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Rainy past couple days!
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Rainy past couple days!
I just read on the Kauai online newspaper that they have had quite a lot of rain the past few days! Even closing the bridge to Hanalei! Glad we didn't go this week!----on second though---it still beats our cold midwest weather!
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Yes, that was my thought too, as it's about zero and snowing again here - a little rain feels and smells so good, though I hope they don't have any bad problems, as I wouldn't want to wish that on delightful Hanalei! :)
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Rain is o.k. Its better than cold rain. I would take a Rainy day any day in Kauai. You can still do pretty much everything out in it anyway. Stay warm all. | <urn:uuid:415c0822-d00f-49fe-a591-40c5693d9b16> | http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g29218-i304-k475828-Rainy_past_couple_days-Kauai_Hawaii.html | en | 0.920554 | 0.052592 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
All things related to Twilight belong to Stephenie Meyer and/or Summit. Everything else belongs to me.
Thank you to Wendy, who is an extraordinary beta. You are fabulous!
This was written for the Fanficaholics Anon 100 Pictures competition and it tied for first place in the popular vote! I hope you enjoy!
"Would you like to hold your son now?"
Rather than answer, I reach my hands out to grasp the tiny bundle. I ignore the tug of the IV still embedded in the crook of my arm, wanting nothing more than to hold my baby, to smell him, to feel his warmth against my skin.
The doctors at the foot of my bed barely register with me now that I am about to hold my child. A nurse reaches up to pull the sheet down over my bottom half, so I don't have to think about anything but my beautiful boy.
Pulling him close, I breathe in his wonderful scent. He looks up at me with wide eyes; I can already see the hints of brown behind the newborn slate. He does not cry. His pink mouth opens slightly as though he has something to say. There are remains of his birth evident at his hairline. They'll be taking him for his bath soon. I can see the nurse edging toward the bed to take him to the nursery. My heart clenches a bit in my chest.
Lowering my face to my son's, I press my lips to his incredibly soft skin, and tears leak from the corners of my eyes.
"You don't know how long I've waited for you."
My husband's voice reaches my ears from much closer than I expected. "Nessie, you have to give Billy to the nurse now. He'll be back soon."
Handing our son, who is named after his paternal grandfather, to the nurse, I turn to stare into Jake's smiling face. The nurses finish my clean up and leave me to speak with my husband.
"I'm so proud of you," he says, leaning in to kiss my lips softly.
"I have to admit, I'm impressed with you, too," I tell him with a smirk.
"With me? What did I do?" Jake's brow furrows in confusion.
Laughing lightly, I confess, "I thought you'd pass out."
Looking slightly affronted, he looks deep into my eyes, "Baby, you know I can't stand to see you in pain."
"I know, Jake," I say, feeling properly chastised.
Jake's terror over my pregnancy is not unfounded. His lips lift in a grin. "I'm going to check on our son."
I look up at him gratefully, "You read my mind."
Placing my hand in his, I pull him to me, pressing my lips to his jaw, his chin and coming to rest against his full, pouting mouth. "I love you, Jacob Black."
"And I love you, Renesmee Black. I always have and I always will." With that, he places a last, lingering kiss on my forehead and walks toward the door. Just as he passes the bedside table, he pauses and turns back.
"Did you forget something?" I ask, thinking he wants another kiss.
He flashes his brilliant, white smile and grabs the camera from the tabletop before heading out the door.
I settle back against the pillows, letting contentment wash over me. I don't rest for more than thirty seconds, when I hear a tapping.
"Hello Mrs. Black, how are you feeling?"
"Mostly tired and a little sore. Oh, and please, call me Nessie." Dr. Embry Call's russet skin and dark eyes remind me of Jake, which is partly why I chose him to be my obstetrician. I find the familiarity comforting.
"Well, Nessie," a smile lifts his lips, "I'd say forty hours of hard labor warrants some rest. What do you think?"
"I think I'm inclined to agree with you."
"I thought you might be. I ran into your husband in the hall, he's very concerned about you. I assured him we're going to take you good care of you. I actually have some medicine I'm going to inject into your IV. It's just to help you relax, so you can get some rest."
"Um, Dr. Call?"
"Yes, Nessie?"
"How long will it take for my blood pressure to come back down?" Not only did I have pre-eclampsia, but it turned into full-blown eclampsia during labor, complete with a mild seizure.
"It should happen fairly quickly now. You'll need to come in for a recheck in two weeks, and we'll go from there. However, you don't need to concern yourself with any of that just yet. Your discharge nurse will go over all of the information with you upon your release. For now, I'm going to give you your shot and I want you to get some sleep. You're still going to have that 'yucky' feeling, as it's been called, for a while. It's still necessary for you to have the magnesium sulfate; just to be sure there won't be any more seizures."
Dr. Call lifts my hand and lays it gently on the hospital bed, palm up, fully outstretched. Just as he pops the top from the syringe, a question pops from my mouth.
"Can I see Billy again before I get knocked out?" I feel as though a part of me is missing; I'm almost panicked.
"Your son is just fine; the nurses are cleaning him and running a few tests." My eyes narrow and he rushes on, "His APGAR was normal, and your husband is with him. I assure you, there is nothing to be concerned with now. Just relax, sleep for a few hours and then you can hold your son to your heart's content. Okay?"
I sigh. Like I really have a choice. "Okay."
He places the syringe to my IV port and applies pressure to the plunger, slowly, watching for bubbles. Within seconds, I feel the new medication seeping through my veins. It's cold. I shiver a little, and settle back onto my pillows.
"Give it a few minutes and you should be able to get some sleep." His voice sounds muffled already, as my eyelids drift shut.
I can hear his footsteps on the linoleum and the slight creak of the door as he closes it on his way out. I mumble belatedly, "thank you."
Floating in the limbo that is not quite sleep, not quite waking, memories flood my brain. The scent of Billy lingers in my nostrils, sweet and pure, like sugar… Suddenly, my thoughts shift.
My mind seems to be playing a game of word association of its own will. A voice within me argues.
No, stay with Billy…
And it's gone before I can focus on it wholly.
When I think of candy, I can't help but think of that fateful summer. Our trip to Mackinaw City in Michigan.
Dad and I wandered into that tiny candy store on the strip; we found so much more than sweets.
An unexpected, lingering pang of jealousy fills my chest.
As I sink further into my ever darkening limbo, images flash behind my eyelids of my Dad and Bella, and of Jake.
My Jake.
A steady beeping fills my senses as it increases in tempo. Somewhere in the blackness, I hear a shrill sound, like a siren.
I don't recall envy being such a physical pain. The sting has blossomed into a consuming pressure. Air is coming from my lungs in short puffs. I can't get enough oxygen in my lungs.
I'm suffocating!
I hear a muffled commotion in the darkness, but my awareness is fading. I can make out three separate voices – voices that will anchor me to this place.
"Nessie? No!"
"Doctor, please, what is it? Can't you tell us what's wrong?" The panic in my father's voice is palpable.
Then I hear the voice of reason, the calming force from the last ten years of my life.
"Edward, Jacob, let the doctors do their job. She's strong." Her voice breaks on the last word.
Tubes are being attached to me, air is being forced into me and yet, I'm sinking.
The pandemonium surrounding me is quieting, slowly disappearing.
I see blackness. I hear a soft humming.
I open my eyes to see what is making the sound, because it doesn't fit with my surroundings, and I am stunned by the picture before me.
I'm floating above a couple. A couple that is kissing passionately. The couple looks familiar. I look around and notice the park they're sitting in.
I gasp.
This is where I used to come with Jake when we were teenagers.
The girl pulls back to speak. Now that I can see her face closely, I realize… that's us!
I blink and upon opening my eyes, I look out at Jake. All the thoughts in my head vanish until nothing in this world exists but the two of us. He is my world and I know I will marry him someday. I'm only sixteen, but that doesn't matter.
"Jacob," I say seriously, "I want you to come with me. Is there any way you can do it?"
"Nessie, you know I can't. Your dad already said there was no way he'd allow that, and I don't think my dad would be too thrilled either." Jake sighs and brushes my hair behind my ear. "I'll be here, waiting for you to come home."
"No, it's nothing. Never mind." I feel my lips push out into a pout.
"I want to know what you're thinking. Please?" he asks me, pressing his lips to mine in a most convincing manner.
I manage to break our kiss, though it's not without effort.
"Jake, I'm worried someone else will steal you away when I'm gone." He shakes his head and I continue. "No, don't do that, just listen. You just graduated. I still have two years left. You're going to meet so many new people this year… You'll forget all about me." He opens his mouth to protest, so I raise my voice to speak over him. "That's why I want us to spend this summer together. Our last summer."
The tears that have been burning the backs of my eyes, spill over, dripping down my cheeks. My melodramatics work to my advantage.
"Renesmee Cullen, that's enough. Listen to me." Jake places one of his warm hands under my chin, forcing me to look into his dark eyes, and the other on my leg, rubbing it gently. "I don't know what I have to do to prove that I love you and only you. You're all I could ever want. You're perfect."
My underlying seed of doubt is nearly buried, but it will always be a part of who I am. Jake does his best to quash it. I love him so much. I'm used to getting what I want, but I am always scared of it being snatched away from me. It's an odd mix of qualities, but it seems to work for me.
I sniffle a little before answering, "I love you, Jake. You're all I want, too."
We sit cuddling for a while before he drives me home in his little, rusted Rabbit.
After a long, clinging kiss, I walk up the side-walk toward the house. I open the door to my dad. He's glaring.
Uh oh…
"You're late."
"I'm sorry, Dad. I, uh, didn't have the volume up on my cell phone." I had to think of something.
"I don't want to hear any excuses; you're grounded."
"What? No! Dad, come on! I'm only..." I look at the clock behind me.
Oh shit. I'm going to have to do some major sucking up for this one or he'll never let me see Jacob.
"Yeah, you're only an hour late. If I hadn't already paid for our plane tickets, we would not be going anywhere."
Apparently I'm a little too late for sucking up, he's passed that point. I groan. I'd kind of hoped my being late would get me out of this stupid vacation.
My dad tries very hard to compensate for me not having a mother. It's not his fault. He didn't kill her. Before my mind travels that path, I apologize and head up the stairs to flop on my bed, letting the tears pour from my eyes. Part of me is hoping I'll drown in them. I'm such a mess of emotions. Normally I'm not so maudlin, but the impending trip is weighing heavily on my mind, making things seem worse.
Tomorrow I leave for Michigan…with my dad.
My boyfriend is going to be here all summer with all the tourists, while I'm thousands of miles away. I wish I had a woman to talk to. It's not that I don't love my dad, because I do – very much. It would just be nice to have a woman's advice occasionally. My mother passed away giving birth to me, so I don't remember her. I sigh, thinking, my life sucks.
I close my eyes to get some sleep and just as I start to drift off, I hear people speaking in hushed tones.
"I can't lose her." The tears in this man's voice make my heart twinge in my chest.
"You won't. She's not going to give up. Are you, Nessie?" This woman sounds determined. How does she know my name? And I'm not giving up anything.
What a weird dream!
"Where's Edward?" I hear the man ask.
My dad?
"He went to spend time with Billy," she answers.
Before I can open my eyes, I sink into sleep.
"Renesmee, can't you wait to call Jacob until we're out of the airport?" My father sounds annoyed.
Huffing, I close my phone and watch for my bag to come around the conveyor belt. I'm feeling irritated by the five or six hour drive we have to take to get to our hotel. He conveniently left that part out.
After seven hours and many wrong turns, we finally make it to Mackinaw City, which I have to admit is beautiful. It's dark now and the large bridge visible from our hotel window is lit up.
Oh, I wish Jake was here…
I can hear Dad's low voice on the phone with the front desk, asking where we can find an open restaurant. It's late and we're both hungry. I tune him out and wander into my small room within our suite. It's nice even if it is lacking in space.
So this is my home for the summer. I sigh and toss my suitcase onto the bed to unpack. There is a drawer and small closet to store my things. The bed is large and plush… I lose my train of thought as Jake pops into my head once again.
Knock, knock.
So much for that fantasy. "Yeah, Dad. Come in."
"Well, I talked to the desk clerk and he said everything on the main strip should still be open. Do you want to go walk around and see what we can find?"
My stomach growls. I laugh. "Sure."
We're only a couple of streets away from the main drag, so the walk is a fairly short one. There are multitudes of shops and restaurants, all lit up and open for business. We stop at a deli and grab some sandwiches and drinks.
Sitting on the ledge of a beautiful fountain, we eat our dinner and take in our surroundings. There's a bunch of shops I can't wait to check out. One in particular won't wait until tomorrow. I'm craving a bit of sweet now that I've eaten and there's a colorful candy shop across the square.
"Dad, do you want to check out the candy with me?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe I'll just wait here for you."
I'm in a pretty good mood and decide to hassle him a bit. "You're getting pretty old if you can't even walk across the square with your daughter. Should I call a cab to drive you back to the hotel?"
He laughs. "Alright, alright. Let's go." He gets up and tosses his trash into the nearest garbage can.
My dad throws an arm around me as we head into the shop, and for once, I'm not embarrassed. We enter the fun looking shop and my eyes are met with the sight of thousands of different types of sweets.
"Wow!" is all I can say.
With a chuckle, my dad agrees. We start looking at all the labels on the bins ooh'ing and ahh'ing at their contents. I spot a glass case near the register with some very tempting looking candies. I leave my dad's side and peer through the glass, deciding on several things I'm going to bring back to the hotel with me. I even see a few things I'm going to mail home to Jake.
"Hey, Dad, can you come here a sec?"
He doesn't respond.
I look up and notice him standing stock-still, staring at something behind me. Slowly, I turn around and notice a beautiful woman with dark hair and skin so pale it makes her eyes appear huge and warm. Her mouth is slightly open as she returns my father's stare.
What in the hell is going on here?
I've never seen my father react this way to a woman before. He's had girlfriends, but he has never looked at them like this. I would have thrown a fit if he had.
As though she's been struck by some unseen force, she jumps and starts forward. She stops behind the case and clears her throat before speaking.
"Hi, I'm Bella. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Um…" I look at my dad, unsure of what to do. He still looks like a zombie.
"Did you want something out of this case?" Bella asks.
My dad starts forward. "Hi…"
The girl blushes and says shyly, "Hi."
I feel as though I'm intruding on an intimate moment.
Incredibly repulsed by the sight before me, I turn on my heel and leave the store. I make it out of the store and halfway across the square before I hear him.
"Nessie?" My dad is calling from behind me.
I ignore him and storm off in the direction of our hotel. I hear his quickening footfalls on the pavement; he's closing the distance between us.
"Renesmee Cullen! What was that about?"
I turn to face him before shouting, "That was embarrassing! You were practically drooling all over yourself."
"You're being melodramatic," he mutters, but I swear he's blushing. "Look, it's late and you're not even walking the right way. The hotel is over that way," he says, pointing in the opposite direction.
When we approach the hotel, I keep up my pace, leaving my dad behind me. I jump into the nearest elevator and push the button to close the door, leaving my dad glaring at me through the shrinking gap.
Arriving on our floor, I rush into our suite and lock myself in my room. I sit on the bed, fuming for a few minutes before I hear the outer door open and close.
"I can't believe you did that. You behaved like a six year old child, not a sixteen year old girl." He doesn't even sound angry, just disappointed.
Whatever. He was being an insensitive jerk.
He goes on, "I'm going to bed. Let's start over tomorrow morning, okay?"
"Fine," I huff.
Determined not to make this summer longer than it has to be, I pretend nothing happened last night. I step out of my room after a last glance in the mirror to find my dad on his cell phone.
I look at him, confused, trying to figure out who he's talking to, only he doesn't see me because his back is to me.
My phone vibrates in my pocket. I take it out and see a text from Jake.
Love and miss you.
I quickly send a message back.
Love and miss you more.
With a smile, I place the device back in my pocket. When I look up again, my dad is hanging his phone up with a goofy grin plastered on his face. Something's up.
"Who was that, Dad?"
"What? Oh, it was Bella. She gave me her business card last night. She owns that shop, you know. She'd like us to come back today." He sounds excited. My good mood quickly evaporates. I frown at him.
"Well, I wanted to do some shopping, so…"
"Well, isn't it lucky that her shop happens to be right by those stores you want to visit?" He isn't backing down.
A few weeks pass and things only heat up between my father and Bella. I've walked in on them countless times making out in various places. In order to escape, I have taken to walking along the beach surrounding the city. It's beautiful and peaceful and more than ever, I wish Jacob was here with me. However, I have convinced Dad to give me his lovely, black credit card.
Thinking more about Bella and my dad, I get a little irritated. It's not that she's not nice, because she is. But, she's overly nice. Like she's sucking up. I think I've got her game called, though.
She's obviously aware of my dad's money. I mean, how many men can afford a summer, well, a couple of months anyway, away from their jobs just lounging in a tourist town? Part of me thinks I should ease up on her, but it's a small part. I just wish my dad could see her for what she really is. A gold digger who wants all of my dad's attention.
Getting bored with the town, I decide to head over to Mackinac Island today. I text my dad, who is having lunch with Bella – again, telling him I want to check out the island. He texts back saying he wants me to wait, so he can come with me.
I shut my phone with a snap and thrust it into my pocket without returning his message.
I head to the area where the ferries are docked. I buy my ticket and wait to board. I watch a ferry on its way to the island, water shooting from the back in a large arc. The sun is shining so the water has taken on a brilliant blue hue. I check my phone and see it's time to climb aboard the boat.
I feel a thrill of excitement. When everyone is seated and the ship takes off, I get up to walk around a bit. I head to the back of the boat and watch the water spray from the bottom, looking like a giant rooster tail.
I see a fish break the water not too far from behind us. Leaning over to get a closer look, I slip on the handrail and feel myself fall.
I don't have time to scream before my body hits the icy water.
Oh my God!
My thoughts are panicked. I can't breathe. I can't think.
I throw my arms out in front of me, trying not to get sucked under by the pull of the retreating boat.
Finally, I break the surface, sucking in a deep breath. My hands swirl around me, my feet kicking below as I tread the water. I see the boat nearing the island and realize I'm more than a mile into the lake.
This is a busy area, what if no one sees me?
Can I swim to either side?
What do I do?
Realizing I can't stay in one spot, treading water forever, I attempt to swim after the boat. I know I can't catch it, but maybe someone saw me fall in. I thrust my body forward, dragging my hands through the cold water, praying my muscles won't seize. The air is hot and muggy, so I don't think that will be a problem.
I'm surprised at the clarity of my thoughts. As I swim, I keep my mind occupied with other things than just trying to save my life.
I gasp, sucking in a mouthful of water. Coughing and sputtering, I expel the water from my lungs and remember my dad would have no idea where I was going. He probably thinks I got mad and went back to the hotel to call Jake. In hindsight, I really wish that is what I would have done. How stupid of me to travel alone to a place I've never been.
What if I don't make it back?
I shake my head and continue pulling myself through the water. This is getting harder; I'm growing tired. My limbs are sore and I'm having trouble kicking with my shoes on. I manage to take them off, giving them a mental memorial.
They were such good shoes.
I don't know how much time has passed, but I can see the shore getting closer. I can start to make out people on the beach. Feeling a sense of relief knowing I am perhaps only minutes away from salvation, I hear a buzzing noise behind me.
My arms are so tired, I'm not sure I can stop to wave for help. I'm afraid if I do, I may sink. I just continue swimming. Black spots are dotting my vision and a fresh wave of panic washes over me. I snort internally at my disgustingly ironic pun.
The buzzing is getting closer.
My pulls through the water are slowing as my limbs begin to lose their will to move.
I can't give up, I think as I sink into blackness, the cold closing in over my head.
When I open my eyes, I'm confused. I don't know where I am, but I know I'm in a hospital. The sickly green walls and beige linoleum alert me to that fact. I look down at myself and take in my odd, grayish colored gown, an oxygen tube stuck under my nose and the IV taped to the inside of my arm. The IV tube is full of clear fluid. My throat hurts.
"Help," I croak.
"Shh, baby, don't try to talk. They had to put a tube down your throat to pump out all the water."
Jake? How did he get here?
The sun is coming through the windows at an odd angle for the time of day. It almost appears to be mid-morning and I know I left well into the afternoon. More puzzling is the fact that Jake is standing beside me, staring at me with his intense gaze, scrutinizing my every move.
He must have seen the questions in my eyes, because he places his hand against my hair, smoothing it, and he speaks.
"Your dad flew me in. He even chartered a plane to get me here faster. Do you know what happened to you?"
Tears fill my eyes as I nod once and then shake my head. I only know part of the story.
Jake looks at me intently. "Are you sure?"
I nod again.
"Okay," he sighs. "After you fell in you obviously started swimming, right?" My head bobs slightly.
"Well, a man on a jet ski happened to see you and headed your way, but before he could get to you, you fell below the surface. He saved you, single handedly, brought you to shore and performed CPR on you. He kept you breathing until the paramedics arrived. They got there and hauled you away in an ambulance. You were brought here and they pumped the water out of you. You must have lost your purse somewhere along the way, because they couldn't find any form of identification on you. When you didn't show up last night for dinner, your dad and Bella scoured the city, handing out flyers and showing your picture to everyone. Bella called a contact of hers here on the island and they told her about a girl who fell off a ferry. You're big news, by the way." Jake smiles gently at me.
"So, your dad and Bella hopped on the next ferry and came to find you here. Apparently, he decided I deserved to be here, because he called me in the middle of the night and got me on the next flight. He said Bella talked him into it."
My cheeks are hot and wet.
"Dad?" I manage to whisper.
"I'll go get him." Jake stands up and then leans over to kiss my forehead before heading out of the room. He pauses in the doorway and looks back at me, mouthing, "I love you".
I mime it back to him and close my eyes, ashamed of my stupidity and selfishness.
Bella did all that to help my dad? To find me?
I've been terrible to her. I need to apologize.
My dad comes in, his eyes red rimmed and swollen. "Nessie, honey, are you okay?"
He rushes to my side and takes my hand in his. I see Bella lingering at the door, looking uncertain. I raise my free hand and gesture to her to come closer. My dad reaches his hand out to her and she comes to stand next to my bed.
I clear my throat. Ouch.
"No, Nessie, you have nothing to be sorry for."
Exhaustion takes over my actions and my eyelids drift shut, but not before I see Bella rest her hand on my dad's shoulder and smile.
A picture show of my past is suddenly playing before me. I see flashes of Jake and me at my senior prom, him placing a promise ring on my finger and finally bending down on one knee.
I see my dad beaming at his new bride, Bella, as Jacob and I look on. Then I see my wedding day. My father and Bella are on either side of me, holding my arms as we make our way down the aisle. I can feel the love emanating from them.
More images flash and I see time pass.
Now, I'm pregnant and Jake and I are telling my parents. I watch my belly grow and grow and I can almost feel my water break and the horrid contractions.
Suddenly, I hear, "It's a boy!"
Tears stream down my cheeks as I come to awareness. I can hear people rushing around the room, it sounds like they're coming closer.
"Nessie? Nessie, can you hear me?" Jake sounds less anxious, and more hopeful than the last time I heard his voice.
My eyes slowly open and there he is, my husband, my Jacob, stroking my face gently while tears trickle down his own.
"Jacob, where's Billy? I need him," I whisper hoarsely.
Bella's hand shoots out of nowhere, a cup of water in hand.
I hear my dad's relief as he speaks. "Renesmee, take a drink and we'll go get your baby."
I sip slowly and am struck with a feeling of déjà vu. As it happened in my memories, Jake is the one to explain what happened to me.
I had a reaction to the medication Dr. Call gave me and my heart stopped beating. I've only been out for an hour or so, but somehow I've managed to relive most of my life in that time. It's left me with so many different emotions, I'm feeling overwhelmed.
I try to explain to everyone how grateful I am for them, how much I love them and how much better off I am for having known them all, but they brush it off, insisting they already know.
I sit cradling my son, his face to my breast as he suckles. My dad and Bella left a while ago to give Jacob and I some alone time as a family. Before they left, I asked the boys to step out for a second so I could speak to Bella. I had to thank her for everything she's done for me. Without her presence, I doubt I would be half the woman I am today. She helped mold me and saved me from becoming a spoiled rotten brat.
It's been a long, scary and happy day. The nurses have pulled in a roll-away bed for Jake and taken Billy to the nursery so I can sleep for a while.
Jake positions his bed right next to mine and we hold hands as I fall into a dreamless sleep. | <urn:uuid:6ec1bb74-47f0-4a25-9ae0-471d587e4595> | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6494990/1/Oceans-of-Memories | en | 0.980038 | 0.042425 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Disclaimer: If I did own Lucius Malfoy, I would keep him locked in my room, sharing him with no one. Rowling is a much more generous woman than I, to say the least.
A/N: This acts as a sequel to "In Disguise", but is being posted separately, because I'd like for that fic to be able to stand alone for those who'd prefer it. I would suggest reading it first, otherwise you might be a bit confused. It's not too long, promise.
We're going to assume that the events of the 7th book played out pretty similarly to canon. Just go with it, okay? Awesome.
Fair warning, this fic contains…(wait for it)…PLOT. *cue ominous music* Only a little, though. Also, equally shocking…character development. *shudder* And of course smut. (but you were expecting that, weren't you?) Now you know what you're getting yourselves into. Proceed with caution.
In the Open
Hermione packed away the last of her things in the small beaded bag that'd seen her and the boys through the war. Looking into the mirror hanging in the Weasley entryway, she smoothed down a few fly-away curls and poked absently at a fading bruise across her cheek, fingered several small cuts, one on her lip, one on her chin. The angry red line on her throat, a souvenir from her time with Bellatrix, stood stark against the paleness of her skin. Her eyes looked sunken and a little hollow, her hair lank, and her clothes hung off her too-thin frame. She sighed.
"You look like you've just come from battle," the old mirror tsked at her.
Hermione gave it a wry smile while a voice carried down the nearby staircase. "She has." Harry walked out onto the landing, winding his arm around her shoulders. "And shut it, you, or you'll be the next casualty."
The mirror gave an indignant 'humph' as the two walked out into the front garden together.
"Hermione, are you sure you don't want me to come with you?"
She shook her head, but leaned into his embrace a bit more. "No, you're needed here. Besides, I think this is just something I'll have to do on my own, you know?"
Harry nodded. "Yeah, I think I do. But you've got the mirror, right?" He watched as Hermione pulled from her pocket the piece of enchanted mirror Aberforth salvaged from Grimmauld Place, now wrapped carefully in a bit of cloth. "I'll expect to hear from you at 4:00pm our time, every day that you're gone, or I'm coming after you and god help the bugger who gets in my way."
Hermione bit back a smile, secretly pleased by his protectiveness. It'd been less than a fortnight since the final battle, and she, Harry and Ron had hardly left each other's sight. Part of her wanted to stay a bit longer, put off retrieving her parents and restoring their memories, but she also knew she had to get away from all of the intermittent grieving and celebrating before she went mad. There was also the minor task of finding the Malfoys and sharing the good news, and she, being their secret keeper, was the only one who could do it.
"I'll keep my watch synched with yours so we don't miss each other. I'd hate for you to go all the way to Australia just because I'm having a kip."
"Yeah, well, I'm more worried about your trip to America, actually." Harry shot her a guarded look, one she felt uncomfortable returning.
"You shouldn't be. I'm sure everything will go smoothly."
He sighed, raking a hand through his hair nervously. "Look, Hermione, I've never really pressed this before because one, your business is your own, and two, we've had slightly bigger things on our plate since then, but with this trip coming up I have to ask. Did something happen between you and Malfoy?"
Hermione blushed furiously, knowing it was a dead giveaway and hating herself for it. "Why…erm…why would you think that, Harry?"
"I'd like to think I know you pretty well by now. You came back from Christmas break sixth year…I dunno, just different. Changed, somehow. And Ginny reckoned you'd met someone. And then you tell me you were with the Malfoys, and of course I can't tell anyone, and it all just sort of clicked. You know you can talk to me, right?"
She let out a heavy sigh, grateful when he tightened his hold around her shoulders. "I should have told you, I know, it's just that I feel so horrible about it, and at the same time not horrible at all. It's all very confusing."
Harry nodded, his patented "concerned and understanding" look firmly in place. "Well, I don't think you should feel horrible about it; I hate that you think you have to be ashamed of anything you've done. You're one of the best people I've ever known."
"You still think so, even knowing I did that with him?"
"Wait, what exactly did you do, anyway? Are we talking prolonged, secret love affair? Snogging in broom cupboards, what?"
"More like a tawdry one-off, or maybe it was more, or would have been if he hadn't left the next day. I don't know."
"So you actually, you know…" he made a vague, suggestive hand gesture, earning an awkward laugh.
"Yes. Twice, I think."
"You think?"
"Well, the second time might have been a dream, but I don't think so."
"Wow, okay. So you slept with Malfoy." The look on his face was slightly dazed, but not nearly as upset as she'd been expecting.
"You're really handling this news well. I'm a little shocked, actually."
"Yeah well, he's a bit of a bastard, but nothing to get too upset over."
"Well yes, but he's married, I mean—"
"Wait, what? You mean…holy…you had sex with Lucius Malfoy?" Harry's expression had quickly morphed from understanding to horrified, his own cheeks reddening while his bottle green eyes widened with shock.
"Merlin's sake, Harry, quiet down! And yes, who did you—oh, you thought I meant Draco?"
"Well, yeah, I thought you bloody well meant Draco!"
"Alright, alright calm down! I knew I shouldn't have said anything."
She made to pull away, but Harry slipped his arm firmly around her waist and, steering her away from the house, started walking. "I'm sorry, just, give me a minute. It's a lot to process."
"Tell me about it."
"So…wow. How the fuck did that happen?"
"I don't know, really. It was all shampoo and too much mead and snarky comments and him looking decidedly un-Lucius, and just…Ron and Lavender, and, and…"
"Okay, let's pretend for a minute that that made any sense." He sucked in a deep breath and held it, eyes trained on the horizon, jaw tight. "Did he…" He huffed out, and the hand on her hip was suddenly clenched tight in an angry fist. "Did he hurt you?"
"Oh, no, Harry, he didn't. He didn't force me either. Call it temporary insanity, but I actually wanted to."
Some of the tension drained from his shoulders, but his hand remained clenched. "Promise?"
She nodded. "I do. It was actually sort of fantastic. I mean—"
"Yeah, think I'll skip on the details, thanks."
They walked a bit in awkward silence, but gradually the flush faded from Harry's skin and his eyes stopped flashing in that way of his that was normally reserved for megalomaniacal Dark Lords.
"As for going to America, are you sure you should do this alone? I mean, what about Narcissa?"
"Oh, she knows. Don't ask—it was probably the most humiliating moment of my life, but somehow I don't think she was too upset about it. They both seem equally uninvested in their marriage."
"Well that's comforting."
"Hm. Don't misunderstand, it's going to be unbelievably awkward, but I think I just need to face them now, get it over with while my mind is still occupied with more important matters."
"Yeah, I guess. Merlin."
"I know."
"When's your portkey set to leave?"
Hermione checked her watch, an old muggle piece of her mother's she adored. "About 27 minutes."
"Well, best say bye to everyone, then."
"Harry, could you please not mention this to anyone, especially Ron?"
"Are you joking? I love him, I do, but Ron's definitely a bit of a "kill the messenger" type. And I like all my bits right where they are, thanks. No, if you want anyone to know, it'll be up to you to tell them, deal?"
"Thanks, Harry."
"Anytime. Just…be careful will Malfoy, alright? I don't trust that man, don't know if I ever could."
"I know exactly how you feel." And that, she thought, was only half the problem.
Hermione's portkey touched down in a meadow off a small, country lane, shielded on three sides by a light wood. Consulting the map she'd stuffed in her back pocket and using the sun's position to get her bearings, she made her way to the unpaved road, turning west and away from the nearby town.
Her walk was pleasant, with perfect May weather and just the lightest of breezes. The countryside around her was coming to life with blooming wildflowers and trees filled with spring-green leaves. She found herself grateful for the walk, having presented the perfect opportunity for calming her over-wrought nerves. Bad enough was overcoming the traumas of the previous year, learning not to go for her wand at every little sound or cast protective enchantments everywhere she went. But now she was dealing with nerves of an entirely different kind. But then, the air was so clean, the country so lush and peaceful, that she found herself forgetting what lay ahead, even if only for a moment.
So, when she finally approached the house and all those anxieties came flooding back, the shock of it nearly made her heart leap out of her chest. Still, stealing her nerves, she approached the door and summoned the courage to knock.
Footsteps, heals on hardwood floors (a sound that would, until the day she died, remind her of her mother), and the door opened on Narcissa Malfoy. Her blue eyes were blank for all of a second until recognition hit her like a sledge hammer. She gasped quietly, looked around behind Hermione, and then ushered her in wordlessly.
Narcissa led Hermione to a light and airy kitchen, where she quietly put a kettle on and pulled out a chair at the small, square table there. Hermione followed suit, and the two women regarded one another while the air between them filled with an almost palpable tension.
Hermione was the first to break the silence, her soft voice sounding obscenely loud in the little house. "How are you?"
"F-fine, we're fine. Lucius and Draco have just gone into town, they should be back within the hour."
Hermione nodded and retrieved her bag, opening it on her lap and fishing out several copies of the Daily Prophet. She set them on the table in front of Narcissa, fingers trembling slightly. "It's over. Voldemort's dead."
Narcissa stared numbly at the paper's headlines, face pale and still.
"He won't be coming back this time; we've made sure of it."
"Hermione…" Narcissa paused, waiting until Hermione met her eyes. "Are you alright?"
She smiled wanly. "As well as can be expected. Better than I look, at any rate."
Narcissa nodded and rose to fetch the whistling kettle, pouring a cup of tea for herself and one for Hermione. "I'm sure you've lots to tell, but that can wait for Draco and Lucius."
At the second mention of the elder Malfoy, Hermione's gut twisted, and she knew she had to say something or she'd go mad. "Mrs. Malfoy, I can't begin to apo—"
Narcissa cut her off with a gentle hand on hers. "Did you know, Hermione, that Lucius and I have not shared a bed since Draco was born?" Hermione just looked up at the older woman, trying to read her gentle expression.
Narcissa paused, slowly and meticulously doctoring her tea with cream and sugar, before speaking again. "We married, as was expected, and produced a pureblood heir, male, as was also expected, but there was never any real love between us. There was affection, for a time, but the war managed to stamp that out as well."
She gave a sad little smile, and it was Hermione this time who reached out. "Then why, why stay together? Why not divorce?"
"Because, dear child, it simply was not done. The old pureblood families, well, we have very strict guidelines by which we live our lives. Of course, that's all changed, now. The old regime has crumbled, and those expectations don't matter so much anymore."
"So that's why you weren't angry."
Narcissa nodded, her eyes drifting a bit to the side, suddenly far away. "We've both had our little dalliances from time to time—some lasted longer than others. Some…mattered. But I've never begrudged him the quest for comfort or affection in the arms of another, nor him me. Discretion was the number one rule, and all the others didn't matter so much."
"Well, I appreciate you telling me this, but I still feel horrible about all of it."
The smile she gave Hermione then was that same amused smile she'd worn the morning they left England. "I know you do. I knew you would as soon as it happened. You're not the kind of girl to take such things lightly."
Hermione nodded, and the two sat in comfortable silence, sipping their tea until the sounds of boots on the porch outside the front door roused both their wandering thoughts. Hermione paled, and Narcissa squeezed her hand once, reassuringly, and then called the men back to the kitchen.
Draco entered first, freezing midstep when he spotted Hermione. His grey eyes, so like his father's, darted from her bruised and battered face to the papers lying on the table, and then back again.
"He did it." He sounded awed, his eyes going wide as Hermione nodded slowly.
"Who did wha—" Lucius trailed off as he stepped into the room behind Draco, taking in the eerily quiet scene. Unlike Draco, when his eyes landed on Hermione, they stayed there, carefully taking in every detail of her appearance, and inadvertently making her want to hide beneath the table like a self-conscious child.
Draco moved to take one of the papers, frantically scanning the large cover story and breaking the trance-like hold on the room. Hermione turned to her bag again, summoning a bit of rolled parchment with an official Ministry seal and an unobtrusive looking paper weight.
"Kingsley Shacklebolt is acting Minister and has granted all three of you clemency, these are the documents." She set the scroll on the table top. "This," she held up the paperweight, "is your portkey. It is ready to be activated whenever—if ever you choose to return to Britain. It should take you just outside your property's boundaries in Wiltshire."
Hermione noted the way Narcissa seemed to glow at the mention of returning home, and suddenly remembered her one and only visit to Malfoy Manor. "You should know, Voldemort continued to use your manor as Head Quarters after you left. There is considerable damage, but nothing irreversible."
"You've seen it?" Draco asked, taking a seat between his mother and Hermione.
Hermione cleared her throat, suppressing a shudder and locking her eyes on the bag in her lap. "Yes."
Narcissa's focus snapped back on Hermione. "But if that was Death Eater Head Quarters, then how did you…or did you go after it was finished?"
"No, it was still…we, um, the three of us…we were involuntary guests for a short period of time."
Draco eyed her with something like respect. "And you escaped? Alive?"
She offered a tired smile back at him. "Just one of several scenarios we shouldn't have survived, but did. I guess fate was on our side, if you believe in such things."
"Well, don't take this the wrong way, Granger, but you look like hell. I'd say, fate or no, you've had a pretty rough time of it."
She smiled a real smile then, oddly grateful for the return of Draco's disdainful sneer. "It's been a difficult year. At any rate, it's over. Voldemort is gone for good, and his followers are either dead or in Azkaban awaiting trial. You'll find a full list of casualties in that paper, there, so please don't ask me. I've been to more funerals in the last 10 days…" She shook her head, catching sight of Lucius still standing stock still in the doorway, watching her.
"Of course." Narcissa looked from her husband to Hermione. "Draco, why don't you join me in the drawing room and we can look over these together."
Draco looked up at his father, furrowed his brow a bit, but followed wordlessly after Narcissa, pulling the door closed behind him.
Hermione, for the life of her, could not summon the courage to look at Lucius. Escape Gringotts on the back of a dragon? Sure. Lie in the face of unbearable torture? No problem. Look the married man to whom she gave her virginity in the eye in a warm, sunny kitchen? Not going to happen.
She didn't hear him approach (she never did, damn his silent movements), but suddenly he was pulling her chair out and turning it until her legs faced away from the table. She jumped and clung tight to the edge of her seat, but he simply kneeled in front of her and took her chin gently between his thumb and forefinger.
She closed her eyes, trying and failing to control her trembling as he turned her head slowly one way, then the other. She felt his fingers ghosting over her injuries as though cataloguing each one. He picked up her hands, next, thumbs sliding over burns from the heated gold in the Lestranges' vault, as well as a number of cuts and bruises from god only knows where.
When he'd finished, he stayed there, her hands still clasped in his, for a moment before murmuring, "Open your eyes, Hermione."
She shook her head, hating herself when a tear slipped through her closed lids. The next thing she knew, he was drawing her into a soft embrace, tucking her head beneath his chin and scooping one hand under her legs then lifting, turning so that he was now seated with her curled in his lap. He wrapped both arms snuggly around her and she cried, shook with sobs as he smoothed her lank and lifeless hair, breath deep and calming against the top of her head.
Some time later, Hermione and Lucius joined Narcissa and Draco in the drawing room. Neither mentioned what must have been a fairly audible breakdown, but Narcissa's expression was gentler than Hermione had ever seen it, and Draco looked distinctly uncomfortable.
"Hermione dear, would you like to lie down for a while? Have you time for a rest, or are you heading back to England straight away?"
"Oh, no…" Hermione shook her head. "Actually, I have to get to Australia, but considering that it's, oh…about two in the morning there, I should probably wait a few hours. But I could go into town for a bit, I know you've loads to do—"
Narcissa waved her hand dismissively. "No, don't be silly, you're welcome to stay here. But why, if I may ask, Australia?"
"Well, my parents are there. I, um…modified their memories. Changed their names, made them forget about me and want to move to Australia. So they'd be safe."
"And you're going to find them and restore their memories now?"
Draco looked more than a little shocked, his blond eyebrows raised incredulously. "Have you ever restored obliviated memories before?"
Hermione studied her hands nervously. "Not of this magnitude, no. I've been studying and practicing, though, and I'm certain I can do it."
Lucius spoke up then, his voice a bit of a shock to her after so much silence from him. "And you're going to them now, like this?" He gestured vaguely at her. Hermione nodded slowly, and Lucius and Narcissa exchanged worried glances.
Narcissa folded her hands primly in her lap. "It's just that you're going to be, essentially, giving them something very shocking and difficult to deal with, and you showing up looking like…well, like you've spent the last year being starved, beaten and tortured is only going to make it that much more traumatic for them."
Hermione felt her stomach lurch. "Oh." How had she not thought of this before? "Of course, you're right, I hadn't even thought of that. I'm sure, once their memories are restored, that my appearance would be quite…alarming. I guess I was just so eager to get away from everything that I hadn't really thought things through."
Narcissa suddenly smiled a bright, cheerful, and slightly worrying smile. "I've just had the most wonderful idea! You see, Draco and I were just discussing how anxious we were to get back home, but it's going to take a little bit of time to get our affairs settled here. So, I propose that we go back to Wiltshire, the sooner the better, and you stay here for a bit, rest up and all that. Of course, Lucius will have to stay behind to take care of things, but the house is more than big enough for the both of you, don't you think?"
Draco sputtered at his mother, a faint pink tingeing his otherwise pale cheeks. "You're not—"
"I think that's a superb idea, Cissa." Lucius drawled, his face the very picture of innocence, but still filling Hermione with an emotion she tried very hard to convince herself was dread.
"Oh, no really, that's very generous of you, but I couldn't possibly…"
"Nonsense, I insist." Narcissa set her face in lines of seemingly friendly determination. "You simply can't go to your parents as you are now, and you said yourself you need some space from everything happening back home, this is the best solution—the only solution, really."
"Mother, have you gone completely mental?"
"Draco." Lucius cast his son a warning look, the don't use that tone with her implied in the stern set of his brow.
Hermione shook her head, desperately grappling for words. "No, he's right. It would be completely inappropriate. I couldn't possibly—"
"Of course you could." Lucius drawled silkily. "I could promise to give you all the space you need, if that would help." As Hermione's expression remained slightly panicked, Lucius offered a wicked grin. "Are you really so frightened of me?"
Hermione huffed, sputtered, and crossed her arms over her chest defensively, suddenly irked despite her panic. "No, I'm not, thanks. I'd like to think that I can handle myself after everything I've been through this year."
