that the default Google search URL looked like this {google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s regardless of what I set in my preferences or my browser data. but creatingmy own google search engine and using google.com.au/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%s it will not?? – Roo79x Jul 6 '11 at 11:47
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I'm new to Linux but not to app development. I come from a RealBasic on a Mac background.
I've accepted that I need to learn a new language to develop for Linux (since RB won't run on 64 bit distros and is a cloed proprietary language) but I want to make sure I pick the right one.
I've been looking at Python and was all set to go until I read that PyGTK is becoming obsolete with the introduction of GTK 3. Is this true? The Ubuntu developer website stills seems to recommend it with Glade for the UI but I want to make sure that I don't learn something that's on the way out!
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since you want to learn something new, you can have a look at wxPython and Pyside. I suggest wxPython as it will have advantage if you switch to C++ one day porting to wxWidgets is a breeze. Pyside is Python-for-QT thing but I have no experience at all with it! Just an advice – Stefano Jun 17 '13 at 10:31
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up vote 8 down vote accepted
The short answer is no.
PyGTK is being phased out and replaced with PyGObject as the widget set upgrades from GTK+2 to GTK+3. As of Oneiric all 'native' ubuntu applications run using the GTK+3 set.
On a personal note, fairly recently I started developing an application in Python, and having looked into it I decided to use Python3 with PySide (which is Qt4 instead of GTK+3) because I found that Python 3 would be the standard in the year or so it took me to write the program, and because Qt4 has a some very good documentation, and some first class development software (just have a trail of Qt 4 Designer...)
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Tip: Qt designer's GTK+ variety exists and is called glade. – aquaherd Dec 4 '11 at 17:56
I find this very difficult to understand having come from a REALbasic sheltered development environment. All I want to be able to do is create an app whose GUI looks 'native' or theme-compliant on a modern version of Ubuntu or Mint. I also really want to be able to design the GUI in an editor (WYSIWYG) and link it with Python code. Given this extra information - what direction do you think I should head in? Is there a QT equivalent of Glade?? (also @aquaherd) – Nootrino Dec 4 '11 at 18:48
The Qt equivalent of Glade is Qt4 Designer. In Python you typically construct the interface, and then load it as class. For simple applications you can actually draw it all up in your own code, but for more complex GUI's it's easier to use a program like Qt Designer which will generate the code for you. Then all you need write is the code connecting the GUI events to your functions. – thomas michael wallace Dec 4 '11 at 22:19
On a note specifically about Qt: PySide and PyQt are both very similar libraries to link python to a Qt interface. The main difference between them is licensing (i.e. Pyqt does not allow you to release your code under the LGPL license) and the namespace (e.g. import PySide or import PyQt). I'm making this point as PyQt has a lot more tutorials and screencasts which are likely to help you on your way, but PySide is more preferable as it has a PPA, a less restrictive license, and is officially supported. – thomas michael wallace Dec 4 '11 at 22:25
I can't tell you if you should branch into the GTK+ or QT route, since both toolkits fit the bill, but since you asked about pygtk being relevant, I assumed you were already set on GTK+. If this is still the case and considering the REALbasic background, have a look at gambas which is a GTK+-ready Basic IDE. Mostly, having cross platform in mind, it pays to learn C/C++ and separate the user interface from the application logic and compile the front-end with a native toolkit. E.g. transmission, a bittorrent client that came from the Mac platform, uses quartz on Mac and GTK+ on the rest. – aquaherd Dec 5 '11 at 14:50
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PyGTK and pyGOBJECT are no longer the recommended method for developing apps for Ubuntu . Ubuntu developer website now recommends QML for the Ubuntu apps.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14671 | « Getting Started with Windows Azure | Main | Using Custom Domains with Windows Azure Services »
November 16, 2009
Windows Azure Terminology in Simple Words
Every time I start working on new technology I get amazed how many new terms we can invent as humans. From one side this is good because it demonstrates how easily we can make progress, but from other it can be an obstacle for somebody who wants to get onboard fast. In this post I will try to explain some of the Windows Azure terminology the way I understand it.
Windows Azure Services
Without going into details about the internals of Windows Azure I need to say that there are two main services that every developer needs to be aware of: Compute and Storage.
Compute is the computational part of Windows Azure, and very often it is referred to as Hosted Service. Windows Azure Fabric is the component that manages the Hosted Services - David has a very nice post explaining how this works in the datacenter (see David L's Blog - Windows Azure - What Happens in the Data Center?). Fabric takes care of the deployment of your service, restarting it if something goes wrong, managing the resources available to it etc. From now on I will refer to the computational part of Windows Azure as the Hosted Service.
Windows Azure Storage is the second service available for developers. It is also referred to as Storage Account. Storage consists of three main parts:
• Blob Service (or just Blob) – used to store and retrieve large amounts of binary or text data
• Queuing Service (or just Queue) – used to store and retrieve messages
• Table Service (or just Table) – used to store structured data (however you should not confuse it with SQL Azure)
As of last week Storage provides nice features like CDN and Custom Domain association. From now on I will refer to the Storage Service as Storage Account or just Storage.
Both Fabric and Storage are simulated in the development environment available as part of the Windows Azure SDK (also called Development Fabric and Development Storage).
Looking at Compute (i.e. Fabric) and Storage as components of Windows Azure is just one way to abstract the system and by no mean the only way or the way Windows Azure team does it. This is just a simplification I decided to use to make my life easier when I look at Windows Azure from developer point of view.
More about Hosted Services
The Hosted Service is the actual application you deploy on Windows Azure. Every Hosted Service in Windows Azure can have Web Role and Worker Role.
The Web Role is intended to provide the front end for communication outside Windows Azure, while the Worker Role’s is intended for background processing.
It is very important to understand that there are certain limits of the number of roles in a Hosted Service. The CTP (Community Technology Preview) program allows developers to have up to 5 roles in a Hosted Service; only one Hosted Service and two Storage Accounts are allowed for CTP users. Currently every Hosted Service is deployed on a separate VM (Virtual Machine).
As a developer you can mix and match the types of the roles as you want as long as you don’t exceed the limits. Going forward those limits will change in accordance to the subscription program Windows Azure team will introduce.
VIP-Swap and In-Place Upgrade
One very important term is the VIP (Virtual IP) address – this is the publicly accessible IP address used to access your Hosted Service; or this is the IP address of the Load Balancer in front of your service. Windows Azure provides the concept of VIP-Swap where you have two services with their own VIPs (and corresponding domain name), and you can swap those so that the first service uses the VIP of the second one, and the second service uses the VIP of the first one.
This is quite useful if you want to have no downtime update for your application. You can use the Staging Environment of your Hosted Service to deploy your new bits, and test those, and once you are ready you can swap it with the Production Environment. You can keep the production bits for some time in case you need to roll back your changes.
Of course more advanced technique to do upgrades is the In-Place Upgrade Windows Azure offers (In-Place Upgrade is explained very well in the Windows Azure Documentation). In-Place Upgrade uses the concept of Upgrade Domains where instances of the roles are separated in two groups, and those groups are upgraded in a sequence. In-Place Upgrade provides also more flexibility and control from developer’s point of view.
Clarifying the terms above helped me get better understanding of the Windows Azure platform. Going forward I will try to explain every new term and clarify its meaning and intended use.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14705 | Hello, im new here. Does anyone know how to create your own COM objects ? For example, you dont have a GUI. And Windows GUI too. You create it from scratch, maybe assembly or C. I Wonder, how to create i.e my own Buttons without dealing with visual environment when programming. How i can do that ?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14706 | Image reading and writing
This is a discussion on Image reading and writing within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Dear all! I have intensity values of an image in a 2D matrix array. I want to save this information ...
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Dear all!
I have intensity values of an image in a 2D matrix array. I want to save this information in the form of an image (.jpeg,bmp,tiff etc). Now each of these image formats have a specific file structure.
Can you people guide me, from where I can get the library or function that takes the intensity information in an array and writes them into image file? and similarly i also want the reverse of this, i.e. reads the intensity values from image file and writes them into an array.
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So, you have an unspecified form of intensity for which you want a magic function to dump into various images format?
Good luck finding such a beast.
On the other hand, if you are willing to do some work yourself, you could always throw "C++ image file libraries" at your favorite search engine and come back to ask questions if you have trouble with the logic of using such libraries.
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I'd say Qt. QImage and its related set of classes will probably help you.
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septocaine_queen Sep 23, 2007 05:37 PM
Lately I have been reading a lot about confit. What is it exactly? I know normally it applies to duck (using duck fat) but lately I have seen it in regards to onions too.
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mordacity Nov 4, 2007 06:19 AM
And all this time I thought confit was a fancy name for duck breast. *blush*
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Thefoodgenius Nov 2, 2007 10:39 PM
When I was stationed in Germany, I made many trips to France. On every trip I had Confit de Canard, or preserved duck.
Basic recipe: Get a pot of duck fat. Cook a duck in it (thigh/leg section). While keeping the fat hot, poor it into a crock. The fat seals, just like the wax on a jelly. Put it in a cool place like a cellar for a couple of months. Take out the piece of duck. Place on rack in oven, with drip pan underneath. Heat until heated through. Eat and enjoy the hell out of it.
Confit de Canard can be ordered in a can, and it is just as good, if not better. Try it if you've never had it.
Traditional Confit de Canard is covered with duck fat. Pork fat gives it a much different taste.
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celuiquimange Oct 22, 2007 11:18 PM
Hi, I have been making my own confit for the past year, following the Paula Wolfert directions. I have a question about the "butcher's lard" she says to use as the final inch to cover the top. Can you use any beef fat and just render it, or does it have to be the special lard called "butcher's lard"? Or, could you also use another kind of fat, say pork fat, for the final inch, or does that do no better than topping it off with more duck fat?
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carswell Oct 23, 2007 07:25 AM
By butcher's lard she means 100% pure unhydorgenated lard with no additives (commercial lard sold in supermarkets often has been hydrogenated and has preservatives like BHT added); I've also seen it referred to as artisanal lard. You can, of course, render your own, though note that lard is *pork* fat (rendered beef fat is called tallow). When making duck confit, lard is the preferred alternative to duck or goose fat. A small amount of olive oil can also be used, though it doesn't congeal as well and adds an unauthentic flavour. If you're going to store the confit for a long period, Wolfert actually suggests topping it with an inch or so of lard as it makes for a better seal than duck fat.
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celuiquimange Oct 23, 2007 09:09 AM
Thank you very much for the information! Imagine, it's taken me almost a year to figure out what lard is! So, final clarification: could I just get some pork "fat back" or any pork fat, render it myself, and then pour it on top of the now congealed duck fat covering my duck quarters?
And one more question: I bought a simple "wine cellar" refrigerator (slightly larger though not much more sophisticated than a basic dorm frig) which I have set at about 54 degrees F. I keep some wine there, but I'm also storing my confit there. Is that an okay temperature for 3 months storage? Can confit get too cold (it's out in the garage and here in Seattle it rarely gets below freezing, but it could)?
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carswell Oct 23, 2007 09:26 AM
Yes, you can cover the confit with lard. Rendering pork fat is easy enough to do (I suggest you search the Home Cooking board and start a thread there if you don't find a how-to). Just about any pork fat can be used, though leaf fat, the fat surrounding the kidneys, is best. Before going to the trouble, however, you might see if you can find butcher's lard; Latin American butchers and grocery stores almost always sell it and for not much money.
I've stored my confit, topped with a layer of lard, for up to four months in an off-site wine cellar, so your wine fridge is probably OK. Haven't tried freezing confit but it's pretty indestructible and I'd be surprised if freezing it once would harm it. Repeated freezing and thawing might be another story, however.
2. Chew on That Sep 27, 2007 11:29 AM
I always thought to confit was to cook something in its own fat. I guess the extrapolation of this was tomato and onions cooking in their own juices, but that wouldn't be fat.
Last week's episode of Top Chef addressed this issue. One of the chefs referred to her dish as an onion confit and she was called out for it being incorrectly named.
1. septocaine_queen Sep 24, 2007 07:24 PM
It just seems like every time i go to a nice restaurant there is always some description of confit (fill in the blank). I wanted to know the original meaning not the bastardized version. like alfredo at Quizos.
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PSZaas Sep 24, 2007 07:35 PM
IF you could just imagine that the word "confit" means "preserved," you could enjoy your confiture on your morning baguette without thinking that the French have forgotten how to speak their language.
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septocaine_queen Sep 24, 2007 07:46 PM
True, my grandmother who lived in Belgium for years still says confiture instead of jam or preserves
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Will Owen Sep 25, 2007 04:23 PM
"Confiture" is also a common term for the big copper tub they traditionally use for preserves-making. My pa-in-law gave me one the size of a young washtub many years ago - I've never used it for making jam or jelly, but maybe if we get access this year to the pomegranate tree next door I'll make some pomegranate jelly...and just pray I don't spill it!
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hungry_pangolin Sep 26, 2007 08:14 PM
Those of you in the US I think are spared the abomination that is Christine Cushing on the Food Network, but we are subjected to her in Canada. On a very early programme of hers, she repeatedly referred to duck confit as "duck confiture". I howled with horrified laughter. Huge difference between "confit" and "confiture". Mmmmm... duck jam!
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Steve Sep 24, 2007 05:44 PM
One important step in making good confit is that the meat is allowed to marinate in the fat, at least for one night. It is not really confit if it is simply cooked in fat.
Also, for many years now chefs have experimented in using different fats, so confit is not exclusively "cooked in its own fat" but sometimes a different animal fat is used.
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Will Owen Sep 24, 2007 06:40 PM
I don't think turkey fat would be a particularly good choice for cooking the turkey confit anyway. My usual combo of duck fat and lard worked perfectly. And yes, it really does need to sit in the fat and get some age on it for best eating. I got impatient and ate one turkey thigh a week after I'd cooked it, but the other two rested for a couple of weeks longer, and were noticeably better for it. Good points, Steve.
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carswell Sep 24, 2007 06:55 PM
My best-ever duck confit was made with mullard duck legs using Paula Wolfert's recipe from The Cooking of Southwest France and left to ripen for four months in a cold cellar. Incredible depth of flavour and silken texture.
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Steve Sep 25, 2007 05:44 PM
Wow, those must have been some legs! The duck confit I've had in the US which is now proliferating on menus everywhere is a poor cousin to the samples I'be had in France. I think many restaurants are calling anything that is duck 'confit' just because it sells and sounds good.
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MakingSense Sep 26, 2007 08:43 AM
You make an excellent point, Steve. Ever since "confit" became trendy, restaurants have been serving not only duck but other things cooked in this fashion immediately, rather than letting them age and season.
It's interesting how many recipes for preserves, relishes, conserves, etc., (not just duck, goose, and other meats) say to let it age for at least a month or more after making or processing before using to let the full flavor develop.
When this happens, we lose the sense of what something should be.
2. carswell Sep 24, 2007 07:04 AM
French *confire* ("to confit") means to preserve putrescible foods in an appropriate product (honey, vingear, fat, salt, sugar, oil). To preserve in fat, to pack in salt, to candy, to make into preserves/jam/compote, to pickle, etc., are about as close as we can come in English.
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MakingSense Sep 24, 2007 09:55 AM
No one questions the translation of the French verb "confire" or that you can cook food products other than meats in things other than their own fats, whether for immediate serving of for preserving. Depending on how it's done, some will be more successful than others.
I cited the Larousse definition above as the culinary meaning for confit. The other methods usually have terms of their own such as preserves, jams, jellies, compotes, candied, pickled, relishes, dried, salt-packed, etc. There's a place for figurative, even tongue-in-cheek language, on menus. But words should convey meaning.
When we use the correct terminology for methods of preparation, chefs, home cooks and recipe writers can communicate. Eliminating perfectly good descriptive words blurs the distinctions. I think it makes it more difficult for people to learn to cook well, not to mention become discriminating diners.
It's a slippery slope. Recent example is Quizno's new Chicken Carbonara sandwich with chicken, bacon, mozzarella, mushrooms and a creamy bacon Alfredo sauce. When and where did that slide start?
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carswell Sep 24, 2007 11:08 AM
I don't see this as a slide at all. If anything, it's a return to the word's roots.
According to the Robert, use of confit to describe preserved foodstuffs dates back to at least the 17th century. The more restricted use of the noun to mean pieces of meat cooked and preserved in their own fat is more recent (1867 is the date of the first citation). McGee says that duck and goose confit probably dates back to the 17th century, when the birds first were fed corn to fatten their livers, which had the side effect of providing sufficient fat for preserving the legs, necks and gizzards. On the other hand, *fruits confits* date back to at least medieval times.
If you and the Larousse Gastro want to insist that confit can only refer to meat, be my guest. However, modern French (and, I dare say, English) usage has left you in its dust. The last slice of terrine I ordered in a bistro came with a mound of *confit d'échallotes*. Fauchon sells *confit de lait*. French food websites are chock-a-block with recipes for *confit de figues*, *confit de poivrons*, *confit de courgettes*, *confit de noix*, *confit de pétales de rose* and so on. For proof, look at the tens of thousands of hits you get when you google the search string: "confit de" -canard -oie
McGee accepts it. The Oxford Companion to Food accepts it. Webster's accepts it. The first Robuchon book I just pulled from my bookshelf has a recipe for *conft d'agrumes au fenugrec* (citrus and fenugreek confit); Robuchon's the editor of the most recent edition of the Larousse Gastro, by the way. I can cite tons of other examples from French cookbooks and French chefs. And the onion confit the OP was asking about may well have had no fat or very little in it.
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Will Owen Sep 24, 2007 03:21 PM
Carswell, I'm with you, up to a point - that point being that so-called "Chicken Carbonara Sandwich." That's no slide, it's an unforced error! Start with the fact that a proper carbonara has no cream in it whatsoever, and then compound it with the true phoniness of such an invention as a "bacon Alfredo sauce."
I'm sure we haven't seen or heard the last argument between partisans of the old and new Larousses - the author of the first was the flamingly opinionated "Curnonsky" (Prosper Montagné), who I think was not himself a cook but a famous (even notorious) gourmand and food writer/historian. I love his prose (and wish I could read it in French), and get a kick out of some of his pronouncements, especially his declaration that half to three-quarters of a liter of good wine per day, taken as part of a normal diet, is considered a "moderate quantity" for an adult male, unless one engages in hard manual labor, in which case a liter will serve as "a good light stimulant and tonic and an aid to digestion." I wonder what M. Robuchon has to say about that...
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carswell Sep 24, 2007 05:18 PM
"I'm with you, up to a point - that point being that so-called 'Chicken Carbonara Sandwich.'"
Oh, I agree. My comments refer strictly to the use of the term confit.
2. coconutgoddess Sep 23, 2007 09:46 PM
i do know that you can "confit" fruits and certain veggies. I know that lemon for instance can cooked in oil with sugar.
i have eaten duck confit... yum. never tried making it though. Will.. can you tell us how to use a craock pot for this? sounds like the way to go!
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Will Owen Sep 24, 2007 03:41 PM
I rinse and dry the meat thoroughly and let it sit (covered if there are bugs around) while I heat about a pound of fat in a pan on the cooktop. This is usually duck fat that has been used before and been refrigerated, so it needs to have any residual moisture driven out, so it should sit on the heat long enough to stop any bubbling or foaming. When it's ready, I preheat the crockpot for about ten minutes then lay in the meat and pour the fat over it. I keep some room-temperature lard nearby in case the fat doesn't quite submerge the meat, which is usually. When the meat is covered by at least an inch of melted fat, I put the lid on and go do other stuff, returning to check on it every couple of hours. This includes taking the temperature of the fat, though a variance of 10º one way or another will not be fatal. After eight or nine hours I start probing the meat gently with a trussing needle. When I can push the needle clear into the flesh with little resistance (and no pink oozing out!) the meat is done. I take the ceramic pot out of its shell and set it with its contents on the counter to cool to room temperature, then either transfer meat and fat to whatever vessel they'll be refrigerated in or (if it's past my bedtime) put the whole kit and caboodle in the fridge and re-melt and transfer stuff in the morning.
For an actual recipe using the crockpot, see Paula Wolfert's "The Cooking of South-West France."
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MakingSense Sep 23, 2007 09:06 PM
One of those cases where the use of the word today is often different from the original meaning.
Larousse Gastronomique defines it as "Meat of pork, goose, duck, turkey,etc., cooked in its own fat, and kept covered in the same fat to prevent it coming in contact with the air." It was a method of food preservation before refrigeration. The meat was stored in stoneware pots in a cool place. Most were kept for months to develop flavor before using in dishes like cassoulet or choucroute garni.
In the past several years, the method of cooking was used, but the meats were served without being stored. You might have seen confit as an appetizer or with a salad.
Then the method of cooking was used but often not with fat or with fats from other sources, such as with onion in butter or long-cooked fruits
The word "confit" is now often used in a figurative sense.
1. coconutgoddess Sep 23, 2007 06:19 PM
if my memory serves me...
confit is basically a cooking term. for example, duck confit is cooked in its own fat and salt, then preserved in the cooking fat. fruit confits are cooked and preserved in sugar... the result is like candied fruits. (off the top of my head.. i dont know the difference) and finally the onion confit you speak of is much like caramalied onions. sweet and a little gelatinous, prepared with balsamic vin. and sugar.
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Chef Tony Oct 25, 2007 05:06 AM
A fruit confit, would be called a compote. If you use water and sugar (i.e. simple syrup) it becokmes a compote, not a confit.
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welle Oct 25, 2007 12:58 PM
Not very sure on this, but I think fruit confit is commonly known as confiture, or jam, preserve...
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MMRuth Oct 25, 2007 01:03 PM
I've been making compotes to serve with cheese lately, and they involve cooking vinegar and sugar, then adding the fruits/spices, maybe some water, and cooking them until the liquid evaporates.
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Chef Tony Oct 29, 2007 08:32 PM
Vinegar and sugar is a gastrique
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MMRuth Oct 30, 2007 03:47 AM
Ah - thank you - Patricia Wells called it a compote.
2. Will Owen Sep 23, 2007 06:18 PM
It's cooking something very slowly and gently in completely de-moisturized fat so that all of the water is extracted from the food, preserving the sugars and proteins or whatever. It's kind of like candying, except that the candying medium is fat instead of sugar. If ALL of the water is extracted and the food is kept immersed in the fat, it will keep a very long time in as merely cool a place as a root cellar or spring-house. Under refrigeration it will keep even longer, though the nervous nellies who have put themselves in charge of our well-being say we ought to use it up in a month, which is simply silly.
