Microsoft describes Windows 2000 as a "bet-the-ranch" software project, and Dell Computer apparently agrees as it moves its own Web site over to the new OS.
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft has described Windows 2000 as a "bet-the-ranch" software project, and Dell Computer apparently agrees, having recently moved its own Web site over to the new operating system.
That Web site is responsible for half of the PC maker's revenue, Dell Computer chief executive Michael Dell said at a keynote address here this morning. Web site stability was a problem for the company late last year.
"Windows 2000 will be key to building the Internet," Dell said, kicking off a three-day launch event for the business-class operating system. The event culminates in the official launch of the much-anticipated OS on Thursday.
Dell's Windows 2000 enthusiasm contrasts somewhat with his recent comments in a conference call that the Linux operating system, considered an alternative to Microsoft Windows, was gaining momentum, and that there was no rush of corporate customers upgrading hardware systems for the new OS.
After the keynote, Dell downplayed those remarks. Microsoft representatives called him on what he said, but their concerns were diminished when they listened to a recording of the conference call, Dell said.
"I believe the adoption rate will be strong. I don't think it will be determined by my speeches," he said.
Dell today stressed the importance of e-commerce and the role of the new OS in that market.
New features for the various versions of Microsoft's latest corporate operating system.
• Can work with up to 4GB of memory.
multiple PCs on a network.
into OS rather than on separate software.
network traffic for improved performance.
exchange standards such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), Windows 2000 will help "remove that friction."
During the keynote address, Dell personnel demonstrated an 11 percent performance gain in switching from Windows NT to Windows 2000 in a demonstration of Dell's own Web site.
Other companies joined Dell in singing the praises of the new OS. Ford Motor's chief information officer was on hand to announce that his company will be moving many of its basic business processes to the new OS this year.
Dell touted the new operating system's stability and said a solid Net connection is vital to business. Repeating a message heard from numerous companies these days, Dell said Internet connectivity is "as fundamental as electricity is in your infrastructure."
The CEO also focused on Unix. He said that Windows 2000 will coexist with Unix servers but eventually will replace some. The increased power and stability of the new OS "will allow us to further encroach on the Unix market. It's a matter of embracing and working with (those Unix systems) and also replacing them at the same time."
After the speech, Dell indicated that his company no longer is considering Solaris, Sun's version of Unix, for use when Intel's new 64-bit Itanium chip debuts.
Instead, he said Dell is favoring Linux and Monterey-64, a product that merges versions of Unix from IBM and Santa Cruz Operation.
Dell also said that it would unveil its hosting business in about two weeks. That business is a service that will allow customers to rent access to Dell servers with Windows 2000 instead of setting up the servers themselves.
In Palm Springs, Calif., at the Intel Developer's Forum, some of the focus was on the power consumption of Windows 2000 and how it relates to chip speeds.
Pat Gelsinger, an Intel vice president, said the new OS requires 250 more megahertz of chip power to get the equivalent user experience. Analysts at the Intel event said that was a fairly large speed bump and were surprised that a close Microsoft ally would say that.


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Q: Nginx: can't access my server using the hostname I have two remote nginx servers. One of them has stopped responding when I try to access it using it's hostname. It works fine if I use the IP address instead.
Things I've tried to no avail:

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*Restarting nginx. Status says it's running.

*Checked the config files with configtest and contrasted them between both servers and everything seems to be fine.
PING
If I ping the IP I always get a response
64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.353 ms

If I ping the hostname, I only get a response if I executed the ping from the server machine's shell:
64 bytes from my.host.name (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.028 ms

From any other machine I get:
ping: my.host.name: Temporary failure in name resolution

NSLOOKUP
nslookup my.host.name returns SERVFAIL
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 8.8.8.8, trying next server
Server:         8.8.4.4
Address:        8.8.4.4#53
** server can't find my.host.name: SERVFAIL

However, a reverse nslookup nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx returns  the hostname
Server:         8.8.8.8
Address:        8.8.8.8#53
Non-authoritative answer:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa     name = my.host.name.

NETSTAT

*

*If I run netstat -napl | grep 443 on the server that works fine I get:
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     514944439 7128/named

On the server that gives me issues I get no result.

*If I run netstat -tulpen | grep 80 I get:
On the good Server:
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          480010417  11588/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          480010415  11588/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8081            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          480010413  11588/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          514850980  12554/pure-ftpd (SE
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      0          480010418  11588/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      0          480010416  11588/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::8081                 :::*                    LISTEN      0          480010414  11588/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::3306                 :::*                    LISTEN      112        514988015  30356/mysqld
udp6       0      0 fe80::ff:fe60:4a9:123   :::*                                0          14307      946/ntpd

On the bad Server:
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          468245733  32249/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          468245731  32249/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8081            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          468245729  32249/nginx: master
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1972            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          373088058  7701/sshd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      0          373013803  27069/pure-ftpd (SE
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      0          468245734  32249/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      0          468245732  32249/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::8081                 :::*                    LISTEN      0          468245730  32249/nginx: master
tcp6       0      0 :::1972                 :::*                    LISTEN      0          373088060  7701/sshd
tcp6       0      0 :::21                   :::*                    LISTEN      0          373013804  27069/pure-ftpd (SE
udp6       0      0 fe80::ff:fe63:1407:123  :::*                                0          13917      555/ntpd

Bad Server:

A: Is the hostname working before the problem happened or this is a new setup?
Have you check the following?
 1. Is your nameserver function properly?
 2. Does your server allow port 53 for DNS?

A: If it's public you probably have problem with your domain registration. Check your DNS registrar information. This has nothing to do with your nginx server.

