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A Good Man Is Hard to Find — My Search for Ronald H. Tammen, Jr.
A new take on Ronald Tammen's 1953 disappearance from Miami University
Nothing about Ronald Tammen's disappearance makes sense. Tammen was one of the more level-headed, responsible guys people would have encountered at Miami. One alumnus has said that, as a student, he thought Tammen was the closest thing to Ivy League that he would ever meet. He was way ahead of his peers in many of the traits that mattered most on the road to success, which is why he was entrusted to serve as a residence hall counselor to a group of freshman men. He was smart, but perhaps more than that, he was savvy, as witnessed by the fact that he was one of the few people permitted to have a car on campus. Even at 19, he knew how to work the system.
When Ronald Tammen was last seen by his fellow residents of Fisher Hall, it was cold with snow flurries, hardly an inviting night for a spur-of-the-moment stroll outside. Here are the essentials, gleaned from news accounts, other documents, including Dean Carl Knox's notes, and interviews with people who were close to the action:
On the weekend of April 17-19, Ronald Tammen's roommate, Chuck Findlay, was away visiting his family in Dayton. Tammen, on the other hand, had other things on his plate. On Friday night at about 8 p.m., he stopped at the home of Glenn Dennison to pay his car insurance, a bill of $17.45. Tammen stayed a little while to socialize, and Dennison recalled that they discussed the Campus Owls, the jazz band that Ron played the string bass in, and one of Ron's favorite topics.
In those days, students often attended classes on Saturday, and, according to Ron's schedule for the semester, he had an 8 a.m. math class and a 10 a.m. speech class. On Saturday night, Ron played with the Owls at the Omicron Delta Kappa carnival, a popular fundraiser for the honor society. In a news article, Ron's brother Richard, who was a freshman at Miami that year, said he was with Tammen until 11 or 11:30 p.m. Another news article claims Ron participated in a bull session at his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, that night as well.
The next day—Sunday, the 19th—several Tammen sightings were reported. During the window of 3-4 p.m., Tammen was seen studying psychology in his dorm room—225 Fisher—according to Knox's notes. In addition, he'd eaten in the dining hall sometime that evening and sat at a table with other students as well as Ken McDiffett, the recently hired head resident of nearby Collins Hall who was later promoted to assistant dean of men under Knox. McDiffett, who passed away in 2006, had told his wife Ruth that the conversation had been light, and that Tammen was talking to the others about—what else?—the Campus Owls.
At roughly 5:15 p.m., Tammen is spotted by a dormmate named Richard Brennan, who lived across the hall from Tammen and who said that Tammen seemed to be acting normal.
Two former Fisher Hall residents recall seeing Tammen wearing a towel and heading to the shower that day, though there's a discrepancy regarding the time. One person thought it was the afternoon; the other said it was evening.
At about 7 p.m., Tammen is in room 212 of Fisher Hall, apparently in "good spirits," according to Knox's notes. Room 212 was just down the hall from Tammen's room and it's where Richard Titus and his roommates lived. According to Titus, who, sadly, passed away in 2014, Tammen was helping him with his homework while his roommates went out for the evening.
Sometime later, it's not clear when, Tammen told Titus that he needed to do his own homework, and walked down the hall toward his room.
At around 8 p.m., Tammen is seen again, this time heading downstairs to obtain some fresh sheets for his bed. Someone had put a fish in his bed, a detail that has caused imaginations to run wild over the years. Some people have wondered if the Mafia had left its calling card, warning Tammen that he would soon be sleeping with the fishes. But no, it had been Richard Titus. Titus and Tammen liked to play practical jokes on one another, and Tammen had recently short-sheeted Titus's bed. To get even, Titus had tucked into Tammen's sheets a dead fish from a nearby pond.
While Ron was retrieving the fresh sheets, Mrs. Todhunter, the residence hall manager, remarked to him that he looked tired, to which Ron responded that he was and that he planned to go right to bed. According to Knox's notes, Tammen had indeed made up his bed, because the mattresses had the new sheets on them, "all except putting pillow in pillow case," he added.
Interestingly, a 1983 anniversary article in the Miami Student, written by Donna Boen, now editor of the Miamian magazine, disclosed a surprising new finding. In the article, McDiffett, who had conducted a great deal of research on the Tammen case, had told Boen that "supposedly Dick [Tammen] talked to Ron at 8 p.m.," by phone, just before Ron picked up his bed linens. If true, that would mean that Ron and his younger brother had spoken within one hour of Ron's going missing, which is no minor detail. Unfortunately, the article doesn't say how McDiffett came upon this information, and, when I followed up with Boen and McDiffett's wife, neither could recall any additional details.
Although it's impossible to pinpoint an exact time, it was sometime between 8 and 9 p.m. that Ronald Tammen went off the grid forever.
When Chuck Findlay returned to room 225, it was roughly 10:30 p.m. according Knox's notes, which are corroborated by an article written one year after Ron's disappearance by Joe Cella of the Hamilton Journal-News. Findlay found the lights on, a radio playing, and an open psychology book on Ron's desk. Investigators said that the book was open to a section on "Habits." Tammen's car keys were also there, as were his wallet and most of its contents, including his draft card, driver's license, musicians' union card, and other forms of identification. Whatever cash it had held—Findlay estimated that it would have been about $10 or $11—was gone. Tammen's car was in its usual parking spot, and his bass fiddle was in the back seat. He left his high school class ring with his other belongings, but he must have held onto his wristwatch, because it was gone. Other than what he was wearing—a tan sweater, blue pants, and blue and tan checked Mackinaw jacket—all of his clothes remained in the closet.
"Toothbrush and all here," added Knox.
From the look of things, Ronald Tammen could have returned to his room at any minute. Maybe he had every intention of doing so and something truly awful had occurred. But then again, maybe it was all by design.
22 thoughts on "April 19, 1953"
Stevie J says:
A real stretch, but in the interest of completeness, have you asked his family if he had any tragic childhood events involving a fish and death? I doubt if dissociative fugue is a possible explanation for the disappearance, but it can't hurt to ask.
jwenger says:
I haven't asked that question per se, but I have asked them if he had a history of amnesia/dissociative fugue as a child. Their answer was no. I'll ask them your question the next time we talk, just to double check. Thanks!
A couple thoughts, no specific goal in mind per the answers, but maybe fill in a few of the endless blanks in this case:
Did Chuck Findlay or Dick Tammen or any of the fraternity brothers ever notice if Ron had a spare set of car keys?
I can't get past how obsessive musicians can be. The fact Ron left his bass viol strongly hints it wasn't a totally free will leaving. I know, and you know, musicians who would no sooner leave an instrument behind, anywhere, than they'd leave a child or a pet. Not sure at all what this means, but the thought keeps popping in my head. In the bigger picture, so much of the stuff he left behind is a weak point in many plausible theories of what happened, and the bass viol in particular just jumps out at me.
No one has mentioned a second set of keys, but I can look into that. Re: his bass, I agree. (Another reader recently mentioned that it was odd that he left his bass in the car in such cold weather.) In my view, you can go in a couple ways on this: that he had no intention of leaving and something bad happened to him or that he was planning to start a new life and leave everything behind, even the two things he needed most in order to bring in money—his bass and his car. And you recall how concerned he was about making money, so leaving those two things behind would have been a major, life-changing decision for him.
Have you asked Chuck Findlay where Ron normally left his bass?
Unfortunately, I didn't ask him that question before he passed away.
If your contact with the Campus Owls is still alive, he may have some thoughts on the bass in a cold car issue.
Disappearances very often involve someone close to the victim. I always wondered if anyone ever confirmed the roommate's story about the night he returned to the dorm room? Was he ever a "person of interest?"
I don't believe Chuck Findlay was ever considered a person of interest. To be honest, Chuck and Ron weren't very close–they didn't hang out together, and, in fact, they didn't know one another very well. They were cordial, but that's about it. But that's not to say that he wasn't deeply affected by Tammen's disappearance. Here's a link to my blog post on Chuck Findlay and what happened to him after Tammen disappeared: https://ronaldtammen.com/2017/10/08/chuck-findlays-story/.
Todd has something of a point. I know you're trying to be nice to the law enforcement involved, but overall, they did a terrible job. It makes every single point you can think of a bit questionable, eg,
Q. Could Chuck Findlay have been involved?
A. Well, the law enforcement who did such a terrible job never thought so.
Boy, that's reassuring. FWIW, I get no sense Chuck was involved, knew the real story, or whatever, I'm just making a point.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with my answer. I agree that they did a terrible job. I was just answering the question. I made the point that Chuck and Ron barely knew one another because when a crime is committed by someone close to the victim, like on Dateline or whatever, they tend to have a much more intense relationship — volatile or whatever. These guys had a cordial friendship and barely saw one another. He didn't do it.
There's another thing I would like clarification on – the blog says Knox wrote down a vague note: "all except putting pillow in pillow case." To me that sounds like the pillow case is laying there in the room, just not on the pillow. Did people just interpret that phrase to mean that the pillow case was missing? Or do we know for sure it was missing? There's a HUGE difference between the pillow case being there and it NOT being there, because a missing pillow case surely hints at foul play. And also, which pillow case? The dirty one or the clean one? If Tammen carried a pile of dirty sheets down to exchange for new ones, I never saw that written anywhere. If not, that means when Tammen returned to his room with the new sheets (and pillow case and mattress pad, according to Todhunter in a newspaper article I read), he now would have had TWO sets of sheets and two pillow cases in his room – clean and dirty. Was one of the pillow cases missing and the other one still there? Any clarification on this would be appreciated from those of you who know way more about this case than I do.
This is a great question. I'll add the sheets/pillow case issue to the upcoming Q&A post. I won't be able to provide a definite answer to all of it but we can at least gather up evidence of what we know and what we don't know.
Looking over the whole site after the Open Psych Book reveal led me back here. Just a string of thoughts now, some in order, some just random. I am thinking more and more about his bass. It was in his car. Probably he'd played it in Cincinnati that day. By virtue of being an RA, he could have a car on campus. You might ask your Campus Owls contact if Ron drove some/all/himself to Cincinnati that morning. He might have been the only one of them with a car. If so, it gets interesting. When he disappeared, his bass was in his car on a cold day. I've tried to google this and gotten answers all over the map about whether someone would leave an instrument in a car in cold weather.
I think it's at least safe to say there's a consensus to not leave an instrument out in the cold if it can be avoided.
