What do you think about guitar squeaks? Sometimes I think it is beautiful (when it's not in excess), part of the charm of the guitar sound, but I understand it's considered a dirty sound.
How one can avoid squeaking?
I don't think you can entirely avoid string squeak.
For me,the first thing is noticing where and when I'm making the squeak. Then I try to release the fretting pressure vertically off the string before making any horizontal movement with the hand. Sometimes it takes awhile to figure out how to do that and do it consistently. Slow practice is how I approach it.
There are some chords with stretches that make that hard to do sometimes and all you can do is minimize and live with it.
It bothers me a lot, but sometimes it is better some squeak with good legato than removing it completely and loosing the singing character.
My teacher and I talked about this exact thing in my last lesson. It is the release of pressure on the string with the left hand, but not lifting right away off the strings.... then lifting off and moving to the next position that minimizes squeak. He showed me a diagram in Pepe Romero's book which shows that the timing of left and right hand are synchronized; when the right hand touches and prepares on the strings, the left touches but does not press. Then the left presses at the same moment the right loads the strings.
We practiced this in the ending of the A section of the Bach Allemande 996 where while trying to play legato, I was producing too much string noise as the ending is on the wound bass strings. Breaking the movements into parts, I could see that before, I was lifting my fingers off the strings and as I did my fingers slid a little (even though I was doing my best to lift straight off. If there was a nano second when I released the pressure but did not lift the fingers off, that made much less noise when I then lifted them off entirely. Practicing this in parts and then making it one motion, made a huge difference in the amount of noise produced.
Often, when people practice staccato scales, the right hand is playing staccato while the left is playing legato. So practicing true staccato works on the timing and synchronization of the hands and then being aware of that release of pressure of the left before taking the fingers off the strings. This has helped me a great deal.
I don't mind squeaks. I remember noticing them when i was a little boy watching someone play a guitar up close for the first time, I thought it was kind of cool.
Thank you, guys! I appreciate all your tips. I also often think it's kind of cool, but in general, I think it's viewed as a dirty sound that should be avoided. I'll try to work on this.
I would recommend achieving much more legato than in this demonstration. Different rhythm patterns, as recommended by Carlevaro, will help this.
I'd like to see/hear that done with the 4th Prelude. Any good examples out there?


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Q: navigator.onLine not working cordova 5.0.0 I am having problems with checking if a device has no internet connection. I am using cordova 5.0.0 CLI. This is my code:
if(navigator.onLine) {
  alert("online");
} else {
  alert("offline");
  window.open("404.html");
}

The problem is: it's always true. How can i fix it? I know this plugin, but I don't know how I even get it working. I know how to add plugins, but then it ends. Could someone help me getting this plugin working, or an alternative code to check if a user is offline? Thanks in advance

A: Cordova plugins create a bridge between your web app and the native apis of the mobile OS. In order to use the native side you have to wait until cordova is ready. If you want to check whether the user is online or offline you can add the plugin linked in your question and then use it like this:
First create a function that will return true or false depending if the user is online or not:
function checkConnection(){
   var networkState = navigator.connection.type;

   var states = {};
   states[Connection.UNKNOWN]  = 'Unknown connection';
   states[Connection.ETHERNET] = 'Ethernet connection';
   states[Connection.WIFI]     = 'WiFi connection';
   states[Connection.CELL_2G]  = 'Cell 2G connection';
   states[Connection.CELL_3G]  = 'Cell 3G connection';
   states[Connection.CELL_4G]  = 'Cell 4G connection';
   states[Connection.CELL]     = 'Cell generic connection';
   states[Connection.NONE]     = 'No network connection';

   if(states[networkState].indexOf("WiFi") != -1 || states[networkState].indexOf("Cell") != -1)
        return true;
  return false;
}

When you get the device ready event:
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

function onDeviceReady() {
   // Now safe to use device APIs
   var connected = checkConnection();//will return true or false

   if(connected){
      //user is online
   }else{
      //user is offline
   }
}

Also you can listen directly for online and offline events like this:
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

function onDeviceReady() {
// Now safe to use device APIs
  document.addEventListener("online", onOnline, false);
  document.addEventListener("offline", onOffline, false);
}

function onOnline() {
   // User is Online
}
function onOffline() {
   // User is Offline
}

Both approaches requires to add the network-information plugin. Read the documentation for more details.

A: Add this to your index.html :
document.addEventListener("offline", function(){ navigator.notification.alert("No connection found") }, false);

It will alert you if there isn't a network connection.
If you don't have the notification plugin :
document.addEventListener("offline", function(){ alert("No connection found") }, false);

A: add "cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-network-information" to your project then use
if(windows.navigation.onLine){
    alert('online!');
 }

also check if this was added to you config.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

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Now that the flowers are finished, it's time to start on the fountain and path. If you missed the preceding demos, you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2.
I begin with some washes of gray made by mixing a cool red, blue and a tiny bit of yellow. The water that is flowing from the basins, I have left white.
The figures of the children are painted the same as the fountain. Since the sunlight is coming from the left, I create shadows on the right side with my gray mixture.
The water in the fountain does not take much paint to make it look real. Below, you can see that I only had to add a few light gray tones here and there to give it a flowing, churning look.
Once the fountain and both sets of children are done, I paint the stones and bricks of the path. I also add some washes of red on the fountain and figures to warm them up. I paint a cool blue wet-into-wet in the shadow areas.
This part takes the longest. When a painting is almost done, that is almost always the case. Each part of the painting has to work with every other part which means tweaking the light and dark, the colors and the details. This can take many glazes of color with drying time in between each one.
And below is the finished painting! Now you can stroll along the garden path and enjoy the flowers on a beautiful summer day.
I hope you enjoyed this watercolor demonstration. The grandmother who receives this as a gift will have her four grandchildren to remember when looking at it: Dahlia, Rose, William and Shea.


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On April 23rd, I'll be speaking at a church in NoNev—the event description is below. Feel free to share!
Untangling the Mess: Separating the Truth and Mistruths about What it Means to Be LGBT and Christian is being presented on Saturday, April 23rd by Kathy Baldock at Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Drive, Reno, from 10 am till 4 pm. The event is hosted by the Northern Nevada Episcopal Diocese and back by the Episcopal Church in Nevada.
The presentation is an ideal opportunity to understand the intersection of faith and sexual orientation and gender identity. Whether you are in the fully affirming camp, still investigating and seeking to understand the issue, or even one who holds a traditional view of homosexuality and the Bible, you are welcome to attend.
Baldock is the author of "Walking the Bridgeless Canyon"(2014), a well-researched and highly accessible history of the cultural and religious discrimination in America. She is the Executive Director of Canyonwalker Connections and serves on the Advisory Board of The Gay Christian Network and the Board of The Reformation Project.
QUESTIONS are welcome in each segment and at the end of the presentation.


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Elastomery jsou polymery, které jsou viskoelastické, mají vysokou viskozitu a jsou zároveň elastické. Dalšími typickými vlastnostmi jsou slabé mezimolekulové interakce a většinou nízký modul pružnosti v tahu. Monomerové jednotky v jejich molekulách jsou obvykle složeny z atomů několika různých prvků, například uhlíku, vodíku, kyslíku a křemíku. Elastomery bývají amorfní. Nejčastěji se používají na výrobu těsnění a lepidel. Dalšími využitími jsou výroba podrážek, tlumičů a tepelných izolací.

Mezinárodní unie pro čistou a užitou chemii (IUPAC) definuje pojem elastomer jako "polymer, který má pružnost podobnou kaučuku".

Polymerové řetězce v elastomerech na sebe působí slabými mezimolekulovými silami, díky čemuž je možné je snadno natahovat. K elastomerům patří mimo jiné přírodní kaučuk, chloroprenový kaučuk, buna-s a buna-n.

Elastomery často patří mezi reaktoplasty, při vulkanizaci vytvářejí zesíťované struktury, mohou však také být termoplastické. Pružnost elastomerů způsobuje schopnost dlouhých řetězců se vrátit do původní konfigurace. V důsledku toho se mohou různé elastomery vratně prodloužit o 5 až 700 %. Bez překřížení by docházelo k trvalé změně tvaru.

Elastomery ochlazené do sklovité nebo krystalické fáze mají méně pohyblivých řetězců a jsou tak méně pružné než za vyšších teplot.

Polymer může být pružný i bez překřížené struktury, k čemuž dochází u termoplastů.

