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1. (Composite of) Italy with the addition of the southern parts of Germany as far as Pettau in Stiria; Murlakia, Dalmatia, the adjacent countries, and all the Illyric Islands, by L.S. De la Rochette. 2d. edition describing the new divisions. London published by Willm. Faden, Geographer to the King and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross, Septr. 12th, 1800 (Raster Image)
1800. Rumsey, David, 1944-, Delarochette, L. (Louis), 1731-1802, and Faden, William, 1749-1836. This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Italy, including parts of Slovenia and the Balkan Peninsula (1800). The ma shows settlements, commo... Cartography Associates.


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CrackBerry's James Richardson went hands-on with BlackBerry 10 today and brought back some hot photos and initial reactions!
I had the pleasure of attending BlackBerry 10 Jam in London earlier today. The keynote sessions were not too disimilar to what we saw at BlackBerry World in Orlando, however that wasn't the main reason I was there. I was on a mission to find BlackBerry 10 running on the dev alpha device and luckily for me this had been arranged in advance.
So thanks to Vivek Bardwaj, of Research In Motion, I had a one to one session with his device. I wasn't expecting to see anything that had not already been shown off, however seeing a new OS on a big screen and getting hands on are two totally different things. To say I was excited would be an understatement.
Fortunately my high expectations of what I was allowed to play with on the device were lived up to. BlackBerry 10 is awesome!
The seamless integration of the apps all running live, coupled with the screen gestures to allow for seeing other features/apps is glorious. It's all about the flow. And that wasn't even on final hardware.
Flowing between inbox, message and .pdf. Gotta love it!
As you can see from the pictures in this post, the new operating system looks beautiful. I was a little unsure in advance if I would like the touch screen keyboard but after a little practice it all flows very naturally. The 'flicking' of the predicted words upwards works well as do the other keyboard gestures such as swiping left across the keyboard to delete a word, and swiping downwards to switch to the further screens that contain numbers and symbols.
I think even physical keyboard guys will love the BB10 touchscreen keyboard
Flicking up predicted words on the BlackBerry 10 keyboard
I'm very much a hardware QWERTY keyboard guy but I can see myself using this device for sure, as soon as possible.
Prior to today I was under the impression that RIM *could* reclaim some market share lost to Android and iOS with BlackBerry 10. Now I am 100% sure that will happen. The developers present today were also super excited but CrackBerry's DJ Reyes will cover that in another post later.
I hope you find the picture gallery encouraging. I know each time a re-look at the photos I get a warm feeling somewhere inside.
The BlackBerry 10 Homescreen
I need Q4 to arrive quickly! I'm not sure how I can handle the waiting now I have spent some time with just a few features on the device. And according to Vivek there is plenty of amazing stuff yet to be announced.
I shall dream of BlackBerry 10 tonight. And tomorrow, and the day after.........
More BlackBerry 10 OS Preview Photos on the Dev Alpha Device
CrackBerry and BlackBerry 10.... We Want it!
BlackBerry 10 Icon Tray (looking a little redundant with some icons?!)
BlackBerry 10 notifications and the quick swipe into messages
BlackBerry 10 Message Accounts
The BlackBerry 10 Unified Inbox - emails, calls, bbms, all right there
Previewing notifications from within the Calendar
Music on BlackBerry 10
Gesturing between music and notifications
Checking out a picture on BlackBerry 10
And flowing out of pictures
BlackBerry 10 really is all about the flow experience. I can't wait!

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Anne Hathaway hosted the Women's Media Awards last night in New York wearing Victoria Beckham. As you know, Annie is on the cover of the December issue of US Vogue. As you also know, Victoria has never ever covered US Vogue. She has to settle this year for being worn by the current cover girl, though not on the cover then.
Posh was in Dallas today visiting Neiman Marcus and quite casually by her standards. That's almost a sweatshirt she's wearing. This is the Victoria Beckham version of a sweatshirt and a messy bun.


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Wedding, Children, Family Portrait and Fashion Photography based in Laguna Beach, California
The "boutique studio" named "Goddard Studios" is the distilled experiences of a husband and wife team; Collin and Anna Goddard.
Collin's formal training was on the job, starting in New York City in the eighties, working with some of the greatest names in fashion- such as Bruce Weber, Albert Watson, Alex Chatelain, Scavulo, Bill King and many more. While on- and off the set, Collin would watch, listen and observe how each photographer composed-, lit-, and styled their subjects. He also started to see common threads that each shared in their ability to put their subjects at ease, which led to much better images due to them "feeling great" about themselves. There is a rhythm and tone that the great photographers all seem to share on some level when shooting, and they have the ability to capture a life, energy and beauty which ALL people possess. It takes an exceptional photographer to combine the two, and Collin is honored to have had these greats as his mentors.
Anna met Collin in the late eighties during a modeling assignment in Europe. She moved to the US with Collin and got married soon thereafter. Carrying on her career which took her all over the world, she finally settled down in one place -Laguna Beach, California- while pregnant with their first child in 1998. Unable to continue to model internationally, she too started getting an interest in being behind the other side of the camera and refined her natural talent by formal training under Collin. It didn't take long for the duo to see a need for photographers who will shoot a different style than the "usual" posed and staged photographs. Collin and Anna's photos by contrast, tell a story.
Rather than imposing some random- or overt idea about what is considered to be artistic, Collin and Anna see the art of the moment; the magic and energy of their subjects, knowing when a moment is going to happen before it's happened, the attention to detail, as well as the importance of great locations. It's been said that their photography looks as if it's been clipped from the reel of a movie or the pages of a photo journalistic lifestyle diary. "We believe that EVERYONE is photogenic, and we know how to pull out the best qualities of each person by making everyone feel comfortable and good about themselves", Collin and Anna say.
What sets their wedding photography apart is that they prefer to use natural- and available light for most of their photography, even at night where the only source of light might be candle light. Using state of the art camera equipment and lenses, technical know-how and their afore mentioned experience, results in simply put beautiful and moving images, capturing the very soul of the wedding and its participants. The subsequent wedding album truly is coffee table worthy, rather than an album tucked away on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.
Collin and Anna refuse to hire "staff" that takes care of retouch and album layout as well as "associate photographers". With their experience they refuse to give this out of hands. Therefore, they only accept a limited amount of weddings per year, as they want to make sure they can dedicate enough time to each wedding and the post production work involved.
Regardless of your photography needs, with Goddard Studios you can guarantee that there will be nothing generic about your shoot.
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We've known since the week of Christmas that OLED technology would be the linchpin to LG's CES 2013 announcements, but the company saved the all-important pricing details for the opening of the show. LG announced at its Monday-morning press conference that its 55-inch OLED TVs will begin selling in the United States in March, to the tune of $12,000. Pricing for the 65-inch model hasn't yet been announced. For the lucky few that will perk up at that news instead of flinching, LG will begin accepting preorders online immediately.
As for a the rest of us, here's a roundup of all the other new tech LG will be showing off at CES 2013.
- We'll see no less than 47 new HDTVs from LG this year, which are now exclusively lit by LEDs rather than CCFLs.
- Google TV fans will be able to choose from among seven new models from LG, which will run version 3 of the platform and range in size from 42 to 60 inches.
- LG's new laser projector can throw a 100-inch screen sitting just 22 inches away from the screen.
- Home audio gurus will be able to choose from four new soundbars, two of which have Internet streaming from Pandora and Netflix built in.
- Two new Blu-ray players will work with LG's Wii-style Magic Motion remotes.
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The Il-Khanids and the Golden Horde
The Mongols were a nomad people, and their colossal conquests started under Genghis Khan (c. 1167-1227), who invaded China in 1213, marking the beginning of the Mongol Yuan dynasty. The Mongol cavalry then moved westward and by 1223 had already conquered Central Asia, Afghanistan, and northern Iran. A few years later, Genghis Khan's grandson Hülegü Khan penetrated even farther west into Iraq, where Baghdad was destroyed and the last Abbasid caliph, al-Mustasim, was murdered in 1258. The seemingly invincible Mongols' advance was only stopped when they met the Mamluks in the battle of Ayn Jalut, in Palestine, in 1260. Hülegü now ruled over the part of the Mongol empire that was centered on western Iran and extended across Iraq, into Anatolia, and up to the Aral Sea. He took the title "Il Khan," or subordinate khan, the subject of the Great Khan in Mongolia.
