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Apologies in advance if I happen to sound as tired and scatterbrained in this post as I feel in real life. Or in tomorrow's post for that matter, which I'm probably going to start working on after I finish writing this.
Spoiler alert: It's Fire Emblem again. Intelligent Systems is on a roll right now.
But that's obviously a story for another day. Today there are Daily Titan things to discuss.
There's a little bit of back story behind the article I have out in print right now, but frankly it's a little too in-the-weeds to get deeply into so I'll try to make it quick.
There was some confusion last Thursday where people had assumed I would be going to an Academic Senate meeting when in reality I was going to a hematologist appointment that morning and was unaware the Senate was believed to be on my shoulders.
Insert obligatory Star Wars prequel meme here.
As a result of that confusion, I decided to make sure our page didn't fall apart on the first day of Comm Week by gathering this piece together post-meeting.
Editor's Note:
Comm Week, for those of you who are uninitiated, is the one week a year that the College of Communications at Cal State Fullerton invites a heaping helping of guest speakers to come talk about why the field of study is awesome as a way to encourage people to join in and appreciate it.
Basically lots of people with connections come to campus and it would be embarrassing if we had lousy papers to show to them.
While the minutes for each Academic Senate meeting aren't put out until at least two weeks after a given meeting (as they're approved at the following meeting), we did have access to the agenda ahead of time.
Based on a cursory look through that agenda, I reached out to the Academic Senate chair and the chairs of the University Writing Proficiency and General Education Committees as those were the groups that appeared to be the most involved in this meeting. Considering it was a Saturday when I began my hunt, I wasn't expecting much response, so I also planned out a possible crime log-based story as back-up.
Luckily I didn't need that back-up (as I later found out the University Police Captain Scot Willey was AFK all weekend) because the Writing Proficiency chair got in touch with me.
As chance would have it, she also happened to be the person who led a big presentation on general education requirements following adjustments to Chancellor Timothy P. White's Executive Order 1100. That, naturally, wound up being the focus of my piece.
So if you're interested in learning a little bit more about the CSUF Academic Senate's General Education Task Force, their 34-page preliminary report on the effects of the executive order and all sorts of other background research I'm sure you're all just DYING to hear about…
Check out my story here. Frankly I'm proud of how this one turned out considering the circumstances surrounding it. Plus I was able to do a cool thing by attaching the full report to the article online as we had somewhat advanced access to it.
You can also see my full archive of work for the Daily Titan over on the right!
If all works out, I might just have more to share later this week as Comm 471 attempts to roll out some big stories for Comm Week.
P.S. For those curious, the hematologist was good and we extended my between check-up visits window to six months rather than three like we were on. Can't complain about that.


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8 de abr. de 2017
Great course indeed. I was following the materials and videos of the crisis for a long time and this course perfectly summarized everthing back by data analysis. Highly recommended to all enthusiasts.
31 de ago. de 2018
This course was excellent. The short yet crisp lectures have given me a fair perspective of what came before, during and to an extent after the GFC. I feel I will greatly benefit from this knowledge.
por Dinesh R•
22 de may. de 2016
a) There clearly was a huge amount of criminal behavior that contributed to the crisis. The presenters appear to approach the subject half-heartedly, and focus their energies on disproving the possibility without sufficiently examining it.
b) A lot of the review questions focus on remembering facts rather than on understanding the causes and effects. For example, what is the relevance of being able to remember that job losses at the height of the crisis were of the order of 880k a month or 200k a month??
c) It is obvious to anyone with even trivial financial expertise that the financial system today is weaker than it was before the crisis. The too big to fail are bigger today (by a large margin) and interest rates are too low (remember the search for yield was the motivation for the creation of the exotic securities which blew up the system). Secy Geithner's focus in week 8 comes across as a personal defence of his actions rather an objective analysis of what was done and should have been done.
por Philip N•
28 de ago. de 2016
A strong overview of the crisis that balances the depth and breadth of the material well.
Balance of narrative and data.
Logical sequencing gives a nice structure and a more digestible package.
Excellent level of detail, neither missing the forest for the trees nor ignoring the trees altogether.
Does not address alternative theories or interpretations of the crisis, even to shoot them down.
Several quizzes were poorly-constructed, featuring obvious typos or nonsensical statements.
Additional module to update the material (stale since mid-2015) was promised, but not delivered.
por Maria S•
13 de abr. de 2020
The material is meticulously explained in a calm , experienced manner. Readings add depth and further support graphs and lecture. What an interesting time to be learning about the crisis of 08-09
por Akshay U H•
4 de mar. de 2019
A well-paced primer on various terminology in banking and finance. But while considering the various causes - understates the risk in various financial assets, does not consider into account various factors such as human error and shady machinations in the investment banking industry(Conflict of interest, resistance to regulations), predatory lending. And does not talk about the Behind The Scenes of most of the major falls - just touches on the topics at face value which raises more questions than it answers.
por Abdurrahman•
26 de may. de 2020
The course gives us a comprehensive perspective on what happened during the GFC 2008-2009 both in the US and the Eurozone, the lessons learned will be very fundamental for Central Bankers like me.
por Fahad S•
10 de dic. de 2018
Just completed this course in a 2-week whirlwind. The structure is very conducive to watching a couple of hours to finish half a week in one sitting, or also (if you prefer) more bite-sized portions of learning.
Andrew Metrick and Tim Geithner are highly knowledgeable and engaging teachers with a lightness of touch that conceals a masterful grasp of their subject. They use apt analogies to break down what are, in some cases, quite complex financial constructions to make them comprehensible to a lay audience (while my education was in the sciences, I consider myself a novice in economics and finance - though perhaps not any more). I found myself looking up the occasional phrase or acronym but almost every specialist term was fully defined in the lectures.
One of the highlights of the course was having a direct insight from someone who was, not just there on the ground in '07-'09, but in many ways the conductor of the US response to the crisis. Having Secretary Geithner as a lecturer initially sold me on this course, and I was not disappointed. There is a messiness to the GFC that can be overwhelming in some of the deep dives, as you might expect with such a complex historical event, but in the final lectures he brings it together with some simple (and reassuring) rules about how a government might proceed in the future, in the knowledge that crises do occur and cannot be predicted. Geithner has the bearing of a financial Confucian; quiet and thoughtful, yet exacting; emphasising fiscal and financial prudence for governments and bank-like institutions, while showing compassion and concern for those citizens that bore the brunt of the crisis. I hope and expect that some of these important teachings are enshrined and elevated to the high status that they deserve.
por Mike K•
16 de ene. de 2019
A little long and repetitive, but very in depth. Yale is by far the best at the videos and getting guest speakers that are interesting. Definitely feel well informed about the global financial crisis and the origins of financial crises in general.
por Bamiro•
22 de ago. de 2020
My country, Nigeria is taking on a lot of debt from China and I feel almost every citizen should learn about how greed and bubble thinking can lead to Financial Crisis exercebated by short-sighted Government approach to Economics and slow-walking by Congress . I might not agree with the Secetary Of treasury under President Obama on many things but it was such a great course to analyze what went wrong from his perspective leading up to the Great Financial crisis. The Lead Professor was quite simply world class in his delivery.
por Sriram R•
21 de dic. de 2016
Extremely insightful course. Financial crisis analysed really well and explained in very simple terms. Something that has been missing in various book, movies,etc ( on the crisis ).
Must course for every individual.
por Jim C•
16 de mar. de 2018
Excellent course on the GFC, I would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about the crisis. The instructors were very good and took a complex subject and made it very understandable.
por Rashi K A•
1 de sep. de 2018
This course was excellent. The short yet crisp lectures have given me a fair perspective of what came before, during and to an extent after the GFC. I feel I will greatly benefit from this knowledge.
por Atheek A•
17 de may. de 2020
Interesting course. Would have been better if it was not based on data from 4 years ago.
On the technical side, please fix Mr. Geithner's mike. His perpetually audible deep exhalation is mildly distracting.
