Zoe Faust is not who you would think to look at her. By appearance, she is a 28-year-old woman. In reality, she's walked the earth for 300 years. She is not a ghost. Not a zombie. She is a living, breathing person, turned immortal through alchemy. She has made a good life for herself, but the struggles of living forever are hard to hide in a world populated by regular humans.
But then Portland artist Logan Magnus is killed, and Zoe is thrust into a world of art forgery, betrayal, and alchemy just when she is beginning to feel at home in present-day Portland. She has found love with policeman Max Liu, and is settling into a home with her best friend, Dorian. Granted, Dorian is an almost-150-year old French gargoyle who must hide in the attic from prying eyes, but he is a lovely person, and a passionate chef. Now a local artist has been murdered, and Zoe is blamed for the crime by his grieving widow. Zoe has also found her mentor, Nicholas Flamel, who must be freed from a painting in which he has been trapped through the magic of alchemical painting.
With the help of Dorian and Tobias, another alchemist Zoe has known for many years, and the present-day people around her who have no idea what's actually going on, Zoe must sift through historical accounts, layered conversations, and varying accounts of witnesses to find the truth.
The Alchemist's Illusion is filled with beauty. The study of alchemy, from the use of paint and art to the magic and gold it creates, holds many secrets and mysteries. Zoe and Dorian also enjoy their food, and the vegan recipes at the end of the book are the culmination of a book filled with gorgeous and delicious descriptions of meals and snacks.
But ultimately, the beauty that flows through the book comes from the love and affection between Zoe and her people. The kindness, concern, and gentleness expressed are warm and soothing, and no matter what is happening in the story itself, that loveliness carries the overarching theme to its conclusion.
Pandian paints a lovely picture of relationships throughout the book's mystery of greed and violence. We would all be so lucky to find that circle—and that time— in which to live.


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State Landlord-Tenant Laws
Overview of Landlord-Tenant Laws in New Jersey
Find out key laws every New Jersey landlord and tenant needs to know.
By Marcia Stewart
Both landlords and tenants should be able to deal with many legal questions and problems without a lawyer, once they understand the basics of state law. This overview of key landlord-tenant laws in New Jersey will get you started.
Required Landlord Disclosures in New Jersey
Under New Jersey law, landlords must disclose specific information to tenants (usually in the lease or rental agreement), such as whether the rental is in a flood zone or area. For details, see New Jersey Required Landlord Disclosures.
New Jersey Security Deposit Limit and Return
New Jersey state law limits how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit (one- and one-half month's rent for the first year, and no more than 10% of the current security deposit for each additional annual deposit), when it must be returned (within 30 days after a tenant moves, or within five days in case of fire, flood, condemnation, or evacuation), and sets other restrictions on deposits. See New Jersey Security Deposit Limits and Deadlines for more on the subject.
Small Claims Lawsuits in New Jersey
Tenants can sue landlords in small claims court for the return of their deposit, up to a dollar amount of $5,000. See Filing a Security Deposit Lawsuit in New Jersey Small Claims Court for advice for tenants filing suit. Landlords defending a security deposit lawsuit should check out New Jersey Landlord's Guide to Security Deposit Disputes in Small Claims Court.
New Jersey Late Fees and Other Rent Rules
State law regulates several rent-related issues, including late fees, the amount of notice (at least 30 days in New Jersey) landlords must give tenants to raise the rent and how much time (30 days in New Jersey) a tenant has to pay overdue rent or move before a landlord can file for eviction. For details, see New Jersey Late Fees, Termination for Nonpayment of Rent, and Other Rent Rules.
Tenant Rights to Withhold Rent in New Jersey
Tenants may withhold rent or exercise the right to "repair and deduct" if a landlord fails to take care of important repairs, such as a broken heater. For specifics, see New Jersey Tenant Rights to Withhold Rent or "Repair and Deduct".
New Jersey Termination and Eviction Rules
State laws specify when and how a landlord may terminate a tenancy. For example, a landlord may give a New Jersey tenant who has assaulted or threatened the landlord an unconditional quit notice that gives the tenant three days to move out before the landlord can file for eviction. See State Laws on Unconditional Quit Terminations and State Laws on Termination for Violation of Lease for details on these types of termination notices in New Jersey.
Landlord Access to Rental Property, Tenant Protection Against Retaliation, and Other State Laws in New Jersey
Several other landlord-tenant laws in New Jersey affect both property owners and renters, including:
restrictions on landlord's right to access rental property (New Jersey landlords must provide one day' notice of entry for inspections and repairs, and "reasonable" notice when entering for other reasons)
tenant protections against landlord retaliation for tenant exercising a legal right, such as complaining about an unsafe living condition (see New Jersey State Laws Prohibiting Landlord Retaliation for details)
special protections for tenants who are victims of domestic violence (see New Jersey State Laws Affecting Tenants in Domestic Violence Situations)
procedures for how landlords must handle abandoned property left behind by tenants, and
fair housing rights (discrimination is also prohibited by federal and, often, local law—see the Housing Discrimination section of the Nolo site for details).
Where to Find New Jersey Landlord-Tenant Statutes
If you want to read the text of a law itself, such as state security deposit rules, you'll find citations in many of the articles and charts included in the State Landlord-Tenant Laws section of the Nolo site. To access the statutes, go to the New Jersey Laws and Legal Information section of the Nolo site and find the link to your state laws.
If you just want to browse through the New Jersey landlord-tenant law, you can find state statutes at N.J. Stat. Ann. § § 46:8-1 to 46:8-50; 2A:42-1 to 42-96. You can search the table of contents for the landlord-tenant statutes. Or, if you don't know the exact statute number, you can enter a keyword that is likely to be in it, such as "nonpayment of rent."
In addition to accessing state laws via Nolo's website, New Jersey statutes are available in many public libraries and in most law libraries that are open to the public (typically found in a county courthouse or at the state capitol or in a publicly-funded law school).
Local Ordinances Affecting New Jersey Landlords and Tenants
Cities and counties often pass local ordinances, such as rent control rules, health and safety standards, noise and nuisance regulations, and antidiscrimination rules that affect landlords and tenants. Many municipalities have websites —just search for the name of a particular city in New Jersey and then do a search when you're on the site.
State and Local Government on the Net and Municode are good sources for finding local governments online. Also, your local public library or office of the city attorney, mayor, or city or county manager can provide information on local ordinances that affect landlords and tenants in New Jersey.
Federal Landlord-Tenant Laws and Regulations
While most landlords and tenants will primarily be concerned with state law in New Jersey, several federal laws come into play. Congress has enacted laws, and federal agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have adopted regulations, covering discrimination and landlord responsibilities to disclose environmental health hazards, such as lead-based paint.
The U.S. Code is the starting place for most federal statutory research. It consists of 50 separate numbered titles, each covering a specific subject matter. Most federal regulations are published in the Code of Federal Regulations ("CFR"), also organized by subject into 50 separate titles.
To access the U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations online, see Nolo's Federal Law Resources page. Also, the Cornell Legal Information Institute provides the entire U.S. Code as well as the Code of Federal Regulations. Finally, check USA.gov, the official U.S. website for government information.
Nolo Resources on Legal Research and Landlord-Tenant Law
Nolo's Laws and Legal Research page includes links to state and federal laws, explains how to research and understand statutes, and provides advice on finding local ordinances and court cases, including Supreme Court cases. To go further, check out Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, by Stephen Elias and the Editors of Nolo (Nolo). This nontechnical book gives easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions on how to find legal information.
You'll also find a wealth of information in the Landlords and Renters' Rights sections of the Nolo website and Nolo books, such as Every Landlord's Legal Guide and Every Tenant's Legal Guide.
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Trimming your pet's nails can be a very tedious and even a pain. This is especially true when you can't see what you're doing very well. That is why experts and veterinarians have worked together to develop a painless nail trimmer for pets and best of all it includes an LED light bulb so you can keep an eye on what you are doing all the time.
For DARK NAILS, be sure to look at the dark nail head-on, once you see a small dark circle, this is as far as you should go.
These are great our dogs have black nails the light makes it easy .
My favorite feature about this is the light. I don't know about your dogs but it's a WHOLE ordeal to cut their nails. I gotta wrap them up like little chihuahua burritos and leave one paw out and hunch over and do them one at a time REAL quick before the drama starts. Try doing all that while balancing a light to see that you aren't clipping their little toes right off. It's maddening. So having a clipper with a light? A thousand times easier! It's also very sharp so no nail cracking.
This is a fantastic tool! I use this for my cat, and I was always terrified to cut the quick. There's a light and a magnifying glass to help so you never have to wonder. I like that you can keep the light on, turn it off, or have it auto turn on as you clip ( because Kitty likes to chase the light). The blade is sharp and easy to use with a protective cover. My favorite feature is that it catches the clippings!
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My dog has black nails so we werent able to use it to see the quick, but they worked great! It was a simple squeeze and they cut so easily. Usually it takes two people to cut my dogs nails, but with these, I did it by myself! The flashlight turns on when the handle is squeezed. There is a magnify glass attached to get a close up look. Im very pleased with this product!
My dog has black nails so the light on this makes it much easier not to cut too short. I like that you can choose whether the light is on or not, or just auto when you squeeze to clip. Good ergonomic handle and the blades are nice and sharp. I would recommend and buy again!
I have only had the opportunity to use it once so far but it was the easiest time I've had clipping my dogs nails! The little fuss she put up was no match for the confidence in using this product!
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Saturday Night Delayed was more popular than "Saturday Night Live" during the television sweeps period last month.
According to Nielsen figures, K5's same-night delayed telecasts of University of Hawai'i home football games in November averaged an 11 household rating and 42 audience share.
Each rating point represents about 4,000 households, or 1 percent of Hawai'i's 401,000 households, meaning about 44,000 Island households were tuned to the Warriors' victories over San Jose State Nov. 2 and Cincinnati Nov. 23.
Using the formula of 2.5 viewers per household, about 110,000 Island television viewers watched those two games.
The UH telecasts easily won their time slot, outdrawing runner-up "Saturday Night Live," which earned a 4 rating.
The audience share showed that of all of the television sets in use during that time span, 42 percent were tuned to the UH games. Each delayed telecast started at 10 p.m., four hours after the actual kickoff at Aloha Stadium.
UH coach June Jones yesterday said he was not surprised by the Warriors' wide-spread appeal. But he added, "I have my opinion on same-day coverage of our games."
Jones has said he believed attendance has been impacted by offering live telecasts of UH football games on a pay-per-view basis and then airing delayed telecasts for free. He said the Warriors are the only football program in the country to offer so many options to fans.
"We have to make sure we make good decisions and maximize the revenues because it's the only way we have an opportunity to survive (financially)," he said.
UH athletic director Herman Frazier said he is studying the matter, and will release his findings later.
But, he said, the football ratings were "pretty phenomenal, when you consider the large number attending the games coupled with the opportunity to purchase (a live telecast) as well. It tells you about the popularity of the sport."
K5's Saturday morning live telecast of UH's road game against Rice in Houston Nov. 16 earned a 15 rating and 45 share.
In comparison, the sitcom "Friends" averaged a 14 rating in Hawai'i in November, and "ER" earned a 13 rating. "CSI" is Hawai'i's rating leader, averaging a 22.
"I think the household ratings (for UH football) were outstanding," said Dan Schmidt, K5's program director. "It shows the University of Hawai'i is a powerful draw. When the team is doing well, people will watch."
Health report: Jones said he does not expect strong safety Hyrum Peters to play in tomorrow's ConAgra Foods Hawai'i Bowl.
Peters, a fourth-year junior, is recovering from a sprained left knee. Yesterday, he practiced for the second consecutive day, but later was treated with ice packs.
Still, defensive coordinator Kevin Lempa has left open the slight possibility that Peters might be available to play. "I have to talk to him," Lempa said, adding Peters will be evaluated after today's closed practice.
If Peters cannot play, Leonard Peters (no relation) will start at free safety and David Gilmore will open at strong safety.
Tulane, UH's opponent tomorrow, has not reported any serious injuries.


