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<div>Position: Senior Algorithm Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers. The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems. These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes. The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India. Responsibilities:</div> <div>Demonstrate ability in scientific programming; strong background in applied mathematics, computational electromagnetics (field theory), and knowledge of optical modeling especially as applied to scatterometry and thin film metrology.  Knowledge of reflectometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry a plus.</div> <div> </div> <div>Works on complex problems that impact the design success of current products or addresses broad design issues of future products or technologies. Tasks include: define future product development strategy, develop a problem statement, research into particular solutions, develop code, and test prototypes; design, code, and test/integrate into tool product software. The candidate will be responsible for developing and improving algorithms, measurement capabilities, system optical models, calibrations development, and analysis tools for optical metrology applications.</div> <div> </div> <div>Preferred Qualifications:</div> <div>PhD in Computational Physics highly desired with 9 yrs industrial experience.</div> <div>Proficiency in computational methods, C++, and object oriented design.</div> <div> </div> <div>Minimum Qualifications:</div> <div>PhD in Physics with 9 yrs industrial experience.</div> <div>Proficiency in C++, and object oriented design. Kindly send your resumes to <a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com">Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</a></div> <div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"> </div> <div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"> </div>

Senior Algorithm Engineer ( C++/OOD/ Algorithms / Mathematics / Computational Electromagnetics ) (#109416)

Position : Senior Algorithm Engineer Location : Milpitas, CA Duration : Full time Job Description : The Film and Scatt...

H.P.P.D.: A Trip That Doesn't End : The New Yorker

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Early one night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of lysergic acid diethylamide on his way to a party. He was young, but more than a little familiar with mind-altering chemicals: LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and other, less common psychedelics. This trip, by comparison, turned out to be only a "mild experience." The tingling euphoria, splendid visuals, and sudden bursts of insight mostly wore off by the time he retired to his dorm. But the following morning, some effects still remained. "I opened my eyes to see what time it was," he said, on the condition of anonymity. "As I looked away, I immediately realized that the light from the digital clock was streaking." Throughout the day, other signatures of the hallucinogen high struck him. When he shifted his gaze from a page he was reading, a ghostly afterimage of the text materialized in the air, hanging legibly for a few moments. When he turned a page, a long cascading series of replicas trailed behind, like a stroboscopic photograph. The streaking and trailing and after-imaging persisted for days. He began to panic. "I really lost it," he said. "I was sitting in one of my first college classes and, like, hallucinating." He met with psychologists, who could discern little. He called his parents, who could discern less. He became unhinged, wandering campus in a daze, squinting at the world as if through a kaleidoscope. "I broke down," he said. "I could no longer go to class. I couldn't do anything." He quit school, moved back home, and entered rehab. His search for a diagnosis came up empty: no underlying medical condition, nor had the drug been laced with something sinister. Weeks, months, then years went by. The trip just wouldn't end. Psychedelic lore is littered with cautionary tales. But it remains to be seen whether reports of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder—quite literally, the persistence of hallucinogen-induced perceptions—should count among them. Hallucinogens are enjoying something of a revival: the drugs are being tried recreationally by nearly one in five American adults(approaching that of the nineteen-sixties), while being tested empirically for their powers to heal alcoholism and other addictions, anxieties from impending death, P.T.S.D., major depression, and even cluster headaches. Reading too much into H.P.P.D., some say, could squelch the renewed intrigue—even though, to some extent, the risk factors, causes, and effective treatments remain a mystery. Others, though, suspect that unraveling this mysterious disorder could reveal clues for the more familiar ones. According to Dr. Henry Abraham, a lecturer in psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine who privately sees patients with substance-related disorders, neurophysiological shifts observed in H.P.P.D. patients "may yield useful models for anxiety, depression, psychosis, and even addiction." A chronic and debilitating condition, H.P.P.D. warps the perceptual faculties: the external senses are marred by a constellation of mostly visual distortions, while the internal ones are paralyzed by a concoction of dissociative symptoms, panic attacks, and depression. The doors of perception are not so much cleansed, as Aldous Huxley famously found after his first experience on mescaline, as they are cracked open and left askew. H.P.P.D. does not generate hallucinations, technically speaking. Sufferers can appreciate that their perceptual aberrations are unreal—that their surroundings only appear blurred by afterimages (palinopsia) and trails (akinetopsia); shimmered by sparkles and flashed by bright bolts of light; interrupted by transparent blobs of color floating around; electrified by visual snow; magnified or shrunk by "Alice-in-Wonderland" symptoms; adorned by halos around objects, around people's heads. The pseudo-hallucinations are ultimately unconvincing, if deeply unsettling. Eventually, a sense of permanent unreality casts a pall over the acid-fuelled dreamscape, and sufferers disassociate—from the world, due to derealization, and from themselves, due to depersonalization. At a recent Society of Biological Psychiatry conference, Dr. Abraham presented findings, later published in the S.B.P. 2012 supplement, that suggest up to sixty-five per cent of H.P.P.D patients chronically endure panic attacks, and fifty per cent, major depression. Some patients feel their only relief is suicide. The cluster of symptoms first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1986. Ever since, the official diagnosis has been lumped together with "flashbacks." Brief fragments of a trip that occasionally bubble up to one's consciousness, flashbacks may arise from sudden spikes in the cerebral cortex—stirring perceptions, sensations, or emotions mimicking those of the hallucinogen high, in the absence of any chemical. But as the term has been popularized, flashback has been rendered "virtually useless" diagnostically, writes Dr. John Halpern, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the most recent literature review of H.P.P.D. In the review, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Dr. Halpern reasons that by conflating two distinct diagnoses, a strict definition of H.P.P.D. has remained elusive, leaving its prevalence obscured. Yet, "it seems inescapable," he concludes, based on twenty related studies dating back to 1966, "that at least some individuals who have used LSD, in particular, experience persistent perceptual abnormalities reminiscent of acute intoxication, not better attributable to another medical or psychiatric condition." Peer-reviewed accounts of drug users whose world had been transfigured permanently can be found as early as 1983, prefiguring the initial D.S.M. entry. In a case-control study of a hundred and twenty-three LSD users, Abraham was among the first to catalogue reports from those who flashed psychedelic and never turned off: a struggling shoe salesman whose dark-brown pairs bled into the navy-blues; a confused student whose text jumbled into "alphabet soup"; a distracted office worker whose flower pot slid back and forth along the windowsill. "This isn't flashbacks," said Abraham. "We have to call it what it is: a persisting perception disorder." Preliminary estimates of the prevalence of H.P.P.D. dismissed the disorder as an outlier, implicating as few as one in fifty thousand hallucinogen users. The most recent large-scale survey, questioning nearly twenty-five hundred users, found that over one in twenty-five were considering treatment for H.P.P.D.-like symptoms. But because participants, recruited from the popular drug information Web site Erowid, did not represent the average dabbler, and because only a small portion of them had actively sought medical care, the tally remains somewhat inconclusive. "Unfortunately," writes Halpern, assessing the scant literature, "the data do not permit us to estimate, even crudely, the prevalence of 'strict' H.P.P.D." If "strict" cases of H.P.P.D. turn up only rarely in scientific journals, though, at HPPDonline.com, a Web forum tracking research developments and connecting sufferers, nearly nine thousand monthly visitors give some indication of what lies beyond the academic purview. They report burning and throbbing and numbing and tingling. They claim that surfaces undulate ("breathing walls"), objects vanish ("they mix with the floor"), and beams of light splinter into shards of extended rays ("star-bursting"). They share encounters that seem inexplicable—"fluids flowing down from my left temple," "a chemical aftertaste"—and plead for the group's insight. They raise suspicions: "Every time I walk past a certain type of tree the leaves begin to shake." They despair: "I hear my brain." And they may be making their symptoms worse. While H.P.P.D. sufferers do misperceive their environment, some researchers suspect that severe anxiety—perhaps an underlying condition—aggravates those misperceptions. As noted by Matthew Baggott, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatric genetics at University of Chicago, fMRI studies generally show close links between the attention and visual systems. Such observations have raised doubt over whether hallucinogens are the root cause of the disorder, and even whether H.P.P.D. is a bona-fide diagnosis. "The more you focus on the condition, the more it spirals out of control," said Halpern. "So sufferers must practice letting go, which most Americans tend to struggle with." In one study of five hundred Native American Church members, each of whom had taken peyote hundreds, even thousands of times, no H.P.P.D.-like symptoms were reported. "Our culture is still evolving to deal with what it means to be intoxicated by these substances," Halpern reasons. "H.P.P.D. may be an incomplete description of the syndrome." But if H.P.P.D. is to some extent self-perpetuated—perhaps by a naïve culture, perhaps by anxiety-prone individuals—it is not self-induced. Running a battery of standard neurological tests on dozens of H.P.P.D. patients throughout the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, Abraham and co-authors Dr. Frank Hopkins Duffy, a neurologist, and Ernst Wolf, a neuroscientist, found evidence suggesting the flow of impulses through the central nervous system has been chronically altered. When a light is flipped on, the brain still registers darkness for a while; when a light flickers, it registers a steady beam; when an array of colors is presented, it confuses those in proximity. Jennifer Groh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Neural Basis of Perception Lab at Duke University, has extensively investigated the visual-processing system. While she has not studied H.P.P.D. specifically, Groh has found that the brain is generally unable to distinguish stimuli according to their source; even a single stimulus, artificially induced over and over, is treated as genuine and novel. The so-called staircase-of-eye-movements effect, Groh reasons, would predict some of the symptoms—at least the trailing, after-imaging, and poor darkness adaptation—observed in H.P.P.D. patients. "Their brain may not recognize the stimuli as simply the same repeated request," she says. Consistent with Groh's findings, Abraham offers his own account of why H.P.P.D. causes sensory input to linger within neural circuitry, firing even after the stimulus is gone. "What we have proven through psychophysics, electrophysiology, and quantitative analysis," said Abraham, "is that when the brain of an H.P.P.D. person is stimulated by some perceptual force in the environment, mostly visual, the stimulus is disinhibited." Objects of perception, in other words, are not readily disengaged, breaking up an ordinarily seamless flow of conscious experience. If the brain is like a paintbrush, then H.P.P.D. appears to make the bristles sticky, and the old stimuli—colors, shapes, and motions—muddy the new. Frank Durgin, a professor of psychology and the director of the Perception and Cognition Lab at Swarthmore College, affirmed that Abraham's theory holds promise. "The disinhibition hypothesis is pretty safe as a generic account," said Durgin. "There is a lot of inhibition involved in normal perception. Failure to distinguish and inhibit noise signals is a reasonable first guess about a variety of hallucinogenic effects." The theory seems to be consistent with the current science of perception, according to Irving Biederman, a professor of neuroscience and the director of the Image Understanding Laboratory at the University of Southern California. A healthy brain, Biederman explained, is bathed in inhibitory neurotransmitters—gamma-aminobutyric acid, primarily—in order to mute mild perceptual noise (like visual distortions), and ultimately to safeguard against full-blown cacophony (like seizures). H.P.P.D. patients, he offered, might have "done something structurally to those interneurons, causing perceptual noise to exceed the threshold." (According to some scientists, most psychoactive drugs, including psychiatric medications, can alter the brain's neural structure.) While neither Durgin nor Biederman study such rare perceptual disorders as H.P.P.D., their expertise is illustrative: the symptoms of H.P.P.D. are just the kind of perceptions ordinarily present in the brain, only occluded—or inhibited—from consciousness. What is least known about H.P.P.D. is treatment. "Unfortunately," Halpern writes, "the literature on this point remains largely anecdotal." Options are limited: palliative care from more drugs (benzodiazepines and anti-epileptics), adjustment through psychotherapy (of the cognitive-behavioral or straight-talking variety), a pair of sunglasses. While the college freshman, now middle-aged, is celebrated by his psychiatrist as "the poster child for healthy adaptation to the disorder," healthy adaptation is no cure. One day several years ago, he was taking a draw from a cigarette after work when he noticed, for the second time, a sudden shift in his vision. He had finally gotten his life on track—securing a degree, starting a family, building a career—and had managed to bury his past. He occasionally struggled to read fine print, especially late at night, and became disoriented by lane markings, especially on an overcast day. ("And when I smelled pot, I ran for the hills," he said.) But if his inner life was disfigured, few—not even his wife—could tell. Until, he recalls, "something clicked." What happened next was a blur. "The visuals got ramped up, like somebody raised the volume," he says. "I was sent back immediately into panic mode, going through the emotional roller-coaster ride that I did back in college." Tremors of panic that had been stamped out were swiftly rekindled. "I fell off the grid for a week," he says. He began fearing, perhaps as many others with mental illness do, that the spectre of madness can be raised without warning, that "you may never make it out." <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-trip-that-lasts-forever.html">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-trip-that-lasts-forever.html</a>

