It's important to understand that there are real risks involved in having cataracts, and in having cataract surgery. It is important to balance these risks against each other when deciding whether to have cataract surgery or not. There is a balance between the deteriorating vision you may have from a cataract, versus the risks involved in surgery to correct it. When the risks of cataract surgery are outweighed by the functional problems caused by the cataract, it is reasonable to consider proceeding with surgery.
One way to think of cataract surgery is the way you think of driving: that most of the time, you get where you want to go, but you understand that sometimes it's possible to have an accident, even a catastrophic one. You still need to drive sometimes, but you don't drive unless you need to. You can think of cataract surgery the same way: don't do it unless you need to, but if you do, it's reasonable to proceed.
Please read on for some of the risks of having cataracts, versus the risks of cataract surgery. Please understand that it's not possible to list all possible risks. The lists below try to hit the most common and important ones.
Everyone who lives long enough gets cataracts. Simply doing nothing has risks to your vision, as the cataracts will eventually degrade your ability to see, and may pose other health problems for your eyes.
Blurred vision Blurred vision worsens as cataracts progress. In the early stages of cataracts, vision is usually good. As the cataracts progress, however, vision deteriorates to the point where everything looks blurry, and no glasses are able to make it clearer.
Glare and halos Cataracts scatter light as it enters the eye. This causes rings around lights, particularly at night. Glare and halos can make night driving difficult.
Decrease in contrast sensitivity Cataracts decrease the ability to distinguish shades of grey. This degrades the quality of vision and can make driving in fog and rain difficult.
Optical changes As cataracts develop, the innate optics of the eye can change. This may mean you have to change your glasses more frequently than in the past. In some cases the change can actually be for the better ("second sight"). This can actually make some patients less dependent on glasses for a while as the cataracts develop. In the end, though, the cataract blurs vision to the point that with or without glasses, it's difficult to see.
Glaucoma As the cataract develops, the lens in the eye becomes physically larger. In rare cases, this can cause the lens to press on the eye's drainage system and close it off. This produces high eye pressure and can damage the nerve in the eye, a condition called glaucoma. If the glaucoma is bad enough, it can permanently damage vision.
Degraded view of the inside of the eye In order to evaluate the health of the eye, your eye doctor must be able to see inside it. Cataracts block the view inside the eye. Your doctor may not be able to make good decisions regarding the care of some diseases (diabetes, macular degeneration, glaucoma and others) if he or she can't see inside the eye.
Blindness Very advanced cataract can degrade vision to the point of blindness. In these cases, there is not total darkness, but vision can be so poor that it is impossible to see much beyond the presence or absence of light.
Cataract surgery is a generally safe procedure, but is not risk free. Some people think it is a "simple procedure where they peel a film off the eye." This is not true. Cataract surgery is a complex procedure that requires years of training to perform. Problems, and even true disasters, are possible. Evaluating and accepting these risks is very important prior to surgery.
Please understand that this is not a complete list of all the possible risks of cataract surgery. There are conceivable risks beyond the ones described below.
Temporarily blurred vision Common In the days after surgery, vision can be blurry, sometimes severely so. This is usually produced by swelling on the surface of the eye (the "cornea"). This normally resolves in a few days.
Temporary irritation Common After surgery, the eye may be irritated and scratchy. This usually resolves in a few hours or days.
Floaters Common You may see floaters after the surgery. Floaters come from a disturbance in the jelly inside the eye. They look like little spider webs floating around in your vision. By disturbing the inside of the eye, cataract surgery can cause floaters. Sometimes you can see more floaters after cataract surgery because you simply see better.
High eye pressure Common Inflammation caused by the surgery can elevate the pressure in the eye. This is usually temporary, and can be treated easily. In most cases, the high pressure produces no ill effects. In rare cases, however, the high pressure can damage the nerve in the eye and cause permanent visual loss.
Dark crescent in side vision Common For reasons that are not fully understood, a dark crescent can be visible in a patient's side vision after surgery. This can be annoying, and sometimes interfere with function. It often resolves over time, but in some cases does not. In severe cases, additional surgery may be required to correct it.
Optical error Common We have good formulas for calculating the power of the lens to implant. These usually allow us to predict the optics in the eye after surgery, but they are not perfect. There is usually some minor error after surgery in the final result (astigmatism, nearsightedness, and/or farsightedness). In some cases this is significant, and rarely quite severe (a "refractive surprise"). This can be particularly disappointing for patients trying to reduce their dependence on glasses and contact lenses after surgery, such as those receiving astigmatism-correcting or multifocal lens implants. In some cases, additional procedures may be required to reduce this optical error.
Glare and/or halos Uncommon Cataract surgery usually improves glare symptoms. Some patients, however, experience glare after surgery that is worse than before surgery, or that does not fully resolve with surgery. Glare after surgery is more common with patients receiving multifocal lenses than monofocal lenses.
Failure to achieve intended result Uncommon Cataract surgery improves vision in the vast majority of patients. However, in some patients, there is no improvement. This can happen if there is co-existing eye disease, such as macular degeneration or diabetes. Rarely, vision can be worse after surgery, as in the case if there is a surgical complication, or post-operative issue such as retinal detachment or persistent swelling of the cornea or retina.
Droopy eyelid Uncommon Sometimes patients can develop a droopy eyelid after cataract surgery. This may be temporary or permanent. If it does not resolve and is a persistent problem, it may require surgery to correct.
Human error Uncommon Surgery is a very human process. Although there are strict protocols in place to reduce the chance of human error, it is still possible. Implanting the wrong lens, operating on the wrong eye, or making some other avoidable mistake is possible with surgery. Human error could produce unforeseen and and undesireable outcomes.
Persistent swelling Uncommon After cataract surgery, the surface of the eye (the "cornea") or the layer of nerves inside the eye (the "retina") can become swollen. These are usually temporary conditions, and can usually be treated with drops or by other means. In cases of swelling of the cornea, corneal transplant may be required to improve vision. In some cases, however, swelling of either the retina or cornea can permanently degrade vision.
Retinal tears and/or detachment Uncommon There is a layer of nerves that wallpapers the inside of the eyeball. It is called the "retina." Cataract surgery increases the likelihood that this layer of nerves will separate from the inside wall of the eyeball. This is a serious condition called a "retinal detachment." It can happen at any time after surgery, even years later. It is often preceded by a tear in the retina. If not repaired in time, it can lead to blindness. Patients who are severely nearsighted before surgery are at higher risk of this occuring.
Capsular rupture Uncommon A thin capsule surrounds the natural lens in the eye. The capsule holds the natural lens in place in the eye, and is used to hold the new (plastic) lens implanted during cataract surgery. It is about one one-hundredth of a millimeter thick, and can rupture during surgery. This can allow lens fragments (or the entire lens) to fall back in the eye. Additional surgeries may be required to remove these fragments. Rupture of the capsule can increase the possibility of other complications of surgery, such as infection, retinal detachment, and swelling of the retina.
Retained lens fragments Uncommon During the surgery, your surgeon normally breaks up the cataract inside your eye with an ultrasound probe. The fragments of the lens are vacuumed out with the same probe. Sometimes there can be fragments that are inadvertently left inside the eye, particularly if they becomed tucked behind the iris and are hidden from your surgeon. If there are retained fragments after your surgery, your surgeon may elect to leave them (they often dissolve with time). In some cases they need to be removed with a separate procedure, particularly if they are causing high eye pressure.
Lens dislocation Rare The lens in the eye (either the natural one or the implant) can become detached from its support system in the eye during surgery. This can require additional maneuvers to replace or remove it, either during the original surgery later, with other surgeries. In some cases, (mostly in patients with predisposing conditions) the lens can dislocate months or years later.
Infection Rare Infection with modern cataract surgery is fortunately rare. If it does happen, however, it can be difficult to treat, and can cause blindness, or even loss of the eye.
Severe hemorrhage Rare Some minor bleeding from cataract surgery is common. This can occur on the surface of the eye from the incisions, or inside the eye during the surgery. In either case, the bleeding does not usually interfere with achieving good vision. In rare cases, however, severe bleeding in the eye can cause loss of vision, or even loss of the eye ("suprachoroidal hemorrhage" or "expulsive hemorrhage").
Blindness Rare We normally perform cataract surgery on one eye at a time, and do not perform it on the other eye until the first eye has healed adequately. However, true blindness in both eyes is possible if there is a blinding complication in one eye, in a patient who has only one good eye. If you have one eye that is permanently impaired, it is important to take extra care in weighing the risks of surgery in the other eye.
Death Rare Death around the time of surgery is extremely rare, but could occur from complications of anesthesia, an allergic reaction, a concurrent medical condition, or from a car accident on the way to or from surgery.
If you have questions about the risks of cataract surgery you should discuss them with your surgeon prior to undertaking the procedure.


decoupage, also spelled Découpage, (French: "cutting out"), the art of cutting and pasting cutouts to simulate painting on a wood, metal, or glass surface. There are many variations in technique, but the four basic steps of decoupage generally are cutting out the pictures, arranging them to depict a scene or tell a story, pasting them on a surface, and applying several (sometimes up to 12) thin coats of varnish or lacquer to the pictures.
Influenced by a tradition of cut work that includes the paper cutting of the ancient Chinese, the felt appliqués found among the Siberian peoples, and the Polish folk art of paper cutting, decoupage originated in France in the 17th century as a means of decorating bookcases, cabinets, and other pieces of furniture. It spread throughout Europe and in the 18th century became a fashionable pastime, especially at the Italian, French, and English courts. Graceful, charming, and colourful designs, cut from pictures printed expressly for this purpose, were applied to fans, screens, and toilet articles. In the 19th century, peep shows, miniature vistas viewed through a small opening, were constructed of decoupage.
The French Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank used decoupage on some of his earliest Parsons tables in Paris in the 1920s. Decoupage was revived in the United States in the 1960s, as a popular decoration for boxes, trays, wastebaskets, lampshades, chests, and screens.