The Mongol armies' enormous devastation was followed by a culturally rich period under the Il-Khanids. As a whole, the new rulers largely adopted their subjects' cultural traditions. The Il-Khanids, who converted to Islam beginning in 1295, had their newly built palaces, mosques, and sepulchral monuments covered with tiles that were more colorful than those favored by the Seljuks. Gold and silver were used lavishly for weaving into textiles and for metal inlays. In addition to traditional motifs, new ones such as lotuses, chrysanthemums, phoenixes, and dragons reflect the Mongols' contact with China.
When the Il-Khanid Abu Said died childless in 1335, the realm began to disintegrate. The area covered by Iran and Iraq was gradually split into a number of minor realms with local ruling families, such as the Muzaffarids, Injuids, and Jalayirids. These fairly short-lived dynasties underwent violent internal and external power struggles, but many of their princes also became important patrons of the arts and culture.
The area east of the Il-Khanid realm was ruled by the Mongolian Chagatay dynasty, while other Mongol cavalries had already invaded Russia and Siberia, and penetrated far into the Balkans under Genghis Khan. These conquered territories were stabilized into a single khanate, or empire, under the clan that became known as the Golden Horde. The Mongols soon relinquished their nomad existence and founded large cities, such as their capital of Saray on the Volga River. The leaders of the Golden Horde were Muslims from 1313, while their subjects were Russian Orthodox Christians. The works of art from the Golden Horde, whose khanate gradually disintegrated in the course of the 15th century, testify in form and choice of motif to the Mongols' eastern origins.


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Historical:SoC2007 projects
This is the work in progress list of possible projects for the Google_SoC_2007
Panoramic imaging is a very broad field and touches many different areas of expertise, such as photography, computer vision, art and programming. There is a thriving community with experience from arts to science that provides many interesting ideas and explores new territory in panoramic imaging. In addition to the mentors, this open community will provide good support and innovative ideas.
Generally, all development should done with multiple platforms in mind (at least Windows, OSX and Linux/Unix). We have an open communication culture via mailing-lists and mostly develop using C and C++.
The project below are just suggestions. If you are an interested student and have questions or new ideas, please let us know on the relevant Discussion_lists, for example panotools-devel.
Development style
Most of the projects below are related to Hugin, and some also relate to Panotools or tlalli. Hugin is mostly written in C++, and uses the VIGRA image processing library to support different types of images (for example, 8bit, 16bit and float (HDR) images). The core functionality is implemented in a platform independent C++ library, which is used by the GUI based on wxWidgets toolkit, and the command line programs (nona, fulla).
The development of the projects should take place in a separate branch of the projects CVS (or SVN) repository. Communication with the mentors should usually happen through the appropriate development mailing list. All code should work on the major platforms supported (Linux, OSX, Windows).
Possible Projects
Intuitive yet powerful GUI for panorama creation
Goal: Redesign/Reimplement the graphical user interface of the premiere open source panoramic imaging suite, Hugin, to increase ease of use, and provide better access to its unmatched capabilities. Currently the GUI is written using wxWidgets, which has proven to have slightly different behaviours on different platforms, especially with a complex GUI such as the one of Hugin. This is very annoying and a lot of time has been spent on minor issues such as making the GUI look good on all platforms with different font sizes etc. Therefore two options are available:
- Rewrite the whole GUI using QT (which is very consistent even across platforms, and has (IMHO) a much nicer API). This is a lot more work, and not all functionality of the current GUI can be recreated during the Summer of Code, but it will provide a better platform to build onto in the future. It is also possible to implement the GUI logic in a scripting language such as Ruby or Python. This project should only be tackled by a student who has experience in developing non-trivial GUI applications with QT. The GUI and core panorama code are already separated into different libraries.
- Details to be discussed on the separate page.
- Extend and enhance the existing wxWidgets based GUI.
General goals for the improved GUI include:
- Providing a simple, yet helpful user interface that suggests or highlights potentially useful next steps.
- Enhancing and integrating manual and automated control point placement and management.
- Improving lens parameter management.
- Providing a batch processing interface.
- Expert mode with access to all features and internals.
Recommended knowledge or interest in:
- Workflow analysis and UI design skills
- Experience with building cross platform GUI programs (Windows/Linux/OSX), either using wxWidgets or QT
- Creative use of panoramic imaging
Mentor: Pablo d'Angelo, ?
License: GPL
Automatic feature detection for panoramic images
Goal: Robust extraction of local image features using a Hessian-based detector and a suitable descriptor. A detector and descriptor that takes into account the approximately known distortions will have a much higher matching rate, especially when fisheye or wide angle images are used.
- Implementation of the feature detector and descriptor, and a suitable test suite to verify the correctness of the implementation.
Further details are being discussed in the separate SoC2007_project_Feature_Descriptor page.
A desired result of the projects would be:
- C or C++ library for the matching step.
- Standalone program to extract the matches from images.
Required knowledge or interest in:
- signal or image processing background
- C or C++ development skills.
- Matlab or octave
Mentor: Pablo d'Angelo, Herbert Bay, ?
Automatic feature matching for panoramic images
Goal: Robust and efficient matching of local image features.
- Implementation of the matching step, including geometry based outlier pruning (for example using RANSAC) and nearest neighbour matching, possibly using a fast algorithm such as cover trees. For the panoramic imaging use case, several heuristics could be used to improve the matching behaviour, including using the EXIF timestamps, or previously known approximate orientation of the images.
Further details are being discussed in the separate SoC Feature Matching project page.
A desired result of the projects would be:
- Standalone program for the feature matching part, which at the end should accept the features found by the automatic feature detection task. Preliminary studies can be done using the existing SIFT and SURF detector/descriptors.
- Integration into hugin and a standalone executable similar to Autopano-sift or Autopano
Required knowledge or interest in:
- signal or image processing background
- C or C++ development skills.
Possibly useful resources and libraries:
Mentor: Pablo d'Angelo, ?
License: GPL
Interactive panoramic viewer
Goal: The Freepv panoramic viewer aims to provide a superior viewing experience for panoramas on all major platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix), based on exploiting powerful graphics hardware using OpenGL. Currently it provides basic but solid viewing capabilities for Quicktime VR, cylindrical, cubic and equi-rectangular panoramas. Plugins for Mozilla/Firefox and a standalone viewer are available. Several important features are still missing from the viewer include:
- Support for hotspots
- Optimisation for panoramas larger than the Video RAM
- Display of high dynamic range panoramas with adaptive exposure
- Support for reading a SPi-V compatible .xml file, for platforms where SPi-V is not available (Linux/Unix).
- Fallback software renderer
Required knowledge or interest in:
- OpenGL or other 3D programming experience.
- Creating cool and nice looking interactive experiences.
Mentor: Pablo d'Angelo, Fulvio Senore ?
Student: Leon Moctezuma
License: LGPL
Anti-ghosting HDR panorama blending and merging algorithm
Goal: Most HDR creation algorithms are designed to work only with very small variations in camera viewing direction. Assume that registration and response curve estimation has already happened. An improved blending method for HDR images together that have not been shot using the traditional exposure stack method. It should avoid ghosting and be insensitive to small misregistrations.
Interesting research papers:
- Seamless Image Stitching of Scenes with Large Motions and Exposure Differences
- Ghost Removal in High Dynamic Range Images
Required knowledge or interest in:
- Strong background signal/image processing
- Creative mind with ideas beyond the state of the art in computer vision/graphics research.
Mentor: Pablo d'Angelo, ?
License: GPL
Processing of very large images
Goal: Allow the creation of arbitrary large panoramas. [1]
Currently panotools, as well as hugin/nona require memory to hold the complete input and the remapped output image in memory, which consumes a lot of RAM, especially for spherical panoramas. VIPS is a powerful and modular image processing library that supports very large images and multiple processors natively. By porting the core remapping routines of panotools/hugin to VIPS, panoramas of almost arbitrary size can be computed.
A desired result of the projects would be:
- VIPS operations that support the geometric and photometric (vignetting correction) transformations.
- Standalone command line program that remaps images using these routines.