Thank you!
por celia n•
22 de abr. de 2022
Quantas informaçõeers ouvimos ao assitir um jornal por exemplo e deixamos passar desapercebido por não compreender o impacto que tal informação tem em nossas vidas?
E temos a tendência em não nos informamos de questões que acontecem no exterior, por achar é o que isso pode me afetar, seja por questão de egoísmo ou por ignorância não sei descrever.
Ao conversar com algumas pessoas percebo que algumas pessoas não se atentam a muitas questões é um delas e a fquestão financeira do nosso país. Como a nosssa questão econômica afetas todas as áreas.
Esse Curso me trouxe vários gatilhos e muitos questionamentos pessoais.
Foi gratificante entender um pouco de um assunto tão complexo.
Uma nova percepção para informações até então desconhecidas.
A didática do curso trás muitas questões válidas para o nosso contexto atual.
por Jaime E R A•
9 de feb. de 2021
El curso permite interactuar con conceptos económicos, sociales y políticos; lo cual me brinda un pensamiento mas holístico y proponer soluciones integrales desde el ámbito humano sobre todo, ya que si pensamos que dejando de lado el impacto y efecto que logran tener políticas y normas orientadas a la capitalización, recaudación y acumulación, sobre el ser humano, no vamos a tener éxito en una armonía financiera futura, desarrollada y equilibrada...de la cual es difícil que las personas sobrevivan.
Una herramienta poderosa es la educación financiera regulada, controlada y supervisada: además de la ética de gobierno, las cuales deben confluir y armonizar las herramientas necesarias para evitar eventos lamentables que duran en el tiempo, y que pueden desestabilizar un pais o region.
por Henrik G•
6 de nov. de 2016
My selves being in the middle of the financial crisis and working for a sovereign financial institution without having a major stake on the line is like being at war without a license to kill or die for.
I think both T. Geithner and A Metrick gave us a very realistic and honest picture of the current affairs of the Global Economic Crisis from 2007 and on wards.
Considering Geithners special position as Secretary of the Treasury at the time it is therefore very firsthand and insightful information however there is always the risk of contamination from what was done as opposed to what could have been done.
Great Course - a must for economists!
Best – Henrik Gjerning, Data Scientist and Economist
por Mike Y W•
21 de mar. de 2018
The breadth and width of topics covered in this course met my high expectations (it is Yale after all), but it would be nice if the course could be updated (I wouldn't mind paying more) with extra materials added in (or perhaps a new course or courses, "The GFC, Part II/III") for the past few years as I get the feeling this course was created in 2014. In addition, it would be nice if Secretary Geithner could have taught an extra week or two, and go more into the years leading to the GFC and the years immediately after it from his point of view. As a final suggestion, if there was a Yale specialization for market stress (or similar), including this course, I'd be all over it.
por Abhinav A•
23 de jul. de 2016
Best material I could ever find related to Global Financial Crisis. As a student of Economics, this course was very helpful it is must for someone who just wants to know what happened in an easy to understand and practical manner.
Both the faculties are of very high stature and have closely observed the crisis. Professor Andrew is a financial economist and explains beautifully the events and timeline of GFC and Professor Geithner was himself involved in all policy reactions and his role has been highly appreciated worldwide as President of New York Fed. Awesome experience really. Thanks Coursera. It's like a dream come true to be taught by such eminent personalities.
por Matthew•
19 de oct. de 2016
A topic that you've heard pieces of, read headlines about, and heard plenty of opinions on... but to truly dig into the mathematics and behavior behind a generation defining event was incredible. The content was delivered logically, and in a way that leads the student to think on their own. Students are pushed to think why certain events had the consequences that they did. Historical behavior, market reaction, and the impact on the future are all evaluated and discussed. It's a behavioral macroeconomic course that uses the financial crisis as it's exhibit A. I recommend this course to anyone participating the financial or labor markets today.
por Ruslan K•
1 de dic. de 2016
This is the greatest course I've ever attend. The knowledge and expertise of the Prof. Metrick and Mr.Geithner is over expectations. The course is very complex, well delivered (with simple and understandable language, reasoning and supporting materials), information is extremely concentrated, and huge knowledge of the authors is felt behind the scenes. The only think I lack is off-line (real life) attendance to the discussion with authors on questions that arise during the course. Hope, once I'll have an opportunity to attend Mr. Geithner and Mr. Metrics lectures and seminars and/or Yale university other real life courses
por G V•
16 de abr. de 2016
This course is highly insightful and does a holistic evaluation of the financial catastrophe. I personally searched various parts of the internet to learn about the Global Financial Crisis, but none was as informative and EVIDENCE BASED as this course. One example of this was: while several online portals criticized the US government for being too lenient during the housing boom, the course says (rightly) that there is little evidence to support this claim.
To top it off, the course is quite affordable, costing 29 $, thereby giving a compelling reason to buy.
por Eugene B N•
14 de ago. de 2016
Put simply, this course is well put together. Professor Andrew Metrick is an engaging lecturer and the materials assigned are very helpful in understanding the topic.
If i have any recommendations i would suggest for a break down of abbreviations and concepts as i especially struggled given my non-financial background. Also, i still haven't figured out the discussion forum as in my opinion isn't as engaging.
In all, thank you for a brilliant work...still redo and redo this course. :)
por Lam A T•
10 de jun. de 2020
The course is interesting , but need to update data into more previous event (the current data is fine but a little outdated) ,the professor presentation are short ,straight to the point and easy to understand ,the reading material are helpful ,overall it's a great course ,it only need to update the data to somewhat newer event ,and i gain a new insight from this course and many thanks to the professor and his team for their contribution on providing such great experience for us.
por Alex H•
23 de nov. de 2016
This is an excellent history class on the recent housing collapse and financial crisis, but it also does a masterful job of succinctly and clearly explaining/illustrating the underlying causes of the entire global financial crisis, as well as to the individual events throughout the multi year ordeal. Slides are very well put together with some very informative data. I'd suggest this class to anyone who wants an updated understanding of global finance and modern day banking.
por Gregorio T•
14 de jul. de 2017
This course was excellent!!! In a structured way it helped me gain the understanding I was looking for. Andrew Metrick combines the knowledge and teaching skills that really made the difference. I also found a lot of value from the interactions with the course mentor, Guenter Leonhardt. The presence of Tim Geithner provided valuable direct testimony. This was my first course at Coursera and really encourages to take more. I only hope I can find Andrew's likes as teachers.
por Carlos H d S•
15 de jun. de 2019
This is a very interesting subject that was covered in a well structured course. Gives a significant background information to understand these type of crisis (from past events) and provides the lessons to be learned. I liked especially the comparison between the crisis in the US with Europe (lasting much longer) and with the Great Depression of the 30's. I feel now that I am much more knowleadgeable in this matter and in economics/finance in general.

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California Adventure Day 8
This trip really has been about being on the other side of healing; rejoicing. I rejoiced at every place we visited. I'm thankful...so thankful for life and living it; for the adventures we were experiencing and for the ones that are ahead of me. I have learned to openly embrace life. The joy, heartbreak, challenges; all of it. Without sorrow, joy wouldn't be so sweet. Without heartbreak, love might take things for granted. Without death, life would mean nothing. I've never breathed so deep and felt so fulfilled.
California Adventure Day 7
We stopped at one of the Coastal Access points and walked the path that overlooked the cliffs. There was a small peninsula that occupied a little pocket of the ocean. Beautiful cliffs adorned the sides of the walkway out to the endless blue. The peninsula had rare plant species sprouting out from the rocks and the dirt. I was mesmerized by the most unique succulents I have ever seen. Green succulents that made the abrupt decision to turn red on the tips of their puffy pointy leaves. The flowers, yellow, orange and purple, all competed for the spotlight. The plants clothed and gave life to the bare, stagnant cliffs. The ocean crashed in trying to get a peek from below. It spat and raged at the rocks and turned white with fury as its waves came in for a ferocious landing.