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RE: DREXCIYAN LEGACY: Clarence G's(James M. Stinson) 1991 Hyperspace Sound Lab on Fluorescent Forest Records.
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Read the book at long ago, but never saw the movie.
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DECONSTRUCTING PATERSON NEW JERSEY
Upper West Side suburban types think Paterson as Jersey's hood. You'd have to squint pretty hard to imagine Paterson as the Silicon Valley, but in it's heyday during the industrial revolution, this rust belt looking town made everything from cotton and silk to iron and trains.
The incongruities don't end there. It is also William Carlos Williams' eponymous modern epic poem described as "Whitman's America, grown pathetic and tragic, brutalized by inequality, disorganized by industrial chaos, and faced with annihilation. No poet has written of it with such a combination of brilliance, sympathy, and experience, with such alertness and energy."
South Paterson Home to the largest Turkish-American immigrant community in the U.S. – at last count about 20,000, down from about 60,000, fifty years ago and the second largest Arab community after Dearborn, Michigan. Visit these streets on a Muslim holiday and you're likely to see the kids who attend Prospect Park public schools hanging out, observing the festivities with their families.
And not unlike the Middle East, Little Ramallah -- bordered by Madison Avenue to the north, Crooks Avenue to the south, Hazel Street to the west, and East Railway Avenue to the east – suffers from something of an identity crisis because it is alternately called Little Arabia or Little Istanbul due to the equally large numbers of Turks, Syrians and Lebanese.
Still, according to exasperated local Turks – although they don't let on because that's just not a Turk's style – one is either a Turk or an Arab, but not both. Both can be of the Islamic World, but not religiously. Turkiye is secular, and doesn't practice Islam. It is a buffer to fundamentalist Islam, but itself is neither East nor West, which defines both its problem and its blessing. Its heart is in Asia (Ankara) but it faces Europe (Istanbul).
South Paterson, it only looks Arab. Upon closer inspection of the business signs and you realize, they are not Arabic.
The contradictions keep coming, for we have crossed the great divide from West to East. Turks also read right to left. Like Greeks, they say "no" by nodding their head up and down, much like the West gesture "yes". "Yes" is a downward nod, which looks like the Western gesture for "no".
Once you get past the cultural reversals, preconceived notions, and unfamiliar language you realize you are having an authentic cultural experience subtitled by Turkish "authenticity".
Oz Karadeniz 1023 Main St. Paterson, NJ (973) 523-7779
The smell of something grilling thrilled me nostrils first toward a local eatery slash watering hole where a few of the neighborhood men check in to say hello, use the phone, catch a soccer game, or a smoke.
Ahmet and his wifeYadigar Bayrou make a succulently grilled Chicken Doner Kebabs, with bulgur wheat and pilaf, Cacik Yogurt sauce with garlic and dill. Swill it down with pure peach soda. Best part of the meal was talking to, the owner about the neighborhood. He explained the meaning of the handmade artifacts on his walls and introduced me to the "boss" (his wife) making delicious dips and salads along with his daughter-in-law. His grandson, Joseph doing handstands on the chair of my table was a charming little kid with big brown eyes. I thanked him profusely for his hospitality, and left feeling satisfied.
Drizzly and gray, I was about to head home when I wandered next door to the only Turkish book shop in the tri-state area called "Zinnur" at 1019 Main St. (973) 278-6662, run by Zinnur -- previously seen hanging around next door at Oz – who (before I knew it) poured me a glass of Turkish tea in a delicate little tulip glass an homage from the Lalezar era of the Ottomans. Quiet and ready to listen to my questions, he and a store colleague and another guy who was just passing through, reminded me that the rest of the world still takes to stop. And. Talk. To an ethnographer reporter, a citizen diplomat who would tell the real story of Oz to the Suburbanites.
I stopped off on the way home at Taskin, the Turkish bakery where again, I was shown the famous Turkish hospitality inquiring about the Turkish flat bread called "Pide", handmade and brick oven baked. They come topped with sesame seeds and black caraway seeds or plain for sandwiches or table bread. They took me behind the counter, showed me around while the smell of fresh baked bread intoxicated me. A poster for the Turkish-American Festival was thrust into my hands www.njturkishfestial.org . They wanted me to tell "everybody" to come. There's a flag raising ceremony on Thursday, May 14th in front of Paterson City Hall (155 Market Street) in front of Clifton City Hall (corner of Clifton & Van Houten Aves.) and lots of parading, eating, music entertainment, singers, musicians, folk dancers, food, vendors, games, prizes & surprises. With all this culture right here in North Jersey, who needs Ninth Avenue?
Next up: The Syrians of South Paterson, NJ.
Lisa La Valle-Finan is an Intercultural trainer, writer, and the Creative Director of getGlobalized™. She's been traveling and writing for 25 years, speaks French, Italian and Greek, and welcomes all comments and can be reached at crossculturalpro@yahoo.com . More information can be found on the company's website at www.getGlobalized.org.
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Foster, D. (2000). The Global Etiquette Guide to Asia. New York: John Wiley
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http://www.jstor.org/pss/1207405
http://www.answers.com/topic/paterson-new-jersey
http://www.answers.com/topic/paterson new jersey
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E0D7143FF93AA15753C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
http://local.yahoo.com/NJ/Paterson/Food+Dining/Restaurants/Middle+Eastern
Tagged: South Paterson, New Jersey, arab community
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DECONSTRUCTING SYRIAN CULTURE
Older and less understood than other Arab cultures in South Paterson, the Syrians have an ancient story to tell. And much like the Road to Damascus there is an "ah hah" pay off at the end. It is Bible-speak for the mother of all epiphanies paved with the magnitude of St. Paul's transgressions, including his attempts to wipe out Christianity, in which all was forgiven. One just might need an epiphany to figure out who the Syrians are and why they're here in the midst of Whitman's "beaten up and tragic…industrial chaos".
It begins with their history, which is, by all accounts, among the oldest in the area, stretching back to the early 20th century, as the first Arabs to arrive and set down roots here. What made them immigrate. What they eat. How they differ from other Arab cultures, will be eye-opening for the "Suburbanites".
The real Damascus (Dimashq,commonly known as al-Shām also known as City of Jasmin) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is perhaps the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world. Since the copper age from about 8,000 BCE with a population of about 1.6 million people. But a jaunt to the Damascus of South Paterson is easier and begins at Fattal's Syrian Market (975-977 Main Street (973) 742-7125 where the owner, Norman settled forty years ago. He is cautious and diplomatic. Formal, yet hospitable. And avoids the obvious Middle Eastern hot button topics. But I persuade him to talk about what's in his store that is particularly Syrian and he says, diplomatically: everything and nothing. We are Arab, but "from all over the world" as he puts it.
According to www.cafe-syria.com "Syrians place a high degree on tradition and present themselves well both at home and abroad. It is normal to find Syrian families all over the world who still live their lives as if they were in the Old Country." So, in keeping with tradition, he does and he doesn't. His store is, and it isn't, Syrian. This trait of cultural ubiquity has its roots in ancient Greater Syria, when encompassed parts of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and parts of southern of Turkey including Alexandretta and the ancient city of Antioch, the pre-Islamic capital of Syria. To understand Syria is to understand much of the Middle East.
And so, there is a little bit of the bazaar in his market. Things for getting and spending. A travel agency. Display cases unabashedly brimming with eye-popping trays of 18 and 24K gold bling. Overall, despite the powerful influence of Islam in people's lives, some elements of folk religion persist. Particularly in rural areas, there is a strong belief in the evil eye as well as in jinn (spirits). And Fattal's has an entire display case devoted to them.
