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- 4 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Condominium
SubdivisionEnzian At Vail Cond
Listing Date01/29/19
Year Built1974
Lot Size0.03 Acres (1,307 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Assigned
Property Description
Penthouse living at the Enzian. Completely remodeled, top-floor end unit. Vaulted ceilings, 4 bedrooms, plus a loft for additional sleeping space. Two underground parking spaces and an elevator. Owners enjoy the use of the Landmark pool and hot tub. Solid rental history. Just completed $1,317,000 in building exterior upgrades. Includes new decking, repainting of building, new railings, new stairs, new chimneys and trash enclosure. SLEEPS 12!
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About Lionshead
Adjacent to Vail Village alongside Gore Creek, Lionshead - named after a rock formation atop the mountain - also offers tremendous dining and shopping in addition to convenient proximity to the Eagle Bahn Gondola. Lionshead Village has undergone major improvements over the past decade including the development of the Arrabelle - housing a luxury hotel and condominiums as well as shops and restaurants. Lionshead, with its Alpine architecture and cobblestone streets is equally as convenient to winter and summer events and activities as well as being a charming pedestrian village.
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2 Beds 2.5 Baths
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
More biscotti with some new additions...
We've made quite a few different varieties if you've ever looked in the biscotti section of our recipe area on the left hand side of the blog, but the Orange-Infused Cherry-Almond Biscotti I made today was a new-to-us flavor combination for these crisp cookies.
The dough was a little drier and crumbly than I'm used to at first - most of the other biscotti we've made have been fairly sticky when you get to the point of moving the logs to the baking sheets. It may not look like it will be cohesive when all the ingredients are added, but the dough does come together once you scoop it out of the mixing bowl and knead it a couple times. The texture of these cookies was in between those rock hard biscotti that need to be dunked to be enjoyed and the softer type that has a few tablespoons of butter.
I found that the logs did not spread nearly as much either, so if you like a shorter biscotti, you may want to pat the dough down a bit. Almond extract, fresh orange juice and orange zest add a bright note with the cherries adding a bit of sweetness and chew. The recipe called for slivered almonds, but I chopped whole almonds instead for added crunch. These would be good to give away as gifts drizzled or dipped in a bit of melted white chocolate.
6 comments:
- Anonymous11/24/2007 06:43:00 PM
I cannot wait to try these--I love biscotti and love that you have so many recipes for it! I gave out a variety of biscotti as holiday gifts last year--and some of them were your recipes--everyone really enjoyed them!ReplyDelete
Courtney - I can't get enough biscotti! So many different ways to incorporate different tastes and textures.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/24/2007 10:58:00 PM
These look yummy, Joe. Sadly, though, I don't have an oven (NO OVEN!!!) here in corporate housing. Sigh. I'll just copy and paste this recipe until I can finally make these at a later time. BTW, your Thanksgiving dessert from this year (and the previous years, too) looks fantastic.ReplyDelete
Another biscotti lover here. I really have to try one of your recipes. I have to prepare 7 dozens cookies for an exchange, so I think 1 dozen will be biscottis. Thanks for the recipe.ReplyDelete
Joe, can you tell me which biscotti recipe you prefer? I will make it for my next cookie exchange. Tonight I'm making your Rolled Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Prosciutto and Barley, I'll let you know how it went.ReplyDelete
Mindy - I know how you feel! I hope you can get out of the corporate housing soon!ReplyDelete
Helene - I don't think I could choose a favorite out of our biscotti list!

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Release Date: 2001 |
Very well reviewed and accurately recommended. I have this, but I have only listened to it a couple of times, as I got As the Roots Undo just a couple of days after. I think I may need to pay just as much attention to this one though.
Album Rating: 4.0What about the secret song?!??!!??!!?!?! You didn't review that one! It's my favorite on the CD by so much omg!!!11!!!
I've got this downloaded down in Leeds, but I didn't have much time to listen to it before coming home for Christmas. Very good from what I remember, anyway, and a good review.
I know about half of the EP, but it's good stuff. Now if I can just get my filthy little hands on the split with Pg. 99 and review that, we'd be set.
Album Rating: 4.0I have the songs from the split but that's no fun without the actual CD. Actually, on second though I bet I'm missing a pg99 song considering how annoying it is to find their stuff with all the multiple spellings.
I want to get an actual copy though, that's the hard part because it's been out of print. Ebay, here I come.