- Program/script to convert panotools scripts to nip2 projects.
Required knowledge or interest in:
- C/C++ programming
- image processing
Mentor: John Cupitt, Pablo d'Angelo
License: GPL
Architectural Overhaul of Panotools
Panotools is a very monolithic application. The goal of this project is to refactor the functionality of panotools into 4 main parts, as independent of each other as possible. These parts are (at least):
- Calculation of position of images (optimization)
- Mapping from input images to output images
- Projection related computations
- Parsing of input scripts/Generation of input scripts
Were this project successful the functionality of panotools will be available as a collection of routines that be called directly (as opposed to the current model that requires the creation and parsing of a script). It will make it easier to replace one component of panotools with another one; and it will improve the future maintenance of panotools.
Details to be discussed on the separate page.
A desired result of the projects would be:
- Set of functions/classes that are available to hugin to perform optimization and remapping of images
- Test suite to verify that the functionality before and after is equivalent.
Required knowledge or interest in:
- C/C++ programming
- Knowledge of Numerical methods
- Basic knowledge of image processing
Mentor: D.M. German
License: GPL
A batch creator-project manager for batch creating projects, optimizing, managing groups of projects, names outputs, indipendently invoke the software parts and feed scripts.
All the software is based on advanced find-replace in text files, generation of script files, but needs an user-friendly GUI, the main investment in the coding I suppose.
- ability to translate projects between the various gui.
- To search projects in subfolders
- to keep history of all operations, with undos ability.
batch building projects
- creates projects basing on the subfolder of a main folders, creates CPs and optimizes.
- Default name schemes customizable for result images and projects. As well as project folder-locations
- Template application (selection in base of image number, or exif)
- Customizable CP finder and refinery
- Customizable optimizer
- report with result and-or creation of a little test image
- capable of hugin-ptgui-whatever panorama project format.
project manager, you have a table of all your project, with ability to change, one by one or in group, and without opening them
- relative and absolute paths for images, changing the full path or a part of it, allowing HD migrations even if projects are foldered in creative ways.
- Path for output image
- output image type, resolution, layers.
- Involved software and modificators.
- 16 bit workflow warnings
Batch stitching
- ability of batch processing stitch operations, or to invoke the specific software and feed its batch
Ability to stitch panovideos: Given a template with the (n) of images involved and (n) folders, containing (m) png images extracted from the (n) streams to stitch together. Invoke itself the softwares, and cycles the batch to build (m) images in a new folder.
Support for HDR or ADR workflows, always template based. i.e. Given 3 set of 4 fisheye images and the corresponding template, it generates the main project, optimizes images together, and THEN, render 3images (a,b,c) involving images 0,3,6,9 (a) 1,4,7,10) (b) (2,5,8,11) (c)
See Panotools::Script for a perl approach to this. Note that the PanoTools script format is is a bit hard to understand, there is a proposal in the SoC2007 project Panotools Architecture to replace it with a more workable XML file format, so work should concentrate on the workflow aspects instead of another panotools script parser.
Proposal: Luca Vascon
Mentor: needed
Licence: GPL
PtPatcher, module for Interactive panoramic viewer
Was: PTeditor2.
The basic need would be to have it integrated in photoshop and Gimp, with a simple "paint on this side" interface. 16Bit workflow needed, as multiple input-output filetype. See also skypaint for inspiration interface and capabilities.
There is a lot of overlap here with SoC2007 Interactive Panorama Viewer. Note that the viewer simply needs to fork and pass the current filename, pitch, yaw and Field of View to an external script which can handle the extraction, editing and reinsertion - The viewer itself doesn't need to be involved with any image processing.
The viewer should allow to save a fileproject in order to allow:
- unlimited close and reopen of the viewer
- multiple interventions and extractions with only one final reinsertion, in order not to loose quality
- working in parallel with multiple images
- batchable alone or with PTButcher, in order to extraxct all nadirs and/or zeniths, with given view angle 'XxY' of panos in a folder and then reinsert them all.
Proposal: Luca Vascon
Do we incorporate this with the viewer?
Licence: GPL


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The Home Theater PC: A Source to End All Sources
I'm writing this from my sofa. In my lap is a keyboard. MS Word is part of a 50-inch tall image that also includes Netflix playing an episode of Sports Night, and Steam downloading Portal 2.
That, and much more, is the promise of a home theater PC. But in this age of ultra-cheap everything, is the complexity of an HTPC worth it? Well, I'm about to find out. Again.
A computer as a source in an A/V system is nothing new. It has, perhaps, declined in popularity in recent years as Blu-ray players, digital media receivers, and other similar pieces of gear have decreased so significantly in price. There was a time when spending a few hundred dollars on a PC that replaced multiple pieces of gear made a lot of fiscal sense. Less so now.
But that's not to say these machines don't have their uses, and their vocal proponents. After a multi-year absence from my system, I decided to add one back in to see if it was worth it. In this, the first installment of a many month adventure, I go about dusting off a computer and getting it running in my current system.
I have a gaming computer I built a few years ago, and figured it would be a good start for an HTPC. It's got a horizontal case, a fast - though aging - video card (not shown in the image above), and even a Blu-ray drive.
If you're thinking about making the plunge into HTPCness, check the video card first. Most video cards from the past few years have DVI outputs. This is, in my opinion, a requirement for an HTPC. DVI is convertible to HDMI with either a simple DVI-to-HDMI adapter, or a cable with DVI on one end and HDMI on the other. Monoprice.com has both for a couple of dollars, or you can find them on Amazon for a few dollars more. In a rush to get my system up and running, I searched my local Fry's for an adapter. I found 5 ranging in price from $15 to $30 and ONE for $3.99. Trust me, they all work the same, so save your money.
The reason why I recommend HDMI/DVI over RGB-PC is threefold:
1) Most people's TVs don't have RGB-PC inputs, and even those that do aren't always 1,920x1,080.
2) RGB-PC is analog, and at these resolutions and distances (15 feet from card to display in my room), this can result in artifacts/blurriness in the image. When you're dealing with fine details such as text, this is problematic. I did an A/B test of RGB-PC and DVI-to-HDMI once I got everything set up, and the difference was significant. Text was WAY easier to read, and the image was far sharper with DVI/HDMI.
3) HDMI is easily switchable as part of an A/V system, allowing you to treat the PC as just another source.
If the computer you're thinking about only has RGB out, it's likely too old to upgrade simply to a card that has DVI/HDMI. In this case, you're better building or buying a new computer. That road isn't what this article is about, but if you're interested drop a comment below and I'll do an article on that.


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Peugeot 4008 dashboard warning lights
The warning lights on your Peugeot 4008 dashboard are usually the first sign that something's not right. If one comes on while you're driving, stop somewhere safe as soon as possible.
Red Peugeot 4008 dashboard warning lights need immediate attention, while others allow you to drive on and get to a garage so the problem can be checked out by a professional
It's important to know what the dashboard Peugeot 4008 warning lights actually mean, though, not least because they can pre-empt a car breakdown or full-on failure, potentially saving you from an expensive repair bill and meaning you stay safer on the road.
Here are the most important Peugeot 4008 warning lights you should watch out for:
Engine Oil Level or Oil Pressure Warning Light Symbols, indicate that the oil temperature gets too high, the oil level is low or oil pressure too low. STOP driving immediately and turn the engine off. The engine can be severely damaged if oil pressure is lost. Add oil to the engine to bring the level up.
Brake Warning Light symbols, indicate a serious Brake problem, but the light will also be on when the hand, or emergency brake, is engaged. It's best to get it checked out right away.
Temperature Warning Light Symbol, indicates that the engine temperature is too high. You should stop the vehicle and turned off the engine as quickly as possible. It could mean coolant levels are running low, so check the gauge on the side of the coolant tank under the bonnet and top up if necessary.
Battery Charge Warning Light Symbols. You should see your battery charge warning light when you first turn your car on, but if it doesn't go out a few seconds after the engine starts, there could be a problem with your car's electrical system. This could be to do with a faulty alternator, faulty battery, a bad connection or damaged cabling somewhere in the engine bay.
SRS Air Bag Warning Light Symbols, indicate that a problem exists with one of the many airbags in the automobile, which should be taken to the dealer or authorized service center as soon as possible.
