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They often look their best from a distance, their colors merging like mist in the room so that the air almost appears to glow. We are standing in Keith Sonnier's house, looking across together to his "barn." In the window, you can vaguely make our the gleam from one of his sculptures. Fresh snow has obliterated the ground; deer glide by. A blizzard is expected for tomorrow.
All is bright inside the light artist's house, a small Victorian building on Long Island with a modern extension he added three years ago. Now the sun falls on art and plants, and masks he brought home from his many travels. Since suffering a stroke, he sometimes has problems walking, but he nevertheless appears bright, enthusiastic – and pleasure loving. This man enjoys receiving visitors.
Mr. Sonnier, you must have had plenty of electric shocks…
There were a few! But that was in the beginning, when I had just started working with neon. I was smoking too much dope… (laughs).
Why neon?
It's a trapped gas, ignited by the electrical charge… and then the light extends out into the atmosphere. I am very drawn to that perception element of it. It's much more seductive than digital lighting. It's a color that glows. Like a flame. It IS a flame!
So it's all about seduction…
When you perceive something, it washes over you. There is an emotional response that makes you aware of your five senses. I want my art to have this. I want it to imbue you.
What is more important: color? Or light?
My first neon work was white. So it was all about the glow. Then I discovered the primary triangle red, yellow, blue… What had drawn me to pigment was the thickness of the raw material, like vermillion red. But light intensifies color to such a new level, it even gives volume to it. I couldn't conceive of making new works without trying different color combinations in space and form.
At his house on Long Island, the artist surrounds himself with sunlight and large plants
"Cross Marker" from 2015, from the Tidewater Series
Keith Sonnier enjoys spending his evenings in the glow of his works. "Expanded Bound Saw Palm" from 2016
Each of his works begins with a sketch – he chooses his many Sharpie pencils according to the colors of the luminous noble gases
Off-the-shelf neon tubes won't do for Sonnier's works: He has his light made to order. "The traditional way to make neon is flat, like writing text with spaghetti. I wanted it to bend and come out into space." Sonnier's sculptures often look fragile, appear to be in motion, rolling. Looking at them, you are more likely to be put in mind of a snapshot of a primitive organism than a sculpture for eternity.
The production studio is just a five-minute drive from his house in Bridgehampton. Each of his works begins with a sketch from which the model will later develop. Sonnier decides on the color, in other words, the gas or gas mixture, using the sample tubes in his neon charts. The model then goes to the glass blowers' workshop, where the hot glass is blown into the desired shape, corks are pushed into the ends of the tubes and they are left to cool. For some colors, the hollow glass additionally receives an inner coating before the ends are reheated, the corks replaced by electrodes, a vacuum is created and finally, the noble gas is let in – then the electrical circuit is closed.
In the studio, Sonnier finally pieces the individual components together. Once it is ready to be photographed, the finished sculpture is taken to the light-flooded barn, a second studio on his property. The entire production set-up is a well-oiled artisan operation, perfectly attuned to the needs of the art market. Sometimes, the ultimate destination of a piece influences its design: Sonnier favors the plain blue and red of the noble gases argon and neon for public spaces, for example, because they are easily replaced – a neon tube has a life of less than 15 years.
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Why don't you prepare the tubes yourself?
The artisans are fabulous, I have been working with some of them for more that 30 years now. And they're always happy when they can make something that is not advertising. I don't have the time and interest to make my own neon. I would much rather see a cooking show! I'm not a good recipe follower, though… (laughs).
Your kitchen speaks volumes: You love to cook…
Yes! I have always been interested in food. Men and women from Louisiana all cook. In Louisiana, first of all, you have to know how to make a roux. It's basically poached flour that ends up being the color of chocolate. It even looks like fudge. This is the main ingredients for several of our dishes, and everytime I go to Louisiana, people still ask me: How's your sauce?
Well, how is your sauce?
I have quite perfected it! I use lemongrass now and many other herbs I have come to know through my travels. That plant at the end of the hall is a lemongrass tree. Also, I don't make my roux with actual wheat flour, I use almond or chickpea flour. And it tastes fabulous!
In food and in art – you like to be next to the flame…
Absolutely. The flame can be very soothing. And I can make myself feel better by making food. I am rarely depressed because I can rely on this as a mode to get me past things.
In the studio: When Sonnier has an idea, he plays with it. That's why his works frequently form series, such as the "Floating Grid Series" (2017)
Sonnier's grandmother was a traiteur, as people used to say in the Louisiana patois: She was a healer who used food to cure people. Anyone could come to her and she would take them in and help them without asking a cent in return. Otherwise, she spent the whole day playing cards on her veranda, surrounded by magnificent sycamore trees. Ask Sonnier about his career and he says very little about himself but lots about his teachers. His grandmother, he says, was his first mentor. "I still remember seeing her at 77, clearing a fence in one jump – and she was a tiny woman!"
My work is a celebration. It has to celebrate perception
Sonnier was born in Mamou, Louisiana, in 1941, where he spent a happy childhood amid subtropical plants, extensive rice fields and damp, misty air – everywhere, the light was reflected and refracted in fascinating ways. But the depictions of hell and heaven on opposite sides of the Catholic church where he served as an altar boy were the only art Sonnier knew.
His favorite aunt was the manager of the movie theater in Mamou. Keith tore the tickets upstairs, where the blacks had to sit. He saw Quo Vadis around 40 times. "I knew everything about this movie. How the light affects the mood and sets the scene for perception…. And then there was Deborah Kerr in that fabulous blue gown!"
Sonnier was 15 years old when he and his aunt were involved in a serious car accident. While critically ill and running a high temperature, he had out-of-body experiences. "I remember the white light. It was bright and intense."
Ein Werk aus der "Floating Grid Series" (2017)
Eine selbst angelegte Farbskala hilft beim Bestimmen der Leuchtstoffe
Charcoal drawings helped shape the frames for "Floating Grid Series". In the background: "Helmut Portal" (2015)
The light sculpture "Helmut Portal" (detail, 2015) from the series "Portals"
In his studio, layouts for Sonnier's next works are already hanging on the wall
Some old sketches for bent Neon
Each of Sonnier's works begins with a sketch from which the model will later develop
Was that the moment when you decided to become an artist?
As a kid I was on my own a lot. To get past my boredom, I had to be inventive. So I always made things out of twigs and bits of branches. It looked abstract, but to me it was like little scenes – the sky was made out of banana leaves. But I never thought that this could be art. Even later, when I showed my work in New York, I was still shocked that people would buy something I made.
Back then you left purist minimalism behind you with inflatable sculptures…
Minimalist art was very good, but what I wanted as an experience from my work was not the response I got from it. Aesthetically I liked it, especially a painting by Josef Albers. But I was not going to make an Albers painting. I wanted to make something that I manifested. It had to be my recipe, my sauce! (laughs).
At first glance, your pieces are abstract. But they are also lively, you could almost say: happy…
Yes and that has been a real issue. People would say: Oh, it's very decorative. I think it's just the opposite: a celebration. This is a very important aspect of my work. It has to celebrate perception.
Sounds like you're having a lot of fun at work…
Well, I wouldn't exactly call it ecstasy… (laughs). But I know a lot of artists who speak of their work as of some kind of drudgery. If I had an attitude like that towards art, I wouldn't even bother making it!
