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Technically Yours, Battle A Rapper From Anywhere In The World - Rah Digga Has An App For That
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There are four elements of hip hop and they are DJing, emceeing, break dancing, and graffiti arts. One of those elements, emceenig has now been incorporated into a new app for the iPhone, Android, Windows phone, and Nokia phones.
The name of the app is Rah Digga's Straight Spittin'. Former member of Busta Rhymes' Flip Mode squad, Rah Digga has teamed up with app developer Appalachian Apps to create a first of a kind app that recreates the art of rap battling. Straight Spittin' allows any aspiring rapper to battle another rapper from anywhere in the world. A participant can pick an opponent to battle, the beats, how many rounds, and whether the battle is freestyle or written. Others then can log on to the app and vote for the best rapper in a particular battle. The app is free, but you have an opportunity to purchase additional beats for your raps and battles. A winning rapper can even have a chance against rap celebrities. There is also a web-based version of Straight Spittin', where you can complete via your computer if you don't have a smartphone.
From the press release:
Straight Spittin' is the only audio-based battle rap application that allows aspiring rappers to battle in either freestyle or written form, to select different beats, verse length, and the number of rounds. The application anticipates today's busy MC, giving them the option to schedule battles ahead of time, leave verses in their opponent's inbox or just hone their skills in rehearsal mode. One of the most exciting features of the application is the option for the public to vote for winners. As MC's win more battles, they advance from "Unsigned Hype" to "Gold" and eventually "Platinum" status, where they'll be scouted for global battle competitions.
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Companion kit only for Android mobes... for now
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For the moment that phone will have to run Android, but iOS software is promised soon. Once paired with the beagle, the Android application supports Adobe Digital Editions, so books purchased from anywhere except Amazon – including those electronic editions borrowed from the local library – can be transferred onto the beagle for reading on its 5-inch e-ink screen.
By depending on an Android device for browsing, buying and managing books, the beagle can be kept really simple, and cheap, but even the €10 price is subsidised. There will be an unsubsidised version which will cost more, but we don't yet know how much more.
The connectivity is Bluetooth, and there's no touchscreen or anything like that, but battery life (from a pair of AAAs) is counted at a couple of years (depending on one's reading habits) and the company claims a weight of only 128g, which should be comfortable even if the screen isn't much bigger than the larger Android handsets on the market.
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Companion devices have something of a chequered past, or, to be more accurate: they almost invariably fail badly. Palm's Folio (a companion keyboard and screen) didn't even make it out of the door, while the eminently practical Redfly did the same thing but never achieved more than niche status at best. Pico-projectors can turn a mobile phone into a desktop display, but haven't caught on in any measurable way.
Even Motorola's WebTop, which extends a mobile phone into a desktop, has been withdrawn in its hardware form, though the software was incorporated into the last RAZR update and works beautifully over HDMI with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, for the moment at least.
But all those products were trying to push a mobile device into the laptop arena, while the beagle is trying to extend the screen into the ereader category. One can imagine copying off a book to read in bed, or on a plane, enjoying the extended battery life and additional screen; the beagle isn't even recognised as a separate piece of kit by Adobe's DRM, so any content pushed into the Digital Editions app can be shared with the device.
The company won't say what subsidy is needed to achieve that €10 price: the plan is to sell through mobile network operators who'll make the money back selling books, which seems a little optimistic. Once we know the unsubsidised price, and have had a chance to use the device, it will be easier to see what chance the beagle has, but txtr should still be applauded for finding a different approach in a business which is quickly becoming dominated by a small number of very big players. ®
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What You Don't Know About Sushi
By Andrea Karim on 18 June 2007 (Updated 21 May 2010) 20 comments
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Think you know a thing or two about sushi, eh? Yeah, I thought the same thing until today. Today is when Trevor Corson, author of The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket made a guest appearance on my local radio station to dispell some commonly held myths about sushi.
Now, I've traveled to Japan, and I've eaten at some good sushi establishments. I'm not an expert by a long shot, but I thought I knew a thing or two about raw fish (sashimi) and the rice beneath it (sushi). But alas, 'twas not the case.
Fresh isn't necessarily better
No, I don't recommend you save money by buying week-old sushi or anything. That said, I was always under the impression that the freshest sushi was the most recently deceased. Not true. Like beef and lamb, fish actually has to age slightly in order to achieve a full, rich flavor.
The reason for this, according to Corson, is that the enzymes in fish flesh start to break down the muscle once a fish dies. And that breakdown actually creates smaller molecules that are detectable as flavorful by the human tongue.
Corson goes into a brief but fascinating discussion of glutamate (that's the G in MSG), a flavor that is designated as the fifth "taste" that the human tongue can detect. The Japanese call this flavor umami, which we translate into English as savory. Much of Japanese cuisine's flavor comes from fermented or aged produce — soy sauce, natto, bonito flakes, and miso are all created through some practices that we, as Westerners, might consider unsavory.
Fresh fish is delicious if you just caught some trout and cooked it over the campfire with some lemon and butter. But try to eat the same fresh fish raw, and you're likely to be disappointed.
Most of the sashimi that we eat in restaurants has been flash frozen using liquid nitrogen. This process kills many of the germs and worms that can develop in fish flesh, but doesn't cause any physical deterioration of the meat.
When you go into a fine sushi establishment and order the freshest daily fish, you aren't eating fish that was caught the same day, or even the day before. If you're eating good sushi, the fish is at least a few days old.
You're not supposed to use chopsticks
Dammit! The one skill that I can use across East Asia, and it doesn't even apply?
Lots of sushi that we eat in American sushi establishments comes in the "roll" format. Traditional sushi is eaten in the nigiri format — a little polyhedron of loosely-packed, slightly sweet and tangy sushi rice topped with a thin slice of raw fish. Ever notice that the sushi sort of breaks apart when you dip it in that little bowl of soy sauce and then try to pick it back up with your chopsticks? That's because you are supposed to eat it with your hands.
I kid you not. Traditional sushi lovers do exactly that. Corson has a guide of how to eat sushi on his web site. The sushi rice is not usually packed very tightly together, which is why it falls apart when you try to eat it with chopsticks. The method for eating sushi is more or less to hold the sushi piece like it's a computer mouse, slowly flip it over, and lightly drench one side in the nikiri sauce (soy, depending on where you are eating) provided.
By now you've probably seen that comedic video of Japanese etiquette that pokes fun at the traditions and mannerisms that surround sushi consumption. It turns out that much of the behavior is as baffling to the Japanese as it is to Americans.
Give the video a watch, but just note that the fact that they are eating the sushi with their hands is not meant to be a part of the joke. You're actually SUPPOSED to go in, sit at the bar, and eat with your fingers. I'm not saying you won't get some weird looks - I'm just saying that that's what the experts do.
The wasabi you are eating...isn't wasabi
Turns out that real wasabi is difficult to grow and even more difficult to properly package. So what you eat at Sushi N More is actually horseradish powder, mustard, and green food coloring.
Also, you're not technically supposed to be drowning your sushi in soy sauce. Good restaurants provide their own nikiri, which is like a house-brewed soy sauce that the chef should use according to what he (it's almost always a he, although this is finally changing) is preparing. In fact, your raw fish should be brushed with a flavored broth that needs no additional flavoring.
Now, if you are eating at an authentic sushi restaurant, these things matter. However, if you are at an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet, eating bricks of mealy rice with slabs of flavorless fish, then you'll be forgiven for soaking your sushi in a bucket of soy sauce and pseudo wasabi. Hey, I'm not passing judgment.
Traditional sushi doesn't contain tuna
Tuna and salmon, which are BIG sushi hits in the US, aren't traditional sushi choices because they spoil very fast. Fatty tuna, while melty and wonderful to American sushi lovers, is eschewed by the sushi snobs in Japan. Traditional sushi is technically whitefish, like halibut, snapper, or even clams and raw octopus (the Japanese sushi foodies, true to form, sometimes eat squirming live octopus - don't try this at home).
Spicy tuna rolls, never a favorite of mine, are one of the most popular sushi options in Seattle. They are also how chefs get rid of crappy bits of tuna.
Corson appears to be very open-minded, and avoids any judgment of those of us who occasionally get our sushi fix from crappy rice rolls at Safeway or Whole Foods. Although he lived in Japan and has eaten some of the finest sushi the world over, his fascination with sushi really stemmed from the fact that you can now get find this delicacy in small towns in Ohio.
As someone who vacillates between wanting the best sushi available, and wanting some sushi for under $10, dammit, I really loved listening to Corson talk about this cuisine. You can buy the book, or just peruse his web site and a few others to get a feel for what sushi is really about. As with most things here at Wise Bread, it's often about quality versus quantity.
Which doesn't mean that I won't still buy it, occasionally, at Safeway. But now that I know I can eat it with my fingers, I'll be so much more efficient.
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does he say anything about the rice being warm/room temp and not cold and hard like most places? i found an awesome place in tustin, ca (Sushi Wasabi) where the servings are small, the fish are "fresh," the rice is warm, the wasabi is ground each morning, and it's always omakase (trust me style=no ordering).
however, it's expensive (duh)
so my bf found catalina offshore products (www.catalinaop.com) and now we order our sushi online. it's all very delicious, top quality, and a real value compared to dining out at a same quality restaurant.
you buy it by the pound (so split with friends) and you have to cut it yourself (sharpen your knife) but it's worth it.
for $200 we fed 9 people (w/plenty of leftovers!)
Andrea Karim's picture
But I haven't read the book yet - I just ordered it. :) But that's a key part of the sushi's taste and one of the (many) reasons why supermarket sushi tastes so meh.
Guest's picture
In the older days, Japanese culture allows only males to become chefs.
Andrea Karim's picture
That's changing! There are all kinds of reasons why women were not permitted to make sushi, all of them bogus. However, it is still very difficult for a woman to become a sushi chef these days, even in the US.
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I consider myself a connoisseur of fine sushi and I agree with most of what you said.
Wasabi can be found in the US and its grown in the northwest. Just like Shiso, that little green leaf that is often placed under Ika.
Most traditional Japanese do eat Tuna, but not as sushi, they traditionally eat it as Sashimi (sans rice) or preserved in soy sauce (salt)
Most of the rolls we get here in the US are not traditional, most of the time, traditional Japanese diners eat Maki (rolls) that are simple, not this Salmon, cream cheese, onion mixture that we here seem to like (yuch!)
If you really want to impress your local Sushi chef, don't put extra wasabi on the top of the Nigiri, or mix it in with the soy. Most traditional sushi eaters simply dip the fish side in the soy sauce and pop it in their mouth. The Wasabi is mostly for mixing into the soy sauce when you're eating Sashimi. Nigiri has wasabi between the fish and rice.
There are lots of wonderful traditional Japanese traditions and foods that are part of the sushi experience. Unfortunately most Americans are too squeamish. (Their loss and My gain!)
Some day ask for Ika-Shiokara (or sometimes just Shiokara) or Ika-Nato. One of my favorites is Yamakake (Yamaimo or Japanese Mountain Potato grated to a slimy consistency mixed with Maguro and a little soy)
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Mark, I have never gone to a restaurant hoping to please the chef. Why would anyone want to please their sushi chef?
Taste is subjective. I'm always eager to visit authentic restaurants, but if it's done right, a fusion dish like the smoked salmon rolls you refer to can be amazing. Good chefs know this: a dish need not be standard or traditional to be worth consuming; what is necessary is a balance of flavors. A good artist (chef) can do this with the most bizarre combinations.
I love a good Westernized version of an ethnic dish as much as I love authentic Chinese food.
"Yuch"? I'm not sure how credible that statement is.
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The reason sushi chefs are traditionally male is because women were thought to have "hotter energy" and would thus cause faster spoilage when handling raw fish. I've had raw fish cut from a still living fish in both Japan and Korea and it was spectacular. Flavor improvement as a result of post mortem aging only applies to certain fish. Toro or fatty tuna is absolutley, without question highly prized by sushi enthusiasts, in Japan or otherwise. Salmon, expecially white salmon, is very popular as sashimi in Japan (salmon has been an important food source in Japan dating back to the time of the indigenous Ainu). Exceptional tuna specimens still command 5-figure prices at the Tokyo fish market auctions, and these are most certainly used for sashimi. Finally using chopsticks is never discouraged except in the obvious case of temaki (hand rolls), and a diner eating sashimi with his or her fingers would draw disapproving glares at the very least. I am disappointed to find such erroneous information being disseminated by a published author on the subject.
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Well, anyone who knows anything about anatomy knows that this is bullshit. If anything, men have higher temperatures in their extremities than women.
Tuna: sashimi these days? Sure. But in the past, not so much - tuna has only recently taken over as one of the most popular seafoods in the world. Spicy tuna rolls, not so much. I'm interested (and, frankly, repulsed) that you've tried hacked-from-a-still-gasping-fish sashimi. I'm curious about the flavor - was it markedly different from other sashimi you've tried?
As to using your fingers - sorry, but people do both. Afficianados tend to use their fingers when eating nigiri - I've seen it done in Toyko and Kanazawa. Corson is not the only person to make that claim.
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An interesting read, didn't know about those finer sushi eating details!
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Speaking as someone who has worked at 2 real Japanese restaurants (owned by actual Issei with real sushi chefs from Japan) in Ohio and northern KY, I would like to make a plea on behalf of all employees to the midwesterners who claim such intimate knowledge of Japanese food and etiquette:
1. The point of sushi is absolutely and completely not to pour twenty-five gallons of soy sauce all over the tray. Period. If you can't enjoy Japanese food without enough sauce to choke a saltwater fish, stay home and order pizza. Same goes for ginger. The food is the point, dammit!
2. Edamame does not need to a: be served warm and b: have soy sauce dumped all over it--those things are practically basted in salt already.
3. American customers are invariably the messiest, sloppiest, most demanding pack of bums who walk into a Japanese restaurant and always compare unfavorably with the almost always soft-spoken, kind and undemanding Japanese customers. If you don't want the wait staff bitching about you in the kitchen, be polite, don't pour soy sauce all over the damn place (like the veritable lake of the stuff I mopped up after one particularly memorable evening), don't freak out if you find out that sushi and Japanese food taste differently from what the American palate has come to expect, and get over how elite, sexy and intelligent you are for being willing to eat OMG RAW FISH! There are sushi places in the most backwater tiny towns in Japan, and farmers eat that stuff. Eating it and drinking a fine delicate wine, then heading out to see the latest artsy film at the independent theater doesn't raise your IQ or your general worth as a person, and chances are your server with her 2.50 an hour paycheck and fake smile plastered on her face knows ten times more than you do about sushi and washoku in general, so get over yourself. Seriously. It's just food.
4. Forchrissakes don't rub your chopsticks together when you split them--that's really rude and the only people who do that are those who want to show off how incredibly knowledgeable they are about Japanese culture, while in fact they are simultaneously displaying an incredible lack of that very same knowledge. Look around you--do you see any of the Japanese customers doing that? No? Wonder why...
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Man, you've got a lot of pent-up hostility. That must really suck.
Experiencing a good film may not "raise your IQ", but it very likely will reduce your ignorance. Give it a try. Sounds like YOU are the one obsessing about/judging HOW people are eating. Seriously; it's just food. Get over your "Kentucky-fried sushi" self.
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I have to stand up in defense of the chopstick rubbing folks - I picked up this habit in China. I might have my issues with China, but mouth splinters are never a problem there because no one gets mad at you for rubbing your kauizi together. And to be fair, doing so shouldn't be offensive to the restaurant, but rather, to the chopstick manufacturer.
My dad immediately pours soy sauce over any bowl of rice presented to him, causing a massive faux pas in any Asian dining establishment. :) Wish I could break him of the habit, but alas, it's set for life. Then again, I guess I kind of appreciate the lack of pretense with which he regards his food. It's there for his enjoyment, not anyone else's sense of tradition. Call him a slob of an American if you will (he's Canadian) but at least he's free from worry and stress over things like soy sauce.
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Nice piece, but I must take exception with the first item. The rest of it I would say is fairly well-known to real sushi lovers (not just sushi junkies, but the real snobs that take the whole thing seriously).
The white person that I consider the most well-versed in Jp. culture insists that the best place in the world to eat sushi is on the Tokyo docks, where the fish is served right off the boats. He says it's a popular destination, so I wonder if it's just a matter of taste (as in tastebuds), or if it really is superior when eaten at its most fresh.
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I read somewhere awhile ago that when you're sitting in a sushi restaurant where the chef can see you, you're not supposed to eat the first bite of anything with any type of extra flavor (ie wasabi, soy sauce, etc). It is supposedly considered a respect thing to try the sushi and the chef's skills first before adding extra flavor. It's a little like tasting your food at someone's house first before pouring table salt all over it. But besides respect, I think that's always a good idea because you may find that the food is absolutely wonderful without additions.
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Mia Detrick in her book "Sushi" said "salmon is never served raw in sushi bars; it is lightly smoked or cured . . ." I have seen her quoted in some places but contradicted in others. What are the facts?
Andrea Karim's picture
I've seen it smoked or cured, but it is most often served raw. However, it has likely been flash frozen to kill the nematodes and other icky things that live in fish flesh.
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It was totally factfull!
I loved it
I love sushi too!
At school, I'm studying about japanese and the teacher
told us to do a topic about Japan stuff.
So I chose sushi.
i'm still working on it...:)
Thanks for your info! :)
I loved it1
Carry on with the hard work!!
Keep smiling!! :) hehe!!
From Sheuk-yeeng!! Tan!! :) hehe lol
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Brian McEwen
I'll have to keep this article with me the next time I dig in with my hands... enlightening. Thanks!
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You forgot to mention that it isn't (or at least wasn't) a delicacy. It started as a sort of 'fast food.'
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I wanted to clear up some things about the liquid nitrogen flash freezing. The overwhelming majority IS NOT flash frozen with liquid nitrogen. Nor is some of it even frozen in order to kill pathogens and parasites. I had to find this out the hard way. Upon talking with actual wholesale suppliers to US restaurants. I discovered that the FDA only "suggested" the freezing. If there is an actual FDA regulation regarding this IT IS NOT enforced! in fact many high end sushiya PREFER unfrozen fish.
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By Gever Tulley (Author) , Judith Lemmens (Illustrator) , Jureca (Developer)
Age Range: 7 - 10
Pub Date: July 13th, 2012
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A bizarre story about a little girl who reunites townspeople with their brains after an alien invasion.
After sneezing so hard her brain falls out, the unnamed heroine in this odd tale carries her brain around in a plastic bag. How does she function with an empty cranium? Her brain apparently has Bluetooth capabilities; as long as it’s close by, she can still access it (though if it gets too far out of range she suddenly becomes “very stupid”). When aliens land and begin sucking peoples’ brains out, the little girl hides her own brain in her mother’s closet, thus ensuring that she is the only person who doesn’t end up in a zombielike state. She eventually sneaks into the aliens’ spaceship, retrieves all the brains and returns them to their rightful owners. While a few of the scant interactive features are refreshingly simple and mildly engaging (that is, if readers enjoy dumping brains on a conveyer belt and vacuuming them out of peoples’ heads), overall the app is tactually unremarkable. However, the illustrations are bold, crisp and visually appealing, and navigation and functionality are top-notch. Both the music and the annoyingly slow narration can be switched off, but silencing the music unfortunately also silences all sound effects (which is a shame because they add much-needed value to the reading experience). The app will not work on an iPad 1.
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Hidden Ocean in Saturn's Moon? New Clues
In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe, orbiting Saturn, made a tantalizing discovery: Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, was venting something -- possibly liquid water -- into the airless space around it.
In the frozen wastes around Saturn, this was (please forgive the pun) really cool. How could there be water nearly 900 million miles from the sun? That's almost 10 times as far out as Earth is.
Enceladus. Even the name, coming from Greek mythology, rolls off the tongue mysteriously. En-CELL-a-dus.
It is a small world, 300 miles in diameter, covered in a thick layer of ice. It whips around Saturn in 1.4 days, meaning the gravitational pull of the great ringed planet on the little moon's innards must be fierce.
Saturn has more than 60 known moons; Enceladus is the sixth largest. The venting appears to come from fractures or fissures in the ice near its south pole.
But liquid water? You can find water in the form of vapor or ice all over the universe (think of comets, with their frozen cores and filmy tails), but liquid water is the stuff of life as we know it, and when NASA made its original announcement four years ago, it set minds racing. There were many doubters.
Now, a team of scientists has analyzed the chemical makeup of one of the plumes, and found some intriguing clues that support the liquid-water theory. Their report is in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature.
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They found ammonia, argon, various organic compounds and salts, some of which could act as a kind of celestial antifreeze, keeping the waters of Enceladus from freezing.
An Ocean in a Moon of Saturn?
"Given the temperatures measured by Cassini of the fractures where the plumes originate, having ammonia mixed with water makes it much more likely that liquid water is at the source of the plumes, and not just warm ice," Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona, a member of the Cassini team, said in an e-mail to ABC News.
What does all this tell us? The scientists paint a picture of a briny sea beneath Enceladus' icy crust. They think it is heated by the moon's rocky interior, which may be partly radioactive, and may also be cracked and pulled by Saturn's gravity.
Both those things would generate warmth, enough warmth to compensate for the feeble light of the sun, so far away. Temperatures elsewhere in Saturn's neighborhood are hundreds of degrees below zero.
Similar things may be happening to at least one of Jupiter's moons. Europa, examined by NASA's Gailileo probe in the 1990s, may also have an ocean covered with ice.
Where there's water, could there be more? Could there be life? Could life, at least microbes, be common in the solar system, implying that life on Earth is less unusual than we thought?
"We do not know," Lunine said. Cassini's instruments, he said, "measured water, ammonia, argon-40, and carbon-hydrogen molecules (organic molecules). These, together with the source of heat that makes Enceladus warm, would seem to provide a promising environment for life.
"But Cassini cannot test this," he said. "We must look to the next mission."
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A topic came up yesterday in the forums, and I thought it was of general interest.
HealthVault is different from a lot of information systems - at least the ones I've worked with - in that there is a break between the concept of "user" - the person who authenticates into the application - and "record" - the thing that holds information about specific individual.
This is to support two scenarios.
The first one is for parents, who want to track the health information of their children. They can create a separate record (that they have access to) for the child.
The second one is when an adult is managing the health of another adult - that adult can be granted access to another adult's record.
If you are writing an application, this is something that you need to deal with. If I'm using an application and then I come back to it after I've gotten access to another record, I need to provide the following:
1. A way to authorize the application to access the new record. This is done through the shell and a redirect, similar to how normal authorization is done.
2. Some UI to allow the user to switch between records.
For an example of how to do this, take a look at the HealthAndFitness application.
The existence of multiple records explains why you need to use PersonInfo.SelectedRecord to access the data - it belongs to the current record, not to the current user.
That's the overview. The specific point that came up yesterday was around the ids for users and records. An application can access PersonInfo.PersonId and SelectedRecord.Id, and use those to uniquely identify that user and record.
But, to make it harder to correlate information between applications, the same person using two separate applications is going to have two different values of PersonInfo.PersonId and SelectedRecord.Id, and, in fact, the record ID will change if the application is de-authorized and then re-authorized.
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Close Encounters Of A Rocky Mountain Kind
In a world filled with naysayers and disbelievers, you have to thank the gods for Jeff Peckman. The Colorado man's previous forays into civic duty found him attempting to legally enforce stress-reduction techniques on the entire city of Denver. Now he's asking the good people of the Mile High City to vote "Yes" on the creation of a commission to deal with the arrival of aliens from outer space.
To hear his explanation as to why such a commission is necessary, it almost makes sense:
It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do... Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don't know.
His response to this dilemma is to call for the creation of an 18-member panel of citizens to create an official strategy for dealing with close encounters of all three kinds. His proposal only requires 4000 signatures to get on a November ballot, and if there is any justice in the world, at least three thousand and ninety-nine of those people will have signed just to be able to say that democracy helped them to make Denver the most alien-friendly city in all of the 50 states. Karl Rove and Jan-Michael Vincent would be proud.
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Desktop vs. Web - Confrontation or Convergence?
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We have all heard the theory that Web services will gradually force out client applications. All you will need for your work would be a computer with an access to the Internet and a small application to work with web resources. You won't even need a full-fledged operating system like we have today. All personal data (files, photos, documents, etc.) will be stored on remote servers. All necessary software will be available in form of various web services.
This theory has many supporters and opponents. The supporters state that at some point web services will completely supplant client applications. And their opponents will contradict that web services will never be able to fully replace many client applications, such as Adobe Photoshop or games, and that some users will never agree to store their important and confidential information on remote servers that could also be accessed by others.
This article isn't aimed at detailed description of both standpoints. The purpose of this writing is to try to look into the future and understand how the migration to web applications could occur. If such migration will take place at all, it won't happen suddenly, there should be some transition period.
It is a fact that the Internet penetrated deeply into our life and became an integral part of it. We've already got accustomed to use social networks (Facebook , LinkedIn ), to post our thoughts in blogs, publish pictures on Flickr , watch video on YouTube , travel around the world with Google Earth and many more. But in order to do it you would need to have some small application - browser .
Until quite recently, the market of web browsers was very "quiet". But there was a lot going on on this market lately: Apple released Safari for Windows, Microsoft finally paid attention to their browser and this resulted in Internet Explorer 8, Google released Google Chrome for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Opera browser and Mozilla Firefox browser also keep up with the rest and have new updates and versions regularly. So what's the buzz? Why did everybody pay such close attention to the browser market?
Heads of these companies are famed for their ability to foresee the future and foretell trends of events. May it be that they are really sure that web solutions will sooner or later completely replace all client applications, and the browser will become forefather for the most relevant application on the computer? In this case no wonder that they offer their solutions for working in the Internet. They understand that if you don't enter this market with your own solution right now, you may come in nowhere in the future.
What will be happening with client applications? Will they really be just transformed into web services? My assumption is that the client applications will be turning into web services gradually. There will be a period, when client applications will represent some hybrids. On the one hand it will be an ordinary client application, on the other hand this application will have browser functionality and it will allow working in the Internet right from the application interface. At the moment you can already see that many applications become similar to such hybrids. For example let's take iTunes , quite a popular application.
This application has an embedded browser component to access iTunes Store (it is actually a web service) right from the application interface which is a very convenient solution. This approach allows updating iTunes Store web service without affecting client application. Therefore this application combines advantages of a web application as well as benefits of a client application.
A very interesting functionality was added to Google Chrome browser - you can now save a page link as a desktop shortcut. Clicking on this shortcut causes launching of the browser and automatic loading of the appropriate web page. Though it is hard to tell that it is a browser:
Google Chrome
The concurrent solution was implemented by Mozilla Labs and released as Prism .
It is obvious that the number of components allowing to embed browser funtionality into a client application has grown recently. For example such libraries as JDIC , WebRenderer , JExplorer and JxBrowser allow Java developers to integrate and use all the funtionality of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari (WebKit) browser right in a Java application.
Therefore it turns out that many applications become hybrids already now and these hybrids are only a milestone in the evolution of client applications into web services. This is just an assumption, and it would be interesting to know YOUR thoughts and ideas on this matter. Maybe embedding of a browser component into a Java application is not just some milestone but a necessity?
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Martin Wildam replied on Thu, 2009/07/16 - 5:18am
My opinion is that software developers will get back more to thick clients - there are plenty of use cases where a thick client is simply better - at least from the performance view.
My experience shows that the hype to Web applications is driven by the ugly installation and update technologies of Windows. If Linux would be the OS on most clients, installation and update would not be an issue - at least not SUCH an issue.
Our own experience shows that on system upgrades or new rollouts about 50 % of the work is solving rollout/installation issues on the client. I assume this is because of Windows and Windows applications written in C++ or the like.
I would expect that a thick client written in Java would hav/produce far less issues.
I do use several java applications on my clients (Windows as well as Linux) and I NEVER had an issue that the newly installed Java app breaks another app or is missing some important dependency or an important file could not be updated because of locks and so on - issues that are common when installing Windows applications on the client. And vendors fear the client problems - if their app is breaking something else they get cut off their head. So in reality nobody wants to touch a Windows client and so a web application seems to solve that issue and avoid any client rollout. This is IMHO a major reason why sooo many apps get webapps today.
On the other hand, if you look at Skype (or Gizmo or Yuuguu and how they are all called) or LimeWire or .... - there are plenty of applications that are using the internet highly intensive but are thick clients themselves. And it really makes sense to just throw the data over the net and not parts of the application itself.
I do not want to say that I am generally against web apps - far missed - but the decision for doing a webapp should not just be because of avoiding the installation on the client or of being platform independent. Both can be achieved even following different paths - e.g. using Java :-).
Philippe Lhoste replied on Thu, 2009/07/16 - 6:38am
The scenario at the start of the article looks like a nightmare to me...
That's funny, I remember when personal computers started to be wide spread, they were hailed as at least a break from the terminal+server scenario, as being fast and independent (and affordable, compared to a server!).
Now, some people try to go back to this (smart) terminal+server scheme. Particularly those trying to sell the services...
I find Web services cool, useful, practical.
But I remember the summer when I had a portable computer and no Internet connection around: no Wi-Fi unless I move to the city, even less fixed connection.
Perhaps in some future we will be living in high-speed omnipresent free Internet connections, but until then I am happy to have applications and data on my hard disk. That's also why I find DVCS so seductive...
Likewise, I would hate to depend exclusively on a company to access to my data or even just run some application, word processor, IDE or graphics editor. What if the company just choose to do some maintenance and find itself it takes more than expected? (does it sounds familiar?) What if you cannot afford, this month, to pay the subscription? What if the company, even if large and around for quite some time, just go bankrupt (did you said Enron?).
The scenario is nice when you see Web services as always available from everywhere. But reality often knocks on the door...
It is OK to use Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, because either you don't own the content, or somehow the content still lives on your hard disk (if you are careful...). And most of this data isn't critical anyway.
But counting on a foreign company to store your codebase, your documentation, your accountancy? Not me, for sure!
Alex Lorenzi replied on Thu, 2009/07/16 - 7:20am
@Philippe Presumably you store your money in a bank - a big, potentially foreign company, looking after one of your most critical assets. Most of your points centre around the concern that the service provider you use fails some how, and how this lost of control will affect you.
Issues with privacy, security and reliability are really just a matter of what's accepted generally. I know older people who refuse to have their images put up on any website, let alone one a widely used a Facebook/Flicer etc because they see it as intursion of their privacy, but to any 16 year old it's almost the primary means of communication.
If the technology works and has a proven track record, and if there is a visible benefit to using the technology then people will eventually move. Cloud computing and the like offer large benefits to small/mid size companies in reducing start up cost, as well as the benefits to the developers such as those described by mwildam.
Your right in pointing out the when the PC first became widely accessible it was seen as good move away from the terminal/server paradigm. But things like this tend to move in cycles.
Both solutions have pro's and con's and as the excitement about new possibilities/benefits of one paradigm dies down, all that's left are the problems, so a switch back to the old ways seems better as it would address these problems and the old problems that prompted the initial switch are forgotten or solved (internet speeds are vastly faster than previously, but as you point out not available everywhere). It seems likely to me that in the another 20ish years we'll be looking at moving back to thick client as these will solve some problems with the cloud computing model.
aaaaa aaaaaaaa replied on Fri, 2009/07/17 - 3:03am
For me you can't ignore webapps success and in the future we will see many hybrid applications.
Cloves Almeida replied on Fri, 2009/07/17 - 5:06pm
When you need strong user interaction, like some portions of ERP, CAD software, photo/movie manipulation, having a traditional GUI is mandatory.
Other stuff, like e-mail, IM, etc. is just preference. I feel more productive using Thunderbird instead of GMail.
But like someone said, deployment is critical. Say the iTunes Store example given. If, instead of a embedded WebKit, they decided to implement as a GUI build using a dynamic language where the software fetched the new version transparently from Apple's server and presented to user without restarts, dangling "update managers" and such. Would that be any different from loading and rendering a webpage?
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by de Selby (#27099461) Attached to: Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution
I'm not so sure about your take on the 1st Amendment. It is for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. It is just that there cannot be a national religion that is forced upon the populace.
I think it really was going for not forcing a religion no anyone...but, not that any religion could never be spoken about. The mere presence of a mention or investigation into religion is not forcing anything upon anyone else..it isn't like you won't pass a course if you don't convert.
I think there's been some miscommunication.
A common slogan on this topic is "freedom of religion implies freedom from religion". That's because "freedom from" means exactly what you're offering as an alternative--we are not legally required to have a religion and we are protected from religion being imposed against our will.
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by de Selby (#23483894) Attached to: YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos
I think you misunderstand. They remove videos critical of Scientology. I remember seeing one video produced by the "religion" featured on the YouTube homepage.
Featuring such a video does look nearly hypocritical to me. A related problem fresh on my mind is YouTube's habit of suspending good accounts. It looks like most everything is automated, so people need only attract a few malicious trolls to get the boot. With so many people getting suspended and so many videos being pulled under false pretenses, it's just strange to see them taking a stand like this. It's strange to see them paying attention to the content they're hosting.
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The Ironic Chancellor
The tragedy of Otto von Bismarck.
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Bismarck: A Life
By Jonathan Steinberg
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IT IS OFTEN said of larger-than-life celebrities and politicians that they “suck the oxygen out of the room.” Otto von Bismarck went one step further: he sucked the air out of an entire nation. Granted, he had given it the breath of life in the first place, painstakingly forging a unified Germany out of a patchwork of 39 sovereign states with long and often hostile individual histories. Cunning, invincibly determined, undistracted by a larger ideology or moral imperative, and unburdened by political scruples of any kind, Bismarck succeeded in his monumental undertaking…. but in the worst possible way. As the English historian Edward Crankshaw succinctly put it:
The tragedy of Bismarck, apart from the profound personal tragedy of a man of wonderful gifts corrupted, was not that he subordinated morality to the supposed needs of the state: most other statesmen of his time did that, including Gladstone. The tragedy was that he exalted the amoral concept of politics into a principle; and that, as a corollary, because he succeeded with such dazzling skill through the nine miraculous years which culminated in the foundation of the Reich, his countrymen surrendered to that principle.
Thus, Crankshaw concluded, “Bismarck and the [German] people corrupted each other.” Always projecting himself as a tower of strength, the so-called “Iron Chancellor” was actually more ironic than iron, a man of seemingly endless contradictions. Merciless to others, he drew on a bottomless well of self-pity when it came to his own real or imagined sufferings. Contemptuous of parliamentary government, he introduced universal manhood suffrage—“one man, one vote”—before most of the more progressive, democratic nations of Western Europe. The irony here lay in his reason for doing so: his deep-seated loathing of the rising middle class, the new bourgeoisie of urban capitalists and professionals that formed a rival power base outside the old Prussian model of an autocratic central monarchy, supported by a loyal Junker class of officers and bureaucrats like Bismarck himself. Combining elements of the 18th-century past and the 20th-century future, Bismarck leapfrogged 19th-century liberalism to forge a coalition between the old, semi-feudal Prussian—and later German—ruling class and the rural peasants and urban masses. As he explained it himself, at decisive moments, “the masses will stand on the side of the kingship regardless of whether the latter happens to follow a liberal or a conservative tendency.”
And so they did, throughout his lifetime and up until the last days of World War I, when Bismarck’s creation, the mighty German Reich, collapsed and died along with imperial Austria and Russia. What had kept it going as long as it did was Bismarck’s brilliant realization that “the artificial system of indirect and class elections” popular in most of Western Europe was “much more dangerous than that of direct and general suffrage, because it prevents contact between the highest authority and the healthy elements that constitute the core and the mass of the people. In a country with monarchical traditions and loyal sentiments the general suffrage, by eliminating the influences of the liberal bourgeois classes, will also lead to... [pro-monarchy] elections.”
These are among the many historical and personal ironies explored and analyzed with insight and eloquence by Professor Jonathan Steinberg in his impressive Bismarck: A Life. As Professor Steinberg sees it, Bismarck’s legacy was not so much one of proverbial “Blood and Iron” as one of “Blood and Irony,” with the “deepest and most impenetrable irony” lying in Bismarck’s own personality: “He moved no crowds at mass meetings and in parliament he roused his listeners more by insults and scorn than by overwhelming oratory, but he had that ‘demonic’ power that made him an irresistible political figure and a disastrous one.” Another great Bismarckian irony: having given the “silent majority” of Germans the vote, he made sure that parliamentary ranks would include few if any ordinary citizens by making membership in the Reichstag unaffordable to those without an independent income—members of parliament received no salary. And the powers of the Reichstag itself were carefully rationed by the Ironic Chancellor. As Gordon Craig pointed out in his magisterial history, Germany, 1866–1945, “the Reichstag’s assent was required for all legislation, but it had few powers of initiative and for the most part merely acted upon matters brought before it by the Chancellor and the Federal Council.”
THUS BISMARCK tailored a garment of government that, for his purposes, was a perfect fit. And by passing a series of social benefits generous and advanced by the standards of the time, he created a German social contract that largely bypassed the bourgeois political class and united the monarchy and the masses. This was largely possible because of his brilliant manipulation of a three-phase foreign policy: (a) by eliminating traditional Austrian influence in pre-unity Germany, Bismarck established his native Prussia as the new paramount power while, (b) eliminating or emasculating other leading German states such as Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, and Hanover, and then (c) leading a triumphant pan-Germanic war effort that crushed Second Empire France and provided the perfect stage moment for declaring a united German Reich with the king of Prussia as German emperor.
Here, too, Bismarckian irony piled on irony. His sovereign, King William of Prussia, a chivalrous old gentleman with a strong sense of tradition, was reluctant to the last about assuming a—to him—dynastically dubious imperial title. And the proclamation itself occurred not in Germany but on alien soil: in occupied France, in the halls of Versailles, the palace that had once symbolized French hegemony in Europe under the Sun King Louis XIV. For poor old-but-new Emperor Wilhelm I, as he confided in a letter home to his wife, it was nothing but an “emperor-charade. I cannot tell you how utterly depressed I have been feeling in these last days, partly because of the high responsibility, partly because of the pain at seeing the Prussian title superseded.”
With this truly crowning irony, Bismarck, by sheer determination and brilliant statecraft, created a new empire and a new emperor of his own devising against the will of many ordinary Germans and the new crowned head himself. In the fullness of time, Bismarck’s flawed empire died. It was succeeded by the Weimar Republic that embodied everything the great man most loathed as impractical, idealistic, and untrue to ancestral values. It in turn was felled by Adolf Hitler, a monster whose ruthless, unprincipled pursuit of power resulted in an evil caricature of empire that Bismarck would have detested.
Yet one reason Hitler was able to gain and then hold power was the ingrained passive obedience that Bismarck recognized and harnessed to his German Realpolitik with such devastating effect in the previous century. Bismarck—the ultimate pragmatist ruthlessly pursuing limited goals—was in no way a precursor to Hitler, a messianic sociopath bent on world domination, as Professor Steinberg seems to suggest. But Bismarck’s Prussian-authoritarian bias in shaping the first modern German nation-state did create an enabling ambience for future horrors he could never have imagined.
It fell to a morally incorruptible German politician from the more mellow western Rhineland, Konrad Adenauer, to preside over the creation of a de-Prussianized, re-humanized German republic that has evolved into a stable, peaceful democracy and the economic powerhouse of Europe. Adenauer, who was no stranger to irony himself, once characterized his German fellow countrymen as a race of “carnivorous sheep.” Unlike Bismarck, however, he helped them to rise above the traditionally toxic mix of passive obedience and arrogant swagger that characterized Bismarckian Germany and the worse things that followed it.
In doing so, Konrad Adenauer proved himself a better man and a greater statesman than his far more brilliant predecessor.
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class Square:
def __init__(self,start,stop):
self.value = start - 1
self.stop = stop
def __iter__(self):
return self
def next(self):
if self.value == self.stop:
raise StopIteration
self.value += 1
return self.value ** 2
for i in Square(1,4):
print i,
Which outputs
1 4 9 16
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It "works" in some sense because it's syntactically valid. Any other definition of "works" relies on the subjective property of what it's supposed to do. If you're actually asking How, then perhaps that's what you should call your question? – Anon. Jan 13 '10 at 3:15
They're called iterators. Generally __iter__() returns a separate iterator object, but this Square class is both the container and the iterator. See docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#iterator-types If that was your question... – tclem Jan 13 '10 at 3:16
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The typical Python iteration protocol: for y in x... is as follows:
iter = x.__iter__() # get iterator
while 1:
y = iter.next() # get each item
... # process y
except StopIteration: pass # iterator exhausted
from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/iterators.html
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Eck. it should be it=iter(x) . Don't shadow builtins (don't assign to a variable called iter, map, int, etc.), and don't call __special__ methods directly except in extraordinary circumstances (such as when you are overriding and need to call on the parent). Also, you should probably explain the relation to a for loop more clearly. Oh, looks like you plagiarized the source. Nevermind. Write your own answer. – Devin Jeanpierre Jan 13 '10 at 3:19
@Devin good point! but i think the asker wants the direct answer, so I just attach the direct answer with losing some good style.. – Yin Zhu Jan 13 '10 at 3:22
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why wouldn't it? It looks like a normal iterator to me...
the next() method is a 'known' method in python that along with the __iter__() method signals a generator.
Here is the python docs on iterators.
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It's not a generator, it's an iterator. – Devin Jeanpierre Jan 13 '10 at 3:17
Thanks Devin. I just read them together, and went with the latter. – John Weldon Jan 13 '10 at 3:19
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This is a Python iterator: every time through the loop the next() method is called
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It's an iterator.
Normally though, you would write it using yield.
def Square(start, stop):
for value in xrange(start, stop + 1):
yield value ** 2
for i in Square(1, 4):
print i,
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I am using the amsart class and bibtex with the amsplain style. I have a bibliography file which is called whenever I use the bibtex command. (I run LaTeX through Winedt). In my references, if an author occurs more than once, the name is replaced with a straight line on all subsequent repeats. The journal I am submitting to wants the author name for every reference. Does anybody know how I suppress the dash feature, so it prints the full name of the author for every reference?
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Alan Munn's answer to tex.stackexchange.com/q/51196/3954 gives the solution. – Gonzalo Medina Aug 14 '12 at 1:55
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The amsplain bibliography style, as the name suggests, is very similar to the plain BibTeX style and suitable to AMS publications. We just need to use plain instead of amsplain. :)
author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
title = {The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 3: Generating All Combinations and Partitions},
year = {2005},
isbn = {0201853949},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley Professional},
author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
title = {The art of computer programming, volume 3: (2nd ed.) sorting and searching},
year = {1998},
isbn = {0-201-89685-0},
publisher = {Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc.},
address = {Redwood City, CA, USA},
With amsplain:
And with plain:
I had to do this dirty trick:
otherwise, our output would have [1] instead of 1.:
plain 2
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By cdwilliams1 on 4/15/2010 4:31:25 PM , Rating: 2
reminds me of when Apple stole the name iPhone from linksys sorta kinda. Linksys had products already released with the name
Actually, Cisco, who owns Linksys, had bought a company back in 2000 or 2001 (I forget which) that had a product called the iphone. Upon acquisition, the acquired company had it's entire product line dropped. The name "iphone" was trademarked, not copyrighted, which means if you don't put out a product with that name and assert your trademark, you lose it. Having never released an iphone themselves and with the intervening years in between the acquisition Cisco/Linksys forfeited the name.
When Apple tried to work with them for naming right to be in the free and clear (even though they were on pretty solid legal ground), Cisco stonewalled and demanded a bunch of money. Apple refused. Cisco then slapped the iphone name on an existing VoIP product it had. The iphone name only appeared on the Cisco website, it did not ever appear on the Cisco VoIP phone itself, its packaging, or its documentation. It was a last ditch effort by Cisco to keep the name and try to extract money from Apple.
When the whole thing went to the lawyers, all that happened was that Cisco agreed to let Apple use the name for their cell phone devices, and Apple agreed to let Cisco use the name for any cordless phone handset products.
ok well here is a linksys to a iphone product they released
Here is another the second one I bought with the Iphone name
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by Laurence on Tue 15th Jan 2013 09:35 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Prices and choice"
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According to my RSS reader stealing iPhones is a risky business. ;-)
True, but thieves exist and do target things like phones. so my point stands
It's a risk, but so is eating at McDonald's and crossing the streat.
I wouldn't really class them as risks unless you're unduly stupid. At least not with odds even approaching the same degree as accidentally wiping the value from your phone.
What you're describing strikes me as the same misconception that some home buys have when house prices increase. They believe that they've earned money, but assuming hose price increases are relatively even (which nationally they generally are) when they come to sell, the money they've earned on their house will be lost on the next house which has also increased in price.
It's the same thing here, whatever resale price you earn from the iPhone will be absorbed in the next purchase of an iPhone. So you're not gaining anything at all (and that's assuming you can even resell it - which as I said - is a gamble).
And this is why I hate the resale excuse that some Apple fans cite when justifying the higher prices. And please bare in mind that I'm not condoning the higher prices (I don't really want to get into that debate to be honest). I just think that particular reasoning is deeply flawed.
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AN: Happy final, (sigh), NBLTC Friday! Nothing to say this time cause I'm anxious to know what you guys think of the final chapter.
Enjoy! I'll talk to you at the end.
Disclaimer: Fuck it! Sometimes Glee sucks and I don't so I don't even want to take credit for it anymore. Nothing Burns Like The Cold is mine though, thank goodness, even though Santana and Brittany aren't, unfortunately.
Big thank you to my beta, BrittanaFan25 again! You're the best! And thank you to everyone reading and enjoying this story! Love you all!
Chapter 6- Not Cold Anymore
Two days later at a hospital in West Virginia
"Oh, she's beautiful," Brittany grinned from her hospital bed, looking at the picture of her new niece on the screen of her dad's phone. She really was gorgeous, all peach fuzz hair and blue eyes. They looked like the perfect, happy family, Brittany thought.
Brittany's dad was noticeably beaming as he watched his youngest daughter's eyes light up for the first time at seeing his first grandchild. He was thankful that all his girls were healthy and safe, but looking at Brittany right now you could tell something was off. He knew what it was and as a dad it hurt to not be able to take his baby's pain away. He couldn't believe what his two daughters had been through over the last couple days. One had to endure a complicated childbirth; the other had to survive a blizzard in order to save her best friend. He knew his daughters were strong, but boy, nothing prepared him for the day's events that opened his eyes to just how strong they actually were.
"They look so happy," Brittany said enviously, smile starting to waver as she passed the phone back to her dad.
"They are. All three of them are good," he said, referring to Brittany's sister, the new baby and his son-in-law. "They're very happy. Things were a little dodgy at times, but your sister did great. She's a champ! It must run in the family," he said, smiling at his daughter and hoping the compliment would land on Brittany and lighten her somber mood.
"I guess," she said, trailing off and looking to the side to stare pensively out the window. She noticed the sun was finally peaking out behind the clouds. It almost made her squint since she wasn't prepared for it. She thought back, trying to remember how many days it had been, I think four. Had it really only been four days since she'd seen the sun? It seemed longer.
Brittany tried to move her focus back to her sister after turning away from the sun's glare. She knew what a big deal her niece was to her sister and brother-in-law and she was happy for them, she really was. She should focus on that. They'd been waiting for this day for a long time, but all things considered, she couldn't manage much more than a short half-hearted smile, at least not right now.
Brittany's dad noticed the sad look in his baby's usually shining blue eyes and it broke his heart. He didn't blame her one bit. His heart was suffering in that respect as well. Santana was like a daughter to him. He loved her like one of his own and the fact that she was in such poor shape was hard to comprehend. What should have been a beautiful, happy time for his family with the new addition had a dark cloud hanging over it and he knew it would remain that way until they all knew that Santana was going to be okay.
"Daddy, do you think you can take me down to Santana's room? I just want to sit with her," Brittany asked, already starting to remove the blankets to get out of bed.
"You need your rest, Kiddo," he replied in that concerned fatherly tone that normally had his girls doing exactly what he asked, but this time he knew he was fighting a losing battle.
Santana's condition had pretty much remained unchanged since both she and Brittany had been flown in yesterday by helicopter. According to the information he'd managed to learn from Santana's father, Orlando Lopez, Santana had sustained a concussion and broken ribs from the car crash and developed pneumonia after due to prolonged exposure and the difficulty she was having breathing. Brittany had been lucky, only suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia. It could have been much worse, he thought, thanking the Lord that it wasn't. He just wished that Santana would get better, especially for his daughter's sake.
In his eyes, Brittany was a hero. He couldn't imagine what she'd been through and he didn't want to pressure her for every detail right now, not when she was still so weak and everything was still raw. He knew enough for the time being from what the paramedics, doctors, and what little bits and pieces Brittany had managed to explain. He didn't want to push her and risk upsetting her and making matters worse.
"I'm not tired," Brittany announced, swinging her legs off the side of the bed, ready to get up. "I just want to see Santana."
Witnessing his daughter's level of sadness and devotion, Thomas Pierce smiled pitifully and sighed, "I'll get the wheelchair."
Brittany was sitting next to Santana's bed with her head drooping in her hand and the other wrapped securely around Santana's delicate fingers. She'd been sitting there for so long that the sounds of all the monitors had ceased being bothersome and started to sound more like a lullaby guiding her to sleep.
"Brittany, honey," she heard a familiar female voice say, shaking her out of her half-sleeping state. "You should eat something. I brought you a sandwich from the cafeteria."
Brittany looked at the face of Mrs. Lopez and then down to the sandwich she was offering in her hand. "Thanks," Brittany said, wiping the sleep out of her eyes.
"You're welcome dear," Maribel replied, wrapping her arm around Brittany's shoulder after handing over the sandwich.
"How's my baby doing?" Maribel asked, looking at her daughter who had oxygen tubes running under her nose and an IV connected at the bend of her arm. Looking at Santana now, if you disregarded all the hospital garb, she just looked like an angel that was sleeping peacefully. Maribel thought that she looked exactly like the same little girl she used to read bedtime stories to and tuck in a night. She was still her little girl and it was killing her that she was in this state.
"Same…" Brittany drawled, shifting her loving gaze away from Santana and looking at the sandwich in her hand. It didn't look even remotely appealing right now, in fact no food seemed appetizing to her at the moment, but she took a bite anyway just to appease Mrs. Lopez who, Brittany thought, was probably on a mission for her dad. He kept trying to get her to eat more or rest more or both. She knew he meant well, and she knew she should probably be doing more of both, but the only thing she wanted to do was stay with Santana. She hated that the police and paramedics that found her out in the snow two days ago refused to take her back to the cabin and to Santana. She basically felt like she'd lied to Santana because she hadn't brought the help to Santana herself like she said she would, so now that they were together she was going to be there for her. She was going to stay there next to Santana until she woke up. Because… she was going to wake up, Brittany was sure.
"How are you holding up, dear?" Maribel asked, tenderly gripping her shoulder in a show of comfort.
Brittany looked up at Mrs. Lopez from under her blonde lashes and sighed exhaustedly. "I'm okay."
"Honey- don't you know by now you can't lie to me?"
Brittany breathed out heavily again, and looked back to the girl she loved lying in the bed. If Mrs. Lopez only knew how many times Santana had lied to her over the last few years she probably wouldn't be saying that, but then again, Brittany was always the weak link in their lies. Whenever she and Santana got busted doing something wrong, all Mrs. Lopez had to do was ask her and the jig was up. Santana always managed to get away with things when Mrs. Lopez didn't have her around as her human lie detector and now was not different. Mrs. Lopez could see right through her.
"I'm tired," Brittany mused, setting her sandwich down after only the one bite.
"You should go get some sleep, honey. I'll have someone come get you when Santana wakes up."
"No- thanks," Brittany replied, looking back to Santana's face and reaching forward to tenderly tuck some hair behind her ear, not that it was out of place or anything, Brittany just needed to occasionally touch her to remind herself that Santana was still there. "I wanna be here when she wakes up. I don't want her to be scared. If she wakes up and I'm not here she'd get worried and I don't want her to worry or be scared. I'm okay, really."
Maribel smiled sadly at Brittany, thankful that her daughter had found someone who cared so much. "My daughter's lucky to have you Brittany."
Brittany looked longingly back at Santana. "I'm the lucky one."
One day later
"Brittany," her dad said, announcing himself and knocking on the frame of the door. "Some of your friends are here."
When he noticed the confused look on her face, he elaborated, "The Glee Club took a little detour on their way back to Lima. Oh and…" he paused, unsure if he should continue, "Sam's here. He's been really worried about you sweetie. Do you want me to send them up?"
Brittany stiffened. "Or I could tell them you're sleeping if you want," he said, noticing her discomfort.
Brittany thought for a moment, despite the difficulties thinking required on practically no sleep. She'd hoped to not have to deal with Sam or that whole mess until later, but if he was here it would have to be dealt with. She didn't think she could handle him hugging her with Santana lying in that bed nearby, at least not with him under the misguided assumption that nothing had changed. He deserved her honesty.
"Yeah, send them up. But only a few. Just the people who really know Santana. Too many people might be overwhelming."
"Okay, pumpkin," her dad said softly, turning back around the corner to go get them.
Brittany took a deep breath while she waited to center herself. This was going to be hard. There was no getting around it. Sam was a good man and he wasn't expecting this, although, it might not come as a complete surprise, considering. But she still didn't want to hurt him. He'd been so great all year. She hoped that they could still be friends. She needed his friendship. She thought that if her and Artie had managed to stay friends after she'd cheated on him, there was certainly hope for her and Sam considering she managed to not cheat. She couldn't think of any real reason for him to dislike her other than just plain sadness after a breakup. Actually, had she cheated? Now that she was thinking about it, she wasn't sure. She didn't think she had, but remembering all the little kisses she placed on Santana in the heat of the moment made her doubt herself. Those didn't count as cheating, did they? All she was trying to do was comfort Santana- it just so happened that in the process of that comfort, she realized she was still in love with her; she couldn't help that, could she? She hadn't even really kissed her yet, even though she was anxiously awaiting the moment when she could. That would have been cheating. She quickly decided those little whispered pecks didn't count. I didn't cheat. I'll end things with Sam and then I'll kiss her for real.