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Ecaterina Teodoroiu właśc. Cătălina Toderoiu (ur. 16 stycznia 1894 w Vădeni, zm. 22 sierpnia 1917 w Panciu) – rumuńska nauczycielka i sanitariuszka, oficer armii rumuńskiej.

Życiorys
Urodziła się we wsi Vădeni (dzis. część Târgu Jiu), jako trzecie dziecko Nicolae i Eleny. Po ukończeniu szkoły w Târgu Jiu rozpoczęła naukę w Szkole dla Dziewcząt w Bukareszcie. Od 1914 działała w ruchu skautowym. W 1916 zdobyła uprawnienia niezbędne do wykonywania zawodu nauczycielki.

27 października 1916, kiedy toczyła się I bitwa nad rzeką Jiu, Ecaterina wraz z harcerzami wzięła udział w obronie Târgu Jiu. Po zakończeniu bitwy o miasto wstąpiła na ochotnika do armii rumuńskiej. Początkowo służyła jako sanitariuszka. Będąc pod wrażeniem postawy rannych żołnierzy Ecaterina zdecydowała się przejść do służby liniowej. W nocy z 3 na 4 listopada brała udział w walkach w pobliżu Floreşti, gdzie została ranna w nogę i wzięta do niewoli niemieckiej. Udało się jej pozbawić broni konwojującego ją podoficera i uciec z niewoli.

14 listopada 1916 w bitwie pod Porceni zginął brat Ecateriny Nicolae. Aby pomścić brata, Ecaterina zdecydowała się walczyć w tej samej jednostce liniowej, w której poprzednio służył Nicolae. Ranna w czasie walk listopadowych 1916 w obie nogi i ramię trafiła do szpitala. Za dzielność na froncie została odznaczona Medalem za Odwagę I kl. (Medalia Virtutea Militară). Odznaczenie wręczył jej osobiście Ferdynand I. W marcu 1917 otrzymała awans do stopnia podporucznika (sublocotenent). Powierzono jej wtedy dowództwo plutonu.

3 września 1917 zginęła w bitwie pod Mărăşeşti. Gdy prowadziła atak swojego plutonu na pozycje niemieckiego 40 pułku rezerwowego, trafiły ją w pierś dwie kule z karabinu maszynowego. Jej ostatnie słowa miały brzmieć: Înainte! Răzbunaţi mă! (Naprzód! Pomścijcie mnie!).

Pamięć o Ecaterinie Teodoroiu

Teodoroiu została pochowana we wsi Poieni, niedaleko od miejsca, gdzie zginęła. W 1921 dokonano ekshumacji jej szczątków i przeniesiono je do Târgu Jiu. Na jej grobie stoi pomnik wysokości 2,10 m, odsłonięty w 1936, dłuta Miliţy Petraşcu. Oprócz tego wzniesiono 8 pomników upamiętniających tę jedną z najbardziej cenionych kobiet w XX-wiecznej historii Rumunii. W 1925 stanął w Slatinie pomnik wykonany z brązu, dłuta Dumitru Mățăoanu. W 1928 odsłonięto pomnik w Brăila, dłuta Vasile Ionescu-Varo. W 1994 w Mărăşeşti odsłonięto popiersie Teodoroiu, dłuta Florina Musty. W 1938 dom rodziny Teodoroiu w Vădeni został przekształcony w miejsce pamięci o bohaterce. W 1978 powstał film fabularny Ecaterina Teodoroiu, w reż. Dinu Cocei. Tytułową rolę zagrała Stela Furcovici.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Maria Bucur, Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War, "Journal of Women's History" 2000/2, s. 30–56.
 Biogram Ecateriny Teodoroiu

Kobiety w służbie wojskowej (biografie)
Odznaczeni Orderem Cnoty Wojskowej
Rumuńscy nauczyciele
Rumuńscy wojskowi
Sanitariuszki
Uczestnicy I wojny światowej (Królestwo Rumunii)
Urodzeni w 1894
Zmarli w 1917
Ofiary I wojny światowej

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Q: Cohomology with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ coefficients, wedge product and integrals I'm studing cohomology with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ coefficients in order to understand Stiefel-Whitney classes, and i have a couple of questions.Let $X$ be a n-manifold.
1) I know that $H^k_{sing}(X,\mathbb{Z})\subset H^k_{sing}(X,\mathbb{R})\simeq H^k_{DR}(X)$, and that the wedge product $\wedge$ is the cup product $\cup$ for $H^k_{DR}(X)$. Thank to the mentioned inclusion, i can use the wedge product also on $H^k_{sing}(X,\mathbb{Z})$. Now i am wondering what happens for singular cohomology with $\mathbb{Z_2}$ coefficients. A priori no wedge product is defined, but using the Universal coefficient theorem, if $Ext (H_{k-1}(X,\mathbb{Z}),\mathbb{Z}_2)=0$ then every element in $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z_2})$ is the reduction mod 2 of an element in $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z})$, but on $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z})$ the wedge product is defined, while on $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z_2})$ is not. how does it work? when i reduce mod 2 the wedge product becomes the cup product?
2) Given $\omega \in H^k(X,\mathbb{R})$ and $[S]$ a k-dimensional cycle i know we have the pairing $\langle [S],\omega\rangle:= \int_s\omega$. How is this defined for $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z}_2)$? Apparently, when $\omega \in H^k(X,\mathbb{Z}_2)$ is the reduction mod 2 of $\widetilde{w}\in H^k(X,\mathbb{Z})$, it is ok to set $\langle [S],\omega\rangle=\int_S \widetilde{\omega}$ mod 2. For example in the proof of the wu's formula http://books.google.it/books?id=nqMNrHE1U28C&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=%22wu's+formula%22&source=bl&ots=ksKOp7Hw6C&sig=8GQt7P48siLl8YGnqSI4HRQjckk&hl=it&sa=X&ei=DrtAUeD2KoSq4AS4vYCIBg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22wu's%20formula%22&f=false (here the notation is $w_2(T_M)\cdot S$) Scorpan says that $w_2(T_S) $is the reduction mod 2 of the euler class, but the integral must be implicit because $\int_S e(T_S)=\mathcal{X}(S)$, but is the integral defined for elements in $H^k(X,\mathbb{Z_2})$? How does it work?
Thank you

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Q: How can I update two User objects in the same Rails form_for? I'm trying to use a form_for in rails to update two objects from the User model at the same time. The reason is that a person can update basic information for both themselves and their spouse (two different users), without having to fill out two separate forms.
My current code for updating one user looks like this:
<%= form_for(@user, :url=> wizard_path, :method => :put) do |f| %>

        <%= f.label :state, "What state do you live in?", class: "form-question" %>
        <%= f.select(:state, options_for_select(us_states, selected: @user.state), {:prompt => "State"}, :class => "form-control", :required => true) %>
        <%= f.hidden_field :user_id, value: @user.id %>

        <%= link_to "Back", previous_wizard_path, :class => "align-left" %>
        <%= f.submit "Continue", :class => "btn btn-primary align-right" %>

<% end %>

How can I edit this form so that on submit it updates not just the current user, but also the user's spouse (which can be accessed by @user.spouse).

A: my idea is using your user controller update method
def update
  if @user.update_attributes(user_params)
    # here you update spouse
    spouse = @user.spouse
    if spouse.present?
      spouse.state = @user.state
      spouse.save
    end
    flash[:success] = 'success'
  end
end

A: This sounds like the classic use case for ActiveRecord::NestedAttributes.

Nested attributes allow you to save attributes on associated records
  through the parent. By default nested attribute updating is turned off
  and you can enable it using the accepts_nested_attributes_for class
  method. When you enable nested attributes an attribute writer is
  defined on the model.

class User
  belongs_to :spouse
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :spouse
end

<%= form_for(@user, :url=> wizard_path, :method => :put) do |f| %>
  # ...
  <%= f.fields_for :spouse do |sf| %>
     <%= sf.label :name, 'Your spouses name' %>
     <%= sf.text_field :name %>
  <% end %
<% end %>

def user_params
  params.require(:user)
        .permit(:foo, :bar, :baz, spouse_attributes: [:id, :name, :email]) # ...
end

Since this is handled on the model layer you don't have to do anything in your controller besides whitelisting the nested attributes.


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Training session for school-based counselling
By Chronicle Staff Share
A group of 52 teachers, educational psychologists and counsellors attended a training and feedback session ahead of the school based counselling service being implemented.
The preparatory session was organised by the Ministry of Education and coordinated by Jackie Linares and Wayne Barton and delivered by Giselle Carreras from the Care Agency.
This has resulted in a comprehensive operational policy and associated referral pathways being established and agreed upon for primary and secondary sectors and the college, by those directly involved in the children's wellbeing.
The session was delivered at the University of Gibraltar and focused on the specific role of the school counsellor and future interactions with internal and external agencies.
Ms Carreras, who is the current Head of Psychology and Therapeutic Services in the Care Agency, shared her own experience for the benefit of those educators who it is envisaged will work closely with the school counsellors.
The teachers later formed the target audience for the session together with members of the positive mental health steering groups, which includes education psychologists.
Ms Carreras covered themes such as the rationale and evidence base for Counselling in Schools, an evaluation of UK studies, approaches in primary and secondary, referral thresholds and golden rules for information sharing, among many others.
Ms Linares and Mr Barton were then able to apply these principles in their shared presentation and looked at the strategic implications of the operational policy in practice, validating the implementation plan through open engagement and discussion.
CAB counsellors also provided feedback and guidance through their experiences.
The training culminated with a group session where a number of questions and scenarios were examined with potential approaches deliberated on using the material covered during the day.
Minister for Education, John Cortes, said: "We have made excellent progress over the past year in tackling the issues surrounding mental health in the school population."
"The preparatory work done by the multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that the new School Counsellors, soon to be recruited, work in a well-prepared environment is impressive."
"The new service will benefit pupils and teachers, and is long overdue."

