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Motherwell boss Stuart McCall joins Scotland backroom team as assistant national coach
McCALL, who won 40 caps for Scotland, will work alongside manager Gordon Strachan and assistant Mark McGhee in the new-look set-up and will also remain in charge at Fir Park.
STUART McCALL says he is "thrilled" to be part of the new Scotland management team after being unveiled as assistant coach to Gordon Strachan today.
McCall, who retains his club job, was unveiled at Hampden today and will work alongside Strachan and assistant manager Mark McGhee.
The former Scotland midfielder, who won 40 caps, has led Motherwell to the Scottish Cup final and Champions League qualifiers in his two years in charge.
The former Bradford boss said in a statement: "I am thrilled to have been asked by Gordon Strachan to join his backroom team.
"Playing for my country was the highlight of my career and I have been fortunate enough to enjoy World Cup and European Championship finals as a player.
"They hold special memories for me and the Scotland supporters deserve a return to those days.
"I am proud to be asked to assist with the national team and look forward to working with an excellent squad of players and two outstanding coaches in Gordon and Mark."
Stuart McCall
Stuart McCall
Strachan said: "In many ways Stuart typified the classic Scotland international player: he was passionate and combative but he was also hugely influential and inspirational. He has done a tremendous job at Motherwell and his knowledge of the game, and especially his knowledge of the Scottish scene, will be invaluable.
"I am excited about working with Mark and Stuart and I am sure the players will benefit from their coaching experience."
McCall effectively replaces his own Fir Park assistant, Kenny Black, in the role following Craig Levein's removal from the main job and his club backed his appointment.
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At the LA Mart recently there was a display featuring a unique drink experience, Sipping Chocolate by was a rich, warm chocolate drink, somewhere between cocoa and hot fudge sauce. This must be waht the aristocracy in France and England used to drink in the mornings before the discovery of coffee. It's an intense chocolate taste that glides smoothly down your throat. I don't know if I would advice beginning your day with it, however. It will ruin your palate for any other tastes. If you ask nicely, Caffe D'Amore will send you recipe suggestions incorporating the sipping chocolate. It's gilding the lily, but, hey, you only live once! (The Bellagio Sipping Chocolate is dairy which for kosher consumers at least prevents some overindulgence). For more kosher recipes and ideas with chocolate you can also visit | <urn:uuid:0a90459a-81ee-4375-b4b9-bab518e9a68d> | http://www.examiner.com/article/chocolate-decadence-at-the-la-mart | en | 0.898242 | 0.03731 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I was a noob once....those were DARK days....*shudder*
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Hmm what is it that defines a newb...oh I know! Its that inscessant use of that damned letter that webster made into a word! Damn you..."u" for you have caused so much havok in sounding the exact same as the word you!
Noobs can't help knowing things. We were all newbies at one time. It's not nice to be so mean to them. They're confused and they think since this is an online forum that they must speak netspeak. They'll learn...some of them.
"Noobs" Are new, that's why people call them "Noobs." It shouldn't be that hard to figure out, that they need a little help. As for me i'm a "noob" I've been on Gaia for about 3 weeks, and I still have no clue whats going on, half the time. xp
Yo, that messed up. U all used to be noobs. im a noob in this game but im a pro at other things. if noobs knew wat do to do in this game, they will be just as good as u ppl.
lol we arent mindless just misunderstood and i dunt have to bug u with my questions lol my friedns a longtime user of gaia
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Newbs are fine. N00bs are stupid and do what you just said.
When are people going to learn there is a difference?
hear hear! (how in the world are you supposed to spell that?! is it here or hear? *is so confused*)
To the newbies that have recently been posting:
1. We have all said that there is a definite difference between a n00b and a newbie. That difference is as follows:
a. A n00b cannot seem to speak English properly.
b. A n00b seems to think that making thousands of posts with nothing more than the word "bump" in the ED is fun.
c. A n00b is a n00b. No matter how long s/he has been a member.
d. A newbie, is still attempting to learn the systemic rules
e. A newbie, while sometimes slipping, will try to post in a coherent manner.
f. A newbie can make on topic posts and will still try to learn from their experience.
2. I was never a n00b. A newbie. . . yes. For the simple fact is that everyone starts sometime. Stupidity (the staple of n00bs the world over) isn't welcomed by the general public.
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A little from column A and a little from column B... biggrin
Actually, I'm making a privet study on n00bs and the ways to get them... de-n00b-ified. This is happening because my siblings and one friend joined Gaia not long ago and they're total N00BS.
They are mindless people, not with the purpose only the purpose to annoy us, but they're mindless, there is a girl in my school who ask n00b questions
There annoying! scream
There is a difference between not understanding and not TRYING to understand. A n00b is someone who does not understand, nor TRIES to do so, and just goes on posting randomly aabout totally unrelated subject or ruining whatever it is that th non-n00bs are doing.
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As a physician, I've found that the biggest energy drain on my patients is relationships. Some relationships are positive and mood elevating. Others can suck optimism and serenity right out of you. I call these draining people "emotional vampires." They do more than drain your physical energy. The malignant ones can make you believe you're unworthy and unlovable. Others inflict damage with smaller digs to make you feel bad about yourself. For instance, "Dear, I see you've put on a few pounds" or "You're overly sensitive!" Suddenly they've thrown you off-center by prodding areas of shaky self-worth.
To protect your energy it's important to combat draining people. The following strategies from my book "Emotional Freedom" will help you identify and combat emotional vampires from an empowered place.
Signs That You've Encountered an Emotional Vampire
• Your eyelids are heavy -- you're ready for a nap
• Your mood takes a nosedive
• You want to binge on carbs or comfort foods
• You feel anxious, depressed or negative
• You feel put down
Types of Emotional Vampires
1. The Narcissist
2. Their motto is "Me first." Everything is all about them. They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, hog attention and crave admiration. They're dangerous because they lack empathy and have a limited capacity for unconditional love. If you don't do things their way, they become punishing, withholding or cold.
How to Protect Yourself: Keep your expectations realistic. These are emotionally limited people. Try not to fall in love with one or expect them to be selfless or love without strings attached. Never make your self-worth dependent on them or confide your deepest feelings to them. To successfully communicate, the hard truth is that you must show how something will be to their benefit. Though it's better not to have to contend with this tedious ego stroking, if the relationship is unavoidable this approach works.
3. The Victim
4. These vampires grate on you with their "poor-me" attitude. The world is always against them, the reason for their unhappiness. When you offer a solution to their problems they always say, "Yes, but..." You might end up screening your calls or purposely avoid them. As a friend, you may want to help but their tales of woe overwhelm you.
How to Protect Yourself: Set kind but firm limits. Listen briefly and tell a friend or relative, "I love you but I can only listen for a few minutes unless you want to discuss solutions." With a coworker sympathize by saying, "I'll keep having good thoughts for things to work out." Then say, "I hope you understand, but I'm on deadline and must return to work." Then use "this isn't a good time" body language such as crossing your arms and breaking eye contact to help set these healthy limits.
5. The Controller
6. These people obsessively try to control you and dictate how you're supposed to be and feel. They have an opinion about everything. They'll control you by invalidating your emotions if they don't fit into their rulebook. They often start sentences with "You know what you need?" and then proceed to tell you. You end up feeling dominated, demeaned or put down.
How to Protect Yourself: The secret to success is never try and control a controller. Be healthily assertive, but don't tell them what to do. You can say, "I value your advice but really need to work through this myself." Be confident but don't play the victim.
7. The Constant Talker
8. These people aren't interested in your feelings. They are only concerned with themselves. You wait for an opening to get a word in edgewise but it never comes. Or these people might physically move in so close they're practically breathing on you. You edge backwards, but they step closer.
How to Protect Yourself: These people don't respond to nonverbal cues. You must speak up and interrupt, as hard as that is to do. Listen for a few minutes. Then politely say, "I hate to interrupt, but please excuse me I have to talk to these other people... or get to an appointment... or go to the bathroom." A much more constructive tactic than, "Keep quiet, you're driving me crazy!" If this is a family member, politely say, "I'd love if you allowed me some time to talk to so I can add to the conversation." If you say this neutrally, it can better be heard.
9. The Drama Queen
These people have a flair for exaggerating small incidents into off-the-chart dramas. My patient Sarah was exhausted when she hired a new employee who was always late for work. One week he had the flu and "almost died." Next, his car was towed, again! After this employee left her office Sarah felt tired and used.
How to Protect Yourself: A drama queen doesn't get mileage out of equanimity. Stay calm. Take a few deep breaths. This will help you not get caught up in the histrionics. Set kind but firm limits. Say, for example, "You must be here on time to keep your job. I'm sorry for all your mishaps, but work comes first."
To improve your relationships and increase your energy level, I suggest taking an inventory of people who give you energy and those that drain you. Try to spend time with the loving, nurturing people, and learn to set limits with those who drain you. This will enhance the quality of your life.
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Construction of Short Parts
So far we've dealt with the scenario in which your part exists in some source DNA. Either you are amplifying your part sequence from genomic DNA, cDNA, or perhaps a plasmid someone gave you as a gift. There are a number of scenarios in which you might want to use a different source for your parts:
Gene Synthesis
Sometimes you don't have the source DNA. Perhaps the sequence comes from a source organism that is not available to you. Perhaps it is a eukaryotic CDS and you wish to express it in a bacteria. In that case, you might want to change the codon usage and eliminate all the intron sequences. If you have a sequence that is over 120bp or so, and you can't simply amplify the sequence from some source DNA, your only option is Gene Synthesis. There are a number of commercial suppliers who will synthesize your part and send you plasmid DNA (but it's pretty expensive). You can also do gene synthesis on your own. There is a website called GeneDesign that will help you design your part and determine the oligos you should order to assemble your part.
Overlap Extension
Suppose your part is between 30bp and 120bp. Even if you have a source DNA for the part, the best way to construct it is by overlap extension (also called a Klenow extension, or as we call it in Anderson lab, a wobble reaction). In an overlap extension, you construct 2 oligos that are reverse complementary to one another over 20bp on their 3' ends. There is no template DNA in the reaction--you simply combine the two oligos in one reaction, anneal them to one another, and then fill in the rest of the fragment using a polymerase. Traditionally such reactions were done with the Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase I. Today, the most effective way to do it is with a thermostable polymerase.
To design the oligos, start by putting your part including the flanking restriction sites into ApE. As an example, let's make a part encoding the Ala2 tRNA:
So, put that sequence into ApE and then add the EcoRI, BamHI, and BglII sites:
Also add some 5bp tails to the ends:
Now, identify a 20bp sequence that limits secondary structure, has a good GC balance, low repetitive sequence (the usually rules for designing a good annealing region). Copy it to your clipboard, ctrl-F to find, search for the sequence and highlight all. In this case, I've chosen:
To design your oligos, copy the sequence from the 5' end through to the end of the highlighted region. This is your forward oligo:
Now grab the sequence from the beginning of the highlighted region through to the 3' end of the sequence and reverse complement it:
That's it! Just write up the construction file and you are done. Note that I've pasted the part into a slightly different vector. The map of pBca9145-Bca1144#5 is here:
Wobble ca9939/ca9940 (107bp, EcoRI/BamHI)
Sub into pBca9145-Bca1144#5 (EcoRI/BamHI, 2057+910, L)
Product is pBca9145-Bca9939 {Ala2}
ca9939 Forward construction of Ala2 basic part
ca9940 Reverse construction of Ala2 basic part
Enzymatic Inverse PCR (EIPCR)
If your part is under than 30bp or so, your best option for constructing the part is EIPCR. In EIPCR, you are amplifying the backbone of the plasmid DNA template, pinning the part into the 5' end of your oligo, and then re-circularizing the plasmid with a single restriction site (in our case, BglII).
As an example, let's design a part encoding 20 A's:
Let's put it into pBca9145, so start by bring up the sequence of pBca9145-Bca1144#5 in ApE. In Ape, replace the BglII/BamHI region with the new part sequence above. You now have a map of your final product. Locate a good 20bp sequence downstream of your part. In this case I've chosen:
Search for and highlight that sequence. Now select the sequence starting at the BglII site all the way through the end of the highlighted region:
Now add 5 arbitrary bases to the 5' end:
And that's it! You'll also be using a second oligo along with this one, but it's always the same oligo, so you don't have to order it again:
ca1168R Reverse BglII oligo for His6 EIPCR
Last step: draw up the construction file and simulate it in ApE to make sure it will work:
EIPCR ca9941/ca1168R on pBca9145-Bca1144#5 (2108 bp, BglII)
Product is pBca9145-Bca9941 {A-20}
ca9941 EIPCR construction of 20 A's part
ca1168R Reverse BglII oligo for His6 EIPCR
What about peptides?
Let's say you have a short part you want to make, but all you have is a peptide sequence. How do you figure out the DNA sequence to encode it? Due to the degeneracy of the genetic code, there are many possible DNA sequences that will encode your peptide. You just have to find one of them. In general, you want to use codon usage that is appropriate for your organism. Particularly for expressing things in E. coli, you want to avoid certain codons such as AGG and AGA which are rarely used. The easiest way to do this is to use a piece of software to generate a sequence for you. For this, let's use GeneDesign. When you are ready, click here for a tutorial.
A Quick Note on Nomenclature
You'll notice a special thing in set brackets in the above construction file:
Product is pBca9145-Bca9941 {A-20}
That is what we call the "short description" for the part, in this case it means 20 A's in a row. The set brackets denote that the part is the BglBricks standard. If you see some normal square brackets "[part]" somewhere, that means the part is in the original XbaI/SpeI standard. We'll get a little deeper into the nomenclature in the next section. You should start including these short descriptions in your construction files.
Short Part Quiz
Design oligos and write up 4 construction files for the following BglBricks parts. Make your parts in plasmid pBca9145-Bca1144#5 by the appropriate method. If you are given amino acid sequence rather than DNA, you'll need to design a DNA sequence for the peptide using GeneDesign ( Put all 4 construction files into a single email message one after the other in submitting your answer.
Short Description Sequence
1) {rbs1-A} agatctGGCTAACATAGGGTggatcc
4) {slr-peptide} VRSKHG
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Psalm 90 (Ives)
Psalm 90 (Ives)
Idiosyncrasies of Psalm 90
Characteristic of Ives' style, this piece is rich with tonal clusters, rhythmic complexities, and layers of dense harmonies and polyphonic material. Another outstanding characteristic of this piece is the vivid text declamation, or text painting that the music endeavors. The musical line clearly evokes the tone and message of the text.
This is the text as printed in the score, taken from the King James version of the Bible, numbers indicate verses1:
• 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place from one generation to another.1
• 3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, “Return, ye children of men.”1
• 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.1
• 6. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.1
• 7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.1
• 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.1
• 9. For all our days are passed away in they wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.1
• 11. Who knoweth the pow’r of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.1
• 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.1
• 13. Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.1
• 14. O satisfy us early with they mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.1
• 15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.1
• 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.1
Verse by Verse Analysis via Text Declamation and Musical Intricacies
The piece begins in C, in four four time, with a five bar introduction for the organ. Beneath the several chords in the organ part is a C pedal that is consistent throughout, not only the intro, but the entire piece. This constant C pedal mimics the eternal and ubiquitous nature of God(), ever-present and unchanging, against the backdrop of the piece, immediately establishing one of the psalm’s themes. Above the measures of organ intro are printed seemingly random captions, reading in order: “The Eternities;” “Creation;” “God’s wrath against sin;” “Prayer and Humility;” and “Rejoicing in Beauty and Work.” No written directions in the score explain these phrases’ purpose and whether or not they are to spoken and/or included in the performance in some way. However, one discovers as the Psalm begins that these are the five major themes upon which the text focuses and expounds. Perhaps Ives meant to provide a tool for the singers’ and instrumentalists’ benefit, implying that an understanding (if only rudimentary) of the messages within the text would enhance the overall performance. In the second to last intro bar, three bells and a low gong trickle into the accompaniment their ethereal strains to leave a reverent impression on the audience before the chorus begins.
Verse 1
The chorus enters in four parts (SATB) in measure six with the first verse and sings in unison until the last syllable of “generation,” and then split apart into complex and dissonant chords that decrescendo and become more convoluted as the phrase “to another” repeats thrice, with a final dynamic of pppp (pianissississimo, if you will). Meanwhile, a consistent pedal-like accompaniment continues in the organ, a sustained I chord (CEG) that dissolves into the ubiquitous C pedal by the end of the verse. The effect of the spreading vocal parts with the decrescendo paints the image of human beings throughout the echo of their countless generations, establishing themselves with their diversified vocal lines, but then fading into the fabric of time, represented by the fading voices.
Verse 2
This verse is set more like a traditional psalm, as it appears as a component of a mass or service- with an entire phrase intoned or chant-sung freely on a single pitch, with the following phrase chanted on a second pitch, and a third phrase that follows on another single, logically proceeding note- until meter is restored in m. 19 for the final powerful statement, “Thou art God.” The freedom with which the first three phrases are sung serves as a strong contrast to the final phrase, to which Ives clearly wanted to bring emphasis.
Verse 3
The full chorus sings the first half of this verse (“Thou turnest man to destruction”). Beginning in unison, as a collective address from mankind to God, the chorus sings the first three words, but then splits apart into a series of cacophonous chords, as in the first verse (a device used frequently in this piece), to align with the text, “to destruction,” which is repeated thrice (another thematic gesture), and accompanies the seeming destruction of harmonic convention. A tenor soloist takes the rest of the verse, “and sayest, ‘Return, ye children of men.’” The solo voice is most appropriate here because it delineates the voice of God as singular2 and separate from the mass and chaos of mankind.
Verse 4
All four parts of the chorus sing entirely in unison for this whole verse, with the organ providing some supporting chords beneath along with the C pedal. The voices unison symbolizes the voices of humanity speaking together, in accord, acknowledging the eternity of God, as compared to the mortality of the individual.2 The lack of separate parts illustrates that, when measured against the existence of God and earth, the relatively short span of human existence seems diminutive and insignificant; therefore no individual voices seek distinction because of such implied insignificance.
Verse 5
This verse sees the return of tonal clusters and complex rhythmic patterns. The phrase, “as a flood,” repeats twice, and by the second repeat, the excess of accidentals precludes any chord tones from the cadence, which indicates a key modulation (though the confusion of accidentals makes it near impossible to establish the new key). The repetition of flood with the richly textured dissonance mimics the surge and chaos of an actual flood. This piece defies the normal rules of key structure and harmonic convention continuously tempting one to say that it does not have a concrete diatonic key in which it stays, but rather a home key around which it freely revolves. After the accelerando into a mini-climactic cadence point (on “flood”), the regular tempo resumes with a pianissimo conclusion to the phrase, “they are as a sleep.” The next phrase emerges as the first polyphonic gesture in the piece. Ives has offset the SA voices and the TB voices on the phrase, “in the morning they are like grass which groweth up,” the SA voices begin half a measure before the latter. This layering effect implies the similar manner in which human generations grow and overlap as the text describes, comparing man to blades of grass, which constantly renew and reseed.2
Verse 6
The polyphonic layering from Verse 5 carries over into this verse, with the SA and TB parts set a beat off from each other to begin the verse. To match the text in the most literal way possible, all four parts leap up considerably (+7ths in all parts) on the word, “up.” The contour of the line continues to match the implications in the text as the tenors descend to the word “withereth,” and the basses echo the word on ritard in ppp. The vocal line withers, diminishes almost to nothing, just as the blades of grass, mankind in his mortality, at the hand of God.
Verse 7
This verse’s violent diction (ex. “consumed,” anger,” “wrath”) is met by the equally abrasive dissonance, driving rhythm, and fortissimo in the music. The chords spread and peak on a high G# for the sopranos, the highest pitch of the piece thus far, on the third repeat of the word “wrath” to obviously convey the power and intensity of the therein. The last words of the verse, “are we troubled,” a continuation of the previous phrase, are separated from the aural assault of the word “wrath” by an 8th rest and a dynamic change to piano, a dramatic change to convey the humility instilled by God’s power (for the words are still addressing God from the voice of mankind).
Verse 8
The basses have the first half of this verse to themselves, “Thou has set…our secret sins,” in a descending line that spans an octave (G3 to G2). The descent of this line coincides well with the negative self-degradation in the text and serves as a bold contrast to the ascent of the rest of the line. The ascent occurs while describing “the light of [God’s] countenance,” showing how submissive and reverential man proves in God’s presence, humbling himself and elevating any mention of God.
Verse 9
Perhaps the most singular verse of the piece, Ives totally abandoned convention in verse 9. Little numbers are printed above each individual word, beginning with 9, all the way down to 1. These numbers indicate the durations of each note. Thus the phrase accelerates while it ascends in pitch and splits apart into a divisi of 22 separate notes on the word “wrath,” which is held with a fermata. As the larges, most complex chord, coupled with the ascent to tutta forza, this moment stands out as one of the climaxes of the piece. There is pleasing symmetry in the following descent, a reverse of the action that just occurred, the durations of each note lengthening from 1 to 9 as the line goes back to C (E for the tenors) where it began. The ascending line accompanies the statement that human life is forever at the mercy of God’s judgment.2 This terrifying thought is expressed by the music in the building of tension with dissonance until the climactic moment when all pitches are blurred into an eruption of cacophonous angst. The parts melt back together on the way back down to the starting point, as if erasing the previous phrase. This serves to illustrate the idea that all of the suffering and fear of God’s judgment is meaningless in its brevity and in its inability to affect our verdict.
Verse 10
Like verse 2, verse 10 complies with the traditional setting and form of psalm from its origins in church service. The first half is chant-sung with whole phrases on single notes, from “The days….fourscore years.” The free chant-like quality and long phrases of these lines suits the text because it speaks of man desiring long life. But a change occurs when the chorus sings, “yet…” because here the speaker(s) realizes that a longer life means more trials and sorrows, and here the line descends and breaks after the words, “cut off” (literal text painting). The sopranos conclude the verse with the line, “we fly away,” an ascending phrase in pianissimo that seems literally tossed away, thus mimicking the flight of the soul after death.
Verse 11
If there is another climax in the piece, this verse fits the description in that it ends on an A in the soprano part, the highest note in the piece, and the concept it conveys is truly fearsome. The text describes how the depth of God’s fury is inconceivable to man, and even our greatest fears cannot do justice to the actual wrath He can inflict. The words “anger,” “fear,” and “wrath” are rightfully emphasized and assigned to the highest notes in the phrase, each one successively higher than the last. Triple forte characterizes the final word and helps express the loss of composure one feels in the face of such fear and powerlessness to the will of God.
Verse 12
This short verse expresses man’s submission, the consequent desire for peace with one’s mortality, and a petition for God’s help and guidance through the struggles of life.2
Verse 13
A soprano solo takes this verse, calling one’s mind back to the 3rd verse with its tenor solo. This solo strikes a similar chord with the tenor, as it begins with the word, “Return,” however, this time it is the people requesting God’s return, rather than God mandating to them.2 This voice pleads to be heard by God, therefore rises out of the mass of other voices to make the direct appeal for His mercy.
Verses 14,15,16,17
These verses mark a transition into the last theme of the piece, introduced at the beginning, that of “Rejoicing in Beauty and Work.” The tone and mood of the music shifts to a more serene, peaceful chorale, almost in unison. The church bells and gong return in the accompaniment, further transforming the previous tension and explosiveness of the previous verses into a blending, consonant prayer/resolution. The new tone assists in declaiming the text, as the psalm itself asks for satisfaction, peace, and due happiness as God sees fit to bestow. The psalm here accedes to God’s power, stating the outright submission of the human soul to his will by referring to humans as “servants,” and in this submission man hopes to achieve the beauty and salvation God offers to the faithful.2 The softness of the vocal lines imitates the revered tone reserved for church, while the bells also allude to a church service. Thus as mankind resolves to submit to God, the music clearly evokes an image of church as the venue for his servitude, the setting of his penance.
Lasting Impressions
According to Ives' wife, Harmony, his Psalm 90 was "the only one of his works that satisfied him."3 Why this is, one could only speculate. Ives came from a devoutly Protestant background. He worked as a church organist and choirmaster for many years, throughout his youth and maturity. Perhaps he felt that this piece not only communicated to the soul, a principle by which he resolutely lived and worked, but that it also communicated from his own soul the private fears and beliefs amassed from a strong religious tradition and an afflicted artistic spirit.
1Ives, Charles. “Psalm 90.” Ed. by John Kirkpatrick and Gregg Smith. Bryn Mawr, Pa: Merion Music Inc., 1970.
2Spurgeon, Charles H. “Treasury of David: Psalm 90.” Pilgrim Publications. 1885. 12 Feb. 2008.
3Swafford, Jan. “Charles Edward Ives.” Peer Music, Ltd. 1998. 12 Feb. 2008.
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PS4-Vita Remote Play promoted because 'people don't have four eyes'
One of the nifty features Sony showed off during yesterday's Gamescom conference was the ability to use Vita to play PS4 games. Using "Remote Play," someone could start a game on PS4 and then continue it on Vita. Although showcased with Assassin's Creed 4, it's a feature that's largely mandatory for every game on Sony's new console.
Wii U has the same ability to do off-TV play. But, Nintendo's focus has largely been on creating new gaming experiences with asymmetric dual-screen play. Microsoft's push for SmartGlass also has players keeping tabs on two screens. Sony says that's the wrong approach because "people don't have four eyes."
Speaking to CVG, Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida discussed their experience with dual-screen gaming with LittleBigPlanet's Cross-Controller support. "It's kind of interesting, but you have to tell people when to watch the portable and watch the TV, but people don't have four eyes! So I think that's why we are focusing on Remote Play," he said. "I like playing console games in bed on Vita."
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If you've read our Moto X review, you'll find a few similarities here with the interface. To start, the Droid Ultra is running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with a custom skin or user interface.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
Let's start with the phone sitting on your desk - it's turned on, but it's asleep and doing virtually nothing. When the device senses movement, the time comes on along with any notifications you might have.
The phone invites you to press and hold on the notification, and then it tells you what you can do with that. You can either drag your finger downward and unlock your device, or you can drag it upward and get a preview of your notifications.
Once your phone is on, you'll be illuminated in a bright Verizon red color, along with a widget that tells you the date, time, local weather and battery percentage. Having all this information is useful, so we've left that widget alone despite its machine-like looks.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
If you flip the circles that comprise the widget, you'll see additional settings for that widget. And if you press the small minus button next to it, you can collapse it down to just the date and time circle.
You have five home screens that you can customize with app icons and widgets, all to your liking. Although it might be nice to have up to seven home screens, we usually find it unnecessary and end up using fewer than the five that are available.
Customizing the home screens is easy, and is just a matter of pressing and holding and dragging icons and widgets, or pressing on an empty space in the screen to bring up additional options.
The notification bar at the top, which is expanded by dragging it downward, gives you access to all your notifications and settings. When you click on the Settings icon, you'll immediately see a few shortcuts to your most used settings: Brightness, Settings, Wi-Fi, Cellular connection, Battery, Airplane mode, Bluetooth and Wireless Display.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
Back to your home screen, there is a dock at the bottom that can hold up to four app icons, with your app list shortcut set right in the middle.
When you jump into your full list of apps, you flip through them going left or right, much like you would on a Nexus device (rather than up and down like on HTC Sense, for example).
The interface is pretty intuitive overall, and with a little tinkering you can find the fastest way around your smartphone in a way that works for you. Luckily, we didn't experience any lag or crashes during our testing period, so we can confidently say that you probably won't, either--at least until you start filling it to the brim with apps, music and media content.
In our time with the Droid Ultra, we didn't run into any system performance issues. Swiping between screens and going in and out of apps and settings was fast (i.e. it took a second or less for each action without lag or crashes).
There is one area, however, that gave us some performance trouble, but we believe it's because it's a new feature that still needs work: touchless control.
Touchless control works exactly like it does on the Moto X. The device's microphone is always on, and the feature can be activated by saying, "OK Google Now." But first, you have to go into Settings to set up the feature.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
The instructions will guide you through the setup process, which involves saying "OK Google Now" three times so that the system can recall and recognize your voice. Once you're done, you can go through the types of commands that touchless control offers, like searching for items on the web or making phone calls.
One of the biggest benefits of touchless control is the ability to interface with your device when you're driving. You can have text messages sent or read aloud to you, and when you start driving it goes into drive mode, which offers navigation features if you need them.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
When touchless control works, it gives you a little sense of victory. You smile a little and think to yourself, "Yeah. That's right." But when it doesn't work, you'll often become frustrated and wonder why smartphones even exist and why you shouldn't just throw it out the window. OK, maybe we're exaggerating a little, but that's how frustrating it can be when your voice doesn't register, or it doesn't understand what you're saying.
Although it's going to take some work, touchless control has good potential. Just don't expect to use this as a way to interface with your phone all day long. It really only comes in handy when your hands are tied or when you're driving.
As far as specs go, the Droid Ultra isn't too far off from the Moto X. We're really curious where people flock to when the two share shelf space at Verizon retail stores. It has a 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 processor with what Motorola calls its X8 Computing system, 2GB RAM and 16GB on-board storage (no SD card support).
Motorola Droid Ultra review
Its 2,130mAh battery promises up to 28 hours of usage, which is surprising considering the Moto X's 2,200mAh battery only promises 24 hours of usage.
The 5-inch display has a resolution of 1280 x 720, so it's not the sharpest screen on the market 294ppi, but it's not bad at normal viewing distances, as we've mentioned before.
Battery life
We were generally pleased with battery performance during our testing period with the Droid Ultra. Motorola claims a 28-hour usage life span before the device needs a charge. It's optimistic, as far as our experience goes, but it certainly lasts an entire day.
We took the smartphone off the charger around 9 a.m. every day, and at around 10 or 11 p.m., shortly before we were hitting the hay, we were left with about 15-20%. That's not bad at all by today's standards, though if battery life is the biggest deal for you, the Droid Maxx might be your best bet.
Motorola Droid Ultra review
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Fig; Asheville, NC
I have heard good things about this restaurant including fairly recent CHOWHOWN discussions. I have never been to this area of NC but plan a trip this week. Does this restaurant rate as one of the best in the area? Other suggestions?
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1. yes...intimate dining - make a reservation. Nice weather has some outside tables in a courtyard. Use very high quality ingredients, great service....one of my favorites.
1. Fig is good but not great...I would go there if you were going to eat several places but I may go to Table downtown instead.
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1. re: caiogirl
I would disagree...but it's all a matter of taste. My "best in the area" list would include, in addition to Fig: Limones, Richmond Hill Inn and 28806. I like Salsa's and it is unique and is certainly the best in the area for that type of restaurant. Haven't been to Carmel's but have heard good things. Tupelo Honey is the best in the area for that type of restaurant as is Tomato/Cocina Latina. Haven't been to any of the restaurants on the Biltmore Estate in a while...
2. I would definitely rate fig as one of the best. hands down.
1. Fig has great food, the service is excellent, nice varied wine list my only caveat would be a small menu selection, which doesn't bother me but might put off a fussier eater, still an excellent restaurant. I'd also try Rezaz's, Richmond Hill Inn (Pricey but excellent) Limones, and Zambras (tapas and an excellent Spanish wine selection).
1. What you don't want to order at Fig is their hamburger, Greasy as hell and very salty. When I mentioned this to the server, he sang me a song about how the chef grinds up fresh sirloin for his burgers.
Yeah, after they're removed from previous diners' plates. Also, the restaurant has no ambiance. You might eat there once, but probably not again. Like us.
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1. re: markrossi
wow, we REALLY like Fig and have enjoyed it on winter and summer evenings at a quiet table with a candle flickering between us. Also, never had a bad meal there - of course would never dream of ordering a burger at Fig, though I've never eaten lunch there.
1. re: leahinsc
I would dream about ordering a burger there, but dream is all I can do. They refused to cook the burger rare on two different occasions. If markrossi is correct that they grind their own meat, then doesn't DHEC allow it to be cooked rare?
When we have been there, about 1/2 the rest. seemed to be ordering the burger. Frankly, I think the somewhat less than apologetic refusal of this request is the main reason my husband has taken a dislike to FIG. Otherwise, I agree with you...never had a bad meal and I think the ambiance is great. | <urn:uuid:89584e2d-36bc-4001-8b2b-80dec123fa7f> | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/401109 | en | 0.975964 | 0.031809 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Santa Prisca
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For the fictional country, see Santa Prisca (DC Comics).
Façade of Santa Prisca.
Santa Prisca is a titular church of Rome, devoted to Saint Prisca, a 1st-century martyr, on the Aventine Hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod.
Damaged in the Norman Sack of Rome, the church was restored several times. The current aspect is due to the 1660 restoration, which included a new facade by Carlo Lombardi.
In the interior, the columns are the only visible remains of the ancient church. Also a baptismal font allegedly used by Saint Peter is conserved. The altar in the crypt contains the relics of Saint Prisca; the frescoes in the crypt are by Antonio Tempesta. Anastasio Fontebuoni frescoed the walls of the nave with Saints and angels with the instruments of passion. In the sacristy, is a painting of the Immaculate conception with angels by Giovanni Odazzi, and on the main altar a Baptism of Santa Prisca by Domenico Passignano.
Titular priests[edit]
The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Priscae is Justin Francis Rigali, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia (US). Previous Cardinal-Priests include:
The Mithraeum under Santa Prisca was first excavated in 1952-59 through Dutch excavations. The original building was erected ca 95 and served as Trajan's town house until his death. One hundred years later, a member of the imperial family took over the building and built a Mithraeum in one part of the basement while a Christian meeting place was established in the other part.
The original Mithrauem had a central aisle, a niche and side benches. Fine fresoces were found on the Mithraeum walls as well as a stucco Mithras the Bull Slayer, one of the main images of the Mithras cult. Renovations in 220 yielded a larger central cult room and the addition of new ones while the frescoes were covered with new, more elaborate paintings. [2]
These paintings were important to the development of understanding the Mithraic cult. Along with the typical bull slaying scene so common amongst the cult, other paintings depicted different cult rituals. For example, one painting shows a procession of figures wearing masks and different colored tunics holding what has been presumed to be a piece of liturgical equipment.[3] These paintings have been incorporated in the long standing debate about the admittance of women into the cult.
Around 400, the Christians took over the Mithraeum, destroyed it and built Santa Prisca on top of it.
1. ^ Juan de Castro (Valencia, 1431–1506, *Rome) was also Bishop of Girgenti (1479–1506), Administrator Apostolic of the Diocese of Schleswig (1499–1502), and later also Bishop of Malta (1504–1506).
2. ^ M.J. Vermaseren and C. C. Van Essen. The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965.
3. ^ Griffith, Alison. "Completing the Picture: Women and the Female Principle in the Mithraic Cult." Numen Vol. 53, No. 1. Brill: 2006
• David, Jonathan (2000). "The Exclusion of Women in the Mithraic Mysteries: Ancient or Modern?". Numen 47 (2): 121–141. doi:10.1163/156852700511469
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Investigation continues focusing on battery certification
Boeing 787 production line [Image Source: Boeing]
Sources: Boeing, NTSB
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propagation of fire to adjacent cells??
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Power cells:
Electronic Cool Liquid:
* A small cell is much easier to cool.
* Extra redundancy by using parallel cells.
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They wouldn't take his help...
By Daneel_ on 2/11/2013 11:03:25 AM , Rating: 5
Elon Musk must be feeling pretty smug right about now.
RE: They wouldn't take his help...
i think he feels that way most of the time anyway.
And in most cases, justifiably so.
RE: They wouldn't take his help...
By Sazabi19 on 2/11/2013 12:02:35 PM , Rating: 2
But aren't the drivers of hybrids and alternative energy cars the leading cause of smug?
RE: They wouldn't take his help...
By mrwassman on 2/11/2013 12:28:17 PM , Rating: 1
By seamonkey79 on 2/11/2013 6:01:05 PM , Rating: 2
I heard the smug in LA was so bad they had a news report about it and it blanketed the city in smug clouds 0_0
The hair trigger.
By drycrust3 on 2/11/2013 4:38:29 PM , Rating: 2
I think the investigators have got the wrong end of the stick. They are saying the battery cells are the problem, not the environment, but I think the environment is the problem, not the battery, or rather, the battery isn't the right one for the environment.
As I understand it, this battery has a nominal voltage of 30 volts, and each cell has a nominal voltage of 3.7 volts, meaning the entire battery consists of just 8 cells, so all cells in the battery showed the same signs failure.
According to one media report, Japanese Transport Safety Board investigator Hideyo Kosugi said "I'm sure that too much current or too-high voltage has gone to the battery".
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According to the Yuasa spec sheet for this battery, the maximum "operative ambient temperature" for each cell is 65 deg C. (See their spec sheet here: (link removed to avoid spam detection))
As I see it, as the internal temperature goes up, so the resistance of the internal insulation drops, thus the internal leakage current increases within each cell. Normally the heat generated by the internal leakage is so small that the battery as a whole can dissipate it happily, and there isn't a problem.
If, however, due to some environmental factors the battery cells aren't able to dissipate the internal heat as fast as it is generated, e.g. an alternating high discharge current and then a high charge voltage are applied to the battery, or the battery cells are tightly packed in a poorly ventilated area, so the internal temperature rises above 65 deg C, then you could one of those endless loop problems.
For example, say a sustained cycle of load and charging is placed on the battery and the raises the internal temperature rises above 65 deg C, so the leakage current also rises to the point the heat generated by it is faster than the battery can dissipate, then you would have a cascading effect, where the rising temperature allows more the leakage current, and the increasing leakage current raises the internal temperature, and you would get an almost impossible to stop situation.
It may well be this battery could, in just seconds, go from being "a bit hot" to erupting like a volcano.
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I. RIP Megaupload
II. Feds Kill MegaUpload Abruptly, Arrest It's New Zealand Admins
III. Counterstrike
Developing story...
Sources: Twitter, U.S. DOJ
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I wonder..
By tamalero on 1/19/2012 10:13:37 PM , Rating: 3
What kind of muscle or pressure the USA government put in New Zealand and the countries raiding and detaining people for "copyright infringement" by US sources.
I wonder if this is a counter to the whole music argument (regarding that famous musical video.. where megaupload claimed the artist were legit doing the video.. but the RIAA claimed it was copyrighted work...)
RE: I wonder..
By CityZen on 1/20/2012 12:30:24 AM , Rating: 5
EXACTLY! That is the most frightening thing of all. I mean, the NEW ZEALAND police arrested four people for a non violent crime supposedly committed against an American Company??? Say what?
I'm neither a lawyer nor an expert in international law, but I have some SERIOUS doubts about the legality of these arrests.
RE: I wonder..
By B3an on 1/20/2012 9:38:41 AM , Rating: 1
America always bullys these type of countries in to things. It's the same with similar draft laws in Europe that are a lot like SOPA. It's been proven the American goverment was behind them and was bullying others to support it. **** America.
RE: I wonder..
By msheredy on 1/20/2012 11:36:17 AM , Rating: 1
No it's not **** America, it's **** the GOV of America. Get it right and don't generalize dipshit.
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By StevoLincolnite on 1/20/2012 12:55:33 PM , Rating: 2
America always bullys these type of countries in to things.
Except... America Bullying New Zealand doesn't work, they have tried in the past.
New Zealand is a Nuclear Free zone, America wanted to have it repealed to allow Nuclear ships and weapons, that's not going to happen as the people and Government had already spoken.
So, the US suspends the ANZUS defense obligations to apply some pressure. And even today New Zealand hasn't buckled, they would rather continue their close ties to their neighbor Australia than the US.
New Zealand is seen to have the least corrupt government on Earth, they would have followed and done everything by the book, otherwise they would get castrated by the people and the news outlets.
RE: I wonder..
By x10Unit1 on 1/20/2012 10:56:09 AM , Rating: 2
And you wonder why they want SOPA passed. They already can arrest people in other countries for charges of copyright infringement. It is too slow and too expensive to bribe people do arrest all of these people. Why spend money on time, research, and bribes when you can spend a lot of money for a law that gives you rights to shut down any site you please for little or no reason? I am sure they can use this to arrest people too.
RE: I wonder..