"Knock, knock," Finn said, peaking around the door, before slowly entering when Brittany looked up. He walked straight towards Brittany after being acknowledged and wrapped her in a big 'Finn style' hug. "God, we're glad you're okay," he said, pulling back to an arm's length to look at her as everyone else trailed in behind him. She noticed out the corner of her eye that Sam was last, which was weird, she thought. She expected him to be the first through the door; to practically come running in like a bull in Pamplona. It was odd.
"How's she doing?" Blaine asked, nodding towards Santana after everyone had filtered in around her bed. He was genuinely concerned for Santana's wellbeing which was nice. Not everyone got Santana, but Blaine always seemed to rise above. Sam on the other hand continued to stand off to the side and had yet to address Brittany or anyone else. Maybe he did suspect something after all? There was no other explanation for that type of distance.
"She's hangin' in," she replied, looking down and lovingly taking Santana's hand. Well, if he didn't suspect before he probably does now, she thought, tracing patterns with her thumb over Santana's fingers. "Doctors say she's getting better by the day."
Brittany noticed everyone's facial expressions seemed to rise, but they still showed doubt. She didn't like that they were weary of Santana's recovery so she continued, needing to stick up for her, "She's a fighter. She's gonna wake up soon. It won't be long"
"I'm sure," Tina acknowledged, with a polite nod.
Minutes later, the group conversation where everyone asked her what felt like a million questions was over and everyone had paired off and were talking in small groups. Sugar was talking in Santana's ear about suing the weather man for dumping too much snow, and she was being her normal loud self. Weren't people supposed to talk quietly in hospitals? Everyone else seemed to be talking quietly, especially when anyone would address her. It seemed like they were afraid she might break.
Listening to Sugar, Brittany was sure that if Santana were actually awake right now she would have grabbed Sugar by her ear and held tight until Sugar begged for mercy, topping it all off with a little Lima Heights attitude. It made Brittany smile thinking about it. Finn and Blaine on the other hand were discussing a possible song to sing that would be 'healing' in Blaine's words, and Artie and Tina were chatting about something that Brittany didn't care enough about to listen. This was the perfect opportunity to pull Sam out into the hallway to talk. She was even getting curious as to why he was being so quiet; although a part of her was scared of the pain he might be in and felt better not actually hearing him say it. Ignorance is bliss and all. But she guessed that was part of her problem and why she had gotten in this mess from the beginning. She needed to work on communicating better with everyone so she walked over to Sam and asked if they could talk.
As she was dragging him out into the hallway, before reaching the door, Sugar leaped away from the bed and practically crushed her in a suffocating hug.
"Sorry, Aspergers," she said after a moment, releasing her and pulling away.
Brittany chuckled for probably the first time since the accident. She watched Sugar bounce back to the bed and smiled at her friend who had already sat back down. It was Sugar's way of saying I'm glad you're okay. She loved Sugar. Sugar was simple and she was grateful that there seemed to be one person who wasn't treating her with kid gloves. But now was not the time to be thinking about Sugar's awesome qualities, she needed to deal with Sam so she reached again for Sam's hand and continued to pull him outside so they had some privacy.
They stood in the hallway for a moment, neither wanting to be the first to start.
"So…" Sam finally said, fidgeting in his spot. "How are you doing? I haven't heard from you."
Brittany paused, glancing back through the open doorway like Santana might choose now to wake up and get pissed that she was with Sam. "I'm sorry, Sam. I've just been trying to keep it together. It's been hard."
Sam seemed to think about that and nodded in acceptance.
They stood there for another minute in silence. The sounds of the hospital could barely be heard over their racing thoughts. Sam's hands were nervously stuffed in his pockets and Brittany was trying to avoid looking into his eyes so she was staring off in the distance at anything other than Sam. Her eyes briefly landed on the nurses station down the hall and found one of Santana's nurses signing some papers. She wondered if they were about Santana. Santana… she sighed.Just the thought of Santana somehow helped Brittany find the strength and words to start the conversation that would end her relationship with Sam, even though it was still difficult.
"I heard what you did," Brittany said quietly with a hesitant smile.
Sam didn't seem to know what she was talking about judging from his facial expression so she kept going.
"My dad said you helped the police find us," she said, looking back to Sam's eyes. "You're really smart, Sam. The police said without your help they wouldn't have known where to start looking for us. It would have taken them a lot longer to find us if you hadn't shared the text about us getting off the highway because of that accident. Thank you."
Sam shook his head as if he were saying, it's nothing.
Brittany's kind words actually started to sink in and it gave him a little bit of courage to believe the sky might not actually fall today, so he let go and the emotions he'd been bottling up and feeling over the last couple days finally came out.
"Britt, I was so worried about you," he said reaching out to take her hands. Brittany flinched a little when she realized what he'd done, but didn't pull away. It was all really innocent, she thought, as he gently held her hands out between them. "When you hadn't called or texted again I got really worried that something happened so I called the police. Thank God, you're okay," he sighed.
"Well, Santana didn't end up quite so lucky," Brittany murmured, shoulders rolling forward in grief for both Santana's condition and for the fact that she was about to hurt a really great guy.
Sam looked at her with so much concern it hurt. "Britt…" Sam said, starting to lean in to hug her.
Brittany took a quick step back, not able to accept his comfort.
"Sam, wait," Brittany said, dropping one of Sam's hands and using hers to stop his forward momentum.
Sam stopped immediately, feeling the pressure of Brittany's hand on his chest and seeing the way she physically stiffened.
"I have to tell you something," she said, dropping her hand.
For the next couple minutes Brittany explained the situation to Sam. She deliberately left out specifics on how she re-discovered her love for Santana. She didn't think he needed or wanted to know the details, but she made sure he firmly understood who her feelings were truly for. In the beginning he fought against what she was saying, he even tried to work his magic on her with an impression of Keanu Reeves saying that relationships that start under intense circumstances never work, but in the end he realized it was a losing battle. He always knew there was more than just friendship between Santana and Brittany. You had to be blind to miss it, but selfishly he hoped that circumstance would have been enough for Brittany to realize that long distance was just too hard. He just wanted to be the one she cared for. He really liked her and was hopeful things were going to work out differently. But guess not.
He understood Brittany about as well as anyone could and he could tell that this wasn't just about an intense situation bringing two people closer together. It certainly helped, he thought, grimacing, but he knew there were greater feelings beyond the intensity of a life or death situation for these two. Unfortunately for him, it was about two people who probably weren't supposed to be apart in the first place. He might not agree with her decision, but he wasn't going to stand in her way if he wasn't the one she wanted anymore. He wasn't that type of guy even though it really hurt to let her go.
"Are you okay?" Brittany asked nervously when he'd grown silent.
He ran his fingers through his hair and sighed dejectedly.
"No. Not really. It sucks in all honesty."
"I'm sorry, Sam," Brittany said, feeling like a monster. She felt like she'd been playing him and using him, (inadvertently, mind you) all along. When she didn't graduate she felt like everyone she really cared about was moving on and leaving her behind so she took comfort in Sam because he was nice and cute in a way that could distract her from everything that was bad in her life. She shouldn't have taken advantage of that, he was too good.
"Don't apologize," he said sweetly, moving to sit down in one of the chairs that were along the opposite wall. Brittany slowly followed and took the seat next to him. Sam took in a deep, thoughtful breath, rubbing his hands together to work up the strength to communicate clearly (which was a struggle for him sometimes). "I knew what I was getting myself into. You were honest with me about Santana. I just decided to ignore it and go all in regardless. I went bust," he said with finality. "It happens. I guess that's the risk you take."
"Sam you have to know…I do care about you. Please, know that! If things were different-"
"Don't!" he interrupted, cutting her off. He didn't want her to finish that sentence because things weren't different. There was no use talking about what might have been. What might have been was too painful to think about because he knew they could have worked out under different circumstances. "I don't want to know about what could have happened if... It just didn't work out, that's all."
"Okay…" Brittany trailed off, succumbing once again to awkward silence and Sam's stern tone.
"Go ahead back in to Santana," Sam said, lifting his head up, but continuing to stare at the opposite wall avoiding Brittany's direction. "I'll be fine. I'm just gonna sit here a little longer."
Brittany hesitated. She wanted to go back into Santana's room, but something was stopping her from taking Sam's easy exit right away. He looked so sad and Brittany hated that she was the cause. She didn't want to lose his friendship. She had to make sure that he was going to be okay.
Sam must have sensed Brittany's struggle.
"Brittany, really, it's okay. Go back inside," he encouraged. He looked up a second later and their eyes met. "Give Santana my best," he said, smiling sadly.
With those words Brittany knew they were going to be okay. He was her friend first and foremost. He was telling her with his eyes and with what he wasn't saying that they'd be fine. He just need a little time which Brittany could give him.
"Thank you, Sam."
He nodded with a tight lipped, sad smile and Brittany turned back to Santana's room.
Everyone hung out for a couple more minutes before Finn announced that they needed to get on their way if they were going to make it home by dark. She thanked everyone for coming and for their well wishes and told them she'd see them soon. She hoped... She knew she wasn't going to leave this hospital unless Santana was leaving too so if she actually got to see her friends soon than that would mean Santana had woken up and was fine. So she really hoped she'd get to see them soon.
Another day later
Brittany had just finished signing her discharge papers as she sat down in the chair next to Santana's bed. Before she sat down she noticed the shape of the chair. It looked like it had a Brittany-shaped butt print on the bottom cushion. She didn't like that reminder. Santana had been unconscious much longer than anyone thought or wanted. It even seemed like the doctors were starting to worry about why it was taking so long for her to wake up. In the beginning the doctors just kept saying, 'Be patient. This is normal. It's the body's way of healing itself. A short bout of unconsciousness is not uncommon when someone goes through something this traumatic.' At least that's what they had been saying a day or two ago. Now when a doctor came in and checked her chart, their foreheads would crinkle and they looked confused, like this was the strangest thing they'd ever seen. Then they would explain that all her vitals looked fine and walk away only to come back and do the exact same thing again a few hours later. It was frustrating to hear that everything was okay, if not improving. If things were improving then why was Santana still showing no sign of waking up? The uncertainty of not knowing when or if, how or why was making her head hurt and her entire body and heart ache.
Brittany went to the bathroom after another frustrating doctor left, more out of a need to clear her head and walk around than an actual need to use the bathroom, and when she came back everything was just as she left it. The monitors were still subtly beeping, the IV was still silently dripping, and Santana was still lying there unresponsive.
Sighing, she sat back down, her butt slipping into the mold of the chair like a glove.
She looked at Santana and noticed her pillow was sagging. She adjusted it with a delicate touch and ended up keeping one hand near Santana's head to play gently with the fine hairs at her temple. She found it comforting.
"Can you hear me, San?" Brittany asked softly, stroking her hair. The strands of Santana's hair slid easily through Brittany's fingers and she marveled at the softness against her fingertips. She'd missed doing this over the last few months; she only wished that Santana was awake right now to tell her or sigh at how good it felt.
"I know you can…" she encouraged with a gentle, cheeky smile. Who she was encouraging was another question. Was it Santana or herself? She wanted to believe that Santana could hear her, both for her own sake and for Santana's. She had to believe that Santana was still in there trying to get back to her because if she lost that hope then she didn't know where she'd be.
"You know… you got a new neighbor this morning," Brittany said, trying to think of things to talk about when she remembered the old woman who had been admitted next door. "She's really cute. And so is her husband. Anything she needs he hops right to it as quickly as an old man can. He was actually brushing her hair when I walked by earlier. He was doing it like it was nothing and it looked like he was honored to do it. It was so cute."
Brittany paused for a second, feeling her throat tightening while picturing two different people doing that exact same thing many years down the line.
"You would have hated it," she said, chuckling sadly to try and loosen the strain. "But I thought it was cute," she said pointedly. "I think that's how we're gonna end up one day," she thought out loud, dreamily. "I would gladly brush your hair if you were somehow unable. It would be my greatest achievement in life if you would let me love you unconditionally like that forever. I would be so proud to be with you."
The thoughts that were now dancing in her head were like the greatest waltz imaginable. "I picture you graduating college and I'm sitting in the audience smiling and clapping louder than anyone. When you get your first real job I'll toast you and kiss you because I know you worked really hard. When I propose…" she said trailing off in thought, picturing an awake Santana cocking her head in mock insult. "What? You know I'm gonna be the one to propose," she said like she were actually conversing with Santana. "I promise to have a tissue for you when it happens because I know you're gonna cry. And a few years later when I tell you I'm pregnant, my goodness," Brittany giggled, picturing it as clear as day. "I can't wait to see your face for real that day, it's gonna be priceless. You'll look so scared in that moment, but I'll hug you with everything I have and tell you that you're going to be an amazing mom because I know you are."
Brittany sniffled now, trying to keep all the big emotions that were being brought to the surface under control.
"You know… when our kids go off to college I know it's gonna be a tough day for you. Don't worry… just so you know, I won't think you look old. To me you'll always be beautiful. The most beautiful girl I've ever seen. But you know what else, no matter what happens that day or any other, I'll be there for you when you cry. I'll hold you and put you back together. You're so strong, Santana, but I know sometimes you just need a little reminder of that. I know you're gonna miss the kids, but it's not gonna be all bad that day," she thought, trying to lighten the mood. It was getting tougher and tougher to hold it together. Their future was just that beautiful, so she paused again, feeling like she was losing the battle with her emotions. "I'm gonna be smirking back at you when you're done crying because I'll be thinking that now with no kids around I can make love to you and make you scream as loud and as long as possible because we won't have to be quiet anymore. It could be like the old days."
Brittany shut her eyes picturing all the beautiful things they could do together. These were all so painfully beautiful thoughts and she wanted so badly to have the chance to experience them.
"But you know the biggest part to all this?" Brittany said, moving to take Santana's hand in both of hers, bringing it up to her lips to place a kiss on her knuckles. "You! None of that works without you."
By this point Brittany's lips and chin were trembling as she kept Santana's hand against her face while the tears that had brimmed minutes ago slowly slid down her cheeks. It was true; her life didn't work without Santana. All the things that she pictured from the time she was a little girl meant nothing if she didn't have her best friend and love of her life beside her to share it with.
Brittany was crying now and the heart rate monitor connected to her was beeping and picking up pace in the background. She took a deep breath and wiped her tears on the shoulder of her shirt to try and get herself together.
What a minute… she thought, tuning into the beeping sound. I don't have a heart monitor.
Realization dawned as she looked down at Santana.
"San…" Brittany said, nervously, afraid to get too hopeful. Could it be true? Was Santana starting to wake up?
"San, can you hear me? Please, open your eyes," Brittany pleaded, clutching her hand and praying it would move on it own.
"I love you so much, Santana. Please…" she said, scanning her body rapidly for any indication that would confirm what she felt in her gut.
And then it happened. It started out as a small flutter of an eyelid and then a weak, but noticeable pressure placed on her hand.
"Santana…" Brittany said like a prayer.
She waited with baited breath until she saw the most beautiful sight she'd ever seen- Santana's droopy open eyes.
"Hey…" Brittany said quietly, with the happiest grin plastered across her face and happy tears sliding down her cheeks. All she wanted to do right now was layer kisses all over Santana's face, but she held back afraid to overwhelm or hurt her.
"You're awake," she said caressing her warm cheek. "How do you feel?"
Santana clenched her eyelids shut, wincing at the brightness in the room and groaning.
Brittany waited anxiously for Santana to say something, but it was taking so long- or maybe it wasn't, she was just so excited. Was Santana in pain?
"I'm gonna go get the doctor," Brittany said, rising quickly from her chair.
"No…" Santana rasped, her voice scratchier than normal. "Stay." She reached out, taking Brittany's hands.
"Always. I'm never leaving you again," Brittany lovingly replied, sitting back down and basking in the warm knowledge that Santana was going to be okay and believing with renewed faith that the spectacular picture she'd painted in her head of a bright future with Santana was finally going to happen.
5 Days Later
"You got everything?" Brittany asked, sitting on Santana's hospital bed and watching her stuff the last of her toiletries into her bag. She's so cute, Brittany thought before Santana could respond, unable to wipe the smile off her face. Just watching Santana do stupid stuff like pack a bag made Brittany giddy. She was just so happy to be leaving this hospital, hand and hand with Santana. They'd been through so much over the last several days and they'd come so far. In fact, she never felt better about their relationship, which was saying a lot.
"Just about…" Santana said, zipping the bag and then looking adoringly at Brittany. She took her hand gently, pulling her to her feet and off the bed. "Now I do."
Brittany grinned and broke into a fit of laughter. She was just bursting with happiness right now and couldn't contain it. "You're such a cheese ball," she teased.
"You love me…" Santana flirted back, pecking Brittany on the lips before starting to pull her out of the room that she'd be more than happy to never see again.
Brittany did love her. So much.
They were now at the airport, on their way back to Lima and about to be dropped off by Mr. Pierce. Both of their parents declared as soon as they got word that Santana was about to be discharged that neither of them were allowed to drive in the snow ever again, so their parents bought them plane tickets to fly home.
Santana was still moving pretty gingerly as she climbed out of the car with a little help from the hand of a pretty blonde. "Thanks babe," Santana said with a grin.
Brittany grinned back, wordlessly saying it's my pleasure.
"You girls have everything?" Mr. Pierce asked, after removing their bags and shutting the trunk.
"Yup," Brittany chirped, throwing both hers and Santana's backpacks over her shoulder. The Lopez's had gladly taken the rest of both of their belongings back to Lima when they left to drive home earlier that day so thankfully they wouldn't have to check any bags.
"Your sister's going to pick you two up when you land so be prepared to be baby wowed."
"Got it," Brittany giggled, leaning in to give him a one armed hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks dad."
Mr. Pierce did the same thing with Santana only with both arms this time and with as much care as he held within him not to hurt her before saying, "Travel safe," and waving goodbye.
The flight attendants were in the aisle going through their normal pre-take-off spiel so basically everyone in their seats who had flown more than twice before had already tuned them out. Brittany was one of them. She was paging through the Sky Mall catalog, occasionally pointing out to Santana a few of the more 'interesting' items like the Bling String to bedazzle your hair or the Beer Beeper that alerted you when your beer was cold. She thought they were both really good ideas.
"Hey, Britt," Santana said, out of the blue, getting Brittany's attention.
"Hmm," Brittany hummed, encouraging her to go on as she turned to the next page that had a day of the week clock. That's brilliant, she thought tearing the page out so she could order it later. Some days it was just too tough to remember what day it was considering she always had so much going on in her head. It was hard to keep some things straight. The clock would help.
"I think I'm gonna leave Louisville."
That got Brittany's attention. "You are… Why?" Brittany asked a little stunned, but hopeful.
"Well…" Santana paused, turning to look at Brittany. "This whole ordeal really got me thinking about what I want to do with my life."
Brittany thought for a second about what she was saying- she definitely wasn't alone there. It certainly forced her to re-evaluate a few of her choices as well.
"I just don't think Louisville's the place for me." She paused, trying to string the rest of her thoughts together into a puzzle that made sense.
Brittany was looking at her with a mixed look of patience and curiosity as she waited for her to continue.
"I just… I don't really know what I want to do, but I know I'm not gonna figure it out doing round offs and beer bongs in Louisville. I think I want to go to New York," she finished.
Brittany was thrilled. "Santana, that's great! I always secretly hoped you would choose New York."
"Secretly…" Santana questioned knowingly, cocking her eyebrow sarcastically.
"Ok…" Brittany conceded, in fake annoyance, "maybe not so secretly, but either way I'm really glad and happy for you."
"Yeah," Santana said, feeling relieved that it had been that easy. Not that she thought that Brittany wouldn't support her decision; she knew she would, but it was a big deal, and a big decision, one that Santana hadn't entered into lightly. "I just got to thinking when I went to New York a couple weeks ago for Rachel's naked intervention-"
"Wait," Brittany said, interrupting her in shock. "What?!"
Santana chuckled at Brittany's cute apparent jealousy. "It's not what you think," she said, pecking her on the cheek. "I'll tell you about it later."
"Okay…" Brittany said uneasily, but still trusting that Santana wasn't lying.
"I just think that maybe I can figure out what I want to do in New York."
"You will," Brittany said easily, having complete faith in Santana. "I always thought you should be in a place as big and hot as you are."
Santana shyly chuckled and smiled. "Thanks, Britt," she said, her smile firmly set in place.
One Month Later
Once again, Brittany was lying in bed watching Santana pack. She still thought Santana looked just as cute as last time, but this times she couldn't help being a little sad.
"I can't believe you're leaving today," she murmured, showing off her award winning pout.
"Brittany…" Santana said, awed, before moving over to kiss Brittany lightly. She didn't want to make this any harder than it had to be. "I'm only gonna be gone a week. I'll be back on Thursday for Mr. Schue's wedding."
"I know…" she said, continuing to pout, "I'm just gonna miss you. It's been nice having you around everyday."
"I know…" Santana said sitting down next to Brittany and taking her hand. "I've enjoyed it too."
After another sweet kiss that turned into five, they pulled apart, still leaning into each other, seeking and savoring the others closeness. "How long do we have?" Brittany breathed onto Santana lips.
"Mmm…" Santana hummed, savoring the sweetness of having Brittany pressed against her. She clenched eyes after a second, knowing there wasn't much time left. "I think like twenty minutes."
"That doesn't seem long enough," Brittany said, dropping her shoulders in despair.
Santana immediately sought to comfort her girlfriend, rubbing up and down Brittany's arms. Santana was certainly excited to head to New York, but she was equally sad to be leaving Brittany. She hoped that Brittany didn't feel like she was leaving her behind again. That was the last thing she was doing.
"Brittany…" Santana paused, trying to broach the sensitive topic, "are you gonna be okay with this? I don't want you to feel like you felt last time. I need you to know that I'm not leaving you."
"I know. It's different this time," Brittany stated, confidently. Everything was different this time, but in the best possible way. "I'm just sad is all."
"Me too, Britt-Britt," she said, reaching up to cup Brittany's cheek and holding her there for another kiss.
They pulled away with a quiet, wet pop and Brittany sighed. "I guess I should give you this now if we don't have much time," she said, reaching into her back pocket to pull out a folded plain envelope.
"What's this?" Santana questioned like Brittany was just going to tell her.
"Open it silly," Brittany teased.
Santana slowly ripped the flap open, being careful not to get a paper cut on her freshly manicured hands. When she got it completely open, she pulled out what looked like plane tickets. She studied the first of the three tickets and noticed the date.
Brittany could see the wheels turning in Santana's head and decided not to let her wonder any longer. "It's a ticket for you to come back to Lima for my graduation," Brittany said with a nervous smile.
"Brittany…" Santana said, making it sound more like an 'aww.' She knew this was a really big deal for Brittany. Brittany was always really self conscious about school and her grades and the fact that she was giving this to her must mean that she actually felt good about where she stood academically right now. Santana was so proud of her. She really had put in a lot of work this year and it was paying off with a steadily rising GPA and she even mentioned a few days ago that she felt pretty good about how her SAT's turned out, although she wouldn't be getting those scores for at least another month.
"Looks like the second time is gonna be the charm, I guess" Brittany said trying to joke her way through her past failure before quickly moving on to the next two tickets. "But there's more," Brittany said, breaking Santana out of her love sick trance and motioning for her to continue going through the tickets. She was really excited for Santana to get to the last one.
Santana looked at the next ticket and it was clearly for the flight back to New York for a few days after graduation. She smiled a grateful smile and then continued to the last one. She froze immediately. The last ticket was for the same day as Santana's flight back to New York, but this one didn't have Santana's name on it, it had Brittany's. "What's this?" Santana asked, trying to swallow the lump in her throat.
Brittany took the ticket out of Santana's shaky hand and sheepishly smiled. "It's a one way ticket to New York for me."
Brittany watched Santana as her chin started to shake and tears started to brim in her beautiful brown eyes.
"Those are happy tears, right?" Brittany asked, wiping at Santana's cheek as a few tears dropped free from Santana's glassy eyes.
"They're very happy tears," Santana replied, stunned that Brittany had done all this. She'd actually made plans, and not just any plans, plans to move to New York and start their life together. "I love you, so much."
"I love you too," Brittany said, hugging Santana with all that she had
"I can't wait to begin our life together," Brittany said happily.
"I think we already have," Santana replied, leaning in and kissing her words onto Brittany's lips like a promise. Wrapped up in each other they both felt toasty warm now, bathed in the others love. There was no longer a reason to feel cold.
The End!
AN: Well, well, well… we've reached the finish line. I hope this was the ending you all wanted. Somehow it turned out much fluffier than I initially intended. I guess that's just what is destined to happen for this couple. :) Let me know your thoughts one final time. I hope you've all enjoyed this story as much as I have. Oh and one more thing… don't de-alert this story yet. I'm contemplating writing a little didn't happen-Wemma wedding one shot that I will just add to the end of this now that I've officially righted the Brittana canon world and Santana can have the wedding sex she should have had in the first place. Sorry Quinn, I guess you'll have to find another lady to satisfy your lady lovin' curiosity. Let me know if you'd like some Wemma wedding Brittana smut.
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History Repeats: What Sampras-Rafter Can Teach Us About Nadal-Soderling
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In 1997 Patrick Rafter won his first major at the US Open, thanks to his agile movement, big-kicking serve, and unparalleled net coverage. Though this put him exactly nine majors behind Pete Sampras at that point in their careers, it was easy to begin wondering how the two would match up in future encounters.
Still, the two weren’t truly rivals yet; Sampras was 5-1 against the Australian at that point and would add three more lopsided victories over Rafter to his tally that fall. Plus, with the bulk of his accomplishments and the fact that he had a commanding lead in the race for No. 1, few could seriously claim that the two were players of equal stature.
To become a rival to Sampras, Rafter would have to beat the American, and take something he wanted.
That would come in 1998, when the Australian rallied from a set down to top Sampras at the Cincinnati Masters tourney. Sampras had already won Wimbledon that year, and Rafter’s successes for 1998 were just beginning; still, Sampras hungered for the points that event would bring him. He was pursuing the year-end ranking for the sixth consecutive year—a record—and Marcelo Rios was hot on his heels.
By beating Sampras, Rafter earned the American’s ire, and the fact that the last point ended on a call that Sampras disputed only angered Sampras further. But that loss was nothing compared to what was coming in the months ahead: In the US Open, Sampras sought to tie the Grand Slam record and Rafter to defend his maiden major.
In their tightly contested duel, Sampras called for the trainer to treat his leg late in the third set, and by the fifth with him visibly slowing, Rafter dispatched him by breaking his serve a second time in the final set.
Rafter won his next match and with it forever shook off the “one-slam wonder” label. But just before he clinched his follow-up major, Sampras infamously said that the difference between him and the Australian was “10 Grand Slams.”
Sampras pointed to his leg injury as his reason for falling short in New York and the call he didn’t like in Cincinnati. Later he said that the sight of Rafter holding those US Open trophies “pisses me off.” Rafter responded by calling Sampras a “cry baby” and saying that it would be better for tennis if someone besides the American were No. 1.
For Sampras, generally nothing if not professional, and Rafter, a regular winner of sportsmanship awards, these words are stunning in retrospect. However, they underscore a simple fact: Professional tennis players may share the camaraderie that comes with life on the road and on the courts, but in this most solitary of sports their every win takes something away from someone else.
Specifically, when one player beats another he takes money and recognition from him. In the long run, those losses may affect how the player will be viewed when his playing days are over.
When viewed through that perspective, the player who never backbites should perhaps be seen as the exception, not the norm.
Nadal vs. Soderling
In today’s game, Rafael Nadal and Robin Soderling cannot be considered rivals if one is comparing their achievements. Nadal has won six majors and been a finalist twice, whereas his massive Swedish opponent has reached only one major final. Soderling is nearly two years older than Nadal, but the Spaniard has won nine times as many ATP tour events and about five times as much career prize money.
Even when Soderling was mocking Nadal’s on-court behavior in the 2007 Wimbledon, he still wasn’t a rival to the young Spaniard because he would lose that day, and in fact had lost every encounter between them until this past summer. Then, on a late spring day in Paris, Soderling took away something Nadal wanted: Roland Garros.
Well, more specifically, he took Nadal’s spot in the quarterfinals of the RG before losing in the finals to Roger Federer, but was an upset that rocked the Spaniard. It was his first ever defeat at the RG, denying him his fifth straight title there, and set off a chain reaction that would eventually cause Nadal to lose the No. 1 ranking and struggle the rest of the year.
Based on that, and their earlier confrontations, Nadal spoke rather uncharacteristically of his defeat.
Nadal had always declined to make excuses for losses, even when clearly injured, and had once referred to his greatest rival, Federer, as “the man” after a defeat in Hamburg two years prior.
But in Paris, he now had very specific reasons for his loss to Soderling. He had played “very short,” he told the press, and added that “I didn't play my best tennis and for that reason I lose.” Soderling was on a high from his win, but the Spaniard’s words rankled him, and he said he would have been more gracious had the roles been reversed.
Months later, after Soderling built on his Paris performance to turn in a career-best year, and Nadal was struggling to regain his form, they met again at the World Tennis Finals in London. This time Soderling won in straights, as Nadal failed to hold his serve in key junctures at the end of each set.
He and the Swede shared a firmer handshake than in their previous encounters, but again, few words.
How rivalries end
Sampras and Rafter encountered one another twice in 1999: At the World Team Cup in the run-up to that year’s Roland Garros, Rafter again outclassed a struggling Sampras—this time without dropping a set. But by Cincinnati that summer, Sampras was a different player, having played possibly his best tennis ever at Wimbledon and was then in the midst of a three-tournament winning streak.
When they met in the Cincy finals, the Sampras serve was too much for even a volleyer of Rafter’s panache to overcome. After Sampras’ victory, they shared some friendly words in the trophy ceremony.
Their next encounter came nearly a year later, when Sampras capped his career by setting the Grand Slam record, beating Rafter for his seventh Wimbledon and 13th major overall. After the match ended, Sampras called Rafter “all class, on and off the court.”
It was a happy ending for Sampras fans, and for all who wanted to see two of the game’s greats show some mutual appreciation. But is it possible that Sampras had only warmed to Rafter because his goal had been achieved, and Rafter no longer stood in the way?
For Rafael Nadal, the latter half of 2009 brought many disappointments, as tennis’ most physical of players struggled to impose his will on opponents and was all too often having play dictated to him. He won no titles after May and his defeats against Soderling were just two of many in which he was overpowered.
But during the Davis Cup final in Spain in November, the clay seemingly invigorated the current world No. 2, as he battled through a difficult first set with Tomas Berdych, then crushed the Czech in the last two sets. When he showed up for the exhibition in Abu Dhabi, he was a different player.
It was in a way fitting that he’d face Soderling in the final of his first event. The Swede had achieved new milestones during the week, namely beating Roger Federer in the semis for his first win over the Great Swiss in 13 encounters, and was as good a barometer as any for Nadal’s play.
Nadal passed the test, beating the Swede 7-6, 7-5. In the past, the arc of Nadal’s groundstrokes has actually helped Soderling, as they sit up for the big swings the tall Swede takes. This time, however, the tiebreak and Soderling’s final service game indicated that Nadal is now figuring out how to defend against those booming groundstrokes and dictate play more with his own.
Players who have done this successfully, namely Federer and Novak Djokovic, have owned very good records against Soderling.
In postmatch interviews, the two shared their warmest appraisals yet heard for another. Soderling said that Nadal had won because he was playing “really well” and congratulated him. Nadal said Soderling’s results in the past year were no fluke, and that he had “unbelievable potential.”
Perhaps he does. But would he prefer to hear flattering words from the man who just beat him, or words tinged with bitterness from an opponent he has just beaten?
This year we may find out whether those concepts are mutually exclusive.
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What the defensemen need to work on, if they aren't already, is making those long passes up to the forwards, often through traffic. I'm not crazy about the whole cherry picking thing, but it will get the other team's forecheck all over the place. The response from them should be to fall back into the neutral zone and plug it up there, but that's why they need to practice making the long passes with lots of traffic, quickly, so they can't really get a chance to get setup in the NZ. The other option for them is to go the other way, and play very aggressively on the forecheck, which leads them to not be as able to cover the streaking forward(s).
Breaking out of the zone can be literally impossible to stop if one team has enough of a speed and structure advantage.
(I'd also take an offside over getting an icing call, should the pass fail to be received, and icing is not waived off)
Brewer might be the best passer on the team, but he gets it that way by slowing everything down and biding his time. He's taking the time to do it right, but he's got it, and now needs to speed that up.
Or, at the very least, start carrying it through the neutral zone himself.
Same thing with Ohlund when he returns.
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I am using window.location.replace for various things on an app and passing variables in the URL (www.website.com/?clicked=2).
The problem is that it absolutely floods the history with new entries (at least in Chrome). Is there a way to just have 1 entry for the page? I thought window.location.replace was supposed to replace the entry or so I have read?
Are there any other methods out there? If you use the app legitimately for like a minute clicking things, it will take up a page of history.
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Take a look at History.js. It lets you modify the URL without reloading the browser window. – Blender Sep 13 '12 at 23:38
@Blender thanks, but I downloaded and tested the demo it had, and it still produces multiple entries in Chrome. – user1631995 Sep 13 '12 at 23:55
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I do not think you can do that. window.location.replace will simply change an URL and reload page. As it is a different URL - it will be added to navigation history. Suppose the only thing you can do here - download full page with ajax. Little strange usage of ajax, but it will solve your problem with multiple entries in history. With things like History.js you can control what is in browser history, but page will be loaded with ajax anyway.
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I don't actually know ajax, though I know what it is used for, but I think I understand what you are saying. Basically mask the old page. I suppose there's no hope ahhh – user1631995 Sep 13 '12 at 23:56
well... ajax is nothing hard, in general. But at the same time you may find a lot of problems with it. And in window.location there is nothing that can help you. By the way - I see no any problem with a lot of links in history. – FAngel Sep 13 '12 at 23:59
Thanks, I don't have a problem with ajax, it's that the history.js demo in the .zip doesn't even work. I guess I'll just leave it as is and hope the user doesn't mind a page or so of entries. – user1631995 Sep 14 '12 at 0:04
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Location.replace( does not make a history entry.
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After the Speech
Well, Cameron made his referendum speech, and the contents were pretty much as trailed last night.
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Iain Martin highlights the challenge that the speech poses for both Labour (thoroughly europhile at the top, less convincingly so elsewhere) and the euroskeptics of UKIP:
This morning the Labour leader’s line is that Cameron’s promise is evidence of weakness. This is silly as it makes it difficult for Miliband if he later realises that he must copy him, in which case he will be adopting what he has called a “weak” policy. But does he really want Labour to take the risk of fighting the election in 2015 saying he will deny the British a vote on their future relationship with Europe? That will do wonders for Cameron, giving Euro-sceptics an incentive to vote and campaign for the Conservatives.
Ukip celebrations are probably premature. In shifting, Cameron has proved that the insurgent party has great influence even if it has not a single MP. Still, it is hard to see this meaning anything other than the halting or reversal of the rise of Ukip. Now that Cameron has moved, how will it answer the charge from Tories that a vote for Ukip only makes a Labour government – offering no referendum – more likely?
My guess is that Labour will start edging in the direction of a referendum. As for UKIP, its best approach will be to stress that the “renegotiations” that Cameron is promising are highly likely to prove a dead end.
Writing for the Spectator , M. E. Symon gives one important reason why:
UKIP’s task will be to show up that pantomime for what it really is.
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Volcanic ash cloud: airlines challenge rulings by aviation regulators
Ryanair, easyJet and other carriers say ash from Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano not as severe as Civil Aviation Authority says
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Airlines have rounded on regulators in the UK and Ireland after thousands of airlines passengers were hit by delays and cancellations as a cloud of volcanic ash disrupted airports in Scotland and northern England.
Ryanair claimed it had flown a Boeing airplane through a no-go part of the ash cloud over Scotland this morning and found no harmful effects to the engines or fuselage, while the International Air Transport Association alleged that the UK air safety watchdog, the Civil Aviation Authority, did not have an atmosphere monitoring plane available.
Although airports remained open on Tuesday, airlines halted hundreds of flights amid safety concerns at the high density of ash caused by the eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano, in Iceland.
British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Loganair, Flybe and KLM were among carriers cancelling flights. Transatlantic flights operating through Icelandic airspace suffered delays of up to an hour today as they were diverted around the densest parts of the ash cloud emitted by the Grímsvötn volcano.
However, BMI was still operating out of Edinburgh and Glasgow, saying the ash remained further north than forecast earlier. The airline was constantly reviewing the situation, it said.
The Barcelona football team said it would travel to London on Wednesday night for Saturday's Champions League final against Manchester United, in case the ash cloud left the team contemplating an epic rail journey.
There were concerns the cloud would later spread south, affecting flights to northern England and Northern Ireland.
A number of flights from Newcastle international airport have been cancelled, including services to Paris, Brussels, Faro, Amsterdam, Aberdeen, Belfast international and Malta. Arrivals to Newcastle from Aberdeen, Amsterdam and Exeter have also been cancelled.
Meanwhile, four easyJet flights to and from Belfast international (flights to and from Newcastle and Glasgow) have been cancelled.
Philip Hammond, the transport secretary, who has promised there will be no blanket airspace closures similar to those last year, suggested on the BBC's Newsnight on Monday that "we have got to learn to live" with disruption. There were now "much more robust systems to minimise the disruptive effect", he said.
Since last year's eruption the authorities had gained a much better understanding of the risk from ash clouds, he said.
"Most importantly, the basic situation now is that the threshold for most aircraft is 20 times where it was last year. We have got from 200 micrograms (mcg) per cubic metre, to 4,000mcg per cubic metre as the threshold up to which most aircraft can fly.
Hammond will chair a meeting of the government's Cobra committee on the ash cloud later on Tuesday. A government source said the situation remained variable, with the possibility that dense ash would drift over Glasgow and Edinburgh between 1pm and 7pm before clearing. The source added: "These things change from hour to hour."
Mass cancellations at airports on Tuesday by airlines including easyJet and British Airways are viewed as an operational decision as those companies try to ensure their schedules operate more smoothly once the ash clouds clear. According to the latest forecasts, high-density ash could begin to affect southern England by Friday.
Ryanair, Europe's largest short-haul airline, condemned the new regulatory regime today. Its one-hour test flight took off from Glasgow Prestwick, then flew to Inverness, on to Aberdeen and down to Edinburgh – all of which, according to CAA charts, were in a zone of high concentration of ash. In a direct challenge to the efficiency of the safety regime, Ryanair urged the Irish and UK regulators to "reopen" airspace over Scotland.
Ryanair said in a statement: "There was no visible volcanic ash cloud or any other presence of volcanic ash, and the post-flight inspection revealed no evidence of volcanic ash on the airframe, wings or engines.
Regulators, including the CAA, are likely to object to Ryanair's claim that Scottish airspace is "shut", because airlines can fly through medium or high ash concentrations, providing they make a sufficient safety case.
The Irish Aviation Authority added to the confusion by stating that Ryanair's first application for safety approval had to be sent back to the carrier on Monday for unspecified reasons, and a tweaked proposal was still under consideration. An IAA spokeswoman said: "They are not cleared to fly. We have not had time to analyse the safety case and until that is done they do not have permission to fly [in contaminated airspace]."
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) also joined Ryanair in condemning the approach of regulators. In a letter to the transport secretary, Philip Hammond, the airline industry's main lobbying body claimed the CAA's monitoring plane is not in use and there is no spare. As a result, the CAA has not monitored the density of the cloud from the air.
In a robust letter to Hammond, the chief executive of IATA, Giovanni Bisignani, said: "It is astonishing and unacceptable that Her Majesty's government cashes £3.5bn each year in air passenger duty but is incapable of using a small portion of that revenue to purchase another Cessna to use as a backup aircraft. I ask please that you ensure that all possible efforts are made to get the existing aircraft operational in the shortest possible time."
Bisignani added that non-European airlines could be confused by the ash cloud because their regulators would be insufficiently aware of the latest EU guidelines on flying through volcanic plumes. "We need a clear, consistent and appropriate response, which is workable for all airlines globally, not a repeat of the fragmented mess that happened last year." Pointedly, the chief executives of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and bmi were cc'd into the letter.
Under previous guidelines, aircraft were summarily grounded if there was any volcanic ash in the air; airlines may now fly through ash plumes if they can demonstrate their fleets can handle medium- or high-level densities of ash.
Meanwhile, passengers at Glasgow airport were preparing for long delays in reaching some destinations. Elizabeth Flaherty, from East Kilbride, was hoping to travel to Mallorca at 8.30am. She arrived at the airport just before 6am to be told her flight would not be leaving. She said she had been told a coach would take her to Manchester at 12.45pm for a flight at around 5pm.
She said: "It's going to be a long day. I'm trying to stay cheerful. There's nothing else I can do."
Pat Gribbon, from Renfrew, was due on the same flight for a holiday with his wife, Rita. He said: "Everyone has been very helpful. It's just a question of waiting.
"I suppose it's just one of those things. No one can help it, but it is frustrating. I feel sorry for people with kids."
The Met Office's volcanic ash advisory centre is tracking the cloud, aided by satellite images, weather balloons and a radar system installed in Iceland last year.
Once information is relayed to airlines, they will need to prove they can fly through the zones by producing "safety cases" that will include information from aircraft and engine manufacturers on the airline's tolerance to volcanic ash.
Ryanair was seeking an urgent meeting with Irish aviation authorities on Tuesday, saying it had been told late on Monday that it could not operate flights to Scottish destinations until at least Tuesday afternoon. "Ryanair believe that there is no safety risk to aircraft on fights operating to and from Scotland," the company said.
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Here's my one-sided conversation Tuesday with hall of famer and former Vikings star quarterback Fran Tarkenton:
"How you doing, Bob?"
"Better than your old team."
"I'm not surprised at all," Tarkenton said.
And then off he went riffing on the winless Vikings and what they should do to better themselves.
"First of all, Donovan McNabb is one of my favorite pro players. I think he has been a very great professional quarterback. He says the right things. He does the right things. Right now, I want to see us go younger quicker.
"I told people back before the Vikings made the move, 'If you think Donovan McNabb is the answer, he's not.' You're going with another old quarterback.
"What we have done in Minnesota is delay getting that young quarterback. In Green Bay, they got rid of Brett Favre and went with Aaron Rodgers. They didn't just win a Super Bowl. They're set for the next 10 years.
"We need to play Christian Ponder. I haven't watched Christian Ponder play. But you never know until you play him. I would have played him from Day One. You have to play him to see if you have him for your future."
Like the Energizer Bunny, Tarkenton kept going and going ...
"Carolina drafted Jimmy Clausen to see if he can play. They found out last year Jimmy Clausen couldn't play. What did they do? They had the worst record in the league and went for Cam Newton.
"Oakland drafted JaMarcus Russell with the first overall pick (in 2007). JaMarcus Russell was a bum. Nobody knew Vince Young wasn't going to make it. Even if it's Cam Newton, you don't know until you play him.
"The Panthers played him, and now look at their team play. This team has been a god-awful team for years, and it was because they stayed with Jake Delhomme, who couldn't play a lick. Then they put Clausen in and looked like (crud). Now they play Cam Newton and they have a hope. They're competitive every week.
"Players know. Who's going to be our future? Who can we build with? Maybe it's Christian Ponder.
Vikings quarter back Christian Ponder throws the ball in the first quarter of the Minnesota Vikings game against the Houston Texans on Thursday, September
Vikings quarter back Christian Ponder throws the ball in the first quarter of the Minnesota Vikings game against the Houston Texans on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.The Vikings won 28-0. (Pioneer Press: John Autey) (John Autey)
We won't know until he plays in games how he reacts. We desperately need that for the immediate future of our franchise.
"Right now, the Minnesota Vikings are not going to be in the playoffs. Going into the season, we were ranked fourth in my rankings. Green Bay, Chicago and Detroit are better. I picked Detroit to be the surprise team before they were the surprise team. The only thing they needed was for Matt Stafford to be healthy. He proved he could play if he's healthy.
"Matthew Stafford can throw the ball as good as anybody in football. Aaron Rodgers is there, too. Both are talented guys. Both can use their feet. They're not jerks. They're solid guys. I love both of them.
"I would hope the Vikings get Christian Ponder in. This is not a knock on Donovan McNabb. He would understand. We need to find out for the immediate future of the team.
"Ponder was in the mix with five or six guys. We did the right thing drafting him in the first round. Let's see if he can play. You have to see if they can make plays."
Like the old days when he wore No. 10, Tarkenton kept firing ...
"Tom Brady was a sixth-round draft choice because they didn't think he could play. I was a third-round choice because they didn't think I could play. Joe Montana was a third-round pick because they didn't think he could play. You don't know if they could play at this level until they play.
"They found out in the exhibition season I could play. They didn't start me that first day (of the franchise's first-ever regular season game in 1961). They had George Shaw. But they put me in the first game and found out I could play. You don't know until you get in that environment and go.
"You have to give yourself a chance. I hope Christian Ponder can play. I guarantee you they won't know until he plays.
"It's a crapshoot. But you've got to get into the crapshoot.
"If Donovan plays, we'll win a game here and a game there. But what are we going to do? Donovan isn't the future of the franchise. We're just plugging him in there. That's a Hail Mary pass. You don't win with a Hail Mary. You win with planning, and if you don't have a plan for quarterback succession, you're in trouble."
Finally, that riff was done. Then he started another one, a shorter one, when I asked him what he recalled from the 1962 season, when he and the Vikings opened with five straight losses on their way to a 2-11-1 record.
"Here's the deal," he said. "We come out and have a really good first year. Win three games. The second year, we'd given up our No. 1 choice for George Shaw. We didn't make any trades. We didn't improve our roster. Only won two games. You can't ever stand still. You have to improve your roster." | <urn:uuid:c6abca4e-d393-4dad-8d28-a178ab67dcff> | http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_19038438?nclick_check=1 | en | 0.987174 | 0.022846 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Prior to Ubuntu 11.04 I could configure grub so that after the menu is displayed and the system is booting detail of the boot activity appears. Now there's just a blank screen between the menu and gdm login.
How do I coax Ubuntu 11.04 to display the boot activity? Dale E. Moore Oh yeah; I asked the same question here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1760753 and they didn't know the answer.
This question was asked here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/160511 too, with no new insight.
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Grub is a boot loader, i.e. the software that is launched when the computer starts and whose role is to boot an another operating system. So, unless I have misunderstood, what you want is not seeing the messages from Grub, but instead you want to see the messages from Ubuntu itself during the boot process.
Generally speaking, what you have to do is to remove the "quiet" Linux command line option. However in recent versions of Ubuntu, this is not enough because the splash screen has not been designed to display activity. Therefore, you also need to prevent the splash screen from starting up, and you can do that simply removing the "splash" command line option.
In other words, you should edit some configuration so that your /proc/cmdline changes from:
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-... root=... ro quiet splash ...
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-... root=... ro ...
To do that, you need to set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub to an empty string:
We are almost there: now you need to remove the so called gfxpayload and vt_handoff. While these two options improve the boot experience, they will also prevent your messages from being displayed. AFAIK, there are no options in /etc/default/grub that you can tweak for that, so you are forced to open /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add the following at the bottom of the file:
function gfxmode {
set gfxpayload=
set vt_handoff=
Simple, but effective.
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Thanks Andrea; that's better! Now I get a grub menu, 1 second blank screen, Ubuntu progress, 1 second blank screen then gdm. – Dale E. Moore Oct 13 '12 at 11:27
With "Ubuntu progress" do you mean the "Ubuntu" word with the five dots below? It this is the case, then it means that there's still the splash command line option. Please, post the content of your /proc/cmdline and possibly also your /etc/default/grub. Thanks! – Andrea Corbellini Oct 13 '12 at 15:27
I mean the Ubuntu boot activity; no splash here... RyCycle ~ # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic root=UUID=db391a50-406e-45d2-b35e-33dbb628e929 ro RyCycle ~ # cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=3 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" – Dale E. Moore Oct 13 '12 at 18:16
Well, if you see the Ubuntu boot activity then the problem is solved, isn't it? – Andrea Corbellini Oct 14 '12 at 7:34
You might not have noticed that I marked your answer as the solution to my problem. Thanks for your help. – Dale E. Moore Oct 14 '12 at 13:22
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JoAnn Cueva believes that, in medicine, open lines of communication are crucial. As marketing director for Gastroenterology Consultants of San Antonio, she serves as a link between doctors and patients and writes health stories in order to empower readers.
Colon Cleansing: Helpful or Harmful?
Written by Holly Coyle
After our live chat on lactose intolerance where more than 800 of you participated, I received this question from a reader:
How do you feel about (what are) the benefits/risks of periodic (quarterly, semi-annual) self-directed colon cleansing? Some people do this quarterly due to religious beliefs. I am not asking from the religion standpoint but simply on the benefits of such a practice — toxin elimination, weight control, etc.
Colon cleansing, otherwise known as colonics, is something I have always wondered about because my friend in L.A. believes in it. I asked two of the doctors at Gastroenterology Consultants of San Antonio to give their perspective. Here’s what Dr. Mario Garza writes:
The digestive system and bowel naturally eliminate waste material and bacteria — your body doesn’t need enemas or special diets or pills to do this.
One concern with colon cleansing is that it can increase your risk of dehydration. A potentially more serious concern is that certain laxatives used in colon cleansing, such as those with sodium phosphate, can cause a rise in your electrolytes, which can be dangerous if you have kidney disease or heart disease.
No quality research has been done to tell whether or not a colon cleansing is helpful. These are several reasons that argue against the need for colon cleansing. First, natural bacteria in the colon detoxify food wastes and the liver also neutralizes toxins.
Second,mucus membranes in the colon keep unwanted substances from reentering the blood and tissues.
And finally, the colon sheds old cells about every three days, preventing a buildup of harmful material.
The normal number of bowel movements varies from person to person. It may be as often as a few times a day or as little as a few times a week.
Increasing the number of bowel movements doesn’t improve weight loss. That’s because the body absorbs most calories before they reach the large intestine.
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After playing a game as Nautilus, I was surprised to see that I had critically striked. I do have a rune page that gives a chance to critically strike, but I'm sure I didn't select it.
Do critical strikes vs thornmail count for the owner?
Proof of the critical strike Nautlius Items
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@Ktash I get this too sometimes as many other heroes, I've noticed it from time to time. You crit in a game when you had no reason to ever do so, no crit from any stat ever, yet you crit, how? – Ender Nov 17 '12 at 21:39
Hi Toast. I think as your question stands, it is a bit too localized. Might want to broaden your question to be more general. – Ktash Nov 17 '12 at 21:40
I'm trying to ascertain whether a bug exists in the game, or whether it's a lack of understanding on my part. Though it is very specific, it's directly about game mechanics. Could you elaborate on why you think it's too localized? – Toast Nov 18 '12 at 3:35
I'd suggest you rename this to, 'Can Thornmail damage crit?', as otherwise you're asking us to prove a negative. – Raven Dreamer Nov 18 '12 at 4:09
Just an observation - Malz had 204 crit damage as well, without any AD items. I'm guessing no crit runes on him either. I don't think it is related to the thornmail – BrianH Nov 19 '12 at 20:47
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There's a bug where you have like a .00001% chance of getting a critical hit even without any critical strike items. Minions do it occasionally.
As for thornmail, it deals magic damage as a percentage of the net total damage you receive. So I believe the fact that the dmg is magic answers your question. We can't talk about critical magic dmg (that would be...interesting lol)
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Do you have any references for this bug? – Toast Nov 19 '12 at 16:02
Unfortunately no reliable references. Just personal experience and some discussions in the NA lol forums. I looked into it a while ago cause I had the same question... – Panagiotis Palladinos Nov 19 '12 at 17:10
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Thornmail itself does not do a set amount of damage, it is based on the enemy... If an enemy crits you, they will take more damage than if a normal autoattack hits you.
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When you're out traveling the globe, it's kind of a pain to always be taking out your cell phone to calculate the exact currency exchange rate. If all you want is a quick guesstimate, Gadling offers rules of thumb for converting several currencies into US dollars.
If you want to know what the exact exchange rate is, definitely look it up (e.g., at Xe.com). But these rules of thumb are handy when you just want to roughly know how much money you're taking out from the foreign country's ATM in US dollars or whether a tchotchke sold at the market is worth the price.
The mental math for most countries is pretty easy: in Belize, divide prices by half, in the UK multiply by 1.5 and round up, and in Australia and Switzerland no math is necessary for your estimate (they're roughly 1-to-1 with the US dollar). Unless you like doing math, however, some countries are more calculator-worthy (for Colombia, for example, you have to divide by half, then by 1,000, then add back 20%).
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Christina Aguilera has removed her nipple piercing - out of respect for her husband.
The 'Dirrty' singer - who used to boast 12 different pieces of body jewellery, including ones in an intimate place - once vowed she would always keep her nipple ring "for herself".
However, recent pictures of the blonde beauty, dressed in a see-through top, showed no sign of the ring, and it has been claimed the 25-year-old singer had it removed for her music executive husband, Jordan Bratman.
A source said: "Now she's married, Christina has decided to remove her right nipple ring - the last of her 12 piercings."
Christina recently claimed she would not tone down her raunchy image just because she had married.
She said at the time: "Being sexual is a huge part of my artistry and who I am as a woman. When I am sexual in my lyrics or videos, it's because I am being honest. I'm in favour of any woman being proud of her body.
"I'm going to stick to my guns and keep pushing the envelope no matter what people say."
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Obama On AIG Rage, Recession, Challenges
Also Tells 60 Minutes How He Is Adjusting To The Job, And His Family To The White House
By most accounts, this past week was one of the most difficult in the young presidency of Barack Obama. At the heart of it all was the public upheaval over $165 million in bonuses paid to employees of AIG, a company largely responsible for bringing the world's financial system to its knees and now being propped up by U.S. taxpayers. The bonuses touched off a cultural war between Wall Street and Main Street, both of whose support the president needs to help stabilize the economy.
After campaigning in California to drum up support for his $3.6 trillion budget, the president sat down with 60 Minutes in the Oval Office for a conversation about the AIG debacle, the economy, and getting the hang of the world's most difficult job.
"Were you surprised by the intensity of the reaction, and the hostility from the AIG bonus debacle?" correspondent Steve Kroft asked.