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Valid interview data is critical to the final results of the study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of epidemiological data obtained in non-smoking female lung cancer case-control study in China.
Fifty-six pairs of cases and controls, 10% percent of all the collected subjects were re-interviewed by three interviewers who underwent identical standardized training. A limited number of questions included in the original survey were asked again, the responses from the re-interview were compared with the original interview. Kappa was calculated by negative rates of agreement, positive rates of agreement and total rates of agreement to the accordance degree between the two interviews.
The Kappa values were all more than 0.5 in all the studied indexes. The Kappa values descended from 0.92 in family history of cancer to 0.56 in oral contraception use. Errors in collecting and classifying data did occur, and were especially common for complicated clinical events, such as a drug exposure occurring many years before.
We identified four sources of this variability, three in collecting the data, and one in coding. As a result of these findings, strategies are proposed for improving the quality of interview data obtained in epidemiological research. Before finding a good solution, the strategy of data collecting and coding should be simple and easy to inspect.
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide and in China [1–6]. All those studies showed that cigarette smoking [7–9] was the primary risk factor for female lung cancer, which accounted for only 25% of all female cell types and 10% of female adenocarcinoma in Shanghai , 37% of all female cell types and 14% of female adenocarcinoma in Shenyang . These statistics pointed to the necessity of investigating and understanding the etiology of lung cancer in general, and urgency for identifying factors affecting the risk for female lung cancer. To explain the reasons of the high incidence of Chinese female lung cancer, we investigated risk factors for non-smoking female lung cancer by using a case-control study design.
The interview data of this study were obtained through questionnaires. Previous studies have showed that some medical information could be remembered more accurately than others [12–14]. For example, people could remember details of illnesses requiring hospitalization better than illnesses treated in the physician's office. The patient's medical knowledge and anxiety level might determine the recall of the information . However some interviewers of varying training and ability are always aware of hypothesized risk factors under investigation.
Valid interview data is critical to the final results of the study. We repeated the interview or medical record extraction at a later date to examine the reliability of interview data, identify sources of variability and provide solutions to minimize variation in data collection. The acceptability of the interview method and the adequacy of the management of the case-control study were also explored in this study.
Five hundred and sixty newly diagnosed primary lung cancer cases in females, aged 35–74, defined according to the 3-digit rubric of ICD-9, were recruited in 18 hospitals serving the city of Shenyang from June, 2000 to June, 2004. Each case enrolled in this study was newly diagnosed with lung cancer based on reviews of relevant medical records, chest X-ray and CT films. About 67% cases had histological or cytological slides confirmed by a panel of chest physicians and pathologists. All the cases were nonsmoking females (defined as those who had not smoked more than 100 cigarettes or used other tobacco products for more than 6 months in their lifetime). Cancer-free controls were 1:1 matched by the same age group (± 2 years old) and randomly selected from the same administrative district or the same hospital during the same period as the cases. Controls had no previous or present history of malignant diseases including lung cancer. Controls that were recruited in hospitals suffered mainly from bronchitis, fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
After detailed explanation of the study, all selected participants signed an informed consent form and agreed to be interviewed at their convenience. Three interviewers who underwent identical standardized training interviewed all of the cases and controls. Interviews, were carried out by direct conversation and medical record extraction, lasted 20–30 minutes and followed a structured questionnaire format. The questionnaire used in the first interview consisted of 6 different parts as follows: general personal information; living environmental and household habits; the situation of ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) exposure; dietary habits; social economic status information; medical record (only for lung cancer cases and controls collected in hospitals). After completing the interview, the information was checked by a supervisor, coded and entered into computers for analysis.
Fifty-six pairs of cases and controls, 10% percent of all the collected subjects were randomly selected and re-contacted to verify the initial interview by asking a limited number of questions included in the original survey and re-extracting the medical records. The random sampling process was performed monthly as follows: after completing the first-round interview, each case and control was assigned a unique identification number. The supervisor checked the completed questionnaires and relevant medical information monthly, and concurrently assigned each pair of cases and controls a random number by a random-number generator. These random numbers were sorted in ascending order, then the top 10% of the random numbers were selected and the corresponding pairs of cases and controls were selected for re-interview. The repeated questions that needed to re-asked included certain features that were of potential importance to the analysis of the risk factors of lung cancer, such as family cancer history, disease history and cooking styles. All the repeated interviews were conducted within one month after the first interview. The three technicians who underwent the same identical standardized training with the above mentioned three interviewers carried out the re-interview. Each technician did not know the results of the first interview, and was kept unaware of the specific hypothesis under investigation. During the re-interview process, they were asked only to collect the following 5 aspects of information: history of illness, family history of cancer, oral contraceptive use, location of kitchen during childhood and history of passive smoking. The simple questionnaire adopted in the re-interview process was extracted from the structured questionnaire that was used in the first interview. The three technicians also collected any comments on the first interview from the participants during the re-interview process.
This study focused not only on measuring the amount of variation in collecting data from an interview, but also on identifying the reasons of the variation for better management of the case-control study. After completing the interviews, detailed analyses of disagreement were conducted and the disagreement were classified into four categories. Two of them could be attributed to subject disagreement and incomplete information. Because sometimes people provided information that contradicted data in the other interview and only provided partial information. Another source of variation was interviewer misinterpretation. This occurred when the interviewer incorrectly interpreted the information provided by the subject. The last source of variation was from coding misinterpretation. This occurred when the data coder interpreted the data differently on the similar data from the two interviews.
The extent of agreement between interviews was assessed using per cent observed agreement for specific responses (positive and negative), and for per cent overall agreement. We also calculated an unweighted kappa statistic to provide an estimate of chance corrected agreement. The kappa statistic is calculated by the formula κ = (po-pc)/(1-pc), where po is the observed proportion of agreement, and pc is the proportion of agreement expected by chance. Kappa has a range of values from -1 to +1. When the observed agreement is perfect, i.e., po = 1, kappa will be +1. If the observed agreement equals the chance expected agreement, so that po = pc, kappa will be 0. If the observed agreement is less than the chance expected agreement, i.e., po < pc, kappa will become negative. With the recommendations of several research statisticians , the kappa value is interpreted as follows: the rating of agreement is poor when the index is < 0.4; the rating is fair when the index is 0.4–0.59; the rating is good when the index is 0.60–0.75; and the rating of agreement is excellent when the index value is > 0.75.
The demographic information for cases and controls is presented in Table 1. There was no difference in the distribution of age, marital status, and educational level between cases and controls. The economic status (based on income in 1995, five years prior to interview) in the cases was higher than that in the controls and the difference was statistically significant.
P-value from t-test for continuous variables; χ2 test for category variables.
There was no difference in the extent of agreement among cases and controls. Table 2 shows the interview variability of five selected questions. For each item, we presented the total number of disagreement, the observed agreement and the kappa value. The observed agreement ranged from 88.39% for history of illness and location of kitchen during childhood to 99.11% for history of passive smoking. The Kappa value descended from 0.92 in family history of cancer to 0.56 in oral contraception use. The kappa statistic suggested fair, good or excellent agreement for all five variables.
Classified sources of disagreement between interviews for five variables are presented in Table 3. Between the two interviews, there were a total of 41 disagreement. Disagreement was more frequent for oral contraceptive use, history of illness and location of kitchen during childhood than for family history of cancer. About 63% of the disagreement occurred because of conflicting patient reports, and 24% due to incomplete information.
