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by Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Blog | October 18, 2013 · 12:01 am
CHRISTIE'S STRENGTH ON MOST ISSUES WIDENS LEAD AMONG LIKELY VOTERS
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – With New Jersey's gubernatorial election now less than three weeks away, Gov. Chris Christie commands a 26-point lead over Democrat state Sen. Barbara Buono among likely voters, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Christie now leads Buono, 59 percent to 33 percent – a 6-point increase in the margin since last month.
These gains come despite likely voters consistently disapproving of Christie's performance on the state's taxes and the economy. With the exception of same-sex marriage, however, they still think the governor would do a better job than his challenger on most other issues.
"Barbara Buono is not making any new gains, even among those who should gravitate to her," said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers University. "Chris Christie simply seems to be a force of nature all but unstoppable in this particular election." Redlawsk added that most voters – about 90 percent – say they are unlikely to change their mind between now and Election Day.
"As has been the case all season, most think Christie will win," Redlawsk said. "Even 73 percent of Buono backers do not expect her to win."
Nearly all Christie voters (87 percent) say their vote is to support the incumbent, rather than to oppose the Democrat. That's not the case among Buono's backers. Two-thirds of her supporters are motivated by their opposition to the governor. Only 32 percent are primarily voting in support of her.
"For the last several months we have reported that voters disapprove of Christie's performance in key areas," said Redlawsk. "The problem for Buono is that she has not convinced them she would do any better. Voters would rather stay with what they know, than to turn over the reins to someone who has not been able to make an effective case for change."
Results are from a sample of 562 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 4.1 percentage points, drawn from 799 New Jersey registered voters polled statewide from Oct. 7-13, on both landlines and cell phones. The registered voter sample margin of error is +/- 3.5 percentage points.
Christie betters Buono on most issues
Likely voters say Christie would do a better job than Buono on a wide range of issues, including New Jersey's economy and jobs (59 percent to 28 percent) and taxes (56 percent to 30 percent). As is expected, Democrats are more likely to say Buono would do better on the economy and jobs, but only by 19 points; nearly a third of Buono's partisans say Christie would do the better job. Republicans are more unified: 88 percent say Christie is better on the economy and jobs, while only 6 percent choose Buono. Similarly on taxes, 55 percent of Democrats pick Buono, while 27 percent choose Christie. Among Republicans, Christie's Republican margin is 84 percent to 7 percent.
Independent voters also believe Christie will do the better job on the economy and on taxes, by margins of 41 points and 40 points, respectively.
The governor is also preferred on the issue of crime and drugs (by 43 points), and the state budget (by 38 points). Christie even does better than the challenger on two core Democratic issues on which Buono has campaigned – health care (10 points better) and education (11 points better).
Buono's only advantage is on same-sex marriage, where previous Rutgers-Eagleton Polls have shown majority support for allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry in New Jersey. Fifty-eight percent of likely voters say Buono would do a better job on this issue, compared to 26 percent who pick Christie. Majorities of Democrats and independents say Buono would do best on same-sex marriage, while Republicans are split on their choice, 43 percent to 42 percent in favor of Christie.
"Ultimately, voters like Chris Christie personally, and they are not convinced Buono will do better on the issues they care about," said Redlawsk. "While she does well on marriage equality, the fact is this is relatively low on most voters' list of issues."
Christie voters like his non-nonsense governing style
Christie's performance in office and his candid, no-nonsense style are the biggest reasons 87 percent of his voters say they are more in support of him than opposing Buono. Thirty percent of these voters cite his governing style, including statements such as Christie is "a great governor for the state," and he is moving the state "in the right direction." Another 12 percent name policy stances, while 11 percent talk about the governor's infamous brand of straight-talk, calling him a "man of his word," a "straight shooter [who] doesn't pull punches," "outspoken and honest," "refreshing," and a true "Jersey guy [who] tells it like it is." And Superstorm Sandy still matters: seven percent still say his leadership before, during, and after the storm is the reason why they plan to vote in support of the governor.
Only about a third of Buono voters say their vote is in support of her, rather than in opposition to Christie. Most of these voters (30 percent) prefer her stances on education, same-sex marriage, and minimum wage. Another 10 percent say they favor her because she's a Democrat. The fact that Buono is a woman is also cited by 10 percent of her supporters, who say "a woman will be more responsible" and who express desire for a "woman governor."
Few Christie voters are choosing him simply because they oppose Buono, but two-thirds of Buono voters are voting more against Christie than for her. These voters are opposing Christie mostly because they disagress with the governor's policies generally, his handling of education, schools, and teachers' unions specifically, and his "bully[ish]" and "arrogant" personality and attitude.
Christie maintains wide leads among all except Buono's base
Christie's double-digit lead spans almost every group, including Republicans and those not usually in his corner. The governor wins 93 of his own party members, as well as 68 percent of independents. Buono gets support from 22 percent of independents.
Although a sizeable gender gap exists, Christie has a 20-point lead among women. Even so, men are still 7 points more likely to back the governor than are women.
Christie also leads across all age groups, income brackets and education levels, though the margin is smaller among the most educated voters, at 10-points. His lead has increased among voters in lower income households that would usually vote Democratic; they now favor Christie, 55 to 38 percent. He also leads in every region of the state by a minimum of 9 points.
Buono's only significant leads continue to be among likely Democratic voters (65 percent to 25 percent) and voters in public union households (52 percent to 43 percent). She also holds a 9-point edge among nonwhite voters, 50 percent to 41 percent. Not surprisingly, 85 percent of voters with an unfavorable impression of Christie support her, as do 81 percent of those with a favorable impression of the challenger.
Regardless of their personal choice, large majorities of voters of every stripe say Christie will win again – including Buono supporters, those who view her favorably, voters with a negative opinion of Christie and Democrats in general.
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Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M's processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.
Mystified, the beekeepers embarked on an investigation and discovered that a biogas plant 4km (2.5 miles) away has been processing waste from a Mars plant producing M&M's, bite-sized candies in bright red, blue, green, yellow and brown shells.
The unsellable honey is a new headache for around a dozen affected beekeepers already dealing with high bee mortality rates and dwindling honey supplies following a harsh winter, said Alain Frieh, president of the apiculturists' union.
"We discovered the problem at the same time they did. We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it," Philippe Meinrad, co-manager of Agrivalor, told Reuters.
Mars operates a chocolate factory near Strasbourg, around 62 miles away from the affected apiaries.
Ribeauville, situated on a scenic wine route southwest of Strasbourg, is best known for its vineyards. But living aside winemakers are about 2,400 beekeepers in Alsace who tend some 35,000 colonies and produce about 1,000 tonnes of honey per year, according to the region's chamber of agriculture.
As for the M&M's-infused honey, union head Frieh said it might taste like honey, but there the comparison stopped.
"For me, it's not honey. It's not sellable."