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Terry Burrows 3 July 2015
Categories Content, Search Marketing
5 Content Curation Tools To Bolster Your Business
When all you want to do is keep it simple and to the point
Blogs and new content for the web is created every minute. Videos are in the millions. Where a great deal of the content is aimed at personal experience and information, a great deal of consumer information is also being shared.
In today's marketing and commerce society, it is becoming rather difficult to find creditable information to post to our blogs, websites, and social media. True, a person could make original content, but the fact remains that the demand will always outweigh what we can supply. It is therefore paramount that content is curated effectively. Here are five such tools that help with curation.
Listly presents the user with the ability to make "lists" to direct traffic. These lists can be on any number of topics from "the 10 most traveled streets in London" to "the 5 best SEO techniques ". Once you have established your list other viewers can comment, share, relist, like, or dislike your links.
If you are looking to curate your content then you would, naturally, want to put your content link at the top of the list. If you offer a series of services you could make a list called "the top 5 SEO tools offered by (your company)".
Do you have content that you want to share with the world? The odds are that you can quickly get your material noticed with Pinterest. The platform uses a series of boards which are divided into categories. These categories are delivered to other users based upon their interests.
What makes Pinterest a powerhouse curation tool is that it integrates with almost every social media site you can think of. You can also integrate certain "posts" directly into your website. Users who have Pinterest can quickly find your content, but at the same time they can view other information that pertains to their interests.
Swayy.co
If you want to have content that is catered to your keywords and interests (which most businesses do) then Swayy is a great tool to gather information to present. The platform uses keywords, profile analysis, and interest groups to compile a list of sources which may fit best into your social media presence.
When you first access sway, you will be asked to connect using twitter or facebook. You can access swayy's application on google chrome, but to get into the program you will need one of the two accounts. On the free account you are allowed one board. Of course, if you want more options you can always buy more.
Scoop it works as a media sharing curation tool. Content can be embedded directly into your site if you opt for the business monthly subscription. However, if you chose to use the free version you can still benefit from the features. By adding keywords to a particular topic, you can see which video sources are the most popular for your site. If you have the spare time, you can then find the video on an open source platform (such as YouTube) and link directly to the content.
Scoop also allows you to link content directly to your twitter, facebook, or linked in account. If you have a large following on any of the social media platforms, it is a great way to keep your viewers engaged in your business.
Diigo provides a curation tool for gaining creditable content to post to your site. If you do not have the time to go through and write original content every day on a subject, Diigo may be the solution that you need. The annotation tools help to build a personal library of information based upon the information that you need.
The feedback and comments which you post are archived to better help with the curation process. You can share whatever information you find useful but do not get automated posts. This alleviates the guess work in what material is being curated to your social media.
These are but a few curation tools which have proven to be effective to both individuals and businesses. Most of these products are free for personal use but do require a paid subscription if used for professional use. However, most of the professional services come with a free trial so that your business can become familiar with all of the features and determine if the curation tool will work for your social marketing needs prior to committing to a subscription.
Your social media and curation of content is essential to the engagement that clients, employees, and just random visitors have with your business. By utilizing effective curation tools you can be assured that the most relevant, non-competitive content is presented.
Utilising content curation tools correctly can help take your business forward.
Find out more on the future of Content Marketing at our DLUK - Trends briefing on the 24th September 2015
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title: Learning Lua
date: 2016-05-09
keywords:
tags:
    - learning
    - lua
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Learning Lua
============

[4ker/lua-style-guide: Olivine Labs Lua Style Guide](https://github.com/4ker/lua-style-guide)

[Lua crash course](http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/helpFiles/en/luaCrashCourse.htm)

[Category:Software - LOVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Category:Software)

-   love.exe

    +   win portable: <http://whudoc.qiniudn.com/2016/love-0.10.1-win64.7z>

    +   linux src: <http://whudoc.qiniudn.com/2016/love-0.10.1-linux-src.tar.gz>

        ```bash
        tar -xvf love-0.10.1-linux-src.tar.gz
        cd love-0.10.1
        sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y libopenal1 libopenal-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y libmodplug-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y libvorbis-dev libvorbisfile3
        sudo apt-get install -y libtheora-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y libphysfs-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y libluajit-dev
        sudo apt-get install -y lua5.2
        sudo apt-get install -y luarocks
        sudo apt-get install -y libluajit-5.1-dev libluajit-5.1-common
        sudo apt-get install -y libmpg123-dev
        ./configure
        make
        sudo make install
        love --version
        ```

-   `hello.lua` -> `main.lua` -> `main.zip` -> `hello.love`

    `hello.lua`

    :   ```lua
        function love.draw()
            love.graphics.print("Hello World!", 400, 300)
        end
        ```

-   `./path/to/love.exe hello.love`{.bash}

    ![](http://whudoc.qiniudn.com/2016/love-hello.png)

    like `getchar()` hack for windows: `"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" --console`

-   via makefile, see [district10/mari0: Mario + Portal game in LÖVE](https://github.com/district10/mari0).

-   executable

    [Compress and uncompress files (zip files) - Windows Help](http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows/compress-uncompress-files-zip-files#1TC=windows-7)

    ```bash
    # win
    copy /b love.exe+SuperGame.love SuperGame.exe
    ```

    win, create a `lovec.bat`: `copy /b love.exe+%1 "%~n1.exe"`{.bash}

    linux: `cat love.exe SuperGame.love > SuperGame.exe`{.bash}
    ```

- [TannerRogalsky/love.js: LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten](https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/love.js)
- [TannerRogalsky / love / source / — Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/TannerRogalsky/love/src)
- [Download - ZeroBrane Studio - Lua IDE/editor/debugger for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux](https://studio.zerobrane.com/download?not-this-time)
- [LewisJEllis/awesome-lua: A curated list of quality Lua packages and resources.](https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua)
- [Step By Step(C调用Lua) - Stephen_Liu - 博客园](http://www.cnblogs.com/stephen-liu74/archive/2012/07/20/2460634.html)
- [云风的 BLOG: 为 Lua 绑定 C/C++ 对象](http://blog.codingnow.com/2013/01/binding_c_object_for_lua.html)
- [4ker/lua-pong: Very simple example of a game engine written in C and game logic written in Lua.](https://github.com/4ker/lua-pong)
- [lua-pong/engine.c at master · 4ker/lua-pong](https://github.com/4ker/lua-pong/blob/master/engine.c)
- [lua-pong/pong.lua at master · 4ker/lua-pong](https://github.com/4ker/lua-pong/blob/master/pong.lua)
- [在Ubuntu系统下安装luci的步骤和注意事项 - Merlin-magic - 博客园](http://www.cnblogs.com/tfanalysis/articles/4108188.html)

[4ker/luapp: Using lua in C++ style. Build system is CMake.](https://github.com/4ker/luapp) ♥

refs and see also

-   [Getting Started - LOVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started)
-   [MisterDA/love-release: Lua script that makes LÖVE game release easier](https://github.com/MisterDA/love-release)
-   [rude / love / Downloads — Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads)
-   [love2d-community/awesome-love2d: A curated list of amazingly awesome LÖVE libraries, resources and shiny things.](https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d)
-   [Learn Lua in 15 Minutes](http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/)
-   [LuaDist/lua: The Lua programming language with CMake based build](https://github.com/LuaDist/lua), my fork: [4ker/lua: The Lua programming language with CMake based build](https://github.com/4ker/lua)
-   [LewisJEllis/awesome-lua: A curated list of quality Lua packages and resources.](https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua)
-   [Issues · vinniefalco/LuaBridge](https://github.com/vinniefalco/LuaBridge/issues)
-   [ToyAuthor/luapp: Using lua in C++ style. Build system is CMake.](https://github.com/ToyAuthor/luapp) ♥
-   [davidsiaw/luacppinterface: A Simple C++ Interface to Lua](https://github.com/davidsiaw/luacppinterface)
-   [tutorial: quick 'n' dirty — Sol 2.5.2 documentation](http://sol2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/all-the-things.html)
-   [ThePhD/sol2: Sol v2.0 - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:](https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2)

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For today's slice of excellence we turn to Johannesburg-based Kori Interiors. Focusing on high-end interior designs, Kori Interiors has established a portfolio showcasing a variety of projects and clients in the corporate, hospitality, retail and residential markets.
Knowing well that each client is unique, the company constantly stretches their creativity to produce results that are tailor-made, cost-effective and fully functional according to the project's requirements.
Services one can expect from Kori Interiors include small-scale refurbishments and remodelling, full-on renovations, the selection of appropriate fabrics and finishes for a client's dream space, and the altering of colour palettes for deluxe results. For corporate clients a comprehensive office and retail design service extends to space planning, office layouts, electrical layouts, the rendering of 3D designs, office partitioning, sourcing of ideal artwork and furnishings, and many others.
Let's sneak a peek at one of the company's residential projects: the interior designs of a Phakalane estate house located in Gaborone, Botswana.
Flaunting the contemporary style with brilliance is this living room and dining area which blend seamlessly in with one another. A stone-clad fireplace ensures rich texture while the unique lighting fixtures cast a brilliant glow over the entire seating area.
Our favourite piece here? Undoubtedly the eye-catching lights dangling from the ceiling – a unique twist between classic chandeliers and contemporary pendants.
The sleek-yet-welcoming look of the interiors continues beautifully into the most social space of modern-day homes: the kitchen, of course. With an off-white neutral colour palette and an almost minimalist-like style, this cooking space (which shares it open-plan layout with the living- and dining area) looks fabulously light and spacious.
For the bathroom, a delicate two-tone look was opted for: dove grey and powder white, managing to beautifully balance the soft hues of the wall surfaces. For a roomier look, as much floor space as possible was left open, thanks to the wall-mounted sink and wall niches serving as storage areas.
Let's cast our eyes on a few more images that speak of this delightful (and very inspiring) interior project.
From one superb professional to another, let's Discover a beautiful grey home in Johannesburg.
What are your thoughts on these interior designs?