So, when did the bass end up in the car? I can see it being left there when he got back from Cincinnati. If so, he knew it was there before his afternoon antics with the sheets and the study session with another student and his hour(s) long reading of the Psych book, and the singing practice, all of which suggest he hadn't yet made a decision to leave. I am not exaggerating to say I know musicians who think of their instruments as almost family members. The changing of sheets in particular suggests he hadn't yet decided to leave. But in this scenario, his bass was in the car, for hours. That's really hard to reconcile.
Alternatively, I can see him deciding to leave, and taking his bass and only his bass with him as he drove away. So he puts the bass in the car…..and, what? A change of plan? The woman from Hamilton or someone else was parked by his car, or pulled up as he loaded his bass in? Unless he had a spare set of keys, why in the world would he bother to take his keys back to his room and put them in the desk? And why in the world wouldn't he at least take his bass with him, his music being at least one thing that kept him happy and seemed a source of great satisfaction even in the midst of what appeared to be a time of his life that was a real struggle? The fact his fraternity pin was on the set of keys in his desk suggests they were not an extra pair. Unless, and I'm trying not to invent a story to fit an a priori narrative, the bass in the car was another little clue he left behind. Or(again, I know I'm jumping hither and yon), his bass was his talisman, and he put it in the car and decided to have one more look at the Psych book before a final decision to leave. As I work through this, the only remotely rational possibility is he left it in the car after after a trip to Cincinnati. And even that seems really difficult to accept.
Another clarification if possible: Somewhere above you wrote: "Although it's impossible to pinpoint an exact time, it was sometime between 8 and 9 p.m. that Ronald Tammen went off the grid forever………….When Chuck Findlay returned to room 225, it was roughly 10:30….." Sorry if I missed it, but do we know that whatever happened to Ron happened before 9pm? Could he have been quietly studying alone in his room until, say, 10:20pm when something unknown happened – just before Findlay returned at 10:30?
So the time of Ron's disappearance, like everything else it seems, is a little up in the air. The timeframe of 8 to 9 p.m. comes from news accounts, as does Chuck Findlay's 10:30 p.m. return to the room, which also was recorded in Dean Knox's notes. But there are discrepancies. Based on news reports and my own interviews, I believe that people back then determined that Ron had disappeared in the 8-9 p.m. timeframe because he always left the door to his room open, and probably the last time anyone saw him either studying or making his bed or whatever was during that period. But, yes, it is possible that Ron could have been in his room with the door closed after 9 p.m.
However, the time of Ron's disappearance gets even murkier because at least one of Ron's fraternity members, I call him by the pseudonym Paul, swears up and down that Ron was at Delta Tau Delta song practice that night and that he had walked back to the dorms with Ron at around 10:30 p.m. Here's a link to that post: https://ronaldtammen.com/2017/06/16/when-memories-collide-part-1-the-delts-song-practice-and-a-momentous-walk-home/.
There are a couple related posts following that one that you might be interested in as well. And then there were the reports of Ron being seen driving off in a car that night with a woman from Hamilton. So, I'm sorry to say, it really isn't clear what time Ron Tammen went off the grid.
Thanks for the detailed response; I was just trying to determine if "went off the grid" meant the time when no one recalls seeing Ron or the time when they believe something actually happened to Ron. As I recall, Ron's room was at the end of the hall, so even if he was in there with the door was open, there were likely long stretches of time when no one actually saw him.
And with so much information I had forgotten about the song practice which certainly complicates the timeline. Good work finding the conflict of the Mother's Day performance and the Kentucky gig on the same day. And just a random thought: perhaps few people remember Ron at song practice that Sunday night because Ron purposely stayed in the background so his replacement Ted Traeger could take the reins and practice before the Big Event on May 9.
What was the phone situation back then? I'm guessing they didn't have a phone in each room. If not, was there a community phone in the lobby and messages got run to each room, or what?
In the Nov. 10, 1953, issue of the Miami Student, it was reported that Fisher Hall had one telephone for all 190 freshmen. See page 1, last paragraph, "University Installs Four New Telephones in Residence Halls,": http://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/student/id/4196/rec/1.
Jwenger wrote: "Whatever cash [Ron's wallet] had held—Findlay estimated that it would have been about $10 or $11—was gone." How in the world would Chuck Findlay even pretend to know how much money had been in Ron's wallet, to within one dollar? Especially if the two hadn't seen each other all weekend. Just seems a little TMI (too much information) to have about someone you supposedly aren't close with and haven't seen for days.
I have to say, that estimate of how much money Ron had has always struck me as TMI also. Think back to your college days and imagine someone asking you how much money your roommate had. Would you even bother to guess? Well, maybe, if you were trying to help and not thinking clearly. I sort of wonder why the question was asked, I guess to see if maybe Ron flashed around cash from his music gigs. But on balance, that is an odd little piece of the mystery.
In regards to the song practice, you ask if it matters in one blog. Yes, if it happened, that greatly calls into question Chuck Findlay's story and/or makes an abduction seem more likely.
Watch what happens if you cast a suspicious eye on Chuck: You say they had a cordial relationship. How do you know? Chuck said so. You say they barely saw one another, despite many people saying he studied all the time, and that in his room. How do you know? Chuck said so. You say he got back at 10:30. How do you know? Chuck said so. Ron was fine all weekend, then Chuck appears and Ron disappears. But Chuck has no clue why. How do you know? Chuck said so. These are all credible claims, but after believing for years Ron was doing well in school, and having that negated, I'm inclined toward a challenging view of all unsubstantiated claims in this case.
I still get no sense Chuck did or knew anything about it. I think people would have recognized that much hostility preceding an abduction, and Ron would have confided in his brother before his roommate regarding a voluntary disappearance. But based on the blog (I realize you have info not yet released), I can't agree you've eliminated Chuck as a person of interest.
It may be self-obvious, but a tremendous part of the mystery is what Ron left behind. It is hard, at first, to reconcile any explanation with all the items he left behind. I've been thinking about this and can't get a consistent answer as to why he left the things he did.
Possible explanations and items that are big objections:
Abduction-Harmful. Objection: His jacket was gone. That is hard to reconcile with any idea of a violent abduction.
Abduction-Gentle. eg, the frat prank gone bad hypothesis. Objection: His fraternity pin was left behind on the key ring.
Voluntary, wanting to start a new life and not be identified there. Objection: His bass viol. Musicians think of their instruments as family or like a pet.
Amnesia/Disassociative fugue, etc. Objection: Money taken out of his wallet and wallet left behind.
Who Is (or Was) Ronald Tammen?
The Investigations
My Ongoing Quest…
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…for News Sources
On Not Taking 'No' for an Answer
Blog Posts at a Glance
January 18 -- A Friday night insurance payment
December 23 -- Proof of a cover-up, part 2: hidden buzzers, forbidden words
November 30 -- Wait…was Ron being blackmailed by Richard?!
November 21 -- A 1950s Thanksgiving meditation, by Ronald H. Tammen, Jr.
November 17 -- Was Ron being blackmailed?
November 15 -- Follow the lie$, part 2: But wait, there's more
November 14 -- Follow the lie$
October 28 -- The Official AGMIHTF Guide to 'Who's Who' in Oxford Cemetery
August 31 -- Remembering Marcia Tammen
August 18 -- Proof of a cover-up
August 11 -- My theory on Ron Tammen's exact location the moment he disappeared, and other thoughts*
July 8 -- The layperson's unofficial, unauthorized FBI fingerprint protocol playbook**
June 14 -- The Ident files
April 19 -- The Wright Patt Connection, Part 2 — BONUS EDITION
April 18 -- The Wright Patt Connection
April 19 -- The 'I&I' guys: Why I think Ronald Tammen's psychology professor had a hand in his disappearance
April 7 -- MKULTRA and 'U'
March 25 -- Hypnosis—what's doable, what's doubtable (part 2)
March 5 -- Hypnosis—what's doable, what's doubtable (part 1)
March 1 -- The hypnotists of Oxford, Ohio
February 16 -- A chance encounter in Wellsville
February 2 -- The accidental, unlikely, real-life, and unsung heroes of MKULTRA
January 20 -- The return of Commander Robert Jay Williams
January 11 -- Was the CIA secretly recruiting gay men in the 1950s?
December 23 -- An ode to Joe on his 98th birthday
December 7 -- FOIA follies
November 22 -- Your Thanksgiving dinner icebreaker: Was Ronald Tammen gay?
November 1 -- A late-night knock at the door
October 6 -- A dead body in Georgia
September 15 -- The fish in Ron's bed
August 29 -- A case of amnesia, part 3: Three youths from Ohio
August 9 -- A case of amnesia, part 2: Things in Ron's background
August 2 -- A case of amnesia, part 1
May 14 -- Ronald Tammen's moment of crisis
April 28 -- You have questions? Here are some answers.
April 19 -- The open psych book
April 9 -- Closing a couple loops: Why Ronald Tammen was fingerprinted as a child, and why the FBI considered his prints 'criminal'
March 10 -- On April 19, 2018, Ronald Tammen will be missing for 65 years. Here's how the 'Good Man' blog is commemorating the anniversary.
February 22 -- Was Ronald Tammen hiding out as a technician at Welco Industries in 1973?
February 3 -- Hoover, JFK, and the day the FBI stopped writing to the Tammens
January 16 -- The dog handler, the dad, and the director
January 1 -- Did Ronald Tammen cross paths with Richard Colvin Cox?
December 14 -- The missing fingerprints, part 4*
November 30 -- The missing fingerprints, part 3*
November 9 -- The missing fingerprints, part 2
October 29 -- The REAL phantoms of Oxford, Ohio
October 22 -- The missing fingerprints
October 8 -- Chuck Findlay's story
September 25 -- What would an introvert do?
September 16 -- Ronald Tammen's hectic, demanding, difficult, jam-packed, very busy day, part 2
August 30 -- Ronald Tammen's hectic, demanding, difficult, jam-packed, very busy day, part 1
August 18 -- Why did Ron Tammen get his blood typed?
August 4 -- The woman from Hamilton
July 23 -- Happy birthday, Ronald Tammen
July 16 -- Hitting the lottery
July 8 -- 8:30, 10:30…does it really matter?
July 4 -- On birthdays, memories, and song practice
June 28 -- When memories collide, part 2: Song practice, the University of Kentucky, and a meeting over coffee
June 16 -- When memories collide, part 1: The Delts, song practice, and a momentous walk home
April 14 -- Seeking Grace — the girl who went to the prom with Ronald Tammen
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FBI FOIA Documents on Ronald Tammen
The Phantom of Oxford — Part 1 (youtube.com)
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Ronald Tammen's Selective Service Records (5th row from bottom)
Ronald Tammen's Selective Service Registration
St. Clair Switzer's Yale Transcripts (includes Miami Univ and Univ of Wisconsin)
Carl Knox's Notes
Pages in Tammen's Psychology Book
My theory is that Tammen's psychology book was open to these two pages on his desk when he disappeared. Although Carl Knox said in his notes that the book was open to HABITS -- all caps and underlined twice -- I believe Tammen was reading the other page with the subhead "Post-hypnotic suggestion." See the 65th anniversary video on facebook.com/agmihtf for how I reached this conclusion.


