If Frank Gehry's most famous building is the Guggenheim Bilbao, the $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, opening this fall as home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, may be his greatest achievement. Begun before the museum, the project collapsed in 1994, after running afoul of bureaucrats, contractors, and bean counters, and was finanally rescued by Disney's daughter Diane. Matt Tyrnauer learns about the fight of Gehry's career, his love-hate relationship with technology, and the tension between the architect's radical, populist vision and his growing global eminence.
Such heightened praise clearly spooks Gehry, for a number of reasons. Ever since the tour de force at Bilbao there has been the lingering question: What can the man who exploded the modernist box, the innovator whose astonishing vision reached beyond the technical constraints of the 20th century, do for an encore? Did he push so far with the undulating, arching, titanium-shingled Guggenheim Bilbao that he can push no farther? Does he need to push farther? "I feel like I am being geniused to death," Gehry tells me.
On the flip side, armchair critics—and some professional ones—frequently voice the opinion that Gehry's work since Bilbao has tended to look the same. Since Disney hall was designed before the Guggenheim, that critique is not especially relevant in this case, and for anyone who has seen the dozens of project models on display in Gehry's studio near the Los Angeles airport—structures which will not be built for a few years—it is clear that he continues to develop his unique language and to push technology.
With Bilbao, Gehry crossed a line. The man who had made his name in the late 1970s in Southern California with what he called "cheapskate" architecture—a promiscuous use of corrugated metal and chain-link fencing, lots of exposed wall and ceiling studs—suddenly became a reluctant insider. Bilbao and the fame it brought helped him capture major commissions from big-money developers and highfalutin individuals such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, for whom Gehry designed a $240 million shrine to Jimi Hendrix and rock 'n' roll in Seattle. After years of less glamorous work on small-scale and avant-garde projects—among the most notable of them his own house, a collage of cheapskate materials and colliding planes wrapped around a 1930s Santa Monica bungalow—Gehry has found himself in the potentially suffocating embrace of the Establishment. One major question for him over the past several years has been how to manage a dual existence: global star architect and maverick outsider.
The Guggenheim Bilbao may have been the transformational building of Gehry's career, but the Walt Disney Concert Hall is probably the most meaningful. Almost unfathomably, it is the first huge commission of Gehry's to be built in Los Angeles, the city he has lived and worked in since 1947, when his family left Toronto and moved to a poor neighborhood just two miles from the site of the concert hall.
The completion of the project represents a particular triumph for him because, although it was launched with a $50 million gift in 1987 from Lillian B. Disney, Walt's widow, it almost didn't get built. At one point in the stop-and-go planning process, Gehry even threatened to take his name off the building, rather than see it constructed in a way that did not meet his specifications.
Owing to fund-raising difficulties, cost overruns, and bureaucratic red tape, construction of the complex—originally set to open in 1993—was repeatedly delayed. Throughout the 1990s, the stalled venture was seen as a career setback for Gehry, whose design for the hall beat out proposals by Gottfried Böhm, Hans Hollein, and James Sterling, architects who then had larger world reputations.
In the painful decade-long struggle to erect what will likely be the most significant public building in the city, Gehry harnessed the forces of the Los Angeles establishment, effectively using his post-Bilbao star power as leverage to complete what was viewed as a radical—some said unbuildable—structure on his terms. Disney hall captures the tension between the two Franks: the polished international architect of the inside (the man who pauses on our tour of the complex to take a cell-phone call from the mayor of Lisbon, a client) and the stubborn idealist, the pusher of limits and conventions, determined to have absolute control of his creative process. Disney hall is a rare hybrid for a monumental civic project: a shrine to the Los Angeles and Hollywood aristocracy who funded it and to Gehry's unique Southern California brand of populist iconoclasm.
"A lot of gray hairs on this one," Gehry tells me the day we walk around the nearly completed building. He seems like an excited kid, but also a bit weary. Disney hall has been by far the most difficult project of his career. "Very emotional. Up and down—a lot of funny people involved," he says.
"They," he says, "are a big, amorphous group of lawyers and money people and architects, construction companies, county officials, city officials." They are the ones who took the color out of Gehry's hair.
During the initial attempt to raise the building, the project was disastrously mishandled by public and private administrators; there was also a misunderstanding of the complex design—almost a fear, on the part of the contractors and project architects hired to execute Gehry's plan, of what it would take to construct an eccentric façade and interior whose twisting and rippling forms seemed to mock gravity. (In the original plan, the outside was faced with limestone, which Gehry had used for his 1988 American Center, in Paris. It was replaced with stainless steel, largely because of budget constraints.) Gehry's office, at that time manned by 65 people, was not equipped to service such a massive project and could not produce the working drawings, which were done by another firm. (Since then, with the aid of a French aerospace computer program called CATIA, Gehry and his partners have mastered the process of producing the drawings for the builders of their designs.) Cost estimates soared, and the $50 million Disney gift—thought at first to be half of the amount needed—turned out to be less than a fourth of it. By 1994 the whole project had collapsed.
'This is the grand staircase that the divas of Los Angeles will ascend in their finery. But most people will just go up the escalator," Gehry says, walking through the lobby off the main entrance to the concert hall. The stairs are carpeted in a loud red-and-green floral pattern, designed by Gehry as a tribute to Lillian Disney, who loved gardens. "I promised her a garden here, and that's what I have given her. In the concert hall, the seats are the same pattern, and I put a garden on the roof, where there will be a fountain we designed for her memory made of broken delftware, which she collected," he adds. The staircase is stark and handsome, with a dramatic curve; it is made of simple drywall painted white.
Disney hall is, in many ways, an attempt to right the wrongs of the Los Angeles Music Center, situated directly across the street. Until now, the 60s-era complex has been the foreboding symbol of the performing arts for the movie capital of the world.
"I didn't want a temple," Gehry says, pointing toward the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, which looks like a cross between the Parthenon and a medical-office building. The Chandler, like most modern concert halls in the United States, was built at a time when classical modern—think Lincoln Center—was in the air.
On Disney hall's east side, which faces the Music Center, polite homage is paid to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Gehry has aligned one of the high curving steel walls of the new building with the east wall of the Chandler, arranging it so that the theaters engage each other with a friendly wave across First Street. With the Grand Avenue side of the building, the façade most people will either walk or drive by, Gehry attempts to reach out to passersby and concertgoers with a lobby that opens onto the street, thanks to five glass-paneled garage doors, which, when retracted, reveal the box office, a café, and a gift shop.
The amount of white-painted Sheetrock in the public areas of Disney hall is also refreshing. A few lobby walls are made of Douglas fir (so is most of the concert-hall interior), but the unpaneled walls of the foyers, which curve, bend, and bow, have an intrinsic elegance, like white stucco buildings in a Greek fishing village.
Gehry regrets that he was unable to create a more sensational "gateway" space for the concert hall, similar to the bravura atrium just inside the entrance at Bilbao, which soars 164 feet.
He had to work with a narrow perimeter area skirting the five-story "shoebox" of the concert hall. This perimeter is filled with a row of massive steel piers made of I beams. "We had a problem with what to do with the columns in a space like this, so I made them into trees," Gehry says. The stylized trees form an effective design theme for the lobby (one that Gehry used in several previous buildings, most famously his Chiat Day headquarters in Venice, California, where exterior roof supports look like hefty squared-off branches). There are seven trees in the Disney-hall lobby, paneled in Douglas fir. About 20 feet up the tree trunks are what look like stubby sawed-off boughs, in which air-conditioning vents and lights are hidden.
It is impossible to tell from looking at the exterior how much natural light Gehry manages to get into the hall. Between the waving surfaces of the façade are large windows and skylights, some hidden, some jutting out like giant crystals. Gehry also built walkways along the building's parapets. As he conceived it, concertgoers will be able to wander around the elevations, experiencing the arching steel forms up close. Touring the exterior—climbing the building, as it were—with its curving blind alleys and panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles, is among the most dramatic encounters anyone is likely to have with a modern work of architecture. If Alfred Hitchcock were still alive, he would use the place as the setting for a final-reel chase.
The exterior of Disney hall is dramatic, but the concert-hall interior almost outdoes it. "I think of it as a magical barge that you step into to listen to music," says Gehry, who has used nautical imagery before. One gallery at Bilbao is called "the boat gallery," "but it's really a fish, not a boat," says Gehry, who has long been obsessed with the form of fish, specifically carp. He has made fish sculptures and lamps, and the metal shingles on many of his buildings look like fish scales.
There is no ambiguity about the curvaceous wooden interior of the Disney-hall auditorium. It evokes a Viking ship or a Roman vessel which might have sailed out of a Fellini dream sequence. There is a sense of flotation when you are in Gehry's music barge—as if the wooden forms which compose the bulk of the hall were somehow suspended within the large shell of the concert hall's concrete box. Gehry says the swagging sail shapes in the hall, especially the ceiling, inspired him to make the outside of the building curvy as well. The spectacular pipe organ, at center stage, has a jumble of giant wooden and metal sticks protruding from it which Gehry refers to as "the French fries." On either side of the pipe organ there is seating, which places a few hundred members of the audience behind the orchestra. This is another variation on the voyeuristic theme—you can watch the oboe player and the person seated in D36.
The rounded shapes of the hall, it so happens, worked well acoustically, meeting with the approval of Yasuhisa Toyota, the acoustician with whom Gehry also collaborated on the performing-arts center at Bard College, which opened this past summer. Gehry followed Toyota's suggestions and carefully "tweaked his forms," he says, to perfect the sound in the hall.
The design process he and his partners use is based largely on intuition, and lends itself to playful experimentation. Usually Gehry starts by making a number of quick sketches. After a concept takes hold, he produces the first of many models. The early models are very primitive—paper, pushpins, and glue seeping out from seams. "I'll move a wall on a model, look at it for two weeks, then move it again. And I worry about things. I'm like a mother hen," he has said.
When he designed the interior of Disney hall, his office was not yet using the computer to help realize his desire to put movement and flow into his work. Fifteen years ago, when the buildings began to push technical limits, Gehry, with the assistance of Jim Glymph, a partner in the firm, incorporated the computer into the process. The first project for which CATIA was used was a giant fish sculpture at the Hotel Artes in Barcelona, completed in 1992. Gehry refuses to use the computer himself. "I can't stand to look at it for more than four minutes," he has said.
He works almost exclusively in physical models of wood, paper, and cloth. Once a working model is produced, a penlike device attached to CATIA scans the surface. The program can help turn any unconventional shape or volume into working drawings. It also talks to other computers—for example, at steel mills and stone quarries—and gives them exact dimensions.
The process Gehry has developed keeps him exceptionally close to the creative aspect of his architecture. Unlike many major architects with busy offices, he is not cut off from the act of designing. Throughout his career he has struggled to define himself as an artist-architect, and this has required a certain amount of sacrifice. After he got a degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, he decided, he says, "I didn't want to end up building houses for rich people." Instead he studied city planning at Harvard, but dropped out. In the 1980s he cut back his work for developers and downsized his office, taking a financial hit. Again, the tension between the two Franks came into play: to compensate for the drop in income, he ended up designing a lot of houses for rich people.


