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• A vile little man.....
..Alan Shearer = papa d = JUSTme (pinched from the Arsenal fan) + several other id's all belong to #$%$ 'butch' boy.... You are a lying sack of #$%$ butch, you spout opinions on various topics but they aint your personal views, they're the views and opinions of writers on the internet or newspapers that you trawl through. You read a question or comment made on one of these boards, then you research on your little PC and come back with info or opinion and claim it as your own..... That makes you a lying sack of #$%$.... You post webpages from Oz and claim thats where you live, no personal pics taken by you (coz you aint there), that makes you a lying sack of #$%$ #$%$ butch..... You spout on about being in India, Nepal etc for several years but again, no personal pics of anything, just pages copied from various websites, coz truth is you've never been anywhere outside the hospital grounds, you've no pics and no knowledge of any of it and that also makes you a lying sack of #$%$.... You claim intelligence and yet and man with true intelligence would never declare it, it's unintelligent to do so, now that dont make you a lying sack of #$%$, that makes you thick tossa but everyone already knows all this..... You have no friends, no wife, no girlfriend, no job, no money, no life as such just an existence, no-one likes you #$%$ 'butch' boy, except maybe your #$%$ buddy and everyone will know who that is coz he'll post in your defence #$%$ 'butch' boy... Everyone knows you're a waster and a twister #$%$ 'butch' boy and everyone knows you're a lying sack of #$%$. Everyone can see you have no original ideas of your own, you steal others by cutting and pasting on you PC, even your verbal attacks on others are not your words, you even lift them from others retaliatory remarks directed at you....You are a vile little man, a pathetic little man and of course, you're a lying sack of #$%$.
Happy hammer wrote this about Butch, i thought it was accurate and apt so i thought i'd show it you guys.
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POP3 offline
Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by laurensb, Oct 24, 2009.
1. laurensb
laurensb New Member
I have recently first started using ISPConfig and loving it so far. Installation went smooth and a great alternative to bloated Plesk. However, I cannot seem to get one thing down.
I am using Dovecot as IMAP server and have it configured to only allow IMAPS on port 993. I assume because the regular POP3 port isn't open, ISPConfig assumes the service is down while it is working perfectly.
Is there any switch in the config I can flip and have ISPConfig check for the POP3 service on a different port?
2. till
till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer
This is not configurable. But as a workaorond you can enable pop3 again so that ispconfig can check the service and then just close the pop3 port in the firewall.
3. laurensb
laurensb New Member
Thanks, I worked around it like so!
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I just wanted to ask, if it is normal, that I get around 72° C when playing music in Rhythmbox, if the temperature in complete idle is around 52°. The CPU Usage of the player is around 5%.
I have an ACER Aspire laptop with core i5
Is this temperature a normal value for playing media in linux or is something wrong with my fan, or the paste between cpu and cooling system? Or could it be a software/kernel/Driver problem?
The Answer, if it is normal, already helps alot (don't want to be paranoid)
I use Oneiric 64 bit Gnome-shell
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closed as not a real question by izx, Thomas W., Anwar Shah, Mitch, jokerdino Aug 3 '12 at 1:53
What about top? What does it show? Is it taking too much of your CPU? – LnxSlck Mar 15 '12 at 21:39
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72 C is on the high side of normal for an i5, but so is idle at 52 deg C. I would check your fan settings/performance first. There is no way to damage the i5 - it will throttle down automatically if the temperature reaches certain limits.
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Make it stop!
Judging by the number of people who just won an election and are already floating trial balloons that they’re ready to try for something bigger, Tuesday’s election will likely not bring any relief from the thing we say we don’t like.
But we say that, and then post, and retweet and forward to our heart’s content. People, you have the power to make it stop.
Make it so.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Yoga ...sorta
I've always hated Yoga....
I had my first class when I was in high school and I just thought, wow this class is weird, what are we doing, the poses are so easy and not useful.
fast forward to now
I think..... I'm loving Yoga now
well... it's not really a pure Yoga class
I've recently join a nearby gym and they offer this class that combined Yoga-Taichi-Pilates, etc.
but it's mainly Yoga, because Taichi is only used as the beginning warm up and Pilates is only used to strengthen the core (sit-ups)
and I didn't really like it at first, but surprisingly as I went to more classes, I'm loving it.
and I love how the Yoga poses is strengthening my muscles and gives stretching exercises.
So !!!!
on the Flexibility-Stretch Project
I'm not doing it Solo at home anymore, because it gets boring to do it :(
Being in a class, however, is more fun and you push yourself more.... competition, you see ;p
So..... I'm Yoga-ing almost on a daily basis now....
except, I think I need more than just a 45 mins- 1 hour class.
and somehow ......
I've been waking up early for almost a week now.
I'm notorious for sleeping in..... ;p
and as a result, I get sleepy earlier at night.
I still sleep around midnite-1 am, which I should improve to around 10 pm !!!!!!!!!
but before, it was around 2-3-4 am, usually.
I'm thinking maybe this Yoga thing is fixing my sleeping pattern ?
because I was working out before and it didn't do anything to my sleeping pattern,
or maybe it's because I'm just simply getting old ? what ?????
haha...whatever it's working !!
So.... hopefully this Sleep Project is a go too :)
weehoo ;)
Friday, May 21, 2010
An update
Wow..... it's almost June 2010
I started this project at around the beginning of the year, up to March 2010
and I left it out
I've managed to stall and postpone and neglect this project
Unbelievable !!
I mean what's the point of starting an "I Can Change Project" if I'm not going to change at all ? If I don't make an effort to change at all ?
I usually get all excited and ready to change in the middle of the night,
and by the time morning comes, I get all "oh 5 more minutes" and "I'll start tomorrow" or I'll search for other unnecessary things to do to get me out of doing my projects and to make me seem "busy"
and that happens on a daily basis.
I'm a lazy person, I admit that.
and by stalling, postponing, being in denial, or whatever.... I feel guilty, so the burden is getting heavier by the day....I'm not accomplishing anything and I'm not getting any younger either.
So really...
I'm asking myself now,
Am I going to change ?
If yes, it has to start now
because if I decide it's going to start tomorrow, or later, I'm not going to start at all and I'm going to be back at my stalling/postponing cycle which will add to the guilt. and yepp... that's NOT GOOD
Yes, I Want to Change
Daily effort & Discipline are necessary !!
a Kick in the ass every morning to wake me up and get me ready to fill my days with projects that I want to do, things I want to accomplish.
I'm doing these projects for me.... hear that ?.... FOR ME !!!
Enthusiasm and Excitement will have to be a daily thing
Knowing every action counts and they're getting me closer to what I want to accomplish, no matter how silly or unimportant it may seem to others.
It's what I WANT.
so Imma do it. period.
Learn Chinese - Mandarin
I've always wanted to learn the Chinese Language
(and German, Spanish, Portuguese, etc I'm a sucker for languages, speak 4 already)
but learning Chinese has always been the biggest challenge of em all.
I'm not particularly fond of the Chinese language like I love how the French language sound.
but I would love to be able to speak Chinese, I've always wanted to, even before China scare the world with its economic growth and everyone rushes to learn Chinese ;p
I've had lessons as a kid, then as a teenager, then as a grown up
none of em are successful
of course I can say the basic : How are you, Where is this, I want to, What's your name, bla bla bla
But No improvements throughout the years.
well.... no constant learning, that's why
and most of the chinese characters are...well...forgotten....
I was stubborn before
I insisted in learning both the traditional and the simplified chinese characters which means there's more to memorize...yeayy... which leads to none being remembered...booo
I love writing chinese characters.... it's like writing something I've always known all my life, all the strokes, the steps... I just like it.
But I think it's keeping me from learning more chinese.
well... mostly because I insisted in knowing how to write a sentence which slow me down in the learning process, and in the end, I don't even remember how to write those characters anyway.
I'm going to learn chinese, and this time I'm going to succeed.
Learning the chinese characters is not hard, but memorizing them is, I know and I'm going to leave that behind for now.
I hereby declare that I'm going to be an illiterate in Chinese ;p muahahaha
at least in the beginning ;p
I'm going to get Chinese Audio CDs
learning by hearing and pronouncing
I'm going to get the tones right, I suck at it ;p
I think I have the basics for now.... I'll see how far this audio CD technique's gonna get me for now, and after a while, when I think I need to, I'll get lessons.
But for now, I'm just going to use audio CDs to help me learn Chinese
Repetitions is key !!!!
Chinese sentences are going to be like, embedded in my brain ;p
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Cherry Darling
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Cherry Darling
General Information
Gender Female
Occupation Go-go Dancer
Affiliations El Wray
Dr. Dakota Block
Status Alive
Debut Planet Terror
Appearances Planet Terror
Portrayed by Rose McGowan
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I'm just Cherry.
— Cherry Darling
Cherry Darling is a go go dancer. After Cherry's leg is torn off by Sickos, she is given a special prosthetic leg in the form of a high powered machine gun.
She is portrayed by Rose McGowan.
Cherry dances
Cherry dances.
Cherry Darling. Not much of her past is known. She was possibly born in Texas. She had dreams to become a doctor and was dating this young man named El Wray. Her plans to become that doctor, as well as her relationship with El Wray both came to a dead end. Cherry would eventually become a go-go dancer/stripper. Like most strippers, that life took the piss out of her and she became somewhat tough. With a sleazy boss like Skip and in the company of other strippers, one becomes somewhat cut throat. However overtime she would get sick of it. So much so that it culminate to her tearing while on stage. She quit that very night.
Planet TerrorEdit
Cherry talks to Wray
Cherry talks to Wray.
On the way home from the go-go/strip bar, she was nearly hit by an army hummer which was part of a caravan of military hummers. She injured her leg as she fell, puncturing it with a broken piece of glass that was wedged in her leg. She walked to the nearest building which is a BBQ restaurant. In the bathroom, she tended to her wound, pulling out the glass and stitching up the wound. After she stepped out and ordered something to drink. She was sitting in the BBQ, alone. The only people to keep her company was the owner and the owner's dog, until El Wray came back into her life. They had a civil conversation. There was an attraction that was still there between the two of them. He gives her a ride home.
Wray & Cherry
El Wray and Cherry.
On the road they have a car accident when El tried to swerve away from a pedestrian. Neither was hurt in the accident. However she was pulled out and pulled into some bushes by this group of sickos(zombies). They mutilated her, pulling off her leg and running off with it when El scared them off with his assault rifle.She went into shock and didn't wake until she was at the hospital. There she found herself where her leg should be is a stub. She broke down in tears. The hospital patients and doctors were infected by some disease that made people into sickos. Cherry hid under a blanket. However she was still tearing up due to the fact that she was still without a leg.
Cherry discovers her amputation
Cherry discovers her amputation.
El Wray returned to get her. He slapped on a wooden leg from a table onto her stub and rescued her from the hospital. Though-out the night they were running from these sickos with uninfected survivors. They were then captured by The military.
Dakota talks to Cherry
Cherry with Dakota.
A few short hours later, they find out that the sickos-creating infection was created chemically from a scientist. Cherry and a doctor named Dakota Block were taken out of the holding cell and brought into a room. They were alone for a short time until the soldiers returned. They were gonna rape them.
Cherry & Rapists -1
Cherry, moments before knocking down Rapist #1.
Cherry stomped her wooden leg into one of the rapist's eye. The infection was causing one of their genitals to melt. But he was gonna try to rape Cherry anyway. El Wray and a scientist rescued them. El Wray gave cherry a M4 carbine/M203 grenade launcher combo leg. She used it to kill her rapist and a few guards. They then broke out all the other prisoners. There was a battle. In the middle of the battle, the last hope for humanity's survival, the scientist, was killed. Shortly after, El Wray was killed, but he left a message to Cherry saying that a part of him will be with her, fo
Cherry looks at Wray
Cherry turns around and notices that Wray is shot.
r he impregnated her. He died and tearful Cherry left with the survivors.
After the infection either killed or convert most of humanity into sickos, Cherry went around the country searching for survivors and bringing them back to Tulum, Mexico, with her and El's infant daughter. Two against the world.
Cherry and Wray were separated, but by the middle of the film, it appears as if they are back together again.
It seems as if she and Dakota became friends after the events of the film.
Skip is her former employer. It is not implied that she was ever sexually harassed by him.
Actor's CommentsEdit
Yeah, I knew about that before getting into it. I got a call from Robert one day saying "Cherry's going to have a machine gun leg." I started laughing and said "Sounds good!" I thought it was great, considering I hate horror films, I think that's fun.
— Rose McGowan
• The character refers to herself as 'Cherry Darling'. The origin of the name Cherry [ Pronounced CHER-ee ] in French means dear one or darling.
• "What the hell was that?"
• "I'm gonna be a stand-up comedian."
• "Shit-eating grin."
• "I don't suppose anyone else here is a bio-chemical engineer?"
• "Two against the world."
See AlsoEdit
Cherry Darling Cosplay
Bushmaster Carbine
GE M134
Useless Talents
Rose McGowan interview
Planet Terror
Grindhouse Planet Terror - Death Proof
Music Planet Terror (soundtrack)
Galleries Planet Terror Gallery - Fan Art - Posters
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If I follow the reasoning of a colleague it seems you should never run Apache Webserver or Tomcat on a Windows server if you want to keep the https certificate safe.
Let me explain before this question evolves into a Windows vs Linux troll battle.
For example when using Apache Tomcat for a https website the private key is stored in a keystore. For Tomcat to be able to use this key we have three options:
1. Not use password on keystore;
2. Keystore password needs to be entered when starting Tomcat service;
3. Keystore password is set in plain text in a config file.
Using option 3 seems the most practiced. But anyone with access to this file and the keystore is able to extract the private key. Obviously you can filesystem protect the keystore and config file. It seems though that linux offers more options to separate access to those files for different processes. This reasoning led to the conclusion I started with.
I am not familiar with how Windows or IIS handle this, but expect this works somehow similar under the hood. My problem is I don't know for sure. How is IIS able to use the certificate in Windows if no one enters it's password? Or is just stored in the registry instead of a config file? And is setting high certificate security equal to option 2?
Could anyone explain to me how this works?
Btw. I am not interested in HSM. For now I am keen on knowing if and how Windows/IIS protects a certificate or private key not using option 3.
I have searched, but could not find conclusive answers. I have browsed 30 pages tagged with "certificates" and used google. I find it hard to distill a definitive answer from them. Below I mention the sources I found of some help. I really hope you can help me or point me to the right source.
Security on stackExchange:
• How secure is my private key in the Windows Digital Certificate store?
• How should I store SSL keys on the server?
• How to store a private RSA key for an application?
• What are some good design practices for cross-platform certificate storage?
• [TechNet blog] What is a strong key protection in Windows?
• [TechNet, EFS] How Private Keys Are Stored
Various sites:
• [ServerFault] How to manage a web servers SSL private key protection (password vs. no password)?
• [CodingHorror] Keeping Private Keys Private
• [SecurityInnovation] How to Test for Insecure Key Store Vulnerabilities
• [RootSecurity] How to export “non-exportable” certificates from the Microsoft Certificate Store
• [Symantec] How Attackers Steal Private Keys from Digital Certificates
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A generic remark is the following: if you can reboot the machine, and the server becomes operational again automatically, without any further human intervention, then, by definition, the machine disk contents contain everything that the machine needs to access the private key. Correspondingly, someone gaining full access to the machine (as "root" on Linux, "Administrator" on Windows) will be able to recover the private key as well.
On Windows, software-based private keys are stored in the DPAPI. To make the story short, the private key is linked to an account (the machine's own account for the "Local Machine" store) and the protection ultimately relies on encryption using the account's password as key. For an IIS which starts automatically, the corresponding password must be written somewhere in the entrails of the system. There can be layers of encryption and indirection, but it can be unravelled by anybody with sufficient rights. See this answer for pointers as to how to do that practically.
Also, if someone gains administrative privileges on the live machine, then he can just attach to the running Web server process and plunder its RAM contents directly, with ReadProcessMemory().
So any protection will be, ultimately, relative to how well the operating system will prevent unauthorized users from gaining administrator privileges. From that point of view, there is not much difference between Apache/Tomcat and IIS: you could store the private key for Apache in a file and set some ACL to make this file readable only from the specific user who will run Apache. People with administrative rights will be able to bypass that, but, as explained above, they can do anything on the machine.
Now there can be quantitative subtleties. Down to the core of the machine, there is the kernel; kernel code, by definition, is God. It can read and write all the RAM, access all the hardware. The kernel is also the gatekeeper who decides who can do what. In the view of the kernel, each applicative code runs with a set of privileges, which describe exactly what the code can do. Some privileges are god-equivalent, meaning that a process which has that privilege can arrange, more or less directly, for obtaining the same power as the kernel. In a traditional Linux system, any root process is god-equivalent, since root can create and load kernel modules, i.e. custom code right into the kernel itself. By transitivity, any process who can take control of a process with god-equivalent privileges is also god-equivalent.
God-equivalent processes are juicy targets for attackers. There more such process there are, the more probable it becomes that one of them has an exploitable vulnerability that will allow the attacker to achieve godhood. Thus, reducing the size and scope of god-equivalent process may help in increasing practical security. There will still be, deep in the machine, some god-equivalent code (if only the kernel itself), but fine tuning may help keeping that code small.
Linux and Windows, by default, are roughly equivalent in that respect (a lot of process which run as root / System account), but offer different tools to trim that down. On Linux you would play with chroot and, more generically, SELinux. On Windows you can do a lot of tuning and restricting with Group Policies. In both cases it is quite easy to lock yourself out, so take care.
Summary: There is nothing wrong with Apache/Tomcat on Windows. Protections applied on private keys as used by IIS are not qualitatively different, or stronger, than access rights on files. A good sysadmin will achieve a similar security level in both cases, on the same machine.
In any case you would be well advised not to let any unprivileged user run arbitrary code on servers with sensitive data. Experience shows that when attackers are allowed to run unprivileged code locally, the number of exploitable holes raises sharply.
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Tnx for your thorough explanation how things work in general. I am still hoping on a more specific answer in the lines of: On windows certificates and keys for system use are located in folder such and such. Standard no password is used. One has the option to set a password (see screenshot X in blog http://here/or/there) but that would require manual entering booting the machine. Or providing the system with the password which it would store in the registry at HKLM\such\and\such. The registry and folder are protected by ACL. Anyone with enough privileges has access. – Gos Bilgon Dec 20 '13 at 15:27
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Allie Millstein - Human Nature
This is a cd by Hartford, Connecticut native Allie Millstein. She sings acoustic indie folk music. She has very unique vocal and guitar melodies, and they sound like an angel has descended from heaven just to sing us a song.
This EP opens up with the song "Human Nature" that just makes you grin. You just start listening to it and your mouth just slowly forms a smile. Its amazingly catchy, and I keep finding myself taping out the beat. The next song, "Mend My Heart", sounds like something from the Juno soundtrack. Its pretty chill and upbeat plus its got some cool lyrics along with its rhythmic vibe.
After "Mend my Heart" come "Our Love Is Underground". Its similar to Human Nature in that you keep involuntarily tapping out the beat. Really catchy stuff. The last song, "Skeletons", has a more mournful vibe to it but remains beautiful.
This is just a great CD, and you really should give it a listen. Allie Millstein sounds amazing, and if you like acoustic folk things then you'll love this. She was also cool enough to provide our blog with a physical copy of her CD, so props to her for that. You can listen to her at her website( or download this EP by clicking below.
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The Summer Obsession - Believe Nothing Explore Everything
The Summer Obsession is a pop-punk band from Jacksonville Beach, FL. They have a drummer from Good Charlotte, and a singer/guitarist from Against All Authority. Their other dude is Luke Walker(Sorry but I don't know what band you're from).
This album sounds like a mix of Yellowcard, Blink-182, (+44), The Offspring's Rise and Fall Rage and Grace, and it even manages to sound like Sublime at some points. So if you like any of these bands then go ahead and give this a listen. I can try think of an indie band they sound like, maybe October Fall?
The first two tracks of Believe Nothing Explore Everything seem to lead us up to something, but then the rest of the album sort of lets us down. It made me feel like The Summer Obsession is still trying to figure out what they are. That's cool, and its not like the album sucks or anything. Its just not the kind of thing I can chill with.
Oh, and the lyrics were pretty fun. Think about how Blink-182 used sex in "Dude Ranch". Replace sex with weed and you can get an idea of how the songs go. Kind of playfully innocent, but in an awkward way. According to a close friend it felt "weird as shit to hear someone sing about getting high and naked when paired with that rhythm". Your mileage may vary.
In it's entirety, it's a decent album from a good pop-punk band. Its not the best, and not the worst. If you want something to put on in the background while you play video games with friends then this is what you're looking for. If you want something deep that you can spend hours listening to over and over, move on.
The band is cool enough to let you download this legally for free especially the members being from major label bands. They are DIY promoting and self-released on their own record label. Grab it here.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Corcovado - Spring Baked 2010
This is the rough recordings of Corcovado, a Bethlehem based screamo band with ex members of Mulch, Broski, and I Sing the Equator. I saw their video for "Money Shot" a while ago when they were just starting out and listened to an mp3 rip I got from I think "The Muzac" but since then they recorded some tracks and Mitch was nice enough to share them with the group "get rad". Really good stuff. | <urn:uuid:36c052ac-7b3f-4b26-8e56-e662fca29735> | http://songsfromtheroad.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html | en | 0.95959 | 0.020597 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I have a website, let's call is blog.example.com. This website drives traffic to an ecommerce store, let's call that store.example2.com. I want to get reports on which links from blog.example.com are being clicked through leading to store.example2.com.
How do you do this in Google analytics? Are goals the right area to be looking? Do I setup the goals on store.example2.com or blog.example.com? Or both? Is there any canonical user guide (free or paid) that covers how this works? I'm a competent programmer, but it's years since I dealt with conversion tracking on any serious level, and we've progressed well beyond my frozen caveman pixel tracking knowledge.
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My suggestion is to generate an Event for every click that goes from blog.example.com to store.example2.com and use it as goal.
So in your analytics on blog.example.com you can see how many links are you forwarding to store.example2.com. You can see this in Event reports. You can the use this to setup your goals.
Another solution that is not involving events / goals is to filter the referrals in the store.example2.com analytics referral reports. You have a glimpse on how many referrals do you have from blog.example.com. If you click on the referral blog.example.com, you'll se the links that are clicked in store.example2.com
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4 Steps to an Effective Warm-up Routine
By Brad Walker
Warm-up properly with these 4 steps and reduce your risk of injury!
Warm-up activities are a crucial part of any exercise regimen or sports training. The importance of a structured warm-up routine should not be underestimated when it comes to the prevention of sports injury.
An effective warm-up has a number of key elements or steps. These elements should all be working together to minimize the likelihood of sports injury from physical activity. The main purpose of warming up is to prepare the body and mind for more strenuous activity. One of the ways an effective warm-up achieves this is by helping to increase the body's core temperature, while also increasing the body's muscle temperature, helping to make the muscles loose, supple and pliable.
An effective warm-up also has the effect of increasing both heart and respiratory rate, thereby increasing blood flow. Increased blood flow increases the delivery of oxygen and nutrients, helping to prepare the soft tissues for more strenuous activity.
Keeping in mind the aims or goals of an effective warm-up, we can then go on to look at how the warm-up should be structured. But before we do…
What has Science got to say?
Currently, there seems to be a lot of confusion about how and when stretching should be used as part of the warm-up, and some people are under the impression that stretching should be avoided altogether. This is a very important issue and needs to be clarified immediately.
"Due to the paucity, heterogeneity and poor quality of the available studies no definitive conclusions can be drawn as to the value of stretching for reducing the risk of exercise-related injury." (The efficacy of stretching for prevention of exercise-related injury: a systematic review of the literature, 2003, Weldon) To put the above quote in layman's terms; there haven't been enough studies done and the studies that have been done are not specific or consistent enough.
The Greatest Misconception
Confusion about what stretching accomplishes, as part of the warm-up, is causing many to abandon stretching altogether. The key to understanding the role stretching plays can be found in the previous sentence. But, you have to read it carefully. Stretching, as part of the warm-up!
Here's the key: Stretching is a critical part of the warm-up, but stretching is NOT the warm-up.
So what conclusions can we make?
Remember, stretching is just one very important component that assists to reduce the risk of injury and improve athletic performance. The best results are achieved when stretching is used in combination with other injury reduction techniques and conditioning exercises. Stretching is one of the most under-utilized techniques for improving athletic performance, preventing sports injury and properly rehabilitating sprain and strain injury.
So, how do you incorporate the right type of stretching into your warm-up routine?
4 Steps to an Effective Warm-up routine
Obviously, it's important to start with the easiest and most gentle activity first, building upon each part with more energetic activities, until the body is at a physical and mental peak. This is the state in which the body is most prepared for the physical activity to come, and where the likelihood of sports injury has been minimized. So, how should you structure your warm-up to a ieve these goals?
There are 4 key elements that should be included to ensure an effective and complete warm-up routine. All 4 steps are equally important and no one step should be neglected. All 4 elements work together to bring the body and mind to a physical peak, ensuring the athlete is prepared for the activity to come and reducing the risk of injury. Let’s have a look at each step individually.
1.) General warm-up
The general warm-up should consist of a light physical activity. Both the intensity and duration of the general warm-up (or how hard and how long), should be governed by the fitness level of the participating athlete. A correct general warm-up for the average person should take about five to ten minutes and result in a light sweat.
The aim of the general warm-up is simply to elevate the heart and respiratory rate. This in turn increases the blood flow and helps with the transportation of oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles. This also helps to increase the muscle temperature, allowing for a more effective static stretch in the next step.
2.) Static stretching
Static stretching is a very safe and effective form of stretching. There is a limited threat of injury and it is extremely beneficial for overall flexibility. During this part of the warm-up, gentle static stretching should include all the major muscle groups, and this entire part should last for about five to ten minutes.
Static stretching is performed by placing the body into a position whereby the muscle; or group of muscles to be stretched is under tension. Both the opposing muscle group (the muscles behind or in front of the stretched muscle), and the muscles to be stretched are relaxed. Then slowly and cautiously the body is moved to increase the tension of the muscle, or group of muscles to be stretched. At this point the position is held or maintained to allow the muscles and associated soft tissue to lengthen.
This second part of an effective warm-up is extremely important in the prevention of muscle and tendon injuries, as it helps to lengthen both the muscles and tendons, which in turn allow your limbs a greater range of movement.
The above two steps form the foundation for a complete and effective warm-up. It is extremely important that these two elements be completed properly before moving on to the next two elements. The proper completion of elements one and two, will allow for the more specific and vigorous activities necessary for elements three and four.
3.) Sport specific warm-up
In this part, the athlete is specifically preparing their body for the demands of their particular sport. During this part of the warm-up, more vigorous activity should be employed. Activities should reflect the type of movements and actions that will be required during the sporting event.
4.) Dynamic stretching
Finally, a correct warm-up should finish with a series of dynamic stretches. However, this form of stretching carries with it an increased risk of injury if used incorrectly.
Dynamic stretching is just as useful for muscular conditioning as it is for flexibility, and is best suited for well trained athletes. Dynamic stretching should be incorporated after a high level of general flexibility has been established.
During this last part of an effective warm-up it is also important to keep the dynamic stretches specific to the athlete’s particular sport. This is the final part of the warm-up and should result in the athlete reaching a physical and mental peak. At this point the athlete is most prepared for the rigors of their sport or activity.
The above information forms the basis of a complete and effective warm-up. However, I am well aware that this entire process is somewhat of an 'ideal' or 'perfect' warm-up. I am also well aware that this is not always possible; or convenient in the real world.
Therefore, the individual athlete must become responsible for assessing their own goals and adjusting their warm-up accordingly.
For instance, the time you commit to your warm-up should be relative to your level of involvement in your particular sport. So for people just looking to increase their general level of health and fitness, a minimum of five to ten minutes would be enough. However, if you are involved in high level competitive sport you need to dedicate adequate time and effort to a complete warm-up.
As you can see, an effective warm-up involves more than just a few laps around the track, or a leisurely swim up and down the pool. The importance of a structured warm-up routine should not be underestimated when it comes to the prevention of sports injury. So get serious about your warm-up and apply these 4 steps to reduce your risk of injury and improve your athletic performance.
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The thirty Latin towns. Roma, the town on the Palatine. Romulus and his descent. Romulus and Remus. Remuria. The Asylum. Rape of the Sabine women. Union of the Romans and Sabines. Death of Romulus. Division of the population. The Sabines. Towns on the Palatine and Quirinal. Union of the two states
I BELIEVE that few persons, when Alba is mentioned, can get rid of the idea, to which I too adhered for a long time, that the history of Alba is lost to such an extent, that we can speak of it only in reference to the Trojan time and the preceding period, as if all the statements made concerning it by the Romans were based upon fancy and error; and that accordingly it must be effaced from the pages of history altogether. It is true that what we read concerning the foundation of Alba by Ascanius, and the wonderful signs accompanying it, as well as the whole series of the Alban kings with the years of their reigns, the story of Numitor and Amulius and the story of the destruction of the city, do not belong to history; but the historical existence of Alba is not at all doubtful on that account, nor have the ancients ever doubted it. The Sacra Albana and the Albani tumuli atque luci, which existed as late as the time of Cicero, are proofs of its early existence; ruins indeed no longer exist, but the situation of the city in the valley of Grotta Ferrata may still be recognized. Between the lake and the long chain of hills near the monastery of Palazzuolo one still sees the rock cut steep down towards the lake, evidently the work of man, which rendered it impossible to attack the city on that side; the summit on the other side formed the arx. That the Albans were in possession of the sovereignty of Latium is a tradition which we may believe to be founded on good authority, as it is traced to Cincius. Afterwards the Latins became the masters of the district and temple of Jupiter. Further, the statement that Alba shared the flesh of the victim on the Alban mount with the thirty towns, and that after the fall of Alba the Latins chose their own magistrates, are glimpses of real history. The ancient tunnel made for discharging the water of the Alban lake still exists, and through its vault a canal was made called Fossa Cluilia: this vault which is still visible is a work of earlier construction than any Roman one. But all that can be said of Alba and the Latins at that time is, that Alba was the capital, exercising the sovereignty over Latium; that its temple of Jupiter was the rallying point of the people who were governed by it; and that the gens Silvia was the ruling clan.
It cannot be doubted that the number of Latin towns was actually thirty, just that of the Albensian demi; this number afterwards occurs again in the later thirty Latin towns and in the thirty Roman tribes, and it is moreover indicated by the story of the foundation of Lavinium by thirty families, in which we may recognize the union of the two tribes. The statement that Lavinium was a Trojan colony and was afterwards abandoned but restored by Alba, and further that the sanctuary could not be transferred from it to Alba, is only an accommodation to the Trojan and native tradition, however much it may bear the appearance of antiquity. For Lavinium is nothing else than a general name for Latium just as Panionium is for Ionia, Lotinus, Lavinus, and Lavicus being one and the same name, as is recognized even by Servius. Lavinium was the central point of the Prisci Latini, and there is no doubt that in the early period before Alba ruled over Lavinium, worship was offered mutually at Alba and at Lavinium, as was afterwards the case at Rome in the temple of Diana on the Aventine, and at the festivals of the Romans and Latins on the Alban mount.
The personages of the Trojan legend therefore present themselves to us in the following light. Turnus is nothing else but Turinus, in Dionysius Tirinoss; Lavinia, the fair maiden, is the name of the Latin people, which may perhaps be so distinguished that the inhabitants of the coast were called Tyrrhenians, and those further inland Latins. Since, after the battle of lake Regillus, the Latins are mentioned in the treaty with Rome as forming thirty towns, there can be no doubt that the towns, over which Alba had the supremacy in the earliest times, were likewise thirty in number; but the confederacy did not at all times contain the same towns, as some may afterwards have perished and others may have been added. In such political developments, there is at work an instinctive tendency to fill up that which has become vacant; and this instinct acts as long as people proceed unconsciously according to the ancient forms and not in accordance with actual wants. Such also was the case in the twelve Achaean towns and in the seven Frisian maritime communities; for as soon as one disappeared, another dividing itself into two, supplied its place. Wherever there is a fixed number, it is kept up, even when one part dies away, and it ever continues to be renewed. We may add that the state of the Latins lost in the West, but gained in the East. We must therefore, I repeat it, conceive on the one hand Alba with its thirty demi, and on the other the thirty Latin towns, the latter at first forming a state allied with Alba, and at a later time under its supremacy.
According to an important statement of Cato preserved in Dionysius, the ancient towns of the Aborigines were small places scattered over the mountains. One town of this kind was situated on the Palatine hill, and bore the name of Roma, which is most certainly Greek. Not far from it there occur several other places with Greek names, such as Pyrgi and Alsium; for the people inhabiting those districts were closely akin to the Greeks; and it is by no means an erroneous conjecture, that Terracina was formerly called Traghini, or the "rough place on a rock"; Formiae must be connected with ormos, "a road-stead" or "place for casting anchor". As certain as Pyrgi signifies "towers", so certainly does Roma signify "strength", and I believe that those are quite right who consider that the name Roma in this sense is not accidental. This Roma is described as a Pelasgian place in which Evander, the introducer of scientific culture resided. According to tradition, the first foundation of civilization was laid by Saturn, in the golden age of mankind. The tradition in Virgil, who was extremely learned in matters of antiquity, that the first men were created out of trees must be taken quite literally''; for as in Greece the mirmikes were metamorphosed into the Myrmidons, and the stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha into men and women, so in Italy trees, by some divine power, were changed into human beings. These beings, at first only half human, gradually acquired a civilization which they owed to Saturn; but the real intellectual culture was traced to Evander, who must not be regarded as a person who had come from Arcadia, but as the good man, as the teacher of the alphabet and of mental culture, which man gradually works out for himself.
The Romans clung to the conviction that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was the son of a virgin by a god, that his life was marvelously preserved, that he was saved from the floods of the river and was reared by a she-wolf. That this poetry is very ancient, cannot be doubted; but did the legend at all times describe Romulus as the son of Rea Silvia or Ilia? Perizonius was the first who remarked against Ryckius, that Rea Ilia never occurs together, and that Rea Silvia was a daughter of Numitor, while Ilia is called a daughter of Aeneas. He is perfectly right: Naevius and Ennius called Romulus a son of Ilia, the daughter of Aeneas, as is attested by Servius on Virgil and Porphyrio on Horace; but it cannot be hence inferred, that this was the national opinion of the Romans themselves, for the poets who were familiar with the Greeks, might accommodate their stories to Greek poems. The ancient Romans, on the other hand, could not possibly look upon the mother of the founder of their city as a daughter of Aeneas, who was believed to have lived 333 or 360 years earlier. Dionysius says that his account, which is that of Fabius, occurred in the sacred songs, and it is in itself perfectly consistent. Fabius cannot have taken it, as Plutarch asserts, from Diodes, a miserable unknown Greek author; the statue of the she-wolf was erected in the year A. U. 457, long before Diodes wrote, and at least a hundred years before Fabius. This tradition therefore is certainly the more ancient Roman one; and it puts Rome in connection with Alba. A monument has lately been discovered at Bovillae: it is an altar which the Gentiles Julii erected lege Albano, and therefore expresses a religious relation of a Roman gens to Alba. The connection of the two towns continues down to the founder of Rome; and the well known tradition, with its ancient poetical details, many of which Livy and Dionysius omitted from their histories lest they should seem to deal too much in the marvelous, runs as follows.
Numitor and Amulius were contending for the throne of Alba. Amulius took possession of the throne, and made Rea Silvia, the daughter of Numitor, a vestal virgin, in order that the Silvian house might become extinct. This part of the story was composed without any insight into political laws, for a daughter could not have transmitted any gentilician rights. The name Rea Silvia is ancient, but Rea is only a surname: rea femmina often occurs in Boccaccio, and is used to this day in Tuscany to designate a woman whose reputation is blighted: a priestess Rea is described by Virgil as having been over-powered by Hercules. While Rea was fetching water in a grove for a sacrifice the sun became eclipsed, and she took refuge from a wolf in a cave where she was overpowered by Mars. When she was delivered, the sun was again eclipsed and the statue of Vesta covered its eyes. Livy has here abandoned the marvelous. The tyrant threw Rea with her infants into the river Anio: she lost her life in the waves, but the god of the river took her soul and changed it into an immortal goddess whom he married. This story has been softened down into the tale of her imprisonment, which is unpoetical enough to be a later invention. The river Anio carried the cradle like a boat into the Tiber, and the latter conveyed it to the foot of the Palatine, the water having overflowed the country, and the cradle was upset at the root of a fig-tree. A she-wolf carried the babes away and suckled them; Mars sent a woodpecker which provided the children with food, and the bird parra which protected them from insects. These statements are gathered from various quarters; for the historians got rid of the marvelous as much as possible. Faustulus, the legend continues, found the boys feeding on the milk of the huge wild-beast, he brought them up with his twelve sons, and they became the staunchest of all. Being at the head of the shepherds on Mount Palatine, they became involved in a quarrel with the shepherds of Numitor on the Aventine—the Palatine and the Aventine are always hostile to each other—Remus being taken prisoner was led to Alba, but Romulus rescued him, and their descent from Numitor being discovered, the latter was restored to the throne, and the two young men obtained permission to form a settlement at the foot of Mount Palatine where they had been saved.
Out of this beautiful poem, the falsifiers endeavored to make some credible story: even the unprejudiced and poetical Livy tried to avoid the most marvelous points as much as he could, but the falsifiers went a step farther. In the days when men had altogether ceased to believe in the ancient gods, attempts were made to find something intelligible in the old legends, and thus a history was made up, which Plutarch fondly embraced and Dionysius did not reject, though he also relates the ancient tradition in a mutilated form. He says that many people believed in daemons, and that such a daemon might have been the father of Romulus; but he himself is very far from believing it, and rather thinks that Amulius himself, in disguise, violated Rea Silvia amid thunder and lightning produced by artifice. This he is said to have done in order to have a pretext for getting rid of her, but being entreated by his daughter not to drown her, he imprisoned her for life. The children were saved by the shepherd, who was commissioned to expose them, at the request of Numitor, and two other boys were put in their place. Numitor's grandsons were taken to a friend at Gabii, who caused them to be educated according to their rank and to be instructed in Greek literature. Attempts have actually been made to introduce this stupid forgery into history, and some portions of it have been adopted in the narrative of our historians; for example, that the ancient Alban nobility migrated with the two brothers to Rome; but if this had been the case there would have been no need of opening an asylum, nor would it have been necessary to obtain by force the connubium with other nations.