Příklady

Nenasycené polymery, které lze vulkanizovat
 Polyterpeny, například přírodní kaučuk a gutaperča

 Syntetický kaučuk
 Polybutadien
 Polychloropren
 Butylový kaučuk (kopolymer isobutenu a isoprenu
 Halogenované butylové kačuky
 Styren-butadienový kaučuk (kopolymer styrenu a buta-1,3-dienu)
 Nitrilový kaučuk (kopolymer buta-1,3-dienu a akrylonitrilu)

Nasycené kaučuky, které nelze vulkanizovat
 Ethylen-propylenový kaučuk, kopolymer ethenu a propenu
 Epichlorhydrinový kaučuk
 Akrylátové kaučuky
 Silikonový kaučuk
 Fluorelastomery
 Perfluorelastomery
 Chlorsulfonovaný polyethylen
 Polyethylen-vinylacetát

Druhy elastomerů
 Termoplastické elastomery
 Bílkoviny resilin a elastin
 Polysulfidové kaučuky
 Elastolefiny, používané na výrobu tkanin

Reference

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Home Rolex The ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000
The ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000
05 April 2014 | Rolex , Diving Watches , Baselworld 2014
ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000
The (1967) Sea-Dweller is back
ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000 How to "Kill two birds with one stone": or how to fill a gap in your product portfolio and re-edit a watchmaking legend, a Oyster that has played a key role in Rolex's history. Furthermore, Baselworld 2014 will be remembered as the fair where remakes have been the protagonists. At Baselworld this year the watchmaker from Geneva has filled the gap between the Submariner and the Sea-Dweller DeepSea, and has revamped the classic Sea-Dweller, which was replaced by the super-diver DeepSea back in 2008, a timepiece, the latter, maybe not too fit for everyone's wrist.
ROLEX have not just launched a tuned up Submariner (the ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000 is water resistant up to 1220m) but has fully drawn inspiration from the 1967 original Sea-Dweller. Take just a look at its highly curved sapphire crystal, it clearly reminds the original 1967 timepiece. Moreover, the 1967 Sea-Dweller has been the first timepiece ever to introduce the helium escape valve, a technical feature that has been patented by ROLEX.
Maybe, to be honest, the only thing that's missing on the ROLEX Sea-Dweller 4000 is the red lettering at 6 o' clock. Otherwise it encloses all the technical features of a modern ROLEX Oyster which are indeed their pillars: the 904 steel 40 mm wide case, the in-house manufactured 3135 caliber, the Cerachrom bezel, the Triplock crown just to mention a few.
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College Football Daily Fantasy Picks for Week 8: Best DraftKings, FanDuel Plays (Saturday, October 19)
Monique Vág
With Week 8 already underway, here are my favorite plays to fill up your College Football Daily Fantasy Picks.
QUARTERBACK: Brock Purdy
$9,800 FanDuel; $8,100 DraftKings
Iowa State @ Texas Tech: Saturday October 19: 12:00 PM EST (Iowa State -7.5; 57)
Iowa State love to throw the football and they rank 11th in the nation in passing yards per game averaging 317.8. Quarterback Brock Purdy is completing 69.7 percent of his passes and has thrown for 1,807 total yards and boasts an 11:3 touchdown to interception ratio. He also has two passes of more than 70 yards already this season, so the long ball is a threat especially versus a Texas Tech team allowing 8.8 yards per passing attempt (112th in the nation).
Look for Purdy to light up the Texas Tech secondary who have been prone to surrendering lots of passing yards allowing 264.8 a game.
RUNNING BACK: Jonathan Taylor
$10,800 FanDuel
Wisconsin @ Illinois: Saturday October 19: 12 PM EST (Wisconsin -31;50.5)
As much as I wanted to find a cheaper option at running back, the upside on Jonathan Taylor is just tremendous this week. He is a threat in both the running and passing game eclipsing 825 yards on the ground and 14 touchdowns. Taylor has also caught 15 passes for 136 yards and 4 touchdowns on the season. Although he had a tougher week versus Michigan State, he still managed to put up 80 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Expect big numbers out of Taylor going against an Illinois defense ranked 103rd in passing yards allowed per game with 204.7. The Illini have also allowed the sixth highest rushing yards per game (6.0), over their most recent three games.
WIDE RECEIVER: Ja'Marr Chase
$9,900 FanDuel; DraftKings $7,700
LSU @ Mississippi State: Saturday October 19: 3:30 PM EST (LSU -17.5; 62)
LSU have been a force through the passing game averaging the 2nd most yards per game with 377 along with ranking 4th in average completions per game with 27.2. Wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase is having a big season and in games he has logged 7 or more receptions, he has accumulated no less than 127 receiving yards. He enters today averaging a huge 19.3 yards a reception and has already found the end zone eight times this year.
Mississippi State have been average against the pass this season allowing 230.7 yards through the air. Their secondary's worst defensive showing was surrendering 161 receiving yards to Seth Williams from Auburn. Thinking Chase posts similar numbers is not at all unreasonable.
FLEX/RUNNING BACK: Rodney Smith
$9,300 FanDuel
Minnesota @ Rutgers: Saturday October 19: 3:30 PM EST (Minnesota -28.5; 47.5)
Rutgers defensively are allowing an average of 208.3 rushing yards per game and 449.3 yards of total offense. They have given up no less than 30 points to any team all season, and offensively have been shut out by Michigan and Indiana and have only managed 7-points through their most recent three games.
Look for the Golden Gophers to score at will and Rodney Smith to make it his fourth straight game of 115 or more rushing yards. We have already seen him log 20 or more carries in four of six games this year; expect similar numbers Saturday.
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Phylogenetic tree building based on gene sequences linked in iDigBio specimen records

## MrBayes Installation on Ubuntu 14.04

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mrbayes/mrbayes/3.2.5/mrbayes-3.2.5.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fmrbayes.sourceforge.net%2Fdownload.php&ts=1447378701&use_mirror=skylineservers

Do later when need parallel - git clone https://github.com/beagle-dev/beagle-lib.git

sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev
cd src/
autoconf
./configure --with-beagle=no --enable-mpi=yes
make
mv mb ../bin/

And test with the first tutorial from the manual

FIXME: This still runs as one thread - might be compilation, might be libraries, might be model

### Ref

http://sourceforge.net/p/mrbayes/mailman/message/34509537/
https://pascualanaya.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/compiling-and-working-with-mpi-version-of-mrbayes-3-2-2/

## Good test case

1. Sequence ID in iDigBio
2. Search that returns the records w/ sequences
3. Not too many sequences or a filterable amount
4. Sequences types match and can be aligned
5. Tree availible for comparision in treebase

## Directory Structure

1) seq/ - Spark code used for extracting GenBank sequence identifiers from iDigBio data dumps. Builds the uuid:seqid linking table used by the genbank worker
1) workers/
  1) sequence/ - Celery worker that accepts iDigBio uuids and enqueues tasks
  for the align worker with sequences
  1) align/ - Celery worker that accepts sequences and aligns them and enqueues
  tasks for the tree worker
  1) tree/ - Celery workder that accepts aligned sequences and constructs trees
  that are then stored in Postgresql
1) api/ - Python API code
1) web/ - Web root of site (put on gh-pages branch?)

# For ClustalOmega building
sudo apt-get install libargtable2-0 libargtable2-dev

iDigBio Python package pulled from github, fixes beta issue:
git clone git@github.com:iDigBio/idigbio-python-client.git
cd idigbio-python-client
sudo python setup.py install

# Api

pip install flask

tree/build

tree/view

Visualization
apt-get install python-numpy python-qt4 python-lxml
 sudo pip install ete2

 Need X server to render:
     https://github.com/jhcepas/ete/issues/101
     sudo apt-get install xvfb
     then run `xvfb-run python api_view_stub.py`

Trouble parsing nexus files
apt-get install bioperl

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Professional Landscape Care Assistance - Keep Your Trees Healthy!
A beautiful landscape can do wonders for the appeal of the exterior of a house. There is also the possibility for the landscape to give a house more value and marketability when it comes to selling it. One of the downfalls of having a beautiful landscape is the responsibility of keeping it in a healthy condition, which can be a struggle for a busy homeowner. Fortunately, you have the option of hiring a professional to take care of your landscape duties to keep your property healthy and appealing. Take a look at the content below for an overview of some of the tasks that a professional landscaper can handle on your behalf.
When a landscape has any trees, it is important to keep them in good shape. If the branches and leaves are allowed to grow out of control, it can affect the appeal of the landscape. If the overgrown trees are in your front yard, the curb appeal of the house can go down. Residential tree trimming can be a complicated task without the help of a landscaper, especially when they are tall and require standing on a ladder to perform the work. A professional will be able to trim the trees as often as it is needed to keep the growth of leaves and branches under control.
Grass and weeds can grow fast, which is why a homeowner must ensure that regular care is provided. There are numerous services that a landscaper can provide to keep grass and weed growth under control. He or she may begin by getting rid of the weeds altogether, which can be done in several ways. When it comes to grass care, it will be performed based on the condition that the grass is in. For instance, if there are any patches of dirt in the yard, a landscaper can fill them in by planting grass seeds, or installing grass that has been pre-grown for instant results.
An important aspect of having plants is the responsibility of keeping them supplied with a sufficient amount of water. Sufficient means an amount of water that isn't too little or much for the specific species of plants that you have to survive. For instance, if you don't have native plants, it is possible that they will need more water than others to survive in your region. A landscaper has the ability to sufficiently provide the right amount of water to all of the plants in your landscape.


Whenever I want to know something about number pi, the first book I usually turn to is Petr Beckmann's A History of PI [St. Martin's Press], first published in 1971. His opening statement in the "Preface" is great: "The history of pi is a quaint little mirror of the history of man." Thus, as teachers, we have a great opportunity to show students this "mirror" through pi and its fascinating history.
A second great text-based resource is Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein' is the Pi: A Source Book [Springer, 1997], which was designed to be a comprehensive encyclopedic reference to pi. And in contrast to Beckmann's opening statement, the Preface for the Berggren/Borwwin Bros text is "The story of pi reflects the most seminal, the most serious, and sometimes the most whimsical aspects of mathematics."
Mnemonics for memorizing decimal places of pi, one of them up to 402 places.
Both texts are references that should not only be on every teachers shelves, but also be used!