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Lenovo LaVie Z 360
Lenovo LaVie Z 360 review: A powerful two-pound hybrid
By Dan Ackerman
June 3, 2015 1:19 PM PDT
In contrast, Apple manages to take the limited space for its 12-inch MacBook keyboard and find hidden advantages to take the edge off of the tradeoffs, making each key face wider and more stable, despite being even shallower than the keyboard here.
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While the keyboard is a bust, the basic clickpad-style touchpad below the keyboard works surprisingly well, even when using multitouch gestures such as the two-finger scroll for navigating long Web pages.
There has been a trend in premium laptops over the past two years to shoot past the standard 1,920x1,080 resolution, in some cases all the way up to 4K, although that extreme is usually of dubious usefulness for a small laptop screen. In this case, the LaVie Z 360 sits at a happy medium, with a 2,560x1,440 native resolution (the non-hybrid version has the same resolution).
The display in this model has a glossy finish, with edge-to-edge glass over the front face of the lid. Off-axis viewing is decent, and this hybrid version of the screen brings back a bit of the punch and deep color missing from the matte display in the non-hybrid LaVie Z, although in general we still prefer matte screens. Touch response was very good, and makes navigating Windows 8 much easier.
Ports & connections
Combo headphone/microphone jack
2 USB 3.0, SD card reader
802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Connections, performance and battery
After the single USB-C port in the 12-inch MacBook , one might think overly connected laptops were a thing of the past, especially for the thinnest and lightest models. Fortunately, Lenovo shows us this doesn't need to be the case. Both the LaVie Z and LaVie Z 360 make room for two USB 3.0 ports, a full-size HDMI port and an SD card slot, which should be enough for most users.
Bumping up to an Intel ULV Core i7 processor, both LaVie Z systems performed well in our standard benchmark tests, and felt fast and responsive in everyday use. Offering similar performance was the latest generation of Toshiba's Kirabook premium 13-inch laptop, which uses the same processor. Apple's 12-inch MacBook, with a slower Core M processor, fell well behind, as did a premium Windows laptop with a current-gen Core i5 CPU. Note, however, that the recently updated 13-inch MacBook Air, also with a current-gen Core i5 processor, was surprisingly a bit faster in our multitasking test, thanks in part to its operating system advantages in some of our testing apps, not to mention its lower-resolution display.
Battery life was decent, considering the high-power i7 processor, but if this was a standard 13-inch Core i5 laptop, we'd expect more. The non-hybrid LaVie Z ran for 7:51 on our video-playback battery-drain test, while the LaVie Z 360 hybrid ran for 7:40 on the same test. The 12-inch MacBook ran longer, at around 12 hours, as did the high-end 13-inch Toshiba Kirabook, at 8:50. If you were performing more intensive tasks, such as continuously streaming HD video over the Internet, you could expect about five-and-a-half hours of life, based on our anecdotal tests.
The LaVie Z 360 packs a lot of power into a lightweight package, and this version includes both a touchscreen and hybrid hinge, while adding only a little weight. You could hand either LaVie Z we reviewed to someone and there's a good chance they'd ask if it was a hollow plastic mockup rather than a fully functioning laptop.
But, both this and the non-hybrid version suffer from a plain-looking design and an especially frustrating keyboard, that latter of which hurts real-world usability.
In this price range, I'd steer towards the Core-M-powered 12-inch MacBook or the similar Samsung Book 9 for casual websurfing and simple tasks, while also giving the LaVie Z series a serious look for heavier workloads, thanks to its more powerful processor. But, unless the touch screen is a must-have, I'd also lean towards saving $200 and going with the lighter, less-expensive non-hybrid LaVie Z version, which includes extra bragging rights by slipping in at just under two pounds.
Handbrake Multimedia Multitasking test
Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 2015)
Toshiba KiraBook (2015)
Lenovo LaVie Z
Apple MacBook (12-inch, 2015)
Shorter bars indicate better performance (in seconds)
Adobe Photoshop CS5 image-processing test
Apple iTunes encoding test
Video-playback battery-drain test
Longer bars indicate better performance (in minutes)
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This is a delightful, medium bodied Viognier with a driving freshness.
The 2015 Tempranillo is a bolder version of the 2014 blend with a rich, deep garnet-purple color.
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This Malbec is deep garnet colored. It leaps with cassis and is backed with plum and blackberry notes with a hint of dark chocolate and violets. Medium to full bodied - it has a grainy backbone and finishes on a spicy note.
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Walker said in the end, he believes the the plan will be upheld by the US Supreme Court. "I didn't write the plan," he said. "The legislature did. But we had our attorneys look through it before we signed it and it very clearly upheld all the criteria that the courts have done in previous [decades] when the legislature was split."
"The only things that I see as woefully ignorant is republicans rigging the game, writing their own rules to benefit themselves and then blaming other people. Instead we need fair maps that don't benefit any political party and voters should chose their representatives not the other way around," explained Shankland.