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Creation Stories in Nuruddin Farah's Hiding in Plain Sight
Swati Khurana reviews Nuruddin Farah's novel, Hiding in Plain Sight
Every artist has her own creation story. Bella, a Somali refugee and protagonist in Nuruddin Farah's 13th novel Hiding in Plain Sight, encounters a Malian Dogon carving. With "a cylindrical body, rods for arms, broken bits for eyes, thrown together as if in haste," it became Bella's talisman of good fortune. When she gazed at it, the formerly despondent adolescent finally felt "fulfilled, joyful, satisfied with life." The stability that the sculpture effected was a godsend for Bella's mother, who fled Mogasdishu with her family when Somalia collapsed, spent time in a Mombasa refugee camp before finally flying to Nairobi, where the family was presented with Italian visas, and struggled to settle her children in Rome. The Dogon sculpture emboldened Bella, so she "worked harder in school, earned better marks, and became more purposeful and organized" and even "volunteered to do the dishes when it was her turn without talking back to her mother." Using crayons then a camera to capture the carving, Bella came to embrace photography as her passion.
In an interview with Bomb, Farah recounted that his own creation story as a writer began with his attraction to Arabic "script's decorative quality, not its holiness." Born in 1945 in Somalia, Kwame Anthony Appiah describes Farrah as a "feminist novelist" because he his stories are populated by "fully imagined women and men." Farrah writes in English, his "not even third language," after Somali, Arabic, Italian, and Amharic (Somali, his mother tongue, had no written script until 1972). He began to read secular works, namely Dostoevsky and Hugo, in Arabic, but he longed to read in English. When he found himself going to the dictionary for every other word, he committed himself to reading the English dictionary cover-to-cover for years. The early availability of an American Royal typewriter pushed him to write in English. In 1970, He wrote his first novel From a Crooked Rib in English. In 1972, he was in the process of writing a novel in Somali that was published weekly in a Mogasdishu newspaper, which was censored by the regime of Siad Barre. Farrah left Somalia for a British Council scholarship, wrote another book in English, and found himself an exile. Farrah's novels are populated by Somalis, mostly living in Somalia, or in the case of Hiding in Plain Sight, living outside of their country. He is considered Somalia's first novelist, and in 1998 he became the first African to win the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The British sportsbetting site Ladbrokes set the odds for him winning the Nobel Prize at 20-to-1 for literature in 2015, but he was beaten out by Svetlana Alexievich.
Hiding in Plain Sight recounts a family's re-creation story, or perhaps how death, war, and loss lead to new permutations of family. The book opens when Bella learns from an Italian newspaper that Aar, her cherished half brother, was murdered by religious extremists while working for the first U.N. mission to Mogasdishu following the city's 1991 collapse. In haste, she grabs her cameras and, putting her international fashion photography career on pause, rushes to Nairobi, where her nephew and niece are in school. The children's mother, Valerie, a British woman, had abandoned the family several years ago for her Indian female lover Padmini. Bella, unmarried and without children, feels "almost a religious calling" to reciprocate the devotion her older brother had to her when they were children, and deems "it is her turn to give him and his children all the devotion they require, setting aside her own needs and desires."
Her role as a Somali woman photographer is to be "in total control" where her "subjects are as powerless as a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming car." With that control, she wants to subvert the colonial stereotypes and cliches about Africans. As she explained to a journalist who interviewed her in the past:
[…]the colonized Asians, Africans, North American Indians, and Australian aboriginals had been eroticized and trivialized by their colonizers. And just as American photographers produced naked portraits of Native Americans or Africans for the tourist trade, women photographed in the nude were put to a similar service.
When the interviewer asked what were her most delightful subjects to photograph, she said, "Aar, my brother, and his children." Now, these are the very children she is compelled to rescue.
In Binyavanga Wainaina's cheeky essay, which started as an email to the editor, "How to Write About Africa" published in Granta in 2005, he listed what writers could not write about:
Taboo subjects: ordinary domestic scenes, love between Africans (unless a death is involved), references to African writers or intellectuals, mention of school-going children who are not suffering from yaws or Ebola fever or female genital mutilation.
Recently in The Guardian, Ben Okri admonished "black and African writers" who "are read for their novels about slavery, colonialism, poverty, civil wars, imprisonment, female circumcision" in his essay titled, 'A mental tyranny is keeping black writers from greatness.' A rebuttal by Sofia Samatar followed, aptly titled "Black and African writers don't need instructions from Ben Okri." Samatar argues that black writers need "better readers," who applaud the freedom of writers to write on any and all subjects. The very freedom Farrah embodies by writing about war, female circumcision, designer jeans, and art, is reflected in Bella, a self-actualized female character.
Grief merges politics, the characters' emotional trajectories, and their romantic. Much of the book's plot centers on the minutia of people's lives after the death of loved one. While geopolitics looms in the background, the novel is filled with extraordinarily domestic scenes including dishwashing, meal preparation, grocery shopping, leaving voicemails, getting stuck in traffic, unpacking suitcases, and throwing a dinner party.
But the exotic and erotic pull of the taboos that Wainaina refers to also appear, as Farrah is interested how different populations ponder what it is to be a Somali woman. Valerie becomes obsessed with whether Bella had even been circumcised, and when Bella says "No," Valerie asks, "Were you spared because you were special?" Bella, composed but silently outraged that her ex-sister-in-law "who was married to a Somali man and gave birth to children who are part Somali, has just demonstrated that she knows next to nothing about Somalis." Later, Bella unequivocally refers to infibulation as "a most terrible barbarity."
Bella wrestles with what she ought to be: "not only as a woman but also a Somali woman, she has had to defy harsh social conditioning to establish herself as a person equal in all respects to a man." During her first night in Nairobi, she seeks to set herself apart from the Somali immigrants in Kenya (6% of the population) by wearing "stylish jeans" instead of "body tents." Later that night, she is harassed, along with other Somalis she meets, by a Kenyan peddler who didn't make a sale. He tells them, "My goods are not from a flea pit, where you come from and where you rightly belong. Terrorists, the lot of you, who have no right to be here! Blowing up our malls, terrorizing our nation. Go back to where you came from!" The violent outburst draws attention from uniformed security guards, and startled Bella rushes to catch a taxi.
Bella is a woman worthy of her name: she is "a dark-eyed beauty with a prominent nose," who has "the slimmest of waists for a woman her age and an African's high buttocks," and is bluntly "drop-dead gorgeous…charming, well read and intelligent." Having no shortage of possible suitors, she has a trio of men: HandsomeBoy, a Kenyan part-time model and sociology student; Humboldt, a successful Brazilian sculptor of African origin; and Cisse, a Malian philosopher living in New York. Bella is fully in control with "keys to their houses or apartments, and she can come and go as she pleases, while none of them even has her exact address." Bella's discretion about her love life inspires Valerie and Padmini to wonder if Bella is like some "women who hide in plain sight"—a closeted lesbian. Bella says she never married because, "With a brother like Aar, how could I?" Bella's extreme devotion to her brother propels the narrative.
In a subplot, Valerie and Padmini are in Kampala, Uganda attempting to deal with a land dispute, a legacy from Idi Amin's 1972 expulsion of Indians from the country. Months after the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act (which originally proposed the death penalty for same-sex relationships and then dropped that in favor for life imprisonment) was signed into law, Padmini, already a persecuted ethnic minority in Uganda, and Valerie were videotaped having sex. That video went viral and is used to imprison them — all of which is a ruse to extort money from Padmini and force her to relinquish any claim to her family's property. When they are released, troubles follow them to Nairobi.
Despite Valerie and Padmini's indiscretions, and Valerie's initial abandonment of her children, Farrah makes it clear that the reader ought to judge Valerie for her actions, not for her sexual orientation. Even when she is drunk, cruel, or shockingly indiscreet, the other characters show her incredible compassion. One of her children says, "She didn't have to stay with dad. And it would have been okay if she left him for a woman." And Bella tells the children, "In much of Africa, being gay is considered an abomination. I hope you are more advanced in your own views and are more tolerant of other people's choices. What people do and who they do it with is their own private affair." Later, it is revealed that Valerie's drunken father abused her in childhood. Her lover too develops as the story progresses: Padmini tries to urge Valerie to move to the U.K., where proposals for gay marriage are being considered, talks about how great and lively Gay Pride is in Capetown, and tells the children her favorite "gay classics:" Zami by Audre Lorde, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson.
Another writer could now be added to Padmini's list: Binyavanga Wainaina's moving piece "I'm a Homosexual, Mum" was published online in January 2014, instantly going viral. International news agencies reported on it, thus alerting the world to the draconian anti-LBGT laws in Nigeria, Uganda, and elsewhere on the continent. Here Wainaina writes so convincingly of his own growing awareness of who he is::
There will be this feeling again. Stronger, firmer now. Aged maybe seven. Once with another slow easy golfer at Nakuru Golf Club, and I am shaking because he shook my hand. Then I am crying alone in the toilet because the repeat of this feeling has made me suddenly ripped apart and lonely. The feeling is not sexual. It is certain. It is overwhelming. It wants to make a home. It comes every few months like a bout of malaria and leaves me shaken for days, and confused for months. I do nothing about it.
As a senior writer of his generation, Farrah takes a powerful stance against criminalization of homosexuality and the encroachment of dictatorial regimes into the private lives of their citizens.
The compulsion of a childless adult to care for her or his niece and nephew in the face of unexpected loss can spring, Farah reveals in this novel, from a bond greater than any romantic or sexual bond—the bond among siblings. There "is in each of us a secret chamber whose key we offer to those we choose — a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister, a lover, or lovers known to no one but ourselves." It is only through her commitment to her niece and nephew, that Bella begins to fill her own secret, intimate chamber.
Bella buys her niece and nephew cameras and builds them a darkroom; she tells them about her father and her initial exposure to Dogon art, the carving that made her who she is. The Dogons' work, she explains, "is an art not meant for public viewing, so it can be seen in private homes and scared places."
As Bella educates her charges, Dogon country, which had been a tourist destination since French anthropologist Marcel Griaule began studying Mali in 1931, descends into crisis, caught in the crossfire between Malian government forces and Tuareg rebels. While Farrah wrote this novel,a Timbuktu library was set on fire, destroying thousands of manuscripts dating back to the 13th century, dealing with subjects ranging from "religious studies to mathematics, medicine, astronomy, music, literature, poetry, architecture and women's and children's rights," according to the U.N. News Centre. Hiding in Plain Sight examines, both implicitly and explicitly, in the case of Somalia and Mali respectively, the tensions between a historic, artistic cosmopolitanism and modern, geopolitical provincialism.
The crisis of the Dogon mirrors the crisis in Tamarind Market in Mogadishu, which Farrah wrote about in the his essay "Of Tamarind & Cosmopolitanism." Since the 10th century Tamarind Market "was an open city with no walls, to which anyone could come, provided he or she lived in harmony or peace with those already there…And it was prosperous, thanks to its residents, many of them artisans hailing originally from the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent," writes Farrah. It was destroyed in 1991 by "a conglomerate of pastoralists acting under the command of city-based firebrands set on dispossessing the city of its 'foreign' elements."
Through a United Nations mission, the tension between "urbophobic" pastoralists and cosmopolitan communities that killed Aar, a Somali returning to Mogadishu. The novel serves as unintended elegy: Farah had completed a draft before the author's own sister Basra Farah Hassan, who worked with UNICEF, was killed in a Kabul restaurant on January 19, 2014. Hiding in Plain Sight leaves us with an incredible sense of loss of all the things that once were, but allows us to imagine all that is yet to come, as new borders are crossed, and families are created.
Born in India, SWATI KHURANA is a New York City-based writer and artist. She has been published in The New York Times, Guernica, The Offing, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Hunter College MFA program and Kundiman fellow, she is working on her first novel The No.1 Printshop of Lahore. Occasionally, she asks strangers to show her their saved cell phone messages, so she can transcribe them onto translucent paper, and roll them into scrolls.