Power Steering Warning Light Symbol, If it is an electronic system, there is a chance it can be "reset". Pull over as soon as possible and shut down the engine and restart it. If the light does not go out you will need to take the vehicle to your dealer or authorized repair facility. When the Power Steering System fails, the steering could go heavy, meaning more effort will be needed to make the car change direction.
Engine Warning Light Symbol. when your engine warning light is illuminated, often it'll be accompanied by some unusual symptoms – these could include a lack of power, as the car has gone into 'safe' mode to protect itself; an intermittent stuttering as you press the accelerator, caused by a misfire; or another fault which could alter the normal response from the engine. Sometimes this can be down to something as small as a faulty electrical sensor, although sometimes it can be a larger mechanical issue.
Tire Pressure Monitoring System/Flat Tire Monitor Symbols, indicate that the inflation on one of the tires is down 25% or more. If your are at high speed, reduce your speed.
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A stunning end to Pacquiao-Marquez fight
- Pacquiao was checked out after the fight and a CT scan was negative.
LAS VEGAS — This time, there was no doubt. This time, Juan Manuel Marquez did not leave it up to the judges. This time, the Mexican ring warrior left Manny Pacquiao face-first on the canvas.
Covered in a mask of blood, the 39-year-old fighter blasted Pacquiao with a huge right hand with one second remaining in the sixth round to score a decisive knockout, the first time he defeated his Filipino adversary in four attempts.
Pacquiao charged into the Mexican counterpuncher's danger zone and ran into a right hand, dropping the Filipino along the ropes. Pacquiao lay motionless for several seconds as the sellout crowd of 16,398 at the MGM Grand Arena erupted.
"That's boxing," said Pacquiao, who added he has no plans to retire. "I started to get confident, but I never expected that punch."
Marquez said, "I knew after the last three rounds that he was going for the knockout and I could be knocked out at any time. I hit him with the perfect punch."
Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer, said he felt his fighter was in charge. "He just got a little too careless, but he was hurting Marquez," the trainer said. Pacquiao had knocked Marquez down in the fifth round and nearly had him stopped at that point.
Marquez, who never had won a fight above 140 pounds, was behind on all three judges' cards when the fight dramatically ended. This time, there was no need for Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KOs) to complain about the judges' scoring. The former four-division world champion had bitterly disputed the results of their three previous encounters, particularly his points loss last November in Las Vegas.
Marquez did not suffer a broken nose, as was believed earlier, just bruised. Pacquiao, meanwhile, was taken to the trauma center to get checked out. The CT scan was negative.
Asked about a fifth fight between the two, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who handles Pacquiao, said, "Why not? We haven't seen such an exciting fight in years. This fight will go down in history as a ring classic."
Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KOs), who also went down in the third round, has lost two fights in a row for the first time in his career and was stopped for the first time in more than 13 years.
The former eight-division world champion had claimed world titles at 112, 122, 130, 135, 147 and 154 pounds. He had his seven-year winning streak snapped in June by Timothy Bradley Jr. when he lost a controversial split decision in Las Vegas.
He said he would be up for a fifth fight. "It's up to my promoter. Let's fight again," Pacquiao said before heading to the hospital.
Pacquiao landed 94 total punches to Marquez's 52, and outlanded Marquez in power punches 68-41. Pacquiao connected on 37% of his punches, while Marquez landed at a 21% clip. But in the end, he only needed one.
Prior to Saturday's fight, parity held sway in the series which began in 2004 when they tussled at 125 pounds. Pacquiao had eked out a draw in 2004 and narrowly won disputed decisions in 2008 and 2011.
In a brawling preliminary bout, Cuban-born super-featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa of Miami won a unanimous decision against Michael Farenas of the Philippines. Gamboa, 30, a former Olympic gold medalist, remained unbeaten (22-0, 17 KOs). Farenas, a southpaw, dropped Gamboa late in the ninth round with a hard left, but was unable to finish him.
In the pro debut of 2012 U.S. Olympian Jose Ramirez, the lightweight from Avenal, Calif., stopped Corey Siegwarth of Denver with a first-round technical knockout.


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Red Sox - 011 021 000 - 5 11 0 Angels - 000 000 000 - 0 2 0After allowing only one hit to the Blue Jays in seven innings last Monday, Matsuzaka (8-1-0-3-9, 115) showed similar dominance over the Angels. The new economical Dice has faced only three or four batters in 14 of his last 15 innings; he has retired the side in order in 10 of the 15 innings.
The Red Sox have won four straight games and seven of their last eight -- the starting pitchers have a 1.01 ERA in those eight games -- and are now tied for third place in the AL East.
The lone hit was a second-inning infield single by Alberto Callaspo, who lined the ball right back at Matsuzaka's head. Dice got his glove up in time and deflected the ball to Jed Lowrie at shortstop. Lowrie tried to make a play at first base (and it was fairly close), but Callaspo beat it out.
Carl Crawford and Jason Varitek hit back-to-back doubles in the sixth inning. For Varitek, it was only his second hit of the season (he's now 2-for-27). Crawford also singled in the second, driving in Boston's first run against Santana (7-9-5-1-9, 104). Kevin Youkilis hit a two-run opposite-field dong, Lowrie had two hits, and Jacoby Ellsbury singled twice, stole two bases, and scored two runs.
Last Friday night, the Red Sox rallied with a three-run eighth inning against the Blue Jays, but lost 7-6, dropping their record to a dismal 2-10. For the week since then, here are the records of the AL East teams:
Boston picked up 1.5 games in the standings and is now 3.5 GB the Yankees. All four of the non-first place teams in the division are within one game of each other, so there should be a fair amount of shifting around in the next week. After the Angels series, the Red Sox head to Baltimore.Red Sox 6 1 (outscored opponents 34-16) Yankees 3 1 Rays 4 3 Orioles 2 4 Blue Jays 2 4
AL East: Rays/Blue Jays at 1 PM and Yankees/Orioles at 7 PM.


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The Collector: Doll in a box
Dear Collector: Can you tell me the value of my Shirley Temple doll purchased in 1938? I still have the receipt and original box.
Manufactured by Ideal Toy and Novelty of New York, this doll's composition head is topped by a mohair wig. Clothed in shoes and a dress with the requisite Shirley photo tag, your keepsake's value depends on measurement (there were more than a half-dozen sizes made). Since you retained the sales slip and box, I think an estimation of between $600 and $800 would be reasonable.
Dear Collector: I would like to know how much a 1922 silver dollar with a mistake in lettering is worth. It has a "V" instead of a "U" in the sentence "In God We Trvst."
No error there; Anthony DeFrancisci opted to use the classical style found on Roman antiquities when he designed the Peace Dollar. Introduced in 1921, this 90 percent silver coin was minted until 1935, and it would be another 36 years before we had a new $1 coin: the 1971 Eisenhower Dollar. There's not much variance in value between the pieces produced in the three mints located in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco. Probably $12-$15 for a coin in circulated but ungraded condition. When issued, your simoleon would have bought 10 gallons of gas, or a dozen loaves of bread!
Dear Collector: The tureen in these photos was brought to this country from Europe many years ago by my grandmother. Could you please discuss its origin and value?
Bearing a mark used by English potter Wedgwood in the last quarter of the 19th century, this undecorated "Royal Iron Stone" (i.e. earthernware) covered serving bowl is worth $50 to $75.
Dear Collector: How much do you think this Coca-Cola bottle opener is worth?
The slogan "Have a Coke' is impressed on one leg of this circa 1950s giveaway, which has a current listed value of $15.
Dear Collector: We received this Ansonia clock in the 1960s from my wife's great-aunt when she moved into a nursing home. Can you put a date on it, and give us any other background you may find?
This 1886 wood-cased model is the "Fulda," named after a German river or the city which it flows through. Value, in working order, is in the neighborhood of $250.
Dear Collector: I purchased this French 20 franc note along with some other pieces of foreign currency at a yard sale. The seller knew nothing about any of the bills and only charged me $2 for the lot. Did I get a bargain?
Produced for France's overseas possessions in 1944, it's ironic that this note bearing scenes of French Equatorial Africa should be the legal tender of Saint & Pierre Miquelon, two tiny islands off the southern coast of Labrador. In fact, until I began researching your question, I never knew that France still had territory in North America. Value on this bill is $30.
