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Kodak's instructions assume that you'll make up a stock solution from the concentrate---I forget what the dilution is---and keep that around, diluting it further to make the working solution when you develop. I can't for the life of me work out why they think that; it seems like practically everyone makes the working solution straight from the concentrated syrup.
I'm not sure about the Paterson tank specifically, but 2-roll tanks are usually either 16 oz or 500 ml. You can always measure the capacity by filling it with water and pouring it into your measuring container.
The information at http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/ is more useful than Kodak's instructions, IMHO.
I've always used a water stop with HC-110 (and everything else) and never had a problem. In theory it might not stop development as fast as an acid stop, but I think for most of us the difference is way down in the noise compared to all sorts of other variables. | <urn:uuid:9232175d-2926-4dc6-b8f5-f2f6be1f5646> | http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1443140 | en | 0.955414 | 0.972871 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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6.6 Appending More Text to Variables
Often it is useful to add more text to the value of a variable already defined. You do this with a line containing ‘+=’, like this:
objects += another.o
This takes the value of the variable objects, and adds the text ‘another.o’ to it (preceded by a single space). Thus:
objects = main.o foo.o bar.o utils.o
objects += another.o
sets objects to ‘main.o foo.o bar.o utils.o another.o’.
Using ‘+=’ is similar to:
objects = main.o foo.o bar.o utils.o
objects := $(objects) another.o
When the variable in question has not been defined before, ‘+=’ acts just like normal ‘=’: it defines a recursively-expanded variable. However, when there is a previous definition, exactly what ‘+=’ does depends on what flavor of variable you defined originally. See The Two Flavors of Variables, for an explanation of the two flavors of variables.
When you add to a variable's value with ‘+=’, make acts essentially as if you had included the extra text in the initial definition of the variable. If you defined it first with ‘:=’ or ‘::=’, making it a simply-expanded variable, ‘+=’ adds to that simply-expanded definition, and expands the new text before appending it to the old value just as ‘:=’ does (see Setting Variables, for a full explanation of ‘:=’ or ‘::=’). In fact,
variable := value
variable += more
is exactly equivalent to:
variable := value
variable := $(variable) more
On the other hand, when you use ‘+=’ with a variable that you defined first to be recursively-expanded using plain ‘=’, make does something a bit different. Recall that when you define a recursively-expanded variable, make does not expand the value you set for variable and function references immediately. Instead it stores the text verbatim, and saves these variable and function references to be expanded later, when you refer to the new variable (see The Two Flavors of Variables). When you use ‘+=’ on a recursively-expanded variable, it is this unexpanded text to which make appends the new text you specify.
variable = value
variable += more
is roughly equivalent to:
temp = value
variable = $(temp) more
CFLAGS = $(includes) -O
CFLAGS += -pg # enable profiling
The first line defines the CFLAGS variable with a reference to another variable, includes. (CFLAGS is used by the rules for C compilation; see Catalogue of Implicit Rules.) Using ‘=’ for the definition makes CFLAGS a recursively-expanded variable, meaning ‘$(includes) -O is not expanded when make processes the definition of CFLAGS. Thus, includes need not be defined yet for its value to take effect. It only has to be defined before any reference to CFLAGS. If we tried to append to the value of CFLAGS without using ‘+=’, we might do it like this:
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -pg # enable profiling
This is pretty close, but not quite what we want. Using ‘:=’ redefines CFLAGS as a simply-expanded variable; this means make expands the text ‘$(CFLAGS) -pg before setting the variable. If includes is not yet defined, we get ‘ -O -pg, and a later definition of includes will have no effect. Conversely, by using ‘+=’ we set CFLAGS to the unexpanded value ‘$(includes) -O -pg. Thus we preserve the reference to includes, so if that variable gets defined at any later point, a reference like ‘$(CFLAGS)’ still uses its value. | <urn:uuid:3abbaf88-22d1-4b47-a6b1-d60a47f320f9> | http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Appending.html | en | 0.876002 | 0.703971 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Hard Reset review
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There are at least three reasons not to fight here. All are labelled EXPLOSIVE.
There’s a bit more plot than that, but it’s not worth worrying about. Hard Reset’s story bits, which mostly serve to give you something to look at while the next level loads, are a confusing, barely coherent mass of graphic-novel type scenes that fail miserably at introducing any of its characters, or even explaining why an army of machines is attacking a city named after a lump of hair dug out of the digestive system. Beyond ‘shooting stuff’, I honestly couldn’t tell you what I was doing for most of it, right up to the point where Hard Reset just decides it’s had enough and ends with nothing actually resolved.
Luckily, it’s a much better shooter than storyteller. Members of the team worked on both Bulletstorm and Painkiller, and it shows. Weapons and environmental explosions have terrific weight to them, and enemies attack in hordes of whirling-blade death machines instead of just a couple of tough guys at a time. You spend most of your time circle-strafing and running backwards: cover mostly exists to be blown away by a charging tank and scenery is every bit as deadly to you as the enemies. Ammo is plentiful (and recharges on its own if you run out), as is health. That doesn’t mean you won’t be seeing your own splattery death a lot, however, especially in multi-wave arena fights where you have to ration your pick-ups carefully to survive.
Sometimes your best weapon is a smile. Not here. Here, it's the shotgun.
As good as all this feels, it doesn’t take long to get repetitive. There are very few enemy types, and none of them require any more advanced tactics than dodging a charge or switching to a rocket launcher to hit a boss’s brightly glowing weakpoints. Bar a spectacularly hateful final boss, you feel like you’ve seen it all very early on... and actually will have before very long. On Normal difficulty, I polished off the campaign in a casual afternoon’s play and was left with no incentive to replay it. There aren’t any multiplayer modes, and you’ll have all the weapons you actually want long before the end.
As a one-of-a-kind game, perhaps the nostalgia factor would be enough to compensate. Unfortunately for Hard Reset, it has company from both the original Painkiller and the balls-out cheer of Bulletstorm, with Serious Sam 3 close on its tail. In comparison to any of them, its back-to- basics charm feels firmly in tech-demo territory – albeit really good tech, and with great combat for the short while it actually lasts.
An explosive ride of a game, but limited long-term satisfaction, priced roughly £10 too high for its own good.
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Bad News For Texas Teens Who Want to Shine
Several major schoolboards in Texas have officially banned students from wearing any sort of mouth jewelry, which is a white person way of saying “icy grillz”. Made popular by rapper Paul Wall, and recently sported by the Hulkster’s daughter Brooke Hogan, icy grillz are a classy way for people to improve their smiles by covering all of their teeth with what appears to be precious metals and expensive stones. Not only does the shiny jewelry make your smile sparkle even brighter, it suggests to others that you are financially sucessful enough to wear expensive jewelry in places that people hadn’t even considered possible. Why the Texas schools would elect to outlaw these accessories is a mystery to me. If anything, I think icy grillz would only motivate students to work harder and learn more so that someday they might get a good job and be able to afford dental jewelry of their own. Also, with all the violence in schools these days, icy grillz might be able to protect students should they get punched in the mouth (perhaps by someone who thinks icy grillz are retarded). The good news is even though icy grillz have been outlawed, students are still free to bring the bling by wearing chains, rings, ropes, watches, earrings and canes. Goblets are also acceptable, as long as they’re not filled with crunk juice. | <urn:uuid:88307f8f-3cca-4b49-9d24-dcf234141d57> | http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2006-07-13/bad-news-for-texas-teens-who-want-to-shine/ | en | 0.974587 | 0.333319 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Re: [Linux-cluster] Multicast for GFS?
> Can you explain why this should be INADDR_ANY rather than the local IP address?
i knew i forgot something...
i've been having some trouble with
memcpy(&mreq.imr_interface, he->h_addr, he->h_length);
since it contains my mcast addr instead of real host addr. I'm debugging
it now to see where the error happens...
Temporarly, I've changed it to htonl(INADDR_ANY)...
seems like "temporarly" is a bit streching term for me :)
> You also mentioned in another email that the "cman_tool leave" should issue
> a setsockopt to leave the multicast group, does this not happen automatically
> when the socket is closed?
Actually no. When you close the socket that was a member of Mcast Group,
node does not sent "IGMP leave" message to router, so mcast packets
continue to arrive until router issues "membership refresh" procedure
(which, depending on configuration, is at every 30 seconds).
If node does not confirm it's membership (and it won't since kernel
can't find any socket for the multicast group), mcast path gets pruned
at a router, but stays valid for another 2-3 minutes (also depending on
> If it isn't then cman_tool leave can do this I
> suppose. In the case where the cluster software exits without the help of
> cman_tool it will be fenced anyway so there shoudn't be a problem :-)
That's true for fenced nodes, but it's not a clean solution, so, if it
isn't much of a trouble, I'd really like to have membership drop
implemented before socket gets closed.
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What are the real consequences of never maintaining a circadian rhythm? How is circadian rhythm important for health and function? Where did it arise in evolution?
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A similar question biology.stackexchange.com/q/1113/238 – Gabriel Fair Apr 4 '12 at 12:05
Note that your body maintains a circadian rhythm whether you want it or not! You may perturb it (e.g. by not sleeping or flying in another time zone etc.), but the molecular basis of circadian rhythm is always there (although animal models where is not there anymore do exist). – nico Apr 4 '12 at 16:18
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In theory, having a circadian rhythm should help anticipating daily environmental changes (light, temperature etc.) so that the metabolic performance is maximized.
In practice, mice chronically exposed to environmental light-dark cycles with a period length dramatically shorter or longer than that of their circadian clock are prone to become obese. Moreover, animals kept under short cycles die earlier than mice kept under normal or extended cycles. So, chronic circadian disturbance by a shortened light-dark cycle increases mortality (at least in mice). In humans, shift workers are likely the population that is more susceptible to circadian cycle derangements.
Ref: Park et al., Neurobiol Aging. 2011
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Note that this is probably tied to the fact that most, if not all, of the hormonal system in our body work in a pulsatile way, which is controlled by the circadian clock. – nico Apr 6 '12 at 6:28
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by: L.E. BASKOW, Naomi Montacre feeds worms to the chickens she keeps in a homemade coop in her North Portland front yard. An expert on lead poisoning warns people to be careful that their chickens aren’t injesting lead from old house paint.
Urban chickens: sustainable, locally grown protein or brain damage sunny side up on your child's breakfast plate?
In the Tribune's article 'Urban chickens top green pecking order' (Feb. 12) in Sustainable Life, Portland was cited as the nation's Mecca for urban chickens - a sustainable food source and great urban pet: 'Portland has the highest urban chicken population in the country.'
Are you the owner of urban chickens? Have you noticed how much they like to peck around the drip-line of your house? Have you observed how they eat anything they find in the dirt - including chips of peeling lead paint from your home?
Most urban residential chicken owners are not'connecting the dots,' and since Portlanders are now (apparently) the leader in urban chickendom, it seemed like a good time to voice a relevant concern: about 85 percent of our urban housing stock, especially the houses with yards for chickens, are pre-1978 housing. Most of these had/have lead exterior paint. Even if the home has been repainted, it is extremely unlikely that the contractors always used lead-safe techniques and left your soil 'lead-free.'
A case in point: a lead level for soil considered safe for a child's play area is under 400 parts per million; after the exterior paint was improperly removed from our Irvington home (to prepare it for painting), our soil lead levels spiked to the 3,000 to 5,000 parts per million range - highly contaminated!
The misconception that the main cause of childhood lead poisoning is children eating paint chips (in Oregon, lead poisoning is more commonly caused by children inhaling'invisible'lead dust from remodeling) is rooted in fact: lead tastes sweet, and if chips are present, animals - especially chickens - are drawn to it.
You don't have to see paint chips for your soil to be contaminated.Lead is extremely toxic - it takes only two grams of finely ground lead dust (less than two teaspoons) to heavily contaminate an area the size of a football field.
What about chickens on farms? Barn and farm paint is typically non-lead-based 'milk paint.' Farmers have known for generations that lead paint can kill or sicken their livestock. Most free-range farm chickens and eggs are therefore lead-free.
There have been several studies and scientific articles discussing urban-raised, lead-contaminated chicken and eggs. Please be aware.Get your soil tested (about $20 per test spot), and make sure it is clean/lead-free before eating the eggs of your residential free-range friends.
Don't let chickens peck near your house; keep their pen as far away from any painted structure as possible.Better yet - consider buying locally farmed, organic, free-range eggs from the store and don't risk inadvertently poisoning your own children in the name of personal sustainability.
For a further discussion of this problem and links to related scientific studies, go to www.mychildrenhaveleadpoisoning.com/Site/urbanchickens.html .
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I have a file which consists of following:
A 1
A 2
B 3
B 4
B 5
B 6
C 7
A 8
I want to get all unique keys in first column, but get all corresponding values for that unique key, i.e I need to get:
A 1,2,8
B 3,4,5,6
C 7
What would be the best way to do this?
(I've heard that Perl has good support to solve this, but I'm new to Perl.)
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try this:
open my $fh, '<', "data_filename";
my %map;
while(my $line = <$fh>) {
my ($key, $val) = split(/\s+/, $line);
push @{$map{$key}}, $val;
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Thanks Brad for your time in answering. – Ravishankar Mar 2 '11 at 6:05
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You probably want a hash, where each value in the hash is an array reference.
my %values;
while (<>) {
my ($left, $right) = split(/ /,$_,2);
my $array = $values{$left};
if (!$array) {
$array = [];
$values{$left} = $array;
You can verify that this has produced the correct data structure with Data::Dumper:
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\%values);
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You can't create a list reference, you can however create an array reference. And no, they aren't quite the same thing. – Brad Gilbert Mar 1 '11 at 18:11
Fair enough (fixed) – Adam Batkin Mar 1 '11 at 18:14
I think you mean if (!$array)... but in general, this type of coding is not necessary due to Perl's autovivification of container types. You could replace every line of the while loop below the split with push @{$values{$left}}, $right as erickb's example shows. – Eric Strom Mar 1 '11 at 20:13
Thanks Adam for your time in answering this. – Ravishankar Mar 2 '11 at 6:05
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This is just another possible solution for the sake of completeness. In this case, the hash stores a the key and a string containing your values.
use warnings;
use strict;
my %hash = ();
open (FILE, "input.txt") or die "";
(my $key, my $value) = split;
$value = ",".$value if exists $hash{$key};
$hash{$key}.= $value;
foreach my $key (sort keys %hash){
print "$key $hash{$key}\n";
As always, there's more than one way to do it.
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Thanks a lot Cooper. – Ravishankar Mar 2 '11 at 5:58
This also wouldn't put the numbers in order though, so obviously if order is important use the anonymous array within a hash implementation. – Cooper Mar 2 '11 at 6:17
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Seems like the slow Tomcat 7 startup problem can be resolved with "metadata-complete" set to "true" in the web.xml, like so:
<web-app metadata-complete="true" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"...
The problem is that Tomcat scans for annotations at startup, and this significantly slows it down. My time is cut down from 25 secs to 5 secs. (More info here: Tomcat and Servlet 3.0 Web Configuration)
However, I have some annotations in my code, like:
I am confused - will my code work after I have set metadata-complete="true"? Do I have to remove annotations and move everything into web.xml?
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The slow startup is caused because every single class file in every single JAR file in /WEB-INF/lib is also scanned for Servlet 3.0 specific annotations. You apparently have a lot of (large) JAR files in /WEB-INF/lib.
The metadata-complete="true" indicates that the JAR files in /WEB-INF/lib doesn't need to be scanned for Servlet 3.0 specific annotations, but the webapp's own classes will still be scanned.
Note that you listed there two JSF annotations and one Java SE annotation, not any Servlet 3.0 annotations. The Servlet 3.0 annotations are listed in the javax.servlet.annotation package. JSF will only scan for annotations when the JAR file contains a JSF 2.0 compatible /META-INF/faces-config.xml file. It won't immediately scan every single class in every JAR file. The Java SE @Override annotation is not a runtime annotation, but a compile-time aid only.
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Very usefull answer, thanks! – Danijel Mar 22 '12 at 10:52
You're welcome. – BalusC Mar 22 '12 at 10:53
Thanks a lot – had missed the part that only JAR files are not scanned for annotations (till now thought that metadata-complete="true" affects web application's classes, too). – Tomas R Nov 18 '12 at 18:51
This just reduced my startup by 50%, from ~110 to ~55. Why is it false by default? Are there any collateral effects I might be overlooking? @Danijel How did this work out for you? – mattblang Apr 9 '13 at 16:05
@mattblang: JSF artifacts in (custom) tag/component libraries won't be auto-registered anymore. You'd need to explicitly register them yourselves where applicable. – BalusC Apr 9 '13 at 16:06
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Italy Slowly Becoming Greece 2.0
It looks like Europe has finally drawn a line in the sand for bailouts. Just on the other side of that line is Italy.
According to Reuters, Europe has no plans at this time to rescue Italy, despite the fact that Italy's debt costs have risen above the level where they could reasonably be expected to pay them. Some economists have warned that Italy could default on their loans if some sort of restructuring or lifeline is not extended.
In other words: If you think Greece is bad, you're going to love Italy going down like the Titanic.
The biggest challenge for Italy is the size of their debt and the confidence-shaken markets. It's a classic case of debt-holders panicking when they should be confident, and demanding higher interest rates when they should be negotiating better terms.
The main assistance agency in Europe for countries at this stage of trouble is the European Financial Stability Facility. The EFSF steps in to offer proactive (rather than reactive) credit lines to nations that find themselves cut off from normal credit means. In Italy's case, the sovereign debt market has taken such a hit that borrowing costs have risen to approximately 7 percent on loans. This number is not something Italy can live with.
We have already seen Ireland and Portugal seek protection from the EFSF under similar circumstances. Unfortunately for Italy, Ireland and Portugal are much smaller economies with smaller debts. Simply put, the EFSF isn't designed for as large a failure as Italy would be, and they don't have the funds to help Italy out.
At this point, Italy has two paths forward to remain solvent. One, it can convince its creditors that it is solvent, and receive lower borrowing costs to repay their current and future obligations. This could involve some political maneuvering, which might be difficult with the Berlusconi government falling apart this week.
Two, Italy can appeal to the European Central Bank to step in, much like how the Federal Reserve might step in for the United States. The ECB could expand its balance sheet, again like the Fed does, and buy up Italian bonds. This would drive the costs down for Italy and keep the nation solvent.
As of now, there has been one round of purchases, but no definite, concrete agreement has been reached between Italy and the ECB. Hopefully, they are simply waiting for the dust to settle on the internal political situation in Italy before making a decision. Anything short of assistance from the ECB would mean one thing: Italy would be the new Greece, but larger and more damaging to world markets.
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By dgingerich on 10/14/2012 9:57:16 AM , Rating: 2
The biggest problem I have with Best Buy is them having things in stock. I go in, look for what I want, and it's not there 9 times out of 10. They need to fix that first and foremost.
The second problem is that the layout is confusing. I can appreciate having certain high value/ low profit departments in the back and the low value/ high profit sections up front. I get that. What I don't like is the way they've laid out their stores to be a maze of low priced garbage that I can't even find my way over to the computer department.
The last one is selection. There just isn't the selection there used to be back when I used to work there. The last one I went to, near Park Meadows shopping center in Colorado, had half a dozen laptops, not counting the Macs, and none of them were worth anything. They were all using Intel integrated graphics. They had all of two external hard drives, at 500GB and 640GB, neither USB 3.0. Everything was out of date, low powered, slow, general consumer garbage. Perfect for the idiot masses, but noting of substance. In the movie department, they had reduced it to 3 aisles. It was actually smaller than Target's movie department. Their music department was down to one aisle. That really confused me. Their music and movie department was more than half the store when I worked there. Now it's down to a footnote.
Until they fix these things, I won't be shopping there again.
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The Last of Us Story Review: Stealthy Cinematic Survival HorrorJune 19, 2013 by
It's very rare that I ever like any small child from any game.
Tess is your average Boston woman. Tough, mean, and likely to break your legs at any given moment.
Damn, this game is beautiful.
Don't worry Ellie, sniper perches have infinite ammo.
The first thing I really appreciated was how, even though it is a zombie apocalypse, people are still able to change clothes on a semi-regular basis. They didn't have to change up the character's clothes every season, but I'm glad they did. It adds a great deal of variety to the game.
Joel really needs a cowboy hat.
Ellie is the new Lara Croft.
Ellie is legit badass.
I hear the hazing here is pretty bad.
Dat beard.
Not everything is so black and white in The Last of Us.
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How The Walking Dead Succeeds Where Heavy Rain FailedMarch 26, 2013 by
For me, Heavy Rain was a botched attempt at real emotional storytelling. It's mindless inane plot, coupled with its abysmally bad voice acting undermined its sensationalist attempts at tugging at heartstrings. However, when I play The Walking Dead: The Game, I can't help but feel like it's essentially just Heavy Rain done right. Okay, that sort of minimises both games, but it's still not far from the truth.
What are you willing to do to save someone you love?
At first glance, both games feature a similar story, with one overall goal: protect the child in your charge. This is both the player and character's motivation, and if those don't match up perfectly, you get a disconnect. Whilst both stories feature everyman protagonists, I never really felt like I was Ethan Mars, or any of the other playable characters. When I played The Walking Dead: The Game on the other hand, I felt like I really was the main character. This isn't because I could relate to him, or that we were a lot alike, though both of those things are true to some extent. No, the reason I could project myself unto Lee Everett and not Ethan Mars was because I cared more about his plight. For the duration of the plot, we had a singular common goal, a shared motivation. Even though the final episode has the same basic premise as Heavy Rain, I was much more invested than I ever was trying to save Shaun. In fact, both episodes have scenes in which the child goes missing, and the protagonist searches for them as they call out their name. One had me genuinely frightened. The other made me laugh at what would eventually become an annoying meme.
Making someone care about fictitious characters is an uphill battle. It doesn't matter that they're children, and that they're innocent. You have to create a very real character for me to believe in. The reader, the audience, the player, the whatever, are there to enjoy the plot you crafted. You have to show them a good time. At no point does the player have any kind of obligation to feel anything for your characters. That's exactly what if felt like with Heavy Rain: an obligation. I was saving Shaun because I had to, not because I wanted to. In both cases, I must save them (or try to, at least) in order for the story to progress, but with Clementine, I wanted to save her. I was so immersed in the story, I forgot there was one. For my brief time with The Walking Dead: The Game, I was the main character, and all I wanted was to keep Clementine safe. Even though the set-up for both games is very much the same, I didn't feel anything for Shaun, because Clementine was an actual character, whereas Shaun was merely a MacGuffin, an object to drive the narrative forward.
Anything for Clem.
Portrayal and Motivation
A big part of this is how each child character is portrayed. Shaun's scene in "Father and Son" is actually a pretty decent portrayal of a depressed child and an estranged father. At least, it was when Shaun wasn't saying anything. Silence can be louder and more profound than any statement. This is especially true when you can't get a proper voice actor. Here's the thing: child actors suck. For every Haley Joel Osment, there's a thousand Jake Lloyds. This is a difficult hurdle in cinema, but not in animation. Even if the writing in The Walking Dead: The Game was as bad as Heavy Rain's, Clementine would still be more bearable, because she's voiced by an actual actress. You know, one who can act? Max Renaudin (Shaun) and Taylor Gasman (Jason) play all four child characters in Heavy Rain, and they're easily the worst out of the entire cast. I'm not exactly a huge fan on France, but their nationality isn't what bothers me. Well, technically it is. Child actors are usually pretty bad; that's obvious. It's hard enough for them to naturally act in their native tongue. Whilst fine actors in their own right, Leon Ockenden and Pascal Langdale couldn't handle faking an American accent. What makes you think a child can do it? The result is utterly disastrous and immersion-breaking. I can't believe anything Max is saying, because he's clearly not able to do an American accent. It's completely unnatural. They needed to hire an actual American for the job, or a better actor.
Clementine is the polar opposite of this. Easily giving the best and most convincing performance of the year, Melissa Hutchison easily won the "Best Performance By a Human Female" VGA award in 2013. Largely in part to the game's stylised graphic novel art style, Melissa Hutchison could slip in and make us believe she was a child in danger, in need of saving. She doesn't have a distracting French accent that makes her sound like a monster. She's a real human being, one who was able to make me weep like a little girl. The only real distraction was that nagging reminder that Clementine is Marty McFly's grandmother.
To be fair, both performances had me in tears. Thing is, the ones from Heavy Rain were from laughter.
A British father with a French son? No wonder his wife left him.
Writing and Characterisation
No game is perfect, but The Walking Dead: The Game comes pretty close. In terms of writing and plot progression, it's clearly superior to Heavy Rain. Instead of paper thin clichés, the former gave us real people, with believable motivations and actions. Heavy Rain was a story that was clearly trying to hard. It shot for the stars and burnt up in the atmosphere. It wanted to be a masterpiece, but ended up being a mediocre melodrama that would have failed entirely in any other medium. It's only saving grace is that it's a video game, because as a novel or movie, it would have fell flat.
The Waking Dead: The Game on the other hand, takes the story from another medium and showed the world what video games can do. It's a testament to the power of pathos and storytelling. Heavy Rain is a clunky combination of clichés and ham-fisted sensationalism. It desperately wants you to pay attention to it's "emotional" storytelling, but forgets to tell an actual story. It only ever uses "emotion" as a buzzword, whereas The Walking Dead actually delivers. It's subtle, powerful, simple, and sensible. It's delivery is completely natural.
One of the best climaxes in video game history.
This is most evident in the climax of both games. Both stories feature a mysterious antagonist. The execution for the reveal of the Origami Killer however, is completely botched. No, it's worse than botched. It's just insulting. This twist feels like it's there for its own sake, just because the writer wanted a Shyamalanian twist at the end. Of course, this completely conflicts with the character's motivations and actions. You simply can't have a mechanic that allows you to read the minds of characters and have a playable antagonist without telling us they're the antagonist. There would be nothing wrong if it was revealed early on that Scott Shelby is the Origami Killer. However, instead of dramatic irony, we're stuck with just drama.
With The Walking Dead, we get a much simpler, more realistic reveal. The Stranger is just some guy. He's no one special, just a regular everyman like Lee, trying to get by. His life was torn apart (literally), and he had only himself to blame. He's a walking tragedy turned madman. He's a complete psychopath. Unlike Shelby, his motivations are straightforward, his actions consistent. If The Walking Dead: The Game was written by David Cage, Kenny would have turned out to be the guy who kidnapped Clementine, and you'd still meet him at the climax.
Heavy Rain made me burst into laughter. The Walking Dead: The Game made me burst into tears. The former wanted to move the medium forward, but it was the forgiving nature of a relatively young medium that ended up saving it. The latter however, actually did, because of its subtlety. It wasn't trying hard to be something it's not. It helped bring the adventure game genre back from the dead, and showed everyone the potential of the medium. Therein lies the difference between these two games; one had potential, the other embraced it.
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THEATER REVIEW; Radiance, Rebellion and Trust
Published: May 2, 1999
CONSIDER a distressing question facing the habitual theatergoer. Does a deadening production of a great living play deserve to be called valiant, or even ambitious, just because it's there?
Athol Fugard's radiant ''Road to Mecca'' is rendered a disservice by the director Margo Whitcomb in the pedestrian production at the Centenary Stage Company here. The play concerns a glowing friendship -- and its defining element, trust -- between Miss Helen, a radiant older woman with the soul of an artist, and Elsa, a young schoolteacher with a rebel's spirit.
Miss Helen (Frances Peter) is an apolitical character, unusual for a play Mr. Fugard wrote during apartheid. Elsa (Kristin Ketterer) is not. Without two impassioned performances, their first act confrontation can be long-winded. In this production, which amounts to hardly more than a flat recitation and is not quite up to the level of a staged reading, it is unbearable, or pretty near.
Miss Helen, in failing health, is frightened. Elsa speaks up for her resilience. Marius (J. C. Hoyt), a rigid minister, is trying to move Miss Helen to ''a Sunshine Home for the Aged'' and get her to sign her life away.
Given the attention centered on reconciliation and amnesty in the post-apartheid era, it is especially important to give pertinence and immediacy to the plays Mr. Fugard wrote during oppressive times, whether or not they deal overtly with atrocities -- and ''Mecca'' does, implicitly as well as metaphorically. Elsa, facing disciplinary action for speaking out on racial inequality, teaches in a ''coloured school.'' Miss Helen encourages her to tell ''little white lies'' for her own good.
The actors give line readings rather than performances; the setting is hardly the ''extraordinary room by virtue of the attempt to use as much light and color as is humanly possibly'' that Mr. Fugard described in the stage directions.
To the distressing question, the answer is: no way.
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What do all inmates have? Time. It's what they do with it that matters. With that time, they can reflect on their lives and improve themselves to not make those bad choices anymore. They can also read, and exercise. This stucture is basically forced upon them because there's not much else to do, and many times, the things that are forced upon us we grow to resent. so upon release, that strcture many times isn't maintained by that individual... The only way to succeed is to learn to adopt that structure for oursleves. When we take the time to read, exercise and reflect on our lives, we instantly become better and improve our odds of success in any field.
When studying to become, say, a doctor there's a certain isolation from everyday things that you have to endure because this process takes up so much time. With that isolation, you are in fact an inmate, in a good way. The "prison" structure has been placed upon you. You don't completly live in isolation, even people in prison have contact with other inmates and get visits from family, but you do want to have this stucture, and when you do, your mind becomes the prison guard that keeps you from bad choices, and propels you to the successful completion of your goals.
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UNITED AIRLINES cannot seem to get its computers to work properly. In March the airline drew widespread criticism (including from this blog) for computer difficulties that led to delays and cancelled flights. Those problems were attributed to United's messy merger with Continental Airlines. In June a "network connectivity" issue resulted in many more cancellations. On Thursday, just before one of the busiest American travel times of the year (the week of the Thanksgiving holiday), United had computer problems again. The Chicago Tribune reports:
The latest glitch involved the dispatch system software that enables Chicago-based United to communicate with airplanes before departure, delivering information on the plane's weight and balance, number of passengers and baggage, said United spokesman Charlie Hobart.... The outage occurred from about 7.30 to 9.30am Thursday and resulted in 257 delays directly attributable to the outage and more through the day, along with about 10 cancellations.
"It is flat-out unacceptable," said Henry Harteveldt, co-founder of Atmosphere Research Group. "This makes United a laughing stock among airlines."
He said airline computer systems are complex and Thursday's problem might be a one-time issue, but the repeated failures are not only embarrassing for United, they "undermine trust in the airline" and "demoralise employees."
"There are clearly failures in the airline's strategy and the airline's execution, and heads need to roll," he said. "United's (chief information officer) should resign or be dismissed."
It's always prudent to wait for all the facts to come out before calling for people to lose their jobs. But something is clearly amiss at United, and the airline desperately needs to get its IT act together. Top leadership at United must have known that their customers and the press would be watching them closely after earlier IT mishaps. That they still couldn't keep their systems online (or have adequate back-ups available) is damning, and it's no surprise that some analysts are calling for C-suite firings.
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i have an object 2/19/2011 12:00:00 AM. i want to convert this object to 19/2/2011. please give me the most possible answers
convert datetime to string format.
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Is it object a DateTime? By convert, you mean you want a string formatted? How do you define the "the most possible answers"? – The Scrum Meister Feb 19 '11 at 10:02
Do you want string formatting, or do you want just the date? – Jean Hominal Feb 19 '11 at 10:04
Please make your question much, much clearer. Read tinyurl.com/so-hints – Jon Skeet Feb 19 '11 at 10:05
I'm really not a person to complain about laziness (I'm myself lazy way too often), but this is clearly a case of not looking before asking, just look at how many related questions exist, with even the exact same date format string (and I have no doubt that this is what aswathi is after) – ntziolis Feb 19 '11 at 10:09
I think she meant "Best possible method" – Ananth Feb 19 '11 at 13:13
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DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(yourObject.ToString(), "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string s = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy");
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what about if user enter any format. like 14 jan 1988 – SANDEEP Sep 4 '13 at 6:12
Sandeep, then you'll have to use the DateTime.TryParse() method. – MCattle Sep 9 '13 at 15:04
First of all, you don't convert a DateTime object to some format, you display it in some format.
Given an instance of a DateTime object, you can get a formatted string in that way like this:
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 2, 19);
string formatted = date.ToString("dd/M/yyyy");
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As everyone else said, but remember CultureInfo.InvariantCulture!
string s = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
OR escape the '/'.
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What is the purpose of InvariantCulture here? – user166390 Feb 19 '11 at 10:17
Not all the cultures use the / as a date separator. Some write dd-MM-yyyy. The framework converts the / in your format string to the date separator of the current culture (current at the time of execution). But you want to always use the / separator. The second option (OR escape...) is to "escape" the /, so that ToString doesn't consider it as a date separator but as a "fixed" char. You escape with '\', so it would be @"dd\/M\/yyyy" (the @ is because otherwhise you would have to escape the \, so "dd\\/M\\/yyyy"). All of them are quite unreadable, so it's better to fix the CultureInfo. – xanatos Feb 19 '11 at 10:21
Here is a method, that takes datetime(format:01-01-2012 12:00:00) and returns string(format: 01-01-2012)
public static string GetDateFromDateTime(DateTime datevalue){
return datevalue.ToShortDateString();
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It's simple--tostring() accepts a parameter with this format...
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DateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") may give the date in dd-MM-yyyy format. This depends on your short date format. If short date format is not as per format, we have to replace character '-' with '/' as below:
date = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy").Replace('-','/');
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If you want the string use -
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You can use the ToString() method, if you want a string representation of your date, with the correct formatting.
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 02, 19);
string strDate = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
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What's the highest PSU wattage I can go for an Intel D865PERL motherboard (Pentium 4)?
I have an Intel D865PERL motherboard: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d865perl/
with the following processor: Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz, 2.79 GHz, 1.00GB RAM
I only have a 300W PSU and I clearly need more, because the video card says so.
Is it safe for me to upgrade to a 550W PSU? (Or, what's the highest PSU I can go for?) Won't it fry my motherboard? I normally leave my machine on for months.
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The wattage of your power supply indicates the power load it can supply. It does not mean there is more current running through your motherboard. You can put any standard PC power supply into that system.
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There is no upper limit on the wattage of the power supply which your system can use other than defined by chassis physical dimensional (mechanical) requirements. A power supply will only deliver the current pulled by the system and will not "push" high current through the system.
One thing to keep in mind is many power supplies are inefficient at a light load. For example, if you get a 1kW supply and are only pulling 250W (25% load), it could be 60-70% efficient and actually waste more power than an appropriately sized one. One way to avoid this is to get an 80 PLUS rated power supply which requires the PSU to be >= 80% at light, middle and heavy loads.
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• Audio Rating: A
• Video Rating: A+
• Packaging Rating: B+
• Menus Rating: B+
• Extras Rating: B-
• Age Rating: 13 and Up
• Released By: Bandai Entertainment
• MSRP: 49.99
• Running time: 50
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Disc Resolution: 1080p
• Disc Encoding: H.264/AVC
• Series: Gundam Unicorn
Gundam Unicorn Vol. #1
Gundam Unicorn Vol. #1 Blu-ray Review
By Chris Beveridge March 12, 2010
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Gundam Unicorn Vol. #1
Gundam returns to the Universal Century to adapt the light novels of the same name with breathtaking animation.
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The Review!
Gundam Unicorn does it right out of the gate by providing a great bilingual presentation with both tracks in Dolby TrueHD 5.1. The feature makes great use of its audio presentation immerse you into the feature with a lot of directionality going on in key sequences but also some exceptionally well done work with the forward soundstage. The placement and sense of depth is very solid here where it makes the whole thing even more alive than you'd expect. We played with both language tracks and other than the usual differences in dialogue recording levels that are sometimes apparent, both mixes are fantastic and capture the feel of the show wonderfully. Though it isn't to the same level as some theatrical presentations, the work here is just right for this show. In addition to the two TrueHD tracks, both languages also get done in Dolby Digital 5.1 encoded at 640kbps and providing that showcases very clearly the differences between lossy and lossless.
Originally release in 2010, the transfer for this OVA is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 in 1080 using the AVC codec. Bandai Visual has done some stellar work here that's reminiscent of what we used to see when Honneamise released here with a high bitrate consistently in the mid 30's that gives us a beautiful presentation. The show is a marquee niche title for Bandai as the UC timeline doesn't have quite the allure it used to be they have not skimped in the slightest here which results in a fascinatingly beautiful show that is lush, detailed and amazingly vibrant. Some releases deserve the hyperbole when it comes to how they look and Gundam Unicorn is definitely one of them as it's pure showcase material.
Gundam Unicorn comes in a standard Blu-ray case which works well with the artwork here that helps tie it together with the color scheme. The cover artwork itself is a familiar thing with a split screen that has character artwork on one side, this time with Banagher and Audrey, while the other side has the Unicorn mobile suit and the head of the Vist family. There's a good contrast with one side being light and the other dark that plays well to the approach of both of them. The back cover is reminiscent of other Japanese releases I've had where it has a whole lot of text, the summary itself which is a bit lengthy as well sa the various production credits and technical information sections, along with a number of decent shots from the show itself. The background image of the golden mobile suit doesn't work too well and the cover looks far too busy, but they provide so much useful information, especially in the technical section, that I can't help but be happy. There isn't any reversible artwork here nor any show related inserts though we do get the standard Bandai Visual sheet on what BD-Live is and how it works.
Being a worldwide release, the first screen we get is a shot of the space station against the Earth with a selection of which language you want. Depending on your choice, you get a different set of screens before coming to the main menu. If you choose Japanese, you get a skippable Honneamise logo and that's it. If you choose English, you get locked out FBI warnings and content warnings before the Honneamise logo and then the main menu.
Like most releases, the top level menu and pop up menu shares a lot of the same design elements. The menu has a great looking cockpit feeling as we see the screen as if we're looking at the stars with access points in front of us. Strangely, the top menu button won't take you here, you have to use the pop up menu and then select the main menu. Selections are standard and clean with the play, scene access and setup menus that are easy to navigate (especially if you selected English at the start!). In addition to that we gt the BD-Live menu and the credits menu along with a restart the movie selection. The menu has a good two minute loop with instrumental music that builds up the cockpit view and then closes it down at the end. When in the pop-up mode, you only get the scene access and setup submenus along withan option to go to the main menu or close the pop-up menu. These are nicely in theme and they feel like they fit well and flow with the content itself. Having the pop up menu up during playback is even pretty nice.
The only thing you could classify as an extra on here is a breakdown of the staff and production credits that's found accessed from the main menu. All the things you might consider extras are part of the BD-Live side of the release.
Online Content:
The BD-Live section of the release is laid out in a fairly expected Gundam-esque design and considering it's tapping servers in Japan through the client, it doesn't do too badly but it is slower than one would like. The release has several things available on it that you can download and play through the menus though I don't think any of it is of any size that would impact the release if they were included on the actual disc, which I do favor.
The special contents section has several pieces that are pretty nice though some definitely seem familiar. The amusing one that kicks it off is a notice for episode two, which tells us is coming in autumn of 2010, and you can download this single static screen that runs for 12 seconds. Also available for download are about twelve minutes worth of promotional clips of the show that vary in length and do a pretty decent job of highlighting some of the good moments of the first episode. Also incldued is a pair of TV commercials that announced the release of this. All of these extras are in high definition 1080p.