Whoa, awesome review!
Great review, great EP. Disclaimer To Self and Eleven Owls are my favorites.
I've onlt heard maybe two of the songs on that cd, Houdini Logic and Eleven owls have eyes, but is Disclaimer to self the more molodic song? It has a spoken part that speaks of razorwire and at one point Drew says "A kiss goodbye... A kiss of death"? If not, which song is that? It's more pop-punky than screamo but it has some very heavy parts throughout the song and I love it.
Album Rating: 4.5That's Disclaimer.
Uhm..I guess it's pop-punky?
But I can't see CTTS ever being played on the radio.
[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]That's Disclaimer.
Uhm..I guess it's pop-punky?
But I can't see CTTS ever being played on the radio.[/QUOTE]
It's not too pop-punky, it's just more molodic than most CTTS songs.
I am goingto buy this cd
Album Rating: 4.5The suicide quote is from the movie "Single White Female" sort of a psychothriller from a couple years back.
Thats one hell of a review,
10 thumbs up!
I love this band and album. Your review was good too i think also.
sweet review, the stuff I have heard from this album is.....interesting
Album Rating: 5.0Dfelon are you serious i hate the secret track so much i downloaded it then deleted it. nice job on as the roots undo.
as for this review, good. this ep may be one of the greatest of all time.
Album Rating: 4.0I'm not joking. The secret track is awesome. I love it.
The songs on this aren't necessarily as intense or spastic as the stuff on As the Roots Undo, which makes it a bit easier to listen to. Some solid songs.
I got this the other day. Haven't really listened to it though, but it sounded good from one or two listens.
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I am not always entranced by new ways of doing things, or new technology. I am resistant to the lure of novelty. I am often fatalistic about people' slow adoption to change. But sometimes, it is obvious that a different way of doing things is simply better.
Why does it not always take root? Test case (sorry to those who have heard it before): Peeling a Banana.
When I was young, I was taught how to peel a banana. It consisted of grabbing the stalk, and tugging at it until the skin split away. It was sometimes a bit tricky, and occasionally squashed a very small section of the banana. But it was all I knew. I was happy.
One day, someone showed me how monkeys open bananas. (I think it was Ben James at BBJ, himself a fairly simian character). Being generally respectful of the survival skills of the animal kingdom, and particularly enthusiastic about monkeys, I was intrigued.
A monkey opens the banana at the other end, making a tiny incision in the tip and then splitting the skin open. It is much much easier. It is less likely to bruise the banana. And the stalk acts as a neat holder, allowing you to easily eat all the way to the end of the flesh.
It is, in summary, simply and obviously a better way of eating a banana.
By the law of averages, I am pretty certain you don't peel YOUR bananas this way. Even after this post, you will probably continue peeling your banana sub-optimally. Why? (This is not a rhetorical question. I really don't understand.)
I know, from a third of a lifetime pursuing the noble goals of helping people to get more out of their relationship with bananas, that I am not alone. Several people have responded positively to my peeling demonstrations. And I am not alone in fighting the good fight.
I found this explanation clear and helpful. 2.3m people have watched it. Hopefully some of them were converted. But not all of them. Why? When something is so obviously helpful, even on a topic of so little real pain, why does it not always take root.
My explanation, such as it is, lies in people's fear of looking foolish. Eating a banana is already fraught with the opportunity for social embarrassment, whether in its somewhat sexual connotations, or in its ability to undermine credibility and authority as a stroke. Arguably this intangible banana-shame has already deprived one politician of the leadership of his country…
All of the people who I have managed to persuade are the kind of people who like monkeys. Who don't baulk at thinking of human beings as crazy monkeys, rather than divine imitations. But obviously this isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Is it fear of being like the monkeys that is holding back banana-peeling innovation? Is it, in fact, our entrancement with our own evolutionary progress that prevents us from embracing this obvious piece of progress in the peeling of fruit? Does the fear of being looked at like a monkey outweigh the small trace of inconvenience that comes from changing your line of attach?
For me, this is the obsession that won't go away. Please help me by at least trying to peel your banana like a monkey.


