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Comment: Re:OK Google? (Score 1) 35
by squiggleslash (#48651785) Attached to: Chromebook Gets "OK Google" and Intel's Easy Migration App
Basically the idea is you walk up to your Chromebook, and without touching anything you say "OK Google what are my appointments today?"
The Chromebook will then say "About 15,700,000 results (0.39 seconds) "Ok Google" and voice search - Search Help - Google Help â ... â How to use the app Google For example, say "Ok Google" do I need an umbrella tomorrow" to see if ... Note: You need to have Google Now turned on for some of these examples to ... Create a Google Calendar event: "Create a calendar event for dinner in San Francisco, Saturday at 7 PM." See your upcoming bills: "My bills" or "My Comcast bills 2013. Google now Google Google Now brings you the information you want, when you need it. Ok Google now, what's my next appointment no longer working ... â Motorola Android Phones â Moto X (2013) Aug 26, 2014 - 9 posts - âZ3 authors Anyone else having trouble with "Okay Google Now, what's my next appointment?" It stopped working for me about a week ago. It was one of ... Google Now - Show me appointments for this week and ... 25 posts Oct 13, 2013 Assist - Meetings not working? - Android Forums at ... 21 posts Aug 21, 2013 More results from How to get the best out of Google Now - Digital Trends â Mobile Jul 28, 2014 - If you'd like to know how to properly set up Google Now and learn about ... If you have a Nexus 5 or you install the Google Now Launcher then you can simply say âoeOk Googleâ on your home ... When is my next appointment? [Q] Why is Google Now not telling me "w⦠| Samsung Galaxy S III ... Sep 15, 2012 - 10 posts - âZ7 authors I have been trying to get Google Now to tell me what my next appointment is but all it ever seems to do is web search and not actually look at ... 6 Tips For Getting Started With Google Now - Gizmodo Gizmodo Sep 20, 2014 - Here are seven simple steps you can take to turn Google Now into your personal ... to remind you that you're about to be late for an appointment. ... Voice allows you to turn your tablet into a hands-free device: with OK Google Detection, you ... Commands like "Show me all of my photos from Kalamazoo" or ... The Ultimate Guide to Using Google Now as Your Personal ... Dec 6, 2013 - Google Now is more expansive and feature rich than ever before, and it's built ... Next Appointment - Info for nearing Google Calender Events. ..... off my HTC One, the first thing I do is unlock my device and say, "OK Google". Google Now tip: say "Show me my calendar" : Android - Reddit reddit Nov 25, 2013 - I got a card displaying a lot of my upcoming events and it read off the date, time, ... "ok google, show me a list of everything i can tell you to do.". Google Now nearly on your computer with Google's voice ... Nov 27, 2013 - In Android 4.4, you can speak the âoeOK Googleâ hotword and perform a ... I was also able to get Google to recite my next scheduled appointment, ... Why it's time for Google to fix Google Now â" Tech News ... Mar 29, 2014 - (I told Google Now about my actual place of work many moons ago, .... Thus, when I book an appointment outside of work, I would expect Google Now to .... constant false positives GN gives when it thinks ive said âoeok google.â.:
And afer showing you an ad for OK Google it will then let you go to the next page of links.
Comment: Re:false summary is false (Score 2) 35
by squiggleslash (#48651761) Attached to: Chromebook Gets "OK Google" and Intel's Easy Migration App
I've read your reponse three times and it looks like you're responding to an entirely different claim:
Their claim: Chromebooks out-sold iPads.
Your apparent rebuttle: Apple's combined laptops and tablets outsold laptops and tablets running Google platforms in one sector, education, according to an Apple advocacy site.
Their claim may be easy to knock down, I don't know: it's unsourced, and it certainly sounds a little odd (the iPad is a remarkably popular platform, for it to be beaten by something most people seem to have never heard of seems strange and is either wrong, or we've severely underestimated the Chromebook's widespread appeal), but you don't appear to address it in any way whatsoever, and the argument you do make lacks a credible source.
Comment: Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 418
Funny thing is C# isn't where .NET is and isn't where its popularity comes from. is why .NET is popular, and unfortunately why the GP is wrong.
Shame, but I'm hoping an influx of interest now the platform is open source will move .NET more towards C#. And I hope the superiority of C# to tJPL will, ultimately, move Enterprises to the platform. Java has stagnated in large part because its real competition - that nobody wants to admit - are PHP and Visual BASIC. And, ironically given Oracle's actions against Google, Android is the only thing giving non-Enterprise developers exposure to the language and keeping it in the public eye.
A sudden popularity in C# may push Java to be more relevant, and if Java fails, we might see some interesting moves in areas that have traditionally been Java based.
Comment: Re:Nice! I was one of the ones hit by these charge (Score 1) 51
by squiggleslash (#48640867) Attached to: T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills
At least you got some unsolicited text messages ;-) Most victims of this scheme, my wife included, never even got that. There was literally no connection between activity on our accounts and the unauthorized charges.
To this day I find it unfathomable T-Mobile would allow any company to add charges to one of their customer's bills on their say-so. At the very least, I'd expect a "Show an example of a text message FROM customer TO creditor" requirement, something T-Mobile (and apparently the other companies to, according to Legere) never bothered to require.
Comment: Re:How naive... (Score 4, Insightful) 89
Comment: Re:Wow. This whole sorry clusterfuck sucks (Score 1) 553
by squiggleslash (#48633937) Attached to: FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate
Most of the people I've seen speaking out against GG seem to be the politcally correct thought police
Or... the loudest voices against GG have been those targetted by GG, who by and large are people seen by GG to be Feminists and widely misrepresented as a thought police rather than people sharing concerns they have about sexism.
Comment: Re:harassment attribution (Score 2) 553
by squiggleslash (#48633881) Attached to: FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate
You've just proven it's easy to convince yourself of something that's obviously not true simply by creating a narrative and tying some minor details into it.
Sarkeesian needs to screenshot a Twitter user who over the last few minutes is sending her death threats. She's getting notifications every few seconds from Twitter on her mobile device, presumably her phone. She knows how to make a screenshot on a computer, and it'll capture more tweets than the four or five you can typically see on a mobile phone, so she fires up a web browser, goes to the Twitter URL of the harasser who's still in the process of sending her death threats, hits Ctrl-PtSc, and then sends the screenshot somewhere.
Completely normal. Exactly what you'd expect someone to do (I know it's technically possible to take a screenshot on your phone, but (1) you won't get many tweets and (2) personally I don't actually know how to do it, if I were in the same situation I'd have to Google for the information.)
Your idiot evidence tries to make every element of this suspicious. They... *gasp* went to a PC they weren't logged into to make the screenshot. They *horror* didn't wait until the death threat stream had finished before making the screenshot, meaning some were coming in seconds before she took it! Because you've decided she must be making this up, you've had to invent a ridiculous narrative involving tablets and logging out of PCs that has Sarkeesian apparently unaware she can have two browsers on the PC that has a keyboard.
What's even more bizarre is you make these allegations while GamerGate simultaneously acknowledges that Sarkeesian does, actually, get death threats all the time. The GG "Anti-Harassment Patrol" even trumpeted it's "success" at finding a certain Brazillian journalist who is one source of anti-Sarkeesian death threats, and got terribly upset when Sarkeesian said "Yes, I know, I've already reported him" and spun it as "Sarkeesian refuses to report harasser we found!!!1!!"
GamerGate is about harassment. Stop trying to cover it up.
Comment: Re:Hardware keyboards not the issue with Blackberr (Score 1) 132
by squiggleslash (#48633733) Attached to: Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009
Android phone makers experimented with physical keyboards for a while, and lately seem to have decided to just issue the same bland iPhone-but-with-Android form factors and forget about being innovative in that area.
I hope BlackBerry stays relevent enough to undo that and get manufacturers looking at text input again. The current situation may suit many, but I see a 50/50 split between people who are happy with Swype-like text input, and people who really prefer the accuracy of physical push buttons. Me, I'm generally OK with the former, but want to have the latter to fall back on.
Comment: Re:harassment attribution (Score 2) 553
by squiggleslash (#48633409) Attached to: FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate
What's happening here is the standard (especially in GG) circle-j where GamerGaters theorize that something is a "false flag", then someone digs out some minor coincidence, KIA has a field day and declares that the case has been proven, and nobody there revisits the issue, usually genuinely shocked that anyone would disagree.
I'm _still_ arguing with people who think (or claim to think) that Nathan Grayson wrote anything at all as a result of his fling with "LW1" [the GamerGate term for their primary target, who isn't a journalist FWIW. The women herself has suffered enough harassment, so I'll subvert this term to actually avoid mentioning her by name respecting her wish she be kept out of it.] They read Grayson did, they've only listened to people who said he did, as far as they're concerned it's true, and no amount of "OK, point me at the articles he supposedly wrote" will change that. Given this is the original attempt to redefine GamerGate as an "ethics" campaign, something even this story has fallen for, that's a pretty bad thing.
Another example:
1. Eron Gjoni initially tried to post his revenge-ex "tell all" about "LW1", to the forums of Something Awful. SA deleted it immediately and banned Gjoni.
2. Gjoni shops around, finally finding 4chan tolerates it long enough to stir up support from various anti-women trolls (well, it's 4chan, of course they're trolls.) Yadayadayada Adam Baldwin yadayadayadayada front page of New York Times, article about GamerGate's harassment and death threat campaign.
3. Goons (SA's term for forum members) discussing the trainwreck on Something Awful's forums notice the New York Times is covering a controversy that started at... Something Awful and post words to the effect of "What started here ended up on the NYT!"
So what happened then? Well, GamerGate developed a consensus, immediately, without any evidence whatsoever beyond forgetting, somehow, that SA was where Gjoni started trying to destroy "LW1", that Something Awful was behind all the death threats and was making them to make GamerGate look bad.
Because that totally makes sense. One, out of context, forum comment, with no actual quotes from SA members organizing this shadow campaign.
I mention this because it's one case where you specifically see the mindset. Something is "proven" because it gets repeated within KIA enough that it becomes an unquestioned fact. This is how GG holds on to its useful idiots long enough for them to make idiots of themselves.
Comment: Re:Home of the brave? (Score 4, Insightful) 586
by squiggleslash (#48622985) Attached to: Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release
Yes, I'd go to the mall. And if I didn't, it'd solely be because I'd turn back if I saw over-zealous TSA-style "security" at all entrances. That's right, I'm more afraid of the TSA (guaranteed to cause misery) than a terrorist (can only cause misery if extremely lucky.)
I lived the first 25 years of my life in a county regularly attacked by real terrorists - not cartoonish villains wearing head dresses, but the sociopathic extreme of a (rightly, in my view, but that's another story) angry Irish Catholic community. I can honestly say I never changed anything I did based upon fear of being killed by terrorists. You don't live your life that way.
In this case, Sony and various theater chains are pissing their pants over a group that has no record of terrorism and which, having "warned" us, is highly unlikely to get away with an attack anyway. And whose justification for an attack anyway is absurd and highly improbable to drive anyone into a murderous rampage.
This is the logical continuation of the Bush response to terrorism: show the entire world we're terrified and lashing out at everyone, because somehow that's helpful, moral, and not going to encourage more terror.
It's time this nation stood up, and stopped pissing its pants every time someone phones in a bomb threat.
Comment: It's fairly simple (Score 4, Insightful) 217
by squiggleslash (#48620341) Attached to: What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve?
Open source is a success. It's taken over most of the server market. The fact it's open is why it's a success - do you think PHP would ever be popular if it were closed?
The question Microsoft is asking themselves is not "How do we kill this", but "How do we monetize this?" (followed by "How far should we jump right now, and to what extent should we hold back?")
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Comment: Re:Patents (Score 4, Informative) 217
by squiggleslash (#48620289) Attached to: What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve?
I may be wrong but I thought the only major patent things they've been involved in lately they were pretty up front about - in fact, many Slashdotters complained at the time they were just engaging in FUD by announcing they had any patents.
The things I know of are:
- The FAT LFN patent. Not a great idea, but they never picked FAT to be a SD card file system in the first place. Can't blame them for cashing in beyond general opposition to patents.
- The package of patents covering technologies in Android - this is the one I think Slashdot's commentator consensus complained was FUD until Microsoft started approaching mobile device makers.
- VC-1, which they were upfront about during the standardization process, and coordinated with the group licensing the MPEG LA was organizing.
Where have they tried to push something as an open standard and then turned around and said "Ha ha! Gotcha! Here are these hidden patents we never told you about"?
Comment: Re:First amendment? (Score 1) 250
by squiggleslash (#48608007) Attached to: Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents
Kinda, there's an area in between that it also protects against. The first amendment also protects you against private prosecutions and civil actions, as well as (again, for the most part) the government using its megaphone to promote one view and not another. Of course, everything's subject to tests on whether it's actual speech or not, and some categories, generally involving dishonesty or involvement in crime, have less protection.
On that latter note, not being a lawyer, I can't comment on whether quoting from Sony's documents is likely to result in successful court action or not, and would be interested to hear a real lawyer's take on it (a good one, I don't mean NYCL.)
Comment: Re:Easy solution... (Score 4, Insightful) 603
by squiggleslash (#48604667) Attached to: Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents
Ladies and Gentleman, we have a time traveller from 1948!
Just so you know, that whole "Outlaw high rise buildings, cover the entire country in parking lots and freeways" thing you and Robert Moses advocate was tried. For about 50 years in fact. In fact, in most of the US it's still the default. The problem was it made transit and other alternatives to the car commercially unsustainable, drove up the cost of living, has had immense social and economic costs, and it's actually the underlying cause of the problem being described by this article, which is that too many cars are on the road, not too few.
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I know it's 'unsafe' in terms of data loss but I noticed motherboards still have some of their circuits on power when they are plugged in [e.g. a circuit that must wait for power-on signals is certainly one of them]. Hence, I wondered if it would increase the life of the laptop if the battery was simply off. Let alone that may also increase battery life, but that's the least of my concerns.
Notice the main point is to plug it off on hibernate and have no power source whatsoever for the duration of being off (apart from the clock battery). (i.e. saving having to plug off the battery every time)
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As an aside: (some) Apple MacBooks run slower when you remove the battery. – Arjan Sep 13 '13 at 23:21
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Longevity of a notebook has many factors, but power through motherboard circuitry while sleeping/hibernating would rank near the bottom of the list in my humble opinion. The limited amount of voltage/amperage traversing the components while in that state should have no effect on the lifespan of your machine.
Most of the time motherboards are not high failure items, unless you get a bad batch and/or poor quality throughout production. In my experiences, plastic pieces are the first to go, lid latches, the lid itself from flexing on open, hinges, case bottom from heating and cooling, etc. With daily use and even the best care these pieces still break on a more regular basis than a motherboard that is always receiving power.
Also of note: A recent thread on the Linux Thinkpad Mailing list was discussing a development with Lenovo notebooks and the 65W Power Supply units. Main point was that the 65W adapter with the added power of the battery was not sufficient for high intensity loads and could easily damage the motherboard, hard drive(SSD), RAM. Suggestions were to not use a 65W brick at all(use the 90Ws) and to also leave the battery in, it was designed that way. :)
So, unless you are absolutely certain that your notebook will never use over the power stated on your brick, I would leave the battery in period. You may well end up doing more harm than good.
Thread is located here
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A laptop without a battery is basically similar to running a desktop without an (online) UPS.
Basically, As you have noticed, there are a few "extra" circuits on a laptops motherboard which allow it to control a battery, however, you can always buy an extra battery and it would not really affect the laptop as a whole.
Also, some laptops which have smart/green/power saving specifications may be set in ways that automatically make them run slower when the battery is on and the mains are unplugged.
But, to sum up, you have nothing to worry about by using it with the battery unplugged... but there is nothing to gain either and personally, I would leave it in.
I would like to say, that if you only run the laptop without a battery, possibly consider selling it and getting a desktop - you could probably get something a lot more powerful for the same money!
I have not seen any laptop that drains a battery considerably when it is turned off - even ones that have wake on lan enabled.
Hope this helps!
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The point is not to save the battery, but to avoid giving power sources to the laptop. I noticed motherboards still have current flowing into many parts of them when they are completely turned off but a battery [or AC] is on. e.g. I noticed a GPU was getting full power on a plug it needed on a laptop. i.e. trying to save laptop motherboard life-expectancy. – leladax Jan 14 '11 at 17:33
In general, you should be fine running a laptop off of only AC power. The only issue with it would be when you're using "dirty" power, but that's not a problem for pretty much any industrialized country or region now-a-days.
Disconnecting a battery when it's fully charged can help extend its useful lifespan, as well as the single charge time. However all batteries degrade over time, and the extent to which disconnecting it will help is very dependant on the type of battery, amount of charge on it, and numerous other factors. Following the manufacturers recommendations is probably your best bet.
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I disagree with the bit about disconnecting the battery when it is fully charged, as the laptop does that anyway. Also, keeping a Li-ion battery fully charged is not the best way to store it. – paradroid Jan 14 '11 at 17:41
Fair enough. However, Li-Ion batteries are rarely fully charged by laptops. When the battery indicator says 100%, the battery is usually at 80-90%. – MBraedley Jan 14 '11 at 17:44
Where's the source confirming laptops turn off AC to batteries? I assumed that myself as common sense but never confirmed it. – leladax Jan 14 '11 at 17:47
@leladax: Just what ThinkVantage Power Manager tells me on my ThinkPads. I think you can get some of the same functionality with something like BatteryBar: osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/index.html – paradroid Jan 14 '11 at 17:54
Storing a lion battery at 30-50% is optimum for battery life....h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/… – Moab Jan 14 '11 at 19:48
I know this is an old topic, but want to throw this information out to everyone...
The best reason to remove a battery from your laptop is, it could be damaged or just wore out. When a battery gets to the point where it has a larger load (resistance higher than normal), it can cause the charging system to overwork, and therefore heat up the laptop. This condition can cause the laptop to turn itself off, and therefore you will loose any unsaved work. In addition, by overheating, you are damaging multiple areas of the laptop, e.g. overheating IC chips, and other components.
Oh yea, don't forget that data can become corrupt during a shutdown phase, because the data might be in the middle of a write-to-hard-drive function. Read-from-hard-drive is not an issue, because it is not in the middle of creating bytes stored to your hard drive.
Bottom line, get a new battery or you could lose something...
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It is safe; however if you will be not using your battery for a long time you should discharge it to about 60% for the longest shelf-life.
Also, some laptops do use the battery slightly when under large loads (my old Sony would actually discharge the battery even when I was plugged in if I played games with high settings)
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It won't do any harm, but you will lose out on the built-in UPS that the battery serves as when the laptop is plugged into the mains.
You will not really gain much in the way of battery life either, as Lithium-Ion batteries degrade in time, whatever you do.
What effects them adversely is heat, so if you remove it, it is best to keep it in the refrigerator, in an airtight container. Do not store it fully charged or fully depleted. Around 60% is best I have read.
I would leave it on the laptop myself. If your laptop's power options has the ability, do not let the battery fully charge to 100% (I let it charge up to 90%) and never fully deplete it.
Most of this is what I have learnt from Battery University.
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The life expectancy of your motherboard shouldn't be an issue unless its really cheap/defective. I have several old laptops that are still going 15 years later, and they have not been treated kindly. However, if you think you really need to disconnect the battery when not in use, and you're decent with tools, you may be able to install a small low-profile SPST switch somewhere on your laptop case to do this.
Just curious...does your laptop feel warm with the battery installed and not in use?
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I was once told by a Toshiba tech to remove the battery and just use the outlet.
Some details:
I have a notebook, that I had to replace the battery that came with it. It came with NO manual, you had to get it online. If you wanted a printed one, you had to print 68 pages, I didn't. So I didn't know that you have to use the battery until it's below 50% before you plug it in. Bought another battery, I did what I was told to do, use the battery until it was down to 50%. This battery died too. I talked to a Toshiba tech, and he told me to remove the battery and just use the outlet. So I used cardboard to fill in the area where the battery was and covered it all with clear tape. Works fine. He told me that it died because I was over charging the battery. Something I didn't know.
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So basically whatever maintenance you tried, the battery wears out. I'd say: don't worry, be prepared to buy a new battery if needed, and then use the notebook in the way that works best for you, not for the battery... – Arjan Sep 13 '13 at 23:25
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Which ones do you still use? Which do you like and dislike?
I like records. I've inherited some from my parents, the same ones I listened to as a kid, and they are priceless to me. I've also liked picking up records at flea markets. My brother gets new albums on new vinyl, but somehow that's not the same.
I am a die-hard fan of cassettes. Lots of people have made fun of me for this but those things are damn durable. I have a used car with a tape player so I got out all the tapes I hadn't listened to in a long time. They have been through years and years of abuse, and most of them still work. Also, if they don't work they can be repaired with household items like screwdrivers, scotch tape, etc.
I hate CDs. I remember when they were invented and I said they're just glorified records. Except records don't skip as much and if they do skip, you can put a dime on the needle (though that will make it wear down quicker). CDs were the first thing to never wear out, but they're so touchy and they skip at the drop of a hat. My favorite thing is when you put a disc in and it says "no disc", like a kid that says "since there is no one there, I won't respond!"
MP3s are fine, I have them on computer but don't have a portable player (I'm unemployed), eventually I'll get one and ideally I can play them and cassettes in my car, and MP3s and records at home, and hopefully never have to deal with CDs again.
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I fucking hate cassettes. I've lost far too much music over the years due to damaged tapes. At least with CDs and mp3s, I have a chance at making an inexpensive backup and not having to re-purchase whole albums. Records are cool for nostalgia, but not much else. With my song collection being just over 18,000 strong, I'll stick to my iPod classic with everything loaded up and put on shuffle. No hassle fumbling with tapes or CDs in the car... you just can't go wrong.
I thoroughly enjoy illegal downloads. :)
Here is my medium for enjoying music:
It includes a Luxman PD 444 turntable with Fidelity Research tonearm and Ortofon MC20 cart, B&O 9000 cassette player and Mark Levinson No. 39 CD player. It may not be the ultimate playback mechanism, but it does considerable justice to all three formats. I have frequently found it to be a most satisfying means to get utterly, absolutely, completely LOST in the music.
Then, too, six times a year, I get to go HERE:
and enjoy the truly amazing work of the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Is Icahn's New Bid Changing Anyone's Mind?
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July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Brian Marshall, Senior Managing Director at ISI Group, with Bloomberg’s Cristina Alesci and Trish Regan, discuss Carl Icahn’s new bid for Dell and whether investors may be swayed. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg)
It is all about getting dealt to respond, isn't it?
Greg there's an opportunity to do more.
There are three different things that can happen between now and july 18. investors have a choice.
"no on the deal, the gevo yes on the deal, when they can vote to exercise their appraisal rights, or they have a 60 day window where they could continue to do that or just eventually go with the $13.55. what he is doing here is putting a little more pressure on michael dell and silverlake to sweeten their deal.
To make sure that shareholders feel like they're getting the best.
Is what icon is putting on the table -- is what carl icahn is putting on the table realistic?
Does dell have the potential to get to that high of a percentage in the shares in the stocks?
It implies that dell's stock is going to be valued at $20 a share, and this is fundamentally the most challenged company.
Why would michael dell want to buy this?
Why would silverlake want to get involved?
This is a decaying industry that has no shot, so why go into this?
The beauty of the dell business money -- mo del is the great distribution the -- distribution service area.
They can get out of customer service, it will be messy.
Are they getting too good a deal?
I think they are paying up.
Greg seo been been working the funds on this, what do you hear as to whether or not michael dell will raise his bid?
They're saying there is more value, and that my -- michael dell and silverlake could put some more money on the table.
The problem for shareholders is really that they do not feel very safe about turning down michael dell's deal because the carl icahn proposal creates a publicly traded stub that is a question in valuation.
For shareholders, they would rather have seen an increase in the percentage that carl icahn is taking out.
He is still taking out 70% of the shareholders under michael dell.
What this offering is basically another deal on the table.
It is another reason for people to vote no come up or to say they want to exercise their appraisal rights.
If they exercise their appraisal rights, that means the fee -- that one single judge gets to decide everything.
If you're michael dell, you like those odds.
They think the state -- shareholders will say we think we are worth $16, we do not want to go to their.
If this is just a stalling tactic by carl icahn, the other option is that they could go with him and vote against michael dell and silverlake's offer, but the board is trying to explain to the shareholders about why it is not that greater deal.
It gives full control of the boards and its nominees to the carl icahn group.
You have considered these possibilities, and shareholders really want more money, but if the routes to get more money is to put your full faith and trust a carl icahn, what is the likelihood that -- let's put it this way, what is the likelihood he could find somebody capable of running this company and generating the kind of value he says is not being offered to shareholders?
I think is very difficult.
I think if you look at it among the investors are only going to get the opportunity to go into appraisal if they actually vote for the deal.
That is a very good point.
That is something to point out in the committee.
Shareholders seeking up -- appraisal will create a termination of the merger agreement.
I do not think that carl icahn thinks he is going to get a favorable judge when -- w in, given the history there.
This is not the first time carl icahn and angry shareholders have taken their case to delaware.
But this is a different case.
Completely different case.
Greeks -- you think this is not the best option?
The shareholder advisory group.
Are like on had a very interesting response, we have that clip.
I do respect them.
They are not analysts, and they do not claim to be.
They are just reading the 0 -- drinking the kool-aid that dell gives them.
I think they'll will be able to take advantage of that.
He has a point, he has been doing that for many years, and he has a lot more wins than losses.
What do you say response to that?
I think carl icahn has a nominal track record and i think he is trying to get a little bit more money out of the silverlake party.
But i think he is unlikely to get any more out of it, and that the shareholder should take the other deal.
They say they are committed to bringing in management far superior to michael dell, in a recent statement.
What do you think?
He said he is looking at several candidates, and he cannot go public with those names yet.
What others knew about the ceos in similar remedies?
-- but others knew about the potential ceos in similar companies.
That shareholder vote is happening on the 18th.
We'll be there, and it will be a rather dramatic vote.
What carl icahn is doing very successfully here is to inject some uncertainty whether or not the dell/silverlake deal can close in the timeframe they say it can close.
As a very very crucial point here because at the end of the day the shareholders wanted their value, and carl icahn is inserting some uncertainty.
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Com a quadra festiva a aproximar-se, o sargento detective Bruce Robertson - que está em queda no trabalho mas vive a sonhar com a promoção - decide esquecer o Natal e passar uma semana de sexo e drogas em Amesterdão. No entanto, nem tudo corre pelo melhor: cenas domésticas, uma importuna dependência de cocaína, uma crescente deterioração das partes mais íntimas do seu corp ...more
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Carlos Lavín
The ending, the damn ending to the book.
The book is disgusting in every imaginable way, but it somehow keeps you going. Even though the situations he pu
Shamus McCarty
Use quotation marks you limey bastard!
I'm so glad I listen to my friend's book recommendations sometimes...
'FILTH' is the story of Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, and the first thing you should know about him is that he's a complete and utter Bastard.
During the build up to Christmas the race is on for the much desired Detective Inspector position and Bruce is adamant that he is going to be the one. Now if that means he's got to: lie, cheat, steal, manipulate and back-stab his way there, then you can safely bet that he will. The
Oct 28, 2008 Jackie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Recommends it for: Cynical,dry, filthy humored readers like myself.
Absolutely my favorite Welsh read.I loved the humor and Bruce was so relateable(to me and my type of humor) but sort of over-the-top in his slurs towards many controvercial subjects which only made me giggle,tsk and shake my head.He thought many of the things people would never admit to thinking in their own heads so they just right off the book as its namesake and dont read any further. But I loved the shocking twist and its completely original narrative style. And how Bruce and the tapeworm sl ...more
A few years back I was watching some pissed off religious zealot going all loony on TV because gays were having their little pride parade (Oh, the horror!) and proposing they should all be sent to the desert or be given a country - Australia, he suggested (!!) - to inhabit. Maybe I should have been outraged, but I couldn't stop laughing to tears at the poor illiterate wacko and his unbelievable stupidity. Some people are so deranged, you just can't take them seriously.
My reaction to Bruce Robert
A good book, following the exploits of the world's second worst police officer through the things he does.
Unfortunately the main character is so difficult to relate to (he does the most awful things for no reason other than he can/wants to, and I can't understand that) that by the time of his trip to Amsterdam you're left numb. The constant series of horrors (which are entertaining and shocking to begin with) become something that you are accustomed to, the horror you were feeling at his physica
So delicously revolting. Welsh is at his best, here. The metaphor is spot on. The dynamic narrative device is shocking and perfect. Bruce Robertson is a nasty, nasty piece of work, making Francis Begbie look positively choirboy-like in comparison. The twist, when it comes (and that's not a spoiler--it's Welsh, so you knew there would be one) is shocking and yet fits so perfectly all at the same time that it seems to have been crystal clear from the beginning. Not for the faint of heart, but if y ...more
Brett Starr
Wow, the book definitely lives up to it's title "Filth"!
Detective Sgt. Bruce Robertson is one despicable bastard!
He takes drugs, abuses his police power, is addicted to pornography, takes bribes, masterbates compulsively, is a sex fiend, has a nasty bit of eczema below the belt & has a tapeworm in his gut!
D.S. Robertson is a filthy human being, he back stabs his friends & co-workers, tells extremely harmful and deceitful lies to women to sleep with them and he stinks "literally"!
This has echoes of Martin Amis's "Money" in it's presentation of a truly vile lead character: Bruce Robertson, is a scheming,racist, sexist and bigoted Detective Sergeant, investigating the murder of a black man outside a nightclub. Not that he has much time for solving crime; the constant bouts of: heavy drinking, porn, cocaine abuse, skiving work and his serial philandering occupy most of this. But, this is Welsh and you wouldn't expect deities and social heirs and graces.
There's plenty of twi
There are several reasons why I will never forget this book. The main reason is Bruce Robertson, the main character of "Filth".
Bruce Robertson is a Police Investigator in Edinburgh. He's also, in every sense of the word, the WORST human being you can imagine. He's depraved, completely void of morality, racist, and worst of all, believes in what he does. Reading this book actually makes you fearful that there are people out there like this in positions of power. His actions are awe-inducing in th
I have given this book 4 stars but I am still at loss as to what to say. As the front pages 15 years on from when it was written still have stories of UKIP members making racist comments and FA reps sending sexist comments in e mails I realised that perhaps this string of mysogony and vitriol coming out of the character Bruce Robertson's mouth is a damning indictment of the extremes of modern man, rather than just the rantings of the vilest character I have ever read in a book. The story is abou ...more
This is certainly not the solid, socially acceptable and morally improving type of story. The main character is filth and makes no attempt to hide it from us. Just as i was disgusted with his behaviour I was intrigued by him and really admired his honesty.
Steven Stennett
I have never been so glad to finish a book.
Great writer, and I found bits of it funny, but my overriding impression of the whole experience of reading it, was one of deep depression!
I am glad to say that I will never have to do that again!!!
Colin N.
"Filth" comes close to living up to its name. Welsh's central character, Bruce Robertson, is a detective placed in charge of the investigation of a murdered young black man. Robertson, however, has other things on his mind. First there is his planned vacation to Amsterdam where he goes every year for drugs and debauchery. Then there is his desire for a promotion and the various "games" he plays with his fellow officers, attempting to pit them against one another and knock out his competition. On ...more
Jayne Charles
Any book written in the first person has to deal with the problem of getting across to the reader all those things the narrator doesn’t know or isn’t prepared to acknowledge. It takes a special sort of author to think: “I know, let’s use a talking tapeworm”.
And so here is a novel about a bent policeman, a man with so many prejudices they are impossible to count, who treats both his enemies and his friends with breathtaking contempt, who drinks, takes drugs, and refers to all women as “hoors”. Th
Irvine Welsh is a freak.
If I have to sum up the experience of reading this book in a word, it would be ‘Whirlpool’. Like an object swirling into its abyss, the characters in this novel are sucked into a whirlpool named “Bruce Robertson” and delve deeper into its grip with each page turn. If you are indifferent about this book, you might find a lot of its content repetitive but Irvine Welsh cuts right through a lot of pages with the ferociousness of Edgar Wright montages while unwrapping a new la
Andrew Robins
DS Bruce Robertson is without a doubt the most repulsive character you'll come across. A truly vile, lying, scheming, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, violent, diseased, sociopathic, filthy animal for whom you will have absolutely no sympathy. He's also host to a tapeworm, which contributes to the story at various points, and, towards the end, tells us Robertson's 'back story'.
Halfway through this book, I was absolutely convinced there was no way on earth Welsh could possibly make you feel anyt
Kevin Rubin
"Filth," by Irivine Welsh certainly lived up to its name. Pretty filthy, in several ways the word can be used, from beginning to end.
It's told in first person by the main character, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of the Leith Police, who's approaching middle age and is one of the detectives competing for the single available promotion to Detective Inspector. He feels he's entitled to it because he gave up a few years of rank by working in Australia when his wife Carole wanted to live near he
Об отзыве я начал думать еще за три дня до прочтения, в голове все время крутилось слово "сумбур", но концовка заставила изменить мнение, это очень структурирование произведение, есть начало и конец, довольно жесткий, но наверно автор решил что герою так будет легче, чтобы все пришло к логическому заключению. Книга не сказать что потрясающая, но очень сильная, героя преследуют проблемы его детства, и условия взросления, совсем от него не зависящие, залаживают сценарий его жизни. Печально, ведь б ...more
Thomas Potts
'Filth' sucks you deep into the disturbed, poetic, perverted, brilliant and fevered brain of Detective Sargent Bruce 'Robbo' Robertson. Bruce is in line for a big promotion to DI, and will stop at nothing to get it. Eliminating the competition with psychopathic precision, whilst indulging in his own sordid urges (booze, sex, cocaine and a bit of the old ultraviolence), it seems hard to make this character relatable or even that likeable. However, through Welsh's horrific but poignant stream-of-c ...more
Can you say "Gimmick"? This book was all about gimmicks, and shock-value for shock-value's sake. Which frankly isn't all that interesting to me, especially for three-hundred-odd pages. The main character that Welsh creates is, as the title suggests, utter filth. Racist, sexist, coke-addled, perverted, etc etc etc. The etc's just keep going. Alright already, you don't have to beat us over the head with it. Oh, I guess you do. The gimmick of having part of the story narrated by Main Character's ta ...more
Derek Bridge
Racist. Sexist. Homophobic. Misanthropic. And a policeman. This is Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson. Ugly and stinking, inside and out. He is filth.
Ostensibly investigating a murder (about which he knows more than he is letting on), he spends most of his time undermining colleagues and friends.
In this novel, Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, invites us into Robertson's head and into his gut. In his gut, there lives a tapeworm, whose burgeoning self-consciousness gives voice to some explan
Irvine Welsh books make me so uncomfortable. Yet I am compelled by some sick desire to continue to follow some person's descent because Mr Welsh writes so well. I am fascinated by his ability. If anyone else tried to write about a detective with a rash on his nether regions that he claws at regularly without washing, a talking tapeworm, a serious sex and drug addiction while trying to solve a crime. All this after his wife and daughter have left him, I tell you, I would have thrown the book as f ...more
David Matthews
One of my favourite reads of all time! This book is brilliant! Bruce Robertson is one sick bastard but i couldnt help but love him. Throughout, i was laughing out load at his snide comments and games.
Robertson is constantly trying to put one over his collegues and friends. He is sexist, rasist and anything else that ends in ist! He has terrible hygene problems, which makes your stomach wretch while reading about his sexual exploits. Dark humour indeed. If you have never read this book then you
The protagonist, Detective Bruce Robertson, is pure filth in every way. He suffers from every 'ism' in the book. A truly disgusting human being. You are desperately wanting to know if there is a reason (not an excuse) for his despicable treatment of everything and everyone. There is a reason but you still despise him. I felt a ticker of pity at the end. Maybe. Don't let this put you off. It is a witty and humorous novel, written in Welsh's unique style. I thoroughly enjoyed it but it is definite ...more
That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
That's about the longest "clean" quote you can pull from Detective Sergeant Bruce "Robbo" Robertson's filthy ramblings: he's a sexist, racist, womanizing alcoholic who only finds pleasure in "the games" (messing with people's heads) and "the craft
An absolutely vile story about the most repellent police office - Bruce "Robbo" Robertson - whom you shall eventually (and you'll have to suspend your disbelief here) find a sliver of sympathy for by the end of the this woefully perverse story.
Intelligent, repugnant, hilarious and shockingly queasy; one of my most favourite books. You'll have to read 'Filth' yourself to find out why Welsh is just so damn clever.
DS Bruce "Robbo" Robertson is the worst sort of man. Sexist, racist, homophobic, drug-addled, alcohol-fuelled, two-faced, cheating, back-stabbing, aggressive, manipulative, hypocritical... the list of unflattering adjectives could easily take up the rest of this review's word count. In fact, the more I ruminate on Robertson's character, the more surprised I am with myself for sticking with it to the end. I'm glad I did though; despite the novel's thoroughly unpleasant protagonist, it might just ...more
First things first, if you like the narrative in Trainspotting, you’ll love the narrative here. The book follows policeman Bruce Robertson in a series of mysogonstic, homophonic, racist, manipulative and debauched antics that almost make me wish I was back home.
Indeed, my hometown of Edinburgh is brilliantly described here, richly detailed settings as well as fully developed characters, my favourite of which being the narrative from the tapeworms point of view.
When reading (and watching the fil
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“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. The feelings must be followed. It doesn't matter whether you're an ideologue or a sensualist, you follow the stimuli thinking that they're your signposts to the promised land. But they are nothing of the kind. What they are is rocks to navigate the past, each on your brush against, ripping you a little more open and they are always more on the horizon. But you can't face up to the that, so you force yourself to believe the bullshit of those you instinctively know are liars and you repeat those lies to yourself and to others, hoping that by repeating them often and fervently enough you'll attain the godlike status we accord those who tell the lies most frequently and most passionately. But you never do, and even if you could, you wouldn't value it, you'd realise that nobody believes in heroes any more. We know that they only want to sell us something we don't really want and keep from us what we really do need. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe we're getting in touch with our condition at last. It's horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone.” 65 likes
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War was a Swedish black metal supergroup, formed by Tony "IT" Särkkä of Abruptum, David "Blackmoon" Parland of Dark Funeral and Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy.
