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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Jimmy Ar'son
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Ramien 22:49, December 17, 2010 (UTC)
I'm all over this like a nun on a chocolate cake. --Black Flamingo 19:13, January 7, 2011 (UTC) Fuck it, Mr Bole got there first. --Black Flamingo 19:14, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
Hyperbole is engaged in the dual processes
of giving you his opinion and pretending you care.
Humour: 1 Hey, Ramien! So, I see that this is that only article you've ever written, and you haven't been here in three weeks since you requested this Pee Review. This makes me skeptical that you're even going to read this. So, if you are, welcome to Uncyclopedia! And, if not, well, I'm completely wasting my time!!
• Lede: Let's start at the beginning. The concept seems to be that someone named "Jimmy Ar'son" has been President of the United States for 50 years, and is an arsonist. Well, right off the bat, we know that the idea that we've had the same President for 50 years is patent nonsense. So, I'm thinking: is this going to be some political satire? The concept isn't actually entirely clear to me at this point, other than that this is going to be an article about someone who 1) is the President; and 2) is an arsonist.
• Family History: This is completely unfunny. I don't even see an attempted joke in here. Why do you want me to know this stuff? Is it going to be important later on that Ar'son's ancestors are Dutch? It the old rule, here - if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it has to be used in the third act. Otherwise, you're boring your audience with extraneous, pointless details.
• Early Life: Okay, so Ar'son was born in 1906, which makes him... 104. Well, that's implausible, but not impossible, I guess. Again, I just don't see any jokes in this section. Honestly, I'm getting very bored reading a fictional history of a person who doesn't exist, and therefore, who I can't possibly care about. I'm a little bewildered that his parents were "formerly proud, now slightly crispy" - which I assumed was a set-up for Ar'son burning them to death - and then suddenly I find out they were killed in a car wreck. What?? I guess the only joke I can find here is "Somerset Morgue for Dead People," which is clever, but certainly not enough to carry a whole section. Oh, and there's a dead body in the attic for some reason. That's... odd.
• Old Age and Death: Wow, so he hasn't set anything on fire, and he hasn't become President, and we're already doing this. Well... okay. I find it a little amusing that you identify cigarettes as the cause of cancer and snake oil as the cure for cancer, but there's a lot of weird nonsense here that just looks like made up crap and isn't funny. You say he was elected President, although there's absolutely no discussion of his campaign, platform, etc. And we're told he invented fire, which is just bizarre, because.. come on. That's been around for a while. There's a weird joke about Snake Oil being named after Solid Snake, which... doesn't have enough connection to the real world to be funny. Jerry Springer's in here for some reason. I don't know, Ramien. This is a mess.
• Post Mortem Presidential Actions: This just tells us, basically, that all future problems were successfully blamed on a guy who died in 1961. This is too implausible to be funny.
• Jimmy's House of Arson Corporation: Okay, so if I remember right, this company was founded in 1951, and it made cigarettes and Motrin, right? But now you're telling us it makes fire, napalm, and C4. What the fuck just happened? Anyway, being told that a corporation makes military weapons... is not funny.
• List of JHOA Products: In general, it's a bad idea to end an article with a long list. Lists get tedious and most of us don't like them. There's a very mild joke in FIRE about being able to solve all problems by burning your house down - okay. Not hilarious, but at least it's an attempt at humor. In NAPALM, you basically just tell us what napalm is, using an advertising tone of voice, which... doesn't make me laugh, either. C-FOUR and GREEK FIRE are more of the same - this is getting tedious fast. The INCENDIARY PILL is, I guess, something that sets your stomach on fire - the thing about couching something in euphemism is that we kind of have to know what it is, or we might just end up taking the euphemisms at their word. There's a thing in here about assassinating an independent researcher, too, for some reason. And then there's OPERATION FIRESTORM, which kills all life on the planet, basically. Well, okay! That was certainly a list - but one with extremely few jokes.
• Product Usage: I'll be honest with you. It was hard to even read this far, and I'm probably the only person who will ever read this section. There's a lot of stuff in here about Communism and killing Communists with fire-based weapons... dude, wasn't this originally an article about a President who was an arsonist? I mean, I can't even figure out the point of this article anymore.
Okay. This article has serious problems. Let's talk a little bit about comedy theory in the next section.
Concept: 1 Every article needs to have a concept. And 99% of the time, the best concept is "let's make fun of something by skewing reality just a little bit." Read some featured articles, and you'll see that, indeed, 99% of them follow this formula. A concept can usually be best expressed in one sentence, like "What if you applied the same over-the-top cinematics of The Bourne Identity to something very boring?" (See: The Bourne Pottery Class) or "What if we actually took the game mechanics of Dragon Warrior seriously?" (See: Dragon Worrier) or "What if Star Wars was retooled to be a Japanese Opera?" (See: Star Wars (Japanese Opera))
What you really can't get away with is a zany universe where all semblances of reality are off the table. In The Bourne Pottery Class, you simply can't get away with saying that suddenly Mama Luigi jumped through the window and repealed the Emancipation Proclamation. That's so far off-concept that it would simply ruin the article.
You could get away with a concept like "What if the President of the United States was an arsonist?" That would be a viable article. But you can't get away with completely rewriting the universe so the President has been dead for fifty years and never served while alive, and suddenly change concepts, mid-article, to "What if a corporation sold military-grade weapons to the public?" All you get then is an incoherent mess.
Also, in general, a good article keeps you smiling with every single sentence. Every single sentence needs to contain either a punchline or a setup for a punchline. A sentence like "The Ar'son family has its earliest known roots in the Netherlands, specifically in Amsterdam during 1421." - it has no punchline, and it sets us up for nothing. It just wastes your reader's time. Your reader will resent that and refuse to continue reading your article.
Prose and formatting: 7 The one thing I do like about this article is the prose. You can write in an encyclopedic style; your sentences are, generally, grammatically correct. They convey information in a direct and non-confusing fashion. This, basically, means that you have promise. The problem with this article is that you didn't think of anything funny before you started writing it. That can be corrected in future articles. The inability to write coherent English sentences can't. So, even though I have to say that your first article is a failure, you're not one of the new writers who leaves me thinking "Ugh, this guy needs to go away; he'll never be good." I think that, with some inspiration, you could be good.
The formatting is pretty terrible, mostly because the pictures are just tossed in at random. But that's nothing a little spit and polish couldn't fix.
Images: 2 The images really, really don't add anything to the article, and there are too many of them. It's basically just a bunch of random pictures you'd find if you did a Google image search for "Fire." Many of them don't even have captions. And that "Head Asplode" picture is... so, so overused. Most of us have come to hate it, and, in fact, we've even been able to identify good candidates for deletion by searching for articles that use that picture. The only exception is the picture of the baby in the suit - and it doesn't match up with the article. Why is Jimmy Ar'son wearing a suit at age 1? You can't throw an out-of-context zany picture into an article and expect people to laugh.
Miscellaneous: 1 One.
Final Score: 12 Okay, so, in its current state, this article is certain to face deletion. And I think you should let it be deleted - it doesn't have a strong enough concept to justify any more work on it. Think of it as your practice article.
But I'd like it if you'd write another. You might want to read our mini-guide to humor, HTBFANJS. And consider what I said in the "concept" section. You're a good writer. If you have something funny to write about, I have no doubt you'll succeed. Good luck!!
Reviewer: Tinymasaru.gifpillow talk 19:48, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
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Sunday, 10 April 2011
EXPELLED from Creation Ministries International!
So here's how it went down. CMI was doing its creationist thing at UWA, and then later at Curtin. As members of a guild club (UWA Atheists and Skeptics), we had approval to attend and hand out information about evolution.
We made up quite a crowd -- I'd say 15 or 20 of us from the UWA Atheist and Skeptic Society and the Perth Atheists.
It started well enough. Before the event, we had a discussion with Dr Silvestru himself, who is an affable guy, although it's scary what must be in his mind. Chatting about science with believers was also quite nice. Strangely, the believers seemed to be almost exclusively young and Asian, and they didn't talk to us. Only the older CMI helpers did.
When it was time for the lecture to get started, the door was suddenly blocked by about five Christian door blockers, who told us we weren't welcome to attend.
That blur in the middle is Kylie Sturgess, working to secure our entry.
We explained that we just wanted to attend the lecture, assured them that we weren't interested in causing any disruption, but it was no go. We explained that it was a public event, advertised on campus, and we wanted to hear the lecture. (Even Dr Silvestru had no problem with us attending.) They said it was a private church service. Now don't you think that if it were a normal church, they'd love the chance to save an atheist like me?
Negotiations were to no avail, so it was off to Curtin for the second round.
Someone must have phoned ahead to warn the organisers at Curtin, because we were greeted by more security blocking us from entry. I guess when they realised that infiltrators were trying to walk right in to a public event, they decided to tighten things up.
We took this as a challenge to see if one of us could get inside. Kylie tried brazenly walking in, but got stopped and was subjected to a long grilling. David from Perth Atheists was able to breach the first level of security, but was nabbed by the more vigilant second tier. Curses!
The hilarious thing was that Asians were admitted without question, while any Caucasians -- even Christians who had no idea what was going on -- were given the third degree by security. (Where are all the Asian atheists, by the way? Must remember to get some.) They were actually asking people what church they belonged to! One guy refused my handout, but was then interrogated at the door. I heard one guard say, "Are you sure you go to Victory Life?"
I think it's revealing that they don't seem to think that their view can sustain the mere presence of non-believers. So much for peer review.
I'd say it was successful. We handed out all 200 flyers. The CMI people were even complaining that in the UWA lecture, people were reading the flyer all the way through the service, instead of watching the presentation!
I don't know if we changed anyone's mind, but that wasn't the point. The point was to raise the cost of spreading misinformation, which we did.
And we didn't have to attend a silly and fact-challenged lecture.
UPDATE: Ash from UWAASS questions the legality of the church's actions. Kylie Sturgess gives her take, and I'd like to say that she stole part of my title, right there as we were having coffee. Atheists have no morals.
1. Can I both grr and yay? And yes, I blatantly stole your post title (and what's a photo of me trying to be diplomatic doing online? Did you hold up your laptop?) :)
2. That's from my mobile. You came out well.
You can have all my titles! I can't stay mad at you, protest buddy. We have to meet up in a non-protest capacity.
Be sure and post that photo by (not of) Dr S. I still can't believe you asked him to take a picture of all of us!
3. Wow, you rebels! Next time maybe a back up group of atheists could hang back and be called in to act as true believers when the muscle steps in. A stealth operation I'd be happy to undertake! (Was busy with kiddlets today but I hope to help out sometime)
4. I have a theory which may explain all this nonsense.
Based on some quick sleuthing, it would seem that ZPH (Zion Praise Harvest) have a weekly church service at UWA/Curtin/Murdoch at the exact same time that they had it today. (
I would guess that Emil was just a visiting speaker who appears at different local community churchs. (This community church just happened to be a university -
It was probably never intended to be a public or open lecture, it was probably always going to be part of their church sermon.
Obviously this doesn't excuse their behaviour (which included racial profiling - and forbidding the public from attending, but it might go some ways to explaining the confusion.
5. Well, that's the thing, Maureen. You're white. You would have been given the third degree and turned away.
Asians, on the other hand, were admitted without a fuss.
Long and short of it, Zion Praise Harvest acted like idiots. Formal complaints are being prepared.
6. Interesting theory, Aaron.
I have another theory. They intended it to be public, but then chickened out when they saw us and made a snap decision to refuse us entry.
Why do I think that? They made posters. Do they make posters for their regular services?
(Actually, that's a real question. Do they?)
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Forget the Guinness publicity shots, drinks giant Diageo doesn't need us
Published 17/06/2013 | 17:00
Iconic: the Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate, Dublin. But our
relationship with the brand is more complicated than many realise.
Iconic: the Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate, Dublin. But our relationship with the brand is more complicated than many realise.
OTHER countries do state dinners and 21-gun salutes but it often seems that no visit to Ireland by a foreign leader is complete without a visit to a pub and a pint of Guinness.
We all know the pictures of grinning presidents, monarchs and prime ministers holding up a pint of the black stuff and then gulping it back. Even the 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth was offered an early morning pint during her visit to Ireland last year – an offer that, like most non-problem drinkers, she felt it was too early to accept.
All these photo opportunities convey a simple message that nothing is more Irish than Guinness.
In truth, the relationship between Guinness and Ireland is much more complicated than those happy snaps of world leaders downing a pint would suggest.
The brewery in the heart of Dublin's St James's Gate was a byword for sectarianism in the capital long after Independence. It had no qualms about selling drink to Catholics but it did everything it could to avoid employing them until the 1960s.
While there are many admirable aspects to the paternalistic capitalism practised by the Guinness family (and many other European breweries) the blatant discrimination continued far longer than it should have.
In the 1980s, as the IRA's bombing campaign spread to London and the rest of Britain, Guinness came close to scrapping the harp as its logo and denying its Irish heritage altogether. The harp that adorns our passports and other government documents is a treasured symbol for this country.
To the London-based drinks giant that owns Guinness since a disastrously corrupt merger in the 1980s, the harp is just another marketing logo to be kept or binned depending on circumstances .
Alcohol is big business and big business is rarely emotional. Diageo is no exception.
Last year, it decided to pull out of Kilkenny, where it produces the successful Smithwick's in a once-family-owned brewery that has been operating on the same spot for more than 300 years. The ale will now be produced in Dublin while the Marble City will get a €3m visitors' centre.
A few years ago, Diageo even decided to pull out of Dublin's city centre completely and move to a field on the M50, despite centuries of tradition. That decision too was later revoked for commercial reasons.
That's why everybody should sit up and take notice when the head of Diageo's Irish operations says casually, as he did in an interview published yesterday, that the company does not have to brew Guinness in Ireland or make Baileys.
David Smith, the 44-year-old marketing man who made the remark, originally hails from Leicester in England where people are known to be blunt. Still, his direct comments on the possible consequences of a ban on drinks sponsorship took many aback. With a record like that, remarks like this are bound to make governments cringe.
The real question is what should the Government do in response.
Don't worry too much is probably the best answer. Diageo, as the company itself quickly pointed out yesterday, is currently spending €153m on the new brewery in Dublin, which is a significant investment by any standards. The property crash means that Diageo would get very little for the historic St James's Gate site today.
While Diageo likes to blame governments and other outside forces for its problems, the reality is that the drinks giant is the victim of much more fundamental shifts in the global economy and consumer trends.
If Diageo ever leaves Dublin, the decision will be taken in a London boardroom for those reasons rather than any clampdown on drinks sponsorship that might come down the tracks this summer.
These shifts include the recession, Ireland's ageing population and a well-documented move away from drinking for health reasons.
These fundamental changes in Ireland and other European countries help to explain why drinks companies are now channelling most of their energies into emerging markets. India and China's vast middle-class are a much more tempting target than anything Europe or the US has to offer these days. Like cigarette or car companies, the drinks giants are doing everything they can to get consumers in Asia hooked on their products.
The problem for Diageo is that outgoing chief executive Paul Walsh made a fundamental mistake by ignoring Asia after the company got burned there in the late 1990s following the collapse of the region's economy.
That experience encouraged Mr Walsh to stay away from Asia and allow rivals to pour in. That mistake has cost Diageo sales and helps to explain why Mr Walsh's successor will be Indian-born Ivan Menezes.
There is undoubtedly no company which is more closely associated with Ireland than Guinness in most foreigners' minds. Whether this is a good thing or not is for others to decide but there is no doubt that it is something of a one-sided relationship.
Like a love-struck teenager, government after government has done everything it could to promote Guinness on the world stage. As the latest comments about brewing Guinness outside Ireland show, the thanks for all that free advertising has been icy indifference. Going on the past, we should not be too surprised.
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They can't escape due to other US Laws that say that if you break a US law anywhere on this planet, we will come after you and send you to chokey for the rest of your natural.
Ok, I'm going a bit overboard but recent events have made me believe that there is 'No Hiding Place' from the Feds if they are really determined to come after you.
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"It's time to give up on the cute and cuddly because we just can't afford it and we need to think of a much bigger picture," he says on his website.
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The animals have become critically endangered as a result of their natural habitat being destroyed and also their reluctance to breed in the wild.
Mr Packham says ongoing breeding programmes are pointless if there will not be any suitable land left to release them on to.
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Kyle Richards Real HousewivesThere is only one Real Housewives show I can stomach right now, but it's a doozy: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. If there is a better one, I don't want to know! Most of this is because of Kyle Richards. Perfect, perfect Kyle Richards.
It's not enough that she has long, gorgeous hair even in her 40s and that she looks about 29, she also has a rocking bod, a killer marriage, and really well-behaved, sweet children. Sigh.
The reality is, we all kinda sorta want to be Kyle. Of the women on the show, she is the one who never fights (except with her sister Kim who usually starts it anyway) and rarely becomes tabloid fodder. Here are the top 10 reasons we all are jealous of Kyle:
1. Her Hair: Long, shiny, perfect black hair. She breaks every rule about women over 40 and long hair, but with hair like that, who cares?
2. Her Way With Women: Seriously, does ANYONE dislike Kyle? She seems to just be friends with everyone. This is contrary to pretty much every other real housewife in the history of the show.
3. Her Splits: She can DO THE SPLITS, people. I couldn't do that since I was 5!
4. Her Husband: As far as husbands go, Mauricio Umansky is outstanding. He's hot. He's grounded. He's supportive. And he is worth a reported $100 million.
5. Her Kids: Seriously, how are they ALL so sweet and well-behaved? Can't one be a wild child?
6. Her Mother-in-Law: Yes, she even loves her mother-in-law. And her mother-in-law loves her. JEALOUS.
7. Her Clothing: Maybe having four daughters makes your clothing better? Whatever the reason, mama can dress! She always looks perfect, age appropriate, classy, AND sexy.
8. Her Rockin' Bod: She has expressed discomfort with her body in the past, but she looks AMAZING. Forty-three never looked so hot.
9. Her House: Come on. That shite is gorgeous, right?
10. Her Car: It's a gorgeous Maserati. Plus it has a convertible top, something we East Coasters can only imagine.
Are you envious of Kyle? Or does another Housewife make you swoon?
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By AbsShek on 3/15/2010 10:03:42 AM , Rating: 2
One of two things can happen after this:
1) Apple wins - The tech world will be held back by all the patenting and suing. - Dark ages
2) Google wins - The tech world will be engulfed in a lot of open source code being duplicated, leaving the consumers confused as to which software to use. - Information overload
Or, if we're lucky, the patenting system is given an overhaul, and the conditions for technology patents are made more stringent.
RE: One of two things will happen here...
By TheEinstein on 3/15/2010 10:24:31 AM , Rating: 5
1) Apple Wins, our tyrant hides all info, controls all production
2) Google Wins, Our Tyrant shows openess on the public side, but in the depths they control and manipulate us via 1984 brainwashing methods, using the information they garner off our searches.
3) Microsoft Wins, Our Tyrant seeks money from us, but generally if they get the money they stay hands off from us...
4) AOL returns from the dead, and Wins, Our Tyrant makes it so no other software than their own can run, and only on Saturdays, and with annoying catchy noises and phrases everywhere, humanity is reduced to a psychologically ill crowd bent on removing the voices from our heads...
By seamonkey79 on 3/15/2010 11:59:13 PM , Rating: 2
I like Microsoft's win...
and I've got an Android phone :-)
By omnicronx on 3/15/2010 12:34:08 PM , Rating: 2
3) Apples patents are proven to be overly broad, covered by prior art or just plain invalid.
both systems continue to co-exists which gives consumers choice.. I don't want either side to 'Win', Apple has definitely driven the mobile market the last few years, but if they are not challenged, what will keep them innovating? We will be in the same position as we were before the iPhone if Apple wins this case.
Also, open source code being duplicated? The reason I enjoy using Java is because I rarely have to duplicate existing functionality, someone else has most likely already done what I am looking for.. i.e I always look first to see if it has been done before I attempt it myself.
Now on the otherhand you could have 100 apps on the iPhone store that all need to do the same thing internally, but all do it a different way as resources are rarely shared. (there are some sites and places, but they are few and far between compared to the open source community.)
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Ford Fiesta
Ford continues to milk the benefits of turbocharging
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RE: Virbo Wagon
By EricMartello on 6/3/2011 10:13:29 PM , Rating: -1
They can think about it all they want but the fact remains - the fewer cylinders you have on a piston engine the more its going to vibrate, and not only is this engine 3-cyl it's 1 L so you're really going to need to flog it to accelerate since it will basically have no torque.
Anyone who buys a car like this deserves its shortcomings and the mockery that follows. LOL
RE: Virbo Wagon
By lagomorpha on 6/4/2011 4:13:03 PM , Rating: 2
To be more specific - Inline-3 engines create end to end vibration which Ford will eliminate with a balance shaft. Inline-4 engines have a small vertical vibration that is sometimes solved with twin balance shafts but isn't vital for the engine sizes in compact cars.
At 105 ft-lbs this engine doesn't really have much less torque than many 1.5-1.6L I4s. Personally I think it'd be a better solution to just make a 1L-1.2L I4 with a turbo and no balance shafts but Ford probably thinks they can package and manufacture an I3 more cheaply. The balance issue is the reason many 660cc Kei cars use 4 cylnder engines but for people that don't care about a rougher engine as long as it's cheap I don't think it'll be an issue.
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RE: Virbo Wagon
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Ranbir nervous of his baby
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As D-day approaches, new teenage heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor is admittedly nervous. His second film, Bachna Ae Haseeno (BAH), which also features, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba and Deepika Padukone, releases in less than four days and he knows that he has to prove a point that all the best male debut awards for Saawariya and the hype surrounding his launch were not a mere flash in the pan.
In his latest talks, Ranbir differentiates between his two directors, Sanjay Bhansali and Siddharth Anand, and their style of functioning. He says that in Saawariya he was merely following Sanjay Leela Bhansali whereas in BAH he has not only worked as a lead actor but has also contributed by giving a lot of creative inputs in terms of the look and the feel of the movie. Naturally he was given the liberty of putting in his creative inputs, as the director, Siddharth Anand (he calls him Sid) is his childhood friend. So in a way BAH is like Ranbir's baby!
With the music video of the title track receiving praises from all quarters and the album (by Vishal-Shekhar) maintaining its position in the Top three, one expects a good opening for Bachna Ae Haseeno, when it releases along with the comic caper, the Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra starrer, God Tussi Great Ho, on 15th August!
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Are Traditional Compensation Surveys Right for Your Business?
Age is Wonderful for Wine, but Deadly for Data.
By Tripp Ritter,
In a world where businesses change constantly, employers need dynamic data. It's where the world is headed. Even in their private life, people have become accustomed to demand dynamic information over stale. Take investments, for example. Thanks to mobile devices and the Web, you can now get stock updates every minute. You wouldn't buy or sell a stock based on data that was nine months old. Why would you make vital compensation decisions that tap your precious labor budget on data that old?
The Traditional Approach
Do traditional surveys really provide data that out of date? Yes, they do. But, don't take our word for it. Pick up a report from a traditional salary data provider and read the details. When was the data collected? Not last week, not last month, not last quarter. The fact is, traditional surveys take time. They build the survey, send the survey out to a list, wait for the response, collect the data, analyze the data, and create the final report. Each of these steps adds weeks, so realistically a traditional survey is often only conducted yearly or at best a few times per year.
What Difference Does a Few Months Make?
Consider someone making a compensation decision in January of this year. Using mid-2011 data they might decide that hiring was light and act accordingly. In reality, as the Department of Labor jobs report -- as well as PayScale data -- makes clear, hiring was up.
Your ability to retain employees and hire the best people for your company depends on how well you understand the range of actual compensation as it is today. With access to real-time data, you see the ups and downs of the market over time and make your decisions accordingly. Your employees and your potential hires are making their employment decisions using up to the minute data, thanks to PayScale.
PayScale’s efforts at modernizing compensation data are part of a wider trend in the data industry. Companies like Jive are capturing vast amounts of social data and using it to help marketers protect their brands online. Business intelligence tools are exploding in popularity because they allow companies to take advantage of the data they already have. For these companies and others, the focus is on quickly getting information to the decision-maker. It's time for those who manage compensation to have the same tools.
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What are the security implications of a drive that is partially encrypted
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What are the security implications of a drive that is partially encrypted
What are the security implications of distributing a drive that has not completed the initial encryption
On a normal NTFS partition, all data is stored in "plain text."
After you install EP Hard Disk or EA Hard Disk, and encrypt the partition, the plain text is run through an encryption algorithm (AES) and turned into
"cipher text." This means that the data on the drive is
unintelligible unless you have the workstation encryption key that was
used to encrypt the data. This key is accessed when the user
enters their password at the login prompt for either EP Hard Disk or EA Hard Disk.
Of course, this transformation from "plain text" to "cipher text" does
not happen instantaneously. Each sector of the hard drive must be
read, put into the encryption algorithm, and rewritten to the hard
drive as cipher text. Depending on the speed of the computer
hardware and the options chosen during initial setup of EP Hard Disk,
this process can take between minutes and days.
So what happens if the computer is distributed to the user before
initial encryption has completed? When you try to view the partially encrypted partition in a different installation of Windows, it prompts you to format the drive. This defeats the low-skilled attacker. But this is only because Windows is not attempting to recover your data; it is only attempting to make use of the drive.
In reality, part of your data is still stored in plain text. An attacker merely needs to know which tool to use to access this portion of the plain text. A very basic tool is a "hex editor." It will read the raw ones and zeros from a file and output them to your screen. There are more sophisticated tools,
such as "GetDataBack" which attempt to automate this process of making sense of these ones and zeros.
So, let us take the scenario of a user that has recently received a new
workstation. The machine is at 2% encryption, and the user quickly
copies a 1MB text file to the hard disk. She then shuts the computer down and goes away.
There is no guarantee that this data was encrypted as it was being
written to the hard disk. Only after initial encryption is complete, is all
data encrypted as it is written to the hard disk. So if someone
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initial encryption, he would be able to potentially view data in
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Ben Bernanke's cold comfort for Democrats
The federal reserve chairman may have steadied markets, but will hardly have settled Democratic nerves for the midterms
Ben Bernanke, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, federal reserve conference
There's certainly no longer any pretending that there's any kind of recovery going on. Those "green shoots" of March and April have curled back under the soil. Growth is slow enough – about 1.7% on an annual basis – that the risk of unemployment going higher, getting back above the politically important 10% figure, is very real.
So it's good that Bernanke offered a reassuring message, but it's difficult to feel all that reassured. Usually, on economic matters, laypersons like me can read the predictions and analyses of the doomsayers (usually on the left) and the predictions and analyses of the optimists (in the administration) and split the difference and be about right. But the Obama administration, in the person of Christina Romer, the outgoing chair of the president's board of economic advisors, predicted that 2009's stimulus package would keep unemployment around 8%. The doomsayers' case is looking stronger with each month.
The political ramifications are obvious. Back in April, when growth seemed to be starting to gather some momentum, the Democrats were revving themselves up for a summer and fall of recovery. If they could have headed into the November elections with five or six straight months of positive job growth, they could plausibly have argued to voters that a recovery was well underway.
Now, there is no chance they will able to make that argument. The reality of September's and October's economic numbers might be grim indeed.
What argument can Barack Obama and his party make instead?
They will scramble to say two things: it could have been much worse; and the Republicans have been obstructionists, hurting not helping. Both of these arguments are true, according to the best objective information we have. This Newsweek article sums up the first point well: Republican plans would have yielded fewer jobs and a higher deficit. And on the second point, a larger stimulus back in early 2009 would have done more for the economy (this wasn't solely the fault of Republicans, as several moderate Democrats also balked at a larger number).
But it's too late for those arguments to take hold. The Democrats should have been making them aggressively from the start. Instead, they banked on the current moment being recovery summer. And now that that isn't the case, they're seen as incompetents.
In the battle between incompetents and obstructionists, the obstructionists are going to win. And things may get even worse, since the GOP's goal is not to help lower the unemployment rate, but to raise it by one: a certain Barack Hussein Obama.
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When booting into Ubuntu, I'm getting the following error with a grub rescue shell following it:
Error: unknown filesystem.
grub rescue>
I'm not exactly sure what I did. I believe I installed Ubuntu over Windows on my Acer netbook. I then tried to install Linux Mint, but it wouldn't start installing. I turned the netbook off and back on. Now I get the error.
I have read a lot of other questions like this, but in my case I cannot boot a CD. If I put a Ubuntu CD or a Linux Mint CD into my external CD/DVD drive and change my BIOS to boot the CD-ROM first, it just gives me the same error screen.
Here are some results from using the ls command:
grub rescue>ls (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1)
grub rescue>ls (hd0,msdos5) unknown filesystem
grub rescue>ls (hd0,msdos1) unknown filesystem
grub rescue>ls (hd0) unknown filesystem
Can anyone get me back into Ubuntu and make this error go away?
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marked as duplicate by belacq, Warren Hill, Sneetsher, bain, psusi Jul 1 at 18:59
do you have ubuntu live ISO in internal hard drive? – virpara May 26 '12 at 2:45
If there is no defect in either your Ubuntu or Mint install CDs then either your hardware is broken or your BIOS is simply not trying to boot from the CD even though you think you told it to do that. Please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions listed on the BootFromCD help page. – irrational John May 27 '12 at 2:07
I did what this answer said to do, but instead of (hd0,1) I put (hd0,3). I suggest trying that command with 1-6 instead of just 1 or 0. But try 0 too. – user85203 Aug 24 '12 at 1:06
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First boot into Ubuntu from an ISO image.
1. Locate the Ubuntu partition and the folder containing the GRUB modules.
The GRUB folder containing the modules must be located so the correct modules can be loaded. This folder would have been created during the initial installation of Ubuntu and should be located in the Ubuntu partition. This folder would normally be located at either (hdX,Y)/boot/grub or (hdX,Y)/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc. Find your existing Ubuntu partition and the module folder.
ls # List the known drives (hdX) and partitions (hdX,Y)
ls (hdX,Y)/ # List the contents of the partition's root
ls (hdX,Y)/boot/grub # Normal location of the Grub 2 modules.
ls (hdX,Y)/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc # Alternate location of the Grub 2 modules.
• If you get an "error: unknown filesystem" this is not your Ubuntu partition.
• If this is the Ubuntu partition, you will see the Ubuntu folders, including lost+found/, home/, boot/ and vmlinuz and initrd.img. Use this address as the first part of the next command.
• ls (hdX,Y)/boot/grub - should display several dozen *.mod files. This is the folder you are looking for.
2. Load the modules.
set prefix=(hdX,Y)/<path to modules>
• This command must correctly point to the folder containing the GRUB modules. The address should be the one in the previous section which displayed the modules.
set prefix=(hd0,5)/boot/grub
set prefix=(hd1,1)/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
• Load modules:
insmod linux
insmod loopback
insmod iso9660
insmod fat # If ISO is located on fat16 or fat32 formatted partition.
insmod nftscomp # If NTFS compression is used on the partition. Load if you aren't sure.
• A "file not found" error means that the path in the prefix is incorrect or the specific module does not exist. The prefix setting may be reviewed with the set command. Rerun the "set prefix=" command with the proper path.
3. Locate the Ubuntu ISO file.
• Using the combinations of ls commands, locate the Ubuntu ISO image.
4. Create the loopback device.
loopback loop (hdX,Y)/<path to ISO>/<ISO-name.iso>
• Example:
loopback loop (hd1,1)/path/to/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
5. Load the Linux kernel and initrd image.
set root=(loop)
linux /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/<ISO-name.iso> noprompt noeject
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
• If the path to the ISO or filename is not correct, the boot will halt at the BusyBox screen and produce a message stating "can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found".
• Note: If the ISO file is not in the / folder, include the path in the iso-scan/filename= entry. See second example.
• Examples:
linux /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
linux /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/my-iso/ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
6. Boot.
That should be it. If the commands ran without any messages/errors, the commands were accepted as entered. It's now time to boot:
Now do this after booting:
How to fix: error:unknown file system grub rescue? is post with the same problem and is solved as below,
1. sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
Here, sdaX is your boot partition. You can get a list with sudo blkid like this,
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Windows XP" UUID="96A4390DA438F0FB" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Ubuntu 11.04" UUID="b61fcae3-7744-45b4-95b9-7528d50a3652" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Se7en" UUID="A2DC9D71DC9D4109" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Development" UUID="DEB455A1B4557CC9" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="EXTRA" UUID="D8A04109A040F014" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="SONG" UUID="46080FCD080FBAC7" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="BACKUPS" UUID="766E-BC99" TYPE="vfat"
Note: sdaX must be Linux partition.
2. sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
3. sudo update-grub
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when I use the sudo blkid it says "Unknow command "sudo" – Hjke123 May 26 '12 at 3:00
As I said ^^ I can't do the sudo command. – Hjke123 May 26 '12 at 3:14
blkid and all this with sudo is pricess to do after booting into live image. – virpara May 26 '12 at 3:32
Is there any way to repair grub without installing a fresh copy of Ubuntu? – TheRookierLearner Jul 9 at 5:21
These steps solved the issue. I am having Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.04. After running steps on the below I don't need to run these every time and able to boot OSs normally:
1. set root=(hd0,6)
2. set prefix=(hd0,6)/boot/grub
3. insmod normal
4. normal
5. sudo update-grub (Run this in terminal after getting into Ubuntu)
6. sudo grub-install /dev/sda (Run this in terminal after getting into Ubuntu)
Take into consideration that the hd0 could be X (0,1,2..) depending on the order of disks and the 6 could be also different, it could be (hd0,gpt7), for example.
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This got me to my grub menu, thanks dude! – Eric Dec 14 '12 at 9:48
I have a MacBook Air with Ubuntu and OSX, this solved my issues after the OSX Mavericks update! – Murphy Oct 24 '13 at 12:12
Thanks a lot. ( @Hjke123 this should be the accepted answer ! While the first post gives hints on how to get the Ubuntu disk/partition IDs ...) – ring0 May 8 at 9:08
Excellent. These steps solved by issue. Just make sure that /dev/sda is your harddisk, which is the case most of the time. – palerdot Jul 11 at 16:34
Boot your system from the Ubuntu Live CD and try this, it worked wonders for me.
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Can you elaborate? – Peter Mortensen Oct 31 '13 at 18:17
Before reading: The answer below is meant for Ubuntu users who have just updated/recovered/reinstalled/installed OS X. It's likely that the answer will work if this isn't the case (for example, if there are any inconsistencies in your partition table), but I'm not sure.
For me, this happened after updating to OS X Mavericks (10.9). Basically what may have happened is that OS X created a recovery partition ("Recovery HD") that the system only detects sometimes. For example, GParted in Ubuntu will see the recovery partition fine, but when listing the partitions in terminal (fdisk -l), you may not see the partitions.
Diagnosing the issue: Did the OS X update/format/recovery cause this problem?
In order to diagnose that this is indeed the case, first use GRUB rescue to boot into Ubuntu. In order to do this, follow this page or see if any of the other answers on this question can get you into Ubuntu. For me, running the below commands temporarily allowed me to boot the correct partition. Depending on how your hard drives and partitions are set up, it may vary:
grub rescue> insmod normal
grub rescue> normal
Now, log in to Ubuntu and check GParted. If you see the recovery partition, open up a terminal and type fdisk -l to see if that detects the recovery partition. If it doesn't list the same partitions, check the device/partition column and see if those also don't match up (for example, in GParted your boot partition may be /dev/sda4, but it is /dev/sda3 when running fdisk). If this is the case, keep reading. If it's not, it looks like your partitions are lined up correctly. You can either choose to keep reading and follow the instructions (which, if GRUB was working before the restore/reinstall/etc..., this should work properly), or just reinstall GRUB on the right partition.
Fixing it by removing/merging the recovery partition
To fix this issue, what we want to do is get rid of the recovery partition - it's causing issues and inconsistencies, and removing it shouldn't cause damage. Ideally you want to merge it with the normal HFS+ OS X partition, so follow this question and answer here. After merging, GRUB should be back to normal.
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This happened to me after I delete a partition that was located before the /boot partition.
To fix it, I ran an Ubuntu live USB stick, mounted the root partition to /mnt and the boot partition to /mnt/boot, and I ran this command (replace /dev/sda with the correct hard disk):
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
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Your external CD/DVD is probably a USB device. You probably cannot tell BIOS to boot from it. When you start the ACER wacth for a message at the bottom (or top) of the screen saying something like "F2 to enter Setup, F12 for a Boot Menu". When you know what you need to press for the Boot Menu, put the CD in your external device, turn on or reboot the machine and slowly mash that key until you get a temporary menu allowing you to boot from the external CD.
You may need to use gparted from the CD to examine your hard drive and decide what to do to fix it so you can use it. That's beyond what I can describe here
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Here are some results from my commands : grub rescue> ls (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) grub rescue>ls (hd0,msdos5) unknown filesystem grub rescue>ls (hd0,msdos1) unknown filesystem grub rescue>ls (hd0) unknown filesystem I don't know if this will mean anything to anyone trying to help and thanks for the response I will check – Hjke123 May 26 '12 at 2:54
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For the second time, I'm outsourcing my VOIP hosting to a provider, whom I have to trust their sales pitch of 45 minutes down per 365 days. Is there an automated way I can test their server(s) without having to make a telephone call every couple hours & log it? I'm thinking something like a 'ping' would be nice, that I could generate from a Linux script. Any ideas?
I'll be depending on them for my business, so I don't want to get blindsided by clients who say they can't reach me.
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Robert why don't you evaluate their solution and monitor it internally during the evaluation period and make your decision based on the results? You could use any of these tools.
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Nice. I will try one or more of these tools. – Robert Rolnik Nov 22 '10 at 21:11
Their server responding to pings is only one small piece of the puzzle. Their equipment and network provider must also work for you to receive calls. If you are receiving their service over the public Internet, then your Internet connection is the most crucial link. Having a quality Internet connection is 70% of the battle. Use this packet loss and delay test tool to test your Internet.