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Big Data is not to blame — the truth is, Big Data is just a lot of data. Bad analysis is bad analysis, and there are many examples where good analysis combined with large volumes of information have been used to gain good insight.
The majority of the media backlash comes from an article in the journal Science in which researchers from Harvard University and Northeastern University pointed to the failure of Google Flu Trends (GFT). Driven by Big Data and Google's algorithms, GFT was launched in 2008 as a way to track the annual spread of influenza across the US. This task had traditionally taken the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) weeks to compile based on reports from doctors, but GFT was able to do it in days by tracking terms that people search online.
GFT was introduced with much interest and attention in the scientific community and became symbolic of the power of an emerging new trend – Big Data. When it was unveiled through a paper in the journal Nature, GFT had a correlation of 90% with CDC data, and such an achievement without any scientific study had scientists rethinking how they conduct research and what they might be able to learn from Google.
However, the Science article from Harvard and Northeastern researchers unveiled a dramatic fall from grace within GFT's five-year existence. It reported that GFT overestimated the number of flu cases in the US for 100 of the previous 108 weeks, and that its February 2013 forecast was even double the cases that actually occurred.
The headlines soon followed: "Big Data: Are We Making A Big Mistake?" (Financial Times, March 28, 2014); "Eight (No Nine!) Problems With Big Data" (The New York Times, April 6, 2014); "Growing Doubts About Big Data" (ABCnews.com, April 8, 2014); and many others.
The arguments being made against Big Data boil down to what people are calling "Big Data hubris," in which organizations and companies are misunderstanding analysis or giving too much weight to flawed Big Data analytics. For example, GFT was only intended to be a complimentary signal rather than a stand-alone forecasting tool. So whilst the warnings and arguments against Big Data make sense, there are many use cases where Big Data and the correct application of machine learning and statistical analysis can give significant insight and benefit.
For example, at a recent O'Reilly Strata conference, Google Research Scientist Ilya Sutskever described the effectiveness of simple Neural Networks. These are computational models loosely based on real neurons, which are capable of machine learning and pattern recognition.
Simply put, this is when a computer program is able to refine itself based on observing data rather than having it fully defined upfront. Such behavior is similar to the way animals learn to perceive the world. These techniques are not new, but they are now useful because of Big Data and the ever-increasing speed of today's computers.
The reason behind this renewed interest is that understanding images or speech requires complex models. Seeing one image of a car is not sufficient to draw conclusions of what a car should look like, but seeing a huge number of images with some labeled as cars, some as cats and other items allows a reasonable model for the image of a car to be learned. These same methods are behind a product that has seen long-term success – Google Images. This is an example where bigger data is required to learn accurate models, and good implementation and fast hardware is required for execution.
Another example of the advantages of Big Data is where the availability and accessibility of data enables new use cases. For example, traditionally, small agent processes would monitor servers and send alerts when a condition is met — for example, a warning that disk utilization exceeds 90%. The evolution of Big Data databases and systems has enabled these agent processes to forward all machine data in real-time to a centralized service. This means that all monitoring information from all servers is available for analysis. IT Administrators can see how servers compare to each other, what the default operating envelope of the servers is, and whether there is anomalous behaviour.
However, this analysis is non-trivial and introduces questions such as: How can I accurately model all of the data? How can I analyze 100+TB/day of data in real-time?
The answers to these questions boil down to application of traditional statistical analysis and rigorous scientific process in terms of the assumptions, hypothesis development, evaluation, improvement and iteration. For example, assuming all data can be modeled with a Gaussian distribution may result in too many false positives, or looking for correlations across all data dimensions may require more hardware than is globally available.
Bad analysis is bad analysis. Big Data introduces new constraints in terms of scale, but bad Big Data analysis is still bad Big Data analysis.
Big Data is now ubiquitous and the technologies to collect and store it are commoditized and maturing. The problem is that good analysis can be difficult. Selecting which problems can be solved, assuming all models are wrong, then picking which are useful and which ones we can derive from the data can give significant benefit and insight — but requires expertise. Statisticians and data scientists are scarce, so there is a gap in extracting this value.
This gap is slowly being filled with tools, but these tools often present an 'answer' which may need interpretation (e.g. 42), or require a 'question' which is beyond the users knowledge (e.g. which linear regression algorithm to use?). The goal should be to close this gap by creating tools that provide simple defensible insight into Big Data at scale.
Good analysis is good analysis, and that's all Big Data needs.
Steve Dodson, PhD, is CTO of the anomaly detection company Prelert.


