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The Joy of Dullness 1
Of late I have been assembling a collection of dull, curious or odd book covers. I wasn't really getting anywhere until I hit the collection of fellow Anglian dealer Robin Summers , a man with a whim of iron and one of the major contributor's to Brian Lake's magisterial Bizarre Books. So here they are, the scholarly ones are actually of some value and one even sold while I was putting this together, so does not appear -- a book on the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure entitled Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory. With the paperback selling at £50 the joke became too costly to hold on to. The collection is devoted to dullness mixed with the curious and the odd which includes the oddly dull and the curiously odd. Here goes:
A bundle of laughs. The puff reads ' By contrasting Pound's political values with those of Stein and Zukofsky, this study argues that these three different writers share a complex set of attitudes that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of corporate social forms.' Some jokers want £100 for this although the committed shopper can find it for £10.
A little light reading.
Part of a small but select number of works on the brassiere. Not dull, but curious (in the old biblio sense.)
Good Housekeeping's family doctor has the answers.
Yes but do you have anything on extinct horse furniture in the Brussels area?
Useful book. Useful name.
Anything on consonants in the late Neo-Babylonian era?
I need this one badly. Actually an online search revels no copies - so £899?
One man's quest.
Someone had to write it.
Slow down and learn the language.
[More to come!]
Posted by Bookride at 6/28/2011 24 comments:
Book descriptions -- the bland, the bad and the ugly
Checking prices on the net I often see strange and misleading book descriptions. I was alerted by Angus, a Bookride follower, to this fine example. It is one of those catchall descriptions that the cataloguer brings up with a programme like Typeit4me or cuts and pastes from a palette of such phrases. In this example the seller uses the exact phrase for over 12000 book descriptions - "Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong". It is not a bad phrase as they go, although 'remains' is an offputting word as it suggests the book is not in the best shape. This is slightly re-inforced by the word 'surprisingly' as if the cataloguer himself is surprised the book has survived at all. The whole thing has that upbeat, genteel, wheedling tone that is prevalent online. Sometimes this leads on to entreaties such as this:
" Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself, or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life."
One guy has "Seems like an interesting title!" in all his descriptions, however dull the book.
Sometimes such entreaties are aligned with somewhat lousy descriptions:
"Hard Cover. No Covers. Absorbent Brown Spine With Two Light Brown Ovals With Title Inside Of Them In Light And Dark Brown Letters, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Shelf, Edge And Corner Ware, Some Edge Tearing And Chipping. Hard Cover Cover BooK: Fine, 338 Numbered Pages, That Were Lightly Read, And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slight Shelf, Corner And Edge Ware. This Expensive BooK, Is Hard To Find, Will Make An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. "
I realise 'fine' can encompass very slight handling wear and is surpassed by 'like new' and even the slightly dubious 'mint' but it cannot be associated with tears and chips! Also what in hell is an 'absorbent spine!'
Capitalised descriptions (shouting) are often a sign of a less than experienced bookseller ('UNREAD AND AS NEW BOOK WITH MISSING TITLE PAGE - COVER WITH LIGHT DAMAGE - COMPLETELY UNREAD - EXCELLENT CONDITION - READ ONCE CAREFULLY.') A missing title page, often mentioned as if it is nothing, is to my mind an almost fatal flaw...also while we are on the subject an ex library book can never be fine.
The subject is endless and there is an excellent 5000+ thread at the ABE forum collecting and discussing naff descriptions, it is called 'Disgusting - Must we have this?' Internecine warfare sometimes breaks out when a seller spots his description and resolutely defends it, but it has some real gems. Likewise John Baxter collected some truly awful Ebay descriptions at the back of his Pound of Paper. My favourite are descriptions in what I call the Alain Robbe Grillet style. The great nouveau roman writer can spend 2 pages describing a man's face in such relentless detail that at the end of it you have no idea what the chap actually looks like.
You have web descriptions where every line begins "this book..." often rhapsodising about the sharpness of the corners and others where the greatness of the condition is emphasised by negation (' no fraying, no tears, no marks or soiling, no chips, no pieces missing, no wrinkles or creases...) but the real Robbe- Grillet person gets into serious details and minutiae. On a $100 Franklin Mint bound in their trademark spam leather a seller notes -'gilt edges which when held to harsh light at an oblique angle there might be seen a few tiny lines or striations, perhaps not visible in ordinary light, and deemed very minor...' Pyjama Bob at Chapel Books just down the road in Suffolk is a master of the ultra precise description, here is a fairly restrained description of a £60 Penguin.
"Slight browning to pages, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. A little faint foxing or soiling to covers and spine rather browned. Joints show a little rubbing and small (5mm) split to base of upper joint, but covers are firm. Faint creasing to corners and a few light indentations show up when they catch the light..."
I am reminded of the late and much missed Peter Joliffe -- he used to say he would never describe a book as fine, there was always some imperfection to note, however slight... [To be continued]
Posted by Bookride at 6/19/2011 5 comments:
Musings on the market for autographed letters...
Apparently autograph collecting as a hobby goes back as far as the 1780s, and the sheer number of letters that have survived from this date and slightly earlier—compared with the small number dating up to this period would suggest as much.
However, most letters in the catalogues of modern manuscript dealers seem to date from around 1840 onwards —which suggests that the hobby must have begun to really take off soon after this date. It is surely silly to argue that MPs, public officials, men of letters, churchmen, scientists, artists etc wrote fewer letters from, say, the mid 17th century to the mid eighteenth century and many more from the accession of Queen Victoria. People have always had to keep in touch. In fact, it could be argued that letter writers should have been more prolific in earlier times for the simple fact that before the age of the telegraph, the telephone, the train and the fast coach, there were no alternatives to the letter.