"Excellent," Narcissa clapped her hands together. "Then it's settled. Hermione, you'll stay here and rest up, Lucius will settle the affairs, and Draco and I can be on our way this evening." Hermione and Draco both dropped their jaws, ready to protest, but Narcissa stood up, motioning Lucius into the kitchen. "Lucius, come help me ready dinner, and Draco, stop gawping, it's unattractive."
Draco closed his mouth with a snap and crossed his arms sullenly over his chest, glaring at Hermione with familiar disdain. "I'm not calling you 'mum.'"
"Oh, God!" Hermione buried her suddenly beet-red face in her hands, while Lucius' deep chuckle floated in from the kitchen.
Three hours later, they were gone, Narcissa with a mischievous smile and a whispered, "Trust me, this will be good for you—for the both of you," and Draco with an uncomfortably resigned salute, leaving Hermione standing awkwardly across the room from Lucius, who stood stock still, watching her silently.
"I've got to…just…" and with that little gem of eloquence, she raced up the stairs to Narcissa's vacated room. She curled up on the bed there, taking the mirror out of her pocket and unwrapping it carefully. It was still only half past three back in Britain, though the sun had long since set over New England, and she knew she had another half hour before Harry would contact her, but, feeling quite lonely all of a sudden, she stroked the mirror's surface once, whispered "Harry" and he appeared.
"Hermione! I was hoping you'd call early. How did it go? Where are you staying? What did the Malfoys say when you gave them the news? Are they coming back to England?"
"Goodness, Harry, give me a minute! Let me think…it went surprisingly well, actually. They were relieved and yes, Narcissa and Draco just headed back to Wiltshire a few moments ago."
"Okay, what about Lucius? And you didn't tell me where you're staying. You didn't go on to Australia already, did you?"
"No, I haven't. I'm…I'm actually still at the house they've been staying in."
"With Lucius." Harry's face went carefully blank, a sure sign he was getting ready to plot a rescue mission or at least break something in the near future.
"Well not with with Lucius, but he is still here, yes. Apparently they have some things to take care of here before they could all leave."
"Harry, this wasn't my idea, but it makes sense. Narcissa pointed out that if I showed up at my parents' looking like this," she gestured vaguely at her gaunt and battered face, "they'd only be more upset. So I'm going to wait until I'm looking and feeling a little better."
"Okay, fine, so come home. Let Mrs. Weasley feed you eight times a day and draw you murtlap baths every night."
"Molly has enough on her plate right now. I know she wants the distraction, but keeping her insanely busy is not going to get her through her grief—it's just going to delay it. And Harry, I just can't go back there right now. I'm sorry, you know I love you, but it's all just too much."
Harry sighed his exasperation, running his hand through already messy hair. "So you're staying there. With Malfoy."
"It looks that way, yes."
"Alright, I'm officially suspicious. Tell me something only the real Hermione would know."
"Nope, tell me something, or I'm coming after you, hexing first and asking questions later."
Hermione let out a fond sigh. "Alright, let me think…okay. Your parents' grave in Godric Hollow? The inscription on their headstone said "And the last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death," and you thought that sounded like a Death Eater sort of thing."
"Alright, yes, but—"
"I'm not finished. I was going to say that I think, after what happened in the forest the night of the battle, I think you might understand what that means a little bit better."
"Oh." Harry looked away, thoughtful. When he looked back, there was relief and affection in his eyes. "Yeah, I guess that'll do."
"So you're not going to be blasting down the door here anytime soon?"
"Not just yet. Say the word, though…"
Hermione laughed, suddenly amazed at how much better she felt. "Yeah, thanks. So, um, what are you going to tell the others when they ask about me?"
Harry thought a moment. "I guess that you're taking a short holiday in America. I just won't mention who you're taking it with."
"Merlin, Harry, I'm not on holiday with bloody Lucius. In fact, I plan to avoid him as much as possible."
"That's the smartest thing you've said all day." He smiled then, an honest and open Harry smile, and it filled her with warmth. "Get some sleep, Hermione. I'll talk to you tomorrow, alright?"
"Alright. Love you, Harry."
"Love you, too. Sweet dreams."
Harry's face in the broken mirror faded into her own, and Hermione sighed, toed her shoes off, and pulled the throw up from the foot of the bed, falling quickly and easily asleep.
Hermione startled awake, breath coming fast and shallow, heart racing, palms sweating. The deranged face of Bellatrix Lestrange leered at her behind closed lids, that shrill, grating laugh ringing in her ears. Tucking her face into her pillow, she fought back a sob.
A warm hand settled on her shoulder, smoothing down her arm in a (no doubt meant to be) comforting gesture. She jerked and rolled away from the contact, letting loose a spectacular shriek.
"Holy sweet mother of Merlin! Just what the hell do you think you're doing? Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
Lucius ignored her outburst and lay casually on his side, head propped on his fist watching her for several long moments while her breathing returned to normal. "So." He paused, seeming completely relaxed and intent on ignoring the panic attack he'd just given her. "You're avoiding me?"
"What? You—were you listening in on my conversation?" She hissed, narrowing her eyes in a manner that would have had Ron and Harry running for cover, but which he dismissed without batting an eye.
"I heard voices, I was concerned. Don't change the subject."
"Get out."
"Not until you answer my question."
"Yes, I was bloody well avoiding you—rather unsuccessfully, it seems! And if you think my being here means you can let yourself in and out of my bed whenever you like—"
"Oh, calm down. I see you're just as high strung as ever. If it's that much of a bother to you, I'll go."
"Yes, you do that."
"Good." Hermione waited a moment, but when he still made no move to leave the bed, she huffed angrily and started to roll out of it herself. He caught her with an arm around her waist, rolling her back into place.
"Oh alright, I'm going. Merlin, woman, you are difficult."
Hermione had nothing to say to that, feeling indignant at his blasé attitude and still horribly shocked at finding him in her bed in the middle of the night. It just didn't make any sense—it's not like he was in there trying to seduce her, he was just watching her sleep. And trying to talk to her, it seemed. This raised a whole new volley of questions, the first of which popped right out of her mouth without permission, just as he opened the bedroom door to leave.
"Doesn't it matter to you anymore? The whole blood status thing?"
Lucius curled his lip in a sardonic smile. "Azkaban has a way of changing a man's perspective on life. Let's just leave it at that, shall we?"
Well, if that wasn't just a horribly vague answer… "But—"
"Goodnight, Hermione."
And then he closed the door, pitching the room into silence and darkness once again. But for all her weariness, for all her much-needed quiet, Hermione never did get to sleep again that night.
She finally drug herself out of bed just after dawn, feeling tired and irritable and ready to hex a certain formerly-blond male for disturbing her sleep. She made her way downstairs, fixed a cup of tea and took it out onto the back patio, settling in a low, garden chair in the sun. She closed her eyes, soaking in the weak rays and the soothing silence, the kind only ever found in the country, the kind of silence that seems to stretch forever around you. Setting her half-empty teacup in the grass beside her, she quietly watched a robin building its nest in a nearby tree. The fetch, deliver, tuck rhythm of it soon lulled her into a light doze, and then a heavy sleep.
She opened her eyes a while later to find the sun hanging high in the sky, feeling almost too warm beneath a light green throw draped over her. She stiffened, twisting in her seat to look around her, but she was alone. Trying to crush the feeling of paranoia, she stretched and rose from her chair, heading back into the house and bracing herself to see him there. But, of course, he was gone. He seemed to be one of those infuriating people who only ever turned up when you weren't expecting them. Being caught repeatedly unprepared was starting to give her a complex.
She spent a lazy hour making and eating lunch, just enjoying the quiet and quite determinedly not thinking about anything important. She was at the sink, cleaning up after her meal when Lucius silently reentered the house.
He stood in the kitchen doorway, watching Hermione work at a sink filled with dirty dishes. She seemed so lost in the moment, caught up in the soap, scrub, rinse, scrub routine of it, that she never heard him approach her. Not that she ever did, the poor girl. He stood over her shoulder, studying her thin, battered arms as they dipped beneath the soapy surface and reappeared, dotted with lily-white suds.
"What is it with you and these tedious, muggle habits of yours?"
Hermione flinched at his voice, every muscle in her body going tight, her wand hand jerking automatically to her waist until, with a deep, practiced breath, she loosened up again, continuing her washing without turning around.
"It's just how I like to do things."
"Yes, but you want so much to be considered a witch, you try so hard to make a place for yourself in the magical world, and then you insist on behaving like a muggle. It baffles me."
Hermione bit back her anger, trying to recognize the blunt honesty in his words, not meant to hurt, just a statement of fact. "It's how I was raised—I find it calming. It has nothing to do with my magical ability. It is separate. Maybe you can't understand that, but you don't have to be rude about it."
"I want to understand."
"Well maybe you should try a little harder, then." She snapped. The kitchen was so silent behind her that she thought he might have left and was just considering turning around to make sure when he stepped up close behind her, his arms coming around her and into the basin of water.
"What are you doing?"
"Show me."
He smoothed his hands down her arms until they lay mirrored over each of hers, just resting. "Show me how you do it."
Hermione, stunned, seemed frozen until he leaned into her a touch more, his chest now just brushing against her back. She shuddered lightly, picked up a plate, and began to wash it, slowly and methodically. His hands followed her every movement, thumbs smoothing barely-there circles against her wet, over-heated skin, breath tickling the hairs on the back of her head. Several dishes later, he moved forward just so, gently pressing the length of his body against hers, his hands circling her wrists and sliding up, trailing warm, sudsy water on their way up her arms to her shoulders.
She closed her eyes, leaning back into him as he trailed a hand across from one shoulder to the other, thumb tracing the line of her clavicle, pinky just grazing the tops of her breasts. Her thin, white shirt was now sticking to her skin in damp spots, turning translucent and heavy. Lucius let this hand dip beneath the neckline of her shirt, gliding down to cup her breast over her bra, slipping his thumb beneath the thin material to tease at her nipple. His other hand he moved to her waist, sliding it around to her stomach, her hips, and down to the tops of her thighs, thumb teasing at the hem of her shorts, inching nearer to the inside of her thigh.
"Hermione…" His voice was a whisper, low and smooth against her ear, and she shuddered again at the sound of it. "Tell me no. Stop. Don't."
He kneaded her breast with this last command, and she bit her lip hard, choked back a sob. For all she knew she should do as he said, she couldn't—or maybe she just didn't want to. That was somehow worse; this obsession of hers had moved beyond mead and hormones, feeling insecure or jealous. She wanted him, for no other reason than just wanting him, and she felt afraid and alive and disgusted with herself.
"You can say no," he pressed his lips against the sensitive skin behind her ear, "it's alright."
His hand was already circling back around her thigh when she suddenly caught it with her own, sliding it back and pressing, until his fingers were curling around, cupping her sex. He let loose a low growl, deep in his chest, and then moved both hands to her waist, releasing the clasp of her shorts with alarming speed and dragging, kneeling behind her and dragging her shorts down her legs, followed closely by her knickers.
Hermione clasped the rim of the sink desperately, feeling exhilarated and dizzy and horribly (wonderfully) exposed, snapping her eyes shut with a gasp as his mouth landed against the side of her arse, dragged across (all teeth and tongue and soft, soft lips) to her hip, nipping at the too-sharp jut of bone there before standing up again, pressing himself firmly now against her body.
She let go of the sink, reaching behind her to grasp at him, anywhere, everywhere, but his hands whipped out, catching her wrists and directing them back to the countertop with a pressure and a clear, unspoken command to stay. And she did, she held on tight while his arms circled her again, grasping again her breasts and the now uncovered juncture of her thighs. Lowering his head, he licked and sucked and bit at her neck while his hands worked against her, teasing and stroking, pinching and circling until she drooped forward, leaning against the counter while her knees trembled and shook.
Lucius brought her to the brink of climax and then retreated, earning a desperate sob from Hermione that cut off with a gasp as he positioned the head of his cock against her, pausing only to take a firm hold of her hip before driving forward, filling her from behind in one smooth thrust. She cried out, her denied orgasm now wracking her body with tremors. Lucius tightened his hold on her hip with a grip sure to bruise, practicing the restraint of an experienced lover with gentle thrusts while her body rode out its release.
She was panting hard, a jumbled chant of "oh God, Oh Lucius, please…" over and over as she came down from her high, but he gave her no chance to recuperate, instead picking up a fast and almost brutal rhythm, filling her again and again while her tortured, over-stimulated nerves rose and crescendoed into a second climax, almost painful in its intensity. Lucius huddled over her, pulling her flush against him as her tight little body flexed and spasmed around him, drawing his own orgasm deep inside her with a heavy groan.
A moment later, as they caught their breaths, he withdrew from her and slumped to the floor, pulling her down to sit on his lap, head drooped sleepily against his shoulder.
She lazily craned her head back so she could see his face, eyes closed, cheeks flushed. Hermione reached up, combing her fingers through the short, dark locks of hair at the back of his head. "Your hair…"
"Hm, what about it?"
"You didn't change it. You must've had to cut and color it many times over the last year and a half. I'm just…surprised."
"Yes, well. There's this cheeky little witch I know who seems to like it better this way. Seemed to be worth the trouble."
Hermione allowed herself an enormously self-satisfied grin before turning her head to lay a soft kiss against the stubble-roughened skin of his neck. He quirked a stoic eyebrow at her and then tilted her head back and kissed her properly.
Lucius, as he had every night since her arrival nearly a week prior, slid noiselessly into her bed late in the night, curling a possessive arm around her and pulling her close. She turned into the embrace, resting her cheek against his chest.
"Alright, that's it. I have to know—how do you move about so quietly?"
Lucius smirked at her petulant tone. "That really bothers you, doesn't it?"
"As a matter of fact, yes, it does. I'd like to think I'm a fairly observant person, but I never hear you enter a room, or slide into bed, or anything. How is that possible?"
He smiled a secretive sort of smile and inched closer, twisting a strand of her hair around his finger. "Promise not to tell?" Hermione nodded eagerly and he leaned in to whisper against her ear, "Silencing charm. All of my clothes and shoes are constructed with the spell woven in."
Hermione grinned, shoving his chest playfully. "You absolute bastard."
He chuckled softly. "Now you know."
"Now I know." She snuggled into his bare chest breathing in deep the dark, spicy smell of him.
"You know, the bed in my room is much larger."
"Hm. How nice for you."
"Are you being deliberately obtuse, Hermione? Because I have to say, it's not a good look on you."
"I'll try to remember that, thanks."
A moment's silence had him turning her chin up to meet his eyes in the dark. "Move into my room."
She let out a sigh. "I would, it's just that…I like the system that we already have."
"And why is that?"
"Probably for the same reason you tell me to say no every time we're together—I like that you're making a conscious decision to be with me. I like being chosen."
He was silent a moment, considering her words. "Are you concerned I'm going to stop choosing you at some point?"
She tucked her head down a bit, nervously avoiding his gaze. "It seems inevitable, doesn't it? Sooner or later, I'm going to have to go and see about my parents. Then I—we will be back in Britain."
"And you'll go back to being you, a very much married you, and I'll go back to being that muggleborn friend of Harry Potter."
"Well the married part can be solved easily enough—we've had the papers drawn up for ages, all it needs is my signature once I'm back in London. But of course, I'll still be me, whatever that means."
"Honestly, Lucius, can you really see yourself continuing on with this…whatever this is, back in England? Openly? What would people say—Lucius Malfoy shacking up with a mudblood half his age, I'm sure that'd go over really well."
"I'm not overly concerned with the things people say; I sort of threw that out the window when I sold out the Death Eaters and went into hiding. I don't expect to win any popularity contests with my old crowd anytime soon." His voice was turning gradually colder, a sure yet subtle sign he was more upset than he was letting on. "But you, on the other hand, you have quite a reputation to uphold. I can understand your concerns about losing the public's affection."
"That's not even—don't try and turn this around on me!"
"Yes, of course not. I'm only the one making every single effort, tirelessly pursuing you since you arrived. How could I be so stupid as to think you'd actually realized my intentions? Of course, I'm just shagging you because it's convenient, it's not like it means anything. How could it, to a man like me?"
"Alright, just stop, I didn't say any of that. But you can't expect me to know what you're thinking or why you do the things you do when you never talk about any it!"
"What is there to talk about? Clearly this isn't going to continue once we're back in Britain, so what's the point?"
"Do you want this to continue?"
"Do you?"
And that was the question, wasn't it? She'd been so busy assuming he didn't want it, that she hadn't taken the time to consider what she wanted. She sat there, mouth working noiselessly, while Lucius stared icily back at her.
"From the beginning, I've given you every opportunity to end this. Now is no different. It seems that ultimately, the decision lies with you, Hermione. So what do you want?"
"I…I don't know. I never—I just assumed you would lose interest when we got back. I never thought you really wanted me."
"Well clearly that's not the case. It seems you have some thinking to do." He pulled away, getting out of bed and heading for the door. Hermione tried to call out to him, ask him to stay, but the words stuck in her throat. "If you ever make up your mind, you know where to find me."
She sat there in the dark for more than an hour, feeling hollow and cold. She'd been surprised to find herself crying, surprised at how affected she was by it all. It wasn't supposed to mean anything, it was just sex, wasn't it? Clearly not to him and, judging by the now-drying tracks of tears down her face and neck, not for her, either. She wasn't sure when the shift had happened, or perhaps it never had to happen, perhaps this was something more from the start. She didn't know, and she found she didn't care, she just wanted with an intensity that was new and frightening to her.
She replayed his words again, and suddenly she knew what she had to do.
The door to Lucius' bedroom creaked open, spilling the dim candlelight from the hall into the unfamiliar space and allowing Hermione to find the bed in the darkness. She could just make him out, reclined on his back, hands linked behind his head. His eyes glinted faintly and she knew he was awake, watching her approach.
Hermione climbed atop the admittedly much larger bed, crawling timidly to his side. She was grateful for his continued silence, even as she straddled his hips, leaning in to press a soft kiss against his forehead, his eyelids, cheeks, nose, ear, neck…on down to his bare chest and further, laying soft, lingering kisses as she learned his body with her hands, her eyes, her mouth.
She reached his navel, dipped her tongue inside and felt a twitch from his hardening cock, now pressed beneath her breasts. Her hands shook with nervous energy as she knelt over him and removed his black silk pajama trousers, and then smoothed her hands back up the length of his legs to his hips. She pressed against them, pinning him to the mattress as she leaned in and licked a long, slow stripe up the length of his cock, flicking her tongue over the head experimentally.
Lucius groaned low in his throat, threaded the fingers of one hand through her messy curls, and placed the other over her hand on his hip, curling his fingers around her delicate wrist. Hermione looked up at him through her lashes, smiled a small, nervous smile, and took the head of his cock into her mouth, sucking gently. His hips jerked minutely, fingers tightening in her hair as she lowered her head, taking more of his length into her.
She set an easy pace, alternating strokes of her tongue and gentle suction, eventually moving the hand not pinned beneath Lucius' to wrap around the base of his cock, stroking in time with her movements. Lucius guided her rhythm with gentle tugs on her hair, speeding her tempo as he neared release.
He was gasping, hips bucking despite his attempts at control, when he tried to pull her back, moaning her name in warning. Hermione simply looked up, locking her eyes with his, and then slid down, forcing his cock deeper than she'd managed before, and swallowed hard. Lucius came with her name on his lips, filling her mouth with a bitter, salty warmth that she did her best to swallow down.
She could feel it dripping down towards her chin as she sat up and, not noticing Lucius' eyes locked heatedly on her, she darted her tongue out, licking the excess liquid from her lips.
Lucius moaned, low in his chest, and then reached out to her, pulling her down to him for a deep, searching kiss. His strong arms around her kept her pinned to his chest, bare legs entwined with his, while their breathing slowed. Hermione finally broke the kiss, inching down to rest her head against his chest while he stroked her hair and the smooth skin of her back.
"I take it you're no longer undecided, then."
Hermione smiled at the deep rumbling against her ear, fingers toying with the pale hairs on his chest. "No, I know what I want. It makes absolutely no sense, and I have no idea how we're going to make this work, but still."
"I don't think it'll be nearly as complicated as you think. We've done alright this past week, have we not?"
"Yes, but everything will be different once we're back home."
"How so?"
"Well, for one, I don't ever want to go back to your manor. Ever."
Lucius was quiet a moment as he digested this information. "That…shouldn't be a problem. I have a townhouse in the city, I can move in there. The house really belongs to Draco now, anyway."
Hermione relaxed a little further into his arms. "Thank you."
"Are you ever going to tell me what happened there?"
Hermione shuddered lightly, prompting him to tighten his hold on her. "Bellatrix."
"Ah." Lucius' voice turned cold then, cold enough to freeze her blood, had his anger been directed at her. "I saw her name on the list of casualties. Who took her out?"
"Molly Weasley. She was absolutely brilliant."
"Hm, I shall have to express my gratitude."
Hermione paused, trying to imagine a friendly interaction between Lucius and the matronly witch, but failing to come up with anything even remotely realistic. "She's been like a mother to me, Lucius. She won't be happy about this, about us, but if you're cruel to her, I won't forgive you."
Lucius was quiet a moment. "Understood."
She placed a kiss against his breastbone, her hands now wandering idly, tracing patterns against his arms, sides, hips. She could feel him growing hard against her, and when he spoke again, his voice was breathier than before, tinged with arousal. "That's really your main concern, isn't it? What your friends will say."
"I very much doubt the news will go over well."
Lucius hummed his agreement, craning his neck down to brush a kiss against her hair. "They'll get over it."
His hands smoothed down her back to grasp her arse, pulling gently until his cock lay nestled between her legs. She moved her leg over his so that she lay straddling him and then pushed herself up to a sitting position, pulling her shirt up and over her head. Lucius looked pointedly down, quirking a brow at her absent knickers. She blushed, but gave him a defiant sort of look. It was simply logical not to wear knickers to bed these days. He ran his hands up her sides to fondle her breasts, while she lifted herself, positioning the head of his cock against her slick entrance.
Lucius hands took firm hold of her hips, guiding her down and then up again, showing her how to ride him. Hermione's breath hitched at the unfamiliar angle, the feeling of being on display for the man beneath her, and the heady power of controlling his pleasure so completely.
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Franken ratchets up rhetoric in war against corporate power
• Article by: JEREMY HERB , Star Tribune
• Updated: September 5, 2010 - 9:20 PM
Net neutrality is the latest issue where he warns that control of the country's future is being hijacked by big business.
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jk12345Sep. 5, 10 9:34 PM
Most Democrats have never worked a day in their lives and do not understand economics. Dems are destroying and demeanizing companies and wondering why no new jobs are being created. These are EMPLOYERS that you are punishing. Stop the nonsense and take an economics class!
redstar1961Sep. 5, 10 9:46 PM
Say it aint so, Al Frankin, Inc. is going after "Big Business". Why stop there? Why not go after Big, Union, Inc., Big Gay, Inc. Big Gov., Inc., Big Environmental, Inc., Big Liberal, Inc.? Hey Al, Just one question for you: WHERE ARE THE JOBS? YOU ARE A COMPLETE FAILURE. AND YOU ARE NOT FUNNY.
bugmenot99Sep. 5, 10 9:52 PM
Companies are not people, but for some reason the Supreme Court started treating them like they are. Their "speech" is going to outweigh every individual's speech, especially when they can spend unlimited amounts in our elections. Net Neutrality is key, unless you want to have access to only corporate speech.
wordupSep. 5, 10 9:59 PM
I can tell you where the jobs went...750 thousand of them evaporated in one month prior to Obama coming into the white house. Look no further than 8 years of complete economic suicide practiced by the party you champion. Don't like this world you live in now? Look in the mirror. You voted for this mess 9 years ago and again 5 years ago.
pizann0Sep. 5, 1010:00 PM
LOL! Hey, Al. Looks like you missed the table and slammed your fist in the oatmeal again!
delephoneSep. 5, 1010:06 PM
if Democrats haven't worked a day in their lives, it must be those Republicans who vote in unions, are commie lovin' fascists who are ruining this country and are the people that you rant and rave ag'inst then right? ......... I just can't keep all of the crazy accusations about Democrats straight anymore. ................ It is the contradictions that ruin your whole point of view.
palsarSep. 5, 1010:11 PM
How about total Gov't control of our lives? That's where it seems we are headed.
BucklawSep. 5, 1010:14 PM
This isn't just a First Amendment issue, it is also an matter of open commerce. If the internet becomes a tiered service which changes open access to the internet we put a burden on innovation and entrepreneurship. It is, in a sense, a de facto regulation of the internet that will be controlled by private enterprise. A bad idea.
Franken is absolutely correct to bring up First Amendment issues as well. Everyone has equal opportunity to carry a message on the internet. As technology and access increase, bandwith access would be jeopardized under a tiered system. The large internet services are looking at this as a money maker, but it is also a way to control access and thereby control content. It is hard to see how any argument for restricted access to the internet is a good idea.
notaxmaxSep. 5, 1010:14 PM
The government could pass a law that says every loaf of bread made must e retailed for fifty cents. The result would be that all bakery's would close, no bread would be available for anyone, many people would lose jobs all because they couldn't make any money. Some of you will say that's absurd, the government would never do anything so silly. I need to remind those folks about medicare reimbursement. Many doctors will not treat patients now because they lose money and Franken just voted to cut reimbursements by another 500 billion in the Obamacare bill. Competitition is the only thing that works, Franken is touting Obamas socialist tendency for cradle to grave government control. After regulating the internet comes taxing the internet and I for one don't want to see that happen.
lenzy1000Sep. 5, 1010:17 PM
I don't get it. Are their rights the only ones that count? I think not enforcing net neutrality would stifle everyone else's First Amendment rights.
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Palatability is the hedonic reward provided by foods or fluids that are agreeable to the "palate" in regard to the homeostatic satisfaction of nutritional, water, or energy needs.[1] The palatability of a food or fluid, unlike its flavor or taste, varies with the state of an individual: it is lower after consumption and higher when deprived. Palatability of foods, however, can be learned. It has increasingly been appreciated that this can create a hedonic hunger that is independent of homeostatic needs.[2]
Brain mechanism[edit]
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The palatability of a substance is determined by opioid receptor-related processes in the nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum.[3] The opioid processes involve mu opioid receptors and are present in the rostromedial shell part of the nucleus accumbens[4] on its spiny neurons.[5] This area has been called the "opioid eating site".[6]
The rewardfulness of consumption associated with palatability is dissociable from desire or incentive value which is the motivation to seek out a specific commodity.[3] Desire or incentive value is processed by opioid receptor-related processes in the basolateral amygdala.[3] Unlike the liking palatability for food, the incentive salience wanting is not downregulated by the physiological consequences of food consumption and may be largely independent of homoeostatic processes influencing food intake.[7]
Though the wanting of incentive salience may be informed by palatability it is independent and not necessarily reduced to it.[3] It has been suggested that a third system exists that links opioid processes in the two parts of the brain: "Logically this raises the possibility that a third system, with which the accumbens shell, ventral pallidum, and basolateral amygdala are associated, distributes the affective signals elicited by specific commodities across distinct functional systems to control reward seeking... At present we do not have any direct evidence for a system of this kind, but indirect evidence suggests it may reside within the motivationally rich circuits linking hypothalamic and brainstem viscerogenic structures such as the parabrachial nucleus.[3]
It has also been suggested that "hedonic hunger" can be driven both in regard to “wanting” and “liking”[2] and that a palatability subtype of neuron may also exist in the basolateral amygdala.[8]
Satiety and palatability[edit]
Appetite is controlled by a direct loop and an indirect one. In both the direct and indirect loops there are two feedback mechanisms. First a positive feedback involving its stimulation by palatability food cues, and second, a negative feedback due to satiation and satiety cues following ingestion.[9] In the indirect loop these cues are learnt by association such as meal plate size and work by modulating the potency of the cues of the direct loop.[10] The influence of these processes can exist without subjective awareness.[11]
The cessation of a desire to eat after a meal "satiation" is likely to be due to different processes and cues.[12] More palatable foods reduce the effects of such cues upon satiation causing a larger food intake.[13][14] In contrast, unpalatability of certain foods can serve as a deterrent from feeding on those foods in the future. For example, the Variable Checkerspot butterfly contains iridoid compounds that are unpalatable to avian predators, thus reducing the risk of predation.[15]
See also[edit]
1. ^ Friedman MI, Stricker EM. (1976). The physiological psychology of hunger: a physiological perspective. Psychol Rev. 83(6):409-31. PMID 1005583
2. ^ a b Lowe MR, Butryn ML. (2007). Hedonic hunger: a new dimension of appetite? Physiol Behav. Jul 24;91(4):432-9. PMID 17531274
3. ^ a b c d e Wassum KM, Ostlund SB, Maidment NT, Balleine BW. (2009). Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:12512–12517 PMID 19597155 doi:10.1073/pnas.0905874106
4. ^ Peciña S, Berridge KC. (2005). Hedonic hot spot in nucleus accumbens shell: where do mu-opioids cause increased hedonic impact of sweetness? J Neurosci. 14;25(50):11777-86. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2329-05.2005 PMID 16354936
5. ^ Kelley AE, Bakshi VP, Haber SN, Steininger TL, Will MJ, Zhang M. (2002). Opioid modulation of taste hedonics within the ventral striatum. Physiol Behav. 76(3):365-77. PMID 12117573
6. ^ Peciña S, Berridge KC. (2000).Opioid site in nucleus accumbens shell mediates eating and hedonic 'liking' for food: map based on microinjection Fos plumes. Brain Res. 863(1-2):71-86. PMID 10773195
7. ^ Finlayson G, King N, Blundell J. (2008). The role of implicit wanting in relation to explicit liking and wanting for food: implications for appetite control. Appetite. 50(1):120-7. PMID 17655972
8. ^ Fontanini A, Grossman SE, Figueroa JA, Katz DB. (2009). Distinct subtypes of basolateral amygdala taste neurons reflect palatability and reward. J Neurosci. 29(8):2486-95. PMID 19244523
9. ^ Smith GP. (2000). The controls of eating: a shift from nutritional homeostasis to behavioral neuroscience. Nutrition. 16(10):814-20. PMID 11054585
10. ^ Smith GP. (1996). The direct and indirect controls of meal size. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 20(1):41-6. PMID 8622828
11. ^ Berridge KC. (1996). Food reward: brain substrates of wanting and liking. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. ;20(1):1-25. PMID 8622814
12. ^ Blundell JE. Rogers PJ. (1991). Hunger, hedonics, and the control of satiation and satiety. pp. 127–148. In: M.I. Friedman, M.G. Tordoff and M.R. Kare, (Editors) Appetite and nutrition, Dekker, New York ISBN 978-0-8247-8371-6
13. ^ Yeomans MR, Lee MD, Gray RW, French SJ. (2001). Effects of test-meal palatability on compensatory eating following disguised fat and carbohydrate preloads. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 25(8):1215-24. PMID 11477507
14. ^ Robinson TM, Gray RW, Yeomans MR, French SJ. (2005).Test-meal palatability alters the effects of intragastric fat but not carbohydrate preloads on intake and rated appetite in healthy volunteers. Physiol Behav. 84(2):193-203. PMID 15708771
15. ^ Bowers, M. D. "Unpalatability as a Defense Strategy of Western Checkerspot Butterflies (Euphydryas Scudder, Nymphalidae)." Evolution 35.2 (1981): 367-75.
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The Sometimes Fail-Tacular History Of Captive Import Cars In America (And Other Places)S
Have you ever noticed that the term "import car" doesn't get tossed around like it used to? In these days of Toyotas from California, Volkswagens from Tennessee and Chevrolets from Canada, it's becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between a "foreign" and a "domestic" car.
I'm not really a fan of making that distinction anymore. Car companies have become so globalized that it's much harder to say what's American, Asian or European these days, especially when you consider that they often share parts from the same places.
Things used to be much more clear cut — at least, they were until the captive import came along.
Even if you're not familiar with that term, you've seen a captive import on the road. Maybe you've even owned one. The Cadillac Catera, the most recent Pontiac GTO, or even the humble Chevrolet Aveo? All captive imports. When an American (in our case) automaker decides to bring a car they build and sell in a foreign market to the U.S., and it's sold through their dealer chains, that makes it a captive import. It's kind of a catch-all term — when you think about it, lots of different cars could fall under this category.
Captive imports can bear their original names (Opel GT), be re-badged for U.S. consumption in an existing lineup (Saturn Astra) or they can be sold under a completely new brand (Geo Prizm.)
In many early cases, captive imports were brought over because carmakers needed smaller, more fuel-efficient models but couldn't be bothered to make their own in America. Others have been sporty coupes and outright performance cars. But here's what they all have in common: Throughout their history, most captive imports have been failures.
Some have been abysmal disasters, and others have simply failed to find an audience despite being decent (or even excellent) overall. There are many reasons for this, including a general hesitation about imports and smaller cars, strange marketing and naming gimmicks, and designs and features that didn't suit American tastes. They've kind of gone down in history as the oddballs of the automotive world.
But we like oddballs here at Jalopnik, even if we'd pass on putting some of these cars in our garages.
The thing is, it could be argued that the captive import has finally gone mainstream. Look at the last group of Saturns or the current crop of Buicks, which primarily consisted of re-badged Opels.
On the other hand, you have Ford's One Ford plan, where the goal is to converge lineups as much as possible. More and more, carmakers will be selling the same vehicles in every country, rather than tailor their lineups to suit the needs of different markets. It makes much more sense to build them where you sell them, too; that way you get around pesky import taxes and exchange rate fluctuations.
We're showcasing just a few our favorite captive imports below. Tell us — what are yours? Do you have a memorable experience with a captive import? Vent away in the comments.
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Simca was one of the more storied French car companies, but today it's largely forgotten after it was absorbed by PSA Peugeot-Citroen in the late 1970s. But before that, it was partially owned by Chrysler, who started bringing their small, quirky sedans over to the U.S. as captive imports in the 1950s.
By the mid-1960s, Chrysler owned all of Simca, as well as Rootes of Great Britain, forming Chrysler Europe. We would get Volkswagen-fighting cars like the Simca 1000 in the meantime.
Chrysler was also able to "take advantage" of their European alliance by selling the Plymouth Cricket here, which was actually a British Hillman Avenger. We once said it was possibly the worst car Chrysler ever sold, and that's really saying something.
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Some of the best and most well-remembered captive imports were Opels, which were sold in the U.S. through Buick dealerships from the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Among them were the stylish lightweight sports car the Opel GT, the Kadett, and the Manta.
The Kadett wasn't the strongest car GM ever sold, and a scathing 1968 review of it in Car and Driver led GM to pull its ads from the magazine for months.
But Opel continued to find its way stateside pretty regularly. Towards the end of Saturn, most of their cars were re-badged Opels and Vauxhalls. Today still, a ton of Buicks sold in the U.S. are rebadged Opels, or are at least very similar to their European counterparts.
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Merkur XR4Ti
Wouldn't you like a European rear-wheel-drive, two-door hatchback with a turbo engine and a stick shift? That sounds like a recipe for greatness. But rather than sell this captive import in the U.S. as the Ford Sierra that it was, or as a Mercury at least, Ford had to get all fancy and rename it the "Merkur XR4Ti." No one knew how to pronounce it, and the old men at the Lincoln-Mercury dealers didn't know how to sell it.
But goofy marketing wasn't the Merkur's only problem. While it had very respectable handling and performance in its day, it was notoriously unreliable. These days the car is well known by faithful Jim Rome fans, as he likes to rag on the Merkur he owned once for being just a giant, exploding piece of crap.
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Pontiac LeMans
If a car is named after one of the greatest races of all time, it had better be unquestionably badass. Dearly departed GM subsidiary Pontiac got away with naming some of their cars "Le Mans" in the 1960s because they were awesome muscle cars. In fact, the Tempest/Le Mans line is what gave birth to the original GTO, which is probably about as unquestionably badass as you can get.
But through the years, the Le Mans became downsized and malaise-d into a forgettable and unappealing piece of junk. The final nail for the Le Mans name came in 1987. This time, the Le Mans wasn't a muscle car, but a small, front-wheel-drive hatchback that was a captive import made by Daewoo.
Now, I know what you're wondering: Did 1980s GM think the we were all idiots? The answer to that, apparently, is yes. The little Korean hatch didn't fool anyone with its lofty name. If anyone out there is still driving a late 80s/early 90s captive import Le Mans, they must be atoning for some awful sin committed in a past life.
As we all know, GM wasn't done with captive import Daewoos, but at least they've gotten better than this.
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Toyota Cavalier
The people of Japan have many wonderful things that we Americans are forced to do without, like the soiled panty vending machines, Godzilla attacks and a train system that makes ours look sad and pathetic. However, there is one thing we have that our Japanese friends do not: the Chevrolet Cavalier.
At least, that was the case in the mid-1990s, until Toyota and GM worked out a deal whereby the Japanese market would get the Cavalier, badged as a Toyota, perhaps in exchange for all the insanely reliable Corollas and Geo/Chevy Prizms they co-built for us Americans. I think you can tell which country got the better end of that deal.
Now, I know what you're wondering: Did Toyota think the people of Japan were all idiots? The answer to that, apparently, is yes. The Cavalier did not sell well in Japan at all, due in part to its abysmal build quality and high price.
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Cadillac Catera
Ah, Catera. You were the "Caddy that zigs," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. One of Cadillac's earliest attempts at building a 3 Series fighter (something they only pulled off recently), the rear-wheel-drive Catera was actually a re-badged Opel Omega.
Unfortunately, the Catera's unimpressive performance, poor reliability, staid styling and downright stupid ad campaigns made this Opel hookup something Cadillac probably regrets today.
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Pontiac GTO
I have gone on record before as saying that the Pontiac GTO made from 2004 to 2006 is one of the most underrated cars of all time. With a pair of V8 engines, a six-speed manual and glorious rear-wheel-drive, what's not to love here?
Unfortunately, Americans never really warmed up to the bland styling of this re-badged Holden Monaro from Australia. It looked nothing like the old-school GTO, and nostalgia is a big factor among the muscle car crowd. Though GM always said they only planned to sell it for a few years, I have a feeling that we would have seen more of it had it been a runaway hit. It's a shame, really. This is one of the best captive imports.
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I would like to setup a two nodes PROXMOX cluster with DRBD storage. The nodes will be connected by gigabit ethernet. What would be the best storage setup in terms of reliability, performance and costs electiveness?
My favorite would be RAID 10, but my colleague argues that RAID 0 would be sufficient since DRBD works as RAID 1. I also heard RAID 1 is good option.
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"What will be the best storage setup in terms of reliability" - "but my colleague argues that RAID 0 would be sufficient". RAID 0 and reliability do not belong together.
Consider reading ServerFault's What are the different widely used RAID levels and when should I consider them? question for more information, but RAID 0 is never a good idea. Ever. Apart from short-term mass-storage RAID 0 should be avoided at all costs - they say it's called RAID 0 because 0 is the % of data that is likely to be recoverable.
While DRBD may provide a mirror in itself and if you want a compromise the hardware RAID 1 should be fine, although it does depends on disk I/O.
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i agree. consider that while using raid-0 if you schedule maintenance on either node you now have no redundancy at all, and higher than N chance of disk failure. – Sirex Feb 21 '12 at 12:39
Thanks for answer. I managed to convince my colleagues/managers to use raid 10 :). Now I'm waiting for 4x1TB hdds :) (I have already identical 4). I'm sure it was best option. – Maciek Sawicki Feb 22 '12 at 9:45
Out of interest, what speed/interface/make are they, and how much did they cost you? – tombull89 Feb 22 '12 at 11:07
SATA 3Gb/s (4x Barracuda 7200.11 1TB per node). It was about 125 USD per disk. – Maciek Sawicki Feb 22 '12 at 14:08
I was just about to ask a similar question - but your answer doesn't really take the DRBD factor into account; Wouldn't you consider DRBD a form of RAID 1? Are your recommending RAID1 on ALL sides of the DRBD cluster? Certainly that's overkill, right? If any, the "default" primary would be RAID1/RAID10, but the rest could be bare or RAID0, right? – Doug Kress Feb 23 '12 at 5:24
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Why this combination. D-76 is high in sod sulfite and the results won't be as sharp as a higher acutence developer.
Ummm, because it's a classic combination, and for good reason! I use Tri-X processed in ID-11 or D-76 1:1 almost exclusively these days. The sharpness is very good, but not harshly so (yes, for the kind of work I do, there is such a thing as too sharp). The grain is definitely present, but is soft and beautiful. It yields a wonderful glow when properly printed.
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Italian modern thrash act Terrorway will release the debut album "Blackwaters" on September 30th via Bakerteam Records. The band was formed in 2009, releasing the critically acclaimed EP "Absolute" in 2010, a pure concentrate of extreme modern metal inspired by the likes of Strapping Young Lad, Dillinger Escape Plan and The Haunted.
While composing and recording the EP, the band built a strong live activity, often sharing the stage with international acts such as Mnemic and Paul Di Anno to name a few. The song "Her Last Breath" was included in the ‘Kill City, Vol. 17" compilation, which led to the current deal with Bakerteam Records.
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It’s an Obama world.
The New Black Panthers offered a bounty today for the capture of George Zimmerman.
From their website:
Yesterday they told reporters, “He should be fearful for his life!”
Yesterday, the radical black group issued “dead or alive” posters from Zimmerman.
The Chicago Tribune reported:
The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin last month.
Laura at Ace of Spades added:
Now, how in the world could these fine gents feel so bold as to openly threaten someone, and publicly offer a contract for an illegal kidnapping? Why, it is almost as though they believe the law no longer applies to them. Almost like they have some precedent for believing that.
Our feet have been set on a dangerous path by an administration that is profoundly thoughtless in word, and belligerent in deed, towards the rule of law and the Constitution. It is the path toward warring factions, the splintering of our common society, and a constant inflammation of ethnic strife.
Maybe that’s the plan?
Nice work, Barack.
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1. Millions of innocent Blacks have been murdered…by abortion.
But I guess those lives aren’t that important enough to score political points eh Obama?
2. Is George Zimmerman now going to become a hero of the right?
3. Has Obozo’s jackboot thugs just declared war on hispanics ?..no Latino here in California calls themself ” white hispanic”..This is getting very interresting !!!
4. well, for all of you living inside large urban centers this summer. bummer for you.
this will be the most violent race riot class war summer ever.
if you live in a city and dont have a prepper kit you are really behind the curve.
for this summers “summer of love” you better have a first aid kit that includes major truama first aid materials like clotting agents,
a rifle and a pistol with ammo
food and water for 3 months that needs no refrigeration.
I know a lot of people who just dont see the necessity of having this meager list filled and stashed away, they are playin with thier lives and that of their families.
the writting is on the wall
barack and steadman have wieghed in to make things worse.
they want it to be so out of control by election time in the major metropolitan areas that elections may have to be suspended due to out of control rioting.
focus it put a face on it make your bad guy. thats what barry is doing
I think the leftists think this year is now or never. they must finally defeat traditional america and americans now or loose the chance to rule one party for ever.
