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It's hard for us today to imagine what life must have been like for the human race in a more primitive age. But the astonishing fact remains that there was indeed a time when a movie like When Women Had Tails could not only gain international theatrical release, but also merit a sequel. Thus was born When Women Lost Their Tails, a film which today comes to us as an archaic remnant of that ancient folk tradition known as the Italian sex comedy.
Having not seen When Women Had Tails myself, I can only give you a basic thumbnail description of its contents. It seems it told the tale of a gang of heartrendingly idiotic cavemen living together in a house built from a brontosaurus skeleton, and recounted how that group's limited world was rocked to its very core by their first encounter with female kind, represented by Austrian born bikini-buster Senta Berger. Said female also apparently came with a tail attached — though, by the time we get to When Women Lost Their Tails, that appendage seems to have become a casualty of budgetary constraints. Now, I want to make clear that my referring to these cavemen as "idiotic" is not meant to reflect any kind of prejudice against primitive man on my part. After all, some of my favorite ancestors were cavemen. It's just that, from what I saw in When Women Lost Their Tails, idiocy is the sole defining trait provided these characters by the film's script. It is also, by the way, the source of approximately 100% of WWLTT's humor.
This last bit may sound woeful –- and, well, it largely is –- but, then again, you have to admit that idiocy is funny, and, as such, it would be hard to cram a 90 minute film to bursting with moron jokes and not have some of them stick. For instance, I liked WWLTT's idea that the cavemen have the ingenuity to invent things, but not the intelligence to figure out how to use them. Thus, when one of their number devises a slingshot, he ends up casting it off as a failure because he can't work out the notion of aiming it away from his own face. We also see, at the film's opening, that the group has built a stairway to get up into their brontosaurus house, but hasn't yet figured out that they can also use it to get down. As a result, each day begins with them filing out their front door and each plunging ass-first onto the hard ground below.
Oh, and there's also a chimp who capitalizes upon this last circumstance by using the force of the cavemen's plummeting posteriors to crack open the cocoanuts he's gathered. So, yes, this is a movie whose idea of funny involves a chimpanzee jumping up and down and cackling as goofy cavemen break cocoanuts by falling on them with their butts. I will not bemoan this point, as it was, as I said, made crystal clear during the movie's very opening minutes. Kvetching about it after the fact would, I'm sure, gain me little pity. But it is certainly something that others should bear in mind when approaching this title.
Anyway, the cavemen's inability so far to invent anything useful has resulted in them having very little to do. Crippling boredom ensues, and the only thing they can think of to stave it off is to take aimless "walks" back-and-forth across their patch of land and, on occasion, be "happy", which simply involves all of them sitting down on a rock together and laughing for no reason. Breaking up the monotony further are those occasions on which they force themselves sexually upon Senta Berger's character, Filli, who the gang seems to keep on hand for the express purpose of being a sex slave and all-around menial. Now, mind you, when I say "force themselves sexually upon", I only mean that they force themselves sexually upon her in the most lighthearted and zany manner possible, as the montage that presents this practice is coyly inexplicit and accompanied by clownish music. What's the matter people? Did you forget all about the early 70s, when rape could sit alongside capering chimpanzees and ass-flattening pratfalls as an acceptable subject for softball comedy — that is, just as long as there was a knowing wink in the vicinity and the audience was chronologically adult and drunk/stoned enough?.
Shot entirely on minimalist, cartoonishly stylized interior sets, When Women Lost Their Tails has the look and feel of a skit from a 1970s television variety show — though perhaps one of those post-family-hour variety shows that prided itself on being just a bit risqué, like maybe Cher. Given this, you could be forgiven for doing a spit take upon hearing of the mid-to-high brow credentials of some of those involved behind the camera. For instance, none other than Lina Wertmuller, who contributed to the first film's screenplay, is given story credit here. Furthermore, director Pasquale Festa Campanille was not only responsible for writing the screenplay for Visconti's The Leopard, but also bagged an Oscar nomination for his writing work on The Four Days of Naples. Granted, Campanile — unlike the art house sanctified Wertmuller — was also involved in plenty of crap in his day, but if you were to infer from that that, with WWLTT, he had no ambitions beyond making a movie about dopey cavemen farting around and having sex with a balloon-titted woman, you would be mistaken. But more about that later.
Also on hand on WWLTT's creative team, though perhaps only vestigially, is Ennio Morricone, who is given credit alongside Bruno Nicolai for the original score. As Morricone was the sole composer on When Women Had Tails, my guess is that this means that some of his themes from the earlier film were recycled for the second, and that Nicolai was brought in to provide whatever original music was needed. In any case, the end result is classic "hey, look-a mama, I'm-a a cheerfully sexist Italian movie from-a the early 70s" easy listening madness, basically boiling down to lots of wordless pop chorale work involving a mixed gender chorus ebulliently chirping out "Babba-dabba-dops", "Doop-dibbity-dips", and, of course, that old chestnut "Bap-Baya-badaya-bap". So spritely is it, in fact, that it's enough to waft one away on the power of its own buoyant dopiness, and in the process distract from what a truly bleak and cynical film When Women Lost Their Tails turns out to be at its core.
As it opens, When Women Lost Their Tails seems to find it's heroine, Senta Berger's Filli, on the cusp of an epiphany. It's not so much that's she's becoming outraged at her circumstances, but simply that, more and more, she's finding herself wistfully imagining a world in which romance might involve more than being raped on a regular basis by cavemen. As for those cavemen, life pretty much goes on as usual; with Filli on hand to do all of the actually productive labor, the men's days are consumed with ever escalating demonstrations of their jaw-slackening stupidity, from playing misguided, backward games of "slap hands" to absent-mindedly urinating on their own doorstep.
And let's meet these cavemen, shall we? And, in doing so, let me say that, although I wrote earlier that idiocy is these characters' only defining characteristic, in the strictest sense that is not entirely accurate. For example, Grr is not just an idiot, but a grouchy idiot, just as Put (Lino Toffolo) is a tiny idiot and Uto (Francesco Mule) is a larger, red-haired and more monosyllabic idiot. Most curious out of all of these characters is Maluc (Renzo Montagnani), who is played as a broad gay stereotype, complete with limp-wristed mincing, fur-lined two-piece caveman togs and an affinity for quite literal pansy picking. This, of course, means that he is a broad gay stereotype circa 1972, though he also conforms to more modern gay typecasting in that he is also the female lead's best friend and confidante, while being held at somewhat of a remove by the rest of the group. This characterization raises all kinds of troubling questions, due to the fact that, in the universe of When Women Lost Their Tails, the male characters seem to have only just recently discovered heterosexuality. Given that, combined with the other cavemen's obvious perception of Maluc as being somehow "other" and the abundance of free time on these guys' hands, you might wonder just how this crew had been employing their man parts in the days before Filli's arrival. In any case, suffice it to say that, as the apparent inventor of gayness — and camp –- Maluc's life in the prehistoric wasteland is a lonely one indeed.
By the way, the gang's default alpha caveman, Grr, is played by Frank Wolff, a San Francisco-born American actor who, during the 1960s, appeared in countless Italian genre pictures, often in bad guy roles, and who also made early appearances in a couple of Roger Corman films. Like a lot of hardworking actors on the European circuit of the day, his work spanned a number of the era's popular genres, from Eurospy films to Spaghetti Westerns, and included appearances in classics like The Great Silence and Once Upon a Time in the West. Sadly, When Women Lost Their Tails would be his last film, as, by the time filming on it was completed, he had committed suicide in a Rome hotel room. Unfortunately, due to its overall broadness, the film doesn't offer much of an opportunity to assess Wolff's skills as an actor, though he certainly does a good job within the limited parameters of his role. Making a living as a supporting player in these types of film couldn't have been easy, and I imagine that the struggle to maintain any kind of standard of quality while keeping food on the table must have involved not a few severe body blows to the self image. So, with that in mind, I'm going to resist the temptation to project whatever feelings I might have had had I been burdened with playing Grr in When Women Lost Their Tails onto Wolff, and instead assume that whatever problems lead to him taking his own life were both varied and cumulative in nature.