By aurareturn on 1/22/2012 1:40:05 AM , Rating: 2
If you read the entire document, you'll see hard evidence that suggests employees at Megaupload knowingly allowed illegal content on their sites. They were also trying to find traffic to those illegal content. DOJ has emails sent between MU employees talking about how to make money off of these links.
Let's be honest here, illegal content is probably MU's biggest revenue stream. Heck, I thought about buying a MU account once because of that but never did.
If MU was really serious about piracy, they would have went to and deleted all their links. It would have probably taken several people 24 hours to do so and they would have had a big part of illegal content off their service. They didn't and didn't care.
This is MU's fault. I'm sad that they are gone too but let's not act like they are innocent.
RE: I wonder..
By TSS on 1/20/2012 10:58:08 AM , Rating: 4
Frightening is not the word i'd choose. "Normal" would be.
My country (holland) has a agreement with the US that we turn over any dutch citizens suspected of any crime in the US. Probably, that agreement was used in the arrest of the person from the netherlands.
However, if an US citizen is suspected of crime in the netherlands, the US DOES NOT have to turn him/her over. By law, they are allowed to give us the finger.
All perfectly legal, and i suspect remnants of WWII/the cold war. They will remain that way until the politicians grow some balls and recognise the US could just as easily be a threat as a friend, and any relationship should be a 2 way street.
RE: I wonder..
By tecknurd on 1/20/2012 8:39:16 PM , Rating: 1
Easy, the intellectual property is copyrighted under USA law. It is enforced where copyright content is sold. This means USA has a right to arrest those that did not confine to the rules in those areas. Though USA should of put MegaUpload in a temporarily down state until all copyright material is erase to a point that it did not ever exist, but people that New Zealand police arrested were pro-piracy which is again illegal.
For MegaUploads accounts that are using it legally, those people should start suing if the site is not up. Hacking to bring a government site down does not work against the government. Suing or protesting does.
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The defense could begin its case as early as Monday, when the trial will resume. Manning's defense said at the opening of the trial that he was a young and naive, but a good-intentioned soldier whose struggle to fit in as a gay man in the military made him feel he "needed to do something to make a difference in this world."
He told a military judge in February he leaked the war logs to document "the true costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," including the deaths of two Reuters employees killed in a U.S. helicopter attack. Manning said the diplomatic cables revealed secret pacts and deceit he thought should be exposed.
The evidence showed Manning's training repeatedly instructed him not to give classified information to unauthorized people.
As they wrapped up their case, prosecutors offered that al-Qaida leaders reveled in WikiLeaks' publication of classified U.S. documents, urging members to study them before devising ways to attack the United States.
"I think it was pretty clear that WikiLeaks would have released anything and everything," he said. "Just because he did it that way, is that evidence of intent to share it with the enemy?"
Manning faces eight espionage counts and a computer fraud charge, all alleging he either exceeded his authorized access to classified information or had unauthorized possession of national defense material. His top-secret clearance enabled him to look at many kinds of classified information, but an information assurance officer, Capt. Thomas Cherepko, testified that "having the ability to go there doesn't mean you have the need or authority to go there."
Prosecutors requested fewer courtroom closures to discuss classified information than they projected before the trial started. Maj. Ashden Fein initially said as much as 30 percent of the government's case would require closing the courtroom, but there were only three secret sessions.
"They may have felt that it was not serving public confidence in the administration of justice to run any more of it than was absolutely necessary behind closed doors," said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School.
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Saif Ali Khan interview: 'People react to you strangely sometimes'
A commercial star of Hindi cinema with both a Bollywood and royal lineage, Saif Ali Khan demonstrated a natural forte for comedy and struck new ground with the 2001 coming-of-age movie Dil Chahta Hai, a film widely credited with changing the landscape of contemporary Hindi cinema.
Khan went on to challenge the idea of a conventional film hero combining comic roles in commercial films such as Kal Ho Na Ho and Hum Tum, with portrayals of subversive characters in Being Cyrus and Omkara.
Saif Ali Khan in 'Omkara'
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Saif Ali Khan in 'Omkara'
The young Nawab now follows his successful outing as an action-hero in Race 2 with an altogether new incarnation and a landmark in Hindi cinema - the advent of the zombie comedy.
Co-produced by his own production house Illuminati Films, in collaboration with Eros International and drawing on international experts in the field of prosthetics and visual effects, Go Goa Gone is India's first mainstream foray in the zombie genre.
Saif Ali Khan told Digital Spy why he wanted to play Zombie hunter Boris, why he's game for anything and also gives us a 101 in how to kill a zombie.
People thought you were a bit mad to make a Bollywood film about zombies. Why did you decide to try the zom-com genre on an Indian audience?
"Yes. It was a little bit of a chance I think, but I did it because I really liked the script. It's primarily a very funny movie. It's a comedy. And you don't really need to buy into the concept of zombies to enjoy this movie. The fact that there are zombies and they don't feel any pain when you bash them over the heads lends itself well to being funny in some ways. Also there is a need to do something interesting with production beyond what we've been doing to date and this is kind of a reflection of that."
How far were you influenced by films like Shaun of the Dead, Michael Jackson's Thriller or Gurinder Chadha's It's a Wonderful Afterlife? Do you feel confident that you have managed to make the zombies look effective?
"I guess there is a tiny bit of influence of all these movies but not to me because I haven't seen them but the writers, D.K. and Raj would have. We still don't know if it's worked. That was the first thing I said and I was very conscious of that we have to get the make-up right - it's a combination of visual effects around the eyes - and there was a moment where we really did all stop and ask, 'Look, do we really want to do this?' and there was a bit of a shrug of the shoulders and we thought, 'Well let's just go for it', because we were driven by the idea of doing something fun. But it does get a tiny bit frightening because it could not have been received like it has been received so far. The trailer made a big difference, because it was funny."
Saif Ali Khan in 'Go Goa Gone'
How do you kill dead people?
"I have never been a zombie fan. I've always been a vampire fan but this is actually more plausible. They are essentially people who have been affected with a virus except for a tiny part of their brain that's keeping things going. You can't kill them unless you blow their heads off.
You're known for playing quite edgy characters in your films. How did you develop Boris the zombie hunter?
"There's this video game called Duke Nukem. There's this psychopathic marine who's the protagonist so I think he looks a bit like that and that's really it. The directors knew how they wanted this guy. He's from Delhi but he's pretending he's Russian mafia, he's got this home-made tattoo and he's dyed his hair blonde. A lot of it happens instinctively but once you get the look right and you know the lines it falls into place. It was such a clearly written character there wasn't much more scope for showing different sides of his personality. He's a bit of a caricature actually."
When you are doing something a bit out of the box such as a drag sequence for Cocktail or portraying a Zombie hunter, does that require a lot of persuasion or are you naturally game for such things?
"I'm completely game. Absolutely. But if you do it just once in a while it stands out. But also, you have to do it for the right reason. The idea with Boris was never to just play an outlandish role for the sake of it or just to do something different. It was to make this film happen. It all started with the writers. This character is all on paper and was always entertaining right from the start. I think what's lucky is and what's clever, if you have the ability to see what you are seeing now in the script. That everybody's gonna love this and this is what Boris is gonna be like. So the ability to see that defines us as producers and actors or not."
There was a complaint made by the anti-smoking lobby in Goa regarding the image of you smoking a cigar on the poster and there's much discussion about portrayals of violence in cinema. Do actors and filmmakers have any social responsibility or should cinema just be about entertaining an audience?
"I think as an individual in my personal life I accept that I do have some social responsibility, but as an actor I feel I should be able to play what I want. There was some problem with the cigar in the poster, but it does take away from the overall effect. They made us replace it with a cartridge, so it's not quite the same. So that's upsetting and I've said to them: 'So why can't I be smoking a cigar?' and they argue that it's giving out the wrong message. I said 'But as an actor, surely not?' If you see me doing that out in the street or if there is a picture in the newspaper I might even apologize or clarify that I think it's a very bad habit and please don't copy what I'm doing.
"So I think there's social responsibility, yes, but when people watch a film it's a slightly archaic, semi-communist, out-dated nanny state kind of thinking that a lot of India has. It's changing… actually I don't know if it's really changing. It's an A certificate. I think they don't believe that the average Indian is capable of making his own decisions which is wrong."
You have said that Hindi cinema shouldn't try to crossover into Hollywood and perhaps be something it isn't. How do you feel then about Steven Spielberg coming to India to tell an Indian story?
"I just read one comment where he said that 'I'd like to see this film re-made into Hindi'. But that's just what we're doing, half the time trying we have films that are influenced or are copied. Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers the world has ever seen, his treatment of so many subjects has been amazing, so I guess he knows what he's doing. I don't know what he's making in India. But I saw it as a huge difference in culture. It's very different for someone to come over from the West.
"My point was that traditionally in history the Christian states, let's say spread from England, America, and Europe and the Southern Mediterranean - the 'Monsoon belt' I believe it's called - from India to the Middle East , Turkey right up to Spain, were almost Muslim, so that belt is where Indian films should be exported. Like, a big Indian love story I'm sure would be popular in Iran because there's a connection culturally. So what I meant was, rather than explain to someone in the West why we eat with our hands, send our films to places where there's already a cultural understanding and a shared sensibility."
Saif Ali Khan in 'Being Cyrus'
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Saif Ali Khan in 'Being Cyrus'
You make an appearance in Bombay Talkies, which explores the emotional impact of our cinema and its stars on the lives of ordinary people at its deepest level. In a country where our actors are icons how do you come to terms with the power and influence you have to directly affect the lives of individuals, as a result of your films but also your star presence?
"I haven't really thought about it except that I'm appreciative of what I have and I don't mind doing an extra bit of something whether it's charity work or whether it's trying to spread some important message. But beyond that I don't really walk around feeling conscious of the idea that I have a lot of impact on people's lives. And I think I'm clear that I'm an actor and people shouldn't take it seriously beyond that, but they do. People take celebrity incredibly seriously, and they react to you strangely sometimes.
"I've seen people reacting to religion and celebrity in very strange ways. I find it a little odd. Some people are nice and normal about both these things, but some people aren't. They react a little too much and build you up larger than you are. Fortunately, I haven't had to deal with obsessive fans, but I have had people gush too much. It's not that I mind, I just feel it's wrong if I'm complimented by that because it's not normal."
Can you tell us about your next releases Bullet Raja and Happy Ending?
"Bullett Raja is the next release after this and something I'm very excited about. Tigmanshu (Dhulia) is a great director. It's a complete performance - demanding in terms of clothes, and walk and accent. It's fun. It's an action move about the rise of a gangster who is created as a result of social situations. It's kind of like a desi Scarface. Then there's Raj and D.K's romantic comedy about a writer who gets roped into writing a pretty crappy Bollywood screenplay because he's broke."
We are of course celebrating 100 years of Hindi cinema. Who do you think is the greatest Bollywood actor ever?
"I say it would have to be between Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and Mr. Dilip Kumar, right? That's as far back as I go and if you think about it, it would have to be these two names. Just the kind of roles and performances they gave. Few can compare."
Go Goa Gone will be released on May 10.
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With the right plants, a hedge can add elegance and privacy to your yard.
Edwin Marty
When Jen and Neal Jackson moved into a house in Homewood, Alabama, the old fence surrounding their side yard didn't add much to the overall feel of their landscape. However, it did help create an ideal play area for their children, as well as all the neighbors' children. So the Jacksons contacted local garden designer Terry Slaughter to find an alternative to the old fence without losing the practicality of the secure play area.
Terry suggested replacing the fence with a living screen, and the Jacksons immediately loved the idea. "Instead of just having a fenced side yard," Terry explains, "we created a small, intimate space that gives a yard a lot more options than having one big open field does." With everyone in agreement, the next question was what type of plants to choose.
Points To Ponder
The most important considerations when deciding what shrub to use as a screen are the growing conditions. It doesn't matter how great a shrub looks when put in the ground. If the plant doesn't have appropriate growing conditions, it won't continue to look good, so there's no point in using it.
The Jacksons' house is nestled into a grove of tall pines and receives a limited amount of sunlight. The side yard is actually part of a utility right-of-way with heavy clay soil that gets a little more sun but has some drainage problems. With these primary considerations in mind, Terry began looking at the other concerns the Jacksons had. They definitely wanted a hedge tall enough to keep the children and their toys inside. They also wanted something that would create a solid screen so they wouldn't have to constantly worry about cleaning up toys. Finally, the Jacksons didn't want anything that would need special maintenance.
Good Plants for a Living Screen
• American boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) MS, LS, CS
• Burford holly (Ilex cornuta) US, MS, LS
• common guava (Psidium guajava) TS
• English yew (Taxus baccata) US, MS
• Japanese cleyera (Ternstroemia gymnanthera) MS, LS, CS, TS
• Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum) MS, LS, CS, TS
• 'Nellie R. Stevens' holly (I. 'Nellie R. Stevens') MS, LS, CS, TS
• tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans) LS, CS, TS
• wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera) MS, LS, CS, TS
The Selection
Terry suggested using Carolina cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana) for the screen. This shrub is perfectly content with the given growing conditions and satisfies the homeowners' other requirements. The selection 'Bright 'n' Tight' Carolina cherry laurel is a versatile, hardy plant with dense foliage that can take heat, drought, and wind. While it will grow faster in full sun, it can thrive in partial sun and, therefore, won't require as much trimming. It can also take a variety of pruning techniques, either formal or informal, giving the Jacksons some options in the future.
They planted full-grown shrubs to give their yard a finished look and provide an enclosed space for their children to play. Then they pruned them back to create an instant solid screen from the street. While it would have been cheaper to use smaller plants and let them grow in, the Jacksons felt their needs merited a full-grown hedge.
The maintenance is minimal. A yearly topdressing of compost and some watering during the dry months keep the shrubs happy. Twice a year, they trim the laurels at a slight angle, keeping the bottom of the hedge a little wider than the top to make sure the bottom gets enough light to continuously produce healthy new foliage.
Create the Best Hedge
• Use stakes and flagging tape to get a sense of how large the screen needs to be.
• A tall screen far from the house won't block the view from inside but will still provide privacy.
• Close to the house, a tall hedge can make you feel claustrophobic and prevent light from getting in. Use gaps or fluctuations in the height of the screen to limit this problem. Creating a door or windows in the hedge also helps.
• Don't put a tall-growing shrub under a window, or you'll be pruning unnecessarily for years to come.
• Use a tall hedge around a large yard and a shorter one around a smaller yard to create an appropriately scaled design.
Good Plants for a Clipped Hedge
• 'Bright 'n' Tight' Carolina cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana 'Bright 'n' Tight') US, MS, LS, CS
• Burford holly (Ilex cornuta) US, MS, LS
• English boxwood (Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa) US, MS, LS
• English yews (Taxus baccata) US, MS
• glossy abelia (Abelia x grandiflora) US, MS, LS, CS, TS
• Japanese holly (I. crenata) US, MS, LS, CS, TS
• littleleaf boxwood (B. microphylla) US, MS, LS, CS, TS
• wintergreen barberry (Berberis julianae) US, MS, LS, CS, TS
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Chinese allowed to speak their minds on Iraq - Taipei Times
Sat, May 10, 2003 - Page 9 News List
Chinese allowed to speak their minds on Iraq
By Feiwen Rong
Even before images of the first cruise missile strikes on Baghdad reached Chinese television screens, the country's intellectuals were debating the US-led war against Iraq and the government's response. Commentaries in leading newspapers and online journals demonstrated a diversity of opinion seldom seen in the country's state-controlled media, and precipitated wider discussion in people's living rooms.
Most debates addressed whether the war was justified. Opinions were voiced in newspapers and in online forums such as the home page of the media school of Qinghua University, widely known as "China's MIT." It posted an anti-war petition with over 1,000 signatories, mostly academics.
Although this grassroots response adhered to the government's anti-war stand, it remains surprising in a country that discourages unscripted political discourse. So it was even more surprising to see pro-war sentiments expressed publicly, such as the petition that appeared in the Guangzhou-based weekly newspaper 21st Century World Herald. That petition voiced a taboo viewpoint: that "human rights are of greater value than national sovereignty."
In a rare challenge to the government, Beijing-based writer Yu Jie (余杰), one of the petition's authors, wrote that China ought to support the war on Iraq. Only by embracing universal values and distancing itself from "evil states," Yu argued, can China rise to the level of the world's mainstream democracies.
Others, such as Han Deqiang of Beijing's aerospace university, who wrote an anti-war commentary that accompanied Yu's essay, scoffed at such an idea. Han called pro-war Chinese intellectuals hopelessly naive and overly "immersed in the American dream."
But others supported Yu Jie's critique. The Beijing-based dissident writer Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波), an activist intellectual in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, questioned the government's motives for opposing the war. Since 1989, Liu wrote, the Chinese government has nurtured a strident nationalism to boost its own legitimacy. Moreover, Liu argued, the government's marginalization of pro-war sentiment and promotion of anti-war views accords with its broader effort to ascribe almost every domestic and international disaster to American hegemony.
Although the surface of this debate is about America and Iraq, the subtext, as always, concerns China. Indeed, the debate revealed political fault lines among Chinese intellectuals that could never be openly exposed on domestic policy.
Ultimately, the two main camps of China's intelligentsia -- the "neo-leftists" and "old liberals" -- ask the question that has divided Chinese intellectuals for a century: what does it mean to be Chinese and also to be modern? Does it mean following the West (as liberals advocate) or, as the neo-leftists suggest, is there some Third Way between Communism and western-style democratic capitalism? Most fundamentally, can the scope of economic disaster witnessed following the Soviet Union's collapse be avoided?
Both groups comprise scholars from numerous fields, state intellectuals serving in government think tanks, journalists and even some dissidents. Liberals are known to favor more thorough economic and political reforms, such as democratization at the grassroots level and a free press. Conservatives insist on a more cautious approach that avoids the "shock therapy" and drastic overhauls experienced in postcommunist Eastern Europe.
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In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, singer Justin Bieber takes a “selfie” with a fan at a premiere in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, Invision)
Associated Press
Did the Supreme Court just throw a lifeline to teen heartthrob Justin Bieber?
The justices Friday agreed to decide when searching a cellphone requires a warrant—the very kind of evidence that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies believe could link the “Believe” singer to the egging of a neighbor’s house.
Deputies searched Mr. Bieber’s Calabasas, Calif., house on Tuesday and seized his iPhone, among other items. The device could contain photos or video related to the egging, authorities think.
But Sgt. Ernie Masson, reached at the sheriff’s Malibu/Lost Hills station, said that while deputies had a search warrant for the Bieber house, he could not say whether it specifically covered the phone.
Some warrants authorizing search of a home list items like cellphones and computers, others don’t. Because the Fourth Amendment requires that warrants “particularly” describe what’s to be searched and “the persons or things to be seized,” courts sometimes exclude evidence that falls outside the scope of a warrant.
In cases where deputies find an item the warrant doesn’t cover, they generally return to the magistrate for a “piggyback warrant” to add it, Sgt. Masson said.
It’s unclear whether the Supreme Court’s eventual ruling in its cellphone cases will have any significance for People v. Bieber. But the 19-year-old Canadian singer’s case underscores how significant smartphones have become to investigating crime, from the drug and shooting offenses before the Supreme Court to alleged celebrity vandalism in the hills above Malibu.
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If you didn't stop believin' the abduction-cum-affair of Michaele Salahi could get weirder—and make those involved appear more publicity-hungry—there's now this video from TMZ of Tareq Salahi and Michael Lohan leaving a Washington, DC restaurant together last night.
When asked about learning yesterday that Michaele had gone her separate way after all these years to be with Journey guitarist Neal Schon, Tareq said, "I've been betrayed"—a natural thing to feel when you love a woman—before adding Schon was a "dear friend" pre-wife banging.
After the fall, Tareq said he was comforted by Lohan, who thankfully got to him before it was too late. "This is the real deal," he said of Lohan. As for Michaele and Schon, still they ride on the Dixie Highway, we assume. [TMZ] | <urn:uuid:59e78dae-2fe0-4fbe-b591-0b1e99b86a51> | http://gawker.com/5840966/tareq-salahi-finds-comfort-in-michael-lohans-open-arms?tag=journey | en | 0.972247 | 0.024161 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Sub::Pipeline - subs composed of sequential pieces
version 0.010
$Id: /my/cs/projects/subpipe/trunk/lib/Sub/Pipeline.pm 27893 2006-11-13T15:11:24.618700Z rjbs $
use Sub::Pipeline;
my $pipeline = Sub::Pipeline->new({
on_success => 'return',
order => [ qw(init validate check_acl do) ],
pipe => {
init => sub { die "can't initialize" unless do_init; },
validate => sub { die "validatione error" unless validate_args(@_); },
check_acl => sub { die "permission error" unless get_user->may(@_); },
do => sub {
my $result = do_something_complicated(@_);
$pipeline->install_pipeline({ as => "transmogrify", into => "Origami" });
my $result = Origami->transmogrify(10, 20, 99);
This module makes it easy to construct routines out of smaller routines which can be swapped in and out, have their exception handling altered, or cause early successful return.
This method constructs and initializes a new Sub::Pipeline.
Valid arguments are:
order - a reference to an array of names of pipes to be run, in order
pipe - a reference to a hash of pipe names and implementations (code refs)
on_success - what to do on success (default 'value'; see 'on_success' below)
my @old_order = $pipeline->order;
my @new_order = $pipeline->order(qw(begin check init run end));
This method sets the order in which the pipe pieces are run.
my $code = $pipeline->pipe($name);
$pipeline->pipe($name => sub { });
This method sets the named pipe piece to the given code reference.
This method sets the behavior for handling the Sub::Pipeline::Success exception. That exception is thrown by a pipe piece to indicate completion.
Valid values are:
throw - the thrown exception is rethrown
return - the thrown exception is returned
value - the value of the exception is returned
This method checks whether the pipe is complete and intact. If any pipe piece is missing, a Sub::Pipeline::PipeMissing exception is thrown. Its pipe field is set to the name of the first missing pipe.
This method calls each piece of the pipeline in order. Non-success exceptions are rethrown. Success exceptions are handled according to the defined "on_success" behavior.
If a pipeline piece is missing, a Sub::Pipeline::PipeMissing exception is thrown. This method does not implement this in terms of "check", so multiple pipe pieces may be called before this exception is thrown.
This method returns a code reference which, if called, is equivalent to calling the pipeline's call method.
This method loads the pipeline's pipes by looking for subs with the pipe names in the given package.
$pipeline->save_to_package($package_name, \%arg);
This method saves the pipeline to a package. It installs each of its pipe pieces as a named subroutine in the package, and installs a call routine in the package to invoke the pipeline.
An named argument, reinstall, may be passed as a true value to suppress warnings on redefining existing subs in the package.
$pipeline->install_pipeline({ into => $package, as => $method_name });
This method installs the pipeline into the named package with the given method name. A reinstall parameter may also be passed. If true, warnings for redefining over an existing sub are suppressed.
This method creates a new pipeline and installs it. The into, as, and reinstall arguments are passed to install_pipeline. All other arguments are passed to new.
This method defines two exception classes (via Exception::Class):
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Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-sub-pipeline@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
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The sight and sound of a most unusual aircraft is turning heads in the jungles of Ecuador these days.
But it's not just the parachute-plane, it's the pilot. He's one of them. Tementa is a Waorani tribesman, and in a remarkable role reversal the passenger is the missionary.
Tementa's coach and mentor is Steve Saint, and nobody is a greater supporter of the Waorani.
"These people have the want to. They know the Gospel. They love the Lord. They've proven that they're able to face persecution, much more than we have," he said.
That's a big change from 1956 when Steve's father, Nate Saint, flew four other American missionaries to a fateful encounter with the Aucas, as the Waorani were known to outsiders. Tementa's father was one of the killers in a massacre that shocked the world.
But today, many Waorani are committed christians, with a passion for taking the message of God's love to other tribes deeper in the jungle.
Steve was determined to assist the Waronis in their quest so he and some friends got together and formed a group called the Indigenous Technology Center.
"If we would spend at least a little bit of time and some of our resources, in re-inventing these tools that we have found to make sharing the Gospel efficient so that we can pass the torch, I think that's one of the big challenges, and I think that is one of the most efficient things we can do," he said.
Steve's interests were not limited to flying. He and his friends developed a portable dental operation unit and also a video system. Both could be carried like backpacks and operated on solar charged batteries.
Then Steve came across the powered parachute, a fairly new technology which he quickly adapted to jungle conditions. He also increased the capacity to carry two passengers and cargo.
Tementa had been in training for months, developing repair and maintenance skills. Minkai learned to use the portable dental unit. together they made quite a team.
For a savage people who once delighted in deceiving and murdering the unsuspecting, the transformation couldn't be more dramatic. They're now missionaries themselves, reaching others by using a tailor-made set of technology tools.
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Across the woodsball fields and speedball arena of Long Live Paintball, contenders dodge the colorful fire of their opponents as they leap over cable spools and post up behind a charred bus or towers of barrels. It's on these obstacle-ridden grounds that dye-slingers compete in elimination-style games or battle to complete a given mission, such as capturing the adversary's flag and using it to pick popcorn kernels out of their teeth. Admission rates range from simple entry fees for the fully equipped to all-day Gold packages that supply players with a marker, 500 paintballs, and all the other necessary provisions. Rentable chest protectors cushion trunks from crossfire, and disposable camo cuts down on the time players spend fusing their DNA with that of a tree. Although the field is generally first-come, first-serve, the staff can prepare for parties of 10 or more with an advanced reservation.
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How Can We Keep Older People Safe In The Heat?
Michele Norris speaks with Kim Kristensen, a nurse at Independent Living in Madison, Wis., about looking after the elderly in the heat. In the Midwest, a "heat dome" has settled over the area. It started three days ago and is slowly moving eastward.
And I'm Michele Norris.
Temperatures in the high 90s with humidity that makes it feel even hotter: It's a normal forecast for mid-July in much of the country. What's not normal is just how long it's lasted in the Midwest. Something called a heat dome has settled over the area. It started three days ago, and it's slowly moving eastward. In some places, it's so hot that asphalt has been buckling and some fire alarms have been triggered.
Kim Kristensen works in Madison, Wisconsin. She's been checking in with one group of people particularly at risk during this heat wave, the elderly. She's a nurse at a nonprofit organization called Independent Living in Madison, and she joins us now from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Ms. Kristensen, thanks so much for coming in. Did you walk here to the studio? How hot must you be?
Ms. KIM KRISTENSEN (In-Home Care Nurse, Independent Living, Wisconsin): Well, I walked in from the parking ramp, and it is very hot out there, so I'm kind of sweating and dripping right now.
NORRIS: You've been out making home visits this week? What are you finding? How are the elderly holding up out there?
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Our clients are holding up pretty good out there. The one client that we are really worried about is the elderly population who, unfortunately, don't have any assistance. And that's a good thing because they're independent at home, but they're still very much at risk in this hot weather. Heat really can affect the elderly, and they really don't know that it's affecting them sometimes.
NORRIS: And I imagine you have in mind that heat wave from the mid-1990s, where several people died in Chicago, in Milwaukee, other places throughout the Midwest.
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Yeah. I believe there were 700 deaths due to heat-related illnesses, and 55 percent of those were over the age of 65.
NORRIS: What did you learn from that? What are the lessons after that?
Ms. KRISTENSEN: I guess we have to start thinking about heat waves just like a tornado or a tsunami or something like that because it is very, very detrimental.
NORRIS: How hot is it there right now? I was looking at a heat index map throughout the Midwest, and there are some places where the heat index is 120, 122 degrees.
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Well, right now in Madison, it's 94 degrees. We are projected to get up to 99 or 100 degrees today, and possibly up to 120 heat index.
NORRIS: And is the humidity a factor there? You're sitting on a lake in Madison - actually an isthmus, in between two lakes.
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Oh, it's very humid out, rained the last couple of days, on and off, so the humidity level is like between 60 and 80 percent. So when you step outside, it's actually like stepping into a great big water bubble.
NORRIS: If someone is listening to this, they're in a place where they don't have air-conditioning, are there things that you recommend, ways that you can raise the windows, for instance, to create a little bit of air circulation in a dwelling?
Ms. KRISTENSEN: I would definitely have a fan going, have your curtains pulled. Go to a mall. Go to your local senior center. Go to one of the emergency centers that are open specifically because of this heat wave.
NORRIS: Are you encouraging people to be neighborly, to watch over people that they know are living alone and might not have air-conditioning?
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Well, if you know of a senior that's in your block or just down the neighborhood, go knock on the door, say hi, introduce yourself, see if they're OK. Just be friendly.
NORRIS: What should seniors do to make sure that they stay cooler or stay irrigated? I understand that drinking lots of water is very important right now.
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Yeah, lots of water. But the one thing, I think, that people forget is that when you're sweating and it's so hot like this, you also lose a lot of electrolytes because you sweat. So I would drink some, like, Gatorade, juice. Just make sure you drink lots of fluids and make sure you replace your electrolytes also.
NORRIS: Are there things that you should avoid, that just add to your discomfort and the heat?
Ms. KRISTENSEN: Anything with caffeine in it, which includes your coffee and pop. You know, stay away from alcohol. Alcohol is very dehydrating. And for every cup of coffee you drink, you need to drink at least two or three glasses of water.
NORRIS: That's Kim Kristensen. She is an in-home care nurse in Madison, Wisconsin. She's been checking in with the elderly in the midst of the Midwestern heat wave.
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Why Your Drug Copay Could Change
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How much a medicine costs you could vary depending on the value your insurer assigns to treatment.
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What if how much you paid for a drug was based on how much it might help you, instead of the sticker price?
Some big employers are already taking this tack, known as value-based insurance design, by lowering copayments for medicines to manage chronic conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It helps that many of the most prescribed pills are now generic and pretty cheap.
It's a simple idea when applied this way. The companies figure that if people take those medicines and stay healthy, they'll avoid costly treatment down the road. By slashing copayments, the companies hope to remove a hurdle that might discourage people from sticking with the drugs.
Now some employers are thinking about adapting the approach for pricier specialty drugs, such as those used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and cancer, according to a recent report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
These medicines are often very expensive and have no generic competition. So instead of charging a simple copay for these drugs, some health plans charge a percentage of the total cost, which can run to thousands of dollars a month.
It's one way that insurers and employers are looking to stem the rising costs of specialty drugs, whose growth is far outpacing that of traditional drugs.
But in the latest twist, some companies are looking to vary the copayment depending on the value the drugs provide.
It isn't easy. For starters, figuring out who is an "appropriate candidate" for specialty drugs can be tough, say experts including James Robinson, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has published articles advocating this insurance model.
Even if a specialty drug has been proved clinically effective for certain conditions, should all patients pay the same amount for it? Take a drug like Enbrel, which is approved to treat inflammatory conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. According to the HSC report, drugs of this type cost $14,455 per year, on average.
Psoriasis is disfiguring and uncomfortable, but not fatal, Robinson says, while rheumatoid arthritis is a much more disabling condition. In this case, a value-based insurance design approach might determine that "if you've got psoriasis, maybe you pay a 30 percent coinsurance for the drug," he suggests. "But if you've got rheumatoid arthritis, there's no copayment."
That's just the tip of the iceberg. "This stuff is complicated," says Robinson. "I don't want to blow you away with the intractability of the problem."
As spending on specialty drugs grows, and despite the difficulties, some experts predict more employers will adopt "value-based" principles for their workers' coverage.
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Developers create open-source OS kernels using .NET tools
Two open-source software projects aim to create operating systems with modular …
Unlike Singularity, which includes a hardware abstraction layer coded in C++ and some other components written in assembly, the Cosmos and SharpOS projects seek to use standard C# pervasively throughout as much of the system as possible and also eschew the kind of specialized C# language extensions (like the DbC syntax of Spec#) that are used broadly in Singularity. Although the developers plan to use C#, it is worth noting that practically any language that conforms to the Common Language Infrastructure specification could theoretically be used for kernel development in both Cosmos and SharpOS.
The Cosmos compiler, which is called IL2CPU and is written in C#, converts Intermediate Language code into assembly, which is then processed by NASM to generate native x86 code. The developers say that IL2CPU will eventually be able to generate native code code directly without needing NASM and will also support native code generation for multiple architectures.
In an interview published on the Obsethryl's Lab blog, Cosmos developer Scott Balmos explains how the operating system works. "As with all VM-based operating systems, the first step after being handed boot control by the boot loader is a precompiled image—a native blob, if you will. Its purpose is to initialize the platform-specific hardware with sane defaults (e.g. load temporary ISRs, set up memory and other defaults), prepare the JIT compiler for the runtime, and do other native housekeeping tasks," Balmos said. "Afterwards, the rest of the kernel is loaded from its bytecode file, and the JIT compiler starts its job. At this point, the rest of the kernel, through normal bytecode and unsafe pointer memory access, performs the rest of the system initialization, loads device drivers, and gets things going from a userspace standpoint. It's a gross simplification, but the main idea is that, like all other VM OSs, we have a very small native code nanokernel, if you will, which initializes just enough of the system in order to load the kernel proper, which is in platform-independent VM bytecode form."
Cosmos running a shell demo in QEMU
Cosmos comes with a UserKit, which enables developers to create their own custom Cosmos distributions with specialized behavior. The UserKit can generate QEMU images or bootable ISOs, and there are also instructions that explain how to make a USB boot image. The UserKit will eventually supply what the developers describe as an "operating system Lego set" that will allow programmers to combine various components in order to create custom operating systems. Several demos are available, including a basic shell with Ext2 filesystem support.
Although the Cosmos developers say that they have undertaken the project primarily for their own pleasure, they note that there are numerous contexts in which their operating system could have practical value. One might someday be able to use Cosmos to rapidly develop specialized operating systems for embedded devices. Cosmos also provides a rich canvas for operating system design experimentation. For instance, Balmos notes that using a TCP/IP-based remoting protocol between the AppDomains would bring transparent distributed capabilities to Cosmos similar to those of Bell Labs' Plan9 operating system.
A Snake game running on SharpOS in QEMU
Another prominent C#-based operating system project is SharpOS, which announced its first milestone release early last month. Unlike Cosmos, the SharpOS project doesn't depend on any proprietary tools. The kernel can be compiled using either open-source Mono or Microsoft's .NET. There are several demos on the project's web site, including a playable Snake game implemented under SharpOS.
Both projects are distributed under open-source licenses. SharpOS uses the General Public License with the Classpath linking exception, and Cosmos uses the BSD license.
Those of you who are interested in the concept of VM-based operating systems might also want to have a look at the JNode project, which seeks to create an open-source operating system written primarily in Java.
Although SharpOS and Cosmos are still largely experimental and aren't really intended for use on regular desktop systems, they provide some insight into the kind of innovations that would be made possible if next-generation operating system kernels were designed to use managed code. The theoretical implications of these projects are very intriguing and will likely spur a lot of discussion in the operating system design community.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
That's Right, China, America Does Have a Discrimination Problem
While the Apology Tour continues to circumnavigate the world, spreading a volcanic cloud of toxic Obama Regime propaganda, the latest incident an admission to the shining example of human dignity China of our “discrimination” problem here at home, I'd like to take a moment to bring up, “early and often,” the real “troubling trend in our society.”
It is true that America has a discrimination problem, an incredibly dangerous and insidious and, frankly, “transparent” discrimination problem. America (or rather, the Regime running America) has a problem of discrimination against anyone who disagrees with the Regime, its agenda, or its blatant attempt to tear America down and reconstruct it into something resembling a pseudo contemporary Grecian society of government-dependency addled sycophants.
America has a discrimination problem when a candidate for the U.S. Senate flat out says the American people aren't, “let me be clear,” smart enough to understand legislation that has removed their ability to make their own health care decisions, especially since we read every page of all 7 competing bills long before she opened her fork-tongued mouth.
America has a discrimination problem when freshman (and soon to be unemployed) Congresscriminal Alan Grayson stands in the middle of a family restaurant and screams at his constituents simply because they don't agree with him.
America has a discrimination problem when Senate majority leader Harry Reid (Dickhead, Nevada – but not for long!) refers to peaceful American citizens exercising their Constitutional right to free speech as “'evil-mongers' using 'lies, innuendo and rumor,' to drown out rational debate.”
America has a discrimination problem when the Wicked Witch of Congress calls these same people Nazis and later admits that she would have no pangs of regret about arresting any one of them who refuses to buy health insurance.
America has a discrimination problem when the men and women who shed blood and relinquish their personal freedom in the service and defense of this country are considered potential “right-wing extremists” and enemies of the Regime.
America has a discrimination problem when an American citizen supports the head of an Islamic terrorism organization that would prefer that all Jews gather in Israel so he and others don't have to hunt them down to complete a second Holocaust.
America has a discrimination problem when Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano say on camera they haven't read a bill that enforces their own immigration laws, while endlessly bullying a governor who has decided that if they won't do their jobs she will, while a public school teacher openly advocates revolution against the United States of America and the leftwing media and federal government (I know: there's a difference?) stand by, quiet as church mice.
America has a discrimination problem when the pResident of the United States dismisses a powerful movement of fed up people, who are black and white and young and old and liberal and independent and libertarian and conservative and rich and poor and all persuasions in between, as “folks waving tea bags around," or, even more representative of the Liar in Chief's “civility,” lovingly demonizes us as “that wing" of the Republican Party, the “tea-baggers.”
America has a discrimination problem when the threat of a boot on the throat is the perfect phrase to describe the people who dangle our nation's future for ransom over a cliff overlooking an abyss.
And somewhere in China, the party leaders bathe in our debt and smile.
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I'm receiving an error writing geometry (in ArcObjects) that has a large number of vertices (around 900). So big, but not ridiculously big. I would expect this to be no problem and I don't recall this issue in SQL Server or PostGreSQL. The geometry storage is ST_GEOMETRY.
The error is:
..and it appears to be related to the number of vertices that the polyline has on it. Lots of vertices: I get the above-mentioned error. Less vertices: no problems.
As a test, I generalized the geometry down to two points: success.
I've started to work my way up and gotten up to 120 vertices with success. Is there a better way to determine that limit? Is there a way to increase the number of vertices that I can have on a line? Is there a DBTUNE parameter that manages this? I've googled the actual ORA error, but I'm uncertain as to how to apply this to an ArcSDE repository.
A couple of notes:
1. I don't own or administer the ArcSDE repository and can't modify it.
2. Breaking the long polyline feature into several smaller ones is not an option (for this project).
3. Write using feature.Shape = geometry; feature.Store();
4. Code executes as expected for most of the features--I have 2 that have high number of points that cause the ORA error.
Oracle version:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release - Production
CORE Production
TNS for Linux: Version - Production
NLSRTL Version - Production
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Based on this answer at stackoverflow, I would try creating a new featureclass with the same fields as your current featureclass, but make the shape field the last field, and see if you get the same error. – Kirk Kuykendall Dec 19 '11 at 2:07
Yes, I created a new featureclass in my schema and I am able to successfully store! Then add a new field at the end and get the error again. I also tested with sde binary which worked with no problems. – Jay Cummins Dec 19 '11 at 3:00
Hmm, that's a bit disturbing. Last I checked you can only add fields to the end of the field list and you cannot have two shapefields in a featureclass. That sure creates some maintenance headaches. Have you reported this as a bug to Esri? I'm starting work on a project that uses Oracle, would like to know if there's an easier workaround. – Kirk Kuykendall Dec 19 '11 at 17:06
I just reported it to Esri, but I think this is an Oracle bug? Based on what I'm reading, other software systems are affected this not just Esri. Maybe Esri has other options for the ST_GEOMETRY data type (I'm pretty sure the ST_GEOMETRY Point BLOB is the issue here). – Jay Cummins Dec 20 '11 at 14:18
I recall an enhance request a long time ago to allow fields to be added at an arbitrary position in a table (not just at the end). I don't think it was ever implemented. The priority of the enhance request might be escalated if it is the only workaround for the bug you report. – Kirk Kuykendall Dec 20 '11 at 14:52
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I am not familiar with Arcobjects and Oracle, but from the error message it looks like that sde is probably trying to create the shape incorrectly (bind variables) see http://ora-24816.ora-code.com/ You say the storage type is ST_GEOMETRY- does this means that you are trying to send it as WKT? If so, can you not try it as a native SDO_GEOMETRY object? Is this an option in Arcobjects? Maybe posting part of the code would help
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the ST_GEOMETRY is the geometry storage type, you don't change anything on AO side. It's still a feature.Shape = geometry; feature.Store();. I am not working with any WKT. And this works for thousands of other features--just a couple of these big geometries are falling out due to the ORA error. – Jay Cummins Dec 18 '11 at 20:18
Try casting the geometry to ITopologicalOperator2, set IsKnownSimple to false, then call Simplify.