Just opened off the High Street in Brake Shear House is Nightingale's Emporium, the brainchild of East Barnet-based Natasha Spyrou, using this distinctive space for a "collaboration of unique artists".
Brake Shear House was recently earmarked for demolition and redevelopment, but this has been brought to a temporary halt as the soil was discovered to be contaminated after decades of industrial use. Brake Shear House dates from Victorian times and businesses based there have included photo-engravers, gas works, recording studios and car repairers. According to the Barnet Society, Elton John, The Buzzcocks and The Spice Girls have recorded here.
Nightingale's Emporium opened last weekend having taken a two-year lease. As well as selling a brilliantly quirky range of individually crafted items, vintage furniture and clothes, it offers the chance to nose around this fascinating building. The emporium meanders through a series of rooms on different levels – mind your head and take care on the stairs – and includes a therapy room and pottery studio. Spyrou's partner is a tree surgeon and a number of the pieces are made from local wood (including magic wands). There are lots of eye-catching pieces at competitive prices and it's great to see this building being used so creatively, rather than boarded up while its future hangs in the balance.
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The Holy Spirit and Reformed Spirituality: A Tribute to Geoffrey Thomas - EBOOK
Beeke, Joel R. & Thomas, Derek W. H.
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How does God bring His Word into our lives?
The answer is: by the Holy Spirit.
By the Spirit the Word was revealed and written. By the Spirit the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. By the Spirit the Word roots itself in the hearts of sinners and produces fruit. Calvin recognized long ago that the Holy Spirit is the bond of union between believers and Christ. Jonathan Edwards said that the Spirit is the sum of all Christ bought for His people with His precious blood. How precious then is the Spirit, and how important to know Him and His ways!
In this book, a team of pastor-theologians uncover the rich biblical teachings about the work of the Holy Spirit. How was the Spirit involved in the human life of Jesus Christ? What is a spiritual person? How does the Spirit open the mind of sinners to trust in Christ? What does it mean to serve God in the power of the Spirit? How does the Spirit's sovereign work relate to our responsibility in evangelism? These questions and more are addressed in this book.
Part I: Geoff Thomas: A Faithful Instrument of the Spirit
1. Hugh Geoffrey Thomas: A Biographical Appreciation — Gary Brady
2. A Minister Who Has Produced Ministers — Paul Levy
Part II: Salvation and the Spirit of Christ
3. The Spirit and the Word Incarnate: John Owen's Trinitarian Christology — Carl Trueman
4. The Relation of the Righteousness of God and the Spirit of God in Romans 1–8 — Sam Waldron
5. The Illumination of the Holy Spirit — Joel Beeke
6. The Holy Spirit and Human Responsibility — Fred Malone
Part III: Growth and the Spirit of Holiness
7. A Gracious Willing Guest: The Indwelling Holy Spirit — David Jones
8. John Owen on the Spirit's Ministry in Guarding the Believer's Heart — Michael Haykin
9. Professor John Murray and the Godly Life — John J. Murray
10. Living by the Spirit's Sanctifying Ministry — Ian Hamilton
11. John Owen and Spiritual-Mindedness: A Reflection on Reformed Spirituality — Derek Thomas
12. The Spirit of God in the People of God: A Celtic Spirituality — Iain D. Campbell
Part IV: Ministry and the Spirit of Counsel and Might
13. The Holy Spirit and the Call to the Ministry of the Gospel — Stephen Turner
14. The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit — Conrad Mbewe
15. The Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and Apostolic Ministry — Austin Walker
16. An Elizabethan Cameo: The Ministry of Edward Dering — Robert Oliver
17. Passion and the Spirit's Sovereignty in the Thinking and Evangelistic Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones — Gary Benfold
Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan; editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth; editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books; and a prolific author.
Derek Thomas is a well-known author and is professor of systematic and practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He also serves as minister of teaching at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi, and is the editorial director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He is married to Rosemary, and they have two adult children.
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Equality California Endorses Dave Min for State Senate District 37
Equality California the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the nation – representing 800,000 members – endorses Dave Min for State Senate
IRVINE – Today, Equality California announced their endorsement of Dave Min for State Senate District 37. For over 20 years, Equality California has led the state's fight for LGBTQ civil rights and social justice. They are the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, with 800,000 members, and are the only LGBTQ civil rights organization in California to work at the local, state, and federal level. Rick Zbur, Executive Director of Equality California, released the following statement:
"Equality California is pleased to endorse Dave Min for State Senate District 37. He is a candidate that will stand up for full equality and social justice for all and that these values are non-negotiable. Dave Min is the best candidate to take on Republican incumbent and Trump-Pence supporter, John Moorlach. We are behind Dave 100 percent in this fight for equality and justice."
"I know personally what it's like to be bullied and discriminated against because of perceived differences, and I will always fight for the fair treatment and equal rights of people regardless of age, gender identity, color, or sexual orientation," said Dave Min. "It is an honor to have the endorsement of Equality California, and I look forward to working side by side with them to create a more humane and inclusive society not just in California but nationally."
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HUD Publishes Housing Trust Fund Income Limits and Guidance on Environmental Provisions
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In May 2016, HUD announced the first-ever National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations to states, amounting to nearly $174 million in available funds for FY 2016. HUD recently published the HTF Income Limits for FY 2016, which are calculated using the following methodologies:
The formula that HUD uses for calculating the income limits for the Section 8 program, in accordance with Section 3(b)(2) of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, as amended. These limits are based on HUD estimates of median family income, with adjustments based on family size.
The Federal Poverty Line as determined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, published annually in the Federal Register.
In years in which the total amount available for allocations is below $1 billion (as is the case for FY 2016), the income limit reports will only display the limit for extremely low income families or families with incomes at or below the poverty line (whichever is greater) and will not include the very low income limit. The HTF FY 2016 Rent Limits are also available online, both limits became effective on July 1, 2016.
Additionally, HUD has made available new guidance entitled, "Requirements for Housing Trust Fund Environmental Provisions." This notice describes the Environmental Provisions for new construction and rehabilitation that are required for HTF projects under the Property Standards at 24 CFR § 93.301(f)(1) and (2).
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JMU student known as 'Tie-Dye Dan' gains popularity
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On any given day, one might spot a guy adorned in a vibrant pink and blue lava lamp-like T-shirt with a matching bucket hat riding his bike. The next day, he may be wearing a kaleidoscope pattern of blended yellows, pinks and blues; exploding purple, green and blue fireworks; or maybe red, blue and black galactic swirls.
Dan Lambert, a senior communication studies major, has become the notable "Tie-Dye Dan." What used to be a hobby with a fan base of just friends has now made him a profit with international buyers. He realized that he wanted a job that he actually enjoyed doing, rather than working at Chipotle with hours that he didn't like. Not being a business major wasn't a concern for him to start a business.
"Plenty of people aren't business majors and are blowing business majors out of the water," Lambert said. "It's mostly, I think, how you interface with people and how you get them to remember you. And I just [want to] be the smiling face associated with positivity and sunshine and love and happy music and stuff."
Lambert first started tie-dyeing in high school for fun, but started to regularly sell his merchandise last summer and gained interest from customers. It started growing more when he bought an industrial heat press and branded his items with the slogan "Dye Happy," featuring a person sitting and meditating inside of a yin yang.
The logo was inspired by the the positive, simple slogan of the "Life is Good" company, which was started by two brothers selling their self-made shirts out of a van along the streets to college students.
"So, I mean, you have to model yourself after those who did it best and who did it in situations like you," Lambert said. "I may not be homeless living in a van, but I am a broke college kid, so there's some correlation there for sure."
Lambert originally used the tie-dye kits from Target and Walmart, but has since learned a new technique called ice dyeing. With his "mind for design," he can envision certain patterns and what the outcome will be. He twists and folds the material in the desired pattern, places them in a tray, covers the top with ice and then pours the dye powder over the ice. The ice melts throughout the day and thoroughly soaks the dye into and across the material, leaving a result that's vibrant and long lasting.
"Everything he does is unique," Kyle Burroughs, a sophomore accounting major and friend of Lambert, said. "There's maybe some, like, tie-dye manufacturers that would make like the same shirt over and over and try to get like kind of the same tie-dye form, but like each one of Dan's is just like a unique, individualistic piece."
Lambert guarantees five years without fading by soaking the products in a sodium bicarbonate mixture before he dyes them. This extravagant process opens up the fabric and allows the dye to be fully submerged into the material, rather than easily washing away from the top layer. He has a shirt that he made when he was a sophomore in high school and claims that it looks like it was made yesterday.
Since launching his tie-dye business, Lambert has gone from making four T-shirts a month to around 100. He's added a variety of products, ranging from sheets and tapestries to backpacks and underwear. He can be found at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market on Saturdays, where he sells his products at a cheaper price than on his website.
"It's been really cool to see it develop," Hannah Shaffer, a junior hospitality management major, said. "Like, him just selling stuff on Snapchat or on Facebook and then seeing it develop into a company and, like, where he is now is just super cool to see from another student."
Lambert continues to expand his base of customers and Instagram followers by promoting his business across campus. He gives free shirts to the first person who catches him on campus on a day that he's not wearing tie-dye, and the first person to find him on campus on Tuesdays — which he's coined "Tie-Dye Tuesday" — and take a picture with him while that person is also wearing tie-dye.
"I just really love people recognizing me as Tie-Dye Dan, and my friends shouting 'Tie-Dye Tuesday' at me as they ride past me or I ride past them," Lambert said.
While he appreciates the fame, he strongly believes that there are people who are more talented at tie-dyeing than he is. However, he's not so much concerned about that, and is optimistic about his brand and where the future will take him.
"I'm trying to make Tie-Dye Dan an image, like the face of tie-dye," Lambert said. "I like to think that I'm becoming the best at branding myself and like becoming the tie-dye persona. Like, when people think tie-dye, they think Dan. And, I mean, Tie-Dye Dan's Tie-Dye Stand just sounds so good."
Contact Ingrid Basheda at bashedig@dukes.jmu.edu. For more on the culture, arts and lifestyle of the JMU and Harrisonburg communities, follow the culture desk on Twitter @Breeze_Culture.
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Q: Alternatives to static and global in C++? I have a class instance that needs to be accessed by some other classes.