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Amstelredamum, Nobile Inferioris Germaniae Oppidum
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Old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's first view of Amsterdam, from Part 1 of their Civitates Orbis Terrarum, first published in Cologne in 1572.
Braun & Hogenberg's view is based upon a plan of Amsterdam by Cornelis Antoniszoon (1544), showing Amsterdam with its medieval walls and formal defensive systems. The view illustrates the unique Dutch form of urban plan with the Amstel River dammed near its mouth and its flow controlled by channels to the sea with an outer harbor created from the downstream portion, and an inner harbor from the upstream portion. The dam, located at the center, also provided the central plaza for public buildings. Numerous ships and fishing boats fill the harbors, attesting to the increased trade and commerce that Amsterdam was beginning to experience when this plan was published.
Cornelis Anthoniszoon (1505 to 1553) was a grandchild of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, who probably taught him to paint, and a cousin of Dirck Jacobsz. In 1538, Anthoinszoon painted the first complete map of Amsterdam as a commission from the city fathers, to present as a gift to Charles V. Anthoniszoon. He is best known for his woodcuts, especially his view of Amsterdam, from 1544. This was printed in 12 blocks of wood, and was re-issued until well into the 17th century.
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Old color. Printer's crease near centerfold.
Georg Braun Biography
Georg Braun (1541-1622) was born and died in Cologne. His primary vocation was as Catholic cleric; he spent thirty-seven years as canon and dean at the church St. Maria ad Gradus, in Cologne. Braun was the chief editor of the Civitates orbis terrarum, the greatest book of town views ever published. His job entailed hiring artists, acquiring source material for the maps and views, and writing the text. In this role, he was assisted by Abraham Ortelius. Braun lived into his 80s, and he was the only member of the original team to witness the publication of the sixth volume in 1617.
Frans Hogenberg Biography
Frans Hogenberg (ca. 1540-ca. 1590) was a Flemish and German engraver and mapmaker who also painted. He was born in Mechelen, south of Antwerp, the son of wood engraver and etcher Nicolas Hogenberg. Together with his father, brother (Remigius), uncle, and cousins, Frans was one member of a prominent artistic family in the Netherlands.
During the 1550s, Frans worked in Antwerp with the famous mapmaker Abraham Ortelius. There, he engraved the maps for Ortelius' groundbreaking first atlas, published in Antwerp in 1570, along with Johannes van Deotecum and Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius. It is suspected he engraved the title page as well. Later, Ortelius supported Hogenberg with information for a different project, the Civitates orbis terrarium (edited by Georg Braun, engraved by Hogenberg, published in six volumes, Cologne, 1572-1617). Hogenberg engraved the majority of the work's 546 prospects and views.
It is possible that Frans spent some time in England while fleeing from religious persecution, but he was living and working in Cologne by 1580. That is the city where he died around 1590. In addition to his maps, he is known for his historical allegories and portraits. His brother, Remigius, also went on to some fame as an engraver, and he died around the same time as his brother.
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The City of Namur with the Castle and other Fortifications
Striking plan of Namur and the Maes and Sambre Rivers, showing the town and fortifications.
Fine early birds-eye view of Bergen Op Zoom.
Belgii Sive Germania Inferioris Neder=Teutschlandt
Gorgeous full color example of Merian's map of the Low Countries.
Barca, che va a' Delft, Rotterdam, Gaude, et Haya | Barca, che va'da Amsterdam ad Harlem
Fine engraved ship portrait by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, one of the foremost Italian mapmakers of the 17th century.
A View of Amsterdam
Attractive and painterly engraved view of Amsterdam.
Belgii Universi seu Inferioris Germaniae quo XVII Provinciae…1747
Nice regional map of the Low Countries, published by Homann Heirs in Nuremberg.

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The newest government watchdog could use a friend - Macleans.ca
The newest government watchdog could use a friend
Jean-Denis Fréchette has earned the ire of the Official Opposition
by Nick Taylor-Vaisey
Paul Chiasson/CP
The government dismissed former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page as partisan. Whatever the merit to that argument, Page certainly questioned the government's numbers, time and again, in a manner that fuelled the government's political opposition. On so many major files, Page's assertions served as the foundation of opposition attacks in the House of Commons. The government may have been irresponsible in its knee-jerk repudiation of virtually all of Page's analysis, but at least the Conservatives were consistent.
Now, Page has a replacement. Jean-Denis Fréchette, after only a few weeks, has shaken the established order. Fréchette has already earned the ire of the Official Opposition, even as he delicately pursues his predecessor's exhaustive fight for data related to Budget 2012 departmental cuts. Page received resistance from several key departments and took the government to court. As Aaron Wherry recalls, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair wrote to Fréchette early on to rekindle that fight for that data. Fréchette signalled a less aggressive tone than Page; Mulcair replied that the matter could go back to court; Fréchette replied that he'd rather not escalate court battles; and then, well, Mulcair fired off his latest rejoinder. He's growing impatient, in front of our eyes.
You now seem to believe it is acceptable to allow the Act to be ignored without doing anything to protect the rights of MPs, as laid out by Justice Harrington. I believe it is inappropriate for you to decide that this section of the Act is no longer to be in force or be observed.
An opposition leader now disagrees with the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and on the other side of the aisle, the government isn't being particularly cooperative with the same Parliamentary Budget Officer. Towards the end of his tenure in the PBO, Page often mused that nobody really wants the job. Either be critical, or don't be critical, he'd say, but someone will always be unhappy. Early on, Fréchette's found a way to make nobody all that happy. One thing is certain: How the House of Commons will spar over the renewed PBO's first report, whenever that comes, is a complete mystery.
What's above the fold
The Globe and Mail Quebecers can't be permanently exempt from the proposed values charter.
National Post A bus-train collision at an Ottawa crossing killed six and injured 30.
Toronto Star Ale Medlej, from London, Ont., may have led a fatal hostage-taking in Algeria.
Ottawa Citizen The nation's capital mourns after the horrific bus-train collision.
CBC News The collision's derailed train was reset and roads in the area are reopening.
CTV News Ottawans held a candle-light vigil for those killed in the bus-train collision.
National Newswatch Justin Trudeau has sustained a polling lead longer than predecessors.
THE NATIONAL SNC-Lavalin. The RCMP continues to arrest former senior executives with engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin. The latest to be charged in connection with a $2.9-billion development plan in Bangladesh is former vice-president Kevin Wallace, who left the company last December and has since filed a wrongful dismissal suit.
THE GLOBAL Greece. Pavlos Fissas, a 34-year-old anti-racist activist, was killed by a member of the far-right Golden Dawn Party—the country's third most popular party—who stabbed him twice in a bar. The death sparked a 2,000-strong rally to mourn Fissas' passing. This could be the first instance where the Golden Dawn party is linked to an attack.
THE QUIRKY Beauty pageants. France's Senate voted to ban beauty pageants for children under the age of 16. The measure, part of a larger legislative package aimed at improving gender equality, warned of the "hypersexualization" of young women in an era when they are featured in fashion photography. France's lower assembly will now consider the bill.
Jean-Denis Frechette
Parliamentary Budget Officer
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The QP Clip: Mulcair and Fantino spar on service cuts
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Gap to take Delhi firm to court in trademark row
Category: WTO	Sub-category: Intellectual Property
Apparel retailer giant Gap is the latest multi-national player to join the trademark and patent infringement battle that has hit Indian companies.
The San Francisco-based retailer is suing little known environment e-commerce firm Green the Gap, alleging trademark infringement over the word 'Gap', and reportedly planning to on send out notices to at least five other small and medium businesses.
Gap served a legal notice on the New Delhi-based online retailer on March 1, claiming that Green the Gap was taking undue advantage of Gap's reputation and goodwill. It also issued an ultimatum to the company, asking it to stop using the word 'Gap' across its stories, apparel and website within two weeks.
"The notice in question was sent as part of a global trademark protection programme that we have in place.
"Our brands are among our valuable assets and must be protected," said a Gap statement.
Trademark bullying
Green the Gap, which has retail outlets in Delhi and Mumbai in addition to its online presence, plans on putting up a fight, however. The company was set up by Swechha, a New Delhi-based environment NGO, and a proportion of its profit goes toward citizenship programmes.
"We believe that Gap should not engage in trademark bullying, and instead support small and medium businesses.
"The word 'Gap' is a common noun and cannot be monopolised. Therefore, we will not change our name and will fight this out," the company said.
Source: www.thehindu.com