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Daniel Francis Fouts (10 de junio de 1951) es un quarterback de fútbol americano retirado de la National Football League, miembro del Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Americano Profesional. Fouts jugó toda su carrera profesional con los San Diego Chargers de 1973 a 1987. Fue uno de los pasadores más prolíficos durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980, pero los Chargers fueron incapaces de llegar al Super Bowl durante los quince años de su carrera. En la actualidad es un comentarista de color para los partidos de la NFL transmitidos por CBS. Dan es el hijo del miembro del Salón de la Fama de la Radio del Área de la Bahía Bob Fouts.

Carrera en preparatoria y universitaria

Fouts asistió a la Preparatoria Marin Catholic, que se encuentra justo al norte de San Francisco en Kentfield, California, durante sus dos primeros años de preparatoria, y era el titular del equipo de fútbol americano en su segundo año. Decidió transferirse a la Preparatoria St. Ignatius (localizada en San Francisco) para sus últimos dos años.

Fouts era relativamente desconocido cuando aceptó la oferta de beca de la Universidad de Oregón. Eso cambió cuando hubo terminado su carrera universitaria, donde mereció honores All-Pac 8 y estableció 19 récords de su escuela, incluyendo por yardas por aire en su carrera (5995) y yardas ofensivas totales (5871). Fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama de la Universidad de Oregón en 1992.

Carrera profesional

Seleccionado en la tercera ronda del draft de 1973 y proveniente de la Universidad de Oregón, Fouts ayudó a guidar a los Chargers a los playoffs de 1979 a 1982 y en dos ocasiones al juego de campeonato de la AFC (1980 y 1981). Lideró la liga cuatro veces en yardas por aire, terminando su carrera con más de 40.000, el tercer jugador en superar dicha cifra. Fouts ingresó al Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Americano Profesional en 1993.

Fouts fue elegido 6 veces para participar en el Pro Bowl (1979-1983 y 1985) y obtuvo índices de pasador de más de 90,0 durante tres años consecutivos (1981-83). Lanzó para más de 4000 yardas igualmente tres años en fila (1979-1981), lideró la liga en yardas por aire en cuatro temporadas consecutivas (1979-1982) y eclipsó seis veces la marca de los 20 touchdowns con un máximo de 33 en la temporada de 1981. Su mayor cantidad de yardas por aire en una temporada fue de 4802 durante la temporada 1981, lo que estableció el récord de la NFL en ese momento.

Fouts estableció récords de yardas por aire en una temporada tres años consecutivos de 1979 a 1981 con totales de 4082, 4715 y 4802 yardas. Rompió el récord de Joe Namath de 4007 establecido en 1967; Dan Marino rompería el récord de Fouts en 1984 con 5084 yardas. En 1982, una temporada recortada a 9 partidos debido a una huelga, Fouts promedió 320 yardas aéreas por partido, un récord de la liga que permaneció hasta que Drew Brees promedió 342,3 en 2011. Destacó de esa temporada que obtuvo victorias consecutivas contra los equipos que habían jugado el Super Bowl anterior, San Francisco (41-37) y Cincinnati (50-34), en las cuales Fouts lanzó para más de 400 yardas.

Fouts fue nombrado al equipo All-Pro tanto en 1979 como en 1982, formando parte del segundo equipo All-Pro en 1980 y 1985. Además, Fouts también formó parte del segundo equipo All-AFC en 1981 y 1983. Sin embargo, Fouts y los Chargers perdieron ambos juegos de campeonato de la AFC en los que jugaron.

Los primeros años en la liga de Fouts fueron poco favorables, pero con la llegada del entrenador en jefe Don Coryell en 1978, la suerte de los Chargers dio un giro. Dos años antes, la llegada de Joe Gibbs como coordinador ofensivo de los Chargers comenzó la construcción del éxito que habría en el futuro. Bajo el mando de Coryell, los Chargers fueron conocidos como Air Coryell por su juego de pases largos y el papel del tight end como un receptor abierto primordial. Este sistema de juego requería de un quarterback inteligente y duro, para el cual consideraron que Fouts cumplía los requisitos.

Fouts no era un quarterback con movilidad y el uso de pases largos provocara que recibiera demasiados golpes. El entrenador del Salón de la Fama Bill Walsh, que trabajó como asistente en los Chargers en 1976, dijo que «Dan Fouts tenía nervios y valor de acero ... Recibía muchos golpes, era apaleado, pero continuaba jugando, estuviera lastimado o no. Jugaba fútbol americano de forma más física que cualquier otro en el equipo, incluyendo a los linebackers». Usando en raras ocasiones la formación shotgun, Fouts recibiría el centro y buscaría conectar con alguno de los miembros de su gran grupo de receptores. El wide receiver Charlie Joiner y el tight end Kellen Winslow eran los más famosos, ambos miembros del Salón de la Fama, pero John Jefferson y Wes Chandler, entre otros, también eran clave. El juego aéreo de Fouts le permitió a Winslow liderar la NFL en recepciones dos veces (1980, 1981), mientras que él mismo en 1982 y Lionel James en 1985 lideraron la AFC en recepciones. James, de hecho, estableció el récord de la liga (desde entonces roto) en 1985 de yardas aéreas para un running back en 1027. Jefferson se convirtió en el primer receptor en tener 1000 yardas en recepciones en cada una de sus primeras tres temporadas en la NFL. Tanto Jefferson (1980) como Chandler (1982) lideraron la NFL en yardas por recepciones. El promedio de yardas por recepeción de 129 por juego que tuvo Chandler en 1982 sigue siendo el récord de la liga. Tanto Jefferson (1978, 1980) como Chandler (1982) lideraron la NFL en recepciones de touchdown. En 1980, Winslow, Jefferson y Joiner se convirtieron en el primer trío en el mismo equipo que acumulaba 1000 yardas en recepciones en una temporada. Cuando se retiró en 1986, Joiner era el líder de todos los tiempos de la NFL en recepciones con 750.

La protección al pasador también era crítica para tal ofensiva. Los Chargers tenían una excelente línea ofensiva que proporcionaba buena protección a Fouts, e incluía a Ed White (4 Pro Bowls), Russ Washington (5 Pro Bowls), Doug Wilkerson (3 Pro Bowls), Billy Shields y Don Macek. Los Chargers lideraron la liga en yardas por aire seis años consecutivos entre 1978 y 1983, lo cual es un récord de la NFL, además de volverlo a lograr en 1985 nuevamente con Fouts. También fueron líderes de la liga en yardas ofensivas totales en 1980-1983 y 1985.

A pesar de ir a los playoffs de 1979 a 1982 y jugar en 2 Juegos de Campeonato de la AFC, los Chargers nunca llegaron al Super Bowl con Fouts (aunque lo lograron 7 años después de que se retiró). Generalmente esto es atribuido al pobre desempeño de la defensa y a su falta de interés por correr el balón. En los mejores años de Fouts la defensa no era tan efectiva, pero el juego terrestre mejoró enormemente con la llegada de Chuck Muncie, adquirido en un intercambio con New Orleans en 1980, y al draftear a James Brooks de Auburn en 1981. Se cree que la defensa tenía poca oportunidad de mejorar ya que el ataque anotaba demasiado rápido, haciendo que la defensa pasara mucho tiempo dentro del terreno de juego. También afectó que Fred Dean, un jugador All-Pro especialista en sacks, fuera enviado en un intercambio a los San Francisco 49ers en 1981 debido a disputas contractuales; Dean ganaría el Premio de UPI al Jugador Defensivo del Año de la NFC (participando solamente en 11 partidos) ese año en camino a una victoria en el Super Bowl y ayudaría a los 49ers a conseguir otro título de Super Bowl tres años después. Dean más tarde entraría al Salón de la Fama.

«No puedo decir qué tanto nos afectó, porque sí llegamos al juego de campeonato de la AFC» dijo el liniero defensivo All-Pro de los Chargers Gary «Big Hands» Johnson sobre la pérdida de Dean. «Pero puedo decir que si hubiéramos tenido más presión sobre el pasador desde el extremo, las cosas podrían haber sido distintas».

En general, los Chargers consiguieron tres victorias y cuatro derrotas en los playoffs con Fouts, quien lanzó para más de 300 yardas en todos esos partidos salvo en dos. Una de sus victorias más notables fue el partido de 1982 conocido como «The Epic in Miami», donde Fouts comandó a su equipo a una victoria por 41-38 completando 33 de 53 pases para un récord de franquicia de 433 yardas y 3 touchdowns en aquel día caluroso y húmedo. Sus pases completos, pases intentados y yardas fueron todos récords de postemporada en la NFL en su momento. La siguiente semana en el juego de campeonato de la AFC en Cincinnati, hubo una disminución en la temperatura de 62 °C en comparación con la semana anterior en Miami, y los Chargers perdieron 27-7 en el que es conocido como Freezer Bowl.

La siguiente temporada, lanzó para 333 yardas y 3 touchdowns en una victoria por 31-28 sobre los Pittsburgh Steelers en la ronda divisional de los playoffs de la AFC.

Honores

Fouts terminó su carrera después de 15 temporadas en la NFl con 3297 pases completos de 5604 intentados para 43 040 yardas y 254 touchdowns, con 242 intercepciones. También corrió para 476 yardas y 13 touchdowns. Además, es apenas uno de siete quarterbacks en la historia de la NFL en haber lanzado 30 o más pases de touchdowns en dos temporadas consecutivas. Los otros son Steve Bartkowski, Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Jeff Garcia, Peyton Manning y Y.A. Tittle. Igualmente fue el tercer quarterback en la historia de la NFL en lanzar para más de 40 000 yardas, después de los miembros del Salón de la Fama Johhny Unitas y Fran Tarkenton, y el primero en lanzar para más de 4000 yardas en temporadas consecutivas. Su número, el 14, es solamente uno de los dos que han sido retirados por los San Diego Chargers (siendo el otro el 19 de Lance Alworth).