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2023: In Four Years, You Will See Huge Farmlands In The North, Expansive Roads All Over — Yusuf Datti
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, who is the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has recently revealed the plans Peter Obi has for Nigeria if he acquires the presidency in 2023.
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed stated that there were going to be huge farmlands in the North in the next four years, expansive roads all over, and many other things.
He further said that there were going to be refineries in most areas of southern Nigeria and that universities weren't going to go on strike as usual.
"And in four years, you will see huge farmlands in the north; expansive roads going all over; industries in Kano and Kaduna; huge manufacturing outfits; refineries all over southern Nigeria; more bridges across the Niger; universities that won't be on strike for four years; a stable naira; and armed robbery that will be a thing of the past. A community being attacked at night will be history. No kidnapping on the federal network; no phone calls on our GSM.We will fish you out wherever you are. The Nigerian armed forces will serve you justice on you.
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Quiller-Couch and the Prisoner of War
Wilfrid Parsons and my father had been good friends at Theological College in the 1930s, and both began their careers as curates in South London. Wilfrid became an Army Chaplain as soon as the Second World War broke out, and after brief training sailed to France with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940. Some time between 28th May and 3rd June he was captured, along with the remnants of his unit, during the retreat to Dunkirk. He spent nearly five years as a Prisoner of War in various camps in Germany and Poland, even though as a non-combattant padre he should have been repatriated at once under the terms of the Geneva Convention.
He was my godfather. I never knew him well, but I can picture him on a visit to our home. He spent most of the time sitting alone on a deck chair in the middle of our large Rectory lawn, smoking his pipe. 'I can hardly imagine,' (he'd written to my father in October 1941), 'what it is like to sit in an easy chair, and as for walking out of the front garden without an attendant I shall be quite lost! The greatest godsend will be to be alone for five minutes. But it will come.' It did, but it took almost the rest of the war.
He was sent first to Kriegsgefangenenlager Oflag VIIC, in Bavaria, and it was from there he sent the first message my father received from him, a card, dated 10th December 1940, thanking him for a letter sent via the Red Cross. Thus began an unpredictable correspondence, hampered by letters and parcels frequently going astray. Twelve of his letters (including one Christmas card) to my father survive. I have them now; I doubt if there were any more.
After a year in Oflag VIIC, Wilfrid was transferred to a huge camp in Poland, Stalag XX A/3, where he was one of the padres officially approved by the camp's Kommandant . Recently I was astonished to find a photograph on the internet of Wilfrid conducting the funeral of a British prisoner, under the watchful eye of a German guard. He was glad to be busy, but it was reading that helped to keep up his spirits. Writing on 22nd October 1941 to my father, who had just got married and was setting up home for the first time with my mother, Wilfrid said,
I do wish I could look in for a cup of coffee this morning, and have a look at your new home and talk about bookcases and pictures. I can imagine how nice you and Doreen have made everything. These things seem a long way off - at the moment our bookcases are converted milk-boxes and as for an easy chair – well, I suppose they do exist somewhere. But there are plenty of good books, thanks to kind friends and the Red Cross.
I always associate my godfather with books. He used to send me 7/6d book tokens every Christmas, and when he retired and downsized, he bequeathed to me a revolving bookcase of his that, once, I'd enjoyed spinning round – until I whizzed it so fast that all the books fell out. While a POW, he would sometimes ask my father to send him particular titles. Sometimes too he'd mention what he had just read. 'Ah me!' he wrote in February 1942, 'My youth passes by, and the affairs of the world come to me as distant sounds of some dreamland. (Excuse the last sentence; I have recently finished reading Fowler's King's English.)'
By the end of 1944, Wilfrid had heard he was to be repatriated at last, but no date had been given. He wrote to my father again:
The reading ticks over … I received a batch of Plato, Euripides and Thucydides which I should like to bring back, but I have got most enjoyment since being a POW out of Quiller-Couch's lectures on 'Reading' and 'Writing' and other subjects in English Literature. Well, here's to beating this letter home to you!
The books by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q) my godfather admired were collections of lectures given at Cambridge between 1913 and 1918. In them Q had a lot to say about war. When war had been declared in August 1914, he had sat on recruiting committees back in his native Cornwall. Yet he was scathing from the start about 'well-intentioned superior persons who, with no prospect of dying for their country, are calling on others to make that sacrifice.' He had no illusions about what was happening. His first lecture in The Art of Reading, delivered on 5th October 1914, attacked politicians who were already 'perverted by hate' and eager only 'to invent what will be commercially serviceable in besting your neighbour, or in gassing him, or in slaughtering him neatly and wholesale.'
Horrified by the way, as he saw it, that such 'practical science' was sidelining the humanities, Q spent the war lecturing his audiences on the importance of European literature, from Homer to Thomas Hardy, and how it not only made life endurable during 'the blank and devastated days of this war' but would be indispensible in helping to bind Europe together once the war was over. I understand now why my godfather - Uncle Wilfrid as I still think of him – valued Q so highly, and why he marked in pencil this prescient passage from 'On the Use of Masterpieces', a lecture delivered just as the Armistice approached, on 6th November, 1918:
This War will leave us bound to Europe as we have never been: and, whether we like it or not, no less inextricably bound to foe than to friend. Therefore, I say, it has become important, and in a far higher degree than it ever was before the War, that our countrymen grow up with a sense of what I may call the soul of Europe. And nowhere but in literature (which is 'memorable speech') … can they find this sense.
[illustrations: (i) Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, CF (Chaplain to the Forces), conducting the funeral of a Prisoner of War at Stalag XX A/3. (ii) Wilfrid's first message to my father, after becoming a POW.
I have written before about the importance of Q:
Quiller-Couch: Cornwall, Cambridge and English
On Q again: a Cambridge Centenary
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Labels: Dunkirk, Oflag VIIC, Prisoner of War, Red Cross; Fowler's King's English, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Stalag XX A/3
Anthony Trollope's own goals
I first read Trollope's Barchester Towers nearly fifty years ago, on the island of Ithaca, while travelling with a friend during a long vac. We had rented a little room overlooking the sunny harbour at Vathi, the port to which Odysseus at last returned. The room had an en-suite of a sort: you walked out onto a flat rooftop to find a privy and a shower consisting of a head-height tap from which dangled a tin can with holes punched in its bottom. The water was cold but, in the Ionian heat, welcome.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) may have been the first novelist to write about a shower. When Alice Vavasour, heroine of Can You Forgive Her? (1864), arrives to stay with her aunt in Cheltenham, she is hardly through the front door before Lady Macleod starts berating her for having broken off her recent engagement. Her aunt certainly does not intend to forgive her, and Alice struggles to defend herself, after which Trollope's narrator comments:
Perhaps it was better for them both that the attack and defence should thus be made suddenly, at their first meeting. It is better to pull the string at once when you are in the shower bath, and not to stand shivering, thinking of the inevitable which you can only postpone for a few minutes.
I came across this interesting analogy while preparing a talk on 'Past and Present in the world of Trollope' to give to the Woodstock Literature Society last weekend. It is always a pleasure to come back to Trollope; but when I mentioned this lecture to an old friend, he replied , 'Why has Trollope never quite made the A-list of required reading?' It's a question to ponder. I raised it with my audience on Saturday, suggesting that Barchester Towers was possibly the finest comic novel of the 19th century, and that two at least of Trollope's books, The Last Chronicle of Barset and The Way We Live Now, deserve a place in anyone's Top Ten list of Victorian fiction.
Trollope himself is often held responsible for his failure to keep a secure foothold in the Premier League. In his posthumously published Autobiography (1883) he had spelt out – much too bluntly for some – the economics of being a novelist, publishing the exact sums he had earned in royalties and fees for every one of his forty seven novels. Then, in describing his working methods, he had startled readers by dismissing that idea that great writing requires great inspiration (preferably to be found by a starving author shivering in a garret); Trollope was unapologetic about sticking to a strict regime:
I have allotted myself so many pages a week. The average number has been about 40. It has been placed as low as 20, and has risen to 112. And as a page is an ambiguous term, my page has been made to contain 250 words; and as words, if not watched, will have a tendency to straggle, I have had every word counted as I went.
Confessing he had been warned 'such appliances are beneath the notice of a man of genius', he cheerfully admitted he'd never thought of himself as a genius, but was sure that, even if he were, he would have subjected himself to what he called 'these trammels' because 'A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. It is the tortoise which always catches the hare.' (Echoes of Samuel Smiles?)
Trollope is sometimes too hard on himself, and no doubt some critics (such as F.R. Leavis) and some of his fellow authors (Henry James, for instance) have been too ready to take him at his own estimation; but his analysis of what makes for a successful novelist is worth our attention. Describing how he came to write The Warden, the first of the Barchester novels and the first book of his to receive much recognition, Trollope explains how he wanted to expose – or at least to describe – two contrasting evils. The first of these was 'the possession by the Church of certain funds and endowments which had been intended for charitable purposes, but which had been allowed to become incomes for idle church dignitaries.' In the novel a young radical, John Bold, exposes the scandal of a clergyman, Mr Harding, who lives comfortably as the Warden of Hiram's Hospital, an almshouse for twelve old men: shouldn't these bedesmen have been receiving the accumulated benefits of the original endowment, instead of the Warden?
The second evil against which Trollope inveighs is by contrast the 'undeserved severity of the newspapers towards the recipients of such incomes, who could hardly be considered to be the chief sinners in the matter.' In the novel the Times, disguised as The Thunderer, launches a campaign so scathing against Mr Harding – one of life's innocents, a man devoted to God and his daughter, to music and to the old men of Hiram's Hospital – that he resigns, to the despair of his daughter (who is, inconveniently, in love with John Bold) and of the Cathedral clergy, who regard him as a weak-willed traitor to the Church of England for allowing its privileges thus to be undermined.
Trollope wanted to see, and sympathize, with both sides of the argument. However, he concedes:
I was altogether wrong in supposing that the two things could be combined. Any writer in advocating a cause must do so after the fashion of an advocate, – or his writing will be ineffective. He should take up one side and cling to that, and then he may be powerful. There should be no scruples of conscience. Such scruples make a man impotent for such work.
But here I think Trollope is wrong. The genius of The Warden, and what makes it compulsively and provocatively readable, is that it does have 'scruples of conscience' about both sides; this is what sets Trollope apart, for example, from the Dickens of Hard Times or Nicholas Nickleby – Dickens, the novelist whom he lampoons in The Warden as Mr. Popular Sentiment. Trollope was almost incapable of seeing only one side: when he stood for Parliament in 1868 he described himself as a Conservative Liberal, and was roundly jeered by both parties.
In speaking last week at Woodstock, I referred to Trollope's own account of The Vicar of Bullhampton, a novel in which he does place all his sympathy behind a single character: Carry Brattle, the miller's daughter, whom he politely calls a 'castaway' but others do not scruple to call a prostitute. This novel, Trollope declares, 'was written chiefly with the object of exciting not only pity but also sympathy for a fallen woman, and of raising a feeling of forgiveness for such in the minds of other women.' He felt so strongly about this that he reprinted the novel's Preface in his Autobiography; but his own final verdict on The Vicar of Bullhampton was as absurd as it was unsparing, and, alas, did all that was needed to keep this fine novel, and Trollope himself, off the A-list:
As regards all the Brattles, the story is, I think, well told. The characters are true, and the scenes at the mill are in keeping with human nature. For the rest of the book I have little to say. It is not very bad, and it certainly is not very good. As I have myself forgotten what the heroine does and says – except that she tumbles into a ditch – I cannot expect anyone else should remember her. But I have forgotten nothing that was done or said by any of the Brattles.