I have never made confit from anything but fowl. Both duck legs and turkey thighs were wonderfully easy to do, and the resuts were delicious. A crockpot makes the process beyond easy - you just need a good fully-saturated fat . I use duck fat plus good butcher's lard. Do not use the shelf-stable hydrogenated stuff - if you can't get anything else locally, get it online or render it yourself.
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rillettes Sep 24, 2007 07:30 AM
"A crockpot makes the process beyond easy"
I always used an oven to make my confits (try rabbit, it's amazing), but this often requires up to 12 hours at 190 F for my duck. Does a crockpot go down to that temperature?
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Will Owen Sep 24, 2007 03:03 PM
My old Rival runs a steady 190º on Low, and I think my new HamBeach guy does too - though I'll need to look it up. I did the duck on the stovetop, but the turkey in the older, smaller crockpot tested done at about ten hours. It had been pretty heavily salted, which helps, though I rinsed it thoroughly (and then dried it) before I put it into the pot.
I would probably use the oven if I were making a lot of confit, like two or more pots of it, but I'm too cheap to use all that electricity on a 2-quart quantity.
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rillettes Sep 25, 2007 08:50 AM
Thanks for the info. I normally do about 4 duck legs at a time (salted for 24 hours beforehand and rinsed) but, like you, it's difficult to rationalise using an oven for 12 hours for this.
Although, if you set the oven at night, the smell throughout your home the next morning is incredible.
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holy chow Sep 24, 2007 11:35 PM
Will, are you going through the salting and water removal process before hand or straight into the fat? I've done it with a 24hour salt bath with bay, garlic and thyme and then into the fat after a brush off, but never directly into the fat without removing some of the water in preperation.
If you've done both, any difference in finished product?
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Will Owen Sep 25, 2007 04:18 PM
I've only dry-salted because that's what all my mentors (St. Julia, Tony Bourdain and Paula Wolfert) have told me to do. I usually salt and refrigerate for two to four days - this gives a fairly salty product, even after plenty of rinsing, but nothing I can't deal with (though I do not discuss it with my doctor!). I haven't added any other herbs or spices so far, but I'm thinking about it.
Anyway, after rinsing I *DO* dry them as thoroughly as possible, since the sooner the moisture is removed/displaced the better the finished product will be.
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holy chow Sep 26, 2007 09:25 PM
That was the reason I asked. I've done confit but after a 48 hour or better salt and herbing. I was just wondering if you'd found a way to skip the step of removing water.
Thanks for the reply, Will.
Hit Boca del Rio for me since you are in my old stomping grounds (the SGV).
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quazi Sep 23, 2007 06:17 PM
it is preserving a meat in fat. now it has been extended to veggies as well. I think I remember seeing tomato confit and onion confit.
Usually it means low temp slow cooking and item in fat(duck fat, olive oil, pork fat)
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septocaine_queen Sep 23, 2007 06:20 PM
so it is like braising but with fat?
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Eat_Nopal Oct 25, 2007 09:04 AM
Yeah... its the same technique as carnitas... which is traditionally used with pork, duck, chicken & fish. The word Confit actually means to preserve... which is interesting because in pre-refrigeration Mexico... carnitas served that purpose. My grandpa would slaughter a heavily salted pig & then slow cook it in lard... and keep it in a cool part of the house (thouse thick adobe houses can keep some rooms rather cool even under intense sun)... and the family would enjoy a little bit of it everyday for weeks.
In Pre-Hispanic Mexico... it was a key technique to render the fat from domesticated Muscovy Ducks... which was one of the few substantial sources of fats (in addition to pumpkin seeds, nuts & cocoa butter) available. When my dad was a kid.... Mazola hadn't made its way south yet... and lard sold for a premium relative to pork meat!
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1. LatinMind
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Wow, ill start this off with just saying WOW!
Now i dont know if thats a good or bad wow just yet, but i guess we will find out in this year.
While alot of people are saying this is a Jerry move and Garrett is now his puppet. Ill say its the contrary, this is clearly a Garrett move. Kiffin is not the type of guy that Jerry goes after. He's about the flashy guy. Kiffen is a older version of Garrett personality wise. Boring and smart. Will not speak the media and will just get his job done.
I think we've come to the point where Jerry is giving Garrett the keys. Granted it might be for 1 yr because if Garrett fails he's gone as soon as the Cowboys play their last game in '13. But i think this is Garrett's team now. I know people are going to say this is not the way it is, Jerry needs to be the center of it all blah blah blah. But this offseason who have we seen more of? Jason Garrett, talking about whatever. But the face of the offseason has been Garrett not Jerry.
Now im not saying that Garrett will be the end of all saying in Dallas. Thats still Jerry, but i think Jerry is willing to let Garrett take the lead going forwards to an extent. Garrett is building the team the way he wants. This is just something that Jerry has done twice and thats with Jimmy and Parcells.
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Agreed. Multiple reports that Garrett and Rob didn't mesh possibly even that Rob was a Jerry hire he talked Garrett in to. I believe this gives Jason a D Cord. that he does not have to worry about bolting for a HCing gig, or even maybe one that does not undermine him and has the team split.
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I don't get all the negative posts about the guys age. My uncle is 72 and can outwork most 30 year olds and that is the truth. The guy has done alot in the NFL and knows how to design a good Defense....
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Posts like this are just old.
Always kick the guy on his way out and defend the person still here.
Garrett sucks and if he didnt suck so bad Rob Ryan would still be here.
We can't keep playing sloppy offensive football and ever think we're going to get somewhere.
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Take it for what its worth but The Fan reported earlier today that RR was a Garrett hire. Garrett got the thumbs up from his good pal Norv Turner who had RR on his staff in Oakland.
The way I see it, RR did a great sales job on Garrett and he did not live up to it. We'll never know what RR promised he could accomplish but it obviously was not achieved.
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One of your best posts ever, and that is saying a lot.
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Yeah, tired of the same old posts, lets try posting something new ....like garrett sucks :D
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I don't give a crap if you think it gets old or not. A ton of your drabble gets the same way. I never cared for the Ryan hire to begin with so it's got nothing to do with him leaving. Garrett sucking and Rob leaving have nothing to do with each other. You think Ryan was a great coach I think he sucked. Bet neither one of us can actually prove it. It's all opinion on here anyway.
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Offense = 6th with 2 first round picks
Defense = 19th with 4 first round picks
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Maybe because he's afraid of young people, bright lights, and pooping himself at the podium.
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Maybe because he comes from a different Era that didnt care to be in the limelight.
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If Garrett didn't suck then Rob would magically not suck? I don't get it.
With or without injuries the defense was horrible no matter how you look at it.
EDIT: What zrin said. Rob did more with less? We've been pumping first rounders into that defense for years now.
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It's funny how the narrative always changes.
When Rob came in, Garrett was praised to the nines here for supposedly recognizing how important it was bringing in a DC that was the opposite of him personality-wise. Kind of a good cop/bad cop thing.
Now that failed and...oh wait, that wasn't Garrett's fault. Now we hail him as a genius for finally hiring "his kind of guy".
There's always an excuse. This move is all Jerry.
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Stop with this. I'm no Ryan fan but he had multiple guys playing off the street the 2nd half of the season and Ware with an arm tied behind his back. The injury situation was not close to comparable, and one of those 1st rd picks you are citing was a rookie CB.
Plus your counting yards for offense, not scoring where they were 15th.
Again I'm fine that Ryan is gone, but this is disingenuous at best.
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And it's funny to say this is all Garrett when Jerry has known Kiffin for decades and his bestest advisor/drinking buddy Lacewell is his biggest fan.
And LOL at the rankings argument. One, all the injuries were on the defensive side of the ball, and two, the points rankings are in my sig. They were very meager again for Garrett.
Finally, how can the "face of the offseason" be Garrett when he hasn't even been seen while Jerry is the one doing the TV shows?
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Who cares about the age... Monte Kiffin is a defensive GURU! I'm just happy Dallas is going back to a 4-3 defense!
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Whenever Jerry is interviewed he's always saying what's he's going to do.
So it's clear Jerry is making these moves.
I just wish he'd fire the coach that has no clue what he's doing.
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I think that you're on the right path.
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I sure hope that you're right, but this feels like either confirmation bias or wishful thinking. If Garrett is indeed stripped of playcalling responsibilities - or steps back from them willingly, would you still have the same perspective?
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Yes because overall the team is going in the direction that Garrett wants. IDK if thats a good thing or bad at this point. I just know i wanted to see a change in the coaching. Basically because this team was stupid in terms of the basic fundamentals, namely penalties.
Id like to see who Garrett chooses to concede his playcalling duties to. IMO Callahan can go. If theyre going to fire Ryan because his defense was fundamentally bad, they can fire Callahan too. Because his group was fundamentally horrible. Penalties, missed assignments.
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I am selecting data from a database on server A, dumping the output into a file locally, and then doing a LOAD DATA INFILE on my local database. The bash command looks something like this:
mysql -e "SELECT * FROM items WHERE created_at > '2011-05-01';" > items
I was told this was the correct way when moving data from an external server to a local database. I think I would have normally chosen to use mysqldump, but I didn't want to fuss with curling the dumped file from the server to my local machine.
The data that is dumped to the items file with the command line code above contains a lot of NULLs. Those NULLs, when read by the LOAD DATA INFILE command, run locally, ends up loading a bunch of strings of "NULL" into my table. I want those to be properly translated into NULL without having to go into the items file and find/replacing "NULL" with "\N"
I need a way to do one of two things:
1) When selecting data from a mysql table, I would like the output to escape NULLS into the standard \N string that is read by LOAD DATA INFILE. In the interest succinctness and ease of maintenance, I want to avoid the type of code below.
SELECT IFNULL(x, '\N' ) AS x, IFNULL(y, '\N') AS y ...
2) When running a LOAD DATA INFILE, I would like it to treat the string NULL as null.
(SELECT * FROM items WHERE created_at > '2011-01-01')
Any thoughts or alternate methods are greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks, Chad
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Have you looked into the SELECT INTO OUTFILE syntax?
Here is a quote on the NULL string issue:
So make sure you indicate a FIELDS ESCAPED BY clause to get NULLs written as \N
Hope this helps
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@Chad, this answer makes sense to me. You can also use mysqldump to set \N by using --fields-escaped-by="\N". Using the SELECT INTO OUTFILE keeps control of this data file creation within SQL scripts and not out in Linux, which requires a separate DB Connection. – RolandoMySQLDBA Jul 18 '11 at 17:20
Hey guys, Thanks for the responses. It was exactly what I needed. – Chad M Jul 27 '11 at 11:49
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(from Greek diakonos, "helper"), a member of the lowest rank of the threefold Christian ministry (below the presbyter-priest and bishop) or, in various Protestant churches, a lay official, usually ordained, who shares in the ministry and sometimes in the governance of a congregation. In churches in which the diaconate exists there is a general continuity, at least in principle, with the early Christian pattern of deacons as a basic but subservient ministerial order and as helpers responsible for the practical and charitable functions of the Christian community. In the Orthodox, the Anglican, and (until the 1960s) the Roman Catholic churches, the diaconate in practice almost entirely lost its original independent status as one of the major orders and became in effect a transitional probationership for ordination to the priesthood, customarily lasting for a year.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14760 | Gaucher's disease
noun Pathology.
a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.
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Gaucher's disease n.
A rare familial disorder of fat metabolism due to a glucocerebrosidase deficiency and characterized by enlargement of the liver and spleen, lymphadenopathy, and bone destruction. Also called cerebroside lipidosis, cerebrosidosis.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14761 | un gashed
1 [gash]
a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
Slang: Vulgar.
the vagina.
verb (used with object)
to make a long, deep cut in; slash.
1540–50; alteration (with -sh perhaps from slash1) of Middle English garsen < Old French garser, jarsier (French gercer) to scarify, wound < Vulgar Latin *charaxāre < Greek charássein to scratch, notch
ungashed, adjective
When referring to a female, this term is used with disparaging intent and perceived as highly insulting. The word cunt shows a similar transfer of meaning from a woman’s genitalia to the woman herself.
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gash1 (ɡæʃ)
1. (tr) to make a long deep cut or wound in; slash
2. a long deep cut or wound
[C16: from Old French garser to scratch, wound, from Vulgar Latin charissāre (unattested), from Greek kharassein to scratch]
gash2 (ɡæʃ)
slang surplus to requirements; unnecessary, extra, or spare
[C20: of unknown origin]
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1540s, from M.E. garce (early 13c.), from O.N.Fr. garser "to scarify, cut, slash," apparently from V.L. *charassare, from Gk. kharassein "engrave." Loss of -r- is characteristic (see bass, bust, etc.). Slang use for "vulva" dates to mid-1700s.
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gash (gāsh)
v. gashed, gash·ing, gash·es
To make a long, deep cut in; slash deeply. n.
1. A long, deep cut.
2. A deep flesh wound.
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gash definition
1. n.
the female genitals; the vulva. (Usually objectionable.) : He thought he could see her gash through her swimming suit.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14768 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I had a company come in and clean my carpets recently, and while they were in the house they managed to chip a part of my laminate flooring.
picture of the chip with a dime for reference
I went down to the local home improvement megamart, and they suggested a putty designed for this purpose, but they didn't have a putty that was close to the color of the floor. Most of the putty colors were very light compared to the color of the wood.
They've also got some "pens" that I believe are for hiding damage to stained wood, and some of these are considerably darker. However, the chip is deep enough that it would be pretty noticeable if I just colored over it.
What should I do to repair the floor in such a way that it's the least noticeable afterwards? Bear in mind that I'm somewhat of a novice, so detailed advice would be appreciated.
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I would call the cleaners office and have them pay for the repair. – mikes Mar 18 '12 at 22:55
@mikes, they first denied that it had been damaged ("it was like that when we got here") and then denied responsibility ("must've been someone else"). I don't really have the energy to fight them on it; they're just not going to be invited back. – agent86 Mar 19 '12 at 1:50
Try the "pens" first and see how it looks. Your eye is drawn to the mark because it stands out. If you don't like the results, follow @Steven's advice and go for a replacement board. – Jon Raynor Mar 19 '12 at 15:03
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That looks like the chip is in the transition piece and not the floor boards. For the best results, just replace the entire piece. It doesn't look like it matches exactly anyways, so just try to find something very close. If you know where the floors came from you might get really lucky and end up with the identical part.
It is likely glued in place, though it might also be nailed (I can't tell from the pic). Either way, you need to carefuly pry it up, being careful not to damage the floor. Buy some construction adhesive and glue it back down and put a few phone books on it until it dries. Make sure to wipe up any excess glue with a damp rag before it dries. It was likely cut to fit so you will need to cut the new piece. If you don't have a saw to do this, take a measurement (measure twice, cut once!) with to where you are buying it and see if they will cut it for you.
The other methods you mentioned are suitable alternatives. If the color is matched well, it won't be very noticeable when standing. Crawling, maybe.
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What holds the transition piece in place? How would I remove it and secure the replacement? I'm not sure if we can get a replacement board, but I'll check. It was installed by a previous owner. – agent86 Mar 19 '12 at 1:51
@agent86 I added more info to the answer – Steven Mar 19 '12 at 20:21
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What happens if the attic vents or rafter baffles don't cover the entire opening between the rafters and one or two inches of wood is left exposed?
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A vented soffit allows air to flow in. The ridge vent allow the air to flow out. The purpose of this attic venting system is to keep the roof deck at approximately the same temperature as the outside air across its surface so that melting snow won't form ice dams. The venting system is not there to cool the attic volume itself.
If the baffles are not properly installed so that they guide the incoming air up to the underside of the roof deck, air may be blowing through the insulation, a process called "wind-washing". This will displace loose fill insulation like cellulose and will reduce the R value of batt insulation which relies on still air for its effectiveness.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14770 | Sun Cluster Overview for Solaris OS
Failure Fencing
A major issue for clusters is a failure that causes the cluster to become partitioned (called split brain). When this situation occurs, not all nodes can communicate, so individual nodes or subsets of nodes might try to form individual or subset clusters. Each subset or partition might “believe” it has sole access and ownership to the multihost disks. Attempts by multiple nodes to write to the disks can result in data corruption.
Failure fencing limits node access to multihost disks by preventing access to the disks. When a node leaves the cluster (it either fails or becomes partitioned), failure fencing ensures that the node can no longer access the disks. Only current member nodes have access to the disks, ensuring data integrity.
The Sun Cluster system uses SCSI disk reservations to implement failure fencing. Using SCSI reservations, failed nodes are “fenced” away from the multihost disks, preventing them from accessing those disks.
When a cluster member detects that another node is no longer communicating over the cluster interconnect, it initiates a failure-fencing procedure to prevent the failed node from accessing shared disks. When this failure fencing occurs, the fenced node panics and a “reservation conflict” message is displayed on its console. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14771 | Sun Java System Identity Synchronization for Windows 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide
Viewing Installation and Configuration Status
ProcedureTo View the Remaining Steps of the Installation and Configuration Process
2. In the navigation tree pane, expand the To Do node.
The Status tab content changes to provide a checklist of the installation and configuration steps (for example, see Viewing Directory Source Status).
Viewing the To Do list.
3. Click the Update button (upper right) to refresh the list.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14772 | Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
Disabling Non Secure Communication
When a server instance is created, both an LDAP clear port and a secure LDAP port (LDAPS) are created by default. However, there might be situations where you want to disable non-SSL communications so that the server communicates only through SSL.
The SSL connection is enabled with a default self-signed certificate. If you want to, you can install your own certificates. For instructions on managing certificates and disabling SSL after the server has been started, see Chapter 5, Directory Server Security. For an overview of certificates, certificate databases, and obtaining a CA-signed server certificate, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
ProcedureTo Disable the LDAP Clear Port
1. Disable the LDAP clear port.
To disable the non secure point, you must bind to the LDAP secure port. This example shows a bind to the default LDAP secure port, 1636, on the host server host1.
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host1 -P 1636 ldap-port:disabled
2. Restart the server for the change to take effect.
$ dsadm restart /local/dsInst
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14773 | Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP11 Administrator's Guide
ProcedureTo set up virtual server
1. Create a listen socket
2. Create a class of virtual servers
3. Configure the services for the class
4. Create the virtual servers in a virtual server class
5. Configure virtual servers
Please note that you must enter an existing virtual server in the default virtual server field when you create a listen socket. You can use the virtual server created when you installed the server, and then go back and change it after you’ve created additional virtual servers. |
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A. Stella was a Starfleet Command officer who worked on the NX-01 Enterprise. (Star Trek: Enterprise set artwork)
Stella's name was listed on the dedication plaque of the NX-01, in honor of Star Trek: Enterprise producer Antoinette Stella.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14795 | Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1804–1858)
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Maria Anna of Austria
Archduchess of Austria
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Full name
German: Maria Anna Franziska Theresia Josepha Medarde
House House of Habsburg-Lorraine
House of Bourbon
Father Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily
Born (1804-06-08)8 June 1804
Hofburg Palace, Vienna
Died 28 December 1858(1858-12-28) (aged 54)
Baden bei Wien, Austria
Burial Imperial Crypt, Vienna
Religion Roman Catholic
Marie Anne Franziska Theresia Josepha Medarde of Austria (8 June 1804 – 28 December 1858) was an Archduchess of Austria and the daughter of Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily.
Maria Anna was born 8 June 1804 at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Hofburg, Vienna. As a daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, she was born with the title Archduchess of Austria (Ihre Königliche Hoheit Erzherzogin von Österreich) and the style Imperial and Royal Highness. She is said to have been mentally deficient (like her eldest brother, Emperor Ferdinand I) and to have suffered from a hideous facial deformity.[1] She spent almost her entire life confined to one apartment in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna.
She died 28 December 1858 at Baden bei Wien (literally, "Baden near Vienna"), and is buried in the Imperial Crypt (Vienna). Her heart is buried in the Herzgruft in the Augustinerkirche.
1. ^ Palmer, Alan (1997). Twilight of the Habsburgs. Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0871136657. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14796 | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Azania is the name that has been applied to various parts of southeastern tropical Africa. In Roman times—and perhaps earlier—the name referred to a portion of the Southeast African coast extending from Kenya,[1] to perhaps as far south as Tanzania.
The earliest attestations for the name Azania do not explain it. A number of etymologies proposed in the nineteenth century claimed the name was derived from Zanj, an Arabic or Persian word referring to the dark-skinned inhabitants of Africa and their land. More recent suggestions for the origin of the word are from the Arabic `ajam ("foreigner, non-Arab") or the Greek azainein ("to dry, parch").[citation needed]
Ancient Azania[edit]
Pliny the Elder mentions an "Azanian Sea" (N.H. 6.34) that began around the emporium of Adulis and stretched around the south coast of Africa.
The slightly later Periplus of the Erythraean Sea offers more details about Azania (chapters 15,16,18). From chapter 15 of the Periplus, it could be that Azania is the area south of modern day Somalia (the "Lesser and Greater Bluffs", the "Lesser and Greater Strands", and the "Seven Courses").[2] However, chapter 16 clearly describes Rhapta, as located south of the Puralean Islands at the end of the Seven Courses of Azania, as the "southernmost market of Azania".
Modern identifications of Rhapta place it on the coasts of modern-day Tanzania—indicating that Azania referred to an area perhaps identical to the later Arab Zanj. There is some archaeological evidence indicating that Rhapta was near the mouth of the Rufiji River.
Azania was known to the Chinese as Zésàn (澤散) by the 3rd century CE.[3]
Later writers who mention Azania include Claudius Ptolemy and Cosmas Indicopleustes.
South Africa[edit]
The first mention of the name Azania with a South African connection appeared in the 1930s archaeological reports of excavations at Mapungubwe in the northern Transvaal. The skeletal remains were referred to as ancient Azanians. The term is currently used by some political movements in South Africa influenced by black nationalism, including the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the Azanian People's Organisation, the Socialist Party of Azania, and associated organisations. The New Black Panther Party also calls South Africa Azania.