Questionnaires were widely used as a basic instrument for data collecting. Face to face interview with a structured questionnaire and hospital discharge abstract were adopted in our lung cancer case-control study of non-smoking females. To control and guarantee the quality of the collected data, we re-interviewed 10% of the subjects on limited questions, and compared the results with those of the original interviews.
The results of this study suggested that subjects could recall and report much clinical information during interviews for epidemiological studies. For some variables, such as family history of cancer and history of passive smoking, agreement between the two interviews was excellent, with both kappa values were more than 0.75. However for oral contraceptive use, the level of agreement for specific oral contraceptive brand, dose, total duration of use was low, which was of part concordance with the results of other previous studies [17–19]. Rosenberg MJ and etc. found that agreement was better for cases than for controls, when they compared the histories of oral contraceptive (OC) use provided by women participating in a study of hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) with records obtained from their physicians. However, there was no difference in the extent of agreement among cases and controls in the present study. Those studies suggested that in studies examining the effects of individual substances or doses, researchers should try to obtain data from medical records, and user reports about previous OC use might be less useful and more suspect[17, 19]. However in China, at present time we can not get the accurate data of oral contraceptive pharmacy records. Sometimes personal recall is the only way to gather this kind of information.
With the development of health promotion activities, such as health education, advertisements of public benefit etc., more and more people pay increasing attention to cancer and related risk factors. They have a clear understanding of the harmful effects of passive smoking. However, only a few people are aware of the exposure to cooking oil smoke and oral contraceptive use. The degree of awareness of the events in daily life is one of the determinants of the recall of information.
During the second interview, when asking the attitude towards the first interview, subjects were willing to support and participate in research but wanted to be consulted in detail on the use of information from their medical records. They were also concerned about secondary uses of their data, particularly for marketing and insurance purposes. These challenges call for new approaches to consent, taking the varying needs of the subjects and the evolving uses of personal information into account. So more detailed explanation of the study objectives and better collaboration with the doctors in charge and social workers in the community should be strengthened in the future to eliminate misgivings. The doctors and the social workers are critical in informing and motivating the target population to participate the study.
In our study, data coding was after data collection to save the interviewer's time and effort. But coding misinterpretation occurred. More communication between the coding technicians and the interviewer would avoid the coding misinterpretation. Detailed, explicit coding manuals and questionnaire explanations should be developed after these errors occurred. The results in our study showed that errors could occur in both data collection and data coding, better methods are needed to enhance the quality of the information.
This study was financially supported by China Medical Board, No. 00726. The authors are most grateful to all the participants in this study. Guan Peng was supported by a CMU Development grant. The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their stimulating and constructive comments. Also, the authors thank Ryan Session (Emory University, USA) for his careful checking of grammar and spelling of the manuscript.
DH conceived the study and drafted the manuscript. DH, PG, HS and BZ managed and analyzed the data. QH attracted funding and managed the whole case-control study. All authors contributed to the writing of the final version of this paper.


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Why Ottoman Sultans Locked Away Their Brothers
Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.
Sultan Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire
By: Amelia Soth
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"The majority of legists have declared that those of my illustrious children and grandchildren who shall ascend the throne shall have the right to execute their brothers."
With these words, Mehmed the Conqueror, sultan of the Ottoman empire, codified the Law of Fratricide. The law was merely the formalization of a long-standing practice: in the Ottoman tradition, the throne did not automatically pass to the eldest son. Rather, potential heirs were expected to fight it out. As soon as the sultan died, the princes were plunged into a race for the throne—each motivated by the knowledge that, if he didn't claim the crown, whichever of his brothers did would probably do away with him.
When Bayezid I died in 1403, the resulting struggle between his four sons ballooned into a decade-long civil war.
This system virtually guaranteed a period of chaos between rulers, as the rival claimants vied for the throne. When Bayezid I died in 1403, the resulting struggle between his four sons ballooned into a decade-long civil war.
Of course, the crown prince could never shed the blood of his brothers. So he had them strangled instead. When Mehmed III was crowned, he called his nineteen brothers into the throne room. They had nothing to fear, he told them, for he had only brought them there to be circumcised. In the next room, the assassins were waiting. One by one, the princes trouped in. One by one, they were throttled with a silken bowstring. The youngest was only eleven.
"The sons of Turkish sultans are in the most wretched position in the world, for, as soon as one of them succeeds his father, the rest are doomed to certain death," observed Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman empire. "[T]he conduct of the Janissaries [the sultan's elite army corps] renders it impossible for the new Sultan to spare his brothers; for if one of them survives, the Janissaries are forever asking largesses. If these are refused, forthwith the cry is heard, 'Long live the brother!' 'God preserve the brother!'—a tolerably broad hint that they intend to place him on the throne."
Sultan Mehmed III via Flickr
This illuminates a key point: On the surface, the practice of fratricide was a display of absolute power, wielded with impunity, but what it really reflected was the sultan's vulnerability. Since any prince was potentially a legitimate heir, any living brother was a threat to the sultan—and a source of potential leverage for the janissaries.
Interestingly enough, by thinning every generation to a single heir, the Ottomans prevented the development of a hereditary aristocracy like the ones that dominated the rest of Europe. Moreover, because the Ottomans frequently pruned the family tree, it could not sprout feuding factions: there was no Ottoman equivalent of the House of York or the House of Lancaster. The wars of succession fought by those European houses had a different character—they tended to erupt when the king died with no heirs, rather than too many—but they were no less bloody for it.
After the death of Mehmed III, in 1603, the Ottoman rulers shifted from fratricide to confinement. Perhaps this is because Mehmed's slaughter of his nineteen brothers had crossed a line, or perhaps it was because his successor, Ahmed, was only thirteen, too young to have any heirs of his own.
This was the new system: after the age of seven, extraneous princes were confined in a palace-prison called the Kafes, a word whose multiple meanings expresses well its ambivalent mixture of luxury and imprisonment: it can refer to either a cage or a palanquin. At least in theory, a prince locked in the Kafes could not gather followers, incite rebellion, or lead a coup. The Kafe princes were safe, at the expense of their freedom.
Inside the Kafes, sunlight filtered through jewel-like stained-glass windows. The brilliant blue of the windows gave the rooms an eerie underwater quality. Gleaming Iznik tiles, painted with cypresses and twirling vines, adorned the walls: a simulacrum of the outdoors for princes who might not live to step beyond the palace gates.
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Most of the princes who were confined to the Kafes stayed there until their deaths, but some were called out to become sultans. In the words of the cultural anthropologist David Graeber:
Each would take the throne in turn until none were left and then power would revert to the son of the first. This ensured that by the time most did come to power, they were not only quite old, but also lacked any experience of the world, and often were struggling with severe mental health issues caused by decades of solitary confinement… The most notorious, perhaps, of the period's rulers, Ibrahim I ("the mad," r. 1640–48), exercised absolute and arbitrary power inside the palace, at one point ordering his entire harem be tied into weighted sacks and drowned; at the same time, he knew almost nothing of life outside, and his interventions in public life were largely whimsical. (At one point he is said to have ordered his officials to locate the fattest woman in the empire, whom he ultimately made governor of Aleppo.) Eventually he was deposed and a child was made sultan in his place.