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That has no affect, still get the error. Kirk's comment/link pretty much explains it. – Jay Cummins Dec 19 '11 at 3:04
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Sur, S. ; Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA ; Hyun-Wook Jin ; Panda, D.K.
The all-to-all personalized exchange is the most dense collective communication function offered by the MPI specification. The operation involves every process sending a different message to all other participating processes. This collective operation is essential for many parallel scientific applications. With increasing system and message sizes, it becomes challenging to offer a fast, scalable and efficient implementation of this operation. InfiniBand is an emerging modern interconnect. It offers very low latency, high bandwidth and one-sided operations like RDMA write. Its advanced features like RDMA write gather allow us to design and implement all-to-all algorithms much more efficiently than in the past. Our aim in This work is to design efficient and scalable implementations of traditional personalized exchange algorithms. We present two novel approaches towards designing all-to-all algorithms for short and long messages respectively. The hypercube RDMA write gather and direct eager schemes effectively leverage the RDMA and RDMA with write gather mechanisms offered by InfiniBand. Performance evaluation of our design and implementation reveals that it is able to reduce the all-to-all communication time by upto a factor of 3.07 for 32 byte messages on a 16 node InfiniBand cluster. Our analytical models suggest that the proposed designs perform 64% better on InfiniBand clusters with 1024 nodes for 4k message size.
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Despite sandboxing, two different tabs in Chrome can share the same renderer process, for example when they share the same JavaScript environment.
Given two Chrome tabs, how can I know if they share the same process?
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Do you mean... progammatically? Visually? Through the UI? Through the task manager? Surely there is a way to distinguish at some level of the architecture, but you didn't specify what your expected user experience is. Are you writing a program or are you looking for something a (power) end-user can use? – allquixotic Aug 24 '12 at 20:44
I'm looking for something a power end-user can use, so visually, UI or task manager are all fine. – Randomblue Aug 24 '12 at 20:46
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In Chrome, press Shift+Esc to open Chrome's task manager.
Task manager
Then, right click on the column headings in the task manager. Enable the "Process ID" column.
Process ID check box
Now, you can check the Process IDs next to each tab. If they are the same for two tabs, then the tabs are open in the same process.
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Excellent. Thanks – Randomblue Aug 24 '12 at 20:48
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These are some brief notes to document how the callisto projects "contribute" to the "Callisto Build". (Hopefully, users can expand upon them, as they try to follow them, and run into confusing, or poorly documented sections). Of course, there really is no "build" of Callisto, but only a copying of what is already available on each project's update site, to a central site. Plus, there is a "site.xml" file, and index.html, etc., that are authored, and callisto projects are (relatively) free to make updates to them. The purpose of the "callisto build" is to simply document the steps in the process, require as little "manual" intervention as necessary, and have "the build" be reproducible, version controlled, etc. Contributors to the Callisto Discovery site need to be aware the CVS Callisto projects. :extssh:<your-committer-id-goes-here>@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto Or, general "read" access via :pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto There are two projects there: org.eclipse.callisto.tools org.eclipse.callisto.updatesite The org.eclipse.callisto.tools project has a build-home directory, with several ant files, of the form features-<project>.xml, where <project> is ep, wtp, birt, emf, cdt, dtp, gef, gmf, tptp, or ve So, the projects responsibility is to keep those feature-<project>.xml files up to date, as per the projects deadlines. Hidden in that statement, though, is that the projects own update site must already exist (and be working) at the URL that is specified in the feature-<project>.xml. Typically, as projects move from milestone to milestone (or release candidate to release candidate) only the version identifiers in that feature-<project>.xml file have to be changed. There might, for some projects, be times when the feature ids themselves have to change or perhaps the URL will change as to where to find the project's update site. Once a project updates their feature-<project>.xml file (and commits it to head) there will be a psuedo-automatic process where the following happens:
1. an ant task will be ran to use update manager's "mirror" function to "pull" features from a project's site, and copy them to the callisto/staging site.
2. The callisto site.xml file will be updated with the new feature versions, and copied to /callisto/staging site.
3. Once the staging site has been tested by the projects, to indeed discover and install the right versions, on the right platforms, etc., there will be a "mass delete and mass copy" of the /callisto/staging site to the /callisto/release site.
4. This "release" will be coordinated with the webmaster, so that the mirrors have time to replicate /callisto/relases (note: /callisto/staging is not mirrored, since it is for testing only, and may be created and re-created frequently, which would cause unnecessary noice on the mirror network). | <urn:uuid:2d997a0b-00d0-4580-832c-05553fc86c15> | http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Callisto/Build&oldid=9011 | en | 0.900858 | 0.026349 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
When it comes to gritty crime comedies, there's no such thing as a bad Elmore Leonard adaptation. Not every film based on one of his books is a "Get Shorty," but even lesser Leonard works have fascinating characters, hard-boiled dialogue and criminal plans that never quite go the way we, or the crooks, expect them.
"Life of Crime" is lesser-Leonard, an all-star kidnapping comedy that manages to "Be Cool" even if the filmmaker never quite finds the grim-faced grins that the best Elmore noirs boast.
Ordell (Mos Def) and Louis (John Hawkes) are two career crooks who learn of a rich guy who is hiding his riches from the state, the feds, his wife and everybody else. It's 1978, and Frank (Tim Robbins) does what people did back then -- he plays golf, pushes his son into tennis "at the club" and stashes his cash in the Bahamas.
Ordell is the smart-alecky brains of the outfit. Louis is game for any caper, including one that has them kidnapping the rich guy's wife, Mickey.
But Mickey is played by Jennifer Aniston, so we see one problem right there. She's stuck in a bad marriage to a bullying drunk their son hates as much as she does. She's gorgeous, and she has a hint of cunning vulnerability about her. Louis is smitten before they even stuff her in the truck.
Another possible wrinkle is their other accomplice. Richard, played by Mark Boone Jr., sells guns out of a house decorated with swastikas and stuffed with Nazi memorabilia.
"Your dad was in the war, right?"
"Yeah. Tank gunner."
"You, but which SIDE was he on?"
Richard is an anti-Semite, a loner whose wife just left him and the guy who boards up the windows in his house so they can stash the victim until they talk Frank out of the money. Bad idea.
Another complication crops up the day Frank leaves town for "a meeting." He's actually jetting over to the Bahamas, meeting his mistress, Melanie (Isla Fisher). Maybe he doesn't WANT the wife.
And then there's the guy who does want Mickey. Marshall interrupts the kidnapping, thinking he can con Mickey into an assignation. He's played by Will Forte, so naturally the kidnappers gamble that this wuss won't call the cops, even if he sees what they're up to before they knock him in the head.
The tale has a few nice twists and turns, allegiances shift and scheming ensues. Aniston nicely suggests the sort of victim who might, after the shock wears off, assert herself with the one kidnapper under her spell.
Mainly, though, "Life of Crime" is a blown opportunity. The double-crosses rarely reach the level of delight, and Robbins and Mos Def play their guys a little too close to the vest. Ordell's quiet cunning hides a wicked sense of humor. He messes with racist Richard's head, but it's the only time he's ever an amusing hoodlum.
Nobody here is drawn or played as broadly as Leonard makes his most unforgettable characters, and that robs the comedy of its kick. Those laughs are necessary, because the tale threatens to turn ultra dark.
"Life of Crime" was never going to be another "Get Shorty," but it might have managed a "Rum Punch." In the hands of green director Daniel Schechter, the promising early scenes lead us straight down the road to a mere misdemeanor.
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Julian Assange gets my support to evade America's clutches... but not the courts in Sweden
George Galloway should be urging Assange to clear his name in Sweden, not contributing to a rape-deniers’ manual
In the 1950s The Mirror’s Cassandra penned a famous “tribute” to Liberace.
“A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, mincing, fruit-flavoured, ice-covered heap of mother love,” he so generously called him.
Reading the reviews of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s performance on the Ecuador embassy balcony on Sunday, I thought I’d stumbled across an act of mass plagiarism.
To be fair, the Evita-esque love-in was nausea-inducing.
How can a supposed freedom-fighter give a heart-rending speech about the dangers of an oppressive world without mentioning what he was doing on the balcony – evading extradition to Sweden on serious sex charges?
But let’s not forget why that embassy has been turned into a siege scene.
Forces in America view Assange as a terrorist for revealing their dirty secrets and want him silenced.
He gets my support to evade their clutches, but not the courts in Stockholm.
So why did George Galloway record a podcast, informing us that Assange is guilty of nothing more than “bad sexual etiquette”?
What gives a middle-aged man with no concrete knowledge of what happened between Assange and his accusers the right to suddenly enlighten us on the complexities of rape: “Not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion.
So a woman can’t change her mind in between “insertions” (what a gorgeous image of George that is) even if, as one of Assange’s accusers claims, she was asleep at the time? And at what point does a man need to seek fresh consent for his “insertions”?
If Assange hadn’t declared war on the Pentagon, would Galloway even begin to offer such a misguided defence of a stranger accused of rape?
Assange faces the prospect of being charged with four separate sexual offences in Sweden.
In his extradition hearing, a British magistrate said that if three of the allegations were proven they would contravene our Sexual Offences Act, and a fourth would constitute rape.
As a supposedly serious politician, Galloway should be urging Assange to clear his name in Sweden, not contributing to a rape-deniers’ manual.
How ironic Galloway claimed the rape allegation “has all the hallmarks of a set-up” by America, just as Republican Congressman Todd Akin demeans the seriousness of rape in the same dismissive language as his.
But maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. Galloway did, after all, in 1994, salute the “strength, courage and indefatigability” of despot Saddam Hussein and in 2005, hailed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as a “breath of fresh air.”
This is the man who vacated his responsibilities as a London MP to enter Big Brother and crawl around licking pretend milk from Rula Lenska’s hand “for Palestine.”
At least Akin apologised for his shamefully inaccurate words. Galloway hasn’t – his ego won’t allow him to admit he’s wrong.
I hope this further convinces voters seduced by Galloway in that March by-election that he is not a glorious anti-Establishment messiah concerned with the needs of working-class Bradford.
And that they take the view he’s just an eloquent narcissist spouting confused student politics to make him look like he’s the only super-human on earth battling the bad guys.
Now play fair, boys
I’M not surprised that Tory politicians are seven times more likely to sell school playing fields than Labour ones.
Because I’m guessing that the government ministers most responsible for turning grass into Redrow homes remember them as scenes of brutal humiliation.
Michael Gove clearly perfected that startled haddock look being kicked senseless around a football pitch for being a brown-nosing geek.
Shortly before David Cameron took his O-Levels he was caught smoking cannabis, fined, and banned from going outside Eton’s grounds. So whenever he sees a playing field he must go cold at the thought of voters being reminded of his druggie youth (which I’ve just done.)
Eric Pickles was obviously forced to go on cross-country runs but ended up walking at the back with the other fat lads only to be screamed at by a PE teacher, thwacked on his ample backside and thrown into a cold shower.
And it was no doubt on the fields of Oxford that the Bullingdon Club boys who dubbed George Osborne “Oik” dangled him by his feet, and banged his head on the floor, until he yelled “I am a despicable ****.”
Surely, if any of that had happened to you, you’d want every school playing field (apart from the ones you pay to send your kids to) turned to concrete to wipe away the mental scars.
Royal dogsbody's to blame
I WAS intrigued by the story that Princess Beatrice’s dog Max has been mauled by the corgis at Balmoral.
A royal source said: “The Queen’s dog-boy was taking the corgis for a walk and they were joined by three Norfolk terriers which came with Prince Andrew... they began fighting among themselves and the dog-boy lost control.”
Hang on there. The Queen has a “dog boy”? I didn’t know a job existed even lower down the royal food chain than Nicholas Witchell’s?
Tory MPs' 'work book' is hypocritical
FIVE Tory MPs have written a book which claims that British people need to work harder.
Seeing as those MPs are now in the middle of an 11-week summer break, have another week’s break in November then three weeks for Christmas, that accusation feels like Gary Glitter shouting “paedo” at dads who kiss their daughters goodbye at the primary school gate.
Tony Scott made films for punters
TONY Scott was a director who made films for punters not critics.
So how apt that when he threw himself off a California bridge, landing feet from a harbour cruise, passengers filmed his final moments on their phones?
I’m guessing it’s what he would have wanted.
Henry Wyndham's grouse injury
THE Old Etonian chairman of Sotheby’s, Henry Wyndham, is recovering after being blasted in the face with lead pellets on the first day of the grouse shooting season while taking part in a shoot organised by an American hedge-fund manager.
Finally I get why they call it the Glorious Twelfth.
5 big questions of the week
1 If Asil Nadir goes to prison will Tory MP Michael Mates shorten the message on the watch he gave him to: “Don’t let the b******s grind you”?
2 Elton John fearing his son will be mocked in school because he hasn’t got a mum. Surely having a dad who looks like an over made-up granny after a bad night at the bingo compensates?
3 Tesco facing a £200,000 fine for employing illegal foreign students. Will their new motto be “Every Lithuanian Helps”?
4 With the amount of coverage given to a 91-year-old’s minor medical worries, is the BBC about to set up a Royal Bladder Correspondent?
5 If we give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote will we have to keep polling booths open until 6am and offer a free Jagermeister shot with every X?
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guests not offering to do dishes, is it rude?
Hubby and I were brought up to always offer to do the dishes after dinner at someone's house. We always ask first and if our offer is accepted, we do it gladly. We appreciate the effort the hosts have put into the meal and we are happy that we are not leaving them with a dirty kitchen.
When people come to my house and offer to help me clean up, usually, i will decline unless i am sick, tired, or have to wake up very early to go to work. I am a neat cook so usually, there are very few pots and pans to clean and almost everything else goes in the dishwasher, and i never let anyone wash something that can be washed by the dishwasher. NEVER. Oh, and I always try to give them a way to back out of doing dishes just in case it had been only offered for the sake of politeness.
Yet, i cannot help but feel that -unless it is an extreemly formal dinner- not offering to help do the dishes is rude. I understand that I invited them and that I am the one responsible for the clean up, but for them not to even offer to help is a bit weird.
Having written this, I realised that I did not mention i am talking about people who just sat down for the entire meal and did not help with other aspects of it (prep, getting dishes to table, clearing table......) I certainly wouldn't think it's rude if someone who helped do prep other things did not do dishes.
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1. Hala,
My opinion: not rude. Not polite, but not rude.
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1. re: Chemicalkinetics
I agree absolutely. Offering to help would fall, imo, under "thoughtful and gracious" rather than "necessary for politeness' sake."
2. A potential girlfriend invited me to her place for dinner. for reference: we were both in out 40s, roughly, and she had been married some years earlier, but had dated extensively on both sides of the marriage.
After dinner, I offered to help her wash dishes. (why not? Was I supposed to watch TV while she.did "woman's work"? It was easy enough, and would give us more of a chance to talk).
Imagine my surprise when she told me I was the first guy who'd ever volunteered for KP duty. Even allowing for a bit of flirtatious overstatement, that was a real shocker.
From that anecdotal experience, I'd say it's not expected, but couldn't hurt. Generally speaking, I always offer, but the host almost never takes me up on it.
In your case, my first impression is that they're your guests, not your co-workers (here, at least). When they invite you somewhere, let them do all the work. Or, since you seem really offended by this, scratch them from your phone book.
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1. re: Muskrat
Brownie points are always good reasons to offer. Same goes for visiting someone else's family, especially if they are potential in-laws. Goes a long way. I used to regularly visit an ex-bf's family, along with another g.f. of his brother, who never offered to help in the kitchen or do dishes. It was needless to say, mentioned once or twice (not by the parents)
1. re: Muskrat
About offering to do dishes, I think different rules apply to at least three categories of gatherings: (1) gatherings of family members, (2) gatherings of prospective in-laws with one's family, and (3) meals for houseguests staying overnight or longer.
The OP seems to say that she expects an offer to do dishes even by guests not well known to her at a simple dinner party, that it's even rude of them not to offer. This idea is completely foreign to me. In my parents' house when I was growing up and now in my house, non-family guests at a simple dinner party are not expected to work, or even to offer to work.
1. re: browniebaker
To me it seems rude to expect an offer. Did you bring guests to your house to do work?? I do expect that my guests will not leave dirty dishes lying around all over the place but to actually roll up their sleeves and help with the actual clean up is ridiculous.
Now, I do expect them to mow my lawn or shovel the driveway!!!!LOL
1. re: Davwud
Agreed. This proposition is an affront to the idea of hospitality.
1. re: Leonardo
Absolute agreement. Stay out of my kitchen if you're a guest please.
2. No, it's not rude. Guests are guests -- they do not work. If they offer to help with the dishes, that's nice, but it's not rude not to offer.
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1. re: Ruth Lafler
Agreed. Not rude. In fact, I don't want to think about dishes with guests present. I want to enjoy their company and conversation, and to genuinely connect with them. The dishes can wait.
1. re: maria lorraine
Hear, hear. I do not want to waste time while I have guests over doing the dishes. They can wait until when my guests leave or until tomorrow.
1. re: Atahualpa
Ditto! There isn't enough room in our tiny little kitchen for two people at the same time anyway... if help is offered they can clear the table and put everything on the counter, but once the leftovers are safely stowed away in the fridge, that's where KP ends. The dishes will still be there when the guests go home.
2. re: Ruth Lafler
Ruth is right, that's why they're called guests.
One time some friends had us over, DAvey was newly married and we were looking forward to getting to know Sussane. She knocked us out with an Indian meal, complete with crystal and china, and put a ton of work into it. The next morning I got up and saw this army of crystalware and china on the counter- she was a Marine's daughter and had the table setting protocol down, and used the right everything for the right course, which to me was a miracle of knowledge, so what could I do but start washing all that crystal? She assured me I didn't have to, but by God I did too- i'm just glad I didn't have to do it the night before.
1. re: Ruth Lafler
I agree. Only very close family and friends who eat here often are allowed to help - IF they want to.
1. re: bayoucook
This is basically my policy, as well. But I do appreciate it when a guest or two helps to clear the table.
1. re: bayoucook
I will say that sometimes very close family needs to do their own dishes. Example: my family hosts Easter and Thanksgiving with my mom's relatives who spend a few nights. We provide most meals but we expect you to eat with us. Family members who sleep in until noon are expected to fend for themselves for breakfast bd clean up after themselves. In recent years my father has gotten sick of the 40 somethings who are still expecting to be waited on by their mother and then just drop the pans etc in the sick still dirty.
Otherwise it isn't rude not to offer. Especially at a dinner party.
2. re: Ruth Lafler
Agreed, I don't think it's rude either. However if you are say at, your girlfriend's parent's house for dinner, it does win you some brownie points.
If I am washing things up and someone asks if I need help I always ask them to just keep me company while I wash dishes. And we're like you OP, we are very organized in the kitchen, we clean up as we cook and we always jam as many things into the dishwasher as possible and throw 2 pucks of dishwashing detergent in. Usually the only things left to wash after dinner are serving trays and platters.
3. Unless it is very close friends or family, I have never heard of guests being expected to help with the dishes.
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1. re: Samalicious
That is my expectation. Even tho I have a dishwasher, I'm pretty picky about how it is loaded as it's very old and if you don't load it correctly, things won't get clean. It's rare that I offer (except under those circumstances above) and I would never accept help.
2. If it were family, I would expect the help or would ask if I could help. If they were friends and it was not a potluck, then I would expect some help, but would offer help if I were a guest.
No matter the situation though, there are people that will never help and this includes relatives. I've have relatives show up at potlucks with no food, eat and leave.
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1. re: flylice2x
Why is it that no one has explained the concept of potluck to the people who continue to show up empty-handed? I would think they would stop being told the time and date!
1. re: flylice2x
Occasional guests, no. But family who is at your house for every holiday, I do think it is rude not to offer. I would decline or allow them to take a lighter duty than me, but the offer is what is important. I don't know if i 'expect' help, but after a tiring day, it does occur to me that it's unfair, and yes rude, to sit for a meal, not clear your dish, and retire to the living room while the host does all the cleaning up. Guests are not the only ones who should be shown courtesy in this equation. | <urn:uuid:d1567612-69e9-4db9-9561-20e12225571a> | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/682574 | en | 0.985464 | 0.164662 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
pkgsrc-Changes archive
CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/knot
Module Name: pkgsrc
Committed By: pettai
Date: Fri Sep 13 18:14:11 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
pkgsrc/net/knot: Makefile PLIST distinfo
Log Message:
v1.3.1 - Aug 26, 2013
* Response with NSID contained extra bytes after reload
* List of remotes is scanned for longest prefix match
* Multipacket TSIG signatures for transfers
* Wrongly parsed TSIG key secret without quotes
* Removed autoconf checks for extended instruction sets
v1.3.0 - Aug 5, 2013
* Defaults for CH TXT id.server,version.server (see doc)
* Progressive interval for bootstrap retry
* Transfers randomly cancelled
* Disabling RRL on reload
* Secondary groups not initialized when dropping privileges
* Responding to DS queries for names at or below delegation points
v1.3.0-rc5 - Jul 29, 2013
* Much faster bootstrap of many zones
* Removed deprecated 'knotc -w' option
* Slave ignores out-of-zone records in zone
* Support for obsolete types in zone transfers
* Slave zone file names fixes
* Long transfers being randomly dropped
v1.3.0-rc4 - Jul 15, 2013
* --with-configdir option for default config path
* Reintroducted 'pidfile' config option
* AXFR/IXFR subsystem performance improvements
* Rescheduling of AXFR in some cases
* RRSIGs not in the same section for DS records
* Log messages leaking to syslog
* 'knotc restart' option removed due to several limitations
v1.3.0-rc3 - Jun 28, 2013
* Utility to estimate memory consumption (see 'knotc memstats')
* PID file is not created when running on foreground
* UNIX sockets support for knotc
* Configurable 'rundir' and 'storage'
* IXFR with an arbitrary number of diffs
* Processing of knotc TSIG keyfile
* Atomic PID file writing, removed deprecated 'knotc start'
* Performance regression when RRSIGs came before covered RRs in AXFR
v1.3.0-rc2 - Jun 14, 2013
* Label compression related bug
* Proper resolution of some CNAME chains
* Unstable response rate in rare cases
* Several log messages
v1.3.0-rc1 - Jun 4, 2013
* Faster zone parser
* Full support for EUI and ILNP resource records
* Lower memory footprint for large zones
* No compilation of zones
* Improved scheduling of zone transfers
* Logging of serials and timing information for zone transfers
* Config: 'groups' keyword allowing to create groups of remotes
* Config: 'include' keyword allowing other file includes
* Client utilities: kdig, khost, knsupdate
* Server identification using TXT/CH queries (RFC 4892)
* Improved build scripts
* Improved dname compression and performance
* Fixed creating of PID file when dropping privileges
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 pkgsrc/net/knot/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/net/knot/PLIST
cvs rdiff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 pkgsrc/net/knot/distinfo
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 pkgsrc/net/knot/patches/ \
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See - not entirely ready yet, but I plan on moving (at least some of) the stuff in this TODO file to this wiki. This allows for better categorization, discussion, etc of ideas than a plain-text file in subversion that only a few people have write access to. 0.4 targets: * Replace QCanvas with own optimized implementation. * Only use IDs for items, etc, in ItemDocumentData - otherwise they lead to too many bugs. * More intelligent connector routing. * Variable time step in Simulation. * Fix subcircuits so that they are saved in an itemdocument. Bugs: * At the moment, KTechlab auto-detects a point in the circuit to use as ground, according to a set of priorities (e.g. the Ground component has the highest priority, then voltage elements, etc etc). However, some circuits do not have any point which should be considered ground, e.g. "(+9V)-------(Battery)". Suggested solution: detect a point to have as a fixed voltage, that can be anything including 0V. * Microbe should give "noline" where applicable in show-source (such as in delay routines). Features: * Bookmarks in the oscilloscope. * Work area text: allow clickable URIs, rich text editor. General TODO: * optimize microbe some more? Polishing: * Informational message when user attempts to paste flowcode into a circuit (can't do so; must save and load into pic). * On program startup, use "text blobs" pointing to sidebars to explain what they do. * Update register info even when PIC is paused. * replace "refresh rate" slider in settings dialog with standard one. [Being worked on or soon to be worked on] david: electronerd: * refactor the oscilloscope for better code reuse and so I can add a view that looks more like an oscilloscope's screen instead of a printed tape william: * In progress: - variable capacitor/trimmer - Done. - variable resistor - Done. - Voltage Regulator - On Hold. - bar graph display - Done. * Future Ideas: (leave me a note if anyone wants to do any of these so I know and can remove them) - crystal oscillator - 16 seg display - bridge rectifier - opto isolator - Scmidt NAND - Schmidt Inverter - Thyristor - Zener Diode - Logic analyser (16 bit) and graph output - Variable Inductor - Solenoid ( requires animation ) - Bar Graph Display Driver ======= The following have been brainstormed with reference to other electronics software I have used. I have found these features useful and these are all wishes for the future that may or may not be relevant to the direction the software takes in the future. I will obviously consult before attempting any of them: - Model poperty framework for components to include things like wattage, frequency, resistance, etc... of components using specs of manufactured components, with the future goal of accurate simulation of component destruction. This will also allow a parts list to be created when a circuit is completed. Just an idea, up for discussion. - Allow labeling of components in circuit, eg. R1, R2, C1, C2 etc.. Maybe a caption facility. - Right click properties for component model, values with separate value and multiplier selection to make it easier. This could be implemented in the Item editor too. -Circuit drawing on a black background to better visualise animated wires and logic levels through wires. Different view options: voltage levels, current flow, logic levels, normal(no wire animation of any sort). - A means for users to create a circuit which is intended for use in a component, and to link the created circuit to a generic component that automatically creates the required in/out pins with reference to the created component circuit. On top of this, a means for users to submit new components they have created this way to allow the library of components to be built. So instead of a long list of IC's one generic one may be used with a library containing the circuits needed to simulate different types which can be chosen for example through the Item Editor. | <urn:uuid:e5737b97-250c-4a02-bff8-8f549d4fc9b3> | http://sourceforge.net/p/ktechlab/ktl-j-ohny-b/ci/routing/tree/TODO?format=raw | en | 0.880694 | 0.052867 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Makes 10-15 servings
Dulce de Leche Sauce
3 cups heavy whipping cream
3 cups packed dark brown sugar
2 cups sweetened condensed milk, such as Eagle Brand
Bread Pudding
8 (1/2-inch-thick) slices rich egg bread (such as challah, Hawaiian-style or croissants), crust trimmed, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 10 cups)
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted, divided use
2 cups heavy whipping cream
4 eggs
2 egg yolks
3 tablespoons amber or dark rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup caramel bits or butterscotch chips
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
For Dulce de Leche Sauce: In medium, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine cream and brown sugar and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Gently boil the mixture until it reduces in volume by 1/3, stirring occasionally, for 5-7 minutes. Stir in sweetened condensed milk. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours to ensure that the flavors meld.
For Bread Pudding: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Put bread cubes in large bowl. Add 3 tablespoons of the melted butter to bread; toss to evenly coat. Transfer buttered bread to a baking sheet and bake until it begins to turn golden, 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
Coat 11-by-7-inch glass baking dish with remaining 1 tablespoon butter and set aside. (Note: Glass dishes help you see how quickly a dish is browning.)
In medium, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine cream with 1 cup of the Dulce de Leche Sauce and stir over medium heat until it just begins to bubble. Remove from heat.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs and egg yolks. Add rum, vanilla and salt. Slowly incorporate warm Dulce de Leche Sauce/cream mixture. Fold in bread cubes and refrigerate for about 30 minutes, gently stirring occasionally.
Carefully fold caramel bits into chilled bread pudding mixture so that the bread holds as much of its shape as possible. Transfer this final mixture into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle with the brown sugar.
Bake about 30 minutes, or until the mixture is set in the middle. Allow it to cool on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes and then dust with the powdered sugar.
In a medium saucepan, slowly warm the remaining Dulce de Leche Sauce over medium-low heat.
Cut the bread pudding into squares and serve warm with Dulce de Leche Sauce.
Note: Use any leftover sauce on ice cream, fruit or cake. Or better yet, double the amount of sauce to ensure you can do just that.
Latin-cooking purists know that true dulce de leche (meaning “sweet milk”) is made with milk, sugar, vanilla and baking soda — and takes hours of slow cooking to condense to impeccable richness. This version, however, saves loads of time and is equally delicious.
Per serving (based on 15): 733 calories (49.5 percent calories from fat), 41 g fat, 220 mg cholesterol, 207 mg sodium, 83 g carbohydrates, less than 1 g dietary fiber, 9 g protein.
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Wave goodbye to your TV... literally
Out goes the remote, in comes gesturing tech
By James Sherwood
Posted in Hardware, 18th July 2007 10:57 GMT
Losing a remote control down the back of the sofa could soon become a thing of the past, thanks to two Australian boffins' development of a TV controller system operated entirely by hand signals.
The system combines a webcam, a gesture processing unit and a universal remote control. The webcam captures the hand signal, which is decoded using special software and converted it into a command which can by used to trigger the appropriate infrared signal from remote control. The result: give the thumbs up signal and the TV changes channel.
The system uses a set of pre-defined hand movements, such as an outstretched palm with the thumb pointing upwards to turn the TV on.
A series of sucsessful tests have already been performed with the system on TVs and VCRs, which involved using it under different lighting conditions and making gestures from different distances.
Mitsubishi testing its own TV remote replacement design
Developers Dr Prasham Premaratne, from the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Quang Nguyen, from the Research School of Information Science and Engineering at the Australian National University, claim it can even distinguish between intentional and unintentional gestures - handy if you use it while watching sports or playing on your Wii.
However, the Australian boffins aren't the first to come up with such a system. Back in 1994, Mitsubishi researchers William T Freeman and Craig D Weissman began working on a prototype that used a two-screen rig, combining a computer and a television. They admitted that the system could prove "somewhat tiring for extended viewing".
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Today on Planet 100: Are You Falling for These Common Electric Car Myths? (Video)
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From the Nissan LEAF to the Tesla Model S to the Chevy Volt, a battery of new electric cars are ready to surge onto the roads. But even as automakers race to secure their entrees to the market key questions about the vehicles remain.WATCH VIDEO: Are You Falling for These Common Electric Car Myths?
Can electric cars achieve a functional range? Do they create new kinds of pollution? Could the jeapordize the country's electric grid? Can they be affordable?
Electric Cars: Battery Power Driving the Future
There's only one problem with these questions: They are based on long-held myths that don't reflect the realities of modern electric vehicles.
Planet 100 dispels the Top 5 electric car myths:
1. Range Myth: EVs don't have much range, so be prepared to be stranded when you run out of electricity.
Fact: The average Americans drives 40 miles per day and most Battery Electric Vehicles have a range of at least double that and can be charged at any ordinary electrical outlet or publicly accessible station with a faster charger.
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2. Pollution
Myth: Electric cars pollute just as much as gas cars; all you are doing is replacing the tailpipe with a smokestack.
Fact: electric cars create much less pollution than even the cleanest gas or diesel cars currently available. That's mostly because moving power from batteries through an electric motor to the wheels is about twice as efficient as burning liquid fuel through an internal combustion engine and transmission.
Read more:
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The Electric Cars Driving the Future (View and Vote)
3. Grid Crash
Myth: We'll bring down the grid if millions of plug-ins charge at once.
Fact: Almost all electric car charging will happen at home, and can be accomplished overnight during off-peak hours. Most estimates suggest that our current energy grid can easily keep up with growing electric car charging needs for at least the next decade.
Read more:
Will Solar Roads Change Electric Cars?
Understanding Electric Car Charging Stations
4. Batteries
Myth: Battery chemicals are bad for the environment and they can't be recycled.
Fact: According to the EPA, ninety-nine percent of batteries in conventional cars are recycled. The metals in newer batteries are more valuable and recycling programs are already being developed for them. Utilities plan to use batteries for energy storage once they are no longer viable in a vehicle.
Read more:
What's Different About Electric Car Batteries?
Understanding Electric Car Charging Stations
5. Cost
Myth: Plug-ins are too expensive for market penetration, it's only rich people who can afford to drive them.
Fact: Any new technology is initially more expensive - think PCs, cells phones and DVDs— but if there's enough demand, production volumes will go up and prices will come down. Especially with the government handing out $2,500 to $7,500 tax credits for EVs and PHEVs.
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Political status of Transnistria
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The political status of Transnistria, an unrecognized state on the internationally recognized territory of Moldova, has been disputed since the Transnistrian declaration of independence on September 2, 1990. This declaration established a Soviet Socialist Republic separate from the Moldavian SSR, while still part of the Soviet Union. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union and Moldova's own declaration of independence in 1991, the PMSSR was transformed into the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), commonly referred to as Transnistria. No United Nations member country recognizes the PMR's bid to sovereignty.
Moldova lost de facto control of Transnistria in 1992, in the wake of the War of Transnistria. Since that time, the PMR has received diplomatic recognition only from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, three post-Soviet states with minimal recognition themselves.
The two main political parties in Transnistria, the Republican Party (Respublikanskaya Partiya Pridnestroviya) and Renewal (Obnovleniye) oppose any rapprochement with Chişinău. The only political party in the region to favor conditional reintegration with Moldova (on basis of federalisation) - the Social Democratic Party headed by former local MP Alexander Radchenko - after 2009 lost its influence and ceased to function. Negotiations under Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) auspices have been ongoing since 1997 based on the premise that better relations are desirable and that the restrictions on communications, movement of people, and trade flows must be removed.
Recognition of the sovereignty of Transnistria[edit]
Only three polities recognize Transnistria's sovereignty, which are themselves largely unrecognized breakaway states: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Historical status of Transnistria[edit]
Administrative divisions of actual Transnistria.
Although ethnic Moldavians have historically made up a large minority of the population, the area was never considered part of the traditional lands of Moldavian settlement.[1] The territory east of the Dniester river belonged to Kievan Rus' and the kingdom of Halych-Volhynia from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, passing to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and then into the hands of Russia in the eighteenth century.
By this time, the Principality of Moldavia had been in existence for almost five hundred years with the Dniester marking its eastern boundary for all this time.
Even with the rise of Romanian irredentism in the nineteenth century, the far reaches of Transylvania were considered the western boundary of the Greater Romanian lands[1] while the Dniester formed the eastern.[2]
Ethnic composition of MASSR, 1926
The national poet Mihai Eminescu, in his famous poem Doina, spoke of a Romania stretching "from the Dniester to the Tisza".
The Soviet Union in the 1930s had an autonomous region of Transnistria inside Ukraine, called the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR), where nearly half of the population were neolatin speaking people.
Indeed, between 1929 and 1940, Tiraspol was the capital of the Moldavian ASSR, an autonomous republic within Ukrainian SSR, which existed from 1924 to 1940.
During World War II, when Romania, aided by Nazi Germany, for the first time in history took control of Transnistria, it made no attempts to annex the occupied territory and considered it a temporary buffer zone between Greater Romania and the Soviet front line.[3][4]
Position of the PMR government advocates[edit]
According to PMR advocates, the territory to the East of the Dniester River never belonged either to Romania, nor to its predecessors, such as the Principality of Moldavia. This territory was split off from the Ukrainian SSR in a political maneuver of the USSR to become a seed of the Moldavian SSR (in a manner similar to the creation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR). In 1990, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian SSR was proclaimed in the region by a number of conservative local Soviet officials opposed to perestroika. This action was immediately declared void by the then president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.[5]
At the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova became independent. The Moldovan Declaration of Independence denounced the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declared the 2 August 1940 "Law of the USSR on the establishment of the Moldavian SSR" null and void. The PMR side argues that, since this law was the only legislative document binding Transnistria to Moldova, there is neither historical nor legal basis for Moldova's claims over the territories on the left bank of the Dniester.[6]
Moldovan position[edit]
The Republic of Moldova considers itself the rightful successor state to the Moldavian SSR (which was guaranteed the right to secession from the Soviet Union under the last version of Soviet Constitution). By the principle of territorial integrity, Moldova claims that any form of secession from the state without the consent of the central Moldovan government is illegal.
It considers the current Transnistria-based PMR government to be illegitimate and not the rightful representative of the region's population, which has a Moldovan plurality (39.9% as of 1989). The Moldovan side insists that Transnistria cannot exist as an independent political entity and must be reintegrated into Moldova.
According to Moldovan sources, the political climate in Transnistria does not allow the free expression of the will of the people of the region and supporters of reintegration of Transnistria in Moldova are subjected to harassment, arbitrary arrests and other types of intimidation from separatist authorities.
Despite the self-proclaimed independence of the region, the majority of the population (400,000 out of 542,000) took Moldovan citizenship,[7] which Moldova considers to be a sign that the majority of the population opposes separatism. However, it should be noted that Transnistrians cannot travel internationally on a Transnistrian passport therefore a passport from another country is required, this could explain why many in Transnistria use a Moldovan passport for international travel, for purely practical purposes as opposed to wanting unity with Moldova.
Territorial issues[edit]
During the 1992 War of Transnistria some villages in the central part of Transnistria which geographically are situated on the eastern bank of Dniester, rebelled against the new separatist Transnistria (PMR) authorities and since then have been under effective Moldovan control. These localities are: commune Cocieri (including village Vasilievca), commune Molovata Nouă (including village Roghi), commune Corjova (including village Mahala), commune Coşniţa (including village Pohrebea), commune Pîrîta, and commune Doroţcaia. The village of Corjova is in fact divided between PMR and Moldovan central government areas of control. Roghi is also controlled by the PMR authorities.
At the same time, some areas which are situated on the right bank of the Dniester are under PMR control. These areas consist of the city of Bender with its suburb Proteagailovca, the communes Gîsca, Chiţcani (including villages Mereneşti and Zahorna), and the commune of Cremenciug[disambiguation needed], formally in the Căuşeni District, situated south of the city of Bender.
The breakaway PMR authorities also claim the communes of Varniţa, in the Anenii Noi District, a northern suburb of Bender, and Copanca, in the Căuşeni District, south of Chiţcani, but these villages remain under Moldovan control.
These territorial disputes led to tense situations several times. In 2005 PMR Militia entered Vasilievca, which is located over the strategic road linking Tiraspol and Rîbniţa, but withdrew after a few days.[8] In 2006 there were tensions around Varniţa. In 2007 there was a confrontation between Moldovan and PMR forces in the Dubăsari-Cocieri area; however, there were no casualties.
The mayor of the village of Corjova, which is under Moldovan control, was arrested by the PMR militsia (police) together with a councillor of Moldovan-controlled part of the Dubăsari district on 13 May 2007.[9]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Transnistrian side[edit]
Moldovan side[edit]
International organizations[edit]
Ukrainian side[edit]
Romanian side[edit]
1. ^ a b Charles King: "The Moldovans", Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California, 1999, page 180
2. ^ Nicolas Dima's history of Moldova, published in 1991 as part of a series of East European Monographs, Boulder, Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York.
3. ^ Charles King: "The Moldovans", Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California, 1999, page 93
4. ^ Memoirs of Gherman Pântea, mayor of Odessa 1941–1944, in ANR-DAIC, d.6
5. ^ Pridnestrovie.net: "UN and OSCE: Pridnestrovie is "different" and "distinct""
6. ^ Pridnestrovie.net: "Moldova: "null and void" merging with Pridnestrovie"
7. ^ Nearly 400 thousand Transnistrians have Moldovan passports (Azi.md)
8. ^ Moldova AZI, Transnistrian Militia Withdrew Its Posts from Vasilievca, Accessed 2006-10-18
(Romanian)Deutsche Welle: Separatist Transnistrian forces occupied Vasilievca
1. Oleksandr Pavliuk, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze. The Black Sea Region: Cooperation and Security Building. EastWest Institute. ISBN 0-7656-1225-9.