Though Syria is not tribal like Saudi Arabia, it is stratified and the caste system is alive and well. Norman being fair, male, and of the merchant class, chances are he would've fared well no matter which country he chose. There are also things for cooking. Like Halal meats and the indispensable Seven Spices. Rice. Middle Eastern canned vegetables. Pita. Racks of honeyed sweets. And more than a dozen kinds of olives. For a quick take out or lunch there's a sit down area to eat garden variety Arab dishes to savor. The food is good and honest. Try the hummus on Syrian bread (pita). Also try their lahim biajeen (pronounced LAH MAHZHEEN) which are meat pies on Syrian bread.
Though Syria is homogeneous, Sunni, and over ninety percent Muslim, there are a few ancient tribes. And one in particular speaks the language of Christ: Aramaic. And here just might be the epiphany. A culture that contains a language from a religion found everywhere on earth, and yet is extinct. Spoken in Mesopotamia about 14 centuries ago, it is now modern day Hebrew. Syrian culture is omnipresent and yet hard to pin down. A little like Norman. In addition to Fattal's, the othergame in town is Nouri Brothers Syrain Bakery a block away at 999 Main St Paterson, NJ 07503 Phone: (973) 279-2388 which has been around for about twenty five years. Though it is smaller and mostly bakes breads, it is equally authentic.
Aleppo (named for Syria's second largest city) is the Syrian watering hole. The restaurant for local Syrians (and Egyptians, Palestianians, you get the idea) at 960 Main Street Paterson, NJ 07503-2307 (973) 977-2244 or (973) 569-4545, open from 9:00am-10:00pm. It is owned by the charming and jovial Mohamed who also immigrated about 40 years ago, with a not too different immigrant story to tell about the need to get out from beneath the shadow of his great father and strike out on his own. The sign on the outside reads Al Safa, but that was the old restaurant. They haven't gotten around to changing it, but it doesn't matter because anyone who comes here knows what they're looking for.
The quintessential Middle Eastern host he welcomes everyone from"the boys" to local families with babies in tow and serves up the home grown dishes. Halal, roasted or grilled chicken or lamb with side dishes of rice, chickpeas, yogurt, and vegetables. Mezzeh including hummus, a puree of chickpeas and tahini (ground sesame paste); baba ganouj, an eggplant puree; meat rissoles; stuffed grape leaves; tabouleh (a salad of cracked wheat and vegetables); falafel (deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas); and pita bread. Olives, lemon, parsley, onion, and garlic are used for flavoring. Tea is as ubiquitous as the Hookah pipe flavors ranging from apple banana peach rose cherry and just about every other flavor in between. Weekend evenings you'll find him orchestrating several dining rooms, glad handling, and shaking it with the belly dancers while seating new customers.
The Road to Damascus may be an ancient one, but along the way, embracing the deep connective roots of the Syrians to much of the world, is an epiphany we can all share.
Seven Spices: 2 tablespoons ground black pepper, 2 tablespoons paprika, 2 tablespoons of ground cumin, 1 tablespoon ground coriander, 1 tablespoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
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Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan recording sessions, Featured Articles
Blood On The Tracks – First recording session
September 16, 2012 Egil Mosbron	6 Comments
Bob Dylan started recording Blood On The Tracks September 16, 1974.
The event needs to be acknowledged.
Here are some quotes, facts & music….
When Dylan began work at A&R one Monday afternoon in September he seemed unusually keen to get on with the recording process. The songs themselves were no more than 2 months old, and he was still excited by the new approach to language he had uncovere.
Even behind closed studio doors he was determined to get the songs out of his system as quickly, and with as much impact, as possible
~Clinton Heylin (The Recording Sessions)
Dylan arrived at Columbia Records' A&R Recording Studios in New York City on September 16, 1974, where it was soon realized that he was taking a "spontaneous" approach to recording. The session engineer at the time, Phil Ramone, later said that he would "go from one song to another like a medley. Sometimes he will have several bars, and in the next version, he will change his mind about how many bars there should be in between a verse. Or eliminate a verse. Or add a chorus when you don't expect". Eric Weissberg and his band, Deliverance, originally recruited as session men, were rejected after two days of recording because they could not keep up with Dylan's pace. Dylan retained bassist Tony Brown from the band, and soon added organist Paul Griffin (who had also worked on Highway 61 Revisited) and steel guitarist Buddy Cage. After ten days and four sessions with the current lineup, Dylan had finished recording and mixing, and, by November, had cut a test pressing on the album. Columbia soon began to prepare for the album's imminent release, but, three months later, just before the scheduled launch, Dylan re-recorded several songs at the last minute, in Minneapolis' Sound 80 Studios, utilizing local musicians organized by his brother, David Zimmerman. Even with this setback, Columbia managed to release Blood on the Tracks by January 17, 1975.
Albums involved:
ALBUM Release date CODE
Blood On The Tracks 1975-01-17 BOTT
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3
(Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 1991-03-26 TBS1-3
Blood On The Tracks – Test pressing Nov 74 BOTT-TP
Studio A, A & R Recording, New York City, New York
September 16, 1974, 6 pm-midnight.
Produced by Bob Dylan
Engineers: Phil Ramone & Glenn Berger ("Phil & Lenn")
If You See Her, Say Hello
If You See Her, Say Hello – TBS1-3
I once read a book of Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters to some girl, and they were extremely private and personal, and I didn't feel there was any of myself in those letters, but I could identify with what he was saying. A lot of myself crosses over into my songs. I'll write something and say to myself, I can change this, I can make this not so personal, and at other times I'll say, I think I'll leave this on a personal level, and if somebody wants to peek at it and make up their own minds about what kind of character I am, that's up to them. Other times I might say, well, it's too personal, I think I'll turn the corner on it, because why do I want somebody thinking about what I'm thinking about, especially if it's not to their benefit.
~Bob Dylan to Scott Choen (SPIN), 1985
You're A Big Girl Now
Simple Twist Of Fate
Up To Me
Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts – BOTT-TP
The one challenge left now was to see if he could record this epic fifteen-verse narrative with a similar minimum of fuss. Which it appears he did. And again it came first. On day one of the sessions at the old Studio A in New York (now known as A&R Studios) – before the band called up to lend a hand had even arrived – Dylan had cut the song in a single take, making it the first song to be assigned to the album. Nor did he feel throughout the New York sessions the slightest need to return to the song.
~Clinton Heylin (Still On The Road)
Call Letter Blues
Meet Me In The Morning – BOTT & BOTT-TP
Call Letter Blues – TBS1-3
The one song cut on the sixteenth with the sound of deliverance was one of those prototypical blues tunes Dylan had been playing at the afternoon session. "Call Letter Blues" , when released on "The Bootleg Series", took most fans by surprise. Rather than being a previously unknown song in it's own right, it was in fact "Meet Me In The Morning" with an alternate set of lyrics.
Idiot Wind
Idiot Wind – BOOT-TP (overdubbed version)
If you've heard both versions [of 'Idiot Wind'], you realize, of course, that there could be a myriad of verses for the thing. It doesn't stop… Where do you end?… It's something that could be a work continually in progress.
~Bob Dylan to Paul Zollo, 1991
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Tangled Up In Blue – TBS1-3
This version suggest he quickly abandoned any idea of putting a band behind the song/s. A second guitar (Weissberg's?) picks out the parts of the melody Dylan's scratchy rhythm has left unsaid, while Tony Brown's bass underpins the clack-clack of the singer's jacket-buttons. But something ain't right. Weissberg recalled how 'Bob … seemed a bit ill at ease in the studio, as though he wanted to get it over with.' Having hurried through the song, he knew he'd have to return to it.
Bob Dylan (guitar, vocal)
Charles Brown III (guitar)
Barry Kornfeld (guitar)
Eric Weissberg (guitar)
Thomas McFaul (keyboards)
Tony Brown (bass)
Richard Crooks (drums).
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Q: Localization using Angular CLI with i18n results in error regarding MissingTranslationStrategy I am trying to execute this command from:
./node_modules/.bin/ngc -p ./Root --i18nFile=./Root/Localization/Resources.es.xlf --locale=es --i18nFormat=xlf --missingTranslation=warning

