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Haaye Allah, Ooi Maa, it's Andaz Apna Apna!
Two young men Amar (Aamir Khan) and Prem (Salman Khan) con their fathers (veterans Deven Verma and Jagdeep respectively) to finance trips to win over a wealthy businessman's daughter Raveena (Raveena Tandon), who visits India in search for an ideal match. Why India and Indians? Here's one answer:
Raveena is joined by her assistant Karishma (Karisma Kapoor). They embark on their quest, as do Amar and Prem, whose first meeting involves Prem's iconic Ooi Maa:
Aside: If you've ever wondered why my mentions of Juhi Chawla are almost always accompanied by Haaye Allah ('oh God', or a variant of the phrase). :o)
Amar and Prem exchanged pleasantries (or lack thereof) on the way to their destination (it's hard to beat these lines -- I like the second one, 'circus ka retired bandar', sorry Aamir!)...
...but eventually agreed to a peaceful but fair bout to win over Raveena. Things got complicated thanks to a fundamental lie, bodyguards, a stubborn father, a greedy villain, a twin, and a villain who believed he was part pirate and part superhero!
These elements meant that a high drama quotient complete with twists was inherent. Given that they were combined well, and that it was all very intentional, what followed was nothing short of fantastic, unadulterated, clean comedy. For fear of playing spoiler, here are just ten highlights to illustrate the tremendous scope of the screenplay. I don't think I could do anything to give much away, though -- the film must be experienced to be appreciated. None is kidding when suggesting that every scene is hilarious. Sample these:
1. A quasi-ode to friendship:
2. An encounter with the police:
3. A friendly fight with a reference to a popular ingredient of masala film...
...leading to reminders of episodes of the Ramayan TV series!
4. Amar and Prem the magistrates:
5. Vegetables as handkerchiefs. Honorable mention to Javed Khan (left), who played Ram Singh in Lagaan (2001).
6. A classic buildup to a song -- Ae Lo Ji Sanam (see it here) -- an excellent tune. Am I the only one who thinks the song has 1960s or 1970s written all over it?
7. A classic song in Dil Mera Dhak Dhak Dole (see it here), probably the closest Bollywood has come to an authentic pajama party number. Amar and Raveena were at their finest...
...Prem and Karishma were at it too...
...oh, and so were the bad guys!
8. Crime Master Gogo (Shakti Kapoor), who introduced himself as Mogambo's (Amrish Puri from Mr. India (1987)) nephew was the inexplicable highlight.
9. Paresh Rawal was brilliant in a double role, as Raveena's father and uncle. One a greedy villain, the other a strict administrator.
10. And finally, there was this. Man must not only win over woman, but must, of course, convince her parent(s) of his worth.
Aamir Khan and Salman Khan were perfectly cast, and in retrospect, it's difficult to imagine anyone else in their shoes. If you've ever liked any film with either, consider this mandatory viewing. They were supported extremely well by Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor. The rest of the supporting cast was excellent as well, and ensured that the overall product was nothing short of entertaining.
The film was packed with references to the film fraternity and contained noteworthy guest appearances (Haaye Allah!). There were umpteen references to elements from Indian pop culture, e.g. Crime Master Gogo's hilarious dialogue involving Mr. Bajaj, sung to the tune of a popular commercial for a motorcycle brand of the same name. Or Mr. Bajaj's punctuality related to a brand of timepieces. They were very effective when placed in context.
Having said that, this is also why I think the film doesn't translate very well across cultures. Aamir's Haaye Allah probably wouldn't be as funny if it didn't remind one of an aunt or neighbor who uses the term often, and Salman's Ooi Maa wouldn't be as funny if it didn't remind one of that annoying kid in the park. Subtitles (which were hardly spot on any way) can only capture so much. I don't think this means someone who does not speak Hindi or has never lived in India would not enjoy several portions. I'd just understand if they didn't find it as funny. If you've seen the film, I'd love to know what you think of this.
Andaz Apna Apna is a genuinely well-crafted comedy that hammered away at its mission. When a father yelled at his son, it was to make us laugh. When a villain aimed at a target, it was to make us laugh. When someone was kidnapped, it was to make us laugh. And these efforts resulted in a film that was by every definition a laugh riot, induced by all the silliness that accompanies a nonsensical comedy which is amazingly self-aware and free of tasteless humor.
It is the kind of film that works well in most settings, and has retained its appeal for 15 years now. The jokes get funnier with repeat viewings. Surprisingly, there is more to appreciate each time. Never mind the production values (especially the cinematography and sets, the wardrobe added to the funniness) took a backseat to the acting, dialogue, screenplay, and music. The script was not extraordinary, but the actors buying into it so convincingly was key to their performances, which made the film one for the ages. I highly recommend you see it. For all the nonsensical comedy it contains (which more often than not requires the taking off of thinking caps), it is delightfully intelligent!
Movie rating: 4.75/5 (Best in class!)
My classification: PG (for guns that often don't have bullets!)
Music rating: 3.75/5 (Very good, perfectly integrated)
And finally
If you've visited the Aamir and Salman blogs, you'll know this film truly brought the fan bases of the two together. We cannot get enough of it. That was then...
...and this is now (well, almost; see below):
A sequel?
There were rumors recently (big enough to be picked up by the British Broadcasting Company here) of there being a sequel to this starring the two. The actors have since denied this happening any time soon, but acknowledged at Salman's 10 Ka Dum that fans' continuous insistence might just pay dividends. Continuous it'll always be, gentlemen! If you haven't yet seen the game show episode featuring Aamir, here it is. They enter to a song from the film, their dialogue is from here too. Fun! None of Aamir, Salman, or Raveena have denied interest in a sequel, and all I've heard from Aamir is that it might take a year for Rajkumar Santoshi to even come up with a script for them to review.
Oh, and in case you feel I haven't discussed much of the brilliance of the stunning Raveena Tandon and fabulous Karisma Kapoor (it's all deliberate, you'll know why when you see the film), you are allowed to point fingers ;)
You can also play along with the cast in *your* andaz, and watch in amazement and amusement!
PS: Does anyone know when Salman was nicknamed 'Style bhai'? Was there any correlation with the title to this film?
25 comments:
- Pitu said...
YAYYY! Fabulous write-up on one of my all time fave movies and my fave comedy bar none!!Awesome screencaps too! Some of my fave scenes are-
1) Choodiyon ki dukaan (Aamir-Deven Verma) Aap Aa Aa karenge wo Ui Ui karengi :-D
2) Pocketmaat tera mooh kala :-D
3) Ghode ki dawaii- Sallu ke pet mein dard ;-)
4) Happy Birthday Rabbit. Rabbit nahi Robert. ;-)
5) Light ki kya zaroorat hai? Kisi ko kuchh dekhna dikhana hai kya??
6) Teja main hoon, mark idhar hai :-D
7) Lakhon hazaron omelette!
8) Lolo-Sallu's eyelash fluttering in overdrive!
9) Thode neeche se kudoongi, dard kam hoga ;-)
BTW the reason Ello Ji Sanam is so quaint is coz music diya hai O P Nayyar ne. He was the one who popularized the whole tangewala beat in that era so he was just reprising it in this film.
Yaar tune awesome film ki yaad dila di. Mereko to dialogs yaad hain. I must see it again soon!
- Monday, October 20, 2008
- veracious said...
I'm a non-Indian fan of this film. I found it absolutely hilarious on the first view and have seen a number of times now, loving it on every watch.
I guess it's the acting that sells me the jokes that might be cultural otherwise. I agree comedy can be cultural and I'm sure a lot of things would be funnier if I was Indian but generally the slapstick, the acting, and the film industry references were funny to me. In some ways I see the movie as a parody of a Bollywood movie, and that really makes it work for me, despite the comedy being loud.
I also love it stays like that to the end - it never tries to be a serious movie, even for a moment. Like I told a friend once, "when a character cries in AAA, they're trying to make you laugh, not cry along with them". That kind of sums up the movie. An all-out comedy, and a great one at that.
Thanks for the making of clips, I'll go watch them now. :)
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I really need to watch this again; it was one of the first Hindi films I ever saw and I probably didn't have the same appreciation for it then that I would now (although I did like it, then, but don't remembering finding it hilarious). Fingers crossed for a sequel!
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Nicki said...