In 1632, when Murad IV's janissaries were unhappy with him, they demanded that he bring out the princes, to prove that they were still alive: "The princes are our lord's sons; we have lost confidence in you… bring out the princes and show them to us now… If you don't do as we say, you are no further use to us as Sultan." Even the hidden princes, shut away in the palace, could still become a bargaining chip.
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Kettle falls international railway
Installed 1.495 million feet of continuous welded rail (CWR)
Replaced 140,000 wood ties
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St. Albans, Vermont
RailWorks and another rail construction contractor installed rail and replaced wood ties along 191 miles of New England Central Railroad (NECR) track to accommodate higher-speed Amtrak passenger service.
RailWorks teamed with Atlas Railroad Construction in a joint venture to upgrade the line to accommodate higher-speed Amtrak "Vermonter" passenger service. RailWorks installed 140,000 wood ties, and the two contractors shared the job of installing 1.495 million feet of continuous welded rail (CWR) along 191 miles between St. Albans, Vt., from the north and the Massachusetts border to the south. The sweeping upgrades allow passenger trains to travel up to 59 mph north of White River Junction, Vt., and up to 79 mph south of White River where centralized traffic control (CTC) has been installed. For Amtrak passengers, the historic improvements mean a smoother ride that's up to 40 minutes shorter than before.
Work on the project began in the fall of 2010 when the first of 18 rail trains arrived with CWR. A RailWorks gang worked each train to position 50, 1,600-foot strings of rail along the track shoulders, enough for 15 miles of rail. Also that fall, RailWorks managers on the project began meticulous planning so the rail and tie gangs could hit the ground running when they arrived the following April. They set up accounts, determined equipment needs, pinpointed material unloading and distribution spots, and set up initial schedules to complete the work.
In early April of 2011, two rail gangs – one from Rail-Works and another from Atlas – began replacing rail starting in St. Albans and working south. The RailWorks gang took the western rail and the Atlas gang took the eastern rail. Positioned about 2 to 4 miles apart, each gang first removed the existing rail, laid about 1½ miles of rail and readied the track for service at the end of each shift. The RailWorks tie gang started two months later to replace defective ties marked for replacement by NECR.
The gangs generally worked 15 straight days. During the seven-day stretch when they were off, another five-person gang spent three to five days unloading each rail train to position CWR on the track ahead of the rail gangs. With up to 150 workers on the line and so many moving parts, communication between NECR, Amtrak and all workers and subcontractors on the track was essential not only to ensure safety, but also to meet production goals. Communication became particularly important after Hurricane Irene hit the last week of August.


I can speak from experience that codes only work for one character. You will get to select the account/character that received the item. However you can only ever redeem one code for that particular item line per account regardless of how many characters you have. Ex: if I buy three tenth anniversary t-shirts I can only use one of the codes. The other two would be useless. Codes also cannot be transferred so make sure you put it on the character you want it to have.
@ above No, you can buy and use as many as you wish. If you couldn't my AQW characters 12 Gulls and Jake Aces (who are both on the same Master Account since you can only have one) wouldn't both have CardClasher.
The way codes work is that you enter the code and can then select one account per code for every game, even if you've already used that type of code. So for CardClasher for example it presented me with a list of my AQW accounts and for the first code I selected my character 12 Gulls and applied it. Using the second code I selected my character Jake Aces and applied it ( both codes now being tied to my Master Account).
In the case of the Calendar specifically you would be brought to a list similar to the one in this screenshot. Only in the case of an entirely unused code it would have a drop down menu to select an account/character from instead of saying "Code already used for this game.".
Each code can only be used on one character from per account per game, and then it tells you it's been used. When I used my CardClasher codes for example, though I had 18 characters linked at the time only the one I chose received it which is as it should be. Therefore unless you select the disabled account to obtain the item, it will not receive it.
Way back when AQ first came out over 10 years ago I made an account. When Master Accounts were added I opted to make my AQ account my Master Account (I was prompted to do this IIRC). I was.... 8 I think? When I made the AQ account, so naturally I was in the under 13s age group. The thing is, now it's 11 or so years later and I recently turned 19. I'm still in the under 13 age group as far as my Master Account goes though, and this restricts me in certain games. Is there a way to change the age, or do I need to make a new Master Account?
That had nothing to do with any question on the page... I'm just asking whether there's a way to change the age on my current one. If not, I need to make a new one and transfer all the linked games over to the new one.
I've done a search through portal.battleon.com and while i don't see anything there that can automatically change the age.
I got a problem trying to change my email for my master account. I just found out yesterday from my gmail that I was informed that I should come back to Yahoo to reactivate my Yahoo email for 12 months. It seems I came too late to notice the mail. After I was informed; I went to see if it was still there. It seems Yahoo deactivated my Yahoo email. And I was using that email for my Master account.
Is there any other way to change an email without a email that does not longer exists for confirmation?
@ Raptor Your inquiry sounds a lot like something that was asked in the page before this one.
i recently changed my email address and deleted the old one as i realized that it was an extremley childish and innapropriate email address for anyone to possess. shortly after deleting it i went to my artix account to change it to my other email address after my old one had been deleted. as i no longer have access to my old email address the portal wont let me change it. what do i do?
After a few days, our system will go ahead and change the contact email to your new one.
It guesses that you no longer have access to the old one, and gives plenty of time to confirm or cancel if the change wasn't on purpose.
The above was from another consumer and your situation sounds an awful lot like that one. The bottom portion was Captain Rhubarb's reply to the consumer.
And, just in the case that doesn't help you. I have one other link to give you.
I'm having an issue with the Ultimate Game Card. I purchased 10$ worth of Artix points with a 20$ Card. Through currency conversion and such I had some left over points. I want to buy 5$ worth of Artix points but my (Add left over Ultimate Game Card points) isn't showing up but I know i have about 800 UGC Points because after my purchase it said so, so my question is why don't I get an option to add my left over points and I know I was able to do this in the past?
Verification only gives small bonuses, such as the Guardian class in DF; full upgrades for each game are handled separately.
Does Artix Entertainment have an actual mailing address?
Oh and this response is to Dragon Hunter Pete.
I bought a 20000 Artix Points package after the promotion of 10% more points was announced, but I only got 20000 instead of 22000 (I used PayPal). Who should I contact in this case and how should I do it?
So my friend gifted me a game card, but since he and I are far away, he only gave me the code itself. When I tried to redeem it and click next, the error "Invalid pin number, or system error 43:Invalid Card" came up! Can I have some help? He bought it at a GameStop if it helps.
For both of these issues, I recommend the following support link This link to be precise.
Than use that for payment issues only.
Wolf you may want to also check with your friend about if the gamestop personnel entered all the info correctly on the card he gifted you.
Sometimes what happens is that the card itself, doesn't always go through the process correctly.
I hope this has throughly answered both of your inquiries with satisfactory results, have a great Frostval.
EDIT: Just bought 20k AP package, using Cherry Credits. Got exactly 20k AP. Since I used CC it is probably suppose to be like that assuming the above sentence is true.
It is like that now. The $100 is back to its intended 20k points and only if you pay with a credit card will you get the bonus.
Is it a Ultimate GameCard?
The problem is I forgot my old Master Account email that I registered to it where in I linked my AQW account. How can I fix this issue?
I was planning to buy AQW Membership/Adventure Coins using Artix Points in my new Master Account because I already have a Payment History on it.
