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Harry Brown (2009)
Directed by Daniel Barber
Genres - Thriller | Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller | Release Date - Apr 30, 2010 (USA - Limited) | Run Time - 103 min. | Countries - United Kingdom | MPAA Rating - R
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Review by Phillip Maher
It's usually a good sign when a film instantly engages the audience with a dynamic, compelling, and (in this case) absolutely chilling opening sequence. That is unless, of course, those first frenetic moments turn out to be the pinnacle of the film's creative interest, which is unfortunately the case with Harry Brown. After getting off to a stellar start and setting up a complex, authentic, and utterly relevant scenario, Harry Brown sputters out by devolving into yet another cinematic shoot-out that relies entirely on the familiar conceit of men pointing guns at one another to stir up superficial drama.
Sir Michael Caine is officially infallible when it comes to choosing roles, but his prestige turns out to be a burden that first-time feature director Daniel Barber can't quite shoulder. Barber ostensibly got this job on the strength of his Oscar-nominated short film, The Tonto Woman, and he showcases his mastery of the short form in the film's first 30 minutes as he employs substantive details, striking visuals, diverse pacing, and intriguing editing to set up Caine's character, Harry Brown, as a woefully lonely old man whose apartment complex has been besieged by drug-dealing hooligans. At first, Brown is content to live in palpable distress, but when his best friend falls victim to a vicious attack, Brown's quiet anxiety transforms into wrath and he begins to enact his own brand of geriatric revenge on the thugs. At this point, the quiet anguish once felt by Brown is gradually transferred to those of us in the audience who were hoping for a more thoughtful examination of the myriad agonies involved when the deterioration of age forces strong, respectable people to gradually surrender their pride and personal sovereignty to the threat of adolescent nihilism and violence.
The film's young miscreants are portrayed with about as much subtlety as the villains from Batman -- they represent pure malevolence, and the script makes no real attempt to humanize them in any way. This simplified depiction in turn reduces the depth of Caine's character by removing any moral dilemma from his decision to turn vigilante. The police characters in the film are similarly shallow, settling into the requisite stereotypes of the naïve newbie with impeccable investigative instincts, the embittered and skeptical partner, and the politically ambitious chief who makes incompetent street decisions from behind his polished desk. In addition to these character issues, the last half of the film is marred by a series of ridiculous actions and impossible achievements by the principal characters. After watching a car drive off from his apartment window, with no knowledge of where it's going, the elderly Brown is somehow able to track down the vehicle on foot. Later, two hooligans, when confronted with the threat of gunfire by an assailant hidden in darkness at the end of a tunnel, inexplicably decide to slowly approach their attacker rather than sprinting for freedom at the other end. A piece of critical information about one of the characters is artificially withheld from Brown (and the audience) until just after the revelation could have prevented him from making a foolish mistake.
The premise and promise of Harry Brown are exemplary, which makes its prosaic resort to gun violence as resolution all the more disappointing. What's worse, the film's ultimate failure becomes more acute thanks to its many affinities with Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood's far superior version of aged vengeance against youthful insurrection. In that film, Eastwood's character eventually learns that attempting to combat violence with violence inevitably exacerbates the situation, rather than diffusing it. Oddly, Barber and company seem to imply the exact opposite, and their film suffers thematically and aesthetically from this questionable moral stance.


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I always said I didn't want to be one of those parents that didn't do anything anymore or go anywhere because of there kids, I mean why don't you just bring them? Well, I know why, because some babies (ahem, Ezra) don't like the car seat. Plain and simple. I have been trying to take him places but it's not always easy or enjoyable sometimes. He hates the car seat and he hates the stroller because he's in the car seat that attaches to the stroller. I am most thankful for my Moby Wrap! If I didn't have that thing, I don't know what I would do!
Baby wearing seems like this new phenomenon, people will say " I wish we had that when my kids were little" but its been around for hundreds of years. People have always worn their babies, it's actually pretty natural to do so. The hardest part is just finding which carrier suits you best. Sometimes you even need more than 1 for different things, activities, or different stages. I have the Moby, Ergo, and Seven Sling. I am currently waiting on a used Ring Sling. I love it! It has saved me so many times! I definitely recommend it AND the cool part is there are so many support groups out there especially on FB. Such as Baby Wearers of NJ, Baby Wearers of Northern Jersey, Baby Wearers of Morris County. I am sure there are some in other states too or even national ones. Luckily in my Mother Care Class provided through the Midwives of NJ we were able to have a baby wearing class as well, which was a great help! Some of those instructions they come with are not always easy to follow so sometimes you need that extra help from a friend or Youtube!
I didn't actually mean to write about baby wearing today, I just wanted to give an update on how things have been so I guess its a bonus topic!
Otherwise, things have been much better. Ezra finally fell into a napping schedule a few weeks ago, which has really helped, unless of course we are out with him and then it just messes everything up which goes back to not taking your baby anywhere. I have heard of people not taking there baby anywhere during and nap or bed times. That's nuts, I don't think I will be able to do that but I can totally understand why.
Life is much harder these days but also more joyful! Being mom is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me but also the most difficult thing you can go through. It is utterly exhausting and chaotic at times but when you look into you little baby's eye, it's just all worth it. I would climb a mountain for my boy. He is my everything and I wouldn't trade it for the world!


Some people have turned the good news into bad news. A word of hope has become a word of doom; a word of forgiveness a word that speaks failure. A word of certainty has become unsure. The message must be restored. Christian living depends on understanding the message (truth) and practicing it. Our certain hope is that Jesus' blood cleanses us and keeps on cleansing us from all sin.
How often we try to deserve forgiveness? How often we try to earn it, merit it, and guarantee it? Have you ever struggled with the certainty of forgiveness? When do you feel least forgiven? When has forgiveness felt certain? Why? Meditate for a moment on the message of this chapter: When Jesus who is the light (remember John's Gospel) walks beside us, it is certain that we also walk in light, and that we have fellowship and forgiveness.
Father God, help us find certainty in this world of doubt. Let us confidently affirm the truth that is Jesus. Walk beside us and help us know and accept truth, so that we may we celebrate the continual cleansing of Christ's blood. In Jesus' name and by his power I ask it, Amen.