H.P.P.D.: A Trip That Doesn't End : The New Yorker

Early one night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of lysergic acid diethylamide on his way to a party. He was y...

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<a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates: This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/the-public-theater/">The Public Theater</a> in New York City by Ennead Architects: <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/the-public-theater/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/May13-20.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a> The featured past dose is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/022105.html">Clinton Library</a> in Little Rock, Arkansas by Ennead Architects: <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/022105.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Feb05/clinton1.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a> This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/where-are-the-utopian-visionaries/">Where Are the Utopian Visionaries?: Architecture of Social Exchange</a> edited by Hansy Better Barraza (L): <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/05/21/where-are-the-utopian-visionaries/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/book-utopians.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/07/19/the-illegal-architect/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/illegal.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> (R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/07/19/the-illegal-architect/">The Illegal Architect</a> by Jonathan Hill. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>: <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/41320_robinson_nature_center">Robinson Nature Center</a> in Columbia, Maryland, by GWWO Inc./Architects: <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/41320_robinson_nature_center"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/41320/images/900:w/Robinson2.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0aa1gh5c1QXIN9iQIsZOvSiTfHBznDie3PU3XTw0ywJu2Mmv196jexj33piC22oqrfuqiYnyNl6iTfG8tso1uZqDmSkR8BZRqsQP6i9KoxY0xUma2WsPe1DSWUU4BXm4mYhPpLWVp-Y/s1600/dakota_nighttime2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0aa1gh5c1QXIN9iQIsZOvSiTfHBznDie3PU3XTw0ywJu2Mmv196jexj33piC22oqrfuqiYnyNl6iTfG8tso1uZqDmSkR8BZRqsQP6i9KoxY0xUma2WsPe1DSWUU4BXm4mYhPpLWVp-Y/s1600/dakota_nighttime2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> EDWARD CLARK'S "FOLLY" The address, One West 72nd Street, may not register with many who live outside the city of New York, but the name of the building at the corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West is more familiar.  The Dakota, a famed luxury co-op on the Upper West Side, has been home to many high profile luminaries, served as the setting for one of Roman Polanski's best known films, and was the site of an infamous murder in 1980. <a name='more'></a> Posh apartment houses designed expressly for the well-heeled were rare in New York in 1880, when construction of the Dakota began. Apartment housing at that time and place was mainly associated with tenements and lower class living, but in the late 1860s the <a href="http://www.nyhistory.org/community/first-apartment-building">Stuyvesant</a> building opened. It attracted the reasonably well-to-do in droves and soon more such residences were in the works. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDCy4g6JWMMwMiTgVMyyEOQ1KSIxoT0o3XT2w_iOSXraMSWa6zb80NGoSQQRoDIdU6w0y3fuMmYakiVjc-tW72hjZ1P8op8_iratc7wixfwypywbsS0yE-F-2jg4Y6MX5_FVCpKSBdKk/s1600/Dakota_by_Richard_Britell2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDCy4g6JWMMwMiTgVMyyEOQ1KSIxoT0o3XT2w_iOSXraMSWa6zb80NGoSQQRoDIdU6w0y3fuMmYakiVjc-tW72hjZ1P8op8_iratc7wixfwypywbsS0yE-F-2jg4Y6MX5_FVCpKSBdKk/s400/Dakota_by_Richard_Britell2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dakota by Richard Britell</td></tr></tbody></table>The lot on which the Dakota would stand was in an area that was then largely undeveloped - both far north and west of what was considered the city's boundaries. And though the building would face Central Park, that region of the park had yet to be landscaped or developed. In fact, the street that was to become Central Park West was still but a dirt road. Astonishingly, all 65 of the Dakota's 4- to 20-room apartments were rented by the time its doors opened in late 1884; from that day until the stock market crash of 1929, there was not even one vacancy in the building. <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkXAZpIe3oSEEHTlsUw03YJf-z2TaRqidn5c2u4MNomRaf8AjB3XEwwc-lepp5ZHNWK-F3cl_FCVh6_5xQbA1JVVTjJeYrLRl6PIKDy0gbiFqRTDZX-78EQhWo4Q521hc7Pgq3-u95w4/s1600/dakota_railing_detail.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkXAZpIe3oSEEHTlsUw03YJf-z2TaRqidn5c2u4MNomRaf8AjB3XEwwc-lepp5ZHNWK-F3cl_FCVh6_5xQbA1JVVTjJeYrLRl6PIKDy0gbiFqRTDZX-78EQhWo4Q521hc7Pgq3-u95w4/s320/dakota_railing_detail.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dakota railing detail</td></tr></tbody></table>Edward Clark, an attorney who made a great fortune as partner to Isaac M. Singer in the Singer Sewing Machine Company, conceived and built the Dakota. He hired architect Henry Hardenburgh (the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza Hotel), then early in his career at age 32, to design the building. The project would establish Hardenburgh's reputation. Massive and extravagant, the Dakota's exterior was an eclectic interpretation of German Renaissance style while the interior reflected French architectural influences then popular in New York. In his 1970 illustrated novel Time and Again, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6944.Jack_Finney">Jack Finney</a> wrote of the Dakota's "pale yellow brick handsomely trimmed in chocolate-colored stone," of its roof "like a miniature town...of gables, turrets, pyramids, towers, peaks" shingled in copper-trimmed slate and "peppered with uncountable windows, dormer and flush, square, round, and rectangular." Sadly, Edward Clark would not live to see the completion of the Dakota and his own sumptuous apartment in the building would be bestowed upon his 12-year-old grandson and heir. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKSuc8OrLhy4AvnX05a9ks_it4d6iFF2eSyLoBikx996s3CZb5hJLiZzLgXx6Rmsk1d1u0Ax_IomW_CgwBU2YGg0_nzAOOkKi1LzjPEz8QJPROR1P8q7KtRw9wHsvMgF3wvH-T0QY3do/s1600/Bernstein%2527s+Piano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKSuc8OrLhy4AvnX05a9ks_it4d6iFF2eSyLoBikx996s3CZb5hJLiZzLgXx6Rmsk1d1u0Ax_IomW_CgwBU2YGg0_nzAOOkKi1LzjPEz8QJPROR1P8q7KtRw9wHsvMgF3wvH-T0QY3do/s1600/Bernstein%2527s+Piano.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leonard Bernstein's piano in his Dakota apartment</td></tr></tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o4djfHfufSJh7zr1hoh3tFGu7g9NenANkDjsstdo07h0YiWZhKWIBSLNG0bMp2PXXic47l_IsTTZwb0t0auepBhiZCNkJ71TYZ8gyKnAeSgb-WewrGLfmtBrnCUg5gQhe2kaSHGct_g/s1600/Robert+Ryan+at+the+Dakota+1969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0o4djfHfufSJh7zr1hoh3tFGu7g9NenANkDjsstdo07h0YiWZhKWIBSLNG0bMp2PXXic47l_IsTTZwb0t0auepBhiZCNkJ71TYZ8gyKnAeSgb-WewrGLfmtBrnCUg5gQhe2kaSHGct_g/s320/Robert+Ryan+at+the+Dakota+1969.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Ryan in his home at the Dakota (later purchased by John Lennon and Yoko Ono) </td></tr></tbody></table>Once the Great Depression took hold following the market crash, several of the Dakota's large apartments were broken up into smaller ones and years later, in 1961, the building became a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/realestate/the-idea-behind-the-co-op-building.html">co-operative</a>.  Over its long history, the residence served as home to many notables of  stage, screen and other lively and literary arts. The first actor to move into the Dakota came in the late '30s; he was William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff. Others would include Lillian Gish, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall (with and without Jason Robards, Jr.), Judy Holliday, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Wright, Robert Ryan, Zero Mostel, Jack Palance, Gwen Verdon, Zachary Scott and Patrick O'Neal. Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein lived at the Dakota, as did dancer Rudolf Nureyev, playwright William Inge, director John Frankenheimer, <a href="http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2010/12/ted-ashleywarner-brothersand-new.html">Warner Bros. exec Ted Ashley</a>, CBS News legend Edward R. Murrow, singer Roberta Flack, feminist/writer Betty Friedan and interior decorator Syrie Maugham, one-time wife of author W. Somerset. John Lennon, founding member of the Beatles and beloved cultural icon, is perhaps the most widely known of all the Dakota's famed residents. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vOIS1rxClW94f85JwDq2JR3GPEJiVD4wbXgcKbhCnTMGx4rMVZ_lkCe52YX-Q3CsZGe_j52SLSsiQsthMOp6l2X3q93M9ycy4ASnBcp8HjOqQZQt7FKPiuS9GJx04h5AcPK1jrVOvHY/s1600/john_sean_dakota.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vOIS1rxClW94f85JwDq2JR3GPEJiVD4wbXgcKbhCnTMGx4rMVZ_lkCe52YX-Q3CsZGe_j52SLSsiQsthMOp6l2X3q93M9ycy4ASnBcp8HjOqQZQt7FKPiuS9GJx04h5AcPK1jrVOvHY/s320/john_sean_dakota.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Sean Lennon in their Dakota kitchen</td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">As with many structures of gothic appearance, the Dakota weathered rumors of supernatural incidents and ghost stories. Movie critic and Dakota resident Rex Reed recalled that a doorman warned him early on to expect to see Boris Karloff's ghost. Strange and unexplained events were witnessed below ground, in the basement and, for a brief period, a so-called "Phantom of the Dakota" vandalized the building and spooked its inhabitants. But it was only with the release of Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), set and partially shot at the Dakota, that the building's reputation for quirkiness and opulence took on a decidedly dark facet. With the deadly 1980 shooting of John Lennon at the building's front gate, the incomprehensible and horrifying became real. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFovWMtn0aKaKW52EABAdmeCOqOzR_YWszXwwKvUm8WwcmXHDfd_moy0usbfS4KB8uqCgfLdXDGu2IxEZex0Jrs5vu4Hs49i9sei-J7ipwFadRoidRAZjwh4-1XgMtfECCjUzx5QN1YFE/s1600/Lauren+Bacall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFovWMtn0aKaKW52EABAdmeCOqOzR_YWszXwwKvUm8WwcmXHDfd_moy0usbfS4KB8uqCgfLdXDGu2IxEZex0Jrs5vu4Hs49i9sei-J7ipwFadRoidRAZjwh4-1XgMtfECCjUzx5QN1YFE/s320/Lauren+Bacall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long-time Dakota resident Lauren Bacall at home in 2011</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div> <div style="text-align: left;">ROSEMARY'S BABY </div><div style="text-align: left;">  </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK43rxxt3i6t8F5NOeXuGjFW0b5yTNqiP4MIjjUKcJ6AN5txZrtrzy8ADmyyucabman24-F9vpzDxQ8jeobN73wIJvIspfUfjztfDp2FYv4LM4ZboChkduuK0ggAVigzvTYpx5xNDGL8/s1600/rosemary_new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK43rxxt3i6t8F5NOeXuGjFW0b5yTNqiP4MIjjUKcJ6AN5txZrtrzy8ADmyyucabman24-F9vpzDxQ8jeobN73wIJvIspfUfjztfDp2FYv4LM4ZboChkduuK0ggAVigzvTYpx5xNDGL8/s320/rosemary_new.jpg" width="260" /></a></div> When Roman Polanski walked into the office of newly appointed Paramount Pictures production head Bob Evans for the first time in 1967, he thought he was there to discuss directing Downhill Racer, the project Evans touted when he asked for the meeting. Instead, Evans quickly admitted that, knowing Polanski loved to ski, he'd used the project, the story of a U.S. Olympic team skier, as a lure. What Evans really wanted to talk with Polanski about was directing a film adaptation of <a href="http://www.iralevin.org/">Ira Levin</a>'s soon-to-be-published horror thriller, Rosemary's Baby. Evans gave him the printer's galley proofs to take home and look over. In a sitting, Polanski read through Levin's chilling tale of a contemporary Manhattan couple who move into a fabled apartment building - with terrifying consequences. He quickly agreed to direct. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkJgm6zBBlMZr2seTo_xnQPgsjH7stbX6pr2xfPB2PC7NalIypmbgXz7BPuOe08U4HMgPdPkLlcnHH2NadCPCdTWkFoZHQeGw6nVeSdksZsNqpTa2uirhJYc_JG_MGI6BKXc7jWnbnLg/s1600/evans_polanski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkJgm6zBBlMZr2seTo_xnQPgsjH7stbX6pr2xfPB2PC7NalIypmbgXz7BPuOe08U4HMgPdPkLlcnHH2NadCPCdTWkFoZHQeGw6nVeSdksZsNqpTa2uirhJYc_JG_MGI6BKXc7jWnbnLg/s320/evans_polanski.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob Evans and Roman Polanski</td></tr></tbody></table>Why was Evans intent upon hiring Polanski to direct Rosemary's Baby? William Castle, producer/director of low-budget horror movies, had optioned the screen rights for the book. Castle, who had an exclusive contract with the studio, hoped to direct the film himself. But Evans wasn't interested in making the grade "B" genre fare Castle turned out, pictures like The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960) and Strait-Jacket (1964). Evans, destined to become a legendary figure in the New Hollywood era, saw Rosemary's Baby as a director's film and his interest was piqued by the Polish director of what he called "three really offbeat thrillers," Knife in the Water (1962), Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966). Knife in the Water, a taut psychological drama that marked Polanski's feature film debut, brought an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and international acclaim. Repulsion starred Catherine Deneuve and Cul-de-sac starred her sister, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-birthday-tribute-to-francoise-dorleac.html">Francoise Dorleac</a>; both were moody, surreal films that won international awards. Evans believed Polanski's iconoclastic vision might conjure something special and unusual out of Levin's sly, dark fiction and was able to convince Castle to confine himself to the role of producer. Polanski thought Levin's book a "well-constructed thriller," cinematic in nature, and immediately began work on the script, writing from dawn to dark for days on end. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaVn2eJqcRISHjn2q1UmqjvwTLcgcyx4ovqf3e_gNfUOHQeSSFhTpAkDlVB1o4o2od0xibpD11V1zQh1wPDP00f9sBmpZbbZeNO11D_YI2nG9Y6zBgNVp8Ac-ksFxW7KJg4xzlBBou7o/s1600/Ira_Levin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaVn2eJqcRISHjn2q1UmqjvwTLcgcyx4ovqf3e_gNfUOHQeSSFhTpAkDlVB1o4o2od0xibpD11V1zQh1wPDP00f9sBmpZbbZeNO11D_YI2nG9Y6zBgNVp8Ac-ksFxW7KJg4xzlBBou7o/s320/Ira_Levin.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ira Levin</td></tr></tbody></table> In the meantime, Rosemary's Baby was published and became a #1 best-seller. The National Observer called the book "the best chiller to come down the gooseflesh trail in many a moonless night." Even the New York Times review was a rave and anticipation for the film adaptation ran high. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkoIVewWthh1Pp27g-i3-jSW2eXZtxH05OInyPqSTtM9KnD1F0_AkPv_YpcnpJC_QCaqpO1jhCUV8epxqw6evzWkLj5Gm0E3KiNVf1-37t_88JpeLki_ALmHTSBY8eL21ctzabHa3kBs/s1600/weld_redford.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxkoIVewWthh1Pp27g-i3-jSW2eXZtxH05OInyPqSTtM9KnD1F0_AkPv_YpcnpJC_QCaqpO1jhCUV8epxqw6evzWkLj5Gm0E3KiNVf1-37t_88JpeLki_ALmHTSBY8eL21ctzabHa3kBs/s400/weld_redford.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tuesday Weld and Robert Redford</td></tr></tbody></table> Polanski originally planned to cast the lead roles with actors who possessed the All-American good looks and energy depicted in Levin's book, and favored Tuesday Weld for Rosemary and Robert Redford as her husband, Guy. When Bob Evans suggested Mia Farrow, the director at first thought her too waif-like and ethereal for the title role. But after meeting and discussing the role with her he hired her without so much as a screen test. Robert Redford became unavailable and Warren Beatty turned down the role of Guy, so Polanski turned to John Cassavetes, an intense, charismatic actor who was also making a name for himself as an independent filmmaker. The hand-picked supporting cast included Hollywood troupers Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly and Elisha Cook, Jr., as well as stage and screen veterans Maurice Evans, Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon. Uncredited in the role Polanski characterized as "the real star of the picture,"  the Bramford apartment building, was the Dakota. Exteriors were shot on-site and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843129/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">Richard Sylbert</a>, Polanski's production designer, scrupulously recreated the Dakota's interiors (off-limits to movie-makers) in Hollywood. Rosemary's Baby would begin and end with aerial views of the imposing structure. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM22K5PRntLkmzjSj1nUt0JW8KQ45ssjKuXshryClPYe1qEWf2rXC0KRrYjwvpv5h4sFpfNUknrb4m55muyDrfxj3bl4pIqcCUuLJa5o-CVkXNjmgOQvs95dUtyQL4kSuWeGOFAkRZnHg/s1600/Dakota_sketch_by_Sylbert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM22K5PRntLkmzjSj1nUt0JW8KQ45ssjKuXshryClPYe1qEWf2rXC0KRrYjwvpv5h4sFpfNUknrb4m55muyDrfxj3bl4pIqcCUuLJa5o-CVkXNjmgOQvs95dUtyQL4kSuWeGOFAkRZnHg/s400/Dakota_sketch_by_Sylbert.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bramford"/Dakota interior sketch by Richard Sylbert</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Production was underway for only a week when Charles Bluhdorn, Paramount's new owner, began to have second thoughts about Polanski, whose focus on artistic values and fine details he viewed as unreasonable perfectionism. One day while on the studio lot Polanski ran into filmmaking legend Otto Preminger. Dejected, he told the older director there was talk he was going to be replaced on Rosemary's Baby. Preminger asked if the studio was happy with the rushes and when Polanski told him it was, he said: "Roman, remember this: You can go over budget as much as you like, provided the rushes are good. They only replace a director when the dailies are lousy." What Bob Evans saw in Polanski's dailies was an "ominous sense of fright" - and it thrilled him; he told Paramount, "If he goes, I go." Both stayed. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTvFWhe5M4BgufMTVknCiXeUzKl595mSt_WfEKfsF15CmV05RRY-41stsDFluhzkADJFJstMVqbJo_wP6UrY18VA5pbu3YNwHJ8FC035atm_PfX12q0TdzsViwy1ceJY12-JdXwsdvTI/s1600/mia_roman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYTvFWhe5M4BgufMTVknCiXeUzKl595mSt_WfEKfsF15CmV05RRY-41stsDFluhzkADJFJstMVqbJo_wP6UrY18VA5pbu3YNwHJ8FC035atm_PfX12q0TdzsViwy1ceJY12-JdXwsdvTI/s320/mia_roman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski on the set</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Polanski was determined to recreate the exact time frame in which the story was set, mid-1965 to mid-1966, just two years before the film was made. Trends had shifted in that brief period; by 1968 styles had begun to swing from the influence of all-things-English ushered in with "the British Invasion" to a more <a href="http://www.silverscreenmodiste.com/2013/05/bohemian-style-in-film-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SilverScreenModiste+%28Silver+Screen+Modiste%29">bohemian</a> sensibility reflecting the "flower power"/"hippie" phenomenon. His insistence on authentic detail drove costume designer Anthea Sylbert's meticulous replication of mid-'60s fashion. She captured the look of the moment with Rosemary's Mod-era shifts, mini-dresses and attire like a red chiffon pants suit to be worn on a romantic evening at home. Other time-specific touches include Rosemary's decision to have her pageboy tresses snipped into a short Vidal Sassoon cut, Rosemary relaxing on the sofa with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s book Yes, I Can (a 1965 best-seller), a glimpse on TV of the Pope's October 1965 visit to New York, and Time magazine's famous "Is God Dead?" issue (April 8, 1966) conspicuous among the reading material in her doctor's waiting room. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_b7lmbdLf5-WrwYygiJ6viVRPzhGdysWyMkWXYCpeuN4TQU3H7tfNdQjhnRPBGMvvyymDbzjKG_OdrY7rOaVKYeKnO4lwbIw_AsWNVOJSHeoRX2_ITIVlH4M-IMMSepJPt-F80pWHROc/s1600/Sylbert2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_b7lmbdLf5-WrwYygiJ6viVRPzhGdysWyMkWXYCpeuN4TQU3H7tfNdQjhnRPBGMvvyymDbzjKG_OdrY7rOaVKYeKnO4lwbIw_AsWNVOJSHeoRX2_ITIVlH4M-IMMSepJPt-F80pWHROc/s1600/Sylbert2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Costumes by Anthea Sylbert</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Polanski later said the story line of Rosemary's Baby had posed one problem for him, it conflicted with his own worldview. He didn't believe in Satan. So he decided, "for credibility's sake," to add an element of ambiguity suggesting the possibility that Rosemary's imagination was the source of her fears. With careful camera placement and the use of special lenses, Polanski presented the story through Rosemary's eyes. Drawn into Rosemary's point of view, the audience easily relates to her confusion, feelings of vulnerability and increasing fright. Like Rosemary, the viewer is aware of lurking danger but wavers between believing what she begins to suspect is happening or accepting the rational explanations offered by others. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3HHEM3YQcQOz7-CeVKQvp97-epy0g5wgqCwtv0IlFDeIVpp5xMAN9WJSQ-CplmOVW7F1QaJMNW7FIk2zfEd-3NahBXnu0VMFnLuGBtAxxeGvvWqxX5195TjLQybeh2OPa1WgJzP5yNw/s1600/bellamy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3HHEM3YQcQOz7-CeVKQvp97-epy0g5wgqCwtv0IlFDeIVpp5xMAN9WJSQ-CplmOVW7F1QaJMNW7FIk2zfEd-3NahBXnu0VMFnLuGBtAxxeGvvWqxX5195TjLQybeh2OPa1WgJzP5yNw/s400/bellamy.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mia Farrow and Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Saperstein)</td></tr></tbody></table> While Rosemary remains constant as a naive and mostly defenseless young wife, those who inhabit her shrinking world are more enigmatic - from her ambitious actor husband and intrusive neighbors to her wise and kindly old doctor. Ironically, some of the characters who are revealed to be most wicked are also the most comically grotesque. In keeping with Polanski's brand of humor, the film is laced with darkly comic moments: <ul><li>Rosemary and Guy dine at the home of her friend Hutch (Maurice Evans). As Hutch carves a lamb at table, he relates the ghoulish history of the Bramford - which included a pair of sisters who, it was later charged, devoured children...</li></ul><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VZgCD0UWSkegMWI5MtJXAQc0PVOVzlOQe-YEcO-JSh_36V2W-b7PXHdi_6X3zjuqiVldSiit-qjqJQvErLuzOqaptOj7XJlf4-KcejvLW4a8jUdQuk_Y86R2cZoVfHVkkg1m2-9pd8/s1600/meeting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VZgCD0UWSkegMWI5MtJXAQc0PVOVzlOQe-YEcO-JSh_36V2W-b7PXHdi_6X3zjuqiVldSiit-qjqJQvErLuzOqaptOj7XJlf4-KcejvLW4a8jUdQuk_Y86R2cZoVfHVkkg1m2-9pd8/s320/meeting.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosemary and Guy meet The Castavets</td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li>The aftermath of a shocking suicide introduces the Castevets, Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer), a pair of elderly oddballs who arrive on scene decked out as if fresh from the vaudeville stage.</li></ul><ul><li>Rosemary sees her baby for the first time and, uncomprehending, shrieks, "What have you done to its eyes?" Roman Castevet crows happily, "He has his father's eyes!"</li></ul>Without resorting to genre gimmickry, Polanski crafted a tight, stylish psychological thriller. And a blockbuster. The last auteur-directed shocker to create such a box office sensation had been Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1960. Rosemary's Baby's success would go on to inspire the wave of lavish A-budget horror films to come, notably William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) and Richard Donner's The Omen (1976). It would bring an Academy Award to Ruth Gordon for her supporting performance and a nomination to Roman Polanski for his adapted screenplay. Considered a genre-transcending classic today, Rosemary's Baby remains a landmark of modern horror, as capable of jangling nerves and inducing chills as it was in its infancy 45 years ago. <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NoXLXMbOgiU" width="560"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Rosemary's Baby is available on Blu-Ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection. This special edition contains many extras, including: a documentary featuring Polanski, Mia Farrow and Bob Evans; an interview with Ira Levin; a documentary on the life and work of composer Krzysztof Komeda (who died 10 months after the film was released) and other special features. <div style="text-align: center;">~ </div>Notes: Life at the Dakota by Stephen Birmingham, Syracuse University Press (1979/1996) Roman by Polanksi, William Morrow & Co. (1984) The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans, Hyperion (1994)