Anyway, given the set-up, one might expect When Women Lost Their Tails to play out primarily as a tale of Filli's search for true love beyond the narrow confines of the cavemen's self contained little idiot world. It turns out, however, that the film has something very different on its mind. In fact, so different is its agenda that, once she has been introduced, we actually lose sight of Filli for large swaths of the film, despite the fact that Senta Berger's bikini clad tumescence was one of the movie's primary marketing points. (In fact, the U.S. one sheets for both the film and its prequel were comprised entirely of a single image of Berger in all her pneumatic, fur-clad glory.)
What WWLTT really has on its mind is revealed with the introduction of an interloper in the cavemen's world, the fast talking prehistoric flimflam artist Ham, played by Lando Buzzanca. The trouble starts in earnest when Ham offers Grr a small stone which he refers to as a "cent" in exchange for a piglet Grr has caught. The cent, Ham tells Grr, is worth ten buffalo. For once exhibiting some practical sense, Grr excepts the cent, but then immediately asks ham for ten buffalo in exchange. Ham then explains that it doesn't work that way. Once Grr has excepted the notion of the cent's value and returned to the others with it, in effect introducing the ideas of commerce and private ownership into their little nook, things go rapidly downhill from there. Soon the group are at each other's throats, with each man trying to claim ownership over everything in sight for the purpose of increasing his personal wealth, and displaying a covetousness that ultimately leads to the formerly communal dinosaur house having to be divided into five individual units and supplied with doors to protect the residents' respective stashes.
So yes, quite surprisingly, When Women Lost Their Tails turns out to be — not just a movie about tits, funny animals, and Shemp-like Cro-Magnons — but also a pointed critique of capitalism, as well as perhaps a retelling of the story of man's fall — albeit one in which the "paradise" lost is one in which men live in a state of staggering boredom and perpetual self-harming stupidity, and women one of endless toil relieved only by frequently recurring sexual assault. Toward the former end, the film goes about its business in just about the most bluntly didactic manner possible, even relying on sloganeering title cards ("Private property is the mother of suspicion", "When money is involved, all men are perfectly unequal") to hammer its points home.
Once having spent a good deal of time chronicling the hapless cavemen's maiden voyage on the old "work, consume, be silent, die" express, WWLTT takes enough of a breather to remember that Senta Berger is the nominal star of the film and consequently brings her back into the action. Only now Berger's Filli, rather than just being eye candy, is also part of the lesson plan. And so we get an episode in which Ham offers to "buy" a few minutes of her time, not from her, of course, but from the men. It turns out that Filli has no quarrel with this arrangement, as she is eager to sample something other than the usual "wham bam, thank you caveman" that's she's become used to. And Ham does not disappoint, wowing her with such newfangled human discoveries as foreplay and pillow talk in the course of his brief visit. Of course, this lead Filli to think that she has found true love. But, sadly, in the world that WWLTT is painting, Ham's lovemaking skills are clearly born of salesmanship rather than tenderness.
From here, despite there being no let up in WWLTT's surface level breeziness, the ferocity of the allegory only intensifies. Ham, now having clearly made the group slaves both to his superior wealth and the promise of increased earnings, puts them to work building a purposeless prehistoric housing development — which he has dubbed "Eden Gardens" — on the land surrounding their home. In the course of this toil, little Put suffers a series of catastrophic (but funny!) accidents, steadily decreasing, according to Ham, his labor value with every limb lost. Finally it gets to the point where Ham insists on paying Put based on the weight of his disembodied head, which, with everything else having been gradually lopped off, is all that's left of him. Later, a depressed Maluc pays Grr to push him off of a cliff, and Grr returns to the group giddy with the knowledge that even the act of killing a man can turn a profit.
Which, now that I think of it, makes me reconsider what I said earlier about Frank Wolff's suicide. Considering that this was the fictional world in which he was immersed at the time, I really think I can understand what drove him to it. I really do.
Regardless of whether or not the viewer is in line with When Women Lost Their Tails' political viewpoint, I think he or she has to agree that it is a much more interesting film with it than it would be without. The cinematic landscape is littered with knuckleheaded sex farces set against a broadly satirical historical backdrop – with not an inconsiderable number set in the Stone Age among them. But, with When Women Lost Their Tails, what we get is like the lyrics of a Gang of Four song acted out within the context of a slightly naughty fanfic version of The Flintstones. If nothing else, it certainly makes for unique viewing, and offers enough in terms of audacity alone to keep one watching until the end. What makes the journey a bit rougher, though, is the queasy disconnect between the film's superficial layer of lounge-pop marinated goofiness and the unutterably bleak take on the human condition that festers at its core. With its vision of a human race whose existence boils down to either blinding, almost protozoan idiocy on the one hand or vicious, self-devouring avarice and cynicism on the other — with nothing in the middle — it's enough to make even the most misanthropic giallo seem like a Frank Capra joint by comparison, ebullient Bruno Nicolai score notwithstanding.
And, indeed, by the end of When Women Lost Their Tails, our crew of cave dwellers has made the journey all the way from not-so-blissful ignorance to bitter irony. Ham ends up selling Filli to a pimp, who, as he carts her off, thrills her with tales of what her new life as a "liberated woman" will be like, when she will be "free" to work and earn in the exciting new field called prostitution. And as the credits are about to roll, one of the cavemen takes a brief pause from his backbreaking toil to offer this parting shot:
"Now we've got to work all the time. We're too tired to get it up, and the women eat all of the food we find."
To which another chimes in:
"What kind of lousy life is this? If we never get laid, we never eat, and we never sleep, what the hell are we working our asses off for?"
Bobba-dobba-dip! Dooby-dibba-dip! Bap-bayaaaaa!
Release Year: 1972 | Country: Italy | Starring: Senta Berger, Frank Wolff, Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Francesco Mule, Lino Toffolo, Aldo Puglisi, Mario Adorf, Eiammetta Baralla | Screenplay: Marcello Coscia, Jaja Fiastri, Ottavio Jemma, Lina Wertmuller | Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Cinematographer: Silvano Ippoliti | Music: Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai | Original Title: Quando Le Donne Persero La Coda


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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Vintage Thingie Thursday: Casa Neverlandia - Austin, Texas
If you have a love for vintage things, well....you have come to the right place. We have a really good time each and every week!!!
If you are new to this party, please take the time to read and follow the instructions for participating in Vintage Thingies Thursday, click HERE. I try and keep things fairly simple, so please make sure you follow the instructions. Please only ONE link per week. Lastly, if you link in, LINK back to my blog, so everyone can see all of the vintage goodies on display that day. If you don't link back here, they won't know who to visit......thanks so much.
I have mentioned here before that my daughter lives in Austin, Texas and it is always fun to go and visit and experience all the "Austin" things....weird and all. In fact, the more out of the norm, the better!
Last week, I told you about a shop and the food trucks on South Congress and how much we enjoy them. Another aspect I love about that part of Austin are the homes just off of South Congress. They are a mix of eclectic homes, some of them in their original condition, but many have been redone and are most amazing in their decor and style. I always wonder about the people who live inside those houses, always want their story or a part of their story. It holds a magical sort of allure for me and I tell my family all the time, that if I lived in Austin, I'd want to live here in this area. If I could not do that, there is one other area I really love that has the same feel. My daughter just laughs and rolls her eyes......not her style at all!
Last month, when we were in Austin, we were getting ready to head home and had to walk through some of these streets in the neighborhoods to get to where we parked our car....ummmm.....yes, the parking could be a little better, as we had to walk several blocks......but that turned out to be a wonderful thing.
We happened by this house once we found the car and made a wrong turn. Turns out to be the right turn...would you just look at this house...I was mesmerized and forced, yes forced my husband to stop. And would you believe this time, there was a story that went with this mystical house. Oh. Joy.
The house has this sign out front and was fantastic information about the owners and the house. (Click the photo to read this information.) It is hard to imagine the house being purchased for 13K in 1979.
How many times do you see a fantastic home and wonder about it and the occupants? I was really interested in reading this sign, but was more fascinated with what I was looking at. The house is magnificent, everywhere you look is something fantastic and unique that was used in the homes decor.