"I wasn't surprised by it. Our team wasn't surprised by it. The one thing that I've tried to emphasize, though, throughout this week, and will continue to try to emphasize during the course of the next several months as we dig ourselves out of this economic hole that we're in, we can't govern outta anger. We've got to try to make good decisions based on the facts in order to put people back to work, to get credit flowing again. And I'm not gonna be distracted by what's happening day to day. I've gotta stay focused on making sure that we're getting this economy moving again," President Obama replied.
The president ordered Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to use every legal means to recover the bonus money from AIG. If it is not repaid, it will be deducted from the company's next bailout payment. The House decided to extract its own revenge by passing a bill that would impose a tax of up to 90 percent on the AIG bonuses and on the bonuses of anyone making more than $250,000 a year who works for a financial institution receiving more than $5 billion in bailout funds.
"I mean you're a constitutional law professor," Kroft remarked. "You think this bill's constitutional?"
"Well, I think that as a general proposition, you don't wanna be passing laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals. You wanna pass laws that have some broad applicability. And as a general proposition, I think you certainly don't wanna use the tax code to punish people," the president replied. "I think that you've got an pretty egregious situation here that people are understandably upset about. And so let's see if there are ways of doing this that are both legal, that are constitutional, that upholds our basic principles of fairness, but don't hamper us from getting the banking system back on track."
"You've got a piece of legislation that could affect tens of thousands of people. Some of these people probably had nothing to do with the financial crisis. And some of them probably deserve the bonuses that they got," Kroft said. "I mean is that fair?"
"Well, that's why we're gonna have to take a look at this legislation carefully. Clearly, the AIG folks gettin' those bonuses didn't make sense. And one of the things that I have to do is to communicate to Wall Street that, given the current crisis that we're in, they can't expect help from taxpayers but they enjoy all the benefits that they enjoyed before the crisis happened. You get a sense that, in some institutions, that has not sunk in; that you can't go back to the old way of doing business, certainly not on the taxpayers' dime," Obama said. "Now the flip side is that Main Street has to understand, unless we get these banks moving again, then we can't get this economy to recover. And we don't wanna cut off our nose to spite our face."
"Your Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been under a lot of pressure this week. And there have been people in Congress calling for his head. …Have there been discussions in the White House about replacing him?" Kroft asked.
"No," Obama said.
Asked if Geithner had volunteered or asked whether to step down, Obama told Kroft, "No. And he shouldn't. And if he were to come to me, I'd say, 'Sorry, Buddy. You've still got the job.' But look, he's got a lot of stuff on his plate. And he is doing a terrific job. And I take responsibility for not, I think, having given him as much help as he needs."
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Image text transcribed for accessibility: The following circuit is a model of a pre-amplifier your company built for a light detection circuit in a visual-assist device for visually-impaired individuals. The voltage source v1 in the source circuit represents the voltage produced by a photovoltaic cell. Your company wants to you to determine if 3 volts from the photovoltaic cell is sufficient to drive the load R1(which is a circuit that sends a signal to the optical nerve)unfortunately for you .you do not have any photovoltaic cells or voltage sources to test this circuit. You do have at your disposal ONE current source (and your savvy knowledge from BME 253). Demonstrate using mesh analysis, how you would accomplish the company's goals by constructing(draw it!) an equivalent circuit using a single current source. For what value of the load Rl, will maximum power be transfered from the source and amplifier circuit to the load?
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After years of mysterious symptoms, the "Tootsie" star was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Find out why she decided to go public, and learn how she manages her condition.
Teri Garr
Teri Garr, one of the most beloved comedic actresses in Hollywood, began her career with dancing roles in the 1964 classic film Pajama Party and nine Elvis Presley movies. She was at her peak in 1983 - she'd recently been nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Tootsie and had wowed audiences in Young Frankenstein, Oh God!, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind - when she noticed a tingling sensation in her right foot. Then she stumbled while jogging, and next came an inexplicable stabbing feeling in her arm.
She saw a doctor. And then another. And another - all of whom failed to find a diagnosis for her mysterious symptoms, which came and went, often disappearing for months at a time. Garr continued working, becoming a regular guest on her friend David Letterman's late night talk show - who can forget the time she took a shower onscreen? - hosting Saturday Night Live three times, and landing recurring roles on M*A*S*H and Friends.
In Garr's 2005 book, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, she credits her mother's indefatigable spirit for her own confidence and tenacity. Garr grew up in a house of performers: Her father, Eddie Garr, was a stage and film actor and an ex-vaudevillian, and her mother, Phyllis, was a model and dancer; money was tight in the Garr household, but they managed. Then, when Garr was just 11 years old her father died, leaving Phyllis to care for three young children. Phyllis went to work as a wardrobe mistress at NBC, where she worked long shifts (and once borrowed a Christian Dior dress from the Dinah Shore show for Teri to wear to the prom).
The optimistic spirit that Garr learned from her mother certainly helped her cope when, finally, in 1999, a specialist gave Garr a definitive diagnosis: She had multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, degenerative autoimmune disease that affects around 400,000 Americans. In MS, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks normal tissues of the central nervous system, causing speech and muscle movement problems.
Garr went public with her struggle in 2002, and she hasn't looked back since. Now she's a National Ambassador for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, a paid spokesperson for an MS medication, and a leading advocate for multiple sclerosis education and research. And while MS remains an often-baffling disease, one thing about Teri Garr is clear: Even in the face of a “speedbump” like MS, she certainly won't be slowing down anytime soon.
Everyday Health: After your MS symptoms first started in 1982 it took almost two decades to get a proper diagnosis. What was it like when you finally had a name for all of the symptoms you'd been dealing with for so long?
Terri Garr: I was relieved to finally know what it was. It was better to be told I had an autoimmune disease than being told they didn't know what it was.
Everyday Health: Multiple sclerosis symptoms can vary so widely, and they can come and go. What were your initial symptoms?
Teri Garr: I had weakness on the right side - arm, leg, and foot. Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS either - it can be devastating. However, each person with MS lives with his or her own special suitcase of symptoms. Yet, we all work around our symptoms and move forward with our lives.
Everyday Health: Did you feel you had to hide your condition initially?
Teri Garr: Yes, because I thought agents and producers would think I was disabled, and I wasn't, and I'm not. This business can be very judgmental. Of course, acting and dancing was my life, so I felt I needed to protect myself. I decided to go public because there were rumors floating around and I wanted the information to come from me and not an outsider.
Everyday Health: What was it like when you started to speak publicly about your MS?
Teri Garr: I heard from a lot of people that I hadn't heard from for a long time, and the fans from whom I heard were all certainly supportive. That was nice! Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me, as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.
Everyday Health: What other things do you do to stay healthy?
Teri Garr: I eat a healthy diet and work out on a bike a few times a week. Anything you can do to stay positive is helpful also. Writing Speedbumps was a way to stay positive in the face of MS.
Everyday Health: Does your famous sense of humor help you through the rough times?
Teri Garr: Yes. They say laughter is the best medicine. I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh.
Everyday Health: You had a brain aneurysm a few years ago. Was that related to the MS? How are you feeling now?
Teri Garr: No, it was not related to MS, and I'm feeling nearly back to my old self. It is a long and arduous road to recovery.
Everyday Health: Do you have any advice for someone who's just been diagnosed with MS? Or for someone who thinks they might have it?
Teri Garr: I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis. In fact, it is a very exciting time in MS research, with many new treatments moving through the pipeline.
If you suspect that you might have it, see a neurologist right away. Early treatment is key. And once again, get accurate information about the disease: Be smart, not scared.
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Release Date:1988
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Composer:John Mayall
A-4. Why you been gone so long3:20
Composer:Mickey Newbury
A-5. Urge for going5:48
Composer:Joni Mitchell
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B-2. Nothin' like a hundred miles4:17
Composer:James Taylor
B-3. Changes2:20
Composer:Phil Ochs
B-4. Brother to the wind3:28
Composer:Craig Bickhardt-F.C. Collins
B-5. John Wilkes Booth3:51
Composer:Mary Chapin Carpenter
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1. BarbaraM.
Feb 8, 2004
It's extremely violent, and the language is non-stop filth. There might be a story in this movie if you can overlook all the graphic murder scenes. I couldn't.
2. Marc-o
Oct 28, 2003
Great!! Typical James Ellroy story and a star turn from Kurt Russell who hits home a powerful performance. See it.
3. Yes,It'sGilbertMulroneycakes
Jul 12, 2003
We've only just got this film in the theatres (July 12 2003, fact fans) over here in Britain. Not hard to see why: there's not an original frame in the whole picture. That's not to say it's a terrible film, mind; but that's its problem. It's not a bad film, it's just. Another one to rent then. But not from Blockbuster.
4. Lecritical
Jul 4, 2003
A good movie about bad cops. Kurt Russell's best movie to date.
5. AnnaS.
Jun 4, 2003
Dark blue is one of the best movie films I really want to definitly see.The story is a lot cooler and it's very similar to the 1997 anime hit movie, perfect blue. So this would be a better motion picture with daniel goddard and jackson raine, and maybe if satoshi kon would team up with time warner bros,dark blue will be the no.1 movie in america!!
6. CarloR.
Mar 4, 2003
9 to k.russell perfect performance. 7 to the movie. is a good movie. any wrong, lowbudget, but good.
7. JoanK.
Mar 2, 2003
Fast moving/well acted. not a new plot but you will not fall asleep.kurt russel was outstanding. really fine job!!!fine and convincing actor.
8. JoelF.
Feb 27, 2003
This movie was the most brutal cop movie I have ever seen. The plot is very weak and has very poor acting. It is extremely unrealistic and more of an excuse to show cops being macho. Everybody has done something bad, and nobody is good, which makes the movie a bad cop against another bad cop.
9. TonyL.
Feb 25, 2003
A B-minus for this movie. The story is way over the top. Kurt Russell gives a good performance though!. Nice to see Lolita D. back in a movie again!
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1. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
In the end, the problem with movies like Dark Blue is that they willfully ignore the systemic, historical, cultural, and class causes of racism in favor of pinning it all on a few bad apples. Sure, that's entertainment. It's also a lie.
2. 40
My own view is that, like me, the LAPD was defeated by the movie's incestuously proliferating plots. I've seen Dark Blue twice, and I still don't have a handle on all its comings and goings.
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To kiss my children on the lips?
(119 Posts)
ilikeyoursleeves Mon 11-Apr-11 20:18:12
I was reading a thread yesterday where a lot of people were talking about how inappropriate it is to kiss children on the lips, I have always done this & kiss my ds's many times every day. They are only 1 & 3 years & I imagine I won't kiss them as much when they are older, but I am now wondering if I'm weird in thinking there is nothing wrong with this? From a parent anyway, I wouldn't feel comfortable with anyone kissing them but their grandparents kiss them on the lips too & i think that's ok. Apologies if this is a thread about a thread, but I'm genuinely interested in what others think.
Crawling Mon 11-Apr-11 20:18:55
mumblechum1 Mon 11-Apr-11 20:19:40
I've never done that, but not really thought about why not before - maybe because kissing on the lips is what lovers do?
droopypoppies Mon 11-Apr-11 20:20:58
I'd never really thought about it until I saw my sisters MIL kissing her fully grown adult sons on the lips. They are all 24+ years old and it made me feel abit yuk tbh.
bibbitybobbityhat Mon 11-Apr-11 20:21:22
Of course yanbu. Can't imagine not kissing my dc on the lips, always have done (barring illness grin) and will do for as long as I can get away with.
Mumwithadragontattoo Mon 11-Apr-11 20:21:26
YANBU - 'tis perfectly normal if you ask me. I actually think you'd have to be pretty unaffectionate to object to this.
as far as my DS (4) is concerned, a kiss is not a kiss if it's not on the lips!
dontcallmepeanut Mon 11-Apr-11 20:22:10
YANBU. DS only kisses close family on the lips. I always kissed my parents on the lips when I was young. (Not sure what age I stopped) Some people take political correctness too far.
tazmosis Mon 11-Apr-11 20:22:52
YANBU -why wouldn't you kiss your little ones on the lips? I wouldn't kiss anybody elses children on the lips - defo cheeks then but my own - yup big smackers on the lips! They're 5 and 6 btw.
So no YANBU.
52Girls Mon 11-Apr-11 20:23:20
Very normal.
SilveryMoon Mon 11-Apr-11 20:23:39
I always kiss my boys on the lips! Is lovely, apart from when they are covered in slobber wink
tazmosis Mon 11-Apr-11 20:24:01
And prob won't kiss them on the lips when they're grown up - I always kiss my mum on the cheeks now, but used to kiss her on the lips and my dad when I was little.
I generally kiss my children on the cheek but quite often my 2 year old will grab hold of my face and give me a big slobbery smacker on the mouth. It's quite funny. Pre children I think I would have found it odd and would never have kissed anyone else's children like that - and wouldn't do now. Also noone else kisses mine like that either - it might be the snotty noses and slobbery kisses that puts them off though grin
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 20:24:06
I kiss my 10 YO on the lips but not my 17 month old, for me it comes down to them doing it by choice, DD2's puckered up for the first time and gave us all a smacker on the mouth a week or so ago and we were all right chuffed grin
It's up to you what you do with your own DC.
With grandparents, isn't it a running joke that DC hate giving them a kiss?
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 20:25:28
'maybe because kissing on the lips is what lovers do?'
The OP's not talking about a full on snog, just a brief touching of lips.
PureBloodMuggle Mon 11-Apr-11 20:28:30
I think it's perfectly fine.
DS is coming up to 8 and objects to any style of kiss now!!!
Now with adult children I'm not so sure as they awareness of both parties that lip kissing can be sexual is a known thing.
washnomore Mon 11-Apr-11 20:29:01
I avoid kissing DS on the lips for two reasons. Frequent tonsillitis means he often has breath like something's died in there, and he doesn't hold back in yelling "Mum, you haven't brushed your teeth!" if I haven't, er, brushed my teeth blush
DD however is only a totty baby and still mostly has vanillaey milky breath (unless she's been having fajitas or something grin) and sometimes I do sneak a wee smacker from her. Although this comes at a price cos she usually tries to latch on!
ResurrectionByChocolate Mon 11-Apr-11 20:29:16
My family all kiss each other on the lips, but aren't otherwise affectionate or even supportive (more likely to needle each other).
Niecie Mon 11-Apr-11 20:29:27
I never did it with DS1 - he was always smothered in kisses just not on the lips.
DS2 wants to kiss on the lips and it did feel a bit weird, having avoided it with DS1, but I haven't stopped him. It is just a quick pucker up. I can understand why people don't like it but I also don't think there is anything wrong with it from a parent or grandparent. I would rather just give in to his demand for a quick peck than for him to wonder why I won't which makes it into an issue when it really isn't.
BestNameEver Mon 11-Apr-11 20:29:36
I dont kiss my children on the lips.
I am openly affectionate, its not that,its just that it wasn't the norm when I was growing up so when I first started to see it it looked yuck to me. I still think it is just for adults, for children hugs and kisses on cheeks are more appropriate.
Oh and I cannot stand when people get their dc to kiss everyone goodbye. Children should not be made to kiss people they dont know and only then it should be only people they choose to kiss.
I hate for eg, visiting a friend whos dc are heading to bed and they are told to go round the room kissing everyone goodnight (on the cheek). Separate issue I know to the cheek / lips thing but I'm just lobbing it in there!
BeautifulBlondePineapple Mon 11-Apr-11 20:29:40
I always kiss my DCs (5 & 2) on the lips. They always seem to have expected it! They kiss all our family (grandparents, uncles, aunties etc) on the lips. I'd kiss any other kiddy on the cheek or the forehead though.
Had to tell my Dad off a few years ago for his habit of aiming for the lips. It was fine when I was younger, but a bit bleugh now I'm 35. Cheeks only now thank you very much!
Loolah Mon 11-Apr-11 20:30:03
my dd2 always wants a kiss when either myself or dh are going out of the house without her, before bed and sometimes just because she can! she always puckers up for a slobbery kiss on the lips and when feeling very generous offers to kiss dd1 too
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 20:31:47
Especially if the DC has two snot runners BestName eeeeewwwww grin
FabbyChic Mon 11-Apr-11 20:36:17
Kissing on the lips is for lovers.
I have two kids, and have always smothered them with kisses but not on their lips.
gizzy1973 Mon 11-Apr-11 20:37:29
DS kisses us on the lips whether you like it or not but as he is only 15 months it is very sweet when he comes over and kisses you
usualsuspect Mon 11-Apr-11 20:38:48
Its perfectly normal
I even kiss my grandchildren on the lips shock
Dds are 5 and 3 here and we all kiss on the lips. Very normal IMO.
I kiss my children on the lips, they are only very little though. I hate the idea of anyone other than DH kissing them on the lips though.
I also still kiss one male friend on the lips when we meet/part, always have, know each other since we were 3, would be strange not to iykwim?
CocktailQueen Mon 11-Apr-11 20:44:50
I kiss both mine on the lips! They are 3 and 7. And a lot of our friends' kids offer their lips for kisses and I don't mind kissing them on the lips... I kiss my mum and dad on the cheeks tho, now, tho they kissed me on the lips whe I was a child.
MigratingCoconuts Mon 11-Apr-11 20:44:55
I kiss both mine on the lips and they kiss me on the lips. I *love * that! Its a demonstration of love and i come from a rather undemonstrative family so I am very pleased we share this connection.
YANBU absolutely!
SchroedingersCat Mon 11-Apr-11 20:46:02
yanbu. I don't kiss DD on the lips very often now (she is 4) but mostly because she goes 'bleugh; grin. I absolutely love the sweet kisses of little ones. Just makes me melt.
I cannot imagine it not being so. I will stop if and when the kids don't want me to any more.
ResurrectionByChocolate Mon 11-Apr-11 20:48:09
On the 'it's for lovers' view: I think the same about saying "I love you". I was astounded first time I heard it used for family members.
MrBloomEatsVeggies Mon 11-Apr-11 20:50:32
My DS's insist on lip kisses. Perfectly normal in our house.
dontcallmepeanut Mon 11-Apr-11 20:50:42
hmm I never went to bed without saying "I love you" to my mum, while I lived at home... And when I phone her, or vice versa, then it's the same.
SchroedingersCat Mon 11-Apr-11 20:51:55
same here, always told my family members that I love them. And tell my children the same, AT LEAST 5 times a day. As often as I can.
MigratingCoconuts Mon 11-Apr-11 20:54:51
exactly don't and schroedinger. I adore that my DS will grab me by the cheeks to make sure he plants one on the lips. Its nothing to do with 'lovers' its just touchingly lovely. I want my kids to grow up feeling they can express love in a way I just don't with my parents.
smokinaces Mon 11-Apr-11 20:56:27
I tell my Mum Love you everytime we speak on the phone/say goodbye in person. I tell my boys many times a day. They also get kissed on the lips - and kiss each other on the lips. In fact huge picture in my front room is them kissing on the lips on dS2's 2nd birthday last year.
dontcallmepeanut Mon 11-Apr-11 20:56:52
DS get's "I love you" first thing iin the morning, when I drop him off at the nursery, when I pick him up, at bed time, and random little intervals. I remember one time when I was about five, I pissed my mum off that much that when she put me to bed, I didn't get a good night kiss or "I love you"... I sobbed my little heart out blush
pigletmania Mon 11-Apr-11 21:08:19
I am a lip kisser, well my dd aged for is so adorable, nothing else will do. I will have to give it up when she gets a bit older though.
minibmw2010 Mon 11-Apr-11 21:22:09
My mum does this to me as a greeting each time I see her and I really dislike it and constantly try to avoid it (which then makes me feel bad).
oneofthosedays Mon 11-Apr-11 21:34:27
We've always kissed both DCs on the lips, DH's family are more cheek kissers (apart from when MIL is pissed, then you get one on the lips!) but my family have always kissed on the lips. I still do it now with my mum and dad, not all the time though, usually if they're kissing the kids bye they'll just move onto me and do the same. I'd say I kiss my parents on the cheek as much as lips but lip kissing was normal when I was younger. Usually only kiss my sisters on the lips when a bit drunk, usually hug/kiss on cheek.
I kiss my younger nieces and nephews on the lips and older ones on the cheek (18/19yo). Nephews on DH's side you're lucky to get more than a quick 'bye' but they're all aged between 8-11yrs so understandable!
I don't find it strange or inappropriate at all, only really peck DH on the lips day to day - proper snogs saved for the bedroom so to us it's a really normal way of showing affection.
ilikeyoursleeves Mon 11-Apr-11 21:35:40
Good to see that most people think it's normal! The whole kissing is for lovers thing, I was talking about a peck on the lips not a snog so imo that's totally different. And btw I came from an extremely unaffectionate family so although its unfamiliar to me to be so tactile & openly living, I love kissing my boys & i' d be really saddenedif some people didn't do this for fear of it not being ' normal'.
Mumcentreplus Mon 11-Apr-11 21:40:27
I kiss both my girls on the lips..actually tbh they kiss me on the lips! they are 9 and 7...
confuddledDOTcom Mon 11-Apr-11 21:48:31
I kiss my children, my mum and my grandparents on the lips. I tell them all I love them too (my dad is funny but does kiss my girls). My nieces and nephews I follow their lead. Obviously they're from the same family so used to kissing on the lips anyway.
I can't call kissing my nurslings on the lips too intimate. I know many people who think their breasts belong to their partner too.
My youngest isn't much of a kisser, she likes hugs and kisses and lots of other play - like having being "eaten" - but she will only give kisses when it suits her. Apart from my belly, she loves kissing her baby sister!
hormonesnomore Mon 11-Apr-11 22:16:45
Me too, ResurrectionByChocolate
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 22:19:17
My 13 (nearly 14) year old son still kisses me AND his step dad on the lips...I have no idea if or when he will stop, I s'pose its up to him really.
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 22:20:43
Ooooh blimey that is sooo sad hormonesnomore.
PunkPixie Mon 11-Apr-11 22:25:00
I find it really odd that people see something other than affection between parent and child when they exchange a kiss on the lips. I've never met anyone IRL whose mind it crosses to call someone out, gove a dirty look to someone or get embarrassed for kissing their child on the lips.
smokinaces Mon 11-Apr-11 22:26:04
Resurrection and Hormones Do you guys not say "I love you" to your kids then??
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 22:26:48
I thought it read more like their parents never said it to THEM smokin...
smokinaces Mon 11-Apr-11 22:29:18
To me that reads present tense, as in they only think its for lovers like a kiss on the lips.
If so, thats quite sad.
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 22:33:20
ah right, I missed the original post and only saw hormones reply.
I cant imagine not telling my child I love them....if you love your kids it shouldnt be a secret!
i started a thread about lip kissing when picking up my ds from pre school one of the parents told me off for giving him a kiss on the lips and a lot of you fellow mumsnetters told me to tell this parent to take a running jump
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 22:51:12
Some other parent told you off for kissing your own child on the lips? WTF!?!?
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 22:56:06
Same shock as bluddy at the parent telling you off devonshire.
How did you react? Or even better, have you got a link to the thread?
Glad MN gave you good advice grin
ResurrectionByChocolate Mon 11-Apr-11 23:06:02
Smokinaces, birth family never said it to each other, and I have no kids myself (by choice). Not sad about it, tho.
YouaretooniceNOT Mon 11-Apr-11 23:13:18
My son grabs me and kisses me on the lips. I guess now he is 12 i have to train him not to do this anymore. He is SN.
Should i? Is it inappropriate for an SN child? We are affectionate towards each other.
duckypoo Mon 11-Apr-11 23:18:18
Yep big lip kissers here, don't get a choice with ds2, he grabs my bloody ears and goes in for a big one grin. All this talk about kissing lately has made me realise that it's a bit of an odd thing to do really isn't it, you know, when something everyday just hits you at an odd angle, like when you say a word too many times and it loses it's meaning blush<rambling>
I don't really get the whole "it's too intimate" argument tbh, a baby/toddler has probably resided in your body for 36+ weeks, shared your blood supply and the air you breathe. They may spend 8 hours a day+ sucking on your nipples, being held, having their arses wiped by you. I think it's probably the most intimate relationship you will likely have.
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 23:19:25
Unless there's a reason I don't know, it's really sad you've asked if it's inappropriate for your DS to kiss you on the lips Youaretoonice.
duckypoo Mon 11-Apr-11 23:20:58
Youaretoo, not inappropriate in my book, if he was uncomfortable with it he would stop. If you are uncomfortable with it though then that's fair enough.
ResurrectionByChocolate Mon 11-Apr-11 23:35:08
Use of "darling" would freak out my birth family, too (have no kids myself). Not that they think it's weird, or anything - just way above their payscale.
YouaretooniceNOT Mon 11-Apr-11 23:38:25
Yeah not uncomfortable just he does this in public too. Wonder what people think. Might think i'm a pervert. sad sad sad
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 23:41:33
Dont be ridiculous.
Would you really tell your son he isnt allowed to kiss you on the lips just in case someone might think he shouldnt?
my 3 younger children all want to kiss me on the lips ...they are the lips that have kissed them when they were growing up, there comes a time in a childs life when they won't kiss you on the lips and will rather give you a huge hug and a kiss on the cheek - my eldest 3 got to that point at around 10 -12 yrs ish
I wouldnt dream of kissing my teens or 20's kids on the lips <bleurk emoticon>
GreenEyesandHam Mon 11-Apr-11 23:45:41
Good gawd, I kiss all my children on the lips, nieces, nephews, I kiss my mum on the lips as well.
Other family members get the 'slightly to the side of the lips' kiss
AgentZigzag Mon 11-Apr-11 23:46:01
Fuck 'em youaretoonice, absoloutely nothing to do with anyone else.
BluddyMoFo Mon 11-Apr-11 23:48:26
My teen kisses ME on the lips....he can stop when he wants to.
I wouldnt force my kiss on the lips on any child....too many bad memories of hairy aunts at weddings - but if thats where they go to kiss me I wouldnt whick my head away.
lol BluddyMoFo hairiness is what prohibits me from kissing my older kids on the lips ...they are far hairier than I am and I am sensitive to razor rash
babybarrister Tue 12-Apr-11 07:20:44
InPraiseOfBacchus Tue 12-Apr-11 10:07:16
Both my parents still kiss me on the lips in public. It's just a sweet thing to do. It's not like we go full throttle with tongues! I don't think it's necessarily a sexual thing at all.
SherlockMoans Tue 12-Apr-11 10:59:26
You know I was thinking about this as DS, age 8, kissed me on the lips this morning. Its not something I encourage, if I realise in time then I try to steer them to a cheek, but really I think it would do far more harm if I made a fuss about it.
I am trying to gently get them out of the habit as DH kisses his mum on the lips and I think its really yukky!
As for "I love you" we say it all the time, them to me, me to them, grandma to them - mother in law vv unlikely to say it to me grin
confuddledDOTcom Tue 12-Apr-11 11:19:58
My 28 year old brother kisses our mum on the lips. I don't see the problem. It's their relationship not mine and they're just a normal mother and son.
I don't like it, it's absolutely not something anyone in our family would do. But I acknowledge that although we (inc. my parents, brother etc) are an extremely close knit family, we are not physically close and don't do much hugging and kissing. I don't object to kissing DD on the lips especially but don't choose to and wouldn't like anyone outside of immediate family to do it.
My DS (4) would do full on snogs with me, DH and DD if we let him. He loves a big smacker on the lips.
DD (5) does lips for when it's an 'important' kiss. i.e 'night night' 'bye bye' 'I love you' etc
We all say 'i love you' to each other every day.
I think it's normal and lovely.
We have a fair bit of mediterranean influence in our home though so the thought of being anything but tactile is completely alien to us grin
MyMamaToldMe Tue 12-Apr-11 11:35:09
I kiss my DD on the lips, the cheek, her hand, her arm, her head - anywhere! I love kissing her and no-one's warped views on affection will stop me from being affectionate with my child!
LadyWithNoManors Tue 12-Apr-11 11:36:06
I kiss my children on the lips, it's just a natural form of affection and i never really thought about it until I read this thread.
I think far more harm would be caused by parents NOT kissing their children and being affectionate. I'm talking from experience.
How sad that parents find it 'yukky' or feel they have to reign in showing affection for their child.
ShatnersBassoon Tue 12-Apr-11 11:42:24
We kiss our children on the lips and tell them we love them numerous times a day. That's normal to us, and there's certainly nothing romantic or sexual about our familial love and affection.
My in-laws have never told my husband that they love him. I find that really sad, and so does my husband. When MIL was terribly ill, DH told her he loved her, fearing he might not get another chance sad. She told him he was ridiculous and embarrassing her.
Quenelle Tue 12-Apr-11 11:53:02
I kiss my son on the lips and always will do if he'll let me. I tell him I love him several times a day, so does DH, and always will.
I still kiss my mum and dad on the lips too.
dearyme Tue 12-Apr-11 11:55:11
i dont kiss my kids on the lips but do hug and kiss them every day and tell them i love them
hormonesnomore Tue 12-Apr-11 14:23:32
I'm from a very undemonstrative family. No 'I love yous' or hugs. Ex-h's family are the same.
I used to love hugging and kissing my children but apart from DD1, they stopped allowing hugs when they were about 10 yrs old.
They'd think it very odd if I wanted to hug them now, as adults.
But sometimes I need a hug sad
ilikeyoursleeves Tue 12-Apr-11 16:14:58
Shatnersbassoon- I know how your dh must feel, my family have never told me they love me either. On my wedding day I told my dad I loved him & his reply was ' we'll have enough of that nonsense'. Which is why I want to show & tell my kids how much I love them
confuddledDOTcom Tue 12-Apr-11 16:15:47
My ILs don't say love you. My girls tell them they do though. First time Nanny said "I wouldn't go that far" shock so I encourage her to tell them, not that she needs it, and it's so funny! She gets louder until she's yelling and they keep pretending she said something else... she's told me Nanny's rude before now but she doesn't question why they don't say it. Her grown up cousin doesn't understand them either and always gives the girls big hugs and kisses and yells back she loves them as loud as they yell at her.
Sad thing is MIL doesn't understand why they have a better relationship with my mum and is put out by it. She's even sulking because we asked them to have my stepsons at our wedding and my parents are going to have the girls. Despite us providing a room they're planning to stay in a caravan leaving us with two lads of 11 and 14 on our wedding night because they can't see we can't ask my parents to have the boys so it's not favouritism! Favouritism they've created, mind!
birdynumnums Tue 12-Apr-11 17:36:44
I don't think you are unreasonable for kissing YOUR child on the lips but I wouldn't do it personally as think it's a bit icky and much prefer to kiss my children's pudgy little cheeks. What I object to is other people kissing MY children on the lips. I don't do it myself so it actually really pisses me off when they do this. I remember being horrified when my friend came over to see my newborn and repeatedly planted kisses on his lips.
Also, I always feel it's a bit unhygenic too. If you are coming down with an illness but don't know it yet, i'd imagine you are far more likely to pass it on kissing children on the lips.
keyweeseed Wed 11-May-11 01:40:58
im suprised this conversation is going on tbh theres nowt wrong with it, be happpppy
MollyMurphy Wed 11-May-11 02:14:07
YANBU - my mom still kisses me on the lips - its not my preferece but there is nothing "wrong" with it. In France total strangers kiss you on either cheek - different strokes for different folks. No harm in a harmless peck whereever you choose to place it.
MollyMurphy Wed 11-May-11 02:16:07
Although I can see birdynumnums point though about passing on colds.....I always think of such things too.
toomuchmonthatendofthemoney Wed 11-May-11 03:57:47
kiss ds (4) on the lips, cheeks, top of head, feet, hands, tummy wherever i can reach!! will continue to do so until either he/i feel uncomfortable. for now its totally normal, lovely and so obviously different from a "lovers" type of affection, i'm totally amazed people can even think of it as such.
tell him i love him as much as possible too, until sometimes he says "i KNOW mummy" grin
ettiketti Wed 11-May-11 06:18:35
mine are 6&8 and the only time I don't kiss on lips is when they are dirty grin
We kiss and cuddle lots and tell one another we love one another too, but I am 100% sure they are my children and my husband is my lover....
ettiketti Wed 11-May-11 06:20:54
Thinking about it my dad kisses me on the liips still and I am 41 grin doesnt seem odd at all so maybe its just our thang.
Mumtomaybebabybella Wed 11-May-11 07:03:48
yanbu. I always kissed dd12 on the lips, till she was about 10 and just gradually kissed on the cheek instead. Agree I wouldn't want to kiss an adult on the lips except dh but small children is fine and actually quite cute.
belgo Wed 11-May-11 07:13:38
I have never done this, and discourage my children from kissing anyone (family members) on the lips, mainly due to risk of cold sores which many adults have.
Plenty of hugs, I love yous and kissing on checks though!
timetomoveon Wed 11-May-11 07:33:39
I kiss ds(3) on the lips many many times a day - well, usually he's the one grabbing my ears and kissing me grin. I also kiss my dad on the lips - doesn't seem weird to me at all.
Mine are 5 (DD) and 6 (DS) and both are quite happy to pucker up for a kiss on the lips!!! Had never ever thought it was anything other than completely normal. Only talking a peck, not a slobber! At some point, obviously, it will be less appropriate, but right now? Surely ok?
strandedbear Wed 11-May-11 07:43:20
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GooGooMuck Wed 11-May-11 07:48:48
We are programmed to kiss our children on the lips as it is a way of boosting their immunity
You are supposed to do it. grin
YANBU, I kiss mine on the lips, the eldest is 8.
I find the "lips are for lovers" argument as ridiculous as "breasts are for sex"
The way I kiss my hubby is totally different to the way I kiss my children.
moanymandy Wed 11-May-11 08:45:29
Well I'm 24 and still kiss my Nan on the lips! I also see nothing wrong with kissing DC on the lips! I kiss my niece and nephew on the lips too! maybe im just wierd?!
headfirst you beat me to it, when I first read the "lips for lovers" that's the first thing that popped into my head!
I would hate to see the little look of hurt on DS face if I didnt kiss him or say I love you. sad
jeckadeck Wed 11-May-11 08:53:57
My parents never did it with me but me and DH automatically do it with DD. It feels totally natural for me now although that might change when she gets a bit bigger (she's a babe in arms). I think its horses for courses, but certainly not inappropriate.
I used to think it was a bit weird before having DD, but when she learned to kiss it was on the lips. When I kiss her I kiss her on her cheeks and her forehead, but if she wants to kiss me its on the lips.
melikalikimaka Wed 11-May-11 09:00:17
No chance, maybe when very little (rare), but don't find it appropriate and hate to watch any parent doing it.
thedirtydirtybastards Wed 11-May-11 09:13:44
The thing that really pisses me off about "lips are for lovers" and "breasts are for sex" is the implied ownership by the male partner of parts of the woman's body
My body part aren't FOR anything in that sense, they are mine to do with as I feel appropriate
I find it very sad that anyone thinks it is weird or wrong to kiss children or tell them they are loved sad
Shatners, your poor dh sad
thedirtydirtybastards Wed 11-May-11 09:17:32
having said that I do think when children are a bit older one should try to be sensitive to what they want in terms of physical affection
my nearly 9yo ds would be really horrified and hurt if I suggested toning down the physical contact in any way - he needs it
my stepfather insisted on wet, over-intimate slightly-too-long mouth kisses which made me feel sick and I dreaded hello and goodbye moments because I knew I would have to deal with the kiss - and he knew damn well that I didn't like it as well
but for the parents who think it is inappropriate even when the child is happy with it - why?
Toygirl Wed 11-May-11 09:34:46
I kiss my son on the lips and also my niece and nephew. I think it's strange that people find this odd. If I saw a mother insist their child kiss them on the cheek I would think they weren't affectionate as a person
Tuppence2 Wed 11-May-11 09:39:18
I kiss my LO (only just turned 1) on the lips, and cheeks, and forehead... Actually, anyway I can on her chubby little face grin
I also kiss my 7 yo niece on the lips, as you get no choice, she just comes over to you with her pout and plants one!
I don't kiss anyone else's children on the lips, purely because I know some families don't do it and don't want to make other parents uncomfortable. Now I think of it, it's only the 2 little girls in our family who get kisses on the lips. My nephew is 15 and avoids most kisses and cuddles from the family, like most teenagers do!
trixymalixy Wed 11-May-11 09:45:15
Yanbu, I always kiss my kids on the lips.
cannydoit Wed 11-May-11 09:53:04
oh my god. people seriously object to you kissing your own children on lips?
LyingWitchInTheWardrobe Wed 11-May-11 09:53:48
As long as children know they're loved, it doesn't matter whether the kisses are on the lip, cheeks or tops of their heads. Everything is normal and fine, whichever, parents happy/kids happy - great.
I get a bit irritated with people who say thinks akin to 'We do it this way, how sad that you don't'. It's actually judging people who haven't asked for your option.
Youaretoonice, if you're still around, I spent years working with adults aged 18-65 with severe SN, I frequently visited them at home and most of them kissed their parents on the lips. I never once thought it was the slightest bit weird from a professional view. I have a son with severe SN (9) and will not stop kissing him on the lips until he doesn't want me to anymore.
I kiss all 3 of my children on the lips, neices and nephews too.
knittedbreast Wed 11-May-11 10:20:57
i kiss both my children on lips yes lovers kiss on the lips but i know they arent my lovers they are my children so it isnt comparable at all
ChristinaEliopolis Wed 11-May-11 10:35:17
Lots of lip kissing here too - except my smallest daughter (3) who hates kisses in any form but loves a cuddle instead. Smallest son (2) would be happy to kiss all day long grin
My grownup children dropped kissing along with ANY type of loving behaviour during the nightmare that was their teen years but all are now happy to kiss us on the cheek (or top of the head in my case as I am much shorter than them all!)
They kiss their smaller sibs on the lips though - but often use a babywipe first wink
Ormirian Wed 11-May-11 10:36:32
If the child doesn't like it it's not appropriate otherwise it's fine.
Assuming we are talking about a quick peck not a snog!
GooGooMuck Wed 11-May-11 15:09:20
genuinely shocked by anyone who hates to see children being kissed.
melikalikimaka, I'm looking at you shock
I still kiss my mum smile
minipie Wed 11-May-11 15:18:21
If the DCs like it then why on earth not.
What I don't get however <tangent alert> is people who kiss their dogs on the lips. <boak>
teachermummy2011 Wed 11-May-11 15:43:31
Kisses on lips and cheeks for my DS (12) and DD (4).
Kisses in public for DD but not for DS since he was 7 although he's now more agreeable to the idea so long as there are no other kids around...
They kiss each other on the lips too.
And that's how we like it.
Pinkjenny Wed 11-May-11 15:45:32
I kiss my children, my parents and my best friend on the lips. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
wigglesrock Wed 11-May-11 15:47:08
I kiss my children on the lips (5,3 and 11 weeks), so does my husband, grandparents, aunts and uncles, anyone that they usually kiss, gets kissed on the lips.
izzybiz Wed 11-May-11 15:49:37
I kiss my Dc on the lips, well Ds1 doesn't want kisses anymore but he is 18 now! (Still hugs though)
Dd is 7 and Ds2 is 2, they both kiss me on the lips as do my nieces and nephews.
I kiss my friends on the lips too.
melikalikimaka Wed 11-May-11 16:44:59
Kissed on the lips, Googomuck!
Dont make me out to be strange, I like kisses on cheeks, hands etc. but not on the slobbering lips.
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WASHINGTON – A series of monstrous thunder storms could hit one out of 5 US states Wednesday as they strike from Iowa all the way down to Maryland bringing lightning, hail and powerful winds that can uproot houses and trees.
The weather bureau has issued a warning that the ongoing line of thunder storms could even trigger a rare weather event meteorologists call “derecho”, which is a gigantic storm of straight line winds covering at least 241 miles.
According to Bill Benting, chief of operations at Oklahoma’s National Weather Service, the storm that made landfall on Wednesday could also trigger tornadoes and topple power lines that will pave the way for an atrocious heat wave.
Benting added that the risk of harsh climatic conditions in Indianapolis, Chicago, Ohio, and Cincinatti is around 44 times bigger compared to a normal day in June.
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GRE 2014: The 10 questions you need to master
GRE 2014 is your gateway to your overseas post-graduate dreams.
If you are among the many aspirants who are looking to crack the GRE, here is the key to answer these seemingly simple questions
In the last post, we told you how you can strategise your preparation time for the Graduate Record Examination.
This time around, we'll help you identify and analyse the different type of questions that appear in the exam.
As is the case in any competitive examination, for GRE too, you need to take a spiral look at the contents, possibly identifying two to three questions on each theme.
These are obviously simple questions, but the idea is you need to crack them in the least possible time, say 30 to 45 seconds each.
To make your task easier, we present you a selection of 10 such questions you need to identify at the start of the exam and tell you how to approach them.
1. What prime numbers lie between 80 and 100?
(The idea is you get to know what a prime number is, and also memorise all prime numbers upto 120)
2. What is the sum of factors of 24?
(See, this is a speed question -- you should be able to correctly list all factors and add them up, in flat 20 seconds...Keep on practising, maybe factors of 36, of 60, of 25, of 100)
3. What is the remainder when 2000 is divided by 17?
(The idea is all tables 12 to 19 are learnt thoroughly, and you can manage divisions comfortably)
4. A does a job in 10 days, B in 15 days and C in 24 days. Together they shall do it in how many days?
5. I buy something of for $35. I incur $3 on packaging costs. What should be my selling price if I wish to make a profit of 15 per cent?
(Again, the idea is you can compute 20 per cent, 25 per cent, 5 per cent, etc profits/ losses on cost price...all in 20 seconds)
6. To 18 ml portion of 32 per cent pure alcohol, how much water shall I add to get 12 per cent pure alcohol?
7. What should be added to 650 to get a perfect square?
(All squares of numbers 1 to 30 and cubes of numbers 1 to 12 should be learned by rote)
8. What is the average of 240, 320 and 560?
(You think this should happen in how much time? 15 seconds?)
9. I go at 24 kmph and return at 36 kmph. What is my average speed for the whole journey?
10. On a clock, I connect 4 O' Clock point with the 9 O' Clock one. I also connect the 6 O' Clock point with 3 O' Clock. What is the angle of intersection of the two chords?
(You need to grasp what a chord is, interpret the basic geometry of a circle, and crack such a problem within 45 seconds)
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The transition to digital television is finally complete. Yes, it's true. Analog signals have been banished from the airwaves. If you don't believe me, hop a plane to the Netherlands and see for yourself. The cutoff came between midnight and two a.m. Monday morning, affecting 74,000 of the country's 16 million viewers--most of the remainder get cable, with only token numbers of satellite and IPTV addicts. Broadcast-dependent Dutch viewers will have to pay $66.50 for a set-top box to adapt their analog sets to the new digital signals. However, the government will save $200 per year for each of them, making subsidies at least theoretically possible. Broadcaster Royal KPN NV paid to construct the DTV transmitters. It is obligated to keep broadcasting the three state channels but can charge $18.50 a month for a package of extra channels similar to cable. Belgium and Scandinavia will jump into the DTV pool in 2007, though the United States won't follow till 2009 (or never, if broadcasters get their way).
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Thirteen is when a Beaumont’s savvy hits—and with one brother who causes hurricanes and another who creates electricity, Mibs Beaumont is eager to see what she gets. But just before the big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. And now all Mibs wants is a savvy that will save him. In fact, Mibs is so sure she’ll get a powerful savvy that she sneaks a ride to the hospital on a rickety bus with her sibling and the preacher’s kids in tow. After this extraordinary adventure—full of talking tattoos and a kidnapping—not a soul on board will ever be the same.
A Discussion Guide to Scumble and Savvy by Ingrid Law
Savvy - Chapter One
My savvy hadn’t come along yet. But I was only two days away from my very own thirteen dripping candles—though my momma’s cakes never lopped to the side or to the middle. Momma’s cakes were perfect, just like Momma, because that was her savvy. Momma was perfect. Anything she made was perfect. Everything she did was perfect. Even when she messed up, Momma messed up perfectly.
I often reckoned what it would be like for me. I pictured myself blowing out the candles on my cake and fires dying in chimneys across four counties. Or I imagined making my secret birthday wish—getting my cheeks full and round with air—then floating up toward the ceiling like my very own happy birthday balloon.
“My savvy is going to be a good one,” I told my brother Rocket. “I just know it.”
“Girls don’t get the powerful jujubes,” said Rocket, running one hand through his dark shock of unkempt hair with a crackle of static. “Girls only get quiet, polite savvies—sugar and spice and everything humdrum savvies. It’s boys who get the earthshaking kinds of savvy.”
I had scowled at my brother and stuck out my tongue. Rocket and I both knew that there were plenty of girls climbing round our family tree that had strong and sturdy savvies, like Great-aunt Jules, who could step back twenty minutes in time every time she sneezed; or our second cousin Olive, who could melt ice with a single red-hot stare.
Rocket was seventeen and full of junk that I wasn’t allowed to say until I got much, much older. But he was electric through and through, and that had always gone to his head. for fun, Rocket would make my hair stand on end like he’d rubbed it with a balloon, or hit fish with a wicked zap from the other side of the room. But Rocket could keep the lights on when the power went out, and our family sure liked that, especially the littler Beaumonts.
Rocket was the oldest, with fish and me following after. Born only a year apart, fish and I were nearly the same height and looked a lot alike, both with hair like sand and straw—hair like Momma’s. But while I had Poppa’s hazel eyes, fish had Momma’s ocean blue ones. It was as if we’d each taken a little bit of Momma, or a little bit of Poppa, and made the rest our own.
I wasn’t the youngest or the smallest in the family; broody Samson was a dark and shadowy seven, and doll-faced Gypsy was three. It was Gypsy who started calling me Mibs, when my full name, Mississippi, became far too much for her toothsome toddler tongue to manage. But that had been a relief. That name had always followed me around like one of fish’s heavy storm clouds.
The itch and scritch of birthday buzz was about all I was feeling on the Thursday before the friday before the Saturday I turned thirteen. Sitting at the dinner table, next to Poppa’s empty chair and ready plate, I barely ate a bite. Across from me, Gypsy prattled endlessly, counting the make-believe creatures she imagined seeing in the room, and begging me to help her name them.
I pushed the food around my plate, ignoring my sister and daydreaming about what it would be like when I got my very own savvy, when the telephone rang right in the middle of pot roast, mashed potatoes, and mighty unpopular green beans. As Momma rose to answer, us kids, and Grandpa Bomba too, seized the chance to plop our mashers on top of our beans while Momma’s back was turned. Samson tucked some of those beans into his pockets to give to his dead pet turtle, even though Momma always said he shouldn’t be giving it any of our good food, seeing how it was dead and all, and the food would just go to rot. But Samson was sure as sadly sure that his turtle was only hibernating, and Momma hadn’t the heart to toss it from the house.
We were all smiling to each other around the kitchen table at the smart way we’d taken care of those beans when Momma dropped the phone with a rattling clatter and a single sob—perfectly devastated. She sank to the floor, looking for all the world as if she were staring right through the checkered brown and blue linoleum to behold the burning hot-lava core at the very center of the Earth.
“It’s Poppa,” Momma said in a choked voice, as her perfect features stretched and pinched.
A gust of wind burst from fish’s side of the table, blowing everyone’s hair and sending our paper napkins flying pell-mell onto the floor. The air in the room grew warm and humid as though the house itself had broken out into a ripe, nervous sweat, and the many dusty, tightly lidded, empty-looking jars that lined the tops of all the cupboards rattled and clinked like a hundred toasting glasses. Outside it was already raining fish rain—drops hastened from a sprinkle to a downpour in seconds as fish stared, wide-eyed and gaping like his namesake, holding back his fear but unable to scumble his savvy.
“Momma?” Rocket ventured. The air around him crackled with static, and his T-shirt clung to him like socks to towels straight from the dryer. The lights in the house pulsed, and blue sparks popped and snapped at the tips of his nervous, twitching fingers.
Momma looked at Poppa’s empty chair and waiting plate, then she turned to us, chin trembling, and told us about the accident on the highway. She told us how Poppa’s car had gotten crushed up bad, like a pop can under a cowboy boot, and how he’d gone and forgotten to get out before it happened, landing himself in a room and a bed at Salina Hope Hospital, where now he lay broken and asleep, not able to wake up.
“Don’t fret, child,” Grandpa consoled Momma as though they were back in time and Momma was still a young girl sitting on his knee crying over a broken doll. “Those doctors know what’s what. They’ll fix your fellow up in no time. They’ll get his buttons sewn back on.” Grandpa Bomba’s tone was soft and reassuring. But as the strobe-like flashes from Rocket’s nervous sparks lit Grandpa’s face, I could see the worry etched deep into all his wrinkles.
For half of a half of a half of a second I hated Poppa. I hated him for working so far away from home and for having to take the highway every day. I hated him for getting in that accident and for ruining our pot roast. Mostly, I realized that my perfect cake with its pink and yellow frosting was probably not going to get made, and I hated Poppa for wrecking my most important birthday before it had even arrived. Then I felt the burning shame of even having those thoughts about my good, sweet poppa and sank low in my chair. To make amends for my selfish feelings, I sat quietly and ate every last unwelcome green bean from beneath my mashed potatoes, as fish’s rain lashed against the windows and Rocket caused every lightbulb in the house to explode with a live-wire zing and a popping shatter, sending shards of glass tinkling to the floor and pitching the house into darkness.
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You try on several pairs of eyeglasses to see how the frames look on you from multiple angles. Only you're not actually wearing physical glasses but rather examining a lifelike 3D model of your own head on the iPad.
Or you are indeed wearing physical glasses. But by turning dials attached to the frame, you can alter the corrective power of the left and right lens, without having to consult an eye care professional.
I'm not outlining some futuristic vision on the state of eyewear. I'm talking about two new examples of how technology has changed the way you might purchase specs, not just in the future, but right now.
I'll focus on each separately.
• app. Right off the bat, you can probably think of three very good reasons why you might be reluctant to buy glasses virtually using an iPad. For starters, you're not sure what the glasses will look like on you. But you also question how comfortable the frames will be to wear, and — most critically — how well you'll ultimately be able to see through them.
With its very cool new iPad app, has pretty well solved the how-you'll-look conundrum, and is addressing the other issues.
The company's proprietary 180-degree 3D facial mapping software lets you see how numerous frames look on your own mug in a realistic and fun manner.
Glasses from dozens of popular brands are available, and you can narrow your options by searching for regular glasses or sunglasses by type, colors, style and price. A price slider goes from zero to $400+.
You can compare up to four frames at a time in a single view, and tap on one of those views for a closer look. But these aren't stationary images. You can swipe to move the 3D rendering of your head from side to side to see how the glasses look from each perspective. The computer even generates the appropriate shadows under your eyes as you move. You can also swipe to "slide" frames up and down the bridge of your nose. You can even raise the arms of the frame to get a better peek behind you ears.
As you refine your choices, you can seek second opinions from family and friends by e-mailing or texting pictures of you wearing the virtual glasses, or by the sharing images on Facebook or Twitter.
In certain instances, (which is a division of 1-800 Contacts) will send you frames to try on at home before committing to buying them. The company also has a liberal return policy if the glasses don't feel right or the prescription needs to be adjusted. You'll still need a prescription from your eye doctor. And if glasses need to be adjusted over time, you'll have to get that done at a physical location.
Certain frames are bifocal eligible, but for now, you can't order reading glasses or prescription sunglasses through the app. makes good use of narrated videos to get you started creating your online avatar. You're told to go to your bathroom where there is good lighting, and are instructed to pull any long hair behind your ears. You then place the back of your iPad flat against the mirror without trapping your fingers behind it. While the iPad records your face, you'll be instructed to avoid talking, smiling or showing your teeth, since doing so can distort the 3D model.
You'll then be directed to slowly move your head all the way left, back to center, then all the way right, and back to center again. After taking these steps, you're taken through a simple digital fitting, the final step before you're ready to "try on" the glasses.
When you're ready to buy, you can order through the app — says it'll take about two weeks to receive your glasses, with expedited shipping options available for an extra fee. claims their overall prices are cheaper than competitors.
I have to say, the free 3Dfit app is so much fun, it's worth trying out even if you're not shopping for new glasses. You'll get a great vision into the future of online shopping now. is working on an iPhone app, as well, and versions for the Android platform.
• Adlens. I don't expect Adlens set-your-own prescription lenses to put optometrists out of business. The Oxford, England, based company is selling its Variable Focus Eyewear through traditional eye-care channels. The appealing idea, though, is that you can adjust the power of each lens as you need to, within a range of -4.50 diopters to +3.50 diopters, at least for the round John Lennon-style glasses that I got to try out.
The idea is you might use these glasses for reading, or carry them around as a spare pair. But Adlens CEO Michael Ferrara is not suggesting that you skip a true eye exam, or even necessarily use these as your full-time glasses.
On the Lennon-style glasses ($100 on up), which frankly didn't look good on me, you change the power of the lenses by first rolling the dial at each edge of the frame all the way forward. You then cover your right eye, look at an object, and turn the left dial backwards until the object comes into focus. You repeat the process with the other eye. In simplified terms, a flexible membrane combined with fluid changes the lens power as you rotate the dial.
Once you're satisfied that you've reached the correct position, you can remove the dials, which makes the prescription you've set permanent and the glasses themselves slightly less odd-looking.
You can always leave dials on the frames if you want to continually make adjustments for different sets of environments, perhaps when you're reading a magazine as opposed to watching TV. But they'll look strange. Adlens sells other models based on a different technology that lets you continually adjust the strength of the lenses without looking as weird.
The bottom line: app
Free iPad app. Eyeglass prices vary
Pro: iPad app is fun to use and great way to shop for glasses virtually using 3D model of your face.
Con: You still need to wear glasses to evaluate comfort and vision. No prescription sunglasses or reading glasses are available through app yet.
Adlens Variable Focus Eyewear
$100 on up (for Lennon style glasses)
Pro: Glasses whose lenses you can self-adjust, including the left and right lens independently.
Con: Round glasses won't look good on every face. Once you remove dials (on Lennon-style I tested), you cannot continue to adjust prescription. No sub for real eye exam.
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Vor Kragal
By Nicolas Logue
The ancient tiefling empire of Bael Turath was crushed beneath the might of the dragonborn empire of Arkhosia long ago, but remnants of the corrupted tiefling rulers live on in the world. One such vestige of the empire’s glory is the ruined city of Vor Kragal, City of Ash. One one of Bael Turath’s crown jewels, the city is now home to foul monsters, deadly traps, ancient curses—and untold wealth and power. Adventurers have long sought to plumb the depths of the city, but few have returned to civilized lands to tell the tales. Enter Vor Kragal at your own risk!