Labels: AnthonyTrollope, Charles Dickens, novelists, Samuel Smiles
As the Hay Festival ends
The Hay Festival comes to an end today. This is the first year I have been since 1996, when I heard Sebastian Faulks discussing his latest novel Birdsong. I have been for two days this time, and have greatly enjoyed the atmosphere, the talks and discussions (some of them superb, others decidedly quirky); I like the relaxed feel of the Festival, and the scope for whole families to come and immerse themselves in a place where (of all places in Britain) books count. Yes, it has been good to be back in Hay, good to be surrounded by bookshops, to see the swifts above Hay Castle and the late sun on the Black Mountains.
Taking in this view while waiting for the bus back to Hereford, I remembered that, ten years even before my first visit to the Festival, I had once been for a memorable walk along the Olchon Valley, the other side of Hay Bluff. I wrote about this walk at the time, and only the other day turned up the typescript. I don't think it ever appeared in print, so here it is now. If I had been blogging in those days, it might have been an early and rather self-conscious post to my blog – but (hard to believe) the World Wide Web had not been invented then.
A Short Walk in the Olchon Valley (1986)
At 10pm the night before the great Olchon Valley parish walk, I was stuck in a traffic jam trying to get out of London. The rain was dreadful – real Wye Valley weather in the West end – and my only consolation as I sat wondering what time I should be home was that the Black Mountains hike next day was bound to be cancelled. I should have known better.
At 2pm the following afternoon I was shouldering my rucksack and setting off from Red Darren car park (in truth little more than an improvised lay-by) in pursuit of some thirty friends, most of whom had already done a full morning's walk from the tail of the Cat's Back down to Longtown – aptly named – and up the mountain lane that climbs the NW side of the valley. The weather was ideal, dry and not too windy. I only got my feet wet once, and that was when fording the Olchon Brook, a very respectable stream that flows into the Monnow just north of Pandy. We were to follow the Olchon almost to its source behind Hay Bluff, climbing up an old track (sunken in places) that led to the top of the pass and then over and down into Powys.
It must have been along this same track that Vavasour Powell, the celebrated Puritan preacher, came on his visits to the dissenting congregation who had made the Olchon Valley famous as a centre for the Baptist cause as early as 1650. These Baptists practised immersion in the Olchon Brook, and the names of their first ministers, Thomas Watkins and Thomas Parry (Llanigon) are still honoured in the district. The 'gentle flock of Olchon' as they were known, met openly at first in each other's houses, holding services in Welsh and English; after 1660, however, they were harassed and had to meet secretly before persecution drove them out of the valley altogether and westwards into Wales. Wherever they went (and some finally settled as far west as Rhydwilym in Dyfed) they spread the Baptist cause that had been nurtured in the barns and cottages of the Olchon Valley – the same neat buildings we could see from the ridge of the Black Hill.
Some people hold that walking should be a solitary activity, and jib at the thought of being part of a crowd on a mountain. I have a certain sympathy with this view, but the fact is we weren't a crowd: we soon spread out, and one of the pleasantest things about such walks is the ebb and flow of conversation as you catch up the person in front, fall back to wait for someone behind, or simply measure your pace alone. Thus, in the course of the afternoon, I spoke with a hospital physician about geriatric care, and negotiated with a small boy who wanted to carry home in his anorak pocket the remains of a sheep's skeleton; I discussed the changing shape of boiled sweets in Britain and the diversity of Welsh devotional poetry, swapped stories about the perils of automatic doors on tube trains; argued over the correct name of the hill behind Ludlow that we could see – just – in the distance (Clee Hill, The Clees, Brown Clee; which was it? We never agreed) and startled a late lark in the heather.
The varieties of clothing and gear worn by those walking was always a good topic of conversation. The joining instructions had advised, with mandarin understatement, that 'something rather waterproof is indicated'. In the event, green wellies, dubbined boots and ladies' tennis shoes all made it to the top and down again, although the owner of the tennis shoes had to be given portage over a ford by two members of the PCC. A man who rather resembled Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine or the whipper-in of a Northumbrian beagling pack was kind enough to compliment me on my turn-out; he did not fail, however, to remark the trouble I'd had preventing my thick walking stockings from falling down – an embarrassment I hadn't experienced since early days at school. If only I'd remembered my headmaster's advice: "Never go out without your garters, boy!"
We were off the Cat's Back, that narrow ridge leading down from the Black Hill's summit, by 5.30pm, and home an hour later. It had been a perfect walk, the ideal antidote to London traffic jams and all other hazards of the way we live (most of us) now. The youngest member of the party was four; the oldest – well, much older than that, anyway.
And why did we do it? I suppose you could say because the vicar asked us to, because the church windows needed money spent on them again; but we did it also for the company, for the change and for the pleasure of discovering a very beautiful valley few people ever explore. We went for the exercise, we went for the view, we went for the supper afterwards. All in all, you could say we went for the sheer heaven of it.
I have reprinted this piece in memory of two people who had a great influence on me and who, though they belonged to different generations and different traditions (one Welsh Baptist, the other Church in Wales), liked and admired each other: the Rev. Tomos Richards and Canon James Coutts. Each of them contributed, in different ways, to the writing of 'A Short Walk in the Olchon Valley'.
[Illustration: The Olchon Valley, looking toward Hay Bluff; © Copyright Jerry Fryman and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Labels: Hay Festival, Hay on Wye, Olchon Valley, Sebastian Faulks, Vavasour Powell
To The Wilson, Cheltenham's Art Gallery and Museum, to celebrate the acquisition of a fairly ordinary-looking smoker's pipe. And rightly so, for this pipe belonged to one of the town's most distinguished sons: the Polar explorer, doctor, artist and naturalist, Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912). More than this, research into the pipe's history has shed light not just on the complex character of Wilson himself but also on the importance of pipe smoking to those who chose to boldly go where no man had gone before in the early years of the twentieth century.
Made of polished rose briar, the pipe is of the 'Billiard' style. A silver band protecting the joint where shank meets stem is idiosyncratically engraved with Wilson's monogram EW (See illustration below). The letters GBD, stamped both on the wooden shank and on the silver band, identify the pipe's maker as the Paris-based firm Ganneval, Bondier and Donninger. The band, however, is stamped with London hallmarks, dating it to 1900. The initials AO, also stamped onto the silver band, identify A. Oppenheimer & Co. as the London distributor of the pipe.
It's more than thirty five years since last I smoked a pipe myself. Like me, Wilson had taken it up at university: an 1893 Cambridge photo shows him smiling, boatered and bow-tied, with pipe in mouth. Certainly he smoked one for most of the 1890s and not even TB, severe enough to force him to go to Davos for treatment, put him off for long. He hated the forced inactivity of the regime his Swiss doctors imposed, and was jubilant when eventually allowed to take up his pipe again. 'SMOKED ALL DAY!' he recorded in his diary.
Many pipemen, I suppose, have a love-hate relationship with their pipes, and this was certainly true of Wilson. He was a man of extraordinary gifts and interesting contradictions. He used to give up smoking for Lent and would go up into the woods above Cheltenham, to throw his pipe away in a gesture of finality. But when Lent was over, back he'd go to retrieve the pipe and start smoking once again. Not so surprising, perhaps: pipe smokers hate to be separated from their pipes and will go to great lengths to be reunited with them. Robert Graves, in Goodbye to All That, has a story about the Everest mountaineer George Mallory, who
once did an inexplicable climb on Snowdon. He had left his pipe on a ledge, half-way down one of Lliwedd precipices, and scrambled back by a short cut to retrieve it, then up again by the same route. No one saw what route he took, but when they came to examine it the next day for the official record, they found an overhang nearly all the way. By a rule of the Climbers' Club climbs are never named in honour of their inventors, but only describe natural features. An exception was made here. The climb was recorded as follows: "Mallory's Pipe. A variation on Route 2; see adjoining map. This climb is totally impossible. It has been performed once, in failing light, by Mr G.H.L. Mallory."
There are plenty of photographs of pipe-smoking explorers and mountaineers seen with pipe in hand or clamped between teeth. Look at any photo of Capt. Scott smoking: you'll probably see he has an identical-looking pipe to the one that now belongs to The Wilson. Just how much his pipe mattered to him, Scott himself explained in the South Polar Times, May 1902:
The day's work is nearly over; but a solitary joy remains; throughout your recent adventures you have always kept your mind's eye on the pipe, tobacco and matches that are distributed about your person [….] The solace of that pipe […] is a thing that only the true smoker can appreciate.
George Seaver, Wilson's first biographer, claims Wilson didn't smoke while on Discovery, and Scott himself referred to him as 'a non-smoker'. Not smoking during the expedition (especially if he travelled with today's pipe, probably presented to him on departure) would have been a severe test of his resolve, for other members of the team all puffed away with gusto. No wonder Discovery had to set sail with 1,300lbs. of tobacco on board: smoking mitigated the extreme cold and dulled the appetite. Wilson did, however, return to his pipe once back in Britain. Some of his time after 1904 was spent in the Scottish Highlands researching the causes of disease in grouse. He reported that rubbing his socks with pipe tar helped keep the mosquitoes away from his ankles; no doubt wreathing himself in tobacco smoke offered further defence.
I suspect it was this presentation pipe that he smoked in Scotland. Although it comes in a well-worn and much-used leather carrying pouch, the pipe itself has has not been heavily smoked: there is only one tooth mark on the stem. There is, however, some slight pitting on the edge of the bowl. This suggests to me that Wilson was accustomed to knock out his pipe on a convenient stone or rock in order to dislodge the dottle. Seaver claims that by 1908 Wilson had lost all taste for a pipe, and never hankered after it again. Certainly this pipe wasn't one retrieved from the Antarctic after Wilson's death: it surfaced in an auction of contents from Hooton Pagnell Hall, where his brother Bernard (who managed this Yorkshire estate) had accumulated a personal collection of memorabilia associated with Edward. One can surmise that the pipe came to Bernard from Oriana, Edward's widow; after his death, she distributed mementoes of her late husband to the family.
I have some fellow-feeling for a man who gives up his pipe altogether; I also have a sneaking admiration for those who carry on, often in the face of opposition from family and friends. Scott of the Antarctic never gave up – until forced to do so in those latter days, when tobacco as well as food had run out in the hut where he finally died, his arms cradling Wilson. I know of few more touching letters than the last one Scott received from his wife, Kathleen, before his death:
'How can I guess how things will be with you when you get this… But oh dearie I am full of hope. My brave man will win – with his own right hand and with his mighty arm hath he gathered himself the victory. Now don't forget to brush your hair – and don't smoke so much and altogether you're a ducky darling and hurray for you!'
[Notes: Robert Graves' account of Mallory's Pipe comes from Goodbye to All That, (1929; London: Penguin Books, 1960) pp.35-36. George Seaver writes about Wilson's struggles to give up smoking in Edward Wilson of the Antarctic (London: John Murray, 1933) pp. 30, 49, 55, 88 and 161. Kathleen Scott's last letter to her husband (found when his body was recovered a year after his death) was made public in 2012. You can read the full text of the letter here.
[Illustrations: (i, ii and iii) Edward Wilson's pipe, now in The Wilson, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, reproduced by permission of The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council; (iv) detail from the west window of Binton Parish Church, near Stratford-upon-Avon, depicting Captain Robert Falcon Scott and colleagues about to set off the for South Pole (Wilson on right of image). The window was designed by John Lisle and made by C.E. Kempe and Co., 1915
My thanks to Ann-Rachael Harwood, Curator of Human History at The Wilson, and to Gill Poulter, Heritage and Exhibitions Director, Dundee Heritage Trust, for their help with this article.
Text and photograph iv © the author.
Labels: Cheltenham, Discovery expedition, Edward Wilson, George Mallory, George Seaver, Kathleen Scott, Robert Graves, Scott of the Antarctic, Terra Nova expedition, The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum


