Descriptions of Heaven and Hell

  

Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
by Mark Jarman
The wave breaks And I'm carried into it. This is hell, I know, Yet my father laughs, Chest-deep, proving I'm wrong. We're safely rooted, Rocked on his toes. Nothing irked him more Than asking, "What is there Beyond death?" His theory once was That love greets you, And the loveless Don't know what to say. SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=443848&bid=1108912" type="text/javascript">

Parents

  

Parents
by William Meredith
What it must be like to be an angel or a squirrel, we can imagine sooner. The last time we go to bed good, they are there, lying about darkness. They dandle us once too often, these friends who become our enemies. Suddenly one day, their juniors are as old as we yearn to be. They get wrinkles where it is better smooth, odd coughs, and smells. It is grotesque how they go on loving us, we go on loving them The effrontery, barely imaginable, of having caused us. And of how. Their lives: surely we can do better than that. This goes on for a long time. Everything they do is wrong, and the worst thing, they all do it, is to die, taking with them the last explanation, how we came out of the wet sea or wherever they got us from, taking the last link of that chain with them. Father, mother, we cry, wrinkling, to our uncomprehending children and grandchildren.

  

Daddy

  

Daddy
by Sylvia Plath
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time-- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du. In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common. My Polack friend Says there are a dozen or two. So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak. I thought every German was you. And the language obscene An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew. The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna Are not very pure or true. With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew. I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-- Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. But they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look And a love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through. If I've killed one man, I've killed two-- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through. 12 October 1962

The Last 4 Things [That hard thread]

  

The Last 4 Things [That hard thread]
by Kate Greenstreet
That hard thread between us. Is it gold? Do I have to be so outshined by my curtain? Opened, especially by breaking. people who would die people who would almost die and who would be injured My dad was in the water. Across an unprecedented space. It would rain for days, they said he'd come home. [lists the father's wounds] That hard thread is a bone. Is made of bone. When I was alone, a girl, the first loss, between tunnels... I didn't need so much. I'd eventually get hungry. SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=443848&bid=1108912" type="text/javascript">

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas

knots to km

 

  

 

1 international knot =

1 nautical mile per hour (by definition),

1.852 kilometres per hour (exactly),^[4]

0.514 metres per second.

1.151 miles per hour (approximately).

1,852 m is the length of the internationally-agreed nautical mile. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (1,853.248 m).^[5] The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, having previously used the UK Admiralty nautical mile (6,080 ft [1,853.184 m]).

Conversions between common units of speed

	m/s	km/h	mph	knot	ft/s
1 m/s =	1	3.6	2.236936	1.943844	3.280840
1 km/h =	0.277778	1	0.621371	0.539957	0.911344
1 mph =	0.44704	1.609344	1	0.868976	1.466667
1 knot =	0.514444	1.852	1.150779	1	1.687810
1 ft/s =	0.3048	1.09728	0.681818	0.592484	1

  

fathom

A fathom (abbreviation: ftm) = 1.8288 meters, is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems, used especially for measuring the depth of water.

There are 2 yards (6 feet) in an imperial or U.S. fathom.^[1] Originally based on the distance between the fingertips of a man's outstretched arms, the size of a fathom has varied slightly depending on whether it was defined as a thousandth of an (Admiralty) nautical mile or as a multiple of the imperial yard. Formerly, the term was used for any of several units of length varying around 5–5¹⁄₂ feet (1.5–1.7 m).

The name derives from the Old English word fæðm meaning embracing arms or a pair of outstretched arms.^[2][3][4] In Middle English it was fathme. A cable length, based on the length of a ship's cable, has been variously reckoned as equal to 100 or 120 fathoms. At one time, a quarter meant a fourth of a fathom.

  

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Zynga Gaming Network Adds Konami, Two Other Game Makers

 

  

 

Zynga Gaming Network Adds Konami, Two Other Game Makers    

     

(Reuters) - Japan's Konami Corp <9766.T> and two other game makers have joined Zynga's new gaming network, potentially drawing players to the fledgling service that Zynga hopes will reduce its dependence on Facebook.

Konami is the first publicly traded games company to join the service, which was announced last week, in a sign that Zynga is gaining momentum finding publishing partners willing to share revenue with it. The service has now signed on six publishers.

The website, Zynga.com, became open to the public on Monday, allowing users to make personal profiles and play games.

The service is the online game company's most aggressive move yet to create a presence outside of Facebook, where it makes 93 percent of its revenue. Zynga went public in a much anticipated initial public offering last December.

Rob Dyer, head of partner publishing at Zynga, told the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Thursday that Konami is working on a new game that will be published on Zynga.com at a future date.