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*It would be quite cumbersome to pass the instance always down the construction chain.

*I tried to avoid global variable, since people tend to advise against this.

*I thought I declare this instance a static member of a class and then include this class in order to access the instance but this does not work either

error: calling a private constructor of class 'Foo'
To specify the problem further in the context of the QGraphicsView Framework:
I want to add QGraphicsItems which are instantiated by a controller class (managing the items) to the QGraphicsScene, which is (but I do not insist on that detail) a member of my QMainWindow class.
I spend a considerable amount of time searching the internet but I am fairly new and am kind of stuck here. I appreciate any incentive on what the best way to solve the dilemma would be.

A: The use of globals are extremely controversy discussed, that's why I want to point out, that what I write in the following is my personal opinion and open to discussion.
I know no way beside passing instance to resolve your problem without a global object. I personal do not think that a global instance is an evil thing in all situation.

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*When I design a library I tend to avoid global objects except one factory. Global objects are often used as shortcut where no shortcut is needed or to avoid some typing for the programmer. Also, mostly classes in a library should be independent. You sacrifice independency if you use global instances inside such classes.

*When I use statics in a class, I only use them if the whole class is a singleton or for factory methods (e.g. create or get). Never in a way you described. In the way you described it, it is unexpected for other developer, because you need a third party to initialize that static object. You gain nothing with that except avoid typing a longer constructor. This cannot be a goal.

*If I use a global instance, I always wrap it in a management class. I never use third party classes like QGraphicsItems direct as globals (also no "primitive" classes or types). Like in point 2, other may not expect that as global. More important it is not clear who has to fill or kill the instance. A "GraphicsItemManager" can have a "setup" method which makes that totally clear to 3rd users.

*Passing instances is not in every situation the best way IMHO. Not all my classes are for reuse, they are solely for one project. Here the speed of realization, the ease of use and the clear grouping worth more than a dogma as "no globals". Most time I write manager classes which group instances of e.g. graphic items. I do not have the feeling that makes the code less readable as long I used the rules I pointed out before.

*Sometimes a resource is not available by construction time, so you have already pass a wrapper. This leads to a point where you have pass instances through classes which themselves do not need that resource or are themself part of a library (in that case, often you cannot change the constructor). This can (as we are all humans) lead to misinterpretation. I use global management classes to jump over those "gabs", as I think it worth more to keep that space clean from dependencies.
As I wrote IMHO.

A: This problem arises when you have a design where class A creates class B which creates class C which needs to accept an instance of class D in its constructor. Then you have to pass D all the way through A, B and C. If you change the design to have a create instances function (either in the main or in some factory class) which knows how to create A, B, C and D. Then you can write this function as follows:
D d;
C c(d);
B b(c);
A a(b);

This way each class only accepts its dependencies.
If you later realize that B also needs to use class D then you can just change the constructor of B without affecting the constructor of A.