I hope you take a quick action about my problem. Thankyou!
You'll want to use the Recovery Page and submit a report for your lost account. When submitting the form, be sure to click the "Email us about your Artix Account (including EpicDuel/HeroSmash/OverSoul)" button - so that it leads you to the proper page.
I'm trying to create a master account with one of my alternate email addresses, but it keeps saying "login name already used".
So then I try to recover my password, but it says "no matching information found".
If there's no info on that email address, how can it be "already used"???
Not sure it may have been banned, some kind of bug or who knows what.
Did you try clearing your cache and all that? I know its weird but clearing can fix many different online issues. Did you try creating an account with a different email?
If none of that helped try using this form but be sure to completely read this because it may have a solution.
It has come to my attention that my main AQW account has been linked to the account name "1lord2of3darckness21". I have no idea who this could possibly be. I have no clue if it is one of my accounts. If it was, it was registered with an email that no longer exists. What could I do? I plan on giving my account on AQW membership, but I do not have any idea what the password is to 1lord2of3darckness21.
Zigzag21497: You'll want to submit a report using the Recovery Page. Hopefully that'll sort out your problem.


The Urban Country Bike Blog posted a great article on one of our excellent customers, Ian Flett, a.k.a. The Bike Riding Lawyer. I am sure Ian is not the only lawyer to ride a bike, but he sure does it in style, and speaks articulately about his experience. We agree that as more professionals take to the streets as daily riders, the safer the streets become. Plus, a Pashley Roadster is a bike that suits a suit. Looking great can't hurt.
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The next Cities: Skylines expansion has been announced, titled Natural Disasters. As its name suggests, the expansion will feature a catalog of catastrophes to challenge virtual mayors everywhere. Players will have the ability to plan early warning systems and emergency routes as they face devastating and destructive disaster effects. They will of course, also have to care for the populace as they struggle to rebuild following the disasters.
Natural Disasters will also update Cities: Skylines with a new scenario editor and gameplay mode so that players will finally win or lose on their own terms. Other features heading to the expansion include a new broadcast network that citizens can use so that players can rapidly spread evacuation warnings and emergency alerts. There will also be new hats for Chirper, because who doesn't want new hats?
Although Paradox Interactive didn't go into great detail on what disasters will be naturally occurring in the expansion, it did say there will be several possible doomsday scenarios, from towering infernos to the day the sky exploded. It appears Natural Disasters will be a lot more in depth and varied compared to the disasters you may be used to from the SimCity series.
The expansion will be available sometime this winter.


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Los Angeles Times Published 5:06 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2014 | Updated 5:12 p.m. ET Oct. 21, 2014
Todd Marinovich, now 45, was dubbed the "Robo Quarterback" in high school by national media. (Photo: Associated Press )
"On top there, that's the more perfect, traditional part of this mural," he said, tugging at his brown baseball cap as he focused on the scraggly, spray-painted tree, its roots diving into deep soil.
He motioned toward the two-story wall's base, where the imagery was more abstract: a serpent, a fish, a flower — unkempt and playful, green and blue and black.
"I like this part the best," he said. "You don't want art that's just all neat and tidy. It's animalistic and unpredictable and messy. You can't put it into a safe box."
Marinovich, 45, could have been describing himself.
His story has been well-chronicled: The Cliff Notes version is a dream shattered by pressure and despair.
He grew up famous, an Orange County favorite son dubbed the "Robo Quarterback" in high school by national media — which focused as much on his football skills as on the intense training regime his father, Marv, had pushed him through since infancy.
He won a Rose Bowl for USC. He started for the Raiders when they made their home in Los Angeles. But he also unraveled in full public view. Marinovich became a hard-core drug addict. He lost his career, and nearly his life, in a haze of pot, cocaine and heroin.
The last image many have is of him standing before a judge after yet another arrest.
But life for Todd Marinovich has changed once again. "I'm evolving," he said, a smile on his narrow face.
About five years ago, Marinovich began making a living off his artwork — his paintings and sculptures have been featured in galleries. His latest job is the biggest payday yet: a $20,000 mural project commissioned by the city of Garden Grove. His canvas is a wide exterior wall outside the historic Gem Theater, smack in the heart of a suburb lost in the shadow of nearby Disneyland.
"There's a parallel," said Steve Jones, the city councilman who reached out to Marinovich four months ago, asking if the former quarterback could do the job. "He's trying to overcome stigma, he's reinvented himself as an artist. We're trying to overcome a stigma too, that image of a flat city in Orange County that's sort of forgotten. Some people call us 'Garbage Grove.'"
"Me and the city have certain reputations, it's true, but I want to go beyond that, I want this to be about the art," said Marinovich, recognizable even though his trademark red locks have been shorn and his skin leathered by the sun and hard living. "This piece, this piece just feels so right. First time I heard about it, I knew I was the right one for the job — it's one of the biggest things I've ever done."
For nearly a month, he was cordoned behind a tarp-covered chain-link fence, standing in the square carriage of an electric lift that can raise him 30 feet high. Sometimes people stopped by, word having leaked that Marinovich was in town, making art of all things. Sometimes he worked for hours without a bother — mornings, afternoons and late at night, under the glare of floodlights.
The mural, striped, dappled and meant to evoke the city's rural past, was unveiled for Sunday's Re: Imagine Garden Grove festival.
Marinovich has a humble charm. There are no airs about him, not with his past.
In the languid but weary cadence of a surfer who has seen the worst parts of life, he spoke on a recent afternoon of how he had to beat back fear and doubt before starting the mural. How he leaned on the fact he's done a fair amount of graffiti work before — "most of it without what you'd call a 'proper credential,'" he said.
He mused, too, about the toll drugs and football-related concussions have taken on his memory. There are large chunks of the past that he just can't recall. Names, even of close friends, can evade him at inopportune moments. He's lost his wallet three times in the last two weeks. It's typical, and frightening.
"If I make it to my 70s," he said, "I will be surprised."
What keeps him going is family.
"I need them because I am very impulsive and sometimes I don't make the best decision. Without them, who knows, all bets are off ...," His voice trailed. He was thinking about his dad, worried because his father's health hasn't been the best of late.
All those old stories about Marv, which is what Marinovich calls his father, the ones characterizing him as the football-crazed mad scientist who drove his son to the brink? Too easy, too pat, too simple, Marinovich said, holding a can of spray paint. "The reality was way more complicated ... but the media didn't get that. Sure, I was pushed, but I loved a lot of it. And I loved my father and always will."
Marinovich has a wife now, Alix, whom he met in drug court. They have two young children: a 3-year-old girl, Coski, and a 5-year-old boy, Baron, who Marinovich said will never be allowed to play football because of the concussion risk.
Two years ago they moved from Newport Beach to a small town in central Oregon. While there Marinovich was paid to create his first official mural: an electric pink sunset illuminating a horse corral. Other than a stint playing professionally in Canada — a desperate period when his heroin addiction was in full bloom — it was the first time he'd ever put down roots outside Southern California.
But the allure of home proved too much. In May, the family moved back, settling in a little cottage in Oceanside. Paying the bills is always a struggle, but Marinovich hopes the Garden Grove mural will give his art career a boost.
Early on in the project, he invited local schoolkids to help. They took spray paint to the wall, scrawling free-form figures wherever they could. When the kids had finished, someone wondered whether their work shouldn't be painted over. "Not a chance," Marinovich said, vowing to turn it into the mural's foundation.