California Adventure Day 6
We approached a beach with access off the road and turned in. Although it was foggy, this beach was still very beautiful. We trudged through dark gray/brown sand and I marveled at the charcoal colored smooth stones on the shore. The waves crashed on the beach threatening to become the master of anyone who dared to advance the line it made in the sand. The misty look made the beach feel mysterious. Like anything could happen. I felt like I was walking the beach with Chris Martin in Coldplay's "Yellow" video. It was actually pretty cool to see the beach in this attitude.
California Adventure Day 5
We got down the road a ways and I looked up at the sky. Immediately I was breathless. I told my Dad he was going to want to pull over and see this. He stopped at the next turnout and we got out of the car. The stars were absolutely breathtaking. What made it even better was there was a new moon, so the stars were the main attraction. There has only been one other time that I have seen so many stars and that was in Flagstaff, Arizona at a star observatory. My Dad was in awe and said he had never seen so many stars. I could've stayed there all night dumbfounded. It was a beautiful moment and a wonderful memory.
California Adventure Day 4
The way down was interesting. I fully acknowledged this thought in the back of my head that if I fell and hurt myself no one would be coming to my rescue. There was no one following me and certainly at that point no one coming up to the top that late in the day. My phone had also died at the top of the mountain so I would not be able to contact anyone if something did go wrong. The trail was definitely physically demanding. Going up was hard but going down required much attention and caution. There was loose gravel, wet rocks, rocks with a coat of dirt that were more slick than the wet rocks and at some points there was water flowing down the middle of the trail. Also, if you remember, my shins and the rest of my legs were hurting pretty good from the downhill run and hiking from yesterday.
California Adventure Day 3
Day 3 - May 13 We got up a little late at 2:30 am. I got a whopping 2 hours of sleep. I have to admit time management is not my strong suit. The drive to the shuttle was pretty intense. My Dad was in his zone again. I reached the shuttle at 4:30 just … Continue reading California Adventure Day 3
California Adventure Day 2
... Day 2 - May 12 We woke up late today after having such a long travel day with little sleep. Our hotel is an hour and a half away from Bass Lake (where the half marathon is). When we walked outside it was cold and misty. We drove the mountainous route to the expo … Continue reading California Adventure Day 2
California Adventure Day 1
https://youtu.be/lhbu_nSpTCw Day 1 - May 11 Our day started with driving to the airport at 3:30 am. We discovered we had to leave at 3:30 at 12:30 am so I decided I would not go to sleep thinking I could pass out on the airplane. I got middle seat so it did not happen. We … Continue reading California Adventure Day 1


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For most of human history, little has been known about how people experience pain—let alone how one person's pain might differ from another's. But recent research has illuminated the surprisingly distinct ways that individuals experience pain—and how women perceive pain differently from men. These new findings could have wide-reaching implications, according to scientists who showcased their groundbreaking research into gender-specific pain perception at Barnard during a September 2011 event titled "Roadmap for Addressing Sex Differences in Pain Management." The event was supported and co-sponsored by Women in World Neuroscience of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).
"Pain is one of the most prevalent of the diseases and ailments that have sex differences," said Rae Silver, Kaplan Professor of Natural and Physical Sciences at Barnard and organizer of the event along with Emmeline Edwards, director of extramural research at the National Center for Complementary and Alternate Medicine and chair of the Women in World Neuroscience committee, and Kathie Olsen, founder and managing director of Science Works, LLC. Said Silver, "If we understood those differences, we could better treat and anticipate diseases in both sexes."
In opening the event President Debora Spar pointed to the importance of maximizing knowledge to improve the health benefits of pain treatment and introduced the distinguished panelists. The participants offered a range of revelations into the study of pain—from the possibility that redheaded women are more pain tolerant than brunettes to the prospect that astronauts could unveil the mysteries of gender-specific pain.
Dr. Marianne Legato, who founded and directs the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, moderated the panel and noted that until the 1990s, most scientific research dealt with the middle-aged white male. In some cases, laws restricted the participation of women. Pain rarely received much attention from scientists, since studies of pain were largely seen as "soft" or "pseudo" science. In place of scientific knowledge, there was conventional wisdom, which held either that women are tougher because they are equipped to endure the pains of childbirth or that men are tougher because, well, they're men. Turns out, neither stereotype is exactly right.
Women likely are more sensitive to pain in some ways, but they also have hormones that can mediate pain in ways that don't work for men. Jeffrey Mogil, the E.P. Taylor Chair in Pain Studies and Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Pain at McGill University, explained: "Males and females have qualitatively different pain-processing mechanisms; that is, difference in kind, not in degree." His research of the neural mechanisms that mediate the perception and inhibition of pain has indicated that women might have fewer mu-opioid receptors, which respond to morphine. This difference might explain why women typically need higher dosages of pain medications.
Dr. Mogil also found connections between the gene that accounts for red hair color in 80 percent of natural redheads and how those redheads perceive pain. A study he conducted with redheaded mice found that redheaded females could tolerate significantly more pain than other females or redheaded males. "These strong and robust brain differences in pain processing are going to leadto differential pain treatments," he predicted.
A major value of research into perceptions of pain is the potential to find better ways to alleviate it. Dr. Richard Smiley, a professor of clinical anesthesiology and chief of obstetric anesthesia at Columbia University Medical Center, said that his research into the genetics of labor pain suggests oxytocin might protect pregnant women from the development of chronic pain. Oxytocin is a hormone released in women during and after childbirth and while breastfeeding, and has been associated with creating emotional connections.
Finding effective ways to treat pain experienced by women is especially important since 70 percent of those who suffer from chronic pain are women. Though oxytocin produced naturally by the body can prevent chronic pain in some cases, it cannot be used to treat it, said Dr. Smiley.
Fortunately, there are other possible solutions. Dr. Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, discussed non-pharmacological interventions for chronic pain, such as complementary and alternative medicine. One study found that people with chronic pain who practiced mindful meditation suffered with substantially less severity than those who did not.
The human body may be the focus of pain research, but the new frontier of such research, according to Dr. Saralyn Mark '83, is outer space. "Turns out, it's easier to discern differences in sex and gender-based health care in space because you can discern those differences very fast and in a way that you often cannot on Earth," said Mark, an endocrinologist, geriatrician, and women's health specialist.
Studies of pain in space have already proven fruitful. One revealed that almost all female astronauts begin to experience orthostatic hypotension, meaning they feel like they're going to faint, when they return to earth. This may be due to differences in how the body adapts to microgravity and readapts to earth. "When women are stressed, they tend to increase their heart rates, whereas men tend to clamp down," she said.
Thanks to female lab subjects, redheaded mice, research in space and the pioneering studies of the panelists, a window is opening onto one of the most intense of human experiences. As scientists understand more about the relationship between gender and pain, people's experience of pain—and especially women's—could become a lot less painful.
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I found this on YouTube and it was pretty funny. It is NOT an official episode of the Drunk History series by Derek Waters, but is made in the exact same style. It retells the story of Joan of Arc through (surprise, surprise) a drunk person.
Enjoy the video. I really hope this spate of activity dies down soon so I can get motivated to put more original shit than this…but its better than nothing.


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Topcoats, as is true of most men's fashion of the modern world, had their beginnings in either battle or sport. This has clearly been in evidence for the past several seasons, as men have been wearing their casual coats to town. The Barbour jacket, parka, field coat or shooting coat over pinstripes--all exude a certain blithe nonchalance through mixed media, as it were.
Now, with the renaissance of a dressier business look--chalk-striped flannels, white Windsor-collared shirts and Macclesfield ties--comes the return of the classic overcoat. Or overcoats, we should say. The chesterfield, covert, raglan and polo are all making a resounding comeback. And, despite their elegance, these distinguished coats still have that pervasive sartorial connection with combat or play.