War was formed in 1995 when Blackmoon attended an Abruptum recording session in Peter Tägtgren’s The Abyss Studios. After the recordings, IT, Blackmoon and Tägtgren had a discussion about the scene, about the murder of Euronymous and IT's True Satanist Horde. They discussed to record an album and give any money they would earn to the True Satanist Horde. It was also discussed to have killed Varg Vikernes who had murdered Euronymous.
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How to teach data protection
Sponsor's feature: Explore the importance of protecting personal information online with your students using these ideas and lesson resources
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Despite the significant rise in the online presence of young people, many are unaware of how to protect their information. Photograph: Alamy. Alamy
Children start using the internet from a very young age, but most are unaware of how the personal information they upload gets used, or how to make informed decisions about what they share online.
Protecting personal information is an essential part of adult life, and teaching young people about internet safety from an early age will help give them the knowledge and tools they need to take responsibility for protecting their own information.
Internet use among young people
More than 80% of five to seven-year-olds in the UK use the internet, according to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This rises to 96% of eight to 11-year-olds and 99% of those aged from 12 to 15.
Almost one in five (18%) eight to 11-year-olds have a social networking site profile, rising to 67% of 12 to 15-year-olds, while 29% of children aged nine to 16 say they have had contact with someone online that they have never met face-to-face.
Despite this significant online presence, many young people are unaware of how to protect the information they are sharing, according to the ICO.
The ICO conducted a survey of more than 4,000 young people in 2011 which found that 60% had not read the privacy policies of the social networking sites they used, 32% did not know what a privacy policy was, and 23% said they did not know where to find it.
These statistics highlight how important it is to give young people the knowledge and awareness they need to make informed decisions about how they use and protect their personal information online.
It is also important, says the ICO, to teach young people about the value of their personal information, how it is gathered and used.
Teaching young people the value of their personal information
As the UK's independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, the ICO has created a set of lesson plans for primary and secondary schools that explore what is meant by "personal data" and demonstrate ways of protecting that information.
The lessons give young people the chance to discuss their ideas and understanding of issues around personal information while encouraging them to think about their own online activities including what information should – and shouldn't – be shared.
The aim is that children and young people will:
Learn why personal data is important
Become aware of the rights they have with their personal information
Understand the potential threats to their privacy
Know how to protect themselves.
Primary school lesson ideas
The ICO's primary lessons introduce pupils to their rights and responsibilities relating to data protection and freedom of information. The aim is to develop students' knowledge and awareness so that they can make informed decisions about the information they share.
A good place to start is by asking pupils what is meant by "personal information". Can they give examples such as their name, date of birth or telephone number?
Next, ask them to list as many pieces of personal information about a celebrity or public figure as they can. Are they surprised at how much they know or are able to find out? How does this make them feel about sharing their own personal information?
Dependent on a person's relationship to a child, there might be some pieces of personal information that can and should be shared. Can pupils give examples of what these relationships and types of information might be? What might they tell a doctor or a teacher that they wouldn't tell a shop keeper? Are there any kinds of information that should never be shared, such as passwords?
Examine the idea of keeping personal details private by asking students what they would do if they received a text saying they could win £100 by texting back their name, age, and a photograph of themselves. What could some of the dangers of replying be? What should they do and why? Pupils could make posters warning of the dangers of responding to unsolicited messages.
Secondary school lesson ideas
As well as looking at keeping personal information safe, the ICO's lessons for secondary pupils provide guidance about young people's rights to access personal information from the organisations that hold their details, and their rights as citizens to request information from public authorities.
Questions to consider with your class:
Where might my personal information be held?
What could it be used for?
What rights do I have over information about me?
How can I keep my personal information safe?
What about identity theft?
Working in groups, can students come up with a list of reasons why they should look after their personal information? Ideas might include: reducing the chances of receiving spam or other unwanted marketing, and preventing the information from falling into the wrong hands. It is worth noting that a determined criminal needs only three pieces of personal information to begin to carry out an identity theft.
Remind students that when posting on websites, it's wise to think about the impression they are creating. Would the things they write or the pictures they share cause embarrassment in real life? How would pupils feel if a potential employer or their parents saw things they had posted?
Although social networking sites such as Facebook are meant for use by people aged 13 and over, many children do access such sites. In addition, lots of computer games that are popular with young people involve aspects of social networking.
As a class, discuss why social networking sites have age limits. Ask whether anyone uses a "message board" within a computer game. Encourage children to consider how they should react to message boards which involve strangers. Reiterate the need to keep personal information safe.
Additional resources
The ICO has created a useful infographic that highlights different aspects of children's online activities. Use it as a model for students to conduct their own class or year group survey.
There are additional resources available from the youth section of the ICO website, including posters, bookmarks, and a list of top tips to help young people stay in control of their personal information.
Before sharing this list with your class, ask them to brainstorm in groups what they think some of the tips might be. Display some keywords on the board as a stimulus, for example: privacy policy; secure site; password; small print; firewall. Can groups come up with their own top 10 list of tips? Compare these ideas with those from the ICO and discuss.
For more information and to download the primary and secondary teaching resources and accompanying PowerPoint presentations, visit the ICO website.
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The show Toad Patrol was created by George Sarson based on the concept of "Toad Tunnels." He created his character Mistle Toad back in the 1980s and his idea became a springboard for the animated series that came to Canada's Teletoon and the United States' Toon Disney in 2002. Toad Patrol is an animated show that teaches important lessons on friendship, hard work, and more in every episode. You can learn more about the guiding principles behind Toad Patrol by checking out the detailed information at the official website. Toad Patrol has aired two seasons, with a possible DVD release coming. Unfortunately, the show is not in production and currently not on TV. Until recently, those in the United States could catch Toad Patrol every Sunday and Monday morning on Toon Disney at 4:30 A.M. eastern. Toad Patrol is not currently being shown on Toon Disney in the United States or YTV in Canada, but word has it that thirteen new episodes are in the works, so stay tuned. THE STORY There once were eight toadlets who missed the great migration and set out alone on a perilous journey through the treacherous forest. Join the Toad Patrol as they evade hungry snakes, shoot rushing rapids, outrun forest fires, and creep through toadstool graveyards. These brave and hard-working toads are Fur Foot, Panther Cap, Shaggy Mane, Slippery Jack, Puff Ball, Elf Cup, Beauty Stem and Oyster. All in an effort to find the mystical Fairy Ring and reach the safety of Toad Hollow. These toadlets have to be brave and have enough courage to go through this journey can these little toadlets make it in time or will they be left behind or even never see their family's again. The adventures begin on Toad Patrol on Teletoon. Expect to be suprised to what some little things can do because they can do anything they set their minds to. CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY Fur Foot - Fur Foot is the leader of the Toad Patrol who is very brave and wears brown overalls and has a red mohawk. Fur Foot is very capable of being a leader because he likes to help everyone in need. Even though Fur Foot did not start the Toad Patrol he is still the leader because everyone believes in him of being a great leader of the Toad Patrol. Panther Cap - Panther Cap founded the Toad Patrol and started this group because Mistle Toad taught him about the great migration that he missed and that he had to get to the Fairy Ring before it closed or he would never see his family again. Panther Cap is always wearing a green cap with an acorn he calls a "pointer". Shaggy Mane - Shaggy Mane is a great addition to the Toad Patrol team even if he does get into a lot of trouble. Shaggy Mane usually doesn't like to get into trouble because Furfoot usually gets a little fustrated when he's about to get hurt. Shaggy Mane has yellow shaggy hair and usually carries a whip around with him. He is classified as The Giver of Names because he gives everything a name when he sees it. Slippery Jack - Slippery Jack is the intelligence of the Toad Patrol. He has glasses and is very nice to his friends. Slippery Jack likes to hang around with his best friend, Puffball. Slippery Jack usually gets the Toad Patrol out of hard places like when the Toad Patrol didn't know which way to go during a storm or if they couldn't find the next Thunder Tree. As you can see Slippery Jack is also a great addition to the Toad Patrol team. Slippery Jack has a twin sister named Oyster you can look her up below. Puff Ball - Puff Ball is the largest toadlet of the Toad Patrol gang. His ability is that he is the strongest of the group and can pick up heavy items as well as prying the acorn they use as their pointer from the ground. Puff Ball tries to help and he does. Sometimes Puff Ball is a little annoying to the others of the Toad Patrol because of the way he talks, later on in this series the members get used to it and don't mind it at all. Puff Ball is also another great addition to the Toad Patrol. Elf Cup - Elf Cup is one of the three female toadlets of the Toad Patrol. She is always found with a blue flower in her hair and wears a pink dress. Elf Cup's favorite hobby is playing her toad flute. Elf Cup brings joy to the Toad Patrol and helps them when they are angry and fustrated. Elf Cup is one of the most playful toadlets in the gang. She and Oyster are the best of friends. Beauty Stem - Beauty Stem is the beauty of the Toad Patrol and also tends to be very nice too. Beauty Stem has purple hair and a beautiful voice. Beauty Stem is also a healer, when her friends are in need she will find a herbal cure for it. Beauty Stem is obviously a great addition to the Toad Patrol as well. Oyster - Oyster is the red-haired Toad Patrol member who is basically the playfulness of the group. Oyster is a very nice toadlet who likes to hang around with Elf Cup because they are best friends. Aside from this she is kind and gentle as well as a bit insecure. Oyster is happily a member of the Toad Patrol, you need gentleness and kindness sometimes too. Oyster's twin brother is Slippery Jack. Mistle Toad - Mistle Toad is the great wise toad who carries a staff along with him. Mistle Toad was left behind in the Great Migration to make sure that all of the toadlets would get into the Fairy Ring before it closed. Mistle Toad is not in the Toad Patrol but he guides them just the same. He would be a great addition if he was in the Toad Patrol. Earth Star - Earth Star is the cool toadlet who carries a banjo and sunglasses with him. Earth Star doesn't want to join the Toad Patrol because he has a long story behind him and decides to do things by himself and be independant. Earth Star's main dream is to make it to the Fairy Ring and save his friends that were toadlets and got turned into toadstools. If you have any questions, comments, or requests please feel free to send an e-mail. Feel welcome to send an e-mail if you've contributed to the guide and have any questions regarding your submission. E-mail Agent0042 at Toad Patrol is now available to DVD! Two DVDs, The World of Toad Patrol and Crystal Caverns are now available.. Each DVD features three episodes in three languages and will be released on video also. Another new DVD, Toadlets to the Rescue, will be available on December 6, 2005. There are also plans for the entire series to be released on video and DVD, so keep watching for more news. Still want to see other types of releases? If so, visit TV Shows on DVD. Registration is required, but is free and only requires a small amount of personal information to prevent people from voting more than once. Want to get some exercise and attend a fun Toad Patrol related event? Check out the annual Run for the Toad! Registration is closed for this year's event, but watch for another race next year!
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AIRED ON 7/16/2003
Season 2 : Episode 13
Jennifer Gould
Jennifer Gould
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Sonja Ball
Sonja Ball
Panther Cap/Beauty Stem (Credited as Sonia Ball)
Rick Jones
Rick Jones
Puff Ball/Erebus/Digger
Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson
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Terrence Scammell
Terrence Scammell
Long John Baldry
Long John Baldry
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• As A Matter Of Factoid, As The Patrol Went Through The Fairy Ring, They Are Officially Immune To Becoming A Toadstool. But The Instruments In Season 2 Is An Exception.
After 2 Years Of Staying At Toon Disney, The Patrol Get Replaced By The Network For Better Shows. This Proves Jetix, The Weekday Movie Show, And The Bonus Stacks Made The Ratings Low! By Jove, We Got To Stop This Carnage! But Let Me Give You The Heads Up. Season 1: The Toad Patrol Race To The Portal To Toad Hollow, The Fairy Ring. Season 2: The Toadlets Except Earth Star, Leave Toad Hollow To Save All The Toadlets And Earth Star From Their Toadstool Prisons And Succeeded! It Is A Astonishing Series!
Toad Patrol Fans, Unite! And Thank You! There's yet to be a 3rd season to be revealed, so don't be arranging the show's funeral yet.moreless
• Toad Patrol Must Come Back!
Whether toads hatch on land or in the water, they all soon make their way to the water. There they grow as tadpoles, change into toads and, when their limbs have grown and their tails have disappeared, they crawl back out onto land.
Instinctively, these young toads, who we call Toadlets, are drawn by the celestial movements of the sun and moon to migrate to the legendary Fairy Ring. This Ring allows them to pass into a peaceful and protected haven known as Toad Hollow.
Toadlets take the migration very seriously because the Fairy Ring grows smaller each time the sun crosses the moon, until at last it disappears. Any Toadlet who has not passed through its portal is instantly turned into a toadstool. But, what happens when something goes wrong? What happens when eight brothers and sisters are born very late in the season, crawl up onto the land and discover that they've missed the great migration? What do they do when they are lost - stranded - not knowing where or how to find the Fairy Ring? How do they survive when the world which confronts them seems huge and frightening? Against nearly insurmountable odds, our eight Toadlets band together and set out on an amazing quest - a race against time that takes them through the woods in search of the Fairy Ring and the Toad Hollow haven.
The first 13 episodes tell the story of that quest. Every episode thrills us with one of the delightful, enchanting, scary, mystical, heartwarming and action-packed adventures of the Toad Patrol™. As each Toad Patrol™ adventure unfolds, we become more familiar with our courageous little Toadlets. Fur Foot bravely leads them where no toad has hopped before. Beauty Stem becomes the keeper of the light. Elf Cup’s music captures the beauty of the forest, while Shaggy Mane distinguishes himself as the giver of names. Puff Ball’s strength often saves the day, and the twins, Oyster and Slippery Jack, spend much of their time in harmonious disagreement. But even the twins agree that Panther Cap is special, not because he is the youngest and smallest, but because he has the gift, the ability to hear the ancient Thunder Trees that guide migrating Toadlets toward the Fairy Ring and the safety of Toad Hollow. Their world becomes our world. We see it from their perspective; Trees are as big as skyscrapers; a large leaf can shelter them from a summer downpour; fallen logs are gigantic obstacles to overcome; and a small stream has all the force of a raging river. From their perspective, even danger takes a different form. Being too small for bears, wolves and cougars to bother with, our Toadlets do not fear the big forest predators. Instead, it is a nasty but somewhat dim-witted hog-nosed snake named Erebus, and a swiftly swooping osprey called Medea, who continually make their lives miserable. Danger from Stompers (humans) comes not from a hunter’s rifle, but from their big, heavy boots.
Even worse are the evil eyes and deafening roar of the terrible Rumble Crushers (cars, trucks, RVs) that terrorize any Toadlet who foolishly contemplates crossing the Big Black Trails (roads) that wind through the forest. But nature balances terror with wonder: While the constant threat of danger and the hair-raising escapes provide the action for our series, the mystical beauty of the forest gives Toad Patrol™ its heart and soul. For the forest can be a wondrous playground, constantly changing with a shift of light, the rustle of wind through leaves, or the shimmering of morning dew. Hills become slides, twigs become jungle gyms, and mud puddles become...pure mud fun.
Here the Toadlets discover that not everyone they meet is intent on having them for dinner. They meet friendly salamanders and turtles. A wise-cracking bullfrog offers helpful advice. Even the Stompers have been thoughtful enough to create toad tunnels so that migrating toads can cross the roads in safety.
Our heroes become best friends with Earth Star, a lovable do-your-own- thing, guitar-playing Toadlet who foolishly missed last season’s migration and was turned into a toadstool. Earth Star became the talk of the forest when he inexplicably reverted back to Toadlet form - the only Toadlet to have done so. No one knows why, least of all Earth Star, who now roams the forest enjoying life as a wandering minstrel. He has no idea if he’ll turn into a toadstool again, but it doesn’t bother him much.
The most fascinating and important character that the Toadlets meet is the legendary Mistle-Toad™. Generations ago, Mistle-Toad™ left the sanctuary of Toad Hollow and returned to the woods, determined that one day he would solve the mystery of the toadstools and turn them all back into toads. Though very caring, Mistle-Toad™ is a loner who is revered and respected by many woodland creatures as one of the forest’s oldest and wisest inhabitants.
It is Mistle-Toad™ who explains the need to find the Fairy Ring, and it is he who recognizes Panther Cap’s special ability. The Toadlets are a little frightened of Mistle-Toad™, but it is through their sporadic contact with him that they begin to see beyond their hostile environment. They soon understand the mystical majesty of Mother Nature and the overwhelming beauty of her Great Forest.
Their greatest victories, however, are the things they discover about themselves and each other. In their race against time, our Toadlets are forced, through trial and error, to learn many lessons about friendship, trust, caring and sharing, empathy, caution, determination, self-esteem, responsibility, selflessness, sacrifice and respect for others. With warmth, humour and sensitivity, Toad Patrol™ explores each Toadlet’s struggle to come of age and join with the others to reach their goal.
I remember watching Toad Patrol on Toon Disney. It was one of the best shows I had ever watched. I hope Toad Patrol comes back for it's third season soon.moreless
• IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S TOAD PATROL!!! season one was the start of a major journey for these eight spontaneous little creatures called toadlets and the next season only gets better. what is the name of this awesome show again?!moreless
*sings* Toad Patrol, we're going on a Toad Patrol!
yes. Toad Patrol. that one major phenomenon that goes unnoticed by the ignorant eyes of today's youth and media. this show is absolutely fabulous and well worth watching whether you are seven or seventy! I haven't seen all the episodes but I can tell you that what I have seen was absolutely fantastic. oh, and did you know that Toad Patrol is actually an Animé? yes. it was animated in Asia, very carefully, I might add.
Toad Patrol is a very classic very easy-to-follow tale of both truth and fiction. most of Toad Patrol was based on actual knowledge, real life things. Fur Foot, Beauty Stem, Elf Cup, Shaggy Mane, Puff Ball, Slippery Jack, Oyster and Panther Cap are all named after toadstools as well as our cute hippified little buddy with the lil bitty crush, Earth Star. ahhh yes... Earth Star... the little toadlet everyone loves. the one always around to help our eight little buddies get along.
one thing I like about Toad Patrol is... really, there is no main character. yes, Panther Cap plays a major part in the series but I honestly wouldn't call him the "main" character. all the characters play an important role in helping our little friends overcome obstacles and make their way to there lovely migration place, Toad Hollow.
you may think that all eight of them are related but personally my theory is that Fur Foot is related to the twins, Beauty Stem is related to Shaggy Mane and Panther Cap and Elf Cup is related to Puff Ball. that's one of the more complicated aspects of the series. figuring out if they are all truly related or if they are infact separate families who have come together and learned to get along and consider each other family.
Toad Patrol teaches you alot about things like racism; the episode where they meet Barnaby and since than, Puff Ball and Elf Cup have disliked frogs... see? it's abit like real life.
Fur Foot is the proud leader of his group. he plays an important role in the group, leading them from place to place, keeping their spirits up and assisting them whenever they need.
Beauty Stem is the second in command. granted the gift of beauty and an incredible singing voice. she also has a knack for healing. she is like a mother figure to everyone.
Elf Cup is third oldest though she hardly acts it. even though sometimes she may seem like a pain in the neck, her heart is truly in the right place. she just tries her best to help her friends.
Shaggy Mane is fourth oldest. truly a poet at heart and a real klutz if I've ever seen one... X.x but he just does his best. he loves to explore and spend time with his best bud, SJ.
Puff Ball is fifth oldest though he truly acts older than he is. often using sarcasm as a form of self-expression, this huggable toadlet is truly a credit to his group.
Slippery Jack and Oyster are twins, both fighting for sixth oldest. Slippery Jack is the paranoid smart one who usually devises the plans and looks before every leap. Oyster is the explorer. she loves to play around and cheer others up... whenever she isn't arguing with her brother... >.>
Panther Cap is the youngest of the bunch. often picked on for his small size and his special gift given to him by a group from long ago called the Ancients. the Ancients play a big part in his life, guiding him through the lightning oaks or as they call them "thunder trees." the spirits within the trees would give him a small riddle and he and his group would have to figure the rest out on their own.
in Toad Patrol, there is one thing I truly admire... is that through the music and the actions of these brave little creatures, they are able to send out a message and let you actually feel what they are feeling, when they are feeling sad, you feel sad (ex. The Sacrifice or The Healer) or when they feel happy, you do as well (ex. Journey's End or The Fairy Ring) mostly its the endings that truly hit you and make you think. the beginning is abit like a teaser. it makes you wonder just what is going to happen... especially if it's your first time watching. the effect that the beginnings have truly linger... in the middle there are questions asked and questions from previous episodes answered and like I said... the endings are truly something inspired. I truly admire the creators of this fantastic series.
the music was inspired as well and I'm telling you, nothing about the music was lazily done... it was all just... amazing... the music blows me away every time I hear it... it doesn't matter how many times I've heard it but... it's just amazing the effect the music has...
the animation is something to be inspired as well. like I said, this is an Animé and I believe there are about a million panels, each hand drawn per episode. they add light computer affects to lighten it up but it is kept simple and classic. 2-D animation, which is what you hardly see anymore. especially such pleasant 2-D animation.
also each character who helps them like Mistle Toad, Earth Star, the Outsider... they are also such amazing characters. they don't have to be main characters to be well recognized.
Mistle Toad's name was actually the only made up name in the whole tv series. they say his name came to be when George Sarson was sitting in his office, with a box of eraser frogs on his desk, fiddling with a piece of mistle toe... than he came up with the idea of Mistle Toad... though honestly, Mistle Toad was actually the name of a chocolate. so I believe that is where he got it, but it's all possible. Mistle Toad is basically the guide for the lost toadlets. he doesn't baby any of them but he does what he can to help. he is truly wise and spends most of his time searching for the Ancients.
Earth Star is a toadlet, named after a toadstool obviously, who somehow managed to turn back into a toadlet. he was a toadstool at one point and it's one of the many mysteries Mistle Toad is trying to solve. our little friend seems to have Elf Cup all over him, poor guy considering he already has a thing for our little healer. that's right. Beauty Stem. his favourite past times are playing music and goofing off. =P
the Outsider: her name basically says who she is. she is an outsider and I believe she is one of the Ancients. little is known about her but one thing is for sure. she was able to save Beauty Stem from certain death.
the other characters, toadlets/toads or not are also very helpful... either that or... what is the opposite of helpful? yeah... characters like Medea, Erebus or Green Eyes.
I don't think I should write anymore seeing as I've probably already given away too much... but anyway... I hope I've told you enough about Toad Patrol to get you interested in actually sitting down and watching it before just being closed-minded and saying you don't like it. try something before saying you don't like it. thanks! ^^
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• You want adventure? You got adventure. Toad Patrol is one of the wildest adventures of any classically animated cartoon. Follow eight toadlets who've missed the Great Migration as they face many dangers on their impossible quest to safety...moreless
Toad Patrol is the creme de la creme of childrens animation. A highly engaging adventure show, Toad Patrol pits the eight toadlets we follow against nature in an impossible race for the safe haven known as Toad Hollow. Not only are there many dangers - snakes, birds, weasels, even humans, they must also make it to Toad Hollow in a certain amount of time, or the portal to the hollow will disappear. Our toadlets survive against massive odds, and through it learn respect, kindness, and a little about themselves. Our toadlets are so brave, they'd risk their lives for their friends...and even some toadlets they don't know. Truly a great, gripping show, with strong character development and storylines, a very engaging soundtrack, and high quality animation that has won awards in Canada. Toad Patrol is a wonderful show.moreless
• Eight late-born toadlets go on the adventure of a lifetime as they make their way home to Toad Hollow before a terrible fate befalls them. Their journey unfolds in this wonderful children's show that can be appreciated by all.moreless
Like the classification states, this is a very under appreciated show. Perhaps it's the genre that causes people to disregard it, but anyone with an open mind can discover the true greatness that is Toad Patrol.
The basic premise revolves around eight late-born toadlets who have missed the Great Migration to the toad sanctuary known as Toad Hollow. The only way to get there is to follow the direction of the mystical Thunder Trees which will lead them to the Fairy Ring, the portal that will transport them to Toad Hollow. The siblings must learn to work together if they are to make it before the Fairy Ring closes. Should they miss their opportunity, they will be transformed into toadstools.
Sounds simple enough, yes? Well, it would be if there wasn’t a large, hungry snake named Erebus trying to eat you, or a large flying bird named Medea swooping down on you. Not to mention all of the other natural (and some man-made) dangers of the forest. Imagine trying to innocently hop across the road, when all of a sudden a Rumble Crusher (that’s Toad Speak for “vehicle”) nearly runs over you. Not a happy thought. This show does a great job of presenting the many dangers of the world in such a way that it will not scare a young child. If the toadlets can handle it, so can you.
Speaking of toadlets, there are eight central toadlets, as I mentioned. Fur Foot, Beauty Stem, Elf Cup, Shaggy Mane, Puff Ball, Oyster, Slippery Jack, and Panther Cap. Each character has their own distinctive personality that makes them lovable, whether they’re the brave leader, the motherly sister, the playful rebel, the clumsy name giver, the gruff muscleman, the rascally or genius twin, or the quiet boy with the rare special ability of talking to Thunder Trees. Joining the toadlets are Earth Star, a toadlet that somehow managed to survive being turned into a toadstool, and Mistle Toad, the wise toad that guides the toadlets through the forest and encourages them to do the right thing.
This show does a good job of teaching morals to people without really shoving it in their face like some kind of after school special. And even if you’re someone like me, who has outgrown children’s programming and moved on to college, you can still manage to find enjoyment in Toad Patrol’s teachings. These morals are also a good way for the characters to develop.
Season 2 has a different plot from season 1. Season 1 was about getting to the Fairy Ring in one piece. Season 2 picks up right where season 1 leaves off and tackles the disappearance of Mistle Toad, and the search for a way to turn all the toadstools back into toadlets. It’s clear that many stories can be conjured up involving these characters, and that’s a great thing. After spending two seasons with them, you’ll find yourself wanting to know just what happened to all the toadlets.
The thing I love the most is the amount of detail and history involved with the premise of the show. There is an entire toad vocabulary utilized within it, and I’ll admit, I’ve caught myself calling the sky “big blue” or a lake the “deep wet.” There is also the use of the concept of Toad Tunnels which toads use to cross streets, as well as other miscellaneous information involving toads. Seeing these stories set in such a realistic environment makes it very interesting. The toadlets make use of their surroundings and you start to see things from their point of view and react to them as if they were humans.
The general adventurous nature of this show makes it fun to watch. Despite the dangers and the outcome they face if they don’t reach the Fairy Ring, they still manage to be a family and enjoy their time in the forest. The comedy is simple, I mean, it is a show for young children, after all. But I still find myself laughing at the things they say. The light hearted nature of the twins Oyster and Slippery Jack picking on each, or Shaggy Mane thinking up poems on the spot contrasts the slightly more serious nature of things like Beauty Stem being poisoned by stream water contaminated with oil, or a hungry fox chasing after a lost Elf Cup in the middle of the night. Overall, I think the two are balanced pretty well.
The animation is all right for this show. It is also simple, but the forest details are nicely done. The musical score is something to behold. The opening themes and ending themes are wonderful and very catchy. In fact, the themes are what made me wonder what the show was all about in the first place! The background music fits the mood for each scene nicely. The show also has quite a bit of singing involved. Beauty Stem sings quite a few songs of her own. In most shows like this, music is completely ignored, but you’ll find it hard to ignore such great tunes.
So, after all is said and done, I hope I’ve gotten some people interested in Toad Patrol. It’s a great cartoon to show your children, or other children. You can even watch it yourself and enjoy it! No shame! I only wish more people knew of it. Here’s to hoping that others discover Toad Patrol and enjoy it as much as I do.moreless
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Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Procedure/Evidence
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The admissibility of evidence is significantly different in a sentencing hearings than in trials. The interests at stake differ in a sentencing as opposed to a trial as the presumption of innocence is gone and there is no longer a concern for a wrongful conviction.[1]
In sentencing, courts should be open to a broad range of information in order to achieve the objectives under the Code.[2]
However, the evidence must still meet the standard of accuracy, credibility and reliability.[3]
The prejudicial effect of the evidence should not outweigh the probative value.[4]
Exclusionary rules of evidence are not applied strictly in sentencing.[5]
Admissibility voir dires, such as for voluntariness, may be held but are not necessary.[6]
In 1996, Part XXIII was amended to create a statutory framework for sentencing hearings.[7]
The law of evidence at sentencing equally applies to dangerous and long term offenders.[8]
Character Evidence
Character evidence is admissible and relevant to sentencing.[9] Character evidence may be excluded where fairness would outweigh the probative value.[10]
1. R. v. Angelillo, 2006 SCC 55 (CanLII), [2006] 2 SCR 728 such as at para. 30
2. R. v. Jones, 1994 CanLII 85 (SCC), [1994] 2 SCR 229 at p.396 ("...both the public interest in safety and the general sentencing interest of developing the most appropriate penalty for the particular offender dictate the greatest possible range of information on which to make an accurate evaluation of the ganger posed by the offender.") and at p. 398 ("sentencing judge is to obtain the accurate assessment of the offender that is necessary to develop an appropriate sentence, he will have to have at his disposal the broadest possible range of information."(
3. McWilliams' Canadian Criminal Evidence, Fourth Edition at 34:10
R. v. Lévesque, 2000 SCC 47 (CanLII), [2000] 2 SCR 487 at para. 30
R. v. Campbell, 2003 CanLII 49352 (ON SC) at para. 31
Angelillo at para. 20
4. Angelillo at para. 32
R. v. Edwards, 2001 CanLII 24105 (ON CA) at para. 63 Campbell
5. Campbell at para. 29, 31, 32
R. v. Boyd, 1983 CanLII 240 (BC CA)
6. Campbell at para. 9
7. Angelillo, such as at para. 21
8. R. v. Johnson, 2003 SCC 46 (CanLII), [2003] 2 SCR 357 at para. 23
9. Edwards at para.39-42
Angelillo at para. 28, 29
10. Angelillo at para. 32
Ewards at para. 63
Factual findings[edit]
Section 723 codifies the common law rules on submission of evidence on sentencing.
Submissions on facts
723. (1) Before determining the sentence, a court shall give the prosecutor and the offender an opportunity to make submissions with respect to any facts relevant to the sentence to be imposed.
Submission of evidence
(2) The court shall hear any relevant evidence presented by the prosecutor or the offender.
Production of evidence
(3) The court may, on its own motion, after hearing argument from the prosecutor and the offender, require the production of evidence that would assist it in determining the appropriate sentence.
Compel appearance
(4) Where it is necessary in the interests of justice, the court may, after consulting the parties, compel the appearance of any person who is a compellable witness to assist the court in determining the appropriate sentence.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 723; 1995, c. 22, s. 6.
Information accepted
724. (1) In determining a sentence, a court may accept as proved any information disclosed at the trial or at the sentencing proceedings and any facts agreed on by the prosecutor and the offender.
On a guilty plea, a judge may rely on facts that are agreed upon by the parties. The Crown will read the facts alleged as well as submit allegations of prior criminal convictions.[1] The Defence must have an opportunity to deny or consent to the allegations.[2]
In practice, at a minimum the crown should read-in enough facts to make out the essential elements of the offence. Preferably there should also be all admitted facts going to aggravating and mitigating factors.
The judge may rely upon any information placed before him. This includes submissions by Crown and Defence counsel as well as admissible evidence.[3]
A guilty plea is only an admission of the essential elements of the offence.[4]
On sentencing, where facts are not in dispute, the judge may makes inferences from proven or undisputed evidence.[5]
1. e.g. R v Bartlett, 2005 NLCA 75 (CanLII)
2. R. v. Cataract (1994), 93 CCC 486 (SaskCA)
3. R v Bartlett 2005 NLCA 75 (CanLII)
4. R. v. Gardiner, [1982] 368 S.C.R. 2 1982 CanLII 30 at 330 and 331
5. R. v. Ducharme, 2012 MBCA 35 at para 5
Disputed of facts[edit]
Disputed facts
(3) Where there is a dispute with respect to any fact that is relevant to the determination of a sentence,
(a) the court shall request that evidence be adduced as to the existence of the fact unless the court is satisfied that sufficient evidence was adduced at the trial;
(b) the party wishing to rely on a relevant fact, including a fact contained in a presentence report, has the burden of proving it;
(c) either party may cross-examine any witness called by the other party;
(d) subject to paragraph (e), the court must be satisfied on a balance of probabilities of the existence of the disputed fact before relying on it in determining the sentence; and
(e) the prosecutor must establish, by proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the existence of any aggravating fact or any previous conviction by the offender.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 724; 1995, c. 22, s. 6., CCC
Where there is a dispute on facts, the court cannot rely upon the crown's version without supported facts.[1] To settle the conflict the judge must hear evidence to settle the evidence or chose to accept the accused's version "so far as possible".[2] If the difference amounts to a dispute between characterizations, the Defence must call evidence.[3]
Aggravating facts must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by the crown.[4]
A "Gardiner Hearing" refers to the hearing of oral evidence that is conducted at sentencing where there is a dispute between the parties as to the facts on a guilty plea.[5]
This hearing is conducted according to s. 724(3). It will concern the “extrinsic evidence” that must be proven by the crown.[6]
The Crown does not have to prove voluntariness of statements made by the accused.[7]
1. R. v. Choice Atlantic Seafoods Inc., 2001 NSSC 161 at para. 7
2. s. 724(3)(e)
R. v. Choice Atlantic Seafoods Inc., 2001 NSSC 161 at para. 7 citing R. v. Poorman 1991 CanLII 2759 (SK C.A.), (1991), 6 C.R. (4th) 364 (Sask. C.A.)
3. R. v. Poulin, 1995 CanLII 2368 (BCCA)
4. R. v. Larche, 2006 SCC 56, [2006] 2 S.C.R. 762 at para. 43-44 R. v. Tomdio-Yiuiti, 2010 SKCA 81
R. v. Malinowski, 2007 SKCA 33 at para. 6
R. v. Lewis, 2012 NLCA 11, ("an aggravating factor that is disputed is, like an essential element of the offence, required to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.") R. v. Gardiner, 1982 CanLII 30 (S.C.C.), [1982] 2 S.C.R. 368 at p. 414-5
R. v. Angelillo 2006 SCC 55 (CanLII), (2006), 214 C.C.C. (3d) 309 (S.C.C.), ("the extrinsic evidence is contested, the prosecution must prove it. Since the facts in question will doubtless be aggravating facts, they must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt (s. 724(3)(e)). The court can sentence the offender only for the offence of which he or she has been convicted, and the sentence must be proportionate to the gravity of that offence...")
5. see R. v. Gardiner, 1982 CanLII 30 (SCC), [1982] 2 S.C.R. 368 (the "issue should be resolved by ordinary legal principles governing criminal proceedings")
7. R v Lees, [1979] 2 SCR 749
Hearsay is admissible in sentencing under s. 723.
s. 723.
Hearsay evidence
(5) Hearsay evidence is admissible at sentencing proceedings, but the court may, if the court considers it to be in the interests of justice, compel a person to testify where the person
(a) has personal knowledge of the matter;
(b) is reasonably available; and
(c) is a compellable witness.
As with all evidence at sentencing, it must be credible and reliable.[1]
Documentary evidence, such as reports, records, and assessments, may be admitted for the truth of its contents.[2]
The flexible standard may not apply where the Crown wishes to prove aggravating factors which requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt.[3]
1. R v Francis (2005) CCC (3d) 147 at para. 24, 27
R v JPL 2006 ABPC 313 at para. 5
R. v. Janes Family Foods Ltd., 2008 ONCJ 13 (CanLII)
2. R. v. McKay, 2004 MBQB 146 at para. 4-9
R. v. Ellard, 2005 BCSC 1087 (CanLII) at para. 22
3. R. v. Piche, 2006 ABCA 220 (CanLII) at para. 14-16
Levesque at para. 30
Angelillo at para. 20, 21
Evidence of Untried Offences[edit]
Evidence of untried offences is generally a form of character evidence and may be admissible.[1]
Factors to consider whether untried conduct is admissible to establish character includes the following:[2]
1. the nexus between the evidence and the offence for which the offender was convicted—the closer the connection the more likely the evidence will shed light on the circumstances of the charged offence;
2. the similarity between the evidence and the offence for which the offender was convicted;
3. the difficulty the offender may encounter in properly defending against the allegations in the proposed evidence;
4. the danger that the sentence hearing will be unduly prolonged;
5. the danger that the focus of the sentence hearing will appear to be diverted from the true purpose of imposing a fit sentence for the charged offence that is proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the offender in accordance with s. 718.1;
6. whether, as in Lees, the offender has adduced evidence of good character; and
7. the cogency of the proposed evidence.
1. R. v. McCauley, [2007] O.J. No. 1593 (S.C.)
R. v. Fouquet, 2005 ABQB 673 (CanLII)
2. R. v. Edwards, 2001 CanLII 24105 (ON CA)
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I'm trying to implement the native facebook share for iOS 6 and need check if a share did succeed or not. This is the code I have used:
BOOL displayedNativeDialog =
handler:^(FBNativeDialogResult result, NSError *error) {
if (error) {
/* handle failure */
NSLog(@"error:%@, %@", error, [error localizedDescription]);
} else {
if (result == FBNativeDialogResultSucceeded) {
/* handle success */
NSLog(@"handle success");
} else {
/* handle user cancel */
NSLog(@"user cancel");
if (!displayedNativeDialog) {
/* handle fallback to native dialog */
My problem is when I try this with no internet connection available I still get the FBNativeDialogResultSucceeded
It looks like you should get an error when no internet connection is available but it seems that it doesn't work like that. If there are some solution where I don't need to use the reachability SDK that would be great.