Recommended reading: "Collecting Baseball and other Sports Cards," Dr. James Beckett (House of Collectibles, 2007, $14.95). "Vintage Feed Sacks: Fabric from the Farm," Susan Miller (Schiffer, 2007, $2995). "2008 U.S. Coin Digest" edited by David C. Harper (KP Books, 2007, $14.99).
Prices quoted reflect retail values, and as with many antiques and collectibles these values vary. Readers are encouraged to submit questions with photos to The Collector, P.O. Box 229, West Boxford, MA 01885-0229, or ask online at www.askthecollector.com. Please don't ask help in buying or selling your items. Sorry, photos cannot be returned and will become the property of The Collector. For a personal reply, send $25 per item check or money order to The Collector at the address above.


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Poetry Dispatch No. 222 | March 23, 2008
~ Outside of the Gate ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I
From the ice they are freed, the stream and brook,
By the Spring's enlivening, lovely look;
The valley's green with joys of hope;
The Winter old and weak ascends
back to the rugged mountain slope.
From there, as he flees, he downward sends
An impotent shower of icy hail
Streaking over the verdant vale.
Ah! but the Sun will suffer no white,
Growth and formation stir everywhere,
'Twould fain with colours make all things bright,
Though in the landscape are no blossoms fair.
Instead it takes gay-decked humanity.
Now turn around and from this height,
Looking backward, townward see.
Forth from the cave-like, gloomy gate
Crowds a motley and swarming array.
Everyone suns himself gladly today.
The Risen Lord they celebrate,
For they themselves have now arisen
From lowly houses' mustiness,
From handicraft's and factory's prison,
From the roof and gables that oppress,
From the bystreets' crushing narrowness,
From the churches' venerable night,
They are all brought out into light.
See, only see, how quickly the masses
Scatter through gardens and fields remote;
How down and across the river passes
So many a merry pleasure-boat.
And over-laden, almost sinking,
The last full wherry moves away.
From yonder hill's far pathways blinking,
Flash to us colours of garments gay.
Hark! Sounds of village joy arise;
Here is the people's paradise,
Contented, great and small shout joyfully:
"Here I am Man, here dare it to be!"
Vor dem Tor
Vom Eise befreit sind Strom und Bäche
Durch des Frühlings holden, belebenden Blick,
Im Tale grünet Hoffnungsglück;
Der alte Winter, in seiner Schwäche,
Zog sich in rauhe Berge zurück.
Von dort her sendet er, fliehend, nur
Ohnmächtige Schauer körnigen Eises
In Streifen über die grünende Flur.
Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weißes,
Überall regt sich Bildung und Streben,
Alles will sie mit Farben beleben;
Doch an Blumen fehlts im Revier,
Sie nimmt geputzte Menschen dafür.
Kehre dich um, von diesen Höhen
Nach der Stadt zurück zu sehen!
Aus dem hohlen finstern Tor
Dringt ein buntes Gewimmel hervor.
Jeder sonnt sich heute so gern.
Sie feiern die Auferstehung des Herrn,
Denn sie sind selber auferstanden:
Aus niedriger Häuser dumpfen Gemächern,
Aus Handwerks- und Gewerbesbanden,
Aus dem Druck von Giebeln und Dächern,
Aus der Straßen quetschender Enge,
Aus der Kirchen ehrwürdiger Nacht
Sind sie alle ans Licht gebracht.
Sieh nur, sieh! wie behend sich die Menge
Durch die Gärten und Felder zerschlägt,
Wie der Fluß in Breit und Länge
So manchen lustigen Nachen bewegt,
Und, bis zum Sinken überladen,
Entfernt sich dieser letzte Kahn.
Selbst von des Berges fernen Pfaden
Blinken uns farbige Kleider an.
Ich höre schon des Dorfs Getümmel,
Hier ist des Volkes wahrer Himmel,
Zufrieden jauchzet groß und klein:
Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ichs sein!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born 28 August 1749(1749-08-28) Free City of Frankfurt Died 22 March 1832 (aged 82) Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Occupation Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat. Nationality: German. Writing period: Romanticism. Literary movement: Sturm und Drang; Weimar Classicism. Notable work(s) Faust; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Spouse(s) Christiane Vulpius Influences
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also served as the long-serving Privy Councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.
Goethe is the originator of the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"), having taken great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, Arabic literature, amongst others. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major impact especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling, although Goethe himself expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.
Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a primary source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Goethe is widely considered to be one of the most important thinkers in Western culture and is generally acknowledged as the most important writer in the German language. Early in his career, however, he wondered whether painting might not be his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that he would ultimately be remembered above all for his work in optics.
Goethe's father, Johann Caspar Goethe (Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 29 July 1710 – Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 25 May 1782), lived with his family in a large house in Frankfurt am Main, then an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire. Goethe's mother, Catharina Elisabeth Textor (Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 19 February 1731 – Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 15 September 1808), the daughter of the Mayor of Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Textor (Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 11 December 1693 – Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 6 February 1771) and wife (married at Wetzlar, 2 February 1726) Anna Margaretha Lindheimer (Wetzlar, 23 July 1711 – Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, 18 April 1783, a descendant of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Henry III, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg), married 38-year-old Johann Caspar when she was only 17 at Frankfurt am Main on 20 August 1748. All their children, except for Goethe and his sister, Cornelia Friderike Christiana, who was born in 1750, died at an early age
Johann Caspar and private tutors gave Goethe lessons in all the common subjects of that time, especially languages (Latin, Greek, French and English). Goethe also received lessons in dancing, riding and fencing. Johann Caspar was the type of father who, feeling frustrated in his own ambitions by what he saw as a deficiency of educational advantages, was determined that his children would have all those advantages which he had not had.
Goethe had a persistent dislike of the church, characterizing its history as a "hotchpotch of mistakes and violence" (Mischmasch von Irrtum und Gewalt). His great passion was drawing. Goethe quickly became interested in literature; Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Homer were among his early favourites. He had a lively devotion to theatre as well and was greatly fascinated by puppet shows that were annually arranged in his home; a familiar theme in Wilhelm Meister.
Goethe studied law in Leipzig from 1765 to 1768. Learning age-old judicial rules by heart was something he strongly detested. He preferred to attend the poetry lessons of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. In Leipzig, Goethe fell in love with Käthchen Schönkopf and wrote cheerful verses about her in the Rococo genre. In 1770, he anonymously released Annette, his first collection of poems. His uncritical admiration for many contemporary poets vanished as he became interested in Lessing and Wieland. Already at this time, Goethe wrote a good deal, but he threw away nearly all of these works, except for the comedy Die Mitschuldigen. The restaurant Auerbachs Keller and its legend of Faust's 1525 barrel ride impressed him so much that Auerbachs Keller became the only real place in his closet drama Faust Part One. Because his studies did not progress, Goethe was forced to return to Frankfurt at the close of August 1768.
In Frankfurt, Goethe became severely ill. During the next year and a half which followed, because of several relapses, the relationship with his father worsened. During convalescence, Goethe was nursed by his mother and sister. Bored in bed, he wrote an impudent crime comedy. In April 1770, his father lost his patience; Goethe left Frankfurt in order to finish his studies in Strasbourg.
In Alsace, Goethe blossomed. No other landscape has he described as affectionately as the warm, wide Rhine area. In Strasbourg, Goethe met Johann Gottfried Herder, who happened to be in town on the occasion of an eye operation. The two became close friends, and crucially to Goethe's intellectual development, it was Herder who kindled his interest in Shakespeare, Ossian and in the notion of Volkspoesie (folk poetry). On a trip to the village Sesenheim, Goethe fell in love with Friederike Brion, but, after a couple of weeks, terminated the relationship. Several of his poems, like Willkommen und Abschied, Sesenheimer Lieder and Heideröslein, originate from this time.
Despite being based on his own ideas, his legal thesis was published uncensored. Shortly after, he was offered a career in the French government. Goethe rejected it; he did not want to commit himself, but to instead remain an "original genius".