The male wardrobe has always had an outer covering to protect the body or other clothes from the inclemencies. In the Middle Ages that stout garment, the woolen, hooded cloak, kept the wearer warm, whether he was on foot or horseback. Next came the mantle (a hoodless, sleeveless covering), then the cape (a shorter version of the mantle). These outer garments were regularly worn throughout the medieval period in Europe, well into the Renaissance.
By the seventeenth century, however, the overcoat--meaning a fitted outer garment with sleeves and front closure--had begun to emerge. This garment came to be referred to generically as a "greatcoat," since it was both a heavier and a stouter wool than coats worn directly next to the shirt or vest, and was cut larger all the way round. It had a large collar, a fitted chest, a wide skirt that extended below the calf and usually commodious pockets. When the renowned author and lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell in Edinburgh at Boyd's Inn late in the evening of Aug. 14, 1773, to begin their famous tour of the Hebrides, Boswell described the great man's dress:
He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes, with twisted-hair-buttons of the same colour, a large bushy greyish wig, a plain shirt, black worsted stockings, and silver buckles. Upon this tour, when journeying, he wore boots, and a very wide brown cloth great coat, with pockets which might have almost held the two volumes of his folio dictionary; and he carried in his hand a large English oak stick.
--James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
During the next hundred years, the overcoat would assume a variety of shapes. Some of them are still with us, such as the raglan, the chesterfield and the covert. Others, like the ulster, the paletot, the inverness and the frock coat, have been left to molder in history's closet. This century has seen the addition of the macintosh, the polo and the British warm. All are the children of the greatcoat, but we should make one brief point of nomenclature here. By the turn of the twentieth century, the greatcoat had divided generically into two basic camps. There was a lighter-weight version, which was worn in the spring and fall of the year, and called a topcoat; since the 1940s this has been replaced by the ubiquitous raincoat in its various guises. The heavier version worn during the colder months of the year was called an overcoat. These terms still apply, and are worth keeping, although increasingly they are used interchangeably. Regardless of its weight and generic name, an outer garment must of course be both dolce et utile; it must offer both style and protection. Here are our annotated choices, contemporary versions of the classics, which we think admirably combine practicality with handsomeness:
The original British warm takes its fabric and styling from the greatcoats worn by officers during the First World War. Intended to go over khaki tunic and jodhpurs and be accompanied by high field boots and an officer's cap, the coat was standard-issue British army. There is a rather moving photo of the princes of Wales and York lamentedly contemplating the battle scene at Zeebrugge in 1918, both wearing their regulation British warms (York's was belted, a style that led to the "wrap coats" of civilian fashion that followed). These officers coats were slightly shaped and fell to just above the knee, always double-breasted in style, with six buttons (three of which are buttoned), with peaked lapels and epaulets on the shoulders.
The most characteristic aspect of the British warm is the fabric itself: a heavy, taupe-colored, slightly fleecy melton cloth. The name comes from Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicestershire, England, where this thick, tightly woven, napped cloth was first woven for riding and hunting garments. "The authentic melton cloth weighs in at 34 ounces," the custom tailor Leonard Logsdail informs us, "and perhaps a bit of body-building boot camp is necessary to wear it."
The redoubtable British warm saw duty in the Second World War and is still worn by officers in the British army, with metal regimental buttons. The civilian-adapted model takes woven leather buttons, may dispense with the epaulets and may be worn slightly longer. Wrap coats--the double-breasted versions with a belt--partake of elements from both the British warm and the polo coat.
The chesterfield is the most formal and classic town coat a gentleman can own. It was originally a variation of the basic Victorian frock coat, whose skirt descended straight to the bottom hem--in either a single- or a double-breasted version--but, unlike the frock, had no waist seam. It was named for the sixth Earl of Chesterfield (not the famous fourth earl, who wrote all those instructive letters to his bastard son), a leader of fashion among the Regency dandies who strolled Bond Street in the early years of the nineteenth century. He probably didn't invent the velvet collar--the coat's trademark. But he was certainly a great popularizer of the style, because when he died in 1866 his name had already become common coinage for the garment.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the chesterfield had assumed the classic lines and details it retains today: a full-length (which at the moment means to the calf) usually single-breasted coat with fly-front closure on the single-breasted version, shaped body, velvet collar, center back vent, two side pockets and set-in sleeves. As the dressiest of town coats, it's usually tailored in dark blue, dark gray or black patternless wool or cashmere. Variations, though limited, include patterns of self-striped wool and herringbone tweed in brown, as well as gray and blue. The most popular variation these days is the chesterfield done in fawn (a marled greenish tan) covert or whipcord twill, with either a bottle green or dark chestnut brown velvet collar. The velvet collar cover--whose color is intended to quietly complement rather than contrast with the coat's color--is not only a bit of discreet adornment, but was, in an age when men wore their hair longer, a practical way of dealing with soiled collars: it's easier and cheaper to replace the velvet cover than to dispense with the entire collar.
The covert coat is named for the cloth from which it is made. The term comes from the French couvert, meaning a shady place or thicket, and in English came to mean a hiding place for game birds. Covert cloth is a twill-woven fabric in which a combination of two threads of different tones of the same color are twisted together to form a marled effect--i.e., a slightly mottled look rather than a clear color. The cloth itself is fairly stout, closely woven, and has a certain elasticity--all of which makes for a very resistant and durable material and a very smart-looking, long-wearing garment. It is sometimes waterproofed for additional protection.
While covert cloth can be used for trousers, jackets and a variety of field coats, its most popular use is for topcoats. Originally made as a country outer coat, the classic straight-cut, single-breasted,fly-fronted covert is always fawn-colored, although dressier mid-gray versions are often seen. Characterized by its four rows of stitches on each sleeve cuff and on the bottom hem, which falls no lower than the knee, the classic covert coat has two side pockets and a ticket pocket, and it's acceptable to add a green velvet collar cover for a dressier look.
"The business about the signature stitching on the sleeve cuffs and hem," relates Hugh Holland, the managing director of the famed Savile Row tailoring firm Kilgour, French & Stanbury, "is a good example of how the practicality of one age becomes the stylish form of the next. It was found that, while riding through the scrub and gorse--the covert, as it were--the sleeve cuffs and hem of the jackets would abrade and tear. So this rib stitching was originally both for mending and reinforcement. The stitching then became a sort of badge of bravery: the more rows of stitches a man had, the more aggressive a rider he was thought to be."
The polo coat is one of many items in the masculine wardrobe that derive from the ancient sport brought to the West by British officers stationed in India during the nineteenth century. Among the other items, we might make note of the button-down collared shirt (buttoned down to keep the points from flapping in the face when riding fast), the polo sweater (which we call a turtleneck), the jodhpurs (named for the Maharaja of Jodhpur), chukka boots (a "chukker" is a period of play), the wide surcingle polo belt and the ubiquitous knit polo shirt (which, ironically, was made popular by a French tennis star).
And then there is that most aristo of outer coats: the double-breasted, set-in sleeve, patch-pocketed, half-belted, camel-hair polo coat. Perhaps its appeal derives from its ability to adapt to any mood, to dress up or down, and be equally at home with a chalk-striped flannel suit or a shetland sweater and chinos. Some men are even able to carry off a polo coat with evening wear, but this is a nameless grace that no method can teach.
The polo coat originally started out as a simple camel hair, blanket-like wrap coat--something players threw over their shoulders like a bathrobe while waiting to resume play. As such, it was initially called a wait coat. In the 1920s, when English polo players were first invited to matches on Long Island, the grand deshabille and swagger of these coats didn't go unnoticed, and they were soon seen on Eastern-establishment campuses. By 1930, polo coats outnumbered raccoon at the Yale-Princeton football game--a decided stamp of approval.
In case you were wondering, the camel hair doesn't come from just any old camel: only the bactrian (two-humped) camel native to central and southwest Asia will do. Its delicate underhair perfectly combines warmth, lightness and beauty with luxurious softness.