Of course, the arrival of the Penny Post in 1840 did make the sending of letters cheaper and more convenient—but this doesn't really explain why so many letters have survived from this date. After all, with more letters around there were more to throw away. The only explanation as I see it is that after a certain date more people began to keep letters---perhaps due to the cult of the celebrity, which began to flourish following the accession of the young and glamorous Queen Victoria, and grew stronger as the century wore on , thus strengthening the market for letters. I have seen a number of albums of letters and cut-out signatures (sometimes assembled with a collection of crests) which appear to date from the mid nineteenth century.
Certainly there were autograph dealers in the mid Victorian period (I have an envelope bearing the name and address of one of them) and there are letters replying to requests from autograph hunters from Victorian celebs (who were often soldiers, politicians and other public figures). Occasionally, a celeb might donate a letter or an autograph received from a more famous celeb (I have a letter indicating that the signature of Tolstoy, which the sender had asked for, had been enclosed), which for some reason the donor no longer wished to keep. There are perhaps grounds for supposing that , say , someone like a cabinet minister or a general might see such autograph hunting by the hoi polloi as a bit infra dig , but worth encouraging for its positive public relations value. A more recent example for me was a letter from Hugh Gaitskell to my uncle, Denis Healey, willingly given to me by Denis when I was aged 11, which was claimed back almost immediately after Gaitskell suddenly died. It would be nice to know if something similar occurred in the Victorian or Edwardian period.
Perhaps many of the letters that come onto the market today are letters from others to the celeb that have been donated by celebs to collectors. Otherwise, unless there were many dealers in autographs and sales of autographs, how did these letters, many of which bear on matters often weightier than a request by a collector for a signature, come onto the market? Or it is equally possible that the 'I can't come to tea 'letters (as I call them) were kept by admirers who knew the celeb professionally or personally, but at a low level. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that important letters would have been surrendered to a collector by the celeb recipient. It is more likely that such letters would have been kept by the recipient and to have remained alongside other important papers at his or her death-- to be sold off to book and autograph dealers, or sent to auction.
[R. M. Healey]
Many thanks Robin
I once had a 'clipped' signature of John Keats in an old album -it read something like 'yours faithfully John Keats' and I wondered about the letter that it had been clipped from-- was it to Mary Shelley suggesting a fantastical character or to Byron swapping anecdotes of conquests? Or merely another 'can't come to tea' note...? Certainly it was a bloody sight more valuable than the clipping. Damn these early autograph hounds...
By the way the letter above is a Keats forgery by Major George de Luna Byron (ca. 1810-1882). He claimed to be the natural son of the Lord George Gordon Byron by a Spanish countess and was quite successful at penning and selling off fake letters of Byron, Shelley and Keats in the mid-nineteenth century. His forgeries are collected but they are worth a fraction of the real thing and cause much disappointment when unmasked. Below is a genuine Bruce Lee letter offering good advice to a young girl fan.
Early Books on Television: 1926 – 1939
British techies will boast that the origins of television can be traced to a room above a shop in Hastings ( blue plaque ) where John Logie Baird constructed the first TV receiver—generating moving images on a mechanical principle. Americans, however, will argue that their man, a certain C. Francis Jenkins, who was also involved in cinema technology , was doing almost the same thing six months earlier in1923. Unfortunately, neither of these pioneers can be said to have invented the television that we tune into today. Most of the credit for that probably belongs to Philo Farnsworth, the farmer's son from Utah who in 1927, aged 21, produced the first electronic image. So, whatever way you look at it, the Americans invented television, just as they invented rock music.
Most of the collected works on early TV appeared before 1930. The first book on TV alone was Alfred Dinsdale's well-known Television, or seeing by wireless (1926). For such a seemingly rare book ('a rather rare book', according to one dealer, who wants a toppish £2,490 for his copy) there are quite a few on ABE, ranging in price from a reasonable £350. Personally, I don't see much point in paying an extra £2,000 or so for an especially good copy of what is essentially a superannuated pamphlet.
The second significant work, which appeared a year later is Television for the Home by Ronald Tiltman, whose frontispiece show the author being televised by John Logie Baird himself. Recently , there was a very nice jacketed copy of this on ABE for a sensible price. For its technical content alone, this seems a rather better investment than Dinsdale. However, if you hanker for a Dinsdale and can't afford his Seeing by Wireless you could target a copy or a run ( if you can find one ) of his genuinely rare Television Journal (6d a month), whose July 1929 cover rather hopefully looks ahead to a time when the family might gather around the box of light on a winter evening--an extraordinary image for 1929, when radio was still in its infancy and TV broadcasting was several years away.
The more common Book of Practical Television (1935) by G. V. Dowding, an electrical engineer, is a pretty comprehensive technical exposition of 320 pages and many fascinating illustrations, which compares the mechanical and electronic versions of television and places them in a historical context. It even suggests how an enthusiast might build his own receiver. I paid a mere £1.50 for my copy a few years ago, but you'd be lucky to secure one for under £30 now. For historians of TV, issues of the Radio Times from c 1934 are valuable sources of information and can still be had for a few pounds. Copies of The Listener from 1936 to 1939 are equally useful and much cheaper still. Of the latter, look for transcripts of the live discussions by such pre-war TV pioneers as John Piper and Geoffrey Grigson--- and search out the wonderful set-to in 1939 between Grigson and Wyndham Lewis speaking on the side of modern art and the anti-modern defenders of the establishment. Pre-1939 copies of the BBC Yearbook, are also worth seeking out for about £10 each, though I've can't recall ever finding a copy.