2. Janusz Bugajski. Toward an Understanding of Russia: New European Perspectives. p. 102. ISBN 0-87609-310-1.
3. "Transnistria: alegeri nerecunoscute". Ziua. December 13, 2005.
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Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman
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H.E. Said bin Sultan
Sultans of Oman
Reign 1807–1856
Predecessor Sultan bin Ahmad
Successor Turki bin Said
Dynasty Al Said
Born (1790-06-05)5 June 1790[1]
Died 19 October 1856(1856-10-19) (aged 59)
Religion Ibadi Islam
Said bin Sultan Al-Said (Arabic: سعيد بن سلطان, Sa‘id bin Sulṭān) (5 June 1790 – 19 October 1856) was Sultan of Muscat and Oman from March 1807 to 4 June 1856.
Early years[edit]
Said bin Sultan was son of Sultan bin Ahmad, who ruled Oman from 1792 to 1804. Sultan bin Ahmad died in 1804 on an expedition to Basra. He appointed Mohammed bin Nasir bin Mohammed al-Jabry as the Regent and guardian of his two sons, Salim bin Sultan and Said bin Sultan.[2] Sultan's brother Qais bin Ahmad, ruler of Sohar, decided to attempt to seize power. Early in 1805 Qais and his brother Mohammed marched south along the coast to Muttrah, which he easily captured. Qais then started to besiege Muscat. Mohammed bin Nasir tried to bribe Qais to leave, but did not succeed.[2]
Mohammed bin Nasir called on Badr bin Saif for help.[2] After a series of engagements, Qais was forced to retire to Sohar. Badr bin Saif became the effective ruler.[3] Allied with the Wahhabis, Badr bin Saif became increasingly unpopular.[4] To get his wards out of the way, Badr bin Saif made Salim bin Sultan governor of Al Maşna‘ah, on the Batinah coast and Said bin Sultan governor of Barka.[5]
In March 1807 Said bin Sultan lured Badr bin Saif to Barka and murdered him nearby. Said was proclaimed ruler of Oman.[6][1] There are different accounts of what happened, but it seems clear that Said struck the first blow and his supporters finished the job. Said was acclaimed by the people as a liberator from the Wahhabis, who left the country. Qais bin Ahmad at once gave his support to Said. Nervous of the Wahhabi reaction, Said blamed Mohammed bin Nasir for the murder.[1]
Said bin Sultan became the sole ruler of Oman, apparently with the consent of his brother. Their aunt, the daughter of the Imam Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, seems to have influenced this decision.[7]
In 1835, he ratified a treaty with the United States on very favorable terms, that had been negotiated by Edmund Roberts at Muscat on September 21, 1833,[8] and returned by USS Peacock.[9]
In 1837, he conquered Mombasa, Kenya. In 1840, Said moved his capital from Muscat, Oman, to Stone Town, Zanzibar where Richard Waters was American Consul,[10] and sent a ship to the United States to try to further a trading relationship.[11]
Upon Said's death in 1856, his realm was divided. His third son, Thuwaini bin Said, became the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and his sixth son, Sayyid Majid bin Said, became the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The National Museum of Oman in Muscat houses numerous items of silverware and other possessions that belonged to Said.
Said had 36 children 1 michael.omeke bin Said al-Said (ca. 1815–1851): an alcoholic, according to Ruete (Ch. 15), he left three sons, Suud, Fesal, and Mhammed
1. Sayyid Khalid bin Said al-Said (c.1819–1854)
2. Sayyid Thuwaini bin Said al-Said (also called Tueni) (−1866): Sultan of Muscat and Oman, 1856–1866
3. Sayyid Muhammad bin Said al-Said (1826–1863): he "...was considered the most pious of our entire family.... cared little for the world and wordly goods.... possessed by... antipathy against Zanzibar" (Ch. 14, Ruete); he lived most of his life in Oman
4. Sayyid Turki bin Said (1832–1888): Sultan of Muscat and Oman, 1871–1888
5. Sayyid Majid bin Said Al-Busaid, 1st Sultan of Zanzibar (1834/5-1870): Sultan of Zanzibar, 1856–1870
6. Sayyid Ali bin Said al-Said (?-1893)
7. Sayyid Barghash bin Said Al-Busaid, 2nd Sultan of Zanzibar (1837–1888): Sultan of Zanzibar, 1870–1888
8. Sayyid Abdu'l-Wahhab bin Said al-Said (1840–1866)
9. Sayyid Jamshid bin Said al-Said (1842–1870)
10. Sayyid Hamdan bin Said al-Said (1843–1858)
11. Sayyid Ghalib bin Said al-Said
12. Sayyid Sawedan bin Said al-Said (1845–?)
13. Sayyid Abdu'l-Aziz bin Said al-Said (1850–1907)
14. Sayyid Khalifah bin Said Al-Busaid, 3rd Sultan of Zanzibar (1852–1890): Sultan of Zanzibar, 1888–1890
15. Sayyid Hamad bin Said al-Said
16. Sayyid Shuwaid bin Said al-Said
17. Sayyid Abbas bin Said al-Said
18. Sayyid Manin bin Said al-Said
19. Sayyid Ali bin Said Al-Busaid, 4th Sultan of Zanzibar (1854–1893): Sultan of Zanzibar, 1890–1893
20. Sayyid Badran bin Said al-Said (?-1887)
21. Sayyid Nasir bin Said al-Said (also called Nasor) (?-1887) went to Mecca with his older sister Chadudj: died in his twenties
22. Sayyid Abdu'l-Rab bin Said al-Said (?-1888)
23. Sayyid Ahmad bin Said al-Said
24. Sayyid Talib bin Said al-Said
25. Sayyid Abdullah bin Said al-Said
26. Sayyida Sharîfe of Zanzibar and Oman: the daughter of a Circassian woman, she was "a dazzling beauty with the complexion of a German blonde. Besides, she possessed a sharp intellect, which made her into a faithful advisor of my father's" (described in Ruete, Ch. 15)
27. Sayyida Chole (or Khwala) of Zanzibar and Oman (died 1875): the daughter of a Mesopotamian woman, she "was particularly close to our father; her enchanting personality, her cheerfulness and charm won him over completely" (Ruete, Ch. 15)
28. Sayyida Aashe of Zanzibar and Oman: full sister of Chole; after the death of their brother Hilal (1851), she "took motherly care of his eldest son Suud" (Ruete)
29. Sayyida Chadudj of Zanzibar and Oman: full sister of Majid; after his death (1870), she went with her younger brother Nasir to Mecca and died not long afterward (Ruete)
30. Sayyida Shewâne of Zanzibar and Oman: the daughter of an Abyssinian woman; "a classical beauty ... endowed with a keen mind", she died early (Ruete)
31. Sayyida Mettle of Zanzibar and Oman: the daughter of an Abyssinian woman, she married a "distant cousin" in Stonetown and had "two charming twin boys" (Ruete)
32. Sayyida Zeyâne of Zanzibar and Oman: the daughter of an Abyssinian woman (Ruete)
33. Sayyida Semsem of Zanzibar and Oman: full sister of Zeyâne, she was married "rather late in life [to] our distant cousin Humud" (Ruete)
34. Sayyida Nunu of Zanzibar and Oman: the daughter of a Circassian woman, she was born blind; after the deaths of her parents, she lived with her sister Aashe (Ruete)
35. Sayyida Salme of Zanzibar and Oman (1844–1924): she became known as Emily Ruete[12]
Said bin Sultan honors that included:[13]
Further reading[edit]
• Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Emily Ruete, 1888. (Many reprints). Author (1844–1924) was born Princess Salme of Zanzibar and Oman and was a daughter of Sayyid Said. In the fifteenth chapter of her book, she describes her sisters and two of her brothers (Hilal and Thuweini).
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Callpod Phoenix Provides Bluetooth Conferencing With Headsets
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Pharmaceuticals Are Not People Friendly—Only Patent & Profit Friendly
Patent “medicines” are one of the greatest deceptions of our time. They are products of advertising—very sophisticated and expensive advertising.
What do patent medicines do for their buyers? They are palliatives that suppress symptoms. They do nothing to “cure” or in any way enhance the immune system. Nor do they make any claims as such, but the public misses this vital point.
The federal government, through the FDA, has now unleashed the pharmaceuticals upon the American people resulting in massive and unbelievable profits. The American people don’t have a dog’s chance in hell against this monstrous and deceptive fraud. What a scam! What a cash cow!
How much will their profits be when they get Medicare to pay for this worthless crap? Americans spend more than $200 billion per year now, before Medicare takes over. This is more than the federal government pays for education, agriculture, transportation and the environment combined.
What happened to the “war on drugs?” Well, what happened is that the war on “illegal” drugs was, is and will be a spurious issue designed as a decoy for legal drugs—get the picture?
The medical establishment, through massive advertising (propaganda), has for 50 years prepared the public for what we see happening now.
The trigger that unleashed the flood of drugs upon the public happened in 1997 when the FDA relaxed the rules for drug advertising direct to the consumer.
The new FDA rules allowed the drug companies to make claims unimpeded as long as they offered a phone number or website or referenced a magazine ad where consumers could get the “fine print.” The FDA knows as well as you do that people don’t read the “fine print” and most don’t read at all except a few words at a time. The public is helpless before this charade as if they are little children.
Welcome to the “purple pill”, a dangerous palliative for heartburn that netted $5 billion last year under an advertising blitz. This puts Priolosec® (Nexium®), the purple pill, second only to Lipitor®, another medical scam, in sales.
AstraZeneca, the maker of the purple pill, puts on real advertising productions that make Hollywood blush. The advertising leads the viewing audience to believe that the purple pill strips misery from the lives of millions. Even General Motors alone spent $55 million on the purple pill for its workers last year.
The scam continues as patents expire by changing the name of the drug.
What do they not tell? The purple pill (Prilosec®) was the first proton pump inhibitor. This means that it shuts down stomach acid production and eventually maybe even your life with stomach cancer. The purple pill became the first drug ever to hit $5 billion in sales. As the patent runs out, Prilosec® cloned itself with the launch of Nexium®. We’re talking profits and patents big time. Research started on Prilosec®, the purple pill in the 1960s. These people know what they are after.
Most people ignore that heartburn is an important clue from their body that something is fundamentally wrong and so they rely on a drug to suppress the symptoms.
Millions of people suffer from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). It occurs when acid from the stomach backs up into the esophagus. Some people experience it frequently and severely.
The human stomach is an acid-producing machine and this acid is needed in the stomach for health. When stomach acid is cut off as with the purple pill, it greatly diminishes our primary defense mechanism against food borne infections and even degenerative disease, as cancer. Stomach acid is essential to digestion and digestion is basic to health.
And logically, the very group of people who lack stomach acid—age 55 and up—is the group most often suffering from GERD or acid reflux.
So this is to say that one can have acid reflux and at the same time have low stomach acid. It’s where the acid is that leads us to believe that we have too much acid when we actually don’t. Yes, pharmaceuticals know this only too well.
Now just why does acid reflux on the one hand and low stomach acid on the other cause such a problem with seniors?
The answer is that as we age, our biochemistry changes producing weaker signals for thirst and dehydration. Less hydration naturally expands the effect of stomach acid when it refluxes. We naturally yield to the hawkers of antacids and thereby compound our troubles.
Normal stomach acid is the chief factor in the elimination of waste and toxins. It cannot be overemphasized how important hydrochloric acid is in the gastric fluid.
When stomach hydrochloric acid is deficient or absent, grave results will gradually and inevitably appear in the human metabolism.
First of all, we will have an increasing and gradual starvation of minerals. Food is incompletely digested and failure of assimilation will occur. Then the septic process begins with all manner of general infections such as flu and pneumonia. Deficiency of normal stomach acid gives rise to a multitude of degenerative reactions and degenerative disease.
Because of the lack of hydrochloric stomach acid, a putrefactive (decaying) process occurs producing lactic acid. All the more hydrochloric acid is needed to neutralize other toxic acids as hydrochloric acid is the only normal acid in the human or animal body.
It is very serious to stop the acid pump with the purple pill. Instead we need to make doubly sure that we have adequate stomach acid.
Adequate stomach acid is more than essential. It is vital to immunity and longevity.
This leaves us with the problem of acid reflux, especially with seniors.
What to do: Since it is doubtful that few have too much stomach acid, it is certain that too many don’t have enough.
• Take hydrochloric acid supplements, such as Betaine Hydrochloride, with meals—some use apple cider vinegar.
• Drink adequate amounts of clean, preferably distilled water, up to a gallon a day; even more if you can—you have to build up.
• Get on a low carbohydrate diet especially eliminating sugar. Use Stevia, which has no glycemic index, as an alterative to sugar.
• Use an unsweetened yogurt or buttermilk for a probiotic, or buttermilk.
• Avoid highly seasoned foods especially at night.
• Stay off of all antacids—instead use calcium lactate powder in some water.
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Gresham police know that now with their investigation complete and the two people responsible for her death facing decades in prison.
But on April 13, 2010, when Gresham detective Tony Cobb was sent to Adventist Medical Center, where paramedics rushed the 5-year-old girl, he had no idea the horrors he would uncover.
Cobb, who's worked as a detective for 11 years, has investigated child abuse as part of the multi-jurisdictional Child Abuse Team and homicides as part of the Major Crimes Team.
Oleander's case began at 11:38 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, when her father's longtime girlfriend called 9-1-1. For all intents and purposes the girl was already dead - she was unconscious and wasn't breathing.
Cobb and Detective David Schmidt went to the apartment at 418 S.E. 169th Ave., just north of Southeast Stark Street, to preserve evidence. By then, Oleander was in the back of an ambulance where medics desperately tried to save her life.
But nine minutes after the 9-1-1 call came in, Portland police were already calling it a death investigation, though the girl's death wasn't official until 12:27 p.m.
For Schmidt, who'd just been promoted to detective after seven years with the department, it was his first homicide. He studied the girl's bedroom, consisting of little more than a bare mattress strewn on junk surrounded by piles of household stuff. There was no bedding - not even a blanket - in sight.
The girl's father and his girlfriend slept in another bedroom, where the couple's 3-year-old daughter and almost 1-year-old son also slept. Schmidt noted a portable crib for the baby and a small bed for the other girl.
Over at the hospital, Cobb walked into the emergency room where Oleander's body lay. Doctors and nurses, their faces pale and stricken, stood by.
Cobb's eyes came to rest on the girl's body.
In that moment - without even knowing the three years of unspeakable abuse and torture she'd endured - Cobb knew this was the worst case of child abuse he'd ever seen.
Broken and battered
Cobb was stunned by the girl's emaciated 28-pound frame. Shocked by the dark circles under her sunken eyes. Horrified by the bruises, scrapes, wounds and scars covering the girl.
In a jarring juxtaposition, lilac polish coated her toenails.
Back at the police department, Cobb briefed Schmidt on how bad the case was, trying to prepare the new detective for the autopsy that they'd both attend the next morning.
By then, X-rays showed that Oleander's thighbone had been repeatedly broken. So had her ribs. She had scarring on some of her internal organs.
A large red abrasion covered her chin. Bruises snaked down her jaw line, as did multiple abrasions and scabs.
Bruises were heavily concentrated on her knees, back and legs. Her entire right side, from hip to shoulder was covered with red wounds.
The tops of her hands and feet also were bruised.
Unlike other child homicides Cobb had investigated, there was no single injury that stood out as having caused her death. No obvious broken neck or clear sign of a fatal internal injury.
Instead, it appeared the totality of her injuries overwhelmed her.
The medical examiner found that Oleander died of battered child syndrome - the culmination of physical abuse, medical neglect and starvation.
'Her injuries just caught up with her,' Cobb said.
So broken and battered, the girl's body simply shut down.
A tough beginning
The detectives began digging and interviewed relatives.
Oleander's paternal grandparents, Frank and Marrian Turner, in Sandy, overcome with grief and guilt, gave detectives the girl's heartbreaking life story.
Her biological mother was a 27-year-old drug addict, who'd already had many children. When she got pregnant, the father - Christopher Andrew 'Andy' Rosillo - was just 17 years old.
The pregnant woman was living in Washington when she gave birth prematurely. The baby, named Oleander, weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces when born Feb. 18, 2005. Due to a medical condition, the baby needed a nasal feeding tube to eat.
The baby's mother was homeless, living in a shelter and would pass out, leaving the baby to cry. Shelter workers alerted police.
Washington child welfare officials placed Oleander with a loving foster family that specialized in medically needy children. 'Salt of the earth kind of people,' Cobb said.
One of the family's children, a 3-year-old, couldn't pronounce Oleander's name. That's how she got her nickname, Andie.
The foster family wanted to adopt her. But first, her father would have to agree.
By then, Andy was 18 and in a relationship with Guadalupe 'Lúpe' Quintero, who'd been crowned Miss Teen Clackamas County in 2006.
Andy's father tried to make Andy think long and hard about making a decision that would alter the baby's life. Andy hadn't met her, he didn't have a job and he was so young.
'Do the best thing for the baby, not for yourself,' Frank told him.
Andy decided he wanted custody. The fact that the baby was called Andie, just like her father, seemed like a good omen, Marrian said.
Andy, his parents and Lúpe traveled to Bellingham, where they learned how use the feeding tube. When her foster family turned her over, they also gave Andy and his parents a photo album filled with pictures of Andie during her seven months with them. Pictures loving parents take of things like first steps and birthday parties.
In September 2006, Andy was awarded custody and brought the girl to Oregon. She was 17-months-old.
Four months later, Lúpe gave birth to Natalie in late January 2007.
Court documents show that Lúpe and Andy began abusing Little Andie about a month later, around the time of her second birthday in February 2007.
Andie's paternal grandparents in Sandy discovered the abuse when Marrian went to give the little girl a shower and found a belt mark covering the span of her back.
They immediately took the girl into their care.
But a month later, her father wanted his daughter back.
'It wasn't up to us,' Frank said, adding that he asked a police officer friend of his if they really had to give her back. 'We didn't have custody of her.'
Their visits with Andie became less frequent with each farewell increasingly painful.
'She told me, 'I don't want to go home grandma,' but she'd never say why,' Marrian said. But grandparents are known for spoiling their grandchildren, and all 17 of their grandchildren loved coming over and didn't want to go home.
'We didn't know that she was meaning it in a different way than the other grandchildren meant,' Frank said.
Marrian began stopping by Andy's apartment without notice to see the little girl. But she never got to talk to her alone.
When Andie came over to their house, she'd sit in the car while her dad came inside. But when Frank would ask why little Andie didn't come in, her father would get defensive, a fight would erupt. And even more time would lapse between visits.
As for bruises or other injuries, occasionally they'd notice one. But Andy and Lúpe always explained them away. 'And looking back, Baby Andy always knew the story she had to tell,' Frank said.
Her final days
Detectives questioned Andy and Lúpe, who said Oleander fell the day before while walking on the Springwater Trail and scraped her chin.
Those piles of stuff in her room? The family was in the process of moving.
Her bare bed? She'd wet it the night before.
'Loving parents would have changed the sheets, brought out some extra blankets and tucked her in,' Schmidt said. 'They didn't do that.'
Instead, she was whipped with a belt and forced to stand in a freezing shower for 10 minutes.
Detectives interviewed more relatives. They'd noticed that Andy and Lúpe treated the girl differently than her siblings, punishing only her for something all three children were doing, like playing loudly.
Relatives reported Andie stayed locked in her bedroom while other kids played in the living room.
One friend saw Lúpe slap the girl's hand, sending the book she was holding flying. The offense: Andie wanted someone to read her a story.
Family photos showed a smiling foursome with Andie notably absent. The only photos of just Andie - not with her brother and sister - were given to detectives by her paternal grandparents.
One relative worried so much about how thin Andie was that he or she called a county child abuse hotline. In January 2009, a child welfare worker performed an in-person investigation. At the time, Andie and her family were living with Lúpe's mother, Melanie Quintero, in Eagle Creek.
Despite talking to family, the girl's doctor, preschool and others, 'based on the information available at the time, DHS was unable to confirm that neglect had occurred, and there was no evidence of physical abuse,' said Gene Evans, spokesman for the Department of Human Services.
Three days after Andie died, police arrested her father and Lúpe for murder.
The shocking truth
The police investigation filled 14 binders with 5,000 pages of evidence.
Andy and Lúpe beat the girl with a belt and hit her with their hands.
'He was the primary abuser,' Cobb said, adding that he also beat the girl with a back scratcher and a broom handle.
As punishment, he'd force Andie to do wall squats, kneel on hard surfaces, such as a tile or linoleum floor, for up to an hour. He'd make her kneel on a brick or uncooked rice on the floor. Or make her stand on her toes in the corner. When she couldn't endure the pain any more, he'd beat her.
The cold showers were Lúpe's idea, Schmidt said.
The rest, Andy came up with from watching television shows.
Perhaps most horrifying was his admission that he forced Andie to eat her own vomit as punishment for throwing up her food, which she did due to her medical condition, which made it difficult to eat solid foods.
Her ability to eat had improved enough for doctors to move her feeding tube to a port in her stomach. But Lúpe insisted Andie could eat on her own, Andie's paternal grandmother said, adding that Andie hadn't used the feeding tube for a least a year.
Andy even told Lupe's mother, Melanie Quintero, about making the girl eat vomit. But she didn't report it to authorities because she had no proof of it.
Melanie Quintero also told the detectives she walked in on Andie holding her own excrement in the bathroom with her father yelling at her. Andie had messed her pants.
'She's my child, I'll discipline her,' her father said, a common refrain according to relatives.
Quintero thought he was going to make Andie eat it and intervened.
She never reported the bathroom incident to authorities either. Again, she had no proof.
Plus, she was afraid of Andy.
Andy has denied making his daughter eat feces, and detectives are inclined to believe him. After all, Andy admitted to the vomit incident and to punching her in the stomach and ribs - in short, using his daughter as a punching bag when angry - Schmidt said. Why lie about one more horrible act?
He also admitted to kicking Andie in the thigh, breaking her femur. Then he'd kick her there again, targeting the area because he knew it would hurt more.
The abuse accelerated during the last 6 months of Andie's life.
And yet, the younger two children were never beaten.
'In fact, several witnesses said Lúpe told her family that she would leave Andy if he touched them,' Schmidt said.
The implication: She knew exactly what Andie was enduring and didn't care. She wasn't her child.
Melanie Quintero said her daughter was too afraid of Andy to alert child welfare about what he was doing to his daughter. She said Andy hit and threatened her daughter, causing her to move out shortly after giving birth to her daughter in early 2007.
But when the two met in a public place for the two girls to play, Andy reportedly threatened to kill himself and Andie if Lúpe did not come back to him, Melanie Quintero said.
When asked why a woman who has moved to a safe place with her newborn daughter would put them both in harm's way by returning to an abuser, Melanie Quintero had no explanation.
And why would Lúpe have another child with him? Their son was born in May 2009.
Again, no explanation
Both detectives say there is no evidence that Lúpe was a victim of domestic violence or threatened in any way.
There is evidence that some relatives knew about the torture Andie endured.
'And they turned a blind eye to it,' Schmidt said.
Too little, too late
Cobb and Schmidt still marvel that relatives either did not notice or failed to report the abuse to authorities. Andie's paternal grandfather said he called a child abuse hotline twice, thinking he was reporting it to authorities, but nothing ever came of it.
After Andie was killed, 'DHS did a second review of the 2009 investigation and a search for any other child abuse hotline calls of abuse/neglect for this child,' Evans said. 'Again, we found only that single report from 2009.'
Her paternal grandmother questions the validity of the investigation because she and her husband were never interviewed.
Lúpe, now 24, pleaded guilty Monday, March 14, to manslaughter for 'recklessly causing the death' of the girl 'by aiding and abetting Rosillo in his pattern' of torture and abuse. She also pleaded guilty to criminal mistreatment for whipping the girl with a belt. A judge sentenced her to 20 years in prison.
Andy, now 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday, March 16, to one count of murder by abuse. He is scheduled to be sentenced in April to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years.
Oleander's paternal grandparents are left reeling, grieving and blaming themselves for not doing more. They also can't understand how their son could do such vile things to anyone, yet alone his little girl.'
'My child didn't grow up in an abusive home,' Marrian said weeping. 'I don't know how a child of mine could do that to a poor little baby. All she wanted was for them to love her. She was just the kindest, most loving little girl.'
Detectives Cobb and Schmidt - along with all the police, prosecuting attorneys and medical professionals who worked on the case - are at a loss for why Andie endured such a cruel fate.
'One of the elements that makes it so sad is how targeted she was,' said Claudio Grandjean, sergeant of the detectives division. 'It wasn't like, 'I'm an abuser and I abuse everyone in my path.' It was just her. And what makes it more disturbing is by all accounts this was a sweet little girl. She wasn't particularly difficult.'
Cobb fully agrees.
'It tears you up,' Cobb said.
'The heinous nature, I can't even explain,' Schmidt said of the case. 'One of the things I still think about is the foster family in Washington. Except for them, she was failed in every part of her life.
'Unfortunately, she didn't have a chance.'
How to report abuse
• Gresham's child welfare office - 503-674-3610
• Multnomah County's child abuse hotline - 1-800-509-5439. Callers do not have to speak English or leave a name.
• For life-threatening emergencies - 9-1-1
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Social issues through comic books special guest Donny Cates
With a writing voice that is crisp and unique, Donny Cates is creating a buzz in the industry that is hard not to notice. Not slowing down from his recent work with Dark Horse Comics, Mr. Cates is preparing to participate in this summers on line free study course Social Issues Through Comics, hosted by Christina Blanch (who hosted last years massive Gender Through Comics online course) Mr. Cates kindly made time to share a bit about his work, the importance of using comics as a soap box for social commentary, The Toadies drummer Mark Reznicek and much more. So, dear reader, come closer as we get into part two of our guest speaker interviews for Social Issues Through Comic Books. Enjoy!
Dark Horse mini-series written by Donny Cates and Mark Reznicek.
Dark Horse Comics Buzzkill #1 cover art by Geoff Shaw
Donny Cates ready for his guest speaker appearance w/ Social Issues Through Comics
Donny Cates
MT: With Hunter Quaid (which ran in Dark Horse Presents and was written by both yourself and Eliot Rahal) as well as Dark Horse Comics Buzzkill (written by both yourself and Mark Reznicek) alcoholism seems to play an integral role in making the lead characters who they are. Was there a conscious decision to saddle these characters with this specific challenge? Why alcoholism and not some other form of substance abuse? Where did the ideas for these characters come from?
DC: That's really funny you bring that up actually, It actually hadn't dawned on me that my two books I'm doing at Dark Horse both have an alcoholic in them. What's funny is that we've never actually shown Hunter drinking or really anything related to alcohol, we've always just described him as a "Violent and drunken Doctor Who" but that's as much to do with him being in that "hard boiled" detective genre than anything else really. As far as Buzzkill goes...the first germ of an idea came from my co-writer Mark Reznicek (He has a pretty sweet band too, The Toadies…they're...kind of a big deal) he shot me an email one day and said he had an idea that was basically "What if a superhero got his powers from drinking and doing drugs". Now, the easy way to go with that idea is to make it funny, have a laugh at his drunken antics...that kind of thing. But I really latched on to this idea of power and addiction and the relationship of both, everyone thinks they are invincible when they are loaded...that their addiction makes them powerful…more charming, stronger, smarter...that kind of thing. What I discovered and just found so fascinating, on my way through the project was that the 12 steps actually serves as a really perfect template for the hero's journey, or the Mono-myth, the quest, the failures, the redemption…it's all right there.
MT: You’ll be participating as a guest speaker in Professor Blanch’s online course on social issues in comics. What is it about the medium that makes it such an ideal format to broach such topics as alcoholism? How important do you think it is that our comics actually have something to say about society, or do you feel it is okay to just look at them as entertainment?
DC: Well, I think it can be both, and that's the beautiful thing about comics, really. When the creator wants to, comics can and absolutely should be used to highlight or examine very strong social issues. That's what makes comics indestructible as an art can do, and say whatever you can do things with comics that no other form of art can even come close to, does that mean every comic should have a profound message? of course not. Sometimes it's just really, really cool to see Batman punch a dude in the neck...and there's nothing wrong with that because IT ALL COUNTS. From web comics to Manga to indie books to big two all counts.
For me personally, Buzzkill was my first foray into making something that got a decent amount of attention, but the success of that book doesn't dictate what I'm doing next two books are widely different from Buzzkill in tone and message and that's on purpose, after something so heavy and raw, I really wanted to tell some silly stories...some action stories...some different stories. Any other medium you can get pigeon holed as "the serious writer" or "the action guy" but not comics...good stories are good stories.
MT: What made you decide to participate in this round of the popular online course?
DC: Well, how could I not? I was a big fan of the first round and when I got the invite I was thrilled to be a part of such an amazing list of creators and educators. I'm a little blown away at the company I'm in to be honest. Just to see my name alongside people like Warren Ellis and Denny O'Neil is a dream come true.
MT: When did you know that you wanted to create comics?
DC: I honestly didn't know until about 2007 or so, I was running a chain of comic shops here in Austin and when the bottom fell out on that I really had no plan for myself... I knew i wanted to be in the comics field and be close to the art form I loved but...well, I honestly had no idea how that could happen...after much discussion with my family and friends, I decided to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) where I majored in Sequential Art and I promptly.....failed horribly. I quickly learned that i was not, and would never be a comic book artist....but i also learned I had a knack and deep interest in writing. The money I paid SCAD didn't result in a degree, but it DID result in a career, which is all anyone can ask of an education. SCAD is also where I met my artist on Hunter Quaid, Melissa Curtin, my artist on Buzzkill, Geoff Shaw and my colorist on both books, Lauren all in all I'd say it paid off!
Go to school kids!
MT: With your work, how much do social issues inform your creative process?
DC: Well, I'd be lying if I said I sat down with the paper everyday to comb over social issues I can write about, but all in all I don't think I'm alone when I say that the opinions and viewpoints of my work are all taken from my real life feelings. The coolest thing about being a writer is that you get to build your own soapbox to stand on....and anything that pisses you off… you get to have an outlet for. I don't think it would surprise people to learn that I've dealt with some of the issues in the book, in that way it was a great opportunity to excise some demons for me. I think a lot of creators use their books as platforms to address problems they see not only in society but in themselves as well.
MT: What are some of your favorite reads right now? What would you say were some of your most influential reads growing up?
DC: I'm kind of a Marvel Zombie (Despite what my initials tell you) so It's really hard to go wrong with anything that Dan Slott, Bendis or Mark Waid are writing. Those guys are so clearly the new Mount Rushmore of comics and it's humbling to read their work. Also my good buddies over at Dark Horse have quite the stable of guys too, my friends Jai Nitz (Dream Thief) and Frank Barberie (Five Ghosts, White Suits) are doing some really excellent work. The most influential stuff I read growing up was probably Gaiman's Sandman and Alan Moore's Miracleman, both are books that I go back and reread once a year or so and realize in ever increasing horror that I will just NEVER be that good and there's no point in trying and I should just quit.
MT: What is next on the horizon for you that fans should keep an eye out for? Any dream projects in the wings that you are looking forward to? Where can fans find you (if you have an online presence) and your work?
DC: I'm pretty easy to get a hold of. I'm on Facebook and I live on Twitter (@doncates) so that would definitely be the destination for any upcoming news. I'm working on three new books right now, two of which are at Dark Horse and one that's a bit more secretive. I can't say much except that one of them will be announced out in Chicago for C2E2. Some awesome stuff coming up for sure!!
MT: Finally, if you could have a superpower, what would it be?
DC: To always have the correct answer to any question that's given.
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Wallace residents need to be bear aware
Published On: Nov 16 2012 05:07:36 PM PST Updated On: Nov 16 2012 05:39:13 PM PST
Wallace bear aware
WALLACE, Idaho -
People in Wallace need to be bear aware as a black bear and her two cubs have been spotted looking for food in the area.
Chloe Buchanan looked out her window earlier this week to find a police officer in her backyard.
"She was shining a light back there and thought someone was in our yard," Buchanan said.
It wasn't someone. It was something. A mama bear and her two cubs rummaged through their garbage cans, left a trail of garbage heading up the hill and apparently settled in near a pine tree just 20 feet from Buchanan's house.
"I saw their eyes being reflected off that light," Buchanan said.
It's not the only place bears were spotted; another person down the street saw a black bear sitting by a tree in-between two houses. It's not unusual to see bears in the Silver Valley; they rely on berries for food, but this year there was an early huckleberry crop.
"So they're probably still trying to put on some fat before right before they go into the den," Mark Bowen with Idaho Fish and Game said.
Now that this bear family has been spotted, the Shoshone County Sheriff is asking people to take precautions, including keeping garbage cans inside, unless it's pick up day, keep an eye on your pets, remove bird feeders and even BBQ grills.
"Bears are really reliant on their noses," Bowen explained.
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Just How Dangerous Is Football?
Jon Hamilton, science correspondent for NPR
Christopher Nowinski, author of Head Games
A new study suggests that the brutal hits NFL players take may be linked to a much higher risk of cognitive impairment. While the study focused only on dementia-related illness, the various bodily injuries football players suffer in the game can have lasting effects.
Yesterday, the New York Times reported on a study that found that former professional football players run a higher risk of Alzheimer's or dementia-related illness. The study was commissioned by the National Football League and surveyed more than a thousand retired players. The NFL itself and others raised questions about the way the study was conducted. More on that in just a minute.
But its conclusion seems to make sense. Head injuries are all too common at all levels of football. Tim Tebow, the Heisman Award-winning quarterback with the Florida Gators is currently trying to recover from a concussion he suffered on a devastating sack that sent him to the hospital last Saturday night.
Head and spinal injuries, of course, are the most serious, but knees and shoulders and hips and all the other joints can cause problems later in life, too.
Later in the hour, actress Juliette Lewis on her new roller derby epic, "Whip It" But first, how dangerous is football? If you've been in the game as a player, a coach, a trainer or as a doctor, what effect do you see? And how does the culture of the game play into this? Tell us your story. Our phone number is 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our Web site. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And we begin with NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton, who joins us here in the studio. Nice to have you with us today.
CONAN: And explain this NFL study. What did it tell us, and what did we learn that's new?
HAMILTON: Well, it's the kind of study that has a lot of limitations. It's not that the study was done badly, but it was a telephone survey. They called up 1,000-plus people and , you know, who had been NFL players, and they said how are you doing? I know they asked them about prostate disease, lots of things. And one of the questions had to do with dementia.
Now, the problem with a study like that is that it's not really how you'd want to diagnose something like dementia or Alzheimer's.
CONAN: It's all self-reporting.
HAMILTON: It's all self-reported. And so maybe a doctor has examined them and told them yes, you have this, or maybe they're just saying yeah, I think I do. But that's a major shortcoming of the study.
Other problems with this study are that even though they called up a thousand people, you're still dealing with pretty small numbers of people with these conditions, you know, maybe a few dozen who were reporting dementia. So it's hard to say, you know, what percentage of all these players might have the problem. And then, of course, this is a study that has not been published anywhere, and it has not been peer-reviewed.
CONAN: And there is also a question: Do concussions or even repeated concussions cause dementia? Do we know that?
HAMILTON: I think that among neuroscientists and neurosurgeons, people who treat head injuries, there is no question that people who have repeated head injuries, repeated trauma to the head, their brains pay a price for that. And so I don't think any neuroscientist would question that the conclusions of this are probably correct, even if the study wasn't such a great study.
CONAN: Mm-hmm. So again, the conclusions seem to make sense, even if the methodology might be improved.
HAMILTON: Absolutely.
CONAN: All right. So how dangerous is football? What do we know about it?
HAMILTON: Well, there have been a number of studies that have tried to look at that question. They come up with very different results. In this case, you know, they found that at one age group, that you might be six times more likely, and at an earlier age group, I think it was 19 times more likely. I would take those numbers with a grain of salt.
Other studies have shown everything from it might be twice as likely to figures more in this range. But they all seem to conclude that you're at a much greater risk of developing these type of mental problems later in life. And we should say that this is something that often will take 20, 30, 40 years. But in somebody who - in an age group where a small group of people ordinarily would have it, say in their 60s or 70s, if you look at people who have had repeated head injuries - and this includes football players and boxers who even have more head trauma - you'll see much, much elevated rates.
CONAN: And quickly, people - helmets, don't the helmets protect you for this?
HAMILTON: Well, helmets protect you, in a way. They spread out the force of a collision, so you don't have skull fractures and those kinds of things. But, you know, think about your skull, and your brain as like a raw egg, okay? You've got a hard shell on the outside. You've got a soft, sort of liquidy gel on the inside. And you can take an egg and shake it and cause huge acceleration and deceleration forces without ever breaking the shell. And what the - you know, what a helmet does is keep you from breaking the shell, but it doesn't keep all that stuff inside, the sort of gel that is your brain, from having huge forces exerted and turning and twisting inside there.
CONAN: And again, as we mentioned, obviously, head and spinal injuries -neck injuries in particular - are the most serious, and we've all read the stories of the couple of players who've broken their necks in the game and been paralyzed and their difficult returns to any form of mobility at all.
HAMILTON: These are the things you don't recover from.
CONAN: Yeah. Then there are the injuries to joints: shoulders, knees, hips, fingers, wrists, ankles.
HAMILTON: There is a huge literature on problems of osteoarthritis especially, which is sort of a catch-all phrase for when your joints hurt and not caused by, you know, your immune system attacking your joints, but rather by repeated injuries to joints. And football players, along with a lot of other athletes, have these and, as I think you mentioned, it goes all the way from the top to the bottom of your body. It's everything from your shoulders, the hips, the knees, the ankles. These are all places where you have people who retire from professional football, and they report being in a lot of pain. When you do surveys, they report a lot more pain than other people.
CONAN: And it's interesting. The game is described not as a contact sport, but as a collision sport.
HAMILTON: I think anybody who's ever watched the game would have to agree with that description.
CONAN: Let's get some callers on the line: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. We want to hear from people in the game, as a player, as a coach, as a trainer, as a doctor. What do you experience in your life? What's your story?
Let's start with Mark, and Mark's with us from Chico in California.
MARK (Caller): Yeah, I played football for a major university, and I've had, as a result of that - this was a number of years ago. I have two artificial knees and two artificial shoulders. And I just wore the joints out from repeated dislocations and injuries to them, just completely wore those four joints out. So now I've got metal and plastic in both shoulders and both knees.
CONAN: And as good as those things are, they're not as good as the originals.
MARK: No, they're not. I wish that I could go back, and they're not as good as the original at all, and especially these shoulders. They're very delicate, and, you know, there's so much rotation and everything that you have to gain back. It's extremely limiting in what you can do. So it's a sport, they said, an experience that would last me a lifetime. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of how they meant it.
CONAN: How long after you stopped playing did these problems become so bad you needed surgery?
MARK: Well, while I was playing in college, I had four or five knee operations, and just through the immediacy of getting me back out on the field, maybe, oh, four to six weeks after having knee surgery, you'd be back out playing. And you know, you would take the pain medication and the shots they would give you. But in my late 30s and early 40s, I recognized I was having problems. And now in my early 60s, 63, I've got those four joints completely replaced, and they're still painful. So it doesn't alleviate the limitation or the pain. It's just - it makes it able to get up and do things during the day.
CONAN: Jon Hamilton?
HAMILTON: Yeah, I'd be curious to know. You talk about going back so quickly. And did you find that that was sort of culture of the game, was that you get back in regardless of the injury, whether it's a head injury or a knee injury?
MARK: Yes, it was. It was - you'd be brought in, and you would be told that, you know, this amount of money was laid out for you for a scholarship, and your scholarship was guaranteed and that, you know, you have people that are counting on you and people that have financed you. And you know, you get money that's given to you off the record. And, you know, you have a sponsor. And, you know, there's a lot of pressure of feeling that you're letting people down, and, you know, you forego your own health and welfare. I did.
CONAN: And I have to ask: Was this long enough ago that the knee surgery you had was arthroscopic, where they just make a little hole, or was this the big cut?