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Samsung has officially launched Galaxy Grand Quattro with new Features

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilUxeLnwZ7QyOAu5dVOth_y01o2qDenurtaYRNJa88_TOKAU-gW3laAyFHjJw_V-FYXo_XUpbXuLUzmTGoxcPD16DKLAIBGP_1NV4Pzy8zDcP2msz9tCTskeYBLZVKAROJg5tSwDNaF4/s1600/samsung_Galaxy_Quattro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilUxeLnwZ7QyOAu5dVOth_y01o2qDenurtaYRNJa88_TOKAU-gW3laAyFHjJw_V-FYXo_XUpbXuLUzmTGoxcPD16DKLAIBGP_1NV4Pzy8zDcP2msz9tCTskeYBLZVKAROJg5tSwDNaF4/s320/samsung_Galaxy_Quattro.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The samsung has launched a new Galaxy Grand Quattro with Best Features.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and has 1GB of RAM. It runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and runs Samsung's TouchWiz UI layer on top. It also offers Motion UI that allows users to control the phone when a certain move is detected. For instance flipping the phone can mute it while receiving a call.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div style="text-align: left;"> Powerful Performance</div></li><li> Enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</li><li> Easy Mode</li><li> Motion UI</li></ul></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>The  smartphone sports a 4.7-inch TFT display with a resolution of 480x800 pixels. It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and a VGA front facing camera, while the Grand Duos comes with an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a 2-megapixel front camera. It comes with 8GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.The Grand Quattro has a 2,000mAh battery. The launch of the Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro, Vineet Taneja, Country Head, Samsung Mobile, said, "Galaxy Grand Quattro is a revolutionary device that combines powerful performance with smart multi tasking and advanced usability. Powerful Performance <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>11.9cms Large display is a great showcase, especially for photos and movies</li><li>1.2GHz Quad-Core CPU offers advanced computing power to handle all your applications, multitasking and more</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;">Enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Enjoy features such as Continuous Shot, Best Photo, Colour Effect and Scene Mode for enhanced photo-taking on the 5MP Camera</li></ul>Easy Mode <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Easy Mode helps you access key functions such as favourite contacts, apps, dialer, etc on the homescreen with ease.</li></ul> <div style="text-align: left;">The Best key Specifications:- <ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Best Buy Rs. 17,290 <div> </div></li></ul></div></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">- 4.7-inch WVGA TFT display - 1.2GHz quad-core processor - 1GB RAM - 8GB of internal storage, expandable up to 32GB - 5-megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera - Android 4.1.2 - 2,000mAh battery - Dual-SIM (dual-standby) option <div> </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div>Published by <a href="https://plus.google.com/112865615030946176397" rel="author">Priyanka</a>