But of more historical importance is the difference of opinion between the two brothers, respecting the building of the city and its site. According to the ancient tradition, both were kings and the equal heads of the colony; Romulus is universally said to have wished to build on the Palatine, while Remus, according to some, preferred the Aventine; according to others, the hill Remuria. Plutarch states that the latter is a hill three miles south of Rome, and cannot have been any other than the hill nearly opposite St. Paul, which is the more credible, since this hill, though situated in an otherwise unhealthy district, has an extremely fine air: a very important point in investigations respecting the ancient Latin towns, for it may be taken for certain, that where the air is now healthy it was so in those times also, and that where it is now decidedly unhealthy, it was anciently no better. The legend now goes on to say, that a dispute arose between Romulus and Remus as to which of them should give the name to the town, and also as to where it was to be built. A town Remuria therefore undoubtedly existed on that hill, though subsequently we find the name transferred to the Aventine, as is the case so frequently. According to the common tradition augurs were to decide between the brothers; Romulus took his stand on the Palatine, Remus on the Aventine. The latter observed the whole night but saw nothing until about sunrise, when he saw six vultures flying from north to south and sent word of it to Romulus, but at that very time the latter, annoyed at not having seen any sign, fraudulently sent a messenger to say that he had seen twelve vultures, and at the very moment the messenger arrived, there did appear twelve vultures, to which Romulus appealed. This account is impossible; for the Palatine and Aventine are so near each other that, as every Roman well knew, whatever a person on one of the two hills saw high in the air, could not escape the observation of anyone who was watching on the other. This part of the story therefore cannot be ancient, and can be saved only by substituting the Remuria for the Aventine. As the Palatine was the seat of the noblest patrician tribe, and the Aventine the special town of the plebeians, there existed between the two a perpetual feud, and thus it came to pass that in after times the story relating to the Remuria, which was far away from the city, was transferred to the Aventine. According to Ennius, Romulus made his observations on the Aventine; in this case Remus must certainly have been on the Remuria, and it is said that when Romulus obtained the augury he threw his spear towards the Palatine. This is the ancient legend which was neglected by the later writers. Romulus took possession of the Palatine. The spear taking root and becoming a tree, which existed down to the time of Nero, is a symbol of the eternity of the new city, and of the protection of the gods. The statement that Romulus tried to deceive his brother is a later addition; and the beautiful poem of Ennius quoted by Cicero knows nothing of this circumstance. The conclusion which must be drawn from all this is, that in the earliest times there were two towns, Roma and Remuria, the latter being far distant from the city and from the Palatine.
Romulus now fixed the boundary of his town, but Remus scornfully leapt across the ditch, for which he was slain by Celer, a hint that no one should cross the fortifications of Rome with impunity. But Romulus fell into a state of melancholy occasioned by the death of Remus; he instituted festivals to honor him and ordered an empty throne to be put up by the side of his own. Thus we have a double kingdom which ends with the defeat of Remuria.
The question now is what were these two towns of Roma and Remuria? They were evidently Pelasgian places; the ancient tradition states that Sicelus migrated from Rome southward to the Pelasgians, that is, the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians were pushed forward to the Morgetes, a kindred nation in Lucania and in Sicily. Among the Greeks it was, as Dionysius states, a general opinion, that Rome was a Pelasgian, that is a Tyrrhenian city, but the authorities from whom he learnt this are no longer extant. There is, however, a fragment in which it is stated that Rome was a sister city of Antium and Ardea. Here too we must apply the statement f'rom the chronicle of Cumae, that Evander, who, as an Arcadian, was likewise a Pelasgian, had his palatium on the Palatine. To us he appears of less importance than in the legend, for in the latter he is one of the benefactors of nations, and introduced among the Pelasgians in Italy the use of the alphabet and other arts, just as Damaratus did among the Tyrrhenians in Etruria. In this sense, therefore, Rome was certainly a Latin town, and had not a mixed but a purely Tyrrheno-Pelasgian population. The subsequent vicissitudes of this settlement may be gathered from the allegories.
Romulus now found the number of his fellow-settlers too small; the number of 3000 foot and 300 horse, which Livy gives from the commentaries of the pontiffs, is worth nothing; for it is only an outline of the later military arrangement transferred to the earliest times. According to the ancient tradition, Romulus's band was too small, and he opened an asylum on the Capitoline hill. This asylum, the old description states, contained only a very small space, a proof how little these things were understood historically. All manner of people, thieves, murderers, and vagabonds of every kind flocked thither. This is the simple view taken of the origin of the clients. In the bitterness with which the estates subsequently looked upon one another, it was made a matter of reproach to the Patricians, that their earliest ancestors had been vagabonds; though it was a common opinion, that the patricians were descended from the free companions of Romulus, and that those who took refuge in the asylum placed themselves as clients under the protection of the real free citizens. But now they wanted women, and attempts were made to obtain the connubiun with neighbouring towns, especially perhaps with Antemnae, which was only four miles distant from Rome, with the Sabines and others. This being refused, Romulus had recourse to a stratagem, proclaiming that he had discovered the altar of Consus, the god of counsels, an allegory of his cunning in general. In the midst of the solemnities, the Sabine maidens, thirty in number, were carried off, from whom the curiae received their names: this is the genuine ancient legend, and it proves how small ancient Rome was conceived to have been. In later times the number was thought too small, it was supposed that these thirty had been chosen by lot for the purpose of naming the curiae after them; and Valerius Antias fixed the number of the women who had been carried off at five hundred and twenty-seven. The rape is placed in the fourth month of the city, because the consualia fall in August, and the festival commemorating the foundation of the city in April; later writers, as Cn. Gellius, extended this period to four years, and Dionysius found this of course far more credible. From this rape there arose wars, first with the neighboring towns which were defeated one after another, and at last with the Sabines. The ancient legend contains not a trace of this war having been of long continuance; but in later times it was necessarily supposed to have lasted for a considerable time, since matters were then measured by a different standard. Lucumo and Caelius came to the assistance of Romulus, an allusion to the expedition of Caeles Vibenna, which however belongs to a much later period. The Sabine king, Tatius, was induced by treachery to settle on the hill which is called the Tarpeian arx. Between the Palatine and the Tarpeian rock a battle was fought, in which neither party gained a decisive victory, until the Sabine women threw themselves between the combatants, who agreed that henceforth the sovereignty should be divided between the Romans and Sabines. According to the annals, this happened in the fourth year of Rome.
But this arrangement lasted only a short time; Tatius was slain during a sacrifice at Lavinium, and his vacant throne was not filled up. During their common reign, each king had a senate of one hundred members, and the two senates, after consulting separately, used to meet, and this was called comitium. Romulus during the remainder of his life ruled alone; the ancient legend knows nothing of his having been a tyrant: according to Ennius he continued, on the contrary, to be a mild and benevolent king, while Tatius was a tyrant. The ancient tradition contained nothing beyond the beginning and the end of the reign of Romulus; all that lies between these points, the war with the Veientines, Fidenates, and so on, is a foolish invention of later annalists. The poem itself is beautiful, but this inserted narrative is highly absurd, as for example the statement that Romulus slew 10,000 Veientines with his own hand. The ancient poem passed on at once to the time when Romulus had completed his earthly career, and Jupiter fulfilled his promise to Mars, that Romulus was the only man whom he would introduce among the gods. According to this ancient legend, the king was reviewing his army near the marsh of Caprae, when, as at the moment of his conception, there occurred an eclipse of the sun and at the same time a hurricane, during which Mars descended in a fiery chariot and took his son up to heaven. Out of this beautiful poem the most wretched stories have been manufactured; Romulus, it is said, while in the midst of his senators was knocked down, cut into pieces, and thus carried away by them under their togas. This stupid story was generally adopted, and that a cause for so horrible a deed might not be wanting, it was related that in his latter years Romulus had become a tyrant, and that the senators took revenge by murdering him.
After the death of Romulus, the Romans and the people of Tatius quarrelled for a long time with each other, the Sabines wishing that one of their nation should be raised to the throne, while the Romans claimed that the new king should be chosen from among them. At length they agreed, it is said, that the one nation should choose a king from the other.
We have now reached the point at which it is necessary to speak of the relation between the two nations, such as it actually existed.
All the nations of antiquity lived in fixed forms, and their civil relations were always marked by various divisions and sub-divisions. When cities raise themselves to the rank of nations, we always find a division at first into tribes; Herodotus mentions such tribes in the colonization of Cyrene, and the same was afterwards the case at the foundation of Thurii; but when a place existed anywhere as a distinct township, its nature was characterized by the fact of its citizens being at a certain time divided into gentes (yevn) each of which had a common chapel and a common hero. These gentes were united in definite numerical proportions into curiae (Fratres). The gentes are not families but free corporations, sometimes close and sometimes open; in certain cases, the whole body of the state might assign to them new associates; the great council at Venice was a close body, and no one could be admitted whose ancestors had not been in it, and such also was the case in many oligarchical states of antiquity.
All civil communities had a council and an assembly of burghers, that is a small and a great council; the burghers consisted of the guilds or gentes, and these again were united, as it were, in parishes; all the Latin towns had a council of 100 members, who were divided into ten curiae; this division gave rise to the name of decuriones, which remained in use as a title of civic magistrates down to the latest times, and through the lex Julia was transferred to the constitution of the Italian municipia. That this council consisted of one hundred persons has been proved by Savigny, in the first volume of his history of the Roman law. This constitution continued to exist till a late period of the middle ages, but perished when the institution of guilds took the place of municipal constitutions. Giovanni Villani says, that previously to the revolution in the twelfth century there were at Florence 100 buoni uomini, who had the administration of the city. There is nothing in our German cities which answers to this constitution. We must not conceive those hundred to have been nobles; they were an assembly of burghers and country people, as was the case in our small imperial cities, or as in the small cantons of Switzerland. Each of them represented a gens; and they are those whom Propertius calls patres pelliti. The curia of Rome, a cottage covered with straw, was a faithful memorial of the times when Rome stood buried in the night of history, as a small country town surrounded by its little domain.
The most ancient occurrence which we can discover from the form of the allegory, by a comparison of what happened in other parts of Italy, is a result of the great and continued commotion among the nations of Italy. It did not terminate when the Oscans had been pressed forward from lake Fucinus to the lake of Alba, but continued much longer. The Sabines may have rested for a time, but they advanced far beyond the districts about which we have any traditions. These Sabines began as a very small tribe, but afterwards became one of the greatest nations of Italy, for the Marrucinians, Caudines, Vestinians, Marsians, Pelignians, and in short all the Sunnite tribes, the Lucanians, the Oscan part of the Bruttians, the Picentians and several others were all descended from the Sabine stock, and yet there are no traditions about their settlements except in a few cases. At the time to which we must refer the foundation of Rome, the Sabines were widely diffused. It is said that, guided by a bull, they penetrated into Opica, and thus occupied the country of the Samnites. It was perhaps at an earlier time that they migrated down the Tiber, whence we there find Sabine towns mixed with Latin ones; some of their places also existed on the Anio. The country afterwards inhabited by the Sabines was probably not occupied by them till a later period, for Falerii is a Tuscan town, and its population was certainly at one time thoroughly Tyrrhenian.
As the Sabines advanced, some Latin towns maintained their independence, others were subdued; Fidenac belonged to the former, but north of it all the country was Sabine. Now by the side of the ancient Roma we find a Sabine town on the Quirinal and Capitoline close to the Latin town; but its existence is all that we know about it. A tradition states, that there previously existed on the Capitoline a Siculian town of the name of Saturnian, which, in this case, must have been conquered by the Sabines. But whatever we may think of this, as well as of the existence of another ancient town on the Janiculum, it is certain that there were a number of small towns in that district. The two towns could exist perfectly well side by side, as there was a deep marsh between them.
The town on the Palatine may for a long time have been in a state of dependence on the Sabine conqueror whom tradition calls Titus Tatius; hence he was slain during the Laurentine sacrifice, and hence also his memory was hateful. The existence of a Sabine town on the Quirinal is attested by the undoubted occurrence there of a number of Sabine chapels, which were known as late as the time of Varro, and from which he proved that the Sabine ritual was adopted by the Romans. This Sabine element in the worship of the Romans has almost always been overlooked, in consequence of the prevailing desire to look upon everything as Etruscan; but, I repeat, there is no doubt of the Sabine settlement, and that it was the result of a great commotion among the tribes of middle Italy. | <urn:uuid:770fe9c0-7844-49db-804d-1e796c59a2f5> | http://www.cristoraul.com/ENGLISH/readinghall/UniversalHistory/Rome/NIEBUHR/3.htm | en | 0.985515 | 0.054338 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, ITALY, JAN 10 - The 2013 MotoGP World Championship will look like the championship of years past, when you could buy a motorcycle for a reasonable cost and the grids were healthy, if Carmelo Ezpeleta has his way.
The Dorna CEO is hopeful of a future with CRT motorcycles that can be bought, not leased, for 1 million euros, a change he hopes will increase the attractiveness of the championship. Contrary to what some believe, he's not in favor of eliminating factory prototypes, but he would like to close the performance gap between them and the CRT bikes, which at the moment is huge. To do that he won't rule anything out; rev limits, standard ECUs, weight penalties are all on the table. But the discussion has to happen quickly: He'd like to set the 2013 technical rules by May.
"If the manufacturers are able to provide bikes for 1 million euros, I'm okay," Ezpeleta (seen in the photo with Ducati Marlboro's Valentino Rossi) said. "I'm not in favor of whatever, I'm in favor of the show and the cost. This is what we are discussing."
Ezpeleta held an informal press gathering prior to a short formal session with the media at Wrooom 2012, the Ducati/Ferrari team into in the Italian ski village of Madonna di Campiglio. The Spaniard spoke of the need to keep the spectacle alive at a time of declining sponsorship due to the world economic crisis. Though some companies are doing well, notably Ducati and BMW, the Japanese manufacturers have a long way to go before recovering to their pre-crash levels. And, he pointed out, when tobacco sponsorship went up in smoke, with the exception of Marlboro, no one stepped in to replace it.
"For me, after many, many discussions, the only problem we have is the money," the Spaniard said in heavily accented English. (He'd earlier held a briefing for the Italian and Spanish media, whom he addressed in their native languages.) " But still with the money we recover from promoters, from television, it's enough to make a very interesting championship.
"The problem is that the performance of the bikes, and more especially the cost of the bike, it's impossible to continue."
The 2012 MotoGP grid will have 21 bikes, though the list has yet to be released. Broken down, it's 12 prototypes, four each from Honda, Yamaha, and Ducati, and nine CRT machines.
Going forward, leasing bikes may or may not be allowed. He's not against it, but he'd rather the teams have some long-term return on their investments.
"If they lease the bike for 1 million [euros] through a contract with me, and [the factories] agree on the kind of bike they will do and they will do for five years, it's another solution which will be acceptable," he said.
"I put a chart of ideas. One ECU, limit the revs, add kilos when you are winning, many things. Then they have the possibility to choose. But they need to take a decision. What is not acceptable, and the FIM and us, we say that, in May we want to know what will be the 2013 and consecutive year championships."
Despite what could be radical changes, Ezpeleta's under no illusion that he can turn into a championship where everyone is equal.
"In any case, always we will have two championships, will be the factory bikes and the rest, but is necessary to have a championship more close," he said. "Then this is the goal we are trying to achieve and I think it's reasonable to obtain that."
More important than the number or type of bike is the rider. The less-powerful CRT bikes on the less well-financed teams also have some of the less experienced riders, a combination which is sure to be a cause of concern among the faster of the factory riders.
"My big concern, and the reality of the CRT, is the quality of the riders," he said. "Some of them they are very, very reputable MotoGP riders, but others are new. On the other hand, this is normal, because if you have 17 and you require 21, at least four need to be new. If they are the best or not, depends; we will see. But I was saying before that we think that never will be a difference is as is between Red Bull and Hispania [the Formula One World Champion and a downfield team].
Where does the CRT future leave Ducati? They can continue to race their current bikes for five years, under the current rules. And Ezpeleta said "maybe they can make a bike for 1 million euros to sell in the future. Or just they will have the two bikes of... We have two kinds of problems. One is to make the CRT more competitive, but this is the smaller problem we have, because having things given to them, more things, is easier." But reducing the level of performance of the factory bikes is also necessary, "and just limiting the cost is the only way to do it."
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Alternative Funerals: Thinking Outside the Box
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Defenders Takes Legal Action to Reform ADC
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(07/25/1996) - Washington, D.C. - A day after Senate passage of a bill raising appropriations for the Department of Agriculture's Animal Damage Control (ADC) program, Defenders of Wildlife today initiated legal action to reform the program, which killed more than 7.8 million predators and other animals between 1990 and 1994.
The nonprofit conservation organization charged that the increase was doubly irresponsible because the agency, named as one of the chief "pork" projects by taxpayers' groups and recently covered on NBC's "The Fleecing of America," is late on its annual report to justify spending. The ADC is one of very few agencies operating without rules and regulations.
Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen said, "The American public would be shocked and horrified if they knew that their tax dollars were being spent to kill hundreds of thousands of animals every year for the benefit of special interests." He noted that ADC represents a subsidized killing of coyotes and other predators at the behest of western livestock producers.
"Americans would be even more shocked if they learned that ADC is trapping, snaring, cyanide poisoning, aerial hunting, and shooting these animals without the environmental safeguards required of other agencies, without any formal regulations controlling their actions, without adequate scientific data, and without public scrutiny. ADC is both reckless and wasteful."
Today Defenders filed a petition to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish formal rules and regulations for the ADC program.
The conservationists pointed to the program's consistently lax approach to normal federal procedures and recent Congressional directives to use non-lethal controls.
Schlickeisen also criticized Congress for the vote yesterday to appropriate $26.8 million for the ADC program's operations as part of the 1997 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, a $200,000 increase over the amount requested by the Administration and over last year's appropriation. "It's special interest, pork politics at its worst," Schlickeisen said, especially because ADC still has not released its report explaining how it spent its 1995 funds. "How can Congress make an intelligent decision as to how to fund this program without knowing how ADC spends its money?" Schlickeisen asked.
An obscure 1931 law assigns the ADC program the task of "eradication, suppression, and bringing under control" of animals deemed injurious to agriculture and other human activities. Since that time, according to a recent issue of Defenders magazine, "ADC has waged a quiet but unsettling war against coyotes and nearly two dozen other species of wildlife. Besides nearly 100,000 coyotes killed annually, ADC has destroyed hundreds and in some cases thousands of mountain lions, bobcats, golden eagles, beavers, ravens and other popular species." Statistics show that in the process, ADC accidentally has killed many non- target animals, including federally protected wolves, black-footed ferrets, and bald eagles as well as lynxes and wolverines that have been considered for addition to the endangered species list.
However, the magazine notes that these actions are not based on science or even demonstrated to protect livestock: "With coyotes, the irony is that despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the federal government, state agencies, the livestock industry, and private individuals on eradication campaigns, the species has emerged more abundant, more widespread, and better able to withstand persecution."
ADC's disregard for current science is legendary within the scientific community," Schlickeisen emphasized. "It's a byproduct of never proposing any rules or regulations to oversee the agency's actions. Our petition is designed to encourage ADC to adopt regulations that would stop the worst abuses."
Green Scissors '96, a report produced by a coalition of conservation and taxpayer groups led by Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense, recently identified the ADC program as one of the top environmentally damaging and fiscally irresponsible government programs. Last month, Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-OR) sponsored an amendment cutting $13.4 million from the ADC program, but the amendment was defeated by a vote of 139-279. The next week, NBC News featured the ADC program on "Fleecing of America," its weekly spotlight on government waste.
A petition for rulemaking may be submitted by any member of the public to a federal agency pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). Defenders' petition for rulemaking asks ADC to follow the APA by proposing enforceable regulations. Defenders urges ADC to:
1. Increase accountability to the public: By instituting data collection and analysis systems that more completely document the agencies activities and expenditures, ADC would increase opportunities for public involvement. To ensure full participation (without litigation), ADC should develop provisions for public appeals for ADC programs on public lands.
2. Emphasize Non-Lethal Methods: ADC kills more wildlife than even predator control advocates would find necessary. ADC should require field personnel to implement non-lethal controls, which are currently given almost no consideration. Defenders is particularly concerned about the common practice of prophylactic killings committed to prevent speculative livestock losses or killings initiated before verifying losses claimed by ranchers.
3. Decrease ADC's ecological impacts: By failing to acknowledge the ecological value of predators, ADC perpetuates the outdated belief that humans and predators cannot co-exist. The agency should abandon its practice of wholesale killing of predators in fear of alleged future harm to livestock and instead target lethal controls at individual problem animals responsible for confirmed losses. Defenders also suggests that ADC shift its emphasis to programs that protect human health and safety, control the spread of exotic species, and ensure healthy native wildlife populations.
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The Red Power Movement really got to be well known after they occupied Alcatraz, a move designed to get them a great deal of publicity and to make people pay attention to their agenda. This occurred in 1969 and was orchestrated by a group of Indians representing a number of different tribles. The occupation ended after about eighteen months without achieving their goals but many felt that the occupation itself gave American Indians a better sense of power and effectiveness and identity.
The movement had momentum over the next decade and throughout the time worked in various places to try and pressure governments to honor treaty agreements as well as creating a stronger sense of identity and importance within tribal communities. Many people feel that the movement was eventually successful in creating opportunities for people to visit museums or study in programs that were created to not just study American Indian history and affairs but to celebrate their role in the country and their past and traditions.
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Chef Chat, Part 1: Danton Nix of Danton's Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen
In late 2007, after more than 20 years in the restaurant industry, self-taught chef Danton Nix (along with his longtime friend and business partner Kyle Teas) opened Danton's Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen. Mere months before the economic crisis, it was, in Nix's words, "the perfect time not to open a restaurant." But Nix and Teas persevered, and their reward has been a restaurant that has become both a critical and popular favorite. Eating our Words recently caught up with Nix to talk about Galveston Bay oysters, menu development, Groupon, and more.
EOW: Tell me about your cooking style.
DN: I grew up cooking in a large family of cooks, and we always celebrated food. But I never never had any formal culinary schooling and never worked with a chef. When I got into the restaurant business I was running the front of the house as a general manager, and I just gravitated toward the kitchen. And actually I call myself a cook. That's what I think that I am. I don't have the skill set of people who went to cooking school, and I'm envious of what they have. But what I'm trying to do here is put out great-flavored food.
I call this restaurant a Gulf Coast kitchen. I'm very influenced by Cajun cooking, because I grew up eating the gumbos and the etouffees and the creoles, and I spent a lot of time in South Louisiana. It definitely has an acute influence on my cooking, as does Mexican cuisine. But I don't throw this place out there as a New Orleans or Cajun restaurant, because we're not. Just Gulf Coast. My approach is to put the freshest product I can out there. This place is a throwback restaurant: I'm not doing anything cutting-edge, I'm not doing any fusion confusion, I'm not breaking any new ground or reinventing the wheel. I'm not trying to. I'm just trying to celebrate the food that I grew up with.
EOW: Has the menu changed since you opened?
DN: Absolutely. I've got about 65 items on my menu right now, and it continues to grow. As I do different specials, people want them all the time, and I want to make everyone happy. But I'm at the point where I need to scale back because the menu's getting too big. I also do 10-15 specials each day, depending on what I can get in the back door. One of the good things about being a mom-and-pop restaurant is that I don't have to have everything on my menu every day. If something's not up to par then I won't serve it. And I want my customers to know that. Hopefully, part of the allure of coming here is knowing that food won't go on the plate if it's not something that I personally would want to pay for or put in my mouth.
EOW: If someone's favorite dish gets cut from the menu, will they still be able to order it?
DN: Oh, absolutely. Eighty percent of the things I take off the menu I'll still be able to reproduce. It'll be one of those things where the waiter says, hey, I can get that for you, and it becomes a little more special to people, but also gives me a little more room to work with.
EOW: I've heard from other chefs that one of the most challenging aspects is how customers expect their favorite dishes to be on the menu at all times, because it means that chefs have to prepare the exact same dish every day in exactly the same way.
DN: This is something that I face every day. I'm happy that people get that attached to certain dishes, but it gets real old making the same thing over and over. My menu's full of things that if I don't have them, people get upset or walk out the door. It's like their world has ended if I don't have corn bisque. I think I share this frustration with all cooks. We always want to cook dishes that are new and different, and to cook something three or four thousand times, the thrill is gone, no matter how good it is.
EOW: In addition to dishes named after you, the menu also contains Oysters Kyle and Kyle's Crab Salad. Do these dishes have any special significance?
DN: Mostly I'm just throwing a name out there, and for some of these dishes, just because it has my name on doesn't make it any more special. I'm a shameless self-promoter. And I just named a few things after Kyle because I wanted him to feel good too.
EOW: So Kyle didn't help with the creation of those dishes.
DN: No. I don't handle the books, and he doesn't handle the food. It's a good partnership. You don't want me on a computer or signing checks, and you don't want him cooking.
Tune in tomorrow for more with Danton's executive chef Danton Nix.
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!081894 Another Circuit Court decision on software - in re Warmerdam One of the IPNS readers sent in the following question. Anyone have details on this decision, and what it means? >Have you heard much buzz about In Re Warmerdam, Fed. Cir. 8/11/94 93-1294. > >It is a CAFC decision, post-Alappat where, in dicta, at least, a claim to >a machine was stated as claiming patentable subject matter. The odd >thing was that the claim claimed a machine having a memory containing >data representing a data structure generated by a method claim. The >method claim was held not to constitute patentable subject matter, but >the apparatus claim was stated to be patentable subject solely because it >claimed a machine (any machine, including a computer) for storing the >data structure. Greg Aharonian Internet Patent News Service | <urn:uuid:22d8be0b-1f76-4c7c-ab7c-cab33f363079> | http://www.ibiblio.org/patents/txt/081894.txt | en | 0.939932 | 0.279858 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Why Do Civilian Hackers Hack?
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Posted: September 21, 2012 03:51AM
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Though it is the larger examples of cyber warfare likely created by nation-states that capture the headlines, there are a great number of civilian hackers to attack governments as well. Researchers at Michigan State University decided to examine these people, to try to determine why civilians will become cyber warriors against a government.
The study used a sample of 357 university students, with 11% being international students from about 30 countries. These subjects were surveyed as to what they would do about an oppressive government and of them over 77% said they would post about the oppression on Facebook and 62% said they would participate in a physical protest. A considerably smaller 13% would actually deface a government website and 10% would comprise a government server, in order to protest. Those willing to participate in the cyber-attacks are not motivated by their attitude or general outlook of their government. This group however is inclined to download pirated music, movies, and other media and participate in the physical protests.
This study shows that the actual reason for civilian cyber-warfare against a government is not as simple as some may think. The researchers speculate it could be for an altruistic belief in treating groups equally that drives these attacks. (Personally I think the reason is less noble and based on ability and gratification. Instead of being a face in a crowd, a cyber-attack, like pirating media, can add a personal sense of accomplishment by 'beating the system,' but that is just my opinion.)
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Virtual Routing – The Anti-Matter of Network SECURITY…
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Here's a nod to Rich Miller who pointed over (route the node, not the packet) to a blog entry from Andreas Antonopoulos titled "Virtual Routing – The anti-matter of network routing."
The premise, as brought up by Doug Gourlay from Cisco at the C-Scape conference was seemingly innocuous but quite cool:
"How about using netflow information to re-balance servers in a data center"
Routing: Controlling the flow of network traffic to an optimal path between two nodes
Virtual-Routing or Anti-Routing: VMotioning nodes (servers) to optimize the flow of traffic on the network.
Using netflow information, identify those nodes (virtual servers)
that have the highest traffic "affinity" from a volume perspective (or
some other desired metric, like desired latency etc) and move (VMotion,
XenMotion) the nodes around to re-balance the network. For example,
bring the virtual servers exchanging the most traffic to hosts on the
same switch or even to the same host to minimize traffic crossing
multiple switches. Create a whole-data-center mapping of traffic flows,
solve for least switch hops per flow and re-map all the servers in the
data center to optimize network traffic.
My first reaction was, yup, that makes a lot of sense from a network point of view, and given who made the comment, it does make sense. Then I choked on my own tongue as the security weenie in me started in on the throttling process, reminding me that while this is fantastic from an autonomics perspective, it's missing some serious input variables.
Latency of the "network" and VM spin-up aside, the dirty little secret is that what's being described here is a realistic and necessary component of real time (or adaptive) infrastructure. We need to get ultimately to the point where within context, we have the ability to do this, but I want to remind folks that availability is only one leg of the stool. We've got the other nasty bits to concern ourselves with, too.
Let's look at this from two perspectives: the network plumber and the security wonk
From the network plumbers' purview, this sounds like an awesome idea; do what is difficult in non-virtualized environments and dynamically adjust and reallocate the "location" of an asset (and thus flows to/from it) in the network based upon traffic patterns and arbitrary metrics. Basically, optimize the network for the lowest latency and best performance or availability by moving VM's around and re-allocating them across the virtual switch fabric (nee DVS) rather than adjusting how the traffic gets to the static nodes.
It's a role reversal: the nodes become dynamic and the network becomes more static and compartmentalized. Funny, huh?
The security wonk is unavailable for comment. He's just suffered a coronary event. Segmented network architecture based upon business policy, security, compliance and risk tolerances make it very difficult to perform this level of automation via service governors today, especially in segmented network architecture based upon asset criticality, role or function as expressed as a function of (gulp) compliance, let's say.
Again, the concept works great in a flat network where asset grouping is, for the most part, irrelevant (hopefully governed by a policy asserting such) where what you're talking about is balancing the compute with network and storage, but the moment you introduce security, compliance and risk management as factors into the decision fabric, things get very, very difficult.
Now, if you're Cisco and VMware, the
models for how the security engines that apply policy consistently
across these fluid virtualized networks is starting to take shape, but what we're
missing are the set of compacts or contracts that consistently define
and enforce these policies no matter where they move (and control *if* they can move) and how they factor these requirements into
the governance layer.
The standardization of governance approaches — even at the network layer — is lacking.
There are lots of discrete tools available but the level of integration
and the input streams and output telemetry are not complete.
If you take a look, as an example, at CIRBA's exceptional transformational analytics and capacity management solution, replete with their multi-dimensional array of business process, technical infrastructure and resource mapping, they have no input for risk assessment data, compliance or "security" as variables.
When you look at the utility brought forward by the dynamic, agile and flexible capabilities of virtualized infrastructure, it's hard not to extrapolate all the fantastic things we could do.
Unfortunately, the crushing weight of what happens when we introduce security, compliance and risk management to the dance means we have a more sobering discussion about those realities.
Here's an example reduced to the ridiculous: we have an interesting time architecting networks to maximize throughput, reduce latency and maximize resilience in the face of what can happen with convergence issues and flapping when we have a "routing" problem.
Can you imagine what might happen when you start bouncing VM's around the network in response to maximizing efficiency while simultaneously making unavailable the very resources we seek to maximize the availability of based upon disassociated security policy violations? Fun, eh?
While we're witnessing a phase shift in how we design and model our networks to support more dynamic resources and more templated networks, we can't continue to mention the benefits and simply assume we'll catch up on the magical policy side later.
So for me, Virtual Routing is the anti-matter of network SECURITY, not network routing…or maybe more succinctly, perhaps security doesn't matter at all?
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1. December 17th, 2008 at 02:01 | #1
Well, moving the resource doesn't mean it's unavailable for more than a few milliseconds, but you already know that.
I think it's an interesting idea overall, and I think the security ramifications can be addressed through some sort of constraint language. Whether the implementation is worth it is another question.
There are several examples of where self-optimising systems come up with solutions that baffle and surprise the creators of said systems. Especially in _really_ large systems.
2. Andreas Antonopoulos
December 17th, 2008 at 07:25 | #2
This is exactly the kind of discussion we need to have about the possibility of policy based mass-moves that drive topology change. Security is affected, but could also be driving the policy for where nodes can go and where they can't. This is definitely a thorny issue, but it seems like a natural extrapolation of developments in virtualization. The plot thickens. The security pros remain employed…
3. December 17th, 2008 at 09:49 | #3
Insightful post. I agree that in the abstract that whizzing nodes around the network is the sort of thing that should give security people pause, at least when said node whizzes past a security zone boundary. In practice, though, most enterprise networks are flatland. They have very few security zones other than the DMZ plus a big squishy one for everything else.
So, in most cases, the simple rule would be this: thou shalt not whizz thine VMs between the DMZ and the corporate network. Failure to do so shall cause the offending admin to be slapped across the face with a pickled herring.
But this seems like common sense, right? Am I missing something?
4. December 17th, 2008 at 10:21 | #4
Re-posting my reply from Twitter to AJ:
I think the only thing that's missing is that virtualization (internally and on the DMZ) is a forcing function for segmentation.
Over the last 6 months, internal network segmentation has (informally by conversational queries by me) shown an increase in orders of mag. driven primarily by non-network/security folks (the sysadmins) creating VLAN/vSwitch partitioning to contain VM's in zones for management.
The SysAdmins are actually better equipped and in some cases more motivated to create this partitioning/zoning that gets us closer to a point that the bureaucracy of siloed functions has heretofore made difficult; because the SysAdmins "own" the (now) private virtual networks, they can do what they like. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes it is not.
You'll note that the Cisco/VMware VN-Link clawback of the access layer by reclaiming the virtual switch with a Cisco version substitutes one challenge for another in this case…
So while the DMZ argument is obvious, the non-DMZ segmentation coupled with RTI/internal cloud architectures are accelerating this.
5. December 18th, 2008 at 08:15 | #5
The implicit shift in this scenario to keep the security wonk out out of the cardiac care unit is to decouple the implementation of security policy from the infrastructure needed to deliver it. So, if you go back to Doug's scenario, what if you could define a infrastructure security policy and have that policy follow an app/VM around the data center?
We have done this to some degree with VN-Link and the Nexus 1000V–we can define a port policy for a VM that includes things like ACLs, private VLAN policy, Cisco TrustSec policy, and the like and have that policy follow the VM around a VI cluster regardless of where it ends up.
Now, this is only a first step and Doug's example requires a much more sophisticated and encompassing implementation of this concept, but I think the overall approach is feasible. But that's just Omar the Plumber talking… :)
6. December 18th, 2008 at 09:32 | #6
Interesting. I used to work at NetScreen and we developed an interesting technology we called "Dynamic Routed VPNs." (I'm not in the network security world anymore so there isn't a business angle here).
Moving on.
A similar concept could apply here.
First, a overly-simplified explanation of how the technology worked:
1. Create a tunnel interface (think of it as a special loopback) that has associated IPsec parameters and keys.
2. "Bind" a routing daemon to the tunnel interface and advertise routes
3. Send packets and they traverse the VPN via whatever route the routing tables tell it. You get dynamic failover between peers, etc.
The interesting part of this is that you can "segment" your possible VPN tunnels since IPsec will only peer with other nodes that have the correct key information.
For example, you can have a dynamic DMZ full-mesh VPN network that would automatically route to the "best" peer for traffic. That traffic could never be routed through an INTERNAL zone since the IPsec peers could never form a tunnel.
Anyway, food for thought on how to create a dynamic infrastructure while maintaining some security (in fact, you could even ensure that only valid clients were allowed to use a specific tunnel using IPsec).
7. December 18th, 2008 at 10:04 | #7
Hello /hoff,
First of all, we can attach a security template and policy to the VM and follow the move.
Second, the automated (no-downtime) mobility feature requires that the VM stay within the same VLAN/Portgroup at all times. This usually means that network segmentation will remain intact. Additionally, we support a finer grain trust zone overlay to provide ACL and even packet level segmentation between virtual machines on the same virtualized network. So I don't see a problem at the network access layer at all.
Third, I think you're right from a DOS/availability point of view as this behavior will place two or more critical machines on a single host. Or worse yet create a mobility thrash effect as the CPU load balancer moves machines apart and the network balancer keeps moving them back together — I've seen this happen in the lab already and it tends to require a VM maestro's touch to set the VM<->Host affinities right.
8. John Blessing
December 18th, 2008 at 10:41 | #8
Interesting point Andrew,
What I find in my enterprise is that the original Admin who starts these configurations which cause the VM's to 'whiz' around is not available to ask the question "why are all my VM's whizzing around?" because I was forced to do some administrative function (upgrade a critical LB server) that I wouldn't normally do. When the "freak-out" stage happens there isn't any traceability to who did it because machines did it, because the machines read a line of code or algorithim to tell them to do it. The actual 'compliance' trail will be cold and we will have all these pickled herrings and no one to hit.
9. colin
December 18th, 2008 at 16:11 | #9
In most non-virtualised environments, machines are classified based on the data that they contain. Virtual Machines should not be classified any differently. Moving a VM from a particular classified network to another classification (either the same classification or higher, never lower) is not something that I can see that would be an issue for me. With the courting of the virtual environment by cisco (the Nexus V switches), application of appropriate security policy based on either ACLs or load balanced firewalls should allow for this particular architecture to be achieved without the security angst that I can see here.
Setting affinity and working out the algorithm that would force a VMotion would be the hard part..
10. Walt
December 24th, 2008 at 08:05 | #10
This has been the thorn in the side for shops running the i5/OS for years. Well, that and the fact that the TCP/IP stack for i5/OS can't support HTTP over load.
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Hell's Kitchen, Dec. 8 – Around the World in One Challenge
Tonight is the final four, again. I completely disagree that last weeks’ service was so smooth no one deserved to go home, but I am not Chef Ramsay. Tonight two people will be sent packing in a double elimination. The producers always love to try and fool us with their promos; I am hoping that is the case. It looks like Nona is kicked out of the kitchen. If Trev and Jillian are the final two, I am going to throw the entire sock drawer at the TV.
A new day, a new challenge for the remaining four contestants; you could assume they will all be motivated after seeing their families the night before. That could backfire, though, and make you distracted. The chefs go back into the dining room to listen to Chef Ramsay tell them what the next challenge is. To their surprise, he tells them tonight there is another service and two people will be eliminated.
Chef Ramsay continues on explaining the challenge. He tells them it is one of the most sophisticated challenges yet on Hell’s Kitchen. They will each be tasked with making a stunning dish combining two different cuisines, also known as fusion. Nona whispers under her breathe “sweet.” Jillian is visibly shaken, telling the diary cam she only knows how to cook American food.
Behind Chef Ramsay there are tables draped with sheets. As the sheets are removed we see that there are various countries, and their foods, under each sheet. The list of countries are: India, Greece, Spain, Thailand, China, Italy, France, and Mexico. Chef Ramsay is standing in front of a table with a dome server on it. Under the dome are the flags of the represented countries. One at a time they will pull the “flag poles” of the small flags revealing which two countries they will have. Chef Ramsay calls Nona first; you can tell that she is very excited about this challenge.
Nona’s first flag is Greece; she is very excited. Her second flag is Italy. Trev remarks that her combination is easy. Jillian pulls Thailand and Spain. Russell really wants to pull France. He gets his wish, along with India. Trev pulls China and Mexico. They are given 45 minutes to create one dish. When Chef Ramsay starts the clock they all run to the tables representing their flags for key dish ingredients. They can pull as many ingredients as they want from their tables. Chef Ramsay needs to be able to recognize the ingredients though.
Russell, Trev and Nona are back in the kitchen starting to cook at the 5 minute mark. Jillian is still shopping around her table trying to figure out what the ingredients are on her Thailand table. It is funny to watch Jillian start to cook. She is not sure what the ingredients are and is deciding how to use them from their smell.
Nona is trying to equally incorporate both countries in her mussel dish. Russell seems to have forgotten about India in his duck breast and foie gras dish. Chef Ramsay points that out to him. Jillian is worried her beans won’t cook in time and starts making rice with only 9 minutes remaining. Trev seems to be going for the “burn Chef Ramsay’s tongue so he can’t taste anything” dish. He is adding anything spicy and hot from peppers to sauces. He is wrong to assume that Mexican food needs to be overly spicy to represent the country. One of his pans lights up; I’m assuming he is cooking with some kind of liquor. Chef Ramsay brings him over the extinguisher.
When time is up, Chef Ramsay announces there are visiting judges. The first is Philip DuBose. He is the Executive Chef of Asia de Cuba. Helene An, the Executive Chef of Crustacean, is known as the “Mother of Fusion”. The last judge is Lee Hefter, the Executive Chef of Spago.