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You'll likely have to use the reachability SDK at this point. The Facebook SDK builds on top of the SLComposeViewController for the native functionality. That view controller returns two possible choices:
• SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled
• SLComposeViewControllerResultDone
SLComposeViewControllerResultDone: The view controller is dismissed and the message is being sent in the background. This occurs when the user selects Done.
So since Facebook mirrors this the success case means the user clicked done and the message has been sent in the background.
However if you run this and there is no internet connection, the user should still see a pop-up indicating that the post could not be sent due to a connection failure.
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I'm the sole user of a my google app engine app. Currently I use approx 25% of my front end instance hours per day. Does this seem excessive ? Reason I'm asking is that if I begin to allow other user to use my app I will quickly exceed the daily quota ?
So if I add 3 more users that use exactly the same functionality I will use 100% of my front end instance hours. Is it this simple to calculate the cost of allowing multiple users to use my app ? If not how can I estimate the frontend Instance hours when app becomes mult-user based on current usage for one user?
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You get enough front end hours to run your application 24/7. Even if you add 3 more users you'll still only be at 100% which is fine. You can't use "more" then 100% with a single instance plus you in fact get 28 instance hours a day free, not 24.
If you were to allow more instances to spin up then of course you can go over 100% (i.e. over the free quota).
To know the per user cost you can start with appstats.
The per-request cost can be calculated. Also you can use the header X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars as described in this question and the docs are here.
There is no way to answer questions like "does 25% hour usage per day per user seem reasonable" as it depends entirely on what your app does and how efficiently you have created it.
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I enjoy movies, reading, traveling, live music, shooting pool, and exploring the town. I listen to all sorts of music - I love Blue October, Michael Buble, Sugarland, Kid Rock, and more - and have gone to several live shows like Aerosmith, Maroon 5, Sugarland, Blue October and Bob Schneider.
I'm not your typical Asian, although I do like math LOL I'm a computer geek that rides a motorcycle and has tattoos. I moved to the Dallas area a few years ago, and am trying to enjoy some time outside of work to meet new people. I am a die hard Chicago Bears fan, and when the game is on...please no talky talky. I also like the Cubs, the Blackhawks, and the Bulls. Yay, Chicago!
I love to cook and love to eat ;P I've joined groups that explore different ethnic restaurants in the area, and love trying things that...well...resemble something I would eat. I'm a people watcher - prefer to let someone else enjoy the limelight, but I'm not the quiet type. I'm pretty sociable and sarcastic in my humor. I'd like to think I'm funny, but I suppose that requires an audience. I'm career oriented, but know how to balance my work and my life. I am also family oriented - youngest of two, but lots of cousins.
Someone recently told me that I have a quick wit, and sometimes takes them a few minutes before they get it, but when they do get it they think I'm hilarious. Either I'm surrounded by slow people, or I need to work on my delivery. :p
I've been married, hurt, cheated on, etc. You call it baggage, I call it learning opportunities. I don't use it for ammunition. One person's mistake doesn't constitute the entire gender being at fault. If you think you're going to find someone without baggage, they are either too young to have experienced life, or they are not human. It's about acceptance, and though there are some things that are difficult to get past, it doesn't mean you can't entertain the idea of becoming friends. I've got my share of guy friends, and it's nice to have a guy's perspective on some things. Anyway, I'm not interested in rushing into another relationship without first taking some quality time to get to know each other. It doesn't mean we can't be adventurous, ahem, it just means you need to WOW me. I want to be WOW'd. Don't sweep me off my feet - the landing usually hurts. Give me something real. Someone who knows what it's like to work hard on a relationship and is willing to put themselves second not because I want or need it but because they believe I deserve it. I have loved and lost, and I don't believe in fairy tales. I'm not desperate to get married, and clinginess makes my eye twitch Relationships are based on friendship that may later foster into more. I'm not looking for happily ever after. I'm looking for someone to share time with where we enjoy similar interests. I'm not looking for a soul mate - that's cheesy. What I truly want to find is my best friend.
On a lighter note, I hope to find someone that knows the difference between "your" and "you're", doesn't use the non-word "irregardless", won't make fun of me when I sort my M&Ms by color before I eat them, can eat ice cream even in the dead of winter, will kill the bug regardless of how small it is, isn't into gangster crap, understands that when we are out to eat I may want to taste what you've ordered and will likely need you to finish what I've ordered, understands that beer is not a food group, accepts that bacon is the friggin bomb-diggity, and doesn't slobber when they kiss - my dog does that....
I volunteer as often as I can. Tough times are upon us, and we must take a moment to pay it forward and share the wealth. That doesn't mean monetarily. I look to give a hand up, not a hand out. It's a shame that not more people give their time to their community and neighbors. Be thankful that you are so fortunate.
If you are married/separated, do not have a photo posted, seeking a sugarmomma, or only interested in a fling, please do not bother wasting your time and effort contacting me. We are in the age of technology - posting pictures isn't difficult. You can see me, why can't I see you? What are you hiding? If you are still hung up on your ex (this includes excessive complaining) then you are likely not over that relationship and should consider working on closing that chapter before trying to find someone else. From my perspective, when the majority of our conversation entails your talking about her, how she did you wrong, feeling sorry for her current man, etc, says to me that you are still grieving the relationship. Not really 2nd date know who you are.
Just adopted a pug rescued from a puppy mill. So definitely need someone that enjoys dogs both big and small. They are a big part of my life.
BTW...if you read my interests and jump at the "spending your money", sheesh, relax. I have a job, I get paid well, and if there's something I want, I can go get it myself.
First Date
Coffee perhaps or a walk through the mall where we take turns making up the stories for the people around us. A movie wouldn't be ideal because we really don't get a chance to get to know each other. Dinner is more of a second encounter - I don't want you to waste money feeding me nor do I want to waste my time boring you. haha
Or maybe shoot some pool, as long as you play fair - no "letting" me win, but since I play in 8 and 9 ball leagues, I'm thinking I can either give you a run for your money, or mess with your game with some strategically played defense muahahaha
Believe it or not, I do enjoy watching sports, and once football season is back let me apologize now for the excessive yelling and cheering that I do. I find fishing to be calming, as long as I don't have to touch anything slimy. I've gone hunting once. Maybe we could sit by the lake feeding the ducks and staring up at the stars.
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I currently have the Maverick countdown widget on my site and was wondering if there are any widgets available now that it's fully released with which to replace it.
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This question is under discussion on meta. – Roger Pate Oct 24 '10 at 0:17
Hi @Chris. I've reverted this question back to how you originally asked it. Questions on Ask Ubuntu work better when they are, well exactly that, questions that can be answered. Thank you for asking though, it's a good question in my opinion :) (You may like to look at our discussion on meta and in chat about this.) – 8128 Oct 25 '10 at 8:36
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There are some attleast at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WebsiteButtons, tho those are not as fancy as countdown banner were. Maybe someone else knows more?
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What you might be able to do is use the official branding found at this link:
And then tweak it so that when the user clicks on it, it sends them to ubuntu.com or the desired website.
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There are some generic site buttons on http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ Probably will not be long before someone makes some Maverick related ones.
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Here is a 42-based widget from the Design Team.
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The Ubuntu Brand Guidelines http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/ has an archive http://design.canonical.com/brand/Logos/Ubuntu_brandmark_aw.zip with images with the ubuntu logo (svg, png, eps) for print and web, in different colors and positions.
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It turns out the countdown widget turns into a static pomotional widget once the countdown ends. That was exactly what I was looking for.
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spreadubuntu.org is designed as a one-stop-shot for Ubuntu promotional material.
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Hugo Chavez Says His Navy Chased Off a Mysterious Submarine Engaged in "Espionage"
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Hugo Chavez suspects that The Empire is watching him...
Hugo Chavez is no stranger to conspiracy theories. Shortly after a January 12, 2010 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti, one of his spokesmen claimed the disaster was the result of the United States testing a secret weapon ultimately intended to destroy Iran.
On Wednesday, Chavez announced that his navy had spotted a mysterious submarine near the Caribbean island of Orchila, but that the "nuclear-powered submarine" had been too fast for Venezuela's diesel subs to catch.
But we're giving this a low score on the crazy-o-meter. Why? Because Hugo is probably being watched.
The sub was spotted on Tuesday while Venezuelan troops were conducting drills.
"It was pursued," Chavez told state TV. "[But] it escaped because it's much faster than ours." He didn't say exactly who he thought had sent the sub, but the socialist leader left some hints.
"We can't accuse anyone," Chavez said. "Now you know how the empires are used to going around the Caribbean Sea and going everywhere, and they also use their satellites for espionage. It's espionage."
Herman Cain, if you reading, by "empire" he means the United States.
The George W. Bush administration is widely thought to have approved -- if not supported -- a 2002 coup against Chavez that briefly unseated him from office.
Relations haven't improved any under President Obama. With what should be a close election for Venezuelan president coming up in October of 2012, it's not entirely implausible that los gringos would be shadowing Chavez.
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Best Tiramisu in Town
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What do you think?
As a point of reference, I like my tiramisu, not too boozy, made in a pan usually (cake tiramisu are never very good), delicious mascarpone cheese and some fresh whipped cream incorporated into it is a must, along with bitter chocolate shavings and the barest of cake layer at the bottom of the pan. Oh, and not saccharinely sweet.
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1. Trattoria Farfalla, Los Feliz. Best Tiramisu and great pastas, too: fave is the checca.
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Cafe Flore on Robertson in Beverly Hills
1. re: trojans
is cafe flore a bakery or a sit-down restaurant.
1. re: kevin
Cafe Flore is a small restaurant on Robertson south of Wilshire between Charleville and Gregory.
2. re: klew
Thanks to you, after finishing our valentine's day dinner at home, my gf and I walked over to Farfalla to get a slice of tiramisu for dessert and it was fantastic. So smooth and fluffy and creamy. A very generous size as well...and all for only $6.77 w/ tax.
3. I think the question/answer has to be "where do they use imported mascarpone cheese"...it makes such a difference...at least to this Italian boy! I had good tiramisu last year at Valentino in Santa Monica and I have had good tiramisu at La Buca on Melrose some time ago. I tend to make this at home with the best ingredients...very simple and oh so good...and it blows restaurant made tiramisu out of the water!!
BTW, the original recipe for tiramisu is from the Venato region of Italy and is made with lady fingers, expresso, chocolate, cocoa, mascarpone, egg yolks, brandy and sugar...no whipped cream!...Yum!...I think I might make some tonight!!
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1. re: TravelPath
darnit, now i want to try some homemade tiramisu.
yeah, i did forget about la buca.
my faves in town are still Pastina, though sometimes they have an off batch of it there, or at Giorgio Baldi, which is really good and light and not to sweet but i could do with out the chocolate gelato making it a $12 dessert.
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The best Tiramisu I've had is at a little restaurant on Montana Ave in Santa Monica called Locanda Portofino. The owners are two Italian guys. They use only the finest ingredients in all of their food .Their fish dishes are devine and they make the best penne a la vodka I've had anywhere in the world! They do not advertise and all of their business is word of mouth. A local gem with a celebrity following. It's romantic and intimate with outstanding food.
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I'll second this however I've never understood why people judge a restaurant based on who goes there.
I love this place and you're right....the tiramisu is excellent.
1. re: latindancer
is this the tiny restaurant that's tucked into a corner of what amounts to a mini-mall of sorts along fashioinable montana?
how are the prices?
1. re: kevin
Yes! The prices are moderate to high depending on what you order and what you drink. They have an excellent wine list .Floristano, one of the owners really knows food and wine. He is meticulous at choosing the finest ingredients he can find. The quality of the food is worth every cent.
2. re: delishdonna
one more thing, i think i seem to have gotten this joint mixed up with locanda venata which is on the 3rd st promenade.
i will defintely check out Locanda Portofino on Montana and not just for the tiramisu.
what other dishes there are very good too?
2. Re: latindancer
I did not mean to imply that I or anyone would or should judge a restaurant based on who eats there. I believe they have a celeb following because the food is great and they can go there without being bothered by paparazzi or anyone else disturbing them while having an intimate meal.
1. Tiramisu is my favorite dessert outside bread pudding; The two best I've ever had were at Jean Philippe in Las Vegas and C&O Trattoria down in Venice - so make the trip to Venice. While the food there wasn't super, the Garlic Rolls and Tiramisu are reason enough to check it out. These two completely outshined versions at Il Mulino or Otto in NYC and any other version I've had at "family" Italian restaurants anywhere I've been.
Although I find it hard to "count," the best "tiramisu taste" was actually a petit four after my meal at Alex in Vegas...alas it was only a bite.....but possibly the best bite of an amazing meal.
1. I am not a tiramisu fan but my friend who I dine with often LOVES LOVES it and he has declared several times to me that his favorite tiramisu in town is served at TERRONI (on Beverly Blvd near the Grove). We eat at italian restaurants frequently together and he always orders it if it's made in-house so knows his stuff.
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Asheville NC:Sadies Seafood Pub
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The boyfriend and dinner last night at Sadies Seafood Pub located next to the S&W in Downtown Asheville. Upon arrival you are given a basket of fresh hush puppies served with homemade tartar and cocktail sauce. These we warm, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, both sauces were also fresh tasting and very good.
For entrees we had combination plates, boiled shrimp and scallops for me, fried oysters and cod for my boyfriend. We were slightly disapointed in the amount of food given, my plate only had 3 scallops and maybe 4 shrimp. However, for 8.50 served with a mound of fresh cole slaw and boiled new potatoes, neither of us left hungry. The shimp were quite good, but the scallops were rubbery. My boyfriends cod was also somewhat rubbery but his friend oysters were very very good.
Sadies service was very good. The staff was very attentive and friendly. They told us that they have been trying out some different things on the menu and working out the kinks. They noted they were in a major transition from Corner House becoming Sadies. At this point they are very limited on mixed drinks but hope be serving a full bar in the next week are so. They did serve some great draft beer and wine is available.
All and all I say we will be back. The food was good for the price, atmosphere was good as was service. Also I believe they donate part of their proceeds to Asheville Humane Society and that is something we can all feel great about!
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1. My husband and I had lunch there today. We had fried shrimp and oysters. Both were lightly battered and really good. So were the slaw and hushpuppies. The menu isn't huge, but I liked everything on it: approx. 8 appetizers and salads, sandwiches, and broiled or fried seafood entrees. Each entree was $6.95. If I worked or lived downtown, I'd be there several times a week.
I can't wait to try the Low Country Boil, available after 4pm.
1. Really? I don't understand the decision to do a seafood restaurant in land locked Asheville. In my opinion this sounds like a failure waiting to happen. Restauntuers/Investors need to stick with what works and continue in the direction of providing locally found products....it tastes better.
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I'm in no way saying that Sadies is out of this world. Its not superfresh coast seafood but its not trying to be. Its good food, with good service at a friendly price. It's worth a try and with giving back to our comminuty though the Humane Society its worth a try :)
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Henri Lemoine (fraudster)
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Henri Lemoine (fl. 1905–1908) was a French fraudster who claimed to be able to produce synthetic diamonds.
In 1905 Lemoine contacted Sir Julius Wernher, British banker and one of the governors of De Beers Diamond Mines. He said he had discovered a process to produce gem-sized diamonds from coal and agreed to sell his invention if Wernher would be willing to invest to further his research. He invited Wernher to his laboratory in Paris to witness the process. Wernher took Francis Oats, a De Beers executive, and two other associates with him.
Lemoine invited his guests in and left the room; moments later he reappeared naked, to prove that he was not concealing any diamonds in his clothing. He mixed a number of substances including iron filings and coal into a small crucible, showed the mixture to his guests, and placed it into a furnace in the center of the room.
After fifteen minutes, Lemoine removed the hot crucible and let it cool. Then he picked a pair of tweezers and took out about twenty small, well-formed diamonds. Oats examined the diamonds and demanded that Lemoine repeat the procedure. He did so successfully.
Wernher offered to pay Lemoine to develop his invention if he would keep it a secret. Lemoine agreed and promised him an option to buy his secret formula, which he deposited in a London bank deposit box.
For the next three years, Sir Julius sent Lenoine a total of £64,000. Lemoine promised to build a factory to duplicate diamonds; actually he just took a picture of an electric plant in southern France and sent it to Sir Julius.
In 1908 a Persian jeweller revealed that he had sold Lemoine small diamonds that matched the description of the diamonds Lemoine had shown during the first demonstration. Lemoine was indicted for fraud.
In court, Lemoine continued to claim that his process was genuine but was unable to duplicate it for the judges. The secret formula was unsealed by a court order; it was a mixture of powdered carbon and sugar. Before the court could agree on his guilt, Lemoine left the country for parts unknown.
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"The Lemoine Affair" is a collection of literary pastiches by Marcel Proust, in which he spoofs the writing styles of several fellow French authors. The overall theme is Lemoine, his fraud and its outcome. Proust, himself, lost considerable money on the scheme.
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"Unfortunately we can't fix stupid. Far too many people go to Walmart and purchase those 99 cent made in china power strips that have no fuses or breakers inside them. They do not even have copper wires, but some cheap material that burns when overloaded.
Then they manage to plug these strips into the 220 volt power points in their cabins.
As soon as they plug a 110 volt appliance into the power strip, the appliance is fried and the power strip bursts into flames."
There may be some validity to what you say, Bruce. However, after making a couple of phone calls to Carnival,at both their 1-800 number and the
Guest Relations number, and talking to three or four people, I think the answer is a bit simpler than that. While I wasn't able to find out how many cabins are linked together on a circuit breaker, or what those circuit breakers are rated for, my guess would be 30 amps, which is sufficient for each cabin's light fixtures and a two or three items that draw a low amount of amperage. Throw in a couple of items (such as a blow dryer or curling iron) that draw a higher amount of amperage, and (sing along with me) "Pop Goes The Breaker". Happens to us every Christmas when the vacuum sweeper is plugged into the same circuit as the Christmas tree. While I wouldn't call that a hazard, it sure is aggravating. And I'm sure the maintenance people on the ship have better things to do with their time than to go around resetting popped circuit breakers. So, to prevent the breakers from being overloaded, Carnival prefers that guests not use power strips or extension cords. I would guess if someone did have a power strip and it wasn't confiscated, that meant somebody (security or the cabin steward) looked the other way. I don't think I'll risk it, and limit the items we take that require electricity.
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Things you never thought you would hear yourself say before having children...
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I was at the park on Saturday and there were two woman and their little boys playing together. One of the boys came up to his mum and I heard her say 'Don't worry darling, you can be the skunk...'grin
What did you never think you would hear yourself say?
Yes dear you can have a brain flannel tonight if you like
edam Mon 15-Jun-09 22:28:46
Well, if you fall off there and break your leg, don't come crying to me...
TrinityRhino Mon 15-Jun-09 22:30:50
<waves to trillian>
hiya smile
Lol Clemette, I can add to that
"just get in the bloody car ! " - regular morning thing
'Ooh look, lorry!; Red car, big red car, ooh another lorry' ad infinitum - even when kids aren't in the car hmm
4andnotout Mon 15-Jun-09 22:35:33
dp- "has she poo'ed today?" (dd3 suffered from constipation as a baby)
me-"oh yes it was.....* cue long rambling detailed account of childs poo.
Oh how exciting my life has become <sob>
WhipsAndFurs Mon 15-Jun-09 22:38:37
'What did you eat for lunch today?'
(I used to hate this question when I was a kid!)
Acinonyx Mon 15-Jun-09 22:42:12
4andnotout - there is a lot of poo talk in our house:
Dh: Mummy! Come and look at this!
(Dh holds potty triumphantly)
Me: Oh wow it's MASSIVE, ENORMOUS. Well done!
'Have you got a big poo in your pants?'
(Why is it always a big poo, never a little one? You never get sharts while your child is in nappies do you? hmm)
WhipsAndFurs Mon 15-Jun-09 23:20:50
More about poo:
'ohh, that's a good poo, is it floating or has it sunk?'
Cheerfully and reassuringly: "It's okay, it's only sick/weewee/poo, we all do it sometimes, stand still while mummy cleans it up!"
TheWiltedRose Mon 15-Jun-09 23:47:16
"Yes my name is iggle piggle. Iggle piggle wiggle niggle piiiiiiggle......"
EyeballshasManBoobs Mon 15-Jun-09 23:52:58
<<holds out hand>> 'C'mon, spit it out, give it to mummy. Good girl.' <<looks at handful of chewed banana>>
'Come here till I pick that big snot out of your nose.'
'no, no, mummy hold her iPhone. Alright then but don't drop...feck'
'Pip pip onk onk'
An amazing number or poo references! It's a charmed life isn't it?
We've also had 'No darling, the dolly show don't fit on Iggle Piggle, there's no point crying about it, there's nothing I can do'
'Ooh have you lost your tickle, let's see if we can find it - ooh there it is look running under your arm, let's catch it'. hmm
TeaOneSugar Tue 16-Jun-09 10:12:05
"I'm sorry darling you have to get out of the bath once you've poo'ed in it"
theyoungvisiter Tue 16-Jun-09 10:17:08
"oo well done" (in reponse to enormous burp by baby)
"If you can squeeze out a poo [in your potty] you can have a square of chocolate" (I was not going to resort to bribery - tcha right!)
thumbwitch Tue 16-Jun-09 10:20:24
the poo discussions with DH (never thought I'd do that!)
bribing with biscuits/chocolate - that was always going to be a no-no as well
referring to myself as mummy when DS isn't there!
the reality of having children really brings you down to earth with a bump, doesn't it!grin
thumbwitch - yes but it's okay, we generally have more padded bottoms to land on grin
"why have you dropped your trousers and are wriggling your bottom at your brother?"
"Don't climb onto the windowsill"
Dlamis Tue 16-Jun-09 16:28:59
"Don't throw the rhinocerous at daddy!"
And many other poo related stuff already mentioned
supagirl Tue 16-Jun-09 19:52:23
While standing on the side of the road holding a dandelion "hello, I'm a thirsty flower and I would be soooo happy if you would do a wee on me" (ds2 had a real issue with doing a wee without a toilet when he was first toilet trained - we were on the motorway and he was desperate to go....nuff said!!!)
"We'll see" in answer to questions from DC's - my parents used to drive me mad with it and I SWORE I'd never say it to mine blush
"when you have your own house, you can make your own rules but until then you'll abide by mine"
"I am not your slave"
"If you're that bored you can go and tidy your bedroom...." a Previous poster I too am turning into my mother!!! shock sad
theyoungvisiter Tue 16-Jun-09 20:22:13
supagirl your dandelion has just made me laugh so much I nearly sicked up my dinner!
I have resorted to some pretty bizarre things to bribe/coax/force a wee or poo out of DS1, but I never thought of that... (makes mental note for DS2)
bruces Tue 16-Jun-09 23:19:16
"if you like the rules in your friends house GO LIVE THERE!" to 13 yr dd
"I hope you know how to flip burgers cos Mcdonalds is the only place you'll work" to 9 yr ds who didn't want to do reading or home work
"Do you know the cost of molton brown bath products?" to dd3 as she made a potion........a treat from my pre mum days when i had stupid money.
How much is this going to cost me in therapy in years to comegrin
rumdoodle Wed 17-Jun-09 20:47:43
I love Mumsnet for this kind of stuff, makes me feel so much better. LOL
I have felt like a midwife sometimes as DS sits on the toilet, " Just PUSH"
"Please put that duck down" although he wasn't on the toilet then
" I do have a degree you know" to DD aged 6 months after clearing up again.
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UNITED NATIONS—Russia said Wednesday it opposes a new U.N. Security Council resolution on the humanitarian plight in Syria, an announcement that is likely to torpedo a Western and Arab-backed draft that would pressure the government and opposition to allow desperately needed aid into the country.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a press briefing that "hard, pragmatic and purposeful work is necessary" to resolve specific humanitarian issues—not a council resolution which will almost certainly aim "to politicize the problem."
Council diplomats said they expect to circulate a draft humanitarian resolution this week, following the failure of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition to achieve any concrete results, especially on possible humanitarian aid convoys to besieged parts of the city of Homs.
"We are against moving to a resolution now in the Security Council," Churkin told reporters at Russia's U.N. Mission. "We believe that it's a wrong move. It's not a good time to have any resolution discussed in the Security Council."
Russia and China, which support the Syrian government, have vetoed three previous Western-backed resolutions that would have pressured President Bashar Assad to end the violence. The deeply divided council did come together in October to approve a weaker presidential statement appealing for immediate access to all areas of the country to deliver aid to millions of civilians.
But Churkin made clear Wednesday that Moscow is not prepared to go further, saying what is needed is for both sides—and countries with influence on them—to address and resolve specific humanitarian situations.
He said the latest information he saw on Tuesday was that an agreement on who would be allowed to leave Homs, and when and how humanitarian assistance would be supplied to the city, "is about to happen."
Churkin called the first meeting between the government and opposition in Geneva "a good start of talks" after three years of bloody civil war that has killed more than 130,000 people, according to activists.
The talks are supposed to focus on implementing a plan adopted in Geneva in June 2012 calling for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria vested with full executive powers. But the Syrian government has rejected a transitional government and has pressed for the talks to focus on the terrorist threat in the country.
Churkin said terrorists "are to a large extent behind this tragic humanitarian situation" and fighting terrorism "should be one of the priorities in the discussions in Geneva."
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Churkin said Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the opposition delegation, held four hours of talks in Moscow Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Al-Jarba assured the Russians "that they mean business, so we hope that is going to transpire during the second round of talks" scheduled to start on Feb. 10.
"But this is definitely something which requires a lot of patience and perserverance," Churkin said.
He said Al-Jarba told Lavrov the opposition delegation needs to be more representative.
"The more the opposition delegation is representative, the easier and more productive those discussions are going to be," Churkin said.
On other issues, Churkin said that despite the Syrian government's failure to meet another deadline Wednesday for destroying its chemical weapons, "we are confident that the project ultimately is going to be accomplished in a timely manner."
He noted that the American vessel on which the most dangerous chemicals are to be destroyed hasn't arrived in the Mediterranean yet, so if Syria had met its deadline the chemicals would have been languishing on Danish and Norwegian ships "maybe causing a lot of nervousness in some Mediterranean countries.
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Without exaggeration, last night's main event was one of the most spectacular main events in the history of MMA.
By this point, most fans have probably already read a dozen recaps of the dramatic action, of how Sonnen backed up his trash talk, and how Silva found a way to win.
Looking forward though, what's next for the fighters who fought at UFC 117?
Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen
In winning, Silva furthered his legacy for finally having to overcome some serious adversity.
Before the fight, most people thought that Sonnen would fade away after getting knocked out or easily submitted by Silva. But because the fight played out as it did, Sonnen's reputation has only been enhanced. All the trash talk turned out to be worth it, and Sonnen has probably earned himself a raise and some staying power in the UFC, which is crazy considering only last year it seemed he would be cut if he had lost to Yushin Okami.
At this point in time, an immediate rematch seems like the best possible option for the UFC.
The UFC could try to build towards a rematch, but because of the way the whole fight went down, from the insane trash talk, to the in-fight drama, this one is begging for a sequel.
Jon Fitch
Fitch has been the second-best welterweight in the world for the past three years, and he cemented that status with authority last night.
If title shots are awarded purely on merit, Fitch has done more than enough to earn a second crack at Georges St. Pierre's belt. But even if he doesn't get a shot immediately, Fitch deserves far more credit than he usually gets from the fans.
Fitch has shown that he's a class above most of the people in the welterweight division. There are two main reasons why Fitch doesn't get enough credit.
First among reasons is that his style doesn't appeal to fans who like to see more flashy action. What Fitch does, is take people right out of their game, and control and beat them up, all the while staying classy and respectful. This isn't enough for a lot of fans.
The second reason is that when people see Fitch, they can't shake the impressions that were formed when St. Pierre dominated him for five rounds.
If the ability to not get dominated by St. Pierre over five rounds is the bar that fighters need to jump over to get respect, then nearly everybody will fail. Fitch may not have been able to beat St. Pierre, but he can probably beat anybody else in the division, and people should start recognizing him for the pound-for-pound quality fighter that he is.
Thiago Alves
Alves severely damaged his standing in the UFC when he missed weight, and then could not even cut the final half pound in a two hour period.
This is the second time Alves has missed weight, and on another occasion, he tested positive for a banned diuretic, which he used to help himself cut weight.
At this point in time, the UFC management, from the Fertitas on down have lost patience with Alves's weight cutting issues.
As Dana White pointed out last night at the post-fight press conference, missing weight is potentially damaging to the UFC business, especially when it concerns a possible title contender. Had Alves beaten Fitch, it would have been hard to put him into a title fight having missed weight, and if he missed weight for a title fight, then he'd cause even bigger problems.
Alves seemed obsessed with being a gigantic welterweight, and his obsession may have cost him any possible size advantage he could ever have.
At this point, the UFC brass have seen enough, and want Alves to move up to 185 pounds.
While Alves may still be able to find some success at 185 pounds, he would lose any potential size advantage, and he'd be one of the shorter guys in the division, which is potentially disastrous for a guy who struggles to get past long jabs like of St. Pierre's.
Matt Hughes
The UFC management loves Matt Hughes to death, because he has been one of the most loyal fighters in company history, along with Chuck Liddell and Rich Franklin.
The UFC wants to keep Hughes around, and eventually have him go out on a high note.
Although Dana White won't say it outright, Hughes's title contender days are over.
Instead of fighting contenders, Hughes will take some time off to enjoy hunting season, and will likely come back early next year in some other interesting, but winnable fight. A third fight with Dennis Hallman may be in the cards.
Ricardo Almeida
Many thought that Almeida had the recipe to beat Hughes, but Almeida got careless with his standup, and then Hughes capitalized with a great submission.
It's back to the drawing board for Almeida, and he's been knocked out of contendership for now, but plenty of interesting fights remain for him. I wouldn't mind seeing him fight somebody like Mike Swick, but anybody in the middle of the division should suffice.
Clay Guida
In case you didn't get the memo, let me state it in clear terms: Clay Guida is not a contender.
Guida is a sturdy guy who can be competitive against anybody, but won't beat the true elites of the division, due to his lack of dynamic offense, and striking offense in particular.
Still, he'll get some good wins, and otherwise will be a gatekeeper to the stars like he was for Diego Sanchez.
I favor a fight with Takanori Gomi, considering they're on a similar schedule right now, and both fit in roughly the same part of the division.
Junior Dos Santos
Dos Santos's win will grant him a title shot opposite the winner of the upcoming title fight between Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez.
Dos Santos showed some good takedown defense against Roy Nelson, but after watching the fight, I'm guessing that he'll have trouble staying vertical against Velasquez or Lesnar, and may not be as far ahead of Velasquez in the striking department as we once imagined.
That said, it's hard to say that he hasn't earned his title shot given the top level heavyweights he's cast aside in his short UFC tenure.
Roy Nelson
We know that Nelson has the skills of a relatively elite fighter, but he doesn't have the physical abilities to compete with the very best heavyweights.
Many people would love to see Nelson drop down to 205 pounds, where he have to be in better shape, and wouldn't be quite so small for the division. I personally think his proper division is probably 185 pounds, but he's never ever going to get there, largely due to his own stubbornness.
I highly doubt that Nelson is going to lose weight, as he seems to have rationalized his size as being something natural, rather than the burden that it is in a professional sport like MMA.
Still, Nelson is obviously good enough to beat some guys in the heavyweight division, so he'll stick around there, and will still beat a lot of middle to upper level heavyweights.
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I have been working on remodeling my bathroom. As part of the renovations we have decided to replace our old tub with an acrylic claw foot tub. The tub is extremely light weight. I am assuming that it needs to be anchored some how so that there isn't constant strain on the plumbing for the drain. I talked to the plumber who helped me move the plumbing when I first started the remodel, but he did not have any answers for me. My floor is ceramic tile, and there is basement below the bathroom so I can get underneath the floor if needed. What is the best way to anchor this tub?
Here are a couple of pictures of the tub: Claw foot tub
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Under side of feet
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What are those legs made out of? Are you sure this thing is designed to be functional? I can't believe one small bolt per leg can support a full load of water + a person! – Tester101 Oct 14 '11 at 20:32
There should be holes or notches for screws in the feet - can you post a photo of the bottom of the inside of the leg? – ChrisF Oct 14 '11 at 20:56
@Tester101 the feet are metal and it feels pretty sturdy once the tub is sitting on them, but I was a bit leery of them as well. – heavyd Oct 14 '11 at 22:48
That tub looks like it can hold quite a bit of water, so keep in mind water weighs ~8.33 lbs/gallon. I'm guessing that tub holds at least 600 lbs of water, plus the weight of the tub + a person... That is a lot of weight on those legs (and the floor). I'm no engineer (@Doresoom is the resident engineer), but I wouldn't trust that kind of weight on those feet. – Tester101 Oct 15 '11 at 0:38
There is going to be a lot of force pushing down, and I'm thinking those (tiny) bolts are going to act like a hinge and allow the legs to deflect out. Too much weight, and the tub will look like Bambi on the frozen pond. – Tester101 Oct 15 '11 at 0:41
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I believe you just set it on the floor and let the weight of the tub and connected drain pipes keep it from moving.
If you are really worried about it moving you could mount some sort of small block to the floor behind where each leg will sit. It would not be attached to the blocks but with for of them the tub would not be able to move. But that may not work well with your tile floor.
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The weight of the tub will definitely not be enough. The 2 pictures above I took by holding the tub up with one hand and holding the camera with another, and it was not a strain to take. As it is the tub would move if you bump into it. – heavyd Oct 14 '11 at 23:48
I would contact the manufacturer and see what they say. – Craig Oct 17 '11 at 16:20
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(MONEY Magazine) – My favorite political website--hands down--is, a financial database run by the Center for Responsive Politics. With a few keystrokes, visitors can find out anything, from which House member gets the most money from pharmaceutical companies (Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J.) to which candidate Warren Buffett supported, at least financially, for President (Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.).
Maybe it's the journalist in me, or just my libertarian streak, but it seems that putting such information at the fingertips of voters is a far more effective way to clean up politics than passing laws that cap how much money people give to parties or politicians. Look at what's happened in the year since the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill became law. Barred from making six- and seven-figure donations to political parties, unions and corporate fat cats are now sending their cash to private groups unencumbered by McCain-Feingold. These are the folks who run those oh-so-helpful issue ads imploring voters to "call" Congressman Jones and "ask him why" he raised your taxes or denied your sick grandmother drug benefits. The liberal group just got a whopping $5 million from George Soros and his pals.
I don't see the difference between Soros giving millions to and his donating directly to the Democratic Party. Besides, in a free society, people should be able to spend what they want to push whichever causes and candidates they support. What we need aren't more restrictions on giving but more disclosure on what that money is buying. An ex-Capitol Hill staffer exaggerates only slightly when she tells me that "98% of constituent meetings are with people who contribute money." Maybe I'm naive, but I have to think that laying bare the connection between money and influence would shame politicians into being better public servants.
So here's my idea: Require pols to log all lobbyists and contributors with whom they or their staffers meet and make that information available online. There would be loopholes for national security, and congressmen couldn't be expected to remember everyone who buttonholed them at the local Safeway. Nevertheless, when it comes to disinfecting Washington, partial sunlight would be better than no sunlight at all. --JON BIRGER | <urn:uuid:b6824efc-9212-4713-9c5f-0063193535b7> | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/01/01/357219/index.htm | en | 0.963381 | 0.36747 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I'm trying to compile a lower version of php (5.2) as gentoo is selecting 5.3 and i'm having some coding issues with the new version
nano /etc/portage/package.use
=dev-lang/php-5.2.14 ~amd64
still when I emerge emerge -av php
is stil selecting version 5.3 which is by default
how else can I force emerge to select the version I want
ls /usr/portage/dev-lang/php/ ChangeLog php-5.2.14.ebuild php-5.3.4.ebuild Manifest php-5.2.16.ebuild php-5.3.5.ebuild files/ php-5.2.17.ebuild metadata.xml php-5.3.3-r1.ebuild
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You should find the old ebuild package, it should be in portage directory.
Then, if I remember correctly, the comand to run was "ebuild old-package.ebuild" and it will compile it.
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didn't emerge spit an error notification immediately? keyword specifications are supposed to go into /etc/portage/package.keywords.
emerge -av =php-5.2.17
if any of them are keyworded, then:
echo "=dev-lang/php-5.2.17 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
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yes sorry about that, they are in keywords.. – PartySoft Jan 27 '11 at 15:27
emerge doesn't display any error, no – PartySoft Jan 27 '11 at 15:27
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First, php 5.2.17 already has amd64 in its keywords so ~amd64 would do nothing.
Second, it is almost never a good idea to attempt to mix ~amd64 and amd64 That is why you set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 (or amd64) in /etc/make.conf. It is a per-host variable.
Third, you should use /etc/portage/package.mask like so:
This will prevent all ebuilds with version greater than 5.2.17 to be masked.
Then run emerge -upv --deep --newuse php.
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PHP versions are now slotted in Gentoo, so you can have easily either version, or even both at the same time on system and switch between them with eselect. There is a complete guide on the Gentoo home page on how to correctly migrate to slotted PHP versions.
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I'd like to explore British Columbia, for maybe a few months. I see this being expensive and difficult without a visa, but I don't mind working, even in a stipend position that only covers living expenses.
What such programs, if any, are out there?
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If they are picky about what kind of work you can do there, the work the locals don't want to do is your best bet. In the case of BC it always used to be tree planting that you did for a little money when you couldn't get a job and didn't mind the hard work. – hippietrail Jun 29 '11 at 15:30
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There is NAFTA, which if you are eligible makes it really easy to work in Canada as a US citizen. But the provisions in NAFTA don't apply to most people. "NAFTA applies to four specific categories of business people: business visitors, professionals, intra-company transferees, and traders and investors." "Professionals" is defined pretty narrowly; the majority of people would not fit into those four categories. You can't just go up and work on a farm or in a restaurant or something. (Computer programming would be eligible for example).
If you're not covered by NAFTA, you'll need a work permit. Exceptions are made for those working for foreign companies and such as well, such as airline workers; it would be silly for them to need a work visa every time they were on a Canada-bound flight. See http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/apply-who-nopermit.asp for more details on that.