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International POW: 5 – 11 November
Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of al-Muabbadah, in Hassakah, Syria. (Delil Souleiman / AFP / Getty Images)
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva waves the Brazilian flag after being released from prison, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. (Amanda Perobelli / REUTERS)
Rolf Buchholz of Germany, who says that he is holding the world record with his 480 piercings, poses during the 2019 International Brussels Tattoo Convention in Brussels, Belgium. (Yves Herman / REUTERS)
Riot police officers on fire react during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile. (Jorge Silva / REUTERS)
Foreign tourists wearing face masks visit the Taj Mahal under heavy smog conditions, in Agra, India. (AFP)
Participants sit inside coffins during a "living funeral" event as part of a "dying well" program in Seoul, South Korea. (Reuters)
A woman poses for a picture in front of a mural with Arabic that reads, "Those are our women" during ongoing protests near Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
Chinese team FPX celebrates with the trophy after winning the "League of Legends" videogame world championship final against European team G2 at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France. (AFP)
A 20-meter-high "Catrina" figure—the biggest in the world—dressed up as a bride, and the "Catrin," her groom, in the main square of Zapotlanejo, Jalisco state, Mexico. (Ulises Ruiz / AFP / Getty)
Farm labourers harvest saffron in Torbat-e Heydarieh county, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency )
The "Dragon of Calais" by French street art company "La Machine" parades in the northern France city of Calais, on the first day of a three-day urban show before becoming a city's main touristic attraction. (Francois Lo Presti / AFP / Getty)
A group of people dressed up for the Day of the Dead parade pose in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Cristopher Rogel Blanquet / Getty)
Fireworks explode over the Brandenburg Gate during celebrations to mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Germany. (Annegret Hilse / Reuters)
Extinction Rebellion float a replica of a British house on the River Thames, part of a work titled Our House is Flooding, in London, UK. (Alicia Canter / The Guardian)
Celebrations on the first day of the carnival season. Also known as the fifth season in German-speaking countries, it begins each year on 11 November at 11:11am and finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year, in Cologne, Germany. (Thilo Schmülgen / Reuters)
A demonstrator is detained in Central district on the day that a protester was shot by police, in Hong Kong. (Vincent Yu / AP)
Police officers join in celebrations following the resignation of the Bolivian president Evo Morales, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. (Daniel Walker / AFP / Getty Images)
Veterans take part in a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe as part of commemorations marking the 101st anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, in Paris, France. (Ludovic Marin / Reuters)
A woman cries while being escorted by police officers during an anti-government protest, in Santiago, Chile. (Orlando Barría / EPA)
Flames from a bushfire in Harrington, north-east of Sydney, in Australia. (Kelly-ann Oosterbeek / AFP via Getty Images)
A man holds a snow crab that sold for a record 5m yen (£36,000) at auction, in Tottori, Japan. (Jiji Press / EPA)
Farmer Aicha Bourkib kisses Ivanka Trump's hand, in Sidi Kacem, Morocco. (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP)
Activists from India's main opposition Congress party during a protest against what the activists say is an economic slowdown in the country. (Anuwar Hazarika / Reuters)
More than 300 people arrested in the Philippines for telecom network fraud are repatriated to China. (Imaginechina / REX / Shutterstock)
The Jordanian citizen Hiba al-Labadi after being released by Israel, after being held in administrative detention for nearly two months by Israeli authorities, in Amman, Jordan. (Muhammad Hamed / Reuters)
A camel is made to perform during a 'dance competition' held during the Pushkar camel fair in Rajasthan. Thousands of livestock traders from the region attend the fair, in Pushkar, India. (Himanshu Sharma / AFP / Getty)
Effigies of the leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and the prime minister, Boris Johnson, are paraded through the streets during Bonfire Night celebrations, in Lewes, UK. (Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty)
The Mayor of Vinto, Patricia Arce, speaks to the media after being attacked by a crowd that sprayed her with paint, cut her hair and dragged her down the street until she was rescued by the police, in Vinto, Bolivia. (Jorge Abrego / EPA)
Hindus sit together on the floor of a temple to observe the Rakher Upobash festival in Narayanganj near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters)
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International POW: 9 – 15 September
International POW: 19 – 25 November
Lebanon POW: 14 – 20 May
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International POW: 13 – 19 January
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Das Phänomobil 4/6 PS war ein Dreiradwagen, den der Zittauer Motorradhersteller Phänomen als erstes PKW-Modell 1907 auf den Markt brachte.