Which Of These Computer Terms Was Originally Literal?
The Oldest Verified Computer Program Still In Use Is Used For?
It's entertaining to think about many of the computer terms we use coming from literal origins. What if we called it "booting" the computer because people used to start the machines with a swift kick from their boot-clad feet? Sadly, the majority of them are figurative in meaning.
In the case of software patching, however, the origins were quite literal. Early reprogrammable computers were programmed using punch tape where the command instructions were actual holes punched into the paper stock. If you made an error or introduced a bug into the code, you would have to review the physical tape and then carefully cover over the erroneous holes with paper "patch" tape.
In light of that, perhaps in an alternate history we'd have ended up calling the process of code repair "Scotching" (after a brand name of tape) or "masking" (after a type of tape) instead of patching.
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The Mayans were right--Flacco gets $120 million
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 9:05am
So, how has your last 12 months gone?
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco went from being one of the most questioned athletes in all of professional sports to one of its hottest at the beginning of last season, only to fall back down to one of the most ridiculed, before climbing to heights he's never reached before, culminating in a Super Bowl MVP performance. Well, that might not have actually been the culmination for Casa Flacco, now that I think about it.
Earlier this week, Flacco signed a six-year, $120.6 million deal with the Ravens, making him the highest-paid player in the NFL, and presumably immune to any and all future criticism he might have to endure from the public. Want to call him overpaid? Fair enough. Do you believe that he's not one of the five best quarterbacks in the league? You're certainly entitled to that opinion.
But he's now rich. And he can hire someone to deal with all that negativity now.
Look, I'm not one of those blindly-devoted Ravens fans who feels that Flacco is the best quarterback in the NFL. I'd take Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers over him without blinking an eye, and I don't put him on the same level as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees, either. But the Ravens weren't going to sign any of them. There are also some young guns, like Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Russell Wilson that I would feel better about having for the long-term, but the Ravens weren't going to get any of them, either.
They have Flacco, and that's enough to win, as evidenced by his three AFC Championship game appearances and Super Bowl title in his first five years in the league.
Is he the most consistent guy in the world? Not on the field, where he looks like Johnny Unitas one minute and Johnny from the movie "Airplane" the next. But he usually shows up against good competition, and he doesn't throw a lot of interceptions, which can keep a talented team in games long enough for one of their playmakers to make a difference.
Off the field, he's amazingly consistent. In fact, if the guy from the Dos Equis commercials is "the most interesting man in the world," Flacco might be the least. He has all the personality of a pebble stuck in the sole of your shoe. You know, when you keep hearing that scraping sound when you walk and you're not sure exactly what it is until you notice that your foot is now at a weird angle when you take a step and it's starting to ...
My point is that the man is dull. His own father said as much during Super Bowl week, and there has not been much evidence to the contrary over the years. Do you know what Flacco was doing when he heard that his agent and the Ravens came to terms on the new contract? Eating pizza with his parents and grandparents on a Friday night, and he happened to see the story come up on television. Know how he celebrated his $29 million signing bonus on Monday?
He stopped at a McDonald's drive-thru and ordered some McNuggets.
Now, don't get me wrong. In the world of professional sports, boring can be a good thing. I'd rather have the quarterback who spends his offseason Friday nights hanging around with family and watching television than the guy out driving drunk or hitting his wife. I'd take that 10 out of 10 times. In fact, my one criticism of Flacco's personality is that I'd like to see him be more boring in interviews, and stop with the proclamations on his greatness.
That being said, I'm glad the Ravens locked up Flacco for the future. Oh, he can make me fling a remote control across a room like nobody's business, and there are times I want to burn my Flacco jersey in a fiery blaze, but he's our guy, and he's stood up to the quarterback bullies in the league time after time. If not for a broken-up pass the year before, we'd be talking about a guy who led his team to the Super Bowl two straight years.
I think most teams would take that in a heartbeat.
As for those rejoicing about the Ravens killing their salary cap with this deal, consider the first three years of his new contract. Flacco will only cost $6.8 million against the salary cap his first year, $14.8 million in 2014 and $14.55 million in 2015, according to Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun. At that point, just like every other team with a highly-paid quarterback, they will re-work the contract and make it cap-friendly again. They will be fine.
In the meantime, the University of Delaware should update its recruiting efforts: "UD grads have been known to earn more than $150 million before they are 35 years old."


In some popular historical writings Calvin is often depicted as the 'dictator of Geneva', 'the arch-inquisitor' of Protestantism, and branded, along with his colleagues Farel and Beza, and his disciple Knox, as a 'persecutor' – indeed as the one who 'brought Protestant persecution to a head'. Together they are held responsible for impressing upon Reformed Protestantism a character which, for the larger part of two centuries, is held to have discoloured its Christian witness in those areas where it held sway. As a result, Calvinism for some cannot be painted in too dark a hue nor its adherents too severely condemned. This almost universal popular antipathy, particularly among 'lay' writers, has not gone without challenge, or at least modification, from serious students of Calvinism and from a number of ecclesiastical historians who, in the post-war period, have added significantly to 16th century studies. 'Calvinism', as J. T. McNeill remarked in his preface to The History and Character of Calvinism, 'has usually been discussed in an atmosphere of controversy and has often been judged even by academicians with a slender reference to evidence'. But with the publication of hitherto unedited source material and with new and elaborately annotated editions of some standard works, it may be that Calvinism, as Calvin himself requested in the prefatory letter to the first edition of The Institutes, can still hope to be accorded a full impartial inquiry, and particularly in the area of toleration.