The colors, the glass, the siding, the paint, the landscaping, the front door, every where you looked was a fantastic array of beauty on this one house.
I wanted to go up and ring the door bell, just to get a closer look. My husband kept telling me and my daughter to get in the car before someone called the police. Reluctantly, we got in the car....
....but not until I thought once more about walking up these steps for a closer look. The house is spectacular nestled in the trees of this eclectic neighborhood.
I know this weeks Vintage Thingie is a bit different, but I wanted to show you how fantastic homes can be in this town that would like to stay weird. If I am not careful and keep out of these neighborhoods, I just might find myself trying to relocate there. I fear I'd fit right in and be right at home.
Happy Vintage Thingie Thursday!!! .....and I guess I should say, ALL of Austin is not like this..it is rather normal and sorta boring....I prefer the more wilder side of things that this town has to offer. *wink * wink !!
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We always seem to fly by Austin on the way to San Antonio. Sometime we need to stop I hear it is a fun town!ReplyDelete
My neace lives in Dallas and she says that whenever I come to visit her, she's got to take me to beautiful Austin! Thank you for hosting this great party, the first in 2013! Happy new year too!ReplyDelete
What a fabulous house! The only time I've been to Texas is several times changing planes at Dallas/FW airport! So anything you share is a wonderful new thing!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for hosting! Have a great week...hugs, PennyReplyDelete
Such a beautiful surprise to see the Casa Neverlandia. A visual treat. Thanks for hosting, glad I could join in this week.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for posting about this truly magnificent home!! I loved it!! And I so enjoyed reading about it too!! You would have had to pry me away from those stairs!! I would have loved to see the inside!!
Thanks for hosting and THANKS for this wonderful post filled with so much whimsy and JOY!!
Those steps are amazing! Thanks for hosting the party. I'm glad I finally have something to post.ReplyDelete
Wowza on the house. This is my 1st time back. I'm re-learning the ropes. Hope you are still enjoying your bunny prize.ReplyDelete
That house IS amazing! I love places like that which have a story! Thanks for the opportunity to link up!ReplyDelete
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I would love to get a closer look at that house also. I'll walk up those steps with you!!ReplyDelete
hugs, Linda
Amazing! Its good to get lost sometimes, what an amazing house you would have missed. Joining in this week, have to come back to peek at the links after work later. Thanks, Pam :)ReplyDelete
ok you are the only person who has ever called austin boring.. ever. in the history of the world.... lolReplyDelete
at times we need magic in our lives, to enliven things up, this kind of things like beautiful houses and such makes up for it. thanks for the magical post.ReplyDelete
What a fun house Suzanne! We've got a very creative one in Santa Monica - the owners put mosaic tiles all over. So much fun to see.ReplyDelete
Happy VTT!
I would have been right there with you and your daughter, wanting to go up the steps and knock on the door. What an amazing house! Thanks for sharing the photos of it.ReplyDelete
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That's right, y'all. We're back at it, and this time we've received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects.
Here are some iPhone OS 4.0 features, according to our guy:
• There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone)
• "A few new ways" to run applications in the background - multitasking.
• Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven't had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.
• The update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will "put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers" more than any other phone to date. Everyone is "really excited."
• The last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.
That's all we have for now! Who can't wait for next Wednesday?
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The Rolling Stones are postponing their latest tour so Mick Jagger can receive medical treatment.
The Stones made the announcment Saturday.
The band did not say for what Jagger needs treatment, only that he'll make a complete recovery.
I'm so sorry to all our fans in America & Canada with tickets. I really hate letting you down like this.
I'm devastated for having to postpone the tour but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as I can. Once again, huge apologies to everyone.
— Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) March 30, 2019
Jagger, who is 75, tweeted he's "devastated" about the postponement but he's working very hard to get back on stage. The tour was supposed to begin April 20 in Miami.
Ticket holders should hold onto their tickets because they will be good for the rescheduled dates, which have yet to be announced.
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Celebrate 'Beyond Me' Living During the Holidays
- Kathi Macias Author, Beyond Me
- 2008 7 Nov
Editor's Note: This article is adapted from Beyond Me: Living a You-First Life in a Me-First World by Kathi Macias. To purchase Beyond Me, click here.
Even in the Southern California desert where we live, there is a chill in the air now—and after a long, hot summer, it's a welcome one! But as we watch for an occasional red or yellow leaf (there aren't many out here in cactus country!), our thoughts inevitably turn toward Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Of course, with stores beginning to sell tinsel and lights in August, it's a natural progression to move from grilling hot dogs to planning a turkey dinner. And who doesn't love the holiday season? As the year draws to a close, it seems an appropriate way to bid it farewell by celebrating a day of Thanksgiving to God, followed by the Christmas celebration of the greatest gift ever given. In addition, it's the perfect time to draw together with family and friends and simply enjoy one another's company by sharing meaningful activities.
But do we? In the midst of an increasingly materialistic, secular, and busy culture, are we able to maintain a grateful attitude as we focus on the Source of all our blessings? Or do we give in to the clamoring voices and grasping hands that repeatedly chant to us in the words of an oft-aired commercial: "I want it all—and I want it now"?
A few years ago I took Brittney, one of my granddaughters who was a pre-teen then, on our annual back-to-school shopping trip. We no sooner walked through the department store doors than she made a beeline for the cosmetic counter, where she spotted a new line of cosmetics designed especially for her age group and tantalizingly named "It's About Me."
I was stunned. Could the world's siren call to serve self (and fork over the cash in the process) be any more blatant? And how were we as Christians supposed to combat this anti-biblical message with that of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, epitomized by serving others?
The more I considered the problem, the more I realized it wasn't just children and young people who were taken in by this all-about-me message. Adults too—and yes, even many in the church—were also caught up in it.
Taking it to the next step, I became aware of the fact that it isn't simply in the amassing of "things" that our self-serving attitude threatens to overwhelm our Christian witness; this is an ongoing problem in nearly every area of our lives. Out of that realization came my most recent book, Beyond Me: Living a You-First Life in a Me-First World. However, I've learned that it's often easier to write a book about a God-given revelation than it is to live it out. And nowhere is that more apparent than within our own immediate families.
I remember one December in particular when I reflected on the year that was nearly at an end and sought God for direction in the one about to begin. I was surprised to sense these seven words in my heart: "Somebody has to set up the chairs."
What was that supposed to mean? Quite obviously it was a call to serve others, and I understood that much—but wasn't I already doing that? What else could God possibly have in mind?
A couple of days later, it all came into focus. My almost-ninety-year-old mother lives with us, and I am her primary caretaker. I also work fulltime (often more than forty hours a week) as a writer, editor, and public speaker, making for a full and often exhausting schedule, with little time left over for myself. As I wrestled with my ongoing juggling act, needing to run an errand for my mom and therefore interrupting my already too full work schedule, I heard myself grumbling—and I didn't like the sound of it one bit.
"Forgive me, Lord," I whispered.
No sooner were the words out of my mouth than the reminder came to my heart: "Somebody has to set up the chairs."
So that was it! God was calling me to servanthood right there in my own home, where it is often most difficult to maintain a servant's heart and where the "all-about-me" attitude threatens to surface more often than many of us would like to admit.
I realized that with an effort of my will, I could change my actions, but only God could change my heart. It was the perfect partnership, and one I continue to practice each day of my life, reminding myself that "somebody has to set up the chairs" and that God will not call me to serve without also equipping me to do so.
What a wonderful starting place to keep us focused on what really matters in this holiday season—and throughout the year! And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could employ that "beyond me," "you-first," "setting-up-the-chairs" concept to help those closest to us? To move past that "all-about-me," self-serving attitude of the world and practically and purposefully follow after Jesus on the road to humble servanthood?
I believe we can do just that. In addition to modeling that sort of God-honoring lifestyle through our own actions and attitudes, why not join our children (or grandchildren) in planning some hands-on holiday activities that will help them grow beyond self to begin to fulfill the limitless potential that is found only in serving God and others?