1. ^ Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (Lalibela House: 1961), p.21
2. ^ George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, (Hakluyt Society: 1980), p.29
3. ^ [1] The Weilüe. Draft translation by John Hill
• Collins, Alan S. and Pisarevsky, Sergei A. (2005). "Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens." Earth Science Reviews, 71, 229-270.
• Huntingford, G.W.B. (trans. & ed.). Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Hakluyt Society. London, 1980.
• Yu Huan, The Weilue in The Peoples of the West, translation by John E. Hill [2]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14798 | California State University, Northridge
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California State University, Northridge
Motto Regionally Focused, Nationally Recognized
Established 1958
Type Public university
Endowment Increase $72.4 million (2013)[1]
President Dianne F. Harrison[2]
Academic staff 1,700
Students 38,310 (Fall 2013)[3]
Undergraduates 33,771 (Fall 2013)[4]
Postgraduates 4,912 (Fall 2013)
Doctoral students 123 (Fall 2013)
Location Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States
Campus Suburban, 353 acres (143 ha)
Former names San Fernando Valley State College (1958–72)
Colors Red & White
Nickname Matadors
Mascot Matty the Matador
Affiliations California State University system
California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN or Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States in the San Fernando Valley. CSUN is one of the 23 general campuses of the California State University system. Cal State Northridge is the third largest university in California in terms of enrollment, just behind Cal State Fullerton and UCLA.
CSUN offers a variety of programs including 134 different Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees in 70 different fields, 3 Doctoral degrees including two Doctor of Education and a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and 24 teaching credentials.[6][7] The university has over 200,000 alumni. Cal State Northridge is home to the National Center on Deafness, and each year the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities.
Manzanita Hall
The establishment of CSUN began in 1952 with the proposal of a new satellite campus for Los Angeles State College (now known as California State University, Los Angeles).[8] A Baldwin Hills location was planned in 1955, but San Fernando Valley advocates persuaded state officials to change the location to Northridge.[8]
In July 1958, the campus separated from the Los Angeles State College and was renamed San Fernando Valley State College (popularly abbreviated to Valley State College, Valley State, or SFVSC), with enrollment reaching 2,525 and tuition reaching $29 per semester.[8] In 1959, it became the first State College to have its own computer.[8] In 1964, this pioneering computer lab was moved into quarters in the newly completed Sierra Hall building complex. In the same year, student enrollment reached nearly 12,000.[8]
The campus's quiet, moderately conservative and overwhelmingly white suburban setting did not shield it from a share of the noise, strife and social upheavals of the Vietnam War era. As on many college campuses, there were increasingly large antiwar demonstrations and occasional draft card burnings. Due to complaints of low minority representation, the college decided to boost enrollment of Latinos and Blacks in 1967.[8] In March 1968, a presidential primary campaign speech by Robert F. Kennedy drew an orderly crowd of 10,000,[9] but in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April and Robert Kennedy himself in June, some other events were not so peaceful. Later in 1968, the Black Student Union held 30 staff members hostage. Nobody was hurt and the administration agreed to increase minority enrollment and investigate discrimination complaints.[8] Some of the students involved were prosecuted for false imprisonment.[10]
The college officially named itself California State University, Northridge in June 1972.[8] In 1975, the construction of the CSUN sculpture began at the southeast corner of campus.[8] By 1977, enrollment at the university was 28,023, with tuition at $95.[8] In 1981, the campus officially established a foreign exchange student program with Japan, China, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and the Netherlands.[8] In 1988, the campus had an enrollment of 31,575 and a $342 tuition fee.[8]
The 1994 Northridge earthquake struck on January 17th and caused $400 million in damage to the campus, the heaviest damage ever sustained by an American college campus[18]. The epicenter was less than two miles (3 km) away on a previously undiscovered blind thrust fault. Later the same month, Vice President Al Gore visited with a promise of funds to help with the reconstruction.[8] Entire sections of the main library, the art building and several other major structures were either physically unusable or too hazardous to occupy, but classes soon continued in alternative locations and hastily erected temporary facilities. The art courtyard survived. Among the structures judged to be so seriously damaged that repair was not a practical option were the Fine Arts building, designed by noted modernist architect Richard Neutra, and the South Library, the oldest permanent building on campus. Due to inadequate earthquake engineering, the parking structure next to the Matadome was completely destroyed. It is currently a grass field used for kinesiology instruction, though the driveway formerly used to enter it is still visible from Zelzah Avenue. As of August 22, 2007, the University had completed the rebuilding project.
In April 1999, the Board of CSU trustees decided to give $27 million to construct post-earthquake projects.[8] The University opened the first Central American Studies program in the nation on May 2000.[8] In fall 2006, the University had a 34,560 enrollment and a tuition of $1,260. The University in 2007, with clean energy advocates built the new 1 megawatt fuel cell power plant which was the largest of its kind in any university in the world.[8]
• Mike Curb College of Arts, Media & Communication
• College of Business & Economics
• Michael D. Eisner College of Education
• College of Engineering & Computer Science
• College of Health & Human Development
• College of Humanities
• College of Science & Mathematics
• College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Roland Tseng College of Extended Learning
Fall Freshman Statistics[4][11][12][13][14][15][16]
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Freshman Applicants 31,861 30,906 29,339 25,824 23,024 20,662
Admits 18,948 13,566 16,075 16,926 14,984
% Admitted 61.3 46.2 62.2 73.5 72.5
Enrolled 5,817 4,143 5,264
GPA 2.55 2.59 2.58 2.55
Average SAT 935 937
*SAT out of 1600
The university draws its freshmen from the top one-third of California high school graduates. CSUN's admissions program is rated as "less selective" in most major fields, but admissions to "impacted" majors, such as accounting, music, computer science and cinema and television are more selective. For the fall of 2013, the university received a record 29,865 freshman applications.
CSUN's Chicana and Chicano Studies Department is the largest in California.[17]
University rankings
Forbes[18] 441
U.S. News & World Report[19] 68 (West)
Master's University class
Washington Monthly[20] 28
CSUN consistently ranks in the top 25 for master's level universities based on the size of its foreign student population. Undergraduate Engineering program ranked fifth among California public colleges (Masters level colleges) and fourteenth among U.S. public colleges (U.S. News & World Report).[21] College of Business and Economics has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce for its vital role in promoting international trade in the Los Angeles area.[22] In 2011, CSUN ranked eighth in the nation that award bachelor’s degrees to minorities in the field of communications.[23] CSUN ranked second among 529 master's level universities in preparing students who later earn doctoral degrees (National Science Foundation).[24] The university ranked first in number of graduates who went on to earn Ph.D.s in the social sciences and psychology. It has the largest number of Central American, Armenian, and deaf students than any university in the USA.[24]
In 2008, CSUN ranked ninth among top 20 undergraduate schools whole alumni pass the California Bar Exam (#1 among all the CSU campuses).[25] The Department of Music at California State University, Northridge is ranked among the top 25 accredited university programs in the nation.[26] In 2008, CSUN awarded President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction (Corporation for National and Community Service). In 2007 & 2008, CSUN team won first place out of 300 colleges and universities at the Model United Nations competition.
CSUN awards more California Teaching Credentials than any other public institution, more than from all the University of California campuses combined. In 2003, CSUN's Northridge Singers were named "Choir of the World", taking the top prize during their debut appearance at an international music competition in Wales. In 2002, CSUN was one of only four universities in USA selected by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for exemplary teacher preparation programs. In 2001, the Department of Cinema and Television Arts was ranked #1 in the Western United States by the Association of Independent Feature Film Producers. In 2001, the Consumer Affairs Option in the Family & Consumer Sciences Department was ranked #1 in the Western United States by the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals.
Locations of interest[edit]
The CSUN Botanic Garden is located in the southeast quad (near Zelzah & Nordhoff).[27] It is part of the Biology Department for university curriculum, and also a regionally important demonstration garden and educational resource for the community.[28] It has new focus projects for plants usable for regionally local sustainable landscaping using sustainable gardening techniques and studying and 'planting' ethnobotany insights and links.[29] One of the few remaining historic (circa 1920s) orange groves is thriving on southeastern campus quad. The citrus industry was formerly had groves covering much of the San Fernando Valley. The rows of large eucalyptus trees, historic windbreaks for agricultural fields from the late 19th century, are found towering over the perimeters of the campus, surviving planners developing campus expansions with valor.[30]
Oviatt Library[edit]
Oviatt Library in 2009.
All library materials are housed in the Delmar T. Oviatt Library, a 234,712-square-foot (21,805.5 m2) state-of-the-art facility. There are over 1,600 seats for in-house study. Of note are the Learning Commons, 3 computer equipped library instruction labs, and 200 computer workstations devoted to library information resources. Specially equipped computer workstations are located throughout the Library for individuals with disabilities, including four assistive technology equipped study rooms for students. During Fall and Spring semesters, the building is open 90 hours a week. The Library maintains its own server and web pages providing access to online electronic information and archives 24 hours a day for students and the public at the Oviatt Library Digital Collections.[31] The library also maintains its own AS/RS (Automatic Storage and Retrieval System).
The Oviatt Library has a physical collection containing 1.4 million volumes, of which over one million are books, and over 245,000 bound periodical volumes.[32] The Library subscribes to over 50,000 online journals, 200 online databases and more than 300,000 ebooks. The microform collection contains 3.1 million pieces. There are over 12,500 sound recordings, 10,000 film and video recordings and nearly 60,000 pictures and other graphic materials. The Special Collections & Archives' holdings exceed 4,000 feet (1,200 m) of materials. The library also has a large collection of materials on Human Sexuality—possibly the "second largest private collection on human sexuality" behind the Kinsey Institute.[33] In addition, the Teacher's Curriculum Center provides a circulating collection of curricular materials for education students and local educators.
The Library is heavily used with 8.2 million uses of its web pages annually, an annual gate count of 1.4 million, and over a half a million interactions per year with Library personnel.
Other Collections[edit]
Other campus departments and centers with collections:
• The Aronstam Library,[34] devoted to communication studies research and scholarship for Communication Studies Department undergraduate, graduate, and faculty members
• The National Center on Deafness Library, housed in Chisolm Hall
• The Geography Department's Map Library, housed in Sierra Hall
• The Script Library in Manzanita Hall features over 800 screenplays
CSUN public transportation[edit]
CSUN is served by
Metro Bus Lines
• 168 Chatsworth Station: Pacoima via Lassen St & Paxton St
• 741 Northridge: Tarzana via Reseda Bl Rapid-Limited
AVTA Bus Line
• 787 West San Fernando Valley: Lancaster/Palmdale Express.
Route Stops at Plummer St & Reseda Bl.
LADOT Bus Lines
Metrolink/AMTRAK Shuttle
• CSUN: Northridge Station.
Proposed: CSUN Transit Center[edit]
In a presentation to the San Fernando Valley Governance council, CSUN revealed the proposal for a Transportation Center on Vincennes Street between Darby St and Etiwanda Ave. The Transit Center will most likely look like that of North Hollywood Red Line Station. The Center will give access to Metro, LADOT and other bus services. The transit center will also include bicycle parking and a CSUN Tram stop as well.[35]
Metro is already including bus line changes to serve the Transit Center in its June 2010 service changes.[36]
National Center on Deafness[edit]
The National Center on Deafness was established in 1978 as a way to serve deaf students at the university. Support services such as sign language interpreters, real-time captioners, and notetakers are coordinated from this center, as well as serving as a location of academic advisement and gathering of deaf students. For the 2008 Fall semster, approximately 200 deaf students are served by the National Center on Deafness.
Film and television shoots[edit]
Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the campus has been an attractive spot for dozens of films and television shows, most recently American Idol in 2013. Others include Arrested Development, Ringer, Chuck, Dexter, My Name Is Earl, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Commander in Chief, Van Wilder, Six Feet Under, The Karate Kid, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, McMillan & Wife, Son in Law, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, The Glass Bottom Boat, Legally Blonde 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, The Nick Cannon Show, Quincy, M.E., Georgia Rule, and Sky High (where the Oviatt Library is prominently featured). Recently, the Barry Levinson-directed What Just Happened was filmed at the Oviatt Library and featured Robert De Niro and Sean Penn. The pilot of the remake of the television series "Knight Rider" filmed a car chase on campus, acting as Stanford University. During spring break 2008, the library acted as Starfleet Academy for Star Trek (the 2009 version).[37] The parking lots to the north of the campus were featured in the movie Superbad.[38]
CSUN fields 16 sports at the NCAA Division I level. CSUN fields both men's and women's teams in Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Track and Field, and Volleyball. CSUN also has Baseball and Softball and women's Tennis and Water polo teams. CSUN has dropped some sports. Due to state and university budget deficits, in 2001 CSUN dropped football, a team that cost the university $1 million a year and had little fan support.[39] CSUN cut men's and women's swimming in 2010 due to a statewide and campus budget crisis.[40]
CSUN has been a member of the Big West Conference since the summer of 2001 for most sports. The men's and women's Track and Field teams and the men's Volleyball team compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation instead.
The men's basketball team has participated in the NCAA tournament in 2001 and 2009 but without winning a game. The team made it to three Big Sky championship games in 1997, 2000 and 2001. CSUN beat Eastern Washington in 2001 to advance to their first NCAA tournament. CSUN was seeded 13th but lost to the number four seed Kansas in the round of 64. CSUN has played in two Big West championship games in 2004 and 2009. CSUN beat Pacific in 2009, and was seeded 15th in the NCAA tournament but lost to the number two seed Memphis in the round of 64.
CSUN men's Soccer reached the 3rd Round of the 2006 NCAA tournament, knocking out Big West Conference rival UC Santa Barbara in the 2nd Round. Both the men's and women's Track & Field teams won Big West titles in 2007. Men's Volleyball reached the Final Four in 2010 but lost to Penn State. Before moving up to Division I, the university won 30 national titles at the Division II level.[citation needed]
The Men's Basketball team, Women's Basketball team, Men's Volleyball team and Women's Volleyball team play in the 1,600 seat Matadome located in Redwood Hall.
CSUN's sports teams are known as the Matadors. CSUN is the only university in the country to have the Matador as their mascot.[citation needed]
Groups and organizations[edit]
Demographics of student body
African American 9.0%
Asian American 12.7%
White American 29.2%
Hispanic American 30.2%
Native American 0.4%
International 5.4%
Ethnicity unreported/unknown 13.1%
• KCSN radio
• The Daily Sundial:[41] college newspaper
• Valley View News: student television station
• Scene Magazine: student-created magazine
• Northridge Magazine
CSUN at National Model UN (2007)
CSUN Model United Nations[edit]
The Political Science Department's Model United Nations received first-place honors at the National Model United Nations Conference of 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013 in New York. The team has also won first place awards in the international conferences in Xian, China (2008) and in Ecuador (2010).[42]
Student organizations[edit]
The University is home to many fraternal organizations including thirteen North-American Interfraternity Conference members such as Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Beta Tau Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, along with seven National Panhellenic Conference members, which includes Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Zeta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Mu.
The campus has seven United Sorority and Fraternity Council members, such as Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity and Lambda Theta Nu Sorority, two Armenian Greek Council members, seven National Pan-Hellenic Council members. There are also many political and cultural clubs on campus including Chabad at CSUN where the heart of Jewish life lies Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Students for Justice in Palestine, MEChA and the Hip-Hop Think Tank.[43]
Notable alumni and former students[edit]
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21. ^ California State University-Northridge | Overall Rankings | Best College | US News
22. ^ CSUN’s College of Business and Economics Recognized by U.S. Department of Commerce
23. ^ CSUN’s communication department ranked eighth in bachelor’s degrees earned by minorities | Daily Sundial
24. ^ a b Plunk's Page
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26. ^ CSU Newsline - Real Estate Investor Robert Barbera Creates Music Endowment at Cal State Northridge
27. ^ "MAP". Retrieved March 28, 2012.
28. ^ "INTRO". Retrieved March 28, 2012.
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34. ^ "CSUN Department of Communication Studies". Retrieved June 22, 2012.
35. ^ "No Slide Title" (PDF). Retrieved November 1, 2011.
36. ^ "LA Metro Home". April 22, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
37. ^ Ain't It Cool News Accessed March 2008
38. ^ ‘American Idol’ holds auditions at VPAC, adding to long list of productions filmed on campus | Daily Sundial
41. ^ "". June 5, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
42. ^ Model United Nations team wins Outstanding Delegation Award | Daily Sundial
44. ^ Todd Baker (I)
45. ^ "Andy Grammer Keeps His Head Up". June 30, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
46. ^ All About Jazz. "Fred Katz at All About Jazz". Retrieved March 28, 2012.
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Economy of Colorado
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Corn production in Colorado
Output and standard of living
Gross state product $257,641 million[1]
Income per capita $42,802 [2]
Labor force
Labor force size 2,699,300[3]
Unemployment rate 8.5%[4]
Inequality and poverty
Gini index 0.453[5]
Poverty rate 11.4%[6]
Public sector
State budget expenditures $7,722 million[7]
Tax revenue $8,586.401 million[8]
The economy of the US state of Colorado according to The Bureau of Economic Analysis gross state product estimates for 2008 was $ 248.6 billion.[9][10] The Colorado economy ranked 20th largest in the United States in 2008.[10] Per capita personal income in 2003 was $34,561, putting Colorado 8th in the nation.
Federal influence[edit]
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The booming state capital Denver is the economic center of Colorado.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Air Force Academy are based in Colorado Springs; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder; United States Geological Survey and other government agencies at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood; the Denver Mint and United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver; and the ADX Florence "supermax" prison and other federal prisons near Cañon City.
There is also a significant amount of federal lands in the state, including 11 National Forests and four National Parks. There are also numerous private companies that have operations in Colorado that deal with the governmental agencies in the state.
State taxes[edit]
17th Street, dubbed the "Wall Street of the West," is home to many of Denver's banks, corporations, and financial agencies.
The Colorado income tax rate is a flat 4.63 percent of federal taxable income regardless of income level. Colorado's state sales tax is 2.9 percent on retail sales. Full-year Colorado residents can claim an excess sales tax refund on their individual state income tax return. Many counties and cities charge their own rates in addition to the base state rate. There are also certain county and special district taxes that may apply. The most common special district taxes are:
• Regional Transportation District (RTD), which affects the counties of Denver, Boulder, Jefferson and portions of Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield and Douglas
• Cultural Facilities District (CD)
• Football Stadium District (FD or FTBL), approved by the voters to pay for and help build the Denver Broncos’ stadium
• Local Improvement District (LID) within designated areas of southeast Jefferson and Boulder counties
• Regional Transportation District (RTA) taxes at varying rates in Basalt, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, Gunnison County
Denver's economy[edit]
Denver's economy (Denver is the Rocky Mountain region's preeminent city), is based largely on its geographic position. Denver is the prominent city within 600 miles (the closest city of comparable size is Phoenix, Arizona), and Denver is fast becoming the strategic location for federal, high-tech, educational, commercial, financial, cultural, tourist, storage, and distribution services to the Rocky Mountain States. The city is also home to several large corporations in the central United States. The economic diversity at the city, state, regional, national, federal, and international level allows the state of Colorado to weather economic cycles soundly.
Geography and trade[edit]
The Wells Fargo Center (also known as "The Mailbox Building", "The Cash Register Building") in downtown Denver.
Geography also allows Denver to have a considerable government presence, with many federal agencies based or having offices in the Denver area. In fact, the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area has more federal workers than any other metropolitan area except for the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.[citation needed] Along with the plethora of federal agencies come many companies based on US defense and space projects. Lockheed-Martin and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. are examples. Being the capital of the state of Colorado also gives many state jobs to Denver.
Denver's position near the mineral-rich Rocky Mountains, encouraged mining and energy companies to spring up in the area. In the early days of the city, gold and silver booms and busts played a large role in the economic success of the city. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the energy crisis in America created an energy boom in Denver captured in the soap opera Dynasty. During this time, Denver was built up considerably, with many new downtown skyscrapers built during this time. Eventually the oil prices dropped from $34 a barrel in 1981 to $9 a barrel in 1986, and the Denver economy dropped with it, leaving almost 15,000 oil industry workers in the area unemployed (including mayor John Hickenlooper, a former geologist), and the highest office vacancy rate in the nation (30%).[11] Energy and mining are still important in Denver's economy today, with companies such as Newmont Mining, Patina Oil and Gas, and Western Gas Resources.
Denver's west-central geographic location in the Mountain Time Zone (UTC −7) also benefits the telecommunications industry by allowing communication with both North American coasts, South America, Europe, and Asia in the same business day. Denver's location on the 105th meridian west at over 1 mile in elevation also enables it to be the largest city in the U.S. to offer a 'one-bounce' real-time satellite uplink to six continents in the same business day. Qwest Communications, EchoStar, Starz-Encore, and Comcast are just a few of the telecommunications companies with operations in the Denver area. These and other high-tech companies had a boom in Denver in the mid to late 1990s, but the technology bust in the new millennium caused Denver to lose many of those technology jobs. Recently the Denver area has started making a comeback, with the October 2005 unemployment at 4.7% the lowest since September 2001.[12] Denver government and industry leaders are attempting to diversify the Denver economy so that it is less susceptible to boom and bust cycles.
Colorado ranchers and farmers receive average payments per year totaling $316 million from the federal government including wheat subsidies averaging $79 million a year, corn subsidies averaging $78 million a year, total conservation-reserve acreage payments of $75 million, livestock and dairy subsidies of $10 million, and disaster payments totaling $47 million.[13]
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9. ^ "Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State" (Press release). Bureau of Economic Analysis. 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
10. ^ a b "Colorado economic output GDP". January 20, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
11. ^ Denver History – Short History
12. ^ Metro Denver Business Economy & Economic Summary Archive
13. ^ "GOP-leaning farmers may face tough choice in Senate race" article by Michael Booth in The Denver Post 10/11/2010, accessed October 11, 2010
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Charlotte Place, on the border of Camden and Westminster.
Fitzrovia is located in Greater London
Fitzrovia shown within Greater London
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Fitzrovia is a neighbourhood in central London, near London's West End lying partly in the London Borough of Camden (in the east) and partly in the City of Westminster (in the west); and situated between Marylebone and Bloomsbury and north of Soho. It is characterised by its mixed-use of residential, business, retail, education and healthcare, with no single activity dominating.[1] The historically bohemian area was once home to such writers as Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Rimbaud.