Er besaß einen 2-Zylinder-SV-V-Motor mit 0,9 Litern Hubraum, der 6–7 PS (ab 1910: 9 PS) leistete und seine Kraft über ein 2-Gang-Planetengetriebe an das einzelne Vorderrad, auf dem er aufgebaut war, durch eine Kette weiterleitete. Der Wagen hatte ein Stahlrohr-Rahmengestell und eine hintere Starrachse, die an C-Federn, später an Halbelliptik-Blattfedern, aufgehängt war. Die Vorderradgabel besaß gekapselte Schraubenfedern. Die Fußbremse wirkte auf die Hinterräder als Außenbandbremse. Es wurden offene Zweisitzer und Lastkarren hergestellt.

1912 löste ein Viersitzer dieses erste Fahrzeug ab. Das Phänomobil 6/12 PS war bei sonst gleichem Konzept mit einem 4-Zylinder-SV-Reihenmotor ausgestattet, der aus 1,55 Litern Hubraum 12 PS entwickelte. Die Außenbandbremse war durch eine normale Trommelbremse ersetzt worden. Der Rohrrahmen war einem Stahlblechrahmen gewichen, der vorne nach oben gezogen und verjüngt war, um die Vorderradgabel aufnehmen zu können.

Fast ohne Änderungen wurde dieser Wagen 1920 durch das Phänomobil Typ V ersetzt, das bis 1927, auch als Taxi, hergestellt wurde.

Nach Auslaufen der Fertigung wandten sich die Phänomen-Werke der Herstellung von Nutzfahrzeugen zu.

Technische Daten

 R2 = 2-sitziger Roadster
 T4 = 4-sitziger Tourenwagen

Literatur
 Halwart Schrader: Deutsche Autos 1886–1920. Band 1, 1. Auflage. Motobuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7
 Werner Oswald: Deutsche Autos Band 2 - 1920–1945. 2. Neuauflage, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6

Weblinks

 Oberlausitzer Kfz-Veteranengemeinschaft zum Thema Phänomobil

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Palma de Mallorca, 13 May 2015. For Meliá Hotels International, the first quarter of 2015 confirms the continuity of the very positive trends in international tourism and the consolidation of the recovery in the domestic Spanish market noted in previous quarters. Following progress in reducing net debt in 2014, Meliá has reduced its burdens and faces 2015 with renewed optimism, doubling net profit and increasing EBITDA by 14% in the first quarter.
Meliá made a profit of €16.2 million between January and March 2015, representing an increase of 98% over the same period in 2014. Revenues reached €359 million, 14% higher than in the previous year, and financial results improved by 27% (€5.3 million) due to the decrease in net debt and improved average interest rates.
The evolution of the global business - with improvements in all regions - is in line with trends in international tourism. In Spain, Meliá has consolidated the recovery in demand, not only in the leisure segment but also in city hotels, which are more dependent on domestic, private and corporate consumption.
RevPAR in the region grew by 15.3% overall, and would have risen to 25.5% if the negative impact of the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar were excluded. Once again, of note is the performance of the Dominican Republic resorts and Paradisus Playa del Carmen and Cancún (Mexico), with EBITDA improved by 29.4% due to the doubling of direct sales and a 15% improvement in MICE business. With regard to Paradisus Playa del Carmen (La Perla & La Esmeralda), its Ebitda improved by 32.5% USD (64% Euro).
Among the managed hotels, the company highlights the evolution of Meliá Nassau Beach which has tripled its results following a renovation and conversion to an All Inclusive resort.
Hotels in Europe, Middle East and Africa increased RevPAR by 6.5% on average, entirely attributed to price increases. By country, Germany more than offset the absence of some conference activity with the successful performance of the new INNSIDE Wolfsburg and double-digit growth at hotels such as the INNSIDE Dusseldorf Haffen and the renovated Tryp Munich, validating a strategy based on product improvements in Germany. Also of note is the 100% increase in sales from Germany to other Company hotels (outbound flow).
Also noteworthy are the excellent performances of the Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora, in Tenerife, whose contribution to Ebitda increased by 13.2%, and Gran Meliá Colon, recently consolidated by the Group. The ME London hotel continued to strengthen its positioning within the most demanding and competitive world destination, recording RevPAR improvement once again.
Resort hotels in mainland Spain and the Spanish islands already began reaping the results of the repositioning of the Sol Hotels brand in the first quarter. The repositioning began last summer and will be extended this summer to five new repositioned hotels: Sol Beach House Cala Blanca, Sol House Trinidad, Sol Guadalupe, Sol Barbados and Sol Palmanova. Product improvements, repositioning, diversification and the segmentation opportunities they create, enhance the value proposition to consumers, which in turn generates higher returns and profitability.
85% of the 10.2% growth in RevPAR between January and March can be attributed to the Canary Islands, particularly to the island of Tenerife and the addition of the Meliá Jardines del Teide, previously under a management agreement. The positive trends in major European source markets were further enhanced by continuing problems in North Africa, especially since the attacks in Tunisia.
Meliá Hotels International increased RevPAR in city hotels to above the average for the market thanks to its expertise in the leisure segment and "Urban Leisure" concepts, allowing hotels to boost leisure travel to urban destinations and maximize occupancy and profitability during the week. Along with a noticeable recovery in the corporate travel segment, the Group's city hotels recorded a spectacular evolution, a significant rise of 14.6% in RevPAR.
This performance confirms a trend which began last year and is the result of parallel increases in both prices and occupancy, particularly in Seville, Barcelona and Madrid. The first quarter also saw major events such as the Mobile World Congress in February in Barcelona and the Urology Congress in March in Madrid.
So far in 2015, Meliá has added 14 new hotels, all under management or variable lease agreements and 86% outside Spain, with a special focus (71%) on emerging markets. In line with the strategy to strengthen the leisure segment and the Upscale and Premium brands, the signed hotels belong to the ME by Meliá, Meliá Hotels & Resorts, and INNSIDE by Meliá brands, in addition to the resort hotels added to the recently revamped Sol Hotels brands.
This significant growth suggests that the company will exceed its objective to add 30 new hotels in 2015. The Company is also preparing an unprecedented intensification of hotel openings between 2015 and 2018, with more than 60 hotels to be added under the existing pipeline, explained by its strong growth strategy and its focus on international expansion. Year to date, Meliá has already opened eight hotels and has a demanding schedule for both 2015 (16 openings in total) and 2016 (22 openings). The Company has been able to meet this schedule due to excellence, technology and a professional international team (the Company now has more than 42,000 employees worldwide).
Meliá will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2016, and the Group's commitment to innovation in the tourism sector and its sustainable development, is stronger than ever. Thus, the Company has continued to make progress in the renovation of the resort hotels of the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and the Costa del Sol, introducing a real transformation towards higher quality and product differentiation. This process aims to go far beyond simply improving the product and is already introducing a new customer segmentation as well as a much more profitable tourism model, from both social and economic standpoints. In summer 2015, eight hotels with over 3,000 rooms will have been renovated within the Calvia Beach project (Magaluf, Mallorca), following more than €100m investment , plus two hotels in Ibiza (Ibiza and Sol Beach ME House Ibiza) and two more hotels in Menorca (Meliá Gavilanes and Sol Beach House Menorca).
The Company continues to drive the transformation of the resort hotel paradigm through innovative partnerships with tier-one firms, including the agreement announced in the first quarter 2015 for the sale of seven of Meliá's largest resort hotels in Spain to Starwood Capital Group. This agreement amounted to €176 million and the operation has recently been approved by the European Union's Merger Control Office.
Meliá Hotels International continues to receive major awards for both business leadership and product quality and innovation. The Company recently obtained prizes from KPMG and El Confidencial for Best Business Practices in two important categories: "Digitalisation" for its ambitious "Meliá Digital" transformation project, and "Eco-efficiency", which is an area where the Company has made very significant progress. In 2014 a decrease of 6.43% in total emissions was achieved and total investment in energy and water consumption optimization projects totalled €3.5 million.
The masterpiece of the Gran Meliá brand, the Gran Meliá Villa Agrippina Rome, has also been named by the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler magazine as the "Best City Hotel in the World, ahead of the finest hotels in London, Paris, New York or Marrakech.
The Investor Relations Department at Meliá has also been selected by analysts as the "Best Investor Relations Department" in the "Leisure companies" category by the reputed "Institutional Investor" magazine.
For the full year, Meliá Hotels International is maintaining guidelines of a high single-digit increase in global RevPAR, 60% of which will result from increased prices.
In general, the Company considers Easter results to be very positive given the notable growth of 5% in domestic demand in Spain, the most important market at that time of year, which points towards an improved performance in the domestic market for the coming summer season. The Mediterranean division, especially encouraged by the British market, expects bookings to exceed the figures for the 2014 season, currently recording a 14.8% increase in sales already on the books. Meanwhile, in city hotels, the Company expects congresses and groups originating in other European countries to largely offset the absence of major Spanish conferences and events.
In the rest of EMEA, of particular note is the expected positive impact of the Expo in Milan, a city in which Meliá now has two hotels: the historic and newly-renovated Meliá Milano, and the newly-opened ME Milan Il Duca, a new benchmark for luxury hospitality for Milan and for all of Italy.
2015 marks the 25th anniversary for Meliá Hotels International in Cuba, a country in which the Company is a clear market leader with 27 hotels and over 13,000 rooms. The recent normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States represents the beginning of a process of gradual opening, which will presumably have a very positive effect on the tourism industry.
Gabriel Escarrer, Chairman of Meliá Hotels International, at a celebration of this important anniversary, stated that, "Meliá has always been firmly committed to the sustainable development of Cuban tourism and now, more than ever before, we must continue to drive innovation and competitiveness in our products and strengthen our ties helping to develop new projects and destinations of which Cuba, which we have always seen as the Pearl of the Caribbean, may be proud."