En 1989, Fouts fue incluido por el San Diego Hall of Champions en el Salón de la Fama Breitbard, que honra a los atletas más destacados de San Diego tanto dentro como fuera del terreno de juego. En 1999, se posicionó en el lugar 92 de la lista de los 100 Mejores Jugadores de Fútbol Americano de Sporting News.

En 1992, ingresó a los Salones de la Fama de la Universidad de Oregón y del Estado de Oregón. A su vez, en 1993 fue inmortalizado en el Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Americano Profesional, en su primer año de elegibilidad.

En 2009, fue elegido por los aficionados como el «Mejor Charger de Todos los Tiempos» durante el 50º aniversario del equipo. Además, en 2010 recibió el Premio Davey O'Brien Legends durante la ceremonia de premiación de Colt McCoy.

Después del fútbol americano

De 1988 a 1993, Fouts participó como analista en NFL on CBS. Trabajó con varios comentaristas incluyendo a Dick Stockton, James Brown, Verne Lundquist, Brad Nessler, Jim Nantz, Jack Buck y Tim Ryan.

La carrera de Fouts posterior a la NFL incluyó una participación bien recibida como comentarista en Monday Night Football de ABC, junto con Al Michaels y Dennis Miller. También trabajó como analista de fútbol americano colegial junto con Brent Musburger y Keith Jackson después de dejar MNF. Igualmente fue comentarista deportivo para KPIX-TV en su pueblo natal de San Francisco de 1994 a 1997.

En 1998 Fouts hizo su debut en la pantalla grande, interpretándose a sí mismo en la comedia de fútbol americano The Waterboy, protagonizada por Adam Sandler. Fouts y Musberger aparecieron al final de la cinta como el equipo de comentaristas de ESPN para el «Bourbon Bowl», un partido ficticio celebrado en Año Nuevo.

Después del retiro de Jackson de ABC en 2006, Fouts se convirtió en comentarista jugada a jugada, añadiendo sus propias opiniones de vez en cuando. Su compañero de transmisiones en 2006 y 2007 fue Tim Brant.

El 11 de febrero de 2008, ESPN anunció que no renovarían el contrato de Fouts y de su compañero Tim Brant.

Se reportó en USA Today el 20 de agosto de 2008 que Fouts regresaría a CBS para anunciar partidos de la NFL al lado de comentaristas como Don Criqui, Bill Macatee y Dick Enberg.

En 2009, fue emparejado con Dick Enberg, conformado el equipo de transmisión #3 para los partidos de la NFL transmitidos por CBS. Después del retiro de Enberg al finalizar la temporada de 2009, Fouts fue emparejado con Ian Eagle. En ocasiones también trabaja como comentarista en Westwood One Radio.

Fouts también fue comentarista de color para el videojuego de fútbol americano NFL GameDay 2004, donde igualmente trabajó con Dick Enberg.

Véase también
 Jugadores de la NFL que más tiempo han estado en el mismo equipo

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Sitio Oficial de Dan Fouts (en inglés)

Quarterbacks de fútbol americano
Miembros del Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Americano Profesional
Jugadores de San Diego Chargers


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I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic in pouring rain. Ahead of me a driver leaned on his car horn in frustration. Red lights blurred into the distance, while my windshield wipers thudded back and forth, back and forth. My mind began to wander. Would my dog be OK in the storm? Had I locked the door? One thought after another ran through my mind. And then a woman I would subsequently write about for the next 18 years, walked into my life. In my mind's eye, I saw her dressed in the garb of the mid-1920's. She came up the escalator at Warren Street station – I knew it was Warren Street as I used to work in Fitzroy Square, and took the Tube from Victoria every day – but the escalator was not made of steel; it was a clunky old wooden escalator. The turnstile was made of cast iron – there was no electronic machine. Then she stopped to talk to the newspaper vendor outside, and made her way to a house along the street. She took an envelope containing two keys from her bag, and looked up at the door. Her name was Maisie Dobbs.
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I've thought a lot about writing the series character over the years, and certainly I didn't plan a series when I began work on Maisie Dobbs, the first book in what is now a 15-book collection. However, I have come to realise that developing the series character has a certain authenticity about it, because it mirrors how we come to know people in life.
Let's say we strike up a conversation with someone at a party. There's that initial curiosity – "What do you do?" we might ask, or "Where do you live?" Then the conversation begins, and perhaps we meet again over coffee. As acquaintances we grow in confidence, so we reveal more of ourselves to each other – where we were born, or went to school, and what we watch on TV. If friendship develops, that exchange of information becomes more personal. We get to know people over time – we don't learn it all at once at that first meeting. Working with the series character is like that.
I didn't know everything about Maisie Dobbs when I began that first novel, but over the years she has revealed more of herself to me, allowing me to craft stories about her and follow her through time as she grows and changes with age. I've also experienced the process of writing a standalone novel – The Care and Management of Lies – and I've toyed with the idea of writing a sequel, simply because there's more I want to know about the characters. I feel as if I've short-changed myself, because just when I think I know all there is to know about a character, I'm often taken surprise by what is revealed as I write.
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I thank God that blesses me constantly, the Catholic University of Brasilia (UCB), and Professor. Dr. Rideci Farias, for all the support and guidance.


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Q: AutoMapper classes with a Transient lifestyle in IoC I'm using AutoMapper to map domain entities to view models in an Asp.Net MVC app.  I register these mapping classes in Castle Windsor so they are available to the controller thru ctor dependency injection.  These mapping classes has a virtual CreateMap method where I can override AutoMapper's mapping, telling it how to map fields from the entity to the view model, which fields to ignore, pointing to methods that transforms the data, etc.  All of this is working well; big kudos to the people behind AutoMapper!
So far I've been registering the mapping classes with a Singleton lifestyle in Windsor, but one of them needs to use the IAuthorizationRepository from Rhino.Security which needs to have its components registered as Transient.  This forces me to register the mapping classes also as transient, because a singleton mapping class holding a reference to a transient IAuthorizationRepository causes problems the second time the mapper is used (i.e., ISession is already closed errors).
Is it a waste of resources to register all of these mapping classes with a Transient lifestyle, which will cause the mapping class to be instantiated and the CreateMap method to run each time the system wants to map a domain entity to a view model?
Or should I try to find a way to separate the IAuthorizationRepository from the mapping class so I can keep the mapping classes as Singletons?
Thanks
Dan

A: Another way around it is using the TypedFactoryFacility, then instead of injecting IAuthorizationRepository into your singletons you can inject Func<IAuthorizationRepository>