First, why not take advantage of the many opportunities to serve those less fortunate in our communities? Rescue missions and soup kitchens abound, often to overflowing, with those in need of a hot meal, a warm blanket, or a kind word. Could there be a better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than to serve a holiday meal to those who might otherwise not have one?
What about ministries within our own churches, many of them geared to collect, wrap, and then distribute gifts to those little ones with whom Jesus so loved to spend His time on earth?
Hospitals and elder-care homes provide another avenue of ministry to those in need. Nothing puts a smile on the face or a song in the heart quicker than a group of Christmas carolers bearing plates of homemade cookies and fudge.
Where or how we set up the chairs isn't nearly as important as doing so with a humble and grateful heart, one that has learned to reject the world's message that "it's all about me" and to adopt the message of a true disciple that "it's all about loving Him, and serving others."
May you and your family enjoy "beyond me" living—throughout this holiday season, and always!
Kathi Macias, popular speaker and prolific author, is an Angel-award winning writer who has published twenty-six books and hundreds of articles. Whether keyboarding her latest book, keynoting a conference, or riding on the back of her husband's Harley, Kathi "Easy Writer" Macias is a lady on a mission to communicate God's vision. Her insightful words—filled with passion, humor, and soul nourishment—refresh audiences from all walks of life, and her Spanish devotionals, "Desde el Corazon del Padre," (with English translations) can be found on Crosswalk.com each Monday. Her latest book, BEYOND ME: LIVING A YOU-FIRST LIFE IN A ME-FIRST WORLD, named "top pick" in the Christian Living category by Christian Retailing magazine, was released July 1, 2008, from New Hope Publishers. It's available at bookstores nationwide, as well as at online bookstores and on Kathi's website, www.kathimacias.com.


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EMF and XML - An Introduction
In this Wiki document, i have tried to document the steps involved in Generating Ecore using XML Schema, loading an XML File into an Ecore Model etc.
- Convert a given XSD into Ecore
- Load an XML into the generated Ecore
- Display the loaded Model using a TreeViewer
For this code to execute, you need to include the following plugins as dependencies
- org.eclipse.emf.ecore
- org.eclipse.xsd
- org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi
- org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui
Convert a XSD into Ecore
The following code snippet would enable you to load an existing XSD and convert it into an Ecore.
XSDEcoreBuilder xsdEcoreBuilder = new XSDEcoreBuilder(); ResourceSet resourceSet = new ResourceSetImpl(); Collection eCorePackages = xsdEcoreBuilder.generate(URI.createFileURI("D:/model/example.xsd"));
Note: Running this code could get you a nullPointerException or schemaFileNotFoundException. This is due to a ever popular Crimsom DOM bug. Please refer to the following link to find a workaround to this problem.Manifestation of Crimsom DOM Bug
For these loaded Ecores to be available, we need to register them to the global package registry.
for (Iterator iter = eCorePackages.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { EPackage element = (EPackage) iter.next(); EPackage.Registry.INSTANCE.put(element.getNsURI(), element); }
Load an XML into the Ecore
HashMap options = new HashMap(); options.put(XMLResource.OPTION_EXTENDED_META_DATA, Boolean.TRUE); Resource resource = resourceSet.createResource(URI.createFileURI("D:/model/example.xml")); resource.load(options);
Note: The XML File should contain xsi:schemaLocation. EMF provides this inbuild feature wherein if the XML knows its schema, emf would build the model from the Schema and load the XML without having to perform Step 1.Convert XSD into Schema.
If a Schema name is not provided, XML would be loaded with a default Schema provided by EMF which would consider all the nodes as xsd:anyType.
Since some of the XML Schema specific contructs are not represented directly in Ecore. they are represented as Ecore Annotations. These annotations are termed as ExtendedMetaData and to query them we need to use the ExtendedMetaData APIs. Therefore to load an XML which contains the schemaLocation we need to provide the loading option XMLResource.OPTION_EXTENDED_META_DATA as true as shown in the code above.
Display using a TreeViewer
List factories = new ArrayList(); factories.add(new ResourceItemProviderAdapterFactory()); factories.add(new ReflectiveItemProviderAdapterFactory()); ComposedAdapterFactory adapterFactory = new ComposedAdapterFactory(); TreeViewer tViewer = new TreeViewer(parent); tViewer.setContentProvider(new AdapterFactoryContentProvider(adapterFactory); tViewer.setLabelProvider(new AdapterFactoryContentProvider(adapterFactory); tViewer.setInput(resourceSet);
Further Reading
Discover the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Its Dynamic Capabilities
Newsgroup Msg11109
Binding XML to Java
--Annamalai.chockalingam.gmail.com 18:06, 10 February 2007 (EST)


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Egypt Fires Its Most Famous Government Huckster
Yesterday, the Egyptian government fired the man widely credited with discovering long lost treasures of the ancient Egyptian world that had already been discovered by real archaeologists, when they let Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass go. Poor guy.
But for now, at least, Hawass is still being paid some $200,000 a year by the National Geographic Society to grant them access to the sites in Egypt, while an estimated 25 percent of young people there remain unemployed. An Egyptian archaeologist, Nora Shalaby, summed up Hawass' position of power under former President Hosni Mubarak, telling the AP, "He acted as if he owned Egypt's antiquities, and not that they belonged to the people of Egypt." It's safe to say that he won't be missed by many.


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The latest weapon in your war against over-eating: A wad of bubble gum. Turns out the simple act of chewing may dramatically reduce the amount of food you have to eat in order to feel full, finds new research from the Netherlands.
A team from Wageningen University and Switzerland's Nestlé Research Center subjected 26 people to one of the strangest experiments: Study participants were asked to chew—but not swallow—a piece of food for either one minute or eight minutes. While all this chewing was going on, the researchers were pumping different amounts of food directly into the participants' stomachs via a tube snaked down the nose and throat.
Thirty minutes later, each person received a meal, and the researchers recorded how much food was consumed. (And yes, remarkably, people were actually able to eat after this experience.)
The results: Those who chewed for eight minutes ate 19 percent less food than those who chewed for only one minute, regardless of how much food the person had received via nose-tube.
Here's why: Giving your food more mouth time—or what the study authors call "oral-sensory stimulation"—tricks your brain into thinking you're eating, and so helps quell hunger. "Before your body has absorbed even one macronutrient, chewing triggers physiological responses that tell it to feel full," explains study co-author Alfrun Erkner, PhD.
Don't feel like chewing your first bit of chicken cacciatore for eight minutes? Chomping on a piece of gum half-an-hour before dinner should offer the same hunger-quelling benefits, the study suggests.
Here are a few more science-backed ways to feel fuller without eating more:
* Heavier is better when it comes to dishes. Researchers from Spain and the UK served people yogurt in one of three different bowls, ranging from light to heavy. Although the yogurt and portions were the same, the study participants rated the heavy bowl's contents as more flavorful, delicious, and dense. They also felt more satisfied eating less of the yogurt, according to the study, which was published in Food Quality and Preference.
* Choose the right fork. People who ate with a small fork consumed 21 percent less food than those who ate with a large fork when dining at home, found a University of Utah study. According to the study's authors, the more bites you have to take, the more slowly you consume your food. Plus, other studies have shown that eating slowly increases feelings of fullness.
* Eat with your opposite hand. It's all too easy to overeat when you're busy chatting or watching TV. But using your opposite hand is awkward and cumbersome, and so keeps your mind on your plate, finds a study from the University of Southern California. People who ate with their opposite hand consumed less than those who ate with their dominant hand.
* Stick to small plates. A Cornell University team found that people ate 31 percent more ice cream when serving themselves in a large bowl versus a small bowl. Why? People tend to finish what's before them whether they feel full or not. If you start out with a small plate and smaller portions, you're unlikely to go back for more, even if you would have finished off a larger plate of food, says the study. (prevention.com)


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Souris, a town, is located in Kings County in the eastern portion of Prince Edward Island, E. of Souris West. Its precise location is N 46°21', W 62°15'.