The hellish masters of Bael Turath once held control of large portions of the world—both above and below the surface. Their enemies shuddered at rumors of extraplanar holdings that dwarfed even their sprawling empire in the world.
Bael Turath rose to power when the empire of Arkhosia was at its peak, and it was inevitable that the upstart empire would come into conflict with the dragonborn. The war that erupted when these two fearsome powers careened into each other engulfed the entire world. Dragonborn surged into the borders of Bael Turath by the thoursands, and the wings of their masters darkened the sky.
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I am trying to use a c++ dll in python but I cant even load it. I am trying the following python code to load it:
from ctypes import cdll
mydll = cdll.LoadLibrary('SORT_DLL.dll')
But when i try to run this i get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:...\src\SORT_DLL\Debug\UseDll.py", line 2, in
mydll = cdll.LoadLibrary('SORT_DLL.dll')
File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes__init__.py", line 443, in LoadLibrary
return self._dlltype(name)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes__init__.py", line 365, in init
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 ist keine zulõssige Win32-Anwendung
The last sentence means "%1 is not a valid Win32 application" in english.
I already looked it up at http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html#module-ctypes , but this didnt lead to a solution for my problem.
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First, is it actually a cdll rather than a windll? Second, as the documentation says, you're not supposed to add the .dll suffix on Windows. – abarnert Nov 7 '12 at 7:47
Also, one good way to debug ctypes problems loading libraries is to break the steps up explicitly. First try to use the native Win32 LoadLibrary (if you've got PyWin32, that's the easiest way; if not, you can ctypes the system DLL, I think it's user32, or you can use the undocumented wrapper in _ctypes.LoadLibrary) and see if you can get a handle. Then you can try to create a CDLL instance by calling the constructor with the explicit handle and see what happens. If the first step works but the second fails, try some explicit GetProcAddress calls with the handle. – abarnert Nov 7 '12 at 7:55
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Sounds like you have an incompatible version of Python installed or the DLL was compiled using the wrong settings. The DLL and the Python interpreter both have to be either 32 or 64 Bit.
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Thanks. Although i have compiled the DLL for 64bit and had the Python 64bit version installed, it didn't work. Now i have the 32bit version of Python installed and everything works great. – nimp0u Nov 7 '12 at 15:06
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Refer to this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10163943/953887
"ctypes doesn't work with C++, which the [DLL] example is written in."
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this link is a complete example to creating and using .dll files via ctypes: Python | accessing dll using ctypes
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In a voxel game I'm making, I'm using VBO's for rendering the world. I' use somthing like this to send the vertices to the GPU:
FloatBuffer vertexData = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(..?);
float[] vertices = new float[..?];
//vertex calculations go here
//send the vertices
int vboVertexHandle = glGenBuffers();
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vboVertexHandle);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexData, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
However, the vertices are calculated dynamically, and there is no way to know how many I will be rendering beforehand. So I don't know how much space to allocate to the FloatBuffer and to the array.
I thought using ArrayList's but it seems slow and unefficient. Is there any way I can make an array or a FloatBuffer without specifying a size? Or sending the data to the GPU as the vertices are calculated, instead of sending them all in the end?
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Why not just use an ArrayList to generate your data, copy the vertices into a FloatBuffer, and then use that?
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You mean ArrayList? – Luis Cruz Nov 10 '12 at 17:08
@LuisCruz: Yes. – Nicol Bolas Nov 10 '12 at 17:09
Thanks, I'll try that. – Luis Cruz Nov 10 '12 at 17:12
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I am going to improve a web site in Apache and PHP which has a page with a table containing a list of files. My goal is to allow the user to set one of those files as the “important” one based on some specific and subjective criteria. In order to do that, I want to store the information regarding the most “important” file in some way, with the restriction that I am able to use neither databases nor files (constraints imposed by supervisor).
My questions are:
• Is it possible?
• How can I do this?
I already did a search in this site, but I did not find an answer.
EDIT: By the way, finally I solved my problem using an XML file. Thanks a lot to everyone.
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Your supervisor is an idiot if he expects you to persist data without actually saving it anywhere. – Martin Bean Jul 26 '13 at 8:25
Please make sure you make your supervisor read the above comment – Mr. Alien Jul 26 '13 at 8:27
You might want to find a different supervisor .. – tereško Jul 26 '13 at 8:29
I expect there is a misunderstanding here somewhere - ask the supervisor (work supervisor? or teacher?) which means of storage are acceptable. Is it supposed to be user specific? or persistent? Nobody is likely to willingly ask you to do something that's not possible, unless that's the point of the task - for you to conclude/say it's not possible. – AD7six Jul 26 '13 at 8:36
Yes, your supervisor is a fool. First, get yourself a job where your 'supervisor' actually wants you to better yourself, but in the mean time, either use sessions / cookies... or memcache / apc (warn the idiot that once the server is restarted, the list of importants are gone). – Jimbo Jul 26 '13 at 9:12
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Assuming these criteria are client-side rather than server-side, because if they're server-side and it's supposed to be one 'important' file for all users then there's no way to do this without storage.
The supposed answer to your solution is localStorage()...
It's Javascript dependent and definitely not a perfect solution, but HTML5 localStorage allows you to store preferences on your users' computers.
First, detect support for localStorage():
if (Modernizr.localstorage) { // with Modernizr
if (typeof(localStorage) != 'undefined' ) { // Without Modernizr
Then set a parameter if it's supported:
localStorage.setItem("somePreference", "Some Value");
And then later retrieve it, as long as your user hasn't cleared local storage out:
var somePreference = localStorage.getItem("somePreference");
When you want to clear it, just use:
For those using unsupported (older) browsers, you can use local storage hacks abusing Flash LSOs, but those are definitely not ideal.
What about sessions or cookies?
Both of these are intentionally temporary forms of storage. Even Flash LSOs are better than cookies for long-term storage.
The constraint is literally encouraging poor practices...
All of these options are browser-side. If the user moves to another PC, his/her preferences will be reset on that PC, unlike with a database-powered authentication system where you can save preferences against a login.
The best way to store this kind of data is in a database. If you can't run a database service, you could use SQLite or store the data in JSON or XML files.
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Thanks a lot to everyone for your suggestions! Since it is a client side decision which must be propagated to the server side I guess that the answer to my questions is that it is not possible if I am not able to relief the constrints. Thanks! – pafede2 Jul 26 '13 at 8:56
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Cookies might be helpful. I can't think of any other secure way. This isn't too graceful either.
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Do you know how much data can a cookie hold? – Mr. Alien Jul 26 '13 at 8:29
Its 4kb. It should be ample for the stuff you would be using . – trunks175 Jul 26 '13 at 8:44
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You can persist data temporarily using sessions and cookies. They don't require files or database; However, as mentioned, it is temporary because the data is gone when the browser is closed or the cookie expires.
If you are told to persist data permanently without the use of files or database, your supervisor has already set you up to fail.
Hope this helps.
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Sessions are typically persisted with either files or a database. Of course, an in-memory database could be used. – Jack Jul 26 '13 at 8:32
I know; those files are created by the system and not the OP; so, in a way, he's still complying with the requirements. – Kneel-Before-ZOD Jul 26 '13 at 8:33
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The only options I can see would be to either use cookies (which aren't permanent and are stored as files on the client).
Another option may be to use something like Parse which is allows you to store data in the cloud.
It depends how strict your supervisor is however since the first solution uses (client) files and the latter will be using a database on another server.
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You could try using a cookie to store the data
To set the filename use:
setcookie("important", $importantFileName);
To read the data use:
$importantFileName = $_COOKIE["important"];
But this wil only work for the current user and other users wont be able to view this.
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my problem "should" be simple but I am still not able to solve it.
I am currently working on a project that requires some heavy computations (done in C++) and some post-simulations data analysis (done in Python).
However, now I am changing the main algorithm and I will need to "cycle" some computations back and forth from C++ and Python. That is, I will need to move back and forth from C++ and Python a matrix of doubles.
In C++ the matrix of data is a "gsl_matrix" object while in python the same matrix is implemented as a "numpy array".
At the moment, I am running my C++ code, saving the matrix to file, reading it from python, writing it back to file and then opening it back again in C++ for further computations.
Since this is VERY inefficient, I would like to ask if somebody can give me an example on how to do it in a "clean" way.
I have been reading (and trying for 10 days) SWIG, Cython, Boost.Python and Boost.Numpy but I'm still not able to crack it.
Does anyone have a worked example to share?
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How do you see things happening? Converting a gsl_matrix struct pointer to a PyArrayObject pointer using PyArray_SimpleNewFromData seems pretty straightforward, but how to handle everything around it depends very much on what/how you want things to happen. – Jaime Sep 11 '13 at 19:37
well, the idea would be to have something live: " import numpy as np import MYCPP as mycpp DATA = np.loadtxt(...) # here DATA would be a TxN matrix out = mycpp.run(DATA, params) # here out would be a Nx1 vector " In C++, DATA needs to be a gsl_matrix in order to work and the "out" vector returned from the C++ code will be a gsl_vector – Rene Sep 11 '13 at 19:53
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I think you don't need to implement yourself the wrapper, because you may use pygsl. If you really want to implement your own version, here is the routine from pygsl that might be worth to you
#include <gsl/gsl_matrix_double.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_matrix_complex_double.h>
%include typemaps.i
// gsl_matrix typemaps
%typemap(in) gsl_matrix* %{
PyArrayObject *_PyMatrix$argnum;
gsl_matrix_view matrix$argnum;
_PyMatrix$argnum = (PyArrayObject*)
PyArray_ContiguousFromObject($input, PyArray_DOUBLE, 2, 2);
if (_PyMatrix$argnum == NULL)
return NULL;
= gsl_matrix_view_array((double*)_PyMatrix$argnum->data,
$1 = &matrix$argnum.matrix;
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I am still not sure how to use this. Anyway, I don't think pygsl is a solution. I don't need to call gsl functions, I need to be able to pass a gsl_matrix to my C++ program from python. I.e. I need to make my C++ program "seen" as a python module to send and return gsl_matrices. – Rene Sep 15 '13 at 6:08
I put this pygsl implementation code because it seems to be the way pygsl sends the python array to GSL ("(double*)_PyMatrix$argnum->data"). So, it seems the conversion to C/c++ gsl_matrix has to be somewhat similar to this. – Vinicius Miranda Sep 16 '13 at 18:26
I still have no idea of what to do with this. – Rene Sep 24 '13 at 8:41
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The wx.Cursor class automatically scales the image I give it to 32x32 and I need to use a cursor that is larger than that.
On http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307213 I saw what might be the reason for this behavior
Although cursors can, in theory, be any size, the system imposes a standard size that is exposed by means of the SM_CXCURSOR and SM_CYCURSOR values. These metrics are read-only. On standard, low-DPI systems, these metrics are set to 32x32 pixels (32 bytes/row). When the system loads cursors by means of the standard LoadCursor function, the cursor is stretched to this dimension.
but I also saw that it can be done
The system also provides the SetSystemCursor API function that you can use to change the system cursor for specific categories. You can use this function to set a cursor of any size. However, you must call the function programmatically, and you can only use it to set a cursor for a specific category. You cannot use it to make all cursors on the system the same size.
Is there something I am missing in the wx docs or must I directly call the windows api?
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It turns out wx doesn't do anything to support non standard sized cursors.
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I can work out how to create anagrams of a string but I don't know how I can compare them to a dictionary of real words to check if the anagram is a real word. Is there a class in the Java API that contains the entire English dictionary?
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No, but you can get a wordlist from various places. From there, you could read the wordlist file into a list:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("wordlist.txt"));
String line = null;
And finally binary search use lines.contains() for your candidate word.
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No reason to use O(log N) binary search when Set implementations such as HashSet can be so much faster. – Alex Martelli Apr 24 '10 at 17:56
Super good point Alex Martelli. I have no idea what I was thinking. Need coffee. – sblom Apr 24 '10 at 18:08
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No, you have to use an external library, such as JWNL, which is a wrapper for WordNet -- a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings, that contains pretty much every English word.
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I'm not familiar with JWNL, but wouldn't the "meaning" data add unnecessary bulk to an application that really only needs a simple word list? – Carl Smotricz Apr 24 '10 at 18:06
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Maybe the English dictionary in jazzy can help you.
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There's no such specialized class in the standard Java library, but you can use any implementation you like of the Set interface and initialize it by loading it up with words of your choosing, picked from any of the innumerable word lists you can find in many places (just check out carefully that the license for the word list you choose is compatible with your intended application, e.g., does it allow commercial use, closed-source apps if that's what you require, and so forth).
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One method of determining whether a set of characters is an anagram of a word involves using prime numbers. Assign each letter a prime number, for example, a=2, b=3, c=5, d=7. Now precompute the product of primes for each word in your dictionary. For example, 'add' = 2*7*7 = 98, or 'bad' = 3*2*7 = 42.
Now determining if a set of letters is an anagram of any word in a dictionary can be done by computing the value of the set of letters. For example, the letters 'abd'= 2*3*7 = 42 = 'bad'. Just check whether the computed value for the letters exists in your precomputed dictionary. For any anagram, you need only do this computation once versus trying to generate every possible anagram. Note however this method will only work well for relatively small words, otherwise you will run into overflow issues and need to use BigInteger.
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I have a shell-like console for my app, which prompts with ">>>" after every command. The problem is every time I have my shell WriteText(">>> "), it also appends a new line. The user can backspace up to the correct line, but this just looks terrible. Any way to fix it?
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Forgot to mention, this is a wxpython TextCtrl.WriteText() operation – Shaunak Mar 5 '11 at 1:15
(Something somewhere is adding a newline... find out where it is :p) – user166390 Mar 5 '11 at 3:53
Tried it. Yes really awful. Got no solution for it – joaquin Mar 5 '11 at 10:23
add some minimal code demonstrating the problem – Anurag Uniyal Mar 6 '11 at 4:10
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I suspect you are declaring your TextCtrl to be of style wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER and then binding the EVT_TEXT_ENTER event - only because I ran into the same problem when I tried that.
My first instinct was to write a method to process wx.EVT_TEXT_ENTER that would then use the TextCtrl:Remove() method. This method only seems to remove visible characters, unfortunately. My next thought was to use the EmulateKeyPress() method along with backspace (WKX_BACK) to erase the newline character. This might be doable though I couldn't come up with a good way to spoof a wx.KeyEvent (can't just use event.m_keyCode since EVT_TEXT_ENTER sends a CommandEvent, and not a KeyEvent) so I gave up on that approach... err, I mean this solution is left as an exercise to the reader.
wx.EVT_TEXT_ENTER being a CommandEvent finally led to a third angle which did work. Instead of binding wx.EVT_TEXT_ENTER, I bound wx.EVT_CHAR and put in logic with special processing for the Return key (ASCII key code 13). I then planned to implement the EmulateKeyPress() bit I talked about earlier but when I removed wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER from the TextCtrl style, I discovered that the \n was no longer being surreptitiously added. Code follows:
import wx
class TestRun(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self,parent):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, title="StackO Test", size=(400,400))
self.control = wx.TextCtrl(self, id=wx.ID_ANY, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE)
self.control.Bind(wx.EVT_CHAR, self.OnPress)
def OnPress(self, event):
if event.GetKeyCode() == 13:
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = wx.App(False)
The event.Skip() line is crucial; during my research into this, I learned that a KeyEvent is usually followed by a CharEvent. The CharEvent is the part where the character is written to the TextCtrl. When you intercept the KeyEvent, the CharEvent is only called if you do so explicitly - event.skip() is therefore vital if you want your TextCtrl to otherwise behave as normal. Without it, any keyboard input not equal to ASCII keycode 13 would do nothing.
From my tests, it appears that there is something about declaring the TextCtrl to have style wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER that makes it print a newline after each call to WriteText(). My way gets around this though you will have more work to do with regard to making sure the insertion point is always in the right place, etc.
Best of luck!
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Yea figured this out after a little tinkering, but great answer. – Shaunak Mar 25 '11 at 18:17
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I have a program that uses clipboard but I want to restore the clipboard to its former state after I am done with it.
This is my code :
IDataObject temp = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
//Some stuff that change Cliboard here
//Some stuff that change Cliboard here
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What is this, WinForms? WPF? – Jeff Mercado Jun 7 '11 at 8:26
Windows form application – user779444 Jun 7 '11 at 9:03
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I cannot confirm whether this will work, but I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to back up the data using the longer approach of actually reading the data and restoring it afterwards.
Read here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.idataobject.aspx
You would do something like (pseudo-code)
var lBackup = new Dictionary<string, object>();
var lDataObject = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
var lFormats = lDataObject.GetFormats(false);
foreach(var lFormat in lFormats)
lBackup.Add(lFormat, lDataObject.GetData(lFormat, false);
//Set test data
//Would be interesting to check the contents of lDataObject here
//Restore data
foreach(var lFormat in lFormats)
//This might be unnecessary
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This cannot be done. You cannot backup/restore the clipboard without causing unintended consequences. Please see my post on a similar question. My answer is the one that starts with "It's folly to try to do this".
How do I backup and restore the system clipboard in C#?
Furthermore, I suspect that your motivation for wanting to backup/restore the clipboard is because you want to use it as a crutch to move data, without the user's knowledge or consent. Please read: http://www.clipboardextender.com/developing-clipboard-aware-programs-for-windows/common-general-clipboard-mistakes and http://www.flounder.com/badprogram.htm#clipboard
Lastly, please read and understand this quote:
“Programs should not transfer data into our out of the clipboard without an explicit instruction from the user.” — Charles Petzold, Programming Windows 3.1, Microsoft Press, 1992
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It is all true but you probably never worked with PowerPoint API. Using of clipboard is the only way to copy shapes/slides/notes from one presentation to another. See stackoverflow.com/questions/5073988/… stackoverflow.com/questions/5740749/… stackoverflow.com/questions/15043767/… – utapyngo Mar 14 '13 at 6:35
Or even old school Word CommandBarButton custom icons... you had to copy the image to the clipboard and then use PasteFace() – Net Dev Nov 7 '13 at 19:58
It is also the only way to get an image from the BrowserControl. – idstam Dec 3 '13 at 17:54
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Is your application exiting after resetting the clipboard?
Assuming it is a Win Form app. (not sure how it works in wpf though) You could use one of the other overloaded version of Clipboard.SetDataObject
public static void SetDataObject(object data, bool copy)
which preserves the data even after your app exits.
ex: in your case after removing the text content you could call Clipboard.SetDataObject(iDataObject, true);
I Could source step through Clipboard.cs .NET Frameword 4 / VS 2010. Download the .NET Framework 4 from here http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx. Follow the below steps and if it asks for the source (Clipboard.cs) it would be in the Source sub-dir of the installation dir.
Not sure why the same code doesn't work. Cannot be a security/permission issue as the code doesn't throw an exception as you say.
There is another approach - source stepping into Framework code - Clipboard.cs Based on the VS version and .NET framework it may vary ( I couldn't get the source stepping work for .NET 4 as the info is that the symbols with source support haven't yet been released). I'm trying my luck by downloading it manually from here (.NET Version 4)
If you are running VS 2008 and older version of .NET then the below steps should work for you.
Source Symbol Setting
General Debugging Settings
More details are here. For .NET Framework 4 - here
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The problem is that it has nothing to do with application reset because my application should work a lot of time and the user wouldn't like his clipboard to change. no resetting is going on here. I need to backup & restore while the application is still open. – user779444 Jun 7 '11 at 9:01
In either case the above pasted code should still work. Does it throw any exception? – Vijay Sirigiri Jun 7 '11 at 9:07
No, just not working. same as before – user779444 Jun 7 '11 at 9:15
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Is there an easy way to create and Object and set properties in C# like you can in Javascript.
Example Javascript:
var obj = new Object;
obj.value = 123476;
obj.description = "this is my new object";
obj.mode = 1;
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Errm, do you mean creating an object in general or creating an actual System.Object and adding properties dynamically? – Yuck Jul 8 '11 at 14:29
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try c# anonymous classes
var obj = new {
value = 123475,
description = "this is my new object",
mode = 1 };
there are lots of differences though...
@Valera Kolupaev & @GlennFerrieLive mentioned another approach with dynamic keyword
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In case, it you want to create un-tyed object use ExpandoObject.
dynamic employee, manager;
employee = new ExpandoObject();
employee.Name = "John Smith";
employee.Age = 33;
manager = new ExpandoObject();
manager.Name = "Allison Brown";
manager.Age = 42;
manager.TeamSize = 10;
Your's other option is to use anonymous class , but this will work for you, only if you would use it in scope of method, since it can't be passed outside or as a parameter.
But, IMO, to take full advantage of C#, it's better to switch programming paradigm to strongly-typed, that is C# is designed for.
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In C# you could do:
var obj = new SomeObject {
value = 123476,
description = "this is my new object",
mode = 1
EDIT: Holding this here pending clarification from OP as I may have misunderstood his intentions.
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The way to do this is you use C# 4.0 Dynamic types like Expando Object... see this topic:
How to create a class dynamically
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I'm trying to get HTML5 offline storage working in a basic way. I read the information on DiveIntoHTML5 and it seems to make sense, but it just doesn't seem to be working for me. I wondered if someone could help me to debug this.
Basically I've set up a home page for the application, index.htm. So my application is on the web at http://www.mydomain.com/online/index.htm. Users will visit this page, where they'll ordinaraily do all of their stuff day-to-day. Visiting this URL will create a bunch of cached files so they can then visit http://www.mydomain.com/offline and view a working version of the application when they're offline.
The top few lines of code in the online homepage are:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html manifest="cache.manifest">
I've generated a plain text file called 'cache.txt' and added the following content to it in Notepad:
I've then renamed this file to 'cache.manifest' and uploaded it to the root of the online application (at the same level as my home-page) so that it's accessible at http://www.mydomain.com/online/cache.manifest.
The hosting company have supposedly added the content type of 'text/cache-manifest' to all files with the extension of .manifest in IIS. I think this is working because when I view the file in Firefox at http://www.mydomain.com/online/cache.manifest Firebug tells me the content type is:
Content-Type cache-manifest
Or should this be returning 'text/cache-manifest'? Perhaps this is the problem?
When I view the offline storage folder on my system (C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\b12u6xza.default there's nothing in there related to this domain at all.
Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong - as I'm a little stumped?
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First of all, the specification have changed, you should now use .appcache as manifest extension.
Second, the mime type should be defined as you say text/cache-manifest. I'm not really related to IIS but seems like there's two ways to add this MIME type , either trough IIS administration UI or via web.config file
Also, I would recommend you testing this with Google Chrome, since its console show all the manifest parsing data and errors, including when the manifest MIME type is not being correctly recognized.
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the spec says the file can have any extension – pinoyyid Nov 9 '13 at 19:40
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try to add these lines in httpd.conf ..this might help you
AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
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Is this for Apache, or IIS? My environment is Windows/IIS. – Dan Oct 4 '11 at 10:30
this is for apache .. – Aman Agarwal Oct 4 '11 at 10:32
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March 14, 2014
Crawford considers code enforcement options
Over a number of months now, the Crawford Town Council has been trying to solve the problem of continuous complaints from citizens about code violations.
The town council has researched having a municipal court.
It brought in Lynn French, a municipal judge in Hotchkiss, Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee and Undersheriff Mark Taylor and town attorney Jim Brown.
The concerns of the council have been that citizens may call and complain to the town or call the sheriff, but are unwilling to sign a complaint against the alleged violator of town code, whether it's for barking dogs, dogs at large or noise problems. The council is also concerned about speeding cars and ATVs through town.
The cost of having a municipal court would be in paying for a judge. Lynn French charges $250 a month, but someone else could be less. Fees would be assessed to those found guilty of breaking town code. Those fees would go to offset law enforcement costs and the cost of the judge, with the remainder to the town.
A petition was submitted at the Jan. 15 Crawford Town Council meeting which was opposed to a municipal court and increased involvement by the sheriff that would involve higher costs to the town. However, citizens also want the sheriff to enforce municipal code.
No one on town council at any time has made a motion to establish a municipal court in Crawford.
Jackie Savage, town clerk, presented an idea from Pam Archer that would start a public awareness program to reduce the neighborhood disturbances. It would require a council resolution to initiate the program.
For example, if a citizen complained about a neighbor who has a barking dog or was making too much noise, the town would send a letter to the neighbor and explain the town's ordinances.
The draft resolution states, "The Town of Crawford finds it is in the best interest of public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Town to create a public awareness campaign of common neighborhood complaints ... There is a need to allow residents the benefits of autonomy and freedom from retaliation while allowing their complaint to be heard ... There is a need to allow violators to increase their understanding of the rules and regulation and resolve problems they may be unaware of."
The person bringing the complaint would have to "be responsible for knowing the evidence of the complaint such as date, time, owner, address. The complainant would not have to fear retaliation from a violator and may remain anonymous."
Then the alleged violator would be notified by the town with a letter with the applicable town law stated. The letter would also inform the person "that they are affecting someone's quiet enjoyment of life." The goal is for the person to have "the opportunity to accept personal responsibility and correct [the situation].
"This program does not change Crawford Municipal Code or its enforcement. It merely is an alternate resolution to neighborhood disturbances."
Savage presented to the council four sample letters that would be sent to alleged violators of town code. The letters explain the Public Awareness Program, offers helpful hints on how to take steps to resolve the problem and states the Crawford Municipal Code that pertains to the complaint. She provided letters on noisy animals, unreasonable noise, dogs at large and illegal operation of OHV, motorcycle, moped or snowmobile on designated roads and streets. She also presented a proposed ordinance to require all dogs to be registered within town limits. "At the end of the year you would have an actual number of the violations," Savage said.
She also stated that the town will not make any assumption of guilt for the person being sent a letter.
The trustees will review and discuss the latest suggestions for a Public Awareness Program kand dog registration at their February work session on Feb. 19.
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Rift's new Instant Action feature lets high level players form a group and embark on dynamically generated quests. Each task will scale in difficulty depending on the size and strength of the group. Form one large enough and you'll be staving off hordes of enemies and wading through oceans of shiny new loot. It's an interesting way to use the tech behind Rift's dynamically generated portal invasions, and is just the latest in a huge rush of new monsters and zones that the devs have recently added.
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UPS system provides hardwired input and output connections
Middle Atlantic Products announced the addition of a hardwired rackmount UPS to its family of UPS systems that provides a code-compliant, cost-effective solution for seamlessly distributing battery backup power both inside and outside the rack. The UPS system offers hardwired input and output connections and minimizes the chance of inadvertent or malicious disconnection. Critical applications for the UPS system include casinos, prisons and banks.
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May 8 2009 4:15pm
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Shadow Rising, Part 16
Fear not, for it is another Wheel of Time Re-read post! Today we are covering Chapters 45-46 of The Shadow Rising.
Previous entries are here, and you are as ever warned that this and they are positively dripping with spoilers. Eurgh.
Also, I want to give y’all a heads up that a fun Side Project post is coming your way, hopefully next week. More As It Develops. Keep a weather eye.
And, yeah. So, the post, in which we discuss textual errors, involuntary suppression of free will, and the ramifications of conflicting political philosophies.
Chapter 45: The Tinker’s Sword
What Happens
At the south end of the village, the men gathered there, mostly Coplins (and Cenn Buie), tell Perrin proudly that they’ve been holding off Trollocs too, but Perrin sees a figure in a yellow coat beyond the perimeter and tells them disgustedly that they’ve been shooting at Tinkers. He shouts for the Tinkers to come in and makes the men move the wagons blocking the road. The Tinkers approach fearfully, and Perrin sees that there are only about twenty of them, and most are wounded. Faile runs to Ila and hugs her, but the Tinkers will not come any closer at first. Hari Coplin complains about letting thieving Tinkers in town, and Daise Congar agrees.
Cenn scratched his thinning hair, eyeing the Wisdom sideways. “Aaah . . . well . . . Perrin,” he said slowly in that scratchy voice, “the Tinkers do have a reputation, you know, and—” He cut off, jumping back as Perrin whirled Stepper to face the Two Rivers folk.
A good many scattered before the dun, but Perrin did not care. “We’ll not turn anyone away,” he said in a tight voice. “No one! Or do you mean to send children off for the Trollocs?” One of the Tuatha’an children began to cry, a sharp wailing, and he wished he had not said that, but Cenn’s face went red as a beet, and even Daise looked abashed.
Cenn and Daise quickly change their tune, and Daise and others begin escorting the Tinkers into town, promising them baths and beds. Raen and Ila look numb with shock, and Ila mumbles through her bruised, swollen face that they came in the night, and there was nothing they could do; behind her, Aram shivers, staring at all the armed men. Perrin frowns, trying to calculate from that how many Trollocs are still left in the area, and then feels guilty for coldly considering numbers. He thinks he is useless here, and maybe now is the time to head after Loial and Gaul while Faile is distracted with the Tinkers. Before he can do anything, though, he is stopped by Haral Luhhan, who tells him he’s being harassed by men wanting him to forge them replacement bits for their scavenged armor.
“I would like to give you a hand,” Perrin said, “but I have something else that needs doing. I’d likely be rusty, anyway. I haven’t had much work at a forge the last year.”
“Light, I didn’t mean that. Not for you to work a hammer.” The blacksmith sounded shocked. “Every time I send one of those goose-brains off with a bee in his ear, he’s back ten minutes later with a new argument. I cannot get any work done. They’ll listen to you.”
Perrin doubts this, but to his surprise it works, and the day goes on like that, everyone asking him for answers to questions and to settle disputes. He’s annoyed that Dannil and Ban and the others insist on following him everywhere with that banner in imitation of the Illianer Companions that Tam had told them about, and gets rid of them by sending them off to guard the forest-clearing party. Later, Luc arrives, bringing the head of a Fade as a trophy, and puts it on a pole in the Green; a bunch of villagers tell him all about the battle, with what Perrin thinks is a gross exaggeration of his own role in it. Luc gives patronizing congratulations to Perrin on his beginner’s luck, and goes to the inn; Perrin has the Myrddraal head taken down and burned. The questions continue, and Perrin doesn’t understand why they’re all behaving like this, all wanting to know what he wants, when usually Emond’s Fielders are happy to argue about every last aspect of a plan of action. He finally goes back to the inn, where Marin plunks him in a chair and tells him Emond’s Field can survive without him for an hour while he eats something. Bode and Eldrin Cauthon are there too, feeding Aram and grinning at him; Aram smiles back at them weakly, but he’s mostly occupied with staring at all the weaponry along the walls. Faile comes out of the kitchen in a flour-covered apron, and says defensively that she’s never baked before, but it’s kind of fun, and she might do it again someday. Perrin wants to know how they will have bread if she doesn’t bake, and she tells him the cook or her helpers will bake, of course; Perrin doesn’t quite know what to say to that. He tells her instead that this Perrin Goldeneyes business is getting out of hand. She studies him thoughtfully, and asks how long it’s been since the Queen of Andor ruled there in truth. Perrin replies, a couple of centuries, maybe, why? Faile answers that the villagers don’t remember how to deal with a queen – or king – and they are trying to puzzle it out. Perrin is appalled at what she’s implying, and she laughs and amends it to “leader”, at least, since she doubts Morgase would approve the other, but surely she would approve of the man that brought these lands back into Andor’s fold.
“Perrin of House Aybara, Lord of the Two Rivers. It has a good sound.”
“We do not need any lords in the Two Rivers,” he growled at the oak tabletop. “Or kings, or queens. We are free men!”
“Free men can have a need to follow someone, too,” she said gently. “Most men want to believe in something larger than themselves, something wider than their own fields. That is why there are nations, Perrin, and peoples. Even Raen and Ila see themselves as part of something more than their own caravan. They have lost their wagons and most of their family and friends, but other Tuatha’an still seek the song, and they will again, too, because they belong to more than a few wagons.”
Suddenly Aram asks who owns the spears lining the walls; Perrin tells him they belong to anyone who wants one, and that no one will hurt him with them. Aram doesn’t answer, and Perrin is soon distracted by the fact that Faile insists on feeding him his meal. But then Aram pulls out one of the swords along the wall and asks if he can use it. Perrin chokes; Ila walks into the room with Alanna, sees Aram, and screams, begging him to put it down. Aram fends her off, shouting that they killed his mother, and if he’d had a sword he could have defended her. At this, Perrin cuts in and tells Ila to leave Aram alone. Aram asks if Perrin will teach him, and Perrin says someone will.
Tears rolled down Ila’s contorted face. “The Trollocs took my daughter,” she sobbed, her entire body shaking, “and all my grandchildren but one, and now you take him. He is Lost, because of you, Perrin Aybara. You have become a wolf in your heart, and now you will make him one, too.” Turning, she stumbled back up the steps, still racked with sobs.
Everyone else in the room is crying or staring at him in horror or both, except for Alanna, who is studying him calmly, and Faile, whose face is blank. Perrin gets up and almost tells Aram to put the sword down, but then looks at his face, and tells him to go find Tam al’Thor and tell him Perrin said to teach him the sword. Aram stammers that he will never forget this, and kisses the pommel of the sword, which has a wolfshead design, asking if that’s how it’s done. Perrin answers sadly that he supposes it is, and Aram runs out. Perrin sits back down and asks Faile if she disapproves; Faile answers that she does not like to see him in pain. Bran sticks his head in the door and tells Perrin there are riders coming, probably Whitecloaks. Perrin and Faile head out to the edge of the village, where a crowd is gathered to watch the double column of Whitecloaks approaching, led by a young man who looks vaguely familiar to Perrin. Luc is there too, and the young man addresses Luc, naming himself Dain Bornhald, and saying this is surely a village of the Shadow if it is closed to the Children of the Light. Then he sees Perrin, and his face contorts in a snarl; Perrin thinks he can smell brandy fumes, and recognizes Byar next to him. Luc does not answer Bornhald, and Bran looks to Perrin for his nod (to Perrin’s disgust) before answering that Emond’s Field is not closed to them, exactly, but they have decided to defend themselves, and points to the pyre of Trollocs as proof. Bornhald is contemptuous, and the villagers shout variously that they had a great battle, and don’t need Whitecloaks, and cheer for Perrin Goldeneyes. Byar snarls back that they know nothing of battle; last night one of their villages was all but wiped out by Trollocs, which shuts everyone up. Bran asks which one, and Bornhald answers that Taren Ferry hardly exists any longer. At this, Luc moves forward and asks if the man Ordeith was at Taren Ferry last night; Bornhald looks pale and angry both at the name, and Luc hopes casually that he either died there last night or is close under Bornhald’s supervision. Bornhald snaps back that he neither knows nor cares where Ordeith is, and points at Perrin and orders his arrest as a Darkfriend. Byar stares at Bornhald in disbelief, and the Two Rivers men begin readying to defend Perrin. Bran tells Bornhald that there will no more arrests without proof that he believes, and since nothing will convince Bran that Perrin is a Darkfriend, he might as well relax.
“He betrayed my father to his death at Falme,” Bornhald shouted. Rage shook him. “Betrayed him to Darkfriends and Tar Valon witches who murdered a thousand of the Children with the One Power!” Byar nodded vigorously.
Perrin answers that he betrayed no one, and if Bornhald’s father died at Falme, it was at the hands of those called the Seanchan. Bornhald spits back that the Seanchan are a lie concocted by the White Tower, and Perrin realizes the situation is about to get out of hand. He asks if Bornhald is willing to hold off on his arrest until the Trollocs are taken care of; when Bornhald asks why, he points out that the Whitecloaks may not make it back to Watch Hill with the attacks stepping up, but if they stay in Emond’s Field and aid in the defense of the town, Bornhald will be able to keep track of him, Perrin. Bran and Faile are vehemently against this, but Perrin tells them he will not have men fighting men, doing the Trollocs’ work for them. Faile looks furious and pulls out a knife to sharpen it, and Bran turns to Bornhald and adds his own conditions: they arrest no one, stay out of people’s houses unless invited, and help where they are needed. Bornhald agrees, never taking his eyes off Perrin. As the Whitecloaks enter the village, Perrin notices Luc looking at him, and comments that he’d have thought Luc would object, given how he talks about Whitecloaks.
Luc spread his hands smoothly. “If these people want Whitecloaks among them, let them have Whitecloaks. But you should be careful, young Goldeneyes. I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close.” With a laugh, he pushed his stallion off through the crowd, back into the village.
Faile remarks that Luc has a point, and Perrin agrees privately, but tells her it was the only way to prevent bloodshed. He watches Byar and Bornhald glare hatred at him as they ride in, and thinks maybe having Dannil and the others around him is a good idea after all.
Based on the responses to the homework I left y’all with last time (at least as of around 100 comments or so), people are actually fairly evenly divided on the question of whether Perrin is a natural leader or being set up as a figurehead. Which is about what I expected, really. For what it’s worth, my own opinion is that it’s a little bit of both. Making a reluctant potential leader into an actual leader, especially in genre fiction, is a little like rolling a boulder downhill; it might take some work to get him started, but after a while the whole thing gains a rather inevitable momentum. The ta’veren factor is just the lever that first got it all started, and the grease that keeps it rolling.
Concurrently, I don’t know if Jordan ever read Douglas Adams, but this entire arc concerning Perrin being wrangled into a Lordship (really, the wrangling of all three of the Boys into leadership) always makes me think of the quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
Heh. I love that quote. Like I said, I don’t know if Jordan ever read Adams but he certainly seemed to have shared the sentiment that the best leaders are people who don’t particularly want to be leaders. Unless you’re Egwene, evidently. Actually, in a twisted way the Adams quote could be viewed as an argument in favor of a hereditary ruling class, in the sense that technically your heirs didn’t want the position; they were born into it. It’s not like they went after it out of ambition.
This is leaving aside, of course, all of the other problems with a feudal aristocracy set-up, which we are ignoring anyway because this is epic fantasy and therefore it is taken as a given that monarchies/oligarchies/pick your –archy are the best way to run things. Because even if the current lords suck, there’s always going to be some gifted farmboy around to do it right. See if you can spot the logical disconnect, there.
Ergo, we have Faile’s speech in response to Perrin insisting that the Duopotamians are free men, which does not even consider the notion that it is possible for people to rule themselves and feel they are part of a larger entity, and actually kind of entirely misses the point about the Tinkers’ system of government (or rather, their complete lack of one). This is, by the way, a perfectly cromulent erroneous philosophy for her to hold, since it would be a little much to expect a pro-democracy stance from a queen’s cousin in a medieval-ish world that evidently skipped the Greco-Roman period this go-round.
(I’ll just toss out here, however, the fact that historically, monarchies have always been the most stable form of government. What does that do to my argument? I’m not even sure I’m making one, at this point. Whee!)
I feel I should move on.
I always thought Perrin was being a little bit of a dick when he was so harsh to Ila about letting Aram have the sword, but it’s only on this re-read that I caught what made Perrin decide to stick up for Aram, which is what Aram said about having to watch his mother get murdered. Which is, for obvious reasons, something of a hot-button issue for Perrin just at the moment. I don’t know why I never noticed that till now, but it definitely makes his response a lot more understandable.
Tiny minor note on Mat’s sisters in this scene: it may be entirely accidental, but I got a kick out of the fact that Bode and Eldrin were described as “grinning” at Aram. I’ve hardly done a study of it or anything, but I don’t think Jordan typically describes his female characters’ smiles that way. Cauthon family trait, perhaps? Heh.
The scene with the Whitecloaks features a rare instance of Perrin being Aes Sedai-ishly slippery: you’ll note that he never actually said here that he would give himself up to Bornhald after the Trollocs were done. He just strongly implied it. Sneaky Perrin! Whoda thunk it.
Luc: Still a jackhole. A jackhole who really should learn to keep his mouth shut; if Perrin hadn’t been suspicious of him before that little crack about keeping enemies close, he certainly would have been after. Well, at least Perrin gets to shoot him soon.
Chapter 46: Veils
What Happens
Egeanin threads her way through the crowds of homeless refugees in the Calpene Circle, following Floran Gelb and carrying a cudgel to warn off would-be thieves. Gelb is accompanied by a bunch of thugs, and Egeanin angrily knows that this means Gelb is going to try kidnapping again even though she had specifically told him not to. She is momentarily distracted by a commotion behind her, in which someone she doesn’t see clearly breaks the arm of a beggar, and then curses to realize she’s lost Gelb. She finds him again after a few moments, lounging in an alley with the toughs, and quickly picks out the women he must be waiting for, who are dressed as Taraboners but are clearly out of place in this crowd, wearing silk but unescorted; neither of them look like any of the descriptions she gave Gelb. She starts pushing through the crowd, trying to get to Gelb in time to call him off.
Elayne argues with Nynaeve about the wisdom of what they’re doing, but Nynaeve insists that their dresses make them blend in, and there is no need for them to have bodyguards, despite Elayne having already lost three purses to pickpockets. Elayne just thinks Nynaeve has come to enjoy wearing silk, and tries not to think about how scandalously thin their dresses are. Nynaeve asks again if Amys told Elayne anything useful in Tel’aran’rhiod the night before, and Elayne says no, thinking that all she’d gotten was a long lecture on the dangers of the Dreamworld, while Egwene stood there and said almost nothing. Though she had been surprised to find out that Perrin was not with Mat and Rand; Nynaeve thinks he probably ran off to be a blacksmith with Faile, but Elayne has her suspicions about Faile, and highly doubts she’d settle for being a blacksmith’s wife. They are interrupted by a big man who tries to grab Nynaeve in a bear hug and gets a cudgel to the face for his trouble; Elayne then cracks the skull of a second attacker. Then they realize they are surrounded, while the milling crowd pretends not to notice anything; Elayne sees a scrawny fellow shouting to the others that “She’s gold, I tell you!”, and thinks they must know she is the Daughter-Heir of Andor. She and Nynaeve both embrace saidar, but neither channels yet, knowing the risk of exposure.
If one of the Black Ajah was close enough to see, they had already betrayed themselves with the glow of saidar. Channeling enough for those few flows of Air could betray them to a Black sister on another street a hundred paces or more away, depending on her strength and sensitivity. That was most of what they themselves had been doing the last five days, walking through the city trying to sense a woman channeling, hoping the feeling would draw them to Liandrin and the others.
Not only that, but the crowd itself might turn on them, as Aes Sedai were not in good odor in Tanchico at the moment. Suddenly a woman in a blue dress knocks out one of their would-be attackers from behind and backhands another; Nynaeve and Elayne are startled, but quickly take advantage, jumping to attack the others. After two more go down, the other thugs break and run, except for one who goes for the blue-dressed woman’s back with a knife. Elayne channels without thinking, flipping the man to slam into the ground with Air. He gets up and runs off, and the woman stares at her and Nynaeve uncertainly; Elayne is not sure if she saw what Elayne did to the last thug. Nynaeve thanks the woman breathlessly, and invites her back to their inn for tea.
The woman hesitated visibly. She had noticed. “I . . . I would . . . like that. Yes. I would.” She had a slurred way of speaking, difficult to understand, but somehow vaguely familiar.
She introduces herself as Egeanin, and as they head off, Elayne says to her that she saw, didn’t she. Egeanin misses a step, and Elayne hurries to reassure her that they will not harm her. Nynaeve points out that perhaps the street is not the best place for this conversation, and adds to Egeanin that the rumors she’s undoubtedly heard are mostly not true, and not to be afraid. Egeanin answers that she is not afraid, and will wait till they are ready to talk. They return to the inn to find Juilin inside, who has traded his straw hat for the conical felt cap commonly worn in Tanchico, and blurts that he has “found them” before seeing Egeanin and stopping. Nynaeve demands he explain, not seeming to care that Egeanin is there, and Juilin explains carefully that he followed the woman with the white stripe in her hair to a house with a number of “rich escapees”, but they all left sometime within the last day. Nynaeve is furious that he went inside; she points out to him that there are certain kinds of traps that he would never have detected beforehand (Juilin goes a little pale), and sends him off. He bows sarcastically and elaborately and leaves. Nynaeve snarls something about fool men, and Egeanin asks if Juilin is their servant.
“Yes,” Nynaeve snapped, just as Elayne said, “No.”
They looked at each other, Nynaeve still frowning.
“Perhaps he is, in a way,” Elayne sighed, right on top of Nynaeve’s muttered, “I suppose he is not, at that.”
“I . . . see,” Egeanin said.
Rendra serves them tea in a private room, and twitters and fusses about clothes and things for a good while before leaving them alone. Egeanin remarks that they are not what she expected of Aes Sedai, letting the innkeeper babble at them and their servant mock them. She asks Elayne, isn’t she nobly born? Elayne answers that that doesn’t mean much in the White Tower; a queen who goes there to learn will scrub floors like any other novice. Egeanin asks if many queens go there, and Elayne laughs that there are none that she knows of, though Andor traditionally sends the Daughter-Heir, and many noblewomen go in secret. Egeanin asks if Nynaeve is nobility, and Nynaeve snorts that her mother was a farmwife and her father a sheepherder. Egeanin then brings up the fact that they are clearly looking for someone, and offers her services as an information collector in exchange for more knowledge about Aes Sedai. Elayne jumps in hurriedly before Nynaeve can spill the beans like she did to Domon, and graciously refuses, but says they are happy to tell her about Aes Sedai in any case.
“You seem very interested in Aes Sedai,” Elayne said. “I cannot sense the ability in you, but perhaps you can learn to channel.”
Egeanin almost dropped her porcelain cup. “It . . . can be learned? I did not . . . No. No, I do not want to . . . to learn.”
They are interrupted by Thom, who tells them that the Whitecloaks have surrounded the Panarch’s Palace, and Amathera is apparently to be invested as Panarch tomorrow even though the Assembly did not ratify her. Nynaeve doesn’t care about this and won’t let Thom sit down, but Thom replies that something this odd should be noted, and in any case it will probably cause riots; she and Elayne should not go out alone. Elayne agrees to this, cutting off any protest from Nynaeve with a semi-veiled reminder that they had almost been kidnapped just now, and Thom goes on blithely that actually he’s already gotten fifty men from Domon to serve, and bows and escapes while the girls are still gaping at his presumption. Egeanin is staring at them, and Elayne supposes they hadn’t put on a very Aes Sedai-like show, letting Thom bully them like that. Egeanin says she must go, and that she will come another time and learn about them, and swiftly leaves. Elayne and Nynaeve argue about which of them was the would-be abductors’ target, and then Elayne patiently waits while Nynaeve tells her things she already knows about how important it is to find this thing that is threatening Rand. Then Nynaeve asks if Elayne noticed how Egeanin changed once Thom mentioned Domon, and they speculate on whether the two know each other until they are interrupted by Rendra, who tells them there is a woman asking to see them who says she knows them, but Rendra cannot remember her name. Nynaeve and Elayne exchange significant looks, and Elayne embraces saidar, wishing that Nynaeve was angry enough to do the same; Nynaeve tells Rendra to send the woman in. A “sturdily handsome” woman in black silk, who is definitely not any of the thirteen Black Ajah, enters.
Smiling, she closed the door behind her. “Forgive me, but I thought you were—” The glow of saidar surrounded her, and she . . .
Elayne released the True Source. There was something very commanding in those dark eyes, in the halo around her, the pale radiance of the One Power. She was the most regal woman Elayne had ever seen. Elayne found herself hurriedly curtsying, flushing that she had considered . . . What had she considered? So hard to think.
The woman tells them to come over to the table, and as they obey Elayne wants to giggle at Nynaeve’s rapt look, even though Nynaeve is gripping her braids tightly. The woman studies them and remarks that they are half-trained, but very strong, especially Nynaeve, if it weren’t for her block. Nynaeve whimpers an apology, saying she’s afraid of all that power, but the woman interrupts and tells her she will not cry, she is ecstatic at seeing her and wants to please her. Elayne and Nynaeve nod vigorously, smiling. The woman interrogates them, Elayne and Nynaeve fighting to be the first to answer her questions. She discovers that there are no other Aes Sedai with them, and they are in the city to hunt Black Ajah.
The handsome woman laughed. “So that is why I have not felt you channel before today. Wise of you to keep low when it is eleven to two. I have always followed that policy myself. Let other fools leap about in full view. They can be brought low by a spider hiding in the cracks, a spider they never see until it is too late.”
She asks them to turn out their purses on the table, and then asks if they have any angreal, sa’angreal, or ter’angreal in their rooms. Elayne thinks about the stone ring hanging on a cord around her neck, but that had not been the question, and she answers no. The woman says, so “his” name is Rand al’Thor now, and wonders if he is still “an arrogant man who stank of piety and goodness”. She muses to herself that the man he killed besides Bel’al must have been Ishamael.
“All his pride at being only half-caught, whatever the price—there was less human left in him than any of us when I saw him again; I think he half-believed he was the Great Lord of the Dark—all his three thousand years of machinations, and it comes to an untaught boy hunting him down. My way is best. Softly, softly, in the shadows. Something to control a man who can channel. Yes, it would have to be that.”
She stands, and tells the girls that it is a pity Compulsion is so limited, but as it is she supposes she will have to come collect them later and see to their... retraining. She tells them to pick up their things, and that they will remember nothing except that she mistook them for someone else, had a cup of tea, and left. Elayne blinks, and wonders why she’s tying her purse back on her belt. She asks Nynaeve if she remembers that nice woman’s name.
“Nice?” Nynaeve’s hand came up and gave a sharp tug to her braids; she stared as if it had moved of its own accord. “I . . . do not think she did.”
As she leaves the courtyard, Egeanin studies the guards Thom had hired from Domon, but does not recognize any of them from Domon’s ship. She thinks about how she had just sat and had tea with women who could channel, women who should be leashed as dangerous animals, and their revelation that channeling could be learned. Egeanin decides that the risk of running into Domon is worth the chance to learn more.
She heads off, not noticing the pale-haired man in filthy Tanchican clothes in front of the wineshop across the way. He thinks that he had almost given himself away when he broke that beggar’s arm earlier, but the man had disgusted him: a member of the Blood begging instead of decently killing himself. He decides to try bribing this inn’s employees to try and find out what Egeanin was up to.
Thanks to the commenters who pointed out that Gelb is an example of the Law of Conservation of Characters, because I had forgotten all about his role in TEOTW by this time. And I agree, it seems like a really random character recurrence; it wouldn’t have been if Gelb had ended up running into Domon in Tanchico, but I don’t think that ever happens.
The conversation Egeanin has with Nynaeve and Elayne about whether they are nobility forms an interesting counterpoint to what’s going on in the Perrin arc. However much Jordan toes the genre fantasy party line about the virtues of aristocracy, he also makes a point of noting that the White Tower emphatically disregards all considerations of nation, class, or social status in its members.
Of course, this is slightly undermined in LOC when we learn that they have instead substituted a different completely arbitrary criterion for assigning leadership roles. But at least that’s consistent with humanity’s propensity for doing so. It wouldn’t be a believable power hierarchy if it wasn’t at least slightly stupid.
The introduction of the concept of Compulsion didn’t enrage me in the same way as Egwene’s damane stint did back in TGH, but it was a whole order of magnitude higher on my screaming-meemie meter. Gyaahhh. The damane thing is horrible and awful and stabby, but at least damane-leashing doesn’t take away your mind. Free will, y’all; it is mine and you can’t have it. This is my dance space, and this is your dance space! Keep Out!
(My screaming-meemie meter has four settings: “Eurgh”, “Gyaahhh”, “YIPE YIPE YIPE”, and “Crispin Glover”.)
This chapter is where, in my initial reading, I first started to realize what an awesome character Nynaeve is. Which is ironic, because she spends the majority of it being boorish, obnoxious, and generally smackings-worthy, but the business with her gripping her braids while under Moghedien’s spell, and me realizing that under the Compulsion-induced goofiness she is bloody furious, well. Right there with you, girl. And also, even without knowing what was coming I just knew she was being set up for a major confrontation with Moggy later – even without knowing for sure who Moggy was at that point. This I Foretold, you heard it here first.
I don’t think we’re supposed to know who Compulsion Woman is for sure here, anyway. If I recall correctly we’ve only had a passing mention of Moghedien in the text thus far, and not in a manner that would connect her with this woman in any obvious way. It was awful nice of her to give us a little character synopsis of herself, though. And to bang us on the head with the “Ba’alzamon=Ishamael” anvil, just in case we hadn’t figured that out yet. Who said villain monologuing is counterproductive?
This chapter also contains what I think is still a major unexplained gaffe, concerning the bit where Moghedien asks the Girls if they have any *greal. I quote the almighty WOTFAQ:
When leaving Tear to go to Tanchico, Elayne and Nynaeve keep all of the T’A’R ter’angreal they had gotten from Joiya and Amico, since Egwene doesn’t need them. They bring them along on all their travels through TSR and TFOH, and subsequently to Salidar, where Elayne ends up copying them for the Salidar Posse in LOC.
However, when in Tanchico, Moghedien pays the girls a visit [TSR: 46, Veils, 525-526]. She starts off by Compelling them, then asks them to empty their pouches. She then asks if they have ter’, sa’ or angreals in their rooms. Elayne clearly thinks of the ring that’s fastened on a leather cord around her neck, and dismisses it, since it is not what Moggy asked. BUT, they still have the other two, which should have been in their room. It’s even said in that scene that Elayne and Nynaeve told Moggy about the ter’angreal they had stolen. So if they weren’t in the Supergirls’ rooms, where were they?
I don’t know. Do you?
I’m actually going to stop here, because the next chapter is Major, and also hella long, so I want to give it the attention it deserves. Here, have a weekend. See you Monday!
1. Csandoval
Leigh you rock and so does this RE-read
thanks again for the WOT FIX
j p
3. sps49
I didn't know who Compulsion Lady was, either.
Good pickup on the grinning bit. Is "Cauthon" Old Tongue for "grin"?
John Fitzingo
4. Xandar01
I remember thinking when I first reading about Aram taking up the sword, "That's what I would do, forget that way of the leaf thing."
However, in hindsight he did not fare well into his acceptance of violence. He became too blood thirsty, flipping from one extreme to the other. Sad sad sad.
