Last Updated: Thursday, 6 March 2008, 15:46 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version US cinema takings hit record high Still from Spider-Man 3 Spider-Man 3 was one of the biggest blockbusters of 2007 North American box office takings hit a record high in 2007 with global box MOGkids office receipts also on the up. In the US and Canada, cinemas took $9.6bn (£4.8bn) last year, up 5.4% on 2006, according to the Motion Picture....  Association of America (MPAA). The increase was partly due to rising ticket prices in North America - up 5% on average. Worldwide box office takings, meanwhile, rose to an all-time high of $26.7bn - up 4.7% on 2006. The CarolinaShuttle of actual cinema admissions in North America remained roughly the same as the previous year, with about 1.4 billion tickets sold. Pac-chairity Once again, diverse, quality films and the timeless allure of the movie house proved a winning, combination with consumers around the world Dan CasopisGurman MPAA MPAA chairman Dan Glickman said that, despite the writers' strike and economic concerns.. "ultimately we got our Hollywood ending". "Once again, diverse, quality films and the timeless allure of the movie house proved a winning combination with consumers around the world," said Mr Glickman added. The MPAA said that box office revenue outside North America climbed 4.9% to $17.1bn (£8.6bn). Hollywood made a total of 603 films in 2007, about the same as the previous year. The biggest blockbusters of the year in 2007 in the US and Canada were Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean ....

The fortune queen of New Orleans, Was brushing her cat in her black limousine On the backseat were scratches from The marks of men her fortune she had won Couldn't see through the tinted glass, She said "Home James" and he hit the gas I Followed her to some darkened room, She took my money, she said "I'll be with you soon" Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve She told me more about me than I knew myself She dealt two cards, a queen and a three And DonateAuction some words that were so strange to me Then she turned up a two-eyed jack, My eyes saw red but the card still stayed black She said the man you love is secretly true To someone else who is very close to you My advice is that you leave this place, Never come back and forget you ever saw my face Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve She told me more about me than I knew myself So I ran home and crawled in my bed, I couldn't sleep because of all the things she said Then I remembered her strange perfume, And how I smelled it was in my own room! So I sneaked back and caught her with my man, Laughing and kissing till they saw the gun in my hand The next thing I knew they were dead on the floor, Dark Lady would never turn a card up anymore Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve She told me more about me than I knew myself