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BSNL Xgen Email Service Launch in Jaipur (May 23, 2014)
BSNL LAUNCHES XGEN ADVANCE EMAIL SERVICES FOR INDIA- ITVoice (May 17, 2014)
Sat Jaipur 17th May 2014 : India's Largest Telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Has Partnered With Data Ingenious Global Ltd And Launched Xgen Advance Enterprise Email Services For Its All 7.5 Million Subscribers Today In Jaipur. The Event Took Place In Hotel Marriott Jaipur In Which Chief Guest Shri. R.K. Upadhyay (CMD) BSNL, Guest of Honor Sh. Akhil Arora Secretary IT (Gov. of Raj) and Shri. N.K. Gupta – Director (CFA) BSNL in presence of Dr. Ajay Data Founder and CEO Data Ingenious Global Ltd, Shri. A.K. Bhargava CGM Rajasthan, Sh. N K Narang CGM (BBNW) BSNL, media & invited guest clicked the Launch Button and inaugurated the services.
BSNL XGen personal and enterprise e-mail service offers numerous facilities which are not available from other service providers. It will be initially free for the company's broadband customers across the country and paid for other, BSNL will be competing with other e-mail service providers in the country through this offering. From today onwards, initially all BSNL internal officials users will have the access of the new interface and by 15th June 2014 all 7.5 million BSNL broadband users will get this new advance email service interface. This has made Data Ingenious Global Ltd the country's largest email service provider. Almost 75 lakh customers of BSNL broadband will be provided this service free, soon after its launch on Saturday and the company targets to associate an additional 25 lakh people by the end of this fiscal. Since the complete services will be offered thru Data Ingenious Global Ltd Jaipur based Data Center, thus it will be a big achievement for IT industry of Rajasthan and state government.
What will BSNL users get now:-
Currently the subscribers having BSNL account, gets traditional normal web, IMAP and POP based 50 MB mail space account. Now after the launch BSNL officials & subscribers using BSNL services and who want to avail hosted email services from BSNL including government, PSU or private institution, will get most advance enterprise class email account with email service space in multiple GB along with advance communication services in email like- chat, fax, SMS, conferencing etc. They key differentiators of Xgen email services will be that it will be totally legally complied email services provided from servers in India, backed up by human based 24×7 call center along with email and chat support. It will have unique features like Image Compression, Multiple Email Compose, Personalized Group Mails, Secured Hidden Attachments, Encryption, Send and Receive emails upto 100 MB, Instant Search, Mail Sharing, Tagging, etc. One of its most powerful features is Rights Management, which empowers the sender to control actions of deleting, forwarding, replying and printing of the e-mail by the recipient. Not just that its virtual storage facilitates to allow files up to one GB to be attached/sent and the user can transmit 5,000 emails per day. While it's OTP (One Time Password) feature allows the user not to remember the password every time user logs in, its Dual Authentication makes the service most secured for the any user.
All BSNL services subscribers will get the basic email box free which can be upgraded with Advance account with VAS services like mobile app, mobile chat client, fax, SMS, group mail, more advance security, space limit etc can also be taken by consumers by paying nominal charges. Government Depts. , PSU, organizations and even individuals who wish to have emails on their own domain can also host there emails now on BSNL servers and avail the services with very attractive packages. The enterprise account of BSNL email on your domain will now be available at just Rs 999/- per email id, per annum against the competitions like Gmail offering at INR 1500 per id per annum to start with. However those who need fewer features can avail the same in even as low as Rs 199/- per id per year from BSNL.
BSNL launches locally developed e-mail service- Zee News
Jaipur: State-run BSNL on Saturday launched a locally designed and developed e-mail service — XGen personal and enterprise — in partnership with IT firm Data Ingenious Global Ltd.
"Customers will have a wide range of features in the new service," said BSNL CMD R K Upadhyay at the launch here.
The servers will be offered through the data centre of Data Ingenious Global Ltd in Jaipur, he added.
All the 7.5 million BSNL broadband subscribers across the country would be able to avail the service.
They will get the basic e-mail box free which can be upgraded with advance account with services such as mobile app, mobile chat client, fax, SMS, group mail, advanced security and space limit by paying charges.
The CMD said the modernisation of BSNL telephone exchanges as well as expansion of GSM service was expected to be completed by the end of the current fiscal.
Ajay Data, CEO, Data Ingenious Global Ltd, said there are more than 100 new features in its e-mail service.
"One of its most powerful features is Rights Management, which empowers the sender to control actions of deleting, forwarding, replying and printing of the e-mail by the recipient," Data said.
The users can also send SMS and e-mails in advance to people to whom it will be delivered at the desired time only.
Its virtual storage facility will allow files up to one GB to be attached/sent and the user can transmit 5,000 emails per day.
One Time Password, dual authentication for advanced security, image compression, multiple e-mail compose, personalised group e-mail, secured hidden attachments and encryption are among other prominent features, he said, adding that the project has made the company the country's largest e-mail service provider.
BSNL Launches Xgen Advance Email Service in India-Rajasthan Patrika
BSNL launches locally developed e-mail service- Economic Times
From today get your mails in BSNL's XGen- Indiapublicsector
MOVE over Gmail or Yahoo. Here comes BSNL XGen. Having problem every time you try to log in to your e-mail account? No longer so as state-run telecom major BSNL is all set to introduce a locally…
developed and designed e-mail service from today. Now, BSNL will emerge the country's largest email service provider.
If you are a BSNL customer, you can access the e-mail service developed by Jaipur-based IT company Data Ingenious Global Ltd. BSNL XGen personal and enterprise e-mail service will be initially free for the company's broadband customers across the country and paid for other. The cash-strapped service provider will be competing with other e-mail service providers in the country through this offering which is going to be introduced on May 17.
The service offers numerous facilities which are not available from other service providers at present, says an agency report quoting a top Data Ingenious Global Ltd official.
The Rights Management feature empowers the sender to control actions of deleting, forwarding, replying and printing of the e-mail by the recipient.
You can also send SMSs and emails in advance to your friends and the same will be delivered at the desired time.
The messages will be stored on servers. Not only that. The virtual storage facility will allow you files up to one GB to be attached or sent. You can send 5,000 emails per day. Sound great!
You need not remember your password every time you log in. Its OTP (One Time Password) feature is quite interesting as the Dual Authentication makes the service most secured for the user.
Almost 75 lakh customers of BSNL broadband will be provided the service free soon after its launch on Saturday and the company targets to associate an additional 25 lakh people by the end of this fiscal.
IT Innovator of the Year - Peter Hass, US Indo American Society. 2013
Data Ingenious Global Ltd India's Largest Email Service Provider- DNA News-31 August 2013
Jaipur to be Email Hosting Hub for 90 lac BSNL Users- Dainik Bhaskar
Data Ingenious Global Ltd provides Online Recharge and Bill Payment facility to BSNL users
Ultra modern Features enriched Email Accounts soon to reach Indian Email Users
Users will access Hacker free Accounts soon- Rajasthan Patrika
The ITCOM WEEK-HyDERABAD 30thJuly-6th August, 2011
City Bhaskar Email News-25th August, 2011
Written by Faiz Askari, Editor, Small Enterprise India.com
Eye Opener on Office Communication: Redefining Emails
In today's scenario, emails are considered to part of life. Businesses are running on emails. And in a study it is found that a typical entrepreneur usually spent more than three hours on checking emails. Having said this, a growing SME must have to look at email as an important component of their day to day business activity. Focusing only on offering specialized email solutions, Ajay Data, founder of Bharat Berry interacted exclusively with SmallEnterpriseIndia(dot)com and emphasized on the needs of advanced office communications. Through the set of features, we deliver performance, time saving, easy admin, and advanced communication and sharing features which are kind of 'must have' for the organizations.
Excerpts from the interview:
Office Communications play vital role in the business operations. What is the status of this form of communications among SMEs?
Role of emails, in today`s business scenario is very crucial and without email doing business is impossible. SMEs are using email as primary communication medium and have moved away from faxes and traditional postal mail to large extent. Email not only proves to be cost effective but also fast, easy and reliable.
Emails are increasingly accessed on multiple devices and are increasingly becoming more sensitive for successful business operations. What is your take on it?
Yes, access of email 'anytime, anywhere' is now possible helping everyone to remain connected to the offices/home and friends. Even if you are flying or enjoying on beach you are connected to your email systems, giving you sense of comfort of not missing something very important while you are away from office.
Please elaborate the USP of your email server? How is your product targets the SME environment?
Xgen email server software has now 11 years of experience built into it, addressing almost every day to day performance enhancing needs of everyone. Today just sending and receiving emails does not work for people, they need guaranteed delivery reports, secured access to their a/c keeping their data safe from competition/hackers, monitoring of logs of email traffic, group personalized email to send out new promotions or new year wishes, support center management through email, sending very large attachments (upto 1 GB), are some of the key elements which are required by organisations.
What are the key challenges that you usually face when you approach an entrepreneur and explains the utilities of an advanced email server for his organization?
Most frequent one is lack of awareness and branding about our solution, which is otherwise better than other competing products. Lots of people do not realise the threats they have around email in their organisation about leaking of data, wrong commitments on email, spying on management emails, misappropriate language to customers are some of them and when we show the features to manage them through Xgen, its an eye-opener for them.
According to you, among SMEs, what is the level of awareness and level of willingness to adopt better technologies?
It is considered to be low awareness but when we meet and demonstrate the capability of our email server, they feel left out and look for improving their business processes through our Xgen email server.
What is the cost of acquiring an email server from X Gen?
Email server may be acquired in multiple ways. First option is – 'On Premise,' second option is 'Hosted', and third option is 'SaaS' model. On Premise — depending upon number of users and offices the solutions needs to be designed and costs accordingly. However for a 10 users organisation it will cost approx Rs. 5000/- a year in hosted model, where he gets all the power he needs in the organisation.
Managing the IT infrastructure is also a challenge among SMEs. What is your take on it?
Companies who do not want to take the burden of deploying IT infrastructure and managing it, we have two solutions for them.
1) Hosted solution in our Data Center
2) Software / Infra deployed in their premise and managed by us.
Depending upon the requirement SME can choose or we can help them to best solution available for them.
Which are segments that are active in your target business category and which are the promising segment for you?