There's a Working Temporarily in Canada page that leads to some good info, such as who can apply. In general, you need to have a company willing to hire you to sponsor you through this process. You can go as a visitor and find work, but normally would have to leave the country and re-enter on the work visa before starting work. The eligibility page says that you can't apply from within Canada unless you are switching jobs or are a student in Canada, but again I think you should be able to leave and re-enter.
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combined our two since yours was better. – Michael Pryor Jun 29 '11 at 15:49
@Michael Works for me! :) – Matthew Read Jun 29 '11 at 16:05
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For the sake of comparison, I'm going to break down the cost of ownership over a two-year span for Verizon, the carrier with the most U.S. subscribers, and T-Mobile, which is now the country's largest prepaid network since swallowing up Metro PCS and now killing off its own two-year contract model.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 makes a good model device, thanks to its ubiquity across seven carriers; the 16GB version has a $199.99 base price for most contract providers, though prices will start to drop once the Samsung Galaxy S4 hits shelves.
Reasons to go prepaid
The first difference between the two carriers is the cost of the phone. The Galaxy S3 isn't really $200; that's the price that Verizon and the rest subsidize so you pay less up-front than a T-Mobile customer, who will pay almost $600. The trade-off for a "cheaper" Verizon phone is committing to two years of data fees no matter what, and getting slapped with a multiple-hundred-dollar termination fee if you try to leave early.
In addition, Verizon and others add an activation fee for new lines of service. If you're a new cell phone customer, or switching from another carrier, chances are good that you'll be tacking a nominal fee onto the transaction, and that adds to the phone's overall cost.
Verizon Wireless -- Two-year contract
Samsung Galaxy S3 cost (16GB) $199.99
Activation fee (one-time) $35
Monthly access rate $40
Monthly rate (4GB data) $70
Access fee, 24 months $960
Data fee, 24 months $1,680
Two-year total, excluding taxes $2,875
T-Mobile -- No contract carrier
Samsung Galaxy S3 cost (16GB) $589.99*
Activation fee $0
Monthly rate (Unlimited 4G LTE) $70
Data fee, 24 months $1,680
Two-year total, excluding taxes $2,270
*Up-front cost equals $109.99 down payment, plus $20 per month for 24 months.
Verizon's new pooled Share Everything data plan (required for new contracts,) means you'll pay a monthly access fee for any device, on top of the monthly bundle for unlimited talk, text, and a portion of 4G LTE data. I chose 4GB of monthly data, but Verizon also offers plans for as low as 1GB per month to as high as 10GB per month.
Over two years, you'll pay almost $3,000 for the Galaxy S3 on Verizon, assuming you're activating a new line of service.
With T-Mobile's no-contract plan, however, you skip the activation fee, and the $70 unlimited monthly rate gets you all the LTE data you can eat, on top of limitless calls and texts. The old MetroPCS' LTE plans were actually $450 more economical than T-Mobile's over 2 years, with plans ranging from $40 to $70 per month, depending on add-on services. For instance, the $70 plan got you on-demand video and unlimited Rhapsody Music.
Metro PCS -- No contract carrier (merging with T-Mobile)
Samsung Galaxy S3 cost $500
Activation fee $0
Monthly rate (Unlimited 4G LTE) $55
Data fee, 24 months $1,320
Two-year total, excluding taxes $1,820
Regardless, T-Mobile's plan saves you $645 dollars on a Galaxy S3 over the course of two years compared to Verizon's contract plan for a new line of service.
What about family plans?
The math gets a little trickier when you factor in lines of service for multiple family members. Verizon and T-Mobile both offer pooled data plans. Verizon will sell you 2GB of data for $60 per month, and go up to 10GB of data for $100 per month, minus the monthly access fee per device.
T-Mobile's family plan rates, on the other hand, promise unlimited 4G data with no cap, and start at $100 for 2GB of data per month for two people. The cost graduates to $210 per month for unlimited data for up to 5 lines.
Samsung Galaxy S III
A high-powered phone like the Galaxy S3 brings powerful software and hardware features to traditionally more humble networks.
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How low can you go?
What happens if you're trying to get the least expensive phone you can, period? Once again, a prepaid carrier may offer you the cost advantage on the lower end of the scale, too.
Although most known as a post-paid carrier, Verizon also has a prepaid branch that gives you unlimited talk, text, and Web. (Check and you'll find that each national carrier has some sort of prepaid option. In Verizon's case, there are two choices, since you can also buy phones at full retail cost and opt for a month-to-month contract.)
For the next scenario, I wanted to compare the most rock-bottom price you can get with Verizon and T-Mobile for a non-refurbished phone. Verizon's least expensive handsets are the $50 Samsung Gusto 2 and LG Cosmos 2. Though simple, they have all the basics for making calls and texts.
Verizon Wireless -- Cheapest prepaid
Samsung Gusto 2, LG Cosmos 2 $50
Monthly fee (talk, text, Web) $50
Data fee, 24 months $1,200
Two-year total, excluding taxes $1,250
T-Mobile -- No contract -- Cheapest
BlackBerry Curve 9315 $168
Monthly fee (talk, text, Web) $50 (includes 500MB data)
Data fee, 24 months $1,200
Two-year total, excluding taxes $1,368
Verizon charges $50 for unlimited talk, text, and Web, though you won't use much Web on a phone like the Gusto 2 or Cosmos 2, and that saves Verizon money in the end. The $1,250 total for two years of ownership is pretty low.
I likewise searched T-Mobile's Web site for its least expensive offering. Since T-Mobile is dealing only in new smartphones at the moment, the BlackBerry smartphone costs three times more. However, refurbished phones match Verizon's cost of about $50 ($48, actually) for the Samsung t159 and Nokia X2.
T-Mobile's third option: Bring your own
Borrowing from a popular global option, T-Mobile will also provide wireless service for unlocked handsets you bring in yourself, including an AT&T iPhone.
Seventy dollars gets you unlimited talk, text, and data for one person. A two-line plan costs $60 per line per month, or $120 total per month. T-Mobile is especially gunning for unhappy AT&T customers.
What about MVNOs?
Carriers with storefronts aren't the only options. You can also find great deals with MVNOs, Mobile Virtual Network Operators. MVNOs are services that resell other operators' spectrum, and prices go as low as $30 per month without a contract. TracFone is the largest, and owns StraightTalk, a Wal-Mart exclusive that resells AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
MVNO logos: Credo, Ting, TracFone, StraightTalk (Credit: CNET)
Ting and Credo Mobile ride Sprint's network, as do Sprint's own prepaid Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands. PureTalk sells AT&T; Net 10 rides AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint; and Simple Mobile resells T-Mobile service.
Getting the phone you want
As with the handsets themselves, no carrier offers a one-size-fits-all solution.
No-contract providers are simpler and less invasive: there's no service agreement and sometimes no credit check (T-Mobile does require this.)
You can also often pay in cash at a retail store, so a credit card isn't required. Since there's no contract, there's also no fee for stopping service sporadically or switching providers any time you want.
Selection is one more major drawback; you can't always be as choosy about what you get. Verizon and AT&T's prepaid services are usually limited to flip phones and other simple devices, but with T-Mobile's new move, all that's changing.
On other contract-free carriers, quality midrange Android phones can easily cost $300 without a contract, but the features will often pale in comparison to the most coveted smartphones on the market.
The good news is that the more major prepaid carriers are snagging popular smartphones like the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3, but these will come at the full retail price, which is a larger sum up-front.
It's all about the network
When you're considering which carrier to pick, you should always think about the network speeds and services you can expect. The old Metro PCS worked best in urban centers, so if you traveled a lot to the country, you may have found your call quality and ability to stream data heavily compromised. T-Mobile's extensive nationwide network nips that problem in the bud. Some other networks, like MVNOs, have national partnerships, but you'll want to check on coverage before committing.
Another thing to note is that not every network is created equally. Verizon and T-Mobile will both be able to offer various 4G speeds, but some, like Cricket, still largely operate on 3G for now.
All the extras
Post-paid national carriers like AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon can also afford to offer you greater support when it comes to in-store attention and customer service, in addition to intangibles like a more alluring brand appeal. As a new prepaid carrier, T-Mobile can match that, though smaller outfits don't have the operating budget to staff quite as many stores or call centers.
iPhone 5
Cricket Wireless snagged the iPhone 5 just a week after the major carriers began selling Apple's flagship phone.
(Credit: CBS Interactive)
Is switching worth it?
If saving money is important to you, I urge you to explore a prepaid option. Up-front costs will be higher, but in the long term, you can curb your spending if you stick with your original phone. If you don't like it, there's no penalty for going back to contract, and you can cut your losses by selling off the other carrier's phone.
It used to be that if a premium experience is what you want, a prepaid carrier would only frustrate. T-Mobile's track record as a postpaid carrier portends good things when it comes to friendly and attentive customer service, robust network coverage, and a large selection of current phones. However, we can only wait and see how it handles the transition.
Especially with T-Mobile's bold no-contract move, we're seeing the prepaid segment heat up with better phones, more aggressive offers, and interesting services like Cricket Wireless' Muve Music plan.
The bottom line is that to get the best deal, you're still going to have to put in the time to research your options -- including the carrier's coverage zones -- and sit down to do the math.
What's your personal experience with prepaid carriers: good, bad, indifferent? Share them in the comments.
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New push to curb 'cyberwarming' from computers
Google, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard pledged this week to develop and use more energy-efficient computers and computer components.
By Staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor / June 14, 2007
Dell previewed an ultra-small desktop they say will use 70 percent less energy for Earth Day.
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A new term may be joining the jumble of climate-change jargon: cyberwarming.
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That's the new lingo being used to denote the tremendous amount of electricity consumed by the world's millions of computers, which adds to greenhouse-gas emissions.
A Climate Savers Computing Initiative, spearheaded by industry leaders such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, pledged this week to develop and use more energy-efficient computers and computer components.
That could cut the amount of electricity computers consume by 50 percent in the next four years, saving $5.5 billion in electricity costs, the consortium says. Annual greenhouse-gas emissions would drop by 54 million tons annually – the equivalent of taking 11 million cars off the road or shutting down 20 large coal-fired power plants, according to a story on the initiative by the Associated Press.
Energy Star, a program operated by the Environmental Protection Agency, already sets power-efficient standards for many appliances including computers, The Wall Street Journal reports. The proposed standards would use that requirement as a starting point and set stricter standards over the years.
One recent study showed that computers account for about 2 percent of the world's carbon emissions. A typical PC today wastes about half of the energy it consumes, the group says. While computers designed to be more energy-efficient would initially cost $20 or so more per unit, that cost would be quickly made up in lower electric bills. And the benefits wouldn't stop there, said Google cofounder Larry Page in the AP story:
While in the US private industry is taking the initiative, in Britain the government is attacking the problem. It's exploring an even more radical solution to cyber-warming: replacing PCs with dumb computer terminals. A pilot project planned for the city of Manchester next year would replace computers in homes with a "thin client" system, essentially returning to the days when central computers did the data crunching and users needed nothing more than a screen and a keyboard.
Putting stripped-down terminals in homes could reduce energy consumption by as much as 98 percent, says Atul Hatwal, a spokesman for the Green Shift Task force, which is planning the pilot project, in a story in the British science magazine Nature online.
Household computers are overmuscled behemoths that use only 5 percent of their processing power, Mr. Hatwal says. "PCs are fairly complex, large machines that are massively underused by the majority."
Dumb terminals are in use already at places such as CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory located near Geneva, the Nature story goes on to say. They should be especially useful to nonprofessionals, says CERN's Tapio Niemi.
The users won't "need to worry about software applications," he says in the Nature story, meaning they won't be bothered by constant downloads and updates for their computer. Most people are already familiar with the idea of storing their digitized stuff remotely, he says, making use of the online public photo archive Flickr or Web-based e-mail storage from Hotmail or G-mail.
But a story in Techworld, a British online technology magazine, cast a skeptic's eye on the whole enterprise, noting that precious little had been disclosed about what kind of equipment would be used, how the network would work, or how existing PC users would be persuaded to "ditch" their current energy-guzzling machines. | <urn:uuid:9b283d10-734e-4ca3-8e9e-fdb2b49f8078> | http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2007/0614/new-push-to-curb-cyberwarming-from-computers | en | 0.948936 | 0.026246 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Interview With Tilda Swinton, part 3
PK: I have to ask you this question. A friend of my told me once that you are a duchess, is that correct?
TS: Umm no. But don't tell them. Let them dream on.
PK: But you are a member of one of the oldest families in Scotland, correct?
TS: Yes.
PK: Is that something that doesn't mean anything to you, or is it something you've rebelled against at one point? How does that fit into your metamorphosis?
TS: Well, it's very much a part of who I am. I don't know what you look like, or what your story is Peter, but it's like asking you what your shoe size means to you. It's part of who you are and you are built around it. Rebelling against it would be absolutely ridiculous. I don't think I've ever rebelled against it. I've negotiated it my entire life. But I'm very happy to embrace it. It's who I am. I'm a twig on a great big tree. But it would be very silly to try and deny that I come off that tree.
PK: But no duchess.
TS: I'm no duchess, no. She is no duchess, but don't tell your friend.
PK: I won't. I think he was putting me on anyway. One other thing. There's a much abused word in the United States right now and people use it as a term of derogation and they don't if know what it means, which is "socialist." You actually are a socialist. Can you explain to people what that means? You're a member of the Scottish Socialist Party, is that correct?
TS: I'm not actually a member of any political party to be honest. But from a very early age, whenever I read about socialism, I felt very drawn on a human level to the idea of fairness. So I would say that, were there a fairness party, I would possibly be a signed up member. But no, I'm not a member of any political party.
PK: But do you see film as having sort of political or social, I mean, it's clear from your description of the Eight and a Half that you feel it has some sort of societal impact.
TS: I believe that cinema is an art form. But cinema is a social project, absolutely. The very fact that cinema as an art form, what it invites you to do and allows you to do is to put yourself in somebody else's shoes. If it's a figurative sort of cinema that you're looking at, it can put you into the shoes of the person that you're watching or even if it's not a figurative cinema, it will put you into the shoes of the filmmaker that is directing the camera. Shoes other than you own: that makes it a supremely humanistic and, I think, supremely social project. For that reason, I'm truly dedicated to it. I think it's really, really good for people, cinema.
I think it can be wasted. I think that some film wastes the possibilities of cinema. But I think that it is a really powerful medium and as a medium for keeping people company it's unsurpassable.
PK: Do you remember the first film you saw that inspired your love of cinema?
TS: The first film I remember seeing was a very, very strange experience because, for many years, I thought it was a dream. I saw a film on television which I kept asking people for years whether they'd seen it and they hadn't. So I sort of talked myself into believing that it was a dream. Recently in the last two years, I mentioned it to someone and they said, "Oh I know what that is, that's Charles and Ray Eames' film ‘Powers of Ten.'" And I found it and I watched it and, in fact, I showed it a film festival last year and there was a child in the audience who was the same age, he was eight, the same age that I was when I saw it. And, I could see that it blew his mind. I saw him after the screening and he had the same look on his face as I did when I saw it. It's this extraordinary film of, I had always remembered that it was somebody lying on a rowing boat, but in fact it was someone lying on a picnic blanket, and from above, the camera comes out by tens, by the power of tens. And then you see that they are by the shores of some lake in the Great Lakes. And then you come out and see the state that they're in, and then you come out and see the United States, and you come out, and out, and out and out into the universe, into the galaxy, out, out, out, out, out. And then you come back in. In, in, in, in, in you see the globe, you see America, in, you see the Great Lakes, in, you see the blanket, in you see the person. Then you go onto their hand, and then you go into their blood. It's the most amazing film. It's like a hallucinogenic experience, a very existential experience. And that was the first film I ever saw, and I saw it again last year. And that's going to be on our list of films 8 year olds see.
PK: It sound a little bit like "Wavelength." The Michael Snow film?
TS: I don't know it. I'll have to look for that.
PK: Was it at the San Francisco film festival that you did an address on dreams?
TS: A few years ago now I was asked to give the state of cinema address and in, I think it was 2006 or 2007. That address, if you read it, was the starting point, the inspiration for our foundation, Eight and a Half. It was my son who asked me this extraordinary question. The San Francisco film festival asked me to deliver this address and I was going to write them an e-mail saying, "no thank you very much," because I didn't really feel like saying anything. I also had this feeling that the State of the Cinema address might be expected to be something about the current situation of the industrial state of cinema or something, and I didn't feel that I had anything to say about that, because I'm not really interested in that. And I thought, before I write the e-mail, I'm going to go up and say goodnight to my children, and I was saying goodnight to my son and I blessed him on his forehead and said "Have a beautiful dream." And he asked me this question. He said, "What were people's dreams like before cinema was invented?" And it really spun me out, this question. I went downstairs, and instead of writing the San Francisco Film Festival and saying that I wasn't going to do the address, I wrote the address based on this question. And it was out of that that the idea of the Eight and a Half Foundation came. It occurred to me that, when you're eight and a half, you have an access to the kind of possibility in cinema that slowly, if you're not lucky, you get beaten out of you. If you can be encouraged to hang on to that, you're going to have access to all the great filmmakers and all the great film poets that there ever were and will ever be.
PK: Did dreams shape how films are made, or do films shape how dreams are made?
TS: Well there's the question. It's useful to know, I think, that cinema and psychoanalysis were both sort of invented at the same moment in history. The unconscious, the way in which cinema has the capacity to work with the unconscious and to express the unconscious. If we read cinema properly, if we sit before it with the right attention, then we can learn about ourselves. We don't have to interpret it, we just have to recognize it.
PK: Freud would have made a better film critic than a psychoanalyst, I think. One last question. You were going to make a movie, some film involving Lewis Carroll?
TS: With Marilyn Manson? Yes, again that's another seed in the ground. Watch the space, but don't hold the breath, is what I would say.
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4 Thoughts on Delonte West's Wet Willie on Gordon Hayward
Now featuring Delonte West.
After allowing me to fall into the trap of proclaiming them a lock for the playoffs on my radio show, the Rockets lost their fourth straight game last night. Logic dictates that I should post something about that, but I need to step away from the Rockets just to be able to rationally assess them right now (as if a team whose results are so irrational can be rationally assessed).
Thankfully, the basketball gods have blessed us with the perfect distraction from the Rockets nosedive -- Delonte West being Delonte West.
In case you missed it, the Mavericks (West's current employer, which needs to be pointed out since being on his fourth team in five years officially qualifies him as a journeyman now) lost to the Utah Jazz Monday night in triple overtime, in one of three games last night that went the wrong way for the Rockets (their own game and the Suns' win over Portland being the other two).
The game gave us everything you could ask for -- buzzer beaters, clutch shots, huge performances from big-time players and a Wet Willie administered by West on the Jazz's Gordon Hayward.
If you don't believe me, here's the video:
A few observations on this:
1. Let's preface all of this with the fact that this is the first Wet Willie I've ever seen one adult inflict on another adult where both adults had a blood alcohol content below the legal limit. I mean, isn't a Wet Willie something you do to mess with your buddies when everyone is shitfaced?
2. I've had a few people argue with me that this particular Willie may not have been "wet" per se, as we do not have footage of West giving his finger the ceremonial pre-insertion lick. All I have to say in response to that is that it's Delonte West's finger, which with no saliva still might be the most unsanitary appendage in the entire arena, not including the remaining appendages on West's person. In other words, does it really matter if the Willie is wet or not if it belongs to Delonte West? It's still gross and probably disease-ridden. Speaking of which....
3. The "LeBron's mom" jokes are officially too easy and, therefore, considered lazy.
4. I understand it was a punk-ass thing for West to do, but the Jazz announcers act like he pulled out a gun and shot Hayward dead in the middle of the lane (which, by the way, before West got on meds for his bipolarity, would have had a 50-50 shot at happening, too). "Cheap shot in the biggest way....that is the low of lows in sportsmanship..." I mean, they do realize that John Stockton once played for their Jazz, right?
In a year where Delonte West applied to work at Home Depot during the lockout, wound up working for a moving company and allegedly spent his first several days as a Maverick living in the team's locker room, West topped all of those things in the ridiculousness department last night.
A Wet Willie? Seriously?
That said, he's got a long way to go to top this:
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By now, we all know that Mars was once home to water and may have even supported life. But what would the planet have looked like when it was lush and verdant?
According to Kevin Gill, like this. Created using elevation data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this rendering shows what Mars would have looked like if water was present on the surface. It reveals a massive ocean on one side of the planet, and one of the longest valleys in the solar system, Vallis Marineris. Elsewhere, over on the left you can see the peaks of Olympus Mons, Pavonis Mons, Ascraeus Mons and Arsia Mons poking up out of the atmosphere. Gill explains how he made the image:
This is a view of the Western hemisphere with Olympus Mons on the horizon beyond the Tharsis Montes volcanoes and the Valles Marineris canyons near the center. The height of the clouds and atmosphere are largely arbitrary and set for the sake of appearance and coverage over the exaggerated terrain elevations (~10 times elevation exaggeration). The eye is about 10,000 km (~6,200 miles) from the surface.
The resulting model was then brought into GIMP were I painted in land features using a NASA Blue Marble Next Generation image for the source textures... I tried to envision how the land would appear given certain features or the effects of likely atmospheric climate.
Obviously, there's a fair deal of artistic license involved in creating a render of what Mars would look like as a planet supporting life. But that doesn't stop the image being a fascinating insight into the possible past life of Mars—and a refreshing change from seeing it as a dusty red ball. [Kevin Gill via Discovery]
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Shinobi as seen in the series.
Shinobi (忍) otherwise referred to as ninja (忍者) in the English translation of Naruto, are the primary focus and the main military power in the series. A female ninja is known as a kunoichi (くノ一). Most come from a hidden village, of which some come from specialised ninja clans, and will perform missions for a fee. These missions can include: doing manual labour, acting as escorts, gathering secret information, retrieving stolen items, carrying out assassinations, etc. In times of war, ninja will come together to defend their villages and land. The clearest characteristic of a shinobi is their ability to manipulate chakra to create and use techniques. Shinobi are expected to be loyal to their villages for life, and any defectors are considered to be missing-nin, and will be marked for death.
Shinobi can use a variety of techniques often based on the utilisation of chakra. This allows shinobi to perform extraordinary feats such as walking on water or walking up trees. Jutsu are separated into three groups, ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. Ninjutsu implies performing a supernatural or beyond normal ability, the most common of which is the elemental jutsu. These are created by the user transforming their chakra into a specific nature or 'release'. The chakra types are Lightning, Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. Other sub-types of chakra natures such as Wood Release and Ice Release also exist, created by combining two of the basic five releases. Taijutsu implies physical body techniques, which may or may not require chakra. Genjutsu manipulates the chakra in an enemy's mind and disrupts their chakra flow. Their senses get fooled which creates illusions, things that the foe believes to be real that are in fact fake. Genjutsu is the least-used of the three groups, possibly due to the difficulty required in performing the technique.
Main article: Ninja Tools
Ninja tools are used as alternatives to jutsu. They can include weapons, accessories, and even clothing. Some ninja such as Tenten have mastered the use of such tools, but all ninja are able to use the most common to some degree. A standard shinobi will have a pouch equipped with many such tools, and nearly every ninja is equipped with at least a shuriken holster. Most also possess and wear a forehead protector with the symbol of the village they derive from, though the ninja does not necessarily have to wear it over their forehead. The Inuzuka clan's ninken and Aburame clan's insects are also classified as tools.
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A victory for Apple at Friday's International Trade Commission ruling is likely to have little impact on Samsung Electronics' market share and stock performance, according to industry experts.
The commission is set to decide whether some Samsung products should be banned in the U.S and comes a week after President Obama vetoed a product ban on certain Apple devices.
Still, analysts believe that the outcome will have little bearing in the marketplace given Samsung's robust performance during the last quarter.
The South Korean giant dethroned Apple in handset profits during the second-quarter, posting $5.2 billion in operating profit compared to Apple's $4.6 billion. Furthermore, Samsung notched 33.1 percent in global market share in the quarter while Apple's share declined to 13.6 percent, which is a three-year low according to a report by Strategy Analytics.
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Edward Snyder, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Charter Equity Research thinks the South Korean giant is already winning the handset war and sees no cause for concern about the ITC decision.
"When you step back and look at the big picture, the answer is already pretty clear that Samsung is winning this fight so why should South Korea start a bigger brawl when they are already homegrown favorites winning the war?" said Edward Snyder, co-Founder and managing director at Charter Equity Research on CNBC Asia's "Squawk Box."
"This is more of a headline story in a political debate than it is about economics," he added.
Snyder used the case of the 2008 patent battle between American semiconductor giants Broadcom and Qualcomm to show why an Apple victory at the ITC would not dent Samsung's share price.
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"The ITC put an injunction on Qualcomm in certain parts of the U.S. and in addition, they had to a pay $1 billion fine to Broadcom, but it had no impact on Qualcomm's stock price."
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"Will quench your thirst for stealth.... until Metal Gear Advance comes out."
I have never played Splinter Cell before, only a demo for the PS2 version, but heard alot of good things, so when I heard it was coming to GBA I jumped at the chance. Of course I never expected it to be as good as the PS2/X-Box/Gamecube versions, mainly dew to the fact that the GBA version is 2D because of the GBA's lack of power, but that still didn't deter me from buying it. As it turns out its quite a good stealth/action adventure and is well forth adding to your collection while you wait for Metal Gear Advance (please Konami).
STORY: 7/10
You play the role of Sam Fisher working for a branch of the National Security Agency, of course these people are above the law. Basically your job is to gather intelligence, whether it be tapping phones or computers or even taking photo's of a suspected mole in the CIA. While the story isn't terrific it does the job and keeps you playing through the whole game aswell as setting up some fine missions.
The graphics are good without being spectacular. All buildings are well detailed and the people (including Sam) all move very smooth. The graphics reminded me alot of the graphics from Spiderman: Mesterio's Menace on GBA, the way the characters move and such are very similar. There are also some nice touches such as the birds on the roof that will fly away as you approach, very nice. Obviously not as good as the other Splinter Cell versions.
SOUND: 9/10
The music is excellent while the sound effects are also quite nice. The way the music actually lowers in volume when your hiding in a dark spot, really adds to the atmosphere. Also when you have been seen the music becomes much louder and changes to a much heavier track, making your heart start pumping and fingers start to sweat. Sound effects like gunshots and bad-guys coughing after there've been hit by a smoke grenade all add to the experience.
This is what it comes down to and surprisingly it plays like its older brothers. The best way to complete this game is stealth and to do that you must sneak up behind guards, hide in dark spots (e.g closet, alleyway), avoid cameras and most importantly not setting of any alarms. My only complaint here is that when you sneak up on a guard from behind you only hit them over the head and there out, I really wanted to walk up behind and snap there neck (much like metal gear) or even slice there throat. Thankfully UBISOFT made this up by including a few different ways to killing people such as jumping from high places onto them, bonking them on the head with your gun, smoke grenade them and the traditional shoot them. My only other concern is the fact the game is pretty repetitive. Apart from killing people the only other thing you do is open doors and locks aswell as disarming guns, by pressing a series of buttons. That is basically all there is to the game. If you can ignore the repetitiveness its plays and feels like its older brothers.
REPLAY: 5/10
This is where the game falls down, its very short. 10 levels thats it, it will take probably a max 3 days to finish it. On my first time through I finished it in 1 day and thats only playing it for about 3 hours. You can unlock a few extra levels by doing well in the main missions but the baulk of unlockables are unlocked by hooking your GBA to your Gamecube and playing Splinter Cell on that. And for people like me who dont own a Gamecube, we are stuck with just a handfull of levels.
Recommended to all those Splinter Cell fans out there who want a portable version of there favorite console game. For everybody else try before you buy. The short duration and that fact you need a Gamecube to get the most out of it makes me only recommend it to die hard stealth action fans. Still its quite a good game.
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post #41 of 77
So these people think it's good for kids to play freely, right? I agree with that. But how exactly does it benefit the kids to play freely, with nobody watching them? Wouldn't they be just as happy playing freely, with an adult or two watching on the sidelines? Sounds to me like the care providers' not watching them is because they're too lazy, not because it benefits the children.
And OP, please read your own words: "...we do love and trust these folks for our kids emotional health, but whether they are physically safe is another question..." What is more important than your kids safety?? As long as they're having fun, it's okay if they're seriously injured, lost, hit by a car??
I really hope you reconsider sending your kids there. At least try to look around for another place with a philosophy similar to yours.
post #42 of 77
I've been following this thread from the beginning and I have to agree that you do seem crazy.
It sounds like your day care provider is trying to guilt you into keeping your kids there because she knows no one else will fill your spot and she'll lose her income.
She may be "like a member of the family," but I have a whole slew of actual family members that I would not trust to watch my kids.
post #43 of 77
Honestly, "crazy" seems fairly mild for paying for the privilege to have your kids unsupervised and getting naked with non-family-members who are using illegal drugs.
post #44 of 77
Originally Posted by chickabiddy View Post
Getting naked? I missed that part. The provider was actually TAKING a bath too????
post #45 of 77
my vote is: explanation was not good enough. please find another day care situation.
also? don't let anyone question what you saw/smelled regarding the situation. your memory was strongest right after the event the more you question it the more you will begin to doubt it.
if you smelled it then you know. it is VERY distinctive and there is NO WAY that you could mistake incense for pot. you know this.
post #46 of 77
Wow. just wow.
First of all. Yes, it is an issue that your neighbor doesn't know CPR/First Aid, but they do offer certification classes in Spanish, in most places. And it's not rocket science; I'm sure she could learn even from an English book, with some effort. I really don't understand what her only speaking Spanish has to do with anything. Bilingualism has been proven to give children many advantages, including children with developmental differences. Plus, if she is actually watching the children, the likelihood of her NEEDING to use CPR is a lot lower than in this free-play place.
Secondly, I am pretty "free-range" with my own kid. He plays outside by himself with the neighbor kids. I do not sit and watch him every minute in the bath. When we go to the playground I don't hover. Even if there is a scuffle/fight I let him defend himself rather than jumping in. We don't freak out about minor accidents/bumps/bruises here (and he gets his fair share, lol). So I truly do get the idea of not being a "helicopter" type of caregiver.
However, I cannot think of any situation where there are FOURTEEN children in care and one of the providers has the time to get naked and get in the tub with one of the children. even if there is truly nothing inappropriate going on, do they have any idea the s*** that would hit the fan if licensing happened to visit? I don't know ANY licensed providers who would take that kind fo chance. I think that is my biggest issue.
No matter how close you all are, during the hours that the daycare is in operation, they need to follow the rules, just like everyone else. I agree that some of the rules are dumb (does it REALLY matter if we don't hang all the posters 6 inches from the ceiling?). But their essential purpose is to prevent situations like this, where the people clearly lack the common sense and discretion to figure out what is okay and what is not.
I am not against smoking weed. I AM against using an illegal substance when you are responsible for children.
I just can't imagine taking my child back to a place that was so obviously lacking in common sense. I get the appeal of the free play thing, but just is not worth it.
post #47 of 77
14 kids? I must have missed that part. That is nuts. They couldn't pay ME to watch my kids along with that many other kids. That's not even a legal ratio - licensed or not.
OP, you can still remain in these people's lives as friends, but why on earth you would keep your children there with the info you provided is beyond me. I'm wondering if this is seriously a joke, or something.
post #48 of 77
Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife View Post
I'm wondering if this is seriously a joke, or something.
Me too. I am just finding it hard to believe that someone would knowingly choose this situation for their children.
post #49 of 77
Whether you think it is ok for the kids to free range, it is probably against the law when you are providing care.
I am not an extremist but this place needs to be shut down before someone really gets hurt!
post #50 of 77
Even with your update I still think that you shouldn't have your kids somewhere where that many kids run around unsupervised. I really don't think that this meets legal requirements for supervision of daycare children. You can call your local daycare licensing department to be sure if you care to. I never felt like my dd wasn't safe at her daycare. She attended two free play daycares that also had rules to keep all kids safe and supervision that met NAEYC adult to child ratios and the city guidelines. I think free play without adult interuption is important, but so is safety and having an accident prone child would make me even more set on putting her in a safe place where she would be supervised.
I also have to wonder if this is a joke though. Having kids unsupervised in a center where you don't feel they are safe, people are getting naked with them, and the teachers smoke pot sounds to ridiculous to be true so I truly hope it isn't.
post #51 of 77
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This is no joke, but I know that stories sound exaggerated when you can't see what is happening in person.
I don't mean that they send the kids outside and don't watch them AT ALL.
They just are not "helicopter" caregivers, a term someone used earlier. In summer, the kids are outside almost the whole day, besides eating and napping. Usually one of the three is outside, doing some gardening or rock work or sitting in a chair watching the kids while one is inside cooking or watching kids. However, when a few kids want to go outside alone to play, they will let them, while watching occasionally from the window.
However, the backyard is a really cool playscape with tunnels, a zip line, etc, and you can't see all the kids at once from the window, that's what worries me. They also have a stone water fountain on the back deck of the patio that is only 2-3 inches deep that kids can step into and do water play. I've never seen kids there without being watched. They couldn't drown there unsupervised unless one of them hit their head and fell into the water and nobody came to the rescue. There are always a bunch of kids there playing at the same time. They have a few small trees that the kids climb on their own, and yes--occasionally I worry that my son will fall the wrong way and get hurt, even though it's only a few feet down, but I like the fact that he can climb trees. Many kids don't do that anymore or can't do that because their parents are too protective. I did all those things when I was a kid.
They just began taking babies, my DD was the first, and then they decided to take more infants mixed in with the older kids. Originally they were going to rent another house, but the ratio with infants is different and was too complicated and I don't believe they were able to get a license, but they do have a license for this place, because I've seen it displayed. Many of the older kids who turned 4 have now left and gone to other daycares, much to the dismay of the other caregivers here. I don't know the reason for this, but they have several more young children signed up for the coming summer. The babies would never be unsupervised, they are very clear about that. In fact, they believe in "wearing" them or spending a lot of direct contact with them, one on one. They even asked DH (who had been unemployed for a while and spent time there helping out) if he would want to work full time as an extra caregiver. They were willing to pay him good wages but then still charge each kid while he was there, and it just didn't add up for me. By the end of the month, he would have still come home with hardly nothing. He would have made sure the kids were safe, he is very good about that, and he thought it would have been a good switch from his manual labor job. I make more money in the family and have the health care, so I couldn't have done it.
My DD isn't walking yet and I might switch her to another place when she is walking, but there are not many options for babies until they get to be 18 months, except for my neighbor. This morning I took my DS to my neighbor and my DD to the daycare. I dropped my DS at the neighbor and he cried (he doesn't like it there, prefers the daycare because there is more interaction with kids and he likes his caregivers. My neighbor is ok, too, just boring), and my DD thought she was going there too and started wailing!! When I took her later to the daycare, all the tears stopped, the other caregiver held her, and she didn't even notice me! I even came back because I forgot to drop something off, and she still had not flinched from the lap of the caregiver. She was very happy, that's what makes it so hard. DD has not being going much to the neighbor and I know this is why she cries, it will just take some getting used to.
DD and I take baths all the time together. I relunctantly still do so with my DS, too, but he's getting too big soon and needs to take them on his own. Is that weird for some of you, even within your own family? I'm just trying to get a sense for normalacy here. I do trust the women at this place to take baths, but they only do so with DD, not my DS. No one else has taken a bath with any other kid that I know of, and certainly not a male (there is one male who works there). Some of the kids will take baths together, but my DS is too shy to do so, but he will with us at home. I realize the point of my story is that she was smoking weed the one time, and that was NOT safe. And I did not feel comfortable with that and I still haven't talked with her about it. Besides that one incident, I have not smelled pot on any of them or ever witnessed them doing so while taking care of kids, but I do have the feeling and the knowledge from other people that they do "light up" when their day is done. I think they realize the implications if they were to "light up" while watching kids, and I think this was a mistake. Does it make me wonder if they do it more often after seeing it with my DD? I think I would be able to tell, because I have a nose like a bear. I guess I am making excuses.
I was so adamant last week that I was taking them somewhere else, but I'm having a hard time between the safety issue and the emotional/loving issue, which I think they are very good at. I will update more. For now, my DS goes there and DD goes there one day a week. I hope I don't regret this.
post #52 of 77
The bath issue is with someone not directly related to the child taking a bath with them. To me that would be like my dc's school teacher taking a bath with the kids it just isnt right any way you look at it. It is a whole different thing when it is family.
You can love someone with your whole heart and still be bad for them. Bottom line your children's safety comes first over everything else.
If children are escaping the yard like you said in the OP then they are not being watched close enough.
post #53 of 77
wow. just wow.
post #54 of 77
It is not OK and not normal for a child care provider to take baths with your child. Seriously. sometimes I read stories like this and just wonder what your own past is that you would think that is a normal thing.
Why does a grown woman want to be naked with your child? Hello?
post #55 of 77
For the sake of the children involved, I'm praying this thread is a joke (and I'm not a religious person...)
post #56 of 77
Originally Posted by Minaret View Post
This is like an extended family, my kids love it there, and they have helped us in many other areas. (We don't have many friends--its a rather tight community and seems difficult to make new friendships), so we do love and trust these folks for our kids emotional health, but whether they are physically safe is another question... They are not pediphiles, I know that. They do have a license, and they cook all healthy meals for the kids, sing and read to them at bedtime, all kind of good stuff, but is it safe enough that I don't have to worry about them? I don't know--I don't feel completely safe, but then does anyone? I wish I could be with my children and not work full time.
NO. It is not. Look, DS's preschool is pretty groovy and free play-ish and all. The director posts here on MDC! They do NOT take baths with the kids, nor let them play outside unsupervised, nor have sharp trim on the slides, nor smoke pot while on the job, nor any of that scary stuff you're talking about. And honestly, while that playscape sounds nice, I think it requires MORE supervision than average, not less.
post #57 of 77
Your rationale for it being ok that the caregiver gets naked with your daughter does not make any sense. yes, my DS sees me naked when I bathe, but that doesn't mean he should see everyone else naked, and vice versa. There is NO excuse for any child care provider to take a bath with one of the children s/he is watching. No excuse.