The raglan finds its origins, along with the balaclava cap and the cardigan sweater, in one of the most pointless of all modern conflicts, the Crimean War. Much of the blame for the mismanaged British campaign is laid at the feet of two principal commanding British officers, lords Raglan and Cardigan. It is one of history's greatest ironies that, after these men had been involved in so much senseless slaughter and destruction, they should be remembered only for what they wore. Huddled cold and exhausted on the inhospitably freezing battleground at Balaclava, Raglan's troops cut holes in their blankets and drew them over their heads to keep warm. Eventually, that shoulderless cape became the slanted swelled-seam, unpadded and easy-fitting shoulder style of a greatcoat bearing his name. His soldiers were probably not amused.
Today, the raglan overcoat is usually seen in both solid-hued and patterned tweed, loden cloth, cashmere or, for topcoat versions, in gabardine. Its shape is not only characterized by the natural, padless shoulder but by a capelike fullness in the body. Pockets may be either set-in slanted or patch; and collars and lapels slightly rounded (called a bal collar, which is short for "Balmacaan," an estate near Inverness, Scotland), notched or peaked. The coat comes with or without a fly front to its single-breasted cut; sleeves take cuffs, straps or button tabs.
A frequent contributor to Cigar Aficionado on the subject of fashion, G. Bruce Boyer is the author of Eminently Suitable (W.W. Norton, 1990).
From Sprezzatura to Sublime: the Duffle and the Vicuña
The duffle coat has, as they say in the music business, spread across the charts and become a crossover hit. The original term, Duffel, refers to a town of that name in Belgium, just south of Antwerp, where a heavy woolen overcoating woven in a twill weave with a thick, spongy nap has been made since the seventeenth century. Since it is both heavy and warm, and need not be made with expensive wool, it came to be used for soldiers' garments, as well as for the bags named for them. The most notable garment made from Duffel cloth was the loose, hooded coat worn by British sailors during the Second World War that Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery made famous as his standard outerwear. As war surplus, this garment (along with khaki trousers and other leftover accoutrements) became popular in the United Kingdom and abroad on college campuses during the 1950s and '60s and was known (and spelled) as the duffle coat.
Now simply called a duffle, this comfy and utilitarian single-breasted coat is enjoying a fashion resurgence, made in its original cloth as well as some finer fabric versions, and even leathers. Characterized by a straight-cut body and an attached hood, patch pockets and toggle closures of wood or horn or even leather, this isn't the sort of coat you'd want to wear with pinstripes, of course. But the English have long worn it as cozy country attire, and the Italians have made it a point of considerable style to wear this casual coat with tweedy tailoring in the studied nonchalant way (the Italian word is sprezzatura) for which they are legendary. With a tweed suit or sports jacket and odd trousers, the duffle coat is as perfectly at ease in town as it is in the country with a turtleneck sweater and corduroys.
The authentic model is unlined wool, with attached hood, patch pockets, shoulder yoke and toggle closures of wood or horn. Originally done in tan and navy blue, the color spectrum is today bounded only by imagination and one's personal sense of propriety, which is just another measure of the coat's enduring appeal.
At the complete other, shall we say ethereal, end of the coat spectrum is the vicuña overcoat. Vicuña clothing of any sort has long been unavailable, because the animals that provide the material were almost hunted to extinction by mid-century, and were saved only by their placement on the Endangered Species List. But due to a controlled breeding program designed to enlarge the Peruvian herds, the vicuña is now a "returning" species, and new techniques now allow the animals to be sheared of their pelts without harm to them. So the future looks bright both for them and for lovers of the world's most luxurious fabric.
The place to go for the world's most luxurious coat is Harrison James, in New York City. "It certainly wouldn't pay anyone to stock such a garment," says the president, Alan Katzman, "but we've made several in our custom shop. We prefer classic town styling in a coat like this, because it's something you'd want to keep for a long time. The fabric is so handsome it speaks for itself, and so simplicity in styling is a virtue." Mr. Katzman would be happy to run up one of these handsome coats for you, in either single- or double-breasted styling, with your choice of black, navy or natural vicuña, in about six weeks' time. It's priced at $35,000. It's a Wrap
Phone the following for the address of your nearest vendor of fine topcoats:
British warm: Luciano Barbera (212) 315-9500
Chesterfield coat: Bergdorf Goodman Men (212) 753-7300
Covert coat: Greenwich International (800) 435-5232
Duffle coat: Greenwich International (800) 435-5232, George G. Graham (212) 582-7750
Polo coat:Polo/Ralph Lauren (212) 318-7281
Raglan: Bergdorf Goodman Men (Mimmo Spano, custom department, 212/339-3350), Ermenegildo Zegna (212) 751-3468
Vicuña coat: Harrison James (212) 541-6870


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Following General Motors' recall of over 5,000,000 cars last month, and Toyota's recall today of over 6,000,000 more vehicles, you might just want to assume that if you are within, say, 25 miles of car at any point, something is going to get recalled. Here's what happens next.
Step One: Don't Panic
You're going to get a recall notice in the mail. It will look like this:
It looks like all the other random crap traditional mail is used for today, but don't throw it out. It's probably important, if you don't want to die the horrible death of somebody that ignored something that looks like junk mail. (This is also the death we will all encounter someday for that very mistake.)
When you open it up, you'll read a very serious-sounding letter, but basically it just tells you that the mighty industrious global conglomerate that you bought your car from screwed up royally.
Dewalt 20V Max Cordless Drill & Driver Kit
#1 Best-seller
Comes equipped with an LED which goes on when the trigger is pulled. You'll a clear view of whatever you are drilling or screwing with minimal shadows.
It will go on tell you lots more things, many of them boring, and those things will vary based on whether or not you're in a Chevy or a Honda or a Toyota or every single other vehicle on the planet that's been recalled over the past 30 days, but the takeaway is this:
- Your car is defective, somehow
- There is some sort of risk associated with this defect, which usually means there is a possibility of fire or loss of control of the vehicle or something like that
- You need to bring the car into a specific dealer for repairs
- If you can't bring the car in for the repairs right away, what you can do instead (pray, probably)
And, perhaps most importantly:
That last bit is really the important part here. As part of the Highway Safety Act of 1970 that created the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), you cannot be charged for the recall and replacement of a defective part.
So don't let the cost of dealer maintenance stop you.
Step Two: Bring Your Car Into The Dealer
Do not be afraid of this mysterious "dealer." They look like this:
It's probably where you got your car from. They don't bite, mostly, especially if they're not trying to sell you anything.
Note: the dealership pictured here is not your actual car dealer. It's just a picture that I found on the Internet. Don't go looking for this one. This is a Packard dealership. You probably don't have a Packard, and if you do, there is no more Packard to be issuing recalls. Your dealership will probably say "Chevrolet" or "Toyota" on it, or something. Plus the recall notice should tell you where you're going, anyways. I shouldn't have to tell you this. It's embarrassing. This is why we can't have nice things.
The letter you've received will tell you what day you can start bringing your car in for the recall repair, usually within 60 days of the recall notice. There will often be advice about who your closest dealer is and a phone number. Call the most convenient dealer of the brand who sold you the car (if it's a Honda, call a Honda dealer).
You're going to want to bring your car in early, because you and every other genius who decided to purchase an automobile within the past 20 years is probably going to have to bring their car in.
And no, waking up at the crack of noon to roll your car in around 2 PM does not qualify as "early." If you do that, then you'll probably be waiting in line forever and you'll probably just expire out of boredom before anything gets fixed.
That would be bad.
Find out what time your dealership service center opens for business and try to set up a time as early as possible.
There will be a line already of people.
Wait, in your car, on that line. If your car catches fire because of the recalled part, well, you've just seen the consequences of not getting your car fixed. That's called a "learning experience."
If you do manage to get your car fixed, though, you'll probably have to wait. They might have some godawful crap excuse for coffee, uncomfortable chairs, and if it's a really nice dealership, some cookies and magazines.
Eat the magazines, read the cookies. It'll help the time pass quicker.