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Q: Find consecutive numbers when decreased by 1 in JavaScript I am trying to find consecutive numbers from an array of numbers. This is my code:

let array = [4,3,5,4,3];
let new_arr = [];
for (let i=0; i<array.length; i++) {
    let arr = [array[i]];
    new_arr.push(arr);
    if (array[i] - array[i+1] == 1) {
        new_arr.push([array[i], array[i+1]]);
    }
}
console.log(new_arr);

How do I get more than 2 elements in an array? In my example, [5,4,3] should also be in the new_arr. But I am only able to get 2 element arrays. What am I missing?

A: You need a nested loop. One possibility is, for each index after i, in an inner loop, check if the following number is 1 less than the current. If so, create and push a new array - otherwise, break out and go to the outer loop's next iteration.

let inputArray = [4, 3, 5, 4, 3];
const allSequences = [];
for (let i = 0; i < inputArray.length; i++) {
  let oneSequence = [inputArray[i]];
  allSequences.push(oneSequence);
  for (let j = i + 1; j < inputArray.length; j++) {
    if (inputArray[j] === oneSequence[oneSequence.length - 1] - 1) {
      oneSequence = [...oneSequence, inputArray[j]];
      allSequences.push(oneSequence);
    } else {
      break;
    }
  }
}
console.log(allSequences);

A: Another option is to group consecutive numbers in sub arrays. Check inline comments:

// Numbers array
const arr = [4,3,5,4,3,7,2];

// New array
const new_arr = [];

// Sub array for consecutive group
let sub_arr = [];

// Loop
for(let i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
  // Push new digit to sub array
  sub_arr.push(arr[i]);

  // If next digit is not consecutive
  // push sub array to new array and
  // flush sub array
  if(arr[i] - arr[i+1] != 1) {
    new_arr.push(sub_arr);
    sub_arr = [];
  }
}

// Test
console.log(new_arr);

If you need only consecutive groups:

// Numbers array
const arr = [4,3,5,4,3,7,2];

// New array
const new_arr = [];

// Sub array for consecutive group
let sub_arr = [];

// Loop
for(let i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
  // Push new digit to sub array
  sub_arr.push(arr[i]);

  // If next digit is not consecutive
  // push sub array to new array and
  // flush sub array
  if(arr[i] - arr[i+1] != 1) {
    //
    // ONLY CONSECUTIVE GROUPS
    // Only push sub array to new array
    // if sub_arr has more then 2 elements
    //
    if(sub_arr.length > 1) new_arr.push(sub_arr);
    sub_arr = [];
  }
}

// Test
console.log(new_arr);

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Jazz Producer Tommy LiPuma's Biography Tells Story About Willie Nelson
Jazz shapes the music of Willie Nelson, from his long-established appreciation for guitarist Django Reinhardt to his albums of standards. Those albums go beyond Stardust and include American Classic, a jazz-heavy 2009 collection produced by Tommy LiPuma.
American Classic included a re-recording of Nelson's "Always on My Mind" plus duets with Diana Krall and Norah Jones. Any collection of older songs reinterpreted by Nelson hits the spot, be it this album or the following year's roots music survey Country Music.
As for LiPuma, the Cleveland, Ohio native won five Grammy awards while working with the likes of Miles Davis, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Dave Mason, the Sandpipers, Natalie Cole, the O'Jays, Randy Newman, Leon Russell and Dr. John.
LiPuma, who passed away in 2017 at age 80, is the subject of jazz musician Ben Sidran's recent book The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma.
"His experience encapsulates the modern recording industry," Sidran says of LiPuma in a press release. "You can see the evolution of the way music was captured and recorded and distributed, how it evolved, and the impact of the technologies and the marketing strategies. You can read his story and get all that information just because of who he was and where he was, at exactly the right time."
Sidran's celebration of an American music master, released on May 5 by Nardis Books, includes the following excerpt about LiPuma's working relationship with Nelson. As you might suspect, it's part musical history lesson, part tale about smoking weed with Willie.
Willie Nelson and Tommy LiPuma, from The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma
Bruce Lundvall, the president of Blue Note Records, asked Tommy if he was interested in doing an album with Willie Nelson. "I loved Willie's standards album," says Tommy, "and my first thought was to use Joe Sample–like Willie, Joe is from Texas–so Joe and I went to Austin to spend a day at Willie's ranch. How shall I put this? It's a place of ultimate highness. It's not like it's over the top, but every so often, Willie's got this smoking contraption that's on a stand and he fires it up. Willie is high most of the day and into the night.
"We spent a whole day going through tunes. He was right there with us, and he was just great. He has a real 'standards' aesthetic. He really knows this stuff upside down, backwards and forwards.
"And at one point, when we had gone through all the tunes, he said, 'Come on, lemme show you around the ranch.' Willie's got several hundred acres; there's what looks like a Hollywood set on the property. We got into his truck and the first stop we made was this little church that looked like it was right out of the 1880s, pews and all. Then we got back in the truck and we ended up at what looked like a Western town, with a saloon with swinging doors, the whole thing. We went in and there were all his pals sitting around drinking beer.
"He's got a lot of very interesting buddies. Not just the guys who were there drinking beer. At one point, I got thirsty and I said, 'You got any water back there?' He said, 'Right over there,' so I took a glass, and man the water tasted great! I made a remark, because there was no bottle on top of it, like at a water cooler, it was just coming from a pipe straight out of the wall. I said, 'Is this your tap water?' and he said a friend of his invented this thing that grabs the moisture out of the atmosphere and turns it into pure drinking water. Willie's got some hip friends."
A few months later, Willie, Tommy, and Joe all met up in New York at Right Track Studios, where they had a big studio for the band and a nice little isolation booth for Willie. Willie's booth was connected directly to the control room, and of course wherever Willie goes, his pipe goes with him. You couldn't enter the vocal booth unless you were willing to have an attitude adjustment.
Willie had parked his tour bus in front of the studio on Forty- eighth Street, and when he wasn't recording, he would hang out there. He also slept on the bus. After a couple of days, somebody called Tommy and said, "Check out page six." Tommy opened the 'Daily News' and read, "Willie Nelson is apparently in town recording an album at a studio on 48th Street. You can tell from the wafts of smoke coming out of this bus as you walk down the street.'" Pretty soon, Tommy was hanging out on the bus too, using Willie's sound system to check out the recordings. By the recording's conclusion, Tommy and Willie were like two old shoes.
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The iPhone Pro is expected to the next Apple's flagship smartphone that would be making its debut later in the year. The smartphone is expected to bring some kinds of radical updates from the previous Apple devices. However, one of the main concerns for a whole lot of people remains the iPhone Pro price. There is a feeling that the price range will be on the high side due to specification that is expected.
Factors that could affect the iPhone Pro Price
There are several factors that are expected to affect the price of the awaited Apple iPhone Pro. Some of these factors are really nothing new, especially if you follow technology trends and judging by past smartphone releases. However, let's just look at some of them below.
Factor 1 iPhone Price History
You can certainly not talk about the iPhone price history without recalling the iPhone configurations that were available in the beginning.
The iPhone which sold initially in two configurations which is the 4 GB model and the 8 GB model started at $499 and $599 respectively. However, with the discontinuation of the 4 GB model in 2007, the 8 GB model dropped to $399.
The year 2008 saw the introduction of the 16 GB model which sold for $499, but all these models were discontinued with the introduction of the iPhone 3G. The prices of iPhones have been fluctuating. iPhone 4s and iPhone 5s have all fluctuated between $199 and $399 depending on the specifications.
However, with iPhone 6s hovering around $599, one would expect that the price of iPhone Pro will not be any cheaper. In fact, it is expected to fall in the $599to $699 range.
Factor 2 iPhone Storage
The question is that will iPhone Pro start with 32 GB of storage? When it comes to storage, iPhones sometimes seem unpredictable. With the iPhone capping out at 128 GB in recent times, one would expect iPhone Pro to follow suit.
However, recent leak suggest that we might be having 256 GB model storage on the iPhone Pro, but note that this will surely require a very deep pocket. The base model is expected to start at 32GB of storage as envisaged, to optimize the situation of "not enough storage" which will likely make the price of iPhone Pro more expensive than the iPhone 6s base models.
Factor 3 New Design
One thing we surely expect from the iPhone Pro is a largely radical design different from what is obtainable in the past. Leaked information suggests that the iPhone Pro will be slimmer than the iPhone 6.
There is also some information suggests that the phone will have a larger screen resolution than its predecessor with a 3D touch. It is also expected to pack Intel chips and a very big improvement in the photography and media department. The combinations of all these will also affect the iPhone Pro price.
Factor 4 Other factors
The Headphone
There is a strong believe that iPhone will abandon the 3.5mm headphone jack in favor of a better all in one lighting connector expected to have thinner chassis.
There is an expectation that the iPhone Pro camera will be a step up from the iPhone 6s. There is a question by industry watchers on whether the dual lens camera module will find its way into iPhone Pro. While some people have argued it will likely come in the plus version, there are chances that it might be featured on the base model. However, whatever be the case, it is certainly going to be an upgrade from its predecessor in terms of quality and efficiency.
One of the top expectations for the iPhone Pro is that Siri on the feature hit list. With Siri, you can have the capability of listening to everything. In fact, a new rumor suggests that Siri is likely to have the ability to transcribe voicemails and convert it to text. This feature is expected to have an impact on the starting iPhone Pro price.
The iPhone Pro price is still not yet known, but the history and expectation of iPhone brand suggest that it may not come cheap, and will certainly rule the smartphone niche at least for some time to come.
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of his home and were transformed in his pictures through his vivid use of colouring and strong sense of design.
Ampthill Square and Houghton Place were demolished in 1968 to make way for a tower block known as the Ampthill Estate.
With Walter Sickert as his best man, in January 1912 Gore married Mary Johanna Kerr, known as Mollie. He gave up his bachelor lodgings at 6 Mornington Crescent and moved with Mollie to a flat at 2 Houghton Place, a short distance away, close to the mass of railway lines snaking out of Euston. At Mornington Crescent Gore had painted a great number of pictures showing the view from his window, and in his new accommodation he continued this practice. Houghton Place shows the view from the flat's first-floor window towards Ampthill Square. The houses in Houghton Place had windows on the first floor which opened out onto a balcony, and this was evidently the level on which the Gores' flat was located. Access to the balcony allowed him to paint views along the street at a less oblique angle than if he had had to rely on painting from the window.
Ampthill Square was a sizeable, rhomboid-shaped space with gardens at the centre. These had been bisected by railway lines passing through its centre, cutting the garden in two and punching through the terraces of houses. Gore's view looks south towards the railway cutting, so he must have been able to hear the frequent passing of chugging locomotives; but the painting reveals nothing of this, instead depicting the peaceful, Douanier Rousseau-esque screen of vegetation. It was probably from Ampthill Square gardens that Gore showed the view down onto the tracks in Nearing Euston Station 1911 (fig.1),1 whose foreground is occupied by a passing train. As the shortest route, it was probably along Ampthill Square and across its bridge over the railway that Gore would have walked to visit Sickert, who lived nearby at Rowlandson House on Hampstead Road (see Tate N05088). Indeed, the viewpoint of Houghton Place looks in the direction of Sickert's art school.
Reproduced in Spencer Frederick Gore 1878–1914, exhibition catalogue, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London 1974 (26).
Notebook B357, pp.26–7, Booth Collection, Archives of British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics.
Harold Gilman, letter to Lucien Pissarro, undated , Lucien Pissarro Papers, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Nicholas de Grey, letter to Lucien Pissarro, June 1914, Lucien Pissarro Papers, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.