Of note, and I do like this, is that there's a good selection of Bandai titles in their trailers menu that kicks off with the Gundam 00 movie that's due out in 2010. Along with other trailers, such as My-Hime and My-Otome, I do hope in the future that they provide these in subtitle form as well if they're going to promote international worldwide releases like Gundam Unicorn. You've got us watching, at least make sure we can understand it. The other trailers included are for Tales of Vesperia: First Strike and the VOTOMS OVA series release. The cute part? You can only see these if you start off the show by selecting Japanese at the three language start up screen as they're really meant just for Japanese audiences.
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is a planned six episode OVA series based on the ten volume light novel series by Harutoshi Fukui. This release, which has the first episode, is a rarity in the anime world as it's a worldwide simultaneous release of a new property with distribution done by Amazon in the US as well as having an English language dub made for it upon release. We've seen a couple of near-release dubs done in the past but this one hits a number of different things happening at the same time. More importantly though, at least in my book, is that this series takes us back to the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam universe.
The original Gundam series with its One Year War storyline taking place in UC 79 was a big event in the anime world that led to a lot of changes with mecha series. It was followed up with a number of other shows in the timeline, such as 0080, 0083, the Zeta Gundam series and the theatrical movies of Char's Counterattack and Gundam F-91. Add in the CG show done a few years ago that played in the One Year War time period and there's a lot of very good material done for this while still having an immense amount of potential still open for other writers and creators. While Sunrise has focused a lot on essentially rebooting the franchise every couple of years with a new series to key in to current trends, Gundam Unicorn is made more for fans of the original work as it plays not only to that timeline but also the character designs and even the mecha designs. Everything here feels like an organic progression of the previous works.
Taking place in UC 0096, Gundam Unicorn first flashes us back to the end of the A.D. time period as the Universal Century is about to begin under a united world. The future is past for those who have watched the previous incarnations and we can understand how the Earth Federation didn't carry through on their promise as well as the issues surrounding the Spacenoids who wanted independence from Earth and its grip. The events of the previous series are given some lip service, important mentions here and there, but it's largely relegated to the history books. The kids that dominate this show have little connection to the One Year War. As an instructor at Anaheim Electronics Industrial College points out, that war started and finished a year before they were born. It has an influence on their lives but it doesn't dominate it. It's simply something that happened. But for the adults, events from then are still very much in play and various factions and actors are working to see that their beliefs and plans are followed through on. Thankfully, we don't really see anyone from the previous titles though there are one or two really neat little mentions of important characters.
While Gundam Unicorn takes place in 0096, an event from 0001 is key here as we see the destruction of a space station and the survival of a man involved with it who is now still alive that has dealings with something called the Laplace Box. This mysterious Box, which may not even be a box, is being transferred to a group called the Sleeves that has plans for it that could lead to war. The current guardians of the Laplace Box is the Vist family which operates the Vist Foundation that operates in secret on one of the colonies. The mansion is in fact quite fascinating as it's hidden at the tail end of a colony where nobody would normally see it. It's in here that the head of the Vist family orchestrates his plans with a new mobile suit called the Gundam Unicorn, a new kind of Gundam that seems incredibly powerful and agile. The head of the family, Cardeas Vist, has an interesting meeting not long into this episode that changes his plans for the future.
With the Sleeves coming to the colony to gain the Laplace Box, there are those among them that believe that such an item should not come into their possession. For Gundam Unicorn, this is a young woman known as Audrey Burne who has come to try and dissuade Vist from allowing the Box to fall into the Sleeves hands. Her attempt doesn't go well as she tries to sneak through the colony and she ends up in a near zero-g death spiral where she's rescued by high school student Banagher Links, a very talented young man who can use a mini mobile suit with great skill. It's quickly apparent that Banagher is a NewType, though the term isn't what it used to be as more people have believed that people called that are merely ace pilots, so it's lost its mystique as being an evolutionary step. Banagher becomes fascinated with Audrey, much to the dismay of his friend Micott who has a crush on him, and he finds himself now willing to do anything (along with his Haro replica) to help Audrey. His resolve is even stronger after he sees the people that are after Audrey that give off a creepy feeling to him.
Unsurprisingly, with this being the first hour of what's essentially a six hour story, Gundam Unicorn is all about the setup. There's a lot of material here that's working to explain the modern world and its foundations while laying out the ideas as to why people will be fighting to change it in order to either fix what went wrong or to protect what they believe is right. Some things are explained well enough while others aren't given all that much detail since the assumption is that this is aimed more towards existing fans rather than acquiring new ones. Watching this with someone who had seen no Gundam at all before, it was interesting to see that a lot of it made sense but other things would have been nice to have been expanded on, such as the colonies and some of the political make-up. Much of what we get here though is a rough introduction of the sides that are going to be involved, but even there it's kind of weak as we're thrown into this as an ongoing story that we've stepped into.
In terms of animation and design, Gundam Unicorn has completely blown me away. It's rich, it's detailed, it has a very distinct look that takes the original concepts and makes them highly realistic (outside of the mobile suits which have always been iffy in a lot of ways) and it treats it all with a theatrical level of animation. The character designs have an old school feeling to them with the softer and rounder faces for the kids while making sure the adults are sharper and duller in color. The mecha designs are great with a good level of detail and a fluidity to their movements that makes the battles extremely engaging. They've adapted a lot of things from the other shows in terms of how the mobile suits operate internally and with some of their weapons, but it's a progression that fits and adds to the overall Universal Century timeline. After watching this episode the first, second and third time, I have to say just from the animation quality alone in high definition, this release is worth every single penny.
In Summary:
Having watched all of the Gundam that's been released in the US and not being particularly enamored with the alternate universes created over the years, Gundam Unicorn is a return to the Real Gundam for me. The story here is still dealing with all the rough edges and the kind of less than clear storytelling that we do get from a Gundam show as it introduces lots of characters and toys with what it might be about. It plays brutally with death happening often, showing that nobody is really safe. We don't have any colonies being dropped or outright destroyed this time around so that's a plus but we're definitely in a world where it's not safe and war has arrived once again. Gundam Unicorn features some stunningly beautiful designs, from the characters and mecha to the world itself as we see the interiors of the colony and how its built. With the next installment due out in the autumn of 2010, it can't come fast enough. If only Bandai could get us the light novels here as well.
Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Language, Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Language, English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Language, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Language, English Subtitles, Japanese Subtitles, French Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles, Chinese Subtitles
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METR0lD 3/13/2010 2:02:40 PM
I have no interest in this. Bandai's asking price for it is outrageous. And I've never seen the original Gundam series anyway.
Puck85 3/14/2010 9:54:09 PM
Well METROID this is aimed more at the UC Gundam fanbase. So obiously people like yourself who have no interest in Gundam or that are just casual fans of the series won't be buying.
Chris Beveridge 3/17/2010 1:28:14 PM
looks like it sold 56,000 copies in Japan, and whatever it sold here is gravy, so it works out nicely for the fans.
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Building firms involved in blacklisting workers to be barred from Welsh public sector contracts
Public sector bodies in Wales will be able to exclude companies known to have put workers on a blacklist from bidding for contracts
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Not acceptable: Jane Hutt
Building firms involved in blacklisting workers will be barred from £4.3billion worth of public sector contracts.
Unions described the move by the Welsh Assembly as a “game-changer”.
Jane Hutt, Finance Minister, said: “Under no circumstances is it acceptable for any business in receipt of public procurement expenditure to use blacklists.”
A database was found with more than 3,000 names. It is suspected they were listed for union activism or raising health and safety issues.
An Assembly spokesman said it would be considered on a “case by case” basis.
Firms that had blacklisted but no longer did and had issued a public statement would be allowed to tender.
GMB national officer Justin Bowden said: "This fantastic announcement by the Welsh Government is a game-changer.
"The next stage is to see this rolled out by national and local government across the UK and blacklist the blacklisters from the public contracts they crave."
Steve Murphy, general secretary of the building workers union Ucatt, said: "This is a massive step forward in the campaign for justice for blacklisted workers.
"The construction companies involved in blacklisting must understand this issue won't go away until they pay compensation to the workers they blacklisted."
Unite Wales Secretary Andy Richards said: "The Welsh Government's action is to be commended.
"We urge other governments across the UK to follow suit in bringing in tougher laws to call time on blacklisting everywhere."
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Back in 1970, Sanyo envisioned a future where manual bathing was obsolete and head-washing was (apparently) optional. At the World Expo in Osaka, Sanyo unveiled their plan in the form of the Ultrasonic Bath.
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The problem is Darwin's libiconv does not have symbols for libiconv_<name>
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Mapping the Psyche Vol. II
An Introduction to Psychological Astrology, by Clare Martin
Volume II: The Planetary Aspects and the Houses of the Horoscope
The personal nature of the nodal axis
Although the signs describe our collective, inherited nodal axis imbalance, it is the houses in which the Nodes are found, and the planetary rulers of the Nodes, which describe our personal relationship to this axis and our personal experience of the liminal realms. This will, of course, be different for each of us. In addition to the collective dimension of the otherworlds, there is also a long tradition that each one of us is attached at birth to an individual daemon which is uniquely interested in our personal destiny. In our own charts, we could even imagine that the nodal axis is our individual threshold between this and other worlds, presided over by our own personal guides, mentors, teachers, ancestors, messengers, guardian angels, and daemons.
Audience: This reminds me of the Philip Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials, in which everyone is attached to their own personal daemon.
Clare: Exactly, and this is by no means a new idea. You can find this in the Myth of Er in Plato's Republic. In this myth, Plato describes how the soul of each of us is given a unique daemon before we are born, which selects the image and pattern which we are to live on the earth. This sounds exactly like the birth chart, doesn't it? Our soul's companion guides us toward birth, but in the process of our arrival we forget all that, and believe instead that we are alone in the world. It is said that our daemon remembers our image and our pattern and is therefore the carrier of our destiny.
I am approaching the nodal axis as a threshold between the worlds, populated by a host of intermediaries from the anima mundi which remember, when we forget, what on earth we are doing here. This explains why the nodal axis is so strongly associated with significant meetings with people who may challenge us, appear to thwart us, or who function as messengers, guides or teachers, helping us, and sometimes forcing us, to cross thresholds which would otherwise never occur to us, or which we are afraid to cross without some kind of help, guidance or encouragement. Reinhold Ebertin also found that there are often strong nodal links between partners and in families.[8] It is perhaps not surprising that people with whom we are in close relationship are also the agents of our personal destiny.
Why is it so difficult to imagine that I am cared about, that something takes an interest in what I do, that I am perhaps protected, maybe even kept alive not altogether by my own will and doing? Once upon a time what took such good care of me was a guardian spirit and I knew how to pay it appropriate attention. Why not keep within psychology proper what once was called providence - being invisibly watched and watched over?[9]
The influences from the otherworlds remain shadowy, but they are experienced in our intuitions, in our imagination, and in fleeting glimpses. No doubt we have all had the feeling, at different times in our lives, that we are being blocked from taking a particular decision or line of action. We wonder, for example, why we can't get that job or sell our house. No matter how hard we try to make things happen in a particular way, they just refuse to oblige. At times like this, it seems that 'life is what happens while we are busy making other plans', as John Lennon so accurately said. Conversely, we will all have had experiences when everything just seems to fall into place quite naturally. A series of events will occur which don't apparently need much effort from us, and we will find ourselves, often in spite of ourselves, on a new path. At these times it is likely that our nodal axis is particularly active, either because it is receiving transits or because the transiting node is making significant aspects with our natal chart. The interesting thing about this is that, whether or not we have other ideas for ourselves, and whether or not we know anything about astrology, it seems that we are invariably forced into our pattern and our birth chart comes to life.
Audience: Is there an inevitability about the Nodes, like Chiron? It sounds as if there is not much choice involved.
Clare: Yes, that certainly seems to be the case, and it may well be that our task, as far as the nodal axis is concerned, is to keep our eyes and ears open for clues, listening for messages and for messengers whose function may well be to help us across thresholds or to give us a kick when we refuse to wake up. In my experience, the application of heroic efforts and the use of our willpower are neither relevant nor appropriate where the nodal axis is concerned, because we don't necessarily get what we think we want, do we?
Audience: No way!
Clare: The nodal axis seems to describe the threshold between different realities or perceptions, between the literal and the imaginative, and ultimately it is possible to develop the ability to stand on this threshold, identifying with neither side exclusively, but holding the opposites. Ultimately, this is exactly our function and role as astrologers and it is, of course, a very delicate and difficult place to stand. Let's see if we can make all this a bit more real by getting down to the natal chart and looking at some examples. Both Nodes appear to personify in the form of people who have significant influences in our lives. These people are often teachers, guides or mentors who inspire us and give us the confidence and support to do things that we wouldn't otherwise do.
Audience: Would you say that our ancestors are there on the Nodes?
Clare: Yes I would, because we know that in indigenous cultures which have not lost their roots, the ancestors, as well as the descendents who have yet to be born, are considered to be living forces, actively involved in the continuing life of the clan or tribe, functioning as teachers, guides and mentors. So they would certainly be included in these realms.
In our natal charts, it is the houses across which the nodal axis falls that describe particularly highly charged areas of our lives and particularly significant relationships. The planetary rulers of the Nodes should be taken into account, since they will provide more specific and detailed information. But tonight I want to focus on the relationship of the planets to the nodal axis, particularly those planets which are conjunct or square to the nodal axis, by which I mean any planets within 8° or 90° of the nodal axis, on the Moon's 'bendings'. These planets seem to demand expression in our lives, regardless of our conscious intentions. There is something ruthless and compulsive about them - they appear to function with absolute certainty and conviction, driving us to fulfil our destiny.
Audience: I can understand that a planet on the nodal axis will be significant, but can you explain what the Moon's 'bendings' are?
Clare: Have another look at the diagram of the nodal axis. You can see that the Moon crosses the ecliptic twice every month, once moving upwards at the north Node and once moving downwards at the south Node. But there is a point between the nodal crossings when the Moon has reached its maximum latitude north or south, and at this point, which is 90° from the nodal axis, the Moon changes direction. When a planet is on this 'bending' point, then it seems to make a particularly challenging connection to the nodal axis itself.
The angles and the nodal axis
If the nodal axis is conjunct or square to either of the angles (the MC/IC or Ascendant/Descendant axis), then it seems that we find ourselves compelled to make some kind of personal contribution to the world. However, our motivation in these cases has nothing to do with ego-gratification or our drive for recognition or fame. It is usually quite the opposite. We tend to find ourselves acting as agents of forces that drive us to engage with the world, no matter what the personal cost may be.
One example is that of Nelson Mandela, who has his north Node conjunct the Ascendant in Sagittarius and his south Node conjunct the Descendant in Gemini. The collective challenge of the Gemini-Sagittarius axis is to speak out and act on our beliefs, something Mandela did with great effectiveness, eventually changing the face of African politics. Mandela qualified as a lawyer and joined the African National Congress, leading the resistance to the ruling National Party's apartheid policies. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, he advocated the use of violent tactics, and in 1963 he was tried for plotting to overthrow the government and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela's nodal axis is in the 12th and 6th houses, on the axis of service, personal sacrifice, and devotion to a cause. The 12th house is associated with incarceration and imprisonment, and the 6th house is associated with hard labour. During Mandela's twenty-nine years of imprisonment, his reputation grew steadily, and he became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength, consistently refusing to compromise his political position in order to obtain his release. His autobiography, published in 1994, is very appropriately named The Long Walk to Freedom, a perfect Gemini/ Sagittarius title.
The Sun and the nodal axis
The Sun aspecting the nodal axis, particularly by conjunction or square, is often found in the charts of those who have a strong inner sense of their unique destiny and purpose, often from a very young age, which they feel compelled to achieve in the world. This is not necessarily something which can be explained rationally, since it is just a fierce inner conviction.
Audience: My father had his north Node conjunct the Sun on the MC. He was born in a small town in Spain, but when he was fifteen years old he wanted to go to America. His mother said he was too young, he could not go alone, and anyway he was needed to work on the family farm. But he cried for three months until eventually he got permission, and then he went to live with some distant relatives in Argentina. He became very successful. One day I asked him why he had done that, and he said, very simply: 'Because it was my destiny'.
The Moon and the nodal axis
Clare: When the Moon aspects the Nodes, we are connected on a very deep instinctual level to the feelings, to memories, and to the past. There is also a strong connection to the earth, to nature, and also to the feminine.
Audience: I have the Moon conjunct the south Node, and when I discovered Gaia theory, I thought, 'That's me!' And from that moment on, I have tried to find out everything about Gaia.
Clare: I would imagine that this discovery would have felt like a revelation - something which gripped you strongly, like a door opening.
Audience: Absolutely, just like a door opening. I knew at once that I had found my connection. And I am still there - I am always connected with Gaia, and trying to respect the Gaia equilibrium.
Audience: Well I have that same connection, the Moon conjunct my south Node. And I have written a book, actually, which is all about women.
Clare: It is clear from what you are saying that this connection between the nodal axis and the Moon is very meaningful to both of you, and you are drawing great support from this lunar connection. If we were working from the perspective of leaving the south Node behind, then you would be cutting off your living connection to the support which the Moon gives you. Rather, it seems as if this configuration provides an important clue about what you are here to do. Incidentally, it is interesting that Bob Geldof has Moon square his nodal axis, and his life long mission has been to 'feed the world'.
Mercury and the nodal axis
As the messenger of the gods, Mercury's function is to carry messages from one world to another. Hermes was the only god in Greek mythology who could visit all the worlds, and if you have Mercury conjunct or square to the nodal axis, then you may be challenged to mediate and navigate between different dimensions, perceptions, realities and languages. This placement also indicates that our ideas can change radically during our lives. Carl Jung, for example, had both Mercury and Venus square his nodal axis, and in his personal life and work with patients, he was constantly listening for messages from the otherworlds, communicated in the form of symbols or as actual events occurring in nature. His personal daemon, Philemon, was a living reality to him. He lived within its grip, as it drove him ruthlessly to complete his life's work.
Audience: My partner has his Mercury square my Nodes, and I think that without him I wouldn't have got in touch with astrology.
Clare: So he is like a teacher and a guide?
Audience: Yes, he has taught me a different way of thinking and seeing.
Venus and the nodal axis
When Venus is involved with the nodal axis, there can be a strong appreciation of beauty and form, and an intense desire to give shape to some kind of poetic or artistic expression. The writer, Marcel Proust, had Venus and Mercury in Virgo in a tight square to the nodal axis, and his writing is carefully shaped and crafted. Not only did his life change dramatically from that of a social dilettante to that of a recluse by the end of his life, but his monumental work, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherché du temps perdu), consisting of seven volumes which he worked on almost continuously for over fourteen years, gradually became substantially different from his original conception, as he drew increasingly upon his inner world, his imagination, and personal memories.
Mars and the nodal axis
With Mars aspecting the nodal axis, there is a powerful compulsion to act. We feel forced to take action. It seems to be our destiny to fight for something, to find an effective channel for the use of our energy and determination. Princess Diana, who publicly challenged the general ignorance and prejudice toward people with AIDS, and took up the cause to eliminate land mines, had Mars, Uranus and Pluto on her north Node in Leo, and Moon and Chiron on her south Node in Aquarius, so there is a very significant nodal story here.
Jupiter and the nodal axis
Jupiter can describe someone who has access to deep faith and a feeling of being protected, of being specially favoured by the gods, or of having a guardian angel who protects them throughout their lives. This may drive them to achieve more than they ever thought possible, and which they would certainly not have attempted unless they felt they were acting as agents of divine providence. Although this contact brings faith, it is not necessarily easy to live with, particularly if Jupiter is conjunct or square the axis, because then it will have us in its grip - driving us to fulfil our destiny, however hard this may be on a personal level. Martin Luther, whose passionate conviction that human beings have direct access to God, led directly to the Reformation, had Jupiter and Mars on his south Node. On a personal level, Luther's journey caused him immense suffering and hardship, but eventually he felt he had no choice but to act and challenge the established Catholic Church with his doctrine of 'justification by faith alone'.
Saturn and the nodal axis
When Saturn is connected to the Nodes, there can be very strong barriers and boundaries between the worlds, and a fear of trusting or opening up these thresholds. Saturn is a hard taskmaster, throwing obstacles in our way, teaching us lessons, and insisting that we learn to stand on our own feet and develop self-discipline, responsibility and mastery. We may well turn back from this threshold because it is so hard, and decide, because it is safer, to confine our activities solely to this world. Alternatively, we may continue to meet teachers who force us to undertake long and difficult periods of apprenticeship, hard work and discipline, which eventually lead us to becoming 'gatekeepers' ourselves, guarding the thresholds between the worlds on behalf of others. One example is Tina Turner, who has Saturn conjunct the south Node in Aries. Her task has been to learn to stand up for and defend herself and to become her own authority, and it has been an extraordinary journey, although extremely difficult, with the kind of life-and-death struggle which is indicated by the fact Pluto is also square to her nodal axis.
W.B. Yeats is also an interesting example, with Saturn conjunct the north Node and the nodal axis square to his Ascendant/Descendant axis. Yeats and his wife consciously collaborated with the daemonic realms via the medium of automatic writing. However, it is not surprising that, with Saturn aspecting the nodal axis, this work was disrupted by beings which Yeats called the 'Frustrators', who communicated meaningless information until the 'real' daemons returned.
When I think of life as a struggle with the Daemon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny.I am persuaded that the Daemon delivers and deceives us, and that he wove the netting from the stars and threw the net from his shoulder.[10]
Chiron and the nodal axis
In relation to the nodal axis, Chiron appears to have a doubly daemonic function, as teacher and healer. If Chiron is connected to our nodal axis, that can indicate shamanic illnesses, crises, suffering, and unwilling initiation into our true vocation or calling - which is never chosen by the ego, but which is both our gift and our curse, since it leaves us with the unmistakable stamp of the outsider. It is interesting that Princess Diana had a strong Chiron-Node connection. Healers, teachers and astrologers often have such a strong Chiron emphasis in their charts. When Chiron is connected to the nodal axis, our function and purpose is to be guides, helping people to understand and accept their own inner wisdom and truth, which they are never likely to find reflected or supported or even recognised by the outside world at large.
The outer planets and the nodal axis
When the outer planets are connected to the nodal axis, we are subject to, and in the grip of, powerful collective forces. With Uranus here, for example, there can be a brilliance and a blinding clarity and absolute conviction which enables the individual to break through the normal patterns and see the whole picture, all at once. It is an evolutionary and Promethean force that can feel like a revelation. Those with Uranus connected to the nodal axis can, like Charles Darwin, be at the forefront of scientific innovation and breakthrough. The definition of the word revelation is 'the act of revealing or disclosing, a dramatic disclosure of something not previously known or realised'. In the theological sense, revelation is the manifestation of divine will or truth, and this is what it can feel like with a nodal connection to Uranus.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In Mozart's chart, the nodal axis is in Virgo and Pisces across the 12th and 6th houses, picking up his Ascendant/Descendant axis, which indicates that his sense of personal destiny was clear to him and to all who came in contact with him. His nodal task is to find a container or a vessel (6th house) for the expression of the divine (12th house), and his music is a clear expression of this. But Uranus is also there, and he was writing full concertos by the age of three. It is also said that he could hold entire symphonies in his head and write them down without any errors or hesitation. It is as if they were given to him whole, and his music was astonishing, new and unexpected. Although his genius is unquestioned, Pluto and the Moon are also square to his nodal axis, and it was out of his emotional pain and loss in his family (4th house) that the intense depth of feeling present in his greatest music emerged. It is very difficult to be born with such a powerful destiny, because it is a driving force which has us in its grip and it is never easy or comfortable. James Hillman explores this subject in The Soul's Code, which I would highly recommend if you are interested in finding out more about the subject of destiny, and the role of daemons, guides and mentors in our lives.
One way of working in more detail is to consider the positions of Jupiter and Mercury, which rule Mozart's nodal axis. This will give us more information about the specific expression that this particular nodal axis might take. Jupiter in Libra in the 2nd house indicates that he will seek to find a physical expression for balance and harmony and the creation of beauty. Mercury is closely conjunct Saturn and the Sun in the 5th house in Aquarius, which indicates that Mozart's creativity will be expressed in a clear and structured way, and it also describes his father's role as a stern mentor and teacher. I think you can see how helpful the planetary rulers can be when we are working to make the nodal story more precise and personal.
Audience: Would you use Neptune as well, since it is the transpersonal ruler of Pisces, or would you just stay with Jupiter?
Clare: I would certainly include Neptune, and in this case it is in the 11th house in Leo, opposite the Saturn-Mercury-Sun conjunction. Once again, we can read this opposition as the personal creative struggle to give structured shape and form to the magical, mythical and beautiful realms which opened up to Mozart from the collective. And because he was also only human, we can see how this opposition polarised at difficult times in his life. When his work became too much, or his sense of duty and responsibility to his father or his sensitivity to criticism were particularly strong, he would escape to the Neptune end of the spectrum, and go drinking with his friends. On the other hand, when he was open to the Neptunian realms of the imagination, he would work hard to give this structure by writing them down in the form of music. Neptune is such a sensitive planet, and so in touch with other dimensions of reality, that it tends to go one of two ways when it picks up the nodal axis. The individual may surrender completely and give over their own will, such as, for example, in the case of mediums or healers. Alternatively, the individual may feel that the demands of the other realms are so overwhelming that they seek to push them away and turn their back on them.
Audience: That is interesting, because I have Neptune squaring my Nodes, and in fact I used to work as a medium.
Clare: With Neptune aspecting the nodal axis, the veil between the worlds is particularly thin and permeable, and it is likely that if we ignore them, the daemons will continue to knock on the door or start to create chaos. Dante Gabriel Rossetti had Neptune on the MC square the nodal axis, and Chiron and the Moon on the south Node. His destiny was to create a more beautiful and romantic world, and his life was consumed by his imagination and by the dreams, fantasies and visions which informed his paintings and the paintings of the other artists who joined his Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was immensely sensitive and attracted to beautiful, wounded, and unobtainable women, and succumbed to a drug addiction which eventually killed him. So we could say that, although his personal life was full of tragedy, nevertheless the world would be a much poorer and less magical place without the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Audience: I have Neptune square my nodal axis, and there are lots of spirits and other entities in my house. I am always trying to get rid of them because they are very disruptive.
Clare: If the nodal axis represents a threshold through which we have access to all of human emotion and experience, it may be that our task, with Neptune here, is to listen to these spirits and to find out what they want.
Audience: I spend most of my life doing that.
Clare: Well, in that case, it may well be that that is your nodal task.
Audience: But it's very exhausting. I have a friend who is a medium, who helps me to get rid of them, and I asked him once why they continue to plague me. He said that I should imagine standing in the middle of Wembley Stadium, which would be crammed with souls that can't move on. That image really helped me not to take it so personally.
Clare: With Neptune aspecting the nodal axis, we are likely to be very sensitive to, and possibly overwhelmed by, the other realms, because there is an enormous amount of grief and unresolved pain, brutality, cruelty, poverty and starvation in our collective inheritance. As individuals we seem to get our little piece of that inheritance, and there is work for us to do. This brings us back again to Chiron, because we are not born into a perfect world where everything is resolved. There is a balancing and healing which needs to be done on behalf of the collective, an integration of the sign opposites across which our nodal axis falls.
Finally, with Pluto connected to the nodal axis, somehow the individual has to live on the threshold between intense destructiveness and creativity, travelling into the psychic underworld on a regular basis, connecting to the life-force which resides there, and re-emerging before going down again. This is a very compulsive picture, and the issues can revolve around power and the surrender of power, as in the case of Tina Turner.
Audience: Are these interpretations similar when someone else's planets aspect your nodal axis?
Clare: Yes, particularly in relationships which feel fated or inevitable in some way. For example, I have a friend whose ex-husband's Saturn is on her north Node, and that was immensely difficult for her because, in order to stay in that relationship, she had to deal with Saturn, to feel very alone in the marriage, and to learn some hard lessons. In the end she couldn't stand it any longer and bailed out, partly because she also has Venus in Sagittarius. But she is well aware that the marriage was part of her destiny, and the responsibilities continue because they have three children. The only way she could have stayed in the marriage would have been to change her relationship to Saturn, and in fact this nodal connection has forced her to become much more adult and self-sufficient.
Audience: I have that connection with my partner. Is there any hope?
Clare: It indicates that you have work to do together, building lasting structures, and it can also feel very safe.
Audience: What if your nodal axis makes an aspect to your partner's nodal axis?
Clare: Then I would imagine that your respective daemons have chosen to engage, whether you like it or not. There is a meeting of souls. Now that we live in such a rational, secular age, the daemons are having a hard time communicating with us because, as a general rule, we no longer believe they exist. This could be one reason why they appear to us as ordinary people - as guides, teachers, mentors and messengers - people who help us remember our soul's purpose.
Audience: But everything I have read about the Nodes is that they are directional, and that we are meant to leave behind what we are born into because it can hold us back.
Clare: I am not sure why we would want to cut ourselves off from that which supports and sustains us, unless we are deeply alienated from ourselves and invested in a heroic vision of personal progress and spiritual development or, equally possible, that we are victims of the 'tyranny of perfection' which is so prevalent in our culture. But you are right that this is a very common interpretation of the south Node, although every time we fall into the either/or trap - which is very easy to do, of course - then we have effectively got out a knife and chopped our psyches in half. This is exactly how the analytical mind works. My question is, 'Who or what says we are meant to do this?' There are no moral imperatives in astrology. But it is all too easy for us to take a judgemental stance which has nothing to do with astrology, but everything to do with our personal opinions, which are so easily affected by fear or by a kind of rigid adherence to what we believe to be the rules, whether we assume that these rules are temporal or spiritual. This is why I think it can be helpful to focus on the planetary rulers of the Nodes, their function in the chart, and their relationship with each other. This releases us from approaching the nodal axis as if it were primarily an axis of time.
As astrologers, it is particularly easy to fall into judgements. For example, we might think that Mars in Aries ought to be more considerate. Well, actually, no. Mars in Aries is Mars in Aries, and it is what it is. In its essence, astrology is descriptive, not critical. So we need to ask, instead, what does this Mars want? How does it act? Give it some space to be what it is. Let it off the leash; it can be a tremendously positive and powerful force in our lives. If we deny the liminal realms that are the meeting place of spirit, soul and earth as symbolised by the Nodes, then we lose the connection between opposites. If you are interested in this subject, then I recommend that you read Patrick Harpur's book, Daimonic Reality, which is an absolutely splendid exploration of this subject. If our world-view is purely scientific or mechanical, a living relationship with an enchanted, living and densely inhabited universe is impossible because it does not exist for us. Our astrology becomes mechanical, and there will be no surprises to be found, just rules to be mastered. If our planets are not living gods assisted, each one of them, by a host of messengers and intermediaries, then we are no longer in dialogue with the anima mundi, with the intermediary realms. We are just very clever mechanics.
If we can accommodate the presence of the anima mundi in our astrology, then we can find a place for a magical dialogue, and many of the so-called afflictions of the mind, such as delusions, complexes, neuroses, depressions or paranoia, to name just a few, may not after all need to be pathologised or medicalised as they have tended to be in mainstream psychology. This is why Jung wrote, 'The Gods have become diseases'. As his work developed, he realised that the psyche was not just subjective, projecting all kinds of images onto the world, but that it was also objective - out there in the world as well. And synchronicity was his proof. When we are working with astrology, it is clear that the planets manifest both within us and outside in the world in the form of concrete facts and events. So it seems to me that astrology belongs absolutely to the daemonic realm and that, as astrologers, we have a daemonic function, as intermediaries and messengers standing on the threshold between the heavens and the earth. Ultimately, it is our function to help our clients to remember their pattern, their soul's purpose. For this reason it is always worth checking our client's nodal axis in relation to our own charts, to see how we might have a role to play in their lives.
6. Baring and Cashford, p. 681.
9. Hillman, The Soul's Code.
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Microsoft Goes "Hostile" In Search For Yahoo
Microsoft's take-out play for Yahoo is a stunning move by the world's largest software maker, even though rumors of a deal have been swirling for the better part of a year.
The 62 percent premium Microsoft is willing to pay for Yahoo, valuing the deal at a shade under $45 billion, shows just how serious--and just how frustrated--Microsoft has become with Yahoo . So for all you Yahoo shareholders already at wit's end with your company and its downward spiral, isn't it comforting to know that you're not alone; that Mr. Softy shares your pain?
I've spoken to a number of folks inside Microsoft this morning, and the most amazing part of this story is how long it has been going on. I was told that talks between the two had been going on, at a serious level, for almost 18 months, and that any time a transaction got close, Yahoo pulled the plug.
Over and over again. In fact, in Microsoft's release this morning, the company details a snippet of those exchanges, by including a letter Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote about his exchange with then Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, writing: "In February 2007, I received a letter from your Chairman indicating the view of the Yahoo! Board that "now is not the right time from the perspective of our shareholders to enter into discussions regarding an acquisition transaction."
According to that letter, the principal reason for this view was the Yahoo! board's confidence in the 'potential upside' if management successfully executed on a reformulated strategy based on certain operational initiatives, such as Project Panama, and a significant organizational realignment. A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved."
Sounds very similar to the ongoing complaints I have heard from people who are already Yahoo shareholders!
And with similar rebuffs from Jerry Yang--or none at all (since I'm hearing Yahoo stopped even entertaining the concept of a Microsoft take-out, which leads me to wonder where Yahoo's fiduciary responsibility went) Microsoft now wants to own the whole enchilada. The deal for both sides makes a lot of sense. It's a bold step for Microsoft; and Yahoo needs deep pockets to figure out a way to make money from those 2 billion monthly visitors the site attracts. And the two need to do something to take on Google.
I'm not sure even a combined Microsoft/Yahoo offers a serious threat to Google . Maybe it slows Google's growth but I don't believe that Google's at risk of losing the dominant position it owns in Search. Further, this could be a positive for Google for the foreseeable future in two key ways: Either the take-out becomes a prolonged, hostile event with the two companies bickering over price while key talent walks out the door at Yahoo; or, the deal gets done in a reasonable amount of time and Yahoo and Microsoft spend the next year working on integration issues.
Either way, both scenarios suggest Microsoft and Yahoo will both be horribly distracted by all this, while Google continues to lurk in the background, and in the marketplace, innovating and doing what it's been doing. Eating up market share as quickly and as dominantly as it has.
I'll be updating the blog through the day so check back when you can. This drama and all its side-acts will be a blast to watch.
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Canon’s Testing a 75MP+ Pro DSLR
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Please!!! DON´T tell that WE don´t need 75Mp, OK?
"we dont need 22mp" is the battle cry here on this forum,and 36mp is over rated
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Sure, some people say 21 MP is good enough for what they want to do and honestly, looking at most of my photos 12 MP is probably enough, too. 36 MP would be fun, though. 75 MP would probably be even more fun. 750 MP too much, at least for now.
There are four general classes of people I've noticed on this forum:
1) Canon shooters (generally landscape) who want 36MP and are openly jealous of the large MP Nikon offerings.
2) Canon shooters (generally not landscape) who see are getting the images they want from 21 or fewer MPs and see no need for more.
3) Canon shooters who secretly want 36 MP but are so anti-Nikon that they claim that 36MP is for some reason a bad thing.
4) Nikon (almost always Nikon) shooters who think that everyone else here is from camp 3). I'd guess the number was closer about 1% of the users fall in to that camp.
I'm wondering the sort of pathology that requires you mention this (and nothing apropos to the actual discussion) multiple times in a forum for a camera you don't own, presumably gloating over an accomplishment that someone else made (unless you are an engineer for Nikon or Sony, in which case good job).
There is an emerging trend in photography that I call Virtual Reality. Traditional photography is centered around the meaning of the image as a whole, be it a portrait or landscape. As you drill down to smaller details, you notice that at some point they become irrelevant to the meaning of the whole image. For example, gunk in skin pores on a portrait or a bug on a leaf on a landscape of a thousand trees. I define Image Domain as a full set of details relevant to the meaning of the whole image. By observation, one can conclude that relevant details are limited by 12 to 20 mp depending on the subject (e.g. portrait vs. landscape).
In turn, the Virtual Reality application is not limited by the meaning of the whole image, but is also concerned with small details on their own merit. Common VR applications include surveilance, forensics, medical miaging, extreme cropping, pixel peeping, and detailed wall-size prints to make you feel as if you are actually there. VR is enabled by the high resolution trend and we will see more and more of it. If this is your goal, then 75 mp would be great, but anything more than 20 mp does not add any value to the the image observed as a whole, as it used to be the case in traditional photography.
Please note that Image Domain has nothing to do with the print size, but only with the meaning of what is pictured. If you care for more details on the Image Domain concept, search this forum for these keywords.
Are you saying that the ability to perceive detail on the scale of an image is limited, presumably some part of the human visual chain, to around 20 MP? Clearly there must be some limit to the ability to perceive detail on such a scale, but I'm wondering where you get the 20 MP number from. I have no compelling evidence to support either a larger or smaller number, but I'm just interested in where it comes from.
It seems like something that could be tested academically, much the way human perception of color has been, is that where the number comes from? If not, it does seem like a pretty interesting summer project for the right kind of graduate student.
And yes, 75 MP would be fun from the perspective of the virtual reality concept you speak of. That's part of the fun of huge panoramas, for instance.
Image Domain does relate to the human vision resolution limit, but is not the same. "Meaning" is the keyword here. For example, on a landscape of a 1,000 trees, would a bug on a single distant leaf be meaningful to the image as a whole? Probably not. However, one could argue that it might, if not for the vision limitations. So perhaps there is some relation here. However, on a portrait, you don't want to see the gunk in skin pores regardless of any limitations. So altimately the concepts are different.
20 mp comes from observation. Just look at a number of images flipping them between full and 100% and you would see that 12 mp resolves portraits fine, but lacks still relevant details on landscapes, 16 mp is better and sufficient in most cases, and 20 mp is always slightly excessive. A higher resolution adds nothing to the whole image, but is useful when the whole image is not the composition goal, such as for cropping birds, etc.
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In the cover story of the most recent issue of Newsweek, Ted Olson, who along with David Boies is litigating a potentially landmark challenge to the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, makes what he describes as "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage." Olson makes an eloquent and compelling case against the constitutionality of state prohibitions of same-sex marriage.
Olson notes that his involvement in the litigation "has generated a certain degree of consternation among conservatives." He finds this puzzling. Indeed, he insists that the conservative opposition to same-sex marriage "does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize." Indeed, given their most fundamental values, he explains, conservatives should "celebrate" the desire of two individuals to form "a union based on shared aspirations." Moreover, legalizing same-sex marriage would further "basic American principles" and "represent the culmination of our nation's commitment to equal rights." Our historic dedication to the "principle of equality," he asserts, is central not only to Democrats and liberals, but also to Republicans and conservatives.
Olson is a brilliant lawyer. He offers a logically unimpeachable case for his position. But what he makes is the liberal case for gay marriage, or perhaps (as he suggests) the American case for gay marriage, but not -- unfortunately -- the conservative case for gay marriage. The plain and simple fact is that conservatives do not believe in what Olson identifies as our "bedrock" American values. And therein lies his problem.
To begin with, it's important to note the sharpness of the divide between conservatives and liberals on this issue. According to recent polls, only 14% of conservatives support same-sex marriage, compared to 72% of liberals. Why is this so? Basically, liberals already understand and accept the three central points of Olson's argument: (1) equality is a fundamental constitutional right; (2) a person's sexual orientation is determined at birth, and it is especially unfair to treat people unequally because of factors over which they have no control; (3) there is no good reason to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry, and religion, in particular, is not a constitutionally legitimate basis for treating people unequally. Liberals generally embrace each of these points, but conservatives do not.