Thanks for the memories. It's been a while since I seen the movie! It was so great to see Aamir and Salman side-by-side again too. Lolo and Rav's fashion sense was a laughter for me just now. WTH? But AAA is definitely one of my all-time fave comedies.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Adab! I'll add this to my list theBollywoodFan. Now that I know that,"there were umpteen references to elements from Indian pop culture," that may make it a bit confusing for someone like me, I'll at least have this post for some crib notes. :)
Looks like a must see.
All the best,
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Thank you all for your comments!
Hi Pitu: Your favorite scenes are all very, very funny! Thanks for sharing. How about this one to round it off at 10? Sir, yeh Vasco da Gama ki gun hai. Sir: Kis ke mama ki gun hai? :D The bit with Mehmood was a lot of fun too!
As for Aello Ji Sanam, I do agree that Tushar Bhatia's music to it was probably meant as a tribute to O. P. Nayyar (unless Nayyar provided the music to this one song himself, of which I'm unaware). When I saw Kashmir Ki Kali, I thought of the song in particular. The initial disguise, colors, the wardrobe, the choreography, the chorus, the supporting actors, about everything in the song seems to be a tribute to Kashmir Ki Kali and O. P. Nayyar!
Hi Veracious, welcome, and thank you very much for your comment! It is a great parody of a Bollywood movie, and I particularly enjoyed your description as follows: "when a character cries in AAA, they're trying to make you laugh, not cry along with them". Well said!
Hi Memsaab: It'd be great to know your thoughts now that you could probably relate to it so much better. And a sequel would be unbelievable. I'd bet all the talk of this having not done well at the box office, which is one of a rumor myth, or mystery, would be dismissed. And I'd hope it'd star Raveena and Karisma too -- they're all perfect for the role!
Hi Nicki: They've been very good friends for a long time now. And they were both great in this -- I tried to have the same number of screenshots with them :)
The wardrobe for Lolo and Ravs might have been very intentional (it only added to the comedy), and with a high WTH quotient, yes! AAA deserves to be in an all-time favorite comedies list.
Adab Sita-ji! I'd love to hear your take on this. You'll find plenty to discuss in your review! ;) As Veracious says, it's the acting that makes this work so well. Just see them all so into their roles, at the very least, is a treat.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I love this film exactly for the same reasons as veracious. Its such a brilliant parody of 70s masala and never gets serious - not even for a second!
The Ae lo ji number is a direct lift of an old O. P. Nayyar song Banda parvar thaam lo jigar from Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon right down to locations, costumes and choreography, with just the lyrics, singers (and of course) actors different!
And the Bajaj reference - Humara Bajaj - referred to the ad for India's then most popular family transport - the Bajaj scooter. The Kawasaki Bajaj motorbike was serenaded quite differently (dont remember the ad for it).
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Rum said...
lolol I adore this movie, it rocks! though i did notice the far to obvious sexual imagery of aamir pajama hat going up and down when singing with raveena! all i could think was "batameez!" but then again govinda was vulgar in those days too!
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Shweta Mehrotra Gahlawat said...
I am pretty certain that "Ae Lo Ji Sanam' was largely inspired from "Phir wohi dil laya hoon", even down to the song choreography.
Gosh I love this movie- Sallu almost relicated its greatness w/ Judwa, but 2 Salmans cant make up for 1 Salman + 1 Amir :)
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Good review with nice videos. I love this film, especially the word oie maa,!
I have watched this film more than 50 times, but still can't get enough.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Pitu said...
Haha you mean Wah Wah Productions? Yup, Mehmood was hilarious in that. BTW he reprised his role in the old movie Pyar Kiye Ja in AAA. In Pyar Kiye Ja also he played a film director who names his banner Wah Wah Productions. One of my fave scenes in Pyar Kiye Ja is when Mehmood describes the following scene from his upcoming film-
"hero ko baap ne ghar se nikal diya. wo bechara gali se ja raha tha to ek kutte ne use dekha aur use dekhakar kutte ki ankhon mein aasoo aa gaye. kyunki us kutte ko dus saal pehle hero ne biscuit khilaye the. special directorial touch ye hai ke kutte ki ankhon ke closeup shot ke baad baarish hone lagti hai, kyunki duniya bhar ke kutte ro rahe hain" :-D
BTW O P Nayyar did compose music for Ello Ji Sanam. See this link-
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi all, and thank you for your comments!
Bollyviewer: That Bajaj scooter commercial was so iconic, wasn't it? And rather patriotic too. Humaara kal, hamaara aaj; Buland Bhaarat ki buland tasveer; Hamara Bajaj! I remember it from the Wagle Ki Duniya days (I think it was around then, oh well) :)
Bollyviewer and Shweta: Thank you so much for sharing 'Banda parvar thaam lo jigar' -- what a tribute! Even the lyrics imply a response of sorts, that's great!
Shweta: Ditto to that equation! I'll hope to check out Judwaa soon!
Rum: AAA rocks, that says it all! The hat, I can dismiss as a reference to a heart beat ('dhak dhak dole') ;) Assuming it wasn't that, it was subtle enough. In my humble opinion, it would be a disservice to the film and to Govinda to compare any portion of it to the kind of (cheap in many cases, frankly) humor the latter resorted to in the 1990s, which was disappointing, because he is a very good actor :'( Then again, as the title suggests, to each his own! :P
Saurabh: Glad to know you've enjoyed it that many times! I haven't been counting, but I'd estimate it's second only to Lagaan in my viewing history :) The Ooi Maas were a lot of fun, I especially like the one when entering the bus, and the one at the end of the song in #7 above. That's classic! I just laughed out loud again to it.
Pitu: That scene from Pyar Kiye Ja is *hilarious*, thanks for sharing! Duniya bhar ke kutte ro rahe hain, ROTFL...I'll have to see the film now.
The web seems to be divided over O. P. Nayyar and Andaz Apna Apna. In addition to the link you provided, I found this on Rediff that says that it was him. However, the opening credits in the film have Tushar Bhatia listed as the music director, and this biography (also on Rediff, the flip floppers! :P) had the following to say: Tusshar Bhatia doffed his hat at the veteran by composing in the Nayyar idiom in Andaaz Apna Apna's Elloji sanam hum aa gaye. Jo bhi hai, the song is great!
Cheers! Again, thank you all!
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- S said...
This one is one of my favorites...I have seen it so many times and still enjoy this movie every time I see it...
- Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Reviewer: Thank you for stopping by. It really is one of those films in which there's something new to appreciate with each viewing, which leaves us with a sentiment on the lines of, "and how did I miss that?"
- Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- dunkdaft said...
HEY, Thanks for stopping by my blog. there is some effect in rehman's songs that they sound great before watching the movie. after watching on screen, characters get stuck to those songs, so we cant imagine anything else.
andaz apna apna is ALL time great comedy to me. Aaila...is a tagline for Aamir.
So much hillarious was 'dil karta hai tere paas aaun' song. The Shammi kapoor effect. And that 'danda' at last raveena shoots at him.
And the other scene, where Sallu goes to loo again again.
BTW music of the movie is not by OP. as one comment is there. I forgot, but it is by a younger director.
I remember Juhi's cameo was so hot on those days. Everybody was talking, that look Juhi will come.
No sequel reqd for this please.
It shall be untouched.
And 'Stylebhai' was tagged after Maine Pyar Kiya, because of his Manly look over the movie. With cars, boxing and stuff like that.
- Wednesday, October 22, 2008
- Kanan said...
My my! whatta post!!!! it's been ages since I saw this one so my memory is very vague but I remember the Sallu stomach upset scene very vividly (lol) and Amar quarrelling wiht his father.
Btw, did you know? in Mere Mehboob, Johnny Walker frequently referred his love interest and Anwar's love interest as their "haaye allah".
I think in Ishq they tried to do something similar to this film but it didn't come any closer to this one.
I can't wait to go watch this one again now!
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Darshit: That song with Aamir and Raveena was great! Hilarious, indeed. And Salman was great too.
The music, as noted above, was by Tushar Bhatia; because it was intended to sound so similar to O. P. Nayyar's work, it is easy to mistake it for his product. There seem to be many news outlets online that have incorrectly credited him with it.
I'd really like a sequel to this, but if and only if it will star Aamir, Salman, Raveena, and Karisma. One without the others would not be the same, and I think Rajkumar Santoshi knows that.