Then there are the scraggly tree and its roots.
"I'm going to turn those into people," he said, zooming toward the mural's top on his lift. "How? I don't know. It's a messy process. There's an element of giving up control and that's really important.... You see one thing on the surface, but you don't know what you're going to get."


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Encyclopedia | Before Glendo Dam could be built on the North Platte River in Platte County, Wyoming, complicated water-rights disputes had to be settled among Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado and the settlement approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. The process took more than a decade, and shows the difficulties of allocating water in the arid West. The earthfill dam, nearly 2,100 feet long and 190 feet high, was completed in the fall of 1957. It stores water for irrigation and recreation, controls floods, reduces sedimentation in the Guernsey reservoir downstream and produces hydropower.


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February 26, July 23, by Sheryl Chan. I have been fortunate enough to date men from extreme ends of the spectrum, in relation to my health. It gives me insight into different perspectives, which enables me to identify and appreciate certain characteristics better. Their opinions about our future together were diverse, and so were their attitudes towards my daily health struggles. Everyone is entitled to how they want to live out their own lives, for better or for worse. I once dated a man whose greatest desire was to start a family of his own, and it troubled him that I never seemed to get better.
Or in a crisis , text "NAMI" to Donate Now. Here are a few quick insights from us, a husband and wife who have navigated these rough waters together for several years. Embrace empathy and validation. And yet when it comes to matters of the brain, we have adopted the sentiment that grit will get us through—despite our national suicide rate being higher than our homicide rate.
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Women are much more likely than men to say dating has gotten to date (17%) and having health problems that make dating difficult (11%).
He has it pretty bad — he has to follow a strict diet and goes to the doctor often. I want to shield myself from the pain, but I also feel like a terrible person for even thinking about it. Any advice? Name Withheld. So for example, it would be deplorable to abandon a spouse because he or she has become seriously ill. But precisely because a partnership is for the long term, you can appropriately consider what your lives together would be like before you enter into one.
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When a potential partner is already seriously ill, committing to this person may be committing to a life as a caregiver. The specific condition you mention has a wide range of severity; it can be mild and well controlled or genuinely debilitating. The terrible thing would be to make the commitment and then to be unable to keep it.
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I find most women tend to be understanding while men are mixed with those having an issue being receptive and those without a challenge moving on. Reply. A .
Millions of readers rely on HelpGuide for free, evidence-based resources to understand and navigate mental health challenges. Please donate today to help us protect, support, and save lives. Are you single and looking for love? Are you finding it hard to meet the right person? Life as a single person offers many rewards, such as being free to pursue your own hobbies and interests, learning how to enjoy your own company, and appreciating the quiet moments of solitude.
For many of us, our emotional baggage can make finding the right romantic partner a difficult journey. Perhaps you grew up in a household where there was no role model of a solid, healthy relationship and you doubt that such a thing even exists. You could be attracted to the wrong type of person or keep making the same bad choices over and over, due to an unresolved issue from your past.
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Dating is hard enough as it is. What about his or her mental health history? Still, here are a few suggestions for how to try to make it work with a significant other who is struggling, or how to let them go.
I know I'm being selfish, but is it unethical to not date him because of it? He said it's very likely his intestinal issues could get worse, and his.
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According to the National Institute of Mental Health , nearly one in five people suffer from a mental illness. Due to the stigma that often surrounds the topic, many individuals who suffer from it may find it harder to date and develop meaningful relationships. When they find someone, it is important that he or she is understanding and is willing to build a good relationship, in spite of the condition.
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get angry when I don't drop everything for him or her? criticize the way I look or dress, and say I'll never be able to find anyone else who would date me? keep me.
I was about to go on a date with a cute guy I'd met on a plane. While picking a restaurant, he asked if there was anything I didn't eat. At dinner, it was apparent that we liked each other. But I felt the conversation only coasting along at a superficial level, and my interest in him was waning. So I decided, as an experiment, to "lead with vulnerability" and tell him what I usually avoid discussing until I know someone better. When I was done talking I started blushing, not because I felt ashamed, but because it had opened up a palpable attraction between us.
Saying the exact thing I'm afraid a man will reject me for actually made this guy like me! When I was diagnosed with Lyme disease, the last thing I wanted to do was announce it, even to my social media world.
Emily Unity wants to surround herself with people who accept and support her true self. So when she started dating her boyfriend six months ago, Emily didn't hesitate to share her mental health history. But he could be sympathetic to it, and that was really important to me.
and instead of evading the question with a vague reference to "health issues," I told him that I have Lyme disease and have been seriously ill.
Are you concerned about how multiple sclerosis may interfere with your dating life? Love is unpredictable. So is multiple sclerosis MS. When do I tell a new partner about my diagnosis? How will the disease impact my sex life? Will anyone even want to date me? These concerns are all valid and not uncommon, says Julie Fiol, RN, a licensed social worker and the director of MS information and resources for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
MS can also impact sexual feelings and function — a big part of most romantic relationships. Chelsey Merrill, 27, an account manager living near Portland, Maine, was single when she was first diagnosed with MS. After hearing the news, she recalls thinking, Who is going to want to take this on? Unlike her, a potential romantic partner would have a choice about living with MS.
When she finally decided to give online dating a try, she struggled a lot with how much to disclose about her illness and when. Hers is a common dilemma.
I have chronic health issues, with the most disruptive one being fibromyalgia. About two months ago, my boyfriend of about six months broke up with me. I know my health problems were a drain on the relationship.
Providing support for someone who lives with a mental health condition can be overwhelming. We may want to fix their problems and be their support system.
Dating someone new means sharing idiosyncracies, emotional baggage, and experiences that have shaped your lives. But what if that includes a health secret? Right also means telling him she has. Though she takes medication, she still lives with symptoms like insomnia and a nervous smoking habit. So how much should you reveal about a health secret?
Laurie Davis, an online dating expert, suggests asking a friend what sounds most intimidating and then smoothing it over. Mark Snyder, a year-old writer from New York City, used to dread telling a new boyfriend that he was a recovering alcoholic.
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Do you want to become a standout on your football team? This article will help you to figure out what goes into playing a better game of football. Keep reading to learn more.
After passing the ball, do not relax and assume you're done with a play. You can follow the person you passed it to and try finding a position where you will be able to help out. Good players pass the ball again if needing help.
Kick the football with the inside of your foot for the greatest accuracy in short passing. Long passing can be improved upon by kicking the ball off the front part of your foot, down towards the laces. This will give the ball more drive.
Teach yourself to perform an easy Outside Elastico. This aides you in cutting to the inside when on the flanks. Grab a bag, shoe or cone and practice by putting it down on the ground. Your starting position should be about five paces behind the marker. Start dribbling back in its direction. As you reach the cone, touch your ball to the outside and then quickly to the inside. Making outside touches tricks your opponents, allowing you to get by them. Remember that the second touch must be bigger than the previous one.
You can shake a defender if you dribble the ball the opposite way of where you are trying to head. Lead the defender away and then quickly cut back in your intended direction. This is a great way to get past a defender.
If you end up at midfield, keep an eye on what transpires on each end of the field. Be prepared to receive a pass and advance the ball up the field. You must always know where defenders and your open players are.