(1) Almost all people say they believe in equality, but the real truth is that throughout American history it has traditionally been liberals rather than conservatives who have fought for equal rights for African-Americans, women, religious minorities, and political dissenters. In most of these battles, conservatives either sat on the sidelines or actively defended the status quo.
(2) Like Olson, almost 60% of liberals believe that sexual orientation is determined at birth, but only 21% of conservatives accept this. Most conservatives apparently cling to the discredited belief that sexual orientation is merely a choice of "lifestyle."
(3) Although Olson effectively demonstrates that there is no reasonable justification for prohibiting same-sex marriage, only 14% of conservatives agree. What's going on here? The answer, as Olson intimates, is religion. Almost one-half of all conservatives believe that the Bible rather than the will of the People should determine public policy in the United States. Those who attend church services weekly supported Proposition 8 by a vote of 84% to 16%, whereas those who do not attend church regularly opposed Proposition 8 by a vote of 83% to 17%. Olson rejects "religious teachings that denounce homosexuality as morally wrong" and believes that the Constitution "prohibits us from forcing our religious beliefs on others." But most conservatives don't agree with him.
Olson's problem, then, is that although he has made out a powerful and persuasive case for holding laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional, he has not made "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage." It's time Ted Olson sucked it up and recognized that, at least on this issue, he is a liberal. And he's right to be one. | <urn:uuid:d768efd4-0df3-4614-b3a6-0384af115912> | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/the-conservative-case-for_b_421137.html | en | 0.953893 | 0.085124 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tired of "Blame the Parent" Attitude?
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Fri, 02-03-2012 - 2:11pm
A controversial article came out in the NY Times earlier this week about ADHD, the author was stating that a lot of kids are overmedicated for ADHD, and also says that there is less genetic link versus how the child is raised.
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Fri, 02-03-2012 - 2:20pm
My 10-year-old has slight ADHD, amongst other issues. He's in special needs classes, has been since pre-k. Though he is being mainstreamed a lot more the past year.
Anyway, it does make me angry when parents who have not been in my shoes see his behavior and think 'well that's how they're parenting.' It's not. DS, while not on medication, is all over the place at times. And there is nothing I can do about it parenting wise. It's who he is and how his brain works. What I can do as a parent is change his environment so that the situation works better for him. I'm not naive. I know he's got issues. I know what he can and can not handle. But no amount of me yelling at him to pay attention or telling him to sit still is going to work. (As much as others would wish so.)
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Fri, 02-03-2012 - 5:05pm
I was one of those "blame the parents" types until my 8 yo daughter was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD.
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Thu, 02-09-2012 - 10:34am
I have seen parents and teachers do the blame the parent. I had a parent tell me she didn't believe in ADHD right after my son was diagnosed, saying it was diet or bad parenting. Yet, my oldest and youngest are not that way, and she could see that my son was all over the place. It really annoyed me.
Overall though, I have not been one to blame myself. My son has other special needs and it never really crossed my mind that I might be to blame. I think that was due to my experience with my younger brother and sister being born when I was 11 and 18 and the fact that I worked at a large preschool in college so I had a pretty good idea of what was "normal." I can see how others who didn't have that experience might feel differently.
But people can be very judging of what they are not living, and our society seems to have a "Blame The Parents First" attitude. One mom at the preschool had a baby that failed to thrive like her older son. The workers blamed the mom (not sure why, didn't make sense to me as she knew how to care for babies.) The doctor even called CPS on the mom and she almost had both kids taken away because they couldn't explain why the baby wasn't growing. Finally someone suggested a series of exams. It turned out the baby's brain had not formed properly and he had basically a brain stem and not much else. Unfortunately, the women at the daycare never apologized. I was REALLY annoyed.
Mostly when it comes to my family, I try to ignore it. My kids are who they are, and what other people say isn't going to help one whit.
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Fri, 02-10-2012 - 8:49am
I think it is very interesting and there are some valid concerns of over-medication. My daughter has ADHD like symptoms
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Usually the people that assume my parenting has to do with my son's developmental disorder (adhd) are people that do not know a single thing about me. I have not really had this issue though as I am fairly strict, regardless of the fact that he's 8 and im 25 (meaning I had him when I was still a child myself).
The school knows better than to assume it's MY fault he is that way because I am so hands-on with every aspect of his education and his behavior while in school - they also much appreciate him being medicated as they clearly know the difference now ( i have sent him to school un-medicated a few times and they DEFINITELY noticed).
I don't even bother explaining myself to people who are too ignorant to research fact and choose to push their opinions on me about discipline or their feeling of my "lack thereof" due to his actions. Chances are I am just as much of a disciplinarian as their parents were - im very "old school" in the non-abusive ways of parenting.
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New to all this, I was viewing older posts and came across this one, which definitely hit home. It's so funny because I have questioned myself regarding my son (and experienced 2 teacher conferences re: him last school year, which I felt were "deal w/ your son" sessions). Yet I have a daughter 1 year older who is pretty much a model child. Same home, same parenting.
I am trying to worry less about what folks think (it's a process). The other day while waiting w/ my son for my daughter's vision therapy to wrap up, I had him reading an assigned book. He started out sitting but ended up on his feet and holding onto the chair while moving his feet around a bit - but he was reading, and if the movement helped him focus, so be it. I didn't give 2 winks what other parents in the room were thinking. | <urn:uuid:e8741ee6-e4f7-4b39-9eb8-768edc51fff9> | http://www.ivillage.com/forums/pregnancy-parenting/special-needs/addadhd/addadhd-children/tired-blame-parent-attitude?q=pregnancy-parenting/special-needs/addadhd/addadhd-children/tired-blame-parent-attitude&sort_order=ASC | en | 0.989903 | 0.096254 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Rodeo judges depend on making quick decisions
Being opinionated pivotal when it comes to doling out points
From standing in the dirt outside the buck shoot to sitting atop a horse near the starting gates, Chuck Hoss has just about the best view any rodeo fan could ask for.
Like the other two judges at this year's Kitsap Stampede, Hoss grew up in rodeo. After years of competing, he turned to judging instead of settling for just any old job.
"You're involved in all the events," Hoss said. "It's a really unique lifestyle because it's almost like paid vacation. Not many people have jobs that pay them to travel," he added with a smile.
For fellow rodeo judge Wade Berry of Miles, Mont., judging was a way for him to stay a part of the only life he knew.
"That's all I wanted to be was a cowboy — from the time I was a little kid," Berry said.
His dad was a steer wrestler and passed the tradition on to him and his siblings.
Berry, who made it to the 1987 National Finals Rodeo in steer wrestling, started judging while he was still competing about 30 years ago.
"You still want to be involved in rodeo — I'm pretty sure that's why I did it — to give back to rodeo," Berry said. "If you grow up wanting to be a cowboy, all you want to do is see an animal that can buck and someone who can ride."
But judging isn't all sitting back and enjoying the sport.
"Here you got seven different events," explained Hoss, who officiated football before rodeo.
"It's pretty fast-paced out there. You've got just a … " said Hoss, snapping his fingers. "When the whistle blows, they want your score in seconds. You've got to put it into numbers in seconds."
Making decisions quickly and being opinionated is what it's all about.
Throughout the rodeo, the judges can be spotted in black-and-white- striped vests in various spots across the arena, because their role changes with the type of event.
In bucking events — which include bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding — two judges are stationed in the arena on either side of the buck shoot.
They judge both the animal and the contestant.
The animal is scored based on things such as power, speed, kick, change in direction, and the time and rhythm in how they buck, while the contestants are judged for spurring.
The judges divide the contestant in half, so to speak, each watching one side, or foot, to score for spurring.
Each judge gives both the animal and contestant a score of 1 to 25, for a total of up to 100 points.
The other events — timed events, which include steer wrestling, team roping, tie down roping and barrel racing — are judged differently.
Scores for these events are based on time, which begins when the animal triggers a barrier flag or when a judge drops the flag and ends when the task is complete.
Penalties are given when contestants leave their box early — before the animal has crossed the designated score line — and add 10 seconds to the time.
In barrel racing, a five-second penalty is assessed for each barrel knocked down.
Judges are well-versed on the rules, which can be confusing to fans.
"Most people out there don't know why or how we mark," said Hoss. "Really, they don't understand what we're doing out there."
That's where the announcer comes in.
"The announcer is out there to educate them on why we did what we did," Hoss said.
When Tom Lewis left the box early, breaking the barrier during steer wrestling Friday night, rodeo announcer Randy Corley did just that.
"That's a 10-point penalty," said Corley over the audience's boos. "You think you feel bad — that's like a speeding ticket that just cost him 1,400 hundred bucks."
In that event, the contestant clearly penalized himself. Other times, judges will have to explain why they gave a particular score.
"The judges decision is final," Hoss said. "When you make a bad call, you're going to feel bad. You're determining whether these guys make a living."
Kitsap Stampede PRCA Rodeo
Friday at Thunderbird Stadium
2nd Performance Go Round
Steer Wrestling
1, K.C. Jones 4.6. 2, Andy Weldon 5.5. 3, Timmy Sparing 6.5.
Team Roping
1, Matt Sherwood/Joel Bach 4.8. 2, Clay Tryan/Travis Graves 5.7. 3, Bobby Mote/Trey Johnson.
Bareback Riding
1, Bobby Mote 82. 2, Steven Peebles 79. 3, Justin McDaniel 78.
Saddle Bronc Riding
1, Bradley Harter 84. 2, Taos Muncy 82. T3, Brad Rudolf, Sam Kelts, Brady Nicholes 81.
Barrel Racing
1, Molly Powell 17.34. 2, Liz Combs 17.55. 3, 17.56.
Tie-Down Roping
1, Brad Goodrich 9.1. 2, Stetson Vest 9.3. 3, Paul David Tierney 9.6.
Bull Riding
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Comments on: It's that time of year again! Comments on MetaFilter post It's that time of year again! Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:51:34 -0800 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:51:34 -0800 en-us 60 It's that time of year again! <a href="">It's that time of year again!</a> Yes kids, it's time once again for the <a href=''>annual </a> introduction of the Flag-Protection Amendment, currently being debated in the House of Reps. Last year the bill passed the House 305-124 and was defeated in the Senate by only six votes. It's again expected to pass the House and again expected to get shot down in the Senate, but considering the zany sitcom that 21st century American politics has become, who knows what that wacky Legislative branch will do?,2001:site.9076 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:29:49 -0800 Shadowkeeper USA politics law FlagBurning Congress brokenlink By: fleener There couldn't be a more patriotic act than to burn the American flag in celebration. Every patriotic American should do it every July 4th, until we become a police state and our freedom is taken from us.,2001:site.9076-109485 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:51:34 -0800 fleener By: tolkhan isn't that the idea of the amendment?,2001:site.9076-109491 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:59:19 -0800 tolkhan By: zempf ..because as everyone knows, every American is calling for a flag-burning amendment. Yup, forget that talk of patients' rights bills, or energy prices.. let's focus on issues that really impact society.,2001:site.9076-109493 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:00:54 -0800 zempf By: zempf <font size=-1>Hmm.. that reads badly. Let me make a footnote that I'm knocking Congress for putting stupid bills like this through instead of ones that actually matter..</font>,2001:site.9076-109494 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:02:24 -0800 zempf By: harmful In the words of Jed Bartlet, "There is a population of this country that seems to focus a great deal of time and energy on this conversation; so much so that I am moved to ask this question: Is there an epidemic of flag burning going on that I'm not aware of?",2001:site.9076-109500 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:19:50 -0800 harmful By: jpoulos <i>Is there an epidemic of flag burning going on that I'm not aware of?"</i> That's <i>so</i> not even the issue. There isn't an "epidemic" of necrophilia going on in this country either, yet it's still illegal. That kind of talk is just a way to dance around the real issue at stake, to say "even though I oppose this bill, I think flag burning is evil and wrong, so don't penalize me politically for it." These elected officials should be standing up and <i>proudly</i> opposing this bill. If anything actually separates the US from the riff-raff (something I believe less and less these days, but still...), it's the First Amendment. I'm with fleener. There's nothing more American than burning a flag.,2001:site.9076-109509 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:36:45 -0800 jpoulos By: Skot . . . execpt for maybe burning a necrophiliac. Wrapped in the flag. USA! USA! USA!,2001:site.9076-109513 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:56:03 -0800 Skot By: Vetinari While you're at it, do your part for aesthetics and <a href="">burn Georgia's flag too</a>. Bonus: it would remain to legal to burn if this misguided amendment actually makes it. Scratch that. It's got a little tiny picture of the American flag on it. Better not, then, just to be safe. :),2001:site.9076-109514 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:57:13 -0800 Vetinari By: mrbula So, if I burned a good-sized post office, I wonder how many counts they could charge me with.,2001:site.9076-109525 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:11:52 -0800 mrbula By: capt.crackpipe This goes along with crazed nationalists' belief that America is morally superior and is wronged by would-be usurpers. To minimize anti-American speech — which is clearly deluded since God himself has bestowed the title of "world's only superpower" on the nation — is to squelch thought. Only right-thinking people are allowed to express themselves; Only those intent on boosterism have speech protected by the first amendment.,2001:site.9076-109539 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:33:43 -0800 capt.crackpipe By: capt.crackpipe (Or so they'd have it, I mean.),2001:site.9076-109540 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:34:37 -0800 capt.crackpipe By: jpoulos [twiddling thumbs, whistling, looking up and around] ...da-da-da-da-dum... [john takes one giant step away from mrbula],2001:site.9076-109560 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:59:16 -0800 jpoulos By: Shadowkeeper Amendment = <A HREF=''>passed</a>. <i>"Burning a flag is a hate crime, because burning the flag is an expression of contempt for the moral unity of the American people," said Rep. Henry Hyde</i>,2001:site.9076-109619 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:18:19 -0800 Shadowkeeper By: Doug On the off chance 3/4 of our senators lose all brain capacity and finally pass this amendment, I'll be heading down to a tattoo parlor and getting the most offensive flag tattoo possible. Oh, who am I kidding, I'm going right now anyway....,2001:site.9076-109630 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:48:09 -0800 Doug By: jpoulos <i>Burning a flag is a hate crime...</i> Is it me or is that GOP-ese for "in your liberal faces. you want hate crime legislation, we'll give you hate crime legislation"?,2001:site.9076-109634 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:57:06 -0800 jpoulos By: dhartung The GOP has been trying for years now to redefine "hate crime" to mean "disliked political speech".,2001:site.9076-109638 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:05:15 -0800 dhartung By: davidmsc Every time this issue and associated amendment come up in Congress, I get nervous. Being in the US military, I am prohibited from doing anything to desecrate the US flag, and in fact I am proud to pay respect to the flag at appropriate times...but if they ever take away the right to burn a US flag, it would add an element of shame & sadness to my service. On the positive side, I seriously doubt (hope?) that this loony issue will never become law. Congress may be stoopid in many ways, but there remain too many lawmakers who at least can feel, in their bones, that this is just wrong.,2001:site.9076-109795 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:31:21 -0800 davidmsc By: goto11 Rep. John Conyers of Michigan said it best: "I am strongly opposed to this resolution because it ... elevates a symbol of freedom over freedom itself.'',2001:site.9076-109803 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:37:58 -0800 goto11 By: davidmsc Exactly. It is a SYMBOL. Symbols are important and...well, symbolic, but they are not reality.,2001:site.9076-109810 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:56:56 -0800 davidmsc By: mac What they don't seem to get is that outlawing flag-burning just makes flag-burning a MORE POWERFUL STATEMENT. Conyers was on it: elevating a symbol of freedom over freedom itself.,2001:site.9076-109815 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:11:11 -0800 mac By: holgate Saddam Hussein was wise to that: he added a couple of verses of the Qu'ran to the Iraqi flag, just so he could transform flag burning into blasphemy. But I'm with davidmsc: the American constitution is built upon enabling its citizens, and representatives should really be debating more ways to enable those citizens to serve, and show pride, in their country.,2001:site.9076-109825 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:34:07 -0800 holgate By: jpoulos <i>he added a couple of verses of the Qu'ran to the Iraqi flag, just so he could transform flag burning into blasphemy.</i> Isn't adding verses of the Qu'ran to a flag, itself, blasphemous?,2001:site.9076-109850 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:13:15 -0800 jpoulos By: mac I recall a raging debate in my office back in the early 90s. I asked the "no-burners": what if they were locked in a freezing cold warehouse with nothing to set fire to but a stack of American flags? What if someone made them an American flag birthday cake? Could they light the candles? What if a really gross, filthy, stinky guy puts on an American flag t-shirt? Isn't that disrespecting the flag too?,2001:site.9076-109857 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:19:33 -0800 mac By: davidmsc Sometime in the late 80s, when this was before Congress, my father, who then was an active-duty Colonel and devout ACLU-er, gathered his staff in his office, lit a match, and held it directly under a small paper flag on a toothpick. Several of his staffers refused to watch and fled, or turned their heads in disgust. He didn't light the flag, but he wanted to make a point. I'm pretty proud that he did that, and admire his guts.,2001:site.9076-109927 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:19:40 -0800 davidmsc By: holgate You're right, jpoulos, and I stand corrected: the Arabic on the <a href="">Iraqi flag</a> (added in 1991) reads "God is great", rather than anything specific from the Qu'ran. But it still turns the flag into a religious object. When checking it out, I also came across <a href="">this story</a>: <i>For the opening of their stores in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, McDonalds made special wrapping paper for the sandwiches showing regional flags, including the SA flag. However, the flag includes words from the Koran which are considered sacred and not to be thrown in the trash. The outlets closed within a day.</i> But that's to do with the sacredness of "the word" in Abrahamic religions, not the symbolic value of the flag.,2001:site.9076-109950 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:51:51 -0800 holgate By: joaquim What about the mechanics of enforcing such a law? What would define the particular flag that is protected? Number of stripes & stars? Exact colors? If I burned a crimson, egg, and navy flag, would I be penalized? Is it a cloth flag or does paper count? If it's the symbol that counts, can any collection of red, white & blue stars & stripes be considered symbolic of the flag? Most of the people voting for this amendment already realize that it would never make it into law. The House depends on the Senate to save them; if the Senate screws it up, there's still the states that have to ratify it. Finally, there's the actual intent: per the cited article, the amendment simply gives Congress the power to enact legislation. If by some series of accidents the amendment actually came to be, would these same House members have the courage of their convictions to pass such legislation? (By the courage yardstick, probably not. By the looking-good-in-the-polls meter, they'd be on it like hens on a junebug.) There might be a few who actually believe that such an amendment and legislation would actually be good things. I disagree with them while respecting their integrity. The majority, however, are hypocrites using the guise of patriotism to gather votes. One can only hope that the flags these clowns are wrapping themselves in are the flags that get burned in protest.,2001:site.9076-110630 Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:30:49 -0800 joaquim | <urn:uuid:b600ff44-bd59-4530-a3a6-c972f43c0bda> | http://www.metafilter.com/9076/Its-that-time-of-year-again/rss | en | 0.925111 | 0.083774 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
I enjoyed the dialogue on the program. BUT.. I feel the real villain is the American people themselves.. We tend to approve of that which lines our pockets. We ask for personal freedom, yet accept no responsibility for our actions. Case in point, the tobacco industry: those of us who make our living, or are addicted to the product, tobacco, feel this is a bad stand for government to take (against the free use and distribution of the substance). Our culpability in this venture or addiction is unmistakable. We, through our desires, impact our society with the cost of our foolishness. We demand our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be covered by the social umbrella of indigent health care. We become infermed and with a death rattle in our voices, call out for help from the public we have foisted our glutenus appetites over the general good. We are either for or against that which benifits humanity. How else can it be reasoned?
John Fenske
homer, ak
If the Tobacco Industry is guilty of racketering, and the willful misinformation of the people than the United States Gov't needs to be found guilty as an acomplice. They cetainly have the motive - the Almighty Dollar. The Gov't makes just as much if not more money off of each Tobacco purchase in this country than the Tobacco Industry itself; the Gov't is simply bringing down their partner in crime before anyone can see past the blinders of the Anti-Tobacco Industry provided by its 222 year old bedfellow. And the people of this degenerating society will eat it out of their hands because they don' t want to take the responsibility that goes hand in hand with their freedom to chose. We need to stop this habit of projecting the cause of individuals problems on others and start taking responsibilty for our own actions, no matter how naive!
Note to the Fast Food Industry:
Start developing defence for class-action lawsuits by aging, overweight, heart diseased, irresponsible 'Baby-Boomers' because Popular Culture used to think hamburgers were an everyday healthy part of one's diet.
Matthew Lopresti
toledo, oh
Some very interesting feedback you received concerning this evenings edition, but I myself have become completely outraged on this big kick to ban the use of tobacco products in the United States. I mean lets be honest, that is exactly what all the anti-smoking lobbyist's want to see happen. They have even openly admitted it.
It has become quite evident in recent years that the aim of the anti-smoking lobbyist is not to keep cigarettes out of the hands of minors, but rather to reap the benefits from jumping on the anti-smoking bandwagon. After all, a lot of money was made and favors exchanged, during the recent "tobacco deal" as your program pointed out.
How, may I ask, can making the tobacco industry pay for damages and liabilities caused from the use of thier products by persons who knew the inherent risks to their health in the first place, help keep tobacco products out of the hands of minors? If anyone can answer this question, I would be glad to listen.
It seems to me if the primary interest in this matter is to keep our kids from smoking, then it should be the parents themselves and business's that sell tobacco products who should be held liable and responsible, instead of an industry that is doing nothing more than following the practices of the freedom of free enterprise.
The theory that the tobacco industry was being an evil giant by not openly admitting the addictive nature of nicotine, in my opinion, holds little or no weight since long before this battle took place warnings were in fact being placed on tobacco labels regarding certain health risks, and both the American Cancer Association and Heart Society were advertising such health risks on national television.
So, it is in my opinion the only good that will come of this whole issue, is bad. It not only gives the anti-smoking lobbyist more of an opportunity to financially capitalize, but it gives the politicians an excuse to furthe tax the american tobaaco using public.
Oh yes, and one other thing. I am glad my children were not watching your program this evening, because you clearly pointed out that it was legally condoned to use illegal practices to try and achieve a desired result. What is this country coming too?
Tim Hanney
el cajon, ca
Your program on the tobacco deal was excellent. It clearly documents that it was lawyers rather than the public health community who very rapidly moved the tobacco debate forward to the point where now we may finally get a reasonably effective national tobacco policy to protect public health.
Lawyer rather than public health stood up to the tobacco cartel and lawyers are finally making it pay for all the disease and death, pain and suffering it has caused.
Your program will not be popular with Big Tobacco and its allies, surrogates and shills (the "smokers rights", "freedom of choice", "individual responsibility" people and groups, the retail and advertising industry, right-wingers and libertarians, Wall Street analysts, and the uninformed.)
Frontline should consider doing a program on the immoral financial connection between Wall Street and the tobacco companies. It's sickening to see the way Wall Street analysts are shilling for the tobacco companies and trying to give their misinformation PR campaign credibility. The tobacco industry represents the dark, sinister underbelly of American capitalism. The role of Wall Street analysts in the national tobacco legislative debate shows the ethical and moral corruption in our economic system.
The future of the tobacco makers? More lawsuits, more expensive settlements, more pay-offs to politicians, losses in court and damage payments, more lies and deception, more government regulations, indictments and jail for tobacco executives, more public condemnation, and the FDA banning nicotine in the next ten years.
Rick Kropp
santa rosa, ca
I was disturbed to note there was no mention of the tax-deductible status of any of the "tobacco settlements". As usual, it will be the taxpayers of the U.S. that pay a large portion of their bill. I don't want to fine the tobacco industry, I want to put it out of business. This is not about capitalism, but about defending ourselves against an industry that has been shown to lie and maliciously harm the American public.
Dave Wolf
corvallis, or
Here in Oregon, we have just re-passed a law that allows the individual to choose to end his life in a timely manner. Since I now have that right, I choose to commit a slower suicide. I am responsible for my own health, and if I am unable to care for myself, I will end my life at a faster pace. Meanwhile, I as a smoker now will have to pay the fines for the tobacco companies, plus the added tax, because we have suddenly decided that tobacco smoke is the new "evil drug" of the 90's
Stan Weagel
This is very damning evidence. I think what galls a lot of people is their blatant attitudes of defiance. The question of what society's obligation is to those who willingly do harmful things to themselves within the framework of the free society is a question for a deeper thinker than this humble speaker. The question then is: what's next? Alcohol? Fatty Foods?
John B.
harrisburg, pa.
The most serious issue in the tobacco controversy that has been largely left out of debate is the proper disposition of lawyers. Documents have revealed that the lawyers have had a direct hand in the conspiracy to deceive the public about the tobacco poison. Is there any reason why these lawyers have not been brought to justice and, if convicted, received the most severe punishment on the books for sending millions of Americans to their painful deaths?
Ben Jone
ny, ny
I applaud the Producers of Frontline for making this fascinating documentary on the Tobacco litagations.
We should keep in mind, the Tobacco cartels are reaching kids all around the world and not just our shores. They have to be held accountable for their misdeeds no matter were they do business.
And let us not forget that chewing tobacco and cigars are also targeted to young folks.
Also, just a little note to the Producers of Frontline - you stand out above the rest, with unbiased reporting and indepth coverage. You can't really say that about some other investigative programs such as 'Sixty Minutes', due to their close ties to tobacco money!
These are only my beliefs....
James Miller
new york, ny
It is my sincere belief that the tobacco bill that Senator McCain is proposing has no hope of reducing tobacco consumption by minors, but will only succeed in forcing millions of Americans out of jobs and create a black market in this nation for tobacco products. We have many issues that plague us today, and tobacco is not the greatest of these issues by a long shot. The metroplex in which I live is being barraged, not by tobacco caused problems, but by heroin, a hard core drug that has claimed numerous teenage lives in this area in the last few months. And the heroin problem is escalating. Should youth use tobacco products? No, they should not. But we already have a law on the books prohibiting the use of tobacco products by those who are under the age of 18. Senator McCain states that tobacco use by minors has increased exponentially and that this increase is the tobacco industries' fault. He is partly right. Tobacco use by minors has increased alarmingly, but it is not the tobacco industries' fault. It is the fault of those stores who continue to sell tobacco products to minors. There is a law in place that prohibits them from doing so. Why are we not trying more stringently to enforce the law that is already in place? I applaud all efforts to decrease the use of tobacco by minors, but will stand and shout at the top of my lungs against any legislation such as the one Senator McCain proposes that does nothing to stop the selling of tobacco products to minors. Everyone cries out that the tobacco companies have lied and sucked everyone in to using their product. i submit that America is a free country where people make their own choices. We are each accountable for what we do in our lives. If I choose to pick up a cigarette and smoke it, it is my conscious choice, a choice that I alone am responsible for making. It is the same as if I were to drink several beers and then get behind the wheel of a car. I am responsible for the action of drinking, for getting behind the wheel, and should an accident occur, then I am responsible for that as well. Whistleblowers, lawyers, judges, politicians, and all those who stand to gain any type of monetary compensation from the lawsuits as well as the legislation need to take a step back and think before they leap. Look at yourselves first and then try to pass judgement on someone else. Get the dollar signs out of your eyes and focus on the issue at hand. Tobacco is not your enemy, your own greed is.
Ellen Rowell
dallas, tx
The fact that no one is really interested in a deal that does anything less than put the industry out of business makes their future uncertain. I can't imagine how congress could pass legislation designed to crush the industry. The constitutionality of such a law seems shaky at best.
If the government wants to make this a child protection issue, which I firmly believe is a political ploy, then the government should consider punishing the liquor industry, particularly beer companies. Teen alcoholism is a major problem in this country, binge drinking on college campuses is rampant and beer ads appear in all types of television programs and magazines seen by children, particularly sports. How about banning the Budweiser lizards and frogs; they're even more popular than Joe Camel.
oak brook, il
Your actions amount legal extortion (higher taxes and more loss of personal fredome). The government controled Al Capone, who can we get to control you? Under the guise of protecting the children (a parent responsibility) and the terrible crime of trying to make a profit, people like you have vertually destroyed our personal fredome. If you want to talk about who lied, look first at the experts, the government. Will your next chriminals be the sugar industry, liquor industry, dairy industry, beef industry, pork industry, etc.?
Harry Norton
simpsonville, s. c.
Great show. I think for all the noble sentiment expressed by Mr. Scruggs, there may be some green monster lurking. Didn't guys like Scruggs literaly put the asbestos industry out of business? I loved it when he said he 'loaned' his boat, car and house to the whistle blower. What a guy!! In any case, I do think the deal negotiated with the states is a good one. So typical of congress to try and milk another 100 billion or so out of something if given the opportunity.
Mike Reardon
falmouth, ma
People should recognize that these manufactures also are major food companies . Be careful with broad sweeping comments, what is imposed on one company goes way beyond the chest pounding of anti-smoking advocates.
Craig Williams
the issue of expenses and attorneys fees continue to be the plague of the resolution of the political settlement. is this due to the worry of the republican investing the trial lawyers with more political funds or a ploy of the tobacco industry to scuttle the settlements?
mack barnhart
gainesville, texas
There sould be an independent counsel appointed to investigate members of government who accepted stolen property, which was known to be privileged client attorney documents and then subsequently releaseing them.
This is clearly illegal and is no better then any actions taken by the tobacco industry.
In addition, I am disappointed that frontline failed to present a truely balanced report. The entire basis which the initial action was taken on, that the taxpayer bears the cost of smoking related illness, is fatality flawed by the fact that the state and federal taxes paid by smokers is not included in the calculation. Further, cost savings achieved in reduced social security payments, federal pensions, reduced nursing home and other old age costs, not incurred by the "premature" death of smokers in not included in the calculation. This should have been addressed in the report.
new york, new york
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• There is however a long history of relatively friendly (for the region) contacts with middle east cultures and there was a turkic minority in Poland until sometime in the late 19th century (their descendents are still around, they just don't speak a turkic language anymore). DIVAN.
• The Thirteenth Tribe book has been proven to be incorrect; Ashkenazi Jews are not turkic but are in fact descended form the Semite Jews in Germany since the Middle Ages and before and the genetic evidence for this exists.
• The Hun. word is 'ostor' and I believe it is a turkic or Alanic loanword. BECS.
• It got changed to choinak--a combination of the local word for tea, and a much more pleasant to the turkic ear version of "nik." CHAINIK.
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Madame Masque
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Madame Masque.
Art by Jim Cheung.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance (as Whitney Frost)
Tales of Suspense #98
(February 1968)
(as Madame Masque)
Iron Man #17
(September 1969)
Created by Stan Lee
Gene Colan
In-story information
Alter ego Giulietta Nefaria (originally), Whitney Frost (legally changed)
Team affiliations Maggia
Hood's Unnamed Crime Syndicate
Inner Guard
Notable aliases Big M, the Director, Kristine "Krissy" Longfellow
Abilities Skilled hand to hand combatant
Expert markswoman
Master strategist and organizer
Proficiency with robotics
Madame Masque, real name Whitney Frost and also known as Masque, is a fictional character, a supervillain that has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. She is an occasional love interest, and sometimes enemy of Iron Man within the Marvel Universe. She originally wore a golden mask to cover up her disfigured face, and continues to do so after her face was healed.
Publication history[edit]
Whitney Frost first appeared in Tales of Suspense #98 (February 1968), and was created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. She first appeared as Madame Masque in Iron Man #17 (September 1969).
Fictional character biography[edit]
As a young adult, Whitney was a debutante and socialite, and became engaged to politician Roger Vane. The Frosts die and Count Nefaria approaches Whitney and reveals her true parentage. He tells Whitney that he wants her to take his place as leader of the Maggia, a Mafia-like organization based on the East Coast of the United States. Whitney at first refuses, but when she tells Roger about her father, he leaves her, afraid that her connections to a known criminal would hamper his political career.
Whitney accepts her father's offer to become a professional criminal mastermind and is trained by him in strategy, criminal activities, and combat. She turns out to be a brilliant student and when her father is imprisoned, she becomes the new Big M, the leader of the Nefaria family of the Maggia. Her role as Big M brings her into conflict with Iron Man.[1] Whitney is forced to flee after a raid on his company, Stark Industries. The plane she escapes in crashes and Whitney's face is scarred, but she is saved by the criminal Mordecai Midas and starts to work for him. Midas is obsessed with gold and Whitney hides her face behind a golden mask and uses the alias "Madame Masque".[2]
Madame Masque meets Tony Stark (Iron Man's alter ego) and he shows concern for her despite her scarred face. She turns on Midas to save Stark, but leaves Stark because of her criminal past. Unable to forget him, she returns as Krissy Longfellow, Stark's personal secretary. Both come to know each other's secret identity and start a romantic relationship. Their happiness is short-lived as Count Nefaria, her father, is dying as the result of an attempt to gain superhuman powers. Whitney hires the Ani-Men to bring her father to her and then asks Stark to find a cure for him. Nefaria tries to use violence to force Stark, and a battle starts between the Ani-Men and Iron Man. Whitney is unable to choose between her father and her lover, and when Nefaria's life-support is damaged in the fight, she goes insane with guilt and grief.[3] Whitney returns to the Nefaria Maggia and as "The Director" becomes its leader. She often fights Iron Man and his friends.[volume & issue needed]
At one point, Frost becomes paranoid and starts to create copies of herself, known as bio-duplicates. One of her bio-duplicates known as Masque, becomes an ally of the Avengers.[volume & issue needed] She also creates robotic servants known as the Inner Guard and names them individually after notable historical traitors, Benedict, Brutus, Fawkes, Quisling, Monmouth (based on Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus, Guy Fawkes, Vidkun Quisling and the Duke of Monmouth) and two other, unnamed members.[4][5]
One member of the Inner Guard, Benedict, recaptures Masque for Whitney. Masque tries to convince her the Avengers are benevolent and that she should reach out to Stark again, but Whitney is still too fearful to do so. She continues to be a criminal figure of importance, until her father returns from the dead once again and destroys her base. She reluctantly assists the Avengers and the Thunderbolts against Nefaria, but she secretly plans to betray and destroy both sides, her increased paranoia causing her to believe that both sides want only to kill her. Masque again tries unsuccessfully to convince her to side with the heroes, then joins the battle in Whitney's place. Masque uses a weapon designed to disrupt Nefaria's ionic energy that Whitney was saving until the Avengers were dead and Nefaria weakened, and is slain by Nefaria. Madame Masque is shocked by her duplicate's nobility and sacrifice, with Iron Man's dismayed reaction at what appears to be her death compared to Nefaria's glee forcing her to recognize that her duplicate was right about the Avengers. Whitney joins the battle and plays a key role in her father's defeat, her weapon causing him to begin leaking ionic energy until he finally collapses. She renounces her criminal past, and MACH-II of the Thunderbolts offers her membership, but she declines, departing to parts unknown to consider her future. Before leaving, she asked MACH-II to thank everyone for her, especially Iron Man.[6]
Madame Masque is hired by the Hood to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act.[7] She becomes the Hood's second in command (and his lover) and helps them fight the New Avengers. She is taken down by Doctor Strange and taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.[8] A group of Skrulls disguised as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents try to learn her true face so they can switch her out. The Hood frees her and kills all the Skrulls except one. In an unknown location attended by most of the Hood's army, they learn from the Skrull agent that the Skrulls plan on taking over Earth, believing it to be rightfully theirs.[9] Madame Masque rejoins the Hood's crime syndicate and attacks an invading Skrull force.[10] She is among the Hood's crime syndicate as they assist the heroes in their final battle against the Skrulls.[11]
During the Dark Reign storyline, Norman Osborn puts a bounty on Tony Stark's head. He personally calls Madame Masque over to Stark Tower, offering the locations of multiple Iron Man armories to help her find Stark. She tracks Stark to Russia, which Pepper Potts had also done.[12] Masque captures Pepper, torturing her, before demanding that Stark tell her his true feelings to her real face. Stark admits that, though they have been fighting, he always loved her, to which Masque reciprocates.[13] However, when faced with a direct choice between Pepper or Masque, he chooses Pepper. As he escapes to Afghanistan, Masque and Pepper go hand-to-hand with each other.[14] Madame Masque is imprisoned in Stark's discarded Crimson Dynamo suit[15] while Pepper, disguised as Masque, reports to Osborn that she killed Pepper in combat, and returns to the United States with the Rescue armor, which is placed in storage with other Stark armors that Osborn has acquired.[16]
Madame Masque is part of a surprise attack on the New Avengers, a trap set up by Norman Osborn.[17] Later, when The Hood attacks Doctor Strange in order to become the Sorcerer Supreme, she tries to help him deal with his possession by Dormammu, taking off her mask and confessing her feelings for him.[18]
When Osborn calls off the hunt for Stark, due to his being in a persistent vegetative state, Masque decides to take matters into her own hands, and hires the Ghost to eliminate Stark, a task at which he fails.[19]
Masque, along with the rest of the Hood's gang, joins in helping Osborn with the Siege of Asgard.[20] However, Loki retakes the Norn stones from the Hood to help the Avengers and Asgardians battle the Void. Masque helps the Hood slip away. The Hood is pessimistic, knowing that his gang would simply sell him out.[21] Therefore, she seeks out her father Count Nefaria for help. The New Avengers track her and the Hood using John King. After a battle with Nefaria, the New Avengers capture all four and bring them to Maria Hill to place them under arrest.[22]
During the Heroic Age storyline, Hood escapes from prison and makes a play to assemble the Infinity Gauntlet and meets up with Madame Masque. Using his reality gem, he heals her face.[23]
She appears in Madripoor for the auction of a videotape showing Hawkeye assassinating an Asian dictator. However, the real Madame Masque is later revealed bound and gagged in her hotel room, with her costume and identity having been stolen by Kate Bishop.[24] After the tape is destroyed, Masque vows vengeance on Hawkeye and Bishop.[25] Masque later attempts to capture Bishop by luring the girl to her home in California, where she drugs her. The teen manages to escape and wrecks the house in the process, causing Masque to once again swear vengeance.[26]
In the pages of Avengers Undercover, Madame Masque appears as a member of the Shadow Council's Masters of Evil in Bagalia. She works as Baron Helmut Zemo's right-hand woman.[27]
Other versions[edit]
House of M: Masters of Evil[edit]
Marvel Noir[edit]
In Iron Man Noir, another version of Madame Masque appears in as an explorer working with Tony Stark, not to mention a former flame as well.[30] Dr. Gialetta Nefaria, along with Tony, Virgil Munsey, an editor for a magazine called Marvels, and Rhodey are on a trip in British Honduras. After acquiring a rare Jade mask in a temple, she is later seen betraying Stark and his friends to Baron Zemo, his commander Von Strucker. Though Rhodey and Tony escape, they set off a bomb and in the explosion, Gialetta is forever scarred.[31] Gialetta is revealed to be alive, wearing the Jade mask, with the Nazi's having captured Pepper Potts, and Orichalcum, Atlantis' power source.[32] When Tony attacks Von Strucker's airship, Gialetta tries to stop Tony, but is struck down by Pepper, who was tortured by her.[33]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Madame Masque wears body armor of an unknown composition with a gold metal faceplate, underneath which her face was chemically scarred. The faceplate is hard enough to deflect bullets without causing her any permanent injury. She carries a .475 Wildey Magnum revolver and other handguns, in addition to weapons that fire concussive blasts of energy or sleeping-gas cartridges.