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I have seen an number of posts form IT Administrators on the Microsoft Group Policy forums asking how prevent their users from connecting to a wireless network. Maybe it is because they have an open WIFI network on the floor above that users keep connecting to so they can by pass the proxy server URL restrictions or they don't want their users from accessing the internet from well known WIFI hot spots.
In the tutorial below I am going to show you how to block your laptops from connecting to specific wireless networks with the example SSID of "dlink". This black list method is useful when you want to prevent users from connecting to networks such as "Free Public WiFi" which is nothing more than a trap set by hacker to steal people's passwords.
Then I will go through the way will to block all wireless networks except for one called "private_ab" using the White List method. This is very useful if you only want your users to connect to wireless network you know are safe to use.
Lastly I will then quickly show you how to totally disable your wireless adapter from being able to connect to any networks.
The instructions below are specific to Vista and Windows 7 as there were a whole heap of new group policy settings that were introduced back when Vista was released.
Note: Steps 1 to 5 are common for setting up both black and white lists. Then the process branches and describes how to setup a black list then white list in steps 6 & 7.
Step 3. Click on "Action" in the menu and then click on "Create A New Wireless Network Policy for Windows Vista and Later Releases".
Note: You can only create one Windows Vista and later and one Windows XP wireless setting within each GPO.
Step 4. Now give the give the setting a Policy Name and Description. Ensure that the "Use Windows WLAN AutoCOnfig service for clients" is ticked so that Windows does not allow third-party software to control the wireless network adapter (e.g. Intel Wireless LAN configuration Tool).
Now you will ONLY be able to connect to the wireless network called "private_ab" and all other networks will be denied.
Note: Configuring a white list will not configure a wireless profile to connect to the allowed network, it simple allows the user to configure a profile for that particular SSID.
Now if you want to totally deny you users from connecting to any network profile just skip step 6. from the White List procedure leave the "Prevent connections to ad-hoc networks" and "Prevent connections to infrastructure networks".
You users will no longer be able to connect to any wireless networks and when they click on the network in they will receive the message "Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network".
Note: Any network profile you have configured in the General tab will be automatically added as an allowed network having the two "Prevent connections" options tick will ensure that the user will not be able to connect to anything but your corporate wireless network.
Thanks so much for the extensive explanation and the screen shots (I'm more of a visual type when it comes to learning). I've recently been appointed IT Administrator, but I still have a long way to go and a lot to learn. I spend a lot of time online and try to learn something new every day. Trust me, not a lot people take their explanations step by step like you. Cheers!
I second Max's comment…thanks for the help!
Is there a similar way to block Windows XP machines completely?
I'm getting dizzy about this tutorial or maybe I need to read and check it further.I'll re read it maybe I'm just not on my mind as of now.
Excellent write up. Including the pictures really make it easy to follow. Explained options clearly. Thank you for the taking the time and effort to post.
How will prevet them from accessing the Guest Wireless network(which is open security) when the production wireless is in range, but still allow connection to any outside wireless network?
Would Different IP Scopes on the Wireless networks be a better option as most facilities are recieving their guest wireless via DSl while the production network is on MPLS?
If I understand this correctly, as long as the guest network ssid doesn't change you can add it under the 'Network Permissions' tab as a deny. This would effectively block any wireless network with that ssid.
So, a non admin user cannot connect to any wireless access points, whereas an admin user can, and when they do, it's set even if the admin logs off, or reboots the computer. Thanks!
I do not have "Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies" in Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings >… I have only about 7 options there. Where could be the problem? I am running Windows Vista x86, not in domain, just one laptop. Thanks for help.
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise box 64bit, that I cant put in the domain and have to lock to just one SSID. This policy is not present! What gives?
4 years on and still a valid post!
I did the whitelist process, but the clients still showing other wireless network, the GPO is applying normally by GPRESULT. I'm using the last Schema AD (Sch47.ldf) in the Windows 2008 R2. Any idea?
this website, and your views are nice in favor of new visitors.
Thanks for the writeup. One doubt. The idea is to restrict any other SSID apart from the Corporate one – lets say – as in this example – it is set to "work". What stops me from creating an SSID of the same name in my personal Home AP or on my Mobile Hotspot. In other words – I can setup my Mobile hotspot to broadcast the same SSID – "work" and it would latch on as it is permitted. Is there any unique identifier which will distinguish this "fake" mobile hotpot from impersonating the corporate SSID?
The use of certificate authentication can enable mutual authentication so that the client can prove the access point it is connecting to is not spoofed.
These policies are among the basic things that the operating system should provide the user. Wireless networking does not need any overview, but this time there are some issues that must be discussed. In windows 7 there is a way for the person to make an ad-hoc connection. That makes the computer a work like a router and thus wireless networking can be performed.
@hannan – Actually there are a lot of things you can do with Win 7 wireless networking. So yes, there does need to be an overview. Please don't leave bigus links either.
This work perfect in Domain environment, what about when people take their laptop at home? As per my understanding they will not connect to their home network as well.
This is just what I need. Is there a specific ADMX file I need to load? I seem to be missing the "Create A New Wireless Network Policy for Windows Vista and Later Releases" option. I am running 2008 R2 Functional Domain.
TRENDnet's N300 Out of doors PoE Access Point, product TEW-739APBO, offers blanket out-of-doors Wifi N300 on-line regarding mileage all the way to four kilometer (2.5 miles)*. Various installation situations are generally caused along with Access Point (AP), Wifi Submission System (WDS), Repeater, and CPE + AP processes.
Do you have any docs describes how to setup mutual authentication using certificate ?
>The use of certificate authentication can enable mutual authentication so that the client can prove >the access point it is connecting to is not spoofed.
Are there any links on how to set this up ? The specific scenario I had in mind was as the original question – that wifi is enabled on the laptop but it can only connect to a specific access point. The question was as to what prevents the user from setting up his phone as a hot spot with the same name as the "white listed" one and connecting to it. SO i assume something needs to be set on the client which in this case would be a Windows laptop.
We had deployed couple of Wi-Fi profiles using group policy. Now we would like to remove one of them from all laptops. We have removed that particular Wi-Fi profile setting from group policy. However, still that Wi-Fi profile exist in all laptop. Since it is an group policy based Wi-Fi profile, we have no option to remove that profile manually. Could you please help on this.
For some reason this didnt work in our test environment (win 7 enterprise machines). What did was to prevent the WLAN (wireless lan service) from starting preventing the connection of any wireless networking.
Is there a way to allow users to connect to WPA wifi APs and greater but not WEP?
2017 and glad I found this post!
Great job! Glad I ran across this.