If your dribbling skills are lacking, use a tennis ball to practice. Using a smaller ball hones your ability to constantly adjust with the feet while maintaining control After getting comfortable with the tennis ball, it's a lot easier to work with a football.
This advice will help you blossom into a great player. Football is an enjoyable game that you will love taking part in. But, you need to be committed to learning about the sport, so keep on researching.


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Just the other day, I read yet another commentary from an alleged tech pundit claiming that the reason Apple didn't conquer the world with the Macintosh in the 1980s was because they opted to keep the platform closed. Thus, there is no chance that Apple can overcome the Google onslaught and not fall behind in iPhone sales in the near future. Whether this year or the next, or the year after that, it's inevitable and you can take that to the bank.
Of course, what these so-called pundits forget is that 2010 is not like 1984, and Apple has learned from all or most of its serious mistakes. And not licensing the platform wasn't one of them. They tried that in the 1990s and it nearly killed the company, or perhaps these tech writers need to learn how to do a little research, as that information is also on Google, Bing or any search engine they choose.
There are loads of reasons why Apple didn't conquer the PC world with a superior product way back when, and they can be blamed on the bad decisions company CEOs made over the years. I won't cover all the details over here, except to remind you that, for a long time, Macs were, as still claimed, overpriced compared to comparably equipped PCs. Apple was quite shortsighted in those days, seeking to maximize profits from every single sale, rather than balancing margins against volume and moving towards the best combination of both. Those of you who paid upwards of $10,000 for a fully-outfitted Mac know what I'm talking about.
What's more, Apple had a poor product strategy in those days, seeking to enter as many markets as possible rather than concentrate on the ones where they could make a difference. Yes, the LaserWriter and the LaserWriter II were legendary and, along with PageMaker and QuarkXPress, created the desktop publishing industry that survives to this very day. However, you could buy pretty much the same printers, using identical Canon parts, from HP. The key was Adobe's PostScript, which was licensed to any manufacturer who was willing to sign a contract and pay the fee.
I won't get into such products as the QuickTake digital camera, which was actually built by Kodak. You can't say that Apple actually made a difference in that market, as similar if not identical products were sold under other brand names. When Steve Jobs took control of the company, he put a stop to the product explosion and decided to concentrate on Apple's core strengths, the major part of which was the Macintosh.
Yes, Microsoft had long since taken control of the PC marketplace, but by focusing primarily on consumers, school systems and content creators, Apple was able to carve out a sizable and profitable market for themselves. Yes, maybe Apple still has a market share in the single digits, but when it comes to premium-quality personal computers, they are positively huge. More to the point, with some three million of them being sold every quarter, you can't exactly call Macs insignificant.
When it came to digital music players, Apple wasn't the first by any means, but they focused sharply on the limitations of existing models, and built the iPod. It was then integrated to the rest of the company's lineup using iTunes as the focus for syncing content and offering music and videos. Lest you forget, iTunes is now the largest music retailer, ahead of Amazon and any brick and mortar store, including Wal-Mart. So Apple's closed, tightly integrated ecosystem, made them number one and kept them there.
Yes, Apple may not achieve the same level of dominance among smartphones, but virtually every recent competitor has been influenced by the iPhone. After years of failed attempts to sell apps on mobile devices, Apple got it right with the App Store. Sure, they have had problems with delayed approvals, arbitrary rejections and so on and so forth, but with 125,000 offerings and over three billion downloads in a little over a year and a half, they are surely doing most things right. The closest competitor is Google's Android platform, with roughly 20,000 apps, few of which are quite as compelling. Have you, for example, ever seriously considered an Android smartphone as a gaming platform, even for a single second?
This doesn't mean that Google isn't making serious inroads with Android. More and more companies are coming onboard to build products using Google's OS, but a lot of those sales are coming at the expense of Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, which is fading fast. After all, why pay money to license an OS from Microsoft when a handset maker can get a perfectly serviceable, and certainly more up to date alternative, free and clear? Indeed, a fast look at history demonstrates that Google acquired the fledgling Android platform in 2005 largely to compete against Microsoft. That iPhone didn't exist at that time, except under deep secrecy in Apple's test labs.
In the end, the smartphone market is too large nowadays to be dominated by any one company. There's plenty of opportunity for Apple, Google, RIM, Nokia and the rest of the major players in the industry to carve out decent segments. There's even opportunity for Microsoft if they can get their development act together. However, it is foolish to suggest that Apple is repeating the mistakes of the past by continuing to offer gear with full vertical integration. In recent years, they have shown that's actually the best strategy for the products they build, and don't forget that other companies, even Microsoft, have tried to imitate them, but so far without much success. But some pundits out there still haven't a sufficient grip on reality to recognize these simple facts, or maybe they have a different agenda.
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Apple pushes its own myth, going as far back as that original ad back in 1984. A large part of the Apple myth is that it is the computer "for the rest of us", i. e. for people who aren't slaving away in the cubicles of large corporations. Let Big Government and Big Corporations have their PC's, the Mac is for rugged individuals. It blurs the line between work and play, it allows us to to be creative and express ourselves. This is a very powerful myth, because it taps into traditional American populist distrust of Big Government and Big Business, and also into the mentality of the first generation of Mac users, many of whom came out of the Counterculture of the 1960's and 1970's. Here I'm not interested in the truth (or lack thereof) behind them myth, just in the fact that it exists and has done so much to shape the culture surrounding the Mac and to attract its hard-core followers. For the purposes of this myth, it's almost necessary that the Mac remains an underdog in the computer marketplace and that the Mac shouldn't make too much headway in the corporate world. Now, you may respond that there comes a time when this myth might actually hobble the Mac's growth so that Apple needs to discard it in order to claim a larger market share (it may be a major turnoff for corporate purchasers and IT guys). Maybe this is true, but Apple is still pushing if for all it's worth. If you look at the Get A Mac ads, which feature a cool, laid-back, unbuttoned Mac dealing with an uptight PC wearing a tie and jacket, you'll see how Apple is still ringing changes on this traditional image.
Actually, I don't see it as a myth so much as a market position. A myth is a legendary story, not necessarily based upon fact. Market positions are too, but in this case, its more fact than not.
Macs ARE the PC for the rest of us, as they are designed to be simple to use, user friendly, and certainly geared towards content creation and the ease of spreading it around. It is made to make communication easy and effortless, even fun.
Apple has a long and storied history of NOT being especially Enterprise friendly. It has never had a large well backed Enterprise sales force, and its storied secrecy is the antithesis of the way large companies like to hear about future products from suppliers. so that particular market has never been an Apple target. Any inroads it makes there are almost in spite of its efforts and a testament to the loyalty of its customers that they are willing to go to bat for them in that environment.
The argument that Macs were more expensive than PCs was true, but Apple POV was that they were worth it. When you compared, say, a Mac Plus from 1986 with a PC from 1986, the difference was night-and-day. Even if that computer was running Windows 1.0. Apple's problem was that they, arguably, allowed Microsoft to catch up and pass them.
I don't really get this whole "Macintosh was closed in the 1980s" argument. There were/are plenty of applications for Macintosh. About the only part of the Mac that was "closed" was the hardware–there were no slots for add-in cards or anything like that. Most of the hardware stuff for Macintosh was pretty hacky and barely worked (anybody remember the color displays or HyperDrive?). But Apple even solved most of those problems (SCSI interfaces for high-speed data transfer, NuBus slots in the high-end Macintoshes).
alleged tech pundit claiming that the reason Apple didn't conquer the world with the Macintosh in the 1980s was because they opted to keep the platform closed.