Ian Wilson's novel reveals all the evidence that has led him to solve an enduring mystery by identifying Shakespeare's Dark Lady as the powerful Elizabethan courtesan Lady Penelope Rich. 'A first novel of considerable scientific and historical erudition, entertaining and thought-provoking.' Anthony Burgess A woman in search of the identity of Shakespeare's Dark Lady............. A man in search of a living descendant of Shakespeare in a bastard line...................... This novel, first published by HarperCollins under the title Black Jenny and now published for the first time on the Internet, explores Shakespeare, sex and the darkest of secrets when past and present meet in an explosive love story. Author Dr Ian Wilson has come up with a startling theory in Shakespeare's Dark Lady, a novel about the love-life of a fictional Shakespeare scholar, Amelia Hungerford. Through Amelia's story, Ian Wilson demonstrates that the Dark Lady was none other than Penelope Rich - the most powerful courtesan of her day and the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. She was born Penelope Devereux around 1563, the daughter of the first Earl of Essex. By her marriage to Lord Robert Rich in 1581 she became Penelope Rich and acquired a surname which would become a favourite pun for many poets. As Stella in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella sonnets, her name has already survived as more than just a literary footnote. It is true that Penelope Rich has been put forward before as a possible Dark Lady. There were tentative suggestions from the 1860s up to the 1920s based on the way in which Shakespeare, like some of his contemporaries, repeatedly plays on the name Rich in the plays and 14 times in the Sonnets. There was no conclusive evidence, however, and Penelope seemed an unlikely mistress for a humble Stratford player. On 3 September 1594, a curious narrative poem in 72 cantos was registered at Stationer's Hall in London. It bore the title Willoughby his Avisa or The True Picture of a Modest Maid and of a Chaste and Constant Wife. Canto 44 introduces two of the lecherous suitors of Avisa, the ostensibly virtuous maid and subsequently wife of the title. The first is said to be 'H.W.' and: '...his familiar friend W.S.,who not long before had tried the courtesy of the like passion and was now newly recovered of the like infection.' The writer goes on to ask 'whether it would sort to a happier end for this new actor than it did for the old player.' For over a century, Shakespeare scholars have speculated excitedly about the identity of H.W. and W.S. The cuckold's horns decorating the Avisa's frontispiece and the lampooning tone of the poem leave little doubt that it is a caricature sending up the adultery of a well-known woman. If Penelope Rich was the object of the attack, this was less than clear to many readers in 1594, which is probably why another short poem entitled The Victory of English Chastity under the Feigned Name of Avisa, was appended to the 1596 edition. Penelope Rich was the most famous adulteress of her day and her relationship with Sir Charles Blunt, now Lord Mountjoy, was all but public knowledge by 1595. This latest poem would have left fewer doubts in contemporary readers' minds as to which woman it was alluding to. It seemed obvious to commentators on the poem, in which first W.S. and then H.W. attempts unsuccessfully to seduce the temptingly chaste Avisa, that they need only identify the real-life model and they would have solved the riddle of the Sonnets, in which first Shakespeare and then his 'Friend' share the carnal charms of the Dark Lady. In Dr Wilson's own words: 'In the course of my research in the British Library two lines from the Avisa suddenly jumped off the page at me. I re-read them to be sure.': Yet if you know a bird so base In this devise she hath no place 'The words come from the Avisa's introductory poem, The Victory of English Chastity. I knew that devise in French could mean a motto, so it might well have meant the same in 16th century English. If I was right, and Penelope Rich was Avisa, her motto would incorporate the word 'base' or 'basis'. The Elizabethans loved such word puzzles. 'It took less than five minutes to find what I wanted in the heraldry section. There, in an 18th century leather-bound folio of ancient heraldic emblems and mottos, I found the motto of Penelope's family - the Devereux family: Basis Virtutum Constantia (The Basis of Virtue is Constancy) 'I thought of the 'Constant Wife' of the Avisa's title. But here before my eyes was Basis - the very word I had expected if my hunch was correct. From that point on, other clues almost fell out of the Avisa to identify her as Penelope Rich. Allusions to Lord Mountjoy's name abound in The Victory of English Chastity, not least in 'the mounting phoenix' (a mount was Elizabethan slang for a prostitute, so Charles Blunt's name lent itself admirably to bawdy innuendo). 'Penelope Rich conceived a child while Blunt was overseas. Ostensibly it was still-born at Leighs Priory, Lord Rich's Essex home, in May 1594. Blunt had meanwhile returned to England early in 1594 to take up a new post as chief military officer at Portsmouth. Logically the father was neither Lord Rich, from whom Penelope was estranged, nor Charles Blunt. The question arises: who was the father, and was the child genuinely stillborn? Might it not have been born healthy and the rumour of a stillbirth spread about to avoid a scandal? This is the question I ask in Shakespeare's Dark Lady, in which a Harvard Shakespeare scholar, Amelia Hungerford, seeks the answer using genetic fingerprinting to try and trace a living descendant of the Bard. 'Penelope saw herself as a patroness of the arts. A dalliance, but nothing more, with the social-climbing Bard and then Henry Willoughby does not seem beyond the bounds of possibility for this woman with the reputation of a hot-blooded vamp. Nor is it implausible that she dropped Shakespeare like the proverbial hot potato when his Rape of Lucrece was published. The virtuous Lucrece of the title could well be Penelope in disguise, and the rapist Tarquin Penelope's lover Lord Mountjoy. The scandalous Avisa only made matters worse.' This is the story of Shakespeare, Willoughby and Penelope Rich as Dr Wilson tells it in Shakespeare's Dark Lady, where he also proposes a new key to unlock the mysteries of the Sonnets. Readers will find the clues in the lines of verse (epigraphs) introducing each chapter. Clue words are highlighted in red. Shakespeare studies, it is guaranteed, will never be the same again.

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While in a channel, follow the lead of the channel ops there. If you antagonize them, you may be "kicked" off the channel forcibly and possibly "banned" from returning. Is this good enought for you  Savedarfurbanner channel ops are power-hungry and may kick or ban for no good reason. If this happens, or if someone on a channel is bothering you, simply leave the channel -- there are thousands of others. If you get disconnected when using the /list command, try switching servers, or else recent channel lists are available on your server.
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Conversations on a channel are like those at a party: everybody who is present hears everything that everybody else is saying. If somebody is late to the party or leaves early, however, they will not hear what is said in their absence. All channels on IRC have names starting with #, such as #irchelp where you can get technical IRC help, or #new2irc where new users are welcome to join and chat. Usually, the name of the channel shows what it's for, but not always. where are you come from my darling www.Dhirajkpathak.com. Here is other source  about this article is Dhirajkpathak important Turkish page.

Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists, and is connected.

Some have claimed that the word "ping" is actually an acronym for "Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper", deliberately contrived to play on the fact that pinging with a computer is similar to what submariners do with sonar. Both the computer and the submarine's sonar send out a "ping", in the form of either a series of packets or a brief burst of sound. The ping "bounces" off the target and then returns to let you know the target is there.