Chef Ramsay chooses Trev to present first. Russell tells the diary cam that if Trev got Mexico and Texas he couldn’t make a flavor combination to save his life. Having lived many years in the Southwest, that comment is rather amusing as many of the border state dishes are naturally fused with Mexico already. Trev is confident there is going to be a flavor explosion for them. Unfortunately the judges all found it bland. The meat had no marinade, flavor or balance. Well bland is better than burning your mouth, which is what the producers hinted at.
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Dave Weinberger on Blogging's Rubicon
Dave Weinberger is one of the convention bloggers at the DNC this week. He believes that blogging the convention has changed how blogging is viewed in some fundamental ways. He writes:
The credentialed bloggers are sitting in the section of the bleachers designated "Blogger Boulevard." Want to know exactly where it is? Easy: It's on the other side of the Rubicon.
This event marks the day that blogging became something else. Exactly what isn't clear yet, and the culture clash is resulting in public functions that, because there is no single culture of blogging, are Dostoyevskian in their awkwardness.
From Boston.com: Blogging crosses over
Referenced Tue Jul 27 2004 16:07:10 GMT-0600
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Puck Daddy
Evander Kane chucks a helmet, and hockey’s other great moments in throwing stuff
Harrison Mooney
Puck Daddy
Late in the third period of the Montreal Canadiens' 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets Thursday, Evander Kane absolutely lost it. After taking a forearm to the face from Canadiens' defenceman Alexei Emelin, Kane decided to punch Emelin in the head several times.
He didn't face much resistance from Emelin. Really, the only thing standing in Kane's way was Emelin's helmet. So Kane, who was in full-on beast mode by this time, ripped the helmet right off of Emelin's head. And then threw it at him.
Now, it's hard to believe that Kane was actually intending to hit Emelin with the helmet. It looked like he was simply trying to throw it away and that's the direction it went. But either way, it's a good thing Emelin ducked, because he nearly got his skull cracked open by the very thing he wears to prevent him from getting his skull cracked open.
But, because he didn't, we can celebrate this moment as little more than just another strange instance where a hockey player threw something unexpectedly. With the helmet toss, Kane joined an elite group of players -- the weird dudes who throw things in a game that calls for no throwing whatsoever.
Let's take a quick look at some of hockey's great player tosses.
Kevin Bieksa throws a glove
It's not often that players actually throw stuff at their opponents on purpose, but it does happen. Last year, Kevin Bieksa of the Vancouver Canucks attempted to break up a minor disagreement between teammate Dan Hamhuis and Minnesota Wild forward Cal Clutterbuck from afar, by throwing his glove when a linesman attempted to hold him back.
It was a crap throw. It hit Hamhuis in the shoulder. Also, Bieksa got a penalty.
Scott Hartnell throws a glove
Speaking of inexplicably throwing one's glove at an opponent, Scott Hartnell once threw his mitt in an attempt to disrupt Ryan Malone on a breakaway.
Why. Just... why.
It was a senseless thing to do at pretty much any moment, but with less than a minute to go in a tie game, it made even less sense. Malone didn't score on the initial attempt, but the glove toss gave him a do-over in the form of a penalty shot. Thankfully for Hartnell, Martin Biron stopped that as well.
Dominik Hasek throws a blocker
Back in 1998, Dominik Hasek got run over by Petr Bondra. He responded by throwing his blocker. Always so unorthodox, that Hasek.
Adam Burish throws a glove
Far more effective than throwing your glove at your opponent, however, is throwing your opponent's glove into the stands. Adam Burish once did that to Tanner Glass, happening upon Glass's glove on his way to the penalty box and tossing it nonchalantly over the boards. Glass went nuts.
I can only imagine Burish's defence. "Honest, ref, I meant to throw it over to Glass, not over the glass. I just got confused."
Vic Hadfield throws a mask
As Burish demonstrated above, giving your enemy's equipment to the fans is an excellent way to get under his skin. It's a tale as old as time. Why, back in 1971, Vic Hadfield ripped off Bernie Parent's mask and threw that into the stands.
Playing the rest of the game without a mask was an option, because it was 1971 and people were still insane back then, but Parent opted not to and Jacques Plante replaced him.
Johan Franzen throws a mouthguard
But let's say you want you keep things in-house. For an even subtler approach to trolling, why not take your opponent's mouthguard out of his mouth and throw it on the ground like Johan Franzen? It's easy to do when your opponent is Patrick Kane, one of the league's most notorious mouthpiece-chewers, who almost always has the thing dangling out of his mouth.
Ilya Bryzgalov throws a stick
Or maybe you just want to throw your own equipment. Ilya Bryzgalov will do that. Just last week, he threw a water bottle.
Here's Bryzgalov flipping out after a goal and throwing his stick wildly into the corner. It nearly takes an official's head off. Luckily, Bryzgalov whiffs, just like he did on the shot that caused him to throw the stick in the first place. Circle of life.
Danielius Nomanovas throws a stick
This young man wasn't quite so lucky.
Neither was the official who took a hockey stick to the solar plexus after the 17-year-old Lithuanian threw his stick at the final horn of his club's 3-2 loss to Great Britain.
Brandon Dubinsky throws a water cooler
That's why, if you're going to rage toss, you want to wait until you're all alone in the tunnel. Then, safely alone, you throw the closest thing. In Brandon Dubinsky's case, it's the Gatorade cooler. Ker-smash!
Ryan Hutchinson throws chair
But even then, you need to be careful.
Always check for kids. Always. You never know where they might be. These kids are lucky they didn't get beaned by Hutchinson's chair throw.
Tuukka Rask throws a milk crate
Speaking of losing one's mind in the tunnel, after a shootout really didn't go his way, Tuukka Rask, then with the Province Bruins, throws a milk crate onto the ice.
Hey man, milk crates aren't to be thrown. They're to be used for storing records. Everyone knows that.
Marc Bergevin throws a puck (into his own net)
And finally, because it's hilarious and also because I still believe it's the greatest own-goal of all time, here's Marc Bergevin throwing a puck into the net he's supposed to be defending.
Hell of a sidearm.
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Henderson’s Equation: embracing science, facilitating human flourishing
29 Dec, 08 | by Deborah Kirklin
I’m fond of referring, in talks and in discussions about medical professionalism, to the midnight meal. It’s a metaphor that I borrow from Dr Jerome Lowenstein, a friend and colleague who wrote an essay of the same name. In that essay he recalls a time when the medical team would meet in the hospital restaurant, in the middle of the night, to deal with the emotional leftovers of the day. With shift working, and an increasingly busy and technological approach to medicine, there is all too often neither time nor space for a midnight meal. He suggests that medical humanities might offer an alternative way, create an alternative space, to pick over the remains of the day and so be ready to face another day.
The essay is simply and beautifully written, and so I was pleased to be given a copy of Dr Lowenstein’s first novel, Henderson’s Equation, to read. Pleased but also a little daunted, because I have to admit that physiology was never my strong point. Not so of course the author who, in addition to being a clinician and teacher has also spent a lifetime researching acid-base physiology. As a result his book offers an informed portrayal of Henderson’s intellectual insights and the creative leaps of imagination that inspired and drove his research. Henderson’s Equation is however about much more than this. Instead, set against the backdrop of World War I, the rise of fascism, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, and growing anti-Semitism at Harvard and elsewhere, this is a story that is as much about the nature of friendship as it is about medicine.
Because although they have much in common, the main protagonists- Lawrence J Henderson and his assistant Aaron Weiss-come from very different worlds, with different expectations and constraints moulding the men they become and what they value in their lives and in others. For Henderson his research is all-consuming, whereas for Aaron there is a constant struggle to find the right balance between embracing all that medical science has to offer whilst not losing sight of what makes him, and his patients, human. Over the course of Aaron’s career he and Henderson continue to collaborate until social and political differences result in a painful and damaging rift. Forced to choose between caring for patients and pursuing an academic career Aaron chooses his patients. Forced to choose between his principles and his friendship for Henderson he finally finds room for both.
This book is a delight to read, not least because of a rich sub-plot involving a master craftsman called DePodesta. DePodesta teaches Aaron about the importance of friendship, creativity and patience. As Aaron matures it is these qualities that he learns to offer to his patients. Come to think of it, a midnight meal with Aaron and DePodesta may be just what the doctor ordered.
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Serves 6–8 / Turmeric contains curcumin, shown to reduce arthritis pain and ward off certain cancers. This recipe features fresh turmeric, milder in taste than the familiar powder and therefore easier to incorporate into your diet. It’s easy to find and looks like bright-orange, fresh ginger (you can also use ground turmeric). Cabbage, another potent ingredient, is loaded with antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C and beta-carotene. Serve this with a side of brown rice or quinoa. Curried Spring Vegetable Sauté with Tempeh
1 tablespoon unrefined coconut oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
1 tablespoon minced, fresh ginger
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 cups thinly sliced cabbage
1 fennel bulb, sliced
4 carrots, sliced
1/2 pound sugar snap peas
1/2 tablespoon ground coriander
1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh turmeric, or 2 teaspoons ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon ground mustard seed
Pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
8 ounces tempeh, any flavor, cut into small chunks
2 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
1. Heat oil over medium heat in a deep pot or skillet and add onion, ginger, and garlic. Sauté until onion starts to brown, about 5 minutes.
2. Add cabbage, fennel, carrots, and snap peas; sauté 3 minutes more. Add coriander, cumin, turmeric, mustard, and cayenne and stir to coat. Add tempeh chunks to skillet and cover with broth. Bring to a boil; then reduce heat to simmer, cover, and cook for 10–15 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.
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Persistent Mavericks find way to win
LOS ANGELES -- Rick Carlisle was back talking about persistence this and persistence that as his Dallas Mavericks headed into Game 1 of their semifinal showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Persistence, Carlisle repeated, will win this series. He stressed the unequivocal need to "stay after" them and "stay into them." He warned how tough it would be, how treacherous stretches will test their mettle often and when least expected.
And somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey, Avery Johnson must be marveling at the fortitude of these gosh-darn Dallas Mavericks.
"That's what we've been living on all year," said Jason Terry, the picture of persistence even through self-inflicted wounds. "You know, we're a veteran team. When we face adversity we don't get down. We stick together and we find a way."
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers learned this in Monday night's 96-94 comeback win for the Mavs. L.A. was put on notice. Their three-peat hopes will be challenged by a team playing for broke and, quite frankly, looking for a fight.
Round 1 went unsuspectingly to Dallas, even after it threatened to melt down and trailed 60-44. Yet this is a squad that's now won three in a row since its horrific 23-point collapse in Game 4 at Portland, one that launched its legion of skittish fans toward the panic button.
They were headed back there during this game, as the Mavs' 38-33 second-quarter lead went up in smoke in the final 5:38 of the first half. Still, they were fine, down five with three seconds to go.
That's when Terry attempted to sabotage the half, his own hot start and the game with a boneheaded foul that turned Lamar Odom's buzzer-beating half-court heave into three free throws with 0.7 seconds showing on the clock. After Odom made them all, Dirk Nowitzki, the recent king of talking about keeping one's composure, let a frustration elbow fly on Ron Artest for a technical and a fourth Lakers freebie and a 52-43 halftime lead.
Still, the Mavs say they didn't flinch in the locker room.
"It wasn't unraveling; it just seemed like it wasn't going our way," Shawn Marion said. "We just had to stay out there, stay aggressive and stay hungry."
Then came the start of the third quarter and not one, not two, but three consecutive lousy passes and -- biff, boom, bang -- the powerful Lakers, spurred by the red-hot Bryant, held a 60-44 lead.
There have been times when that would be it. Done. But on Monday there were no sunken shoulders, no blank stares.
Only a timeout called by Carlisle and an ensuing substitution: Corey Brewer for DeShawn Stevenson.
"We felt like we had a bad start to the third quarter, turned the ball over three or four times in a row, Kobe got hot there in the third," Nowitzki said. "It wasn't looking good. But we talked about it in the huddle: Just stick with it, try to get some stops and not turn the ball over. Just get a shot up every time and give ourselves at least a chance to make it."
And so they did. Brewer, who played all of four minutes in the six-game first-round series, provided instant life. He buried a 3-pointer in the corner. Drove and dished to Tyson Chandler for a dunk. By the time his lone stint of the game was up, 8½ minutes after being summoned, the Mavs trailed 71-66.
It seemed as though Brewer's play not only triggered some life flowing back into the Mavs, but also the realization that outside of a couple of mental lockups, they were doing what was necessary to win. Sure, Kobe was getting his, but the Mavs' defense, especially in crunch time, was handling everybody else, and then even Bryant in the final desperate moments.
The ultra-hyped center matchup played out in Dallas' favor, with Chandler (11 points, nine rebounds) outplaying Andrew Bynum, who finished with eight points and five rebounds in 29 minutes. Pau Gasol's 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting and 11 rebounds were not devastating.
Dallas' offense often got in transition, moved the ball, got five players in double figures and recorded 30 assists on 39 baskets.
The Mavs' bench outscored L.A.'s 40-25. Dallas stayed close on rebounds (44-40) although the Lakers held a considerable edge on the offensive glass. The Mavs took care of the basketball, outside of the wild third quarter when it committed seven of its 11 turnovers, yet cut a 16-point deficit to 78-71 to start the fourth quarter.
And in the battle of the superstars, Nowitzki -- with 28 points, 14 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block -- measured up to Bryant's 36 points, five rebounds and three turnovers, including the crucial errant pass as he tried to drive past Kidd only to be cut off by Chandler to induce the key turnover.
"We just had to keep believing in one another and believe that the tide was going to turn," Chandler said. "We did a poor job closing out the half and it kind of cost us. Other than that, we won every quarter."
It's just one game, but it was a big one. Yes, because the Mavs got the win, but more so because of how they got it.
Carlisle calls it persistence.
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It seems that after rotting in real estate limbo for nearly five years, Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi Deng have reportedly sold their Oyster Bay mansion, Rosehearty.
While news of the sale remains speculation at this point, rumor has it the 10,000-square-foot mansion sold for $9.1 million. A bundle, sure, but a staggering $5.7 million less than the original 2007 asking price of $14.8 million. Those poor Murdochs. Is there no end to their suffering? It's so unfair when bad things happen to good people.
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When I hit Ctrl and F8 (the CRT/LCD switch) and select the middle option ("two monitors"), the projector shows a blank screen, which is actually the extended desktop as I can move my cursor from my computer to projector screen. The same way I can a drag file from screen 1 to screen 2.
This causes a problem. It works okay when I use PowerPoint, but not when I demo some software. In PowerPoint we can select monitor 1 or 2 from drop down.
In display settings for monitor 1, both "Use device as primary monitor" and "Extend my Windows monitor onto this monitor" are grayed out and checked.
For monitor 2, "Extend my Windows monitor onto this monitor" is unchecked.
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Usually cycling through [fcn]+ F8 (or F7 depending on the model of laptop), should go through the options for the sVGA port.
You should have (at least) Laptop only, Laptop & External, External only options.
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Using NVIDIA control panel solved this issue and now I can see Mirror Screens.
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Right click desktop, Graphic Options, Output to, Intel (R) Dual Display Clone (this is what my laptop's option is, your computer may have different wording but it is the 3rd option down), select Notebook + Monitor.
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This work for me.
restart your computer. when it booting up press F8 several time until you get to the screen that ask how do you want to open your computer. then choose Safe Mode. after it boots up. Press Start > All Program > Accessories > System Tools > Restore. Then Restore your to an earlier time. Then pick a date when you know you computer was working and click next. when it reboot my desktop on labtop on my HD TV.
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I was curious about the Luxotiq brand for a long time, as I liked the look of their products and they seemed to be good quality. So when I saw this was in stock, I jumped at the chance to order it.
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It is a very smooth, hard silicone and it has a very faint seam. The silicone is a bit bendy at the neck, but overall it is very inflexible and firm. It's very similar to that of the Lelo Ella.
The shapes are also pretty similar, if you compare the Ella to the smaller end of the Isis. There are a few differences between them. The Ella has a distinct hook, which can get caught on your pubic bone and make it uncomfortable to insert or remove. The Isis has more of a sloped end, which makes it glide in and out easier. I think many people would prefer it for thrusting.
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When I got it, I noticed that the surface wasn't quite perfect. It has a couple very small and faint bumps, and there is one place on the toy where there was a small black smudge and a cluster of very small cuts (like dents you could make with your fingernail). I didn't return it because it's barely noticeable and doesn't detract from the toy very much or make it unsafe. But it's just something I noticed.
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Like the Ella, I preferred using this toy by twisting the handle and slowly moving it in and out of me. It feels amazing when you twist it around.
The rigid silicone isn't ideal for thrusting (it makes me sore), but I'm sure some people will like it. It would also be better for thrusting because it doesn't have a hook that gets caught like the Ella.
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Tricolor LEDs create a flashing array
Jeff Tregre, www.BuildingUltimateModels.com, Dallas, TX; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville -June 24, 2010
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LEDs create a flashing array figure 3You can build a matrix of RGB (red/green/blue) LEDs using a simple and inexpensive circuit comprising the control logic and driver circuit in Figure 1 and some LEDs (Figure 2). The center RGB LED is the first to come on, after which each sequential LED in the 8×8-LED matrix follows. This process gives the appearance that the display is alive and moving outward. This sequence repeats, producing a rainbow effect of colors.
You can adjust the frequency of each clock by changing the values of R17, R19, and R23. Use different frequencies for each clock, which will display eight colors from the 65 Tricolor
LEDs create a flashing array figure 4tricolored LEDs, because using the same frequencies for all the clocks causes your display to appear white. The cost of building this circuit should be $25 to $30. You can purchase 100 5-mm RGB LEDs from eBay for a total of about $18. Be sure to use common- cathode LEDs.
This simple circuit comprises three clocks and three counters, one for each of the three LED colors. Setting each clock frequency to a different rate causes each color of each LED to appear to be random. All resistors are 0.25W, except for R3, R8, and R13, which are 0.5W; R4, R9, and R14, which are 1W; and R5, R10, and R15, which are 1.5W resistors. These high-wattage resistors and the 12 NPN transistors are necessary because all LEDs in this matrix, except the center one, connect in parallel. Start by bending all of the ground leads flat and connecting them together. When wiring the LEDs, begin in the Tricolor
LEDs create a flashing array figure 5center and work outward. You can then mount the LED board onto the top of the PCB (printed-circuit board). Figures 3-7 and this video show the circuit in action. See Table 1 for a parts list.
To add the finishing touches to your project, use a small picture frame and install waxed paper onto the inside of the glass. Mount the LED board ¼ to 1 in. away. The magnifying lens of the LEDs will produce a beautiful effect when they shine through the waxed paper.
Tricolor LEDs create a flashing array
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Tricolor LEDs create a flashing array figure 7
Table 1 Parts List
C1, C4, C6
C2, C3, C5
C7, C8, C9
LED1Red Indicator
LED2Green Indicator
LED3Blue Indicator
65 Common Cathode RGB LEDs
R1, R2, R6, R7, R11, R12, R18, R21, R24
R3, R8, R13
500Ω, ½W
R4, R9, R14
500Ω, 1W
R5, R10, R15
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R16, R20, R22
R17, R19, R23
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Donald T. Regan, the steel-willed financier who was Treasury secretary and, later, an uncommonly powerful chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan until his bitter departure in 1987, died yesterday in Virginia. He was 84 and lived in Williamsburg, Va.
The cause was cancer, said a statement from Merrill Lynch, which he once ran.
Mr. Regan went to Washington in 1981, after stepping down as chairman of Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 1946. He helped transform the firm into one of the largest and most innovative in the banking business.
By the time he left, it was offering not just securities, but also consulting, real estate, credit cards, checking and other services it never had provided before.
Variously described as blunt, engaging, mercurial and quick, Mr. Regan was for seven years one of the president's closest advisers on economics and other fields. In 1981, the year he became Treasury secretary, he helped shape the Economic Recovery Act, a sweeping tax cut, and later wrote a proposal to overhaul the tax system. That was enacted as the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
A convert to Mr. Reagan's supply-side economics, the idea that tax cuts can promote investment and add employment, Mr. Regan was recognized as one of the president's favorites. After signing the 1981 tax cut, the president praised the help of "a very fine salesman named Don Regan."
But in early 1985, he and the president's chief of staff, James A. Baker III, swapped positions, and Mr. Regan was thrust into an arena whose battles left lasting scars.
Because of President Reagan's style of delegating authority, Mr. Regan was widely regarded as one of the most influential White House chiefs of staff. The post enabled him to determine much of what the president heard and saw day to day.
The extent of that power, which he wielded absolutely, was sorely tested, and eroded, before the end of the Reagan presidency.
First was a tumble in Mr. Reagan's popularity over the Iran-contra affair, followed by famously strained relations between Mr. Regan and the president's wife, Nancy Reagan, over managing the presidency.
As the Iran-contra affair unfolded in 1986, the nation learned that some administration officials had illegally sold arms to Iran to try to win freedom for American hostages and that some of the money had been given to the contras, a rebel force in Nicaragua that was trying to oust the Marxist government of Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
Mr. Regan sensed that the president had to recoup his losses through an aggressive counterattack to turn away attention from Iran-contra. Mrs. Reagan was concerned that her husband needed time to recover from surgery for abdominal cancer.
As the convalescence period lengthened and reports of a paralyzed presidency dominated Washington, Mr. Regan became increasingly enraged. For her part, Mrs. Reagan became convinced that Mr. Regan was responsible for her husband's declining popularity and worked behind the scenes to have him fired.
He was forced from office in 1987. Over the next two years, he and Mrs. Reagan published memoirs that included attacks on each other.
Mr. Regan said he had discovered that Mrs. Reagan regularly consulted an astrologer from San Francisco about "good days" and "bad days" for certain presidential activities like trips, personal appearances and even surgery. Mr. Regan spelled that out in considerable detail in his book "For the Record," published in 1988, a year after he left office. On numerous occasions, he wrote, the president was not available to travel because of advice given to Mrs. Reagan by the astrologer, Joan Quigley.
In her book, "My Turn," published in 1989, the former first lady wrote that Mr. Regan "often acted as if he were the president," that he once threatened to dismiss the president's personal secretary, and that no one wanted to work with him because he was "explosive and difficult to deal with."
She defended her faith in Mrs. Quigley, whom she said she consulted to help protect the president from further harm. She emphasized that she had consulted Mrs. Quigley only about scheduling and not on the substantive issues of state.
At the time, Congress was investigating the funneling of the illicit money to the contras, particularly the role of members of the staff of the national security adviser.
President Reagan insisted that he knew nothing about the diversion, and no one suggested that Mr. Regan, as chief of staff, had any knowledge about it, either.
But the commission that looked into Iran-contra criticized Mr. Regan for not knowing what the national security staff was up to. Mr. Regan said he thought that the criticism was unjust and countered that the security staff was under the jurisdiction of the national security adviser, not the chief of staff.
"Does the bank president know whether a teller in the bank is fiddling around with the books?" he asked, answering his own question with a firm, "No."
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Waterjets are similar to this concept. Water is simply a medium which can deliver phenomenal amount of force. This massive force is created by creating extremely high pressure on a single point. When you turn on your water tap, you will have hard time trying to stop the water by plugging the faucet with your hands. The pressure is simply too great for you to easily block the stream of water. Imagine similar concept but much higher pressure. Water will be able to break through the material it hits if the pressure is strong enough, which is the main concept waterjets utilize.
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Teen dies after hit-and-run during brawl
A 17-year-old youth has died after being knocked over in a hit-and-run incident during a mass brawl Brisbane's southeast.
The brawl spilled out onto Station Road in Woodridge late last night and police say during the fight, reportedly between about 80 people, the 17-year-old boy was hit by a car, which then drove off.
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Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist)
For some time now, a large number of politically-conscious working men and women and sympathizers of the Canadian communist movement have rejected the group In Struggle (IS), considering it to be nothing more than a gang of saboteurs.
They have seen IS, once an important member of the Marxist-Leninist movement, doing nothing but harm to workers’ and people’s struggles.
They have seen it spreading anti-communism, openly attacking Chairman Mao and socialist China, and slandering the international communist movement.
They have seen IS degenerating day by day.
But why is IS doing this, they ask. Why did it deviate from Marxism-Leninism so rapidly? How can we explain that IS has changed its nature while it still claims to be Marxist-Leninist? What does the League mean when it calls IS revisionist?
This special issue of October aims to answer all of these questions.
The degeneration of IS is further proof that revisionism is the principal danger for the communist movement, not just on the international scale, but in Canada as well.
Revisionism is an ideology that serves the capitalists. It will exist as long as classes and class struggle exist. Of course, once one form of revisionism is unmasked another more subtle and pernicious one springs up.
IS bears this out. The “Communist” Party of Canada is being increasingly rejected by the working class and no longer suffices to turn workers from the revolutionary path. The bourgeoisie, and the two superpowers, needed a new variety of phoney Marxist-Leninists at their service. IS’s opportunism, its lack of firmness on questions of principle, left it wide open to being undermined by bourgeois ideology.
Our struggle against revisionism has just begun. Throughout the life of the communist party soon to be created, we will have to fight this ideology which misleads the working class. Our Canadian communist movement is young and inexperienced, but we have already learned many lessons from our experiences with IS’s degeneration and through the struggles we led against its opportunism.
“Marxism develops in the struggle against that which is anti-Marxist.” This is as true for us as it is for the international communist movement.
In this special issue of October, we will show how IS’s line and practice as regards the major political questions make it an enemy of the working class. We shall see how its radical phraseology and “Marxist” vocabulary hide a total betrayal of the socialist revolution.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
The Economic World Of Farming And Friends
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By Urban C. Lehner, DTN
Commercial farmers catch a lot of flak these days but at least farmers defend each other. Consider, by contrast, the hits economists specializing in forecasting take from other economists:
--"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look good." (John Kenneth Galbraith)
--"Economic Forecasters are the snake-oil salesmen of my profession." (Federal Reserve economist speaking off the record)
--"Frankly the three blind mice have more credibility than any macro-forecaster at seeing what is coming." (British financial economist quoted in the Financial Times)
Hmm. Sounds like forecasters should watch their tails around farmers, whose wives are reputed to wield carving knives.
Seriously, what's going on here? And does it matter to farmers?
To take the latter question first, it should. Like other business people, farmers benefit when economic forecasts are accurate and suffer when they're off. Forecasts affect confidence and confidence affects the behavior of consumers, investors and other businesses.
As for what's going on, if you suspect the brick-throwing economists are envious because the forecasting economists make more money you may be partly right. That's not the whole story, though. Forecasting boo-boos do indeed abound.
Example: Twice a year, The Wall Street Journal asks 60 economists to predict gross domestic product, inflation and other macro-economic variables. James Bianco of Bianco Research looked at the group's average forecast of changes in long-term interest rates in 17 consecutive surveys. Not only were the forecasters off on the size of the changes; in 65 percent of the cases they got the direction wrong, thinking rates would rise when they fell and vice versa.
That makes it sounds like all forecasts are bunk. Actually, some do have value if you understand their limitations.
Though presented as a single number -- gross domestic product will rise 3.6 percent, for example -- a forecast is better thought of as a range of possible numbers at a particular confidence level. That 3.6 percent is likely an oversimplification of the conclusion of a computerized model that predicted with 70 percent confidence that GDP would rise between 2.8 percent and 4.4 percent and with 90 percent confidence that it would rise between 0.4 percent and 4.8 percent.
Knowing this you might decide the value of the forecast, if any, is to provide an idea of the likely best- and worst-case scenarios.
Another limitation is the date on the forecast. Eventually and probably sooner events will prove or disprove the assumptions built into a forecaster's model; a survey made several months ago is likely to be out of date.
The forecast's time span matters, too. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's detailed studies of economic-forecasting errors (http://tiny.cc/…) confirm what you might expect -- that predictions are less and less accurate the further into the future they try to look. These and other studies suggest forecasts of the current quarter are often fairly good, while those a year out are dicey and those two years out deplorable.
Another common-sense rule of thumb for using forecasts is to avoid relying on any one of them. Chances of being right -- or at least of defining the best and worst possible outcomes -- is higher if the user averages several forecasts.
We've been talking about economic forecasts. Market forecasts also have limitations. One of the fathers of fundamental stock-market analysis, Ben Graham, wrote that it is "absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts."
Telvent DTN Senior Analyst Darin Newsom feels the same way about commodity markets. Chaos theory says future prices of commodities are unknowable. Just as a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing can cause a storm in New York six weeks later, an event appearing on no trader's radar screen today can jolt corn prices tomorrow.
Instead of predicting prices, Newsom listens to what the market is saying about where prices are headed. He focuses on the trend, because in the absence of some intervening event trends tend to continue. He watches other market indicators -- in particular the long and short positions of both hedgers and speculators, but also the commodity's seasonal pattern and where the commodity's current price falls in its historical range -- for signs the trend might be changing.
Listening to the market this way, an analyst can make educated guesses about price -- but they're guesses, not forecasts, and they're not where the real value in the analysis lies. It lies, rather, in an improved understanding of the market's structure, which in turn yields insights into the moves a hedger might make and the risks involved in them.
That's the best anyone can do. The problem with forecasts, market or economic, is that they're built on assumptions about causes and effects based on historical patterns. But chaos theory teaches what Mark Twain once said: "History doesn't repeat itself; at best it sometimes rhymes."
So farmers take heart. Farming is difficult, but at least it's possible to succeed at it occasionally. The odds against economic forecasters getting it right are much higher. That's why even their colleagues in the economic world don't give them much respect.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Yellow Rain vs. Bee Droppings
I've been a long time fan of Radiolab, but one segment on the latest episode truly saddened me.
The theme of the episode was the pursuit of truth – obsessively asking questions until you can arrive at pure, unquestionable facts. (You can listen to the full episode; the specific segment on Yellow Rain can be found here.) I absolutely love Radiolab. Listening to the show on long walks in the city can be the highlight of my day; I've been to live performances that were stunning – I'm a huge fan.
Anyway – this segment discussed something called Yellow Rain. Here are the "unquestionable" facts: In the 1970s, the U.S. withdrew from the Vietnam War, and the Lao communist government (the Pathet Lao) began persecuting the Hmong people, since they had supported the U.S. during the war.
Entire villages were slaughtered. Houses were burned, crops were destroyed, men, women and children killed. During this time, the Hmong began reporting incidents of sticky "yellow rain" falling onto their villages from low-flying planes and helicopters. It coated everything – leaves, rooftops, rocks – with sticky bright yellow substance. After the "rainfall," cows, chickens, and pigs died. People reported horrible stomach pains; worse symptoms included vomiting, seizures, blindness, and death.
Evidence of wood affected by 'yellow rain.' Source
Here's where the truth branches:
One side (the Hmong's):
The Hmong took leaves in for lab testing. Affected by yellow rain, the leaves were deep and dark with bright yellow spots. The U.S. scientists found traces of T2-mycotoxin (capable of permeating through human skin), as well as pollen, which is crazy, because it meant that if the pollen containing the poisons did not land on a person, winds would disperse the pollen and ensure that it ultimately would.
T2-Mycotoxin. Source
The U.S. blamed Russia for these attacks, and used yellow rain as an excuse to start their own chemical warfare by building bombs in Arkansas.
The other side (the professors', and what seemed to be Radiolab's):
A Harvard biologist, Matthew Meselson, claims that what the villagers were experiencing was nothing more than bee feces. Yup, bee feces. Very interestingly, bees hibernate during the winter, and they don't poop until mid-winter, when it's warmer. At that time, the swarm of bees flies outside, about a hundred feet in the air, and then just lets everything go in a mass defecation – which can feel like "light rain." (I hope I never get caught in this.)
The professor proved that this indeed does happen in Southeast Asia, even though the bees there don't hibernate; and upon reanalysis of the lab samples, they couldn't find traces of the initial toxins. Which leads to this conclusion: the Hmong people mistook the yellow rain as chemical warfare, and the U.S. potentially seized this story as an excuse to start building their own weapons.
Bee droppings that resemble yellow rain. Source: Wikipedia
I'm not a scientist. I don't have access to the lab results or resources for analyzing all the pieces of evidence. Radiolab does – but in this episode, they don't use them. Instead of delving into all the facts and findings that could prove whether or not yellow rain was indeed toxin-laced-polin, they take the few facts that they do know from what seemed a cursory conversation with Professor Meselson, and persistently question the interviewee (Eng Yang, a hmong refugee) about his beliefs, asking him over and over if he was so sure that his people weren't just experiencing bee defecation.
You could tell Eng and his niece, the translator, were shocked by these questions. They felt so tangential in comparison to the real issues in the episode – the Hmong genocide. Apparently, Eng and his niece had been given the impression that Radiolab had wanted to hear the untold story about that genocide (which was important to them because until now, people had "been uninterested in the story of the Hmong"), when in reality, it seemed like Radiolab just wanted Eng to admit that his beliefs were based on myths. I felt tricked for them. It was painful to listen to.
And Robert Krulwich, who I love, made the comment that the translator had been monopolozing the entire story to bias it in favor of the Hmong. (And at the end of the interview, when the niece asked for a copy of the interview, he said "you'll need a court order for that – wtf?)
I came across this comment from a Hmong person who had also listened to this episode, which I think words what happened very eloquently:
In every episode, you introduce your guests by offering a brief description of their credentials, you never once mentioned the fact that Kalia (the niece and translator) is an accomplished writer who was the first Hmong American to pen a memoir of her experience nor do you ever offer her uncle's (the interviewee) biography. It was clear to me as someone who could understand him that he is an intelligent man whose opinions mattered as much as the Ivy league educated scientists you regularly feature on your show....
Secondly, Hmong people are farmers by nature, our entire lives were once rooted in the cycle of nature, we are attune to the changing tides of the jungle and weather, we know which plants can poison us and which can heal us. We are not ignorant - we know the difference between bee pollen and weapons of war so to portray us as if we are a community in need of education and correction is arrogant at best.
I haven't done enough research to formulate an opinion on whether or not it was chemical warfare or just a political tool. (It's a super complicated issue – it would probably take me weeks to go through all the data.) I just feel like this entire episode was missing the point, and instead focusing on a fact that is only a single thread of the story, they only shave the surface of research for the purpose of cross-examining a survivor and refugee, and overlook a serious part of history.
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1. Well said. I hope the end result of this shameful episode is that there is more listening to survivors of this. A whole episode listening to their stories would be really interesting.
1. Agreed. Even if Radiolab doesn't do that, I think they've at least stirred up enough curiosity in people to do some research on their own.
3. Odd, you say that Radiolab's questions seemed so tangential to the topic of the episode. Actually, they weren't. The episode wasn't about the Hmong people, or genocides in general. It was about objective truth and what happens when the truth gets in the way of the narrative people have decided for themselves. Mr. Eng firmly believes that chemical weapons were used on his people. Objective analysis conclusively proves that they weren't. End of story. Maybe at some point in the future, Radiolab will do an episode about genocide. When that happens, questions about whether the yellow substance were pollen or chemicals would be tangential. But in an episode about truth, those questions are the ONLY relevant ones.
1. You're right. The episode WAS focused on objective truth, and not about highlighting the Hmong genocide. But that's not how the episode turned out.
If Radiolab was intent on finding the "facts of the matter," they would have more objectively represented the facts of the case – e.g., that Eng Yang was familiar with bees and their behavior, or that he's well respected in the Hmong community as a preserver of their history. Maybe they could've interviewed the researchers who analyzed the lab samples. But they don't. Instead, they presented a few facts of the case, and refused to look more deeply at the complicated ones.
You're saying that those questions are the ONLY relevant ones. No, I think there are a lot more. And asking those other questions are more relevant to the theme of the episode than simply pushing someone to admit that THEIR subjective experiences are flawed.
2. The Hmong people aren't the only ones who have decided on a truth because it fits their narrative and are unwilling to look at other analyses or scientific research. Radiolab had a narrative: that Reagan was bad and wrong, and that anything that the US could use as an excuse to create chemical weapons was evil. Radiolab made it very clear that Reagan and US politics was what they actually cared about, and anything that complicated their predetermined Manichean progressive narrative had to be dismissed. (I think that there's plenty of room to say that, for example, US involvement in Laos (and Vietnam and Cambodia) was wrong, and producing chemical weapons was wrong, while still thinking that this may have happened. But Radiolab wanted a good-vs-evil narrative.)
4. As a science-themed show, I expected Radiolab to delve more into the scientific details. Is there evidence that bee poop has rained down in other circumstances? Is there evidence that bee poop can kill people?
5. How dare you say the Hmong decided the truth because it fit their narrative. How about those who claim pseudo-science as their weapon creative an absurd bee-pollen story to fit their narrative?
Which makes more sense? The independent accounts of many hundreds of Hmong refugees of chemical attacks, or the absurd idea that any outside TRUE SCIENTIST had any real access to Laos at that time, let alone the remote sites where chemical attacks would have occurred?
What makes more sense, a primitive mountain people collectively made-up detailed stories of Yellow Rain to support the agenda of Ronald Reagan, that a people that lived in the mountains for centuries would have had no idea about their environment and bee-defecation, or that a completely pissed-off Pathet Lao government which has an undeniable history of trying to exterminate the Hmong used chemical weapons against them?
Think about it.
6. Cecilia, as a person who assisted many hundreds of Hmong refugees, I can tell you that I heard many detailed individual accounts of chemical attacks against the Hmong. These accounts were unsolicited. These people would have had nothing to gain by making-up these stories and telling them to me. The stories were believable, they were numerous, and they contained details that aligned.
The treatment of the Yang's on Radiolab was shocking. First of all, I have not heard any convincing science that tells a narrative that can explain away the accounts of the Hmong refugees. Whatever the toxicity of bee-pollen may be, it's entirely absurd to contemplate that a people that lived off the land and where completely in tune with their environment, would have been so unaware of the phenomenon of bee-defecation in toxic clouds, lol.
Using disjoint fragments of science and psuedo-science, that actually prove nothing, do not explain-away the accounts of the numerous Hmong who lived through this horror.
The agenda of the communist Pathet Lao government to displace and exterminate the highland minorities of Laos -- the Hmong in particular -- is an undeniable fact. Given this history of government sponsored extreme violence and persecution against the Hmong, which is more believable, that the Pathet Lao and their cohorts used chemical weapons against the Hmong in the dense jungles of Laos where it was extremely difficult to attack them, or that bee-defecation wiped-out myriad Hmong?
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
African cuisine: The last food taboo?
It's really the ultimate mystery for a foodie like me: why the lack of a mainstream African food scene? I sit and ponder this; I cry, I raise my hands heaven ward in search of a divine clue, I console myself with re-runs of Dorinder Hafner on dodgy VHS or I venture to Brixton market and loiter suspiciously around the mounds of dried salt fish and plantain; but still, it doesn't elicit any answers! I then decided enough was enough and a more pro-active approach was needed, so I went on line and posted on a well-known food website searching for peoples theories on the billion-cedi question. The responses hit me with the ferocity of a plane door opening at Kotoka airport (guys, you know what I mean, that heat is serious!), African food is considered inferior! Some of the responses to my enquiry went as follows: 'It's all bland pastes and tough meat' (Please sit down while I spoon feed you my Mum's homemade shito, and then tell me how bland you think 'African food' is!) 'I know nothing about it!' They keep it in the community' ' African food? You mean Moroccan ?...And other comments of an annoyingly similar ilk. My comeback to this? Nothing. Take note my trusted Hot Plantainers, for all will be revealed in due course...but in the meantime, get involved as I'm fond of saying; what are your opinions as to the reasons why Sub-saharan food isn't as popular as other cuisines? | <urn:uuid:8f9dbfcf-03cb-4258-95a6-b3912e2e92af> | http://hot-plantain.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html | en | 0.941101 | 0.095023 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Thursday, June 19, 2008
News From Cannes: Angleterre, Nul Points. And The Cheating Continues
So the Press Lions are out.