But I get the following error:
Error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'MissingTranslationStrategy' of undefined
    at getAotCompilerOptions (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:611:45)
    at AngularCompilerProgram._createCompiler (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:390:26)
    at AngularCompilerProgram.get [as hostAdapter] (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:319:22)
    at AngularCompilerProgram._createProgramWithBasicStubs (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:431:72)
    at AngularCompilerProgram.initSync (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:373:27)
    at AngularCompilerProgram.get [as tsProgram] (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:349:22)
    at AngularCompilerProgram.getTsOptionDiagnostics (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\transformers\program.js:104:20)
    at defaultGatherDiagnostics (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\perform_compile.js:181:34)
    at Object.performCompilation (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\perform_compile.js:138:51)
    at main (...\node_modules\@angular\compiler-cli\src\main.js:29:42)

It seems like core is undefined in compiler-cli/src/transformers/program.ts.
import { ..., core, ... } from '@angular/compiler';

function getAotCompilerOptions(options: CompilerOptions): AotCompilerOptions {
    let missingTranslation = core.MissingTranslationStrategy.Warning;
    ...
}

Hopefully someone knows or have experienced the same and are able to help.
Thanks in advance.

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Q: jQuery function parameter passing I try to call a function in jquery with parameter such that
$(document).ready( function() {
    $('#id_pros').bind('change', wordCounter('id_pros_wordCountLabel') );
});

function wordCounter(item){
    ....
}

If I don't pass parameter id_pros_wordCountLabel it works great but now it didn't call wordCounter.
Which part is wrong with my code ?
Thanks

A: The correct way to do it is:
$(document).ready( function() {
    $('#id_pros').bind('change', function() {
        wordCounter('id_pros_wordCountLabel');
    });
});

Your own code passes the return value of wordCounter (which is called on the spot, and not when the change event fires) to bind. bind expects to receive a function, and wordCounter probably returns something else, so when the change event fires you don't see anything happen.

A: .bind() expects a function argument, like this:
$('#id_pros').bind('change', wordCounter);

Note how there are no parentheses on wordCounter. This means that it's a reference to a function, and not an invocation of a function — which is what happens when you add parentheses. Use an anonymous function to solve the problem:
$('#id_pros').change(function ()
{
    wordCounter('id_pros_wordCountLabel');
});

(I also changed .bind('change', ...) to .change(...) which is equivalent but more concise.)


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Dr Allan Kennedy
History and Archives and Information Studies, School of Humanities
a.y.kennedy@dundee.ac.uk
Tower Building
I joined the University of Dundee in August 2017, having previously worked as Research Associate in British/Scottish History at the University of Manchester. Before that, I was a distance-learning tutor for the Open University and a teaching assistant at the University of Stirling, this latter institution being the one from where I gained my PhD in 2012.
My research focuses on the political and social history of early modern Scotland, particularly the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. My initial work was on the Highlands, and analysed the relationship between Highlanders and the Scottish state. This produced many of my early publications, including my prize-winning first book, Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (Leiden, 2014). Having become interested in the experience of the 'other' or 'outsider' more generally, later research directions led me to explore Scottish migration to early modern England, as well as the history of criminality in Scotland. Currently, however, I am working on a political study of the reign of Charles II in Scotland, as part of which I am especially interested in analysing the 'pre-history' of the Anglo-Scottish Union and the extent to which the Restoration period influenced the eventual shape of the 'Great Britain'.
I am also Consultant Editor of the popular magazine History Scotland.
My research focuses on the social and political history of early modern Scotland, with a particular focus on the later seventeenth century. My initial interests, informing my doctoral thesis, were in the linkages between Highland and Lowland Scotland during the reigns of Charles II and James VII, a problem I approached within the broader paradigms of centre/periphery interaction and 'state formation' in early modern Europe. My research, and resulting publications, has tended to downplay the distinctiveness of the Highland experience, attempting instead to demonstrate the deep linkages (political, social, economic, religious and cultural) between Highlanders and the Scottish state.
Although I retain a strong interest in Highland history, my research subsequently broadened out to incorporate the treatment of outsiders or 'others' in the early modern world. In particular, I have explored the experiences of Scots living in early modern England, assessing what this particular migratory movement can tell us about the emergence and nature of 'Great Britain' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I have also looked into Scottish criminal justice, particularly in terms of asking how criminals were treated and what this can reveal about the ordering structures and assumptions of Scottish society.
Much of my work has focused on the period known as the 'Restoration' – the three decades between the return of Charles II to the British thrones in 1660, and the overthrown of his brother and successor, James VII & II, in 1688-9. Growing out of this focus, my current project is a political study of Charles II's government in Scotland. Here, I am particularly interested in assessing the king's personal influence over the development of Scottish policy, developing from this a deeper understanding of Scottish politics and political culture. I am also keen to assess the role of the Restoration period in the coming of parliamentary union in the eighteenth century – did Charles II's era play a meaningful role in 'preparing the ground' for 1707, or was this a period of divergence, rather than convergence?
I contribute to the following modules:
HY11001: Human Futures
HY11005: Rise of the Atlantic Empires, 1500-1750
HY22006: Scotland and the Wider World (module convenor)
HY31041: Life at the Margins: Sinners, Deviants and Outcasts in Early Modern Scotland, c.1550-c.1750 (module convenor)
HY41001: Research Dissertation
HY41056: Scotland: Restoration, Revolution and Union, 1660-1707 (module convenor)
HY51045: Public History
HY51046: Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Scotland
HY52029: Documentary and History