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Yeah, I've run that test tool at least a dozen times in the last 3 years. My local ISP is like a rock (which is more than I can say for local electric power). So weak link in the chain remains the Voip host. – Robert Rolnik Nov 14 '10 at 5:32
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Is there a way to set the dimensions of a swf posted to Facebook using the feed dialog, either javascript or direct url method?
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I'm not 100% certain that this works anymore as I've tried to add this with the Feed dialog as opposed to the sharer and it seemed to have no effect at all. It may have been replaced by the source parameter in the newer feed dialog API (which I don't think you can define a width/height for. Please correct me if I'm wrong) ..
but, take a look at media attachments in the stream attachment guide:
you would pass in a JSON encoded object as the media URL param.
{"media": [{
"type": "flash",
"swfsrc": "http://www.mapsofwar.com/photos/EMPIRE17.swf",
"imgsrc": "http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/funny-pictures-hairless-cat-phones-home.jpg",
"width": "80",
"height": "60",
"expanded_width": "160",
"expanded_height": "120"
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I think this is an old method that doesn't work with the feed dialog. – Tom Kincaid May 17 '12 at 1:13
Yeah, you can still define this in the OG however. – Chamilyan May 17 '12 at 3:44
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Currently I am building a site with a Facebook Open Graph integration.
One complication I have is since user can do seemingly similar actions to different objects on our site, it is easy for us to define different action for each similar actions. However, it seems like Facebook is not allowing ( or at least not liking ) for one site to have multiple similarly looking actions.
For instance, let's assume that user can both 'buy' a car, and 'buy' an insurance in our site. Although, on surface, these two action look similar, because their context is different we want to show different content - more specifically different caption - for each action that is postsed.
Simple way to implement this will be defining two actions, 'BuyCar' <---> associated with Car 'BuyInsurance' <---> associated with Insurance and let them have distinctive caption template.
However, as I mentioned earlier, since Facebook does not allow multiple similar actions to be defined within a site, I should be defining. 'Buy' <----> associated with [Car, Insurance] where this action always have only one property defined. (either Car or Insurance) Downside of having these type of action is, due to limitation in current cation's template language (lacks conditional statement), I am not able to produce different caption effectively without knowing which property is set.
How should I be handling this issue?
Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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I think the captions do need to be something generic that will work for all connected object types. But you could use filters to defined separate aggregations for each object type.
Just add an additional parameter to all of your objects and set the value of that parameter as an aggregation filter?
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I have a Clevo p150hm based laptop (Kobalt), which accidentally got too much wattage it would seem, from a universal charger, that might've had too high settings. There was definitely smoke, and now the laptop won't start at all.
Is all hope lost, or would it be possible for me to identify the short circuit components and possibly replace them?
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Universal power adapters do NOT force more wattage into a device than it is designed to draw. This is why Universal Power adapters are able to be sold and why they work. If a laptop only requires 65 watts, and you use a 90 watt Universal Adapter to power it, the laptop will only draw 65 watts from the adapter. Now, if you used the wrong tip on the Universal Adapter, or the power adapter port on the laptop was broken and caused a short, or reversed the polarity... THAT could cause a problem that would involve sparks and smoke etc. Unless your "universal charger" wasn't made for laptops. – Bon Gart Jun 14 '12 at 20:24
Okay, "too much wattage" might not be the correct description of the problem. It did say that it had short-circuit protection on the adapter, but none the less, after 10 seconds of it plugged it, sparks, and smoke came out the rear. – Dynde Jun 14 '12 at 21:13
This was a Universal Laptop power adapter, or something similar to one of those Radio Shack Universal DC adapters that is made to be used with everything that requires DC power? You were supposed to put the correct tip on the end of the cable, and the tip had to be put on the correct way for that device? – Bon Gart Jun 14 '12 at 22:19
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Too little information here to give a reliable answer. If you aren't a skilled computer technician, you'll have to be very careful--it's quite easy to destroy a laptop by opening and disassembling it, even if it starts in perfect condition.
Where was the smoke coming from, anyway? The motherboard? The battery? The power supply? If it's something you can swap easily (for instance, the hard drive), try removing that and see if it will start.
In fact, if I were asked to look at a laptop that smoked out, I would remove everything removable: the hard drive, any optical drive, the power supply, all expansion cards, the battery. Now replace the battery and see if it will start. If not, remove the battery and replace the power supply, and try again. Does it start up?
If that doesn't work you'd need to open the case and inspect visually for fried components. Also, replacing the whole system is probably easier and cheaper than replacing the internal components of a modern laptop, unless you enjoy tinkering.
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I'm not a professional hardware repair guy, but I've built hundreds of computers, tinkered a lot, fixed a lot of different things, and am a professional software developer, so I have the basics down. The smoke came out the back, so it's difficult to say what component it was. I'm gonna try and disassemble it (I believe this at least will be trivial for me), and then see if anything obvious is gone. I was hoping for a clue as to how best identify the broken parts, if not immediately apparent upon examining it. Like a rule of thumb, or best place to put a Multimeter or something – Dynde Jun 14 '12 at 21:16
Yeah, you certainly sound qualified. If you don't see obvious smoke traces on anything, look for a capacitor on one of the boards that has melted and leaked. Melted solder is also a possibility. With a meter, the first thing I would check would be the voltages coming out of the power supply. – CarlF Jun 15 '12 at 12:33
I have done a few repairs to power receptacles of laptops and they aren't too tricky. If you "let the smoke out" it should be obvious where it came from... likely a component (capacitor or resistor) will have burnt out and there will be a stain on the board.
If it is a simple component that you fix, you can get that replaced then double and triple check everything before reconnecting the same power pack to the laptop. And do verify the polarity of the pin and shell of both the laptop and power pack before reconnecting. If you're not sure, people with soldering experience will probably be a great help.
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Inflorescences, buds and flowers
Looking beyond the leaves, the researcher then seeks the floral structures. These traditionally hold the defining aspects of species. There are numerous characters associated with them. Basically there are two contrasting forms of floral architecture, the individual flower buds or flowers, and then their arrangement on the branchlets. In most species of eucalypts, the buds occur in clusters on single stalks in the axils of the leaves. The flowers are mostly small and whitish and are not conspicuous in the crown.
A very few species have the inflorescences in complex clusters in the axils, e.g. E. michaeliana or on elongated axillary shoots as in E. tessellaris. Four species from south-eastern Australia, E. fastigata, E. pachycalyx, E. regnans and E. squamosa, form their buds consistently in twin clusters in each axil of the leaf. In contrast, several large groups, the bloodwoods, some of the boxes and some of the ironbarks, form the individual bud clusters in large groups at the ends of the branchlets, with few or no leaves. These result in conspicuous sprays of flowers on the outside of the crown in certain seasons. A prominent example is the yellow bloodwood (E. eximia) of the sandstone regions of central eastern New South Wales. The creamy white flower clusters stand out in the forest. In the south-west of Western Australia the widespread marri (E. calophylla) exhibits the same prolific flowering effect, although the red-flowering gum (E. ficifolia), of very restricted distribution east of Walpole, is the most spectacular of the flowering eucalypts. One species, E. cladocalyx, has ramiflorus inflorescences, with the buds formed on the leafless part of the branchlets well inside the crown. Very useful diagnostic information can be derived from these inflorescence patterns, although the structures can be modified by various external factors including predation.
A common modification of the basic axillary inflorescence of the eucalypts can be seen in many "box" and "ironbark" species. In these, bud clusters are formed in the usual way in the axils of developing leaves towards the ends of the annual growth of a branchlet. The arrangement of these leaves and floral primordia is initially decussate and subsequent uneven elongation of the axis gives the appearance of alternation. Each branchlet terminates with a vegetative bud. In many "box" and "ironbark" species, this terminal vegetative bud aborts and the now apparently alternate leaf primordia cease their development. The floral primordia however, continues to develop, resulting in a "leafless" compound inflorescence, terminating the branchlet. A good example of this is E. paniculata, the common grey ironbark of south-eastern Australia.
The individual bud clusters in most eucalypts can be seen on close inspection to be in symmetrical patterns. A few species have a single bud in the inflorescence, e.g. E. globulus and E. macrocarpa but the basic numbers are 3 or 7. In a 3-budded inflorescence there is a central erect bud and two subtending side buds, all in a plane at right angles to the stem forming a "cross". A 7-budded inflorescence has a central erect bud, two subtending side buds plus two buds each subtending the side buds. Higher bud numbers form by the addition of further pairs of subtending buds, and the number of buds in an intact inflorescence is always odd (never an even number), although very high bud numbers may occur in an obscured pattern. Also, in inflorescences with high numbers, one of a pair of subtending buds may be suppressed, probably by compression in the very young inflorescence which is tightly held within bracts which are soon deciduous. When assessing bud numbers, it is important to take into account the fact that during inflorescence development, individual buds may be lost. This is particularly the case by the fruiting stage when the structures under examination have been exposed for a whole season and subject to various traumas including predation and simple death of individual buds.
Angophora flowers
Inner opercula
Operculum scars
Inner bud anatomy
The eucalypts as recognised in EUCLID comprise the traditional eucalypts and the genus Angophora. Angophora species are readily distinguished from Eucalyptus species in the flowers, by the presence of petals that have a green keel and white margin, and by persistent hard, woody, green sepals. Most of the traditional Eucalyptus species of south-eastern Australia do not have separate sepals (two exceptions are E. baileyana, which has very small calyx lobes fused to the petals near the top of the bud and E. microcorys, which has, in early bud developement, very small calyx lobes formed at the top of the hypanthium but which fall early and are seldom seen). In Western Australia the subgenus Eudesmia is widespread and consists of several species, the most famous of which is the glaucous, juvenile-leaved Tallerack (E. pleurocarpa). In this and related species, the calyx is formed of distinct separate sepals which are usually evident as four small teeth at the top of the hypanthium and usually persist to the fruiting stage. Another group of eudesmids have their sepals more or less fused to the corolla right at the apex of the bud. Some species of red bloodwood have the inner or petaline operculum partially or almost completely divided into overlapping petals, a feature that can only be seen in carefully dissected buds. A longitudinal section through an almost mature bud can reveal whether or not the inner operculum is divided at all. Similarly, removing the outer operculum but leaving the inner operculum intact can also show whether the inner operculum is partially divided or not. Some examples are E. ficifolia, E. zygophylla and E. deserticola.
Angophora species and some of the northern bloodwoods have hairs and bristle glands somewhere on the inflorescence, peduncle, pedicel, and often on the bud. The buds of most Eucalyptus species are glabrous for their whole life cycle.
The flower buds of Angophora are all very similar within the group and, apart from size, contain very few discernible characters that distinguish the species. The individual flower buds of the traditional eucalypts, however, contain a great deal of vital information, from the external superficial nature of the wall of the bud to the characters of much higher reliability contained within. One character of absolute reliability (no exceptions have ever been found) is the number of opercula, although this requires experience to assess.
The eucalypt flower lacks showy petals. The petals are in fact united very early in bud development to form a cap or a cone-shaped structure that covers the stamens and ovary during their development. This is the inner operculum, which sheds just before flowering when the stamens expand and are almost ready to shed their pollen. (There is a delay in pollen ripening and dispersal to lessen the chance of self-fertilisation and consequent inbreeding). The outer whorl of the floral parts is the sepals which, likewise, unite to form an operculum in most eucalypt species. In the majority of species, this, the outer operculum sheds early in bud development. In doing so the tissue around the approximate middle of the bud, i.e. where the outer operculum attaches to the base of the bud, dies and results in the detachment of the operculum. This leaves a scar around the middle of the bud which can sometimes be seen with the naked eye but is best seen with a lens. A few hundred species, comprising the subgenus Eucalyptus (the monocalypts), have lost the outer operculum altogether in the evolution of the group. Therefore, throughout the development of the bud in these species there is no scar, and the side of the bud is smooth. Some species have two opercula that are fused giving the superficial impression that only a single operculum is present, e.g. E. ochrophloia. The boxes and ironbarks show parallel development in operculum characters. Both groups divide into one in which the outer operculum sheds early leaving a scar, e.g. the box species, E. behriana and the ironbark species, E. paniculata, and another in which the outer operculum is held to bud maturity, e.g. the box species, E. microcarpa and the ironbark, E. sideroxylon. In Western Australia, the retention of the outer operculum in a box species occurs only in E. petraea. The double opercula and their retention to bud maturity is a diagnostic feature of all the red bloodwoods in both eastern Australia (e.g. E. gummifera) and Western Australia (e.g. E. calophylla, E. ficifolia and E. haematoxylon of south-western Western Australia and all the desert bloodwoods, e.g. E. lenziana).
Stamens have various forms of orientation in the unopened bud. Some species have their stamens wholly erect. Others have them uniformly inflexed, while others have irregular orientation. Again, the extremes of positioning, i.e. complete inflexion or complete erection, are easy to assess. There will be "in-between" species in which the character is difficult to categorise. The attachment of the anther on the summit of the staminal filament is useful diagnostically. Some anthers are basifixed, with the tip of the filament attached rigidly at the base of the anther. This character is seen in the boxes and ironbarks but at its most extreme in E. leptophylla, E. foecunda and related species. In the majority of eucalypts the anthers are dorsifixed, by attachment loosely to the back of the anther, such that it can swivel, i.e. versatile. Some eucalypts have flowers with staminodes, where the outer stamens lack anthers or have non-functional anthers, e.g. E. calycogona. The openings of the anther for pollen shed (dehiscence) is also an important diagnostic character. Most eucalypts have their anthers either opening by well separated longitudinal slits for the more or less cuboid anther, or, as in the monocalypts with their more or less kidney-shaped anthers, have the openings oblique and touching near the apex, finally forming confluent slits. The cuboid, freely dorsifixed anther occurs in many western species but the kidney-shaped anther with confluent slits is rare in western monocalypts but is seen in Jarrah (E. marginata) and a few related species. The butterfly-shaped anther in E. guilfoylei is unique in the genus. In a considerable number of species, particularly mallees, e.g. E. oleosa, the anthers are subversatile and open by small roundish pores, either at the sides or the top of the anther.
Within the base of the bud is the ovary and this contains characters of high diagnostic reliability. The most useful is the number of vertical rows of ovules. These can only be seen by dissection and is best done under a microscope but can be done in the field and seen with a 10× lens. Most eucalypts have ovule rows with 4 or 6 vertical rows. Another group has ovule rows consistently in 2s (the monocalypts), while others have rows of 3 or 5, or irregular patterns (bloodwoods and ghost gums).
The top of the ovary is surmounted by the style which terminates in the stigma. The style is usually erect in all but a few species but can be spiral in some e.g. E. albida, making it a useful diagnostic character. In the great majority of species the style arises from the narrowed summit of the ovary. In some bloodwoods, in series Melliodorae and some species of series Loxophlebae the style narrows at the base and is inserted into the roof of the ovary. The style is subsequently articulate, not rigid.
The pollen is transported to the stigma from another flower by wind, insects, small birds or mammals. On germination of the pollen grains, the contents including the vital nuclei migrate by means of a pollen tube down the stigma shaft to the ovary itself where several ovules at the base of the placentae are fertilised. The fertilised ovules mature into the seeds. The ovular structures on the upper part of the placentae are infertile or unfertilised and 'mature' into sterile particles smaller than the seeds known as the chaff. | <urn:uuid:86e592fe-b87d-4e06-856b-bcb63775d813> | http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/Euclid/sample/html/inflor.htm | en | 0.923645 | 0.034688 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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When “Jaws” became an enormous hit, surprising everyone (including director Steven Spielberg), it was widely assumed that Universal, the distributor, would hand the young director the keys to the kingdom, backing anything he wanted to make. But they didn’t. Spielberg instead made his next film for Columbia Pictures—and it, too, was a smash hit. (Universal wised up: Spielberg returned for “E.T.”)
Spielberg made this giant production under a cloud of nearly-complete secrecy (a few scripts leaked out), shooting it way off in Alabama, India and Wyoming. The title, too, was mysterious: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” What the hell did THAT mean? Gradually, though, people learned the movie was about U.F.O.s, and that the title was a term invented by U.F.O. expert J. Allan Hynek (who has a cameo in the movie).
Initially a debunker of the flying-sacuers-are-from-space faddish belief, he eventually became convinced that there was something probably unearthly behind some of the sightings. A Close Encounter of the First Kind was the simple sighting of a U.F.O. (unidentified flying object). A Close Encounter of the Second Kind was finding physical evidence—fragments, marks, burns—left by a U.F.O. And a Close Encounter of the Third Kind was contact with the occupants of a U.F.O.
From childhood, Spielberg had been a devout believer that UFOs really did come from outer space, though, as he admits in the interesting interview included in the extras here, he is no longer convinced of that. He was determined to create a realistic movie about what he thought was really going on—so determined he refused to call the film “science fiction,” but instead “science speculation” (which, of course, IS science fiction). His burning desire to show the wonders he was sure were waiting for mankind infuses the entire film; it’s weak in some regards (it doesn’t really have a story), even a little silly at time (Einstein was NOT “probably one of them”), but Spielberg’s seemingly innate mastery of all directorial functions makes the film still a stunner, great fun to watch, even if you remain skeptical about all this.
It opens with a bang as a team of UFO investigators, led by Claude Lecombe (Francois Truffaut), investigate a group of airplanes that disappeared in 1948 only to now mysteriously reappear out in the Mexican desert. We also meet Lecombe’s American translator David Laughlin (Bob Balaban), who’s at his side throughout the film.
Elsewhere, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is a Midwestern electric company troubleshooter who has a very busy night when the power goes out over a wide area. As he tries to find his way in the darkness, a UFO passes over his truck; electrified, Roy chases it, joining a group atop a hill. The group includes very young Barry (Cary Guffey) and his frightened mother Gillian (Melinda Dillon), who also saw some UFOs at their nearby farm; Barry is enchanted by them, his mother terrified. Everyone (including the audience) is awestruck when several glowing UFOs jauntily sweep by, disappearing into the night sky.
In India, Lacombe meets a group of people who saw a UFO overhead—one that played music. (In the first scene, an old Mexican happily said the sun had come out in the night, and it sang to him.) Lacombe hears the throng in India singing five notes. Back in the U.S., young Barry picks out the same notes on a toy xylophone.
To his own shock, Roy has been invested with an image of a tower, but he cannot grasp just what it is—he sees it in pillows, mashed potatoes, a pile of mud Barry plays with. As he becomes more and more excited about his encounter with the UFOs, he becomes more and more deranged. When he begins tossing dirt and bushes into his suburban home, his wife (Teri Garr) leaves, taking their children with her.
Gillian keeps drawing pictures of that same unknown tower as Barry plays those five notes. Finally, their house is invaded by –what?—and Barry is taken away in a UFO.
Elsewhere, Lacombe and other UFOologists (one of whom is Lance Henriksen) intercept a message, just numbers, coming from space. It takes cartologist David to realize they’re geographic coordinates—latitude and longitude—that lead them to a particular spot in Wyoming: Devil’s Tower. That is where the UFOs will meet them, so a government conspiracy kicks into gear, faking a disaster in the area of Devil’s Tower.
Roy and Gillian separately see reports of the disaster on TV, and now know where they are being drawn. They both head for Wyoming, meeting again when they get there. The government has set up a huge encampment just behind Devil’s Tower—and the scene is set. (When Gillian and Roy flee confinement, they’re joined by another guy—a surprisingly young Josef Sommer.)
Spielberg fills the movie with details he hopes are convincing, though some are just puzzling, such as the emphasis on music as a form of communication. That’s all well and good, but what are those hand gestures? They assume, with no clear reason, that the aliens will HAVE hands. (As it turns out, they do, but who could have known that?) Some of the details are winning and imaginative—children throughout are very realistically depicted.
Some sequences are frightening because we simply don’t know whether the aliens are friendly or hostile; the invasion of Gillian’s home is especially scary, with smoke, orange light, machines run amok, vents unscrewing themselves, and so forth.
The movie is also very funny from time to time, and we like the characters of Roy and Gillian very much—Dreyfuss is especially winning in this role, and did win the Oscar the same year (for “The Goodbye Girl”). Young Cary Guffey is an endearing charmer, and was handled by Spielberg creatively and with a lot of tenderness—he played friendly tricks on the kid, staying off camera, to get the right expressions of joy, apprehension and wonder.
“Close Encounters” is so full of wonder and delight that it can take a while to realize afterward that there really isn’t any story. A guy is called to Devil’s Tower and meets some aliens, going off with them in their spaceship. That’s not a story—that’s an incident. Also, he’s not too admirable; he’s a married man with three children, but elects to abandon his responsibilities to board a gigantic flying saucer and go away into space, perhaps forever. Even Spielberg, now a father himself, says he wouldn’t tell such a tale nowadays.
You might also wonder about that group of sturdy young people in red jump suits who are prepared for a trip into space. What happens to them? They simply disappear from the narrative. And why do the UFOs come in such a dizzying array of shapes? There are lots of small ones, but we only rarely see anything of them other than colored lights, which sometimes form familiar shapes. The mothership at the end is just as awesome as Spielberg wanted, a combination of his memories of an oil refinery and the San Fernando Valley at night, as seen from Mulholland Drive. It’s a colossal chandelier, and one of the most amazing sights in movie history is it arising from behind Devil’s Tower—but where WAS it? In the ground? If David was with the UFO project in America from the beginning, why is he so surprised that the planes went missing in 1945? Why are the UFOs playing pranks to begin with? Why do they fool around in Gillian’s kitchen, and tamper with Barry’s toys? Why are Egyptian camels seen in the Gobi desert, instead of the two-hump Bactrian camels that really live there? Why is it important that the signals are coming from “well within the plane of the ecliptic”? Why do Gillian’s appliances run wild? Why do the first UFOs at Devil’s Tower form the Big Dipper, a constellation visible only from Earth?
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released this extras-laden two-disc, boxed set of the movie. It also includes a little booklet of scenes from the film, but the booklet is a major disappointment; very short on text, it’s uninformative, just pretty pictures—and we can see all those on the discs.
It’s been issued in both standard definition and this more expensive Blu-ray edition, but you could easily save your money and opt for the standard version. High definition adds a lot to the daytime scenes, as of Neary roaring over the Wyoming plains in his battered station wagon, but it doesn’t really add much to the UFO footage. To begin with, cameras in 1977 didn’t usually provide an especially crisp image; the softness wasn’t a problem then, and it isn’t a problem now—but it does mean that to a degree, there’s not too much point in having the film printed in high definition at all.
The spectacular UFO effects, under the direction of Douglas Trumbull, used models (often mere wire frames) with bright colored lights at key points; they were shot in a fogged area, so the lights have a diffused bloom. This is very attractive, even satisfyingly mysterious, but these images were deliberately not sharp in the first place. The UFOs are among the most wondrous special effects in movie history, but they were never crisp and clear. Even the mothership, with its towers dotted with hundreds of individual “windows,” was shot in the fog-shrouded environment, so details (even the R2D2 seen on a rim of the ship) were indistinct in theaters.
One feature that was inaccessible on my system is the “View from Above.” The intent was that as you were watching one of the three cuts of the film included, symbols would appear to identify a scene cut from later editions, one that’s unique to this cut, and those that are only in the original theatrical version. This didn’t work for me, but fortunately, the set also includes a fold-out chart detailing the cuts and additions.
Spielberg was rushed in initially completing the film, and wasn’t able to film a scene he wanted very much (of the ship found in the desert). In 1980, Columbia was in financial trouble, and wanted to reissue this major hit in a slightly different form; they wanted audiences to see the interior of the mothership when Neary entered. Spielberg didn’t want to shoot the scene, but he bargained with Columbia to allow him to shoot that ship scene, and to remove a few others. He wasn’t happy with the 1980 release, and audiences weren’t jazzed by the ship interior—but the film was a hit all over again nonetheless.
For this DVD release, Spielberg slightly recut the film, returning a few shots removed from the 1980 cut, and deleting the scene of the interior of the ship. All three cuts are here. (Raising an interesting question: if three complete versions of this film can be included on one disc, why don’t studios fill discs more completely in the first place?)
The second disc is rich with extras, including a lengthy interview with Spielberg—unusual for him; he usually dodges personal publicity. He says that even including “Jaws,” to this day, no movie job was ever harder for him than putting together the last 25 minutes of “Close Encounters.” Even with three versions in release, he still regards it as a work in progress—but assures us there won’t be a fourth version.
Among the multitude of extras is a lengthy “Making of CE3K” featurette, which seems to have been filmed over several years. Spielberg is seen on what seems to be the set of “Saving Private Ryan;” others were interviewed more recently, some even longer ago. We learn that among the actors Spielberg approached to play Roy Neary were Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. Other people interviewed include Bob Balaban, Richard Dreyfuss, Douglas Trumbull, Vilmos Zsigmond, Joe Alves, John Williams (whose score for the film is one of his best), editor Michael Kahn, model maker Greg Jein, artist Ralph McQuarrie and effects expert (and multiple Oscar winner) Dennis Muren. An especially welcome sight is Cary Guffey, now a young man, and still as charming as he was as a child. This exceptional featurette was directed by Laurent Bouzerau.
The collection of deleted scenes contains several surprises—originally, we were to have seen Roy Neary at work, interacting with other linemen and workers. This was the closest link between this movie and “It Came from Outer Space.” (Ray Bradbury, who wrote “It Came,” has said that after he saw “Close Encounters,” Spielberg stopped him to ask how he liked “his” movie. Then explained his initial inspiration was that 3D movie from 1953—and there are a few similarities.) There were more government coverup scenes. In one of the other featurettes, there are scenes of small white cubes rushing around the government’s Devil’s Tower setup, an idea that had to be dropped for practicality. The horde of small aliens (played by little girls in costumes) originally was intended to move in high speed, with “human” actors moving especially slowly, so they’d be at normal speed in shots with the aliens. But this interesting idea was dropped, along with scenes of the aliens playing with government equipment.
There are other featurettes featuring storyboard comparisons, storyboard galleries, photos taken around the southwest by location scouts, mothership drawings by Ralph McQuarry, photos of the production teams, marketing campaigns for the original theatrical release and the special edition. It’s great to have all this stuff—but NONE of these brief features includes a “play all” option; you have to watch each of them one at a time, wait through the end credits, and re-access the features individually. This is irritating and was unnecessary.
Even more than “Jaws,” which is quite different dramatically from any other Spielberg movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is the launching pad for one of the most remarkable careers in American movie history. Whether in standard or high definition, this 30th anniversary set of the movie everyone knows as CE3K is a worthy purchase for anyone with a TV set.
Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating PG
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey
Director Steven Spielberg
Film Release Year 1977
Release Year 2007
Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
Running Time 2 hr. 17 mins.
Sound Formats English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 • English DTS-HD Master 5.1 • French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 • Spanish Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Subtitles Arabic • Chinese • English SDH • English • French • Korean • Portuguese • Thai
Special Features Disc 1 includes three cuts of the film, with a "view from above" feature indicating which scenes were added and which were cut (this feature was not accessible on my system); Disc 2: Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of Close Encounters; The Making of CE3K (includes featurettes on casting, pre-production, production and "putting it together"); Watch the Skies (an electronic press kit from the year of release); Deleted scenes; Location scouting photos; Mothership drawings; "Behind the Scenes"; "Production Team"; Portrait Gallery; Marketing: Original Theatrical Release; Special Edition (most of these include other featurettes)
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News In Brief
By , Lance Carden, and Vic Roberts
The US
Democratic and GOP congressional leaders were to meet with President Clinton to discuss taxes. Officials said they would take stock of where the budget process stands, rather than broach new ideas. House and Senate conferees also were working out tax issues. The lawmakers are trying to reconcile differences in their respective bills in time for Congress to pass final tax legislation before its August recess.
Democratic fund-raiser John Huang may have had a formal relationship with an ex-employer while working at the Commerce Department and the Democratic National Committee, Republican investigators said. Heading into a second week of Senate hearings on campaign fund-raising abuses, Governmental Affairs Committee sources said they had obtained a registration form for a March 1996 World Bank conference on which Huang is listed as an "adviser" to the Lippo Group. The committee wants to know whether Huang used his position at Commerce to provide sensitive information on China to the Indonesia-based conglomerate.
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The White House released a sternly worded letter to director Robert Zemeckis, saying his use of presidential sound bites in the movie "Contact" manipulated images of Clinton's public statements, took them out of context, and went beyond the usual bounds of satire and parody. "By appropriating [his] image and words in this manner, you have essentially given him a role in your film without his authorization," White House counsel Charles Ruff said in the letter, dated July 11.
The US is shipping 100,000 metric tons of corn, rice, soya mix, and other grains worth $27 million to North Korea, the State Department said. It is in addition to $25 million in surplus food sent to North Korea in February. Floods have exacerbated a food crisis in North Korea.
Fashion designer Gianni Versace was fatally shot outside his Miami Beach mansion, authorities said. Versace was considered one of the world's leading ready-to-wear designers and a symbol of Italian fashion. He was reportedly shot at point-blank range after walking back from a cafe.
Jury selection was scheduled in the trial of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and his co-defendant, Eyad Ismoil. They are accused of planting the bomb that killed six people, injured more than 1,000 others, and caused millions of dollars in damage. Yousef, who holds an Iraqi passport, was indicted in 1993, along with four others, who were convicted and sentenced in 1994. Ismoil, a Jordanian, is accused of driving the van that carried the bomb.
Many US senators have not made up their minds about NATO expansion, a new survey indicated. Commissioned by the Council for a Livable World, a Washington-based arms-control group, the survey found 48 senators either definitely favoring expansion or leaning in that direction - well short of the 67 votes needed to ratify an expanded alliance. The survey lists 26 senators as skeptics or potential opponents of expansion and 25 as having unformed or ambiguous positions on the issue.
Sales at retail stores picked up more strongly than expected in June, following three straight monthly declines, the Commerce Department said. Total retail sales rose last month by 0.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted $210.3 billion after a revised 0.3 percent drop in May.
The computer aboard the Mars Pathfinder overloaded and reset itself for the second time in about three days. To prevent a recurrence, it was decided to stagger the computer's activities, rather than overlapping them.
Food-stamp cuts in last year's welfare law will amount to $28 billion between 1997 and 2002 and a reduction of nearly 24 billion pounds of food, according to a study done for Second Harvest, the largest US food bank. Tufts University's Center on Hunger, Poverty, and Nutrition Policy conducted the study.
Attorney Angela Oh of Los Angeles speaks at the first meeting of the presidential advisory board on race relations. Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean is a fellow board member; John Hope Franklin is chairman.
The World
Another explosion - the second in two nights - damaged a building used by international elections organizers in Serb-held Bosnia. Spokesmen for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the incident, in Banja Luka, was a sign of growing Serb anger over moves against war-crimes suspects. Meanwhile, in Doboj, leaflets issued by a Serb group carried death threats against NATO peacekeepers
Hundreds of Kenyan students briefly seized the main highway in Nairobi before being dispersed by riot police. The protesters threw stones, damaged cars, tore down street signs, and again demanded constitutional reforms and the resignation of President Daniel arap Moi prior to elections that must be held this year.
Spain's Basque separatist group, ETA, reacted to the national backlash against its execution of a kidnapped politician by threatening to repeat the action. ETA's political wing, Herri Batasuna, also warned that attempts to isolate the group "risks a dangerous aggravation" of the political problem that has resulted in 10 deaths so far this year - and almost 800 since ETA began its campaign for an independent Basque state in 1968.
An Islamic radical leader was released from prison in Algeria one day after a terrorist bomb killed at least 21 people in a public marketplace. But analysts said the gesture probably would not be enough to end the long and violent campaign to undermine political stability. They said Abassi Madani, who headed the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) when he was jailed in 1992, has been succeeded by younger men. His release was the second of a FIS leader in as many weeks.
A Protestant Orange Order meeting hall in Northern Ireland was destroyed in a firebomb attack that members called a gesture of "derision by republicans and nationalists." The incident, 50 miles west of Belfast, came five days after the group agreed not to parade through Catholic areas of several cities. Meanwhile, talks on Northern Ireland's future were overshadowed by the new British government's admission that it had communicated with Sinn Fein, the political ally of the Irish Republican Army, after saying it wouldn't.
Vital repairs to the Mir space station were delayed for at least eight days after its Russian commander complained of heart problems. The work, to restore power lost after a cargo craft damaged Mir last month, was to have been performed Saturday. Russian officials were considering whether to ask US crewman Michael Foale to help.
A leading opposition politician called on Cambodians to resist the "tyranny" of co-Premier Hun Sen. Sam Rainsy accused him of leading the country "back into terror and darkness." Meanwhile, Australia joined the US, Japan, and Germany in cutting aid to protest the July 5 coup that ousted Hun Sen's rival, Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
Mexico City's new opposition-party mayor will have unprecedented powers, according to reports from the capital. President Ernesto Zedillo broke both written and unwritten codes in granting Mayor-elect Cuauhtmoc Crdenas permission to name his own police chief and public prosecutor. Analysts said the move eases concern that the city would become a political battleground between the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and Crdenas's leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
The government of Thailand ordered a massive review of fire-safety procedures in the wake of last week's hotel blaze that killed 90 people and injured dozens of others. The fire, in the Royal Jomtien seaside resort in Pattaya, burned for more than 12 hours. Survivors said they heard no alarms, and emergency exits were found locked - apparently to keep guests from leaving without paying their bills.
"They have no call to take retaliatory action, and it would be a grave mistake to do so."
- President Clinton, responding to apparent Bosnian Serb attacks linked to the arrest and punishment of war-crimes suspects.
A Washington State man hopes that the rest of his relationship with his wife-to-be goes swimmingly, now that their engagement formalities are over. He meant to give her a diamond ring on an outing in Oregon, but lost it when he fell off a raft into the Rogue River. The ring, in a plastic sandwich bag for safekeeping, floated downstream until a little girl fished it from the water to show to her aunt. By this time, word of the incident had spread, the couple was traced, and the ring was returned.
Some 8,300 people are expected to parade around the streets of Easton, Pa., today . . . and around, and around, and around. But this is no display of civic pride. They aim to set the record for the world's largest game of musical chairs. The last one sitting takes home, among other prizes, a deluxe recliner.
Magazine's Ranking of World's Richest People
Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates has topped the Forbes magazine list of the world's billionaires for the third straight year. Forbes says Gates doubled his worth over the past year. The magazine's top 12 of the superrich, with sources of wealth and estimated net worth in billions (excluding dictators and royalty with no direct roles in business):
1. William Gates, US Microsoft Corp. $36.4
2. Walton family, US Wal-Mart, Inc. $27.6
3. Warren Buffett, US stock market investor $23.2
4. Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong real estate $14.7
5. Oeri, Hoffman, and Sacher families, Switzerland pharmaceuticals $14.3
6. Paul Allen, US Microsoft Corp. $14.1
7. Haas family, US Levi Strauss clothing $12.3
8. Kwok Brothers, Hong Kong real estate $12.3
9. Mars family, US candy manaufacturing $12.0
10. Quandt family, Germany BMW $11.7
11. Albrecht family, Germany retailing $11.5
12. Tsai Wan-lin and family Taiwan, financial services $11.3
- Associated Press
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By p05esto on 2/21/2013 10:31:08 PM , Rating: 2
I've been a Xbox loyal.... but I'm starting to like what I hear about the Playstation. It's a little beefier, faster RAM, nice controller, no DRM, can play used games, doesn't require internet, easier to develop for.
If all of these things remain true towards launch I'll be moving to team Playstation!! And the thing is, I don't really care. MS has been pissing me off ever since Win8 was rummored. Now I simply can't stand it and the Xbox rumors sound terrible so far.
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FZ150 Soccer Shooters: How Do You Zoom?
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Re: FZ150 Soccer Shooters: How Do You Zoom?
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Trying to work out the best way to handle soccer's rapidly changing distance to play while maintaining framing and focus. So far it seems that if I want focus to be tracking, I can't zoom to reframe. If I stop focussing, I can zoom, but even then the amount and abruptness of the distance change is leaving me badly framed much of the time, so, I'm hoping that some of the more experienced sports shooters here have come up with better technique. Any suggestions? Or is it really going to take a manual zoom (with associated fast focus) to have a hope of keeping up?
Wrap your left hand under the lens barrel on the FZ150...use your left thumb on the zoom side lever to frame the shot while your right index finger is on the shutter in 5.5 AF Burst or 12 Shot Burst...you'll get plenty of keepers...set Shutter Speed to highest possible speed without raising ISO above 200 if possible, I actually limited my ISO to 200 for this to force me to adjust camera to get the shutter speed up...Standard Mode...Sharp +1...NR -1....AWB 5 to Blue and 5 down to red which was actually off...now it's 2 up Green and 2 right to Blue....
Use Use Center One Shot AF or move One Shot AF box up 2 to 5 notches if you can frame close so you insure you get the feet and the ball in the shot....
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Obama rules out trading Keystone pipeline for payroll tax cut
President warns Republicans he will not tie approval of oil sands pipeline from Canada to extension of tax break
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, turns to Barack Obama after their meeting
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, turns to Barack Obama after their meeting at the White House, where the US president ruled out approving the Keystone pipeline from Canada if Republicans agreed to extend a tax break for families. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
Barack Obama has warned Republicans he will not tie an extension of the payroll tax cut to the approval of the Keystone oil pipeline between Canada and the US.
"If the payroll tax cut is attached to a whole bunch of extraneous issues, not related to making sure that the American people's taxes don't go up on January 1, then it's not something I'm going to accept," Obama said after a meeting with the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper.
Obama stopped short of a veto threat, saying he did not believe Congress should let it come to that.
The leader of the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, and other senior Republicans have pushed for Obama to approve the pipeline, saying it would create much-needed jobs in the US. They have suggested adding into the payroll tax cut bill a provision speeding up the pipeline's construction.