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A 150 bed hospital is looking to identify physicians for a new urgent care facility that is being constructed directly across the street from the emergency medicine department.
The candidate will receive a competitive base salary; all practice management functions and staffing will be handled by designated hospital staff.
Opportunity for Nurse Practitioners/Physician Assistants at Saint Mary's Hospital Urgent Care. Note: Flexibility is required as Providers will be cross credentialed at surrounding Urgent Care Centers through the Saint Mary's Health System.
Saint Mary's Health System is comprised of Saint Mary's Hospital and a number of convenient satellites and affiliates that offer urgent care services and a number of other services as well. The Saint Mary's Urgent Care Centers offer convenient locations in Waterbury, Naugatuck, Wolcott, and Cheshire.
The Health and Wellness Center offers care for common, non-urgent health conditions and X-rays and a blood drawing station are conveniently located on site. The urgent care centers are staffed with a Board Certified Physician or an Advanced Practice Provider, an RN (some locations have 2-3 RNs), an x-ray tech, and 1-2 medical techs.
The hours of operation are as follows and are the same at every location: Monday – Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday – 9am-5pm, and Sunday – 9am-2pm.
Located just 35 miles northeast of Manhattan, coastal Fairfield County is unique and diverse. Connecticut's New England Heritage and proximity to New York City combine to unite Yankee hospitality and charm with a unique blend of big city cultural sophistication. Previously considered a bedroom community to NYC, Stamford now hosts a significant number of Fortune 500 companies.
Note: Flexibility is a requirement as providers will be cross credentialed at surrounding Urgent Care Centers through Saint Mary's Health System.
The Saint Mary's Health System is comprised of Saint Mary's Hospital and a number of convenient satellites and affiliates that offer urgent care services and a number of other services as well. The Saint Mary's Urgent Care Centers offer convenient locations in Waterbury, Naugatuck, Wolcott, and Cheshire.
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Broward Health, a world-class health system in Broward County that serves the medical needs of the community has Weston Family Regional Health Park which is an innovative 78,000 square-foot medical facility consisting of urgent care services with extended evening and weekend hours, comprehensive diagnostic imaging services including CT and MRI, Women's Center, laboratory services and physician office suites. Our physicians cross- credential to the other two Broward Health Urgent Care facilities-Coral Springs and Plantation.
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Envision Physician Services is seeking an Emergency Medicine or Family Practice Physician specializing in Urgent Care at OSF St Elizabeth Prompt Care Ottawa South in Ottawa, IL.
The goal upon opening was to implement a "mixed-use" model for the convenience of our patients, which has proven to be successful. This includes not only immediate care, but also an integrated family practice, a strong Occupational Health program, lab and X-ray services, fingerprinting and on-site rehab. This site also has an "InstyMeds" system which dispenses prescription meds on- site within minutes.
Ottawa, IL is a rural community located 70 miles southwest of metro Chicago nestled between the Fox and mighty Illinois rivers. OSF St. Elizabeth Prompt Care Ottawa South is located about 15 miles north of OSF Center for Health - Streator.
Chicago Area - Envision Physician Services is currently seeking full-time, part-time, and PRN Emergency Medicine Physicians for Ingalls Family and Urgent Care Centers.
As the area's only independent not-for-profit healthcare system, the Ingalls Health System ensures that their resources are directed to areas that result in the greatest benefit to their patients and the community. As they pursue their mission to improve the health of the communities they serve, they've invested in the latest medical technologies, the structural needs of their facilities across the southland, and of course, in their greatest resource…their employees.
TeamHealth has an outstanding opportunity for a physician to join our Urgent Care team at the Community Health System in northwest Indiana. We are seeking an additional physician to join our team at the Community Hospital Outpatient Center in Schererville. This facility offers full diagnostics including Laboratory, General Cardiology Testing, Mammography, Bone Density Testing, Ultrasound, 64-slice CT and open MRI at your disposal. You will see a diverse patient pathology with cases ranging from low acuity to chest pain requiring admission. There is a seamless transfer process in place with Community Hospital - Munster, which is 15 minutes away. Support staff includes nurses and technicians, and there is close-knit, physician-centered community setting among the staff. Due to the success of our partnership, TeamHealth is excited to announce the addition of two new locations within the Community Health System opening in July. This is truly a great place to work! We ask that you be board certified or board eligible in Emergency Medicine, or board certified in Family Practice or Internal Medicine with ED, Fast Track, or Urgent Care experience.
Located in the northwest corner of the state, not far from the shores of Lake Michigan, Schererville is a medium-sized community that boasts easy access to cities like Gary, East Chicago and Chicago. A part of the South Shore tourism area, there's lots to enjoy nearby including many lakes, beaches, a brewery trail, local orchards and nature preserves and a variety of fascinating historical sites. When you aren't enjoying all that South Shores has to offer, Chicago is just 45 minutes away with professional sports, upscale shopping and dining, big-name entertainment and more!
Envision Physician Services is seeking PRN Urgent Care Physicians at T.J. Health Pavilion Urgent Care located in Glasgow, KY. Physician Requirements: Must be BC/BP in Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, or Internal Medicine.
T.J. Pavilion Urgent Care is part of the T.J. Health System. This facility provides specialized care in cardiology, hematology/oncology, internal medicine, kidney care, obstetrics and gynecology, pain management, primary care, surgery, and urology. T.J. Urgent Care is health care for those who need immediate care but do not need to visit the emergency room.
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This article describes a Linux module that replicates its input on all of its outputs, a so called "fanout" or "one to many" multiplexer.
Purpose: The purpose of fanout is to give Linux a simple, broadcast IPC.
Our own purpose for writing the module was to distribute log messages to one or more processes that want to be notified when an event occurs. We use /dev/fanout, a web server, and XMLHttpRequest on a web client to build a telephone answering machine with multiple web interfaces running simultaneously. One nice feature of our answering machine is that the web interfaces don't use polling but still display caller ID when a new call arrives.
Common Approaches to Broadcast: The two most common broadcast mechanisms in Linux are signals and UDP packets. You can broadcast a signal to a group of related processes using the kill command with a PID of zero. This works well if all of the processes are related and if the program knows what action is required on your signal.
Signals will not work for our application since there is no way to directly route a signal from a web server to a web client, and because web servers do not know that we want to redraw certain web screens on a particular signal.
We can also broadcast events using UDP or TCP. We've built event servers which accept TCP connections and broadcast event information down each accepted connection. We use XMLHttpRequest to request a PHP page that opens the TCP connection and waits for the event. While this approach works well, it requires yet another process and has the slight extra burden of an additional TCP connection for each web client.
The message now appears once for each of the three listening cat commands. We use bash commands just to illustrate what fanout does. Its real power lies in letting many different programs get identical copies of a data stream.
Which fails: send or receive? No matter how hard we try to avoid it, one day we'll find a reading process that can not keep up with the writing process. Allocating more memory postpones the problem but does not eliminate it. When this problem occurs we have two choices: apply back pressure to the writer causing the writer to block, or let the readers miss some output.
The problem with blocking the writing process is that you may affect other parts of the system. Our original purpose was to build a telephone answering machine and we chose to route all caller ID information through syslogd. Since we have /dev/fanout as a target in the syslog.conf file, blocking the writer would block syslogd -- not a good thing.
The author of fanout very deliberately chose to cause the reader to fail when it can not keep up. Data is stored in a circular buffer and if a reader can not keep up with the writer, it will eventually ask for data that is no longer in the circular buffer. The fanout device returns an EPIPE error to the reader when this happens. In our application for /dev/fanout we are happy to protect syslogd at the expense of the web clients when we are forced to choose one over the other.
The source code to the fanout module is available as a compressed tarball (fanout.tgz), or you can pick up the individual files, fanout.c and Makefile.
Fanout uses a kernel assigned major number so you need to look at /proc/devices to see what was assigned. The following lines create all ten of the possible instances of a fanout device.
If all has gone well, the "Hello World" example given above should now work for you.
This section is a high level design review of the fanout module. We explain the design and architecture, and relate specific lines of code in the module to the overall design.
The key to understanding how fanout works is to know how a little about how read() works. If you were to open a disk file and make five read() calls with each call reading a thousand bytes, you would expect the next read to give you the data starting with byte 5000. Internally, the operating system keeps a counter, called f_pos, that remembers where you are in the file. Once you've read the first 5000 bytes, you don't normally want to read them again, and since you aren't likely to ask for them again, fanout can forget them. The mechanism used to remember only the most recent data is a circular queue.
The fanout device uses the count variable to keep track of how many bytes have been written so far. At quiescence, the readers have all read count bytes (count and f_pos are equal), and the readers are now asking for data starting at *offset (which also equals count).
Buffer overflow: One of the fundamental decisions to make in a design is what to do when a reader can not keep pace with the writers. In many designs you would apply flow control to the writers to slow them down to keep pace with the slowest reader. The fanout device, however, returns an error to the slow reader. Specifically, the reader gets an EPIPE error when it requests data that is no longer in the circular buffer (i.e. *offset < count - buf_sz, where buf_sz is the number of bytes in the circular buffer).
Code notes: It is said that programmers can read code and know what it does, but they can not read a variable and know what it means. So instead of reviewing the code, we are going to review the variables.
buf: The buf variable points to the start of the buf_sz number of bytes allocated for the circular queue. The memory is not allocated until the first open() on the device, and the memory is allocated using kmalloc(). Allocated memory is not freed until the module is unloaded.
indx: This variable gives the location of where to place the next byte in the circular queue. It is updated by fanout_write() as bytes are added to the queue. When indx gets to buf_sz, it wraps back to zero.
count: This variable is the total number of bytes written to the device. It is updated only by fanout_write() and a reader has data to read when count is not equal to *offset.
inq: When a reader has no new data to read it blocks until new data is available. Specifically, the reading process sleeps in a call to wait_event_interruptible(). The writer's call to wake_up_interruptible() causes the readers to wake and continue execution with the lines of code immediately after the wait_event_interruptible().
sem: While writers are writing to the circular queue, there is a short time during which the count and indx variables are not yet consistent with the data in the queue. During this window of inconsistency another writer might run and inadvertently corrupt the queue. The wlock mutex prevents this by locking out other writers while one writer is updating the queue.
Known bugs: While there may be several implementation bugs, the one possible design bug is that fanout assumes that the file offset counter never wraps. This should probably be fixed.
Security: In our use of /dev/fanout we let a web server read directly from it so that web clients can be updated when an event occurs. Giving the web server direct access to a device file is considered a security risk. You generally don't want your web server to follow symbolic links and you don't want the file system with the web server root directory to allow device nodes in it. (The file system should be mounted with the nodev option.) The fear is that if an attacker breaks Perl, PHP, or some other component of the web server, the attacker might be able be able to create /dev/hda1, /dev/mem, or some other critical device.
We use /dev/fanout in an appliance where, after boot, we can at least drop the system capability CAP_MKNOD when we drop the other system capabilities.
The biggest problem with /dev/fanout is that there are a limited number of fanout devices and they need to be allocated. It would be nice to have the fanout functionality in the filesystem (like FIFOs) so they can be created as needed, and so developers do not need to worry about having two programs allocate the same fanout device.