Emotional health is essential. Having a loving place to take your kid is essential. However, all the emotional health and love in the world doesn't go too far if a kid escapes out the back fence and gets hit by a car. Or drowns while being unsupervised. Physical safety must take at least the same priority. For me, that's a no-brainer.
post #58 of 77
I still think it's strange, but maybe that's b/c I saw Oprah the other day with the Lisa Ling interview of the woman. It's on Oprah's website, but it does mention the sensitive topic of abuse. I am not saying that is the case here, but it does raise a number flags. I would not be comfortable with my children at that childcare center, but that is me.
post #59 of 77
I can imagine a reasonable caregiver deciding to bathe an infant during the day at daycare. I can't imagine a reasonable caregiver deciding to bathe *with* the baby.
I think you are making excuses. I think that caregivers who really care about the emotional well-being of the children in their care attempt to ensure physically safe circumstances (the fact that no major changes were made after children got out of the backyard would kill the warm fuzzies for me).
And while you say that you've seen their licensing certificate, in your shoes, I would be calling up the state licensing board to check on it. Some state licensing boards have websites, which is handy. Take a look, see the status of their license, when it expires, when it was last renewed, and then give a call and suggest that they send an inspector out that way.
I hope you don't regret this either, but I just can't get my head around the idea that you are sending your kids here every day. I would be way too worried to leave them.
post #60 of 77
I am less concerned about actual damage from taking a bath with a daycare baby than the very clear evidence that the care providers do not have appropriate boundaries.
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Descendants of Japheth
3The descendants of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.# As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version (see also 1 Chr 1:7); most Hebrew manuscripts read Dodanim. 5Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.
Descendants of Ham
6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
8Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth. 9Since he was the greatest hunter in the world,# Hebrew a great hunter before the Lord; also in 10:9b. his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.” 10He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia,# Hebrew Shinar. with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh. 11From there he expanded his territory to Assyria,# Or From that land Assyria went out. building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).
13Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.# Hebrew Casluhites, from whom the Philistines came, and Caphtorites. Compare Jer 47:4; Amos 9:7.
15Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,# Hebrew ancestor of Heth. 16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 18Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out, 19and the territory of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.
Descendants of Shem
21Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth.# Or Shem, whose older brother was Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.
22The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,# Greek version reads Arphaxad was the father of Cainan, Cainan was the father of Shelah. Compare Luke 3:36. and Shelah was the father of Eber.
26Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan. 30The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.
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The incoming Obama administration's proposed White House Task Force on Working Families, should be called the "White House Task Force on Unions," according to Gary Bauer, president of American Values.<br />
( - A proposed White House Task Force on Working Families is “payback” to Big Labor, according to Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a pro-family conservative group.
“That task force ought to be named the ‘White House Task Force on Unions,’” Bauer told “Clearly, the new president owes a lot to the labor movement in the country and to the big unions that provided him a lot of his money -- and I think this task force will basically be dealing with issues that are near and dear to organized labor."
Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will be charged with heading the task force after the new Obama administration is sworn in on Jan. 20.
"We'll look at everything from college affordability to after-school programs," Biden told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" program Sunday.
In a statement released later on Sunday, Biden added: "Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working and middle-class families. President-elect Obama and I know the economic health of working families has eroded, and we intend to turn that around."
The president-elect's proposed economic stimulus package already ranges from $675 billion to as much as $850 billion, depending on what provisions are included.
Labor unions, who weighed-in Sunday, were already talking about the need for wage increases.
"Hardworking men and women are struggling to make ends meet because of stagnant wages and declining family incomes,” said Anna Burger, head of Change to Win, a labor union think-tank.
"Personal consumption is the largest component of the U.S. economy and workers' wages are the largest single source of consumer spending. “Without action to stimulate wage increases, consumption will continue to falter, and the economy will slip deeper into recession.
But Bauer, who founded the Campaign for Working Families back in the ‘90s, said that all families need help in a "down" economy.
“When a liberal talks about helping working families, usually that means income redistribution,” Bauer said. “That is, they are going to take money from one group of individuals or families and give it to a favorite bloc, also made up of families. That’s bad for the country. That doesn’t stimulate economic growth. That just makes things worse. I hope that the new administration spends its time trying to figure out how to get the economy growing – and the best way to do that is to lower taxes for everybody.”
The task force will include the four Cabinet members – the secretaries of labor, health and human services, education and commerce -- as well as the heads of the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget.
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1. League: NBA
2. Milwaukee vs. New York
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115 NY
3. Brooklyn vs. Washington
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101 WAS
4. Denver vs. Atlanta
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5. Indiana vs. Detroit
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6. Memphis vs. Philadelphia
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77 PHI
7. Sacramento vs. Chicago
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DeMarcus Cousins suspended for punching Patrick Beverley, fined for yelling at ref Courtney Kirkland (Video)
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Despite a breakthrough year in which he garnered some All-Star consideration, Sacramento Kings big man DeMarcus Cousins has maintained his reputation as a malcontent and immature presence. That take has always been a little misguided and self-perpetuating, to the point where it sometimes seems like his detractors are just waiting to blow any mistake out of proportion. But Cousins also plays into it, of course, often by doing something silly and out of control on the court.
On Tuesday, Cousins engaged in his latest bit of questionable behavior. In the third quarter of the Kings' blowout loss to the Houston Rockets, he was called for a foul on a Dwight Howard dunk attempt and protested the call. That reaction escalated during a subsequent timeout, with Cousins interrupting a discussion between head coach Michael Malone and referee Courtney Kirkland by yelling at the official. He was then ejected.
But Cousins did some other stuff in the game, too. On Thursday, the NBA announced that Cousins has been suspended and fined for his actions in the Rockets game. But the suspension is not for his outburst at Kirkland. From the offical press release:
In addition, Cousins has been fined for verbally abusing a game official and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection with8:21 remaining in the third quarter of the same game.
You can watch the punch below:
While the punch was not punished during the game, you can see why it earned the attention of the league. At the same time, the act might not have deserved a suspension on its own. Although "punch" is probably the best word for the strike, Cousins doesn't exactly take a full swing at Beverley — he hits him as the Rockets guard cuts through the lane. It's not a light blow, but players have avoided ejections for less.
However, the punishment does not suggest that Cousins earned the suspension for his reputation rather than the weight of his actions. Given that the punch was not assessed a punishment in the moment and that he was eventually ejected when the game was already decided, the suspension feels like a worthy reaction to the sum of Cousins's poor decisions in the full game. The NBA explained the suspension and fine as separate punishments for separate incidents, but it's hard to take them as such when the announcements came at the same time.
So, as long as we look at the suspension and fine as two parts of the same decision, this punishment looks to fit the crime. Cousins often gets treated as a problem child even when he acts perfectly reasonably, but in this case it looks like he's being handled correctly.
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NÉSTOR KIRCHNER, Argentina's late former president, first became popular by pushing for the repeal of the amnesties and pardons that prior governments had granted to members of the country's bloody 1976-83 dictatorship. Argentines cheered when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconstitutional in 2005, and have supported the hundreds of prosecutions for human-rights abuses that have been launched since then.
Just across the River Plate in tiny Uruguay, the Argentines' cultural cousins have taken the opposite approach. First in 1989 and then again in 2009, they voted in referendums to reject the repeal of the country's “expiration law”, an amnesty for members of the 1973-85 junta. Many Uruguayans pride themselves on being more consensus-minded than their confrontational Argentine neighbours, and credit the law with cementing the country's peaceful transition to democratic rule. Moreover, because the law is riddled with loopholes—it permits prosecution of forced adoptions of political prisoners' children and of crimes committed abroad (a category that includes the vast majority of kidnappings)—many of the era's worst offenders, including two former de facto presidents, have already been convicted.
Nonetheless, the law is now coming under fire both in the country's Congress and its Supreme Court. Its critics, mainly from the ruling centre-left Broad Front coalition, argue that it violates Uruguay's obligations under international human-rights treaties, and that it has prevented the prosecution of torture. Despite losing last year's referendum, they were emboldened when José Mujica, a former guerrilla leader and political prisoner, became the country's president in March. Spurred by the vocal support of Mr Mujica's foreign minister, Luis Almagro, the Broad Front passed a bill in the lower house of Congress on October 20th that would effectively nullify the expiration law ablishing a constitutional right to investigate crimes against humanity.
There are also legal objections to the expiration law. As an extra safeguard against digging up the past, it prevented prosecutions of the dictatorship's human-rights abuses from proceeding without presidential approval. Many legal scholars see this as a violation of the balance of powers by subordinating the judiciary to the executive. The Supreme Court has found this provision unconstitutional in two cases over the last two years.
The Broad Front's senators now have the unenviable task of voting on the recently approved bill. Of its 17 senators, three have already come out against it, leaving the coalition two votes short of passing it. Support from the opposition will be hard to come by. Two former presidents from the rival Colorado party, Julio María Sanguinetti and Jorge Battle, have released an open letter criticising the bill. Moreover, the version approved by the lower house could also run into legal obstacles, since it would permit prosecutions of cases that have already been dismissed, violating the constitutional prohibition on “double jeopardy”.
The Broad Front's decision to press the issue now looks like a big blunder. Forcing the bill through would expose the coalition to charges of flouting the people's will expressed in last year's referendum, and would be highly unpopular: a recent poll found that 61% of Uruguayans who expressed an opinion opposed the bill. But failing to pass it would be a demoralising defeat. Mr Mujica, who inherited leadership of the Broad Front from Tabaré Vázquez, his highly popular predecessor as president, has tried to remove himself from the debate, saying he will support whatever lawmakers decide. That will make his efforts to control his fractious coalition even harder. | <urn:uuid:2e796186-0cae-42de-9184-cc538bbea231> | http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2010/11/human_rights_uruguay | en | 0.965895 | 0.1641 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
PERHAPS the most remarkable thing about the Commonwealth is that it exists at all. Setting aside the anti-colonial resentment that hastened the demise of the British empire throughout the 20th century, almost all its former subjects have since co-existed in a club that has the queen as its head. The Commonwealth has 53 members and encompasses almost a third of the world’s population; among former British colonies, only Burma and Aden chose not to join.
Yet what is its purpose? Many citizens of Commonwealth countries hardly know; a quarter of Jamaicans, when asked, said they thought Barack Obama was its head. Most who know slightly better would probably cite the quadrennial Commonwealth games as proof of the club’s existence. (It was most recently held in Delhi, in 2010, an event that shone a cold light on the shortcomings of the Indian state.) Otherwise, the club runs a good scholarship programme, development projects for its poorest members and a tangled and ineffective bureaucracy, including at least 70 different organisations, which appears to exist chiefly to provide junkets for a well-heeled Commonwealth elite.
Even more lamentable is the club’s record on enforcing its members’ commitment to human rights and the rule of law. It is not good. The latest embarrassment was the fact that Sri Lanka’s abusive regime was permitted to host a biennial Commonwealth leaders’ meeting between November 15th and 17th. (President Mahinda Rajapaksa is pictured above with Prince Charles.) But there have been many others. Nigeria was partially suspended after it hanged Ken Saro-Wira, a human-rights activist, in 1995. But the Commonwealth showed little interest in the abuse of the Ogoni people—doomed on an oil-rich delta—that had motivated his campaign. Nor, despite similarly suspending Pakistan in 1999, after its latest coup, has it showed much interest in that country’s habitual abuses against religious minorities and otherwise. As one of the more unsavoury legacies of British rule, 41 of the club’s members retain colonial-era laws against gay sex. Yet the club also shares a more beneficial British legacy. Its members are bonded by a common language, a common legal code and aspects of shared culture. These advantages have helped them prosper—African members of the club are conspicuously better off than their non-Commonwealth neighbours. That was one reason Rwanda, which was colonised by Germany and Belgium, not Britain, nonetheless joined the club.
Some argue that a more focused and agile Commonwealth could do more to reinforce those advantages—right-wing Eurosceptics in Britain’s Conservative Party even dream of the club as an alternative free-trade zone to the European Union. It never could be; but gearing the club towards trade as well as values looks like a good idea. In time, the two could become mutually reinforcing. The problem is that this would take better leadership than the Commonwealth has so far enjoyed. Insidious postcolonial politics mean Britain and other rich members, including Canada and Australia, cannot provide this. Only developing countries, chiefly India, South Africa and Nigeria can do so. And they, on current form, are not interested in taking on such a role in a club that they appear to find endearing, somewhat useful, but faintly embarrassing.
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HI! Name's Milli incase you didnt already know. Usually, I write Teen Titans fics, but today, I thought I'd try my hand at aDP story.
Sam Manson doodled on her binder and sighed dreamily as she stared at Danny Fenton.
Finally realizing that she was being poked, a small bit of pain set in. "Ow." She turned and glared at Tucker Foley. "What."
"You're supposed to be studying to the English test tomorrow. Not drooling over Danny."
"I wasn't drooling over Danny."
Hearing his name, Danny turned around and, moving quickly, he drug his chair in between his friends. "You guys say my name?" He asked. "No." Sam said quickly before Tucker could answer. "Mr. Fenton, Ms. Manson, Mr. Foley... why aren't you three studying?" The teacher, Mr. Lancer asked. The trio looked at him. Slowly, very slowly, Danny slid to his desk. "We are studying."
Sam smiled as she held in her laughter. 'That's another reason why Danny is so perfect.' She thought as she put her chin on her hand, once again, staring dreamily at Danny.
Then suddenly...
"OW!" Sam bent down and rubbed her leg and glared at Tucker. "Studying, no drooling." Yes. Tucker had kicked her.
"Please, Sam?"
"No. I dont want to see..." Sam took the newspaper clipping from Tucker. "Where's that stupid... oh. 'The latest horror movie - It Came From A Toilet' ugh. That is such a guy movie."
"But...but...but..." Thinking fast, Tucker blurted out, "Danny wants to see it." Sam paused and appeared to be staring at something in the distance. "Whoa..." Tucker grinned. "I knew that you'd see it--"
"Not that beanie boy. Look." Sam pointed to a swirling purple vortex. Slowly, Sam began to walk toward it. Moving quickly, Danny grabbed her arm before she got too close. "Don't get too close, Sam. You dont know where it could take you." Sam sighed, then wiggled out of Danny's grip. "Please Danny. If it was dangerous, I think you would know so, wouldntcha?"
"I-I guess..."
"Well, that's settled. What do ya say we...explorer the vortex?" Tucker asked. "No. No. This vortex thing opened on its own, it'll close on it's own. It could take us to the past, during the Civil War." Sam and Tucker looked at each other. "C'mon, Dan." Tucker begged. "No."
"Please, Dan-Dan?" Sam asked, using the pet name she had given him when they had first met. Danny looked at her, but he soon wished he hadn't. She gave him an adorable pout. Sam smiled slightly as she put her finger on his chest and drew small invisible circles on his chest. "Did I ever mention how hot you look when you're Danny Phantom?"
Danny blinked. "What about when I'm Danny Fenton?" Sam smiled seductively. "Probably even more than Danny Phantom." Danny gulped, looked to the left, then right, then in front and behind him.
Two rings suddenly appeared around Danny then a few seconds later, Danny Phantom appeared. Behind Danny, Sam and Tucker hi-fived and linked arms, they jumped into the vortex.
Future: 10 years:
"Wow... this place is amazing." Sam said as she wiggled from the boys' grip. She looked up and saw cars... or what she thought were cars, flying above her. Danny also looked up and sighed. Running behind a tree, he transformed back into Danny Fenton. "Oh my gosh! I think... we're in the future!" Sam said happily as Danny calmly walked out behind the tree. Sam turned to her friends grinning. "I wonder what happened to us."
"The last time we were in the future, we found out we were dead." Tucker muttered. Danny glared at him. "Sorry."
"The future's changed, Tuck. Oh, wow! Is that Paulina?" darting across the street, Sam ran to the Paulina-look-alike whom was shopping in a store. "Uhm, excuse me, are you... Paulina?"
The woman turned looked at her and gave her a glare. "Ew. A Goth geek. Get away from me, loser."
"Yup, that's Paulina, all right." Sam muttered as Danny and Tucker walked over. "Was that Paulina?" Tucker asked. "Yep. That's Paulina. The snobby attitude gave her away." She quickly brightened. "Let's find us! I wonder if we're still friends!" Sam quickly ran out of the store on to the sidewalk. The boys sighed and walked after.
"C'mon, Sam! Talk to me! Please!" running to the park, Sam's eyes widened as she saw a black-haired woman and a black-haired man. 'Is that... me?'
"I dont want to talk to you right now, Danny Fenton." Future Sam said as she rubbed the tears from her eyes. Future Danny's eyes got big and blue. "Sam!" Past Sam turned and saw Danny and Tucker running toward her. "Shush! Look. That the future me." Sam whispered. Tucker blinked. "What's she crying for?"
"Oh, I just had a fight with Danny. Watch." Future Danny made a motion like he was going to put it on Future Sam's shoulder, then he decided against it. "I'll... be at home if you ever... want to talk." Future Danny said softly. Future Sam waved her hand at him. "I dont want to talk to you, Danny."
"Well... uh... okay. I love you, Sam." Future Danny said as he turned around and began to walk away. Future Sam rubbed her eyes. "I love you, too, Danny." She said quietly as she fiddled with her sleeve.
"Wow... you two are together?" Tucker asked, looking at Sam and Danny. Sam blinked. "I'm going to talk to her...er... me. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to go talk to... me."
"Be right back."
Sam quietly walked up to Future Sam. "Uhm... excuse me?" Future Sam jumped and turned. "Uh... do I know you?"
"Yes... no... Well... kinda. I'm you or rather, what you used to be. I'm fourteen." Future Sam smiled. "Back during the years when I had a crush on Danny." Pause. "Hey, how did you get here?"
"Uhm... hey, Danny, Tucker! Come out here and meet me!" slowly, Danny and Tucker walked out. Future Sam's eyes widened. "Danny and Tucker! Oh I haven't seen you – well, actually the future you—in years, Tuck!"
"Why? What happened to me?"
"Nothing. You just moved to New York after you married Valerie."
"Hey... is he... okay?" Future Sam asked.
Past Sam looked at Tucker... who had passed out. "Uh... he will be." Danny looked at the Future Sam. "So... just out of curiosity... what did... uh... the future me... do?" At the mention of Danny, tears came to the Future Sam's eyes. "Danny... oh, he's going to hate me forever."
"Ow!" Danny glared at Past Sam. "What was that for?"
"For making me cry. No one makes me cry."
"I dont even know what I did!"
"You're heartless, Danny!" Pause "Is Danny heartless in the future?"
Future Sam's eyes widened. "Heartless? And... Danny? In the same sentence?"
Past Sam nodded. "That's true. Danny's too sweet to be that cruel." Danny turned red. Sam turned to him. "Sorry I called you heartless." Danny smiled. "Eh, dont worry 'bout it, Sammy."
Future Sam smiled. "The good old days." She stood. "Well, I suppose I have to face Danny some time."
"Want us to help?" Danny asked. Both Sams smiled at each other, then at him. "What?"
"You've always been the sweetest guy I've ever met." Future Sam said, smiling. Once again, Danny blushed. "Well... uh... let's go see the future me."
"Well, here we are." Future Sam said as the trio had walked to her house. A child-like giggle was heard. "Auntie Sammy!" a little boy with red hair ran up to Future Sam and grabbed her leg. "Hey, Dennis. Did your mommy leave you here with us?" Dennis nodded. "She had to work, hey, why is Uncie Danny so unhappy?"
"Can we talk to it... ugh... inside?" Past Danny asked, then he looked at Sam. "We really need to put Tuck on a diet." Past Sam nodded. "Yea, let's go in." Future Sam picked up Dennis and walked to the door and pushed it open. "You can put Tuck on the couch, he'll be--"
Turning, Sam noticed that the two had abruptly dropped Tucker on the couch. "Fine. Uh... okay." Future Sam put Dennis on the ground. "I'll get some water. That always helps Danny for when he passes out." She said as she went into the kitchen.
Dennis just stood there, staring at Past Sam and Danny. "Toy?"
"Excuse me?" Sam asked.
"Danny, calm him down!"
"How? I dont have any experience with kids."
"Dennis! Come in here!" a manly voice called out. Dennis stop mid-tantrum. "Coming, Uncie Danny!"
A few minutes later, a man with raven black hair walked into the room, carrying Dennis. He looked at his past self and at the past version of Sam. "Hey." He said, smiling, then he went upstairs. "C'mon Denny. It's time to go down for your nap." Dennis responded by yawning.
Sam yawned. "If I know you like I know I do..." she said, smirking at Danny, who rolled his eyes, before looking at her watch. "You'll realize that something is different in... 3...2...1."
At that moment, Future Danny came running down the stairs. "Hey! Who the heck are you?"
Sam nodded. "Yup. Right on time." She stood up. "Hi, Danny. I'm Sam... age fourteen." She pointed at past Danny. "And this is your past self... also age fourteen."
Future Danny blinked. "Sam?"
"Yes?" Future Sam said as she walked into the room, carrying a glass of water. "Did you want to tell me something or did you want to yell at me some more like you did this morning?" Future Danny sighed heavily. "I told you I was stressed." Future Sam rolled her eyes "Yea. Right. Whatever. Here, Sam. Use this to wake up Tuck." Future Sam handed past Sam a glass of water.
She turned and walked into the kitchen, not even looking at Danny who sighed. "C'mon Sam! Talk to me. Please?" Past Danny and Sam looked at each other. "Want to go snoop?" Danny asked. "Not really." Sam replied in monotone.
"Great!" Danny grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the kitchen where their future selves were arguing.
"Sam! Why wont you talk to me?" Future Danny yelled. Future Sam said nothing as she ran the water in the sink. "Oh, C'mon Sam! Dont make me beg!"
Silence echoed in the kitchen, well, not exactly. There was the sound of water running and dishes going into the sink. "Sammy? Okay, Sam, I'm sorry I yelled at you this morning, and... I'm sorry I called you a fat veggie-eating freak." Sam "accidentally" dropped the dish she was about to put it on the drying rack. Sam only said one word after a two-minute pause. "Oops."
Danny sighed sadly. "Please Sam." He said in a weak voice. "I can't stand it when you're mad at me."
Slowly, Sam put down a dish and she turned around. She glared at him. "I have no desire to talk to you, Danny."
"Can you try to?"
Sam sat down and looked at him. Telling him he had her attention. Danny sat next to her. "Apology accepted." Sam whispered. "So... can you tell me why you're so moody?"
"Can I? Yes. Will I? No."
"Why not?"
"Because you'll hate me."
"Hate you? I could never--"
"You will. Trust me." Sam stood.
Danny copied. "I do. Now, what's wrong?" Sam turned to him. "Danny... I'm pregnant."
"Oh... my... god." Past Sam whispered. "I'm... pregnant?" past Danny's eyes widened. "With my kid?" they both looked at each other. "Whoa." They said in unison.
Future Danny stared at future Sam. Eyes wide. "You're... you're... what?"
"Pregnant, Danny. Three months. That's why I've been so moody lately and with your busy work and all, I'd understand if you'd--" Sam was abruptly cut off by danny pressing his lips to hers and kissing her deeply.
The past Sam and Danny's jaws dropped. "And I thought today's surprises were done." Danny said. "Dan-Dan, shush." Sam said, waving her hand. "They're not done talking yet."
"Hey, wait, I thought you didnt want to snoop on our future selves."
"That was before I found out I was pregnant with your baby! Now, shut up."
Future Danny let go of Future Sam and grinned. "A baby? As in, a crying, pooping, part-of-you-and-me-honest-to-goodness baby?" Sam smiled and nodded. "Yes! This the best day of my life!" Danny picked her up and swung her around.
Past Sam smiled and went away from the doorway. She grabbed the glass of water she had put on the coffee table and splashed it on Tucker who awoke coughing. "Hey... how'd we get out of the park?" Sam sighed. "Never mind, Tucker. We've got to get home."
"Home? Why?"
"Because we dont belong in the future Tuck."
"I can help you get home." The teenagers looked at Future Danny. "Wow... is that what you'll look like when you're 24?" Tucker asked. Past Danny grinned and puffed out his chest. "Oh, yeah. That's what I look like." He said as he looked at Sam and smiled seductively. Sam returned the smile. Tucker looked back and forth between the two. "Did you two get together while I was out?"
Sam's smiled widened. "Kind of. Now, can we go back to present-day Amity Park?"
"Sure. I'll get you home." Future Danny smiled and opened a portal. "You'll get this power later." He said to the past Danny who was gapping at that ability. "I've set it for ten years in the past. When you're 14."
Future Sam walked up to future Danny who wrapped his arm around her waist. Present-day Sam and Danny saw this movement. Past Danny grabbed past Sam's hand and smiled at her.
Tucker pouted. "I can't believe we went ten years in the future and where am I? New York—is that an engagement ring?"
Future Sam blinked. "Engagement--? OH! This?" she looked at her hand, then at Future Danny, and smiled, then at Tucker. "No, it's a wedding ring."
"Wedding--" Tucker grinned. "I knew it."
"Tucker! C'mon, lets go!" Past Danny called. Tucker ran over to his friends. "Hey, you guys! Guess what I found out!"
Past: Present Day
Danny shook his head as he picked himself off the ground. He couldn't help feeling that something happened to...to... Sam. Sam! What happened to sam? He looked around frantically. Hm... He saw... Tucker but no sam. "Tucker! Tucker, wake up!" Danny cried out, stomping on Tucker's foot. "OW! Ugh... feel like I ate a desk."
"Where's Sam?"
"Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for asking, Dan."
"Where. Is. Sam?"
"How should I--?"
"Danny, Tucker. Are you guys all right and... Am I the only one with a major headache?" sam asked walking up to her friends limping slightly and holding her head. "Actually... no. I have a headache, too. What happened?" Tucker asked; both of them looked at Danny. "I dont have a headache, but I have a feeling that something happened... sam, are you okay?"
She nodded.
"Well... Danny thought you were hurt."
"No. I'm fine. In a little bit of pain, but fine." Danny shrugged. "Oh, well. It's probably not important." He said as he wrapped his arm around Sam's waist. She leaned into her grasp.
"Uh... did you guys get together while I was out?" Tucker asked. Sam and Danny blushed. "Kinda." Sam said, smiling. | <urn:uuid:0e564395-b35d-41e6-8636-fc883f0c5eef> | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2662330/1/Past-to-Future | en | 0.978037 | 0.021661 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Developer's Guide for C Clients
A handle that specifies the properties that determine the behavior of this connection. You must create this handle using the MQCreateProperties function before you try to create a connection. This handle will be invalid after the function returns.
See Table 4–2 for information about connection properties.
An MQString specifying the user name to use when connecting to the broker.
The library makes a copy of the username string.
An MQString specifying the password to use when connecting to the broker.
The library makes a copy of the password string.
An MQString used to identify the connection. If you use the connection for a durable consumer, you must specify a non-NULL client identifier.
The library makes a copy of the clientID string.
A connection-exception callback function used to notify the user that a connection exception has occurred.
A data pointer that can be passed to the connection exceptionListener callback function whenever it is called. The user can set this pointer to any data that may be useful to pass along to the connection exception listener for this connection. Set this to NULL if you do not need to pass data back to the connection exception listener.
Output parameter for the handle to the connection that is created by this function.
The MQCreateConnection function creates a connection to the broker. The behavior of the connection is specified by key values defined in the properties referenced by the propertiesHandle parameter. You must use the MQCreateProperties function to define these properties.
You cannot change the properties of a connection you have already created. If you need different connection properties, you must close and free the old connection and then create a new connection with the desired properties.
Setting a Client Identifier
The messaging service uses a client identifier in combination with a durable subscription name to uniquely identify each durable subscription. If a durable subscriber is inactive at the time that messages are delivered to a topic destination, the broker retains messages for that subscriber and delivers them when the subscriber once again becomes active.
Handling Connection Exceptions
Use the exceptionListener parameter to pass the name of a user-defined callback function that can be called synchronously when a connection exception occurs for this connection. Use the exceptionCallBackData parameter to specify any user data that you want to pass to the callback function. | <urn:uuid:c997b4f1-4f17-410c-b9ce-468d219dcc3b> | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19316-01/820-6661/gbmai/index.html | en | 0.759957 | 0.066774 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
TV Briefly
Published: Friday, January 05, 2007
'Battlestar' writer Eick rebuilds 1970s show 'Bionic Woman'
NBC is bringing "The Bionic Woman" back to life, courtesy of "Battlestar Galactica" writer-producer David Eick.
The network has given a cast-contingent pilot order to the remake of the 1970s show and also greenlit two other pilots: the cop drama "Fort Pit," from the producers of "Rescue Me," and a spy series called "Chuck" co-written by "O.C." creator Josh Schwartz.
Eick and Laeta Kalogridis ("Alexander," "Birds of Prey") are co-writing and executive producing the "Bionic Woman" update, the showbiz trade papers report. The show is based on the 1970s series, a spinoff of "The Six Million Dollar Man," about a woman (Lindsay Wagner) who suffers a traumatic accident and has her body rebuilt with artificial parts that give her extraordinary strength and speed.
NBC's sister studio, NBC Universal TV, is producing the pilot.
"Chuck," meanwhile, comes from Warner Bros. TV. Schwartz and Chris Fedak are writing the script, a drama about twentysomething spies that's infused with dark humor, a la "Grosse Pointe Blank."
USA network lets the 'Sunshine' in
Who says you can't have sunshine when you want it?
USA has picked up the pilot and 11 additional episodes of the drama "Mary Sunshine," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project, originally known as "In Plain Sight," centers on a U.S. Marshal (Mary McCormack) who is juggling the demands of her job at the witness-protection program and her dysfunctional personal life.
"We liked that (Mary's) a woman in a high-risk job, which brings a real action component to it," says Jeff Wachtel, USA executive VP. | <urn:uuid:586f1c79-c69e-4055-ad8c-4502266967c4> | http://lubbockonline.com/stories/010507/aro_010507021.shtml | en | 0.962358 | 0.02882 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Subject: Re: EGCS enabled on mips
To: Warner Losh <>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1998 12:38:42
warner losh writes:
>I've seen on other lists that haifa on mips helps a little bit too
>much and generates code that violates the MIPS ABI. However, this is
>considered to be a bug in the ABI which binutils can easily work
>around. I don't recall the specifics, but it was in the Linux/MIPS
>mailing list. Might be something to look out for when you use th
>haifa enabled compile. Specifically, it would generate multiple %hi
>references w/o a corresponding %lo and binutils didn't quite know how
>to deal with that.
you mean HI16 and LO16 relocs, right, not the mulhi and mullo
>I'd be very interested to see what you come up with in this area.
Thanks for the info (and the confidence).
My informed opinion is that backing out the -mdebuga, and using 'la'
templats to load 32-bit constants in one swell foop, would almost
certainly avoid this. (poorer code, but since its done by the
assembler its invisible to haifa, and so it'll work with the tools we
have). If I run into the problem, I'll try it and let you know.
I'm mildly suprised nobody reported trying it, in fact.
Do you know if binutils dies, or silently messses up the code? | <urn:uuid:943c14a1-cac0-4bba-bd5f-edf4a4e72253> | http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1998/10/31/0006.html | en | 0.920117 | 0.022659 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Avenue Ale House
Avenue Ale HouseAvenue Ale House
Taps: 8 / Bottles: 75
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825 S Oak Park Ave
Oak Park, Illinois, 60304-1217
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phone: (708) 848-2801
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Wound up here instead of Poor Phil's for some reason, I had put the wrong location into the gps. It was off the Harlem exit on the Eisenhower, on a little street that didn't have much else open at night. Smirked at the valet parking sign, and parked around the corner.
From the outside it had very bright lights trained on it's big "A" sign and stripey awning. There were large open windows in the front, and a host station when you walk in. The lights were pretty bright inside too for some reason. Lots of slick polished wood and exposed brick walls. There was a rooftop deck on the 2nd floor that I failed to inspect, went over to the bar instead. It was a rounded rectangle, with an island in the middle. Everyone else was drinking martinis or Michelob Ultra. In the back there was a fairly large open dining area, sparsely decorated with macro mirrors and miller lite pennants. At the bar there were flatscreens above the bar playing basesball/espn, and they were reflected in the shiny bar surface. The place felt sterile, like a suburban bar chain.
Each tap tower had the same 8 macro/pseudo-micro taps. Fail. Leinies & Sam Adams were as crafty as you could get...Miller, Stella, Guinness, etc. filled the rest of the handles. Eh, let me see the beer list. There was a long list of 25 "domestics" some macro imports, then maybe 10 craft beers. One each from GLBC (Ed Fitz.), Founders (Reds Rye), DFH (60 min), Breckenridge (Vanilla Porter), then FFF was the feature, with 4 of their standards, GBH, Alpha King, RtB, & P&J for $4.50. A beginners sort of list, and not really beers I would actively go here to seek out. To their credit there was a display board in the back hall with the 4 FFF beers with their descriptions. For an "Ale House" though, there wasn't much of a variety.
Bartender was a friendly guy, chatting with the regulars and providing timely service. I had to ask for a glass for a Gumballhead, and got a chilled 14 oz. miller glass. Maybe the food is good here, but I wouldn't return to find out.
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Verdict in Los Angeles; Points of Evidence, Not Emotion
Published: April 18, 1993
In the end, it was a criminal case. The symbolism of the gripping videotape, the nationwide outcry, the political pressures, the rioting and continuing social tensions were all distilled into the fine points of legal battle and the formalities of courtroom procedure.
The jury's split verdicts today in the civil rights trial of four officers accused in the beating of Rodney G. King seemed to show a careful reading of the evidence and close attention to the special hurdle faced by the prosecution -- the need to show that the officers acted with criminal intent.
After a week of deliberations, the jurors found Sgt. Stacey C. Koon and Officer Laurence M. Powell guilty of violating the civil rights of Mr. King. They acquitted Officer Theodore J. Briseno and former Officer Timothy E. Wind.
The anonymous jurors left the courthouse without commenting on their verdicts, and one of the prosecutors, Steven D. Clymer noted that no one not privy to the secret jury deliberations could know what decided the case. "We presented the evidence we had," he said. "It just happened that we had more evidence against Powell and Koon than we did against Wind and Briseno." Question of Intent
Officer Powell was shown striking the most blows on the videotape, and Sergeant Koon, as the ranking officer, took full responsibility for every blow in the beating. In addition, the cumulative evidence tending to show intent was strongest against these two defendants.
Though the Federal case covered essentially the same ground as the state trial last year, there were important differences, beginning with the fact that the jury was aware that acquittals had set off rioting last April.
The Federal jury also included two black jurors, while last year's jury had no blacks. Unlike the state jury, which was chosen from suburban Ventura County, the jury in the Federal trial was drawn from seven counties, including Los Angeles.
Learning from the mistakes of the first prosecution, the Government relied less on the videotape and brought a more thorough, coherent case that included a number of eyewitnesses, most dramatically Mr. King himself.
The one question asked by the jury during its deliberations suggests the possibility that one defense mistake had an impact. Early in the week, the jury asked to read the testimony of Melanie Singer, a former Highway Patrol officer who wept on the witness stand as she described what she said were baton blows to Mr. King's head. Though called as a defense witness, she had provided a compelling personal testament to the violence of the beating.
On almost every point, witnesses for the two sides on police procedures for using force, on biomechanics and on the events of the early morning of March 3, 1991, when the beating took place, took diametrically opposite positions.
In his closing arguments, Michael P. Stone, a lawyer representing Officer Powell, presented the jury with a stark choice: "There is no middle ground and there is no compromise. Either they acted like courageous, reasonable police officers or they acted like uniformed hoodlums." Final Interpreters
Mr. Stone insisted to the jury that the resulting ambiguous view of the videotape made it impossible for them to find guilt without a reasonable doubt, but Mr. Clymer, the prosecutor, reminded the jury that they were the final interpreters of the evidence.
"The defense will argue that if there are two experts, if the experts disagree, how are the defendants supposed to know what's right or wrong," Mr. Clymer said. "That's a false argument. You don't have to accept the expert testimony. You can reject the testimony."
The four women and eight men on the jury faced a more difficult task in finding guilt than had the jury in the state trial a year ago, which acquitted the same defendants of assault charges.
Not only did the Federal jurors need to find that the defendants used excessive force in arresting Mr. King but they had to find that the officers did so willfully, knowing that they were breaking the law. King Was 'in Charge'
Three officers were accused of violating Mr. King's right to be free from the use of unreasonable force under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizure.The other defendant, Sergeant Koon, who was not accused of delivering any blows, was charged with violating Mr. King's 14th Amendment right to be kept free from harm while in official custody.
The defense coalesced around Sergeant Koon, who was the only officer to take the stand and who took responsibility for the entire incident.
Using expert witnesses on police policy, as well as Sergeant Koon's testimony, the defense sought to show that Mr. King was "in charge of the beating" by acting in a threatening manner and that the officers did their best in a difficult situation.
In an opposing interpretation, the prosecutors said the officers had acted to punish Mr. King for trying to flee and for failing to comply with their orders as quickly as they wanted.
"The defendants tried Rodney King for being disrespectful to police officers and found him guilty," Mr. Clymer said. "With Koon as judge and Powell and Wind and Briseno as executioners they tried Rodney King and they violated his civil rights."
In his instructions to the jury, Judge John G. Davies of Federal District Court set a difficult standard for finding the first stage of guilt: excessive force.
He said the jurors must view the incident through the eyes of an "ordinary, reasonable" officer who was in the same circumstances as the defendants.
To prove the second stage of guilt, criminal intent, the judge said the prosecutors could point to circumstantial evidence like the nature and duration of the beating, and the subsequent conduct of the officers.
Though the officers did not need to be thinking in Constitutional terms, he said, they must have been shown to have "intended to accomplish that which the Constitution forbids," even if they were also motivated by anger, fear or some other emotion.