Payroll tax cuts are due to expire at the end of the year. If they are not extended the White House says the average family will pay an extra $1,000 in tax.
Keystone has become a heavily contested political issue for Obama, who risks angering environmental supporters and losing re-election contributions from some liberal donors if he approves it.
The state department decided last month not to decide on the pipeline until 2013, after the presidential election. The delay is intended to allow the project's developer to figure out a way around Nebraska's Sandhills, an ecologically sensitive region that supplies water to eight nearby states.
The delay was poorly received in Canada, which views the project as critical to its economy. Labour groups in the US, as well as Republicans, want the pipeline built to create jobs.
Obama denied the delay was tied to politics and said it was important for Canadians to understand the need to make sure all issues were covered, especially the environmental impact and the health and safety issues.
"I assured [Harper] we will have a very rigorous process to work through that issue," Obama said.
Harper is critical of the delay and has previously suggested that American politics may be at play. But standing alongside Obama at the White House on Wednesday, Harper was more measured, while showing no sign that their talks had yielded any progress.
"Barack and I have discussed that on many occasions. He's indicated to me, as he's indicated to you today, that he's following the proper process," he said. "I take that as his answer and you can appreciate that I would not comment on domestic politics on this issue or any other issue here in the United States."
The Keystone XL pipeline would carry an estimated 700,000 barrels of oil a day, doubling the capacity of an existing pipeline from Canada. The 1,700-mile (2,735km) structure would carry as much as 700,000 barrels of oil a day from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Texas, passing through five states.
Supporters say it could reduce US dependence on Middle Eastern oil but opponents argue it would bring "dirty oil" that requires huge amounts of energy to extract, as well as the risk of spills.
Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would require the administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days, unless the president declares the project is not in the national interest. But it has little chance of approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate. | <urn:uuid:c317f5cd-e6a5-4529-82eb-87e28d49601f> | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/08/obama-rules-out-keystone-pipeline-payroll | en | 0.977319 | 0.155003 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Special Section on the New Liturgy: Mass changes ahead
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Incoming Missal
Get ready for changes to your Sunday Mass.
Learn your Lines: How parish are preparing for the new Mass
It’s dress rehearsal time as parishes prepare for the new Mass.
Mass changes coming to a parish near you
What will be different about the Mass come Advent 2011?
Sing a new song: New music for the new mass
Anyone who’s seen The King’s Speech, about King George VI and his speech therapist, knows people don’t stutter when they sing. So will singing similarly help Mass-goers with the words of the new missal translation?
To change or not to change: How will you respond to the new Mass?
Mixed Messages: The new Mass and ecumenical relations
The new Catholic translations of the Mass pose a stumbling block to ecumenical relations, says a Lutheran liturgy scholar.
Lost in Translation
Why the new Mass prayers may be confusing.
Mass disruption
Poorly worded
Where did the new Mass translations come from?
How did we arrive at this translation of the Mass?
Mass instruction
Mass in the balance
Bishop Donald Trautman explains in this 2005 interview some of the changes in the liturgy that we're seeing now, along with the reasons behind them.
What a difference Mass makes
A good liturgy draws people in, challenges them, allows them to pariticpate, and gives a sense of awe, Father Keith Pecklers, S.J. says in this interview from May 2007.
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Afghan talks show `long haul' lies ahead. Analysts see need for direct resistance, Soviet role in peace talks
By , Special to The Christian Science Monitor
United Nations officials have expressed cautious optimism that indirect peace talks on Afghanistan between Kabul and Islamabad may finally result in an accelerated timetable for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. But few informed observers here believe an agreement will produce an imminent end to the bitter Afghan conflict, now in its eighth year.
At the start of the so-called ``proximity talks'' last Wednesday, UN Undersecretary-General Diego Cordovez said that both sides had promised to come back with an open mind and new proposals to resolve the withdrawal issue - the most crucial aspect of negotiations.
Previous negotiations have been slow and difficult because of deep mistrust between the two sides. Conference sources said the current talks - the ninth such round since 1982 - could last anywhere from several days to three weeks. ``I fear that Geneva is only the beginning of a very long haul,'' said one Paris-based central Asian specialist.
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The atmosphere was not helped by reports of successive Afghan air raids against villages and refugee camps in northwest Pakistan on the second and third days of the talks. Islamabad, claiming that more than 70 Pakistanis and Afghans were killed and 200 wounded, warned it would retaliate if the attacks did not stop. A senior Afghan official here denied the reports.
The main problem, analysts note, is that the two protagonists - the Soviets and the Afghan resistance - are not negotiating with each other. The minority Kabul regime is widely seen as a Soviet surrogate, while Pakistan, which provides asylum to some 3.2 million Afghan refugees, can only partially claim to represent resistance interests. Mr. Cordovez says the UN can only mediate between recognized governments and not with ``outside forces.''
Observers point out that the UN approach fails to take into account the realities of the Afghan conflict. ``It's as if the Vietnam peace talks had not included the Americans or the Viet Cong,'' a West European diplomat comments.
Nevertheless, Western diplomats monitoring the talks say the UN should persevere in its efforts in order to keep the door open to an eventual broader political settlement. As before, Cordovez is meeting separately with the Afghan and Pakistani delegations, shuttling between rooms in the marbled-walled Palais des Nations here. Pakistan, which does not recognize the Soviet-backed Kabul regime, refuses to meet directly with the Afghans.
So far, both sides have agreed on three of the four points in the UN peace initiative: the voluntary repatriation of refugees; a normalization of relations between the two countries; and guarantees by the United States, the Soviet Union, and China of future Afghan independence.
The main stumbling block lies with the withdrawal of what Kabul and the UN refer to as a ``small contingent of Soviet forces'' - an estimated 115,000 troops.
The Soviets, who invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, have repeatedly hinted that they want out. Recently, the Kremlin promised precise withdrawal suggestions for Geneva. These, it said, would be too attractive for Pakistan to refuse.
Instead of pushing, as before, for a three- to four-year disengagement period, sources say Moscow may now be willing to reduce this to as little as 18 months. In return, it is demanding a halt to all arms shipments by the US, China, Iran, and certain Arab states to the mujahideen, as the guerrillas are known.
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I've had an Akita/GSP for about 3 months now. His name is Atlas and he is 5 months old and still intact. I also own a female mastiff that is a little over a year.
Atlas currently feels that biting people is ok, which is absolutely not ok. I've never had a biter like this and I'm unsure as to what to do about this.
I'll explain, I'll be sitting on the couch, Atlas runs straight for me and jumps up into my lap and then lunges for my chin and bites. It hurts but has never drawn blood.
Another concern, he plays way to rough with our mastiff, he has hurt Willow on several occasions, to the point he had bit Willow and she now has a gash on her eyelid. Willow tends not to correct Atlas and his bad behaviors, I don't understand why she wont.
I've put Atlas on the house leash and have separated them when play turns a bit too rough. It gets to where things are better and as soon as I give Atlas freedom, he's right back to rough play and biting.
When he bites me, I use a very stern voice and tell him no bites. He jumps down and sulks, yet this behavior continues. Sometimes, he will be cuddled up with me and giving me kisses, then bam, he bites.
Atlas is the only Akita I've ever owned and I just want to make sure I do right by him. Overall, he is a very good boy but these behaviors have me concerned.
I currently do not have the extra funds to do obedience classes. I was wondering if maybe a muzzle would be a helpful training tool? Please, if anyone has any Akita specific training ideas, dont hesitate to speak up. I handle constructive criticism well.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later: an unholy marriage between an iPhone (or second gen or later iPod touch) and a radar detector. As seems most fitting, the peeps at Cobra are behind this one, and we must say that if this is your thing, the premise is pretty interesting: the handset, running a free app from the company, connects to the iCobra fuzz buster via Bluetooth and alerts the driver to things like cameras, commonly identified speed traps, rough intersections, and more. Suggested retail is $170, but we've seen it making the rounds for the $100 mark. Race your way to your favorite e-tailer to see for yourself. | <urn:uuid:35ecccd7-03b3-4272-8e11-580b9a4a15ca> | http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/10/cobra-brings-radar-detection-to-the-iphone-and-reckless-endanger/ | en | 0.964335 | 0.051463 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Chapter 8: Witnessing
You are waiting for a friend. The friend appears - not for you, but for the man who is sitting at the top of the tree. The moment the friend appears on the road he has become present to the man at the top of the tree, but to you he is still future - he has not yet appeared on the road. Unless he comes within your boundary of perception he will not be present. He is future. Past, future and present are relative; it depends on your height and where you are.
That’s why Jainas insist that Mahavira knows all the three tenses of time - because of his height. He can see end to end, nothing is hidden from him. So whatsoever you think is past is still present for him, and whatsoever you think is future is present for him.
Then the friend appears - you talk to him and he moves on. After one furlong he disappears for you, he has become past. But for the man on the top of the tree he is still part of the present. It depends how wide the compass of your understanding is. If your compass is total, then there is no time. Then you can see end to end. Then everything of the past is also present - right now. Then everything that is going to happen in the future is also present - right now. Then there is no past, no future; only present exists. Only one moment of present exists - that moment is eternity.
You have both possibilities. You can exist through the mind, then you are limited. It is just as if you are looking from a window toward the sky - then the frame of the window becomes the frame of the sky. The frame of the mind becomes the frame of your world. Then you jump out of the window; you come out under the whole sky. Now there is no frame.
In French painting a new cult is arising, the cult of paintings without frames. It is a beautiful phenomenon, because all frames are false. In life everything exists without a frame, but when you paint a picture you put a frame to it. That frame is the most false thing. And the irony is that sometimes people purchase such beautiful and decorative frames that even the picture is not as costly as the frame. The frame is more costly and precious - and the frame is false. Life exists without a frame. Have you seen life anywhere with a frame? But you take a picture; immediately a frame comes into existence. The frame is false. All frames are from the mind; mind gives a frame to everything which is frameless, formless.
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Glossary of terms:
Glossary of terms:
Glossary of Hosiery Terms in alphabetical order
Bustier- Corset like garment but lighter in weight and without the heavy structure of a corset. Bustier's are usually shorter than corsets, ending at the waist, and are often worn on the outside rather than strictly as an undergarment. They usually come with four or six removable garters.
Circular Knit - Process in which modern seamless hosiery is made, which results in a tapered tube, which is then sewn closed at the toe.
Control Top -Pantyhose or Tights produced with the body section composed of a heavier lycra content and weight to act as a light control garment.
Cotton Gusset -Cotton or cotton compound fabric sewn into the gusset or crotch of pantyhose to allow them to “breatheâ€.(see Gusset)
Corset- A close fitting undergarment often tightened with laces and reinforced with stays. Most corsets extend from the breasts to the hips, and are constructed to enhance the figure by cinching the waist, thereby enhancing the bust and hips. Most corsets are fitted with four or more adjustable garter straps to support the stockings of your choice.
Cuban Heel -A rectangular designed reinforced heel, usually with a reinforced foot and backseam .Most Cuban heel stockings are also “Full Fashionedâ€.
Denier -Relates to the weight or fineness of the yarn, which in turn relates to the sheerness of the hosiery. The finer the yarn, the lower the denier. 30 denier is considered Opaque, 20 denier is sheer, 15 denier is ultra sheer, and 10 denier or less is the very sheerest. Sheerness varies with Lycra content. Generally the 100% nylon is the sheerest. A 15 deneir 100% nylon will be more sheer than a 10 deneir stretch stocking containg lycra.
Fiber Content - The composition of the yarn used in the garment. Most are 100% nylon or nylon-lycra blends for more memory and durability in the yarn.
Fishnet -A smaller net design, which is taken from the construction of a fisherman’s net, usually made of nylon or nylon-lycra blends. These come in seamless or seamed styles, with various designs of lace or silicone tops on the stockings and hold-ups. Also in tights or pantyhose which are very popular with dancers and for costumes.
Fully Fashioned Stockings - These are vintage style stockings of the 40’s and 50’s, made on the original flat knit machines, where the stocking is knitted flat and sewn together in the back. These stockings are usually knitted of 15 denier 100% nylon yarn, although some of the original vintage styles came on heavier 20 or 30 denier called “service weight†for everyday use. Authentic Fully-Fashioned stockings always have a top welt made by doubling over the top fabric and sewing it back unto itself. A “finishing hole†is always left in the seam in the middle of the top welt, which allows the stocking to fit better on the thigh. The design can be either of the “Cuban heel†or “Pointed French or European†style. If they are not flat knitted and sewn together with a finishing hole on the back, they are not authentic Full-Fashioned stockings but modern reproductions called Full Fashion or Full Fashioned style.
Full Fashioned Style - A reproduction of Fully-Fashioned stockings made on modern circular knit machines, with a sewn on seam with “French or Cuban†style heel. These modern versions do not have the doubled over top welt or finishing hole like their original counterparts, but are substantially cheaper to produce.
Garters -The clips that attach to the top welt of the stockings are called garters. Generally they are attached to an adjustable elastic strap, which is in turn attached to the garment worn on the waist or body, these are called garter straps. Sometimes as in the case of girdles and panty girdles the clips are attached directly to the garment without straps, these are garter clips. Garters are commonly referred to as suspenders in England.
Garter Belt or garterbelts are sometimes called suspender belts in Europe. They are garments made for the express purpose of holding up stockings. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with four to twelve adjustable straps to hold up the stockings. The garter belt and the stockings should be considered a team. Stretch stockings usually require only a four-strap garterbelt to keep it in place. Non-stretch 100% nylons on the other hand require at least six straps to keep them from sagging. The height of the wearer is also an issue. Most garter belts have straps that are too long to properly support stockings unless the wearer is 5’8†or more. We sell garterbelts with much shorter straps, and even some models with extremely short straps for those who prefer the comfort of wearing their stockings very high. Also waist size is important. We sell many garter belts in sizes 38†to 50,†and for those more straps are necessary for proper support.
Garter hose -This refers to a garment where a waist band, garter straps and stocking legs are permanently attached in one piece, simulating the use of a garter belt and stockings, but in fact being a one piece garment.
Garter panty - A panty usually made of stretch fabric which contains garter straps or garter clips to hold up stockings without need for a garter belt, girdle or corset.
Girdle- These are stretch garments sold to control the mid-section, and hold stockings up high and tight.They come in open bottom styles and panty girdles. Open bottom or OBG’s are a step above a garter belt, when the wearer wants more support or control in the midsection. Panty girdles are basically a support panty with garters, as the name suggests.
Girdlette- A garment that is larger than a garter belt and smaller than a girdle.
Gusset- A triangular or diamond shaped piece inserted into a garment for structural value. Usually referred to as the piece inserted into the crotch area of pantyhose or tights.
Hold-Ups- Stockings that stay up without the need for garters. True hold-ups usually consist of a decorative stretch lace top, with a silicone band inside of the lace to help grip the leg.
Hosiery- General term meaning leg covering such as stockings, pantyhose, tights, or socks.
Lacetop Stockings - these are traditional stockings in that they need to be held up with garters, but they have a lace top sewn to the top for added detail.
Link-ups - This is a name trademarked by Pretty Polly of England, for their new stocking system that attaches them directly to a matching panty or thong, thus eliminating the need for garters. This is similar to the one-piece hose, but much better as the stocking legs can be interchanged separately.
Lycra- Lycra is a term trademarked by DuPont for a man made fiber that they developed, which can be produced in a range of types and deniers. It is most commonly combined with nylon for use in the hosiery industry.
Nylon - A man made fiber made from petroleum. It is noted for its strength, sheerness, and bright luster. Nylon can be produced in cross sections, altering its appearance and feel.
Nylons - A traditional term often used to describe the high gossamer stockings if the 50’s and 60’s, when stockings were all made of 100% non-stretch ultra-sheer nylon.
Opera hose - This item was very popular in the 50’s and 60’s but is not seen very often today. They are very long stockings, meant to be gartered, gut without the usual welt on the top. The garters are attached to a small band at the top of the stocking, giving a long un-interrupted look to the leg. These stockings require very short garters.
Opaque -The term given to stockings or tights when made of a higher denier yarn, making them less transparent and appear more dense than the lighter deniers.
Pantyhose -A one piece hosiery garment consisting of two sheer legs connected to a panty and waistband. Pantyhose are usually of a 15 or 20 denier yarn and transparent, as opposed to tights, which are usually constructed of 30 denier yarn and are usually more opaque to solid in color than pantyhose.
Polyamide - The European term for nylon yarn.
Pointed Heel - A pointed reinforcement on the back of seamed hosiery which is also known as a“French or European†heel.
Pyramid Heel -A heel similar to a pointed heel, but which reaches the point in a series of steps like a pyramid.
RHT - Or Reinforced Heel and Toe stockings as they are properly called, became popular in the 1960’s, right after the advent of the circular knit machines. This allowed the manufacture of seamless stockings for the first time. These stockings have a darker reinforcement on the toe and the reciprocal heel to prevent runs, and they have become a nostalgic retro item throughout the years much like the Fully-Fashioned stockings of the 40’s and 50’s.
Reinforced - The sections of a garment that have been strengthened by double knitting to provide additional durability.This usually resulted in a darkening of the area, which is then considered a design feature. This is exemplified in the top welt of the stocking by the reinforcements of the full fashions and the RHT’s.
Sandal Foot -Also known as sandal-toe, they are called sandlefoot because they can be worn with open toe or open sandal style shoes, and give the appearance of a nude foot. They are always seamless, and usually made of a light denier yarn.
Seamed- This term applies to all hosiery, no matter what style, which has a back seam on it. This can be a sewn on backseam or an actual sewn in back seam like fully-fashioned stockings and some fishnets.
Shadow toe - This refers to a slightly reinforced toe sometimes called a run-guard toe. It is barely seen, and gives the protection of the reinforced toe, without the noticeable darkening detail.
Sheer - Sheerness is a function of light denier and full transparency. It is usually meant to reveal the lightness and filminess of the garment.
Silicone- A rubber like polymer, which maintains its elasticity over a wide range of temperatures. Used inside the lace top ofhold-up stockings to cling to the skin and keep the stocking up without garters.
Stockings -Although the popular use of this word has come to be anything worn on the legs (i.e. pantyhose, hold-ups or tights) we will stick with the more traditional definition. Stockings, as referred to on this web site, are the traditional style that are put on individually and attached to a garter at the top for support. These can come in plain top, satin top, or lace top, but should not be confused with hold-ups, which stay up by themselves.
Suspender belt - The European term for garter belt.
Suspender hose -Commonly used term in Europe for a type of hose that are similar to panty hose but have no panty. The nylon leg runs all the way to the waistband, but the panty portion has been eliminated.
Stretch sheer - Stretch sheer usually refers to the use 15 denier or less for use in hosiery. The material can be stretch nylon yarn, or nylon-lycra stretch yarn.
Tights - These are pantyhose made of a heavier denier in opaque or semi-opaque yarns. They are dyed usually in deep colors, and they are more sporty and durable than pantyhose.
Ultra sheer - This term refers to the very light deniers, of very light transparency and high sheen. Usually of 100% non-stretch nylon.Some lycra /nylon yarns of less than 8 denier can be ultra-sheer.
Victorian- This style is articulated in its unique details, and ornate patterns, originating in the Victorian era of England in the late 18th century.
Waist Cinch - A structured garment similar to a corset, but starting below the bosom.
Welt - This is the top most portion of the stocking where the garter clips attach. This portion is always reinforced by double stitching, and sometimes folded over and sewn onto itself as in fully-fashioned stockings. The portion where most manufacturers leave their mark, a distinct design stitched into the welt that is unique to themselves, or that style of stocking is called an underwelt.
Hosiery - Here, you will find our Full Fashioned Stockings, Ultra Sheer Stockings which are 100% non stretch nylon,Seamed Stockings with provocative seams up the back, Seamless Stockings which have no seams and are usually called a sandalfoot, Reinforced Heel and Toe Stockings, or RHT as they are sometimes called,Fishnet Hosiery containing fishnet stockings, pantyhose, suspender hose, and thigh highs, Lace-Top Stockings and Hold-Up Stockings which many times have lace-top welts with silicone grippers. We also carry a great variety of Pantyhose and Fancy Tights,
Bridal- You will find a unique collection of stockings, hold-ups, pantyhose bridal garters, and garter belts in our new Bridal Section. All Featured in Bridal White or Ivory for that Special Day.
Plus Sizes-There is a very complete selection ofPlus Sizes for the fuller figured person. We have stockings, pantyhose,and hold-ups up to size 7X. We feature garter belts, girdlesand corsets to size 50.
Garter Belts, Girdles & Corsets- You can also check out our Garter Belt section which is the largest assortment of Garter Belts you will see anywhere at one location and then our Girdles and Corsets which includes our famous multi-gartered waist cinchers.
Heels-To complete the variety, we carry a line of High Heeled Shoes and Boots. Classic high heel pumps, in towering 5" or 6" heels are featured with or without ankle straps. We also have classic lace ups, and thigh high boots to designed to compliment your legs and coordinate with your favorite hosiery selections.
Briefs and Thongs- We are ever increasing our Briefs and Thongs category which will have Bikini bottoms, Thongs, G-Strings, and T-Strings. Many of there items are matches to some of our colorful garter belts, so that a complete matching set may sometimes be purchased. | <urn:uuid:0eecd81f-d2b5-4bd4-a06e-16dadea709b2> | http://www.stockingstore.com/articles.asp?id=7 | en | 0.93625 | 0.023617 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Anandtech has studied apple's new 4.01 OS update, and found that the new formula for displaying bars covers a much greater dynamic range. That is, it will show lower and higher signals than before, assigning those more extreme values as 1 and 5 bars. This means it'll require more signal to show higher bars, with the result of the iPhone showing 5 bars less often, but also showing "no service" less often, too. [anandtech via macrumors] | <urn:uuid:1ce60d88-260d-4a33-8fe2-ffa470de5858> | http://gizmodo.com/5588586/anandtech-on-the-iphone-401-update-the-bars-show-higher-and-lower-signals?tag=antenna | en | 0.954584 | 0.050293 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:14:51 +0200
Message-ID: <4C698E2B.2080207@moonhenge.net>
I believe my analysis of what the spec is trying to say ("apply the
expected clearance mechanism but use the position of a hypothetical top
border edge") is correct, and also my conclusion ("do the same thing
but use the actual top border edge position instead").
However, a correction is required to my side-note in which I tried to
establish how we even arrived at a situation in which a mistaken notion
of border edge position is being used:
On 15/08/2010 10:16, Anton Prowse wrote:
> But what /is/ this hypothetical top border edge? We're not interested
> in some hypothetical edge! We're interested in the *actual* edge, right?
> Well, the hypothetical edge /is/ the actual edge, in the case that an
> actual non-zero edge exists (either its own edge,
> or if not, that of its
> first in-flow child that has an edge, etc, according to 8.3.1).
false in general
> But in
> the case that there's no "natural" edge – which is to say, in the case
> that the clearing element is self-collapsing – the actual edge position
> is that determined in _which used to be the position of a
> hypothetical non-zero top border edge, in other words the hypothetical
> top border edge_.
It was incorrect to say that the hypothetical edge is the actual edge in
the case where a non-self-collapsing clearing element has no non-zero
top border and collapses its top margin with a larger margin lump
arising from its first in-flow descendants. For example:
<div style="border-bottom:1px solid black; margin-bottom:5px">
<div style="float:left; width:100px; height:50px; background:green"></div>
<div style="clear:left; margin-top:20px">
<div style="float:left; width:10px; height:10px; background:red"></div>
<div style="margin-top:100px">text</div>
In this case, the hypothetical top border edge position (20px below the
top of the whole margin lump) isn't the actual top border position
(100px below the top of the whole margin lump). This means that the
9.5.2 text didn't even match the pre-2007 border box convention. I can
only imagine that this was a bug in 9.5.2 in the old spec. That is, I
imagine that the 9.5.2 text /wanted/ to use the old notion of border
position but made a mistake in the particular case just illustrated.
(We really don't expect clearance to be introduced in the example given,
do we?) Hence the 9.5.2 text is even less sensible than feared.
In the example given, when using actual border (which is already below
the float), no clearance is deemed necessary. However, when using the
current text, clearance is necessary and when it is initially introduced
as zero-height margin collapsing inhibitor the hypothetical position
becomes 25px below the top of the float, and so the clearance quantity
is calculated to be either max(50-25,-5)=25 or max(50-105,-5)=-5
depending on whether, respectively, hypothetical border or actual border
is meant in Calculation 1. In the latter case we end up with the same
rendering as we do when we use actual border (so no harm done by the
spec bug). In the former case, the clearing element ends up 130px below
the top of the float, ie 30px further down than necessary.
I noted previously that by using the pre-2007 notion of border position
instead of the new notion, the case of self-collapsing clearing elements
resulted in the clearing element sometimes being moved down too far.
Now we see that with the spec bug, this can happen even for
non-self-collapsing elements.
As I said to begin, my conclusion as to what the spec does say and
should say still stands. But in this post we see that what it does say
is less explicable than I first thought.
[Just for interest: in my browser testing with the example given and
other related examples, I observed that Op10.6 follows the spec, moving
the clearing element 30px further down than its clear:none position.
Happily, Fx3.6, Sf5 and IE8 appear to do the computations using the
actual border edge position and decide that clearance isn't necessary.
I know that IE8 isn't so well-behaved in closely related test cases though!]
Anton Prowse
Received on Monday, 16 August 2010 19:16:54 GMT
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Blocked Out
Here's one way to sound the alarm about the impending death of a federal program that tens of millions benefit from and almost no one has heard of: Accuse President Bush of copycatting al-Qaeda. At a February meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, and National Association of Counties, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley invoked the September 11 attacks on “our metropolitan cores,” then went on to say: “Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States, and with a budget axe, he is attacking America's cities. He is attacking our metropolitan core.”
O'Malley's incendiary words got the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which provides nearly $5 billion yearly in aid to cities and counties, what was no doubt its first segment on Paula Zahn Now.
O'Malley waxed apocalyptic for a reason: The Bush administration's budget proposes to eliminate the CDBG and related programs run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), creating in their place a much smaller operation under the Department of Commerce. (For that matter, all grants to state and local governments are slated to decline by $10.7 billion next year alone, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.) The change would effectively kill infrastructure funding that cities have relied on ever since Richard Nixon and Congress created the CDBG in 1974.
Members of Congress are rushing to the program's defense. If they aren't former mayors or governors themselves, they have good friends who are, and they're dealing with declining revenues and increasing costs for responsibilities like homeland security. It's a fair bet they'll succeed in protecting the three-decade-old fund, devoted to “providing decent housing and a suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.” That's the good news. The downside is that the program they're saving needs serious rethinking in order to deliver on that mission.
* * *
Make no mistake: Many cities have worked miracles with the money. New York uses a big chunk to reclaim abandoned buildings and turn them over to responsible new owners. Cleveland supports and coordinates a constellation of community-development corporations that create homes and businesses. Cities demolish dilapidated houses or fix them up. Savvier ones use the federal funds to leverage private investment. The CDBG builds homeless shelters and day-care facilities. Legal services, code enforcement, services for people with AIDS -- all of these get vital CDBG support. The program has helped hundreds of thousands of poor Americans turn their lives around.
It also provides badly needed revenue sharing for cities -- and a great deal of flexibility in how to spend the money. Local officials decide how to spend their block-grant allocations, and ever since Ronald Reagan's day, they haven't had to submit their plans for federal approval. “There is an inherent schizophrenia in the CDBG program between investing in poor places to make them better neighborhoods and investing in poor people to make them better citizens,” says Chris Walker, who has studied the CDBG for the Urban Institute. “You can do one or the other.” Which city is doing a better job, the one that builds homeless shelters or the one that builds an industrial park?
There's something else the program's supporters don't like to talk about. It's common for local officials to spend grants on projects that meet the technical requirements of the law but have a tenuous connection to the program's core mission. “They could squeeze a lot in there that was questionable, in a public-purpose sense, but perfectly legitimate,” says Anna Kondratas, who ran the CDBG during George Bush Senior's presidency, under HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. “You can monitor spending and say, ‘I don't like this project because it's not helping the low-income population.' But it's a block grant, and they can do what they want with it.”
Advocates for the poor and local officials have always wrestled over where the money goes, with local officials pushing for more freedom to spend it on a broad range of infrastructure and advocates pleading for more targeted help for the poor. Kondratas and Kemp tried to require cities and counties to spend much of their money on the poorest beneficiaries -- those making less than half of their area's median income. But Democratic mayors and governors were suspicious of the administration's motives, leading Congress to rebuff the effort. In the 1990s, congressional Democrats sided firmly with the mayors.
HUD reports that 94 percent of funds go to aid lower-income people. But the regulations are written so broadly that paving a street or building a sewer qualifies, so long as it runs through an area with some concentration of residents of modest income. Indeed, more than half of CDBG spending goes to infrastructure projects. Just 1 percent goes to senior centers; 2.5 percent to housing-code enforcement; 11 percent to social services; 2 percent for parks.
Jurisdictions have also been using the money to expand airports, billing the work as job creation. Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is using $1 million in CDBG money to build nearly six miles of sewer lines to its airport so that a Pentagon contractor -- whose parent company has annual net revenues of $195 million -- can expand its operations there. An Oklahoma aircraft-parts company got $373,123 for water and sewer service to its new facility.
Smaller grants end up spent on aesthetic improvements -- like four-sided clocks ($13,000, Lorain, Ohio) or trees and “vintage” street lighting ($91,000, Methuen, Massachusetts) -- to depressed downtowns. Binghamton, New York, rebuilt a downtown street, upgraded a park carousel, and put up signs for tourists, all while cutting funding for a homeless shelter nearby.
Sheila Crowley, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, points to her longtime home of Richmond, Virginia, where a street of small businesses cuts through a very poor residential area. The city used CDBG money to landscape the strip, tallying the spending as job creation for local residents. Today the drag has been transformed into a chichi row of home-decor shops -- but the workers, like the shoppers, drive in from elsewhere. “The program needs to be tied to identified needs,” Crowley says, “to housing and immediate neighborhood work that benefits low-income folks.”
The size of a city's grant depends on its number of poor people and the condition of their housing, but every city with more than 50,000 residents and every county with more than 200,000 gets some money, no matter its poverty rate. “Even in 1974, when we were first playing with computer runs, we could see there were all sorts of places that were essentially suburban -- weren't central cities, weren't poor -- that were eligible,” says David Garrison, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program who helped give birth to the CDBG as legislative counsel to the National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors. “Once you're on the list, you never get off! … What we thought was a small and manageable problem in 1974 is much larger now.”
* * *
The Bush administration pounced on these vulnerabilities. Its Office of Management and Budget (OMB) savaged the CDBG for failing to invest for maximum impact in needy neighborhoods. Under the new “Strengthening Communities Initiative” that would replace the CDBG at the Commerce Department, results would be tracked carefully and grants based on the number of jobs created, private dollars lured, and homes purchased. Funds would be directed to areas with high poverty rates and job loss.
The OMB's criteria and complaints were reasonable -- except that they're found in no law or regulation, and no city had ever been asked to meet them before. (The White House used the same bait and switch to condemn other locally controlled block-grant programs, including adult education, which is slated for a 64-percent cut.) “So now the program is a failure, even though it's what Congress told you to do,” laughs Chandra Western, executive director of the National Community Development Association. Western's group and other trade organizations for CDBG administrators have hustled to prove the program's results by developing a new system to track the CDBG's accomplishments.
At the same time, the CDBG's defenders are determined to keep the block grants pretty much the way they are. That course was endorsed by Garrison and others on a panel at the National Academy of Public Administration. But in a zero-sum, starve-the-beast budget climate, that choice has serious consequences. The administration is pressing for massive, long-term cuts to other spending that benefits the poor, including, in the HUD budget alone, Section 8 rent vouchers, public-housing maintenance, and housing for the disabled and people with AIDS. Something has to go, and programs exclusively dedicated to the poor are the ones with the worst budget prospects.
That may be the CDBG's saving grace. “The thing that keeps this program going for districts that have blight and poverty is that their brother in the suburbs also gets this money,” notes Garrison. “If this money is only going to cities for slums and blight, the program wouldn't survive politically.”
Alyssa Katz is editor-at-large of City Limits, New York's urban affairs news magazine.
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I am working on a GUI and I've run into a problem. If I set a button, label, or other widget to have a background color, the tooltip for that widget also takes the same background color. I tried editing the style sheet for the tooltip specifically and setting a different background color but it doesn't work. I also tried editing the palette for the widget but changing the color scheme for the tooltip background or text doesn't work either. Is there another way I can do this? I'd like to have consistency between all my tooltips.
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You can do something like this to style a QToolTip in general.
QToolTip { color: #fff; background-color: #000; border: none; }
When you need to style QToolTips specifically, based on their parent widget you can use following syntax:
ParentWidgetName QToolTip { color: #333; background-color: #1c1c1c; border: none; }
Reading this will help you further.
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I tried adding that code to the stylesheet and changed it to the background color I want, but it still doesn't change the tooltip background when I run my application. Am I missing something? Where should I be adding that code? – lomokat Dec 4 '12 at 3:26
I got it! Just had to set it in my actual code instead of going into the widget stylesheet! – lomokat Dec 4 '12 at 3:36
You can either have a separate file with all your css contents and apply it to the whole application at run time. Search Stackoverflow for related questions, you will find a way how to do it. Of course you have Qt documentation as well to refer further. – AmazingSixty Dec 4 '12 at 5:38
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Thu, 03-27-2003 - 6:07pm
Just wanted to say that I think a posting boycot would be the best
way to let parents place know what you think about the new system.
If they don't get posts, they don't get ad. dollars -- money always
gets attention.
I don't know if you want to or not, but cls should get together with
one another from as many different boards as possible and pick a day
of NO POSTS ... just to let them know w hat you think.
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City, union talks on medical services stall
Chula Vista, firefighters disagree about who should get more pay for advanced skills
If the city manager has his way, Nash said, the situation could be entirely different, with one paramedic and two EMTs trying to do the work that five people used to do.
The money is there to pay the firefighters more, he said, citing the $419 fee hike the city approved for ambulance transportation last September. The new fee for ambulance transportation to a hospital during a medical emergency is $1,314. That fee increase was designed to recover the costs of having city firefighters and AMR respond to calls for medical aid.
Negotiators for both the union and the city say they are optimistic about reaching an agreement before City Manager Sandoval presents an alternate plan to have AMR provide the enhanced services.
Tulloch emphasized that paramedics always respond to emergency medical calls and that will not change, regardless of the outcome of negotiations.
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In Words with Friends, they have tips in the News section. Is there any way to see previous tips (e.e an archive of these tips)?
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Please consider providing a screen shot to help people answer your question. – bpcookson Aug 28 '13 at 2:25
That game actually exists? I thought it was made up for The Big Bang Theory... – scenia Mar 26 at 15:49
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I've never seen a gameplay tip in the news section, but their news blog is at http://www.zyngawithfriends.com/wp/category/blog/ and has an archive.
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The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) filter is commonly used for state estimation of run-to-run controllers in semiconductor manufacturing. It is widely known that, when at steady state, the EWMA filter provides the minimum mean square error (MSE) forecast for an integrated moving average (IMA) process. The forecast, however, is optimal if and only if every output of the IMA process is measured. If an EWMA controller is implemented utilizing sampled process data, then it is necessary to retune the controller to maintain optimal performance. Furthermore, in practice, the complex interacting selection criteria of advanced sampling applications often cause measurement frequency to be highly irregular. In this paper, a sampling compensation algorithm (SCA) is derived based on the minimum-norm IMA (MNIMA) forecast. The algorithm provides the minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) forecast of an IMA process for irregularly sampled processes and is robust to initialization.
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- Hermaeus Mora
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Walkthrough and Guide by Michael Monette
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Guide - Daedric Shrine Quests
Hermaeus Mora
Location: In the mountains far west of Bruma.
Requires: Every other Daedric Shrine quest complete.
Level Requirement: Level 20
Reward: Oghma Infinium
Once you have completed every other Daedric Shrine quest, you can then take a quest from the Daedric Lord Hermaeus Mora. After completing every other Daedric Shrine quest, have your character sleep in any bed. When your character awakens, you will find yourself face to face with a man named Castas Falvus, who explains that you've summoned by Hermaeus Mora.
It's quite a trek to Hermaeus Mora's Shrine. The shrine sits high up on a mountain, but there is a trail that leads right up to it. The trail starts a little west of Bruma (west of the 'B' in the 'Bruma' text on the world map), and is just a bit south of Echo Cave. The start of the trail is lined with rocks, so you should be able to determine where it starts. When you have found the start of the trail, follow it all the way up to the shrine. It may not seem like it, but following this trail will indeed take you to the Shrine.
Hermaeus Mora's Shrine is high up in the mountains west of Bruma.
Approach the shrine and summon Hermaeus Mora. If you meet the requirements, the Daedric Lord will give you a task. Hermaeus Mora provides you with a special spell and Soul Gem; with Mora's Soul Trap spell and Hermaeus Mora's Soul Gem, you are tasked with capturing ten souls, one of each race. To capture a soul, all you must do is cast Mora's Soul Trap on a target, and then kill them. The soul will be placed in Hermaeus Mora's Soul Gem, and a journal entry confirming the capture of a soul of the target's race will be added.
Capturing a soul of each race is not a difficult task if you are not opposed to murdering innocent characters. You can likely find at least one character of each race in each of the major cities. It would be best to refrain from doing this, however, as it is possible to kill some quest givers. Another option is to travel to other Daedra Shrines and capture the souls of the followers there, since they won't be needed for any quests in the future.
Perhaps the best way to go about completing this quest is to capture the souls of Bandits, Marauders, and other human enemies. Bandits can be Khajiit, Redguard, Wood Elf, or Dark Elf; Marauders can be Argonian, Orc, Imperial, or Nord, and Necromancers can be High Elf, Imperial, or Breton.