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Oliver Mtukudzi performing in Kigali, Rwanda
RWANDA: Tuku wows Kigali Jazz Junction
28th October 2018 Music, Showbiz, Arts & Culture
By The New Times
One of the best attended Kigali Jazz Junction concerts was also a show of who has the slickest dance moves.
It was Oliver Mtukudzi 'Tuku's' third gig in Rwanda and, if the saying that first impressions are the most lasting is anything to go by, then we haven't seen the last of Tuku Music yet.
The Todii singer almost single handedly turned the usually tame Kigali Jazz Junction gathering into one big happy dance fest.
Those that thought the Zimbabwean legend had come to ride on the popularity of the one song for which everyone knows him, were proven wrong.
Organisers made sure to announce Tuku's performance at the September edition of the Jazz Junction that had featured local folk music icon Jean Marie Muyango and Nigerian pop singer Waje.
September's edition was one of those unusual (call it experimental) editions of the jazz junction, drawing a non-traditional crowd of mainly Rwandan folk music lovers and a few millennials who came to see Waje.
This time round, it was fans of Tuku Music, and fans of authentic live music in the house. If anything, Mtukudzi's music is symbolic of African music legends that have held fast to their native musical sounds.
In performing at the Jazz Junction, he was bringing down more than four decades of experience as a recording artists and performer of global renown.
In over an hour, he would choose from a catalogue of more than 65 studio albums to heal souls in Kigali. Dubbed Tuku Music, his style incorporates Southern African music traditions like jit, mbaqanga and mbira and the traditional drumming styles of the Korekore peoples of Zimbabwe.
A spot check by the day's MC Remmy Lubega easily revealed that this was perhaps the most diverse crowd the jazz junction has ever witnessed.
By show of hands and by screaming, we saw a large number of Zimbabweans, Malawians, Kenyans, South Africans and West Africans in the crowd.
The Zimbabweans came out in full force to support their own in a show of patriotism. Their national colours of green, gold, red and black were a ubiquitous sight.
Some of the Zimbabweans who attended the Kigali show
As usual, the Neptunez Band set the evening in motion with jazz medleys of old classics, and in the course of their performance Mtukudzi and his band mates walked into the venue and, without a fuss, took seats in the VIP section to watch the show.
Bruce Melodie, the other main performer of the night came on stage at 9:45 pm, to show his fans how far he has come in as far as live performance is concerned.
The packed house soon joined him to sing along to some of his memorable hits, and even Tuku and his band members could be seen nodding their heads approvingly.
Tuku came on stage towards 11:00 pm, after a lengthy advertising break in which sponsors and advertisers' messages were passed over.
"No culture is inferior to another. We should be proud to be Africans," he said as he opened his set. It was one of the very few statements that he made on stage, on a night where his guitar and the music did more of the talking.
Over the next one and a half hours, his deep, guttural voice serenaded the crowd as his thorny lyrics explored different life struggles as inspired by his homeland.
Mtukudzi sings predominantly in the Shona, making it difficult for his foreign fans to sing along to his songs. He used the opening moments to fine tune his guitar, and by the third song, the seating in the VIP section was fast going out of fashion as everybody got grooving.
The dancing did not spare the high and mighty that were in attendance, including the Dutch, US and Kenyan ambassadors, and the Head of the EU delegation to Rwanda.
However with each song that he did, the crowd kept demanding for the one song that Tuku usually reserves to close the show –Todii.
Shortly after the stroke of midnight he launched into the song's first two lines, before teasing the crowd that the show was over.
He was only pulling the legs of the over expectant crowd, which immediately voiced a loud chorus of protest: "We want Todii, Todii, Todii …" went the sirens, before he walked back to stage.
He performed a few more songs after Todii, ending his repertoire at approximately 12:30 am.
But the crowd hadn't had enough of him yet, and when the MC asked if the show should proceed, the response was deafening and unanimous.
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Mystery Cube Found on The Far Side of The Moon Is Probably Not an 'Alien Hut'
There is something strange in the neighborhood.
China's Yutu 2 rover spotted a strange object on the far side of the Moon. In a blurry image, it appears to be a cube-shaped object.
Our Space referred to it as a "mysterious hut" on a post on the social network.
Was it a home built by aliens after the crash landing? Is it the pioneer craft of the predecessors to explore the Moon?
The answer is that it's probably neither of those things, but the Moon has a lot of rocks. It will take another two or three months for Yutu 2 to close the distance to study it up close.
The solar-powered rover needs to shut down for the duration of the lunar night, which lasts two weeks, as well as when the Sun is directly overhead, to prevent overheating.
There are clues that offer a hint as to the cube's identity, such as a relatively fresh impact crater nearby. The object could be a boulder excavated during the impact, a phenomenon previously observed on the Moon.
It's not an obelisk or aliens, but something to check out, and hard to discern much from the image. The Chang'e 3 mission launched 8 years ago on Dec 1 and shows large boulders being excavated by impacts.
It's not the first strange thing Yutu 2 has found on the side of the Moon. It came across a strange substance described as "gel-like", that turned out to be lunar rock melted into glass due to an impact.
The Moon gets hit a lot.
Even if aliens are present, a closer look at the "mysterious hut" will show us something about the Moon. If it's a boulder that has been excavated from below the lunar surface, we may be able to learn something about the composition of the Moon underneath the top layer of rock and rubble. Scientists from the CNSA want to get a closer look.
The rock was seen during the 36th day of operations on the Moon. It is on its 37th lunar day after landing in January.
Yutu 2 and Chang'e 4 are still going strong, and are closing in on the end of their third year.
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This evening the Collateral Awards of this 35th Edition of Torino Film Festival were assigned during a ceremony held at Cinema Reposi.
The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci (France, UK, 2017).
BALON by Pasquale Scimeca (Italy, 2017).
A FÁBRICA DE NADA by Pedro Pinho (Portogallo, 2017).
AL TISHKECHI OTI / DON'T FORGET ME by Ram Nehari (Israel/France/Germany, 2017).
Thank you to all of those who supported the 35th edition of Torino Film Festival.