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Why not tune into our two Microsoft Partners in Learning short webinars on Weds 22nd and Weds 29th May

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_top"><img alt="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" border="0" height="108" src="http://blog.flamingtext.com/blog/2013/05/21/flamingtext_com_1369125720_690838027.png" title="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" width="400" /></a></div>Logo Design by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/">FlamingText.com</a> We invite you to join two Microsoft Partners in Learning webinars to be held on the next two Wednesday afternoons. These will be of special interest to those who are entering Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition in South Africa where the first closing date is 3 June if you would like to be chosen as one of the 15 finalists who will be completely sponsored to the SchoolNet Conference in Bloemfontein in July 2013. (The final closing date for the Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition is on 30 September). Find out more <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/04/entries-for-microsofts-partners-in.html">here</a>. Navigating the Partners in Learning Network Name: Navigating the Partners in Learning Network Summary: The Partners in Learning Network is a great portal for teachers who are interested in ICT in education who want to find like-minded colleagues, free downloadable tools that they can use to enhance lessons and a place to discuss hot topics. In this webinar you will learn more about how to find free tools, search for learning activities and complete your profile so that other teachers will be able to find you! Presenter: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet Start Time: 05/22/2013 3:30 PM Duration: 15 – 30 mins URL:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/</a> Access: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room Sharing a Learning Activity on the Partners in Learning Network Name: Sharing a Learning Activity on the PIL-Network Summary: Are you using technology in a creative and engaging way to enhance a lesson? Have you developed a project that makes use of technology to build knowledge or solve a real world problem? If so - share your learning activity on the Partners in Learning Network and you could win a trip to the Global Partners in Learning Forum. In this webinar you will learn about the requirements for the competiton and tips for developing an impressive learning activity.Presenter: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet  Start Time: 05/29/2013 3:30 PM Duration: 00:15 URL:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/</a> Access:Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room See you there! </div>

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Tornado Alley

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Tornado Alley

My thoughts and prayers are for the people of Moore, Oklahoma after the devastating tornado yesterday. I complain about the dull wet weathe...