Step Three: Go Home
Or really, go anywhere. Go to work, go to the park, go anywhere that isn't the car dealership.
Your car is now repaired, and totally, 100% defective-free, until the next recall notice which you'll probably get in a few days because that's just how life is in our times. Get used to it.
If the kind people of your local automotive dealership accost you, saying many things besides are wrong with your car, well, that's not part of the recall. That's on you, champ. You gotta figure out for yourself what kind of person you are. No government-mandated recalls are gonna replace your dirty air filter that you will then be charged $500 for no discernible reason.
And that's about it. Done.
Frequently Asked Questions!
- What do I do if the recalled part looks so bad that I'm afraid to drive the deathtrap sitting in my driveway?
Usually recalls aren't for imminent dangers, and the parts that are being recalled are statistically unlikely to break and kill you. In the unlikely event your car is really dangerous they'll tell you to stop driving it immediately. However, that's quite rare.
THAT BEING SAID, there is a serious reason you're being asked to bring your car in for repairs. Just don't drive more than is necessary, I guess. If the recalled part is really bad, like in the case of the faulty ignition switches made by GM over the last decade, the company may offer you a (relatively) defect-free loaner vehicle to assuage your fears while you wait to get your car fixed.
- Do I really really have to take the car in? What if I don't have time, or my job doesn't allow me to bring it in during regular dealership hours?
As I mentioned before, the recall notice should present you with some alternatives. If you're still confused, call the dealership mentioned in the letter. If they don't help, call the manufacturer. If you're still having trouble, contact the NHTSA.
If a seedy dealership, an unfeeling megacorporation, and a faceless government can't help you, you're probably SOL.
What if my question isn't answered here?
That's one of the glorious joys of the Kinja (TM) Blog System of Blogwire Hungary Szellemi Alkotást Hasznosító Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság. Put it in the comments, and we'll do our best.
And please, please don't let your car kill you.
Photo credits: Jason Torchinsky, NHTSA, The Boston Public Library, Steve Cadman


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Rolling Stone pulls controversial Michael Bloomberg article
Rolling Stone has removed an article about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that has drawn criticism from Colorado Republicans.
In the article, titled "Michael Bloomberg Isn't Afraid of the NRA," the former mayor says some of the state's districts are so "rural" that they may not have roads.
"In Colorado, we got a [gun control] law passed," Bloomberg tells Rolling Stone. "The NRA went after two or three state senators in a part of Colorado where I don't think there's roads. It's as far rural as you can get."
Colorado Republicans immediately seized on the remarks and criticized Bloomberg for being "out of touch."
"Pueblo is a proud city composed of proud people from all different walks of life, and, while it might be hard for a New York billionaire to comprehend, we do, in fact, have roads and running water," State Sen. George Rivera, who represents Colorado's 3rd District, said in a statement. "I promise the people of Pueblo I will never sit idly by as outsiders insult our outstanding community."
State Sen. Bernie Herpin, of Colorado's 11th, also criticized Bloomberg.
"It's no surprise that Mayor Bloomberg is so out of touch with Coloradans, but it is disgusting the lengths he is willing to go to disparage those who believe in protecting our Second Amendment rights," Herpin said, in part.
Several conservatives also hit Bloomberg on Twitter and accused him of characterizing Colorado Springs as "a roadless Third World backwater."
Melissa Bruno, the publicity director for Rolling Stone publisher Wenner Media, did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the removal of the article. We will update here if and when we hear back.
UPDATE (3:00 p.m.): Sources familiar with the incident tell us that Rolling Stone was scheduled to publish the piece on Monday, July 14, but accidentally published it early. Bloomberg press representatives alerted Rolling Stone to the mistake and it was taken down. The piece will be published again, in its entirety and without change, on Monday.
A cached version of the article can be read here.
Simon Vozick-Levinson, the Rolling Stone editor who interviewed Bloomberg, also tweeted this:
@charliespiering @Olivianuzzi Hi - the piece was briefly published a few days early by accident. It will go up on Monday as scheduled.
— SimonVozick-Levinson (@simonwilliam)
July 10, 2014
UPDATE (4:00 p.m.): Democratic Sen. Mark Udall's campaign weighs in, via James Hohmann:
"Not since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie attacked Colorado's way of life [over marijuana legalization] has an east coaster gotten us so wrong," Udall spokesman James Owens emailed. "Christie and Bloomberg should stick to what they know best: traffic jams and tiny sodas. Mayor Bloomberg is way off base about Pueblo and Colorado Springs, two of Colorado's strongest and proudest communities."


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FedEx appears to be preparing for the launch of Apple's next-generation iPhone starting on the previously rumored launch date. According to an internal notice obtained by MacRumors, the company is preparing for a "surge volume event" during September 21-24, the weekend that has been pegged for Apple to start shipping the device.
Apple tends to use FedEx as its primary shipping partner when it comes to new product launches, so a surge in shipments on the exact weekend that the iPhone is expected to ship seems more than coincidental. FedEx employees appear to be restricted from attending training or traveling during that period, ostensibly to keep them in the trucks and delivering iPhones.
Apple is holding a media event on September 12 to unveil the latest iPhone model, expected to have an updated processor, larger 4" screen, LTE compatibility, and a refreshed design.


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The realisation that enterprise IT had to manage relationships actively with the business – a hateful term – was one of the main IT organisational consensus points of the past decade.
CIOs everywhere rushed to created CIO Mini-Me's – business relationship managers acting as the interface between business units and IT. I know – I was one for several years.
In effect, these business relationship managers had three main functions.
First, as good cop: using their strong business relationships to understand current and future demand, ensuring central IT could deliver against it and shepherding projects through to successful delivery.
Secondly, as bad cop: looking out for business units trying to go solo with their own IT projects and bringing them back into line.
And finally: to be a single-butt-to-kick, or if you were lucky, a single-back-to-slap for business unit senior managers.
Old-style centralised IT
In the era of large, centralised IT functions this approach worked well. The business had no real choice about where to go for IT services. Any instances of them trying to go it alone could be brought into line relatively easily.
But what about now? In this age of bring-your-own computing, cloud and everything-as-service, how do CIOs need to evolve the relationship management role for the new reality?
Clearly, simply trying to prevent business units doing their own thing is a non-starter. The CIO and business relationship manager will simply be labelled, correctly, as SPOs – sales prevention officers. The agility that consumerisation and the cloud offer is just too good an opportunity for the business to refuse.
So what to do? I believe the business relationship manager remains relevant but the role must change. They need to be seen to be capitalising on the IT innovation happening in the business, not attempting to restrict it.
Facilitating business technology
Rather than managing an orderly funnel of business demand into central IT, they need to become facilitators of a more agile, dynamic and parallel fulfilment model.
Using their breadth of understanding of the wider business and IT community beyond, they can then create the linkages to other business units so that economies of scale are achieved and data, information and insight are shared and maximised. That way value is created not just in the business unit but across the enterprise.
Yes, the business relationship manager will still have to be bad cop on occasion, usually where security and compliance are concerned. But even then, the conversation needs to be about how the new solution can become sufficiently secure and compliant, rather than forbidding it.
In 2012, the business relationship manager role in any enterprise IT organisation remains essential. It's just that they'll spend less time managing demand into the centre and more facilitating the creation of value from a myriad different delivery partners.


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Please submit your objection by tomorrow Thursday 19th of May at the LATEST.
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Izmayil ēz˝mäēl´ [key], city (1989 pop. 93,000), extreme S Ukraine, on an arm of the Danube delta and near the Romanian border. It is a rail junction, river port, commercial center, and the naval base of the Danube fleet. Orchards and vineyards surround the city. Izmayil's industries include food and fish processing, winemaking, and the manufacture of bricks and tiles. First known in the 16th cent., the city was a Turkish fortress and capital of a Turkish sanjak. Russian forces took the city twice (1770, 1790) during the Russo-Turkish Wars of Catherine II. Recaptured by the Russians in 1809, it was ceded to them by the Treaty of Bucharest (1812). At the Congress of Paris in 1856, Izmayil was returned to Turkey; but Russia seized the city again in 1878 and held it until 1918, when Romania took it. Transferred to the USSR in 1940, it was reconquered by the Romanians the following year but restored to the USSR in 1947. Remains of the old Turkish fortress have been preserved.