Juhi will always be great no matter the extent of her appearance, and the film! :)
And thanks for the note on 'Style bhai'. It makes sense; Maine Pyaar Kiya had so much, I really liked his jacket there!
Thanks for stopping by!
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Kanan! Thank you for your comment, and glad you enjoyed the post. That scene with Salman is very popular, and Amar and his father were great (refer to Pitu's post above; it has some related dialogue, #1).
I haven't seen Mere Mehboob, now I know I should, and fast! Thanks for sharing that bit on 'Haaye Allah' :)
Agree with you on Ishq. Andaz Apna Apna is better in so many ways. Have fun watching it again! Cheers!
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
- ajnabi said...
I'm so happy to read about this movie: it looks like it's right up my alley. :-) I'll definitely have to add it to the ever-growing queue. :-D
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
I hope you enjoy it Ajnabi. Just buy into it, and there's no reason you won't! Do discuss it when you see it!
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
All: I saw this on Aamir's blog today, in his own words. Thought you might find it interesting:
...a sequel to AAA would be great. But first a script has to be written which there is no sign of. Then both Salman I have to like it. So doesn't look like it is happening.
- Sunday, November 09, 2008
Hmmm... means there is not even a single sign of a sequel. If they make a sequel, it would surely be a hit!
- Monday, November 10, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
I know, right! At least we have the actors saying (as Salman has said before too on his show, I think) that a sequel would be 'great'. Who knows...let's hope in perhaps three-four years?! :)
- Monday, November 10, 2008
I found another good line "Main tau kehta hoon ki aap purush hi nahin hain... Aap tau mahapurush hain, mahapurush (I say that you are not even a man... you are superman!) Isn't it a funny line?
- Wednesday, December 10, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Of course, Saurabh! That's still hilarious every time it is used! Good one.
- Wednesday, December 10, 2008


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This term's Petits Chefs club is a smaller group of boys since it's also a huge term for sports teams but I have a dedicated group who seem really excited to be learning some cooking skills and recipes. Since the smaller group is a little easier to manage, I have decided to use Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution cookbook as my guide, thus enabling me to bring in little snippets of my thoughts on the show which I am following. I certainly don't mean to "preach" to the boys but education is the first step in any change and I think discussing some of the issues raised on the show will be great to get them thinking about what they eat and where it comes from.
Ok, enough of all that, onto this week's recipe! I was thinking "spring" since the weather has been gorgeous. Nothing says spring like peas so I was drawn to the Mini Shell Pasta with a Creamy Smoked Bacon and Pea sauce.
We actually used sour cream instead of crème fraîche since that is so hard to find in Toronto (well during a 30 minute break, that is!). I used full-fat sour cream since there were only 2 tablespoons in the recipe, I would rather eat a small amount of a full-fat product than a bucket of low or non-fat with all those chemicals and unpronounceable ingredients. I also couldn't find fresh peas at short notice so I made sure to use organic frozen ones.
We started by dicing the bacon. I made the boys remove some of the fat since some rashers contained a lot. Even when we cooked it, there was still a lot of fat we had to drain from the pan.
We picked the mint leaves off the stalks and rolled the leaves, cutting them into fine strips:
Grated the cheese:
Then we got cooking:
Isn't it beautiful? It tasted amazing – a combination of the mint and lemon juice really brought out the "spring" in this dish! From start to finish, including packing the dishwasher, about 40 minutes so definitely one I would add to my repertoire, considering I generally have all those ingredients on hand at home.
Bravo petits chefs!
Jamie Oliver's mini shell pasta with peas, bacon and mint sauce
10 slices smoked streaky bacon or pancetta, preferably free-range or organic
a small bunch of fresh mint
150g Parmesan cheese
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
optional: 1 chicken stock cube, preferably organic
400g dried mini shell pasta
olive oil
a knob of butter
300g frozen peas
2 heaped dessertspoons crème fraîche (we used sour cream)
1 lemon
Main courses, Serves 4-6
Jamie says: This is one of the dishes I cook for my kids, but to be honest, it's so good that me and Jools always eat it too! Mini pasta shells are actually meant to be added to soups, but they're quick and easy to cook, which makes them a good thing to serve with pasta sauces. All in all this should take you no more than five and a half minutes to cook. However, if you decide to go for a bigger type of pasta, remember that it will need more time to cook than these mini shells.
To prepare your pasta
Finely slice the bacon
Pick the mint leaves and discard the stalks
Finely grate the Parmesan
To cook your pasta
Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and drop in the stock cube (if using)
Stir until it's dissolved, then add the mini shells and cook according to the packet instructions
Get a large frying pan over a medium heat and add a good lug of olive oil and the butter
Add the bacon to the pan, sprinkle a little pepper over and fry until golden and crisp
Meanwhile, finely chop your mint leaves
As soon as the bacon is golden, add your frozen peas and give the pan a good shake
After a minute or so, add the crème fraîche and chopped mint to the bacon and peas
Drain the pasta in a colander over a large bowl, reserving some of the cooking water
Add the pasta to the frying pan
Halve your lemon and squeeze the juice over the pasta
When it's all bubbling away nicely, remove from the heat
The sauce should be creamy and delicious but if it's too thick for you, add a splash of the reserved cooking water to thin it out a bit
Add the grated Parmesan and give the pan a shake to mix it in
To serve your pasta
Divide your pasta between plates or bowls, or put it on the table in a large serving dish and let everyone help themselves
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Question: Why are we stopped here?
I see this question a lot, with "here" referring to many various points along the alignment. Very rarely do people get on the MAX train just to sightsee where it happens to go (though I have seen tourists do this). Instead, generally people on board have places they need to be and buses they need to catch, and as a result they get anxious when a train is stopped longer than a normal platform dwell time.
The most common cause is typically waiting for other trains to clear, and frequent "hot spots" where the wait is most likely due to rail traffic include:
Steel Bridge
All roads (well, MAX lines) lead to the Steel Bridge, and as a result you can find yourself waiting to cross it since all trains go through here. And of course, if there is a bridge lift, maritime traffic takes priority over rail so you'll also be waiting if that happens, to say nothing of the delays from trains stacking up during the lift.
Red Line train crossing the Steel Bridge
Under normal operating conditions, a delay might happen on the span itself. A westbound Red or Blue Line train like the one pictured above will be held at signal 14 if a Green or Yellow Line train is crossing the bridge heading toward Rose Quarter. The reason for this is that the tracks cross each other:
This angle looking down on the western side of the bridge works well to illustrate this since the sun is reflecting off the rails making them easier to see. The two tracks coming straight down in the middle of the bottom of the picture are for Yellow and Green Line trains. The ones going off to the bottom right corner are for Red and Blue Line trains. You can see that a westbound Blue or Red train (coming in from the left track at the top of the picture) needs to cross the path of an eastbound Yellow or Green to continue into the Old Town/Chinatown platform. An eastbound Red/Blue does not have this conflict with a westbound Yellow/Green, so you won't see those trains waiting, but westbound Reds and Blues will wait on the span until the incoming Yellow or Green is clear.
Signal 10 at Old Town/Chinatown – the switches are set but the cars crossing in front of the train still have a green light (pre-empt signal refresher)
Similarly, if a conflicting move is in progress or switches aren't yet set properly, trains waiting to cross the bridge eastbound will be held. This is why you may find yourself waiting at Old Town/Chinatown on a Red or Blue train – your operator is waiting for a permissive aspect on signal 10, but won't get one if a Yellow or Green is starting to go eastbound over the bridge (and those trains can be held at signal M26) if a Red or Blue is already crossing.
On the other side of the bridge is Rose Quarter, which is complicated enough to get its own post. In short, Reds, Blues, and Greens can generally move through here without conflict (e.g. you can have a westbound Blue leaving RQ at the same time an eastbound Green comes in without any problems) but since the Yellow Line turns north here and crosses the other tracks, Yellow Line trains can only move through the Rose Quarter interlocking at the same time as other Yellow Line trains.
Two Yellow Line trains making a parallel move
So if you are sitting westbound at Rose Quarter for longer than expected and there's no bridge lift in progress, most likely your operator is waiting for a Yellow Line to get out of the way. And on the flip side, if you're on a Yellow Line sitting at IRQ waiting to cross the river into downtown, there's probably a Red, Green, or Blue going through that has to clear before you can move. Trains heading off the span into Rose Quarter may be held at signal 16G if a conflicting move is in progress.