Officer Powell, who is shown on the videotape delivering most of the more than 50 baton blows, faced the greatest burden of evidence among the defendants. Prosecution witnesses also accused him of laughing and joking after the beating, of sending a computer message that read, "Oops, . . . I haven't beaten anyone this bad in a long time," and of dawdling and telling war stories about the incident instead of driving Mr. King directly from one hospital to another.
His lawyer, Mr. Stone, urged the jurors not to convict him as a compromise in which some of the defendants might be set free. "Don't make Larry Powell a throwaway," he said. "Please, don't make Larry Powell a compromise."
On the last day of arguments, Officer Briseno's lawyer, Harland W. Braun, urged the jury to ignore outside pressures for convictions, saying: "In a sense, you yourselves are on trial. If you succumb to concerns about public opinion, you betray our history and you betray the jury system."
Photo: A motorist celebrating at Florence and Normandie Avenues in South-Central Los Angeles after the verdicts were announced. (Associated Press) | <urn:uuid:f9313cce-66b8-4979-9be9-ad05349001c9> | http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/us/verdict-in-los-angeles-points-of-evidence-not-emotion.html | en | 0.97798 | 0.027903 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Looking after children is not just hard work
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HIDE AND SEEK: Adults can find the kid within themselves when they play with little ones.
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OPINION: There is a secret nobody ever tells you about kids.
We've all heard the parents of young children protesting about how they never get to go out and have fun anymore, and about how they have to spend every waking moment running around after their children - every moment that the child is awake, that is, which often coincides with moments when the parent would much rather be asleep.
While both of these things are true, there's another side to it which I've recently discovered.
Until now, parents out there have been hogging this information for themselves, as ammunition to use in their favourite pastime – complaining to their pals who aren't parents about how their 'lives' are over now that they've taken the almost-always-voluntary decision to reproduce.
The parents' secret is this: while children are demanding, there is considerable upside involved.
Because large proportions of the time they spend with their kids is devoted to playing games. Old-fashioned fun games that, surprisingly enough, haven't gotten any less enjoyable since we were in primary school.
That's right. You may have abandoned Lego and handball and chasings and wrestling and swinging on swings and see-sawing on see-saws.
But they haven't abandoned you. What's more, they're as good as ever.
I discovered this after spending over an hour playing hide-and-seek with my nephew on the weekend.
He's almost three, or as he would term it, "a big boy now". And I want to get one thing straight from the outset: I won. Comprehensively.
Sure, there are some advantages that come from being older.
I have sufficient patience, for instance, to be able to hide for minutes on end without moving or speaking, whereas he is currently unable to resist running out every thirty seconds to see where I am before returning to his hiding place.
On that form, he certainly wouldn't cut it as a ninja.
If I were his hide-and-seek coach rather than his adversary, I would also point out to him that his definition of a hiding place also leaves a little to be desired – he tends merely to choose spaces in which he fits, rather than spaces in which he fits and cannot be seen.
Perhaps his biggest weakness, though, is his tendency to hide in the exact same place where I just hid.
And while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, I can vouch for the fact that it's no way to win at hide-and-seek.
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But in case you think that playing hide-and-seek with my nephew is like taking candy from a baby, only instead of candy it's crushing victories, let me point out that he has a few natural advantages of his own.
For starters, he is far, far smaller than me; probably less than 20 per cent of my volume, which affords him many more places in which to hide.
I'm obliged to hide behind cupboard doors and the like, whereas he could simply conceal himself in a laundry basket or a large planter pot.
And although I spent most of the game finding him immediately and pretending I hadn't so as to make my 'seeking' period last longer than fifteen seconds, there was one occasion when he hid in the tiny gap underneath a TV cabinet where I genuinely couldn't figure out where he was.
What's more, that same juvenile lack of patience means that he tends to ignore the count to 10 section of the hide and seek rule book, and instead skips immediately to the coming ready or not part.
This means that he often simply follows me, and thus observes the place in which I'm hiding.
Which tends to ruin the game somewhat. And while I congratulated him each time on finding me , I have to confess that I did so with a slight sense of resentment, and pondered an appeal to the third umpire.
The toughest part of playing against him, though, is it he tends to forget precisely how the seeking part works.
If he can't spot me immediately, he tends to run around shouting my name with increasing levels of panic.
It requires all the self-control I can muster to harden my heart and not emerge immediately to put him out of his misery.
But I refuse to do that, because while that may make him fret in the short term, that kind of mollycoddling won't enable my beloved nephew to develop the concealment skills he may someday needs to become a special forces soldier.
The enemy isn't going to pretend not to spot him in order to prolong the fun of the game, are they?
And here's the great thing - by playing hide and seek for a prolonged period, and giving his parents a break, I made myself seem like a Good Uncle.
Onlookers may have concluded that I was heroically sacrificing my free time to bring a smile to a child's face. Not so.
I genuinely enjoyed my triumphant return to a game I'm sure I haven't played since my age measured in single digits. It was fun. Really, really, fun.
Outside of organised sports and overly-involved videogames, we adults rarely allow ourselves to enjoy games the way we did when we were children.
The tedious minutiae of everyday life tend to get in the way of more important things like getting really good at power shots on the handball court, or building the most excellent sandcastle ever.
Playing games with children is a license to return to those idyllic days after years of pretending to grow up.
We are having kids later in life than we used to, which is a pity, because I imagine once upon a time we used to transition seamlessly from playing games ourselves to playing games with our children.
Well okay, the reduction in teen parenthood is probably a net positive social development. But spending a decade or more without regularly playing games is nevertheless a regrettable byproduct of our relative delay in reproducing. Society's rules say that we can't play games unless we're doing it with kids.
But with my nephew around, I can invent pointless yet excellent games like the one where I pretend to be an angry troll and chase after him as though we were on Twitter and he was a B-grade celebrity. (Being a troll is the ideal role for me – curiously, the grumpiness seems to come naturally.)
What's more, having a small child at hand to amuse permits you to spend hours playing in a playground without appearing to have a major psychological problem.
So next time you hear a parent complaining about having to stay home with their child, I suggest you be sparing in your sympathy.
Because they're probably building a pillow fort, watching cartoons and eating ice-cream, and goodness knows that's a better offer than many of the so-called 'grown-up' nights out I've had recently.
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Reviews for Sweet Sassy Demon
Tolling chapter 6 . 1/23/2007
YAYAYA!And,you got it right the first time you typed her 's ,kinda curiouse,how are you going to make her react to the characters?Ya know,bandit keith,weevil, and all the others.!I just rememberd sumthin...I actually made friends with Rex Raptor on a game just hated me,but bonez also liked ,both kaiba brothers were okay with must I be friendly enough for it to radiate and affect my games!(hits her head)BTW,I wanted to tell you something...Their is a little peice of everyone's past in the game,exept for reeve/cait sith,but they play a big part by sacrificing themselves and switichng ,I thoght that maybe their could be another stop,for Tolea,and she tells them , they're running from the turks in Zack's village,and she leads them to her old hideout in the trees from her days as a Midgar Fox,and a item there takes them to a peice of her past,like a magic , maybe it should be at a time later in the game...maybe after rocket town,and it's a hut on the ,here's a few memories:
Leanna and Toby fighting over who had "big sibling" rights when Tolea's mom was still alive, and Leanna was 4.("Im the brother,so I get to protect you and Tolea!""Whell, Im the oldest,so I get tp protect YOU and Tolea!"You two,calm sister's sleeping."Sorry momma(whispers to Toby)I win."(yelling)"NU-UH!"Toby!"Giggle."(silence for 3 seconds"...DADDY'S HOME!"(Tol always giggle when 'daddy came home')
Father training them to defend themselves("Okay,Tolea,hold your weapon up like this,and DO NOT move the saftey"Okay,Daddy."I wanna duel with her first!"NU-UH!"Toby,Leanna already 'called dibs' this ,speak more of 'Nu-uh', say 'I do' or something along those lines."yes sir."Okay, you take this part off and pull tihs thing!"Okay!"NO TOLEA!LEANNA!"What!I was teachin her!"(boom goes a birdy)"...(starts wailing)WHA!"Oh,Tolea...It's okay baby..."(death was too much,espetially only after 2 mounths after mommy died))
right after Dad died(they all go back and grab thhe body and buried him near Cosmo canyon,next to Mother)"...Sniff..."Tolea,you have cried enough today."But...(starts crying more)You and Leanna havent cried all day,and Leanna is not speaking, and she's all scary, and your all quiet, and,and-(starts crying hugs her)"It's corse things wont be the same,but we will ,we are going back to cosmo and Nanaki will take care of us...(mutters)at least...Till we can find a solid job...(Leanna comes back, and has the glare on she had on all day)"...Leanna...(grabs her and pulls her into the starts crying)"I want to Kill Shinra!Look what they did to you and Tolea and-(starts crying more,while Toby holds her closer)"We'll be alright!And...(takes out his gun and cocks it)I'll make sure you both'll be fine!If I fall, Nanaki will take my place!(puts away his gun,grabs them and holds them closer)"I promise you...(cries one single tear)I wont see ether of you cry because of Shinra anymore...I WONT HAVE IT!(Turns into a winged black wolf and roars, while a purple winged fox and a giant blue eagle join him)
and,finally,just before they get captured away from Tolea,on the very forenight("Hey,Leanna,Tolea.(eating a burrito Tolea made)When we get out of our theives gig, whaddia think we can do?"Um...I wanna support you 2, make sure Leanna gets married, and make sure YOU dont."(Toby and Leanna do a spit take,dousing each other)"TOLEA!"What?Leanna can marry a weak guy,and make me a aunt,and be a working mommy, and Toby can work his butt off and support us while I'll cook and sell art."Nice try,but men are ikcy!(toung stick out)"Yeah,besides,you'd make a great mom,not Leanna!"WHAT WAS THAT GOTH BOY!"Crap!Mad Leanna dsease!"(him and Tolea laugh and run into the waters nearby Rocket Town,while their'men are ikcy' sister tries to kill them)
Though they'd be good memories for Tolea to see again.
Arashii the black bird chapter 6 . 1/15/2007
Nice, so someone of Tolea's is there? huh. This doesn't bode well for kelly... Keep it up!
AnimeCrazy88 chapter 6 . 11/29/2006
Uhoh This can't be good. Hmm I wonder Yugi and gang and Seto is going to find about the truth about Kelly. Please hurry up with the next chapter!
Tolling chapter 5 . 10/25/2006
Okay,3&4 are switched ,can Leanna Bahnwhick be in this one?The 3rd bahnwhick child!Gold cat eyes,dark blue hair,down&long,and her deck contains:
all 3 sphinxes
both dark magitian(red and purple)
3 harpies brother
all three harpies sisters by 2(3x26,2 of each one)
1 harpies dragon
2 harpies girl
4 fox fire
*2 Ninja foxes(8made up)(at:1800 df:1300 4stars,foxes standing on 2 legs and a ninja outfit thats black,fire element,warrior)
*3 phoinex women(at:1500 df20 4 stars,really tan women with red dresses on and fire for hair that gose to the ground and firey wings,fire element,fairy)
*2 hawk men (at 1600 df 1400 4 stars,brown hawks standing on their claws, and arms,with wings on their backs,wearing black shirts and pants and a spear with them,wind element,warrior)
*gift from Tolea*White Fox spirit( at 20,df 2500 6 stars,big white fox&purple markings on her head and tail,god element,divine creature)
*gift from toby*Black Wolf spirit(at 2300,df 2200,6 stars,big black wolf with gold markings where the foxes are,god element,divine creature)
*her favorite card*Gold eagle spirit(at30,df30,8 stars,big gold eagle with blue marks on its wings,head and tail feathers,god element,divine creature)
2 moonya curry
2 graceful charity
2 harpies hunting ground
*4 magical portals(takes a monster on the opponets field and makes it hers,a colorful portal)
4 trap holes
2 acid trap holes
*1 divin play(if a spirit card is on the field, she can take the other 2 and put them on the field)
There!40 total!Woot!Sorry,been a long time since I play or seen Yu gi ,she also,if you allow it,could fall in love with Yugi,because she loves sensitive guys...and being taller than her bfs!Yup,she is even taller than Seto,and she is actually a eagul demon,getting demon but divin genes from her other 2 ended up being foxes because of...I DONT NEED TO EXPLAIN THAT!Anyway,she has wings, and claws,and can hear and see ,DONE!
Mekanizumu no kiki yari chapter 6 . 8/28/2006
hey the chapters are all f*ed up can you fix it?
AnimeCrazy88 chapter 9 . 8/26/2006
This is maybe going to be a stupid question. but way did you post those 4 first chapters again when they already was there?
Anyway, chapter 5 was awsome!_Please hurry up with the next chapter!
AnimeCrazy88 chapter 4 . 3/24/2006
Awsome story! Please come up with the next chapter soon!-
Midsummer'sQueen chapter 2 . 3/15/2006
Battle City..Battle City..Battle City..Battle City..BATTLE CITY!
Mekanizumu no kiki yari chapter 4 . 2/10/2006
Kuragari75 chapter 3 . 12/16/2005
YYAY! GOOD CHAPPIE! (that sums it up ;)) KK,
Plutobaby494 chapter 2 . 11/12/2005
Funny stuff, Please update soon!
Kuragari75 chapter 2 . 10/13/2005
I think duelist Kingdom... but I'm probably not the person to ask seeing as I only remember what the Battle City one was! I really like it though! I want to read more... I'm updating black wolf soon... LOVE THE STORY! Talk to you tomorrow! ME*
Midsummer'sQueen chapter 1 . 8/17/2005
Bad? Are you frippin' KIDDING! THAT WAS AWSOME! Dude, please make the next one soon! That ruled for a first chapter! n_n | <urn:uuid:7627ba9f-6b20-4e5e-86e7-b19ff3d49ac6> | https://www.fanfiction.net/r/2537781/ | en | 0.911216 | 0.035524 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Reviews for Just Victims, You and I
Guest chapter 1 . 12/29/2012
may I ask your permission to translate this wonderful text for russian fandom of mythology?
thank you in advance!
Guest chapter 1 . 12/11/2012
I adore this. 3 I've always thought that Nut and Geb had one of the more tragic love stories. I think you captured it perfectly!
Mdm RavenPearl chapter 1 . 9/10/2012
What a beautiful yet tragic tale of star crossed lovers. You have portrayed a vivid picture of these two rarely used Egyptian god/goddess. I really am blown away by your writing skill, I hope I can still reach that level! So, to stop rambling... I say now, KEEP ON WRITING! Love #very tight hug#
Pen-Always-In-Hand chapter 1 . 7/3/2012
This was actually very nice. It really showed the...difference, the single-mindedness of the gods. They didn't care about the humans who lived, Geb and Nut just wanted to be together. It's sweet, but sort of scary/cruel at the same time, since we are the humans they don't care about. And put into consideration all the storms and bad weather lately...well. Makes you wonder. | <urn:uuid:38f6db56-4449-4402-bc99-fff472192dcd> | https://www.fanfiction.net/r/8161863/ | en | 0.944553 | 0.035309 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Music that shaped me: Leonard Cohen
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Music That shaped me: Otis Redding
In my mind, what is considered “soul music” today has essentially succumbed to same kind of genre-bastardization akin to the “alternative” movement of the early 90’s and the watered down post-grunge that followed. Musical excrement. Enter American Idol. Enter vocal gymnastics. Here’s all the crazy stuff I can do with my voice. I dunno… maybe […] [Read More] | <urn:uuid:af0b0d03-234e-49a1-85ee-d1d3406e0dc7> | http://blog.timesunion.com/seanrowe/category/music-that-shaped-me/ | en | 0.920311 | 0.044474 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Re: First Class Header Proposals
From: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:03:14 +0100
To: Asir Vedamuthu <asirv@webmethods.com>
Message-ID: <20050217150314.GF2676@w3.org>
Hi Asir.
* Asir Vedamuthu <asirv@webmethods.com> [2005-02-07 05:01-0800]
> Attached docs are two variations of the First Class Header Proposal - A and
> B. There is one principal difference between these two proposals: A uses a
> set of element declarations and B uses a complex type definition to describe
> headers.
> Hope, these docs, SOAP Header Blocks in WSDL [1] proposal, Headers Proposal
> V1.2 [2], and other AD feature issues [3][4] provide sufficient info to act
> on LC76d [5].
A couple of questions about the requiredness of the headers:
- why do we need a mechanism to disable header generation? It seems to
me that either the binding supports headers, and then you should use
them if you need to, or it doesn't, and then that's it. Why would
one want to disable header generation for a particular binding?
- I don't understand the purpose of @required either; with your
element/type declaration, couldn't you express this with minOccurs?
Hugo Haas - W3C
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Different databases have differences in SQL support & implementation. Sometimes there is a difference in SQL syntax, sometimes support for some SQL commands is missing, sometimes the database has a feature that other databases do not have.
What are considered to be good practices in writing SQL queries that are good for different databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, SQLite) taking in account that the developer uses a framework (like CakePHP, Codeigniter, Zend etc.) that provides a database abstraction layer? What SQL syntax should the developer try to avoid?
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That's what ORMs are there for. – quantumSoup Aug 22 '10 at 0:02
Sometimes ORMs do not handle the query correctly. F.ex. FULL JOIN in MySQL, RIGHT JOIN in SQLite. I mean the syntax of the query is good but the database does not support that. – bancer Aug 23 '10 at 2:03
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Then you dig into using ORM, you'll find that for complex queries - it doesn't perform. It's hard enough for people to write SQL that performs well - I don't expect a DB abstraction layer fair any better. Most ORMs support native stored procedures... which defeats the purpose of using ORM.
ANSI SQL is striving to make SQL more portable amongst databases, but adoption varies from vendor to vendor. And ANSI syntax doesn't necessarily mean it performs as well as native syntax (IE: COALESCE vs native ISNULL/IFNULL/NVL/etc).
The reality is for getting the best performing database interaction, you need to write custom code for each vendor involved. Some would use this as a point to why the database should be nothing more than basic persistence because it's easier to maintain a central application. But this pales when you deal with high usage applications, who suffer because of multiple trips between the application and the database, poor data typing and table design. Frankly, it's a waste of a database...
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I completely agree. An abstraction layer will only ensure that your application runs equally slow on all DBMS – a_horse_with_no_name Aug 22 '10 at 21:05
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"Cautiously use ANSI SQL" is the most direct answer to your question.
However, keep in mind these words from Jeremy Zawodny, especially:
Good engineers try to select the best tools for the job and then do everything they can to take advantage of their tool's unique and most powerful features. In the database world, that means specific hints, indexing, data types, and even table structure decisions. If you truly limit yourself to the subset of features that is common across all major RDBMSes, you're doing yourself and your clients a huge disservice.
What people are really looking for with ORM is a non-relational data store that can be easily transformed into programming language data structures (e.g. Ruby objects). If you need this, you might want to examine one of the many "NoSQL" options out there (MongoDB, CouchDB are two of the more mature ones).
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In practice, you are probably better off to pick a particular DBMS and then freely use any proprietary features that strike your fancy. Of course this isn't always possible, like if you're trying to write a package to be sold to people whose DBMS choices you can't control (or you don't want to limit your market). – Jay Aug 22 '10 at 1:03
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You can use an ORM for example which will essentially abstract away the details from each database. Although you have to make sure your ORM supports all the databases needed.
Doctrine and Propel are good friends of php. Check either out.
If you cannot find an ORM that supports all your DB's then perhaps find one that covers most and extend php to handle the last. Although I doubt this will be the case.
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You are looking for Object-relational mapping (ORM).
You can go for famous Doctrine out there. Also have a look at:
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I thought ORM is implemented in those frameworks. – bancer Aug 22 '10 at 0:30
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As quantumSoup alluded to, just don't. If you take a look at each of the frameworks you listed, you'll notice that they all use ORM or some kind of database abstraction layer for inserting/extracting data. This allows you to write db-neutral code that works irrespective to the desired data source. The ORM then uses the correct data source "drivers" to convert your intentions into commands understood by each data source.
So the trick is 1.) defining a universal interface for your ORM or database abstraction layer; and then 2.) writing the appropriate drivers for the ORM. Then each time you want to use a new type of data source (including flat files or CSV), it's a simple matter of adding a new driver.
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Sometimes I can create queries with syntax that is not supported by currently used database. F.ex. FULL JOIN in MySQL. I was able to create the query that passed through DB abstraction layer and that was looking okay. But the current database did not support that syntax. – bancer Aug 22 '10 at 0:27
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IT IS a long way from the Anatolian plains to a campus in the heart of London, where eminent scholars of religion deliver learned papers. And the highlands that used to form the Soviet border with China, an area where bright kids long for an education, seem far removed from a three-storey house in Pennsylvania, where a revered, reclusive teacher of Islam lives.
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With his stated belief in science, inter-faith dialogue and multi-party democracy, Mr Gulen has also won praise from many non-Muslim quarters. He is an intensely emotional preacher, whose tearful sermons seem to strike a deep chord in his listeners; but the movement he heads is remarkably pragmatic and businesslike.
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A good set up for Reyn?
Which arts are most effective for reyn, or which combinations (he seems to have a few which are meant to be paired...)
I couldn't quite figure out anchor chain from the in game description, anyone tell me exactly what it does as well?
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From: foo1239 1 year ago
This question is two years old, but I'll try my hand at it anyways.
The previous post covered Tank-Reyn, but he is also capable dealing huge amount of burst damage, so you could try setting up for that as well. Berserker->Magnum Charge->Sword Drive deals massive damage, and using Sword drive in chain attacks is also great for damage as well. This makes taking out regular enemies quick and easy, and can be combined with Tanking later in the game to make Reyn very effective. Early game, this isn't really possible, but late game, you could use this strategy to draw aggro to Reyn, then use Hammer Beat and Mad Taunt to keep Aggro, and Last stand or Rage to keep Reyn alive. Mad Taunt only gives a temporary aggro boost, but considering you can reset it fairly often, it should be able to keep aggro on Reyn for long enough for your burst arts to recharge. Its also worth mentioning that Wild Down has the lowest cooldown of all topple arts, so Reyn is an excellent choice in a topple lock party. Additionally, seeing as he deals very high burst damage, he is useful in a party designed to kill things before they kill you. What i mean by this, using chain attacks to deal massive damage to kill things immediately, which is accomplished by sacrificing defense and healing. A chain attack of Magnum Charge->Talent Art->Red Art->Sword Drive would deal a huge amount.
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It basically depends on how you want to use Reyn... the game's intention seems to be to use him as an aggro magnet, drawing the attention of all enemies, so that he takes the damage instead of the other characters, which is generally done by dealing heavy damage.
I personally find Lariat (decent damage to multiple enemies), Hammer Beat (draws aggro), and Sword Drive (huge damage) work pretty well at doing that, so I don't really use his talent art (Mad Taunt) at all, so instead I use Magnum Charge, which uses up the talent guage instead, but multiplies the amount of damage done by the next art (by 4.2x at the maximum level) which when used before Sword Drive causes massive damage.
The other moves would depend on how you want to use him... personally I kept Wild Down and Shield Bash as they are handy for topple and daze, but you'd need someone else who can break, and I also like Aura Burst, as this helps to draw aggro, hits multiple enemies, and reduces their strength, but it does require an aura to be active, so my last slot is Rage (aura that reduces attack but creates spike damage, and reduces physical damage taken) which is handy for surviving longer once you've drawn the aggro with your other moves, but I could probably switch that one out quite easily depending on the situation.
As for Anchor Chain, it's main use is to stop you from being knocked or blown backwards by certain attacks (mostly later in the game) which I found useful in narrow areas or areas with dangerous surroundings (they get quite annoying when enemies keep getting thrown backwards)... the other effects of the move just relate to aggro, as I believe that when you take damage, the aggro of that creature towards you would go down, and if it goes below the aggro of another character, the creature's focus will shift to them, so this prevents that, while also slowly increasing aggro as well, helping to keep the focus of their attacks on Reyn.
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The Good Old Hockey Game!
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It's a very off fact of gaming that there are so many sports video games that are good, but yet so few that become transcendent - memorable years after their initial releases and played fondly for many years afterward. Part of that, no doubt, is the fact that sports game developers tend to release editions of games for every league every year, so there's that sense of fatigue; developers know they can afford to really coast from time to time. Therefore, a sports game which is potentially timeless could very easily get lost in the indecipherable shuffle of the yearly roster updates.
That naturally makes it a truly special thing whenever a timeless sports game DOES manage to rise above and beyond the updates and become the favored game of its entire series for years. Or, in any case, a classic of the genre. How often has it happened? Let's see - there's Tecmo Bowl, NBA Jam (which can barely be called a sports game), NHL '94, ESPN NFL 2K5, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Punch-Out, and maybe - MAYBE - World Series Baseball, Virtua Tennis, and Blades of Steel. Gran Turismo is you believe racing games and sports games are the same thing.
NHL '94 came out 20 years ago now, so upon picking it up, you won't be using Patrick Kane to score the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks, thus winning him the Conn Smythe Trophy. The average NHL player isn't around for that long unless his name is Gordie Howe, so there are currently only six players in today's NHL who were in the league when NHL '94 was first released. There are many marquee players among them, though: Jaromir Jagr - now 41 years old and playing for the Boston Bruins - Nikolai Khabibulin, Teemu Selanne, and Martin Brodeur. The other two are Roman Hamrlik and Ray Whitney. These were definitely some of the halcyon days of the NHL. In NHL '94, the Carolina Hurricanes are still the Hartford Whalers, the Detroit Red Wings hadn't yet morphed into the NHL version of the New York Yankees, Wayne Gretzky still played in his prime, and the Neutral Zone Trap didn't bring on the near-ruination of the entire sport.
The great innovations which are popularly said to have elevated NHL '94 above and beyond the competition are the additions of the one-timer and the wrap-around. Those are certainly nice little things, but as to them making this game a classic, well, nuts to that! As with all great sports video games during the 16-bit era, the greatness of the game had nothing to do with how accurate it was and everything to do with the kinds of insane things that, no matter how accurate the game claimed to be, it would still let players get away with. Indeed, NHL '94 is a primitive beast and an imperfect and occasionally glitchy little monster. This game is still popular all over the place because the only limits imposed on it are those of your own sick, twisted imagination.
Yes, one-timers and wrap-arounds are all over the place in the NHL. They're an important part of the sport - if you don't know how to do them, you should just drop whatever far-flung fantasy you have of ever playing for the Blackhawks, or even a minor league team like the San Diego Gulls or Buffalo Sabres. But the real fun is in the little things you don't notice until you run into them by accident, laugh at, and integrate them into your gameplay. Sabres fans remember a recent incident where Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller was plowed by Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins. In real life, of course, it's the goalie who went down. In NHL '94, however, it would have been Lucic who would have taken the hit because in this game, the goalies are not only damn near invincible, but the players who try to check them end up getting knocked over. I once accidentally charged into an opposing goaltender with Pat LaFontaine, and LaFontaine got seriously injured! After that, my best friend and I made ramming the opposing goalie a big part of our gameplay just because we wanted to see who else we could hurt by running him into a goalie.
The flaws in NHL '94 are really something once you get ahold of what they are and how to use them to your advantage. The vaunted wrap-arounds don't work very often. Hockey being hockey, of course, a goalie who's even half-awake would be able to detect a wrap-around coming a mile away. If you tool around a little bit, though, you'll quickly learn that the goalies don't seem to move from side to side quite as quickly as the players, and so the best scoring opportunities happen as the player skates from one side of the rink to the other while just a few feet from the net. Master this, and you'll soon be getting the puck into the net on every penalty shot, and when you really conquer it, you'll be able to come out on the top of entire games played with no goalie.
Yes, you can do that. The game does come with an option to remove the goalie at any time so, if you play your cards exactly right, you'll be able to come back from a multiple goal deficit by yanking the goalie. Of course, to get it to work the best possible way, you'll want to make sure your lineups are in order, and the game gives you ways to customize two scoring lines, a checking line, and the lines for the power play and penalty kills. That means if your coach is an idiot, you can use NHL '94 to correct his mistakes and place the players with other players who make more sense.
Despite the heavy emphasis on simulation, there is a slant in NHL '94 geared toward casual, arcade players as well. This is mostly because of the way body checks are executed - use the C button to perform a speed burst, which doubles as a body check. The game is rather lax about calling some of the harder hits, so even though there's no fighting, NHL '94 provides an accurate but fast and loose hockey simulation. It isn't quite as fast as the uber-smooth advanced hockey games of today, which sometimes emphasize the hitting and fighting over everything else, but it keeps pace with the other options available at the time pretty easily. Even in spite of the fact that the offsides and icing calls are there to ruin your momentum once again. Fortunately, the lack of fighting is addition by subtraction, because not having to worry about slugging with a badass enforcer means there's only action left to concentrate on.
1994 in hockey video games was the last year before EA Sports let everyone walk into the NHL and decimate every roster in the league by sliding into the GM chair. You're not getting the world in play modes in NHL '94. There's a basic exhibition, tournaments of either single games or seven-game series, and a shootout mode. Those tournaments, of course, lead to the ultimate prize of hockey, the Holy Grail of sports: The Stanley Cup. There are profile pages to help you decide who should go on every line, though, so that helps. They even come with nice little corner thumbnail photos. You will, however, notice a few stupid roster quirks. For one thing, where the hell is Paul Kariya? Also, Wayne Gretzky - who, at the time of NHL '94, had a recent Hart Trophy to his name and was leading the Los Angeles Kings to their first Finals ever - somehow only gets a numerical ranking of 87. Among the players with higher ratings are: Alexander Mogilny (96), Pavel Bure (90), Teemu Selanne (90), Jeremy Roenick (89), and Doug Gilmour (89). Scott Neidermayer only gets a 58, John Vanbiesbrouck is a mere 63 while his fellow New York Rangers goalie Mike Richter (MIKE RICHTER!) is a 61, Mats Sundin seems pretty low at 79, and Denis Savard is a 75. And the team rankings seem a lot more balanced for a league without a salary cap. Aside from the All-Star teams, the highest team rating is the Blackhawks who, with a recent Presidents' Trophy and Finals appearance in their recent past back then, earn a 78 which is still three points higher than the Pittsburgh Penguins team that beat them to the Stanley Cup in 1992.
The graphics use small sprites without a whole lot of detail. What they lack in detail, though, they more than make up in their color and fluidity. While I'm pretty sure there aren't a ton of animation frames, the sprites are small enough for EA Sports to have gotten away with it, as long as they looked good in motion. There are also a few pleasant little animation details which, while not necessary for the game, are nice to have: You can see a siren going off after every goal. There's abundant crowd animation, which is cool and sometimes ever funny. It beats a lot of the crowd animations in the other games in the series.
The sounds just rock! The slapping of the puck is more than passable, but the real fun comes in dishing out the hits! There's a good, hard sound which, although muffled, is still a joy to hear on a murder spree! And the organ music is fantastic. It includes fight songs for certain teams, like "Here Come the Hawks" (Chicago Blackhawks), "When the Saints Go Marching in" (St. Louis Blues), and "Sabre Dance" (Buffalo Sabres).
The gameplay is as smooth and fluid as the graphics, and the vaunted one-timers and wrap-arounds are all performed with smooth ease. There's no limit on the number of times you can use speed bursts, since they also double as body checks, and therefore you can check your way up the ice rather easily. The vertical rink gives off a better vantage point than the horizontal rink which had been traditional until that point, which makes it a lot easier to make accurate shots on goal and accurate passes. Plus the rinks just feel bigger.
Should you get this game? How addicted do you want to get? There are very few better games with which to bond with other people over…. At least, if you can tear yourself away from it long enough to meet people.
PS: If I come off at times like I was using this review to brag about the Chicago Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup, I was!
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<HTML><!-- eWebEditPro --><P><IMG height=200 src="" width=107 align=right>The year is measured as one orbit of the earth around the sun. Called a solar year, tropical year, or seasonal year, a month was calculated by ancient skyward looking peoples as simply the time between two full moons, or the number of days for the moon to circle the earth, 29.5 days. This measurement, the lunar month, resulted in a lunar year of 354 days, which is 11 days shorter than the solar year. </P><P>In modern calendars, however, the days in each month are not based on the phases of the moon. The lengths of the months are approximately one-twelfth of a year, 28 to 31 days, and adjusted to fit the 12 months into a solar year. </P><P>Variations in the many calendars used from ancient times developed from the original, inaccurate ideas of the length of the year. These educated guesses, combined with the fact that a year cannot be divided evenly by any of the time units, days, weeks, or months, created a system of time that could not be sustained through centuries. The earliest calendars based on lunar months eventually failed to agree with the seasons and a month occasionally had to be added, to reconcile lunar months with the solar year.</P><P>The ancient Egyptians were the first to replace the lunar calendar with a calendar based on the solar year. They measured the solar year as 365 days, divided into 12 months of 30 days each, with 5 extra days at the end. About 238 BC King Ptolemy III ordered that an extra day be added to every fourth year, similar to the modern leap year.</P><P>In ancient Greece a lunar/solar calendar was in use, with a year of 354 days. Julius Caesar, upon the advice of his astronomer Sosigenes, decided to use a purely solar calendar, known as the Julian calendar, which fixed the normal year at 365 days, and the leap year, every fourth year, at 366 days. A leap year is so named because the extra day causes any date after February in a leap year to "leap" over one day in the week, and to occur two days later than it did in the previous year, rather than just one day later as in a normal year. The Julian calendar also established the order of the months and the days of the week as they exist in present-day calendar, and named the days of the week in honor of the sun, moon, and various planets. Unfortunately, the Julian year was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the solar year and would eventually suffer the similar inaccuracies of earlier calendar systems.</P><P>Although the Julian method of intercalation was the most convenient that could be adopted, it could not, without correction, preserve the same interval of time between the beginning of the year and the equinox. It had been shown long before, by the observations of Hipparchus in 125 BC, that the excess of 365 1/4 days beyond a true solar year would amount to one day in 300 years. The real error is actually more than double this--one extra day every 128 years--but in the time of Caesar the length of the year was not a very well defined astronomical phenomenon. In the course of a few centuries, the inadequacies of the system were felt as the equinox retrograded towards the beginning of the year. When the Julian calendar was introduced, the equinox fell on the 25th of March. At the time of the Council of Nicea, which was held in 325, the equinox fell on the 21st.</P><P>The situation was increasingly seen as a scandal. By 700 AD it had become customary to count the years from the birth of Christ. But the equinox kept slipping backwards on the calendar one full day every 130 years. By 1500 the vernal equinox fell on the 10th or 11th of March and the autumnal equinox on the 13th or 14th of September.</P><P>The most important feast day on the Christian calendar is Easter. In the New Testament we find that Christ's crucifixion occurred a week after Passover. On the Jewish calendar, Passover was celebrated at the full moon of the first month of spring. In developing their own calendar, Christians put Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. This is why Easter always fall between March 21 and April 18th depending on the full moon. If the equinox was wrong, then Easter was celebrated on the wrong day. Most other Christian observances (e.g., the beginning of Lent, Pentecost) are reckoned backward or forward from the date of Easter.</P><P>An error in the equinox thus introduced numerous errors in the entire religious calendar. Something had to be done. After several false starts, a commission under the leadership of the Jesuit mathematician and astronomer Christoph Clavius succeeded. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII (hence the name Gregorian Calendar) ordered ten days to be dropped from October, thus restoring the vernal equinox at least to an average of the 20th of March, close to what it had been at the time of the Council of Nicea. In order to correct for the loss of one day every 130 days, the new calendar dropped three leap years every 400 years. Henceforth century years were leap years only if divisible by 400. Therefore 1600 and 2000 are leap years and 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not.</P><P>The new calendar, although controversial among technical astronomers, was pushed from Rome and adopted immediately in Catholic countries. Protestant countries like Germany, and the northern regions of the Netherlands adopted the calendar several decades later. The English, always suspicious of Rome during this period, retained the Julian Calendar and furthered the confusion: while other countries now began the new year uniformly on January 1st, the English maintained their older custom and began the New Year March 25th. The date February 11, 1672 in England was February 21, 1673 on the Continent. After 1700 in which the Julian Calendar had a leap year but the Gregorian did not, the difference was eleven days. The English and their American colonies finally adopted the Gregorian Calendar in the middle of the eighteenth century. George Washington was born on 11 February on the Julian Calendar, however we celebrate his birthday on 22 February.</P><P>OK, so let's run the calculations: The period of time from one vernal equinox to another is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45.5 seconds and is again known as a solar year. The Gregorian calendar approximates the solar year with a combination of common years of 365 days and leap years of 366 days.</P><P>A common year differs from a solar year by 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45.5 seconds. After 4 years this totals 23 hours, 15 minutes and 4 seconds, so a day is added to the year and it becomes a leap year.</P><P>However, at the end of a leap year we are short almost 45 minutes of making a whole day. After 100 years this leap year deficit comes to 1123.3 minutes, or 18 hours and 43.3 minutes. This is why century years (1700, 1800, 1900, etc.) are not leap years, even though they are divisible by 4. There is no need to add in an extra day since we are 18 hours and 43.3 minutes short.</P><P>Not adding in this day on century years gives us a 5 hours and 16.7 minutes surplus. After 400 years this equates to 21 hours and 6.8 minutes. Therefore century years that are divisible by 400, like the year 2000, do become leap years. Because of this simple fact, which most programmers either forgot or didn't anticipate, many software programs do not calculate the year 2000 as a leap year. So besides checking your computer for Y2K compliance, you should also check to see how your computer and various software programs handle the date change after 28 Feburary 2000.</P><P>Unfortunately, Christoph Clavius' solar year was a bit off and his calculations stopped at the every 400-year adjustment believing that it was sufficient. Today we know that this 400-year compensation still leaves a 3 hour and 53 minute deficit and some astronomers have proposed that century years divisible by 4000 not become a leap year. If accepted, the year 4000, normally a century leap year (divisible by 400) will not become one and the Gregorian calendar will once again come into close alignment (only 42 minutes in error) with the solar year. Since we have 2000 years to think about it, we should be able to solve the problem. Besides, by then it really won't matter very much to us.</P><P>Historical sources: <I>Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.</I>, 29v., K-III Reference Corp., 1996. </P></HTML>
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Also remember: if you're providing your own equipment you're also the one that will be fixing it. Drive dies? Stops powering on? PSU goes? Time for a trip upto the colo facility to fix it - all while your site is offline.