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Q: Adding an asp.net MVC page along with Azure Mobile services I have backend(e.g. https://api.myapp.com) based on the Azure Mobile services(AMS), now I need
1. add one or two apis that doesn't require to be on AMS e.g. an heartbeat controller to check that service is online or not, that doesn't require Zumo Auth
2. an ASP.net MVC page(e.g. https://www.myapp.com) that explains about the application
Can I use the existing AMS to do this, I tried to add plain asp.net web api, but getting error that end point doesn't exist

A: Are you truly using Azure Mobile Services and not Azure Mobile Apps?  You generally cannot have a custom domain on Azure Mobile Services.  Since you mention ZUMO Auth 2, I'm assuming you mean App Service Auth and thus Azure Mobile Apps.
I'd recommend taking a look at Azure Functions for any APIs that do not require ZUMO.  However, you can just add a custom API to your service.  I cover all the options for you in my book - http://aka.ms/zumobook - chapter 4.
As to a service controller for checking heartbeat.  If the intent is to ensure that the service is alive, then just create an unauthenticated custom API that tests the database connectivity (maybe does an SQL command to get the count of rows in your main table) and returns success or failure.  You can then use Azure Functions, Azure Scheduler or OMS to do a query of that custom API.


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Let skillet and drippings cool until just warm, then add chard leaves, turning to coat. Season with pepper and salt; transfer to bowl with sausage blend.
Coating dough with remaining 1 Tbsp. essential oil and extend into an 18×12″ oval on a huge rimmed baking sheet; time with pepper and salt. Top with 1 / 2 of rosemary and Parmesan, followed by sausage blend, Fontina, ricotta, staying Parmesan and rosemary then.
Bake pizza, rotating sheet through halfway, until crust is golden sharp and brown, 18-22 mins. Let cool five minutes.


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Q: QWebSocket doesn't connect over TLS I have a WebSocket which works good over WebSocket protocol, but I can not switch to WebSocketSecure protocol, It doesn't generate any errors on server side, client says error:141970DF:SSL routines:tls_construct_cke_psk_preamble:psk identity not found. The certificate was generated by certbot and is used of for https web site on same domain.
Server code:
    QSslConfiguration conf = server.sslConfiguration();
    QFile * privkey =
      new QFile{"/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem"};

    privkey->open(QFile::ReadOnly);

    conf.setCaCertificates(QSslCertificate::fromPath(
      "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem"));
    conf.setPrivateKey(QSslKey(privkey));
    conf.setProtocol(QSsl::TlsV1_0);

    server.setSslConfiguration(conf);

    if (server.listen(QHostAddress::Any, 54045)) {
        connect(
          &server, &QWebSocketServer::newConnection, this,
          &Server::onNewConnection);
        connect(&server, &QWebSocketServer::closed, this, &Server::closed);
        qDebug() << "server started";
    }

The client code:
import QtQuick 2.13
import QtWebSockets 1.13

WebSocket {
    active: true
    url: "wss://example.com:54045"
}

Output of openSSL:
$ openssl s_client -connect example.com:54045
CONNECTED(00000003)
140623606740288:error:14095126:SSL routines:ssl3_read_n:unexpected eof while reading:ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:302:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 325 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
Early data was not sent
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---