The fishhook (not used to catch prostitutes) is the biggest time sink at Gateway. It's a curving stretch of single track with a 10mph speed limit used to connect Red Lines with the alignment going north on I-205 toward the airport. In the above picture, the track diverging to the right off the eastbound main is the start of the fishhook. Since Red Line trains use this to come in and out of Gateway, in this part of the alignment where the picture was taken, westbound Reds will actually be traveling in the eastbound mainline for a short distance. So if you're on an eastbound train at Gateway not going anywhere, take a look to your right over toward the fishhook. The odds are good that an inbound Red Line got through their signals before your train's operator selected at Gateway, and it's making its way up the fishhook into Gateway. Your train can't move until they're clear.
Red Line coming off the fishhook as a Green Line waits in the auxiliary track
Green Line train heading into Gateway from Clackamas
There can also be delays for Green Lines coming in to Gateway, but since that alignment has double track, it does not present the same problems as the single track fishhook does (sometimes a brief wait at the SE Main St platform or at the intermediate signal if a Blue Line is going through here).
Downtown/Goose Hollow with Conga Lines
The above picture is something of an extreme example from an evening when a switch by Beaverton TC broke and trains were backed up all through downtown. But it's not uncommon for trains to end up forming a conga line during rush hour. In this picture, the platforms are near each other and it's not a problem (from a safety perspective) for the trains to be that close. However, once they get to Goose Hollow, they move into ABS territory which involves much greater spacing between trains and trains traveling at higher speeds. A westbound train at Goose Hollow can't proceed until its leader passes a signal in the tunnel prior to the Washington Park platform. You'll hear the train waiting to proceed call this in on the radio as being "on a red at Goose" – because you can't see into the Goose Hollow platform until you're almost into it, trains waiting at Goose Hollow will let Control and their followers know that they're occupying the platform, in which case the train behind can wait at Kings Hill instead of at the intersection right before the platform.
ABS Territory – Intermediate signals
If you've ever been on a train in ABS territory (in particular east of Hillsboro but west of Goose Hollow and east of Lloyd Center to PDX, Gateway, or Clackamas) and the train slows to a crawl between platforms, sometimes coming to a full stop before resuming normal speed, that means your operator was approaching a red ABS signal:
This is a safety measure in high-speed travel areas. There are intermediate signals between many of the platforms, and if your leader is still between the signal in front of you and the next signal, your train will have a red light that will trip you if you try to go past it. This prevents trains from getting too close at high speeds. Passengers won't always notice this one, because it's generally preferable to drop your speed and creep up to the signal hoping it turns yellow before you get there instead of immediately coming to a stop when you see a red (it's best to avoid stopping a train away from a platform when possible). But if you get all the way up to the signal and it's still red, your operator will stop the train until the signal turns yellow. This informs the operator that the train in front of them is now far enough ahead that it is safe to proceed.
Waiting for Relief
Aside from areas where trains are stopped while waiting for other trains to clear, I've also seen people ask why trains have to switch operators while still in service. Although there are some tripper trains that will just go yard to yard or make one round trip and then go back to the yard, most trains are in service all day. So each line has relief points built in where one operator's shift ends and another's begins. For the Red Line, this is Beaverton TC and as a result you won't notice any delay because the relief will happen while the train is on layover. For the Blue Line, reliefs are generally at either Elmonica or Ruby Junction, though there are a couple of runs that are relieved at Beaverton TC and Gateway. For the Yellow and Green Lines, all reliefs are at Gateway.
I've mentioned this before, but a relief operator will call into Control with their train number and the word "relief". After Control acknowledges the call, the relief operator responds with their badge number and lets the controller know if he or she is signed in and has train orders. The controller will let the operator know if there's anything important going on they should know about (sporting event, service disruption, etc).
Generally speaking this process does not take long so these aren't long delays, but more importantly, there is time built into the schedule for reliefs:
This is an excerpt from a paddle, or rail schedule. The plus sign after the time means 30 seconds. So to read this, the train arrives into Gateway heading toward PSU at 1:28:30pm But that train is not scheduled to depart until 1:30:30pm, giving the relief operator two minutes to call Control.
This is one of those little things I wish TriMet would publicize – I know passengers get frustrated because from their perspective, they're sitting at a station for 2 minutes not doing anything, and now they think they're late. However, they're actually not late at all, the schedule is designed for the relief and the train will be leaving when it is supposed to.
Other Delays
These were the main reasons why a train will be stopped for longer than normal platform dwell service. Of course, countless things could come up in a day that will cause delays and result in trains holding – police activity, medical emergencies, a train or alignment malfunction, a car in the right of way (since that seems to happen about once a week). In those instances, your operator will likely be doing what they can to keep you posted as information about the delay and when things will be moving again becomes available. However, if you've been sitting for 3 or 4 minutes without any explanation, it's ok to use the emergency intercom and ask what's going on – operators are trained to keep passengers informed (even a "Ladies and gentlemen we've been asked to hold here, I will let you know when we will be moving again" when Control doesn't give an explanation for the hold is better than not saying anything at all to passengers).
How you can help prevent delays
Given the delays that can happen around the Steel Bridge, Rose Quarter, and Gateway if trains aren't on schedule, it's important for passengers to do their part and not contribute to any delays. Much like how a green light will eventually turn yellow and then red when you're driving, a train won't have a permissive signal indefinitely. If you're downtown, on Interstate, or on Burnside, you can see the signal start to time out when it does this:
A train can't enter the intersection when a pre-empt is displaying this aspect because it won't clear the intersection before cross traffic gets a green light. ABS and ABS-pre-empt combination signals will go back to red when they time out.
Although you might think it's polite to hold the door open for someone running for the train or trying to buy a ticket, what you are actually doing is making the operator miss their signal because it timed out and now they have to wait again. This can mean your train will be late getting to one of those traffic-heavy areas, and what you thought would just be a short delay to help a late-runner has turned into a 5 minute or more delay. On the transit mall, causing a train to miss a signal not only delays your train but buses as well.
And yes, it bears repeating, this is also why an operator is not likely to reopen the doors if the train is stopped with the doors closed even if you come running up to it. Once an operator calls the signal, it's time to be ready to move as soon as the signal is permissive. This helps the train stay on schedule and minimizes the likelihood of interrupting everyone's trip by needing to stop and wait further down the alignment.


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The F.B.I. investigation that toppled the director of the C.I.A. and has now entangled the top American commander in Afghanistan underscores a danger that civil libertarians have long warned about: that in policing the Web for crime, espionage and sabotage, government investigators will unavoidably invade the private lives of Americans.
On the Internet, and especially in e-mails, text messages, social network postings and online photos, the work lives and personal lives of Americans are inextricably mixed. Private, personal messages are stored for years on computer servers, available to be discovered by investigators who may be looking into completely unrelated matters.
In the current F.B.I. case, a Tampa, Fla., woman, Jill Kelley, a friend both of David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, and Gen. John R. Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, was disturbed by a half-dozen anonymous e-mails she had received in June. She took them to an F.B.I. agent whose acquaintance with Ms. Kelley (he had sent her shirtless photos of himself — electronically, of course) eventually prompted his bosses to order him to stay away from the investigation.
But a squad of investigators at the bureau's Tampa office, in consultation with prosecutors, opened a cyberstalking inquiry. Although that investigation is still open, law enforcement officials have said that criminal charges appear unlikely.
In the meantime, however, there has been a cascade of unintended consequences. What began as a private, and far from momentous, conflict between two women, Ms. Kelley and Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus's biographer and the reported author of the harassing e-mails, has had incalculable public costs.
The C.I.A. is suddenly without a permanent director at a time of urgent intelligence challenges in Syria, Iran, Libya and beyond. The leader of the American-led effort to prevent a Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is distracted, at the least, by an inquiry into his e-mail exchanges with Ms. Kelley by the Defense Department's inspector general.
For privacy advocates, the case sets off alarms.
"There should be an investigation not of the personal behavior of General Petraeus and General Allen, but of what surveillance powers the F.B.I. used to look into their private lives," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an interview. "This is a textbook example of the blurring of lines between the private and the public."