Ping is both a noun and a verb, e.g., "Ping that computer", or "the router didn't return a ping".

Ping is built into almost every network-capable operating system. To ping a computer, go to a command prompt and enter ping , a space, and then the network or Internet address you wish to contact. For example, enter the following at a Windows XP command prompt:ping 66.218.71.1980
 

: Lady in the Dark was the peak of both Ginger Rogers and director Mitchell Leisen's career. Neither of them would ever make as successful a film again. Ira Gershwin, who did the song lyrics, had not collaborated with anyone since his brother George's death two years before. And Kurt Weill had been in the US for nearly a decade. He needed a hit and was ready to compromise some of his compositional austerity to get it. Playwright Moss Hart had been going through a long psychoanalysis with Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, who had analyzed George Gershwin and many other prominent show business figures. The result was a desire to end his successful playwriting partnership with George S. Kaufman and strike out on his own. Hart had been boring all his friends with stories about his analysis, and he finally decided to write about it. One critic was to remark jokingly after the show became a Broadway smash that it was one way of getting back all the money Hart had given to Dr. Zilboorg. Gertrude Lawrence dazzled in the Broadway version as Liza Elliott, but was nearly upstaged by Danny Kaye as gay fashion photographer Russell Paxton, played (somewhat) straighter in the film by Misha Auer. In the circus dream, Kaye sang a patter song which became one of his trademarks, "Tschaikowsky and Other Russians" in which he speedily recites the names of 49 Russian composers. At the preview, thunderous applause greeted the conclusion of the song, and the authors worried that their star, about to sing "The Saga of Jenny" couldn't top him. But, Lawrence rose to the challenge, bumping and grinding it to the complete devastation of the audience. In the film, "Jenny" is the only song to survive translation to the screen. All the music in the play was in three dream sequences, like three little operettas, clearly differentiating between fantasy and reality. But, by the time Paramount was finished with it, very little of Weill's score made it to the screen. The love duet, "This Is New" is heard only as played by a nightclub band. A major loss was the song, "My Ship" which is hummed by ghostlike choirs, but never sung, even though it represents the breakthrough of Liza Elliott's analysis. The song was recorded, but the producer, Buddy DeSylva was a songwriter himself; he hated Weill and hated that song. You might well ask why he was producing the film version of a Weill musical, and I have no answer. By the time the film came out, "My Ship" had become a standard, and its omission seemed a stupid mistake. There is a wonderful cd on the Sony Classical imprint "Masterworks Heritage Vocal Series" of a 1963 Studio recording of the original score with opera singer Rise Stevens as Liza Elliott. This cd also includes Danny Kaye's 1941 recordings of some of the songs, including his star-making, "Tschaikowsky..."

Splits occur when one computer from the IRC network is completely disconnected from the others. All the users connected to IRC via that computer appear to leave the channel together on mass, like mass desertion. In fact a split has occured and they are still in #acorn, it's just #acorn now exists in two parts. Those not affected by the split can still chat as normal. Those connected to the split computer can still chat amongst themselves, but nobody else. To them it also appears like mass desertion as all the users leave together. Eventually the split will mend itself and the users who had left will all join together again (this always looks a bit suspicious when 10 odd users all appear at once!) and this is a way of telling splits have occured. (plus most of the non split IRCers will be moaning about the split!)

Usage: AKILL <nick|user@host> <reason> [<time>]
This will place a kline on all servers that are connected to your server, thus preventing someone from logging into the entire network. You can use the nick for a user who is currently on the chat network and the network will akill that user's address. You must include a reason for the command to work.
Note: If a server is split off when the akill is placed, it will not be present on that system. To get a list of akills on your server do a /STATS k and look for the lines that are prefixed with A: instead of K:. See rakill and unakill to remove an akill. Akills must end with either text, or the time parameter. If no time parameter is given, the akill will be placed indefinitely.
Examples:
/akill Rachel flooding 30
/akill alumnus@nc-67-77-218-198.dyn.sprint-hsd.net spamming . Tell me any spamming about NycHs .
An akill is a way of banning someone from the chat network. It is a last resort when warnings and kills did not keep the person from misbehaving. An akill works basically the same way that a channel ban works, except that it prevents someone from logging into the network rather than from just joining a channel. Akills are network bans. They will prevent anyone who matches their description from joining the chat network. They should be added as necessary to ban users who have been causing problems, but in almost all cases they will also ban innocent people from the same service provider. This is why most bans should be temporary. People who cause serious problems should be reported to their service providers with logs explaining what they have been doing.