The UK didn't win any. Not one. Is our whole nation completely useless? Must be, I guess.
I actually like the Grand Prix.
And this one.
But there's soooooooooo much scam in there.
Gratifying to see, for example, that the Matchbox marketing budget is not limited to Outdoor - their multi-execution poster campaign (all 3 ads the same of course) took Gold - but they can afford press campaigns too, for which they won a Silver Lion. Congratulations to that noted bastion of creativity, Ogilvy Frankfurt.
And I hope Heinz Hot Ketchup is benefiting from their big push in Belgium. Last year they ran not only a poster campaign with three different executions (which took Silver) but also the same executions as a press campaign, which won a Bronze.
Of course they did.
Simple solution: set a 25-site minimum for Outdoor (excepting special builds) just like they did for Campaign Poster. And press winners must supply a signed-off media schedule.
Cannes may suffer a serious drop in entries. But it will gain a healthy rise in integrity.
Anonymous said...
i don't like the grand prix.
i think it's bollocks.
student book.
where's the brand?
where's the big idea?
where's the paradigm shift everyone loves to witter on about these days?
it's a small idea for a small product.
and the jury thought it was unanimously brilliant - i give up.
Anonymous said...
I can't believe they don't do that already? Bastard. I could have entered my spec book. Could have won something if this shite did:
A blind war vet with no sight or arms could have done a better retouch job on this very familiar brand - Anils Fucking Anvils.
Anonymous said...
The anvil thing is a wind-up.
(Isn't it?)
Lunar BBDO said...
I'm bored of the visual joke style of ads.
Instead, check out the Henkel ads that won gold.
Are they scam? They look too expensively made for that. And they don't look like 'ads'.
Anonymous said...
Jesus. Bitter as fuck.
Anonymous said...
Not to mention it's Henkel. I've work for them and let's just say Cillit Bang looks like Lynx compared to them.
Anonymous said...
@ anon 2:37
Maybe it's because you don't have Erik Vervroegen on your team.
Anonymous said...
Did you have a brief for your Grand Prix, Scamp?
Anonymous said...
Don't worry, I can always chain some monkeys to macs running Photoshop.
Anonymous said...
That's a fair question.
Or your King Kong ad which the client didn't actually like.
Blake said...
Not a frequent commentator but find the comments for more satisfying a read.
Anonymous 2:14 PM: How can you question where the brand is? The brand is Energiser and the copy says "battery" in it. The engagement is for the reader to make the connection. The big idea is also clear and has been demonstrated in several DIFFERENT executions. What is not clever and worth the prize here? If you can't see it then I recommend that you do give up.
As for Angleterre Nul Points as Scamp puts it, I don't see what is so shocking about this. The rest of the world has been upping their game for a long while. The fact that an agency that comes from a relatively unknown ad sector of the world is no reason to say they aren't more deserving than UK shops. UK (and I am including Manchester, Brighton, and everywhere else as well as 'London') need to swallow their pride and accept that the competition isn't from your mate across the desk but worldwide.
Anonymous 2:31 PM: "Bitter as fuck." Agreed.
Suck it up people
Scamp said...
We did have a brief for the Grand Prix winning ad. It was 'Polo is small but tough.'
I don't know if the client liked the King Kong ad or not, but they spent quite a bit of money running it in press and on posters.
Morey said...
Spot on. I love you.
Anonymous said...
anon 2.57
anon 2.14 here
sorry, i should have made myself clear.
how does this poxy little campaign help build the Energizer brand?
what would the brief have been?
'remind white south african parents that energizer batteries last a long time'
apologies for not being blown away by the scale of their ambition.
Anonymous said...
Energizer, Wonderbra, Matchbox, this newish detergent/stain remover/P&G fad, Strong Coffee, Che Guevara, Hitler, Bush, sound prof windows, Anti-flea dog collars.
That's Cannes for you this year.
How fucking boring.
Anonymous said...
which tv channels did small but tough run on, scamp?
sorry. i'm too young to remember.
Blake said...
I don't want to be anonymous so here I am, Blake (2:57 PM comment as well)
Anon 2:14PM;
Whilst the ads were produced in South Africa and do seem to target the white segment, the idea and brief still seem clear to me. Demonstrate that buying longer lasting batteries is better in the long run. They tackled it from a different point of view, demonstrated products that need that kind of long charge and are put through a lot of demand. They probably also wanted their brand to become synonymous with family life.
This is just me trying to show that there are quite a few legitimate possible brief propositions.
However, each to their own. I like it and think it worthy but you don't have to.
Anonymous said...
Anon 3:19 PM. It was a print campaign.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
It's not on the website yet but the shortlist is out and you won't like it.
Anonymous said...
anon 2.57/blake
me again
well put.
let's agree to differ.
Anonymous said...
78 shortlists for the UK in film.
How's that for a performance?
Anonymous said...
Why is a dog sitting in the sun a good ad for a car with a sunroof? If an animal's instict is the same as a human's, does it mean i should go round sniffing arses and licking my balls too?
Anonymous said...
Anon 4:07 PM, link?
Anonymous said...
anon 4:07
No link for now.
Anonymous said...
sorry, meant anon 4:10
No link for now
Ted said...
Totally agree with you, Scamp.
Anonymous said...
Here's the link:
Anonymous said...
It used to be pink - two thirds of it.
Now its twisted and mutated
and coming back to bite us.
Anonymous said...
Get your GP to check it, mate.
Could be a STD.
Fred said...
The US has 599 (yes, 599) films on the shortlist.
But, of course, they submitted way more than the UK. (1198 x 381)
Pseudo Jeff said...
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Anonymous said...
Why do we bother playing with a straight bats
and stout hearts?
We all know how to break the rules.
Let's have a year of playing really dirty!
Anonymous said...
Craig Davis, the JWT worldwide chief creative officer, and president of the Film and Press juries, is clearly irked.
A distinct froideur settled in at the press conference over which he was presiding when journalists began to question the reasons behind a total absence of UK Press Lions winners and a meagre showing by the US.
When one asked him to shed light on where most of the good work was emerging, he rounded on him, saying, “I know it’s your job to ask questions, but can’t you just celebrate the great work in the Grand Prix? The UK and US is not a category.”
(Campaign Blog)
fred said...
Film short list:
Pseudo Jeff said...
hi simon, it's me janson from adsareboring
I'm enjoying this debate you've got here and I've posted my perspective on adsareboring (i'm from singapore)
But apologies first as I don't mean to steal your thunder and direct everyone to look at our blog but it's quite a long post, took me a while to write and this stupid comments thing have fucked me up before, so much so that I have to retype my comments...
so i've posted on my blog there. let me know what you think. maybe we should all post our views here...
Anonymous said...
I work in advertising and the best thing ive seen in ages was that english cricketer who's not really english swapping hands at the last minute
Anonymous said...
so just the 650 ads on the shortlist then...
Anonymous said...
Anonymous @ 5:57 PM. Wait until you see an Argentine picking up the Film Grand Prix for Britain.
Anonymous said...
Saatchis NY scammed agency of the year last year and it seemed to benefit all parties concerned. Also, Droga made a name at Saatchis Singapore before moving to London and upwards. Seems that scamming and collecting award along the way to the top is just how it works in the global arena.
Don't mind scam work if it's good. Perhaps there should be a separate category at the awards shows for scam. Everyone used to moan about charity ads too being unfair because they're easier to win awards on.
Creatives are promoted on their awards. I've never heard of anyone getting a pay rise or becoming creative director for just putting the hours in and being a decent bloke.
Q- Is tactical work considered scam?
Anonymous said...
Scamp - 'Congratulations to that noted bastion of creativity, Ogilvy Frankfurt.'
You have an awful attitude. Makes me feel ashamed to work in this industry. Reason number 274: An ad agency has to have a heritage of award winning ads in order for them to even be considered for an award.
The sooner this type old-fashioned snobbery leaves the industry, the better. I've started reading your blog to remind myself how not to think.
Anonymous said...
Nah, you Brits are just bitter cos Droga, an aussie went to London and made all of you look like ridiculous. He's a talented man and that's the reason of his success.
Love from NYC.
Anonymous said...
And what of Mr Granger? He's from SA and has also risen through the ranks by being a scam meister.
Agree, Droga is a legend, yet he has a dubious past.
Scamming doesn't mean these guys aren't smart or even great, they're just a wee bit shifty.
Scamming's a well-trodden path, so it seems strange that people are all up in arms.
Anonymous said...
I'm so glad about the Film Shortlist that don't even mind that Orange toss being there.
Anonymous said...
granger is one of the worst. it's a little known fact that erik vervroegen spent 3 years learning his craft from tony granger at tbwa hunt lascaris in johannesburg
Anonymous said...
Little known? It's on Erik CV.
Scamp said...
Dear 6.43, you raise an interesting point - does an agency's heritage matter?
Well, basically, it does.
It doesn't affect my judgement of how good their ads are - I hope I'm above that. Indeed, I think the Matchbox ads are pretty good. But it affects my trust.
I know W&K have the Nike account, and I know they have great creatives and account handlers there, who work bloody hard to get real ads through, so any W&K Nike ad I see, I can pretty much trust 100%.
Ogilvy Frankfurt have never done a good ad before, as far as I know. There's no heritage. That makes me less likely to give them the benefit of the doubt, when they present a multi-execution multi-media campaign for a tiny brand.
That's all I meant.
But happy to be proved wrong, if you would care to send me the media schedule.
Anonymous said...
Which would you prefer Grand Prix Press or Grand Prix Telly?
Gorillaxxxx said...
have you ever read 'lovestruck' in thelondonpaper?
all the anonymous posts on here are starting to sound like that..
'anonymous 5.47, you caught my eye whilst i was trainsurfing in brockley. you hate cannes lions too. you have lovely cleavage. drink?'
Rob Mortimer said...
And create a new category for 'limited run or concept' ads.
Anonymous said...
I remember this anti-british creative feeling starting some years back, alot of it by people in agencies over here.
I remember a certain Jeremy Craigen saying in campaign that he doesn't look at books from young british teams anymore. all the books 'sat by his door' were from foreign teams.
the thinking behind this i think was that if you're not from britain you will automatically come up with ideas that are more fresh.
an utterly moronic way of going about hiring. and he certainly wasn't/isn't the only one.
I think there's alot of positive descrimination in awards juries towards non london agencies. and alot of grudges from the past.
Anonymous said...
Not that I agree with Jeremy on this one but can you really blame him?
The best creative in London is not English and I doubt any of his works could have been ever done by an English man.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Did anyone realise that 'Cannes awards two thousand and eight' is an anagram of 'lynch cheating twats from abroad'
quite amazing.
Anonymous said...
Creating "different" ads isn't the problem. It's getting some recalcitrant, unimaginative, fearful, lazy client to buy the bugger that's the problem.
I'd love to know the real process that Fallon went through to get Gorilla on air.
I bet it wasn't show ad to CD, CD suggests changes, show ad to planner, planner suggests changes, show ad to client, client suggests changes,
show ad to research group, research suggests changes,
make ad,
show finished ad to CD, CD suggests changes,
show ad to planner, planner suggests changes, show ad to client, client DEMANDS CHANGES,
ad goes on telly.
Awards follow.
No, I bet it was simpler than that.
Anonymous said...
Yeah, it was more like this:
Juan turns on computer.
Juan searches "funny gorilla" on
Juan sticks Cadbury's logo in it.
Simple yet groundbreaking, innit?
Anonymous said...
I can do that and I'm from Barking.
Anonymous said...
yeah, but you didn't.
Anonymous said...
They filmed the Gorilla thing and took it to Cadburys as a spec idea.
Anyone know how to find out the Titanium shortlist. Link on the site doesn't seem to be working.
Anonymous said...
Funnily enough, the cadbury brief was first at publicis before fallon were given it. Similar ideas were presented and never even made it past the cd let alone the client. Rumbol would never have bought this sort of mad stuff from publicis anyway because they haven't established a reputation for doing great work. It goes to show that there are a lot of different factors at play here. Good agencies can do average work and this can then be projected to great because of their bbh/fallon labels, whereas the less creative hothouses like grey are marked down, even if they do ground-breaking work. It is therefore good if these places, even the german ones are given more of a chance by squeezing out a bit of scam. Let the onslaught begin.
Anonymous said...
Rumour has it this campaign has been awarded gold:
Anonymous said...
Anonymous 10:09am
The best creativeS in London are british.
get a grip son.
Anonymous said...
Are they going to be the ones picking up the Grand Prix tomorrow night?
Didn't think so, old bean.
Rob Mortimer said...
But it is really an anagram of:
Now Anaconda Dreadnaughts Shit Wets
Anonymous said...
You're doing too many drugs for a planner, mate. Did you get them at the editing suite?
Anonymous said...
They filmed the Gorilla thing and took it to Cadburys as a spec idea.>>>>>
did they? if so, great idea. there are some film ideas that are just better shot and then presented. "gorilla drums" doesn't sound like much, does it?
Anonymous said...
Check out the energiser ads that actually ran.
Anonymous said...
If you've ever worked for someone who's built a career on scam, you'll realize the majority of them can't sell a real ad. They can't deal with real clients.
Scam is fraud. It pads resumes and plumps the credentials and capability of otherwise terrible agencies.
You might think scam is harmless, but if these awards have any influence on hiring decisions, talent recruitment, or client consideration, it's nothing more than an industry embarassment.
Len said...
I agree, Scamp. Though tactical ads are not scam. Ghosts and one offs are.
Not everyone has done scam ads though.
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't BBH have a strict policy against scam ads and it is a sackable offense to let even a 'minor adjusted' advert be entered into shows?
Many other creatives and agencies have a basic code of gamesmanship ethics with are equally respectable.
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Best Kids Parties: Focus on Reusable
Best Kids Parties: Focus on Reusable
Carrie McBride
Nov 23, 2012
Name: Alexander (2)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Alexander was originally slated to have a "cars and trucks and things that go" party, but I grew tired of making things for parties that would only be disposed of. Instead, I tried to buy and make things this year that we could use in subsequent "birthday" themed birthday parties.
We bought a cool felt "Happy Birthday" train a few years back, and I loved how it could be stored and saved for future years. This year we supplemented it with: reusable train candleholders, reusable airplane candle holders, (Alexander chose the airplanes this year) a birthday candle train (in lieu of a birthday candle ring), homemade felt and paper banners and garlands, (as well as some purchased at Target), some colorful melamine plates to use as "party ware," and a reusable felt birthday crown. I've made my own before, but I wanted a simple one that didn't have an age or theme, and could be used for both boys. I bought it at Felted Kitten's etsy shop, and we love it.
One of my favorite DIYs is the polka dot table cloth, made from a tutorial found on
Even though I do some amateur graphic design, I challenged myself to use all free resources found online for the "party printables." When you don't have a theme, and use many colors, this opens up a lot of options. The labels for the water bottles were made using "lunchbox jokes" printables, for instance!
We did wind up using some paper plates and napkins for the cake and dessert, having run out of "normal" plates. My goal for next year is to create an inexpensive stash of multicolored cloth napkins to use for birthdays and other shindigs.
Thanks JoAnne! Readers, see more of Alexander's party here.
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Anthony J. Pelletier, Ph.D. anthonyp at scripps.edu
Fri Jun 7 16:02:40 EST 1996
In article <4p7dc4$t16$1 at mhade.production.compuserve.com>, Margaret Fowler
<101722.35 at CompuServe.COM> wrote:
> substitute for measured argument and evidence.
> Each of these quest-
> movements;
I don't understand your conlusion. Why do you conclude that the
cytoskeleton would interfere with intracellular movement? On the one
hand, you say below that the cytoskeleton does not exist. But, you seem
pretty sure of its properties. Is it necessarily so that a network of
fibers is refractory to intracellular movement? Personally, I can imagine
many mechanisms wherein such a network, given the appropriate motor
system, could facilitate intracellular movement. So it is in no way
obvious that the presence of intracellular movement is inconsistent with a
cytoskeleton. It is inconsistent if and only if the cytoskeleton is a
rigid network whose effective pore size is smaller than the molecules that
must diffuse through it. I've seen no evidence of this, and in fact much
evidence to the contrary.
As a somewhat strained analogy, particles the size of electrons have
little problem passing through apparently solid material such as wood.
In fact, a quick calculation of diffusion coefficients tells you that a
molecule the size of a protein could not diffuse from one side of a cell
to another in any time reasonable in comparison to the cells life.
Moreover, movement must be directional. This would seem to make necessary
the existence of some structure along which molecules can be transported
Then, there are the data to consider. Just to pick one, how do you
explain the incorporation of fluorescently labeled tubulin into what
appear to be fillements in the cell? what would you call these
microtubules if not a cytoskeleton?
It would take far too long to go into even a small fraction of the data.
However, let's take my favorite molecules, Integrins, which we think
violate two of your rules in that they are transmembrane proteins and that
they associate with elements of the cytoskeleton. Biochemistry,
immunofluorescence and genetic evidence all support the idea that these
proteins have a portion outside the membrane and one inside, that the
region inside assciates with proteins we consider part of the
cytoskeleton, and that these associations are necessary to maintain cell
shape. Are you saying all these data must be flawed because they don't
fit with your first-principles argument?
> in subcellular fractionation they change the entropy of their systems
> free energy, which drives all the biochemical reactions they are
> studying, and at the same time, they have refused for fifty years to
> do the necessary control experiments to find out by how much;
No biochemist worth a damn believes this. We all are accutely aware that
removing the enzymes from their environment can grossly alter the
reactions, for many reasons including but not limitted to the ones you
cite. That's why we use all these hand-waving terms like "local high
concentration" to account for an an entropy term cannot quantify.
as for the "proper controls," we do try.
> 3. I have always suggested alternative and testable hypotheses, not
> open to the criticisms of current views, for example, how to local-
> ise biochemical activities without disruption of tissue, the struc-
> ture of the living cell, the cellular structure of the central
> nervous system, the passage of excitability from one neuron to
> another, etc, etc.
Many of us try to do this. What you have said above does not give me
great confidence in your methods. However, I would love to read how, for
example, we could better examine the biochemistry even something "simple"
like glycolysis in the cell.
> 4. The fundamental questions I must raise with the Internet
> cytologists are:
> 'By what criteria are questions improper?'
Your questions are not improper. They may assume facts not in evidence,
or disregard many things for which there is evidence, but they are not
In science, the only time a question is improper (as a scientific
question) is when the person asking it does not accept the possibility of
being wrong.
I hope you acknowledge at least the formal possibility that you may be wrong?
> 'Do all academics have a duty to address the difficulties and
> apparent contradictions of their own views?'
sure. That is a truism
> 'Do they believe that progress can be made without examining
> their own views?'
no, of course not. not any good ones. Do you examine the possibility
that your views are wrong?
> 'Would they disagree that a good academic should answer all
> these questions in the affirmative?'
well...your first question was not framed in a yes/no format, the answer
to the second is "yes" and the answer to the third is "no."
As for re-checking others findings, there is some limit,practically, in
what I can do. I certainly do not take their conclusions without critical
examination of the data. But I cannot repeat all their experiments.
There are many published papers I have read whose conclusions I think are
not supported by the data. I consider these as I design and interpret my
One ground rule I will have, if we are to have any discussion:
Disagreeing with you is not the same as failing to examine data critically.
Ok, so, i can examine data, look at both side of the argument, and still
think you are wrong, if that turns out to be the case, and my scientific
integrity is still intact.
Anthony J. Pelletier, Ph.D.
Assistant Member, Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA
anthonyp at scripps.edu
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alright. so why the balls have i not heard much about this duo known as CULTURE PROPHET??? their remixes are off the charts and have an amazing vibe. if you haven’t heard of them before i highly encourage you to start bumpin their tracks in your jeeps and geos. also, i know that they came out with an excellent remix of justice’s planisphere, so keep your ears out for it. | <urn:uuid:8c0788ae-1720-4ebd-9080-ce82e5dc7fac> | http://www.gottadancedirty.com/tag/culture-prophet/ | en | 0.964656 | 0.095246 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
From geek to glamour in 30 years
Something very strange has happened over the past 30 years. A network of computers originally built for the US Department of Defence in the late Sixties has transformed into the mother of all networks and is now accessed by more than 300 million people worldwide. During those years, the internet has taken many forms. In the Seventies, it moved away from its military base and became the home of the educational and technologically savvy communities. Then, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and transformed this rather dull, largely text-based system into a network that could handle images.
It didn't take long for big business to see the potential of this newly graphical web, and the process of transforming a military/educational network into a huge commercial entity began. By the late Nineties, the computer geeks that you'd normally avoid at parties had become technology gurus raking in salaries of £100,000 plus, not to mention hefty stock options.
The internet has slipped so seamlessly into 21st-century culture that you'd swear it had always been there. You can't go to a dinner party nowadays without having to listen to somebody expounding a "great idea" for a web business. Dot-com has become a household word, and even your Gran has heard of Amazon. BBC2 can't get enough of those fly-on-the-wall documentaries about net entrepreneurs, and Hollywood producers are falling over themselves to be the first out with a dot-com movie. But the hype has to stop sometime, and many net analysts reckon that the time is now. According to calculations done by the heavyweight business magazine Barron's, the net darling Amazon will run out of money in 35 months, while the online retailer CD Now has enough cash to last only a month. Barron's ladled on the gloom by predicting that, out of the 207 net companies it investigated, a quarter of them would run out of cash within 12 months.
The reality is slightly less dramatic. Money will no longer be made available for every web business idea put forward by a student with a smattering of html skills. Quite rightly, net businesses will now have to prove themselves like any other business - they'll need a decent business plan, a strong management team and a good idea.
In a sense, none of this matters; the internet has pulled us so far along the technological superhighway that there's no turning back now. But we do need to understand that the net presents us with some serious issues that need tackling. The internet is largely an unregulated environment and, no matter how many net experts tell us it's a safe place to hang out, we all know that it can be a haven for paedophiles and racists. There's a battle going on between the old-school net purists, who think that any form of government regulation is heavy-handed censorship, and the new breed of net users, who want to protect their families from the seamier side of the net. We have to recognise that, now the net has forced its way into our homes, the content has to be regulated, just like the programmes we see on television.
On both a national and global level, we also have to deal with the very real danger of creating an underclass of citizens who can't afford to access the internet, or who simply don't want to learn how to use new technology. The government wants to interact with its citizens online; communicating digitally is much cheaper than through any other medium - and it's fast, too. But people cannot be excluded from the democratic process just because they are poor, or because they don't know a mouse from a modem.
The situation becomes even more serious when you look at the take-up of the net in third-world countries. In the US, a typical monthly salary will buy you a new PC; in Bangladesh, you'd have to save up for eight years to have enough money to buy one. Many of the world's population don't fit into the demographic pattern of a typical net user, and something has to be done to make sure that the world's people are not split into those who have technology and those who don't.
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Fashions by Missoni
The Missonis
Design Is a Family Affair
While they may be considered one of Italy's most prominent fashion families, for the Missonis, it's just the family business. In 1997, Angela Missoni inherited mother Rosita's role as top executive and creative director. Rosita, after realizing retirement was not for her, took over the Missoni Home Collection. Now, a third generation has joined in—Angela's 23-year-old daughter, Margherita, is Missoni's muse and the face of the 2006 Missoni fragrance campaign. | <urn:uuid:832fd8bf-2109-4c2c-b9d7-5834cd9ebb33> | http://www.oprah.com/style/Fashions-by-Missoni/print/1/?slide=17 | en | 0.963303 | 0.019342 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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RE[4]: The article
by Alfman on Tue 6th Nov 2012 17:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: The article"
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Thom Holwerda,
"That's why I used a Google link. Should be accessible through that, right?"
Doesn't work for me. I disabled all blockers and still a no go. I tried to do the search directly from google, still not accessible.
I know what your talking about though, some news sites had a policy in place to enable one person to read the article from search engines, but when he'd send the link to others they'd have to pay.
Edit: To clarify, a paragraph excerpt is readable, but there's a link about becoming a subscriber to continue reading. Clicking that link shows a page that asks the user to become a 3 month subscriber for $22.
Edited 2012-11-06 17:27 UTC
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1. You drop a course prior to the drop deadline; or
2. You withdraw from the college within the deadline
NOTE: Refunds are not issued for course withdrawals.
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What's new in New Yorker, etc.
What's new in New Yorker, etc.
What's new in New Yorker, etc.
Summaries of what's in Time, Newsweek, etc.
Oct. 27 2006 4:01 PM
Revoking Bush's Evangelical Card
New Republic on the evangelical backlash against Bush.
The New Republic.
New Republic, Nov. 6 The cover piece assesses Tempting Faith, a new book by evangelical Christian David Kuo that charts his political seduction and ultimate disillusionment. Kuo, who served as deputy director for the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, loved Bush but disliked his message to evangelicals: "Kuo listened as Bush lied through his teeth, claiming credit for making faithbased initiatives central to his presidency … and citing wildly inflated figures for how much the administration was spending on the poor." But Kuo—"young, idealistic, and phenomenally naïve"—trusted Bush's sincerity. The president's recovery from alcoholism somehow made him even more infallible to Kuo. But, as the author notes, "Testimonialism simply does not make for serious politics (or serious religion)." A piece examines how Clinton-era fiscal policy, dubbed "Rubinomics" after Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, has taken a hit under George W. Bush. Recent economic growth has mainly benefited the rich, a trend that has "begun to unravel" the Clintonites' confidence in remedies such as fiscal responsibility.— C.B.
The Economist.
Economist, Oct. 28 In the face of probable changes in strategy following the American midterm elections, an article and an editorial argue that the United States and Britain should not abandon Iraq. The editorial concedes that "cutting your losses is sometimes the sensible thing to do," but argues that "by persevering, America stands at least some chance of putting Iraq on a more stable trajectory. By leaving, it is almost certain to make things worse." The article reviews the dire situation and some possible strategies, such as a pullout timetable. The piece agrees that a new plan is needed: "Yes, but what?" A major survey of French society, published in anticipation of next year's presidential election, reiterates the need for "radical reform." France is politically, economically, and socially stagnant, and many commentators have a fatalistic attitude about the future. But the Economist is optimistic: "For almost every weakness" from which the French suffer, "it is possible to find a matching strength." What is needed is a "Madame Thatcher"—a visionary leader capable of forcing through major "pro-competitive reforms."— B.W.
New York Times Magazine.
New York Times Magazine, Oct. 29 A piece analyzes the role of Islam in the nuclear era. With Sunni-Shiite violence escalating in Iraq, Muslims may pose a greater threat to each other than to the West. A nuclear Iran would change the rules of warfare, given that the practice of suicide bombing "unsettles the theory of deterrence," the writer contends. Scholars disagree on how Islam regards mass violence: Shariah law forbids the killing of women and children, as well as "offensive jihad" without the authorization of a "legitimate Muslim leader." But what happens if a nation's leaders apply a martyrdom complex to their own people? One radical Saudi scholar believes military inferiority justifies violation of Islamic law if using WMD is the only way "unbelievers can be repelled." A piece profiles Tony Snow, the "gloriously glib" White House press secretary whose charm has put a friendly face on an embattled administration. He's the anti-McClellan: "Snow's style is basically cheery: Gee, isn't it fun to run the world?"— C.B.
New York Magazine.
New York, Oct. 30
An article chronicles the author's experimentation with the Calorie Restriction "lifestyle." CR buffs believe their life expectancy will increase if they subsist on a caloric intake that nears starvation levels. How does CR differ from anorexia? According to one devotee, "[t]he focus of CR is health. Nobody here is trying to figure out how to eat less and disappear. The constant thought is, 'How can I pack more nutrition into my calories?'—and that's not something an anorexic is doing. Anorexia is slow suicide." A piece reports that New Jersey may be on the verge of electing its first Republican senator since 1972. At a time when Republican candidates are running scared, Tom Kean Jr. may end up besting Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez because, as the son of one the state's most popular governors, Kean has his dad's legacy working for him, while Menendez has to contend with a legacy of crooked Jersey Democrats.— Z.K.
The New Yorker.
The New Yorker, Oct. 30
Connie Bruck assesses the state of microfinance, in part by profiling "godfather of microcredit" Muhammad Yunus, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. He hit on the idea of giving very small loans—a few dollars at a time—to poor villagers during the 1974 famine in his native Bangladesh; and his Grameen Bank subsequently proved that the idea worked, loaning out more than $5 billion over the years. Today, Yunus is at odds with a new cohort of microlending visionaries who want to make microcredit profitable, instead of relying on government and donor support. Yunus fears that in doing so, microcredit banks will abandon the "very poor" for the "less poor," and with them his dream of eliminating poverty altogether. George Packer spotlights groups in Washington that are earnestly trying to cook up alternative strategies for Iraq that acknowledge that "a unified and democratic Iraq" is no longer in the offing, and condemns the Bush administration for stifling internal dissent on Iraq and burying its head in the sand.— B.W.
The Weekly Standard.
Weekly Standard, Oct. 30 An editorial pleads with Republicans to get out and vote on Election Day. Sure, Iraq is a boondoggle, Republicans have been spending like Democrats, and a new GOP scandal seems to sprout up on a weekly basis, but now is not the time for conservatives to give up by shirking their civic duty: "For them to skip out on their obligation to vote in this election over a petty grievance—or for that matter, over a not-so-petty grievance—would mark them as politically childish,"harangues Fred Barnes. A profile of Montana Senate candidate Jon Tester suggests he's representative of a new breed of Democrat emerging from such red-state bulwarks as Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah. Christened by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas as "Libertarian Democrats," this hybrid is wary of government abusing its power, but also understands that "no one is truly free if they fear for their health, so social net programs are important," the blogger contends.— Z.K.
Time and Newsweek.
Newsweek and Time, Oct. 30 A Newsweek piece examines how moderate Democrats are homing in on swing voters in conservative bastions like Tennessee. In his push for a Senate seat, Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. combines religious rhetoric with attacks on the Republicans' handling of Iraq, but still calls President Bush "my friend." Ford has resisted labels by voting conservatively on social issues like the gay marriage amendment. But in a predominately white state, race—Ford comes from a prominent black family—can be a wild card: "If he wins, they are going to write textbooks on his campaign," says Phil Singer, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. A Time piece considers the role of Christian conservatives in the upcoming midterm elections. Republicans earned their support this term by securing two Supreme Court seats and restricting stem-cell funding. Recent scandals have raised questions about GOP morality, but religious leaders are rallying voters anyway: "Yes, what Mark Foley did was wrong," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told radio listeners, "but it is still important to go to the polls and let our voices be heard."
Iraq unraveling: A Newsweek piece findsAmerican soldiers stationed near Sadr City, a Shiite-militia headquarters, growing increasingly frustrated as sectarian killings and the American death toll spiked this week. Recruiters for the Iraqi police force do their best to "weed out the bad ones," but infiltration continues. The end game is unclear: "There is no plan B," a senior Pentagon official says. A Time article deems the Iraq war "closer to failure than success" and weighs the United States' options to stem the violence. The prescription includes purging the Iraqi police of Shiite-militia members loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, reintegrating Sunnis into the political process, and dialoguing with weapons providers Syria and Iran. Some analysts think Bush missed his chance: "The initiative has passed into Iraqi hands," an expert contends. "There are no 'silver bullets' that can quickly rescue this situation."—C.B.
The Atlantic.
The Atlantic, November 2006 A sweeping profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton suggests her successful Senate career may inhibit her presidential prospects. The author describes Hillary's rise as "a pattern of ambition, failure, study, and advancement." Since her health-care bill died in 1993, Clinton has played a cautious game, taking "small steps" without much political risk. Despite her name recognition and ability to reach across the aisle, critics see her latest incarnation—no longer the "brashly confident leader of health-care reform"—as unlikely to defeat a popular Republican like John McCain. … A piece examines the emerging genre of dramatic video games. Two programmers spent five years designing Façade, an emotionally charged "interactive drama" that breaks from the dominant action-thriller mold. The game, which features two characters in a marital crisis, may remedy the "real lack of meaning" in video games. But there's just one problem: "Façade is ingenious, but it is not fun."— C.B.
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The World Federalists of America "was formed following World War I. The association believes in the essential oneness of humankind with the earth, and contends that humankind's future on the earth is threatened by such things as pollution of the environment, racial and national hatreds, and international war. According to the Association's creed, the solution to these problems lies in the creation of world institutions. The organization calls for the formation of a world government with the power to make and enforce laws which will control pollution of the earth's atmosphere and water, curb the waste of its resources, and dismantle the war machines of all nations.
"The World Federalists are closely associated with Woodrow Wilson's effort to start a League of Nations after World War I. The organization gained momentum after World War II with the threat of the atomic bomb. World Federalists consider the United Nations an important, but inadequate step toward their goal. They do not seek a world dictatorship, but a world democracy with countries retaining sovereignty over internal affairs. Norman Cousins, writer and editor, was a longtime leader of the World Federalists.
"The Mansfield Chapter of the World Federalist Association, the oldest continually operating chapter in the U.S, celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 1988 with approximately 120 members. It is a non-profit, tax-deductible, educational organization, whose basic objectives are the abolition of war and the establishment of a world authority or authorities capable of insuring world peace through enforceable world law and the equitable regulation of world issues without resort to the use of arms. In 1949, the chapter asked for a state legislature resolution calling for a federal constitutional amendment that would enable the United States to join a world government.
"The W.F.A. of Mansfield adheres to and abides by the directives from the national office. It will not engage in any political activities other than those authorized by the I.R.S. for tax-deductible, educational organizations. Activities for fund-raising have included dinners, annual rummage sales, and guest appearances by well-known Federalists such as mystery writer Rex Stout.
"In 2004, the World Federalist Association changed its name to Citizens for Global Solutions." [1]
It is the American branch of the World Federalist Movement.
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On Economic Growth And Minimum Wages
The authors offer an analysis of the existence of a positive relationship between minimum wages and economic growth in a simple one-sector overlapping generations economy where the usual Romer-typed knowledge spill-over mechanism in production represents the engine of endogenous growth, in the case of both homogeneous and heterogeneous (i.e., skilled and unskilled) labour. Assuming also the existence of unemployment benefits financed with consumption taxes not conditioned on age at a balanced budget, it is shown that minimum wages may stimulate economic growth and welfare despite the unemployment occurrence. Moreover, a growth-maximising minimum wage can exist. A straightforward message, therefore, is that a combination of minimum wage and unemployment benefit policies can appropriately be used to promote balanced growth and welfare.
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As everyone knows, if you put a frog into a pan of cool water and heat the water very very slowly on the stove, there will come a moment when the frog says, "Croak me, this is HOT!" and will hop away--thereby demonstrating again, if further proof was needed, that amphibians are smarter than humans. As for us, during times radical but incremental change, we tend to sit around flipping our lips with our fingers without noticing a thing.
These reflections were sparked by an argument in front of the Supreme Court a week ago over an Arizona school-choice plan that seemed to puzzle the Justices more than it should--so much so that I was tempted to think they just aren't as smart as I am.
But the "they're dumb, I'm smart" hypothesis is the first reaction of certain political zealots (and Justice Scalia) and it is rarely right in either case. If nine smart people don't see a point that's obvious to me, the best inference is that the world just looks very different to them. Their puzzlement made me think that over the past quarter-century or so, the meaning of political ideas has slowly changed, to the point that even the words "public" and "private" no longer mean what they did.
Here's the Arizona plan, in a nutshell: Taxpayers get $500 off their total tax bill if they give the $500 to something called a School Tuition Organization (STO), run by private groups. Students apply to individual STOs for scholarships, which can only be used at schools picked by that STO. STOs are free to pick only religious schools if they choose to. Many, though not all, do.
To my mind, that looks like government funneling money to private groups, who can then hand it out with religious strings attached, e.g. "You get a scholarship, but only to (Catholic/Protestant/Jewish) schools."
What's wrong with this? It's not that tax-directed funds are flowing to religious schools. The Supreme Court held in a case called Zelman v. Simmons-Harris that government tuition grants (vouchers) can be used for tuition at religious schools as long as the choice of school is left to the private choice of the parents, without any "financial incentives that 'skew' the program toward religious schools."
The Arizona program goes a step further--government-funneled payments now can go to religious schools because of the "private choice" of the charitable groups handing out the funds.
This is a hard case. The federal Constitution doesn't require states not to mix public schools and private ones. State constitutions are trickier, and designing this program must have been hard. A regular Zelman-style voucher program was ruled out by the Arizona Constitution, which forbids any "tax... or appropriation of public money... in aid of any... private or sectarian school."
So this program allows the channeling of tax-credit funds by the STOs. Is this a program of "private choice"? Definitely. But the heart of Zelman was that the "private choice" was made by parents, who could use their vouchers at any accredited private school their child could get into. Now the "private choice" is taken from parents and given to the STO boards. Parents might prefer to send their child to Humanist High; if they can only win scholarship from an STO that favors Ahura-Mazda Academies, they still have a "choice"--they can take the scholarship or not--but if they take it, they must abide by the school choices of the STO.
The plaintiffs in the Arizona case were represented by Paul Bender, a giant of an earlier generation of constitutional lawyers and the veteran of more than 20 Supreme Court arguments. But the Justices reacted to his argument as if he had come from another planet and was speaking an unknown tongue. They could not seem to understand why the plaintiffs believed the program involved public funds at all. Bender explained that each taxpayer has a tax bill due. On each tax return, the taxpayer may indicate that up to $500 of the amount due can go instead to an STO. Dollar for dollar, that contribution reduces the taxpayer's tax bill. Funds that would otherwise go into the state treasury flow to the STOs instead.
You would have thought that Bender was proposing nationalization of the means of production, so radical did that idea seem. Justice Alito flew into his trademark dudgeon: "You think that all the money belongs to the government . . . except to the extent that it deigns to allow private people to keep some of it." Justice Kennedy compared the dollar-for-dollar tax credit to a senior discount at the IHOP. "I have some difficulty that any money that the government doesn't take from me is still the government's money." Bender somehow could never make clear that this money (not all money, you robed dimwit, just this money) is exacted by the government and steered by it to a "private" organization to be spent for a purpose designated by the government--but with religious conditions attached.
The word "private," in fact, seemed to have an almost hypnotic effect on the Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said "the decision is made by a private entity whether to use the money to go to a religious school." True, but that's quite different from "private choice" by parents. Under the Constitution, the state couldn't limit parents' choice by ruling out schools on religious grounds; an STO can. It's almost as if the government could get around any constitutional limitation by just farming the work out to "private entities."
And of course, that's increasingly what we as a society are doing. Our very notion of what is public is shrinking. Wars are fought by "private" contractors, prisons are run by "private" companies. Great state universities are "privatized" and taken out of state control. We hear increasing demands that all or most public employees be replaced by workers hired and paid by private companies.
Even the public square, once the home of urgent debate, isn't public any more. Either it is a private big-box mall or it's "government-owned" space, and disagreeable "First Amendment activities" can be confined to the margins--remember the small wire cage protesters were herded into at the 2004 Democratic National Convention?
Discourse itself is no longer a public resource, a common means for the discovery of truth; it is a commodity, as fully subject to the market as dog food. The underlying philosophy of cases like Citizens United v Federal Election Commission is this: the whole point of having huge wealth is to use it to drown out the voices of those with less? Society as a whole has no more legitimate interest in fair political debate than it does in clean officiating at WWE Raw.