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Light Up the Night 2017
Canada set to open world juniors with tough test against the U.S.
Canada and the U.S. sit in a difficult Group B with always-dangerous Russia, the Czechs and Germany
Canada eased into last year's world junior hockey championship.
The host country led its opener against Denmark 3-0 after the first period, 8-0 through two and pumped home six more over the final 20 minutes of a 14-0 romp.
The 2020 curtain-raiser versus a familiar foe should provide a little more drama.
Canada kicks off the under-20 event's latest instalment Thursday against the United States in a game loaded with skill, speed, familiarity, and perhaps biggest of all, intensity.
"Heated," Canadian defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker, a first-round pick of the Ottawa Senators, said of the rivalry. "Two countries that don't like each other playing against each other."
Named as Canada's captain just prior hitting the ice for Wednesday's practice at Ostrava Arena, Barrett Hayton said watching their predecessors go to battle was part of growing up.
"That's what you think about when you think of international competition," said Hayton, who played 14 times with the Arizona Coyotes this season before being loaned to the Canadian setup for the world juniors. "It'll definitely be an intense game."
The feeling on the other side is, of course, mutual.
"That rivalry's one like no other," said diminutive U.S. sniper Cole Caufield, a Montreal Canadiens' first-rounder. "It's country versus country. It's not just a team versus a team. It's going to be so special to be a part of it."
"Neither team likes each other," added American captain Mattias Samuelsson, a Buffalo Sabres' prospect and the son of former NHL defenceman Kjell Samuelsson. "It'll be a good game to start."
Viewed as the front-runners at the 10-team tournament, Canada and the U.S. sit in a difficult Group B with always-dangerous Russia, the host Czechs and a German program that continues to improve.
Group A, which is being contested in nearby Trinec, includes Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia and Kazakhstan.
While in years past there would be build-up ahead of the Canada-U.S. showdown — often on New Year's Eve — this matchup comes a lot sooner and will give one team a huge edge early.
"You've got a big test right away," said Ty Dellandrea, a Dallas Stars' first-rounder named as one of Canada's alternate captains along with fellow centre Joe Veleno and defenceman Ty Smith. "It'll be good for us to bring our game to the highest level right off the start."
The Americans beat their northern neighbours 2-1 outdoors in a shootout in round-robin play in Orchard Park, N.Y., at the 2018 event in their last meeting at the world juniors — Canada's only blemish on the way to winning its 17th gold medal at the teenage showcase.
Other recent results saw the U.S. down Canada 5-4 in a shootout to capture the 2017 final in Montreal after also winning 3-1 in Toronto on New Year's Eve.
"There's no putting your foot into the water — you've got to go full in," said U.S. centre Shane Pinto, another Ottawa first-round pick. "It's going to be a tough one, but I think we're ready."
One of five returning players from last year's stunning sixth-place finish in Vancouver and Victoria, Hayton said wearing the 'C' for Canada will be special.
"I was just incredibly honoured," said the 19-year-old centre. "You idolize the guys who play here."
Canadian head coach Dale Hunter said Hayton's professional experience played a factor in the decision.
"He's a leader," said Hunter, himself a former NHL captain. "On and off the ice he's a character kid."
The coach remained coy about Thursday's starting goalie, but Nico Daws, a netminder with zero international experience prior to this month, is the odds-on favourite to get the nod.
The undrafted netminder was never realistically on Hockey Canada's radar before a standout start to the season that has him leading the Ontario Hockey League with a 2.06 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage for the Guelph Storm.
"It's been crazy," the 19-year-old said of his last four months. "I still haven't really taken it all in yet. It's one of those things … I don't know if I'll be able to appreciate it as much as I should until I look back."
Daws tried to pour cold water on talk of his lack experience on this or any similar stage, but the fact remains along with Joel Hofer, the equally untested presumptive No. 2, Canada's crease remains a massive question mark.
"It's a big setting. Very intimidating, I guess you could say," Daws said. "But I'm just there to stop pucks."
Hayton, Veleno, Smith, star winger Alexis Lafreniere and blue-liner Jared McIsaac were all part of the Canadian team that went home bitterly disappointed from last year's tournament after falling to Finland in the quarterfinals — a feeling they want no part of here in the Czech Republic.
"I don't think there are any words needed," said Hayton, whose team faces Russia in another headline-grabber Friday. "We all have that fire inside of us."
The Americans, meanwhile, are equally motivated after losing the 2019 gold medal to the Finns with less than 90 seconds to play in regulation.
"Last year was a heartbreaker," said Samuelsson, one of five returnees. "That feeling that you had, you don't want it again."
Both the U.S. and Canada are sick of practising and playing exhibition games.
It's time for one to pen the rivalry's latest chapter.
"This is what you drive for," Hunter said. "They're a good team, we're a good team. That's what's going to make it a heck of a hockey game.
"You want that adrenaline. You want to be in the action. That's what it's all about."
Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press
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Dondon (Dondon en créole haïtien) est une commune d'Haïti située dans le département du Nord et dans l'Arrondissement de Saint-Raphaël.

Géographie
La commune de Dondon est située dans le massif du Nord. Son altitude varie entre 390 mètres pour les villages de Grand Gilles et Brostage, et jusqu'à  pour le village de Haut-du-Trou.

La rivière Bouyaha traverse la commune de Dondon.

Démographie
La commune est peuplée de  habitants(recensement par estimation de 2009).

Histoire
Le premier colon européen établi à Dondon est le flibustier-chirurgien André Minguet : Jean-Baptiste du Casse, gouverneur de Saint-Domingue, lui accorde le  la concession "du lieu appelé vulgairement le Trou du Dondon, borné des montagnes qui forment le Cap, et de l'autre côté des montagnes des savanes du Grand Fond et du Limbé, et de la rivière du Pimentier, pour y élever des bestiaux.".

La paroisse catholique de Dondon a été créée en 1727 et consacrée à saint Martin de Tours/

Division territoriale
La commune est composée de 5 sections communales :
 Brostage
 Bassin Caïman
 Matador
 Laguille
 Haut du Trou

Économie
L'économie locale repose sur la culture du café, du cacao, du citron vert, de la canne à sucre,de multiples variétés de "pois",du "maïs",des "agrumes", etc.

Monuments et sites
 La Voûte à Minguet est une grotte, lieu de culte des Taïnos à l'époque précolombienne, et aujourd'hui lieu de culte vaudou. Moreau de Saint-Méry la décrit et rapporte qu'elle fut la première habitation du flibustier Minguet à Dondon. Il y a environ dix grottes dans cette commune. telles que Voute des Dames, Grotte Marc Antoine, Voute la fumée, Cadelia, Saint Martin, les grottes Michels à Brostage y compris celles auxquelles on n'a pas encore donné un nom ou l'histoire n'est pas encore connue.
 Place nègre à matador, un prion a Brostage, le Fort Moïse en dessus de la voûte St Martin.

Personnages célèbres
 Jean-Baptiste le Pers (mort en 1743, à Dondon), Jésuite français
 Vincent Ogé (vers 1755, à Dondon - roué vif en 1791, au Cap-Français), figure de la révolution haïtienne
 André Minguet, premier propriétaire terrien

Références

Notes

Bibliographie
 Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l'isle Saint-Domingue, Philadelphie, Paris, Hambourg, 1797-1798, (réédition, 3 volumes, Paris, Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 1984), pp. 251–271.

Liens externes
 Henri-David EUSTACHE, Jean Vilfort EUSTACHE, "Haïti: Dondon, un joyau à visiter (1re partie)", dans Le Nouvelliste, 17 novembre 2009
 Ambassade de France en Haïti : Inauguration d'un pont à Dondon sur la rivière Bouyaha, 2009
Haiti: Exporting coffee while protecting biodiversity: https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/ourstories/haiti---le-cafe--s-exporte-tout-en-protegeant-la-biodiversite.html
« Sans les coopératives, Haïti aurait importé du café »:https://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/123954/Sans-les-cooperatives-Haiti-aurait-importe-du-cafe.html

Ville dans le département du Nord (Haïti)
Commune en Haïti

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East's Drayden Bell defends state titles
By Ellen Terhune
Published: Feb. 20, 2021 at 12:08 PM CST|Updated: Feb. 20, 2021 at 12:11 PM CST
WICHITA, Kan. (Catch it Kansas) - Wichita East junior Drayden Bell added on to his legacy at the 6A Swimming and Diving State Championship Friday, defending his title in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle races.
"It feels great to maintain both the 50 and 100-yard titles, it's a huge thing for me so I'm pleased with that," said Bell.
Bell is now a three-time 50-yard freestyle champion and a two-time 100-yard freestyle champion. He swam a time of 20.42 in the 50-yard freestyle and 45.16 in the 100-yard freestyle. Both times were the fastest in Kansas this season, earning him All-American status in both events.
Bell was .33 seconds away from breaking the state record (20.09) in the 50-yard freestyle, a goal he had set for himself at the beginning of the season.
"There was a little bit of disappointment, it wasn't the greatest swim and I didn't hit that turn as well as I thought I should've," he said. "Overall it was a good race besides that so I can't complain."
The junior was named the swimmer of the meet for the second year in a row, and also helped lead East's 400-yard freestyle relay to a fourth place finish with a time of 3:19.73. East finished in seventh place with 115 team points, the highest of area schools.
Senior Cooper Cole finished seventh in the 50 free (22.13) and sophomore Jackson Kleeman finished eighth in the 100 butterfly (53.98). Bell, Cole, Kleeman and Will Weiford teamed up for a fourth-place finish in the 400 free relay.
"I'm happy with how we did as a team, I am proud of my fellow teammates and proud to be on the same team as them," said Bell.
Now Bell will look to repeat as a state champion in both races in his senior season, and has his sights set on breaking both state records.
"It's going to take a lot of extra work in the gym and the pool and sacrificing a lot of free time but that's part of the gig," he said. "There were a lot of things I could've fixed at this meet but it's just a meet and I'm going to learn from these mistakes."
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Reid began her equipment finance career at Great American Insurance (formerly Premier Lease & Loan Services) in April 2003 and obtained her CLFP designation in 2005. She has been active with the NEFA (formerly UAEL) as a Regional Director, and was the Conference Chair Person for the Fall 2009 Super Regional Exposition.
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She began her career in the legal industry, working for attorneys on Mercer Island, WA. The majority of her experience has been as the Executive Assistant to company presidents, sales managers, and large corporations' executives. She was employed for more than 10 years as the Lead Section Assistant in a Northwest engineering firm where she supported 35 engineers in the wastewater department and received the "Pathfinders Program of Excellence Award."


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Q: Horizontal Scrolling of a div by javascript I have a div in which there is a  table . The table has as many columns that there appears a horizontal scrollbar under it. I have to highlight a textbox which is at extream right and is not in the view port. How do I get that texbox in the viewport ?

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14 colours in the Invictus Sirius range, more plain in style than heathered. The 50oz version of this range is called Invictus Orion.
Carpetwise is an Associated Weavers, Invictus Sirius retailer in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes.
Carpetwise is an Associated Weavers, Invictus Sirius retailer in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes. We have a shop and showroom where you can view the sampling. Open Monday to Saturday. 9am to 5pm.