Capture the souls of Marauders and Thieves in Rockmilk Cave, which is along the western road leaving Leyawiin.
Bandits are usually encountered in camps, or randomly on the road. Fast travel to several different camps and you should be able to acquire the soul of a Khajiit, Red Guard, Wood Elf and Dark Elf. A good place to search for Marauders is Rockmilk Cave, which is north of Leyawiin. To find it, travel north along the west road leaving Leyawiin until cave icon appears on your compass. Inside, you shouldn't have difficulty capturing an Argonian, Orc, Imperial and Nord soul. As for High Elves and Bretons, you'll have to visit a Necromancer lair. One such spot is Fort Linchal north of Kvatch. Just travel north from the 'h' in the 'Kvatch' text on the world map.
By traveling to Rockmilk Cave and Fort Linchal, you should be able to capture a soul of each race. When you have all ten souls, return to Hermaeus Mora's Shrine and give him the packed Soul Gem.
For completing the task, Hermaeus Mora rewards you with the Oghma Infinium, a special skill book. When this book is read, you'll be given the option of reading the Oghma Infinium in a certain way. There are three choices: the Path of Steel, the Path of Shadow, and the Path of Spirit. Each path raises three different skills by 10 levels, as well as one attribute. The Path of Steel raises the Blade, Heavy Armor, and Blunt skills, and boosts the Strength attribute. The Path of Shadow raises the Sneak, Security, and Light Armor skills, and boosts the Agility attribute. The Path of Spirit raises the Destruction, Conjuration, and Restoration skills, and boosts the Intelligence attribute.
Read the Path that will boost skills relevant to your character.
It would be best to refrain from reading the Oghma Infinium until you've maxed the skills that would be raised by reading the Path of your choosing. By doing so, you can permanently exceed the skill level cap by 10 for those skills.
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use the spell on a creature, like a daedra and you get all the elves!! now thats AWESOME!!
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Ive done all the quest got all the souls that he wants and I can't activate the shrin again WTF
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hi i had the same problem with the sleeping and no 1 came i didnt do all the quests i completed all but 1 check on the info tab if u press (b) where it tells u your bounty and just scroll down untill u see artifacts found mine says 13 (14 if you count umbra because if you keep it you dont get a artifact) and im doing the mora quest now if it shows any less it means youve missed 1
so if you dont keep umbra it should say 14 if youve done them all
hope this helps
Added 14th May 2012, ID #142205
I have completed every deadric shrine quest and slept in two different beds and no one has appeared before me as I wake... Wtf?
Added 9th Apr 2012, ID #131610
Hey, i've killed a Bosmer, 3 orcs a redgard, and a dark elf, but it only shows i've captured the bosmer. How do i capture them? I shoot the Soul trap spell Hermaeus gave me on them all, but i only captured the bosmer. what went wrong? or is it supposed to do that?
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George Huguely, Ben Roethlisberger, Lawrence Taylor: Male athletes encouraged to do the wrong thing
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George Huguely is said to have been a vicious drunk who menaced Yeardley Love, yet there has been no indication that any of his teammates said anything to police. Ben Roethlisberger seems to be a serial insulter of women, whose behavior is shielded by the off-duty cops he employs. And if the charges are true, Lawrence Taylor ignored the bruises on a 16-year-old girl's face as he had sex with her, never thinking to ask who beat her.
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It's a bad stretch for women in the sports pages. After reading the news accounts and police reports, it's reasonable to ask: Should women fear athletes? Is there something in our sports culture that condones these assaults? It's a difficult, even upsetting question, because it risks demonizing scores of decent, guiltless men. But we've got to ask it, because something is going on here -- there's a disturbing association, and surely we're just as obliged to address it as we are concussions.
"We can no longer dismiss these actions as representative of a few bad apples," says Jay Coakley, author of "Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies," and a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado. "The evidence suggests that they are connected to particular group cultures that are in need of critical assessment."
What do we mean when we ask whether there was something in the lacrosse "culture" that led to the murder of Yeardley Love? The Latin root of the word "cultura" means "to grow." It means the attitudes, practices, and values that are implanted and nourished in a group or society.
There's a lot we still don't know about Huguely and his "brothers," but three attitudes and practices of at least some members of the Virginia lacrosse team seem obvious: physical swagger, heavy drinking and fraternal silence.
In 2008, a drunken Huguely was so brutally combative with a female cop that she felt she had to Taser him. Last year, he assaulted a sleeping teammate who he believed had kissed Love, several former players say, and this year, he had other violent confrontations with Love herself, witnesses say.
We can argue about gaps in the system, but one constituency very likely knew about Huguely's behavior: his teammates and friends, the ones who watched him smash up windows and bottles and heard him rant about Love.
Why didn't they tackle him? Why didn't they turn him in?
Undoubtedly, many of the young men on the Virginia lacrosse team are fine human beings. I don't mean to question their decency. I don't mean to blame them.
But I do mean to ask those who knew of Huguely's behavior an important question. Why did they not treat Yeardley Love as their teammate, too?
Where were her brothers?
Why was she not deserving of the same loyalty as George Huguely? She played lacrosse. She wore a Virginia uniform. She was equally a champion. And yet because she played on the women's team, she seems not to have been accorded the same protection that Huguely was.
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"Decanting" Rieslings.
I have been on a Riesling kick this summer and have run into a small issue. Most Riesling bottles are taller than the standard wine bottle of Chards/Pinot or Cabs/reds. This means that after opening, if I don't finish the bottle, those with corks will not fit in my fridge, standing up. At first I would just cut the corks down to size, but it made them hard to remove again. So my new way is to keep a rinsed and clean screw-top bottle at the ready and opening, I will transfer into this bottle. I am not buying for the cellar but for quick drinking and a bottle may last 3-4 days in my fridge. Am I losing or gaining anything with this decant for room?
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1. This applies only to German rieslings: I've often read that Prum's rieslings benefit from decanting though I never do decant rieslings. Still,I can't see any problem pouring a young wine into a smaller bottle. (And I think it depends on specific wines/vintages whether a "benefit" might occur.) For example, I recall that 2002 wines were often high acid--crisp-- (something I like) and that exposure to air seemed to soften them as the evening went on. Lately, vintages have tended to be fuller.
1. I've been doing this for years!!! Deterioration from oxidation...is totally un-noticeable. Stay fresh if stored in the fridge for less than a week.
1. Interesting question. I guess I never have this problem because I'm never left with an unfinished bottle of riesling :)
My advice would be to follow your palate... as long as the flavors don't go flat, get fridge burn, or otherwise deteriorate, more power to you.
I've never decanted a riesling, though I've swirled many in a glass :) I just don't see the typical benefits of decanting (blowing off tannin, softening and opening of flavors, etc.) being an issue for rieslings so that's probably why it's never cross my mind.
Congratulations on getting on a riesling kick btw... warning, you'll probably never get off of it:)
1. You're gaining, if by that you mean holding onto the full flavor of the wine, especially if you transfer the Riesling into a smaller bottle with reduced or no ullage. Riesling keeps extremely well this way.
I've done this a lot, and know how very well it works. We always have several Rieslings going at home in the summertime, and I'm very picky about fall-off in flavor from storage.
I like the lab bottles best that come in different milliliter sizes, but even jelly jars work.
I've written more about it here:
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1. re: maria lorraine
We have a second home and are regularly bringing leftover wine from one place to the other. For a really small amount I have a leftover bottle from a split of sparkling. All manner of jars get used.
ETA: Followup question. So are you saying that it's actually BETTER to re-bottle into something smaller than leave in the original? For reislings anyway?
1. re: c oliver
Yes. For all wines. Works amazingly well, and is my preservation method of choice, currently. Plus, it's inexpensive. I prefer the lab bottles with plastic/composite caps, but any jar will work. I stay away from all-metal lids though -- I look for those with a plastic liner on the underside of the lid.
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There's never a day probably that I don't learn something from CHs. This is it for today :) Thanks, ml.
1. re: c oliver
Just make sure you fill the jar to the tippy-top -- to the very top edge of the glass, with cap in hand. Then cap it quickly. The trick is to have no ullage at all. Also, open the jar after storage over the vessel you will pour into -- a glass, a pot on the stove, etc, since a bit of the wine tends to spill from the jar being so full. But even if you do spill -- libation to the gods.
1. re: maria lorraine
I find these eliminate the ullage and spillage problems, In addition different sizes (e.g. 200ml, 400ml, 500ml) allow one to choose having a single glass or a couple of glasses then saving the rest for later. I use either a small or medium plastic funnel to fill to the top.
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Great post. Those bottles look great.
Yes, wonderful to have all different sizes to accommodate all amounts of leftover wine.
I like these bottles too:
2. Decanting will degrade the slight effervescence of a just-opened bottle of Riesling, but the fizz is gone by day 3 even if the wine stays in the original bottle.
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Let $\Sigma$ be a surface (let's say oriented and of finite type). We can consider the configuration space $F(\Sigma,n)$ of $n$ ordered distinct points on $\Sigma$, i.e. $\Sigma^n\setminus \Delta$ where $\Delta$ is the "big diagonal". The cohomology of $F(\Sigma,n)$ can be computed in a very explicit way, as explained in Burt Totaro's paper "Configuration spaces of algebraic varieties": the Leray spectral sequence for $F(\Sigma,n) \hookrightarrow \Sigma^n$ degenerates after the first differential and can be written down in a concrete way, which gives us a completely explicit differential graded algebra whose cohomology is $H^\bullet(F(\Sigma,n))$.
Now fix a finite group $G$ and consider the space $F(\Sigma,G,n)$ which parametrizes $n$ points on $\Sigma$ and a principal $G$-bundle over the complement of the $n$ points on $\Sigma$. So we have a finite sheeted covering $F(\Sigma,G,n) \to F(\Sigma,n)$ such that the fiber over the point $(s_1,\ldots,s_n) \in \Sigma^n$ is the set $\mathrm{Hom}(\Pi_1(\Sigma \setminus \{s_1,\ldots,s_n\}),G)/G$, where $G$ acts on the set of maps by conjugation.
Q1. Is there a good way to describe or compute the cohomology of $F(\Sigma,G,n)$?
Q2. (A vaguer question.) Let's say $\Sigma$ is compact for simplicity and let $FM(\Sigma,n)$ be the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of $F(\Sigma,n)$. I think there is a natural compactification $$F(\Sigma,G,n) \hookrightarrow FM(\Sigma,G,n)$$ covering $F(\Sigma,n) \hookrightarrow FM(\Sigma,n)$ and such that the covering $FM(\Sigma,G,n) \to FM(\Sigma,n)$ ramifies along the boundary; $FM(\Sigma,G,n)$ should parametrize principal $G$-bundles which are allowed to ramify over the nodes. Is there a natural smaller compactification of $F(\Sigma,G,n)$ which is still smooth, analogous to the compactification $$F(\Sigma,n) \hookrightarrow \Sigma^n$$ (which of course is smaller than the Fulton-MacPherson)?
Craig Westerland suggests an alternative description of the cohomology of $F(\Sigma,G,n)$. The covering $p \colon F(\Sigma,G,n) \to F(\Sigma,n)$ satisfies $R^ip_\ast\mathbf Z =0$ for $i>0$, so $$ H^\bullet(F(\Sigma,G,n),\mathbf Z) = H^\bullet(F(\Sigma,n),p_\ast\mathbf Z). $$ Now $F(\Sigma,n)$ is a $K(\pi,1)$ space where $\pi$ is by definition the pure braid group on $n$ strands of the surface $\Sigma$, $P_n(\Sigma)$. Hence this cohomology is given by $$ H^\bullet(P_n(\Sigma), \mathbf Z [ \mathrm{hom}(\pi_1(\Sigma \setminus \{s_1,\ldots,s_n\},G)/G]).$$ Also the action of $P_n(\Sigma)$ is the restriction of an action of the $n$-strand surface braid group $B_n(\Sigma)$ (i.e. where the points are unordered).
The simplest example should be $\Sigma = \mathbf R^2$, where we get the usual pure braid group. Since the fundamental group of the punctured plane is free we find that $\mathrm{hom}(\pi_1(\Sigma \setminus \{s_1,\ldots,s_n\},G)/G = G^n/G$, where $G$ acts by elementwise conjugation on $G^n$. The action of the braid group $B_n$ can be written down in terms of Artin's generators $\sigma_i$: the element $\sigma_i$ acts by $$ (g_1,\ldots,g_i,g_{i+1},\ldots,g_n) \mapsto (g_1,\ldots,g_ig_{i+1}g_i^{-1},g_i,\ldots,g_n)$$ (which is well defined on equivalence classes modulo conjugation). Then I guess even these cohomology groups are hard to compute in general?
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Do you even know the connected components of $F(\Sigma,G,n)$, i.e., $H_0$? I am not a geometric topologist, but my understanding is that this is already a fairly delicate question when $n$ is "small" compared to the genus of $\Sigma$ and $G$, cf. Deligne, Kluitman, thesis of Richard Hamilton, Gabai-Kazez, etc. – Jason Starr Jan 14 '13 at 13:57
Let me say a little more. There is a decomposition $F=\sqcup F_a$ where $a$ ranges over $G$-conjugacy classes of data $(H,g_1,\dots,g_n)$: $H$, the image subgroup of $\pi_1$, and $g_i$ the images of small loops about the punctures $s_1,\dots,s_n$ (considered up to the obvious action of $\mathfrak{S}_n$). However, even if you take $G$ to be the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_d$, and even if you take $a$ to the <I>most generic</I> datum, namely $H=\mathfrak{S}_d$ and $g_i$ are transpositions, it is still tricky to prove $F_a$ is connected. It is true if $n \gg_{g,d} 0$. – Jason Starr Jan 14 '13 at 14:10
Thanks for the comments! You're right, in general I have no clue even about $H_0$, so maybe the question is too ambitious. – Dan Petersen Jan 15 '13 at 10:27
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As Jason Starr mentions, the set of components of this space is somewhat difficult to pin down. I will work over the Riemann sphere $\Sigma =S^2$ for simplicity (it's already complicated enough). If you restrict your focus to the subspace $CF(\Sigma, G,n)$ consisting of branched covers $G$-covers which are connected, then for large $n$, there is a description of the set of components in terms of a certain quotient of the $H_2(G)$ by commutators. When $G = S_n$ (and monodromy is constrained to be given by transpositions), this case was studied by Clebsch and Hurwitz, with the result being that the space is connected. For more general $G$, this is an unpublished result of Conway-Parker, which was expanded upon by Fried-Völklein in the appendix to their paper "The inverse Galois problem and rational points on moduli spaces."
Computing the cohomology of this space is quite difficult. It follows from your description above that the cohomology is the same as the cohomology of the mapping class group of the surface being fibred over, with (nontrivial twisted) coefficients in the free abelian group generated by $Hom(\pi_1(\Sigma \setminus \{ s_1, \dots, s_n\}), G)$; i.e.,
$$H^\ast(F(\Sigma, G, n)) \cong H^\ast(mcg(\Sigma); \mathbb{Z}Hom(\pi_1(\Sigma \setminus \{ s_1, \dots, s_n\}), G)).$$
Note that you can identify the cohomology of individual components as the group cohomology with coefficients in the subrepresentation generated by a given orbit of homomorphisms.
Abstractly, this is nice, but it doesn't actually tell you what the groups are. One thing that you could hope for is a form of homological stability (i.e., that the homology of a single component stabilizes as $n \to \infty$), as it does for the configuration space (here I'm using the unordered configuration space, not the ordered one). Then, if you figure out the limiting homology, you can at least compute some of the homology groups of $F(\Sigma, G, n)$ (those to which your stability theorem applies).
To advertise some recent work of Ellenberg, Venkatesh, and myself, in "Homological stability for Hurwitz spaces and the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture over function fields, I and II," we have proven a rational homological stability result for certain choices of $G$ (also, we often restrict the sort of monodromy around branch points that is allowed to lie in a given collection of conjugacy classes), as well as giving a method of determining the limiting homology.
It's far from an optimal answer: we can give you partial, rational information only under certain assumptions on $G$. Also, if you're really after the ordered moduli space (we treat the unordered), our results don't quite answer your question (though I think that you can bootstrap them to get some information at least). Any improvements in the computations of the cohomology of these spaces would be very interesting indeed.
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Also, compactifications of these spaces do exist; see, for instance, the work of Abramovich-Corti-Vistoli, amongst others. – Craig Westerland Jan 14 '13 at 19:18
Thanks for your comments, they are useful! But I guess you mean the surface braid group of $\Sigma$, not its mapping class group? I tried to work out the details to see if I understood things, but it was too long for a comment so I added it to my question. – Dan Petersen Jan 15 '13 at 10:23
Yeah, sorry, that's right. The setup in my response is appropriate for computing the homology of the moduli space of these branched covers; your setup (fibering over the configuration space) will only use the braid group. And indeed, computing the homology of these spaces even when $\Sigma = \mathbb{R}^2$ is really quite difficult for non-abelian $G$. – Craig Westerland Jan 15 '13 at 11:23
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The religious practices found in the Tibetan cultural world, accepted by and even conducted by the monastic orders, include the incantation of mystic, magical formulas, the exorcism and destruction of demons, divination, auguries, oracles, and symbolic sacrifice and ransom -- aspects associated with Shamanism. It is this element within Tibetan Buddhism of magic and the supernatural, so remote from the original teachings and practices of Buddhism, that has led to its designation as Lamaism, as if it were a separate religion or at least a separate offshoot of the original faith. In attempting to account for these apparent contradictions, scholars have sought to identify the sources of these seeming divergences from what can be claimed as the pure, original Buddhist teachings.
Buddhism was a foreign import into Tibet, but Tibet made Buddhism its own, and that encompassing system of beliefs and practices known as Tibetan Buddhism can only be understood in the full context of the country, its history, its society, and its indigenous religious and cultural practices. It is also necessary to consider particular religious currents (i.e., Tantrism) within Buddhism that ultimately affected its form in Tibet.
At the core of Buddhist teachings are the four noble truths, explaining the nature and cause of suffering and the way to enlightenment: a focused approach that makes no mention of a creator and that seems in our contemporary world more a philosophy -- a perspective on reality -- and a guide to living, than a religion. Yet, although Tibetan Buddhism is based on those core teachings, it includes practices that extend into the supernatural realm, such as defense against omnipresent evil spirits. Thus the religion seems almost split into two paradoxical factions: the spiritual path to enlightenment, and rituals of protection against the hosts of evil. And although the original teachings of the Buddha do not mention a creator or other deities, Tibetan Buddhism embraces a vast pantheon of divinities.
These supramundane beings derive from the intersection of many sources and influences, both native and external. Only a general survey of this complex subject can be given here.
Shakyamuni, which was the Buddha's family name, was born in a small Indian state in what is now southern Nepal, although the present nation of Nepal did not come into existence until the late eighteenth century. He lived in the context of Indian culture and religion, and it was in India that Buddhism took root -- the original Buddhist stronghold. In its earliest, and some argue its purist or most authentic form, Buddhism was nontheistic, keeping its focus on a way of thought and a conduct of life that would release human beings from inevitable suffering. A basic premise of Buddhism is that neither the Buddha nor any divine being interferes in human life, or acts as a savior or intercedes as a saint might do. Rather, such beings teach, expound the Dharma (law), and show the way.
The concept of karma is fundamental to Buddhism. It is based on the premise of the inexorable relation of cause and effect: in familiar Western terms, you reap what you have sown. Your own actions, rather than the decision of a divine being who sits in judgment, or the intercession of any god, determine what will become of you.
Against its Hindu background, Buddhism has sometimes been seen as a reform movement analogous to the Protestant Reformation, an analogy that perhaps should not be stretched too far, and it has even been considered a revolutionary movement. Yet from its inception, and in the course of its subsequent development for many centuries, Buddhism was affected by the inevitable influence of its Hindu context, even as it was a reaction against the mother culture and religion. The Mahayana movement that flourished in the Buddhist universities of eastern India absorbed Hindu elements. These sources, Hindu and Buddhist, became interwoven and were the matrix for the later development, Vajrayana. Tantric texts depict the defeat of Hindu deities, most importantly the great god Shiva, by the Bodhisattva warrior, Vajrapani; the vanquished Hindu gods were converted, pledged allegiance to Buddhism, and were renamed and incorporated into the Buddhist structure. And tantric texts introduced yet other gods, such as Mahakala, who although one of the most important tantric deities in Tibetan Buddhism, has an ancient origin in Indian cults.
With the further development of Mahayana, and its cult of Bodhisattvas (whose numbers multiplied, along with the Buddhas with whom they were often paired), the pantheon expanded. Interweaving and building on these influences, introducing and absorbing yet more deities, Buddhism, like a living organism, continued to evolve, and the form that we would come to know as "Tibetan" grew increasingly labyrinthine.
Even that is not the end of the story. After Buddhism was first introduced into Tibet in the seventh century C.E., where it encountered a native culture, a struggle ensued between the new religion and the ancient, indigenous one. Ultimately and inevitably, Buddhism was influenced by that which it came to replace. This complex interaction developed into mutual adaptation, and the native traditions added their complement of gods to a growing Buddhist pantheon of deities and supramundane beings. A century after that first introduction, a Tibetan king summoned Padmasambhava, a mystic eighth-century yogin from an area northwest of India, now thought to be Pakistan's Swat valley, to establish the primacy of the new religion: this is known as the "first diffusion" of Buddhism in Tibet. Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, is honored and revered throughout the Tibetan cultural world, and even considered a second Buddha by followers of the Nyingma-pa sect. According to legend, this legendary master battled with and successfully overcame malevolent and hostile spirits, including the indigenous Tibetan gods, and bound them over with vows to serve the new faith. The old gods, former enemies, became champions of Buddhism; they joined the pantheon, swelling its prodigious array of deities and supernatural beings. Yet that, too, was not yet the end of the story.
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Danny Brown sat down with Pitchfork TV for their Over/Under segment, where he's given a variety of random subjects and sheds light on which of them don't get enough love and which aren't living up to the hype.
Topics range from North Korea, cereal, soft-core porn, baths, and Billy Crystal, to name a few.
Brown recently completed his first headlining tour and is showing no signs of slowing down. Fans overseas can catch him during his upcoming 10 city European Old & Reckless tour.
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In post-Soviet Russia, massive supercomputer programs you. (Sorry, we had to.) Recently, Russia's Moscow State University contracted with high-performance computing company T-Platforms to create a ten petaflop cluster that'll be operational in 2013. The computer would fall just short of the fastest supercomputer on Earth (the Japanese K Computer, which is rated at 10.51 petaflops) and will incorporate a mixture of different node types to achieve the ten petaflops. T-Platforms will reportedly build the nodes from Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge Xeon processors and NVIDIA's next-generation Kepler GPU coprocessors, and Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture could also be included if it's available during construction. The reason for the project? Unknown officially, but we're guessing it's just another reason for Putin to rip his shirt off and celebrate.
T-Platforms to Build 10-Petaflop Supercomputer for Moscow State University
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 – T-Platforms, a global developer and supplier of supercomputers and a full range of solutions and services for high-performance computing, today announced an agreement to design a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops (10^15 floating point operations per second) for M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will develop a complete computing system incorporating the necessary supercomputer and engineering infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted job processing.
Currently, two computing systems from T-Platforms are functioning at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The MSU Cebyšev Supercomputer was built in 2008. At that time it held the 36th position on the Top500 global list of the most powerful computing clusters and was seventh among all supercomputers used in the world's education system. Following the commissioning of this system, the need for additional capacity and capability soon became evident when this cluster's resources became fully allocated.
With steadily increasing scientific issues and challenges to be addressed, an objective need for scaling in computing power appeared. University leadership decided on the acquisition of a new, more powerful supercomputer complex which would provide high-end resources for more scientific teams and allow for conducting more research. This cluster, the Lomonosov Supercomputer, was designed and built by T-Platforms. Today, the performance of the Lomonosov system has set a record for Russia and CIS at 1.3 PFlops, allowing it to hold the leadership position among the Top50 – a list of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia and CIS, as well as being ranked 13th on the Top500 rating.
The MSU computing systems support fundamental scientific and application research in aerospace, nuclear, biomedical, oil and gas, and many other industries. However, due to the computational demands and increased need to scale these applications, the existing computing power is no longer adequate to meet reasonable turn-around time. With this consideration, MSU decided to seek the development of a new computing cluster capable of 10 PFlops.
"We have enjoyed close cooperation with M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University for many years, and it is appropriate to describe MSU as a strategic partner for our company," said Vsevolod Opanasenko, CEO of T-Platforms. "We consider this selection a competitive victory, and we are honored to design a new generation computer system with record-breaking performance for our country. This is a strong confirmation of the highest expertise of our engineers and developers by the largest Russian Scientific Centre. Creating this system will mark a new stage in development of a domestic supercomputing industry and provide fundamental new possibilities for Russian science."
The following quote is from the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, November 12, 2009:
"Russia needs to make full use of the potential of supercomputers and supercomputer systems linked by high-speed data exchange channels. With their help, within five years we could start designing new planes and spacecrafts, cars and nuclear reactors. Sophisticated technology that has not gone through supercomputer simulation and not been digitalized, so to speak, will find itself without demand on the market within a few years."
About T-Platforms:
T-Platforms ( is a global supercomputer developer and a supplier of the full range of solutions and services for the high performance computing. Founded in 2002, T-Platforms maintains headquarters in Moscow (Russia) and regional offices in Hanover (Germany), Kiev (Ukraine), Taipei (Taiwan), and Hong Kong (China). The company has implemented more than 200 integrated projects, six of which are included in the Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. T-Platforms owns patents on a number of supercomputer technologies and electronic components. Solutions from T-Platforms are used for academic and applied research in various fields of science, including life sciences, nuclear physics, chemistry, mathematics, as well as for highly calculation-intensive tasks in engineering, computer graphics and much more. In 2011, the supercomputing industry publication, HPCWire, named Vsevolod Opanasenko, CEO of T-Platforms, one of 12 most famous and respected people of the HPC global community.
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Repsol UAE leg four summary
LUC ALPHAND IN CARS AND MARC COMA IN MOTORBIKES FACE THE LAST SPECIAL OF THE DUBAI RAID LEADING THE STANDINGS Alphand finishes fourth fastest and victory for Coma. Stephane Peterhansel keeps the second position in the overall car class ...
Alphand finishes fourth fastest and victory for Coma. Stephane Peterhansel keeps the second position in the overall car class standings and Jordi Viladoms recovers the third place in motorbikes
Leg 4 Moreeb - Moreeb
Liaison 6 km, Special 378.90 km, Liaison 123.10 km.Total 508.00 km
Weather conditions: hot and sunny after early morning fog - 28-33º C
Frenchman Luc Alphand and co-driver Gilles Picard will take a 20m 45s lead into the final day of the 2006 UAE Desert Challenge after setting the fourth fastest time through the longest section of the event, an energy-sapping 378.90 km selective section that wound its way through some of the remotest desert terrain in the Rub Al-Khali region of the Abu Dhabi emirate, today. Team mates Stephane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret finished the stage in third place and head into the last day in second overall, with Japan's Hiroshi Masuoka and Pascal Maimon completing the team line-up in seventh place.
Alphand and Picard began the day's competition 22m 22s ahead of their closest team mates and immediately behind them in the starting order. But Alphand discovered that it is easier to follow than to open the stage and had gained 1m 37s on his team mate by PC1. But Peterhansel redressed the balance at PC2 and was running second fastest on the track behind Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah. Four cars arrived in a procession at PC3 and Spaniard Carlos Sainz eventually pressed on to take the stage win, with Alphand and Peterhansel consolidating their first and second positions in the overall classification, after Peterhansel lost time with two flat tires and Alphand eased his pace to avoid taking risks over the closing kilometres.
Hiroshi Masuoka and Pascal Maimon started behind Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and were anxious to close the gap on the seventh-placed Spaniard Jose-Luis Monterde, who began the day 2m 46s ahead of the 2004 UAE Desert Challenge winner. Hiroshi had gained 2m 03s at PC1 and had moved ahead of the Spaniard by PC2, despite losing some time in soft sand. He will start the final morning in seventh position.
In the motorbike class, comfortable victory for Marc Coma despite the complicated route, and less positive day for Jordi Viladoms who could not keep his fast pace due to a problem with a fuse of his motorbike, hindering from finishing better than seventh fastest in the special. He benefited however from Esteve's retirement moving back to the third place in the overall standings. And while Viladoms was suffering with his bike, Coma kept a cold head despite starting among the first, setting a pace that was fast enough to avoid the following rider catching up with him and closing the gap in the overall standings. Coma passed Blais on km 50 and from that moment continued alone, setting a fast pace until the finish. Today's stage was long and complicated with many dunes at the beginning and fast tracks in the second half of the special and more dunes towards the end. Coma finally won the stage and Jordi Viladoms was sixth. Coma continues leading the overall standings.
Tomorrow (Friday) is the final day of the UAE Desert Challenge and the competitive action is split into two selective sections. The fifth sandy 122.45 km selective starts on the edge of the Al Dhafrah road to the east of the Humeem desert highway and passes the Haleeba mast focal point and Sheikh Zayed's hunting patrol station, before finishing 68 km south of the Al Ain truck road. A 103.85 km liaison guides crews to the start of the final 163.90 km competitive section north of the Al Ain highway at Khatam. The selective finishes south of the Dubai Autodrome, near to Bab Al Shams and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum's endurance village at L'Isaili. A 44.85 km liaison takes crews on to the ceremonial finish at the Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC) in Mina Seyahi, around 30 km west of Dubai.
Luc Alphand: "I was asked by the team to slow down after PC2...Orders! It was a pretty safe day. I was with Stephane at one point in some big dunes with no GPS point and we lost three minutes. Then it was smarter to let Nasser and Carlos go past. They are a long way behind us. Now I must take it easy and not push to save the car. There's one day to go. It's looking good."
Stephane Peterhansel: "Carlos passed me on a fast track 30 km from the end of the stage. I tried to push and catch him, but he was driving very fast. I did not want to take too many risks. After the refuelling the stage was much faster, but it is always dangerous to drive too hard. I had a front-right puncture early on. We changed the wheel and then we had a puncture again, so we stopped again."
Hiroshi Masuoka: "I lost some time in the sand this morning. But I am pleased that we managed to take seventh place."
Marc Coma: "It's been a very long stage with a 380-km special. The start was a little delayed again due to the early fog and that means starting the special when the sun is already up in the sky and the heat is really strong, what makes the rally even harder. The result of the stage is good. Today was an important day, we had to try to avoid the other from closing the gap and we even managed to increase it so it's been very good. We'll try to make tomorrow's stage a mere formality, although it's a special you have to race so we'll see if we can continue like this."
Jordi Viladoms: "Today has been a complicated day because I had some electrical problem after 60 km which made the bike stop and therefore the GPS to fail so I had to go back a couple of times to look for waypoints I didn't get because the GPS was failing. I continued like that until the refuelling point where we changed a fuse. From then on I was able to do better. I lost some time but I improved one place in the standings, since Esteve's engine broke down. Now we only have to continue like this, hoping that nothing strange happens, in order to keep this third place."
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I spent the last bunch of years working as a mechanical designer and going to college part-time. I left the full-time gig, in January, to focus on the education stuff. My career was stalled, the job was very stressful and taking a toll on my health so I decided to bolt.
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Yale Startup IsoPlexis Raises $1.25M to Advance their Cell Decoding Micro-device
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Yale bioscience tools company IsoPlexis recently closed on a $1.25 million Series A round with investments from Spring Mountain Capital, Connecticut Innovations and others. The startup is developing a single cell immunoassay device and software that provides in-depth understanding of immune and cancer cell activity. It was formed through the Technology Commercialization Program (TCP) which connects professional and graduate school students at Yale with patented faculty inventions at the cutting edge of science and technology. The TCP is jointly run by the Yale Office of Cooperative Research and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. IsoPlexis also participated in the 2013 YEI Fellowship and received a $100,000 investment from the YEI Innovation Fund.
“We’re very excited by our progress and have hired a team of talented bioscience, programming and engineering professionals from Yale and the Connecticut area,” says IsoPlexis founder and CEO Sean Mackay (SOM ’14). “YEI has provided mentors throughout the process that are still working with us in a close capacity. The ability to work with leaders in healthcare from the Yale community, including founders of biotech companies and CEOs of sequencing companies, has given us a great advantage.”
IsoPlexis utilizes Yale-patented technology developed by Rong Fan, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale. Their micro-device can isolate single immune cells within a population and analyze those cells’ secreted proteins over time. This helps researchers to better understand how cancer and other diseases progress and how drug candidates interact with the human immune system.
Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, worked with Fan on an National Institutes of Health grant to push the device from a 12-plex to a 45-plex system. She now regularly uses the IsoPlexis device to track cell communication. “Before this device, we would take a whole plate of cells and get one data point,” Miller-Jensen says. “Now we separate the plate into 1,000 cells and get a data point from each cell.”
Miller-Jensen is particularly interested in studying inflammatory response in cells. When there is an intruder, or pathogen, immune cells will secrete a protein that alerts the other cells. What she’s discovered by using the IsoPlexis device is that there is a small sub-population of cells that act as “first responders,” while the other cells serve to amplify that response in a highly coordinated communication network. In the future, a better understanding of this inflammatory response could be harnessed to treat cancer or improve vaccine response. “This helps us to target drugs to different parts of the immune response,” Miller-Jensen says.
The data produced by Miller-Jensen and other researchers at Yale in turn provides IsoPlexis with further proof of concept for their device. “These are key early adopters,” Mackay says. IsoPlexis has recently established a lab space in Branford, Connecticut where they have six full-time employees.
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Amazing Anatomy Of The James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors
March 20, 2014
Image Caption: Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Rob Gutro, NASA
When you think of a mirror, there really isn’t that much needed to describe it, but when you look at a mirror that will fly aboard NASA’s next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, there’s a lot to the anatomy of a mirror.
NASA’s Webb telescope includes a primary, secondary and tertiary mirror. Although the relatively small secondary and tertiary mirrors are unique, it’s the expansive primary mirror that has the most complicated anatomy with a number of components operating together to make the telescope work.
The mirrors were built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Ball is the principal subcontractor to Northrop Grumman for the optical technology and lightweight mirror system. Ball Aerospace also developed the secondary mirror, tertiary mirror and fine-steering mirror.
The raw power of any telescope is determined by the size of its main optic — the bigger the first or “primary” optic, the better—and in the case of large telescopes, the optic is a mirror. Webb’s primary mirror measures 6.5 meters (21 feet, 4 inches) across, and although that’s respectable by ground-based telescope standards, it is absolutely huge for a space telescope. A mirror this large and in space is needed to capture the light from the most distant galaxies and stars in the universe, but it would too big to launch into space if it were one single piece, so that’s why Webb’s is composed of 18 smaller lightweight “segments” that can be folded up to fit into the nosecone of a rocket. Each of Webb’s 18 hexagonal-shaped primary mirror segments measures just over 1.3 meters (4.2 feet) across, and weighs approximately 40 kilograms (88 pounds). All of the 18 primary mirror segment assemblies that will fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have already arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Each of the 18 mirror segments is not “just a mirror” but is a complex assembly of technologies that allows all of them to work together as one. Each mirror has an “anatomy” of many parts, from the reflective gold-coated Beryllium substrate or layer, down to a Beryllium structure of “whiffles” and a “Delta frame,” plus precision actuators to position and shape the mirror, mounted on Backplane Interface Flexures.
“The complexity of the mirror assemblies comes from the fact that they are designed to be very lightweight, work at cryogenic temperatures below -400F, survive launch vibration and forces, be align-able on-orbit via actuators, and then stay aligned for up to two weeks as though they are a single large mirror,” said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Beryllium Mirror Substrate (Smooth mirror surface)
The Beryllium Mirror Substrate is the part of each mirror segment that acts as a mirror in the classic sense. Each substrate is nearly 2 inches thick with a highly-polished and exquisitely smooth “front” reflective side and a “back” side that is precision machined into a sort of egg crate-looking structure to make it lighter weight than it would be if solid. The reflective surface is polished to an “average” roughness of only 20 nanometers (i.e., 20 billionths of a meter) and coated with a microscopically thin layer of pure gold to maximize its ability to reflect infrared light. Beryllium is the material of choice because is it extremely stiff and lightweight, and it behaves very stably and predictably at Webb’s extremely cold operating temperatures.
Beryllium Whiffles
The opposite side of the smooth surface Beryllium Substrate is mounted on three triangular Beryllium Whiffles that look like the openings in an egg crate. Each of the whiffles are about 1 foot wide and 2 feet long. The whiffles spread the load or mass (because the mass has no weight in space) from underlying structures and mechanisms to minimize distortion in the mirror. Beryllium was chosen because it is strong and light, and will hold its shape at extremely cold temperatures.
Beryllium Delta Frame
The Beryllium Delta Frame or BDF is the main intermediate structure for each of the 18 primary mirror segments, and it is about 2.5 feet wide and shaped rather like a regular triangle or “delta.” The BDF connects the reflective mirror or substrate and whiffles to actuators.
Actuators are tiny mechanisms composed of precision motors and gears used to move and shape the reflective mirror surface of the substrate. Actuators align the 18 primary mirror segments in positions to focus on an object in space.
Each of the primary mirror segments has six actuators that enable it to move and rotate so that all 18 can be aligned to each other to act as one giant mirror. Also, each primary mirror segment has one special “force” actuator attached directly to the middle of the backside of the shiny mirror and via long, thin Beryllium struts to the edges of the mirror segments. Each force actuator enables all 18 segments to have the exact same “center of curvature” such that they will all focus at the same point
These mirror actuators are one of the Webb’s many new inventions. They enable the miniscule movements on the scale of nanometers that are necessary to achieve optical perfection. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one millionth of a millimeter. To put this in perspective, consider that a typical sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. Moreover, these actuators must operate reliably and repeatedly at the extreme “cryogenic” temperatures of only tens of degrees above absolute zero.