Incidentally, in 1936 appeared one of the earliest mentions of television in a literary work. In ' And if this mountain cease' from Poems (1936) by the poet and critic Michael Roberts we find:
' And if this mountain cease
If the rock-crystal breaks, and darkness comes
if the mind's television ceases
if no one answers…. '
Still earlier mentions of television in literature are welcome via the comment box.
Many thanks Robin. Early mentions of TV? A bit late but quite valuable is the literary magazine edited by Lawrence Durrell 'International Post' (1939) -- it had a TV critic and was full of promise but went to just one highly elusive issue. Value? Many hundreds of pounds, even though Durrell has become a little slow...
The Dinsdale, as you say, is not especially scarce. The problem with the book is it has several high auction records, in 1996 a jacketed but worn copy made $4800 and in 2008 the 'Richard Green copy' in rubbed d/j with tape repair on back panel made $16250. So some hapless collector had to pay nearly £10000 to carry the little book out of Christies New York. Sadly Richard Green was not the TV Robin Hood but an important collector of science books. It falls into the category of a book that is hard to buy (due to high levels of expectation) and hard to sell (because it is quite common.) In this same category are early BBC yearbooks which people want a lot for but are hard to sell for much over £20, even those with decoish covers. Last word on the unelusive Dinsdale. John Logie Baird's copy turned up last year. It made £1200 at Bonhams (1 plate shaved, some gatherings loose.) This may be a book that is not firmly in the ascendant, although a fine copy in jacket is offered at $9500 at History of Science.com citing the Green copy. Condition, as so often, trumps association...
Book descriptions -- the bland, the bad and the ug...


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Jared H. Rowe, MD, PhDa, Brian D. Stadinski, PhDb, Lauren A. Henderson, MDa, Lisa Ott de Bruin, MDa, Ottavia Delmonte, MDa, Yu Nee Lee, PhDc, M. Teresa de la Morena, MDd, Rakesh K. Goyal, MDe, Anthony Hayward, MD, PhDf, Chiung-Hui Huang, PhDg, Maria Kanariou, MDh, Alejandra King, MDi, Taco W. Kuijpers, MDj, Jian Yi Soh, MDg, Benedicte Neven, MD, PhDk, Jolan E. Walter, MD, PhDl, Eric S. Huseby, PhDb, Luigi D. Notarangelo, MDm aThe Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; bthe Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass; cthe Pediatric Department A and the Immunology Service, ''Edmond and Lily Safra'' Children's Hospital, Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; dthe Division of Allergy and Immunology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Tex; ethe Division of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics, Kansas City, Mo; fthe Department of Pediatrics, Brown University, Providence, RI; gthe Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore; hthe Department of Immunology-Histocompatibility, ''Aghia Sophia'' Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece; ithe Division of Pediatric Immunology, Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna, Santiago, Chile; jthe Department of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; kthe Pediatric Hematology-Immunology Department, Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne-Paris-Cite, Institut Imagine, Paris, France; lthe Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, University of South Florida at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St Petersburg, Fla; and mthe Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Venetia Bigley, MD, PhD,a,b Sheetal Maisuria, MSc,c Urszula Cytlak, PhD,a Laura Jardine, MD,a,b Matthew A. Care, PhD,d Kile Green, MSc,a Merry Gunawan, PhD,a Paul Milne, PhD,a Rachel Dickinson, PhD,a Sarah Wiscombe, MD,a David Parry, PhD,e Rainer Doffinger, MD, PhD,f Arian Laurence, MD, PhD,a,b Claudia Fonseca, Lic,g Oda Stoevesandt, PhD,g Andrew Gennery, MD, PhD,a,b Andrew Cant, MD, PhD,b Reuben Tooze, MD, PhD,d A. John Simpson, MD, PhD,a,b Sophie Hambleton, MD, PhD,a,b Sinisa Savic, MD, PhD,h Gina Doody, PhD,d and Matthew Collin, MD, PhDa,b aThe Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne; bNewcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; cLeeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, dLeeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, eLeeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, and hthe National Institute for Health Research–Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit and Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; fthe Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge; and gCambridge Protein Arrays, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge.
Background The homozygous K108E mutation of interferon regulatory factor 8 (IRF8) is reported to cause dendritic cell (DC) and monocyte deficiency. However, more widespread immune dysfunction is predicted from the multiple roles ascribed to IRF8 in immune cell development and function. Objective We sought to describe the effect on hematopoiesis and immunity of the compound heterozygous R83C/R291Q mutation of IRF8, which is present in a patient with recurrent viral infection, granuloproliferation, and intracerebral calcification. Methods Variant IRF8 alleles were identified by means of exome sequencing, and their function was tested by using reporter assays. The cellular phenotype was studied in detail by using flow cytometry, functional immunologic assay transcriptional profiling, and antigen receptor profiling. Results Both mutations affected conserved residues, and R291Q is orthologous to R294, which is mutated in the BXH2 IRF8-deficient mouse. R83C showed reduced nuclear translocation, and neither mutant was able to regulate the Ets/IRF composite element or interferon-stimulated response element, whereas R291Q retained BATF/JUN interactions. DC deficiency and monocytopenia were observed in blood, dermis, and lung lavage fluid. Granulocytes were consistently increased, dysplastic, and hypofunctional. Natural killer cell development and maturation were arrested. TH1, TH17, and CD8+ memory T-cell differentiation was significantly reduced, and T cells did not express CXCR3. B-cell development was impaired, with fewer memory cells, reduced class-switching, and lower frequency and complexity of somatic hypermutation. Cell-specific gene expression was widely disturbed in interferon- and IRF8-regulated transcripts. Conclusions This analysis defines the clinical features of human biallelic IRF8 deficiency, revealing a complex immunodeficiency syndrome caused by DC and monocyte deficiency combined with widespread immune dysregulation.