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Re: STEAM LONDON: Realms of Aether Game Thread
« Reply #1825 on: June 19, 2009, 04:35:59 pm »
TEH smells of sausage, bacon, breakfast pastries and several different kinds of Jam eventually brought even Dreyfuss, Nadya, And Madame Arachne from their cabin and to the Ship's Mess. The Cook, Sgt. McLemore, used a style and method of cooking the large quantities of shipboard meals that was rapidly making disparaging comments about "air-fleet food" a thing of the past aboard the St. Elmo.great platters of bacon, scrambled Eggs, toast, hotcakes, even waffles, and the things to put on them on a separate table, several types of hot and cold beverages on yet another table... it was as if Delmonico's from California's Barbary Coast had set up shop aboard the Airship. to serve breakfast, and Luncheon and Dinner were becoming equally attractive.
The white flamers among the Air Rangers had already, for a couple of weeks, been taking advantage of the standing offer of "lab and workshop space in the Envelope Hold" and "scheduled use of the Engineering Machine Shop" to produce items for use on board the St. Elmo and in some cases, a few special orders from the School, in order to use, hone, and in a few cases similar to Nadya's, discharge excess whitefire.
The new extra tables, collapsible and modularly expandable, were but one example of the ingenious designs and projects thus being produced, in addition to the more mundane items, such as replacement machinery parts, uniform apparel, weapons (the cutlasses and practice swords from the night before being one very good example), goods both woven and knitted... it was almost as if an " 'airwise' university and student manufactory" for white flame technomants had been founded aboard the Airship; there was talk of inviting the O'Landry School folk to come aboard and share some of the facilities.
Also, some of the more noviciary white flamers were beginning to ask about perhaps taking introductory or remedial classes at the School. Dreyfuss decided to talk to Patrick about these issues, and sent him a teletype about it as soon as breakfast was over, reluctant though he was to leave Nadya's and Hyacinth's side. Cleo slithered in through the overhead air duct as he worked, and coiled around his shoulders, adding what solace she could, as he worked. A few minutes after he finished the teletype, a knock sounded at his door. "Come," he said in response.
Walk softly and carry a big banjo...
""quid statis aspicientes in infernum"
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Patrick awoke to the sound of a loud, mechanical hoot, An owl shaped construct carried a teletype message printed on lemon-yellow paper between its beak nudged PAtrick awake. He snatched the machine's beak, reading the message with a look of interest.
"Heh, not a bad idea there, dreyf." He mumbled to himself, sitting up and sitting down at his desk. A tiny construct who's left arm was comprised of an ink pen stood at the ready as Patrick began to dictate a reply.
"Well to be honest, your bannana story isn't anywhere near as bad as the one I told you about when we were stationed in costa rica for a month. It took us a week to catch that damn monkey." He laughed nostalgically.
"Though in hindsight, I shouldnt have sliced away my shirt. That was sort of my only one."
"I think it's Helena and Sigmund," Cain deduced "Those two have been talking all night."
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"Well I think we can fix that tho I must admit I like you shirtless. I think you are closest in shirt size to Cain and I think he still has some unaltered shirts from before he grew wings." Helena knocked once on the door and was nearly bowled over by a pink blur.
Angel hugged Helena and pulled up the hood on her pajamas. "Good morning Helena lady. Look I have bunny ears." She said pointing to her head.
"Yes you do." Helena said smiling.
"Hi Sigmund. Did you really chase a monkey around in your underpants?" Helena nearly groaned of all the people to over hear them it had to be her.
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"Angel!" Cain snapped, attempting to soften any collateral made by Angel's rather rude and personal question.
"It's bad to listen in on other people's conversations." He attempted to pull her gently off of Helena, but it was no good. She clung to her like a limpet, though he couldn't help but smile at her unbridled energy.
"Er Cain, might I be able to borrow a shirt?"
Cain nodded and vanished into his room, reappearing seconds later with a rather clean green sweater.
"Do try not to slice this one open, mister Sigmund." Cain urged, pleadingly.
"I will do my best." Sigmund replied with a wry smirk.
"But it was a funny story. Like the one about the inventor who's mechanical pants went all silly and made him dance all over town." Angel like that story a lot and the pictures in the book were even better. Helena shook her head Angel just did not understand.
« Reply #1830 on: June 20, 2009, 01:30:47 am »
"Well, that was one of my favorite stories." Sigmund chuckled. "I suppose we had the same storyteller in my world. The inventor's trousers is a very popular tale among the soldiers. Though I suppose now, mister Cain will be writing my story about the monkey?"
Cain slid his pad and pen back into the drawer, doing his best to look unassuming.
Dr. Hastings
Zeppelin Captain
listen first, then learn to speak
The doctor had returned to his room late last night, and did not sleep. He talked to himself constantly as he paced the room. Later, he heard noises outside of the room, and decided to check it out. Pulling out a small mirror he checked his appearance, though not like it mattered. He still was stubbled as always, and the dark rings under his eyes persisted. Shrugging, he walked out of the room, and looked for the people.
Learn to listen to the world around you first, you will find the words you need from living.
"Now it is breakfast time right?" Thank goodness that Angel was very easily distracted by food.
"How about pancakes?" Helena said knowing that would drive the monkey story from conversation.
"Yay!" Angel squealed and then took Sigmund's hand. "Helena lady makes the best pancakes, they smile at you."
Helena smiled and hoped Emma was doing better last night she had looked about worn through.
Standing in the doorway, the doctor heard something about pancakes.
Blinking himself awake, he trudged into the kitchen and asked "Whats this I hear of pancakes?"
and leaned himself against whatever was handy.
"Good morning Dr. Hastings. Please come take a seat I am making some breakfast." Helena was mixing up batter.
"Her pancakes smile." Angel said with a giggle from across the table. Emma wandered in nearly running in to the door frame and speaking in a half awake grumble. Helena pressed a mug of tea in her hands hoping she could manage to drink it without spilling it all over herself.
"I'm not sure I want food right now. I'm sorry." He said softly. turning to Angel "But I would like to see this smile" He said, grinning a little.
Pulling up a seat, He settled himself at the table either way. "So what is news today? What have I missed?" He said as he leaned back in his chair.
Helena made a quick line drawing with batter in the pan letting it cook for a moment before pouring the rest of the batter in. "When they flip over they have smiles, just like magic." Angel could not take her eyes off the pan.
Emma mumbled a response and Helena translated her early morning grumbles. "She says we are going to travel on the aether plains looking for George again. I herd that your last trip wasn't that pleasant and if you don't want to come that is fine but we could use the help." Emma nodded pleased with the translation.
"I might as well. I've got nothing here anymore." The doctor glanced off to the side, but quickly brought his head back to face Helena. "I wont let one trip ruin the rest! I'd be glad to help you gather your friend... that is a sentence I never thought I would say." The doctor lifted his hat and ran a hand quickly through his hair, it was clearly thin and greying, and replaced his hat. "Oh, but, only if I wont impose, I don't want to displace anyone!"
"You won't be displacing any one we have an empty cabin across the hall from mine that used to be Elisha's. Since he is watching over things in this London I don't think he would mind a bit." Helena dished out the first cake to Angel because she knew it would be the attack of the puppy dog eyes if she didn't.
"Ah, very good! Then All is well! Is there, by chance, an window in that room? I don't sleep very often, and usually pass the nights watching the night sky." The Doctor clasped his hands in front of himself where the food might have been placed, then glanced over at Angel's plate. "My word! They DO smile! How fantastic!" And leaned back into his seat with a small smile on his face.
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Whoever knocked on his door had not entered, despite being invited. Dreyfuss went to the door and opened it., curious as to why the knocker had not entered.Cleopatra craned her neck and head around as well, but the obvious conclusion was that there was no one in the corridor. "That's damned peculiar, " Dreyfuss said, aloud, and thought, I wonder if I'm beginning to go insane ...
About an hour later, Dreyfuss got his boat gun and possibles bag, put on the Paterson rig, replaced teh Webley in the shoulder rig, and the whitefire pistol in the inner pocket of teh greatcoat, which he donned, and strapped the reforged sword on, it having been added to a regular officer's sword harness. He then went down to Sickbay, to find Arach-- Hyacinth, he corrected himself mentally. To find Hyacinth taking care of the two guest wounded who remained aboard, and Nadya sitting on one of the unoccupied beds, apparently waiting for him, since she got up, put her arm around his waist, and said "Ready for another Adventure beyond the Aether plains, mi Comodoro?"
Dreyfuss Returned the embrace, and kept his arm around her waist, as Hyacinth came over and hugged them both farewell. They stayed thus, for a moment or two. " I know Nadya hates to just up and run off and leave you here, Hyacinth," He began, apologetically, "and so do I, but the search continues, and Miss Emma needs all the help she can get." Hopefully we won't be gone too long,' and he hugged Hyacinth then, and So did Nadya, and then it was time to go. Dreyfuss asked Nadya, "do you want to fly or displace?" Nadya smiled and gripped him close around the waist, and then suddenly they stood in the workshop/hold of the Boheme.
"Maybe you can 'fly me away home' to the Saint Elmo when we get back," she said impishly, as they held each other a moment longher. Then Nadya went up front to report in, and Dreyfuss let Cleo down on the floor of the workshop, and she slithered up the leg of the workbench and into the box she had occupied on the last trip.
Cain could not help but laugh as he watched Angel coaxed the first pancake from Helena's griddle with a watery, doe-eyed pout. He had fallen victim to such wily abilities when cookies had been made, or she had wanted to go out and play at a particularly late hour.
No-one was immune to her abilities, not even Elisha. Cain recalled the time when Angel had managed to force Elisha's hand so that he would surrender his goggles for her to try on for a bit. Sadly, she was not really used to such shaded conditions and would repeatedly run into walls.
Emma had eaten two mouthfuls before she had realised what she was eating. "As soon as breakfast is done and Dr. Hastings has a chance to settle in we aught to be going. So far our return home had been peaceful and I think our leaving is the best way to make sure it remains so." Emma was a bit sad about that. It almost felt like she was on the run from Black again but without George to help.
Angel was making faces at Cain trying to make him giggle so she could steal his pancake. It took far too long for them to cook and she was hungry now.
"...and I think our leaving is the best way to make sure it remains so."
Nadya entered the lounge just as Emma uttered those words; her back was to Nadya, so she didn't see her standing there with a sympathetic look on her face, but Angel looked up and saw her at about the same moment as Cain did, a look as of a dawning sunrise spreading over her face as he smiled in greeting, Cain smiling and chuckling adoringly at Angel's reaction. And then Dreyfuss came up the corridor behind Nadya, and said, "We're here, Miss Emma. There''s still a couple of guest wounded on board the Elmo, so it looks as if we'll all be on one ship again this time -- provided that it's alright with you, of course."
"Good morning Dreyfuss. That will be fine it will be easier to set things up that way." She caught sight of Angel and frowned. "Don't eat Cain's pancake. You know you would be sad if some one ate yours right?" Angel nodded "And you love your Cain and don't want him to be sad right?"
Angel looked at the table "I am sorry Cain. I shouldn't listen to my belly so much."
Dreyfuss fought to keep his face neutral; this was a formative moment for the childlike Angel, and he wanted her to get the point of the lesson; he had not been exaggerating when told the Talos of the construct realm that Angel was "...like a child of my own village." She really did seem to him to be like family in the same way that the people of the hamlet in the Moses Austin Colony where he grew up had seemed to be, all those years ago. Sometimes he almost considered her to be like a younger, very naive, and very good-hearted sister. He suddenly realized Nadya was looking up at him, smiling at his attempt to maintain his stiff upper lip.
Oh, nothing much... it's just that it's so cute how you are trying so hard not to smile, Dreyf.
"Because you were good and said you were sorry I think the next pancake should be for you." Emma quite suddenly had a very happy Angel hugging her and was quite glad the tea had already kicked in. How Angel could be so truly awake in the first thing in the morning all on her own Emma would never understand.
"Thank you Emma lady." she waved and grinned at the newcomers. "Hi Dreyfuss, Hi Nadya lady. We are having magical Helena pancakes."
Cain kissed Angel's syrupy cheeks.
"It's alright, my Angel, I suppose one's tummy does usually get the better of them." He cut a piece of his own pancake, placing the wedge of syrupy, buttery goodness between Angel's lips.
"But then again, if your tummy is as persuasive as your eyes, you may have a bit of a problem."
Sigmund waved jovially as Nadya and Dreyfuss entered.
"We are enjoying pancakes, though I hardly see what is magic about them."
As Helena flipped her latest pancake, it soared through the air, landing like a flat, steaming bird onto Sigmund's head. Cain snickered at the sight as sigmund heaved a sigh,
"I retract my statement." Sigmund declared, defeated by the pancake-loving forces of the universe.
"We already ate," Dreyfuss said, "That Sgt. Mclemore's getting to be quite a chef. The ship's mess is getting to be almost as well-served as Delmonicos..."
"The pancake is giving you a kiss." Angel said and then broke in to giggles.
Helena laughed too and then handed Sigmund a plate and a towel. "I hadn't meant for you to ware your breakfast. But it is not a bad look on you."
"Pancake hat!" Angel said and started giggling all over again. She finished the pancake Helena dished out to her and started to daydream about wear they would go next. Angel hoped there would be mermaids or fairies like in her picture book. After all they had been to a world with kitty people there had to be a world like that out there.
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Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq both hit centuries to give Pakistan a first-innings lead before New Zealand's bowlers fought back in the deciding third Test in Abu Dhabi.
They had taken a lead by the time he was removed for 134 and, though Shafiq (104) reached three figures too, debutant Will Somerville led a New Zealand recovery as Pakistan went from 3-286 to 348 all out.
New Zealand then lost both of their openers in the 14 overs before stumps and finished on 2-22, with Pakistan 48 runs ahead.
Shaheen Afridi and Yasir Shah remove New Zealand openers Jeet Raval and Tom Latham before stumps in Abu Dhabi, the visitors trail Pakistan by 48 runs on 26/2 in their second innings.