5. He isn’t a racist liberal Matt, the most racist and hypocritical people who have ever existed. He probably doesn’t assume like you do that one group of people are genetically inferior, born with a racist gene that fuels all the worlds problems, and that if you can just commit a genocide against the people and their culture, you Matt will have saved the world, so of course only you could be a hero. You’re just not sanctimonious enough.
Try to remember we can’t get involved in a Hispanic life. We are all too racist in your world. Not clean and pure like you who has already picked out who is guilty not based on facts or a moral code, but based on who has the greatest amount of pigmentation between the two.
Geez there goes the Hispanic vote, especially if I were strategist. Someone defending their home and neighborhood and then Obama decides the guy won’t get an even chance. Malibu decides not to take action against the black panthers putting a price on someone’s head? People do what GZ did all the time to get rid of crime. They do it to get rid of prostitutes, they do it to stop robbers from targeting their neighborhoods. It’s often the only thing that is effective in the big city, but then he’s disposable to you because of your virulent racism and hatred and entirely warped and puerile value system that classifies victims and only values the biggest victim=in this case one has more pigment.
6. Where is the Hispanic community in all this? Why are they silent while one of theirs is getting tried and convicted in the court of public opinion?
7. working for a living and watching telamundo which hasnt covered it.
8. Why have they not been arrested?
9. Just give me one reason and one chance to throw a few rounds at some black panthers.
10. Some of their leaders just may find their names and photos on “Wanted” posters if they happen to irritate some of the Mexican or Columbian drug cartels and mess with some of their dealers or runners in the name of “getting even” with hispanics. They are novices at thuggery compared to the hispanic gangs and drug cartels, and they are outnumbered and out-gunned.
11. [A friend of George Zimmerman, the man who shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., told ABC News today that the voice heard howling on the tape of a 911 call was Zimmerman's, not the teen's. The man, a black friend of the family.........] i worked with a wanna be who was a volunteer cop on the side. not a bad guy but full of bluster and b.s. for all the huffing and puffing he did he usually hid out behind the real cops if he was along for the call.
12. shouldn’t they be arrested for issuing a wanted dead or alive poster with a 10,000 bounty?
that is considered a death threat.
….if not, then anyone could issue a wanted dead or alive poster
and put 0bama or his ugly-@$$ wife on it. *l*
and untilt he courts did something about the black panther…
they couldn’t touch anybody else who did it.
13. Obama weighed in on the side of the teen, but he is too much of a coward to take the Black Panthers to task for inciting violence against a man who has not been charged for an alleged crime.
If Obama fails to come out against these thugs and their actions and Zimmerman is killed, the onus is on him. Sharpton should have his ass kicked to the curb too.
14. …and, in a little while when the corrupt media realize they got the story backward, we will never hear about this again. And then, on to the next Alinsky plan (that won’t work).
15. the poster says wanted and they give no position as to dead or alive. gives them wiggle room in case one of their nutcases interprets their winking an nodding to be a “between the lines” order to even the score and if it’s the murder of Zimmerman so be it. the nbp will be able to walk away from the blame because after all they have no control over others actions.
16. “..and, in a little while when the corrupt media realize they got the story backward, we will….” depending on who gets to write history. the hype trumps the truth as we see with people still clinging to the storyline that teaparty people spit on members of the cbc even though there was never any evidence or blaming Cheney for the outing of the already outted valarie plame.
17. Nothing new here. I worked in inner city nrighborhoods for forty years and witnessed on a daily basis vicious & violent m racism by blacks in action against whites. Hispanics, & Asians. Obozo & Holder have merely made black’s racism publically & openly acceptable and able to come out of the not so closed closet manifested by openly displayed thuggery, intimidation, & violence . Obozo, the marxstream media, & the lunatic leftists want mayhem in the streets to keep themselves in power. This is going to end tragically for all Americans as Soros, Sharpton Holder, Jackson & NotSo Sharpton want.
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LeBron James and Tony Parker are still the two most important players on the court, but if Games 1-4 of this year's NBA Finals have taught us anything, it's that role players are equally capable of deciding this series.
Three-point explosions from Danny Green, Mike Miller and Gary Neal have been every bit as important as drive-and-kicks from LeBron or post moves from Tim Duncan. Those streaks have turned games upside down and kept them that way. They've altered this series indelibly.
Each team's purported Big Three (Manu is under review) will, obviously, play a vital role in determining Game 5's outcome. If one triad outperforms the other, its team is more likely to win.
But the same might go for the role players, the lesser-known pieces, the guys whose jerseys you don't own. And in the era of "LeBron James conquers all," that's a really curious thing.
Here are three role players who could decide Game 5.
C Tiago Splitter, San Antonio Spurs
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In last year's NBA Finals, the Heat went small and made Kendrick Perkins, a pretty bad NBA center, look like a very bad NBA center.
In this year's NBA Finals, the Heat have gone small and made Tiago Splitter, a pretty good NBA center, look just as bad as Perkins.
That sentence might be confounding for some of you. "Why on earth," you might wonder, if this is the first time you've seen the Spurs play, "is this idiot calling Tiago Splitter good?"
Which is exactly my point. Splitter hasn't revealed his true colors this series—he's secreted them. The young Brazilian center has shown rapid growth since joining the league three years ago, averaging a PER of 19.62 the past two seasons. That's higher than Marc Gasol, the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, who probably should have been First Team All-NBA, posted in 2012-13.
But you wouldn't know that from watching this series. The Heat have made Splitter look old and doofy in the post, which is crazy since they employ Chris Andersen who, himself, is one of the oldest, doofiest players in the league.
When Miami went small in Game 4, Splitter couldn't exploit the mismatches he was afforded. In turn, San Antonio had to do something it doesn't like; it had to adjust its personnel accordingly. It had to cater to the whims of its opponent, allow it to dictate the style of play.
If Splitter plays like he's capable in Game 5, Miami's small-ball lineup could backfire. That's exactly how Roy Hibbert punished the Heat in the last round.
But if Splitter continues to falter, his team, as a whole, could soon be following suit.
PG Mario Chalmers, Miami Heat
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Yes, the Heat need a big game from Mike Miller on Sunday. But that's a one-way proposition. They need Miller's shooting, no doubt, and they can afford to live with an occasional defensive breakdown to get it.
Mario Chalmers can't think that way, and the Heat can't afford to allow him. Chalmers is one of the Heat's best shooters too, capable of making teams pay for clustering around LeBron James. But he can't just perform on one end of the court.
Not against Parker.
The condition of Parker's hamstring remains to be seen. Maybe he'll be gimpy and ineffective, but I doubt it. He knows the magnitude of Sunday's Game 5; if he's able to stand, he'll be willing to penetrate.
Chalmers struggled against Parker in the first quarter of Game 4. If Game 5 is close in the fourth quarter, they might want to put LeBron on Parker. But they'll also probably be playing their small lineup. If that unit is undersized with LeBron guarding a Spurs big man, how puny will it look with LeBron on the perimeter? And whom, exactly, does Chalmers end up checking?
No, Miami needs its point guard to defend its opponent's point guard, and it needs him to do it with decent efficiency. Otherwise, the Spurs will adjust from Game 4 and pick the Heat apart.
PG Gary Neal, San Antonio
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Calling Green a "role player" in this series feels pejorative. He's been that important, and more importantly, that consistent. He's made himself into a bona fide factor, not one of the "X-" variety.
The same argument could be made for Neal, but it is far less convincing. He's been unconscious since Game 1—11-of-17 on three-pointers in that stretch—but he's still disappeared for stretches. He's still an "X-factor."
So what San Antonio needs is to keep getting "good" Neal instead of "bad" Neal. They need the guy who scored 24 points in Game 3 instead of the guy who fell out of the rotation in December. They need him to maintain the current status quo.
San Antonio can't keep up with Miami if its role players lag behind. Whether or not Dwyane Wade actually turned a corner on Thursday—my vote says he didn't—LeBron is bound to progress back to his mean. The Spurs have gotten a perfect storm, of sorts, through four games but still find themselves in a deadlock.
One off shooting game from Neal or Green, and San Antonio could end up needing to win two straight in Miami. Even Gregg Popovich might be out of his league with that task.
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Festa di Pales, o L'estate (1783), a reimagining of the Festival of Pales by Joseph-Benoît Suvée
In ancient Roman religion, the Parilia is a festival of rural character performed annually on April 21, aimed at cleansing both sheep and shepherd. It is carried out in acknowledgment to the Roman deity Pales, a deity of uncertain gender who was a patron of shepherds and sheep.[1]
Ovid describes the Parilia at length in the Fasti, an elegiac poem on the Roman religious calendar, and implies that it predates the founding of Rome, traditionally 753 BC, as indicated by its pastoral, pre-agricultural concerns. During the Republic, farming was idealized and central to Roman identity, so the festival took on a more generally rural character. Increasing urbanization caused the rustic Parilia to be reinterpreted rather than abandoned, as Rome was an intensely traditional society. During the Imperial period, the date was celebrated as the "birthday" of Rome (dies natalis Romae).
The pastoral structure of the festival is carried out by the shepherd himself. After the sheep pen had been decorated with green branches and a wreath draped on the gate, the remainder of the ceremony took place in sequence. At the first sign of daylight, the shepherd would purify the sheep: by sweeping the pen and then constructing a bonfire of straw, olive branches, laurel, and sulfur. The noises produced by this burning combination were interpreted as a beneficial omen. The shepherd would jump through this flame, dragging his sheep along with him. Offerings of millet, cakes, and milk were then presented before Pales, marking the second segment of the ceremony. After these offerings, the shepherd would wet his hands with dew, face the east, and repeat a prayer four times. Such prayers requested Pales’ assistance in freeing the shepherd and the flock from evils brought about by accidental wrongdoings (e.g. trespassing on sacred grounds and removing water from a sacred water source).[2] The final portion of the rural festival made use of the beverage burranica, a combination of milk and sapa (boiled wine). After consumption of this beverage, the shepherd would leap through the fire three times, bringing an end to the ceremony.[3]
The urban form of the Parilia, on the other hand, is blended with other Roman religious practices and carried out by a priest. Ovid personally participated in this form and describes his experiences in the Fasti.[4] While the central actions of the rural ceremony carry over, the urban form adds two ingredients from other religious festivals: the Fordicidia and the October Horse. The Fordicidia sacrifices a pregnant cow to the deity Tellus to promote cattle and field fertility. The unborn calf is then removed from the womb and burnt. The October Horse is the right hand horse of the team that won a particular chariot race on October 15 of the previous year.[5] Together, the ashes of the unborn calf and the blood from the head of the October Horse are mixed by the Vestals and are added to the burning bean straw of the bonfire.[2] Dumézil questioned whether the Equus October provided the horse blood,[6] since the two ancient sources that mention the ingredient omit identifying the victim.[7]
By the end of the late Republic, the Parilia became associated with the birthday of Rome.[8] Numerous accounts of the founding of Rome exist, but the particular one related to the Parilia is described by Ovid in the Fasti. According to this myth, Romulus, upon reaching Rome on the day of the Parilia, took a stick and engraved a line in the ground that defined the boundaries of the new city (pomerium). He then prayed to the gods Jupiter, Mars, and Vesta asking for protection of this area. However, his brother Remus, unaware of the boundaries, crossed the line and was struck down by Romulus's henchman Celer.[4]
Over time, and under the influence of several Roman rulers, the structure of the Parilia changed. First, after Julius Caesar heard the news of Roman Victory at Munda in 45 BC (around the date of the Parilia), he added games to the ceremony. At these games, the citizens would wear crowns in Caesar’s honor. Caligula instituted into the celebration a procession of priests, noblemen, boys and girls of noble birth singing of his virtues while escorting the Golden Shield, previously bestowed upon him by the citizens of Rome, to the Capitol.[citation needed] At this time the Parilia became Rome's birthday celebration rather than the rural festival it had once been.[citation needed] In 121 AD Hadrian founded a new temple of Venus and Roma and changed the festival’s name to Romaea. The temple was ruined.[1] [9]
1. ^ a b The Cambridge Ancient History 2nd Ed. Vol. X: The Augustan Empire 43 BC – AD 69. Cambridge University Press. Great Britain: 1996. pp. 816-817
2. ^ a b Fowler, Warde W. The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic. MacMillan and CO, Limited. London: 1899. pp. 79-85.
3. ^ Butrica, James L. Propertius on the Parilia (4.4.73-8). Classical Quarterly 50.2. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Great Britain: 2000. pp. 472-478.
4. ^ a b Ovid. Fasti; Gower, John. Ovids Festivalls, or Romane calendar, translated into English verse equinumerally. London: 1640. pp. 93-97.
5. ^ Adkins, Lesley & Roy A. Dictionary of Roman Religion. Facts on File Inc. New York: 1996. pp. 82, 168.
6. ^ G. Dumezil La religion romaine archaique Paris, 1974, part 1, chap. 4 "Mars".
7. ^ Propertius Elegiae Romanae 4, 1, 19-20 (where the horse is described as curtus, "dismembered"); Ovid Fasti IV, 721 sqq. The October Horse, however, is the only horse sacrifice known to have been practiced regularly by the Romans.
8. ^ Kearns, Emily. The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion. Oxford University Press. Oxford: 2003. pp. 406.
9. ^ Charles River Editors (2013-02-14). Caligula & Nero: Rome’s Worst Emperors (Kindle Locations 715-716). Charles River Editors. Kindle Edition. | <urn:uuid:301ac80a-0160-4f8c-91ae-f067e860edd2> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parilia | en | 0.929799 | 0.024553 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Bailout Bait 'n' Switch
In business there is a crime called “bait and switch.” It refers to the practice of advertising something that a lot of people want, in order to lure them to a store or showroom under fraudulent premise, with no intent whatsoever of providing what was advertised, but instead switching them to a different and much more expensive alternative.
For example, an auto dealer might advertise a new 4-door sedan at a ludicrously low price; once you get to the dealership, you discover there’s only one on the lot, deliberately painted a butt-ugly color, with hideous plaid fabric upholstery, and no options. But for just a few dollars more per month, you can have one of the snazzier models with power seats and windows, CD player, and moon roof. Of course, that few dollars more per month multiplied by 72 months plus interest adds thousands of dollars to the price. Same trick has commonly been used by appliance stores, furniture stores, even clothing stores. Nevertheless, it is illegal.
Another version of it, simply called a “switch”, is when the consumer is led to believe one thing from advertising, then sold on the truth revealed after the purchase is made and product delivered. This is a common tactic in mail-order sales, where the actual product is not inspected until delivery.
There’s a popular weight loss program whose ubiquitous TV ads give consumers the idea they’ll be eating three meals and two snacks a day of pizza, burgers, pancakes with syrup and chocolate brownies shipped to them in a box and somehow losing pounds and inches with no effort or sacrifice. When the big box arrives, the switch occurs. You really get one such meal a day. Today it’s those pancakes for breakfast, but lunch and dinner consist of protein bars, shakes and veggies. Tomorrow, you can have that pizza that looked so good in the ad but is shockingly small on your plate, with protein shakes for the other meals. Oh yeah, you also need to exercise three times a week. And, individual results vary. A lot.
So, the Bush & Paulson Gang played bait ‘n' switch with Congress and sold them on a $700-billion economic rescue package. They promised to remove toxic assets from banks’ and other financial institutions’ balance sheets, thus liberating lending to businesses and consumers to fuel spending and investment. After they made that sale, they did nothing they promised. Instead, they took a first, giant step toward nationalizing the banking system, making the government a major owner-partner in top tier banks, and using all the money to facilitate mergers, pay executive bonuses and for other purposes still kept secret from taxpayers.
With all that money gone already, in the final days of Bush these same institutions were handed fresh potloads of money. This naturally brought forth an apparently endless parade of companies and entire industries, city and state governments, and others threatening unspeakable horrors if Congress didn’t fill their big trick or treat bags with candy too. Boo. Congress is easily scared.
What occurred here is the largest bait and switch scam in history, stealing money from every taxpaying consumer. It probably won’t ever be prosecuted. It isn’t even cast in this light by most of the media.
Well, that was the rescue package. Now Obama is busy peddling his stimulus package, using exactly the same bait and switch scheme, the same fear and panic tactics to create urgency. Once it is sold, we buyers will discover there’s damned little stimulus in it. It’s not about stimulus at all. It is, in truth, a government expansion package of epic proportions and far-reaching consequences. He is selling one thing with no intent whatsoever of delivering it. He is even willing to bait ‘n switch day by day while selling it, a feat no other switcher has ever been so bold to attempt. Look here, boys and girls, $3,000.00 for every employee you hire. Sound good? Ha! Changed my mind in just 48 hours. Now you see it, now you don’t. Big grin. He’s just so charming, how dare we call him a liar and thief?
In Eric Holder’s confirmation hearing to become America’s top law enforcement officer, he spoke poetically of his passion for protecting American consumers more vigilantly and aggressively than we have seen of late. A fine question to have asked would have been: will you enforce on government, politicians and the President the same consumer protection laws imposed on business? Will you prosecute bait ‘n' switch wherever you see it? | <urn:uuid:13b2383a-dfe0-46aa-a215-d90bf6c11fbd> | http://mrc.org/commentary/bailout-bait-n-switch | en | 0.952578 | 0.079026 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Letting teens drink at home? Sorry, it's just not okay.
When I was a kid, my dad would let me take a slug or two from his cold beer on a hot day. Never more than a little, though. I felt so grown up and special and ... sick! It was disgusting! I hated the taste, but never told Dad. Or my brother. That would not have been cool.
A lot of parents I know allow these harmless samplings, many with the hope that their children's immature taste buds will revolt and discourage them from taking to the stuff till at least age 21. It certainly worked for me. Just never developed a taste for the stuff.
I was reading on Babble.com about the mom who took underage drinking a little too far.
She didn't just allow a sip, she poured drinks. Not just for her middle school daughter, but a whole party of her friends. She handed the drinks out, even comforted the kids as they vomitted later. Aw, how sweet.
Surprise, suprise she got arrested.
Okay, so I know you wouldn't do anything like that, but how often do you break the rules and let your tween or teen sneak a sip of a cocktail or beer?
My husband and I argue about this all the time. He's of the mind that it's better not to prohibit underage drinking because they are going to do it anyway, so it's way better to allow it at home where we can keep an eye on things. I do see his point, but NO WAY. That's breaking the law.
Do you believe that kids shouldn't have any alcohol whatsoever until they turn 21 or do you bend the rules and permit underage drinking when you're around?
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Fleet Actions - After Action Reports
I am curious about fleet action after action reports.
How does the score work? Is it only based on damage done/ships killed/nodes scanned etc?
As A cruiser, I go around healing others a lot with engineering teams, Hazard Emitters and Extend Shields, is that somehow counted in a fleet action such as SB24 and Laurentien System?
What about Science ships?
How can cruisers/science compete with escorts in such scenarios if only total damage is tallied.
I don't know if this has already been brought up, or if it's even an issue.
Archived Post 04-09-2010 02:07 PM
I'd be interested to see the answer to your questions too, for much the same reason.
I'd also like to know if there are any plans to allow groups to close or restrict access to a Fleet Action which they have started, to enable them to work as a team and complete the mission, rather than take thier chances with 15 other random people showing up in the mission, who don't know what they are doing, or who have a very different way of doing things.
Far too often fleet actions are abandoned, simply because people can't work together. It would be wonderful if everyone could.... but realistically they won't.
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How to Use a Double Bridle?
To use a double bridle, evaluate your riding level. Evaluate your horse to ensure that you are able to bend and flex her easily in all directions. Then fit the bridle to your horse ensuring you hang the curb chain carefully. Hold the reins using your fists between the index finger and thumb with the snaffle reins on top.
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How to Use a Double Bridle
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Summertime Means Increased Risk For Teen Drivers
With summer now here, parents and teens should be aware that five of the 10 most dangerous days for teenage drivers fall between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Why the increased danger? With school out, teens are on the road more. On average, 422 teens die in traffic crashes each month during the summer, a 16 percent increase from non-summer months. July 4th, for reasons unknown, is the single deadliest day of the year, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAA FTS).
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While summer means more hours of daylight, teens still manage to get into trouble after dark. Once the sun sets, the death rate doubles.
There are several reasons for this. Teenagers, who have the least driving experience, often find night driving exceptionally difficult. The combination of reduced visibility, nighttime glare and fatigue play a major part in their heightened crash rate. Teens are also more likely to experiment with drugs or alcohol at night, adding further risk.
It's not just late-night driving that's dangerous. Crash rates climb markedly after 9 p.m. Drivers under the age of 18 in Connecticut are generally prohibited from driving between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., but parents should consider a 9 p.m. curfew to stay on the cautious side.
The AAA FTS notes that a teenager driving other teens rapidly escalates the chance of getting into a crash. In its "Teen Driver Risk in Relation to Age and Number of Passengers," study that was just published, the AAA FTS concludes that, "Compared with having no passengers, having one passenger younger than age 21 (and no older passengers) was associated with a 44 percent increase in a 16 - or 17-year-old driver's risk-per-mile driven of being killed in a crash." Two passengers younger than 21 doubled this risk, while three or more passengers roughly quadrupled it.
Here are some steps parents can take to keep their teenagers safe:
Limit teen driving. The more driving, the greater the risk.
Allow teens to use a family vehicle so they won't need their own car. A survey of Connecticut teen drivers, reported in a National Institutes of Health author manuscript, states that, "Teens with their own vehicles drove about two-thirds more than teens who shared family vehicles." Again, more driving equals more risk.
Give full support to the Connecticut graduated licensing provisions that limit passengers. This law means that no 16-year-old should be driving with any passenger other than an adult or immediate family member.
Discourage trips that have no particular destination in mind. Driving to get to a specific event is one thing. "Cruising," as it was once called, is another matter entirely that is far riskier.
Establish the ground rules, in writing. This parent-teen contract should specifically state the responsibilities of the parent and the teen, as well as the consequences for breaking any of the rules.
Finally, while Connecticut removes the teenage driving provisions of graduated licensing for 18-year-olds, the risk for younger drivers actually continues into their mid-20s. There's a reason insurance premiums don't begin to decline until the age of 25.
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There is a purpose to every game, an intention that every developer pursues. Some are just quick cash-ins, and others are highly polished and thought out pieces of art. The Witcher 2 is definitely in the latter category.
First, on the difficulty. The game is very difficult for most gamers today. Even the "weakest" enemies can overwhelm and kill you, but this is not a mistake of "unbalanced AI" it is completely intentional. The level of difficulty makes every decision you make even more important, but more on that later. Combat requires a defensive mindset, patience, and strategy. Don't let this deter you, it becomes much easier after the first third of the game.
This is one of the best RPG's I've played from a choice perspective. Every choice you make can lead to difficult combat or a peaceful resolution. Leveling choices are diverse and set up for diverse gameplay styles. The story is fantastic from start to finish, and I cannot wait to play a sequel.
There was some poor decision making on CD projecktred's part in the crafting/alchemy parts of the game. Inventory management is terrible and what plants and monster parts correspond to what alchemy ingredients is pretty hit or miss, or requires use of computer guides. The mapping system also leads you in the wrong direction frequently.
But overall this is one of the best RPG's I've ever played, blowing anything else out of the water.
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#1 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
I just hope it's genuinely irrational polishing the game up rather than say, 2k finding the material covered in it too controversial and forcing them to tone it down.
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#3 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
@Hellstrom said:
@mostman said:
@Hellstrom said:
As i said in the chat. I don't understand people saying "I wonder what Apple will do now". They will do what they've always done. Apple is not some incredibly innovative corporation. What they've mastered is marketing techniques. Google, & Microsoft in this decade alone have been a lot more innovative and moved industries forward. Far more than Apple, with all that said, RIP. Though i'm atheist so.....yeah.
I always hesitate to reply to these comments, but here I feel I must. You couldn't be more wrong. I realize its fashionable for people to buy into the claim that all Apple does is market retreaded technology - but that opinion is utter bullshit. Apple has moved the needle forward on technology more that Google ever will and possibly even Microsoft. You are confusing the words "innovation" and "creation". See, they are different. Was the iPod the first digital music player? No. Was it even the _best_ on all accounts? No. Did it sell the best? Yes. Did marketing alone cause this? No. A simple, approachable, easy to use product was the cause. Not faster. Not bigger. Not shinier. Just easier to use. If Apple hadn't managed to sell the shit out of the iPod, where would we be today in regard to music online? Do you still buy CDs? Do you miss CDs? No? Thank Apple. That's innovation. Moving the needle. You live in a world made better by Apple, and by extension, Jobs. I could list many examples where this is true. Hate on them and their fanboys all you want, but make sure you take a look around before you sell them short. You are thinking small. "What have they made faster, what have they made bigger, what have they made shinier", (well, ok, I'll give you that last one :) - You need to think larger than that.
Are you kidding? Please name this technology they moved forward. Please don't let it involve MAC or Ipod.
Even their MAC operating system has changed & innovated little since Unix. Their Ipod software was not even developed in house. They are a company who overcharge on products that do much less than their contemporaries. Its something the Apple fanboys can never accept. Marketing is EXACTLY the reason Ipod sold so much, nothing else, not innovation. Not even close, Apple simply found a great way to make lesser technology "for dummies", overcharge for it and sell it to the masses.
Both Microsoft & Google have done much more innovation in this decade alone.
Like it or not, people do need usability in their software.
Is apple a deplorable company that overcharge for foxconn (read: mass produced at the cheapest cost with no regard to quality) hardware, perhaps going as far as to designing them to break within a certain amount of time to force more sales when it comes to certain products? Yes.
Do they market the hell out of their products to be contrary to what the products are actually made of (see: above) through pretty wrappings? Very much so.
Is this deceitful and worthy of scorn? Definitely.
Does this make people need usability any less? No. At the end of the day, products do need to be used by people. Usability and looks(software) are fair game.
As much as I hate apple (and steve jobs' role in creating/transforming a company into, well, apple), credit due where it's due. Usability and visual is important, and they brought it into perspective. Whether apple overcharges for their closed off market is another issue.
Besides, for all the bad things that apple does (and there's a lot of them), jobs himself actually believed in his products and talked to tech press (even the ones critical of him) despite his success. I can respect that. The rest of the things he did after his return to apple, not as much.
#4 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This has got to be one of the most boring games I have ever had the displeasure of touching.
#5 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
>flamethrower made out of wood
Am I the only one who's a bit startled by this strike of retardation?
#6 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
slow day in the news?
I guess this IS an interesting way to approach reward/punishment in games though.
#7 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
So what went on behind the scenes? they changed stuff, right?
#8 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This sounds like one of those talks from one of those higher-ups who don't get the details on things or is just trying to make things sound good.
The truth is that while it's easy to just say "we're gonna hire a bunch of guys and make them innovate", simply forcing them to focus on one franchise limits the amount of space and direction they can wriggle in. Take the GTA series - another franchise with ridiculous staying power that made COD level profits. After GTA 3, they had to make everything bigger, crazier and better - vice city. After that, SA. After that, they got flaked HARD for GTA4 precisely because it didn't feel like GTA. COD is pretty much stuck in the same spot - it's precisely because people have an expectation that innovation would be difficult, and there's only a similar array of directions for the franchise to head toward while other franchises that put more time inbetween releases (team fortress)/is straight up fresh(portal) can innovate and create gameplay that is unrestricted by previous interpretations of their genre.
Think about it. The multiplayer in BLOP mainly extended itself over MW2 mainly by its inclusion of new modes, new weapons/killstreaks/killstreak handling/weapons/maps/etc. None of these are revolutionary in the sense that they don't change the feel of the game - you don't feel the difference you felt moving from halo to COD or TFC to TF2 or even COD2 to COD4. And if a next-big-thing comes along, all the staying power is just gonna vanish (see: how UT3 died). They're gonna have to change their game eventually, and it'll ruin their staying power.
Then again, maybe COD players really are just that dedicated. who knows?
#9 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
I spam USA over and over again after I win/lose a match.
Like this.
Well, at least before bad company 2 had those damn spam filters put in place. Asshats.
#10 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This sounds eerily similar to the GBA->DS transition.
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Tony Cingrani has turned heads around Major League Baseball.
The 24-year-old southpaw, having made his Major League debut last September for the Reds, didn't crack Cincinnati's Opening Day roster this spring.
But he didn't stay with Triple-A Louisville for long. Instead, he found himself en route to Cincinnati, where he would serve as the Reds' EMS after ace Johnny Cueto went down with a strained right lat.
To the Reds' relief, Cingrani filled Cueto's shoes by going 2-0 with a 3.27 ERA over six starts.
Despite being sent back to Louisville when Cueto was well enough to pitch again, Cingrani has spent most of the season with the Reds, initially making spot starts for Cueto before being shifted to the bullpen. Now Cueto looks to be out of commission for an extended period, and Cingrani has stepped into the void.
"I don't go out there and try to do too much," Cingrani said. "I'm not going to out there and try, you know, Homer [Bailey] threw a no-hitter and everyone [said], 'You got to follow that up.'
"I'm like, 'Well, it's a new day. I don't have to throw a no-hitter. I just have to give our team a chance to win.' If you think in terms like that, it's not too much [pressure]."
But let's rewind the tape back, to June 7, 2011. That's when Cingrani, toting a freshly inked diploma from Rice University, was selected by the Reds in the third round of the Draft.
"I wouldn't say I was the best kid [on the field] growing up," Cingrani said. "I wasn't good until about three or four years ago. I've just always had a pretty good work ethic, I always loved baseball and loved playing sports. I always played football, basketball and baseball."
When he was a junior at Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox, Ill., Cingrani switched to pitching full-time.
And the rest is history. Cingrani rocketed through the Reds' farm system and was named manager Dusty Baker's first callup in case of emergency in Spring Training.
"I'm pretty honored to do that. It's nice knowing that I've pretty much got security," Cingrani said. "If something happens -- which I don't want to happen to anybody -- but if something were to happen and I'm in Louisville, you know I'm just trying to work and do my job, and then come up here and do my job up here."
That doesn't mean his transition was flawless. Cingrani had to develop several pitches to pair with his fastball.
"I had a bunch of pitch approaches that I worked on all the way through, so [those] helped me out a lot with thought processes on how to release the ball and how to throw it," Cingrani said.
Cingrani said he blended the influences of many prominent lefties to craft his own repertoire, citing Steve Carlton's slider, Johan Santana's and Cole Hamels' changeups, and the pitching style of CC Sabathia as inspirations.
Add the pressure of developing pitches quickly to the versatility that was a must as Cingrani transitioned from the rotation to the bullpen and back, and you've got one heck of a challenge.
"I was a starter my entire life until my senior year in college, and I was a closer. That was probably the easiest job, because I would just go in and throw fastballs and not have to worry about anything else," Cingrani said.
"When I got drafted, I was only working about two to three innings, so it wasn't too bad with just fastballs and changeups. That basically got me to here. Starting, now I throw curveball, slider, changeup and fastball, which is kind of a little bit difficult right now. But I'm getting the hang of it."
Don't believe Cingrani? Check out his 3-0 pitching record through 52 innings for proof.
No doubt many other Minor Leaguers want to know how Cingrani managed to climb the ladder so quickly. But even Cingrani himself doesn't have an answer.
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Ian Douglas
Cool is a ludicrous aim for Microsoft
The rather desperate-looking Seinfeld/Gates advert for Microsoft speaks
of a very serious problem for the company. They're hugely successful,
but they want to be something they're not.
Bill Gates throws a shape
Apple is currently celebrating gaining a larger market capitalisation
than Google ($142.8bn to Google's measly $141.6bn), and Microsoft is
spending $300m on new adverts which, it hopes, will give them some of
the desirability that Apple seems to obtain without effort. It's a vain
hope, and misled. Microsoft's market cap ($240.6bn) dwarfs its
competitors and it makes more profit than Apple, Google, Yahoo, Dell
and Sun Microsystems combined.
Easy tech pundit bluster says that the cloud is where all the
applications are going to be quite soon and Microsoft is having its
territory invaded by Google. I'm writing this blog post on Google Docs,
just as I do all my writing. It lacks a little in functionality but the
collaboration facilities more than make up for the loss of endless
menus I never explored. it's free, which is always attractive, and I
can access my work whether I'm at home or in the office. Great. Cloud
computing is a very attractive proposition that I'm sure more people
will adopt in the near future and Microsoft isn't the market leader at
the moment.
Microsoft isn't barred from cloud computing though. Office Live is much
better than people think, and prices will no doubt come down to an
acceptable level as soon as people and businesses become unwilling to
pay so much. That's the way the market works. They've been offering
web-based email since they bought Hotmail in 1998 and, even though Live
Search is awful, not everyone has to do search well. Google makes its
money from advertising, not search.
But what about advertising, say the lazy pundits, lying back on their
sofas and taking another swig of fizzy pop. Google's dominating there,
and Microsoft's hated so much they couldn't even buy Yahoo for an
inflated price. Yahoo are busy ripping themselves apart rather than
sell out to the evil empire.
It's no doubt true that Google have built a huge and extremely
successful business based on search advertising and Microsoft lag
behind. Steve Ballmer has declared that 25 per cent of Microsoft's
business will come from advertising in the future, which seems unlikely
as that would not only entail catching up with Google but overtaking
them by some margin. So let's assume that 10 per cent is a more
achievable goal. $4 billion of profit from search advertising, assuming
some growth in the market, is not unreasonable. Markets diversify away
from the one or two original providers as they mature and Microsoft is
growing its advertising business quite nicely, thank you. They're not
in a hurry, they have Office money to keep them going.
Taking a few minutes away from scratching themselves and looking at, the pundits stir and mumble a few words about
the failure of Vista, the clear superiority of Apple's OSX and the rise
of Ubuntu Linux as an operating system for the home user.
There is evidence that Vista is a rare choice for business users, and
that some manufacturers are still selling computers with the
now-unsupported Windows XP rather than Vista, but still it outsells
Macs by a long margin. I don't have figures for other websites but I
can tell you that visitors to break down as 69 per cent
Windows XP, 16 per cent Vista and nine per cent Mac. Linux puts in a
low but respectable showing at 1.1 per cent, just below Windows 2000
and about twice as popular as the iPhone.
A disliked new product such as Vista would be a problem for any
company, but much less of a problem than it might appear. Strong XP
sales are still money in the bank for Microsoft, and Windows 7 is
already edging its way closer to the shops. They'll survive.
Windows Mobile is still popular with those who want a keyboard with
buttons, and is now really not bad (as opposed to versions before 6.0,
which were all awful), and at least Exchange works, after a fashion,
which MobileMe is still failing to do.
I say this as someone who uses no Microsoft products voluntarily and
has a house full of little white boxes with Apple logos on them:
Microsoft is still the most successful technology company on earth and
will continue to hold that position for many years to come. That
they're not seen as cool by the sniffy, spoiled tech press is of
supreme indifference to the huge majority of people who use them, and
makes such a small difference to their corporate accounts it's really
not worth their time.
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on an attempt to imbue
themselves with a little hipness would have been bad enough if it had
been successful, but employing someone who was very famous more than a
decade ago (probably the last time Bill Gates had any time to watch
television) to make a nonsensical short film about shoes with someone
else who doesn't work full time for them any longer just makes them
look foolish.
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Solaris Advanced User's Guide
Chapter 4 Searching Files
This chapter describes how to search directories and files for keywords and strings by using the grep command.
Searching for Patterns With grep
To search for a particular character string in a file, use the grep command. The basic syntax of the grep command is:
$ grep string file
In this example, string is the word or phrase you want to find, and file is the file to be searched.
Note –
A string is one or more characters. A single letter is a string, as is a word or a sentence. Strings can include blank spaces, punctuation, and invisible (control) characters.
For example, to find Edgar Allan Poe's telephone extension, type grep, all or part of his name, and the file containing the information:
$ grep Poe extensions
Edgar Allan Poe x72836
Note that more than one line might match the pattern you give.
$ grep Allan extensions
David Allan x76438
Edgar Allan Poe x72836
$ grep Al extensions
Louisa May Alcott x74236
David Allan x76438
Edgar Allan Poe x72836
grep is case sensitive; that is, you must match the pattern with respect to uppercase and lowercase letters:
$ grep allan extensions
$ grep Allan extensions
David Allan x76438
Edgar Allan Poe x72836
Note that grep failed in the first try because none of the entries began with a lowercase a.
grep as a Filter
You can use the grep command as a filter with other commands, enabling you to filter out unnecessary information from the command output. To use grep as a filter, you must pipe the output of the command through grep. The symbol for pipe is “|”.
The following example displays files that end in “.ps” and were created in the month of September.
$ ls -l *.ps | grep Sep
The first part of this command line produces a list of files ending in .ps.
$ ls -l *.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 user2 users 833233 Jun 29 16:22 buttons.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 user2 users 39245 Sep 27 09:38 changes.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 user2 users 608368 Mar 2 2000 clock.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 user2 users 827114 Sep 13 16:49 commands.ps
The second part of the command line pipes that list through grep, looking for the pattern Sep.
| grep Sep
The search provides the following results.
$ ls -l *.ps | grep Sep
grep With Multiword Strings
To find a pattern that is more than one word long, enclose the string with single or double quotation marks.
$ grep “Louisa May” extensions
Louisa May Alcott x74236
The grep command can search for a string in groups of files. When it finds a pattern that matches in more than one file, it prints the name of the file, followed by a colon, then the line matching the pattern.
$ grep ar *
actors:Humphrey Bogart
alaska:Alaska is the largest state in the United States.
wilde:book. Books are well written or badly written.
Searching for Lines Without a Certain String
To search for all the lines of a file that do not contain a certain string, use the -v option to grep. The following example shows how to search through all the files in the current directory for lines that do not contain the letter e.
$ ls
actors alaska hinterland tutors wilde
$ grep -v e *
actors:Mon Mar 14 10:00 PST 1936
wilde:That is all.
Using Regular Expressions With grep
You can also use the grep command to search for targets that are defined as patterns by using regular expressions. Regular expressions consist of letters and numbers, in addition to characters with special meaning to grep. These special characters, called metacharacters, also have special meaning to the system. When you use regular expressions with the grep command, you need to tell your system to ignore the special meaning of these metacharacters by escaping them. When you use a grep regular expression at the command prompt, surround the regular expression with quotes. Escape metacharacters (such as & ! . * $ ? and \) with a backslash (\). See Searching for Metacharacters for more information on escaping metacharacters.
Searching for Metacharacters
To use the grep command to search for metacharacters such as & ! . * ? and \, precede the metacharacter with a backslash (\). The backslash tells grep to ignore (escape) the metacharacter.
For example, the following expression matches lines that start with a period, and is useful when searching for nroff or troff formatting requests (which begin with a period).
$ grep ^\.
Table 4–1 lists common search pattern elements you can use with grep.
Table 4–1 grep Search Pattern Elements
The beginning of a text line
The end of a text line
Any single character
Any single character in the bracketed list or range
Any character not in the list or range
Zero or more occurrences of the preceding character or regular expression
Zero or more occurrences of any single character
The escape of special meaning of next character
Note that you can also use these search characters in vi text editor searches.
Single or Double Quotes on Command Lines
As shown earlier, you use quotation marks to surround text that you want to be interpreted as one word. For example, type the following to use grep to search all files for the phrase “dang it, boys”:
$ grep "dang it, boys" *
You can also use single quotation marks (') to group multiword phrases into single units. Single quotation marks also make sure that certain that the system interprets metacharacters, such as $, literally.
Note –
The history metacharacter ! is always interpreted as a metacharacter, even inside quotation marks, unless you escape it with a backslash.
Escape characters such as & ! $ ? . ; and \ when you want grep to interpret these characters as ordinary typographical characters.
For example, if you type the following command, the system displays all the lines in the file list.
$ grep $ list
However, if you type the following command, the system displays only those lines that contain the “$” character.
$ grep '\$' list
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I can't imagine how terrible, terrifying, and stressful that must have been. (www.twincities.com) More...
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KC Hoover 6
What a strong lady in a extremely difficult situation. Hats off to the pilot who came along side of her in the air to help her get down with just the 1 engine. Prayers to her and her family over loss of her husband.
Zach Katona 5
Wow, this is simply incredible in a horrible way. Even if she was used to flying with her husband, to be able to take over the controls while something was wrong with him and to then have to deal with an engine going out? And still she lands the plane successfully? Simply amazing and many props to her and the other pilot who helped. He certainly married a quality wife and I'm sure he would be very proud of her.
Zach Katona 3
my thoughts are with her for her loss.
gftt 4
Wow, what a gal!
You know she was driven to get down safely in hopes of obtaining medical attention for her husband. He would be very proud of her.
tim mitchell 4
I tend to believe that he is proud of her and may have even been with here if she had no flight experience....Landing a twin with an engine out and depending on which engine she lost determined how much usable power whe actually had....This is just amazing; a miracle even.
Boyd Hopkins 2
Brave and courageous lady.
Michael Kaufman 2
A great success story for the record books. The "Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program" offers a pilot companion program with ground school and flight instruction on doing just this sort of thing. This story is an indication that this sort of thing does happen and can have a happy ending.
Brent Staulcup 2
Looked like a 421 on the news. That airplane is a handful on one engine for an experienced pilot, much less a non-pilot. Heroic job.
tarnold 1
414. No hump for the geared engines on a 421.
W S Webb 1
Does anyone know of a FAA program for spouses of pilots? So that they can fly the plane in emergency. It was to be taught by CFI and wife didn't need a physical.
Ed Wagner 1
Just saw the updated story and pics...C-414 and the nosewheel collapsed on landing..good job of getting on the ground safely!
Robert Rey 1
An amazing effort, especially also for the pilot talking her down.
Venugopal Menon 1
Very brave and courageous lady with quick reaction in difficult situation. Very good of the pilot who came alongside to help her.Prayers to the lady and her family over her loss of husband.
Ed Wagner 1
Wow! Best example I can think of for Spouses taking co-pilot course. She had to have a lot of skill to bring that twin down...she had "minor injuries" ...did she have an incident on landing? Also..."twin-engined" and "cessna" ...was this a 310? 340? 401?
AviatorLEO 1
I certainly laud the heroic efforts of the wife landing the aircraft, and the husband and wife team who kept her calm while assisting the wife in landing the C414, however I believe the claims of her landing the aircraft with one engine out appear to be mistaken.
According the the Green Bay Press Gazette article [for which Thomas Skubal kindly provided the link], "The Cessna was getting low on fuel and she had been more than three hours in flight after first leaving Marco Island, Fla., then refueling in Rome, Ga., and heading for Sturgeon Bay. Neither engine lost power, but the plane landed with less than a quarter tank of gas." In looking at the accompanying photos of the stricken C414, the tips of all of the blades are bent backward, providing some evidence that both props were turning upon making contact with the runway.
tarnold 1
There are a lot of programs, like AOPA Pitchhitter course. I know Cirrus owners (COPA) has a course specifically for the non-pilot spouse.