Kerstin Felgentreff1,2 & Sachin N. Baxi1 & Yu Nee Lee1 & Kerry Dobbs1 & Lauren A. Henderson1 & Krisztian Csomos3 & Erdyni N. Tsitsikov4 & Mary Armanios5 & Jolan E. Walter1,3 & Luigi D. Notarangelo1,6 1Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 2 Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany. 3 Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and the Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 4 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 5 Departments of Oncology, Pathology and McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 6 Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
PURPOSE DNA Ligase 4 (LIG4) is a key factor in the nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA double-strand break repair pathway needed for V(D)J recombination and the generation of the T cell receptor and immunoglobulin molecules. Defects in LIG4 result in a variable syndrome of growth retardation, pancytopenia, combined immunodeficiency, cellular radiosensitivity, and developmental delay. METHODSWe diagnosed a patient with LIG4 syndrome by radiosensitivity testing on peripheral blood cells, and established that two of her four healthy siblings carried the same compound heterozygous LIG4 mutations. An extensive analysis of the immune phenotype, cellular radiosensitivity, telomere length, and T and B cell antigen receptor repertoire was performed in all siblings. RESULTS In the three genotypically affected individuals, variable severities of radiosensitivity, alterations of T and B cell counts with an increased percentage of memory cells, and hypogammaglobulinemia, were noticed. Analysis of T and Bcell antigen receptor repertoires demonstrated increased usage of alternative microhomology-mediated end-joining (MHMEJ) repair, leading to diminished N nucleotide addition and shorter CDR3 length. However, overall repertoire diversity was preserved. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrate that LIG4 syndrome presents with high clinical variability even within the same family, and that distinctive immunologic abnormalities may be observed also in yet asymptomatic individuals.


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How Black Travelers Are Creating A Space For Young Blacks To Travel The World
Black & Abroad Black Travel CN Travel Culture Mike Orie Nomadness Travel Tribe Travel Noire
Labels: Black & Abroad | Black Travel | CN Travel | Culture | Mike Orie | Nomadness Travel Tribe | Travel Noire
Photo courtesy of Travel Noire Facebook page
In late 2013, after losing her job as a full-time producer, Zim Ugochukwu took her savings of $17,000 and launched Travel Noire. She was on to something. Helping spearhead a movement of young Black travelers in the states.
But Zim isn't alone. Since launching Travel Noire, we've seen the launch of several Black traveling platforms, including Black & Abroad, Black Travelista and the growth of NoMadness Travel Tribe.
Since launching over 5 years ago, Nomadness Travel Tribe, a travel company dubbed as the "1st New Age Urban Travel Movement," has developed a community of over 15,000 Black travelers.
Photo Courtesy of Travel Noire: #TNExperiences in Zanzibar
Many of them are discovering each other through platforms like Instagram. Nomadness Travel Tribe has garnered nearly 50,000 followers, while platform Travel Noire has gained well over 350,000.
"The movement really started from answering a personal call," says Evita, founder of NoMadness Travel Tribe in a video with The Root. "I created Nomadness because of my addiction to travel. I wanted to create a community, so that was when I started the tribe," says Evita. "I started with 100 people."
Photo courtesy of NoMadness Travel Tribe Facebook page
But it's taken since 2010 for brands to finally take Black travelers serious. "I honestly feel that just now, a lot of marketers, other businesses, brands are starting to pay attention and see that we're not a fluke."
Members of The Tribe launched phone trees on WhatsApp after missing out on a fair glitch from D.C. to Nairobi, priced just under $400. Nomadness Travel Tribe requires that each member has atleast one stamp on its passport before joining the community.
"The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle," said Evita in an interview with The Daily Beast. " People who barter with their employers for more PTO and telecommuting options instead of salary increases, so they can work remotely from the beaches of Jamaica."
A group of young Black travelers explore #TNExperiences by Travel Noire in Giza, Egypt
"I wanted to create something for the quintessential mover-and-shaker, someone who desired to get out and explore the world beyond all conventionalities. I wanted people of color in Nepal. Bora Bora. Finland. Senegal. Turkey. Alaska. Bolivia," said Zim in an interview with Madame Noire.
And while brands are just starting to notice Black travelers, there's no sign of them slowing down. Whether it's a $208 roundtrip glitch from Chicago to Abu Dhabi, or a cheap deal to Greece, young Black millennials are traveling, and the community has become stronger than ever.
Watch The Root's video below on how these platforms are creating a new space for young Black travelers.
Have you used one of these Black travel platforms? What have you noticed about traveling with a community of people who look like you?
Mike "Orie" Mosley is the managing editor for CurlyNikki.com and a cultural advocate from St. Louis. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arts, Entertainment & Media Management from Columbia College Chicago and a Masters in Higher Education Administration from LSU. He is also the founder of www.afrotrak.com. In his spare time, he's probably listening to hip hop & neo soul music, hitting up brunch or caught up in deep conversations about Black music. You can follow him on Twitter @mike_orie or on Instagram @mikeorie

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Q: How to tell if a DVD is encrypted I have a linux dvd player app implemented using libdvdread.
When a user has libdvdcss installed it can play encrypted and unencrypted DVDs.