Law enforcement officials have said they used only ordinary methods in the case, which might have included grand jury subpoenas and search warrants. As the complainant, Ms. Kelley presumably granted F.B.I. specialists access to her computer, which they would have needed in their hunt for clues to the identity of the sender of the anonymous e-mails. While they were looking, they discovered General Allen's e-mails, which F.B.I. superiors found "potentially inappropriate" and decided should be shared with the Defense Department.
In a parallel process, the investigators gained access, probably using a search warrant, to Ms. Broadwell's Gmail account. There they found messages that turned out to be from Mr. Petraeus.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said the chain of unexpected disclosures was not unusual in computer-centric cases.
"It's a particular problem with cyberinvestigations — they rapidly become open-ended because there's such a huge quantity of information available and it's so easily searchable," he said, adding, "If the C.I.A. director can get caught, it's pretty much open season on everyone else."
For years now, as national security officials and experts have warned of a Pearl Harbor cyberattack that could fray the electrical grid or collapse stock markets, policy makers have jostled over which agencies should be assigned the delicate task of monitoring the Internet for dangerous intrusions.
Advocates of civil liberties have been especially wary of the National Security Agency, whose expertise is unrivaled but whose immense surveillance capabilities they see as frightening. They have successfully urged that the Department of Homeland Security take the leading role in cybersecurity.
That is in part because the D.H.S., if far from entirely open to public scrutiny, is much less secretive than the N.S.A., the eavesdropping and code-breaking agency. To this day, N.S.A. officials have revealed almost nothing about the warrantless wiretapping it conducted inside the United States in the hunt for terrorists in the years after 2001, even after the secret program was disclosed by The New York Times in 2005 and set off a political firestorm.
The hazards of the Web as record keeper, of course, are a familiar topic. New college graduates find that their Facebook postings give would-be employers pause. Husbands discover wives' infidelity by spotting incriminating e-mails on a shared computer. Teachers lose their jobs over impulsive Twitter comments.
But the events of the last few days have shown how law enforcement investigators who plunge into the private territories of cyberspace looking for one thing can find something else altogether, with astonishingly destructive results.
Some people may applaud those results, at least in part. By having a secret extramarital affair, for instance, Mr. Petraeus was arguably making himself vulnerable to blackmail, which would be a serious concern for a top intelligence officer. What if Russian or Chinese intelligence, rather than the F.B.I., had discovered the e-mails between the C.I.A. director and Ms. Broadwell?
Likewise, military law prohibits adultery — which General Allen's associates say he denies committing — and some kinds of relationships. So should an officer's privacy really be total?
But some commentators have renewed an argument that a puritanical American culture overreacts to sexual transgressions that have little relevance to job performance. "Most Americans were dismayed that General Petraeus resigned," said Mr. Romero of the A.C.L.U.
That old debate now takes place in a new age of electronic information. The public shaming that labeled the adulterer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" might now be accomplished by an F.B.I. search warrant or an N.S.A. satellite dish.


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Justin Timberlake to Drop '20/20′ Sequel in November?
Justin Timberlake's third album, 'The 20/20 Experience,' is not even in stores yet but already a sequel is reportedly in the works. Questlove broke the news that another 10-song album will be released in November.
During a discussion in the OkayPlayer forum about a New York Times review on 'The 20/20 Experience' (spotted by VIBE), the Roots drummer chimed in on his thoughts about the album. The post was titled "this is hardly Ether" and he writes:
i will say the album is OVERLY ambitious. like a LOT of ideas crammed into one.
spoiler alert. 20/20 Vol 2 comes out in nov. (10 songs now...10 songs later= 20 vision)
i admire the balls it took to make this record. cause he coulda easily urshurd his work in and made diplo his teddy riley to 20/20′s dangerous instead of sticking with timb's Quincy.
feel me?
i like throwback Timb. (he played me songs out of order and off both records so i don't know what made the final cut) so i was shocked he wasn't 4 on the flooring it like the timb of 2005 was doing. like these joints were straight up missy/magoo timb and justin said he wanted timb to "get back in his real zone" even if it meant alienating the tweens born after 86 who never ever heard of the sly slick and wicked
i mean suit and tie is the MOST UNLIKELY james brown production reference."
Questlove is a little long-winded, but he's absolutely correct with his assessment. Also, Justin releasing a follow-up album in November is really exciting and very ambitious of the young crooner.
Justin Timberlake will drop 'The 20/20 Experience' on Tuesday (March 19).
Watch Justin Timberlake Perform 'Strawberry Bubblegum' on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'


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Robert Munsch
Telling stories is what Robert Munsch does — and loves best. From the first time he stood in front of a group of children as a student teacher at a nursery school in 1972, his jaunty, animated presentation grabbed hold of the imaginations of his listeners and he hasn't let go since.Before he puts a story to paper, Munsch spends up to three years telling, revising and fine-tuning the tale in front of his rapt audiences. "I figured out once that the stories the kids kept requesting came to two percent of my total output," he says. But once he discovered how to capture the spontaneity of his narratives in written form, he was on his way to being a successful and sought-after author.Munsch has published dozens of books in both Canada and the United States. His first efforts, The Mud Puddle and The Dark, were published in 1979 and the runaway bestseller Love You Forever was first published in 1986. All of his characters are believably spunky, stubborn and endearing children, while his story lines tend to challenge conventions and stereotypes.Munsch describes his stories as "middle of the road taboo." When he uses words like pee and underwear, "the kids go absolutely bananas." As for the parents, "Eighty percent think it's really neat; the other twenty percent ask, 'How could you?'"Robert Munsch lives in Ontario, Canada, and continues to perform his own tales — often without advance notice — for day care centers, schools, and libraries.


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The Mandalorians are coming up in the next episode of the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars series.
But, it appears, these aren't the same Mandalorians. In fact, Karen Traviss, the author who took the original stories -- starting in vintage Marvel comics and developed further by Andy Mangels until the drastic changes in Episode II -- allegedly quit over related issues.
On the StarWars.com blog, regarding the upcoming Star Wars Insider #115 cover story, some fan comments to note:
- FettFan1861: "Mandalorian pacifists??? Who is the idiot that came up with that crap? Wipe out all of Traviss's work for a cartoon and make the greatest warriors in the SWU into a bunch of pacifists? Just when you dont think LA [LucasArts] can get any worse they pull a stunt like this. All I can say is wow..."
- Rax-Nibune: "I hope that the episode truly explains the Mandolorians culture and history; As the word Mandolorian never actually made it into any of the movies and I feel although Mandos have been good in the EU, its high time they get the proper representation on the main screen."
- dakota66: "I hope so too. No wonder Karen Traviss stopped doing Star Wars novels, because the MANDOS are coming to the CLONE WARS."
- delta_commando: "I really hope the Clone Wars depicts the Mandalorians as how we've read about them in the comics and the books."


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The family and estate of Joe Paterno and others are adding Penn State as a "nominal defendant" in a lawsuit against the NCAA over the university's penalties for the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
The amended complaint filed Wednesday in county court near State College also provides details about the difficulties Paterno's son and another former Penn State assistant coach have had in finding work.
A statement by Paterno family lawyer Wick Sollers says the lawsuit isn't seeking anything from Penn State.
The university fired Paterno following the 2011 arrest of his longtime former assistant on child sex abuse charges.
The filing comes after a judge said the lawsuit's breach-of-contract claims couldn't continue unless Penn State was named as a party. A Penn State spokesman offered no immediate comment.


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April 8, 2013 -- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently held its biennial election of
directors. Of the 18 elected members of the consortium's 2010-2012 Board of Directors, 15 serving members were re-elected and three new members have been seated. The new OGC board members are Christopher Holmes, Walter Scott and Geoff Zeiss.
Chris Holmes is the Chairman and Founder of OpenGeo, a social enterprise that builds web-based geospatial technology. Chris is a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) Board Member, an Open Internet Tools Steering Committee Member, and the Chairman of the Project Steering Committee of GeoServer. He has given keynote addresses at geospatial and open source conferences around the world. Chris is a Stanford graduate and a 2005 Fulbright Scholar.