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The official history of the geographic name Souris (which can be somewhat technical, we admit):
Souris (Town) was incorporated in 1910.Confirmed in Place Names of PEI, 1925 a nd 7 January 1947 on 11L/8.Changed to Souris (Souris East P.O.-B. de p.)(Town) 7 April 1949 on C. 4419.Name changed to Souris (Town) 8 December 1966 on 11L/ 8. "The reference is to mice, of which there were three plagues here between 1720 a nd 1738."- PN of PEI, 1925.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007.
The new operating system, called iOS 7, strives for a clean, simple, translucent look. Apple is redesigning all its applications and icons to conform to the new look, driven by long-time hardware design chief Jony Ive.
Apple demonstrated the new software at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. The new design direction was widely expected and will show up on iPhones, iPad and iPod Touches this fall, the company said.
The software strives for a multi-layered look, with translucent panels. On the main screen, the background image moves subtly with the movement of the phone, creating an illusion of depth. Other screens are padded out with plenty of white space.
The software has "a whole new structure that is coherent and is applied across the entire system," Ive said in a recorded presentation. "The design recedes, and in doing so, elevates your content."
While design modifications could help Apple distinguish its devices from rival phones and tablets, they risk alienating longtime users.
Microsoft's radical makeover of the Windows operating system in October was meant to give the company a stronger presence on tablet computers, but it ended up confusing many people who had become accustomed to using the old operating system on traditional desktops and laptops. Research firm IDC blamed Windows 8 for accelerating a decline in PC sales.
Among other changes, Apple's new iOS system will update apps automatically. It will store Web passwords online in Apple's syncing service, iCloud, making them available across devices. The AirDrop feature will allow sharing of big files with Apple-equipped people in the same room.
Apple took a jab at its rival, Samsung Electronics Co., which had been touting its Galaxy phones as better than iPhones because they sport near-field communication chips that allow people to share files by bumping phones together.
"No need to wander around the room bumping your phone with others," said Craig Federighi, senior vice president for software engineering.
The company also stepped up its rivalry with Google, maker of the Android software on Samsung and other phones. Apple said the Siri virtual assistant will use searches from Microsoft's Bing, Google's rival. Apple also is bringing its mapping service to desktops and laptops to compete with Google Maps and others.
iTunes Radio announced
The Cupertino, Calif., company is also launching a Pandora-like Internet radio service, iTunes Radio. It will be built into the Music app and stream music for free. There will be advertising, except for people who pay $25 a year for the iTunes Match online music storage.
Apple was a pioneer of online music sales and is still a leader in that field, but streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify have emerged as popular alternatives to buying. Pandora relies on its users being connected to the Internet at all times and plays songs at random within certain genres for free.
Last month, rival Google Inc. started an on-demand subscription music service called All Access that gives subscribers the ability to pick and choose specific songs and albums from a catalog of millions for playback on computers, tablets and smartphones in exchange for a monthly fee.
Apple updates its iOS operating system every year and doesn't charge for the updates. The new operating system will be available for the iPhone 4 and later models, and on the iPad 2 and later models, including the Mini. The launch of the new software traditionally coincides roughly with the launch of the year's new iPhone model.
Also at the conference, which runs through Friday, Apple revealed that it's switching from its more than decade-long practice of naming its Mac operating system updates after big cats. Instead, it's paying homage to the geography of its home state. Federighi says the next version of Mac OS X will be called Mavericks, after an undersea rock formation that produces big waves near Half Moon Bay, Calif.
The new operating system will extend battery life and shorten boot-up times, Federighi told the audience of software developers. The system improves support for multiple displays and imports the tab concept from Web browsers to the Finder file-organizer.
The software update will include iBooks for the first time, giving people who buy e-books from Apple a way to display them on the computer screen in addition to the iPhone and iPad. Competing e-book vendors such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble have cross-platform applications already.
There have been nine OS X versions named after big cats. The latest was Mountain Lion, released last year.
"We do not want to be the first software release in history to be delayed by a lack of cats," Federighi joked.
He said the new software will be out in the fall.
Apple also revealed a complete revamp of the Mac Pro, the boxy desktop model that's the work horse of graphics and film professionals. The new model is a black cylinder, one eighth the volume of the old box.
The current Mac Pro is the only Mac with internal hardware that can easily be modified and expanded by the user, but that possibility disappears with the new model. The company is adopting the same compact, one-piece design present in the Mac Mini and iMac.
The new Mac Pro will be the first Mac to be assembled in the U.S. in many years. CEO Tim Cook promised last year that the company would start a production line in the U.S., but didn't say where. Apple said the new computer will launch later this year.


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Deloitte's Talent in Banking Survey 2014: Banks as a career choice rank 4th in the UAE has been saved
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Deloitte's Talent in Banking Survey 2014: Banks as a career choice rank 4th in the UAE
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Deloitte announces admission of 45 new partners, principals and directors in the Middle East
26 November 2014 - His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al-Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development spoke in his keynote speech at the 2014 annual Deloitte regional partners' meeting held in Abu Dhabi, about the lessons learned from the past of the UAE as it faces the future, and the fundamental investments made in education, technology, and infrastructure.
His Excellency added, "We have welcomed talented and ambitious people from all over the world. We have become a paradise for industrious entrepreneurs. In a territory famed for fossil fuels, we have made a massive commitment to reducing our carbon footprint." He also remarked on the continued efforts by the government of the UAE to push the national economy to higher levels, and added that in this, "we have relied on the sound advice of accountants and auditors and are the better for it."
His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan addressed a gathering of global and regional partners from Deloitte, the largest professional services firm in the world, and said that the "UAE and Deloitte share a respect for certain universal virtues, brightly characterizing the past and emphatically illuminating the future. No other profession is more vital to the local and global economies than yours. Your integrity, transparency, and accountability are central to the sound functioning of our world."
The Deloitte network of member firms celebrated record global revenues of US$34.2 billion in fiscal year 2014 as well as continued double digit growth in the Middle East, where over 700 people were hired and 45 new partners, principals and directors were admitted this year to better serve the Middle East markets and their clients.
Omar Fahoum, chairman and chief executive of Deloitte Middle East said: "Our firm was established in the Middle East in 1926 as the first Arab accountancy firm at that time. We opened our first office in the UAE in 1964 and since then have not only witnessed but also contributed our professional expertise to the remarkable transformation of the United Arab Emirates which His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan just called "one of the world's most successful mergers", a position our Deloitte M&A experts fully endorse".
Mutasem Dajani, Deloitte UAE regional managing partner added, "As the UAE transformed itself to a major player in world economies so have we also worked on transforming our own firm from offering mainly only Audit & Assurance services to a full multi-disciplinary professional services organization with experienced audit, tax, risk, corporate finance and consulting professionals from the UAE, the Middle East and over 65 countries, who deliver expert services to our public and private sector clients in the UAE and the region and who contribute to our communities".
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Deloitte provides audit & assurance, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has in the region of 200,000 professionals, all committed to becoming the standard of excellence.
Deloitte's professionals are unified by a collaborative culture that fosters integrity, outstanding value to markets and clients, commitment to each other, and strength from cultural diversity. They enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging experiences, and enriching career opportunities. Deloitte's professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities.
About Deloitte & Touche (M.E.):
Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) and is the first Arab professional services firm established in the Middle East region with uninterrupted presence since 1926.
Deloitte is among the region's leading professional services firms, providing audit & assurance, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through 26 offices in 15 countries with around 3,000 partners, directors and staff. It is a Tier 1 Tax advisor in the GCC region since 2010 (according to the International Tax Review World Tax Rankings). It has received numerous awards in the last few years which include Best Employer in the Middle East, best consulting firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).


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Misti, El ĕl mē´stē [key], dormant volcano, c.19,150 ft (5,840 m) high, in the Cordillera Occidental, S Peru, rising over the city of Arequipa. El Misti is flanked by two other volcanos—on the NW by Chachani, 19,960 ft (6,083 m) high, and on the SE by Pichu Pichu, 18,400 ft (5,608 m) high. El Misti, with its perfect snowcapped cone, apparently achieved significance in the Inca religion, and has often figured in Peruvian legends and poetry.