I've had my wife through some, but this is a reminder that she needs to do it again. I'm going to get her in the sim soon...
Tom Arnold
Cirrus Aircraft
Skycop21 1
Most of the major aircraft owners groups have a course like this along with AOPA (as previously mentioned). If you don't own your own plane, then a local CFI should be able to help. I have a course like this that I teach here in Texas about once a year.
Zac Armstrong
Allegiance Aviation
tim mitchell 1
thoughts and prayers to her and her family
Ttchockey27 0
congratulations goes out to my CFI Wayne, who was able to talk from the tower at GRB to tell her where the controls and airspeed was and to drop the gear.
Julia Muriale 0
Our prayers & thoghts are with the family.
Ray Zimmermann 0
Had to be a horrifying situation fro this woman. Not a lot of details in the story, but apparently she landed a twin Cessna with one engine out.
Jeff Lawson 0
Flight track for N53WT -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N53WT/history/20120402/1735Z/KRMG/KSUE
Unfortunately, the real positions stop over Indiana so the final approach was not recorded.
Sean Harwood 0
The link in the article for the audio release includes some video of the not-so-smooth landing. All in all, however, she did a fantastic job, considering the circumstances.
Sean Harwood 0
It appears this is a re-post. The Chicago Tribune is calling it "Breaking News" but it seems to have happened a few days ago. Sorry for the double-squawk.
Dan Chiasson 0
A gallant attempt to take his wife with him!
Jon Provencher -3
Interesting comments on this article. What do you think about the idea that everyone older than 70 should be banned from flying?
Jeanette Godfrey 3
It is quite clear that you are still young and stupid. If you are lucky you will get there someday, and you will find that even over 70 your piloting skills are still there.
There is more of a need to ban them from speed walking in the malls at 9 am...
tim mitchell 1
I always thought that was something only done in our little mall..lol...."Either move or get ran over sonny"...lol
James draper 1
Stupid idea! Just what we need, more regulation. Maybe ban all people over 50 from driving cars.
pilot0987 -5
I think when your that old its time to give up alot of things including flying.
Brian Bragg 3
I think commenters should learn to spell before displaying their ignorance in public.
Abdulrahiim Browne 1
Dude, I am an English teacher. So I just cringe when I see these mistakes. They are supposede to be Americans educated here in the states? They're more like my foreign language students, although my students have a valid reason for making mistakes. Don't sweat it man, you'll just give yourself a headache, lol.
Abdulrahiim Browne 1
Excuse the typos. I am not an expert typist. I know that there is not supposed to be an "e" after the "d" in supposed in my previous comment.
. . 1
Typos are nothing. But this 'your' thing is actually very often NOT a mistake but rather an affectation. It signifies membership of a particular internets subculture, just as saying 'internets' instead of 'internet' does.
Nicholas Moss 2
Let's see, in one short sentence there are three spelling errors; your, its, and alot and the lack of proper punctuation. Could be a record.
. . 2
You're. Read it again; YOU'RE.
This is not 4Chan. Here, the laws of grammar are upheld.
Thomas Haines 1
Then what happens when a 62 year old dies while flying? Oh yeah, that's right (must be a congressman) just lower the age to 60!
chalet 1
There is an alternative but it is an expensive one: the FAA shall seek legislaton banning old timers over 65 to fly all by themselves and that a safety pilot should be always on board.
chalet 1
A more economic solution would be to allow the safety pilot to be a senior citizen too, if so both elderly gentlemen can continue enjoying their passion and at the same time do it in a safe manner.
Stephan White 0
Well, actuarially, it would be better to require student pilots to have at least 1000 hours simulator time before being allowed in the air solo!
Abdulrahiim Browne 0
What if you were sick and unable to fly ? Is it acceptable for her to save your hide?
Thomas Haines 2
What the hell does actuarially mean?
*LOL* dunno but it sounds yummy. guess i shall adopt it :)
. . 1
...and another hundred thousand hours' spelling time, or unti it's done correctly; whichever happens first.
philip edwards 0
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Women lands plane after husband dies
An 80-year-old US woman with little flying experience has staged an emergency landing in Wisconsin after her pilot husband collapsed and died.
Helen Collins remained calm as she brought the small Cessna plane in to land at Cherryland Airport, even though she said she knew her husband was dead.
She had taken basic lessons in taking off and landing 30 years ago, her son told the Associated Press news agency.
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Wife, 80, lands plane in Door County for dying husband
STURGEON BAY — An experienced pilot and the 80-year-old woman he helped land a plane without a pilot’s license were hailed as heroes Tuesday by Door County Sheriff Terry Vogel.
Robert Vuksanovic, 53, of Sturgeon Bay joined Helen Collins in the sky and helped guide her to the ground after her husband suffered an apparent heart attack while piloting the plane Monday afternoon.
Kingair31 -1
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80 Year Old Woman Lands Plane After Husband Dies
Woman who isn't a pilot lands aircraft and walks away
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Shooting Challenge: Ice FilterS
It's getting cold (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), that time of year when a single snow angel too many could turn any suburban lawn into Rainbow Valley. Rather than submit, let's celebrate the cold photographing through ice.
The Challenge
Take a photo through a semi-transparent sheet or block of ice.
The Technique
I have little doubt that those of you with a little ingenuity in the audience can create a true ice filter that screws into your lens. I can hardly imagine how badass such a creation would be.
But for the rest of us, there are a few solutions:
1. Find a sheet of ice in your environment, like a frozen-over car window, and take a photo.
2. Otherwise, a silicone mat - like one of those used for cookies - placed on a baking sheet, covered with water, and placed into a freezer, seems like it could work.
3. Check the comments where I'm sure some chemist is going to bring up properties of hydrogen bonding, freezing temperatures and clarity of ice.
Whatever technique you go with, don't be afraid to get creative with the results. And while winter is a drab, soulless time, there's no need to avoid color, light or action.
The Example
Our lead photo is by flickr's Anosmia. I like that, despite a lack of clarity, you can still make out the simple figures of the tree and the sun. In fact, there's an entire, small landscape in this murky photo if you look hard enough.
The Rules
1. Submissions need to be your own.
4. Email submissions to, not me.
6. One submission per person.
Send your best photo by Monday, Dec 12th at 8AM Eastern to with "Ice Filter" in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs, and use a FirstnameLastnameIce.jpg (970px wide) and FirstnameLastnameIceWallpaper.jpg (2560px wide) naming conventions. Include your shooting summary (camera, lens, ISO, etc) in the body of the email along with a story of the shot in a few sentences. And don't skip this story part because it's often the most enjoyable part for us all beyond the shot itself!
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View Full Version : Argument with a friend....cold air intakes....
06-09-2006, 12:35 AM
I was talking with a friend of mine today and he won't budge on this topic. He is set on getting an AFE cold air intake for his durango which will run him 260,and i was saying that the pacesetter one they offer for his car would do just as good of a job at 193. Should he spend the extra $ and get the higher name brand one or will it honestly matter?
06-09-2006, 12:37 AM
its a filter on a stick. think abou that before he go's spending the $
06-09-2006, 12:38 AM
lol thats pretty much what i said. i told him that if they both use a 3" tube how is one better than the other? Only way is if 1 puts the filter in a better location for air, that and the more expensive one comes with a box..............oooooohhhh pretty:p:
06-09-2006, 12:39 AM
its not worth the money for a durango... now if it was something he was wanting to soup up then its a dif. story... tell him to get the cheaper one.
06-09-2006, 12:41 AM
iv seen a mean ram air on a durango. with a functional hood scoop. probably the only worth thing doing. imo.
06-09-2006, 02:50 AM
i did the cheaper route on my dakota b/c i'm not sure if i will ever go with a ram air hood. i'll tell him to go with the cheaper assuming they both use 3" pipe.
06-09-2006, 02:53 AM
what is he trying to gain with this intake?
project f-150
06-09-2006, 02:55 AM
tell him to get the cheaper one and buy some stickers with the more expensive name to put on it and take the extra money to a bar!!
06-09-2006, 02:58 AM
it only became an argument b/c i tried telling him he's throwing $ down the drain and not a small amount but 100 bucks. i linked him to this thread and he is seeming like he'll go with the cheaper one.
06-09-2006, 03:01 AM
More expensive ones in some case show a couple more HP gains but nothing that makes too much of a difference. Honestly, according to the manufacturers of my catback, cold air intake, and grounding kit I should have gained almost 30 HP and 25 lb/ft of torque at the wheels, but if I had to guess, I'd say I gained about 10 HP.
Let him decide on his own, but he shouldn't waste money on the more expensive one IMO
06-09-2006, 03:02 AM
plus if he save's $ and enjoys it i'll get me some beer lol. with the more expensive one's i've read they can be more limited as they have that stupid box that can limit air flow.
06-09-2006, 03:03 AM
tell your friend of he does not plan on twin turboing it any time soon to not even get one...he is only gonna get maybe 5 hp...
06-09-2006, 03:06 AM
people do things not just for power ya know;). he's trying to let his car breathe more than it is right now and this'll help.
06-09-2006, 03:16 AM
I got the ebay one for 25 or 30 for mine. Its no different than the others. I didnt really expect a big increase either. It was more cosmetic than anything. I might get a better filter though.
06-09-2006, 03:32 AM
problem is they don't sell a lot for his/my model and year. he has a 98 durango i've got a 97' dakota and they don't make a lot of them for those cars.
06-09-2006, 09:24 AM
Cold air intakes gain 2-3 horsepower MAX on a close to stock or semi-modded car. I've seen them actually lose horse on a dyno because the metal heated up so badly. The only cold air I would ever buy would be a densecharger. (no longer made) They were made of hard plastic and actually showed sufficient gains in horsepower. No, not 10+ but around 5. I had one of the metal bbk ones on my mustang for about 3 months, it made a terrible whistle (not into all the rice noises) and it hit my engine mount bars when my engine throttled. And on my mustang, i'd assume the BBK cold air I had gained me 1 hp, only because of the new k&n filter.
Alpine CDA-9815
06-09-2006, 06:44 PM
All the CAI's do the same thing and make right around the same amount of power. There is no magical 5-10 HP more CAI. I've tested three different CAI's on my GTO, everyone made right about the same power... maybe 1-2RWHP difference which isn't even enough to feel or worry about. So basicly it comes down to how much you want to spend, what brands you like and what one you think would look the best. If he likes the looks of the one he wants the best I say go for it, though if he is getting it cuz he thinks it will make 5+ HP more than another it's not worth the extra $$$.
06-09-2006, 08:27 PM
I'd only get a CAI if the truck was modded. No need for a CAI on a stock vehicle.
Mine comes with a CAI from the factory :).
06-09-2006, 09:05 PM
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Despite the glaive being rather unwieldy and dangerous to use in any real situation, game characters can use it in amazing ways without ever hurting themselves, as one would expect from video games.
Notable users of the glaive include Hayden Tenno of Dark Sector. The glaive factors heavily into gameplay, and is a mainstay throughout the game's missions because it does not consume ammunition and can decapitate most normal enemies with one well-timed "power throw." Hayden can also temporarily imbue the glaive with fire, ice, and electricity, increasing its power and becoming capable of solving some puzzles.
War also receives a glaive-like weapon in Darksiders; this weapon is called the "crossblade" and often functions as a boomerang to solve puzzles. It does not do heavy damage, but War can charge up his throw, resulting in the glaive spinning inside the enemy's body for a significant amount of time, resulting in him being immobilized.
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A modest proposal for fiscal misery: Make them hurt in Brentwood and beyond
Freeways would no longer be free; we'd have toll roads everywhere. We could close a few prisons and put much cheaper halfway houses in, say, Bel-Air and Laguna Niguel. And we'd convert to pay-as-you-go with police, firefighters and paramedics.
"If you have a $2.5-million budget" for a police department, "how much does each call cost?" Daly asked. "Let's figure it out and charge people accordingly."
And let's say your house is on fire.
"Each call for services would require a cash payment of $1,000 up front," Daly said. "No checks or credit cards accepted."
In case you were wondering, no, Daly's coffee was not spiked. He was sober as a Mormon bishop, and although he sounded as though he was channeling Jonathan Swift with his modest proposal, his point was quite coherent.
He's tired, I'm tired and you're tired of intractability and political pablum when it comes to California's enduring budget fiasco.
The state clearly needs to spend less and take in more, and yet honest compromise and meaningful reform are impossible because elected officials represent the fringes rather than the middle, thanks in part to the way legislative districts are drawn.
Voting your conscience in the spirit of compromise has proved fatal, Daly said.
"The party comes to you and says you didn't vote the way you were supposed to, so they're going to run the Fresno football coach against you and spend $1 million, $1.5 million, to get him elected."
It's preposterous, Daly said, that "three guys from the San Joaquin Valley can hold up" the entire state budget.
"Who are they? Can they add three and three? Do they have any economic or budget-balancing experience?"
It's just as absurd that while people in the private sector continue losing healthcare coverage and 401(k) accounts, members of public employee unions enjoy Cadillac benefits because their bosses have bought off Democratic legislators.
So let's force a huddle, decide what we want and how to pay for it, and then put a little away for the next rainy day.
It was in Orange County that candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger set things on the wrong track when he dropped a wrecking ball to symbolically crush the car tax.
I was there to see it, and now I'm looking at a budget gap which, at more than $20 billion, is roughly what Schwarzenegger's stunt cost the state in revenue.
Here's his last chance to leave a legacy he can be proud of.
Don't be such a girlie man with the budget cuts, Arnold.
Make them hurt in Brentwood and beyond, and bring the partisan hacks to their knees.
Like you used to say when you worked with those other dumbbells:
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I worked for a medical coding software company and was actually taking classes there to get certified. I understand you can make good money and can work from home and contract easily. The profession is dominantly female and traditionally not very foward in technology(but that's sort of common in the medical field in general) but of course that's changing.
Personally it's boring to me but if you don't mind it, it seems like a good thing to get into and especially if you are good at it. It seems like there is a demand for good coders as most are just average.
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Eurogamer Expo 2010
Sinan tackles Earls Court
My first expo, if you don't count the tremendously beige computer fairs of the early 90s, was 2008's Play.Com Live. I remember it boasting Wembley Arena as a venue, but in reality its cupboard-under-the-stairs of a room could barely hold the 50 or so games on show.
18 months later, I walked beside the river towards the second Eurogamer Expo. Abiding memories include a ten-year-old kid playing Assassin's Creed II - perhaps not on - and my having nobody to play the new Mario with - definitely not on. Once more, space to breathe was a valued commodity.
Now I trundle up the narrow escalator leading up to this year's Eurogamer Expo, again fearful my lungs will be in for a long day. As the Friday morning show floor opens out in front of me, I realize that I am wrong. In fact, the escalator is like the long, thin neck of one of those giant glass bottles you see with a hand-crafted ship inside. Earls Court is the giant glass bottle, and the Expo is the ship.
I'm not sure what I was expecting. I'm no moron. I do realize I'm in Earls Court.
I suppose the memory of the Wembley closet was playing tricks with my mind. Or maybe it's just how big the show floor looks minutes before it's filled with the scrimmage of gamers. Or maybe it's because the venue is genuinely massive. There are games as far as I can see. Is that Brink in the distance? Do mine eyes deceive, or is that the glimmer of a Skyward Sword on the horizon?
Of course, scale is relative. The Expo's new venue may imply the kind of annual growth that makes a Dragons' Den panellist foam at the mouth, but not everyone shares my astonishment. As I stare out into the many booths and screens ahead, two stocky gentlemen slowly sidle beside me. They scan the floor, noses upturned, for a long couple of minutes. Eventually the larger one says "It's not exactly PAX, is it?" The other leisurely turns round to face him before snorting, "Not even close."
OK, that last bit didn't actually happen, but in my mind it did. I can certainly hear the voices of such seasoned wayfarers, their sneers as vivid as the pink baseball cap adorning the Def Jam Rapstar rep to my left. The voices have a point. The 20,000 or so people that will go up that bottleneck escalator will make no dent upon the attendance of 67,600 at this year's PAX, and the figure will prove infinitesimal in comparison to the quarter of a million who were at Gamescom.
Frankly, I care not a jot. Like the majority of attendees, I've not been to E3, GDC, PAX, or any other grandiose, alliterated show. Instead, memories flood my mind of a row of BBC Micros, of tables brimming with floppy disks, and of booths proudly displaying the CD-ROM revolution. Just as those computer fairs once did, the Eurogamer Expo makes me feel like a kid in a candy shop. Except this time the shop isn't beige, it's a modern, new-carpet blue - with a touch of pink from that guy's cap.
Actually, that brings me on neatly to what soon sours my mood: the throng of music games on the show floor. Now, let me be clear: I am no grumpy old gamer. I have sung, danced, and strummed with the best of them. Nonetheless, there are entirely too many of the sort lurking around. Every other corridor seems to be filled with someone Just Dancing. Meanwhile, the placement of the deafening Dance Central and Def Jam Rapstar stands right next to the Fable III station is not going down well with the adventurers. As for Rock Band 3: sure, whatever. The keyboard does look fun.Dance Central itself looks pretty good, actually. The tech works, the people playing it are having a laugh, and the whole shebang is getting attention. Whether or not the sight of people dancing very, very badly is enough to make Joe Public part with a week's wages for the whole Kinect package is another matter, especially if he's had a look round at the nearby, woefully lagging Joy Ride.
By all accounts, and by all accounts I mean what the friends I bump into tell me, opinion is mixed on both Kinect and PlayStation Move. As you may have guessed, though, I'm not here to shake my arms or my arse. I'm here to play games, real games with controllers and stuff. Unfortunately, the midday show floor is now awash with eager attendees, and it's become a struggle to get any game time in.
Suddenly, I spot a queue forming near the Expo entrance. Surely people aren't leaving just because of the Def Jam Rapstar racket? No, in fact there's a guttural murmur rumbling through the queuing mass. A single word starts to filter through the line of gamers. That single word is 'Molyneux'.
Indeed, Sir Peter of Populous is giving a talk in a bustling conference room. Or he's about to. For now, a set of curious stage decorations has produced fervent debate among the audience. What's going on with that couple in period dress on the side of the stage? What about the giant well on the other side? Is Molyneux going to rise out of it to the backdrop of "O Verona"?
Sadly, our questions are answered when the man himself comes on stage employing a rather conventional walk. The period dress couple pretend he isn't there.
Molyneux makes up for his well-less entrance by giving a winning talk on the filmic influences of Fable. It's especially winning thanks to his true-to-form soundbites, ranging from dubious excuses for his strapped-up hand to bold declarations about wanting to touch the audience in a "special place".
Other conference room highlights across the weekend will include a made-on-the-spot LittleBigPlanet 2 level, industry legend Yuji Naka being surprisingly open about Sonic, and Tameem Antoniades of Ninja Theory giving an interesting if scatterbrained talk on Enslaved. Having decided he wasn't going to use PowerPoint, Antoniades goes on to cycle through the game's various colourful concept arts at such an intense speed that some confused audience members get up and start throwing their hands up in the air, thinking they're in the strobe lighting of a rave.
Back on the show floor: actual games! A carefully timed hit-and-run gets me into the Skyward Sword booth without too much waiting in line. When I say booth, what I mean is a couple of Wii stations encircled ominously by black curtains. Upon entering, I half expect to be swept beneath a trapdoor and away to a secret Nintendo facility for interrogation by Miyamoto-san. As it happens, I spend ten minutes playing a smooth enough demo that dispels that awful E3 one. The tech works great, whiplash et al. However, two of those ten minutes are spent escaping the clawed grip of a giant beastie by limply shaking my wrists like I'm having a half-hearted hissy fit - not so cool.
The other game with a big queue is Brink, Splash Damage's class-based multiplayer shooter. Having said that, it's hard to tell whether the queue's big because the game is popular or because it's just crashing quite a lot. Oddly, there's also a huge crowd round FIFA 11 and Halo: Reach. The crowd seems completely but happily oblivious to all the not-already-out games mere barrel rolls away.
There are some highlights scattered around, and some lowlights. Dead Space 2 ostensibly looks like its predecessor, but a bit more colourful and with Isaac closer to the screen - no complaints there at all. Dragon Age 2 has also had a colour infusion, which is lovely. On-the-spot judgments are that Killzone 3 works excellently in 3D, which is more than can be said for Gran Turismo 5. Meanwhile, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is like a ludicrous game of Renaissance-themed Tag, but in a really good way. Fallout: New Vegas is like Fallout 3 but brighter and in Vegas. Snap judgments are fun.
And suddenly, the day has come to a close. It's been a good day too, and a good expo. Eurogamer 2010 has been bigger and better, there's no doubt of that. I mean, we're in Earls Court for crying out loud, not in some closet or obscure building shuffled beside the Thames.
What's missing, I suppose, is a sense of atmosphere and community. There's no real area to just chill out and chat, nowhere to just kick back with a DS and exchange Pokemon with like-minded hunting addicts. Even as I exit, I see security guards take an unnecessarily aggressive stance toward queue-goers who just want to sit down. That kind of thing hardly engenders a sense of fun.
With no glitz and razzmatazz to support the venue and the impressive line-up of games, coupled with a carelessly commercial slant to the layout and hospitality, the Expo is on the precipice of becoming too soulless for gamers to truly get behind en masse. Maybe that's overstating it, but as trite as it may sound, there needs to be more than just the games at a great gaming expo.
It's all about perspective, mind you. Two years ago, I was done with the entirety of Play.Com Live before tea-time. As I head out of Earls Court on the Friday eve, I'm glad that I've got two days left to explore the rest of the show, because there's more that I want to see and play. That in itself is a signal of intent, a sign of how far the Eurogamer Expo has come in a short time. Next year? Even more Molyneux, please, and less dancing if possible. | <urn:uuid:41243c40-6a42-492d-8aaa-2a5fd4441924> | http://www.play.tm/article/32159/eurogamer-expo-2010/ | en | 0.963187 | 0.04599 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Keiko Matsui: Moyo
[25 April 2007]
By Jon Ross
The first track from Keiko Matsui’s latest smooth jazz release starts with an accelerando hand drum rhythm. Next comes a funky piano vamp, echoed by an electric bass. Enter vocalizations. Cut to sweeping saccharine piano, then back to the vamp. Here’s a bridge of some sort: a piano mini-melody echoed by more voices. Disparate musics? Voices? What is going on? In a word, everything. Within the first two minutes of “Moyo”, African percussion blends with funk blends with jazz. Matsui’s classical athleticism—which can be heard in how she executes her trills and adds a shimmering quality to her lines—is at the center of this amalgam of sound, an aesthetic that, as the CD gets deeper into the tracks, becomes increasingly directed by synthesizers and other electronics.
To take this as a disadvantage—the schizophrenia of the music, the tendency to pack too much into a three-minute space—would be wrong. Matsui shrouds herself in layers of instrumentation, content to emote from her insulated space in the center of it all, and that’s exactly what her music is supposed to accomplish. To the pianist, it’s not about improvisation; it’s not even about chords or notes. Matsui’s music is about making a product that sounds good, and, taking into account the heavy production on a release like this, Moyo sounds great. But this is all the music accomplishes. There is no higher meaning to the placement of one feeling against another. This is not instrumental music intended for deep introspection. Matsui’s aim is more superficial; this is music for a passing glance—or elevator ride—but nothing more.
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This Live Conversation with TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong will open on February 8th, 2012 at 1pm EST, 6pm UK time.
Join the conversation as Rachel discusses her view on ecological humans and city 2.0.
We are not machines but Ecological Humans. We depend on our networks for survival, like an oak tree in the forest, being made up of highly interacting and interdependent systems. For example, eating is not simply consuming ‘fuel’ to feed our body-machine but is a mutual relationship shared between our gut bacteria, our food and our bodies (which, in turn, are highly interconnected assemblages of specialised tissues). The way that we see ourselves influences the way that we operate through the world in all aspects of our lives - from health, to business and even space exploration!
Ecological Humans, imagine the City 2.0 as being grown from the bottom-up by its communities. It is underpinned by highly interacting and interdependent networks, which use dynamic fabrics that behave in life-like ways. These buildings can be described as Living Architecture that are capable of responding to the changes in our dynamic cities as only real ecologies can.
Will The City 2.0 be qualitatively different to modern cities? Or pragmatically, can the transition only be made as a series of incremental changes? What can we do to facilitate this transition?
What does being an Ecological Human mean to me? Can it help me find new or more effective ways of working?
Can we rely on biology to provide all the answers when it comes to sustainable building solutions? Is life a technology - and should we exploit it in the pursuit of more sustainable ways of building?
Closing Statement from Rachel Armstrong
Thank you so much everyone for joining me today and taking time to comment and share your thoughts. What an amazing set of discussion threads have begun! I am excited about how the TED Prize winner City 2.0, will turn out - which is the event that inspired the context for this discussion. Perhaps, beyond the immediate context of near-future cities - the idea of being an Ecological Human may help us imagine ourselves and the world around us differently. Maybe we can use this way of imagining the world so that we can find truly sustainable solutions for the places we live in. We could possibly also use this approach to help others understand what being 'ecological' might mean. Perhaps this way of looking at the world may have applications in other areas of our lives such as, in the workplace. So, again - a really warm 'thank you' everyone for taking time out to share your thoughts with me and offer your perspectives. If you would like to find out more about Living Architecture you may like to buy my TED Book http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks, which is available from Amazon.com, Apple's iBookstore, and is also on the Nook platform.
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Feb 8 2012: Is it possible – given that cities are complex, therefore unpredictable – to generate any kind of impact (whether initiated by a 'wish' or any other kind of action) - on what is a conundrum and constantly moving target? Moreover, cities possess durations longer than a life span and inevitably outlive the jurisdiction of politicians and company heads who may be in any kind of meaningful position to oversee sustainable change.
• Feb 8 2012: Fantastic questions! I definitely believe humanity can coevolve into a beneficial structural and functional force in living systems and the Panarchy. With us evolving into an urban species, cities are the key!
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Feb 8 2012: Josh - thank you for raising the subject of Panarchy - I'd like to hear more about how you think that this approach - which fundamentally engages with the ideas of complexity and ecology that are so important to us right now - can actually work for people living in cities.
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Feb 8 2012: Dear Rachel, thank you very much for providing us with a platform to share our ideas for the city 2.0! I think to generate an impact, the most important thing would be to make everyone feel like being part of something bigger than the sum of its parts. I live in Paris, but I don't *live* here, which means that I don't interact with my neighbors and that Paris doesn't care whether I am here or not. Yes, a city is constantly moving and evolving, but friendships made in a neighborhood -- or simple things like having a BBQ together -- or great things, like creating a park or painting the walls of a building -- can last forever and beyond the borders of the city itself. Everyone should be able to get involved with the city's changing shape -- but in fact, I wouldn't even know how, because the link between the inhabitants and the city / major / administration is missing.
• Feb 8 2012: Simone, your post makes me think of the challenges faced when we see only the material aspects of a city. The type of social relations and bonds you detail are the life force. How do we create ways to ensure that these relationships and bonds are supported by the material system of cities?
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Feb 8 2012: Felicia - this is a beautiful question. Machine thinking banishes our own souls and the life force of our cities from any notions of value. A wonderful city to live in does not have a material worth, unless it can be materialised in some way - through real estate. My deepest concerns are not even for our immediate spiritual well being but for our long term visions, goals and values. How can we in a secular, global society find ways of transcending the 'trap' of the material realm. Surely I understand that finance generates a certain infrastructure in a city experience but what really makes a great city are its people and how they live their dreams.
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Feb 8 2012: I think art is a great facilitator for materializing visions... Look at JR or Banksy, they are transcending material borders... well, by using them for something else! It sounds stupid to say it, but painting the walls of a whole city and adding plants would -- at least for me -- transform it into a living space to which everyone would contribute. Grey walls, massive skyscrapers, and abandoned places always make me wonder why and how it could have come to this and what we can do against it.
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Feb 8 2012: Simone, I think this is a great and wonderful observation. How do we maintain our sense of belonging, cultural diversity and participate in truly international cities? There are profound questions here about identity, politics and our living spaces. Indeed, as you note our cities are more than materials - they are its people and their communities - whether local or globally located. What concerns me is how this great spirit of humanity that is embodied in our cities can thrive when the forces that regulate our cities are so materially based ... working through the machines of industry and operating according to solving 'known' issues. Cities are subversive - how can we harness this spontaneity to grow truly fertile cities in the near future?
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Feb 8 2012: "....painting the walls of a whole city and adding plants would -- at least for me -- transform it into a living space to which everyone would contribute...."
If those responsible for planning cities would realize the value of green spaces in and around a city, painting walls would not be necessary.....Here in South Florida, you can tell where greed took over a city....buildings and cement everywhere....and where the planning commission took their time...bike paths, open spaces with lots of trees and green areas around the industrial zones. I think it comes down to who is in charge of city government.
Some, sad to say have to call the police around here because neighbors try to knock down the trees that provide much needed shade, in order to put in a stamped concrete driveway worth thousands of dollars....they call this "progress"....I call it stupid.. Trees vs cement....trees win hands down.....but not everyone sees it this way.
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Feb 8 2012: Mary, That is indeed totally heartbreaking to hear - there are some very deep issues about value that are so necessary to have when it comes to the nature of our cities. I agree with you in how topsy turvy our environments have become when inert surfaces are considered more desirable than living ones - mainly by property developers rather than civic communities I will also add. After all - we do not live 'in nature' but in architecture - this is our local environment and as Darwin observed, these intimate niches have a real effect on our well being. Again this raises issues about who is planning the long term for our cities. What is the long term vision for the places that we live in and how are we engaging our children and our grandchildren in helping us achieve these long term visions. I simply do not trust the 'market' to make any decisions that have any real impact more than a 3-5 year product cycle away. Leaving everything to the marketplace has simply productised the future - and it's not a real future - it's just a drawn out version of our present.
• Feb 8 2012: This is also true when looking at the economic impact of the housing crisis -- everything has relied on building more & more, buying bigger & bigger, further & further out. So many lost jobs that didn't exist just a decade or 2 before. Media reports have you believing the only way back to economic security is for the construction industry to rebound! But for whom will they build? & sell? & profit? We need an economy that relies on more than "selling people new things" to survive. In any case, even solar energy projects are being proposed hundreds of miles away, instead of on the buildings that have room for, & the need for, these more sustainable solutions.
• Feb 8 2012: Rachel - great initiative. Cities are indeed at the very heart of a better tomorrow. However, I am slight;y confused when you talk of 'conundrum and constantly moving targets'.. regarding the UK for example, these are not moving as they have been passed through both Houses and today the Carbon Budgets are UK law.
Furthermore, all cities in the C40 have a Climate Action Plan: http://live.c40cities.org/cities/
There is still a lot of work to be done (obviously!); a lot of which involves getting transitional/developing countries such as 'ChIndia' on board who, for all our sakes, must not make the same industrial centralising; closed systems thinking mistakes that we have made over the past generation.
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Feb 8 2012: Antoine - I agree that measures are being taken to address carbon counts but the big picture is that this kind of legislation is simply buying us time whilst we look for a real paradigm shift in ways of making - that invert the current situation from being damaging or neutral for the environment to being actually beneficial to it. I cover a few of these ideas in my book http://www.ted.com/pages/tedbooks
... which I am referring to for want of time :) However, the conundrum and constantly moving targets are twofold - the obsolescence of buildings - that once they are built are no longer ideally fit for purpose or have already outdated technology/solutions AND the ever changing nature of the public in terms of employment, the use of public space - dynamic things that aren't measurable in carbon credits that have an impact on the experience and design of cites. However, I do concede that making positive efforts to use energy more carefully efficiently and resourcefully is something to be actively celebrated and pursued. It's not not the whole picture of a thriving community or a successful city.
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I'm taking a Beginners Administration for Linux class, and one of the things we are learning is how to change "runlevel" in order to optimize efficiency and security of a server. However, when I run the command "init 1" or "telinit 1" it brings my computer to the Ubuntu loading screen, looks like it is loading something, and then freezes.
I have tried this with the same results on both my dedicated desktop and on a separate computer through a virtual machine.
Am I doing something wrong? I am a borderline n00b so I understand it is probable I am missing something obvious.
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did you try pressing alt-f2 for instance, to go to a new virtual console? – roadmr Mar 25 '12 at 16:57
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Unfortunately, single user mode has not been a priority in Ubuntu. There is a bug tag for issues related to using runlevel 1, and as you can see there are quite a few of them:
Its likely that you have run into one of these or an unknown issue. I recommend reporting a bug with the tag runlevel1.
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RE: CleverKeys, dictionary.com and "programmatically located"
From: Yvette P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:16:19 +0100
To: "'Wendy A Chisholm'" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Cc: <nabe@lab.twcu.ac.jp>, <seeman@netvision.net.il>, <shadi@w3.org>, <charles@w3.org>
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Hello Wendy and list,
> From: Wendy A Chisholm [mailto:wendy@w3.org]
> Sent: vrijdag 19 maart 2004 2:14
> To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Cc: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl; nabe@lab.twcu.ac.jp;
> seeman@netvision.net.il; shadi@w3.org; charles@w3.org
> Subject: CleverKeys, dictionary.com and "programmatically located"
> Language questions:
> 1. Are there similar tools and dictionaries that are freely
> available in other languages?
I wish! We only have 1 Dutch dictionary online with a reasonable amount of
words. This is http://www.vandale.nl, an abbreviated version of the leading
Dutch dictionary. The website does not conform to WCAG 1. Even people
without disabilities find it hard to find out where to type the word they're
looking for (the _brown_ text box labelled "Zoek een woord in Hedendaags
No other major Dutch dictionaries are available online, at least none that I
know of. I have checked some Dutch dictionary portal sites but most of the
links they give are to translation dictionaries or specialized dictionaries
(the Harry Potter dictionary etc.).
I do not know of any online dictionary tools for Dutch. Some translation
tools exist, so you could first translate it in English and then look it up
in an English dictionary but this is shaky at best.
> 2. Assuming there are similar tools for Dutch, how would the
> results differ for Dutch words that are aggregates of words?
Dutch dictionaries only list common aggregates. But words you create on the
fly cannot be found in dictionaries. Normally, you just look up the word
anyway and see what the first constituent is. For example if I want to know
what the word "liefdesbrief" means, I look up "liefdesbrief" which I don't
find, but I do find "liefde" which means "love". The 's' is recognized by
most people as a 'glue' letter to glue two words together, so you can then
look up "brief" which means "letter". Combining them gives you "love
letter". (Actually, "liefdesbrief" is so common it will be in most
dictionaries but it's just an example).
> As with idioms, will tools look for the meaning of each separate word?
To do it that way, you first need an algorithm to split the words into their
constituents. This is an area of much research, as I already wrote to the
list earlier.
But is that necessary? (Most) Dutch people have no problem using
dictionaries to determine the meaning of compound words. Why should we make
it a problem? If we offer a link to a dictionary so that a user can
determine the meaning of the word, than we have achieved our goal haven't
we? I think we should formulate our checkpoint in such a way that the user
can determine the meaning of the words from dictionaries that are provided
or linked to by the web content. I do not think we should require the web
content to automatically determine the meaning of every word.
> 3. What about Japanese? Hebrew? Spanish? Arabic? German?
> French? Are there similar tools for these languages? What
> issues would tools have in other languages?
> 4. If automatic lookup of words works for some languages and
> not others, how do we create guidelines that will apply
> across languages?
> 5. If the tools are possible, but not available today, do we
> write "lowest common denominator" guidelines that apply
> across all languages, or do we have different guidelines
> depending on tools available today?
"Until advanced dictionaries exist ..." sure has a familiar feel to it :-)
I think we should stick to what we want to say and not get into the
technical implementations required to do that. That's for the techniques
> 6. Is user agent support a sufficient technique?
That question is on a totally different level than your other questions.
Many accessibility problems can be fixed by a certain user agent, but that
doesn't absolve the writers from making their web content accessible. For
example, black letters on a dark blue background can be turned to black and
white by a user agent (e.g. by turning off CSS) but that doesn't stop us
from formulating guidelines about contrast. In WCAG we should focus on
creating accessible content, and let the UAAG handle on how to present that
content in the most accessible way.
For dictionaries, I think authors should (at level 3) provide links to
dictionaries where users can determine the meaning of the words used in the
BTW: In the Netherlands we also have a minority language called Frisian. No
online explaining dictionaries exist for Frisian, just a Frisian-Dutch
translation dictionary. Since most people who speak Frisian also speak
Dutch, this isn't a problem in most cases.
Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
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I would like to restrict users from my website to stop redirection to another website. For example my website is www.paktutorial.com and there is a link to website www.google.com. but i want that user do not navigate to google.com ( I want that link over there but do not the redirection).
Thanks in advance.
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Why dont you disable the link. Show the link but disable them. – Abhishek Saha Oct 28 '12 at 7:40
that's not possible. It is something coming out of jquery really complex code and written by someone else. I tried many things but not working. just I would like to stop navigation. – محمد خليل Oct 28 '12 at 7:44
I understand it might be complex. But if you want to disable them, its just 2 lines of code. – Abhishek Saha Oct 28 '12 at 8:37
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This is what I understood from your question.
<a href="www.google.com">link 1</a>
<a href="www.paktutorial.com">link 2</a>
$('a').on("click", function(e){
So basically I would look in the window's URL and see if the target URL of the anchor tag clicked has the same host, and if not, prevent the window from redirecting.
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As a solution to your problem please refer the below HTML code snippet . You need to define anchor tag in following manner.
<a href="javascript:void(0);">link</a>
Specifying javascript:void(0) in href property of anchor element will prevent its default behaviour since void operator returns null as a result of which browser will not be able to load new page.
For more documentation about javascript:void(0) please refer the documentation mentioned in below url http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptvoid.php
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I like to think I'm not a dummy, but I can't get my jQuery horizontal slideshow to animate smoothly especially in FireFox (on a Mac). Anyone have advice?
Animation is being done like so:
$('#lookbook').stop().animate({left: -((lookbook-1)*825)+'px'}, { duration: 800, complete: cap_fade(1)});
Example link:
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I've tested in Firefox, Chrome(dev) and Safari on windows and the animation stutters in all browsers(but more in FF though).
To increase JavaScript performance you could get rid of all the getElementById or $("div#mydividentyfier") calls. If you store them in variables instead they will be cached. Example: It could increase performance quite a bit to do this:
var lookbook = $('#lookbook');
var look_caption = $('#look_caption');
if (lookbook.length) {
lookbook.width(lookbook).width()*$('#lookbook img').length)
if (look_caption) {
Instead of:
if ($('#lookbook').length) {
$('#lookbook').width($('#lookbook').width()*$('#lookbook img').length)
if ($('#look_caption')) {
I would also recommend using data URIs for the images as it reduces the amount of httpRequests you have to make to get the page loaded.
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The animation looks smooth for me in Chrome. However, I believe there are several things you can do to improve smoothness:
First, it's fine to preload all of the images in advance as you do here (at the top). However, displaying them all at once, as in the "Example link", hurts performance, as they are all animating at once:
<div id="lookbook">
<div><img src="/q_images/lib/lookbook/1.jpg"></div>
<div><img src="/q_images/lib/lookbook/2.jpg"></div>
<div><img src="/q_images/lib/lookbook/15.jpg"></div>
Instead of doing this, you can simply cue up the next and previous image on either side of the current image, but then don't have the rest of the images in the page until they're needed. (Preloading them is still fine though.)
Other things which can improve performance slightly are things like the following:
1. Use smaller (by pixels and/or file size) images.
2. Make minor code optimizations by computing things in advance.
3. Use a stand-alone animation library instead of jQuery.
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You may also want to use this
.animate({left:'-=825'}); //next
.animate({left:'+=825'}); //previous
Instead of
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I appreciate what you're getting at but, that breaks the "snapping". – J.Milly May 8 '10 at 20:10
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I have a problem where I must analyse 500C5 combinations (255244687600) of something. Distributing it over a 10 node cluster where each cluster processes roughly 10^6 combinations per second means the job will be complete in about 7hours.
The problem I have is distributing the 255244687600 combinations over the 10 nodes. I'd like to present each node with 25524468760, however the algorithms I'm using can only produce the combinations sequentially, I'd like to be able to pass the set of elements and a range of combination indicies eg: [0-10^7) or [10^7,2.0 10^7) etc and have the nodes themselves figure out the combinations.
The algorithms I'm using at the moment are from the following:
A logical question
I've considered using a master node, that enumerates each of the combinations and sends work to each of the nodes, however the overhead incurred in iterating the combinations from a single node and communicating back and forth work is enormous, and will subsequently lead to the master node becoming the bottleneck.
Are there any good combination iterating algorithms geared up for efficient/optimal distributed enumeration?
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Not much experience in this area, but it sounds like a problem that google MapReduce could be applied to. – Merlyn Morgan-Graham Jan 15 '11 at 8:27
MapReduce is irrelevant here, as the question is about the "Map" part of the term: How does one efficiently map a n-choose-k space problem into m parts without the need for a central distributor. – Matthieu N. Jan 15 '11 at 8:30
@Reyzooti: Hence the "not much experience". Happy to be corrected, though. – Merlyn Morgan-Graham Jan 15 '11 at 8:34
Permutations can be systematically numbered using the factorial number system. In your case only one out of each 495!*5! permutation is a relevant combination. So I gather, you can probably compute the start permutation = combination for each node, then just go on from there. This idea may pan out or not. Depending on the details; it's just an idea. ;-) Cheers & hth., – Cheers and hth. - Alf Jan 15 '11 at 8:50
@Alf: Can you please provide a more in pdeth explanation please. – Matthieu N. Jan 15 '11 at 9:15
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You may have some success with combinatorial numbers, which allow you to retrieve the N'th (n/10th) k-combination with a simple algorithm; then run the next_combination algorithm n/10 times on each of the ten nodes to iterate.
Sample code (in C#, but quite readable for a C++ programmer) can be found on MSDN.
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The James McCaffrey article, where he describes a method to get the Nth combination is too expensive. Using next_combination (links) mutates the original range, perhaps something that can determine what the range looks like at the Nth combination, because one could pass that specific range to a compute node. – Matthieu N. Jan 15 '11 at 9:20
Why is it too expensive? You only need to run this 10 times on the master, then run next_combination on the compute nodes. – larsmans Jan 15 '11 at 9:46
@Reyzooti: if you have an index-based thing, then turning it into a RandomAccessIterator is easy --> keep a pointer to the sequence and an index in the iterator :) – Matthieu M. Jan 15 '11 at 13:04
What's with the downvoting? – larsmans Feb 23 '11 at 10:01
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Have node number n process every tenth combination, starting from the nth.