The privatization is farthest advanced in education. The old idea of "free, common schools" has been eroded to almost nothing. With the growth of separate religious school systems and the rise of home-schooling, education no longer even pays lip service to the old idea of training for citizenship. My school may teach me that species originated through natural selection; yours may teach you that God made the world in six days. It's all a matter of "private choice."
I am not clinging to the old system, which was flawed. Choice and competition are valuable in every sector, and empowering parents to select the best education for their children is a good principle.
What I am saying is that we are dumber than frogs if we don't notice the change in the meaning of "public" and "private" and ask ourselves whether there might be some advantages in retaining a more expansive notion of the public interest than is on display in Congress or, it must be said, the Supreme Court.
The Arizona Christian School argument took place the day after an election in which privatizers won a huge victory in part by campaigning against federal health care funding. In the context of this impoverished sense of public life, that crazed dialogue begins to make a kind of Alice in Wonderland sense. By refusing to buy health insurance, I am passing the bill for my health care on to my fellow taxpayers. But that's "inactivity"; that's a "private" choice. The health-care sector may account for one-sixth of GDP; but health care isn't "commerce."
And by the way, keep your government hands off Medicare; that's "private" too.
Like the water in the pan, the terms of the debate have shifted imperceptibly until the world is completely different. No wonder the Justices don't understand. Government channels money to "private" groups. The "private" groups channel students to their favored schools. And nothing's public any more. | <urn:uuid:5bb582b2-14f8-4307-9d7d-822aa11eaf14> | http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/the-slow-change-in-legal-discourse-why-humans-are-dumber-than-frogs/66329/ | en | 0.974953 | 0.283351 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Air Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Episode Title: (#404) "If There's Anything I Can't Stand" (Repeat)
"If There's Anything I Can't Stand" � Edie is shocked when she receives some news at the gynecologist's office, an unexpected visitor discovers Bree's pregnancy is a hoax, and Wisteria Lane welcomes new neighbors who happen to be partners, on "Desperate Housewives," SUNDAY, JUNE 29 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD 10/21/07)
Please note: This episode had been scheduled for June 22 but was replaced by "The Game."
"If There's Anything I Can't Stand" was directed by Larry Shaw and written by Alexandra Cunningham and Lori Kirkland Baker.
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A site that everyone should encourage another corporation to create a similar competitor to because it has many flaws 1. stupid rules that can get you reported such as chatting with other users in a question 2. Idiots with no lives who report others for stupid things 3. Taking away of accounts unceremoniously without your knowing once you receive a few reports 5. shutting off the site to make stupid changes like way things look instead of correcting the above errors 6. Not limiting punishments to yahoo answers but taking away your entire account 7. not being more like youtube and letting everyone give a thumbs up or a thumbs down but rather allowing idiots to report for stupid reasons
That new website is such a yahoo answers.
I got rid of the website because it was so yahoo answers
That cheap website didn't last long because it turned into a yahoo answers
by Monroe Dubo August 04, 2008
The place with the real worst moderation system, really the suspend-happy moderators and no real customer support.
User: *Asking question* Why can't sperm whales walk on land?
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User: *sending counter notice* Sperm whales are a species of whales. There was no explicit sex or suggestive material.
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by sega31098 October 01, 2010
"Yahoo! Answers" is Yahoo! Inc.'s solution to the average person's unformatted search engine questions. It allows Yahoo! E-Mail holders to ask any number of pointed questions, such as, "What is wrong with my vagina?" or "How can we stop Jaden Smith?" as well as, "Who is the President of France?" and, "No seriously, wtf is wrong with my vagina?"
Users can then receive answers from Yahoo! E-Mail "point seekers" - a special brand of people who try to answer as many questions as possible, then voting their own questions as the "Best Answer" in order to gain a delusive sense of Yahoo! internetz seniority. Because of an unparalleled level of quality control in the review of questions, users can generally expect their questions to be answered incorrectly or - with luck - answered unintelligibly.
"Yahoo! Answers" Question: What steps can I take to fix my own cell phone?
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters: Why bother? Throw that sh*t out and get a new one! Problem solved, bitch. Next question!
100% 1 Vote
by MagicalWhiffle July 01, 2011
I site that's only good when you're not the one asking a question; laugh at all the douches that know nothing, but ask something you really need to know and you'll never get it answered.
You: Ha ha dude this cheerleaders fucking stupid. Yahoo Answers is the best website!
Me: Unless you're trying to find out how to play ukulele. Darn assbox sucks men all over.
by Justateyourlunch. Hoe. April 22, 2009
a website where you can answer and ask questions. But some people use this website as a pasting time. Just like any other website, there are people call, "Trolls". Who go around deleting your ansers for no reasons or ask stupid questions like, "How can i get my pet high on weed?"
person 1: I'm bored
person 2: go on yahoo answers then. You can ask and answers questions
person 1: thanks
by punchie-247 July 14, 2009
An evil website hell-bent on removing the balls from Americans and turning them into pussies
I'm 13 am I old enough for my boyfriend to finger me?
Sure it's completely natural.
by St3nDahL July 03, 2010
A question and answer website home to some of the biggest retards ever, besides maybe YouTube comments. You can get reported there for breathing. Half of the questions and responses are unintelligible from grammatical errors. Filled with racists, ignorant morons, religious extremists, and people who were apparently taught English by newborn orangutans.
A message board gone to hell.
Typical Yahoo Answers Question
i is 15, shud i havs babie?
Answer 1: no you is two young for baby. you need to grow up
Answer 2: i am 17 and has baby. people tell me it was bad idea but i dont regret it
Answer 3: all teens is so stupuid. i is smart and i is 19. you are stupid i hopes you die. dumb b*tch
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GCSE Business Studies/Business Ownership
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Sole Traders[edit]
Sole trading is where a person decides to set up a business on their own. They may employ people but there is only one owner. Most people can set up a small business if they wish,as there is no complicated paperwork and it is a straightforward process - you don't need to do anything except start trading. Most small businesses are sole traders. *They get to keep all of the profits, and they alone decide what is done with the profits. They may decide to re-invest them back into the business to help it grow.
• They get to make all the decisions about how the business is run, which means they have full control of the business.
• They get to decide what to sell or what services to offer.
Disadvantages of being a sole trader:
• They are unincorporated. This means that the business is not legally separate from its owner. So if someone sues the business, they sue the sole trader personally. This could lead to large court costs.
• They have unlimited liability. This means that if the business goes bankrupt, they may have to sell their own personal possessions (such as house or car) to pay the debts of the business.
• They may have to work long hours, and they may not get many holidays. If there is no one else to cover, the business may have to close when the owner is ill or wants a holiday, which means no income during that time.
• They may not have any one to share ideas with, so the potential success and growth of the business may be limited.
• They may have limited finance as there is only one owner who can put money into the business. This may be a large problem later on when the sole trader wishes to expand and requires capital to do so.
A partnership is basically a sole trader but with more than one owner. More specifically, a partnership can have between 2 or more (partners). Partners in a partnership have an equal say in the business and an equal share of the profits. This is unless they have an agreement called the Deed of Partnership, which declares how profits should be shared between partners. Examples include accountants and solicitors.
• More capital (money) can be put into the business.
• More people can share the workload.
• More ideas can be generated.
• Like sole traders, partnerships are unincorporated and have unlimited liability.
• Each partner is legally responsible for what the other partners do. So if someone else makes a bad decision, everyone else has to accept the consequences too.
• Disagreements are more likely to occur, as partners may want the business to go in different directions.
Limited Companies[edit]
There are two types of limited company - public and private. Both:
• are owned by shareholders. The more shares you own, the bigger the proportion of the company you own, and the more control over the business you get.
• are incorporated. This means that the business and its owners are legally separate identities.
• have limited liability. This means that if the business fails, the owners can only lose the money they have put into the business, and nothing else - no matter how big its debts are.
• must have two documents when they start up:
• A Memorandum of Association - this gives basic details of the business, like who it is and where it is based.
• An Article of Association - this sets out how the business will be run.
Private Limited Companies[edit]
Shares in a private limited company can only be sold if all the shareholders agree, and the opportunity to buy shares is restricted, usually to relatives and friends. Private limited companies have Ltd after their name in the UK.
• Limited liability. You can't lose more money than you invest.
• Incorporation. The business can continue to operate even after a shareholder dies.
• Decisions can be made quicker, as there are fewer shareholders than a PLC.
• They are expensive to set up, due to all the legal paperwork that must be completed.
• They must publish their accounts every year.
Public Limited Companies[edit]
Anyone can buy shares in a public limited company, if they can find someone who wants to buy or sell. Shares are often sold on a stock market. Public limited companies have PLC after their name in the UK.
• They can generate much more capital than any other type of business.
• This helps the business to expand and to diversify.
• A PLC can end up having a lot of shareholders.
• Generally, each shareholder has little say in how the business is run, unless they own a lot of shares.
• It is easy for you to lose control of the business, as someone can buy enough shares to take majority and take over the company.
A franchise is essentially a business idea in a box. People wishing to start a business may have money to invest in a business, but no business idea. One solution is to have the rights to sell another company's products. This is a franchise. For example, most car manufacturers will sell their cars through dealer franchises. The dealer trades under their own name, but advertise and sell a particular manufacturer's cars. Branded franchises take this one step further. The franchisee (the buyer of the franchise) buys the right to trade under the name of another business (the franchisor - the seller of the franchise). As far as the public are concerned, it appears that they are buying directly from the franchisor, not a different firm. Most companies in the fast food industry sell their products through branded franchise outlets.
Essentially how franchising works is this. A franchisee (the buyer) looks into a range of franchises (business ideas) that they think they could trade in. For instance, someone may want to start a fast food outlet. Subway, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut, KFC are all franchises. They will want to find one that costs the same as the money they have to invest. Opening a Subway store can cost around £150,000 whereas a KFC can exceed £500,000, so initial investment will play a large part in helping the franchisee make a decision on which franchise to buy. They may visit a franchising exhibition where there are lots of trade stands and they can talk to the businesses, or they may use the Internet to research franchises, or they may use a trade magazine to find ideas.
Once the franchisee has decided which franchise to buy they then approach the franchisor and apply to become a franchisee. They may have to pass an interview, or a training/induction scheme with their recruitment team, but they will almost certainly have to meet certain requirements. The franchisor may then help them find a possible location. The franchisor will provide all the signage, the furniture (restaurant tables), equipment (cooking units), fixtures, and the products (or the ingredients to make the products) and other supplies. The franchisee must hire appropriate staff. Some franchisors may provide training of the staff at another location whilst the store / shop / restaurant is being prepared to trade.
Advantages to the franchisee (buyer):
• The franchisee is buying the rights to sell a product that is already established. This makes it less risky than setting up something brand new as customers are already aware of the brand.
• The franchisee gets the support of national marketing which a small business would unlikely be able to afford. In some cases of the larger brands they may already have customers waiting for their doors to open (for example in a new McDonalds).
• The franchisee gets training and HQ support from the franchisor; this may be essential if the franchisee is new to running their own business and has little experience or business knowledge.
• There are a lot of part-time franchising opportunities, perfect if someone has a small amount to invest and wants to support themselves and maintain their investment. They may be able to sell the franchise on to someone else once if they no longer wish to run it.
• Franchisee will be able to open a business that is of interest to them. If they like eating and dining out then perhaps a restaurant franchise will suit them. If they like a quicker pace then maybe a fast food outlet would be more suitable. On the other hand they may prefer something less hands on and opt for a vending machine franchise where they just deliver and maintain the machines (to shops, schools, factories etc.) and collect a small profit from each one at the end of the week.
Disadvantages to the franchisee (buyer):
• High entry cost. It is often more expensive to start a franchise than an independent business. You can open a burger bar for the fraction of the cost of a McDonald's franchise.
• In some cases the franchisor may have little interest in their franchisee's success and may be more interested in just collecting the fee.
• They can only sell the products of the franchise, and they may be tied into a strict set of instructions about how they should trade.
• The franchisee may have to move to a different location if the franchise opportunities in their area have already been taken. This is often the case with the much larger franchises.
• The franchisee may have to find or build the right location, hire and train staff and install equipment. This may be difficult for someone with limited business skills just starting out.
• The franchisee may be required to buy certain items from the franchisor like computer systems and software.
Co-operatives are usually formed when the priority is the people in the business rather than making profit, and they work like limited liability partnerships. Producer co-operatives are owned and controlled by the people who work there; retail co-operatives are owned and controlled by their customers. Profits are either shared equally or on a pro rata basis; salaries will tend to be different. One of the problems of co-operatives is that the only main sources of finance are the owners' capital and retained profits, which can make it harder to expand. | <urn:uuid:5a78c0e7-7558-40ca-8448-85b76bcfb54c> | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GCSE_Business_Studies/Business_Ownership | en | 0.969642 | 0.153746 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
propionyl-CoA carboxylase beta subunit
The PCCB gene provides instructions for making part of an enzyme called propionyl-CoA carboxylase, specifically, the beta subunit of this enzyme. Six beta subunits come together with six alpha subunits (produced from the PCCA gene) to form a functioning enzyme.
Propionyl-CoA carboxylase plays a role in the normal processing of proteins. It is responsible for a particular step in the breakdown of several protein building blocks (amino acids) called isoleucine, methionine, threonine, and valine. Propionyl-CoA carboxylase also helps break down certain types of lipids (fats) and cholesterol. First, several chemical reactions convert the amino acids, lipids, or cholesterol to a molecule called propionyl-CoA. Using the B vitamin biotin, propionyl-CoA carboxylase then converts propionyl-CoA to a molecule called methylmalonyl-CoA. Additional enzymes break down methylmalonyl-CoA into other molecules that are used for energy.
More than 55 mutations in the PCCB gene have been identified in people with propionic acidemia. These mutations include changes in single DNA building blocks (nucleotides) and insertions or deletions of genetic material in the PCCB gene. PCCB mutations prevent the production of functional propionyl-CoA carboxylase or reduce the enzyme's activity. The altered or missing enzyme prevents certain parts of proteins and lipids from being broken down properly. As a result, propionyl-CoA and other potentially toxic compounds can build up to toxic levels in the body. This buildup damages the brain and nervous system, causing the serious health problems associated with propionic acidemia.
Cytogenetic Location: 3q21-q22, which is the long (q) arm of chromosome 3 between positions 21 and 22
Molecular Location: base pairs 136,250,325 to 136,330,171 on chromosome 3 (Homo sapiens Annotation Release 108, GRCh38.p7) (NCBI)
• PCCase beta subunit
• propanoyl-CoA:carbon dioxide ligase beta subunit
• propionyl CoA carboxylase, beta polypeptide
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Braille Monitor November 1986
No Trouble with the Exit Row
How do They Determine Who is Blind?
Grand Forks, North Dakota
July 10,1986
Ms. Peggy Pinder
Attorney at Law
Grinnell, Iowa
Dear Ms. Pinder:
This letter is in response to our recent conversation at the NFB convention in Kansas City regarding my seating on a Northwest Airlines flight from Fargo, North Dakota, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 28,1986.
I am legally blind and use a folding white cane when traveling. On June 28 my companion, Kathleen Brakke, and I were booked on Northwest flight 304 from Fargo to Minnepolis. The plane we were to fly out of Fargo on was grounded due to mechanical problems, and a Northwest plane flying from Bismark to Minneapolis was diverted to Fargo to pick up the passengers there. Prior to boarding the plane we were told that the seating arrangement wood be open--that is, there would be no preassigned seats. We boarded the plane and located two unoccupied seats, which happened to be over the wing on the left side of the aircraft. Dr. James Schobel, President of Mayville State College, Mayville, North Dakota, was the third passenger in our row of seats. We observed that the row in which we were seated was the emergency exit row and thought no more about it.
During the couse of the flight Dr. Schobel informed us that he, too, was visually impaired, being blind in one eye and having only partial vision with the other. We were not asked to move by any of the airline personnel on the flight and remained in our seats until the plane landed in Minneapolis. I was not aware at the time of the extent of the discrimination against the blind by the airlines, so I did not think that sitting in the emergency exit row was very significant until I arrived in Kansas City for the convention of the NFB.
Enclosed you will find the remains of our airline tickets. I am sorry that we had already discarded the boarding passes although as it worked out they were immaterial anyway. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
Earl W. Anderson
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The gas co, knows where they want to put the well on our property. How long does it usually take them from start to finish. I know every situation is different but would like a good guessestimate. Thanks.
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Given the typical situation in Susq. County that I've observed, figure about 3-4 weeks for pad preparation, a few weeks to drill the vertical portion, 3-6 weeks for the horizontal depending on the length, a few weeks to bring in the water for fraccing, a week for fraccing, and a week for pipeline hookup, assuming pipeline has been run up close to the wellpad, much longer if there is a long run to get the gas to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline.
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How secure is Assuming user follows recommended precautions:
• Don't read along with your finger, or the smudge will tell a thief where your password is.
• Keep your PasswordCard on your person, don't leave it lying around near your computer.
• Clear your browser cache and history after printing this page.
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What if you memorized a random or semi-random password string as a base for all your passwords, then add a number of digits from the password card to the end of it? Basically use it as part of a password system, rather than the whole system itself. – pshawgs Jan 29 at 16:07
I have a quite a few concerns with this service:
1. The premise of the card is flawed. While it is better than simply writing your password down, it's not much better. If the card is known to an attacker there are 8 x 29 starting places and your choice of length and direction of password. This choice is very likely to be 8 and quite likely to be up-right, right, down-right or down (4 possibilities). An attacker with your card or secret number would likely have your password in 928 attempts. If you consider lengths longer than 8 and directions that go left, multiply that number by the number of possible lengths and/or directions. 8 rows x 29 columns x 8 possible lengths x 8 possible directions still only gives 14848. The card provides very little extra protection than simply writing your password down.
2. Your card is defined by a secret number. If anyone knows this secret number, they can regenerate the entire card by visiting the site and typing in that number. This number leaks all over the place on the site in question.
• The site does not default to using SSL, even though the site is available using an SSL connection. Below the card there is a list of options and one of those is "Secure connection". Next to this is a tiny arrow. That arrow is a link to the SSL version of the site. Your secret number will be visible in network traffic if you are not using SSL. There is also a link to the SSL version in the FAQ.
• The image is pulled in to the page with a URL that includes the secret number.
• Some pages (such as this one) cause the image to be linked from which causes the image to be sent back with an Expires: header that allows it to be cached for a year. Although they have a precaution to "Clear your browser cache and history after printing this page." this does nothing to prevent intermediate third parties such as your ISP from caching. This is in contradiction to the FAQ which states that only images on the mobile site are cacheable.
• The secret number is put in a cookie: number:ce9916b2fb16f213 with a very long expiry date.
Set-Cookie: number=ce9916b2fb16f213;; Expires=Thu, 08-May-2081 13:00:58 GMT; Path=/
• Both the cached image and the cookie end up on your hard drive, meaning that even if you delete them, they can be recovered unless you use a secure delete process.
• The site pulls in javascript from several other sources including,, and The FAQ is mostly but not completely consistent with what I see on the site. Note that the domains may also differ, such as and
• On this page, the Google Analytics javascript in particular caused this request to be sent: number%3D1cc09968cc0f6c31&utmht=1366451569430&utmac=UA-9164771-1&
• The secret number is written on the card itself. It is much easier to shoulder-surf just that number than the entire card.
3. The code that generates the secret numbers is available on the site and does use, which is good. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Java to know whether nextLong() automatically seeds the PRNG the same way that nextBytes() does. If the seed for the CSPRNG is predictable, the secret numbers become predictable.
4. To generate the strings that are used for the passwords, java.util.Random is used with the secret number as the seed. The PRNG used for java.util.Random has serious problems for anything related to security. So much so that non-security-related games developers notice them by accident. The specific problem with this code is that it may introduce patterns in the passwords that would make them more predictable without even knowing the secret key.
In the end, your usage of PasswordCard should be dictated by your risk tolerance. All the above possibilities are unlikely to happen to a random person. If you were the CEO or Sysadmin for a company with some significant value in an industry on China's five year strategic plan, the likelihood of there being an attacker actively trying to get your information is somewhat higher than if we're talking about a high-schooler's Reddit account.
You can mitigate most of the above leakage problems by downloading the Java source code and generating your password card on your own machine.
You can be certain of the seeding by modifying the code to call nextBytes() directly after instantiating the SecureRandom object.
You can mitigate the predictable strings problem by modifying the code to use a second instance of for the password strings rather than java.util.Random.
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nextLong() is implemented by calling next(32) twice (to get two random 32-bit integers). SecureRandom has its own next() implementation which uses nextBytes(). nextBytes() does automatic seeding from what the underlying OS provides (e.g. /dev/urandom) so that one, at least, is safe. – Tom Leek Apr 20 '13 at 12:00
Also Chrome reports that the site uses weak security configuration (SHA-1 signatures), so the connection may not be private. – dabest1 Jan 23 at 4:58
Answering the question instead of commenting on Ladadadada's answer as I don't seem to have enough reputation to comment directly (even though I do on stackoverflow; isn't that shared?). Apologies if this is a breach of etiquette!
I'm the author of Thanks, Ladadadada, for your thorough analysis! It's the most thorough I've seen so far. Your points are valid, and I agree with your conclusions. The password card is by no means meant to be iron clad secure, it's only meant to be more secure than the current practice of many people.
I'll address some of the points you mention, such as bringing the FAQ up to date, and reducing unnecessary enabling of caching and setting of cookies. Just to explain one point specifically: the reason the site doesn't default to SSL is that Google Adsense does not work over SSL, and I need the ad revenue to pay for the hosting costs. Not the best of reasons, I admit.
If anyone has questions about me or, let me know. (Probably not here though. What's the accepted way to ask specific questions of someone publicly?)
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You handle criticism well. That's a very reassuring trait in a developer. I look forward to seeing the improvements. – Ladadadada Apr 26 '13 at 13:09
+1 for accepting constructive criticism, unlike certain other people. – Polynomial Apr 26 '13 at 13:18
@Pepijn two options for asking questions - either you could pop into our chat room if you wanted to discuss here (you need 20 rep, which you now have) or you could supply a contact form/suggestion box or the like. We're all friendly in chat :) – user2213 Apr 26 '13 at 13:19
It's as secure as any other password written down, except these passwords they generate are quite strong.
IF you follow their best practices, you'll be okay...but that is a big IF. You're bound to leave it around. You're bound to get sloppy.
Once you get sloppy, and someone finds is trivial to try all of the passwords on the sheet....
edit : Honestly. I don't see why people don't just memorize a few passwords. How many dang phone numbers did you used to remember before your cell-phone knew all of them? I bet a lot. Use that extra brain-drive space to hold a few passwords.
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+1, it really isn't that difficult to remember a handful of passwords and some logical variations. In all fairness though, if most systems had the same password requirements it would be easier use the same complex password for each system, which could be a downfall. Maybe that's a good reason why certain systems only allow certain special chars, drives me nuts. – BigHomie Apr 20 '13 at 1:58
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Scandal addiction
Oliver North
Posted: Oct 03, 2003 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Stop the presses! There has been a leak to the news media in our nation's capital, and Democrats are demanding a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of it all.
Even Hillary Rodham, who you would think had her fill of special counsels, wants a full-fledged inquisition with lawyers, judges, investigators, subpoenas, etc. All this because the identity of a CIA employee -- whose status as an agent, operative or analyst remains a mystery -- was leaked to the press. Democrats place special importance on a CIA request for the Justice Department to open an inquiry on the matter, something former CIA Director James Woolsey says is a "relatively routine thing" that happens, on average, about once a week.
With William Jefferson Clinton out of town, the Washington chatter class has been in scandal rehab. They now apparently believe they're entitled to a full dose of dueling press conferences, grand juries, televised testimonies, high-priced attorneys and leaks from investigators. The scandal addicts have jumped off the wagon and rushed to the microphones as if Pablo Escobar had set up shop in the lobby of the Betty Ford Clinic.
The hypocrisy in Congress is overwhelming. This is the same body that in 1987 divulged the names of three CIA Clandestine Services officers and two foreign government officials who were working with our government undercover. One of the CIA officers had his wife and children overseas at the time; one of the foreign officials was subsequently assassinated; and the other official's son was gunned down in front of his house while waiting for a school bus.
Now, liberal hypocrites in Congress demand in high dudgeon that the person(s) who told Bob Novak that Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA be prosecuted. Where was this righteous outrage when members of this same institution, less than 30 days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, leaked classified material to the press potentially endangering U.S. troops?
And just a few months later, where were the calls for a criminal inquiry when members of Congress investigating the Sept. 11 attacks leaked sensitive intelligence from the super-secret National Security Agency just to discredit the administration?
Congressional hypocrisy over the alleged leak is matched by the indignity of the media that appears to have declared all out war in an effort to unseat this president. Stunned by the success of our military in Iraq, those who opposed using force to unseat Saddam still haven't given up trying to use the men and women of our armed forces against their commander in chief.
Even as Bush patiently waited seven months for the United Nations to debate the issue of force, Teddy Kennedy put his fellow Democrats on notice that they were to unite behind Hans Blix and the French, and denounced the president for "rushing down the path to war." Since he made those remarks in January, Kennedy has descended into the depths.
"This," Teddy charged, referring to the war in Iraq, "was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud." Kennedy insists that because the president didn't plan properly, "our troops are paying with their lives."
Since July, Time has run four cover stories attacking the president's efforts in Iraq. July 14: "Peace Is Hell." July 21: "Untruth and Consequences." Sept. 1: "Are We Stretched Too Thin?" But the most egregious is their Oct. 6 issue that features a photo of President Bush after landing aboard the carrier USS Lincoln with a caption that reads, "Mission NOT Accomplished." The title of the story inside the magazine: "So, What Went Wrong?"
Answer: not nearly as much as the editors of Time and other news organizations would lead us to believe. Last week, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld explained in The Wall Street Journal that there is a great deal more successes in Iraq than the media reports. Most hospitals and universities are up and running; an army and security forces are being retrained; businesses are opening; and a central bank has been established.
None of that matters because no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Forget that Saddam had seven months to hide, destroy or move them. We know he had them -- he used them. Yes, it will take time to find them, and, Lord willing, when we do find them they won't be in the hands of terrorist groups like Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad. Once Democratic rule is established in Iraq, the new government will have added incentive to ensure that any weapons of mass destruction or their remnants are destroyed so they don't fall into the wrong hands.
Unfortunately, Democrats seem to see this president as their enemy. It would be nice if they could put aside their lust for power and focus their ire on America's true enemy -- the terrorists. | <urn:uuid:32f80db8-5643-48cb-a8e6-2bbcf8534040> | http://townhall.com/columnists/olivernorth/2003/10/03/scandal_addiction | en | 0.974778 | 0.07388 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Action Alert!
Next: a beer mandate?
Writing in Crisis, my old friend Chris Manion imagines a world in which the federal government provides free beer at taxpayers’ expense.
Alcoholics Anonymous protests, but statistics show that most alcoholics drink beer, and why would the White House listen to the AA representatives, when more sociable alcoholics are willing to discuss the question over a few cold ones. And the need for federal subsidy is obvious. Why, did you realize that some unfortunate undergraduates might spend $3,000 of their own money on beer during their years in college? A grave injustice, certainly.
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Weather Forecast
Adding to bonding bill not a fiscally good idea
Senator Langseth wants to add another $1 billion of debt onto the backs of Minnesotans. Why is a $1 billion debt financed bonding bill bad? First, Langseth has justified the large size of this bill because of low interest rates. Unfortunately, the state of Minnesota is facing a deficit of $1.2 billion with the potential of $5 billion deficit in the next two years. Taking on this huge amount of debt at this time is like a family buying a vacation home with a mortgage, while making a car payment, a house mortgage payment, and paying off credit card debt. Fiscally, it is a bad idea.
Secondly, Langseth's mindset is the same as the Washington DC mindset; it's spending money you don't have. Our children and grandchildren are already facing a mountain of Chinese-financed debt and Langseth wants to add more. He states that Minnesota has one of the lowest debt levels compared to other states. Langseth should realize that a bond is a debt and it has to be paid back with interest from your hard-earned money. As you can see, it's easy for him to spend your money.
Thirdly, government does a very poor job at creating jobs. Remember, the Federal stimulus plan did not work. It is the private sector that creates jobs efficiently, not government. A job created by a bonding bill is short-lived and does not last. Plus, several of these projects, once built, must be maintained by your tax dollars.
So let's look at some of the projects Langseth calls critical: $39 million for Bike and Hiking trails; $2 million for Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; $4 million for Rochester Volleyball center; $2 million for Springbrook Nature Center; $15 million for St. Cloud Civic Center; $7 million for Potter Center for the Arts; $14 million for Mankato Civic Center; $7 million for Asian-Pacific Cultural Center; $10 million for Oliver Kelly Historic Farm; $17 million for Orchestra Hall; $28 Million for Rochester Civic Center and much more pork.
There is certainly room for a limited, small-scale bonding bill on important projects such as flood control and repair and maintenance of colleges and universities. But the more than $1 billion monstrosity is loaded with pork barrel projects. What Langseth is proposing is exactly the reason people believe it's time to clean the House and Senate this November. We can do better. -- Jackie McClernon, Wheaton | <urn:uuid:70280303-dbfa-4586-9e8f-a6f48767abcf> | http://www.dl-online.com/content/adding-bonding-bill-not-fiscally-good-idea | en | 0.92206 | 0.04798 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Linear Potentiometers Information
Compact and ruggedized linear potentiometer via PMC Engineering LLC Linear potentiometers produce a resistance output that varies according to the displacement or position of a slider or wiper. They are variable resistors with three leads. Two leads connect to the ends of the resistor, so the resistance between them is fixed. The third lead connects to a slider that travels along the resistor varying the resistance between it and the other two connections. The resistance element is excited by either DC or AC voltage. This video discusses potentiometers in general and compares linear and logarithmic tapers.
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"Linear" can refer to the motion of the slider. Such a device is also known as a slide potentiometer. By contrast, a rotary potentiometer slider twists.
"Linear" can refer to the taper (law)-how the output voltage varies with the motion of the slider. A linear taper means that resistance increases in direct proportion to the distance traveled along the resistive element. This contrasts with a change in resistance via a logarithmic scale (a log or audio taper).
Specifications and Features
Sensors vary in dimension (length, width, height, diameter, weight).
Electrical working range is the length of the stroke (e.g., less than 1" to 29" or more).
Total resistancevaries (e.g., less than 2 to more than 74 kiloohms).
Minimum accuracy ranges (better than 15% to better than 0.02%).
Electrical output signals can be analog (current, voltage, or frequency), digital (serial, parallel, or other), an alarm, or a change in state of switches.Sliders can be housed in rectangular or cylindrical body types, sealed against environmental contamination, and/or free to rotate.
Resistive element types can be carbon (inexpensive), cermet (relatively limited life), conductive plastic (long life), wire wound (current drawn during use).Devices can tolerate certain operating temperatures (e.g., -13 to 165 F).
Packaging can be a raw sensor element or a housed transducer. Self-contained instruments or meters display output at or near the device. Gauges/indicators have an analog display and no electronic output.
Linear potentiometers are used in test/lab, marine, medical, and farm equipment, as well as heavy industry, industrial processing, and robotics.
Basic Car Audio Electronics - Potentiometers
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Breakout Girls Swimmer of the Week: Delaney Drushel, Girard
Delaney Drushel, Girard swimming, 2013-14
Delaney Drushel
Drushel was a four-time winner for the Yellow-Jackets when they beat Union City 109-60 in their Region 2 dual on Feb. 10.
The junior won the 100-yard freestyle race in 1 minute, 1.52 seconds. She also comprised legs of Girard's three victorious relays.
Drushel also won four times during the 'Jackets' last region dual of the regular season, Monday's 102-81 victory at General McLane.
Delaney Drushel, Girard (28 percent, 198 votes)
Abby Fessler, Villa Maria (24 percent, 173 votes)
Maggie Stebick, Union City (14 percent, 99 votes)
Emma Allison, Fairview (12 percent, 86 votes)
Hannah Feucht, North East (12 percent, 85 votes)
Molly Phillips, Mercyhurst Prep (10 percent, 73 votes)
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The Recycling Revolution
Israel still lags behind Europe and North America in every facet of waste management. Instead of recycling waste or using it to produce energy, Israel deals with its garbage mainly by burying it, thereby both squandering its land reserves and creating environmental hazards. But the cabinet's decision on Sunday to endorse a package recycling bill, drafted by the Environmental Protection Ministry, could generate a substantial improvement in Israel's quality of life.
According to the bill, package manufacturers would be obliged to send packaging waste to recycling. The recycling rate is slated to reach 60 percent within four years, thus preventing the burial of a sizable portion of this waste. Since the manufacturers have already agreed to the legislation in principle, it has a good chance of being passed swiftly by the Knesset.
Implementing the packaging law is but the first step toward a comprehensive waste management policy. The second step, also being promoted by the Environmental Protection Ministry, is to create a waste-collection system that enables every household to sort its waste into dry (cardboard, paper and plastic) and wet (mainly food leftovers) and place them in separate bins. This will provide the recycling industry with better-quality raw material.
The cabinet's support for the bill will also presumably entail organizational and budgetary aid for the recycling system. Among other things, this means allocating money from a "clean fund" managed by the Environmental Protection Ministry to set up facilities for sorting, recycling and producing energy from waste. Today, this fund is financed by a tax collected at landfills, with the goal of making waste recycling more worthwhile.
The cabinet must ensure that the recycling legislation it is promoting indeed makes manufacturers responsible for collecting, transporting and disposing of the waste.
It will thereby avoid repeating the mistake made in the bottle deposit law, which enabled manufacturers to set up an independent corporation. This exempted them from direct responsibility and made it difficult to meet recycling targets.
The public also bears a weighty responsibility. To help create a clean environment, people must invest effort in sorting their waste. The state can ensure the accessibility of bins and sorting facilities, but every household will have to practice environmental responsibility to ensure the cleanliness of public spaces and a real improvement in our quality of life. | <urn:uuid:4254c961-67c4-4d79-bd14-268b271f9fc0> | http://www.haaretz.com/the-recycling-revolution-1.264607 | en | 0.950189 | 0.264568 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Evolution as Metaphysical Fig Leaf
If I were to stop you on the street and say, “Hey! What do you believe about particle physics?” and you were *super* on the ball you’d shoot back, “Whaddaya mean ‘believe’? Particle physics is not faith. It’s science. It’s about the measurement of the metric properties of time, space, matter and energy. It’s not about faith in a supernatural Trinity of Persons or angels or love or mercy. Why are you babbling about ‘belief’?” If you weren’t that much of a stickler for precision, odds are pretty good that you might still be able to babble out something you remember from high school or Popular Science about smashing atoms, or the word “quark” or maybe even something something E=MC2. You could probably give a rough account of how a nuclear bomb works. But mostly, at the end of the day, you wouldn’t know all that much about particle physics, or hydraulics, or the Krebs Cycle, or how all that petroleum wound up under the earth’s crust, or why an “a” shows up on your computer screen when you press “a” on the keyboard or a great many other areas of scientific expertise. You’d have a vague general knowledge you gleaned from TV or the web. If pressed, you might realize that there were aspects of all these fields that didn’t make sense to you and prompted questions. Or you might have no knowledge at all. And that would be okay. Nobody would regard you as a reprehensible moral and intellectual defective for not knowing all that much about these areas of science.
But when people express ignorance and lack of expertise in the matter of evolution, all of a sudden secularists appear from nowhere to wring their hands about the horrific vast metaphysical implications of our “shocking” lack of knowledge and the Dark Threat of Faith to Reason and Intellect:
Issues like evolution and the age of our universe and the planet Earth are more than just differences of opinion, they are the great divide between faith and knowledge.
No. They are a relatively unimportant divide between ignorance and knowledge for ordinary people on a day to day basis, because outside the fields of study which deal with cosmology and evolutionary theory only a tiny hothouse of Christians and atheist fundamentalists are passionate about this stuff. As Rod Dreher says:
And this is even more true for atheist fundamentalists than it is for Christian fundamentalists. Christian fundies can take a break from polemicizing about the War Between Godless Secular Humanist Evolutionism vs. God to talk about other stuff. But people who run sites like Evolution is True are more or less committed to making the same cramped and monotonous atheist arguments sneering at God and Christianity over and over again. I frankly admire their stamina, if not the folly of their commitment to this boring chore. But for those not fanatically dedicated to the cause of Evolution vs. God, it gets old pretty fast. And so does the hue and cry about the crisis we all face if everybody does not believe (note that word) in evolution. And if *that’s* boring, more boring still is the curious class consciousness of the Entrapment Media as they turn a blind eye to the fact that ignorance of evolutionary science is hardly a conservative ailment. As Daniel Engber at the normally ritually impure but this time useful-to-conservatives Slate observes, candidate Obama was as squishy as Rubio on the evolution litmus test:
Somehow the Republic survives despite a President who is fuzzy on evolution and calls himself a Christian. It would survive if a Rubio did the same. Just as it survived despite Lincoln’s woeful lack of education on the functioning of microchips.
So why, in this particular arena of science, do we always get the handwringing about the imminent death of America if every single American does not “believe” in evolution? The key is in that word “believe”. Atheist materialists (and snobby class-conscious secularists) place enormous false metaphysical importance on evolution as a fig leaf for their atheism and whole boatload of other social agendas they tie to it. They absurdly inflate the importance of this branch of science, as well as making category mistakes like my reader’s in order to insist that it is a) somehow necessary to Faith to deny evolution and b) somehow necessary to “knowledge” to deny Faith. It’s not, as any educated Catholic knows. But they think it is. And so, when a pol, like Obama, is largely committed to those other agenda items, they give him a pass on evolutionary fuzziness.
It is this sociological and muddled philosophical backdrop that lay behind the media’s little game with Marco Rubio last week. He was asked the question about the age of the earth as a “gotcha” in order to identify him as a member of the Brigade of Know Nothing Rubes for the delectation of secular lefties who like to pride themselves on being intellectuals. Corner that interviewer in an unguarded moment and ask him the details of cosmology and five’ll get you ten he has no more idea what the actual science is than Rubio does. What he was–obviously–doing was trying to tag Rubio with a tribal identifier marker as a Know Nothing Christian Fundamentalist. And it worked beautifully. He was, as secularists typically do, using evolution as a marker and fig leaf for a particular set of metaphysical commitments about God vs. science/reason vs. faith/etc.
My point in expressing my frustration with Rubio last week is that Christians have to be smarter than this in engaging the secular world and there is no reason they cannot be, since the tools for dealing with these false secular dichotomies of Faith vs. Reason and Science vs. God are laying around in the Catholic tradition, free for the taking. What Rubio *could* have done is actually speak from the Catholic tradition, which is imminently sensible and very smart about the relationship of science and faith. He could have had a teaching moment for both Christian and atheist fundamentalists (not to mention snobby secular reporters scoring shallow gotcha points). But instead, he made a complete hash of things because he does not know the Catholic faith.
So instead of going all “big mystery” on the reporter and saying it’s impossible to know if the world was really created in 7 days or not he could have squarely faced both the scientific and magisterial concensus and said, “Of course, the earth was *not* created in 7 literal days, but is about 4.5 billion years old in a universe that is about 13.5 billion years old. I’m no scientist (and I’ll be you aren’t either, GQ dude). So I would point you to the experts in their relevant fields for all the details on that. Meanwhile, if you are *really* asking whether I feel I need to choose between faith and science, I would say no since all truth is God’s truth and the God who wrote the Book of Nature that the sciences study also inspired the Bible. The problem is, we are bad readers, not that God is a bad writer. The sciences look at time, space, matter and energy. That’s it. That’s all. They can’t see beyond the natural world and therefore can give us no information on the existence or non-existence of a supernatural God.