Although often described as upmarket and home to some celebrities, like much of inner London, Fitzrovia has wide disparities of wealth and contains a mix of affluent property owners as well as many private, council and housing association tenants.[2][3] The neighbourhood is classified as above-averagely deprived.[4]
The Fitzroy Tavern may have given its name to Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia is probably named after the Fitzroy Tavern,[5] a public house situated on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill Street within the district. The name was adopted during the inter-war years initially by and later in recognition of the artistic and bohemian community habitually found at the public house.[6] (The name Fitzroy derives from the Norman-French for "son of the king", although it usually implies the original holder was the bastard son of a king)[7]
The name Fitzrovia was recorded in print for the first time by Tom Driberg MP in the William Hickey gossip column of the Daily Express in 1940.[8]
The writer and dandy Julian MacLaren-Ross recalled in his Memoirs of the Forties that Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu aka "Tambi" editor of Poetry London had used the name Fitzrovia. Tambi had apparently claimed to have coined the name Fitzrovia.[9] By the time Julian Maclaren-Ross met Tambimuttu and Dylan Thomas in the early 1940s this literary group had moved away from the Fitzroy Tavern, which had become a victim of its own success, and were hanging out in the lesser-known Wheatsheaf and others in Rathbone Place and Gresse Street. Maclaren-Ross recalls Tambimuttu saying: "Now we go to the Black Horse, the Burglar's Rest, the Marquess of Granby, The Wheatsheaf... in Fitzrovia." Maclaren-Ross replied: "I know the Fitzroy" to which Tambimuttu said: "Ah, that was in the Thirties, now they go to other places. Wait and see." Tambimuttu then took him on a pub crawl.[10]
Map featuring the Fitzrovia area (see north of Tottenham Court Road), 1804
The Fitzroy Tavern was named after Charles FitzRoy (later Baron Southampton), who first developed the northern part of the area in the 18th century. FitzRoy purchased the Manor of Tottenhall and built Fitzroy Square, to which he gave his name; nearby Fitzroy Street also bears his name. The square is the most distinguished of the original architectural features of the district, having been designed in part by Robert Adam. The south-western area was first developed by the Duke of Newcastle who established Oxford Market, now the area around Market Place. By the beginning of the 19th century, this part of London was heavily built upon, severing one of the main routes through it, Marylebone Passage, into the tiny remnant that remains today on Wells Street, opposite what would have been the Tiger public house — now a rubber clothing emporium.
In addition to Fitzroy Square and nearby Fitzroy Street, there are numerous locations named for the FitzRoy family and Devonshire/Portland family, both significant local landowners. Charles FitzRoy was the grandson of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, hence Grafton Way. William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and his wife Margaret Harley lend their names to Portland Place, Great Portland Street and Harley Street. Margaret Harley was daughter of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, for whom Oxford Street (the southern boundary of Fitzrovia) and Mortimer Street are named. The Marquessate of Titchfield is a subsidiary title to the Dukedom of Portland, hence Great Titchfield Street. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Prime Minister) married Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (also Prime Minister), and they lend their names to New Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square and Devonshire Street.
Much of Fitzrovia was developed by minor landowners, and this led to a predominance of small and irregular streets – in comparison with neighbouring districts like Marylebone and Bloomsbury, which were dominated by one or two landowners, and were thus developed more schematically, with stronger grid patterns and a greater number of squares.
Two of London's oldest surviving residential walkways can be found in Fitzrovia. Colville Place and the pre-Victorian Middleton Buildings (built c. 1825) are in the old London style of a way.
The most prominent feature of the area is the BT Tower, Cleveland Street, which is one of London's tallest buildings and was open to the public until an IRA bomb exploded in the revolving restaurant in 1971. Another notable modern building is the Y.M.C.A. Indian Student Hostel on Fitzroy Square one of the few surviving buildings by Ralph Tubbs.
21st century[edit]
The site of the Middlesex Hospital, a large part of Fitzrovia, had been acquired by the property developer Candy and Candy which demolished the hospital to make way for a housing and retail development called NoHo Square. The Candy brothers' scheme, which was unpopular with local people, failed during the 2008 credit crunch.[11]
Stanhope plc took over the project, and proposed a short term project which would allow residents to create temporary allotments on the site until a new development was started. However, the Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which had a controlling interest in the site, announced in March 2010 its intention to sell the site on the open market and cancelled the allotments project.[12][13][14][15] In July 2010 the site passed into the ownership of Aviva Investments and Exemplar Properties.[16] A planning application for the new Middlesex Hospital project was submitted in August 2011, and it is understood that Exemplar will commence the redevelopment works in January 2012. The new middlesex hospital development will be completed in 2014.
Tottenham Street
Separately Derwent London plc, acquired 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) of property in the area to add to its existing Fitzrovia portfolio after a merger with London Merchant Securities.[17] The company then held about 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of property over more than 30 sites in Fitzrovia. In November 2009 the company announced plans to transform part of Fitzrovia into a new retail destination with cafes and restaurants.[18][18][19][20]
Derwent London created the Fitzrovia Partnership, a business partnership with Arup, Make Architects, and British Telecom, with the support of the London Borough of Camden.[21] In July 2010 Derwent London showcased plans for the redevelopment of the Saatchi & Saatchi building in Charlotte Street. Plans produced by Make Architects proposed increasing the density of the site by 50 percent and adding shops, cafes and a small open space.[22]
Georgian workhouse[edit]
There was local-community objection over plans announced in July 2010[23] to demolish and redevelop the site of an 18th-century building in Cleveland Street, originally a poorhouse for the parish of St Paul Covent Garden, and later the Cleveland Street Workhouse.[24]
Fitzrovia is bounded by Euston Road to the north, by Oxford Street to the south, by Gower Street to the east and by Great Portland Street to the west.[25][26]
Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford (1902). Woolf lived in Fitzroy Square 1907-1911
Fitzrovia was a notable artistic and bohemian centre from a period dating roughly from the mid-1920s until the present day. Amongst those known to have lived locally and frequented public houses in the area such as the Fitzroy Tavern and the Wheatsheaf are Augustus John, Quentin Crisp, Dylan Thomas, Aleister Crowley, the racing tipster Prince Monolulu, Nina Hamnett and George Orwell.[27] The Newman Arms on Rathbone Street, features in Orwell's novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Keep the Aspidistra Flying as well as the Michael Powell film Peeping Tom.[27][28]
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791) was published during his residence at 154 New Cavendish Street, in reply to Edmund Burke (author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790), who lived at 18 Charlotte Street. Artists Richard Wilson and John Constable lived at 76 Charlotte Street at various times.[29] During the 19th century, painters Walter Sickert, Ford Madox Brown, Thomas Musgrave Joy and Whistler lived in Fitzroy Square.[29] George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf also resided at different times on the square, at number 29.[30][31] French poets Arthur Rimbaud [29] and Paul Verlaine lived for a time in Howland Street in a house on a site now occupied by offices.[29] Modernist painter Wyndham Lewis lived on Percy Street.[29]The house of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester on Tottenham Street now shows a commemorative blue plaque. Colin MacInnes author of Absolute Beginners also resided on Tottenham Street, at number 28, with his publisher Martin Green and his wife Fiona Green.[32]
X. Trapnel, the dissolute novelist (based on the real Julian MacLaren-Ross) in Anthony Powell's Books Do Furnish a Room, spends much of his time holding forth in Fitzrovia pubs.[33] In Saul Bellow's The Dean's December, the eponym, Corde dines at the Étoile, Charlotte Street, on his trips to London, and thinks he "could live happily ever after on Charlotte Street";[32]:p81 Ian McEwan quotes this in Saturday.[32]:p123 McEwan lives in Fitzroy Square, and his novel takes place in the area.
Chartist meetings were hosted in the area, some attended by Karl Marx, who is known to have been to venues at Charlotte Street, Tottenham Street and Rathbone Place. The area became a ganglion of Chartist activities after the Reform Act 1832 and was host to a number of working men's clubs including The Communist Club at 49 Tottenham Street.
The UFO Club, home to Pink Floyd during their spell as the house band of psychedelic London, was held in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road. Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix also played at the Speakeasy on Margaret Street and Bob Dylan made his London debut at the King & Queen pub on Foley Street. Oxford Street's 100 Club is a major hot-bed for music from the 1960s to the present day, and has roots in 1970s Britain's burgeoning Punk rock movement. The band Coldplay formed in Ramsay Hall, a University College London accommodation on Maple Street in Fitzrovia. Boy George lived in a squat in Carburton Street in 1981 prior to his success and Neil Howson of Age of Chance lived in Cleveland Street around the same time.
Fitzrovia is also the location of Pollock's Toy Museum, home to erstwhile popular Toy Theatre, at 1 Scala Street.
At the back of Pollocks and in the next block was the site in 1772 of the Scala Theatre, Tottenham Street – then known as the Cognoscenti Theatre – but it had many names over history: the King's Concert Rooms, the New Theatre, the Regency Theatre, the West London Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, the Fitzroy Theatre, the Prince of Wales and the Royal Theatre until its demolition in 1903 when the Scala Theatre was built on the site for Frank Verity and modelled on La Scala in Milan. It was home to music hall, ballet and pantomime. Before its demolition in 1969, to make way for the office block and hotel that exists now, it was used inside for the filming in 1964 of the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night, the Mr Universe World competitions, and Sotheby's Auction in 1968 of the Diaghilev costumes and curtains. It was also briefly in the 1970s, in the basement of the office block, the site of the Scala Cinema and later still of Channel 4 Television. The branch of Bertorelli's Italian Restaurant on Charlotte Street was prominently featured in the film Sliding Doors. Guy Ritchie more recently made RocknRolla using Charlotte Mews, which also features in the film Viva Fitzrovia by Paolo Sedazzari.[34]
View of the BT Tower from Fitzroy Square
In its early days it was largely an area of well-to-do tradesmen and craft workshops, with Edwardian mansion blocks built by the Quakers to allow theatre employees to be close to work. Nowadays property uses are diverse, but Fitzrovia is still well known for its fashion industry, now mainly comprising wholesalers and HQs of the likes of Arcadia Group. New media outfits have replaced the photographic studios of the 1970s–90s, often housed in warehouses built to store the changing clothes of their original industry — fashion. Dewar Studios, leading fashion and modelling photographers based in Great Titchfield Street continue the traditional link to studios. Charlotte Street was for many years the home of the British advertising industry and is now known for its many and diverse restaurants. Today the district still houses several major advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and TBWA as well as CHI & Partners, Fallon, Dare Digital and Target Media Group. However, the modular ex-BT building occupied by McCann-Erickson was demolished in 2006 after the firm moved to an art deco home in nearby Bloomsbury.
A number of television production and post-production companies are based in the area, MTV Networks Europe, Nickelodeon, rogue and CNN Europe being headquartered here. ITN used to be based at 48 Wells Street during the 1980s, with its Factual Department still housed on Mortimer Street, and Channel 4 was, until 1994, situated on Charlotte Street, and talkbackTHAMES is currently based on Newman Street, with additional offices at 1 Stephen Street. Dennis Publishing is based close by, on Cleveland Street, and London's Time Out magazine and City Guide is created and edited on Tottenham Court Road on the eastern border of Fitzrovia. Many other media companies are based within the area, including Informa and Digital UK.
Reflecting Fitzrovia's connections with the avant-garde the area has a concentration of commercial art galleries and dealers.
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, an international firm of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, urban planners and advanced strategists are based in the Qube on Whitfield Street, along with MAKE Architects. Derwent London also have a showroom in Whitfield Street.[19] Derwent London own about one million square feet of property in Fitzrovia: about one fifth of their total portfolio[35] A number of structural engineering consultants are based in offices on Newman Street and the world headquarters of Arup is on Fitzroy St although they own many of the surrounding buildings (which are in the process of being redeveloped into modern offices). There were once many hospitals (including Middlesex Hospital, which closed in 2006, and St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy, now re-opened after refurbishment). A handful of minor embassies (El Salvador, Mozambique, Turkmenistan and Croatia) nestle amongst the many and varied public houses. Retail use spills into parts of Fitzrovia from Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which are two of the principal shopping streets in central London.
The Fitzrovia Partnership was formed in 2009 as "a business-led initiative bringing together local businesses to add value and make a tangible difference to the management of Fitzrovia."[36] Activities have included installation of Christmas lighting in the Charlotte Street conservation area, with damage to trees described by the Fitzrovia News as vandalism.[37] The Fitzrovia Partnership intends to become a business improvement district.[22]
Cyberia, the first internet café in the UK, was located in Fitzrovia.
Education and research[edit]
The University of Westminster has buildings on New Cavendish Street, Wells Street and Great Portland Street. University College London has buildings on Torrington Place, Huntley Street and New Cavendish Street. There are University of London halls of residences on Charlotte Street and Fitzroy Street. The Institute for Fiscal Studies is based at Ridgmount Street and the Royal Anthropological Institute Main office is at 50 Fitzroy Street.[38]
All Souls' Church of England Primary School is at Foley Street. The building is Grade II Listed. Southbank International School has two of its campuses located within the area, one on Portland Place and another on the northern end of Conway street (just off Warren Street). The Conway campus houses students from grade 11 and 12 where they study the IB Diploma Programme. The New! Fashion Retail Academy is at Gresse Street.
Housing and community action[edit]
Fitzrovia Festival
Fitzrovia Festival poster 1974
During the 1960s a large amount of housing was lost in Fitzrovia and the residential community felt under threat from new large-scale building. The threat from the developers spurred residents in the early 1970s to form a number of voluntary associations to conserve the best of Fitzrovia and resist the efforts of developers to change its character.[32]:pp28-29
In 1970 the Charlotte Street Association was formed to campaign for more housing and to preserve the unique character of the area. A neighbourhood newspaper, The Tower (later renamed Fitzrovia News) was produced in 1973 by a group of activists. The first Fitzrovia Festival was held in 1973 with the theme “The people live here!” in an effort to demonstrate that among the offices, restaurants and cafes there was a residential community that wanted its voice heard and in 1974, the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association was formed and raised money to create a neighbourhood centre in a disused glass shop on the corner of Tottenham Street and Goodge Place: The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre was opened in 1975.[32]:p29 The building is Grade II listed.[39]
The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre remains the focus of community action and a place for the various voluntary groups to meet and is the office of the Fitzrovia News which is produced four times a year by volunteers drawn from the residential community. An advice and information service and community projects, including the annual Fitzrovia Festival, are also delivered from the Neighbourhood Centre.[32]
The Fitzrovia News (like its predecessor The Tower) has taken a critical stance on many issues affecting Fitzrovia and the people who live and work there. The Fitzrovia News successfully campaigned with local residents to have Christmas lights removed from mature trees in the Charlotte Street conservation area.[40] The Fitzrovia News and Fitzrovia Festival are both supported by the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association, a registered charity (no. 1111649).[41]
Transport links[edit]
Nearest railway station[edit]
Paddington, Marylebone, Kings Cross and St Pancras railway stations are all relatively close to Fitzrovia although none (including Euston) are within the boundary of the area.
Nearest tube stations[edit]
Many books have been published about Fitzrovia. Among them are: London's Old Latin Quarter, by E Beresford Chancellor, published by Jonathan Cape 1930; Fitzrovia, by Nick Bailey, published by Historical Publications, 1981, ISBN 0-9503656-2-9; and Characters of Fitzrovia by Mike Pentelow & Marsha Rowe, published by Chatto & Windus (2001) and Pimlico (2002), ISBN 0-7126-8015-2.
Parts of the film Peeping Tom were shot in and around Newman Passage and Rathbone Street.[28] Parts of Sapphire were filmed around Charlotte Street[citation needed].
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2. ^ Rees, Linus Fitzrovia, Guy Ritchie, The Really Free School, and contempt for the media Fitzrovia News, 17 February 2011. Accessed 20 February 2011
3. ^ Penny, Laurie In defence of squatting New Statesman, 20 February 2011. Accessed 20 February 2011
4. ^ W1W 5AS within neighbourhood Westminster 013A accessed 25 March 2011
W1W 7QW within neighbourhood Westminster 013D accessed 25 March 2011
W1W 6DN within neighbourhood Westminster 013B accessed 25 March 2011
W1T 4RX within neighbourhood Camden 026B accessed 25 March 2011
W1T 7NN within neighbourhood Camden 026D accessed 25 March 2011
WC1E 7BT within neighbourhood Camden 026A accessed 25 March 2011
WC1B 3QU within neighbourhood Camden 028A accessed 25 March 2011
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14804 | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iptingen is a small village in southwestern Germany, some 25 km to the northwest of Stuttgart. Today, Iptingen is a part of the community of Wiernsheim, together with Pinache and Serres. Iptingen was the birthplace of Johann Georg Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14805 | J. J. Bittenbinder
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J.J. Bittenbinder
Born John Joseph Bittenbinder
(1943-09-01) September 1, 1943 (age 70)
Buffalo, New York, United States
John Joseph "J. J." Bittenbinder (born September 1, 1943 in Buffalo, New York) a retired member of the Chicago Police Department, safety speaker, and author; best known for his work as the host of the 1990s crime series Tough Target and as a public speaker on the subject of safety. He is known for his nasally voice and his distinctive moustache.[1]
J. J. Bittenbinder spent over 23 years on Chicago's Police Department, the last 18 in homicide and violent crimes. He has been a police officer since 1971. He is considered to be an expert on violent crimes and tours the country, speaking to audiences about the topic. In 1997, his first (and last) book, Tough Target: A Street-Smart Guide to Staying Safe, was an overwhelming critical and financial success.
Personal life[edit]
Bittenbinder is originally from Buffalo, NY. His height is 6' 5". His nickname is JJ.
Television work[edit]
In 1995, J. J. Bittenbinder became the host of the television program Tough Target, which focused on crimes and their prevention. He also wrote for the show. It was cancelled in 1996. He also has two of his own television specials on PBS, Street Smarts: How to Avoid Being a Victim and Street Smarts: Straight Talk for Kids, Teens & Parents. He has made guest appearances on many television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. He has also appeared on CNN and been the subject of national PBS television specials[2]
Bittenbinder was famously parodied in the cult favorite sketch comedy program Mr. Show. In the episode "Now Who Wants Ice Cream?," comedian Bob Odenkirk portrayed F.F. Woodycooks, a bizarre, nasal-voiced host of a television show about crime; who was a parody of Bittenbinder. Woodycooks even has a strange mustache like Bittenbinder's and uses unusual and funny-sounding phrases to refer to criminals. Woodycooks hosts a show called Take Back the Streets in which he show dramatizations of crimes. The sketch ends with Woodycooks promoting his "F. F. Woodycooks Ice Cream Parlour Precincts." Mr. Show writer Paul F. Tompkins admits that he came up with the idea for the sketch after he heard Bittenbinder refer to a couple of rapists as "goofs."
Recent work[edit]
Currently, J. J. Bittenbinder "is a Detective for the Cook County Sheriff's Department in Chicago." [3] He is also currently serving as Good Morning America's Safety Specialist. Bittenbinder also maintains an account on the social networking site Myspace.com, where he makes an effort to connect with young people and to advise them to report any crimes in their area.
1. ^ "J.J. Bittenbinder - Biography - Internet Movie Database", Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on May 21, 2007.
2. ^ "J.J. Bittenbinder - Defence4U", Defence4U. Retrieved on May 12, 2007.
3. ^ "J.J. Bittenbinder - AEI Speakers", AEI Speakers. Retrieved on October 28, 2007.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14806 | Jude (singer)
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Birth name Michael Jude Christodal
Born (1969-10-16) October 16, 1969 (age 44)
Origin Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Genres Indie, acoustic, rock
Years active 1997—present
Labels Fish of Death (1997)
Maverick 1998-2001
Naive Records (2004-present)
Associated acts Low Stars
Website http://www.judemusic.com/
Jude (born Michael Jude Christodal, October 16, 1969, Boston, Massachusetts), is an American singer and songwriter. His music ranges from acoustic to pop, featuring poetic lyrics, Beatles-esque melodies, and memorable vocals.[citation needed]
Jude's debut album, 430 N. Harper Ave was released independently by the Fish of Death label in 1997. This caught the attention of Madonna's record label, Maverick, who signed Jude and released his second album, No One Is Really Beautiful - which contained several re-recordings of some of the debut album's tracks. Jude enjoyed a short-lived radio term on select stations throughout the US, featuring two tracks from No One is Really Beautiful, "I'm Sorry Now" (#33 Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart) and "Rick James" (#29 Billboard Adult Top 40 Chart, #28 Billboard Modern Rock Chart).
Jude first brushed with wide acclaim when his song "I Know" was featured on the multi-platinum City of Angels soundtrack, which hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Chart, selling over five million copies in the U.S. alone. The song "I Do" from No One Is Really Beautiful was used in several television shows and is a fan favorite (and features on the first three of Jude's albums in various incarnations). During this time, Jude also toured with Alanis Morissette, Ben Folds Five, The Cranberries, Dido, Tori Amos, Better Than Ezra, Train, and Chris Isaak.
His follow-up album, King of Yesterday, seems to have been a classic struggle between artist and label, and was unceremoniously released on September 11, 2001. The album featured a cover of Bread's "Everything I Own". Jude soon parted ways with Maverick and produced his subsequent albums independently (Sarah in 2004 and Redemption in 2006). When Sarah was issued via CD Baby, it hit #1 on their charts for over a month and is still one of the highest selling CDs in their history.
Currently, Jude is signed with Naive records in Paris, France (where Jude toured several times and has attracted a loyal fanbase). Naive released Redemption in Europe in September 2006, and released the single "Save Me" via iTunes in October. The whole album was released stateside in November 2006, and it became available for download via iTunes in December.
In 2006, Jude, Chris Seefried, Jeff Russo, and Dave Gibbs formed the band Low Stars. They released an eponymous CD through the Starbucks Hear music label in 2007. The song "Calling All Friends", which appears on the album and was penned by Jude, is the theme for the ABC drama What About Brian. In August 2007, Jude left the Low Stars after deciding to focus on his own career.
He is currently based in Los Angeles, writing songs for film and television while preparing another studio album.
Use in other media[edit]
• "The Way That You Want Me" and "I Know" were each featured in 2010 episodes of the television series, House [1]
• "Out of L.A." was featured in the premiere episode of the television series, Men of a Certain Age
• "Love, Love, Love" was featured in a 2007 episode of the television drama, What About Brian; "Stay" was featured in the last scene of the final episode of that series.