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Still requires each node to iterate over every n-choose-k combos, which results in 90% iteration redudancy per node, less overhead than the master node solution however still more than distributing ranges of combinations. – Matthieu N. Jan 15 '11 at 9:14
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Woo 5000 wiki points! Now I can delete dirty images from the site, ya dirty little bastards.
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My Harem of Sexy Anime Ladies
Harem is probably one of the most fanservice-y genres out there, and it's probably one of the worst, depending on how you view it. Sometimes though, I even dream of having my own personal harem filled with the sexiest tsunderes, bishoujos, moe girls, and all of the above who can't get enough of me. But maybe it's better (and even safer) for me to say that this list consists of all my favorite female anime characters.
This is also in no particular order. Enjoy.
1. Eri Sawachika
2. Yuki Nagato
3. Asuka Langley Soryu
4. Mikoto Misaka
5. Rei Ayanami
6. Touko Aozaki
7. Motoko Kusanagi
8. Kyou Fujibayashi
9. Misty
10. Sabrina
11. Shiki Ryougi
12. Hinagiku Katsura
13. Taiga Aisaka
14. Ren Seto
15. Shizuku Sangō
16. Kanade Tachibana
17. Saber
18. Akane Mishima
19. Washu Hakubi
20. Fatina
21. Kurisu Makise
22. Maekawa
23. Rider
24. Rin Tohsaka
25. Yoruichi Shihoin
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A powerful typhoon has hit South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed two Chinese fishing ships into rocks and forced the coast guard to perform a daring rescue of survivors.
Separately, at least four other people died as Typhoon Bolaven knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, cancelled flights and temporarily halted joint war games by U.S. and South Korean military forces.
North Korea, which is still struggling to rebuild from massive floods and a devastating drought before that, was next in the typhoon's path. State media reported the country was being lashed by heavy rain and strong wind on Tuesday.
Typhoon Bolaven brought heavy downpours to the southern port city of Busan (Yonhap Kim Sun-ho, Associated Press)
Off Jeju island, dangerous waves kept rescue vessels from approaching the Chinese fishing ships. The coast guard used a special gun to shoot rope to one ship so officers could pull themselves over and bring the fishermen back to shore, coast guard spokesman Ko Chang-keon said.
Eighteen fishermen survived. Twelve were rescued by the coast guard and the others swam or were washed ashore.
South Korea issued a storm warning for the capital, Seoul, as Bolaven battered the country's south and west, knocking over street lights and church spires and ripping signs from stores. A large container box crushed an apartment janitor to death, a woman fell to her death from a rooftop where she kept dried red peppers and a third person died after bricks hit a house, according to disaster and fire officials.
Strong wind gusts left Seoul streets covered with leaves, garbage and branches. More than 15,000 schools cancelled classes, and businesses and homes taped windows or pasted the glass with wet newspapers to keep them from shattering.
More than 330,000 South Korean households lost power, the government said, and more than 70 were left homeless because of floods or storm damage. Nearly 200 flights were cancelled.
Fierce winds across Asia
In North Korea, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported gale force winds and heavy rain in many parts of the country. Big rainstorms often mean catastrophe in the North because of poor drainage, deforestation and decrepit infrastructure.
The typhoon hit the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Monday, injuring four people but doing less damage than feared before moving off to sea. More than 75,000 households lost power.
Farther south, another typhoon, Tembin, doubled back and hit Taiwan three days after drenching the same region before blowing out to sea. Fierce winds and rain toppled coconut trees in the beach resort town of Hengchun.
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A court-appointed trustee in New York has mailed out $2.5 billion in checks to victims of Bernard Madoff's massive fraud.
Irving Picard announced the distribution on Thursday. He said it means that he's so far satisfied nearly half of all valid claims made by the disgraced financier's burned clients.
Picard has estimated that thousands of investors lost $17.3 billion in the decades-long fraud. He says he's recovered about $9.1 billion since he was appointed following Madoff's arrest in 2008.
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The No. 1 song in the country right now is "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a rap group out of Seattle. Their claim to fame: They got the song to the top of the chart by themselves, without being signed by a major label.
They've bragged about this success in a video spoof and on Twitter.
After their album went to No. 1 on iTunes, Macklemore sent out the following tweet.
But the story they've been telling — the story that's been widely reported — is not entirely true.
The truth is that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis hired a company to help them get their music into stores. That company, Alternative Distribution Alliance, is an arm of Warner Music Group, one of the most major of the major labels.
Still, the rise of "Thrift Shop" is something new. It's an indication of a power shift away from the major labels to the artist themselves. Clearly, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis accomplished a lot on their own.
The rap group spent their early years hustling and playing small clubs like a lot of acts. But they also used technology to build a devoted following on Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube.
They eventually got to the point where their touring was so successful that they could have been signed by a major label.
Instead, they went a different route. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took the money they'd made from touring and made their own album — a process that digital technology has made much cheaper.
To get their album to the top of the charts though, they needed help.
"You really cannot get a radio hit at this point without major label backing," says Gary Trust from Billboard.
Even in today's world of iTunes and YouTube, you still need the radio to become a superstar, Trust says. So Macklemore and Ryan Lewis hired Warner Music Group to get the band more radio play. That helped propel "Thrift Shop" to No. 1.
Yes, artists can do a lot on their own today. But to get to the top of the charts, they still have to work with a major label.
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Thank You, Mr. Darwin. Again.
I grew up in Texas in the 50s and 60s. Spent part of my childhood in Alabama. Which means I grew up among racists.
But then the Civil Rights movement came along.
For a lot of people, of course it made no difference. They held on to racism like it was a precious human right. (Woe to any black man who walked into our little white neighborhood church; the chill would have frozen him down to his bones.)
For most of us, what really changed was not racism, but the reputation of racism. At one point it was okay to be a racist. Hell, it was something to brag about. At some later point, it was not okay to be a racist.
But just because society changes, that doesn’t mean you do.
You weren’t forced to be a not-racist, but you could no longer be openly proud of it. Rather than show it off out in the light of day, you had to hide it away, do it in the darkness.
I was timid as hell when I was younger. If I ever write my autobiography, it will start with the sentence “I was born afraid.” I struggled most of my early life with being shy. Offered an award at a public event when I was in my 20s, I ran (literally) and hid rather than walk out in front of people and accept it.
So it wasn’t like I was driving through black neighborhoods at midnight, as one of my cousins did, honking the horn and shouting racial epithets. I never deliberately not-hired a black person, I never expected anyone to give me their seat on a bus. I never so much as frowned at a black person.
I mean, I saw the point. Intellectually, I knew racism was stupid. I knew it was counterproductive. I was wholly on board with the ideal of equality.
So given the new social atmosphere, I worked at being a not-racist. I worked at giving black people an equal place in line, equal consideration. I drove the racist thoughts out of my conscious mind. I honestly wanted them to not be there.
But in that deep part of me, they were still there. Because I was trying to be fair to Them. Those people. I still separated Them out from Us.
I worked at fairness in my actions, but I still had a problem in my thoughts. I avoided Them. I kept conversations with Them casual and light. I sometimes embarrassed myself by doing that Nervous White Guy thing, talking too fast, laughing too much, when talking to Them. With no handbook, no intelligent advice, I was like a boy at his first dance, stumbling over my own feet while trying to catch the beat.
It went on like that for a couple more decades. Until the day I started to think deeply about an entirely different subject: Evolution. About what it really meant.
One of the lessons I took from evolution was the lesson of similarity, of relatedness. Casting about for a clearer understanding, I started to compare body parts among humans and animals, thinking about the traits we had in common. We share things like wrists and eyes, hips and ankles and inner ears. In some cases, there’s no appreciable difference.
Squinting back along the branches of our family tree one day, something flipped in my head and I suddenly understood that we humans are not all that human.
My wrist is not a human wrist, it’s a beastly wrist, a structure so common it’s shared, with minor topological variations, by squirrels and bears. My eyes are not human eyes, they’re just the late, local expression of structures a half billion years or so old, so common today that even cheetahs and chickens have them. Watching a squirrel or gerbil sit upright and hold a bit of food in nimble little fingers, I see my own fingers, scaled down but undeniably … fingers.
It turns out that very darned little of us is distinctly human. The part we most identify with might be our one little twig on the Tree of Life, but that short twig is not the whole of us. To see our entire selves, you have to trace connections rootward, and include every part of the Tree below us.
You can’t just notice the tiny one-twig difference and say “This is us.” You have to look at our entire lineage, and the attributes we gained at each stage. Reverse the film of evolution and the Tree of Life unbranches, sinks into itself so that we flow into countless other animals, and they into us. Looked at from this viewpoint, the lesson of evolution is not difference, but sameness. Connectedness.
Rather than some unique creature separated by a distinct wall from everything else alive, we’re a foggy smidgen in a single cloud of life. There is no wall of separation. Chimpanzees are us. Dogs are us. Everything alive is us.
Yes, yes, yes, there’s difference. Plenty of it. And we focus on it, always, in an attempt to define ourselves, to find within us our own value and individuality. But there’s even more sameness, vast amounts of it. The entire world of critters enfolds and includes us.
Some time after this lesson of evolutionary connectedness sank home, I was surprised to discover that something interesting had happened to my racism: Some large part of it (all of it? I hope so) had drained away while I wasn’t looking.
Because it was the right thing to do, I had worked hard at being a not-racist. But I had failed.
But now, one day, when I looked at Them I saw us.
I was standing in line at a grocery store on that day, and there was a “black” man standing next to me. I reached down into myself, as I often do, to inspect my feelings, and I was surprised to notice that the fear was gone. This was just some guy, a neighbor, a fellow human thrown into my company by accident in a supermarket checkout line. His eyes met mine momentarily, brown eyes to blue, human eyes, and we both smiled easily.
Son of a bitch. I don’t know if I can even describe how … different … it felt. It felt comfortable, free, even sort of fun.
But, as I realized later, it was accompanied by a counterpoint feeling, a deep annoyance that I had had to have this other stupid, stupid thing in my head for so many years. It was the thing you’d feel if you were suddenly released from chains after a lifetime of wearing them. You’d rejoice in being free, but you’d also wonder “Why the hell did I have to wear those goddam chains all those years??”
My slow-coming understanding of the relatedness of life had compressed my racial awareness, my sense of racial difference, into nothing. Without my even noticing it. I didn’t have to fight anymore to be a not-racist.
There are no such things as races. We humans are all humans, upright mammals with a shared ocean of genetic attributes, with identical feelings and senses of self.
Once you understand you have family connections to horses and dogs and bears and rats, the difference between yourself and other humans is squashed down to trivial-verging-on-nonexistent.
All these “races” we see around us, they’re not Them. They’re Us.
We’re all just kids in one small neighborhood of the larger world of life.
[And like so many things about the real world, this is something I could never have learned in church.]
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• http://nwrickert.wordpress.com/ Neil Rickert
Yes, exactly right.
Unfortunately, there are too many Americans who don’t see it that way.
• P Smith
As the saying goes, all humans are Africans. The only reason to deny that all people are related is promote hatred against people for arbitrary reasons, to falsely claim “superiority”. But in reality, the only way to put oneself “higher” is to put others down – no group is “superior”, they only subjugate others.
The biggest problem is that everyone is a bigot. It’s ingrained in the thought process of ethnicities, societies, religions, militaries, the wealthy and countries that they are somehow “better”. And for no good reason.
Even if you can’t get the bigotry out of your own head, ask yourself how you treat the “other” group:
- If you treat them worse than your own, you’re a bigot.
- If you treat them better than your own, you’re being condescending.
- If you treat them the same as your own, you’re doing it right. And eventually you’ll realize they are the same as you.
“The only ‘n****r’ is in the mind of the bigot.”
- Dick Gregory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gregory)
• Ibis3, féministe avec un titre française de fantaisie
Great essay. Whenever I think about this connectedness and relationship between all of us living beasts (& plants etc.) on the planet both living and extinct, I get giddy and bursting with exuberance. Just as good as my best religious experiences ever were.*
If you haven’t read it yet, The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, does exactly what you describe: going back through time down each fork of the tree where we meet up with all of our cousins. Very cool.
*my religion was pantheistic Paganism, so I was always kind of in this camp, I just didn’t have an evidence-based knowledge of it.
• http://zenoferox.blogspot.com/ Zeno
I have heard it argued quite seriously that laws against discrimination do no good because people retain their bigotry deep inside. To a degree, I’m sure that some people do this. However, it’s a big, big step in the right direction to impose social sanction on racism, driving it out of the public square and into the dark recesses of the minds of those who refuse to let go. As long as the unregenerate bigots feel that they must hide their racism (except perhaps at Councils of Conservative Citizens meetings in the South or some of the less disciplined tea party rallies), young people are protected from its manifestations and began to regard it as unacceptable and weird.
• Lucette
Thank you for this great story. Next step: Become anti-racist rather than just non-racist. I like the way you transformed yourself under such difficult conditions.
• Lisa
Elegant and brave post. Thank you so much for writing.
• Paul
Awesome post. Coming from an area which is almost entirely populated by white people, I think, regrettably, I still share that “them and us” thing the old you had. It’s not even that I was brought up in any kind of racist way, its just that a seeing a black face around here is something of a rarity, I guess (I have no idea why this should be so). Intellectually, I know humans are humans are humans, but I’m aware of having to to fight feelings of difference to (but not fear of, weirdly) “them”. Maybe I should move to a city, increase my exposure.
Also, the filter at work blocks this article as “offensive and tasteless”, which is a bit rich, considering.
• The Lorax
Absolutely beautiful. Very well done.
• http://itsmyworldcanthasnotyours.blogspot.com WMDKitty
Huh. I came to the same conclusion while tripping on Salvia — We are all One.
• had3
was that pavlovian?
• had3
damn my dyslexia!
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• pahapillon
Crommunist just sent me here. Beautiful and very insightful! Thanks for sharing this.
• doodlespook
I just came here from Crommunist Manifesto, too. Excellent post!
I’ve often thought that this revelation was the frightening and controversial part of “On the Origin of Species”. The very idea that our differences are microscopic compared to our similarities; not just to one another, but to ALL living things was earth shattering. Mind blowing. Enlightening. And therefore, to be feared and rejected…
• AtheistPilgrim
Sent from Crommunist too! Excellent essay – thank you!
• Luke Morningstar
Great article Hank! Did you run across Georges Cuvier and the invention of the 4 (sometimes 5) “races of man”? It all started with his work.
“(all of it? I hope so)”
Hang onto that hope, but never let yourself believe that you have. The worse thing white men like us can do is to pretend that we are divested of our racism. Become “colorblind” or ignore that while rationally race does not exist, it does exist because humans operate on subjective reality and for over 200 years our culture has said it exists.
There is a difference between bigotry and racism. Racism is a political inequality based on race. Bigotry is enjoying it. I’m glad there are less bigots in the world.
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FIT CHALLENGE: Mohr gets sick less with less weight to carry around
Sandusky Register Staff
May 24, 2011
This past week was all right. Monday the 16th was probably my worst day in the gym.
I just don't know what was wrong with me that day. It was probably stress from work, even my personal trainer Trevor Tieche noticed it.
The next day, though, I came back strong with Derek Nimrichter. We worked on endurance with what he calls circuits and we also did some lower back.
Friday the 20th we did legs, I think, and some barefoot running, which is getting better and better each time.
With about 41-42 pounds off my body, I can start to see some things: My face is a little thinner, my clothes are baggy, real baggy and I am not as sick as much. I also do not sneeze and my nose bleeds have stopped.
Things are looking up as we enter the summer months and that makes me want to push myself even harder.
-Jacob Mohr
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Recording of July 1997: Canto
Charles LLoyd, tenor sax, Tibetan oboe; Bobo Stenson, piano; Anders Jormin, bass; Billy Hart, drums.
ECM 78118-21635-2 (CD). 1996. Manfred Eicher, prod; Jan Erik Kongshaug, eng. DDD. TT: 65:18
Performance ****½
Sonics ****½
In 1967, Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower became one of the first jazz albums to sell a million copies. Lloyd was a star, and played major rock venues like the Fillmore in San Francisco. His popularity was astonishing, given the fact that he played uncompromised acoustic jazz. It was even more astonishing when Lloyd walked away. At the height of his celebrity, he retreated to Big Sur and went on a 20-year search for the "inner life."
What is just as remarkable as Lloyd's early fame and his renunciation of it is that his return to active music making in the 1990s has gone mostly unnoticed in his own country. When he emerged from self-imposed exile, Lloyd recorded four albums for Manfred Eicher's ECM label over a five-year period. Together, they constitute a body of work unique in modern jazz. But now there is a fifth, Canto, that goes beyond them.
The first four ECM albums had a cool beauty that held heat underneath like an underground fire. Canto is just a little wilder: it flirts with the edge; it's freer in the way it flows to evolve form.
This particular Lloyd quartet has toured on and off for four years, and has been intact for the last three ECM recordings. It is now the strongest ongoing ensemble in jazz, and has achieved a level of interactive synergy that validates Lloyd's dictum: "It's not about someone's solo."
Canto opens with 17 minutes called "Tales of Rumi." It starts very slowly, with the bass of Anders Jormin brooding up from silence in the left channel, then Bobo Stenson strumming inside the piano on the right. Billy Hart joins the weaving processional, lightly tapping his rims, then Stenson segues exquisitely from strings to keys. Insidiously, the momentum gathers, Jormin twisting and dancing, before Lloyd's tenor sex slides in at 6:30 like a huge sigh, and together the four ascend until "Rumi" is a whirling maelstrom.
The other two extended pieces, the title track and "M," reveal the creative license with which this ensemble arrays itself in musical space. Compared to Lloyd's quartet, most modern jazz, however competent, sounds linear and merely denotative. Stenson lays across openings left by Lloyd to arc enormous tangents to the song, while Hart and Jormin follow to create the moment.
The sonic quality achieved by engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug at ECM's Rainbow Studio in Oslo is one of modern life's most reliable pleasures. So much of ECM's music is rapt and atmospheric, and Kongshaug always gets the intimate details correct. and bathes every sonic portrait in warm light. Canto has that sense of rightness, and it keeps Lloyd in focus right down to his softest whispers. But Kongshaug also stays with Lloyd even when he can't contain himself and breaks into shriek and rasp. Canto's recorded sound captures its fevered inspiration.—Thomas Conrad
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How can we prevent those with depression from reaching the point where they want to commit suicide?
I noticed the difficulty in finding resources for mental health patients..
If you're not an immediate threat to yourself or anyone around you, the wait time to see a specialist is just ridiculous.
When we talk about illnesses like cancer, we always stress how important it is to get help for the patient at the earliest stage possible, so how is mental health any different?
Do patients need to express thoughts of suicide before they have instant access to the correct health service provider?
How can we empower the patient to seek help before it reaches to that point?
What should the system do to promote patients to be more self-aware?
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• May 4 2012: TALK to them.
Let people know that you are open to be talked to.
Don't judge what you don't understand through your own (lack of) experiences.
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Jim and Cathy King who have been host parents to Hawthorn footballer Max Bailey.
Hosts with the most: Cathy and Jim King gave towering young ruckman Max Bailey a place to stay, but got much more in return. Photo: Wayne Taylor
FITTINGLY, the first conversation Hawthorn had with Jim and Cathy King about taking a young recruit into their home was centred on size - because Max Bailey has become a huge part of their lives.
It was late 2005, and the Hawks were still based at Glenferrie Oval, barely a block away from the Kings, who knew the club's chief executive Ian Robson. They were told the newbie was 19, from wheat and sheep country in remote Western Australia, had lost his father when he was 10, and had never been to Melbourne.
''They liked the fact that we had children of a certain age, and all our kids are tall,'' Ms King says. ''My husband said, 'Why is it important that our kids are tall?'
''And they said, 'Because Max is six-foot nine [206 centimetres].' We needed big beds, a big house, tall ceilings.''
Fortunately, the Kings have big hearts, too, because Bailey's football journey has tested even his gigantic resolve. Three times he has ''done'' a knee. He has endured three reconstructions and missed three full years. When his sixth season began in March, he had played just six games.
''I say to people he's like this great, big oak tree - it can bluster and blow and he hardly ever moves,'' says Jim King, who lauds Bailey's persistence and Hawthorn's faith. ''They recognised that he's got the right values - of perseverance, integrity, honesty.''
Ms King says the union was meant to be - the Kings had a dog named Bailey when Max first came to stay, and he shares a birthday with one of their sons. ''We had Justine, 18, Max, 19, Peter, 20, and David, 21,'' she says. ''Everybody was home then; our kids were all at uni. They used to call this place the 'Hotel King' - if James and I ever went away, the place would just fill up with kids.''
After a year or so, Bailey sheepishly said over dinner one night that he hadn't saved as much money as he'd hoped, and asked if he could stay for another year. A month later the first knee injury struck.
When he made his comeback with Hawthorn's VFL affiliate, Box Hill, he had a cheer squad of King offspring and their mates. Ms King was standing with Robson when Bailey went down right in front of them, clutching his knee. ''I started to cry,'' she recalls. When Bailey left hospital on crutches later that day, he was crying too.
By the time his other knee went, in the last round of 2009, he was living in a Caulfield share house known as ''The Church'', where he is ''house dad'' to five young teammates. The Kings offered him his old bed, but he picked himself up and started over.
Ms King can't fathom how he has remained so positive; Mr King remembers talking to him about coming back a third time, telling him it might be his last shot. ''He said, 'If it is, it is. I just think I can play.' ''
Of this Hawthorn has always been certain, and finally it is happening. The Kings were at the SCG in May for his latest return and for the next few games Ms King didn't watch anyone but Bailey, holding her breath all the while.
Last week, when Bailey's mother, Vicki, was surprised by her boss with a ticket to the semi-final against Sydney, the Kings insisted she should stay with them.
She is grateful for all they have done for her son, that his rough road was smoothed by a family's embrace.
The Kings have since hosted several other young Hawks, Ms King often taking them along when volunteering on soup kitchen duty. It has given the family a cherished perspective.
''The media put them up on a pedestal … worship the ground they walk on,'' she says. ''But here, they're just regular boys.''
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'Invention should be on the national curriculum'
There are bachelors of art and of science, so why not have bachelors of invention, says Trevor Baylis
Although I have written many times about the creation of the clockwork radio, I don't think many people realise what a struggle it was to bring this invention to the market. I believe everybody should know more about what is involved in inventing. When I used to call myself an inventor, people would look at me as if to say: "Who does he think he is, Einstein? Frank Whittle?" There was a suggestion that to be an inventor you had to have a Viennese accent, broken glasses and a white-coat, and yet, ironically, I truly believe there is an invention in all of us.
And I believe that chance favours the prepared mind. At the age of five I couldn't write my name, but I could make the most amazing things with my Meccano set. I could identify nuts, bolts, screws, washers, spanners, gears etc; I also had a fantastic clockwork motor.
I do a lot of after-dinner speaking and I always ask the audience: "How many of you were taught about intellectual property at school?" No response. I tell them that nobody pays you for a good idea, but they may pay you for a piece of paper that says you own that idea. It could be a patent, a design registration, a trademark, or copyright.
My next question is: "Do you know what the word disclosure means?" This is important because if you go to the pub and tell everyone about your good idea, you have, in effect, lost all entitlement to it. (But if you can't talk to anyone about it, who do you talk to? Yourself - hence the expression "mad inventor".)
Because I knew about intellectual property, when I invented the wind-up radio I knew I needed to file for a patent. I thought I could do this myself, but the Patent Office (now the Intellectual Property Office) strongly recommended I use a patent attorney. Patent attorneys (lawyers) may be expensive, but they turn the specification for an invention into a legal description of the invention that would prevent people from stealing the idea by circumventing the patent.
Once I had the patent application, I approached everybody I thought might have an interest in a radio that worked without batteries. The response I received from the Design Council has pride of place in my house: "It is very unlikely that UK industry could enter profitably into a licensing agreement with this product. The major customers are third world countries which, with severe debts, would not be in the position to pay for this device. The extent to which component parts could be manufactured in the UK was also felt to be limited." I made it in my garden shed!
Many British inventors have been treated in the same way as I was. I realised it was because we had not been educated properly to understand our situation. None of us had all the skills needed to bring our ideas to market.
The only way out of this dilemma is to put invention on the national curriculum. People say: "You can't teach invention." But, then, you can't teach art.
I think it essential that students learn about the history of invention, from flintstone tools to silicone chips, and how these inventions have changed all our lives, socially and commercially. And the inventors? What happened to them? Did they become extremely rich, or did the profits go to others? Who helped them bring their ideas to market?
Students should also study prototypes - how to make them and how important they are to sell the idea; business plans; health and safety; venture capital and, most important of all, the procurement of the intellectual property. All these subjects could easily be embraced into the curriculum.
There are bachelors of art, bachelors of science, so why not have bachelors of invention? The difference between these qualifications would be that a BI would only be granted to someone who has filed for a patent that is unique and socially and commercially viable. Because it can take three or four years to get a fully granted patent, at this stage, they would become a Master of Invention, and for someone who goes big-time into industry or commerce, there would be a Doctor of Invention.
I believe that achievement is more important than qualifications. To become a BI wouldn't necessarily mean that you have attended a college or university - these awards could be presented to anyone who comes up with that great idea. All my 12 doctorates are honorary!
Employers looking to hire staff would find a candidate with a BI more attractive than one with a BA or a BSc, because the BI would have the potential to make the company extremely rich.
Also, every university in the land should have a "breakout room" where any local inventor could safely go to discuss their ideas and be steered in the right direction.
Remember, art is pleasure, invention is treasure. Chance favours the prepared mind.
UK Intellectual Property Office: www.ipo.gov.uk
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Teen Mom Star Catelynn Lowell Hits a BONG"Teen Mom" star Catelynn Lowell -- the girl who gave her baby up for adoption on the show -- got into some serious HIGH jinks this summer, ripping a massive bong at a party with friends.
The photo -- obtained by TMZ -- tells the story. It was snapped last month at a friend's get-together in Michigan -- showing Catelynn in rolled up jeans, igniting some sizable glassware ... and taking a big ol' hit.
Catelynn could've been the one "Teen Mom" star who ever appeared responsible and smart.
Past tense.
Catelynn's manager, who said he could not "confirm the validity" of the photo, tells TMZ, "Like many other young adults, Catelynn, at times, struggles with making the best decisions for her health and career. As her manager, I have strongly advised her to exercise good judgment at all times. She must learn from her mistakes. This will serve as a teachable moment in her development as a young woman."
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Shouldnt we be thrilled that this girl didnt keep the kid? She seems more interested in partying.
547 days ago
Her "manager"? Sorry, but when did this brat become famous? For what? For not being intelligent enough to use protection during sex?
547 days ago
Miley is her hero
547 days ago
I don't see what the big deal is? Maybe it's because I live in California and it's not such a big deal here but at least it's not meth or coke etc...
547 days ago
pots cool! Not makes people LAzzzzy, Nothing makes me more mad then lazy people!
547 days ago
Well, at least she was honest with herself and knew she was not ready to be a responsible parent at this stage in her life, so she turned to adoption...... I've seen many parents who should have made the same decision.
547 days ago
Having a baby out of wedlock and no job. Wow, what a dumb person they both are. No, she's not on welfare. She get's her money from the show that made her a celebrity. The show is supposed to focus on the hardships that one has if you get pregnant as a teenager. But instead, it made celebrities out of these low life people. People that would really be struggling and on welfare if society hadn't made them celebrities with a pay check.
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Does she know she's sucking on a glass penis?
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Have Faith
So what the President Of The US did a sh**t load of cocaine and hes now President.
If its good enough for him why is it not good enough for everybody else.
If you so concerned about drug use in this country then should we pass a law that no one who ever used illegal drugs can be president or be in congress.
If obama or bush got caught doing drugs and convicted could they have been president, so its just a matter of who gets caught or not.
547 days ago
That's not a massive bong. They should think about changing that water, too. Kids these days...
547 days ago
I don't see nothing wrong here, it's just weed.
547 days ago
who took the pic is what i wanna know
547 days ago
who cares about this trash
547 days ago
Omg who cares! It's just a little weed! As if we haven't all most likely tried it once! And it's not even bad for you if people did their research they would realize it's better than drinking is! But we don't give celebrities a hard time for going out and having a drink or two.
547 days ago
Better than her getting drunk. Big deal, she is a college student having a bong hit.
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Tough Government Gas Mileage Rules Good for Drivers, Auto Industry
Cars are getting better and more efficient, with hardly any downsides.
The Ford logo is seen on cars for sale at a Ford dealership Sunday, July 1, 2012 in Springfield, Ill.
It's usually a bad idea for Washington to tell companies what to sell, or consumers what to buy. But every now and then, government mandates accidentally do some good.
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Fuel economy standards have become a surprising example of tougher government rules that benefit practically everybody. In 2007, the Bush administration raised the gas mileage requirements automakers had to meet. Then in 2009, the Obama administration raised them further. Those rules, which are about to be finalized in detail, will require each automaker's fleet to average a lofty 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025—roughly double the mileage requirement of just five years ago.
The aggressive new standards are controversial, especially among Republicans opposed to activist government. GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney, for one, characterizes the new rules as just another effort to "insert the federal government into the life of the private sector." He has suggested that if elected, he'll roll back or even seek to eliminate federal mileage standards.
Yet so far, the new mileage rules have generated tangible benefits for consumers, with few of the downsides opponents have predicted. "Without a doubt, the new rules have been a win-win for everybody," says Jesse Toprak, of the car-research site "It's a win for consumers, a win for manufacturers, and a win for the environment."
[See a defense of the Chevy Volt.]
Automakers have been rolling out new technology and other innovations that boost mileage, such as advanced powertrains and transmissions, lighter components, and even fix-a-flat canisters in lieu of a traditional jack and spare tire, to save weight. Since 2007, the average fuel economy of cars purchased has risen from 20.1 miles per gallon to 23.6 mpg, according to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.
The mileage of some popular vehicles has improved by more. A 2013 Nissan Altima with a standard four-cylinder engine averages 31 mpg, for example, up from 26 mpg in 2007. That's a 19 percent improvement. The most powerful Ford Explorer went from 16 mpg in 2007 to 20 mpg today, a 25 percent gain. The biggest efficiency gains typically occur when automakers retool a model—which typically happens every five years or so—and outfit it with the latest technology. So more big mileage gains will be coming as more models turn over.
Boosting fuel economy by four or five miles per gallon might not sound earth-shattering—until you bank the savings. A 5 mpg improvement would save about $525 per year for a motorist who drives 15,000 miles annually, if gas were at $3.50 per gallon. With gas at $4 per gallon, the savings would amount to $600 per year.
[See why the SUV era is officially over.]
Some car enthusiasts have argued that the new mileage rules would force automakers to depower cars and build blasé econoboxes reminiscent of the 1970s, when soaring oil prices led to the first government fuel-economy requirements. Back then, automakers built some truly dreadful cars in order to comply with the rules, such as the Dodge Omni and the Ford Mustang II, an emasculated version of the iconic muscle car.
But they're not making that mistake again. Instead, automakers have found ways to coax more power out of smaller engines, so drivers don't have to give up performance or other amenities they've gotten used to. The four-cylinder engine on the new Altima, for example, generates 182 horsepower, compared to 175 horsepower on the lower-mileage engine it's replacing. Ford now offers a V-6 "ecoboost" engine on its F-150 pickup truck that generates more horsepower and torque than a V-8 that's available—with slightly better mileage.
The new technology that's behind such efficiency gains does cost extra money, fueling another concern about the tougher mileage rules: They'll force car buyers to pay more out of pocket, whether they want higher mileage or not. And car prices have in fact gone up over the last couple of years. TrueCar says the average price paid for a new set of wheels has risen from about $27,300 in January 2010 to $30,400 today—close to a record high.
But other factors besides high-mileage technology seem to be pushing prices up. In general, car buyers have been shifting to smaller vehicles, as a cushion against gas price spikes that now seem to occur every year or two. But buyers have also been selecting more features, ranging from leather upholstery to navigation systems to rear-view cameras. So they're buying smaller cars with more options. Low interest rates have also allowed many buyers to load up on features while still ending up with a lower monthly payment than they had on their last car.
This is good news for automakers, because they're able to make better profits on small cars that typically have razor-thin margins. In fact, for years, the Detroit automakers lost money on most of their small cars, which they built mainly to push up their fleetwide mileage ratings. As a money-losing venture, however, small cars got little of the attention or resources that profitable trucks and SUVs got. That turned into a huge liability when gas prices soared in 2008 and buyers began clamoring for high-mileage vehicles. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler had few compelling models, and their sales plummeted, while the Japanese and European carmakers did better.
The new mileage rules could still end up costing buyers money, as the targets get tougher and automakers end up with little choice but to push customers into expensive high-mileage technology. But the cost of fancy new systems usually falls as more people buy them. Meanwhile, automakers are doing everything else they can to become more efficient and cut costs, lest rising prices cut into business. Somehow it seems like car buyers will continue to benefit.
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name: pesca version: 4.0.1 synopsis: Proof Editor for Sequent Calculus description: Pesca is a program that helps in the construction of proofs in sequent calculus. It works both as a proof editor and as an automatic theorem prover. Proofs constructed in Pesca can both be seen on the terminal and printed into LaTeX files. . The user of Pesca can choose among different versions of classical and intuitionistic proposition and predicate calculi, and extend them by systems of nonlogical axioms. The implementation of Pesca is written in the functional programming language Haskell. category: Theorem Provers, Compilers/Interpreters license: GPL license-file: LICENSE author: Aarne Ranta maintainer: Aarne Ranta homepage: build-depends: base>3, process build-type: Simple data-files: README, doc/geometry, doc/lattices, doc/manual.tex, doc/proof.sty tested-with: GHC==6.8.2 executable: pesca main-is: Editor.hs hs-source-dirs: src other-modules: Axioms, Calculi, Interaction, Natural, PrelSequent, PSequent, PrSequent, Sequent ghc-options: -Wall ghc-prof-options: -prof -auto-all | <urn:uuid:43c6cbd3-3d07-494a-9959-c1c292a666a5> | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pesca-4.0.1/pesca.cabal | en | 0.813467 | 0.259479 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Subject: Re: akbd now supports raw mode
To: None <>
From: Aymeric Vincent <>
List: current-users
Date: 08/14/2002 16:01:16
Matthias Drochner <> writes:
> said:
> > - akbd now supports raw mode (from OpenBSD) - the X server can now use
> > keyboards in raw mode in the wscons case
> > (from XFree86)
> Excuse my stupid question: Why is this an advantage?
> I've always considered RAWKBD an evil hack, just to get X working
> until a wskbd aware input driver is implemented.
I don't think this is a stupid question.
I did add the support because Matthieu Herrb told me the XFree86
policy is to try to have all low-level drivers generate AT keycodes. I
have no opinion on this policy, and the code I added is not very
intrusive. If it happens to be completely useless in the long term, we
can always stop using it.
Note that if you continue to use the "wskbd" protocol, you will not
notice any change.
So, this is not an advantage in itself; but it gets us closer to what
Linux and OpenBSD do, and so we can expect to benefit from the
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North Central College would like to take this opportunity to announce that applications are now being accepted for the full-time, exempt position of Programmer/Analyst. Working within the Information Technology Services department, the Programmer/Analyst is responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, programming, testing, deploying and maintaining systems and applications that support and enhance the business, management and academic needs of the College. This includes ongoing support of these applications. The Programmer/Analyst is also responsible for custom application and report creation. This person works closely with departments to develop automated solutions that improve efficiency and effectiveness of the College.
General Responsibilities:
• Design, program, test and implement new applications or enhancements to existing applications and systems. Applications and systems include but are not limited to Ellucian (Datatel) Colleague and WebAdvisor, and Entrinsik Informer.
• Design, program, test, implement and document systems and procedures as requested via the ITS ticketing system or as directed by the Administrative Systems Manager.
• Provide support and training to ITS team and end users of College software packages. Some of these software programs may include: Colleague Studio, WebWizard and WebAdvisor (Merlin).
• Provide end-user training on the use of the Ellucian system, including all customized applications and third party applications.
• Develop, program and test new forms, reports, screens, as directed by system patches, updates or approved user requests.
• Continuously evaluate manual systems, workflow and processes, offering an automated and efficient process where appropriate. Provide timely technical assistance by responding to inquiries from users and ITS staff regarding Ellucian errors, problems, or questions about Ellucian programs. Create short-term fixes and offer long-term solutions based upon Ellucian Colleague’s functionality. Troubleshoot and analyze problems making modifications as necessary.
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Posted: Friday November 30, 2012 4:39PM ; Updated: Saturday December 1, 2012 1:47AM
My Sportsman: Bill Snyder
Story Highlights
In comparison to other college football head coaches, Bill Snyder is boring
He's credited with turning the K-State football program into a national power
Snyder came out of retirement to put the team on track; he made them No. 1
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This year head coach Bill Snyder led the Wildcats to their best season since 1998.
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Bill Snyder stood in a narrow hallway outside the visitors' locker room at Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium on Sept. 22, casually sipping a cup of coffee while engulfed by microphones and television cameras. Snyder's underdog Kansas State Wildcats had just stunned the sixth-ranked Sooners 24-19, a team they lost to by 41 points the year before, and the media wanted answers to their most pressing questions.
For instance -- how did they do it?
"We kept rowing the boat," said the white-haired 73-year-old in his usual quiet voice.
OK, then. How important was this win for your program?
"All wins are important," he said. "Every coach will tell you and every player will probably tell you the same thing."
It would go on like this for about 10 minutes, the most exciting moment coming when an Oklahoma-sized locust flew and landed on the coach's purple Cotton Bowl windbreaker and he flicked it off with the ease of a Collin Klein draw play.
In a profession increasingly filled with shameless self-marketers and made-for-television sideline screamers, Snyder is ... well, boring. And that's great. The man who engineered the most remarkable turnaround of a program in major college football history, turning arguably the worst major-conference program in the country in late '80s into a national power by the mid-'90s is back for an improbable second act. In his fourth season at the helm following a three-year retirement, Snyder, formerly K-State's coach from 1989-2005, has led the Wildcats to a No. 2 spot in the BCS standings without doing much of anything differently than the first time around.
"Probably because I'm not smart enough to figure out a better way," he told me for a story last year. "It's not a way to quote-unquote turn programs around, I just have a system that's been ingrained in me for a long time as it relates to teaching and coaching. I think my approach has not been any different than it was 22 years ago."
Snyder still keeps seemingly inhuman hours, and does not seem to need nourishment to function. (He eats one meal a day, late at night, including but not limited to Taco Bell.) He still thrives with otherwise overlooked recruits like Klein, the star quarterback whose only other suitors were Colorado State, Utah and Air Force. Snyder's arriving players are still handed laminated cards listing the coach's "16 Goals For Success" (Commitment, Unselfishness, Unity, etc.). In the spirit of the "family" mantra Snyder preaches, they walk on and off the field arm-and-arm, including at halftime and the end of games. Snyder drills them on the tiniest details and it shows in their extraordinarily disciplined play. Through nine games, the Wildcats had scored 111 points off turnovers; their opponents: zero. "They come right at you. Try to make you say, 'No mas,'" said TCU coach Gary Patterson. "You've got to get ready for a 3 1/2-hour middle drill to beat them."
That Snyder is even back on a sideline would have surprised even him four years ago. After retiring following a pair of down seasons in 2004 and '05, the lifelong workaholic had carved out a more leisurely life serving his community. He served as chairman of a statewide mentoring initiative, served as an advisor to various departments at the university and spent time with his eight grandchildren.
"I didn't have that yearning," he said. "It wasn't pulling at my shirt sleeve. I had become so very accustomed to a [new] way of life and I was enjoying it."
But the program he built into a national power was struggling without him. It had gone 17-20 under successor Ron Prince, and the fan base was fracturing. So when longtime former K-State president Jon Wefald called, Snyder agreed to return if only to "calm the waters a little bit." Obviously, he far surpassed that modest goal, leading the Wildcats to their greatest heights since his 1998 team started 11-0 and reached No. 1 in the coaches poll. Snyder has said he'll return to retirement when he's confident the program is back on stable ground, so best we appreciate him while we still can.
Snyder is my Sportsman of the Year because in 2012, he showed that a coach does not need to be loud or brash to lead a dominant college football program. Nor does he need an ego. He just keeps rowing the boat, trying to get better, taking it one week at a time and doing it as a family.
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The UDP header struct defined at /usr/include/netinet/udp.h is as follows
struct udphdr
u_int16_t source;
u_int16_t dest;
u_int16_t len;
u_int16_t check;
What value is stored in the check field of the header? How to verify if the checksum is correct? I meant on what data is the checksum computed? (Is it just the udp header or udp header plus the payload that follows it?)
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The UDP checksum is performed over the entire payload, and the other fields in the header, and some fields from the IP header. A pseudo-header is constructed from the IP header in order to perform the calculation (which is done over this pseudo-header, the UDP header and the payload). The reason the pseudo-header is included is to catch packets that have been routed to the wrong IP address.
Basically, at the receiving end, all the 16-bit words of the headers plus data area are added together (wrapping at 16 bits) and the result is checked against 0xffff.
On the sending side, it's a little more complex. A one's complement sum is performed on all the 16-bit values then the one's complement (i.e., invert all bits) is taken of that value to populate the checksum field.
Unlike my earlier answer (which was wrong, and thanks to Jim Hunziker for setting me straight), the one's complement sum is not just the sum of all the one's complement values. It's a little more complex.
Basically, you have a running 16-bit accumulator starting at zero and you add every 16-bit value to that. Whenever one of those additions results in a carry, the value is wrapped around and you add one to the value again. This effectively takes the carry bit of the 16-bit addition and adds it to the value.
As an aside, and this is pure conjecture on my part but this could probably be efficiently done by use of the ADC (add with carry) instruction rather than ADD (surprisingly enough, add), or whatever equivalent instructions were available on your CPU at the time.
If there were no carry, ADC would just add the zero bit from the carry. In the days when this stuff was done (and yes, unfortunately, I am that old), memory was far more of a constraint than speed, not so much the case nowadays, so saving a few bytes in your code could well elevate you to the level of demi-god-emperor-of-the-universe :-)
Note that you never had to worry about carry the second time around (or a carry of two with the next ADC if you're using that method mentioned in the previous paragraph) since the two largest 16-bit values, when summed, produce (truncated from 0x1fffe) 0xfffe - adding one to that will never cause another carry.
Once the calculated one's complement sum is calculated, has its bits inverted and is inserted into the packet, that will cause the calculation at the receiving end to produce 0xffff, assuming no errors in transmission of course.
It's worth noting that the payload is always padded to ensure there's an integral number of 16-bit words. If it was padded, the length field tells you the actual length.
RFC768 is the specification which details this.