The feat of Indian Girl: Mobile device will be charge in 20 seconds

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydcbU4ivUQBI1T7airUqaEmt68gNuQtobxDkXsFBfihEHub9M3myzJnR1MIPsI9aF9s-x0d6QTgtJ9fVxBs7m3R1uOuMeil1nolEK1Y3VzfGqDbAsLjPWRUBGomsQxGZSB3uGHla0Dto/s1600/isha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydcbU4ivUQBI1T7airUqaEmt68gNuQtobxDkXsFBfihEHub9M3myzJnR1MIPsI9aF9s-x0d6QTgtJ9fVxBs7m3R1uOuMeil1nolEK1Y3VzfGqDbAsLjPWRUBGomsQxGZSB3uGHla0Dto/s1600/isha.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div>Isha khare: The Indian girl whose age is only 18 years and reading in 12th standred but done such type of work that can't be done by olders. she make an invent a new charger though which the mobile device will be charge in only 20 secondes so the multi-international companies like Google ,Intel etc will be accepted the the ossm work of Isha. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydcbU4ivUQBI1T7airUqaEmt68gNuQtobxDkXsFBfihEHub9M3myzJnR1MIPsI9aF9s-x0d6QTgtJ9fVxBs7m3R1uOuMeil1nolEK1Y3VzfGqDbAsLjPWRUBGomsQxGZSB3uGHla0Dto/s1600/isha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydcbU4ivUQBI1T7airUqaEmt68gNuQtobxDkXsFBfihEHub9M3myzJnR1MIPsI9aF9s-x0d6QTgtJ9fVxBs7m3R1uOuMeil1nolEK1Y3VzfGqDbAsLjPWRUBGomsQxGZSB3uGHla0Dto/s1600/isha.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div>The big companies of mobile are facing  theproblem of battery but they have no solution later the Isha make the solutin of this. so she won the the Intel foundation young scientist prize regarding this invent so she gave 50000 dallor in cash money prize. Isha Khare is 18 years old student lives in Kaliforniya of Indian origin has demonstrate her invent lst week in Intel International science and engineering  fair.The size so small yet the device can chage the mobile device in 20 secondes. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHmXZMomUm3r697HMDwdlvYC2S1dTHqRztZvBYTEniL6untZyN-XJsmub31X2ZoeGg-d4BaXTeiHmVGS5_k1eI3lPVkUc2i8ZNi7D6yDGEmB_xI5LLFpBnc02f-5G1QZx-oZ5zDTplIE/s1600/isha+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHmXZMomUm3r697HMDwdlvYC2S1dTHqRztZvBYTEniL6untZyN-XJsmub31X2ZoeGg-d4BaXTeiHmVGS5_k1eI3lPVkUc2i8ZNi7D6yDGEmB_xI5LLFpBnc02f-5G1QZx-oZ5zDTplIE/s1600/isha+2.jpg" width="320" ya="true" /></a></div>Ishe's more convient device is its initial phase in which a super capacitor is installed if it is going in right direction futur the it will be more effective and more convient to make a successfull mobile charger with less cost. Neno chemistry student  Isha is donig more less size and  due to its flexible nature and property this device can be used in foldable disply,clothsand  fabrics etc things. </div>Published by <a href="https://plus.google.com/102418621855646948908" rel="author">Narendra Kumar</a>

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Buddy Acapella...Moore, OK. Will Not Just Get Some of Me; They Will Get ALL of Me!!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6r0gHcPjbD4qWitQZ-U577iT8kFvTVIgjsWMoXxJA33EXEAmufr6pCvQ1oDApkYGP2yExXYZ6fOoedrJyUiuTvT5ogzcytIRZwugsNCat8texhwnppE8gGKeK3mEF73ytRRRmgS1S_U/s1600/Matt+Man+Dean+Martin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6r0gHcPjbD4qWitQZ-U577iT8kFvTVIgjsWMoXxJA33EXEAmufr6pCvQ1oDApkYGP2yExXYZ6fOoedrJyUiuTvT5ogzcytIRZwugsNCat8texhwnppE8gGKeK3mEF73ytRRRmgS1S_U/s320/Matt+Man+Dean+Martin.jpg" width="256" /></a>Heyyyyyyyy guys and dolls!!  Resident IWS song stylist Buddy Acapella here for IWS Radio, and let me tell ya, as those now long in the tooth, yet still talented, and recently reunited Brady Bunch kids would sing… It’s A Sunshine Dayyyyyy.  Heyyyyyy!!  Unless of course…One lives in Moore, OK. As you probably know by now, tragedy struck there yesterday in the form of a massive tornado, and the entire nation is grieving right along with the citizens of the community of Moore, OK., and I am no different. I plan to do a benefit concert for those affected by this tragedy Friday June 7th-Sunday June 9th at the Yakov Smirnoff Theater in Branson, MO. I hope to generate enough dollars to make up for the lack of Federal funds for Moore, OK. should Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) try to delay and or block federal monies to their own state like they did with federal relief funds to states affected by Hurricane Sandy.  Heyyyyyy!! I may be but a superficial lounge singer with six pinkie rings, two dozen hair plugs, and yet no band behind me, but I’m not stupid, and I am quite the caring soul.  Just ask the bass guitarist, lead guitarist, and uber-sexy Nubian type female back-up singers whom have never played with me, sang with me, nor come at me. Wait?  What?  Yes!!  Heyyyyyy!! Five, six, seven, eight…It’s the least I can do…Anyway… My soothing voice is the balm against the infestation of tears, tragedy, and heartache, and I am going to apply said soothing and lyrical balm, and allow the healing to begin at the Yakov Smirnoff Dinner Theater located at 470 State Highway 248 in warm and wonderful Branson, MO. on June 7th-June 9th from 8:00-10:00 PM (dinner seating is limited and starts at 7:00 PM., so reservations are strongly suggested.) I have some carefully special and topical  tunes picked out for the victims and families affected by this devastating tornado. I will be doing a sultry and blustery version of Frankie Laine’s They Call the Wind Mariah, as well as a bouncy, yet melancholy version of Gogi Grant’s, The Wayward Wind. I have a powerful EF-5 list of special guests scheduled as well… With candor, humor, and hand puppets, Sean Hannity will be there in order to tell everyone that they should not let their hearts be troubled, because at some point we will find out who in the Obama Administration was responsible for this meteorological debacle. Half -Term Governor and patriot Sarah Palin will be on hand to let everyone know that while she was Governor of Alaska, not one tornado dared to threaten Anchorage or Barrow. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM8ipVoMBBzQtJ4cmiKxLXalyy36Wr1IbY63bsr8GXV9X8reC_EB2mJdrdr6sG-2TWvbKU1sRcJrH8eIFGc4wgXkl-vexARDHrZRQ-Z4gaQtlOYvaVCJ_qUTbp8dwWfaKnXUpeEIn3EQ4/s1600/Fred+Phelps+Asshole+Westboro+Church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM8ipVoMBBzQtJ4cmiKxLXalyy36Wr1IbY63bsr8GXV9X8reC_EB2mJdrdr6sG-2TWvbKU1sRcJrH8eIFGc4wgXkl-vexARDHrZRQ-Z4gaQtlOYvaVCJ_qUTbp8dwWfaKnXUpeEIn3EQ4/s320/Fred+Phelps+Asshole+Westboro+Church.jpg" width="280" /></a>Rush Limbaugh will do a funny story about how the only looting that takes place in the aftermath of such an event is by the lone black person in the state of Oklahoma and how MSNBC makes him out to be a hero. And rock and acapella to this my cool cats and hot diggity dolls, while waiting in line to get into my star spangled charity gig, you can revel in the entertainment of Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist gang holding signs that read… “God’s Whirlwind of Destruction Was Brought on By the Breezy and Sleazy Lifestyle of Faggots!!” It’s going to be a super-duper time, so order your tickets NOW. For a five dollar discount on your ticket, go to Ticketmaster and type in the code word: IWS. Until I see and sing to you again, this is Buddy Acapella. Heyyyyyy!! <a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS">@mattmaniws</a></div>

Buddy Acapella...Moore, OK. Will Not Just Get Some of Me; They Will Get ALL of Me!!

Heyyyyyyyy guys and dolls!! Resident IWS song stylist Buddy Acapella here for IWS Radio, and let me tell ya, as those now long in the tooth...