Shearwater's Taylor Franklin-Smith was one of the first students to undertake the University College Associate Degree in Agribusiness.
Working at Blokker Pty Ltd, a freesia farm in Wesley Vale, she'd never considered higher education until receiving encouragement from her employer.
"I laughed – uni? No, not me," Taylor recalls.
But since commencing at Cradle Coast campus in 2017, her studies have helped grow her career and confidence.
Starting out as a flower picker, Taylor now oversees crop production, irrigation and pest management for the business.
"This degree is supporting me in my ever-changing role within the company," she says.
The new-found awareness of the industry has given me a more in-depth understanding of how my workplace functions behind the scenes.
An intimidating prospect at first, Taylor's university experience has only been positive.
"It's not as scary and difficult as I thought it would be and there is plenty of support," she said.
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Visitors to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida, enjoy stepping back in time to see how the prolific author lived during his 10 years in residence there in the 1930s. The two-story home was built in 1851 in the Spanish Colonial style, constructed of native limestone hewn from the grounds.
The home was in poor shape when Hemingway and his wife, Pauline, purchased it, but the couple could see beyond the rubble and ruin, and appreciated the grand architecture and stateliness of the home. The massive restoration and remodeling they undertook in the early 1930s turned the home into the National Historical Landmark that thousands of tourists visit every year.
Curators have taken care over the years to preserve and maintain the original architecture and the Hemingway family's furnishings. But one issue constantly plagued the home: the intense heat and humidity of the Florida Keys. The climate, especially in the summer, made it unbearably hot in the house. The discomfort was so pronounced from July through September that at least two visitors would faint during tours every week, says Dave Gonzales, longtime curator at the museum.
Installing central air conditioning seemed out of the question, as it would require adding drop ceilings and soffits, which would disrupt the architectural integrity of the home. Window units would be equally destructive to the building's character. Besides, the Key West historic architectural review committee would hardly be willing to approve such a project because of its negative impact on the building's aesthetics, Dave said.
Dave turned to colleagues at the nearby Harry S. Truman Little White House, another historic property-turned museum on Key West. He knew they had successfully installed central air conditioning without ripping out walls or lowering ceilings, and it was done with the blessing of the local architectural committee as well as the National Park Service.
Dave learned that the museum had installed the small-duct, high-velocity Unico System, known for its remarkable ability to remain mostly hidden from view. Unico's tubular, flexible ducting can snake through crawl spaces and wall and ceiling cavities where traditional metal ducting could never fit. Hidden above ceilings or between floor joists, the Unico System sounded like the right solution for the Hemingway Home.
Working with Unico engineers and a Miami HVAC contractor, Dave oversaw the installation process. He selected round room outlets made of red oak, in a stain that matched the home's floors. Dave also came up with creative solutions such as hiding a return air box in a wooden cabinet that he retrofitted with louvered doors for air flow. The installer carved through the floor inside the cabinet for the intake air ducting.
Dave used the master bedroom closet on the second floor to house a small vertical air handler. The intake air box was installed in the bathroom closet. Normally it goes against building codes to pull intake air through a bathroom, but this bathroom had no running water so inspectors approved it.
"It took some explanations and convincing with inspectors, but we finally got the approval," Dave said.
The Unico System has been an ideal solution for the Hemingway Home and Museum, Dave says.
"The system performs great, and our utility bill hasn't gone up as much as we thought it would by adding central air conditioning," he said.
The Unico System helps lower air conditioning bills by removing 30 percent more humidity from the air than a conventional central air system does. This allows homeowners to set the thermostat a few degrees higher while still providing a comfortable temperature. Reduced humidity also aids in the preservation of the books, artifacts and memorabilia displayed in the museum.
The best part, though, is that no one is fainting during tours any more. Plus, the dozens of cats – descendants of Hemingway's famed felines — roaming the house and grounds have a nice, comfortable place to relax.
And if the temperature dips into the 40's or 50's on winter nights, the Unico System includes a heat pump to keep visitors – and cats – warm and cozy.
Key West is one of the top ten cities for historical homes per square mile.
The humidity in Key West is not related to rainfall, but rather to its location on a coral reef. The water is shallow for a long way out, resulting in more evaporation. "It's almost a mist; a dim fog at times," says Curator Dave Gonzales.
Heat and humidity are so high in summer months that vacationers and residents often wait until evening to go out.


I found this Comment in GulfDaily website and it's interesting. I think it has a good point but is that the only reason?
A quarter-century after a million Ethiopians died in the great hunger of 1984-85, the country is heading into another famine.
The spring rains failed and the summer rains were three weeks late. But why is famine stalking Ethiopia again?
The government is authoritarian, but not incompetent. It gives fertiliser to farmers and teaches best practices.
By the late 90s the country was self-sufficient in food in good years and the government created a strategic food reserve for the bad years.
So why are we back here again? Infant deaths are over two per 10,000 per day in Somali, the worst-hit region of Ethiopia (four per day counts as full-scale famine).
Country-wide, 20 per cent of the population depend on the dwindling flow of foreign food aid and it will get worse for many months yet. What have the Ethiopians done wrong?
The real answer (which everybody carefully avoids) is that they have had too many babies.
Ethiopia's population at the time of the last famine was 40 million. Twenty-five years later, it is 80m.
It is so obvious that this should be the start of every conversation about the country. Even if the coming famine kills a million people, the population will keep growing.
So the next famine, 10 or 15 years from now, will hit a country of 100m, trying to make a living from farming on land where only 40m faced starvation in the 1980s.
Yet it's practically taboo to say that. The whole question of population, instead of being central to the debate about development, about food, about climate change, has been put on ice.
The reason, I think, is that rich countries are secretly embarrassed and the poor ones deeply resentful.
Suppose that Ethiopia had been the first country to industrialise. Suppose some mechanical genius in Tigray had invented the world's first steam engine in 1710.
Imagine that the first railways were spreading across the country by the 1830s, and at the same time Ethiopian entrepreneurs and imperialists spread all over Africa - and by the end of the 19th century, controlled half of Europe too.
Never mind the improbabilities. The point is that an Ethiopia with such a history would easily be rich enough to support 80m people now - and if it could not grow enough food for them all, it would just import it.
Just like Britain (where the industrial revolution actually started) imports food. Money makes everything easy.
In 1710, when Thomas Newcomen devised the first practical steam engine in Devonshire, the population of Britain was seven million. It is now 61m, but they do not live in fear of famine. In fact, they eat very well, even though they import over a third of their food.
They got in first, so although they never worried in the slightest about population growth, they got away with it.
Ethiopia has more than four times the land surface of Britain. The rain is less reliable, but a rich Ethiopia would have no trouble feeding its people. The problem is that it got the population growth without the wealth.
Stopping the population growth now would be very hard, but otherwise famine will be a permanent resident in another 20 years.
The problem is well understood. The population of the rich countries has grown about tenfold since the earliest days of the industrial revolution, but for the first half of that period it grew quite slowly.
Many babies died and there were no cures for most epidemic diseases. Later the death rate dropped, but by then, with people feeling more secure, the birth rate was dropping too.
Whereas, in most of the poor countries the population hardly grew at all until the start of the 20th century.
But once the population did start to grow, thanks to basic public health measures that cut the death rate, it grew faster than it ever did in the rich countries.
Unfortunately, economies don't grow that fast, so these countries never achieved the level of comfort and security where most people will start to reduce their family size spontaneously.
History is unfair. Conversations between those who got lucky and those left holding the other end of the stick are awkward.
But we cannot go on ignoring the elephant in the room. We have to start talking about population again.