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Girl power comes of age
She is an icon for a generation of young women but, according to Geri Halliwell, feminism is 'bra-burning lesbianism'. Joanna Moorhead catches up with the Spice Girl to talk about motherhood, adoption, ambition and the band's reunion
Geri Halliwell may be used to performing in front of millions, but when I meet her at a London conference, I can tell she is nervous about the intimate gig that lies ahead. The conference is called Women Deliver, and it has brought together organisations from around the world, all of them working for lower maternal mortality rates. Halliwell is due to talk about a recent charity trip she took to meet mothers in Zambia and a group of 30 or 40 experts have gathered to hear her speak. There are no fans here - just sensibly shoed, middle-aged, Lancet-reading delegates who listen in polite but unimpressed silence. Halliwell has nothing new to tell them about African mothers and, when she speaks about her experiences, she sounds a tad forced. It is not really her fault: the truth is that she is a singer and a dancer, not a public speaker. She is clearly way out of her depth.
Halliwell is also a figurehead to a generation of women in their late teens and early 20s who grew up at a time when the Spice Girls topped the charts, week after week. These are the young women who have clamoured at news of the group's reunion, but I wonder if they would be so impressed if they met Halliwell in the flesh. I'm not used to interviewing celebrities, and she looks weirdly artificial to me - impeccably made up, with blond, fairy-tale ringlets and long lashes. She is also unbelievably tiny. Halliwell has said she uses food as a way of controlling the world when she is up against it, and it is no stretch to imagine that - with the pressure of an impending reunion tour - the 35-year-old mother is going through a pretty tough time.
Nine years ago, soon after she quit the band, Halliwell became an ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and, having finished her speech, she sits down to talk with me some more about her work for them - among other subjects. "The fact is that people talk about childbirth in the poorest countries," she says, "But it's only when you see these places that you realise what it means.
"I went to Zambia last year, and what I saw there was unbelievable. I didn't find the trip easy, but I'm glad I did it."
Bluebell Madonna, Halliwell's exotically named daughter, was six months old when she went, and the memory of giving birth by caesarean section in the surrounds of the luxurious Portland hospital was still fresh in her mind. What she saw in Africa could not have been more different. "I met mothers who didn't have any of the things I'd taken for granted, such as antenatal care. The clinics were miles away - can you imagine being pregnant and having to walk 50km for treatment?"
The focus of her UN work has definitely changed since she had Bluebell, Halliwell says. "At first I was a single, young Bridget Jones kind of woman. I was [operating in] a selfish world ... now I'm a mother my compassion has expanded." But what can Halliwell - what can any celebrity - really achieve, set against the huge problems to be found in Africa? She replies honestly - she knows that she can't magic away the problems to be found there, "but it's about bringing light and attention to the situation. That's all I can do."
None of the messages she offers are new, but Halliwell's commitment to passing them on is, in some ways, quite touching. Perhaps her attachment to charity work harks back to her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness. Halliwell was raised in Watford, where she managed to get a place at the local girls' grammar school (she was always very ambitious, she tells me). She later worked as a nightclub dancer in Mallorca, and then, in 1993, answered a fateful advert, looking for wannabe stars who were "street-smart, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance".
With their trademark nicknames - Ginger, Sporty, Baby, Scary and Posh - and their garish outfits, the Spice Girls were famously a triumph of branding over talent, and it was Halliwell who coined a key part of that brand: the phrase "girl power". What does this mean to the generation of girls who grew up with it? Halliwell suggests that what it comes down to is that their voice "so counts". Throughout her career as a Spice Girl, she "harped on" about girl power, she says, "but now I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women. Because what I saw in Zambia was that it's about educating women and supporting women, and through that you enable not only women, but whole societies, to thrive and improve." The other thing, she says, is that as the world gets smaller, women in the west are realising that it's not just other western women we need to care about, but women around the globe. It's the basic premise of international feminism. So, is Halliwell a feminist?
The question clearly hits a nerve: what, she asks quickly, do I mean by feminism? Well, I tell her, for me feminism is about the fact that women still aren't treated equally, which raises issues of justice. OK, concedes Halliwell, maybe she is a feminist: but she has a few distinct caveats. One objection seems to be that she fears feminism will emasculate and demoralise men: but her bigger problem is its image. "It's about labelling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness."
There are murmurs from her entourage, and Halliwell shoots them a glance. "There you go," she tells me, in the manner of one who has given a bit too much away. "That's your headline. 'Geri Halliwell says feminists are all bra-burners'."
It does not seem much of a scoop to me, but this is celebrity-land, a place where every tiny bit of information is gold dust. I'm not surprised to hear her reduce feminism to a few specific (and negative) characteristics, because Halliwell's entire career has been about branding, about tags and slogans rather than substance.
One big change in the Spice Girls' lives since they first hit the charts has been children: four of them are now mothers. How has that changed the dynamics of the band? Well, says Halliwell, it's certainly a bonding experience. And what about single motherhood? Bluebell, she confirms, was definitely an accident. She and Bluebell's father, screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, were never much of an item, and she is now bringing up her 18-month-old alone. "But I'm so supported, and I'm so privileged," she says. "So many women today are single parents, I don't feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it ... and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I'm learning every day as a mother. I'm learning that she's like a flower that thrives when it gets sunlight, and the sunlight is confidence, and I feel that when I'm confident it gives her self-esteem. And that gives me motivation to go on and be the best."
Much of what Halliwell says has a similar tone to this - she lived in Los Angeles for a while and she has a good line in "therapy speak". "You've got to accept life on life's terms," she tells me, "if people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings. Doing this work [the UNFPA role] makes me feel richer on the inside."
Halliwell's sister has been sitting beside her on the sofa throughout our chat, and the two are obviously very close - Natalie was Halliwell's birth partner. Would Halliwell like to provide Bluebell with a sibling - and, if so, has she thought about emulating other celebrities, such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie, by adopting a child from the developing world? Halliwell hesitates. Yes, she'd love another child - and it's clear the idea of overseas adoption has crossed her mind. But she has a few worries. "I'm open about it and I'm educating myself at the moment," she says.
Next on her horizon is the Spice Girls world tour, which starts in December - rehearsals are about to begin in earnest in the US. New dates have been added for the British leg after tickets for the first London show sold out in an astonishing 38 seconds, the quickest sell-out in concert history. Halliwell is clearly excited at all that lies ahead: and now she has done her bit for the UN, she is keen to be on her way. Before she goes she offers to send my daughters a message in my notebook. "Girl power!" she writes. "Your mum Joanna is cool!".
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I went to buy return flights to Vienna through Expedia. Simple you might think? I found the flights (via Munich with Lufthansa) and tried to book...got a message that my credit card had been refused. No booking notice, no tickets...since the credit card had been refused, I used another and booked the flights direct with Swiss. Job done - didn't think any more of it.
Well, didn't think any more until I looked at my credit card statement. Invoice for £305.25 from Lufthansa - what for I thought? Phone Lufthansa and they can't help me becuase I don't have a ticket or booking reference...because Expedia hadn't sent me anything. Call to my credit card company and I have to pay the amount and dispute it unless Expedia refund it...
So, two calls to Expedia. First call reveals that they know about these flights but claim there were no charges and it is isn't them. Having done a full circuit of parties involved, I went back to Expedia armed with the reference from Lufthansa which was the e-ticket number. Suddenly Expedia can match those numbers up. The man on the end of the phone said "I suppose we should refund you"...SUPPOSE?? As I stated, without pointing fingers, they were the party who enabled Lufthansa to take the money, so they have to be the company who will refund it. He found the exact amount, the exact date and then said that he would have to refer this to his manager and another team. Expect results within 48 hrs? So far, at 48 hrs...nothing at all. I hope for the best (refund) but have started the dispute process with credit card company.
UPDATE - 23-5-13
Thanks to Stuart Newman, this issue got escalated and the transaction was identified, reviewed and a refund is now being processed. The refund is split between Lufthansa and Expedia, so the lion's share has been processed - a good start. Thank you to Stuart for picking up the review, and making contact - great service!
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Duke survey finds CMOs have hard time proving impact of social media
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Durham, N.C.—Nearly half of CMOs have not been able to prove the impact of social media on their business, according to Duke University's CMO Survey. The study was based on an online poll of 410 CMOs, conducted by Duke's Fuqua School of Business from July 16 through Aug. 6. It found that 49.2% of CMOs have not been able to measure the quantitative impact of social media on their business; 35.8% said they have a good sense of the qualitative impact of social media; and 15.0% have been able to show quantitative results. Despite the lack of results, marketers are expected to increase the percentage of their marketing budgets spent on social media from 6.6% this year to 15.8% in five years, according to the survey. Also, 66.4% of CMOs said they feel pressure from their CEO or board to prove the value of marketing, and 60.1% said the pressure is increasing.
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Jules Mascaron (1634–1703) was a popular French preacher. He was born in Marseille as the son of a barrister at Aix-en-Provence. He entered the French Oratory early and became reputed as a preacher. Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court and became a favourite of Louis XIV, who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.
In 1671, he was appointed the bishop of Tulle; eight years later he was transferred to the larger diocese of Agen. He still continued to preach regularly at court, especially for funeral orations. A panegyric on Turenne, delivered in 1675, is considered to be his masterpiece. His style is strongly tinged with préciosité and his chief surviving interest is as a glaring example of the evils from which Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet delivered the French pulpit.
During his later years, he devoted himself entirely to his pastoral duties at Agen where he died in 1703.
Six of his most famous sermons were edited, with a biographical sketch of their author, by the Oratorian Borde in 1704.
One his most famous books - that went into several editions - had been: La Mort et les Dernieres Paroles de Seneque Lyon, 1653. A critical quote concerning Girolamo Cardano's book praising Nero has been placed into: Nero: An Exemplary Life by Inkstone, 2012. | <urn:uuid:0716f5ff-d1ba-4bd6-839c-aa2f2dfe90b3> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Mascaron | en | 0.988842 | 0.125681 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Geons have gravity, but no mass. Could they really exist?S
John Archibald Wheeler is a physicist who coined a lot of terms. You may have heard of a few of them. Wormhole. Black hole. Quantum foam. And geon. Wait, geon?
J A Wheeler was one of those people who seemed to be in exactly the right place, in exactly the right time, with exactly the right brain. After studying physics he collaborated with Albert Einstein, in Einstein's later years. This was not an uncontroversial thing. Einstein spent much of his later life working on unified field theory - a "theory of everything" that many now dismiss. (Even those who don't dismiss it don't believe Einstein should have worked on it, given the data he had at the time.) Wheeler continued Einstein's work, and seems to have made good use of it. He came up with a ton of ideas, some of which populate the physical universe and some of which populate science fiction stories. He coined the terms for black hole and wormhole.
He also came up with the term "geon." A geon is tough to find in reality, and won't help a star ship crew flip themselves across the universe, so it hasn't gotten the same amount of press as Wheeler's other ideas. Basically, it's an electromagnetic wave, and a very energetic one. As Einstein showed, mass and energy are equivalent, which means that energy should have its own gravity, the same way mass does. In Wheeler's mind, a certain amount of energy, all in one place, might generate enough gravity to keep itself together. So a geon is a wave of energy, kept in one "ball" and in one section space.
One of the big debates about geons is whether or not they are "stable." Gravity, Einstein showed, radiates outward at no faster than the speed of light. If a geon is radiating gravitational waves, it should be losing energy. Once it loses enough energy, it should lose the gravity needed to keep it together and dissolve. So a geon could be a very ephemeral thing.
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More than 200 years ago, Edward Jenner performed an experiment that laid the foundation for the eradication of smallpox and transformed humankind's fight against disease. Smallpox afflicted humankind as no other disease had done; its persistence and diffusion were without parallel. The disease brought down at least three empires. Generations watched helplessly as their children succumbed to the disease or were disfigured or blinded by it. Attempts were made to contain smallpox by isolating its sufferers and, later, by using variolation with varying degrees of success. However, the definitive solution was not found until Jenner's work was done at the end of the 18th century. Milkmaids who had developed cowpox from contact with cow udders informed Jenner that they were protected from the human form of the disease; he listened to their folk wisdom and raised it to the status of scientific fact. Jenner did not discover vaccination, but he was the first to demonstrate that this technique offered a reliable defense against smallpox. It was also a reliable defense against other illnesses, such as poliomyelitis, measles, and neonatal tetanus, although this was not known in Jenner's lifetime.
Smallpox has been one of humankind's greatest scourges since time immemorial. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal and persistent impact. Smallpox is believed to have appeared at the time of the first agricultural settlements in northeastern Africa, around 10 000 BC. It probably spread from Africa to India by means of Egyptian merchants in the last millennium BC. The earliest evidence of skin lesions resembling those of smallpox is found on the faces of mummies from the time of the 18th and 20th Egyptian Dynasties (1570 to 1085 BC) and in the well-preserved mummy of Ramses V, who died as a young man in 1157 BC.
The first recorded smallpox epidemic occurred in 1350 BC during the Egyptian-Hittite war. The illness was passed to the Hittite population by Egyptian prisoners and affected soldiers and civilians alike. The Hittite King Suppiluliumas I and his heir, Arnuwandas, were victims; their civilization fell into sharp decline.
During the epidemic in Athens in 430 BC, Thucydides noted that those who survived the disease were later immune to it. These observations were reiterated by Rhazes (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi), to whom we owe the first medical description of smallpox, De variolis et morbillis commentarius, which was written in about AD 910. Rhazes also noted that the illness was transmitted from person to person. His explanation of why survivors of smallpox do not develop the disease a second time is the first theory of acquired immunity.
The symptoms of smallpox&emdash;or the speckled monster, as it was known in 18th-century England&emdash;appeared suddenly and included high fever, chills or rigors, cephalalgia, characteristic dorsal-lumbar pain, myalgias, and prostration. Nausea and vomiting were also common. After 2 to 4 days, the fever relented and a rash appeared on the face and inside the eyes; the rash would subsequently cover the whole body. These maculopapular skin lesions evolved into vesicles and pustules and finally dried into scabs that fell off after 3 or 4 weeks. This sequence of events was characteristic for variola major.
Other clinical forms of the disease existed. Persons with fulminating smallpox (purpura variolosa) had mucocutaneous hemorrhages that preceded the appearance of the characteristic skin lesions. In malignant smallpox, the rash had a slow evolution characterized by pseudocropping, subconjunctival hemorrhages, and death when lesions on the face and limbs were confluent. In benign smallpox, the evolution of the rash differed from that of the malignant variety; this form was also less extensive (19, 20). Modified smallpox (varioloid) occurred in persons who were partially protected by vaccination and was usually benign. Variola sine eruptione was smallpox without a rash and occurred predominantly in vaccinated persons. Variola minor (alastrim, Kaffir-pox) was a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus and was endemic in Africa and South America.
The case-fatality rate associated with smallpox varied between 20% and 60% and left most survivors with disfiguring scars. Many persons went blind as a result of corneal infection. The case-fatality rate in the infant population was even higher; among children younger than 5 years of age in the 18th century, 80% of those in London and 98% of those in Berlin who developed the disease died. The case-fatality rate also varied according to the nature of the attack-it ranged from almost 100% in fulminating smallpox to 0.5% to 2% in variola minor. The ravages of smallpox were apparent in 18th-century Europe, with case-fatality rates ranging from 20 to 400 per 100 000 per year, and it is said that smallpox was responsible for 10% of deaths in Europe during that century. The incidence rate varied greatly, but during epidemics it was as high as 37.5% in Boston in 1752, 43.1% in Hastings in 1730 and 1731, and 92.7% in Chester in 1775. In Copenhagen between 1750 and 1800, the annual incidence rate ranged from 875 to 1750 per 100 000; in London between 1685 and 1801, it ranged from 313 to 2355 per 100 000; and in Sweden between 1774 and 1798, it ranged from 341 to 1024 per 100 000. The incidence rate was so high that the disease was regarded as universal or almost universal, and many authorities believed that everyone would eventually develop it. As recently as 30 years ago, smallpox was endemic in 31 countries, between 10 and 15 million persons developed smallpox yearly, and more than 2 million persons died of smallpox each year.
The Era of Vaccination
Vaccination done by using pustule fluid spread rapidly. By 1800, it had reached most European countries and about 100 000 persons had been vaccinated worldwide. In July of that year, only 2 years after the publication of Jenner's "Inquiry," Benjamin Waterhouse, professor of the "Theory and Practice of Physic" at Harvard Medical School, vaccinated his 5-year-old son and six servants with vaccine from England. These were the first vaccinations done in the United States. The practice soon spread from Boston to Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore.
President Thomas Jefferson had 18 members of his family, some of their neighbors, and the last Mohican vaccinated. In December 1801, Chief Little Turtle and several of his warriors were vaccinated while on a visit to Washington, D.C., after Jefferson explained that "the Great Spirit had made a gift to the white men in showing them how to preserve themselves from the smallpox". The President himself vaccinated many persons. Waterhouse received great support from Jefferson, who appointed him Vaccine Agent in the National Vaccine Institute, an organization set up to establish vaccination in the United States.
King Charles IV of Spain sent vaccine from Spain to his dominions in North and South America and Asia through the Expedición de la Vacuna (the Balmis-Salvany Expedition) in 1803 through 1806; this was the first official program of mass vaccination overseas. The vaccine was maintained during the voyage by sequentially vaccinating, arm-to-arm, 22 susceptible orphan children brought along specifically to constitute a living chain. Before the expedition left Spain, a report by one of the king's physicians declared smallpox to be the "first and principal cause of the depopulation of America." The governor of the Council of the Indies noted that depopulation would mean a decrease in income from taxes that the Spanish received from the colonies and in commerce and farming. The economic benefits of such a mission would, in his view, justify paying for it from the royal treasury.
The impact of Jenner's work was so great that, in 1805, Napoleon himself insisted that all his troops who had not had smallpox should be vaccinated with the "Jennerian vaccine." He ordered the vaccination of French civilians 1 year later. The first smallpox vaccination law was passed in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1807; vaccination was declared obligatory in Bavaria in the same year and in Denmark in 1810.
The extraordinary value of vaccination was also acknowledged in England. In 1802, the British Parliament granted Jenner the sum of P10 000, which was worth $44 150 in 1802 and more than half a million dollars in today's currency. Five years later, parliament awarded him P20 000 more. Jenner received honors from the universities of Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge, and numerous scientific societies made him an honorary member. However, he was never knighted. In 1803, the Royal Jennerian Institute was founded to provide lymph for vaccination; Jenner was its first president. Jenner's prestige was so great that Napoleon released English prisoners after his mediation. In 1813, Napoleon was reluctant to pardon Captain Millman, a relative of Jenner's who had fallen captive. When told who had made the request for the soldier's release, Napoleon exclaimed, "Ah, c'est Jenner, je ne puis rien refuser à Jenner!" [Ah, it is Jenner, I cannot refuse Jenner anything!]. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain also freed English prisoners after Jenner intervened.
Jenner's work represented the first scientific attempt to control an infectious illness by the deliberate use of vaccination. Strictly speaking, he did not discover vaccination but was the first person to confer scientific status on the procedure and was the instigator of its popularization. Jenner had been trained in the scientific method by Hunter and, in his studies on vaccination, was able to confirm his hypotheses by means of experimentation and observation. Jenner's experiments on the transmission of cowpox from human to human (not from cows to humans) were extraordinarily important because they meant that prophylaxis could be given even in the absence of the natural illness. His great merit, indeed his genius, lay in the fact that he performed exceptional experimental work on the basis of popular beliefs in the England of his times. Jenner demonstrated that the folk medicine tradition could be scientifically verified. Jenner's work established the practice of vaccination, although the term would not become widely accepted until it was adopted by Pasteur 80 years later.
Jenner himself showed that he was aware of the far-reaching consequences of his work when he stated that the universal application of the vaccine would lead to the eradication of smallpox. In 1802, he wrote " it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the small pox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of his practice". In 1806, Thomas Jefferson congratulated Jenner: "Future generations," he wrote, "will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox existed and by you has been extirpated". Both of Jefferson's predictions proved to be true; less than 200 years after the vaccination of James Phipps, the penultimate act of the smallpox drama was played out in a small Somali village called Merka. Ali Maow Maalin, a cook, developed the characteristic smallpox rash on 26 October 1977 and was the last person to acquire the illness as a result of direct contact with another human being. The final act was the official declaration that the illness had been wiped off the face of the earth. This occurred on 8 May 1980, when the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted the Final Report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
The Deadline
In 1978, injudicious manipulation of the smallpox virus in the Medical School of the University of Birmingham led to the death of Janet Parker, a medical photographer, and the subsequent suicide of Professor Henry S. Bedson, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology. This episode emphasized the need for close supervision of smallpox virus stocks in laboratories.
The epilogue in the history of smallpox will be the destruction of all strains of smallpox virus presently stored in the high-security facilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow. The virus has thus far gained two reprieves; its sentence was initially postponed to 31 December 1993 and later to 30 June 1995. In both instances, its destruction was delayed because of lack of consensus among the members of the WHO's executive board. The two main arguments against destruction of the virus are that it will eliminate the possibility of future studies on the virus and that destruction of the virus in the two known repositories may not guarantee complete eradication. The main arguments for destruction are that escape of the virus from the laboratories would be a serious risk because an increasing proportion of the global population lacks immunity to the disease and that the sequence information and the availability of cloned DNA fragments of the full genome of several strains of the virus will allow most scientific questions about the properties of the viral genes and proteins to be resolved. Finally, the decision to eradicate smallpox was a collective decision of the world community made on the basis of public health considerations; all possible measures should be taken to ensure that smallpox does not again afflict mankind.
The 97th session of the WHO's executive board that met in Geneva in January 1996 recommended to the 49th World Health Assembly that the last stocks of smallpox virus be destroyed. There have also been proposals to retain 500 000 doses of smallpox vaccine and to keep the Lister Elstree strain of vaccinia virus as seed virus stock of the smallpox vaccine. The destruction would affect all stocks of smallpox virus, including variola minor, clinical specimens, and other material containing infectious smallpox virus or viral genomic DNA. Genomic DNA of the smallpox virus should be destroyed in all laboratories holding such material. The current deadline for variola virus is 31 June 1999. This would represent the first deliberate elimination of a biological species from this planet but also the extinction of an old enemy that humankind will not miss. | <urn:uuid:581d56f7-3d0b-46ff-b9d2-267df0bdea93> | http://library.thinkquest.org/26215/smallpox.html | en | 0.97421 | 0.029053 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Dogs from Afghanistan fly to reunite with soldiers
U.S. soldiers have been reunited with the dogs that helped them through difficult times in Afghanistan thanks to a new program created by the British charity Nowzad Dogs in Partnership with American Dog Rescue, the Daily Mail reports.
During Specialist Sheila Schaffer's deployment, a dog that she and fellow Army National Guard soldiers dubbed Delta, wandered underneath a medic station and gave birth to a litter of puppies. The canine family was soon befriended by Schaffer and the other members of the 2nd Brigade of Iowa. Schaffer bonded with one pup that she named Charlie.
The reunion, organized by American Airlines, took place at JFK Airport in New York. Soldiers flew from their hometowns across the nation to meet up with their companions.
"I didn't know whether to cry or laugh when I saw Charlie," Schaffer told the news source. "To hold him again thousands of miles away and so many months later is an amazing thing."
The dog will move back to Iowa with his master and will be reunited with his mother, Delta, who is already living with Schaffer's family.
Other dogs that are deployed alongside American troops, called military working dogs (MWDs), are also available for adoption when they retire from service, according to the Military Working Dog Adoption's official website.
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The Supreme Court eventually reversed in Fortnightly, holding that a CATV operator does not perform television broadcasts; instead, its “basic function the equipment serves is little different from that served by the equipment generally furnished by a television viewer.”5 So we know that the idea of a distinction between a service performing a work publicly and a service allowing an individual to perform a work privately was on Congress’s radar during the revision process. But it declined to insert any language that could potentially mediate that distinction. Rather, the public performance provisions would include all third parties, and ”cover every transmission, retransmission, or other communication of a performance which reaches ”the public,” no matter how closely they resemble a mere provider of equipment for a user.6
Congress heard the argument that CATV equipment was “not owned by the CATV system but by the system’s individual subscribers.”7 Congress heard CATV operators argue that “Because CATV systems are functionally identical to rooftop antennas on private homes, broadcasters deserve no greater exclusivity than they would obtain if everyone chose to install a private rooftop antenna adequate to receive the available signals.”8 Congress heard that “CATV is not a passive rooftop or ‘rabbit-ear’ antenna.”9 CATV proponents argued to Congress that CATV is simply an “aid in reception of television broadcast signals”.10
So the Supreme Court’s job is clear. Assuming that Aereo is the performer, since that issue is not in front of the Court,12 it plainly is performing “to the public” because it is transmitting works using any device or process to individual subscribers that it has a public relationship with.
Thanks to Devlin Hartline for valuable feedback during the drafting process!
2. Id. []
3. 255 F. Supp. 177 (SDNY 1966). []
5. Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc., 392 US 390 (1968). []
6. Supplementary Report, supra. []
8. Id. at 1298. []
10. Fn. 7 at 1330. []
11. Id. at 103. []
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With Aereo’s upcoming oral argument before the Supreme Court, I’ve got tens of thousands of tiny antennae on the mind. The novelty—and, of course, the absurdity—of Aereo’s service makes it one of the more interesting copyright puzzles. Most of the issues with Aereo are repetitive of the issues with Cablevision, and debate abounds over whether the number of source copies matters and whether multiple transmissions should be aggregated. I’ve come to view these issues as red herrings. But there’s another red herring that I’d rather discuss here, and that’s whether a decision against Aereo would be the death knell to the cloud. After all, performances are transmitted from Aereo’s service to members of the public just like they are from some cloud computing services. So why shouldn’t we worry?
In my last post about Aereo, I unconcernedly claimed: “This case isn’t about the future of cloud computing companies—those services are protected by the DMCA.” Why we shouldn’t worry about the cloud is certainly in large part answered by the DMCA, but I want to take it a step deeper and show that, even without the DMCA, some cloud computing companies would not incur liability when content is transmitted from their services to members of the public. The key to understanding why such cloud computing companies are not infringers is the key to understanding why Aereo is an infringer, and this turns on application of the volitional conduct test—a test codified in DMCA, but which is applicable in any context where the Transmit Clause is implicated. The volitional conduct test provides us with a way to separate the Aereo-like goats from the cloud computing sheep.
Under the Transmit Clause, it is a public performance to (1) transmit a performance of a work (2) to the public.1 There is no doubt that a performance of a work is being transmitted with Aereo’s service, so (1) is not at issue. The issue is whether this transmission is “to the public,” which is a term of art. Whether a transmission is “to the public” does not depend on the place to which it is sent, and a transmission to a private place can be “to the public” nonetheless. What makes it “to the public” is the relationship between the sender and the receiver, and this relationship, naturally, depends on the identity of each party. When the relationship between the sender and the receiver is a public one, the transmission is a public performance. And when the relationship between the sender and the receiver is a private one, the transmission is a private performance.
In Aereo,2 the Second Circuit focused on the receiver for each transmission, concluding that when there is a one-to-one relationship between the source copy and the receiver, the performance is private—even if we presume that Aereo is the sender. I think this makes no sense. If Aereo is the sender and the subscriber is the receiver, then that relationship is a public one and the transmission is a public performance. The Second Circuit’s reliance on there being a unique source copy for each receiver was misplaced, for the Transmit Clause cares only about who is transmitting to whom. It says nothing about a source copy—and in fact no source copy is even needed to publicly perform via transmission.3 The issue is simply who is directly causing the transmission to occur. Until we know who is transmitting to the receiver, that is, until we identify the sender, we can’t know whether the relationship between the sender and the receiver is a public one such that it’s “to the public.”
Without fair use or the DMCA to fall back on, the Aereo appeal squarely presents the issue of who is directly causing the transmission when a performance of a work is transmitted from Aereo’s service to the subscriber. In other words, the case boils down to who is the direct performer in this scenario. If the subscriber is the direct performer, then the performance is private since the sender and the receiver are the same party and the transmission therefore is not “to the public.” If Aereo is the direct performer, then the performance is public since the relationship between the sender and the receiver is a public one and the transmission therefore is “to the public.” And whether Aereo is the direct performer turns on the volitional conduct test: Is Aereo’s volitional conduct sufficient such that it directly causes the transmission? I think the answer is clearly “yes,” and how I get there is by utilizing the only bright-line rule under the volitional conduct test.
The genesis of the volitional conduct test is the famous Netcom decision,4 penned in 1995 by District Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the Northern District of California. Pre-DMCA, Judge Whyte was faced with deciding the liability of Netcom, an internet service provider, for infringement taking place utilizing its system. Critically, “Netcom was not itself the source of any of the infringing materials on its system,”5 and the issue was whether it could be a direct infringer of the reproduction right nonetheless. Judge Whyte held that it could not: “Although copyright is a strict liability statute, there should still be some element of volition or causation which is lacking where a defendant’s system is merely used to create a copy by a third party.”6 Since “such copies are uploaded by an infringing user,” Judge Whyte continued, Netcom’s actions were not a direct infringement of the reproduction right.7
Judge Whyte acknowledged that copyright infringement is a strict liability tort, meaning that neither knowledge nor intent to infringe need be shown. However, strictly applying that strict liability to reproductions occurring in cyberspace “would hold the entire Internet liable for activities that cannot reasonably be deterred.”8 Grounded in the policy argument that “it does not make sense to adopt a rule that could lead to the liability of countless parties whose role in the infringement is nothing more than setting up and operating a system that is necessary for the functioning of the Internet,” Judge Whyte proposed a dichotomy between a passive conduit, which provides only dumb pipes used by others to copy, and an active participant, which takes affirmative steps to bring about the copying.9 And central to Judge Whyte’s holding that Netcom was a passive conduit was the fact that it was the users who uploaded the content to Netcom’s service in the first place.
The key to understanding Netcom and its progeny is to recognize that the volitional conduct test is not used to determine whether a service provider should be held directly liable in the first place. Instead, a service provider seeks Netcom immunity because, without it, it would otherwise be a direct infringer. The volitional conduct test is perhaps best understood in terms of causation: Even though, because of strict liability, every service provider that is the cause-in-fact of the copying is thereby a direct infringer, certain service providers are nevertheless not directly liable for the copying because their actions are sufficiently remote. Perhaps the leading iteration of the volitional conduct test comes from the Fourth Circuit in CoStar:
The volitional conduct test has also been adopted by the Second and Ninth Circuits,11 as well as by several district courts.12 In fact, Congress baked Netcom immunity under the volitional conduct test right into the DMCA.13 For example, Section 512(c) grants a qualifying service provider immunity “for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider.”14 The Second Circuit in YouTube and the Ninth Circuit in Shelter Capital read this language very broadly, finding that even transcoding and indexing user-submitted content to facilitate its public playback was protected by the safe harbor.15 While Section 512(c) protects a service provider for many automated acts that occur after a user uploads content to the service, the one thing it doesn’t provide immunity for is content supplied by the service provider itself.
How the volitional conduct test operates in the cloud is demonstrated in the Hotfile case, where the district court stated:
Thus, the law is clear that Hotfile and [the owner] are not liable for direct copyright infringement because they own and manage internet facilities that allow others to upload and download copyrighted material. . . . [T]he website merely allows users to upload and download copyrighted material without volitional conduct from Hotfile or [the owner]. . . . [N]othing in the complaint alleges that Hotfile or [the owner] took direct, volitional steps to violate the plaintiffs’ infringement. There are no allegations, say, that Hotfile uploaded copyrighted material. Therefore, under the great weight of authority, the plaintiffs have failed to allege direct copyright infringement.16
Because neither Hotfile nor the owner had engaged in sufficient volitional conduct, by, for example, uploading the infringing content at issue, the district court found that they could not be held directly liable for the infringement that occurred. Contrasted with Hotfile is Tasini,17 where the Supreme Court held that a database provider was directly liable for violating the public distribution right for content that it had supplied and made available as part of its publicly-accessible database. Because the database provider had supplied the infringing content at issue, this was a sufficient condition for finding that it was a direct infringer.
The import of all this is that where the service provider itself supplies the infringing content that is publicly distributed, displayed, or performed, that service provider can claim neither Netcom immunity nor DMCA immunity. Supplying the infringing content is sufficient for finding that the service provider has directly caused the infringement to occur—but it’s not necessary for such a finding. In other words, if the service provider itself supplies the infringing content, then it is a direct infringer. But sometimes the service provider can also be a direct infringer even if it did not supply the infringing content. This happens when the service provider engages in other volitional conduct “with a nexus sufficiently close and causal to the illegal copying,” to borrow the Fourth Circuit’s phrase, such that it is not only the factual cause of the copying, but the legal cause as well.
For example, in Megaupload, the district court found that the plaintiff had alleged that Kim Dotcom’s infamous website “serves as more than a passive conduit, and more than a mere ‘file storage’ company.”18 Several facts, including Megaupload’s reward program where it paid users to upload content, meant that Megaupload had possibly crossed the line from being a passive conduit to being an active participant in the infringement. Similarly, in Usenet, the district court found that the bulletin board service was “not merely a ‘passive conduit’ that facilitates the exchange of content between users who upload infringing content and users who download such content.”19 The “active measures” and “active steps” engaged in by the defendants “transformed [them] from passive providers of a space in which infringing activities happened to occur to active participants in the process of copyright infringement.”20
Like all proximate causation analysis, the volitional conduct test involves both art and science, and courts engaging in it typically juggle somewhat-vague concepts of foreseeability and temporality with normative decisions about social justice.21 As Dean William Prosser, author of Prosser on Torts and Reporter for the Restatement (Second) of Torts, put it, proximate causation is “our more or less inadequately expressed ideas of what justice demands.”22 Exactly how much volitional conduct it takes for a service provider to cross the line from passive conduit to active participant, no one can say. The analysis is, necessarily, somewhat arbitrary. The only bright-line criteria that exists under the volitional conduct test is that of who supplies the infringing content. When it’s the service provider itself, the volitional conduct on the part of the service provider is sufficient to find it directly liable.
This past week, District Judge Dale A. Kimball of the District of Utah found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits against Aereo because it “provid[es] paying customers with retransmission of copyrighted works.” And this gets to the heart of why Aereo should lose before the Supreme Court. Aereo has crossed the line from being a passive conduit to being an active participant because it supplies the very content that is available using its service. Presumably, this is at least part of the reason why Aereo does not argue that Section 512(c) gives it DMCA immunity. Aereo cannot maintain that the content residing on its service is “by reason of the storage at the direction of a user” because the content comes from Aereo itself. The subscriber doesn’t go to Aereo to upload the content he already has to the cloud; the subscriber goes to Aereo to get the content he wants but doesn’t yet have—content which Aereo itself supplies.
The reason why Aereo, and not the subscriber, is the direct performer is simple. Because of copyright’s strict liability nature, every party that is the cause-in-fact of the copying is a direct infringer unless some other doctrine absolves that party from direct liability. The volitional conduct test uses a proximate causation analysis to determine whether a party’s actions are sufficiently remote such that it should not be held directly liable for the infringement. While the metes and bounds of the volitional conduct test are imprecise, to say the least, there is one bright-line rule: When the service provider itself supplies the very content at issue, that service provider’s actions can never be sufficiently remote to absolve it of direct liability. Because Aereo itself supplies the very content at issue—by implementing and making available its system of tens of thousands of tiny antennae that receive and retransmit performances—Aereo is the identity of the sender. And since the relationship between the sender (Aereo) and the receiver (the subscriber) is a public one, the transmission is a public performance.
The argument that it is Aereo’s subscriber, and not Aereo itself, who is the sender is untenable. The Transmit Clause was enacted to capture any service doing exactly what Aereo does, namely, retransmitting a broadcast to the public by any means possible. The petitioners in Aereo do a great job of traversing the history of the Transmit Clause in their opening brief before the Supreme Court, but the short version is this: The Supreme Court had held in a pair of cases that a community antenna television system or a cable system that captured an over-the-air broadcast and retransmitted it to the public was not engaged in a public performance.23 Congress enacted the Transmit Clause to legislatively overrule these two cases, and the words Congress chose, namely, “any device or process” used to transmit a performance, leave no doubt that its concern was with the function of the device or process utilized to make the transmission—not the underlying technical details of the device or process itself.24
Aereo’s argument boils down to it claiming that, even though the Transmit Clause on its face applies to “any device or process” that transmits a performance to the public, its particular device or process is somehow so special under-the-hood that the Transmit Clause doesn’t reach it. The problem with this argument is that the Transmit Clause means what it says, and it’s no answer to say that Aereo is simply doing for a subscriber what he could do for himself. This was the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the two cases the Transmit Clause was enacted to overrule. And even if we accept the argument that Aereo’s subscribers are really lessees of its equipment, the outcome is the same. The test is volitional conduct, and the conduct that matters is the conduct that Aereo itself has actually engaged in. If Aereo’s own actions are sufficient to find it directly liable absent any lease relationship, then its own actions are necessarily sufficient to find it directly liable even with the lease relationship. Because unless there is also some agency relationship between Aereo and its subscriber—for example, if Aereo were the subscriber’s employee—then Aereo’s own actions are only attributable to itself.
Cloud computing companies need not be worried about the outcome of the Aereo appeal because these service providers will continue to be protected by Netcom immunity under the volitional conduct test or by DMCA immunity. Assuming such service providers are protected by the DMCA, there’s an expansive amount of volitional conduct they can engage in without losing their safe harbor. How much volitional conduct they can engage in without losing Netcom immunity is less clear, but what is clear is that when a service provider itself supplies the very content at issue, there is no immunity under either the volitional conduct test or the DMCA. If Aereo loses before the Supreme Court, as I believe they should, it won’t negatively affect cloud computing companies because there is no reason for the Court to look any further than the fact that Aereo supplies the very content at issue. If anything, the Court’s decision will further cement into place the one bright-line rule that there is with the volitional conduct test, and this clarity in the law will redound to the cloud.