Companies which are dependent on email in large extent for day to day business. However, we have call centers, hosting companies, companies with multiple offices, hospitals, jewelers, transport companies, education institutes, Govt departments and banks as our customer.
What expectation do you have from the SME market in next 12 to 18 months?
SME is the market for future and we see the biggest growth in that segment. We are already seeing growth in that market segment and number of inquiries increasing every week and hence we see that this number is increasing in next one year.
XGen Launches Version 12 for Indian and Global Markets on August 1, 2011
XGen, world's most advanced e-mail server launches XGen Version 12 for Indian and Global markets on August 1, 2011. The advanced e-mail server has come-up with an in-built assignment module called Automated Inward Routing (AIR).
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
chooses Xgen Messaging Solution for Defense Department, Govt. of India and Xgen gets deployed by Data Ingenious Global Ltd team.
Xgen email server is now offered integrated with public private key infrastructure
Published: 23rd Aaugust 2009
Xgen has integrated implementation of OpenPGP and offers most secured webmail (Web 2.0 enabled) in the world. Users need not to download any client software on their desktop, hence they can send and receive encrypted emails from anywhere and decrypt it through web interface.
Spamjadoo gets appreciation from MTNL Mumbai
Spamjadoo gets appreciation from MTNL Delhi
Xgen Messaging Solution gets Selected by Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran,Mysore - 28th October 2008
Protect Your Email Address Online
Published: 2nd November 2006
Many spammers operate "bots": autonomous software robots that "crawl" the Web looking for email addresses. If you post your email address publicly anywhere online (on a website, a discussion forum, on USENET, in a guestbook etc.) then sooner or later it will be found by one of these bots and will then get added to a spam mailing list. These harvested email addresses are commonly bundled by the millions onto CDs, which spammers then use to send out their unwanted messages.
Don't post your email address in "plain" form anywhere on the Web. Instead, you can disguise your email address by writing it in a convoluted way so that humans can still read it, but bots can't. For example, instead of writing "john@example.com", use "john AT example DOT com".
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Use a feedback form on your website instead of providing a contact email address.
Choose a Non-Obvious Email AddressSome spammers find email addresses by generating likely combinations using automated tools. For example, they may generate a list like aaaaa@hotmail.com, aaaab@hotmail.com, aaaac@hotmail.com and so on. They also make use of word lists and lists of first names and surnames to generate likely email addresses.
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How to Switch from yahoo to your domain email
Remind friends who send messages to your Old yahoo Email Address that you've made the switch to more powerful and personalised email..
Include your new yourdomain address in your Yahoo Mail signature, and customize your reply-to address. You can also set up an automatic reply that includes your own domain email address so everyone who sends mail to your Old mail addresses knows how to get in touch with you.
Customizing your signature
Log in to your Old Mail account.
Click 'Options / Settings .'
Look for 'Signature.'
Enter the text you'd like to show below each message you send, and be sure to include your New address.'
Select check box
Click 'Save.'
Changing your reply-to address
Log in to your Old Yahoo! Mail account.
Click 'Options.'
Click 'General Preferences.'
Enter your New address in the 'Reply to:' field.
Setting up a vacation response
Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
Click 'Vacation Response,' and enter your message in the 'Generic Response' text field. Don't forget to include your new New address!
Click 'Turn Auto-Response On.'
Advantages of domain based (Personalized) Email accounts
Advantages of domain based (Personalized) Email accounts Over Free Email Accounts
MSN Hotmail, Rediff, Sify, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and similar types of widely-used (and free) e-mail accounts are popular and easy to set up. However, despite their popularity, such e-mail accounts present their users with a number of inconveniences; inconveniences that can be avoided with our robust, versatile and richly featured personalized e-mail accounts..
Users of MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and similar types of e-mail accounts may have to deal with any of the following types of inconveniences and annoyances:
With mass-market e-mail accounts, including MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail users share their e-mail domains (e.g., "@hotmail.com," "@msn.com," or ".yahoo.com") with millions of other users, which makes it impossible to create a truly unique e-mail identity for you and/or your business.
Users of Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc. are frequently being pestered with unwanted and intrusive on-page advertisements. Ad placement is one of the main reasons that these providers can offer their services for free.
Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail users are more likely than most other e-mail users to be blitzed with electronic spam.
Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail networks are prone to attacks by phishers, pharmers, hackers, crackers and other cyber crooks who attempt to steal sensitive information or plant e-mail worms, Trojan Horses and other malware.
Online merchants might refuse your order. Much Internet fraud the vast majority, in fact is associated with mass-market e-mail accounts, such as Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Some merchants simply refuse to accept orders that originate from them.
You might lose your account if you do not use it within a certain time.Sure, that is not a big deal if you use it only for casual, occasional contacts. But it is crucial if you used it to register at Web sites, for example. If there are problems with your account and your e-mail address is expired, you�re out of luck.
It is next to impossible to get an e-mail address that is easily useable, let alone memorable. Because of the large amount of users that share these domains, the risk of selecting an e-mail address that is already taken is very high. There are simply too many variations in circulation. In many cases, users are forced to find an alternative address as addresses like "myname@gmail.com," "myname@hotmail.com," or "myname@yahoo.com" may well be unavailable.
Some of these e-mail accounts may include unwanted advertising insertions in your outgoing e-mail. Do you really want to be advertising an e-mail provider�s promotions when you are applying for a job, or registering a complaint, or communicating with friends
Because users of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts share their Internet domains with millions of other users across the Web, they run the risk of having their e-mail addresses accidentally blacklisted by recipients that decide to block entire domains from their inboxes, rather than just specific e-mail addresses. Such blanket blacklistings thus may hurt users that aren�t guilty of spamming or any other netiquette breaches.
The Best Alternative
The best alternative to the inconveniences of Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and similar e-mail accounts is to sign up for one of our personalized e-mail accounts, which allow you to pick the exact e-mail address you want, including your own personal domain name that you may use for your Web site, as well as your e-mail account. All of our e-mail accounts are 100 percent ad-free and include generous disk space, Webmail access, as well as state-of-the-art anti-spam and anti-phishing technology.
A personalized e-mail account enables you to create your very own, instantly recognizable e-mail address e.g., "myname@mydomainname..com." As well, if you sign up for a multi-mailbox e-mail account, you will be able to create multiple e-mail addresses for your domain name. If you are running an e-business or any other type of business, personalized e-mail accounts allow you to use your company name as your e-mail domain, which allows customers, business partners and other recipients to immediately recognize your incoming e-mail messages� origin. The generic "@msn.com," "@hotmail.com" and "@yahoo.com" domains do not provide e-mail senders and recipients with this convenience.
A personalized e-mail account further ensures that no one will mistakenly put you on their e-mail blacklists as part of blanket blacklistings of entire domains. Thus: You are unlikely to be blacklisted unless you actually do distribute spam or have made yourself or your communication unwanted somehow. In short, a personalized e-mail account unlike the free accounts offered by MSN, Yahoo!, et al allows you build a distinctive, unique Web presence for yourself or your business. As well, a personalized e-mail account will shield you from the spam barrages Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail users are forced to live with.
So, if you are relying on MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! , Gmail Mail or a similar e-mail account, it�s time to reconsider. We recommend selecting one of our robust, unique, personalized e-mail accounts that work with and promote YOUR domain name.
Anti-Spam Enhancements in Xgen
In the business world, a reliable, effective, and
robust e-mail system is one of the keys to success.Keeping your e-mail system healthy and efficient is essential to business health, but in recent years, as the volume of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), or spam, has exploded, this task has become increasingly difficult for IT professionals. We have integrated Sender ID (Sender policy framework – SPF ) into the server to better handel the spams.
Sender ID Xgen ver 11 delivers the long-awaited Sender ID filtering technology, which primarily targets forgery of e-mail addresses. The elimination of spoofed mail will immediately cause a significant reduction of mail traffic into the Xgen organization. Preliminary data from the internal IT department at some of our customers shows that enabling the Sender ID filter allowed them to achieve an approximately 10 percent net increase in spam capture before mail is transmitted to Xgen server additional anti-spam and authorisation processing. Stopping spoofed mail at the gateway is important because the reduction of mail traffic into the Xgen organization reduces bandwidth consumption and eliminates the overhead of processing these messages in the internal mail infrastructure.
How Sender ID Works, (SPF)
Domain Spoofing | Sender ID filter uses | None validation status | Error status
Sender ID focuses on one of the most common and deceitful practices used by spammers: domain spoofing. The term domain spoofing refers to the use of someone else�s domain name when sending a message. Domain spoofing is part of the larger problem of spoofing, which is the practice of forging a sender�s address on e-mail messages. Domain spoofing can also be used by malicious individuals in phishing scams, which try to lure consumers into disclosing sensitive personal information by pretending the e-mail is from a trusted source, such as a consumer�s bank. Disclosure of such information could lead to identity theft and other online consumer fraud.Sender ID: Its an e-mail authentication protocol that verifies the origin of the e-mail and prevents forged mail from entering an organization.In essence, Spamjadoo using Sender ID framework asks a question: Has this e-mail message been spoofed If the answer is Yes, it has been spoofed, the Spamjadoo rejects the message immediately. If the answer is ? No, we can confirm the sender�s authenticity,? the message is assigned a SPF status and gets accepted for further checking by Spamjadoo.So how does Sender ID work Sender ID functionality relies, in part, on an algorithm that is implemented in the Sender ID filter detects the purported responsible address (PRA). PRA is the e-mail address of the entity that is most recently responsible for injecting a message into the e-mail system. The Sender ID filter determines the actual e-mail domain by locating the first definition of the following RFC2822 message headers in this order:
1. Resent-Sender 2. Resent-From 3. Sender 4. From