• "Crescent Height Shuffle" features on a TV advertisement for Miller Genuine Draft that was first broadcast in Ireland in May 2007.
• "Save Me" was featured in Season 4 premiere episode of The O.C., "The Avengers", and was also used as a pre-season on-line promotion. "Out of LA" was featured in a 2005 episode of the series.
• "Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time)" and "All I Wanna Do" were featured in separate episode of the television series, Alias.
• "Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time)" appeared in the film The Animal.
• "I Know" was featured on the 1998 City of Angels soundtrack.
• "I Do" has been used in several television series.
• "I Do" and "I'm Sorry Now" were featured in the television series "Dawson's Creek".
• "I Do" and "King of Yesterday" were featured in the television series Felicity.
• "King of Yesterday" was featured in the films Not Another Teen Movie and Bubble Boy.
• "Everything I Own" was featured in the pilot episode of Smallville, an episode of the television series Crossing Jordan and a season 3 episode of Roswell
• New recording of "Madonna" was featured in the season finale episode of the television series Banshee (TV series)
Non-album work[edit]
Jude has also done many musical works outside of his albums, among them—
• The main title theme for A Basement Affair on VH1
• The main title theme for ABC's Cavemen, as well as the score, with Mickey Petralia
• The main title theme ABC's What About Brian
• The song "Funny, Now" by the fictional band DriveSHAFT in the television series Lost
• The song "You All, Everybody" by the fictional band DriveSHAFT in the television series Lost, with Chris Seefried
• Score and songs for feature film Barry Munday (in post-production)
• The song "Need You Here", for the television series One Tree Hill
• "All of My Friends Are On TV" as the main title theme for season 2 of VH1's Surreal Life
• The main title theme music to The Ellen Show (2001)
• The songs "Crazy" (live Gnarls Barkley cover) and "Gay Cowboy" available on Jude's web page; other songs available occasionally
• The song "Cuba" recorded for the King of Yesterday album, but forced to be left off by the record label; included in the French re-release
• The song "My Name is Death" for the film Final Destination 2
• Score for VH1's Rock of Love Bus; Daisy of Love; I Love Money; The Good Life
• Score for the CW's High Society
• 430 N. Harper Ave. (1997)
1. I Will Not Die – 3:06
2. Out of L.A. – 3:14
3. You Mama You – 2:20
4. George – 2:52
5. Paper Towel – 4:44
6. In Between 3:16
7. Prophet – 3:45
8. Life Lays Me Down / Shoes My Size – 5:26
9. Baby Ruth in Atlanta – 5:19
10. Love Letters – 3:10
11. Cammie – 5:19
12. More Than I Wanted – 4:18
• You're So Hot I Love You (EP)
1. Brad and Suzy (remix) – 4:05
2. Prophet (live) – 4:17
3. I'm Sorry Now (live) – 3:43
4. Homerun Hillary – 3:18
5. Out of L.A. (live) – 4:48
6. The Asshole Song – 4:03
• No One Is Really Beautiful (1998)
1. You Mama You – 2:20
2. Charlie Says – 4:20
3. I'm Sorry Now – 4:23
4. Rick James – 4:42
5. Battered Broken – 4:58
6. I Do – 4:50
7. Prophet – 4:04
8. Out of L.A. – 4:01
9. I Know – 4:34
10. She Gets the Feeling – 4:26
11. George – 3:21
12. Brad and Suzy – 4:37
13. The Asshole Song – 4:04
• King of Yesterday (2001) #47 France
1. King of Yesterday
2. Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time)
3. Red Room
4. The Not So Pretty Princess
5. Everything I Own
6. Sit Ups
7. Indian Lover
8. Oh Boy
9. I Do
10. I Will Not Die
11. Teenage Girlfriend
12. King of Yesterday (radio remix)
• Sarah (2004) #67 France
1. Madonna – 3:48
2. Perfect Plank – 3:16
3. You and Me – 4:39
4. Crescent Heights – 2:46
5. If You Need – 3:36
6. Your Love is Everything – 4:45
7. Living Together – 1:57
8. Black Superman – 4:06
9. Isn't It Over – 4:24
• Redemption (2006) #131 France
1. All I Want to Do – 4:24
2. Save Me – 3:53
3. Dreaming – 4:15
4. Love Love Love – 3:24
5. Run to My Room – 3:27
6. End of My Rainbow – 3:50
7. Your Eyes – 3:21
8. Breakup Song – 2:37
9. She's Getting Married – 4:12
10. Stay – 4:20
11. Money – 3:57
12. Beautiful Loser – 2:21
13. Fly Again – 3:12
14. Taking More and Giving Less (live) – 5:06
• Cuba (2008) - rarities and out-takes
1. Cuba
2. Beautiful Bleached-Out Blonde
3. The Rider Comes
4. The Rider Comes 2
5. I Can Count To Potato
6. In The Country
7. Everybody Party On The Dance Floor
8. Helmut Dance
9. One of These Days
10. Outside My Window
11. Prima Ballerina
12. G-Blues
13. My Bonnie
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14807 | K'inich Janaab' Pakal
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K'inich Janaab' Pakal
Ajaw of Palenque
Pacal the Great
Reign July, 615 – August, 683 CE
Full name K'inich Janaab' Pakal
Born - March 603
Died - August 683 age 80
Buried Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque
Predecessor Sak K'uk'
Successor K'inich Kan B'alam II
Issue K'inich Kan B'alam II
K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II
Father K'an Mo' Hix
Mother Sak K'uk'
K'inich Janaab' Pakal[pronunciation?] (March 603 – August 683)[1] was ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. During a long reign of some 68 years Pakal was responsible for the construction or extension of some of Palenque's most notable surviving inscriptions and monumental architecture.
Before his name was securely deciphered from extant Maya inscriptions, this ruler had been known by an assortment of nicknames and approximations, including Pakal[pronunciation?] (or Pacal), "Sun Shield", "8 Ahau", and (familiarly) as Pacal the Great. The word pakal means "shield" in the Maya language.
In modern sources his name is also sometimes appended with a regnal number,[2] to distinguish him from other Janaab' Pakals that either preceded or followed him in the dynastic lineage of Palenque. Confusingly, he has at times been referred to as either "Pakal I" or "Pakal II". Reference to him as Pakal II alludes to his maternal grandfather (who died in 612) also being named Janaab' Pakal. However, although his grandfather was a personage of ajaw ranking, he does not himself appear to have been a king. When instead the name Pakal I is used, this serves to distinguish him from two later known successors to the Palenque rulership, Upakal K'inich Janaab' Pakal (ruled c. 742, aka "[K'inich Janaab'] Pakal II") and Wak Kimi Janaab' Pakal (aka [Janaab'] Pakal III), the last-known Palenque ruler, who acceded in 799.
Pakal ascended the throne at age 12 in July, 615 - Long Count 5 lamat 1 mol,[3] and lived to the age of 80. He expanded Palenque's power in the western part of the Maya states and initiated a building program at his capital that produced some of Maya civilization's finest art and architecture. He was preceded as ruler of Palenque by his mother, Lady Sak K'uk'. As the Palenque dynasty seems to have had Queens only when there was no eligible male heir, Sak K'uk' transferred rulership to her son upon his official maturity.
After his death, Pakal was succeeded by his son K'inich Kan B'alam II. A younger son, K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II, succeeded his brother K'inich Kan B'alam II. After his death, Pakal was deified and was said to communicate with his descendants; he was buried within the Temple of Inscriptions. Though Palenque had been examined by archaeologists before, the secret to opening his tomb — closed off by a stone slab with stone plugs in the holes, which had until then escaped the attention of archaeologists—was discovered by Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier in 1948. It took four years to clear the rubble from the stairway leading down to Pakal’s tomb, but was finally uncovered in 1952.[4] His skeletal remains were still lying in his coffin, wearing a jade mask and bead necklaces, surrounded by sculptures and stucco reliefs depicting the ruler's transition to divinity and figures from Maya mythology. Traces of pigment show that these were once colorfully painted, common of much Maya sculpture at the time.[5]
Whether the bones in the tomb are really those of Pakal is under debate because analysis of the wear on the skeleton’s teeth places the age of the owner at death as 40 years younger than Pakal would have been at his death. Epigraphers insist that the inscriptions on the tomb indicate that it is indeed K'inich Janaab' Pakal entombed within, and that he died at the age of 80 after ruling for around 70 years. Some contest that the glyphs refer to two people with the same name or that an unusual method for recording time was used, but other experts in the field say that allowing for such possibilities would go against everything else that is known about the Maya calendar and records of events. The most commonly accepted explanation for the irregularity is that Pakal, being an aristocrat, had access to softer, less abrasive food than the average person so that his teeth naturally acquired less wear.[6] Despite the controversy, it remains one of the most spectacular finds of Maya archeology. A replica of his tomb is found at the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City.
Carved lid of the tomb of K'inich Janaab' Pakal in the Temple of the Inscriptions.
Iconography of Pakal's sarcophagus lid[edit]
The large carved stone sarcophagus lid in the Temple of Inscriptions is a unique piece of Classic Maya art. Iconographically, it is closely related to the large wall panels of the temples of the Cross and the Foliated Cross centered on world trees. Around the edges of the lid is a band with cosmological signs, including those for sun, moon, and star, as well as the heads of six named noblemen of varying rank.[7] The central image is that of a cruciform world tree. Beneath Pakal is one of the heads of a celestial two-headed serpent viewed frontally. Both the king and the serpent head on which he seems to rest are framed by the open jaws of a funerary serpent, a common iconographic device for signalling entrance into, or residence in, the realm(s) of the dead. The king himself wears the attributes of the Tonsured maize god - in particular a turtle ornament on the breast - and is shown in a peculiar posture that may denote rebirth.[8] Interpretation of the lid has raised controversy. Linda Schele saw Pakal falling down the Milky Way into the southern horizon,[9] a view that would not appear to have found general acceptance among scholars.
Pakal and his sarcophagus in popular culture[edit]
Erich von Däniken's "Maya Astronaut"[edit]
Pakal’s tomb has been the focus of attention of some "ancient astronaut" enthusiasts since its appearance in Erich von Däniken's 1968 best seller, Chariots of the Gods?. Von Däniken reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid, incorrectly labeling it as being from "Copan" and comparing Pacal's pose[10] to that of Project Mercury astronauts in the 1960s, interpreting drawings underneath him as rockets, and offering it as evidence of a supposed extraterrestrial influence on the ancient Maya.
Von Däniken's claim is not considered a credible interpretation by any professional Mayanist. For example Ian Graham responded, "Well I certainly don't see any need to regard him as a space man. I don't see any oxygen tubes. I see a very characteristically drawn Maya face."[citation needed]
José Argüelles' "Pacal Votan"[edit]
Another example of this carving's manifestation in pseudoarchaeology is the identification by José Argüelles of "Pacal Votan" as an incarnation named "Valum Votan," who will act as a "closer of the cycle" in 2012 (an event that is also significant on Argüelles' "13 Moon" calendar). Daniel Pinchbeck, in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalquatl (2006), also uses the name "Votan" in reference to Pakal. However, this name is not used for Pakal by Mayanist researchers such as academic archaeologists, epigraphers, and iconographers. Argüelles claims a connection between Pakal and the semi-historical Toltec figure Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, but this is not supported by archaeological or epigraphic evidence. New Age interpretations of Pakal's tomb are a cornerstone of contemporary Mayanism.
1. ^ These are the dates indicated on the Maya inscriptions : in Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and (Tiesler & Cucina 2004, p. 40).
2. ^ Maya rulership titles and name glyphs themselves do not use regnal numbers, they are a convenience only of modern scholars.
3. ^ Skidmore 2008: p. 71
4. ^ http://research.famsi.org/whos_who/people.php?mathewsnumber=PAL%20011
5. ^ Stokstad, Marilyn (2008). Art History Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 388. ISBN 0-205-74422-2.
7. ^ Schele and Mathews 1998: 111-112
8. ^ Stuart and Stuart 2008: 174-177
9. ^ Freidel, Schele, Parker 1993: 76-77
10. ^ http://www.mesoweb.com/palenque/monuments/TI_sarcophagus/099.html
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Regnal titles
Preceded by
Sak K'uk'
King of Palenque
July, 615 – August, 683
Succeeded by
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14809 | McGurk's Bar bombing
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Coordinates: 54°36′29.41″N 5°55′54″W / 54.6081694°N 5.93167°W / 54.6081694; -5.93167
McGurk's Bar bombing
Part of The Troubles
McGurks bombing.jpg
A British soldier surveys the aftermath of the bombing
Location corner of North Queen Street and Great George's Street, Belfast,
Northern Ireland
Date 4 December 1971
20:45 (GMT)
Target Irish Catholics
Attack type
Time bomb
Deaths 15
Non-fatal injuries
Perpetrator Ulster Volunteer Force
On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at McGurk's Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The pub was frequented by members of the Irish Catholic and nationalist community.[1] The explosion caused the building to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen more. It was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during the Troubles.[2]
Despite evidence to the contrary, the security forces publicised the theory that a bomb had accidentally exploded while being handled by IRA members inside the pub; implying that the victims themselves were partly to blame. A report later found that the police were biased in favour of this view, and that this hindered their investigation. In 1977, UVF member Robert Campbell was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the bombing.
McGurk's (also called Tramore Bar) was a two-storey public house on the corner of North Queen Street and Great George's Street, in the New Lodge area to the north of Belfast city centre.[3] This was a mainly Irish nationalist and Catholic area, and the pub's regular customers were from that community.[4]
The Ulster Volunteer Force formed in Belfast in 1966, declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and anyone helping it. Until 1971, however, its actions were few and it "scarcely existed in an organisational sense".[5] The British Army was deployed in Northern Ireland during the August 1969 riots, which are usually seen as the start of the Troubles. In December 1969 the IRA split, giving rise to the establishment of the rival Official IRA and Provisional IRA. Both sides then launched armed campaigns against the British Army, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the government of Northern Ireland.
During 1971, the violence gradually worsened. There were daily bombings and shootings by republicans, loyalists and the security forces. During the first two weeks of December, there were about 70 bombings and about 30 people were killed.[6] On 2 December, three republican prisoners escaped from Crumlin Road gaol, not far from McGurk's. Security was tightened and there was heavy RUC and British Army presence in the area over the next two days.[7] Eyewitnesses asserted that the checkpoints around McGurk's were removed just an hour before the attack.[8]
The bombing[edit]
Plaque near the site of the bombing listing those killed
On the evening of Saturday 4 December 1971, a three-man UVF team met in a building near the Shankill Road and were ordered to bomb a pub on North Queen Street. They were told not to return until the job was done.[9] When being interviewed by police about the bombing, Robert Campbell said that their target had not been McGurk's, but another pub nearby.[10] It is believed that their target was a pub called "The Gem", which was allegedly linked to the Official IRA.[11][12] The bomb (disguised as a brown parcel) was placed in a car, which they then drove to their target. They stopped outside the pub at about 7:30pm,[9] but allegedly couldn't gain access to it.[10] After waiting for almost an hour, they drove a short distance to McGurk's.[11] At about 8:45pm one of them placed the bomb in the porch entrance on Great George's Street and rushed back to the car.[9] It exploded just moments after they drove off.[9] Campbell implied that McGurk's had been an arbitrary target.[10] It has been argued that McGurk's was chosen only because it was "the nearest Catholic pub".[12]
The blast caused the building to collapse. Bystanders immediately rushed to free the dead and wounded from the rubble. Firefighters, paramedics, police and soldiers were quickly on the scene. Fifteen Catholic civilians had been killed[13] and another seventeen wounded.
Within two hours of the blast, a sectarian clash had erupted nearby at the New Lodge–Tiger's Bay interface.[14] The British Army and RUC moved in and a gun battle developed.[14] An Army officer, Major Jeremy Snow, was shot by the IRA on New Lodge Road and died of his wounds on 8 December.[14][15] Two RUC officers and five civilians were also wounded by gunfire. Eventually, five companies of troops were sent into the district and they searched almost 50 houses.[14]
Meanwhile, the UVF team had driven to a nearby pickup point where they dumped their car and waited to be collected by another car. However, the car drove past them, so they walked to the area of St Anne's Cathedral and were picked up by another one. They were driven back to the Shankill and met the man who had ordered the attack in an Orange hall, telling him that "the job has been done".[9]
Philomena and Maria McGurk, wife and 12-year-old daughter of the landlord, Patrick McGurk, were among those who were killed; Patrick and his three sons were seriously injured.[4] Shortly after the attack, McGurk appeared on television calling for no retaliation: "It doesn't matter who planted the bomb. What's done can't be undone. I've been trying to keep bitterness out of it."[16]
After the bombing, there were conflicting theories about who was responsible and these were spread via the media. The main theories were:
• that it had been planted by loyalists;
• that it had exploded prematurely while being prepared by republicans inside the pub;
• that it had exploded prematurely while "in transit", an IRA member having left it at the pub to be collected by another IRA member; and
• that it had been planted as part of a feud between the Provisional IRA and Official IRA.
The second and third were known as the "own goal" theory.[12] Claims that the pub was associated with the IRA were denied by survivors and relatives. A British Military Intelligence (MI) summary covering the period 1–7 Dec 1971 also said that the pub was not known to be an IRA meeting place.[17] On Monday 6 December, both wings of the IRA condemned the attack,[4] denied responsibility and blamed the UVF and security forces.[17]
Claims of responsibility[edit]
That same day, several newspapers received phone calls from someone claiming to be a spokesman for the "Empire Loyalists". Their statement to the Belfast Telegraph was:
We [the Empire Loyalists] accept responsibility for the destruction of McGurk's pub. We placed 30lb of new explosives outside the pub because we had proved beyond doubt that meetings of IRA Provisionals and Officials were held there.[18]
The "Empire Loyalists" had made only one other claim of responsibility – that was for the bombing of Colin Youth & Community Centre in Belfast on 12 November 1971.[18] The RUC, however, had no intelligence about such a group.[18] On Tuesday 7 December, a youth claimed to have seen a man acting oddly at a phone kiosk the night before. He said the man was wearing a jacket with a UVF badge on it. The youth claimed to have checked the kiosk after the man left and found a torn bit of paper. When put together, it included the lines:
We the Empire Loyalists wish to state that we did not destroy McGurk's public house as an act of retaliation ... Furthermore we do not require the forensic experts of the Army to cover up for us ... We shall not issue any further statements until we exterminate another rebel stronghold.[18]
In the days following the bombing, the RUC received a letter signed by "Chief of Staff, UVF" claiming that the UVF bombed the pub because an IRA meeting was due to take place there. It said that two UVF members entered the pub, had a drink and asked the barman to mind a package while they "ran an errand".[19] Witnesses told the RUC, however, that there had been no strangers in the pub and that nobody had left a package.[19] Three other unsigned letters were sent to the RUC. They suggested that it was an IRA bomb "in transit" and that two "Provos" were killed.[19]
Location of the bomb[edit]
A mock-up of the original bar erected close to its original location, December 2011
For the RUC, the location of the bomb (whether it exploded inside or outside) became the key to finding who was responsible. However, investigators (both RUC and Army) were unsure and gave conflicting opinions.[20]
RUC duty officers' reports were made daily. Their purpose was to brief the Chief Constable and others at HQ about events that happened during the foregoing 24 hours. The reports were also made available to the Army's General Officer Commanding for Northern Ireland. The 4–5 December 1971 report said of the bombing: "Just before the explosion a man entered the licensed premises and left down a suitcase, presumably to be picked up by a known member of the IRA. The bomb was intended for use on other premises. Before the 'pick-up' was made the bomb exploded..."[20]
On 6 December, however, the RUC spoke to an 8-year-old who witnessed the blast. He said that he saw three men in a car that had "a wee Union Jack stuck in the back window". He said that one of the men left a parcel in the Great George's Street doorway and then ran back to the car. A man and a woman backed up his story, although they did not witness as much as the boy.[21]
Despite this, the security forces and the Government stood behind the "own goal" theory. A British Military Intelligence summary covering the period 8–15 December said: "It has been confirmed that it was a [Provisional IRA] bomb which was destined for another target, but exploded prematurely."[17] A Ministry of Defence (MOD) document dated 14 December said that that this "should be publicised".[22] On 23 December, the Army sent a letter (signed by a lieutenant colonel) to people living in north Belfast. It said that when the IRA in the area is destroyed, "we can look forward to…a period in which you will not lose your friends in a repetition of the 'Provos' accident in the McGurk’s bar."[23]
Arrest and conviction of Robert Campbell[edit]
In November 1975, the RUC received intelligence that a man called Robert Campbell was a high-ranking UVF member. They began enquiries to find where he lived. In March 1976, the RUC received further intelligence that linked Campbell and four others to the McGurk's bombing. Campbell was arrested on 27 July 1977 and held at Castlereagh RUC base. He was interviewed seven times during 27 and 28 July.[24] He admitted his part in the bombing but refused to name the others.[9]
On 29 July 1977, Campbell was charged with the 15 murders and 17 attempted murders. On 6 September 1978 he pleaded guilty to all charges and received life imprisonment with "a recommendation to serve no less than 20 years". He is the only person to have been charged for the bombing.[4][25]
Collusion claims and Police Ombudsman's investigation[edit]
The victims' relatives campaigned for an independent investigation of the bombing. They believed that the RUC's investigation was flawed from the outset. Moreover, they wished to disprove the claim that the victims were IRA members killed by their own bomb (the "own goal theory").[26] Even after Campbell's conviction, the "own goal" theory remained officially unchallenged.[26] Relatives argued that this theory was promoted as part of a "government policy to avoid publicly acknowledging the loyalist campaign of violence".[26] Another argument is that it was promoted to undermine the IRA's support and stir tension between the two IRA factions.[26]
Relatives also asked how the bombers were able to plant the bomb and flee despite the tight security. Some alleged that the security forces helped the bombers by removing checkpoints.[7] The 2009 book Killing For Britain, written by former UVF member 'John Black', claimed that a British undercover unit called the Military Reaction Force or Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) organized the bombing and helped the bombers get in and out of the area.[27] The bombers' original target, The Gem, was allegedly linked to the Official IRA. It has been claimed that the MRF ordered the team to bomb The Gem and make it look like a Provisional IRA attack. The plan was allegedly to start a feud between the two IRA factions, which would distract them from their fight against the security forces and drain their support. However, as The Gem had security outside, they bombed the nearest 'Catholic pub'.[28]
On 21 February 2011, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a report about the bombing and the RUC's investigation of it. The report said that there is no evidence that the RUC helped the UVF bombers. However, it found that the RUC investigation was biased in favour of the view that the IRA was responsible. It failed to give enough thought to the possible involvement of loyalists. This bias hindered the investigation. The report also found that RUC gave "selective" and "misleading" briefings to the Government and media, which furthered the idea that it was an IRA bomb. The Ombudsman has not found an explanation why successive Chief Constables have not addressed this mistake. Ombudsman Al Hutchinson said: "Inconsistent police briefings, some of which inferred that victims of the bombing were culpable in the atrocity, caused the bereaved families great distress, which has continued for many years".[29]
Memorial on Great George's Street
In 2001 a memorial was unveiled on the site of McGurk's bar to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing.[4] Relatives of the victims called for an investigation into allegations of crown-force collusion in the bomb attack. Almost a thousand people attended a service at St Patrick's Church on Donegall Street, after which fifteen wreaths, one for each victim, were carried by relatives leading a silent candlelit procession to a new memorial at Great George's Street.[30]
Patrick McGurk died on 15 December 2007, having forgiven those responsible for the explosion and having prayed for the men who carried out the attack.[16]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Daughter recalls bar bomb horror". BBC News (3 December 2001). 3 December 2001. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
3. ^ The bombing of McGurk's Bar, Belfast, on 4 December 1971. Report by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. February 2011.