“Meanwhile, Genesis is using theological, not scientific, language that we moderns easily misunderstand. We can know this not only from the evidence of science read in the book of nature written by God, but by the teaching of the Church founded by Christ which does not insist in the slightest that the earth was made in seven literal days. Heck! The Catechism explicitly says that Genesis uses figurative language in CCC 390! I could, if you like, go into the details of the liturgical and temple symbolism that undergirds the Genesis account and makes it clear that the author is trying to portray the act of creation as the construction of a gigantic temple dedicated to the worship of the Creator, but I suspect your eyes will glaze over. If you want a good popular treatment, see Tim Gray’s and Jeff Cavins’ Walking with God.
“Anyway, suffice it to say that Genesis and the sciences are talking apples and oranges and there is no contradiction. The sciences are concerned with how, when, what, and when questions. Genesis is concerned with Who and Why questions. Perhaps you’d be interested in this fine book from Ignatius press on the recent conference on Creation and Evolution that was held at the Vatican? Or if you prefer, there’s a fine little film out called Cosmic Origins, put together by a very smart Jesuit Fr. Robert Spitzer who is extremely well-versed in both physics *and* philosophy which helps ordinary people understand how faith and science complement each other.”
In short, instead of getting trapped in a gotcha by a secularist who just wanted to make him look dumb with a question calculated to code to his audience “Hey look! Another Know Nothing Fundy!”, Rubio could have learned his faith and a little science and avoided the fiasco, while educating both the reporter and his base. It was, to be sure, a political failure. But far more important, it was a catechetical failure, which is what concerns me as a Catholic interested in the Faith as it is lived in the public square.
That said, the fact remains that the *main* reason this is a problem is not that knowledge of cosmology is all that important to ordinary people in their daily lives, any more than knowledge of the working of the microchips in their computers is. Despite the handwringing of secularist agitprop specialists with apocalyptic warnings of the horrors that await if everybody does not believe and profess their faith in the saving power of Charles Darwin, the reality is that most people can and do live good and happy lives without knowing how old the earth and the universe are. Ignorance of things like cosmology is trumpeted as a crisis of metaphysical importance by secularists and atheist materialists, not because it really is, but because it is important to secularists and atheist materialists as a fig leaf for their philosophical, social and political agendas. In the same way, average people have lived good and happy lives without knowing all that much about hydraulics, gravity, or particle physics and nobody has ever talked as though this constituted a moral stain. But evolution has been invested with metaphysical significance by atheist fundamentalists, so they constantly make the sort of rubbish metaphysical pronouncements about it like my reader made. Nobody asks if you “believe” in gamma radiation, quarks, or pi (even though nobody as ever seen these things). But the language of faith (and heresy) is constantly deployed by both Christian and atheist fundamentalists when it comes to evolution.
This is why it’s important for Christians in the public square to clearly understand where science leaves off and metaphysics and theology begin. Some Christians will say, “It’s not a matter of dogma, so you can believe as you like.” 2+2=4 is not a matter of dogma either. But if you expect to be take seriously by mathematicians, you had best not embrace the curious new postmodern Christian notion that all knowledge is up for grabs and subject entirely to human whim, wish, and will. The Soviets tried that–shooting meteorologists for “counter-revolutionary weather forecasting” which did not fit in with Stalin’s Five Year Plans–and found that reality had a will of its own. Christians who wish to bear credible witness to people who know what they are talking about in their own field need to listen to Augustine:
We have the tools–in the Catholic tradition–for doing what both Christian and atheist fundamentalists cannot do: teaching people the healthy relationship between faith and reason.
Meanwhile, those who have some expertise in the sciences–and even more, people like GQ interviewers who have *no* expertise in the sciences but use evolution as a fig leaf for other vague metaphysical commitments to materialism–should consider the possibility that the Catholic tradition has rather more to say about the relationship between faith and reason than they might get from watching Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins.
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Sigh. I gotta see if I can connect this guy with one of the Dominicans over at Newman
I've Always Enjoyed David Berlinski
If You Want to Pontificate About Darwin...
Some atheist readers were offended...
• http://magisterialfundies.blogspot.com Rick DeLano
Those who sense that Mark’s touching faith in “scientific certainties” involving 99% of the universe in existing in forms never observed, are invited to consider the words of a much wiser fellow on these questions of particle physics.
• Jmac
David Berlinski is a mathematician, not a biologist. He obviously writes well, especially about higher math. A Tour of the Calculus was one of my favorite books. But he really is just being a nutbar with the evolution-denial stuff. I don’t hold it against him, I just wish he’d stick to stuff he actually knows.
• The Deuce
In that article he’s talking about theoretical physics, not biology. And from what I’ve read of his writings on biology, he doesn’t deny evolution. He merely undercuts veracity of the philosophical case that materialists attempt to make from evolution, to the effect that it was unplanned/unintended by God.
• Jmac
Fair enough. But theoretical physics and math are still worlds apart. Closer than math and biology to be sure, but whatever. I suppose I kinda had a gut reaction when I saw his name because I’m used to seeing him as an “expert” witness for the intelligent design crowd. He was on that “Expelled” movie and referenced in several other ID writings, for instance.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
Don’t be too hard on nutbar physicists. The physicist I knew who used aerodynamics to assault evolution in a lecture I listened to years ago has never left my mind. As he said, from a purely natural processes standpoint, flight simply cannot evolve. And he said it all without ever appealing to the Almighty (he used to quip that even if God doesn’t exist, scientists can still be wrong).
• Jmac
I’d say archaeopteryx and modern birds would disagree with him. But as I said, I don’t hold evolution denial against people like Berlinski or your prof. It’s simply not something that they can speak on with any authority. Any more then me, a math and engineering major, could speak about 5th century history or cinematography with any authority. Simply putting a Ph. D. at the end of your name does not give you the ability to be an authority on anything other than the field you work in. It’s a pity that the public seems to think “scientist” means “genius polymath”. It’s the same reason people think folks like Dawkins are philosophers, I guess.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
And he would say that archaeopteryx doesn’t understand aerodynamics. Or, to put it another way, as he said, a plane to fly needs to have everything at once in order to fly. A bird or animal to glide or fly must have all elements needed to glide or fly all at once. You can’t just develop some parts needed to fly without the others. They all have to be there. He even joked that if you don’t think so, go weld some wings to a car and drive it off a cliff and see what happens. As it is with planes or helicopters, so it is with any organism built for flight. FWIW, I don’t believe he ever said that creatures capable of flight couldn’t evolve over time. He said that flight, in and of itself, could not evolve over time.
• Jmac
Oh, so he really was just going with another form of irreducible complexity. Well, that’s kinda disappointing. Nobody said flight was a quick mutation, there were dozens if not hundreds of steps in between. Natura non facit saltum and all that.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
No, he said that it’s impossible for flight to be anything but an immediate transformation. If you don’t think so, which 90% of the next airplane you get on would you be content with being missing? That was his point. Contrary to the simplistic explanations given to children, a bat didn’t fly because its fingers turned into wings. A bat can only fly because all of the hundreds of complex and interdependent physical features that allow flight to happen are present and accounted for. Remove any of those, and the bat doesn’t fly. Nor does anything else. For flight (and that includes, to a lesser extent, the mechanisms needed for gliding) to happen, everything has to be present all at once. Anything removed, and flight doesn’t happen. As he said, you can tell this is a problem by the tremendous amount of effort at explaining how it probably happened, while ignoring the most obvious problem: it all has to be present all at once. Again, he wasn’t denying evolution per se. He was saying that the difference between an organism that cannot fly and one that can is not the difference between a baby that can crawl and one that can walk. It’s a difference between a baby that can crawl and a baby that can play Beethoven’s Pathetique in C Minor.
• The Deuce
The question isn’t whether creatures with flight could evolve from creatures without. Of course they could (and did). The question is whether it could reasonably happen completely unintentionally.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
Of course, but as often as not, evolution is presented as an equation without the variable known as ‘God’ being part of it, which is why I prefer a world in which anyone can ask questions and question the prevailing theories. After all, the majority scientific opinion would appear to scoff at the notion that it happened in any way other than unintentionally (if, by intentionally, you mean intentionally by way of God).
• kenneth
He was clearly blind to the developments in his own field if he believed human powered flight was “all or nothing” and that all features had to be present. Human mechanical flight is a great mirror of natural evolution. People had been toying with the idea of wings and lift for many many centuries before the Wright Brothers – kites, toy gliders etc. There of course was a long process of natural selection. Most ideas did not survive (nor did some of the poor test pilots). Successful ideas remained in the “population” of designs. Everything was most definitely not “present all at once” in the Wright’s historic flight. They had the bare bones lift and stability for a few minutes of level flight, but their steering controls were wholly inadequate.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
And the amazing thing is that flight only happened when all of the needed parts were in place. Again, make a list of all the things that you don’t think the plane needs the next time you fly. The Wright Brothers’ plane flew exactly as all of its then current components allowed it to. Remove those components, and it wouldn’t fly. That’s the point. A machine either has all of the components needed for it to fly, or it doesn’t fly. Different machines need different components. A helicopter needs different parts than, say, the Wright brother’s famous plane, or different than a kite, or a toy glider. But each needs all of its parts. Start taking parts away, and you won’t be going anywhere any time soon (or you’ll be going somewhere very, very quickly). As he said, if you disagree and think it’s all about evolving this or that part at any given time, go weld a couple wings to your car and drive it off a cliff and see what happens.
• Jmac
Yeah, so it really is the irreducible complexity argument all over again.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
No, it’s the ‘it’s a physical impossibility’ argument.
• Jmac
“This system could not have evolved, since all parts are required at once for the system to work. Removing a single part renders the system useless.”
As near as I can tell, that’s the argument, which is exactly the formulation of the irreducible complexity argument that I would use. Did I misrepresent your position?
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
Jmac, no, you didn’t misrepresent anything. My point is, no matter what type of argument it is, the fact is that without all the components present that are needed for flight, flight doesn’t happen. Call it whatever type of argument you want. It’s a physical impossibility for flight to occur unless the myriad components needed for flight to occur are present all at once. It’s really that simple. To this date, no scientist has adequately answered that without appealing to ‘oh yeah, well it could have happened’, or the ever so famous ‘since evolution obviously was the mechanism behind all existence, it must have happened’, or ‘it started with gliding first, then became flight (which is just skirting around the inconvenient fact that it is purporting to answer)’. Trust me, I’m not a scientists, physicist, or expert in aerodynamics. But after that talk, I’ve never forgotten it because he made it simple enough for someone like me to get. At best, we can say we could invent something like a car with wings that would glide, but that goes back to the problem: It took someone to suddenly put it all together in the first place, it didn’t just happen over a long period of time.
• kenneth
Your line of reasoning assumes that flight MUST occur in birds and that evolution strives for some pre-set finished form of bird. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Abilities like flight happen when variation produces sufficient adaptations to to allow it AND when that ability conveys a survival advantage in whatever ecological niche that creature inhabits or which is open to it at the time. All the components for flight must be present to fly, of course. But they WERE present long before a bird ever took flight. They were in forms insufficient to allow full flight, but they served other useful purposes – gliding, balance, enough lift to run up inclines no other animal could, mating and territorial display, fighting, thermoregulation. Wings, feathers, and the various muscle systems that power them were very good solutions to these other non-flight issues animals face.
Variability and mutation led some of these creatures to do a little better than glide, and when conditions select for that trait and confer a survival advantage to the strong fliers, you’ve got your flying birds. However, they’re not some static finished product, and the journey to flight is not one-way. There are plenty of flightless birds running around today, with all of the components needed for flight. They got that way in habitats where flying offered no survival advantage relative to the enormous energy demands of flying. The basic features of flight remain where they adapt to other uses – ie penguin “flight” under water.
Fossil and genetic evidence refutes the creationist model which says each species was hand made in some finished form that was optimized to its purpose. If humans, for example, had been separately designed to do what humans do, why are we full of vetigial and useless features like a tailbone, wisdom teeth etc? Why does a human pelvis, which is good for upright locomotion, not also suited to accommodating the large braincase of human infants? None of these make sense with individual design, unless you believe in a very careless designer.
• Ted Seeber
I was going to stay out of this but: I’ve done that experiment. With the correct weight-to-wingspan ratio, you can easily make a car glide- even if you just bolt on the wings. The wings are horridly huge, and of course, like the “Islamic Glider” from the middle ages, if you don’t have a tail you won’t be able to steer, but there is no reason why you can’t bolt on a tail as well.
My proof would be flying (really gliding) squirrels.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
Again, no tail allowed. Only wings. You won’t very far, and the car will not be able to function as it was intended. His other point was that the mechanics for flight, if stripped of their ability to fly, are a detriment, not a bonus. Take a bird, clip its wings, and set it in a yard with cats. Suddenly those elements that make it able to fly are a hindrance, unless they are all present and fully functional. In the end, his talk was about overstating the theory of evolution, and how the more you misuse (or misunderstand) the theory, the more glaring holes there are. Of course with enough planning and hard work, you can make a car that will fly. But again, that’s sort of the point.
• phil
I don’t know about his evolutionary theories, but this article about particle physics seems fairly reasonable. As someone who works in this area of physics, I will say that his main thesis is basically true: Particle physics and quantum field theory are wildy successful in terms of matching with experiment, but not so much in mathematical rigor. It works, but it’s unclear why. The marriage of special relativity with quantum mechanics is diffucult enough. The attempt to further incorporate general relativity into quantum field theory has led to all kinds of qild speculation like multiple new dimensions and string theory, and testing such theories is beyond our capability and may be for a very long time.. The confirmation fo the higgs(or a “higgs like particle” that they call it now) is a step in the right direction, but there’s still a long way to go.
• Andy, Bad Person
Oh goodness, it was fun watching Mike Flynn in Marc Barnes’ comboxes the other day; it would be fun here, too.
• Stephen Sparrow
French Philosopher Simone Weil (1909 – 1943) in The Need For Roots wrote, “as comedy, no dialogue of the deaf can compare with the polemic between the modern mind and the Church. The unbelievers select as arguments against the Christian faith, in the name of the scientific spirit, truths, which are indirectly, or even directly, manifest proof of the faith. Christians never perceive this and they make feeble attempts, with a bad conscience and a distressing lack of intellectual probity, to deny these truths.”
• http://www.likelierthings.com Jon W
Holy mackerel, that’s the truest thing I’ve read in years. I … uh … *sigh* My whole life’s purpose has already been anticipated by a French philosopher who died in 1943.
• http://magisterialfundies.blogspot.com Rick DeLano
Oh most excellent insight.
Mark, are you listening?
• Stephen Sparrow
Come on Rick, I was taking aim at you. The problem with Science (which is merely another name for knowledge) attempting to draw permanent conclusions on the origins of Life is that any would be researcher has to try somehow to include himself in the same data he studies and reflects on: an act of intellectual contortion impossible for any sensible bystander to grasp. I think the best we can do is listen to the prophet Habakkuk,”The righteous man shall live by faith.” Faith and Free Will are like husband and wife – we cannot have one without the other. Both Theism and Atheism are Faiths. Our perception of Life’s origin is grounded finally and absolutely in Faith, unless of course we try to dodge the issue and pretend it is of no consequence. But then as Mark has pointed out here, we have the enigma of fundamentalist atheists trying to force us to adopt their Faith or “look out”.
• Stephen Sparrow
By the way Rick, Simone Weil was both a brilliant philosopher and a devout Christian.
• deiseach
It did seem like a strange question to ask in the middle of a fluffy interview, and I took the answer as no more than the general instinct of a politician never to give a definite opinion that might offend potential voters; there are people out there who do believe in a literal six-days-of-twenty four-hours-each creation, and why give them ammunition to distrust him when it comes time to pull the lever in the booth?
• Arnold
I would add that Rubio is a senator from Florida where many fundamentalist Christians live and vote and agree with you that he was probably trying to cover his political bases. However, he could have answered it far better and maybe put the interviewer on the defensive.
• http://natewinchester.wordpress.com/ Nate Winchester
See also: Briggs’ excellent post which seems to be pointing out what Mark is trying to (while being less divisive).
• Jmac
As I said, I agree that evolution, and the myriad of other things like geology and cosmology that get packaged with it by creationists, aren’t important to people’s everyday lives. However, when roughly half the country adheres to a plainly unscientific set of beliefs (the only country in the world that really does, by the way), it is scary to folks, especially when these people want their beliefs validated in public education. Just look at the effort that went into defeating Kitzmiller v. Dover (NOVA has a good special on it) for an example. It’s not as much in vogue now, but it’s so close in recent memory that people want to make sure that scientific education isn’t subordinated to verifying people’s beliefs.
Asking about the age of the earth in a freakin’ GQ interview may seem gauche, sure, but it is a specifically targeted way of asking potential political leaders “Do you think science works?” And that is something I definitely do want to know. I wouldn’t have supported Santorum for numerous reasons, and his attempted creationist legislation was a big one.
• keddaw
The way someone answers the question is a good guide to whether they will pander to the religious fundamentalist crowd.
Incidentally, Obama was asked how he’d answer the question if his 6y.o. daughter asked. Which might explain the similarity of their answers…
• kenneth
THAT is the crux of the question put to Rubio, and the question is valid whether put to him by a GQ writer, Richard Dawkins or a devout Catholic scientist. The evolution question is not some random “gotcha” question on obscure points of cosmology. It is a highly reliable and specific marker for whether a person supports the use of evidence and reason to engage reality on its own terms, or whether they believe reality itself can be edited anytime it presents some inconvenient set of facts.
That’s a big deal, especially if the person in question wants to be an elected official. Regimes that govern by delusion or re-write reality by ideological fiat are disasters, regardless of whether they are right or left wing, religious or secular. People die in big numbers under such leadership, for stupid reasons. Nations led by such people squander human and monetary capital, creating economies and education systems that leave their citizens utterly unable to compete in the world. The evolution question boils down to “are you willing to treat with reality as you find it, or is willful ignorance ok if that’s more comfortable?” Rubio clearly chose the latter, either out of personal conviction, or more likely, a willingness to pander to fundamentalists.
It should be said that evolution is by far not the only test of realism worth putting to politicians. Evolutionists are perfectly capable of abandoning reason to other ideological agendas in war, economics, you name it. It’s still a fair and worthwhile question, and no one seeking election has any excuse to be caught unawares on the issue. Saying “I’m not a scientist” is a weak dodge, because it has nothing to do with deep technical knowledge. Saying that it’s an unsettled controversy is a lie. Evolution is not in question at all among scientists.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
So you’re saying that in both cases, Obama and Rubio, this is a question that should be asked, and their answers should mean something about their suitability for holding office?
• kenneth
I think this question is fair game, and useful to ask of any candidate for any elected office from local school board on up. Their answers say something important about their suitability for holding office, in my estimation. First and foremost, it demonstrates (rather than just saying), whether a candidate believes in a facts and reality-based approach to public policy.
Almost as importantly, the structure of their response tells us something about their ability to lead, versus follow. Is the candidate willing to commit to a position or try to dilute it and spin it as much as possible to avoid upsetting anyone? On this count, I think Obama fell short of the mark. We need leaders who are not only willing to deal in hard realities themselves, but also to be straight with their constituents. I realize that’s a horribly tall order for politicians in general, but the last thing this country needs right now is a bunch of yes-men telling us what they think we want to hear.
The evolution question is useful for a third reason, which I have not emphasized too much so far. I think any elected official, especially at state and national levels, should be scientifically literate. That doesn’t mean they need to be top dogs at CERN or the Royal Society or have a low Erdos number. They should, however, be conversant in the “big ideas” of science and how the scientific process works.
• Jmac
What Kenneth said. I don’t expect my politicians to be well-versed in science, but I do expect them to accept that it works, and that reality isn’t whatever we want it to be. So on that count, the age of the earth/evolution question is generally a pretty good indicator of where they stand. I suppose you could bring up vaccination too, if you really wanted to weed out the pseudoscience types.
• http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G.
As long as both Obama and Rubio are taken to the same woodshed for more or less giving the same answer, as Kenneth suggested, I’m fine. FWIW, my concern is that the question itself plays off this tendency some have whereby almost anyone who even thinks of asking questions when the word ‘evolution’ is brought up is immediately herded into the ‘fundamentalist sans brains’ pen and dismissed outright, when there are plenty of questions worth asking.
• c matt
Evolution is not in question at all among scientists.
Is it still referred to as a theory, because I have never heard it referred to as The Law of Evolution?
• kenneth
Scientific laws are not some higher order of truth or theories that have passed some arbitrary hurdle of accumulated evidence. Scientific laws are just a way to state a mathematical or quantitative and causal relationship between things, like Ohm’s Law, which details the mathematical relationship between current, voltage and resistance. Such laws are very handy for predicting what will happen when you have certain things in place under certain conditions. Not all of nature reduces nicely to clean little formulas like that. That does not lessen their value at explaining the natural world. The germ theory is not a law either, but it explains infectious disease much better than the old ideas of “miasma” or alignment of the planets.
• Jmac
Seriously, the “evolution is only theory” meme needs to die. Admittedly, it’s easy to confuse scientific theories with the common usage of “theory”, but still.
• keddaw
The Theory of Evolution is a better description of the natural world than Newton’s Laws of Motion (which fail at the small scale or are superseded by the Special THEORY of Relativity).
Now, care to have a go at Law vs. Theory in science again?
• Ron Van Wegen
“Evolution is not in question at all among scientists.”
• Jmac
• beccolina
IS there any way to talk to a fundamentalist about this subject? I seem to end up with many of them as friends through our local homeschooling group (I’m the only Catholic homeschooler in our county, currently), and it does come up. Trying to talk about it it is like coming up against a wall. Is it worth talking about at all? Their salvation won’t suffer if they believe the earth was created in 6 days and is only 6000 years old, but I do often see this insistence as a block for those outside of Christianity. My brother and his wife definitely have concluded that if Christians insist on ignoring scientific evidence, then they are probably wrong about all this other stuff too. I can talk to them about the Catholic beliefs on this, but how do I talk about it with fundamentalists (or is there any point in talking with them about it at all)?
• Jmac
I sympathize, Beccolina. I grew up with a ton of homeschooled evangelical kids, and it never was a subject we were able to make much progress on. I think homeschooling’s a great thing overall, but if done wrong it’s really easy to build yourself into epistemic closure bubbles. That’s probably why it’s hard to make much headway, since there’s a whole culture built up around evolution denial (and the myriad of other sciences that need to be denied to get a young earth).
Wish I had something better, but at least know I feel your pain.
• beccolina
*sigh* Yeah. I usually just stay quiet and listen if the topic comes up–and it usually comes up in reference to the schools that teach evolution. The other touchy subject to broach is “Manifest Destiny” which I don’t think is in keeping with Church teaching.
• ivan_the_mad
We should also remember that denial of the complementarity of faith and reason, in either direction, is a heresy. As Belloc reminds us in The Great Heresies (and as we ought to remind Catholics who are public figures):
“Heresy means, then, the warping of a system by ‘Exception’: by ‘Picking out’ one part of the structure and implies that the scheme is marred by taking away one part of it, denying one part of it, and either leaving the void unfilled or filling it with some new affirmation.”
• http://chicagoboyz.net TMLutas
One bit you may wish to consider (as Rubio no doubt did) was his audience. He was not dealing with a science magazine interview. He was dealing with GQ and he pitched his answer towards the GQ audience. The GQ web site front page teases an article on “the douchiest cars of all time” at time of writing. If you add the constraint of pitching the message to the audience, I think Rubio’s answer makes a great deal more sense. Go read the recent Obama couple interview in the Ladies Home Journal to get a feel for the intellectual level this type of pop culture outlet is looking for.
I suspect that Marco Rubio’s knowledge of science is at the very least adequate. After all he has staff whose job it is to brief him on any subject he cares to know about and he gets $1.3M-$1.9M per year in MRA to pay for it. On top of this there are plenty of scientists who are happy to brief legislators as a type of civic duty and forego pay for the brief.
• Will
What is scary is when people want to teach Genesis as science. Teach it in a comparative religion class, if you want and can get away with it.
• http://chicagoboyz.net TMLutas
There is nothing per se wrong with teaching Genesis as science. What should be taught to the general public as science is conventional science that is coming out of the labs. If Genesis has peer reviewed lab results to back it, I would not object to it being taught. To object under those conditions would be bigotry. In fact, such bigotry was alive and well in the 20th century resistance to the big bang theory which smacked too much of Genesis to be palatable to some big names in science, most notably Fred Hoyle.
• Jmac
True, but as you point out, the big bang actually had credible evidence to back it up, such as galactic redshift and the cosmic microwave background radiation. Any type of creationism currently in play, from YEC to ID, can’t produce any evidence to actually support their case.
And I’m not sure how science would invoke a deity in an explanation anyway. Science by definition deals only in natural causes.
• http://chicagoboyz.net TMLutas
The problem with ID criticism that I have is the kind that says it is impossible to create a scientific experiment to prove it. Why should an ID advocate go to the lab and do science if his papers will be rejected a priori?
The relevant experiments that seem obvious to me would be in analyzing and identifying genetic sequences that are irreducibly complex. If the ID people ever get off their high horse and go to the lab and publish positive results, they should be treated just like everybody else in peer review. Currently they are not, and that prejudice is just as pernicious as any other.
• Jmac
To be honest, I see a lot more whining on the ID side than actual work. I think it’s a shoddy god-of-the-gaps argument that people are trying to repackage to make it more palatable and sexy to modern people.
See, I’ve read Darwin’s Black Box. I’ve read Dembski’s descriptions of irreducible complexity (not a biologist). I’ve read Phillip Johnson’s work (who’s a lawyer, and who’s also trying to deny the HIV-AIDS link). I’ve read the Discovery Institute’s “wedge strategy” for trying to drum up popular support for ID (because apparently we can vote on what science is). I’ve read all the ID materials I could get my hands on, and I see so little actual science being done that I can’t possibly treat it the same as any true scientific movement. If they had data, repeatable experiments, even a blessed prediction, then I would be a lot more willing to listen. As it is now, I see a lot of whining about the scientific status quo, and the “conspiracy” to keep Darwinism alive. It’s a good yarn, but I can’t see it holding up to reality.
• kenneth
ID “scientists” have not done a single man hour’s worth of real science and they never will. They don’t believe in the scientific method or the underlying premise of science as a quest to find and define natural explanations of the natural world. They have yet to do even the most preliminary work: proposing a plausible, testable, falsifiable hypothesis that would explain the origins of life better than, or even as well as, evolution.
If they did that, and came up with a plausible alternative theory that showed even preliminary promise, they would be at the vanguard of a scientific scramble that would make the space race look tiny. They haven’t done that. They are all lab coat and no science. Their “alternative theory” is an untestable assertion that natural phenomenon are “irreducably complex” and that therefore it must have been God’s personal handiwork and nothing can really be known about anything.
That ain’t science, and it never will be no matter how it’s repackaged and spun. That sort of tripe won’t get serious consideration by scientific journals for the same reason a doctoral committee in physics won’t accept balloon art in lieu of hard data. They resort to conspiracy theories about how the “atheist establishment” is keeping them down, when in reality, they have nothing to trade on.
• The Deuce
I don’t want to defend a lot of what comes out under the ID banner. I don’t think that the idea that life was intended is science in the modern sense. On the other hand, I don’t think the idea that life is unintended, and that biological function can be reduced material categories, is science either.
In fact, the latter idea is not only not science, it’s incoherent philosophy. And yet, it makes it into science journals with regularity. So-called “research” like this – which is really just post-modernist deconstructionism in a cheap tuxedo, and which attempts to deconstruct reason, logic, and truth themselves – not only makes it into major science journals, but gets accolades from all the major papers like the NYT. And yet, if some IDist manages to get one teensy-weensy article in some obscure journal humbly suggesting that the first cell might not have been a cosmic accident, suddenly much of the science establishment reacts as if the sky is falling and goes nuclear on everyone involved.
So, again, I have some major problems with the ID movement, and I don’t think it’s science, but at the same time, given the sort of incoherent garbage that often does pass for science without issue, I think their claim that the atheist establishment is keeping them down is not only true, but undeniably true.
• kenneth
Whether its persuasive or not, the journal article you reference at least deals in science. The authors are offering a theory of human behavior based on bodies of existing work (ie real data). There is always room for debate in interpretation of data, and this particular argument about how and why humans argue and what evolutionary role it may serve – might prove to be brilliant or a vast over reach.
Whatever the case, it’s still dealing in a natural explanation for natural phenomena. ID science doesn’t even rise to that level. They cherry pick phenomena and assert they are inexplicable by evolution (they never are, upon examination), and then say that’s proof of a supernatural cause which is utterly beyond the reach of the scientific process.
• The Deuce
The problem isn’t that it’s unpersuasive. The problem is that it’s incoherent, and fatally undermines all science and all rational activity. If reason were really just “for” winning arguments and not for ascertaining truth, then all attempts to use reason to argue for the truth of some conclusion are invalid.
These “scientists” are engaging in metaphysics, not science, and incoherent metaphysics at that. Atheistic metaphysics is not any more science than theistic metaphysics simply because it’s “naturalistic.” Indeed, the conclusion of this “research,” if really taken seriously, is that truth is all subjective, that humans have no means of ascertaining objective truth, and hence that EVERYTHING is unintelligible and beyond the reach of the scientific process.
In fact, if you take this garbage seriously, the implication is that when you think you have looked at the data, and reasoned from the evidence that evolution is probably true, you have actually done no such thing. At best, evolution is “good for winning arguments” or somesuch.
• kenneth
It’s painfully clear that you haven’t troubled yourself to read any of Mercier’s work in his own words. You’re attributing things to him which he never said, based upon what you suppose must be his personal atheist agenda (of which there is no evidence).
You also seem to believe that Mercier is arguing for a Machiavellian or state of nature/dog eat dog view of man as an amoral opportunist or animal level behaivorist. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He makes a very coherent set of arguments that human reasoning is better suited for, and more often used for, arguing than the classical view of reason as a Vulcan-like (my words) discipline of refining and perfecting one’s own views. His theory may or may not bear out in the long run, but he makes a good case.
He, and many other cognitive scientists, show that humans mostly are pretty rotten at using reason to refine their own beliefs. We have strong confirmation biases and rarely apply much skepticism to our dearly-held beliefs. Our political and cultural life and the comments of every blog on Patheos are evidence of that.
We are, however, VERY good at arguing, and while that is used to press our own advantages over others, it’s not all negative. When we argue with each other in groups, we tend to make better decisions overall. Our skill at crafting arguments also helps us evaluate other’s arguments and come up with a reasonably well informed and (more) sensible conclusion. That’s also known in other circles as the “marketplace of ideas” and is one of the key concepts of democracy and freedom of speech. Mercier is doing nothing more than arguing it from cognitive science and evolutionary standpoints.
Mercier’s work, if taken at face value, in no way demands abandonment of the concept of objective truth or the futility of reason that you seem to read from his ideas. It also in no way demands atheism. All Mercier is saying is that we are better at reasoning in groups than alone, and arguing is the main method we use. In his paradigm, you and I and the rest of this raucous rabble will eventually distill some wisdom out of all of this. If a young guy like Mercier living in our society today can believe that and walk a line, he’s not a nihilist. He’s just about the most optimistic and hopeful guy extant.
• The Deuce
Btw, they’re not just giving an account of human behavior. They’re purporting to explain reason. The idea that our rational faculties (and hence our concepts of truth and logic) can be reduced to behaviorism is an assertion which is both philosophical and metaphysical in nature in the first place, in addition to being incoherent.
• kenneth
I would also encourage anyone here to look at Mercier’s work in his own words. He lays out a nice summary of the argumentative theory of reasoning on his own page. It really has very little to do with the larger “evolution vs ID” debate, but it’s some interesting science nonetheless.
• Ye Olde Statistician
Oh. dear. Let’s consult a couple of stutes who have bones in theology.
St. Augustine of Hippo Regius wrote:
It is therefore, causally that Scripture has said that earth brought forth the crops and trees, in the sense that it received the power of bringing them forth. In the earth from the beginning, in what I might call ‘the roots of time,’ God created what was to be in times to come.
— On the literal meanings of Genesis, Book V Ch. 4:11
IOW, Gus advised that God had created things with natures capable of acting upon one another (i.e., “naturally”). In particular, “earth” (matter) has the power to “bring forth” the various living kinds. Pope Benedict XVI echoed the sentiments that creation included creation of “what was to be in times to come” when he wrote: “Creation should be thought of, not according to the model of the craftsman who makes all sorts of objects, but rather in the manner that thought is creative. And at the same time it becomes evident that being-in-movement as a whole (and not just the beginning) is creation…”
In addition, we have
St. Thomas of Aquino, who wrote:
— Summa theologica, Part I Q73 A1 reply3
He wrote “putrefaction” instead of “mutation” and “the power [of the] elements,” i.e., the power of nature without knowing the specifics of that power; but he was assured that if any new species ever did appear it would do so according to the laws of nature that God had built into the fabric of the universe. Unlike the muslims who supposed that fire did not burn cloth but that God blackened and disintegrated the cloth directly (and it was only his habit that he created fire at the same time), the medieval Christians (and we know who they were) supposed along with Augustine that fire really did burn cloth!
• Alexander S Anderson
What is the source of the B16 quote?
• Christopher Sarsfield
In the previous thread, I gave my opinion as to my pious belief that the earth is around 10000 years old, and I will repeat myself here. However I would like to make a different point to the defenders of evolution and “science”. Theologically/philosophically, your God seems closer to the deist conception of God. The deists like Thomas Jefferson, believed that the “Great Architect” designed everything and got the ball rolling, but that he would never interfere with the natural order of things after that. This is not the God that became incarnate. This is not the God that answers prayers. This is not the Christian God. And I fear that most “scientists’ are so Philosophically/Theologically illiterate that they do not know when their scientific opinions are undermining rather important theological principles. Would any of you care explain how your God, the one that can not make a full grown oak tree faster than the speed of thought which is identical to an oak that is a hundred years old (because that would make nature a liar), is different than the Deist God. Unfortunately, most “scientists” believe “science” to be the Queen of Knowledge, but the Church is clear that the hard sciences are the lowest level of knowledge, and experience points out that many “scientists” are incapable of understanding the higher sciences hence science’s perennial problem with ethics.
• Christopher Sarsfield
Should be “will not repeat myself here.”
• Ye Olde Statistician
Come now. St. Thomas Aquinas was hardly a Jeffersonian Deist. And certainly you must make take account of Revelation — Scripture and Tradition — as well as Reason. (cf. Contra gentiles, I.5) But even Reason does not stop with the Five Ways: one may deduce a great deal else beyond that point. (e.g. Contra gentiles, III.95 regarding prayer, as well as book IV regarding salvation) Those who suppose that Reason established only a Deist God have simply never followed Reason to a conclusion.
Augustine did not credit the six day narrative with being narrative-literal, since God creates instantaneously, without intermediates. Aquinas agreed and did not seem to think it important. Cardinal Schoenborn noted that the truth of a narrative is distinct from the facts of the narrative.
Jefferson being a creature bound by time did not have the insight to understand the nature of creation, and thought it was only something that happened once, a long time ago, rather than something that happens continuously every moment, including right now. Why do some people assume that because something happens in a manner describable by a natural law that one need take no account whatever of the being that is continually underwriting that law, right this very moment? After all, that Ophelia drowned herself because Hamlet’s rejection drove her mad does not preclude the fact that she did so because Shakespeare wrote the play that way.
• Christopher Sarsfield
I do not think that Thomas or Augustine would think that a theory which held that God exploded a bunch of matter 13 billon years ago and let them act randomly according to their natures with the end result being the world we live in compatible with the Catholic understanding of God.
BTW God no longer creates at least according to Thomas. God created once out of nothing in the beginning. All things are guided by His Providence but that is not creation.
• Ye Olde Statistician
Makes you wonder where that creatio continuo thingie came from. You seem to think that once a thing has been brought into existence it will somehow remain in existence thereafter. Existential inertia?
Thomas certainly did suppose that the natures with which God endowed material being acted by their own powers. (cf. ST I.115.2) Fire really does burn cloth. But some people seem to think that God just winds up a clock and goes away or that God must continually intervene to make things come out right. As if God’s Will and Nature were two mutually exclusive options!
Evolution does not deal in creation in the first place. It is a transformation: matter is changed from one form to another; as when a dog-bear changes to a dog, or a bear. Creation is ex nihilo. There is nothing on the left side of the equation; which is why there is no middle term and hence no duration to an act of creation.
a) There is no 13 billion years ago to God. He is without time, as it were in the beginning, is now, and ever more will be. It’s all the same “time.”
b) If something is acting according to its nature, it is not acting at random.
c) Random ain’t all it’s cracked up to be anyway. Think of the great palaces of randomness: gambling casinos. Now consider how much purpose, structure, control, and providence is necessary to ensure the randomness. Ultimately, randomness may be a decent argument for God’s existence.
• Mark Shea
As a footnote, I have always been struck by this story:
And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 20 and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.’ 23 Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has spoken evil concerning you.” 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?” 25 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.” 26 And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son; 27 and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I come in peace.”‘” 28 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!” 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle. 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.” 32 And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33 And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 34 But a certain man drew his bow at a venture[i.e “at random”], and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. (1 Kings 22:19-34)
Sacred scripture seems to have no problem with God’s providence working through what we call randomness or chance.
• Christopher Sarsfield
Dear YOS,
First creation is making something out of nothing, as far as Thomistic Cosmology is concerned. So once you have something, creation by that definition is over. I believe that God keeps the world in existence by His will, and if that ceased creation would go back to what it was before God created – nothing.
This leads to the idea that God created everything at once. “He that liveth forever created all things together” (Ecclus 18:1). He did not create something and then decide to create something else. I also believe that world was created originally in a perfect state. The world started with God’s blessing and then after the fall the world was cursed. The world now does not have perfect order, yet I do not see how a theistic evolutionist could ever maintain that it did. The curse was not just on Adam and Eve but the entire world.
I do not and never maintained that God needs to continually intervene to make things work. I maintain that God must conserve the world in existence by His will “For in Him we live and move and are” (Acts 17:28)
a) Yes of course I accept God is outside of time or is it that time is within God, time has always confused me :)
b + c) Yes I do not believe in true randomness but only apparent randomness because all things work to the good to them that love God ie believe God’s providence directs all things to His purpose.
I have no problem with the idea that God could have brought the world to this state by evolution over the course of 14 billion years. He is Almighty and God, who am I to tell Him how to make the world. The problem I have is that how God said He made the world has nothing to do with how science thinks he made the world. And the only reason why members of the Church have abandoned the historic interpretation of Genesis is because they got tired of being beat up for being “unscientific”.
If I accepted evolution I also would have to abandon many theological principles. I believe by faith that the world fell, not just Adam and came under the curse of God, and that before that the world was perfect. Death came into the world with the sin of Adam. I have already mentioned the preternatural gifts – which is the only reason I could possibly see how original sin was a just punishment. Without those gifts Adam looses much of his culpability.
I also believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. But once you dismiss Genesis has a fairy tale whose facts are all wrong, but truth is still there, inerrancy means nothing. This basically makes the word of God worthless as a teaching tool. If the facts can be all wrong in Genesis, no facts are safe.