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Analysis of Mary Shelley's Novels
By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 29, 2019 • ( 0 )
Shelley's literary reputation rests solely on her first novel, Frankenstein. Her six other novels, which are of uneven quality, are very difficult indeed to find, even in the largest libraries. Nevertheless, Mary Shelley lays claim to a dazzling array of accomplishments. First, she is credited with the creation of modern science fiction. All subsequent tales of the brilliant but doomed scientist, the sympathetic but horrible monster, both in high and mass culture, owe their lives to her. Even Hollywood's dream factory owes her an imaginative and economic debt it can never repay.
Second, the English tradition is indebted to her for a reconsideration of the Romantic movement by one of its central participants. In her brilliant Frankenstein fantasy, Mary Shelley questions many of the basic tenets of the Romantic rebellion: the Romantic faith in people's blissful relationship to nature, the belief that evil resides only in the dead hand of social tradition, and the Romantic delight in death as a lover and restorer.
Finally, she created one of the great literary fictions of the dialogue with the self. The troubled relationship between Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is one of the foundations of the literary tradition of "the double," doubtless the mother of all the doubles in Charles Dickens, in Robert Louis Stevenson, and even in Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Conrad.
Mary Shelley's six novels are written in the gothic tradition. They deal with extreme emotions, exalted speech, the hideous plight of virgins, the awful abuses of charismatic villains, and picturesque ruins. The sins of the past weigh heavily on their plot structures, and often include previously unsuspected relationships.
Shelley does not find much use for the anti-Catholicism of much gothic fiction. Her nuns and priests, while sometimes troublesome, are not evil, and tend to appear in the short stories rather than in the novels. She avoids references to the supernatural so common in the genre and tends instead toward a modern kind of psychological gothic and futuristic fantasy. Like many gothic writers, she dwells on morbid imagery, particularly in Frankenstein and The Last Man. Graphic descriptions of the plague in the latter novel revolted the reading public which had avidly digested the grotesqueries of Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk (1796).
With the exception of Frankenstein, Shelley's novels were written and published after the death of her husband; with the exception of Frankenstein, they appear to be attempting to work out the sense of desolation and abandonment that she felt after his death. In most of her novels, Shelley creates men and particularly women who resign themselves to the pain and anguish of deep loss through the eternal hope of love in its widest and most encompassing sense. Reconciliation became Shelley's preponderant literary theme.
Frankenstein is Shelley's greatest literary achievement in every way. In it, she not only calls into the world one of the most powerful literary images in the English tradition, the idealistic scientist Victor Frankenstein and his ironically abominable creation, but also, for the one and only time, she employs a narrative structure of daring complexity and originality.
The structure of Frankenstein is similar to a set of Chinese boxes, of narratives within narratives. The narrative frame is composed of the letters of an arctic explorer, Robert Walton, to his sister, Mrs. Saville, in England.Within the letters is the narrative of Victor Frankenstein, and within his narrative, at first, and then at the end within Walton's narrative, is the firsthand account of the monster himself. Walton communicates to England thirdhand then secondhand accounts of the monster's thoroughly unbelievable existence. Here, it would seem, is the seminal point of Joseph Conrad's much later fiction, Heart of Darkness (1902): the communication to England of the denied undercurrents of reality and England's ambiguous reception of that intelligence. In Frankenstein as in Heart of Darkness, the suggestion is rather strong that England cannot or will not absorb this stunning new perception of reality. Just as Kurtz's fiancé almost a century later cannot imagine Kurtz's "horror," so Mrs. Saville's silence, the absence of her replies, suggests that Walton's stunning discovery has fallen on deaf ears.
The novel begins withWalton, isolated from his society at the North Pole, attempting to achieve glory. He prowls the frozen north "to accomplish some great purpose"; instead, he finds an almost dead Victor Frankenstein, who tells him a story which, in this setting, becomes a parable for Walton. Frankenstein, too, has isolated himself from society to fulfill his great expectations, and he has reaped the whirlwind.
Frankenstein tells Walton of his perfect early family life, one of complete kindness and solicitude. It is a scene across which never a shadow falls. Out of this perfection, Victor rises to find a way of conquering death and ridding himself and humankind of the ultimate shadow, the only shadow in his perfect middle-class life. Like a man possessed, Frankenstein forges ahead, fabricating a full, male, human body from the choicest corpse parts he can gather. He animates the creature and suddenly is overwhelmed by the wrongness of what he has done. In his success, he finds utter defeat. The reanimated corpse evokes only disgust in him. He abandons it in its vulnerable, newborn state and refuses to take any responsibility for it.
From that day, his life is dogged by tragedy. One by one, all his loved ones are destroyed by the monster, who at last explains that he wanted only to love his creator but that his adoration turned to murderous hate in his creator's rejection of him. Ultimately, Frankenstein feels that he must destroy the monster or, at the very least, die trying. He succeeds at both. After Frankenstein's death in the presence of Walton—the only man other than Frankenstein to witness the monster and live—the monster mourns the greatness that could have been and leaves Walton with the intention of hurling himself onto Frankenstein's funeral pyre.
The critical task regarding this fascinating work has been to identify what it is that Frankenstein has done that has merited the punishment which followed. Is the monster a kind of retribution for people's arrogant attempt to possess the secrets of life and death, as in the expulsion from Eden? Is it the wrath of the gods visited on people for stealing the celestial fire, as in the Prometheus legend, a favorite fiction of Percy Shelley? Or is this a rather modern vision of the self-destructiveness involved in the idealistic denial of the dark side of human reality? Is this a criticism of Romantic optimism, of the denial of the reality of evil except as the utterly disposable dead hand of tradition? The mystery endures because critics have suggested all these possibilities; critics have even suggested a biographical reading of the work. Some have suggested that Victor Frankenstein is Shelley's shrewd insight into her husband's self-deceived, uncritical belief in the power of his own intelligence and in his destined greatness.
Valperga, Shelley's second novel, has a fairy-tale aura of witches, princes, maidens in distress, castles, and prophecies. The author uses all these fantasy apparatuses, but actually deflates them as being part of the fantasy lives of the characters which they impose on a fully logical and pragmatic reality. The novel pits Castruccio, the Prince of Lucca, a worldly, Napoleonic conquerer, against the lost love of his youth, the beautiful and spiritual Euthanasia. Castruccio's one goal is power and military dominion, and since he is enormously capable and charismatic, not to mention lucky, he is successful. Nevertheless, that he gains the world at the price of his soul is clearly the central point of the novel.
To gain worldly sway, he must destroy Valperga, the ancestral home of his love, Euthanasia. He must also turn Italy into an armed camp which teems with death and in which the soft virtues of love and family cannot endure. His lust for power raises to predominance the most deceitful and treacherous human beings because it is they who function best in the context of raw, morally unjustified power.