4. ^ a b c d e "1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub". BBC On This Day. 4 December 1971. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
5. ^ Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000. p.259
6. ^ Police Ombudsman's Report, p.14
7. ^ a b Police Ombudsman's Report, p.9
8. ^ Police Ombudsman's Report, p.16
9. ^ a b c d e f Police Ombudsman's report, pp.44-45
10. ^ a b c Police Ombudsman's report, p.76
11. ^ a b McAleese, Deborah. "Recriminations still fly over McGurk's Bar massacre". Belfast Telegraph, 9 July 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
12. ^ a b c "McGurk’s Bar Bombing", Hansard, 14 July 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2009
13. ^ Sutton Index of Deaths: 4 December 1971. CAIN.
14. ^ a b c d McKittrick, David. Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Mainstream, 1999. p.127.
15. ^ Sutton Index of Deaths: 1971. CAIN.
16. ^ a b "McGurk bar owner dies". Belfast Telegraph (17 December 2007). Retrieved 2008-05-06.
17. ^ a b c Police Ombudsman's report, p.42
18. ^ a b c d Police Ombudsman's report, pp.27–28
19. ^ a b c Police Ombudsman's report, p.37
20. ^ a b Police Ombudsman's report, pp.20–21
21. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, pp.24–25
22. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, p.49
23. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, p.55
24. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, p.43
25. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, p.47
26. ^ a b c d Police Ombudsman's Report, p.10
27. ^ Police Ombudsman's report, p.16
28. ^ "Collusion and Cover-Up". The McGurk's Bar Massacre.
29. ^ Press Release: INVESTIGATIVE BIAS UNDERMINED POLICE INQUIRY. Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. 21 February 2011.
30. ^ "McGurk's bomb relatives call for inquiry". An Phoblacht. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
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Michael Crockart
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Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh West
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by John Barrett
Majority 3,803 (8.2%)
Personal details
Born (1966-03-19) 19 March 1966 (age 47)
Nationality British
Michael Bruce Crockart[1] (born 19 March 1966) is a Liberal Democrat politician, and the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West. He was first elected on 6 May 2010 at the 2010 general election.
Crockart was the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Michael Moore, the Scottish Secretary of State, but he quit in December 2010 to vote against the rise in tuition fees.
Parliamentary candidate[edit]
Crockart was educated at Perth High School and at Edinburgh University where he studied Social Sciences.[2] He worked as a policeman with Lothian and Borders Police for eight years before becoming a systems developer with Standard Life. He first challenged for elected office in 2002 when he came second in a by-election for the Balerno ward of the City of Edinburgh Council, coming second to the Conservatives. He stood for the same ward again the following year, increasing his share of the vote.[3]
Edinburgh North and Leith[edit]
In 2005 he stood for the Westminster constituency of Edinburgh North and Leith, coming second to Labour's Mark Lazarowicz and securing a swing of 8.3 per cent from Labour to Lib Dem.[4] In November 2005 he again sought election to the city council, standing in another by-election in Murrayfield, and again came second. In the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections in the smaller Scottish constituency of Edinburgh North and Leith, and again secured a large swing from Labour but still finished in second place.[5]
Edinburgh West[edit]
In 2009, John Barrett, the Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West announced his retirement, prompting a nomination fight. Crockart stood, as did city council housing leader Paul Edie, former Borders MSP Euan Robson and former Edinburgh Central Scottish Parliament candidate Siobhan Mathers.[6][7] Crockart defeated Edie by 77 votes to 57. He retained the seat for the party in the 2010 general election with an 8.2 per cent majority, despite suffering a large swing to the Labour Party of 11.4.[8]
Member of Parliament[edit]
The result from the 2010 election produced a situation whereby no one party had a majority in the House of Commons and so a coalition agreement was drawn up between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. As a result Crockart, in his first term as an MP, was now sitting on the Government benches as opposed to the opposition ones. Speaking about the agreement, Crockart claimed that this was a "bold and ambitious agreement" that would bring "positive change to Edinburgh".[9] Crockart was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Scottish Secretary Michael Moore.[10]
Resignation as PPS[edit]
On 9 December 2010, Crockart resigned as Michael Moore's PPS to vote against the government's proposed rise in tuition fees.[11] In his resignation letter, he told party chief whip Alistair Carmichael that the rise in potential student debt will "seriously impact on people's choices". He went on to say, "this is especially true for those students from poorer backgrounds, many of whom have no role models in their schools or families to demonstrate to them the benefits which can accrue from a university education."[11] Crockart had hit the headlines prior to the vote after being the victim of an impersonator who managed to convince show producers on the BBC Radio 4 programme The World at One that he was the Edinburgh West MP. The impersonator told presenter James Robbins, "I will be voting 100 per cent against. I'm not going to be pushed out. Resigning probably will be the only option."[12] The Liberal Democrat press office pointed out the error as the impersonator had an English accent whereas Mike Crockart has a "distinctly Scottish burr".[12] Of the error the BBC said, "The usual pre-broadcast questions were asked of the person concerned, who maintained throughout that he was Mr Crockart and appeared credible....Once the mistake was realised, steps were taken immediately to rectify the error and to ensure it was not repeated."[12]
1. ^ House of Commons Debates 20 May 2010 c. 21.
2. ^ "Mike Crockart". Scottish Lib Dems.
3. ^ "Former policeman Mike Crockart to defend Barrett's Capital seat". Edinburgh Evening News.
4. ^ BBC "Edinburgh North and Leith". Election Map 2005.
5. ^ "Edinburgh North and Leith". BBC Election Coverage Scottish Parliament 2007.
6. ^ "Candidates to slug it out for safe city seat". Edinburgh Evening News.
7. ^ "Capitals poll position". The Scotsman.
8. ^ "General Election 2010: Edinburgh West". BBC News.
9. ^ "Westminster coalition will bring real benefits". Edinburgh Evening News.
10. ^ "Biography: Michael Crockart". House of Commons Information Office.
11. ^ a b "Edinburgh MP resigns over tuition fees". The Guardian.
12. ^ a b c "BBC broadcasts interview with MP imposter". The Daily Mail.
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Sir Peircy Brett (1709 – 14 October 1781) was an officer in the Royal Navy, who from 1740 to 1744 served on George Anson's voyage around the world. During this voyage he was appointed captain of the HMS Centurion. He reached the rank of rear admiral in 1762, and thereafter served on land. In the Admiralty he was lord commissioner (1766–1770), and became a full admiral on 29 January 1778. He was MP for Queenborough (1754–1774). He is buried in Beckenham Church, Kent.
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Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
• Република Молдовеняскэ
Republica Moldovenească Nistreană
• Приднестрóвская Молдáвская Респýблика (Russian)
Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika
• Придністровська Молдавська Республіка (Ukrainian)
Prydnistrovska Moldavska Respublika
Flag Emblem
Мы славим тебя, Приднестровье (Russian)
My slavim tebya, Pridnestrovye (transliteration)
We sing the praises of Transnistria
and largest city
Official languages
Ethnic groups (2005)
Government Semi-presidential republic
- President Yevgeny Shevchuk
- Prime Minister Tatiana Turanskaya
Legislature Supreme Council
Partially recognized state
- Independence declared 2 September 1990
- War of Transnistria 2 March – 21 July 1992
- Recognition 3 non-UN membersc
- Total 4,163 km2
1,607 sq mi
- Water (%) 2.35
- 2013 estimate 509,439[1]
- 2004 census 555,347
- Density 124.6/km2
345/sq mi
Currency Transnistrian rubled (PRB)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Calling code +373e
Internet TLD nonef
a. Russian is the main official language and the lingua franca.
b. Linguistically the same as Romanian.
c. Limited to the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and South Ossetia (see Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations).
d. Moldovan leu used in those areas under Moldovan control and in the security zone.
e. +373 5 and +373 2.
f. .ru and .md sometimes used.
Map of Transnistria.
Transnistria (also called Trans-Dniestr or Transdniestria) is a breakaway state located mostly on a strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, and especially after the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as Pridnestrovie) a state with limited recognition that claims territory to the east of the River Dniester, and also to the city of Bender and its surrounding localities located on the west bank, in the historical region of Bessarabia. The terms "Transnistria" and "Pridnestrovie" both reference the Dniester River.
Unrecognised by any United Nations member state, Transnistria is designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Autonomous territorial unit with special legal status (Unitatea teritorială autonomă cu statut juridic special Transnistria),[2] or Stînga Nistrului ("Left Bank of the Dniester").[3][4][5]
After the dissolution of the USSR, tensions between the newly created Moldova and the de facto sovereign state of Pridnestrovia that unlike Moldova did not want to separate from the Soviet Union, escalated into a military conflict that started in March 1992 and was concluded by a ceasefire in July 1992. As part of that agreement, a three-party (Russia, Moldova, Transnistria) Joint Control Commission supervises the security arrangements in the demilitarized zone, comprising twenty localities on both sides of the river. Although the ceasefire has held, the territory's political status remains unresolved: Transnistria is an unrecognized but independent [6][7][8][9] presidential republic with its own government, parliament, military, police, postal system, and currency. Its authorities have adopted a constitution, flag, national anthem, and coat of arms. However, after a 2005 agreement between Moldova and Ukraine, all Transnistrian companies that seek to export goods through the Ukrainian border must be registered with the Moldovan authorities.[10] This agreement was implemented after the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) started its activity in 2005.[11] Most Transnistrians also have Moldovan citizenship,[12] but many Transnistrians have Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.
Because of the Russian military contingent present in Transnistria, the European Court of Human Rights considers Transnistria "under the effective authority or at least decisive influence of Russia".[13]
Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia are post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zones.[14][15] These four unrecognized states maintain friendly relations with each other and form the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations.[16][17][18]
The region is also known in English as "Trans-Dniestr"[19] or "Transdniestria".[20] Etymologically, these names are adaptations of the Romanian colloquial name of the region, "Transnistria" meaning "beyond the River Dniester".
The documents of the government of Moldova refer to the region as Stînga Nistrului (in full, Unităţile Administrativ-Teritoriale din Stînga Nistrului) meaning "Left Bank of the Dniester" (in full, "Administrative-territorial unit(s) of the Left Bank of the Dniester").
The name of the region according to the Transnistrian authorities is Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) (Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика, ПМР, Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ, РМН, Romanian: Republica Moldovenească Nistreană; Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка, ПМР, Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Respublika). The short form of this name is Pridnestrovie (Russian: Приднестровье, Pridnestrovye; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: Нистрения,[21] Nistrenia; Ukrainian: Придністров'я, Prydnistrovya). "Pridnestrovie" is a transliteration of the Russian "Приднестровье" meaning "[a land] by the [River] Dniester".
Antiquity and Middle Ages[edit]
Indo-European tribes for millennia had inhabitated the area where Transnistria now is because it was a borderland between Dacia and Scythia. The Tyragetae (a Getae Thracian tribe) inhabited the area around the River Dniester (called "Tyras" in ancient documents) as well as the Scythians. Early Germanic and Turkic tribes were present in the area during their attacks and invasions of the Roman Empire.
From 56 AD, the coastal area around the city of Tyras was occupied by the Romans for nearly four centuries, forming part of the province of Lower Moesia. Tyras enjoyed great development during Roman times: there is a series of its coins with heads of emperors from Domitian to Alexander Severus. But in the second half of the fourth century the area was continuously attacked by barbarians and the Roman legionaries left Tyras.
In the early Middle Ages, Slavic tribes of Tivertsi and Ulichs[22] populated larger areas, including Transnistria, followed by Turkic nomads such as the Petchenegs[23] and Cumans.
Possibly an early part of Kievan Rus', after the Mongol invasion of Europe in 1241, the territory was briefly under Mongol control (yet probably without any permanent settlements) and later under the Crimean Khanate.[citation needed]
Early modern period[edit]
From the 15th century, northern Transnistria (current districts of Camenca and Ribnita) belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,[24][25][26][27][28] and later to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1793) which encouraged the migration of peasants into the territory from the neighboring populated areas (from north and from west). Prince of Moldavia Gheorghe Duca (1665–66, 1668–72, 1678–84) built a court at Ţicanova on the east bank of the Dniester, and one at Nimirov on the Southern Bug, last mentioned in Moldavian hands in 1765.[29][30] The localities Dubăsari, Raşcov, Vasilcău, as well as four other currently in Ukraine are mentioned in 17th-18th centuries as fairs for the Dniester-Bug region. In 1769, a document dated at Bender mentions the then title of the Mitropolitan of Moldavia as Mitropolitan of Proilavia, of Tamarova, of Hotin, and of all the borders of the Danube, of the Dniester, and the Han's Ukraine,[31] the latter being a common reference to the then sparsely populated Dniester–Southern BugDniepr area.
Before becoming part of the Russian Empire in 1792 (southern part) and 1793 (northern part) the largest groups living between the Dniester and the Bug rivers were Moldavian, Ruthenian (Ukrainian) and Tatar peasants.[32] The Russian census of 1793 of the Ochakov region (southern part of the Dniester-Bug area) mentions a totality of 67 villages, of which 49 are mentioned as Moldavian and 18 as Tatar.[33] The first candidate for the governor of the new Russian region was the Moldavian boyar of Greek ancestry Alexandru I. Mavrocordat.[34] The northern part of Transnistria had Ruthenian (Ukrainian) and Moldavian villages.
Russian Empire[edit]
In 1792, the region became part of the Russian Empire as a result of the sixth Russo-Turkish War. In that year, the general Alexander Suvorov founded modern Tiraspol as a Russian border fortress.[35] Until the Russian Revolution of 1917, the current Transnistria was divided between the imperial guberniyas of Podolia, Kherson, and Bessarabia. Most of the territory which now is Transnistria was part of the larger New Russia region,[36] hence it saw a strong colonization process, with a multitude of ethnicities being settled: lands were given to enserfed peasantry from Russia and Ukraine in Nova Serbia, while Jews and Germans were brought in to facilitate economic development.
Soviet and Romanian administration[edit]
Moldavian ASSR (orange) and Romania, 1924–1940.
Transnistria became an autonomous political entity in 1924 with the proclamation of the Moldavian ASSR, which included today's Transnistria (4,000 km2) as well as an adjacent area (9,000 km2) around the city of Balta in modern-day Ukraine, but nothing from Bessarabia, which at the time formed part of Romania. One of the reasons for the creation of the Moldavian ASSR was the desire of the Soviet Union at the time to eventually incorporate Bessarabia.[citation needed] The Moldavian SSR, organised by a decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 2 August 1940, was formed out of a part of Bessarabia (taken from Romania on 28 June, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) and out of a part of the Moldavian ASSR roughly equivalent to present-day Transnistria.
The Romanian-administered territory – called the Transnistria Governorate – with an area of 44.000 km2 and a population of 2,3 mln inhabitants, was divided into 13 counties: Ananiev, Balta, Berzovca, Dubasari, Golta, Jugastru, Movilau, Oceacov, Odessa, Ovidiopol, Rîbniţa, Tiraspol and Tulcin. There were in this enlarged Transnistria nearly 200,000 Romanian/Moldovian-speaking residents.
The Romanian administration of Transnistria attempted to stabilise the situation in the area under Romanian control, implementing a process of Romanianization.[38] By March 1943, a total of 185,000[citation needed] Ukrainian and Romanian Jews had been deported and the majority were executed or died from other causes in ghettos and concentration camps in an area immediately north and east of the current Transnistria, which as the latter was under Romanian and partly German occupation.
After the Red Army reconquered the area in 1944, Soviet authorities executed, exiled and/or imprisoned (in gulags) many thousands of the Moldavian SSR inhabitants in the following months and years. Indeed a campaign was directed towards the rich peasant families, which were deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia as well. For instance, in just two days, July 6 and July 7, 1949, a plan named "Operation South" saw the deportation of over 11,342 families by the order of the Moldovian Minister of State Security, I. L. Mordovets.[39]
In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union allowed political liberalization at a regional level. This led to the creation of various informal movements in the Moldavian SSR, and the resurgence of pro-Romanian nationalism among ethnic Moldovans.[40] The most prominent of these movements was the Popular Front of Moldova. In the spring of 1988, PFM demanded that the Soviet authorities declare Moldovan the only state language, return to the use of the Latin alphabet, and recognize the shared ethnic identity of Moldovans and Romanians. The more radical factions of the Popular Front espoused extreme anti-minority, ethnocentric and chauvinist positions,[41][42] calling for minority populations, particularly the Slavs (mainly Russians and Ukrainians) and Gagauz, to leave or be expelled from Moldova.[43]
On 31 August 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR adopted Moldovan as the only official language with Russian retained only for secondary purposes, returned Moldovan to the Latin alphabet, and declared a shared Moldovan-Romanian linguistic identity. As plans for major cultural changes in Moldova were made public, tensions rose further. Ethnic minorities felt threatened by the prospects of removing Russian as the official language, the possible future reunification of Moldova and Romania, and the ethnocentric rhetoric of the Popular Front. The Yedinstvo (Unity) Movement, established by the Slavic population of Moldova, pressed for equal status to be given to both Russian and Moldovan.[44]
Soviet symbols are still used in Transnistria.
The nationalist Popular Front won the first free parliamentary elections in the Moldavian SSR in the spring of 1990,[45] and its agenda started slowly to be implemented. On 2 September 1990, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed as a Soviet republic by an ad hoc assembly, the Second Congress of the Peoples' Representatives of Transnistria. Violence escalated when in October 1990 the Popular Front called for volunteers to form armed militias to stop a Gagauz autonomy referendum. In response, volunteer militias were formed in Transnistria. In April 1990, nationalist mobs attacked ethnic Russian members of parliament, while the Moldovan police refused to intervene or restore order.[46]
War of Transnistria[edit]
The War of Transnistria followed armed clashes on a limited scale which broke out between Transnistrian separatists and Moldova as early as November 1990 at Dubăsari. Volunteers, including Cossacks, came from Russia and Ukraine to help the separatist side.[49] In mid-April 1992, under the agreements on the split of the military equipment of the former Soviet Union negotiated between the former 15 republics in the previous months, Moldova created its own Defence Ministry. According to the decree of its creation, most of the 14th Soviet Army's military equipment was to be retained by Moldova.[50] Starting from 2 March 1992, there was concerted military action between Moldova and Transnistria. Throughout early 1992 the fighting intensified. The former Soviet 14th Guards Army entered the conflict in its final stage, opening fire against Moldovan forces;[50] since then, Moldova has exercised no effective control or influence on Transnistrian authorities. A ceasefire agreement was signed on 21 July 1992 and has held to the present day.
Further negotiations[edit]
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is trying to facilitate a negotiated settlement. Under OSCE auspices, on 8 May 1997, the Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi and the Transnistrian president Igor Smirnov, signed the "Memorandum on the principles of normalizations of the relations between the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria", also known as the "Primakov Memorandum", sustaining the establishment of legal and state relations, although the memorandum's provisions were interpreted differently by the governments of Moldova and Transnistria.
Talks were started in 2006 to deal with the problems, but without results for many years. In February 2011 the so-called "5 + 2 Talks" (thus named because they were carried out by Transnistria, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and OSCE, plus the US and the EU as external observers) were started again in Vienna.[53]
Dniester river.
Transnistria is landlocked and borders Bessarabia (i.e., the rest of Moldova, for 411 km) to the West, and Ukraine (for 405 km) to the East. It is a narrow valley stretching in the North-South direction along the bank of the Dniester river, which forms a natural boundary along most of the border with (the rest of) Moldova. Tiraspol, the capital and largest city of Transnistria, has about 160,000 inhabitants.
The territory controlled by the PMR is mostly, but not completely, coincident with the left (eastern) bank of Dniester. It includes ten cities and towns, and 69 communes, with a totality of 147 localities (counting the unincorporated ones as well). Six communes on the left bank (Cocieri, Molovata Nouă, Corjova, Pîrîta, Coşniţa, and Doroţcaia) remained under the control of the Moldovan government after the War of Transnistria in 1992, as part of the Dubăsari District. They are situated north and south of the city of Dubăsari, which itself is under PMR control. The village of Roghi of Molovata Nouă Commune is also controlled by the PMR (Moldova controls the other nine of the ten villages of the six communes).
On the west bank, in Bessarabia, the city of Bender and four communes (containing a total of six villages) to its east, south-east, and south, on the opposite bank of the river Dniester from the city of Tiraspol (Proteagailovca, Gîsca, Chiţcani, and Cremenciug) are controlled by the PMR.