In other media[edit]
• In the animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Madame Masque is the alter ego of Whitney Julietta Stane (voiced by Kristie Marsden), neglected daughter of Obadiah Stane, and the mask she uses is a prototype disguise device constructed by Stark International, whose unchecked radiation emissions eventually drive her insane. Whitney appears in several episodes as a recurring character and appears as Madame Masque in the episodes "Masquerade", "Chasing Ghosts", "Don't Worry, Be Happy", "Best Served Cold" and "Iron Monger Lives".
Video games[edit]
• British progressive rock group Icarus recorded a song about Madame Masque, called simply "Madame Masque", for their 1972 album The Marvel World of Icarus. Of the eleven individual Marvel Comics characters featured on songs on this album, Madame Masque is the only villain.
1. ^ Tales of Suspense #98
2. ^ Iron Man #17
3. ^ Iron Man #116-117
4. ^ Avengers volume 3 #32
5. ^ Inner Guard at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe Retrieved 19.July 2013
6. ^ Avengers, volume 3 #34
7. ^ New Avengers #35
8. ^ New Avengers Annual #2
9. ^ New Avengers #46
10. ^ Secret Invasion #6
11. ^ Secret Invasion #7
12. ^ The Invincible Iron Man #12-14
13. ^ The Invincible Iron Man #15 (July 2009)
14. ^ The Invincible Iron Man #16 (August 2009)
15. ^ The Invincible Iron Man #18 (September 2009)
16. ^ The Invincible Iron Man #17 (September 2009)
17. ^ New Avengers #50
18. ^ New Avengers #52
19. ^ Invincible Iron Man #20-24
20. ^ Siege #3
21. ^ New Avengers #64
22. ^ New Avengers Finale one-shot
23. ^ The Avengers #9 (February 2011)
24. ^ Hawkeye #4 (November 2012)
25. ^ Hawkeye #5 (December 2012)
26. ^ Hawkeye Annual #1
27. ^ Avengers Undercover #1
28. ^ Civil War: House of M Issues #1-4
29. ^ Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face Issue #4
30. ^ Iron Man Noir #1
31. ^ Iron Man Noir #1
32. ^ Iron Man Noir #2
33. ^ Iron Man Noir #4
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Patchwork [019/105] reiserfs: fix deadlock with nfs racing on create/lookup
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Submitter Kamal Mostafa
Date June 28, 2013, 6:50 p.m.
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Kamal Mostafa - June 28, 2013, 6:50 p.m. -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
From: Jeff Mahoney <>
commit a1457c0ce976bad1356b9b0437f2a5c3ab8a9cfc upstream.
Reiserfs is currently able to be deadlocked by having two NFS clients
where one has removed and recreated a file and another is accessing the
file with an open file handle.
If one client deletes and recreates a file with timing such that the
recreated file obtains the same [dirid, objectid] pair as the original
file while another client accesses the file via file handle, the create
and lookup can race and deadlock if the lookup manages to create the
in-memory inode first.
The create thread, in insert_inode_locked4, will hold the write lock
while waiting on the other inode to be unlocked. The lookup thread,
anywhere in the iget path, will release and reacquire the write lock while
it schedules. If it needs to reacquire the lock while the create thread
has it, it will never be able to make forward progress because it needs
to reacquire the lock before ultimately unlocking the inode.
This patch drops the write lock across the insert_inode_locked4 call so
that the ordering of inode_wait -> write lock is retained. Since this
would have been the case before the BKL push-down, this is safe.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <>
fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 9 +++++++--
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index 95d7680..ca71b1f 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -1810,11 +1810,16 @@ int reiserfs_new_inode(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
memcpy(INODE_PKEY(inode), &(ih.ih_key), KEY_SIZE);
args.dirid = le32_to_cpu(ih.ih_key.k_dir_id);
- if (insert_inode_locked4(inode, args.objectid,
- reiserfs_find_actor, &args) < 0) {
+ reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
+ err = insert_inode_locked4(inode, args.objectid,
+ reiserfs_find_actor, &args);
+ reiserfs_write_lock(inode->i_sb);
+ if (err) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out_bad_inode;
if (old_format_only(sb))
/* not a perfect generation count, as object ids can be reused, but
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For the sub-nuclear physics there is a database of the Particle Data Group, I was wondering if there was a similar on-line collection for astrophysics, such as energy absorption and emission spectra for different sources.
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There are a wide variety of databases covering all sorts of data, and I won't try and list them all here (but I'll list some of the largest ones). There isn't anything as clear-cut as the Particle Data Group because astronomy deals with complex systems (as opposed to the more fundamental particles in sub-nuclear), and there's no saying that the spectrum of source XX won't change tomorrow. Some sources are more transient than others, and it's often possible to estimate a timescale for transience, but there's always the possibility of some unknown effect coming into play or some unresolved source entering the region and wreaking havoc on the status quo.
I think the closest thing to what you're asking about would be virtual observatories. There are a number of organizations/countries with VO projects, here are a few:
There are also a few source catalogs maintained by the Centre de Données de Strasbourg (Simbad, Vizier, Aladin) which are quite extensive, and another by NASA called NED.
Some of the largest collections of survey data are SDSS (>1/4 of the sky in 5 bands from about the near-IR to the near-UV with hundreds of millions of objects catalogued, and millions of spectra), 2MASS (all-sky survey in the near-IR), MAST (compendium of catalogs from the Space Telescope Science Institute). The data from the Planck (IR/radio, all sky), Fermi (gamma ray, all sky) and Chandra (x-ray) satellites are (or will be) publicly archived, and many other archives of data from particular telescopes exist as well.
If you're interested in a particular source (or type of source), or a particular waveband, I might be able to recommend a database.
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I'm 6 wks pregnant & had 1st ultrasound 2day & Dr. saw no baby or gestational sac. Is this common?
Hello there! I recently had IVF for the second time and found out that I was pregnant. My first HCG level was 33 and then two days later it went to a 41. I've been told it is supposed to double every few days, so I was very nervous about this. Then it did double and went to a 131 and then a 321. My Dr. wanted me to go in for my first ultrasound at 6 weeks, which I did today and he didn't see anything at gestational sac, baby or anything. Now I am freaking out and wondering how common is this? Has anyone at all ever experienced anything similar? Please help!
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He should be able to see something at 6 weeks. I had an u/s at 4 weeks, 2 days (worried about miscarriage) and we could see where the baby had implanted (no sac or embryo visible yet). Then, at 6 weeks, we could see the embryo and the gestational sac. I would call your Dr. for clarification. I don't mean to scare you, but it could be an ectopic pregnancy, if your hormones are going up, but they can't find the baby (I haven't had an ectopic pregnancy, I'm just telling you what I've read, and I'm not an expert). Hope that helps. Good luck!
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Iraq conflict: Clashes on approaches to Baghdad
Iraq has urged the US to launch air strikes to halt the insurgents
Iraqi government forces are engaged in heavy clashes with Sunni insurgents who have made major advances in the past week.
Parts of the city of Baquba - just 60km (37 miles) from Baghdad - were briefly taken over by the rebels.
Reports say 44 prisoners were killed during fighting at a police station in the city.
The US is deploying up to 275 military personnel to protect staff at its huge embassy in the capital.
He said it would be very hard for Iraq to return to the situation that existed before the Sunni militants, spearheaded by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), took control of the northern cities of Mosul and Tikrit in a rapid advance last week, and Tal Afar on Monday.
In other developments:
• The Iraqi government issued a statement on Tuesday accusing neighbouring Saudi Arabia of supporting the insurgents and providing them with financial support - allegations Riyadh has rejected
• Turkey has relocated its consulate staff from the southern Iraqi city of Basra to Kuwait because of an increased security risk, its foreign minister has said
• At least eight civilians were reportedly killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a market selling army uniforms and equipment in central Baghdad
Overnight assault
Government sources say Baquba - capital of Diyala province on the northern approaches to Baghdad - saw Sunni rebels take control of several districts on the western outskirts of the city before these were regained by government troops and allied Shia militia.
The 44 prisoners died in an overnight assault by the rebels on a police station in the city, security officials report.
Accounts of who was responsible differ, with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's security spokesman saying the prisoners were killed by the attacking insurgents, and other officials reporting that they were killed by security forces while attempting to escape.
A member of Iraqi security forces stands guard near volunteers in Baghdad, June 17, 2014 Iraq's security forces have come under huge pressure from the ISIS advance
ISIS supporters demonstrate in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 360km (225 miles) north-west of Baghdad The rebels now control the northern cities of Mosul and Tikrit
Analysis: John Simpson, BBC World Affairs editor, Baghdad
At Tal Afar, a strategic city west of Mosul in the province of Nineveh, there are reports that reinforcements have arrived to boost government forces trying to recapture the town from rebels. The Iraqi air force is said to have been carrying out strikes in the area.
The city of 200,000 people, which has a mixed Sunni and Shia population, lies between Mosul and the Syrian border and was taken just before dawn on Monday.
Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region: "There is no trust right now"
In Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, Sunni militants shot down a government helicopter near the city of Falluja, and say they destroyed several tanks in fighting there. They also say army forces fled from a military base near Ramadi, the provincial capital.
Qasem Suleimani, the commander of an elite unit of Iran's revolutionary guards, is reported to be in Baghdad, helping military leaders and Shia militias co-ordinate their campaign against the rebels.
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In Vienna, US officials held brief discussions about Iraq with their Iranian counterparts at a meeting about Tehran's nuclear programme, but American officials have been quick to dismiss reports of military collaboration with a major foe.
In a letter to Congress, US President Barack Obama said the 275 military personnel being sent to Iraq would protect US citizens and the embassy in Baghdad, and would remain there until the security situation improved.
President Obama has already ruled out sending in ground troops to fight alongside Iraqi government forces, but drone strikes remain a possibility.
The aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has been deployed to the Gulf, along with two other US warships.
By Richard Galpin, BBC News, Baghdad
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Baquba is filled with soldiers and a large number of Shia militiamen who are reported to have pushed the gunmen out.
The jihadists from ISIS already control several towns in the area and now are targeting Baquba - the provincial capital and the last city or town before Baghdad, which lies just an hour's drive away along a major highway.
The situation along the frontlines north of the capital had been quite static for several days, but the militants and their allies amongst the Sunni community are on the move again.
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The United Nations says that ISIS fighters have carried out hundreds of summary executions since their offensive began last week, and Sunni militants have posted photos online appearing to show fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: Iraq's government should reach out for "inclusive dialogue"
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He told reporters in Geneva there was "a real risk of further sectarian violence on a massive scale in Iraq and beyond its borders", and called on the government of Prime Minister Maliki to take a more inclusive approach.
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Satin Icing (Fondant)
This is a true molding icing with a lemony flavor.
Satin Icing (Fondant)
• 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons lemon juice 6 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted a few drops of food coloring
2. 2. Add 2 cups of the confectioner's sugar and heat gently, stirring, until dissolved. When the mixture begins to simmer at the sides of the pan, increase the heat slightly and cook for 2 minutes until it boils gently; do not oveerboil at this stage or the icing will be too hard.
3. 3. Remove the pan from the heat and add 2 cups more confectioners' sugar. Beat thoroughly with a wooden spoon, then turn the icing into a mixing bowl.
4. 4. Gradually mix in enough of the remaining confectioners' sugar to give a soft dough. Turn the dough onto a surface dusted with confectioners' sugar and knead until it is smooth. Add color, if using.
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I kind of have the same Q? Is there anyway you can make it taste other than lemon? Thank you
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User avatar #4 - flemsdfer ONLINE (07/02/2013) [-]
instead of tackling people who do this why not have something like......guns that shoot bolas or something. That'd be cool to watch.
#94 to #4 - bowservoltaire (07/03/2013) [-]
mfw "guns that shoot bolas"
#80 to #4 - undeadwill (07/03/2013) [-]
We do its called a bolo round for a shotgun. Problem is they will kill you, mane you, decapitate you.
But yes I agree it would be fun.
#81 to #80 - flemsdfer ONLINE (07/03/2013) [-]
Sweet sugary goodness it's real!
Sweet sugary goodness it's real!
User avatar #82 to #81 - undeadwill (07/03/2013) [-]
I tried to design a larger version to be fired in modern field gun as an anti-zombie swarm weapon.
User avatar #65 to #4 - drunkasaurus ONLINE (07/03/2013) [-]
I read that as guns that shoot boats and had a really cool mental picture for a second
#60 to #4 - anonymous (07/03/2013) [-]
It would be cooler if they just shot them
#7 to #4 - anonymous (07/02/2013) [-]
Or just use bolas. Still cool, and we don't need to invent anything.
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Sir Hammerlock and Mr Torque DLCs
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I downloaded both of them but can't seem to find a way to start them. Is there someplace i have to go or someone i have to talk to get them up and running.
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Coroner was one of those underrated metal bands, mostly known to hardcore fans. Often labeled as a Thrash Metal band, their music went far beyond was is usually thought of as thrash metal.
Releasing five albums and a semi-compilation in eight years, from the unpolished and technical speed of 1987's "R.I.P." to the heavier and more laidback style of "Grin". The band progressed consistently, without ever losing their identity.
Composed of only three members: Tommy Vetterli (guitar), Marky Edelmann (drums) and Ron Broder (bass/vocals). Coroner stood out of the metal scene with outstanding musicianship, creativity, raw power, technical skills and innovation.
Coroner's music became more technical as Tommy's guitar work was characterized by intricate modes and arpeggios, solo work that was chromatically colorful, as well as the de rigueur crunchy chords and speed runs. Marky's drumming went beyond the 4/4 time to incorporate odd time signatures which became their trademark. Ron's bass playing is also worth a mention as having an advanced three-finger technique which enabled him to double the rhythm line as well
as perform more intricate riffs.
Unfortunately, due to lack of exposure and poor management from their label (Noise,) Coroner never got the credit they undoubtedly deserved. They broke up after the release of 1993's "Grin", releasing one last compilation album in 1995 to fulfill their contract with Noise, but without Marky on drums (who had, by then, joined Apollyon's Sun, while Tommy momentarily went to Kreator.) Their eponymous album also contained unreleased material and a selection of hits from previous albums.
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Detroit transit officer charged with manslaughter stemming from off-duty shooting
DETROIT — Robert Tyus, 52, an off-duty Detroit transit officer who provided security for the People Mover, is charged with manslaughter and felonious use of a firearm for the shooting of Jordan West-Morson, 26, on May 1.
West-Morson, a musician, had been selling CDs outside the Gulf Gas Station at 8 Mile and Gratiot. Tyus was assisting his girlfriend with a flat tire when an altercation ensued.
"The argument escalated into a fist fight with Tyus," the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement Wednesday. "During the fist fight it is alleged that Tyus pushed West-Morson away causing him to stumble backwards. At that time Tyus drew his gun and fired one shot killing West-Morson."
A 100,000 or 10 percent cash-surety bond was set for Tyus's release pending further court hearings.
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[Editor's note: The following excerpt takes place after the storm had intensified, and Isaac Cline moved his family to the second floor of their house. The water on the first floor had risen to nine feet. Houses all around them were crumbling into the churning sea. Isaac, his brother Joseph -- also employed by the weather service -- Isaac's pregnant wife and their three children, along with dozens of terrified neighbors, were packed in one room with one window. Even so, Isaac still felt his house would remain standing. Hadn't he predicted that no storm could inflict catastrophic damage on Galveston? And then something struck the house with terrific force.]
Isaac was alone in the water. His family was gone. He flailed his arms and reached deep underwater and kicked his legs to feel for soft things, clothing, someone alive. He felt only square shapes, planks, serrated edges. He had been inside the house; now he was outside in darkness, in wind so fast it planed the water. There was lightning. He saw debris everywhere, jutting from the sea. He saw a child. He shimmied free of the timbers and swam hard. The rain stung; he could hold his eyes open for only a few seconds at a time. He came to her and felt his arm grow from the water and circle her, and he knew immediately the child was his Esther, his six-year-old. His baby. He spoke into her ear. She cried and grabbed him hard and put him under, but he was delighted. She asked for her mother. He had no answer. The house began to break up. He swam away with her.
He was elated; he was distraught. He had found one daughter but lost everyone else. His memory of them would be tinted the yellow of lamplight. He tried to place them in the room, and by doing so, to place them in the sea. His wife had been with him in the center of the room with Esther. His two eldest daughters had been near the window, beside Joseph. Why had they not surfaced, too?
Isaac and his baby drifted. There was more lightning. He coughed water through his nose and mouth. In the next flare, he saw three figures hanging tight to floating wreckage. Isaac and Esther swam toward them against the wind. He heard a shout.
Joseph Cline: "My heart suddenly leaped with uncontrollable joy. In two figures that clung to the drift about one hundred feet to leeward, I discovered my brother and his youngest child."
Isaac: "We placed the children in front of us, turned our backs to the winds and held planks, taken from the floating wreckage, to our backs to distribute and lighten the blows that the wind-driven debris was showering upon us continually."
Joseph: "Our little group now numbered five. We remained close together, climbing and crawling from one piece of wreckage to another, with each of the latter in turn sinking under our weight. At one time it seemed as though we were indeed lost. A weather-battered hulk that had once been a house came bearing down upon us, one side upreared at an angle of about forty-five degrees, at a height from six to eight feet higher than our drift. I was conscious of being direly frightened, but I retained sufficient presence of mind to leap as the monster reached us and to get a grip with my hands on the highest edge of the wreck. My weight was enough to drag it perceptibly lower in the water, and I called my brother, who added his weight to my own."
Isaac: "Sometimes the blows of debris were so strong that we would be knocked several feet into the surging waters, when we would fight our way back to the children and continue the struggle to survive."
Joseph: "At one point, two other castaways, a man and a woman, joined us on the wreckage that, at that time, was serving us as a lifeboat. The strangers remained with us for some time, until the man crawled up to where I sat, pulled the two children away, and tried to shelter himself behind my body. I pushed him indignantly away and drew the children back. He then repeated the unspeakable performance. This time I drew out a knife that I carried and threatened him with it."
They drifted for hours aboard a large raft of wreckage, first traveling well out to sea, then, when the wind shifted to come from the southeast and south, back into the city. For the first time they heard cries of help, these coming from a large two-story house directly in their path. Their raft bulldozed the house into the sea.
The cries stopped.
A rocket of timber struck Isaac and knocked him down but only dazed him. Joseph saw a small girl struggling in the sea and assumed that somehow Esther had fallen from Isaac's grasp. He plucked her from the water and gathered her close to the other girls. Allie May, the eldest, cried out, "Papa! Papa! Uncle Joe is neglecting Rosemary and me for this strange child!"
Stunned, Joseph took a close look at the girl. It was not Esther at all. He looked over his shoulder and saw Isaac bent over his baby, shielding her from the flying debris. This girl was a stranger.
Their raft ran aground at 28th Street and Avenue P, four blocks from where they once had lived. They saw a house with a light in the window, and climbed inside. Safe. A miracle had occurred, Isaac knew. Nothing else could explain why he and his three daughters were still alive. Yet the enormity of what he did lose now came home to him. His children wept for their mother, but soon out of sheer exhaustion they fell asleep. Isaac lay awake for a time, hoping his wife somehow had survived.
And there was this: In the midst of the Clines' voyage, a beautiful retriever climbed aboard their raft. It was Joseph's dog. Somehow in the storm he had sensed them and swum after them. The dog was delighted to see Joseph, Isaac, and the children, but he sensed, too, that someone was missing. He went one by one to each of them, as if marking a checklist. One scent was absent. The dog raced to the edge of the raft and peered into the water. Joseph called him back. The dog stood scrabbling at the edge, obviously torn by conflicting needs. But it was clear where his passion lay. The dog ignored Joseph and prepared to jump. Joseph lunged for him, but the dog entered the sea, and soon he was gone.
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Glacial striations at Mount Rainier National Park
Glacial grooves stemming from the Wisconsin glaciation at Kelleys Island, Ohio
Glacial striations are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 1700s when Swiss alpinists first associated them with moving glaciers. They also noted that if they were visible today that the glaciers must also be receding.[1]
Glacial striations are usually multiple, straight, and parallel, representing the movement of the glacier using rock fragments and sand grains, embedded in the base of the glacier, as cutting tools. Large amounts of coarse gravel and boulders carried along underneath the glacier provide the abrasive power to cut trough-like glacial grooves. Finer sediments also in the base of the moving glacier further scour and polish the bedrock surface, forming a glacial pavement. Ice itself is not a hard enough material to change the shape of rock but because the ice has rock embedded in the basal surface it can effectively abrade the bedrock.
Most glacial striations were exposed by the retreat of glaciers since the Last Glacial Maximum or the more recent Little Ice Age. As well as indicating the direction of flow of the glacial ice, the depth and extent of weathering of the striations may be used to estimate the duration of post-glacier exposure of the rock.
An outstanding example of glacial grooves can be found at the Glacial Grooves at Kelleys Island, Ohio (a National Natural Landmark), the most impressive of which is 400 feet (120 m) long, 35 feet (11 m) wide, and up to 10 feet (3.0 m) deep. These grooves cut into the Columbus Limestone. Striations cover the sides and bottoms of the grooves.
Factors which affect the rate of glacial abrasion[edit]
The following affect the rate of abrasion:[1]
• The amount of rock debris in the basal surface of the ice. If there is no rock in the basal surface of the ice there will be no abrasion, but if there is too much rock in the basal surface of the ice the motion of the glacier will be affected, thusly affecting abrasion rates.
• As the bedrock is being worn away the abrading fragments within the glacier are also being worn. Similarly to sandpaper being worn away with use. A continued supply of abrading fragments is required to uphold a similar level of abrasion.
• The fragments must be harder than the bedrock. Quartz fragments will abrade shale but shale fragments will not abrade a quartz rich bedrock.
• A constant flow of melt water between the basal surface and the bedrock speeds abrasion. The meltwater constantly rinses away the rock flour allowing the coarser fragments to abrade bedrock.
• Speed of the glacier. The faster the glacier moves, the faster the bedrock will be eroded.
• Thickness of the ice. Thicker ice is heavier ice which causes more downward force and increased pressure between the abrading fragments and the bedrock. There is a limit to how much ice will enhance abrasion. If the friction force between fragments and bedrock is too great the ice will flow around the fragments.
• Basal meltwater under high pressure. If the meltwater is under sufficiently high pressure it will cause the ice to effectively buoy up and decrease the normal force of the ice on the bedrock. Another result of this is that the velocity of the glacier is increased.
• Shape of the fragments. Larger more angular fragments will scratch and scour more effectively than small and round fragments will.
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Overview of Selwyn Rock, South Australia - exhumed Permian glacial pavement
Selwyn Rock - grooves and striations on exhumed glacial pavement
Selwyn Rock - grooves and striations on exhumed glacial pavement
1. ^ a b Easterbrook, Don (1999). Surface Processes and Landforms. Upper Saddle River, New Jesey: Prentice Hall. pp. 315–317. ISBN 0-13-860958-6.
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In both algorithms objective functions, that will be executed with non quantum computers, are used. Both algorithms are methods for finding the global minimum of a given objective function.
From wikipedia:
What is meant by "tunneling field strength"?
The choice of next candidate state seems to be the only difference between the algorithms, is that correct?
Finally, what are the advantages of Quantum annealing? Is it faster, or is it just better at handling local minima?
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Hi Pavel. Algorithmic questions are perfectly on topic on Programmers, and as you've noticed yours was answered pretty quickly. That said, I'd like to point you to our new sister site, Computer Science Stack Exchange that's more focused to computer science questions than we are. Not for this question, but if you have more questions that require mathematical answers, you might want to try their site first (if only because they support MathJax - a display engine for maths - and we, intentionally, don't). – Yannis Rizos Apr 10 '13 at 13:30
@Yannis, thank you for advice! – BergP Apr 10 '13 at 13:33
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what is "tunneling field strength"?
The distance in which you randomly select the next candidate.
Choosing of next candidate state the only difference between algorithms, is it?
No. Normal simulated annealing works with fixed parameter, but quantum annealing always works with gradually decreasing parameter more like adaptive simulated annealing.
What advantage of Quantum annealing? Is it faster, or is it just better handle local minima?
It can handle wider, but slightly different set of problems. Simulated annealing only works when the barriers separating minima are relatively low, but they can be any wide. The adaptive version compensates a bit, but it remains inefficient when the barriers are high.
Quantum annealing is not limited by barrier heights and because it starts with the parameter equal to diameter of the problem space it is not limited by their widths either. However it will have problems finding global minimum surrounded by large area of high values, because if it does not hit the small low area early, it won't get there after the parameter decreases.
So quantum annealing will usually give better results, but it might not depending on the specific problem.
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Thank you for reply! What part of that algorithm depends on quantum hardware and quantum gates? D-Wave using the same approach for quantum computing, and I want to know, what part of algorithm is executed by quantum computer? The client of BlackBox compiler defines and implements only objective function and it executing in regular computer. – BergP Apr 10 '13 at 13:25
@PavelKatunin: Quantum annealing is a normal algorithm for normal computers working on principle of Turing machine. It is only called "quantum" because it is inspired by quantum tunnelling. I have no idea which parts of it could be sped up using quantum hardware. – Jan Hudec Apr 10 '13 at 13:45
Thank you! My bad, I read the wrong information on the subject! :) – BergP Apr 10 '13 at 13:56
but in some sources phys.org/news/… there is information about D-Wave quantum computers used quantum annealing, have you any idea how? kurzweilai.net/d-wave-reveals, and in wiki page about quantum annealing there are some links on D-Wave site – BergP Apr 10 '13 at 14:21
@JanHudec: There is a company called D-Wave that has physically implemented QA using actual quantums. The nice thing about implementing this algorithm is that it doesn't matter if there is some noise in the system, since it is only a heuristic anyway. Controlling noise is one of the biggest hurdles in building a workable quantum computer. – Jörg W Mittag Apr 10 '13 at 14:23
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I was learning server/client basics, as part of my networking programming skills development.
So basically I write server listening on some port, and client connecting to it and data flow goes on...
Now I'm fascinated how ping is able to receive response from remote machine, without any service responding to it? Or I'm mistaking here?
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See my updated answer for how ping can access the received ICMP messages – artistoex Oct 11 '12 at 20:13
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As ping (more accurately, ICMP echo requests) is part of the Internet Protocol, your network stack (which is your operating system's implementation of the protocol) answers these requests.
It's neither TCP nor UDP nor any other transport protocol. In the internet header, there is a protocol field which indicates what type of payload the IP packet contains. For TCP packets that field indicates TCP. For ping packets it indicates ICMP.
Btw. this is not the only use of ICMP. E.g. when the TTL of a packet drops to zero while traveling across the net, it is discarded and the sender is notified by an ICMP packet.
If you wonder how ping (8) manages to display received ICMP replies from user space, it does so using the socket API. This is the relevant section from the source code:
/* Initialize raw ICMP socket */
proto = getprotobyname ("icmp");
if (!proto)
return NULL;
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thanks, that's what I suspected too... – JalilKarimov Oct 11 '12 at 14:50
Yes, you're slightly mistaken.
When a ping request is sent to a host, by standard (RFC 1122), a host must reply. Thus, there is a "service" responding to it. It's not an application level service - the TCP/IP stack itself is the "service" responding.
Ping is sessionless - which is what might be confusing you. Ping uses IP which does not require a session to be established through negotiation (which TCP does). When you wrote your program for your class, I'd bet you wrote it using TCP sockets.
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It gets funny when the iptables stateless rules documentation talks about ping "connections" :-) when it is really connection less. – artistoex Oct 11 '12 at 14:51
UDP? Wrong. It uses ICMP on top of IP. – artistoex Oct 11 '12 at 14:52
@artistoex, You're right. I'll edit. I have UDP on the brain - doing something with it. :) – John Oct 11 '12 at 14:53
@artistoex, About iptables, I think it's harder for people to envision "connection less" connections. It's just easier to use generically refer to a common term e.g. "bandwidth" vs "speed". etc. – John Oct 11 '12 at 14:57
Sorry, I've meant to say iptables stateful rules – artistoex Oct 11 '12 at 15:12
ping actually make an ICMP request against the IP stack itself, so no services on the machine will record it, but if you have something like wireshark running, you can detect the packets that way.
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Against the NIC? That's wrong. – artistoex Oct 11 '12 at 14:49
Corrected. Apologies, still early here.... – Jared Tritsch Oct 11 '12 at 14:51
Corrected, it's just the IP stack, there's no TCP involved (ICMP takes its place) – Darth Android Oct 11 '12 at 14:57
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Why don't filmmakers get jazz? Why do most feature films miss the meaning of the music in attempting to depict it? Why is the original American art form apparently so elusive on screen? Two new films shed light on these mysteries, one peddling unfortunate misconceptions on jazz, the other offering something closer to reality. The much-touted feature "Whiplash" – about a conservatory jazz student striving for greatness – gives filmgoers plenty of melodrama to chew on. A villainous, sadistic teacher terrorizes young musicians with his cruel humiliations in the rehearsal room and on stage, often bringing his students to tears and worse. Our hero, a 19-year-old... | <urn:uuid:04a9a1ec-4c61-40c8-a1c0-5732a85f5bf4> | http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/entertainment/forest-whitaker-PECLB003957-topic.html | en | 0.911968 | 0.968143 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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The thin Samsung XP941, available in 512 GB, 256 GB, and 128 GB sizes, will be provided to manufacturers for the next generation of slim notebooks. The new model provides a sequential read of 1,400 megabytes/second, which Samsung noted is the highest performance available using a PCIe 2.0 interface. The PCIe connection offers faster transfer speeds than SSDs using the SATA, or Serial ATA, interface.
This level of transfer speed, the company said, allows a drive to read half a terabyte of data -- or 10 HD movies as large as 5 GB each -- in only 36 seconds. Samsung said that is seven times faster than a hard drive, which would require more than 40 minutes for the same tasks, and it's more than 2.5 times faster than the fastest SSD using an SATA interface.
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The new drive is available in an 80mm x 22mm form factor, weighing 6 grams, or about one-ninth the weight of an SATA-based 2.5-inch SSD. In volume, the XP941 is about one-seventh the size of a 2.5-inch SSD drive, allowing more room in a mobile device for, say, a larger battery.
Young-Hyun Jun, Samsung Electronic executive vice president for memory sales and marketing, said in a statement that the company's shipment of the XP941 makes it "the first to provide the highest performance PCIe SSD to global PC makers so that they can launch leading-edge ultra-slim notebook PCs this year."
Avi Greengart, an analyst with industry research firm Current Analysis, said SSDs have been coming from SanDisk, Intel, Kingston and others in addition to Samsung, which is the "largest flash memory vendor in the world."
Classic Technology Adoption
He pointed out that large amounts of storage on mobile devices are usually only needed for those users having media files they want to store locally, and that, "to an extent, we've been moving away from mass storage on a device" toward offloading some files to a local network or to the cloud.
The evolution of SSDs, Greengart said, is following a "classic technology adoption pattern," where the older technology -- in this case, conventional hard drive technology -- "doesn't truly die, but gets repurposed for areas" where it's still useful, such as in very large, multiple-terabyte RAID drives.
But hard drives' territory is getting smaller. Last week, for instance, Intel announced the new SSD DC S3500 Series, its most recent SSDs for data centers and cloud computing. It touted the new line as "an ideal replacement for traditional hard disk drives," and said data centers have an "improved total cost of ownership," despite SSDs' generally higher hardware costs, because of lower power consumption and smaller space requirements.
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Gay Sailor's Death Personalizes Debate
January 31, 1993|By Cheryl Lavin and Merrill Goozner. Correspondent David Evans and researcher Lynne Marek contributed to this report from Washington.
Allen Schindler has put a face on the debate over lifting the ban on gays in the military.
Schindler is the Chicago Heights sailor who was brutally murdered in Japan last October-allegedly by shipmates-just a month after he told his officers he was gay.
To the gay community, he is a hero. To the military establishment he is an extreme example of why homosexuals don't belong in the service.
But to his mother, Dorothy Hajdys, he is just a boy, killed under circumstances no one has explained to her. Was his murder random or premeditated? Does the guilt end with the people who beat him? Or does it go higher, to those officers aboard the USS Belleau Wood who may have known that Schindler's life was in danger and did nothing to protect him? Who may have even condoned violence against gays and now may be engaged in a cover-up?
Every time she has turned to the Navy for answers, she has been met with silence, indifference and, she believes, lies.
Allen Schindler is an unlikely hero. Only 22 when he was killed, he was a gentle person. Friends say he loved animals and cried when one of his pet lizards died. On his days off, he visited pet shops and played video games. He joined the Navy in 1988, after graduating from Bloom Township High School.
In high school Schindler had girlfriends, and one of his mother's proudest pictures is of her handsome son and his prom date.
Yet, at some time during his four years in the Navy, his homosexuality became obvious to him.
Some say the military attracts a disproportionate number of young men who are fighting the growing awareness of their homosexuality.
"They see the recruiting posters with the macho Marines and think the military will make them straight," says Gregg Monsma, head of the San Diego Veterans Association, a gay advocacy group.
In May 1991, Schindler confided to his mother that he was gay and while in San Diego, where he spent much of his time in the Navy, he lived a gay lifestyle.
Although the military bans homosexuals, that has never kept them out of the service, a fact the military readily acknowledges.
In fact, gay servicemen form their own "informal chain of command," according to a recently retired Navy captain. "This is a major problem because as a commander you are trying to put together a cohesive team, and they are not part of the team."
Until Schindler got to the USS Belleau Wood in December 1991, his sexuality was not a problem for him. He liked the Navy so much he encouraged his younger brother, William, 17, to enlist and talked about making the Navy his career. He extended his four-year tour of duty by six months so he could be on the final voyage of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Midway.
Ricardo Gonzalez, a former sailor, served with Schindler on the Midway. He says Schindler was "actively gay" and some of their shipmates were aware of it, but no one bothered him. Some military assignments are safer for homosexuals than others.
"Any commander can create a safe environment for gays if he wants to," says former Navy officer Jim Woodward, a counselor with the Lesbian and Gay Men's Community Center in San Diego. "Medical commands, for the most part, are pretty safe. Medical officers are a different breed than line officers. They're less conservative."
Gays in the military exchange stories of safe havens. Woodward says the USS Constellation has a group that calls itself "The Connie Queens."
"These openly gay members are an ongoing tradition," Woodward says.
"There are places where, if you do your job, they leave you alone," says Jim Jennings, a former sailor who was a friend of Schindler's. "And others where they make your life hell."
If there are safe havens for gays in the military, there are also danger spots. The USS Belleau Wood, an amphibious assault ship that carries nearly 1,000 men, is one of them. The quarters are tight, and sailors sleep in bunks stacked three high. Proximity often is used as one of the major arguments against allowing homosexuals in the military.
The Belleau Wood, based in Sasebo, Japan, was known for trouble. When the ship pulled into port in September, some Japanese held protests. They had signs saying, "Go Home Belleau Wood."
"I probably agree with them," Schindler wrote in his journal.
A foreigner familiar with the area agrees. "The Japanese are very peaceful people, they have very little crime, if any, and they didn't want these guys coming into town and causing a lot of trouble," says Eric Underwood, a performer at Huis Ten Bosch, an amusement park just outside Sasebo. "Every time the Belleau Wood pulled into port, cars were overturned, vending machines were vandalized, shops were robbed."
"When the Belleau Wood pulled in, it was like being in East L.A.," says Rod Burton, another performer at the park. "There were major gangs on the ship, and it was scary. You could see a difference between the guys off the Belleau Wood and the ones off the other ships, the way they dressed, the way they hung out. They were a rough group." | <urn:uuid:09b45ffe-54e4-4c7f-8805-e1e2d84c6f20> | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-01-31/news/9303174417_1_gregg-monsma-allen-schindler-gay-lifestyle | en | 0.988314 | 0.135097 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Sorry suraj, this is something you can easily find on Google. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing – Byron Whitlock Aug 17 '10 at 6:55
Don't we all. It is an overloaded term that means slightly different things to different people. Thus the question is too vague. – Loki Astari Aug 17 '10 at 6:58
There are so much things that "I want to" ... – Cedric H. Aug 17 '10 at 7:01
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The basic idea is that you run a service on a whole farm of servers managed by someone else, so you don't have to care about maintenance.
This makes it way easier to scale things, since you just have adjust some number in the control panel and the cloud (just a fancy name for datacenter) will start your program on new servers / VMs.
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and someone at berlu is a comic fan
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i did this once on a pair of chelsea boots. the effect is subtle, only slightly noticeable in direct light. not sure i would do it on dress shoes. the only way thay you will know for yourself is if you try it. if you don't like it just strip the wax off.
going bespoke doesn't necessarily eliminate this. e.g., i doubt that i will let anyone other than Delos/Berlu repair my DELOS shoes and i'm sure it wil set me back at least a few hundre euros. i suspect g&g and cleverley customers feel the same.
If were able to conveniently and economically do so all my shoes would be hand welted... However, as that is not the case is it fair to say that if a pair of GY welted shoes are returned to the manufacturer for a recraft/resole they would likely replace the gemming?
Why do you think my post was specifically directed to you?
are they, true bespoke?
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'Changing gender norms is essential for peacebuilding in Congo'
Chris Dolan, director of the Refugee Law Project in Uganda, has concluded democracy isn't possible in the eastern Congo without big changes in relations between men and women
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Casualties of war ... gender issues affect men as well as women in Congo. Photograph: Leslie Neuhaus/EPA
I've been working in the development field for a long time, and I've increasingly been frustrated by the way that when gender was talked about, it was always in terms of women. We talked about engaging men in reducing violence against women, rather than engaging them with their own issues. The underlying assumption is that men are still in positions of power and therefore they can't ever be vulnerable. A lot of men have experienced vulnerability and they don't relate to these discussions.
I'd been doing a lot of thinking around issues of sexuality, writing country reports for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual] asylum seekers. It became clear to me that all the assumptions about gender being just about women's rights have a tremendous negative impact on other areas of work.
So I have been studying how gender is done in development field, and finding it very limited and inadequate. It does take this very dumbed-down version of gender – I see women's rights as incredibly important, but that's not what gender is only about.
In 2008 I was part of the team putting together the documentary Gender against Men. In the work I had been doing in Uganda in the preceding years, the rape of men was a constant theme, it was almost like an urban legend where something had occupied an immense space in people's minds, yet it was very much under the radar of aid groups and public discussion.
But at our refugee aid project, with refugees from all over the region, we were seeing a lot of male survivors of sexual violence. There were many different organisations working with survivors, but they didn't really provide any kind of service for these men, and we found a lot of men who hadn't been accessing medical care as well.
What I find really fascinating is that the only people who don't like the film tend to be professional women working in gender. They say it is going to take away resources from women's issues. They see it as a turf war, but I don't see it as that at all.
We were trying to present the issues around sexual violence against men. Masculinity makes it very difficult to talk about such things – the fact that an attack on individuals is also an attack on their community.
Now, it is at immediate level making access to services and support for male survivors easier; people don't feel too humiliated or embarrassed. And that's important. As someone dealing with refugees, I see families falling apart, men end up withdrawing from lives and families, if they don't get help.
More broadly, working in conflict situations, what I would like to see happen is for men and women to see the gender norms they are living under as a common enemy, making all of them very vulnerable to violence.
Since making the film, the more I've thought, the more I think we have to help people understand the ways gender norms are used to control them. They are used by the state and by the church, ensuring strong gender norms is fundamentally a governance intervention.
I don't see how you can have a democratic situation where you've got very, very strong gender differentiation. You've got to work on deconstructing all of that if you want to work towards democratic government.