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professional responsibility: an overview
The legal profession has existed for over two thousand years. From the Greek city-states and the Roman Empire to present day United States, legal advocates have played a vital and active role in the formulation and administration of laws. Because of their role in society and their close involvement in the administration of law, lawyers are subject to special standards, regulation, and liability. Sometimes called legal ethics, sometimes professional responsibility, the topic is perhaps most comprehensively described as the law governing lawyers.
Since lawyers are admitted to practice by states this topic is largely one of state law. However, as federal courts can and do set their own practice rules and federal agencies do as well, the topic has a federal component, too.
End-of-life notice: American Legal Ethics Library
As of March 1, 2013, the Legal Information Institute is no longer maintaining the information in the American Legal Ethics Library. It is no longer possible for us to maintain it at a level of completeness and accuracy given its staffing needs. It is very possible that we will revive it at a future time. At this point, it is in need of a complete technological renovation and reworking of the "correspondent firm" model which successfully sustained it for many years.
Many people have contributed time and effort to the project over the years, and we would like to thank them. In particular, Roger Cramton and Peter Martin not only conceived ALEL but gave much of their own labor to it. We are also grateful to Brad Wendel for his editorial contributions, to Brian Toohey and all at Jones Day for their efforts, and to all of our correspondents and contributors. Thank you.
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Transactions: Who, What and Where1
January 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I looked into sys.dm_exec_requests I could see all of the blocked requests, but could not find a request with a session_id matching the blocking_session_id. The session showed up in sys.dm_exec_sessions but it was "sleeping" and hadn't performed a request in hours. So what was going on?
Well unfortunately sys.dm_exec_requests only pulls currently executing requests. A session that has an open transaction but isn't actively doing anything isn't considered an "executing" request and won't show up in sys.dm_exec_requests. In order to get a list of sessions with an open transaction you can run a query off sys.dm_tran_session_transactions or if you are running SQL 2012 or higher sys.dm_exec_sessions has a new column open_transaction_count. However we need do something about our blocking transaction and as I see it we have a couple of options.
Easiest is to find and talk to the user. Sys.dm_exec_sessions has the login_name, nt_domain, nt_user_name to help you identify the user, but if they are using a generic SQL login then that won't help much. Next we can look at host_name to find the users machine and program_name to tell what program they are connecting from. (Frequently it helps to tell the user what program is the problem if they are using Excel, Access, and SSMS to connect to the instance.) And if you want to you can look at sys.dm_exec_connections and get the IP(client_net_address) of the connecting machine.
But let's say that it's the middle of the night and now we need to decide if we are going to kill the process, wake up the user (if we have their number), or just let it run till morning. In order to make that decision it would help to know what exactly they are doing. If we had a row in sys.dm_exec_requests we could use sys.dm_exec_sql_text to get the actual query they are running. But as we said before there is no row in sys.dm_exec_requests. So now we again have a couple of options. Simplest is to look at sys.dm_exec_connections and use the most_recent_sql_handle column with sys.dm_exec_sql_text to get the last query run by the connection. Unfortunately it does not give us all of the SQL statements within the transaction. It only returns the set of statements in the last batch executed within the transaction. I'll post a proof soon. So that may not give us enough information. If so we can go the somewhat more complicated route and take a look at the locks held by the session.
We can tie sys.dm_exec_sessions to sys.dm_tran_session_transactions to get a list of the transactions tied to the session.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions sessions JOIN sys.dm_tran_session_transactions trans ON sessions.session_id = trans.session_id
On the other hand sys.dm_tran_locks has session_id also and we can get a lot of additional information that will be very helpful.
SELECT request_session_id AS session_id, request_owner_id AS transaction_id, DB_NAME(resource_database_id) AS DatabaseName, OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(resource_associated_entity_id, resource_database_id) AS SchemaName, OBJECT_NAME(resource_associated_entity_id, resource_database_id) AS ObjectName, request_mode, request_type, request_status, COUNT_BIG(1) AS lock_count FROM sys.dm_tran_locks WHERE resource_type = 'OBJECT' GROUP BY request_session_id, request_owner_id, resource_database_id, resource_associated_entity_id, request_mode, request_type, request_status
I did run into a bit of a problem here. Sometimes (and I'm not sure when or why) I got blocked when trying to use OBJECT_NAME and OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME in this query. You could join to sys.objects and sys.schemas instead but only one database at a time. If you want to use this query as it stands you can try running it, and if it gets blocked kill it. Then query for just the resource_database_id to figure out which database you need, then go there and join to sys.objects and sys.schemas. Cumbersome but I don't know a better way I'm afraid.
Now I'm only looking at object locks in this query but there are a number of other types that you may want to look at (DATABASE, FILE, PAGE etc). In general I've found the OBJECT locks to be the most useful though. By combining object_name, request_mode, request_type and request_status we can get a fairly good idea of what the individual is doing. If they are only doing a series of selects there is no problem you should be fairly safe in killing the connection. If they are doing updates, inserts, deletes etc you can take the # of locks, your knowledge of the tables and their use and make an informed decision.
Transactions are a big subject which I'm going to explore over several posts. I am by no means going to cover the subject exhaustively but if you have any subjects you would like me to cover or think I've missed something feel free to comment or email me.
- Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction.
- Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.
- Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
- Transactions: What are they?
- Transactions: Creating a single restore point across multiple databases.
- Transactions: What commands aren't allowed.
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The alternative real-time communication platform App.net has been averaging roughly 30 new users a day for the month of September. Today, it gained over 1,000 new users on the back of lowered pricing and the release of the instantly popular new Netbot client for iOS.
The introduction of Netbot, by well-loved development studio Tapbots, has undeniably boosted the profile of App.net and the willingness of users to adopt the for-pay service as an additional channel of communication. Comments on the service from those who joined today, of which there were many, commonly hinged around the fact that a mobile client was an absolute must for them before they would adopt any new service.
"For the first time I can actually picture @adn becoming my primary social network if Twitter pulls the plug on Tweetbot at some point," said Jeremy Olson of development house Tapity.
When I conducted an informal poll, the responses varied. Some users, like Shawn King, said that they were not important, because they used mostly the desktop versions of the apps and others pointed to Alpha.app.net, the official alpha client which already worked on the web. Still others pointed to the recent price drop (you can see those numbers reflected as of October 1st). But the majority noted that a solid mobile app was at the very least a core impetus for them using the service more often.
"I think most of us joined before there were mobile apps, that said I was banking on some good ones. Wouldn't have stopped me joining but a good mobile app definitely increases my usage." – Gareth Jones
"It was everything. After Felix was released App.net started to go full steam ahead for me." – Shillem Volpato
"Didn't affect my decision to sign up, but in hindsight, it's critically important to me using it as anything more than a curiosity." – Richard Gaywood
"Not important. Essential. Actually, a deal-breaker." – David Chartier
"I'm on my phone more than I'm ever at my computer. For me, it was really important. " – Kyle Dreger
Notably, many respondents cited the release of Netbot as their primary reason for signing up.
Netbot isn't the first mobile client to come along for App.net. I previously reviewed Rivr, which I found to be a very cool client for the service, with a unique way of handling media content. Felix is also popular and praised for its clean design. Hoohah is available for Android. And there are several desktop clients that rank in the top 10 list for clients, including Wedge and Mention.
But the importance of a marquee mobile client cannot be understated. The usage statistics speak for themselves:
App.net has pitched itself from the beginning as a platform that is developer-centric. It offers an incentive program that will pay developers a dividend based on user satisfaction with their apps every month. And it has a rapidly evolving API, with every feature open to every developer.
This has positioned it as a sort of anti-Twitter, as that company clamps down on developers of third-party clients, offering them less freedom and less access to its API as it moves to make itself into a profitable advertising and media company. Personally, I would urge people not to think of App.net as a Twitter replacement, because I think that it is something else and I think that its creators would agree. But that's a topic for another day.
But you can't deny that the adoption of the service by a developer like Tapbots, who is offering a rich and polished app that takes advantage of nearly every major component of the API, has lent it a boost. A truly great mobile client has become more integral to the uptake of an online service than ever. One might say indispensable.