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My Reed, Reid or Read connection
It has taken me 2 years to put a name to my paternal grandmother's maternal grandmother who is my 2x great grandmother. Ellen Reed was born about 1822 somewhere in Northumberland. I know little about her origins but I know that she had 5 daughters and it is with the help of their birth certificates that I have finally named her. Unfortunately three of the certificates spell her surname differently and there are 2 variants on her first name in the censuses. This leaves me with the following possibilities: Ellen Reed, Eleanor Reed, Ellen Reid, Eleanor Reid, Ellen Read, Eleanor Read. Tricky, and that is without considering that she may have been an Ellenor which would give another 3 variants to search. Not giving up though, as I would like to know who lies further back in my Reed / Reid /Read line.


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But the BSA on Tuesday emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding gays after a confidential two-year review of the policy. The Scouts cited support from parents as a key reason for keeping the policy and expressed hope that the prolonged debate over it might now subside.
A Scouts representative agreed to meet with Tyrrell Wednesday, but after that meeting the BSA still refused to change the policy, saying: "The Boy Scouts of America treats everyone with courtesy and respect. Today, representatives from the BSA accepted an online petition from Jennifer Tyrell and her family. This is the second time the petition has been delivered to the BSA. BSA values the freedom of everyone to express their opinion and believes to disagree does not mean to disrespect." -- Deron Smith, director of public relations.
Tyrrell said she is not letting it deter her.
"I think we've made a lot of progress so far," she said. "We're going to keep doing it, so regardless if it changes today, tomorrow, a year from now, we're going to keep on keeping on."
Tyrrell was told she could no longer serve as den leader because of her sexual orientation, according to a report from Change.org, where Tyrrell filed her petition.
"I cried for days. I was devastated," she said. "If you're a parent and you can imagine getting a phone call and someone saying to you, 'You are no longer allowed to participate in your child's life.' It was the worst thing you could ever hear."
On her petition page, Tyrrell noted that she was removed from her post after she reported inconsistencies in the pack's finances after she was elected treasurer.
As of early Tuesday afternoon, more than 313,000 people -- including current scouts, scout leaders and former scouts -- had signed Tyrrell's petition, which urges her reinstatement and the end to the exclusionary policy.
"All I'm asking for is the opportunity to resume my post as den leader of my son's Cub Scout Pack, a post that was taken from me as a result of a discriminatory policy that's unpopular with Boy Scouts and leaders across the country," Tyrrell said on Change.org. "I'm looking forward to engaging the Boy Scouts of America directly so I can share not only my story, but the stories of the more than 300,000 people who have signed my Change.org petition."
But the Scouts' national spokesman, Deron Smith, told The Associated Press that an 11-member special committee formed discreetly in 2010 concluded that the exclusion policy is "absolutely the best policy" for the organization.
Smith said the committee, comprised of professional scout executives and adult volunteers, was unanimous in its conclusion -- preserving a long-standing policy that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 and has remained controversial ever since. As a result of the committee's decision, Smith said the Scouts' national executive board will take no further action on a pending resolution asking for reconsideration of the membership policy.
Tyrrell's campaign has drawn support from numerous celebrities and business leaders, including Ernst & Young Chairman and CEO James Turley, a BSA board member. Turley announced last month that he intends to "work from within the Boy Scouts of America Board to actively encourage dialog and sustainable progress" on ending the ban of homosexuals, Change.org reported.
Additionally, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, a National Executive BSA board member, said he would work with Turley to change the policy, according to a report on KLTV.com.
Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout and author of "My Two Moms," has co-founded Scouts for Equality, which aims to "lead a respectful, honest dialog with current and former scouts or scout leaders about ending this outdated policy." Wahls recently appeared on MSNBC to discuss the group and Tyrell's petition. That video can be seen here on NBCNews.com.
Tyrrell plans to deliver her petition Wednesday at 10 a.m. along with supporters, her family and her son Cruz.
Associated Press writer David Crary and NBC 5's Amanda Guerra contributed to this report.


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Lion-men Edit
The body of a hybrid, the heart of a lion, the spirit of a warrior
|Average Height:
|Average Weight:
|200-280 lbs.
|Ability Scores:
|+2 Strength; +2 Constitution or +2 Charisma
|6 squares
|Common, Draconic or Giant
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Big and broad, the lion-men, sometimes called the "leo", were victims of vile experiments by twisted arcanists. The result brought a proud race who believes strongly in purpose. For them, this gives them their reason for being and drives them to accomplish their goals in life.
Play a lion-man if you want...
- to be big and powerful.
- to both take and deliver punishment.