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Luis Miguel to Perform at Don Haskins Center
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Legendary singer Luis Miguel will bring his "The Hits Tour" to the Don Haskins Center on Wednesday, September 11, at 9 p.m., presented by Don Boleton and UTEP.
A press conference announcing the concert will be held on Friday, July 12 at 12 noon at the Hilton Garden Inn.
"We are thrilled to have Luis Miguel returning to the Don Haskins Center, his original home in the Sun City. People can expect to listen to the hits they fell in love with, both ballads and mariachi," said Jorge Vazquez, Executive Director, Office of Special Events.
Known worldwide as one of the most acclaimed voices of his generation, Mexican singer, producer and songwriter Luis Miguel started his career in the music business at age 11. His extraordinary voice, versatility in genres including pop, bolero, mariachi, Big Band and romantic ballads, and broad range of talents have made him one of music's greatest icons and one of the world's top-selling artists.??Throughout his exceptional career, Miguel has released 21 albums, sold more than 60 million records worldwide, broken attendance records in each of his world tours, and been lauded with five Grammy Awards as well as four Latin Grammys. Revered throughout Latin America, he is often referred to as "El Sol de México".
A ticket presale begins on July 13 with the general on-sale taking place on July 16. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, and the UTEP Ticket Center, or by calling 915-747-5234. Prices are $199.50, $125.50, $99.50, $69.50, and $49.50, plus applicable service fees.
Luis Miguel last performed in El Paso back in 2008. He performed in Juarez in September 2012.
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I'm writing this while sat in a room called Angel. It's a room I wish, I never knew existed.
Just after 2:30pm on Thursday our life was turned upside down. I will never forget the look on the first sonographers face. The realisation of the situation didn't truly hit me until it was confirmed by the second scan at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, until then I was still clinging on to some hope.
My wife and I were then transferred up to Angel room on Labour ward, where the staff then went through the protocol with us. I felt completely numb. It was like my heart had been ripped out of my chest. I didn't know what to do. I didn't even think why, it didn't matter.
It felt like it was the worst moment of my life, but I was wrong, the worst moment was yet to happen. We were told the safest way to deal with the situation was to induce labour. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, what my wife would have to go through, it was crushing. I just wanted to take away all the fear and worry from her, but I knew I couldn't. The process started the following day with a single tablet, we were then sent home before we returned 48 hours later.
The scan on Thursday was only supposed to be a quick one to get a better picture of our baby's heart. It was exactly 2 weeks after the 2nd scan where we found out we were having a girl. It was one of the best days of my life, we had told our family and friends we were having a girl. Now we had to tell them our terrible news. Saying the words out loud, that was the worst part. They never got easier to say. Words you never wanted to say.
After telling those we were able to we tried to keep busy, trying not to think about what was ahead. But news travels fast. We got messages, cards and flowers from everyone. We know everyone meant well but we didn't want to be reminded, we just didn't want to think about what was ahead. It's still not over, we know there will be people who don't know and will ask how the pregnancy is going. We will have to say those words again.
The worst is now over and Helen is doing well, she was absolutely amazing, words cannot describe how proud I am of her. All the staff in the Labour ward at Ysbyty Gywnedd Hospital have been wonderful throughout too.
Our daughter, Jessica, was still-born at 5:47pm on Sunday 15th June 2014.