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It's been 17 years since American singer Jeff Buckley died, accidentally drowned in the Mississippi River after a spontaneous dip prompted not by drugs or alcohol, according to an autopsy, but by joy at having finished new material that, had things gone as planned, would have succeeded 1994's Grace debut album.
Not a week goes by without a thought of him. It's not anything remotely romantic – I mean, I do love his music. It's more about what he represents to me: the ridiculously arbitrary nature of fate which is at once completely unfair (Buckley dead, Bernardo alive) and thoroughly humbling (the Universe took someone so majestic; why the hell am I still here?)
I met Buckley several times. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I hosted a nightly radio show that permitted me to book my own guests - thrillingly, sometimes even those that coloured outside the firmly delineated lines of the station's format – and the charmingly iconoclastic Buckley appeared, I think, three times. I had to beg and cajole to get him.
That I took heaps of shit from management and colleagues for booking him was to be expected. This was when Sugar Ray and Pearl Jam ruled, not oddball folk-pop songwriters with nosebleed falsettos. But it was worth it. So fucking worth it. Years later, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene would recall hearing one of those Buckley radio spots and then sneaking underage into a club using his brother's ID to witness firsthand Buckley's voice.
That voice. That inimitable, winding, soaring, elastic, fervent, aching, smouldering, genuinely otherworldly voice. You can't hear it without experiencing synesthesia – every sense alert to it . Though exquisite, Leonard Cohen's original version of that song simply doesn't hold a candle to Buckley's cover. To hear Buckley sing that song – or "Lilac Wine," for that matter – is quite literally breathtaking. I mean, who can do that?
Because of his cruelly limited output, it's almost certain Buckley will end up as a footnote (however beloved) in the canon. He wasn't famous enough or tragic enough to survive as a damaged legend like Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain. His music was too angular anyway. But to me Buckley is an unimpeachable reminder of how fragile we really are, to quote another singer with a notable falsetto.
Remembering that casts light on even dark, ugly days. Sometimes, that's enough.
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Lovely thoughts on a tragic loss. What a talent, what a shame.
Mike McCann
Fittingly gorgeous, Kim - one of the greatest memories in my life outside of family was watching Jeff and his amazing band hold the Glastonbury '95 crowd in the palm of their collective hand. He was Godlike that day, and then he was gone not even two years later...
Dear Kim,
Loved this article on J.Buckley. So tragic!
Curious: what is on your playlist these days?
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LExpedició 32 va ser la 32a estada de llarga durada a l'Estació Espacial Internacional (ISS). Va començar l'1 de juliol de 2012 amb la partida de l'ISS de la nau Soiuz TMA-03M, que va tornar cap a la Terra la tripulació de l'Expedició 31, i va finalitzar el 16 de setembre de 2012 amb la partida de la Soiuz TMA-04M. La nau Soiuz va tornar a la Terra el 17 de setembre de 2012 a les 6:53am Moscow Standard Time quan va tocar terra segons per l'Agència Espacial Russa.

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Get ready for some sky swimming! Made with ripstop nylon fabric and a fiberglass frame, these kites are easy to assemble and fun to fly! Kite comes with 300' Line on flight ring with a swivel clip and a nylon carry case with handle.


The Docservice team are big fans of mixing metals with wood, so when I came across these two I had to share!
Not to mention they fit perfectly with my soon to be 4pm routine… which I have recently nicknamed Tea Time with Caroline! As a new Mom, I've been told I will need a relaxing 20 minutes to unwind and what better way than to put baby down, brew up a nice spot of tea, and catch up on my latest iPad mag subscriptions!
Tell me, how do you spend your 20 minutes of much needed breather time with a new little one?


When we decided to sell our home we use Shawn based on a friends recommendation. It turned out to be a great one. Shawn's clients consist of sellers or buyers which gives her an expert perspective of the real estate marketplace. She knows the marketplace expectations and what's important to buyers looking to purchase a home. The first thing Shawn did was to come to our home and do a room by room walk through with us and give honest feedback on what we could do to get our home ready to bring to market. She next did a market analysis on pricing and gave us a range with price points and the implications to us of those price point. We were then able to make an informed decision on pricing that met our needs and expectations. The house went to market on a Saturday, we had an offer the following Tuesday and after a little negotiation a signed contract on Friday. The house closed 45 days later. Shawn's knowledge, insight and experience enabled us to prepare and price our home to best meet market and buyers expectations along with ours. Shawn's an experience professional in the real-estate market, best of all she's also a nice person with a quick wit and great sense of humor which helped us through what is a very stressful process. We would recommend Shawn for any real estate needs.


The swift ascent of "Drag Me Down" up the iTunes charts is proof of One Direction's pop power, but record exec Simon Cowell is ready to find a new act that will blow 1D out of the water.
X Factor, which will return to the United Kingdom on August 29, explores the secrets to the show's winning formula in a jokey Season 12 promo released today (August 3). Though One Direction, who were Season 7 contestants, have certainly done the competition justice, Cowell won't rest until they're distant memories.
Also in the clip: the introduction of Rita Ora, who will appear as a judge for the first time this season. Here, though, she seems too fascinated by her own appearance to pay new talent any mind.
"You're amazing—you're the whole package," she insists to a compact mirror before blowing it a kiss.
Oh, and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has multiplied into a fleet of empathetic robots who say "I know exactly what you're going through." Because why not!
Check out the promo, and if you're in the United Kingdom, hang tight for the premiere later this month.


The 2016 Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has been commended for advocating a fair representation of Muslims at the seat of government.
According to the Executive Director of the Islamic Centre for Virtue and Social Development (ICVISOD), Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong, such a move would ensure national cohesion and achieve greater participatory democracy in governance.
Early this month (May 2016) while attending a funeral in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region, Dr Bawumia met with some party faithful and was reported to have called for a balanced representation at the Flagstaff House, the seat of government, with regard to the two main religions in Ghana, Islam and Christianity.
This statement did not go down well with some members of the public. While some described it as an attempt to create religious tension in the country because there were other religions aside from Islam, others called for an immediate retraction and apology.
The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, is reported to have described the utterances from Dr Bawumia as unfortunate and should not be encouraged.
A Political Scientist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr Kwesi Jonah, also described as unfortunate the religious statements by the economist.
However, Alhaji Frimpong said Dr Bawumia was merely stating his party's position on pluralistic collaboration and that the suggestion was laudable.
Also, he said, the NPP had been consistent with its policy of achieving religious diversity in governance from the days of former President John Agyekum Kufuor and now the duo of Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Bawumia ticket.
He, therefore, urged all political parties, who had not yet named their flag bearers and running mates, to look into the example of the NPP in its enduring vision of productive and peaceful inter-faith cohabitation.


I am currently working with this Refurbishment and Fit Out contractors who are now looking for an Estimator to join their team. The contractors themselves are based in Warwick so would require an Estimator who is happy to travel to this location.
The company themselves have been established for approaching 50 years and this time have built a very positive reputation for themselves. The company's client base includes some of the best known corporate companies across the country. They operate with various sectors including Commercial, Retail, Industrial, Education and Healthcare. The successful Estimator must possess relevant experience in order to be able to hit the ground running.
The Estimator will gain unprecedented support and exposure within the industry. The company are continuing to grow and now would be a perfect time to join the company. In return they will offer a highly competitive salary and package in order to maintain staff satisfaction.