The main transportation route in Transnistria is the road Tiraspol-Dubăsari-Rîbniţa. North and south of Dubăsari it passes through the lands of the villages controlled by Moldova (Doroţcaia, Cocieri, Roghi, while Vasilievca is entirely situated east of the road). Conflict erupted on several occasions when the PMR prevented the villagers from reaching their farmland east of the road.[54][55][56]
Transnistrians are able to travel (normally without difficulty) in and out of the territory under PMR control to neighbouring Moldovan-controlled territory, to Ukraine, and on to Russia, by road or (when service is not interrupted by political tensions) on two international trains, the year-round Moscow-Chişinău, and the seasonal Saratov-Varna. International air travellers rely on the airport in Chişinău, the Moldovan capital, or the airport in Odessa, in Ukraine.
Administrative divisions[edit]
Districts of Transnistria.
Transnistria is subdivided into five districts (raions) (Russian names and transliterations are appended in parentheses):
and one municipality:
Also, Bender (Tighina; Бендéры), situated on the western bank of the Dniester, in Bessarabia, geographically outside Transnistria, is not part of territorial unit Transnistria of Moldova as defined by the central authorities, but is controlled by the PMR authorities, which consider it part of PMR's administrative organization.
Political status[edit]
All UN member states consider Transnistria a legal part of the Republic of Moldova. Only the partially recognised states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia recognize it as a sovereign entity after it declared independence from Moldova in 1990 with Tiraspol as its declared capital.
Although exercising no direct control over the territory, the Moldovan government passed the "Law on Basic Provisions of the Special Legal Status of Localities from the Left Bank of the Dniester" on 22 July 2005, which established part of Transnistria (territory of Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic without Bender and without territories, which are under control of Moldova) as an autonomous territorial unit within the Republic of Moldova. The law was passed without any prior consultation with Transnistrian authorities, who called it a provocation and have since ignored it.
Transnistrian population – about 555,000 people (2009). 90% of the population of Transnistria are citizens of the unrecognized Transnistria.[57] Transnistrians have double or triple citizenship, including:
• Citizens of Moldova[58] – around 300,000 people (including double citizens of Russia (around 20,000[59]) or EU states (around 80%) Romania,[60][61] Bulgaria, Czech Republic)
• Citizens of Russia – around 150,000 people (including around 15,000 double citizens of Belarus, Israel, Turkey); without quantity of dual citizenship Russia and Moldova (around 20,000)
• Citizens of Ukraine – around 100,000 people[62] There are around 20,000–30,000 people with dual citizenship (Moldova and Ukraine, or Russia and Ukraine) or triple citizenship (Moldova, Russia and Ukraine). They are included in the number of Ukrainian citizens[63]
• Persons without citizenship – around 20,000–30,000 people.
There are unsettled border issues between Transnistria and Moldova. Nine villages from the Dubăsari District, including Cocieri and Doroţcaia which geographically belong to Transnistria, have been under the control of the central government of Moldova after the involvement of local inhabitants on the side of Moldovan forces during the War of Transnistria. These villages along with Varniţa and Copanca, near Bender and Tiraspol, are claimed by the PMR. One city and six villages on the west bank are controlled by the PMR, but are considered by Moldova as a separate municipality (Bender and two villages) or part of the Căuşeni District (four villages).
Tense situations have periodically surfaced due to these territorial disputes, such as in 2005, when Transnistrian forces entered Vasilievca,[64] in 2006 around Varniţa, and in 2007 in Dubăsari-Cocieri area, when a confrontation between Moldovan and Transnistrian forces occurred, however without any casualties.
International relations[edit]
A Transnistrian passport.
Transnistria's minister of foreign affairs is Nina Shtanski.
PMR has a multi-party system and a unicameral parliament named the Supreme Council. Its legislature has 43 members elected by Single-member district plurality.[65] The president is elected to a five-year term by popular vote.
Igor Smirnov was the President of Transnistria since the declaration of independence in 1990 for four consecutive terms. He ran for president in 2011 also, but was defeated in the first round.
The majority in the Parliament of Transnistria belongs to the Renewal movement which defeated the Republic party affiliated with Igor Smirnov in 2005 and performed even better in 2010 elections. Its leader, Yevgeni Shevchuk, won the 2011 presidential elections.
There is disagreement over whether elections in Transnistria are free and fair. The political regime has been described as one of 'super-presidentialism'.[66] In the latest presidential election, the registration of opposition candidate Andrey Safonov was delayed until a few days before the vote, so that he had little time to conduct an election campaign.[67][68] Some sources consider election results suspicious. In 2001, in one region it was reported that Igor Smirnov collected 103.6% of the votes.[69] The PMR government said 'the government of Moldova launched a campaign aimed at convincing international observers not to attend' an election held on 11 December 2005 – but CIS election monitors had ignored that and had declared the ballot democratic.
Tiraspol City Soviet.
The opposition Narodovlastie party and Power to the People movement were outlawed at the beginning of 2000[70] and eventually dissolved.[71][72]
In 2007, the registration of a Social Democratic Party was allowed. This party, led by former separatist leader and member of the PMR government Andrey Safonov, allegedly favors a union with Moldova.
In September 2007, the leader of the Transnistrian Communist Party, Oleg Horjan, was sentenced to a suspended sentence of 1½ years imprisonment for organizing unsanctioned actions of protest.[74]
According to the 2006 referendum, carried out by the PMR government, 97.2% of the population voted in favor of "independence from Moldova and free association with Russia."[75] EU and several other countries refused to recognise the referendum results.
Transnistria border customs dispute[edit]
The United States, the European Union and OSCE approved the Ukrainian move, while Russia saw it as a means of political pressure. On 4 March, Transnistria responded by blocking the Moldovan and Ukrainian transport at the borders of Transnistria. The Transnistrian block was lifted after two weeks. However, the Moldovan/Ukrainian block remains in place, and holds up progress in status settlement negotiations between the sides.[76] In the months after the regulations, exports from Transnistria declined drastically. Transnistria declared a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the region, while Moldova called the declaration "deliberate misinformation".[77] Cargoes of humanitarian aid were sent from Russia in response.
Russian military presence in Transnistria[edit]
A 1,200 member Russian military contingent is present in Transnistria. The status of this contingent is disputed. The 1992 cease-fire agreement between Moldova and Transnistria established a Russian peace-keeper presence in Transnistria. Russian troops stationed in Moldova proper since the time of the USSR were fully withdrawn to Russia by January 1993.
On 21 October 1994, Russia and Moldova signed an agreement that committed Russia to the withdrawal of the troops in three years from the date of entry into force of the agreement;[78] this did not come into effect, however, because the Russian Duma did not ratify it.[9] The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) included a paragraph about the removal of Russian troops from Moldova's territory and was introduced into the text of the OSCE Summit Declaration of Istanbul (1999) in which Russia had committed itself to pulling out its troops from Transnistria by the end of 2002.[79] However, even after 2002, the Russian parliament did not ratify the Istanbul accords. On 19 July 2004, after it finally passed through parliament President Vladimir Putin signed the Law on the ratification of the CFE Treaty in Europe, which committed Russia to remove the heavy armaments limited by this Treaty.[80] During 2000–2001, although the CFE Treaty was not fully ratified, to comply with it, Moscow withdrew 125 pieces of Treaty Limited Equipment (TLE) and 60 railway wagons containing ammunition from the Transnistrian region of Moldova. In 2002, Russia withdrew 3 military equipment trains (118 railway wagons) and 2 of ammunition (43 wagons) from the Transnistrian region of Moldova, and in 2003, 11 rail convoys transporting military equipment and 31 transporting ammunitions. According to the OSCE Mission to Moldova, of a total of 42,000 tons of ammunitions stored in Transnistria, 1,153 tons (3%) was transported back to Russia in 2001, 2,405 tons (6%) in 2002 and 16,573 tons (39%) in 2003.
Andrei Stratan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova stated in his speech during the 12th OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Sofia on 6–7 December 2004 that "The presence of Russian troops on the territory of the Republic of Moldova is against the political will of Moldovan constitutional authorities and defies the unanimously recognized international norms and principles, being qualified by Moldovan authorities as a foreign military occupation illegally deployed on the territory of the state".[81][82] As of 2007 however, Russia insists that it has already fulfilled those obligations. It states the remaining troops are serving as peacekeepers authorized under the 1992 ceasefire, are not in violation of the Istanbul accords and will remain until the conflict is fully resolved.[83]
In 2011, U.S. Senator John McCain said in a visit to Moldova that Moscow is violating the territorial integrity of Moldova and Georgia and one of the "fundamental norms" of "international behavior".[85]
Demographic evolution in Transnistria.
Rîbniţa, northern Transnistria.
In 2004, Transnistrian authorities organized a separate census from the 2004 Moldovan Census.[86]
In total, in the areas controlled by the PMR government, there were 555,347 people, including 177,785 Moldovans (32.10%) 168,678 Russians (30.35%) 160,069 Ukrainians (28.81%) 13,858 Bulgarians (2.50%) 4,096 Gagauzians (0.74%), 507 Roma (0.09%) 1,259 Jews (0.23%) 1,791 Poles (0.32%) and 27,454 others (4.94%).[87]
Of these, 439,243 lived in Transnistria itself, and 116,104 lived in localities controlled by the PMR government, but formally belonging to other districts of Moldova: the city of Bender (Tighina), the communes of Proteagailovca, Gîsca, Chiţcani, Cremenciug, and the village of Roghi of commune Molovata Nouă.
Russians were the second numerous ethnic group, representing a 41.64% relative majority in the city of Tiraspol, a 24.07% minority in Slobozia, a 19.03% minority in Dubăsari, a 17.22% minority in Râbniţa, a 15.28% minority in Grigoriopol, and a 6.89% minority in Camenca.
Bulgarians were the fourth largest ethnic group in Transnistria, albeit much less numerous than the three larger ethnicities. Most Bulgarians in Transnistria are Bessarabian Bulgarians, descendants of expatriates who settled in Bessarabia in the 18th–19th century. The major centre of Bulgarians in Transnistria is the large village of Parcani, which had an absolute Bulgarian majority and a total population of around 10,000.
PMR official statistics show that 91 percent of the Transnistrian population adhere to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, with 4 percent adhering to Roman Catholicism.[88] Roman Catholics are mainly located in Northern Transnistria, where a notable Polish minority is living.[89]
Transnistria's government has supported the restoration and construction of new orthodox churches. It affirms that the republic has freedom of religion and states that 114 religious beliefs and congregations are officially registered. However, as recently as 2005, registration hurdles were met with by some religious groups, notably the Jehovah's Witnesses.[90] In 2007, the US-based Christian Broadcasting Network denounced the persecution of Protestants in Transnistria.[91]
Transnistria has a mixed economy. Following a large scale privatization process in the late 90s,[92] most of the companies in Transnistria are now privately owned. The economy is based on a mix of heavy industry (steel production) electricity production and manufacturing (textile production) which together account for about 80% of the total industrial output.[93]
Transnistria's central bank.
Transnistria has its own central bank, which issues Transnistrian currency, the Transnistrian ruble. It is convertible at a freely floating exchange rate but only in Transnistria.
Transnistria's economy is frequently described as dependent on contraband[94] and gunrunning,[95][96][97] with some labelling it a mafia state.[98] These allegations are denied by the Transnistrian government, and sometimes downplayed by the officials of Russia and Ukraine.[99]
Economic history[edit]
After World War II, Transnistria was heavily industrialised, to the point that, in 1990, it was responsible for 40% of Moldova's GDP and 90% of its electricity,[100] although it accounted for only 17% of Moldova's population. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Transnistria wanted to return to a "Brezhnev-style planned economy".[101] However, several years later, it decided to head toward a market economy.
According to the government of Transnistria, the 2007 GDP was 6789 mln Transnistrian roubles (appx US$799 million) and the GDP per capita was about US$1,500. The GDP increased by 11.1% and inflation rate was 19.3%.[102] Transnistria's government budget for 2007 was US$246 million, with an estimated deficit of about US$100 million[103] which the government planned to cover with income from privatizations.[104] Budget for 2008 is US$331 million, with an estimated deficit of about US$80 million.[105]
In 2004, Transnistria had debts of US$1.2 billion (two-thirds of which are with Russia) which was per capita about six times higher than in Moldova (without Transnistria).[106] In March 2007 the debt to Gazprom for the acquisition of natural gas has increased to US$1.3 billion. On 22 March 2007 Gazprom sold Transnistria's gas debt to the Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, who controls Moldova Steel Works, the largest enterprise in Transnistria. Transnistria's president Igor Smirnov has announced that Transnistria will not pay its gas debt because "Transdnistria has no legal debt [to Gazprom]".[107][108] In November 2007, the total debt of Transnistria's public sector was up to US$1.64 billion.[105]
According to a 2007 interview with Yevgeny Shevchuk, the then-speaker of the Transnistrian Supreme Soviet, Transnistria is in a difficult economic situation. Despite a 30% tax increase in 2007, the pension fund is still lacking money and emergency measures must be taken.[109] However, Shevchuk mentioned that the situation is not hopeless and it cannot be considered a crisis, as a crisis means three-month delays in payment of pensions and salaries.[110]
External trade[edit]
In 2006, the Transnistrian Republican Bank reported exports of US$422.0 million and imports of US$738.4 million. Compared to 2005, export decreased 27.2% and import decreased 13.7%. The trade deficit reached US$316.3 million.[111] Over 50% of the export goes to the CIS, mainly to Russia, but also to Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova (whom Transnistrian authorities consider foreign).[92][93] Main non-CIS markets for the Transnistrian goods are Italy, Egypt, Greece, Romania, and Germany.[92] The CIS accounts for over 60% of the imports, while the share of the EU is about 23%. The main imports are non-precious metals, food products and electricity.
Economic sectors[edit]
The leading industry is steel, due to the Moldova Steel Works (part of the Russian Metalloinvest holding) in Rîbniţa, which accounts for about 60% of the budget revenue of Transnistria.[75] The largest company in the textile industry is Tirotex, which claims to be the second largest textile company in Europe.[112] The energy sector is dominated by Russian companies. The largest power company Moldavskaya GRES (Kuchurgan power station) which is in Dnestrovsc and owned by Inter RAO UES,[113] and the gas transmission and distribution company Tiraspoltransgas is probably controlled by Gazprom, although Gazprom has not confirmed the ownership officially. The banking sector of Transnistria consists of 8 commercial banks, including Gazprombank. The oldest alcohol producer KVINT, located in Tiraspol, produces and exports brandy, wines and vodka.
Human rights[edit]
The human rights record of Transnistria has been criticised by several governments and international organizations.[which?] The 2007 Freedom in the World report, published by the US-based Freedom House, described Transnistria as a "non-free" territory, having an equally bad situation in both political rights and civil liberties.[114]
According to the U.S. Department of State report referring to year 2006:
The right of citizens to change their government[115] was restricted.... Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention.... In Transnistria authorities limited freedom of speech and of the press....Authorities usually did not permit free assembly.... In the separatist region of Transnistria the authorities continued to deny registration and harassed a number of minority religions groups.... The separatist region remained a significant source and transit area for trafficking in persons.... Homosexuality was illegal, and gays and lesbians were subject to governmental and societal discrimination.[116]
In the best-known political trial,[clarification needed] Ilie Ilaşcu was convicted in 1993 of killing two Transnistrian officials, and initially sentenced to death by Transnistria's Supreme Court; however, this was commuted to a life prison sentence. Three other members of his group were sentenced to terms of 12 to 15 years' imprisonment, and confiscation of their property. Ilaşcu was released in 2001, after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights against Moldova and Russia, while the other three were released in 2004 and 2007, having served the full term of their sentences. The ECHR stated that authorities had violated the right of freedom and safety of all four members of the group, and that the treatment Ilie Ilaşcu suffered qualifies as torture. As part of the ruling the court also stated that they believed that Transnistria was "under the effective authority or at least decisive influence of Russia".[117] The court also ordered Moldova and Russia – which backs Transnistria – to pay the four a total of €750,000 (US$1,000,000) in compensation for the deprivation of their freedom and for torture and inhumane treatment while in custody.[118] The members of Ilaşcu's group were forced into exile after their release from prison.
In March 2007, several opponents of Transnistria's government were arrested after they made public appeals during a protest rally against its policy.[119] On 19 March 2007, Transnistrian authorities also arrested Ştefan Urîtu, the leader of Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and two other local political activists. They were later released.[120]
On 13 May 2007, separatist authorities detained the mayor of Corjova Valeriu Miţul and Iurie Coţofan, a Dubăsari district councillor.[121] According to the Moldovan InfoTag news agency, Transnistrian authorities blockaded the polling station at Corjova village, not allowing residents to participate in the Moldovan elections of 3 June 2007.[122] At the same occasion, Iurie Coţofană, a local antiseparatist councilor was arrested and beaten. Valentin Beşleag, a candidate for mayoral office in Corjova was arrested in 2 June for carrying electoral material from Moldova.[123]
In April 2010, the journalist Ernest Vardanean was arrested, being accused of espionage in favour of Moldova[124]
A similar case was that of Ilie Cazac from Bender, arrested in 19 March 2010 for high treason and espionage in favour of Moldova, and of Elena Dobroviţcaia, also from Bender, who was arrested because her mother went to a hospital in Chişinău instead of presenting herself at the request of the authorities from Bender.[125] As the parents of Ilie Cazac did not receive news about him, they started a hunger strike in June 2010 in front of the Russian Embassy in Chişinău.[126][127] At the meeting with Ilie Cazac, on 2 November 2011, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, said that the United Nations strongly backs the people detained in the Transnistrian region, noting that the UN had also advocated the release of Ilie Cazac.[128]
According to a U.S. Department of State report for 2006, "Both of the region's major newspapers were controlled by the authorities. There was one independent weekly newspaper in Bender and another in the northern city of Rîbniţa.... Separatist authorities harassed independent newspapers for critical reporting of the Transnistrian regime.... Most television and radio stations and print publication were controlled by Transnistrian authorities, which largely dictated their editorial policies and finance operations. Some broadcast networks, such as the TSV television station and the INTER-FM radio station, were owned by Transnistria's largest monopoly, Sheriff, which also holds a majority in the region's legislature.... In July 2005 the Transnistrian Supreme Soviet amended the election code to prohibit media controlled by the Transnistrian authorities from publishing results of polls and forecasts related to elections."[130]
Moldovan schools[edit]
Public education in the Romanian language is done using the Soviet-originated Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet. The usage of the Latin script was restricted to only 6 schools. Four of these schools were forcibly closed by the authorities, who claimed this was due to the refusal of the schools to apply for official accreditation.[131] These schools were later registered as private schools and reopened. This process may have been accelerated by pressure from the European Union.[132]
The OSCE mission to Moldova has urged local authorities in the Transnistrian city of Rîbniţa to return a confiscated building to the Moldovan Latin script school in the city. The unfinished building was nearing completion in 2004, when Transnistria took control of it during that year's school crisis.[133]
As of 2007, the armed forces and the paramilitary of Transnistria were composed of 4,500–7,500 soldiers, divided into four motorized infantry brigades in Tiraspol, Bender, Rîbniţa, and Dubăsari.[134] They have 18 tanks, 107 armoured carriers, 73 guns, 46 anti-aircraft installations, and 173 tank destroyer units. The air force is composed of 9 Mi-8T helicopters, 6 Mi-24 helicopters, 2 Mi-2 helicopters, and several airplanes of An-2, An-26 and Yak-18 models.
Arms control and disarmament[edit]
Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the Russian 14th Army left 40,000 tonnes of weaponry and ammunition. In later years there were concerns[who?] that the Transnistrian authorities would try to sell these stocks internationally, and intense pressure was applied to have these removed by the Russian Federation.
In the autumn of 2006, the Transnistria leadership agreed to let an OSCE inspectorate examine the munitions and further access agreed moving forward.
Transnistrian authorities declared that they are not involved in the manufacture or export of weapons. The OSCE and European Union officials stated in 2005 that there is no evidence that Transnistria "has ever trafficked arms or nuclear material" and much of the alarm is due to Moldovan government's attempts to pressure Transnistria.[135]
In 2007, foreign experts working on behalf of the United Nations said that the historically low levels of transparency and continued denial of full investigation to international monitors have reinforced negative perceptions of the Transnistrian regime, although recent cooperation by Transnitrian authorities may have reflected a shift in the attitude of Transnistria.[136] Their report stated that the evidence for the illicit production and trafficking of weapons into and from Transnistria has in the past been exaggerated, although the trafficking of light weapons is likely to have occurred before 2001 (the last year when export data showed US$900,000 worth of 'weapons, munitions, their parts and accessories' exported from Transnistria). The report also states that the same holds true for the production of such weapons, which is likely to have been carried out in the 1990s primarily to equip Transnistrian forces.
In 2010, Viktor Kryzhanovskyi, Ukraine's special envoy on Transnistria, stated that there was no ongoing arms trafficking or drug trafficking through the Transnistrian section of Ukrainian-Moldovan border at the time.[138]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14814 | Pro-war Left
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The Pro-War Left was a grouping of British left wing journalists and bloggers who supported for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at variance with much of the rest of the British left which opposed it. They were centered around the Euston manifesto.[1] which in October 2007 had 2,929 signatories.
They have some similarity with US Liberal Hawks.
The Pro-War Left can be seen as mainly a phenomenon of the blogosphere. Most of its supporters contribute to or run blogs, Harry's Place being the most well known and influential of these.
On October 7, 2007, a counter-demonstration[2] to the Al-Quds march was organised by Harry’s Place to which all the Pro-War Left were invited. The organisers estimate that 100 people turned up over the course of the day.
As well as the Euston Manifesto there are other organisations that have been associated with the Pro-War Left such as Labour Friends of Iraq, Unite Against Terror, Democratiya and Engage.
Further reading[edit]
Alan Johnson, The Euston Moment,, 21 April 2008.
1. ^ "The Euston Manifesto", March 29, 2006.