Finally, I remember the impact the first Chapter of “This Tremendous Lover” had on me. Fr. Boylean describes the creation of Adam and Eve, the preternatural gifts, original sin -with Adam’s full consent of the will which no other fallen creature could have ever given, and the promise of the Redeemer. Once Genesis is fairy tale – all that theology is destroyed, and destroyed for no reason. Nothing in science compels a Catholic to reject the literal nature of Genesis. No Saint who believed in the literal nature of Genesis, would have believed that God did not create a world fully functioning and mature. Thomists would probably argue that he used the nature of things and just sped them up, and they would have rejected the idea that science could prove a young creation (ie creationism) Unfortunately, because 99% of Catholics have no idea about these theological principles and their importance, they have no problem embracing a philosophy that destroys them.
• c matt
I suppose the issue for me isn’t that God could not create an oak tree fully grown, but why would He? What is the point/purpose? For the most part, as repeated experience and experiment shows, nature tends to follow certain rules. As the Author and Creator of nature and its rules, God is certainly capable of suspending/altering/accelerating these rules, but it seems He does so only rarely and for a specific purpose (e.g., He doesn’t seem to raise everyone from the dead on a regular basis, part large bodies of water for escape from attacking hordes every week, etc.). The only exception to this lack of regularity appears to be the sacraments.
• Christopher Sarsfield
The purpose of creating a full grown oak was to give Adam and Eve a suitable habitat in the Garden of Eden. When Christ multiplied the fish (full grown I assume) the purpose was to feed a crowd. All of God’s creation has a purpose and that purpose is to help man to his ultimate end, salvation. At the end of time we will find out how it helped. No one denies that nature follows certain laws, and Thomas even teaches that God Incarnate used the natural order of things. When commenting on the miracle of the loaves and fishes, he maintains that Christ just sped up the natural process.
You say God does this only on rare occasions and I agree, but would not you agree that the beginning of the world was a pretty rare occasion?
Finally, you mention the Sacraments and this the perfect example. Science tells us the Eucharist is a piece of bread. Yet God told me it is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. I do not believe science because God has said otherwise. Similarly, I do not believe the Science of Evolution, because God has said otherwise, however I do not blame the scientist who says the world is old any more than I blame the scientist that says the Eucharist is just bread. They are looking at neither with the eyes of Faith.
• Ye Olde Statistician
The outward appearances of the bread and wine remain those of bread and wine, and so far as science runs that is all that science can say. The bread and wine are not transformed. They are transubstantiated. The substance, the inner reality, is changed to the Body and Blood, not the forms.
The outward appearances of the biological human remain those of a biological human, and so far as science runs, that is all that evolution can say. It really does remain a biological human. It is not transformed into a metaphysical human until the Word imparts an immaterial soul that adds the power of intellect and will to the animal powers of the biological human to produce a metaphysical human (which is to be human per se.)
Properly understood, evolution can be considered a prefigure of the Eucharist.
• Jmac
That’s a pretty big strawman, Christopher. It’s called theistic evolution for a reason. I’m a Catholic, I believe God enters our lives constantly, especially through the sacraments and Church that Jesus established during his time on earth. Accepting the fact that the universe is 13.5 billion years old and that evolution is the mechanism by which life developed in no way affects my theistic faith, any more than any other natural process does, such as fire burning cloth as YOS so eloquently pointed out above.
• Christopher Sarsfield
I do not get your point. God told us how He created the universe. Did He use poetic language, yes, but in the end will find out that the account is true in all it’s particulars. I do not remember God telling us that fire burned cloth differently than we understand it today, so I do not see you point. I believe in God’s creation of the world by Faith. He created the world out of nothing. And there is nothing in science’s discoveries relating to this that upsets my Faith in the least. And if your belief in evolution in no way affects your theistic faith, you are rare. I have never met a Catholic that got into Evolution who was not a worse Catholic because of it. I would also add that I have never met a Catholic that went to Law School that was not a worse Catholic for it. Exposure and acceptance of certain things just weaken your trust and faith in God and His Providence.
• Jmac
Yes, well I’m sorry that I’ve been poisoned by worldly science. But I can’t quite gin up the courage to separate myself from the world and live on a farmstead. Plus, I have terrible allergies.
As Mark pointed out in the actual post, regardless of the ridiculous language that’s used with evolution today, I don’t “believe” in it. I accept that it’s the best explanation of the facts we have in hand, that its predictions have been verified a thousand times over, that the earth is obviously old, that all available dating methods not only agree that it’s old, but also agree on the same age. That galactic redshift and the cosmic microwave background radiation are real, and that the big bang theory proposed by Fr. Georges Lemaitre is the best explanation for these facts. All these things I accept BECAUSE I believe in an objective reality, that God created the universe to be knowable, and my own attempts to understand the universe (particularly in reading about evolution and the big bang, mind you) have greatly bolstered my faith. Considering how many people of faith are theistic evolutionists, especially outside the crushing American bubble of fundamentalism, I can’t really take your statements seriously.
You see, Christopher, you’re holding on to a relatively new fundamentalist interpretation of Genesis, and doing so at the expense of reason. So no, I’m not rare. As Catholics go, I’m pretty mainstream. I’ve studied young-earth creationism in some detail, and I find it an abhorrent and deeply embarrassing position that’s on life support from people in the hyper-conservative fundamentalist epistemic closure bubble. While I’m sure that you’re a great human being and a great Catholic, I can’t sympathize with nor accept your unscientific and frankly reality-denying creationist position.
• Christopher Sarsfield
Dear Jmac,
You confuse me with a creationist. I do not believe that science can prove a young earth. And I find the suggestion that science can a blasphemy. I also do not think science can prove that the Eucharist is more than a piece of bread. My faith does not need science to sustain it. Science tells you that the Eucharist is a piece of bread, yet you reject that. Why? I assume your rejection of science in this instant has to do with God teaching you through His Church.
God did not create the world to be known in every detail. Some mysteries like creation he keeps to himself. As I said above I do not blame a scientist for the conclusions he makes about evolution (although many doing the research have an agenda against God). But it seems silly that you would declare war on Catholics that reject science with regard to the age of the Earth, and instead take God’s word on the subject, while you would commend said Catholic for rejecting science with regard to the “Bread” on the altar, and instead take God’s word on the the subject.
BTW I no more reject reality by believing in the literal interpretation of Genesis, than I reject reality by believing in a literal interpretation of John Chapter 6.
• Jmac
Well, if you won’t agree that science can know much at all, and that your own particular interpretation of Genesis (not shared by the majority of Catholics, especially outside America, thankfully) is the only indicator of whether or not you can trust scientific observations that really are obvious, there’s no real point in continuing this conversation, but I sincerely hope that positions like yours die quickly.
However, since you’re attempting to force a conflict between science and religion where there is none with the Eucharist, I will respond briefly. Science is equipped to deal with the natural world, and to observe and describe natural processes, and use these to predict other phenomena based on previous data. In fact, it is uniquely able to do so, more than any other branch of knowledge. The age of the earth and natural history are well within its purview, and tying Catholic doctrine to a specific scenario based on Genesis is to throw science out of its true place and to pervert Christian faith, especially when that scenario happens to be wrong.
As for the Eucharist, I’m sure you’ve already heard the essentials/accidents argument a million times, and I’m not really willing to belabor it more. There’s simply no contradiction there, and my belief in the Eucharist has nothing to do with my acceptance of science.
Seriously, read YOS’s response again. I’m pretty sure you missed the point entirely.
• Christopher Sarsfield
I did not say that science could not know much, I said science could not know everything. There is a huge difference between the two. Second the vast, vast, vast majority of all Catholics, all Saints, all Popes and all Doctors of the Church would agree with my interpretation of Genesis over yours.
God bringing the world into being out of nothing is NOT a natural occurrence. And therefore it would not be unreasonable to give His explanation for how it happened more credence than a scientist.
Finally, there are limits as to what a Catholic can believe about evolution. And I think your concern would be better placed worrying about Catholics who end up rejecting essential truths of the Faith, such as monogenesis, in order to not fall afoul of science. Many Catholic scientists unfortunately are so theologically illiterate that they do not know what they can and can not believe.
• Jmac
The entire point of this post, and everyone who disagrees with you is that that statement is patently false. But I’m not about to post all the Augustine stuff yet again.
With regards to the hand-wringing I should be doing over the poor shmucks about to embrace polygenism, I can say that you’re simplifying the problem to “man and woman deposited in garden, ate apple, found nudity was bad, and practiced incest until there were enough people.” There’s a lot more we can unpack than that story, as I’ll let Ed Feser explain: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/09/modern-biology-and-original-sin-part-i.html
• Christopher Sarsfield
Dear Jmac,
First, I really think you have spent way to much time reading creationists and not nearly enough time reading the Saints. Anyone who has done even the least amount of study on this issue knows that my statement which you called patently false is actually true. It seems clear that you have only read little snippets of commentaries on this topic from writers that are (to put it frankly) misrepresenting the Saint in question. St. Augustine was only one Father of Church, and his understanding of Genesis does not reduce Genesis to nothing more than a fairy tale. And he certainly would not have mocked the story the way you did in the last post. And BTW every orthodox commentary I have read about Genesis deals with the question of incest, but I am sure you gained points with your skeptical friends for the Voltarian nature of your statement.
I do not think you are well versed at all in Catholic teaching on the Fall and Adam and Eve. There are many things that theology holds as certain that do not rise to the point of de fide and will not be found in the CCC. When then Cardinal Ratizinger issued the CDFs statement on women’s ordination he listed things that must be held as doctrines that were not de fide. Some of these teachings are the understand of the preternatural gifts of Adam and Eve, the teaching that Adam committed original sin and not Eve and that original sin is passed on by the males, the teaching that before the fall Adam and Eve did not have relations with each other (or with any humanoid -like creatures -can you say bestiality), then of course there is the teaching on concupiscence. My point is that Catholic “scientists” have very little knowledge of any of these things, because they have never done a study of them. Therefore, they don’t know how much damage their “theistic evolution” does to Theology.
• Jmac
Okay, Christopher, I’m breaking it off here. Clearly this isn’t going anywhere. Evolution and faith are not in conflict unless you force them to be, and I’m not going to deny the vast framework of truths we have discovered in our universe because they don’t square with one simplistic interpretation of creation. Theistic evolution does no harm to theology, unless that theology is tied too closely in a realm where it doesn’t belong.
Go ahead and tell me I’m heterodox, or whatever. You’ve done nothing to convince me that your position is anything but a standard young-earth creationist position stripped of any pretense of being scientific and wrapped in some less-fundamentalist language.
• ivan_the_mad
The frustrating part about many of the reactions in this thread is that it implicitly confirms some internet atheist canards, that believers are ignorant of science and the scientific method and that evolution has metaphysical consequences adverse to faith.
Seriously, get with the Church on this stuff and stop living in denial. Truth does not contradict truth: http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm
• Christopher Sarsfield
Don’t take this to badly, but if you knew alot about science you would have never made a statement about truth. Scientists do not deal in truth they deal in probability – and I have never met even an atheist scientist that would be comfortable speaking about science as truth.
Science is very useful as a tool for dealing with certain topics. Unfortunately, science can not answer the big questions because real science only deals with secondary causes. As for the scientific method, I think you should give us a pass, because it changes every 10 years or so. Compare the explanation of the scientific method in college biology books from 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. They all are different. And they have all changed so that “science” can start pontificating dogmas on matters that are beyond them – like evolution.
• JD
Christopher, thank you for your posts and patience. I am a convert, and a former fundamentalist. I have raised some of the same questions you have raised, and, unfortunately, received the same less than kind response. Why is it irrational to believe that God created everything and that we do not know the time scale, Genesis or not? We know what appears to be in terms of natural explanation, assuming the measuring devices are accurate (which I do not purport to question), but we do not know to what degree created “nature” was allowed to take its course rather than being supernaturally acted upon. What of the fish Jesus multiplied? If they were scientifically measured, would they have appeared one second old? Did they have to appear one second old because nature says Jesus could not manufacture a fish that was one second old with all the measurable properties of a mature fish?
I read your posts on the other article, and the link and found them informative. Please keep up the good dialogue.
• Brennan
My big issue with evolution is what is the evidence for it? Yes, I know that alleles shift frequency, and things change over time, but where is the mountain of evidence that all biological life as we know it arose strictly by natural processes? And natural processes which seem perfectly incapable of producing ever increasing levels of genetic complexity. I enjoy the way Cornelius Hunter frames the issue:
“I once debated a biology professor and when I pointed out that evolutionists misrepresent science in their insistence that evolution is a fact, he said I didn’t understand the word “fact.” That retort might make sense if evolutionists had some nuanced meaning in mind, but they don’t. Quite the opposite, their claim is that evolution is as much a fact as is gravity or that the Earth is not flat. Not much subtlety there. But his sound bite accusation achieved the desired effect. It is standard for evolutionists to misrepresent science, and it is standard then to assign the blame on the messenger who points out the misrepresentation. In this case, the professor was scandalized when I pointed out the standard equivocation of defining evolution as mere genetic tweaking. While on the one hand claiming that it is an indisputable fact that the entire biological world arose by itself spontaneously, evolutionists on the other hand will explain evolution as the mere shifting of allele frequencies, an utterly uncontroversial observation which no one disputes. In other words, they make a dogmatic claim that is contradicted by science, and then justify it with a completely different definition of the word. It would be like claiming the Earth is flat, and then arguing strenuously that a field is flat, as though that was the basis of the dispute. However dignified the evolutionary argument is made to appear, it is ultimately nothing more than a shell game.”
• phil
I’m not exactly sure how Catholic Rubio is these days. He was raised Catholic I think, but I read that he regularly attends a baptist church. MA\aybe that explains his unease with just dismissing the young earth creationism.
• Brennan
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No, I look at the two as inextricably linked. I have no doubt at all about what science tells us about things like the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics or hereditary changes in the animal kingdom over time or the working of the cell. But I simply do not concede as a “fact” that all life arose spontaneously through natural laws if there is no corresponding mechanism which can produce the ever increasing amount of genetic information which would be necessary. | <urn:uuid:911119b5-8c18-448d-9135-82a3306461bd> | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2012/11/evolution-as-metaphysical-fig-leaf.html | en | 0.961887 | 0.03777 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I have a red bump on my upper lip. I asked a doctor about it (I'm pregnant) and he said it looked like a reaction to too much lip balm. However, it's really not going away. It's kind of in a bad spot and I tend to break it open now and then. It bleeds like CRAZY and I can't always seem to get it to stop for a few minutes unlessI apply good pressure by basically squeezing my lip. Not much of any other fluid seems to come out other than blood. I've been putting campo-phenique (spelling) on it and it appeared to help but I've only been using that a day now.
It kind of started as like an irritation or blister. Then it broke open and bled, and since then hasn't really scabbed over or anything. I don't see a whitehead or anything on it and I've not gotten any fluid out of it other than blood. It's very irritating and I'm getting pretty self consious about it.
I'm hoping it may scab over soon but since it's on my lip I'm not sure that it will. It tends to get bigger when I eat - seems like the more I move my mouth the more it'll get irritated and swell up. Then it goes back down but it's still there.
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It sounds like it may be a lesion called a pyogenic granuloma- they are very common when pregnant and can also commonly occur on near or on the lips.
A board certified dermatologist would be able to best help you take care of the lesion in a safe manner.
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Wait, what are you talking about? Classic in terms of "just so typically you," or classic like a public-domain book that you could get a typo-soiled edition of at the Kindle Store for $.99?
Current girl friend, ex-girlfriend, I'm trying to be cool. Am I being paranoid, am I seeing things? Am I just insecure?
You know, I think you are the best-case scenario for whatever these symptoms you have. So I will go with "insecure." All of us are, sometimes, Britney. Even, apparently, you.
While I wait I put on my perfume. Yeah I want it all over you. I gotta mark my territory.
Are you talking about perfume or piss?
I wanna fill the room, when she's in it with you.
I'm glad you aren't wearing it today, and I promise that I'll never be in the same room as her as long as I don't have to smell your piss. I don't even know her name.
Let's take a walk and get lost.
That doesn't sound fun to me.
You make me feel like a million billion.
I'm glad, even though I'm still not quite sure what you are talking about.
I'll let you lead the way now.
I will not lose faith 'cause you will lead the way.
I want you to take the wheel.
No, but just for good measure, why don't you hit me with another cliché?
The road will twist and turn but I know that I am in good hands.
That's two, impressive. Besides idioms so well worn they perfectly describe the roads you'd like to travel on in your songs, do you have any influences on this album that are new to your work?
Yes you bring me zen.
Oh Zen.
Yes you bring me zen.
How exactly do I do that?
Please don't mess with my head. Please don't mess with my head.
At this point, I wouldn't know how to try. How do you think you've changed over the years?
There was a time I was one of a kind.
That also seems like a stretch, but if I'm being honest with you, I think you've lost some of your spirit over the years. Your voice sounds petrified. Your eyes are dead. Even people who were extra charitable and deemed Femme Fatale futuristic are having a hard time saying nice things about your new record. Again and again, reviews are calling Britney Jean generic.
La di dee, la di dah.
Is that an Annie Hall reference?
I don't know how to say it.
This album is supposed to be personal, and yet when you are at your most confessional, you're also at your most confused. You seem very disoriented.
Not alone not alone not alone. Not alone not alone not alone. Not alone not alone not alone. Not alone not alone not alone.
Well that's great. I'm happy for you. Tell me about the guy.
Watch your mouth, lock it up.
I don't know, I feel like you need some assistance when it comes to revealing. You're giving me nothing here. If we could create a Simone-like being who felt only in the bland, nonspecific ways that the heros of pop songs do, it would be you.
You got a one-way ticket I got you out on the curb.
All of those words are short and simple and yet none of them make any sense strung together like that! I don't even know what you're going for.
We going downtown. I'm all up on ya, on ya. You want it don't ya, don't ya?
You never know what you got till it's gone. You never know what you got till it's gone. You never you never you never you never. You never know what you got till it's…
Joni Mitchell never lied, right?
In the beginning we were both crazy.
I think I've been nothing but normal this entire time. I'm really just trying to catch up with you.
We gotta get over, over the mountain. We can't keep standing, standing there. Let's move on and be stronger.
OK, here is a very normal question that I think you can answer very normally: What's one thing that you've learned in the past five years?
OK, let's try it again: What's your favorite sound?
Tik tik tik tik tik tik boom. Tik tik tik tik tik tik.
What happened to the second boom?
I bring the treble, don't mean to trouble ya.
But you brought the bass on the first boom.
I make the bubble up, call me the bubbler.
How do you mean?
I am the bad bitch, the bitch that you're lovin' up.
Only out of habit, Britney. It takes a lot more than sassy gay-man-trapped-in-a-woman's-body pander-talk to make me love you up.
Actually, "Work Bitch!" was meant to take the whole opaque of "work bitch" and make it literal. Whereas some feel that to get what you want in life, you have to work it in that vague way of being fierce and fabulous, I wanted to present a bunch of desired outcomes that could be achieved through actual hard work, be it vocational or physical: a hot body, a Bugatti, a Maserati, a Lamborghini, martinis, looking hot in a bikini, live fancy, live in a big mansion, party in France. I don't know, I thought it was clever.
That is actually clever – sometimes people don't even seem to know what they're talking about when they say, "Work!" It's just a vague sign of encouragement, and it's kind of funny to flip what has now become a cliché on its belly…
Work, work, work, work. Work, work, work, work. Work, work, work, work. Work, work, work, work. Work it out, work it out, work it out, work it out. Work it out, work it out, work it out, work it out. Work it out, work it out, work it out, work it out. Work it out, work it out. You better work bitch. You better work bitch.
That sort of undoes the specificity thing that your song establishes early on.
This is living. This is living. This is living…yeah. Adios, I'm out the door.
*This "interview" is comprised entirely of inane lyrics from her inane new album to illustrate just how impersonal personal can sound when in the hands of a shell of a person who clearly does not want to do her job anymore and really shouldn't have to. Really, Britney Spears' main function seems to me making a mockery out of "personal," public communication.
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Prior to the winter of 2009-2010, a 37-year-old, 250-hp boiler provided heat to The Lauren, a 168-unit condominium in Washington, D.C. According to Project Manager Walter Krolman, the unit functioned well, delivering plenty of heat throughout the 10-story building. However, Krolman questioned the boiler's efficiency.
"It was built for 80-percent efficiency," Krolman explained, "but it was probably functioning well below that level. So ... we decided to move forward and consider replacing the boiler ahead of schedule with a more efficient boiler, one that would immediately allow us to capture energy savings and convert those savings to reduced operating costs."
The task of finding a new, more efficient boiler fell to Jack McNabb, a consulting engineer who had worked on a variety of projects related to The Lauren's mechanical and electrical systems. McNabb was not surprised to find the original boiler was oversized. At the time it was installed, he said, energy costs were low, and the prevailing practice was to oversize systems to ensure an adequate heat supply.
"Consequently, The Lauren ended up with a boiler that was approximately 8 ft in diameter and more than 20 ft long and operating at about 62-percent efficiency as recently as last year," McNabb said. "It was an enormous tank of hot water radiating heat to the world."
The boiler filled the building's pipes with hot water for heating during winter, while a 220-ton chiller filled them with cold water for cooling during summer. Stack-style fan-coil units delivered heat and cooling to the condominium, while separate gas-fired hot-water heaters provided domestic hot water.
In his search for greater efficiency, McNabb turned to condensing boilers.
"These boilers are traditionally the most efficient," McNabb explained. "And as I looked at various manufacturers, I noted Fulton was among them. I knew the Fulton name, ... so I looked a little closer at Fulton boilers and was introduced to pulse-combustion technology."
Pulse combustion is widely recognized as one of the most efficient ways to burn fuel. A pulse is defined as one cycle of ignition and combustion of a gas/air mixture in a specially designed chamber.
"It definitely makes for an energy-efficient boiler," Josh Rossman, a sales associate for United Energy Products Inc., the firm that supplied two Fulton Pulse boilers to The Lauren, said. "But just as importantly, a pulse boiler significantly reduces electrical consumption associated with the boiler. In fact, the boiler consumes almost no power while in operation."
The pulse-combustion process is naturally aspirated and does not require a blower motor for operation. An assist fan is used for pre/post purge only and turns off once combustion is established. Pulse boilers require electricity only for purge cycles, powering fuel valves, control, and other safety features. The pulse-combustion process itself requires no electricity.
The two Fulton Pulse boilers McNabb recommended for The Lauren are natural-gas-fired, 1.4-million-Btuh-input units rated at 89- to 98-percent efficiency over the majority of load-matching conditions.
"The trick in applying these boilers is that the less they're loaded up, the more efficient they become," McNabb said. "By installing two boilers and sharing the load, The Lauren is averaging about 94-percent seasonal efficiency over the load range. And we have built-in redundancy, should we need it, for increased reliability."
The boilers operate with Fulton's ModSync control system, which regulates the temperature of water leaving a boiler based on outdoor temperature.
"The system turns on the lead boiler when it needs to fire," McNabb explained. "As long as it can carry this load, it will. But when the temperature drops to a predetermined point, the system automatically turns on the second boiler, allowing both boilers to operate at a lower, more efficient load. That's the point where efficiency really starts to kick in because both boilers jockey for a lower load when that second boiler kicks in."
McNabb's recommendation to The Lauren included cost and savings estimates. According to Krolman, the recommendation was thorough.
"I knew nothing about pulse-combustion technology," Krolman admitted, "but the information Jack provided was detailed and certainly attractive from a cost and energy-savings standpoint."
The boilers were installed at the beginning of the 2009-2010 heating season. A heating season later, they were exceeding expectations for performance. The Pulse boilers are wringing more heat from the combustion process, as evidenced by the temperature of flue gases: approximately 150°F, as opposed to 300°F in a conventional boiler system.
"The Lauren saved approximately 32 percent in gas consumption, or 12,200 therms, during the heating season," McNabb said. "To give you a dollar value, The Lauren is paying about $1.50 per therm ..., so that amounts to about $18,300 saved per heating season.
"And the electrical savings are substantial, too," McNabb continued. "The fan associated with the old boiler ran all the time that the boiler burner operated, costing somewhere around $2,000 a heating season. The new system uses a smaller fan, which draws just 4 amps at 120 v and is used only for a 30-sec purge, consuming substantially less electricity and reducing the operating cost of the boilers. When running, the Pulse boilers consume about 0.75 amps."
According to McNabb, the pulse-combustion system contributed to a simpler mechanical design. First, the boilers are much smaller than the one they replaced—approximately 3½-ft wide by 6-ft tall and 4-ft deep—leaving additional unused space in the mechanical room.
"And because the Pulse boiler is more efficient, the flue gases take up less volume," McNabb said. "As a result, flue pipes are much smaller than with a conventional boiler—as much as 2/3 to 50-percent smaller—which makes the pipes much easier to lay out."
Savings and comfort are what have impressed Krolman and the residents of The Lauren most.
"We experienced a fairly severe winter last year, but our building was always warm," Krolman said. "It's also quiet. My office is right next to the mechanical room, and I don't hear the boilers.
"It's just a nice, solid installation," Krolman concluded. "The boilers have done what they were projected to do. In fact, they surpassed those projections and have created a good amount of customer satisfaction in the process."
Information and photographs courtesy of The Fulton Cos.
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FAA to launch review of Boeing 787, but calls plane safe
Despite the incidents, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood declared, "I believe this plane is safe, and I would have absolutely no reservations about boarding one of these planes and taking a flight." Administrator Michael Huerta of the Federal Aviation Administration said his agency has seen no data suggesting the plane isn't safe but wanted the review to find out why safety-related incidents were occurring.
Q&A: Why Boeing's dream plane is causing headaches
The jet returned to Miyazaki, and after checks found no safety risk it flew to Tokyo. ANA said that on another flight, to Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku, glass in a cockpit window cracked, and the aircraft was grounded for repairs. ANA said it has no specific plan for inspections and will continue regular operations, though it said it would comply with instructions from the FAA and other authorities.
The FAA review announced Friday, which will be conducted jointly with Boeing, will include the design, manufacture and assembly of the 787 with an emphasis on the plane's electrical power and distribution systems. The review will also examine how the plane's electrical and mechanical systems interact with each other.
There is no obvious trend or similarity to the problems, which suggests they are more likely the result of quality control than a design flaw, aviation safety experts said.
"These appear to be isolated incidents," said John Goglia, a former National Transportation Safety Board member. However, the battery fire remains a special concern because "they overheat or burn with such intensity, at such high temperatures, they can cause damage to the surrounding aircraft structure," he said.
Boeing has insisted that the 787's problems are no worse than it experienced when its 777 was new in the mid-1990s. That plane is now one of its top-sellers and is well-liked by airlines.
"Every new commercial aircraft has issues as it enters service," said Ray Conner, the president and CEO of Boeing's commercial aircraft division, who joined Huerta and LaHood at a Washington news conference.
Passenger Adam Welch in Seattle agreed. He had picked an All Nippon Airways flight to Korea specifically because it would be on the 787.
"I'm expecting it to be more comfortable. I'm very interested in experiencing the 787," said Welch. "I've been listening to the stories this morning and I was just hoping they didn't ground the plane I was supposed to fly on."
Some of Boeing's airline customers joined the chorus affirming support for the plane. United Airlines, the only U.S. carrier whose fleet includes the 787, said it has confidence in the airliner and will continue to operate its six 787s as scheduled. Air India said it planned no changes. LOT, the Polish airline, said that it has conducted a series of reviews of all systems in both its Boeing 787s. "All the tests were completed positively - the systems are efficient and work well," the airline said.
The FAA's decision to conduct a comprehensive review of the 787 is fairly remarkable but was necessary to reassure the public, airline analysts said.
"Most likely, you're looking a manufacturing issue that will change as they learn to build the aircraft, but there's also the possibility that some systems might need tweaking," said Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va. "Either way, we're not looking at anything that undermines the aircraft's long-term prospects, just something that creates a large number of upfront headaches for Boeing and its customers."
Carter Leake, an analyst who follows the industry for BB&T Capital Markets, said the broad review raises the chances that the FAA will find other things to scrutinize at Boeing. "You are more exposed than normal to something else being opened up," he said.
The review also raises questions about the 787's ability to win approval to fly extremely long distances away from airports. That's a big issue, since the 787's long range is one of its main selling points. Regulators want to know that long-range planes are safe to fly even if the nearest airport is more than an hour away. Such certification is important for flights across the Pacific, or over the North Pole, the route used for many flights between North America and Asia.
The 787 already has approval for flights up to three hours away from the nearest airport. It has met the flight test requirements to go up to 5.5 hours away but doesn't have permission yet because of a rule change by the FAA, said 787 chief engineer Mike Sinnett on Wednesday.
Boeing's 777 won such approval in December 2011.
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Obama Must Hit Ground Running As Fiscal Cliff Nears
Nov 7, 2012
Originally published on November 7, 2012 3:50 pm
And Robert Siegel. The confetti has fallen in Chicago, where President Obama celebrated a decisive reelection win early this morning. Now comes the hard work of preparing for a second term. Before flying back to Washington this evening, Mr. Obama acknowledged some of the big issues ahead.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: In the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together - reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil. We've got more work to do.
SIEGEL: Well, joining us now to talk about that work is NPR's Scott Horsley. And Scott, what's first on the president's agenda for a second term?
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Well, the most immediate challenge facing the president and lawmakers is to address the so-called fiscal cliff. That's the big wave of tax increases and spending cuts that are set to take effect automatically at the first of the year if Congress doesn't head them off. The president might not wait till the second term to deal with that. He might try to address it during the lame duck session that's coming up.
And there are incentives for all parties to deal with this. In fact, the president's hand is maybe somewhat stronger because the price of inaction is worse for Republicans than it is for Democrats. The automatic spending cuts, for example, hit defense spending pretty hard, but core Democratic social programs like Medicaid and Medicare are spared, so there is an incentive here for the GOP to make a deal.
SIEGEL: Now, the president also mentioned in that list reforming the tax code and fixing out immigration system. What are the prospects there?
HORSLEY: Well, you know, both Democrats and Republicans say they want to reform the tax code and they talk about doing it in similar ways - that is, lowering the marginal tax rates, either on corporations or individuals, and broadening the base by doing away with loopholes. The big question has been, and the big dividing line between the parties, has been whether in that process you try to raise more revenue for the federal government or do something that just keeps the level of revenue the same, as Governor Romney had proposed.
I think the election has answered that question. And if there is going to be tax reform, there will be more revenue coming out of it. In terms of immigration reform, you know, the president was the beneficiary last night of huge support from the Latino community, and he has said that the Republican Party is going to have to get right with Latinos if for no other reason than their own political survival going forward.
And he's optimistic that that might force Republican lawmakers to loosen their opposition to immigration reform.
SIEGEL: Now, Scott, the stock market went down today and analysts have put some of the blame for that on Mr. Obama's reelection. Also, they talked about Europe. Is this a sign of trouble ahead?
HORSLEY: Well, you know, for years, Robert, we've been hearing about the drag on the economy that comes from uncertainty over government policy. And one way or another, yesterday's election has removed a lot of that uncertainty. We now know, for example, the health care law will survive. We know that financial reforms under the Dodd-Frank Act will survive. Now, businesses may not be thrilled to have those laws, but at least they know what they're going to be dealing with.
The uncertainty has now been removed. And if lawmakers can actually reach agreement on some of these big fiscal issues, like lowering the deficit, like addressing the fiscal cliff, I think there's a lot of potential for upside in the economy.
SIEGEL: Okay. Thank you, Scott.
HORSLEY: My pleasure, Robert.
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RICHARD S DENIS, Complainant
ERD Case No. CR200602899, EEOC Case No. 26G200601723C
Dated and Mailed May 26, 2011
/s/ Robert Glaser, Chairperson
/s/ Ann L. Crump, Commissioner
/s/ Laurie R. McCallum, Commissioner
In his "letter of position" filed in support of his petition for commission review the complainant argues that the administrative law judge erred in denying his "Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law." The complainant propounds a theory that the respondent, as a corporation, has no legal standing in this matter and is "automatically liable for any damage it creates by a party who files a valid claim through a valid administrative or judicial agency." The complainant's argument fails. The administrative law judge properly rejected the notion that, because the respondent is a corporation, it has no right to defend itself against claims filed against it.
Next, the complainant argues that he filed with the administrative law judge a list of eleven witnesses he wanted to subpoena, along with the legal reason for the subpoena request, on June 19, 2009, almost two months before the hearing. The complainant contends that the administrative law judge severely compromised his hearing by refusing to allow him to call witnesses necessary to prove his prima facie case. Again, this argument fails. The administrative law judge explained in his decision that, owing to the large number of witnesses the complainant sought to subpoena, (1) the complainant was asked to provide a synopsis of the expected testimony of each witness in order to assist the administrative law judge in determining whether the testimony would be relevant. However, the information provided by the complainant on June 19, 2009 consisted of a two or three-word description of what each witness would testify to, and was inadequate to assist the administrative law judge in determining whether to issue the requested subpoenas. The complainant failed to provide the information requested by the administrative law judge until September 1, 2009, only a week prior to the hearing, at which point the administrative law judge lacked sufficient time to review the complainant's requests. The administrative law judge, therefore, reasonably declined to issue the subpoenas. The commission notes, moreover, that at the hearing the administrative law judge advised the complainant that he could request a continuance if there was a witness whose testimony was crucial to the presentation of his case, but the complainant did not do so. The complainant brought four witnesses to the hearing, all of whom testified. Under all the circumstances, the commission sees no reason to believe that the complainant was denied a reasonable opportunity to present necessary witness testimony on his behalf.
The complainant also argues that the administrative law judge erred in discounting testimony by his witnesses to the effect that the respondent was plotting ways for the complainant to resign, quit, or get fired, and showing a pattern of age discrimination. There is no merit to this argument. The administrative law judge did consider the testimony of the complainant's witnesses. However, that testimony did not establish any reason to believe that the complainant was discriminated against in the manner alleged. The complainant's first witness, Craig Bek, testified that two of the complainant's co-workers referred to him as "the old man," and that management heard these remarks but, to Mr. Bek's knowledge, took no action. Mr. Bek also testified that there were national headlines about the respondent wanting to get rid of older workers, but he conceded he had no firsthand knowledge that this was the case and that no one had talked to him about discharging the complainant because of his age. The complainant's second witness, George Watts, testified that he felt the respondent lacked good cause to discharge the complainant, but provided no evidence to suggest that the discharge was related to the complainant's age or in retaliation for having filed a complaint. The complainant's next witness, Daniel Cotter, testified that the complainant was harassed by co-workers who called him "old," and that they did so with the approval of management. Finally, a fourth witness, Ramona Weaver, testified that she believed she was discharged because she was earning more money than a younger worker.
The commission has considered the testimony of the complainant's witnesses, and agrees with the administrative law judge that it does not support a finding that the complainant's discharge was because of his age or in retaliation for protected activities. While the complainant did have witnesses who testified that the respondent took no steps when the complainant's co-workers called him "old man," other witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the situation credibly testified that the complainant participated by calling the co-workers in question names like "young punks" and "young whippersnappers," and that the store manager eventually told everyone involved that their actions were inappropriate for the work environment and directed them to desist. The evidence does not indicate that the respondent permitted harassment to occur.
The remainder of the arguments raised in the complainant's "statement of position" do not address any errors of fact or law made by the administrative law judge, and appear to relate to extraneous matters having no bearing on the outcome of this case. Among other things, the complainant complains about the way in which the investigation was handled, and raises allegations of wrongful termination and breach of contract, matters which have no bearing on the question of whether he established probable cause to believe discrimination occurred. In the absence of any reason to believe that the complainant was discriminated against in the terms and conditions of his employment or was discharged because of his age or in retaliation for having engaged in protected conduct, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed.
cc: Attorney Katie Stotler Bayt
(1)( Back ) The complainant's original request was for 35 subpoenas.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
I'm writing this post for the benefit of Sheridan animation students and grads, but it may prove useful to others.
If you are not on salary or working under a contract and somebody asks you to produce some art or animation, here are the things you need to know in writing before you start work.
• How much will you be paid and what is the payment schedule?
• Are there royalties or other compensation you are entitled to in the future?
• What are the specifics of the work you are providing?
• What format are you delivering the work in?
• When is the work due?
Then there is the question of rights. What exactly are you selling in exchange for the money?
• Are you selling the work outright?
• Are you selling the work only for a specific use?
• Are you selling the work for a limited amount of time?
• Is the sale for exclusive or non-exclusive rights to use the work?
• Will the artist get screen credit or be allowed to sign the work?
If the client provides this information in a written document, you have the right to ask for changes to anything that is specified. The client has the right to say no, but so do you. An agreement implies that both parties (the client and the artist) see eye to eye on conditions under which the work will be produced.
You also have the right to consult a lawyer, agent or other professional on the agreement before signing it.
There is a tendency for artists to be so thrilled that somebody wants their work that they skip all of the above or worse, they agree to work on spec. Spec work, (work done on speculation), means that the artist produces work for a client with no promise of payment. There are also cases where a client promises no money but offers the benefit of experience or exposure.
There is a word that describes working for free: slavery. Slavery can only occur through force, which we have not yet sunk to in North America, or complicity, where the artist agrees to be a slave.
There are occasions where artists may choose to work for free. Work gets donated to a charity or done to help a friend or family member. But if a profit making company is asking for artwork, they should pay for it and all of the above conditions should be met.
Please note that the above is different from pitching. In that case, you are creating the artwork for yourself and hope to interest a buyer in it. If no payment is forthcoming, you are free to take that artwork elsewhere to try to market it. Doing free work for yourself is different than doing free work at the request of a profit-making company.
I'm going to talk about two instances that I've been consulted on in the recent past. I have to be vague so as not to break any confidences.
In the first case, a distributor was interested in a student film made by a Sheridan graduate. The distributor wanted non-exclusive theatrical rights and exclusive rights for DVD, TV, internet and merchandising. In exchange for these rights, the distributor was willing to pay $50. I told the grad that for the low fee, none of the rights should be exclusive. If the grad had the opportunity to sell the film again in any market, he should be able to do it. The student asked for changes to the contract and the rights were made non-exclusive.
In the second case, a Sheridan grad was commissioned by a company to produce a film for a fee. When the film was delivered, the grad was told that the person who commissioned the film didn't have authorization to do it. The company was sorry and felt bad about it, but could only offer the grad half the agreed upon fee as a gesture of good will. The grad asked me for advice. I warned the grad that if she made a fuss, there was a chance that the company would refuse all payment. The grad wanted to proceed anyway, so I counseled the grad to tell them that she had an email from a company employee and she looked upon that as a contract. If there was a problem, it was between the company and the employee, not the company and her. If they didn't pay her in full, she would publicize the fact that the company had ripped her off and would warn other artists not to do work for the company. Furthermore, if the company didn't pay the full fee and used the work, she would sue the company for copyright infringement.
The company responded that they regretted her aggressive tone. This is known as blaming the victim. However, they did agree to pay the full fee.
There is no shortage of companies looking to take advantage of young artists. It is important to understand the proper way to do business, demanding a signed, written agreement that covers the payment, the rights, the deadline and the deliverables before the artwork is created. Your art and your time are what you are selling as a professional. If you work for free or don't proceed in a professional manner, you are merely a hobbyist and you are hurting people who are professionals.
Amber said...
This is all fantastic advice, thank you.
Nicholas Hong said...
Thank you for sharing great information,Mark!
Jean Liang said...
wow thankyou for this information!
Anonymous said...
Good and kind sir,,,
Where were you with this kind of info for us 25-39yrs old current gaming and hand drawn animators of say 10 years ago ????????