MARK: They opened the whole thing up. When I had the surgeries back in the early '70s and early '80s, it was - they opened up the whole knee. And even when they replaced my second knee just six months ago, they had to open up the whole thing from subsequent damage that was done to the joints in the back. So they had to open up the whole thing.
CONAN: So you have a couple of wonderful zippers there.
MARK: Yes, I do.
CONAN: All right. Mark, thanks very much, and good luck to you.
MARK: Yeah, thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Let's see if we can go next to Matea(ph) - I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly - in Sacramento.
MATEA (Caller): Yes, from Sacramento.
CONAN: Go ahead, please.
MATEA: I volunteer full-time at the Hyperbaric Clinic of Sacramento, and recently, we've been getting a lot of, you know, we got a Kings player in and we actually got a WEC fighter. A lot of what he's doing is he's trying to use hyperbaric medicine to recover - to basically, you know, push the oxygen past the scar tissue, which wouldn't be able to be done on Earth's plane right now. But what he does is he goes into a chamber that pushes the oxygen past damaged tissue, and basically it's a timing thing because he wants to, you know, repair his injury twice as fast. But also he's focusing on the scar tissue in the middle that needs, you know, oxygen desperately so that the scar tissue doesn't form around that and to prevent, you know, to prevent what they call being punch drunk, to prevent that.
CONAN: So a hyperbaric chamber, briefly, is higher pressure and more dense amounts of oxygen so that it can presumably promote healing?
MATEA: Yeah, promote healing in the brain and promote healing in tissue. Like, for instance, it was Uriah(ph). His hand was broken, and he basically wanted to revive the hand and recover the hand faster than, you know, he could normally do. So basically, he just went into the chamber and recovered his hand.
HAMILTON: I have also heard something about hyperbaric chambers in use for recovery, but just to be clear, I think most of this is we're talking about short-term recovery. This is not going to help people who have had repeated head injuries and are now in their 40s, 50s and 60s.
MATEA: Well, actually, the studies, the first studies were done on boxers, and it's actually to prevent head injuries for later. For - it's basically to get to the scar tissue that normally, the tissue that wouldn't get any oxygen or any treatment, and…
CONAN: Well, I have to say, Matea, we're not - those studies may exist. I haven't seen them, and I don't think Jon has seen them. So…
MATEA: There's a new one done by the MIND Institute recently.
CONAN: All right, well, we'll take a look at it. Thank you very much for the phone call.
MATEA: Thank you so much.
CONAN: We appreciate it. We're talking today about the game of football and asking: How dangerous is it? NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton is with us. Up next, Christopher Nowinski joins us, a former college defensive lineman who suffered serious head injuries.
So players, coaches, trainers, what effects do you see? Give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. On Monday, the Big 10 Conference suspended Ohio State safety Kurt Coleman for one game after a head-to-head collision against Illinois. College football is trying to crack down on the brain-rattling, helmet-to-helmet hits with worries about concussions and, of course, other injuries. The head is hardly the only concern.
We're talking about the game of football. How dangerous is it? If you've been in the game as a player, coach, trainer or as a doctor, what effect do you see, and how does the culture of the game play into this? Our phone number: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our Web site. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And Jon Hamilton, science correspondent, is with us here in Studio 3A. And joining us now is Christopher Nowinski. He started at defensive tackle for Harvard and suffered a series of concussions. He wrote the book "Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis." He's now co-director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic…
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CONAN: Well, Christopher, can you pronounce that for me?
Mr. CHRISTOPHER NOWINSKI (Co-Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy; Author): Encephalopathy.
CONAN: Thank you, easy for you to say - at Boston University School of Medicine, and joins us today from our member station in Boston, WBUR. Nice to have you with us with us today.
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Mr. NOWINSKI: Thanks for having me today.
CONAN: So when was the first time you were injured?
Mr. NOWINSKI: Well, geez, overall?
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CONAN: Well, at least your head.
Mr. NOWINSKI: My head, you know, I remember having a couple concussions playing at Harvard. They were never diagnosed. So, for example, we were - an inter-squad game, I was a blocker in the wedge, but we had a short kick. I catch the kick-off, I run full speed ahead. I was never allowed to touch the ball, so I didn't know how to run. I put my head down, went head to head with a big hitter we had and didn't remember falling down, didn't remember really going to the sideline. I did remember that the sky was orange, which was a first, because it was blue, I think, before the hit.
CONAN: Probably was.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Probably was, yeah. And - but it was the kind of thing that I just, you know, took a knee for a few plays and was back in playing. And, you know, it was never diagnosed, and it was no big deal.
CONAN: Was that, oh, he just got his bell rung?
Mr. NOWINSKI: No one even noticed. I didn't say anything. You know, I got up slowly from the hit, but, you know, it's not the kind of thing that, you know, there's no one out there policing you when you get up a few steps slower. And no one's asking any questions when you go to the sideline in most cases. So it was never really - it was really not recognized. I didn't realize I had - that was a concussion until, you know, four or five years later, when I was a pro wrestler with WWE, and I kept blacking out and getting other, more severe concussions and then put the puzzle together.
HAMILTON: Yeah, Chris, did anybody at that time even tell you how to recognize a concussion?
Mr. NOWINSKI: No. I mean, you know, the Harvard staff is great, but we did not have, like, a preseason speech about if you get hit in the head and you experience these symptoms, you need to say something.
HAMILTON: I mean, there's no shortage of doctors in that area who could have provided that information.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Yeah, no, I mean, it's funny. I mean, it's just something that's done across the country, whether high school, college, and it's something we really push for with our work now. Because you do the studies, and they find that kids do not know what a concussion is, and therefore, they can't report it when they get those symptoms.
CONAN: And the culture of the game that we've been talking about earlier, your team needs you, you've got to get back in there - that discourages kids from reporting, sometimes, to the trainer or to the coach: I think I have a problem.
Mr. NOWINSKI: I think you're right. I mean, that culture of the game, I'm feeling it right now. I feel like I shouldn't be bad-mouthing football. I'm picturing my old teammates out there going oh, he's just soft. But, you know, I've played through - I remember playing a game with a broken hand that I broke in the first quarter, and I told my - this is high school. I told my coaches, like in the third quarter when I realized I couldn't use it anymore, I said I think my hand's broken. But I was the captain of the team, and they said okay, keep playing.
And so you apply that mentality from regular injuries to your head, and that's - you know, I think that's one of the major reasons why kids are also playing through their concussions. They think that it's just like a sprained ankle rather than it can cause you sudden death if you get more hits to the head.
CONAN: Let's get some more callers on the line. And we'll go next to Tom, and Tom's with us from Iowa City.
TOM (Caller): Hi, Neal. Thanks for taking my call.
CONAN: Sure.
TOM: Kind of a different tact, I guess. I played high school football and junior high football, so a total of, I guess, six years, and never really received any sort of major injury - you know, pulled muscles and that sort of thing. But I played soccer for many years, and I broke my leg in a soccer game. I got multiple concussions in soccer games. I blew my knee out skiing. I separated my shoulder riding a mountain bike down a hill.
So it seems like all the other sports were the ones that were to my detriment, and in football, I was safer. Just interesting. I just want to see what your folks have to say about that.
CONAN: Jon Hamilton?
HAMILTON: Yeah, I'd be curious to know what position you played on the football field.
TOM: I was a defensive end, for the most part. You know, I was tackling and blocking a lot, so I was getting there.
CONAN: I wonder, for Christopher Nowinski, defensive ends, as far as I understand, except when you're in the wedge, like you are in a kick-off play, in the line, there's a lot of grappling, a lot of knee injuries, maybe some shoulders, not so many head injuries.
Mr. NOWINSKI: That's not exactly true. You know, at our brain bank at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at BU, most of the cases we have are linemen, because we forget - we see these big hits that a guy like Tim Tebow got at Florida or a wide receiver gets in the open field, but we forget that linemen coming off the ball get hit in the head actually three or four more times per game, about 40 or 50 times a game, with an average of about 30 Gs. That's from some studies done at Oklahoma and some other places. So you do get repetitive, low-level - and I use "low-level" in quotes - but low-level hits to your head constantly.
CONAN: Tom, was that your experience?
TOM: You know, I don't - yeah, there's definitely a lot of hitting going on. I think, you know, there's obviously a lot more padding and helmet and that sort of thing when you play football versus going downhill skiing or playing soccer.
So yeah, there's definitely a lot of hitting, but I don't - maybe I did, but I don't remember any concussions or any major injuries while I was playing football. They seemed to happen when I was doing other stuff, other silly stuff as a kid.
CONAN: Well, yeah, other silly stuff as a kid. I guess maybe football can be dangerous. Being a kid can be dangerous, sometimes, too.
TOM: Absolutely.
CONAN: Tom, thanks very much for the call, and good luck from recovering from all those injuries.
Here's an email we have from Jim: I went to a scrimmage once as a resident physician. A player got clobbered. When I tried to evaluate him, his coach shoved me aside, and I never worked as a team physician again. It's too dangerous.
And I wonder, Chris Nowinski. What's your experience with team physicians?
Mr. NOWINSKI: Well, my experience has always been great. I mean, I have to say, you know, in high school and both at Harvard, they really care about you. But, you know, the stories I hear from a lot of NFL players that are involved in our studies are pretty horrendous in terms of, you know, coaches trying to push them back into games and not giving them, you know, time to be evaluated or the full knowledge of their injury so they can go back in there.
I mean, there is that undercurrent of coaches doing the wrong thing. And most of them do the right thing, but some really don't care about your health and more care about wins and losses and their salary.
CONAN: Do you think it helps when there's a, you know, a renowned case like we saw with Tim Tebow, and anybody who follows football saw that hit on TV. And now we're watching his coach and the doctors evaluate him and see if he's getting ready to go. His team, I think, has a by-week this week. They're not playing. So they're seeing if he can be ready to play a big game against LSU next weekend.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Yeah, it's great for raising awareness, and actually, you know, it's funny this happened the way it did. Three years ago, Chris Leak, who was their quarterback back then, had a concussion in a game. I wrote an article about it for SI.com because Chris Leak got blasted in the middle of a game, ended up - was clearly dazed, went - you know, started playing terribly, started having to call time outs for no reason because he couldn't remember the plays, yet they never took him out. Or they took him out and they evaluated him and they gave him Tylenol on the sidelines for the headache he had, and they let him keep playing. This was only three years ago.
And he came out of the game and told the media I was dinged up out there, which means he had a concussion. And then Urban Meyer freaked out and said no, no, he didn't have a concussion. You know, he's fine. It wasn't our fault. We did everything right. And I think he's learned his lesson, and now he's saying mostly the right things. He's not saying everything right, but it's a big change from three years ago.
HAMILTON: I think a lot of people are watching the Tim Tebow case because they're looking to see whether he is going to be put back in for that next big game. And a lot of the, you know, neurosurgeons of people who treat these injuries think that two weeks is not a lot of time to recover from a head injury like this and that, in fact, if you're knocked out, it might be wise to be out for a number of months.
CONAN: Let's get Mara(ph) on the line. Mara's calling from Boulder in California.
MARA (Caller): Hi. I'm just calling to say that I was a former sports journalist, and I grew up around football, my brother being a pre-collegiate player who was pretty highly ranked, spent many days in the hospital. And my father, who was on practice teams, has now had his ankles replaced, knees and all that. And so I'm actually encouraging my boys to do other sports, a little safer sports like fencing.
CONAN: You wouldn't think playing with swords would be safer, but of course, their tips are rounded. And how are they responding, Mara?
MARA: You know, they're fine with it. We've talked about my brother compound-fracturing his arm. One of our good family friends is a trainer for an NFL team. They get to hear the stories of what really goes on, and they're pretty fine with it.
They are being told ahead of time, though, that, you know, these former NFL players are having autopsies done. Their brains are literally shredded, and they definitely don't want to be going that direction. So simply talking to them, and they're still pretty young at this point, is helping to discourage them from going into that sport.
But it's tough for me because I grew up in a world where if you didn't play football or if you weren't great at sports, you really didn't have a whole lot going for you.
CONAN: Christopher Nowinski, I wonder, I don't know whether you have children, but if you have a son, would you encourage him to play football?
Mr. NOWINSKI: You know, I don't have children right now. So I'm very happy I don't have to make that decision anytime soon. You know, really - we are really pushing to reform the game so that it is safe to play again. I mean, we have to remember that the game has involved incredibly over 100 years. And at various times, it's been a lot more dangerous. They nearly banned it in 1905 because so many people were dying. And I think it's another time to reform it. I mean, if it was the game today, if I had to choose today, I would say - I'm going to push him towards basketball.
CONAN: Mara, thanks very much, and good luck.
MARA: Thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Here's an email from Terry(ph). It's very cultural. If there weren't crashes, no one would watch NASCAR. Even as a former high school ATC, there was a pressure to overlook symptoms and get the athlete back into the game, whether it was football or not. But all sports have risks.
And Jon Hamilton, as we heard from our friend the soccer player-skier who had a fine time in football and injuries in others sports, there is risk, whatever you do.
HAMILTON: Indeed. I mean, there's a huge sports literature - medical literature on sports about injuries in various sports. And, certainly, when you look at knee injuries, soccer is way up there. And there are lots of risks in other things. If you ever go to an orthopedic surgeon, I mean, you'll hear him and talk about ballet dancers. You'll hear about some major orthopedic problems.
CONAN: But Christopher Nowinski, making the game safer, how do you do that?
Mr. NOWINSKI: Well, you - it's a multi-strategy issue. I mean, we really push for education. So the concussions that do happen actually do get diagnosed and managed properly so that you have actual less brain damage, hopefully.
CONAN: And we've heard about people establishing a baseline so that they can then do another test later to see if there's been damage.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Absolutely. And you mentioned the penalty, the one-game suspension for helmet-to-helmet hits. That's a big deal. And that needs to be even more enforced, because those helmet-to-helmet hits are very dangerous. Then when you move away from the head and you're talking about the rest of the body, I mean, what we're doing to ourselves by getting, you know, guys over 300 pounds when they're 16, 17 years old and that way for a long time. I mean, I remember when I was in college and I got up to about 290 and had to go to on high blood pressure medication for the rest of my college career. And it was very strange to be young and healthy and on that. And so, you know, cardiovascularly, there's an issue there, as well. So, you know, that - we might have to have smaller people somehow. Weight limits? Who knows?
CONAN: Here's an email we have from John in Overland, Texas. Being a former high school and college football player, I can attribute many of my physical health problems from the game. Multiple concussions, broken bones and both knees completely reconstructed have set me up with problems now and a very pain-filled future. Too much emphasis is put on sports, this game in particular, but not enough information is given to participants about the possible damage that it could be done to their bodies and minds. Oh, yeah. Did I mention I'm only 27 years old?
We're asking how dangerous is football? Our guests: Jon Hamilton, NPR science correspondent, and Christopher Nowinski, author of "Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis" and co-director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy - I'm going to get that right someday - at Boston University's School of Medicine.
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And let's go next to Evan, Evan calling from St. Louis.
EVAN (Caller): Yes, hello. Specifically, I grew up in St. Louis playing soccer, so this is not specifically a, you know, a football question. But as a coach - now I coach in St. Louis and I coach elementary-age soccer players. And it's not uncommon to have a collision on the field. If it does involve somebody bumping heads, as a coach, what can I do to assess the situation? Is it just a bump, or is it - how do I know if we're talking about potentially a concussion? What's the proper thing for a coach to do…
CONAN: Christopher?
EVAN: …taking care of his players from the sideline?
CONAN: Christopher Nowinski?
Mr. NOWINSKI: That's a great question. It would help if you trained your kids in a pre-season to understand what the symptoms of a concussion are so they can tell you. Because if you're - you know, with our coaches education that we do at the Sports Legacy Institute, we're really training coaches not to diagnose concussions but to be able to recognize them and get them to a medical professional. So the idea is if you suspect there's a concussion, if they're acting any differently, if they're - if they complain of headaches or dizziness or confusion or they seem unsteady or they have that dazed look in their eye, you get them off the field.
And the latest guidelines - which were just updated in Zurich in 2008 -is they don't return back to the same game. And then you shouldn't be sending them back until they are signed off by a medical professional, whether it's a doctor or an athletic trainer.
CONAN: So, err on the other side of the caution, in another words.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Always err on the other side of the caution. And make you're educated on what the signs and symptoms are so you can recognize them.
CONAN: Evan…
EVAN: I can take you one step further, then. I mean, at that point, should I be saying, okay. You know, Steve, he was, you know, bumped on the - just to make an example - and then I take him to parents and I'd say, it looks to me like - I'm guessing, but potentially this could be something more than just a bump. You need to take him to the hospital or something. Is that - I mean, I want to follow through. I just don't want to - I want to be more proactive than just deciding that he doesn't play in the next game. Do you know what I mean? I…
Mr. NOWINSKI: Right. That's a great question.
EVAN: …want proper (unintelligible). So what should happen?
Mr. NOWINSKI: So, if you - if it's an emergency situation, so there are certain standards - and you can get them on the CDC's Heads Up Web site, which I recommend everyone going to who's involved in sports, and distributing their materials. But there's a list of things to look for, to send them to emergency room, whether it's being knocked unconscious, whether it's vomiting, whether it's symptoms getting worse overtime. There's many. And that's the emergency room situation. You should definitely be involved in that personally. If it's not…
EVAN: So that's what we're talking about, some pretty specific symptoms. It's - this isn't something that's really elusive to diagnose.
Mr. NOWINSKI: You know, it would depend on - I mean - I have to -remember that I'm not a doctor, so I'm just passing along the information that I - am shared by my doctors. But regarding the standard return-to-play, if it's not an emergency room situation, you really do have to be dependent on the parents to go to the doctor, and then you have to hope that the doctor's well-trained. One of the big problems with this issue is that not every doctor is up to speed on the latest guidelines because they've change so much recently.
Mr. NOWINSKI: So there's - no. I'll stop.
HAMILTON: Just one thing I would add to that is that one of the things that's tough about concussions is that you cannot just do a CT scan or an MRI scan and see it the way you can with bleeding in the brain or some other conditions. So you need somebody who is trained to look for the symptoms of it, and that's how it's diagnosed, not by some magical test.
CONAN: Evan, thanks very much for the call.
EVAN: Thank you.
CONAN: All right. Bye-bye and good luck. And we have this email from Danielle in Moses Lake, Washington. Don't forget the fatalities: Spokane Valley Christian High School just lost a player last weekend, Andrew Swank, 17. He was hit hard on the field and died later in the hospital. A terrible tragedy.
And, well, Christopher Nowinski, she's right. We can't forget that there are people who die in these situations from time to time.
Mr. NOWINSKI: No. I mean, it's a terrible tragedy to have. You know, it seems like a few kids every year just from head injuries are dying, playing high school football. And many of other die from heart ailments and other issues, overheating now. And so we do have to remember them. I actually spoke with some of the staff at that school in Spokane. And, you know, there - you know, the place is just - it's terrible. It's sad. Everybody's worried, could I have done something differently?
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
Mr. NOWINSKI: And, you know, in some cases, unfortunately, you can't. I mean, actually, there's a kid in my high school. My coach's son died from second impact syndrome. He - Kurt Thyreen. He was - he got a concussion on a Friday night game. Nobody knew. Actually, his teammates knew. So he was in the band, blowing the trumpet. He couldn't blow the trumpet in band class all week, but no one told the doctors, so they let him play the next week. And he died on the field.
CONAN: Chris Nowinski is the author of "Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis," co-director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy - I think I got it right…
Mr. NOWINSKI: You got it.
CONAN: …at Boston University - see, I can learn - at the School of Medicine. He joined us from member station WBUR in Boston. Thanks very much for your time today.
Mr. NOWINSKI: Thank you.
CONAN: And Jon Hamilton, we'll let you get back to the science desk. Appreciate your time.
CONAN: Coming up: Juliette Lewis.
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Carley? :(
Was it Drama?
Was it planned from the beginning?
Was it budget cuts?
Was it a short straw draw by the VAs?
Who would really know this answer?
Do we really want to know the answer?
Personally, I think the entire story was set in stone before they even started coding.
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• Carley is dead.. Move on
Now to the question. TT obviously know what they're doing if killing off one character can cause this outrage. To me this is a win for them, so I think it was planned.
• Nah, I actually thought they've expected grieve rather than outrage.
• I was as upset as most about Carley's death, and if anything it has taught me not to get too attached to the other characters in the group. This is a protective mechanism; it's very common in the human experience- think about warfare. Quite often veteran soldiers wouldn't bother to get to know the replacements sent to their units as they would probably get killed anyway, and the repeated trauma of losing close friends will eventually affect you psychologically and will hurt your chances of survival in the long run.
My Lee made the plan with Clem to leave the group- Kenny is a broken reed, and Christa (I believe) made a comment that left me thinking that the group is not always the best idea. Ben? At best, utterly hopeless and at worst a gutless turncoat douchebag. Chuck? A big question mark.
It's gonna have to be some sort of Rambo-esque Michonne type walker-killing warrior maiden to make me forget Carley. She was the best, and I don't expect another to come along with her timing. marksmanship and loyalty.
So get used to characters dying. It's a huge shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite.
• I wanted to believe it!!
But do you believe that the shot did not kill her! What happens then? Gets her unconscious on the road, shot in the face in a world full of zombies.
The chances are very very very small!!
But I also wanted her to be alive.: D: D: D
• They needed to kill her. It was planned and it's good that she's dead. I mean it's how shit goes, TWD Kills youre favorites. Deal the fuck with it, It's TWD, What did you expect? she'd last till episode 5? No. Never.
• Ironically, it was probably planned before people actually got Episode 1... the fact she was a favorite was just an added bonus for TTG.
• @dubesor said: Naw, that's not the reason. Otherwise they would only kill carley but let doug live. Doug was an OK guy, but clearly not as likable as Carley or the other likable characters (Clem, Mark..)
IMO the reason they killed both doug and carley is to not have to do double work for EP4 and EP5. So far they had to make dialogue and cutscenes etc for both characters depending on who you choose to save.
Killing both of them was the cheapest way to save time+money.
But at the same time, if carley lives and Doug dies everyone who picked Carley would feel cheated because they would have essentially made a "wrong choice" in a game where there are no wrong choices. If Carley was to die at some point, Doug had to die near there as well.
That's what adds to the drama and the tension of The Walking Dead, anyone can die at any time for any reason. You're never truly safe, just safer.
• I think a lot of it is to challenge the level of comfort that most of us had built up with the original group. There was no-one more clear to contribute to that comfort than Doug/Carley. They were the one you CHOSE to save, and they have always followed you unquestioningly.
One other thing I see from the Doug/Carley death was that sometimes the obvious doesn't always occur. One would ASSUME that Lilly would have pulled the gun on Kenny or Lee, or someone they care about, for retribution regarding her father. The unintended consequence of acting brashly was that a good person died.
• @winner said: http://http://
you dont understand Carley is alive becouse this film show clearly she got
shot in the left cheek if you see carefully this film film show carley is alive
and this link show more peaple tell Carley must back to the game
So many things wrong with this statement
[*]Being shot in the cheak does not mean she lives. That is still fatal
[*]She got NO medical attention, she would bleed out
[*]She doesn't even know where the group was headed! They decided to go to savanah AFTER she was left behind.
[*]She is unarmed so any walkers would kill her
But go ahead and stay in la la land, tell me how the chocolate milk made from unicorns tastes!
• Let me explain to you something about storytelling. We have these things called "static" or "dynamic" characters. Characters like Kenny, Ben, and Lilly are dynamic characters, who we watch change and develop over the course of the story, as Kenny goes through the pain and shock of losing his family, or Ben as he struggles with guilt and fear of being the only survivor of his initial group and being part of another group that's barely hanging by a thread, partly due to his own actions. Lilly starts as a strong-headed woman who tries to take charge of her group of survivors, but she loses her grip as she comes unhinged and the other survivors just don't want to put up with her, and by the end of episode three she's scared and alone, having betrayed or been abandoned by everyone she should have been close to.
Carley, by contrast, is a static character. She does not have a character arc or any significant development. She's a supporting character: a likable figure who, while she's part of the story, serves as a voice of reason and morality in the bleak, inhumane world of The Walking Dead. She mainly serves to give Lee a vote of confidence in episode 2 and to provide him an impetus for his own development in episode 3 via the whole "you should be honest about your past" thing, which is also part of the episode's overall theme about coming to grips with reality (mainly with what Chuck says about Clementine's chances of survival or Kenny needing to overcome his denial about Duck). This isn't to denigrate her characterization, but she is what she is - a static, supporting character. Larry and Mark are also static characters.
This is why your "well they could've just killed any of these other characters" thing falls apart. I'm not even going to bother with your wacko "SHE'S TOTALLY NOT DEAD GUYS" shtick. Hell, I probably shouldn't have even typed that mass of crap up, you're probably just screwing around.
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Before Ronda Rousey became the face of women's MMA, Canada's own Sarah Kaufman was widely considered the pound-for-pound best female fighter in world.
That wouldn't last—the popular Rousey continued to rise undefeated through Strikeforce while Kaufman dropped a featherweight title defense to Marloes Coenen and a bantamweight championship bout to Rousey just three fights later.
Now, Kaufman has to make her comeback at Invicta FC 5, but still wants to angle for a rematch with Rousey.
During an interview with the MMA Underground, Kaufman talked about her previous win over potential Ultimate Fighter 18 coach Miesha Tate and where she wants to go if she notches a win on Friday in Kansas City:
100% I want Ronda Rousey. I will continue to put on exciting fights and beat my way back to the top. Women (and the 135lb division) in MMA are in a great place right now. We have the UFC, Invicta, Bellator, and other organizations all putting on some amazing fights. I want to continue to be a part of that growth and push the boundaries even further. Miesha Tate was also fun to punch in the face. I'd love to get that opportunity again, but this time, finish her before the final bell!
Kaufman previously defeated Tate in her May 2009 Strikeforce debut by unanimous decision, but the two fighters are in very different places nearly four years later.
Both women would eventually lose title matches against Rousey, though, with Kaufman falling prey to an armbar in just 54 seconds.
Tate would rebound a win in her final Strikeforce bout and a UFC contract, where she's currently scheduled to fight Cat Zigano at the upcoming TUF 17 Finale in Las Vegas on April 13.
That match will be the second-ever female fight in UFC history, set as part of the event's main card.
Whoever wins that fight will go on to coach opposite of Rousey in the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will include a mix of male and female bantamweight fighters—a rare first in the show's eight-year history.
Rousey and Tate are noted for having an intense rivalry, so a win for Tate could mean huge ratings for TUF and the UFC next season. Kaufman is one of the few female MMA bantamweights to have earned a UFC contract, so a victory at Invicta FC 5 might potentially start building her a solid case for a rematch with Rousey.
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Tori Spelling Wants To Be Madonna
Chatting with the rising design duo Phillipe and David; a more serious Tori reading.
Picture a stage that looks like a giant clam shell, and fill it out with presenter Pat Field arriving on a barge dotted with hot slave boys and Katy Perry entering on a mutant seahorse to sing two songs, as models and mermaids flap around the runway while paparazzi of many nations click away.
No, you haven't been slipped a mickey. It's all very much "for reals" and is happening at the LIFEball, the May 16 AIDS benefit in Vienna, which will open with the above-described show, courtesy of rising New York designers Phillipe and David Blond, a/k/a the Blonds, i.e., the sort of nouveau Heatherette.
Those two are ornately interesting works unto themselves. Phillipe Rollano was born in Puerto Rico, where his father noticed he had a flair for dressing his Barbies, so he encouraged him to pursue fashion design. (Is Dad gay? "No," Phillipe told me, "but he was a hippie.") The style-savvy Puerto Rican boy ended up going to FIT, doing illustrations, and hooking up with David Trujillo, who shared his obsession with all things blond and sparkly (like, eventually, each other). David happens to be from Key West, where his mother didn't notice they were living in a gay mecca, but he certainly did, going on to design department store windows en route to his mission of bringing '80s high glamour back to the future. (The Blonds' high god is Thierry Mugler, and David feels he'd have to be hosed down if he ever got to meet him. Probably with sparkles.)
Toothsome twosome: Phillipe (left) and David Blond
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Toothsome twosome: Phillipe (left) and David Blond
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Mama has his own blog!
Together, the Blonds create eye-popping clothes dotted with stars, chains, and sequins for the likes of Rihanna, Madonna, Shakira, Fergie, Britney, and even some people with two names. Over Moroccan tea the other week, they treated me to a whole other bunch of blond observations and revelations.
MM: Let's start with the clichéd question about how you kids met. PB: It was on my prom night over nine years ago. I ditched my prom to go to the Roxy. I was with my best friend, whom I had dressed for the night. I put her in hoochie vinyl pants and hooker shoes. DB: Phillipe was in a sheer top with crystals all over it. I was a little tipsy, so all I remember is a sparkly fairy in the corner.
MM: Happy anniversary. But I hear you have some vicious fights, no? PB: Yeah! It's very healthy. Anytime you're doing something creative together, living together, and spending all your time together, you fight. It never bothers me, but it bothers him all the time. Just as long as I have time to get ready. DB: As long as he can do his hair. MM: Do you get off on the fights in a way? DB: You mean, sexually? PB: Well, the best part is when he pulls my hair. (Pause.) No, we never fight like that. Only on Tuesdays.
MM: Phillipe, when I first started seeing you around, you were so gorgeous I assumed you lived as a woman. DB: This is his year before he makes the transition (joking). PB: It's fun to express yourself as your vision. It's just me. I have an obsession with shoes, and I love my clothes and love wearing them. DB: He keeps his name, and he doesn't even wear drag tits. MM: But you must get hit on like crazy by married men with manboobs. DB: I notice him getting hit on a lot, and Lord knows I'm not getting hit on very much. PB: 'Cause you're usually hitting on people. But, yeah, there are always all these men from Connecticut on Facebook who like me. I read the e-mails all day and laugh.
MM: Do you boys open up your relationship via Manhunt? PB: No, we don't. Not on Manhunt anyway. (Awkward pause.) No, we usually don't discuss that. But back to the LIFEball! MM: Um, OK. Do your celebrity customers pay you for the sparkly pieces you supply? PB: Some of them pay, but sometimes it's for free. DB: Don't say that! You have to be clear. When we've already made something and they'd like to borrow it, we lend it for the publicity. But when someone wants something custom-made, they pay. Don't say, "Some people get it free because we like them." That'll start trouble. PB: Shut the fuck up. DB: Be careful when you talk about shit like that! (Pause.)
MM: Back to the LIFEball? No, wait. What do you guys think of Michelle Obama? PB: I think she's so beautiful. I'm glad she's so fashion-forward. DB: Everyone keeps calling her a black Jackie, but she's her own person. PB: She's glamorous. Trying to be. DB: Don't say that! PB: What? She's doing it! DB: If he was in charge, she'd have an 18-inch waist with a corset!
And on and on, with every topic ending with me laughing and ducking for cover. But don't be disturbed by the cross-talk. For the Blonds, it's obviously become a productive way to communicate and collaborate.
We wrapped up with a discussion of '60s starlet Julie Newmar, who told the guys she ritualistically strokes the leaves of the roses in her garden. "I love people that live in the pink-lens world," said David, misting over. I joked that I stroke my roaches, which led to yet another Blonds tussle—this time about whether they have roaches. David agreed with me that Phillipe probably sees them as sequins: "Little pailettes running across the floor . . ."
Tori! Tori! Tori!
Blonde scion-turned-reality-star Tori Spelling came out of her pink-lens world to promote her book Mommywood at a Rouge Tomate party, where she told me that being a celebrity mama isn't all bangles and pailettes. The biggest challenge? "Finding the balance," said Tori, "especially since my two-year-old, Liam, is in his terrible twos. Most mothers deal with tantrums quietly. For me, all eyes are on me."
While mine were on her, I managed to ask Tori whether she thinks Madonna is Mother of the Year or just a big mofo. "I saw a picture of her and Lourdes holding hands," she replied, glowing, "and I thought, 'That's amazing. I hope Stella and I are like that when she's 12.' " I hope I'm invited to Lourdes's inevitable book party.
Blonde women in black dresses filled the top-floor lounge of the Cooper Square Hotel—along with me in flip-flops and three pairs of socks—all of us united in a lust to check out anything new while bagging some pass-alongs. The hotel—right across from the Voice office—is a tall glass-and-steel structure that looks like a giant suppository. I told that to owner Klaus Ortlieb, but he corrected me: "It starts narrow, then widens, then gets narrow again. It's actually shaped like a face." And this roof deck is the scalp? "The brain," he advised. Aha! And, fortunately, Ortlieb has one. When I asked him who he's targeted as customers, he said, "People in the creative arts. Thank God I didn't go after Wall Street!"
The creative arts community converged for the Tribeca Film Festival opening attraction: Woody Allen's Whatever Works, which breaks the curse of his New York films and means he doesn't have to live in exile anymore. Sure, it's the usual Woody premise—hot, young blonde girl is crazy about a bald, neurotic old Jew, duh—but it's fairly hilarious in its fluffy, optimism-posing-as-misanthropy way, and it even suggests that God is a gay decorator. And that's enough gay decorators for one column.
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Cocker was famous for both his unique voice and for a soulful style of singing that made it sound like he was pouring his heart out when he put his unique touch on hits such as "You Are So Beautiful."
David Greene talks to James Dwyer, a columnist for The New New Times, about what's behind the rift between New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the leadership of the police union.
A woman in Scotland was driving home from shopping when she saw a bird on the road: green body, red head. It wasn't a parrot. It was a Christmas hat.
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2011 NFL Draft: Why Cam Newton's Pursuit of Icon Status Isn't a Bad Thing
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In the words of Scooby Doo, "Ruh-roh."
It is understandable, albeit slightly contradictory to the nature of professional sports, that a statement such as that caused the reverential stares at Cam Newton to regress into worried glances.
After all, words such as “entertainer” and “icon” indicate a desire to broaden his celebrity to where he appears on magazine covers as much as SportsCenter.
It implies he wants to date celebrities and hang out in LA. It implies that he’s already preoccupied with expanding his value off the football field before he’s even proven worthy of playing on one at the professional level.
Players like Chad Ochocinco, who are viewed as more diva than diehard, are what scouts imagine when they hear “entertainers.” Win or lose, it doesn’t matter, just as long as everyone enjoyed the show.
Guys such as the aforementioned Ochocinco or Shaquille O'Neal, Terrell Owens and Ron Artest all exemplify that attitude and have subsequently had their values drop below what they should be simply because they weren’t worth the headache.
But the point has to be made that, despite the sacred nature of football, despite the Die on the Field attitude showcased by certain gridiron warriors, despite the spiritual attachment small markets like Green Bay have with their team and despite the cultural impact the Super Bowl championship-winning Saints had on a still recovering New Orleans—football IS entertainment.
Modern sports is a world where Lamar Odom is more recognizable for marrying a Kardashian than Kevin Durant is for being the youngest single-season scoring leader in NBA history.
There is a reason Wilt Chamberlain’s legacy outlived Bill Russell’s, even though Russell was generally deemed the better of the two when they were both active, Wilt’s is, quite simply, more interesting.
Chamberlain combined an intriguing personal life with a polarizing playing style. People will discuss for hours whether he could put up big numbers in today’s league, his ball-hogging, his womanizing and how he would regularly skip his own team’s games when he was a head coach.
Or look at this next example.
Michael Vick, while not intentionally, has been followed by a media circus and whirlwind of coverage since he broke back into the NFL.
Hasn’t it also been the best possible thing for him and the Eagles?
One of the most valuable ways a player can affect his team is by keeping it relevant in the national scope. Vick started on the NFC Pro Bowl team, and he did this because America cared about him.
Vick created a situation where fans had no choice but to pay attention.
Going to jail and losing crucial years in his prime should have derailed his career, but it actually did more to enhance it than any of the seasons leading up to his arrest.
Nobody who witnessed Vick’s downfall, repentance and rejuvenation will ever forget it, not 50 years from now, even as they're trying to figure out the name of that QB that led Green Bay to the Super Bowl in 2011.
As long as audiences are tuning in, does it matter in the end whether it is just to see what touchdown dance T.O. has in store?
There is no harm in an athlete taking note that his window of relevance is extremely small compared to almost every other job, and it shouldn’t be considered wrong that he wishes to take full advantage of this opportunity, whether it be behind center or in front of a camera.
What better way for a struggling franchise to garner fan interest than using a draft pick on a controversial quarterback with a quirky playing style?
If it turns out to be an absolute failure, keep the faith.
Andrew Luck is right over the horizon.
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WHAT IS IT? Think of it as a space blanket for your gas tank.
WHAT’S IT COST? $75.35.
CONTACT? or (800) 448-1223.
WHAT’S IT DO? In the motocross world, the late Drew Lien of 100% Products gets the credit for discovering that space-age reflective foil could be used on a race bike. Drew’s idea was to apply the reflective foil to the inside of your bike’s side panel so that your muffler wouldn’t melt a hole in the plastic. This was, believe it or not, a major problem in the 1980s. Drew used the aerospace foil to deflect heat. Now, 25 years later, heat is still a problem, and motocrossers are still using Drew’s solution. The difference is that the reflective foil is being used on the underside of a four-stroke’s gas tank. A four-stroke engine produces so much heat that the fuel loses its combustibility, vapor-locks the fuel lines, or boils inside the float bowl. CV4 has come up with an aerospace solution (with a nod to Drew).
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here’s a list of things that stand out with CV4’s Fuel Kool barrier.
(1) Performance. Amazingly, CV4 already owned this market with its stick-on heat shield. Available in either gold or silver, CV4’s heat shield mat was basically Drew Lien’s old idea moved over to the gas tank. The problem was that you had to cut the foam-backed foil and stick it to your gas tank like a jigsaw puzzle. It didn’t always stick perfectly, nor did it stay in place all the time. But it worked, and every factory team used it. There had to be a better way to mount it, and CV4 found it. They sew the reflective material into a pre-shaped blanket (much like a bird cage or barbecue grill cover). It fits perfectly over the bottom of the gas tank and is held in place by Velcro strips that are stuck to the tank.
(2) Materials. The Fuel Kool barrier works as well as the old Heat Shield Mat, but with less hassle. Not only is the new design easier to mount, but it is also machine-washable.
(3) Installation. Here are some tips: First, clean the gas tank thoroughly, otherwise the Velcro strips won’t stick. Second, stretch the Fuel Kool over the tank very tightly, since it will get looser over time.
WHAT’S THE SQUAWK? Most local racers, with their less-than-15-minute motos, don’t need heat shields. Cross-country racers and Pros do.
The Fuel Kool is a five-star product for a National rider, a four-star product for a hardcore local racer, a three-star product for a play rider; and a waste of money for a poser.
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I'm planning a scenario in which my players, being a crafty lot, may try to destroy a building. Are there any rules for what it would take to accomplish that? Would a building have an AC?
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A building would have an AC, although it would be fairly low. (A city wall was described as having AC 3 in the online d20 SRD.) More importantly, the walls of the building can be described as having a certain number of hit points and a level of hardness dependent on the materials used to construct it. When figuring the damage from an attack, reduce it by the material's hardness and apply the rest to the hit points of the structure's wall. When the wall's hit points are reduced to zero, it's destroyed.
The rules for Smashing An Object and Walls will be useful here.
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Typically, however, given the usual hardness/hp for objects such as building walls, it's going to take them a while and a lot of attacks. An alternative would be to key them towards attacking x number of load bearing pillars inside the building. When they destroy x number, the building collapses. – BBlake Nov 10 '10 at 12:41
There is a 3.0 edition book called the "Stronghold Builders Guide". It will give you everything you have ever wanted to know about any building. From thickness and hardness of various walls to different kinds of doors windows and floors to adding magic to the castle. I don't know how complicated your building is but this will help with the information you need.
Type the title into google and you will find useful links like the wizards web enhancement.
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There were 807,000 hired workers on the nation's farms and ranches during the week of Jan. 9-15, 2011, up 1 percent from a year ago. Of these hired workers, 602,000 were hired directly by farm operators. Agricultural service employees on farms and ranches made up the remaining 205,000 workers.