However when libdvdcss is absent, libdvdread issues a warning and tries to play the DVD anyway which is fine for unencrypted DVDs but confuses the hell out of the muxer on encrypted DVDs.
Is there any way I could tell programmatically between encrypted and unencrypted DVDs, so I could avoid trying to play a DVD that can't be played?

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This month's My Kitchen, My World selection for world cuisine was the The United States. I only have one recipe this month, something that I feel represents our country as truly American. The Native Americans were given a monopoly on the Wild Rice crops in the United States, something to help compensate them for the losses they sustained and something to help sustain them.
I grew up in Northeast Iowa, not too far from Minnesota which harvests lots of Wild Rice. I brought my love of it here with me and have a difficult time finding true pure Wild Rice in Indiana. But, it can be done on occasion. And, if not, everyone who passes through or goes to Minnesota has my standing order.
Wild Rice is not really a rice at all, but a wild grain. Most people don't cook it right, they don't cook it long enough to open it up in its entirety. The trick is to soak it overnight in room temperature water, drain it the next day, and cook it a long time, until all the shape to the grain is completely gone and it has opened up showing its white parts. It tastes best with just a little salt and butter, not too much of either so that the taste of the grain has a chance to shine. Undoubtedly, one of my favorite foods of all time. And, just so you know, I have NEVER had it cooked properly in a restaurant, I have long since given up trying to find good Wild Rice prepared properly on a menu.
This is a recipe I like to make at Thanksgiving time, which pairs it with another American favorite: the cranberry.
1 and 1/2 cups chicken broth - Rinse rice until water runs clear; soak rice for an hour at room temp water (overnight is even better), and drain.
Put chicken broth in saucepan to boil and then add the drained rice...cover with lid, reduce heat to simmer for 50-60 minutes, shut off heat, let rice continue to sit in the pot with the lid on for another half hour to steam.
While the rice is cooking: Slice 8 oz. fresh portabella mushrooms and saute in a large skillet with 1 Tablespoon butter until they are cooked as you like them, remove from pan and set aside.
In the same skillet, cut 2 medium yellow onions into wedges, and saute with 1 Tablespoon of butter and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar on medium heat until soft and caramelized (takes about 40 minutes usually).
After the onions are caramelized, add 1/2 cup dried cranberries. Add the cooked mushrooms and the cooked wild rice into the pan and mix all ingredients until well distributed.


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Sweden refuses to deny deportations to Turkey part of NATO deal
VISBY, Sweden: Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson refused Sunday to deny Turkey's claim that it had promised to deport individuals sought by Ankara as part of Stockholm's efforts to join NATO.
Despite questioning by journalists and concerns among Kurdish and Turkish refugees in Sweden, Andersson would not say whether such a commitment had been given to Ankara for it to lift objections to Sweden's membership.
"I've been a minister for eight years and I never talked about what is said in the negotiation room," she said. "(That) actually puts me in a bit of a difficult situation right now," she added.
In an agreement signed by Stockholm and Helsinki at a NATO summit in Madrid on Tuesday, the two Nordic countries agreed to examine Turkish extradition requests "expeditiously and thoroughly."
No promise has been given to actually carry out the extraditions, and Finland and Sweden have since recalled that the process is in the hands of the authorities and independent courts.
But Turkish President Erdogan on Thursday said at the end of the NATO summit that Sweden had made a "promise" to extradite "73 terrorists" and threatened to block NATO membership if the commitments were not met.
Andersson, who was pressed several times on Sunday to say whether such a promise had been given, simply repeated Stockholm's position.
She said Sweden will continue to respect national and international laws, no Swedish nationals will be extradited, the decision will be up to independent authorities and courts.
"If you are not involved in terrorist activities, there is no need for concern," she said.
The Swedish leader was holding her first press conference since returning from the summit, during a visit to the Baltic Sea island of Gotland.
Every July, it hosts a week of political meetings bringing together party leaders.
But it is also one of the locations due to be reinforced by the Swedish army after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Sweden's decision to join NATO.


With Linux there are two important assumptions with regard to the command line. First is to never conclude that you know everything.
Secondly, never assume that what you want to do can't be done.
Today I wanted to include two small parts from the output from the "sensors" command in Ubuntu 11.04 on my EeePC 901.
I wanted to include the value of temp1 (CPU temperature) and the fan1 speed in my Conky output in ubuntu.
I had previously used the -d and -f switches to choose the parts of the file delimited by something or other and then select a particular column (or field) in those parts selected by the delimiter switch (-d).
But, on the previous occasion, the two parts of the file I wanted were both delimited by "+", so it was easy to devise a command to choose just what I wanted and no more.
Here, "grep" picks just the lines with "+" in them, then "cut -d"+" -f2" divides the line in two fields before and after the "+" sign while -f2 picks the second field which is, in the above output, "53.0°C (crit = +90.0°C)"
Next the "cut -d"(" -f1" divides "53.0°C (crit = +90.0°C)" into two fields before and after the "(". Finally, -f1 picks just the first field which is "53.0°C"
This time, however, I want part of the third line, as above, but also the eleventh line (spaces count as lines) without any "+" in it.
Well, and here's the versatility, Linux has a neat way to select any line you want by use of the "head" and "tail" switches.
"head -n" selects the first "n" lines of a files while "tail -m" selects the last "m" lines of a file.


Throughout the garden, and especially along its outer perimeter, mature trees cast pockets of 'Garden Canadensis' into shade and part shade.
Terra Cotta Pot Flower Tower by my front door.
Interior of your fire ring. use more galvanized in summer house....flow....repetition....30 in.