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Syria: 'Hero' 8-Year-Old Boy Saves Younger Sister from Sniper Fire, Risking own Life [VIDEO]
At one point in the video (0:38), the eight-year-old even pretends as if he has been shot in the chest and falls to the ground
By Johnlee Varghese @Johnleeabraham
Dramatic video footage out of Syria show young boy braving fire to save his sister.YouTube
In one of the latest 'Hero' videos, an eight-year-old Syrian boy risking his life to save his younger sister, caught in a sniper fire has become an online sensation.
The one-minute long video shows the brave 'hero' boy running towards a young girl, hiding behind a car, while being constantly fired on by snipers, who reportedly are said to be the government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
At one point in the video (0:38), the eight-year-old even pretends to have been shot in the chest and falls to the ground. But then suddenly he gets up and pulling his sister out from behind a burnt car runs to safety, with the snipers continuing to shoot at them.
The two are then seen running to safety, with gunshots behind them kicking up the dust and the snipers missing their shots.
A group of men, who filmed the entire episode hiding behind the safety of a brick wall can be heard exclaiming "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), as the boy gets up and runs back to safety with his sister after dodging the bullets.
The video that was uploaded on Monday has gained major traction.
Experts told The Telegraph that they have no doubts on the authenticity of the footage.
The incident certainly is not the first time that Pro-Assad gunmen have targeted children in the nearly four years of the bloody civil war in Syria.
Since 2011, over 11,000 children have died in the war-torn country and many of them in similar sniper attacks, says London-based Oxford Research Group. The report claimed that at least 389 children in Syria under the age of 17 were killed by pro-government snipers.
Similarly CNN had reported citing a UN report that the Syrian government soldiers have subjected children to several inhuman practices, including being used as human shields.
There also have been incidents where children were beaten, blindfolded, subjected to stress positions, whipped with heavy electrical cables, scarred by cigarette burns, and in one instance which was recorded, subjected to electrical shock to the genitals because their siblings or parents were assumed to be members of the opposition or Free Syrian Army (FSA), or they themselves were suspected of being associated with FSA, the UN report had said.
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Once a year, usually at the beginning of our cruising season, I inspect our "ditch bag", the bag we'd grab if we ever had to abandon ship for any reason. We're starting the countdown till we leave Port Adelaide and so it's inspection time. Our Revere Survival Products ditch bag has been on the boat for nearly a decade and when we're at sea, it sits nestled on the saloon settee ready to be grabbed if the need occurs. Thankfully, we've never had to use it.
The ditch bag itself is made of waterproof material, the seams are waterproofed and the zipper is water resistant. Despite that, everything in it that is supposed to be kept dry is kept in a drybag or ziploc bag. Revere's newest design bag has an external pouch for an EPIRB and lots of inner net pockets for stowage of smaller items. It is buoyant to 40 lbs/18 kg loaded capacity, i.e. it will float when it's all loaded up. Though it would be nice to include everything you could possibly need if you abandoned ship in this one tidy package, it's just not possible, so the selection of contents has to be whittled down to a manageable size to fit into the bag.
My goal each year is to unpack the bag, review its contents, make sure everything works and has current dating and then repack it again, hoping we'll never have to use it. I unpack the GPS, for instance, put in fresh batteries and turn it on. It works. I remove the batteries, close it up, include a pack of fresh batteries, make sure the little screwdriver is with it (also used for the VHF for getting into the battery compartment) and repackage in its dry bag … hopefully till next year. I do the same with the VHF. I un-pickle the handheld manual watermaker, make some fresh water from sea water, re-pickle it and pack it away. I check dating on the few meds we carry in our mini-med kit. I insure that copies of our passports and boat docs are current. I make sure we haven't "borrowed" anything from the bag since the last time I inspected it and then forgotten to return it. I consult an inspection list we have, just to make sure I don't forget anything and then update it if we change anything. We try not to leave safety checks to random memory recalls … or lapses. The ditch bag inspection goes on our calendar as a to-do item every year.
From time to time over the years, we've upgraded or replaced things in the bag. We switched to a wind-up LED flashlight, for instance, instead of a battery-operated one, to eliminate the need for carrying extra batteries. We added a mini-fishing kit at one point and a space/survival blanket that's silver on one side and orange on the other, figuring the orange would serve as a make-do distress flag in case of emergency. We attached a long rope tether to the handle of the bag, so it would be easier to tow, if needed, or we could tie it to the side of the dinghy, or boat or life raft or whatever, if we had to.
Because this is an annual safety check, we decided that whenever we do the ditch bag inspection, we'd do other safety checks as well. And so, I've just completed an inspection of our five fire extinguishers aboard to make sure they're all full and ready for action. This is also a good reminder of exactly where they are in case they're ever needed. Our PFD inflation cartridges, bobbins and strobe batteries are in date and the PFDs are hanging on hooks in the wet locker, easily accessible. The life raft has been scheduled for re-certification before we leave Port Adelaide.
There have been several articles written over the years as to what individuals consider the essentials for a ditch bag. If you'd like our list of contents, leave a comment or send an email and we'll gladly send it to you.
Please note: We carry other safety equipment aboard, e.g. lots more flares, a horn, SOS strobe, etc. and there is additional safety equipment stowed inside the liferaft. This blog post provides an overview of the actual contents of the ditch bag itself.


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Reasons to watch Sudheer Babu and Aditi Rao Hydari starrer Sammohanam
Written and directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Mohana Krishna Indraganti, here are reasons why Sammohanam is a must watch.
By Khushboo Ratda | June 15, 2018 11:51 am | 4,222 reads | 0 comments
Aditi Rao Hydari and Sudheer Babu starrer Sammohanam has hit the screens today. The film that has been a talk of the town since its inception, has released today at the Box Office. The film is a coming age love story, which involves comedy and emotional drama. Written and directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Mohana Krishna Indraganti, the cast also includes Naresh, Tanikella Bharani, Pavithra Lokesh, Rahul Ramakrishna and Nandu in pivotal roles. The film has music by Vivek Sagar and will be bankrolled by Sivalenka Krishna Prasad. PG Vinda is the cinematographer.
Here are reasons why this film is a must watch:
Aditi Rao Hydari's Telugu debut: Aditi Rao Hydari, who has been winning hearts with her more impressive performances in South Indian Industry, maker her Tollywood debut with Sammohanam. Going by trailer and pre-release vibe, Aditi is going to be amazing in the film.
Sudheer-Aditi's chemistry: Aditi and Sudeer will share a great vibe onscreen and the same reflects on their romance as seen in the trailer of the film. Both, Aditi and Sudheer are looking sensible, extraordinary, realistic, appealing and engaging. Sammohanam means mesmerizing and it truly justifies going by the intense chemistry between the two lead actors of the film.
Music: Every song of the film reflects the creation of talented Vivek Sagar. From song Oohalu Oorege Gaalanthaa to O Cheli Thaara, which is a delightful, music of the film has been well received and connecting for the audience. He is really a promising composer.
Director Mohankrishna Indraganti: Mohankrishna Indraganti is a class director who has given some mega-hits like Ashta Chamma, Gentleman and Aami Thumi. Known for making subtle films with humor-filled episodes, Mohankrishna is one of the most sought-after filmmakers in Telugu.
Storyline: Sammohanam is a romantic comedy with the typical style of satire, fun, and emotions. Aditi Rao Hydari plays Sameera in the film, an actor who falls in love with Sudheer, who is a cartoonist. The freshness of romance with comedy is something that we are looking forward to.
We are having an entertaining watch to look forward! What do you think? Share your views in the comments section below.
Tags: Aditi Rao Hydari, Sammohanam, Sudheer Babu, Telugu, Tollywood