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For more than a decade, San Francisco's iconic Yahoo! sign has stood tall as a symbol of the internet, through boom and bust. Now it's gone for good.
Back in November we reported that the board was going to become available for others to advertise on by the end of 2012. Now, that day has come. This picture shows the sign being dismantled, a result of Yahoo! pulling out of the advertising contract.
Currently there's no word on who will replace Yahoo! on the billboard. Regardless, a reminder of the internet's pubescent years is gone for good. How sad. [SFGate; Image: Michael Macor / The Chronicle]


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The fix is in: In this Wednesday's second issue of Marvel Comics' Siege series, an Avenger will die! But instead of surrendering to the hype and bloodlust, we thought we'd take a look at who it may be... and why.
Marvel's solicitation for the issue reads
The blockbuster Marvel event of the year goes full-blown carnage and madness as the biggest and most brutal battle in Marvel's history brings together heroes from all sides. Lines have been drawn, and an unlikely hero will save one Avenger, but they can't save them all. The Siege has begun and it claims its first victim as AN AVENGER WILL DIE!!
and if there's one thing we know, it's not to ignore advertising text in all caps. If there're two things we know, it's also that Marvel likes to mark their events with a death wherever possible: Civil War saw the death of Black Goliath - mourned by no-one - while Secret Invasion ended with the seemingly out-of-nowhere sacrifice of the Wasp. But are Marvel's event deaths limited to women and minorities? We look at the possibilities.
New Avengers
Marvel's longest-running Avengers comic may no longer live up to its title five years in, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still the book that sets the agenda for the rest of the Marvel Universe. But will that agenda include... death? Click here to find out.
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The more traditional, super-heroic Avengers team may be better suited to Marvel's upcoming Heroic Age, but will all of them get there in one piece? Click here for our guesses.
Dark Avengers
The villains of the last year in the Marvel Universe, you'd expect at least one of them to die for their part in the Dark Reign that's made Marvel's America a depressing place to be recently, but isn't the second issue of four a little early for that kind of comeuppance? Click here and find out what we think.
These aren't all the Avengers that Death could choose from, of course; there are also the Young Avengers, members of Avengers: The Initiative and even the Pet Avengers to consider... But, let's face it: If it's one of the Pet Avengers, something has gone very wrong in the Mighty Marvel Planning of Plot Twists department.
The second issue of Siege is released this Wednesday.


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Sunday, April 13, 2008
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Atlanta, Ga hosts The 27th ANNUAL RIYAADAH
In The Name of Allah, Let The Games Begin!
Al hamdulillah (All the Praise is to Allah) ! It is time to prepare for the annual Riyaadah. The Riyaadah ( Arabic for sport) is an annual event that has been facilitated by Al-Ummah under the leadership of Imam Jamil Al-Amin for the past 28 years, ever since the formation of Al-Ummah out of the Dar ul-Islam Movement. This years historic event spotlights athletic, educational, and cultural activities for Muslims who will come from all corners of North America, Insha?Allah(if Allah wills it). The Riyaadah has been held in various cities (New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Greensboro, Norfolk, Detroit, and Flint) over the past three decades. This Twenty-Sixth Riyaadah will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on the campus of the historic Morris Brown College, Insha?Allah.
The Riyaadah will begin on Friday with the congregational Jummah Prayer at the Morris Brown Gymnasium, at 1:45 p.m., Insha?Allah. Immediately after salatul jumah, we will rally in support of the imprisoned Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin,, and later that evening, we plan a concert that will serve the cultural tastes of the young Muslim attendees, Insha?Allah. The activities will be highlighted by a mixture of educational sessions featuring well-known Imams and scholars and a host of athletic events for men, women, and youth, Insha?Allah. Throughout the day you will be able to shop and browse in the Suq (marketplace) and find those hard-to-get items, Insha?Allah. Saturday evening will offer the traditional Riyaadah banquet featuring an exquisite halal menu and recognition of outstanding national and local attendees, Insha?Allah. On Sunday Insha?Allah, we will enjoy the sports finals and championship events, and the Riyaadah will culminate with a city-wide picnic in the West End Park. We invite you to help us celebrate this momentous event by coming to Atlanta for knowledge, competition, and fellowship, Insha?Allah.
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Muslim Women's Association of Pgh. presents:
2009 City Wide Muslim Graduation Recognition Program
including the Hameeda Abdullah Scholarship Award
Theme: "TBD"
Date & Time: TBD
Universal Academy of Pittsburgh
2103 Hampton Ave. (Swissvale)
Please submit names & contact info of graduates by June 12th
to be included in the program and to receive a certificate. 412-381-3723 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Honorees include those moving from: pre-school to kindergarten, kindergarten to 1st grade, elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, high school to college or trade school, GED graduates, or undergraduate to graduate school.
Graduating high school seniors are eligible to apply for the Hameeda Abdullah Scholarship Award. Please contact Maryam for further details: 412-381-3723/ email@example.com
Please find the scholarship guidelines attached.
General Letter
General Guidelines
2nd MASAJID SPRING COOKOUT 2009
Masjid Mumin, Nur uz Zamaan, & An-Nur Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
will be sponsoring a cookout at Highland Park. This event is expected
to commence at approximately 1:00pm. InshAllah,If you can please bring
a dish and a friend for the purposes of dawa. If you have any questions
regarding this event please contact Imam Tariq Ismaeli @ 412-241-1069.
Also, we are need of volunteers for that day. So, if you are a young brother
or sister (or if you know one who's) willing to dedicate some of time and energy for the sake of Allah please call Bro. Bukhari @ 412-983-2483 or Bro. Ali @ 412-277-8926. Jazaka Allahu Khaira. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Forgive All Of Us And Gather Us And Our Spouses In Jannatul Firdaws!!!
Now in Progress
Class: Islamic Studies
Location: Masjid MuMin 537 Paulson Avenue, Pgh, Pa 15206
Time: On Going/On Fridays at Maghrib
Note: This class will be open for brothers and sisters all are welcome.
On January 02th, 2008 (Wednesday)
MUSLIM SUPERHEROES "The 99"
Please Click the Link Below For the Site to view the Trailer...
On December 24th, 2007 (Wednesday)
Tijara Pittsburgh- Muslim Business Pages
The Muslim community in the Pittsburgh contributes an important proportion to the local economy by being involved in trade and business. Trade, in fact was the profession of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and hence has a special significance for the Muslim community. Today's business world is by and large dependent upon the internet facility. However, the Muslim business community in the Pittsburgh is still relatively technologically underdeveloped. While progress is being witnessed at an individual level, we as a community still lack taking advantage of our most beneficial asset our collective inertia of doing business together.
Tijara Pittsburgh is a venture that intends to bridge this gap. This website, which is still in its infancy, aims to grow into a forum for promoting networking within the Muslim community.
The intention of this site is to assist the Muslims in Pittsburgh so they can access information that is appropriate to their own cultural needs, fill trade gaps, and ultimately benefit the community.
In today's fast pace world there is a pressing need for services that will facilitate the day-to-day practice of our faith. There used to be a time, for example, when early Muslim communities struggled to locate a place for prayer. Thankfully things are now a lot easier. A website like Tijara Pittsburgh represents a positive step forward and we hope that with time it will grow into a complete and comprehensive database and listings catalogue for Muslim businesses throughout our locale.
To access the Tijara Pittsburgh website, please click below.
On November 15th, 2007 (Thursday)
Forward By Your Bro Abdullah Harouna...
Contact: Homewood cemetery
1599 S Dallas Ave,Pittsburgh PA 15217-1499
Phone: 412-421-1822 and ask for Muslim/Islamic section.