Somehow IBM never gets a mention in this context. Apple saw IBM as their main competitor. The IBM hardware was open and got cloned. IBM allowed Microsoft to keep the rights to DOS. So, IBM entered the PC market as a major player and left as one of the boys. IBM sold their PC division to China years ago.
You can't conquer the world as an "open" platform, too.
Apple computer for the rest of us is not a myth, it is real and it explains why most Mac users will always go back to Apple for more of its products. In my career as a researcher in a large university, I have had exposure to both the Microsoft and Apple platforms and I can assure you that Macs are indeed the easiest and most pleasurable productive tools I have ever used. Windows were many times a pain and gave me more headache than I cared to have. We are now seeing more people try out the Macs and discover what they are all about.
Macs are a delight, but unfortunately there remain many areas where they just aren't useful. Heavy gaming is best done on a PC (or an adequate Mac using Boot Camp). The problem with the Boot Camp solution for games isn't anything to do with Windows on a Mac, which is better than on most comparable PCs, but that there are no Macs except for the Mac Pro and very high-end iMacs with the graphics card (or ability to install the GPU) required to run the newest games at the highest settings. Even with the Mac Pro, the cost for the Mac version of a suitable GPU is considerably more than for the same card without the Mac firmware or whatever it is that differentiates a Mac card and a PC card.
I'm not a super-serious gamer and thus I make do with medium settings on a MacBook Pro, but if I was more serious, a tower PC with a hot gaming card would make far more sense than anything Apple has on the market today.
@Andrew, PC gaming is dying. The numbers have been in steady decline for some time now. When you go to EB do you see walls of PC games like you did in the 90's? I think I saw 10 PC games in EB the other day, yet every wall in the place was covered with Game System games. Not many people want to play games on a small screen when most have 50″ HD Screens now.
When I go to Best Buy or the like I see massive shelves of PC games. Yes, consoles have more, but that has been the case since the 90s. Consoles and PCs excel at different types of games, with consoles better for fast motion, but inadequate for the heavy story-oriented roleplaying games. Also, consoles aren't updated as quickly and aren't as powerful.
Crysis 2 is best on a VERY fast PC. Fallout 3 is best on a fast PC. My copy of Mass Effect 2 shipped on Friday, again, better on PC than on console.
Of course, I play on a laptop, not a desktop, so I don't get the glorious high detail settings that you do on a real desktop gaming PC.
PC gaming is still a multi-billion dollar industry that isn't going anywhere any time soon. I just hope that someday Apple gets better representation as I'd love to play high-end games without booting into Windows. Doom 3 is the last Mac game I bought, and it took about two years for Mac laptops to exceed the game's ideal spec requirements and run smooth and fast.


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"This Time the Nebula Had Committed Murder!"
FROM WHAT WE'VE READ so far during our random perambulations through the Interweb, not very many SFF stories combine the newspaper biz with the Raffles/Robin Hood trope and set the whole thing on another planet, but one that does is . . .
"Enter the Nebula."
By Carl Jacobi (1908-97).
Illustration by H. Leydenfrost (1923-2003; HERE).
First appearance: Planet Stories, Fall 1946.
Novelette (20 pages as a PDF).
Online at Project Gutenberg (HERE).
"The greatest cracksman in the Galaxy—The Nebula ... mocked by a gay voice that called herself Andromeda, who led him into danger—and into the hands of his enemy!"
Can a superthief turn into a superhero? He can if he's the right man in the right place at the right time to foil a genocidal plot on the Red Planet . . . .
~ The Nebula:
". . . he's the Robin Hood of the day, if you can possibly remember your ancient history. Two years ago he swiped the electrolic jewels from the atomic motors of the Fortuna, the gambling space ship, broke them into two hundred parts and gave them to the Society for Orphaned Children. A year ago he entered the inner rooms of the Venus Gallery and made off with the Cosmic Lady, the greatest painting of the age. The man's a wizard. No vault door, no lock mechanism keeps him out. He walks in, takes what he wants, and leaves before the I.P. men know what's happened. All they find is that little pastel-blue card with the cluster of white dots in the shape of the Constellation Orion. That's what gave him the name of the Nebula, you see."
~ Phil Hanley, reporter for the Martian Globe:
"Do you know what that lopsided jackass wants me to do? Get a personal interview with the Nebula. For all I know, the Nebula might be a four dimensional robot."
~ McFee:
"Did the old man really hand you that for an assignment?"
~ Jimmy Starr:
"So this much Jimmy knew—his father had been murdered and the Chronicles cypher taken by a man who walked in the highest brackets of the System's social worlds."
~ Andromeda:
"I know your secret. . . . I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag. But I will, unless you agree to follow my orders."
~ Hamilton Garth:
"That's odd. The W series of files are all unused. There's nothing in any of them."
~ Linda Hall:
"Do you realize, Mr. Starr, you haven't even asked me my name?"
- ". . . what do you know about the canals?": In our story they're being re-engineered by humans. In the real past, though, Mars's "canals" actually were the result of intelligent minds—on this side of the telescope, exciting feverish speculation for years and affording speculative fiction writers like Wells unlimited imaginative license:
"During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were 'canals' on the planet Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observed by astronomers using early low-resolution telescopes without photography. They were first described by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli during the opposition of 1877, and confirmed by later observers. Schiaparelli called these canali, which was translated into English as 'canals'. The Irish astronomer Charles E. Burton made some of the earliest drawings of straight-line features on Mars, although his drawings did not match Schiaparelli's. Around the turn of the century there was even speculation that they were engineering works, irrigation canals constructed by a civilization of intelligent aliens indigenous to Mars. By the early 20th century, improved astronomical observations revealed the 'canals' to be an optical illusion, and modern high-resolution mapping of the Martian surface by spacecraft shows no such features." (Wikipedia HERE).
- "the juke box age of the twentieth century": Kids loved them; parents not so much:
"The word 'jukebox' came into use in the United States beginning in 1940, apparently derived from the familiar usage 'juke joint', derived from the Gullah word 'juke' or 'joog', meaning disorderly, rowdy, or wicked. As it applies to the 'use of a jukebox', the terms juking (verb) and juker (noun) are the correct expressions." (Wikipedia HERE).
- "double talk": At one time a great way to get laughs (Wikipedia HERE).
- Here's the idea of racial extinction ten years before Hollywood glommed onto the notion; see (WARNING! SPOILERS! Wikipedia HERE and HERE).
- If memory serves, this is our first encounter with Carl Richard Jacobi; find more about him on Wikipedia (HERE), the SFE (HERE), and the ISFDb (HERE).
dfordoom January 1, 2021 at 1:31 AM
Sounds like just the sort of thing I'd enjoy!
Mike Gray January 1, 2021 at 7:29 AM
A fine example of PLANET STORIES pulp at its best.
"If You Use Your Intelligence, Gentlemen, I Think ...
"A Dangerous Maniac"
"Jubb! Jubb! Jubb!"
"They Tell Us the Motive for This Murder"
The Jake Murchison Series (Updated)
"A Nightmare Tale of a Murder in Your Garden"


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