2. ^ [1] From the Harry's place blog |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14815 | Progress M-05M
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Progress M-05M
Progress M-05M.jpg
Progress M-05M approaching the ISS
Mission type ISS resupply
Operator Roskosmos
COSPAR ID 2010-018A
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Progress-M 11F615A60
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date 28 April 2010, 17:15 (2010-04-28UTC17:15Z) UTC
Rocket Soyuz-U
Launch site Baikonur Site 1/5
End of mission
Disposal Deorbited
Decay date 15 November 2010 (2010-11-16Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Inclination 51.6 degrees
Docking with ISS
Docking port Pirs
Docking date 1 May 2010, 18:30 UTC
Undocking date 25 October 2010, 14:25 UTC
Mass 1,497 kilograms (3,300 lb)
Fuel 870 kilograms (1,920 lb)
Water 100 kilograms (220 lb)
Progress M-05M, identified by NASA as Progress 37P, is a Progress spacecraft launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency in April 2010 to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).[1][2] The spacecraft carried fresh food and supplies for the ISS crew. Progress M-05M also hauled some special care packages for the station crew that included confectioneries, books and new movies.[3]
Launch of the Soyuz rocket carrying Progress M-05M.
The launch of Progress M-05M, which occurred at 17:15 UTC on 28 April 2010, was conducted from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome,[4] using a Soyuz-U carrier rocket.
The Progress M-05M spacecraft arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome by train on 19 March 2010.[5] Shortly after delivery, initial tests of its electronics and Kurs docking system began,[6] which were completed by 29 March.[7] Further testing was subsequently conducted using an acoustic chamber between 1 and 3 April.[8][9] It then underwent a series of leak checks in a vacuum chamber.[9] The spacecraft was fuelled for its mission on 19 April,[10] and mated to its launch adaptor on 21 April.[11] On 22 April, the spacecraft underwent a final inspection before it was encapsulated in the payload fairing[12] It was then transported to the MIK integration building for installation atop the carrier rocket, on 24 April.[13] It was rolled to the launch pad on 26 April, and successfully launched two days later.
Progress M-05M approaches the ISS for docking.
Progress M-05M (background) is docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment.
Following three days of free flight,[14] Progress M-05M docked with the Pirs module of the ISS at 18:30 UTC on 1 May.[15][16] During rendezvous operations, when Progress M-05M was about a kilometre from the station, its Kurs docking system failed. Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov used the backup TORU system to manually control the rendezvous and docking, setting a record for the furthest distance a Progress spacecraft was flown under manual control.[17][18]
The Progress M-03M spacecraft, which had previously been occupying the Pirs docking port, departed on 22 April 2010 to make way for Progress M-05M.[19]
Progress M-05M remained docked with the space station until 25 October 2010.[20] The spacecraft undocked from the Pirs docking compartment at 14:25 UTC on 25 October.[21] Expedition 25 Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin closed and performed leak checks on the hatch between the space station and Progress M-05M on 22 October, completing preparations for the spacecraft’s undocking. The undocking of Progress M-05M cleared the way for the launch of the Progress M-08M spacecraft on 27 October from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On 30 October 2010, Progress M-08M docked to the Pirs docking compartment vacated by Progress M-05M.
After undocking the spacecraft was transferred to a lower orbit. The Progress M-05M spacecraft spent three weeks orbiting a safe distance from the space station. The autonomous mission enabled Russian scientists to conduct geophysical experiments before spacecraft's demise.
On 15 November 2010 Progress M-05M was deorbited and drowned in the South Pacific Ocean several thousand kilometers east of New Zealand.[22] Progress engines were activated by the on board computer and retroburn was initiated at 8:50 UTC. The main engine operated for 186.2 seconds, providing the braking burn of 89.7 mps to the spacecraft. The remaining parts of the Progress M-05M, not burnt during the reentry fell down in the area of 47°57'S 220°44'W at about 9:35 UTC.[23]
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12. ^ "Baikonur: Progress M-05M Upper Composite Integration is Almost Completed". Roskosmos. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
13. ^ "Baikonur: Soyuz-U/Progress M-05M Launch Campaign Continues". Roskosmos. 25 April 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
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20. ^ "ISS On-Orbit Status". NASA. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
21. ^ Russian Federal Space Agency (25 October 2010). "Progress M-05M Autonomous Mission". Retrieved 26 October 2010.
22. ^ ITAR-TASS (15 November 2010). "Progress transport ship disposed of in Pacific". Retrieved 17 November 2010.
23. ^ Russian Federal Space Agency (15 November 2010). "Progress M-05M Deorbited". Retrieved 17 November 2010. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14816 | SCORE (satellite)
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Atlas-B with SCORE on the launch pad; the rocket (without booster engines) constituted the satellite
Eisenhower's recorded message
Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world’s first communications satellite. Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided a first test of a communications relay system in space, as well as the first successful use of the Atlas as a launch vehicle. It captured world attention by broadcasting a Christmas message via short wave radio from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower through an on-board tape recorder.[1] SCORE, as a geopolitical strategy, placed the United States at an even technological par with the Soviet Union as a highly functional response to the Sputnik satellites.
The six-month effort was the first endeavor of the then-new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) headed by Roy Johnson, and proved that a small, highly focused and versatile research group with appropriate resources was an ideal method to achieve the scientific and technological advances necessary to succeed in the emerging global space race.[2]
SCORE's technical objectives were two-fold. In addition to showing that an Atlas missile could be put into orbit, the project demonstrated the feasibility of transmitting messages through the upper atmosphere from one ground station to one or more ground stations. The result of the project, which used both real-time and store and forward techniques, was a major scientific breakthrough which proved that active communications satellites could provide a means of transmitting messages from one point to any other on Earth.[3]
The SCORE communications package was designed and built by Kenneth Masterman-Smith, a military communication research engineer, along with other personnel with the U.S. Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory (SRDL) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.[4] The overall project was conducted in such secrecy that only 88 people were aware of its existence. Before the date of the SCORE launch, 53 of the 88 people had been told the project had been canceled and they were not to mention to anyone that it had ever existed. That left only 35 people who knew of the mission of Atlas 10B with the rest of the engineering crew, including the launch crew, under the impression that they were working solely on a test launch of the rocket.[5]:236 The night before launch, however, Rear Adm, John E. Clark, deputy director of ARPA, was asked at a news conference whether he could deny that Eisenhower's voice was on the recorder. He replied, "No," and news reports that day suggested the voice might well be the president's.[6]
The payload weighed 68 kg (150 pounds), and was built into the fairing pods of the Atlas missile. Combined weight of the total on-orbit package was 3969 kg (8750 pounds). SCORE was launched into a 183 km by 1,481 km (114 mile by 920 mile) orbit from LC-11 at Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida inclined 32.3 degrees, with a period of 101.5 minutes. Its batteries lasted 12 days and it reentered the atmosphere on 21 January 1959.[7] The communications repeater installed on the missile would receive a signal, amplify it, and then retransmit it. Two redundant sets of equipment were mounted in the nose of the SCORE missile. Four antennas were mounted flush with the missile surface, two for transmission and two for reception. SCORE's other equipment included two tape recorders, each with a four-minute capacity. Any of four ground stations in the southern United States could command the satellite into playback mode to transmit the stored message or into record mode to receive and store a new message. These redundancies proved invaluable as one of the tape recorders malfunctioned and was rendered inoperable during the 12 day mission.[1]
The first transmitted message from space to Earth was:
On the day of the launch, Eisenhower had a schedule at the White House that coincidentally involved hosting a delegation from Soviet-controlled Poland. At a White House dinner that evening, he was informed of the success of the launch, at which point he interrupted the dinner and revealed the project's existence to the audience. His announcement pointedly described that although SCORE was a peaceful mission, the U.S. now had the capability of delivering a nuclear weapon from space.[8]
The broadcast signal for Eisenhower's greeting was fairly weak, and only very sensitive radio receivers were able to detect it. Most Americans heard the message as it was rebroadcast on commercial news programs.[5]:243
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c "SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment)". 20 September 2006. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
2. ^ "Darpa". The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications. CRC Press. 1992. pp. 75–77. ISBN 0-8247-2903-X.
3. ^ "Project Score". Patterson Army Health Clinic. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
4. ^ Masterman-Smith, Michael. "12-18-1958 First Communication Satellite". Engineering Pathway. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
5. ^ a b D'Antonio, Michael (2008). A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 — The Space Race Begins. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-9432-7.
6. ^ "Eisenhower's Voice May Be Beamed to Earth Stations from Outer Space" UPI (December 17, 1958) Rome News-Tribune", p. 1
7. ^ Encyclopedia Astronautica - Atlas B
8. ^ Masterman-Smith, Michael (December 18, 2007). "Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Communication satellites". Retrieved 2010-12-16. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/14818 | Psychedelic trance
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Psychedelic trance
Stylistic origins Trance, Goa trance, hard trance, Eurodance, acid trance, techno, psychedelia
Cultural origins Late 1990s, Goa, India[1]
Typical instruments Drum machine, sequencer, sampler, electric guitar, synthesizer, keyboard
(complete list)
Fusion genres
Psybient - psybreaks
Regional scenes
Finland - South Africa - Israel - UK - Germany - Italy - France - Hungary - Russia - Mexico - Brasil - USA - Australia
Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy (derived from the Ancient Greek word ψυχή "psyche", mind; soul; breath; spirit[2]) is an electronic music style characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.[citation needed] It appeared in the mainstream in 1998[citation needed] as with reporting of the trend of Goa trance.
Psytrance lies at the hardcore, underground end of the diverse trance spectrum.[3] The genre offers variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include full on, dark, progressive, suomi, psybreaks and psybient. Goa Trance continues to develop alongside the sub genres.
VooV Experience 2005 – one of the longest-existing psytrance openair events
An indoor event
Root of the movement[edit]
The first hippies who arrived in Goa, India in the mid-1960s were drawn there for many reasons, including the beaches, the low cost of living, the friendly locals, the Indian religious and spiritual practices and the readily available Indian hashish, which until the mid-1970s was legal.
The music played in the 80s was a blend of styles loosely defined as techno and various genres of computer music e.g.: high energy gay disco without vocals, acid house, electro, industrial gothic, electronic body music, exotic wacky styles of house, electronic/rock hybrids[citation needed]. The music arrived on tape cassettes by fanatic traveler collectors and DJs[citation needed]. It was shared (copied) tape to tape amongst Goa DJs, which was an underground scene, not driven by labels or music industry[citation needed].The artists producing this 'special Goa music' had no idea that their music was being played on the beaches of Goa by cyber hippies[citation needed]. The first techno that was played in Goa was Kraftwerk in the late 70s on the tape of a visiting DJ[citation needed]. At the time, late 70s, the music played at the parties was live bands[citation needed]. Tapes were played in between sets[citation needed]. In the early 80s, sampling synth and midi music appeared globally and DJs became the preferred format in Goa[citation needed]. Two tape decks driving a party without a break, continuous music, continuous dancing. There had been resistance from the old school acid heads who were devout that only acid rock should be played at parties, but they soon relented and converted to the revolutionary wave of technodelia that took hold in the 80s[citation needed].Cassette tapes were used by DJs until the 90s when DAT tapes were used[citation needed]. DJs playing in Goa during the 80s were Fred Disko, Dr Bobby, Stephano, Paulino, Mackie, Babu, Laurent, Ray, Fred, Antaro, Lui, Rolf, Tilo, Pauli, Rudi, Gil. The music was eclectic in style but nuanced around instrument/dub spacey versions of tracks that evoked mystical, cosmic, psychedelic, political, existential themes[citation needed]. Special mixes were made by DJs in Goa which were the editing of various versions of a track to make it longer. This was taking the stretch mix concept to another level, trip music for journeying to outdoors. Trance dancing to mind expanding dance music on hallucinogens was the mantle of the Goa mantra[citation needed]. It was not a night club furnaced on alcohol. Hash and acid were the principal heighteners. It was an anarchistic alternative counter culture[citation needed]. DIY in psychedelic exploration driven by future rhythm machine music[citation needed]. Goa Trance as a music industry and collective party fashion tag did not gain global traction until '94. By '90 '91 Goa had become a hot destination for partying and was no longer under the radar, the scene grew bigger. Goa style parties spread like a diaspora all over the world from '93 and a multitude of labels in various countries (U.K. Australia, Japan, Germany) dedicated themselves to promoting psychedelic electronic music that reflected the ethos of Goa parties and Goa music and Goa specific artists and producers and DJs[citation needed]. The golden age of the first wave of Goa Psy Trance as a generally agreed upon (genre) aesthetic was between '94-'97[citation needed].
Performance at a Russian psytrance festival, 2008
By 1992 the Goa trance scene had a pulse of its own,[citation needed] though the term 'Goa trance' didn’t become the name tag of the genre until around 1994.[citation needed] The Goa trance sound, which by the late 1990s was being used interchangeably with the term psychedelic trance, retained its popularity at outdoor raves and festivals rather than in nightclubs.[5] New artists were appearing from all over the world and it was in this year that the first Goa trance festivals began, including the Gaia Festival in France and the still-running VuuV festival in Germany.
In 1993 the first 100% Goa trance album was released, Project 2 Trance, featuring tracks by Man With No Name and Hallucinogen to name two.[citation needed] Goa trance enjoyed its commercial peak between 1996 and 1997 with media attention and some recognised names in the DJ scene joining the movement.[citation needed] This hype did not last long and once the attention had died down so did the music sales, resulting in the failure of record labels, promotion networks and also some artists. This ‘commercial death of Goa trance’ was marked musically by Matsuri Productions in 1997 with the release of the compilation Let it RIP.[citation needed]
While the genre may have been incubated in the goa trance scene it went on to proliferate globally.[6] Its impact was felt in western Europe, Israel, North America, Australia, Japan and South Africa.[6] Psytrance is linked to other post-ecstacy music genres such as big beat, electroclash, grime and 2-step.[7] The genre evolved in conjunction with a multimedia psychedelic arts scene.[6]
Sample of a typical psytrance track
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Many consider the difference between goa trance and psychedelic trance are minimal at best and really just a matter of opinion.[5] Psychedelic trance is distinguished from other sub-genres because of the unique sounds it typically features.[5] Psychedelic trance has a distinctive, energetic sound (generally between 140 and 150 BPM) that tends to be faster than other forms of trance or techno music.[citation needed] It uses a very distinctive resonated bass beat that pounds constantly throughout the song and overlays the bass with varying rhythms drawn from funk, techno, dance, acid house, eurodance and trance using drums and other instruments.[citation needed] The different leads, rhythms and beats generally change every 8 bars.[8] Layering is used to great effect in psychedelic trance, with new musical ideas being added at regular intervals, often every 4 to 8 bars. New layers will continue to be added until a climax is reached, and then the song will break down and start a new rhythmic pattern over the constant bass line. Psychedelic trance tracks tend to be 6–10 minutes long.[9] Psychedelic trance makes heavy use of the cutoff frequency control of the modulating filter on the synthesizer. Reverb and delay are used heavily, with large, open sounding reverb present on most of the lead synthesizers in the track. The Roland TB-303 (acid) sequencer, Juno 106 and Roland SH-101 are heavily used and sampled in psychedelic trance, usually processed through a distortion effect.
Related sub-genres[edit]
In 1996, the music had changed so much from its Goa beginnings that the term Goa trance no longer seemed suitable, and the new term of psychedelic trance, or psytrance for short, was coined to refer to this new style of music. The multi-layered melodies of Goa trance were stripped away, and a darker and more repetitive form of music concentrating on rhythm and groove appeared.[citation needed]
In 2002, melodies became popular again, heralding the beginning of full-on psytrance.[citation needed]
Currently, there are many sub-genres within the psytrance scene[citation needed], including ambient psy (psybient), minimal/progressive psy, morning psy, full-on psy, and dark psy. There has recently been a movement attempting to ‘return to the source’ and bring back the original Goa trance sound. Examples include Metapsychic Records (2006 - December 2007) and Suntrip Records. These labels are dedicated to reviving the roots of the scene, and promoting artists trying to recapture the original feeling of the music.
In the early days of psychedelic trance scene a side project was established by the pioneers who produced special tracks intended to be exclusively played at chosen parties around the world.[citation needed] The sound of this incognito movement reportedly contains high levels of intense and full power, twisted structures of patterns which has a far richer quality and entirely difference in style when compared with the standard commercial releases. The tracks were shared exclusively among similar-minded acts and to a very few number of DJs and was impossible to obtain by people outside that `inner circle´ which has generated the development of the new and wholly different genres dark/forest in 2004 by mainly former audiences.[citation needed]
Psybreaks or psychedelic breakbeat is a form of psychedelic trance originating in the late 1990s, splicing breakbeat basslines and rhythms into otherwise heavily psytrance-influenced tracks. At times there is a fine line of a difference between Nu skool breaks and Psybreaks, but usually you can distinguish the difference depending on the synth lines. Psybreaks tracks would be closer to Goa and Psy trance with 16th note arppegiated synths and or bass line driven tracks with lots of sound effects. Where as many Nu skool breaks tracks use the same elements but a different way and tends to use distorted heavy basslines with lots of glitch edits. Another noticeable difference between the two is Nu skool is more club driven in the sense of upbeat and rowdy as opposed to Psybreaks which leans more towards dark and mysterious.[citation needed]
Full on[edit]
Full on is psychedelic trance that originated in Israel during the late 1990s. The expression “full on” is taken from the first out of a seven compilation albums series and the first album ever to be released under Hom-mega Productions in 1998, titled Full On, which comes from English slang. Other sources say it comes from the "Full" "moon" festival's name, whilst others argue that it is derived from a phrase widely used to describe particularly high-energy music ("That tune is really full-on!"). Full On is with out a doubt the most popular form of Psychedelic Trance. Owing to big basslines, catchy hooks and some borderline commercial and pop elements this style has the most mass market appeal.
The most easily recognizable elements of full-on psy-trance are the so-called "rolling" bassline, which crams two or three short bass notes in between each hit of the 4/4 drum, the fast changes in music sequences (max 32 beat for sequence), and a more energetic melodic/uplifiting nature. Often heard in clubs or during the nighttime hours at festivals it is popular in Israel, Brazil, Goa, Florida, Victoria and the United Kingdom. Some big names of Full On style on nowadays:Talamasca, Alien Project, Azax Syndrom, Bizzare Contact, Bliss, Bubble, Gataka, XSI, Sesto Sento, Spectro Senses, Ananda Shake, Quality Sound, Solstice, Freaked Frequency, Atomic Pulse, Faders, Digital Tribe, Liquid Sound,Ohm Project ,Burn in Noise ,Vibe Tribe and System Nipel.
Dark psytrance (neuro, dark psy, forest trance) is a darker, moodier and faster form of psychedelic trance music. With tempo ranges generally from 145 to 200 BPM. Originating in Denmark, Russia and Germany, the style has developed a loyal following over the years. Becoming popular in 2004, it has continued to grow. Dark psytrance is a popular variation and can include melodies from morning trance, though these tend to be more haunting than uplifting. 'Forest Trance' is a style within the dark sub genre that inspires and creates a "forest" like mood. Mainly produced in Denmark, this type of trance is popular at outdoor events. The 'Neuro' style is more abstracted and experimental, less reliant on melodic musical aspects and formulas. The speed of the music and the experimental nature it embraces makes it more appealing to a younger crowd. Owing to its non-conformist approach to the normal conventions of trance, this style is almost considered to have a "punk rock" element to it. Many rookie trance producers learn techniques in this medium as creativity is emphasized over technique. Some examples of Dark Psy Labels; Parvati Records (Denmark), Lost Theory Records (Belgium), Insomnia Records (Russia).[citation needed]
Suomisaundi or freeform psytrance[edit]
Arronax performing at The Gathering, a psychedelic trance festival, in 2009
Large psytrance festivals are both culturally and musically diverse.[6] They have attracted a following amongst international backpackers. Earthdance, the world's largest synchronized music and dance festival for peace, has its roots in the psychedelic trance scene.[6] In Australia, Earthcore occurred between 1992 and 2008 and predominately featured psytrance. Rainbow Serpent Festival, Maitreya Festival, and Yemaya Festival are by far are the most popular ones and held in Victoria.
The Boom Festival in Portugal was originally a psytrance festival but now includes world music. It is held every second year in August and combines social activism with cultural and spiritual elements.[10] In 2004, the Glastonbury Festival dedicated a full day on the Glade stage to psytrance.[11]
South Africa has numerous psytrance festivals.[12] The favourable weather and beautiful landscape have made it part of a number of global destinations for the party traveller.
There are three well-known recurring psytrance festivals in the USA: Chilluminati's Sacred Earth Open-Air Festival, T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi's Equinox and Spacecamp Psyfari.
Sub-cultural research[edit]
In 2006 research was conducted on the global psytrance scene. 600 people from 40 countries provided detailed information via an online questionnaire.[13] The results were published as "Beyond Subculture and Post-subculture? The Case of Virtual Psytrance" in the Journal of Youth Studies.[14]
In 2013 Graham St. John published Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance on Equinox Publishing.
Notable albums[edit]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Goa Trance". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
2. ^ Etymology of the English word psychedelic. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
3. ^ Reynolds, Simon (2012). Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1593764774. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
4. ^ a b Eugene ENRG (aka DJ Krusty) (2001). "Psychic Sonics: Tribadelic Dance Trance-formation - Eugene ENRG (aka DJ Krusty) interviews Ray Castle". In Graham St John. FreeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor. Altona, Victoria, Australia: Common Ground Pub. p. 166. ISBN 1-86335-084-5. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
5. ^ a b c Gupta, Om (2006). "Goa Trance". Encyclopaedia Of India Pakistan & Bangladesh. Gyan Publishing House. p. 805. ISBN 8182053897. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
6. ^ a b c d e Cardeña, Etzel; Michael Winkelman (2011). Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0313383081. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
7. ^ Collin, Matthew (2010). Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House. Profile Books. p. 335. ISBN 1847656412. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
8. ^ Trance music. A definition of genre.. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
9. ^ Easwaran, Kenny. "Psytrance and the Spirituality of Electronics". April 2004.
10. ^ Gemma Bowes (20 April 2012). "Boom time: Portugal's top psytrance festival". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media). Retrieved 25 May 2013.
11. ^ Anushka Asthana (4 April 2004). "Clubbers fall under spell of Psytrance". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media). Retrieved 25 May 2013.
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13. ^ Heath, Sue; Rachel Brooks, Elizabeth Cleaver, Eleanor Ireland (2009). Researching Young People's Lives. Sage. p. 168. ISBN 1446203972. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
14. ^ Tracey Greener & Robert Hollands (September 2006). "Beyond Subculture and Post-subculture? The Case of Virtual Psytrance". ingentaconnect. Publishing Technology. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
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