Farm operators paid their hired workers an average wage of $11.29 per hour during the January 2011 reference week, up 21 cents from a year earlier. Field workers received an average of $10.23 per hour, up 13 cents from last January, while livestock workers earned $10.52 per hour compared with $10.31 a year earlier. The field and livestock worker combined wage rate, at $10.35 per hour, was up 17 cents from last year. The number of hours worked averaged 38.9 for hired workers during the survey week, up 5 percent from a year ago.
The largest increases in the number of hired workers from last year occurred in the Northern Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota), Northeast I (New England and New York), and Mountain I (Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming) regions. Subzero conditions and heavy snow in the Northern Plains region led to increased supplemental feeding, and early calving was under way. Therefore, more livestock workers were needed.
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I wrote this function (used later to select elite species in the genetic algorithm) to select k best values out of n, where not all n values are unique. First of all, I'd massively appreciate any comments to the code, but I'm primarily concerned with the fact that for some reason values in second vector (var2) are also set to 0. If instead of array I use list, this doesn't happen, but of course I want to use arrays rather than lists! So any comments are very welcome
import numpy
import tkMessageBox
'v1 is the vector of values from which k best must be selected for maximization problems'
class kbest():
def val_report(self,k,v1):
if k>n:
while (l<k):
'v1=numpy.delete(v1, best_now)'
'print l,v2;'
return v2
def trigger1(self):
tkMessageBox.showwarning('Wrong value','Select the correct value')
elite=kbest().val_report(3, var1);
print elite
print var2
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Format your code. – Emil Lundberg Dec 16 '11 at 0:13
There's a lot of unnecessary stuff in here. I hope someone else will answer your question, but many people (such as myself) aren't going to read something that has unnecessary complexity such as GUI code that has nothing to do with your question or commented out lines. Coding according to regular Python standards would also make this more useful. See PEP 8. – Michael Hoffman Dec 16 '11 at 0:18
sorted(v1)[-k:] – yurib Dec 16 '11 at 0:28
Much of val_report (the second through fourth lines and everything in the else block) can be replaced with v2 = numpy.argsort(v1)[-k:][::-1]. – David Alber Dec 16 '11 at 0:40
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You are just giving var1 the alias var2. They both point to the same content.
You must copy the content over to a new object.
In [1]: x = numpy.arange(5)
In [2]: x
Out[2]: array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
In [3]: y = x.copy()
In [4]: x[:] = 0
In [5]: x
Out[5]: array([0, 0, 0, 0, 0])
In [6]: y
Out[6]: array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
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The terminology here is a bit wonky, but this is exactly the issue. – Karl Knechtel Dec 16 '11 at 2:29
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Creditor has no obligation to repossess your car
Q. I have stopped paying my car note. The debt has been turned over to a collection agency. The collection agency is now threatening to sue me for the full amount I owe. I told them to come and get the car, but they refused. Do they have to take the car back when I don’t pay?
A. A creditor or debt collector is not required to repossess a car if you do not pay. The collector may have the “right” to repossess but no obligation to take the car, even if you offer to return it. For example, if the cost of the repossession is greater than the value of the car, the lender usually will not take the car. As a general rule, a party will repossess the car only when repossessing the car will have some economic benefit. I also should point out that even if the car is returned, you still might owe a substantial amount of money. After the car is repossessed, it will be sold and the proceeds will be applied to the debt. If the car is not sold for enough to cover the debt, you owe the balance. It might be that you should be glad they do not take your car.
Q. I have a debt collector calling me at work. I have told him that my employer prohibits such calls and I could lose my job. His answer was, “then you better pay me because I am not going to stop calling you.” How can I stop these calls?
A. Under a federal law, called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, it is unlawful for a debt collector to call you at work once he knows your employer prohibits such calls. If the debt collector continues to call, you would have a claim for damages and penalties. I suggest you let the debt collector know that you know about this law, and if he doesn’t stop you will immediately contact the Federal Trade Commission and a private attorney. My guess is that will end the calls.
Q. I buy lottery tickets every week. If I win the lottery, does my spouse have any interest in the money I win?
A. Assuming you purchased the ticket with money you earned while you were married, the lottery winnings would be considered community property, jointly owned by you and your spouse. The only exception would be if you have a premarital agreement saying otherwise.
Q. If a guardian is appointed for an incapacitated person, what is the authority of a second person holding a durable power of attorney. Is the power of attorney automatically revoked? If not, can the new guardian revoke the power of attorney?
A. The appointment of a guardian automatically terminates any grant of authority given under a power of attorney.
Q. I applied for an apartment and was turned down because of a 20 year old DUI. Is this legal? How long can the DUI count against me?
A. The DUI will continue to show up if someone conducts a background check. It does not disappear after some period of time. Assuming you have not had similar problems since the conviction, most people will not pay much attention to a 20 year-old DUI. There is no law, however, preventing a person from choosing not to deal with you because of a very old DUI. All I can suggest is that you speak with the landlord and fully explain your situation.
Q. Is it legal for a person to have a dog riding in the bed of a pickup truck? It seems very dangerous.
A. In my opinion, it is not a good idea to let a dog ride untethered in the bed of a pickup, but it is not illegal.
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city > Ahvaz
It's been a long, cold winter for Iranians who fell for Khomeini's lofty promises of a better future 35 years ago.
International sanctions have exacerbated the pain of the middle class struggling with high levels of unemployment.
Iran has accused the British military of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in southwest Iran, but Britain denies involvement.
A double bomb attack in the southwestern Iranian oil city of Ahvaz has left eight people dead.
Iranian police have defused a large bomb under a bridge in the tense southwestern city of Ahvaz, just days after a double bombing there killed six people and wounded more than 100.
At least 10 people have been killed and 83 injured by four huge blasts in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz and an explosion in the capital Tehran.
The days when Iranians in the south-eastern city of Ahvaz could spend a pleasant evening smoking their water pipes are numbered.
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Image text transcribed for accessibility: A switching current source is connected to a 1-mu F capacitor. The source current is at +5 mA for 1 ms. then switches to -2 mA for 2.5 ms. and then repeats the cycle continuously. Make a good quantitive sketch of the capacitor voltage as a function of time. (A quantitative sketch includes numbers - for intercepts, peak values, asymptotes, and slopes.) How would the sketch change if the current source were at -2 mA for only 1 ms? If the current source kept switching back and forth forever, what would be the eventual capacitor voltage after a very long time?
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turkeybucket 07-31-2012 02:57 PM
Evaporator Coil making strange sound
I have a 20 year old furnace and air conditioner, both Carrier. The noise sounds like water running through a pipe at high pressure/volume. Whenever the a/c unit turns on I get this noise after about two minutes of cooling (starting out soft, then getting louder) then it will stop immediately when the thermostat clicks off. This happens even with the furnace fan running continuously, ruling out the fan as the source. Is this possibly an indication of low freon in the system? I've never had it checked or had any added. TIA.
scottmcd9999 07-31-2012 03:47 PM
Sounds like refrigerant noise of some sort. Does the system seem to work okay? Is the outside unit running correctly?
IMO you'd be wise to have someone look into it. If it's an issue of coil cleaning or something of that nature, you could potentially save the compressor.
turkeybucket 07-31-2012 03:52 PM
thx for the reply! The outside unit seems fine, I do keep the coils clean. The only thing that may be different is that it seems to turn on, and stay on, more frequently. It's not really that hot out either, 84. It seems to be blowing plenty cold, but haven't measured it yet. I'll drop a thermometer in there right now and post again shortly. thx again.
turkeybucket 07-31-2012 04:05 PM
it's blowing at 55 degrees at one of the registers.
Dwillems 07-31-2012 04:34 PM
I had this noise in mine every time the system was low.
Edit: it was a carrier also. 3 ton r-22. Built in 89. I've since replaced the outdoor unit and the noise hadn't come back.
scottmcd9999 07-31-2012 05:54 PM
What's the indoor temp?
If everything seems to be running okay, then you're probably just experiencing a change in loads, which can cause odd noises at times. That said, anytime I hear liquid gurggling at the coil I think flooded coil, which often means charging issues or impending coil isues.
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Michel Platini collapses in South Africa but Uefa rules out heart attack
Uefa president fell to floor while dining in Sandton
Gérard Houllier accompanied Platini to hospital
Michel Platini
Michel Platini has been taken to hospital but Uefa officials have ruled out a suspected heart attack. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images
Michel Platini has been taken to hospital in Johannesburg after collapsing in a restaurant this evening. It had initially been feared that the Uefa president had suffered a heart attack. However, Uefa sources said he had fainted, having been suffering from flu for the past few days, and was in no danger.
Platini was dining at La Pagalle restaurant in Sandton when he keeled over at the table, knocking over a chair. He was understood to be conscious but was kept in the Morningside Medi-Clinic, a private hospital, overnight for observation.
The 55-year-old fell to the floor at around 8.15pm UK time leaving his dining companions, who included the former Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier and former Scotland coach Andy Roxburgh, calling for the emergency services.
Platini, the former France and Juventus midfielder, is a heavy smoker but had appeared in good health. He was taken to hospital accompanied by Houllier and the long-standing Fifa media officer, Alain Leblang, and was later visited by the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter. Houllier suffered a heart problem in 2001, which kept him out of the game for six months.
The Uefa official William Gaillard said: "He is fine. He had been suffering from a cold and a bit of flu and he fainted before eating in a restaurant. He is still in hospital now undergoing tests but he is conscious and is fine. It is not true that he has had a heart attack."
Gaillard admitted he had not spoken directly to Platini but had received the information from a Uefa colleague, who had accompanied the Frenchman to the restaurant. He added that the test results had shown up nothing serious.
"I talked to his assistant who was with him and it seems [he was] just fainting because he has a cold and a fever," he said. "All the preliminary exams are negative. He's conscious, he's fine. They may carry out more tests because, when a well-known person faints, they normally do that but I've been told not to worry. It's nothing serious."
On reports that Platini had suffered a heart attack, Gaillard added: "When people faint, people imagine the worst. That's a normal human reaction. I talked to someone who told me not to worry. Nothing serious. These things happen.
"It's cold there. A lot of people have a cold, the flu, they have a fever. That could explain it."
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Writers miscast Obama
I am befuddled by the opinions of some Readers' Forum writers. They belittle President Obama, ignore his accomplishments, and deny him his victories.
Are these readers so unaware of world affairs that all they can do is repeat right-wing hate remarks? Or are they so against the President that they can’t stand united behind him?
President Obama inherited a mess left by eight years of George W. Bush and his failed policies. Mr. Obama saved us from going into a depression, got us out of an unjust war, took out our No. 1 enemy, saved millions of American jobs, and made strides in green energy.
People may not always agree with his polices, but he is the President and deserves respect.
A lot of the blame has to go to Republicans, who for the past four years have concentrated on how to remove Mr. Obama from office instead of moving our county forward. Shame on them.
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Congress makes the decisions
The U.S. president cannot be a king or dictator, because our government prevents it. Who really runs this country? Congress does.
Congress makes the laws, the budget and finance committees control the purse strings, and Congress can override a presidential veto. If the budget and finance committees decide not to fund a measure, it’s as good as dead.
Those who labor under the illusion that a president is the almighty ruler need to familiarize themselves with how our government functions.
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Candidates must tell it like it is
Why don’t our presidential hopefuls quit bashing each other and admit that our country is so far in debt it would be impossible to reduce it?
We send billions of dollars to other countries so that they will be our friends. If we have to buy friendship, what do we really have?
Please, candidates, tell us the truth and quit promising to take us to the promised land.
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Romney right about 47%
The writer of the Sept. 30 letter “Romney unaware of how others live” is typical of people who regurgitate political ads.
If you listen to what Mr. Romney said about the 47 percent, he did not mean people on Social Security, veterans, or people who get unemployment benefits.
He was talking about people who are capable of working but feel they are entitled to government handouts.
He said he was not going to waste his time campaigning for votes he will never get. He was speaking the truth.
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An abortion rights blunder in Virginia?
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Eva Russo Associated Press Hundreds protest Virginia’s mandatory ultrasound law, signed into law on March 6, at the Virginia State Capitol. Two weeks ago I wrote about the abortion rights movement’s big strategic success in Virginia. Advocates had used emotional, highly charged language to rally supporters against a mandatory ultrasound law that had already passed in seven other states with little backlash or fanfare.
Fast-forward two weeks: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed Wednesday HB642, a law requiring women to obtain an ultrasound prior to terminating a pregnancy. The abortion rights movement’s strategic success could, at this point, also be read as a pretty big blunder.
How did that happen? After such a strong backlash, why did Virginia’s ultrasound law still become law? Most of it has to do with what the abortion rights movement focused its opposition on: A provision of the abortion restriction that could be easily dropped, while allowing the larger bill to go forward.
Nearly all the outrage about the Virginia law was focused on the invasive nature of the procedure: That women would likely have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound in order to determine how far along the pregnancy was. That’s the part that caught the eye of everyone from Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick to Saturday Night Live’s Amy Pohler, who blasted the provision.
Facing widespread backlash, McDonnell dropped it: On Feb. 22, he asked Virginia legislators to rewrite the legislation to ensure no transvaginal ultrasounds would be required. Some abortion rights advocates celebrated a victory, with McDonnell backing down. The opposition to Virginia’s law became notably more muted, although some protests did continue at the Virginia capitol building in Richmond. The news cycle moved on and, as you can see in this graph, Google searches for “Virginia abortion” dropped off significantly:
The protest died down, but the abortion restriction was not halted. The legislature followed through on McDonnell’s request. They wrote a bill that would still require ultrasounds, but only those performed externally. They passed it. And, on Wednesday, McDonnell passed it.
Abortion rights supporters say the final version isn’t less restrictive than what they were up against initially, in that it still requires an ultrasound prior to an abortion. “It’s not any better than what they introduced in the first place,” says Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state legislation for the Guttmacher Institute.
Abortion opponents have, meanwhile, celebrated the new restriction. “Abortion advocates engaged in a vicious campaign of misinformation against a proposal that would require a life-saving ultrasound test before giving women an abortion-inducing drug or an abortion procedure,” Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest said in a statement. “Ultrasounds are the gold standard of medical care, and women deserve to have such testing.”
The abortion rights movement did have a victory in Virginia in terms of mobilizing its supporters in a way that didn’t really happen in 2011, a year when a record number of abortion restrictions passed. But that didn’t get advocates all the way to their end goal: Blocking new abortion restrictions from coming into effect.
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Kids Today Still Dressing Slutty; Kimora May Be Partially To Blame
We have written time and time again about kids nowadays dressing like streetwalkers. What's weird is that young celebs are, suddenly, dressing more and more like old women. (Seriously, what's with Blair Waldorf and all her blazers on Gossip Girl?) Anyway, some older stars are still dressing skankily, and they're setting a bad example. In segment on the weekend edition of Good Morning America a "real-life mom," Celia Rivenbank talked about her book, entitled Stop Dressing Your Six-Year Old Like A Skank. Of inappropriate clothes, Rivenbank says, "The moms are buying it, the dads are buying and maybe on some level the parents think, 'Oh that's cute, that's harmless, that's innocent' — but I don't think it is... [And yet] There's no reason that your child should be deprived of the fashion." Um, really? They're children. They don't know what fashion is. Seriously. And as a result, they won't even know what you're "depriving" them of it. GMA interviewed little Venus Melvin, age six, who is in danger of being "deprived." Guess what? Her fashion icon is Kimora Lee Simmons.
"She is really creative and she knows how to handle fashion," Melvin says. Does any kid know who Kimora Lee Simmons is on their own? And if you expose your child to Kimora, shouldn't you prepare to deal with the repercussions? Forget about "stop dressing your six-year-old like a skank." Shouldn't you stop letting your six-year old worship a drag queen-esque woman who invented the word "fabulosity"?
Are Young Girls Dressing Too Revealingly?
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wowee, 350-450k. big money. print's not that big though. didn't he print that up to 30x40 or some awful size? Heard on KFI recently that this is the kind of thing that rich folks are "investing" in, art, and tangible objects. To me its smart, as long as it appreciates in value over time.
btw, steve mccury's AFGHAN GIRL (cibachrome is in there as well)
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Waiting, wanting, wishing... or wasting time?
The new iPhone wait. Waiting with the iPhone.
The new iPhone is looming, right? Current iPhone models are not being restocked or are 'sold out', buzz is being generated. It's a different kind of buzz than last time around though. There aren't 'leaked' pictures, there aren't many purported leaks, or any increased amount of feverish patent-trolling to see what's coming. It seems that there won't be a ground-breaking paradigm shifting this time around, right?
On the larger vein of waiting, though, I'm a pretty impatient type. A bit ADHDtoo. But you know the type of person I'm talking about: people who are ready, willing and able to wait for something for a finite amount of time. Not talking about waiting for iPhone 2.0 but more about waiting in a line, for a table, for a movie to start, at the DMV, etc. Moving to California from the Midwest a few years ago taught me how Californians are supposedly so laid-back. In realty, we all have just gotten used to dealing with the large amounts of people who live here and that things take longer here than they do in other parts of the country. Here, you have to learn to wait in line for everything, parking, coffee, food, etc., it's part of the deal.
Of course, there are plenty of ways to alleviate waiting, cell phone calls, reading a magazine/newspaper, staring off into space. So instead of wasting time in the waiting line (ala Zero7), having the internet on the iPhone (or similar devices), especially in Starbucks with their free Wi-Fi now makes the wait, for me at least, seem much shorter. For me, a wait evaporates with a quick check of the NYTimes, Facebookor of email. If the internet connection or if EDGE is slow, however, the wait seems even more interminable. While I distract myself from the wait with web-safaris ala Safari, there are others who isolate themselves off from the rest of the world with their iPods or and others who subject the rest of the world to a potentially inane and ceaseless cellphone call. Whatever the poison, passing the time away in a waiting line may no longer be a time where you can meet new people or see new things if we're distracted by our own PDAs. Is that even more of a waste of time?
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#77 - CatholicPriest (09/10/2013) [-]
what the pedestrians saw
what the pedestrians saw
User avatar #146 to #77 - alltimetens (09/10/2013) [-]
The person that made this gif had to go through the pain of going frame by frame, carefully removing the bike from the photos.
User avatar #149 to #146 - biggydy (09/10/2013) [-]
And he made a masterpiece. I salute that guy, he is an hero.
User avatar #150 to #149 - alltimetens (09/10/2013) [-]
I don't know if that "an" was put there intentionally.
User avatar #151 to #150 - biggydy (09/10/2013) [-]
It was.
User avatar #152 to #151 - alltimetens (09/10/2013) [-]
Figures. There is a meme that was made after some kid committed suicide over his iPod. His family/friend wrote an article with horrible grammar, calling him "an hero"
User avatar #153 to #152 - biggydy (09/10/2013) [-]
I know. But still it was kind of risky to write "an hero" since many people wouldn't understand and will make fun of me and/or thumb me down.
User avatar #154 to #153 - alltimetens (09/10/2013) [-]
I understand. The meme is kind of old, and there are a **** ton of newfags.
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Thanks for clearing it up for me! I was wondering if this was indeed this.
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Howard Ain, Troubleshooter: Confusion Over Investment
CINCINNATI (Howard Ain) -- Many baby boomers are looking for a steady source of income during their retirement years.
Some turn to annuities, but you have to check everything carefully before you sign up. Annuities can provide a steady stream of payments. But there are a wide variety of things you need to consider.
That's what Ron Reeves of Ross says hes learned.
"According to the contract, I invested 65 thousand dollars and its 7 percent interest and they gave me a bonus of 5,200 dollars to invest."
Reeves was given a calculator which said his annual income from the annuity would be over 4,500 dollars a year.
"And I said OK that sounds good, like 7 percent would give me a nice interest income for retirement."
So Reeves says he was shocked when his first dividend was more than a thousand dollars less. The problem? His wife, Geraldine, was added as a joint owner.
"It calculated the dividends on my wife's younger age, 8 years younger."
Reeves complained the income calculator said he'd get that higher income so he didn't understand. Another thing that led to the confusion Reeves said, is this contract specification. Yes, it does talk about his wife being a joint owner but the only age listed is his age, 73.
Reeves now offers this advice, "If they run into a situation like this have a trusted friend or a lawyer or another adviser to check it over before they sign to make sure it looks okay."
Reeves complained to his insurance agent but the problem wasn't fixed, "There's a clause in here that says if both parties agree a contract can be changed but you know they're not going to change unless I get somebody like yourself."
So I, Howard Ain, contacted the insurance agent, who notified the company and I'm happy to report his annuity has now been changed to a single contract so now hell get the higher dividend.
Before you decide on any annuity, you should consider your income needs and risk tolerance because like many investments, it can lose value. Annuities are not government insured, so make sure you're dealing with a reputable firm.
And by all means, have your financial adviser review everything before you sign up.
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Her surname suggests being mischievous and comical, and to a degree, UCLA's Rachael Kidder admitted that she is a prankster.
But once she steps on a volleyball court, especially lately, the only joke that she has played has been on the opposition.
Kidder continued her torrid postseason pace by smacking a match-high 21 kills, sending UCLA past Florida State 25-16, 25-17, 25-21 on Thursday in a national semifinal match played before 10,525 fans at the Alamodome.
The Bruins (29-6) advanced to the national final for the eighth time and the first time since 2004. They will play Illinois at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
“People always talk about my last name, like, ‘You're such a kidder,'” said the junior outside hitter, who was named the MVP of the Lexington regional after the Bruins knocked off four-time defending national champion Penn State and top-seeded Texas. “That's what I get all the time. I'm not (a kidder) when I play volleyball. I'm serious.
“I think players' mindsets definitely change in the postseason because everyone knows it's crunch time. I mean, obviously, you can't lose. So, I think that just makes people more aggressive. You definitely have a lot more drive.”
That drive allowed the Bruins to steamroll past Florida State (28-7), which was in its first Final Four.
UCLA was in control from start to finish, using a powerful and efficient attack and tough defense to prevail. The Bruins had a .328 hitting percentage, 54 digs and eight blocks. They didn't trail at any point until losing the first point of the third set.
“Obviously, the match itself wasn't as we had hoped, and was a disappointing loss,” Florida State coach Chris Poole said. “At the same time, we had a lot of wins this year and had a great season overall. Somebody's got to lose at the end, unless you win the whole thing.”
UCLA put itself in that position thanks to Kidder's attacking, the setting of Lauren Van Orden (43 assists) and Lainey Gera's defense (17 digs).
“It really feels good to just know that we worked really hard all year, and we're pretty confident the whole time,” Kidder said. “Everything we did is starting to pay off.”
It paid off big on a night when UCLA seemed to always make the crucial plays when it needed to.
The Bruins used a 4-1 run in the third set after Florida State made it 20-18, earning the first of three match points.
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Kidder had five kills to pace the rally.
“I thought when we had the intermission (between the second and third sets), we went in, talked about that we just need to keep working hard, and don't take it for granted,” sophomore Kelly Reeves said. “I think we worked really well as a team and just realized we can do this.
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Kinky Friedman
Runs for Governor
But is it good for the Texans?
Oct 23, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 06 • By MATT LABASH
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We are wayfaring, wandering gypsies alone
Looks like looking for is where we'll always be
Cursed to be born as serious souls
No one will take seriously
--Billy Joe Shaver,
country singer and spiritual adviser
to Kinky Friedman
All across Texas
When it comes to black, Kinky Friedman picks up where Johnny Cash left off. He wears a black bull-rider hat, black boots, and a black belt with a buckle the size of a Mini Cooper hubcap. Over his black pearl-button shirt, he mixes things up a bit. He'll either wear the black leather vest, given to him by Waylon Jennings, or the black "preachin' coat," cut by Manuel, the famed former head tailor of Nudie's in Nashville.
In the airy, pastel atrium of the Ambassador Hotel in Amarillo, Ma and Pa Frontporch do double takes at the breakfast buffet, pausing by the Froot Loop dispenser, saying, "Isn't that . . . " when they spy the dark rider with bandito facial hair hunched over his omelet, skimming the newspaper. Kinky looks less like a Texas gubernatorial candidate than a desperado fortifying himself to knock over a stagecoach.
As I join his table, he welcomes me warmly. I've read a stack of Kinky stories on the plane, so I know how it works: Kinky is a shtick-Tommy gun, so if you tape eight hours of interviews with him, but are looking for original material, you know you'll have to throw seven out right off the top. Most of it will already have traveled several times around the world. He's pro-recycling: He calls it "rotating the crops." And so I try to peel the onion a bit, getting right down to his raw, vital essence--not political, but musical.
Kinky (so named for his "Jew-fro," as the ladies at Supercuts call it) is most famous these days for trying to become the first independent governor of Texas since Sam Houston in 1859. For two decades prior, he was known for his 17 well-reviewed comic-mystery novels, with himself cast as the protagonist ("I'm not afraid of anything, just that I may have to stop talking about myself for five minutes," he's said). But it was as head cheese-maker in Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys that he first entered public consciousness.
Before that, Kinky did a two-year Peace Corps stint in Borneo, where he introduced the locals to Frisbee while they introduced him to betel nut and hallucinogenic rice wine. Perhaps under the influence of it, he conceived the Jewboys. When Kinky got back to Texas in the early '70s, Austin had become a hothouse for outlaw country heroes who'd said adios to the slick sounds of Nashville in order to do some honest-to-God songwriting. Cosmic Cowboys and gypsy troubadours like Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver, and other guys with two first names walked the land.
Kinky and the Texas Jewboys served as the court jesters of the movement, though they were no redneck Weird Al Yankovics. There was much more going on. Kinky lampooned bigotry by assuming the role of the bigot in songs like "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" and "Proud to Be An Asshole From El Paso." He could also pull off grim weepers, like "Ride 'Em Jewboy," undoubtedly the most haunting country song ever written about the Holocaust, even if it's the only one. "Anything worth crying can be smiled," he sang.
Because of his place in this universe, he has played, gotten drunk, or played drunk with nearly every musical hero of mine, from Levon Helm to Kris Kristofferson to the late, great Townes Van Zandt. Lyle Lovett is on his speed-dial. He has gotten baked on the secondhand smoke of Willie Nelson. Bob Dylan ate barbecue at his late parents' ranch. ("Thanks Mrs. Friedman," said Dylan, "You must be very proud of your son.") When I ask him about hanging out with Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss on the Bukowski side of Los Angeles in the early '70s, he lights up: "You know Chuck E. and the Goddamn Liars!!? [Weiss's band] Have you ever heard his 'Bad Jews in Malibu'? It's f--ing great!"
The musical revelry hits a speed bump when we start talking about his close friend Willie Nelson, whom he calls the "hillbilly Dalai Lama," and with whom he currently has a double-or-nothing wager. Willie took him for a grand on how the Iraq war would turn out (Kinky thought Bush and Blair would be "heroes"). Kinky now stands to win two grand if Joe Lieberman beats Ned Lamont--eight thousand if you count his Lieberman side bets with other suckers. Kinky's an inveterate gambler who takes "fact-finding trips to Vegas," though "these days, I'm bettin' on Texas." Still, of Lieberman, he says, "That f--er better win."
I ask him if he's heard "Teatro," some of the most achingly beautiful music Nelson ever recorded. He hasn't. So I take the CD out of my bag and try to give it to him. "It won't get listened to," he says. "I don't listen to music anymore. I think it stems from having been in so many dance halls and bars--I'm just pretty averse to it. Personally, I'd rather watch Fox News," he says. "Though I keep it muted most of the time."
Just then, a voter approaches, and takes a seat at our table as if she were an old friend. Her name is Kelly Wages, and she's voted for Republican incumbent Rick Perry in the past, but now she's undecided, like much of Texas. Perry leads the pack of four candidates, but with an anemic 35 percent, meaning that he's hemorrhaging even Republican support. "Why should I vote for you?" she asks Kinky.
Most politicians would take this as a cue to begin sucking up. But Kinky shoots me a get-a-load-of-her look and goes the reverse-psychology route. "Because I have no political experience whatsoever." (This is only partly true. In 1986, he ran for justice of the peace in his Hill Country district, promising to lower the speed limit to 54.95. He lost.)
Wages says that's precisely what she's worried about. Kinky says she shouldn't be too worried. The other candidates have 89 years of political experience between them, and Texas is fiftieth in education, health care coverage, and care for the elderly, while being first in executions, toll roads, property taxes, and dropouts, thus illustrating one of his campaign slogans: "Kinky Friedman: Why The Hell Not?" When I bring up a recent Dallas Morning News story taking issue with many of Kinky's figures, he says, "Oh f-- that lady! We're forty-third, not fiftieth--yaaayyyyy!" Wages starts laughing.
I ask Wages if he has her; I can feel her teetering. "Well," she says, "he talks some sense." She says Perry is too bullish on executions, and too negligent on health care. A little less indulgent of Wages since I'm not running for office and she's interrupted my interview, I point out that the two positions are complementary, that the more people are executed, the fewer will need health care. "That's a good point," Kinky allows.
He continues in the hard-to-get vein. If Wages doesn't want him, he doesn't want her. As a reformer, he wants to "get the money changers out of the temple," one of his frequent Jesus references. ("I'm washed in the same blood you are, brother," he tells me. "I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, two good Jewish boys who got in a little trouble with the government.") If Wages can't tell the difference between him and the other candidates, if she "thinks my style's too rough, and you prefer a dignified, self-important, pompous-ass politician," then maybe she should vote for someone else. Wages looks hurt, but intrigued. Kinky says the other candidates will try to sink him, like they do everybody, because that's what these cockroaches do. That's why someone like her, who's generally a good person, won't run for office. "They know what you've done," I assist. "It's a walk-in closet, isn't it?" asks Kinky.
After ten more minutes of this, Wages nearly has her pants charmed off. Kinky finally asks for her vote. "I'm an unemployed youth," he begs, "I need the job." (He's 61, though "I read at a 63-year-old level.") She says he's got it, and bids adieu with a lingering hug. After she leaves, he turns to me, mouthing his unlit and ever-present Monte Cristo No. 2 cigar. "She ain't votin' for us. C'mon, let's go find some place I can smoke. There could be a guy running around here in a Hitler suit, and all they'd care about is the guy who's smoking."
Smoking is one of many ways Kinky proves himself politically incorrect, a trait he takes great pride in since the obverse has contributed to the "wussi fi cation" of Texas. I ask him what other behaviors are "wussified."
"Doing interviews with THE WEEKLY STANDARD," he replies.
One of the reasons it's great fun campaigning with Kinky is that he's in on the joke. Which joke, you might ask? All of them, pretty much. He fundamentally understands how absurd it is to spend two years of your life begging people to love you, to secure a job in which half the population at any given time will hate you. I get the sense it's made him an action junkie, though he insists if he loses, he'll "retire in a petulant snit" to a life of quiet contemplation.
I ask why he does it. Because he loves Texas and hates what's happened to her, he says. And because, "I'm a dealer in hope. That's a great thing to be, the next best thing to being a mender of destinies, which is harder." Watching his rapport with people, who mob him everywhere we go, I offer that he gives people "happiness injections." He mulls it over. "Happiness injections--that's a good line," he says. "Take it," I offer. "Ehh," he says, having second thoughts, "It's kind of gay."
After two years of banging away, he's finally convinced the press that his candidacy is serious, though he sometimes confuses them, such as when he says, "F-- 'em if they can't take a joke." Or such as when he suggests Willie Nelson will helm his new Commission on Energy, which will champion biodiesel farmers' co-ops. (When critics raise Nelson's frequent pot-related brushes with the law, Kinky protests, "He's not heading the DEA.") Or such as when he lays out his Five Mexican Generals border plan (paying Mexican generals to keep illegals on their side, withdrawing money from their accounts when illegals make it through). "It's a joke," he says, "but a joke that's a good idea."
If the line is blurred, it always has been for Kinky. As he once wrote, "There is a fine line between fiction and nonfiction, and I believe Jimmy Buffett and I snorted it in 1976." (He's been off the "Peruvian marching powder" since 1985, he says, when he left New York and came back to the Texas Hill Country, which he calls "my hospital.") It might be a measure of the artifice of politics that many Texans regard Kinky, an ersatz cowboy who prefers to ride "two-legged animals" over horses, as the most authentic candidate in the race. "Rick Perry's a comedian too," says the only candidate who's been nominated this year for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, "he just doesn't know it."
As we traverse Texas, it becomes clear how uninterested Kinky Friedman is in appealing to delicate sensibilities. For instance, our driver, who is also his former keyboard player and current Bundini to his Ali, is named Little Jewford. "He's Jewish, and he drives a Ford," Kinky explains to audiences. The two, who have known each other since they were children at summer camp, are by now like an old married couple. Kinky has never married. He lives with his five dogs, "the Friedmans," and 60 or so others at his nearby Utopia Animal Rescue--he is always taking in strays, of both the canine and human variety (his current Kato is a Katrina evacuee, a street preacher and musician named Rev. Goat Carson). But he is emphatically heterosexual, saying, "I don't kiss babies, I kiss their mothers."
On their endless road trips, Kinky and Jewford feel no pressure to fill long silences. At campaign stops, Jewford keeps up an arch patter in a booming FM-DJ voice, saying things to confuse voters such as, "I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing through you," all while wearing a shimmery test-pattern sportsjacket that Kinky says is made of "Elvis's shower curtain." When challenged on his name, Jewford, a classically trained pianist, is not averse to showing doubters his Little Jewford Visa card as proof, a card he regularly whips out to pick up checks. Says Laura Stromberg, Kinky's press secretary who is also Jewish, of Jewford's lack of tightness, "He's a big disappointment to the Jewish community."
The campaign also proves unconventional in the journalists it attracts. Kinky and company are often followed by a documentary crew, Jeremy Cohen and Gopal Bidari, two talented young auteurs who work for hotshot producers out of Hollywood. They are so ever-present that Kinky took to calling them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. He then grew bored with that, deciding Cohen, who is Jewish, should be named "Jihad," while Bidari, who is Indian, should be "Macaca," in solidarity with the Sen. George Allen scandal. He's even taken to introducing them at campaign speeches as such, saying they're making a documentary on him for Al Jazeera. Jihad and Macaca have taken to their parts. They now wear nametags at Kinky's fundraisers.
In Texas, the smart money holds that Kinky has the Jewish cowboy vote sewn up. After those three voters, nobody's positive where he stands. Kinky's currently clustered about 15 points behind Perry, along with the deadly dull Democrat, Chris Bell, who has said he "could be a corpse" and still get the straight Democratic vote, a theory he seems to be putting to the test. With them is fellow independent Carole "Grandma" Strayhorn, whose two big claims to fame are being former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan's mom and being a grandma. As most people who've ever suffered through a McClellan press conference would, she emphasizes the latter.
Such polling, however, only registers likely voters. And with two independent insurgencies, a big turnout could mean lots of unlikely voters making an appearance at the voting booth. "They ain't gonna come out to help Perry," says Kinky. Dean Barkley, Kinky's campaign manager, who masterminded Jesse Ventura's victory in 1998, says Ventura was languishing at precisely the same place Kinky is at the same point in the election (around 20 percent), and that the pollsters were caught napping because of their likely-voter fetish. For contradictory evidence, the campaign will hand you a sheaf of statewide call-in and Internet polls, contests Kinky walks away with most of the time. As even Texas Monthly has stated, if every eligible voter in Texas were required to cast a ballot, "Rick Perry would be out of a job and Kinky Friedman would be governor of Texas."
With such undercurrents swirling about, it's small wonder that Bell, "a serious man with a serious plan," in his words, privately called Kinky to ask him to step aside so that the anti-Perry vote wouldn't be fractured. Kinky publicly rebuked him, saying, "We will not negotiate with terrorists."
To sop up some of these unlikely voters, we go from Amarillo to Lubbock to Austin, hitting many universities along the way. At his college gigs, Kinky comes off like your favorite crusty uncle--the one who pretends to have a heart of stone, but who'll slide you candy or a dollar or a sip of beer when no one's looking.
On the way to the stage, he keeps loose with a steady patter of Kinksterisms. He'll ask the local student body representative, "How long will this ordeal last?" or, "Has there ever been a candidate suicide?" As reporters leave him to take their seats, he'll say with utter solemnity, "Good luck out there," and he periodically revs himself up with reverse fist pumps, as though he is starting a weed-eater.
Politically, he says he's like Frank Sinatra: "I started left, and moved right." Consequently, Kinky is still fairly liberal on social issues--he's reluctantly pro-choice, and he's for gay marriage ("they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us"). Otherwise, he does a fairly convincing impression of a Republican from ten years ago, back when they still had principles: tough on illegal immigration and crime, anti-tax and pro-fiscal responsibility.
But his performances are less stump-speech, more period-piece/one-man show. Just as Hal Holbrook plays Mark Twain, Kinky Friedman plays Kinky Friedman--offering a fruit platter of Twain and Will Rogers and Uncle Earl Long, all sliced and diced and stuck in a Cuisinart. He stalks the stage, punctuating the air with his cigar, spraying the glossolalial audience with a hail of one- liners: I'm 61 years old, too young for Medicare and too old for women to care. . . . Once enough people can get biodiesel, I will trade in my own Yom Kippur Clipper. That's a Jewish Cadillac--it stops on a dime and picks it up, basically. . . . Musicians can better run this state than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the morning, but we'll work late. . . . Trust me, I'll hire good people.
After the show, as you come to think of it, the kids often stand a few hundred deep, wanting everything signed, from their shirts to their chemistry lab books--even though most of them don't know his writing or his music. He signs every last autograph at every stop--fan etiquette he learned from Willie Nelson. "I've seen him do it in the rain," Kinky says.
The university circuit, like the rest of the campaign trail, is a grind. But Kinky says the young people charge him and give him spark--they are the "wind beneath his knees," as Jewford says. He feeds on them like a hillbilly Nosferatu, giving them his phone number, telling them he needs their energy in his administration, promising them patronage jobs, as he does to Southwest Airlines ticket agents and hotel bellhops: "You'll be on Easy Street!" he says. "It's a big street," Jewford dryly confides.
As we hurtle over the flat plains of North Texas--"wandering through the raw poetry of time," as Kinky calls it--he expounds on why his outsider ethos isn't just some silly gimmick. "Common sense, common honesty--that's all it takes. That's all I've got. And sometimes I'm not sure about common sense." He mentions the Buddy Holly sound, which came right out of Lubbock. "He didn't read blogs, or see all these TV channels, or hear much different kinds of music other than R&B out of Shreveport. As a result, he came up with a really original sound. And that's because of the aching emptiness. Just the fact that he was surrounded by so much emptiness. Sometimes an original thought comes out of great expanses. Not just geographical, but spiritual as well." It's the "Cowboy way," what Texas used to be about, says Kinky, "spiritual elbow room."
After our Lubbock stand, he starts thinking about the kids again. They always promise they'll vote, but tend not to make it to the polls if, say, their favorite South Park rerun is on. He turns to me in the backseat, his black hat slung over his knee as he exhales cigar smoke. "You know, I think the young people will probably f-- us. They f-- everybody else, right?" I'm astounded and impressed by his candor. Later, I find out he gave the same line in the same place to the London Spectator two months ago.
It's two days before the only gubernatorial debate, and Kinky is highly agitated. Not because Perry has agreed to only one of six proposed debates. Or because his campaign had to fight the other campaigns in a Texas death match for Kinky to be able to wear his cowboy hat during the broadcast. "He was born with that hat," protested Barkley, who won.
Kinky is fuming because the blogosphere and his opponents are tarring him as a racist. It's a bad rap for a guy who was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, who picketed segregation, who spent his entire irreverent music career making sport of the kind of yahoos they're suggesting he is. At issue is Kinky's calling bowling balls "nigger eggs" in a club performance 26 years ago and, more recently, his blaming Katrina evacuees for a spike in the murder rate in Houston, calling them "thugs and crackheads."
He has refused to apologize for any of it, saying the first charge is preposterous on its face, since he was playing a racist in his performance, and the second charge is true, but it has nothing to do with race, and this is precisely the kind of scared-of-your-own-shadow political correctness that keeps Texans from addressing real problems, like the border crisis. "If you ain't offending somebody," he says, "you ain't getting anything done."