At the end of August 1771, Goethe was certified as a licensee in Frankfurt. He wanted to make the jurisdiction progressively more humane. In his first cases, he proceeded too vigorously, was reprimanded and lost the position. This prematurely terminated his career as a lawyer after only a few months. At this time, Goethe was acquainted with the court of Darmstadt, where his inventiveness was praised. From this milieu came Johann Georg Schlosser (who was later to become his brother-in-law) and Johann Heinrich Merck. Goethe also pursued literary plans again; this time, his father did not have anything against it, and even helped. Goethe obtained a copy of the biography of a noble highwayman from the Peasants' War. In a couple of weeks the biography was reworked into a colourful drama. Entitled Götz von Berlichingen, the work went directly to the heart of Goethe's contemporaries.
Goethe could not subsist on being one of the editors of a literary periodical (published by Schlosser and Merck). In May 1772, he once more began the practice of law at Wetzlar. In 1774 Goethe wrote the book which would bring him world-wide fame, The Sorrows of Young Werther. Despite the immense success of Werther, it did not bring Goethe much financial gain — copyright law at the time being essentially nonexistent. (In later years Goethe would bypass this problem by periodically authorizing "new, revised" editions of his Complete Works.)
In 1775 Goethe was invited, on the strength of his fame as the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, to the court of Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. (The Duke at the time was 18 years of age, to Goethe's 26.) Goethe thus went to live in Weimar where he remained throughout the rest of his life, and where, over the course of many years, he held a succession of offices; becoming the Duke's chief adviser.
Goethe was ennobled in 1782 (this being indicated by the "von" in his name).
Goethe's journey to the Italian peninsula from 1786 to 1788 was of great significance in his æsthetical and philosophical development. His father had made a similar journey during his own youth, and his example was a major motivating factor for Goethe to make the trip. More importantly, however, the work of Johann Joachim Winckelmann had provoked a general renewed interest in the classical art of ancient Greece and Rome. Thus Goethe's journey had something of the nature of a pilgrimage to it. During the course of his trip Goethe met and befriended the artists Angelica Kauffmann and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, as well as encountering such notable characters as Lady Hamilton and Alessandro Cagliostro.
He also journeyed to Sicily during this time, and wrote intriguingly that "To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything." While in Sicily, Goethe encountered, for the first time genuine Greek (as opposed to Roman) architecture, and was quite startled by its relative simplicity. Winckelmann had not recognized the distinctness of the two styles.
Goethe's diaries of this period form the basis of the non-fiction Italian Journey. Italian Journey only covers the first year of Goethe's visit. The remaining year is largely undocumented, aside from the fact that he spent much of it in Venice. This "gap in the record" has been the source of much speculation over the years.
In the decades which immediately followed its publication in 1816 Italian Journey inspired countless German youths to follow Goethe's example. This is pictured, somewhat satirically, in George Elliot's Middlemarch.
In late 1792, Goethe took part in the battle of Valmy against revolutionary France, assisting Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar during the failed invasion of France. Again during the Siege of Mainz he assisted Carl August as a military observer. His written account of these events can be found within his Complete Works.
In 1794 Friedrich Schiller wrote to Goethe offering friendship; they had previously had only a mutually wary relationship ever since first becoming acquainted in 1788. This collaborative friendship lasted until Schiller's death in 1805.
In 1806, Goethe was living in Weimar with his mistress Christiane Vulpius, the sister of Christian A. Vulpius, and their son Karl August. On October 13, Napoleon's army invaded the town. The French "spoon guards", the least-disciplined soldiers, occupied Goethe's house.
The 'spoon guards' had broken in, they had drunk wine, made a great uproar and called for the master of the house. Goethe's secretary Riemer reports: 'Although already undressed and wearing only his wide nightgown … he descended the stairs towards them and inquired what they wanted from him … . His dignified figure, commanding respect, and his spiritual mien seemed to impress even them.' But it was not to last long. Late at night they burst into his bedroom with drawn bayonets. Goethe was petrified, Christiane raised a lot of noise and even tangled with them, other people who had taken refuge in Goethe's house rushed in, and so the marauders eventually withdrew again. It was Christiane who commanded and organized the defense of the house on the Frauenplan. The barricading of the kitchen and the cellar against the wild pillaging soldiery was her work. Goethe noted in his diary: "Fires, rapine, a frightful night … Preservation of the house through steadfastness and luck." The luck was Goethe's, the steadfastness was displayed by Christiane.
The next day, Goethe legitimized their relationship by marrying Christiane in a quiet marriage service at the court chapel. Christiane Vulpius and Goethe produced a son, Karl August von Goethe (25 December 1789 – 28 October 1830), whose wife, Ottilie von Pogwisch (31 October 1796 – 26 October 1872), cared for the elder Goethe until his death in 1832. They had three children: Walther, Freiherr von Goethe (9 April 1818 – 15 April 1885), Wolfgang, Freiherr von Goethe (18 September 1820 – 20 January 1883) and Alma von Goethe (29 October 1827 – 29 September 1844). Christiane Vulpius died in 1816.
By 1820, he was on amiable terms with Kaspar Maria von Sternberg. Post-1793, Goethe devoted his endeavour principally to literature. In 1832, after a life of vast productivity, Goethe died in Weimar. He is buried in the Ducal Vault at Weimar's Historical Cemetery.
Eckermann closes his famous work, Conversations with Goethe, with this passage:
The morning after Goethe's death, a deep desire seized me to look once again upon his earthly garment. His faithful servant, Frederick, opened for me the chamber in which he was laid out. Stretched upon his back, he reposed as if asleep; profound peace and security reigned in the features of his sublimely noble countenance. The mighty brow seemed yet to harbour thoughts. I wished for a lock of his hair; but reverence prevented me from cutting it off. The body lay naked, only wrapped in a white sheet; large pieces of ice had been placed near it, to keep it fresh as long as possible. Frederick drew aside the sheet, and I was astonished at the divine magnificence of the limbs. The breast was powerful, broad, and arched; the arms and thighs were elegant, and of the most perfect shape; nowhere, on the whole body, was there a trace of either fat or of leanness and decay. A perfect man lay in great beauty before me; and the rapture the sight caused me made me forget for a moment that the immortal spirit had left such an abode. I laid my hand on his heart – there was a deep silence – and I turned away to give free vent to my suppressed tears.
(p. 426, Da Capo Press edition, John Oxenford translation)
The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were his tragedy Götz von Berlichingen (1773), which was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked the early phase of Romanticism – indeed the book is often considered to be the "spark" which ignited the movement, and can arguably be called the world's first "best-seller". (For the entirety of his life this was the work with which the vast majority of Goethe's contemporaries associated him.) During the years at Weimar before he met Schiller he began Wilhelm Meister, wrote the dramas Iphigenie auf Tauris (Iphigenia in Tauris), Egmont, Torquato Tasso, and the fable Reineke Fuchs.To the period of his friendship with Schiller belong the continuation of Wilhelm Meister, the idyll of Hermann and Dorothea, and the Roman Elegies. In the last period, between Schiller's death, in 1805, and his own, appeared Faust Part One, Elective Affinities, the West-Eastern Divan (a collection of poems in the Persian style, influenced by the work of Hafez), his autobiographical Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From My Life: Poetry and Truth) which covers his early life and ends with his departure for Weimar, his Italian Journey, and a series of treatises on art. His writings were immediately influential in literary and artistic circles.
Faust Part Two was only finished in the year of his death, and was published posthumously.
As to what I have done as a poet,… I take no pride in it… But that in my century I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colours – of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here I have a consciousness of a superiority to many.
– Johann Eckermann, Conversations of Goethe
Although his literary work has attracted the greatest amount of interest, Goethe was also keenly involved in studies of natural science. He wrote several works on plant morphology, and colour theory.
With his focus on morphology he influenced Darwin. His studies led him to independently discover the human intermaxillary bone in 1784, which Broussonet (1779) and Vicq d'Azyr (1780) had (using different methods) identified several years earlier. While not the only one in his time to question the prevailing view that this bone did not exist in humans, Goethe, who believed ancient anatomists had known about this bone, was the first to prove its peculiarity to all mammals.
Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that with a prism, colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.
Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that with a prism, colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.
During his Italian journey, Goethe formulated a theory of plant metamorphosis in which the archetypal form of the plant is to be found in the leaf – he writes, "from top to bottom a plant is all leaf, united so inseparably with the future bud that one cannot be imagined without the other." .