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Stars Raise Big Money for Homeless Pets
"Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff and his wife were among the 500 guests "ooohing and aahing" over the $25,000 collection of couture dog collars at the "Bow Wow Luau" held to raise money for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.
"I don't normally do many charities, but when I found out this one was for animals, I decided to come, because I feel that pets are the most integral part of people's lives. They keep families together, and they give unconditional love to the elderly," said Hasselhoff as he strolled around WNBC-TV anchorman Chuck Scarborough's Southampton, L.I., estate, where the benefit was held on Aug. 19, 2000.
"I love this one!" said Pamela Bach Hasselhoff, picking up a pink python collar studded with sterling silver dog bones.
David Yurman Donated Collars
Manhattan jeweler David Yurman donated the collars designed exclusively for a silent auction that fetched thousands of dollars. The neckwear ranged from red and yellow leather to python studded with Pave diamonds and gold and silver bones. Dog paintings, portraits, books and statues also were hawked during the silent auction.
The Hasselhoffs joined the celebrity-flecked crowd, most of whom paid $250 to $1,000 for tickets to the benefit that raised $200,000 net, said Sara Davison, ARF executive director. Some of the guests paraded around the four-acre waterfront enclave with their decked out dogs in tow. Some canines were even better dressed than their owners.
Hasselhoff, who is set to star in "Jekyll & Hyde" on Broadway this fall, said he is still recovering from the recent death of his dog – a dachshund named Weiner.
"He was the most amazing dog, and my whole family was in mourning for months, so I finally replaced him with another Weiner-dog named Precious," he said. "This dog knows how to greet me like no one else in the world can. I'm glad I came tonight to help save the lives of so many more dogs and cats."
Best Dressed Dogs
Many of the pooches at the benefit flaunted 14-karat gold charm necklaces, gem-studded hair clips and the Palm Beach Collection of jackets, scarves and coats.
"Our designer dog wear is as popular in the Hamptons as it is in Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Paris and Monte Carlo," said Corey Gelman, the 31-year-old owner and creator of "Doggie Chic, of Manhattan," a new line of canine couture for the "ultra chic and exclusive dog."
Gelman's company, which designs dog clothes for Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey's pets, offers an assortment of canine coats that cost about $375 to $450. And Gelman sells black and white pearl collars with rhinestones for $85 if you care to accessorize.
At the gala, Gelman's chihuahua, named Bear, was modeling a $145 blue polka dot coat with a terry collar.
This is the second time Chuck and Ellen Scarborough have lent their Victorian home on the lip of Agawam Lake to benefit ARF – the Hamptons' leading no-kill shelter and adoption center for dogs and cats. Since it was founded in 1974 more than 10,000 pets have been placed in homes.
Celebs Believe in Adopting Pets
"We believe strongly in adopting pets," said Chuck Scarborough. "Our black cat, Stanley, and our black, flat-coated retriever dog, Oliver, came from a Harlem shelter."
Scarborough said he never knew he was a cat lover until he found Stanley. "I've had mixed relationships with cats – it's not that I don't like them, it's that they don't like me," he said. "But Stanley follows me everywhere."
Fellow cat-lover and "Today Show" co-host Katie Couric said she attended the event "because I'm a friend of Chuck's, and I'm spending the last weeks of August on vacation in the Hamptons."
Couric sat on the porch smiling broadly and holding hands with her new boyfriend, television producer Tom Werner, whose sitcom hits include "Roseanne" and "3rd Rock From the Sun." She said she has adopted cats all her life, but right now only has a Cairn terrier named Maisy.
It seems like every celebrity has a pet story. Fashion designer Nicole Miller, who also attended the party, chatted about the new love of her life – a Rhodesian ridgeback puppy.
"I hadn't had a pet since I was a child, so this is exciting for me and my son, Palmer, who is five," she said. "This dog has red hair, just like my son, and since my son likes dinosaurs, he named him, T-Rex Race Car. He said the dog will hunt dinosaurs with him."
As celebrity chef Sam Choy of Hawaii put out a spread of food that filled the huge tent, Animal Rescue Fund volunteers paraded the ARF dogs around. One ARF supporter, Ron Fleitman of East Hampton, stood watching with his own bearded collie, Newton. When asked why he brought his dog to the event, Fleitman quipped: "He paid for it. I'm his guest."
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U of L's staff is close to finalizing an Oct. 2-4 official visit with Jones, who would be visiting the same weekend as Louisville's first intrasquad Red-White scrimmage. It would also be a week after five-star guard De'Aaron Fox makes his official visit to Louisville.
Jones, who took an unofficial visit to Louisville in early August, shot up the national recruiting rankings after a breakout summer on the AAU circuit, moving as high as No. 30 in Scout's Class of 2016 ratings. Louisville joined the fight for him in late July and is one of the final seven schools pushing for his signature.
A lead guard who can handle and create for his teammates, the 6-foot-4 Jones is one of U of L's primary targets as it tries to lock down a guard who can help Quentin Snider and Donovan Mitchell with ball-handling duties for the 2016-17 season.
Hot 4-star G Jones a priority for Louisville


Leaving Tampa FL, bound for Boulder CO to attend the first ever Beer Bloggers Conference. The inaugural event takes place the weekend of November 5th, 6th and 7th. Of over five hundred beer bloggers identified, a little over 100 will attend this event. I am looking forward to the chance to meet many of my brethren beer writers over the next three days of the event.
The agenda is jam packed, including two local brewery tours. Keynote speakers, bloggers of interest and brewers will take us, (the faithful advocates of craft and artisan brews), through a myriad of breakout sessions. They will include topics such as monetizing a blog, creating a brand presence, learning how to drive more traffic to your blog, social networking, meeting brewers and learning the finer points of taste testing, and oh yes, blogging of course. Quick, up-to-the-minute blog posts will abound to give our readers a glimpse into what is going on at this conference as it happens live and on the spot.
It is assured there will be many takeaways from this conference. Even as I write this on the plane to Boulder, I realize that the first intent will be to sharpen the focus of spreading the word about craft beer. This will lead to better communications from the craft beer brewers, through us bloggers, reaching all the way out to those eager to learn more about this booming business of micro brewing. I hope that your questions get covered. Please leave comments on the posts if you need more information.
As I sit and stare out the window at 38,000 feet, munching on snack crackers and macro brewed swill, my mind reels in anticipation of the phenomenal beer that awaits. Perhaps we can convince more airlines to carry some better beers….here's to that revolution!


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There was a popular term some time ago when characters like Wolverine and Han Solo were created that got thrown around a lot: "anti-hero". The implication is that this person is not a villain but a protagonist with non-heroic motives; when backed into a corner, they'll do the right thing, but they're not the type you should depend on to show up to your birthday party. To say that the protagonists of Boardwalk Empire and Dexter are anti-heroes would be underselling it a bit. Nucky Thompson and Dexter Morgan are not anti-heroes; they're more like anti-villains.
Enoch "Nucky" Thompson is a gangster, but he doesn't look like one and to all appearances, he doesn't act like one. What he appears to be is a smart, revered, upstanding member of the community. By God, he's an elected official and we all know they're the purest of the pure. So far as the common people of Atlantic City are concerned, Nucky is the Treasurer for the city. He goes out of his way to be kind to people in public, to hold the nicest parties, and to support the exploits of the prohibition league. However, unbeknownst to those good citizens, Nucky is using the prohibition policy he supports in public to make a fortune off of smuggled liquor.
As things get worse in the smuggling business, however, this proves to be the least of Nucky's vices. Nucky rubs elbows with the meanest of gangsters, turns on former allies, and orders the murders of enemies, a wife beater, and even a federal witness. For all his public affirmations of his upstanding nature, Nucky always does what needs to be done in the name of survival and personal gain. No one, not even his brother is safe where Nucky is concerned.
Dexter is everything we fear. Dexter seems like the average, nice, concerned citizen. He's a little bit of a nerd and sometimes seems just a little too into his job of analyzing blood spatter for Miami Homicide. He has a nice girlfriend and she has a couple of kids that he's fond of playing with. Dexter is the rock that provides stability for his messy and unstable sister in her times of crisis. He lives in a nice little house, on a nice little street, in the middle of a suburban neighborhood full of beautiful, honest families. Unlike Nucky, there's nothing particularly notable about Dexter. He goes to work early, he gets home late, and he just never looks out for himself the way he should.
And it's all a lie. Dexter is a sociopathic serial killer whose only real source of pleasure -- even glee -- is ritualistic cold-blooded murder. We are forced to watch him kill again and again, never looking away. Not only is he not what we think he is, but that image is a mask he has deliberately created to fool us. He's not like us. He doesn't think like us or feel like us. He's been studying us since he was a teenager, trying to understand why we do the things we do and how he can fool us into believing he's one of us. He seems exactly like the sort of person you ought to trust. He could be anybody you know. He could be your best friend, your husband, your wife, or your doctor. You would never know until it was too late.
But why do we cheer for Dexter? What could possibly make us like the embodiment of our worst fears? The answer is remarkably simple: he has a code. We, the viewing audience, get to hear what it's like in Dexter's head. While it's a very scary place to be at times, it lets us know that while Dexter has no ingrained sense of right and wrong, he does understand them. Better yet, he's been trained to be on our side. His father was a police officer who, upon discovering what Dexter was, taught him how to use his need to kill for the good of others. Knowing that a number of bad guys never get caught, Dexter's father taught him to track down and kill the worst of the worst. Rather than being one of the bad guys, Dexter has appointed himself a weapon for good against them. The result is that Dexter becomes beloved for the same reason many superheroes are: he has all the power in the world to hurt us, but instead he chooses to be our defender. We know that the boogieman is out there, but the thought that he's on our side is pretty compelling.
WINNER: Based on the fact the Nucky is a great and complex character, he stands up pretty well. The truth is, however, the writing of Dexter's inner monologue has made him one of the most compelling characters on television. Dexter takes the round.