Dr. Walter S Scott is Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of DigitalGlobe, which he founded in 1992. Dr. Scott is responsible for the development of its spaceborne imaging systems, US Government strategy, leadership of DG Labs (DigitalGlobe's R&D efforts), and technical oversight for engineering and technology across DigitalGlobe. He has been responsible for a number of industry "firsts" in commercial and defense related Earth imaging. A member of the National Research Council Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program, Dr. Scott is also on the Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) and was a member of the Committee on Earth Studies in 1997-98.
Geoff Zeiss, Ph.D., is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. Geoff has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial industry and 15 years experience working in enterprise geospatial infrastructure management with some of the largest utilities and communications organizations in the US and around the world, primarily as Director Utility Industry Program, Autodesk, Inc. Geoff has served on the boards of directors of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA US), Geospatial Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO). He has participated on the Public Advisory Committee for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), and supported open standards through several organizations, including the OGC, in which he represented Autodesk at Technical Committee meetings. Geoff is a frequent speaker at major geospatial industry events around the world.
Returning to the OGC board are: Philippe Delclaux, Steve Hagan, Jeffrey Harris, Mike Jackson, Michael Jones, Sanjay Kumar, Vanessa Lawrence, Jacqueline McGlade, Jack Pellicci, Jeff Peters, Kevin Pomfret, Francois Robida, Velu Sinha, Christopher Tucker, and Rob van de Velde.
Two OGC staff members, Jeff Burnett and Mark Reichardt, are members of the Board by appointment.
Jeffrey Harris, Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, said, "We are delighted that Walter Scott, Geoff Zeiss and Chris Holmes have joined our Board. Their expertise and comprehensive understanding of geospatial technologies will allow the OGC Board to anticipate and address the needs of the consortium in this dynamic, global, interoperable marketplace. It's important for our Board to have intimate knowledge about the markets we serve. We look forward to Chris, Walter and Geoff's leadership as members of the OGC Board."
The OGC Board and staff thank Dr. John Curlander and John Olesak for their valuable service as they depart the Board. The Board and staff and the whole OGC community mourn the passing of Board member Stefano Morisi, who died 13 January 2013.
About the OGC
The OGC is an international consortium of more than 480 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.


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When you leave the house, someone else may be wearing the same clothes, but no one else will be wearing your custom-designed, finely hand-crafted piece of jewelry.
When you leave the house, someone else may be wearing the same clothes, but no one else will be wearing your custom-designed, finely hand-crafted piece of jewelry.
If you have been stressing out about finding the perfect engagement ring in Sangre-de-cri, CO, you are not alone! Women tend to get stressed out, because an engagement ring is such a vital aspect in proclaiming love, fidelity, and ultimate commitment. Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement rings are not just beautiful pieces of jewelry; they are also symbols of the relationship that is being entered into.
BC Custom Jewelry - What We Offer
BC Custom Jewelry understands how important Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement rings are to the women (and men) who buy them, and that is why we do not simply offer a select stock of engagement rings to our customers. What we offer is much more customized and personal. We prefer to provide you with our custom designed jewelry, rather than generic settings that are placed on the traditional band.
Forget all of the generic engagement rings in Sangre-de-cri, CO that you have been feeling let down about. We provide you with your choice of metals, settings, center stone shape, center stone carat size, and much more for your Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement ring. You can essentially show us pictures of the different Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement rings that you have been looking at, tell us what you think each one was missing, in your opinion, and we will take all of your thoughts, visions, and concerns, and turn them into your dream engagement ring – one that will top any engagement ring in Sangre-de-cri, CO, by far.
History of Engagement Rings
Let's take a look back at the history of engagement rings. Not just the Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement rings that you see in the stores, but engagement rings in general. Did you know that the first exchange of a diamond engagement ring occurred all the way back in 1477? Although a similar ring exchanges had taken place before this time, this is the first diamond engagement ring exchange that is on record. It was Mary Burgundy who received the first engagement ring – the first token of love - from her love, Archduke Maximillian.
Before the diamond engagement ring exchange mentioned above, rings did not have the diamond setting. They were simple bands made of either silver or white gold, if one could afford it, and commoners exchanged bands that were made of iron, because they could not afford the likings of gold and silver. Sometimes, the bands had settings that included inexpensive gems, however diamonds were unheard of until Archduke Maximillian started the tradition.
Symbolism of Engagement Rings
While you were shopping for engagement rings in Sangre-de-cri, CO, you may not have thought about the symbolism that they carry. Yes, there is the symbolism that we mentioned above; the love and the commitment and the fidelity. But, there is further symbolism that many people do not often think about.
Consider the circle and the symbolism of a circle. Then, add that to the metal that is used for the band of the engagement ring. Circles alone offer a geometric symbolism that is sacred. When you look at a circle, you may realize that they do not have a beginning and they never end. This continuum symbolizes renewal, wholeness, eternity and even perfection. Think about circles (or spheres) that are in your world, like the sun, the moon, the planets, and how they all revolve around each other and create life forces, like two beings that are brought together.
Deeper Symbolism
Engagement rings can carry even deeper symbolism. For example, the ring can be made with personal symbolism. Antique engagement rings, like your grandmother's engagement ring, carry a deeper symbolism because it not only stood for the love between your grandmother and grandfather, but now symbolizes your love, as well. Ethnic traditions and family ties can be symbolized with bands like the Celtic engagement rings. The list goes on and on.
Not all engagement rings in Sangre-de-cri, CO can help you capture the symbolism that is in your heart and soul. Even if you visit every Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement ring store available, you may still not find the perfect ring to display how you feel. That is why getting your Sangre-de-cri, CO engagement ring custom made may just be the right answer for you, your relationship and your commitment.
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Hippocrates (hĬpŏk´rətēz), c.460–c.370 BC, Greek physician, recognized as the father of medicine. He is believed to have been born on the island of Cos, to have studied under his father, a physician, to have traveled for some time, perhaps studying in Athens, and to have then returned to practice, teach, and write at Cos. The Hippocratic or Coan school that formed around him was of enormous importance in separating medicine from superstition and philosophic speculation, placing it on a strictly scientific plane based on objective observation and critical deductive reasoning.
Although Hippocrates followed the current belief that disease resulted from an imbalance of the four bodily humors, he maintained that the disturbance was influenced by outside forces and that the humors were glandular secretions. He believed that the goal of medicine should be to build the patient's strength through appropriate diet and hygienic measures, resorting to more drastic treatment only when the symptoms showed this to be necessary. This was in contrast to the contemporary Cnidian school, which stressed detailed diagnosis and classification of diseases to the point of ignoring the patient. Hippocrates probably had an inkling of Mendelian and genomic factors in heredity, because he noted not only many of the signs of disease but also that symptoms could appear throughout a family or a community, or even over successive generations.
Of the large collection of writings that derived from the Coan school, only a few are generally ascribed to Hippocrates himself, although his influence is felt throughout. Of these, The Aphorisms, summing up his observations and deductions, and Airs, Waters, and Places, which recognized a link between environment and disease, are considered the most important. The collection has appeared in a number of translations, notably that of Littré.
While the Hippocratic oath cannot be directly credited to him either, it undoubtedly represents his ideals and principles. The oath, which still governs the ethical conduct of physicians today, is often recited at the graduation ceremonies of medical schools. Among other things the oath details codes of patients's right to privacy, asks the physician to pledge to lead an honorable personal and professional life, and requires that he or she prescribe treatments only for curative purposes.
See studies by W. Smith (1979) and W. Heidel (1981).


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Facebook's S-1 filing in early 2012 came with a rude awakening we're all quite familiar with by now: The world is going mobile, and Facebook's ad business needed to adapt fast in order to keep up with it.
Now, as Facebook prepares to report its second-quarter earnings this afternoon, something has shifted: Wall Street is actually optimistic about Facebook's mobile monetization prospects.
The Street's consensus calls for earnings per share of 14 cents on revenue of $1.62 billion, an estimate up from the EPS of 12 cents on revenue of $1.18 billion reported during Q2 of last year.
"While quarterly results at FB will likely remain volatile, we remain bullish on the direction and growth trajectory of the company," Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia wrote in a research note this week.
The biggest boon for some? The trending surge in Facebook's mobile revenue figures seen in recent quarters.
Mobile revenue accounted for nearly 30 percent of Facebook's ad business in the first quarter of this year, which was already a jump up from 23 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. That's expected by some analysts to grow, albeit slightly, to a daily run rate of nearly $5 million on mobile ads alone.