After Webb unfurls in space and cools down to its operating temperature, engineers on the ground will send commands to move all the actuators and co-align all the mirrors in a process that will take about two months. Then, once the Webb is fully-operational and being used for scientific observations, mirror alignment will be fine-tuned about once every 10 to 14 days. Thanks to this new technology, Webb will be the first space observatory to use an actively-controlled, segmented primary mirror.
Backplane Interface Flexures
The Backplane Interface Flexures connect a primary mirror segment to the telescope structure called the backplane. The backplane holds all 18 of the primary mirror segments. Flexures allow for expansion and contraction that occurs with temperature changes—especially the big cool downs that happen in pre-flight testing on the ground and the one big cool down that will occur in space as the observatory goes from room temperature after it leaves its launch vehicle to around 50 Kelvin (minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit) and below for operations. The flexures themselves are precision-machined blades that function as finely-tuned springs.
However, there are flexures everywhere in each primary mirror segment and not just where they connect to the Backplane.
It All Works Together
The purpose of all this new and specialized technology is to work in concert to enable great scientific advancement. The Webb will be the premier astronomical observatory of the next decade. It will study every phase in the history of our universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of stellar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
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Before: Tablecloth and rug were hiding best features
What works: The room has good proportions, neutral walls and shiny hardwood floors.
What doesn't: A tablecloth and a rug were covering up some of the space's positive aspects.
Analysis: "I don't think sellers realize how distracting those little things can be for a potential buyer," said Lori Matzke of Centerstagehome.com. "You need to think like a buyer -- what's going to actually sell the house? The area rug or those hardwood floors?"
1. A tablecloth that drew too much attention to the table and a dried tabletop arrangement that blocked views into the attached hallway were boxed up and stored.
2. Heavy drapes (not shown) were removed to let more natural light into the room.
3. The area rug was removed to show off the hardwood floors. Staging tip: Although the wood floors had faded around the rug, Matzke was able to soften the contrast by mopping the floor with 2 gallons of lukewarm water and 1 cup of white vinegar, then letting it breathe for a few days.
4. To make the room feel larger, two leaves in the table were removed and two chairs were moved out.
5. Moving the buffet to the far wall makes the space feel balanced and more proportional.
6. The picture above the buffet was moved down several inches to make the ceilings feel higher.
7. A large plant was cleaned and moved to a corner near the windows to add color and to give the room a vertical element.
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Crowdsourced ETF Pricing
Sometimes determining the fair value of a fund is a tricky business
The intraday pricing of international equity ETFs has garnered much recent attention. While some view the divergence between the intraday price of an international ETF and the value of its underlying securities as a form of a premium or discount, this is not the case at all.
Mutual funds help provide an understanding of this anomaly. Many international equity mutual funds run into challenges with daily purchases and redemptions when determining the right value of underlying securities, primarily because the vast majority of those underlying securities are not trading in their home markets at the 4 p.m. Eastern time close of U.S. markets. A mutual fund sponsor is then left to determine the NAV at the best price for both buyers and sellers.
If the U.S. market’s day is uneventful, odds are those underlying holdings are worth approximately the same price as where they closed. If the day is eventful—and these types of days, where the market can move up or down, or both up and down, by 100 basis points in a single day, occur more often than not—the resulting volatility usually spreads into international markets once they open and likely affects the value of those underlying securities.
Fair valuation is the process of trying to determine the correct value of securities. This is an important process, as recently evidenced by the SEC’s investigations regarding how certain mortgage-related securities were valued during the financial crisis. If international markets are expected to drop dramatically the next day (likely due to a fall in U.S. markets), investors may be overpaying for the fund, and redeeming investors will get more money than they should, leaving existing shareholders on the hook.
The fair valuation process works exactly the same way with an ETF, except investors buy and sell at the publicly offered price instead of the NAV. The ETF price is normally in line with its indicative value or estimated NAV. However, during volatile times a price difference becomes evident between the underlying securities’ value at their previous close on the international markets and how they trade in the U.S. market. What influences those changes is the very same cause that impacts the fair value process used to calculate the NAV.
The Important Differences
Multiple market participants usually drive the public offering price for ETFs. When the intraday fair valuation process takes place, a wide variety of views determine the expected value of a given securities basket and investors select the best price for both purchasing and selling ETFs, whereas in a mutual fund, the fund sponsor solely determines the valuation.
The other notable difference is that investors can see when the public price for an ETF is diverging from the last international market trading value, so it is much more obvious when fair valuation is affecting the price. How does a mutual fund determine fair valuation? Very little information is available to help investors understand the price they may receive on an adjusted trading day. Although a prospectus mentions that the mutual fund sponsor has the right to make fair valuation adjustment, there is no specific obligation when to tell investors.
The transparency that ETFs provide in this process is critical for investors and helps advisors know that transparency means far more than just holdings for their clients.
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But I'm a bit wary of the idea that by thinking about creativity I can tweak the mechanisms that are responsible for my creativity. Some people say that by studying parallel processing, parallel hardware, parallel this and that, we develop a whole new paradigm for thought that will make us think differently. That's a really weird claim. It seems no more likely to me than that it will alter the mechanisms of our digestive tract. We can't modify those things! There's a fine line between what it means to have your thoughts shaped and having your thought processes shaped.
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Analysis of HLA DR, HLA DQ, C4A, FcγRIIa, FcγRIIIa, MBL, and IL-1Ra allelic variants in Caucasian systemic lupus erythematosus patients suggests an effect of the combined FcγRIIa R/R and IL-1Ra 2/2 genotypes on disease susceptibility
Andreas Jönsen1, Anders A Bengtsson1, Gunnar Sturfelt1 and Lennart Truedsson2*
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Arthritis Res Ther 2004, 6:R557-R562 doi:10.1186/ar1224
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Dysfunction in various parts of immune defence, such as immune response, immune complex clearance, and inflammation, has an impact on pathogenesis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We hypothesised that combinations of common variants of genes involved in these immune functions are associated with susceptibility to SLE. The following variants were analysed: HLA DR3, HLA DQ2, C4AQ0, Fcγ receptor IIa (FcγRIIa) genotype R/R, Fcγ receptor IIIa (FcRγIIIa) genotype F/F, mannan-binding lectin (MBL) genotype conferring a low serum concentration of MBL (MBL-low), and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) genotype 2/2. Polymorphisms were analysed in 143 Caucasian patients with SLE and 200 healthy controls. HLA DR3 in SLE patients was in 90% part of the haplotype HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0, which was strongly associated with SLE (odds ratio [OR] 2.8, 95% CI 1.7–4.5). Analysis of combinations of gene variants revealed that the strong association with SLE for HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 remained after combination with FcγRIIa R/R, FcγRIIIa F/F, and MBL-low (OR>2). Furthermore, the combination of the FcγRIIa R/R and IL-1Ra 2/2 genotypes yielded a strong correlation with SLE (OR 11.8, 95% CI 1.5–95.4). This study demonstrates that certain combinations of gene variants may increase susceptibility to SLE, suggesting this approach for future studies. It also confirms earlier findings regarding the HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 haplotype.
Fcγ receptor; HLA; interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; mannan-binding lectin; systemic lupus erythematosus
The genetic contribution to the aetiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is high, as is indicated by familial aggregation and a higher concordance rate in monozygotic than dizygotic twins [1]. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotype HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 is strongly associated with SLE in Caucasians [2,3]. The IgG Fc receptors appear to be important in the pathogenesis of SLE, as recently reviewed by Salmon and Pricop [4]. With the allelic variant of R (arginine) instead of H (histidine) on amino acid position 131, the ability of Fcγ receptor IIa (FcγRIIa) to bind IgG2 is diminished [5]. Similarly, an amino acid substitution in position 158 (phenylalanine [F] instead of valine [V]) in the Fcγ receptor IIIa (FcγRIIIa) reduces the IgG1-, IgG3-, and IgG4-binding capacity of the receptor [6]. These variants can result in suboptimal clearance of immune complexes from the circulation, which might contribute to the pathogenesis of immune-complex-mediated manifestations [7].
Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is structurally similar to C1q and has the ability to activate the complement cascade through the lectin pathway. Point mutations are found in the structural gene that affect the MBL serum concentration and the stability of MBL complex formation required for efficient complement activation [8]. In the promoter regions, there are two polymorphisms that influence serum concentration, with LX conferring the lowest MBL level, LY a medium level, and HY the highest [8-11]. MBL variant alleles have been suggested as a minor risk factor in susceptibility to SLE in several populations [8,10,12]. Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) is a naturally occurring competitive inhibitor of IL-1. The IL-1Ra gene contains a polymorphism in intron 2 consisting of a variable number of copies of an 86-base-pair repeat sequence (two, three, four, five, or six copies) [13]. An association has been found between the IL-1Ra 2 allele and SLE [13,14]. Multiple genes are involved in the development of SLE, and the relative importance of these genes may vary between populations and with environmental exposure. We investigated common variant alleles involved in the immune response, immune complex clearance, and regulation of inflammation, with the hypothesis that combinations of polymorphic candidate genes could have synergistic effects on disease susceptibility. Therefore, we have analysed polymorphisms in the genes HLA DR, HLA DQ, C4A, FcγRIIa, FcγRIIIa, MBL, and IL-1Ra and their association with the development of SLE.
Materials and methods
The study population comprised 124 female and 14 male Caucasian SLE patients, and 200 blood donors (100 men, 100 women) were used as controls. One hundred thirty-eight patients fulfilled four or more criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification for SLE [15]. Five patients with a clinical SLE diagnosis were included in the study even though they fulfilled only three ACR classification criteria; these five patients had multisystemic disease with an immunologic disorder, i.e. presence of anitnuclear antibodies and symptoms characteristic of SLE such as arthritis, photosensitivity, serositis, nephritis, thrombocytopenia, and leucopenia [16]. A breakdown of the ACR criteria is shown in Table 1. There were 129 families with a single case of SLE and 14 families in which multiple cases were recorded. However, from each multicase family, only the first family member with SLE diagnosis, the index case, was included in the statistical analysis. The mean age at diagnosis of the patients was 40 years (range 10–83) and the mean disease duration was 16 years (range 1–42). The mean Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/ACR-Damage Index score was 1.9 (range 0–9) [17]. The study was approved by the local ethics committee at Lund University.
Table 1. Distribution of American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria in 143 patients with SLE
Genetic analyses
DNA was extracted by the salting-out method described by Miller and colleagues [18]. Analysis of genetic polymorphism was predominantly performed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
HLA DR and DQ alleles were determined with PCR (Olerup SSP™ DQ-DR SSP Combi Tray, Olerup SSP AB, Stockholm, Sweden). However, a minority of the patients had previously been typed with a lymphocytotoxicity test or by restriction fragment length polymorphism as described before [2]. C4A gene deletion was determined by PCR as described by Grant and colleagues [19], or in a few cases by analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism and determination of MHC haplotypes [2]. With the presence of a DR3 allele together with a DQ2 and a C4AQ0 allele, due to C4A gene deletion, the subject was considered to have the haplotype HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0, although family studies were not uniformly performed to confirm this assumption.
FcγRIIa gene polymorphism
The genetic polymorphism resulting in amino acid R or H in amino acid position 131 was determined as previously described [20].
Analysis of FcγRIIIa gene polymorphism
The analysis of the F/V polymorphism was performed essentially as previously described [21].
MBL gene polymorphism
Variants of MBL due to mutations at codon 52 (D), 54 (B), and 57 (C) in exon 1 of the MBL gene and promotor variants at position -550 (H/L) and -221 (X/Y) were determined by allele-specific PCR amplification, essentially as described before [9]. The wild-type structural allele is designated A, while 0 is a description of the mutant alleles B, C, and D. Based on previously described associations between MBL genotype and serum concentrations, which were confirmed in our 200 healthy controls, the MBL genotypes were divided into three groups. Group 1 (MBL-low) consisted of patients with two structural mutant alleles (0/0) or on one haplotype a structural mutant allele together with another haplotype containing an LX promoter and the wild-type structural allele (ALX/0). Group 2 (MBL-intermediate) consisted of patients with the promoters LX conferring low serum MBL on both haplotypes but with normal structural alleles (ALX/ALX), or, alternatively, haplotypes with one mutant and one wild-type structural allele with a non-LX promoter together with the wild-type allele. Group 3 (MBL-high) included patients with the A/A genotype and at least one non-LX promoter.
IL-1Ra gene polymorphism
Genetic polymorphism in the IL-1Ra gene was determined with a PCR essentially as previously described [13,22], although one primer was modified.
Primers: 5'-CTC AGC AAC ACT CCT AT-3'
The amplified fragment size depends on the number of repeats (two repeats, designated allele 2; three, allele 4; four, allele 1; five, allele 3; six, allele 5).
Two group comparison tests were performed using the Fisher exact test. Comparisons between multiple groups were made using the χ2 multiple comparison test. Significance was considered when P <0.05. Correction for multiple comparisons was not applied to the results, because the study design consisted in hypothesis testing. The presence of synergistic interaction between genetic variants was investigated by calculating relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI) [23].
A strong association between the HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 haplotype and SLE was found, although this haplotype also was common among the controls. HLA DR2 was present in 50 of the 143 SLE patients and 72 of the 200 controls, while DR4 frequencies were 45/143 and 72/200, respectively. In the SLE group, HLA DQ2 was present in 80 of 143 cases, while DQ3 and DQ6 was recorded in 60 of 143 and 85 of 143 cases, respectively. The corresponding numbers in the control group were for DQ2, 73/200; for DQ3, 100/200; and for DQ6, 112/200. Other DR and DQ variants were less common. Ninety percent of the SLE patients with HLA DR3 displayed the haplotype DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0, compared with 86% of the controls. The frequencies of the FcγRIIa, FcγRIIIa, MBL, and IL-1Ra genotypes are displayed in Fig. 1. The FcγRIIa R/R, FcγRIIIa F/F, IL-1Ra 2/2, and MBL-low genotypes were not individually associated with SLE.
thumbnailFigure 1. Distribution of genetic variants studied in 143 patients with SLE and 200 healthy blood donors. DR3 represents the haplotype DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0. F, phenylalanine; H, histidine; Int, intermediate; MBL, mannan-binding lectin; R, arginine; V, valine.
Additionally, the combination of genetic variants and susceptibility to SLE was tested (Table 2). HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 in combination with FcγRIIa R/R, FcγRIIIa F/F, or MBL-low was still associated with SLE but did not significantly increase the odds ratio (OR) in comparison with HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 alone. A combination of FcγRIIa R/R and IL-1Ra 2/2 yielded a strong association with SLE (OR 11.8), although the confidence interval was wide (1.5–95.4). Testing of RERI did not confirm the hypothesis that this interaction was synergistic (RERI 11.1, 95% CI -13.8 – 36.1, P = 0.38). A combined analysis of carriage rates for the R allele and the 2 allele (i.e. the patient should have at least one R allele and one 2 allele) was also performed, but no significant difference was detected between the SLE and the control group. No other combination displayed any association with SLE.
Table 2. Comparisons of genetic variants in 143 patients with SLE and 200 healthy blood donors
The increasing number of reports on polymorphic genes involved in susceptibility to SLE prompted us to investigate whether a combination of polymorphic candidate genes, tentatively thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of SLE, could further elucidate the genetic basis of the disease. In the present study we found that the combination of the FcγRIIa R/R genotype with the IL-1Ra 2/2 genotype was strongly associated with SLE. Although only a few of the patients had this particular genetic background, the results indicate that certain combinations of susceptibility genes can be of crucial importance. Furthermore, a strong association between the haplotype HLA DR3-DQ2-C4AQ0 and susceptibility to SLE was seen in this study, which is in concordance with the findings of previous studies [2,22,24,25]. The patients and controls studied were all from a homogeneous Caucasian population, although a possible bias exists in the fact that the controls used were blood donors, which principally include only healthy individuals, instead of age-matched controls from the normal population. The distributions of the polymorphic variants in the controls were in agreement with data published by others [13,26,27].
There have been ample studies on the association between FcγRIIa and SLE [24,28-30]. However, the results are somewhat conflicting regarding whether or not the R allele is associated with increased susceptibility to SLE in general or for SLE glomerulonephritis or other clinical manifestations of SLE. In our study, there was no association between either the R allele or the R/R genotype and susceptibility to SLE, with a glomerulonephritis frequency of 27%.
The MBL genotype did not seem to be involved in susceptibility to SLE in our Caucasian cohort. This differs from a finding of a recent meta-analysis in which MBL variant alleles were found to be associated with SLE [27]. Furthermore, in that study the conclusion was drawn that several studies are too small to detect an increased SLE susceptibility dependent on MBL risk alleles, which could also explain the lack of association in our study.
An increased carriage rate of the 2 allele of the IL-1Ra gene has been shown for SLE patients [13,14]. In our study, the 2/2 genotype in conjunction with the FcγRIIa R/R genotype was associated with SLE. This IL-1Ra genotype is associated with higher IL-1 beta concentrations as well as higher serum IL-1Ra levels [31,32]. Furthermore, immune complex binding to Fc receptors can influence the production of IL-1Ra [33], which provides a possibility for a pathogenetic mechanism concordant with the genetic interaction seen in our study. Analyses of disease phenotypes were beyond the scope of this study and will be addressed in future studies. However, there were no apparent associations between the various genotypes and clinical subsets of SLE. Because of the low number of patients included in the study, the results must be interpreted cautiously, and independent confirmation is needed.
Our findings suggest that the combination of the FcγRIIa R/R and IL-1Ra 2/2 genotypes is associated with SLE in Caucasian patients, whereas individually these genotypes do not increase susceptibility to the disease. This finding illustrates that combinations of polymorphic genes may act in concert in the pathogenesis of SLE, a concept that may be instrumental in the analysis of the genetics of SLE as well as providing hypotheses for pathways in the pathogenesis of lupus.
Competing interests
None declared.
Author contributions
AJ was responsible for data analysis and interpretation and wrote the report.
AAB contributed to the data analysis and interpretation.
GS and LT were both responsible for the planning of the work and contributed to data analysis, interpretation, and write-up.
ACR = American College of Rheumatology; F = phenylalanine; FcγRIIa = Fcγ receptor IIa; FcγRIIIa = Fcγ receptor IIIa; H = histidine; IL-1Ra = interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; MBL = mannan-binding lectin; MBL-low/-intermediate/-high = MBL genotype conferring a low/intermediate/high serum concentration of MBL; MHC = major histocompatibility complex; OR = odds ratio; PCR = polymerase chain reaction; R = arginine; RERI = relative excess risk due to interaction; SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus; V = valine.
We thank Mrs Birgitta Gullstrand and Mrs Gertrud Hellmer for their skilful work with the genetic typing and Jonas Björk, PhD, for valuable statistical aid. The study was supported by grants from the Swedish Rheumatism Association, the Swedish Research Council (grant nos. 13489 and 15092), the Medical Faculty of the University of Lund, Alfred Österlund's Foundation, The Crafoord Foundation, Greta and Johan Kock's Foundation, The King Gustaf V's 80th Birthday Fund, Lund University Hospital and Prof Nanna Svartz' Foundation
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Elegy (EP)
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Cover design by Stefan Heilemann
EP by Leaves' Eyes
Released 2 May 2005
Recorded Mastersound Studio, Fellbach/Stuttgart, Germany, 2005
Genre Symphonic metal
Length 25:01
Label Napalm
Producer Alexander Krull
Leaves' Eyes chronology
Vinland Saga
Elegy is a Maxi single/EP by symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes,[1] released on 2 May 2005.[2] Almost all vocals are by the Norwegian singer Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by her husband Alexander Krull. The song "Elegy" is taken from the then upcoming album Vinland Saga, and a further track from that album, "Solemn Sea" is also included in demo form. The rest of the tracks are exclusive to this release, but unlike the following EP Legend Land, they do not share the Vinland theme.
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Liv Kristine, all music composed by Alexander Krull, Thorsten Bauer, Mathias Röderer & Christopher Lukhaup.
No. Title Length
1. "Elegy" (single version) 4:33
2. "Senses Capture" 4:58
3. "A Winter's Poem" 4:06
4. "Solemn Sea" (demo version) 3:47
5. "Mot fjerne land" (Towards the Faraway Land) 2:28
6. "Elegy" (album version) 5:06
Total length:
Leaves' Eyes[edit]
• Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Alexander Krull at Mastersound Studios
• Assistant recording engineers: Mathias Röderer, Thorsten Bauer, Chris Lukhaup, Robert Suß
Year Chart Position
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Microsoft's Sorry about Online Segregation
Microsoft has restored a black businessman to its Polish website and offered "sincere apologies" for replacing him with a grinning white guy, using Photoshop MS Paint.
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Confused about the whole Late Night situation? Let Taiwan get you up to speed by turning Zucker, Leno, and Conan into brawling animated superheroes. Gruh?
This animation, while awesome, is completely superfluous. When they did Tiger Woods a few months ago, it served a purpose. People wanted to know what happened, and Taiwan was there to fan the flames of wild conjecture with a re-enactment of Tiger's car accident.
This video, however, begs a few questions. First, why do Taiwanese people care about who gets The Tonight Show? And second...why does everybody turn into a superhero? Jeff Zucker as Captain America? More like Professor Jerk! And why would a superhero need to hit someone with a chair? So many questions! Get Taiwan on the phone!
Maybe Taiwan will animate every American scandal for the rest of eternity?
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Even newborn chicks know Escher's staircases are impossible
It turns out that the impossible buildings and bizarre objects dreamed up by artists like M.C. Escher tap into an incredibly primal understanding of the world's geometry, a knowledge that is hard-wired into all vertebrates, including newly hatched chickens.
Because scientists can kind of be jerks when they really want to know something, a bunch of researchers at Italy's University of Trento decided to test how newborn chicks reacted to impossible shapes - specifically, the Necker cube, in which the front and back corners overlap in a way that is impossible in our 3D world. The researchers kept 66 chicks in total darkness for the first 24 hours after they hatched, just to make absolutely sure they had no prior visual experience before undergoing the experiment.
The chicks were then placed in a small enclosure with drawings of two cubes on the other side. One of the outlines was of a normal cube while the other depicted an impossible cube. Two-thirds of the chicks approached the normal cube, suggesting the chicks had, on average, a natural affinity for objects that could actually exist in the natural world, which of course means they have a sense of that hardwired into their brains.
Previous studies have already shown babies as young as four months can distinguish between images that can and can't exist, but this takes things rather a bit further by suggesting that not only is this perception built into newborn brains, but this facility is actually possessed by all vertebrates.
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The science of human tails
Some hold with the theory that the development of an embryo shows the stages of evolution. In other words, what first develops is fishlike, and then like a small mammal, and then like a lemur or ape, and then something we would recognize as human. Very early embryos have what look like little gill slits in the beginning of their development. At about four weeks, embryos have a little tail. At around six to twelve weeks, the white blood cells dissolve the tail, and the fetus develops into an average, tail-less baby... most of the time, at least. Every now and again, we get a little extra bit of baby, in the form of a vestigial tail.
Not all things that look like tails - protrusions from the tailbone - actually are what doctors consider "true" tails. There are a number of growths or cysts that can form right on the tip of the tailbone. Some of the more unpleasant options are large tumors, elongation of the existing vertebrae, and even parasitic twin tissue. (A parasitic twin is not a fully-formed twin, but the product of another fertilized egg that somehow became fused with the embryo and never developed into a full human being.) True tails form when the white blood cells, for whatever reason, don't absorb all the tissue that formed during embryonic development. These babies carry the marks of humans earliest ancestors.
The science of human tails
Because there are only between 20 and 30 cases of "true" vestigial tails since the late 1800s, there is some controversy about what such a tail contains. Some early accounts say that there are sometimes extra vertebrae in such tails. No modern tails have been found to have any bone tissue. They're mostly skin with fat, connective tissue, nerves, and muscle tissue. They can be just a stub, but some babies can be born with tails 13 centimeters long. The tails aren't strictly useless inert structures. Because they have muscle tissue inside, they can actually be twitched back and forth, or even contracted into curves. These days babies don't have their tails long enough to gain a lot of muscle control over them. Removing them is a simple operation, usually done not long after birth.
What remains are questions of why these tails grow in the first place. They're rare enough that researchers aren't left with many clues. Researchers have, for the most part, ruled out family history - which throws the science of the X-Files episode I got the top image from right out the window. The tails are associated with spina bifida, a dangerous condition in which the canals of the spinal cord don't entire close before birth, but they are often present without the disorder. And for some reason they're twice in common in males as they are in females. In the end, no one knows why some babies just develop tails. (Besides, gills are much more practical.)
Image: Popular Science Monthly
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Underrated state school in New Jersey. Better then montclair state and getting up there with rutgers.
William Paterson University
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This school is definitely not known for its strong academic standards, and the kids who go here hardly made 1000 on their SATs, if at all. Although it can be fun from time to time because drinking and smoking is huge in the dorms, and there's the occasional frat party (they kick ass in the beginning of the year, then die down), the weekends are boring because most people go home to work or they're just bored. If more people stayed on campus, it wouldn't be so boring, NOW would it??
The kids here weren't the brightest of the bunch in HS (besides me - top 10% of my class, what what!). They don't even know who William Paterson was, or what a Pioneer (our mascot) is. However, most of them are kick ass and chill people who know how to have a good time when they want to.
William Paterson is a party school, a step above community college, five steps below your average state school.
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Teen receives juvenile sentence for sex crimes
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A Bedford teen, who pleaded no contest to four counts of aggravated sexual battery will face juvenile penalties for his crime.
The charges against Joshua Lovell, now 15, stem from incidents that occurred with two young girls, ages 2 and 3, who were under the care of his mother. Direct indictments landed Lovell in Bedford County Circuit Court, rather than Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, where he was tried as an adult.
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Wes Nance called the victims' parents to the stand.
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Bug Spray + Stickum = Less Pollution
Developments to Watch
Pesticides are a cornerstone of modern agriculture, but they can wreak environmental havoc. The chemicals wash into streams, kill beneficial bugs, and eventually fail when insects develop resistance to them. So scientists are searching for new ways to fight voracious pests. At the Agriculture Dept.'s Agricultural Research Service lab in Peoria, researchers have perfected one promising approach.
The idea is simple: Mix insecticides with starch or corn flour to produce tiny, gooey lumps. Unlike pesticides that quickly wash off the plants they are supposed to protect, these sticky granules "will adhere to foliage even in a rainstorm," says Michael McGuire, an Agriculture Dept. researcher. As a result, farmers will need to spray far less of the chemical on their fields--and less will run off to pollute groundwater or rivers. In addition, scientists can add insect attractants to the mixture, so the pesticide will act as a bait, making it even more effective. So far, Dow Chemical, American Cyanamid, and Ecogen have agreed to license the method.EDITED BY WILLIAM D. MARBACH AND NAOMI FREUNDLICH
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Kelsey Grammer's 'Boss' Performance: What the Critics Are Saying
Chuck Hodes
Kelsey Grammer returns to TV in Starz's Boss Friday at 10 p.m.
And the critics have given their opinion on the actor's performance as the mayor of Chicago in the new drama. Here's a hint: it's all good.
The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman writes that Grammer delivers "a stunning, eye-opening dramatic turn as Tom Kane, the ruthless mayor of Chicago -- a modern King Lear with a crushing secret," which he calls the arrival of Starz.
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"The last time an actor known for sitcoms took the television world completely by surprise was Bryan Cranston, and he went on to win three consecutive Emmys for best actor and turn Breaking Bad into a show everybody talked about and fawned over."
"There is something essentially likable about Kelsey Grammer as a performer," says the LA Times. "That broad scholar-like forehead, the strong jaw and mild blue eyes all conspire to create the image of a sometimes bumbling but still powerful guy, best embodied by his most lasting character, Frasier Crane. This ability to project opposing forces is one reason Grammer has been so successful in comedy — he can play the fool and still remain an alpha male. It's also why he is now able to breathe life into Frasier Crane's hard-hearted doppelganger, Chicago MayorTom Kane, who is the centerpiece of Starz's new political drama Boss."
STORY: Starz Renews Kelsey Grammer's 'Boss' Ahead of Drama's Premiere
Cinema Blend says, "you won't find much to laugh about in Grammer's new role, however he does deliver a fantastic performance as Mayor Tom Kane," adding, "Grammer is fantastic as the stony mayor, who is now a bit unstable and perhaps frustrated and disappointed to learn that his health is slipping away. Grammer plays Kane as a man who is very much alone in his problems, despite being surrounded by people who would be there to help him if he let them in on his secret."
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While the New York Daily News writes "Imagine if Tony Soprano had run Chicago instead of the Jersey mob, and you'll get some idea what to expect in "Boss," a hard-boiled new drama that catapults Kelsey Grammer into a different universe from Frasier Crane."
"Boss is a fascinating departure for the beloved actor, someone with personal demons, as his many fans probably realize," opines Newsday's Verne Gay. "There's something in this portrayal -- he's effectively channeling the Daley dynasty in Chicago as "mayor for life" -- that is unique to anything he's ever done. "Visceral" is a word you'll probably see a little too much of in relation to it, but visceral it is."
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Quarterback A.J. McCarron, anticipating '16-35,' goes 164th in NFL draft
Ex-Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, expecting to go in first round of NFL draft, forced to wait until fifth
McCarron is picked by Cincinnati, where Andy Dalton is entering the final season of his rookie contract.
McCarron was one of nine quarterbacks selected Saturday.
If you think Johnny Manziel had an agonizing wait in the NFL draft, consider the case of former Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron.
McCarron, who thought he'd probably go around the mid- to late first round, saw Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 slide by until the Cincinnati Bengals made him the 164th pick in the fifth.
McCarron had nothing but success at Alabama, winning two national championships and going 36-4 as a starter. He was runner-up to the 2013 Heisman Trophy. During his pre-draft team visits, he told ESPN that "pretty much everyone so far" had given him a first-round grade, and that evaluators "felt like I could go anywhere from 16-35. I believe that, too. At the same time, I don't want to have my hopes set on anything. Whatever happens, happens. It's a blessing for me to even be in this situation."
That's one of the perils of the draft. McCarron reportedly came off as arrogant in interviews with teams and rubbed people the wrong way. Regardless, he's in a good situation in Cincinnati, where starter Andy Dalton is entering the final season of his rookie contract, and the Bengals are loaded with talented receivers.
So the state of Ohio has two rookie quarterbacks who slid further than they expected, McCarron in Cincinnati and Manziel in Cleveland, and who have veterans in front of them, so aren't under pressure to start immediately.
McCarron was one of nine quarterbacks selected Saturday.
Big step up
Every draft pick has a back-story, and Pierre Desir's is unusual. The cornerback from Lindenwood University, a Division II school in Missouri, who was selected by Cleveland in the fourth round at No. 127 overall, was born in Haiti and spent his early years there before immigrating with his family to the U.S. He'll be 24 when the season starts, and he and his wife are raising two daughters, ages 3 and 7. He won the Cliff Harris Award, given to the small college defensive player of the year.
Razor's edge
Whether it was at USC or in Seattle, Pete Carroll wants his players to push the limits on the field, not just to play until the sound of the whistle but through the echo of the whistle. As a result, his teams are tough, yet usually rank among the most penalized. In that sense, UCLA defensive end Cassius Marsh was an ideal pick for the Seahawks, who selected him in the fourth round (108).
Last fall, in a Times story comparing USC and UCLA players, an anonymous scout said of Marsh: "He plays with his hair on fire. Guy's all over the place. He's always on the verge of personal fouls. That can cause problems if a guy doesn't know how to control himself, but you want a guy that's relentless and is trying to make plays."
Marsh was one of three Bruins selected Saturday. The New York Jets chose receiver Shaquelle Evans in the fourth round and the Pittsburgh Steelers took linebacker Jordan Zumwalt in the sixth. UCLA had a total of five players drafted, including linebacker Anthony Barr in the first round by the Minnesota Vikings.
Linebacker Devon Kennard, selected by the New York Giants in the fifth round, was the only USC player chosen Saturday. USC had three players selected in the draft. Safety Dion Bailey, tight end Xavier Grimble and defensive lineman George Uko, who left USC with a year of eligibility remaining, were not drafted.
A tall order
With Arizona drafting 6-foot-6, 248-pound Logan Thomas of Virginia Tech in the fourth round, Cardinals Coach Bruce Arians will continue his tradition of bringing along huge quarterbacks. That tradition includes Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Carson Palmer, all 6-5. Then again, those quarterbacks were drafted No. 1, No. 11, and No. 1, respectively.
Cleaning up
The Edward Jones Dome will look mighty familiar to Mo Alexander, a Utah State safety taken in the fourth round by the St. Louis Rams. That's because Alexander once worked as a janitor at that stadium.
His is more complicated than a typical Cinderella story, though. Alexander didn't play football in 2012 because he punched a teammate at a party and was sentenced to a year in jail. All but 45 days of that sentence were suspended, but Alexander was kicked off the team, and spent part of his time on the dome's cleaning crew. He was reinstated before last season.
Of his year away from school, Alexander said: "It made me the man I am today. It's a lesson learned. Me and my teammate, we're great friends, it was a mistake. The Rams organization, they know about it, and it made me a better man today."
Brawn and brains
Defensive tackle Caraun Reid, selected in the fifth round by Detroit, became the first Princeton player in the modern era to be drafted in the first five rounds. He impressed scouts at the Senior Bowl, at one point notching sacks on consecutive plays.
In the fourth, the New York Giants took Boston College running back Andre Williams, whose college teammates nicknamed him "Edgar," as in Edgar Allan Poe, because of his penchant for writing. Williams is a poet who's working on a book called, "A King, a Queen, and a Conscience."
The biggest brain could be John Urschel, the Penn State guard taken in the fifth round by Baltimore. Not only did he graduate in three years with a 4.0 as a math major, but he has one master's degree in math, is working on a second in math education, and taught two math classes at Penn State.
His Twitter handle? @MathMeetsFBall.
In an interview with ESPN, Philadelphia Coach Chip Kelly explained why he prefers to draft players who have graduated, or are on track to graduate, as opposed to ones who left school early.
"No. 1, I think it shows you the intelligence factor, and No. 2, it shows that they're committed to establishing goals and following through on their goals," Kelly told the network. "You're face some adversity, whether it's in school or on the football field. You've got a bunch of driven guys, and that's evidence that they are driven. It shows you what we're looking for here, that combination of mental toughness and that high football intelligence."
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First mainland mother to sneak in by plane is jailed
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 19 September, 2012, 12:00am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 19 September, 2012, 1:59pm
The first pregnant mainland woman arrested for sneaking into the city by plane and giving birth at the last minute was jailed yesterday.
The Immigration Department said it would improve communications with airlines after Ye Qianfeng, 26, was sentenced at Sha Tin Court to eight months in prison for giving a false statement and presenting false documents.
She gave birth to a boy in a Hong Kong hospital while she was under investigation.
It means her son, whose father is also a mainlander, is legally entitled to right of abode.
Fung Tai-kwong, assistant principal immigration officer, said there was no indication that more women were taking planes to the city to give birth.
He said: "We believe there is a chance the airline was deceived by her falsified documents. We will have more communications with airlines and hope they will pay more attention."
Ye arrived at Hong Kong international airport from Guangzhou on August 29, but was intercepted. She told immigration officers she was 28 weeks pregnant and presented a mainland hospital document as proof.
But officers found from the records that she was denied entry once in June at Lo Wu border checkpoint. At that time, she told officers her expected delivery date was September 5. She gave birth to her son on September 8. During the investigation she admitted she was 38 weeks pregnant and had bought the falsified document from an unknown woman for 100 yuan (HK$122).
It is understood Ye has not yet applied for a birth certificate.
Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said this month that the government had invited a Queen's Counsel to advise on how to reverse a law that automatically grants right of abode to all babies born to mainland parents in the city.
In the first eight months of this year, entry was denied to about 3,000 mainland women trying to sneak into the city to give birth, up from about 2,000 in the whole of last year. Eleven were rejected at the airport.
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well done/these are all angels so all the hk departments dont dare to check these angels/any mistake from them no body in hk can see/if this person is from south east asia then there is list rules will come out.racist SAR
@likingming After 2047 it's likely that HK will have its charter extended another 50 years, albeit with some unilateral tweaks by Beijing. Why change something that isn't broken? The legal system in HK works very well and everyone knows it. It's far more pragmatic to just leave things the way they are. In the meantime though, there will be further economic integration with the mainland.
They will change it by 2047 if the majority of HK still think they are British colonial subjects and do not embrace their Nationality which is Chinese and also if they always fight against everything no matter what comes from the Mainland. Extension of the 1 country 2 systems? It seems this will come to an end if the HKners still behave like children given a tool (political rights) in hand which they are not able to use thoroughly. They have already more than they ever had have and more than any other Chinese have in the Mainland and playing around like doofs with it (yelling and throwing bananas in the Ledco, disturbing discussions, unconstructive protests, violent demonstrations, paranoia). Imagine giving them the whole stuff. They would probably voting the British Colony back to be colonial subjects without any political rights, just because they do not want to be labelled as Chinese.
We have 50 years of unchange promised by Peking. Now 15 yrs lapsed. That means all mainlanders will automatically have right of abode 35 yrs later. That 35 yrs period may even be shortened by a decade taken into account that everything, laws & regulations etc, will have to be compromised beforehand. Even a boy born today in the mainland can come and live here when he grows up. But we have no worry that 1.3b chinese will come as long as other major mainlander cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peking, Hangzhou, keep their present attractiveness and are much better in most aspects when compared to Hong Kong.
Reversing right of abode laws for people born here is a slippery slope. Will we end up with stateless people as refugees? If people born here do not get right of abode, what nation will take them in? Will this only apply to children of mainland parents? What about other nationalities living here legally? With HK's indigenous birth rate below replacement levels, a better policy would be to let in a fixed number of pregnant women and let them and their offspring stay. HK allows in, what, 150 people each day from China no questions asked? Let these 150 be expectant parents so HK's population can be maintained.