In the midst of all this, Castruccio, unwilling to recognize his limits, endeavors to control all. He wants to continue his aggrandizing ways and have the love of Euthanasia. Indeed, he wants to marry her. She reveals her undying love for him but will yield to it only if he yields his worldly goals, which he will not do. As his actions become more threatening to her concept of a moral universe, Euthanasia finds that she must join the conspirators against him. She and her cohorts are betrayed, and all are put to death, with the exception of Euthanasia. Instead, Castruccio exiles her to Sicily. En route, her ship sinks, and she perishes with all aboard. Castruccio dies some years later, fighting one of his endless wars for power. The vision of the novel is that only pain and suffering can come from a world obsessed with power.
Surely the name Euthanasia is a remarkable choice for the novel's heroine. Its meaning in Shelley's time was "an easy death"; it did not refer to the policy of purposefully terminating suffering as it does today. Euthanasia's death is the best one in the story because she dies with a pure heart, never having soiled herself with hurtful actions for the purpose of self-gain. Possibly, the import of Shelley's choice is that all that one can hope for in the flawed, Hobbesian world of Valperga is the best death possible, as no good life can be imagined. It is probable that this bleak vision is at least obliquely connected with the comparatively recent trauma of Percy Shelley's death and Mary Shelley's grief and desolation.
The degenerating spiral of human history is the central vision of The Last Man. Set in the radically distant future of the twenty-first century, this novel begins with a flourishing civilization and ends with the entire population of the world, save one man, decimated by the plague. Lionel Verney, the last man of the title, has nothing to anticipate except an endless journey from one desolate city to another. All the treasures of man are his and his alone; all the great libraries and coffers open only to him. All that is denied to him—forever, it seems—is human companionship.
The novel begins before Lionel Verney's birth. It is a flashback narrated by Lionel himself, the only first-person narrator possible in this novel. Lionel describes his father as his father had been described to him, as a man of imagination and charm but lacking in judgment. He was a favorite of the king, but was forced out of the king's life by the king's new wife, a Marie Antoinette figure. The new queen, depicted as an arrogant snob, disapproves of Verney's father and effects his estrangement from the king by working on her husband's gullible nature.
Verney's father, in ostracized shame, seeks refuge in the country, where he marries a simple, innocent cottage girl and thus begets Lionel and his sister Perdita. Verney's father can never, however, reconcile himself to his loss of status and dies a broken man. His wife soon follows, and Lionel and Perdita live like wild creatures until chance brings the king's son, Adrian, into their path. Their friendship succeeds where the aborted friendship of their fathers failed, despite the continued disapproval of the queen.
What is remarkable to the modern reader is that Shelley, having set her story two hundred years in the future, does not project a technologically changed environment. She projects instead the same rural, agrarian, hand and animal-driven society in which she lived. What does change, however, is the political system. The political system of The Last Man is a republican monarchy. Kings are elected, but not at regular intervals. The bulk of the novel concerns the power plays by which various factions intend to capture the throne by election rather than by war.
Adrian and Lionel are endlessly involved with a dashing, Byronic figure named Lord Raymond, who cannot decide whether he wants life in a cottage with Perdita, or life at the top. Ultimately, Raymond, like the protagonist of Valperga, wants to have both. He marries Perdita and gives up all pretensions to power, but then returns with her to rule the land. Power does not make him or his wife happy.
Despite the sublimation of the power process into an electoral system, the rage for power remains destructive, degenerating finally into war. The plague which appears and irrevocably destroys humankind is merely an extension of the plague of people's will to power. Not only Raymond and Perdita, but also their innocent children, Lionel's wife, Iris, and Adrian's sister, who stayed home to eschew worldly aspirations, are destroyed. No one is immune.
Lionel's survival carries with it a suggestion of his responsibility in the tragedy of humankind. His final exile in a sea of books and pictures suggests that those who commit themselves solely to knowledge and art have failed to deal with the central issues of life. In simply abdicating the marketplace to such as Lord Raymond, the cultivators of the mind have abandoned humanity. Through Lionel, they reap a bitter reward, but perhaps the implication is that it is a just reward for their failure to connect with their fellow human beings.
A number of critics consider The Last Man to be Mary Shelley's best work after Frankenstein. Like Frankenstein, this novel rather grimly deals with the relationship between knowledge and evil. Its greatest drawback for modern audiences, however, is its unfortunate tendency to inflated dialogue. Every sentence uttered is a florid and theatrical speech. The bloated characterizations obscure the line of Shelley's inventive satire of people's lemminglike rush to the sea of power.
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck attempts to chronicle the last, futile struggles of the House of York in the Wars of the Roses. Perkin Warbeck was a historical character who claimed to be Richard, the son of Edward IV of England. Most scholars believe that Richard died in the tower with his brother Edward; Perkin Warbeck claimed to be that child. Warbeck said that he had survived the tower, assumed another identity, and intended to reclaim the usurped throne held by Henry VII.
Shelley's novel assumes that Perkin was indeed Richard and documents his cheerless history from his childhood to his execution in manhood by Henry VII. The novel attempts to explore once more man's fruitless quest for power and glory. Richard is an intelligent, virtuous young man who finds true companionship even in his outcast state, and the love of a number of women, each different, utterly committed, and true. He is unable, however, to forsake the dream of conquest and live simply. As he presses onward to claim the throne, he suffers a series of crushing losses, not one of which will he yield to as a revelation of the wrongheadedness of his quest. His rush toward the throne achieves only the death of innocent persons. When he is executed at the end of the novel, his wife Katherine is given the last words. She needs to find a way of continuing to live without him. She is urged by his adherents to forsake the world, and for his sake to live a reclusive life. Although Katherine appears only briefly in the interminable scenes of war and the grandiose verbiage through which the reader must trudge, her appearance at the end of the novel and her refusal to forsake the world in her grief are the most impressive moments in the work.
In refusing to retreat from the world, Katherine commits herself to the only true value in the novel, love, a value which all the senseless suffering of Richard's quest could not destroy. Katherine, as the widow of the gentle but misguided warrior, becomes a metaphor for the endurance of love in a world that has its heart set on everything but love. Her final, gracious words are a relaxing change from the glory-seeking bombast of the action, "Permit this to be, unblamed—permit a heart whose sufferings have been and are, so many and so bitter, to reap what joy it can from the strong necessity it feels to be sympathized with—to love." Once again, Shelley's basic idea is an enthralling one, but her execution of her plan includes a grandiose superfluity of expression and incident.
Lodore
Lodore and Shelley's last novel, Falkner, form a kind of reconciliation couplet to end her exploration of loss and desolation. Reward for persistence in loving through the trials of death and social obliquity is her final vision. In Lodore, an extremely long parade of fatal misunderstandings, the central image is the recovery of a lost mother. The novel begins veiled in mystery. Lord Lodore has exiled himself and his fairylike, delicate daughter, Ethel, to the forests of Illinois in far-off America. Lord Lodore is without his wife, who has done something unnamed and perhaps unnameable to provoke this unusual separation. Reunion with her is the central action of the plot.