This is the first tutorial, in our JAVA video tutorial series, where I am going to highlight the steps you need to follow in order to download, install, and configure JDK on your machine. This is kind of a pre-requisite step, in case you wish to code, and run Java based applications. We are certainly going to talk more about its usage and the reason why exactly should we have it, later in this tutorial series but for now just trust me on this and follow the below mentioned steps, you'll be able to set-up JDK on you machine.
You may see various options under JAVA Platform SE 7( Standard Edition) like JDK, Server JRE, and simply JRE. Click on the download link below JDK.
Read and accept the license agreement and download the JDK package as per your environment [Windows/Linux/Mac/Solaris].
Open the installer file and choose the default steps for easy installation.
Now, we need to make sure that all the executable files under installation directory like java, javac, javah,javap, javaw, etc. are in the environment class-path.
Sorry guys but right now this post is making me feel bored as hell so I'll only cover how to configure JDK in a Windows environment, will update this post later to include Linux/Mac steps.
%JAVA_HOME% directory usually contains following sub-directories: bin, include, jre, lib, etc. It also contains a src.zip file which contains the source code of core jars related to Java like %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\rt.jar, etc..
Overwrite the Path environment variable value with the new value. Click on 'OK' button, wheresoever applicable.
Type javac hit enter and examine the output. If it resembles like below image, then we are done.
You must have noticed above that we only wrote javac as a command, which is basically an executable file[*.exe] residing in JAVA_HOME\bin directory and we don't have to specify the full path any more in order to execute it. Voila ! Thanks for reading.


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Real time assembly guidance with vision validation and documentation.
The Smart Klaus "knows what is what"
Smart Klaus shows the employee in real-time the necessary process steps, look directly over their shoulder with the four-eye principle and confirm that they have completed their task with ZERO errors. If desired, the outcomes can be logged and mirrored back directly in your IT system. You can demonstrate at any time when which process and item was worked on and know 100% when it has left your company in flawless condition.
We call that "knowing what's what.".
This video showcases the full capabilities of the Smart Klaus for assembly. You will see how this mechanical assembly is built completely with the Klaus guidance. You will also see that errors are discovered and the Klaus alerts the assembler of the mistakes so they can be fixed and only a zero defect part can be produced.


A man with long sleeves is sitting at the bar. You look more closely and see the glint of metal from on of his arms. His entire forearm is replaced with the workings of an iron gun!
This is a graft which a character can acquire on the stub of or in place of a forearm. It functions as the sucket to which an Armgun can be attached and allows the wielding of such weapons.
Because the character no longer has an hand or forearm, the character cannot wield a normal weapon in that hand and cannot bear or wield a shield with that hand or arm. He cannot peform tasks that require two hands (like casting a spell with a somatic component or wielding a weapon in two hands) without using a Sockethand. The character takes a permanent −2 penalty to Dexterity, which cannot be removed by any means except by taking the Gun for an Arm feat.