"We're dedicated to creating the best destination for social games for players and developers alike," Dyer said.

 

  

  

 

New iPad vs. iPad 2: How Apple's Old A New Tablets Compare

 

  

 

]New iPad vs. iPad 2: How Apple's Old A New Tablets Compare

It's an iPad 3! It's an iPad HD! It's an...iPad? That's right folks, Apple decided that like Madonna or Cher, the new iPad "iPad" doesn't need a last name. It's just the iPad, so get used to it.
What's in a name, anyway? It's what's inside the iPad that counts, hopefully, since the outside of the new iPad looks pretty much the same as the now-discounted iPad 2.
So how do Apple's tablets stack up against one another? Is the newer, more expensive iPad worth the money even though it looks pretty much the as its predecessor? Or should you go for the cheaper iPad 2?

Check out our infographic (below), which pits the new iPad against its predecessor, and let us know in the comments which you're more likely to go for. (If you decide to trade up to the new model, check out our guide to trading in your old iPad for cash.) 

 

  

  

 

iPad 4G Data Plans Announced By AT&T And Verizon

 

  

 

iPad 4G Data Plans Announced By AT&T And Verizon

If you've preordered your new 4G-equipped iPad -- hopefully you have, since Apple is already experiencing shipping delays for some models -- and thought you were done spending, think again.
To put the updated iPad's 4G LTE network connectivity to use, you'll need a data plan, and, as would be expected, that's going to cost you a small monthly fee, after you've purchased your new 4G iPad ($629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB, or $829 for 64GB units).
Apple currently lists data plans from both AT&T and Verizon up on its website.
AT&T will be offering monthly data plans of 250MB for $14.99, 3GB for $30, and 5GB for $50. Verizon will be selling monthly plans of 1GB for $20, 2GB for $30, and 5GB for $50. According to the Verge, Verizon will also offer a monthly data plan of 10GB for $80, though it's not listed on Apple's site.
So, is the 4G LTE network connectivity worth the extra buck for both the device and the data plan? If you're a frequent traveler, you might want to spring for it. According to Apple's website, an iPad equipped with both Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity "keeps you connected to the Internet using a fast cellular data connection when Wi-Fi isn't available. So you can stay connected when you're commuting on the train, hanging out at the park, or looking for directions during a road trip."
Furthermore, if you purchase a Verizon version of the 4G iPad, you'll also be able to take advantage of the new iPad's mobile hotspot feature, which, according to 9to5Mac, will allow "you to share your data connection with up to five other Apple devices, but it will only be supported on certain carriers."
Currently, this hotspot feature is available only on tablets outfitted for Verizon's network. However, an AT&T spokesperson told The Verge, "We are working with Apple to enable this feature in the future, but we currently do not offer it."

More good news for Verizon customers opting for a 4G iPad: The mobile hotspot feature will be included in Verizon's tablet data plans and won't cost the user extra money, as Verizon spokesman Albert Aydin revealed to 9to5Mac.  

 

  

        

i New Apple Austin Campus To Cost $304 Million, Double Presence In City

  





(Reuters) - Apple Inc is expanding its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment to build a new campus in Austin, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its workforce in the city.

The Cupertino, California, consumer device giant already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer complaints and support.

"Our operations in Austin has grown dramatically over the past decade from less than 1,000 in 2004 to more than 3,500 today," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said.

Apple plans to add jobs in customer support, sales and accounting.

The company is receiving an investment of $21 million over 10 years from a state fund and also possible incentives from Austin and Travis County, according to Texas Governor Rick Perry, who announced the news on Friday.




  


  

Apple Drops Google Maps For New iPhoto App (UPDATE

 

  

 

Apple Drops Google Maps For New iPhoto App (UPDATE

When Apple unveiled the new iPhoto app for iPad and iPhone on Wednesday, there was one conspicuous absence: geotagging via Google Maps. While iPhoto does uses a mapping service for tagging locations where photos are taken, the maps used are not Google-branded.
According to Apple Insider, the maps that appear in the new iPhoto for iPhone appear uncredited (whereas Google Maps proudly display the Google logo), have a different overall look from Google's maps and offer fewer details and less zoom control.
So what's the deal with these mystery maps Apple's now using?
The company has apparently ditched Google Maps for an open source project run by the non-profit OpenStreetMap Foundation,* whose goal is to "create and provide free map data to anyone who wants them." The Foundation on Thursday posted a (somewhat surprised-sounding) welcome message for Apple on its official blog. From OpenStreetMap's post:
"[Wednesday] Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap. [...] The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple’s iOS apps until now, use Google Maps. The new iPhoto for iOS, however, uses Apple’s own map tiles – made from OpenStreetMap data (outside the US)."
As evidence, OpenStreetMap (OSM) links to a comparison between the iPhoto app's map of Spain and OSM's Spain map, in which the two maps are overlaid. Although, as Mashable points out, there are clear differences in design between the maps, their locations seem to line up. OpenStreetMap attributes any discrepancies to the fact that Apple appears to be using data from April 2010.
According to Wired, OpenStreetMap data is only being used outside of the United States.
Foursquare also cites several app makers that have also moved away from Google Maps, including real estate portal StreetEasy, property search engine Nestoria and website-builder Fubra.
According to an article on Digital Trends, pricing was another big reason Foursquare dropped Google Maps. Indeed, Street Easy's Sebastian Delmon has shared similar thoughts about the cost of Google Maps. 