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Uchida, SCO, Ticciati, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - Berlioz steals the show
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Principal Conductor begins his last season in style
by David NiceFriday, 13 October 2017
Robin Ticciati conducting the SCO at the Proms earlier this yearBoth images by Chris Christodoulou/BBC
"Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart" might have been the marketing tag to sell out this first concert in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 2017-18 season (despite student and free under-18s take-up, the Usher Hall still wasn't full). "Dvořák Symphony No. 8" was in fact the headline, marking the launch of Robin Ticciati's last series as the SCO's hugely successful Principal Conductor. As it turned out, Berlioz's early Overture Les Francs-Juges offered the real shake-up of the evening, the shock of the new as good as a contemporary work – better than most instances – with an unusual complement for this ensemble of four natural trumpets, four trombones, tuba and euphonium.
That brass ensemble near the opening sounded so fresh and startling in Edinburgh's handsome main concert venue. Berlioz has been one regular Ticciati component, the most surprising success of his SCO tenure, with a one-off Symphonie fantastique among their top recordings together (Mozart with Mitsuko has been another constant, and unusual championship of Dvořák's Fifth in a London Symphony Orchestra concert which could have led to Ticciati's appointment there already augured well for the Czech strand). The conductor's attention to startling detail paid off at every turn, even in the phrasing of the one melody which would ring a bell with audience members of long TV-theme memory. A minor-key episode led by clarinets starts out like a prophecy of Bohemian Dvořák, but gets sidetracked by startling work for timpani and bass drum. And to think the original was completed before Beethoven's death in 1827. Berlioz, like Sibelius, often sounds the most modern composer, sonorities-wise, in any programme.
Not that late Mozart is without its constant surprises. His final piano concerto, the B flat major K595 possibly finished in the last year of his life, is a relatively austere affair alongside its predecessors, and how we miss those clarinets. Given that its themes are rarely as warmly personal as in the other late masterpieces, Uchida's characteristic air of transcendental poise, her touch resulting in the usual muted-mezzo air of mystery, didn't always feel appropriate; the high, bright orchestral sound offset it nicely, though (horns exchanging their hybrid instruments in the Berlioz for the real period thing here). Uchida (pictured above) always works well with Ticciati, and the striking partnerships with one or two woodwind – at a subtly amazing point in the central Larghetto, in fact, with only flute (Alison Mitchell) and lead violin (Benjamin Marquise Gilmore) for company – always made their mark. And the sudden, surprising turns into the minor and a passing sadness never failed to surprise.
In the mostly happy world of Dvořák's Eighth, Ticciati faced competition – in my recent memory, at least – with a delicious, natural and keenly-sprung Prom performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Karina Canellakis (due to visit the SCO later this season, lucky them). Occasionally it felt a little more contrived; the rush of the first movement's main Allegro con brio didn't quite come off at first, causing a momentary co-ordination problem, and a relatively small string body wasn't always a match for Dvořák's thickish wind-and-brass orchestration.
Yet there was certainly more twilight atmosphere, with telling pianissimos, in the woods of the great Adagio, and the novel fast-waltz lift of the Allegretto grazioso really worked, gilded by attractive violin portamenti. Once again the trumpets – albeit only two this time – had their heyday in a blistering "come to the fair" summons at the attacca start of the finale, and its rollicking could not have been a more joyous way of ending Ticciati's first-of-the-last showcase programme.
Programme repeated in Glasgow's City Halls tonight; sold out
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I wasn't there a couple of weeks ago when this topic (what drives the observed(?) divide wherein the more rural population skews conservative and the urban folks skew liberal?) was supposed to be discussed, but yesterday's group thought it would be interesting and hadn't been fully mined when it was on the agenda. So we're going to try again.
Mike Wolf's original description and meeting review post of the meeting on November 27 has some links to articles/data that may be helpful in framing the discussion; if you have other sources you think the group should considering reviewing before next Monday, please post them in a comment here (or email Mike or me if you want us to post them).
I've been collecting some information and some thoughts on the topic in a public Google document.
If you click on the link you can see what I've collected and written, and also add your own comments (highlight the text and then Insert -> Comment (or use a shortcut).