Andrew Lovsness
5. drewlovs
Just one point on the initial re-through... I still dislike the Aram character. There has always been a distrust, since I never shook the feeling that he was that dark friend at in book 2. That he probably wasn't doesn't shake my dislike.
the fight scenes here are some of my favorites... I really like these re-reads!!
6. David-2
Principal (anecdotal) argument against a hereditary ruling class: Prince Charles.
Richard Fife
7. R.Fife
Hrm, yeah, I don't think we were supposed to know that was Moggy yet. Not until the Panarch's Palace fight.
Compulsion is actually something I agree with you on: full up "gah" as a weapon. On the same token, I've always been a little unhappy with it as a "magical power" across the genre. Wiggling a finger and turning any enemy into a drooling drone just seems too powerful, and while RJ typically does compulsion with a grain of salt (even some of the Forsaken hate it), it just bugs me. Seems like it would be too easy to just compulse your way through the enemy and all that.
Oh, and I actually cheered for Aram on my first read. I was oddly happy that "righteous vengence" was going to trump "silly hippie pacifism". So I'm a little bloody thirsty... sue me.
8. David-2
Aram was creepy from the beginning, and only gets creepier.
(But I still found his treachery and death in KoD rather sudden. Along with Rolan's death. I kind of felt that RJ had suddenly decided to "clean up" a few of the minor characters, in preparation for the grand finale.)
j p
9. sps49
This section illustrates better what I meant in Part 16; here are the Two Rivers' sergeants, armorers, logistics, and hospital staffers communicating with Perrin. Partly because the more senior folk (Tam, Bran, etc.) defer to him, and because he is the one who actually has taken action.
Aram, I thought, had way too much buildup and screentime to go out the random way he did. I try to pretend that section (Among the Shaido) doesn't exist.
I just finished this book, and every time it shifts to Tanchico I would go "grr, want more TR"; then something cool or Awesome would happen and I'd be okay.
So, do Mesaana's Compelled toys have any will to resist? How stupid is Liandrin regarding her own abilities with it? Did anyone else wonder what Moggy's "retraining" would entail? Any 13+13s around?
Deborah Jones
10. NanaD
I well remember the first few days after my mothers death. Taking care of endless details was not easy
Perrin has the welfare of a lot of people riding on his shoulders. You're right, he didn't ask for the responsibility, but did what had to be done.
His defense of Aram taking the sword was, as you said, probably prompted by his memory of the his loss of his mother.
Also I think he felt that each man, woman, or child had the right to defend their home and the lives of their loved ones.
Great job Leigh. And to all the Mothers out there,
Happy Mother's Day.
John Fitzingo
11. Xandar01
OK, where does Duopotamians come from?
The best I got was potamian means river turtle, so I see two river turtles???
12. RebelLives
I like the idea of a Tinker turning away from the Way of the Leaf, due to an event like this. Especially, after Rhuiden. It shows how sometimes things never change. I do agree with you drewlovs that Aram has never come across that well to me. Like he should never be trusted.
After reading Luc's quote about knowing something about bringing your enemies close I wonder if he is speaking from experience in someway about him and Isam or however they are connected?
Chris Hall
13. bookwormchris
I don't know that I caught on to the Gelb reuse on my first read. On the other hand, I think the arm-breaking incident with the Seeker tipped me off the first time.
As for the monologuing, almost seems like ta'veren work, but perhaps she isn't so worried about it since she has faith in her Compulsion Fu.
Not sure about the gaffe. Could be a mistake on the part of the Creator or it could be that the girls stashed them elsewhere. Love the part where the stone ring gets by because the Spider doesn't ask the appropriate question. Not so great, now are we?
*waits for the big battle*
14. David-2
Xandar01 - duo = two, therefore, "two rivers-ian", someone from the Two Rivers. Now if only I could figure out "easing the badger" ...
Leigh Butler
15. leighdb
Xandar01 @11:
It's an old WOT joke, a play on Mesopotamia.
16. Tamyrlink
this chapter reminds me of the one question I've always wanted an answer to. What happened to all the *angreal and OP objects and artifacts Moiraine sent to the tower from Tear and Rhuidean? It's never mentioned that they arrived in tar valon safely.
Brian Kaul
17. bkaul
Xandar01@11: "potamia" = Greek for "rivers" so Duopotamia = "Two Rivers" and a Duopotamian is someone from the TR.
Luke M
18. lmelior
Great points on Chapter 45. I was thinking Perrin as a little harsh as well, but that makes perfect sense now. And I never caught the grinning bit, that's a great little detail whether it was intentional or not.
You quoted Moggy's spider quotes but didn't comment on them. Did we get from one of the Forsaken that her nickname is the spider before now? I can't remember.
And bragging time! Leigh noticed my post about Gelb. *beaming*
19. alreadymadwhensaidinwascleansed
If Perrin thinks the leadership thing is getting out of hand, he should think again. His thinking he's any use trying to close the Waygate by himself is out of hand.
I never caught on to Gelb being reused. Strange that he ended up in Tanchico. I did catch on to Egeanin using Leilwin's name, and that Paitr fellow in Andor resurfacing in Amador, though.
Xandar01 @11
Duopotamians is modified from Mesopotamian. Since Meso means middle or between, it was switched with Duo for two.
Tamyrlink @16
It's never mentioned they actually left Cairhien either. Since Lanfear pretty much cleaned out the wagon driver and the one primarily responsible for taking them, namely Moiraine herself.
20. Jamie Bowden
I highly suspect the ter'angreal were in the Inn's safe, along with the rest of their valuables. Not leaving stuff you care about which also happens to be worth something has been around probably since there have been inns.
Chris Maurer
21. grayfox
picking nits here:
Technically if you look at the Etymology of the word "Mesopotamia" you get "between two rivers". So we could really be calling the Two Rivers folk Mesopotamians and be accurate.
Which given the "cradle of civilization" moniker that Mesopotamia has, is another stroke of genius from the Creator!
Adam Loops
22. Cecero
If I remember correctly, Moggy didn't ask for any Ter'Angreal (sp?) so they are in the clear because she just asked any angreal. Plus, it goes to the willpower of both Nyn and Elayne that they didn't give up the information (the braid thing too). I don't see it as a gaffe. there were reasons for them not to tell Moggy.
23. Greyhawk
On the compulsion scene. I cannot remember where, but I am sure that later in the series Jordan sets a limit on the utility of Compulsion by saying that it cannot be used on someone already holding the power. So, how did Moggy compel Elayne without first shielding her? I mean at this point Moggy should have been able to overwhelm Elayn without much of a fight, but from the narrative it appears she didn't have to take that step.
Chris Hall
24. bookwormchris
Tamyrlink @16
Good point. I think she had to hire new people or something to carry that stuff to the Tower. (There is that whole Lanfear incident by the docks.) But we never hear anything about them arriving, as far as I can recall. (Been a bit over a year since my reread of the entire series last summer.)
25. CBeats
Leigh! You mentioned Crispin Glover!
You are officially the best person ever.
Dru O'Higgins
26. bellman
Crispin Glover using compulsion on you. And perhaps there's spanking.
I was sure on the first reading that Aram was being set up to be a hero, perhaps a military genius.
27. Greyhawk
On Aram and the Tinkers. 1st, I was surprised any survived at all but whatever. As for the Aram storyline--kind of disappointing. I think RJ had too many balls in the air and had to bring things down to a manageable size. Aram betraying Perrin was a letdown as to how to get rid of the character.
Marc Gioglio
28. u_turnagain
I don't remember what I thought about Aram on my first read-through, but on my second...
Aram stands out as confrontational from the moment Perrin, Elyas and Egwene enter the camp. Aram has no reservations about displaying hostility towards Elyas, but the other tinkers hold their tongues. Aram sees Egwene as something to be conquered from Perrin, and acts that way from the first. He has never been forced to choose the way of the leaf until this point, and he has chosen poorly.
I suspect what I feel about Aram is what most feel about Fain (though I happen to enjoy "other" evil characters). I hated him from the moment he picked up the sword, and when he does his thing later, I am glad to finally be rid of his taint.
As for compulsion-It is theoretically possible that when one knows how to defend against compulsion, holding the power is sufficient, but it is safe to say that none had any real knowledge of compulsion, and the supergirls didn't really know what was going on. I would liken it to playing a game that you don't know the rules of. If you don't know the rules, you don't know how to stop these simple things, even if there is a simple way. Straw grasping, but that, I think, is my forte.
Richard Fife
29. R.Fife
On Aram's death: Not everyone can go out in a spectacular blaze of glory, and there may yet be stronger ramifications of Aram's eventual betrayal. Remember, Aram was important enough in regard to Perrin that Min saw him in Perrin's aura. hmm.
30. Tamyrlink
duopotamians makes me laff every time but the crispin glover reference was golden.
31. Toryx
I didn't say so in the previous post, but I've always thought that Perrin's ascent to leadership is more natural than the result of being pushed. As one who once rejected responsibility for others at every opportunity but somehow kept ending up in charge despite himself, I've learned over the years that it's all due to one thing: impatience with the quibbling of others.
In Chapter 45 Perrin even points it out. To quote from Leigh's summary,
"...when usually Emond’s Fielders are happy to argue about every last aspect of a plan of action."
That does tend to be the democratic fashion but the unfortunate result of all that argument is that things rarely get done. Now here comes Perrin, angry about what happened to his family and concerned about the Emond's Fielders who have been taken captive by Whitecloaks. He's been around, and more importantly he's been stuck with a type A personality for some time (i.e. Morraine), not to mention having that interlude with Egwene and Elyas. He's sure to have noticed that when you want to get something done, sometimes you just have to do it.
The odd consequence of this is that even when that sort of attitude pisses people off, people also tend to respect it. It's hard to argue when someone just goes and takes care of things and the effectiveness of that is virtually impossible to argue with. The fact of the matter is, as much as people love to argue, people also love to know what to do.
Perrin has things to do. He's not going to wait around to see what people decide. He just does what needs to be done and everyone sees that and can't help but admire it and think, "Hey, he really knows what he's doing."
That right there is the basis for leadership and whether Perrin will admit it or not, he's got it in spades.
AJ MacPherson
32. Mackey62
I think I could use some complusion now to get the thought on Crispin Glover spanking anyone out of my head.
I guess I never had that big of a problem with Aram getting killed off because it always seemed that there was no way the Perrin could ever live up to what Aram built him up to be, so the only end was for Aram to betray Perrin and suffer the consequences for it.
Crispin back to your corner. Ahhhh!
33. JamesEdJones
Love the whole Duopotamian Companians resulting from Tam telling the lads about the Illianer Companions. That's full blown Verin-level sneakiness there.
Michael Catapano
34. hoping
Had to look up cromulent. For those who are similarly challenged, and interested, it is a neologism of Simpsonian derivation meaning 'Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic or authentic'
Sean Jones
35. PersonOfTheDragons
Toryx, I really like your idea and it's summation there, makes a lot of sense.
Also, I never thought Aram dying in KoD was really all that's a battle, people die. This one happened to die at a fortunate time to not kill Perrin, but it's not that amazing of a coincidence when there are people dying everywhere. I dunno, it seemed to fit just fine to me.
36. Freelancer
During my first reading, I tossed the arm-breaking of the beggar (noble down on his luck) in the bin as just a device to distract Egeanin so that Gelb could have enough clear space to attack the girls before she could stop him. That there is a POV from the Seeker about following Egeanin and being so disgusted with a noble that he broke the guy's arm, didn't sink in.
37. LindaL
Leigh didn't specifically mention it in the summary, but chapter 46 has one of my favorite touches in it.
When Elayne is in Tanchico she is constantly having to spit the veil out of her mouth. I remember on my first re-read that this cracked me up. She's the only person in Tanchico with her nose in the air. These are the details that make Jordan such an amazing author to me.
Ellie Virgo
38. Egglie
I never liked Aram. I was always waiting for him to do something really influential to justify Mins vision of him being a turning point in Perrins life. I was super disappointed in the death scene in KoD.
I suppose it is possible that Perrin will internalize his death and that his betrayal will somehow become very significant to him.
I am now leaning toward a different way of looking at it though; I think that this point where Aram picks up the sword and Perrin supports it and is rejected by Ilsa is the turning point. As if perhaps Perrin might have taken a different path and turned to the way of the leaf but here he consciously rejects it and chooses a life of conflict. (at least for now).
This way of looking at things enables me to enjoy future Perrin storylines much more:-)
I quite like the Tanchico plot, I think Egeanin is an interesting character. Although Elayne and Nyneave are a bit silly the story moves on at a good pace (unlike some of their later storylines) and the upcoming Nyneave vs Moggie battle is pretty cool.
39. jlyman
Just thought this was interesting:
I don't know that the whole description goes with Aram here, seeing as this is a place and not a person, but it caught my attention.
40. Freelancer
Forgive my quibbling, but I must. In looking back at your comments comparing Compulsion with A'dam leashing, I feel compelled to point out that one of the expected, and almost always achieved, results of leashing a channeler is their conversion to obedient puppy status, which is a de-facto loss of free will. The fact that Egwene was rescued before crossing that threshhold keeps you from making that connection, but consider that Teslyn warns Mat that attempting to rescue the other two Aes Sedai damane wouldn't work, because they were changed, no longer who they once were. Also consider that as furious as Nynaeve is once she realizes that Moghedien used Compulsion on them, it isn't a patch to the rabid hatred she and Egwene have for Sul'dam. (I leave Elayne out of that because her curiosity about the a'dam shades her anger at their users)
Captivity in prison, even slavery, doesn't completely rob a person of their free will. But a channeler properly trained to the a'dam, completely. Worse than Compulsion on my meter.
Ahh, great point. I too am surprised Leigh didn't go there. At first you'd think Nynaeve would have more trouble with such a thing, since Elayne's had all kinds of cultural training. It doesn't take long to catch the real reason why something that should fall from her nose AWAY from her mouth ends up in it.
Captain Hammer
41. Randalator
That was specified in later editions: They have the ter'angreal hidden in their skirts. So they are neither in their rooms nor in their pouches.
The scene now reads
"Elayne was conscious of the twisted stone ring hanging between her breasts and the amber plaque dream ter'angreal secure in a pocket inside her skirt for safe keeping—Nynaeve had the iron disc ter'angreal in a pocket between her skirts; those things could not be left lying about—but that was not the question."
Suck on that, Moggy.
re: Aram and the sword
That's a scene where I could smack Perrin over the head. And then smack him some more for good measure. He's running around being Mr. Awesome all the time and he has always been shown very sympathetic towards the Way of the Leaf, hoping that it will find a place in the world. And then this... *headdesk *headdesk* *headwreckage* *headsplinters*
"No, Aram. Don't do this. I chose that path, I chose the axe and still my whole family was killed. Don't abandon the Way..."
That was the answer that shot into my head when I first read it and that I still hear in my mind on every re-read. And what does Perrin say? "Oh yeah, take the sword, nice butchering it does, that one. You want fries with that...?"
Gaaaaaaaaaah, that just feels so wrong. Where's that fabled brain of yours that you like to think things through with, you hairy lummox? Huh? Use it! Blood and bloody ashes!
Deborah Jones
42. NanaD
@41 Maybe his mind is in the apple orchard.
43. alreadymadwhensaidinwascleansed
It's not like Perrin had much of a choice. Aram by this time was roughly his own age. Perrin probably didn't think it his place to secondguess Aram's (presumably adult) decision.
Thomas Garst
44. Garstzilla
Aram always seemed to be to me the present tense fullfilment of many of the problems that the Aeil faced during their whole trip to the present day. the irony in his mother crying that he was lost when all Aiel considered the tinkers to be the lost ones was very cutting to me. Also later I think Aram showed Perrin the price of single minded revenge and blood lust which could be how he would go if he did not keep the wolf part of himself under control.
LOve the reread, and everyones thoughts on everything. Oh, and until this reread I never caught that Gelb was reused, he was so minor in the first book I did not ever remember him by the time I got to this point.
Happy Mothers day people.
kori lockwood
45. kori
I never liked Aram either, he always came across as sneaky and jealous in a weird gollum (sp?) sort of way. Perrin as "precious" he just always gave me the creeps.
Captain Hammer
46. Randalator
NanaD @42
Maybe his mind is in the apple orchard.
No, the last time his brain was seen alive it was fleeing into the Inn from the voices calling out to sons who had been killed in the fight with the Trollocs. That should have been a clue-by-four the size of Alaska for Lord Goldeneyes...
kori lockwood
47. kori
Freelance 40
I could be wrong but i don't think obedient puppy syndrome is a product of the a'dam itself i think its more a product of having ones will broken.
Captain Hammer
48. Randalator
kori @47
They have their will broken by compelling their minds via A'dam to feel agonizing pain for every little misstep.
That's just taking the scenic route over B and C instead of going from A to D directly on the Compulsion highway...
49. jlyman
Hmmm... I think I started myself on something. I Googled Aram (that's where my previous link came from) and was a little surprised that it didn't come up with WOT results among those of the first page or two. Besides being the name of a place, the location of which is still debated but is somewhere in the Two Rivers/Mesopotamia, it is the name of one of the ancestors of the Arameans, a mostly nomadic group who spread from the Two Rivers/Mesopotamia to Damascus, modern day Syria.
Now this Aram, who fathered this people, was related to the biblical Abraham (whose original name Abram is eerily similar to Aram). Now it gets interesting. The name Aiel is similar to Israel, whose people were the descendants of Abraham thus are cousins to the Arameans. This is interesting because of the relationship of the Tinkers to the Aiel.
Maybe you all had this figured out before, but I thought it kind of interesting. I don't know if this was intentional or just worked out really nicely, but... there it is.
Oh! And by the way, did you know that Aybarra spelled backwards is Arabia?
Aidan Young
50. aidanyoung1102
Aram = lamest and most unnecessary character in the Wheel of Time?
Other possibilities?
51. CalaLily
52. ValanVinyl
Aram IS Creepy. He turns his life upside-down and the only thing he can latch onto is Perrin and Faile. The result is him turning into more or less a faithful dog and eventually into a rabid dog that turned on his master.
I was rather relieved when he died, and satisfied with the writing. There's just tons of symbolism there, the main being that eventually Perrin will have to choose the Hammer, or he'll turn into a psycho too I imagine.
53. boquaz
I generally hate Aram and more or less agreed with aidanyoung@50, now I have to rethink that. You can be sure RJ knew these things. Why put so much into that character if he's really just an annoyance?
Aram, and the Tinkers certainly represent many aspects of early Judaism pretty well. Sacrifice, fate and corruption are a big part of those stories. Aram fits in better from this point of view, I think. He's a parable for Perrin.
54. ValanVinyl
I'm pretty sure that I figured out that the "compulsion woman" was Moghedian on the first read. The spider comments and the glossary gave it away if nothing else I think. I'm not 100 percent though as that was a good 8-9 years ago when I first read it.
55. Freelancer
What Randalator said. I never suggested it was the a'dam itself. That's why I pointed out Egwene hadn't reached that stage. It was the continual punishment that cannot be escaped, finally breaking even the will of very experienced Aes Sedai, until they cannot but obey (they would be willing to even obey a command that violates the Oaths, but are physically unable). Most certainly worse than compulsion, due to the damage required to get there.
RE: Moghedien's first appearance
The "spider from the shadows" bit made clear that it wasn't Lanfear, but I don't think we've gotten a close look at many of the other female forsaken by this point of the story. Mesaana, Graendal, Semirhage and Moghedien are all unknown quantities so far, and I can't recall there being enough information to form a conclusion, just that it had to be a forsaken, due to the skill in use of Compulsion and the obvious strength.
Oh, and this raises a point I had first thought of during the chapters from Tear, but never presented. Lan and Rand spar with swords regularly, to improve/maintain their skill with the blade. Rand and Lanfear had a showdown in the halls where each plastered the other to the wall, until Lanfear shielded Rand. Rand, Egwene and Elayne had their little session of comparing channeling methods (and bottom-pinching). Why doesn't anybody think to practice sparring with the Power? They have to know that any skills/techniques they develop will help when they face forsaken, which they already know is more than likely. But no. This one gets me.
sandi vogel
56. sinfulcashew
It amazes me how much history is brought into these books.
I never looked at some of the comparisons. Never noticed them.
Perhaps the saying that history repeats itself is really true, even in fiction.
The idea that RJ actually fit all this together boggles my fuzzy mind.
To be able to think of how to put it all together cohesively(?) is fantantastic!
And to think that all this time I had just been enjoying a nice story.
Just goes to show you what a doofus I am.
Ofer Nave
57. odigity
Leigh - you're a natural anarchist. :)
Go Light.
58. Carl M P
12 RebelLives commented on something I've been waiting to happen for a loooong time since TSR: The repeat of the "peaceful aiel/tinkers turning violent" (as seen at Rhuidean). Could it be connected to "a remnant of a remnant shall be saved" or am I just dead wrong here?
I would also suggest that Arams lust for vengance and violence drove him mad (not just Masema) - a lesson for us all
I'm tempted to throw a "crispin Glover" due to all the hype about the upcomming showdowns in comments to post 15 - I was really looking forward to reading that during the weekend (perhaps Leigh decides this is a good point to start charing us for access to the re-read...)
a noble spirit "embiggens" the smallest - just for a second there I though that "cromulent" was an acctual word (I'm swedish) which would sort of ruin the joke (also good joke is "chester a arthur-itis" - you had arthritis?
Ofer Nave
59. odigity
Mad genius. (Both RJ and you.)
Say what? You'd rather Aram stand around quietly while having his more succulent parts removed by Trolloc cleaver for the great Feast of a Thousand Tinkers, rather then try to defend himself? Have you no respect for human life?
Everyone has the right to defend themselves, and we should account their desire to do so a good thing - it stems from a love of life, not a desire for violence (something gun rights activists would love others to understand).
The fact that Aram also happens to be nuts is a separate issue. :) I would blame that on:
1) Being raised in a cult.
2) The trauma of the slaughter that occurred - a direct result of the cult's belief system.
If Aram had been taught the sword from the beginning (say 10-12 in the context of their world), he'd probably be quite well adjusted. And the rest of his family might still be alive.
Ofer Nave
60. odigity
Re: Israel/Judaism
Another major parallel is the twelve clans of Aiel, and the thirteenth "clan that is not". Matches perfectly to the twelve tribes of Israel, and something about a thirteenth clan that was distributed across the rest - Levi? Cohen? It's all so fuzzy now...
Re: compulsion vs a'dam
If I had to choose, I'd rather be compulsed and then left alone in ignorant bliss, rather than remain conscious while having my will broken. Weave the threads, use my body for your nefarious purposes (one a time, ladies), then go away.
Re: character reuse
It seems all the small time characters from book 1 got to keep on keeping on:
(in order of appearance)
- Min
- Dain Bornhald
- Bayle Domon
- Floran Gelb
- Elyas Machera
- Child Byar
- Paitr
- Lady Shiaine/Mili Skane
- Basel Gill
- Lamgwin
- Elayne
- Gawyn
- Galad
- Tallanvor
- Morgase
- Elaida
- Gareth Bryne
- Ingtar
Did I miss any? (I left out the cook at the Queen's Blessing - one brief cameo when Matt returns doesn't cut it.)
61. ValanVinyl
You raise a good point Odigity (@59) about Aram, though I'm not sure the Way of the Leaf can be described as a cult, perhaps a gentler term would be in order. Something like a Dreamworld, instead. The shock of realizing the absolute uselessness of that world would be traumatizing indeed.
craig thrift
62. gagecreedlives
Did anyone else think it kind of amusing that the first weapons Aram the tinker asks about are the spears lining the wall.
63. macpimp
re: compulsion on someone already holding the power
we learn in book 8 that verin's (lesser) form of compulsion doesn't work on someone holding the power, but soon after, we get the scene where cyndane and moggy visit graendal to bring her under moridin's service.
in that scene, graendal uses compulsion while the other two are channeling.
Lannis .
64. Lannis
NanaD @ 10, and all other mothers... Thank you! And I hope you all have a lovely Mother's Day, too. :)
Re: Aram.... Meh. Never liked him. Wish he was a throwaway character who'd never left the Tinkers' wagons.
LindaL @ 37: re: Elayne's veil in her mouth because her nose is in the air... YES! Hilarious!
Randalator @ 41: re: ter'angreal in the skirts... Ahhh! See? I've got an old edition... first printing hard cover... dating my fandom, but s'cool. It's well loved. :)
sinfulcashew @ 56: re: RJ's complex writing... Nah, no doofus! Just RJ's target audience: someone who can read the series, love the series, and keep returning to the series for the favourite moments remembered, and maybe pick up something you hadn't noticed previously, too, so that your enjoyment just keeps growing. :)
Oh, and sinful, we'll sit in our little (ahem) Doofus Corner together, with our books and a laptop with Google as our homepage. We'll get it eventually. ;)
Michael Johnson
65. twosheddz
Another recycled character - Breanna (sp)
66. longtimefan
Just going out on a limb here but I always put Aram down as the Darkfriend Tinker from the Darkfriend social that introduced all the different masked people from different cultures and regions.
His behavior to be near Perrin has a double agenda if he is following him because the darkfriends had been commanded to follow any one of the Three they came across. I believe everyone present was told what the Three look like and were told to get close to if not right out kill them.
His support of Perrin's aggressive "save Faile at any cost" agenda sows a little chaos and his time with Masema hints to a connection with other darkfriends.
Then again he could just be replacing one fanatical belief system with another. The way of the leave is peaceful to the furthest extreme and Masema was fanatically violent to a level that holds a toe right on the line between good and evil.
67. ZamIt
I think Aram worked better as a concept than as a character. This is the book where we already had the big history of the Aiel, with scenes of Aiel abandoning the Way of the Leaf. Now we have a instance where Aram does the same thing. I think Jordan was somehow tieing the plots together.
Also, it's interesting how this plot is tied to Perrin and not Rand. I suspect that as we find out how the story ends that this will not be a coincidence. Perrin's hammer/axe thing, the appeal of the Way of the Leaf to Perrin, and the song... It's all leading somewhere I think. And as others mentioned, I don't know if we're completely done with Aram. His death could lead to more complications.
68. CalaLily
I don't think Aram was a Darkfriend, I just think he got swept up into radical ideas. First, he does a huge 180 from the way of life he was raised in in ONE NIGHT, one of peace, acceptance, happiness and patience, to a life of constant violence, hidden agendas, haste and fear. Next, he meets a man who is very charismatic, more than a little frightening, and capable of generating vast crowds of followers to do his bidding. Said charismatic man convinces Aram that the husband of his Lady is a darkfriend bent on helping the Dark One destroy the world. The man is already a little unbalanced. 1 crazy manw/ sword + 1 REALLY crazy man w/ fantatical ideas =/= happy endings 4 any1.
:) 'Tis my $0.02.
69. Freelancer
Masema is an insane idiot, he is NOT a darkfriend. Just as most Whitecloaks are not darkfriends, no matter how close to evil their actions. Aram was not a darkfriend. He would have made an excuse to get close to Perrin while Perrin was wounded in their camp, and returned to Emond's Field with him under some pretext. He did not. It was only after the survivors of the trollocs came to the village, after his parents had been killed, he hooked into the first person who showed him any contact at all.
EDIT: Also add that when Aram tries to kill Perrin, it's because he believes Masema's declaration that Perrin is a darkfriend. He wouldn't kill one if he was one.
I wondered before if RJ had planned for Aram to take up the spear, given the obvious connection to the Rhuidean history. But it would be very unlikely that a spear would have a wolfshead adornment of anykind, where the pommel of the sword makes more sense. My supposition here is that the symbolism of attaching himself to the wolfbrother outweighed the Aiel/Tinker connection. Besides, who in the village would teach him the spear, Gaul? I trow not. So getting a retired Blademaster to teach him to swordfight makes more sense. But the initial interest in the spears definitely deserves note.
Laras, Mistress of the Kitchens of the White Tower. Actually, she shows up in six different volumes, so she's not too far from the front bench.
Nieda, proprieter of Easing the Badger, in Illian. (Go ahead, Leigh, you want to, even if it is "too easy")
craig thrift
70. gagecreedlives
And I suppose Bain or Chiad would be even less likely :)
Does anyone know or remember when exactly Aram develops his fanatical loyalty to Faile? Here he seems to latch on to Perrin and in the later books follows Perrin like a bad smell (well he could be following both but it does seem to me that its more Perrin than Faile early on) but by KoD he tries to kill Perrin to protect Faile.
71. Freelancer
If you chose to believe that the guy you've been playing heelhound to is evil, you'd want to protect his wife, whom you still believe to be a Good Guy. Doesn't seem a big deal to me.
Ofer Nave
72. odigity
I was actually trying to list only non-main characters in book 1 (EotW) that end up coming back again, to show how many there are from the very beginning. If you want to list *all* recurring characters (like Laras), well... save that for the next time Leigh goes on vacation. :)
73. birgit
Aram is first interested in the spears, but then picks the sword, which even modern Aiel will not touch because it can only be used for violence, so his abandoning of the Way of the Leaf is even more radical than that of the first fighting Aiel.
Ofer Nave
74. odigity
I definitely agree that the choice of sword is more powerful to the reader, who knows what it means in the context of the Tinkers' origin. But is there any mention in the text that the Tinkers remember any distinction between weapon-with-non-violent-use (axe, bow) and weapon-with-only-violent-use (sword) like the Aiel do?
75. alreadymadwhensaidinwascleansed
Tinkers don't make any such distinctions. Weapons are weapons. The first Aiel only made the distinction in order to reconcile their picking up a weapon with their Way of the Leaf philosophy. Later generations kept subscribing to it because the older ones couldn't bear to tell the truth. A weapon is a weapon. Even the thought of keeping one handy for defense, meaning acknowledging that a time will come that you will have to use it, is anathema to the Way of the Leaf.
mark Proctor
76. mark-p
69. Freelancer Yes I was thinking the same but maybe RJ just wanted to emphasise the similarity to the Aiel by mentioning spears.
60. odigity
What about that farmers daughter Elsie something who tryed to join the Aes Sadai but wasn't much good.
Lannis .
77. Lannis
Re: Aram... I know I said earlier I just don't like him, but I've thought about it a little more--still don't like him, but I've come to a conclusion...
His purpose was shock value and juxtaposition, along with adding to Perrin's Hammer or the Axe Debate.
With having set up the Tinkers as peaceful, anti-violent people, it was quite a shock to hear Min say that she had a viewing of Perrin with a Tinker with a sword (actually, IIRC, she says the viewing before we meet the Tinkers--but regardless, the preposterousness of said viewing still stands, and only becomes more so as we, as readers, become familiar with the Tuatha'an).
This viewing added a sense of the exotic to Min's abilities, and beefed up the whole List of Important Things Viewed for our Heroes, RPM. Did anyone not go "Wtf? A Tinker with a sword?!" when reading? Little weird, little crazy, little RAFO, right?
Then, it's the juxtaposition with the Aiel story... not only do we have the Peace vs. War/Tuatha'an vs. Aiel Heritage Lesson earlier, but shortly we'll have the defectors throwing down their spears because Rand's given out The Big Secret. And in direct opposition to this? Oh, a Tinker, who technically has been keeping the historically proper "Aiel" way of life (The Way of the Leaf) deciding to pick up a weapon--and a sword at that.
And, as mentioned by others, IIRC (my review of everyone's comments was just before bed, so forgive me), Aram plays a part in Perrin's Hammer vs. Axe, Builder/Destroyer struggle.
In reference to Aram's importance to Tarmon Gai'don, I agree with Egglie @ 38... I think Aram's actions during his life (choosing the sword over the Way of the Leaf) are how Aram will be important to Perrin in TG (not Aram's actual presence)... it's Aram's actions that will influence Perrin's choice to take up the hammer.
I think, though, that Aram stemmed from a need to bulk up Min's viewings with random, exotic ideas, and then RJ had the task of coughing up a Tinker with a sword. Overall I find Aram is annoying at best, dangerous as a rabid puppy (looks tame--but watch out!) at worst... and fraking irritating the whole way through.
Just my 2 cents.
odigity @ 60: Else Grinwell (ack! mark-p beat me to it!)
ZamIt @ 67: yes, I agree... Aram worked better, overall, as a concept than a character. Mind you, there's an argument for Aram's ambiguity and the reader's distaste for him (not hearing many of us liking him--if any). He gives that creep factor to Perrin's story... a constant tension that he could be a Darkfriend.
Aram + Masema = a whole lotta batshit crazy for Perrin to deal with...
Richard Fife
78. R.Fife
Small ammendum to my earlier comment on compulsion @ 7. While yes, the thought of having my free will stolen from me is terrifying, I also kind of agree with the Odigity @ 60 (and actually made a similiar point in the "Dagger of the Mind" rewatch and got called down for it). That is to say, I can see how, in certain circumstances, Compulsion would be more humane than the A'dam (which some might recall I played Devil's advocate for the way Seanchan treat channlers, as well).
Ok, so one is a prison for the body, the other is a prison of the mind, but which is really worse? I mean, if you were a prisoner, and given the option, and you only had two, which would you pick? To be tortured and broken and changed forever, or to just have your free will stolen for the duration of your captivity with the possible promise that you will one day be freed (rescued) and have your free will back. I know it is noble to say you'd rather be tortured so you could be defiant to the very end and not be some mafia wife, but really, what does that accomplish? You destroy yourself, and the enemy still gets what they probably wanted.
And, in one the flip side, if you were running a penal colony, where you can either strap down and restrain and lock down your prisoners in cages for the bodies and they will know how they are being treated and abused, or you drain their free will and let them live in a minimum security gold-resort setting. And, for the sake of example argument, let us also say that we are dealing with the criminally violent/insane. People beyond a hope of "normal" restraint and rehabilitation.
All I'm trying to say here is: the argument of the sanctity of free will is not black and white. And, for the big question of "What gives us the right?" I answer "What's stopping us?"
And, in the context of the WoT, OK, compulsion is big nasty even to Aes Sedai in 2nd and 3rd age... yet they use the Oath Rod, a device that limits free will. Hmmm...
79. freak2760
Thanks for the D.Adams quote. I love it everytime I see it.
If you go back to the scene where we see Laindrin and Co. the servant who was obviously spying on them kind of gave me, at least this time around, "whoa, Moggy! Sneaky little spider!" This little hint by RJ is definitely his MO. Unless the evil character is jumping in head first, RJ always finds a way to sneak them in without the reader knowing. I mean its obvious the 8th time around and I actually have time to think about it. Or am I wrong here?
Ofer Nave
80. odigity
Kudos to ya'll. Totally forgot about Else Grinwell.
We've just invented Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. :) But yes. Basically, with compulsion, the real result is 1) wasting minutes of my limited lifespan 2) borrowing my property (body) without permission. While under the compulsion, I technically don't exist. It ain't me. It's like my software program was saved and closed, and a new one loaded for a while on the same computer. Granted, if it happened to me, I'd have a more emotional reaction than the above rational description would imply - differently than if Moggy had borrowed my car, say. But rationally, it's not too much different.
The two critical differences between borrowing my car and borrowing my body:
1) I have a limited lifespan, and I'd like every minute for my own use, not used by others while I lay dormant. This would be less of an issue in a few decades when we finally crack practical immortality.
2) During that time, I don't exist to take advantage of opportunities during that portion of the world's timeline. Ten years ago I'd use TV shows as a superficial example, but with TiVo and the internet, that's irrelevent. :) But let's say the girl of my dreams came to my door as part of some political canvassing, and I didn't meet her because I was out being Moggy's plaything. I desire to exist, not only for as many minutes as I can, but during all the minutes of linear history.
So, the only way Moggy could reduce compulsion to a fairly harmless crime (on the order of practical joke) would be if:
1) I was practically immortal (through science, not Highlander-style).
2) She used a time machine to drop me off where she nabbed me so I don't miss out on anything.
Does that make sense?
Richard Fife
81. R.Fife
well, yeah, but I never said what Moggy was doing was "not that bad". I was making an argument of mental incarceration vs corporeal incarceration. In your instances, I agree, no matter what I'd be irked if someone just comes up and randomly steals time from my life, be it with handcuffs or brain-washing.
But, Odigity, I ask you this. If you were forced beyond any shadow of a doubt to serve, oh say, 90 days in jail. Which would you rather take: 90 days you won't remember, but you're body is the guard's plaything, or 90 days you do remember, and you will be coerced by whatever means to do what the guard wants. Quite a pickle, eh? (BTW, I hate pickles, yuck).
sandi vogel
82. sinfulcashew
Ogity or Odigity, (I had to check that spelling)
I'm of the firm belief that if it is to be, it WILL be.
No mistakes!
However crazy the circumstances are, it will be!
Look at life this way and it makes sense!
Lannis: us Doofusses have to stick together.
Thanks for the affirmation!
Kevin Morgan
83. DrMorganstien
ok, I've been out of the loop for a while, but I went back and caught up.
I am proud of myself for noticing Gelb and Moggy on round one, but embarrassed totally missing Aram and the spears and Elayne and her posture.
@8 David-2
I thought Aram's turn to the "gray side" wasn't too quick at all. I seem to remember we first meet Prophet Masema that Aram never seems to catch on to how crazy he is, only that he's cool and possibly correct. NOTE: Aram's thoughts, not mine.
I think Rolan is also there for two reasons:
A)nice guys can, and often sometimes do, finish last
B)you don't hit on another guy's wife, bad karma
Jon Severinsson
84. jonno
I'm late to the party and haven't read all comments yet (I'll be back when I have), but wanted to comment on the governing system points Leigh had.
Firstly, I wouldn't say Randland skiped the Roman/Hellenic period exactly. It's just that the Fall of Rome was slightly more disruptive, resulting in it taking about twice as long to reach the Age of Enlightenment, which has just begun in Randland.
Interestingly enough, the most favoured style of govenment during the Age of Enlightenment was the Enlightened Desopot. An Enlightened Despot is a despot (usully a monarch) who listen to good advice and makes decisions based on the wellfare of all his people rather than just himself. I'd say both Faile and Elayne fits that description.
And just like Leigh notes, monarchies with an enlightened monarch has been very stable and generally successfull nations. The problems only starts when the monarch stops being enlightened. Then you need damage controll, and so the concept of separation of powers was born. Which eventually lead to modern democracy and the removal of the despot entirely.
Ultimately, modern democracy isn't about getting good rulers, which it generally sucks at, but about making sure that terribly bad rulers can be disposed of without an armed rebellion. An aquantance of mine once called it for "splatter controll".
But armed rebellions makes much better books, so here we are...
85. Freelancer
Shenanigans. You spent 6 paragraphs explaining your conclusion regarding Aram's purpose in the story, and then you conclude with this:
Can you really, seriously suggest that the author who intertwined more mythologies, more cultures, more amazingly connected plot constructs than you've ever seen in one story would randomly "cough up" Aram just to fit a vision that you then suggest was randomly tossed in amongst other visions? If the author was prone to a behavior like that, I promise you that this forum would not exist. If there was not a more careful marshalling of detail, foreshadowing, and relation between the characters, their purpose and meaning, than your suggestion implies, this story would not be impressive at all. Readers such as participate on this blog, Leigh first among them, would shred a story that was as slapdash as that.
Flaws? Yes, these 11 massive volumes are not flawless. But the almost careless method you suggest simply cannot be ascribed to Robert Jordan.
Count me in your camp on this. Please see my comments @40, where I challenged Leigh's opinion of which is worse. Once broken by the a'dam, a damane will never be the same, part of them has been destroyed. Once released from Compulsion (if released, that's important), the victim is the same person they were beforehand. I think I fell short of making that point fully in my original response to Leigh. Regarding your posit of choices in prison, those two are morally equivalent in some respects, unless you argue that keeping the memories of those events would do irreparable damage to your psyche. It would be better for one's personality to have been used and not know it, than to be traumatized by the memories of it. Lost time? That's nothing compared to the damage done.
RE: Rolan, how is he a nice guy? Oh yes, he doesn't approve of the treatment of wetlanders as gai'shain, and will help them escape when he leaves. Real nice guy there. In the meantime, he's one of the mera'din, the Brotherless, who refused to follow He Who Comes With The Dawn, because he told them the truth of their past. He took up with The Worst Aiel Clan, and in spite of his disgust for misusing gai'shain, he wants to get improper with one.
Nah, blacksmith hammer to the noggin for Rolan. Next!
Ofer Nave
86. odigity
Depends on what kind of treatment I expect to receive in jail. If it's a full-on Oz hell-hole, put me in suspended animation, baby. If it's a small town jail where the Sheriff isn't an asshole, leave me be. I could use more free time for reading. :)
87. CalaLily
I don't even remember Rolan promising to help her escape. He said he'd take her with the Brotherless if they left. And they would be going back to the Waste. There was no "Oh yeah, I hate what the Shaido are doing, so I'm going to set you free to find your husband." It was more a "We're leaving to go home, and I'm taking you with me because you're hot and Sevanna isn't treating your properly."
At least, that's what I got out of it. The Mera'din weren't going to release the gai'shain, just take them away from a cruel captivity into one not-so-cruel.
88. CalaLily
On a side note, I'd much rather retain my free will and lose the memory of the time I was under Compulsion than have my will and spirit completely broken so I could be someone's pet.
sandi vogel
89. sinfulcashew
No being a Fido, for me thanks.
And as for being the other and regaining myself with no memories, I would rather remember than have amnesia?
Although, maybe if the 'I' I had been had done something REALLY bad, hmmmmm.
90. CireNaes
R.Fife and Freelancer,
I believe Compulsion is infinitely worse. You still have the choice of death as a form of resistance with the a'dam. With compulsion, there is no choice left and you get to live with the guilt of wondering whether or not you could have resisted, or how you should make up for what you did. Just out of curiosity, how do you two regard Juilin's life change after being effectively raped under compulsion?
sandi vogel
91. sinfulcashew
Also, I always kind of liked Rolan. He didn't force himself on Faile. That was a plus for me.
And I was hoping for further story for him.
So much for my not having opinions about things.
92. CalaLily
I'd rather lose my memory. If they had to use Compulsion, then it was obviously to do something I wouldn't have done of my own free will. Yes, much rather blink and remember nothing than have to carry around memories I might not be able to scrub my brain free of.
@Cire: I have a rather low threshold for pain, I'm afraid. It'd probably be far too easy to break me. Nono, much better to die before I'm collared or wake up with no memory of being under Compulsion. :)
Although, I'm terribly hardheaded. Never underestimate the strength-imbuing ability of spite!
Jay Dauro
94. J.Dauro
CireNaes @90
I don't have my books with me, but as I remember, death is not an option when wearing the a'dam. Just as you cannot remove the a'dam yourself, you cannot kill yourself either.
95. Naraoia
CireNaes @90
I don't think death really is an option. I recall that they are very careful not to let damane harm themselves. I guess you could choose to starve to death or get yourself killed in battle, but I'm not sure they'd actually let you not eat, and by the time a damane is taken to battle, she's probably broken... What's left? Ask a nice cleaning lady to kill you with a broomstick?
Captain Hammer
96. Randalator
Freelancer @85
Actually they are not, if the Compulsion used on them is very strong (as in "Graendal's-faithful-pretties-strong"). There's a high probability that such a treatment will either leave you a drooling vegetable or at least reduce your mental capacity by a good measure.
CireNaes @90
No, you don't. Damane can't touch any weapon. They can't even go near any other object they consider a weapon. As long as they have the tiniest thought about doing harm to themselves or a sul'dam even touching something as simple as a pebble is absolutely impossible...
97. CalaLily
In short: Don't get a'damized; Hope you have the good luck to stay away from someone who can weave Compulsion.
98. RobMRobM
@90. Perhaps I've forgotten but when you say "how do you two regard Juilin's life change after being effectively raped under compulsion?" can you explain what you're talking about? I really have no idea so I can't evaluate the argument. Thanks. Rob
99. Freelancer
RE: Rolan helping Faile's people escape
Yes, Rolan said that once they got clear of the Shaido, he would leave them at the first town they found. That the gold belts/collars would help them get back to her husband.
Ok, I'll admit mixed feelings about Rolan. He kept her from getting raped several times, and offered her escape. But he's still not a nice guy, because of those things I've already mentioned, plus all the "nice" things toward Faile had a selfish agenda.
Others have already said what needs saying. Can't hurt or kill yourself while victim of an a'dam. Only the sul'dam can do that, and will punish you greatly for even thinking it, until you CAN'T think it anymore. Infinitely worse. No chance of release, no chance of free will, no chance of anything but perfect obedience to avoid torture. Oh, and the full knowledge that you're broken, that you can't look at the water pitcher as a weapon or else you'll be unable to wash for days, the complete memories of what you no longer are.
100. Freelancer
You are correct. There is a level of Compulsion that destroys, good point. I'm thinking that the victim wouldn't retain clear understanding of the difference, and I suppose that could be called a small mercy. Still preferable to knowing fully the damage that's been done.
And I'm with RobMRobM, no clue what "life change" Juilin has undergone. The biggest change in him has been a willingness to finally want to spend time near an Illianer.
101. CalaLily
@Freelancer: :) Thank you for the correction. I still think Rolan was a horrible person.
Re Seanchan: I think another horrible thing is that Seanchan girls are taught that if they can channel they deserve being broken and used as weapons. That in essence they're nothing more than trained grolm or corm to the Empire. I shudder at that. :\ Something they're born with, unable to predict or control, and BAM, they're completely erased from they're family tree, taken from their homes forever and beaten until they conform to a mentality where they can't even think of themselves as their own person.
Ofer Nave
102. odigity
That's how I perceive people who believe in the legitimacy of government, and who want to be citizens.
Kevin Morgan
103. DrMorganstien
Ok, so I guess my hindsight isn't so 20/20
regarding Rolan joining the Shaido: He just heard that everything he is a walking contradiction and he joined up with the "other people who can't handle it crowd" to avoid further decision making, most of us have done that in some way. Plus, doing something nice for someone because you think they're hot is still being nice, otherwise I'm a pretty terrible person...especially since a lot of people end up doing terrible things to impress someone they think is good looking (re:Lanfear)
104. CireNaes
Okay, I'm a little hazy on the series as it has been quite some time since I've done a reread, so feel free to correct me, but I do recall Juilin being fairly distraught since he did have a recollection of having done somthing wrong after being under compulsion. This caused him to seek out the women he betrayed and make amends for somthing that was technically not his fault. That guilt then became a powerful influence on his future decesions. Perhaps I'm projecting a bit since it is finals week and Hebrew is killing me, but that's how I saw things. As far as not being able to physically resist, didn't Egwene sucessfully punch her sul'dam at one point? I just figured that if you're clever enough with your thought process you could find a way to kill your sul'dam, which would then result in your death, but several people think I'm outright wrong with that one and I dont have the energy to look up supporting evidence so I'll go with the consensus.
Galen Brinn
105. GatheringStorm
CireNaes @ 104,
Egwene did punch her sul'dam...and nearly knocked her own self out: Whatever happens to the sul'dam happens to the damane at least 3 times over. The damane also can't channel without permission and since they can't touch any object that is thought of as a weapon - Egwene tried to use a water pitcher to hit her sul'dam and then couldn't touch it to bathe for 3 days - they are totally defenseless against the sul'dam.
Captain Hammer
106. Randalator
CiraNaes @104
You're right, Egwene punched Renna when she was collared. But that was not an attempt to kill. From the way Renna explains the effects of the A'dam to Egwene it seems that physical resistance of damane is not unheard of.
But the episode with the water pitcher strongly suggests that any premeditated attempt to kill a sul'dam or attacks that could directly lead to the sul'dams death (even if not intended) are impossible.
In short: bitchslapping yes, head-cracking no.
Freelancer @100
I think Morgase is a textbook example of what long-term bulldozer-Compulsion does to your brain. Pre-Rahvin she was described as intelligent, righteous and a very capable ruler. She had a flaring temper in private affairs but was always calm and deliberate in anything else.
Post-Rahvin, while still demonstrating occasional political skill and intelligence, she is for the most part erratic, lacks fundamental judgement (Whitecloaks anyone?) and is in general unfit for any sort of leading position.
If that had been her true self all the way, I don't think she would have ever been held in such high regard by her entire people. So I believe what we see now is not just another case of morbus nobility but the result of her stint as Rahvin's love slave...
True that. And I think Morgase's state of mind is evidence that the victim is not aware of the mental changes.
sandi vogel
107. sinfulcashew
Does Morgase even know who her ex-boyfriend was?
108. Aye Aye Sedai
@90 99 etc
Damnae have been known to drown them selves thus they are watched closely near streams and water. They probably could kill themselves in other ways if they can withstand the pain - the point is to use the pain to break them with the pain - the cruelty factor is worse because the victim knows and has to knowingly change their actions/personality. I'm sure with therapy some damnae could become pitbulls rather than the lap dogs.
IF you think compusion and the a'dam are bad wait til we see the mind traps.
these issues remind me a lot of Jack Chalkers books where physical and mental restrictions are places on the characters and they succeed/adapt/fail in different ways.
Chris Hall
109. bookwormchris
One incident involving quick and dirty Compulsion comes at one of my favorite scenes in the books. This is of course when Moggy decides to get revenge with balefire and needs a handy roof. Love the irony because she actually helps Nynaeve break her block. Tons of stuff in those scene(s). Can't wait until we get to that.
Also reminds me of what I was thinking about yesterday. Mat's friends and soldiers do not fare well in Ebou Dar. Very few survive to leave with him between the various troubles in that city.
Ofer Nave
110. odigity
"Attention all Red Shirts. Attention all Red Shirts. Stay clear of Ebou Dar. I repeat, stay clear of Ebou Dar. That means *you* ensign."
Ian Horn
111. IanGH
Re: Compulsion vs. a'dam. I think these cannot really be compared. They are both tools to use for a specific end, which is control. It is like discussing the use of a car vs. a truck. Each can be used for different things but both get you around. You should be more concerned with who is driving.
Compulsion does not imply loss of memory. Elayne and Nynaeve were told to forget and they did. What is disgusting about the a'dam is the way the Seanchan use it to turn humans into dogs. Nynaeve and Elayne use it on Moggy later and it is nowhere nearly as stomach-churning.
Re: "Enlightened Monarchs". The problem with most of them is that they usually end up storing up problems for the next guy down the line who isn't quite up to the task. I'm sure you can find exceptions but usually Joe-Blow the Great I is not followed up by Joe-Blow the Great II. After the "Golden Age" of Queen Elizabeth I was a series of civil wars 50 years later. After King Louis XXIV of France came King Louis XXVI, and a similar fate.
Re: Aram. Like most others, I am of two minds. I was disappointed by his demise since it seemed to lack the importance that had been built up for him by the foreshadowings. (Not just Min's viewing, I think. Didn't Egwene dream something, too?) On the other hand, he was getting really annoying and it's always good to have one less of those types around.
Joseph Blaidd
112. SteelBlaidd
Randalator(@108) presents one of the big flaws in the formulation of this debate. Specifically the assumption that the only effect that the compulsion would be used for would be to make you forget, and that you can be returned to the pre-Compelled state.
If I am physically incarcerated my mind is still my own. Torture is only used toelicit my cooperation with the torturers will. Compulsion is used to make the Compelled susceptible to commands in much the same way hypnoses does. In either case the purpose of either physical coercion or mental coercion is to get you to DO something.
Compulsion does this by directly manipulating emotional responses. In other words it's not a case of stopping my software, loading a new one and resting to the old state when your done but actually changing my personality.
The example of Moggy Elayne and Nynaeve is perfect because we see it from the inside. All the compulsion did was change the emotions of N and E relative to M, so that they wanted more than any thing to do what she told them to. They then did what she asked OF THEIR OWN CHOICE. Surrendering to someone else and following orders being anathema to Nynaeve she naturally broke the post hypnotic suggestion to forget at the first opportunity.
This explains why heavy compulsion is so damaging. After a while you can't turn it off any more. Morgaese still "Wants" Ravhin even after throwing off his direct control. Gareth Byne is stile a traitor in her mind because that's what Rahvin made her feel to get her to send him away.
Compulsion, even as mild and ineffective as Lindran used on Julian, always changes the Compelled. Hasn't every one been complaining how whipped our Mr. Sandar is post TDR. Lindran's baby-Compulsion works by exploiting uncertainty to make the victim doubt themselves and open to her suggestion's. Breaking her control doesn't return that confidence.
Even if you could just switch of my personality and switch on another (highly unlikely) after spending time as another person doing different things my body would be different with a changed brain chemistry and that would affect my subsequent decisions. (And if you don't believe the body affects personality you are hereby banned from making PMS joke forever.)
Ofer Nave
113. odigity
SteelBlaidd@112: (not quoting you because it's so long)
That's an excellent analysis. I should clarify by saying everything I wrote above was based on the unvoiced assumption that you would be the same person post-compulsion. If that's not true (and you provide excellent arguments against it), then what I say above doesn't apply.
And of course, regardless of the mechanical details or the lessor-of-two-evils scenarios we discussed, I think we all agree that it's all very, very wrong.
Incidentally, your description made me think of nicotine and how it modifies the brain.
Antoni Ivanov
114. tonka
The fact the compulsion makes you forget is rather one of the perks than a negative effect.
Seriously, we always think we are tough and can handle everything but imagine you were compelled to do some terrible things. After you are released how you are going to live with all you have done.It's true that you've been forced to, but still the memory is there. This can drive you crazy . Sometimes is better if you just forget.
115. alreadymadwhensaidinwascleansed
I was under the impression that those under compulsion who forget only do so if those are the specific terms of their compulsion(You will forget/You will not think of it/etc). In the case of Juilin he was allowed to remember because Liandrin etal wanted him to remember because they were so arrogant they did not bother to think of hiding what they did.
Lannis .
116. Lannis
Freelancer @ 85: re: RJ "coughing up" Aram... was wondering if anybody'd respond. Shenanigans! Love it! ;)
To expand on my comment... I meant that during the planning process, the Brainstorm, as it were--an Age Long Past--RJ was looking for some "random" ideas to place in the auras Min would see. A Tinker with a sword has a nice ring of incredulity about it... but then he had to follow through, and sink Aram into the story with a fair amount of verisimilitude to back him up.
That was what I meant @77 by,
This is not to say that RJ didn't support Aram's entrance into the story... of course we are introduced to him well before he becomes Perrin's Personal Guard. And he's been laced into the plot (see previous argument @77), but even though I've thought about it (and maybe this is just my dislike for Aram as a character!), Aram stands out (to me) as clunky.