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Q: specifying color gradient for aes fill in ggplot/geom_text? i'm trying to use ggplot to make a bar plot, and am using two different lists of pvalues to gradient-fill (i) the bar plots themselves and (ii) text labels I place on each bar. I've come up and scoured the internet to make this
ggplot(plots, aes(x=names, y=values)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity", aes(fill=pvalues1)+
  geom_text(aes(x=names y=values, color=pvalues2),fontface="bold",
                hjust=ifelse(sign(meanScore)>0, 1, 0))

The problem here is that it uses the same default blue gradient to fill in both the bars and the labels. Is there any way to specify that one of these use a different gradient? It looks pretty nauseating right now. Thank you!

A: solved using scale_colour_gradient!!!


Serano wrote: my hand is swollen by all the brushing - sad to say.
the question is brushing what LOL well I offer to help packing oh wait just did a pack and unpack and now looking like might be going to do another, so I take back hehe. oh wait maybe just pack need a place to live to unpack haha.
Have fun at fan fair. I staying away for sure, I get into too much trouble.
Leave to FanFaire on Thursday - and as I don't laptop - will be out of commo until Monday.
Fnord could you PM me your number? to me as I have lost it? I wrote down Jibvaldes.
I am not tracking anyone but Jibvalde, Fnord and Myself (with wife) going to FanFaire - right or wrong peeps?
Serano wrote: Fnord could you PM me your number?
Haha, I don't own a cell phone. If I had one of those, work would be able to call me.
no argument about you being a freak. nothing new there. Ok well - Mine is still posted on the first reply to the meet the officers thread. been there for 3 years.
I at least can find you unless you suddenly grew / dyed your hair, shrunk (can't get much taller) or grew a beard. Se ya when I do!
Anyways - if you have any issues for me to bring up at the developer forums - post em here and I will see what I can get to.
Open the beastlord and ranger classes for frogloks!
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Ohh just popped into mind, you can ask them when they'll change their sony station launcher to correctly spell berserker (instead of berzerker) on their graphic looking at toon names.
Ohhh I have another, ask them how I can open EQ and have it use all 4 cpu's at the same time instead of having to turn them all on at once. Or alternatively how to have eq cycle to 4 different cpu's instead of just the 2 that it seems to do. what I mean by this is I load eq instance 1, I'm on cpu 1, load instance 2, I'm on cpu 2, load instance 3, I'm not sharing cpu 1 with instance 1 and 3. Would like to either have them all load up to use cpu 1 through 4, or cycle through all of them instead of the first 2.
I *highly* doubt they've built any code to address multi-core/multi-socket systems. Remember that this is a 10 year old game built on top of a 13 year old engine. They only added some preliminary support for multi-core cpus to EQ2 about 8 months ago. What you're seeing is just how your OS happens to partition the load.
Nah they broke it a while ago. Initially when loaded it used all cores, then there were some issues with running EQ on multiple cores, so they changed it to pick a single core, then move on to the next core. However this does not seem to address systems with > 2 cores, and EQ also works fine for me if I manually set it all instances to use all cores, or if I set each instance to it's own core. Don't really care if it is using special code to ustilise the multi cores, just that when I load the third instance of eq that it doesn't try to share the same core again with the first instance which slows both instances way down.
Heh there's probably errors in that somewhere.


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Pelosi Declines To Back Sanders' Universal Health Care Bill
Filed Under:Bernie Sanders, Medicare For All, Nancy Pelosi, Single-Payer Healthcare
WASHINGTON (CBS / AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is declining to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders' universal health care bill.
The liberal California Democrat says that while she has long supported the idea the bill captures, of everybody getting health coverage, "Right now I'm protecting the Affordable Care Act."
She also disputes the idea that the Vermont independent's bill has become a litmus test for Democrats, forcing them to prove their ideological purity by getting onboard.
Several Senate Democrats who are seen as potential presidential candidates in 2020 have endorsed Sanders' bill, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) was the first senator to co-sponsor the bill. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Oakland last month, Harris endorsed Sanders' proposal, saying that "health care is a right."
Harris went on to say on her website that the legislation is the "morally and ethically right thing to do" and that it makes sense "from a fiscal standpoint."
I'm co-sponsoring @BernieSanders' Medicare for All bill because health care is a right. Add your name if you agree: https://t.co/pD7PtYj4ZF
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 31, 2017
Sanders' bill would in effect expand Medicare to cover all Americans, not just the elderly.
Pelosi says President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is actually more comprehensive than Medicare.
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Dear Classic Rock, I have a few questions.
Why, after saying that you are "tired of words" in Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, does it take you 343 more words to finish what you have to say?
Excellent question, reader*. Did you really count? I'll take your word for it.
I normally avoid answering reader questions, preferring instead to act as a conduit to the rockers. But in this case I think I can clear things up with just two words: Jim Steinman. Steinman, as you surely know, was the lyricist behind this song and most of Meat's biggest hits. He is also renowned for being just a tad verbose.
I could provide loads of examples of Steinman's propensity toward wordiness, but one of my favorites is the 1983 chart-topper Total Eclipse of the Heart, written by Jim and sung, of course, by Bonnie Tyler.
Several months back a friend hipped me to the "literal video version" of Total Eclipse. I've been looking for a plausible excuse to post it ever since. I guess today is my lucky day. Bless you, Jim Steinman. This vid has had 7 million viewers on youtube, so there's a good chance you've seen it. If not, you're in for a treat. Thanks to Beth for passing it along and remember readers...never let your meat loaf.
Got a question for a classic rocker? Send it in and we'll pass it along.
Lyrics to Two Out of Three Ain't Bad here.
* I normally identify readers by initials, but I seem to have misplaced the name. If the submitter of this question would be so kind as to email me his/her name, I'll update this post to give credit where due. Thanks!
A reader question for Electric Light Orchestra….
I've seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand.
And I've seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above.
But I never seen nothing like you.
Do ya do ya want my face?
Do ya do ya want my mind?
Becky D.'s question: If the woman (you're singing to) is so much stranger than all those things, would she really ever want your love? Might not her tastes run toward the more eccentric?
Excellent question, Becky! But, I can't help wondering just the opposite. Jeff Lynne has clearly seen a lot of things. I wonder if by that point in his life, he had had enough of the flying lovers and dancing babies and porcine photography enthusiasts. Perhaps he's so keen for this woman to want his love, face, and mind precisely because she is more prosaic than all these things he's seen. It's like being relieved when your vacation is over so you can go back to working all day and eating pasta over your own kitchen sink. Sure rampant hallucinations are fun, but they're also exhausting.
Full lyrics to Do Ya here.
Electric Light Orchestra, Do Ya, 1976.
Click it. I think you'll find that you DO want Jeff Lynne's face.
How big were the gym lockers at your high school?
Was it really possible to fit three young ladies into one of them?
Full lyrics to Walk This Way here.
Question for classic rocker? Submit.
"You can knock me. I don't care.
You can mock me. I don't care.
a) The songs: catchy, distinctive, fun to drive to, just damn, you know.
b) The fact that Ric Ocasek snagged Paulina Porizkova.
But Rockmocker readers aren't so quick to give The Cars a pass. In recent days two different readers have sent in questions for Mr. Ocasek and/or The Cars. I pass them along as a public service. Gentlemen, we await your answers.
What is "rock-n-roll hair"? Is it like "bed head"? Do you have to go to a special hairdresser to get it?
If the illusion is real, wouldn't it not be an illusion?
Fine questions, P.B. I think Joe Walsh might be your best resource on that illusion question. As for "rock-n-roll hair," if you don't know what that is, you clearly didn't live through the '80s or don't currently reside in San Luis Obispo.
In a similar vein, reader D.S. would like to inquire of The Cars just what is a "clock machine" as mentioned in the song Let's Go.
And she won't give up 'cause she's seventeen.
That's a legitimate question too, D.S. I'd try to answer it for you but the old clock machine on the wall says it's time to walk away from my computer machine and get some real work done.
Are you like me, readers? Do you like the nightlife, baby? Well, then…Let's go!
Got a question for classic rocker?
Send it to the rockmocker and we'll pass it along.
I know that you are in heaven with your mama now, and I hesitate to bring up anything that might cause an emotional rift between you two, but I just have to ask something about the song, Simple Man.
And maybe some day you'll love and understand.
Won't you do this for me son, if you can?
In it, you share all the sage advice your mother gave you when you were young. And it is fine advice--follow your heart...find a woman...forget your lust for the rich man's gold... All good stuff.
My question is this: did it ever bother you that she seemed to have such low expectations for you? I mean, "Be a simple kind of man?" Is that really the best she thought you could be? Just be simple. Don't be complex, or ambitious, or interesting, or multifaceted. Just simple. In the song, you never say what your reaction to all this advice was, or if you followed it.
Honestly though, I'm surprised you remembered the conversation at all. You say that she said, "Come sit beside me, my only son," so this must have happened before your brothers Donnie and Johnny were born. You would have been, what, four years old? Pretty heavy stuff to put on a preschooler. Seriously, Ronnie, the more I think about it, I don't know if your mom was doing you any favors with this little heart-to-heart.
Anyway, I sincerely hope all is well with you, and honestly, do not feel any pressure to respond personally to this question. Just wanted to let you know that some of us are still thinking about what you said.
But no matter what your mom says, I'm still gonna lust for the rich man's gold. Gimme that gold, rich man!
Got a question for one of the Van Zandt brothers or another classic rocker?
Send it in to the rockmocker, and we'll post it here.
I was raised on radio, in a time when "classic rock" was just called "rock." Cursed with a memory devoid of prejudice, I remember lyrics--all lyrics--the cryptic, the sublime, the inane, and the straight-up crappy. The dreck of Perry, Miller, DeYoung, Bachman, Turner, Morrison, et al. wormed its way into my brain 25 years ago. It's left me with a lot of questions.
I would like some answers.
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"Two hours later he stood on top of the plateau, the river basin spreading for many miles around before him, something like a gigantic landscape bowl with rims formed by gently sloping hills and steep mountain chains; while the faraway river mouth was covered with new-ploughed fields, cultivated gardens and olive groves. An absolutely special atmosphere of intimacy filled this bowl. Though the sea was close enough to see it from the hill top, there was nothing maritime, salty or sandy, or open in it – only quiet detachment, as if the coast was a few days away." Here is how contemporary writer Patrick Sueskind describes the outskirts of Grasse in his novel "Perfume": "On the other edge of this huge bowl, about two miles away, was a town lying or better say huddling against steep mountains … It dominated the big aromatic bowl, scent-laden at its feet and was seemingly satisfied with it".
Grasse is a city of fragrances. Filled with the scent of oleanders, orchards and vineyards, Grasse has been chosen as a scene of action for romance for good reason. Since early times, it has been well known for its perfumers, who master the art of making perfumes and fragrant oils. The finest examples of this art are exhibited in the Grasse International Perfume Museum. The traditional holiday in August – Grasse Jasmine Festival – is also worth mentioning. At a time when vegetables are gathered in Central Europe, and fruits are gathered in the South, in Grasse the time is ripe… for jasmines. The Grasse Jasmine Festival celebrates the start of harvesting.
Not only fragrances, but also landscapes and views of Grasse are so poetic that they attract the best creative artists from around the world. Ivan Bunin, whose cherished dream was to buy a house in this place, lived here for a long time; Edith Piaf passed away in this city.
In this city separated by 10 km of highlands from the coast there are no large-scale enterprises or business centers, no bustle of Cannes or stiffness of Nice. Local citizens love their city and you start to understand why when you come here. "Mist or even haze was hanging above the fields, and the scents of grass, furze and roses rising from below seemed to be washed clean, simple and simply comforting", is what Perfume says about the air of Grasse.
People leave Paris or the hectic Côte d'Azur to come here and find a sense of peace and tranquility.