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More and more companies are looking for ways to design an effective e-process to meet the risks and challenges encountered when using e-signatures, providing e-disclosures and completing the transactions through e-delivery. Locke Lord's "6-Point e-Process Risk Analysis Framework" helps companies identify and mitigate the risks associated with the e-business process.
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RELATIVE RISK. Just as there are authentication, repudiation, compliance and admissibility risks with an e-process, those risks also exist in traditional processes using wet ink and hard copy paper. For most e-processes, the team should set as its goal making the e-process, at a minimum, result in transactions that are no riskier than the current processes.
GREGORY T. CASAMENTO [gcasamento@lockelord.com] is a partner in the New York office of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP. As a member of Locke Lord's Technology Transactions group, Mr. Casamento regularly assists clients in review of e-process systems.
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Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy
Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy, by Trebor Scholz, a scholar-activist and Associate Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City.
It's on amazon USA and UK.
Publisher Polity writes: This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz, chronicles the work of workers in the "sharing economy," and the free labor on sites like Facebook, to take these myths apart. In this rich, accessible, and provocative book, Scholz exposes the uncaring reality of contingent digital work, which is thriving at the expense of employment and worker rights. The book is meant to inspire readers to join the growing number of worker-owned "platform cooperatives," rethink unions, and build a better future of work. A call to action, loud and clear, Uberworked and Underpaid shows that it is time to stop wage theft and "crowd fleecing," rethink wealth distribution, and address the urgent question of how digital labor should be regulated and how workers from Berlin, Barcelona, Seattle, and São Paulo can act in solidarity to defend their rights.
Uber drivers protest their working conditions outside the company's Santa Monica, California office last June. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters, via Jacobin
Uberworked and Underpaid looks at how digital labor, sold to us as an opportunity to live a flexible, fulfilling, independent life of 'micro-entrepreneurs', often camouflages a reality characterized by the slow disappearance of fair labor practices and an increase in economic inequalities.
CrowdFlower's Lukas Biewald summed the situation up quite adequately back in 2010 when he said: "Before the Internet, it would be really difficult to find someone, sit them down for ten minutes and get them to work for you, and then fire them after those ten minutes. But with technology, you can actually find them, pay them the tiny amount of money, and then get rid of them when you don't need them anymore."
The victims of these new engines of exploitation are working for the usual suspects: Uber, TaskRabbit, Amazon Mechanical Turk, etc. However, the book also includes into this festival of precarity the many individuals whose work often remains uncompensated or underpaid: the interns, bloggers and journalists (to which i'm going to add most people involved in the art world) who are asked to work 'for exposure', Amazon's book reviewers, anyone who has to solve one of Google's reCAPTCHA, the fiction fans, the gamers, the DuoLingo users who engage in crowdsourced language translation, etc.
In a chapter about The myth of Immateriality, Scholz even goes as far as to include the millions of forgotten individuals whose very physical efforts fire off the digital realm: the cobalt and coltan miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the assembly line workers in Foxconn factories or the cooks and cleaners working at the facebook headquarters.
Deliveroo riders protest over payment changes in front of the delivery firm's head office in London in 2016. Photo via BBC
Scholz documents and analyzes with great clarity and vigor how platform capitalists are exploiting the overabundance of vulnerable workers and how internet has become an efficient enabler of unethical work practices. However, his sharp critique of the so-called "sharing economy" soon leaves space for an in-depth inquiry into realistic models and ideas that could lead to a fairer digital economy. He particularly lays his hopes in Platform Cooperativism (some of them already exist: Loconomics in San Francisco, Fairmondo in Germany, etc.), explores the promises of Universal Basic Income, looks at existing unions, guilds and design interventions and drafts 10 principles for decent labor platforms.
Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer, a 2008 film about getting all the cheap migrant works without the workers
Uberworked and Underpaid is a very informative and eloquent call for democratic and ethical labor practices. It sheds light on fairly depressing realities but comes up with encouraging and attainable alternatives.
Another reason why i found this book invaluable is that, unlike many publications about economy and society, this one frequently includes works of art, design, cinema and literature into its discourse.
I have only two minor criticisms. The first one is that i would have liked to read about citizens' reluctance to relinquish cheap services. Many Londoners, for example, seem to prefer low-cost taxis to security and fair working arrangements. Similarly, when Foodora riders protested against the ridiculously low compensations they were receiving from the delivery company, the local population remained fairly unconcerned. I fear that we all bear our share of responsibility in what Scholz calls "crowd fleecing."
The second commentary is that the book is, unsurprisingly, very U.S.-centered. However, the models and politics explored in Uberworked and Underpaid have already spread across continents so i believe that European readers will find the book extremely helpful and pertinent too.
If ever you're in New York, you might be interested in the event The People's Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges convened by Trebor Scholz, Camille Kerr, Nathan Schneider and Palak Shah on 10 and 11 November at The New School, NYC.
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University of Leeds: Supporting student parents and carers
Kim Jee-min
May is called "Family Month" in Korea, with Children's Day on May 5 and Parents' Day on May 8. This month thus reminds us that we are part of a community of families and loved ones forged by mutual love and responsibility.
Nowadays, many universities have expanded their focus from solely higher education to the enhancement of student diversity and support for individuals' well-being. However, many universities in Korea including Ewha lack adequate policies, facilities, and information to systematically support diverse roles students take on in their daily lives.
With the belief that Ewha should be interested in student support and fulfill those provisions, Ewha Voice sought out institutions that cares for student parents during wintertime overseas expeditions. Meet the University of Leeds, a UK university with expertise in support for student parents and carers.
Support for student parents in Leeds began with the university's commitment to supporting mature students. In the face of a decreasing number of mature students coming to study, the university created the Lifelong Learning Centre to encourage and enable students from diverse walks of life to enroll. Through this center, many students who are parents or have families of their own, began to recieve support for their children. Thus, the idea of supporting student parents walked hand in hand with the universitiy's wanting to support mature students.
The University of Leeds currently has policies for students going through pregnancy or those who have caring responsibilities, but the Lifelong Learning Centre believes it can provide more practical expertise in furthering such students' well-being.
"I think more expert knowledge comes from the Lifelong Learning Centre because we just work with so many mature students that are more likely to have children," said Paul Devlin, Student Experience Officer of the Lifelong Learning Centre.
The support for these students is not limited to those with young children. A student taking care of an adult-child, his or her parents, or any other responsibilities are all policy beneficiaries.
"We would not distinguish whether someone is an LGBT parent, older parent or younger parent," Devlin said. "If they have any sort of caring responsibilities, they are all considered as student parents."
Undergraduate students who are parents can receive financial support from the school regarding the costs of raising their children. They can also get counseling for such financial matters from the Leeds University Union.
The school also provides family accommodation, where students can live with their children or family at a university-owned facility on campus. Students may also seek aid through UNIPOL, an advice service for students who may want private accommodation across the city, and live with their family near the school.
The Lifelong Centre regularly holds social events where student parents and their families can come together. The events often have a special theme; some are held around holidays such as Christmas and Easter, and others involve activities such as magic shows or watching children films together.
"Having these social events gives these students a chance to be around other student parents and develop a sense of belonging," Devlin said. "They can also share valuable information and support for each other."
These events are especially important for the student parent's family as well. Such social events give the family members an opportunity to see what the university is like, know how important education is, and experience the school activities he or she is involved in.
"The support of the family is crucial for student parents to succeed in university," Devlin explained. "That is why we want the family to come to campus and understand the importance of what the student is trying to do here."
The Lifelong Learning Centre shares a lot between the Student Union. A separate organization from the university, the Student Union also has a variety of clubs and communities, including a mature student community alongside one for student parents. Therefore, many student-led activities are proceeded as well.
Many facilities for student parents can be found around campus. Toyboxes are placed at the Lifelong Learning Centre, the International Offices, and the Leeds University Union. Signposts mark the locations of rooms where students can change diapers and breastfeed. Baby products can also be found behind any reception center throughout the university.
"Just like having social events for student parents, providing these facilities and supplies also instils a sense of belonging and welcoming," Devlin said.
The university also has its own nursery called Bright Beginnings. Located on campus, the childcare centre allows students and staff to have their children looked after all day while they study or work. Bright Beginnings accommodates up to 168 children aged between three months and five years. It also operates a Playscheme during the school holidays for children aged between three and 11.
Without any expertise or experience, it would be difficult for a university to support a pregnant student or any student that holds caring responsibilities. Though it would be unlikely to implement such provisions right now in Korean universities, Ewha Voice encourages its readers to take interest in the issue and voice the need for such policies and support for student parents.


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I gerridi o insetti pattinatori (Gerridae ) sono una famiglia di Rincoti Eterotteri appartenenti alla superfamiglia Gerroidea (Gerromorpha). Devono il loro nome alla capacità di "scivolare" sull'acqua, poggiando solo i tarsi delle zampe medie e posteriori, evitando così di affondare.

Caratteristiche fisiche

La famiglia possiede peculiarità morfologiche ed etologiche che la rende facilmente distinguibile, anche se tali caratteristiche non sono esclusive.

Generalità
Il corpo è oblungo, di dimensioni piccole o medie, generalmente comprese tra i 2 e i 15 mm, anche se in rari casi le dimensioni possono superare i 2 cm. Il tegumento è rivestito da peli idrofobi che conferiscono all'insetto un aspetto vellutato. La livrea ha colori scuri e poco appariscenti, dal bruno al nero, con eventuali macchie più chiare; la peluria può conferire spesso una colorazione argentata alle parti ventrali.

Capo
Il capo è nettamente più breve del protorace e del mesotorace messi insieme, privo di ocelli e fornito di occhi composti ben sviluppati e prominenti. Le antenne sono ben visibili, più lunghe del capo e composte da 4 articoli. Il rostro è formato anch'esso da 4 segmenti, carattere che li contraddistingue dai Veliidi.

Torace
Il torace mostra un marcato sviluppo del pronoto, fino a ricoprire il mesonoto o a fondersi con esso. Il metatorace è provvisto di ghiandole odorifere. Le ali sono poco sviluppate, in alcuni casi totalmente assenti. Nelle forme alate le emielitre non mostrano la distinzione fra corio, clavo e zona membranosa, tipica della generalità degli Eterotteri.