In a debate prep session at his Austin headquarters, Kinky's staff throw all manner of questions at him, trying to trip him with the names of obscure Texas agencies, making him explain how a bill becomes a law. It's something he says he doesn't need to concern himself with since the institutionally weak Texas governor's gig means he'd basically be less of a legislative animal, more the "most powerful judge at the chili cook-off."
And anyway, all Kinky really wants to talk about is race. As his staff drills him on issues like health care and college tuition, Kinky finally explodes, "Ask me the nuclear question about the nigger eggs!" He has the single-minded obsessiveness of the man who has been unjustly accused.
He is so bothered that he is still chewing this cud when we move on to Dallas. At the Hotel Adolphus bar, drinks flow freely enough that I, who usually lead the charge in such matters, am given the nickname "Mr. Sip-Sip" when Dean Barkley decides I'm not drinking fast enough. Kinky ratifies it, and employs it liberally ("Sip-Sip, what do you think?"). But he is still stewing, swearing blood oaths that Perry better not tangle with him on this issue. "Fact is, you're going to call the only guy with a social conscience a racist--I'm going to nail your f--ing ass."
He announces a new line he'll employ in the debate when given the chance: "There you go again, Governor, playing the race card against me. And I never played the gay card against you." Perry who is married, has suffered unsubstantiated rumors that he is gay, enough so that he's seen fit to swat the rumors down in interviews with mainstream news reporters.
The next day, at a stop at the University of Texas, Dallas, Kinky is still discussing the idea with me and a few others. Taking off my journalist's hat, I tell him that while I'm always pro-entertainment, it's a bad political play. At the very least, he has to soften "gay card" with a jokier term like "the Liberace card." He likes it. But he's not sure if "Liberace" is the right word. He calls for a strategy session. He wants suggestions, which come fast and furious: Butt Pirate, Pillow Biter, Twinkie, Tea pot. Mr. Sip-Sip (that hurts). He abandons the idea--it wouldn't be the Cowboy Way. "There's no mud on the high road," he says.
The debate is at a Dallas television station later that night. Nobody wins, and nobody loses. It is uneventful and safe. The other three candidates come off as competently blow-dried, freeze-dried, and mummified, respectively. Kinky suffers a few perfunctory scoldings on the race issue, without resorting to calling anyone a Sip-Sip. He hangs in there and doesn't embarrass himself, but he is tentative and nervous, without fire. His best line comes in the press room afterward, when he says, "I stood toe to toe . . . and I feel good. Right now, I'm still voting for myself."
Later that night, we adjourn to the hotel bar with staffers, Kinky's girlfriend just in from England, and Jihad and Macaca, who are grateful for the free drinks. Kinky admits to me that he couldn't find his rhythm. "I did all right, but it was my C game." It's too bad the voters of Texas couldn't see his A game, as I had several hours before.
We make a stop at the Reading and Radio Resource Center, an audio reading service for the blind. Kinky takes his place in a studio, while Jihad, Macaca, and I watch him through the glass of the control room. He is a guest on the Eyes of North Texas show, hosted by an 83-year-old volunteer named Adele Campbell. She is spunky and spry and gives him a workout. She mentions that he likes to refer to himself as "the Good Shepherd," and wants to know if he's equating the voters of Texas to sheep. He smiles appreciatively with cigar clenched in teeth, recognizing a kindred spirit. "Well if this is a flock of sheep," he says, "we certainly hope they turn out November 7th."
Adele asks him to read something he's written, and he picks an essay he wrote for Texas Monthly, now collected in his book, Texas Hold 'Em: How I was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, And Came Back as a Horny Toad. In print, Kinky shticks it up as much as he does on the stage, but he is a fine writer nonetheless. When he does a real piece of work, as opposed to, say, a chapter on Texas prison slang, he turns a beautiful phrase, gets in and gets out, and doesn't stop for smoke breaks.
The essay is entitled "The Hummingbird Man." It's about his father, who taught him most of what he knows, from how to belch, to how always to "treat children like adults, and adults like children." His dad, who Kinky calls "Tom," ran a summer camp for kids on the ranch called Echo Hill where Kinky still lives. He died a few years ago.
The piece starts off with advice from one of their dishwashers, a guy named Slim who "wore a Rainbow bread cap" and "drank warm Jax beer in infinite quantities." He told Kinky, "You're born alone and you die alone, so you might as well get used to it."
He didn't think much of it when he was a kid, but he's come to reconsider:
I live alone now in the lodge where my late parents once lived, and I'm getting used to it. . . . Sooner or later, fate will pluck us all up by our pretty little necks. If you have a family of your own, maybe you won't feel it quite as much. Or maybe you will. I'm married to the wind, and my children are my animals and the books I've written, and I love them all. I don't play favorites, but I miss my mom and dad.
After a reminiscence about how he and his father used to tend the hummingbird feeder, watching as the population of birds exploded, he drops the hammer:
Now, on bright cold mornings, I stand in front of the old lodge, squinting into the brittle Hill Country sunlight, hoping, I suppose, for an impossible glimpse of a hummingbird or of my mother or my father. . . . And I still see my dad sitting under the dead juniper tree, only the tree doesn't seem dead, and neither does he. It takes a big man to sit there with a little hummingbird book, taking the time to talk to a group of small boys. He is telling them that there are more than three hundred species of hummingbird. They are the smallest of all birds, he says, and also the fastest. They're also, he tells the kids, the only birds who can fly backward. The little boys seem very excited about the notion of flying backward. They'd like to try that themselves, they say. So would I.
Adele chokes up, and ends her show early. "You put me in tears, Kinky," she says. He waves her off with a line he used to dispatch hecklers when they threatened to lynch him and worse: "If we can just reach one person . . . " I'm not far behind Adele, spared only by the ridiculousness of witnessing this scene in a room with two guys nicknamed Jihad and Macaca.
After a week on the road with Kinky Friedman, I'm starting to think that the rodeo clown of the gubernatorial election has some intangibles that won't show up in likely-voter polls. He has a heart like a lion, "one eye laughin', one eye cryin'," as he says. Maybe the voters of Texas still have time to see that, and respond accordingly.
Or maybe they'll respond for other reasons, I think as I watch Kinky and Adele in the hallway afterward, him flirting with her, promising she can be the hostess of the governor's mansion, and then she'll be on Easy Street. Maybe they, like him, just need a job.
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Are there any theoretical works about possiblity of self-replication of LEGO systems? (constraints on the size etc., computer simulations)
Here are some relevent links:
Bartlab.org: PDF Document
Techi.com: Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace
Wikipedia: Clanking replicator
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It really depends on the level of self-replication you desire, and your willingness to introduce additional non-LEGO components to the process.
First off, assuming a pure solution, there is no way for LEGO blocks to produce more LEGO blocks. You can't make a mold for making an ABS plastic part out of parts made from ABS plastic.
Even if you could produce the parts, you'd still run into some problems. If you were just assembling brick by brick, you could easily replicate such creations. But as soon as you need to assemble components using technic axles or pins, there'll be some difficulties. LEGO just doesn't have pieces that are small enough or precise enough to maneuver axles and pins with any precision.
Obviously, this is simply speculation, but I fail to see a way in which LEGO elements could both manufacture and assemble all the elements to create more self-replicating systems.
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"there is no way for LEGO blocks to produce more LEGO blocks", well, not quite yet, soon though: see wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/legobot and makerbot.com/blog/tag/lego and thingiverse.com/search?q=lego&sa=Search – matt wilkie Feb 15 '12 at 18:19
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Homocystinuria and Marfan syndrome represent distinct genetic conditions that share phenotypically similar skeletal features. An overview of the current understanding of genetic and physiologic contributing to the etiology of these conditions is summarized. The focus of this review is to explore the present understanding of the pathophysiology of Marfan syndrome and homocystinuria relative to the occurrence of osteoporosis in both conditions. Osteoporosis has been reported in association with homocystinuria. However, evidence supporting an association of osteoporosis with Marfan syndrome is equivocal and sources of ambiguity are critically reviewed. Advisability and approaches to bone mineral density monitoring in patients with Marfan syndrome or homocystinuria to inform clinical management are discussed. Finally, future research foci are proposed which will improve understanding of association of osteoporosis with Marfan syndrome or homocystinuria. | <urn:uuid:512910f1-10e1-453a-80d6-2530ce20eeff> | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12018-008-9018-2 | en | 0.920185 | 0.022774 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
02:31PM | 08/18/04
Member Since: 07/03/04
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Is it possible to put a shower in where once a small tub was? Had to remove the tub because it was cracked and leaking all over.Since the drain hole in a shower would be nowhere newr where the drain hole was for the tub, I wonder. Is it possible for a plumber to slant a drain pipe from existing pipe up to meet shower hole? I can see it working in my imagination but what do I know. Would appreciate any help before I call a plumber AGAIN! Thanks, Martee
Margaret Doty
02:51PM | 08/25/04
It's unlikely you could raise the shower enough. However far over the drain needs to be is how much higher the unit needs to be plus another 4 or 5 inches for the two 45 degrees elbows.
Additionally you need a 2" drain for a shower. You can have a shower base made to fit your drain location if it's a 2".
07:13PM | 08/30/04
Member Since: 08/29/04
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A shower generally requires a 2" drain, however in some areas a shower is a 2 fixture unit fixture and can be allowed on an 1-1/2 drain if the adjustible shower drain has an 1-1/2 opening. Minnesota is one of those states, but others require a minimum of 2". I would check with your local plumbing codes. But if your shower is designed right, you can have the shower drain on the same side as the existing drain from the tub. They simply have to build a base using a rubber membrane pan and ceramic tile. I have seen it done. The key is if you can use 1-1/2.
Good Luck
Raymond VinZant Plumbing Prof.
09:26PM | 08/30/04
Prof. Ray, I'm pleased to know about the 1 1/2" shower drain allowance in Minnesota. I checked and Minnesota is one of the states the trade has lost to the inspector's professional organization, The Internatinal Code Council.
Now that you are under the International Plumbing Code do you know if Minnesota adopted out some of their weakest points? i.e. 903.1 Only one vent to the outside, 904.6 The vent can terminate out a side wall, and 917. allowing the extensive use of air admittance valves in new construction?
10:32PM | 08/30/04
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Ray, thanks for the information.I wasn't aware of all of it but I had checked into it when I had some other work done. I am now just waiting for the plumber to come do an estimate for the job. As for the message from Lonny (Lanny?), how did a message from him to you get on my thread. I actually have no idea how this all works, so it really doesn't matter. Thanks again. Martee
Margaret Doty
04:51AM | 08/31/04
I'm sorry if I participated in this site wrong. On other plumbing forums the plumbers talk back and forth about issues and area practices when a poster presents a situation.
06:49AM | 08/31/04
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Lonny, please don't apologize. Like I said in my last posting, I don't really know how this thread thing works but all information is cheerfully accepted. Ok? Martee
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and Welcome to Lonny also........
ProfPumb.......Are you still teaching've been absent here for awhile......
All conversations are welcomed ........
Side wall vents ?
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A poster on another forum asked whether he should flush his toilet or not when guests came to his door. It seems he has a toilet room right off his entrance way and by the front door. The vent comes out the wall pointed toward his guests faces.
If he flushes they get the smell in the face. If he doesn't they get it when they come in. Ha! We're not sure how these houses being built by the inspector's new Internatinal Plumbing Code will be accepted. They're more affordabile but may turn out to be real lemons.
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Verse 2. And were all baptized. In regard to the meaning of the word baptized, See Barnes "Mt 3:6".
We are not to suppose that the rite of baptism, as we understand it, was formally administered by Moses, or by any other person, to the Jews, for there is not the least evidence that any such rite was then known; and the very circumstances here referred to forbid such an interpretation. They were baptized "in the cloud" and "in the sea," and this cannot be understood as a religious rite administered by the hand of man. It is to be remembered that the word baptism has two senses—the one referring to the application of water as a religious rite, in whatever mode it is done; and the other the sense of dedicating, consecrating, initiating into, or bringing under obligation to. And it is evidently in this latter sense that the word is used here, as denoting that they were devoted to Moses as a leader, they were brought under his laws, they became bound to obey him, they were placed under his protection and guidance by the miraculous interposition of God. This was done by the fact that their passing through the sea and under the cloud, in this manner, brought them under the authority and direction of Moses as a leader, and was a public recognition of their being his followers, and being bound to obey his laws.
Unto Moses, (eiv.) This is the same preposition which is used in the form of baptism prescribed in Mt 28:19. See Barnes "Mt 28:19".
It means that they were thus devoted or dedicated to Moses; they received and acknowledged him as their ruler and guide; they professed subjection to his laws, and were brought under his authority. They were thus initiated into his religion, and thus recognized his Divine mission, and bound themselves to obey his injunctions. —Bloomfield.
In the cloud. This cannot be proved to mean that they were enveloped, and, as it were, immersed in the cloud, for there is no evidence that the cloud thus enveloped them, or that they were immersed in it as a person is in water. The whole account in the Old Testament leads us to suppose that the cloud either passed before them as a pillar, or that it had the same form in the rear of their camp, or that it was suspended over them, and was thus the symbol of the Divine protection. It would be altogether improbable that the dark cloud would pervade the camp. It would thus embarrass their movements, and there is not the slightest intimation in the Old Testament that it did. Nor is there any probability in the supposition of Dr. Gill and others, that the cloud, as it passed from the rear to the front of the camp, "let down a plentiful rain upon them, whereby they were in such a condition as if they had been all over dipped in water." For,
(1.) there is not the slightest intimation of this in the Old Testament.
(2.) The supposition is contrary to the very design of the cloud. It was not a natural cloud, but was a symbol of the Divine presence and protection. It was not to give rain on the Israelites, or on the land, but it was to guide, and to be an emblem of the care of God.
(3.) It is doing violence to the Scriptures to introduce suppositions in this manner without the slightest authority. It is further to be observed, that this supposition does by no means give any aid to the cause of the Baptist after all. In what conceivable sense were they, even on this supposition, immersed? Is it immersion in water when one is exposed to a shower of rain? We speak of being sprinkled or drenched by rain, but is it not a violation of all propriety of language to say that a man is immersed in a shower? If the supposition, therefore, is to be admitted, that rain fell from the cloud as it passed over the Jews, and that this is meant here by "baptism unto Moses," then it would follow that sprinkling would be the mode referred to, since this is the only form that has resemblance to a falling shower. But the supposition is not necessary. Nor is it needful to suppose that water was applied to them at all. The thing itself is improbable, and the whole case is met by the simple supposition that the apostle means that they were initiated in this way into the religion of Moses, recognized his Divine mission, and under the cloud became his followers and subject to his laws. And if this interpretation is correct, then it follows that the word baptize does not of necessity mean to immerse.
And in the sea. This is another expression that goes to determine the sense of the word baptize. The sea referred to here is the Red Sea, and the event was the passage through that sea. The fact in the case was, that the Lord caused a strong east wind to blow all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided, (Ex 14:21,) and the waters were a wall unto them on the right hand and on the left, Ex 14:22. From this whole narrative it is evident that they passed through the sea without being immersed in it. The waters were driven into high adjacent walls for the very purpose that they might pass between them dry and safe. There is the fullest proof that they were not submerged in the water. Dr. Gill supposes that the water stood up above their heads, and that "they seemed to be immersed in it." This might be true; but this is to give up the idea that the word baptize means always to immerse in water, since it is a fact, according to this supposition, that they were not thus immersed, but only seemed to be. And all that can be meant therefore is, that they were in this manner initiated into the religion of Moses, convinced of his Divine mission, and brought under subjection to him as their leader, lawgiver, and guide. This passage is a very important one to prove that the word baptism does not necessarily mean entire immersion in water. It is perfectly clear that neither the cloud nor the waters touched them. "They went through the midst of the sea on dry ground." It remains only to be asked whether, if immersion was the only mode of baptism known in the New Testament, the apostle Paul would have used the word not only so as not necessarily to imply that, but as necessarily to mean something else?
{a} "same" Ex 16:15,35; Neh 9:15,20; Ps 78:24,25
{*} "meat" "food"
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package DBIx::Class::InflateColumn; use strict; use warnings; use base qw/DBIx::Class::Row/; =head1 NAME DBIx::Class::InflateColumn - Automatically create references from column data =head1 SYNOPSIS # In your table classes __PACKAGE__->inflate_column('column_name', { inflate => sub { my ($raw_value_from_db, $result_object) = @_; ... }, deflate => sub { my ($inflated_value_from_user, $result_object) = @_; ... }, }); =head1 DESCRIPTION This component translates column data into references, i.e. "inflating" the column data. It also "deflates" references into an appropriate format for the database. It can be used, for example, to automatically convert to and from L objects for your date and time fields. There's a convenience component to actually do that though, try L. It will handle all types of references except scalar references. It will not handle scalar values, these are ignored and thus passed through to L. This is to allow setting raw values to "just work". Scalar references are passed through to the database to deal with, to allow such settings as C< \'year + 1'> and C< \'DEFAULT' > to work. If you want to filter plain scalar values and replace them with something else, see L. =head1 METHODS =head2 inflate_column Instruct L to inflate the given column. In addition to the column name, you must provide C and C methods. The C method is called when you access the field, while the C method is called when the field needs to used by the database. For example, if you have a table C with a timestamp field named C, you could inflate the column in the corresponding table class using something like: __PACKAGE__->inflate_column('insert_time', { inflate => sub { my ($insert_time_raw_value, $event_result_object) = @_; DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $insert_time_raw_value ); }, deflate => sub { my ($insert_time_dt_object, $event_result_object) = @_; $insert_time_dt_object->epoch; }, }); The coderefs you set for inflate and deflate are called with two parameters, the first is the value of the column to be inflated/deflated, the second is the result object itself. In this example, calls to an event's C accessor return a L object. This L object is later "deflated" back to the integer epoch representation when used in the database layer. For a much more thorough handling of the above example, please see L =cut sub inflate_column { my ($self, $col, $attrs) = @_; my $colinfo = $self->column_info($col); $self->throw_exception("InflateColumn does not work with FilterColumn") if $self->isa('DBIx::Class::FilterColumn') && defined $colinfo->{_filter_info}; $self->throw_exception("No such column $col to inflate") unless $self->has_column($col); $self->throw_exception("inflate_column needs attr hashref") unless ref $attrs eq 'HASH'; $colinfo->{_inflate_info} = $attrs; my $acc = $colinfo->{accessor}; $self->mk_group_accessors('inflated_column' => [ (defined $acc ? $acc : $col), $col]); return 1; } sub _inflated_column { my ($self, $col, $value) = @_; return $value unless defined $value; # NULL is NULL is NULL my $info = $self->column_info($col) or $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col"); return $value unless exists $info->{_inflate_info}; my $inflate = $info->{_inflate_info}{inflate}; $self->throw_exception("No inflator for $col") unless defined $inflate; return $inflate->($value, $self); } sub _deflated_column { my ($self, $col, $value) = @_; # return $value unless ref $value && blessed($value); # If it's not an object, don't touch it ## Leave scalar refs (ala SQL::Abstract literal SQL), untouched, deflate all other refs return $value unless (ref $value && ref($value) ne 'SCALAR'); my $info = $self->column_info($col) or $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col"); return $value unless exists $info->{_inflate_info}; my $deflate = $info->{_inflate_info}{deflate}; $self->throw_exception("No deflator for $col") unless defined $deflate; return $deflate->($value, $self); } =head2 get_inflated_column my $val = $obj->get_inflated_column($col); Fetch a column value in its inflated state. This is directly analogous to L in that it only fetches a column already retrieved from the database, and then inflates it. Throws an exception if the column requested is not an inflated column. =cut sub get_inflated_column { my ($self, $col) = @_; $self->throw_exception("$col is not an inflated column") unless exists $self->column_info($col)->{_inflate_info}; return $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} if exists $self->{_inflated_column}{$col}; my $val = $self->get_column($col); return $val if ref $val eq 'SCALAR'; #that would be a not-yet-reloaded sclarref update return $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} = $self->_inflated_column($col, $val); } =head2 set_inflated_column my $copy = $obj->set_inflated_column($col => $val); Sets a column value from an inflated value. 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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Royals general manager Dayton Moore was chatting with a couple of reporters in the team's hotel suite on Tuesday afternoon when a familiar face flashed on the TV. Zack Greinke.
"Yeah, turn that on," Moore said. "What's the latest?"
As it turned out, a conversation between MLB Network's Kevin Millar and Ken Rosenthal didn't reveal much. And, as it happened, neither did a conversation between Moore and the two reporters.
The word at the Winter Meetings at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort is that the Royals' asking price for Greinke -- two blue-ribbon impact players plus other red-ribbon guys -- is too high. So Moore was asked if the price might be coming down.
"In every potential deal, there's a win-win and you've got to get there," Moore said. "Where a club gets a player and an organization gets enough for what they feel is important going forward. So it's got to be a win-win for everybody."
There didn't seem to be any win-wins pending as the Meetings plowed through the second day in frigid Florida.
"If we decide to move Zack, there'll be enough for us to be satisfied if that's what we decide we ultimately need to do," Moore said. "But again, I don't know when that is -- I don't if it's here, if it's at the [July] non-waiver Trade Deadline, I don't know if it's in the [next] offseason."
The Royals' demands were known to have sidetracked at least one club -- the Washington Nationals, proud new possessors of enriched right fielder Jayson Werth. The Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays, among others, were believed to be still investigating the matter.
With no Greinke deal emerging, the Royals also seem to have nothing close to a conclusion in their search for a right-handed power-hitting outfielder. Certainly not on the free-agent front.
Such bats, including Jeff Franceour, Melky Cabrera, Matt Diaz and Austin Kearns, have been mentioned in connection with Kansas City, but Moore said the Royals are exploring trade possibilities first. And, if there is a Greinke deal, the Royals might land the outfielders they want anyway.
If they can find them, that is.
"I don't know where it snuck up on us that right-handed power bats are hard to find," said Royals manager Ned Yost. "It used to be left-handed power bats were hard to find, and now we've got so many of them, they're coming out our ears."
Indeed, lefties are all over the Royals' landscape.
"We just have to find some right-handed power to play in the outfield. Every outfielder we have, as talented as they are, swings the bat left-handed," Yost said. "So we need to find some balance because [Mike] Moustakas, [Eri] Hosmer, David Lough, all of our kids that we like a lot and think are going to be in the big leagues soon are all left-handed."
There are a few attractive free agents who are sure to bring in lucrative offers. Diaz, who played briefly for the Royals in 2005 before finding success with Atlanta, would make a likely platoonmate in left field for Alex Gordon because he's hit left-handers at a .335 pace. But, if reports are true, he's being sought after by about 10 clubs.
"There's just a few of them out there, and a lot of clubs are looking for right-handed hitters," one scout said. "And these guys could make pretty good money."
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On the Greinke front, Moore was asked how many clubs have submitted offers.
"Just the ones that are interested," he said. "I'd just say there are enough to think about."
He said again that the number of proposals on Greinke isn't any more than the Royals have scanned in previous years.
"The difference is it's more in the public, and a lot of people in the industry believe if we're going to trade Zack Greinke that now is the time, because history has shown that if you wait another year and he's got one year left [on his contract], you don't get as much, or whatever," Moore said. "But you may get more at the Deadline, I don't know."
As a reporter pointed out, the San Diego Padres waited a year on first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and seemed to get what they wanted in a trade bundle from the Boston Red Sox.
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Fully automated memory management increases productivity and integrity greatly, but usual implementation (GC) has a critical problem. It's non-deterministic, and not controllable. This causes many problems such as burst CPU load which is critical for realtime applications. Some kind of optimizations (incremental/concurrent GC) can reduce those problems but still non-deterministic and can't eliminate the problem completely.
I have been thought GC never can solve this problem, but recently, I learned and realized that GC operation doesn't need to be fully hidden. GC also can be deterministic and CPU burst-free by exposing some properly designed behavior controls.
I think (RC + manually invoked cycle detection) can do this. But this doesn't look efficient. Is there any better approach for deterministic and controllable fully automatic memory management implementation? Or can I get some link to example implementations?
I added these lines to make my question more clear.
• deterministic and controllable in this context means user can track and run code at object creation and destroying explicitly. And also controls amount and time of memory management operation load.
• fully automatic means it allocates and clears memory as like GC without extra concern.
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Let me re-phrase that.
"Is there any way I can get a memory management system which is absolutely perfect and has every desirable property?".
No such systems exist.
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The C++ RAII model gives you deterministic and automatic memory management (from the perspective of the library consumer). It's not exactly what you're looking for but it's a start. Although it is an opt-in design where you must explicitly choose to use it with smart pointers. Theoretically a library user could know nothing of memory management, and get the same automatic clean up as in Java.
Maybe a language with "forced" RAII could approach what you are looking for.
The determinism of RAII is nice because it allows you to apply the same technique for resources even more precious than memory. Such as connections and handles.
void foobar()
//connections are even more precious than memory. A leak is bad news.
Connection conn("foobar");
}//conn is automatically closed as it leaves scope. Memory is free too.
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One thing I've never seen solved by RAII automatically are cyclic references. There are weak references, but with a GC we do not need to care about those (for cycle resolution; there are other good reasons). Any thoughts? – delnan Feb 21 '13 at 18:16
RAII cannot solve cycles, it is only acyclic. However, you can add in other memory techniques- for example, on a graph class that can hold cyclic graphs, each node can be owned by the parent rather than the linking nodes. – DeadMG Feb 21 '13 at 19:53
+1 for RAII/smart-pointers. However, note that you should have at least a vague idea how they operate or you may run into problems when binding pointed-to-objects to references. – bitmask Feb 21 '13 at 20:33
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There was a description by Butler Lampson in Hints for Computer System Design (Operating Systems Review 15, 5, Oct. 1983, p 33-48) of a system that combined both an incremental collector based on automatic reference counting and a trace-and-sweep collector that could clean up unreachable circular references. The idea is that an application could rely on the incremental collection to do most of the work, then do the "stop the world" garbage collection "used during coffee breaks to reclaim accumulated circular structures."
This was, according to that paper, implemented in the Interlisp-D and Cedar programming environments. It cites the following two articles that I haven't yet read but which—Lampson claims—describe the collector in more detail:
• Deutsch, L.P. and Bobrow, D.G. An efficient incremental automatic garbage collector. Comm. ACM 19, 9, Sep. 1976, pp 522-526.
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IBM's Metronome garbage collector for the JVM is deterministic. Basically, it runs continuously in parallel with the application. You specify how much CPU time it can use, with lower CPU time values requiring a larger heap. It isn't suitable for applications that do a lot of heap thrashing, but for typical applications it supposedly works well.
Azul System's C4 garbage collector for their Zing JVM appears to be similar, but I haven't seen any technical details about how it works, so I don't know if it's fully deterministic or not.
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All memory management systems have their trade-offs. As DeadMG's answer points, you can't have everything.
Here's a quick guide to some of the trade-offs you can make, and some of the things you CAN have.
Note this isn't necessarily comprehensive, but it's a starting point on thinking about memory allocation/deallocation strategies.
1) Full bore manual - the nadir of determinism.
Upside: You decide when each piece of memory goes away. You'll never get paused by a garbage collector!
Downside: You've GOT to do all the accounting for used memory your own self. And you're likely to screw it up at some point, especially if you try to handle the cases where you need more memory and want to recover it from another part of your program on the fly.
Implemented in: C is the poster child for this one.
2) Deallocate on last reference drop
Upside: You can generally see where deallocation is going to happen, and plan for it appropriately. Since references are automatically cleaned up appropriately, you won't accidentally lose memory. If you've got compiler support, you simply can't screw up and lose memory.
Downside: If you forget or don't realize that you're dropping the last reference to a massive data structure, you can take a big hit at an inappropriate moment.
Implemented in: Perl 5, if I'm not mistaken. Also, if you use it correctly, you can emulate this in C++, though since there's no compiler forcing of it, it's not as safe.
3) Full-on GC
Updside: You don't have to deal with it. Ask for objects, they show up and get cleaned up when you're done with them. Eliminates all the hassle of accounting for memory - if there's free memory, you're good to go! By doing the deallocation in bigger chunks, this also reduces the total cost of the deallocations. If you do a lot of create/delete, that can actually be a good savings.
Downside: The garbage collector may end up locking the heap for extended periods of time. How long is a function of the implementation, but it's going to be larger than any single deallocation. More complex GC algorithms lock for less time, but at the cost of increased complexity. In general you can't do useful work based on object destruction, because the objects may well get destroyed at a time MUCH later than when it's last been used (No RAII for you).
Implemented in: Java's the GC platform I'm most familiar with. Older versions of Java had less capable GCs and bogged down a lot. Modern Java doesn't do this much unless you're doing something pathological.
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The deallocate on last reference drop is familiar to some in Objective C with retain-release. The Perl approach is transparent and less familiar because one doesn't actually have to do any explicit management of the memory. – MichaelT Feb 21 '13 at 19:52
@MichaelT - Thanks for the Objective C ref, I've never used it. I personally would like to see a Java compiler & JVM hacked to do this transparently (like Perl does). I think it might be a nice environment to program in. – Michael Kohne Feb 21 '13 at 20:05
The essence of the objective C rules can be found in interfacelab.com/objective-c-memory-management-for-lazy-people - The simplest form is if you are passed some data that you want to keep, you retain it. If you don't care about some data that you retinaed, you release it. When the reference count on an object reaches 0, it is dealloc'ed. – MichaelT Feb 21 '13 at 20:47
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It is possible to write in C / C++ your own memory manager, that meets the needs for your project. I have seen this done to solve the memory management bottleneck in a server application that had huge numbers of threads with each thread making and destroying large numbers of small objects. This app's performance was limited by a critical section in the memory manager, and was solved by threads grabbing much larger blocks of memory and managing their own objects.
It is also possible to create an application in C/C++ that largely avoids using the heap for memory allocation. The application creates large fixed size arrays of objects at start up, so then only uses indexs to the array of that object type. I believe that this was a strategy in some big name computer games back in the 1990's. It completely elminiates the problem of memory fragmentation, and with threads having their own cache of index numbers they can use, it reduces contention memory allocation.
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Name appropriated, some time before the 9th century, by the Christians of the largest group of the Non-Uniat or schismatical churches, to distinguish themselves from heretics. Originally comprising the four Eastern patriarchates, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, they were separated from the West in the schism of the 9th and 11th centuries. The Orthodox Church is subdivided into the following independent Churches, which, however, all recognize each other, and no other Christian Church, as Orthodox. The majority of them have become national churches, governed by a Holy Directing Synod and absolutely independent upon the state.
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NQP - Not Quite Perl (6) ^
NQP is Copyright (C) 2009 by Patrick R. Michaud. See LICENSE for licensing details.
This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a compiler for quickly generating PIR routines from Perl6-like code. The key feature of NQP is that it's designed to be a very small compiler (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create transformers for Parrot (especially hll compilers). In addition, unlike Rakudo, NQP attempts to restrict itself to generating code that can run in Parrot without the existence of any NQP-specific runtime libraries.
Building from source
NQP comes bundled with Parrot, so if you have a recent Parrot distribution you likely also have a copy of NQP. Inside of a Parrot installation NQP is known as parrot-nqp.
To build NQP from source, you'll just need a make utility and Perl 5.8 or newer. To automatically obtain and build Parrot you may also need a Git client.
To obtain NQP directly from its repository:
$ git clone git://
If you don't have git installed, you can get a tarball or zip of NQP from github by visiting and clicking "Download". Then unpack the tarball or zip.
Once you have a copy of NQP, build it as follows:
$ cd nqp-rx
$ perl --gen-parrot
$ make
This will create a "nqp" or "nqp.exe" executable in the current (nqp-rx) directory. Programs can then be run from the build directory using a command like:
$ ./nqp
The --gen-parrot option above tells to automatically download and build the most appropriate version of Parrot into a local "parrot/" subdirectory, install that Parrot into the "parrot_install/" subdirectory, and use that for building NQP. It's okay to use the --gen-parrot option on later invocations of; the configure system will re-build Parrot only if a newer version is needed for whatever version of Rakudo you're working with.
You can use --parrot-config=/path/to/parrot_config instead of --gen-parrot to use an already installed Parrot for building NQP. This installed Parrot must include its development environment; typically this is done via Parrot's make install target or by installing prebuilt parrot-devel and/or libparrot-dev packages. The version of the already installed Parrot must satisfy a minimum specified by the NQP being built -- will verify this for you. Released versions of NQP always build against the latest release of Parrot; checkouts of the HEAD revision from github often require a version of Parrot that is newer than the most recent Parrot monthly release.
Once built, NQP's make install target will install NQP and its libraries into the Parrot installation that was used to create it. Until this step is performed, the "nqp" executable created by make above can only be reliably run from the root of NQP's build directory. After make install is performed the executable can be run from any directory (as long as the Parrot installation that was used to create it remains intact).
If the NQP compiler is invoked without an explicit script to run, it enters a small interactive mode that allows statements to be executed from the command line. Each line entered is treated as a separate compilation unit, however (which means that subroutines are preserved after they are defined, but variables are not).
Differences from previous version of NQP
* Sub declarations are now lexical ("my") by default, use "our sub xyz() { ... }" if you want package-scoped subroutines.
* The PIR q<...>; construct is gone. Use Q:PIR or pir::opcode(...) instead.
* The mainline code of modules is no longer tagged as ":load :init" by default. Use INIT { ... } for any code that you want to be run automatically at startup.
* Cuddled else's are no longer valid Perl 6, 'else' requires a space after it.
* Double-quoted strings now interpolate $-variables.
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Let me begin by stating that this article will, at no time, provide evidence or insight about how I believe the oil markets will behave in the future. Rather, my purpose is to provide current and potential energy investors a means to take advantage of glaring market inefficiencies given some prior understanding or opinion of the crude oil markets. As such, if you were looking for a hot oil tip, this article is not for you.
Still with me? Great, let's get to it.
I have previously written about why commodities ETFs are terrible. Let me assure you that this article by no means represents a reappraisal of that opinion. In fact, it is the abject terribleness of commodities ETFs that makes the strategy I outline here viable in the first place. As a brief recap, commodities ETFs are terrible because they do not do the thing they are supposed to do, namely, track the price of an underlying commodity. These instruments, for the most part, hold the front-month futures contract for a commodity.
Shortly before that contract's expiry, the fund must sell and replace that contract with a longer-dated contract. Typically, longer dated futures trade at a premium to near expiration contracts, a situation generally referred to as "contango" (that nomenclature is technically not correct, but most people still call it that, so it'll do for our purposes). That means that every month, the fund is selling one contract and buying another, more expensive contract. ("Commodities ETFs: Buy high, sell low.™") The result of this strategy is that the vast majority of the time investors in commodities ETFs pay a significant penalty every month to this negative roll yield.
Here, just take a look at how the tremendously popular United States Oil Fund (USO) has fared over the last nine months against the underlying Crude Oil futures to which it is supposedly pegged:
(click to enlarge)Percent change in Crude vs USO
That's right, crude oil has gone up about 16% since July 2012, while USO has only seen a climb of a little more than 10%. This is entirely because of the roll-yield penalty that USO pays every month. This is why I hate commodities ETFs.
There's another side to this coin, contango's opposite: "backwardation" (again, not technically the correct term, but it's the word everyone uses, so we'll do the same). When a market is in backwardation, long-dated futures contracts are less expanse than those near expiration. In this situation, a fund that rolls the front-month contract would actually receive a bonus as a more expensive contract is replaced with a cheaper one. Obviously, this situation is preferable for investors with a long position in the fund. Unfortunately, an investor cannot choose when a commodity is in contango or backwardation. When it comes to oil, however, we do at the very least have a choice of crudes.
The two primary crude oil contracts traded in global markets are "West Texas Intermediate", which is what the American media generally refers to when reporting the price of crude, and "Brent Crude", which is the British benchmark. I've written previously about the relationship between the two crudes, which itself is an interesting and complex discussion, but for our purposes, the most salient point is that, in general, the prices of the two oils are highly correlated (to the tune of an R-squared greater than .90 historically, and .784 since the start 2012).
Here's a chart of the two oils' prices from June of 2010 until early April 2013:
(click to enlarge)Brent and WTI prices over time
Brent crude, naturally, has its own ETF, the United States Brent Oil Fund (BNO) which operates equivalently to USO, holding and rolling only the front-month contract of Brent crude (you can read the prospectus here). For the majority of the last twelve months, Brent crude has been in backwardation. As such, holders of BNO have reaped a steady bonus relative to the price of Brent. See for yourself:
(click to enlarge)% Change in Brent Crude and BNO
Or, for a more direct comparison between the two funds, here's a screen grab I took from Google Finance comparing USO and BNO since the latter's inception:
(click to enlarge)USO and BNO since 6/2010, screen shot from Google Finance
BNO has increased in value some 61% since June of 2010, while Brent has gone up only 41%. USO, on the other hand, has gone up to the tune of 3.8% while West Texas Intermediate has increased 27%. And remember, these funds hold nothing but the front-month futures contracts of their respective crude types.
To take a short term example, consider the three-month price movements of USO and BNO from September through November of last year:
(click to enlarge)USO and BNO, 9/2012 - 12/2012, screen shot from Google Finance.
During that time, Brent crude dropped some 3% while BNO only fell 1.4%. However, WTI fell 7%, while USO dropped some 9%, again, in both cases because of the roll yield. Here consider a short seller; over this period she would have been much happier with USO.
So, with that all laid out, the strategy for playing the oil markets with ETFs is straightforward: If you're bullish on oil, go long BNO. If you're bearish, short USO. If you're neutral, or expect no change in oil prices whatsoever, do both.
I am, of course, aware that my advice essentially boils down to shorting when bearish and buying when bullish, which in itself is nothing earth shattering, but the nature of commodities ETFs creates a subtle distinction for when any one behavior is wise or unwise. The rules could be stated more broadly (and more proscriptively) as "never buy a commodities ETF where the underlying futures are in contango, and never short a commodities ETF where the underlying futures are in backwardation". (Though with that phrasing, you miss somewhat the not insignificant roll-yield bonus from shorting a fund whose contracts are in contango and/or going long a fund whose contracts are in backwardation, but you get the idea.)
Before you go trading, there are two major caveats to be aware of:
First, the correlation between Brent and WTI. If you go back to that WTI vs Brent chart and look at the price movements towards the beginning, you'll notice that Brent began pulling away from WTI at the end of 2010. For myriad reasons, back in 2011, the correlation between Brent and WTI dissipated, with their correlation (as measured by R-squared) falling from .99 to .525. Since 2011, however, the two crudes have been moving back towards a tighter correlation. As Brent and WTI are literally two versions of the same thing, it makes sense that their prices would be highly correlated. This is why, over time, investors in one experience the same highs and lows as investors in the other. However, as evidenced by recent history, the two oils can and sometimes do fall out of correlation. In the very long term, the correlation between the two oils should persist, but investors need to be aware of this.
Second, the persistence of contango and backwardation in WTI and Brent, respectively. In general, most commodities exist in a state of contango. This, again, is why commodities ETFs are terrible. That Brent has stayed in backwardation so long is definitely interesting, and while I don't pretend to know enough about geopolitics to explain why the situation has persisted, as evidenced above, investors in BNO have certainly reaped the benefit.
This is all to say, however, that this situation is by no means guaranteed. Whether Brent's state of backwardation has been a year long-anomaly, or in fact represents a new norm for the British crude, I cannot say, and in fact, earlier this month Brent briefly slipped into contango, though as of writing, the market appears to have returned thoroughly to backwardation. The point is, there is nothing to say that such a situation will persist, or even that WTI won't move out of contango into backwardation. An investor looking to employ the strategy outlined here needs to be diligent in keeping apprised of the market's situation.
So there you have it. Somewhat ironically, the general awfulness of commodities ETFs has created an exploitable inefficiency. To be clear though, this is by no means an arbitrage situation; if crude were to bottom out suddenly, a holder of BNO would not be immune to an absolute loss. The point, rather, is that the multiple options that currently exist in the oil ETF market allow for more intelligent calculations of risk which, in the end, is the best most of us can do.