In 1810, Goethe published his Theory of Colours, which he considered his most important work. In it, he (contentiously) characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light. After being translated into English by Charles Eastlake in 1840, this theory became widely adopted by the art world, most notably J. M. W. Turner (Bockemuhl, 1991. It also inspired the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, to write his Remarks on Colour. Goethe was vehemently opposed to Newton's analytic treatment of colour, engaging instead in compiling a comprehensive description of a wide variety of colour phenomena. Although Goethe cannot necessarily be criticized for the accuracy and extent of his observations, scientists in general have found little use for his theory because not much can be predicted by means of it. Goethe was, however, the first to systematically study the physiological effects of colour, and his observations on the effect of opposed colors led him to a symmetric arrangement of his colour wheel, 'for the colours diametrically opposed to each other… are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye. (Goethe, Theory of Colours, 1810. In this, he anticipated Ewald Hering's opponent color theory (1872).
Goethe outlines his method in the essay, The experiment as mediator between subject and object (1772). In the Kurschner edition of Goethe's works, the science editor, Rudolf Steiner, presents Goethe's approach to science as phenomenological. Steiner elaborated on this in the books The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World-Conception and Goethe's World View, in which he emphasizes the need of the perceiving organ of intuition in order to grasp Goethe's biological archetype.
The short epistolary novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, or The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, recounts an unhappy romantic infatuation that ends in suicide. Goethe admitted that he "shot his hero to save himself": a reference to Goethe's own near-suicidal obsession with a young woman during this period, an obsession he quelled through the writing process. The novel remains in print in dozens of languages and its influence is undeniable; its central hero, an obsessive figure driven to despair and destruction by his unrequited love for the young Lotte, has become a pervasive literary archetype. The fact that Werther ends with the protagonist's suicide and funeral — a funeral which "no clergyman attended" — made the book deeply controversial upon its (anonymous) publication, for on the face of it, it appeared to condone and glorify suicide. Suicide was considered sinful by Christian doctrine: suicides were denied Christian burial with the bodies often mistreated and dishonoured in various ways; in corollary, the deceased's property and possessions were often confiscated by the Church. Epistolary novels were common during this time, letter-writing being a primary mode of communication. What set Goethe's book apart from other such novels was its expression of unbridled longing for a joy beyond possibility, its sense of defiant rebellion against authority, and of principal importance, its total subjectivity: qualities that trailblazed the Romantic movement.
The next work, his epic closet drama Faust, was to be completed in stages, and only published in its entirety after his death. The first part was published in 1808 and created a sensation. The first operatic version, by Spohr, appeared in 1814, and was subsequently the inspiration for operas and oratorios by Schumann, Gounod, Boito, Busoni, and Schnittke as well as symphonic works by Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler. Faust became the ur-myth of many figures in the 19th century. Later, a facet of its plot, i.e., of selling one's soul to the devil for power over the physical world, took on increasing literary importance and became a view of the victory of technology and of industrialism, along with its dubious human expenses. In 1919, the Goetheanum staged the world premiere of a complete production of Faust. On occasion, the play is still staged in Germany and other parts around the world.
Goethe's poetic work served as a model for an entire movement in German poetry termed Innerlichkeit ("introversion") and represented by, for example, Heine. Goethe's words inspired a number of compositions by, among others, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz and Wolf. Perhaps the single most influential piece is "Mignon's Song" which opens with one of the most famous lines in German poetry, an allusion to Italy: "Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?" ("Do you know the land where the lemons bloom?").
He is also widely quoted. Epigrams such as "Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him", "Divide and rule, a sound motto; unite and lead, a better one", and "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must", are still in usage or are often paraphrased. Lines from Faust, such as "Das also war des Pudels Kern", "Das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluss", or "Grau ist alle Theorie" have entered everyday German usage. Although a success of less tasteful appeal, the famous line from the drama Götz von Berlichingen ("Er kann mich am Arsche lecken": "He can lick my arse") has become a vulgar idiom in many languages, and shows Goethe's deep cultural impact extending across social, national, and linguistic borders.
It may be taken as another measure of Goethe's fame that other well-known quotations are often incorrectly attributed to him, such as Hippocrates' "Art is long, life is short", which is found in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.
Many of Goethe's works, especially Faust, the Roman Elegies, and the Venetian Epigrams, depict hetero- and homosexual erotic passions and acts. In Faust, having signed (the Devil insists on his signature in an actual contract) his deal with the devil, the very first use of his new power thus gained sees Faust ravishing a young teenage girl. In fact, some of the Venetian Epigrams were held back from publication due to their sexual content. However, Karl Hugo Pruys caused national controversy in Germany when his 1999 book The Tiger's Tender Touch: The Erotic Life of Goethe tentatively deduced from Goethe's writings the possibility of Goethe's homosexuality. The sexual portraitures and allusions in his work may stem from one of the many effects of Goethe's eye-opening sojourn in Italy, where men, who shunned the prevalence of women's venereal diseases and unconscionable conditions, embraced homosexuality as a solution that was not widely imitated outside of Italy.Whatever the case, Goethe clearly saw sexuality in general as a topic that merited poetic and artistic depiction. This went against the thought of his time, when the very private nature of sexuality was rigorously normative, and makes him appear more modern than he is typically thought to be.
Born into a Protestant (Lutheran) family, Goethe's early faith was shaken by news of such events as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Seven Years' War. His later spiritual perspective evolved among pantheism, humanism, and various elements of Western esotericism, as seen most vividly in Part II of Faust.
A year before his death he expressed an identification with the Hypsistarians, an ancient Jewish-pagan sect of the Black Sea region. After describing his difficulties with mainstream religion, Goethe laments:
…I have found no confession of faith to which I could ally myself without reservation. Now in my old age, however, I have learned of a sect, the Hypsistarians, who, hemmed in between heathens, Jews and Christians, declared that they would treasure, admire, and honour the best, the most perfect that might come to their knowledge, and inasmuch as it must have a close connection to the Godhead, pay it reverence. A joyous light thus beamed at me suddenly out of a dark age, for I had the feeling that all my life I had been aspiring to qualify as a Hypsistarian. That, however, is no small task, for how does one, in the limitations of one's individuality, come to know what is most excellent?
– from a letter to Sulpiz Boisserée dated 22 March 1831
Goethe is remembered with special fondness by followers of 20th century esoteric figure Rudolf Steiner.
Goethe had a great effect on the changing dynamics of the 19th century. In many respects, he was the originator of—or at least the first to cogently express—many ideas which would later become familiar. Goethe produced volumes of poetry, essays, criticism, and scientific work, including a theory of optics and early work on evolution and linguistics. He was fascinated by minerals and early mineralogy (the mineral goethite is named for him). His non-fiction writings, most of which are philosophic and aphoristic in nature, spurred on the development of many philosophers, such as G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Cassirer, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others, and of various literary movements, such as romanticism. The mystical philosopher Rudolf Steiner, founder of the anthroposophist movement, named two buildings after Goethe. In contemporary culture, he stands in the background as the author of the story upon which Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice is based.
Goethe embodied many of the contending strands in art over the next century: his work could be lushly emotional, and rigorously formal, brief and epigrammatic, and epic. He would argue that classicism was the means of controlling art, and that romanticism was a sickness, even as he penned poetry rich in memorable images, and rewrote the formal rules of German poetry.
His poetry was set to music by almost every major Austrian and German composer from Mozart to Mahler, and his influence would spread to French drama and opera as well. Beethoven declared that a "Faust" Symphony would be the greatest thing for Art. Liszt and Mahler both created symphonies in whole or in large part inspired by this seminal work, which would give the 19th century one of its most paradigmatic figures: Doctor Faustus. The Faust tragedy/drama, often called "Das Drama der Deutschen" (the drama of the Germans), written in two parts published decades apart, would stand as his most characteristic and famous artistic creation.
Goethe was also a cultural force, and by researching folk traditions, he created many of the norms for celebrating Christmas, and argued that the organic nature of the land moulded the people and their customs—an argument that has recurred ever since, including recently in the work of Jared Diamond. He argued that laws could not be created by pure rationalism, since geography and history shaped habits and patterns. This stood in sharp contrast to the prevailing Enlightenment view that reason was sufficient to create well-ordered societies and good laws.