Zampe

Nelle zampe sono presenti i caratteri morfologici che contraddistinguono questa famiglia. Le medie e le posteriori sono marcatamente sottili e allungate, sono disposte a "X" e formano un piano d'appoggio quadrangolare centrato con il baricentro del corpo; quelle anteriori sono invece più corte, più robuste e visibilmente protese in avanti. Fra le coxe anteriori e medie vi è una distanza maggiore rispetto a quella compresa fra le medie e le posteriori. Questa morfologia è alla base della funzionalità delle zampe: le anteriori sono usate come zampe raptatorie, le zampe medie e posteriori sono utilizzate per l'appoggio, la propulsione che permette il movimento è invece assicurata dalle zampe medie. I femori delle zampe posteriori sono marcatamente più lunghi dell'addome, a differenza dei Veliidi che hanno invece femori posteriori più corti dell'addome. I tarsi sono composti da due segmenti. I pretarsi delle zampe anteriori hanno le unghie inserite in posizione prossimale.

Distribuzione e habitat
La famiglia è cosmopolita, ed è presente in tutti i continenti. Sono tra i più comuni insetti che si possono trovare negli ambienti acquatici inoltre, grazie della loro singolare etologia, sono facilmente riconoscibili, nonostante questo, spesso vengono confusi con altri rincoti dalle simili abitudini.

Biologia

I Gerridi sono insetti acquaioli o semiacquatici. In altri termini, sono organismi fondamentalmente terrestri ma strettamente associati ad ambienti acquatici, in quanto la loro vita si svolge in gran parte sulla superficie di specchi d'acqua (corsi d'acqua, laghi, stagni, paludi e anche mari). Nel loro ambiente, tuttavia, necessitano della presenza di punti emersi, come sassi e vegetali.

In generale prediligono acque calme o poco mosse, ma a differenza di altri Rincoti con abitudini simili come le Idrometre, diverse specie possono adattarsi anche ad acque correnti. In questo caso procedono in senso contrario alla corrente, mantenendo la posizione e dando l'impressione che rimangano fermi. Il genere Halobates è l'unico comprendente specie marine, che vivono per lo più su acque costiere ma che talvolta colonizzano anche il mare aperto.

Etologia
I Gerridi sono predatori con regime dietetico strettamente zoofago e si nutrono quindi principalmente di piccoli animali, vivi o morti, che trovano sulla superficie dell'acqua o subito sotto, contribuendo anche al contenimento delle popolazioni di larve di zanzare.

Anche se occasionalmente si nutrono degli umori di Vertebrati morti che trovano sulle acque, la loro azione predatoria si esercita esclusivamente sugli invertebrati, per lo più Artropodi e Molluschi. Nella predazione utilizzano le zampe anteriori per afferrare e trattenere le vittime, che poi perforano con l'apparato boccale per paralizzarle e succhiarne i fluidi interni.

Hanno un moderato istinto gregario, perciò si rivengono in genere in gruppi più o meno numerosi. La densità di popolazione in rapporto alle risorse alimentari è fondamentale, perché in caso di scarsa disponibilità di cibo ricorrono facilmente al cannibalismo. Questo aspetto è importante per gli appassionati di allevamento, in quanto in un acquario difficilmente si riescono a mantenere molti esemplari senza che questi non si uccidano a vicenda.

Ciclo e riproduzione

Tutte le fasi della riproduzione si svolgono sull'acqua , prevalentemente nel periodo di primavera , dall'accoppiamento alla deposizione delle uova. Queste sono deposte in genere su piante acquatiche poco sotto la superficie, ma molte specie depongono anche su vari materiali galleggianti; la letteratura cita anche casi curiosi di uova di Gerridi deposte su altri animali, come seppie o uccelli marini.

Nelle regioni temperate il ciclo si svolge con una o due generazioni l'anno. Lo stadio svernante è rappresentato dagli adulti, che in genere trovano protezione in ripari di varia natura, generalmente prossimi agli specchi d'acqua. Nelle regioni tropicali il ciclo si svolge in modo continuo con più generazioni nel corso dell'anno.

Lo sviluppo postembrionale si svolge attraverso cinque stadi preimmaginali, due come neanide e come ninfa.

Locomozione
La peculiarità dell'etologia dei Gerridi, anche se condivisa con altre famiglie di Eterotteri gerromorfi, è quella di riuscire a sostenersi con le zampe sulla superficie dell'acqua senza affondare. Questa proprietà è dovuta ai fenomeni fisico-chimici che regolano gli equilibri statici delle forze intermolecolari nelle superfici di interfaccia. Nel caso specifico degli insetti che "camminano" sull'acqua, questi si manifestano con il concorso di due distinti fenomeni:
 Proprietà chimiche e morfologiche dei tarsi delle zampe, unici punti di contatto e appoggio del corpo dell'insetto con la superficie dell'acqua.
 Tensione superficiale dell'acqua.
I tarsi sono rivestiti da una fitta peluria imbevuta di sostanze oleose idrorepellenti. Questo fa sì che l'acqua non "bagni" i tarsi, condizione necessaria ma non sufficiente affinché questi possano poggiarsi sull'acqua. Il peso relativamente leggero di questi insetti, unitamente alla natura idrorepellente dei tarsi, fa sì che i Gerridi e gli insetti con proprietà simili poggino sulla superficie libera dell'acqua senza penetrarla.

La spinta è determinata principalmente dalle zampe medie, usate come remi; quelle posteriori sono usate, oltre che come punti di appoggio, anche come organi per frenare e come timoni per il cambio di direzione; quelle anteriori sono invece protese in avanti, pronte ad afferrare la preda.

A differenza di altri Gerromorfi, quali i Veliidae e gli Hydrometridae, i Gerridi sono dotati di un'eccezionale velocità, dando perciò l'impressione che "pattinino" sull'acqua; tale movimento procede a scatti, sotto l'effetto della spinta propulsiva delle zampe medie e dello scivolamento sull'acqua. Nel movimento sembra che le zampe di uno stesso paio si muovano simultaneamente. Questa velocità li rende anche capaci di sfuggire ad eventuali insidie e, in effetti, la cattura di un Gerride richiede una certa pazienza anche con l'uso di un retino: in una colonia di Gerridi, infatti, sembra apparentemente facile catturare uno o più esemplari in una pozza d'acqua ma in realtà, al minimo cenno di pericolo, gli insetti sfuggono rapidamente scivolando sull'acqua con bruschi cambiamenti di direzione.

Sull'asciutto i Gerridi hanno invece movimenti alquanto goffi, procedendo con salti irregolari e scoordinati.

Sistematica
L'inquadramento sistematico della famiglia è controverso: nonostante molte fonti concordino sulla posizione dei Gerridi nella superfamiglia Gerroidea ci sono divergenze, talvolta anche marcate, sulla composizione della superfamiglia e sulla sua posizione nell'ambito degli Heteroptera. Per quanto riguarda la composizione della superfamiglia, vi sono fonti che inseriscono anche taxa che, in questa sede, sono elevati al rango di superfamiglia (es. Hydrometroidea, ecc.). In merito all'inquadramento dei Gerroidei, vi sono fonti che riuniscono tutti i taxa dell'infraordine Gerromorpha nell'ambito dell'infraordine Nepomorpha.

Quello adottato in questa sede è perciò uno degli schemi sistematici proposti dalle varie fonti.

Nell'ambito della famiglia si annoverano oltre 580 specie distribuite in 69 generi a loro volta ripartiti fra 4 sottofamiglie:
Gerrinae
Halobatinae
Rhagadotarsine
Trepobatinae

Una gaffe cinematografica: la regina dei Gerridi

I Gerridi sono stati, inconsapevolmente, protagonisti di una delle classiche licenze artistiche che il cinema si concede in ambito scientifico.

Nella commedia d'azione Lo smoking (The Tuxedo, 2002), l'industriale Dietrich Banning (Richie Coster) è il capo di un piano criminale, mirato a dominare il mondo, che sfrutta i Gerridi come strumenti di un ricatto terrorista. Secondo questo piano, gli insetti saranno usati come vettori di un temibile virus che provoca la morte per disidratazione in pochi istanti. A tal fine, Banning allestisce un laboratorio segreto in cui viene allevata una "regina" di Gerride che trasmetterà il virus alla sua comunità. Questi insetti, grazie al loro comportamento, saranno usati come cavalli di Troia per scavalcare i sistemi di sicurezza che proteggono gli acquedotti dell'acqua potabile di alcune metropoli. Alla fine del film i protagonisti, il tassista Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan), coinvolto da un ente governativo in seguito a circostanze fortuite, e la biologa Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt), agente speciale, sventano il piano impedendo la liberazione dei Gerridi; nel corso dell'azione il "cattivo" del film, Banning, muore per aver ingerito accidentalmente la sua "regina" contaminata.