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Horse racing could boost Georgia's economy by $1 billion a year and create 10,000 to 20,000 jobs.
— J.B. Powell on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 in a news release
Candidate says Georgia could cash in with horse racing
By Eric Stirgus on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.
Georgia agriculture commissioner candidate J.B. Powell is willing to make a bet on the ponies.
He wants the Peach State to allow horse racing.
"Georgians deserve to have a commissioner of agriculture who will fight for common-sense ideas that will help lead Georgia out of the economic challenges we face," Powell, the Democratic Party's nominee for commissioner, said in a Sept. 9 news release.
Powell believes horse racing could increase the state's struggling economy by $1 billion a year and create at least 10,000 jobs. Bugle player, begin the first call song please.
Powell is in a three-man race to replace Democrat Tommy Irvin, who has been Georgia's agriculture commissioner since 1969. Gary Black is the Republican Party's nominee. Kevin Cherry is running as a Libertarian.
So can this plan create as many jobs as Powell says and bring in that much money to Georgia?
The idea is not new in Georgia. State lawmakers have discussed it before, but some conservatives have been reluctant to support another form of gambling. The state constitution must be amended to allow gambling on horse racing, also known as pari-mutuel betting.
The candidate's evidence in support of horse racing is a 2006 study done for the Washington, D.C.-based American Horse Council by Deloitte, a well-known financial advisory and auditing firm. Horse racing generates an annual economic impact of $26 billion and nearly 147,000 jobs in the United States, according to the study. The Powell campaign based its estimate on Georgia's potential on how horse racing is performing in Florida. The Deloitte report found Florida sees an annual total economic impact of $2.2 billion from horse racing. The report said horse racing is responsible for 22,000 direct jobs and 51,700 total jobs.
Graham Balch, Powell's campaign manager, noted that the Sunshine State has 18.5 million residents. Georgia's population is about 9.8 million. Since Georgia's population is about one-half of Florida's, Balch believes it is reasonable to conclude Georgia could see 50 percent of the economic impact from horse racing. Another advantage Georgia has is Atlanta ranks only behind Ocala, Fla., and Lexington, Ky., in the number of horse owners.
"Given Georgia's level of horse ownership and climate and size, it is a realistic projection to say Georgia could at least have an economic impact of $1 billion or more like eight states around the country," Balch wrote in an e-mail to AJC PolitiFact Georgia. "All fact based information leads us to believe that $1 billion in economic impact and 10,000 to 20,000 jobs is the best estimate possible and in our research we have not seen any information to contradict the projections for Georgia."
Powell believes Georgia can get to the $1 billion mark, but it will take time -- at least three years.
Georgia would be beginning in the horse racing business while Florida has a head start, said Jeff Williams, senior vice president of Public Sector Consulting, a nonpartisan research firm that did a study on the economic impact of horse racing in Michigan in 2002.
"I would be very careful when looking at a neighboring state and say 'They do x and we can do y,' " Williams said.
The Michigan study found horse racing had an economic impact of $1.2 billion in 2001. Michigan had a population of nearly 10 million residents in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Regulated pari-mutuel horse racing has been in existence in Michigan since the 1930s. Michigan had seven racetracks at the time. Public Sector Consulting used revenue from racetrack operations as the primary factor to determine the economic impact.
Williams said Georgia must examine how many people would come for horse racing from outside the state. He said spectators and bettors from Georgia could be taking away revenue from other in-state leisure activities.
Williams also issued another warning: Horse racing in Michigan was suffering economically at the time of the study. The industry, he and others noted, is now in a more precarious state financially across the country.
Some say the answer is combining horse racing and casino gambling. Arthur H. Anderson, a consultant for a committee attempting to bring racing to Georgia and South Carolina, said places such as Hoosier Park in Indiana show the idea can work. Anderson, who is involved with the Georgia-South Carolina Horse Racing Committee, estimates a casino/racetrack with a "funplex" for children and destination shopping can generate about $500 million a year. The committee would use the revenue to support the state's education system.
Anderson supports running two tracks in Georgia, which he says can bring $1 billion to the state. A casino would need state approval, and Georgia's leaders have been against the idea. The Indianapolis Star reported in May that money wagered on horse racing in Indiana has dropped from $190 million in 2005 to $147 million in 2009. Money from slot machines has been used to supplement lagging horse racing revenue, the Star reported. The American Horse Council study found the economic impact of horse racing in Indiana in 2005 was $294 million.
Powell's proposal would not include casino gambling, his campaign manager said.
We looked at Virginia because it is a Southern state, its population of nearly 8 million people is closer to Georgia's and its one pari-mutuel racetrack, Colonial Downs, opened in 1997. One report from about five years ago shows the annual economic impact of the horse industry is $1 billion, which includes recreation equine activity. Virginia equine leaders note the horse racing business there has suffered in recent years.
The Deloitte study on Florida found about 40 percent of the horse industry's economic impact in that state comes from racing. At that rate, the annual impact for horse racing in Virginia would be about $400 million. Virginia officials are working on an economic impact study.
We believe there are some problems in using Florida to determine the potential economic impact of horse racing in Georgia. For example, Florida draws more tourists, some of whom are inclined to visit the racetrack. Some well-respected economists, such as the University of Georgia's Jeff Humphreys, said Powell's estimate may be correct, but more information is needed. We agree and rate the candidate's statement as Barely True.
Published: Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.
Researched by: Eric Stirgus
Edited by: Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe
Subjects: Economy, Gambling
J.B. Powell news release, Sept. 9, 2010
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "State panel supports betting on horse racing," Nov. 19, 2009
E-mail from Powell campaign manager Graham Balch, Sept. 10, 2010
Indianapolis Star, "State horse racing set to lead the field," May 10, 2010
Public Sector Consulting study, "Horse Racing in Michigan, An Economic Impact Study," December 2002
Telephone interview with Public Sector Consulting senior vice president Jeff Williams, Sept. 14, 2010
Telephone interview with Georgia-South Carolina Horse Racing Committee consultant Arthur H. Anderson, Sept. 15, 2010
Telephone interview with Graham Balch, campaign manager for J.B. Powell, Sept. 15, 2010
Telephone interview with Jeff Humphreys, director, Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia, Sept. 15, 2010
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The Dark Knight Trilogy Rises Above All
Eric Cunningham / August 4, 2017 in Culture / TV and Movies
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Christopher Nolan's newest film, Dunkirk, has been praised by many critics as his best film to date. While it's easy to see why Dunkirk has been a huge success – it's beautifully shot and creates a seamless narrative flow with a very non-linear structure – it sits among the biggest outliers of the year at the box office. Four of the top ten domestic grossing films are superhero movies (Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Logan), with that total likely to be buoyed by the later-year releases of Thor: Ragnarok and Justice League. And yet, despite the critical acclaim Wonder Woman and Logan in particular have received, they still seem small in comparison to what many still consider the greatest superhero film of all time – Nolan's 2008 masterpiece The Dark Knight. Nearly ten years later, superhero films are still trying to catch up to The Dark Knight, even as they adopt a franchise model thoroughly inconsistent with what made the Dark Knight trilogy so great.
It goes without saying that The Dark Knight is one of the best films ever made. What's less often said that the Dark Knight trilogy – Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises – is perhaps the greatest trilogy ever put to film. Begins is often ignored, having not reached the commercial success the two later films achieved; Rises is often nitpicked as an overlong mess. This is a shame because not only are those two films masterpieces, they are absolutely necessary to understand the journey Christopher Nolan created for Bruce Wayne.
Taking on Batman was a major risk for Nolan. Not only was Begins following the unprecedented failure of Batman and Robin, it was telling the complete origin story of Batman for the first time. How did he respond? By creating the best origin story of any superhero. Batman Begins boasts the greatest first hour in any superhero film. Everything about this opening works; every important area of Bruce Wayne's life is shown in perfect length and detail – his childhood fear of bats, the death of his parents (and, most importantly, his relationship with them, especially his father), his "lost" years, his training with the League of Shadows, and his return to Gotham. This is presented in a non-linear narrative that is not only presented perfectly, but feels like the only way this story could ever be told. Just over an hour has passed by the time Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl and takes down mobster Carmine Falcone in his first act of vigilante justice, but you've learned and experienced more about the characters and world in that hour that some franchises explain over multiple films. While you can't call a film about a rich orphan with military-grade vehicles and weapons who fights criminals in a bat costume realistic, you can call it grounded. Nolan understands that the presence of the superhuman is incompatible with this vision of Batman, so sticks to what is in the realm of possibility.