Roger's California Grape (Vitis 'Roger's Red'), Zones 7 to 10; frost hardy.


Discussion in 'South West U.S.' started by CHEFSneebly, Dec 6, 2017.
Anyone from NM? Looking to hit some trails with a group...I am in SF.
Hey, I'm from NM! I'm in Grants!
I'm in Rio Rancho... Just picked up my '19 TRD OR last week.


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Victim In Kang Ji Hwan's Case Provides Testimony That She Witnessed Sexual Assault
by J. Lim
With news that actor Kang Ji Hwan was arrested on charges of sexual assault, it is being reported that one of the victims has provided testimony that she witnessed part of Kang Ji Hwan's alleged crimes.
On July 10, "A," one of the victims of the case, gave her testimony to the police and is said to have stated that she witnessed Kang Ji Hwan attempting to sexually assault the other victim "B" while they were sleeping in a room in his home.
According to "A," she woke up and when she saw what was going on next to her, she screamed and that is when Kang Ji Hwan stopped his attempts. She also told police that her clothes were in severe disarray, leading her to believe that she had suffered a similar situation, which is why she was speaking to police.
"B" is also said to have given her testimony based on what she remembers, and it is being said that no parts in the testimonies given by "A" and "B" are in disagreement.
Before going to the police station, the victims visited the Seoul Sunflower Center, which provides assistance to victims of sexual violence, to undergo examinations and testing for sexual assault. The results will take approximately one week to be released. Although they were initially reported as employees of the same agency Kang Ji Hwan is signed on with, his agency has stated that the victims are outsourced staff members.
On July 10, Kang Ji Hwan was arrested for sexual assault in his home against "A" and "B." After having a company dinner with agency employees and outsourced staff members, Kang Ji Hwan had more drinks with the victims in his home.
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A címvédő a cseh Andrea Hlaváčková és a fehérorosz Makszim Mirni párosa volt, de ezúttal nem együtt indultak. Hlaváčková az osztrák Alexander Peya párjaként a második fordulóban esett ki, akárcsak Mirni a kínai Csan Hao-csing párjaként.

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Justia Arbitration & Mediation Opinion Summaries
Setty v. Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP
January 20, 2021 by Justia
On remand from the Supreme Court in light of GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1637 (2020), the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's order denying defendant's motions to compel arbitration and to grant a stay pending arbitration.Rather than apply the law of India, the panel applied federal common law to the issue of whether defendant, a non-signatory to the partnership deed containing an arbitration provision, could compel plaintiffs to arbitrate. The panel applied Letizia v. Prudential Bache Securities, Inc., 802 F.2d 1185 (9th Cir. 1986), which remains good law, and concluded that federal law applied because the case involved federal claims and turned on the court's federal question jurisdiction. The panel held that equitable estoppel precludes a party from claiming the benefits of a contract while simultaneously attempting to avoid the burdens that contract imposes. In this case, the district court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting SS Mumbai's argument that SS Bangalore should be equitably estopped from avoiding arbitration. View "Setty v. Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health v. Dickson
The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, an affiliate of UAB Health System ("HCA"), and The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, an affiliate of UAB Health System d/b/a Prattville Baptist Hospital (collectively, "the HCA entities"), appealed a circuit court order denying their motion to compel arbitration in an action brought by Leonidas Dickson, II. In 2015, Dickson sustained injuries as a result of an automobile accident. Following the accident, Dickson was taken to Prattville Baptist Hospital ("PBH"), where he was treated and discharged. Dickson was partially covered by a health-insurance policy issued by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. ("BCBS"). PBH was a party to a "Preferred Outpatient Facility Contract" ("the provider agreement") with BCBS, under which the medical care rendered to Dickson in the emergency department at PBH was reimbursable. In 2017, Dickson filed a complaint to challenge a reimbursement that PBH had received in exchange for Dickson's medical treatment. Dickson's complaint also sought to certify a class of people who were insured by BCBS and who had received care at any hospital operated by HCA's predecessor, Baptist Health, Inc. ("BHI"). After the HCA entities' motion to dismiss was denied, the HCA entities filed an answer to the lawsuit, but the answer did not raise arbitration as a defense. After a year of extensive discovery (including class certification and class-related discovery), the HCA entities moved to compel arbitration on grounds that Dickson's health-insurance policy with BCBS required all claims related to the policy to be arbitrated and that the provider agreement also provided for arbitration, contingent upon the arbitration requirements of the BCBS policy. The trial court denied the motion to compel without providing a reason for the denial. After a request for reconsideration was also denied, the HCA entities appealed. The Alabama Supreme Court concluded the HCA entities waived their right to arbitration, thus affirming the trial court order. View "The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health v. Dickson" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Procedure, Class Action, Health Law, Insurance Law, Personal Injury, Supreme Court of Alabama
Doe v. Carmel Operator, LLC