And might I add the current animators union of any section of the U.S. is still very, very weak and pathetic and has been since the days of our animation union history since the 1960's with then runaway cel and paint services provided by the country of PHILIPENES............
We are secretly colloraborting and will be striking for better union wages and production rights and resbonsiblties within the next 6 months.....not because we want to, but only becuase we younger animators have no choice against very weak union leadership[s].....
current employed union assitant animator for a large corp...
Arpan Jolly said...
This is great help. Thanks!
Anonymous said...
That info has always been available, and made clear, obvious, and repeatedly published by the MPSC 839 for decades. The U.S. animation union is weak because it's made up of so-called-members more interested in themselves than the union. Not the leadership. Get involved.
One major point not made as clear as it could (getting a lawyer is a good, although sometimes scary and cost prohibitive route) is to GET THINGS IN WRITING. It will NOT always guarantee everything, but it's a pretty good thing to have when push comes to shove.
paul said...
great post mark!
I always worked with a deal memo that states much of the agreement between myself and the studio or individual who is paying for my services.
everything is spelled out clearly as to what each party must provide. This allows for almost no miscommunication as parties must sign the said document. This is being professional.
And to ANON. this kind of information is always available, pick up the phone and call the union office. I was with the guild ten years ago...had no problem getting any info I needed. Be proactive.
Rodney Baker said...
Thanks for spreading the word on this serious aspect of 'the biz'. It's a tough subject but in your case, straightforwardly told.
If we heard this said more frequently, perhaps we'd all be more successful in our freelance efforts.
Anonymous said...
"secretly colloraborting?"
Good one. There's no such THING as a "secret strike."
Anonymous said...
Sorry for the corlabrative mis-spells now or in future posts, but our animation passion is there.
We younger animators don't want to start a hissy pissy fight on this or any other forum....
But still the lack of respect for us is there.
We are still going to take the bullets [both policial and for real,] as well as jail time for our animation occupy type of strike[s].
Thanks and my god bless us all for not being arrogant with animation testasdorone of sorts, for a better future for every one of us.
Anonymous said...
Good. That will leave more jobs for mature, experienced artists. We're not young enough to know everything.
Anonymous said...
curious to know your thoughts on this:
seems to me like SM is just walking away with a bushel full of character designs -which they then own- by staging this "contest". why would sheridan agree to do this?
Mark Mayerson said...
The animation faculty was against this and it was done over the faculty's objections.
The faculty is doing its best to educate the students about predatory business practices.
Anonymous said...
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kopitiam talk on the election
By now probably 90% of the votes are in and nothing can change the outcome of the election. It is also a good time to talk a bit of nonsense and enjoy the freedom of kopitiam talk. I personally like George Yeo, Lim Hwee Hua and Zainul abidin. In fact many of the PAP candidates are very good people. I also like Sylvia Lim and many of the opposition candidates too. But when contesting a GRC, one team has to go. That is what GRC is all about. It is all in or all out. Choktong has warned the people of the consequences of losing a good minister like George Yeo. All ministers are highly valued and cannot afford to lose in an election. Given such a logic and the importance of a minister, opposition should not even contest a GRC. And he even suggested to cut a deal with the people, offering them even 10 NCMPs if they vote for the ministers. Actually he should have offerred the deal earlier. Then maybe the opposition can trade the deal by contesting only single wards so that no minister need to lose. Opposition candidates walkover in single wards and PAP ministers walkover in GRCs. That would be a good deal, I think. Now that the people are dumped with this GRC dilemma, it would be a waste if George Yeo and his colleagues were defeated. But all is not lost. They could easily land a job that pays them more than what they are getting now. Reminds me of Lim Chee Onn. Happily staying away from politics and making his millions. The next election will be a more interesting one when political parties start to trade deals with one another. And probably there will be no voting. Once the deal is struck, each party will go back with the number of constituencies in their pockets. General election Singapore style.
Anonymous said...
politician will always be politician. it is during elections that you get to see their true characters. true leaders vs wayang type. anyway, the god-like one has just lost my respect forever.
Socaps said...
I just had my pack of XO a while ago. Come 10.00 pm. I shall have a cup of coffee by my side with my fingers crossed. I earnestly pray that at least one GRC falls to send forth the signals of voters. All this talk of cutting a deal with opposition parties is bullshit. Remember that there is often a dichotomy between what politicians say and what they do.
redbean said...
hi socaps,
you can keep your xo for another 5 years. by then it will be more mellow.
the $10 bil package is too huge a force and could have caused a swing of at least 20% of the votes. you can imagine what the result could be without this heavy dose of heroine?
actually the politicians put on a mask in an election. all trying to humble themselves and say it is the people who decide. never has the word people been repeated so often as if they are at the mercy of the people.
but once in power, the true self will be revealed. and what people? you die your problem. we have bigger goals to look after.
And please queue up for more handouts which actually came from all the hikes and levies that were imposed on the people over the next 5 years. and the people get a jab once in a while.
amazing how easy to drug the people.
Anonymous said...
Such a lame Election elect mean gone in indian sion means "life or birth" in Chinese and 06 means "hero sick".
I better get myself drunk than to think about it.
A Singaporean said...
I think for the James Gomes case, he may be fine for his carelesness for not sending his forms.
But what if any MP or Minister does some thing wrong, let be transparent don't play play.
Singapore should plan for another 50 years ahead for growth,good living,medical care and other value affairs, OOPs...forget not another 50 years for attacking another person or person please,....otherwise I get sick over you...
AS Singapore it is a very sad election for me as I read somewhere..... If we focus on the thing that causes us to unite...., instead of concentrating on thos e that disunited us...MMMM good comment
A Singaporean
redbean said...
lets not be too downcast over the election result. though some may wallowed in despair, many are celebrating and having a feast.
it all depends on which camp one is in. as a neutral, i too will like things to be more balanced, lesser extremes and excesses in anything we do.
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ACII Black Edition is finally mine!
CRank: 6Score: 0
I Want My Boss Battles Back
Ah boss battles: the classic checkpoint marker and definitive end to many games. But this generation their importance has started to dwindle as has the effort put into creating them by many developers, so where are boss battles now and what significance do they play in modern gaming?
We have recently seen the introduction of Quick-Time Event boss battles, arguably the worst use of this lazy mixing of a cutscene with minimal player control. After building up it's rather weak story to what felt like the climax of the game in its penultimate mission, Battlefield 3 ended it all with a poor QTE boss fight in the middle of the street which seemed to last an eternity. Forward ahead to the end of 2012 and Ubisoft's two biggest releases - Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3 - also both decided to utilise this horrible form of "gameplay" (if you can really call it that) in certain boss encounters, which does nothing more than test a player's reaction time in order to allow what is effectively a normal cutscene with the added illusion of player control.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution didn't go as far as having multiple QTE bosses, but Eidos Montreal's decision to outsource all of the game's boss battles had a negative effect on the game and left a bad of a sour taste in many gamer's mouths despite how good the rest of the game was. For a game which you can choose to play through with stealth or action, you only had one choice in every boss battle and that was pure action and gunpower. Imagine my reaction to this as I dropped any heavy weapons I had picked in order to keep my Stun Gun full of ammo and encountered the first boss, a big dude with a big gun who cornered you in the tiny, squared fight perimeter. I had to backtrack a little eventually to pick up some grenades and pistols as stealth in all of Human Revolution's boss battles were non-existent, thus forcing you to pick up and use weapons which you don't need anywhere else in the game if you're a bigger fan of playing it stealthy. But what about Eidos' decision to outsource the boss battles itself? That decision alone - and the decision to outsource them to a company headed by a man that didn't know much about Deus Ex and said he was more of a shooter fan - surely is a symbol of how unimportant (and uncared for) boss battles are becoming in modern gaming.
Even series famed for some of their well thought-out and dynamic boss battles seemed to fail in this respect this generation. Metal Gear Solid 4's Beauty and the Beast Unit - which were more of an additional part of the game rather than an integral one - added little to the mix of the game. The first boss, Laughing Octopus, was actually a decent fight with a rather quirky twist (one which still fooled me at times after five playthroughs), but after that everything was a number of steps down - a straight shootout with Raging Raven, a fairly routine sniper battle with Crying Wolf (which could be easily ended thanks to the bazillion types of launchers among other weapon types in the game) and a gimmicky encounter with Screaming Mantis which at first was a nice nod back to the first game of the "Solid" series but on any replay lost all of its touch. Mediocrity in boss fights has even been an issue with some fighting games. Tekken 6's Arcade Mode's climax against the rather bizarre Egyptian God Azazel seems to come out of nowhere, as does some of its rather cheap and long-reaching attacks. Mortal Kombat's Shao Kahn surely takes the trophy for cheapest boss however, being able to effectively pummel you from anywhere on the screen with the majority of his attacks breaking through your blocks, after denying your your right to combo attack him (mind you Mortal Kombat has a bit of a history with cheap Shao Kahn fights so perhaps they simply wanted to continue the trend?). One of the other disappointing types of boss battles were those bullet-sponge bosses whose health you simply have to routinely drain and which adds enemies around him/her/it in order to create some additional difficulty (such as in Bioshock, Borderlands, and the Mass Effect series).
Now I'm not just going to bang on about bad boss fights this gen, there were a few games with good ones which the developers clearly spent good time on. Demon's and Dark Souls were games which almost completely focused on dynamic, diverse and grandiose bosses to fight and this (along with the general fun and difficulty of combat, among other things) is why the series has been such a hit with those that enjoyed the titles. The Ratchet & Clank series (while starting to drag on a bit) still manages to create fresh and different boss battles allowing the player to utilise the majority of their gadgets and weaponry as they like - but the lack of consistent platforming games (titles with traditionally good and innovative boss battles at the heart of the genre) since the sixth generation of consoles probably has attributed to the lack in quality of boss fights now, either that or the other way around.
But arguably many of those games that have had more enjoyable and deep boss battles from this generation are titles that still hearken back to older gaming times, and in my opinion this is one of the reasons why JRPGs are still near the top of the boss battle chain. While the majority of better games in the genre differentiate themselves with evolving combat systems (most from the old, simplistic turn-based system), almost all of them still tie in closely to the early time of the establishment of the JRPG and still relate closely to the turn-based, organisational and tactical style of play. Despite how much it was looked down on by a large part of the gaming community, one of the things that I found Final Fantasy XIII did very well was boss fights which took you deep into the new combat system (and perhaps for some of you this wasn't the case and you blasted through them, but as I was quite new to this genre at the time I found the importance of timing and organisation a very interesting feature), as did arguably the best JRPG of this generation Lost Odyssey, which - with its fairly simplified turn-based system and quite challenging boss fights- would have felt very close to games of past generations.
The other genre that would arguably be near (or probably at) the top of the boss battle chain would be the hack n' slash genre, although with my little expertise in the genre I can't make a completely honest review of it (mind you I did just complete the Metal Gear Rising Revengeance demo which had a pretty fun encounter to round it off, although it was one of those that used additional enemies to buff it up). But titles that I haven't even played but have seen come to mind - Asura's Wrath, Bayonetta and the God of War Series, among many others have varied and deep combat systems which comfortably transfer through to boss clashes which (the majority of the time) require good dexterity and timing in order to achieve victory. But why do these two genres still continue to succeed at their execution of boss battles, and why is the majority of the rest of the gaming world falling behind and forgetting about them? Many gamers nowadays prefer to have cinematic interactive experiences rather than games with more raw and pure focus on gameplay and the variety that comes from that - titles like Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Heavy Rain, and Mass Effect have a large focus on set-pieces instead of a more free terrain for gamers to find and develop their own ways of progressing and playing in. Developers seem to be looking for ways to put into effect their own ideas for situations and events in the game as opposed to creating difficulty in boss battles through conventional means and conventional gameplay- even if they don't have the means to actually allow the player to execute and complete these events themselves (cue QTEs). Arguably even though developers have better tools at their disposal, they're being less creative than before. They have ideas and plans for a scene and instead of being innovative and trying to make things work in the boundaries of the rest of the game and the natural gameplay that the rest of the game is - or should be - based on, they decide to make that scene or event work no matter how poor the outcome is. (These are "games" after all, if I wanted an interactive movie I'd buy one.)
While cinematic games have their place in the industry this stultifying desire to create the illusion of player control in gaming when everything is already determined is taking away the dynamism of games. Sure we may have a little more freedom in other places in games, but the way boss battles are being treated as secondary to other gameplay nowadays is beginning to affect other areas of games. Titles and genres that are still in touch with older generations and older games seem to still hit the nail on the head when it comes to these encounters, and perhaps the desire to try and make almost everything different (or at least seem different) to predecessors is why the new style of cinematic gaming (which appears to be more dynamic but in reality is more predetermined than before) is where the spotlight is landing on now. Do you think we still need boss battles and the related significance of them, or should we allow them to wither away and in place have more longer and prescribed gaming sections? Is this focus on cinematic gaming better or worse for the industry?
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OcelotRigz1285d ago
I do think boss battles are important for 3 reasons;
First; Nostalgia. Nothing brings us back to the good old days of gaming like a good boss battle, it was an important pillar of games back then and there's no reason to remove them now. Remember those nights where you'd stay up late fighting that tough boss and then finally beat him and the huge satisfaction you would get. Then the next day tell all your friends that you beat him and how you did it. Yeah...
Second; A sense of progression. There is no grander way to demonstrate that you've reached the end of a tough level/game than a boss. Also, there is no better test for what you've learned in the previous level/game.
Third; Simply because they're awesome.
I completely agree with this post, this generation has took some steps backward and you've mentioned two ways that it has. Lack of boss battles and the cinematic/qte approach. I dont want to be in an interactive movie, i want to be in control. Im glad you've demonstrated two games which have excelled in this aspect, the Souls games. My two favorite games this gen because they had that old school adventure feel, no hand holding, no qte, i was in control, great depth, wonderful world to explore, unique and innovative online system and great boss battles.
I was also disappointed in the MGS4 boss battles, they were just straightforward battles whereas the MGS games had a tradition of unique and creative boss battles, no better game to demonstrate this that probably the greatest game ever when it came to boss battles (and my all time favorite), MGS3.
Nice post.
Captain Tuttle1285d ago
That was a nicely written, comprehensive blog. I enjoyed reading it and learned a bit. Thanks
Ezz20131285d ago
wait for god of war ascension and MGS:R
Capt-FuzzyPants1285d ago (Edited 1285d ago )
I've noticed that there aren't as many boss battles in newer games and I miss it. I really liked Deus Ex for at least having boss battles. Once I figured out how to beat each one in a few seconds it was boring, but when I didn't know how to beat them they were fun. Hopefully the next gen has more boss battles like the PS2 did. Because honestly I don't like QTE's. They just aren't fun. They don't really take skill and like you said it sometimes demonstrates developer laziness.
s45gr321285d ago
I can't qtes especially the ones smash x many times and hope for the best. Deux ex should of included boss battles with the option of dialog negotiation like at the end of the first level you talk the villian down tnat would of being sweet.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Tuesday Thoughts
Last night I dreamed I had found the perfect name for my manuscript. I was so excited I wrote it down in my red beaded notebook and I was going email a few friends knowing that they would love this more than anything. Now it's morning and I'm awake and I cannot recall the perfect title. I can recall the excitement, the notebook, the shadow of the words (I can *almost* read them in my mind), but it's lost.
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I did my Tuesday confessions last night and I realize I like my morning confessions better as they don't carry the weight of the day.
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The shoe thing-- Okay, it's been truly interesting to a nerd like me to hear where and when people take off their shoes and where they don't. I know some people don't like whatever germs are on someone's shoes wandering through their homes, others are more worried about the rug. All summer, we track in sand from the beach in the house and fall/wtr is all wet muddy stuff, I tend to take off my shoes just for the convenience of not wanting to sweep later.
A few years ago I ordered this from Pottery Barn (see photo below) to have right by the front door (because our shoes were always everywhere) and it's one of my very favorite things. When my family leaves their shoes, hats, iPods anywhere near the door, they magically disappear into these wicker bins. Oh, remember the world before we had bins for everything, before the Container Store? I don't.
We have hardwood floors, but I take off my shoes in preference of slippers.
Maybe I should be mapping this. Maybe instead of red and blue states we should have shoeless and shoe state. Maybe we all just own too many shoes. No, never too many shoes.
1. I was at a poetry event years ago at the home of a local poet whose home was a shoe-free environment. There were about thirty of us crowded into a not-so-large living room, and the man crowded closely beside me on the sofa had hairy, gnarly, unclipped feet. Too close for comfort! They stood out like giant red strobe-lights. Icky. If no shoes, then at least socks.
2. I love the bin/bench--at my house I think this would turn into a cat fort.
3. Oooh, too bad about the manuscript title. Hope it comes back. I've had the experience of being on the subway and not writing down poem ideas, then losing them forever.
Hope your memory is better than mine.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Star Trek Movie XI
Great Galactic Space. I had to set my shields to maximum to survive the rush of this movie trailer. Will Star Trek XI usher in new generation of Star Trek fans? "Emotions are alien to me - I am a scientist." Mr Spock has conned us into believing in the past but I'm confused. Is'nt the movie a kind of warp back in time? Young Spock must be going through one of his ancestral animal urges or you could just blame it on the weaker human half. Remember this line, when you're watching Spock lose his cool. "I will not allow you to lecture me." says the vulcan in a rage. Spock's raw emotions surface but so do Rachel Nichols in a scene with the corvette murderer, James Tiberius Kirk.
The new trailer is filled with plenty of action packed entertainment and a stylish USS Enterprise starship or is it the USS Kelvin? or whatever..... in an epic space battle which engages a Romulan Warbird. Captain Christopher Pike gives the order to "prepare to fire all weapons."
Those words remind me of favourite battle scenes because its the sort of command Picard would have used to alert his crew, now Kirk's style, we know is different. He does'nt ask questions or engage in too much diplomacy which can be used to prolong a crises and Captain James Tiberius Kirk hates double talk. "Buckle up." and slapping his crewmates on the back is more Kirk's style. Well lets just take it as a given, right? or is he the worst Captain in the Fleet, perhaps you hate the guy? Don't be shy now...
When the enemy is threatening the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701, Captain Kirk skips the formalities opting instead to maneuver "his" ship in for the kill. At the Captains command, Mr Checkov readies the phasers and photon torpedoes at full power. Kirk's cunning eyes spot the enemy ship's weakest moment and without hesitation the order to fire is given. "Mr Checkov lock weapons and fire!" I think Abrams included the cop chasing corvette scene to demonstrate Kirk's daredevil compulsion and nerves of steel in what are considered crucial characteristics of a noteworthy Starship Captain.
Romulans are unlike their stoic "Cousins" the vulcans and I'm fascinated to see how Leonard Nemoy's character "Spock" plays out in the film. Romulans are driven by their passions and its no coincidence Mr Spock and a bad ass Romulan "Nero" with blood ties are in the same movie. Given half a chance, Nero will blow the Enterprise out of the stars. But what about the time honoured traditions of the Federation, Starfleet General Orders/Regulations and the Prime Directive?
Wired has reported on the reaction to the four clips shown at the Los Angeles gathering. "It's safe to say that Abrams' Trek will be younger, brighter, busier and more frenetically paced than any previous incarnation," said the reviewer. "The performances are edgier and louder, but not better. The effects are spectacular and executed on a scale never attempted by any Trek film. And, while connected to Gene Roddenberry's creation, this film is deliberately and unquestionably built in its own universe, constructing its story on the idea that the original Star Trek time line has been destroyed and must be reconstructed as closely as possible."
Its a fair bet there will be less geekiness and more action drama scenes in this movie with spacebabe Zoe Saldana taking her top off and another spacebabe hitting it off with the new Captain Kirk, who told Eonline he did get his groove on with the "green" Rachel Nichols.
johnnyneo9 (2 days ago) Im not into Star Trek but this movie might change my mind....
NathanVernon (2 days ago) Agreed. might turn me into a trekkie. :P
Amatugold Reply same here
Inglis93 (2 days ago) OMFG EPIC.
AlbertGX (2 days ago) YES
thizzwutitizzz (2 days ago) im not a star trek fan but this movie somewhat appeals
to me. probably cuz "syler," simon pegg, and henry cho are in it. either way the movie looks good.
27.Murray Mon, Nov 17, 2008, 4:36 PM
Star Trek has always had a stigma of being geeky and misunderstood by many people. Hopefully, if this trailer is anything to go by, then we are finally looking at a Star Trek Film which has style, heaps of action and ass-kicking sci-fi entertainment in abundance and not just appealing to die hard fans such as me, but for the wider audience in general.Lets be eternally grateful that Star Trek has been given another
chance, a top director, an awesome cast, a huge budget and a sh*tload of Industrial
Light and Magic visual effects on top.
What kind of kid would tell a cop his full name? A kid who thinks he's destined for great things.
jbunn01 Stupid little kid just toasted an antique 280 year old Corvette. Punk a*sed kirk....
You're used to seeing a more mature Spock, who's suppressed his human side. This movie deals with a younger Spock, who has to battle his half-human emotions and half-Vulcan expectations.
Spock: "Quite correct, Mister Chekov. What is required now is a feat of
linguistic legerdomain and a degree of intrepidity, before the captain and Doctor McCoy freeze to death."
please i hope mccoy says
"hes dead jim"
"dammit jim im a doctor not a ...."
I wanna know why Spock's beating on Kirk.
Shut up Trekkies. I don't even like Star Trek and I see that movie is gonna be good.
Don't forget to put fuses in the consoles, too. Now instead of the console blowing up in your face, the fuse just goes poof. How many lives could have been saved with seatbelts and circuit breakers?
Live long and Prosper Trekkies, Aliens and Trekkers.
Past Expiry said...
I guess I'm "old school". I prefer the original star trek series, back
in the day when doing endorsements was unheard of. But if Kirk did
do endorsements, would it be like this cartoon??
brett said...
I have not seen the movie.. But I have seen the Star Trek series and this is fantastic series.
Watch Movies Online
Spacerguy said...
Simon Peggs' Scotty is cool. "I like this ship! Its exciting!"
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I'm trying to write a file synchronization protocol presently (consider it a hobby, I know there are plenty of file synchronizers out there) and I wanted to create a way to automatically sync things across a network. I've heard that this can be accomplished via UDP, but I'm totally oblivious to how to accomplish it.
If I use UDP, will I still have to ping 192.168.X.0 - 192.168.X.255? Or does UDP find a way around that? Is there a way I can in some way bypass firewalls so I don't have to go to each computer on my network and allow incoming traffic to the given UDP port?
Forgive me for being so oblivious on this, this is my first time trying to implement a protocol ;)
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You can use nmap to scan hosts to see if they have a service listening on a certain port.
There are very few circumstances in which UDP is preferable to TCP:
• UDP doesn't work so well for two-way communications. You have to make up your own query/answer association. Even when you're sending data in one direction, you often want the recipient to acknowledge, which is a datum sent in the other direction.
• UDP isn't reliable. If a packet is lost or duplicated, tough.
• UDP travels by packet. If your packet is too big and is systematically discarded, tough.
• UDP introduces some security issues, such as making distributed denials of service easy. For this reason many firewalls block or severely restrict it.
• Few protocols use TCP, so closed-by-default firewalls just don't let any of it through (apart from DNS, which they tightly constrain).
• UDP doesn't do congestion management. If you flood the network, your packets will be discarded randomly. TCP, on the other hand, will restrict the debit to what the network can bear.
You can send a UDP packet to a machine and see if something answers, of course. You can even send a UDP broadcast and see how far it goes, or send a UDP multicast and hope it arrives.
There are two requirements for a network packet (UDP or TCP) to trigger an action on the destination machine. First, all routers and firewalls on the packet's path must have let the packet through to the destination. Second, there must be an application listening on the destination machine. This could be your synchronizer, or a service starter such as inetd, or a server for a higher-level protocol that you synchronizer would embed into such as HTTP(S) or SSH.
If your packets are blocked by a firewall, then in principle there's no way to go around this. Otherwise the firewall just isn't doing its job. Of course, in practice, firewalls do have holes, for example UPnP (). You're more likely to be able to bypass a firewall over TCP (especially over HTTPS, which firewalls generally can't block selectively so have to let by to permit web browsing) than over UDP.
If there's nothing listening on the destination port, again, you won't be able to take control of the target machine to make it execute your application. (That would be the epitome of insecurity, like some older unpatched versions of Windows.) That's an advantage of piggybacking over a common generalist protocol like SSH: you just have to enable one service, and then you can do what you want over it, including file synchronization.
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If you're interested in the local network only, and assuming the client knows the server's port number, the client could broadcast a UDP message, to which the server would reply with a unicast message, thus establishing communications.
Or, you could consider using some existing discovery protocol, such as Bonjour/Zero Conf, or UPnP (Universal Plug 'n Play) to locate your devices.
Firewalls are a separate issue, which in any case you must make sure are open to your discovery packets.
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Excellent, so a UDP message would basically hit everyone in my network on a specified UDP port? Also, how do these discovery protocols work? Do I write them into my application or are they router based? Reading the documentation confused me even more than I already was :-( – Naftuli Tzvi Kay Dec 3 '10 at 0:47
Yes - a broadcast goes to everyone on the network all on the same port. As to the workings of discovery protocols--I'm hoping someone else can answer that. I've never used them. – Jamie Cox Dec 6 '10 at 16:20
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Usually when the mail comes I'm quick to toss it on Douglas' desk because it's an invoice or statement or other uninteresting transmittal. But today there was a beautiful, hand-addressed card on top of the mail pile and the stamp had a Trident Maple Bonsai tree on it. How intriguing.
So I kept this letter for myself. Inside was a check (always my favorite mail to open) and a "racy" greeting card from one of our customers in West Yarmouth, MA.
The card was made by Tree-Free Greetings in Keene, NH which is just down the road from us. It's a small company I've never even heard of. But their cards are made from recycled content and Kenaf– an American grown plant that grows 15 feet in 5 months, uses no harmful chemicals in processing and is fully recyclable.
I have to say… our customers are the ultimate. They keep us going when times get tough. Sending us money in a locally made, eco-friendly card on Arbor Day… how cool is that?
Many thanks to the Merrill family!
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Farhan Akhtar
Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, known to be an ardent social activist, has spoken up for gay rights this time around.
The 39-year-old supports the soaring resentment against the recent Supreme Court ruling that goes against gay freedom.
"I feel it is a primitive law and does not have any place in today’s society. People have the freedom to choose who they want to be with. As long as they are consenting adults, they have the right to do what they want and I don’t think we should be peeping inside people’s bedrooms and telling them what to do," said Akhtar, who was in the national capital earlier this week.
The actor, who drives a social campaign called MARD (Men Against Rape and Discrimination), which he created after the December 16 Delhi gangrape, says things thankfully seem better on women’s safety front even as gay laws need to be given their due.
"Usually, when you have to treat a problem, you have to first diagnose it and understand how bad it is and how severely in need of treatment it is. I think a lot more people are aware of it, a lot more women realise that at times silence is not an option. You have to speak up and be brave about these things. As long as we keep the spotlight on the problem and keep the volume up, and want to discuss it and find a solution, a solution will eventually have to be found," he says.
Interestingly, the filmmaker was seen sporting a rather different old-world look this time, with a neat moustache.
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Miley Cyrus can ''smell bulls**t a mile away''.
The actress-and-singer - who starred in Disney's 'Hannah Montana' TV show aged 13 - has had people try and befriend her because of her fame and fortune, but can weed them out because she grew up around Hollywood with her famous father, Billy Ray Cyrus.
She said: ''We've always had money and fame. People who grew up without either can get more of a culture shock and go the wrong way. 'Oh my God, I have all this money. How can I spend it? All these people will like me because I'm famous.'
''I've always had people trying to be my friend for the wrong reasons. I'm used to it. I can smell bulls**t a mile away.''
Reflecting on her career, the 20-year-old star admits it's ''crazy'' her parents allowed her to pursue an acting career before she was even a teenager, landing roles in 'Doc' and the film 'Big Fish' before starring as Hannah in 2006.
She told Elle magazine: ''He [Billy] wasn't worried about me going crazy. My dad wasn't like that and my parents trust us and know us.
''I was just a baby. I had no teeth, no boobs. I was a little girl. It's crazy that a decision you make when you're a kid can affect your whole life - that someone would trust a child with her own future. It was just lucky that I managed I was able to love it and turn it around.'' | <urn:uuid:e1f64530-52b1-4763-9c9b-b20b5dcffbb2> | http://www.contactmusic.net/miley-cyrus/news/lie-detector-miley-cyrus_3642837 | en | 0.986784 | 0.673062 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
5 Weapon Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies)
#2. Machine Guns Are the Premature Ejaculators of the Gun World
The Scene:
Let's let Professor John Rambo explain the theoretical physics of machine gunnery in this scene from First Blood Part II:
The theory goes like this: You pull the trigger on a machine gun until the whole world turns into blood, and it is awesome. You can't argue with that; that's science.
The Reality:
After the first minute or so, provided that he had enough ammo to fire that long in the first place, Dr. John Rambo would find his monstrous murderection completely flaccid.
See, machine guns are designed more for brief covering fire and the occasional, precisely delivered packet of death. The M60 of Rambo fame up there can survive sustained fire at 100 rounds per minute. Which is awesome. But afterward, it will require breaking apart and changing the whole goddamn barrel. Yes, you read that correctly: Machine gunners have about a solid minute of constant ass-kicking, but afterward, they have to stop, break apart the machine gun and align and insert a brand new replacement barrel before continuing to be rad for precisely one more minute. And they do all this while in a combat zone. Under enemy fire. In the middle of a war zone.
It's not just Rambo's antiquated Vietnam vengeance equipment, either: The modern stuff doesn't work much better. Turns out that no amount of money can cool a 22-inch steel pipe fast enough to compensate for the hundreds of tiny explosions per minute happening inside of it. The M249 that replaced the M60 has a sustained fire rate close to Rambo's preferred power band (750 to 800 rounds per minute), provided that you change the barrels every, wait for it: Yep, every minute.
"And that's why we use handguns when hunting in the city. Much less downtime."
That's the longest a bitchin' machine gun fight could ever last in reality until everybody involved had to stop, pull out their iPhones and order up some new parts.
#1. Submarine Battles Are the Most Boring Things Ever
The Scene:
All is quiet on the bridge. A dozen submariners tensely but silently go about their business. Suddenly, a deafening ping rings out through the hull. An enemy sub has spotted you! Take evasive maneuvers! Call Sean Connery -- if nothing else, his dulcet tones will soothe your frazzled nerves in the deadly game of hide and seek to follow.
The Reality:
Most people are aware that subs use sonar to "see" underwater. But here's what you probably think a sonar screen looks like:
Via Sonarscreensaver.com
Followed by blips that look like little spaceships and a confused operator saying "There are six of them ... no, wait, 12. Now 20!"
Pretty simple, right? You're in the middle and the other guy has the decency to be a bright purple dot, so he's easy to spot. You tell the torpedo dude to, like, point at the dot and pull the trigger, and then boom -- no more dot. But here's what an actual sonar screen looks like:
"So the squiggly lines finally made their move. This war just got interesting."
It looks like 1989 needs a price check on something. How do you fight using that?
Well, there are two main types of sonar: active and passive. Active is closer to what you normally associate with sonar -- subs send out a loud "ping" and then time how long it takes to get back to them. While active sonar will give you a lot of useful information, like bearing, range and speed, it also has the drawback of giving away your position to anyone listening within a several-mile radius.
What subs use 99 percent of the time is passive sonar, which basically boils down to a bunch of highly sensitive microphones stuck in the water and people listening really, really hard. This type of sonar delivers way more useful information, such as the type and class of ship, even identifying specific individual ships in some cases, just by the sound. Since passive sonar is picking up emitted sound instead of reflected sound, range could be quite complicated to calculate. Back during the war movie days, even with a computer assisting, it could take up to 15 minutes of uninterrupted listening to get an accurate enough estimate to fire a torpedo, and that's only if the submarine in question was polite enough to not change speed or direction at all while it was being hunted. If it was one of those rude submarines (probably a Russian; those boorish Russkies just up and abandon the rules of high society the very second you try to kill them) that stops or dives below a thermocline layer, you lose track of them completely and it's back to square one.
"Fuck this, I'm just gonna go look. Cover me."
So it turns out that Hollywood has been lying to you about what warfare actually looks like, because for the most part, it's like teenage sex: There's all sorts of tense build-up, but the payoff is usually ungainly and awkward, and it's all over way too fast.
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Replicating Human Organ Biology In Vitro
HemoShear’s Surrogate Vascular Systems Help Guide Drug Development
• Carol Potera
In 2005, a team of professors and researchers at the University of Virginia began a project to create a research tool that would replicate the biology of the human artery on the bench. Nicole Hastings, Ph.D., then a graduate student, along with Brett R. Blackman, Ph.D., and Brian R. Wamhoff, Ph.D., faculty members, designed a system that combined human primary endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells, which are the main cell types that comprise the human artery.
Most importantly, they exposed the endothelial cells to fluid movements that accurately mimic regional blood flow. This essential stimulus, along with other biophysical conditions, “turns on” the in vivo biology of the cells, thus creating a human surrogate vascular system.
The combination of multiple primary cell types, regional and complex hemodynamics, and biological transport were the core principles they developed in the laboratory and are now the foundational science of HemoShear. “Those were very exciting times for us,” says Dr. Hastings, who is now vp of operations.
HemoShear, founded in 2008, is now partnering with pharmaceutical, medical device, and other biotechnology companies to develop safer and more effective drugs using a unique scientific approach to in vitro based human relevant systems. In traditional drug development processes, early in vitro based experimentation using standard cell culture environments can create confounding data and results that are difficult to interpret. HemoShear says it can translate primary cell culture systems to the human biological condition, unveiling meaningful data for understanding drug-target interactions, mechanisms, and positive and negative output responses.
“HemoShear creates human-relevant systems to accurately replicate the biology of organ systems and diseases. We apply these methods to bridge the gap between traditional cell culture methods and human and animal pathobiology,” says Dr. Blackman, CSO.
Discovery Partnerships
Using its vascular system, HemoShear’s scientists are currently collaborating with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on R&D programs and foresee the opportunity to expand its methods into many other organs.
“When you expose vascular endothelial cells co-cultured with smooth muscle cells to very specific hemodynamic conditions, the cells can be reprogrammed to respond just as they do in the human body.
"We can make cells think they’re in the large arteries in the brain, or small vessels in the gut by applying region-specific hemodynamics,” says Dr. Wamhoff, vp of R&D.
“When studies are performed under these conditions, the results can better predict human responses and in turn, better inform scientific interpretation with our partners working on drug programs,” says Dr. Wamhoff.
Applying the same principles of cell co-cultures and hemodynamics, HemoShear has been developing an advanced liver system using human primary cells to assess liver toxicity, metabolism, and drug-drug interactions. The development work is being led by Ajit Dash, M.D., Ph.D. HemoShear believes that its human liver surrogate systems can guide companies in the discovery and selection of new drug candidates with better efficacy and safety profiles. “What is even more exciting is that we believe that we can create conditions to replicate liver diseases also,” says Dr. Wamhoff.
Human Response Database
In 2011, HemoShear was awarded a $4.3 million SBIR grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and has partnered with Expression Analysis, a Quintiles company, to develop the first comprehensive human response database for evaluating the vascular pharmacology of drug compounds.
Led by Robert Figler, Ph.D., HemoShear scientific director, the database will profile how human vascular cells respond at the genomic level to over 100 existing and novel drug compounds that span over 17 drug classes. Among the compounds being tested are drugs approved by the FDA, those withdrawn from the market, and some with black-box warnings.
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GTA IV Guide » Missions » Jimmy Pegorino
Jimmy Pegorino
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There is a lot of commotion going on inside the Pegorino - get used to it! Jimmy wants you oversee a deal he has going on, so drive him and some of his men to the location.
As lookout, you'll have to go upstairs in a building at the end of the alleyway. When you reach the spot, the deal will begin and, as usual, things go wrong! Quickly snipe the men that are crowding around Pegorino. When the alleyway is all clear, run back downstairs to take care of the other men scattered throughout the area.
This mission is time sensitive, you can't let Pegorino die. Our advice is to not spend too much time killing the man, just get to Pegorino as quickly as possible. Head up the stairs on the left of the alleyway, there will be a couple guys blocking the way. When you're on the platform, there will be one man off in the distance to the right and a couple close-by taking cover to the left. Try to knock them down with only a few shots and move on.
Run through one of the doors towards Pegorino, but watch out as there are obviously some more men inside the building. Once you reach Jimmy, Niko will help him out and the two of you will ditch the building. Jimmy isn't satisfied, though - some of the guys stole his goods and are driving off. Chase them down! You don't want to destroy the car since that will also destroy Pegorino's package (and therefore his pride). So just keep following them, and they'll eventually crash into a staircase and run around on foot. Out of the vehicle, they're much easier to take down. Kill them, grab the package that one will drop, and drive off with Pegorino. When you both arrive at Jimmy's mansion, the mission will be complete.
Reward: $10,500
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Right at the start of this mission, Jimmy will walk out of his front door with a gun pointed straight at Niko. He is paranoid after finding out that his guard, Anthony, has been wearing a wire for the feds the whole time. While speaking to him on the phone, Anthony had a heart attack! Jimmy thought that was the end of his worries, but the guy survived. He tells you to go down the road to the hospital and finish him off.
Walk into the hospital without a weapon drawn so the guards don't start coming after you. There are two ways to complete this mission - you can choose to be stealthy and approach it in a Hitman-like way, or just go classic GTA style shooting up guards and sick people.
To do it the stealthy way, find a closet in the hallway that has some scrubs (doctor's outfit) for you to change into. If you're in uniform, the guards at the end of hallway will let you pass. Once in Anthony's room, you can either pull his life support and run out of there, or shoot him and continue your rampage outside.
If you want to complete the mission guns ablazing, head down the hallway and kill the two guards there. Hurry inside Anthony's room, shoot him to give him the flat line, and head out.
You'll have to plow through some guards and cops on the way, but once you're outside lose your wanted level, and the mission will end.
Reward: $13,000
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Jimmy is having a meeting with Ray and Phil. It's obvoius there is some tension between the three of them, particularly with Ray. After he sees them out, Jimmy has a talk with Niko. He's afraid that somebody is selling them out, and even if it's not Ray or Phil, killing one of them will send a message to the rest of the family. He doesn't really know what to do just yet, so he'll call you later about it.
Leave Pegorino's mansion, and you might as well just drive towards Algonquin. In a couple minutes, Jimmy will call you and say that he's made up his mind...Ray has to go. Drive to East Holland where Ray will be exiting a building. There are two cars that you have to follow: a white one, which contains Ray, and a black one, which contains all his body guards.
Pegorino tells you that he'll make them stop for gas on the way, so you can wait until then to kill them. If you want to just get it over with, however, you can kill them during their first left turn - it's a large intersection and the building on the left corner has a patio with a view of the street, perfect for an RPG. If you don't beat them to the light and blow them up there, you can just wait until they arrive at the gas station (keeping your distance the whole time) and blow up the whole station with one rocket, taking care of Ray and his guards all at once.
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Pegorino has one last job for you. He needs you to get some money for an H deal with the Russians. However, this means that you'll have to be dealing with Dimitri again. Niko tells Pegorino he'll do it, but he's obviously not quite sure.
When you leave the club Niko will automatically call a couple of people for advice. Roman will advise you to take the deal - he's getting married soon and could use the money, and he thinks it's time to stop the killing. Kate, however, thinks that Niko shouldn't compromise his values for some money. The choice is yours!
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