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Thanks for that. I was a bit confused about the Pseudo-Header part..but then the RFC cleared the air. – Deepak Sep 26 '09 at 7:03
"All the 16-bit words of the headers (where the UDP checksum is zero) are added and the one's complement (i.e., invert all bits) is what gets put into the checksum field." No, what the RFC says would lead to "All the one's complements (i.e., invert all bits) of the 16-bit words of the headers (where the UDP checksum is zero) are added and the one's complement of that is what gets put into the checksum field." Otherwise perfect answer +1. – Joren Sep 26 '09 at 7:17
Right you are, @Joren, adjusted, and thanks. – paxdiablo Sep 26 '09 at 11:56
This isn't right. "One's complement sum" doesn't mean take the one's complement of each word and add them together. It means that you add the words together, and when a carry bit is produced, you add 1 to the running sum. See mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54379.html . – Jim Hunziker Apr 22 '10 at 15:51
An interesting note about the one's complement checksum, which may have a lot to do with why it was chosen, is that swapping the byte order of the words to be summed will swap the byte order of the sum. – supercat Feb 8 '12 at 17:12
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I was searching the net for some code which will calculate the udp header (with the pseudo ip header as mentioned above).
Finally I found the open-bsd dhclient packet.c:
check out the function assemble_udp_ip_header()
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No. Criticism is valid. But only if it leads to alternative hypotheses that can be tested, and then to testing of those hypotheses. That is known as "constructive criticism". What you are doing is known as "bitching".
Sorry, but your arguments remind me exactly of those used by communists. They also accepted ctriticism but only if it was constructive . Unbelievable. They used to say "Criticism yes, but only constructive one". You have to add your own solution of the problem, otherwise you was a saboteur. Consequently criticism was almost impossible.
It is interesting that "sciences" like marxism or (neo)darwinism require from their critics to be constructive.
Do you think it is normal procedure also in the area of real sciences like physics, math? Do not criticise discrepancies in the Maxwell electromagnetic theory! Yet physicists made computations (before 1900) and came to conclusions that this theory is unable to explain some phenomena.
It was Max Planck who gave explanation of them. According you physiscists before Planck were "bitching".
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I have two tables with the same structure, A and B. A certain application is written so that it always writes the same data to both tables.
After a discussion with a colleague about the potential to save drive space, I'm wondering if mysql or postgresql has the ability to create on table as an "alias", or "symlink", of another.
I want the behaviour to be very similar to that of a soft file symlink; where reading from either the symlink itself or it's target will yield the same output, and writing to either will update the target.
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Have you considered a view of the table? – user1240 May 25 '12 at 23:09
In SQL Server you could just use a view. – JNK May 25 '12 at 23:10
Which RDBMS? You've tagged MySQL and Postgres. Views will work in most RDBMSes. Oracle has synonyms, which are the same as Unix symbolic links – Phil May 25 '12 at 23:11
MySQL and Postgres, yes. I mention them specifically in the text as well. I thought Views was somehow not quite what I was looking for, but perhaps it will be just fine. Thanks a lot. Post some answers :) – user50849 May 25 '12 at 23:15
and why do you need two tables? – miracle173 May 26 '12 at 2:32
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It is possible in MySQL (using MyISAM storage engine only) to create a table from scratch using symlinks. It is posssible in Linux and Windows (using hardlinks) :
Here are my past posts on this subject
However, what you are proposing would have to be done outside of MySQL in Linux.
For this example
• /var/lib/mysql is datadir
• Create table1 as MyISAM table in database mydb
• Create table2 as pure symlinks to table1
STEP 01) Create table1
CREATE TABLE mydb.table1
id int not null auto_increment,
mydata varchar(255) not null,
primary key (id)
STEP 02) Create three symlinks to mimic TableB
cd /var/lib/mysql/mydb
ln -s table1.frm table2.frm
ln -s table1.MYD table2.MYD
ln -s table1.MYI table2.MYI
STEP 03) Try inserting into table1 and reading from table2. Then try the reverse.
INSERT INTO table1 (mydata) VALUES ('rolando'),('edwards');
SELECT * FROM table2;
INSERT INTO table2 (mydata) VALUES ('abraham'),('lincoln');
SELECT * FROM table1;
If everything behaves normal, then this is how you can do this.
1. There is only one table, table1
2. If you do any DDL
• Perform the DDL on table1
• You must recreate the table2 symlinks after DDL against table1
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As far as I know, a new Postgresql lets you have INSTEAD OF triggers on views. So having one table, one view as SELECT * FROM table1, and INSTEAD OF trigger for insert, update, delete should work for you. This approach is not gonna work in Mysql though
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[nahyt] /naɪt/
a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
(in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct.
any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.
a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.
a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.
Chess. a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically.
1. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.
2. any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave.
verb (used with object)
to dub or make (a man) a knight.
before 900; Middle English; Old English cniht boy, manservant; cognate with German, Dutch knecht servant
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knightless, adjective
unknighted, adjective
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knight, night. Unabridged
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(in medieval Europe)
1. (originally) a person who served his lord as a mounted and heavily armed soldier
2. (later) a gentleman invested by a king or other lord with the military and social standing of this rank
(in modern times) a person invested by a sovereign with a nonhereditary rank and dignity usually in recognition of personal services, achievements, etc. A British knight bears the title Sir placed before his name, as in Sir Winston Churchill
a chess piece, usually shaped like a horse's head, that moves either two squares horizontally and one square vertically or one square horizontally and two squares vertically
a heroic champion of a lady or of a cause or principle
a member of the Roman class of the equites
(transitive) to make (a person) a knight; dub
Word Origin
Old English cniht servant; related to Old High German kneht boy
Dame Laura. 1887–1970, British painter, noted for her paintings of Gypsies, the ballet, and the circus
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Word Origin and History for un knighted
Old English cniht "boy, youth; servant, attendant," common West Germanic (cf. Old Frisian kniucht, Dutch knecht, Middle High German kneht "boy, youth, lad," German Knecht "servant, bondman, vassal"), of unknown origin. The plural in Middle English sometimes was knighten. Meaning "military follower of a king or other superior" is from c.1100. Began to be used in a specific military sense in Hundred Years War, and gradually rose in importance until it became a rank in the nobility 16c. The chess piece so called from mid-15c. Knight in shining armor in figurative sense is from 1917, from the man who rescues the damsel in distress in romantic dramas (perhaps especially "Lohengrin"). Knights of Columbus, society of Catholic men, founded 1882 in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.; Knights of Labor, trade union association, founded in Philadelphia, 1869; Knights of Pythias, secret order, founded in Washington, 1864.
"to make a knight of (someone)," early 13c., from knight (n.). Related: Knighted; knighting.
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knight definition
A mounted warrior in Europe in the Middle Ages. (See chivalry.)
Note: Over the centuries, knighthood gradually lost its military functions, but it has survived as a social distinction in Europe, especially in England.
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:24:46 -0800
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To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> This means that agents that do not support scripting may use a different
> object model. For example, it's conforming to implement a no-scripting
> agent with XOM as the internal object model. The Validator.nu HTML
> Parser even supports XOM out-of-the-box.
As you point out XOM instead of DOM is not a big leap. They're both tree
model after all. I'm more concerned about more radical changes like SAX
or other streaming APIs or document specific data bound models or even
stranger things. Is it plausible to extend the HTML 5 parsing model to
cover this?
I also strongly question the wisdom of locking in one of the absolute
worst APIs we have. If there's one thing that needs replacing in the
HTML ecosystem, it's DOM. Sooner or later DOM will be replaced, and if
HTML 5 is standing in the way when that day comes, then HTML 5 is going
to come up the loser. Were the object model separable from the syntax
and semantics, then the sensible parts of HTML 5 would have a better
chance of surviving the transition.
Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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I'm trying to configure Custom Errors in IIS6.
I select the 404 error, set the dropdown to "URL," then enter this as the URL "/404.aspx"
When go to:
It finds 404.aspx, but doesn't process it as a .Net page -- it tries to serve up the source as an XML file, then fails because it won't parse.
404s work fine on .Net pages because I set that in the CustomErrors element of the web.config. But for non-.Net resources, I have to use IIS errors, and it refuses to just redirect to the 404 page. It's trying to serve it up the source code, essentially.
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Do you have the correct extensions enabled in IIS6? In the IIS manager, go to Web Extensions (usually the last item in the left-hand navigation tree) and make sure that all the appropriate ones are enabled (usually .NET). Otherwise, this is exactly what will happen.
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There's actually nothing in the Web Service Extensions folder, which is odd (it's not my server, actually -- it belongs to a client). However, I'm running an extensive ASP.Net-based site on the server, so I know it will execute .Net code. – Deane Jul 1 '09 at 21:22
Scratch that last comment about there being nothing in that folder -- I had restarted IIS and the MMC had lost its connection. Once I reconnected, there are extensions, and the correct ones are enabled. – Deane Jul 1 '09 at 21:23
Have you tried putting in the full URL instead of just the "/"? I thought this behavoir happened when you chose "file" and not URL, but perhaps if it is a local URL it bypasses the ASP.Net worker process as well.
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Yes, it's absolutely acting as if I have selected "File," but I promise you the dropdown is "URL." Also odd -- I have the .Net framework wild-carded anyway. So all requests should be hitting th framework and being handled by the CustomErrors defined in the web.config. I have no explanation for that either. – Deane Jul 1 '09 at 21:37
Sounds like you've got a bug in the error file itself. If you browse to the file does it get served properly or do you get the same symptoms?
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It serves up fine when browsed directly. – Deane Jul 2 '09 at 19:56
I dont think you can have a dynamic page served up as your 404. If i remember correctly, it needs to be a static page. I guess you could redirect with meta or JS to a dynamic page from there, although that isnt "standard"
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Nope, not true. You can serve an ASPX up as a custom error in IIS6. – squillman Jul 1 '09 at 21:46
and it will execute? – NickatUship Jul 1 '09 at 21:50
Yep. Was just doing it on my test box to try and replicate the problem at hand. – squillman Jul 1 '09 at 23:57
You've been able to do that for a long time. I've seen custom 404s in Classic ASP too. – AnonJr Jul 5 '09 at 17:45
This Technet Article says to make sure and choose URL, or risk returning the source code of the page.
This Article explains how you can use the global.asax file to trap all application errors, including 404.
Global.asax needs to have:
protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
When any exception is thrown now—be it a general exception or a 404—it will end up in Application_Error.
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What you want is, set the dropdown to URL and then enter '/sitename/404.aspx' where sitename is the root directory of the website.
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It really acts like you set "File" instead of "URL" - but you didn't. What happens when you insert the whole 404 URL in a browser? If that works, as workaround you could try to insert the complete URL instead of /404.aspx:
You mention that this is a customer's server. Make sure, that there are not two web sites pointing to the same physical directory and you're editing the wrong one. Are there more And make also sure that the website is marked as application.
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OP has mentioned that browsing directly to the 404 itself works fine. – random Jul 6 '09 at 4:33
From the sounds of it your trying to use the web.config to point to a .NET error page. This will only work for .Net pages. If you use a mix of say Classic ASP and .Net you must set IIS errors to point to the file you want. For this you have to have access to the server directly. Or write something in your Global.asa to redirect on errors.
At least thats how I've alsways had to do it.
Edit: Now that I'm thinking about it a little more and did a little digging on my localhost it does not look like you can point the Custom Errors to a .Net page. It does nto appear to use ASP.NET to process those pages which of course is required to render it. You will need to use an HTML page and maybe redirect from there.
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Following up my previous question: if and how would it be possible to take RGB based TIFF files and convert them over to CMYK with standard .NET (3.5) functionality?
Is that possible at all?
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Actually there is a way using the System.Windows.Media.Imaging namespace which only seems to work properly with TIFFs at the moment (which is fine for me):
Stream imageStream = new
FileStream(@"C:\temp\mike4.jpg", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
BitmapSource myBitmapSource = BitmapFrame.Create(imageStream);
FormatConvertedBitmap newFormatedBitmapSource = new FormatConvertedBitmap();
newFormatedBitmapSource.Source = myBitmapSource;
newFormatedBitmapSource.DestinationFormat = PixelFormats.Cmyk32;
BitmapEncoder encoder = new TiffBitmapEncoder();
Stream cmykStream = new FileStream(@"C:\temp\mike4_CMYK.tif",
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write);
See "Converting images from RGB to CMYK", the answer by Calle Mellergardh.
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The link to Connect is a 404. – bzlm Oct 12 '09 at 13:38
No, I don't think that's possible using standard GDI+ wrappers (System.Drawing). GDI+ only supports RGB. CMYK based images can be read by GDI+ (implicit conversion to RGB), but CMYK based images can't be written.
You might want to try something like GraphicsMill, which supports CMYK.
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1. Does NTFS actually have some unique feature required to create the image, or is Windows just assuming that any non-NTFS system must be FAT32, and therefore limited to 4GB file sizes? Could I safely create the image to an NTFS-formatted HDD, then transfer it to the Time Capsule for long-term storage?
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In the Windows realm, command-line utilities never seem to garner the attention that graphic utilities do. Even though command-line tools have experienced a myriad of improvements over the years, you still have to dig around to find them. Not only does Windows Server 2003 boast a wealth of new command-line utilities, but Microsoft has also enhanced a number of mainstay Windows 2000 (and even Windows NT 4.0) tools. In addition, Microsoft has added or enhanced many of the tools at its Download Center.
Indeed, valuable command-line stuff is out there, but it remains scattered and poorly advertised. The sidebar "Get Your Command-Line Utilities Here!" gives you the five premier locations at which you'll find Windows command-line utilities. In the following discussion, I talk about all kinds of tools, from the generally useful to more specific server-troubleshooting and Active Directory (AD)-troubleshooting utilities. I break the discussion down according to the origins of the tools, beginning with the base OS and continuing through Support Tools, the Microsoft Download Center, the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit, and even some third-party resources.
The Base OS
Utilities installed with the OS are the most fundamental of all the tools in this article. Nonetheless, you might not be aware of some of these essential utilities.
Ds- tools. No discussion of Windows 2003 command-line tools would be complete without at least a mention of the Ds- directory service tools—Dsquery, Dsget, Dsadd, Dsmod, Dsmove, and Dsrm—that come with the OS. Dsquery and Dsget, which come with Windows 2003, perform slightly different functions that are confusing at first but complementary when you combine the tools. Dsquery returns lists of AD objects in distinguished name (DN) format by specifying search parameters with a combination of keywords and search filters. Dsget uses the same method to return the attributes of a specific AD object. Dsget also accepts output from Dsquery via the pipe (|) command, allowing Dsget to return only certain attributes or otherwise format the output of a list of objects. Figure 1 shows the output of Dsquery to return all domain controllers (DCs) in the deubynet domain, and also shows the output after the output is run through Dsget to return only the DNS name and site information for each.
Dsadd (add objects), Dsmod (modify attributes of existing objects), Dsmove (move objects within a domain), and Dsrm (remove objects) have syntax that's similar to that of Dsquery and Dsget. You can find detailed information about how to use these commands in "Windows Server 2003 Directory Service Tools," October 2004, InstantDoc ID 43753.
In deference to the complexity of the AD hierarchy, the first parameter of Dsquery, Dsget, Dsadd, and Dsmod is a keyword that specifies the type of object you're operating on. This parameter avoids the requirement of knowing exactly where in AD the objects reside. For example, with the third-party AdFind tool, an efficient search of sites would set the base DN with which to begin the search to cn=sites,cn=configuration,cn=yourdomain,cn=com. With Dsquery, you simply need to specify dsquery sites in the command string. I would argue, however, that to truly understand AD, you need to know the location of these objects. Also, the Ds suite doesn't provide the full range of operations you might need. For example, you can't programmatically manipulate site configuration. When you're comfortable with the Ds tools, step up to AdFind and AdMod, which I discuss in a moment.
Where. Have you ever tried to run a utility, found it wasn't on your current system, but couldn't remember whether it was a resource kit tool, a Support Tools utility, a server-specific command, or a downloaded tool? When I face this situation, I go to the system and run the command
where name.extension is the tool's filename. This command tells you the tool's directory location. Better yet, to perform this task on a remote system without leaving your chair, run this command in conjunction with the Sysinternals tool PsExec, which I describe later:
psexec \\
Support Tools
If the base OS tools are your fundamental utilities, the Support Tools are a close second. Originally intended to help Microsoft support professionals diagnose problems, the Support Tools have become an essential part of any administrator's toolkit and should be installed on all systems.
DcDiag. The Support Tools' DcDiag tool is the first utility you should run if you suspect a DC problem. The tool's basic functionality, without options, is to run 27 tests against a target DC (five more than in Win2K). If you use the /s switch to specify a target DC, you can then use the /a switch to test all DCs in the target DC's site. If doing so doesn't provide a broad enough scope, you can use the /e switch to test all DCs in your forest. (Obviously, in a large forest, you should wait to run the /e switch at an off-peak time.) The /dcpromo switch is a useful new option that tests a member server's configuration for readiness to become a DC. The /dcpromo switch is the only one that doesn't actually work on a DC.
DNSLint. The Support Tools utility DNSLint is a little-known tool that lets you diagnose common DNS problems related to incorrect delegation or incorrect or missing DNS records for a domain. If you choose, DNSLint can traverse the entire domain and all DNS servers within it to check for errors in the DNS structure. As with most of the utilities in this article, DNSLint offers unique options. In many situations in which you have a test (or otherwise internal) domain, you'll want to use the /s DNS server IP address option because it bypasses an Internet lookup of the domain. DNSLint creates an output HTML report called dnslint.htm. If you want text output instead of the default HTML format (perhaps because you want to use a script to process the output), you can specify the /t and /no_open options.
DNSLint reveals its true power, however, when you use the /ad option to run AD DNS tests. The /ad option runs a battery of AD-related queries about proper GUID registrations for the forest's DCs, Start of Authority (SOA) and Name Server (NS) records, and SRV record registration. With this option, you must specify the IP address of a DC that's authoritative for the root domain of the forest. You also have to use the /s option to bypass InterNIC lookup—usually, you'll use the same IP address of the server you're using for the /ad option, so the command will look like
dnslint /ad /s
The option also checks for DNS glue records, which are A records in the root domain that locate the DNS servers that are authoritative for the child domains. If you want to customize DNSLint by specifying certain DNS servers and certain tests, you can use the /ql option. If you add autocreate after /ql, DNSLint will create a sample input file named in-dnslint.txt for you to build on.
Download Center
For anyone who has ever dredged through Microsoft's Web site for useful tools, the company's Download Center provides a welcome one-stop source that's a pleasure to use. You can find practically every available standalone tool at this site, as well as links to toolsets that have their own Web areas.
Command Prompt Here. A utility I like to install on all my administrative consoles is Command Prompt Here, a simple tool that you can find among the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. (See the sidebar "Get Your Command-Line Utilities Here!" for download information.) Command Prompt Here adds a context menu item in Windows Explorer that lets you launch a command prompt from whatever folder you've right-clicked on.
Dsrevoke. Have you ever granted permissions to a user or group (say, with the Active Directory Delegation of Control wizard) somewhere in a domain, but now you need to revoke those permissions? Searching through the domain and removing security principals can be tedious. Dsrevoke essentially undoes the actions of the Delegation of Control wizard or its equivalent. You can use
dsrevoke /report
to generate a report of the access control entries (ACEs) that have been set on all domain and OU objects under the domain's root. Suppose the user Barbara Seville has been granted permissions to create, manage, and delete user accounts in the Staff OU. Figure 2 shows the results of Dsrevoke /report for Barbara. To remove her permissions, simply change the /report option to /remove. Dsrevoke will display her permissions, as with /report, then confirm the deletion. Enter Y for Yes to remove her ACEs.
Note that, like the Delegation of Control Wizard, this tool works only for permissions granted on the OU; if you granted permissions explicitly to objects or containers (such as Computers) instead of letting the OU's permissions inherit to the objects, you'll have to remove the permissions on your own.
DCGPOFix and Recreatedefpol. Should you encounter severe problems with the default Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in your domain—the default domain policy and the default domain controllers policy—you can use Windows 2003's DCGPOFix or Win2K's Recreatedefpol to restore them to their default state. DCGPOFix can restore the default domain policy (/target:domain), the default domain controllers policy (/target:DC), or both (/target:both).
If you have to use the /target:both option, you'll probably need more than these tools to straighten things out. To prepare yourself for a rough situation in which you've lost one or more GPOs, take advantage of a fringe benefit of Microsoft's Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), which comes with a great set of command-line scripts and the ability to write more of your own. With no extra effort, you can back up and restore individual GPOs or all GPOs in the domain, copy individual GPOs, and generate reports on one GPO or all the GPOs in a domain in the GPMC's familiar settings format. You can even save the entire Group Policy environment—GPOs, settings, links, permissions—to an XML file with a sample script, and restore it with another script.
Repadmin. A Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) mainstay, Repadmin is the kitchen sink of replication-troubleshooting tools. This tool has so many commands (59), options, and switches that it needs three levels of Help. The /oldhelp switch displays the original syntax and options, some of which have been replaced by newer commands described in /help. (The original ones still work.) If you don't dig into the syntax, you might find yourself running a less useful version and never know it. For example, every Repadmin user seems to first learn about the /showreps switch. It's still there in Windows 2003, but a newer version—/showrepl—has a handy /errorsonly option that prevents the necessity of wading through pages of connection-object information to find errors.
The /experthelp switch lets you access undocumented, advanced Repadmin options that are dangerously powerful. In fact, the /experthelp switch itself is undocumented. The safeties are off now, so attempt these operations only in a test forest until you're familiar with them. (You get no confirmation dialog boxes that ask, "Do you really want to delete that naming
One useful /experthelp command is /options. This command lets you create a Global Catalog (GC) server with the simple command
repadmin /options +is_gc
You can reverse the operation by changing the plus (+) to a minus (-). You can quickly disable replication to a DC with the command
repadmin /options
and from a DC with the command
repadmin /options
Also, you can use the /options switch to check the status of any of these operations, as follows:
repadmin /options
A great new Repadmin command for Windows 2003 is /replsummary. This command provides a quick summary of the replication health of all the DCs in your forest, in a table-like format. The tool runs quickly, even in large forests, and you can add the /errorsonly option to limit the output to unhealthy DCs. The /bridgeheads option lists details about bridgehead servers. (With no options, the /replsummary command reports on all bridgeheads in the forest.) The /querysites option lets you determine the site link cost between two or more sites in the forest—helpful functionality for determining the least-cost route in a complicated site topology. Many more Repadmin commands await you, and time spent studying them can be rewarding.
Resource Kit
Unlike the Support Tools, the resource kit tools aren't on the installation media. Although they're slightly less crucial than the native OS utilities and Support Tools, many resource kit tools are so handy that I also recommend installing them on every server.
ADLB. The resource kit's Active Directory Load Balancing (ADLB) tool is new to Windows 2003 because it influences a new behavior in the OS. Win2K designates a single DC in each site as the bridgehead server, which handles the connection objects between its site and the sites that the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) decides it should be connected to. If you have many sites, this situation can lead to a scalability problem: The overhead of being a bridgehead server to a lot of branch office sites can load down a DC. Windows 2003 resolves that problem by permitting all DCs in a site to be bridgehead servers for the directory partitions they host, so multiple DCs can handle the connection-object load. The OS initially makes random selections but unfortunately it never rebalances them. Therefore, if the DC configuration in a site changes—for example, if you add a newer, more powerful DC—the distribution of intersite connection objects never changes. ADLB examines and rebalances the distribution of intersite connections between DCs in a site. Before you use ADLB, you need to complete your Windows 2003 DC upgrades so that it will operate evenly on all DCs. The tool won't load-balance Win2K DCs.
The simplest way to run ADLB is with the parameters /server:DcName /site:SiteName. The tool will then report on the connection objects for the target site and suggest changes. (The server you specify can be any DC that's a member of the forest.) Note that ADLB will make changes to the bridgehead configuration only when you add the /commit parameter. You can perform all ADLB operations (except /commit) without elevated rights, which makes your bridgehead-balancing investigations a little less cumbersome.
For more advanced fiddling, you can use the /stagger parameter so that ADLB takes control of the intersite replication schedule and staggers the replication interval between the connection objects that a bridgehead server owns. This functionality spreads out the impact of the replication operation on each connection object that would otherwise hit the server all at once. However, once you've used ADLB to take the replication schedule away from the KCC, you'll have to maintain it with ADLB.
ADLB needs a set of rules to work within, and you can modify just about all of them if you deem it necessary. The /maxbridge option specifies the maximum number of connection objects that AD will modify due to bridgehead load-balancing. The /maxperserver option specifies the maximum number of changes to be moved onto a DC at one time so that it won't be overloaded with a sudden increase in connection objects. You can create /preimbalance and /postimbalance reports (only in the newest version) to view inbound replication imbalances before and after balancing occurs. These reports are in comma separated value (CSV) format for easy importing into Microsoft Excel.
ADLB can be a powerful utility for your replication topology, but you need to perform a careful evaluation before you use it. My recommendation is to start by examining your largest sites (i.e., the ones with the largest number of DCs) because they're the most likely to have an imbalance. If you discover an imbalance in the connection-object distribution, don't just assume you need to fix it. Do a performance analysis on the bridgehead server that has the greatest number of connection objects. Is it actually suffering? If it's not, leave it (and the site) alone. Leave the schedule staggering alone unless you really have to modify it. Why make automated operations manual unless you have a good reason?
If you decide that you need to use ADLB to correct your connection-object distribution, run the tool on a schedule determined by your environment. If you're actively modifying your site configuration by deploying DCs, adding or changing site links, creating sites, and so on, consider running ADLB once a day. When you're done with your changes, stop using ADLB.
GPOTool. You probably associate only GUI utilities with Group Policy, but several command-line utilities are available. The resource kit's GPOTool utility checks the health of your GPOs. It reads mandatory and optional directory services properties (e.g., version, friendly name, extension globally unique identifiers GPOTool—GUIDs, and Sysvol data), compares directory services and Sysvol version numbers, and performs other consistency checks.
Third Party
Just because a tool doesn't come from Microsoft doesn't mean it can't help you. In fact, some of the most powerful Windows tools available come from third parties. Here are some must-haves.
AdFind and AdMod. AdFind and AdMod are two powerful, easy-to-use freeware utilities written by Joe Richards. AdFind is a Dsquery-like AD-query utility that offers a wide selection of options beyond those of Dsquery. Besides basic Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) search options such as base DN, filter, and scope, the tool gives you every option you can imagine—34 of them!—with which to refine the query or otherwise make AdFind easier to use. Particularly useful is AdFind's ability to provide search statistics, with the use of its four /stats options. These options tell you how efficient your query is and what indexes (if any) it used—information that can teach you how to make better LDAP queries or at least avoid making bad ones.
AdMod is similar to Dsmod, except it offers far broader powers. One of the nagging problems about Dsmod is that it lets you modify some, but not all, AD objects. For example, you can't use Dsmod to create sites, site links, or subnets. AdMod lets you modify anything in AD, and you can use it to make these modifications for large numbers of objects. However, AdMod's power also makes it very dangerous, if you aren't careful. Fortunately, the tool checks with you before it modifies more than x number of objects (10 is the default, but you can alter this number). If you need to modify large numbers of objects, you can use an -unsafe option that disables this notification. As with Dsquery and Dsmod, you can pipe AdFind's output into AdMod so that the first utility searches for certain objects or attributes and the second makes the changes you desire. You can use this pairing as a powerful scripting tool.
PsTools. Sysinternals' PsTools toolset is a collection of command-line administration tools that are useful in many situations. I find PsList, a remote process and memory viewer, particularly handy. What sets it apart from other similar utilities is how deeply it lets you dig into process and memory internals. The tool's -m option shows memory details, the -d option shows thread details, and the -t option shows the process tree, as Figure 3 shows. The process tree is handy for determining what processes run under other processes (e.g., the services process). You can run it with an automatic refresh so that it functions like a remote task manager (by using the -s option), and you can focus on a process name or PID only. By combining these options, you can zoom in on a process that might be causing a memory leak and monitor its memory usage, or you can watch a remote process's user and kernel time to see whether it's executing or hung.
Another handy tool in the PsTools toolset is PsExec, which lets you execute processes on a remote machine as if you're logged on to it. This functionality is quite useful for the many utilities that don't work remotely. For example, if you've ever needed to call a colleague at a distant location, but you weren't sure of the time at his or her office, you can query the time on a server in the user's time zone with the command
psexec \\ net time
Figure 4 shows the command's results. If you aren't sure what command you need to use, or if you want to enter multiple commands, simply enter
psexec \\ cmd.exe
to launch the command interpreter on the remote computer, and suddenly it appears as though you're in a command prompt at the console. Enter Exit to quit the remote session. For more information about PsTools, see "PsExec," July 2004, InstantDoc ID 42919.
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In the Icing Research Tunnel of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio, granular “rime ice” chunks obliterate an airfoil’s smooth surface. (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Electro-mechanical Deicing
Ice kills. That's why engineers continue to invent new ways to keep it off airplane wings.
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ON MARCH 19, 2001, COMAIR FLIGHT 5054 took off from Nassau in the Bahamas, en route to Orlando, Florida, with 25 passengers and three crew members. At about 6:22 p.m., while cruising at 17,000 feet, the aircraft entered a bank of freezing rain clouds. Pebble-like ice began to coat the airfoils and control surfaces.
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Immediately, the pilots activated the deicing “boots,” inflatable rubber tubes mounted on the wings, to break the ice off. Nevertheless, within a few minutes so much ice had accumulated that airspeed decreased nearly 70 knots (80 mph). Flight 5054, an Embraer EMB-120 twin-engine turbo-prop aircraft, began to roll and lose altitude. Only after it plummeted 7,000 feet before emerging from the clouds and exiting the icing conditions were the pilots able to regain control and make an emergency landing in West Palm Beach.
Within the last 10 years, inflight icing has caused two airliners to crash, with all on board being killed, and interest in anti-icing measures has grown markedly. In the interest of safety, the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA have teamed up to improve aircraft ice protection systems.
Ice is most dangerous when it accumulates on airfoils, disrupting airflow and causing a stall, as in the case of flight 5054. In order to gain approval to fly for extended periods in “known” icing conditions—ice that has been reported or forecast—aircraft must receive FAA certification by demonstrating that they are capable of doing so safely. To win certification, aircraft must employ either deicing systems, which shed ice accumulations, or anti-icing systems, which prevent ice from forming. A new system, Electro-Mechanical Expulsion Deicing, does both: It combines anti-icing and deicing measures. Developed by Cox & Company, a manufacturer of electro-thermal systems for marine, aviation, and rail applications, EMEDS is the first ice protection technology to receive FAA certification in 50 years. In 2001, it was certified for use on Raytheon’s Premier 1 business jet.
The technology works in conjunction with previously developed ice detection systems and is triggered automatically once sensors detect ice. First, an electro-thermal strip heats the wing’s leading edge to just above freezing, melting the ice. Other electro-thermal systems heat the leading edge enough to evaporate moisture on contact, preventing it from escaping and refreezing elsewhere as “runback” ice. Such thermal evaporative systems, like those using engine bleed air, require constant high power. “We heat the leading edge but don’t evaporate,” says Kamel Al-Khalil of Cox & Co. EMEDS solves the problem of runback ice by “keeping the water in a liquid state—a very thin film that doesn’t affect airflow,” says Al-Khalil. “The water flows downstream and eventually freezes where the aircraft is less sensitive to airflow disruptions. That’s where [the deicers] hit it.”
The deicing component of the system includes two sets of elliptical-shaped coils, or rolled circuit boards—one set for the airfoil’s upper portion and one for the lower. The coils are installed behind the heated strip, between the aircraft skin and a rigid housing. An electrical current is sent through one set of coils at a time, and as the current loops through the coil, it flows in one direction and then the opposite, inducing a magnetic field. The upper and lower portions of the coil then repel, changing the coil from an elliptical shape to a more circular one. The shape change, in turn, causes the coil to flex the aircraft skin and break the ice’s grip. Jolted with electrical energy pulses that last .0005 second, the coils deliver impact accelerations of over 10,000 Gs to the airfoil skin once a minute, shedding ice as thin as .06 inch. Despite the high G-load, the impact amplitude—the amount of movement of the aircraft skin—is only about .025 inch. The skin accelerates so rapidly, though, that ice de-bonds as if hit with a hammer.
Despite the impact loads and frequency, metal fatigue isn’t a problem, according to Al-Khalil. “We’ve run millions of cycles” on test airfoils, he says, a duty cycle many times what an airfoil typically experiences in its lifetime, without damage. The system’s service life is better than that for rubber boots, which require regular replacement when the rubber degrades. And the EMEDS system doesn’t disrupt the airfoil shape, as the boots do.
Mechanical deicing may also replace systems using anti-icing/deicing chemicals, which seep out of fine holes in the leading edges of airfoils on aircraft like the Cirrus. Fluid use on the Cirrus is certified only as “No Hazard” to normal flight operations. Chemical systems can be used only in unforeseen and emergency icing conditions.
At 28 volts and less than 10 amps aboard the Premier 1, EMEDS’s power requirements are attractively low compared with the engine bleed air or electrical power demand of thermal evaporative systems.
Raytheon uses EMEDS in the Premier’s tail section and will include it in its other jets. To anti-ice wings and ensure that no fragments reach the engines, the company will continue to use engine bleed air.
EMEDS won’t see wide use in transport aircraft until it is included in aircraft design—literally built into the wing. But it may be accepted faster in smaller general aviation aircraft, where bleed air isn’t available and weight and electrical power limitations are stringent. Many pilots prefer evaporative anti-icing systems. Says Al-Khalil, “Pilots want to use all anti-ice systems. They don’t like deicing, but they’ll live with it.”
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Often individual OrthodoxOften individual Orthodox families will decide to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25th if they live in a country where the majority celebrate on the 25th. However, most of those families also celebrate or honor January 7th as Christmas based on their religion. So for some Christian Orthodox families they will celebrate on the 25th by exchanging gifts and a family get together in response to the larger culture they live in. And then they will celebrate their religions Christmas observance on Jan. 7th, but this celebration is typically done in more religious somber fashion by gathering the family together for a feast. There is very little to no gift exchange, as that is done during the Dec. 25th celebration. This is what my family and many many other Eastern Orthodox families do who live in western countries dominated by western Christian faiths, which are mainly Catholic and Protestant, and the all the other faiths the stem from Protestantism. This is common in the USA and some places in Canada that have larger Eastern Orthodox populations. So there can be faith based and cultural based celebrations of Christmas, especially in countries that have more forgiving notions about separating religion from the greater general culture.
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9/11: Wild Conspiracies and Rational Concerns
Even when you cut through the conspiracy theories about 9/11 and head straight for the facts, the government's version still seems fuzzy.
According to a recent Zogby poll, less than half of all Americans agree that "the 9/11 attacks were thoroughly investigated and that any speculation about U.S. government involvement is nonsense."
You could almost hear a wail of frustration rising up from the gatekeepers of acceptable discourse.
Just after the Zogby poll was released, William Arkin, the Washington Post's normally circumspect military affairs columnist, had a fit of apoplexy over some e-mail from 9/11 skeptics. "National security is men's work," he wrote -- absurdly bringing gender politics into a debate that's already quite muddled -- and conspiracy theorists are, presumably, not real men, but "predatory and devious, seekers of polarization and not light, abusive of the political system [and] contemptuous of anything that even resembles the 'truth.'"
One wonders what he really thinks.
Outside of the world of punditry, the 9/11 conspiracies should come as no surprise, especially when you consider how ripe the events of 9/11 are for "alternative" analysis.
That begins with the basic premise that underlies the most common conspiracy theories. I, for one, have no problem accepting the notion that a small group of true believers -- people like Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of the neocon "cabal" -- used the attacks of 9/11 to seize and consolidate power. And I'm comfortable accepting that they view liberal democracy as a threat, their political opponents as a national weakness, and American militarism as the best hope for humanity.
They've proved, to my mind, that they're happiest when governing in secrecy -- a prerequisite for a conspiracy. Think about the administration's obsession with classifying everything under the sun, or Dick Cheney going all the way to the Supreme Court to avoid divulging who, exactly, crafted America's energy policy.
The administration's hardliners also represent a nexus between the more authoritarian end of our political spectrum and the anti-egalitarian business Right; the administration and its backers, allies and former partners are making an unprecedented fortune in all corners of the "war on terror," and that goes to motive.
It's a group of ideologues that knows its prescriptions aren't popular. The Project for a New American Century, where a "White House in waiting" of hard-right operatives weathered the Clinton years, urged a massive "rebuilding" of America's military capabilities ( PDF), but warned that it wouldn't be easy unless there was a major attack on the American homeland. "The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor," they wrote.
And while Arkin might consider the preceding paragraph evidence of the most "predatory and devious" kind of fringe thinking, I’d say it’s simply naïve to dismiss the many occasions in history when exaggerated or false external threats were used to rally a nation to a war footing (and abridge civil rights at home) -- from the explosion aboard the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor to the Reichstag fire to the Gulf of Tonkin.
So you have suspects and motive, and they accord more or less with some distinctly mainstream progressive analyses. That's not, however, evidence of anything. So, to repeat, while there's a pretty clear record of Bush Republicans taking advantage of 9/11 - think Rudy Giuliani's 2004 GOP convention speech that mentioned September 11 four score times - there's nothing concrete to suggest that they were behind it.
Indeed the place to start considering the events behind 9/11 is to look at the federal government's official version of what happened and see if it's accurate. If there are holes or serious flaws -- and there are -- then we should try to get an accurate version of what happened and proceed from there.
Let's start with a simple fundamental problem with the 9/11 report:
We may not know who all the hijackers really were.
Three days after the attack, the FBI released the names of those infamous 19 hijackers (photos here).
But the following was reported, not on some fringe website, but by the BBC on Sept. 23:
Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco. …
Abdelaziz Al Omari "lost his passport in Denver." He says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. …
Khalid Al-Midhar may also be alive.
But if you go to the 9/11 Commission report, and look at pages 38 and 39 in section seven ( PDF) you'll see the same 19 hijackers without any suggestion that there's a doubt about their identities. Mueller later said all the doubts were resolved, according to CBS. But what about the guys who are saying that the rumors of their deaths have been greatly exaggerated?
In my research for this article, I went through several websites dedicated to debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories, but was unable to find anything disputing the BBC story (and anyone who has contrary evidence is invited to send it to me or post a refutation in the comments section of this article).
Besides the doubt around the identities of the hijackers, there were also two passports belonging to the hijackers that were supposedly found, intact, near the World Trade Center. That was reported by the Associated Press (citing CBS News) and the British newspaper, the Guardian.
There's a pretty clear dividing line between the idea that the Bush administration's ideologues used the attacks of 9/11 to consolidate power and the idea that they participated in those attacks. The former is a fairly mainstream liberal critique; the latter is rank conspiracy theory, unsupported by any serious evidence.
Having taken a long bath in the world of 9/11 conspiracism, I still think the most likely scenario is that the Bush administration was obsessed with rival powers -- Russia and China -- and ignored the terror issue. After the attacks, the security agencies were under enormous, unrelenting pressure to show Americans they were in control and they needed to show that they were on top of the investigation at all costs. These things would certainly require sanitizing in the 9/11 report and other official narratives for the sake of expediency and creating the appearance that the government was on the job.
Having said that, I'd also be receptive to evidence that the Bush administration had a far greater degree of knowledge about the how and why of the attacks, and looked the other way and let them happen. All I'd need to buy that would be a bit of evidence. After all, we've recently learned in a report published on AlterNet that New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who had a direct link to the most powerful office in Washington (Dick Cheney's), said she had been warned of a terrorist attack.
But that kind of evidence is almost certainly not forthcoming; there will be no further serious investigation into the events of 9/11. Ironically, that's largely because of the 9/11 "truth movement" itself -- by embracing fanciful notions that the government blew up the World Trade Center with thermite charges, or that the Pentagon was hit by a missile -- makes it hard for the rest of us to express rational skepticism of the official account.
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Reflections on Virginia Tech
A senseless massacre that teaches us nothing
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SIR, the lesson/solution is obvious at least to most of the civilised world: ban fire arms ownership.
The lesson is not learnt in the US because you have a well entrenched, well connected gun lobby that spends fortunes telling Americans that guns don't kill people.
chet morrison
I could not disagree more with the thesis that the VT atrocity 'teaches us nothing'. When someone has a problem, often the first barrier to doing something about it is denial, and until that wall is breached, therapy goes nowhere. May I suggest that the event teaches us that we have a problem with guns in society? That levels of gun violence dwarf that of other western nations who practice gun control strictly? That, like a heroin addict, we barrel on blinded to events? That we learn nothing is like this heroin addict who gets blood poisoning from an infected needle and thus concludes he has to wipe his needles more vigorously.
I do not know the solution to this problem. I would suggest that getting a gun should at least prompt the same level of competence we ask of people to drive a car, but maybe there are better ways. I would however submit, that the first thing to solving a problem is at least admitting that you have one. I think the family and friends of the 11,000 dead people per year might even agree with that.
Countries with better gun control have these massacres too (Britain, Germany, Finland, Australia, Canada). If a sizable minority of the population on campus carried a gun, there would be no more mass killings, just many, many more individual shootings. The person most likely to shoot you is your spouse or significant other. America has the worst of all worlds now, with lots of guns, lots of people with guns, and lot of areas where no law-abiding person is allowed to carry one, including campuses. Given that many Americans view their gun as their guarantee of personal and collective freedom, and will not give them up, perhaps we should recruit a screened, trained, corp of volunteers allowed to carry guns everywhere. In a country full of guns, perhaps that's the most responsible view to take.
I know a girl who was there that day. That sort of experience leaves scars. I don't have an easy answer.
Doug Pascover
Excellent column. The likelihood of preventing terrible things from happening has to be balanced against the likelihood and consequence of false positives. In the case of school shootings, incarcerating, limiting or expelling every student who verbalizes dark thoughts would also be tragic.
Not me, bimasta. I don't recall that.
Shortly after the shootings at Virginia Tech, news accounts were published that the shooter had submitted a short story and a one-act play in his writing classes, both of which described the sexual abuse of an 11 or 12 year old boy, presumably himself, including forced sodomy, and this boy's anger and desire for revenge. The media dropped the story quickly, perhaps so as not even to hint that the mass-killer might be some kind of 'vicitim' himself. If those early accounts were true, then his teachers definitely, and inexcusably, "dropped the ball" -- or in this case, the Time Bomb. Do any other Economist readers have any light to shed on those early news accounts, which disappeared so quickly?
Anthony Probus
I don't see how anyone can NOT support gun control after an outburst of shootouts that are happening across America in the past few years. Are people really that blinded by ideology as to not see the obvious?