The Supreme Court reversed the determination of the trial court that Jane Doe could compel her legal guardian (Guardian) to arbitrate her claims against it and affirmed the trial court's order compelling Guardian to arbitrate as to the remaining defendants, holding that this Court declines to adopt any alternative theories to the doctrine of equitable estoppel.After Jane had been living at Carmel Senior Living (CSL) for a few months, Guardian filed a complaint against CSL, CSL's management company and one of its employees, and Certiphi Screening, the company CSL had hired to run background checks on new employees, alleging that Jane had been sexually abused. The trial court granted CSL's and Certiphi's motions to compel arbitration under the arbitration agreement in the residency contract, determining that the agreement covered CSL under and agency theory and that equitable estoppel mandated arbitration of Guardian's claims against Certiphi. The Supreme Court reversed in part, holding (1) Certiphi was not one of the third-party beneficiaries provided for in the arbitration agreement and could not meet the requirements of equitable estoppel; and (2) this Court declines to endorse any alternative equitable estoppel theories. View "Doe v. Carmel Operator, LLC" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Contracts, Personal Injury, Supreme Court of Indiana
LLC SPC Stileks v. Republic of Moldova
In this appeal arising from a long-running dispute between the Republic of Moldova and a Ukrainian energy provider called Energoalliance, a company called Stileks—which owns the right to Energoalliance's arbitration award—seeks to recover the arbitration award. Principally at issue is whether the district court correctly confirmed the arbitration award which, with interest, now exceeds $58 million.The DC Circuit upheld the confirmation of the award. The court rejected Moldova's claims that the district court lacked jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and that, even if the district court had jurisdiction, it was error to confirm the arbitral award during the pendency of certain foreign proceedings. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding prejudgment interest to appropriately compensate Stileks for the time value of money. However, the court remanded for the district court to consider whether Moldova had a settled expectation that an adverse judgment would be denominated in Moldovan lei rather than U.S. dollars. View "LLC SPC Stileks v. Republic of Moldova" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, International Law, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Melaas v. Diamond Resorts U.S. Collection Development
Kathleen Melaas appealed a district court order granting a motion to compel arbitration and dismissing her complaint against Diamond Resorts U.S. Collection Development, LLC. She alleged Diamond Resorts offered vacation and timeshare packages, she attended a sales meeting with a Diamond Resorts representative, the sales meeting lasted approximately five hours, and she asked to leave the meeting on at least one occasion and Diamond Resorts refused to allow her to leave. She claimed Diamond Resorts knew she was a diabetic and experienced fatigue and confusion, Diamond Resorts knew she was a vulnerable adult subject to a durable power of attorney for financial management, and Diamond Resorts would not allow her to leave the sales meeting until she signed the timeshare agreement. Melaas asserted she lacked the capacity to enter into the agreement, Diamond Resorts used high-pressure and abusive sales tactics and knowledge of her medical condition to unduly influence and coerce her into signing the agreement, and any consent was obtained by duress and menace. After a hearing, the district court granted Diamond Resorts' motion to compel arbitration and dismissed Melaas' complaint. The North Dakota Supreme Court found that the forum selection clause in section 17 of the contract was not part of the arbitration agreement. The forum selection clause stated, "This Agreement is governed by Nevada law without regard to Nevada's choice of law rules. You must bring any legal action in Clark County, Nevada." When the term "Agreement" was used in the contract, the Court found it referred to the entire contract and not the arbitration agreement. To the extent Diamond Resorts argued the action should have been brought in Nevada, it was a venue issue and not a jurisdictional issue, and the right could be waived. The issue of improper venue was waived if it was omitted from a motion to dismiss or if it was not made by motion or included in the responsive pleading. On remand, if any of the parties argue the case must be dismissed under the forum selection clause, the district court must first determine whether a contract exists. If the court determines a contract exists, it could then consider the forum selection clause issue, including whether the issue was waived. The order compelling arbitration and dismissing Melaas' complaint was reversed, and the matter remanded for further proceedings. View "Melaas v. Diamond Resorts U.S. Collection Development" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Procedure, Contracts, North Dakota Supreme Court
January 5, 2021 by Justia
The Supreme Judicial Court held that this action against Uber Technologies, Inc. and Easier, LLC (collectively, Uber) was not arbitrable because there was no enforceable agreement between Uber and Plaintiffs.Plaintiffs brought this action under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, 98A claiming that three Uber drivers refused to provide one plaintiff with rides because he was blind and accompanied by a guide dog. Citing a provision in Uber's cellular telephone application, which Plaintiffs had used to register with Uber, Uber moved to compel arbitration. The judge granted the motion. The arbitrator ruled in favor of Uber on all claims. Thereafter, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held in Cullinane v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 893 F.3d 53 (1st Cir. 2018) that Uber's registration process did not create a contract. Thereafter, the judge reversed his decision granting the motion to compel arbitration, concluding that there was no enforceable contract requiring arbitration. The Supreme Judicial Court remanded the case, holding (1) Uber's terms and conditions did not constitute a contract with Plaintiffs; and (2) therefore, Uber could not enforce the terms and conditions against Plaintiffs, including the arbitration agreement. View "Kauders v. Uber Technologies, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Contracts, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Garcia v. Haralambos Beverage Co.