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Data Bars – Feedback Please
Today’s author: Scott Ruble, the program manager who leads the charting and visualization efforts in Excel. Scott is looking for some feedback on potential changes to data bar behaviour.
Excel 2007 has a conditional formatting feature that graphically displays bars in a cell to represent the value of the cell. This feature is called Data Bars. You can see an example of this by using the following steps:
1. In Excel 2007, enter 1, 2, 3 in cells A1, A2, and A3 respectively.
2. Select cells A1:A3.
3. From the “Home†tab, click on the “Conditional Formatting†button and select one of the “Data Bar†color options.
You should get something that looks like the following.
For future releases of Excel, we are assessing making some modifications to how Data Bars are displayed, and we would like to get some feedback from the community.
For each of the four sample data sets below, please leave a comment and describe how you would like to see the bars displayed. Please consider things such as bar length, differentiation between the bars, color, fill and other aspects you feel are important. For bar length, you can represent this by typing vertical bars in the blog comments to represent each unit of length. For example, using the 1, 2, 3 data set from above, this could be shown as:
Or you can just describe your thoughts using words – whatever makes the most sense. Thanks for your time and thoughts. 
Scenario 1 – data values contain a zero
Scenario 2 – data values are spaced far apart
Scenario 3 – data values are closely spaced
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Commons talk:Licensing/Archive 4
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"Photographs of normal people who have not given their consent".[edit]
Are there exceptions for crowds at e.g. protests. I took these photos and want to upload it to commons for w:February 15, 2003 anti-war protest. -- Jeandré, 2006-05-07t09:19z
Initially I'd say it's ok because it is not any person that is the subject of the photo, but the crowd. Most people are also slightly disguised with sunglasses/caps (except one notable exception of the girl on the bottom right). If your photos have a much higher resolution, I'd suggest decreasing it into a size not much greater than the one on the linked page. So upload it. Possibly someone will nominated it for deletion afterwards, but we'll deal with that then... / Fred Chess 09:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I would say it's 100% fine at any res. If you're choosing to participate in a rally, you're choosing to make yourself a public figure. pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes in this case you're really safe uploading this picture in any resolution (so upload as high resolution as possible) as in case of a demonstration you're almost automatically a temporarily important person for the duration of the demonstration (another example would be if you save the life of another person people are allowed to publish pictures about that without your consent). In Germany for example this term is accurately called "relative Person der Zeitgeschichte" and is explicitly written down in laws. I very sure that very similar law terms exist in many other nations. Arnomane 12:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Can we add "People protesting" under Commons:Licensing#Checklist Questionable, may or may not be OK:, and add ", unless at a protest" to "Photographs of normal people who have not given their consent" under Definitely not OK? -- Jeandré, 2006-05-21t10:41z
I've uploaded an image that I wonder if it might be a problem: Image:CommonGroundLow9t10Jan06A.jpg While the people were not intended to be the subject of the photo and it was taken from a public street, the faces of two people are visable and I did not get any explicit permission to use their images. Should I delete this image, and perhaps reupload it with the figures at the right cropped out? -- Infrogmation 11:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd call it a borderline case - the faces are small and dark, and if this is some type of "domonstration", the image would be ok anyway. Also, images taken in public in the US are generally ok, even if faces can be recognizable, afaik (the EU has tricter rules). But anyway - maybe just ask? -- Duesentrieb(?!) 11:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Consent: do we need the subject's consent in writing? Rklawton 02:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
What about public performances? I never considered performers to be "normal people"... On a related note, I'd list "People protesting" under the "street performances" category. Also, I think the privacy laws in the U.S. are really minimal. Rklawton 02:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Russia: the rules listed for Russia seem to apply to government produced material. What are the rules regarding public/private property/people? Rklawton 02:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Are the "no private people" in public rules really that strict in the U.S.? I thought the U.S. had a pretty much "all is fair" policy for any person (private or otherwise) appearing in a public place. Can someone point me to further reading on this? Rklawton 02:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I read the external link to Krages' page on photographer's rights, and it seems that in the U.S. private people can be photographed in public places (restrooms, etc., do not count as public places). I realize this significantly differs from the EU. The policy regarding "normal persons" without consent appears unnecessarily restrictive - at least as far as the U.S. goes. Is Wikimedia setting a higher standard, or is this just an oversight? Rklawton 03:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• I think this part of the policy is overly strict. I do not know the laws of all countries around the world, but in the US (where our main servers are based), you may photograph any person in any public place at any time, without any consent from them. I would like to remove this line from the policy. Johntex 15:11, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Soviet images[edit]
Please see Template talk:PD-Soviet... Lupo 09:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Image:Wilson opening day 1916.jpg[edit]
When reading given link to congress page and rights link there is says:
So no for commons? But image is quite old, does it belong to {{pd-old}}?
Those terms of use are clearly not compatible with commons policy. It could be PD because of age, if the photographer has been dead for more than 70 years (PD-old), or it has first been published in the US before 1923 (PD-US); the latter seems likely, but PD-US has come under debate time and time agin, because it's unclear if works that are in the public domain in the US, and where first published in the US, are automatically PD world wide. For one such debate, see #Which_copyright_law_applies? above. -- Duesentrieb(?!) 15:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
If published in the United States before 1923, "PD-US" is appropriate. I presume the LOC disclaimer is their standard text for their collection of photos of various ages. When an image such as this is already in the public domain, the association of the image with such text does not change the PD-US status of the image. -- Infrogmation 18:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
This particular image is OK. If you go to the LoC's image description page, you'll see that they state "no known restrictions on publication", which is their usual way of saying "we've looked at this item's copyright status and we think it's PD". Tag as {{PD-LOC}} (which needs rephrasing, though; see its talk page). Lupo 11:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
To Düsentrieb: pre-1923 images are PD in the U.S., but not necessarily in other countries. For instance, Germany has had a bilateral treaty with the U.S. governing copyright since January 15, 1892. That treaty, which is still in effect, defined that a U.S. work was copyrighted in Germany according to German law irrespective of the work's copyright status in the U.S, and it did not contain a "rule of the shorter term". In one case, a German court therefore decided that a U.S. work that had fallen into the public domain in the U.S. was still copyrighted in Germany in 2003. (That case is about a post-1923 work, though.) Lupo 11:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify: I believe U.S. works that were published before 1923 are in the public domain in other countries where the rule of the shorter term applies. The problem with Germany is that apparently that rule does not apply there (despite §7(1) of the EU Copyright Directive) because that old bilateral treaty is still in force. I don't know what other bilateral copyright treaties of the U.S. with other countries defined. Lupo 13:24, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Questions: attributions and commercial use[edit]
• I'm having a hard time determining with any degree of certainty whether any of the Commons-compatible licenses require original author attributions for all derivative works. If I'm forced to use a free license, I'd at least want attributions for derivative works that substantially resemble the original. (i.e., I don't want somebody to make barely noticeable changes and then claim the work for themselves.) Does “Attribution share alike 2.5” do this?
• The commercial use requirement doesn't make much sense to me, frankly. I'd prefer to license my images for use on Wikipedia and for Wikipedia-specific related projects only. For example, a license that allows for Wiki print editions and non-English Wiki use, but does NOT allow a commercial travel agency to use my images in brochures or other marketing material without my explicit permission. What's the rationale for requiring completely free licensing, as opposed to a license that allows for Wikipedia and related entities only?
Thank you -- moondigger 01:02, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Quite a few sites flat out copy Wikipedia's content. Once these sites figure out how to copy images while maintaining attribution and licensing information, many will do that as well. The idea is to contribute to human knowledge for use in any way. Limiting use to Wikipedia would defeat that purpose. At least, them's my two bits. Believe me, I ain't doin' this for the love of JimBo. Rklawton 04:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Moondigger: Attribution ShareAlike would suit you, yes. Or GFDL. GFDL explicitly requires a history of revisions to be kept. But I personally recommend Creative Commons.
To understand the importance of allowing commercial use, I suggest you read this post by Jimbo: [1]. pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Rklawton and Pfctdayelise: Thank you for your replies. A few points in response.
I'm in total agreement on the "contribute to human knowledge..." idea. Heck, that's why I'm willing to license my writing on Wikipedia under GFDL. I have deep knowledge on some topics and shallow (but useful) knowledge on many others. Much of that knowledge was obtained for free, and I have no qualms about giving back. However, when it comes to my photographs, things are a little different. First, because in most cases they aren't really 'rote knowledge' per se; they're artistic expressions. Second, because quite frankly it isn't the poor that will benefit from free commercial licensing of them; it's unscrupulous, already 'rich' (by most standards) established businesses that are most likely to grab them and throw them into a brochure or advertisement that serves not to increase human knowledge, but to effect maximum profit without fair compensation to the creator of the image.
Now, if this all seems just a little bit cynical, I apologize. My cynicism is based on real-life considerations.
In the end I realize that the Wiki policy requiring free commercial licensing of photographic images will not be changed simply because I want it to. But because of that, the photographs I contribute will be considerably lower resolution than my originals. They'll serve perfectly well as visual illustrations on the articles they adorn, but I'm sure-as-heck not going to make it easy for somebody to build a full-page ad out of one.
Thanks again for your input. --moondigger 06:10, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Bingo. I do that and use the ShareAlike license (2.5). I either get free advertising, or I get paid. Rklawton 07:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
while we of course prefer high resolution images, you aproach is perfectly legit. -- Duesentrieb(?!) 08:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
At first. Licenses like CC-BY-SA require to name the authors. That said if someone absolutely wants to make a bad modification to some image of you he has to state all authors (also himself) and that way people can see that it is not you who is responsible for that bad image.
The next point is if Mr. Foobar wants to print your images on a magazine everyone is allowed to do the same and of course he also needs to give every interested person a digital copy of that very content. I am sure that normal magazine people don't want such a deal. They ask for "usual conditions" and "how much $".
And of course who makes the best reuse of Wikimedia content? I'd say commercial projects rooted in the community. The German Wikipedia DVD and topic books out of de.wikipedia content were only possible because some enthusiastic people including an enthusiastic company just wanted it. See de:Wikipedia:Wikipedia-Distribution and de:Wikipedia:WikiPress. For example I have compiled a book about the solar system, see de:Wikipedia:WikiReader/Sonnensystem (full PDF version is downloadable there of course too). So I really see the high value of free modification that gives me the power of creativity doing something cool which wasn't initially anticipated.
And of course there's one central sentence "Assume good faith"... Arnomane 09:25, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I very much agree with Moondigger here. Many able photographers won't publish under a totally free licence, because they are either on principle against others making a profit from their work, or, more likely, want to have a share if profit is being made from their work. As a result the quality of images (and works in general) on the commons suffer because of that insistence on always allowing for-profit use. Jensbn 12:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
But noncommercial images seem to be allowed now: See Template:Deletion_requests#Image:Vigeland_stampvoetend_jochie.jpg - this image can not be used commercially, but is still kept at Commons. Does the keeping of this NC image imply that NC images now are allowed at Commons? Kjetil_r 18:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
The problem in this case is: where does this restriction come from? Does the creator of the sculpture have a right to the image? If yes, we can not vote about it, we have to ask him. If not, where comes the restriction from then? We need more information about local law. -- Duesentrieb(?!) 20:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Also - a questionable image that was kept after debate does not signify a change in policy. -- Duesentrieb(?!) 20:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Information about the local law? We have. It is linked to from the debate. The use of such an image can not be commercial unless the crator agrees - and he has not agreed.
Why does not this keep signify a policy change - the arguments of the users wanting to keep it were like "I didn't think Wikipedia was commercial?" and "Images on Wikimedia projects are not 'supposed' to be used for commercial purposes". If this debate is ended now with the outcome "kept", it will indirectly say that NC material is allowed. Kjetil_r 22:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I have now raised this issue at Commons:Village_pump#the_keeping_of_a_photo_which_can_not_be_used_commercially - we should discuss it further there. Kjetil_r 23:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
See Template:SocEur. The template claims that (some of) the images from can be used freely, but the website does not mention this. There is a dodgy permission at en:Template talk:SocEur, but I do not really belive that «Mehdi» holds the copyright to the images. Should I list this template and the images using it at Commons:deletion requests? Kjetil_r 00:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
That permission is very unclear, since this is very clear:
"Use of images for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.".
The template must be redirected to {{noncommercial}} Sanbec 09:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
The wikipedia user claims to be the webmaster of, and he does write that some of his images can be freely used.
But I frankly do not belive that he is the sole copyright holder of these images. He refuses to reveal the sources of the images, so I do not think we should accept his images in Commons because of the lack of evidence. Kjetil_r 10:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Goddard Space Flight Center photos PD?[edit]
I'd like to upload some of these pictures on coral bleaching from the Goddard Space Flight Center: for use in the wikipedia coral bleaching and GBR articles. Do these photos fall under {{PDNASA}}??
Follow the "Help" link in the header of the site you mentioned, then click on "Information on using information from this site", and then on "Copyrights and Credits". There, you find the following copyright statement: "Some SVS images produced in collaboration with other labs have distinct copyrights. For those instances, the copyright notices are noted on the page with the image. For all other images obtained from this site, please give credit to: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio." No other lab is mentioned on the pages with the images you are interested in, so I assume them to be NASA-PD. --Vesta 07:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Taken from inside train stations in Germany[edit]
Recently some images from within train station in Germany were kept. But I'm not confident about it, and would like more comments. Here is the deletion debate:
This deletion debate is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
Image:Berlin Hauptbahnhof pano 06.jpg[edit]
Es liegt keine Genehmigung der DB AG vor Marcela 20:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Translation: No permission was given by the German Railway. Shaqspeare 10:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Update: I now do have permission (in fact a release for the image) from Deutsche Bahn AG. Ideally Deletion Request should be terminated, but I guess people are coming up with new reasons every day. I requested a release from the architects. Let's see if they can be bothered to answer, with all the media attention they got. --Dschwen 16:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• It's a public building (open to the general public), no permission is needed from Deutsche Bahn. Keep. Angr 22:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
• Warum sollte man dafür eine brauchen? Keep 06:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• It's an interior of a private building, not a public space (Öffentlicher Raum) as understood by German law. So it isn't a subject of Panoramafreiheit. It's only proper when you stand on public ground. Deutsche Bahn is a company (though still owned by the state). Shaqspeare 10:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Still, we can ask for permission.Shaqspeare 11:11, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Fotos von Bahnhöfen (innen) unterliegen nicht der Panoramafreiheit 13:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Genau, Bahnhofsbilder dürfen nur nach schriftlicher Genehmigung der Deutschen Bahn veröffentlicht werden. Die Meinung, das ein Bahnhof ein "Öffentlicher Platz" ist, ist falsch. Bahnhöfe sind nicht öffentlich, sondern gehören der DB, somit darf (wie in einem privaten Garten) nur nach Genehmigung des Besitzers fotografiert werden. Delete --RvM 06:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• If this and the above case really are a violation of Deutsche Bahn's copyright, then we need a general policy at Commons, not just a vote on these two images. There must be hundreds of photographs of the insides of buildings that will have to be deleted if these count as copyvios. Just to take some examples from the gallery of the nominator, User:Marcela: if these pictures of Berlin Hauptbahnhof are copyvios, then so are the following pictures of his:
1. Image:Sekt-im-supermarkt.jpg
2. Image:Obst-supermarkt.jpg
3. Image:Kaese-supermarkt.jpg
4. Image:Fleischtheke-supermarkt.jpg
5. Image:Fett-supermarkt.jpg
6. Image:Bier-im-supermarkt.jpg
7. Image:Spirituosen-im-supermarkt.jpg
8. Image:Obst-im-supermarkt.jpg
And indeed virtually every picture taken indoors. Angr 20:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes but the supermarket interior is a kind of "trivial work". The station isn't. Shaqspeare 21:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't see that the supermarket interior is any more trivial than the train station. Angr 22:13, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
It is. The way of displaying cheese in the supermarket isn't a subject of copyright in most cases. A photo of it is not recogniseble for both the author and location of what it is depicting - that's why its subject should be classified as trivial. Anybody in any place can put some cheese together in a cupboard. A photo of whole supermarket interior would be of course just the same as the photo of the station. The foto of some cheese is just like a photo of some part of the regular track. Shaqspeare 23:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
What about the REWE logos and the merchandise lables? They sure are not free and there certainly is no "Panoramafreiheit" in a supermarket. --Dschwen 07:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
The REWE logos etc. are a matter of trade marks (Markenzeichen), not copyright. That's an entirely different thing. We're talking about copyright here. And you're right, there is no Panoramafreiheit inside buildings. All German speakers, please read de:Panoramafreiheit and de:Wikipedia:Bilder von fremdem Eigentum before closing the discussion. --Fb78 12:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Trademarks (Markenzeichen) are copyrighted, so they are relevant to this discussion. Photographs of the REWE trademarks and other trademarks are copyvios, regardless of whether they are photographed indoors or outdoors. Angr 22:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Trademarks != Copyright, Angr. Please read some basic information about the topic. --Fb78 10:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Für die Bilder im Supermarkt liegt eine Genehmigung der Geschäftsleitung vor. Yo tengo permiso por los fotos dentro del supermercado REWE Marcela 14:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Keep. This request is close to frivolous. Kph 09:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Keep---Nina- 10:21, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I formally requested permission now. Would have been nice to be notified of this deletion-request in advance anyway... --Dschwen 16:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Please do also consider the architect's copyright in this case. This should be our biggest concern. --Fb78 19:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Keep, await the reply to Dschwen's permission request. (I assume it will be granted) In my opinion there is no further need for discussion as we will doubtlessly have to accept the decision of the DB. ASM 09:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
The architect's copyright are the drawings of the building. Buildings are free to photo and this are a pubilc building too. ---Nina- 10:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
It's obvious you don't know what you are talking about. Buildings are not "free to photo". A building is treated equal to a sculpture or any other work of art: You always need the creator's permission to distribute photos of it. Any architect does hold the copyright to the building created from the plans. See the Louvre Pyramid discussion, see the Atomium discussion. Do you get that?
Now there's one exception to the rule, called de:Panoramafreiheit in German. This exception allows you to publish photos of permanently installed works that are taken from public grounds.
In this case, the picture was not taken from public grounds, but from inside the building, which is private property of the Deutsche Bahn AG. No matter what the Deutsche Bahn AG says about taking pictures of train stations, it is a violation of the architect's copyright. If you say it isn't or just wish it weren't so, you simply don't know what you're talking about. --Fb78 12:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
In my country, Norway you are free to take pictures of buildings: Lovdata § 24. Byggverk kan fritt avbildes. And there are no limitations taking pictures inside the building. But i would put the name of the architect in the photo page. You have the same CONSOLIDATED ACT ON COPYRIGHT 2003* 24.–(3) Buildings may be freely reproduced in pictorial form and then made available to the public.---Nina- 13:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, but the picture was taken in Germany, not in Norway. German UrhG §59 says: "Zulässig ist, Werke, die sich bleibend an öffentlichen Wegen, Straßen oder Plätzen befinden, mit Mitteln der Malerei oder Graphik, durch Lichtbild oder durch Film zu vervielfältigen, zu verbreiten und öffentlich wiederzugeben. Bei Bauwerken erstrecken sich diese Befugnisse nur auf die äußere Ansicht." My translation: "It is allowed with the means of painting, graphics, photography or film to copy, distribute and publish works that are permanently installed at public streets, roads or places. For buildings, this is only vaild for the exterior view." See also de:Panoramafreiheit. --Fb78 13:40, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
So does this in fact mean that no photographs taken indoors in Germany can be used on Commons unless the architect has been dead for at least 70 years? That's going to be a lot of pictures to delete, I think! What about Image:Green-eyed cat.jpg and Image:Angr.jpg? They were both taken indoors in Germany, and I don't know if the architect has been dead for 70 years. Do these images violate the architect's copyright under German law? Angr 22:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Of course not, please use some common sense. The pictures you mentioned do not show the architecture, but a person and a cat. We're talking about pictures that are intented to show the architecture itself. And they're only a problem if the architecture is actually creative enough to be copyrightable. FMany buildings are probably not copyrightable, but the Berlin Hauptbahnhof certainly is. Its architect, gmp, is currently suing the Deutsche Bahn for making changes to their architectural plans - that's a copyright violation as well. --Fb78 10:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
So I don't have to worry if I just say the intent of Image:BlnHauptbahnhof34.jpg is to show a large number of people, a dog, and a train? Angr 15:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
That's not something you decide. If the photographer is sued by the architect, the judge will have to decide whether the image intends to show the architecture or something else. All you can do is guess. Or look for older verdicts that can be used as a reference. Wikipedia is a pretty good start for some basic information on copyright. --Fb78 15:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I am the photographer of Image:BlnHauptbahnhof34.jpg. Angr 19:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
That doesn't matter. The judge won't care what your intention was, she will decide from the picture if it shows copyrighted material or not. --Fb78 10:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• I just got a friendly mail from Deutsche Bahn AG: zu Ihrer u. a. Anfrage erteilen wir Ihnen hiermit gern die Freigabe. Bitte melden, falls Sie darüber hinaus noch ein besonderes Dokument benötigen.. Translation: we happily grant you a release/clearance. And they offer to provide it in writing. Now I'm happy with this email as far as it was DB property I took the picture on. The next mail will go Meinhard von Gerkan. Lets see how he replies. --Dschwen 12:38, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Permission is irrelevant, isn't it? As I understand it, Wikimedia projects can't use copyrighted images "by permission". An image at Commons has to be completely free, not used by permission. Angr 09:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
You are interpreting. Neither did I use the word permission nor did I state it was for Wikimedia Projects exclusively. --Dschwen 16:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I am in doubt that Bahn AG has the right to allow to use the work of the architect to everyone by allowing putting a picture on commons. --Historiograf 20:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Fb78, are you sure that this image counts as an indoor image? I consider it to be outdoors and I wouldn't consider this to be a building -- more like a construction.... Is it a building because it has a roof? Then a bus shelter would be a building. / Fred Chess 11:07, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Kept. — Erin (talk) 08:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Fred Chess 11:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
According to According to Law of 22 April 1941 n. 633, revised by the law of 22 May 2004, n. 128: Article 11 State ownership of copyrights
• Italiano: "Alle amministrazioni dello stato, [al partito nazionale fascista], alle provincie ed ai comuni spetta il diritto di autore sulle opere create e pubblicate sotto il loro nome ed a loro conto e spese." [2]
• English: "Copyright in works created and published under the name and at the expense of the State, the Provinces or the Communes shall belong to them."
(Source: Unesco translation of 2003 version of the statute)
Article 29 concerning duration of copyright for 1) Italian state, province or commune, 2) National Fascist Party, 3) Public Cultural and non profit companies:
• Italiano: "La durata dei diritti esclusivi di utilizzazione economica spettanti, a termini dell'art. 11, alle amministrazioni dello stato, al partito nazionale fascista, alle provincie, ai comuni, alle accademie, agli enti pubblici culturali nonché agli enti privati che non perseguano scopi di lucro, è di vent'anni a partire dalla prima pubblicazione, qualunque sia la forma nella quale la pubblicazione è stata effettuata. [3]"
• English: The duration of the exploitation rights belonging, under art. 11, to the State, the provinces, the communes, the academies or public cultural organizations, or to private legal entities of a non-profit making character, shall be twenty years from first publication, whatever the form in which publication was effected."
(Source: Unesco translation of 2003 version. Note however that the 2004 version now also includes "al partito nazionale fascista"- the National Fascist party.)
Regardless of the contract with the photographer, so long as a work was created under the name, and at the expense of the State, the copyright is property of the Italian Government, not the photographer. Persuant to Article 29, the duration of that copyright is 20 years.
Since the PD-Italy template covers non art images, it is not correct for government images that are over 20 years old. For this reason I have created Template:PD-ItalyGov. Non profits might be included, but the ownership is not as clear in Article 88 as it is in article 11. This means in the case of non profits and the somewhat vague set of academies and public cultural organizations, an anally robust defence would require documentation that the artist had not retained some rights in their for hire contract. For this reason, I only mention the Italian Government. If there are no objections, I shall add suitable language to the Italian Copyright section of the Commons:Licensing page.
--Mak 05:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Read on: Article 32-bis extends the general 20 year period for works in general to 70 years p. m. a. for photos specifically.
• Italiano: "I diritti di utilizzazione economica dell'opera fotografica durano sino al settantesimo anno dopo la morte dell'autore."
• English: "The exploitation rights in photographic work shall lapse at the end of the 70th year following the author’s death."
I don't see how these images could have evaded the EU copyright harmonisation. They are not PD and the tag should be deleted again.
--Wikipeder 11:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
To drag in my favorite subject :-), would that mean that postage stamps from more than 20 years ago are all PD? They are government works of art, not photographs, although as fiscal instruments, laws sometimes handle them specially. Stan Shebs 14:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah Stan- it looks like according to Wikipeder, EU harmonization has to do only with photographs.
Wikipeder- Seriously though- your trump card is nothing of the kind. You would have to explain all the other cases where a 20 year limit is in place- for example the one currently allowed in PD-Italy for simple photographs.
The fact of the matter is that there is wide variance from country to country as noted in the Licensing page. The logic (if there is any) of EU political machinations doesn't matter. What matters is the law on the books in the countries. The law says the author has no exploitation rights in article 11. Author has no standing, no rights to extend from 20 to 70 years.
Additionally, Article 22 emphasizes that "The rights referred to in the preceding Articles shall be inalienable." Article 11 establishes that the State has the copyright. A duration statement in Article 32 cannot be interpretted in taking that copyright away from the state.
Show me where I have erred. -Mak 16:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Mak is writing nonsense. Ask Lupo he is the best expert in this field. All authors in the EU have the right that their works are protected 70 years p.m.a. That's the only fact of relevance for us concerning works in the EU countries --Historiograf 19:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Ahhh- the old Appeal to authority fallacy. Hey- arguments are unnecessary, we don't have to think or read! Let's just abdicate to self appointed "authorities". Historiograf, I encourage you to educate yourself on this logical fallacy. If you are swayed by fuzzy thinking rather than logic and consideration of law, I observe that Lupo has been debating PD-Soviet for something like a year now. Still it stands as a template. Hmmm.
Nonetheless, you will notice on Lupo's talk page that I invited him to comment on this template about 2 minutes after I created it. I respect him and his input. Respect is a good thing, and you know something? A person cannot run out of it by being generous with it.
Have a nice day. -Mak 19:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Mak, you asked me to explain the 20-year limit, suggesting it conflicted with the EU directive:
It's simple photographies that are protected for 20 years in Italy. The EU directive and the Berne Convention only regulate photographic works. There are only a few countries that even make the difference (e. g. not the US, not 20 of the 29 EEA states), in all the others Italian simple photografies are fully copyrighted (70 years p. m. a. in the EEA). Of the few countries that know simple photographies, the threshold is of very different height. In Germany e. g. probably none of the tagged images would even qualify as a simple photography. The 20-year period is an exclusively Italian thing for simple photos, any other, normal, photos are photographic works and are governed by the EU directive and Berne.
The vast majority of images tagged PD-Italy, however, are not even at all documentary images lacking any creativity or other input of the author, which would be required by Italian law to qualify as simple images. They are wrongly tagged. The ones that indeed are simple photographs according to Italian interpretation will still be copyright protected outside of Italy and thus need to be removed from the Commons because they could only be used on the Italian WP. See also here.
You seem to mix up these two fields of legislation when you claim that copyright of the Italian state, non-profit organisations etc. were not regulated by the EU harmonisation. This is not so: It's simple photographies that are not. Normal photographic works—about which this template is—are copyright protected until 70 years after the author's death, no matter who holds the copyright, be it the author, the state or whoever. That's what Art. 32 is saying, but we don't even need that thanks to the EU directive. --Wikipeder 09:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Who holds the exploitation rights on Italian state created works after 20 years? Show me where in article 32 the Italian law transferred those rights from the state to the author. I am afraid your position is nonsensical. You are stating there exists exploitation rights that no one- not the state, the author or the public is entitled to exercise. Show me where I have erred.
That would be 8 lines above, your understanding of the second last sentence of my post. --Wikipeder 19:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
The EU directive magic wand: Think about what your are saying. You believe your EU directive magic wand means that the laws of countries don't matter. You like Lupo can make the case that Italian law is wrong. Hey, that's pretty bold. More power to you. Write a letter to the Italians and straighten them out. While you are at it, tell them all the other places they are doing things that are not in keeping with UN charter and resolutions. When you are done with that, you can write the various state and provincial legislatures and tell them what laws you feel are unconstutional. That nonsense has no standing here. Here, we go by laws and caselaw. This EU thing is not a law, but the Italian statute on copyright is Law, Italy has jusidiction, and Italian authority, not EU authority is appealed to on Commons Templates. I am unaware of a single PD template on commons that refer to rulings of EU bureacrats overriding local law. Good luck trying.
We are endeavoring to understand which of us is confused. Repetitious points about simple photographs simply adds noise. We are discussing PD-ItalyGov, not PD-Italy. Article 11 gives rights to all works by the state to the government. Article 29 says their copyright expires after 20 years. All this noise about simple photographs has not changed those facts.
-Mak 17:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Mak, I'm afraid we're not getting anywhere like that. EU legislation is binding on the member states, however hard you find this to grasp. And, yes, your magic wand metaphor is quite accurate. This actually is what many people in the EEA and candidate states find irritating about the Acquis Communautaire, too. Come on, you can read that in any one-page introduction to the EU. --Wikipeder 19:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Under the laws of Italy, what I have stated is correct. Do you agree with that? I ask because you had no response concerning the absurdity of your assertion regarding the Italian statute. I am perfectly happy to add some additional text saying that the validity of the law of Italy is disputed- even noting that it is you and Historiograf disputing it if you prefer. Would that be satisfactory?
EU directives have no legal force until they are implemented by the member countries, or until the European Court of Justice makes a ruling. Due to the highly controversial nature of this directive, it is anyone's guess what the court will rule. But the notion that a directive has any legal force is a recent and is itself highly controversial. Even with a ratified constitution the outcome of such a case is highly speculative. This controversy on legal force of directives is noted in the article on w:European Union directive.
At the base of it, you are making the argument that the law of a sovereign state is not valid, and that your argument would prevail in the European Court of Justice. You are stating that Italy has not correctly implemented the EUCD. That may or may not be. Two wikipedia articles state that Italy has implemented the EUCD (Copyright law of the European Union, and EU Copyright Directive. Why don't you take your arguments there? Until then, the only document with legal force is that of Italy's government. Sorry, but your magic wand is just that and it is pointless trying to wave it in people's faces. If you want to change the law, write Italy or sue Italy or take it to the Court of Justice. Change the wikipedia articles. Raise heck. But there's no telling what defence Italy would muster should such a case challenging the state's right to hold and release copyright after 20 years or who would prevail. Maybe you are right. Maybe you are wrong. Who knows. Maybe all gun control laws will one day be ruled unconstitutional. It is all guesswork until we see some caselaw.
Until then, what we have is the Italian copyright laws and they say state works are PD after 20 years.
Period. -Mak
A Google search will find you the Italian law implementing the EU directive in two seconds:
Decreto Legislativo 9 Aprile 2003, n. 68: Attuazione della direttiva 2001/29/CE sull'armonizzazione di taluni aspetti del diritto d'autore e dei diritti connessi nella societa' dell'informazione. (GU n. 87 del 14-4-2003 - Suppl. Ordinario n.61), [Legislative Decree of April 9th, 2003, no. 68: Implementation of the Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society]. Download the original and an English version here.
--Wikipeder 23:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Exactly. They have implemented the EUCD. We have been discussing the Italian law that implements the EU directive. That is the Italian copyright statute quoted in PD-Italy and PD-ItalyGov. Note the date of the revised statute we have been discussing. 2004. As far as the Italians are concerned, article 11 and 29 are in line with the EUCD. Those two articles make State works PD after 20 years. I am quite happy to have you support my argument, but I don't think that is what you intended.
• I ask you again, do you or do you not agree to my proposed compromise stating that Italian law is possibly invalid according to EUCD? -Mak 23:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Mak, you are discussing a single law. Worse, you are discussing isolated paragraphs of a single—and by the way, outdated—version of a single law. There is far more to it.
Art. 11 and 29 are in line with the EU directive because these articles mean something else than you think. The term of copyright protection in Italy is 70 years p. m. a. Within that period and under certain conditions, certain institutions have the right to exclusively exert certain rights of the author for 20 years: the economic rights, but apparently not the moral rights (for the difference etc see e. g. it:Diritto d'autore).
Suggesting that this is not so but that instead Italy is breaking EU law, unnoticed so far except by you, is exotic but not too convincing. The latest volté in your argumentation—that the EU directive actually said something very different than is commonly understood—isn't either, ground-breaking that it, admittedly, is.
In any case, you seem to keep falling for the same old misunderstanding. It is not Italy's implementation of the EU directive that matters to us on the Commons but the rest of the world's. The directive's terms are valid in all EEA states and e. g. the US via the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. Now there are two scenarios:
1. Italian laws are in line with the directive. Then copyright expires 70 years p. m. a., the tag is nonsense.
2. Should for some inconceivable reason Italian law in fact be incompatible with the directive as you suggest, the tag and all images tagged with it would need to be deleted since these images could only possibly be used in the Italian WP and thus had no place on the Commons.
--Wikipeder 12:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Wikipeder, this is not a rebuttal. I have cited the passages in the italian law that prove you are wrong. You offer nothing in return except to repeat your personal interpretation of something that is not a law. Copyright for Italian works expire in 20 years according to article 29.
• I have pointed out the absurdity of your assertion, concerning article 32, you decline to respond.
• You continue to assert that passages 11 and 29 mean something different to you, but have not explained where the law states what you assert it states. Sorry, but unsupported assertions are not convincing.
• You point out a further revision to the code after 2006, have cited the former 2004 version in your argument. If there is something in the 2006 revisions that support what you say, then let's hear them. Further, the PD-Italy template also points to the 2004 version, and when you modded the template, you did not update the link to the latest version, so it must not have been too important to you either. You have shown nothing in the 2006 revisions to support your claims.
• You refer to the Italian copyright statute as a single law, as if it is overriden by something else, yet you have pointed to no laws or caselaw that overrides the Italian copyright statute. Again you only stamp your feet about the directive which has no legal force.
Since you have offered no substantive argument to support your claims, I am removing the warning not to use this template. The statements in it are correct. YOu are making a very speculative argument that the Italian law is written incorrectly. Fine. If the courts agree with you, we can deal with that then. Personally I doubt they will. Further, it is my intention to ammend the closing statement of PD-Italy since it is false concerning the 70 year limit. The statute very clearly states that this is not the case for State works as well as certain other works by non profit and Fascist party organizations. I will agree to the insertion of "Dispute text" for either of these templates depending on the choice of wording. -Mak 16:54, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Let me first say that I appreciate your non-offensive style of debate. This is not so common.
I'm sorry you could not be convinced. Frankly, I am pretty astonished how you can get such a different interpretation. You did not manage to get any substance to your claim how on earth your reading should be compatible with the EU directive. And, well, after all, Lupo and Historiograph do quite know what they are talking about.
I don't see a basis for further debate as long as you absurdly deny the relevance of the EU directive as implemented in any EEA state's and the US' law.
About the tags, though, beyond the question what Italian law might be: We can't have them on the Commons, and not any images that fulfil their criteria either. Please reconsider: There is no place on the Commons for images that can exclusively be used in a single country, here the Italian WP, but are copyrighted anywhere else. The tag needs to be deleted.
PD-Italy is a completely different thing. Images there are not normal photographic works but inferior, uncreative images. Whatever you feel Italian law might say about images taken for the state or non-profit organisations, it has nothing to do with this obscure class of images. Do not add this irrelevant sentence there.
If we cannot agree on the facts of European copyright law, you should at least adhere to Commons policy.
--Wikipeder 18:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Specifics Wikipeder. You need to rest your argument on specifics in Law and caselaw. You rely only on generalities, and your magic wand. The assertion that the Italian government only owns copyright for their works in Italy is absurd. Were we to believe this, we would believe that the US may release release US military images into the public domain in the US, but that PD status in invalid outside the US. It's silly. If any entity legitimately owns the copyright to a photo, they may release it into the public domain, and this release is valid in Europe as well as the EU. But you assert that the Italian government somehow does not own the copyright on their works. Article 11 asserts they do. Should we just take your word for it that they don't? Then you state the Italian law cited on both the Italian templates is wrong or somehow that there is some other "legislation" that is pertinent. That overrides what the Italian copyright statute states.
Without going into any specifics whatever, you point vaguely to "other legislation" and a website containing this "other" legislation. This is further evidence of the lack of substance to your assertions Look at the legislation number and date. Legislative Decree No. 68, of April 9, 2003. Look at the header for the Unesco translation we have been refering to. Sound familiar? It should, because it is the legislation as ammended by Legislative Decree No. 68, of April 9, 2003. So you are just going around in circles and return to the Copyright statute that we have been discussing all along. Only problem is, you didn't bother to check your facts so you didn't even know you were going in circles.
You refuse to point to Law to back up a legal assertion you are making. Well, all I can say is good luck, but I can't see how you can expect anyone to take your controversial assertions seriously if you don't rest your arguments on law. You do not contest my assertion that EU directives do not have legal force because they don't. The assertion that they do is highly controversial as noted in The wiki articles I cited on the subject. You have no response. So this endless chatter about the EU directive is irrelevant. What is relevant is how they are expressed in law.
So my question over and over to you has been- where is the law to back up your assertion? You refuse to point to anything other than article 32. But to believe you, we would have to believe that no one owns exploitation rights for 50 years. No answer from you.