- to be from a race that favors the cleric, paladin, and warlord classes.
Physical Qualities Edit
Lion-men are lion/human hybrids. Rivals of even the dragonborn in sheer size, lion-men easily stand well over 6 feet tall. Their bulky musculature supplements their natural strength. They have lion-like faces, including a large mouth and nose, with rounded ears. They typically have short claws for nails, but they use them more for eating than fighting. The males have a large blonde mane that grows outward from the edges of their faces. Like all lions, the lion-men have blond hair and usually have thin, light brown body hair. Their skin is of a light color due to their body hair. Some lion-men have a cleft upper lip like a normal lion, but others have normal mouths. Lion-men live long lives, rivaling the eldarin in age. However, lion-men mature more slowly, not reaching adulthood until about age 22. Even so, most lion-men live 325 years, but some have actually lived almost 350 years.
Playing a Lion-Man Edit
Lion-men believe strongly in purpose. Having a cause to embrace is of the utmost importance to them because they feel no reason to live if you have no cause to hold on to. In this regard, the lion-men are often drawn toward religion and military organizations. When it comes to race relations, the lion-men have a strong respect and admiration for the dragonborn. Their drive for self-improvement and devotion to honor give the lion-men and dragonborn strong common ground. Though lion-men are more attracted to just finding meaning in life, they admire the dragonborn's desire to become better than themselves. The lion-men love adventure. Not only does it give them meaning, but it presents an opportunity to bring out the best in them. More importantly, the cause they embrace has a great influence to their adventuring. Those who serve in the military often look to bolster their rank or engage in war, while others might spread the message of their respective deities.
Lion-Man Characteristics: Courageous, devoted, driven, intimidating, militaristic, muscular, reliable, religious, reserved, seeking purpose, stout-hearted, strong
Male Names: Any human name, as well as Mane, Claw, and Shishi
Female Names: Human names, as well as Pride and Nalah
Lion-Man Adventurers Edit
Three sample lion-man adventurers are described below.
- Claw is a lion-man fighter of Krag, the god of war. A wrestler and brawler, Claw views the pursuit of strength as a sport, and he uses the skills and fame he has obtained from the arena to increase his coffers immensely. However, he has grown bored of the arena, and now wishes to fight a warrior skilled enough to defeat him in single combat.
- Shishi is a lion-man paladin of Korrik. A strong and devoted follower of the Dragon God, the ideals of honor and justice were engraved deeply into Shishi's heart when he was an orphaned youth. He believed that by following the ideals of Korrik, he could serve the people of the land with righteousness and justice, thereby obtaining his own honor and his own cause.
- Nalah is a lion-woman warlord, the leader of a small platoon near the Daswaan Mountains. A charismatic and bold commander, Nalah takes great pride in the strength she gives her soldiers, and she feels she has found a true cause: Giving others the strength to fight, even when all hope seems lost.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bell
Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
Thy voice upon the deep
The home-bound sea-boy hails,
It charms his cares to sleep,
It cheers him as he sails.
To house of God and heavenly joys
Thy summons called our sires,
And good men thought thy sacred voice
Disarmed the thunder's fires.
And soon thy music, sad death-bell,
Shall lift its notes once more,
And mix my requiem with the wind
That sweeps my native shore.
Comments about The Bell by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edward Kofi Louis (8/31/2015 7:36:00 AM)
* Sunprincess * (6/30/2014 3:45:00 PM)
...........this poem reminds me of those famous lines
in john donne's poem...no man is an island
....~ for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee ~(Report)Reply
Linda May Fox (6/30/2012 6:10:00 PM)
Allison Helman (6/30/2012 10:26:00 AM)
Maybe he just wanted the poem to ring out and resonate in two or more ways like it did for him. I think he accomplished that.(Report)Reply
Terence George Craddock (6/30/2012 5:23:00 AM)
I agree with Juan Olivarez, this poem at no point within any stanza, expresses a specific religious doctrine.
This is a personalized interaction with God which atheists have outlawed from the school system and all public buildings in too many places. This is a For whom the bell tolls a poem (No man is an island) by John Donne style poem, though more simply expressed. The poem contemplates death, I love thine iron chime, / To life or death, to heaven or hell, from the first stanza, And soon thy music, sad death-bell, / Shall lift its notes once more, / And mix my requiem with the wind to the last stanza; in contemplation of life and death.