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The Quarterly Review, Volym 19
redigerad av William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle)
gretted that one whose feelings are so good, and whose intentions are so benevolent, should blindly pursue a course in politics which, if it were successful, would revive in London and Manchester the prison-scenes of Paris and Lyons. There are men whom it is better to have against us than with us,- -men whose hearts and understandings are so tainted, that some evil motive may reasonably be suspected whenever, by any apparent eccentricity, they happen to take the right side. But it is a melancholy thing when benevolence is duped into an alliance with that principle of evil which is at work night and day for the destruction of laws, monarchy, religion, and social order.
It was very long before the prisons attracted any of that charitable feeling with which England has at all times abounded; nor is this to be wondered at, for the innocent and the meritorious have assuredly a stronger claim in their misfortunes upon sympathy and benevolence, than those who have drawn their wretchedness on themselves by chusing the evil part, and attempting to prey upon society. The first persons in this country who appear to have felt any compassion for the sufferings of guilt were the Methodists. Their founders at the beginning of their career visited the prisons. Afterwards one who had been connected with them was condemned for some petty robbery, and sent for a woman, remarkable for enthusiastic charity, to assist him with her prayers. Her name was Sarah Peters, and it deserves to be honourably recorded; for though the jail-distemper was at that time raging, she attended him and the other poor wretches who were under sentence of death, regularly for about three weeks, till they went to execution rejoicing in a full belief that their sins were forgiven; then she sickened and died of the infection to which she had exposed herself. Silas Told, a credulous and weak-minded but well-meaning man, accompanied her on these visits, and as long as he lived, which was about five and twenty years, he used to preach and pray with the condemned malefactors and accompany them to Tyburn. Since that time the Methodists have occasionally followed these examples, but it has not been a part of their economy to visit the prisons, and no institutions analogous to the Misericordia of certain Catholic countries has ever been formed in this. Indeed this kind of charity when confined to condemned criminals, though eminently meritorious in the individual, dies with its object, and effects little or nothing by example. It is at once the most painful and most unprofitable manner in which charity can be employed; the zeal which expends itself upon cases thus lost to society has frequently strayed into indiscreet and mischievous language, both in administering consolation, and in boasting of its success.
Of that charity which, tending directly to amend the guilty, is beneficial
neficial to the public as well as to its immediate objects, a memorable example has been given in Mrs. Fry and those other generous Quakers who have effected so great a change in the condition of the female prisoners in Newgate. Their zealous and well-directed benevolence is beyoud all praise, and as it proceeds from the most exalted of all motives, true Christian charity-so beyond all doubt it carries with it the highest of all rewards. An army officer, one who was what the world calls a man of pleasure, was asked by some of his free companions what was the greatest pleasure he had ever felt. After pausing awhile, he replied- When we were on our march in Ireland, in a very hot day, I called at a cabin by the road side, and asked for a little water. The woman brought me a cup of milk. I gave her a piece of silver-and the joy which that poor creature expressed gave me the greatest pleasure I ever had in my life. Now,' says Wesley, by whom this story was related in one of his sermons, if the doing good gave so much pleasure to one who acted from natural generosity, how much more must it give to one who does it on a nobler principle, the pure love of God and his neighbour !'
But as heroic virtue will not always supply the want of military discipline in war, so neither should it be depended upon for remedying the defects of civil institutions; nor indeed ought there to be a call upon the sublimest charity for a purpose which may be perfectly well effected by the machinery of good regulations. Separate the prisoners, according to their different degrees of criminality and hardihood in evil; provide instruction for all, with more or less of solitary confinement, according to their deserts; let no spirits or fermented liquors enter the prison; suffer no gambling there, or sports of any kind ;-it is a place of penance,—a lazarhouse of guilt,-a hospital for the treatment of moral diseases. Toward those who evince a desire of amending their lives, let there be as much kindness and encouragement shown, as is consistent with their situation. Let the prison-fare be a penitentiary regimen, any improvement of which the patients must deserve by good conduct, and earn by their labour; and let a portion of their earnings be carried to account, and paid them when their confinement is at an end, and they leave the prison with habits of industry, regularity, sobriety, and temperance. However unpleasant their abode may have been, the greater part of the persons who have had these virtues forced upon them will look back upon the infirmary with gratitude, and will respect those laws by which they have been chastised in mercy, and saved from wretchedness and utter destruction. The prison at Philadelphia affords a model for such regulations, and they may be introduced wherever they are needful, with little difficulty, and sure success.
When the measure of punishment exceeds the offence, the laws are in contradiction to our natural sense of equity, and a hostile feeling towards them is excited, innocent and even honourable in its origin, but dangerous in its consequences. On the other hand, the laws are brought into contempt when they neither tend to reform the offender, nor in the slightest degree to prevent him from repeating the offence. It is not our present intention to inquire how far our laws are faulty in either respect, but we will venture to point out a very easy, and at the same time a very necessary and material reform. We venture to ask whether it be absolutely necessary that so many loop-holes should be left for the escape of guilt? Whether the purposes of justice are not sacrificed to the technicalities of law, which is sacrificing the end to the means? and whether the weight which is allowed to flaws and informalities in the practice of our courts, and the importance which is attached to things so utterly insignificant in themselves, be a whit more honourable to the profession of the law, than the grossest quackery is to the science of medicine?
The evil will be more clearly understood by general readers, and may perhaps strike professional ones more forcibly, if a few cases be stated to exemplify it. Some years ago a man was tried for forgery; the fact was proved against him, and his condemnation would have been certain, had it not been perceived just in time that his Christian name, which happened to be Bartholomew, had been abbreviated in the indictment. It was one of those cases, we believe, in which no person, not even the prosecutors themselves, could be sorry that the prisoner escaped; this however was merely accidental, and matters nothing to the point before us. There was no doubt of the man's identity, there was no doubt of his guilt; and what did it signify in the eyes of justice, or of common sense, whether his Christian name were written at full length or not? In a more recent case, a flaw of the same kind, and if possible still more contemptible, sufficed to save an offender from punishment, where there was certainly no room for compassion. The crime was the odious one of writing letters to threaten the life of a timid and defenceless woman, for the purpose of extorting money from her, and that too under circumstances of peculiar aggravation; and the guilty party was acquitted because the phrase by-nights in the letter had been written by night in the indictment! It might be expected that so flagrant an instance as this would have excited the attention of the legislature, and that paltry pedantries would no longer have been suffered to disgrace our courts by frustrating the very purpose for which laws were instituted. It is not long since an attempt was made to invalidate an indenture, berause, though perfect in all its parts, the paper upon which it was
written was straight at the top! The judge, upon hearing the objection, desired to look at the deed, and taking his scissars from his pocket, he quietly zigzagged it, and returned it to the party by whom the quibble had been started, as a valid instrument. Is there any imaginable reason why such flaws as those which we have instanced, should not in like manner be amended upon the spot, or overlooked, as unworthy even of the expense of time in amending them? Let us also be permitted to hint, as an additional reason for correcting this abuse, how possible it is that such flaws may not always be accidental.
Connected with this subject, there is another point which requires notice. Any person who can invent a new method of defrauding either individuals or the public may, in the present state of things, enjoy the fruits of his ingenuity with perfect safety, till a law be made, declaring the new invention to be criminal. The reader will recollect the case of Mr. Aslett. A more recent one is that of a stationer who prepared paper of extreme thinness in such a manner that when it was stamped, one stamp sufficed for three sheets, and the sheets being afterwards separated, the revenue was thus defrauded of two parts in three: when the trick was detected, it could not be punished, because no such fraud had been foreseen. And in the case of that nefarious manufactory of tea which has lately been brought to light, the persons upon whom the wholesale stock of this poisonous preparation was found, were liable to no punishment, because it could not be proved that they traded in the article. Surely such cases might be reached by some general provision. Nice points of casuistry are entrusted to our juries, such as were never contemplated when juries were instituted; cases of fraud are too palpable to be mistaken by them; and all minor degrees of punishment might safely be left to the discretion of the judge.
These indeed are not the reforms by which popularity is to be courted, and which the professors of humanity are ambitious of bringing forward; but they are among the means by which the only real reformation is to be effected; they are among the means by which the laws may be made more effectual, and criminals more sure of conviction and correction. Nor can it be doubted but that real reformation would be facilitated by the preventive measures upon which we have enlarged, and which it is in the power of the magistrates, the clergy, and the parochial officers to execute. From such measures, simple and easy as they are, the greatest good may be expected ;-but more especially from general education, and most of all from careful religious instruction, without which education will be worse than useless. It is our business to sow the seed, and weed the ground well; we may then look with full assurance for the harvest. Let us do our duty in enacting new laws H 3
where they are needful, and enforcing those which the wisdom of our ancestors has provided: we may then, to use the happy language of an old chronicler, trust that all things may continually amend from evil to good, from good to better, and from better to the best.'
ART. IV. Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole to George Montagu, Esq. from the year 1736 to 1770. WE have here another volume of Letters, from an author who may decidedly claim pre-eminence for ease and liveliness of expression, terseness of remark and felicity of narration, above almost all the letter-writers of Britain. The peculiarities and even the foibles of Horace Walpole's character were such as led to excellence in this style of composition; and, although his correspondence has not always taught us to respect the man, the writer seldom fails to amuse us.
We know little of Horace Walpole's character but what his works and his letters lead us to infer, and these present extraordinary and strangely blended features. He was in politics, by principle, personal and hereditary, a determined Whig; yet no man seems to have held the profane vulgar in such sacred and aristocratic horror. In this particular, as in some others, he seems rather to have felt like a French noble than like an Englishman of rank. This contempt for the vulgar would naturally have been associated with the corresponding ambition of a man of family and fashion to distinguish himself at court; and it may be esteemed a contradiction, that Horace Walpole, the son of a prime minister, vain of his rank in society, should have spent the greater part of his life in the lists of opposition. Here, however, his Whig principles thwarted a strong natural propensity to breathe court air; for while he expatiates with ill-concealed complacency on the necessity of attending the Princess Amelia, and receiving the Duke of Cumberland or Duke of York, he finds it necessary to veil the glow of satisfied vanity with an affectation of ruffled philosophy and disturbed retirement.
I will tell you how the calamity befel me, though you will laugh instead of pitying me. Last Friday morning, I was very tranquilly writing my Anecdotes of Painting-I heard the bell at the gate ringI called out, as usual, "Not at home;" but Harry, who thought it would be treason to tell a lie, when he saw red liveries, owned I was, and came running up, "Sir, the prince of Wales is at the door, and says, he is come on purpose to make you a visit!" There was I, in the utmost confusion, undressed, in my slippers, and with my hair about my ears; there was no help, insanum ratem aspiciet—and down I went to receive him. Him was the duke of York. Behold my breeding of