Capture memories and moments of your life using sony handycam

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWkBht2BcCW6fLmIvMAKMwoR7ci1b6njNv96KNbM3gLguiNyl_5W8xGmNdWAy4335Y-2aLfedwtW2l2J6rL2UjZ4g24Bq7BYs1gzllucImafZYmyR9bNIwqi5oPaxRIgcBLa_xp8bW5Q/s1600/936946_10151586654548909_608792307_n.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWkBht2BcCW6fLmIvMAKMwoR7ci1b6njNv96KNbM3gLguiNyl_5W8xGmNdWAy4335Y-2aLfedwtW2l2J6rL2UjZ4g24Bq7BYs1gzllucImafZYmyR9bNIwqi5oPaxRIgcBLa_xp8bW5Q/s400/936946_10151586654548909_608792307_n.png" width="400" /></a></div> Capture your full fun memories using sony handycam. This device is comfortable in any environment . Looking like this picture you can use this handycam as a projector in summer vacation. Enjoy your beautiful moments using sony handycam. Sony launches handycam in different series such as: (1) built in projector with flash memory and full HD screen. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQuJepp8br4n65aw6mlsLWbPHfAP1JyBRmOWXVO0ONwyXSw3F_H2Bde-NBEA9S58_egBYFzoK635c2GGHoplLz1dNWha23HJmDFL9m4NnOcexwdi_kDMcaqsraBZQwIaII_6QJp3GkmM/s1600/187788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQuJepp8br4n65aw6mlsLWbPHfAP1JyBRmOWXVO0ONwyXSw3F_H2Bde-NBEA9S58_egBYFzoK635c2GGHoplLz1dNWha23HJmDFL9m4NnOcexwdi_kDMcaqsraBZQwIaII_6QJp3GkmM/s1600/187788.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the supper highest model in sony handycam with flash memory . If want to purchase other model of this series please visit sony official  link that are appear  below</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.sony.co.in/productcategory/handycam-camcorder?cid=handycam-camcorder:smo:facebook">Capture your best life moments with your family or friends using sony handycam</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(2) Flash memory with Full HD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwML1YGQpaGnq6MUrIQj8N6k7gCtAG4OnZ2T6FmrJ3dtqhuXG2JqNJxC6b3raiuBwZ6caI5PAe_M43yQCd40WbGdi_WvD-2slEc158StE_w-BYYkD1yUcgzi-SpqoduJllph8TsQb9qe0/s1600/84a662ed2243eacd9be8a5a779e0903a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwML1YGQpaGnq6MUrIQj8N6k7gCtAG4OnZ2T6FmrJ3dtqhuXG2JqNJxC6b3raiuBwZ6caI5PAe_M43yQCd40WbGdi_WvD-2slEc158StE_w-BYYkD1yUcgzi-SpqoduJllph8TsQb9qe0/s1600/84a662ed2243eacd9be8a5a779e0903a.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>HDR-PJ660 is the model number of this device . This device are connected with different other devices such as smart phone , Personal computer , Tablet etc. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzScTt1DpwynUJh_xnP7DA-c1oU8uVQifvnVrGRrk5KGZVTfZR6xCCL6BWlUr7t4TTF0F97L8IpjbLz-MSNt4AeowvvwxEkIE7zSb_RYsD4PuPjzrdPIcP7k2TsdsSCW8iRXTkRKPo4uQ/s1600/sony-pj660-section3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzScTt1DpwynUJh_xnP7DA-c1oU8uVQifvnVrGRrk5KGZVTfZR6xCCL6BWlUr7t4TTF0F97L8IpjbLz-MSNt4AeowvvwxEkIE7zSb_RYsD4PuPjzrdPIcP7k2TsdsSCW8iRXTkRKPo4uQ/s320/sony-pj660-section3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some specific properties of this device are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="steadyshot"></a>Reduces Camera Shake In Challenging Situations.</div></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="dial_evf"></a>Shoot Precise Footages Easily .</div></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="wide_angle"></a>There's Always Space For One More Person. </div></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Reduce noise distortion and give better picture quality.</div></li><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Extended Zoom.</div></li></ul>  Published by <a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Narendra Saini</a></div>

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SOCRATES, CAESAR, SACHS & HUMAN HAPPINESS

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<div class="MsoNormal">I have just finished a biography of Socrates read on the heels of a biography of Julius Caesar for an intentional contrast. These two ancient leaders had diametrically opposed approaches to leadership and life. Caesar was guided by an implicit assumption about the essence of human happiness – implicit and assumed because he was a man of action, not reflection. Socrates, on the other hand, was guided by a crystal clear explicit belief about happiness. He said the unexamined life was not worth living, so he examined his guiding principles quite clearly.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Caesar was all about Caesar. He did things for people, but with the idea of earning their loyalty and so strengthening his own hand. Caesar lived to maximize his own power and glory. In the end, they killed him.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Socrates lived humbly. A poor man, he owned almost nothing, earned little, went barefoot. He claimed to know nothing either. His goal was to become virtuous through learning the ways of virtue. He believed he had been called by God to help others find their own ways to virtue by asking them provocative questions. In the end, they killed him too. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">I suppose one moral of the two stories is that you can’t win. But I wonder if the quality of one’s death may sometimes say something about the quality of one’s life. When the Senators assassinated Caesar, his last act after having been stabbed multiple times, was to draw his cloak over his head so that people would not see his suffering and death. He died still trying to cover a shame – in this case the shame of being a vulnerable, mortal creature. He failed to amass enough power and glory to hide his shame. Socrates’ dying words were to the effect that he owed a cock to Asclepius, so he wanted his followers to pay the debt. Given that Socrates was a monotheist, executed in part for not believing in the gods, and that the fact that he was dying suggested Asclepius, the god of health and healing, was not serving him well, it was – in a word – a joke. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">It strikes me that Socrates made a better death.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Socrates had something in common with Paul and also had a major difference with Paul. Socrates believed we all want to do good but that we misunderstand the good and so do evil through ignorance. Paul thought our propensity to do evil resided not in a defective intellect but in something deeper and less rational. “The good that I would do, I do not. The evil that I would not do, that is the very thing I do.” Paul is more Freudian; Socrates, more Kantian. That is the difference between them. But Paul and Socrates agreed that human happiness resides in virtue.” Rabbi Jonathan Sachs agrees that happiness consists of holding a set of moral values and living according to them.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">I believe Paul is closer to right than Socrates about the way we go off course. But I believe Socrates, Sachs, and Paul together offer a striking contrast to contemporary assumptions – which may I add are implicit assumptions worthy of Caesar – about what will make us happy. We are guided by Madison Avenue, not our theologians or moral philosophers. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Most of us assume happiness lies in getting what we want – usually consisting of material possessions, glory (social or professional status), power or some such thing. Happiness goes along with something we can get, hold, grasp, and cling to.  If we are unhappy, we are apt to seek guidance from psychotherapy, which helps is clarify what it is we really want – like Socrates, therapy helps us “figure it out.” Unlike Socrates, it is figuring out what we want instead of what we believe is right.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">What if happiness is not a matter of getting what we want, since the very wanting keeps us unhappy, and because our desire is inherently insatiable, the quest for what we want is what keeps us unhappy? Buddha would see it that way. What if Jonathan Sachs, Socrates, and Paul are right that happiness consists in habitually doing the right thing? Might we be missing a critical moral foundation to psychology?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div>

SOCRATES, CAESAR, SACHS & HUMAN HAPPINESS

I have just finished a biography of Socrates read on the heels of a biography of Julius Caesar for an intentional contrast. The...