Being a formative film in the superhero genre, the second half isn't quite as good; while still excellent, the parts with the Scarecrow are the weakest in the trilogy. The Scarecrow is, on paper, the perfect choice for a movie about fear, but the effects and evil scheme come off as a bit cartoony, although the final showdown with Ra's al Ghul is fantastic. Whatever weakness is in the second half, Begins is still the definitive origin story, and sets up the themes that permeate the trilogy; Batman as a symbol of good to inspire a city and intimidate evil, the use of fear to subvert institutions and destroy civilizations, the question of if Gotham is truly worth saving, and Bruce Wayne's struggle for his own identity.
There are few things I can say about The Dark Knight that haven't been said before. It succeeds both as a superhero film and a crime epic, maintains an increasing pace throughout almost the entirety of its runtime, and has one of the best villains in modern film history. It succeeds at virtually everything it sets out to do. While it is possible to watch The Dark Knight without watching Begins, like many people have done, it is far more fulfilling to see it as the second stage in Bruce's journey. The Dark Knight continues what Ra's al Ghul set out to do in Begins; to prove Gotham is beyond saving. This time, the agent of destruction is the Joker, a nihilistic sociopath willing to murder people to prove a point – that everyone else is as evil as he is. While The Dark Knight might be the reason many subsequent films have adopted a "dark" and "realistic" tone, it is actually fairly optimistic – the Joker's big plans almost completely fail, with the exception of his successful turning of Harvey Dent. While mankind might be generally good, individuals face a choice as to how to respond to adversity: this one common trait defines all of Batman's enemies, and also defines his own choices. The real skepticism of The Dark Knight aims at our institutions, a perspective which seems almost precognitive given the recent rejection of the established political order in many western countries. Nolan's trilogy is never dark for the sake of being dark, never edgy for the sake of being edgy.
The Dark Knight Rises is perhaps the most polarizing film in the trilogy. It is the lengthiest one, the most epic in scope, and the riskiest as well. The film skips eight years following The Dark Knight, and Batman only appears in costume for a little over 21 minutes – around 13% of the screen time. While some have criticized certain plot elements, I find the vast majority of complaints to be nitpicking: like Dunkirk, Rises is cinema at its finest. After a steady opening, it gradually becomes relentless in pace – this film does not feel like it is as long as it is, and that's a good thing. Bane is the perfect villain as Bruce Wayne's final test: a physical powerhouse that even Batman in his prime would have struggled against, let alone a shell of his former self. Catwoman can easily fall into fanservice territory, but Nolan's Selina Kyle is a fully-realized version of the character. The ties to the first two films are constant and meaningful: the metaphorical ghosts of Ra's al Ghul return, to finish his work, and the institutions Batman worked to protect, and ultimately lied to preserve, inevitably collapse. Peace is only restored after Batman adopts his rightful place, like Ra's al Ghul; an idea that lives beyond death. Nolan's vision of Batman is truly the only superhero to experience a complete arc, from beginning to end – and there is no better way he could have ended it. The criticisms of Rises tend to be menial – the muffled voice of Bane, the reveal of Talia al Ghul as the true mastermind, or how Bruce Wayne is able to survive what should have been his death – but these are nitpicks in the most precise sense of the word. When examined as a pure work of cinema, The Dark Knight Rises is everything you could ever want.
With those three films individually out of the way, what exactly did Nolan do that so many others have tried (and failed) to accomplish? He had a compelling vision of virtually every character he placed in his films. His direction is noticeable and unimpeachable, being both recognizably Nolan and recognizably Batman. The tone of his films is never gratuitously dark, but is only as dark as it needs to be. Perhaps the biggest issue with post-Dark Knight superhero films is the lack of truly compelling villains – they lack a true personal connection or truly contrasting and disturbing worldview like R'as al Ghul, the Joker, or Bane. A step in the right direction was the recent version of the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, perhaps the best villain in a Marvel film since Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2, but even otherwise excellent films like Wonder Woman and Logan have suffered from having a relatively weak villain. With the modern focus on big-budget superhero films setting up sequels and team movies – which are fine in their own right – filmmakers have lost a bit of what made the Dark Knight trilogy so great. However, the lessons Nolan provided in making an effective superhero film are still out in the open, waiting to be learned.
Eric Cunningham
Eric Cunningham is a lifelong resident of western North Carolina, and is pursuing a degree in journalism from Appalachian State; you can follow him on Twitter at @decunningham2.
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42 thoughts on "The Dark Knight Trilogy Rises Above All"
Kolohe says:
I thought the Dark Knight was the rare movie that would have benefited from executive meddling and the desire to make more bucks at the box office. Specifically, breaking it apart into two movies, one that featured the Joker, the other that featured Harvey Dent/Two Face.
The fact the Heath Ledger was so good made it inevitable for the movie to lose steam once he was no longer literally in the picture. The rest of the film was too long for a coda, but too short to flesh out the turn of Dent to the dark side, as it were.
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North says:
Hmmm it's a good thought but if you view Dent as merely the final victim of the Joker rather than as a co-Villain I think it works pretty well as a narrative.
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Eric Cunningham says:
I was tempted to agree the first time I watched – Aaron Eckhart did a great job. But I think the way they set the sequel up made it necessary, plus there is no way in this more grounded universe that a guy with a massive facial gash would last long.
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All three of the movies had about 30% more movie in them than an average (or even long) film. That's true of Nolan in general.
It's a little like the recent OT discussion of progressive rock – it wasn't trying to match convention, so you can either compare it to something it doesn't want to be, or you can grant it its own terms. Either is reasonable.
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While the movies are generally entertaining and good, they're far from perfect. Ridiculously complex plans from the villains that would require some kind of prophetic vision don't hold up. Neither does all of Gotham being held hostage for six months by Bane. There are plot holes that are a bit more than nit picks. That said, you have a good point about the films being a complete arc; so far, the trilogy has been the most successful superhero series in that aspect. I enjoyed watching them, but after watching them multiple times, I no longer enjoy them as much, as they're kind of silly. They don't rise to the stupidity of Avatar, but they're not sheer genius either.
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Jaybird says:
Here's my biggest nit-pick with The Dark Knight: Joker wasn't crazy.
There. I said it.
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Yeah, I gotta agree with you there. I think that was intentional; for all his talk of "chaos" he certainly seemed to be all about planning (I mean, he had to because of the ridiculous complications of the plot, but still).
When I understood that they weren't movies about Batman but movies about 9/11, it changed the way that I enjoyed them.
Yeah, I remember thinking "these are clearly post 9/11 superhero movies". I did enjoy them. I was a comic book geek as a kid (now I have multiple nerd interests), and was happy to see Batman done well. But perfect they ain't.
Yes. Batman was done well and don't get me wrong: I couldn't take my eyes off of Heath Ledger. He was *AMAZING*.
But if you want a perfect Batman movie, watch Mask of the Phantasm.
Oh, he's not crazy like in the cartoons or the Burton film. But he is insane, and that's close enough to the source material for me.
What makes Joker work for me in a way a ton of other insane villains is that you can actually understand his plan and point of view. Nolan does a really good job of this in his films, with maybe Scarecrow being the only exception (is he crazy, or does he want to hold the city for ransom, or what?) – and given the year-long trend of incredibly weak villains in superhero films, it really shows that he created films where you understand everyone's motivations clearly, enough that a disturbingly large amount of people kind of agree with the Joker.
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What makes Joker work for me in a way a ton of other insane villains is that you can actually understand his plan and point of view.