What if you think you've already found your soulmate and you see them every time you look in the mirror?
No, it's not a joke: "Sologamy" is a thing and more than a few people are doing it.
The marriage trend is becoming increasingly popular, especially among single women. Some are calling it an "act of self love," and honestly it's hard to accuse someone of not really feeling themselves if they actually go and make it official with…themselves.


Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher's dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini's effervescent comedy closer to them than ever before. The stellar cast leapt to the challenge with irresistible energy and bravura vocalism. Juan Diego Flórez is Count Almaviva, who fires off showstopping coloratura as he woos Joyce DiDonato's spirited Rosina—with assistance from Peter Mattei as the one and only Figaro, Seville's beloved barber and man-about-town.


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use GuzzleHttp\Client as HttpClient;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response;
use Psr\Http\Message\RequestInterface;
use App\Services\HttpClientService;
use App\Tests\Functional\AbstractBaseTestCase;
use App\Tests\Services\HttpMockHandler;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use webignition\Guzzle\Middleware\HttpAuthentication\AuthorizationType;
use webignition\Guzzle\Middleware\HttpAuthentication\HttpAuthenticationMiddleware;
use webignition\Guzzle\Middleware\RequestHeaders\RequestHeadersMiddleware;
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     * @var HttpClient
     */
    private $httpClient;

    /**
     * @var HttpMockHandler
     */
    private $httpMockHandler;

    /**
     * @var HttpHistoryContainer
     */
    private $httpHistoryContainer;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();

        $httpClientService = self::$container->get(HttpClientService::class);
        $this->httpClient = $httpClientService->getHttpClient();
        $this->httpMockHandler = self::$container->get(HttpMockHandler::class);
        $this->httpHistoryContainer = self::$container->get(HttpHistoryContainer::class);
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider setHeaderDataProvider
     */
    public function testRequestHeadersMiddlewareSetHeader(string $name, ?string $value)
    {
        $requestHeadersMiddleware = self::$container->get(RequestHeadersMiddleware::class);

        $this->httpMockHandler->appendFixtures([
            new Response(),
            new Response(),
            new Response(),
        ]);

        $requestHeadersMiddleware->setHeader($name, $value);

        $request = new Request('GET', 'http://example.com');

        $this->httpClient->send($request);
        $this->httpClient->send($request);
        $this->httpClient->send($request);

        /* @var RequestInterface[] $historicalRequests */
        $historicalRequests = $this->httpHistoryContainer->getRequests();

        foreach ($historicalRequests as $historicalRequest) {
            $this->assertEquals($value, $historicalRequest->getHeaderLine($name));
        }
    }

    public function setHeaderDataProvider(): array
    {
        return [
            'empty name, empty value' => [
                'name' => '',
                'value' => '',
            ],
            'name, empty value' => [
                'name' => 'foo',
                'value' => '',
            ],
            'name, value' => [
                'name' => 'foo',
                'value' => 'bar',
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function testRequestHeadersMiddlewareClearHeader()
    {
        $requestHeadersMiddleware = self::$container->get(RequestHeadersMiddleware::class);

        $this->httpMockHandler->appendFixtures([
            new Response(),
            new Response(),
        ]);

        $request = new Request('GET', 'http://example.com');

        $requestHeadersMiddleware->setHeader('foo', 'bar');
        $this->httpClient->send($request);

        $lastRequest = $this->httpHistoryContainer->getLastRequest();
        if ($lastRequest instanceof RequestInterface) {
            $this->assertEquals('bar', $lastRequest->getHeaderLine('foo'));
        }

        $requestHeadersMiddleware->setHeader('foo', null);
        $this->httpClient->send($request);

        $lastRequest = $this->httpHistoryContainer->getLastRequest();
        if ($lastRequest instanceof RequestInterface) {
            $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('foo', $lastRequest->getHeaders());
        }
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider setBasicHttpAuthorizationDataProvider
     */
    public function testHttpAuthenticationMiddleware(
        RequestInterface $request,
        string $host,
        string $credentials,
        string $expectedAuthorizationHeader
    ) {
        /* @var HttpAuthenticationMiddleware $httpAuthenticationMiddleware */
        $httpAuthenticationMiddleware = self::$container->get(HttpAuthenticationMiddleware::class);

        $this->httpMockHandler->appendFixtures([
            new Response(),
            new Response(),
            new Response(),
        ]);

        $httpAuthenticationMiddleware->setType(AuthorizationType::BASIC);
        $httpAuthenticationMiddleware->setHost($host);
        $httpAuthenticationMiddleware->setCredentials($credentials);

        $this->httpClient->send($request);
        $this->httpClient->send($request);
        $this->httpClient->send($request);

        /* @var RequestInterface[] $historicalRequests */
        $historicalRequests = $this->httpHistoryContainer->getRequests();

        foreach ($historicalRequests as $historicalRequest) {
            $this->assertEquals($expectedAuthorizationHeader, $historicalRequest->getHeaderLine('authorization'));
        }
    }

    public function setBasicHttpAuthorizationDataProvider(): array
    {
        return [
            'empty credentials' => [
                'request' => new Request('GET', 'http://example.com'),
                'host' => 'example.com',
                'credentials' => '',
                'expectedAuthorizationHeader' => '',
            ],
            'non-empty credentials; host exactly matches domain' => [
                'request' => new Request('GET', 'http://example.com'),
                'host' => 'example.com',
                'credentials' => 'Zm9vOg==',
                'expectedAuthorizationHeader' => 'Basic Zm9vOg==',
            ],
            'non-empty credentials; host exactly matches domain, domain is uppercase' => [
                'request' => new Request('GET', 'http://example.com'),
                'host' => 'EXAMPLE.com',
                'credentials' => 'Zm9vOg==',
                'expectedAuthorizationHeader' => 'Basic Zm9vOg==',
            ],
            'host ends with domain' => [
                'request' => new Request('GET', 'http://foo.example.com'),
                'host' => 'example.com',
                'credentials' => 'Zm9vOg==',
                'expectedAuthorizationHeader' => 'Basic Zm9vOg==',
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function testResponseUriFixerMiddleware()
    {
        $this->httpMockHandler->appendFixtures([
            new Response(302, [
                'Location' => 'https:///example.com/',
            ]),
            new Response(200),
        ]);