I've just done a bit of research with EU funding for International Alert in eastern Congo. We were asking about gender norms, about marriage, the relationships between men and women.
What was really interesting was that most of these things had never been discussed; all these NGOs are working around gender-based violence but they hadn't got people talking about the underlying issues. Their interventions seemed to be centred around teaching people the law – an alien creature in many communities, a law that doesn't work.
If that's the focus you don't get into a discussion about where each of us fits in our community. When we were talking about those kind of things people got really, really animated.
One focus group with young people went on for seven hours; they just got really interested. One of the questions we were asking was "where do young people get their sex education?". The answer was that there is generally none, although maybe if you're lucky to be in right school, or if you get married through the Catholic church, there will be a little. Effectively, however, most people learn about sex on the streets - not just mechanics, but bigger discussion about where sex fits into identity.
And we found young people really interested in having discussions; they were much more open to thinking about it than older people. But still they found it easier to talk to sex than gender.
We asked people: "is the war over?". Everybody said no; there's a whole list of things happening to them, personal harm, and top of the list was sexual violence. From a peacebuilding perspective, dealing with issues around sexual violence is really important.
And there's a whole issue with impunity, which reflects the way in which the justice system is not really functional. The 2006 law provides for up to 20 years in jail for sexual assault, but that hardly ever happens.
My sense is that people are falling back on traditional culture and ethnicity because the modern state is not working, and they are closely linked to the kind of gender norms we have been talking about.
If alternatives are suggested, then these can easily be seen as a form of neo-colonialism. When attempt to change the way men and women think about or relate to each other, that can easily branded as globalisation – which means an imposition from the outside.
Chris Dolan was speaking to Natalie Bennett, editor of the Guardian Weekly. The Refugee Law Project is a Christian Aid partner.
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Interesting concept. Would definitely lead to a lot of action, in addition to a lot of leg swatting and other "pretend" attacks. I'd like to see it tried in some exhibitions or smaller tournaments and see how it works.
As a side note, I wrestled (fs and greco) in South Africa for a bit. They gave out very liberal cautions for stalling (or "negative wrestling, as they called it). As a competitor who wasn't used to it, it was brutal, especially in greco. "What do you mean caution? I just threw the guy". (They also gave points for slip throws). As a fan- at the entire national championships I only saw one clinch. Even in greco there was lots of scoring on the feet.
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The Saving Private Ryan Censorship "Precedent"?
On February 28, the FCC released an important decision holding that the film Saving Private Ryan was not "indecent" and could be shown on primetime broadcast television without fear of fines.
The decision was handed down four months after 66 of ABC's 225 affiliated stations - - covering roughly one-third of the country - - decided not to air the film fearing that they might be caught in the FCC's growing indecency enforcement net. Several of these affiliates cited the uncertainty surrounding the agency's stepped-up indecency "crackdown" in the wake of the Janet Jackson episode at last year's Super Bowl.
The FCC was also compelled to issue a ruling in this case since it received an official complaint from the American Family Association (AFA) asking the agency to pursue sanctions against ABC stations that aired the film.
First, the good news: The FCC denied the AFA complaint and ruled that Saving Private Ryan was not indecent and that no ABC affiliate would be fined for airing the film. But how the FCC arrived at this conclusion is somewhat troubling, or it at least raises as many questions as it answers about how current indecency "standards" will be interpreted by the agency in the future.
What makes the agency's decision in this case problematic is that when you read between the lines, you realize what the FCC is basically saying is this: 'We like this movie. We REALLY like this movie. It vividly depicts an important historic event. And it's directed by one of America's great directors. Best of all, it was introduced by a U.S. Senator who just happens to be a war hero (and a major player of communications policy in Congress no less!) So, you have our permission to go ahead and air this film in the future.'
Of course, the FCC used more technical legal language to rationalize it's decision not to censor the film, but that really is the long and short of it.
There are a couple of key words and catch phrases that the FCC keeps coming back to in making this determination. The first is "context." The decision stresses how important context is deciding that it's OK to drop the F-Bomb numerous times in Saving Private Ryan, but not even once in another program. The other key words are "shock, titillate, and pander." The FCC doesn't want you engaging in any of those nasty things either... unless you're Steven Spielberg, that is. Here's how the agency dispenses with such matters when it comes to Saving Private Ryan:
"Essential to the ability of the filmmaker to convey to viewers the extraordinary conditions in which the soldiers conducted themselves with courage and skill are the reactions of these ordinary Americans to the barbaric situations in which they were placed. The expletives uttered by these men as these events unfold realistically reflect the soldiers' strong human reactions to, and, often, revulsion at, those unspeakable conditions and the peril in which they find themselves. Thus, in context, the dialogue, including the complained-of material, is neither gratuitous nor in any way intended or used to pander, titillate or shock."
Hmmm. I'm not so sure about that. Certainly SOME individuals - - like the members of the American Family Association - - found the film to "pander, titillate or shock." But you don't have to be an AFA member to find some of the material in the film at least somewhat shocking or titillating. And it's not just the numerous expletives. The extreme violence of the opening Normandy beach storming scene really is extremely shocking. So things are not necessarily as clear as the FCC suggests.
Regardless, as far as I can figure, to the extent there is any sort of "precedent" or rule flowing out the Saving Private Ryan decision it is this:
* If the film garnered a great deal of critical acclaim;
* Or, better yet, won numerous awards (preferably Academy Awards);
* And deals with historical subject matter (especially a war);
* And does so in a gripping, realistic way (but doesn't "pander, shock or titillate"!);
* And is hosted by someone who actually took part in the events;
* Or, better yet, is hosted by an elected member of Congress;
* And, finally, includes a clear rating up-front and repeated content warnings between each commercial, and can be screened by use of the V-Chip...
...then apparently you are free air it without fear of fines or license revocation.
But is that really the case? Wouldn't it be interesting to know how the new Saving Private Ryan "precedent" applies in some other cases?
Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to find out. I'm getting ready to file what's known as a "Request for Declaratory Ruling" at the FCC asking the agency to provide us with some additional guidance on this point. Namely, I will be asking the agency to apply it's new Saving Private Ryan precedent to some other well-known films: Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Malcolm X, Raging Bull, Lenny, Goodfellas, Midnight Cowboy, Leaving Las Vegas, and Angels in America (an HBO production). [I will also be sending the FCC a copy of each of these movies on DVD.]
Do any of these films qualify for an exemption from the agency's indecency regime like Saving Private Ryan? Like Saving Private Ryan, most of them deal with important historical or cultural events. And most of them were made by famous, respected directors. But like Saving Private Ryan, each of these films also include a great deal of profanity as well as shocking and titillating material, at least by some people's definition. Indeed, these movies include some of the most memorable scenes in motion picture history, but many of those scenes involve coarse language or even extreme violence. Finally, like Saving Private Ryan, each of these films also won numerous awards and garnered widespread critical acclaim. When you get right down to it, about the only difference between these films and Saving Private Ryan is that they didn't have a well-known Senator introduce them on TV! Is that what it takes to get a controversial film shown on broadcast television? Is that the Saving Private Ryan "precedent"? Let's see what the FCC has to say.
My point in doing all this is that the FCC's indecency "standard" remains about as clear as mud. Honestly, I don't understand how they are drawing these random lines and I'm looking for greater clarity here, as are many of America's broadcasters. But I have an important advantage over the broadcasters in filing this sort of petition because if they did it, the FCC would simply dismiss it outright by claiming that they don't make preemptive censorship judgments.
I'll post my filing once I get it over to the FCC in a few days and let everyone know what (if anything) they have to say in response.
In closing, I would also like to draw everyone's attention to a rather bizarre section (Paragraph 17) in the Saving Private Ryan decision clarifying that the use of blasphemy in the film didn't cross any lines. "[W]e conclude that uses of the words 'Jesus,' 'Jesus Christ,' 'God,' 'God damn' and its variations, and 'damn' and its variations, are not actionable." Although blasphemy long ago ceased being an actionable item in indecency investigations, it has undergone a bit of a revival lately. This serves as a testament to the growing influence that groups like the AFA and the Parents Television Council are having in this area. Hopefully I'm not the only one out there that finds a renewed focus on blasphemy regulation to be a troubling development. For God's sake, what are they going to want to regulate next? Wait, can I say "For God's sake"? Guess I'll have to file another petition with the FCC to find out.
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I noticed that some adverts (seemingly those on question pages) pass along a parameter indicating that I have a rep of greater than 1500.
My questions are twofold:
1. Is this a simple boolean, or are there other rep brackets?
2. Are any advertisers using this? Perhaps for special offers etc?
I'm only asking out of curiosity I guess, but it'd be cool if there were real world rewards for high rep on a SE site.
An advert (specifically to another SE site in this case) on a random question:
Note that keywords is a comma (%2c) delimited list of tags (here 'cakephp' and 'php'), whether the user is registered and the URL the ad was on as well as whether a users rep is greater than 1500.
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If they used that to solely determine the rep of the clicker that'd be pretty naive/insecure. But also, it might be helpful to the team if you list some example ads that do this. – Daniel DiPaolo Jun 17 '11 at 14:09
As far as I can tell, it's all ads that are displayed on question pages. – Tom Wright Jun 17 '11 at 14:16
At 1500 rep you're not supposed to see adverts, I thought. (edit: oh, on the sidebar too) Testing this one from serverfault I get: http://engine.adzerk.net/redirect/0/2564/2643/8278/c1141acd20dd4a7b9b96cd3ce10a7153/49/1178/2441/634438918969284134?keywords=udp%2cwlan%2cx-user-registered and SO http://engine.adzerk.net/redirect/0/2333/2444/8277/143d1408fd864800a12ec25790a13e4e/45/1178/2064/634438919768034134?keywords=c%23%2cextension-methods%2caverage%2cx-user-registered%2cx-5000plus-rep – jcolebrand Jun 17 '11 at 14:19
I think there's a 10k bracket too, but I haven't paid attention for a while so I could be wrong. – mmyers Jun 17 '11 at 14:58
?keywords= $TAGS, x-user-registered, x-user-highrep – Jeremy Banks May 1 '12 at 20:24
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Stack Overflow offers advertisers the ability to target their ads by user reputation.
There are specific reputation brackets that we can target and pair as necessary to meet a client's needs.
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Villeneuve mocks cautious rivals
Jacques Villeneuve tackles the rain at Interlagos
Villeneuve was seventh fastest in the rain
Jacques Villeneuve said his rivals would have been "a bunch of cissies" if they had refused to take part in Friday's qualifying session for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Several drivers drew up a petition saying that qualifying should not be allowed to proceed in the torrential rain at Interlagos.
The session eventually went ahead after the rain eased up, but Villeneuve said it would have been an insult to fans if the drivers had not taken to the track.
"I never saw the petition and if I had I would not have signed it," said Villeneuve.
"What would it bring to Formula One for us not to go and qualify? People would think that we are just a bunch of cissies.
The drivers wanted to express concerns and show a united front about qualifying in the wet
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posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:05 PM
reply to post by IkNOwSTuff
It's a waste of time, man. It's like trying to convince a bone-idle teenage pothead to get a job, they will hit you with every possible excuse their minds can come up with, chuck insults at you -, there's no reasoning behind it - they just want to own guns...and these days, people are entitled to what they want, it's the modern mindset.
People are controlled by fear, I read that often on ATS...fear of each other. You wanna own a gun out of fear, if you live in an urban area, and own a's FEAR - and you are perpetuating that FEAR by buying into that way of thinking...FEEEEAR...and CONTROLLLL...guns are used to intimidate and control.
I don't fear the government half as much as I do the nutters walking our streets...face it, regardless of whether or not you are responsible, you speak for none other than yourself...grow up.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:14 PM
reply to post by kozmo
Oh, but it was! You are committing ad hoc, ergo propter hoc without delivering appropriate evidence to support the claim. Did you not state that your country had also had massacres? Did you account, since you like statistics, for variations in population density? Of course not! In fact, all of your evidence is anecdotal based on your fear of guns. And none has been statistically normalized to account for the THOUSANDS of variables that ensure there is no correlation between Australia and The United States.
Once again... I dont fear guns, I dont like them but why would I fear them? there not in every 2nd house over here so nothing to fear. Its gun owners who are scared of guns it seems since most of you justify your having them by stating that you need them for protection from other people with guns
Since the gun ban we have had no massacres and gun deaths are a rarity over here, something like 50 a year and alot of those are suicide.
I dont see what population density has to do with anything but since you have admonished me onmy lack of statistical data maybe you could provide some to show me how wrong I am?
Ill take a stab here and say you either wont respond or youll come back with something like "I dont need staistics the burden of proof is on you" well you just stated something you claim to be relevant, I say its not so now the burden of proof is on you.
Im pretty sure you just said all that in an attempt to sound clever as when statistics are shown in most cases its per capita which IS statistical normalisation.... OOOPS
So yes, possession of firearms by the citizenry always gives pause to those who would so easily conquer a peoples and makes them take stock of their potential losses should they fail. Do you claim and unarmed populace would fair better than an armed populace? Hence the originating purpose of the 2nd Amendment!
In this day and age yes, an unarmed populace has a much better chance of overthrowing a tyrannical regime than an armed revolution.
You get 10% of America camped out in the cities and not moving till the gov leaves what they gonna do? shoot you all?
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:19 PM
Originally posted by nixie_nox
Originally posted by spock51
Also, I do not think offerring US .gov statistics will convince anyone. The US government has been known to fib.
This is a total copout. You can't deny stats just because you like the source. It gives a pansy way out by making a paltry excuse to deny the information.
Most people, including some relatives living in that area, say DC is a war zone out on the streets. I will take my sister's word over the .gov's word.
As someone who has relatives who work and live in DC, and who is in DC frequently myself, I will call bunk. ANd I will call your sister a drama queen.
Don't know a bloody thing about UK stats. However, most .gov stats are suspect every where in the world.
Call me paranoid, but I have been lied to by government entirely too many times to trust them unconditionally.
Have any truth about those lies, or are we supposed to take your word for it?
As stated previously, subjectivity must be guarded against, or at least recognized in a debate. You are highly intelligent and motivated, but you must realize that the American way and your way are vastly different. And the reasons for said difference IS an essential element in deciding such a volatile and divisive issue.
I am pretty sure that if the poster came out with a pro gun thread, you people would be jumping all over his support.
Just because you live in another country doesn't mean you can't understand the situation.
Anyone want to challenge RA on JFK? But he doesn't know anything since he isn't American, right?
Perhaps you failed to read my entire post. I am a Vietnam Veteran. Robert McNamara came out on national news outlets and confessed to fabricating the Gulf of Tonkin incident which led directly to the Vietnam Conflict costing 58,000 Americans, and God knows how many Vietnamese citizens, their lives. Hmmmm.... let me see........ I'm old ya know........but I am pretty sure the "Whiz Kid" was a Cabinet Member for LBJ, a Democrat. Yea thats right. I think most Americans affected by that particular debacle would have no problem labelling that as a lie foisted upon the public by the government they were supposed to be able to trust.
I am also Native American. Do I need to say anything more regarding the government's ability to lie? Genocide is not a pretty thing when you are not the ones with the guns. Never again will that be allowed to happen to us.
My sister is not in a position to run in the circles in which I suspect you do. She is, like me, working class and living the paycheck to paycheck American Dream. She keeps a firearm at home, as do a lot of working class people in that area. (And, yes, she can be a drama queen.)
Your reference to those who disagree with you as "you people" is a clear indicator that you view "us" as sub-human or, at least, inconsequential to your worldview. Your arrogance when stating that you can certainly understand our situation even though you are not American is downright laughable. I have absolutely no idea who the hell "RA" is and why JFK has any relevance to this topic nor to I care to delve into it.
The world is full of intelligent and insightful people who are not American, who are not white and who are not politically affiliated.
I am an Independent politically who finds the 2 party paradigm to be ill suited to represent the people of this country. Two heads from the same Hydra, .....but I digress.....
Your "rebuttal" was basically a combination of angst, arrogance and "talking points". While there are many brilliant and caring non-Americans out there who will help us through this mess, you, Nixie_Nox, are NOT one of them.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:19 PM
reply to post by tamusan
Convince me that someone would not be able to obtain a firearm illegally, and you win.
It is far too easy to get your hands on any type of illegal countraband in this country.
What we need is a greater accountability for firearm owners. I would even submit to a yearly evaluation. If I am not responsible enough to manage my weapons, then I hope someone takes them away from me.
You cant stop crims from getting guns by taking them away from the public I acknowledged that in my OP, you can however stop school children from getting them.
You do understand that guns are so easily accessible on the black market because they are easily accessible legally dont you?
I agree with your idea for greater accountability, also making the fine for a lost or stolen gun ridiculously high might help prevent people selling them on
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:21 PM
reply to post by nixie_nox
that doesn't make sense. I am not being difficult either. I don't get what you mean.
If you have to ask for permission then you are granted the privilege of having said grace, or not. If you do not have to ask for permission then it is a right, since no one else but you is involved in the process of granting said right.
That is true for everyone and all things related to rights and privileges
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posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:26 PM
I'm still waiting for you to come refute my facts...
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:26 PM
Originally posted by foodstamp
reply to post by IkNOwSTuff
Your gonna have to be more specific. Canada when? And australia when? Because I'm not aware of any change except for the British coming in a saying it was theirs. Heh
Australia had a referendum in 1901 and declared they were an independant country, Britain wasnt happy but not much could be done
And Canada decided it didnt need British rule in the 1930's, it had something to do with mineral rights.
To be fair with Canada it only became official in the 1980's.
And just to clarify with India and Egypt there was violence but it wasnt an armed uprising that toppled the governments, in fact it could be said the succeeded despite the armed uprising
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:29 PM
reply to post by foodstamp
What does evaluations and greater accountability do for gun control? Really... It doesn't stop guns from being stolen. It doesn't stop them by being bought legally through a proxy (90% of all illegl guns owned are bought legally) It doesn't stop anything. Just gives law abiding citizens more headaches and higher taxes to implement such a board to oversee a futile worthless form of control. Gun control will not stop a law abiding citizen turned madman from getting a gun and using it. Not ever... Your solution of more control does nothing to counter act the problem. Never has, never will. Our history of gun control is a testament to that..
And here youve just admitted that legal guns very easily get into the wrong hands, this is why guns need to be banned.
Having legal ones around just gives criminally minded people more and easier options for obtaining them
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:31 PM
Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
In the 10 years after guns were banned in DC death by gun went down as compared to the 10 years before and despite what gun advocates seem to think it didnt rise by knife, bat or anything else.
The only statistical variance was that gun deaths were lower.
Isnt violent crime and gun crime getting lower in New York?
That is flat out false. Please link to your proof. Acceptable proof would be stats compiled by someone with phd in statistics in a peer reviewed journal or a report from the fbi. The handgun ban in D.C. was struck down in 2008 and murder has fallen ever year since. trict_of_columbia_by_city_2011.xls
2008 186 murders
2009 143 murders
2010 132 murders
2011 108 murders
I don't know how you're getting concecutive data all the way from 1975 to 1995 as fbi reports don't go that far back but homicides went up every year from 1986 to 1991. If you can't link to a legitimate data source i'm not inclined to believe your statement that crime went down in D.C. every year from 1975-1995
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:33 PM
As someone who has fired his share of guns. (AR-15, M-60 M-79 Grenade Launcher & a LAWS rocket; cool as hell, zero recoil) from basic training, sadly I think most ppl who post on this thread defending gun rights are full of it.
OP, I DON'T support your idea, merely b/c it gives us a lack of options, and that is my only reason, ppl like options.
All these arguments about facts, stats, crime rates, & all that is a smokescreen. (That's right, I said it) What it's really about is balls. One's own convictions & beliefs, which MOST ppl don't have /posses anymore.
Do I really need proof for this statement? Fine, but I won't post links b/c I shouldn't have to. First the local level. How many NH "Live free or die" ppl CONSTANTLY get stopped by the cops simply b/c they own a gun & are wearing it in public? And how many of these ppl KNOW that they're being illegally detained & yet submit to a "check" anyway, give their gun to a cop , have a "conversation" and then are free to leave? Just youtube that junk, it's everywhere.
If you're ONLY stopping me b/c I'm wearing a gun officer, fark you. It's illegal! End of story. Doesn't matter they do it anyway. comply. comply. comply.
On the state level, two words: Hurricane Katrina. Two more words: Gun confiscation. Two MORE words: IT WORKED. How many national guardsmen were killed by the gun owners in the act of "from my cold dead hands"?
I can't find any online. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and if it does someone please post a reply with a link to the story, I'd love to read it. But I doubt it.
We have how many youtube vids of cops arresting ppl ILLEGALLY. We also have laws on the books that, if you're being illegally detained, you have the RIGHT to resist using force upto and including death.
Now, what's the REALITY of that situation? We all know the answer. If you're being illegally detained and pull a gun on a cop,(and survive) you're either going to get a needle in your arm, or the electric chair, or life.
We are SUPPOSED to be a nation of laws, and when those that enforce the law don't abide by the law or, even worse, have a different variation of how those laws apply to THEM... well then we're not truly a nation of laws then are we? It's a double standard, and it's crap. Worse than that, it's a LIE.
My point is when I see these kind of things happening, enmasse,(ppl standing up for themselves against the system) then and ONLY then will I believe all this gun rights bs. Most ppl are all talk, and WHEN, not IF, but WHEN it happens (gun confiscation) most of the ppl here will fold like a house of cards.
I mean for crying out loud you got ppl getting arrested for PHOTOGRAPHY for pete sakes! And no one is resisting it! Taking pictures in public! PINAC has moved to or something like that if you insist on proof or don't believe that statement.
Let's face it, if you can't protect yourself against one flatfoot whose crapping all over your constitutional rights, how are you going to resist a SWAT team wearing kevler vests & Mp-5's or M-16's? You're not.
And for the love of God DON'T give me that lame "take it to the courts bs" argument. If you're not willing to die for your beliefs, you don't deserve to have them. That's why others fought & died, so you could have them. But if you're such a person that you believe NOTHING is worth dying for, then what is worth LIVING for?
To sum up OP, the answer to your questions is "we like the ILLUSION of freedom", not actual freedom b/c it's inconvenient.
For the record (because i know someone is going to suggest I am saying this even though I haven't even inferred it) I am NOT endorsing the killing of cops! I AM endorsing your rights to "live free" according to the laws that we ALREADY have on the books! The "law" won't match the reality of that situation though as i already said, (and i think most know that, which is why ppl goto the courts instead of the morgue) but the sad fact is our forefathers faced this very same situation themselves and they said FARK THAT, and they did it for much less then what we are putting up with NOW. That is irrefutable fact, like it or not.
Flame away, the proof is in the pudding.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:40 PM
Originally posted by Grimpachi
reply to post by IkNOwSTuff
I can only guess that you do not have problems with wild dogs where you live. Even though most of America has been tamed there still are areas where carrying a firearm is the only way to insure your safety when I lived in Tennessee I worried about more than just dogs. When I was growing up we kept rifles on gun racks in our trucks and there was never a problem maybe that deterred shootings at schools I can only guess.
I have read where people from other countries have stated they have problems with gangs and knives yet they say they would rather face that. I have no fear of gangs because I am armed. I would much rather be able to defend myself with a pistol than a knife especially if I am defending myself against more than one person. I can’t remember the country but it wasn’t that long ago a psycho killed a bunch of kids on an island where guns were not readily available to citizens so there is an instance where anti-gun laws did more harm than good.
You can think what you want but America is still wild in many aspects depending on where you live if you have never lived here you probably wouldn’t understand yet these are not the only reasons for keeping our firearms but it is enough for me.
To kill wild dogs, feral cats, rabbits and other genuine pests is to me genuine grounds for gun ownership.
If someone holds you up with a gun and demands your wallet are you really going to go for your gun and risk your life over some cash, a few credit cards and a drivers license?
Im sorry but having guns everywhere does not solve problems.
An Island that has never had an issue with guns has 1 shooting spree (not being callous and even 1 ids to many) and your solution is to arm everyone
This unfortunately is typical of the gun owners mentality, guns solve all problems, as long as we have guns were fine.
This is blatantly not the case
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posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:40 PM
I can understand how people who have no concept of true freedom need this explained to them. It just gets really old having to do this everytime some nutjob kills a bunch of people.
I dont own guns because I am afraid
I dont own guns because I hunt animals
I dont own guns just to put holes in paper targets
I dont own guns cause I need to cuddle with one
I dont own guns because I have a sexual problem
I own guns and carry one on a daily basis because I am a free man.
I dont need your approval
I dont need your opinion
I dont care that you dont like guns
Your input on my decisions and what I "need" is irrelevant
I dont give a rats hind end what you think I need.
Liberty and rights are not about what you or anyone else thinks I "need".
MY liberty and MY rights are about what I think I need and what I want.
As long as I do not infringe on the life liberty or property of another I have not crossed any moral barrier.
My firearms are to protect my life liberty and property from those who would infringe on me and mine. That may be a single individual criminal or an entire army of them.
My firearms are insurance
They are a fire extinguisher
They are a spare tire in the back of the car
They are there just in case.
The government in all its guises cannot provide any measure of protection.
The government has no requirement to protect my life liberty or property
It is my duty as a citizen to protect my own life liberty and property.
I am not responsible for the actions of criminals who infringe on the life liberty and property of others.
I am endowed with the right to defend myself by my birth I do not need permission to do so.
The Constitution prohibits the government from restricting that right.
All laws that restrict access to the best means of defending my life liberty and property therefore violate an inalienable right.
I do not care if a criminal is unarmed. I have a right to defend myself and will use any means I deem fit to properly respond to the level of threat the criminal presents.
Again I understand that you do not agree with this I just dont care. You have no say in how I protect myself.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:42 PM
Originally posted by tamusan
reply to post by CosmicCitizen
At any distance, a sane and rational person makes a conscious choice to pull the trigger.
Mentally ill people should not have access any type of weapon. They should also be watched closely, if they are a possible threat.
A firearm owner should be held responsible for not securing their firearms adequately. If their firearms are easily taken, especially by a mentally ill family member, then they should also be charged with the crime.
I cant believe this hasnt been starred until now
What is wrong with gun advocates?
They star a posts saying "hurry up and respond to me" but not this!!!!!
It really shows what sort of people were dealing with
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:44 PM
I just wanna throw in a comment I made in my own thread regarding this issue because it was cool and I'm proud of it - if we can solve problems with guns, imagine what we could achieve with bazookas.
People lived among wild animals for centuries looooong before guns existed...yet those area were still populated by humans, the wild animals didn't wipe 'em all out - we've been killing every animal we encounter since long before guns existed.
Guns just make it easier, people want guns cos they think they're cool, they look like a gangster...and so they can intimidate and control people, like the government we fear so much. Guns don't control people, people do...and they use guns to do it, sometimes.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:46 PM
reply to post by Dragoon01're right! I'm a free man, too...but it's a missile I want, not a gun.
As a free man, it is my god-given right to own a missile! I also want the moon...I am free. As a free man, I want other people to die...freedom isn't really freedom when someone else loses out, is it? I mean YOUR freedom - f*** everyone elses...I get it.
Boy, is my face red.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:49 PM
OK how about this then,I need the ability to fight multiple targets ,as I trained,because there are too many wrong hands that have them and are waiting to use them,as we converse.Multiple 30rd mags a pistol and knives as well.
I keep VERY careful control of who I allow in my house and warn those who don't know.
I have no idea who might be stupid enough to hit my area or why and I now don't care or fear them.
Piece of mind,that is why.
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:51 PM
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Well, I just have a couple things in follow up to the reply. First, on the Constitution part.....Indeed, the original wording was old. However, that 2009 decision has the force of the Constitution itself. They quite literally, under our system, are directly interpreting and re-interpreting the document for all things forward of the day of a Supreme Court decision. So, when they said in 09 that is is an absolute individual right...that ended the debate on gun ownership. It doesn't end a thing on regulation of WHAT guns you can own...but it pulled the ban idea clear off the table by law.
Doesnt it just prove that it was ambiguous if the supreme court had to make a ruling on it?
Have there been similar rulings or debates on the 1st Amendment which is morwe cut and dry?
Not trolling genuinely curious
However, I'll say that I envy a place like England at times because guns were never a cultural staple to the nation. While England doesn't BAN guns....the degree they are found in society has no comparison whatsoever to ours, of course. In a different America? I wouldn't mind a bit......and I can hear people making me a Foe as I type this.
Once again
You accept it as part of an unfortunate reality, that I can handle.
Most of your compatriots just love guns, they will sugar coat it many ways but when it comes down to it they need it coz it makes them feel safe or strong. Funny how they say Im the one who fears guns when they usually say they need one to protect themselves from other peoples guns, they seriously cant see that is pretty much the definition of fear
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:53 PM
Originally posted by foodstamp
reply to post by tamusan
What do you mean by accountable?
And how does it reduce gun crime as a whole?
Please don't take it the wrong way. I am curious as to what you propose.
Practically all the guns that are "illegal" in the US started out as "legal" guns
Whoever got them legally should be responsible for what those guns do even when not in their hands.
Would stop alot of straw purchases and people would make more of an effort to secure them
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:53 PM
Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
reply to post by tamusan
ummm criminals aren't going to care how high you make a "fine" on owning a lost or stolen gun, also I think this point is just crap if people want something they'll get it, I don't understand your point about "stopping school children from getting them" wouldn't that be where parenting comes in??? therefore making this point invalid??
posted on Dec, 18 2012 @ 02:53 PM
What happened to my freedom to be able to live my life without fear of some idiot with a gun, taking charge and ordering me about? I guess that not owning a gun makes me a prisoner? This is completely pointless.
Bottom act not in the best interests of the future of humanity but in the best interests of your own future, you are all that is important to you...perhaps that's where we differ.
Whatever...I am out, this is a vicious circle - I lose, I'm off out to arm myself to the teeth with all manner of crazy weaponry, I'll get that missile come hell or high water...and I WANT to use that missile to rid the world of gun owenrs...becausme I'm FREE and I want what I want, and care not what you or anyone else wants or needs.
Au revoir.
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Discussion in 'Audio, Video & Gadget Tech' started by GRIFF, Mar 22, 2008.
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Any tips on how to replace this, they worked last night it snowed throughout the night went to turn them on and they tried to work and then worked on high for about 10 swipes niow they they just bump when the switch is hit. The motor is hot so I dont think it is the switch.
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this happened to me a couple months ago. try pouring some hot water down the grate in front of the windshield. It doesn't have to be boiling or anything just decently warm. It worked for me.
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It was the motor it smelled burnt.. It is a fairly easy job. You need to remove the wipers by pulling them up like you are going to change the blades there is a small tab where the wipers slide down on the shaft, pull it out and wiggle the wpier assembly off. Next unbolt the cowl cover thing it is three pieces you will see the wiper moter connection to the assembly that moves the wiper try to mark this so it goes back on the same way unbolt and remove(I screwed up and didnt mark it) unplug and unbolt the wiper motor assembly(10 mm screws) you need to reuse the grommets off the old motor(at least with the one I had) and the rubber shield that goes between the wiper motor and the firwewall. Basically do it all in reverse to put it back together about a 1.5 hour job easy and about $55 in parts.
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Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches – Questions & Answers
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In this slide deck, Senturus experts answer nearly 100 questions raised by participants during a recorded webinar, “Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches.” Topics …
• Commonly encountered installation issues and how-to advice on streamlining a Cognos 10 upgrade.
• Cognos 10 BI Server core components
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• Navigating the maze of 32-bit and 64-bit.