Feel free to nominate the template for deletion. All you have convinced me of is that there is a lot of fuzzy and tribal thinking going on in consideration of copyvios. -Mak 21:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Look, I'm not going to expand this increasingly pointless debate into a referenced lecture on the workings of EU, US and international copyright. It's no shame to not know much about this, but I find it rather tedious that you don't seem prepared to read e. g. en:Wikipedia:Public domain or other texts experts wrote, let alone trust their judgement (as you pointed out above).
In very short words: A state can only release works into the public domain on his own territory. In each country the national copyright laws apply. The EU directive has been implemented in the national law in all EEA countries and the US. As a result, in all these countries the copyright protection of photographic works, those of Italian origin included, expires 70 years p. m. a.
The situation with images that specifically the US government releases into the public domain is different to that of EEA countries, because the EU accepted the Berne Convention's Rule of the shorter term, which the US did not. Within the EEA, however, the Rule of the shorter term doesn't apply either, but the EU directive instead.
As a result, if US law makes images PD earlier than EEA law, the images will automatically be PD in the EEA as well. If the Italian government, however, released photographic works to the PD earlier than other EEA countries, they would thus still be copyright protected everywhere in the EEA and US. Additionally, this would be an Italian violation of the EU directive.
In the end, we don't even have to bother with what Italian law exactly says and if it might violate the EU directive, as your reading implicitly assumes but what hasn't ever been claimed elsewhere. Whatever the situation in Italy, these photographic works are copyright protected 70 years p. m. a. virtually anywhere else, which doesn't make them free, so we can't have them on the Commons.
--Wikipeder 09:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Pardon me? Only what the law and caselaw says matters. Please try to understand. EU directives are not regulations- they are not self executing and have no legal force until they are expressed in law. I am not requesting you to expand your wild speculations, I'm just asking you to stop being evasive and support them. I made my specific citations of Italian law when I began this thread. Endless words from you later, you have yet to cite some law or caselaw that overrides what it says. The only thing pointless is your stubbornly refusal to support your statements. So we are left with what? That we should take your word for what you claim is the omnipetence of the EUCD? Come now. The EUCD is not law, and has no legal force until it is implemented in the local countries. The Wiki article on EU directives explains this very clearly and you do not dispute it.
Yet we now are surprized to learn from you that the EUCD has been implented in the US as well. Heavens to betsy- that's some magic wand you have there. Show me where US law recognizes 70 year pma over works that were pd in the country of origin on January 1, 1996. In 1996, under articles 11 and 29 of Italian law, all works of the Italian government that were more than 20 years old were public domain. There was no other law on the books in italy that overides that law then, and there isn't now. Under US law, all works that were public domain in their country of origin on January 1, 1996 were public domain in the US. And that is very clearly stated in the en:Wikipedia:Public domain article. So this locality nonsense is just that.
Of course, I can imagine all sorts of disingenous responses, such as that the EUCD was binding on Italy in 1995. Clever wording, no? Binding, yes, but isn't that interesting: with no legal force. Read the labels. The bottle at the store said Cherry drink. Ooops wait- they didn't say juice. How long does it take to read the label? "High fructoce corn syrup and water, with cherry flavouring." Similarly, all these splashy claims about what the EUCD says don't matter. Nothing else matters in court except facts, the law, and caselaw. This is a question of law, so we ask: were those works legally public domain in Italy on January 1, 1996? You might speculate all sorts of things- that someone might have been able in 1996 to use the principle of en:Direct effect to enforce a copyright they had in Spain for a work that was PD in Italy, but so what. No one did. So, as of January 1, 1996, in the absence of any Law or ECJ ruling to the contrary, we must conclude the answer is yes- those works of the Italian government were PD in Italy.
You make a lot of noise about that only being true for Italy, but nowhere else. Really? Take a look at the Uruguay Round Agreements Act changes reflected in US copyright Law- Title17, 104A h6b.[4] Since they were PD in the country of origin (Italy), copyright is not restored to EUCD levels in the US. No magic wand. This is true for any other works which were PD in any other EU country of origin that had not yet implemented the EUCD on January 1, 1996- which was just about everyone. Specifically, in the case of Italian government works published 20 years or more ago, this means the Wikipedia foundation is entitled to keep them on their servers in the US. Certainly I can see that some European making commercial use of such an image might get sued by a publisher from France attempting to claim exploitation rights over public domain Italian government works. No telling how the ECJ would rule though. There are EUCD articles supporting the other side of the argument as well.
So yeah, you can stomp your feet that the Italian law is wrong but at the end of the day we realize that Luxembourg is not the US, and these wild EUCD directive arguments won't wash in a US court. The US courts will look at what the Italian law said at the time, because that is what US Copyright Law (104A h6b) tells them to look at. Nowhere is mentioned the EUCD. Have fun speculating on what future EU court cases might rule in the future, and how the highly controversial question of legal force of EU directives might evolve in regards to copyright law interpretation. But that is just empty speculation and has no bearing on the legal status of the Italian government works in 1996. Instead of speculation, we have to go with what the law and caselaw says, not what we guess caselaw will say in the future.
If you do not care to support your assertions with facts and reference to specifics in the law, I do not see how you can expect me to be convinced of the truth of your assertions. If you are correct, you have not given me the opportunity to be convinced.
Since you have declined to provide any supported argument that the PD-ItalyGov template is invalid, I shall use the template and promote its use. I am not an advocate of breaking or bending copyright law- I have nominated images for deletion in the past and will continue to do so. I am interested in protecting the rights of the author and the public, whatever the law says those rights are. I am interested in following what the law says, not wild and unsupported speculations about what the EUCD might mean in some future court cases. -Mak 07:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
You are some wild debater! I find the answers to all your questions in the text above and the links I supplied.
Meta-debate: If you come up with a suggestion and others raise some grave concerns about your plans, it is your job to dispel these. Dismissing respected experts as ignorant, flatly declaring the basis for reservations non-existent and refusing to read and acknowledge information that is not in line with your view does not really achieve this.
--Wikipeder 10:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Now now. I have cited the specific passages supporting my argument. It is you who have declined to provide any legal support for your so called grave concerns. Show me where I called anyone ignorant. Notwithstanding your high opinion of particular advocates of particular points of view of law, you are making an appeal to authority- a fallacy of logic. You fall into this same trap as Histriograf so I should probably expand for you.
There are highly respected advocates of legal positions who sincerely believe their interpretation is the correct one. William Jennings Bryan was a highly respected and accomplished lawyer and served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. He made legal arguments in a court of law that Darwinism should not be taught in schools. The judge agreed, as the judges in the appealate courts did. They were not fools, and coherant legal argument based on law were made. The appealate court judges weren't fools either and knew law better than you or I do. Yet they did not strike down the Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of Darwinism. Not until 1968 did the courts rule correctly that these ignorant laws favored a particular religions point of view and was unconstitutional.
Were there such a law forbidding articles on Darwinism in the state of florida, notwithstanding our respect for our advocates (such as Clarence Darrow), and the rightness of our position, we would have to remove them from the Wiki servers, or move the servers elsewhere. We conform to what the law says, not what we think it should say, or how we speculate it will be overriden in the future by some higher court. That is precisely the argument being made here and in the WP public domain article. The fight for establishing uniform code among the quarrelsome nations of Europe is a laudable one, and one that will benefit her economically and socially. It is a laudable political goal you have there. There are also extremely motivated intellectual property rights holders that would like to see a drastic curtailing of the growth of free information found in the Wiki's. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what people's hidden agendas, reputation or the rightness of their social goals are.
What matters is what the law says.
We are discussing the law today, as it is written today. In response to my specific citations, you have done nothing more than hand me references to entire documents and say your answer for me is there. Well sorry, but even an elementary school teacher would not accept such a reference in an essay. When you get it more sorted out where the support for your argument is, please provide the specific passages of law that support your statements. -Mak 18:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Since PD-ItalyGov has survived deletion request and judged valid (for the time being), it is time to update the Italy section to reflect a summarization of the current wording of the Italygov Template. Any objections? -Mak 06:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Aerial Images[edit]
I have constructed some Hi-Res aerial images, made up of multiple images stiched together. They are sourced from Virtual Earth, which I understand are originally sourced from the USGS. I assume that as a US Govt Department these images would be classed as PD. can you confirm if this is correct and if they may be uploaded, and if so under what licensing. Richard Harvey 06:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
What is Virtual Earth? pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
MIcrosoft Live.local. Similar to Google Earth with extra features
See:- Virtual Earth explaination of Virtual Earth
Also:- TerraServer-USA Forerunner of Virtual stating Aerial images supplied by USGS.
It comes as a free attachment to the Microsoft Autoroute Programme that has a GPS Antennae included.
This example image on Wiki/en is constructed of several images stiched together:- Yarrow Reservoir Richard Harvey 17:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC) | <urn:uuid:a469f636-3f1c-4ffe-99e8-2d921983dc65> | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing/Archive_4 | en | 0.951687 | 0.048292 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Bleu d'Auvergne
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Bleu d'Auvergne
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Region France
Town Auvergne
Source of milk Cow
Pasteurized No
Texture Soft
Aging time 2 months
Certification AOC Auvergne 1975
Bleu d'Auvergne is a French blue cheese, named for its place of origin in the Auvergne region of south-central France. It is made from cow's milk, and is one of the cheeses granted the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée from the French government.
Bleu d'Auvergne is of relatively recent origin, discovered in the mid-1850s by a French cheesemaker named Antoine Roussel. Roussel noted that the occurrence of blue molds on his curd resulted in an agreeable taste, and conducted experiments to determine how veins of such mold could be induced. After several failed tests, Roussel discovered that the application of rye bread mold created the veining, and that pricking the curd with a needle provided increased aeration. It allowed the mold to enter the curd and encouraged its growth. Subsequently, his discovery and techniques spread throughout the region.
Today, bleu d'Auvergne is prepared via mechanical needling processes. It is then aged for approximately four weeks in cool, wet cellars before distribution, a relatively short period for blue cheeses.
Properties and uses[edit]
Bleu d'Auvergne has a strong and pungent taste, but to a lesser extent than other blue cheeses; it is less salted, with a creamier and more buttery taste and a moister texture. Some recipes also use a weaker form of mold, Penicillium glaucum, to create the blue veins, rather than the Penicillium roqueforti used in Roquefort and other blue cheeses.
Bleu d'Auvergne is often used in salad dressings and pasta seasonings, and also it is a good cheese for snacking. Sweet wines such as dessert - style riesling and sauvignon blanc or strong, robust red wines are commonly recommended to accompany it as well as rich, dark beer such as English barleywine or American porter, which have both the sweetness and bold flavor required to balance the cheese. | <urn:uuid:f64dc0ac-3873-41d0-9ee2-6b281bbb396d> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleu_d'Auvergne | en | 0.935649 | 0.039349 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Friday, July 07, 2006
"I'd Rather live my life as if there's God, and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
• At 7/10/2006 11:17 PM, Blogger eyad said…
join my voice to yours
• At 7/14/2006 2:33 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
Would you also go and blow up people, because there might be a god that might want a jihad?
Then you must be one opportunist or gambler to try to maximize your profit.
Instead of this opportunism, you should seek the truth by accepting only something that has EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE and REASON behind it.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for such declasse life.
• At 7/14/2006 2:52 AM, Blogger girl witta attitude said…
Anonymous, i hope you don't get me wrong...I wasn't stating my belief, i was just quoting a sentence i found and thought was interesting.
I agree you gotta search and look 4 evidence, but until you reach the step of finding evidence, this is an interesting thing 2 believe in.
& what's that thing about jihad?
• At 7/14/2006 4:10 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
As you know, there is no evidence for God. Even Prophet Mohammad could not produce any evidence. So your search will never produce results, even after 150 years of life spending 24x7 searching for this.
The sentence may appear interesting, but does not make sense. Before it can be of true interest, it must be meaningful.
There are at least 70,000 religions that have been classified on the globe. Each has some element of metaphysics and mysticism to it. Each has one or more deities, and concludes from that how a "believer" should behave.
How is it that only one of these 70,000 deities are to be betted on? Why not some other non-Abrahamic system? Why not polytheism? Why not Buddha? As long as none of these gods and angels and spirits can produce any, even the most tiniest of evidence backing them up, then which one do I choose to bet my life on?
Do you see the inconsistency of this quotation? It first assumes that if there is a metaphysics (a huge if, with no evidence whatsoever), then it must be that one god! None of the other systems, such as Yazidi, Zoroastrians, Shintoism, Jainism, Hinduism, are allowed!
So not only this kind of personal ethics is that of an opportunist or a gambler, but also it requires a narrow mind to eliminate thousands of gods in favor of one, without any evidence, but at the same time it wants you to be doubtful about it, not in action, but in thought.
There are to many contradictions to make this meaningful.
• At 7/14/2006 4:29 AM, Blogger girl witta attitude said…
y assume that the thousands of times we pray from all our hearts and get what we want ARE ALL QUENCIDENCES , and when NOT that THERE IS NO GOD??
we sure have our doubts sometimes, but believing in something that actually gives you inner peace is definitely better than believing in nothing & being confused the whole time. you got nthn 2 lose.
• At 7/14/2006 4:52 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
I doubt you are getting all what you want. Just the laws of chance will give you some of the things that you want, and you don't have to pray for that.
Conduct a scientific experiment, with great clarity and precision. Things that you want, for some of them pray, and for some don't pray. See if it makes a difference. You have to do this fairly. Like difficult things that have low probability of happening should not be the ones that are not prayed.
What will happen are: 1- either you notice no difference in the outcomes, in which case you have arrived at the truth, and you are that much wiser. 2- You can scientifically prove that prayers made a difference somehow. Then you will receive a Noble prize as the first person in 11 million years of human history who has found evidence between prayers and outcomes.
Either way, you are a winner.
Only believe in things that are shown to be true through evidence and reasoning. So yes, you can have belief in the truth. So you will get your inner piece when you know for sure that what you have accepted is reasonable. But simply "believing" in things, blindly, without evidence, without reason, is not worth a dime. Even if it makes you feel better inside, it is a hoax and a fake. You are just kidding yourself. You may as well take some feel-good drugs and it will give you the same effect.
If you have difficulty understanding why we exist and what will happen to us on death, it is because you are not studying philosophy and science. It is very well explained here, and there is nothing to be afraid of. What one should be afraid of are irrational memes and ideas that are passed on from our culture and traditions to us, like drugs, that makes us feel-good in a superficial way - but because these memes are fake and not true, deep inside we are full of doubt which we will never overcome, and which will torment us (unless you become truly blind like a fanatic extremist).
So it is better not to accept anything, unless there is evidence and reason behind it.
• At 7/14/2006 5:39 AM, Blogger girl witta attitude said…
Well that's your opinion & i respect it..
I'll make time to think about it a lil bit more, but i guess what i am affraid of the most, is the unknown tomorrow.
• At 7/14/2006 6:46 AM, Blogger Rania said…
I must say I agree with Hamid.
To me, living in doubt is better than lying to yourself and living in imaginary "peace". Hamid, I loved the way described it, the "feel-good" drugs, the antihuman methods full of promises of immortality, which touch on our sensitive fears.
Openness to other religions makes you realize that this is what they are- religions. Including your own. Systems of beliefs. Different stories that attempt to explain what humans have always been trying to understand. And if you look deeper into them, you'll find that each story reflects the mind, the life, the hopes, the fears and the culture of the people that created and adopted it.
We should never underestimate the power of our own reason. One surely can't explain everything, but it is our duty to try and to never stop trying, to trust reason rather than what makes us feel better or what appeals to our senses, to question every truth, objectively, openly. And only when we free ourselves from the myths and the comforts of the supernatural will we be worthy of facing Truth, if there is one. And Truth is always harsh. "One must decide how much truth he or she can stand".
Regarding prayer, what about the things we pray for and that don't come true? Why do we always take those that do happen as evidence? Compare the numbers, and you will find that yes, they are coincidential. It's like knowing that something will have two or more outcomes, and deciding to think hard of one by "wanting", praying, for it to happen. Definitely, it has its chance of occurring.
• At 7/14/2006 2:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
GWA - we are all afraid of tomorrow. We all have to take risks in our lives and have courage to face what comes our way. There is no ideology or faith in the world that can tell you what will happen tomorrow or bring you certainty. The only guarantee you have is through learning and improvement, hard work, positive attitude, and being creative. These 2500 year old religious nonsense will never bring you happiness. They are designed by small minds to keep other minds in bondage, only so that society could function back in the days of barbarianism. Their time is past.
• At 7/14/2006 2:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
Rania - what a beautiful name
Yes we have many "sensitive fears" as you say. Foremost is "existential fear": (where am I going, and where do I come from). This is a very natural fear of an intelligent mind.
Consciousness theory has explained this very well - that is, why we have consciousness, and why we have a sense of existence, and why we have such fears. Although the mind is still a mystery, every day, new layers of this onion is being peeled off, and we are understanding human emotions, feelings, thoughs, and their underlying processes much better.
In some university laboratories, they have even managed to artificially control the amount of Serotonin in the brain, and induce mystical experience and spiritual experience in the subject. Imagine it - you can make a person religious by playing with his neurochemistry. Some subjects even have declared themselves prophets, because (they think) they can see god(s). Needless to say, these are all subjective experiences due to the way the mind is constructed, that results in such subjective illusions and emotions.
Lets put it this way: If you did not have "existential fear", then you would have no desire to live, and your species would have become extinct a long time ago, and you would not be around to ask this question. Therefore, the law of natural selection favors those creatures who have a fear of death.
We have to understand this, before we let others exploit our fears, to their own benefit, or to the benefit of their community.
• At 7/14/2006 3:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…
Rania, what you say about the Truth is so beautifully written, that I cannot add anything to that, without looking like a fool.
Just one thing - there are valid and meaningful logical questions, that have no answers, and we will never find out if they are true or false. This was shown by Kurt Godel - that certain valid questions are "undecidable" - meaning there is a 3rd category besides "true" and "false" - there is also "undecidable" i.e. logically they can NEVER be dediced - and this has been mathematically proven.
Therefore, I think, there is no such thing as absolute and universal truth. Many truths are just social constructs, and their validity depends on norms and conventions and value systems. Thus they can become false if the norms change. Other truths are undecidable.
This just goes to show that there is no absolute or universal truth - only facts. That is why I don't think we should write truth with capitalization - "Truth".
• At 7/15/2006 8:52 AM, Blogger girl witta attitude said…
Hamid, what you wrote is so true... i always have my doubts and start thinking that any man could use his creativity to make up some rules and some illusions and say i've been sent from high above...well, it really puts borders to the human mind.
well a lot of things that i wrote before, i don't really believe in them but i think i should; that's why i keep sayin em over n over again, until it becomes a part of me
wow that's really pathetic 2 cum n think of it
• At 7/16/2006 3:40 PM, Blogger Devil's Mind said…
I myself at some point of time considered this "just in case" argument as a smart one... But that was way too long time ago, at about 13 yrs old i dumped this argument!! I still view the argument as viable but an uninformed one...
I think that anyone who really looks at the ways of life would realize clearly that no anthropomorphic god exists.... Enough said i guess!!
• At 12/31/2006 6:19 AM, Anonymous The Legend said…
I think it says it all when the post comes from "Anonymous"! Was looking for the quote - it is attributed to Albert Camus - and read some of this stuff. Just watched Robert Schuler's Crystal Cathedral with Andy Griffith and Randy Travis. Much more uplifting and believable...
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3M Streaming Projector with Roku Review: Can't Wait Until They Get This Right
Do you want a small, portable projector that can stream a near-endless supply of movies and TV shows onto any surface with no extra hardware? Of course you do! Which makes 3M's Roku-streaming projector such a welcome concept—and such a let down.
What Is It?
A palm-sized projector with a built-in Roku stick for streaming movies and TV shows through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and others.
Who's it For?
Movie-watchers on the go. People with big walls.
It's a little projector (4.3 x 4.2 x 2.0 inches) that weighs only a pound. It can run off a rechargeable battery or a DC adaptor, it has built in speakers, a remote control, and an audio out. Looks a little like someone chopped off Wall-E's girlfriend's head and smushed it flatter.
Using It
It's pretty intuitive, especially if you've used a Roku before. You just turn it on, find a Wi-Fi network, sign in to your channels, and use the provided remote to access and navigate through your content. There's a small focus dial for keeping your video sharp, and the unit can supposedly project as large as 120 inches.
The Best Part
It's even smaller that it looks. You could toss it in a jacket pocket, take it to a friends house, and be watching movies in minutes.
Tragic Flaw
Hard to pick one, but I'm going to go with the keystoning problem. If you're projecting at any kind of angle (which you usually will be) your frame isn't going to be perfectly rectangular—it'll be a trapezoid. Most projectors have a way to compensate for keystoning, not this one.
This Is Weird...
Why not include another input? If it could connect to your computer so you could use it for presentations at least it wouldn't be a one-trick pony, and way more people would have an excuse to buy it. UPDATE: You can remove the stick and connect another device via HDMI.
Test Notes
• The resolution is a long way from HD. It's WVGA, coming in at roughly 854×480 pixels. Pretty low by today's standards.
• The built-in speakers are really bad. If there's any kind of ambient noise, you probably won't hear anything. If you attach some nice computer speakers you'll be fine, but then you lose the untethered portability.
• It's really not very bright. Especially as the image stretches beyond 60 inches. You'd better be in a near pitch-black room. As it approaches its 120-inch maximum you'll be hard-pressed to find a room dark enough (also big enough) to provide a watchable experience.
• The most fun I had with this was when I grabbed a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot from work and took this thing to the park. I was able to project a surf movie on a wall. Neat, but...
• Navigating the Roku menus with this little remote is even worse than normal. Entering usernames and passwords will make you want to slit your wrists even on the full-sized Roku remote, but the small, flat buttons on this miniaturized one make for many missed presses. And if the remote isn't pointed very squarely at the projector, it often won't pick up your input.
• It has a hole on the bottom so you can attach it to a tripod, but it doesn't have adjustable feet.
• The focus dial is hard to use. It tends to overshoot the adjustment you're trying to make.
• 3M claims up to 2.5 hours of battery life, but that must be when it's at half-brightness. At full brightness (which you will pretty much always want) you'll be lucky to get 90 minutes, which won't get you through most movies.
Should You Buy It?
No. It's a fun novelty, but for most people $300 is too expensive for a novelty. It's clear to see how future generations of this product will be awesome, and we can't wait to see how it evolves. But for now it's more of a proof-of-concept. It begins shipping from Amazon on October 22nd. [3M]
3M/Roku Projector Specs
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi
• Weight: 1 pound
• Brightness: 60 lumens
• Max image: 120 inches
• Resolution: WVGA (854×480)
• Price: $300
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I have a new server for only images. what is the recommended web server to serve only static content (I have only images) ?
My hardware is:
CPU: intel xeon X3460
RAM: 16G
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nginx and lighttpd are often used for this purpose although you could technically use any web server.
In general, the web server you decide to use should be as lightweight as possible and support sendfile(2) and the more advanced event handling you OS provides (e. g. epoll on Linux, kqueue on FreeBSD, etc.).
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nginx may be the best choice, as it looks like it does the best job serving static content, very light weight, extremely low mem footprint..!
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ngnix for sure
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I've created a basic console app in Visual Studio 2008, which references an external assembly.
When I publish and install the project, both the executable and the external assembly are installed in the target folder.
Is it possible to compile the project, and have all referenced assemblies included in the main executable - so there is only one file to distribute?
Thanks for any help,
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You can use ILMerge to merge the assemblies for deployment. This lets you keep them separate during development, but put them all into one .exe file when you ship.
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Thank you - just what I was looking for! – frankie boyle Dec 8 '09 at 17:08
You can use ILMerge from Microsoft for this, or the Cecil tool from the Mono project.
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Cecil doesn't merge assemblies. Well, you could write a merger with it, but there's no builtin feature. – Jb Evain Dec 8 '09 at 17:02
You can create a setup file. so you can redistribute only one file. But it still going to be installed into a folder with each assembly separated.
You can also consider placing your assemblies into the GAC.
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No, the GAC would complicate things unnecessarily. – Henk Holterman Dec 8 '09 at 17:43
@Henk, I didn't recommend it. Just pointed out that this option is available. – ArielBH Dec 9 '09 at 8:37
If you find ILMerge is not enough because your app needs files other than .net assemblies, I have found that packaging it as self extracting exe using MakeSFX works nicely. It sounds unlikely but with correct command line flags the self extracting bit is completely transparent and it runs just like any other application.
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I'm struggling with what seems like should be so simple looking at the codex.
I have a custom post type, let's call it 'portfolio'.
A custom taxonomy for that, let's call it 'clients'.
I can use get_posts() to list all 'portfolio' items but also need the ability to pass in / filter by the 'clients' taxonomy slugs or display all. ("acme,ibm,tbs" - or null/blank)
I've torn apart my sample code so many times that I don't remember anymore what I haven't tried.
Maybe I should instead go with WP_Query()? Sorry for probably such a stupid question, I just can't interpret the example apparently.
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Both get_posts() and wp_query() should be able to do this by passing the tax_query array into them.
$query = array(
'post_type' => 'portfolio',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'tax_query' => array(
'taxonomy' => 'clients',
'field' => 'slug',
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Ah-ha! I only had one array in the tax_query, not the array of arrays. Thank you so much, my head was about to fall off... – H. Hins Nov 17 '13 at 2:55
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"Where's the goat?"
After Lex (Ariana Richards)—who was around my age at the time—asked that question in Jurassic Park, nothing was the same. It was the summer of 1993, and blockbuster master Steven Spielberg's $63 million adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel was blowing everyone's mind. Jurassic Park's first act established the on-screen magic by explaining how the dinosaurs were created, and showing a bunch of harmless, plant-eating Stegosaurus creatures grazing—those prehistoric giants that I'd been reading about obsessively all throughout grade school were suddenly real, in the flesh, right before my eyes. It was incredible.
But then that goat showed up in the Tyrannosaurus Rex pit, leading into that major setpiece where the king of the dinos makes its grand entrance. The goat's leg slaps against the jeep's windshield, answering Lex's question. The beast's claw—no CGI here, just puppetry—scratches down the "Danger: 10,000 Volts" sign on the fence. The camera pans upward, revealing the T-Rex's enormous head, scarfing down the rest of the goat like it was potato chip. Dinner finished, the creature glances at the camera, at you.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
Growing up with dinosaur books stacked near my bed, my then-11-year-old self had never imagined that I'd see a living, moving Tyrannosaurus Rex. But there it was, on the big screen, sprinting after a jeep, the "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" forever becoming a sign of dinosaurs rather than something to do with cars. Thanks to director Spielberg and visual effects mastermind Stan Winston, it looked so real, like life. Credit those believable movements and its authentic-looking, scaly physical frame to the filmmakers' admirable creative decision to go with puppets and handmade, animate objects in conjunction with CGI.
The thrilling blend of fear, excitement, and disbelief I felt must have been similar to how audiences reacted to the sight of King Kong way back in 1933, oblivious to the fact that what they were seeing wasn't an 18-foot-tall gorilla but, rather, an 18-inch action figure. Even if they did know how the RKO Radio Pictures production achieved its giant-beast wizardry, it didn't matter—like moviegoers in '93, watching that T-Rex tear shit up and those Velociraptors hunt down frightened humans, all that mattered was what was on the screen. The wonderment outweighed the process.
Heading into acclaimed genre director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, I was hoping for a similar experience. We're talking about a movie in which Godzilla-sized alien monsters (known as the Kaiju) and man-operated, skyscraper-height robots (or Jaegers) beat the crap out of each other. This is the cinematic equivalent of bath time with your favorite action figures. And, as the advertisements and trailers have promised, Pacific Rim delivers a large helping of Kaiju-on-Jaeger smack-downs. Each bout goes for broke, tearing apart city buildings and using the ocean as a watery wrestling ring. During one standout battle, set in Hong Kong, one Jaeger grabs a massive ocean liner and swings it around like it's a baseball bat.
These battles are all executed with some of the best special effects to come around in years, surpassing the Transformers movies with its CGI fluidity, while also besting Michael Bay's franchise—with which the far superior Pacific Rim will inevitably be compared for a long, long time—in the story department. Guillermo del Toro's film, to a lesser degree than his best, smaller efforts (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth), focuses on character development for the majority of its running time; some of this is cheeseball (one cliché subplot involves a one-dimensional alpha male trying to prove himself to daddy), but at least Del Toro cared enough about his audience to give them more than Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Jaegers.
I dug Pacific Rim quite a bit, but, two weeks after seeing the film, I haven't been able to stop asking myself: Why didn't Pacific Rim truly wow me? I was entertained, sure, but was it on par with anything I felt while seeing Jurassic Park for the first time? Not even close. The answer here goes back to the previous paragraph—the fact that Transformers is being used to draw parallels to Pacific Rim is quite telling. No matter how balls-out del Toro went with the film, and despite the always earnest director's best intentions, Pacific Rim is, visually speaking, more of the same. It'll be hailed as a welcome, story-concerned antidote for mindless summer fare like The Lone Ranger, and for very good reason, but that's not the issue here. Pacific Rim doesn't connect like Jurassic Park because it's not about man versus moviemaking creation—it's one intangible moviemaking creation versus another intangible moviemaking creation.
You can't imagine that you're Jeff Goldblum, trying to distract a T-Rex with a flare; you can only watch two impressive-looking digital projections square off. The disconnect from reality is inescapable. Your imagination is tested, as well as stimulated, but only for so long. When Jeff Goldblum taunted the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, it felt real. That monster could inflict authentic, limbs-off damage—sure, it would've required some skilled puppeteers manning the controls, but it was possible. To get decimated by a Kaiju, you'd need a green screen and post-production computer fuckery. Where's the palpable threat in that? Where's the awe?
Even if Pacific Rim does give someone that Jurassic Park-like sensation, it'll be short-lived. Next month, District 9 writer-director Neill Blomkamp's futuristic action flick Elysium debuts, and, if its trailers are to be trusted, it's going to be chockfull of armed robots, reality-defying stunts, and more things to make you say, "Cool." Yet the understanding that everything on screen has been meticulously crafted in some expensive post-production studio won't go away, nor will the thought that, sooner or later, there's going to be a new film boasting even greater, more advanced VFX.
I'd be lying if I said that the last movie that floored me was Jurassic Park. Over the last few years, several movies have knocked me into submission, and all of them have one thing in common: humans. There's The Raid: Redemption, for instance, last year's insanely choreographed action film about Indonesian police officers kicking, punching, and somersaulting their way through martial-arts-proficient goons on every floor of a high-rise building—it's Streets of Rage set inside a single location, but ten times crazier. Written and directed by Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption features some of the most awe-inspiring fight sequences ever put on film, with actors bouncing off walls, slap-boxing in mid-air, and leading man Iko Uwais smashing through dozens of baddies in a series of extended, cut-free takes. It's real-life dudes bashing the hell out of other real-life dudes—the spectacle is grounded.
To a smaller, though hardly any less stunning, degree, there's also English genre master Ben Wheatley's extremely disturbing horror film Kill List, another 2012 release. In one how'd-they-do-that? scene, the film's antihero protagonist, Jay (Neil Maskell), is on a mysterious assignment as a hitman. His target is a child pornographer, and Jay forces him to rest his head on a kitchen table in order to beat him to death with a hammer. Wheatley doesn't cut away. As a seasoned viewer of harder-edged genre fare, you're conditioned to expect the director to keep the camera steady until the hammer is just inches away from dude's cranium, and cut right before impact. But not Mr. Wheatley. You see the hammer crash into the man's head, the same man you've just seen breathe, talk, and move, in a single take. That has to be his real head that's just been hammered like a nail, right? When in God's name did Wheatley edit him out and place the dummy at the table? Hell, is that even a dummy? Kill List's most brutal scene a brilliant piece of sleight-of-hand mastery that elicits gasps and genuine wide-eyed astonishment every time it's seen. Superb makeup work sells the carnage, in all of its skin-flapping glory.
Filmmakers like Gareth Evans and Ben Wheatley understand that, while it's fun to play make-believe with CGI, human beings accomplishing truly unbelievable things will always impress the most. Practicality will never get old. That's what makes The Raid: Redemption and Kill List so extraordinary—they're films in which people do bad things to other people, bad things that could actually happen. Jurassic Park, meanwhile, extends the threat further into all-out fiction, yet there's still the human element, the "wow" factor that comes from seeing a real-life person interacting with something fake but still physically present, like an animatronic dinosaur.
In Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro shows that he's cognizant of such an advantage—in a smart narrative move, the Jaegers can only function if two humans are positioned inside it, controlling its movements (think virtual reality) while their minds are synched together. When the robots and aliens duke it out, del Toro repeatedly cuts back to the Jaeger's interior, to remind us that it's mankind that's saving the day, not a soulless machine. But when Pacific Rim stars Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi are directing its sprints and punches, they're doing so from a studio in Toronto, where the film was shot. It's pretty damn cool to watch, sure, but its impervious to sustainable adoration. Because, remember, Elysium is on the horizon, and if it's as dynamite as many are hoping it'll be, it'll make you forget about Pacific Rim's CGI eye candy. Just as the September release Riddick could very well do to Elysium's momentary power. And so forth.
A decade from now, James Cameron or someone of his caliber will have pushed cinema even further into an immersive, all-CGI experience. In, say, 2023, those behemoth fights in Pacific Rim will give you the dated feeling that 1982's TRON elicits today. It's not out of the realm of possibility to think that audiences in 2023 will be able to download the latest summer blockbuster directly onto their convenient Google Glass 15.0 accessory and somehow physically interact with the film's three-dimensional characters—in Avatar 6: Na'vi Scared. Pacific Rim will be cinematic Intellivision. But those ass-kicking gangsters in 2023's The Raid: Annihilation? They're going to literally beat the piss out of you as you're standing there in awe.
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'Expedition Impossible' goes off the road to Morocco
ABC's latest venture into reality programming, "Expedition Impossible," premiering Thursday, June 23, has the hallmarks of a Mark Burnett hit: an exotic locale, demanding challenges and teams viewers will root for.
"What I was trying to set out to do here was to create a television show for ordinary Americans who have a common desire for big adventure," Burnett says. "Their desire is probably bigger than their capability, but they are willing to suck it up and try it anyway. Thematically I wanted them to feel an Indiana Jones kind of experience."
So 13 teams of three, including "California Girls," "The Football Players" and "No Limits" (which has a blind man) were brought to Morocco. In all they traveled some 2,000 miles, beginning their Moroccan adventure in Merzouga, going through the Sahara Desert and over the Atlas Mountains, and ending in Marrakech. Dave Salmoni hosts.
"What you get in that area, by the Algerian border, is very classic Saharan desert, with almost 1,000-feet-high sand dunes going around them," Burnett says. "As you approach the Atlas Mountains, there are canyons full of small, ancient Moroccan villages."
Teams face challenges each of the 10 weeks, and the last to complete one is eliminated. Burnett's sense of drama, history, endurance and loyalty are put to use. Contestants had to be fit.
"You had to show up and have a certificate for horse riding," Burnett says. "And when they got there, prior to the race, we gave them stallions and wanted to see them control a runaway horse and how they deal with runaway Arabian stallions. They had to show how they would right a capsized boat on a raging river and show how to read a compass and rappel down sheer cliffs. Our mountain guides were there and watched them all do it."
Contestants sky-dived, swam in rivers, kayaked, climbed mountains, and rode stallions, camels and donkeys.
Not surprisingly, growing up in Rockaway Beach, New York firefighter Rob Keiley was a stranger to camels. He signed up with two lifelong pals, Kevin Coursey and Mike Egan, also NYC firefighters.
"I had never seen a camel before," Keiley says. "The closest thing I could imagine is what a dinosaur was -- and they are massive."
Riding a stallion, Keiley says, "was the stupidest or craziest thing I have ever done in my life. You get on this animal you don't have control over, and they are huge, and they just want to go."
As firefighters these guys are in shape and accustomed to lugging around heavy loads because their gear weighs so much. They trained by running on the beach and running up and down stairs.
"We went to a local stable with a friend who owns a horse," Keiley says. "It's nothing like a stallion. You're riding this little New York City horse."
The physical challenges are incredibly tough, and Burnett says, "There were major, major problems. At some point in every stage, somebody wanted to quit. If one person on the team quits, the entire team would be disqualified."
"Expedition Impossible" isn't a big payday. Each member of the winning team receives $50,000 and a Ford Explorer.
"I did not want anybody showing up for the money," Burnett says. "That was really a priority. I didn't want people who wanted to be on television. I wanted people who wanted an adventure."
Which is precisely what the firefighter says he had."We were doing these epic things doing things you never thought you would do," Keiley says.
Ultimately he learned how much he missed his family, and by comparison to Berbers and others he met, "what a spoiled life I lead."
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Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
We invade France in search of answers.
Having not previously joined up with Gearbox's award-winning fraternity of Spielbergean flankers, I landed in France for my UbiDays briefing with intel rather than brutal experience ringing in my ears. Oli Clare's point-by-point dissection of 2005's Earned In Blood had given me an idea of what to look for, and my report back to him reads like a point-by-point rebuttal of his lingering doubts.
What's with all the bullet-proof wood, he asked? What indeed, retorts the next-gen tech underpinning Hell's Highway, as developer Randy Pitchford hoses a group of ignorant Germans bedded down behind a picket fence. "I don't remember seeing this in a game before," he says, as the wood frays, splits and disintegrates convincingly under the weight of lead. "Now you learned something valuable today," says military advisor Colonel John Antal; "do not hide behind a wooden fence when somebody's shooting at you." Not in this one, anyway.