An intolerance of bells when others mourn the loss of loved ones in death is sad. Personally I love cultural diversity, which extended to the beauty of the call to prayer in beautiful mosques in Istanbul, especially those built in the Ottoman period. A little religious tolerance goes a long way, and the beauty of the lines within 'The Bell', demands more focus and analysis. Read the poem a few times, it is beautiful to reflect upon.(Report)Reply
Paul Brookes (6/30/2012 4:09:00 AM)
The poem was written at a very precise point in time when religion was more important to most people than now. If you take it out of its historical context and rag it only because of its Christian virtue you lose the sense of the poem. Like all good poems it still has resonance today and is written damn well! ! ! !(Report)Reply
Juan Olivarez (6/30/2011 6:33:00 PM)
Strangely, I agree with Michael. But only a bit. It is good to have things back to normal. Thank you Lord.(Report)Reply
Michael Pruchnicki (6/30/2011 4:19:00 PM)
OK, so there may be some religious symbolism, and avoiding mention of the poet's probable intent, as Olivarez does, only panders to the ravings of Straw who does go on about ANY poem with even a hint of a faith-based viewpoint. Run a really religious poem on this site by an ordained priest like Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ (Society of Jesus!) , and the village atheist in readers like Straw will erupt in volcanic rage! There is a point at which one must defer to a poet's beliefs and shun the politically correct view that holds ALL mention of GOD an outrage against good common sense. For Christ's sake, relax and read the poem or don't, but please spare us the wagging finger and the diatribe against the divine.(Report)Reply
Juan Olivarez (6/30/2011 12:49:00 PM)
I for one don't see this as a poem based on a particular religious view. I see it as the story of a bell, and all the endeavors it calls men to. After all each man writes about his own religion, that is a given.(Report)Reply
Mohammad Akmal Nazir (6/30/2011 11:44:00 AM)
This was an extremely one-sided poem based on a particular religious view. So far as the artistic skill of Emerson was concerned, it was at its peak in the poem. After all he was a great poet.(Report)Reply
John Collins (6/30/2011 3:07:00 AM)
This is a good poem, simple diction, easy to comprehend. It merits a supposing joy you experience after death, with words like 'charms his cares to sleep' 'heaven joys' but the end the poem, the poet introduces terror by the wind which will sweep him to his final destination, death(Report)Reply
Alek Lenth (6/30/2010 7:52:00 PM)
So under your criterion, if a poem uses imagery it is not 'poetry at its best' because the blind will not appreciate it?
And poets who write about the black condition are not good poets because most people are not black?
As a side note Emerson's religious views are in the extreme minority of Christianity and that has not stopped generations of Christians and many others from recognizing the fundamental human experiences of death and mourning in this poem.(Report)Reply
Kevin Straw (6/30/2010 5:40:00 AM)
There is far too much religious poetry on this site. Emerson writes well, but what he writes about is not believed by everyone. Poetry like this is exclusive to people who believe its precepts. Poetry at its best is about the experience of the human race as a whole. If you believe this is wholly good poetry, then you must believe that poetry extolling the virtues of Nazism or rape is wholly good poetry provided that it is technically good.(Report)Reply
Ramesh T A (6/30/2010 2:00:00 AM)
Bell sound both for heaven and hell in human life is forever! It is well expressed in this poem to muse over its significance!(Report)Reply
Joseph Poewhit (6/30/2010 1:23:00 AM)
An eloquent flow of words. The bell, denoting time, like the beating of the heart. Only to remind man of his mortality, toward life and GOD.(Report)Reply
Michael Pruchnicki (6/30/2009 8:42:00 AM)
The first stanza rimes ABAB - bell/hell chime/time!
The pathetic fallacy of a WEARY AND PIOUS BELL (Psachos) does surpass even the WIND /THAT SWEEPS MY NATIVE SHORE (Emerson) . We understand the action referred to by Emerson as a natural reference and somehow not as jarring an allusion as WEARY AND PIOUS, which is sentimental and on its face an absurd metaphor!