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• 1. Q&A fromInstalling Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches Webinar 5/24/2012 Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the1 Present and Shape the Future
• 2. This Q&A is from a Recorded Webinar The questions in this log were collected during Senturus’ webinar entitled Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches. After the webinar, the Senturus team answered the questions and distributed the answers shown here. Original Webinar Recording: Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches Upgrading to Cognos 10 is a lot smoother when you can benefit from tips and tricks Senturus has discovered during our hundreds of upgrades. In this webinar, Senturus shares commonly encountered issues and how-tos on streamlining an upgrade. The presentation covers Cognos 10 BI Server core components, common installation issues, Cognos 10 search index required post-install and navigating the maze of 32-bit and 64-bit. VIEW WEBINAR RECORDING AND DOWNLOAD SLIDE DECK
• 3. Table of Contents Hardware Configuration Page 4 Virtualization Page 5 32-bit vs. 64-bit Page 6 Databases Page 9 Web Servers Page 12 Distributed Architecture Page 14 Cognos 10 Search Page 18 UNIX / Linux Page 20 General Installation/Configuration Page 21 Upgrade/Migration Page 28 Training/Miscellaneous Page 29 Other Topics Page 313
• 4. Hardware Configuration Q: What is the most practical RAM requirement for a distributed Cognos 10 installation for each app server component? A: We usually recommend at least 2GB of RAM for each processor. A common dispatcher profile would be 4 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM. It is practical to have at least 2 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM per application server component. Q: Does a quad-core CPU count as one core or four? A: A quad-core CPU counts as four cores .4
• 5. Virtualization Q: Any guidelines or best practices on Windows VMs? A: Please read the following regarding IBM guidelines for configuring virtual machines: http://www- Q: What are the advantages of installing Cognos on a Virtual Environment? A: Reduced reliance on specific physical infrastructure / maintaining multiple physical servers; ease of allocating additional resources to your Cognos environments as needed. Q: I was under the understanding that Cognos will not support the app if it is loaded on a VM. Do you know if this has changed? A: Please read the following regarding IBM Cognos and virtualized hardware: http://www-
• 6. 32-bit vs. 64-bit Q: Other than DQM what would be the advantage to running 64 bit? A: The primary advantage of 64-bit aside from DQM is the scalability of the Java components when running on a 64-bit JVM. In large environments, this is most likely to be noticed when navigating through the Cognos Connection portal. As the number of concurrent users increases, responsiveness will be more consistent in a 64- bit implementation than a 32-bit implementation. Q: Do we need to use 64 bit only in the case of Unix/Linux? A: No. Either the 32-bit or 64-bit BI Server can be used with Unix/Linux. However, the Apache gateway must be bit-compatible with the version of the BI Server that you’re using. So if you’re using the 32-bit version of the BI Server, you must also use a 32-bit version of Apache (even if everything is running on a 64-bit Unix/Linus OS). Q: Is 64 bit report execution mode faster that 32 bit? A: Execution speed is dependent on multiple factors, including query type, query complexity and the size of the result set. Running queries in 64-bit execution mode doesn’t necessarily imply that they will run faster than 32-bit mode. However, the larger and more complex the query, the more likely it is to benefit from 64-bit mode. Q: Can we install Cognos 10 on Windows 7 (64 bit) machine. If yes, what webserver we can use? A: Please check to remain up-to-date on supported environments. Currently Windows 7 is NOT supported as a server platform. .6
• 7. 32-bit vs. 64-bit cont. Q: With Cognos 10 on 64 bit platform, can I get rid of the 2GB limitation on OLAP time partitioned cube? A: No -- at present, Cognos Transformer is still a 32-bit tool, so it continues to be subject to the 32-bit memory limits. Q: What do you mean 64 bit client Oracle wont work with Cognos 10? We have a proof of concept installed and it works. We have reports running. Can you confirm? A: The requirement is simply that the 32-bit client libraries must be installed on the system. You can install the 64-bit Oracle client as long as you also include the 32-bit libraries during installation. (This is an option in the 64- bit Oracle installer.) Q: Are there any issues with OS 2003 64 bit? A: Windows 2003 64-bit is very stable and a good option for your Cognos server. Q: Can we run both 32-bit and 64-bit report server on the same machine? I understand that DQM runs only on 64bit server. A: Yes – you can run both 32-bit and 64-bit server on the same machine as long as they are installed in separate directories. However, if you choose to run both 32-bit and 64-bit dispatchers in a single Cognos environment, you will need to implement routing rules for any 64-bit only queries (i.e. any DQM-based queries).7
• 8. 32-bit vs. 64-bit cont. • Q: Will a 64-Bit Cognos install on a 64-Bit OS be able to take advantage of large (>4 GB) memory even if it the reports are not running in Dynamic Query Mode? • A: For an individual report, no. The 32-bit C++ code in the report execution processes (BIBusTKServerMain.exe) is still subject to the 32-bit memory size limitations for each running report. However, if multiple reports are running concurrently, 64-bit Cognos on a 64-bit OS can run many more BIBusTKServerMain.exe processes at once, with each process using up to 4 GB of memory. The net result is that a 64-bit system is capable of running more reports concurrently than a 32-bit system. • Q: Is having one 64-bit server similar to having multiple 32-bit servers because it can handle more reports? • A: Not exactly. The scale is dictated by the hardware profile, not just the bitness (more RAM and more CPUs will support more dispatchers, equating to more capacity). For example, a 64-bit server with 4 GB of RAM will not be able to handle any more reports than a 32-bit server with 4 GB of RAM8
• 9. Databases Q: When adding 32bit Oracle Client libraries to a 64bit Oracle Client install, can they just be copied from the install files? A: We’ve encountered one site where the Linux DBA copied the 32-bit libraries directly into place and we were able to use them successfully. However, this isn’t a supported configuration. A clean install or update using the Oracle installer is the only recommended approach. Q: Is the db client installation required even if you wanted to use type 4 connection? A: Yes. Q: Would I use ojdbc5.jar with Oracle 11 for 64 bit report execution mode? A: We haven’t configured 64-bit execution mode in an Oracle 11 environment. Please see the following note which suggests that ojdbc11 may be required in this case: http://www- Q: Can you use MySQL for content store? A: MySQL is currently not supported as a content store. Please see http://www- to obtain the most current information on supported software environments.9
• 10. Databases cont. Q: Can I use a 64 bit database client or only 32 bits? A: You can install a 64-bit database client, but you must include the 32-bit libraries as well. When you install the 64-bit Oracle client, you must explicitly specify that 32-bit libraries should be included. When you install the 64-bit SQL Server Native Client, it includes both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries (note: on 64-bit Windows you must install the 64-bit SQL Native Client -- it won’t allow you to install the 32-bit only client). Q: We are planning to migrate to Cognos 10.1.1. It was our understanding that we should use the ojdbc6 file (a 64-Bit version of Cognos on Win 2008 R2 64-Bit). However, your slide deck says ojdbc5. Which should we use? Are there issues with ojdbc6? A: ojdbc5.jar is currently the only officially supported version for Oracle 11 in Cognos 10.1.1. Q: Do you have experience on C10 content store DB on Oracle 10g or 11g? A: Yes, we have implemented C10 content stores on both Oracle 10 and Oracle 11 databases. Q: Can newer "no-sql" databases be used? A: Yes, “no-sql” databases can be used as reporting data sources in Cognos. See the following Cognos 10.1.1 supported environments page for the list of currently supported databases: http://www-
• 11. Databases cont. Q: We are using Oracle 11g for both our content manager and our metrics schemas. When I attempted to upgrade our metric schemas from v8.4.1. to v10.1.1, I received the message no ocijdbc10 in java.libray.path.’ Have you seen this before? We had to copy the libocijdbc file (we use Unix) to our Oracle client install to get around this. A: We haven’t encountered this specific issue before, but it is not uncommon for Oracle installations on UNIX to require some manual effort (either by copying or creating links to the required files) in order to get all of the required files into place for proper operation of Cognos.11
• 12. Web Servers (Gateways) Q: You mentioned earlier that all Apache installation has custom settings. Can you give a couple examples please? A: Differences occur between different point-releases (and sub-releases) of Apache. The default contents of httpd.conf vary across versions, and the names and locations of other Apache configuration files (particularly for SSL) can also vary across different builds. Depending on your version of Apache and its default settings, you may have to set different parameters to properly configure the Cognos virtual directories. Q: If we are using Apache for our Gateway, do you recommend installing 32-bit or 64-bit C10? A: Either one is fine. The important thing to remember is that the gateway components are currently 32-bit regardless of whether you are running 32-bit or 64-bit C10 -- so you must run a 32-bit version of Apache in either case. Q: Are there any known issues of using Business Insight Advanced against CGI Gateway? A: Not that we know of. However, for all Cognos installations on Windows, ISAPI is recommended for best performance on the gateway.12
• 13. Web Servers (Gateways) cont. Q: How can failover be handled for gateways? We used to use Microsoft Network Load Balancing but now we are being told that Netscaler is being used to load balance our web traffic. However, we have been having issues since doing this. Has Senturus encountered issues with Netscaler? A: The configuration requirements for load balancing vary across different environments -- troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of the current configuration. Q: If I want to configure two dispatchers, should I have two apache run at the same server? Or it is the httpd.conf configuration? A: You do not need multiple web server instances in order to run multiple dispatchers. A single web gateway can access multiple dispatchers without any additional httpd. configuration changes. Any needed changes are made in Cognos Configuration.13
• 14. Distributed Architecture Q: What is the relationship between the content manager, content store and dispatcher? A: Content manager is the service that manages communications between the web/app tiers and the content store database. Content store is the actual database tables that store Cognos-specific metadata, report specifications, saved report outputs, and other Cognos-related configuration data. Dispatcher is a Java process that serves as a container for running one or more Cognos sub-services. The Content Manager service runs inside a dispatcher, as do the Interactive and Batch Report Services, and many other services. All of the dispatchers in a given Cognos instance are aware of each other and can pass requests to each other for load balancing. Q: What is the advantage of a multi gateway and multi dispatcher installation? A: Multiple dispatchers and gateways allow you to distribute the load, thereby providing better overall system performance in environments where there is high-demand (lots of users, complex reports, etc.) Q: Can I have multiple gateways installed in the same server? A: Yes, you can theoretically have more than one gateway on the same physical server; however this approach is not very common. It is more common to configure multiple DISPATCHERS on single servers.14
• 15. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: On what basis do we have to decide to use multiple dispatchers, multiple gateways and/or multiple content manager services installation? A: The decision to use multiple dispatchers, gateways, or content managers is driven mostly by the level of demand--or load--on the system. More resources give us more capacity to run more reports, queries, etc. Also, multiple instances of these processes give us greater fault tolerance in case one or more of the components fails. Q: Can I have a combination of CGI and ISAPI installation? A: Each individual gateway must be configured for either ISAPI or CGI, but you can certainly have an environment that has multiple gateways, including both a CGI gateway and a (separate) ISAPI gateway. . Q: Is there a work around to rename a Gateway URI to make it a user-friendly URL that can be accessed by the end user—something that is easy to remember, and top of the mind? A: Depending on your environment, you can generally create a user-friendly URL either through your web server admin console, through the use of HTTP redirects, or through DNS forwarding. Q: Can we have multiple Content Manager Services installed? A: Yes, you can have multiple Content Managers installed, but you always have only one active content manager. All other content managers operate in standby mode, in case the active content manager stops functioning.15
• 16. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: What do you mean by report dispatcher? A: A report dispatcher is a Cognos dispatcher that has the Application Tier components installed on it. Most report dispatchers run both interactive and batch (scheduled) report services for Cognos. Q: In Windows, what are the pros and cons of installing multiple dispatchers on individual servers? What limits apply? What are performance implications? A: Going with a multiple dispatcher per server configuration allows you to take greater advantage of a high- capacity piece of hardware. Each dispatcher typically will only use a small % of the capacity of a large box. There are limits to the number of instances you would want to have on a single box, we typically recommend not more than two. Another thing to consider is failover--if all of your dispatchers are on the same server, and if that server fails, you are out of business. Q: What is the difference between routing methods exists in dispatchers? Which one is preferred in which case? A: Advanced routing options include package-based and group/role-based routing. When and how to use these options is very case-specific. Please see the Cognos Administration guide for details on these options.16
• 17. Distributed Architecture cont. Q: Does the application dispatcher work the same as the content manager, i.e., will only one server be active at any given time if we have three application dispatchers? A: No. When multiple dispatchers are configured in an environment, they can all be active simultaneously. Cognos will intelligently load balance requests across all of the available dispatchers. Q: Will a single BIBus process run multiple report executions at the same time or is it a one-to-one relationship? A: The BIBus processes are multi-threaded processes, and each thread is capable of running a report-related task at any given time. Therefore, multiple reports can potentially be running in a single BIBus process, using different threads. Q: What is your recommendation on running report components on the CM primary and secondary servers - or should only CM component be installed on these? A: In a distributed environment, we recommend that the primary content manager is dedicated (no other components running there). It is fine to have one or more backup CMs running on your other report serves.17
• 18. Cognos 10 Search Q: What is the advantage of using the Search Index? A: Faster, more powerful and more flexible search capabilities. Q: When we run index, Cognos crashes and generates dmp files. Why? A: Troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of your Cognos environment. The best place to begin looking for clues is in the Cognos log files. Q: We are not using a distributed installation, but when weve tried to do the initial search index, it runs for hours without finishing. What are some other things I might check to troubleshoot this? A: As with the previous question, the best place to begin looking for clues is in the Cognos log files. Q: On the index service, does the C10/index directory have to be shared on multiple servers? A: No. Q: Does the index creation process have to be on the Content Manager server? Can it be done on another single dedicated server? A: No, it does not have to be on the Content Manager server. If you prefer, you can configure a dedicated server to build and update the index.18
• 19. Cognos 10 Search cont. Q: When setting up the search index, there is a section for Content Options that contains Properties and Metadata as well as Data Values, with additional selections under that for Referenced Data or All Data. I did not see that explained when speaking about the search. Where can I get more info about that because the documentation doesnt really seem to discuss it? A: Detailed information on the search index options can be found in the Cognos Administration and Security Guide. Q: Can you use the Cognos Search for the entire Content Store in addition to the public folders? A: You can also add My Folders content to the search index. Q: How do we configure the legacy Cognos 8 Search in Cognos10? A: Search the Cognos knowledge base for “legacy search” in order to find info on this topic. Q: What is the downside to configuring the search index? Does it significantly increase the size of the Content Store? A: For smaller environments it may be overkill to configure the search index. However, configuring the search index does not significantly increase the size of the content store and it does provide considerably enhanced functionality over the legacy search capability. We typically configure the search index as a standard part of all new installations.19
• 20. UNIX / Linux Q: For a large Enterprise level installation, is UNIX/Linux more likely to outperform Windows? Will UNIX/Linux need fewer dispatchers to be installed? A: Given an optimal configuration, it is unlikely that UNIX/Linux will outperform Windows. There are some architectural advantages to using the UNIX platform, but the best advice is to go with a platform that you can support given your IT departments skill set. If you dont have any UNIX admins, we don’t recommend building out a UNIX infrastructure! Windows is much more low-maintenance than UNIX/Linux in our experience.20
• 21. General Installation/Configuration Q: Are there specific things to be aware of with C10 installations that include both planning and BI? A: Yes. Please see the Cognos Planning installation guide for details on integrated installations of Planning and BI. Q: I was trying to install Cognos 8.4 on my 64-bit machine which is running on Windows 7. Is this possible? A: No, Windows 7 is not supported as a server platform. Q: Can you tell me the steps to install Cognos 8.4.1/Cognos 10 in Windows 7? A: Windows 7 is not supported as a server platform. It is only supported as a browser and client platform for accessing Cognos. Q: If I have XP mode installed on Windows 7 as Virtual machine, can I install Cognos on XP? A: Depending on the version of Cognos you are trying to install, Windows XP may be a supported platform. See the Cognos supported environments page at http://www- to determine whether XP is supported for the BI Server version you are trying to install.21
• 22. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: Please address how to install Cognos 10.1.1 on z System / Linux OS A: Given the time constraints today, we will be focusing on details related to the Windows operating system. We wont be addressing z System or Linux today, but would be happy to set up a follow-up discussion. Just reach out to us at Q: We want to do a single server Servlet Gateway installation using AIX-->WebSphere-->IBM HTTP Server with SSL and LDAP token. How do you access Cognos Mobile in a servlet gateway installation? The /m option is not working. Do you have to configure a separate in web server for the mobile too? A: This is an uncommon configuration scenario. Troubleshooting this issue would require direct examination of the current configuration. Q: We have run into issues when configuring Content Manager on a second dispatcher to enable failover, where the content store gets corrupted. Is there a particular order of installation required? A: The primary Content Manager must be fully configured and initialized before attempting to configure and initialize the standby Content Manager. Then, when configuring the standby, changes must also be made to the primary content manager. See the Cognos BI installation guide for specific details on content manager failover configuration.22
• 23. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: We get this error very often in our C10 environment: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space. What should we do? A: This error refers to the “Permanent Generation” memory space in the Java heap. You may need to tune the Java configuration in your Cognos environment to increase the amount of memory that is allocated to the Permanent Generation space. See the Cognos knowledgebase for details on how to modify Java parameters for Cognos. Q: How much java memory should be assigned for best performance? The default is 768 MB. A: We typically assign 1152MB to the java memory. Q: We have two machines for dispatchers. When we run services, the first machine runs successfully; the second gets this error message:, pogo, Failure. DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error. A: This error message frequently appears in older versions of Cognos during service startup (although it can also occur in Cognos 10). This is a transient error and can usually be ignored, unless the dispatcher continually generates this error after startup has completed.23
• 24. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: What is the advantage of setting the Identity to "NetworkService" as opposed to "ApplicationPoolIdentity"? A: Use of the NetworkService identity instead of ApplicationPoolIdentity is a best practice recommendation to minimize the likelihood of security-related execution failures of the Cognos gateway components. Q: Why must one configure Cognos services to run as a specific named account as opposed to the default Local System account? A: Running the service as a domain account vs. the Local System is a best practice. You need this configuration in order to allow the service to send emails and communicate with other services as well. Q: Can you use the Framework Manager from version 8 for Cognos 10 or do you need to install it again while upgrading? A: You need to keep all of your components on the same version, including client components such as Framework Manager. .24
• 25. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: How do you install a backup Cognos installation to support failure of the Production Environment? Could you please highlight the best practice and any information on synchronizing the two environments and tell me whether a backup configuration will switch-on if the Production Environment needs maintenance or fails? A: Implementation of redundant environments with complete system failover is a complex topic. Cognos natively supports content manager failover, but this is not the same as complete environment failover. To implement full system failover requires redundancy at all levels, and the implementation of a combination of failover processes that occur both inside and outside of Cognos. Q: How do you install multiple dispatchers on the same server? A: Install the “Application Tier Components” into multiple directories (e.g., C:Program Filesibmcognosc10 and C:Program Filesibmcognosc10_disp2). There will be a separate Cognos Configuration instance for each dispatcher, and each dispatcher must be configured to use separate port numbers. Q: Given that the Content Manager does not scale like dispatchers, when are separate installs warranted? A: Separate Content Managers are only recommended for failover. You should have at least one backup/failover instance of the CM.25
• 26. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: How different is installing Cognos TM1 instead of Cognos 10 BI? A: Installing TM1 is very different from installing Cognos BI. Although TM1 has been increasingly integrated with BI, TM1 was originally developed as a standalone (non-Cognos) product and its installation process is quite different. Q: How does Cognos 10 installation in UNIX environment differ from Windows installation? A: The Cognos installer GUI looks almost identical in Windows and UNIX, so the initial component installation tasks are very similar. However, the OS-level configuration tasks are very different. The steps for both Windows and UNIX are outlined in the Cognos installation documentation. Q: Where can I get documentation which will show me how to install Cognos 10 on UNIX? I am looking for a document which has some screenshots that can help me to install on UNIX. Reading PDF Documentation on IBM website is too cumbersome. A: The only official documentation on installing Cognos 10 on UNIX is the documentation on the IBM website. You may want to try using the HTML documentation rather than the PDF documentation, as it is easier to navigate.26
• 27. General Installation/Configuration cont. Q: Does exporting the entire content store include dispatcher tuning settings? A: Yes. By default, exporting the entire content store includes all configuration objects in the deployment archive. However, importing the content store by default does not include the configuration objects even if they are present in the deployment archive. You can override this behavior, but there is considerable risk in importing configuration objects from one environment into a different environment. Additional details on these options can be found in the Cognos documentation.27
• 28. Upgrade/Migration Q: What are the common reporting issues you know that occurs after migration to Cognos 10? A: The most common reporting issues that occur in migrations are layout and formatting issues. However, these issues typically occur in only a very small percentage of reports. Q: In general, what percentage of reports will be invalid after upgrade from C8 to C10? A: Based on our experience, less than 5% of reports will generally have issues when you migrate from C8 to C10. Most upgrades have had zero issues. Q: How easy is it to move from Cognos 7 to Cognos 10? A: The complexity of migrating from Series 7 to Cognos 10 depends a great deal on the complexity and types of objects in your Series 7 environment. Migrations from Series 7 are non-trivial, because the architecture of Cognos 10 is very different from Cognos Series 7.28
• 29. Training/Miscellaneous Q: Do you have a Cognos Administration Advanced course? A. We have a Cognos System Administration course. For course content details: Cognos-System-Administration-Course.php Q: Do you offer training for PowerPlay administration? A: We do not have a formal course for PowerPlay Admininstration, however we can certainly discuss a custom engagement to address your needs. Q: I am an intermediate-level Cognos BI System Administration and am looking for an advanced topics training course. Does Senturus offer training beyond the basics? A: Our public training is fairly general in content, as would be just about any public course. If you are looking for training covering specific topics, we usually recommend a short-term consulting/mentoring engagement that will address your specific concerns. Because every company’s environment is unique and the system administration audience is typically small, classroom training is usually not the best solution when you need to know more about advanced topics. Q: Will this webinar cover TM1 10.1? A: Todays session is focused on Cognos 10 BI. We have a number of recorded TM1 webinars on our website and we are offering a Cognos Insight for TM1 and BI on June 28 th. webinars.php29
• 30. Training/Miscellaneous cont. Q: Can we have a copy of this presentation? A: The presentation slide deck for this webinar is available for download at webinars.php Its in the "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence" section and its titled "Installing Cognos 10: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches". Just click on the Download Slide Deck link and youre set. Thank you for asking. Q: Will the recording of this webinar be available? I’m particularly interested in the Q&A at the end. A: Yes, a recording is now on our website,, in the Resources Section-> Recorded Webinars. (Same location as the slide deck described in the answer above: You will find the written Q&A answers in the same place.30
• 31. Other Topics Q: What are your recommendations for configuring various process counts-- batch, interactive, etc. A: Report process should all be 2 times the total number of CPU cores available to that dispatcher. Q: Are you going to have a demo on performance tuning? A: No, we are not planning a demonstration on performance tuning at this time. You can find basic Cognos performance tuning guidelines by searching the Cognos knowledge base. Q: I wondered if you have any recommendations to improve system performance (e.g caching) in Cognos Connection? Im aware that the ContentManagerCacheService > Memory limit for the content manager cache service as a percentage of the total JVM heap memory default should be set to 10% of JVM in Cognos Administration. A: Please see the Cognos knowledge base for general performance tuning guidelines. Q: If we don’t have OLAP, should we disable the dynamic query service? A: You may disable the dynamic query service if you wish. However, it is not necessary to do so. Q: Can you provide some suggestions on installing Cognos Virtual View Manager (Composite server)? A: Virtual View Manager (formerly Composite Information Server) is a separate product from the Cognos BI Server. Installation guides for VVM can be found on the IBM documentation site.31
• 32. Other Topics cont. Q: Can you provide some suggestions on installing Cognos Virtual View Manager (Composite server)? A: Virtual View Manager (formerly Composite Information Server) is a separate product from the Cognos BI Server. Installation guides for VVM can be found on the IBM documentation site. Q: We use an external load balancer. Do you know of a way to determine if a dispatcher is up? (Cognos said that SSO causes problems with using :9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch) A: External load balancing functionality varies across different environments. Troubleshooting this issue requires direct examination of the current configuration. Q: Is it possible to integrate TM1 64 bit with Cognos 10.1.1 32 bit? A: Yes, however you must use 32-bit TM1 integration components in order to accomplish this. Q: Is it possible to dump advanced settings that are set in the admin portal without navigating to each dispatcher? A: No. Q: How can I add groups and roles to an LDAP namespace? A: LDAP Groups and Roles are managed through the LDAP Administration console, not through Cognos.32
• 33. Other Topics cont. Q: How can I assign roles for Cognos to different LDAP user ids? A: Once the LDAP namespace is configured in Cognos, you can add LDAP users as members of the built-in groups and roles in the Cognos namespace. See the Cognos administration documentation for detailed information on how to configure security in Cognos. Q: We are having an issue where large PDFs are having problems being generated when we have more than one dispatcher running. There’s no problem when we only have one dispatcher running. Has Senturus seen this issue? Cognos cant seem to figure out why this is happening. A: Troubleshooting this issue would require additional details on the failure scenario (for example, whether the reports fail completely when more than one dispatcher is running or whether they fail sporadically and/or render improperly), as well as direct examination of each of the current dispatcher configurations.33
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Did the Midterms Vindicate Blue Dog Dems—or Not? | The Nation
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Did the Midterms Vindicate Blue Dog Dems—or Not?
Did the 2010 election repudiate the political and ideological strategy pursued by conservative Blue Dog Democrats or validate it? That topic is currently a point of heated debate within the Democratic Party, as recriminations fly in the wake of Tuesday's electoral "shellacking."
In his New York Times column today, Matt Bai defends the Blue Dogs, echoing the argument made by the centrist Democratic group Third Way before the election. Both Bai and Third Way take issue with a New York Times op-ed I wrote before the election, "Boot the Blue Dogs," which argued that Democrats would be better off with a smaller and more ideologically cohesive majority.
I wasn't arguing that every Blue Dog be purged from the party, nor that Democrats would benefit from losing sixty seats in the House, but rather that a handful of the loudest and staunchest apostate Democrats, who voted against nearly every one of Barack Obama's signature priorities, were doing more harm than good. They brought the party nothing in terms of legislative votes and only undermined the broader Democratic message and brand. Interestingly enough, these Democrats, like Bobby Bright of Alabama and Walt Minnick of Idaho, seemed to believe that if they just voted against the president frequently enough, they'd be able to differentiate themselves from the national Democratic Party and retain their seats. But that didn't happen—the Blue Dog coalition was slashed in half on Election Day. So while the election was certainly not a validation of liberalism, it wasn't an endorsement of Blue Dog–ism either. Obama could have done everything the Blue Dogs wanted and still Republicans would have called him a socialist and voters would have punished the party in power for a bad economy. And the Democratic base would have likely stayed home in even larger numbers as a result.
Bai also takes issue with the idea that Democrats paid a price for their political timidity. "The theory here, embraced by a lot of the most prominent liberal bloggers and activists, is that centrist Democrats doomed the party when they blocked liberals in Congress from making good on President Obama's promise of bold change," he writes. "Specifically, they refused to adopt a more populist stance toward business and opposed greater stimulus spending and a government-run health care plan. As a result, the thinking goes, frustrated voters rejected the party for its timidity." But polls showed that the healthcare bill would have been more popular—and easier to understand—had it included a public insurance option, since a majority of Americans wanted a structural check on the insurance industry in the legislation. And John Judis of The New Republic makes a very compelling case that Obama's aversion to populism severely weakened his political standing.
Moreover, Bai asserts that there's no historical precedent for a more ideologically cohesive Democratic majority. Maybe so, but that doesn't mean it's not something Democrats can aspire to. Republicans never controlled more than fifty-five seats in the Senate under Reagan or Bush II and were able to get a number of sweeping pieces of conservative legislation passed. Yet Democrats allowed Republicans or a few renegade Democrats to water down or thwart nearly every progressive piece of legislative proposed in the Senate. The difference between the parties has more to do with temperament than geography. Republicans are very skillful at convincing their moderate members from blue states, like Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, to vote with their caucus on most big issues—whether it be through friendly persuasion or outright threats. Democrats show no similar resolve, especially when it comes to fighting Republican filibusters, and usually agree to compromise before the big fights have even begun.
Bai notes that many Democrats, including Dean, once embraced the idea of an ideologically diverse big-tent party. But that doesn't mean that views on this issue can't evolve and change. Dean, in fact, had some frank words to say about the legislative blowback that resulted in part from the success of his own fifty-state strategy, as I detail in my new book, Herding Donkeys. I write on pages 215–216:
Despite the continued defections of red-state Democrats in Congress, Dean didn't question his original electoral strategy. "I'd never back off from the fifty-state strategy," he told me. "If you want to have a majority, you have to be a big tent party." But he'd recently beenponderingthe flaws in the tent's construction. "Having a big, open tent Democratic Party is great, but not at the cost of getting nothing done," he said."Bipartisanship is wonderful but not at the cost of passing legislation that doesn't do anything."
The Republicans had become obsessed with ideological purity, losing their majorities and staggering in the wilderness as a consequence, but Democrats, if anything, weren't ideological enough. Their red state contingent had so blurred what it meant to be a Democrat that the party itself could barely see. A whole crew of Democrats now roamed the halls of Congress—and, increasingly, the corridors of the White House—standing for little else but political expediency. "That's what makes me nervous about the political process right now," Dean admitted, "because there's always been a streak in DC of, do what it takes to get elected and if that means abandoning issues, go ahead. And that's dangerous because it makes any incumbent worthless." He'd recently been thinking that Democrats might be better off with a smaller and more ideologically cohesive majority—the type of arresting admission you rarely hear from an influential member of the ruling party. "If you have a majority of say sixty people in the Senate, but you can't deliver anything, why not have a majority of fifty-five and not have all this intraparty feuding?" he wondered.
Dean had a favorite saying about political majorities. "If you don't use it," he said, "you lose it."
Dean also believed that Democrats needed to be able to articulate their core values and stand up for them across the country, which is the exact opposite of what the Blue Dogs—and many Democratic candidates more broadly—did in 2010. My guess is that, in the not too distant future, Democrats will look back on the period from 2008–10 and say, We accomplished a lot. But, given the size of our majorities, we could've done so much more.
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Extra paycheck...what to do?
Posted 09/30/2012
DH and I are paid bi-weekly. His is the (significantly) larger check, especially at this time of year - lots of OT. We use YNAB, and our budget is based on 4 checks per month, two from each of us.
This will be our first winter on YNAB. In the past we haven't really budgeted at all...we just know when to cut back in March, April and May before his OT kicks in again. Heading into winter this year, we have a full 1-month buffer.
My dilemma is this: Since we started YNAB, we haven't had a normal base pay month yet. We probably won't have one until November, which means not budgeting that until December. I don't really know how close we'll be to covering our costs. Right now, we are able to put a lot into our sinking funds for long-term projects. I'm wondering whether I should:
1. put our balance this month (we had some miscellaneous income that hasn't been budgeted yet) and the extra paycheck from next month into our sinking funds (this is what we've been doing all summer)
2. try to stick it into some of our budget line items that are bigger, so if/when we have a lower pay month that doesn't cover everything we want in our budget, we can 'skip' one of those budget categories
3. create a new budget category for "Winter" or something like that so we can pull from it to cover things wherever needed over the winter
I know ultimately it's not a big deal...whichever option I choose will end up with the same ultimate result, but I have never had to put a negative number in a sinking fund to cover budgeting for another category. I like to think of those as untouchable after the money goes in. If you've come up against this, what have you done?
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Posted 09/30/2012
Also, I'm trying to think about what the repercussions for this would be on my reports...if I understand how they work correctly, this will have NO impact on them whatsoever, as long as negatively budget from wherever I stash the extra money and positively budget it into the correct line item as needed. Then the reports will pull from the categorizations in my actual expenditures, right?
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"No, Not Much" is a popular song published in 1955. The music was written by Robert Allen, the lyrics by Al Stillman.
This song is an example of being rejected from the lover, stating that the lover does not get the pleasure, the thrills, and the satisfaction from his mate, stating that this was all pretentious. The song was one of a large number of Stillman-Allen compositions that were recorded by The Four Lads. The recording by The Four Lads was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40629. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 28, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #2; on the Best Seller chart, at #4; on the Juke Box chart, at #4; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #3.
The song was subsequently recorded by The Vogues and The Smoke Ring, both of whom charted their versions in 1969. In all of the versions, the first two lines of the second verse are omitted and replaced by an instrumental.
In the Vogue's version, the lyric line: "Like a Ten Cent soda doesn't cost a Dime", was replaced by the lyric: "Like the song I'm Singing doesn't mean a Rhyme.", because the former lyric line was considered too old and too outdated.
British singer Robert Palmer also recorded a version of this song for his 1992 studio album 'Ridin' High'.
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Who Were You In A Past Life?
I have a birthmark that is visible to strangers. According to random people who have felt it necessary to comment on my birthmark over the years, it is either "the mark of God" or "the Devil's thumbprint." No big whoop.
It's strange, when you have a visible birthmark: people will always try to fill in the backstory for you, or provide some kind of soothing explanation that you never asked for. "A beauty mark," comes up often enough, while children, who have that awesome/terrifying ability to keep it real and adorable all at once, will typically point out that I've "spilled coffee" on my skin and should probably wipe it off before I get hurt.
As an adult, I understand the fascination; it's noticeable, it's going to be noticed. But as a child, as soon as I was old enough to recognize that it was "weird" and "different," I went through great lengths to hide it, wearing inappropriate clothing during hot days just to keep my birthmark under wraps. In middle school, after reading about the Salem Witch Trials and learning how some women were marked as "witches" due to their birthmarks, I started to get very interested in superstitions surrounding splotches of pigmentation (or lack thereof) and convinced myself for a short time that I was actually marked from a past life—that the thumbprint on my skin was the result of something that had occurred in my past. I also, at this time, thought I was going to grow up and marry Christian Bale and that he would teach me how to swing dance, so, you know, I had a bit of an imagination about certain things.
I started thinking about all of this after reading Lisa Miller's recent piece on reincarnation for the New York Times, in which she details the past-life beliefs of several individuals, who firmly believe they have been here before, and will return again. This is nothing new, naturally—reincarnation has been a fundamental religious concept for thousands of years—but as Miller's piece points out, belief in reincarnation, and the use of past-lives therapy, in the United States is growing, perhaps due to a shift from Western to Eastern religion.
I suppose as with any religious belief system or therapeutic style, it's a matter of what one is willing to open one's mind to and accept, in terms of finding a sense of inner peace. There is something kind of off about the past-lives experiences noted in Miller's piece though: everyone interviewed seems to have an amazing, important history behind them, which gives them a sense of understanding, and, I'd wager, of fulfillment in terms of their life having more meaning than they assign to it in the present. I suppose I find it much easier to understand and believe in the concept of past lives than in a modern-day means of accessing past lives—if it were as easy and possible as some of these therapists make it seem, I think we'd be living in a much different universe.
Perhaps I'm off, though: I don't begrudge anyone the right to find a means of therapy that helps them deal with whatever it is they are going through. Past-lives therapy might not be for me, though I still have days where I wonder what the mark on my arm might mean, or if it means anything. And I also still want Christian Bale to teach me how to swing dance. Call me, Christian! I will buy saddle shoes!
So what do you think, commenters? Do you think past-lives therapy is legit? Have any of you ever had experiences with it, positive or negative?
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I'm looking for an e-commerce system that is built around EAV (entity-attribute-value) somewhat like Magento, but hopefully simpler. I'm really okay with just about any platform (Java, .NET, PHP, whatever), I just really need to be able to freely associate properties with groups of products... e.g. a drill bushing will have some inner diameter and outer diameter, a drill bit will have a certain outer diameter, etc. Thanks for the info!
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Sane people don't use EAV - they value their data and EAV makes it extremely difficult (verging on impossible) to ensure the data's integrity. – Jonathan Leffler Jan 9 '11 at 8:19
@Johnathan Leffler: Sane people don't use EAV without reason. For retailers with complex attribute requirements, EAV is the most conceptually simple model short of adding multitudinous columns to a table (which is not extensible.) The poster appears to have such requirements. – Joseph Mastey Jan 11 '11 at 4:44
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I'm not aware of any other ecommerce systems that use EAV (except Magento). While Magento does have a learning curve, I think you'll find it worth the effort particularly if you start by working some of the improved documentation and tutorials written by Stack Overflow members like Alan Storm.
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We've started a new campaign on our Facebook and Twitter pages where we choose the best screenshots sent to us each week, and share them! There are prizes for winning that include some pretty cool Fire Fighting and Rescue related merchandise, and potentially even Steam codes. The prizes are subject to change, but there are definitely prizes.
To enter, send us a Screenshot on Facebook, Twitter, or post it here in our Steam community. If you are a minor, you must have parental permission! You agree to let us use your image/screenshot, and name when announcing a winner. If you enter, by submitting a screenshot on Steam, look for the announcement on Facebook or Twitter. Only 1 entry per person, per week, please!
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An alarm is calling for your team’s attention!
Key Features:
• Customize your vehicles with different striping schemes.
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• Processor: Pentium IV CPU 2.0 GHz or equivalent
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• DirectX: Version 9.0
• Hard Drive: 1 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible sound and video
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24명 중 20명(83%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
5.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 11월 14일
This game has a good 'concept' but failed to deliver via bad user interface and bad game play mechanics. You control a fire station, and as you start to get into the game it looks like it could be a nice 'time management' type strategy simulation. I could see it becoming a game were you had to get you're guys to work as a team to save people.. but as you hit the 2nd or 3rd mission that dream fades and you are left with the reality that you're playing a point and click game for teenagers working on there motor skills with a mouse. Most missions were you have multiple guys responding you quickly find they do everything so fast its easier to just pick one guy and do everything, for example the first thing you learn, connecting the support hose, then connecting an assault hose. If you attempt to use 2 guys to do this they get in each others way tripping over one another like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and by the time your first guy has laid out his 'support' hose, your 2nd guy is just tripping his way back to the truck to bust out the 'attack' hose. You quickly start asking yourself, "why did I even tell you to move, your too late". So the game becomes a resource management game, trying to save every drop of water in your truck for that pesky leaf fire in the middle of nothing that is endangering all the roaches in the area, you'd have thought the 1600 gallon tank would be more then enough, but the first one took 85% of your water. you would think there would be more 'don't use this type of extinguisher on this type of fire' going into a game based around fighting fires, but apparently education was last on there mind (unless you feel like reading all the info panels in the menu that tell you the history of fire fighting/rescue). The game died for me when i came to a fire that was down a set of stairs (you know surrounded by concrete, scaring all the ants?) and i told my 'guy' to walk down there with the attack hose and he dumbed around in a few circles then went upstairs, then apparently he ran out of hose, perhaps it was around his neck, cutting off the oxygen to his brain, and couldn't seem to figure out what a Z coordinate was. After that i promptly uninstalled and made its own heading in my steam games as 'crapgames'. it is currently the only resident of that title so far.
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2.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 7월 6일
Not bad.
One thing I don't like in this game is camera angle of interior fire, it's just horrible and make it hard to see where I should proceed but others are good enough.
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15.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 3일
Love this game, just not long enough. Finished the 'campaign' in 9hrs. No serious issues with this game.
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We did however have to decrease the video settings to "Low". When we had big fires to contend with and you had the fire centered in the middle of the screen, the computer started lagging if the video settings where set on Medium or High.
The game itself was really quite easy once you got your water tenders(roof cannon). You could send 2 of them to fight fires and replace your crew tactics, as long as it was an outside fire. We had no issues training staff or keeping them happy, just keep moving them around to different assignments and give them 'stand-by' breaks occassionally. Once your station has all the stalls filled with vehicles, you pretty much need to keep 5 mechanics on at one time to keep your equipment in top shape. Train your people often and they will excell to the top, remember though that with their promotion comes pay increases.
From a rating of a 10 scale, we rate this game an 8. The lagging of our computer with the fires and not having a difficulty setting where the issues.
We bought this game while it was on sale, under $4.00. To us it was well worth it. As the price stands now at $9.99, we would tell you to wait until another price drop.
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19.4 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 12월 21일
This is another one of those games that has a mixed review. Why? Because you either love or you hate it. I personally found this game to be challenging, but a ball of fun and entertainment. If you're into strategy games, or games to do with emergency simulations then this is the game for you. The game includes a variety of missions/situations and vehicles. The game can get boring although once you complete the, "mission" mode. Overall this is a pretty good game.
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8.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 7월 30일
Rescue - Everyday Heroes is basically a firefighting/paramedic game mashed up with a bit of Sims. There are a few bugs that keep it from being a great game, but if you don't mind them, go ahead and pick it up. It's fun despite the annoying bugs.
Not bad. Not great. Just average. The one thing that did bug me was that if your mission occured during the night, it was near impossible to see your guys. Also if there was a lot of smoke, same issue. At least for the smoke the devs could have done the blue outline they used for the same guys and vehicles when they were behind a tree. Oversall, passable.
First up is the background music. All I have to say is that it didn't catch my attention, which means that it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great. Sound effects were okay. Nothing really detracting, but the sfx of the fires crackling and the water running was nice. The vocals in the game are similar to what you would hear in an RTS. Click on a character and they respond with a 'Ready!'.
The game basically has two modes. The first is the prep mode. This is where you buy stuff for your firestation, hire units, buy vehicles, assign tasks, etc. Your units have traits, moods, and skills. Only thing is, nowhere does it say what the different things you buy do to affect your units mood. The traits are random and the skills can be leveled up to make your units stronger. I didn't really notice any difference betweena one chevron vs a three chevron unit.
The second part of the games consists of doing missions. These basically boil down to either stop a fire or save people. Sometimes missions require you to do both. The first few missions do a very good job of teaching you how to do these. By the final mission, you'll know exactly what you are doing and what you want your units to do.
Here lies the problem. It get be a pain getting your units to do what you want. Frist off is the pathfinding. Sometimes it's good. But most of the time you'll be wondering why your paramedic is going around the tree that's not in the way. Second is selecting your units. It can be a pain trying to click them. Especially when they are crowded together. You end up clicking the paramedic that's treating the victim and canceling the treatment instead of clicking the free paramedic that you want to go get the stretcher. There have also be times where I can't see my guys because when you put stuff away in the vechiles, they end up hiding behind the vehicle and you have to turn the camera which wastes time. Which brings about a couple more problems. Camera and time. The camera can only pan, rotate, and zoom. No tilt. Which means that if you are in the city, it might take you awhile to find a good vantage point between all the highrise towers. Also time. There's no way to slow down time so you can find your guys. Lose track of your paramedic or firefighter holding the special tool you need, and you're gonna waste time while the victim in the cars slowly dies. The devs should have added a feature to slow down time so you can give commands, or made it so you can still view the game while paused.
So in conclusion, the game is fun. There are bugs and poor design choices. However, if you are willing to overlook those, go ahead and get the game. It's short, about 4-5 hours of you time. I recommend getting it on sale.
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145명 중 127명(88%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
5.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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46명 중 42명(91%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
5.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 6월 27일
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44명 중 38명(86%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
3.6 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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288명 중 186명(65%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
10.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 11일
Where to start.
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2013년 12월 12일 오전 6시 49분 에 개발자가 답변함
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27명 중 25명(93%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
4.5 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
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3.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
A decent game, vary easy tho for Emergency vet here. Some vehicles are just OP, eliminating the need for firefighters if no interior fire is involved too. Still i say it`s entertaining, what else is there to ask of a game, huh?
One thing however is it`s buggy as hell, especially that used over and over highway map. Ugh... I suppose it is worth a buy if you into that kink of micromanageing strategy, BUT - after a patch or two.
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24명 중 18명(75%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
13.2 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
7 hours and I've had enough. Too clicky, too tedious.
In short. Get call out. Put out fires. Open broken cars. Send peeps to hospital. Build up station, get promoted and buy new trucks.
It WILL hold interest for awhile simply because of the "what will I get next" and you get to play with some new trucks.
But ahhhhhh!!!!!
Some of the pathing is stupid. Truck hooked up. Traffic stopping access. Guys caught under truck when you connect up. Can't move truck because guys is connected but can't disconnect guy because he's under the truck! One incapped truck.
Out of water? I have to bring fireys #1 and #2 back to the truck from the seat of the fire, disconnect their hoses before firey #3 can disconnect main hose. Why can't we just drop the damn main connector from truck!!
And what? ONE fire extinguiser per truck? Really?
Ambos? Attend to patient with ambo #1 while ambo #2 get's stretcher. Ambo #1 has to go back to the ambulance to put the first aid kit away before he can help with the stretcher!! Unless ofc, you have a firey doing nothing while he waits for the truck to come back with more water. Except, he's holding the damn hose isn't he!?!?
I found at least 1 faulty mission. Objective: Extricate victim. So I sent heavy rescue and hey, guess what, car is empty. Mission even said victim was thrown clear!!!
Also no idea if fire scene has hydrants or not so have to take water tankers everytime anyway!
Most of the game logic is very, very ordinary. Shows a complete lack of bothering to test or even consider the scenarios.
This COULD be interesting if actually doing the missions wasn't so flawed and tedious.
Don't. Just don't.
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20명 중 15명(75%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
3.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 5월 12일
This game is sort of like Emergency with some kind of sim component where you can buy people sofas, or desks, even showers. None of this sim mechanics seem utilized at all. The game is pretty short about 20 missions, maybe 9-10 vehicles, and no police vehicles. The missions repeat in the campaign after completing them and freeplay is sorta meh. Since there are only fires, alot of missions have to do with a barbecue catching fire, or a tree. Just go there point truck at fire and the fire goes out. It is a simple game, I got bored of it in the few clocked hours I have playing this. This game could be awesome though if the Sim features are ever utilized. Oddly there is a helipad, what its for I have no idea since there are no air vehicles in the game that I found.
Rating: 2/10 Value: $2.99
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6.2 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 15일
Well, as I spent long hours with 911: First Responders and other Emergency series games, I am not shocked by this micromanagement in Rescue - Everyday Heroes game. TBH it is not surprising, BUT - one moment - when firefighter connect his attack hose to split, he needs additional command to put the flames. Damn. That`s a bit too much for me - micromanagement in all it`s glory. Other thing or things: impossible to connect attack hose directly to fire engine, split must be connected first. That`s nonsense - maybe I am enough only one hose connected to one engine. pathfinding problems already are mentioned by other people. And after some hours playing it becomes very repeating - the maps, the objectives, the fire itself, and extinguishing itself - arrive, connect, connect more, water ended, get more, finished. And put the equipment there, where you took it from. Impossible to put in on ground, need run here and there, what wastes time. Training personnel in gym, doesn`t seem any advantage or disadvantage - everyone works like one. Well, training in lecture room awards new traits, what, again aren`t useful in field.
My summary can be this - I feel like I playing some demo version and vasted money. Pitty I can not get them back.