        $response = $this->httpClient->get('http://example.com/');

        $this->assertInstanceOf(ResponseInterface::class, $response);
    }
}

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In a superb location with panoramic views over the sea, this detached home is the ideal place to explore this ever popular area!With its own large enclosed garden and plenty of parking, Sea Side is a very well presented, detached family home that would suit families or couples. Inside, this immaculately presented home has an 'upside down' layout. Step into the large entrance hall/boot/equipment store, and on this floor are the bedrooms and bathrooms, then upstairs is the stylishly designed, open plan living space, which has French doors leading out to the balcony, the perfect spot to watch the nautical activity, sunrise or sunsets with a drink on a warm balmy evening and savour the spectacular breathtaking sea views! Located in Southbourne opposite the beach, there is a popular pub/restaurant only 200 yards away, and it is within easy reach of Bournemouth with its cosmopolitan range of bars, shops, eateries, seaside entertainment, water sports and leisure activities. For those who prefer a quieter beach, simply step across the road to Overcliff Local Nature Reserve, which forms part of Bournemouth's sea cliffs and extends 5 miles east from the boundary with Poole to Hengistbury Head, formed 50 million years ago under tropical seas. These cliffs have much geological interest and plenty of wildlife and fauna, and is designated a Site of Scientific Nature Conservation Interest. There is so much do to in this ever popular area. Take a ride on the Bournemouth Eye, which rises high above the town to give the most amazing panoramic views over the whole area. At the foot of the pier is the fascinating Oceanarium, where the whole family can discover life beneath the waves. Compton Acres Gardens in Bournemouth and the delightful Exbury Gardens, 18 miles, are both worth a visit. Beaulieu, with its world-renowned National Motor Museum, Palace House and Beaulieu Abbey, are 20 miles away. The beautiful New Forest National Park, with its famous wild ponies, is within 5 miles, and for those who enjoy the thrill of a theme park, Paultons Park is 25 miles away. Other places of interest include Farmer Palmer's Farm Park, Marwell Zoo, Adventure Wonderland, Christchurch Priory, Mudeford Key, the market town of Fordingbridge, Poole Harbour, Sandbanks, Highcliffe Castle and the National Trust's Brownsea Island. Further afield, but worth the trip, are Stonehenge, Monkey World and the Tank Museum near Wool, Southampton with its maritime history and West Quay shopping centre, and the famous World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Spend a day at Lyme Regis with its harbour, renowned Cobb, beach and shops, and enjoy fossil hunting, boating, swimming and fishing. There are many historic houses to visit, in particular Forde Abbey and Gardens, or family attractions such as Pecorama, the quarries at Beer, or inland at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, which is an adventure in itself. Beach 50 yards. Shop ½ mile, pub and restaurant 200 yards.
Ground Floor:Bedroom 1: With kingsize bed and French doors leading to garden.
Bedroom 2: With kingsize bed.
Bedroom 3: With 2 sets of bunk beds and TV (for games console use only).
Bedroom 4: With 2 sets of bunk beds.
Bathroom: With roll-top bath, shower cubicle and toilet.
Shower room: With shower cubicle and toilet.
First Floor:Open plan living space: With wooden floor and French doors leading to balcony.
Living area: With Freeview TV, DVD player and iPod dock.
Kitchen area: With gas range, microwave, fridge/freezer and dishwasher.
Utility room: With washing machine and tumble dryer.
Gas central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi included. Welcome pack. Enclosed lawned garden with sitting-out area and garden furniture. Balcony. Private parking for 4 cars. No smoking. Please note: This property has a security deposit of £200.
With its own large enclosed garden and plenty of parking, Sea Side is a very well presented, detached family home that would suit families or couples. Inside, this immaculately presented home has an 'upside down' layout. Step into the large entrance hall/boot/equipment store, and on this floor are the bedrooms and bathrooms, then upstairs is the stylishly designed, open plan living space, which has French doors leading out to the balcony, the perfect spot to watch the nautical activity, sunrise or sunsets with a drink on a warm balmy evening and savour the spectacular breathtaking sea views! Located in Southbourne opposite the beach, there is a popular pub/restaurant only 200 yards away, and it is within easy reach of Bournemouth with its cosmopolitan range of bars, shops, eateries, seaside entertainment, water sports and leisure activities. For those who prefer a quieter beach, simply step across the road to Overcliff Local Nature Reserve, which forms part of Bournemouth's sea cliffs and extends 5 miles east from the boundary with Poole to Hengistbury Head, formed 50 million years ago under tropical seas. These cliffs have much geological interest and plenty of wildlife and fauna, and is designated a Site of Scientific Nature Conservation Interest. There is so much do to in this ever popular area. Take a ride on the Bournemouth Eye, which rises high above the town to give the most amazing panoramic views over the whole area. At the foot of the pier is the fascinating Oceanarium, where the whole family can discover life beneath the waves. Compton Acres Gardens in Bournemouth and the delightful Exbury Gardens, 18 miles, are both worth a visit. Beaulieu, with its world-renowned National Motor Museum, Palace House and Beaulieu Abbey, are 20 miles away. The beautiful New Forest National Park, with its famous wild ponies, is within 5 miles, and for those who enjoy the thrill of a theme park, Paultons Park is 25 miles away. Other places of interest include Farmer Palmer's Farm Park, Marwell Zoo, Adventure Wonderland, Christchurch Priory, Mudeford Key, the market town of Fordingbridge, Poole Harbour, Sandbanks, Highcliffe Castle and the National Trust's Brownsea Island. Further afield, but worth the trip, are Stonehenge, Monkey World and the Tank Museum near Wool, Southampton with its maritime history and West Quay shopping centre, and the famous World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Spend a day at Lyme Regis with its harbour, renowned Cobb, beach and shops, and enjoy fossil hunting, boating, swimming and fishing. There are many historic houses to visit, in particular Forde Abbey and Gardens, or family attractions such as Pecorama, the quarries at Beer, or inland at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, which is an adventure in itself. Beach 50 yards. Shop ½ mile, pub and restaurant 200 yards.
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Sometimes you might have noticed your internet speed is much less than what you pay for. Or the broadband internet started appearing slow recently? Though it could have been a problem at your ISP's (Internet Service Provider) end, there are simple steps to boost your connection speed to the maximum.
The following steps are very simple and easy to perform by yourself . Before performing them, do test your internet speed at any of the speed-testing websites so that you can compare your speeds before and after you followed these steps.
Malware and viruses are the most common cause of a slow internet speed. They are pieces of software that track your internet usage, monitor where you go on the internet and even steal your passwords. They are programmed to send your personal information to somewhere on the internet. Spyware slowdown your internet connection by taking control over the browser. They even download more spyware from internet and sometimes show you annoying popups while browsing.
Similar is the case with viruses. They do multiply themselves and use your internet to transmit themselves.
To clean all these spywares and viruses, use a good AntiVirus software and an anti-spyware. I can reccommend of 'SpyBot-Search&Destroy' for cleaning up spyware. They have continuously won the best FREE anti-spyware status.
You will see immediate boost in your internet speed as well as the computer speed after you scan and clean the spyware and viruses. Next time, be careful while browsing illegal websites. They are the major sources of spyware on your system.
Open each of your installed softwares. Go to their settings/preferences section and disable anything that says of 'check for available updates', 'get update news', and all that sort of options. But leave your antivirus and anti-spyware settings intact. They need to be updated to keep your computer safe.
If you use wireless network for internet, be as close to the souce as possible. The strength of signal can affect your internet speed.
If you are on wireless netwok, make sure the access is protected. Other people might be using your unprotected wireless signal.
Select "Enabled" and put "Bandwidth limit %" as zero.
Click "Apply" and "OK". Now close everything. Go for a reboot.
Now again go to the speed-testing website and check your internet speed. I am sure your internet got a boost.