But then you may well argue that everyone to his taste!(Report)Reply
Kevin Straw (6/30/2009 5:36:00 AM)
Charlotte Davis (6/30/2008 11:21:00 AM)
Dimitris(Jimmy) Psachos (6/30/2007 11:43:00 AM)
Yes, the trip of a weary and pious bell through the eternities of human life...... Not one of Emerson's best, yet it's quite accurate and honest indeed!(Report)Reply
Yuri Panchenko (6/30/2006 7:50:00 AM)
Very good. I really like this sad poem. The words, mixed with the wind, play smooth melody in my soul.(Report)Reply
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Last Friday, I saw a play that I've been eagerly anticipating all summer, 4000 Miles, written by Amy Herzog and directed by Kimberly Senior, at Northlight Theatre. The play is centered around a twenty-something named Leo Joseph-Connell (Josh Salt) who unexpectedly shows up on the doorstep of his grandmother, Vera Joseph (Mary Ann Thebus)'s West Village apartment, the decor of which seems frozen in time, as though virtually nothing has been changed since the late 1960s.
Though at first we know very little about why Leo shows up unannounced -- and in the middle of the night, nonetheless -- or why it seems as though he has no place else to go and no one else to turn to in New York City, the blanks soon start to be filled in for us. It turns out he has found himself in New York City at the end of a cross-country bike trip, which he began with a close friend of his, who has recently passed away. Though being his grandmother's roommate wasn't necessarily what he envisioned when he arrived on his bicycle, his prior plans -- staying with his girlfriend in her dorm room -- have fallen through.
While it would seem that they both feel -- or anticipate -- they will have little in common, he a twenty-some year old guy, she a woman in her 80s, they soon find out that they have much more in common than either of them would have imagined. It is perhaps because of what they have in common that he feels comfortable talking to her -- maybe more comfortable than he would have anticipated, as well -- and letting her in on what has happened, what has been going on in his life, thus letting the audience in, too.
His life, as it turns out, has recently become rather complicated. His mother, Jane, and he don't exactly see eye-to-eye on college. She would like him to go and get a degree. He seems to feel as though it goes against his own belief system, and that of his friends as well. In addition, he and his girlfriend, Bec (Caroline Neff), have a strained relationship, being, in essence, in two very different places in life. She has decided to go to college and get a degree. Leo sort of seems to be drifting aimlessly, not attending school, not having a career, and having made no concrete plans for his future. Though it is clear that she, too, wishes he'd return to college and get a degree (he had already started prior to this cross-country trek), it is clear that he takes quite the opposite view. By her merely being enrolled at a university, he seems to believe she has betrayed what he had, up until now, thought of as their shared belief system.
If all of this weren't enough already, it would seem that he has also quite possibly managed to irreparably damage his relationship with his sister, whom it is clear he holds in extremely high esteem and has long been close to, as the result of one very poor, spontaneous, drug-fueled -- or, at the very least, drug-influenced -- decision. A decision, it should be noted, his parents are convinced is what caused her to go into therapy. Then there's the trauma of having witnessed his closest friend die, and, it may be argued, the guilt feelings of not having been able to stop the accident from occurring in the first place, nor having been able to save him after the fact.
One of the things that I most enjoyed about the play is how multifaceted the characters all seem to be, something that isn't always the case, both when it comes to the depiction of the elderly and of twenty-somethings. Vera ends up being much more progressive, much more open-minded and less judgmental than Leo (and, perhaps, other twenty-somethings) might have (erroneously) imagined. Leo, by the same token, is not all about himself and instant gratification, expecting that every need will almost be anticipated and immediately met by those around him. In fact, in short, it feels as though these characters with their flaws and all are real people that most of us know and can often -- if not always -- relate to in some way.
On the whole, 4000 Miles is an extremely well-acted, well-written, engaging play that almost everyone, regardless of what age group they belong to, will easily relate to and thoroughly enjoy.
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RedHat 7.0 Beta, First Impressions, by Joe
(An attempt at documenting some of my likes and dislikes about the RH 7.0 Beta release)
So, after firing up the friendly neighborhood CD burner, I walked away equipped with a pair of RedHat 7.0 Beta cds. Backing up my data and shutting things down, I proceeded to boot off the first cd and begin my journey into the world of Beta-ness.
The anaconda installer has changed very little so far, with very little in the way of visible changes. It seems to be a bit faster and more responsive than 6.2's, generally moving between screens and displaying things faster than before. Being something of a RedHat power user, I went through the custom install option, where the only real difference of note was a fairly sizeable chunk of extra packages available to be installed.