If there is a Formula One race in which one could construct a good case to oppose Lewis Hamilton at short odds then it would have to be the Monaco Grand Prix, arguably the most prestigious individual event on the motor racing program.
Hamilton has just signed a new three-year Mercedes contract worth up to 27 million British pounds per year but he may not be smiling from ear to ear after Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix if his past performances in the principality are any guide. Hamilton has taken part in eight editions of the Monaco Grand Prix for one win and, more alarmingly, his numbers versus his teammates have been unspectacular.
There is no finer indication of a driver's love for a track than his qualifying and race results compared to those of his colleague because, in theory, they are racing with identical equipment. So anyone thinking of having their house on Hamilton winning the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday should note that the British driver has qualified slower than his team-mate five times out of eight and finished behind his team-mate four times out of eight. Those are not the kind of statistics that one wants to see before getting stuck into an odds-on favourite so one is looking elsewhere.
The obvious Monaco Grand Prix alternative to Hamilton is his Mercedes colleague Nico Rosberg, who is something of a track specialist. Rosberg has won each of the last two editions of the Monaco Grand Prix and his head-to-head record versus his various team-mates is excellent. Rosberg has had nine cracks at the Monaco Grand Prix and seven times he has been faster than his colleague in qualifying and seven times he has had a better race result than his colleague. If Rosberg has got back his mojo following his Spanish Grand Prix success two weeks ago then the Monaco Grand Prix is the ideal race for him to build on that success and continue to close the gap on Hamilton on the Formula One championship ladder.
Sebastian Vettel played second fiddle to Mark Webber in most editions of the Monaco Grand Prix during their Red Bull days so the German driver is hard to fancy at odds of around the 11/1 12.00 +1100 11.00 11.00 -0.09 mark and two-time Monaco Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso is driving the Formula One equivalent of a Trabant.
Rosberg represents the Monaco Grand Prix value at odds of 5/4 2.25 +125 1.25 1.25 -0.80 with Boylesports and WilliamHill and he is likely to trade at odds on if he secures pole position for the third year in a row. Only once in the last 11 editions of the Monaco Grand Prix has the pole-sitting driver not gone on to win the race and that was in 2008 when a safety car ruined Felipe Massa's strategy and handed the initiative to Hamilton, who took full advantage to win by 3.064 seconds from Robert Kubica, with Massa another 1.747s back in third.
Bwin is offering odds of 11/20 1.55 -182 0.55 -1.82 0.55 that the Monaco Grand Prix pole sitter wins the race and, if you are okay with taking short odds, that looks like a reasonable option given the incredible pole-to-race conversion in recent years. But one Monaco Grand Prix of which to steer clear is betting on any driver to complete the hat-trick of pole position, fastest lap and race victory – just once in the last 16 editions has a driver achieved that feat and it was Alonso in 2007. The 2007 Monaco Grand Prix was a controversial race after which the governing body launched an investigation of the McLaren team following allegations that it had ordered Hamilton not to attempt to challenge or overtake Alonso. McLaren was cleared of any wrongdoing but, even so, the investigation went some way to explaining why Alonso did the hat-trick.


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There is a rather curious little book on the history of queen Christiana in the Leufsta Library that has a handwritten marking 'Constanter' on the title-page. This is the motto of the Dutch poet, diplomat and scholar Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) . A second annotation on the title-page holds the clue to how this book ended up in Sweden.
The Constanter provenance is arguably one of the classics in Dutch book science. Many colleagues will recognize it instantly, mostly thanks to the missionary work of a group of Huygens researchers and enthusiasts. Dr. Ad Leerintveld, formerly of the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, described the first set of Constanters in two articles (1998 and 2009), on which others have built. A website shows the slowly growing list of copies from Huygens' library. So far, over two hundred copies with the Constanter provenance have been identified. The copy containing the history of the Swedish queen Christina – who created quite a scandal when she abdicated her throne and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1654 – is the latest addition to the list.
The library of Constantijn Huygens comprised approximately 8,000 books. When Huygens died, one part of the collection was sold at an auction in 1688, another part of the library was divided among his sons Christiaan and Constantijn Jr., and subsequently sold at auctions in 1695 and 1701. There are examples, however, of copies that bear the Constanter mark but are not mentioned in any of the auctions. The books have since spread out over Europe and later the rest of the world. Tracing the Constanter copies can learn us much about acquisition, book ownership and the build up of a library in the seventeenth century. Also, it may provide new insights in the buyers at auctions and the dissemination of 'second-hand' books over Europe.
We do not know exactly where Huygens acquired the book, but it certainly was not in Stockholm in 1677. The imprint on the title-page is false, Jean Pleyn de Courage is a literary figure that appeared in some satirical pamphlets from the 1670s, and not a printer or bookseller in Sweden. It is likely that the book was printed in the Netherlands, typographical features also point in that direction. It is most likely that Huygens bought the book himself in The Hague in the year of publication. Huygens had a history with queen Christina. In 1647 he had presented a copy of his Pathodia sacra et profana to the Swedish queen, but never got a response.
This copy of the anonymous Histoire de la vie de la reyne Christine de Suede does not appear in the auction catalogue of 1688, but is found in the catalogue of his son Christiaan Huygens in 1695, under libri miscellanei duodecimo, number 321. The second annotation on the title-page reads Gabriel Johan Burgman, which is probably statesman Gabriel Johannes Borgman (1656-1736), after his ennoblement known as Gabriel Hjelmborg. He acquired the book in The Hague in 1696, one year after the auction, which probably means that he bought it at a bookseller. Borgman died shortly before the young Charles De Geer moved to Sweden, so the book probably came to Leufsta through one of the children of Borgman.
More research is obviously needed. Studying the handwritten acquisition catalogues of Leufsta library might give an answer to when exactly this book was received by Charles De Geer. On the spine of the book are two manuscript numbers, 5874 and (faint) 64, that have not yet been identified. Any updates will be posted on this website. In the meantime, be sure to check your local library for more Constanters. There are still a hypothetical 7,800 copies that have not yet been found. Additions to the list are much appreciated!
Parchment binding with numbers 5874 and 64 on the spine.
Ad Leerintveld, "Magnificent paper': the library of Constantijn Huygens', in: Quaerendo, vol 28:3 (1998), pp. 165-184.
Ad Leerintveld, "Ex libris: 'Constanter'. Boeken uit de bibiotheek van Constantijn Huygens', in: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis, 16 (2009), pp. 151-176.