Someday, perhaps, commodities ETFs will exist that actually track the price of the commodity they represent. Until then, it's important we understand how they can still be used to our benefit, even as we continue, rightfully, to ridicule them.
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The End of Fun: Playboy Eliminates 80 Jobs
playboy10.16.08.jpgWe were under the impression people turned to nudity in times of trouble, but apparently this doesn’t extend to skin magazines. Man, this economy sucks.
In a memo sent to staffers yesterday, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. CEO Christie Hefner announced the company would be laying off 55 employees and not hiring workers to fill another 25 empty spots.
In part, Hefner blamed the fact that advertising dollars are heading to “other platforms,” but given the magazine’s feeble (although improving) Web presence one can’t exactly blame advertisers for looking to spend their money elsewhere.
Hefner announced additional cost-cutting measures including outsourcing newsstand stales, switching to a lighter weight of magazine paper and a significant reduction of travel, entertainment and overtime reimbursements.
The grotto will remain, but who knows for how much longer the water will flow over its hallowed falls.
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2009 Star V-Max - Mad Max Is Back!
It happens every time the tach strikes 6650 rpm. Grab a handful of fly-by-wire throttle and hang on. Tight. The 1679cc V-4 growls like a heavyweight Jurassic Fight Club contender, squats down and pulls your arms straight. By 9000 rpm, an alleged 197 horses are headed for the pavement and whatever was way down there is right here, right now. Breathe. Smile. Repeat. It's like having your own steam catapult without worrying about where to dock the aircraft carrier.
Welcome to the 2009 Star V-Max, long-awaited successor to the bike that soiled a million shorts in 1985. It's 481cc bigger and 64 horsepower stronger. Civilized as the family Camry when it needs to be, this one leaves huge black marks on the pavement and big, stupid smiles under helmets just as easily. We expected something big after a 23-year wait, but nobody quite expected this.
Yamaha's research said committed V-Max riders-as if there were another kind-wanted a roomier, more comfortable riding position and better handling. Oh, and don't forget the V-Boost afterburner effect at 6000 rpm. Engineers went to work on all that in the mid-'90s, and while the running prototype they came up with was very big and very, very fast, it wasn't a V-Max. Man doth not live by horsepower alone. It has to be the right kind of power, coming from an engine with the right feel. Acceleration without character is just a commodity, and Yamaha wanted something you couldn't get in anybody else's showroom. And so, to the eternal chagrin of the accounting department, they started over.
Give your eyes time to adjust, and it looks like the Star design boffins hit this nail dead center...with a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The big-block soul is here, but the '80s weren't invited. True to the bigger-is-better hot-rod mantra, there's more of everything, but not too much. The new bike is big: 3.7 inches longer than before, and 61 lbs. heavier according to the factory spec sheet. Climb on and the first thing you notice is a more accommodating riding position. The low, flat handlebar is 15mm higher and 25mm farther back. Footpegs are just 2mm lower than before, but shifted 36mm to the rear, while the broad, flat seat is about a half-inch higher.
The result is roomy enough if you're 5'10", but marginal for anyone on the long side of six-feet tall. Everything below that seat is wide enough to make sub-six-footers stretch for the pavement. Lanky types end up straddling the signature air scoops-they're functional on the latest version-or sliding under them. The seat's rear bolster keeps you from sliding backward under the rocket-sled acceleration that lurks just beyond 7000 rpm. The closer you look, the clearer it becomes that Japan sweated over the details on this one.
The sun catches subtle red flakes in the Intense Black paint that match stitching in the seat. The suitably huge 10,000-rpm tachometer is inset with a digital speedo-meter, and there's an adjustable shift light offset to the right. Really, you can't miss it. A luminescent display set in what would be a fuel tank on most bikes-the 13-liter airbox lives underneath here-tells the upscale stoplight-to-stoplight warrior everything he or she needs to know: time, temperature, gear position, even throttle angle if you're interested.
After the obligatory technical explanations and way too much coffee, the only thing we're interested in is pulling the trigger on this thing. Despite a pathological need to horrify any member of the landed gentry towing an overstuffed Callaway golf bag, smoky burnouts are quite dclass here at the Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa. Perhaps a more rural location would be more appropriate?
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Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder
Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune
Noon Sunday at Indianapolis • TV: Ch. 9
Ponder took a giant leap late Sunday
• Article by: DAN WIEDERER
• Star Tribune
• September 14, 2012 - 6:23 AM
Since Vikings quarterbacks coach Craig Johnson began working with Christian Ponder as a rookie, he's been singing a repetitive refrain.
"It's a process," Johnson said again this week.
Which serves as an acknowledgement that the ups and downs in Ponder's development promise to continue. Yet now there's a feeling at Winter Park that the process is further along than it's been and that Ponder is in position to make big strides soon.
Sunday's rally to beat Jacksonville 26-23 in overtime provided plenty to build on. So we asked Johnson to break down Ponder's recent growth.
Here's what he had to say.
Ponder can't afford to get off to another slow start in Indianapolis.
What's the story? The Vikings' offense was downright lethargic for most of the first half in the opener. With less than 3 minutes left before halftime, their longest drive was a six-play, 24-yarder that ended with a punt. Similar sluggishness had been evident in the first half of the third preseason game when the Vikings needed eight possessions to register their first points. So does Ponder need to heighten his sense of urgency earlier? Or was there something more at work last Sunday?
What Johnson said: "I thought, if anything, he might have been playing a little too fast. That's probably the easiest way I can put it. Christian understands the game, understands where to go with the ball. Sometimes early, though, he's going through his progressions so fast that he's not letting it slow down and come to him. I thought once he got into a rhythm right before halftime, that was huge. He slowed it down just a little. And then he hit a few passes and it's amazing what a confidence booster like that can do to a young guy. He was so good late in the game. But it started at the end of the first half because he started to feel good and get into his rhythm."
Ponder's shaky pocket presence in his final preseason action Aug. 24 may have been a well-timed hiccup.
What's the story? The Chargers sacked Ponder five times that night with the second-year quarterback admitting he was too stagnant in the pocket, failing to slide up and around to create throwing lanes. Ponder spent part of the offseason studying film of Drew Brees, noting how the Saints quarterback moves away from pressure. Since the opening of training camp, Ponder has been pretty solid in that department. Except against San Diego.
What Johnson said: "Christian never could get a rhythm going in that game. Was it nerves? Could it be something else? Who knows? I don't know the answer. I just know that game he didn't have it that game ... And maybe that was good too. Because I know this: as a quarterback you don't want to get a false impression or false confidence. And in those first two preseason games, Christian had played really well. Yet with a young guy specifically, they need to learn how to come back from some adversity too. So those struggles I think were a valuable part of the process. "
Sunday's rally to beat Jacksonville will give Ponder a huge confidence boost.
What's the story? Down three and at their own 31 with 14 seconds to go? Dealing with the obvious misery spreading across the Metrodome? Trying to finish an afternoon during which he was booed early by the home fans? Ponder wasn't rattled. Two completions for 32 yards on his final two passes of regulation, including a 26-yard strike to Devin Aromashodu, gave Blair Walsh a shot at a game-tying 55-yard field goal. The Vikings followed with a 55-yard march for a field goal in overtime, finishing with scores on six of their last eight possessions.
What Johnson said: "The pass to Devin, that's the play I'm going to keep hanging on to. Big, big play. Because of the timing. He threw the ball with great anticipation. Their coverage wasn't too bad. But Christian threw his guy open. He hit Devin coming right out of the cut. And under the pressure he was under, that's a huge leap forward. When the pressure is on, the emotion has just changed, the momentum has shifted, for him to come back and rally his team, that is huge ... We talk in our quarterback room all the time of always expecting victory. Put the thought of defeat out of your head. And I think Christian really believed that even when we went behind. He wasn't going to panic and he was going to find a way to win that game. That's when you really earn your spurs -- when you can bring your team back [after] it was looking pretty bleak. For him, it was just, 'I want a chance. Give me a chance. I got that chance. And I made it happen.' I can't calculate for you just how big that is."
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Software optimize
Microsoft releases beta of Office 2007 SP1
According to a Microsoft spokeswoman:
You can read more on this from ZDNet Blogs.
I was getting so confused and frustrated trying to get my mind wrapped around how the Office 2007 file formats and features are compatible with previous Office versions, that I finally bit the bullet and tested it up one side and down the other. I was relieved to discover that IT WASN'T ME BEING STUPID... BECAUSE THERE IS A GOOD REASON I was so confused!!! THE BEHAVIOR OF THE COMPATIBILTY TOOLS (Compatibility Mode, Compatibility Checker, Feature Refresh, and Compatibility Pack) IS SO DIFFERENT depending on the Application you're using, that it would be impossible to simply learn "how to handle compatibility in Office 2007". You have to learn how to handle compatibility in Word 2007, then re-learn how to handle it in Excel 2007, then re-learn how to handle it in PowerPoint 2007.... even if you're doing the same exact task, using the same exact features (or no features at all!) So, I put this presentation together to help others out there who are trying to help themselves (and their users) understand it: Feel free to re-distribute... but be sure you test the scenarios in your own environment to be sure you are getting the same results!
Doesn't this just show that Microsoft seem to hurry the release of new software at times when they see competition on the horizon, to try to retain market share, whether or not the software is actually ready for release. After all even Vista has a Service pack due out soon, SQL Server 2005 has had two, and that's just for their PC Market. Accounting 2007 Pro has had its service pack one released - how much further will it go. Why don't software providers, generally, get it right.I understand that as hackers find ways around the security add-ins are necessary, but why create hackable software in the first place.
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Suzy Kolber, Monday Night Football
Before she made headlines by snapping back at Andy Rooney's 2002 sputterings about how women had "no business" talking about football, and long before Joe Namath — drunk and slurry, in a sideline moment preserved for all time by thousands of YouTube downloads — declared that he wanted to kiss her, Suzy Kolber was a little girl in love with football. She remembers being 8 years old, in suburban Philadelphia, mesmerized by Howard Cosell's Monday-night halftime highlights. She made national headlines when she was 10, one of the first girls to make a boy's football team. But players' parents complained, and she was forced to leave the team. She hasn't quit anything since.
Since joining ESPN in 1993 (with a brief one-year side trip to Fox Sports), Kolber has anchored SportsCenter, hosted the X Games and covered everything from Wimbledon to motorcycle jumps at Caesar's Palace. But football, including her encyclopedic coverage of the NFL draft, is what she does best. Any inclination to dismiss her as eye candy — a perky cheerleader with a microphone in her hand — is soon washed away by her ability to ask tough questions and break down X's and O's like an offensive coordinator.
This year, she and Michele Tafoya will be the sideline reporters for ESPN's new version of Monday Night Football. Surrounded by research notes in her Minneapolis hotel room and in between conference calls and production meetings leading up to her first Monday-night telecast (a preseason game between the Vikings and Raiders), she spoke to TV Guide about football, family and what it's like being one of the few females in a jockstrap-dominant world.
TV Guide: When you were a little girl watching Monday Night Football, did you have fantasies about growing up and being part of the telecast?
Kolber: No, I never could have conceived of that. I think my dream then would have been, "I wish I could be the quarterback."
TV Guide: You played basketball and tennis. You ran track. But you've always said football is your favorite sport. Why is that?
Kolber: There's just something about the way football looks and feels. It's like gladiators. There's a masculinity about it, the way the guys look in their uniforms, the toughness, the ruggedness.
TV Guide: When you went out for that boys' team, did you realize it was going to cause such a commotion?
Kolber: I had no idea. I just wanted to play. I hated all the cameras, the attention, the interviews.... I just wanted to play football. It was tough enough for me just to be there as a little girl. But it didn't take very long for the boys to accept me. I was tough. I didn't cry. And I could play. The coaches had no problems with me being out there. It was the parents who had a problem.
TV Guide: So you've been around football — and guys — your whole life. Have you ever felt that players, coaches or even other broadcasters take you less seriously because you're a woman? Are they dismissive in any way?
Kolber: On my way up, as a woman, I certainly was conscious of not being allowed to make any mistakes. But I wasn't working harder because I was a woman. I wouldn't have wanted to make any mistakes anyway, because I'm my own worst critic. And I don't think I've had one moment of disrespect my entire career. If you walk in the locker room prepared and knowledgeable, there aren't any problems. I believe it's the way you carry yourself. If you command respect, you'll get respect. I can be very feminine and I loved getting dressed up and all that stuff, but when it comes to my job, I'm just one of the guys. I love being part of that guys' world. I always have. There's going to be dirty jokes and horsing around and you've got to be able to roll with that and stand up for yourself. That's why I think being in sports is invaluable for little girls, because it gives you confidence and strength and power.
TV Guide: In the past few years there have been a number of women popping up on sports broadcasts who seem to be there more for their looks than their journalistic skills. Considering how hard you've worked to establish your reputation, doesn't that make you crazy?
Kolber: Without naming any names, it's sort of taken care of itself, hasn't it? Those people don't last very long. I think that's all that needs to be said. I believe, you know, in live and let live. The reason why someone else is hired or not hired doesn't affect how I do my job or how I'm accepted. Everyone's an individual.
TV Guide: Where do you see yourself five or 10 years down the road? Still doing this?
Kolber: In five years, I hope I'll still be doing this. Eventually, I'd like to be married, with kids and still doing this. I'd like to have a little more balance in my life.
TV Guide: Can we talk about the [2003] Joe Namath incident? For a lot of people who don't necessarily watch ESPN, it was the thing that made you famous. There's even a sports website, Kissing Suzy Kolber, named after it.
Kolber: First of all, I've never really discussed this in public before. I didn't want to infringe on Joe's privacy. When it happened, I just wanted the whole thing to go away. I was asked by every talk show, every radio show, every interviewer you could imagine — and I said no to them all.
TV Guide: Out of deference to Namath?
Kolber: Yeah, because he was a good guy just having a bad moment. Since then he's talked about it publicly and he says it helped turn his life around. He went to rehab, he's stopped drinking, he's got a girlfriend.... It turned out to be a huge moment for him.
TV Guide: Were you surprised that it got so much attention, and that it's lasted this long?
Kolber: To me, it was just one of those goofy moments that happens and nothing more. When it happened, I remember turning to the photographer and stage manager and just kind of rolling my eyes. For me, it would have been over [then]. I never would have thought about it again. That [happened] on a Saturday night. We flew to Indianapolis, where we had a Sunday-night game, got a couple of hours' sleep, and [the ESPN] newsroom called me at 9 am and said, "You're not gonna believe it, this is everywhere." I walked into the stadium that night and everybody I met said something about it — the security people, the fans, the officials, the players were talking about it. It felt like every single person said something to me that night.
TV Guide: Like what?
Kolber: Like, "Where's Joe?" And, "Hey, Suzy. I want to kiss you, too."
TV Guide: The impressive thing about it was that you handled it so smoothly, that you just wrapped up the interview like nothing weird had happened.
Kolber: I didn't handle it differently because it happened on TV. If I was in a bar and a guy who was older than me — and who I wasn't necessarily interested in — was hitting on me, I would have done the same thing: politely dismissed him.
TV Guide: If nothing else, your reputation for being unflappable is secure for all time.
Kolber: The whole thing about being on the sidelines is that it's not a glamour job. You are in the trenches. Everything happens fast and it's fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. You're keeping your eye on so many things at once, including the game. If you're not comfortable with that, then you can't thrive out there. But I'm very comfortable in that environment.
For more, much more coverage of the new football season, pick up TV Guide's NFL Preview issue.
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Testing for Heap Overflow
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Brief Summary
In this test we check whether a tester can make a Heap overflow that exploits a memory segment.
Description of the Issue
When a heap-based buffer is overflowed the control information in these tags is overwritten. When the heap management routine frees the buffer, a memory address overwrite takes place leading to an access violation. When the overflow is executed in a controlled fashion, the vulnerability would allow an adversary to overwrite a desired memory location with a user-controlled value. In practice, an attacker would be able to overwrite function pointers and various addresses stored in structures like GOT, .dtors or TEB with the address of a malicious payload.
There are numerous variants of the heap overflow (heap corruption) vulnerability that can allow anything from overwriting function pointers to exploiting memory management structures for arbitrary code execution. Locating heap overflows requires closer examination in comparison to stack overflows, since there are certain conditions that need to exist in the code for these vulnerabilities to be exploitable.
Black Box testing and example
The principles of black box testing for heap overflows remain the same as stack overflows. The key is to supply as input strings that are longer than expected. Although the test process remains the same, the results that are visible in a debugger are significantly different. While in the case of a stack overflow, an instruction pointer or SEH overwrite would be apparent, this does not hold true for a heap overflow condition. When debugging a windows program, a heap overflow can appear in several different forms, the most common one being a pointer exchange taking place after the heap management routine comes into action. Shown below is a scenario that illustrates a heap overflow vulnerability.
Heap overflow vulnerability.gif
The two registers shown, EAX and ECX, can be populated with user supplied addresses which are a part of the data that is used to overflow the heap buffer. One of the addresses can point to a function pointer which needs to be overwritten, for example UEF (Unhandled Exception filter), and the other can be the address of user supplied code that needs to be executed.
When the MOV instructions shown in the left pane are executed, the overwrite takes place and, when the function is called, user supplied code gets executed. As mentioned previously, other methods of testing such vulnerabilities include reverse engineering the application binaries, which is a complex and tedious process, and using fuzzing techniques.
Gray Box testing and example
When reviewing code, one must realize that there are several avenues where heap related vulnerabilities may arise. Code that seems innocuous at the first glance can actually be vulnerable under certain conditions. Since there are several variants of this vulnerability, we will cover only the issues that are predominant. Most of the time, heap buffers are considered safe by a lot of developers who do not hesitate to perform insecure operations like strcpy( ) on them. The myth that a stack overflow and instruction pointer overwrite are the only means to execute arbitrary code proves to be hazardous in case of code shown below:-
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
return 0;
int vulnerable(char *buf)
HANDLE hp = HeapCreate(0, 0, 0);
HLOCAL chunk = HeapAlloc(hp, 0, 260);
return 0;
In this case, if buf exceeds 260 bytes, it will overwrite pointers in the adjacent boundary tag, facilitating the overwrite of an arbitrary memory location with 4 bytes of data once the heap management routine kicks in.
Lately, several products, especially anti-virus libraries, have been affected by variants that are combinations of an integer overflow and copy operations to a heap buffer. As an example, consider a vulnerable code snippet, a part of code responsible for processing TNEF filetypes, from Clam Anti Virus 0.86.1, source file tnef.c and function tnef_message( ):
return -1;
The malloc in line 1 allocates memory based on the value of length, which happens to be a 32 bit integer. In this particular example, length is user-controllable and a malicious TNEF file can be crafted to set length to ‘-1’, which would result in malloc( 0 ). Therefore, this malloc would allocate a small heap buffer, which would be 16 bytes on most 32 bit platforms (as indicated in malloc.h).
And now, in line 2, a heap overflow occurs in the call to fread( ). The 3rd argument, in this case length, is expected to be a size_t variable. But if it’s going to be ‘-1’, the argument wraps to 0xFFFFFFFF, thus copying 0xFFFFFFFF bytes into the 16 byte buffer.
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Peter's been working a lot lately - I've been reading.
Bernadette is amazed at the amount of time I spend poring over books. 'Still reading?' she calls every time she passes the house.
She thinks I'm bone idle, but I'm an addict - got to read whenever I can.
But not today. Peter implored me to do some cleaning as the kitchen was crawling with ants.
Well, yes, I'd seen them too, and quite liked them running up and down in nice straight lines, going quietly about their business. Can't figure out what that is, but I appreciate their company when I'm in the kitchen preparing meals.
Still, to please Peter, I set about tidying work tops and splashing soapy water around - it seemed like they'd disappeared.
By the time everything was back in it's place, so were they. They were just keeping a low profile till I was done.
Maybe Peter was using them as an excuse to get me to do some housework. Never mind, I made an interesting discovery while I was at it.
I keep the salt in an old Chinese ginger jar. Giving it a wipe I noticed some strange lumps in there, so I fished them out and rinsed off the salt - yuck! The lumps turned out to be - dead - snails, all bloated and frayed at the edges like jellyfish.
After a bit they shrunk into tough dark oblongs, like liquorice.
Now what I want to know is why on earth would a snail voluntarily make its way up to the top of the jar to then slither? dive? into a sea of salt, to a certain and unpleasant death, unless it were seriously suicidal?
I want to know these things.
Like the mice that come here, soon as we've turned our backs. We find walnuts (left in a bowl on the table) behind the toilet, where the mice have created their own private entrance to the house.
But they didn't take the size of a walnut into account when the did, so they have to abandon them once they've reached their back door.
What puzzles me is, why didn't they stop at one? It must be an enormous undertaking for a mouse to carry or roll a relatively large nut all the way from the coffee table to the bathroom. And very frustrating to find it wont go through the hole in the wall, after all that hard work. You'd think they'd give up, but they keep on doing it.
So should I make the gap a bit bigger or would that be seen as unsolicited interference?
Peter says just don't leave nuts lying around.
I suppose he has a point, but isn't it fun to be back in Amsterdam and know the house is not completely empty and abandoned, to imagine the spiders, the mice, birds, lizards, bees and ants - the place alive and vibrant, all sorts of mischief going on?
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Re: Memory file systems
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Matthew Mondor wrote:
A main difference if I understand, is that mfs uses a backend closer to
a disk file system and can also be tied to kernel images using
mdsetimage. mfs also has size restrictions defined at configuration
I don't think those three statements are true:
* mfs uses (well) memory as storage, and if that runs short, it uses
the system's virtual memory system as backing store, just like tmpfs.
The VM system uses a swap partition in both cases, and can be also
bound to a swap file, but that doesn't depend on tmpfs or mfs.
* mdsetimage has nothing to do with mfs. Read mdsetimage(8) and md(4).
* you can restrict the size of mfs, but that's done at mount time, not
system config(8) time.
tmpfs on the other hand might theoretically grow in size more
gracefully and provide enhanced performance, but I honestly didn't try
tmpfs much myself...
The important point is that tmpfs can *shrink* again, and free ressources previously allocated. Which mfs can't do.
Why does mfs exist? Because it was there first (for quite a long time!), and noone bothered to throw it out yet.
There may be a number of corner cases where mfs can do things that tmpfs can't do (yet?), but I don't know them off-hands. See the mount_tmpfs(8) and mount_mfs(8) manpage's BUGS sections for some of them.
- Hubert
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We (a contractor, actually) are implementing an off the shelf system to replace a legacy homegrown system for the core domain of the company (designing widgets). Unfortunately both systems will have to run concurrently for some time, as the product just isn't ready yet. Also, the decision was made to only migrate some of the widgets from the legacy system, based on date of last sale activity.
Later on a new requirement came down: certain people in the company, most of them outside of the widget development context, want to search all widgets. The search results screen has 3 pieces of data: a GUID, a human readable id that is searchable, and a brief description (may need to be searchable in the future). In the widget details, there will be multiple screens. These screens align very well along SOA / bounded context lines - a screen for marketing data, a screen for sales history, etc.
UML ahead! I am probably using the wrong kind of arrows here so please forgive me. The current solution - which is not in production yet - is something like the following:
Current Solution
Both systems will be queried and the controller will merge the results.
The new system has its own proprietary query language (we've alleviated this a bit with a LINQ provider). It also puts a lot of data on the wire. 15 search results typically run about 60k of unintelligible SOAP-wrapped xml. So I would prefer to avoid querying this system directly.
These two systems publish events to help us integrate with other systems, mainly an ERP system. One of these events contains all the data necessary for the search screen. I proposed the following alternative:
Proposed Solution
However I am being told that 'adding another database' will create more maintenance down the road. However, I believe this to be false, as I had to add a relatively simple feature that took several hours longer than anticipated because of this merging code.
I want to get a feel for which system is more maintainable in the long run. I personally have not had the burden of maintaining any large system. I want something more than my gut. Specifically I'd like to know if having more, specialized physical databases is more or less maintainable than having less larger physical databases.
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The easier you make it for people to use both systems in parallel, the harder it will be for you to kill of that legacy system. The simplest solution has one box - "new system". – Dan Pichelman Jul 2 '13 at 17:23
@DanPichelman: A laudable goal, but unfortunately one that is not always realistically achievable. – Robert Harvey Jul 2 '13 at 17:33
I agree with moving everyone over at once. BUT the main driver of the new system wants it now, before it is ready. Business requirements trump geek requirements. :) Also, I would prefer to avoid querying this new system directly; as I said it is extremely (almost purposefully) inefficient. – user408866 Jul 2 '13 at 17:53
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The 'search database' introduces an additional point of failure in the total system, and the failures introduced there might go unnoticed for a very long time.
The problem that I see is that the 'search database' might miss or otherwise fail to process a widget_event and get out of sync with the two sub-systems that it provides a front-end for. Such an inconsistency will happen in the long run and won't be noticed until someone notices a particular widget being missing from the search results, while it is known to be present.
The 'search database' could work if you design it such that it periodically performs a full synchronization with the back-end systems, but then the added value diminishes to nearly zero, because you haven't skipped out on the queries to the back-end systems, while you still need to maintain an additional system.
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These are all very good points! However can mitigate these problems with the following: 1) the search database will likely be hosted on the same database server as the legacy system's database. 2) At least once delivery e.g. RabbitMQ - the handling of the message in this context is idempotent. We will probably use this: bit.ly/19TC9pM (example implementation here: bit.ly/12GHJW2). 3) we already have robust logging in our messaging infrastructure. – user408866 Jul 3 '13 at 15:03
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Comment: Re:Why do we have all these custom PRNGs? (Score 1) 138
by petermgreen (#46485859) Attached to: Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations
IMO there are a few problems
1: As you say lack of sufficient eduaction on what random and urandom do
2: linux doesn't have a middle of the road option. /dev/random is overly paranoid allowing the output to be blocked if it estimates there is less enropy coming in than going out. /dev/urandom is overly loose not blocking even if the system has never gathered enough entropy to give reasonablly secure randomness. What you really want for most crypto purposes is something that will wait for sufficient seed data before starting but that will free-run after that.
3: Sometimes the overall system design means there is no good option, you either proceed with dubious randomness or you hang forever.
Comment: Re:all PRNGs are deterministic (Score 4, Informative) 138
by petermgreen (#46484235) Attached to: Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations
For a CSPRNG* the primary aim is to make it computationally infeasable for an attacker to predict the output even if the attacker has an aribiterally long sample of the output and even if the attacker knows how much output has been requested from the prng since it started.
To do this places demands on both the prng itself (it must be computationally infeasible to reverse the operations done by the prng and hence determine it's internal state from an output sample) and on the seed data fed into the prng (it must be sufficiently unknown/unpredictable to the attacker that the attacker can't obtain the seed state through a combination of his knowlage of the state of the system and brute force checking of different seed values)
Afaict it is the latter where things usually go wrong.
* Cryptographically secure psuedo-random number generator.
Comment: Re:Hmm (Score 1) 185
I mean, just look at the devastation non-native species are causing in various nations. They certify they can contain these creatures forever and ever?
Notice that it's small animals being invasive while the megafauna are often endangered even on their home ground?
Megafauna move slowly, breed very slowly and are easy to spot. So it's pretty easy to hunt and kill them at a rate much faster than they can breed.
Comment: Re:Reassembling the Soviet Union (Score 1) 302
by petermgreen (#46481325) Attached to: Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics
What is the upside of existence of Ukraine as separate state? And any other national state for that matter..
The larger an empire gets the less representation each citizen of that empire has and the harder it gets to topple corrupt rulers. It can also mean that entities just outside the empire come under a lot of pressure to become part of it (in turn making the empire ever larger and more powefull).
Which I get the impression is the big problem for ukraine. It's presumablly very difficult to find compromises in politics when one side wants to be part of the russian block, the other side wants to be part of the EU and being part of the two is mutually exclusive.
Comment: Re:Reassembling the Soviet Union (Score 2) 302
by petermgreen (#46481203) Attached to: Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics
Putin’s long game? Meet the Eurasian Union [bostonglobe.com]
Putin aside I can see why the russians would not much like the idea of going from being the dominant force in a block to being the ones stuck just outside it
* buy a £20 item, pay £4 VAT plus £10 fee for collecting the VAT is the sort of experiance i've had when buying from outside the EU.
** Strictly speaking it's the schengen area rather than the EU per-se but there are only a handful of countries that are in one but not the other.
Comment: Re:A 25% increase is ridiculous (Score 1) 271
by petermgreen (#46480701) Attached to: Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee
At 100/year its still a steal if you order a lot (I've ordered furniture from amazon using Prime... 2 day free shipping on a desk? Sectional couch? TV?
I wonder how much more the two day shipping really costs them than the standard free shipping. To an extent if a lot of people buying the struff have prime subscriptions I would expect them to just build the cost of said two day shipping into their prices.
Comment: Re:That's nice - but it's based in the US (Score 1) 329
by petermgreen (#46476015) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month
at least on paper...
And therin lies the problem, if a megacorp whose headquarters are in the US is given the choice between handing the data over to the US government (and hence breaking EU law but probablly not being punished for it since the EU government won't know it happened) or refusing to hand the data over and getting punished by the US governemnent for doing so which do you think they will choose?
Comment: Re:OIF-MSA-100GLH = 1.2Tbs bidirectional via 24MPO (Score 1) 101
by petermgreen (#46473877) Attached to: Intel Rolling Out 800Gbps Cables This Year
Over long distances your main costs are the fiber and optical amplifiers, so fancy tricks at the transmitter and receiver to get more out of said infrastructure make a lot of sense.
Over short distances the fiber is a smaller part of the overall cost and so it's often cheaper to just lay more fiber than to bother with the fancy tricks.
Comment: Re:Why not massively subsidize the Solar Industry? (Score 1) 707
Per watt of what?
Per watt of maximum production of the panels under unrelistic condions used in the vendors datasheet?
Per watt of maximum production of the panels on a real site?
Per watt of average production of the panels on a real site?
Per watt of expected production at the time the grid needs the power most*?
* This is especially a problem in cooler climates where the peak load is heating rather than aircon.
Comment: Re:Replaced by what? (Score 1) 707
Oil prices are vastly different than oil costs for most oil producers. We need to worry, then, only of beating oil prices
Prices in a competitive market are driven by costs BUT it's not the average costs that matter, it's the marginal costs. If demand exceeds supply then the price will rise, the rising price will have two affects, firstly it will decrease demand, secondly it will cause sources that were previously non-viable to be brought online, this will bring the market back into balance.
Similarly if supply exceeds demand then prices will fall causing sources that were previously viable to become non-viable and also increasing demand and brining the market back into balance.
Of course in both cases there are time delays and hence inherent instability. on both the supply and demand side so short term fluctuations are inevitable.
So if you want to drive out the majority of use of resource x you have to beat the cost of the majority of production of that resource to drive down the price of the resource to where the majority of production is non-viable.
Comment: Re:Interesting parallel (Score 1) 132
by petermgreen (#46468173) Attached to: US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO
Makes me wonder why people in say, EVE, aren't held liable or arrested for sweeping in and taking over an entire faction and claiming everything as their own.
Eve online is a game, participents in the game knew or should have known that anything in the game is subject to the rules of the game and the whims of the games owners. They also knew or should have known that they were forbidden from exchanging those in-game "assets" for anything outside the game.
MT gox traders on the other hand have put their money and bitcoins in trust with the exchange so they can trade them with each other more easilly. The exchange has broken that trust either by stealing the bitcoins themselves or by incompetently allowing large scale heists.
Comment: Re:Comcast's DNS has been spotty for a while (Score 1) 349
by petermgreen (#46468125) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast
which pushes the cost onto innocent third party service providers
The records higher up the chain (e.g. on the root and tld servers) can still have long ttls and be cached appropriately even if the records at the bottom of the chain have short ttls. so the only person it's really "pushing costs on" is the end users dns provider (usually thier ISP).
The fact that google give away dns service for free without trying to inject any advertising makes me think that the "costs being pushed" onto the users ISP are pretty trivial.
primarily, that it redirects based on where the user's DNS resolver lies, which may be on the opposite side of the country from the user
That is certainly a disadvantage, more so for some sites than others (if you only have a handful of locations per continent then it's probablly not going to make much difference for you).
There are proposals to fix this issue but it will take time for them to be adopted.
For web-based traffic, properly implemented redirects are typically the best option.
Redirects are a good choice for downloads and possiblly videos (for videos custom page generation also seems to be a common soloution) but if you try and use them for pages you will end up with users storing permanent references to individual servers in their bookmarks and you also have the problem that you have to serve the redirects from somewhere (which brings us back to the problem of poor retry handling). IMO these issues make redirects an unacceptable soloution for geographic detection and fallback with web pages.
For other services with a dedicated client, there are much better options that can be implemented, and can also provide a much better user experience.
Agreed if you have a dedicated client you have a lot more options.
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I got something here I need to have another set of eyes look over. I've got an NSMutableDictionary that I need to convert to a JSON object and then send out to my server. The dictionary looks like this...
data = (
184 = 3;
185 = "";
186 = "";
187 = "";
188 = "";
latitude = "";
longitude = "";
recorded = "2012-06-19 12:53:16 +0000";
}, {
184 = 0;
185 = Is;
186 = This;
187 = "Working?";
188 = "I think so.";
latitude = "";
longitude = "";
recorded = "2012-06-19 12:54:26 +0000";
deviceID = b1c96c4467a8bcca97a826ad9941a10a;
key = 6puwX3v2;
method = putSurveyData;
responses = 2;
surveyID = 84;
So far, no problems, but as soon as I go to convert that dictionary to a JSON object using NSJSONSerialization it crashes my app. The above dictionary is called mainDictionary and I use the following line to convert to JSON.
NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:mainDicitionary options:kNilOptions error:nil];
If I remove the nested dictionaries from the 'data' key, it works fine. I have even tried to put a common array in the 'data' key, and that works also. It just seems to bomb out as soon as I stick an NSMutableDictionary in there. Is there something simple i'm missing?
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I found the answer. The "recorded" field above was actually an [NSDate date] rather than a string representation of the date stamp. I cast it to a string and all is fine.
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Thanks I was having the same problem – William T. Apr 24 '13 at 23:34
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I noticed that if I set my device time manually, and turn off the automatic time sync on my iOS device, [NSDate date] returns the date and time assuming the device time is correct--which it may not be.
Since the docs mention that NSDate has some sort of sync with NTP, I am wondering if there is any built-in way to get the accurate date and time instead of having to assume the device date and time is correct.
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I find one valuable check is to simply make sure that the phone's time value is greater than the date you shipped your app (or some such), so that you eliminate the case where the date has reset to Jan 1, 1970 or whatever. In that case throw up a message "Set your clock, you idiot!" (Or words to that effect.) – Hot Licks Feb 19 '13 at 18:13
@HotLicks this will in no way ensure that the time is correct as the OP is asking. – twaldron Feb 19 '13 at 18:45
True, but it catches, especially, a lot of iPad Touches with the clock set totally wrong. – Hot Licks Feb 19 '13 at 19:04
@HotLicks I do see value in having this check, although this whole discussion and answers make me want to re-engineer the whole thing to not need accurate times as there seems to be no solution without 3rd-party code. – Anton Feb 19 '13 at 19:42
@HotLicks fair enough :) – twaldron Feb 19 '13 at 19:42
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Perhaps https://github.com/jbenet/ios-ntp can help you? It's a library that can fetch the date and time from a time server.
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It seems this is the easiest way to do it, out of all the available options. – Anton Feb 25 '13 at 15:46
What other options could there be to solve this issue? – AppsDev May 6 '13 at 14:07
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See this api to fetch current date and Time then compare.
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I am encrypting data (health care industry) using the aes encryption classes in the .net framework. What are some of the recommended locations for safely storing the key? I have it in the web.config for development, but that does not feel production worthy, to say the least.
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You can encrypt your web.config values using built in methods in the framework:
This is probably a reasonable place to store your key - if somebody has managed to access your server to retrieve these details, then you probably have bigger worries.
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True. Is DPAPI more "secure" though? – Saraz Oct 25 '10 at 14:35
@Saraz - Sorry, don't know the answer to that... – Paddy Oct 25 '10 at 14:46
@Saraz: More secure than what? It's more secure in the sense "is infeasible to recover without administrator-level access on that specific machine" (as the encryption algo is dependent on data that are unique to the machine). In other words, if someone managed to get your web.config, they still couldn't decrypt on a different machine. – Piskvor Oct 25 '10 at 14:57
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If application requires authentication using your keys then
normal approach on unix machines is to store passwords in hashed form.
You can use sha-512 + salt.
Then you can calculate hash when user inputs password and check against your.
The passwords/key itself can be stored anywhere if its hashed. If not store it in the technical user directory where none has access.
EDIT for those which don't want to put too much effort in understanding USE CASE which i've presented
Johny has some AES encrypted data.
He stores his key in head.
He wants to store this hey somewhere on his PC to automate access.
He can store it as ASCII in web.config.
But he can hash that to be no more ASCII but hash.
During authentication application calculates hash checks is it proper key, then uses this key....
Low probably of collision with proper algorithm.
ps. just posting my point of view on the topic.
Why are you so sensitive for word "hash"???
I know what is hash,
I know what is so called 2-way encryption....
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Who mentioned passwords? I'd assume the OP wants reversible encryption. – Seva Alekseyev Oct 25 '10 at 14:32
Indeed, not looking to one way hash ;) – Saraz Oct 25 '10 at 14:36
I understand everything......seems you didn't understand me. – bua Oct 25 '10 at 14:41
Re your edit: No. If you hash the key, you can not recover it from the hash (as hashing, by definition, is a lossy transformation). How do you then use a key that is not anywhere on the computer? (That word. You keep using it. I don't think it means what you think it means.) – Piskvor Oct 25 '10 at 14:51
@Piskvor from application cache.... when there would be any superuser authentication tunneled key sending. – bua Oct 25 '10 at 14:54
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What you need to do is hide this key somewhere, and a secure location would be inside a database. Preferably a different database than the one that contains your data. Since data require username/password combinations to open them, you just add a second security layer to your application. Your app would need to log in to the key database, retrieve key X for application Y and is then able to use it. You would have to store the connection string for this database somewhere, though.
Even if you would store just a single key in a key database, it would be worth the trouble. It forces a hacker to take a bit more trouble to open this database to find the key before he can access the data. Since there's no perfect security, your options are just limited to delaying the amount of time it would take a hacker to gain access.
Encrypting the web.config file or data within it will also help to delay the hacker but if the key is inside the config file, all he needs to do is decrypt it again.
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This is not really any different to storing a key in the config file - you need to store the connection string to your key database somewhere, and if your hacker has access enough to get to your config file, he will probably be able to get this... – Paddy Oct 25 '10 at 15:01
True. But it adds a second layer. You need to access the database to get the key and in general, databases are stored on a different system. If the database server is set to only accept calls from the web server location, you make it more difficult for a remote hacker to get access to the key. And if the database stored a few hundreds of (dummy!) keys then the hacker still doesn't know which one to use. – Wim ten Brink Oct 25 '10 at 15:07
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One approach which will provide good security if the only people who will need to use the key for any purpose can be trusted absolutely with it is to store the key encrypted with another key, a copy of which is stored for each user, encrypted with a hash of that user's password (salted differently from the one stored for password validation!). Even an evil person with access to every bit of data, anywhere in the universe, associated that database's key, would be unable to access the database without reverse-engineering at least one of the passwords.
Note that if the passwords for all valid accounts were ever lost or forgotten, the data would be irretrievable. That's part of the nature of real security. If one wants to avoid the possibility of losing data, one must ensure that backup copies of the necessary keys and/or passwords are stored securely.
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I want to use Jfree chart with itext to make a pdf. I have used custom font for JFree chart title and its other components using java.awt.Font class. It works ok in windows but on linux centOS, the title is overlapping with upper line and so do other things. Need help.
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Different system have different fonts with different metrics. Can you post a short example that reproduces the problem? sscce.org – trashgod Jan 17 '11 at 14:09
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Found the answer. It's because the two platforms are using different version of java. On Windows its java (SE) 1.6 and on linux I was using openjdk. By making both java SE, problem's solved.
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