After selecting my packages, I was presented with the usual list of required dependencies, and presented with a new option allowing me to continue with the install without the required dependencies. Finding the only things that were missing were things I had accidentally forgotten, I went ahead and told the installer to install the required dependencies. It then re-parsed the list of rpms, and presented me with a revised list of required depencies. It seems anaconda now checks for required dependencies dependencies...
The install then proceeded quite smoothly, with the same interface used in 6.2's anaconda. Overall it seemed to take less time to install a larger amount of data. Whether this is perception or actual improvements via drive optimizations I'm not sure.
Nothing really new or surprising in the rest of the install process. The usual steps were included and didn't seem to have been changed. After a few more screens I was presented with the same X Configuration screen as 6.2 (which worked surprisingly well on my GeForce DDR and 21" Nanao F2-21 monitor), however this time around it was configuring Xfree86 4.01 instead of the usual 3.3.x stuff. A few more screens after that, and I was rebooting my computer to fire up my new OS.
Right off the bat, there's a noticeable difference: A large, shiny full-screen RedHat graphic with a listing of available boot options, instead of the normal LILO: prompt. Pressing tab drops you back to text mode (this is noted on the graphic), otherwise you can use the arrow keys to highlight your boot image of choice.
Bootup proceeded nicely through the usual set of RedHat initscripts. No real surprises, though some of the usual startup software has changed somewhat. I'll get more into that later.
I logged in as root, poked around a little, and then went to work recompiling and installing some of my preferred toys. That's where the troubles began.
Unbeknownst to me at first, RedHat 7.0 ships with gcc-2.96 as the default compiler. While it seems to compile most things just fine, it has a tendency to barf on larger, more complicated projects. My first large compile, WindowMaker, died miserably and repeatedly in the midst of file after file. However, it would never die in the same place. Figuring that perhaps the default RedHat kernel was not interacting well with my system (a dual-processor celeron system), I attempted to compile the 2.4.0-test4 kernel I had been using with great success prior to my upgrade. No dice. (Despite claims from various RedHat personnel on Slashdot, the 2.4.0-test3 kernel was _not_ included on either of the main distribution disks. It's possible that the 2.4.0 kernel was included on the powertools CD, but I did not have it available to check).
As I would later find out (after the fact, on the 7.0 beta mailing list), RedHat ships with gcc-2.96 as the default compiler, but includes "kgcc" (a copy of the preferred egcs version for kernels) for compiling kernels. At the time, I had no idea this was the case, and so rebooted and reinstalled without the development tools, thinking that either the new gcc/glibc versions were causing problems, or that I had accidentally left out some neccesary packages. Rather than go the custom-software route, I used a fairly 'default' installation (using a custom install and not choosing to manually select packages) and quickly found back at my root prompt.
After installing by hand the neccesary packages to get gcc working properly, I gave compiling WindowMaker another chance. Running into the same series of random compiler errors, I gave up and fired up X. For some reason, the installer had decided not to install Enlightenment (though it did install esound), instead presenting me with Gnome on top of Sawfish.
Overcoming my initial surprise, I configured a dialup connection using rp3, connected to the net, and proceeded to go looking for the cause of my compilation errors. That's when I found out about kgcc via the 7.0 Beta mailing list archive.
All in all, I'm fairly pleased with distribution so far. Aside from strange compilation problems (kgcc is now my default compiler). RedHat has replaced the regular inetd with xinetd, which uses a system of individual configuration files located in /etc/xinet.d. They've also included USB support as well as support for adsl.
Another subtle change is the use of ext2 partition labels in /etc/fstab. Each partition formatted as part of the install process is labelled with its name. This means, for example, that fsck can understand and use this label when checking that partition, and should a fsck be needed during the boot process, you will see "/root" being fscked instead of "/dev/hda2". RedHat included this feature in RedHat 6.x, but didn't have it enabled as part of the install process. See fstab(5) and e2label(8) for more details on how it works.
RedHat has also completely removed support for ppp from its 'netcfg' configuration program, which I find highly disappointing. While their rp3 tool is nice and colorful, I find myself missing the quick, no-nonsense interface that it used to have.
Everything else in the distribution seems to be the absolute latest version. Fresh versions of sendmail, bind, KDE, gtk, etc... are all provided for installation, along with a slew of new packages not previously included. While you can install a base system with just the first CD, I'd strongly recommend getting both, as there's quite a bit of software that you'll want from the second CD in order to complete your system.
There you have it, my experience with RedHat 7.0 Beta. Hope it's of use.