So yeah, I still feel he's been built backwards--instead of having a character defined in the storyline from the very beginning of the planning process, and looking for a way to introduce said character (aura/Tinker camp), I feel like Aram was constructed by the idea of this Fancy Incredulous Viewing, and his details (though well thought out) were filled into a plot outline (juxtaposition and all) already ripe with characters and conflict... and it just feels clunky to me.
Whew! Everyone still with me? :|
I agree with you, if this series were tossed together with bits of glue and dental floss, we'd all not be here. It's not--it's the most formidable and engaging piece of work I've ever had the honour of reading... which is why I keep coming back to it.
That said, it doesn't mean every concept attempted is successful (like you said, Freelancer, a series can have its flaws)... and I'm on the fence on this one... my gut says it feels too contrived and forced, but I can't discern how much of this feeling is just my distaste for Aram (he really irritates me!)... just sayin'. :)
Oh and your comment also @85...Nah, blacksmith hammer to the noggin for Rolan. Next!... BAHAHAhahahaha!
Jim Adams
117. dubjazz
Aram in reverse is of course Mara.
Lannis .
118. Lannis
dubjazz @ 117: re: Aram... see? Now you've dug up another layer... I'm not saying Aram's just held in the story by sticky tape, I'm saying that the writing of him annoys me (or maybe it's the character and the writing's okay? GAH! Can someone help me out of my hole? I can't see straight anymore...)
Oh, and dubjazz, I skimmed your post and read the end of you Wiki quote backwards ("makes the positive seem negative") and got quite excited: YES! Then I read it again and realized I'd transposed...
I fraking hate Aram...
Lannis .
119. Lannis
Not talking about Aram any more... I'm going to start pissing people off. (Dammit Aram! You piss me off!)
john massey
120. subwoofer
Had to make it back to civilization for Mom's day(Hi Mom!) or would not of been around 'til Wed post.
Many new post-people-all welcome- seems to be some threads on Compulsion vs adaming. What about Verin's Delving? That seems to mess people up and it looks like a form of water torture to boot. People sweating when put to the question etc.
And while I am at it... what about Verin? For a pudgy brown ajah Aes Sedai, she seems to cover much ground in the saddle and pops up at the most inconvenient/ convenient times.
...And, Suian... yes, she seems like a poopy pants who bosses every one around but stepping back and looking at her she is not too bad. Her and Moiraine devote 20 years of their lives and face stilling and everything just so that they can make sure the prophecy comes to pass.
Putzing around with two hands and a flashlight for 20 years takes a certain kind of servitude and devotion to the Light. Especially knowing Tower perception could make things hard for you.-Supporting the Dragon etc. Yes, they had plans to "guide" the Dragon, but look at how well that worked for Moiraine. And the letter she left behind when she went through the frame that morning showed she was happy with Rand...
just sayin'
Go Giants!
Antoni Ivanov
121. tonka
@ 16. Tamyrlink
link here (click)
122. Freelancer
I'm hesitant to ascribe too much of Morgase's current state to remnants of the impact of Compulsion. As to her foray with the Whitecloaks, she didn't go to them, she went to the King, who was a weak, foolish man and let Niall's agents know that Morgase was in Amador. Since then she's been beaten, her people threatened with torture, raped, forced to sign a treaty that will damage Andor's future for decades, seen hopes of escape dashed, etc.
(Brief insert here. Paitr and his uncle were hanged as darkfriends before Morgase's eyes, with the express intent of breaking her will to resist. Is it accidental justice, or did the WCs actually discover them performing dark ceremonies? We know Paitr as a darkfriend from TEotW, shortly after the Howel Gode incident.)
That would crack anyone just a little bit.
Yep, Juilin felt horrible about betraying the SuperGirls in Tear. At least, he is pretty sure it is right to have felt horrible, somehow. That didn't change who he is, from what I see of what follows.
What kind of beaten-down wimp stands on the rooftops outnumbered by Aiel and just casually talks of why they are all out in the night staring at the Stone? That takes backbone. His trips into villages and towns with Thom later on where they end up scuffed and bruised all the time doesn't suggest to me someone who has lost their nerve.
So, he's smitten with 'Thera. That can happen to anyone, anytime. He isn't whipped, he's in love. His lady, broken down (without Compulsion, by the way) by the Seanchan does still have emotional damage, and Juilin is exremely protective of her. Can we all remember that he's Tairen, and she's a former ruler? He is appalled at what's happened to her, and refuses to let her come to any further harm. His mind is sound.
Thank you for not taking my comments personally. I've been told I come across a bit harsh sometimes, and later worried that I'd done so again. It was just hard to reconcile your in-depth analysis of Aram's character and place in the story with the final suggestion that he was tossed in as flavoring as an afterthought. He's a lesson learned for Perrin, when he chooses to see it.
Have to laugh here. I was just wondering why so few posts so far on this thread, then up pops Subwoofer saying he'd been away. Mystery solved!
Yep, have to join you on this one, Moiraine and Siuan always get short shrift, when they were alone in hunting for the Dragon Reborn for the right reasons. That they made plans founded on a faulty ideal, that he would go along calmly and get guided by the Aes Sedai in preparation for TG, that's doesn't earn them too much tsking on my part. As Subwoofer said, they knew how much they were risking, Siuan even told Moiraine she couldn't feel completely confident that they weren't worthy of being stilled for what they were trying, and yet they believed it to be right, and in the world's best interest, not just that of Aes Sedai. Good guys through and through, like them or not.
Go who? The gnats that got shut out yesterday? Tim leaves after 4-1/3 today.
Richard Fife
123. R.Fife
Freelancer: as I recall, Valda (or whoever it was that was walking her to Niall) had no clue Paitr et al were helping Morgase. They were discovered doing dark-friendy things, and Valda walked her past so that she could know that no-one escapes the Light's Justice, especailly since he thought Morgase was a darkfriend (tower-trained, and all that)
Sean Banawnie
124. Seanie
Freelancer: No, I didn't think Aram was a throwaway either . He is a great counterpoint to Perrin. I agree , he is a great lesson for Perrin , if he sees it.
I find him contempible, was always hoping he would grow up. Remember the wine incident with Lini
when she says he has had enough to drink, and he throws a mini-tantrum , "old woman " and all that.
He's not even a lost one , he's a lost lost one. His violence and attitude aren't even defensible.
{say if you were talking to a Tinker }
Kevin Morgan
125. DrMorganstien
@112 SteelBlaidd
That was a perfect summation of that situation. Plus, you did it and invoked the awesome that is TNG, I like where your head's at.
and since other people are doing it, Go Celtics!
Sean Banawnie
126. Seanie
steelblaidd@112 and Dr@125:
very interesting juxatpostion between the torture thread and Perrin. I will have to think beyond my initial reaction about Perrin and the Shaido prisoner's hand later on ...(can't think which book at the moment ..on my way to work anyhow...)
part of the dire consequences /darkness of Perrin's rescue of Faile?---although there are many lives at stake----but he is really only worried about her...well he does care about them all and he is worrying like a devoted husband..
mixed feeling here ...interesting points of conflict....allying with Seanchan.....although Tylee does seem pretty cool for Seanchan...Shaido Wise Women made damane..despite everyone's revulsion for Seanchan slavery and a'dam , I think RJ is setting them up for major evolution-- to wit Mat/ Tuon, Deathwatch generals...some Seanchan are sympathetic chacacters .....Masema {major ick}
RJ said there would be dire consequences as a result......All of these people being rescued was a good thing ..but the ways and means used....perhaps
more trouble about "dragonsworn "?
babbling now ...just some thoughts --scattered---LOL
but thoughts.......better pack my brain and go to work...interested to see rxn..but no spanking ,ok?
*ducks, covers, runs crouched for the car*
*oops forgot keys runs back gets nailed by WOT hookmark*
Captain Hammer
128. Randalator
Freelancer @122
Everyone in Randland knows that Ailron is hardly more than a puppet and that the Whitecloaks rule Amadicia in all but name. Having been taught by the Gray Fox Morgase must have known that going to Ailron is as good as going to the Whitecloaks. Or should have known before her brain was toasted.
As R.Fife already said the Whitecloaks had no clue of any connection between Paitr and Morgase. There wasn't even an ulterior motive. Saren who was ordered to take her to Niall just took the shortest possible way because he didn't want to spend any more time near a witch than absolutely necessary. And Asunawa who saw her reaction to the execution dismissed the notion that she might have anything to do with these darkfriends.
Frowning, Asunawa drummed his fingers on the gilded arm of his chair. Above his head, the shepherd's crook was worked in brilliant lacquer on a pure white disc. "The witch was taken aback," he murmured.
Saren answered as though it was an accusation. "Some people are affected that way by hanging. The Darkfriends were rounded up yesterday; I'm told they were chanting some catechism to the Shadow when Trom broke down the door. I checked, but no one thought to ask if they had any connection to her." At least he did not shift his feet; he stood as straight as any Hand of the Light should.
Asunawa dismissed explanations with a slight wave of his hand. Of course there was no connection, aside from the fact that she was a witch and they Darkfriends.
(LoC, ch. 31)
Antoni Ivanov
129. tonka
127. Seanie
RJ said there would be dire consequences as a result
Dire consequences ? From what? Can you give us quote please.I am trying to remember but I cannot.
Antoni Ivanov
130. tonka
If the Tower secured the throne for Elayne . . . it seemed mad, yet she trusted the Tower even less than she did Niall. No, she had to save Andor herself. But the cost. The cost must be paid.
(LoC, ch. 31)
Another effect of Rahvin's compulsion.I really doubt someone who had spent years in the White Tower and was the only ruler to have openly an Aes Sedai as adviser would have lost so much of her confidence in the White Tower .
Antoni Ivanov
131. tonka
I was not finished. I clicked post by mistake it seems.
And another quote from the same chapter.
If any woman ever sat on it again, it would be Elenia or Naean or one of that ilk, and as al’Thor’s puppet. That, or Elayne as the Tower’s puppet; she could not make herself trust the Tower.
Any of these indicates that she is compelled to think that the Tower is not to be trusted.
Richard Fife
132. R.Fife
Tonka, you can go back in and edit your posts since you have an account (and close that italics while you're at it.) Just saying.
Michael Catapano
133. hoping
Morgase's mistrust of the tower has more to do with them losing track of elayne than compulsion residue. One of the principles of compulsion is that strong personalities are able to resist, or recover, better than weak people and Morgase is certainly that. Witness Nynaeve still pulling her braid while being compulsed, another strong (or stubborn) personality.
Michael Catapano
134. hoping
Looks like everyone is in italics. This has happened before and someone fixed it but I don't know how.
Captain Hammer
135. Randalator
hoping @134
Tonka forgot to close the Italics-Tag. He should be able to fix it by editing his comment @130...
also re: weak Morgase
Morgase is under Rahvin's equally strong influence considerably longer than Nynaeve under Moggy's. But still she manages to break free of it several times (with varying success):
1. When Mat delivers Elayne's message and Rahvin snaps it out of her hands she gets angry but is immediately subdued by Rahvin.
2. After the audience with Alteima we see her mind fighting (ultimately unsuccessfully) the Compulsion in a POV.
3. She breaks free of the Compulsion after all when Tallanvor tells her of the Two Rivers rebellion.
No, Morgase is not weak at all. She just doesn't have a dead giveaway like Nynaeve's braid-tugging...
Alice Arneson
136. Wetlandernw
Hey, guys, not to sound like your English teacher or anything, but the word is "compelled," not "compulsed." "Compulsion" is the act of compelling or the state of being compelled. Sorry, but I can only read it about so many times before I can't stand it any more.
Antoni Ivanov
137. tonka
“It seems she has left the Tower again,” he(Rahvin) said. “On the service of the Amyrlin Seat. The woman oversteps herself again, Morgase.”
(TDR: Chapter 46)
You can see how Rahvin is influencing her to believe that the Amyrlin and the Tower are upto no good.
If you do, and if you see my daughter, tell her that what is said in anger is often repented. I will not remove her from the White Tower before time. Tell her that I often think of my own time there, and miss the quiet talks with Sheriam in her study. Tell her that I said that, Thom Grinwell.”
(TDR: Chapter 46)
But still she shows trust in the Tower enough that she intend to leave Elayne there. If she shows that much trust I simply cannot believe that later she will prefer the Whiteclokes.
Alice Arneson
138. Wetlandernw
FWIW, I'm with tonka & co. on this one. Morgase's actions after escaping Rahvin never made sense to me, and it used to irritate me no end. I think that's why I always hated that particular story line. However, if you put it in light of "side effects of too much complusion for too long" the whole thing makes a lot more sense. Even her reaction to Tallanvor fits better; she's been compelled to see "Gaebril and only Gaebril" for so long that she can't quite think of any other man as a lover, even if she normally might.
Okay, I won't go on, because it's all been said, but THANKS to whoever started this line of thinking for me. I'm much less aggravated with Morgase now. ;)
Lannis .
139. Lannis
Freelancer @ 122: No sweat! I didn't read anything in your post that was "harsh." But then, I've always been excellent at taking criticism (might not do anything differently, or change my opinion, but by all means don't worry about how I'll respond). And I try not to take (ahem) anything said on forums seriously--just leads to Ugly. :)
Besides that, as a contributor to the discussion, one has entered into an agreement to discuss, and as such should be ready to have one's comment discussed. Perhaps there are participants who forget this, and feel defensive if others have a different opinion (not pointing fingers, guys, so everyone relax!), but yeah, that's not me. :)
sandi vogel
140. sinfulcashew
As a Mom and GMom I was looking forward to your link-
'Hi MoM!'
It isn't working!
And reading some of RJs answers to questions of things not covered in the actual books.....
No wonder it took him a couple of years at least to write these tomes. He really went into deeper places than required for us.
He will always amaze me!
john massey
141. subwoofer
@Sinful... wasn't a link...I just changed the color of the type. Sorry... maybe try this. Reminds me of my brothers.
@Freelancer, no sweat, I often put my foot in my mouth, but I enjoy freedom of expression, so wtf. Let 'er rip. I'm sure others on this post could do without me but that's not my problem. Glad you missed me.
And I was talking about the NY Giants. As per previous posts- Part #10- love em. Not a big 'ball fan. Find it mind numbing to watch. Okay to play. Most people I know like to crunch the stats but that is not my thing.
Seanie raised some interesting points about several topics:
- Perrin's 'darkness'
- Alliances with the Seanchan
- Shaido douchebags and A'dams
- dire consequences?
Wanted to touch on Perrin's darkness. I feel that he displays a very focused mindset when it comes to Faile. Almost like a wolf when it hunts, keeping on the scent. Even when they were in Tear and there was badger easing and hedge-hogging. Perrin totally disregarded his own well being and safety and threw himself headlong into saving Faile.
I don't know if that qualifies as darkenss or single-mindedness. Maybe it lends itself to the beast within Perrin and him becoming savage.
He does the same stalking her half way across the continent after the Shaido captures. I think Faile reciprocates when she travels the ways even though Perrin was trying to leave her behind. She totally disregarded what a sane person would do- stay out of the Ways- and went headlong into a country wide assault between Whitecloaks and Trollocs/Fain.
The alliance thing I wouldn't mind discussing, vis- a-vis the Seanchan, although it may be good fodder for later. Just that I did not see that coming and it is interesting the credibility Perrin has, being "just a black smith".
@R.Fife & Co. I have tried to edit my posts myself, after posting and all that happens is that it winds up as a double post. meh.
-Edit- never mind, I edited my edit.
Joseph Blaidd
142. SteelBlaidd
Wetlandernw @136
Sorry I started that. It was a neologism I was using to mean "Having been subjected to the One Power weave Compulsion" as separate from compelled "forced to perform an action against ones will."
Re Morgaese.It always was obvious to me that lingering effects of having been Compelled were driving a lot of her decisions. She vaguely remembers doing drastic things to old friends but can't reconstruct why, She remembers being madly in Lust with a man who was actively trying to supplant her and cheating on her in public. Both make her severely defensive about any decisions she makes and prone to reject advice because she cant trust her political judgment. Gabril appears to her to be the last of a long line of horrible decisions about the men she chooses to share her life with. Of course she runs from Tallinvor. She feels attracted to him ergo he must be a mistake.
This being mothers day I Thought it might b interesting to explore how they figure into the symbolism of the book.
The most obvious reference is the Amyerlin who is addressed as Mother. However, she rules over priestesses that only embody the Maiden or the Crone. It's a sign of the changes that Egwene will bring that Elayne is likely the first Aes Sedai to get pregnant in centuries, and Nynaeve and Egwene herself are likely to bear children as well.
Rand's relation to mothers is interesting. He has had two both who died early and he has been raised in a primarily male environment. This make it especially meaningful that he lets the Maidens "mother" him, his relation with Min also has aspects of her being a Mother figure as a source of comfort and council.
Perrin and Mat still have their mothers at the beginning Perrin's is killed, though Mistress Luhan acts as a surrogate.
Any other major ties?
143. Freelancer
Okay, I'll buy that Morgase's confusion and lack of sound judgement are a result of lies she was told while under compulsion, but not an inherent damage done of the Compulsion itself. There is a remnant that is only from the Compulsion, but it is limited to her continuing to desire Rahvin's touch.
"I'm sorry, girl, but truth is truth. 'Better to face the bear than run from it.'"
Morgase's knees sagged, and if Lini had not hurriedly pulled a chair from the table to shove under her, she would have sat down on the floor. Alteima. Him watching the two of them as they gossiped took on a new image, now. A man fondly watching two of his pet cats at play. And six others! Rage boiled up in her, a rage that had been lacking when she only thought he was after her throne. That, she had considered coldly, clearly; as clearly as she could consider anything recently. That was a danger that had to be looked at with cold reason. But this! The man had ensconced his jades in her palace. He had made her just another of his trulls. She wanted his head. She wanted him flayed alive. The Light help her, she wanted his touch. I must be going mad!
Rahvin didn't put a completely devastating form of Compulsion on her, as Graendel uses for her pets, because Rahvin wanted the satisfaction of knowing she retained her mind, yet was still in his power.
Rahvin lied to her that many of what she had always known to be allies had turned against her:
- The White Tower
- Gareth Bryne
- Long-allied Andoran houses
Now add the turmoil that doesn't have to be lied about:
- The Stone fallen to the Dragon Reborn and an army of Aiel
- Trouble in Cairhien, Galldrian assassinated
- Trouble in Illian, Almoth Plain, etc.
If all of it were false, she might, being as had been pointed out, a deft player of the Game, sort out truth from lies. But with all of the other chaos mixed in, it becomes very hard to separate fiction from reality. So her distrust of Lord Bryne, the Aes Sedai, and former friends is retained, though for fictional reasons. This to me is more than enough to knock a person to the dirt as far as their self-confidence, without ascribing it to a "left-over" of compulsion.
With Lini, and later Tallanvor telling her she'd been used, by a MAN, it's more than her queenly self-assurance can bear. Now add her treatment by first Niall, then worse by Valda (Oh, it was an unnamed Questioner that walked her past the executions, not Valda), and of course she doesn't trust her own judgement as she once did.
Maybe I trust Occam too much, but if there is a viable explanation for things that doesn't require manufacturing unknown and unknowable arguments, I'll take it.
Alice Arneson
144. Wetlandernw
May I then suggest that you follow RJ's example and simply capitalize the existing English word instead of coming up with a new one? When you mean "forced via Compulsion" say "he was Compelled" as opposed to "I felt compelled by my own convictions" or whatever.
RJ came up with a lot of new words for "the Old Tongue" but he never created new English words when perfectly good ones existed already. You might note that in every case where he wants to denote something as Power-specific, he capitalizes it. For example: Power, Talent, Traveling, Compulsion, Dreaming, and so on. It's really much easier that way. (Not to say he didn't make up words, but they were to denote objects or concepts we don't have: sho-wings, jo-cars, shocklances, etc.)
Joseph Blaidd
145. SteelBlaidd
Point I will go correct. In my defense it was at the end of a very long day including a 3 hr drive home on an itty-bitty spare after blowing a tire.
@Freelancer I agree my point was that even without lingering emotional effects(which she does have), the actions taken while Compelled have fallout both for the Compelled and those around them.
146. Shadow_Jak
Freelancer @ 143
well said.
Also note: Morgase does not know that compulsion was used. She thinks he did it all with charm and she failed to see through it. Bound to shake her confidence that she let a man charm her right out of her Crown (as well as the rest of her clothes!)
Alice Arneson
147. Wetlandernw
SteelBlaidd: 3 hr drive home on an itty-bitty spare after blowing a tire
ACK! Hey, I'll excuse almost ANYTHING after that!! I loathe those stupid little things. Grrrr...
ShadowJak: Good point. Morgase still has no idea what's going on virtually anywhere. No idea she was Compelled, no idea Gaebril was really Rahvin, to say nothing of other world events: no idea Rand is the DR, no idea Elaida is the WT Amyrlin, no idea the Tower has split, no idea where her nutso kids are... Okay, I've just been way too hard on her. I'm good at that.
sandi vogel
148. sinfulcashew
Aha-Perrin and the hand. (I just read it a couple of months ago in Crossroads(10) or Knife(11).
One of my favorite scenes.
Has to be at the top of my list.
So unexpected from this gentle heart.
I was shocked!
But on thinking it over.....yeh!
It was the best?, quickest way to get the answers he needed.
Very effective.
Thanks sooooo much for the right link?
Not quite what I was expecting.
Something a little more sentimental perhaps?
So Morgase doesn't know who her ex boyfriend was,
thanks for the answer to my questing mind.
Asger Grunnet
149. asgerix
This is a bit off-topic, but perhaps useful to know if the italics problem should occur again:
Usually, if you add an italics-tag but forget to close it, it will be closed automatically at the end of your post. HOWEVER, if you add the italics-tag within square brackets: ], it's not automatically closed and will affect the posts below.
If it's not possible to edit the post, you can close the tag in a later post by placing the end-tag in square brackets, like this:
This is a bug in the commenting system of, and I have notified Tor about it.
I was a bit hesitant to post about this since it can be abused, but as we're all nice people here on, I guess it's safe...
Michael Catapano
150. hoping
Re compulsed
You may not have been notified that compulsed has recently been included in the Cromulent Book of Re-read Neologisms. :)
151. Freelancer
Indeed. But such is true without a magical component involved. Any traumatizing aspect to a personal relationship has fallout, and impacts the victim's rational judgement in areas related to that trauma.
You say you've been too hard on Morgase. As I read that and considered, suddenly an aspect of this and many other discussions I've entered gain clarity.
I've always been into puzzles, of every sort, enjoying the challenge of hunting for the key. To do this well requires a level of dispassionate detachment, which allows the mind to consider perspectives, angles, and connections until the solution appears.
At the same time, I've always loved reading good fiction, but for the opposite reason. I allow myself to be empathetically immersed into the story, sharing the emotions of the POV character(s), and understanding their reactions to events, their decisions, their heartaches.
So, to get to my point, because my nature as a reader is to be sympathetic with the story itself, it's very common for me to defend, rather than attack; to explain, rather than judge. I find it easier to criticize the comments of another reader, than to throw the characters under the bus as being unlikeable, because I have chosen to take their part, as my method for getting greatest enjoyment of the story itself.
Now that I see this better for what it is, I will try to be more thoughtful about how I respond to criticisms of certain characters or their purpose and value to the story. Though my perceptions of them are fairly well imprinted, so maybe it won't change much. ::shrug::
What makes WoT so wonderful for me, is that by the end of TGH, or perhaps early into TDR, I realized that there were puzzles to be solved, forehsadowings and clues embedded within the story far beyond anything I'd encountered in fiction. So I found myself simultaneously reading as I always had, sharing the intent and mindset of the narrative, while watching for puzzle pieces to show themselves. And yet, after repeated re-reads, I still find (or am shown by others) tidbits that were passed over before.
For me, it doesn't get much better than that.
152. alreadymadwhensaidinwascleansed
Yeah. Only happened once since people didn't know how the bug worked. Now that people do....
Alice Arneson
153. Wetlandernw
I enjoyed your self-analysis - and of course it made me consider my own reading. Unfortunately I can't find anything so straightforward, except that when I'm reading fiction I'm pretty happy to just go with my natural reaction to any character or situation. I get very involved mentally & emotionally, at least if its a well-written book, and I find it very easy to completely immerse in WoT. In discussions, though, I tend toward the DA position; if most people seem to be jumping one way on a character/issue, I'm likely to go the other out of sheer contrariness. (Unless I so strongly agree with the majority that I've got nothing to argue, of course. I love Lan, Loial & Rhuarc - can't come up with any negatives!) That's one of the reasons this discussion has been so great for me; I'm seeing aspects of characters and situations that I didn't pick up on in my own reading. I can become quite passionate in defense of a character I liked but who seems to be getting the shaft in discussion. On the other hand, when one or two folks start pointing out mitigations for someone I didn't like, it really starts me thinking. And since I've never liked pointless emotional rants, I end up thinking really hard about what I'm writing when I go on a rant. (Unfortunately, sometimes I forget about the audience and how harsh I may sound because I tend to focus on use of language and validity of argument... *sigh* Oh well. I only "go dragon-lady" once in a while.) But the "thinking really hard" has led me to some very different understandings of what's going on here. How cool is that?
Anyway, to EVERYONE on this wild ride, I want you to know I appreciate your input and the ways in which it has increased my appreciation for this series. (And I didn't think that was possible!) I promise to try hard not to correct your grammar too often, and you'll excuse me if I stay out of most of the "real world politics" arguments, but this is a great forum, folks. Thanks a bunch!
Antoni Ivanov
154. tonka
I wouldn't mind at all if you correct my grammar. On the contrary I will appreciate it !
And yeah, it's really hard to find something negative about Lan,Loial or Rhuarc.
But here for Lan; In Tear he is ready to break his bond and oath to Moiraine to be with Nynaeve but she send him back to Moiraine. I was really disappointed in Lan then.
155. Freelancer
Well, I would say that you and I read pretty much in the same internal environment. And I completely appreciate the "defend the underdog" mindset, as well as the passionate desire to hold forth in favor of a character that others are dumping on. I don't necessarily think I lean one way because it's a minority viewpoint, as much fun as that can be in general forum activity, but because of what I believe the strongest evidence to be. Of course, I'm happy to be straightened out when my analysis of the evidence is erroneous (or when I substitute a faulty memory of the text for evidence), but apart from that I'm a mastiff with a bone until I'm proven wrong. I try to leave my emotions out of that, and sometimes come across as cold or insensitive as a result. Mea culpa.
So, to return to the previous concept, the damage to Morgase is, in my opinion, emotional, not mechanical. Once she learns the difference between what she was led to believe, and the truth, she'll be mostly back to her original self. Just knowing that Elayne has the Rose Crown should restore much.
To everyone else, I echo Wetlandernw's statement that the discussions herein are quite entertaining and informative, and I hope my long-winded comments aren't too aggravating. Unlike Leigh, brevity and I have hardly met.
Michael Johnson
156. twosheddz
R.Fife @123
I've always interpreted that scene as Valda cutting off her escape plans by executing Paitr et al. and wanting her to know that there was no escape now. I didn't even think that they cared if they were darkfriends. It's a little hazy since my last reread, though.
157. Roxinos
I request, kindly, that you use the phrase "flizzerbloop" in reference to the category under which angreal, sa'angreal, and ter'angreal fall.
Kevin Morgan
158. DrMorganstien
do you all agree with me that clearly Morgase's mind has been dulled based on Valda's use of a flizzerbloop while she was trying to escape Kandor to the Isle of Madmen?
sorry, had to do it
159. ammbd
let us expand upon gun rights such that it become defense rights. no loop holes left for the no one has any right to self defense tyrants out there.
160. Arthurphillipdenu
And it was a nice comment that Moggy made about her preffering being the spider in the shadows, seeing as she took her name from a deadly spider in the AOL. I'm not sure whether we knew that at this point though, if we did it was a pretty big clue.
161. Arthurphillipdenu
Sorry, already commented on. This is what I get for not reading the other posts as carefully as I should have. I shall now back slowly out of the room.. *beeping sound*
162. Guillaume Bergeron
I just want to say Yay! My WOTFAQ contribution got a shout-out!
163. Aramina
Chiming in way late, but...
odigity @ 74
There is a mention, obliquely, of Tinkers making a distinction. Ila does, in Ch. 41 when Perrin, Ihvon, and co. are in her wagon.
Ila frowned at the Warder--or at his sword, rather, she seemed to find that even worse than Perrin's axe...
164. rosetintdworld
I just caught up to this part in my own re-read, and felt compelled to quote this bit of Moggy's confrontation with Nynaeve:
"I would love to see Rahvin's eyes the day he meets you unblocked."
I may be misremembering the end of tFoH, but isn't Nynaeve responsible for forcing Moghedien to melt Rahvin's eyes, allowing Rand to bf him? If this is the case, I don't think I've ever been so stunned at the subtlety of a foreshadowing.
165. Faculty Guy
The observation that no one who WANTS to govern should be allowed to do so, and that those best qualified must (since they by definition would not want it) must be coerced into leading, goes back to Plato in THE REPUBLIC, Book II (I believe). Actually, almost EVERY profound observation goes back to Plato!
I wonder if anyone else ever re-reads these re-reads? Surely not the Commentary!
Alice Arneson
166. Wetlandernw
FacultyGuy - Hard to say, but there are always people a) noticing comments on old threads; b) going back to look for a previous discussion; or c) catching up with the reread. I feel sorry for anyone in that last category - there's SO MUCH to read if you go through all the comments, but so much really good discussion and theorizing has come up that way that you miss a lot if you don't read them. Have fun!
167. macster
A thought on Aram's importance to Perrin's story, from Towers of Midnight:
"Perrin reached down to the warm hammer at his side. He had thought that responsibility would be another weight upon him. And yet, now that he had accepted it, he actually felt lighter.
Perrin Aybara was just a man, but Perrin Goldeneyes was a symbol created by the people who followed him. Perrin didn't have a choice about that; all he could do was lead the best he could. If he didn't, the symbol wouldn't vanish. The people would just lose faith in it. As poor Aram had.
I'm sorry, my friend, he thought. You I failed most of all." (Chapter 40 "A Making", p. 620)
Considering this came right after Perrin forged his new hammer and accepted his leadership role, I think a case can be made that Aram did indeed serve an important point in the story by showing Perrin what not to do--not just how he threw aside the Way of the Leaf and lost himself in bloodshed, violence, and fanaticism as a parallel to Perrin's wolf nature, but that he had latched onto Perrin as one to guide him when his way of life no longer had the answers...but in becoming so focused on Faile above everything else, Perrin inadvertently set a very bad example. Ironically, by acting too fanatical, he drove Aram into the camp of an even worse fanatic, who then corrupted Aram even further until he was convinced to betray Perrin, not because he was too fanatical, but because he wasn't fanatical enough--focusing on Faile instead of Rand, thus proving himself a Darkfriend to Masema and Aram.
Which suggests, then, that seeing what his actions had done, how his inability to balance his builder/killer nature and therefore not show Aram there was no need to either be a fanatical pacifist or a fanatical warrior had led to his betrayal and death, is a big part of why Perrin finally accepted his role as a leader--to keep from ever causing another situation like Aram's. He led him out of the Way of the Leaf, but did not stay true to a path between peace and violence that applied each when it was necessary, and so he let Aram down, in his mind. He ends up not trusting another to do the job of lord, and swearing to do the best job he can as a leader, partly because of what happened to Aram.
In which case, the fact this pushed Perrin into finally accepting his leadership role may make Aram actually have one of the most important roles in the story, however much he may be disliked personally by the readers.
168. Dorianin
"duopotamians".....oh, Leigh, I love you....I came across the term in another part of the re-read, but just clued in....
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Having left his imprimatur all over the French club scene, Cedric Gervais emigrated to Miami in 2003 and took that city by storm too. The year before his debut single "Burning" slammed into the U.S. chart, more impressive productions and remixes followed, culminating in Experiment, the DJ's debut album. Point of entry for most listeners will be the hit "Spirit in My Life," which is representative of Gervais' fabulous, driving, bubbling, hard house style. The fat, funky title track, however, filled with space-age effects and vocal samples, is a prime example of his other side. The cataclysmic "Sky" brings the two styles together, its storming bass line pure funk, the slamming beats unadulterated hard house, and the melody as bright and infectious as a sunny day. There's just a touch of new wave to the synths, another tack Gervais loves to take, with that '80s sound crescendoing across "Half Way Love," featuring Second Sun, which beautifully evokes mid-era Depeche Mode. The sensational Sun appears on two more tracks, including the tongue-in-cheek "Pills" that slyly slips between new wave and harder rhythms that at times push towards industrial. "Touch" is its polar opposite, a lavish piece with tribal-lite beats, a rich, lush melody, plenty of atmosphere, and counterintuitive vocals that occasionally slide toward arena rock. Brilliant. But then, so much of this album is. There's plenty of flamboyant hard house to get the party moving, like "Fire," which includes another fabulous performance from Caroline, as well as the dizzying, funk-laden "Bang." If there was any doubt that Gervais was ready for the big time, this album puts them to bed for good. A star is born, but one who recognizes the work of all who came before him, and Gervais thanks them all on "Respect."
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This Land is Whose Land?
If I were Jewish, I would want there to be a Jewish homeland. The Holocaust alone would be enough. Any other pogrom would be enough. Consider the violence against Jews which took place in Romania in 1941. Among other forms of violence, 200 Jews were subjected to the inhumane experience of being taken to a slaughterhouse, put on a conveyor belt, and killed in the way food animals are. The idea of a defined, defensible state would give me comfort, whether I chose to live there or not.
None of this justifies what is happening in the Middle East today. None of this addresses whether the modern state of Israel was created in the best place, or whether the creators could have predicted trouble from the start. The borders of Israel were determined primarily by the British after WWI.
The world has found no good way to determine what lands belong to which people. Look at the problems in Africa caused by Western nation making. Look at Macedonia. Does it belong to Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, itself? How are these decisions made? Who gets to make them? Someone is always quick to jump up to point out that some of the world’s disputes have been going on for millennia, and that nobody can sort them out now. Perhaps. What I think we need, though, is fewer people taking sides, and more working on figuring out a just way to solve the disputes.
Now let’s look at the State of Israel. It is roughly 8,000 square miles, or roughly the size of New Hampshire or Vermont.. More than half of the area is desert. The population is about 7.3 million. Over 4.5 million of these immigrated since the formation of the state. The population density in Israel is about 300 per square mile. The land governed by the Palestinian Authority has a population density of 550 per square mile.
What were the British thinking? How can the region sustain the numbers is has now, let alone a population increase of close to 2% a year? How can there be peace when millions of people have been added to an area lacking the resources for the ones it had? England considered Madagascar as an alternative location, an idea first proposed in 1885 and periodically, even by the Nazis for a brief time. I doubt that Madagascar would have worked, since that island’s resources were depleted by colonialism, but was there no other location for Israel?
How could anyone have expected peace in the Middle East? When will we learn that political determinations made from outside a group are seldom likely to gain favor, especially when it is to the detriment of that group? When will we as a country stop leaping to take sides and work to find peaceful solutions which will take the needs of both sides into account?
Anita McKay
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1. Linda Muralidharan says:
Anita has raised many critical points. However, the history of Zionism and the creation of the modern state known as Israel is very, very complicated and cannot be fully described much less analyzed in a few paragraphs.
Each of us will make some contribution to getting the story straight. First, it was not just the British or the Nazis who thought of other locations for a Jewish state. Early Zionists were not so religious in zeal and did not consider the historical Palestine to be a critical location. They considered a number of locations on the African continent, for example.
Next, there is now historical record of some of the things the British were thinking. They were certainly focused on the European Jewish tradition and they considered Europeans racially and culturally superior to Asians. Thus even the usually avowed anti-Semites among them (speaking of policial leaders) wanted a Jewish state in the Palestinian location to be a buffer against the heathen Asian hordes. That is one of their motivations for so often doing in the Arabs whom they had promised a state of their own along with the Jewish state or at least they promised equal treatment within one nation for both cultural/religious groups.
Fast forward for the moment. I did attend the lecture last Sunday by Yael Dayan, Israeli legislator and peace activist and daughter of Moshe Dayan. She is 100% against the occupation. She is 100% for a two state solution. Her ideal is an ethnically/culturally Jewish state that has a secular government.
I suspect her view is influenced by both being the daughter of such a famous Isreali leader and by wanting to be politically effective in achieving justice. Therefore she claims that Israel did just about everything right up until 1967. (There are many reasons to dispute this, but I will not do so here.)
She says that since then Israel has chosen self-destructive policies that bode ill for the future. She says that unless the governement accepts a fair and equitable two state solution there cannot be any kind of peace. She said it will be gruelingly brutal when the settlers are removed from locations that must be returned to Palestinians. Ans she says she believes that will be done because she is optimistic that people will wake up to reality. She says it is now up to the American government to use its power to make Israel do the right thing. She didn’t go quite so far as the Israel journalist from the West Bank who spoke the previous week. That person said present policies are Israeli suicide policies. However, using different words, Yael Dayan took the same essential position.
2. Billy The Kidd says:
7.3 million Jews in Israel, how many Jews are there in America???
3. Mickie Lynn says:
This is a potentially explosive topic as we’ve seen during comments on other articles on this blog. I agree with Anita and Linda that the method of creation of Israel on land already long occupied by Palestinians provides one of the roots of the current conflict.
It seems that right now there is certainly not a threshold reached in terms of each side recognizing their interdependence or even being ready to hear the story or narrative of the other side. The phony emphasis on “peace talks” while the US government looks away as more and more settlements are built on Palestinian land and the occupation and strangulation of the Gaza strip continues does nothing to bring about reconciliation or even “co-existence.
Somehow we need to bring about a way for the Israeli Jews and the Palestinians to work together to seek genuine reconciliation and to make a plan for peace. We need to address the issues of asymetrical power and resources and those of ethical and humane treatment of other people. Having Benjamin Netanyau talk and talk while continuing the mistreatment of Palestinians does nothing to advance the cause of peace or the possibility of a two state solution or even a one state solution where all citizens have equal rights.
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Remarks by the President on American Energy -- Lemont, Illinois
By: Barack Obama II
Date: March 15, 2013
Location: Lemont, IL
It's not every day that I get to walk into a thermal test chamber. (Laughter.) I told my girls that I was going to go into a thermal test chamber and they were pretty excited. I told them I'd come out looking like the Hulk. (Laughter.) They didn't believe that.
I want to thank my friend and your friend -- a truly great U.S. Senator, Senator Dick Durbin -- huge supporter of Argonne. (Applause.) An outstanding member of Congress who actually could explain some of the stuff that's going on here -- Bill Foster is here. (Applause.) Congressman Bobby Rush, a big supporter of Argonne -- glad he's here. (Applause.) We've got a number of state and local officials with us, including your Mayor, Brian Reaves. (Applause.)
After years of talking about it, we're finally poised to take control of our energy future. We produce more oil than we have in 15 years. We import less oil than we have in 20 years. We've doubled the amount of renewable energy that we generate from sources like wind and solar -- with tens of thousands of good jobs to show for it. We're producing more natural gas than we ever have before -- with hundreds of thousands of good jobs to show for it. We supported the first new nuclear power plant in America since the 1970s. And we're sending less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years.
So we're making real progress across the board. And it's possible, in part, because of labs like this and outstanding scientists like so many of you, entrepreneurs, innovators -- all of you who are working together to take your discoveries and turn them into a business.
And that's why we have to keep investing in scientific research. It's why we have to maintain our edge -- because the work you're doing today will end up in the products that we make and sell tomorrow. You're helping to secure our energy future. And if we do it well, then that's going to help us avoid some of the perils of climate change and leave a healthier planet for our kids. But to do it, we've got to make sure that we're making the right choices in Washington.
So Dr. Isaacs said these cuts will force him to stop any new project that's coming down the line. And I'm quoting him now -- he says, "This sudden halt on new starts will freeze American science in place while the rest of the world races forward, and it will knock a generation of young scientists off their stride, ultimately costing billions of dollars in missed future opportunities." I mean, essentially because of this sequester, we're looking at two years where we don't start new research. And at a time when every month you've got to replace your smartphone because something new has come up, imagine what that means when China and Germany and Japan are all continuing to plump up their basic research, and we're just sitting there doing nothing.
We can't afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of the world races forward. We have to seize these opportunities. I want the next great job-creating breakthroughs -- whether it's in energy or nanotechnology or bioengineering -- I want those breakthroughs to be right here in the United States of America, creating American jobs and maintaining our technological lead. (Applause.)
So I just want to be clear -- these cuts will harm, not help, our economy. They aren't the smart way to cut our deficits. And that's why I'm reaching out to Republicans and Democrats to come together around a balanced approach, a smart, phased-in approach to deficit reduction that includes smart spending cuts and entitlement reforms and new revenue, and that won't hurt our middle class or slow economic growth. And if we do that, then we can move beyond governing from crisis to crisis to crisis, and we keep our focus on policies that actually create jobs and grow our economy, and move forward to face all of the other challenges we face, from fixing our broken immigration system to educating our kids to keeping them safe from gun violence.
And few pieces of business are more important for us than getting our energy future right. So here at Argonne, and other labs around the country, scientists are working on getting us where we need to get 10 years from now, 20 years from now. Today, what most Americans feel first when it comes to energy prices -- or energy issues are prices that they pay at the pump. And over the past few weeks, we saw -- we went through another spike in gas prices. And people are nodding here. They weren't happy about it. The problem is this happens every year. It happened last year, the year before that. And it's a serious blow to family budgets. It feels like you're getting hit with a new tax coming right out of your pocket. And every time it happens, politicians -- they dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas, but nothing happens and then we go through the same cycle again.
But here's the thing: Over the past four years, we haven't just talked about it, we've actually started doing something about it. We've worked with the auto companies to put in place the toughest fuel economy standards in our history. And what that means is, by the middle of the next decade, our cars will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. And the standards that we set are part of what's driving some of the amazing scientists and engineers who are working here at Argonne Labs. We've set some achievable but ambitious goals. So in the middle of the next decade, we expect that you'll fill up half as often, which means you spend half as much. And over the life of a new car, the average family will save more than $8,000 at the pump. That's worth applauding. That's big news. (Applause.)
In fact, a new report issued today shows that America is becoming a global leader in advanced vehicles. You walk into any dealership today, and you'll see twice as many hybrids to choose from as there were five years ago. You'll see seven times as many cars that can go 40 miles a gallon or more. And as costs go down, sales are going up.
Last year, General Motors sold more hybrid vehicles than ever before. Ford is selling some of the most fuel-efficient cars so quickly that dealers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand. So by investing in our energy security, we're helping our businesses succeed and we're creating good middle-class jobs right here in America.
So we're making progress, but the only way to really break this cycle of spiking gas prices, the only way to break that cycle for good is to shift our cars entirely -- our cars and trucks -- off oil. That's why, in my State of the Union address, I called on Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund research into new technologies that will help us reach that goal.
Now, I'd like to take credit for this idea because it's a good idea, but I can't. Basically, my proposal builds off a proposal that was put forward by a non-partisan coalition that includes retired generals and admirals and leading CEOs. And these leaders came together around a simple idea -- much of our energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So what they've proposed is let's take some of our oil and gas revenues from public lands and put it towards research that will benefit the public so we can support American ingenuity without adding a dime to our deficit.
And the reason so many different people from the private sector, the public sector, our military support this idea is because it's not just about saving money; it's also about saving the environment, but it's also about our national security. For military officials -- like General Paul Kelley, a former Commandant of the Marine Corps -- this is about national security. Our reliance on oil makes us way too dependent on other parts of the world, many of which are very volatile. For business leaders -- like Fred Smith, the CEO of FedEx -- this is about economic security, because when fuel prices shoot up, it's harder to plan investments, expand operations, create new jobs.
So these leaders all say we need to fix this. This is not a Democratic idea or a Republican idea. This is just a smart idea. And we should be taking their advice. Let's set up an Energy Security Trust that helps us free our families and our businesses from painful spikes in gas once and for all. (Applause.) Let's do that. We can do it. We've done it before. We innovated here at Argonne.
And in the meantime, we'll keep moving on the all-of-the-above energy strategy that we've been working on for the last couple years, where we're producing more oil and gas here at home but we're also producing more biofuels, we're also producing more fuel-efficient vehicles; more solar power; more wind power. We're working to make sure that here in America we're building cars and homes and businesses that waste less energy.
We can do this. The nature of America's miraculous rise has been our drive, our restless spirit, our willingness to reach out to new horizons, our willingness to take risks, our willingness to innovate. We are not satisfied just because things -- this is how things have been. We're going to try something that maybe we just imagine now, but if we work at it, we'll achieve it. That's the nature of America. That's what Argonne National Lab is about. That's what this facility is about. (Applause.)
Two decades ago, scientists at Argonne, led by Mike Thackeray, who's here today -- where is Mike? There he is right here. (Applause.) Mike started work on a rechargeable lithium battery for cars. And some folks at the time said the idea wasn't worth the effort. They said that even if you had the technology, the car would cost too much, it wouldn't go far enough.
So we've got to support it. And we'll all benefit from it, and our kids will benefit from it, and our grandkids will benefit from it. That's who we are. That's been the American story.
We don't stand still, we look forward. We invent. We build. We turn new ideas into new industries. We change the way we can live our lives here at home and around the world. That's how we sent a man to the moon. That's how we invented the Internet.
When somebody tells us we can't, we say, yes we can. And I'm telling all of you, I am absolutely confident that America is poised to succeed in the same way as long as we don't lose that spirit of innovation and recognize that we can only do it together. And I'm going to work as hard as I can every single day to make sure that we do.
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The newest, most powerful, and most exciting (though still technically unofficial) standard from the IEEE’s 802.11 working group is named n. Whereas existing wireless standards route packets on 20MHz channels, the n standard takes advantage of a technology called multi-input multi-output (MIMO) to bond two 20MHz channels and increase the capacity to 40MHz. The n standard can deliver a maximum raw data rate of 540Mbps, and the net achievable throughput (NAT) is reportedly 10 times faster than that of 802.11g. Companies that are moving toward employing VoIP technologies in their day-to-day dealings can take advantage of this higher speed. Routers that use 802.11n are easy to spot—they have multiple antennae.
So, what are 802.11n’s drawbacks? The IEEE's 802.11n Task Group recently introduced for ratification the standard's second draft, which specifies implementing good-neighbor technology. The 802.11n standard’s 2.4GHz channel has three non-overlapping 20MHz channels. Draft 1.0 of the 802.11n standard specified using two of those channels—which is where the standard gets its power. However, this method hogs two channels and displaces other information packets that attempt to travel on a second channel, effectively shutting down neighboring networks. To prevent 802.11n from shutting down a neighbor's Wi-Fi, the Task Group introduced specifications in Draft 2.0 that cause 802.11n to reduce its use to just one 20MHz channel if the other two channels have traffic from another Wi-Fi network. The disadvantage of this change is that 802.11n users might find that they’ve lost the performance boost they paid for when they upgraded. | <urn:uuid:10b93e87-2689-42cd-9b58-e71d6153deaf> | http://windowsitpro.com/mobile/n-or-not-n-80211s-newest-standard-can-potentially-double-your-network-speed | en | 0.927877 | 0.122692 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell (Interscope)
Reviewed by Raoul Hernandez, Fri., April 25, 2003
Phases and Stages
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell (Interscope) Who needs White Stripes when you can have red welts, the kind left by Karen O's whippoorwill shriek down the back of her "Man" ("I got a man who makes me wanna kill ...")? That same banshee wail is glimpsed on the slap-down grind of its predecessor, "Date With a Night," Yoko Ono's scream therapy seemingly woken from its widowed slumber. Even Wendy O. Williams' vocal goose gets a nipple twist from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's giggling mistress, who fries with Fever to Tell on the NYC trio's full-length debut. Tefloning the lo-fi clang of their 2001, self-titled indie EP breakthrough with Interscope's sugar Daddy Warbucks, Fever to Tell sounds like a tenement rolling, garbage cans bashing some helpless gutter rat ("Cold Light"). Nick Zinner's guitar arsenal goes off like a stock car pile-up, gasoline alley alight with explosions and rampant oil fires, while drummer Brian Chase's funked-up urban clatter kicks the shit out of the clamoring backbeat. A subtle shift occurs midway through Fever, with the staccato guitar of "Pin" and Interpol pulse of "No No No," which erupts with Lower Eastside violence. That same minor chord is struck on the coy, needling "Maps" and most effectively on the Blondie-snark of "Y Control," which brings Fever to Tell full circle from the blue synth-tro of opener "Rich," replete with Karen O's spurned whisper. Her hangman's lament, doubling as the album's bonus track, is the shot of Thorazine rolling the whites of your eyes back with an orgiastic yeah yeah yeah.
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Champions that make you say "Oh yeah. That champ exists."
#21VoidgolemPosted 1/13/2013 8:08:32 PM
I'd have to say Poppy gets the award.
literally haven't seen one in months aside from that one time where I got her in ARAM.
#22SharzakenatorPosted 1/13/2013 8:10:24 PM
I have never seen a galio in ranked who isn't me.
I got so much love I don't know where to put it
#23Skul_Posted 1/13/2013 8:12:12 PM
From: noone369 | #060
-Vladimir(if i didn't sometimes play him myself, he destroys many mid champs.)
-Veigar(If i didn't dread the moment when he gets fed)
cave story is a nes or snes port-DemonDog666
#24FunWithAFryPanPosted 1/13/2013 8:32:31 PM
Sharzakenator posted...
I have never seen a galio in ranked who isn't me.
Never played him in ranked, but a dozen or so normal games I played galio mid I don't think I've ever lost. His ult is so good, I bet you'd see him picked at high elo if he had some sort of gap closer besides a flash.
He who strikes with meaning is killed by meaning.
#25ineedaname88Posted 1/13/2013 8:33:59 PM
Ze....d? I never see him and I just randomly die sometimes.
Go big or go home broke. Bro-ski.
#26kiba312Posted 1/13/2013 8:35:19 PM
funkys-flights posted...
I main Vik & Nami :)
high five :D
oh noes 0.o
#27HitomoshiPosted 1/13/2013 8:41:28 PM
Heimer and Galio
Hitomoshi|| Welcome to the internet, if you are female, be prepared to present proof- Jables
hmm no clue... that's a good idea
#28shingo fanPosted 1/13/2013 8:46:40 PM
Cassie the snake-lady for me. I only know she exists because of Ciderhelm.
Question: What is with the internet's love of hyperbole?
#29Gladiator28Posted 1/13/2013 8:50:58 PM
Trundle, Poppy, Veigar.
LoL - Jokmor
#30Badmood136Posted 1/13/2013 8:57:15 PM
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[Haskell-cafe] Re[2]: Joels Time Leak
Bulat Ziganshin bulatz at HotPOP.com
Thu Jan 5 18:49:11 EST 2006
Hello Simon,
Thursday, January 05, 2006, 3:40:27 PM, you wrote:
>>>>SM> Sure, there's no reason why we couldn't do this. Of course, even
>>>>SM> idle Haskell processes will be ticking away in the background, so
>>>>SM> there's a reason not to make the interval too short. What do
>>>>SM> you think is reasonable?
SM> It will have an impact, because the tick signal has to be delivered to
SM> the process and the signal handler run.
you are saying about C callback which would be called by OS to count
SM> The impact on CPU time is
SM> small, but could be noticeable if we were to choose too small an
SM> interval. Furthermore, the ticker prevents idle Haskell processes from
SM> being completely swapped out (that problem already exists).
having ticks of 0.02 sec or 0.000002 sec doesn't change anything for
this problem
i think that reasonable tick would be in range of 10-100 microseconds,
so what program with 10k threads (reasonable maximum with current
technologies state) can give slice to each thread in 0.1-1 seconds
Best regards,
Bulat mailto:bulatz at HotPOP.com
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First group of refugees leave Chad for new lives in US - UN
Publisher UN News Service
Publication Date 23 June 2009
Cite as UN News Service, First group of refugees leave Chad for new lives in US - UN, 23 June 2009, available at: [accessed 14 March 2014]
As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) programme, the first group of refugees has left Chad to begin new lives in the United States.
The 11 refugees are the first of a total of 1,800 resettlement cases - mostly Sudanese refugees from the war-torn Darfur region living in camps in eastern Chad - the agency plans to identify this year.
The group - who are heading for Kentucky, Texas, Iowa and Utah - which departed for the US by air from the Chadian capital N'Djamena on 21 June comprise refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR).
Currently, 250,000 refugees from Darfur are sheltering in 12 UNHCR-run camps in Chad's east. Additionally, 70,000 CAR refugees are living in five camps in southern Chad.
The US is the first country to promote resettlement for refugees in Chad, the agency said.
"Resettlement requires a very meticulous process and usually takes seven to nine months per individual case," said UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler.
The process includes interviews, medical screenings, counseling and cultural orientation sessions, and agency staff are trained to detect fraud to ensure they do not select refugees who are not eligible for resettlement.
"Resettlement is considered one of UNHCR's durable solutions for protracted refugee solutions, along with voluntary repatriation and local integration," Mr. Spindler said.
The next group of refugees, made up of mostly people who fled fighting in Darfur, is slated to leave for the US in July.
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Turnip Moth
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Turnip Moth
Adult moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species: A. segetum
Binomial name
Agrotis segetum
Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
• Euxoa segetis
The Turnip Moth (Agrotis segetum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is a common European species, but it is also found in Asia and Africa, very likely having been spread by the international trade in nursery stock. It is a cutworm in the genus Agrotis, which possibly is the genus that includes the largest number of species of cutworms.
Illustration of Caterpillar and Imago
Appearance and behaviour of the adult moths[edit]
This is a very variable species with the forewings ranging from pale buff through to almost black. The paler forms have three dark-bordered stigmata on each forewing. The main feature distinguishing it from other Agrotis species is the shade of the hindwings, pure white in the males, pearly grey in the females. The wingspan is 32–42 mm. Two broods are produced each year, the adults flying in May and June and again in August and September.[1] The species is nocturnal and attracted to light and nectar-rich flowers. The species overwinters as a caterpillar.