I just want to point out that Lexington carefully avoids mentioning the shooter's name for the entire article. I wonder if he/she gives some credence to that "blame the media for sensationalizing previous killers" thesis?
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Silly new preemie mum question about feeding!
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MultipleMama Fri 04-Oct-13 03:00:59
One of my preemie twins is in the process of latching. She's doing well on b/m through feeding tube and showing signs of wanting to latch.
I can't be there 24/7 as much as I'd like to be i.e night feeds etc.
I'm worried about when the time comes when she's feeding from the breast and I'm not there when she's hungry. Would the nurses introduce bottles? Can I say no to this? I really want to avoid bottles completely. If I can, how will she be fed, by tube?
I'm clueless and hesitant to bring it up with the nurses in case they look at me like I'm silly for even thinking of not doing bottles...
So, yeah. That really.
ljny Fri 04-Oct-13 03:30:34
I don't think you're silly at all. No idea whether the unit would be willing to continue tube-feeding when she's able to take a bottle.
If it helps, my premie DD1 went from feeding tube to special easy-to-suck bottles, then when her sucking got stronger, she had a few breastfeeds a day whilst still in hospital.
The first week home was a bit rocky, and a couple of times I gave her a bottle, but she adjusted in a week or so - and went on to be entirely breastfed, for about 9 months.
Guess I'm assuming you want to avoid bottles so she doesn't reject the breast - or do you have another reason?
Hopefully someone who knows more about current practices will be along soon. But please don't worry about the nurses thinking you're silly - you're her mum, you have every right to voice your concerns. She's your child - you're the one who will raise her.
And congratulations on your twins! Good luck.
Featherbag Fri 04-Oct-13 03:36:05
When my DS was at a point where he was actually hungry rather than it being 'time' for a feed, he was deemed ready to go home! I roomed in at the hospital for 48 hours to make sure he and I were able to bf well enough to feed him which didn't work but that's a whole other story and then I took him home! This was at 3wo actual, he was born at 32 weeks gestation and had been tube fed BM until then, with me bfing when I was there (usually 2-3 feeds per day).
JeneLew Sat 05-Oct-13 00:54:28
It's not silly at all. I didn't want my ds to be bottle fed so discussed it with the breastfeeding coordinator once we were in SCBU. They couldn't give a bottle without my consent so he had tube feeds during the night and on demand breast feeds through the day for a few days then I roomed into establish night feeds. He's been home 3 weeks now and is completely breastfed. The best thing I was told was to stick to my guns about it, depending on age it's easier for the nurses to give a bottle. If you don't have a breast feeding coordinator at the unit your in speak to the nurse you have the best relationship with. In my experience they want to help you be the mum you planned to be.
Congratulation on your early arrival.
PrincessScrumpy Sat 05-Oct-13 01:17:36
They gave up tube feeding dtd2 because dtd1 kept pulling the tube out but even with me being in the hospital 24/7 I couldn't get enough milk in her so she was cup fed by the nurse. We were in hospital for 8 days and I went on to breast feed for 6.5 months (with one bottle of formula a day). Good luck xx
laughingeyes2013 Sat 05-Oct-13 01:34:31
I had exactly the same situation with my prem baby. The only difference was that he isn't a twin.
I was in hospital with a girl who was also experiencing the same, and we were both given a bottle and told to try and feed to see how we get on.
I didn't want to bottle feed for fear of losing the chance to breastfeed, mostly because I was told they get used to and choose the easiest method of getting milk, and its easier to suck from a bottle.
The other girl fought hard (through spluttering and choking) to teach her baby to bottle feed. I gave it a half hearted attempt behind closed curtains and reported to staff that he couldn't tolerate the flow, it was too fast and making him choke.
For some reason they accepted this and waited for him to latch until he left the hospital. It only took 24 hours so I was lucky.
The other girl and I met up for coffee when out babies were a month old, and she still couldn't get her baby to switch from bottle to breast. She was trying valiantly and I really respected that, but she wast getting anywhere so I felt really sorry she had been so let down at the start.
The trouble is that when you're grateful for staff saving your baby's life, it's hard to complain about not being helped to breastfeed properly, but all hospitals have a duty of care to support women to be able to do this if they want to. Sometimes they just need reminding.
Mandy21 Mon 07-Oct-13 16:02:47
I think it depends on each unit but afaik, they wont introduce a bottle if you don't want them to. My DTs were given a cup feed if I wasnt there during the night, 1 DT was quite good and would take most of a feed that way (it was my expressed milk) but usually the other one didnt take very much and was tube fed. As others have said, roomed in when they thought they were ready, they actually lost a couple of oz each ( think they used too much energy taking all of their feeds from the breast) so they went back on the unit for a couple of days and then we tried again. B/f for 11 months. Good luck.
MrsCaptainJackSparrow Mon 07-Oct-13 23:15:03
The hospital continues to tube feed my ds over night and I was just expected to be there all day. I then stayed in the family room over the weekend when he got the gang of latching on and we went home on the Monday morning grin
I breastfed DS for the feeds when I was there at the hospital (9am - 7pm) while he still had his ng tube - when they were happy that he was taking enough that he no longer needed to be tube fed, they cup fed him overnight, then I roomed in for the next two nights before we took him home.
Do say to the staff that breast feeding is important to you and you don't want to bottle feed - you might still have to use them a little, we gave DS about 20ml a day in a bottle for his vitamins and iron - they should help support you. Ask to speak to the unit's infant feeding specialist if you want some extra support.
Good luck thanks hope you are taking your twins home soon smile
CMOTDibbler Tue 08-Oct-13 18:15:35
You can absolutely say that you want to avoid bottles as you don't want to do anything that might compromise bfing. The nurses can cup or spoon feed, or just continue tube feeds when you aren't there
Mama1980 Tue 08-Oct-13 18:18:00
Not silly at all. My ds kept his tube so he could be tube fed overnight but breast fed (when he was able to suck) during the day. I refused both bottles and formula top ups. I suggest you have a word with your nicu named nurse/contact but it should be possible.
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This essay was written by Carl Watner in December 1985, and published in The Voluntaryist, May 1986, Vol. 3, No. 6.
In 1964, an article appearing inThe New York Timesnewspaper described Raymond Cyrus (R.C.) Hoiles as "slight of build, hawk-nosed toothy, bespectacled, with a fringe of still dark hair around his other-wise bald head." It also publicly identified Hoiles as a voluntaryist. With regards to the upcoming national elections (Goldwater was running for President), the same article reported that Hoiles was not inclined to look towards the ballot box for the quick adoption of his libertarian ideas. In fact, it quoted R.C. as stating, "It doesn't make much difference who is President. What is important is the attitude of the American people."
Another contemporary sketch of R.C. by Robert LeFevre painted him as "a rare old bird, a combination of crusty, two-fisted, hard-headed egoist, and a gentle, optimistic, hard-working idealist. The man is, a true genius in my view. His writings are about the most cumbersome, unwieldy and unreadable in print. In fact, I once stated that it was a good thing that R.C. owned some newspapers because no independent publisher would ever accept anything he wrote. Nor, so far as I know, has anyone ever done so. Yet, what R.C. thinks and writes, if you can interpret it, is magnificent. I love the old man." [Letter from Robert LeFevre to Howard Kessler, April 16,1964]
Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (born November 24,1878; died October 30, 1970) was the founder of the Freedom Newspaper chain, a group of daily newspapers that grew out of his employment as a printer's devil in the early 1900's. His newspaper organization still exists today. It could probably be described as the greatest money-making device ever put together in support of human liberty and human dignity. Its editorial pages were (and still are) dedicated "to furnishing information to [its] readers so that they can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to see its blessings." [From the masthead of the Colorado SpringsGazette Telegraph, November 24, 1984]The Hoiles papers distinguished themselves from all other newspapers by the contents of their editorial pages. Their news sections were the models of industry standards in factual reporting, but they were without doubt the only papers in the United States that came out against such things as tax-supported compulsory education, labor unions, and the United Nations.
In short, Hoiles "carried freedom's flame," as an editorial in one of the Freedom Newspapers announced on the anniversary of what would have been his 106th birthday. He gave encouragement to such people as Frank Chodorov, Rose Wilder Lane, Robert LeFevre, Ludwig von Mises, and Leonard Read; people who were largely responsible for the creation of the libertarian movement in the last quarter of the 20th Century. For more than 35 years, through conversation and the written word, R.C. "contended that human beings can enjoy happier, more prosperous lives in a voluntary society where force or threats of force are absent from human relationships." He believed that a single standard governed all human relationships:, that neither the lone individual nor any group of people (even if it were the majority and called itself the State) had any right to initiate force.
"Hoiles displayed that rare mixture of principle and worldly practicality" which was necessary to transmit his ideas to literally millions of newspaper readers over the course of several decades. The purpose of this essay is to show how R.C. was a unique blending of both philosopher and businessman, who created an empire dedicated to selling both newspaper and ideas.
R.C. was born in the Mt. Union section of Alliance, Ohio. His dad was considered a successful farmer in the area and had a keen business sense. By the time R.C. graduated from public high school, one of the most important lessons he had learned from his father was never to ask anybody to do something for him that he was not prepared to do himself. This lesson served him well in the business world as well as in the realm of moral ideas. During his college days at a Methodist school (Mt. Union College), R.C. spent his weekends working as a subscription solicitor for the AllianceReview. This was his first real introduction to newspapering. After teaching school and an assortment of odd jobs, R.C. eventually went to work for his older brother, Frank, who had purchased theReview. He started as a printer's devil at $2 per week.
In 1905, R.C. married Mable Myrtle Crumb and over the course of the next few years was to father four children: Clarence (November 1905 - December 31, 1981), Raymond (died 1920), Harry (born January 27, 1916) and Mary Jane (born April 1922). When theReviewsbookkeeper died, R.C. took over that job and eventually became Frank's business manager. By 1919, R.C. had managed to accumulate enough money to buy into two newspapers with his brother. At that time, R.C. owned a one-third interest in theReviewand a two-thirds interest in the Lorain, OhioTimes Herald. Several years later, he bought a third interest in another newspaper, theNewsof Mansfield, Ohio.
By swapping part of his holdings for those of his brother, R.C. managed to take full control of two newspapers by the mid-1920's. He and his brother Frank could no longer operate in tandem, since Frank insisted that their newspapers say nothing against labor unions, while R.C. persisted in speaking his mind. So in 1927, when he purchased the Bucyrus, OhioTelegraph-Forum, R.C. already fully owned the MansfieldNewsand the LorainTimes Herald. His son, Clarence, was sent to manage the Bucyrus newspaper, while R.C. lived in Mansfield and served as publisher there.
Shortly thereafter, Hoiles "entered into one of the bitterest newspaper fights in the history of the publishing business in Ohio." The Hoiles paper in Lorain had exposed the corruption prevalent in the awarding of paving contracts to the Highway Contracting Company of Cleveland. Horowitz, the owner of this company, was eventually shown to be the owner of the newspapers in Lorain and Mansfield, both of which strove to "get even" with Hoiles for his part in exposing the fraudulent practices. The rivalry between Horowitz and Hoiles prevailed till 1931, but in the meantime the front porch of the Hoiles home was destroyed by an explosion in November 1928, Hoiles' car was wired with dynamite (which fortunately failed to detonate), and a dud bomb was discovered in the office of the MansfieldNews. None of this gangsterism was ever explained, but it did motivate R.C. into selling the papers in Mansfield and Lorain.
During the New Deal days, R.C. became a victim of New Deal legislation. He had effected the sale of his two papers in Ohio in 1931, but according to the terms of settlement he was not to receive all of the proceeds until 1935. By that time FDR had devalued the dollar and nullified the gold clause in all private contracts. As R.C. expressed himself in a private letter to Robert LeFevre, written on February 4, 1964, he "had a little experience" with the government abrogation of contracts whereby "I lost $240,000." It was for this reason, if no other, that he concluded, government should have nothing to do with money or credit.
The proceeds from this sale were used to purchase daily papers in other parts of the country. The Santa Ana, CaliforniaRegisterand the Clovis, New MexicoNews Journalwere acquired in 1935. A year later, the Pampa, TexasDaily Newsbecame a Hoiles property. These along with theTelegraph-Forumof Ohio days, formed the nucleus of the Freedom Newspapers. No new papers were acquired during World War II, but R.C. did At one time during the war, he was fined $1,000 by the Federal Government for raising wages in violation of government statutes achieve a degree of notoriety during that time.. His editorial stance against the forcible relocation and internment of Japanese Americans was noted all across the country. He vigorously opposed their evacuation and fought for lifting the bans placed on them.
As the Japanese American Citizens League once put it, Hoiles "was the only one with the courage of his convictions." [Gazette Telegraph, January 23, 1966, p. 8-E]One other example will illustrate R.C.'s sublime indifference to compromise, even though his adherence to principle might be costly. Once in Santa Ana, a cub reporter was writing news stories about a group of local businessmen who had contrived an anti-chain store organization. When the managers of the chain stores, who represented over half of the advertising revenue of theRegister, walked into his office and demanded that the stories about their opposition cease, Hoiles responded in the following manner. "You can take your advertising out of my paper. That's your business. But I'm running this paper and I'll say what is to be printed in it as long as I'm running it, and if the stories are true, and we think that they are news, they're going to run whether you like it or not." [Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, p.8]
After World War II, Hoiles purchased two more papers. His son, Harry, became the publisher of the Colorado SpringsGazette Telegraph, and his daughter, Mary Jane Hardie, became associated with the Marysville, CaliforniaAppeal Democratin 1946. A year after the purchase of theGazette Telegraph, that paper entered a strike of its employees, who were members of the International Typographical Union (ITU). The strike action began in January 1947 and R.C. refused to make a satisfactory contract agreement with the local involved. Picketting ceased in July, but the ITU did not give up its efforts. It funded a competition paper, known as theFree Press, which existed for at least two decades. A similar occurrence took place in Lima, Ohio, when Hoiles purchased theNewsthere in 1956. In the interval the Freedom Newspapers had expanded to include the Odessa, TexasAmerican(1948) and three other Texas papers (1951), the BrownsvilleHerald, the McAllen ValleyEvening Monitor, and the Harlingen ValleyMorning Star. The Anaheim, CaliforniaBulletinwas acquired in 1962.
It was not until after these purchases in the early 50's that the designation "Freedom Newspapers" was applied to the Hoiles' acquisitions. Although R.C. first suggested that they collectively be designated "our watchful newspapers," the "freedom" label was ultimately selected as being far more descriptive of their overall editorial policy and outlook. When theNew York Timeswrote about Hoiles in 1964, the combined circulation of these dailies exceeded 300,000. By the time of Hoiles' death, the Freedom chain also included the LaHabra, CaliforniaDaily Star-Progress(1963). The Turlock, California TurlockDaily Journal(1965), the Gastonia, North CarolinaGastonia Gazette(1969), three dailies in Florida, the Panama CityNews-Herald(1969), the Fort PierceNews Tribune(1969), the Fort Walton BeachPlayground Daily News(1969), and the Columbus, NebraskaTelegram(1970). In 1985, the chain comprised nearly 30 papers with a combined daily circulation of almost 1,000,000 readers.
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Help Please-- How do you slash a loaf properly?
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Help Please-- How do you slash a loaf properly?
I have a batch of sourdough rising now (it claims to have a soft crust- my children prefer that-) that I would like to try slashing. I have tried slashing only two or three times and I clearly do it wrong. I read in BBA that the slashes should be almost perpendicular to the top of the loaf. That didn't work. I don't have great tools yet - a serrated knife and a single edge blade is all. I always seem to catch the corner of the blade or deflate a nicely risen loaf. Also, the slashes don't open much. I can try to get a lame (BTW- how do you pronounce that?) today if it is really required. There are so many beautifully slashed loaves pictured on this site, I'd love to try it. Thanks.
Felila's picture
No matter how carefully I sharpened my knives, I couldn't get a good slash. I'm broke and can't afford a bakers lame (I think it's "lahm") with blades, so I bought a pack of old-fashioned razor blades. I handle the blade carefully so as not to get slashed myself. The razor blades do the trick. I get lovely deep slashes and the bread doesn't deflate (unless it's over-proofed).
Grey's picture
I went to a local hobby shop (Model Airplanes, Warhammer, Comics, etc.) and got an exacto knife that's sort of like a scalpal, I picked up a pack of blades for it and cleaned them with some alcohol.
Ah, In fact Wikipedia has a picture of the exact type of knife I ended up using, (Though obviously the blade is a lot cleaner on mine)
Oldcampcook's picture
I use double edged razor blades and whittle down a popsicle stick so that it will fit into the slot in the middle. Makes a nice curved lamé.
willow's picture
I screwed my double edge razor to a dowel rod. So I have a nice 12" handle.
dougal's picture
What happens because of your slash depends on how you slash, but also on what you did before to the dough, and what happens after it goes into the oven.
The basic idea is to channel the oven spring to open the slashes. The slashes are there to stop the spring tearing the loaf randomly. It'll give where its weakest - hopefully at your slashes!
So you must get oven spring. (Long subject in itself! - but don't overproof, do use a properly hot oven and stone, and use initial steam...)
And you have to avoid other weak spots on the surface. You want the surface to be strong, and evenly so. You do that by evenly tensioning the surface during your shaping process - which aligns the gluten parallel to the surface. The tension largely relaxes away, but the alignment (and thus strengthening) stays! (Anyway, shaping is another big subject closely connected with slashing.)
Cheap Trick: You can make a curved lame from a double edged ("safety") razor blade and a Starbucks coffee stirring stick - just bend the blade so that the stick goes through the "end holes" in the blade. Be careful with your fingers! But the sticks do seem to be the exact ideal dimension...
mkelly27's picture
I found an abundant supply of "Lame" handles at my local coffee shop.
Redundancy is your friend, so is redundancy
pantone_000's picture
I have been thinking of that idea too, but haven't dont it yet. Will post when I get to do it. :)
cpmart's picture
I'm going to add something that I stumbled upon that has made my slashes much nicer, even though I am a rank amature compared to the other bakers here.
I too us a razor blade for the lame (bought a pack of single edged, and just hold it in my hand). What I found made a difference in slashing my baguettes and batards was doing the final proof in a cloth. The slashing surface became a little dry, and almost had a skin (I hate to use that word, it is just slightly dryer). I am able to slash without dragging and the slashes open up beautifully. So no more plastic covering of the final proof for me, I just lay a towel over the loaves. Give it a shot sometime and good luck
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single edge razor blades the type used in box cutters can be found at any hardwars store. and with only one sharp edge there much safer.
to get a clean cut the blade must be dip the blade in warm water before each cut.
in order to not catch the corner of the blade in the dough hold the plade at a 45 degree angle or only the far corner of the blade touch the dough and pull in only one direction (back to you never push) and depending on the shape cut down 1/4 to 1/2 inch
you can also cut the bread about 20 minutes before it goes into the oven cover and finish proof. that time will alow the cuts to open up a little more
KazaKhan's picture
I used a razor blade based (curved) lame for the 1st time last week and i was not impressed. I'll be sticking to pairing knives from Victorinox, which have served me well over the last few years. Watch this guys no fuss use of a pairing knife ;-)
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Your link to Vincent is a great example. If you watch the other videos by the same author you see one where the baker drags the knife across the metal at the top of his peel. He is putting an edge on it just before using it.
Sort of by accident I tried a tomato knife the other day and it was amazingly easy to get a no grab slash. Much better than the single edge razor or sharpened paring knife I usually use. Try a serrated edge paring or bread knife. I had heard of this but never actually tried it. Be bold and let the blade do the work.
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Larry Clark
Here's a collection of interesting videos on shaping and slashing dough. Watch "La Scarification" to see how the experts do it.
Marni's picture
Thank you to everyone who offered their advice and tips on slashing. Everything was helpful and informative. I would never have tought of an exacto knife! The links are great, I'll be revisiting them. I guess ( hope!) that this will just take practice to get right -trying different tools and techniques until one works. I tried again last night with such poor results that I didn't even take pictures. At least the bread tasted good!
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I tried all sorts of knives and razor blades for slashing, and what ended up working for me best were the cheap serrated table/steak knives that I got in a pack of 16 from Sam's Club.
I think the serration does a good job of cutting. but I honestly think that the most important part is knowing how much pressure to use. Just hard enough to break the outer layer, just deep enough so the slash spreads slightly, and just fast enough so that the dough doesn't stick to the blade.
Experience is the best teacher, so just keep trying and you'll discover that what you slash with doesn't really matter quite as much as how you slash it.
Felila's picture
I finally checked my French dictionary, my Petit Larousse. It's lame, no accent, and pronounced "lahm". It means blade, flake, or lamination.
I've never met another dedicated baker in person; all my knowledge comes from websites and cookbooks. So I often have to look up pronunciations. Or wish I had, when I make a mistake.
Marni's picture
I also don't know any bakers who would have the answer. Would you mind too much checking the pronunciation of couche? I need to get one and I'd like to say it correctly! Thanks.
Felila's picture
That one's easy. It comes from couchez, to lay (down). Are you old enough to remember the old disco song, Voulez-vous couchez avec moi? (Do you want to sleep with me?) Koosh-ay. Koosh.
I now raise my loaves as boules, on a greased baking pan. Over them I put a thickly woven flowered cloth that I inherited from my mother and ultimately, my paternal grandmother. It looks quite cheerful and according to advice given above, it may be partly responsible for the nice slashes I've been getting lately.
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Hi, Marni.
Couche is pronounced "coosh," more or less. In French, the final e is very softly voiced. How strongly depends on the region. So maybe "coosh-uh" is closer.
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I figure that 100 years ago or so, when refinements like lames didn't exist, people used whatever did the job. As it happens, I have several old german steel straight razors that work just beautifully, as long as I wipe down the blades after I make my cuts, so that the acid in the (sour)dough doesn't corrode the blade or dull the edge.
Also, a couple of other points:
I agree with cpmart that proofing the loaves en couche or in a banneton does make a difference. Both the linen and willow wick moisture away from the dough, leaving a slightly drier 'skin' that's both easier to slash and also retains a more defined border between the skin and the internal dough;
Also, I find that holding the blade at about 45 degrees from vertical when I slash (and I slash deep -- generally 3/4" to 1") gives me a much better grigne, which is the "ear" that the french bakers talk about -- the little shelf of bread on either side of the slash, as in the pic below.
Hope this helps. Stan
After 25 years of hobby brewing, a friend of mine decided to open an artisan brewery, where he focuses on European-style, reinheitsgebot-compliant beers -- generally in the 8.5% alcohol range. I love his stuff, and we've spent hours discussing the finer points of yeast, grain, enzymes and the idiosyncrasies of lacto- and acetobacillus. Finally, after some weeks of thinking about it, I took a stab at using one of his beers -- a seasonal doppelbock-style beer with low hops and high wheat content -- in a bread .... and here's the result, a wonderful sweet and malty loaf with just a hint of hops. Even my wife, who doesn't care for strong-tasting bread, likes this one. To make it, I used 16oz of beer (boiled to remove the CO2), 4oz water, 12oz KA unbleached bread flour, 10oz medium WW flour, 3oz blackstrap molasses, 1 oz honey, 0.30 oz active dry yeast, 0.60 oz salt. The dough rose quickly, thanks to the molasses and honey, 60 min ferment/45min proof. Baked on a stone preheated to 500 and then reduced to 450 for a total of 20 min.Enjoy!
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Thanks for the advice and support. The last loaves were so disappointing, but I can't give up. Dough is doing its bulk ferment in the fridge and I will try again tonight.
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I've just moved back to UK after being in australia - and since moving my slashes don't work anymore! So I think it is the dough itself rather than the basic razor blade held in my hand. Either that or they don't make them sharp here!? I used to get clean, even cuts and good 'ears'. Now the blade drags the dough and hardly makes an impression. I will try covering them with a cloth, instead of either leaving them plain, or bagged in the frig. I'm following the tartine method, but very loosely, with lots of time in the fridge sometimes, inbetween stages, as dictated by hectic life of a mum. Perhaps the bread loses some spring due to length of time proofing. I do get a great shaped loaf, and good holes, just rubbish slashes. The crusts are much softer now, too. I need a bread doctor! How are you going marni? | <urn:uuid:27a5f770-c716-49d4-bcad-098a07fa4b6c> | http://www.thefreshloaf.com/comment/33906 | en | 0.941557 | 0.020433 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Paul Walker Crash Video: Does it Show Escape Attempt?
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A close examination of the fatal Paul Walker crash video showing the Porsche engulfed in flames reveals a shadowy image appearing to flail.
As a result, speculation is swirling the image, seen roughly 23 seconds into the video, is the actor trying in vain to escape the motorized death trap.
But does the video really show that? Or anything conclusive?
Law enforcement sources investigating Paul Walker's cause of death say that the actor and his friend Roger Rodas never got out of their seats.
Investigators are confident that driver Roger absolutely didn't move and was killed on impact, whereas Paul died of thermal and traumatic injuries.
Thus, the rumor that he's still trying to get out in the video.
Upon further examination, however, police sources say the image seen in video shot right after the crash is not Walker and not an escape attempt.
As for what the image really is? Officials have watched the video, and based on evidence from the site, it appears to be a part of the car's roof burning.
Sources say that based on photos of the wreck, Paul's body was pinned in an area of the car that makes it clear he couldn't have been flailing outside it.
Also, based on the injuries he suffered, investigators think Paul died very quickly after impact, and therefore it's impossible that this is Walker.
It's not clear how long after impact the crash video starts, but clearly more than a few seconds, which is likely all it took for Walker to pass away.
That's fortunate in the sense that at least the 40-year-old star didn't suffer as he might have had he survived half a minute in that towering inferno.
His fans, family and colleagues, of course, suffered an immeasurable loss. Vin Diesel, Tyrese and Paul's father have all given touching tributes.
I don't want to sound like a dick, but this accident was not inevitable. Speeding results in an accident like this, even if you are a skilled driver and know what the fuck you're doing. I hate ANYONE had to die of something like this. Ryan Dunn died in a similar way but only he was drinking and speeding. Shit happens. People die like this almost everyday in America due to speeding and uncontrollable driving. Some mistakes are just not worth your life. Let that be a lesson learned for everyone. R.I.P. Paul Walker.
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Admit it - you totally would have had sex with Neandertals
Now that we know for certain that early Homo sapiens had babies with Homo neandertalensis, it's time to get real about what it was probably like when those two groups of early humans met in Europe. Homo sapiens had just trudged up out of Africa, and Neandertals had been living in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years. But they were still the same species, capable of forming families together - and of sharing cultural knowledge, too.
Svante Paabo, whose lab at the Max Planck Institute was responsible for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, recently discovered that DNA from these barrel-chested people is still present in many Europeans today. In a recent lecture, Paabo joked about all the mail he'd received since announcing his discovery. A lot of it was from men claiming that they believed they were Neandertal throwbacks who should be studied. The women who wrote him rarely claimed to be Neandertals, but often offered up their husbands for study.
These letters are more than just amusing. As Paabo pointed out, they reveal a prevalent stereotype of Neandertals - that they were men. And usually they're portrayed as unattractive men, to boot.
But several new studies demonstrate that Neandertals were anything but macho brutes. They wore feathers, created art, and had a culture as developed as that of their Homo sapiens counterparts. That's probably what brought the two groups together in the first place. Anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore recently reported on a newly-defined Neandertal culture, called Uluzzian, which offers us a picture of what life was like among Neandertals when the Homo sapiens first arrived. These Uluzzians weren't simple people who were "civilized" by invading Homo sapiens. They had their own way of life - one which was probably very attractive to the human newcomers.
Admit it - you totally would have had sex with Neandertals
According to the University of Colorado at Denver:
Riel-Salvatore identified projectile points, ochre, bone tools, ornaments and possible evidence of fishing and small game hunting at Uluzzian archeological sites throughout southern Italy . . .
"My conclusion is that if the Uluzzian is a Neanderthal culture it suggests that contacts with modern humans are not necessary to explain the origin of this new behavior. This stands in contrast to the ideas of the past 50 years that Neanderthals had to be acculturated to humans to come up with this technology," he said. "When we show Neanderthals could innovate on their own it casts them in a new light. It `humanizes' them if you will . . . The fact that Neanderthals could adapt to new conditions and innovate shows they are culturally similar to us," he said. "Biologically they are also similar. I believe they were a subspecies of human but not a different species."
"It is likely that Neanderthals were absorbed by modern humans," he said. "My research suggests that they were a different kind of human, but humans nonetheless. We are more brothers than distant cousins."
The more we learn about early human culture, the more obvious it becomes that Neandertals and Homo sapiens were forming communities together. And they weren't doing it because a "superior" human came and crushed the Neandertals. They were doing it because two groups of equals met and decided to shack up together.
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Nice to know a 1-day suspension did absolutely nothing to restore his sanity – Michael Mrozek Feb 6 '11 at 3:32
@Michael I believe they have to have a protocol and they have to follow it. 1 day then proceeding onwards. – jcolebrand Feb 6 '11 at 3:35
@drachenstern I'm not criticizing the mods for suspending him for a day, I'm criticizing "I quit" for not taking that day to chill out. I can understand somebody getting angry and vandalizing their own posts before they've thought it through, but if they're still doing it a day later then in my opinion they're a little unbalanced – Michael Mrozek Feb 6 '11 at 3:37
@Michael ~ Ahh, I agree. – jcolebrand Feb 6 '11 at 3:53
@Michael This is exactly what I mean. I removed my content and I'm attacked and called names. Wow, how professional. – Mike Bethany Feb 6 '11 at 3:57
@Mike I'm not calling you names, I'm questioning your rationality; why would you keep at it after you were suspended for a day and the license policy was explicitly explained to you? If you suddenly hate SO, just walk away... – Michael Mrozek Feb 6 '11 at 3:59
@Michael Saying, "...restore his sanity." is an ad hominem attack, an attack against my character. No licences was EVER explained to me until I was suspended the second time and after being called a twit. Why do you want my content so badly? Shouldn't it be my right to remove it? If I'm so clearly unbalanced then my content should be removed. No means no, it's a simple as that. If a woman says yes to sex then later says no is it within your rights to still have sex with her? – Mike Bethany Feb 6 '11 at 4:04
@Mike I'm absolutely attacking your character, I don't think that was ever in question. It's ridiculous to suddenly try to destroy all your posts just because you dislike the site; just stop using it. I was under the impression the license was explained to you when you were suspended the first time -- if not, that was the mod's mistake, he should have sent you a message about it – Michael Mrozek Feb 6 '11 at 4:06
@MikeBethany ~ By whom and where were you called a "twit"? Context please! – jcolebrand Feb 6 '11 at 4:17
I asked some people; it looks like nobody ever contacted @Mike about the licensing terms, so I take back the part about him being irrational; I thought he was messaged the first time about it and decided to just keep destroying posts anyway. It still wasn't a great idea, but oh well – Michael Mrozek Feb 6 '11 at 4:35
Related: There needs to be a way to (...) disassociate your account from said content, especially tvanfosson's quote from the license: In addition to the right of licensors to request removal of their name from the work when used in a derivative or collective they don't like [...] I guess the original post is not a "derivative", but might very well be a "collective" one no longer likes? (New ideas at that other question, I guess?) – Arjan Feb 6 '11 at 11:17
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This is covered by the Creative Commons FAQ under the question "What if I change my mind?":
The clause that makes this explicitly clear is the part after the section you highlighted for emphasis, as removing already-released copies of the work would serve as an attempt to withdraw the License, which is not allowed.
So no, there's no obligation to allow a user to go around vandalizing their own posts, since they cannot "take back" their contribution. As Jeff points out, the license terms don't prevent the user from potentially coming to a mutual removal agreement with the site, but the more destructively the user acts, the less cooperative the team is likely to be.
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They can, however, request that their content be anonymised, if not doing so would otherwise violate their personal rights (things like, be very embarassing or worse). This actually is not a part of the licence but of copyright law (in many countries, anyway). In the EU except UK, this is called “moral rights” and very strongly protected. – mirabilos Sep 17 '13 at 18:08
Is the key phrase. They can change the license for any future distribution, but any distribution made prior to such a change is considered to be released under this license.
So in other words, once you post it on SO, you can't remove it. You'll notice all edit history is permitted to be reviewed.
Now, had someone stolen proprietary code and released it (in itself a generally considered a criminal act) then it would be fair to have a staff member remove it. Such a move would be thoroughly documented, so that would be fair.
But what that user is doing is bunk.
Stealing from Tim's answer and using this to clarify just a little bit:
Creative Commons licenses are non-revocable.
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however, if you ask in a civil manner and we agree that the removal is a good thing, then we will generally remove it as a courtesy. If you are a jerk.. not so much. – Jeff Atwood Feb 6 '11 at 3:36
@Jeff ~ I like that. :D – jcolebrand Feb 6 '11 at 3:37
I believe (IANAL), by definition, no open source licence of any kind is revocable (except in the case of licence violation by a licensee, in which case only the violator is affected). If the author has the power to withdraw the licence willy-nilly, it's not open source. :-) – Chris Jester-Young Feb 6 '11 at 3:41
@Jeff Would you please remove my content and ask your moderators to stop calling me names like children? Thank you very much. – Mike Bethany Feb 6 '11 at 3:58
Completely agree. I mean, you wouldn't want to start using some open source piece of software only to discover a few months later(after it's deeply implemented in your program) that they somehow made a retroactive license change makes your program now illegal – Earlz Feb 6 '11 at 4:38
Fringe cases, ask a lawyer. I have no idea if the CC license is applicable if a user did not knowingly agree to that. But US copyright law is quite crude anyway, (yet it might take precedence).
I'm sure it's not honored here, but European copyright law has more specific provisions for such cases. Substitutionally in Germany the creators rights are meticulously separated from commercial/utilization/licensing rights, with the former given significant precedence. Specifically § 41 UrhG and § 42 UrhG are designed to manage revokal disputes.
Now 41 would only be applicable if the servers are really really really slow. If it takes e.g. two years to publish a posting, then that's an opportunity to take back the contribution.
More relevant is § 42 here, in that it allows a creator to revoke a license if it starts to contradict his view/opinion in a foundational way. Meaning that if you for example wrote an appraisal of chocolate milk, but later develop an allergy, you should be entitled to have an opinion piece removed if it has become subjectively slanderous to you.
So to answer the original question: not at a whim, but the license could be revoked under some conditions. Assumingly you don't even need copyright law for that; libel suits usually seal the fate for newspaper articles. -- But again, narrow conditions that are difficult to match for technical discussions as long as they stay technical. There's no generic answer. And as for the cited example, the text appears to be some running joke.
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Interesting. Would be interesting to know whether any precedents have been made in court based on the CC-Wiki license... The text that user posted is (I think) a standard placeholder used to notify providers of offending web sites, so it has some use in other contexts. – Pëkka Feb 6 '11 at 11:50
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Is this allowed?
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I gave a good answer then he took my suggestions edited and down voted me. I am pretty sure that is not allowed.
Please note I am not upset about the down vote I am just trying to clarify whether or not this is allowed because it seems like something that would be against the rules. It is giving good advice taking advice then yelling at them for telling them to change something they already did.
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We're supposed to downvote if it is a bad answer, and incorrect one, or a badly written one. We can't really say it's incorrect, since it's a pretty subjective question (there are tons of suggestions you could have made, right? You only gave what you thought was best.) What you posted is good enough that you can read it. The grammar isn't perfect, but we're not grammar nazis here, and it doesn't really matter as long as you get the point across. Last one is the "bad answer." These are very subjective questions, so you're at the mercy of whoever answers it. It's not like "where can I find TM 35 in black" where there is a solid answer that can be proven. When you answer these questions, try to give as many suggestions as possible. If you give just thinly written answers, the reader isn't going to be as satisfied, ergo, voting you down for a "bad answer." I just summarized your answer here:
Victini-Give it flamethrower or Flare-burst.
Darkrai-Give him a Timid Nature.
Palkia-Give him a timid nature.
Rayquaza-Drop Overheat and use Dragon dance instead. get a Jolly Nature. (Actually, I think he had overheat to do a mixed emergency attacker, similar to Infernape, that's just a guess though.)
Groudon-Go with Jolly especially considering you already have Bulk-up for Attack.
Kyogre-TIMID, Water-spout, Thunder, Ice-beam, Thunderwave.
Overall team-It is a good team but I think you forgot that Earthquake damages your team mates, Groudon will take damage from Raquaza, and Kyogre will be 2-3KOed by Groudon.
The majority of this is just "change the pokemon's nature." That doesn't really help him out much, does it? you could have summarized it as:
I suggest going more with speed natures that way your pokemon could outspeed more dangerous threats"
In short, the answer doesn't really go deep into the team. Remember that the RMT is more subjective than the rest of the pokebase, and like the moveset questions, you're at the mercy of the reader. So don't answer a question unless it actually goes with several suggestions, possible threats, etc. Think from the viewpoint of the reader; they won't be very satisfied if your answer doesn't go very deep into answering their suggestion.
answered Oct 22, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion
OK I made it a comment but still it is very rude to down vote if you took the advice you could just say it is unresolved.
You didn't need to make it a comment, it's an answer to the question. If the OP doesn't agree then so be it.
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I've been trying to add a buffer function into an ongoing project that uses the arcgis server link for google maps here.
I am able to draw the buffer out on the map, however, when I try to implement the query for the buffer (With proxy.ashx) and all, the proxy loads okay according to firebug, but they returns an error, "Error: Error Code 0" and nothing else. I am kinda stuck now because of this.
I am not sure if I did the proxy config file wrong or is it the codes. I am currently using the layer's query from the link above as an reference on how to query via a buffer, by indicating a spatial filter which is the buffer itself.
Here are the codes:
var layer = overlayObjects['ls'].getMapService().getLayer(0);
var params = {
geometry: buffers,
geometryType: "esriGeometryPolygon",
where:" ",
spatialRelationship: "CONTAINS",
returnGeometry: true
layer.query(params, function(resultSet){...}
The error occurs at the layer.query() method.
My proxy config file:
<ProxyConfig mustMatch="true">
<!-- serverUrl options:
url = location of the ArcGIS Server, either specific URL or stem
matchAll = true to forward any request beginning with the url
token = (optional) token to include for secured service
dynamicToken = if true, gets token dynamically with username and
password stored in web.config file's appSettings section.
<serverUrl url="http://*mapserverlink*/ArcGIS/rest/services/"
Due to some security reasons, I am not sure if I should place the server url here. Regardless, the serverUrl is not secured, so I do not think a token is necessary.
Also.. Is it because the buffers object I used not an overlayView object? As stated in the queryOptions class reference. My buffering is mostly the same as the one in the examples in the link above. I have tested using the Geometry I got from the buffer and place it into the mapserver's query service, and received an array of records back, but not for the javascript.
Any help with this would be appreciated..
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Question has nothing to do with the Google Maps API V3. – Marcelo Sep 12 '12 at 8:26
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Sorry about placing google maps api v3 in, as I thought it is included on the api reference I am looking at. I've managed to figure out what's wrong with the error code 0. I've read through the arcgislink.js that is in the project and saw that the code 0 comes from a status code from the XMLHTTPRequest. After some configurations with the server, its working now..
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I am using Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 to build my Fortran project in MS Visual Studio 2008. I am getting linker errors: LNK2019 unresolved external symbol.
I did a dumpbin on my obj files and all of my symbols (under CVF calling convention) are exporting as _symbol1, _symbol2, _symbol3, and so on EXCEPT for three random ones that have some stuff prefixed to it.
For example: _imp_symbol4, _imp_symbol5, _imp_symbol6
At first I suspected my calling convention must have been the problem but if it was my calling convention, wouldn't ALL of the other symbols have exported with the imp prefixed to it as well? It's so random that three of them export weirdly and I don't quite understand what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
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Does the error message tell you which symbols are the problem? If so, are those three the symbols that you are getting the linker error message for? Where are the routines that you are trying to link to? In the same or different source file? In a library? How are you telling Fortran about them? Are they in a module that you are "using"? – M. S. B. Sep 26 '12 at 23:24
yes it tells me which symbols are the problem and those symbols are the ones giving me the linker errors. The functions being used in my project are being called from a static lib which I have set the dependencies already. And they are all in the same source file. – user1496542 Sep 27 '12 at 12:13
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The entities corresponding to those symbols may have the DLLIMPORT attribute. The link step may be missing the relevant import library.
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The problem is I have linked in the correct library. It is just a simple static lib. The other functions I used in my project from the same static lib linked fine (without the extra imp at the front which is why I'm puzzled) – user1496542 Sep 27 '12 at 12:14
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I found out the issue was because I had some DLL export statements for those symbols when I really didn't need them. It made the compiler expect _imp_sybmol because I was exporting them using the statement:
I just removed them and the linker errors went away.
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Im trying to use the GiantBomb api to query video games, and currently when I enter the URL into a browser, it works just fine. The Json data shows up.
Heres an example url.. http://www.giantbomb.com/api/search/?api_key=83611ac10d0dfghfgh157177ecb92b0a5a2350c59a5de4&query=Mortal+Kombat&format=json
But when I try to use my php wrapper that Im just starting to build, it returns html?? Heres the start of my wrapper code....(very amateur for now)
You'll notice in the 'request' method, Ive commented out the return for json_decode($url), because when I uncomment it, the page throws a 500 error??? So I wanted to see what happends when I just echo it. And it echos an html page. Surely it should just echo what is shown, when you just enter that url into the browser, no?
However...if I replace the url with say a GoogleMap url, it echoes out Json data just fine, without using json_decode. Any ideas as to wahts going on here????
class GiantBombApi {
public $api_key;
public $base_url;
public $format;
function __construct() {
$this->api_key = "83611ac10d0d157177ecb92b0a5a2350c59a5de4";
$this->search_url = "http://www.giantbomb.com/api/search/?api_key=".$this- >api_key."&query=";
public function search($query){
$query = urlencode($query);
$url = $this->search_url.$query.$this->format;
return $this->request($url);
public function request($url) {
$response = file_get_contents($url);
echo $response;
//return json_decode($response, true);
$games = new GiantBombApi;
$query = $_GET['search'];
echo $games->search($query);
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I ran a few requests through Postman and it seems that the api looks at the mime-type as well as the query string. So try setting a header of "format" to "json".
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Thanks! Something so simple...didnt even think about it....lol – KyleK Apr 5 '13 at 22:49
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In Colombia and Afghanistan, elections that pacify
Elections in Colombia and Afghanistan put a democratic stamp on talks with rebels, or a listening to their political views while rejecting their violence.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos gestures to the crowd after winning a second term in a presidential election June 15. His victory allows him to continue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas.
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In the two dozen or so countries facing violent insurgencies, such as Iraq and Pakistan, the preferred response has been military force. Yet in two countries, Colombia and Afghanistan, elections held this past weekend point to an alternative: reaching out to insurgents with a degree of empathy toward some of their ideas – if not their violent tactics.
Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was reelected Sunday in a victory seen as a referendum on his peace negotiations with the left-wing FARC rebels. With his mandate renewed, Mr. Santos may now more easily complete the talks that began in 2012.
In Afghanistan, the results of Saturday’s presidential election are still not known, but the two candidates, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, want reconciliation talks with moderate leaders of the Taliban to bring them into the democratic fold.
Merely by holding free and fair elections, both countries have weakened the anti-democratic appeal of each rebel group. For nearly five decades, FARC and its remaining 7,500 fighters have ruled captured territory with Marxist-Leninist authoritarianism. The Taliban, both when it was in power and in its post-9/11 insurgency, has governed with clerical tyranny. Both groups strain for legitimacy with bullets rather than ballots.
Yet a few of their demands, such as more Muslim-friendly policies for Afghans or economic justice for poor Colombians, overlap with the goals of many voters. The presidents of each country can embrace such demands while rejecting the use of violence. Negotiations might then persuade the two rebel groups to rely on politics rather than killing as the only means to their ends.
Yet making such a transition will not be easy. Many rebels are known killers and voters could insist on jail time before allowing them to become politicians. Each of these recent elections included a debate on how to balance justice with mercy for insurgents. Democracy is the best way to resolve such a conflict of competing values.
Elections are also a way for a people to sort out their identity as a country. When done enough times with transparency, elections help people rise above differences of theology, ethnicity, or ideology and embrace such civic virtues as individual liberty and equality for all. Iraq has failed in its few elections to achieve this as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has elbowed the minority Sunnis from power with his Shiite-dominated coalition. Ukraine, after achieving its second democratic revolution this year, may finally be able bridge its ethnic divide with Russian-speakers in the east.
A negotiated peace deal in Colombia or Afghanistan is still a way off. But as Santos said in his victory speech, “Colombians of very different positions, including many who didn’t sympathize with my government, mobilized today for a cause, the cause of peace.”
Troubled nations need not be paralyzed by armed rebellion if they can practice both democracy and the job of listening for common concerns between political opponents.
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Lynch: Build a better sandwich with healthy ideas (column)
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Did you know that the sandwich was invented in 1762 as a way to avoid interrupting a card game? It was not until 1827 that it was introduced to America and not until the early 1900s that it became popular with the introduction of sliced bread.
Some parents face the dilemma of having children who love sandwiches so much, they would eat them for every meal, including breakfast. Popular choices of bologna, peanut butter and jelly and cheese sandwiches can leave parents looking for more variety.
Many children develop food jags and want to eat the same thing daily. Children and adults alike eat sandwiches regularly. A study done at Texas A&M University revealed that a U.S. citizen eats about 200 sandwiches a year, and the average child will eat about 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before graduating high school. There is nothing wrong with eating sandwiches regularly; however, you need to be aware of what you are putting on them and what you are serving with them.
Here are some suggestions for building a healthy sandwich:
? Use 100 percent whole grain bread, tortilla, pita or roll.
? Mustard and avocado make great spreads; avoid mayonnaise if you can.
? If you must use mayo, use low-fat mayonnaise.
? Choose lean protein like turkey breast, ham, chicken, roast beef or smoked salmon for a treat.
? For tuna, mix with olive oil and lemon juice or a bit of low-fat cream cheese.
? Load with vegetables; use a variety of lettuce, not just iceberg.
? Add tomatos, cucumbers, sprouts, mushrooms, bell peppers, spinach, zucchini and onions.
? Try roasted or grilled vegetables.
? If your sandwich must have cheese, use a light or low-fat variety.
? If packing for a lunch, pack items separately and assemble right before you eat to avoid a soggy sandwich.
Lunch box suggestions:
? Conventional sandwiches: deli meat, peanut butter and jelly, cheese, bagel with cream cheese, bagel with peanut butter, veggie pita and tuna fish.
? Unconventional sandwiches: hummus on a pita, low-fat cream cheese and jelly, low-fat cream cheese and olives, sunflower butter, soy-nut butter, a tortilla wrap filled with veggies, cheese or deli meat, quesadilla, calzone, stromboli or Canadian bacon with lettuce and tomato.
If you choose healthy options for each component, you will be on your way to building a healthy sandwich that you and your children will enjoy.
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China's miracle economy can come at you in a lot of ways, from all directions.
• Mention an interest in China to your old friend who owns an industrial toolmaking shop and he confides that his factory, which was started by his father and has bought a comfortable suburban life for three generations of his family as well as good wages to hundreds of workers, "is getting killed by the people over there."
• Stop at the auto supply store for windshield-wiper fluid. Half the store is now a showroom for small Chinese motor scooters, some of which look like half-Harleys, others like Ducatis. Most cost less than $300.
• Decide at last to plunge into digital photography. Photo magazines all rave about a small new camera from Nikon, an engineering wonder that can shoot fast, captures dimly lit scenes, and costs half the price of similar machines a year ago. Nikon is one of Japan's marquee brands, but when you bring the camera home from the store you spot the words in small print on the product itself: "Made in China."
• Wake up in Santa Barbara, Calif., one morning to a sky that looks as though it is painted a shiny white. The morning's newspaper reports that the sunlight is playing tricks on something known as the Asian Brown Cloud, a mass of dust that has drifted over the Pacific from China. The cloud contains particles of loose earth from deforested land mixed with arsenic and other industrial pollutants from the country's factories.
Powered by the world's most rapidly changing large economy, China is an ever increasing presence and influence in our lives, connected to us by the world's shipping lanes, financial markets, telecommunications, and above all, by the globalization of appetites. China sews more clothes and stitches more shoes and assembles more toys than any other nation. It has become the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, pumping out more TVs, DVD players, and cell phones than any other country. And more recently, it has ascended the economic development ladder higher still, moving quickly and expertly into biotech and computer manufacturing. It is building cars (there are more than 120 automakers in China), making parts for Boeing 757s, and exploring space with its own domestically built rockets.
Americans tend to focus on the huge inequality in trade between the two countries. It is a worry Americans help to create by buying ever more from China's humming factories. In 2004, the Chinese sold the United States $160 billion more in goods than they bought. Contrary to common wisdom, however, the trade deficit with China does not mean that Americans are spending down the national wealth at a faster pace than ever before. So far, most of China's gains with American buyers have come at the expense of the other countries that once lured American dollars, especially other Asian economies. Americans -- and the world -- get more stuff in the bargain.
Ever since China started on the capitalist road, opinions about its prospects have figuratively, and literally, been all over the map. The present mood is a combustible mix of euphoria, fear, admiration, and cynicism. On those emotions ride great tides of capital, the strategic plans of businesses great and small, and the gravest political calculations in the world's capitals and city halls.
Yet few working Americans have a full awareness of China's rise. How could they? Nothing like this has ever happened before, and it's occurring on the other side of the globe. Yet Americans -- particularly anyone involved in running a business -- need to know what is happening today in China and to understand how China's fate has become inextricably bound with our own. Conceding China's rise does not mean conceding to China. But it does require acknowledging some important truths:
1. China's economy is much larger than the official numbers show.
2. The growth of China's economy has no equal in modern history.
3. China is winning the global competition for investment capital.
4. China can be a bully.
5. China's economy is an entrepreneurial economy.
6. The most daunting thing about China is not its ability to make cheap consumer goods.
7. China is closing the research and development gap -- fast.
8. China now sets the global benchmark for prices.
9. China's growth is making raw materials more expensive.
10. No company has embraced China's potential more vigorously than Wal-Mart.
11. There are hidden costs associated with doing business in China.
12. Piracy is a problem.
13. China's heavy buying of U.S. debt has lowered the cost of money in the U.S.
14. Americans and Chinese have become reliant on each other's most controversial habits.
1. China's economy is much larger than the official numbers show. In 2003, China's official GDP was $1.4 trillion. By that measure, it was the seventh-largest economy in the world. As with nearly all economic statistics from China, however, that measure is suspect. One reason the real number may be much higher is that, in competition for development funds, local Chinese authorities have considerable incentive to underreport their growth rates to the nation's central planners. Another reason is that the government measures only China's legal economy. Its underground economy, made up of both unsavory businesses and more mundane ones that lack a government stamp (and tax bill), is enormous but uncountable.
Economists also note that China's official GDP underplays the true size of its economy because China uses the massive power of its foreign currency reserves to keep the world price of the yuan marching in lockstep with the dollar. If the dollar had not dropped against the euro and other world currencies over the past few years, China's ranking would be a notch or two higher. Critics of China's currency policies, including American domestic manufacturers such as steel mills, casters, plastics molders, and machine-tool makers, argue that China artificially depresses the value of its currency against the dollar by as much as 40%.
A dollar spent in China buys almost five times more goods and services than a dollar spent in a typical American city like Indianapolis. Taking purchasing-power parity into account, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that China's economy looks more like one with a GDP of $6.6 trillion. Put another way, it makes more sense to think of China's economy as closer to two-thirds the size of the U.S. economy than to one-seventh.
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2. The growth of China's economy has no equal in modern history. China's economy has grown so fast that it has taken on the mythic qualities of one of Mao's showcase farms. Since China set about reforming its economy a generation ago, its GDP has expanded at an annual rate of 9.5%. Countries in the early stages of economic reform often come up fast, but not like China. The country is closing in on a 30-year run during which its economy has doubled nearly three times. Neither Japan's nor South Korea's postwar boom comes anywhere close. Nicholas Lardy, an economist at the Institute for International Economics, notes that China grew mightily even during the worldwide economic doldrums of 2001-02.
China is so committed to economic growth that the Chinese often talk as though they can will it to happen. It is a necessary optimism that pervades official Chinese communication. Orville Schell, the author of Virtual Tibet and the dean of the school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, draws a parallel between the unity of focus the Chinese demonstrated for anticapitalism and their focus now on capitalism. Schell argues that in both instances there is a willingness to suspend logic and see only bright tomorrows. Both lead to excess. In its capitalist present, China has been willing to overlook the dark side of modernization, seeing economic progress as the solution to all the country's challenges. Even so, every time the worst is predicted for China's economy, it seems to grow faster, create stronger industries, import more, and export more.
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3. China is winning the global competition for investment capital. One reason China's economy is growing so fast is that the world keeps feeding it capital. According to Japan's Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, one-third of China's industrial production was put in place by the half-trillion dollars of foreign money that has flowed into the country since 1978. In 2003, foreigners invested more in building businesses in China than they spent anywhere else in the world. The U.S. used to attract the most foreign money, but in 2003 China took a strong lead, pulling in $53 billion to the U.S.'s $40 billion.
With money comes knowledge. The catalytic role of foreigners in the country is still growing quickly; every day China receives a river of European, Asian, and American experts in manufacturing, banking, computing, advertising, and engineering. In 2003, the exports and imports by foreign companies operating in China rose by over 40%. More than half of China's trade is now controlled by foreign firms. Many of these import goods into the country that they then manufacture into exports. Foreign companies have pumped up China's trade volume enough to make it the third-largest trading country in the world, behind the U.S. and Germany and now ahead of Japan.
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4. China can be a bully. China can spend, it can hire and dictate wages, it can throw old-line competitors out of work. In just a three-year period from 2000 to late 2003, for example, China's exports to the U.S. of wooden bedroom furniture climbed from $360 million to nearly $1.2 billion. During that time, the work force at America's wooden-furniture factories dropped by 35,000, or one of every three workers in the trade. China now makes 40% of all furniture sold in the U.S., and that number is sure to climb.
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5. China's economy is an entrepreneurial economy. China's industrial competitors, including the U.S., often misapprehend the source of China's productive strength. They fear that another centrally governed, well-planned assault on strategic industries is being plotted in Beijing. The world has already seen how effective the Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese can be when they focus on sectors they mean to conquer. Even Chinese government planners like to talk as though they are aping the centrally coordinated, government-financed assaults on strategic global industries that their Asian neighbors have pulled off over the past 40 years. However, in looking at how Chinese businesses really take shape -- locally and opportunistically -- Kellee Tsai, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a former analyst at Morgan Stanley, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. For a world fretting over Chinese economic competition, the entities to fear are not government planners but enterprises that spring on the scene lean and mean, planned and financed by investors who want to make money quickly.
An emblem of the Zhejiang province in China is Hong Dongyang, an entrepreneur whose story is now well-known throughout the country. Hong was once a schoolteacher. She began making socks in the 1970s on a home sewing machine. At first Hong sold them along the roads near her home. She opened a stand and christened her embryonic enterprise Zhejiang Stocking Company. Hong's sock company was predictably copied en masse by others. Today, the province is the Chinese sock capital, with more than 8,000 companies spinning out eight billion pairs a year, one-third of the world's supply. In 2001, the Chinese makers produced 1% of the socks on U.S. feet. In just two years, sock imports from China to the U.S. jumped two-hundred-fold and now make up 7% of the U.S. market. James J. Jochum, assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has noted that the Chinese manufacturers cut their prices by more than half in 2003 and helped drive one in four U.S. sock makers out of business.
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6. The most daunting thing about China is not its ability to make cheap consumer goods. The American economy won't crater just because the Chinese can produce sofas and socks for less than we can. The Japanese, for their part, have lost the television business. The Italians are losing the fine-silk business. Consumer goods trade on the surface of the world's economy and their movement is easy for the public to watch. The far bigger shift, just now picking up steam, is occurring among the products that manufacturers and marketers trade with each other: the infinite number and variety of components that make up everything else that is made, whether it is the hundreds of parts in a washing machine or computer or the hundreds of thousands of parts in an airplane.
The next question is whether any commercial technology is beyond an imminent challenge from China.
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7. China is closing the research and development gap -- fast. The ability of American industry to stay ahead of its international competition rests on the national gifts and resources that the U.S. devotes to innovation. The research gap between the U.S. and China remains vast. In December, Washington authorized $3.7 billion to finance nanotechnology research, a sum the Chinese government cannot easily match within a scientific infrastructure that would itself take many more billions (and years) to build.
Yet when it comes to more mainstream applied industrial development and innovation, the separation among Chinese, American, and other multinational firms is beginning to narrow. Last year, China spent $60 billion on research and development. The only countries that spent more were the U.S. and Japan, which spent $282 billion and $104 billion, respectively. But again, China forces you to do the math: China's engineers and scientists usually make between one-sixth and one-tenth what Americans do, which means that the wide gaps in financing do not necessarily result in equally wide gaps in manpower or results. The U.S. spent nearly five times what China did but had less than two times as many researchers (1.3 million to 743,000). China's universities and vocational schools will produce 325,000 engineers this year -- five times as many as the U.S.
For now, the emphasis in Chinese labs is weighted overwhelmingly toward the "D' side -- meaning training for technical employees and managers. Nevertheless, foreign companies are moving quickly to integrate their China-based labs into their global research operations. Motorola alone has 19 research labs in China that develop technology for both the local and global markets. Several of the company's most innovative recent phones were developed there for the Chinese market.
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8. China now sets the global benchmark for prices. Big news can be found in little places. In its November 2003 circular, a dryly written four-page publication, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank noted complaints from American makers of automotive parts that "automakers had been asking suppliers for the 'China price' on their purchases." The bank's analysts observed that U.S. suppliers had also been asked by their big customers to move their factories to China or to find subcontractors there.
Over much of the business world, the term China price has since become interchangeable with lowest price possible. The China price is part of the new conventional wisdom that companies can move nearly any kind of work to China and find huge savings. It holds that any job transferred there will be done cheaper, and possibly better.
It is plainly understood that asking suppliers to lower prices is merely another way of telling them they ought to be prepared to meet the best price out of China, even if they are making their products in Japan or Germany. General Motors, which buys more than $80 billion worth of parts a year, now has a clause in its supply contracts that gives its supplier 30 days to meet the best price the company can find worldwide or risk immediate termination.
In fact, in the U.S. between 1998 and 2004, prices fell in nearly every product category in which China was the top exporter. "The manufactured goods that have dropped in price the most are those made by China," says W. Michael Cox, chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, citing figures assembled by the bank for its 2003 annual report, published in 2004. Personal computers, the most outstanding example, fell by 28%, televisions by nearly 12%, cameras and toys by around 8%, while other electronics, clothing of all sorts, shoes, and tableware also dropped in price.
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9. China's growth is making raw materials more expensive. Even as China puts pressure on U.S. manufacturers to lower prices, it's squeezing them from a different direction. Its voracious demand for raw materials has caused prices to spike. Copper prices jumped 37% last year, aluminum and zinc both rose about 25%, and oil was up 33%. In 2003, according to the calculations of Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, the Chinese bought 7% of the world's oil, a quarter of all aluminum and steel, nearly a third of the world's iron ore and coal, and 40% of the world's cement. The trend is for bigger amounts yet to come.
The squeeze is leaving U.S. manufacturers with no alternative but to become more productive. Better machines, software, and advanced management techniques, for instance, now mean that U.S. companies on average produce far more per worker than they did a quarter of a century ago when manufacturing employment was high. From 1977 to 2002, productivity throughout the U.S. economy grew by half, but in manufacturing it more than doubled. Surprisingly, despite losing huge numbers of workers, U.S. manufacturers actually finished 2003 making more stuff than they did in 2001. Output was up, if only by half a percent.
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10. No company has embraced China's potential more vigorously than Wal-Mart. And no company has been a bigger catalyst in pushing manufacturers to China. Estimates of how much of Wal-Mart's merchandise comes from abroad today range from 50% to 85%. Chinese factories are, by far, the most important and fastest-growing sources for the company. In 2003, Wal-Mart purchased $15 billion worth of goods from Chinese suppliers. A whopping portion of between 10% and 13% of everything China has sent to the U.S. winds up on Wal-Mart's shelves. Writing in The Washington Post, Peter Goodman and Phillip Pan reported in February 2004 that "more than 80% of the 6,000 factories in Wal-Mart's worldwide database of suppliers are in China." The company has 560 people on the ground in the country to negotiate and make purchases.
Wal-Mart is often demonized for its part in shipping U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas. It is difficult, however, to separate the role of Wal-Mart's thousands of suppliers in the migration of manufacturing out of the U.S. from the larger global trends realigning how and where the world makes things. If Wal-Mart has a unique part in the trend, it is in how expertly the company has managed that trend and, in so doing, accelerated it. China's low-cost manufacturing machine feeds Wal-Mart's critical mass by allowing companies to build assembly lines that are so huge that they achieve ever-greater economies of scale and drive prices downward all the more.
Wal-Mart's Chinese suppliers can achieve startling, market-shaking price cuts. By selling portable DVD players with seven-inch LCD screens from China for less than $160, for instance, Wal-Mart recently helped cut the price of these trendy devices in half. Even with superlow prices, Chinese factories can sell in such giant quantities that they willingly oblige. To get ready for its big Thanksgiving sale in 2002, Wal-Mart picked Sichuan Changhong Electric, one of the world's largest makers of televisions, to supply sets under the Apex Digital brand. Changhong makes 15 million TVs a year, most of them for export. Eight of 10 shipped overseas go to the U.S. In 2002, its sets at Wal-Mart sold for far less than comparable models from other makers, sometimes undercutting the competition by $100 or more. The models the company delivered for the sale helped the event net $1.4 billion.
In late December, state-owned Changhong reported nearly half a billion dollars in losses, purportedly linked to unpaid bills owed by Apex. The scandal, though mired in murky details, nevertheless highlights both the ability of China's big firms to sustain losses and keep running and their willingness to satisfy American retailers' demands for ever-lower prices.
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11. There are hidden costs associated with doing business in China. Companies that engage with China must expect pressure to transfer their technology and thus create their own competition in the country. The Chinese use the carrot of their vast market to extract concessions from foreign firms that will help build China's industrial might. It is a policy worthy of grudging admiration. When viewed from the Chinese side, it has a long record of success.
Motorola virtually invented China's mobile-phone market. Its corporate archives show that the company knew that eventually the transfer of technology to China would sow formidable rivals. Nevertheless, Motorola decided its best strategy was to get into China early and to bring its best technology. The proof today is in the size and efficacy of the country's mobile communications network: Calls get through to phones in high-rises, subway cars, and distant hamlets -- connections that would stymie mobile phones in the U.S.
What no one at Motorola anticipated was how crowded the Chinese market would become. Nokia and Motorola now battle for market share in the Chinese handset business. German, Korean, and Taiwanese makers figure strongly. And all these foreign brands are now facing intense competition from indigenous Chinese phone makers. More than 40% of the Chinese domestic handset market now belongs to local companies such as Ningbo Bird, Nanjing Panda Electronics, Haier, and TCL Mobile. The domestic makers have become so strong that when Siemens found its mobile handset business in China wanting, it joined with Ningbo Bird to gain both low-cost manufacturing and a developed distribution channel. Yet Motorola can't exit the Chinese market. If it did, says Jim Gradoville, Motorola's vice president of Asia Pacific government relations, the Chinese companies that emerged would be the leanest and most aggressive in the world, and a company like his would have no idea what hit it. So Motorola stays. Already the largest foreign investor in China's electronics industry, Motorola plans to triple its stake there to more than $10 billion by 2006.
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12. Piracy is a problem. Foreign companies have little defense against even outright theft of their technology in China. China's failure to police intellectual property, in effect, creates a massive global subsidy worth hundreds of billions of dollars to its businesses and people. By investing in the country's manufacturing infrastructure, by providing the expertise, machines, and software China needs to produce world-class products, the world is also helping assemble the biggest, most sophisticated, and most successful "illegal" manufacturing complex in the world.
Seen another way, China's loose intellectual property rules turn the tables on the Western colonial powers and the Japanese who throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries violated China's land and people. As China grows into a great power, the wealth transferred into the country by expropriating intellectual property will propel it forward.
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13. China's heavy buying of U.S. debt has lowered the cost of money in the U.S. In the first half of 2004, China's total foreign exchange reserves topped $460 billion. In size, that puts China's cumulative dollar account at roughly equal to a third of its gross domestic product. If China simply spent its dollars, it would flood the world market with American currency and drive the dollar down. But China, no fool, is not interested in pushing the dollar down. So instead of selling its dollars, it lends them back to the U.S.
China keeps tight wraps on the value, composition, and trading of its portfolio, but Wall Street commonly assumes that the country owns a large amount of high-grade U.S. corporate bonds, intertwining its national fortunes with America's blue chips (many of them the same corporations reaping fortunes in China itself).
China also has almost certainly built a large stake in the market for bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the companies that buy home mortgages from banks and thrift institutions and resell them as bundled securities. This means that billions of dollars' worth of investments belonging to the Chinese are plowed indirectly into the American real estate market, and that an ever-increasing share of Americans' mortgage payments pour into the coffers of the government of China.
As long as China is an aggressive lender, Americans -- whether borrowing for their own private purchases or acting in the roles of taxpayers -- can borrow money at lower rates than they would otherwise have to pay. Much of the recent boom in real estate prices in America, especially in the East and West Coast markets, is attributable to these low rates.
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14. Americans and Chinese have become reliant on each other's most controversial habits. The Chinese need a low-priced currency to keep their export machine going and create jobs. But maintaining the yuan's low price also means that Chinese consumers are stuck with a currency that would otherwise buy more for them on the world market. China's diligent savers suffer too since their bank deposits are tied up in accounts that earn low government-mandated rates of return, as the government, in effect, siphons off money from savers to maintain its currency peg.
The people of China are indirectly subsidizing the insatiable shopping of Americans.
Relatedly, China's vast export earnings earn less than they ought to when they are invested in U.S. debt securities that offer modest yields, when investments in the Chinese economy can return 10 times as much (albeit on riskier terms). Seen from that view, the people of China, who earn on average just one-fortieth what Americans do, are indirectly subsidizing the insatiable shopping of Americans, who acquire ever more goods at the same time that Chinese consumers are hampered from buying goods from abroad.
The obverse of this peculiar relationship is that China lends America all the money it needs to spend itself silly. The cycle of codependency, which former U.S Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers labels a "balance of financial terror," isn't sustainable. The U.S. cannot take on ever-bigger debt and amass huge trade deficits indefinitely. In the worst scenario, the U.S.'s willingness to fritter away its national wealth to finance private consumption and unproductive government spending would extract a permanent price on the economy, sending the U.S. in a downward spiral that would be hard to escape.
Thus do the routes to prosperity chosen by China and the U.S. put both countries at risk. Without the U.S. to buy Chinese goods, China cannot sustain its growth; without China to lend money to the U.S., Americans cannot spend. Without the twin engines of the U.S. and China stoking the fortunes of other nations, the rest of the world might also sputter.
How can the U.S., perhaps with its traditional allies, adjust to a competitive challenger that has strengths unlike any other that America has faced? Are the transfers of talent, technology, and capital part of an inevitable dynamic? Or does the U.S., or any other country, have the power to shape a future in which everyone prospers?
Americans looking for answers and action must also find a way to move America's leadership to see China's rise as every bit as worthy of national attention as the rumblings in more obvious political hot spots. While all eyes turn to the so-called clash of civilizations between Islam and the West, China will have the more profound impact on the world in the long run. And yet, despite occasional misgivings offered in factory towns and tariffs slapped on imports at the height of campaign season, American leaders tend to view China's rise as the fulfillment of a free marketer's dream, where global investors will shepherd the country into wealth, democracy, and peaceful interdependence with the rest of the free world.
It is a lovely theory, and it may ultimately be true. There is, however, no evidence upon which to base such a prediction. Which exactly of the world's large, highly nationalistic, dictatorial, Communist-capitalist countries offers a historical analogue? Answer: There is no such country.
This article was adapted from Ted C. Fishman's book, CHINA, INC., published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. | <urn:uuid:c9e73159-976e-4a84-9933-f86acdb366be> | http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050301/china.html | en | 0.963117 | 0.098709 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
View Full Version : Who is the Surprise End Boss?
02-13-2002, 05:54 PM
So who exactly is the surprising Dark Jedi End Boss???
A new Jerek?
Darth Maul with Stiches for a Belt?
Evil Spock from a parallel diminsion? (left over EF model that had to be used)
Darth Gonk?
Leia a few days of the month?
Bobba Fett after escaping from the belly of the beast?
A Jawa gone bad?
Lando get turned to the Dark Side (don't want to waste those dollars spent on Billy Dee's voice just for some side character)
Just a few ideas. any others?
02-13-2002, 05:57 PM
jan ors maybe :S
typically "surprising" evil characters r always very very close to the protagonist ;)
but i like that idea of an evil jawa lol ;) imagine how hard he'd be to hit
maybe its the lead programmer 4 jk2, using his scary god-like coding force powers
02-13-2002, 06:01 PM
There's no question, it will be a souped up Dark "Super Gonk".
02-13-2002, 06:03 PM
Who was the end boss in Dark Forces? I think it could be:
Boba Fett
Jan Ors
Rhan (Resurrected)
a clone of Kyle
Why thanks Stormhammer
****chomps on medallion****
02-13-2002, 06:07 PM
Welcome to the forums, Cyclone, Zx2 and ps2maddenman. (Check my sig for your welcome gifts ;) ).
I thought the whole idea of a Surprise End Boss was...it's a surprise. :D j/k
I'm sure it will be something worthy and challenging, and that's good enough for me...for now. :)
Darth Maul with Stitches...LOL :D
02-13-2002, 06:08 PM
YEAH! A clone of Kyle would be a great idea! Wouldn't that be creepy...your clone walking up to you and challenging you to a duel...except that he'll probably have more force powers than you...the ones that count, anyways.
02-13-2002, 06:16 PM
President of LucasArts, Simon Jeffrey. ; )
02-13-2002, 06:37 PM
some very scary ideas :eek:
02-13-2002, 06:43 PM
Why do i get the feeling, its gonna be kyles father... hmmm that would be pretty cool, he possibly didnt die (we never seen him get killed) or a reborn? I dunno, just got this "feeling" :ben:
02-13-2002, 06:43 PM
I'm with theSuper GONK idea, it seams this wole forum is begining to be just about killing gonks, but that's not a complaint:D KILLKILLKILL:D
PS why isn't there a gonk animation?
02-13-2002, 07:40 PM
It can't be Kyle's Father, in the Dark Horse Jedi Knight books he is killed by Jarec and his head is cut off and stuck on a pole to scare other "rebels"
02-13-2002, 07:53 PM
i know what it is already
its gunna be 3 goldfishes but not normal ones
n u gotta swim around n feed them stale food to kill them
02-13-2002, 08:01 PM
From what I read at the LucasArts sight (NRI Reports) someonein the Empire is recruting force users. My guess is that it will be the person behind it all (dead goldfish) lol:)
02-13-2002, 08:35 PM
I think it'd be really cool if they made a special dueling AI for Darth Maul, but I don't expect it. If it isn't there, I hope someone makes a tough AND reasonably realistic AI of darth maul. And custom lightstaff animations would be nice too.
Rat Boy
02-13-2002, 08:41 PM
The fact that they say it's surprise means that it must be someone we know already. I vote for an evil Jawa!
02-13-2002, 09:24 PM
lol ya, a giant gonk 100ft. with no attack ;) it just sits there goin "Gonk... Bonk... Conc..."
gonkh8er's gonna wanna get to the end of this game! ;)
btw, thx for the medallion
02-13-2002, 10:09 PM
it said the final boss would surprise us....maybe a dark jedi from JK?
Yun maybe? Maybe he just fainted from the pain and didnt die, but he kinda turned to the light side at the end
Maw? Hes dead, Kyle obliterated him in JK
Gorc? dead, Pic, dead
Jerec? don't think so
Sariss? i doubt it
Kyle's dark clone? This would be cool, pretty creepy too
Luke skywalker clone? luke was cloned and mara jade killed it...maybe they made a backup copy :D
maybe its a Dark Trooper! hehe :dtrooper:
02-13-2002, 10:14 PM
something episode 2 related??????:D :D :D
02-13-2002, 11:08 PM
Kyle's Mother.
02-13-2002, 11:16 PM
lol ya, kyle's mom lol
maybe its jerec in the dark trooper suit :O :dtrooper:, with a lightsaber!
lol thatd be sweet
02-13-2002, 11:21 PM
Jerec in a Darktrooper suit with a saber, and Kyle's mom as his side kick with a remote control super gonk.
02-13-2002, 11:49 PM
Lol, strider, I love your creativity.
02-13-2002, 11:51 PM
Gonk, where are you??? help?!
I know you know.
02-14-2002, 01:27 AM
Go away. Toil in your own thoughts. Leave me in peace. :D
02-14-2002, 02:08 AM
Hoogaan!!! Thirty days in the COOOOLER!!!
Hehe, Kurgan I see you like Hogans Heroes as well :). I think I've seen just about every episode of that great show about 30+ times each (been watchin for 20+ years).
Also thats kind of errie how Simon Jeffrey looks kinda like Sholtz lol.
02-14-2002, 02:12 AM
Darth Vader please....I want to fight him...
and also hear the news that he's my father.
"SaberPro....*breath*..I am your father."
"Noooo!!! Nooooo!!! Nooooo!!!!"
I want to say that :)
02-14-2002, 02:58 AM
I'm sure it won't be any of the Dark Jedi from JK, (imagin fighting Jerec at the end of BOTH JKI and JKII), if Jedi Outcast was the third Jedi Knight game made, then maybe the final boss could be a resurected Jerec, but not now, now that we fought him in the last game too. To have any of the other Dark Jedis from JK as the final boss would just be silly, IMO. Gorc as the final boss.... nah... Yun as the final boss? don't think so... Pic as the final boss? only if it was ment to be humerous. Maw? he would be the most possible, though he just isn't the right type.... same for all the other JK Dark jedis...
I really hope it isn't just a clone of Kyle, if it is it really won't be a big surprise. I didn't like the way it was done in MotS (clone of Mara), so I probably wouldn't like it much in JO, unless it is done really well.
It won't be anyone who was a friend of Kyle, or a friend of the New Republic when we last saw him/her. Unless the story gives a really good reason why he switched sides, but that would call for an overly complicated story, which isn't neccisary, and probably wouldn't come off well. Besides, the guy who changes faction would have to be a jedi right? And it couldn't be a jedi that we aleardy know about since all of them are acounted for from the time before JO, and the time after JO. So, it would have to be someone who aquired force powers, which would make the story even more confusing.
It could very well be a resurected Darth Mual, Paplitine, Darth Vader, ect, but that would be very cheesy I think, and somewhat unimaginitive. I hope this doesn't happen but I think it's a good possibility, since if it will be a surprise, wouldn't it have to be a dark jedi everyone knows about? Not just someone who reads EU would know.
I think the most likely senerio would be a new character freshly introduced into JO. This character could be someone Kyle meets at the Jedi Acedemy for example, and poses as a Jedi, but is really a dark jedi in disguise. Also, this type of senerio would be the easiest to implement, and without making the story confusing or too complex, or too silly, while still sounding cool. This is the most probable outcome I think.
Or, the review could've ment something totally different, and really ment that the final boss would just be surprising looking... Maybe a super gonc, or maybe a 3 foot tall--with red and black streaked fur--wielding a double bladed light staff--ewok :p .
Ugh, my spelling sucks today.
:ewok: :ewok:
02-14-2002, 03:06 AM
Great theories, Silent_Thunder, but I don't think that it would be someone posing as a Jedi at the Academy. As likely as it may seem, I don't think that the review would have made a major point of the final boss being a surprise unless it was someone we all know. Probably someone from the movies.
02-14-2002, 04:05 AM
Somebody get that picture of <b>"Galactic Plumberman"</b> in here...
(Btw, I stole that "Simon Schultz" pic from one of Wilhuf's old posts, brilliance!)
02-14-2002, 04:22 AM
When it said that in the review that: "The final boss is a dark Jedi "whose appearance is bound to suprise you."
I took this to mean not that it was someone we wouldn't expect, but someone's who appearance (not them showing up, but the way the look) would surprise you. Like maybe a weird alien dark jedi. It'd be the first time we would fight an extremely weird alien for a jedi.
Bok, Maw, Gorc and Pic weren't much because they were all bipedal. Wouldn't it be sweet if it was some weird looking alien that had like four arms or something? It would be even better (though extremely unlikely) that it would wield like a dual sided lightsaber and two regular ones. That would just totally rule.
02-14-2002, 07:41 AM
Oh no... NO! It can't be....
You fight <b>Mara Jade</b> (in a reversal of the events of MotS).. she's turned to the Dark Side!
Darth Lunatic
02-14-2002, 07:48 AM
Kyle's menacing new foe. His bad dialogue is more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
02-14-2002, 09:01 AM
ROFLMAO!!! - http://www.lucasforums.com/images/5stars.gif
02-14-2002, 09:13 AM
I have this strangest feeling its Mara Jade, I dont know why, or Its one of the Solo kids.
I think its someone in OT but related, I dont know why, I just have this feeling, maybe Im going to the dark side.
Oh wasnt it somthing to do with EP2 as well, so that would be Dooku right?
02-14-2002, 10:08 AM
A pink elephant dark jedi!!!
:elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant:
02-14-2002, 10:12 AM
i would not be at all surprised (but i doubt it) if they had a clone as the end boss)
why would it be mara jade???? shes not dark side @ that time in the SW plot....that was a long time ago....luke's honey isnt going to be the one that kyle is facing....
02-14-2002, 10:14 AM
Didn't they said something about a Woman...who is doing "Evil things" and is using the Force??
A dark kyle would Rule...maby a Force-Clone of hin that was left on the swamp world in MOTS, it this creeping Tempel
OR, and i would like it very well, a Dark MARA har har har
02-14-2002, 12:09 PM
its billy dee williams and hes gonna sick an army of women upon kyle while he spews out lady's man pick-up lines to bumpin 70s / porn-style backround music.
Jinn Tar-Nesh
02-14-2002, 12:16 PM
Oh yeah..and....and...you'll be fighting a guy...yeah a dark jedi!!.....and...and the lithsabers will do like:<bzztt>!!!And then...you'll...you'll...be doing ACROBATICS!!Yeah ACROBATICS!!!.....COOL:jawa
Seryl Cann
02-14-2002, 01:10 PM
I wouldn't be suprised if it's George Lucas :D
02-14-2002, 01:15 PM
I think its going to be Luke Skywalker or Emperor Palpatine :D
02-14-2002, 01:24 PM
IMO Clones = LAME
02-14-2002, 01:33 PM
I think it'll be Naked Luke. You'll be running from him saying:
"Keep that thing away from me Luke!!! I said no!!!"
I think it'll be one of the students at the Praxeum. They'll probably introduce the characters at the beginning of the game then you'll fight along side them, probably save their lives, build trust, then BAMMM!!!! Shock and suprise!!! Oh yeah and tears(did I forget the tears?)
02-14-2002, 03:00 PM
cmon every1, whos evil that we all know and hate??
its obvious that the final boss of jk2 is:
Osama bin Laden!
no lightsaber duels here, u just have to dodge his ak47 bullets and cut him up
02-14-2002, 03:03 PM
It's Han Solo, and he's stil frozen in carbonite!!!
Dirth Vedar
02-14-2002, 05:09 PM
I think it's going to be the death star. You'll have to use force jump, and at the height of the jump do a saber throw into orbit to hit the death star. and all the while you'll have to run around dodging the death ray from the death star, and avoid Tie fighters that are dropping bombs on you.
02-14-2002, 05:11 PM
Too bad their isn't a training mission where you could blast Chewbacca's family from the 1978 Christmas Special haha.
02-14-2002, 05:21 PM
good mod idea! post it on the mod board, lol
02-14-2002, 05:34 PM
I think the most likely boss is a dark clone of Kyle. But maybe that's what they want us to think. But then again, maybe they want us to think that's what they want us to think. It's a conspiracy I tell you!
02-14-2002, 09:10 PM
I'm guessing it's that male/female pony-tailed Jedi we saw in the early JK2 screenshots. It's Pat...
The vengeful JK janitor, sick and tired of cleaning up the bodies and wreckage you leave behind?
Your invisible squire (and his invisible pickup-truck) sick and tired of hauling your weapons and items around and tossing them to you all the time? (which explains how you can carry all that gear and just whip it out of nowhere)
Maybe Max the Rabbit, in a Dark Trooper suit, with a lightsaber.
; )
Or heck, as long as we're doing product tie-ins.. how about Godzilla, or Spider-man? Hey, it worked for <b>Revenge of Shinobi</b>!
Lol.. personal ads now?
http://image.ugo.com/ads/UGOHouseAds/nerve2b_120x240.jpg<-----"Find Love"? I don't think so!!!
02-15-2002, 01:50 AM
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02-15-2002, 12:22 PM
I know what the end boss is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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04-23-2001 1:55 PM
In the interview with Evelyn Zerr, they talk about a "Suicide Fat Rocket" trick which apparently Evelyn invented. Sounds really slick! <BR> <BR>I notice that "suicide" anything doesn't appear in Wakeworld's trick list, but INT gives +200 points to any trick when you do it "suicide", i.e. release both hands and then regain the handle. <BR> <BR>My questions are about how to start "suicide" tricks. What's a good trick to start with? Say a simple wake jump or 180? What are the key points on releasing and regaining the handle?
04-23-2001 4:04 PM
A suicide falls somewhere along the lines of a handle pass. Just tug real hard as you come off the wake and ther should be enough slack in the rope that you will follow the handle long enough to regain it. I wouldn't start adding 180 in until you have a solid sucide down otherwise you might find yourself catching a little more edge then you would like, hehe. anyways, i hope that helped. have fun ridin.
04-26-2001 3:42 PM
So does that mean an osmosis 540 should be called a suicide 540? aren't they both basically the same thing?
04-26-2001 11:25 PM
by no means should a osmosis spin be reffered to as suicide. Anything above a "no-handle" 360 is much, much, much harder than a suicide. And besides, osmosis spins are so rad, they deserve there own name.
05-17-2001 8:33 PM
What a gay name, suicide fat rocket. Anyways, Chase Heavener was the one to start doing sucicide tricks.
05-25-2001 9:48 AM
Was in Austin this past weekend at the Malibu Just Ride Series and saw Ryan Wynne pull off a Suicide Raley. He came in cutting hard for the Raley pulled it off and on the way down let go of the handle and grabbed it again before he landed. It was off-the-hook. I thought it was one of the sweetest tricks I had seen all weekend.
05-25-2001 4:22 PM
Hey John he brought that to a krypt,He did a huge raley as he pulled it back down he dropped the handle and then yanked it back to his back hip and landed 180.So it was a suicide krypt But John it was sick and i think if it was a real tourney he should have won hands down ,all big sick <FONT COLOR="ff0000">••••</FONT> he threw..later <BR> <BR>Bill
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Nebulas and iPads
tech failure
Surfacing to say two things, since I need a break.
Jack, the Giant Killer.
He got his cred the hard way, though, and the crowing didn't start until AFTER the deed was done. Maybe the iPeed and the Droid should take note?
I already agreed with you once, I agree again!
In no way do a need a huge, not-as-cool iphone.
I don't believe I've ever commented to your journal, but I have to say that I would be tickled to death to see The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland chosen for the Norton award. There is no way to describe how highly I think of it without gushing like a schoolgirl and embarrassing us both to no end. People with more SFWA cred than me: go vote that sucker in!
I was hoping for a challenger to Cintiq. Cuz you know, there's tablets for computers for artists, and silly me, I thought that would be a good market to keep in mind. But no, a closed system running apps from the app store. Yay.
And no stylus, which probably would have sold it for me. The fact is, there is no way in which this is an active device for creating content--only for consuming it.
I suspect that the iPad is going for the netbook market, but that will all depend on what the price is.
I haven't been following this, but my boyfriend has and according to him it STARTS at $200 more than a Netbook and has much less memory. If that's the case I don't see how that's any competition. Seems like Apple's trying to create something for a market that doesn't exist.
At the moment, it's way high. And doesn't do a lot of the things a netbook does.
I also don't think I have much use for the iPad, as least in its current incarnation. But I haven't heard anyone say it's going to OMG destroy publishing; I've been hearing it's going to OMG save publishing. Which I don't think is true either, but still, that's the meme I've been seeing.
I might be reacting to the long twitter debate I had on the subject that made me very cranky.
Putting your book up for Weekly Book Promotion - I'm doing these more often since I got Hemmingson's book out by May (and the Bible book out at the end of the year and your advance sooner).
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I'm trying to figure out a way to add ONE new shortcut icon to all 40 user's quick launch toolbar without having to manually paste into 40 folders.
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If you were to do this for one user, what folder would you put it in? What about using the "All Users" folder located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users? – H3br3wHamm3r81 Oct 18 '11 at 3:11
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On windows XP (ignore unix folder-separators):
Documents and Settings/Default User/Programdata/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch
I think it's safe to assume that a similar path (c:/users/all users ..or something) applies to Windows Vista and Windows 7 with IE 8 or even newer.
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