Goethe's influence was dramatic because he understood that there was a transition in European sensibilities, an increasing focus on sense, the indescribable, and the emotional. This is not to say that he was emotionalistic or excessive; on the contrary, he lauded personal restraint and felt that excess was a disease: "There is nothing worse than imagination without taste". He argued in his scientific works that a "formative impulse", which he said is operative in every organism, causes an organism to form itself according to its own distinct laws, and therefore rational laws or fiats could not be imposed at all from a higher, transcendent sphere; this placed him in direct opposition to those who attempted to form "enlightened" monarchies based on "rational" laws by, for example, Joseph II of Austria or, the subsequent Emperor of the French, Napoleon I. A quotation from his Scientific Studies will suffice:
We conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own sake, by its own means. Every creature is its own reason to be. All its parts have a direct effect on one another, a relationship to one another, thereby constantly renewing the circle of life; thus we are justified in considering every animal physiologically perfect. Viewed from within, no part of the animal is a useless or arbitrary product of the formative impulse (as so often thought). Externally, some parts may seem useless because the inner coherence of the animal nature has given them this form without regard to outer circumstance. Thus…[not] the question, What are they for? but rather, Where do they come from?
Suhrkamp ed., vol 12, p. 121; trans. Douglas Miller, Scientific Studies
This change later became the basis for 19th century thought; organic rather than geometrical, evolving rather than created, and based on sensibility and intuition, rather than on imposed order, culminating in, as he said, a "living quality" wherein the subject and object are dissolved together in a poise of inquiry. Consequently, he embraced neither teleological nor deterministic views of growth within every organism. Instead, the world as a whole grows through continual, external, and internal strife. Moreover, he did not embrace the mechanistic views that contemporaneous science subsumed during his time, and therewith he denied rationality's superiority as the sole interpretation of reality. Furthermore, he declared that all knowledge is related to humanity through its functional value alone and that knowledge presupposes a perspectival quality. He also stated that the fundamental nature of the world is aesthetic.
His views make him, along with Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and Ludwig van Beethoven, a figure in two worlds: on the one hand, devoted to the sense of taste, order, and finely crafted detail, which is the hallmark of the artistic sense of the Age of Reason and the neo-classicistic period of architecture; on the other, seeking a personal, intuitive, and personalized form of expression and society, firmly supporting the idea of self-regulating and organic systems. Thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson would take up many similar ideas in the 1800s. His ideas on evolution would frame the question which Darwin and Wallace would approach within the scientific paradigm.


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Ineffective, poorly monitored, poorly constructed.
— Dimon's description of the hedging strategy by the JPMorgan Chief Investment Office that led to a $2 billion loss earlier this month.
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If you're a freelance writer, do you tell editors when you have sources of income from (or are applying for jobs) that relate to work you're doing for them? Edward Wasserman, Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University, thinks you should. Wasserman tells the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in an article called "Keeping It Honest in a Freelance World":
"Among the big changes the news business is undergoing is a steady erosion of its fundamental reliance on full-time, salaried journalists. What's emerging in its place is an industry built on a patchwork of different working relationships. …
"What's emerging is essentially the Op-Ed model moved from the opinion pages to the news: A growing dependence on journalism from loosely affiliated outsiders. The typical news site will have a small editorial nucleus at the center of an orbital sphere of contributing reporters, videographers, commentators and analysts. …
"There's good reason not to welcome this. It means journalists will be paid even worse. It means coverage is likely to suffer from further loss of consistency and coherence, not to mention expertise.
"And it replaces the clarity of loyalty, obligation and independence that went with the traditional employment model with something that's potentially very different. Remember that the Op-Ed pages have often been little more than an ethical bordello, with editors making scant effort to learn, much less police, the various entanglements that commentators might have with the topics they hold forth on."
Wasserman lists seven ethical principles that editors should follow when assigning work to freelancers (and that, by implication, freelancers should follow when working for them). These include:
"Require internal disclosure. These disclosures should be comprehensive: All sources of income over the previous 12 months and all pending efforts to secure other paid work. (After all, you don't want to post what seems like journalism but later turns out to have been an employment application.) Dollar amounts aren't necessary; it's the relationships that corrupt, not how lucrative they are. Require people to characterize those relationships—you don't want anybody repaying favors on your site, but you also don't want them settling scores. Disclosure should go beyond mere names. The range of some entity's client relationships in town could implicate a number of other areas a particular journalist should steer clear of."
Wasserman is on the money about about all of this, and though he doesn't say so directly, his comments have implications for online book-review sites, many of which have ties to publishers that are undisclosed or disclosed only by implication (for example, in the form of ads for books placed next to rave reviews of them or sycophantic profiles of their authors).


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New London — It's as if time has stood still at the Lighthouse Inn.
The menu at the hostess station in the now-shuttered inn once reminded the server that prices for brunch had changed — brunch for adults was now $29.95 and $15.95 for children. The soup of the day: lobster bisque.
Enter the main dining room and some tables still have linens on them with wine and water glasses in their proper places. A fake Christmas tree stands in the center of the room.
But the historic inn hasn't been open to the public since 2008 and, on this breezy fall day, those tables, linens, glasses and just about every piece of furniture and equipment was on the auction block. City officials, through their auction, were hoping to reclaim $125,388.51 in lost personal property taxes.
The city earlier this year took title to the historic property after a real estate tax auction failed to elicit a single bid at the minimum price of about $577,000.
At 11 a.m. Friday the doors to the inn opened to just two potential investors who had each brought a check for 25 percent of the minimum auction price — more than $30,000. They were able to see the rooms where some beds appeared to be freshly turned.
But there were a few things that investors couldn't ignore — the smell of mold, the outdated kitchen and furniture, the water damage and the layers upon layers of dust that cover almost everything.
One hour later, State Marshal Joe Heap opened the auction. There were no bidders. Tax Collector Maureen Farrell then made a bid on behalf of the city, thus making it the official owner of the once-thriving inn.
The previous owners, the Business Loan Center LLC, had defaulted on the taxes.
One potential bidder, Jim Noonan, a New London businessman, said Friday he had a small interest in the property. "It's a beautiful inn and it's going to be a big project to take on," he said.
Noonan, however, didn't rule out the possibility of investing in the property in the future.
Heap said it was probably advantageous to the city that no one bought the property since that will enable the city to now sell the inn with all of its contents. Prior to the auction, he said, he didn't believe the city would receive its asking price because the market is saturated with used hotel and restaurant items for sale.
The city legally had to conduct two separate auctions, for personal and real property, before taking complete possession of the inn and its contents, Heap said.
The 1902 Lighthouse Inn property on Guthrie Place, which had been a cherished dining spot and drinking establishment for generations and had been transformed into a resort in recent years, includes three buildings encompassing about 32,000 square feet of space and 51 guest rooms.
The city plans to make repairs to the inn, make a proposal to the new City Council in November to pass some sort of tax-abatement package, then host a general auction in which the highest bidder would become the new owner.


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So over the past few weeks there has been much controversy over "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Flaming Lips video that was edited and released without the knowledge/approval of the featured artist, Erykah Badu. Honestly, I have mixed emotions about the video, liking some parts and disturbed by others. Full disclosure: I found the "Window Seat" video to be a very powerful statement. I felt it viscerally, I was both anxious and fearful of the backlash and envious of what I perceived to be free-spiritedness and freedom of Badu's actions. But for this recent one I'm still trying to figure it out, but it got me thinking about artists that have done body work in their lyrics. The song that is always with me is "Images," a haunting ballad sung by Nina Simone based on the 1920's poem written by Waring Cuney. The lyrics are as follows:
She does not know her beauty
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory
If she could dance naked
under palm trees
And see her image in the river
She would know
But there are no palm trees
In the streets
Whenever I hear this song I think of a series of songs that support Cuney's basic body philosophy. I think of this song/poem because we have lots of discussions about appropriate body narratives and body visuals through popular culture, but on a basic level it feels like television is the "dishwater" and shameful billboards take the place of palm trees. We could truly benefit from some time at the river, no mirrors, no media, just nature. In these moments of uncontrollable swirling images I prescribe "nature care," literature, and history for your happiness tool box.