Larval behaviour and damage[edit]
Agrotis segetum is one of the most important species of Noctuid moths whose larvae are called cutworms.[2] The larvae are generally grey, sometimes tinged with purple. They attack the roots and lower stems of a huge range of plants[3] (see list below) and can be a particularly serious pest of root vegetables and cereals.[4] Attacking the lower stems often results in cutting down seedlings, which is why this species is classed as a cutworm.
Spread and control[edit]
The insect is not believed to be present in the United States, where the government has been making efforts to prevent its introduction on imported food crops.[5]
As with any other Noctuid, assorted diseases, predators, and parasitoids attack Agrotis segetum, mainly in the egg and larval stages, but not so effectively as to render control measures unnecessary. One major problem in dealing with infestations stems from the larvae's nocturnal habits, which make it more difficult to detect its presence in the first place, and more difficult to deal with anyway. Birds that will scratch it up, such as guinea fowl and other wild and domestic poultry can themselves not be tolerated in most of the crops that need protection; birds such as ibises and hoopoes, that probe for caterpillars, are not numerous enough. Insectivorous animals such as shrews, moles, and golden moles are regarded with suspicion by most gardeners, and also are generally too few.
Insecticides of various kinds have been used with varying success for many decades at least. Baits based on sweetened bran, finely spread, have met with some success. Cultural methods such as fallowing land before sowing, to starve the larvae can be effective, and in suitable conditions, dry-plowing land to kill larvae and pupae, and expose them to predators, has been effective in maize fields.[4]
A virus is being tested as a biocontrol on crops in Europe.[6]
Recorded host plants[edit]
The following is a partial list of genera and other taxa which are hosts for the Turnip Moth; apart from the sheer variety, it is striking that the list includes resinous, aromatic, and toxic species, including members of the conifers, Eucalyptus, and Nicotiana:
1. ^ The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.
2. ^ Cutworm name
3. ^ Annecke, D. R. (1982). Insects and mites of cultivated plants in South Africa. London: Butterworths. ISBN 0-409-08398-4.
4. ^ a b Smit, Bernard, "Insects in South Africa: How to Control them", Pub: Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1964.
5. ^ USDA – APHIS :: APHIS Newsroom
6. ^ SpringerLink – Journal Article
7. ^ C. Michael Hogan (2008) Douglas-fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii, globalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Strõmberg
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It's definetly a 71' Chevrolet El Camino no dispute.Andrew nicholson 16:49, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
Can you explain why instead of just saying so? This is the talk page of course. I believe it's either the 71 or 72 El Camino, the Picador doesn't have front turning signals making it impossible to tell which one it is, since that seems to be the only differentiating styling feature among the two I see.--Thescarydude 15:35, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
It's definetly a 71 camino because the picador and the camino both have single circular lamps at the front and I did look carefully at the pictures before making a comment.Andrew nicholson 16:04, July 9, 2010 (UTC)
I know, my point is: how is it not a 1972 El Camino too? I know there are very slight differences between the 71 and 72 but the car lacks fine details to really know which one it is based on.--Thescarydude 21:54, July 9, 2010 (UTC)
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What health care reform is (and isn't) doing now
@Money August 2, 2011: 5:19 AM ET
What health care reform is (and isn't) doing now
Money Magazine -- It's been more than a year since President Obama signed health care reform into law. The act's biggest provisions, which will make it easier for the uninsured to buy coverage, don't take effect until 2014. But Congress, eager to sell the plan to a skeptical public, wrote in a few benefits that have already kicked in.
You've probably heard some of them touted: Preventive care is fully covered by insurance plans. People with preexisting conditions have access to coverage. And retirees who spend a lot out of pocket on prescriptions are getting relief from the dreaded "doughnut hole" in their Medicare drug coverage.
Of course -- and you knew this was coming -- things aren't quite as simple as all that.
Here are answers to common questions about what health care reform is doing right now.
If the new law requires insurers to fully cover preventive care, why did I get a bill for my annual exam?
The Affordable Care Act does eliminate co-pays and co-insurance for some kinds of preventive care, as long as you use an in-network provider. (Those services are also not subject to deductibles.) A yearly checkup or "well" visit will often be covered, says Lori Heim of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Blood pressure checks and recommended screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, should cost you nothing. Many vaccinations are also on the free list. Healthcare.gov has the full menu.
There are two catches. First, your plan may be grandfathered out of having to follow this rule if it was in place before the law was enacted. The exemption lasts until your employer significantly cuts benefits or increases your co-pay, co-insurance, or deductibles. Almost a third of midsize and large group plans are exempt, according to consultant Towers Watson, but that number will fall over time.
Catch No. 2? "Sometimes 'well' visits can morph into 'sick' visits," says Cheryl Gregg Fahrenholz of Preferred Healthcare Solutions, a consulting firm. Say your doc discovers an irregular mole and removes it during your visit. You may get a bill for the cut. Ditto if you mention a specific symptom that causes the doctor to run an extra test.
To avoid a surprise, ask your doctor to tell you when he is doing something that is going to result in a bill.
I have a preexisting condition, and I'm having trouble finding coverage. Wasn't this supposed to be fixed?
Starting in 2014, if you have a preexisting condition you'll be able to buy a health policy on the new insurance "exchanges," which will charge both healthy and sick people the same prices.
Until then, the law has provided some Band-Aids. Kids can't be turned away from most plans. And the federal government is subsidizing new programs in each state called Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans. (PCIP.gov can direct you to your state's plan.)
You'll pay rates similar to what healthy individuals do in your state -- in Florida, a middle-aged person could pay as little as $270 a month. But you can buy in only if you've gone uninsured for six months.
Just 21,500 people nationwide have signed up. "The gap is just too big a risk for most people, so they'll stick with whatever they have, however inadequate," says Timothy Jost, a health law expert at Washington & Lee University.
Why aren't PCIPs open to everyone who needs them? Running insurance plans only for the sick (with no healthy people paying in as they will on the exchanges) is ruinously expensive, so lawmakers limited who could sign up.
I'm on Medicare, and I got a $250 check to help me pay for the "doughnut hole." Will I get more of those?
No. That was a one-time payment last year.
The so-called doughnut hole is the gap often found in Medicare prescription drug coverage: Once the cost of your drugs tops $2,840, you must pay out of pocket until total costs hit $6,448. Lawmakers decided to eliminate the hole, but it's happening gradually.
First, you got a check if you fell into the coverage gap. This year, instead of a direct payment, you'll receive a 50% discount on brand-name drugs you buy when you're in the hole. Generics will be discounted by 7%. Those percentages will increase over time. Your bill at the pharmacy should reflect the markdown.
"We were a little concerned the discount wouldn't work seamlessly for seniors, but it seems to be going smoothly," says Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center.
By 2020 the doughnut hole should be gone completely unless, of course, Congress makes yet another health care law by then.
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Moose::Cookbook::Meta::WhyMeta - Welcome to the meta world (Why Go Meta?)
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You might want to read Moose::Manual::MOP if you haven't done so yet.
If you've ever thought "Moose is great, but I wish it did X differently", then you've gone meta. The meta recipes demonstrate how to change and extend the way Moose works by extending and overriding how the meta classes (Moose::Meta::Class, Moose::Meta::Attribute, etc) work.
The metaclass API is a set of classes that describe classes, roles, attributes, etc. The metaclass API lets you ask questions about a class, like "what attributes does it have?", or "what roles does the class do?"
The metaclass system also lets you make changes to a class, for example by adding new methods or attributes.
The interface presented by Moose.pm (has, with, extends) is just a thin layer of syntactic sugar over the underlying metaclass system.
By extending and changing how this metaclass system works, you can create your own Moose variant.
Let's say that you want to add additional properties to attributes. Specifically, we want to add a "label" property to each attribute, so we can write My::Class->meta()->get_attribute('size')->label(). The first recipe shows how to do this using an attribute trait.
You might also want to add additional properties to your metaclass. For example, if you were writing an ORM based on Moose, you could associate a table name with each class via the class's metaclass object, letting you write My::Class->meta()->table_name().
Many of the MooseX modules on CPAN implement metaclass extensions. A couple good examples include MooseX::Aliases and MooseX::UndefTolerant. For a more complex example see Fey::ORM or Bread::Board::Declare.
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I used to rename file in Linux via a rename command:
rename 's/old_pattern/new_pattern/g' *glob
Is there something similar in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)?
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The following article explains how to install rename on Mac OS X: macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050630022203488 – Paul R Jun 15 '10 at 11:05
The backticks are not showing up in your comment - you should probably add this as an answer or edit your question to include your solution. – Paul R Jun 15 '10 at 12:05
The best quick solution I've ever found has been using the built-in Automator. Check out this article for easy step by step help: tuaw.com/2008/11/11/… – nilay Jun 20 '10 at 9:48
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up vote 16 down vote accepted
Clumsy me:
for i in *.yourfiles; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/old/new/g'`"; done
And if you want to use it like I do often this way:
rename 's/old/new/' *.files
I recommend to use this litte script in ~/bin/rename:
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
for i in $@; do mv $i `echo "$i" | sed $SUBSEXPR`; done
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your script doesn't work for me "rename ACDC AC-DC ACDC*" result-> "ssed: can't read ACDC: No such file or directory" , I installed rename util from linux and now it works anwyay – holms Jan 30 '11 at 16:59
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With Homebrew, a package manager for OS X:
brew install rename
Then you can run the same rename commands as in Linux.
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Use the power of ZSH wisely (type zsh in the terminal if you are one of those poor souls who don't use it by default):
autoload zmv
zmv '(*).htm' '$1.html'
ZMV follows MMV syntax.
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but does that also allow regex replacement? This seems to be just some kind of enhanced shell globbing. – math Jun 15 '10 at 15:37
@brubelsabs: Yes, zmv can do regexp replacement. For files that match *user*.html, change the extension to .html and change all occurrences of rc to final: zmv '(*user*).htm' '${1//rc/final}.html' @ghoppe: I think the zmv example in your answer needs -w or parentheses around its wildcard. – Chris Johnsen Jun 15 '10 at 18:58
I really like this suggestion because you don't need to install anything extra on a Mac (like brew), but it does allow you to use the easy mmv like syntax. – Hay Sep 16 '13 at 15:15
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There are various version of rename. It looks like you are looking for the Perl-based one.
One version of this utility comes with the File::Rename Perl module. You can install it with something like sudo cpan -i File::Rename.
Or, you could go with the rename from Debian's perl package. It is just a single file to download. Put it where ever you like and chmod it so that it is executable.
An alternative is the zmv tool that comes with zsh. It does not have the same syntax, but it does come with your OS and it can easily take care of many of the common cases.
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the perl rename is what this question shows as an example. – quack quixote Jun 15 '10 at 12:49
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You can try to install MacPorts and install the renameutils package:
renameutils @0.10.0 (sysutils)
renameutils is a set of programs designed to make renaming files faster and less cumbersome
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this package don't have the "rename" command. – juanpablo Jun 20 '10 at 21:38
i didn't say that it does. qmv looks like it does the job. – lajuette Jun 21 '10 at 5:43
qmv is a great tool, while a bit too much work for simple regex renames, it's fantastic for intelligently naming and moving big numbers of arbitrary files – sapht Sep 21 '12 at 16:06
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On Macs I use Aristotle Pagaltzis's freely available rename, which like Debian's is Perl-based. You can get it here. Or visit here to read it first - always a good idea.
You need to place that somewhere in your $PATH and make it executable (chmod +x rename) and then you're good to go.
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the equivalent command in renamer (cross-platform) is
$ renamer --regex --find 'old_pattern' --replace 'new_pattern' *glob
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If you are looking for a GUI, try Name Mangler. It has a "preview" feature that shows what will happen if you follow through with the renaming.
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This shouldn't be difficult but apparently it is. Example, I want to rename all file's extension from aiff to aifc.
find . -iname "*.aiff" -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0%\.aiff}.aifc"' {} \;
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If you like Sublime Text's multiselect you could use it with qmv:
qmv --editor="/usr/bin/s3 -w" files
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I backed up all important data prior to formatting the C: drive, but I cannot read the backup drive after reinstalling Windows. More details provided after the screenshots.
As you can see, there are three physical disks in this system:
- 1TB System (C:) drive.
- 0.5TB basic MBR disk (D:) for general storage.
- 3TB basic disk with a single 3TB GPT partition (E:) for general storage.
Since the D: drive did not have enough free space, I used the 3TB GPT E: drive to backup everything I needed from the C: drive before formatting.
The 3TB E: drive was initialized as GPT and formatted as NTFS using the disk management GUI from Windows 7 Ultimate x86 while it was still installed. However, after formatting the C: drive and installing Windows 8 Enterprise x64, I get the "GPT Protective Partition" problem shown in the screenshot above. Almost all options in the right-click menus are greyed out, so I don't even know where to begin.
I've found a lot of interesting ideas on the internet, but nothing that really fits my situation.
If my understanding is correct, the 2TB "Protective" partition is a fake partition that the GPT system emulates. The idea is, if your system cannot read GPT, and can only read MBR, it will see this fake 2TB MBR partition, so you don't accidentally format it thinking it's empty - hence "protective."
This leads me to the main questions:
- Why would Windows 8 Enterprise x64 be unable to read GPT drives, while Windows 7 Ultimate x86 had no problems whatsoever creating and using this partition?
- How can I get Windows 8 Enterprise x64 to read this drive properly as GPT, so I can recover the backup data stored there?
Here's the GPT and MPR data for the disk, produced by gdisk. The fact that it says all 2.7 TB are "free sectors" worries me a bit, as the disk should be quite full of stored files. Prior to re-installing Windows, this drive functioned flawlessly as a GPT disk with a single 2.7 TB basic non-boot partition.
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Is this a Mac system? – allquixotic Jan 14 '13 at 21:16
@Giffyguy: He means the drive, did it come from a Mac system? – Tom Wijsman Jan 14 '13 at 21:24
Stupid idea 1: Boot up a Linux Live CD (e.g. Ubuntu 12.10) and see if you can mount the full volume as GPT there. Stupid idea 2: Try Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 12.10) in a VirtualBox or VMware virtual machine, giving physical access of the HDD over to the guest, and see if you can mount it there. Either way, the next step is to copy off the data, and manually reformat the drive clean and reinitialize the GPT partition table. – allquixotic Jan 14 '13 at 21:27
Have you performed a full shutdown of Win8 after installing it, instead of the normal hybrid boot thing where it hibernates the kernel? Can you try shutdown /s /t 0 and see if anything changes after a reboot? – Karan Jan 14 '13 at 22:18
It's likely that there's something wrong with the protective partition, or perhaps with the GPT data structures, that's causing Windows to try to read the MBR data structures rather than the GPT data structures. Try downloading the Windows version of gdisk (sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk), launching it on your disk, typing v to get diagnostics on the GPT data structures, and then typing x followed by o to view the MBR data structures. Quit by typing q. Post all that information back here. – Rod Smith Jan 15 '13 at 17:43
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It looks like something has trashed your GPT data -- both the main data structures and the backup data structures. I don't know specifically what might have done this, but a buggy partitioning tool seems like the most likely culprit. Another possibility is that there's been some confusion over something like a RAID configuration -- if the disk was originally prepared with your motherboard's RAID features active and then accessed with the RAID features inactive, something like this might have happened.
Two options seem most reasonable at this point:
1. Re-create your partition "blind." The vast majority of modern partitioning tools begin partitions at sector 2048, so you could use gdisk to create a partition that begins at that point and that ends at the last possible sector. This stands a good chance of succeeding, but there's a risk that if your original partition did not start at sector 2048, you could end up damaging it when you try to access the new partition. Also, some tools will try to create a new filesystem when you create a new partition, so using them would be risky at best. (I recommended gdisk for this task because it does not touch the partitions' contents, just the partition table that defines them.) Also, if the disk held an EFI System Partition in addition to the main data partition, the main data partition would not begin at sector 2048.
2. Use a tool like TestDisk (included on many Linux emergency systems, such as PartedMagic and System Rescue CD) to search for your missing partition. (There are Windows equivalents to TestDisk, but I don't know what they are, offhand. You could do a Web search to find them, if you prefer to work from Windows rather than boot a Linux emergency disc.) This will be more likely to find your partition if it was placed strangely, but tools like this can become confused if the disk has been re-partitioned in the past -- they can sometimes detect the remnants of deleted partitions and try to re-create them even though they're no longer valid.
Take your pick as to the approach, and good luck! Whatever you do, though, be cautious. You might consider doing a raw disk backup to a spare disk, if you've got one that's big enough to hold all your data. If you do this, though, be very careful in specifying the source and destination disks, or your backup could end up trashing the data you intend to save!
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+1 Thanks for the detailed info. I'll go through this today or tomorrow and see what comes of it. – Giffyguy Jan 30 '13 at 23:28
Option 1 is very risky for the files! – harrymc Feb 1 '13 at 16:12
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Before you do anything - Find/borrow a mac, a USB caddy, and see if you can read it. The only time this has happened to me is when the HDD I used came from a mac and had a GUID boot sector. I didn't completely erase the disc before using. Some very unexplained things happen when the partitions are changed, even though the disc will work fine. An example is whilst installing ubuntu the installer is positive that windows isn't installed already.
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Thanks for the info. However, this drive was purchased directly from Seagate and has been in use by Windows 7 x86 as a non-boot GPT drive in the past. But it seems like this whole "Mac" scenario is a pretty common occurrence, so it's probably good for people to know about it. I'm sure some additional details would be very helpful to some people reading this post, even if it doesn't answer my original question. If you have the time, I'm sure many readers would appreciate some elaboration on the technical scenario you are describing. Thanks! – Giffyguy Jan 30 '13 at 23:35
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I believe that apparently Windows 8 cannot read the GPT structures written by Windows 7, so it shows you the MBR instead, which explains why it shows the disk as 2 TB with 0.7 TB "unallocated".
As a conclusion: You cannot read the disk while booting under Windows 8. Your options are to either find a Linux live CD that supports the GPT of Windows 7, or take the disk to a Windows 7 computer to save your data.
After saving the data, use Windows 7 to erase the disk, do not format it, then try it on Windows 8.
DO NOT operate upon the disk while booting under Windows 8, or you will lose your data !
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I see no reason why Windows 8 would not be able to read GPT structures created by Windows 7. Windows 8 would have to do this when it migrates itself from Windows 7 to Windows 8. As for the author's problem with reading the GPT parition, that can easily be explained, the partition is corrupt. Could have happen in any number of ways, simple solution, put Windows 7 back on another machine and see if it can be read. I am not going to read the comments, way to many, not enough time in the decade. – Ramhound Feb 1 '13 at 17:03
Same solution as mine ... but I must remark again that Windows 8 has many incompatibilities, including its own new NTFS format. And if the disk was slagged, the likely culprit is Windows 8. – harrymc Feb 1 '13 at 20:31
Any documentation that says that Windows 8 will have problems with a Windows 7 NTFS partition because that has not been my experience. – Ramhound Feb 2 '13 at 0:45
@Ramhound: Windows 8 is supposed to be compatible with 7, but several posts in this forum have shown that this isn't always the case. I have seen complaints about network adapters, motherboards, clock and sound that used to work well in Windows 7 but stopped working after the upgrade. So why not also a disk? – harrymc Feb 2 '13 at 6:30
Because there is evidence the the author's file system is simply corrupt. As for driver problems thats ENTIRELY different. – Ramhound Feb 3 '13 at 18:42
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Make it a small: N.Y.'s ban on large sodas likely won't take in Utah
Published: Thursday, May 31 2012 6:23 p.m. MDT
While he admits it will be a fight, he intends to run the bill again "when the timing is right."
"The amount of carbonation drinks that are available for adults and kids is astounding," he said. "It's out there and it contributes to the struggle that everybody fights every single day in keeping their weight under control."
In Utah, more obese people report drinking at least one full-sugar, carbonated beverage per day than those with an ideal body mass, Isabella said. A recent health department survey found that at least 25 percent of adults in Utah have a daily soda habit.
Teenage boys are twice as likely as girls to drink at least one can or bottle of soda per day, as 23 percent of 12th-grade boys and 12 percent of girls in the same age group admitted to the behavior.
Kary Woodruff, a dietitian at The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray, said sweetened beverages sometimes constitute up to 40 percent of a child's total daily caloric intake, a drastic increase from years past.
"Research shows that a higher intake of calories from beverages tends to be related to higher weight gain," she said, adding that a more appropriate proportion for sweetened beverages in a diet is 10 percent or less.
"Even if we get a significant amount of calories from beverages, we still feel like we're still hungry and we continue eating because we don't regulate the fullness like we do with food calories," Woodruff said.
Kids who drink too much often also have a problem eating enough food, thereby missing out on much of the day's nutritional needs. And adults often also miss out on necessary nutrients by consuming too much sugar.
Even diet soda poses a risk, Woodruff said, as artificial sweeteners can lead to compensatory behaviors and generate cravings for other sweet foods. A high consumption of carbonated beverages can also be a risk factor for unhealthy bones and decreased heart health, among other problems.
"If people continue to use them, same with tobacco and alcohol, they continue to use these things in excess, it's their right to destroy their bodies," said University of Utah student Alex Pavia, who was drinking a diet soda. "I don't think they should, but it's their right."
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QUETTA, Pakistan—The death toll from a bombing at a market in Pakistan's southwest has risen to 25, Pakistani police said on Saturday. Many of the 70 people wounded in the blast were still in critical condition.
Nasir said the bomb was detonated by remote control. Another officer, Samiullah Khan, said police were investigating whether the bomb was planted in a rickshaw parked in the crowded vegetable market. He said the bomb was detonated while dozens of women and children were shopping for the evening meal.
Members of the minority Shiite sect took to the city streets in angry protest, blocking roads with burning tires and throwing stones at passing vehicles. In response, police cordoned off the area.
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INSIGHT: Pressure likely to remain on Africa base oil demand
23 January 2013 17:39 [Source: ICIS news]
By Ross Yeo
A Lagos road during the Jan 2012 fuel strikeLONDON (ICIS)--Twenty twelve was a challenging year for the European base oil export market, with many key export destinations showing below par demand.
Among these were the three largest African markets, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, which, at various times and for various reasons, all imported less base oils than in previous years.
While much of this reduced demand for imports can be traced to macroeconomic factors - primarily the knock-on effects from the struggling eurozone – local factors were also in play.
How these local factors evolve could have an effect on the European base oil market, in particular the Baltic Sea export market, which is again currently facing low demand.
Nigeria, the largest base oil importer in Africa and therefore the market with probably the greatest influence on Europe, is estimated by traders to have shown 10-20% less demand than usual through 2012, with a number a reasons responsible.
In January 2012, the Nigerian government announced plans to remove a fuel subsidy, which would more than double the price of gasoline at filling stations. The effect was twofold.
First, widespread strikes in protest to the plans brought the country to a near standstill. With both vehicle use and industry rates at minimum levels, demand for lubricants, and therefore base oils, plummeted.
Second, although the government compromised in the face of the strikes, removing only part of the subsidy, the price of gasoline still increased significantly, eroding the disposable income of an already poor population.
“If your disposable income goes down, oil changes are probably not your highest priority,” said one European base oil trader with a specialist interest in Nigeria.
So even though the effects of the strikes have subsided, local demand for lubricants is probably still being undermined. Furthermore, the government is expected to follow through with its plan to fully remove the fuel subsidy, something which could cause a repeat of the 2012 scenario. With the next presidential elections in 2015, sources have speculated that the move could be made well beforehand in order to increase the likelihood of negative opinion dissipating before then.
Another, potentially longer-lived, factor undermining Nigerian demand is terrorism and sectarian violence. Sources say whole businesses and traders have vacated affected areas, particularly in the north of the country that was traditionally responsible for large chunks of total Nigerian base oil demand.
A third unpredictable reason impacting Nigerian base oil demand in 2012 was a longer than normal rainy season. This disruptive period, which in rural areas can render many roads inaccessible to regular vehicles, normally lasts from around July until September, but this year returned again in October for several weeks.
South Africa also suffered the effects of widespread strikes, this time in the second half of the year, with the most intense action concentrated around October and November.
One local trader estimated that base oil demand in October and November fell by 40-60% form previous months, while a blender said lubricant demand was down 50% year-on-year.
These decreases came when base oil demand had already slumped by as much as 20%, as a result of the struggling South African economy.
Rather than negative factors, Egypt’s decrease in base oil imports has been attributed to the restart in October of a 100,000 tonne/year brightstock plant, which had been offline for two years, according to a local producer.
However, it cannot be ignored that Egypt’s economy is not in a healthy state, and this is likely to have an eventual impact on base oil consumption if it hasn’t already.
While African demand for base oils is unlikely to be pivotal for European market health, it could nevertheless play a role.
The area of most probable impact will be of Nigerian demand on the Baltic Sea market. With prices in the Baltic, and indeed all of Europe, having fallen considerably throughout the fourth quarter of 2012, the Baltic market finds itself in a stalemate. Producers are fed up with selling base oils at such low numbers, often at a loss, and, having reduced their plant rates, are now beginning to offer material at premiums to published prices.
However, Nigerian buyers’ price ideas have yet to increase, and demand remains insufficient to justify these higher offers.
At present, very little business has been conducted out of the Baltic thus far in 2013, and the question remains, when will Nigerian demand recover?
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Green papaya salad
Look for a white blend from Vienna or Austria that's sweet with a crisp minerality, such as a Gemischter Satz. Phan especially likes it with the 2011 Bernreiter Gemischter Satz, a field blend grown within the city limits of Vienna, typically drunk only at a Heuriger (a wine tavern attached to one of the city's many wineries). Gemischter Satz can have up to 20 varietals blended together. Some add acidity, some musky sweetness some crisp minerality.
Grilled pork chops with sweet lemon grass marinade
Look for very dry, minerally Rieslings from the Wachau or Kamptal in Austria. "Most people mistakenly pair a big red wine with our grilled meat dishes," Phan says. "In fact, only a select few red wines go well with our food. They need to be delicate, have lots of acid and no tannins — tannins and the fish sauce we use in virtually every dish taste bitter and metallic when they meet. Instead we urge people to try something like the 2007 "Heiligenstein" Riesling from Willi Bründlmayer in Kamptal. Slight notes of dust, resin and citrus marry with the lemon grass, while the purity of the Riesling minerality cuts through the fat and richness of the pork."
Carmelized lemon grass shrimp
Look for a German Riesling, preferably a Kabinett or Spätlese from the Rheingau. "Caramel sauce shows up in a lot of our dishes," Phan says. "In order to cut the heat and cleanse the palate of all that sweet and spice, we always suggest a German Riesling. Pairing a Kabinett or a Spätlese is really the only way to go to fully enjoy the dish — dry wines seem bitter and flat when they come in contact with the caramel coating your palate and do little to quench the heat. We like anything from Johannes Letiz. His wines always have a piercing acidity and brightness balancing out the residual sugar. They are filigreed loveliness designed to keep you eating and talking late into the night."
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 23 out of 28
2. Negative: 0 out of 28
1. Reviewed by: Whitney Borup
I love love love love loved Cold Souls. That might be because I love love love Paul Giamatti.
2. Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
3. 88
Barthes takes her notion and runs with it, and Giamatti and Strathairn follow fearlessly.
4. 88
Paul Giamatti - that huddle of broiling instincts, out-of-control impulses and aggravated ardor epitomized in "Sideways" - you feel his soul's absence as dearly as its presence.
5. Reviewed by: Ian Freer
Anchored by a great Giamatti performance, Cold Souls is built around a terrific idea and has serious fun with it. It also marks Barthes as a filmmaker to watch.
6. 80
Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and unspectacular shamblings have never been better deployed.
7. 75
You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
8. Cold Souls entertains on its own terms, delivering irony and suspense as Giamatti discovers that his soulless self is a terrible, terrible actor.
9. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.
10. 75
The movie turns what could have been a tedious meta-movie exercise into a sincere dour farce.
11. 75
The chief pleasure to be derived from watching Cold Souls is that it's a journey into the unexpected.
12. He's (Giamatti) terrific throughout, although the movie, which is more clever than funny, sometimes resembles second-tier Charlie Kaufman stuff.
13. Reviewed by: Justin Lowe
Giamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.
14. 70
Works precisely because its ambitions are somewhat mellow; this isn't a relentlessly high-strung picture. Barthes and Giamatti do more with less, turning the idea of excessive navel-gazing into a kind of game.
15. Reviewed by: Anthony Kaufman
It may be only in the film's last ambiguous, evocative image that Barthes and Parekh finally transcend the material and arrive at something beautiful and ineffable.
16. Reviewed by: Robert Abele
Somewhere between the rabbit-hole absurdist comedy of Charlie Kaufman and a navel-gazing Woody Allen film is the somberly humorous indie Cold Souls.
17. In this attractive, smart-enough, finally un-brave movie Ms. Barthes peeks at the dark comedy of the soul only to beat a quick, pre-emptive retreat.
18. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others’ bodies.
19. 70
If not always coherent, at least compelling.
20. The movie still works as a clever little "Twilight Zone" episode with great production values, and it's an impressively ambitious debut for Barthes.
21. 67
The premise seems profound, but the claustrophobically inert execution lacks reach or imagination.
22. 63
Giamatti tries very hard to put over Cold Souls -- some of his reaction shots are priceless -- but it's going to leave some people, well, cold.
23. Giamatti is one of the few guys who could take a joke about a chickpea-sized soul and make a meal of it.
24. Reviewed by: Justin Berton
Only a temporarily compelling conflict for a feature-length film.
25. Cold Souls begins to lose its comic focus, however, when Giamatti comes to realize that he needs his soul back.
26. The more elaborate the plot becomes, the sillier it gets.
27. Paul Giamatti plays himself in a dark indie comedy that's distinguished by a sci-fi theme and surrealistic touches but ends without a payoff.
User Score
Mixed or average reviews- based on 27 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 7 out of 12
2. Negative: 2 out of 12
1. Mar 1, 2012
A surreal comedy, with dak humor, about a actor (Paul) who is having trouble with acting (because he can't separate himself from the character he interprets), and see a advertising of a service who retrieve the soul from the body (and thus you don't feel emotions), and storage them - they can borrow you a soul too. The same company also works with a Soul Black Market in Russia, with a mule scheme (and in this points enter Nina the other protagonist), from this point the story of the movie unrolls... it's a well acted movie, with a unusual and interesting theme. My score: 6,7 / 10,0. Full Review »
2. Sep 28, 2010
Charles Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is perhaps one of the most cerebral and innovative films of the last decade, winning best screenplay back in 2005. It is no wonder that this film has influenced other works in cinema. However, although most movies are not too original, Sophie Barthes's debut film resembles Kaufman's work way too closely to Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malcovich, which was also crafted by Kaufman.
In this Dark Indie-Comedrama, Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti (Being John Malcovich anyone?), and is in midst of practicing for the play Uncle Vanya. Giamatti embraces the depressed character of the play so much, that he himself finds himself with a dark shadow over his head. To rid of his depression, he goes to a specialized company to extract his soul (replace "soul" with "memories" and you have Eternal Sunshine). After negative side effects of being apathetic and being unable to act, Giamatti finds his soul stolen and misplaced. He then searches for his soul with a Russian mule (Dina Korzun) who stole his soul in the first place.
Cold Souls in all actuality is a good film, the premise is actually quite intriguing with its traces of science fiction and comedy. In addition to Giamatti's usual phenomenal acting, as he portrays multiple states having different souls. But its similarity to Kaufman's is way too close. It's basically watching the same film that Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet already made into a classic. So overall, Cold Souls is a good movie, but there's a better version that has already been made.
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3. Aug 11, 2010
The critics missed this one in a big way. Not funny, not quirky, and flat-out boring. I love Paul G., but he's wasted in this film. Looks like "Being John Malkovich", but Cold Souls doesn't hold a candle to that masterpiece. Full Review » | <urn:uuid:0aeea863-240e-4702-90f0-34a9f8dbe679> | http://www.metacritic.com/movie/cold-souls/critic-reviews | en | 0.949925 | 0.019945 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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THWARTING TERROR: A special report.; Germ Defense Plan in Peril As Its Flaws Are Revealed
Published: August 7, 1998
On May 22, President Clinton unveiled an ambitious plan to stockpile vaccines at strategic sites around the country so communities could better fight germ attacks. ''We must do more to protect our civilian population,'' Mr. Clinton told graduating midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. ''We must do more to protect our people.''
While such major initiatives usually result from many months and sometimes years of fierce debate, this one, Federal and private experts said in interviews, was developed in record time, rushed through amid worries of rising threats from Iraq and germ terrorists. But today the multimillion-dollar plan is in jeopardy, a victim in part of the haste in which the decision was reached.
Some Government officials are calling for a different approach that initially plays down vaccines in favor of antibiotics. Others defend vaccines, but concede that getting them quickly is nearly impossible, given industry's production limits and the need to insure vaccine safety and effectiveness. Still others fault vaccines as offering little or no protection against such deadly threats as smallpox and anthrax, seen as likely weapons in germ attacks.
A review of events leading to the Clinton vaccine decision reveals that the proposal was pushed by a small group of scientists, businessmen and policy makers who largely shared the same views as they struggled to do something, anything about a threat whose dimensions were potentially terrifying but frustratingly unclear. Working in Washington's frenetic, often insular world, they tended to overwhelm or sidestep doubters, and failed to see warning signs.
Among the findings are these:
*A Presidential meeting where seven scientists endorsed the stockpile plan included two men who stood to gain financially from the decision.
*The plan was made without consulting leaders of the drug industry about whether companies could fulfill the President's pledge.
*The apparent consensus on acquiring vaccines masked deep divisions among scientists and military officials.
William C. Patrick 3d, who made germ weapons for the United States before President Richard M. Nixon outlawed them nearly three decades ago, warned that vaccinations against particular germs could be easily countered by foes, making such safeguards potentially useless.
''It's a hell of a problem,'' Mr. Patrick said. ''Defensive measures are much more difficult than offensive ones. There's no easy way around it. You immunize against anthrax and then an enemy just tries something else.''
Even the Administration's top public health officials have begun to warn that stockpiling is no quick fix.
''My view is that the stockpile isn't sufficient,'' said a senior Administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ''We need an entire care system in place'' to avoid creating a false sense of security.
And Congress, which has strongly supported the Administration's anti-terrorism efforts, is questioning the rationale and structure of the civilian stockpile. A Senate hearing is being considered for the fall.
''The plan,'' said Senator Lauch Faircloth, Republican of North Carolina, ''needs to be more carefully thought out and discussed more publicly.''
The Pentagon
In Early Debate, Focus on Troops
For decades, scientists and military officials debated the merits of vaccines as a defense against germ warfare. Worries grew after the 1991 Persian Gulf war, when United Nations inspectors found that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq had studied dozens of microbial agents and had placed at least 180 biological bombs and warheads around his country ready to spray lethal germs on enemy troops.
As the Pentagon discussed an ambitious program to make a variety of vaccines, its officials weighed the possibility that enemies would simply choose new deadly germs or modify old ones to outwit American defenses.
''People asked if we were just making it possible for Saddam to pick another agent,'' recalled Stephen C. Joseph, a doctor who at the time was Assistant Secretary of Defense for health affairs.
Dr. Joseph added that he and his Pentagon colleagues nonetheless recommended in the mid-1990's that the military embark on a vaccine effort. They were motivated in part, Pentagon officials said, by intelligence reports of rising dangers outside Iraq of germs being used against American troops.
In 1996, the Pentagon began looking for a company to develop and obtain licenses for 18 vaccines other than the standard one for anthrax. The initial ones were to guard against smallpox, which causes fever, boils and can be fatal; tularemia, which causes chills, aches, fatigue and typhoid-like symptoms, and Q-fever, which causes headaches, weakness and coughing.
In November 1997, the Pentagon awarded a $322 million, 10-year contract for the 18 vaccines to Dynport, a British-American venture. The plan sidestepped the knotty issue of immunizing troops, focusing instead on making and stockpiling vaccines for military personnel.
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Whenever I copy the text from a DIV on my website and paste it into a textarea, two or three newlines get added after the block of text is pasted. How can I stop this?
This happens when I use Internet Explorer.
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5 under age of 22 shot in Cincinnati neighborhood
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Police say five people ages 21 and younger have been shot in Cincinnati.
The five were shot Sunday night in Avondale, a neighborhood that houses the Cincinnati Zoo.
Lt. Maurice Robinson tells the Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/H9RVhO ) that the wounded included two 17-year-olds, an 18-year-old and two 21-year-olds. He says a 17-year-old girl had several gunshot wounds and was the most seriously injured.
Robinson tells the newspaper that two suspects were detained for questioning and a third was being sought.
The motive for the shooting and the victims' conditions weren't immediately available.
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This sucks!!! Any a-hole can make up anything they want and get innocent people in trouble and put them through hell for no reason. If you are a person that does this type of crap, screw you. Stay strong, Mariah. The pariah's are out. I'll bet you $10 this was started by some tabloid like TMZ.
1023 days ago
It is a proven fact about beer and helping w/lactating and DCFS should also know this. I believe DCFS is waiting taxpayers money on this frivilous investigation and that there are many other children that are suffering that could use DCFS help. This situation is an absolute shame for LA. not to mention how Nick and Mariah are going to feel to have them come in their home to investigate them.
1023 days ago
I hope this story is BS
The Federal Court has just order that CA release 46,000 offenders from prison due to over crowding but they have agents investigating a complaint that a beast feeding mother drank a beer?
It's not against the law to have a drink while pregnant- nor is against the law to have a drink if you are breast feeding.
1023 days ago
@Cara ... Technically, Guiness is not a beer, it is an ale. There is a HUGE difference. Not to mention you obviously have not had the discomfort (both physically and mentally) of not lactating properly after giving birth.
Oh, and as for the journal of any medical so-called professionals... yeah, I remember they once reported that eggs were bad for us, too.
They change their minds about things every time they put out a new journal.
1023 days ago
RabbleRouser, it's probably just the standard home visit with some TMZ wishful thinking added.
1023 days ago
It used to be recommended in the past, but I don't know how widely. Women were advised to have a beer in the evening, which would help produce more milk. There is an ingredient in beer that does does have an effect on milk production, but it is also in non alcoholic beer. It is now thought it doesn't really make any difference and not recommended for obvious reasons. I don't know who suggested that to her, but I doubt it was a professional health care worker. Bethany Frankel, on her reality show Bethany Ever After, was advised by her baby nurse to have half a beer for the same reason. She drank it on the air. I don't know if she continued to do that while she nursed, but no one called CPS on her.
1023 days ago
Recommended or not, how do you justify an investigation based on an anonymous tip of a legal activity? I call BS on this story.
1023 days ago
In the meantime somewhere in Ca something will occur that really needed the attention of the people visiting her home. I had my daughter overseas and they recommended a pint of Stout in order to assist the feeding process.
1023 days ago
Dreamon, I agree that something about this story stinks. Maybe the babies tested positive for something and this 'I had a beer for breast feeding' is a cover story her PR people are putting out to spin it.
1023 days ago
I think this whole TMZ story is a reflection of the fact that most of the employees (from what I see on camera on Live) are male, and they are all fairly young at that. It's hard to know all the TMZ employees' marital statuses and whether they have children, but from what I see only a couple of the guys who have kids MIGHT know anything about breastfeeding.
1023 days ago
Big Brother is watching you. And, those dumb people who work in child services are worthless. Once they took a child because they found Marijuana growing in a house. Said it endanger the child. The child couldn't walk or reach the area where the plants were growing. Plus, there has never been an overdose caused by Marijuana. After further investigation they returned the child to their parents.
1023 days ago
john wayne gacy
i would breast feed all day until
drunk until the utters sang MOO !!!!
1023 days ago
The "have a beer to increase the milk production" is an old wive's tale. The reason it was used in the past was because people had diets deficient in b-vitamins. Beer has lots of the B's. It's actually the vitamins that increase the milk production.
In today's society, there is no need for a well-fed woman to use the breast feeding excuse to drink.
1023 days ago
dreamon 26 minutes ago
Gee, isn't it HER body?
Not when she's breastfeeding. What she eats/drinks/snorts gets passed to the baby.
1023 days ago
Give me a break! There are mother's, Casey Anthony, for example, who kill their children and bury them in the woods. My mother smoked throughout her pregnancy and most of my childhood. Not the ideal. But it was the 60's, they didn't know. So Mariah had a Guiness to help her milk come in? BFD!!!! While the social workers are investigating her, some pregnant chick in a back alley is smoking crack. Her child will be born addicted and most likely seizing from withdrawal. But, by all means. Check Mariah out. A Guiness. The horror!
1023 days ago
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First, take a look at this screenshot. http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot-4yF1UqRf.1287160366.png
Now, I managed to change the selection color from orange to light gray which is very nice. But now I'd like to change the text color of inactive/disabled menu items which are in black as you can see "Available" "Away" and "Busy", the text is black. I'd like it to be gray for example but I don't know how to change the color of that text. Thanks!
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To change that property, you'll need to hack the gtkrc file for the theme in question. I presume that you're working with Ambiance.
The first thing you probably want to due is make a local copy of the theme instead of working on the system wide copy. Let's call it Ambiance-Mod. Open a terminal an run this:
cp -r /usr/share/themes/Ambiance ~/.themes/Ambiance-Mod
You also need to edit the index.theme to use your new theme.
gedit ~/.themes/Ambiance-Mod/index.theme
Change all instances on Ambiance to Ambiance-Mod
You should have Ambiance-Mod in your "Apperience Preferences." Now let's edit the gtkrc file.
gedit ~/.themes/Ambiance-Mod/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
The the part that controls the text you'd like to change can be found on line 334, fg[INSENSITIVE] for style "menu" = "dark"
style "menu" = "dark" {
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0
bg[NORMAL] = "#43423f"
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#43423f"
fg[INSENSITIVE] = shade (0.54, "#43423f")
engine "murrine"
roundness = 0
You need to change shade (0.54, "#43423f") to use your desired Hex color. Try something like "#969696" Make sure it is quoted.
change color
If you're not afraid of messing up the original theme, you could edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc directly and skip the parts about copying the theme and renaming things in index.theme
If you'd like to play around with more options, check out the GTK Theming Tutorial on the GNOME wiki.
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A word of caution: If you go the local-theme route, your gksu applications (e.g synaptic) will look strange. They fall back to another theme because they can't use local themes. LP bug bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/24280 – Christoph May 6 '11 at 8:09
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Scoring the schemes: A look at regional economic development plans
Here’s a look at the proposals coming out of the Capital Region in and around Albany:
CapitalRegion CFA 7-3-12
1. Don says:
More feel good BS in a state with excessive spending and taxes. Spending money on the BS rather than cutting spending and taxes- the only program that will work.
2. J says:
When does the pork barrel spending, I mean economic development projects, begin? Also, how much money did the taxpayers of the state of NY pay for CNBC superstar Maria Bartoromo to come up to Albany to host Andy’s econcomic game show (his spectacle announcing this pork barrel, I mean economic develoment spending)?
3. Jimmy says:
Easier to read here:
Big ones that stand out are over $10 million for the Port, and millions to real estate agencies to ‘redevelop’ slum housing; though some of it has to continue to be affordable, not all of it does. Sounds like a piece of the CSNY payoff (which is comprised primarily of real estate interests).
4. Sherlock Holmes says:
All Pork, all the time.
When these projects are finished, their impact is finished. No lasting economic impact will be made. The government isn’t capable of making a difference this way. The only thing it can do to help is cut the income tax, and reduce the costs of doing business. Let the economy grow from the bottom up. Give people a shot at making it in business by lowering their costs and taxes.
This agency and its approach to economic development are worthless.
5. Bodie says:
ESDC (Empire State Development Corporation) is, without a doubt, the biggest waste of tax payer money in the history of New York State. They are not “developers” and they collectively lack any discernible skills. How much skill is required to handout “free” taxpayer money? When are the middle-class taxpayers in this State going to wake up and demand that ESDC be subjected to intense scrutiny by the State Comptoller, the Attorney General and the Inspector General in order to justify and verify what “business development” is being generated by ESDC? What exactly are we getting for our money? The answer will be NOTHING.
6. Rich says:
Double thumbs up, Don. It’s baloney, gone to special interests and their unions.
No hope here. 4.5 million left to cheaper tax pastures.
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Dear California, I Am A Heartless Bitch
Dear folks, I have spent a lot of time in San Diego and am pretty familiar not only with its economic and ethnic and political diversity, but with many of its residents, to whom I must now apologize for saying something so insensitive at a time of such urgency and horror. Look, I hate tragedy and destruction too. When I wrote that I didn't feel bad about the fires engulfing "the Hills" right now I was trying to make a point about how the presence of Heidi and Spencer and Britney and the Terminator and assorted other tabliverse regulars had inured me to the tragedy in much the way the presence of impoverished black people inured a lot of people to the tragedy of Katrina. In part, I blame watching The O'Reilly Factor last night.
You should have seen it; he had a body language expert analyze whether Ellen Degeneres was "faking" her on-screen breakdown and assorted other treasures. Anyway so my insensitivity was sort of preemptive to the insensitivity I anticipated from him and Hannity and friends, which upon reflection was a bad call; I mean obviously, fuck what those guys think. I really hate people who think the answer to the Right's lack of human empathy is to pretend anyone on the Right is not human, so why did I just almost become one of them?
Frankly, San Diego, I do not give a shit if you voted for Bush or Kerry in the last election: I ache for your losses either way. I am also impressed by your heroism and resourcefulness. It still saddens me to say I have more confidence that, when it all blows over, most of you will rebuild your houses and lives quicker and more successfully than the victims of disaster in most other corners of the world; I think that's just how liberals are. It reminds me of the time, during Katrina, that I met a Kerry campaigner in Ohio who mused that he wished the death toll would go higher and reach that of 9/11.... well, fuck if that's not a warped way to have to think about things!
Anyway, so: I am really, really thankful for every Californian whose life was spared in this, including those of all the celebrities whose photos = my livelihood, and from now on I hope we can all just drop all the schadenfreude and learn to be inspired by our fellow humans for once.
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On this page, I've found this pattern
that helps in identifying lines longer than 80 characters by highlighting the characters after column 80.
I fail to understand its bit by bit explanation. Could you help me?
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Oh, you could also use this to match lines with at least 81 characters: /.\{81\}.*. I find this easy to remember. – steffen Nov 1 '12 at 13:20
@steffen: Not exactly. A character does not necessarily occupy a single display cell (think <Tab> or Asian characters). The virtual column \%v matches cell width, your . atom characters. – Ingo Karkat Nov 1 '12 at 13:26
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This is quite simple, actually.
• \%>80v starts the match after the virtual column number 80, see :help %>.
• .\+ matches 1 or more of any character, see :help /. and :help \+.
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that was a nice explanation. does virtual column mean tab counts as single character instead of 8 cells as seen on page ? – user1371666 Nov 15 '12 at 1:40
No. virtual columns count tabs as x characters. Assuming a tabwidth of 8 and a line consisting of <tab><tab>abc with the cursor on a: :echo col('.') returns 3 and :echo virtcol('.') returns 17. – romainl Nov 15 '12 at 6:52
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This is an alternative to your posed question rather than an answer. Hope that's ok.
You can also look into colorcolumn.
set colorcolumn=81,82,83
Will highlight the three characters after column 80. If you use textwidth then you can also use relative values (cool if your textwidth changes for different files):
set textwidth=80
set colorcolumn=+1,+2,+3
Of course you can have as few or as many values as you want separated by columns. I don't think it takes ranges though or "open sets" to "highlight from column N to the end of line."
The color itself is defined by the ColorColumn group so you can change it easily if it's too garish.
The reason why I suggest this is that it operates even if you're using search for finding things. :)
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I have profile pages for users of my little card game, like this one - where I display their position by looking up their city. My current jQuery code is here:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
// the city name is inserted here by the PHP script
function createMap(center) {
var opts = {
zoom: 9,
center: center,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
return new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), opts);
function findCity(city) {
var gc = new google.maps.Geocoder();
gc.geocode( { "address": city}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
var pos = results[0].geometry.location;
var map = createMap(pos);
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
title: city,
position: pos
<div id="map"></div>
and it works well, but I only get a simple red marker with a dot displayed:
map with a marker
Is there please a way to display the user avatar instead of the simple marker?
I have URLs for user pictures in my database (together with names, cities, etc.)
They are mostly big images (bigger than 200x300).
Thank you! Alex
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The Google maps API does support custom icons, and it's explained in their documentation here.
An example can be found here
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Thanks, but what about resizing the pictures, is it necessary? – Alexander Farber Apr 28 '11 at 13:34
As far as I know there isn't a limit to icon sizes concerning Google Maps not working. However I would recommend making them smaller yes because big icons like those would certainly be in the way visually. – Kokos Apr 28 '11 at 13:37
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Yes. Look at this piece of the documentation regarding MarkerOptions and MarkerImage. That will work for you.
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I'd like to close STDOUT to prevent my code from outputing a particular image that I need for further computation but do not want on my web page.
So i want to close STDOUT, do what I have to do with my code, then reopen STDOUT to output stuff to a web page. (Not to a file)
What I tried is:
close STDOUT;
# my code here
open STDOUT;
This doesn't work...
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Why don't you just avoid printing things you don't want printed? – cjm Jun 21 '11 at 4:21
I am using cgi_png() which inevitably prints the graph – Italics Jun 22 '11 at 13:30
Then use scalar_png instead. It returns the image that cgi_png would print (except for the CGI header). – cjm Jun 22 '11 at 14:23
i shall try that.. thank you – Italics Jun 24 '11 at 20:09
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There are several ways to approach your problem, and many of them do not require you to close STDOUT and risk fubaring your program's standard I/O channels.
For example, you can use the (1-arg) select command to direct the output of print commands somewhere else temporarily.
print $stuff_you_want_to_send_to_STDOUT;
# now default print sends things to NOT_STDOUT.
# This doesn't need to be a real filehandle, though you may get warning
# messages if it is not.
print $the_image_you_dont_want_to_go_to_STDOUT;
# now print sends things to STDOUT agin
print $more_stuff_you_do_want_to_go_to_STDOUT;
You can also reassign the *STDOUT glob at run-time without closing any handles.
print $for_STDOUT;
*STDOUT = *NOT_STDOUT; # again, doesn't need to be a real filehandle
print $stuff_to_suppress;
*STDOUT = *OLD_STDOUT; # restore original STDOUT
print $more_stuff_for_STDOUT;
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It's bad to close STDOUT since much assumes it's always open. It's better to redirect it to /dev/null (unix) or nul (Windows).
If you want to redirect the file descriptor,
use Sub::ScopeFinalizer qw( scope_finalizer );
open(my $backup_fh, '>&', \*STDOUT) or die $!;
my $guard = scope_finalizer { open(STDOUT, '>&', $backup_fh) or die $!; };
open(STDOUT, '>', '/dev/null') or die $!;
If you just want to redirect STDOUT,
local *STDOUT;
If you just want to redirect the default output handle,
use Sub::ScopeFinalizer qw( scope_finalizer );
open(my $null_fh, '>', '/dev/null') or die $!;
my $backup_fh = select($null_fh);
my $guard = scope_finalizer { select($backup_fh); };
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In case it's not clear, everything is automatically put back to normal at the end of the block, no matter how the block is exited. – ikegami Jun 21 '11 at 2:06
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Read the documentation for open.
Search for "Here is a script that saves, redirects, and restores STDOUT and STDERR using various methods".
What you want to do is not close STDOUT, but rather redirect it to /dev/null temporarily.
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close STDOUT;
From the perl doc: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html You have a : after your close, don't do that. The open above should also work with jus
open STDOUT;
This thread in perl monks might help you too: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=635010
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I checked 2 ways:
1. via select
2. via *OLD_STDOUT = * STDOUT, and see they are not usable in common case.
The reason is these 2 approachs redirect STDOUT only if "print" or something else is used in a Perl Script. But if you use "system()" call or call subscript, their output got to standard STDOUT anyway =((.
My point of view, the indeed solution is to be:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $file1 = "/tmp/out.txt";
my $file2 = "/tmp/err.txt";
open my $oldSTDOUT, ">&STDOUT";
open OLDERR, ">&",\*STDERR;
open(STDOUT, ">$file1") or print("Can't redirect stdout: to $file1 ");
open(STDERR, ">$file2") or print("Can't redirect stderr: to $file2 ");
system("pwd"); # this output isn;t got to standard output too, that is right!
open STDOUT, ">>&", $oldSTDOUT;
open STDERR, ">>&OLDERR";
I checked this solution and it worked for me.
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You can implement something to catch STDOUT like so:
sub stdout_of (&) {
my $code = shift;
local *STDOUT;
open STDOUT, '>', \(my $stdout_string = '')
or die "reopen STDOUT: $!";
return $stdout_string;
And then use it like so:
my $stdout = stdout_of { print "hello world" };
Localizing the filehandle inside stdout_of() allows you to avoid the tricks of closing and re-opening STDOUT.
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I would like Windows automatically open a web page on the default browser with a parameter as part of the URL such as "http://MyDomain/MyApp.asp?P1=MyParameter" when a user type in something like "MyURL:MyParameter" in the RUN box. Is it possible?
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Registering an Application to a URL Protocol. In the url handler application, compose a new url based on the incoming url, then call ShellExecute with the url.
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Is it possible that we directly use the default browser to handle the URL by only changing the Windows Registry such as: – Toronto Dec 15 '11 at 17:13
which "the url" you are talking about? the browser is already capable of handling http but is not capable of handling MyUrl as it neither registers nor understands the url. – Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 Dec 15 '11 at 17:41
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Need For Speed Most Wanted U features best visuals, true Miiverse integration
#21NarutoPosted 2/14/2013 2:15:20 AM
Will you be able to see your Mii inside the cockpit?
#22Elements012894Posted 2/14/2013 2:19:16 AM
ORANGE666 posted...
keybladeXIII posted...
They said the same thing for Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Criterion also said the Vita version of most wanted looked the exact same as the PS3 version except with a lower resolution. Wasn't even close
I'm pretty sure they said it was the exact same game, not the same graphics. They even mentioned that the Vita wasn't as strong as Sony made it out to be in that same article.
#23ChipChippersonPosted 2/14/2013 2:23:58 AM
Considering that this is pretty much Burnout I'll probably check it out.