Lord Lodore is a perfect gentleman amid the cloddish but honest American settlers. His one goal is to produce the perfect maiden in his daughter, Ethel. Father and daughter are entirely devoted to each other. A series of flashback chapters reveal that Lady Lodore, very much the junior of Lord Lodore, had been overly influenced by her mother, who had insinuated herself between husband and wife and alienated her daughter's affections from Lord Lodore. Lord and Lady Lodore lived what life they had together always on the brink of rapprochement, but utterly confounded by the wiles of the mother-in-law, who managed to distort communicated sentiments to turn husband and wife away from each other, finally effecting a radical separation that neither Lord nor Lady Lodore wanted.
The American idyll ends for Ethel and her father when Ethel is about fifteen years old. The unwanted attentions of a suitor threaten Ethel's perfect life, and her father moves his household once more. Lodore thinks of reestablishing the bond with his estranged wife but is killed in a duel hours before departing for England. His last thoughts of reconciliation are buried with him, because the only extant will is one recorded years ago when he vindictively made Lady Lodore's inheritance dependent on her never seeing Ethel again. Ethel returns to England shaken and abandoned, but not to her mother. Instead, she lives with Lodore's maiden sister.
Ethel is wooed and won by a gentleman, Edward Villiers, coincidentally one of the few witnesses to her father's death and many years older than herself. The marriage of this truly loving couple is threatened because Edward, reared in luxury, is in reduced financial circumstances owing to the irresponsibility of his father, one of the few truly despicable characters in the novel.
Much suffering ensues, during which Edward and Ethel endeavor to straighten out priorities: Which is more important, love or money? Should they part to give Ethel a chance at a more comfortable life, or should they endure poverty for love? They choose love, but Edward is taken to debtor's prison, Ethel standing by for the conjugal visits that the prison system permits.
Through a series of chance encounters, Lady Lodore, now a seemingly shallow woman of fashion, becomes aware of Ethel's needs and of her need to be a mother to the young woman. Telling no one but her lawyer what she intends, she impoverishes herself to release Edward from prison and to set the couple up appropriately. She then removes herself to a humble country existence, anticipating the blessings of martyrdom. She is, however, discovered, the mother and daughter are reunited, and Lady Lodore is even offered an advantageous marriage to a rich former suitor who originally was kept from her by the machinations of his sisters.
Lodore includes many particulars that are close to the biographical details of the author's life: the penury and social trials of her marriage to Shelley, the financial irresponsibility of her father, and the loss of her mother. Shelley's familiarity with her material appears to have dissolved the grandiose pretensions of the previous novels, which may have sprung from her distance from their exotic settings and situations. Lodore has the force of life despite its melodramatic plot. If it were more widely available, it would be a rich source of interest for historians and literary scholars. It contains an interesting image of America as envisioned by the early nineteenth century European. It also contains a wealth of interest for students of women's literature.
If Lodore offers a happy ending with the return of a long-lost mother, then Falkner finds contentment in the restoration of an estranged father. Here, the father is not the biological parent, but a father figure, Rupert Falkner. The plot is a characteristic tangle of gothic convolutions involving old secrets and sins, obdurate Catholic families, and the pure love of a young girl.
The delightful Elizabeth Raby is orphaned at the age of six under severe circumstances. Because her fragile, lovely parents were complete strangers to the little town in Cornwall to which they had come, their death left Elizabeth at the mercy of their landlady. The landlady is poor, and Elizabeth is a financial burden. The landlady keeps her only because she suspects that the now decimated, strange little family has noble connections. Thus begins a typical Shelley fiction—with abandonment, innocence, and loss of love.
The plot is set in motion by a mysterious stranger who identifies himself as "John Falkner." Falkner undertakes the guardianship of Elizabeth, not only because of her charm, but also because of an unfinished letter found in the family cottage. This letter connects Elizabeth's mother to one "Alithea." The reader comes to learn that Falkner was Alithea's lover, that he carries the guilt of her ruin and death since Alithea was a married woman, and that her husband continues to bear his wife's seducer a vindictive grudge. Happily, for the moment, Alithea's husband believes that the seducer was surnamed Rupert. Alithea's husband was and is an unsuitable mate for a sensitive woman, and the marriage was one from which any woman would have wanted to flee. Alithea's infraction was only against the letter of the marriage bond, not its spirit.
The vindictive husband has conceived a hatred for Alithea's son, Gerard, on account of Alithea's connection with "Rupert." Elizabeth, Falkner's ward, coincidentally meets and forms an attachment to Gerard. Falkner repeatedly attempts to separate them because of his guilty feelings. Their attachment blooms into a love which cannot be denied, and Falkner is forced to confess all to Gerard after the boy saves Falkner's life. He is the infamous Rupert, Rupert Falkner.
With the revelation comes the separation of Elizabeth and Gerard, she to stand loyally with Falkner, he to defend his father's honor. For the first time in his life, Gerard finds himself on his father's side, but familiarity breeds contempt. Gerard wants to fight a manly duel for honor, while his father wants to crush Falkner for economic gain in the legal system. Gerard finds this an inexcusable pettiness on his father's part. He then joins Elizabeth to defend Falkner in court. To do this, they will need to go to America to bring back a crucial witness, but the witness arrives and saves them the voyage: Falkner is acquitted. The legal acquittal is also metaphorical: In comparison with the ugly sins of greed, the sins of passion are pardonable.
Elizabeth, the reader knows, is also the product of an elopement in defiance of family, a sin of passion. The proud Catholic family which once spurned her decides to acknowledge Elizabeth. Gerard and Elizabeth, both wealthy and in their proper social position, marry. Falkner will have a home with them in perpetuity.
Once again, Shelley's fictional involvement in the domestic sphere tones down her customary floridity and affords the reader fascinating insights into the thinking of the daughter of an early feminist, who was indeed an independent woman herself. It can only clarify history to know that such a woman as Mary Shelley can write in her final novel that her heroine's studies included not only the "masculine" pursuits of abstract knowledge, but also needlework and "the careful inculcation of habits and order . . . without which every woman must be unhappy—and, to a certain degree, unsexed."
Frankenstein, 1818; Valperga: Or, The Life of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, 1823; The Last Man, 1826; The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, 1830; Lodore, 1835; Falkner, 1837.
Short Fiction: Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories, 1976. PLAYS: Proserpine, pb. 1922; Midas, pb. 1922.
Nonfiction: History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, 1817; Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, 1838 (Numbers 63, 71, 96); Rambles in Germany and Italy, 1844; The Letters of Mary Shelley, 1980 (2 volumes; Betty T. Bennett, editor).
Baldick, Chris. In "Frankenstein" 's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Forry, Steven Earl. Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of "Frankenstein" from Mary Shelley to the Present. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Kiely, Robert. The Romantic Novel in England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. London: Methuen, 1988.
Nitchie, Elizabeth. Mary Shelley: Author of "Frankenstein." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Smith, Johanna M. Mary Shelley. New York: Twayne, 1996.
Spark, Muriel. Mary Shelley. London: Constable, 1988.
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Mike D'Antoni says Rockets must impose their will
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Jonathan Feigen , Houston Chronicle May 3, 2019 Updated: May 3, 2019 8:58 p.m.