It remains to be seen if the upwards trend will continue over the weeks ahead. But, at least for now, App.net has gotten a solid hand from exactly the kind of third-party clients Twitter is no longer interested in.
Also of note, Netbot is now #19 of the top 20 paid iPhone apps in the US App Store.
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Get ready for the final rate cut - will it matter?
The Fed is expected to lower its key interest rate to 0.5%. Experts think it will signal that the central bank will have to get more creative to get the economy out of recession.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Will the 10th time be the charm for Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve?
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates at the conclusion of a two-day meeting on Tuesday. And if the central bank does lower its key federal funds rate, that would be the 10th cut since September 2007.
Most economists believe the Fed will reduce the target on the fed funds rate by a half-percentage point to 0.5%. But there are some who think the Fed may go even further and drop the target to 0.25%.
Fed rate cuts typically help the economy because they lead banks to drop their prime rates, which influence the rates set for credit cards, home equity lines of credit and other personal loans as well as business loans.
But so far, there has been no evidence that the rate cuts have done anything to stimulate the economy. We now know for certain that the economy is in recession and it began in December 2007. Some believe the recession could last well into 2009...or even longer.
So with that in mind, does this week's widely-anticipated rate cut even matter? Yes and no.
On the one hand, another rate cut will be Fed chairman Bernanke's way of showing investors and consumers that he is holding nothing back as he and the rest of the Fed try to get the economy out of its funk.
"I think the Fed is going to cut rates and it's going to be intended as a signal that the Fed will do whatever is necessary to keep the economy from sliding too deeply in this recession," said David Resler, chief economist with Nomura Securities International Inc.
But if the Fed cuts rates to 0.5% or even lower, it will not have much more room to cut after that. And unless Bernanke has been watching too much TV and has The Fixx song "Saved By Zero" featured in those annoying Toyota commercials stuck in his brain, it's not likely that he will cut rates any further in the future.
"Once you get rates down to zero, it's hard to move off of zero. Japan learned that the hard way," said Kurt Karl, chief U.S. economist with Swiss Re, in reference to Japan's policy of keeping rates that low for almost six years earlier this decade."Plus, you've made the price of money free and it shouldn't be. There should be some cost to loans."
Still, this doesn't mean that the Fed's work is done. Instead, Bernanke & Co. are likely to stress that they will continue acting more creatively to deal with the credit crunch.
"The Fed may hint that this next rate cut is sufficient," said Karl. "But the other thing the Fed will emphasize is that it has more tools, more arrows in the quiver. The Fed's job is not over just because there may be no more interest rate cuts."
Along those lines, the Fed has already taken several steps beyond its usual practice of simply managing interest rates. For example, the central bank has set up facilities to lend more money to businesses through the commercial paper market.
Most recently, it announced an initiative to buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage financing giants now essentially controlled by the government. And that, so far at least, has helped drive down mortgage rates.
"The key for the Fed is no longer interest rates but all the other unconventional measures it is using. There are other ways of providing stimulus to the economy," Resler said.
However, the Fed may not really be able to provide much in the way of an actual boost to the economy any time soon. One economist suggested that, at best, the Fed can only make sure the economy doesn't get much worse.
"The important issue is not whether or not the Fed is creating additional demand because at this point, that's not happening. It is essentially providing liquidity that's needed for financial markets to function," said Oscar Gonzalez, an economist with John Hancock Financial Services.
But Gonzalez added that if the Fed keeps interest rates relatively low for awhile, that could eventually help get the economy back on track since it might make it cheaper for the government to pay for a new stimulus package, one that is expected to focus on infrastructure spending and long-term job creation.
"The Fed is inviting fiscal stimulus with low interest rates. It's an inexpensive way for Treasury to issue new debt," he said.
Gonzalez conceded though that the likely benefits from any stimulus package might not be felt until 2010.
Ironically enough, the government may decide to go deeper into debt in order to stimulate the economy. But Resler is hopeful that corporations and consumers will actually cut their debt load over the next few months since he said that is really what is needed to fix what's ailing the economy.
"Quite clearly this is a painful time," he said. "But the issue is less an impairment of credit but [rather] the widespread recognition that we must, as a nation, reduce our level of debt. We simply can't rely on debt to support the levels of activity we've had."


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State claims a wild card in BP civil deal on Macondo oil spill
It is a question that has lawyers and many others on the U.S. Gulf coast buzzing: Will BP strike a massive deal to settle the remaining claims over the Gulf of Mexico well blowout?
BP could be nearing a settlement of federal claims with the U.S. Department of Justice, but people tracking the case closely say the company and coastal states, especially Louisiana, might still be far apart.
So unless the talks with the states quicken or the judge delays the process in the hope a far-reaching deal will happen, the civil trial of the year will get under way on February 25 in New Orleans.
The chance of a DOJ settlement did increase somewhat on January 29 when a judge approved BP Plc's guilty plea on charges, including felony manslaughter and lying to Congress, for its role in the Macondo well blowout that killed 11 workers and gushed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan professor and former head of the DOJ's environmental crimes section, has little doubt about BP's wishes.
"BP does not want to re-live the nightmare of the Gulf oil spill for weeks and months in a U.S. courthouse," said Uhlmann, noting the financial risk was not one-sided because awards under the Clean Water Act could range from $5 billion to $21 billion. "Both sides have too much to lose by going to trial."
That is why many experts believe a deal is bound to happen - at least with the U.S. federal government.
The other parties include thousands of private companies and individuals whose cases, along with those of the coastal states, were consolidated under the management of U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. A separate settlement BP estimates at $7.8 billion was reached with many, but not all, of the private plaintiffs.
Both Louisiana and Alabama are adamant about BP's debt to the coast, and Louisiana has taken an especially hard line on compensation for natural resource and economic damages.
Garret Graves, senior coastal adviser to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, said settling any natural resource claims without Louisiana, which sustained the most damage from the spill, makes little sense.
"That would be a virtual impossibility because of co-trusteeship over the resources," he said.
BP, which reports quarterly results on Tuesday, says it has so far spent $24 billion on cleanup and compensation to coastal firms. Add the $7.8 billion class-action settlement and last week's criminal plea and BP has committed $37 billion to date.
In any settlement talks, BP will surely still deny that its actions constituted gross negligence, but the Department of Justice has very publicly ratcheted up the pressure to settle.
A DOJ filing last Wednesday sought disclosure of all documents related to BP's preparation of "fraudulent statements and representations" about the flow rate of oil from the well.
BP has "admitted that it endeavored to influence, obstruct, and impede a Congressional investigation" and must now put all previously withheld documents on the table, the filing said.
That gives the department "additional leverage," said Roger Marzulla, a Washington D.C. lawyer and a former head of the DOJ's environment and natural resources division. "It's another twist of the arm."
Graves of Louisiana did not dismiss the possibility of the parties settling to stay out of court, but he took issue with media reports putting BP's remaining liability in the area of $17 billion, including last week's $4.5 billion settlement.
"Twelve or $13 billion doesn't do it," he said. "Because we represent the people of the Gulf Coast, we'd like to get this behind us as quickly as possible, but we absolutely are ready to go to trial."
Blaine LeCesne, a law professor at Loyola University of New Orleans who has kept close tabs on the case, also viewed Louisiana as a big obstacle to BP's hopes for a single sweeping deal.
"Louisiana has very high demands and is taking a hard-nosed position," LeCesne said. "The state does not want to discount its claims to the degree that BP wants."
LeCesne believes Louisiana alone wants $10 billion in compensation for natural resource damages.
"I don't know that those expectations are unrealistic," he said, noting the spill's impact on the seafood industry might take decades to become clear.
A complete settlement of all remaining oil spill issues also would require resolving claims against BP's primary contractors at the well. Transocean Ltd owned the drilling rig and Halliburton Co performed cementing work.
On January 3, Transocean signed a $1.4 billion deal with the DOJ to plead guilty to a misdemeanor Clean Water Act violation to resolve a civil and criminal probe into its role in Macondo, but it still faces claims by states and private plaintiffs.