 

  

 

New VEVO Design Has Facebook In Mind

  






AUSTIN, Texas -- With TV screens and social networking in mind, the music video site VEVO has launched a significant redesign.
The new VEVO features a bigger player, continuous playback of videos and personalized playlists synced with user iTunes libraries and Facebook pages.
VEVO, which is co-owned by Sony Music and Universal Music, debuted the new design Friday.
The Facebook integration will likely further stoke rumors that the social network is interested in purchasing VEVO. Michael Cerda, senior vice president of product at VEVO, declined to comment on those reports.
Cerda said the new VEVO was designed to transition the site from a "snackable" website to "a personalized, social and long form experience."
Cerda also said VEVO is planning to do "a lot" to migrate to TV screens, a prospect that will likely further comparisons of VEVO – in its focus on videos and live performance_ to a young MTV. VEVO is currently piped to TVs via Boxee and Google TV, but Cerda said VEVO will soon be connected to "other connected devices" like the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation.




  


  

i iPad Prices: Where To Get iPad 2 Deals

 

  

 

Ipad 2 Price Drops, Ipad 3 Ipad 2, Ipad 3 Release Ipad 2 Discounts, New Ipad 2 Price, Technology News

Apple announced yesterday that it will drop the price of the iPad 2 ahead of the iPad 4G LTE release on March 16.
As it stands, the entry-level version of the iPad 2, which has 16GB of storage and Wi-Fi capability, will drop to $399, while the Wi-Fi plus 3G model will retail for $529 for those buying through the Apple store.
Another option for those looking for a better price direct from Apple is to get a refurbished model of the iPad 2, which are being sold for $349 for the entry-level version, all the way up to $679 for the 64GB Wi-Fi plus 3G model. Apple is also selling refurbished models of the first generation iPad starting at $299.
In the meantime, third-party retailers and large electronics stores have been offering lowered prices on the older tablet, with some stores like Radio Shack offering a $50 mail-in rebate on the new iPad or iPad 2 when the purchase in made using a "Shack Card."
Other stores, like WalMart and Best Buy, have already matched Apple's dropped prices on the tablet, PC World reports.
As of this afternoon, Target had yet to drop prices on the iPad 2 and the cheapest unused model on Amazon.com was being sold for $432.
As Business Standard points out, all third-party retailers that sell Apple products must sign agreements with the company on pricing standards, which means they can't drop prices unless they are specifically authorized to do so.
"Apple directs us on the price revisions, as discounts are something the company never offers," an Apple reseller in New Delhi told Business Standard. "And, since the retailer margins are also very tight, you will never see an Apple device being sold at 'discounted' prices."
In light of these strict pricing standards controlling what resellers can legally charge for products, buyers may be tempted to flock to eBay seeking deals on used tablets. But according to PC World, buyers should hold off for a few days, as prices are likely to fall as the new iPad's March 16 release date draws near.




  


  

Ice Cream Sandwich For Samsung Galaxy S II: Not Coming On March 10, Despite Rumors

 

  

 

Sandwich, Technology News

To date, over 20 million people worldwide have bought Samsung's smashing Galaxy S II smartphone since its May 2011 release.
That's a lot of owners waiting for their Ice Cream Sandwich.
Since the release of the first Android 4.0, or "Ice Cream Sandwich" device -- Samsung's Galaxy Nexus -- in December, many Android smartphone and tablet owners have similarly been waiting patiently for their upgrades. Though ICS updates have begun to roll-out to some devices, many of the most popular Android smartphones, including the Galaxy S II, have yet to receive their official Android 4.0 upgrades.
According to a post on the Samsung FAQ webpage, the Galaxy S II had been scheduled for a worldwide Ice Cream Sandwich update on March 10; that text has since been wiped from the site, and Samsung has officially backed off the claim (on Twitter, in Korean). The tweet doesn't say exactly when the GS2 will receive Ice Cream Sandwich, only that the March 10th report was premature.