Facebook has made it clear that at least one of its more recent ad products – mobile app installation ads – has been quite successful in driving growth, and J.P. Morgan's Doug Anmuth expects that to continue.
"We remain bullish as we believe ad dollars are increasingly shifting to online, mobile, and social and we expect Facebook to capture a growing portion of ad budgets going forward," Anmuth wrote in a research note.
The big unknowns are the usuals that we'll be looking for. Will the company break out any metrics beyond its usual stats on daily and monthly active users? That may be something to watch for, given Facebook's increasing competition for mindshare from other mobile-based sites like Snapchat, WhatsApp and International competitors like Line and KakaoTalk.
Perhaps Facebook will detail some engagement-based stats that could rebut the chatter that the social giant is losing its cool with younger audiences.
Another wild card: The oft-speculated eventual appearance of auto-play video ads in the News Feed. Bhatia and Anmuth both expect the ads to debut in the latter half of the year, a potential multibillion-dollar revenue-driving opportunity for the company. "We see online video advertising as a key incremental growth driver for FB in 2014," Bhatia wrote.
And lastly, the payments question still remains. Driven largely by social games on the platform, Facebook's payments business has changed much over the past two years, again a result of the sweeping shift to mobile. Zynga, which once reigned supreme as Facebook's largest gaming partner, has taken a drastic hit as users have moved away from playing games on the desktop to more casual gaming on the phone and tablet.
As a result, Facebook's payments revenue cut has flattened. The past year has seen Facebook try to distance itself from being too connected to Zynga, giving way to the rise of other smaller, more mobile-focused gaming outfits like King and, to a lesser extent, Wooga.
Analysts expect flat sequential revenue in the payments business, though a slight uptick in year-over-year growth.
I'll be covering the print as it hits the wire at 1 pm PT, with a liveblog of the earnings call from my colleague Peter Kafka to follow.


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Mention banana leaf rice in Bangsar and most people would agree that Sri Nirwana Maju serves one of the best banana leaf rice around town. This barebone restaurant is a far cry from the rows of more up-class dining outlets at Jalan Telawi 3. There are no down-lights nor fancy decorations to be found here. Instead, what you get is a good serving of banana leaf rice.
Despite the hoards of customers at this restaurant, service was exceptionally fast. Within minutes, the banana leaf was laid on the table with white rice place on top of the leaf. Then came the deep fried bitter gourd and sliced long beans generously poured beside the rice.
One thing good about banana leaf rice is the unlimited serving of vegetables.
And to compliment the meal, a few crunchy crackers or papadum provides a good appetizer.
We ordered the fried sotong which was nicely marinated and deep fried. Don't forget to squeeze the lime for the tinge of sour taste.
The fried chicken was equally good as well. Although it was a bit cold, I could still taste the richness of the various spices that were used to fried with it.
When it comes to Indian cuisine, I like my dish to be flooded with curry. The combination of main and side dishes mixed together made the meal really delicious. The meal costs RM 28.10 for two people with drinks.
If you want to drop by there for lunch or dinner, be prepared to wait for a table. The restaurant is packed with people almost everyday. Still, what's a fair bit of waiting time compared to the great meal to be had?
Sri Nirwana Maju
43, Jalan Telawi 3
59100 Bangsar Baru
Kuala Lumpur
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Common Health QuestionsBack
Can I take cod liver oil supplements when I'm pregnant?
No. When you're pregnant you shouldn't take any supplements containing vitamin A, also known as retinol. This includes:
- fish liver oil supplements, such as cod liver oil
- high-dose multivitamin supplements
- any supplements containing vitamin A (retinol)
You should also avoid eating liver and liver products, such as liver pâté or liver sausage, as they may contain a lot of vitamin A. Too much vitamin A can harm your unborn baby.
Eating fish when you're pregnant
People usually take fish oil supplements because they contain omega-3 fatty acids. These fatty acids can help protect against heart disease.
It's better to eat fish than take fish oil supplements. Fish is an excellent source of nutrients that are good for your health and your unborn baby's development.
There are some types of fish that you should limit or avoid. For more information, see Why should I avoid some foods during pregnancy?
Read more about vitamins and supplements in pregnancy.
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No. When you're pregnant you shouldn't take any supplements that contain vitamin A. This includes fish liver oil supplements, such as cod liver oil


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IBM is claiming dibbs on what is says is the industry's highest ever TPC-C (transaction processing) benchmark result, hitting a transaction rate of 10,366,254 tpmC (new-order transactions per minute).
This TPC-C benchmark with DB2 9.7 was done with a cluster of three IBM Power 780 servers, each with 8 processors, 64 cores, and 256 threads achieving a throughput of 10,366,254 tpmC.
IBM claims its results are more than 2.5 times better than HP's best result -- an HP Integrity Superdome performing at 4,092,799 tpmC, running on 1 node with a total of 64 processors, 128 cores and 256 threads, 69% greater performance per core.
IBM further claims it's system performed, and more than 35% better than Oracle's best performance result, 2.7 times better performance per core. In addition, IBM calculations on the IBM configuration show it requires 35% less energy per transaction compared to the energy usage data published by Oracle on the Oracle configuration.


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Box's Aaron Levie and Jive's Tony Zingale Talk About Teaming Up
Yesterday, Box, the upstart IPO-bound enterprise cloud services and collaboration startup, and Jive Software, the social enterprise software company that went public last year, announced that they would team up.
Following through on a plan they first announced last year, the two companies said that Box's content-sharing capabilities would be integrated with Jive's software. If your company happens to be a customer of both — not uncommon — content in Box will from now on be easily accessible from within Jive and vice versa.
Yesterday I got Box CEO and D11 speaker Aaron Levie on the phone with Jive CEO Tony Zingale to talk about why they're pairing up and which competitors they share in common.
Here are some highlights from our conversation.
AllThingsD: So you said last year you were going to team up in this way. What exactly have you done here and why is it important?
Zingale: Back in October we announced our intent to go to market together. It had a lot to do with the complementary nature of our products and the huge shift we were seeing in the marketplace as enterprises retool around collaboration and social and mobile. And being the two market leaders in those areas, it makes sense we would get together and connect our two systems. We think it's a huge deal between the two companies and can now demonstrate the functionality now that it's shipping.
Aaron, Box was sort of built from the ground up with working with other companies in mind. And now here you are working a little more closely with one in particular. Is there any other outside company with which Box has so close a relationship?
Levie: This is critical to our strategy. We feel that content needs to extend into all sorts of business applications that you may want to use. As you look at the social enterprise and collaboration space more broadly, Jive is the clear leader. So the deeper that we can combine our products and services, it creates one unified experience for customers. And true to Tony being the master of the enterprise, they are in a very big number of large companies that we're now starting to serve. This will only accelerate that. At a more meta-level, it represents a bigger trend. Five or 10 years ago you were forced to buy all your technology as a single large stack from an Oracle or an SAP. But now because of collaborations like this, and because of open APIs, you can mix and match the best IT products and services. That will fundamentally change the IT landscape. Startups and disruptors will be highly favored over established players.
One big competitor you share is Salesforce.com. Salesforce has Chatter, which competes with Jive, and it has also announced plans to build a product that it says will compete with Box, though Salesforce is also an investor in Box. Can you unpack that shared dynamic for me?
Zingale: The intent to compete with Jive has existed there for years now. The second thing is that I would riff off what Aaron just said. The Salesforce solution is a stack of their own. If you want to use all the Salesforce apps for sales and marketing and service, go have a nice day. But Chatter has morphed into sort of a front-end user interface for its stack of vertically integrated applications. Box and Jive are both agnostic and we're both going to integrate with whatever is there and present in the customer's environment. In our case that includes Salesforce. We add a lot of value on top of the CRM (customer relationship management) app, both inside and outside the enterprise. Their position is very much confined to their three silos. And yes they're open, but I don't see many enterprises embracing that as the way to integrate how they get things done. We sit on top of and really don't any more compete head to head with Chatter as much as we once did.
Levie: I would posit that for Tony and myself, the bigger shared enemy for us is probably Microsoft.
Zingale: Same for us.
Levie: I think that in the land of Microsoft, we are all disruptors collectively. Salesforce included. The big opportunity is the legacy spend on collaboration tools. For those companies moving to the cloud, that is the big opportunity for this kind of service.