Why couldn't the troops in your unit clamber over low walls? Now they can. When you're not firing with the right-trigger, FPS-style, you're directing units with the left-trigger icon system you're familiar with, and you can add a jump button input to have them leap over a waist-high stone wall rather than circling it. Why wouldn't they go prone before? Well, now they do. Why were grenades so hard to hurl? Hard to say if this has changed, since Pitchford's not giving us that pad (and we reckon Antal could probably take us if we moved for it), but it'll be worth persevering: a grenade rolled under a cart brings the camera in for close-up, slows down the action and then erupts, carrying wood and limp German bodies away in arcs of unscripted victory. Pitchford giggles. He keeps doing something on-screen and then pausing to add, "Details." God is in them, of course, and he - or whoever's programming is behind what happens when a pineapple goes boom - is ripping wood apart more credibly than we've ever seen in a game.
Explosions knock you to the ground with real force. Fortunately your brothers in arms are around to drag you to your feet.
With apologies to Oliver, we have no answer to whether you can always put a slug through things in sight, but as for his concern that our World War II education is being distorted by this German army's obsession with loading the Normandy countryside with crates, barrels and oil drums - judging by the town of Son, through which the returning Sergeant Baker and his hardened squad are fighting in our demo, they didn't get round to stocking up Holland. Here the cover's more convincing - low stone walls, crumbling masonry, hastily-deployed sandbags, farming equipment and, of course, picket fences. Fine, there were a few barrels, too. But then Holland was home to a lot of explosives in September 1944, when the 101st Airborne - Baker's company - took part in Operation Market Garden. Ultimately, the fifth bridge they approached was blown before they could reach it. The bridge at Son.
How those events tally with what happens on Hell's Highway is unknown, but just as Colonel Antal insists the game is the most realistic simulation of battle tactics around, Pitchford hypes up the scenario. "Sgt. Baker in the first game learned to be a squad-leader... Now he's learning what it means to be a squad-leader; how to deal with it; the sacrifice you have to make," he says. As Baker enters a house in a cut-scene, he finds some round-rimmed glasses, which give him a sepia-tinted flashback of a dead comrade - Benjamin Legget from the first game. "There's a deep character story here - it's about the burden of a squad-leader. The memory of this dead man haunts Baker. Will it drive him insane or can he come to grips with it and move forward?" With technology more firmly on Gearbox's side this time, there's a range of subtle ideas at work to engage the player in combat. "Brotherhood moments" - when the youngster slips, and the team leader grabs him to his feet at a canter - will blend naturally into situations, and while they may only have a minimal effect on gameplay conditions, they're not about that; they're minute acts of instinctive AI heroism that feed into a more involving whole.
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My 8-year-old with Aspergers has two verbal/speech issues that are challenging. One is a tic or stim where he clears his throat or says "um" frequently (my MIL, who is also on the spectrum, does the same thing). The other issue is that he sometimes hesitates and says "um" several times while saying a single sentence. This is most frequent when he is speaking publicly (in class, for example). It doesn't happen all the time, though. Some of his therapists have never heard it. His teachers have mentioned it, though, and said the kids are patient with him, but it is something of an issue. I know other kids do notice it and the tics. He is very bright and in a mainstream private school. We'd like to minimize the social stumbling blocks he faces as much as possible.
Our professionals have not been super helpful with this. Our speech pathologist called is "developmental disfluency" and said he should outgrow it, but it seems like that typically happens by this age. One (condescending) psychologist said he is using it as a method to preserve his space in the conversation. He does have a very slow processing speed and can be anxious. I think both are anxiety related, but can't figure out any strategies. Does anyone have ideas?
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My Aspy son (7.5) doesn't have the tics, but if he has a complex thought he'll get a few words out, stop, begin at the beginning of the sentence again and get a few more words in, then rewind and try again with a few more words, sometimes 7 or 8 times till he gets the whole thought out.
In terms of strategies, really acceptance is mostly what we use. We ask his teacher to please give him the wait time he needs to say what he needs to say rather than finish his sentences for him, and we ask his brother to please wait his turn to talk. Yes, it's kind of a pain for people around him, but I think in general in our culture we'll all (me included!) in such a rush to get our own turn in a sentence that we're not such great listeners, and I think of my son as giving me the opportunity to learn patience. :)
He definitely has a harder time getting it out if he's stressed, and not being listened to stresses him out, so we mostly just listen (unless it's not his turn to talk- but that's a whole other thread! he's pretty terrible at waiting for his turn and I wish I had some strategies for _that_!)
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South Korea offers little in way of legal recourse for sunken ferry crew
MOKPO, South Korea Mon May 19, 2014 5:00pm EDT
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MOKPO, South Korea May 20 (Reuters) - South Korea's legal system appears to be failing 15 surviving crew of a ferry that sank last month, killing hundreds of children, with their being tried and convicted by an angry public before the case has even come to court.
Lawyers are agonising over how they can mount a convincing defence of the crew, who jumped ship as the children waited in their cabins, dressed in life jackets, obediently following orders before a disaster that put the whole country in mourning.
The absence of determined defence may mean that the crew's side of the story - whether, for instance, they were adequately trained or whether they were given strict orders to abandon ship - may never be heard in court.
One lawyer, appearing for the one of the crew in hearings held behind closed doors to decide the validity of arrest warrants, confessed to being torn between professional obligation and the resignation that lawyers could not make any difference amid a nationwide witch hunt.
"It is a burden for every lawyer, because the crime is something that can hardly be forgiven," he said in the small coastal town of Mokpo.
"It's not just that one person died. There were hundreds. All I could say to the judges is 'we will await your wise decision'. That was it."
Cheong Yeong-seok, a law professor at Korea Maritime and Ocean University, said the "harsh public criticism" meant the chance of a spirited defence was low.
"For lawyers, this case is difficult," he said. "...There is almost nothing to defend because the crew jumped ship without doing their duty."
Appointed by the court, about half the 20 lawyers in Mokpo had to appear for the crew in the closed-doors hearings, said lawyers and sources with direct knowledge of the process.
But the lack of enthusiasm was such that the court had to plead for help, they said.
The lawyers, more used to minor business and electoral disputes and petty crimes in a town famous for its octopus, mostly work cheek by jowl in tiny offices in just two buildings.
They have to lower their voices, heavily accented with a rural southwestern brogue, to avoid the competition overhearing. Law firm officials said this case was too big and too much trouble.
The ferry's captain and three senior crew were charged with homicide last week, two were charged with fleeing and abandoning ship and nine were charged with negligence.
The tragedy turned from an outpouring of grief into public anger as video footage showed some of the crew, including the 69-year-old captain in his underpants, escape the sinking vessel while the children were still on board.
President Park Geun-hye, tears rolling down her cheeks, formally apologised on Monday for the disaster and said she would break up the coast guard because it had failed in its rescue mission.
Until now, the state-appointed lawyers in Mokpo had been bound to represent the detained crew, speaking to them briefly before the court hearings.
But now charges have been laid, the trial will move to the bigger town of Gwangju. The Mokpo court is too small.
Gwangju District Court said the crew's lawyers had been replaced by six new state-appointed attorneys based in the town, and private lawyers for two crewmen.
"The state-appointed lawyers are different from private lawyers. Realistically, they have little confidential relationship with their clients," a source close to the legal profession said.
"When the court calls and assigns this case to lawyers, it is pressure and doesn't feel good. But the defendants should have the right to defence. Even more so because there aren't many precedents for such a case," another source said.
The lawyer and sources declined to be named due to the legal proceedings and the controversial nature of the case.
In the 1995 collapse of a Seoul department store that killed 502 people, the head of the company that built the store was unable to find a private lawyer to represent him, media said. He had to get court-appointed counsel.
South Korea is still furious about an accident that could so easily have been avoided, with footage emerging of the children playing and joking about the Titanic as the ship started to list.
Two children's bodies were found days later with their life jackets tied together, presumably so they wouldn't drift apart.
There is a Korean saying that the law of emotion is above the law of the land and Shin Kwang-yeong, a sociology professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, said the "spirit of the law" in this case had likely been damaged by public anger.
"Media affects public opinion, then public opinion affects investigations and legal proceedings," he said.
Angered by his daughter's death, Yoo Kyeong-geun called for maximum penalties to be imposed on the crew.
The maximum penalty for homicide is death, for abandoning ship, life in prison, and for negligence, lengthy jail terms.
"It is clearly homicide, so we don't have to go through prosecution and defence," Yoo said. "I think the heaviest punishment is one way to prevent other people from being so irresponsible." (Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Nick Macfie) | <urn:uuid:ae410c49-c447-4d3c-a8af-93ba11482a41> | http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/19/southkorea-ferry-idUSL3N0O208620140519?feedType=RSS | en | 0.984655 | 0.025265 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
I believe that many people get confused about the term "Atheist." Is an Atheist just a person who doesn't believe in a supreme being or is there more to it? How does one become Atheist? What is it like be in a world that is dominated by religion? Please give me your feedback on this topic. Help me gain insight on the Atheist community so to speak.
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If you want to read about this, George Smith adequately addresses this in Atheism - the Case Against God, imo. Or, you can look on Wikipedia under atheism, agnosticism, and ignosticism.
An atheist is just a person who has no belief in gods. There are some atheists who would like atheism to mean more, so you might encounter people who say atheism is more.
The way to become an atheist is as unique as each atheist. Some common reasons that atheists state are: skepticism, actually reading the bible, and realizing that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a god.
What is it like to be in a world that is dominated by religion? The answer to that is going to depend on the personality of the atheist, the beliefs of the atheist, and the location of the atheist. For me personally being an open atheist has not presented me with problems regarding friends, family or employment. I live in Oregon where such things are generally tolerated by the population and even more so by the law.
Well Becca, I agree with lot u have to say and u are lucky in which where u live and work. I don't feel that lucky. I can't even express my self around work or family. Work i feel it could be a way in which to single me out for layoff or firing.Here -there is about a church on every other block. The family-hushes me if I try to say anything about being atheist or the sins of the christian religion. So, it is very hard to talk or relate to anyone here. People really don't have an open mind in this country as far as the percent of population in my view towards atheism. We are i think as much or equal to gay people. We just need to change. ...........................the one thing i wanted to add was - the way in which one has been brought to think a different way-or go to atheism.. in my case it was 9-11. the question was why do they hate us so much. Which seemed to have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with capitalism. If religion really played the part it should. There wouldn't be any wars. We would be doing what Jesus really intended. Turn the other cheek and help them understand and forgive. For me it was GB#43 - sending people to war with no objection from our so called christian nation and with his renewal of born again faith. God is used to tell ourselves that it is okay now to kill millions in the name of freeing those people and we are on Gods side. ect. The further I dug into this the more I found this country to be a lie-not only of the christian religion but being free and a true free society. thx
This is the only universal element to the term. There can be more to it, but that 'more' is not necessarily universal to all atheists. My atheism, for instance, is not just a disbelief in gods, but is also a line of reasoning and collection of arguments supporting that philosophical position. Outside of my philosophical position, I also have a more visceral belief that there are no gods, and that there is no such thing as the super natural. Let's say we call that k-atheism for the moment. All k-atheists are atheists, but not all atheists are k-atheists.
"How does one become Atheist?"
As mentioned elsewhere, it varies considerably. I have never been a theist in all my life. I have been exposed to religion quite a bit throughout my life, and I've tried to give it a fair shake, but I just don't consider any theistic views I have encountered thus far to be compelling.
"What is it like be in a world that is dominated by religion?"
Religions have incredible clout in the world, but I wouldn't argue that world is dominated by any of them or even by all of them combined. I think people are simpler than that, and power rests with whomever controls essential needs, which is typically governments and corporations. In terms of social values and morality, I think that modern culture often controls religion and not the other way around. Look at how increasingly acceptable homosexuality is in various churches these days.
Where I live, specifically, the largest single group in terms of religious demographics is those with no religious affiliation. Even those that do identify with a religion often don't go to worship services. It's pretty easy to be an atheist here.
1. By definition atheism is an absence of belief in any god or deity. The term definitely has some stigma attached to it, and undeservedly so. Several other ideologies seem to go hand in hand with atheism, but I think that has more to do with the mindset and thinking processes that most atheists share.
2. How you become an atheist is entirely dependent on each individual. Some seem to be born naturally skeptic, and others go through a slow and sometimes painful realization. Poke around the site and you're bound to see stories of how people go to where they are today.
3. I am in the good old bible belt of the USA, and being an atheist here is pretty much committing social suicide. I still stomp around debating people and wearing my beliefs as proudly as anyone, but it is much different than other places in the country. There is a complete lack of trust shown towards atheists and it has slowly eaten away at me down here. For supposedly being a religion who's members don't pass judgement the christians around here sure are vicious about it.
That's interesting. Its amazing that in a place where religion says all people should be loved and treat one another as you would have them treat you, you could feel so out of place because of your beliefs. That is religious oppression at its core. When religion comes up in conversation what are some of the general reactions you receive?
The word 'a-theist' shouldn't exist. There is no word for disbelief in bigfoot, leprechauns, astrology, phrenology, and Ponzi schemes. I'm an a-theist, but I'm also an a-bigfootist, a-leprechaunist, a-astrologist, a-phrenologist, a-ponzi-ist and an a-hogwash-of-any-kind-ist.
An atheist is someone who rejects theist claims that god or gods exist. That's it. If someone tells you he is an atheist, you know nothing about what he believes. You know one thing he does not believe.
How does one become Atheist?
A theist says God exists. You don't believe him. It may happen gradually or all at once. The details vary too. But that's it.
If you really want to know what it's like: every time you encounter the words God or faith, substitute the word Gnome. I mean it sincerely.
• Your kids recite a Pledge in school, "...one nation, under Gnomes, indivisible...".
• The President, a staunch believer in Gnomes, starts an Office of Gnome-based Initiatives
• Every dollar you handle is emblazoned with the words "In Gnomes we trust".
• You sneeze. Someone says, "Gnomes bless you."
• You go to City Hall. There's a huge Gnome shrine on the lawn.
• You turn on the TV. A favorite NFL player credits a touchdown to the power of Gnomes.
• The Supreme Court rules that references to Gnomes are ceremonial and have nothing to do with belief in Gnomes.
• Terrorists attack American cities and kill thousands because the Gnomes are on their side.
• Gnome-believers take over Afghanistan and behead Gnome-apostates with dull swords.
• The list goes on and on.
Eventually you say it: Enough! You declare your disbelief in Gnomes. You ask the Gnome-believers to leave you alone.
Now you've done it. The Gnome-believers are enraged. "How dare you!" they scream. They bombard you with threats and insults. The Gnomes will torture you forever! This country was founded on Gnomes! How dare you infringe on my right to believe in Gnomes! A few kinder ones suggest that you keep quiet: just don't say the 'under Gnomes' part of the Pledge! See? All better!
That's a tiny taste of what it's like. God and faith are everywhere, and they poison everything.
Unfortunately the infallible pope is the only human who can reliably talk directly with the Gnomes. He has a red Gnome Phone.
Add to the list:
• A war breaks out in the Mid-East. Gnomes wear purple hats, says one side. Gnomes wear yellow hats, says the other.
• A car bomb explodes in Northern Ireland. Down with Gnomes, say the perpetrators, and long live the Leprechauns!
And there is a Gnome anthem, too. I think it was an Eagles hit. I vaguely remember the chorus goes "Gnome Man's got it made, til He's far beyond the pain, and we who must remain, go on living just the same"
Oh, sure, the song's called My Man but we Gnome worshippers know......
Gnome, gnome on the range, where the deer and the antelope play...
I had no idea gnomes had an anthem.
I still hate the Eagles. I'm a Dudeist, after all.
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The people attending the anti-heroin rally hadn't been standing on the corners around Dover's main square for 10 minutes before they got feedback from someone driving by.
"Hey, heroin sucks!" the motorist, who looked to be in his late 20s or early 30s, called out from his SUV. "Heroin sucks!"
The people in the rally cheered and waved their signs, which bore photos of loved ones who had died of heroin overdoses and phrases such as "Heroin does not discriminate."
That sentiment is one of the main points of the rally that started at noon Saturday, said Vickie Glatfelter, the event's organizer.
Glatfelter's son, Robert Glatfelter III, died in April from a fentanyl overdose. She wants to call attention to the fact there is no stereotypical heroin user, and that heroin is a problem in a wide range of communities -- like Dover.
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"And I'm living proof of it, through my son," she said.
Glatfelter had attended similar rallies in Hanover and York, and decided she needed to make one happen in Dover, where no such rally had been held, she said.
"His addiction started here," Glatfelter said. "This problem's here."
She said there's still too much of a stigma surrounding heroin use, so people don't talk about it enough. And that stops anyone from finding a solution, she said.
She said she hopes people see the rally's attendees holding signs. She also hopes people addicted to heroin realize they aren't alone, and there are ways to get help.
Statistics: York County Coroner Pam Gay, chief deputy prosecutor David Sunday and Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel addressed the 30-or-so people in attendance outside Dover High School before the rally moved to the main square.
Gay told the people who had gathered there were 26 confirmed heroin-related deaths during the first six months of this year -- that's compared to nine in the same period last year.
(Sean Philip Cotter/The York Dispatch)
To date in 2014, there have been 28 confirmed heroin-related deaths, and four deaths suspected to be heroin related.
"And most of them that are possible usually come back confirmed," she told The York Dispatch after she addressed the attendees.
Standing on the curb of the square's southwest corner, Deb Ort held up a sign reading "Heroin kills -- let's stand against it together." Ort echoed her friend Vickie Glatfelter's sentiments.
"It happens in our neighborhoods," she said. "It happens to our friends."
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One coupon per party not good unless you are eating by yourself.
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MARTINEZ -- Jury deliberations began Tuesday in the death penalty trial for a Richmond man who says he has no remorse for killing two people at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza Aug. 11, 2009.
Defendant Nathan Burris, who is representing himself, told jurors they should quickly convict him of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend, Caltrans toll taker Deborah Ann Ross, 51, and her friend 58-year-old Ersie "Chuckie" Everette, a Golden Gate Transit Authority bus driver from San Leandro.
"You don't need a half-hour. You don't even need five minutes," Burris said in his closing statement. "Let's get to the penalty phase."
Jurors, however, left Tuesday without reaching a verdict after spending the afternoon listening to read-back of testimony by Burris, who has a severe speech impediment that makes him difficult to understand. They will return to the jury room Wednesday morning.
If the jury convicts Burris of first-degree murder and at least one special allegation, there will be a penalty trial at which the jury would have to decide between capital punishment and life without the possibility of parole.
That is unless California voters on Tuesday night pass Proposition 34 and abolish the death penalty in the state. If that happens, the court will scrap the penalty trial and Burris will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Burris said he's fine with either fate. He spent more time during his closing statement talking about how he's prepared to "shank" other prison inmates than he did about the crimes that brought him to trial.
Burris testified that both Everette and Ross, who were friends through the Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland, saw him with a shotgun near the toll plaza and cried out for him to stop before he killed them. He shot Everette in the parking lot and then ran to the toll booth and shot Ross as she was on duty. Burris testified that he was angry because he believed Ross and Everette were romantically involved after she ended their 14-year relationship. He claimed that Everette threatened him once on the phone, but he was not specific about the exchange during direct testimony and he refused to answer the prosecutor's questions during cross-examination.
Burris told detectives that he brought three guns to the bridge that day and was prepared to shoot a California Highway Patrol officer had one been at the usual station.
The incident happened during the busy evening commute and "could have been a lot worse" had anyone tried to intervene, chief assistant district attorney Harold Jewett said.
Jewett told jurors that he thinks much of Burris' motivation boils down to money. Burris was financially dependent on the hardworking Ross for years, and Burris, a former long-haul truck driver, was either unwilling or unable to provide for himself.
"He was a little bit of a goldbricker," Jewett said.
"Nathan Burris is all about ownership, arrogance, power and control," Jewett said. "I don't know what Debbie saw in him way back when but whatever it was, it's gone."
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Big Brother Winner Aaron Allard-Morgan: 'Four Housemates Attempted Suicide'
As this year's crop prepare to enter the house
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As a porn star, cage fighter and bouncer allegedly prepare to enter the Big Brother house tomorrow, last year's winner has claimed that FOUR of his ex-housemates have attempted suicide.
Aaron Allard-Morgan, who was met with boos when he emerged victorious in Channel 5's first full season of the reality show, made the claims on The Wright Stuff this morning.
"I genuinely fear for them, they don't realise what they're letting themselves in for," he said of the new intake.
"[Producers] give you very little preparation for what's likely to happen. From my year, with the 15 of us, I know that four of them have tried to commit suicide after the show just because of the ramifications and impact that it has on your life."
Though he did not name the unhappy evictees, he added: "You're not prepared and you don't have the aftercare that perhaps you should be getting afterwards. The people that are going in tomorrow, they're not gonna hear this."
One positive, though, is that he is still in a relationship with Faye Palmer, with whom he had an explosive romance during the course of his stint in the Elstree compound.
"Big Brother is a game show, and everybody who goes in there plays a game, including myself. You come out and you're not sure if the person who you could have this relationship with was playing a game with yourself," he said.
"And I knew that I was very much in love with her and it turned out she was the same so it worked out brilliantly."
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User avatar #152 - maxismahname (11/25/2012) [-]
i remember a dude made this comment, it is what you based this off. i don't have a link though.
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pic is about a year and a half old...
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dafaq? freaky coincidence then.
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If the far-sighted plan of the Kapur clan had been approved in the 1990s, Rex would have been not just Bangalore’s but India’s first multiplex
You’ve heard the phrase ‘the magic of the movies’, it’s nothing new. But a movie theatre, too, can bring you a magical experience. I had one last week. Turned me into a regular Alice falling down the rabbit-hole, it did. You’ll never guess what happened, so I might as well tell you.
I was invited to a seminar at Rex Cinema, the last surviving single-screen hall in the Hollywood archipelago around M.G. Road. (Newcomers to our city may not know that Blu Moon, Blu Diamond, Galaxy and Plaza bit the dust; Lido and Symphony morphed into multiplexes; BRV’s lease ran out; Liberty, Opera and Imperial were early casualties; and they all used to specialise in English films.) Down Brigade Road I hurried, turning sharply into the gate (I was late), racing through the parking lot, up two steps to the doorway where a grey-haired face from the past recognised me. “You know where it is?” he asked, with not the slightest doubt why I was there. When I hesitated he continued, “I’ll take you.”
We walked in the darkness past the closed doors of the auditorium from where a faint, muffled soundtrack issued forth. Turn right, down the long corridor leading to the toilets — familiar ground, for I had been to virtually a million screenings here, and I believed I knew every inch of the building. Then we stopped at a large blue door on the left wall at the far end of the corridor. It had always remained locked. “Go in,” he gestured.
I pushed apart the panels of the heavy blue door, expecting to find a room with people in it, but stepped out into empty space instead. A few feet ahead of me was another door in a distempered wall, which I opened. Here it is at last, I thought, the seminar room. And what do I find? Myself in the compound of an ancient bungalow on Rest House Crescent Road! If I’d stumbled upon a pair of Bart Simpson’s shorts that said “Eat me” I couldn’t have been more thunderstruck. Not in all my 35 years in Bangalore had I known that the theatre had a secret passage.
I later learnt that the theatre manager lived in this bungalow once upon a time. Right now, I could see a computer printout with the word ‘Now Showing’ in block letters, taped onto the facade. ‘Seminar’ was too formal a word for what was in progress in the living room — a combination of academic discussion and reminiscence. The exercise was organised by teenaged students doing an oral history project. Academicians spoke of how old cinemas were democratic urban spaces whereas multiplexes shut out the lower classes. Old-timers remembered the films they’d seen at Rex (and others in the archipelago), and Premchand’s encyclopaedic memory knocked the socks off everyone. He had also brought film strips with him — to show the youngsters, in particular: a 70 mm strip (of frames of Sigourney Weaver in Alien) and a 35 mm strip with black lines indicating the soundtrack. A wide-eyed student, who had evidently grown up in the digital era and had never seen a projector, could not visualise the strip rolling, and asked where the soundtrack was “encoded”!
Lapping it all up was owner Anil Kapur who shared his own memories. He said casually, of the bungalow, “My parents were married here.” As for the theatre, he used to bunk classes and sneak in there until his uncle caught him at it one day. The truant grew up to join his uncle Kamal Kapur in the business, and today he is one of the directors of the company. I felt the evening would not be complete until I had embarrassed AK by announcing to the gathering that, in the 1990s, he had dressed up in a Batman outfit as publicity for the movie. Many in the audience had fallen for the act, believing this was Michael Keaton in the flesh despite the rather shaky American accent that AK had endowed the superhero with.
Mamaji was recalled by many — that polite, frail man who looked as if a sudden gust of air would tip him over, but who ruled the place with an iron fist. He would open the counter only when a long queue had formed, so that it would tempt passersby to buy tickets for what appeared to be a highly popular movie. He identified touts and kept them at bay. Once, a tout managed to get in and occupy a seat. Mamaji walked up to him and slapped him hard. He left quietly, without a squeak.
The inevitable question at the end of the evening was, “Multiplex or not?” If the far-sighted plan of the Kapur clan had been approved in the 1990s, Rex would have been not just Bangalore’s but India’s first multiplex. Now that the mall-multiplex formula was all-pervasive, AK wanted to be unique. His personal vision for the property that stretched from 12 Brigade Road to 169 Rest House Crescent: a cinema built in the colonial style with a few rows of cheaper seats for the common man, a rooftop garden, a meeting place, walkways, trees aplenty... Sounded like a pipedream.
As I listened to him I hoped it would turn out to be more than a fairytale set in Wonderland.
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Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath in the New York City penthouse he rented in 1966 for about $400 a month. Today, a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit in the same building is estimated to be worth about $1.2 million. Argenta Images
Joe Namath, 69, a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, played in the AFL and NFL from 1965 to 1977. He recently launched Broadway Joe, a vitamin-enriched sports drink. Mr. Namath was interviewed by reporter Marc Myers.
When I first came to New York in 1965 to play football for the Jets, I couldn't believe the city.
I was from Beaver Falls, Pa., a small town, and had gone to college at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Being in New York was magical, like being led around by the spirits.
After I got to town, my friend Joe Hirsch, a horseracing columnist for the Daily Racing Form who also was close to the Jets' owners, was sort of assigned to look out for me—to help me with the city. The Jets' owners back then wanted me to be happy and have a high profile, since they knew that celebrities sold tickets.
Joe and I found an apartment at Yorkshire Towers—a white-brick building at 86th Street and Second Avenue. I was a little shocked. In Tuscaloosa, I had been living in a three-bedroom house, paying $115 a month. Now I was looking at apartments for $360. Most of the Jets lived in houses on Long Island, but I was told Manhattan was the place to be.
The terrace of Mr. Namath's former apartment as it looks today. Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal
Joe and I took a two-bedroom apartment on the 16th floor. I had to pay extra to park the hunter-green Lincoln Continental convertible that the Jets had given me. To park in the building, I could pay either $40 a month for a space or add $20 to have it washed. I went for the wash, but the car became nicked and dented so often from other cars in there, it was heartbreaking.
New York in '65 was exciting—and lonely. My celebrity came only after we won Super Bowl III in January 1969. In the years before, I could walk around town and be anonymous. When it came to knowing the ladies, that was nice, but I wasn't that well known yet. Most of the time they could hear right away that I was from out of town and weren't interested.
ON THE FIELD: In 2009, Mr. Namath presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, 40 years after Mr. Namath and the New York Jets won Super Bowl III. Associated Press
Other times I got lucky. In November 1965, I was out on our apartment's balcony with Daryl, a go-go dancer at a discothèque called Dudes and Dolls at Third Avenue and 47th Street. The lights started blinking out block by block. That was the big blackout. We had to walk down 16 floors to get out. To this day, my calves get tingly when I stand on a high balcony.
Moving to a penthouse in 1966 was someone else's idea. I was comfortable at Yorkshire Towers, but Bobby Vanucci, who owned Dudes and Dolls, had suggested the switch. He was planning another club on First Avenue in the 70s called Jet Set and thought I should move someplace nearby.
Bobby told me about Newport East—at 370 E. 76th. I liked the idea of a penthouse, so I rented the space, which cost just a little more each month than where I had been. Joe came with me as my roommate, but when he was out of town covering races, which was often, Jets defensive back Ray Abruzzese stayed there.
AT HOME: Mr. Namath, his leg in a cast after tearing a tendon in his knee, in the living room of his Newport East apartment in January 1968. CSU Archives/Everett Collection
Before we moved in, I hired a decorator to design the apartment. I was introduced to the guy by one of my friends who frequented the East Side clubs with me. The decorator and I spoke, he made drawings and showed me how the apartment would look. I didn't know anything about that stuff so I just let him do his thing. Thinking back, I guess it wound up a little over the top.
From the building's lobby, you took the elevator to the 17th floor, where there were several penthouses. When you walked into my apartment, you were in a small foyer with large black-and-white marble tiles. The wet bar was ahead of you, and there were smoked mirrors on the walls.
An exterior view of the Newport East today. Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal
In the 1960s, the draw of Newport East, the building where Joe Namath lived, came down to one amenity: a rooftop pool. Back then, that feature was rare and drew other celebrities, such as tennis great Arthur Ashe, to the 19-floor building with 367 units. The Upper East Side neighborhood is quieter now; then it was full of bars and other late-night destinations.
By the late 1980s, rents for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at Newport East had doubled from Mr. Namath's nearly $400 a month to about $800 a month. In 1986, the building was converted from a rental to a co-op, and about 50% of its renters became owners. One current resident and board member says he bought his two-bedroom, two-bath unit for$188,000 and now estimates it's worth $1.2 million. —Alyssa Abkowitz
If I close my eyes now, I can see the layout. The living room was to the right as you entered. The first thing you noticed was the llama-hair carpeting. It was wall-to-wall and 8 inches thick—like a cloud. I wasn't crazy about it. The hair was long and such a nuisance. You'd be looking for an earring in that thing for hours. It also was a nightmare for the woman who cleaned our apartment.
The furniture was upholstered in zebra, snow leopard and other animal skins. There were two sofas—one without a back that was up against the wall with a view facing out the north window. The other sofa didn't have a back and was against the east wall with a west view. There also was a bench covered in zebra on the west side of the room.
The bedroom suite was off the foyer, down a short hall. My bedroom was small, so there wasn't a lot of furniture in there. I had a king-size bed, and on the ceiling was a smoked mirror the same shape and size as the bed.
The outdoor terrace wasn't exceptionally large—but it had a great westward view. The roof was the thing—there was a community pool up there. Before 1969, I wasn't all that popular, so there wasn't a crush of people always trying to meet me when I went up to swim. Actually, I was the one who went up to see who was there.
The kitchen was small. I had a lady friend who lived down South who came up to visit from time to time and cooked Southern food. Ray was Italian, and his uncle often came over and made great red sauce. But most of the time I ate out—at the '21' Club, Toots Shor's , Gallagher's Steakhouse and a variety of delis and coffee shops.
We had a good stereo system. I listened to everything back then: the Rascals, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, the Shirelles—anything that moved me. I was the first to bring a radio into the Jets locker room to listen to music because I always felt good hearing and feeling the vibes.
In 1968, I needed a few color TVs for the penthouse. By then I had been out to dinner with so many people and remembered a guy who said he was in the TV business. When I went up to see him at his office, he was sitting behind his desk—a sweetheart of a guy and a suave cat.
He said, "Hi, Joe, what can I do for you?" I told him I needed some color TVs and asked him where I could get them. The guy just smiled and we talked football for a bit. And that was that. The next thing I knew, color sets were being delivered to my apartment. The guy was Robert Sarnoff, who I later learned was the head of NBC.
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Clicking on a migrated question now leads to an immediate header redirect to the target site.
For a new user, this must be utterly confusing. They asked a question on one site, and suddenly end up on another they don't know anything about, and usually don't have an account on. The explanation why this happened (migrated from Stackoverflow.com) is small and extremely easy to overlook.
I also find it slightly annoying myself, and going against my instinctive expectations when browsing the site. The decision of switching over to a different site should be left to the user. Forcing this upon them feels wrong.
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The auto-deletion on the source site makes it frustrating to look at a questionable migration, because I can't see if it was a community voted migration or whether a moderator acted on it. – Rebecca Chernoff Jan 2 '11 at 21:51
@Rebecca yeah. Plus, the feature probably removes all "favourite" markers on the question that were set prior to migration. – Pëkka Jan 2 '11 at 21:53
@Rebe: what auto-deletion? Click the "migrated from..." link and view the original. – Shogging through the snow Jan 2 '11 at 23:07
@Shog9, Only mods / 10k users on the original site will be able to see it. If I try to view the source of a question on WA that was migrated from SU or SO, I get Page Not Found as I don't have 10K on those sites. – Rebecca Chernoff Jan 2 '11 at 23:20
@Rebe: I just viewed the originals of questions migrated to SO from SF and Stats.SE - I don't have significant rep on either site, but the questions showed up without a problem. Migrated questions can be deleted without disrupting the redirect, but I don't think it's automatic (at least not yet). – Shogging through the snow Jan 2 '11 at 23:23
@Shog9, perhaps I (and a few other mods I've talked to) aren't correct about what is happening then. Of the questions from the list of recently migrated questions, I can't view the source of any I've sampled. Maybe these are all being manually deleted? Hrm. – Rebecca Chernoff Jan 2 '11 at 23:32
Ok, I did find a couple that I can view on the original site. So this seems to be a separate issue. Sorry for the sidetrack. – Rebecca Chernoff Jan 2 '11 at 23:40
This raises another question, if it gets migrated, can't the migration script look to see if the account is associated to that site, and if it's not, autoassociate them? – jcolebrand Jan 20 '11 at 18:57
As an aside: as for browsers the redirects are a 301 Moved Permanently, I assume search bots will see the same. I guess folks coming from up-to-date search engines do not even see the old site in the results. I like that. – Arjan Jan 20 '11 at 19:18
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I kind of disagree.
On the one hand, I agree it's a little bit confusing to get sent to a totally different site.
But on the other hand, most users aren't going to care where the information is, they just want to see the information now, period. This is really important, IMO.
So I think if anything should be changed, I would suggest a hybrid solution: instead of immediately redirecting, the original question could be shown, but auto-redirect after a short period of time. A prominent message would tell the user what's going to happen: "This question has been migrated to <target site>, you will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds."
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+1 This I could totally live with. You can stop a meta redirect with the ESC key if you want to review the original question, or wait a few seconds to see the migrated version. – Pëkka Jan 2 '11 at 22:50
I'd suggest a revision to your proposal - that the auto-redirect happen immediately, but if the owner of the question is the one being redirected, a small &owner=1 gets appended to the migrated URL which triggers one of those dropdown messages (like when you're auto-logged in) advising the user that their question has been moved to a more appropriate website. – Mark Henderson Jan 21 '11 at 3:59
So move it above the question, under the title, Wikipedia-style.
Or don't - it'll still be easy to miss if you're not looking for it, and most users probably aren't looking for it. Which kinda kills the rationale for throwing it in their faces.
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The site is designed around the wanted behavior, asking your question on the wrong one clearly isn't.
So should we maintain a broken workflow, just for the ease of use of a user, who didn't know where to ask his question? Do we need to show everybody this dead end page? I hope not, because after him I hope lot's of other users will see the question too.
As for the mods being interested in who migrated the questions: stop caring! Migrations don't happen by accident and we should assume that every migration is a correct one. If a lot of questions get wrongly migrated, then we should educate our users as to how to behave, not maintain some broken workflow.
Besides with the new notification system, you would expect a user to still get notified if any activity occurs on his question. Therefore removing the necessity of maintaining the original question.
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it's not the ease of use for the user alone, it's for everyone who happens upon the question. The page doesn't have to be a dead end: A timed redirection could lead to the same result, but with less confusion for everyone involved. – Pëkka Jan 3 '11 at 0:06
I like this answer... Trying to avoid confusing confused users is pointless. – Shogging through the snow Jan 3 '11 at 0:08
@Pekka: A timed redirect is only useful if you're visiting the question for reasons other than reading it (or reading the answers). Otherwise, it serves only to interrupt you in the middle of reading. Most users are probably here to read. The current system provides a link back if you really want to view the original. – Shogging through the snow Jan 3 '11 at 0:10
@Shog well, I can see your points, especially the Wikipedia reference. Still, in my eyes, the automatic redirect is a more broken workflow than having a page in between, because you're switching sites and UIs in the process. I don't like it, and I can't see the huge burden in having the user make one more click to a different site. We'll have to agree to disagree – Pëkka Jan 3 '11 at 0:19
Again: you shouldn't have to care about the original question, because it serves no purpose. – Ivo Flipse Jan 3 '11 at 8:39
Here's the text from my duped feature request on this:
I just had it happen to me that I clicked on a closed question on Super User and it immediately directed me to Stack Overflow, where it had been migrated. So I have no idea who did the migration, and if there had been edit history, I'm not sure it would have all gone over. If ALL of the information isn't moved with the question, then please don't make the link take me directly to the other site.
Another point is that since I don't know up front if the question was migrated, I won't know whether to right-click on it to open it in another tab, as opposed to opening it in the same window. I want to keep my Super User window on Super User.
Edit: Now it's getting ridiculous. I clicked on a link to an SO question and got a "page not found" page on Webmasters. SE is going to end up being a graveyard of dead links.
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Clicking an extra link isn't hard and auto redirection in this case degrades user experience (a little) imho. – abel Jan 20 '11 at 18:58
The "redirect to deleted question" thing bugs me a bit... I'm thinking the site should kick you back or something if that happens. – Shogging through the snow Jan 27 '11 at 17:00
@shog9, Do up a FR on that specific point and I'll throw you a vote, and help you in your push to 50k. – Lance Roberts Jan 27 '11 at 17:02
after thinking about this for a bit, I feel the correct solution is to allow destination sites to reject migrations. If the question was actually off-topic, there's no point to redirecting at all; if it wasn't (but was just a bad question...) then 404 should be fine (since it probably should be/have been deleted on the originating site anyway). – Shogging through the snow Jan 27 '11 at 17:29
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