I go back and think about all of his lines and I'm trying to think of one where I'm confident that he wasn't lying.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stranger" might be the only one.
Every other line of his is arguably a lie (or, at least, a statement with a truth value completely unimportant to him because he knows his statement cuts to the quick of whomever is hearing it).
Kimmi says:
He was a dead man walking.
That's suicidal in more technical terms.
Which makes him crazy, in a "REALLY depressed" sort of way.
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He didn't *WANT* to die. He was just a little past caring if he did.
When 99 out of 100 similar folks die, it's suicidal even if you DON'T want to die.
And a friend of mine has run into entirely too many folks like the Joker…
They don't last.
I don't think Joker wanted to die. He was more than happy to accept that if it resulted in Batman abandoning his moral code, however.
Yeah Joker did seem to have some kind of hyper competence for logistical planning. His plans ultimately didn't pan out but if you needed to smuggle tons of explosives into a hospital or a Ferry and set them up to blow without anyone asking any questions or calling the police Joker was your guy.
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I still think my favorite example was how Batman dug the fragments of a bullet out of a wall, constructed a life-fire test sequence to determine how bullets would fragment in different sorts of wall, used those tests to reconstruct the fragments into the original bullet, recovered a fingerprint from the reconstructed bullet and used it to identify the criminal and learn their home address…
…and the Joker knew he would do all this and set a trap for him there.
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Kazzy says:
I don't know that that is necessarily true. Joker could have simply abandoned that place long ago with a boobie trap just in case. He didn't need to know Batman would arrive. And he didn't need to bank on any particular path for Batman to get there. For all we know, there are apartments all over Gotham that the Joker once resided in that have unsprung traps.
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If I recall that scene correctly, Kazzy, Batman arrived there just in time for a booby trap in that apartment to go off making it look like batman had taken a shot a the commissioner or the mayor or someone. So not only had Joker predicted Batman would find the place, but also when.
You may very well be right. I loved the movie but haven't seen it in a while.
KenB says:
Really the only plausible way he could have predicted that is with some sort of device that let him see into the future. I don't think the movie covered his origin story, but I assume he was just a normal guy until he used the device to look years into the future, saw that Trump was going to be elected president, and immediately sank into despair and madness.
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Have you watched Person of Interest? If you haven't, you need to. It's like a five year arc of Batman stories, only Batman is split into two people… the billionaire mastermind and the special-ops ninja warrior. It wasn't Christopher Nolan but his brother Jonathan… but you can see how they spent a lot of years arguing over the best themes for this kind of story as there is a *LOT* of overlap between the Batman trilogy and PoI.
Ooh, best trilogy of all time. I sense a good Tuesday topic.
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Burt Likko says:
Umm. Lord of the Rings? Or Episodes IV-V-VI of Star Wars? I can think of nothing else.
Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is in the same league, I guess, but if it makes the playoffs, it gets in on a wild card and is eliminated in the first round.
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Derek Stanley says:
I think I am the odd one. The best out of the three was Begins. Dark Knight was decent,but way to dark for my tastes on superhero movies. Rises was too dumb plot, still too dark for my tastes, and not enough Batman being Batman. I only go back and watch Begins these days.
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Batman Begins is the only one I own, so it's definitely the one I've seen the most. I think it's the best of the three as a stand-alone movie. No offense to Heath Ledger fans, but I found Cillian Murphy far more unsettling. He looks only slightly more like a human being than Ledger in full Joker makeup. He's remarkably in-control as a mastermind of the organization, but the way he's so terrified of his superior increases the tension. Joker follows his own script, which makes him dangerous but detached from reality. Joker is like a bad fever compared to the terminal cancer of the League of Shadows.
"Batman Begins is the only one I own, so it's definitely the one I've seen the most. I think it's the best of the three as a stand-alone movie. "
Which makes sense because it wasn't supposed to be the start of a trilogy, just like 2008's Iron Man wasn't supposed to lead to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I still don't understand why Iron Man was popular. What a lousy movie. What a lousy lead character.
speeeeeeak for yourself there, bro.
Tony Stark was kind of a jerk, sure but Americans loooooove a smart ass. Also Iron Man launched the MCU and the MCU has been bringing my marvel fanboy heart joy ever since so I could never think ill of Iron Man.
See, for me it played out in the opposite way. Tony Stark alienated me from the franchise. I wasn't going to see Iron Man 2, and I never got around to seeing Captain America, and pretty soon it felt like picking up a TV series in season two.
I can see it. You're in the minority there though apparently as Marvel/Disney have been geysering money out of the franchise for years now.
Oh, yeah, I realize it. The Avengers is right up there with autos and flavored carbonated beverages in terms of successful business ideas. For me, Iron Man had no arc. The hero went through some things and came out identical. The villain was as obvious as he could be (Stane!?!), was never fleshed out, and had no turning point. The romance had no sizzle and no resolution. The most interesting thing that happened was in the last minute. I wouldn't have thought that carbonated beverages would sell either.
Gabriel Conroy says:
I can't speak for the Dark Night Rises, which I haven't seen. But I definitely liked Begins better than Dark night.
To my taste, Dark Night seemed a bit too cliche and forced. Cliche: Yes, I understand that Batman worries about the conflict between vigilantism and justice and worries about his own motivations, but that was covered in Begins already. Forced: It just seems strange and too convenient to the story line that the Joker would have as a motivation to demonstrate Batman's venality.
I may very well be missing something. I saw Dark Night only once, when it came out. I've seen Begins several times. Also, I probably like origin stories better than non-origin stories when it comes to superheroes. That said, I'm not well-acquainted with the genre, which could also explain why I'm missing something.
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Michael Drew says:
I don't think these movies are nearly as historically great as Eric does. But I absolutely agree that Batman Begins is the best film of the three. It has the most taut, convincing script and the best acting. The others try to succeed by piling more and more spectacular weight on thinner ideas – and don't.
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That's mostly my take (along with Burt's analysis below). I should add the caveat, however, that I'm by no means a connoisseur of the superhero genre. There may be things in part 2 I'm just not seeing (in addition to my apparent inability to remember to write "Knight" with a "K").
I'm with you on this,
@Derek Stanley
. While I enjoyed the other two films immensely for their spectacle and for the performances of Heath Ledger and (yes I do mean this) Anne Hathaway respectively, I think the OP hit something here:
While you can't call a film about a rich orphan with military-grade vehicles and weapons who fights criminals in a bat costume realistic, you can call it grounded.
I would call it emotionally realistic. Which may be what the OP meant with the word "grounded." Bruce's childhood fears and traumas, his resulting revulsion of street criminals and fear of bats, aimlessness and descent into hedonism, then his rejection of his legacy, pursuit of violence, all make a great deal of emotional sense. They resonate and create identification. Even if Gotham City and the fancy military toys made by Wayne Industries are silly, the heavy emotional journey pushes us right past those things and leave us rooting for Bruce to create the Batman and use him to attain mastery over his past and himself.
The Scarecrow got a very nice interpretation, IMO, but the real antagonist is not Scarecrow or even R'as al-Ghul. The antagonist is ultimately Bruce Wayne's inner demons and when he conquers himself internally, the external bad guys don't stand a chance. I love the emotional journey Nolan takes us on in Batman Begins and however clever Inception and Memento might have been and however beautifully-envisioned Dunkirk might be, this is the story that resonates with me.
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Agreed on all of this, though of those other Nolan films you mention, I think I would put one or two over Batman Begins.
But I'm mainly commenting to thank you for reminding me that I thought Hathaway was the best thing in Rises by a Gotham city block. I had totally forgotten that performance. Shows how memorable the film was for me.
The only reason this might be the best trilogy ever is because the Fast and Furious folks look down there noses at trilogies and made an octogy.
I do not hate the Fast and the Furious series because I, long ago, resolved that I was not allowed to hate something I didn't at least generally understand. Which means I'd have to watch Fast and Furious before I'm allowed to hate it. And that feels like too high a price to pay.
They're like the Godfather triology. But only the first two. Multipled by 4. And with super fast cars.