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14.8 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 20일
Its a good game alright, its just not worth the money it asks for, as of yet.
i love these type games but it is not really re-playable. the 'campaign' mode is a GREAT idea, where you can hire personal and train them between emergency calls, its just that the calls are all scripted and do not vary at all. the game has a list it'll run you through, and when you finish all the calls, thats it. you win and now have a option to replay any of the previous calls.
as with the free-play mode, its about the same as emergency 2014 and such. you have a (small) map where random medical emergencies, fires, and accidents occur while you play and does not seem to change pace or get harder. the firestation is consierable smaller and from what i gathered you can only use the units you buy in the career mode. also NO SAVING
game play is fantastic, for what there is. the firetrucks run out of water, and need to be sent off map to fill up (i really wished i could do it from a hydrant of water tanker, which is included in game) graphics are really great and you know whats up. lots of micro management with speed and mouse skills.
bugs - firefighters just... gaggle in one spot (looks like a single guy) when disembarked off the trucks, or are put under the truck. minimap disappeared on me during campaign mode and game had to be restarted. and if the truck is beside a unmovable object and a firefighter spawns in a hose-based tool, he could be stuck from putting it back, thus breaking the free-mode game
recommend for developers if you read this...
TLC for sure.
If you like the genre, the game will leave a hole in both your wallet and yourself that it will not satisfy.
try emergency 2014. I will as soon as it goes on sale
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2.0 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 1월 22일
As a firefighter myself, i think it is a fun game. Its pretty realistic, however i wish there was more content, say being able to supply an engine from a hydrant like we do in RL. Over all, it is fun, and i expect good things to come.
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29명 중 18명(62%)이 이 평가를 유용하다고 평가했습니다.
2.1 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 12일
There needs to be more games like this. Please keep updating with more stuff.
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8.9 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2014년 1월 1일
This is a nice game, it looks good and the game engine runs smooth. The game is full of action and easy to play, it is too bad there is no multiplayer mode or a option to create custom missions, but, you can play in freemode. However, there is a lack of missions and realism. After you turned level 6 (after 24 missions) no new missions will appear, nor you will level up or gain more vehicles or other perks. So the game is played out within 8 hours and is not very interesting to keep playing.
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7.7 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
This game is not worth $20. The game is fun and everything, but I beat the campaign in around 15 hours of gameplay. Also the freeplay mode is just too fast. I would suggest waiting on buying the game until there are new campaigns or the price drops to around $10. I also belive this game should have multiplayer, something where whoever gets to the emergency first gets it. I reccomend this game but it is too expensive for what you get. The game is also lacking more off road forrest fires, without those levels, the off road fire fighting vehicle seemed like a waste. A Fire Crew truck would also be useful in general, I only kept my actual Fire Trucks to carry people after I got the water tenders because if it was an indoor fire I would have needed to send my Rescue Trucks. Also during the campaign there was a helicoptor pad next to the station causing me to think that I would be able to purchase a helicoptor in the later game.
Link to a Fire Crew Truck: {링크가 삭제되었습니다 - 스팸을 올리지 마시고 사기를 조심하세요.}
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45.3 시간 기록
게시 일시: 2013년 12월 13일
I liked the game a great deal. In all i think i was probably 6 or 7 out of 10. I think that they should add unform options like the suppor firefighters wear brown gear and a yellow helmet and I wouldve liked to have my men wearing that gear not a game breaker at all, More truck color combinations would be good as well, also make the sirens sound better they just sound odd. Other then that I really enjoyed the game and recomend it deffinately worth the money.
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Star Parker
Let's do a quick thought experiment.
Government starts controlling how much apple farmers are paid, it mandates that every single American buys apples and subsidizes those under a certain income level so they can.
Will the price of apples go down, stay the same or go up? Or, in economists' language, if you limit the supply of a commodity and increase demand, will the price of that commodity go up or down?
Did you say "up"? You get an A. But if you did say "up," you surely are not a Democrat.
Democrats have just committed multitrillions of our money, and, as a bonus, sold a big chunk of American freedom down the road, betting that everything a college freshman learns in basic economics is not true. Or, that health care doesn't follow the rules of economics. Because our new health-care system is pretty much the apple scenario described above.
Sean Hannity FREE
Or, maybe they don't care? Maybe it's not about economics, but about ideology and political power. And that the real issue is freedom. They think we've got too much and that politicians should decide what is fair and who should have what.
A revealing moment during the presidential campaign occurred when, during one debate, ABC's Charles Gibson pushed then-Sen. Barack Obama about his stated intent to increase capital gains taxes. Gibson brandished data showing that when you cut this tax, government tax revenues increase, and when you raise it, revenue drops (punishing investment surely produces less).
"So, why raise it?" Gibson asked. Obama responded that maybe it won't happen that way this time. And besides, he said, his motive was "fairness."
After voters in Massachusetts elected a Republican to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, killing the Democrats' filibuster-proof Senate majority, many pundits wrote that President Obama had to move to the political center.
I wrote then that this wouldn't happen because, unlike President Bill Clinton, who did moderate, Obama is a left-wing ideologue. He didn't run for president to be somebody. He did it to do something. He did it to change America.
As polls showed waning public support for what Democrats were pushing on health care, many assumed they would back off. It was still conceivable that they could stand rules on their head and ram the thing through using the so-called reconciliation procedure. But why would they do it when polls suggested they would be punished in November elections?
But Obama understood that when you are selling dreams, numbers don't matter.
So, as in the housing and financial debacle we just went through, you commit taxpayer money to subsidize a product to make it look cheaper than it is, you get people to buy it, and when it all comes crashing down, it doesn't matter. By then you're long gone.
And, another bonus, as more Americans get herded onto the government plantation -- 30 million more with this new bill -- it's easy to keep them there. So the most likely political outcome going forward is higher taxes and income redistribution to pay for it all, entrenching socialism more.
As I have written before, if you want to know where it all leads, look at our inner cities that were long ago taken over by government compassion. This is our future, my fellow Americans.
Oh, back to the apples. Their prices were rocketing up to begin with because government was already controlling and regulating them.
Republicans are mad. But will they be able to entice Americans off the ever-growing government plantation? Will they propose and succeed in selling the bold ideas necessary to turn the basket case we're becoming around?
We'll see.
Star Parker
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12:53 pm
Wed April 3, 2013
'Anger' In Atlanta As Cheating Scandal Investigated
Originally published on Fri April 5, 2013 7:01 am
This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program, we will bring you a poetic tweet. That's a poem of 140 characters or less, sent by none other than the celebrated Nikki Giovanni. It's part of our celebration of National Poetry Month, and we'll hear it in a few minutes and you'll find out how you can contribute, too, if you'd like. That's later.
But first, we want to talk about cheating in standardized testing. As you've probably heard by now, some 35 educators in Atlanta were indicted last week over suspicious test results there, dating back to 2005. The allegations follow years of reporting from local newspapers, detective work by state investigators, and testimony before a grand jury that alleged that teachers and administrators changed incorrect answers as a way to raise test scores.
In just a few minutes, we are going to hear about a previous standardized testing scandal that spread from coast to coast. That news actually originated in a doctor's office in West Virginia, with the help of a nurse and an X-ray technician. We'll hear more about that in a few minutes. But now, we're joined by NPR's Kathy Lohr - about the situation in Atlanta. Kathy, welcome. Thanks so much for joining us.
KATHY LOHR, BYLINE: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: How widespread is this scandal believed to be?
LOHR: Prosecutors are saying that more than half of the district's elementary and middle schools were affected by this - you know, conspiracy to cheat; to change these answers to make the tests appear - make the students and the schools appear to do better than they were really doing.
MARTIN: And what, exactly, are they alleged to have done, and how many people are supposed to have been involved in this?
LOHR: Well, 35 - as you mentioned - former teachers and administrators, principals were charged in this conspiracy - you know, indictment. But really, there were, I think, around 200 teachers that at one point, were suggested to be involved. Some 80-some pled guilty to these charges earlier. And the state investigation found this - couple of years ago. So this has been percolating for some time, and it's just now that the indictment came out.
MARTIN: What's been the reaction among students and parents there, you know, in Atlanta? You kind of - this seems like a rather heavy cloud to have to go to school under, every day.
LOHR: Well, you know, the original reaction was a lot of anger. And I think that the indictment has brought up this anger again, and this feeling that well, how did this happen here? Why would teachers do this? Why would administrators do this? And mostly, you know, why would the superintendent - a former superintendent, Beverly Hall - condone this kind of thing? Now, I have to say, she says that she did not condone this cheating, and she didn't know it was going on. But there's still a sense of, you know, this is hurting our children, that the kids are the ones who didn't get the help they needed and are now reading at grade levels that are not commensurate with what they should be.
MARTIN: What are prosecutors saying about the motivation, here? When there have been allegations about this kind of thing in the past, people generally say, well, you know, teachers don't go into this for the money. So what is believed to have been the motivation? Is it money?
LOHR: It is money, in a couple of different ways. First of all, many of the teachers, administrators would get big bonuses if their schools, if the students improved from year to year, because they were trying to make certain targets under the No Child Left Behind Act. And so if those principals, if those teachers, if the superintendent raised scores to a certain level, there were bonuses tied to that. So there's money there.
And then the other thing is, there were sanctions if those schools didn't meet those goals. At this point, I think that there are a lot of parents that are frustrated, and there are other teachers that are frustrated because, you know, 90 percent of the teachers in this district - it's a big district, more than 50,000 students - were doing the right thing. And so they kind of feel upset that they're affiliated with this.
MARTIN: What happens now? Are there specific steps that school officials are taking to address this - the taint of this scandal; to address the security of how tests are actually administered and scored and more broadly, the sense that if people needed to cheat in order to get acceptable test scores, then maybe something's wrong with education - I mean, with how education is actually proceeding there. So what - are there specific steps that school officials are taking, to address all these issues that have been raised by this?
LOHR: The current superintendent has said that, you know, it's going to take a long time to recover - for the reputation of the district to recover from this. But they are doing things to try to improve that reputation, including - they said that the testing procedures are spelled out differently; and the tests and the answer sheets are kept more secure than perhaps they were in the past.
There's a hotline that's been established for anybody to report what they consider to be unethical behavior. Teachers are now required to sign - take ethics courses in order to be employed. Now, not that that is going to change everything in the district, but, you know, there seems to be an idea that there may have been a culture of cheating, previously. And so they're trying to erase that.
As far as testing is concerned, in general, I think there are a lot of people that believe - not only in Atlanta, but across the country - that there's just too much emphasis placed on the test. The teachers' union in Atlanta came forward - in the state of Georgia came forward and said, basically, that schools are spending 100 days a year doing test preparation and actual testing, and that's just way too much; and that the schools have too much at stake just tied to these state tests. So I think there's a lot of people who are questioning - sort of how to change this in a broader way.
MARTIN: NPR's Kathy Lohr is reporting on the Atlanta school testing scandal. She was kind enough to join us from Atlanta.
Kathy, thanks so much for speaking with us.
LOHR: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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How to deny a budget request without frustrating your team
How to deny a budget request without frustrating your team
As corporate budget makers know all too well, it’s not just accumulating money that can be challenging — it’s parceling it out.
Anybody who manages an organization appreciates it is a limited resource that must be reasonably rationed in the business and personal worlds. Every organization has to set a budget for each of its operations and divisions to ensure that tasks are adequately financed and ultimately performed.
With any budget request, the issue may simply be who gets what. But how that decision is communicated often presents a challenge.
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Whether denying all or part of a request, the message has to be delivered clearly and sensitively so the turndown is understood and the requester is left only minimally frustrated. Motivating people to perform at the highest level is a key component of leadership. The leader doesn’t want to deflate his or her team with a harsh denial (except perhaps in the case of frivolous requests, which are not the subject of this chapter).
The scripting process will facilitate crafting a clear and respectful communication.
The key to a smooth budget denial is a well-expressed rationale. A subordinate who is given a rational basis for being turned down is likely to feel better about his organization and his manager than one who believes his carefully constructed request has been summarily dismissed. Spending some time crafting the denial — and then trying it out on another manager — will build a better case that can serve as both an explanation and a guide for future conduct.
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AstraZeneca Plc
Pfizer Slightly Beats Expectations, Leaves Investors Guessing About AstraZeneca
Pfizer Inc on Tuesday left investors guessing whether it would renew its pursuit of its British rival, AstraZeneca, but said it was considering other deals. The largest U.S. drug maker reported higher-than-expected second-quarter revenue, helped by growing demand for its cancer medicines. But overall sales fell on competition with newer rival drugs and cheaper generics, trends that have quickened Pfizer's efforts to buy companies and drugs that can bolster its medicine chest. In May, Pfizer abandoned its $118 billion bid to buy AstraZeneca. Under United Kingdom takeover rules, AstraZeneca can try to re-engage with Pfizer in August, and Pfizer can make another run at AstraZeneca in... | <urn:uuid:c0f8221a-eeba-4174-800b-3b40325a6da5> | http://www.courant.com/topic/business/astrazeneca-plc-ORCRP001304-topic.html | en | 0.940757 | 0.04506 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Egypt Justice Ministry authorizes civilian arrests by military
The decision, published in the official gazette, would remain in effect until a new constitution is in place, but the process of writing a constitution has hit snags.
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A boy holds bread as he passes a poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo on June 13. The Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi will face Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, in a presidential run-off on June 16 and 17, the climax of Egypt's first free leadership contest after 16 months of military rule.
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Egypt's Justice Ministry on Wednesday gave the country's military police and intelligence agents the right to arrest civilians over wide range of suspected crimes, including "resisting authorities," sparking charges that the country's military rulers want to extend their grip on power even after handing over to civilians.
The decision comes during heightened tensions in Egypt, three days before a highly polarized presidential runoff election and a day before rulings by the country's highest court that could dissolve the Islamist-dominated parliament and even cancel the Saturday-Sunday presidential vote.
The decision, published in the official gazette, would remain in effect until a new constitution is in place. The process of writing a constitution has hit snags. On Tuesday the Islamist-dominated parliament voted on an assembly to draft the document, but liberals boycotted the session. An earlier attempt to name the body collapsed because of opposition from liberals. Both times they charged that Islamists were unfairly dominating the procedure.
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Military analysts said the military arrest powers were a temporary measure intended to fill a security vacuum resulting from last year's uprising, when the police force collapsed and disappeared from the streets during the first days of the mass protests.
"The police force has not recovered completely, and security is not back," said Sayyed Hashim, a former military prosecutor, in a TV interview.
Rights activists warned the new decision creates a reproduction of notorious emergency laws that expired recently and said that it also could extend the rule of the generals, even if they transfer power to civilians on time by the end of the month.
"This is a declaration of martial law, as if we are living in banana republic," said Gamal Eid, a prominent rights lawyer.
Egypt's notorious emergency law, which expired on May 31, gave broad powers to detain and arrest for the police, who were accused of abusing their far-reaching authority.
For three decades under President Hosni Mubarak, abuses were rarely punished. At one point, human rights groups said there were more than 10,000 people in detention.
Even after the emergency laws lapsed, the generals who took power after Mubarak was deposed in last year's uprising have rounded up protesters, referring them to military tribunals known for swift and harsh rulings.
The military has pledged to turn power over to a civilian government once a new president is named. The runoff election for a new president is set for Saturday and Sunday. Even then, the military is intent on protecting its powerful position, including widespread economic interests.
Court appeals could upset the timetable. Egypt's highest court could rule this week on a challenge to the presidential election and another seeking to overturn the parliamentary election, which put Islamists in a commanding position.
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A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released
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By AppaYipYip on 1/27/2007 8:53:53 AM , Rating: -1
I fail to see why anyone would want to do this. I guess the world is full of extremely cheap individuals who enjoy ripping people off. If you can't afford the games, then don't buy a Wii in the first place.
RE: ....
By KaiserCSS on 1/27/2007 9:14:04 AM , Rating: 3
Read: A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released.
That doesn't necessarily mean only pirates will use this modchip. I might look into this, as I've already scratched a couple Wii games (darn slot-loading).
Anyway, it's just so damn fun to tinker with new toys and see what you can do with 'em. That's the aim of most console hackers anyway (I hope): learn what you can do with a console to either make something new out of it or boost some sort of capability (such as a larger hard drive for the 360 or being able to run Linux on the Xbox.)
But of course, there are always going to be those select few morons who will pirate games. That's unavoidable. But the blame doesn't rest on the modder's shoulders, it lies on the pirate's.
RE: ....
By Furen on 1/27/2007 9:25:43 AM , Rating: 1
Hah, that's like saying that the people who used Napster back before it got screwed over used it to download only that music for backup purposes only. People who thinker with machines in the ways you describe are a very small minority, the same with people who plan on making legitimate backups.
I do think it's harsh to penalize this minority for the actions of those who are just too cheap to buy the games but let's be realistic about the real target audience for these kinds of products.
RE: ....
By Tanclearas on 1/27/2007 10:03:00 AM , Rating: 5
I don't mind that the manufacturers implement copy protection. However, I believe they should be forced by law to provide replacement disks (at cost of disk only) should someone provide a damaged one.
One disk of my Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Saturn was damaged, and Sega's response was basically, "Oh well". The game still goes for over $100 used.
I am very careful with my disks, but stuff can still happen. If a manufacturer prevents me from making legitimate backups (something that I am legally entitled to do), then it should be the manufacturer's legal responsibility to provide replacement disks.
RE: ....
By MultiCore on 1/28/2007 12:08:48 AM , Rating: 2
You're spot on man.
I love the idea of mandatory replacement disks...I need my Panzer Dragoon Orta disc replaced.
RE: ....
By CrazyBernie on 1/27/2007 4:36:23 PM , Rating: 3
Oh COME NOW, we all know that if you're modifying something to work outside its original purposes, then CLEARLY you are an EVIL person and must be PUNISHED! May the gods of the RIAA, MPAA, and all other organizations that care nothing for their customers and everything for their profit margins STRIKE YOU DOWN!!! <insert crazed, maniacal laughter here>
RE: ....
By MrSmurf on 1/28/2007 12:00:16 AM , Rating: 1
"Read: A chip to allow Wii to play backups will soon be released.
That doesn't necessarily mean only pirates will use this modchip."
Don't be stupid. People just say "backup" because they think it makes what they're doing legal by placing the blame of people who abuse they 'gift' to the .000001% of the people who use it to backup their games.
RE: ....
By Samus on 1/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: ....
By SixDixonCider on 1/27/2007 11:56:11 AM , Rating: 4
Dude, Nintendo is aiming to be innovative. If you're going to cry about the Wii, don't buy it. I myself, will invest heavily into Nintendo's products for the Wii. My money goes to support creative companies.
$50 dollars is not alot of money. I understand that not everyone's income is the same, so if I were you, I'd do my homework, and read reviews. See what other people are saying about the crappy/good games, or go rent it. Pirating games is terrible because programmers/engineers need to feed their families just as much as the man who flips your patties, washes your car, dry cleans your clothes.
RE: ....
By dagamer34 on 1/27/2007 12:13:45 PM , Rating: 4
Im sorry, the shear fact that the probably spend a lot of money on R&D to pay people to design the Wii just doesn't seem to hit home in your head.
Cost of materials != Cost we pay.
RE: ....
By cochy on 1/27/2007 2:48:51 PM , Rating: 2
Well one thing I might agree with this poster is that the Wii controllers do seem over-priced (all console controllers are) but the wii especially since you need to buy the wiimote separately from the nanchuck. Why not bundle them at least?
RE: ....
By Belegost on 1/27/2007 9:16:20 PM , Rating: 2
So I took a look at pricing on console controllers:
X360 wireless controller - 49.99
PS3 SIXAXIS controller - 49.99
Wii Remote - 39.99
Wii Nunchuk - 19.99
So, an extra 10 dollars...
Oh the price gouging bastards!
RE: ....
By CrazyBernie on 1/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: ....
By slacker57 on 1/29/2007 1:14:05 PM , Rating: 2
Why am I paying $50 for farcry when its $20 on XBOX and looks three times better.
Um, if you were a person of any intelligence you wouldn't be. You'd be spending that money on Zelda or the upcoming Mario and Metroid games and games that are actually designed around the concept of the new controller. If the Wii is what finally brought 4-year-old games like Farcry to your attention, it's hard to imagine that there's an electrical outlet to plug your Wii into in the cave you live in.
The hardware is grossly overpriced. $64.96 for a controller near me (wiimote, nunchuk, tax) and ideally you need 4 of these. So $250+ in controllers alone.
Ideally, you need 4 controllers to play a single-player FPS game?
Although, on some level, I agree that the pricing of the controllers is a bit off. It's nice to get one free with the box, but if you plan on doing anything multiplayer, you're going to have to shell out more than you would for a game. I don't understand why they can't package the nunchuk in with a wiimote. Are 2 buttons and an analog stick really worth 20 bucks?
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Up for Debate: Holder in contempt; SCOTUS rules
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 11:46pm
It was a busy day in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision to largely uphold the Affordable Care Act. What is your reaction to the ruling? Also, the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for not turning over documents related to the Fast and Furious operation. Do you agree with that move? What do you think will happen moving forward?
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127 Comments on this post:
By: parnell3rd on 6/29/12 at 9:05
Yea d7 how many people were murdered as a result of watergate? Zero. How many Have been murdered as a result of fast and furious? Hundreds!
And why do you all have to bring up Bush's war's? If I remember correctly he got authority from the congress.
How many people has Pres. Obama authorized killed with out congress permission? Even US citizen's were killed. Why can't you bring up the present?
If you don't like the USA you can renounce your citizenship and move.
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 5:15
You are too right, parnell3rd, you see so many "problems" exposed on George Bush by such group that has gotten so impressed with the best damned lying actor I have ever seen on TV.
Is it because Barack Obama (if that's his name) has been blaming George Bush constantly since day one he usurped the office and he's convinced them so much they're will to accept anything he says?
I'll repeat my old question: How can they accept a man as their president when they don't even know who he is? You know, his birth day, his legal name and his place of birth along with all normal information on a legitimate birth certificate.
By: Loner on 6/30/12 at 5:25
Parnell claims that "hundreds" of people have been killed as a direct result of Fast & Furious....that number appears to have been pulled from out of thin air...or from the right-wing dominated airwaves.
And who is being killed? Primarily Mexican Drug gang members...all of the sudden, the right-wingers have compassion for brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking criminals I don't buy that for a minute.
What we have here is gross incompetence in the ATF...a continuation of Bush's failed war on drugs...Fast and Furious was an extension of Bush's Operation Wide Receiver. Both operations were ill-conceived and poorly executed.
If Obama had not reneged on his campaign promises, this mess would not have happened... Obama cracked down on the California Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and he tried to look like he was doing something about the drug wars in Mexico....both attempts failed; he has alienated both the left and the right on this issue.
Sadly, the Republicans have nothing positive to offer as an alternative to the Reneger-In-Chief.
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 6:23
I've read where two of our agents were killed and hundreds of Mexican citizens from the F & F incident. But no, I wasn't there to make the count personally.
By: producer2 on 6/30/12 at 6:55
Bend over,
I am a capitalist but when it comes to healthcare I believe there needs to be regulation. This is not homeowners or car insurance, this is a very different animal. The insurance companies are the main culprits in the current high cost of healthcare. Most do not run lean but run VERY fat causing unnecessary inflation within the system. Those who want to play will and those who don't will move on... No problem.
By: Loner on 6/30/12 at 7:24
This is an excellent article...a myth-buster...a cool-headed backgrounder and analysis of the scandal.
"The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal", By Katherine Eban; June 27, 2012: 5:00 AM ET
The federal prosecutors in Arizona are also NRA-loving gun nuts...these federal prosecutors, not the ATF are responsible for the massive flow of guns from AZ into Mexico....the prosecutors are gun-owner-friendly and gun-dealer-friendly....the sordid business of gun-running is good for the business of the gun-related industries...it's certainly good for business in Arizona....federal prosecutors in Arizona want to see that business thrive.
By: dargent7 on 6/30/12 at 8:53
Sat. 06/30
The total American body count from F & F is ONE, Border Agent Terry.
Bush I & Bush II's two, 20 year long wars in Iraq and the Mid-East = 6,400 dead Americans and countless dead Iraqi's and Afghans.
So, to the witch hunters after Holder and the Obama Adminto hang a guy on ONE, : stick it up your ass!
By: govskeptic on 6/30/12 at 9:43
Nice talk there Darge, but one shouldn't expect any less from an apologist
for "The One!" and his right hand man "The Enforcer"!
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 9:56
I'm afraid you're proving the education you received in college in Michigan. dargent7. You're also showing disrespect openly over the internet and disregard for the young people and ladies on this site.
By: Rasputin72 on 6/30/12 at 10:18
The villagers have gotten more free stuff. What they will never get is an understanding of why they are called villagers.
By: bfra on 6/30/12 at 10:19
yogi to d7 - You're also showing disrespect openly over the internet and disregard for the young people and ladies on this site.
HOW? Don't change the subject (your usual stance), just explain.
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 12:29
Give me and example, bfra.
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 12:37
I Re-read your concerned comment, bfra. I'm not sure I know what you mean about: "HOW? Don't change the subject (your usual substance), just explain."
For your information, I was referring to the constant vulgar language he's using on this site.
Has ethics changed that much in your way of thinking, bfra?
By: Captain Nemo on 6/30/12 at 12:42
LOL, yogi wants an example. He has illustration after illustration but he can’t see or learn anything with his head in is ass.
By: Captain Nemo on 6/30/12 at 12:43
Loner, I read your 8:24 post. I am afraid the Republicans will keep on until they cause innocent people to die from their political mud sling.
By: Captain Nemo on 6/30/12 at 12:46
I think slacker translation was the more accurate of the two. I’ll go along with his.
By: bfra on 6/30/12 at 1:40
yogi the old fart - You can't seem to understand anything simple! I showed your statement about d7 showing disrespect & disreguard, so the HOW, is explain HOW you think he is doing this. Is that simple enough? When someone says HOW, that is asking for an explanation. Got it yet?
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 1:46
Do you only know how to iterate what you're trying to say? How about a simple explanation, if you know what you're trying to say.
By: bfra on 6/30/12 at 1:49
Dumbbum - Since you don't understand plain English, why bother?
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 3:10
I understand plain English, bfra, but I have a problem understanding what you're trying to say because you don't know how to use it.
By: parnell3rd on 6/30/12 at 5:10
Okay so, Loner, Murder is okay if your a bad person? So the Cartels murdering Mexican citizens is okay with you? With guns allowed into their county by the US government.
Pulling nubers out of the air, really? Just like Washington pulls numbers out of their butts. I was being nice with the numbers it's actually in the thousands.
When Agent Brain Terry was murdered by Mexican Cartel in the USA with guns allowed to walk over the border by ATF brass, Agent Terry and his fellow agents were not allowed to fire live ammo at the bad guys. They were only allowed to have bean bag rounds loaded.
By: parnell3rd on 6/30/12 at 5:15
In June 2010, Pinal County Sherrif (Arizona) Paul Babeu informed the Dept of Homeland Securirty that parts of Arizona was under Mexican Cartel control.
The Dept of Homeland Security responded by posting signs along the roads "Travel Caution: Smuggling and Illegal Immigration May Be Encountered in This Area" These signs were placed as close as 30 miles to the capital of Arizona.
This is an outrage. What if this happens in Tennesse? What are you do good liberals going to do then? Cower in the corner?
By: parnell3rd on 6/30/12 at 5:18
But, the ironic thing is this. The most corrupt system is wanting to hold someone in contempt. They won't do a thing to the Attorney General Eric Holder. Why? Because that is politic's baby. We will slap you on the wrist because when we get caught we'll want you to go light on us.
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 8:13
According to history, it's about time for the USA to fold as a nation. I hope that happens by a rebellion of the people to take the control of their country back instead of the government taking the country over into dictatorship.
I don't know if these Obama lovers are DDs (dumb democrats) or not, but Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama has made his goal plain. Anyone that favors his dictatorship don't need to worry, it's just around the corner. And don't worry, the government will "take care" of you.
But think about it, when you see so many of the people that are being influenced claiming to be Republican, it makes you wonder: Aren't they just lying?
By: pswindle on 7/1/12 at 1:24
The GOP (TeaParty) has hit an all time low. They have joined forces with McConnell of KY to go against everything that the President wants to do for the American people, but you can't fool the thinking people of this great country for too long. We know what they are doing and we are not going to take it anymore.
By: yogiman on 7/1/12 at 5:27
I believe you're supposed to provide for yourself, pswindle, unless you belong to the "gimme" clan.
If Barry succeeds in "doing" for you, you will have met your beloved dictator.
By: dargent7 on 7/2/12 at 5:09
Monday 07/02
Didn't get a new Question of the Day.
Had a chance to read Fri and Sat. posts.....
It's futile to defend yourself on this board.
F & F killed ONE American Border agent.
Do people really believe Holder and Obama purposely devised the program to kill Americans?
And you bet I'll bring up Bush's wars because they were based on LIES, bald faced and blatant.
And "mr. Wade, "google" Barack Obama and you can read pages of his bio there.
No, you won't get his college transcripts but then again where did Reagan, LBJ, Nixon go to college? I never saw any other President's B.C., either.
By: dargent7 on 7/2/12 at 5:15
The other issue Republicans are making hay over is this F & F is at the level of Watergate.
Watergate, for those with long term memory loss, was Nixon's Admin. wrought with corruption, from top to bottom.
All white men power hungry and out of control.
"Enemies List", slush funds, money transfers, cover-ups, erased tapes, and of course the break-in at Democratic Hdqtrs.
Thank God we had Woodward & Bernstein on it.
Those two would of made a better President and VP than Nixon and Agnew.
By: yogiman on 7/2/12 at 5:48
Every man that has taken over the President's office has done so for the power to control the nation and its people.
Until a few decades ago, the desire for the power was to better the USA. But no man in that office has been so secretive of himself than Barack Obama. You obviously have no idea who he is. Why is he so secretive about his past? Why has he spent so much money to keep his identity hidden?
As is known, the way he was raised, and the friends he has, should make anyone wonder how interested he is for the benefit of the USA.
Go to www.wnd.com/2010/06/166905/ and you'll see a lot on him you might not like.
Barack Obama was raised as a communist and a Muslin and he hasn't changed. So if you want to live in a communist nation, back him all the way to dictatorial power.
By: gdiafante on 7/2/12 at 5:52
What "clan" out there isn't after a gimme? According to you, anyone that is poor is automatically an entitlement seeker. How about the middle class? Remember them? They're the dwindling class that makes our country work...they're the ones who are facing stagnant wages and rising costs. I can't believe that those freeloading middle-classers would want relief...
And how about those 1%ers...they've had tax breaks for a decade...it's still not enough...never mind that they're not following the rules, it's downright un-American to have them contribute...
Yogi, you're full of sh!t.
By: Captain Nemo on 7/2/12 at 5:56
By: yogiman on 6/30/12 at 9:13
The failed historian yogi, wants America to fail and then he will be happy. This sick vile old fool had rather see American fail and be over run by outside forces that have a non white in office. Let’s string up the old traitor and all others like him.
By: gdiafante on 7/2/12 at 6:02
He can't have it both ways, Nemo. Either this is a vast conspiracy to end America as a free superpower, or we're at the natural end of our power.
If he was intellectually capable of looking at the numbers, he'd realize that we've been in decline for a while now. But I suppose it makes him feel better to blame it on the funny looking guy with a weird name.
By: govskeptic on 7/2/12 at 6:07
It's the board's unanimous feelings that this is a left over fault of those
two old meanies: Bush-Cheney!
By: gdiafante on 7/2/12 at 6:19
Go back another 40-50 years and then you may be on to something gov.
By: yogiman on 7/2/12 at 6:30
I've known us to be in a decline probably longer than you've been alive, gdiafarte. I've lived through 13 presidents and one usurper. How many have you lived through?
I have wondered since it happened: What if Gerald Ford wasn't a natural born citizen when he took over the President's office as the next in line Speaker of the House? What would have happened. Would the Constitution have been amended to a point that would make Barack Obama legally eligible for the office?
Ronald Reagan made a speech on World Communist. Maybe you should read it. I'm sure you guys know how to get a copy of it.
It's still hard for me to understand how anyone can accept a president of their nation who refuses to identify himself.
You better wake up guys. If you would go back and see how many in office have worked on the move toward One World Government, it might make you open you eyes. Unless you're in favor of it.
By: yogiman on 7/2/12 at 6:44
I've posted it before, but I'm posting it again. There's 20 members of the GOP (RINOs) that have agreed to the LOST (Laws Of the Sea Treaty) bill which means turning the seas over to the United Nations. They can then collect taxes on the use of the Seas and Oceans and control the routes.
Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are to of the 20.
By: Loner on 7/2/12 at 6:47
So, where is the new UFD board? This one has been debated as nauseum.
Sometimes the NCP puts up a new board later in the day....let's hope that this is the case today.
I had a great time at the "Six Hours At The Glen" race for Daytona Protoptypes and GT cars...at Watkins Glen, NY...took my grandson and his buddy....you can watch a road race on TV, but there is nothing like being there....the FRAAAAP-FRAAAAP...the WAAAAAAH......the snap, crackle and pop...the ground trembles when the field passes by.....the smell of hi-octame exhaust gasses mixed with vaporized rubber....and then there is the crowd...the action in the pits....the festive spirit in the air.....long live motor racing!
By: yogiman on 7/2/12 at 7:17
So that's your problem, Loner, breathing too much racer's exhaust gasses. And its causing too many burps instead of coming out properly.
By: Rasputin72 on 7/2/12 at 7:27
Gdiafante..........I have some degree of empathy for your 6:52 post.....For my future reference and guidance I wonder if you would be willing to tell me what your financial defintion of middle class might be. This reqiest is not meant to be barbed in any way. I think the defintion of middle class is changing.
I know this. Middle class as I thought of middle class is totally different today than when I was growing up.,
Middle class was a working family of one or two providers, A home,an automobile, good clothes for children, a vacation annually,a savings account even if modest. A retirement future through your employer,an ability to either send or help your children through college. Perhaps eat out once or twice a month. Christmas and birthday presents for the children. An allowance for the kids and perhaps a movie once or twice a month for the husband and wife.
By: Loner on 7/2/12 at 7:43
This board is stale and smells of troll droppings...see ya later!
By: gdiafante on 7/2/12 at 7:50
Rasp, the definition is changing. Would you consider someone who makes (either singly or combined) $40K annually as middle class? That's around the median income (maybe $47K or something).
I really don't care about what they have, because they should have more then they can afford. That's how a credit-based economy works. The problem now is that people have had enough. If they were in over their head, they're paying off debt now instead of creating new debt. That's not good for our economy.
In the past, people could go get a new car, house, boat, etc, because they could pull equity out of their home. Not anymore. So they're pulling back.
That's how you can have someone who makes $20K a year, which should NOT be considered middle class, as having what historically would be middle class "luxuries".
By: gdiafante on 7/2/12 at 7:53
And by the way, the reason we're a credit-based economy is because of the stagnant wages. People have less discretionary income, so they fall pray to preditory lenders who offer easy credit.
Just as the government likes to borrow, eventually, you have to pay the piper or the house of cards comes tumbling down.
By: Rasputin72 on 7/2/12 at 8:02
Gdiafante, That is a very well thought out explanation. I can see why you and I agree on some matters and disagree on others. I had a sociology professor in college debate me on personal philosophy. He correctly argued that every single human being would develop a philosophy of life no matter how poor or how intellectually deficient or even how indifferent towards education and philosophy he or she may appear, A philosphy of life is as much a part of human existence as is the need for food and water.
Thanks for your input. Your philosphy is as good as anyone elses.
By: yogiman on 7/2/12 at 8:03
You must have come into this world a few years after me, Rasputin72. My childhood was in the days of depression. Only the men [who could]; worked. The women stayed home and raised their children. And ironically, those families seemed to be able to have more children than today. And children raised by their parents are much different than the children raised by baby sitters or homes where they're dropped of on your way to work and picked up on your way home.
And remember, the depression wasn't over until we got into WWII when a defense industry took off like rabbit being shot at.
By: dargent7 on 7/2/12 at 8:11
Reagan was a Hollywood "B" actor, who's claim to fame was 'Bedtime with Bonzo".
You know the one...he slept with a chimpanzee in a bed and talked to it.
What if Obama did something like that?
Oh, he does, he tries to talk to Congress.
No women post here, not because of rude language or swearing, but because of the insipid, constant drone from "yogi-man".
"Who is he?...Why hasn't he identified himself...?" "What's his real name.."?
You're 85 years old...Obama at 50 doesn't need to explain himself to you.
His resume and bio are available to anyone who cares to read, learn, and know.
On the other hand, racist pigs just continue with the same ole- same ole. All you've got is explicit ignorance.
By: Captain Nemo on 7/2/12 at 8:18
What if Gerald Ford wasn’t a natural born citizen when he took over the President office...
Translation; What am I talking about?
By: bfra on 7/2/12 at 8:20
d7 - Don't forget Bush1 "No new taxes", he forgot to add, until he got elected. Then Bush2, "bring'em own", Mission Accomplished in his zoot suit & where is Bush? He is clearing brush on his ranch, more times than he was in the WH.
By: Captain Nemo on 7/2/12 at 8:27
Yon can’t teach an old yogi (FOOL) new tricks when he never learned any to start with.
By: bfra on 7/2/12 at 8:32
Nemo - I agree! From his comments, he has got to be the dumbest person on this earth!
By: bfra on 7/2/12 at 8:34
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Hanks and director put on suspense clinic in 'Captain Phillips'
A scene from the new film "Captain Phillips."
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 3:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 3:32 p.m.
Who'd have thought that we'd have two movies in as many weeks about a small group of people isolated in a deadly situation?
"Captain Phillips"
Rated: PG-13
Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
First came “Gravity,” which brought home the terrifying helplessness of being trapped in space, and now “Captain Phillips” has arrived, in which the titular captain and his crew find themselves on a cargo freighter with a group of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. While lacking the visual and technical grandeur of “Gravity,” “Captain Phillips” is exceptionally well made in its own right, and its better-developed cast of characters ultimately makes it the more compelling of the two films.
The events that make up the plot of “Captain Phillips” are pretty well known at this point, given that they made headlines worldwide, but here goes all the same. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) was an American freighter captain leading his ship around the eastern coast of Africa when he and his crew encountered a band of pirates. Though the crew did everything they could to try to prevent the pirates from boarding, the pirates ultimately seized the ship and took Phillips hostage in a lifeboat.
The movie's script is based on a book Phillips wrote about his experience, so even if the events in it may not all be strictly true, they have the ring of verisimilitude. What stands out about the script, however, is just how much work the movie puts into making sure the pirates aren't just nameless, cookie-cutter figures. The movie builds early momentum by depicting the pirates gearing up for the raid and showing how they're driven by miserable poverty and fear of local warlords. It doesn't excuse the pirates' actions, but it does explain why they're foolhardy enough to attack an American ship, and it makes them into more compelling characters.
As Phillips, Hanks reminds us of why he has maintained his star power through multiple decades now. With his grizzled beard, touch of grey and glasses, he embodies ordinariness, but he also illustrates Phillips' keen mind and resourcefulness. Before the pirates actually board the ship, Phillips leads the improvised defense, using fire hoses, flares and other ordinary objects to try to keep the pirates at bay. Even after the pirates take control, Phillips' clever use of delaying tactics allow his crew to stay one step ahead of them. When Phillips finally runs out of options and is taken prisoner, though, Hanks makes sure the audience can feel his fear and the pressure he's under.
That all said, Hanks is not the only actor worth mentioning here. As Muse, the leader of the pirate band, newcomer Barkhad Abdi does stellar work, molding what could've been an utterly disposable role into something much more fascinating to watch. Muse is keen to make a big score to impress his fellow pirates and fulfill his dream of wealth, and he has a certain ruthless cunning to back it up. But when the situation compresses into the lifeboat, Muse gets increasingly frantic, which makes Phillips' position that much more perilous and ups the tension that much more.