Halliburton says it is still preparing its defense.
As for BP, on the sidelines of a company presentation in London in mid-January, Chief Executive Bob Dudley told Reuters: "All we can say is that we are preparing for the trial."
Regarding the total of 4.9 million barrels spilled, BP has asked the court to exclude 800,000 barrels it says it recovered. That could reduce fines by up to $3.4 billion, based on a Clean Water Act (CWA) formula ranging from $1,100 per barrel spilled up to $4,300 per barrel, depending on whether "ordinary" or "gross" negligence is found.
Marzulla, the former DOJ environmental division head, sees a CWA settlement somewhere in the range of $10 billion.
The final tally depends on just how badly BP wants to avoid a public proceeding, or how confident the DOJ is it can win.
Even a delay would allow Dudley to save some face when he delivers a keynote speech to many of his peers at the CERAweek energy conference in Houston on March 6.
Observers say avoiding a trial might also improve BP's chances of getting off a list of companies banned from federal contracts.
LeCesne believed the rising tally BP has had to pay might lead Judge Barbier to find that an additional $20 billion could be "simply too daunting, even for a company the size of BP."
If the trial proceeds, it will be the first in a two- or three-phase proceeding overseen by Barbier. The first phase would determine BP's liability for the blowout, while subsequent trials, not yet scheduled, would examine efforts to shut down the well and the extent of environmental and other damages.
The case is In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, No. 10-md-02179, in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.
Four individual criminal cases are also proceeding, against two rig workers, an ex-BP engineer and a BP executive. Separate trials are scheduled in the cases, with the first set for June.
(Reporting by Kathy Finn in New Orleans, Braden Reddall in San Francisco and Andrew Callus in London. Editing by Andre Grenon)


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A legendary moment in network news came 44 years ago tonight, when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite pronounced at the close of special report that the U.S. military was "mired in stalemate" in Vietnam and said negotiations might offer a way out.
Cronkite's report aired February 27, 1968, and examined the Tet offensive that communist forces had launched across South Vietnam four weeks earlier.
At the White House that night, President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly watched the Cronkite report. Upon hearing the popular anchorman's downbeat assessment, Johnson realized his war policy was a shambles. The report was, the story goes, an epiphany for the president.
Johnson snapped off the television set and said to an aide or aides:
"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
The report was so singularly and unexpectedly decisive that it has come to be celebrated as the "Cronkite Moment," a totem of courage and insight, a revered model for broadcast journalism.
Except the "Cronkite Moment" wasn't so special. Cronkite's assessment about the war wasn't novel or particularly insightful.
It was, if anything, a rehash of what other news organizations had been saying for weeks and months. "Stalemate" was much in the news back then.
The New York Times, for example, wrote "stalemate" into the headline over a news analysis about the war that was published on its front page in August 1967 — nearly seven months before Cronkite's televised report. The Times headline read:
"Vietnam: The Signs of Stalemate."
The Times analysis, which was filed from the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, noted:
"'Stalemate' is a fighting word in Washington. President Johnson rejects it as a description of the situation in Vietnam. But it is the word used by almost all Americans here, except the top officials, to characterize what is happening" in the war.
So "stalemate" had been often invoked, and much-debated, by the time Cronkite turned to the word.
Even more damaging to the purported exceptionality of the "Cronkite Moment" was that Johnson did not see the Cronkite report when it aired.
As such, the president could not have had the abrupt, visceral reaction that endows the purported "Cronkite Moment" with special power and resonance.
As I discuss in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, Johnson wasn't at the White House on February 27, 1968; he wasn't in front of a television set, either, when Cronkite intoned his "mired in stalemate" assessment.
The president was in Austin, Texas, attending the 51st birthday party of a political ally, Governor John Connally. About the time Cronkite made his on-air editorial comment, Johnson was making light of Connally's age, saying:
"Today you are 51, John. That is the magic number that every man of politics prays for— a simple majority."
As I also discuss in Getting It Wrong, there is no persuasive evidence that Johnson later saw Cronkite's report on videotape.
Even if he had, it would have made no difference to his thinking about Vietnam.
Not long after the Cronkite report, Johnson delivered a rousing speech in Minneapolis, urging "a total national effort" to win the war in Vietnam. The speech was given March 18, 1968, and in it, the president declared:
"We love nothing more than peace, but we hate nothing worse than surrender and cowardice."
Johnson, who died in 1973, did not mention the purported "Cronkite Moment" in his memoir, The Vantage Point.
For his part, Cronkite often described the program in modest terms, likening its effect on U.S. policy to a straw on a camel's back. He turned to that analogy in writing his memoir, for example.
But in the years immediately before his death in 2009, Cronkite began to interpret the program in a somewhat grander light. He came to embrace the presumptive power of the "Cronkite Moment."
In an interview with Esquire in 2006, for example, he said:
"To be honest, I was rather amazed that my reporting from Vietnam had such an effect on history."
Interestingly, Cronkite also said he had never discussed the program and his famous editorial comment with Johnson.
According to a report in the Austin American-Statesman, Cronkite said in a teleconference call with a journalism class at Southwest Texas State University in 1997 that Johnson "never brought it up and I certainly never did."
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Hey guys! Long time no blog...I know. What can I say, life with a newborn baby is definitely very time-consuming and keeps me busy! It's becoming increasingly difficult to find the time to get dressed, shower & put make-up on let alone blog or record YouTube videos! But we are getting there...I've heard the first six weeks are the hardest and once we get into a little routine we should be fine :) I'm not complaining, right now I'm just enjoying my time with Emilia...she is worth it! Thank you for bearing with me these past few weeks as I get back into the swing of things!
Emilia is officially 2 weeks old today. She is gaining weight rapidly and I am such a proud mama! She now weighs 7lbs 13oz and is growing out of all her newborn sized clothes. Breast-feeding is going well, although still sore on one side. Emilia latched on really quickly and is a great little feeder so I'm happy I kept going! In the beginning there were definitely times when I felt like throwing in the towel...in the hospital I cried it was so painful and sore :( So when the public health nurse came and weighed Emilia today, and described her weight gain as "phenomenal" for a breast-fed baby it was wonderful!
Here are some pictures from the past week.
Our first mommy/daughter OOTD! ;) Emilia's outfit is all from Carter's, I'm wearing Mothercare maternity jeans, LoveClothing Chelsea boots, a check shirt from Heaton's and carrying the Elizabeth Storksak changing bag.
Some morning cuddles...I love this time the most :)
Just woken up from her nap! Vest from Babies R Us.
Another super cute outfit! This one's also from Babies R Us.
On our way to TV3 Studios in Dublin to appear on the Morning Show...you can totally see Emilia in her car mirror in the background, ha ha ha! Her first road trip...she slept the entire way and all through the interview as well! She's such an easy baby!
At TV3 Studios! Just out of hair & makeup!
We went out for lunch in Costa Coffee...enjoying my first coffee in months!
Snug as a bug in a rug! All tuckered out ;)
I absolutely love this outfit! It's from Carter's. For some reason though, she always seems to have explosive poops in it...ha ha ha!
Pink & brown today! Top is from Primark and pants are by Carter's!
Wearing some pretty adorable socks! I have no idea where these are from...they were a gift. The pants are from the Pumpkin Patch and the hoody is from Babies R Us.
As for a weight loss/belly update, I've lost a total of 17lbs so far and 5lbs this week putting me down to 124 -- only 7lbs away from my pre-pregnancy weight! This is all down to breast feeding...I haven't been dieting or working out. Today was the first day I really exercised properly since giving birth (we walked all 6 dogs in 2 laps...it was a full workout!!).
I'm fitting into my looser pairs of pre-pregnancy jeans and pants, and am still using my Bamboo Belly Bandit which I absolutely love! I'm also really enjoying my nursing tank tops by Boob...they are so comfortable, made from organic cotton and very stretchy. They give great coverage when breast feeding because of their two panels on the inside so you're never totally exposed. I bought these in purple (seen above), raspberry, turquoise and black!
I hope you guys enjoyed this long update! Let me know if you want me to do more posts like these!
Stay Stylish!