The Court of Appeal affirmed an order denying defendant's motion to compel arbitration, holding that there was sufficient evidence to support the trial court's finding that defendant waived its right to arbitrate. The court rejected defendant's contention that it was reasonable to wait until it located the executed arbitration agreements before filing its motion, particularly in light of its concession that at the outset of the litigation, it was not only aware of its policy requiring arbitration, but had located checklists that demonstrated both plaintiffs had received a copy of the arbitration agreement. Furthermore, substantial evidence supported a finding that the length of defendant's delay prior to filing its motion to compel arbitration and for a stay was unreasonable.The court also held that defendant acted in a manner inconsistent with its right to arbitrate. The court explained that, although defendant initially asserted arbitration as an affirmative defense, it subsequently represented in two status conference statements that it did not intend to arbitrate. The court explained that defendant's conduct related to classwide issues was inconsistent with its claimed right to arbitrate individual claims and strongly supported the trial court's finding that defendant acted in a manner inconsistent with its right to arbitrate. The court also concluded that substantial evidence supported the trial court's conclusion that defendant continued to act in a manner inconsistent with arbitration even after it located the arbitration agreements in June 2018. Finally, substantial evidence supported the trial court's finding of prejudice where defendant's delay impaired plaintiffs' ability to realize the benefits and efficiencies of arbitration. View "Garcia v. Haralambos Beverage Co." on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, California Courts of Appeal
Ali v. Daylight Transport, LLC
December 31, 2020 by Justia
Daylight, an expedited less-than-truckload carrier, contracts with independent truck drivers. Daylight's California drivers only provided services within California. The plaintiffs each entered into an "Independent Contractor Service Agreement" before beginning to drive for Daylight and regularly signed materially identical contract extensions while driving for Daylight. All of those Agreements contained an identical arbitration provision. The plaintiffs filed a putative class action, requesting relief from Daylight's "unlawful misclassification of former and current Daylight delivery drivers as 'Independent Contractors,' " and alleging violations of Labor Code and wage order provisions, and the law against unfair competition.The court of appeal affirmed the denial of Daylight's motion to compel arbitration, applying California law and finding the agreement procedurally and substantively unconscionable, and that severance of the unconscionable terms is not possible. Daylight was in a superior bargaining position and presented the contracts on a take it or leave it basis. The Agreement's 120-day limitations period is substantially shorter than the statutory limits. The Agreement permits Daylight to seek a provisional judicial remedy but precludes plaintiffs from equivalent access and requires that the parties split the cost of arbitration, a cost greater than litigation filing fees. Because Daylight had waived its argument, the court did not address preemption under the Federal Arbitration Act, which"provides a limited exemption from FAA coverage to contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce (9 U.S.C. 1). View "Ali v. Daylight Transport, LLC" on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, California Courts of Appeal, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation Law
Mathis v. St. Helens Auto Center, Inc.
The issue this case presented for the Oregon Supreme Court's review centered on whether ORS 652.200(2) and ORCP 54 E(3) could be construed in a way that "will give effect" to both, in the words of the Oregon Legislature's longstanding requirement for construing statutes. Plaintiff was employed by defendant for several years. Defendant terminated plaintiff's employment, and, several months later, plaintiff filed the underlying action alleging defendant failed to pay wages that were due at termination. The case was assigned to mandatory court-annexed arbitration, and defendant made an offer of judgment under ORCP 54 E, which plaintiff rejected. The arbitrator ultimately found that defendant had failed to timely pay some of the wages that plaintiff claimed and that the failure was willful, entitling plaintiff to a statutory penalty. In addition, the arbitrator awarded plaintiff an attorney fee under ORS 652.200(2) and costs, but he applied ORCP 54 E(3) to limit those awards to fees and costs that plaintiff had incurred before defendant's offer of judgment, because that offer of judgment exceeded the amount that plaintiff had ultimately recovered on his claims. Plaintiff filed exceptions to the arbitrator's application of ORCP 54 E(3) to limit the award of fees and costs, but the award was affirmed by operation of law when the court failed to enter a decision within 20 days. In a divided en banc opinion, the Court of Appeals held that ORCP 54 E(3) could be applied to wage claims without negating the effect of ORS 652.200(2) and thus, both could be given effect. The Supreme Court concurred with the appellate dissent, finding that and need to limit the attorney fees of an employee who unreasonably rejects a good faith offer or tender could be addressed on a case-by-case basis under ORS 20.075(2), but the "reasonable" attorney fee required by ORS 652.200(2) could not be categorically limited through ORCP 54 E(3). Judgment was reversed and the matter returned to the circuit court for further proceedings. View "Mathis v. St. Helens Auto Center, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Oregon Supreme Court
Wayne Farms LLC v. Primus Builders, Inc.
Wayne Farms LLC appealed a circuit court order compelling it to arbitrate its claims asserted against Primus Builders, Inc., and staying the action. Wayne Farms was a poultry producer located in Dothan, Alabama. Wayne Farms sought to expand its poultry-processing facility, and, to that end, entered into a "Design/Build Agreement" with Primus in 2017, that specifically addressed work to be completed by Primus in connection with the expansion of Wayne Farms' freezer warehouse. Primus subcontracted with Republic Refrigeration, Inc.; Republic hired Steam-Co, LLC for "passivation services." Upon draining a condenser for the freezer warehouse, it was discovered that the interior of the condenser was coated with corrosive "white rust." Primus then replaced the damaged condenser at a cost of approximately $500,000 under a change order, pursuant the Design/Build Agreement with Wayne Farms. Wayne Farms paid Primus for both the original damaged condenser and the replacement condenser. Both Primus and Steam-Co have claimed that the other is responsible for the damage to the condenser. Wayne Farms sued Primus and Steam-Co asserting claims of breach of contract and negligence and seeking damages for the damaged condenser and the cost of replacing it. Primus moved the trial court to compel arbitration as to the claims asserted against it by Wayne Farms. Primus also moved the trial court to dismiss, or in the alternative, stay Steam-Co's cross-claims against it. Wayne Farms opposed Primus's motion to compel arbitration, arguing that no contract existed between the parties requiring it to arbitrate claims arising from the passivation process. The Alabama Supreme Court found that the contract between Wayne Farms and Primus specified arbitration would apply to only those disputes arising from obligations or performance under the Design/Build Agreement, Wayne Farms could not be compelled to arbitrate with Primus a dispute arising from the performance of passivation work that was not an obligation agreed to in the Design/Build Agreement. Judgment was reversed and the matter remanded for further proceedings. View "Wayne Farms LLC v. Primus Builders, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Procedure, Construction Law, Contracts, Supreme Court of Alabama
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