Highlights: BDO's Fourth Annual Survey of 100 chief financial officers at leading tech companies suggests a boost of confidence in the tech sector as CFOs anticipate a banner year. Read report.
This Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) post addresses typical questions from companies regarding obtaining a valuation or appraisal. This document is co-authored by Bruce Wynn of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP and Dan Branch of Taylor Consulting Group, Inc. The following questions are commonly asked of technology and business services companies. We hope this information is helpful to you. Please note that there are additional questions that will be relevant in this area and you should consult your legal, tax and accounting advisor with any other questions.
1. When do I need a valuation or appraisal?
This FAQ (frequently asked questions) provides answers to important questions for entrepreneurs to consider in negotiating a line of credit and other lending arrangements with commercial banks. This FAQ can also serve as a sample checklist of relevant issues for your company in connection with bank financing. Please note that other questions may be relevant to your company, and this is not a comprehensive review of all important issues.
Highlights: Practical pointers and information for tech companies looking in to investment banking services. Read the guide.
This 2011 Questionnaire is designed to prepare your private company for its annual meeting of the Board of Directors and Shareholders. Good corporate governance generally requires conducting these annual meetings. The following list of sample questions serves as a tool designed to aid in the preparation process to ensure a productive meeting.
1. Who should be appointed as Directors of the Company?
2. What are the names and office of the officers of the Company?
Highlights: A collection of research, observations and articles about what technology, solutions and services U.S. bankers will buy in 2011 and the changing financial industry landscape. Read it here.
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Looking to make a much more empathic statement in their second outing in Group E, pre-tournament favorites Brazil will face off against Costa Rica at the Saint-Petersburg Stadium on Friday afternoon.
For Brazil, after running away with their qualifying campaign in the South American group, The Yellows finished 10 points atop of the table and also finished with both the best attacking and defensive record in qualifying. While they could only secure a point in their opening 1-1 draw with Switzerland and currently sit two points adrift of Serbia, Brazil are still tipped by many to lift the title outright this summer. One man Brazil will be looking for is Barcelona midfielder Philippe Coutinho to continue to his impressive form. The attacker now has two in his last two when on international duty and also has nine in nine for club and country.
As for Costa Rica, despite a qualifying campaign that saw them only lose two matches and finish with both the second best attacking and defensive record, The Reds have been drastically short of form as of late. Coming off the back of a 1-0 loss to Serbia in their opening tie, Costa Rica currently sit bottom of Group E and another defeat will see them crash out of the tournament. Along with losing their last three matches in all competitions and conceding seven goals in that time, Costa Rica have recorded just two wins in their last 11, losing seven and drawing three.


It has become more difficult to justify a positive view of global seaborne dry bulk trade. There are still signs suggesting rising import demand for commodities in many countries. But elsewhere, including some of the biggest individual trade movements, reductions or absent growth seem more likely during 2016.
Further downgrading of forecasts for key economies provides a sombre backdrop. Updated estimates, published last month by the OECD organization, showed 3% world GDP growth in 2016, no higher than seen last year and the joint slowest pace in the past five years. Despite a vast amount of monetary stimulus, achieving a more robust pace of economic activity remains elusive in numerous countries.
During the year ahead growth in world seaborne iron ore trade looks likely to be very modest, and some forecasts point to the possibility of a decline. Calculations shown in table 1 indicate a one percent rise, to 1,372mt (million tonnes), assuming that China's imports, comprising more than two- thirds of the total, increase marginally. Potential for larger volumes among other key importers seems quite limited.
In the European Union, Japan and South Korea additional iron ore import demand in 2016 is expected to be small, and there is considerable uncertainty about whether this slightly positive outcome is attainable. Among many other relatively minor importers around the world, there are no obvious signs of any sizeable boost for trade. China's dominant market position, with 953mt received last year, ensures that even a low percentage change will heavily affect overall global evolution.
Global seaborne coal trade's large estimated reduction last year, following a slight decline in the previous twelve months, seems to have ended a long period of strong growth. However, despite all the clear signs of restraining influences, another decrease in 2016 does not necessarily appear inevitable.
seen in the past twelve months, falling by a huge 30% to 204m, would almost certainly lead to reduced global coal movements. But some countries in Asia and elsewhere are still increasing their coal usage and imports. Table 1 shows a 2% global rise this year, to 1,133mt, although India's faltering uptrend, coupled with possible negative influences in Europe are uncertainties.
Estimates of grain trade, including soya movements in the twelve months ahead are always characterized by a high degree of speculation. Weather patterns affecting domestic harvests in importing countries, as well as harvests in exporting countries, are largely unpredictable, complicating forecasts of import demand.
Based on very tentative assumptions, global grain and soya trade in 2016 may grow marginally to just over 400mt. Lower imports into China and the Middle East area during the period up to mid-2016 could be partly offset by higher volumes into Europe. In the second half, trade will be greatly affected by summer grain harvests in northern hemisphere importing countries, prospects for which are not yet entirely clear.
The varied and extensive minor bulks group comprises over a third of all seaborne dry bulk trade. Last year's total of commodities related to industrial and agricultural activities appears to have exceeded 1,600mt. This category includes large individual elements such as forest products and steel products, as well as many smaller volume commodity movements. Further growth at a moderate rate could be seen in 2016.
A continued slowdown in the world bulk carrier fleet's capacity growth to 2% was seen last year, as shown by table 2. The deceleration is expected to persist in 2016 despite the possibility of a slightly higher volume of new ships entering the fleet, because scrapping of old or uneconomic vessels probably will be greater.


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Pepromene () is a goddess and being of fate/destiny in Greek mythology (a being of "the destined share", which implies a person's true calling and fate; in short, the idea that every man is tied to a destiny). The ancient perception of her being gives the name as belonging within other Greek ideas (or "seeings") for destiny and fate (such as Aesa, Moira, Moros, Ananke, Adrasteia and Heimarmene).

Etymology
Pepromene's name is speculated to have numerous different origins; some postulate it is derived from the Greek , peprosthai, meaning "to be furnished, fulfilled or fated". However, others suggest that the same πεπερατοσθαι (pepratosthai) means "finite", implying finite nature; the fact that nothing in this life lasts forever.

References

Sources
 Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 184
 The Moirai (The Fates)
 Greek and Roman Religion: a source book
 Cosmology of the Stoa
 http://bearsite.info/General/World_Literature/greek/plutarch/essays.txt (The Complete Works Volume 3, Essays and Miscellanies, by Plutarch)

Greek goddesses
Personifications in Greek mythology
Time and fate goddesses


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Jean-Manuel Duvivier is a French illustrator living and working in Brussels. He is Head of the Visual Communication Department at La Cambre School of Visual Arts.
Jean-Manuel specializes in not specializing : he loves to focus on creating editorial works for magazines and newspapers, children books illustrations, corporate images for annual reports, or advertising campaigns. Jean-Manuel's many clients include The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, the National Geographic Travaler, Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly, The Guardian, UCLA Health magazine, Plymouth State University magazine, BYU Publications and Graphics, American Lawyer, Le Monde, Libération, Madame Figaro, Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Les Echos, La Vie, Air France, IBM, Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, Caterpillar, Rabobank, Fluxys, British Airways, Leroy Merlin, Emma Children Hospital Amsterdam, Jacques Vabre, Yale University Press, Gräfe und Unzer Verlag, Editions Gallimard, Flammarion, Bayard Edition, Mango, Syros, Editions Hatier, Editions l'Edune.
His work has been selected to appear in Communication Arts, 3x3 the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, 3x3 Illustration Directory, the Society of Illustrators New York, Archive Best 200 illustrators worldwide, Creative Quarterly US, Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, New Illustrator's File Japan, AG Books Korea, Linea Curve magazine Spain, Crook Press Australia and Dopress Books China.


Hi All, We have finally moved. We got the car half-fixed and had a five hour drive yesterday down to Javea on the east coast north of Alicante. Hi-rise ribbon development all along the coast on the way down but Javea itself isn't too bad at all. The campsite has a decent pool and clean facilities. Unlike the last place it is full of Brits, mostly wrinkly and from Essex. We had a fantastic meal at a sea-front restaurant last night. The sun was setting over the mountains, the weather was warm and the tapas were very fine. Ann particularly liked the garlic prawns washed down with copious quantities of vino. Suffice it to say the walk back to the campsite was a great deal longer than the one going there, mainly because we were going from side to side rather a lot. We will now spend a couple of weeks trying to find somewhere comfortable to live for the winter so that people can start visiting us. We are having a great time but both missing family and friends.
As those of you who have camped in France will know, the cheaper campsites do not supply loo paper. Herewith a little verse that I wrote on the day that I was reminded of this!
We can wee inside the caravan but I needed a poo.
"Ou est le papier?" I cried. But answer was there none.
I sat there some time, thinking what to do about my plight.
If something didn't turn up soon I could be there all night!
And then at last- hope was at hand. Someone came in next door.
I could hear the sounds of shuffling and see feet on the floor.
Better be conservative. Ask for two sheets, not four!
"Could I borrow some paper, please." I shyly made the call.
I thought I'd better get in quick before he used it all.
A thoughtful pause, a tearing sound -three precious sheets slid under.
A passing ship, reluctantly, had saved me from my blunder.
"I want to make it clear," he said. This is a GIFT to you.
I DO NOT want it back again, just flush it when you're through.
YOU NEED PAPIER WHEN YOU POO!
Glad that you've moved on finally. Can't wait to read the poem to the kids tonight!!
Walrus Table Yuletide Festivities set for Friday 13th December… will you be joining us?


Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman made the definitive case for human-centered design, showing that good design demanded that the user's must take precedence over a designer's aesthetic if anything, from light switches to airplanes, was going to work as the user needed. In this book, he takes his thinking several steps farther, showing that successful design must incorporate not just what users need, but must address our minds by attending to our visceral reactions, to our behavioral choices, and to the stories we want the things in our lives to tell others about ourselves. Good human-centered design isn't just about making effective tools that are straightforward to use; it's about making affective tools that mesh well with our emotions and help us express our identities and support our social lives. From roller coasters to robots, sports cars to smart phones, attractive things work better. Whether designer or consumer, user or inventor, this book is the definitive guide to making Norman's insights work for you.