If none of these headers is found, the Sender ID filter uses the STMP RFC 2821 MAIL FROM value.
Figure 1 How Sender ID Works
Here are the steps in the Sender ID verification process in Figure 1:
1 A sender sends an e-mail message to the receiver.
2 The receiver�s inbound mail server receives the e-mail message and extracts the PRA.
3 The inbound mail server checks which domain claims to have sent the message, and examines the domain name system (DNS) for the sender policy framework (SPF) record of that domain. These SPF records identify authorized outgoing e-mail servers. The inbound server determines whether the sending e-mail server�s IP address matches any of the IP addresses that are published in the SPF record. For more information about what an SPF record contains and how to create an SPF record.
4 If the IP addresses match, the e-mail message is authenticated and delivered to the receiver. If the IP addresses do not match, the e-mail message fails authentication and is not delivered.
Based on the evaluation of the Sender ID record, every message is handeled at SMTP process itself and appropriate responce is being sent to the sender.The Sender ID status reflects the results of the Sender ID filtering process. The Sender ID status can be one of the following:
1 Pass The IP address for the PRA is in the permitted set in DNS.
2 Neutral Published Sender ID data is explicitly inconclusive.
3 Softfail This value indicates a weaker type of failure. The IP address may not be in the permitted set in DNS.
4 Fail The IP Address is in the not permitted set in DNS.
None validation status
1 None No published data is available
Error status
1 TempError There is a transient error, such as an unavailable DNS server.
2 PermError There is an unrecoverable error, such as an error in the record format.
Top 11 Reasons to Install Xgen
Top 11 Reasons To Deploy Xgen
Published: 15th May 2006
While there are many excellent reasons to install Xgen, these 11 reasons top the list.
Guaranteed Delivery Report:Now you can click on "Delivery Report" on compose page and when the email gets delivered to the receipient email server, you will get a delivery report automatically via email. No responce is required from the user to get the report.
Forward Many:Now you can forward any number of emails to one email id in a formatted manner. The emails are automatically sorted on date and seperated by a line in one email , making all individual emails clearly visible. Try it out this unique feature, not available in other email server
Boost your defenses with Xgen Integration with Spamjadoo:Xgen raises the bar in the antispam war. The latest Xgen integation with patented technology of antispam , incorporates checks against phishing scams and domain spoofing tactics. The server also protects from Directory Harvest Attacks and user latest technologies like SPF, DNSBL to remove unwanted traffic.
Support larger mailboxes with the raised storage limit in Standard Edition:Xgen can now accommodate your users� demands for larger mailboxes. In ver 11 storage limits have for each user has been tested upto 10 GB.
Simplify public folder administration: If your company uses public folders, Xgen brings a new folder sharing technique without having to administer it by administrator.
Get your e-mail faster when on the go:Additional data compression through GZIP reduces synchronization bandwidth and latency giving you a faster experience when sending and receiving messages over mobile devices.
Access mails wirelessly:Looking up emails stored on Xgen makes it easier to conduct business when out of the office.
Pinboard / shortcuts:If you want to take action on any particular email later, just click on [+] near to the subject and a shortcut will get created and a link for shortcut will be also displayed to retrieve that email directly. This feature will save lots of time to search a email and also helps you to remind to take action. Very very cool? is't it ?
Migrate with peace of mind with fully supported tools to move from GroupWise:
Get the Migration tool for Novell GroupWise, Qmail, Atmail and Exchange.
POP and SMTP Performace has been improved and tested upto 20000 emails per minute on pop server and 2000 emails per miniutes on SMTP server on a Single XEON CPU with 1 GB RAM. This gives the more load handeling capacity to the organisation on single server. (saves hardware investment)
Xgen Webmail has been tested and runs smoothly on Safari (mac) , Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox. Ajax has been used at appropirate functions while creating the webmail , making the interface much faster and making it web 2.0 ready.
Load Balancing :XgenServer combined with XgenSwitch and Spamjadoo is capable to autosearch the user mailbox created from the array of servers and intelligently deliver all future emails directly to that particular server.
POP-Based and IMAP-Based solutions
POP-based and IMAP-based solutions are best suited for home and personal use where requirements for data recoverability and security are not high.
POP was designed to support offline mail processing. With POP, normally e-mail messages are removed from the server and put on the local POP client. This places the data management and security responsibility in the hands of the user.
IMAP is better, offering both offline and online access, but like POP, IMAP does not offer advanced collaboration features such as scheduling and group scheduling, and task and contact management.
Xgen also has built-in support for non-desktop clients, such as Web browser clients supporting:
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Compressed HTML (CHTML)
SMS and FAX (FOIP)
Xgen also provides synchronization support to Microsoft Windows-based mobile devices / Smartphones etc, while basic POP-based and IMAP-based solutions would need additional server applications to support these clients. Support is included in Xgen for POP and IMAP clients such as Outlook Express as well.
Basic POP and IMAP e-mail systems were never designed to include this broader, richer set of collaborative capabilities, and for most organizations, basic e-mail services are not good enough to meet today?s competitive business environment, which requires greater worker productivity enabled by rich collaboration features.For example, if an organization uses desktop client with an e-mail server other than Xgen and requires group scheduling, organizations would require a separate scheduling application with the servers supporting POP or IMAP infrastructure.
8 Avoidable Email Mistakes
Here are eight easily avoidable mistakes you should know about to keep your image and inbox in tip-top shape.
Failing to follow e-mail etiquette. I believe in the old adage, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." There's no point in belaboring the etiquette issue. We all know we should be polite. But here are a few points to consider:
Don't write when you're angry. Wait 24 hours. Calm down. Be reasonable. Have someone else edit your e-mail.
Don't use sarcasm. You may think you're clever, but the recipient will be put off.
DON'T USE ALL UPPERCASE! That's the e-mail equivalent of yelling. Your recipient won't be appreciative. Go easy on the exclamation marks, too. Overuse dulls their effectiveness.
Use clear subject lines. That will help people decide whether to read the e-mail now or later. We're all busy. Your correspondent will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Keep it short. If your e-mail is more than two paragraphs, maybe you should use the telephone.
Change the subject line if you change the topic of a thread.
Unless the recipient has previously agreed, don't forward poems, jokes, virus warnings and other things. You're just wasting valuable time and bandwidth.
Thinking you are anonymous. If you are sending nasty missives, you might think no one will be able to figure out that the e-mail came from you. After all, you set up a phony Web address. Think again. E-mail contains invisible information about the sender.
That information is in the header. All major e-mail programs can display header information. Here's how:
In Microsoft Outlook, double click the e-mail. Then click View > Options.
In Microsoft Outlook Express, click the e-mail. Then click File > Properties and select the Details tab.
In Eudora, double click the message. Then click the Blah Blah button.
In Netscape, click the message to open it. Then click View > Message Source to display the header.
In Xgen , Simply click on Headers, and you will be displayed all headers.
The sender's revealing information is in the sections that begin with "Received:." There may be several of these, depending on the number of computers the e-mail traversed. The originating computer is in the bottom "Received:."
That section will have an Internet Protocol (IP) number, such as 124.213.45.11. It can be traced on a number of Web sites. I use Apnic (www.apnic.net). The number is probably assigned to the sender's Internet service provider, rather than the sender. But the ISP will be able to identify the sender using that number. Remember the header if you're tempted to send an anonymous e-mail. You may be less anonymous than you think.
Sending e-mail to the wrong person. Today's e-mail programs want to make it easy to send e-mail. This means that when you start typing the address of a recipient to whom you have previously sent mail, the "To:" field may already be populated. Be careful. Always double-check the recipient is the intended one.
In addition, if you're writing something ugly about Joe Smith, you'll have Joe's name on your mind. Don't send it to him. I once knew an intern at a newspaper who did just that. He didn't like his supervisor and said so in graphic terms in an e-mail. Then he accidentally sent the e-mail to his supervisor. (The intern kept his position, but the atmosphere was cold, to say the least. And there was no job offer at summer's end.)
Using one e-mail address for everything. I have four different e-mail addresses: private, public, one I use for online mailing lists, and another for when I go shopping online. These addresses attract mail for those specific areas.
I can have as many as I want, because I host my own e-mail server. But if you are using an Internet service provider, you still can do this. Most providers will give you a half-dozen e-mail accounts. You can also use addresses on the Web for personal accounts. Both Hotmail and Yahoo! are good. You can reach those accounts from anywhere, assuming you have Web access.
Forgetting to check all of your e-mail accounts. Checking all these accounts can be a chore, especially from home. So I use ePrompter (www.eprompter.com), which can check 16 different password- protected accounts. Best of all, ePrompter is free. There are other programs that will do this for a fee, including Active Email Monitor (www.emailmon.com).
Clicking "Send" too fast. Reread every e-mail before you send it! I actually get e-mails from job applicants with misspellings and missing words. They all go to the same place: the garbage. This is a pet peeve. I'm not going to hire someone who is careless.Even if you're not looking for a job, you want to be careful. People will judge you subconsciously on mistakes. None of us is perfect. But you can catch 99% of these problems by rereading the text.
And don't depend on the spell-checker. It will catch misspellings. But if you use "four" instead of "for," or "your" for "you're," it won't tell you. It also is not likely to catch any missing words in a sentence that you inadvertently failed to include. So take a minute and reread your text. Don't look like an ignoramus.
Forgetting the attachment. This seems obvious, but I can't tell you how many times I've received an e-mail with a missing attachment. Since we all do it occasionally, it shouldn't be a huge deal.
However, if you consistently make this mistake, people (perhaps important people) may think you're losing your marbles. They might even hesitate to do business with you in the future. When you get ready to send your e-mail, think: "What am I forgetting?"
Using your ISP's domain and not your own. Make your company look big. If you use a Web account or an ISP's name for your business, you're not going to look professional. You can buy a domain name separately for 700-1000 Rs/- per year from a company such as DataInfosys (www.registerit.in),. Assuming someone else hasn't already grabbed it, you can have your company in the domain name.
Let's say you run The BoolaBoola Co. If you use an ISP's address, you would have something like JoeBoolaBoola@SomeISP.com. But if you buy your own domain name, it could be Joe@TheBoolaBoolaCo.com. That's much more likely to impress your customers.