Weaving all these elements together is director Paul Greengrass, best known for bringing shaky-cam choreography to the forefront of action movies with “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” Greengrass is still working with a handheld camera here, but he's refined his technique considerably; the camera work is fluid but never jittery, and Greengrass uses the freedom from bulky camera equipment to get shots from seemingly impossible angles in tight quarters. The movie's sense of claustrophobia, especially once the action shifts to the lifeboat, is palpable and exhausting, and credit for that goes to Greengrass.
If only more movies would show the same dedication to craft as “Captain Phillips.” While the movie may have relatively modest aims (it wants to be a REALLY tense suspense piece, and not much else), the fact that it succeeds so well on its own terms puts it above much of its competition. If “Gravity” reminded us of the cold cruelty of nature, this movie reminds us that people can be equally cruel to one another.
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A father of two small kids is working again. A young welder is getting training. A bike shop owner is reinvesting in his business. Jobs, a stronger economy, better roads, and money in your pocket.
Perhaps you weren't aware of all the wondrous things Canada's Economic Action Plan has delivered. No worries. Ottawa is spending as much $20-million on TV ads to make sure it's seared in your mind.
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This particular ad, titled "What it means for you," is from the Finance Department. There are others, including spots from the Canada Revenue Agency on tax cuts and Human Resources and Skills Development on job training.
Together, they're part of a massive feel-good ad blitz touting Ottawa's $60-billion Economic Action Plan. You can't turn on a TV these days without seeing one of the government's messages.
The problem is that the Action Plan money is all but gone, making the term "action plan" a bit of a misnomer.
Surely, it's just a coincidence that the ad campaign matches the Conservative government's political message in the lead-up to the next federal budget, and a possible spring election.
The deficit reached $55.6-billion in 2009-10 and is likely to come in near $40-billion this year. Economists estimate that roughly $10-billion of that deficit is structural. That means it's unrelated to the economic cycle and Ottawa can't just grow it's way out of the problem.
Canadians can't afford any more of the Action Plan. Indeed, the Harper government almost certainly will have to cut deeply into many of the programs Canadians consider important, or find new revenue somewhere.
The tax cuts touted in the ads, including a planned 1.5-percentage-point reduction in the corporate tax rate, are essentially being paid for with borrowed money.
Don't look for any hint of the tough choices ahead in the March 22 budget. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has already signalled it will be a status quo budget. No major new spending programs or tax cuts. Nor will he significantly reduce spending.
The Harper government is headed to the polls with one message - life is good.
Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty have promised to wipe out the deficit by 2015.
Perhaps they should explain to Canadians how they intend to get there - a point that parliamentary budget watchdog Kevin Page has made repeatedly in recent months.
Mr. Flaherty offered no hint in the 2010 budget. Facing a near-certain election this year, he won't be any more likely to want to talk frankly in this budget.
So the a bait-and-switch is likely to come in the 2012 budget. So far, the government has suggested that merely reducing the growth in spending would do the trick. Few experts believe this kind of administrative tinkering will be enough.
What could the Conservative government do? The conservative Fraser Institute has suggested that Mr. Harper should cut health and social transfers to the provinces by $3.1-billion and return program spending to prerecession levels. Do that, and the government could balance its budget in 2012-2013.
It clearly won't be easy. Mr. Page has warned that the aging population will put increasing upward pressure on spending.
And the provinces are not about to roll over and take cuts to transfers without a fight. It would mean breaking current agreements, which run until 2014. As it is, current transfers aren't keeping up with rising health-care costs facing the provinces.
Canadians deserve some honesty about the country's finances, not a snow job paid for with taxpayers' money.
That way they can make sensible choices, such as the merits of tax cuts versus less health care.
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The BBC has pulled out all the stops today with its coverage of Gordon Brown's battle for his political life, encompassing ministerial resignations, the cabinet reshuffle and his party's clobbering in the council elections. As a mark of the seriousness of the coverage, it has even blown the cobwebs off the BBC news helicopter, which has spent the day hovering over Downing Street zooming in on groups of schoolchildren having their picture taken outside No 10. BBC News bosses have been told to show restraint in their use of the copter at a time of budget cuts and belt tightening, particularly after one incident in which it was used to follow pop singer Michael Jackson from central London to The O2 arena. One BBC insider said that the budget for the chopper is paid, for a certain number of hours, in advance and is shared with ITN, with the commercial organisation paying 25% and the BBC the remaining 75%. Both news organisations get to use the pictures, but the Beeb gets editorial control over what to shoot. What with not much actually happening outside Downing Street, Monkey wonders how long the chopper will actually sit in the sky today before being packed back off to its base. | <urn:uuid:7f1c7cb4-0671-4193-80f0-76797601382d> | http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2009/jun/05/bbc-news-helicopter | en | 0.966339 | 0.06881 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
London's Eye in the sky not just a Ferris wheel
September 23, 2007|By Elliott Hester, Universal Press Syndicate
LONDON — Built in 2000, London Eye has become as much a part of the city's identity as Big Ben or Westminster Abbey. Standing 443 feet high on the south bank of the Thames River, it is the world's tallest observation wheel.
It's also the United Kingdom's most popular paid tourist attraction. Each year, more than 3.5 million people queue up for the carnival-like ride that offers spectacular views of the city.
After buying my ticket, however, I remained skeptical. From the ground, the massive 2,300-ton attraction resembles a glorified Ferris wheel.
Yes, it's the fourth-tallest structure in London -- only the One Canada Square complex (770 feet), British Telecom Tower (620 feet) and Tower 42 (600 feet) are taller. But would my tourist dollars have been better spent on a Thames River cruise? A visit to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum? A day-trip to Legoland Windsor?
When I took off on the 30-minute London Eye "flight," I realized I had done the right thing.
Unlike Ferris wheels that carry a handful of passengers in suspended gondolas, London Eye utilizes "passenger capsules." Egg-shaped, air-conditioned and made primarily of glass, the 32 capsules look like escape pods attached to a circular space station. The futuristic capsules, which represent London's 32 boroughs, weigh 11 tons each and accommodate up to 25 people.
Mounting rings positioned on the outside of the main rim allow the passenger capsules to rotate as the wheel revolves. This makes for dramatic 360-degree views from the top of the wheel.
As my capsule began to rise, I felt as if I were floating above London in a bubble. The wheel turned at the almost imperceptible rate of 0.6 miles per hour.
On a clear day you can't see forever. But you can see for about 25 miles from a London Eye passenger capsule. Looking south past Westminster Bridge, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, I followed the muddy Thames past Lambeth Bridge to MI6 Headquarters, where the British Secret Intelligence Service (and its famous fictional agent 007, James Bond) launch covert overseas operations.
Farther along the Thames, I could barely make out the four white smokestacks of the defunct Battersea Power Station.
As the capsule climbed, I watched the river snake through a landscape of shrinking buildings that faded into the horizon.
At static viewing platforms like Chicago's Sears Tower (or revolving platforms like Sydney's Centerpoint Tower), perspective is limited due to the fixed altitude.
But because the passenger capsules are constantly changing altitude, and because they allow viewing in every direction, London Eye is perhaps the world's most comprehensive viewing platform.
From London Eye, I got a bird's-eye view of Whitehall Court and Buckingham Palace. I could even see 18-foot-high Lord Nelson's Column, which stands at the center of Trafalgar Square.
From the top of the wheel, the views are even more amazing. Covent Garden, St. Paul's Cathedral, the British Museum, Tate Modern gallery -- many of London's most popular attractions paraded before me like Monopoly board game pieces.
Romantic couples can rent a private capsule for two. The "Cupid's Capsule" flight comes with a bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne served by a host. Like all trips on London Eye, it lasts only 30 minutes. But the complementary truffles and $600 price tag will make it a memorable flight.
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Cookshop City Square - Permanently Closed
Went by the cookshop today and there was a sign, stating it was now permanently closed (but still fully stocked). Anyone know the details about this?
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1. Haven't gone by. But I forgot to post this myself. Missus saw the closed store over the weekend and told me about it. Obviously it slipped my mind to post the news here. She said it looks from the outside that it was foreclosed, given all the inventory still sitting inside.
1. The Cookshop has had it's door chained by City Square management due, presumably, to money owed. The store's stock will likely be liquidated at some point. Rough luck for the staff, who all lost their jobs without warning.
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1. re: starvinartist
Yeah, too bad. They were never a bargain place but had lots of interesting cooking stuff and a decent slate of classes which probably kept them going.
I would have picked William Sonoma to close before them but deeper pockets will prevail.
1. re: eatrustic
I wonder about the longevity of Cookworks too.
1. re: Anne M
I hope this is not a trend, the little guys being forced out of the market by greater forces, the same way the independent bookstores experienced in the past decade or so.
1. re: LotusRapper
I can't see how they can compete with Amazon, cross-border shopping, and the big shops. To be honest tough, I rarely purchase cookware from these kinds of stores as the markup is pretty high.
1. re: fmed
Yeah, it's sad. I still shopped there occasionally. That had some baking stuff that other places in town didn't have as much as with. For bigger cookware I might buy from the states or the interwebs, but for small stuff I tend to buy most of my stuff from the local stores. I tend to be one of instant gratification. ;)
2. re: Anne M
Cookworks did a bang-up job with our recent wedding registry, a huge contrast from my friends' tales of woe from their registry dealings with the Bay. Let's hope they don't go under!
2. re: starvinartist
As someone who lives in the same 'hood as Cookshop, and who's taken half a dozen cooking classes there and bought the odd kitchen gadget from time to time, I *suspect* they've not been doing well for many years now. In fact I suspect it was the classes that sustained them more than strictly from sales on the floor. Over recent years it seemed as if their floor inventory got trimmed, and relatively few "new & innovative" items came in. Perhaps a victim of the recession plus online shopping, US shopping and/or rent hikes at City Square. The mall has always had a constant turnover of shops, although Cookshop has been there for at least as long as we've lived in the 'hood (since 1998).
Let's hope the staff find timely employment elsewhere.
3. I heard from an employee, from the Safeway across the way, that the inventory will be auctioned off. Don't know when but I assume that is why you still see things in there through the papered windows.
1. I haven't been by the store but have heard that the sign says cooking classes will continue. Anyone know about this?
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Haven't heard anything. Devastating news. I have gift certificates for the store that I was just about to use. Was browsing for the store hours online when I came across this post. Hopefully I can use it for cooking classes...thanks for the post.
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Checker Taxi
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The very last Checker Taxicab built by the company, in green and cream with Checker's trademark checkerboard trim. It is a 1982 A11 and is currently on display at the Gilmore Car Museum in Kalamazoo.
Checker Taxi was an American taxi company. It used the Checker Marathon produced by the Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Both Checker Taxi and its parent company Checker Motors Corporation were owned by Morris Markin.[1]
The "Checker", particularly the 1958–82 Checker A series sedans remain the most famous taxi cab vehicles in the United States. The vehicle is comparable to the London Taxi in its nationally renowned styling, which went unchanged throughout its use, and also for its iconic status.
Motorized taxi cabs began to appear on the streets of major cities beginning in the early 1900s. Particularly in Chicago, where numerous railroads had terminals, there was considerable need for on-demand, point-to-point chauffeur-driven transportation. Hotels, department stores, and office buildings embraced the amenity, but often limited access to their facilities to a single cab company. Kickbacks were common, and the system favored larger operators, who had the financial resources to "play the game".
By 1920, there were two dominant taxi-cab companies operating in Chicago: Yellow Cab and Checker Taxi. Yellow Cab Company was founded in 1910 by John Hertz who subsequently established his own cab manufacturing business in 1917. Checker Taxi did not own its own cab manufacturing company, but principally used Mogul Cabs, manufactured by Commonwealth.
Morris Markin, a clothier from Chicago, Illinois, became the owner of 'Markin Automobile Body', an auto-body manufacturer based in Joliet, Illinois following a default by the owner on a $15,000 personal loan. The facility made bodies for Commonwealth Motors, which marketed the vehicles to cab companies under the trade name 'Mogul'.
Commonwealth Motors was on the verge of bankruptcy but had an order from Checker Taxi (a privately owned cab company in Chicago that had no affiliation with Markin at the time). Markin acquired Commonwealth Motors via a stock swap, and merged it with Markin Automobile Body, forming Checker Cab Manufacturing in order to honor the contractual commitment.
Checker cabs were manufactured in Joliet for two years, then production was shifted to Kalamazoo, Michigan. The sturdy Checker cabs gained the acceptance and loyal following of Checker Taxi operators in Chicago.
Markin began buying up Checker Taxi operators' licenses in 1924, gaining full control of the company in 1937. Markin followed Hertz's business plan in having drivers open doors for the fares, and outfitted each driver with a uniform. Checker became the first cab company to hire African-American drivers and the first to require that drivers pick up all fares, not just white ones.
Competition for fares in Chicago was fierce in the 1920s, and drivers began ganging up on one another between fares. The fighting between the two cab companies escalated to the point where Markin's home was firebombed, which prompted Markin to relocate Checker Cab Manufacturing to Michigan.
Hertz had sold the controlling interest in his Yellow Cab Company to the Parmalee Transportation Company, but in 1929, after a suspicious fire at his stables killed his prized race horses, Hertz sold his remaining shares of Yellow Cab to Markin, who subsequently acquired another one-third in the company from Parmalee, thus taking control of both Parmalee and Yellow Cab. In 1940, Parmalee (including Yellow and Checker Cab) became the largest cab company in the United States.
Prior to selling the Yellow Cab company, Hertz had sold his taxi-cab, truck, and coach manufacturing arm in 1925 to General Motors. GM wanted to sell part of the acquired business and made an offer to Markin, but Markin declined. Rather than eliminate the capacity of Yellow Manufacturing, General Motors entered the taxicab business in New York City as Terminal Taxi Cab. General Motors operated Yellow Coach as a subsidiary until 1943, at which time the company was merged with GMC Truck Division, and manufacturing shifted from Chicago to Pontiac, Michigan.
A second "taxi war" broke out, with Checker Taxi Co and Terminal Taxi Co operators fighting it out in New York City. To end the dispute, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker created the New York Taxi Cab Commission, which issued a limited number of cab operator permits, called "medallions", and mandated that cabs have seating for five passengers in the rear compartment, which favored Checker and a handful of other manufacturers that built automobiles which met this requirement. Over the next three decades, Markin was involved in the formation of "Checker Taxi" or "Checker Cab" companies in a number of major U.S. cities.
At one point, Markin sold Checker Cab Manufacturing to E.L. Cord, but bought it back again in 1936. Markin and Cord were friends, and after Cord bought up interest in Checker, he retained Markin as company head. Meanwhile, the large, heavy Checker Model T, introduced in 1932, featured an 8-cylinder Lycoming engine, the same one that powered the classic Cords at the time. Checker had used Lycoming 6-cylinder engines since introduction of the Checker Model G in 1927. Prior to that, most Checkers had been powered by 4-cylinder Buda engines.
The 1935 Checker Model Y featured attractive front end styling that could have been influenced by the Cord 810/812. The Y model continued in production until 1938. For 1939, Checker introduced a brand new model, the Model A. From that time forward, all future Checkers would carry the "A" designation, usually with a number.
The 1939 Model A featured a retractable roof section at the very back of the greenhouse, distinctive stylized headlight lenses, and unusual open-sided front fenders. The rear roof section could be opened if passengers desired an open-air ride. The open-sided fenders in front detracted from the car's styling but made fender repairs easier for fleet owners. Beginning in 1939, Checkers were powered by the well-known Continental "Red Seal" inline six-cylinder engine, until the engine was discontinued in 1964. Starting in the 1950s, Checker offered an optional overhead valve version of the Continental six.
During WWII, Checker, like other American automakers, switched to wartime production, building materiel needed by the U.S. Armed Forces. After the war, Checker cars, although mechanically similar to the pre-war models, were styled like many late 1940's sedans. The new model, introduced in 1947, had a 127" wheelbase and featured unit body construction. This basic design continued in production until 1956.
• Model A2 - 1947-49
• Model A3/A4 - 1950-52
• Model A6-A7 - 1953-54
• Model A8 - 1956-58
• Model A9/A10 - 1959-63
• Model A11/A12 - 1963-82
In 1954, New York City revised its specifications for taxi-cabs, eliminating the five-passenger rear compartment requirement and stipulating a wheelbase of 120" or less, which effectively took Checker out of the game. A brand-new 120" wheelbase body-on-frame design was introduced in December 1956, called A8, and that basic body style would be retained for the duration of Checker production until the end, in 1982.
1956 through '58 A8 Checkers featured single headlights, 1953 Chevrolet taillights (possibly GM surplus, since they were already five years old), and a thick, single-bar grille. In 1958, quad headlights became legal in the U.S., and Checkers featured the quad headlights from that time forward, along with a new egg-crate grille insert. Parking lights were housed in each far side of the grille insert. Taillights were also changed to the familiar vertical chrome strip housing dual red lenses. Early models also featured a single separate bumper-mounted backup light. Another change between the A8 and later models is the rear window. Originally flat in the A8 with a thicker "C" pillar, the rear window on later models wrapped around a thinner roof-line, affording improved all-around visibility.
For 1960, Checker introduced the A9 series taxi, as well as for the first time, a passenger sedan to be marketed to the general public, the A10 Superba. For 1961, the Marathon sedan and station wagon were introduced, upscale versions of the Superba. The Superba was discontinued in 1963, and from that time on, the taxicabs were designated A11, the Marathon became the A12.
Starting in 1965, Checker switched to Chevrolet overhead-valve inline 6-cylinder engines, with the small-block Chevy 283 and 327 V8s optional. Starting in 1970, both Chevrolet and Checker switched to the 350 cubic-inch small-block V8 that was used until the end of Checker production. GM phased out the Chevy inline six in 1979. Starting in 1980, both Chevrolet and Checker offered a new 229 cubic-inch V6 as the standard power-plant, with a small-block 305 or 350 V8 as optional.
The standard transmission for the Checker since the 1930s was a conventional 3-speed manual. In 1956, Checker offered a "Driv-Er-Matic Special" which featured a Borg-Warner automatic transmission and an overhead-valve Continental inline 6. By 1970 GM's Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 transmission became standard on all Checkers.
Starting in 1959, Checker began producing passenger car versions of the taxis to the general public. The first of these models were labeled "A10 Superba" and the line included a sedan as well as a station wagon. Superbas were built from 1960 through '63. A more luxurious model call the "A12 Marathon" was introduced in 1961, and remained in production until 1982. To the public, Checker cars were advertised as a roomy and rugged alternative to the standard American passenger sedan. A Marathon station wagon (Model A12W) was also offered, but American buyers preferred style and power over practicality, so the high-riding bulbous Checkers never sold well to the public.
As Federal safety rules increased throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Checkers kept pace and despite having the same basic body design, Checker enthusiasts can often identify the year of a Checker based on its safety equipment. For example, starting in 1963, amber parking/directional lights were used up front. 1964 models introduced lap belts in front, energy-absorbing steering columns came in 1967. 1968 models featured round side marker lights on fenders along with shoulder belts, and 1969s introduced headrests for front outboard seating positions.
1970 began the use of full-size Chevrolet steering columns and steering wheels. 1973 and 74 models replaced the chrome-plated bumpers for larger, beam-type units that were painted aluminum and protected the lights in a 5-mph impact. '75 and later models were labeled "Leaded Fuel Only," and 1978's introduced the new delta-style Chevrolet steering wheel. In the 1970s, power steering and power-assisted front disc brakes became standard as well. In 1978, the windshield wipers became parallel-action.
Despite its bare-bones reputation as a taxicab, ultra-luxury, limousine-type Marathons were also available, especially in later years. The A-12E model, specially built for the wife of the CEO of the company, remains in brand-new condition with less than 50 miles on the odometer. Checker limos offered vinyl roofs with opera windows, power-assisted accessories, and luxurious upholstery.
The final Checker A11/A12s were manufactured in 1982, when Checker exited the automobile manufacturing business. The company continued operation at partial capacity making parts for General Motors until January 2009 when it declared bankruptcy.[2]
Checker Taxicabs in the media[edit]
Because their styling changed little from 1958 through 1982, many film producers were not careful to use period-correct Checker cars in their work. Often, a later model Checker (with side marker lights, late-1970s bumpers, etc.) was used in 1950s or 1960s settings. However, true Checker fans can spot the inconsistencies and at least, the approximate year of the car.
Metal die-cast model of a 1981 Checker taxicab by SunStar
• In the 1978 film Blue Collar the opening of the movie was set in Checker car plant.
• In Twisted Metal, this car is used by one of the main characters.
• In the original Mission: Impossible television show, episodes that were supposedly set in Eastern Europe often used Checkers as vehicles, as was sometimes evident in closeups of the cars.
• In the 1992 TV series "Quantum Leap," Sam Beckett (played by Scott Bakula) finds himself as a taxi driver in 1958, driving a New York City Checker cab. However this car has a "V8" insignia on its front fender, indicating it was a 1965 or newer model.
• Also used in the 1983 comedy film D.C. Cab as the main type of cab in the film.
• In the 1984 film Rhinestone the character of Nick Martinelli drives a checker taxi.
• In the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the taxis waiting at the taxi stand in downtown Chicago are all Checker cabs. Ferris Bueller and his friends escape Mr. Bueller by getting away in one of the waiting cars. In a later scene, two other Checkers are featured.
• In the 1989 movie Major League, one of the baseball players arrives at the training camp in a Checker Taxi.
New York City, 2011
• In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Checker cabs were featured prominently in the television show Taxi. Set in the fictional "Sunshine Cab Company" headquarters in New York City, all or most of the cabs in the Sunshine fleet were Checkers. Nearly every episode began with footage of Checkers in action, and the background of the garage interior often showed several Checkers getting worked on or waiting to be dispatched.
• A Checker Cab and its cigar-chomping driver made cameo appearances in various Blondie music videos between 1978 and 1980. Their music video for "Call Me" centered entirely on the Checker and driver, traveling through the traffic-filled streets of Manhattan.[3]
• Checker cabs continue to be featured in movies set in New York City long after they have become rare or even absent in the city itself.
• Friends TV character Phoebe Buffay often borrowed, and later inherited, her grandmother's Checker Cab to drive upstate and see family or take friends on ski weekends. One episode involves her driving back from Las Vegas to New York, after Joey Tribbiani had borrowed it to drive out to a film shoot.
• A slightly modified version of the "Checker Cab" or "Marathon" can be seen in the 2000 movie Unbreakable. The car is pictured as the antagonist's vehicle, chosen for its tank-like appearance and protective structure.
• In the German TV series "Der Checker - viel Auto, wenig Geld" (engl. "The Checker - much car, little money") on DMAX a 1965 Checker Cab is used by host Alex Wesselsky aka "Der Checker".
• In Scrooged, a Checker Cab is used by the ghost of Christmas past to take Bill Murray's grouchy, media tycoon character, Francis Xavier Cross, back to his childhood.
• In Regular Show, Pops owns a yellow checker cab which he thinks is "brownish." It is only seen in the episode Ello Gov'ner. The episode also features a haunted British taxi.
With the exception of the A10, A11, and Marathon models, only a handful of pre-1960 Checkers exist. They were produced in the thousands, but led a life of rough city streets, constant idling, and high mileage. Once they were retired from taxi service, they were pretty much scrap.
Once production ceased in 1982, collectors made an effort to save as many Checkers as possible. If they were restorable after retirement from service, they were often saved. At that time, however, only the later models still existed, so those are the cars that can be found today.
Two restored older Checkers reside in the Gillmore Museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan. One is a 1923 Model E, the other is a 1936 Model Y. The museum also features the very last car the company assembled, a 1982 A11 taxi in Chicago green and ivory livery. At least two A8s exist, one a Driv-R-Matic Special, in restored condition. In the early 1950s, a number of worn Checker A2s and A4s were shipped to Finland to address an automobile shortage. These cars (more accurately, their remains) still exist, and the Finland Checker Club is actively seeking parts to restore as many of them as possible. A 1939 Model A is also in the hands of a private collector, completely restored.
Several hundred post-1960 Checkers in various conditions exist. Often they can be found for sale on eBay or other automobile auctions. They can be purchased at reasonable prices, since the market for these big old taxis is very limited.
Checkers in Miniature[edit]
Until recently, accurate scale models of any Checker automobile were extremely scarce; however after these venerable taxis disappeared from big cities, several manufacturers of die-cast models have issued licensed models of the A10 and A11 Checkers. Most notably, Sun Star produced several versions of the 1981 A11 taxicab in New York livery, along with Chicago and Los Angeles colors and markings in their usual 1:18 scale. These models feature detailed interiors, engines, chassis, and have accurate emblems and markings on the body. In smaller scales, Matchbox produced a miniature yellow Checker that featured the well-known "Checker Special" logo on its rear doors. Greenlight produces an accurate 1/43 scale 1977 New York Checker cab modeled after "Friends" Phoebe Buffay's car. The Franklin Mint produced a 1963 Checker, again a New York City version, in its usual, highly detailed 1:24 scale. Sunnyside produced a nice 1/34 licensed 1963 Checker A11 Taxi with detailed engine, interior, chassis, along with the "Checker Special" decal on the rear doors. It was commonly sold as a souvenir in various cities, including New York and Miami and features whitewall tires and small hubcaps. Perhaps the most unusual Checker diecast is Brooklin's 1949 New York Checker A2, a long-forgotten model. Other small, inexpensive models may be available; however some of these are only stylized Checkers and do not accurately represent the Checker in scale.
Many of the above models can be found at online auction sites, such as eBay.
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For each exists, but only if you create an array first, which isn't helpful. I can't log in to check right now, but you can try something like this:
Make one macro that makes it act like you clicked on a button and reroutes to another based on right/left click:
/click [button:1] MultiBarLeftButton2; MultiBarLeftButton3
Then make two macros for each separate thing and put them on the proper button location. So, for the left click:
/csay 4 yourmessage
/csay 7 yourmessage
and right click:
/csay 1 yourmessage
If your message is too long to fit, you should be able to use semicolons to keep it all on one line:
/csay 4 yourmessage; 7 yourmessage
Or, you can do part of it, and put /click MultiBarLeftButton4 to chain it to another button with the rest of the message.
For reference, here's the different action bar names:
ActionButton# Main Bar*
MultiBarBottomLeftButton# Bottom Left Bar
MultiBarBottomRightButton# Bottom Right Bar
MultiBarRightButton# Right Bar
PetActionButton# Pet Bar
Here's a quick reference on branching with /click.
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I'm reading Terry Gannon's Moonshine Beyond the Monster, and in section 2.4.3 he hints at (but does not explicitly describe) a way to extend the action of $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ on modular forms to an action of the braid group $B_3$. Here is what he says about this action:
First, we lift modular forms $f : \mathbb{H} \to \mathbb{C}$ to functions $\phi_f : SL_2(\mathbb{R}) \to \mathbb{C}$ as follows: let
$$\phi_f \left( \left[ \begin{array}{cc} a & b \\\ c & d \end{array} \right] \right) = f \left( \frac{ai + b}{ci + d} \right) (ci + d)^{-k}.$$
Thinking of $f$ as a function on $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ invariant under $SO_2(\mathbb{R})$, we have now exchanged invariance under $SO_2(\mathbb{R})$ for invariance under $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$. ($SO_2(\mathbb{R})$ now acts by the character corresponding to $k$.) In moduli space terms, an element $g \in SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ can be identified with the elliptic curve $\mathbb{C}/\Lambda$ where $\Lambda$ has basis the first and second columns (say) of $g$, and $\phi_f$ is a function on this space invariant under change of basis but covariant under rotation.
Second, $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ admits a universal cover $\widetilde{SL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ in which the universal central extension $B_3$ of $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ sits as a discrete subgroup. Unfortunately, Gannon doesn't give an explicit description of this universal cover (presumably because it's somewhat complicated).
Question: What is a good explicit description of this universal cover and of how $B_3$ sits in it (hence of how it acts on modular forms)? In particular, does it have a moduli-theoretic interpretation related to the description of $B_3$ as the fundamental group of the space $C_3$ of unordered triplets of distinct points in $\mathbb{C}$? (These triplets $(a, b, c$) can, of course, be identified with elliptic curves $y^2 = 4(x - a)(x - b)(x - c)$.)
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You can think of the space of positively oriented covolume-one bases of $\mathbb{R}^2$ as a torsor under $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$, i.e., it is a manifold with a simply transitive action of the group. If you choose a preferred basepoint, such as $(\mathbf{i},\mathbf{j})$, you get an identification with the group. You can think of elements of the universal cover as positively oriented area-one bases equipped with a homotopy class of paths in $\mathbb{R}^2 - \{0\}$ from $\mathbf{i}$ to the first element of the basis. There is a reasonably straightforward composition law that involves multiplying matrices and composing paths.
Gannon's description of lifting to $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ implies the lifts of even weight modular forms to $\widetilde{SL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ are invariant under the action of $B_3$. In particular, classical modular forms are rather boring from the perspective of the braid group. In order to detect the central extension, you need to consider modular forms of fractional weight. When the weight is not an integer, you don't get an action of $SO(2)$, but instead, an action of the universal cover $\mathbb{R}$. The resulting action of $B_3$ is necessarily nontrivial, since the restriction to the center is by a nontrivial character of $\mathbb{Z}$. I don't know many explicit constructions of fractional weight forms, other than half-integer weight forms like $\eta$ and theta functions, and vector-valued forms constructed from them. However, you can generate a family of examples by choosing powers of the cusp form $\Delta$, which admits a logarithm since it is globally regular and nonvanishing.
My understanding of the explicit relationship to configurations of points and elliptic curves is the following: Given a path of triples of distinct points $(a_1(t),a_2(t),a_3(t))$, we get a path on the space of elliptic curves of the form $y^2 = (x-a_1(t))(x-a_2(t))(x-a_3(t))$, but this will throw away an action of real translations and dilations (irrelevant) together with the central extension and the circle action (important). If we just look at the isomorphism types (i.e., the $j$-invariants) of the curves, we get a path through the quotient of the upper half plane by $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$. We need to choose a discrete structure to remove the quotient by the center, and a one dimensional continuous structure to promote our space to three dimensions. To retain the angular information that we lost by passing to elliptic curve isomorphism, we fix a tangent direction at infinity to remove rotational symmetry. This tangent direction is manifested when we choose our discrete structure: a homotopy class of nonintersecting paths from the three points to infinity, because we demand that the paths asymptotically approach infinity in that direction. The elliptic curve is a double cover of the complex projective line, ramified at the three points and infinity. We can choose once and for all a uniform convention for lifting the three paths to primitive homology cycles, such that any pair generates $H_1$, and one cycle is the sum of the other two, so those two form a preferred basis. To get the parametrization of $\widetilde{SL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ from the first paragraph, we choose a preferred basepoint configuration of three points with paths from infinity and asymptotic direction, and consider a triple $(a_1(t),a_2(t),a_3(t))$ that starts at the basepoint. By uniqueness of homotopy lifting, we get a family of tangent vectors at infinity together with a family of elliptic curves with oriented bases of homology. By rescaling the bases in $\mathbb{R}^2$ to have unit covolume, we get the parametrization in the first paragraph.
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There is a straightforward way to pass between the description of $\widetilde{SL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ in my first paragraph and Robin Chapman's description, but Robin's description is not only more concise, but lends itself to nice descriptions of finite-order covers like the metaplectic group (using branches of $n$th roots of $cz+d$). – S. Carnahan Apr 4 '10 at 19:49
$\widetilde{\textit{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})}$ is not so complicated, but one of the best descriptions is just that. It has no faithful finite-dimensional representations, which makes things a little tricky. It's easy to see that $\textit{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ is topologically a solid torus, so it does have a central extension by $\mathbb{Z}$.
Another description of this central extension is to think of $PSL_2(\mathbb{R})$ acting on the hyperbolic plane. Then $\widetilde{SL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ is pairs $(g,\phi)$ where $g \in PSL_2(\mathbb{R})$ and $\phi:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ is a map that induces the map from $S^1$ to $S^1$ induced by $g$ on the circle at infinity. (Note that this goes by a quotient from $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ and then centrally extends back again.)
For the relation to $B_3$, you can think of $PSL_2(\mathbb{Z})$ as the mapping class group of the 4-times punctured sphere, with one puncture (at infinity) distinguished and required to go to itself. To go from there to its central extension $B_3$, you remove a disk (rather than a point) around infinity, and only look at isotopies that fix that boundary, which is similar to what happened at the circle at infinity above.
More generally, all mapping class groups have a unique central extension; if there's a distinguished point, you can do it in the braid-like way (looking at isotopies that fix a boundary circle), while if there isn't, you do it by lifting the map of the surface to a map from $\mathbb{H}^2$ to itself (not an isometry) and then lifting the action on the circle at infinity to a map from $\mathbb{R}$ to itself. (These are equivalent when they are both defined.)
(I still feel like it ought to be possible to make the connection crisper.)
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I'm afraid I know nothing about $B_3$ but here is my favourite construction of $\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{R})$.
The elements of $\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{R})$ are pairs $(A,f)$ where $$A=\left(\begin{array}{cc} a&b\\\ c&d \end{array}\right)\in\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$$ and $f$ is a branch of $\log(cz+d)$ for $z$ in the upper half plane. We compose these as follows: $(A,f)(B,g)=(AB,h)$ where $$h(z)=f(Bz)+g(z)$$ and of course $Bz$ denotes the usual linear fractional transformation action of $B$ on $z$ in the upper half-plane.
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This is only a partial answer to your question, concerning how to visualise the universal cover of $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$.
A nice picture of this group (together with a proof that it is not a matrix group) is given in Graeme Segal's lectures in the book Lectures on Lie groups and Lie algebras. Alas, the Google Books preview does not cover Segal's lectures and I don't have the book here with me in order to scan the nice picture he draws.
The bi-invariant metric on $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ is lorentzian and has constant negative sectional curvature. Its universal cover is the lorentzian analogue of hyperbolic space and in the Physics literature it goes by the name of (three-dimensional) anti de Sitter spacetime $\mathrm{AdS}_3$ and has been studied a lot.
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Obama’s Energy Policies: Devotion To Abdullah And Derision Of Alberta
Oilfield - pipe line
President Barack Obama’s final decision on the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline does not depend on what American greens preach but on what the King of Saudi Arabia orders. It seems the final decree from the oil kingpin has not yet been handed down, although it may be received by Obama when he travels to Saudi Arabia next month.
This will be Obama’s second state visit to see King Abdullah. The king may refuse to allow Obama to sign off on the landmark Keystone XL pipeline deal with Canada, America’s closest ally and largest trading partner.
On paper and before the consideration of politics, the passage of the Keystone XL pipeline is a no-brainer — even for Obama, the man who can make it happen with the stroke of a pen. The President’s own State Department has told him five times that he should sign it into law because the pipeline will not have an egregious impact on the environment and it will give America greater energy security while creating thousands of jobs.
In January, the State Department issued its fifth conclusion on the Keystone project. Again, it determined that the Keystone project would not have a significant impact on global warming (an event taken for granted but not proven).
It’s taken five years so far to decide on what is now a lame-duck bill (pun intended). The greens in Congress may be convinced that Keystone should not be approved because it will damage the environment. The evidence that will build their case: a few hundred dead ducks have flown into tar sands oil pools and died. (Nobody seems to consider that 14 million ducks are legally hunted each year.)
Besides the Daffy Duck argument over oil sands is the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline can deliver three-quarters of a million barrels of crude per day, free from any Arab intervention. That’s not a bad thing when you consider that the mostly Arab OPEC launched two oil embargoes against the United States in the 1970s and it finances extremists who want to kill Americans. (For the liberals who are reading this, Canadians allow girls to get an education and women to ride bicycles. And the last time I checked, Canadians do not behead political opponents in the town square.)
The project will create an estimated 20,000 U.S. jobs — something our “jobs” President declared he was serious about during his State of the Union address.
Obama, either the Saudi prodigal son or a loyal environmentalist, has said the Keystone job numbers are ultra-inflated. The President told The New York Times last summer that the project might create “maybe 2,000 jobs” during construction and “50 to 100 permanent jobs” after that.
TransCanada, the company backing the project, believes the President has grossly underestimated the employment impact. This begs the question: Could Obama be lying for his own political gain? (I would love to comment further, but I would simply be piling on.)
Obama’s 5-Year No-Oil Plan
So here we stand five years into Obama’s Presidency. He still can’t decide what to do with Keystone. He pretends the greens have good reasons to stop this $7.6 billion project that would provide oil security and jobs for the United States, as well as create wealth for America’s largest trading partner.
Yet the real reason that Obama won’t decide on Keystone is the Saudi king has not yet given him permission. Obama is still hedging what is good for the national interest — not the national interest of the United States, but of Saudi Arabia.
In the recently published book Duty: Memories of a Secretary at War, former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, wrote: “During my time in the Bush Administration, I worried about the influence of the Israelis and the Saudis in the White House.”
Gates writes of his last visit to Saudi Arabia in 2010:
Pleasantries done, the king excused virtually everyone else and the two of us, and the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir who interpreted… (then said) there had been loose talk by some senior Saudis about fundamentally altering the relationship with the United States and developing closer relations with other big powers such as China and Russia. Reading from notes, Abdullah had a stark message for me and for the president:
• Our two countries have had a strategic relationship for seventy years. I value it and support all facets.
• The relationship is essential to the security of the world.
• America’s reputation is at stake…
Obama’s reputation is at stake, yet he bows to a ruthless Saudi monarch and chastises Canadian Parliament. Canadians are Judeo-Christian people who share an ancestry and the same democratic values as Americans. The truth is Obama doesn’t remain very loyal to old friends. He follows more closely his core beliefs from his Muslim upbringing. And that does not serve the Nation he has sworn to protect.
Protecting the Nation means protecting America’s energy supplies.
If this is where you expect a sermon on why you should buy Canadian oil sands, you are going to be disappointed. I believe oil investors should beware; oil prices are in decline along with most commodity prices. My projection for crude oil is $50 per barrel within two years.
So Obama’s decision to once again bow to the Saudi king won’t leave us a cold, huddled mass. But it will show the true measure of the man.
Yours in good times and bad,
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I am trying to set up mod_fcgid on my server. Part of the requirement is that Apache needs to create a socket file for mod_fcgid.
I specified the folder for Apache to write the socket data to:
I then specified this file in my fcgid.conf file as follows:
SocketPath /var/lock/apache2/fcgid/sock
I then changed the owner of the folder to www-data (the apache user) and gave the onwer full permissions to the folder and its contents.
I was able to run my test fcgi app then.
When I rebooted the machine, I found that ownership of /var/lock/apache2/fcgid has been reset to root, and with permission reset to 700
I have the following questions:
• Is there something specific about the /var/lock folder? - why is the permissions being reset after a reboot?
• Should I move my socket file to another location (in case root automatically takes ownership of contents in this folder for security reasons?)
I am running Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS 64 bit
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Use /var/run for socket files.
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@gravity: were you having a guess?. I tried what you recommended (i.e. changing the folder containing the socket file), the fastcgi app worked, then when I rebooted the machine, the file permissions were reset back to root again - same as before. – oompahloompah Feb 12 '11 at 17:16
@oompah: I wasn't having a guess; I was suggesting to use a more proper location than /var/lock (which usually only contains lockfiles). – grawity Feb 12 '11 at 18:09
Thanks for the suggestion. However, after using the "best practices" folder you recommended, the problem of root changing permissions remains. Do you know why that is? - as it is, I cannot current deply a fastcgi app on my server for this reason – oompahloompah Feb 13 '11 at 9:28
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