Call one of the following members of the Muslim Cemetery Association:
Afshan and Rehman Khan: 412-824-8786
Rana Khan: 412-721-0924
Safdar I. Chaudhary: 412-373-7339 (Home) 412-427-6828 (Cell)
Amin A. Arrashid: 412-243-7938
Khalid Khilji: 412-372-1441
Kadir Gunduz: 724-639-8042
Nasir Sheikh 724-836-3805
Zahida chaudhary 412-373-7339 (Home) 412-527-0139 (Cell)
Once contacted the Muslim Cemetery Association will assist in making necessary arrangements ( i.e .. funeral home, cemetery).
The contact Funeral Homes:
Spriggs & Watson Funeral Home:
Contact person: Mr Jones (cell:412-353 3363)
720 N. Lang Avenue. Pittsburgh, PA 15208
Phone: 412-243 8080
Jobe Funeral Home
Contactperson: James R Jobe, F.D. (Supervisor)
Corner of Betty and 48 South , Monroeville PA 15146
Phone: 412-856-4747
Gene H. Corl Funeral Chapel Inc.
4335 Northern Pike
Monroeville, Pennsylvania 15146
Gene H. Corl, Supervisor
Cheryll Corl Atticks, Licensed Director
James E. Atticks, Licensed Director
Phone: 412-372-2100
The family has the option of choosing any other funeral home. However. at this time, there are no formal pre-arrangements with other funeral homes to handle Muslim funerals.
Current Lot Price - $750 check written to Muslim Cemetery Association Opening and closing or grave preparation - $925 to Homewood Cemetery Graveliner-- meeting cemetery minimum requirement - $500 w holes or $550 w bottom cut out to Homewood Cemetery(this can also be purchased from any
other funeral home as long as meets basic requirements
Zahida Chaudhary
New Story
I wanted to draw your attention to a news story I heard
about recently where a man is revived from a 6 six year
coma. This man was physically assaulted and robbed 6 years prior.
He had his head beaten in and his parents were advised that he'd be
a vegetable for the rest of his life if he would survive at all. However,
in this story we can see the work of Allah, The Reviver, because the man
is provided to us as an existential ayat for all of humanity to see.
You can read more about this story by clicking on the following link
For an audio account click on the link"Mum: My boy came back"after you click the link above
News Story
Miracles Still Happen!!!
I wanted to draw your attention to a couple news stories I heard
about recently. The first is about a cat who lives in an elderly home
and whenever it sits by a patient several hours later the patient dies.
I assume that this cat can sense Malik Al Mulk coming.
You can read more about this story by clicking on the following link
The other story is about a mule who recently gave birth to its offspring. You may wonder what is odd about that. Well in listening to this story it seems to be a pretty well known fact (in equestrianism/horse info) that mules are usually sterile because of the number of chromosome it received from its parent being a horse and a donkey. This is a true rarity and dare I say a true irregularity. You can read more about this story by clicking on the following link
Both of these stories are situation which the scientists and doctors who have studied them intensely have no reasonable explanation of how this could have happened. But we as Muslim know that these are signs from our Allah (swt), Lord of All the Worlds. He (swt), allows these things with the easiest of easy. This should make us mindful about Allah (swt) and how he has the power to do as he wills, when he will, and how he wills. Also, it reminds us no matter how slow or stagnant we may think life is, we can see creation is always in motion due to Allah (swt).
In Al-Qu'ran Al-Karim, Allah (swt) says "Qun fiya Qun" (Be and it is, s2:v117, s3:v47, s6:v73, s16:v40, s19:v35, s36:v82, s40:v68) which shows how Allah(swt) brings a thing from a state of non-existence into a state of existence and vice versa from existence to non-existence.
May Allah Bless You Ekwan & I hope you have got something from these stories.
As-Salaamu Alaikum wa rahma tu-Allah wa Barakatuhu!!!
If you have comments, questions, or wish to have events added
to this post please email email@example.com
Also we are looking for volunteers for masjid functions and
projects, if you wish volunteer time or money contact
Imam Tariq @ 412-241-1069.
The Masjid thanks you for your support!!!
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The following document was subsequently born – I reached out to about 18 prominent industry bloggers, writers and industry leaders in online hospitality marketing. 6 came back…here are their thoughts on the main trends the hotel industry is likely to see this year, plus tips on how hoteliers can survive and thrive in the recession. The contributors include:
- Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Deputy Director at the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR), School of Services Management at Bournemouth University.
- Todd Lucier, creator of Tourism Keys Internet Marketing for Tourism blog, podcast and learning materials
- Patrick Landman, Hotel Revenue Management, Online Distribution and Internet Marketing Guru and the Founder of Xotels
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Why we care to know how squirrels communicate is anyone's guess, but it seems that this research is so important that a robot squirrel is being employed to live amongst the regular squirrel population. In fact, "Rocky" here (named after the cartoon character) is one of a growing legion of robo-creatures designed to study animals in their natural habitat.
Rocky is controlled using a basic computer program and it comes equipped with tiny speakers that play back animal sounds so as not to arouse suspicion amongst the other squirrels. Apparently, tests over the last few years have proven successful in predicting squirrel behavior, but why they insist on doubling back over the highway into traffic is still a mystery. [USA Today and Yahoo]


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Finally got the finished figures photographed under better lighting:
Bigger pics here and here.
They are also available on ebay if anyone is interested in giving a couple of them a home.
1, 2, 3, & 4 .
finished off the 2nd biker in between making casserole and dressing today:
And I got started on the last gang member:
Now it's time to got eat turkey.
Made good progress on the other biker tonight:
3/5 of the gang is done. (aside from the banner on this one)
A little progress on the 2008 FK-1
This project is another bunch of girls, to be sent off to the UK for the Frothers gang-fight demo at Salute '08.
I was warned off of Westwind, and sadly it was warranted- the figures aren't that great. They are OK gaming figures, but really lacking where it counts in the details, hands, and faces. But, they fit the idiom I wanted, and they'll do for demo game.
I'm doing them very quickly, but I hope someone will enjoy driving them around the board anyway.
It's finishing touches time on the last of the Gun Street Girls . . .
And a sneakpeak at what the whole batch will look like when done:
There is enough variety in the figures from this pack that I was thinking of maybe putting them up for sale in pairs, rather than all 8 together. I don't know if someone would want the whole gang or not. We shall see I guess. . .
Been another sporadic week, but I finally settled down and finished this lot this evening. That leaves me with only Ms Catsuit shown in the previous picture left to do. I guess I need to quit stalling on what color to do her togs now, and come up with something.
I think the guns might be a touch over highlighted. I like the effect over all, but I think a bit more subdued would be nice. I like the pair of pistols alright, but I think the shotgun is a bit light.
It has been a bit sporadic this week. I quit smoking the other day, and all though it has gone much better than I thought it might, it did throw off my painting concentration a bit for the first couple days. Anyway, catching back up with the rest of the gun-street-girls:
I'm still not sure what color do Ms. Bodysuit there. . . I've got another project that is going to be a lot of black leather, so I'd prefer to do something else here... Black or red are probably the standards when it
I really like the way these came out. The rest of the pack are a little more tightpants and boots and stuff.. . so I don't know if the tough style I tried to get on these will work on them . . . we'll see.
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I am trying to find more information on documentation for how to implement the following scenario without any luck.
My client is written in JavaScript and my server in .NET, and so I use the .net adapter.
A user connects with the LS server and tries to subscribe, let say to ItemA and ItemB. The ItemA subscription is allowed by default for all users, the ItemB is allowed because this user have bought a premium service for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, user must continue to receive data for ItemA and stop receive data for ItemB. The web client should not hard-refresh (preferably not even change the session) and server must not send to this session data for ItemB, even if client has not made any action (client handler has crashed)
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So, my questions are:
- How my server can stop transmit data for a table to a specific session?
- How my server can force a session to disconnect?
- What functions should I use from the .net adapter?