#24shaunmePosted 2/14/2013 2:53:41 AM
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(Other stories by David M Williams)
"In one sense, the Redmond monopoly is self-perpetuating. The first reason Linux doesn't have a stronger foothold in the market is because Windows is already there. For most people their first experience with a computer is Windows. That's the operating system bundled with almost every desktop and laptop you can buy from retail outlets.
"Consequently, any competing operating system is at a disadvantage from the beginning: unless a person seeks out Linux or is introduced to it in some way there will be no catalyst for change. Even if the computer operator grumbles about Vista's many foibles, they will lump it often not realising that a choice exists.
"Here is where it becomes self-feeding. ASUS last year brought out their diminutive 7" Eee Linux PC. At the time this was not known as a netbook, because that moniker did not exist - until it had to be coined so it could be assigned to the faddish craze that this very same Eee brought to life."
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Hedging your bets in hard times
Megan McArdle
Kai Ryssdal: Whether it's the kind the FDIC offers or the kind we all buy on our cars and houses, insurance is essentially a hedge. Paying for the peace of mind of knowing you're covered if something goes wrong. Hedging's one of those terms that's bandied around a lot by financial types. But commentator Megan McArdle says more of us ought to do it in the more mundane parts of our lives.
Megan McArdle: Times are a little tough these days. Most of us are feeling, in Tom Lehrer's words, a little bit like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. So why not do what the big financial boys do -- hedge your bets? This technique is widely exploited in the financial world, but people rarely think to apply it to themselves.
When I was getting my MBA, people put a lot of stock in getting a full time offer from their summer internship. Toward the end of the summer, a few of us decided to hedge our net psychic wealth. We each put $75 into a pool. Those who got full-time offers lost their money, but gained a job. The people who didn't get offers got to divide the money.
Merrill Lynch didn't offer me a full time job, but I did get a lavish dinner at one of Chicago's best restaurants. I enjoyed the meal much more than I would have enjoyed working at Merrill Lynch.
There are lots of opportunities to do this in every day life. Start with your 401K. You've probably got a lot of company stock in it. This is exactly the wrong approach. Instead, you should buy stocks that do well when your company does badly. If you work at Nutrisystem, buy shares in Krispy Kreme. If you're an automotive engineer, short GM and invest the proceeds in Exxon Mobil securities.
The Case-Shiller housing index offers a similar opportunity. If you're saving up a downpayment, you can buy shares in your local index, which will pay off when prices rise. But if all your wealth is concentrated in your home, you should be able to short housing futures. If prices keep falling, you'll reap a profit.
Worried about the outcome of a major event -- a promotion, a house sale, even a marriage proposal? Why not find a few willing friends and bet against yourself?
This strategy offers a bonus well beyond mental peace--you may find out that your friends have a lot more confidence in you than you have in yourself.
RYSSDAL: Megan McArdle is associate editor at The Atlantic. She blogs there too.
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Hire Megan McArdle. Fire Kai Ryssdal.
This is not really a hedge is it?. Correct about a hedge being like insurance but it stops there. Insurance protects against the things that are out of your control. A hedge will limit your exposure not eliminate it.
If sound financial advice is the goal here why not diversify your portfolio? Do most of us really have time to "Hedge" against a market clearly in flux? Big business have multiple layers of MBA's to figure out what and when to hedge. I'm sad to say I do not.
Lady Lucy: You quoted an accurate definition of hedging, and you STILL got the analysis wrong.
A hedge will limit your exposure to an adverse outcome, yes. But limiting your exposure isn't the same thing as REMOVING your exposure. Getting $300 does not fully compensate you for not getting a full time offer (which, as you point out, might have an NPV many orders of magnitude higher), but it does partially compensate you, and that is precisely what a hedge is.
Or to put it in really short words - a hedge is a bet that pays off with bad stuff happens to you. NOW do you get it?
I don't think she knows what a hedge is. She is right that a hedhe is like insurance in that it limits your exposure to risk (like a homeowner's insurance policy should pay for a new home if yours burns down).
But her examples have nothing to do with limiting risk--they're all bets. For instance, her MBA friends decided to each put $75 into a kitty and those who didn't get full-time jobs split the money. So say she had 20 friend, so there's $1,500 in the kitty. Also say 15 summer interns are hired by Merrill, five aren't. Then the five unhired MBA student spilt up the $1,500, each receiveing $300. The $300 in no way compensates them, or makes them anywhere near whole, for they--like Megan--missed out on: hundred and hundred of thousands of dollars of annual income courtesy of Merrill Lynch--and maybe some hard work, which Megan doesn't want to do anyway.
That's not a hedge--it's a bet.
Geez, does this commentator even listen to your show? Type Krispy Kreme in the search bar at the top of the page.
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My, how the Kluge has fallen
I wanted to give Patricia Kluge a break. She has to overcome all the stereotypes about recipients of great wealth. Her public and private life is subject to a level of scrutiny few of us would welcome. Yet over the years she has kept a low profile, not risen to the bait of snide comments, and projected an image of, well, class.
I did my best to hold onto this attitude as I read her letter in your last issue [July 10: "Condon doesn't know Kluge"] ( Even though it seemed self-involved, condescending, and displayed an embarrassingly shallow understanding of ecology, the financial and sociological impacts of residential development, the march of civilization, and every other topic it addressed, I figured, what the hell, I'm no intellectual giant either. She is probably still a nice lady, trying to do the right thing as she sees it, with her heart in the right place.
Until I got to the end of it, where she makes a catty, personal attack on Marlene Condon. That did it. Obviously, her heart is planted right where her head is.
To characterize herself as a "farmer" is laughable. She is no more a farmer than George Bush is an "oil worker."
Her mean-spirited attack on Condon displays either arrogance or a complete cluelessness about the issues involved, or both. It's so out of line, you don't know if you should laugh at her or squirm, like hearing a 14-year-old altar boy tell the Pope he doesn't do Catholicism right.
If this is some sort of new strategy, where Kluge takes to the public forum to personally promote her vision of growth as evolution and her house-building as manifest destiny that will, by its very presence, enrich our ignorant, miserable little lives, I'm not sure it's going to work.
I know I liked her a lot better when she didn't talk. If she truly believes that everything that lives here, the people, the animals, and the plants, will benefit from more residential development, then she needs to buy someone who writes better letters to sell it to us.
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Dark Desires
By Tsuki
Disclaimer: The entire story is mine, as well as the prequel, but I do not own Naruto.
AN: Even though I never had any intention of it, I have had an unanimous descision to write a sequel to my story "Dark Love." It took me several days to come up with ideas for an entire sequel, but I'm gonna try.
In this one, Sakura tries to cope with life without Sasuke, but it's just too hard. The mask that she wears is starting to break… she needs him in her life again.
Oh, yeah, and one more thing. The title. It was originally "Light Love" since Sasuke is an angel and all, but that was tacky… so here's Dark Desires!
(Once again, this story is AU)
Chapter 1: I Can't Live Without You
"That really was a lot of fun, Sasuke-kun," said Sakura, giggling, "Especially the concert."
"See? I told you that you'd learn to like that type of music," stated Sasuke triumphantly.
Sakura giggled again. "Yeah."
Sakura brought her on his lap and kissed her on the lips. "I love you."
"I love you, too, Sasuke-kun…"
"Rather than killing you," he started, "I could just make you a vampire as well…" He paused before finishing. "…and my mate."
Sakura stood up, eyes wide and blushing madly. "What!"
"If I don't have a mate by the next full moon, I'll die. And if I have to mate, it might as well be someone I care about," Sasuke said with a smirk.
Sakura turned to face him. He cares! He cares about me, she thought excitedly.
Sasuke moved towards her and bore his fangs to their full extent. He grabbed her neck and moved his head to it. "Sakura-chan… this will only hurt for a moment…"
Sasuke smirked. "You're right. You're a beautiful kunoichi who has capitvated me and serenaded me into loving you."
Sakura sweat dropped. "Okay, okay, sorry for pushing. Enough of the sarcasm."
Sasuke walked up and whispered in her ear, "Who said anything about sarcasm?"
Sakura blushed and looked at him staring at her. "S-sasuke-kun…"
He closed the small space between them with a press of his lips to hers.
"Sakura-chan… will you be mine? Will you stay with me forever?" whispered Sasuke.
"Y-yes, Sasuke-kun…" she answered shakily.
He bore his fangs and bit her neck again, but not to drain any blood. This time it was to claim her as his mate.
"S-Sasuke-kun…" sobbed Sakura. She was sitting on her couch, holding a picture of them from the night they went to the metal concert. "Why did you leave me?"
Sakura quickly wiped her tears and put on the best fake smile she could find.
"Ohayou, Hinata-chan, Naruto-kun," Sakura greeted as she opened the door.
The couple walked in with Hinata carrying their baby girl, Sakura, who was now a year and a half old.
"Ohayou," Hinata greeted as well. The baby muttered something like what her mother said.
Sakura noticed Hinata had lost a lot of weight since the baby's birth. "My God, Hinata, you're as skiny as ever!"
Hinata chuckled. "Thank you. You look great, too. A bit underweight, maybe?"
Sakura laughed with her. "No… not quite. So how's my little Sakura-chan?"
Hinata handed Sakura to Sakura.
"Antee! Antee!" the little girl kept saying, giving and receiving kisses and hugs from her godmother.
"So how have you been?" asked Hinata. She casually walked into the kitchen and started making lunch. It had become a tradition ever since Sakura had been born that Hinata and Naruto bring her over for lunch. Hinata and Sakura switched off cooking it.
"The same as always, just trudging through life," sighed Sakura.
Naruto frowned. "Sakura-san, that isn't a good way to live. Maybe you should go to a doctor to see if you're depressed."
"I don't need a doctor to tell me that," answered Sakura, who had gotten some toys out for the child.
"Then go and get some medicine for it," continued Naruto, refusing to lose.
"I don't want medicine. I don't want to stop thinking about him! I can't forget him!" yelled Sakura.
Little Sakura looked frightened. Sakura picked her up and held her.
"Please, you two, really. Stop fighting. Lunch is ready, let's eat and talk about something else," begged Hinata, setting three plates of lo mein on the table and a jar of mush for the kid on the highchair.
"Like…?" asked Sakura, sitting down beside her friend.
(AN: Hinata has turned into the young mother character.)
"Like work. How's your new job going, Sakura?" inquired Hinata.
Sakura sighed. "It's alright. How about you, Naruto?"
Sakura had recently become a journalist for a gothic magazine. She reviewed CDs and concerts, mainly. Ever since the war, Naruto had opened a line of ramen shops and worked there.
"Then… uhm…" Hinata muttered, trying to think of something other than Sasuke to talk about. "Alright, I give up. Let's just eat in silence if we can't think of anything to talk about."
And they did just that. Afterwards, Hinata and Sakura got talking about politics while taking turns doing the dishes and watching Little Sakura.
Sakura saw them out. It was about 3PM when they left.
The mask came right off.
"Sasuke-kun… where are you now? Are you happy?" she asked the picture, crying, as she did most of her afternoons.
"She doesn't look very happy."
"She never is."
"Why is that, Sasuke?"
"She can't get over me."
"I see."
"Ortuna-sama… is there a chance I can see her again?"
"If there is, it is a slim chance. The gods aren't very willing to let anyone go back. They broke enough rules making you an angel."
"Can I be with her? Even if she can't feel me or see me, can I be in her presence?"
"You can go among humans as you please."
"Thank you, Ortuna-sama."
"You are welcome, Uchiha Sasuke."
Sakura had fallen asleep on her couch with the news on.
Although he was unseen, Sasuke glided down to Sakura and watched her sleep. She's beautiful, he thought, touching her cheek.
"Hmm… Sasuke-kun…" she mumbled, shifting slightly.
What he would give to speak to her again, to taste her lips again, to eat with her again, to sleep with her again, to be with her again… to love her again.
"Sakura…" he whispered. He kissed her on the cheek and she immediately shot up.
"Sasuke-kun!" she shouted. She looked around with hope in her eyes, but that quickly faded to dispair. "I swear… I felt you this time."
He knew he was unheard, but he talked to her. He talked to her gently and lovingly. He told her about how his life had been and asked how she was.
"I shall grant you one hour back with her, Uchiha Sasuke. Use it wisely."
Suddenly, Sasuke popped into Sakura's room, out of the blue.
She gave a sudden cry of surprise and fell off the couch. Sasuke himself was surprise as well.
AN: I'm really sorry I took so long to put this up! But here's the long-awaited sequel to Dark Love! I was gonna continue this chapter, but I like cliffies. D Review please!
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Chapter One
My body is pinned to the wall, my head smashed back against the glass, as he stands tall and strong before me. His cold, bony hand digging into the soft skin of my neck, his body pushed flush against his as I close my eyes and try to force my body to remain still against his.
"Girl, what did you do?" He asked, his other hand running over my cheek and into my cherry pink hair.
"Nothing," I whispered weakly, the usual oxygen flow being disrupted by his hand around my neck.
"Then why does Uncle Deidara say you hit him?" He asked, releasing his hand from around my neck and dropping my small body to the floor.
"I didn't mean to, I was walking around a corner and we ran into each other," I asked, panting heavily.
"Ayaka, stand," He ordered, standing quickly to my feet he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me in for a tight hug.
"Itachi, I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you," I apologised, returning his hug.
"Ayaka, you know I can protect you from almost everything, but you have still got to be careful. If you get hurt or killed I will never be able to forgive myself," Itachi replied, looking down upon me.
"Itachi…," I began, losing what I was going to say.
"It's okay, don't say anything just get ready we are leaving by sunset. Your mother is headed this way," Itachi said plainly, pulling away and looking down at me.
"My mum?" I asked confused, knowing that she was alive but not knowing that she knew where I was.
"Sakura Haruno," Itachi answered, turning and walking away.
Lowering my head, I began the short, but confusing walk towards my room. Sitting down on my bed, time seemed to stop as my thoughts began to drift to the women who is said to be my mother. Does she have the same silly hair colour? What is she like? Is she like me? And why did she give me to Itachi, if she hated him so much?
"Ayaka, meet us outside in five minutes," Itachi called, his footsteps non-existent on the hard wooden floors.
Five minutes later as ordered, I had my stuff packed and was standing outside the akatsuki headquarters with Itachi and Kisame. Itachi with his usual blank expression on and Kisame with an unusual sad expression; watching the two akatsuki members I caught on to the chakra sign in the forest and we were off running with Itachi up front, them me and last Kisame. Reaching a small cleaAyakag a pink haired woman stood in the centre, her hair blowing out behind her as she stood peacefully watching us, as we landed nearby the edge of the cleaAyakag.
"Itachi," The women said, bowing her head in respect.
"Sakura… Ayaka go," Itachi greeted and then turned to me.
"Why?" I asked, the women Sakura stood watching me with all watching full eyes.
"She is your mother and you are going home," Itachi answered, my eyes widened in surprise and I took a step back into Kisame.
"No," I whispered.
"Ayaka, come here darling," Sakura said, stepping towards me with her arms held out wide.
"No, the akatsuki is my home," I replied, pulling away from Sakura and into Kisame.
"Ayaka, leave now," Itachi ordered, looking me dead in the eyes.
A tear fell from my eyes and I wrapped my arms around him, pulling him closer.
"I can't leave you, I don't know her and she is an enemy," I whispered into his cloak, he gently rested his hands on my back and shook his head above me.
"You will be safe in the village and I will visit, so go," Itachi ordered firmly yet softly, before nudging me towards the older pink haired women.
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This Day (Lagos)
Nigeria: I Watched My Mother Die of Cervical Cancer - Ikediashi
Funke Olaode writes about the passion of a lady who wants total eradication of cervical/breast cancer among women
Her bubbly appearance in red lycra gown did not depict a lady with a heavy heart. Lucia Ifechukwu Ikediashi is like many others who have lost relations or loved one to the dreaded disease, cancer. But for Lucy, the diseased hit her on the wrong side which she would not forget in a hurry or in a long time to come. It claimed her mum.
She didn't have to die! she exclaimed holding back her tears. And if my mum could wake up today, she would ask, did I do enough?
"Cervical cancer is not something you wish your enemy should have. The symptoms are not there. It can be in your body for 40 years and you can never know. Why don't we find an opportunity to have series of screening where we can checkmate this scary disease before it becomes full blown cancer where nothing can be done no matter how much you spent? I heard a lady had a cancer and some artistes were donating millions. Those monies cannot do anything for because I watch my mummy die of cervical cancer."
For Mrs. Grace Isioma Ikediashi, an indigene of Asaba in Delta State and mother of four, her end came in 2009 after a long battle with cervical cancer, which disguised for years. According to her daughter, wrong diagnosis played a key role "It was traumatic for me and my family," she said.
"The cancer disguised for years and we didn't know she had cancer. We didn't know what was wrong with her. She had been ill for a couple of months and fortunately she travelled abroad to look after my elder sister who had just put to bed. On getting there, my sister noticed that she had changed, she had lost a lot of weight and her health had deteriorated. She was taken straight to the hospital where they dropped the bombshell and disclosed that she was in her fourth stage of cervical cancer.
The doctors in London started asking if there were no doctors where this woman was coming from. We took her to some big names and big hospitals in Nigeria. They diagnosed wrongly. Some claimed she had fibroid, other said low blood pressure and another version said high blood pressure. It was one test in England, which is now available in Nigeria that revealed the whole thing, and by then it was late"
Throwing more light on her mum's last day, she continued: "By the time it was discovered that it was cervical cancer we couldn't treat her as the doctors just advised us to take her back to Nigeria to die. The symptoms were not there but we noticed she was losing blood from her private part but surprisingly she had reached menopause. Her skin was peeling and was looking pale. She couldn't eat, sleep and even go to the toilet. This was how bad it was. She was gnashing her teeth; she had lost almost all her teeth and was constantly in pain. But this doesn't happen until it has become full blown cancer. So for you to have cervical changes you would not feel anything because there are no symptoms.
"The memories of her last days still bring tears to my eyes because she was in pains. She just wanted to see all the children. She knew her end had come. She had made it right with God and just wanted to go. But she asked me one question: Lucy, are you going to let other women go through this? My daughter, do whatever it is you can to ensure that another woman does not die of this cervical cancer. Those were her last words as she closed her eyes gently."
Propelled by her mother's words, Lucia has been in the forefront campaigning against cervical/breast cancer both at home and abroad.
Recently, she staged a cervical/breast cancer campaign and screening through a Halloween party which held in Victoria Island, Lagos. At the party, people could come and have fun, listen to music and get tested.
"We have had a lot of couple of outings especially outside the country. We have done series of launches for magazines, we have been involved with another concerts including the African Unplugged that took place in London. And now we are in Nigeria to make a difference, doing things that would bring women to be screened for breast and cervical cancer.
"Halloween is an event that comes up every year. While I was in London, the hype about Halloween was so much [that] I said when I get back to Nigeria [it would be one of the] platforms I can use to reach out to as many women as possible. And I realised that the hype too about the Halloween in Nigeria has started beefing up. So I decided to embark on a preventive strategy by using different parties to reach these women that are ready to party and spend money. The event is Spook Out Cancer Halloween Party.
The aim of the event was to reach out, create awareness about breast and cervical cancer and at the same time providing free screening to all the women in attendance. Halloween is a scary event and we have decided to use this platform to bring more scary issue, which is killing a lot of people to the table. You may have fine face and meanwhile your inside is rotten and you would not know. The only detective is breast/cervical screening. And that is what has brought about this party. I have seen my mum die and I don't want others to die."
Shimmers, her entertainment and lifestyle outfit, with a couple of friends have come together to put their names on this laudable project: Momaquakes, Sala Productions, Hex Entertainment, Jade Academy, XQ Lounge, Fairlife Africa and her family too have been very supportive.
"There are some people with mentality that believe that 'na one thing go kill person' but that thing is preventable. Every female from the age of 12 should be interested and should know her cervical and breast cancer status. We are focusing on all the platforms to make sure we reach to as many women as possible. We are going to take advantage of club days, the Christmas parties. I am ready to bring these doctors to the churches, market squares, mosques, local governments, the clubs and anywhere we can reach women.
With less than N3, 000, they can save a life. Let's put hands together and stop the rate at which this cervical cancer is killing our women just as the rate of HIV/AIDS is dropping gradually. Some women are dying because they don't know. We need to be health-conscious. Why should a lady put on nice shoes, nice clothes and enter her car when her inside rotten.
Do you think it is nice to watch somebody very close to you die? I watched my mum until she closed her eyes. She was just looking at us smiling. She asked for her favourite things before she gave up. It is a reality. And that why we must put hands together to stop the scourge."
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University players from Boston College celebrate a coup, but how far will the individuals advance in hockey?
The other day I was doing my usual internet research rounds, digging up websites and sniffing out interesting information. Randomly, I stumbled upon a hockey-related area on one of the popular Q&A sites, and an abstractly-worded query caught my attention. At first glance, the question seemed to be a rather uninformed and unlikely clutch at a late hockey career. But at it’s most basic level, it transcends the game of hockey and relates to all of sports, and perhaps even life itself.
“If I want to make it far in hockey, do I have to be the best player on the team to make it big, in college, the minors, or the NHL?” [This is not a direct quote. Misspellings and errors have be corrected]
More simply: “How does the Average Joe or Joan find his or her place among the stars?”
This topic may be especially pertinent to Bleacher Report writers, who work hard by putting themselves in the shadows of sports stars and superstars. What will it take for us to reach their level and do justice to the games we love via this medium? How do 'the rest of us' best emulate and honour athletic heroes, or even become 'stars' ourselves?
As a hockey writer, I responded to the question with a hockey answer. As a broader concept, many related ideas and responses apply. And with the Olympics and preparatory training in full swing, it seems an appropriate subject. Though I may write about hockey, the topic can relate to almost anyone, especially in sport. I'm curious about what the rest of the Community has to say, and hope other Bleacher Reporters are as keen on open discussion as they usually are. [Leave your thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the page]
As I said before, the nature of the original question led me to assume the author was relatively new to playing hockey, and had not been involved with the game in any serious form.* Most professional hockey players have been on the ice since they could walk, and been active in the organised game at many levels. Every player generally has an innate sense of his or her own raw tools and game style. They’ve been through training, roster cuts, coaching advice, etc, and are usually given a realistic idea of their potential in the sport.
Indeed, many head into the college/junior system never genuinely expecting a star-studded NHL career, though every true competitor lives in hope. In many cases, team staff and franchise ideals allow athletes to develop their overall potential, not just skills at the rink.
A promisingly large proportion of junior players put the education side of their contracts at the forefront, and impressively their clubs are not only supportive of this, but encourage them to put proper effort into their post-secondary learning. As long as players are able to provide a consistently effective on-ice presence and maintain or grow in the classroom, there are few stipulations. Staff know that the skills their players learn at University or college will not only prove central for a future after hockey, but will inevitably teach lessons invaluable for any athlete, such as discipline, focus, and communication.**
This is key to giving participants the best start down whichever path they follow. Scouts, managers, coaches, etc, will always ask questions outside the realm of on-ice play, even outside the game itself. On and off the playing surface it is vitally important for players, especially in hockey, to have a certain amount of intelligence and discipline. It can actually mean the difference between passing muster and missing the boat.
Even those who have been involved with the game for years may fall by the hockey wayside, due to injury, level of talent and competition, consistency, etc. Some lose interest in playing full time, or are unable to impress the coach thoroughly. Others, if they are in school, may simply fail to maintain their grades. Every situation is appraised individually; some make it, some don’t. It can be a tough grind for even the most dedicated and experienced players. Within hockey’s junior systems, there are many life lessons to be learned, even for those outside its boundaries.
That said, with a great deal of training and determination it is possible to make a late start in a sport and find success. Viewers of the first series of CBC’s 2004 hockey reality programme Making the Cut may remember Daniel Jacob, the towering Quebecois defenseman who first laced up his pro-skates at the age of 18. Failing at the game in early childhood, he was never really involved on-ice until he was 14, when he became interested in sports-studies and kinesiology.
Work ethic, determination, and practise, practise, practise allowed the young man to play at the University level shortly after he began training. He was considered a contender to not only play quality hockey, but possibly 'make the cut' and earn a try-out with an NHL club. His size has been utilised in Europe since his graduation from McGill, following a one-game stint in the AHL.
Every sport, every cause, has a few beat-the-odds stories, and it’s rarely unimpressive. Simply taking the risk to try is noteworthy, and athletes can't get anywhere without 'giving it a go'.
Very often the important outcomes in life depend on what a person is doing, what strengths that person possesses, how hard he or she is willing to work, and how realistic the person’s expectations are of themselves. And though the ‘broader question’ is interesting, I am an NHL writer and this is a sports site, and this is an answer for the hockey-hopeful who wrote the question in the first place. The remainder of this was written as such.
The topic, of course, is multi-faceted. Obviously you need to be a good player, but 'good' is a relative term. Going in, remember that different teams and different people are looking for any number of characteristics, depending on a club’s needs. These will include various areas such as skill, on-and-off-ice presence, attitude, and obviously, position.
As a goalie, it can be very, very difficult to carve out a star-studded starter career, even if you do have talent. There are only so many spaces, and consistency is an even bigger factor for netminders than for skaters. You have to be very accomodating, and realise that whatever role you are dealt is best for the team at the moment. As with all hockey positions, practise hard, but become a superb skater and concentrate on athleticism, focus, flexibility, fitness, patience, and reflexes. Work the style which suits you best, and adjust it to your needs and skills, covering all the angles literally and figuratively.
As a forward or defenseman, you'd similarly have to rely on your strengths and adapt them to fill out your game.
If you are/want to be a forward skater and aren't the most offensively talented, work another angle. Become an enforcer, a grinder (very reliable), a pest, or a playmaker. Find a way to plug up any deficiencies in your play with practise, and add facets to your game which either are unique to your team or fresh altogether. Make sure you are also able to keep up your defensive awareness; forwards with little offensive skill and glaring defensive lapses have a tough time because they are a constant on-ice risk to the team, coach, and GM, and unreliable in key situations.
As a defenseman, stay tight. Choose to be an Offensive-D or Defensive-D. If you are an OD, remember to cover your end first, and think twice before pinching or stepping into the play, even after you have the hang of it. If you go with OD, you have to be fast, alert, reflexive, strong, and intelligent. One must be capable of playing forward with the utmost care and responsibility. The position requires a great deal of balance and awareness… otherwise you risk being a forward playing on the defensive roster, and that does no-one any good.
If you go as a DD, it means covering your end like a daemon, and reliably upholding back-end responsibilities. A great position for the intense and focused player. Be ready to block shots and stick to your check like glue. Though it may seem a less glamorous position, there is nothing more courageous or exciting than the sliding defender stopping the flying puck with a body sacrifice, or a complete shutdown of the other team's offence on a man-advantage. That would be your responsibility, and it's more interesting and rewarding than it seems when it‘s done properly.
In any position, a player must learn to adapt to his surroundings, leaving ego behind. Veteran NHL grinder Stephane Yelle is an excellent example of a man who adapted his game to meet the needs of his career and his team, without allowing false self-interest to force him in the wrong direction.
Yelle had tasted scoring-stardom in junior, posting a standout 104 points in 66 games with the OHL’s Oshawa Generals in 1993-94. Following his slightly less productive yet steady final OHL season in 1995, he was drafted and moved twice before the start of the next NHL season. He found himself a part of the newly relocated Quebec Nordiques team, the promising Colorado Avalanche. The new club and Stephane Yelle shared the same rookie year, and both won the Cup in that first season in Denver (1996).
The budding team was propelled by players such as Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Adam Foote, and Patrick Roy, and would only be made stronger in coming years with additions like Alex Tanguay, Milan Hejduk, and Ray Bourque.
Competing with (yet against) some of the best players of the time, Yelle had to adapt early or get lost in the shuffle. Admittedly, the man now known as 'Sandbox' probably wasn’t headed for a Gretzky-like career, but he nevertheless admirably worked himself into one of the most well-rounded and gritty checking-forwards today. Indeed, had he focused more on scoring he’d undoubtedly be a Selke recipient for best defensive forward, but his NHL points never matched his wonderful checking prowess.
His teams have never seemed to mind his comparatively low numbers. Yelle has won two Stanley Cups, and the recent UFA and playoff stalwart is highly-praised by collegues, coaches, and fans wherever he may play. He is just one example of the effect an enduring presence can have, with or without being the best player on the team.
Then again, there are always the ‘naturals’. If you are the next Orr, Gretzky, Roy, Crosby or Ovechkin, you will have skill in spades. Don’t take your talents for granted; living up to one’s own potential is a difficult mental aspect in itself.
It would then be about ensuring that you work hard, earn your spot, balance your game and your personality. The best players in history have been good people, gracious, generous, tough yet kind, competitive, aggressive, tenacious, well-intentioned and sportsmanlike. Most people won't get too far without those in hockey. It may seem like a recklessly rough sport, but the game demands an incredibly high level of discipline and mutual respect, and the ‘unwritten rules‘ of hockey should always apply even in the midst of battle.
There have been a fistful of stars who have broken this mould, blazing through on talent or some unseen intangible and apparently shirking the ‘rules’ of hockey and sportsmanship. While their on-ice careers may have been fruitful in some way, the reactions many of these people receive from peers and the public can be remarkably deflating. Many pro players have had controversial careers, perhaps stellar, perhaps simply present by some unrecognised logic.
Bobby Clarke booed at a podium years after his notorious playing career; Todd Bertuzzi’s contentious and perhaps dwindling hockey tenure; Brett Hull's lax nature and bulging belly; and Mike Commodore’s enormously inflated contract. For some reason, these situations come to mind.
But those players are one-in-a-million and are often remembered more for what they could or should have done and less for what they may have actually accomplished on the playing surface.
Conclusion: In sport, go with your skill set and find a niche. If you can balance talent with learning, practise, determination, and a soupçon of creativity, you have a better chance at going further in hockey and other athletics. Don't fight yourself, and take in all the advice you can get when on the ice. Experience and coaching are invaluable.
Make sure you are confident and passionate, but don't get too full of yourself. Work hard, study harder, prepare for any eventuality. Even if you don't make the NHL or AHL, there are many higher levels of sport which you can participate in, and even work around a regular lifestyle. And if you are in University, study your school work well. It will keep you on the team, prepare you to focus, and give you options for the future. Even the greats know the value of that.
It is tough to break into professional leagues, but it is possible if you put things together correctly. There are many successful players who have worked out a persona or function which their teams find invaluable, even if they are just a small part of the overall picture. Whether or not you become the main cog, to be a part of the bigger machine is in itself impressive. Be persistent, be consistent. Then you'll be set.
Amazingly, the same ideas apply to the realisation of any goal. Find a forté, exercise your talents, work hard, study rigorously, learn as much as you can from everything you do. Utilise your strengths and work on your weaknesses. Rely on your talents, but never take them for granted. Lastly, allow for criticism, because if you can take such input on board gracefully and effectively, praise will surely follow.
What do you think? What would you add, to tailor it to your favourite sport/player/occupation/hobby/etc?
* I made the erroneous assumption that the person who asked the question was older, trying to get into college hockey at 18 or 19 years-old. Rather, this was a 14 year-old player with a lifetime's experience. It just goes to show: we all have questions and more to learn, and we only get better by being brave enough to ask for advice.
** If you are a player hoping to enter into higher levels of hockey while pursuing higher education, remember your choices and be true to who you are and what you want. If you are serious about your studies but have difficulty balancing school and hockey without encouragement, think about US college or University scholarships or signings. You will emerge with more options for the future, but may be less prepared for the realities of professional hockey. If you are able to put extra effort into school while keeping up easily with your game (or if you are more concerned with hockey than your education), major-junior provides the best hockey environment but perhaps less educational support than college. Don't concern yourself too much with scouts and profile. If you put yourself out there in the right way and make an impression, you can be spotted no matter where you play; depending on where you go after hockey is at least as important, especially if you want to continue making an impact on the game.
M MacDonald Hall is the Bleacher Report Calgary Flames Community Leader, and will be adding to that department over the summer. Future articles include a breakdown of Calgary Flames playoff performance in the 21st Century, roster changes and information, and Flames-specific trivia. M’s Bleacher Report archive includes an assortment of Flames/NHL articles.
M also writes on various other topics, sport and non-sport related. Enquiries regarding NHL writing or other subjects may be directed to M's Bleacher Report profile or via email.
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switching remaining platforms to modular X by default
The latest pango version needs a thread-safe fontconfig, i.e. version
2.10.91 or newer.
For users of "native" X on NetBSD, which provides an older version,
this currently leads to breakage because two versions of fontconfig
are linked in.
This is just the latest case of native X support causing hard-to-fix
problems. For another example, harfbuzz is broken on NetBSD-5.0.x for
months due to a freetype issue (at least since January, I didn't check
older logs).
Since supporting multiple versions of libraries is hard, and no one is
taking care of it in the case of native X even for supported
platforms, I suggest we switch the default for the remaining platforms
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headers), and Cygwin.
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Administrators and members on Uncyclopedia create user names just to follow procedure, but in reality, they do not appreciate being called by these nicknames. The following is a list of their real names, along with a short biographical sketch for admins and notable members of the site.
Keitei (Kate)
Keitei's real name is Katereina. She is a 34-year-old who sits in the dark all day, and feeds on delivered pizza. She owns many pets, such as a squirrel, a draak and a Hitlerbear and she has an abnormal dislike for "juice people" and people with bloodcancer. She lives in New England, though on a visit to Florida, her rage caused by the "Emocore" Movement. It was later named Hurricane Katrina, which ended up in catastrophe and devastation.
There is also an age-old dispute as to whether or not Keitei is actually a girl, for more on this see The Great Keitei Debate.
Nytrospawn (Ryan)
Nytro's real name is Ryan Bath House. He graduated in capitalist economy, but he builds Zombie Nazi Robots for a (poor) living. Lives with his father, Forest Gump and his 12 monkeys. He's a Norwegian-German-Canadian Star Trek fan-boy who really hates cars and other motorized vehicles. He once presented an unaltered Uncyclopedia article to his teacher as his school paper, which got him a C+.
Rcmurphy (Roberto)
Murphy's real name is Roberto Clemente Murphy. He is a freelancer bureaucrat level 31 whose most famous works include Disney and the company responsible for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Stereotyping CD-Rom. He and Burt Reynolds are close friends. Son of a male gay couple, Murphy was abandoned by them during childhood. He hopes to live in California, one day. Trivial facts on him are that his grandfather invented lattes and that he won an euroiPod when participating at The Price Is Right.
Isra1337 (Gary)
Isra’s real name is Gary Mander. He is a Muslim who comes from a long line of USA presidents. Former Star Trek producer, he currently works at the White House. He believes that the Christian God's name isn't God, even though he has built many churches, since he’s an engineer. He has once tried his luck as a white rapper with very little success. Gary has lived in Hiroshima in the period betweem 1944 and 1946.
Dawg (Charlie)
Wolf's real name is Charles Emerson (Greek: Gluteus Maximus), but he prefers Charlie. He’s a former Los Angeles cop who used to illegally sell clock radios. Now, he is a monk who lives in the mountains. Charlie’s mother, Eva Perón, gave birth to him in Brest, France. One time, a hiker found him in his cave, and Dawg couldn't believe it wasn't Hitler.
neoEva88 (Dana)
Dana is an American laywer who hopes to one day become a judge. He has argued in court against the existence of water and that man has landed on the moon (what a loon). Gets legal information from Wikipedia. Devout Catholic that converted to Rastafarianism so he could be the head of Uncyclopedia's chess club. As such, he is often quoted on MTV. His favorite color is orange.
Volte (Ed)
Ed is a 28-year-old professional bocha player who likes to wear colorful hats. An ex-marine that worships Martha Stewart ("That gal is so tidy!"), he is Uncyclopedia's foremost advocate of torture, especially the Machete to the groin. Ed is an avid atheist. He has been quoted as ranting, "Jesus is coming back? Where is he? He's late!" Ed has overstepped his bounds and had to be banned multiple times, most recently for making himself an admin. Eventually they let him have his fun, and didn't revert his self-op. Ed enjoys playing poker, loves magic and mythology, and is a leading literary critic. His favorite writer is T. S. Eliot. He is also the only Uncyclopedian that's been to outer space.
Chronarion (Lewis)
Lewis is from Australia, and therefore he suffers from TAA (Thick Australian Accent) Syndrome. He lives in Melbourne with his pet kangaroo, neighbouring a Subway. You know what? He invented Uncyclopedia! Worship him! Uncyclopedia's brutal Dictator in absentia, Lewis was named Uncyclopedia of the year in 2004, since there was no one else here back then. Lewis has an iPod nano that he has hooked up to hold 200 gb, for reasons no on really understands. He is an avid fan of dinosaurs. He also loves early 90s rap music. Be careful! He is the biggest liar on the internet, no matter what Al Franken says.
Stillwaters (Claire)
Claire is from Austria, but was adopted by a Swedish couple who took her last name and wouldn't give it back. She is one of the few girls on the site, and is not only proud of that fact, but smug about it. March 2005's Writer of the Month, Stillwaters is what Bill O'Really would call "a liberal." The co-founder of Uncyclopedia, she's spent a lot of time writing "oh wouldn't it be great if we actually had civil rights" articles for the New York Times about America and it's mistress country, Japan. She actually owns two cows, which is where that whole thing started. Unlike most people on the internet, she hates the MPAA. But, dude, check it out! She plays videogames for a LIVING! Beat that!
Famine (Jason)
Jason is a transexual prostitute living in sin. Jason's life basically consists in selling cocaine to buy heroine. He used to live in New York City's Park Avenue, but he forgot his address, so now he wanders around Broadway, the highest drug selling point in this side of the world. Jason serves as Poopsmith of Uncyclopedia, though quite accidentally. Suprisingly, he got the Writer of the Month, August 2005, award without actually having ever written anything. Ever. When Jason is high, he believes he is Famine, the famed horseman of the Apocalypse. He then gets on his computer, and, with an admin code he got from Flammable in a drug deal, desperately tries to rid Uncyclopedia of any material whatsoever. He has not yet accomplished his goal, but he is working diligently toward it. If he deletes your stuff, understand that it is not personal, he just hates everything. The only way to keep your material on Uncyclopedia is to make him laugh so hard he can't hit the delete button before the authorities kick him out of the library.
MoneySign (John)
$'s real name is John Greenstein. John is a successful Jewish attourney who lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and has a five-figure salary. He isn't married, since his job (and now the site) take most of his personal time. He joined Uncyclopedia when his fellow co-workers dared him to. John was Noob of the Month Jan 2006, mainly for doing requested images for all kinds of articles, and getting two featured images on the front page. Besides that, he hasn't done much in his short time at Uncyclopedia, besides getting his own puzzle piece, causing a nuclear holocaust while pulling a Homer, and starting a company that sells everything from razor blades to orange juice. John has super-powers on IRC, where you must respect his authority.
Elvis (Francis)
Elvis' real name is Francis. Francis lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and sells surfboards for a living. Francis's gender is undetermined. S/he lives in a treehouse by the beach, with his/her pet monkey, Stuart. Francis goes by the moniker "Elvis" on the internet to feel "pretty." S/he once visited Britain and was knighted for creating some awards for the queen. This makes referring to Sir/Dame Francis much more difficult in Britain, so s/he has been banished, never to return. Francis won the Useless Gobshite of the Month, Oct 2005 award for coming to Uncyclopedia looking for acceptance. The result was a bloodbath.
Flammable (Paul)
Flam's real name is Paul. Paul is a 13-year old hobo who lives on a train that goes from Delaware to Vermont and back, every single day. He collects money from the passengers, and loots Wal-Mart for food at all stops. He gets on Uncyclopedia because a nice passenger forgot to take his laptop with him when leaving the train. Paul was knighted for bringing the Flying Spaghetti Monster to Uncyclopedia. This new religion made him slightly crazy however, so when he isn't doing drugs, he is busy destroying every article on Uncyclopedia that he find "offensive" to Pastafarians. The only way to stop him from deleting your stuff is to cry and post desperate pleas for mercy on his talk page. If they are funny, he'll still delete your article, but will keep your pleas for mercy for his own amusement. Paul is the only Uncyclopedia user that has run for President of the United States of America (Gundam party).
savethemooses (Norman)
Mooses' real name is Norman Wells. Norman is a computer geek who spends the day trying to hack into the CIA's website. He lives alone in a small apartment paid for by his parents, and feeds primarily on Hot Pockets. He joined Uncyclopedia while trying to hack into it in order to blank RuneScape once and for all.
Guest (Rikio)
Sikon's real name is Rikio Matsumara. Rikio's one of two notable Japanese members here. He is a 35-year-old banker who lives in Osaka, and is married to Tsuyako, a vaguely life-like robot. He also invests in the stock market. His hobbies include schoolgirls, signing offkey and morris dancing. He joined Uncyclopedia using his wife's copy of Windows 98.
Bradaphraser (Jake)
Brad's real name is Jake. Jake has no idea as to what he is going to do with his life, consistent with the fact that he is 11 years old. He lives in Houston, Texas with his parents and 27 siblings. His most famous work was "Macaroni Mommy." He joined Uncyclopedia by turning on his dad's computer, for which he was later grounded.
David Gerard (Linux)
David's real name is Terrance Linux, but he prefers to be called by his last name only. He lives in Seattle and attends the University of Washington, where he studies Journalism. He lives in a rented apartment, which he pays for by working at a local coffee shop (not Starbucks). He pretends to be Australian to get chicks (this never works). He joined Uncyclopedia during an extremely dull biology class.
Tompkins (Mohammed)
Tomp's real name is Mohammed Yuri. Mohammed lives in Saudi Arabia with his dad, his seven moms, and his pet goat, Fred. He works as a waiter there, although he is only 15 years old. His salary is equal to 19 American dollars. He joined Uncyclopedia in one of the four computers that exist in the country.
Whywhywhy (Freddy)
Yyy's real name is Frederico, but he prefers Freddy. Freddy is 16 years old and lives in Ecuador, in a tent in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. He hunts and fishes for food, and often teaches younger children how to use a spear. To join Uncyclopedia, he traveled over 1,130 miles to access a computer, only to find the one he had ordered from Dell waiting for him when he got home.
BobBobBob (Rhonda)
Bob3's real name is Rhonda Stevens. Rhonda followed the example of other female internet users (such as ManManMan) and chose a very masculine nickname, although she never actually denied being female. She is 16 years old, lives in Oregon, and hopes to take Jimmy to the prom. She joined Uncyclopedia under unknown circumstances.
Wild Weasel (David)
Weasel's real name is Hezekiah, but he prefers David, mostly because it is three letters shorter. David came to Uncyclopdeia looking to earn thousands writing comedy from the safety and comfort of his own home, but so far this hasn't happened. At Uncyclopedia, he is recognized as being a registered member of Uncyclopedia, and for his overuse of the phrases "experts agree that" and "is widely considered." David was employed intermittantly as a mercenary, but after a stint in Iraq - where he witnessed a village of innocent Smurfs bombed by Coalition forces - he renounced cartoon violence. Needless to say, he hasn't worked in a while, and lives off of the proceeds from his successful 2002 lawsuit against the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club for negligence associated in the death of his ocelot, Trevor. In his spare time (he has a lot of spare time) David listens avidly to his vinyl Art Garfunkel solo albums, collects Lithuanian Communist Party propaganda, and enjoys putting himself on Don't Date Him
gwax (Ty)
G's real name is unknown, but his code name is TY. TY works for the CIA, and very little is known about him. The only facts known about him are that he is male, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and works as a field agent. He joined Uncyclopedia as a Governmental agent to watch the people, as required by the Patriot Act. As a CIA agent, TY is, of course, completely humor-free. He has placed himself as moderator at the VFD page to ensure that democracy spreads to even the crappiest of places online. While in the CIA, TY was also assigned to monitor the Discordians, with hilarious results. Expect a movie deal to be struck soon, starring Optimus Prime as TY.
Mhaille (Niles)
Mhaille's real name (as is 42% percent of the British male population) is Niles, though this is actually pronounced "MAHL-ee." Niles is one of the few notable British Uncyclopedians. He's married to popular Eskimo singer Björk, and collects used batteries. Mhaille is the admin to talk to if you're a n00b, because he doesn't hate you outright... yet. Mhaille has helped Gollum's recording career by buying all his albums, watches Euthenasia politics on BBC4, is a history buff that loves old British Army entertainment reels, and is a self-declared "warrior-poet," whatever that means.
Anidnmeno (Danny)
Anidn's real name is Daniel, but he prefers Danny. Danny is a typical American boy, 17 years old, senior year on High School, plays football and baseball, and hopes to get a scholarship to the University of Texas at New York. The means by which he joined Uncyclopedia remain mysterious, since he has in fact never used a computer in his life.
Splarka (Doyle)
Splarka's real name is Doyle Cunningham. Doyle is one of the few notable British Uncyclopedians. He is a peppy 19-year-old who's working toward a degree in Biology, smokes heavily, and lives in a co-ed dormitory. He joined Uncyclopedia when he read about it in the newspaper he was eating from.
Zombiebaron (Christian)
ZB's real name is Christian. Christian is what is popularly called a "nerd." He studies Mathematics at Harvard, and lives with his parents and sisters three blocks away from the University. He has Triple-Nipple Disorder, and spends most of his time listening to Radiohead albums, though recently he has taken a strange liking to Dogs Die in Hot Cars. He joined Uncyclopedia trying to be cool.
King in Yellow (Pete)
KIY's real name is Peter, but he prefers "Pete." Pete is one of the few notable Canadian members. He works at Catholic Bumber [sic] Stickers, Inc. as a corn-muffin manufacturer. He is 40 years old and very, very lonely. He joined Uncyclopedia to try to sell some of his bumper stickers, only to discover that most Uncyclopedians actually do care about spelling.
Acid Ammo (Luigi)
Really Marshall Steven Kauffman (1985-2053), Marshall was born in the Seattle General Hospital at 7:02 AM. He currently practices medicine in the same Hospital as an intern and has very little time to himself, which he wastes going on-line instead of sleeping, or eating. He lives in Seattle with his parents, Paul Reiser, an awarded novelist and J.K. Rowling, a bank manager, his little brother, Moby, a high school student, his big sister, Joan of Arc, an attendant in the Hospital, J.K.'s sister, Debra Messing, a crack addict recover waitress and Paul's father, Donald Trump, a retired Secret Service agent with amnesia problems. He joined Uncyclopedia as part of a campaign to convince his parents to take him to EuroDisney, but instead it got him grounded until 2665. He writes for the Biography channel in his spare time. He is sometimes confused with a world-famous art critic.
Spintherism (Ira)
Spin's real name is Ira Richmond. Ira is 20 years old, and lives in San Francisco, California. He works as a photographer, and is very open about being homosexual. He likes "the rain" and "long walks on the beach." He joined Uncyclopedia because he was tired of our overly judgmental society.
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RadX's real name is Otto. Otto is 22 years old and lives in Frankfurt, Denmark. He studies Danish Literature and works as a gardener to cover his expanses. (heh heh... "expanses"! I like that one.) He is a convicted felon who was found guilty in 2002 of assault, robbery, and rape, which adds up to 4 years in jail in Denmark, a term which he has already served. He joined Uncyclopedia because he was told to do so by a pink dog, which may or may not have been his.
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PP's real name is Penny Foryerthoughts. Penny is 36 (dog) years old, and lives in a spec house in the middle of Bumfuck. In her early years she was known as "the source." Nowadays, she likes tea and the afternoon CW schedule. She joined Uncyclopedia when her cat walked on her keyboard. Penny is, as the name implies, blonde.
Todd Lyons (Gary)
Todd's real name is Gary Kyle. Gary owns a not-entirely-successful online comic strip, and hopes to make that his living someday. For now, he works as a pirate-CD salesman. He is 24 years old and lives in Chicago, Illinois. He joined Uncyclopedia when someone sent him an e-mail saying that "even this crappy site is better then your web comic."
Algorithm (Lance)
Algo's real name is Lance O'Doyle. Lance is one of the few notable British members on the site. He is a plastic surgeon who specializes in rhinoplasty; he once fixed his fiancee's nose "just to see what would happen." He is 35 years old and once appeared on a local television programme, and will not stop pointing this out to anyone who will listen. He joined Uncyclopedia when his neighbour said, "Top o' th' mournin' t'ya mate! Haf y'seen this new soite, guv'," and was immediately arrested for an accent violation.
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Loogy's real name is William, but he prefers "Billy." Billy is an 8-year-old with an IQ of 156. He's what you might call a prodigy. He is currently in the ninth grade, and hopes to graduate by the time he is 13. He joined Uncyclopedia using the computer he built himself when he was 4 years old.
Mandaliet (Mandy)
Mandy's real name is Mandy. Mandy is one of the few members whose nickname is actually somewhat truthful and accurate. She is 18 years old and lives in Budapest, Hungary. She ice-skates at a near-professional level, and her coach says that she could represent the country at the next Olympic Games. She joined Uncyclopedia to meet hot-hunk American boys, only to discover that this strategy was doomed to failure.
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Slack's real name is Paolo Giacomo. Paolo's parents are Italian, but Paolo was born in Chicago. He currently is the head of the Chicago Mafia, at only 38 years of age. He has been arrested six times, but he dug a tunnel out of every every jail he was imprisoned in, always using the same spoon. He joined Uncyclopedia while trying to think of something illegal to do on the internet.
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Rat's real name is Gregory McCalleigh. Gregory is Irish, and therefore has a collection of four-leaf clovers. He is 14, and a heavy drinker. He goes to "school" and has a regular gig at the laundromat, where the change machine is broken and gives an extra quarter every time; unfortunately Gregory is usually too drunk to realize that American quarters are largely worthless in Ireland. He joined Uncyclopedia at a bar.
Codeine (Nigel)
Reskinned the front page so it got all A's for a school project. Leader of the Online Suicide bomber squad. Is a 47 year old video game programmer. Has a deep relationship with God. Has scaled Mt. Everest. Nigel is a convicted polygamist, and has recently been awarded the CBE for having the most wedding anniversaries, currently 137. During his teens he was in a band no one has ever heard of, including him.
Roger The Bum (Roger)
Roger's real name is Roger.
He would expand this entry, but lacks the resources to do so. Spare a quarter?
Cigaro Cubano (James)
Cigaro Cubano, AKA James the Magnificent, is an ultraconservative asshole and a pre-medical Sophomore from the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets who enjoys a good cigar (duh), imports coffee from around the world, talks to llamas, and does Your Mom every night before he goes to bed. His contributions to Uncyclopedia contain no merit, worth, value, or intrinsic awesomeness, save for the fact that he can really really badly confuse you.
He once submitted the Hitler article to his History teacher and got an A+, after which he promptly fell asleep in class and dreamed about farting on liberals.
He and his friends invented a religion last summer, which they don't really follow, but which is hella funny nonetheless. His favorite brand of cigars is Arturo Fuentes, followed by Padron and those ACME cigars that blow up in your face when Bugs Bunny lights them. He is currently the Chosen Deity of the Southwest, and he eats guns and craps bullets. Cigaro Cubano rules your face off.
emc (Nate)
A rare breed of chinchilla (electrifae chinchillidae coffea arabica), indigenous to Chile in South America.
whats this for? (Fred)
German. Thats all you need to know.
Trar (Isaac)
Trar used to have a long and extremely shitty paragraph here, filled to bursting with non-humor unworthy of Encyclopedia Dramatica. He finally came to his senses, realized how truly UNFUNNY he was, and huffed it with no mercy.
diMario (Cornelis)
diMario's given name is Cornelis van der Decken. He is an old geezer! Previously Master of the Flying Dutchman, a 16th century tall ship with a bad reputation (both the ship and the Captain) he now has retired from the sea and makes a living in software maintenance. His greatest contribution to humanity (besides scaring the bejeesus out of every sailor whome ever went out with the tide since the 16th century) up to date is a rather nifty bug fix in some prettey ancient code where the order of copying HTTP headers from request to reply was reversed. His hobbies include drinking in a social setting and occasionally "sticking me index into a dyke" as he so eloquently describes it himself. He also likes to brag on the #uncylcopedia IRC chan about his imaginary pet grue Wendy. Besides his ship master's certificate, he is also one of the few Dutch bastards that have officially been certified incurably insane.
Insineratehymn (Ethan)
Insineratehymn's real name is Ethan. He is 16 years old, single, and a horny womanizer. Also, he's a lonely and miserable male virgin. He lives in a black fortress on the desolate battlefields of Kansas with his cat, his mother's computer, and a massive supply of caffeine. He loves metal music, and he plays the music really loud on his stereo in order to scare away the children living in the corn fields. He joined Uncyclopedia while spreading the word of another website he attended called Metal Storm.
Emmzee (Graham)
You know that smelly guy who sat next to you in Computer Sciences, who made batch files to DDOS the school and played Quake 3 using the school's Internet, the firewall of which he always managed to get around? Of course you don't, you're too stupid to take Computer Sciences. Anyway, he heard about Uncyclopedia on some newsgroup and was never the same again. He also won't shut up in IRC.
Pongo Version 2 (Rodrigo)
Remember that weird-looking hobo who told you how the aliens are reading your mind and you should wear a tinfoil hat? This guy is slightly more normal than him.
Mahm00shA (Mohamad)
He is Ægyptüsian, but he speak Englandish the very better. He lives in the Palace of Epic Proportions, an underground palace beneath the Pyramid. He is studying Mummyology at the Desert Sands University, the oldest university in the universe. He is currently working on his little side-project, translating Uncyclopedia's featured articles to Hieroglyphs then carving them onto the walls of his tomb.
Guildensternenstein (Edward)
Edward (or Guildensternenstein, as her prefers to be called) is one of Uncyclopedia's great up-and-comers. His knowledge is almost boundless, he turns out featured articles at an alarming rate, and his dick is twelve inches long. He also has the ability to summon midget clones of himself to do his bidding, breathe underwater, and have women paint his nails without seeming gay in the process. Guildensternenstein is better than you, and you should suck his balls.
CheddarBBQ (Giovanni)
Giovanni (also known as John, Don, Chedds, Queso, and Mr. Doritos Man) is the first openly Italian member of the American Uncyclopedia, and as such, has started the Italian movement in Uncyc. Chedds is a certified genius, but to not intimidate fellow Uncyclopedians, he chooses to make very little effort at being productive. Oh, and he likes Doritos and Mountain Dew.
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