Team Suzuki will head to Argentina without Townley who is still suffering from a virus.
Ben Townley was noticeably affected by sickness last round and little improvement has since been made. The Suzuki rider is physically weak and unable to ride forcing him to stay home for the next two flyaway rounds. It was an important decision made by both Townley and the Suzuki team with an emphasis placed on Ben's health.
The team had already sent Townley's factory RM-Z450 by freight to Argentina from Valkenswaard but will not elect a substitute rider for the event. Kevin Strijobs will be the sole MX1 Suzuki rider and will be looking to climb the overall championship standings after placing eighth place following three rounds.
In the MX2 ranks Jeremy Seewer will return to the track where he recorded his first ever Grand Prix podium finish.
"Yeah, it is a good track for me and I have some great memories from there," he said.
Seewer currently sits in third place overall behind Jeffrey Herlings and Pauls Jonass.


Police hunting the killer of Hell's Angel biker Gerry Tobin have removed a green Rover from a Coventry street.
The biker was gunned down on August 12 as he rode home from the Bulldog Bash bikers' festival - and officers believe the shots were fired from a dark green Rover 620 car seen passing Mr Tobin at around the time of the incident.
A car matching that description was loaded onto a transporter lorry and taken away for forensic tests just hours after three men were arrested in Nuneaton and Coventry in connection with the attack.
Armed officers from Warwickshire Police and West Midlands Police raided two addresses in Coventry and one property in Nuneaton in the early hours of this morning.
The men are now being questioned by detectives at the police station in Warwickshire after Mr Tobin was gunned down as he rode home from the bikers festival near Stratford.
Assistant Chief Constable Bill Holland said: "The investigation is active and ongoing. The public response to appeals for witnesses has been excellent with the incident room receiving around 600 calls and emails from people with information."
Police did not reveal any more details of the men who have been arrested.
Searches are continuing at the properties which were raided, and police said further addresses may be searched in the coming days.
Earlier this week, detectives said they were concerned that Mr Tobin's murder could spark a violent feud among biker gangs.
Mr Tobin, who lived in south London, but was originally from Canada, was a member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club, and police believe he may have been targeted by a member of a rival gang.
The 35-year-old was killed with a single shot to the back of the head fired from a handgun while a second shot fired at the biker struck his motorcycle.


Morgan Mansur getting fizzy at La Vista 101.
"In high school I worked at a pizza place…tried to get away from it, then a diner… tried to get away from it… but I always kept coming back." The tell-tale signs of a lifer. Morgan Mansur, a fast talker, fast thinker, can rattle off the R & D or the why behind anything he gets his hands on. At La Vista 101, the fresh retro revamp of Briargrove classic La Vista, cocktails are creative twists off pre-prohibition classics, though the mention of anything fizzy really gets him going.
"There's always going to be something on the menu with sodas," he says quickly, "I love sodas." After picking up the technique while serving as lead bartender under Sean Beck at Caracol. Mansur uses them frequently because they're great as an "apertivo, filler, topper, whatever." And guess what, it's still blazing outside, so the more soda cocktails floating around the better. Mansur, who works and manages the bar, also loves the fact that once the recipe is nailed it rarely falters. Consistency is always important, but most especially at a popular neighborhood joint like this one.
Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mansur was often roped into either landscaping with his father or catering events with his mother who, after retiring from teaching started a one-stop-shop event coordinating business. He has fond memories of clipping tulips and rolling silverware in their 60-degree house as they prepared everything from food to floral arrangements for 200 person weddings.
From studying microbiology at the University of Arkansas to beginning pharmacy school at the University of Houston, the Industry whispered him back again. He remembers calling his mother three months in saying, "I want to go to culinary school." He blew through a two-year culinary degree from the Art Institute of Houston, went on to grab a restaurant management degree from the Hilton School at the University of Houston and along the way picked up a sommelier certification. Not bad for a bag of tricks, but his willingness to be a blank slate and work hard is perhaps the reason the 28-year-old is where he is today.
First put behind the bar in 2011 at Prego, Mansur knew he had found his niche in the business. "I can be creative and interact with guests at the same time." Ah, the back-of-house, front-of-house hybrid; look out for this one in the future.
Shake first three ingredients with ice and strain back into the shaker. Add grape soda and swish that around. Pour into a Collins glass over ice, garnish with thai basil and grape halves. Find a patio, or stay inside.
Shot of Advice: For other bartenders... Remember, every day, every customer interaction is a fresh start. You can't carry it over. If someone rubs you the wrong way, reset, reset, reset. Our job is to make sure they come back, we are stewards for that.