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Seattle Sounders narrowly drop U.S. Open Cup match to rival Portland
Víctor Rodríguez celebrates his goal against the Portland Timbers in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday night at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. Photo courtesy of Jane Gershovich/Seattle Sounders FC.
Tacoma, Washington (June 13, 2019) — The Seattle Sounders FC hold four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup trophies to their name. It's an impressive number and they've been looking for their fifth since 2014, their last win.
However, 2019 won't be the year for a fifth title.
Instead, the Sounders dropped out of the U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday night, falling to the Portland Timbers. The Sounders and Timbers are classic rivals, but this match didn't have the same rivalry feeling. For starters, the contest was held in Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, where the Reign FC of the NWSL feature.
Also, the Open Cup is a time to get non-starters some action. However, the likes of Víctor Rodríguez, Kelvin Leerdam and Harry Shipp earned starts. Stefan Frei took a spot on the bench as Bryan Meredith took the reins in goal. Meredith has been with the Sounders since 2017. He also spent time with Seattle from 2011-12.
Rodríguez was the lone Sounder to score, notching his goal in the 44th minute. However, Rodríguez had the opportunity to equalize again late in the second half, but smacked his shot off the crossbar.
The missed opportunity came on a penalty kick.
Meanwhile, for the Timbers, newly acquired player Bryan Fernández got the Timbers on the scoresheet early. Fernández found a goal in the 6th minute of action, quickly taking a lead over Seattle. However, the game-winner from Fernández came in the 50th minute.
Seattle will now enjoy the small break clubs have for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Sounders will return to league action against New York City FC on June 29, heading to Yankee Stadium.
Right now, the Sounders are in third place in the MLS Western Conference with 26 points. Ahead of them by two points is the LA Galaxy. Meanwhile, Los Angeles FC is running away with the conference, holding onto first place with 37 points.
Second straight match with a goal for Víctor Rodríguez! 🔥
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— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) June 13, 2019
PHOTO: Víctor Rodríguez celebrates his goal against the Portland Timbers in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday night at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. Photo courtesy of Jane Gershovich/Seattle Sounders FC.
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Posted on April 21, 2010 March 7, 2017
Online games just… kind of suck.
I don't care much for online gaming. The idea of online gaming is cool – it's the execution of it that, somehow, still doesn't cut it.
You know what? It basically boils down to this. Imagine you're in a vast open world MMORPG. You've just slayed some massive beast in a harrowing, all-or-nothing, death-defying battle, when your supposedly wise, sage-like online companion (a wizard who's supposedly older than the land itself) suddenly turns around and utters, "yo n00b wtf is wrong with you. get teh (sic) crossbow."
So much for immersive experiences, man.
It's the nature of online gaming that breaks the illusion. What's the difference between an online game, and a single player game? One key factor is the addition of human controlled characters (as opposed to computer controlled non-player characters) in online gaming – which introduces issues like unpredictable dialogue, questionable decision-making, unrealistic actions and just plain old trolling.
Somehow it all just seems like a farce.
The responsibility of storytelling has been shifted onto the shoulders of the players at the detriment of the story itself. We're only professional consumers after all, not professional game makers, so who are we to create intricate, nuanced and fully fleshed-out characters for the benefit of other gamers? Would a filmmaker make a film filled with basic character sketches – then ask the reader or audience to fill in the gaps themselves? Actually yes – they're called straight-to-DVD-bargain-bin-titles.
Yes, we're actively participating, but participation for the sake of participation, and truly involving yourself in a story are strikingly different things. The greatest novels and films succeed on so many levels because they draw you into the fabric of the story – without having to place you and your friends literally in the story.
What about the social aspect? Not all games are about stories – some are about multi-player action. That's true – but then what differentiates one shooter from the next? If you take away the story – what's left? Realistic sprites running around shooting at each other with bigger or smaller guns. That's what it boils down to.
So why do we play online games? Why the growing trend? My theory is that we play them because they're good excuses to play video games. We feel better playing online games because they're more "social" than single-player games. Let's not beat around the bush: if you were in the mood to socialize you'd meet up with some friends for dinner. Online gaming isn't about socializing – "social" is merely a construct to make you feel that it's "okay" to play video games again. We feel "social" while actually being quite anti-social.
So I say let's embrace it. Gaming is still an anti-social thing, like reading, or watching a movie, in that they are best enjoyed on our own individual terms, as envisioned by the creator. I say "still" because while I don't think we've reached a stage where the issues I've discussed here can be fully addressed yet – I'm not discounting the fact that someone somewhere will figure it all out someday.
In the mean time, if you feel like "devolving" – look back at some of the classic adventure games and you'll be surprised at the quality of the stories and characters. I'll leave you with two of the best old school adventure game characters ever to grace my computer screen.
Roger Wilco – space janitor
Roger Wilco – Wilco stars in all six Space Quest games. He started off as a janitor aboard a space ship, saved the universe from alien scum, and ended up… as a janitor aboard another space ship.
Guybrush Threepwood – badass pirate
Guybrush Threepwood – Guybrush is the main character in the Monkey Island series. His adventures lead him to incredibly strange places with ghost pirates, voodoo magic, rubber chickens, and of course, monkeys.
If you're interested in old school adventure games, check out my Top 10 Best Old School Adventure Games Ever.
What do you think about the latest online games? What about old school adventure games? Let me know!
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Roger Ebert says:
Thank you for commenting my article.
I think you opened my mind.
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koljarn says:
I mostly agree with what you have to say, here. The very nature of a MMO game makes it impossible to create a storyline, because there is no way the writers can possibly know what sort of character that you are creating. Another problem is the problem that you don't want the actions of one player to adversely affect the experiences of other players. Add in one more factor – everyone wants to play the hero – and you end up with a generic storyline that seems fun enough to play through once, but does not fully satisfy anyone.
That's why single-player games are more memorable. The stories that they tell are much tighter, they can cause massive upheavals in the game world without affecting other players, and the hero of the story can be, well, heroic.
Everyone plays MMO games for a different reason, of course. For my friends and myself, it is a way to hang out and socialize, despite the fact that we now live several states away from each other. For all we care, we could be playing Monopoly rather than slaying orcs and trolls. In the end, we will remember each other's jokes and comments in the voice chat channel more than what happened in the game.
@koljarn
That last line was great, and I agree with you in that players make their own memories. Thanks for the comments.
What MMO are you playing these days?
I'm in City of Heroes at the moment. It has a lot to offer in the way of game mechanics so that two people of any "level" can hang out together. However, it is only a matter of time before I head back to Lord of the Rings Online, which has the advantages of a stunningly beautiful environment and a setting based on Tolkien's massive body of work.
Micah Cannon says:
I truly appreciate this blog.Thanks Again. Keep writing.
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Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets - The Echoes Tour
York: Barbican Theatre
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Oxford: New Theatre
Guildford: G Live
London: Royal Albert Hall
Brighton: Brighton Dome
Nottingham: Royal Concert Hall
Newcastle: O2 City Hall
Edinburgh: Usher Hall
Plymouth: Plymouth Pavilions
Croydon: Fairfield Halls
Following acclaimed sold-out tours through the UK, Europe and America, Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets have announced their largest UK and Ireland tour to date. They are - Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris and Dom Beken.
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets played their first gigs at four intimate and acclaimed live shows at London's Dingwalls (20 May 2018) and The Half Moon in Putney (21, 23 and 24 May 2018), these were Nick Mason's first live musical outings since Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour in 1994, and the show at Dingwalls was his first since Pink Floyd played at the 2005 Live 8 concert in London.
The band went on to sell-out theatres around the world including three nights at London's Roundhouse, where Pink Floyd played some of their most revered early shows in the 1960's. This tour will see the band further expand their repertoire and will play songs from Pink Floyd's early catalogue up to the 1972 album 'Obscured by Clouds'.


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How to determine the explosiveness of Samsung Galaxy Note 7
The flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 7 set a precedent related to common and critical battery defect. Some party handset comes with a defective battery, produced by Samsung SDI. As is known, this has led to device explode while charging. Recently it is became known the way to determine exactly is your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 explosive or from a new party.
The Australian division of Samsung told about how the new Galaxy Note 7 parties are different from those that have a defective battery. Differences can be determined directly on the smartphone box. It is known that the new devices parties are marked as follows: on the box in the block where the barcode applied (bar), there is a small black square and round bar with the letter «S» in blue.
The cases of old Galaxy Note 7 parties, which may have explosive batterydoesn't have such signs. Despite the fact that this unit Samsung reported in Australia is likely, such notation will be applied to the box in all regions. Recall that in the next few weeks, Samsung will begin mass replacement of smartphones — now device developers collect defective models in order to give customers samples of the new parties.
Those faulty models that will not be returned by their owners, Samsung company simply shut off remotely. This will be done for the safety of buyers. Full repayment period ends on September 30.It was officially registered more than 35 cases of Galaxy Note 7 explosion. Almost every day the media pops up new interesting case.
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