E-mail is almost like talking. We use it so much that we don't really think about it. But there are rules and courtesies, just as there are with talking. And there are other considerations involved in communicating by written word only.
Giving them some additional thought could make your e-mail experience more satisfying and your recipients much happier.
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Many moments in this episode made me sit back, gasp, smile in wonder. But for all the mythology revealed to us in "Flashes Before Your Eyes," I most savored the sight of our old friends. Charlie, Hurley, Locke, Sayid, Sun… I didn't even know how much I missed them until I saw them on screen again. And when Charlie asks, "What happened?" I actually needed Locke's cryptic response to catch me up on the main island storyline. Alas, we only see the gang briefly before diving into Desmond's flashback (if that's what it was)… but there was more than enough story and clues and easter eggs to fill the hour.
Even though I count myself more a fan of the characters than the "mystery" of the show, "Flashes Before Your Eyes" gave one of the most satisfying, mystifying servings of mythology in seemingly ages. The questions this episode raise go much deeper than who the Others are, and get straight to the fundamentals: choice or destiny, coincidence or fate, free will or futility. Does what Desmond experience prove that the ultimate outcome is predetermined? Or is it actually our first glimpse of the courage needed to change things?The mysterious old lady (with the unspoken but telling name of "Ms. Hawking," played by the elegantly eerie Fionnula Flanagan) pierces our little "LOST" tableau with a blizzard of assertions. "The universe unfortunately has a way of course-correcting," says she. "You don't do it because you choose to, you do it because you're supposed to." Desmond, initially and naturally defiant, suddenly comes to believe her, "reminded" of the future by the simple photograph. But he changes his mind twice more: in the aftermath of the hatch implosion, he begs for another chance to change things. Caught up to "real time," though, he tells Charlie he's more sure than ever that he can't.
So which is it? My head hurts. We're going to have to watch that again, indeed.
Penny sending Desmond to seek a job from her powerful father carried shades of Sun and Jin. But Desmond doesn't grovel, and Mr. Widmore quite elegantly articulates his contempt for his daughter's suitor. The humiliation was obviously key to the Desmond we now know… joining the military, racing around the world, seeking to do something important (even if it is pushing a button). I'm not sure whether Desmond ever did have those conversations with Ms. Hawking, but even when we first meet Desmond in the hatch, he's conflicted about whether he's saving the world or not. As are we all.
Jen's theory? The failure to input the numbers resets time. Perhaps they'll find the balloon again, says she. My theory? The exact opposite. That there has been a time loop of some kind, a distortion at least, but that the failsafe "broke the spell," as it were. And "LOST" will ultimately be the story of people able to change their destiny who had come to believe they couldn't.
What if Ms. Hawking is Penny Widmore? Her annoyance at Desmond's belief that he was going to change, that he was going to propose, sure seemed a little… personal.
But that could just be the whiskey talking.
Both Desmond and Charlie are told they are good people. It's been a while since we've had one of those categorical declarations. And then there's the red. The half-painted red walls in Desmond's "rat trap" ("Future" brand paint, in fact). The red shoes of the ill-fated pedestrian. The… well, it was important, anyway.
Even with all the… puzzles ("mindfucks," suggests Jen), tonight's episode also brought us lots to smile about. Jen enjoyed the drunken beach scene with Desmond, Charlie and Hurley. "He's wankered," Charlie determines. Hurley does nickname duties with "Desmondo." The football game was sponsored by Apollo bars. Mr. Widmore's office was dominated by a painting of a polar bear. And his office is 815… a number that was, of course, as familiar to Desmond as it was to us.
That picture of Desmond and Penny at the marina — which goes back to the start of Season 2 — raises an interesting question… if it's not a continuity error. Desmond apparently cherished that photo, taken on the pier, and kept it with him since that painful day. But if there was only one copy, how exactly did Penny have a copy on her nightstand at the end of Season 2, when we first meet her in "real time"? Or — brain freeze! — was it?
"LOST" Locations: There were a lot of location shoots for this episode. Ms. Hawking's antique store was the McClain's Auctions space at 1 N. King (a.k.a. Locke's Walkabout travel agency). The Widmore lobby was 1132 Bishop Street. The Widmore headquarters was the Bank of Hawaii building on Fort Street, which itself became London (with its London Underground entrance).
The "Research Library" where Desmond found his friend Donovan was Aliiolani Hale, home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. The pub was O'Toole's on Nuuanu Ave., which is where Desmond later spots the military recruiting poster. And the pier with the souvenir photographer? Bishop Museum, of all places… a landmark that's far, far inland.
The return of "Make Your Own Kind of Music" had me beaming. And Charlie's performance of "Wonderwall," Jen notes, gives us a convenient time frame (after October 1995).
The bartender that doesn't get hit with a cricket bat is Michael Titterton, president and general manager of KHPR, the local public radio station. Locals know that British accent anywhere.
Claire has bangs now? And speaking of Claire… did you spot Hayden Panettiere (cheerleader Claire on "Heroes") in the commercial for Neutrogena?
Desmond in the rain: Shawshank Redemption? Ring tossed in the ocean: Lord of the Rings?
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the Hatch explosion gain some ability of time perception which is beyond abilities of a normal person?What if Ms.Hawkins whas right about the whole idea of destiny but the Hatch explosion somehow changed this situation?
Wow. Lots of good food for thought.
And Hobbs above asks, "If Des really has relived this 'loop' over, and over and has picked up on things, and has come to the realization that he is stuck in this continual loop…why then was he so surprised when he realized that it was him who may have brought down the plane on 9/22/2004? Or why was he so surprised to hear Locke banging his head against the hatch the night he nearly killed himself?" I guess by the same logic, it's not that he's precognisant of everything. He continues to press the buttons out of the understanding that that's the way to "solve" the island, much like Sawyer keeps pressing the button in the cage. You can't know exactly which steps to go through.
However… and this is my big beef with this episode… the continual theme of the show is not to mistake FATE for COINCIDENCE. It's essentially a question of free will. This episode seems to argue that Desmond does not have free will, and what will be, will be… it's his fate. Yet it may just be coincidence. It's similar to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (or for you non-scientists, Back to the Future), where simply the act of measuring a particle affects its being and alters it. You can NEVER say, "if Desmond hadn't done [X], then [Y] wouldn't have happened, because we live in a realm of linear time. Even if hypothetically there were a loop, you still only live linearly.
And I suppose from a philosophical perspective (I never studied philosophy), one could argue that it is a uniquely human behavior to delude ourselves into thinking that time is non-linear, because it's a construct only in our minds. Even if other people agree with you, and you decide this is part of a shared reality, literally everything that exists could be a construct of your mind's eye. Maybe Desmond imagined this whole thing. Maybe he's insane.
The entire episode reminds me of the Hurley flashback with Dave. Was it a cool episode? Yup. Did it get into the mythology? Sure, I guess so. But ultimately it was a cop-out and didn't "answer" any questions. I'm a bit surprised to see how overwhelmingly glowingly everyone saw this when the "Dave" episode last season was not as well-received.
One neat thought I had… we still haven't learned what happened to Desmond between when he ran away last season and then reappeared out of nowhere. Perhaps some of these flashbacks from this episode relate to the time missing… hole in the time-space continuuum… too much McCutcheon's… a sampling of Locke's trippy poi… a swift beating with a cricket bat… who knows.
1) This is the first episode to occur exclusively "off island" and in flashbacks aside from the open and close. Very different framework. Wonder if the writers are getting fatigued or if there was a subtle point they were trying to make.
2) Clearly, the Dharma people are powerful. While their role as to getting the Losties on the plane, etc, is debatable (fate vs coincidence again), it seems VERY clear that they orchestrated Juliet's ex-husband being hit by a bus. Is it that much of a stretch to think that they could have shown a football match on a TV in a crowded bar and had someone beat Des about the head with a cricket bat?
PS — SHOCKED that nobody mentioned anything about the trailer for this week's episode! SHOCKED! The "good people" (aka the abductees) are BACK!
Okay I have been Outta this Loop for a Bit.
—when Locke went to rescue Eko.
Seems like everyBody is Saving young Charles from the Great Beyond.
Is Desmond slowly realizing that he is in a time-loop with each complete pass of events in the loop. And after each repeat of the loop, he remembers just a little bit more than he did last time. (Deju vu?).
I faintly remember someone telling me that Lost is really a love story about Desmond and Penny? (or maybe this is my Deju vu?).
"Red" was a symbolic color used in the movie "Sixth Sense." Each time the color red appeared, a significant event or change was about to take place.
Have you noticed that after each successive copy that you make of something on a copy machine, more and more details are "Lost" than were found in the original? This time-loop could be like a copy machine, which explains why the world has and is continuing to shrink and hold less details and "reality." This could also be why the Lost characters have been showing up in other flashbacks, whereas this might not have been the case when the past was actually lived for the first time.
With each cycle of the time-loop, the world is becoming a smaller place, a "Snow Globe" where reality will continue to diminish unless the time-loop can be broken.
What if Desmond's mind gets reset (timewarped) everytime Charlie dies. Desmond has obviously lived his life at least 5 times or he would not know how Charlie dies each time. When Charlie died in the hatch was the first time Desmond starting having the 'power to foretell the futre" or so it seemed. If you watch the start of this episode and the end of the episode when Desmond attacks Charlie……they are different. At the start of the show Desmond attacks and Hurley lays there on his stomach and just says 'dude'. The time Desmond attacks at the end of the show Hurley actually gets him off Charlie. I believe that Desmond actually killed Charlie at the start of the show which sent him back to one of his mind resets. He relived the events up to when he killed Charlie except this time he doesn't kill Charlie for either choice or because Hurley pushes him off. Charlie dying resets Desmonds mind for some reason.
Ah the old time travel schtick. HG Wells set the framework when his time traveller can't save his girl. Star Trek TNG had a similar plot episode, the E is going thru a loop and the crew slowly builds up the deja vu. It sure looks like the Lost writers keep adding to the stew, making it up as we go?
I was dissapointed as well. I keep it clear in my mind that the producers say "there is a scientific explanation for everything happening on the island. And when it is revealed, it is going to blow everyone away". Well, time travel IS NOT part of a sicentific explanation. so????
Don't know we people keep talking about the timeloop stuff while there's no real clues to confirm that theory.
If this really is a story about time-looping, I just hope it doesn't get as hard to understand or as inane as "Back to the Future II". Advice to writers – Keep it real.