Aaron, does Box work as closely with any other company as it is now doing with Jive?
Levie: The only other one where we have this depth of integration is NetSuite. We go pretty deep on the Salesforce CRM. But we certainly look for areas where we have a shared customer base, or where customers want to extend the content from Box into something else.
How much do your customers overlap?
Zingale: As we both disrupt the new wave of enterprise applications, Jive has always attacked the larger companies, the ones with thousands of knowledge workers. The attraction for us is that Box has a huge reach within small companies, but also small groups within large companies like American Express or Fidelity or Procter and Gamble using Box is very interesting to us.
Levie: There probably isn't an enterprise over 1,000 employees that we talk with that isn't either on Jive or exploring Jive, mainly because social is the type of product where you want it to go across the entire company and not just be integrated with your sales applications.


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After several beta releases and a planned bid for the Guinness Book of World Records, Firefox 3.0 has arrived. As of 1pm EDT Tuesday, users can download the latest version of the open-source browser, which includes an improved book marking system and drop-down search returns in the URL bar, among other features. Aesthetically, the browser is not drastically different from its predecessor. The forward and back buttons have been altered, while the browser buttons and window frames have also been redesigned to conform to the look of a user's operating system, but not much else has changed. On the features front, the drop-down URL bar—dubbed the Awesome Bar—offers suggestions of possible Web sites as you type your search query.
Version three offers a three-tier bookmarking system: bookmark stars allow for one-click favorites; bookmark tags allow you to add details to your favorites; and bookmark folders are saved searches that update when you add new items matching that search to your bookmarks, according to Mozilla. Download manager has also been revamped and now includes the ability to pause and resume downloads, search through downloaded files, obtain more detailed file information, and revisit the original download page. Firefox 3.0 also boasts improved color profiles, font and text rendering, and zooming capabilities, as well as malware and phishing protection, Mozilla said.
Version 3.0 is three years in the making. Mozilla released the first beta version of Firefox 3.0 in November 2007, with version two debuting a month later. Beta 3.0 version 3 arrived in February with major code rewrites of the page layout, graphics, and font engines and over 350 plugged memory leaks. Most recently, Mozilla on June 5 unveiled the second release candidate for Firefox 3 with several localization updates. That came a little over two weeks after RC1 was made available. When the download goes live on Tuesday, the clock will start ticking on Mozilla's bid to break a Guinness world record for most downloads in a single day. Mozilla said last week on its blog that it has already received at least one million pledges from users who say they will download Firefox 3 on release day.
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Tagged: Dan Lozano
Anaheim Albert ang I Are Juss Having Fung, Mang
The Twittersphere is a strange place. It can be as welcoming as it is alienating, as terrifying as it is hilarious. But just like anything else on the interwebs, it is what you make of it.
Over the years, I have fawned over several accounts in order to make SUPER-HAPPY-FUN TIME. Coco Crisp's was golden. Barry Zito's was embarrassing (before he blocked me from talking to him). And I've probably cried more laughing at the hilarity of Fake Ned Yost than I have all the times I've watched Braveheart combined (stop judging me).
But these days there's a new mang in town (somewhere along I-5 between Los Anaheim and Orange Angeles County).
He waxes on performance:
Hey Angel fangs, I have a friend who mightwant to know how to cork a bat. Is for a friend. You guys dont know him. Let me know…Is not me
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 1, 2012
Dee dee call last night ang said AJ beng going round school telling kids that his dad is Matt Carpenter. Who the hell is Matt Carpenter?
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 4, 2012
Dee Dee says the Sang Luis Dick's Sports selling my Cards shirts for $1.99She thinks they making fun of my batting average.199? I wish!
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 9, 2012
Compares himself to others:
You stupid Cards fangs cant compare me ang Carlos Beltran.He gets to bat right handed ANG left handed.
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 9, 2012
Today, God was like "Hey Albert, Ing ready for you to hit a home rung…but first, I want you to look stupid striking out". And so it was.
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 7, 2012
Just heard about Josh Hamilton….Someonge should tell him dat nobody likes a show off.
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 9, 2012
And provides sultry details to his odd albeit professional relationship with his agent Dan Lozano:
Back at Dan Lozano's house. Blood, trash, Broken bottles. Dan sleeping. Two girls passed out ong couch. Starting to think Dan skipped church
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) April 30, 2012
Lozano was sleeping on da driveway wheng I left da house today.
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 6, 2012
Dan Lozano ang the house keeper throwing a Cinco party today. Donkeys, chickens, gunshots. Take me back to the Scott Spezio days. Crazy shit
— A. Pujols (@AnaheimAlbert) May 6, 2012
Extra mad points for that Scott Spiezio reference. He's another man whose heroics are shared by both Halos fans and Redbird Nation.
Speaking of Spiezio, where's my scotch… and the strippers??? ALBERT!!!!
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The Terrorists in India's Midst
Saturday's Bangalore bombing underscores the need to address homegrown Muslim terrorism.
By BAHUKUTUMBI RAMAN
India's counterterrorism teams had another rude surprise Saturday when two explosions outside a cricket stadium in Bangalore injured 17 people—nine of them policemen. The explosions raise serious questions about the Congress Party's progress in anticipating and preventing domestic terrorist attacks.
The government had been warned of Saturday's strike, which occurred before the start of an Indian Premier League cricket match. In February, Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani terrorist with ties to al Qaeda, warned of new terrorist strikes in India directed against the IPL and the Commonwealth Games due later this year. Security for the IPL tournament was tightened up and the Indian government assured nervous Commonwealth officials that the terrorists would not be allowed to succeed.
So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the violence, but the way the bombing was carried out suggests a local signature. The most likely suspect is the Indian Mujahideen, which organized a series of explosions in 2007 and 2008 in cities, including Bangalore and the tourist mecca of Jaipur. The group is also suspected of carrying out the Pune blast in February, which killed 17 people. No arrests have yet been made in that investigation.
Saturday's attack, combined with the as yet unresolved Pune bombing, has called into question the effectiveness of the measures taken by Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram to revamp the antiterror investigation machinery. Since taking office after the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Mr. Chidambaram has set up a National Investigation Agency to improve the investigation of terrorist attacks and the prosecution of terrorists.
The government contends it has prevented a large number of other terrorist attacks of which the public has no knowledge, and that authorities are now in a better position to prevent a repeat of the Mumbai massacre. Police successfully defused a bomb in Bangalore Saturday, and three more unexploded devices Sunday. But their failure to detect the two bombs planted Saturday by the terrorists near the stadium's entrance gates is likely to increase public skepticism of the government's efforts.
To be fair, Mr. Chidambaram is trying to strengthen India's counterterrorism machinery after a long period of neglect under his predecessor, Shivraj Patil. It will take time for the results to be seen.
But Mr. Chidambaram must do more than just strengthen the government's antiterror machinery. This is only one aspect of the problem. He must also act aggressively to counter the radicalization of Indian Muslims. While the intelligence and security agencies enjoy a free hand in dealing with foreign terrorists on Indian soil, they often find their hands tied when faced with Indian terrorists, such as the Indian Mujahideen. These homegrown terrorists often have local grievances, or were turned at the instigation of Pakistani intelligence agencies and terrorist organizations.
This is a tough task. India has the second largest Muslim community in the world after Indonesia and the Indian Muslims constitute an important voter base. In many northern states, where the Congress Party dominates, the Muslim vote is crucial for victory.
While Indian Muslims support the actions of the intelligence and security agencies against Pakistani terrorists, they often protest when the government takes action against their own community, making it hard for authorities' to conduct thorough investigations. That is why the success rate in the investigation and prosecution of Pakistani terrorists is high, but low in the case of Indian Muslims involved in terrorism.
It is important for Mr. Chidambaram and the rest of the Congress Party-led
government to address Muslims' legitimate grievances. But it is equally important to give security agencies a free hand in dealing with Indian Muslims who take to terrorism, by giving the authorities the additional legal powers they need for successful investigation and prosecution. If this isn't done, Saturday's bombing won't be the last.
Mr. Raman served in India's external intelligence agency from 1968 to 1994 and on the government of India's National Security Advisory Board from 2000 to 2002. He is currently director of the Institute for Topical Studies in Chennai.
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