1of29Coach Mike D'Antoni works with guard Chris Paul during Friday's Rockets practice at Toyota Center, where Game 3 of their series with the Warriors will be played Saturday night.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
2of29Houston Rockets guard James Harden works with head coach Mike D'Antoni during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
3of29Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni, left, works with guard James Harden during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
4of29Houston Rockets center Clint Capela dribbles the ball up the court during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
6of29Houston Rockets guard James Harden works with assistant coach Jeff Bzdelik during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
8of29Houston Rockets center Clint Capela takes a shot during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
10of29Houston Rockets guard James Harden works out during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
11of29Houston Rockets guard James Harden works with head coach Mike D'Antoni during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
12of29Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni walks up the court during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
13of29Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni works with guard Chris Paul during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
15of29Houston Rockets guard James Harden takes a shot during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
16of29Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul takes a shot during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
17of29Houston Rockets forward PJ Tucker takes a shot during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
18of29Houston Rockets guards James Harden and Eric Gordon work with head coach Mike D'Antoni during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
19of29Houston Rockets forward Kenneth Faried, left, and guard Chris Paul take shots as they warm up during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
20of29Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni watches his team warm up during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
22of29Houston Rockets forward PJ Tucker works out during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
23of29Houston Rockets guard Gerald Green takes a shot during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
24of29Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul, left, is surrounded by cameras as he is interviewed before Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
26of29Houston Rockets head coach Mike D'Antoni gathers his team to start practice during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
27of29Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul, forward PJ Tucker and center Clint Capela stretch during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
28of29Houston Rockets guards James Harden, left, and Chris Paul stretch during Rockets practice at Toyota Center on Friday, May 3, 2019, in Houston. The Rockets, down 0-2 in the NBA Western Conference semifinals, play the Golden State Warriors in Game 3 on Saturday.Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
With a day of rest and two days of work to bolster them, the Rockets could easily list all that has to change to win Game 3 and turn around their series against the Warriors. That is the easy part.
They need to take care of the ball and rebound better. They need to be more decisive and determined on drives. They need to start of much better than in the first two games spent playing catch-up virtually the whole way.
It all adds up to the same need — the improvement that could not come from a lineup change or altered strategy or even the vaunted "adjustments" that fill postseason conversations.
"Who imposes their will?" Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Champions come from your heart and your head and your willpower. It doesn't come from 'I play prettier than you do.' You've got to get down in the mud. You've got to slug it out. That's where you make champions. Champion is a personality thing. We've got to impose our will."
The details matter. The Rockets did not spend the two days at Toyota Center giving one another pep talks. But they have gotten their shots, shooting badly in Game 1 and well in Game 2. They have kept the Warriors relatively in check, with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson yet to go off to their usual lofty standards. They have been within a 3-pointer in the fourth quarter of both games. The areas most in need of repair seem to point toward desire and determination.
"You know what they say about a wounded animal — they're the most dangerous," Rockets guard Gerald Green said. "Right now, we're wounded. We're down 2-0, they hit us first, so we've got our backs in a corner. But we play our best when it's like that for us."
The Rockets have not lost more than two consecutive games since their mid-December turnaround.
And they have not lost three consecutive playoff games since the 2015 Western Conference finals against the Warriors. That year, they lost consecutive close games at Oracle Arena, as they have this postseason, before a Game 3 blowout. Only James Harden and Clint Capela remain from that Rockets team, which faced Golden State at the start of its championship years.
Whether the intensity and execution that made the Warriors' title runs possible has been honed through those experiences together or some combination of both, they are the areas the Rockets did not match to open the series and must ramp up to fix other shortcomings.
"I think this series comes down to effort," Rockets guard Austin Rivers said. "People talk about how talented the Warriors are, and rightfully so. They have multiple All-Stars. You get so lost in how talented they are and their schemes and 3s. If you actually watch that team play — watch how hard they run their sets, watch how hard they defend — they don't take plays off. That's a team that's won three of the last four years, and they still play like they've never won. That's the most impressive thing about Golden State.
"I don't know if that's leadership of Steph (Curry) or Draymond (Green) or Steve Kerr. They play extremely hard. You cannot not play as hard as them, because they're going to be more talented than you. There's not a starting lineup in the league that has what they have, so you have to play harder. That's what this series is going to come down to. I believe we'll do that back here at home."
Effort in the postseason covers areas closely related but not limited to playing hard. It includes force and focus, areas that Golden State has mastered over four consecutive trips to the NBA Finals. The Rockets, like those Finals appearances, tend to bring out the best in the Warriors, which means more than Curry's 3-point shooting or Kevin Durant's mid-range greatness.
"We respect this team," Durant said. "It's just because we've played them before. We went to seven games with them. So that level of respect and that level of knowledge about this team goes to another level when we play them. Yeah, we're more locked in, because we know this team can beat us."
Even in areas that seem to be about schematic differences, the Rockets point to determination. The Warriors' move to start their five-star lineup, which the Rockets expected going into the series, has worked remarkably well. But the Rockets said their counter is to drive more decisively, finish more forcefully and rebound more consistently — all areas that point to mindset as much as anything drawn up on a white board.
They could go on, but it all comes back to the same thing.
"You can go into a detailed explanation of all this," D'Antoni said. "We can't turn the ball over. We have to be sharper on offense. We have to get our pace up. Hit somebody on defense boxing out. If we do that, we're fine without changing anything else.
"We just have to impose our will, not let down. We know they're going to make runs, be a little more conscientious and compete. And we will. We'll compete."
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Jonathan Feigen has been the Rockets beat writer since 1998 and a basketball nut since before Willis Reed limped out for Game 7. He became a sports writer because the reporter that was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back.
Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was Sports Editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty.
After joining the Houston Chronicle in 1990, Feigen has covered the demise of the SWC, the rise of the Big 12 and the Rockets at their championship best.
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