Se i Gerridi erano gli insetti ideali per realizzare il soggetto del film, la produzione ha trascurato un piccolo dettaglio cadendo in un grossolano e simpatico errore: i Gerridi sono insetti che hanno una tendenza al gregarismo, tuttavia le loro comunità sono completamente estranee ai fenomeni di aggregazione sociale basata sul polimorfismo di casta. In altri termini, la "regina" dei Gerridi è una leggenda metropolitana cinematografica.

Questo fatto ha ispirato una curiosa indagine del critico cinematografico Roger Ebert: Ebert consultò ben due entomologi, la dottoressa May Berenbaum, capo del Dipartimento di Entomologia dell'Università dell'Illinois, e il dottor Bruce Smith, esperto entomologo all'Ithaca College. In seguito alle loro risposte, Ebert giunse ad un'ironica conclusione:

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Tensione superficiale

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Gerroidea
Taxa classificati da William Elford Leach

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Q: Visual Studio 2017 ignoring source maps when debugging under cscript.exe I have the following files in a folder:
loader.js
loader.js.map
loader.ts
tsconfig.json

My tsconfig.json looks like this:
{
    "compileOnSave": true,
    "compilerOptions": {
        "strict": true,
        "target":"es3",
        "sourceMap": true
    }
}

The generated map file (loader.js.map) looks like this:
{
    "version": 3,
    "file": "loader.js",
    "sourceRoot": "",
    "sources": ["loader.ts"],
    "names": [],
    "mappings": ";AAAA,IAAM,iBAAiB,GAAG,UAAI,GAA0B;IACpD,IAAM,OAAO,GAAQ,EAAE,CAAC;IACxB,IAAM,UAAU,GAAG,IAAI,UAAU,CAAI,GAAG,CAAC,CAAC;IAC1C,UAAU,CAAC,SAAS,EAAE,CAAC;IACvB,OAAO,CAAC,UAAU,CAAC,KAAK,EAAE,EAAE,CAAC;QACzB,OAAO,CAAC,IAAI,CAAC,UAAU,CAAC,IAAI,EAAE,CAAC,CAAC;QAChC,UAAU,CAAC,QAAQ,EAAE,CAAC;IAC1B,CAAC;IACD,MAAM,CAAC,OAAO,CAAC;AACnB,CAAC,CAAC;AAEF,IAAM,GAAG,GAAG,IAAI,aAAa,CAAC,4BAA4B,CAAC,CAAC;AAC5D,IAAM,KAAK,GAAG,IAAI,aAAa,CAAC,eAAe,CAAC,CAAC;AACjD,OAAO,CAAC,IAAI,CAAC,KAAK,CAAC,gBAAgB,CAAC,CAAC;AACrC,OAAO,CAAC,IAAI,CAAC,OAAO,CAAC,cAAc,CAAC,CAAC;AAErC,IAAI,OAAO,GAAG,CAAC,CAAC;AAChB,GAAG,CAAC,CAAY,UAAoC,EAApC,KAAA,iBAAiB,CAAC,OAAO,CAAC,SAAS,CAAC,EAApC,cAAoC,EAApC,IAAoC;IAA/C,IAAM,CAAC,SAAA;IACR,OAAO,CAAC,IAAI,CAAI,OAAO,UAAK,CAAG,CAAC,CAAC;IACjC,OAAO,EAAE,CAAC;CACb;AAGD,mBAAmB;AAEnB,uCAAuC;AAEvC,6CAA6C;AAE7C,8EAA8E;AAE9E,eAAe;AACf,0CAA0C;AAE1C,oDAAoD"
}

However, when I try to debug under cscript.exe:
cscript.exe //x //d loader.js

The Visual Studio debugger shows the Javascript, instead of the Typescript.
I know Visual Studio supports source map debugging, and this did work at one point.
There are other answers which suggest providing an absolute path for sourceRoot within the .map file (in this case, by setting the sourceRoot property in the tsconfig.json); but this has no effect.
What steps can I attempt to enable source maps with Visual Studio in this scenario?

A: So I took a deeper dig at this and see what the issue is exactly. I will talk about pre-requisites that are needed first
Need .NET Section Installed with Just In Time Debugger

Need Just-in-time debugging enabled

Debugging with sourceMap
I was able to reproduce your issue and I think it may be a bug or edge case not handled properly by VS2017
When you launch script from CMD and chose to open a new window or choose a different project you will see an error saying invalid source map url

This is probably because of some path that VS2017 is taking and it is not same as the script path.
Fixing the issue
There are three ways to fix the issue.
1. Manually fix the full path of sourcemap
In your app.js fix the path of sourceMappingURL. And then run cscript.exe \\X
\\D app.js. It will first show the JS file but source map loaded message will be there. After the first step over it will correct the TS file display

Create a project in VS2017
Create a project in TypeScript Blank NodeJS VS2017 with your source files and build it. Now when you run the project from command line and choose the same open project, it would work

Use Inline source map
This option will make sure that it works from anywhere and even without a project being open in VS2017
Change your tsconfig.json to
{
  "compileOnSave": true,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "strict": true,
    "target": "es3",
    "inlineSourceMap": true
  }
}

This will make sure there whole map is inline and there is no path problem. This time it will open directly in your TS file

Hope this helps your understand why it worked earlier and now. May be your usage was a different and using the edge cases

A: You need to create a Visual Studio 2017 solution that contains your files as a the solution items. Have that Visual Studio 2017 solution open and start cscript from a cmd.exe window like you did. You should see a window popping up with the title "Choose Just-In-Time Debugger" which offers you to choose a new instance of Visual Studio, or the existing instance where your solution is loaded. Choose that one. You may see the debugger window hitting your .js file first, but when you step thru the code, it should automatically change to the mapped .ts file, next.
As for the VS project type: You may start with a "Blank Node.js Console Application", remove all what is not needed from that project, and add your stuff then. You won't use NodeJS of course, but that project template is tailored to the needs of TypeScript already.

A: I ended up setting inlineSources to true (inlineSourceMaps also has to be true) in the tsconfig.json. This embeds the source in the emitted Javascript file.
Although this greatly increases the size of the Javascript file, this isn't really an issue, since the Javascript is being run locally as opposed to being retrieved from a web server.


This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Comparison of Sophocles's "Ajax" and "Oedipus the King".
Comparison of Sophocles's "Ajax" and "Oedipus the King"
Summary: In "Ajax" and "Oedipus the King" by the ancient Greek writer Sophocles, Ajax and Oedipus are different in their position, yet similar in the manner in which pity is engendered through their punishment. These two aspects of the plays are essential, for both deal with the reason and justification for death and blindness, which are central to understanding Ajax and Oedipus the King.
In Ajax and Oedipus the King, the reader is presented with two tragedies of the same author, Sophocles, and a medium for comparison. Ajax, the tragic warrior in Ajax, carries the burden of Athena's wrath as a result of his hubris. Oedipus, the tragic king in Oedipus the King who attempts to uncover the horrible truth of his fate, is hindered by his hubris. While Ajax and Oedipus the King are different in the heroes' role in society, the plays are also alike in the evocation of the reader's pity through the undeserving heavy punishment of the heroes.
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tempfilemgr is a Python 2.x module to easily create temporary files and directories, and to make sure that all of them are deleted after use. It adds several useful features to the standard tempfile module.
Files and directories are created using tempfile.mkstemp and mkdtemp (see Python help), which means they should only accessible to the user that created them.
Temporary files can be closed and reopened.
It is possible to access them using their filename, for example with external tools.
Unlike mkstemp, newTempFile returns a file object instead of an OS-level file handle.
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