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Despite grand ambitions of memorializing the events of Sept. 11, this treacle-coated movie from director Stephen Daldry feels cheap and exploitative, as it tells the story of a young boy trying to cope with the grief of losing his father in the World Trade Center. Tom Hanks plays the doomed dad with folksy charm, and Sandra Bullock is great in her few scenes, but lead actor Thomas Horn proves a little tough to embrace as the angry and resentful son.
Starring: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Max von Sydow
Rating: Two stars out of five
Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world, but lurking in the long shadows of this epic tragedy are personal stories of profound loss. We've been told about them, we've seen the victims, but every memorial photo tends to feature a grieving family member standing next to the Stars and Stripes -- ensuring their private loss loses a human scale, and slides into the frosty realm of political optics.
This is not cynicism. It's reality, which is why Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close had such an aura of purpose.
As the first mainstream Hollywood movie to tackle the tragedy of 9/11 head-on, this story based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer takes us into the very private world of Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), an outsider kid who loses his father on the day Lower Manhattan fell.
Oskar doesn't understand why his father had to die. He doesn't understand how to move beyond the loss. Stuck in a scratched groove, Oskar keeps rubbing up against the pain, only to fall back inside it.
Over and over again, we watch this kid with borderline autism attempt to make sense of what happened. But he can't, leaving the book -- and this resulting film adaptation -- with a major problem for a major studio movie: There is no closure, nor is there any genuine catharsis.
Hollywood movies have a very hard time navigating ambiguous space with any conviction, so what the filmmakers are forced to do is write their way around the obstacle, and give us the impression of an emotionally satisfying ending.
It doesn't work. No matter how many shots we see of Sandra Bullock looking concerned, emotionally barren or, by contrast, entirely overwhelmed, the movie fails to deliver anything epic, anything palpably realistic, and, most disappointing, anything remotely satisfying from an emotional perspective.
The whole thing feels contrived and stiff from the moment it opens with the typically dependable Tom Hanks playing dad to Oskar. Director Stephen Daldry (The Hours) offers up treacle-coated frames of father and son bonding over maps of Manhattan and the other four boroughs.
Thomas Schell (Hanks) knows his kid has a hard time relating to people, so he designs a mental scavenger hunt for his son to complete by giving him a key, and asking him to find the right lock.
Of course, just as the challenge has been issued, Dad fails to return home. Oskar spends 9/11 watching TV, waiting for his mother, and, eventually, listening to the answering machine -- and his father's final messages.
Daldry doesn't let us hear every message. Like Oskar and the whole narrative arc, we end up in a frustrating loop.
To fill the frames with action, we're given a repeating motif to hang on to: Oskar sets up meetings with a variety of people, hoping to find out more about his father's last day, and, he hopes, a clue to the lock question.
He tells his mother he's on a quest, and, somewhat surprisingly, she indulges him. She lets her young son traipse off into the wilds of Brooklyn and the Bronx by himself, in the hopes he'll find what he's looking for.
Daldry doesn't linger with the pros and cons of her decision-making, and this amounts to an emotional deficit, where the mother is concerned. We can see that Oskar is angry with his mom, and he feels cheated that his father had to die, but we're never given any decent reason as to why.
This estrangement between mother and son not only cheats Bullock out of some meaningful moments, it strips young Oskar of any viewer sympathy.
In short, the kid is irritating. And being forced to follow a high-maintenance, emotionally aloof, and often rude child through the most loaded chapter of recent history is a tall, tall order.
Despite some great acting work from the ensemble, especially Max von Sydow in a silent role, Daldry didn't really stand a chance at success. The book didn't succeed as a whole, and, without strong source material, the movie was doomed as an epic homage from the get-go. However, it did stand a chance at private success, from an individual perspective, by pulling the rubble of the twin towers into the Schell living room.
If we truly cared about Oskar, and his half-present mother Linda, this movie could have been the soulful salve it clearly wanted to be. But the reel just never delivers the goods, despite a last-ditch effort in the final tableau.
Besides, while the image of a man falling from the towers has built-in pathos, watching it recreated for the big screen just feels crass, cheap and exploitative -- especially when the image is played over and over again in slow motion.
In the end, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close leaves a hole bigger than the pit at Ground Zero, because it not only fails to memorialize the event with any dignity, it turns heartfelt personal tragedy into Hollywood artifice.
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