Special thanks to Terry Hart and Jonathan Greenfield for their valuable feedback in drafting this post.
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1. See 17 U.S.C.A. § 101 (West 2014) (“To perform or display a work ‘publicly’ means– (1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or (2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times. *** To ‘transmit’ a performance or display is to communicate it by any device or process whereby images or sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent.”). []
2. See WNET, Thirteen v. Aereo, Inc., 712 F.3d 676 (2d Cir. 2013). []
3. For example, live performances and television broadcasts can be captured and transmitted to the public even though the sender possesses no source copy. []
4. See Religious Tech. Ctr. v. Netcom On-Line Commc’n Servs., Inc., 907 F.Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995). []
5. Id. at 1367. []
6. Id. at 1370. []
7. Id. at 1371. []
8. Id. at 1372. []
9. Id. []
11. See Cartoon Network LP, LLLP v. CSC Holdings, Inc., 536 F.3d 121 (2d Cir. 2008); Fox Broad. Co., Inc. v. Dish Network L.L.C., Case No. 12-cv-57048, 2014 WL 260572 (9th Cir. Jan. 24, 2014). []
12. See, e.g., Field v. Google Inc., 412 F.Supp.2d 1106 (D. Nev. 2006); Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Webbworld, Inc., 991 F.Supp. 543 (N.D. Tex. 1997); Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Russ Hardenburgh, Inc., 982 F.Supp. 503 (N.D. Ohio 1997); Disney Enterprises, Inc. v. Hotfile Corp., 798 F.Supp.2d 1303 (S.D. Fla. 2011). []
13. See, e.g., H.R. Rep. 105-551(I), at *11 (“As to direct infringement, liability is ruled out for passive, automatic acts engaged in through a technological process initiated by another. Thus, the bill essentially codifies the result in the leading and most thoughtful judicial decision to date: Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-line Communications Services, Inc., 907 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995).”); ALS Scan, Inc. v. RemarQ Communities, Inc., 239 F.3d 619, 622 (4th Cir. 2001) (“[T]he ultimate conclusion on this point is controlled by Congress’ codification of the Netcom principles in Title II of the DMCA.”). []
14. 17 U.S.C.A. § 512(c) (West 2014). []
15. See Viacom Int’l, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., 676 F.3d 19, 39 (2d Cir. 2012); UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Shelter Capital Partners LLC, 718 F.3d 1006, 1016 (9th Cir. 2013). []
16. Disney Enterprises, Inc. v. Hotfile Corp., 798 F.Supp.2d 1303, 1308 (S.D. Fla. 2011) (internal citations and paragraph break omitted). []
17. New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001). []
18. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Megaupload Ltd., Case No. 11-cv-0191, 2011 WL 3203117, at *4 (S.D. Cal. July 27, 2011). vacated pursuant to settlement, 2011 WL 10618723 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 11, 2011). []
19. Arista Records LLC v., Inc., 633 F.Supp.2d 124, 149 (S.D.N.Y. 2009). []
20. Id. (internal quotations, citations, and brackets omitted). []
21. See Mark Bartholomew & Patrick F. McArdle, Causing Infringement, 64 Vand. L. Rev. 675, 703 (2011). []
22. Id. (internal quotations and footnote omitted). []
23. See Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc., 392 U.S. 390 (1968); Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broad. Sys., Inc., 415 U.S. 394 (1974). []
24. See, e.g., H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, at *63 (1976) (A performance occurs “either directly or by means of any device or process, including . . . any sort of transmitting apparatus, any type of electronic retrieval system, and any other techniques and systems not yet in use or even invented.”); id. at *64 (“The definition of ‘transmit’ . . . is broad enough to include all conceivable forms and combinations of wires and wireless communications media, including but by no means limited to radio and television broadcasting as we know them. Each and every method by which the images or sounds comprising a performance . . . are picked up and conveyed is a ‘transmission,’ and if the transmission reaches the public in [an]y form, the case comes within the scope of clause[] (4) . . . of section 106.”). []
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The political conflicts and ambitions of [Shakespeare's] England are known to the scholar and the specialist. But his plays will forever move men in every corner of the world. The leaders that he wrote about live far more vividly in his worlds than in the forgotten facts of their own rule.
Our civilization, too, will survive largely in the works of our creation. There is a quality in art which speaks across the gulf dividing man from man, nation from nation and century from century. …
[I]t is important to know that the opportunity we give to the arts is a measure of the quality of our civilization. It is important to be aware that artistic activity can enrich the life of our people; which is the central object of government. It is important that our material prosperity liberate and not confine the creative spirit.
—President Johnson, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts on December 2, 1964.1
National Endowment for the Arts, Sunil Iyengar, on “Why The Arts Really Do Mean Business” — Check out this podcast with Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars and National Endowment for the Arts Sunil Iyengar on the NEA’s recent report showing the arts and culture sectors contribute over half a trillion dollars to U.S. GDP and create nearly 2 million jobs.
‘Grindhouse’ to ‘John Carter’ – 18 ‘dream projects’ that turned into nightmares — An interesting article in its own right, though I was struck in particular by the author’s remarks that, “The best art comes from dealing with the limitations under which something is produced, and when all of those limitations are taken away, you can end up with something that is wall-to-wall indulgence.” and “The lesson to take away is that when you want to pay tribute to the guys who came before you, do it in a way like Lucas and Spielberg did with Indiana Jones. Take that energy and channel it into something of your own”
New report says how much advertising is going to piracy sites — $227 million in 2013. And, according to the report, a significant chunk of that is coming from dozens of “blue-chip advertisers”, major brands like “AT&T, Lego, and Toyota.”
‘House of Cards’ Searches on Google Turn Up Pirate Links as Top Results — Variety reports, “In a Google search for “Watch House of Cards” on Wednesday, the top two results were links to apparent pirate sites, and” That reminds me of the story about Charlie Chaplin entering a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and coming in third.
Utah Judge Gives TV Broadcasters an Injunction Against Aereo — Although the Supreme Court has already agreed to determine the liability of the internet streaming TV service, the Utah court heard and granted a motion to enjoin Aereo in a parallel proceeding. Said the judge, “Aereo’s retransmission of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted programs is indistinguishable from a cable company.”
Kim Dotcom raid warrants legal, Court of Appeals rules — Despite continual proclamations of innocence, Dotcom has done nothing but delay having his day in court. Here, a New Zealand court strikes down one such attempt.
Wikipedia: as accurate as Britannica? — A 2005 study has given rise to the gospel that Wikipedia is as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica. Here, Andreas Kolbe points out the sharp limitations of that study. “Nicholas Carr put it this way: in limiting itself to topics like the ‘kinetic isotope effect’ or ‘Meliaceae’, which no one without some specialized understanding of the subject matter would even be aware of, the Nature survey played to Wikipedia’s strengths. Carr also established that the Nature ‘study’ was not actually an expert-written research article of the type that built the reputation of Nature, but a non-peer-reviewed piece of news journalism (a fact he confirmed with the piece’s author, Jim Giles).”
1. As quoted in Copyright Law Revision Pt. 6, Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law: 1965 Revision Bill, xiv (1965). []
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1. Australian Law Reform Commission Annual Report 2011-12, pg. 30. []
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On January 24th, the Ninth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc in Fox Broadcasting v. Dish Networks. The decision was, however, amended slightly from the original opinion, released last July.
Fox Broadcasting v. Dish Network involved satellite television provider Dish’s Hopper, a set-top device with digital video recording (DVR) and video on demand (VOD) capabilities. Relevant to this discussion, Dish began providing its Hopper customers with a service called “PrimeTime Anytime” (PTAT). PTAT, when enabled, automatically recorded all primetime (8 p.m.-11 p.m.) programming from the four broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox). The recordings are saved locally on a customer’s Hopper for a predetermined amount of time (typically 8 days), after which they are automatically deleted.
Fox sued for copyright infringement, alleging, in part, that Dish directly infringed its reproduction right when it made PTAT copies of Fox television programs. Fox sought a preliminary injunction
The District Court in Dish concluded that “at this stage of the proceedings, the Court is not satisfied that PTAT has crossed over the line that leads to direct liability. Despite Dish’s involvement in the copying process, the fact remains that the user, not Dish, must take the initial step of enabling PTAT after deciding that he or she wants to initiate the recording. The user, then, and not Dish, is the ‘most significant and important cause’ of the copy.” This, despite the fact that Dish designed, houses, and maintains the system that creates the copies. The court also did not consider the following facts indicative of causation:
• “Dish decides which networks are available on PTAT and has defaulted the PTAT settings to record all four networks.”
• “Dish also decides the length of time each copy is available for viewing: PTAT recordings are automatically deleted after expiration of a certain number of days, and a user may neither delete nor preserve the original PTAT copy before that time.”
• “Dish decides when primetime recordings start and end each night, and it maintains the authority to modify those times according to the particular programs airing that night. Additionally, the user cannot stop a copy from being made during the copying process, but must wait until the recording ends before disabling the link.”
The Ninth Circuit affirmed this result, saying “the district court did not err in holding that Fox did not establish a likelihood of success on its direct infringement claim.”
The “volitional conduct” test relied upon by both courts is idiosyncratic within the larger contours of tort law, and neither court explains why it decided to extend the test so far beyond previous applications. I’ve detailed some criticisms of the opinion when the original decision was released last summer. But today I want to head overseas and look at a recent case where a court got it right.
TV Now
In 2012, an Australian court considered a very similar question. Telecom service provider Optus created “TV Now”, a service that enables customers to watch and record television broadcasts through a mobile device or personal computer. It was sued by a group of sports leagues for infringing its copyright in broadcast football games. The trial court judge held that Optus was not liable for infringement, relying in part on the US court decision in Cablevision and analogizing the service to a VCR or DVR. The decision was appealed.
The primary issue on appeal was “who ‘does’ the act of copying.” The appellate court said “the rival contenders are Optus, the subscriber, or Optus and the subscriber jointly.”
The court first considers the case that the copies were made solely by the subscriber. This approach is based on the premise that “Optus makes available to a subscriber a facility (a service) which enables the subscriber as and when he or she is so minded to use that facility to record broadcasts and later to view them. The copies that are made are the result of the subscriber’s use of the facility though the actual making of them requires Optus’ technology to function as it was designed to.” This is the position taken by the trial court judge, which said that to “make” a copy means “’to create’ by selecting what is to be recorded and by initiating a process utilising technology or equipment that records the broadcast”, a conception the court here said “robs the entirely automated copying process of any significance beyond that of being the vehicle which does the making of copies.”
Besides the analogy of Optus as a DVR operated by a subscriber, the trial court judge also saw the subscriber choosing to copy as “the last ‘volitional act’ in the sequence of acts leading to a copy being made and, for that reason, is significant in determining the identity of the maker.” The appellate court found these arguments less than compelling.
It noted too the trial court’s citation to Cablevision and the “volitional conduct concept.” However, the court viewed this concept as relevant only when there is a need to distinguish between direct and contributory liability—which is the case in U.S. jurisprudence but not under Australian law. The court added, referring to the academic criticism of the Cablevision decision, “It equally is not apparent to us why a person who designs and operates a wholly automated copying system ought as of course not be treated as a ‘maker’ of an infringing copy where the system itself is configured designedly so as to respond to a third party command to make that copy.”
The court concluded:
[W]e consider that Optus’ role in the making of a copy – ie in capturing the broadcast and then in embodying its images and sounds in the hard disk – is so pervasive that, even though entirely automated, it cannot be disregarded when the “person” who does the act of copying is to be identified. The system performs the very functions for which it was created by Optus. Even if one were to require volitional conduct proximate to the copying, Optus’ creating and keeping in constant readiness the TV Now system would satisfy that requirement. It should also be emphasised that the recording is made by reason of Optus’ system remaining “up” and available to implement the subscriber’s request at the time when its recording controllers poll the user database and receive a response indicating that a recording has been requested. What Optus actually does has –
a nexus sufficiently close and causal to the illegal copying that one could conclude that the machine owner … trespassed on the exclusive domain of the copyright owners: CoStar Group Inc v LoopNet Inc, 373 F3d 544 at 550 (4th Circ. 2004).
… Put shortly Optus is not merely making available its system to another who uses it to copy a broadcast. Rather it captures, copies, stores and makes available for reward, a programme for later viewing by another.
The real question for the court was whether Optus alone is liable or whether Optus and the subscriber are jointly liable. And here, the court indicated that the latter was most likely (since only Optus was named as a defendant, it was not strictly necessary for the court to resolve the question of the subscriber’s liability.) Said the court:
If one focussed not only upon the automated service which is held out as able to produce, and which actually produces, the copies but also on the causative agency that is responsible for the copies being made at all, the need for a more complex characterisation is suggested. The subscriber, by selecting the programme to be copied and by confirming that it is to be copied, can properly be said to be the person who instigates the copying. Yet it is Optus which effects it. Without the concerted actions of both there would be no copy made of a football match for the subscriber. Without the subscriber’s involvement, nothing would be created; without Optus’ involvement nothing would be copied. They have needed to act in concert to produce – they each have contributed to – a commonly desired outcome. The subscriber’s contributing acts were envisaged by the contractual terms and conditions. How they were to be done were indicated by the prompts given on the Optus TV Now TV guide page. The common design – the production of the selected programme for transmission to the subscriber – informed the solicitation and the taking of a subscription by the subscriber; it was immanent in the service to be provided.
The Australian court’s conclusion seems to hew more closely to general principles of tort law. Though the issue is settled, for now, in the Ninth Circuit, the Second Circuit is set to take up the issue soon in a parallel case involving the same Dish services and the other three major broadcast networks. Last October, the Southern District Court of New York denied a preliminary injunction against Dish in part because it agreed that the customer, not Dish, made the PTAT copies. That decision has been appealed, and oral arguments are set for next week.
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Previously, I began looking at the legal questions involved in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, currently in front of the Supreme Court. The issue is whether Aereo, by providing a service that allows paying subscribers to watch broadcast television online, is publicly performing the copyrighted programming. The Second Circuit said it is not, based on its 2008 decision in Cablevision, which held that a transmission from a unique copy of a work is merely a private performance. Aereo, relying on the Cablevision decision, designed its service to purportedly assign a unique antenna to each individual subscriber.
The Copyright Act states that to perform a work publicly means, in relevant part, “to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance … of the work … to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance … receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.”
The seemingly straightforward language belies some of the complexities that result, as evidenced by the Supreme Court’s agreement to hear Aereo. The approach I began in my previous post was to break the definition up into its separate components to understand it better: we have an actor (otherwise unnamed in the Act, we can refer to this as a “performer”), the action (“to transmit or otherwise communicate”), the object (“a performance of the work”), and a prepositional phrase (“to the public”).
To the public redux
I first took a look at what “to the public” means. Having had the opportunity to consider some of the feedback I’ve received on the article, I do want to make a slight modification to my definition.1
Originally, I wrote, “Any transmission from one person to another person who is not a family member or a close social acquaintance is a public performance.” The mention of family members and social acquaintances invites a level of specificity that I did not intend and distracts from the original purpose, which is to focus on the relationship between performer and audience. The legislative history of the Copyright Act says that under the second clause of the definition of “publicly”, performances during “routine meetings of business and governmental personnel” would be exempt “because they do not represent the gathering of a ‘substantial number of persons.’” I think the definition of “to the public” should similarly exempt such performances. It seems it would be more accurate to step back one level of abstraction; rather than referring to family members and social acquaintances, we should refer to “public” and “private” relationships. ”Public” relationships are those that tend to be described as commercial, arms-length, or impersonal, and are strongly unidirectional, while “private” relationships tend to be described as familial, social, or collegial, and are much more reciprocal in nature.
What is a performance?
With that out of the way, we can turn to the next question in the analysis: what is a performance?
As with “to the public”, “performance” is not directly defined in the Copyright Act. But the Act does define the act of performing:
A performance right for dramatic compositions first appeared in US copyright law in 1856.3 Nondramatic musical works gained a performance right in 1897,4 and the 1909 Copyright Act, the last general revision before the current Copyright Act, provided performance rights for dramatic works, nondramatic literary works, and musical compositions. However, the current Copyright Act is the first to actually define “perform.”
Though the current Copyright Act did not become law until 1978, the language of the definition for performance is substantially the same as the definition included in the 1965 version of the bill.5 Following the introduction of that bill, the US Copyright Office released a report explaining the bill in detail. The Supplementary Report explained:
Under clause (1) of section 106(b), to ”perform” a work means ”to recite, render, play, dance, or act it.” This includes, for example, the reading aloud of a literary work, the singing or playing of music, the dancing of a choreographic work, and the acting out of a dramatic work or pantomime. A work may be performed ”either directly or by means of any device or process,” and these devices or processes would encompass sound or visual reproduction equipment of all kinds, amplifying systems, radio and television transmitting and receiving apparatus, electronic retrieval devices, and a host of other techniques, undoubtedly including some not invented yet. In the case of a motion picture, performance would mean ”to show its images or to make the sounds accompanying it audible.” It would be clear under this language that the purely aural performance of a motion picture sound track would constitute a performance of the motion picture; but, if the sounds on the soundtrack are reproduced on an authorized phonorecord, performance of the phonorecord would not be a performance of the motion picture.
The definition is relatively clear, and there are very few cases that have have been confronted with issues relating to its interpretation. One of the most relevant and thorough is US v. ASCAP.6 There, the court was tasked with considering whether a download of a music file was a performance. It looked at the “ordinary sense” of the words used in the Copyright Act’s definition of performance and concluded that performance requires “contemporaneous perceptibility.” Said the Second Circuit:
In other words, “Transmittal without a performance,” said the Second Circuit, “is not a ‘public performance.’”
Transmission without performance
As support for this proposition, the court cited to Columbia Pictures Indus. v. Prof’l Real Estate Investors.7 In Columbia, the operators of a hotel resort offered guests the ability to rent movies on videocassette at the front desk, which they could watch on hotel-provided equipment in their own rooms. Plaintiffs sued, relying on the Third Circuit’s line of cases holding video store operators liable for public performance for operating private viewing booths on their premises.8 The Ninth Circuit, however, rejected this argument, holding that hotel rooms, though offered to the general public, become private spaces once they are rented.9 Thus, the operation of the equipment is not a performance in a public place.
Plaintiffs, however, also argued that the act of providing videocassettes to hotel guests implicated the Transmit Clause because the hotel was “otherwise communicat[ing]” the films. The Ninth Circuit rejected this argument as well.
A plain reading of the transmit clause indicates that its purpose is to prohibit transmissions and other forms of broadcasting from one place to another without the copyright owner’s permission. The Act provides a definition of “transmit.” “To `transmit’ a performance or display is to communicate it by any device or process whereby images and sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent.” According to the rule of ejusdem generis, the term “otherwise communicate” should be construed consistently with the term “transmit.” Consequently, the “otherwise communicate” phrase must relate to a “process whereby images or sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent.”
This reading is reinforced by the rest of the transmit clause which refers to the use of transmission devices or processes and the reception by the public of the performance. Devices must refer to transmission or communication devices, such as, perhaps, wires, radio towers, communication satellites, and coaxial cable, while reception of the performance by the public describes acts, such as listening to a radio, or watching — network, cable, or closed-circuit — television “beyond the place” of origination.
In sum, when one adds up the various segments of clause (2), one must conclude that under the transmit clause a public performance at least involves sending out some sort of signal via a device or process to be received by the public at a place beyond the place from which it is sent.
Nothing that La Mancha has done has violated this common sense construction of the transmit clause. While La Mancha has indeed provided the videodisc player, television screens, guest rooms, and makes videodiscs available in the lobby, we are not persuaded that any transmission of the kind contemplated by the statute occurs. If any transmission and reception occurs, it does so entirely within the guest room; it is certainly not received beyond the place from which it is sent. We are not persuaded that the term “otherwise communicate” can be read so broadly as to include the videodisc arrangements at La Mancha.
The reasoning of the Ninth Circuit here and the Second Circuit in ASCAP seems sound.10
To perform a work includes the transmission of a contemporaneously perceptible rendition of the work and is distinguished from the delivery of a work, including electronic delivery via transmission.11
The nature of a performance
A “performance of a work”, then, follows from this definition. If “performing” means rendering a work so that it is contemporaneously perceptible, a “performance of a work” is something that is contemporaneously perceptible. It is intangible—the Copyright Act refers to the tangible objects that embody works as copies. It is conceptual, an act rather than a thing.12 A performance is not the actor on stage, nor the sound waves emanating from a speaker, nor the photons transmitted across fiber optic data lines.13
It is also, perhaps, worth pointing out that it is not a performance that is embodied in a copy but a work.14 A performance is, by definition, incapable of embodiment; indeed, one does not even need a copy to perform a work, as is the case of a singer singing from memory.
And it is a conceptual unity. Consider two members in an audience. Neither will be perceiving the exact same thing, both because they are in different locations and because they themselves have variations in their eyes and ears that shape their personal perception. But conceptually there is only one performance of the work, and it is exactly the same for each audience member for copyright purposes.
The same holds true if a performance reaches its audience via transmission rather than via sound and light waves through the air. The Central District Court of California explains why in its decision enjoining FilmOnX (then “BarryDriller”):
The definition section sets forth what constitutes a public performance of a copyrighted work, and says that transmitting a performance to the public is a public performance. It does not require a “performance” of a performance. The Second Circuit buttressed its definition with a “cf.” to Buck v. Jewell-La Salle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191, 196 (1931), which interpreted the 1909 Copyright Act’s provision of an exclusive right to publicly perform a musical composition and held that “the reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound” is a performance. But Buck, like Cablevision and this case, was concerned with a copyright in the work that was broadcast. The Supreme Court was not concerned about the “performance of the performance” – instead, it held that using a radio to perform the copyrighted song infringed the exclusive right to perform the song (not to perform the performance of the song).
The Transmit Clause explicitly recognizes this conceptual unity, saying a work is performed publicly when it is transmitted even if “the members of the public capable of receiving the performance … receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.” There could be thousands of separate transmissions, but there is still only the performance.
These may seem like inconsequential distinctions, but I think they undermine even more the Second Circuit’s notion that we can conceptually sever performances of the same work made by the same actor but from distinct copies. If the Transmit Clause spoke about the audience capable of receiving the physical transmission, as the Second Circuit says it does, then it would be possible to have multiple private performances since physical transmissions are discrete and separable. But it doesn’t—the Transmit Clause speaks about the audience capable of receiving the “performance of a work”, which remains a conceptual unity no matter how scattered the audience is.15
This interpretation of performance is, in my opinion, far more consonant with the statutory language and the ordinary use of the terms than the Second Circuit’s “unique copies” interpretation. It also means, as we’ll see in the next installment of this series, that most of the heavy lifting (at least for issues arising in the cloud computing context) occurs in the causation inquiry, i.e., “who is the performer”?
1. I also flubbed when I referred to the three situations as being “mutually exclusive”. What I meant instead is that each situation excludes the previous. For example, a “place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered” could include a place open to the public, but that would make the previous clause redundant. Similarly, the last clause, transmission to the public, could include transmission to the public in a public place, or transmission to a place where a substantial number of persons is gathered, but that would make the previous two clauses redundant.
I think it still follows that each situation is analyzed by exclusive means. We can presume (from the case law) that a “place open to the public” turns on the nature of the place. The “place where a substantial number of persons…” situation doesn’t turn on the nature of the place: if such a place were public, then the first situation covers it, while being a private place is insufficient to tell us if there are a substantial number of persons there. The same holds true for the last situation. The nature of the place is irrelevant (otherwise the first clause would be redundant), the size and relationship of the audience to each other is irrelevant (otherwise the second clause would be redundant). So what is there left to consider? The only thing I can come up with is the relationship between the performer and the audience. There could be others I am not aware of, but the relationship between performer and audience seems to provide a workable rule consistent with the Copyright Act’s structure and purpose. []
2. 17 U.S.C. § 101. []
3. Act of August 18, 1856, 34th Cong., 1st Sess., 11 Stat. 138. []
4. Act of January 6, 1897, 44th Cong., 2d Sess., 29 Stat. 694. []
5. H.R. 4347 and S. 1006, 89th Cong. []
6. 627 F. 3d 64 (2nd Circuit 2010). []
7. 866 F.2d 278, 282 (9th Cir. 1989). []
8. Columbia Pictures Industries v. Redd Horne, 749 F.2d 154 (3d Cir.1984); Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Aveco, Inc., 800 F.2d 59 (3d Cir.1986). []
9. In support of this conclusion, the court relied on Fourth Amendment case law holding that hotel guests have constitutional protection from unreasonable searches and seizures in hotel rooms. []
10. And indeed, the Copyright Office’s 1965 Supplementary Report adds support.
In general the concept of ”performance” must be distinguished sharply from the reproduction of copies on the one hand and the exhibition of copies on the other. It has been suggested that some of the internal operations of a computer, such as the scanning of a work to determine whether it contains material the user is seeking, is closely analogous to a ”performance.” We cannot agree, and for this reason we deleted from the definition of ”perform” the ambiguous term ”represent” which appeared in the 1964 bill. A computer may well ”perform” a work by running off a motion picture or playing a sound recording as part of its output, but its internal operations do not appear to us to fall within this concept. []
11. Thus, uploading of a work to a web site, like downloading, is not a performance. []
12. performance“, Merriam-Webster Online, “an activity (such as singing a song or acting in a play) that a person or group does to entertain an audience”. []
13. “Very few people gather around their oscilloscopes to admire the sinusoidal waves of a television broadcast transmission. People are interested in watching the performance of the work.” Fox Television Stations v. BarryDriller, at 5 (C.D. Cali December 27, 2013). []
14. Congress separately and outside the Copyright Office has made it a criminal offense to fix, without authorization, a live musical performance in a copy, thus underscoring this distinction. See 18 U.S.C. § 2319A. []
15. Likewise, the Transmit Clause does not speak about “the potential audience of a particular ‘work’,” an alternative interpretation that the Second Circuit raises and dismisses. []
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post #1 of 30
Thread Starter
Hi All, I'm new to this, so let me just say thanks in advance for any feedback you can give me on this topic....
I recently visited a Waldorf school for the first time, and fell in love with everything about it. I am considering sending my son (6) there next year, as public school is not doing it for him for many reasons. The problem is, when I mentioned Waldorf to various people, their responses included the word "cult or cult-like". Has anyone any inkling of what they are referring to? Thanks!!!
post #2 of 30
No reading until age 9 or so.
No tv, no computers, no battery operated toys.
Many holidays involving xtian saints.
Teacher stays with kids for several years.... which is fine if its a good fit, but .
post #3 of 30
I hear it varies greatly from school to school.
post #4 of 30
To get a feel for the strengths, weakness, and controversies within Waldorf, go to the Waldorf sub forum and then sort the threads by number of responses. The longest ones contain long conversations between Waldorf-happy and Waldorf-critical people. There are many wonderful things about Waldorf, and there are some tough things about it that you won't find on the school tours or in the pamphlets.
The "cult" thing usually is in reference to Anthroposophy. It will be spoken of as a "spiritual philosophy" yet some of us view it as a religion (except for the fact that they are generally uncomfortable with the term) and some even call it a cult. Most Waldorf teachers are anthroposophists and all must be comfortable working through anthroposophy.
My advice is enjoy all the beautiful things you are seeing, but definitely turn over the stones as well. It is a great fit for many children and parents and a poor one for others.
Come back with questions if you have them!
post #5 of 30
try openwaldorf.com
post #6 of 30
Moving to Waldorf subforum
post #7 of 30
Thread Starter
thanks all for your wisdom, and openwaldorf.com is a great site for more insight - thanks pigpokey!
post #8 of 30
I think the general public is often put off by Waldorf just because it sounds so strange and different. No media/computers, wholesome food, not reading till age 7? Bizzarre!!! LOL!
My kids (6 yo twins) have been in a Waldorf environment since the beginning and when I started exploring it as an educational philosophy I got a little freaked out by stuff on the web (there's a lot of negativity).
Basically, I think it seems to come down to your school and your child's teachers. We are not anthroposophists and have had really great experiences with Waldorf. Our school is definately not cultish, but maybe some are?
Spend some time at the school you are considering and trust your "gut" either way.
post #9 of 30
We are Waldorf-inspired homeschoolers and to be honest, I do think Waldorf is cult-like. "Cult" is actually the first word that pops to mind when I think of Waldorf because it really stresses uniformity and conformity. I'm not really sure if that is caused by Waldorf (I think some of it is) or if it just attracts a certain clientele (this is probably the other part of it). I don't think Waldorf HAS to be cult-like but in general it tends toward that, and people fall into the cult mindset fairly easily. And once you have conformed to meet the "norm," then you and everyone else congratulates themselves on "fitting in," and to be honest, I empathize with the comfort of that. My dh grew up LDS (which I also define as a cult for the same reason), and I have Mormon friends, all of whom look alike, talk alike, think alike (or on the surface, pretend they do). Much of their "inner work" time is spent in further conforming to the status quo, or the ideal they are supposed to become. Like I have observed in many Waldorf circles, it makes them feel secure in knowing that so many other people are like them so that in itself must mean they are doing the right thing, which in reality is very circular logic. I'm not trying to attack Mormons or Waldorf purists but rather make a comparison between two "cultures" that are very different in scope but that have similar tendencies of conformity, guilt, and not presenting all knowledge upfront but in stages as one gets further involved, which is how I define a cult. In Waldorf, for example, just by reading Heaven on Earth, a text that gets recommended to newbies quite often, one would never know that within Waldorf circles, one is expected to have curved wooden picture frames displaying second-rate watercolor art, blond hardwood furnture only, Stockmar crayons/paints only, hardwood floors with sheep skin rugs, and hand-knitted hats. And don't forget about wet-on-wet painting or fingerplays or nature tables, or verses for transitions! Also, things like clothing are regulated--only natural fibers, no busy-ness, cheerful colors, woolens in winter, etc. These are all the Waldorf things that you have to pick up on little by little to mold into the Waldorf culture. I also think of a cult when I think of people feeling guilt for not doing things the proper way ("Is this Waldorf enough?" is a common question battered about a lot by Waldorf parents). When one wants to leave this culture, one is usually shunned by those remaining. For reference, check out the Life After Waldorf thread here on MDC: http://www.mothering.com/discussions...+after+waldorf . This is a very eye-opening thread about institutionalized Waldorf education, and one that I think every parent considering a Waldorf school should read just to be made aware of the possiblities. I also feel there is a lot of double-speak in Waldorf: I have seen so many conversations on Waldorf blogs that use Steiner's words as fact, as if his ideas were empirically proven and were ultimate truth, and then I have seen various people reinforce the same ideas over and over until they weren't basing their ideas off of their experience but off the platitudes that everyone else has uttered. If I could only count how many times I have heard/read that only toys made of natural fibers were creative, when the reality is far more complex! However, in any Waldorf 101, there will be the statement that one should choose only toys that are made of natural fibers for no other reason than that these are "real toys". There even exists a Flickr Waldorf group completely devoted to mothers taking pictures of their children's wooden toys, and to be honest, I find this very bizarre. It's as if by participating they are all applauding and reinforcing each other's tastes, which wouldn't be disturbing if they were different, but they aren't. They may arrange their Ostheimer figurines differently on their wooden castle blocks, but they are still the same toys over and over. I'm not trying to belittle these mothers by any means, I just really and truly don't understand this impulse or the purpose of this group. It comes across as very clique-ish, like a particular club one is able to join if one meets certain criteria--not unlike a cult to me--and I wonder how prevalent this type of exclusiveness is among other Waldorf parents. I am only mentioning this type of behavior to let you know that as a Waldorf parent, there may be particular expectations of YOU, not just your child. Waldorf is very much seen as a lifestyle, not just an educational choice, and some parental communities are more open to difference than others.
We homeschool, so I don't really have much experience with Waldorf teachers but I do with parents, and I think that within a Waldorf community you may find it more or less "cult-like" depending upon how purist it is and how open it is to differences and change. However, Anthroposophy by it's nature is ideological, and that is the very foundation of Waldorf education and something that I've heard guides teacher interactions with students to a very strong degree. However, that may or not matter depending on how it affects your child. Anthroposophy also has very definite beliefs in regard to what a child learns and when/how s/he learns it, so if your child is gifted or does not fit the Waldorf standard for some reason, then there may be conflict. If you haven't heard of "temperments" or how they guide teacher interactions with Waldorf students, you may want to do some googling, and the same goes for the Anthroposophical beliefs in regard to human development. But, depending on your particular school, this stuff may not be problematic. However, definitely do some thorough research and then have an extended discussion with the teacher that your child would have. Go in with full knowledge of Anthroposophy and have a discussion with the teacher about his/her feelings in that regard. I would also check out the school fairs or prospective parent meetings to see to what degree you seem to fit in with the parental community they've got there. That may tell you a lot.
Whatever you decide, I wish you the best (and all the beauty that Waldorf has the potential of being!)!
post #10 of 30
My kids go to waldorf and I was so nervous sending them after reading all the negative stuff online. I spoke to other parents before we enroll and it seems the "cult"ness varies from school to school. Our school is pretty relaxed! We were definitely all for the media awareness!
post #11 of 30
I'll have to let my daughter know that she is failing waldorf 101, 201 and 301 all the way down the line.
Despite being a waldorf graduate herself and having two kids in a waldorf school and having run a waldorf home day care for four years she just isn't "waldorf" enough.
I've been involved with Highland Hall in Los Angeles as a student and as a parent. Involved with the Toronto Waldorf School as a parent. Involved with the Chicago Waldorf School as a staff member. Involved with the Orchard Valley Waldorf School as a grandparent and also involved in a related non-profit.
Nope. None of them have the characteristics outlined above as cult like.
Now I do happen to have first-hand experience with two cults. Scientology for a couple of years for one, and a small sect of very narrow Christians for another. In both cases there was a lot of control and manipulation.
With waldorf, what I have seen happening, is that some parents get sort of swept away by the whole thing and start going to extremes. But it certainly isn't demanded. Waldorf schools don't have the power (at least not in the U.S.) to turn away parents who let their children watch TV, or play with plastic toys, or eat junk food, or skip the woolies.
post #12 of 30
Personally, I think that the term "cult" gets thrown around a bit too loosely. Labelling other philosophies, religions, what-have-you, as cults is itself a scare tactic and form of control. I've seen it happen this way in some religious circles--afraid of something? don't understand it? disagree with it vehemently? dislike it so much you want to keep your loved ones away from it? Well, call it a "cult" and the job is done. I've even seen La Leche League and AP/NFL referred to as cultish and described according to the so-called definition of a cult. (Read the book Bottlefeeding Without Guilt for either a good laugh or a good opportunity to roll your eyes.)
(Disclaimer: I do think there really are cults out there... but not nearly so many as some people would like us to believe.)
I do think it's important if you're looking into Waldorf to understand that it is based on a spiritual philosophy. And I think that it's important to have some understanding of that philosophy. All you have to do is google the term "Waldorf education" and there will be plenty of positives and negatives to read about. Then you can decide for yourself what you believe and how you feel about it. Read some Steiner! I think this is really important! I had heard so much about Steiner from other people, both people who adore him and people who think he's nuts, who were quick to pass on what he supposedly said. I haven't read a lot, but reading Rhythms of Learning (a collection of Steiner lectures edited by Roberto Trostli) was a really good thing. I feel like I have at least a taste of what this man is. Some I love, some I don't. .
post #13 of 30
Laurel, I agree that the term cult is best used for situations of abuse, intimidation and the ceding of personal property. From my perspective Waldorf children are really just kids who often have a pretty good set of circumstances at school and at home. Waldorf parents come in all stripes, and certainly can fall into cliquishness and more Waldorf than thou-ness as Lux Perpetua thoughfully and honestly describes (and yes, all this stuff really happens). Waldorf teachers are clearly, from my perpective, coreligionists.
post #14 of 30
Laurel, I agree with the term cult being used to try and control people in their choices by making them scared of the thing being called a cult.
I was educated in a Waldorf school, and my experience was not one of being brainwashed to believe something or behave in a certain way. I feel like my education gave me the skills to be a contributing member of society, a love or learning and a head start in being sceptical of screen time and electronic toys for babies.
I do not know if my children will be educated in a Waldorf school, at home or in a different educational style that I have yet to find. I am drawn to Waldorf as we share values when it comes to food, toys, delayed academics, rhythm of festivals (here in Israel the rhythm is Jewish, around Shabbat and the Jewish festivals) and a broad variety of experiences in the lower classes.
I think a lot of the cliquishness comes from parents making choices outside of the mainstream, often at odds with family and friends. And parents want to validate each others' choices. Which of course has the potential to wrong. In any group situation, people are going to feel pressurised to conform or not. It is always hard to not feel part of a group, whether that group endorses breastfeeding, no media, organic food, Einstein DVD's, spanking, whatever. If something does not feel right for you, it is hard to stand apart and say you don't want to be part of it. I think that is inherently human, and not something specific to Waldorf.
post #15 of 30
eh, whatever.
it's good to do your research, see what resonates with you. anthroposophy is the perspective of the teachers, but it is not taught. it just is what it is. you can do it or not, do it as much as you want or as little, and if the school is similar, then so be it. if not, then go elsewhere.
no biggie.
(and by the by, a lot of mainstreamers would be "cults" if that definition were used. man, cliques abound!)
post #16 of 30
I was also put off by all of the anti-Waldorf information found on the web - including the long threads here on MDC. We visited many Waldorf schools, found the one we loved and our children are there now.
None of the issues I read about exist at our school...or the schools I have nearby or the parents I speak to. I also have a few Waldorf alumni friends and none of them had any of those issues.
I strongly recommend you visit local Waldorf schools, talk to teachers, express your concerns and see for yourself.
As for the "cult" aspect - I find Waldorf no more culty than oh say, Mothering.com, Natural & Attachment Parenting. A lot of like-minded folks trying hard to parent against the norm. There are just as many doctrines, rules, conformity, following, etc.
post #17 of 30
I can add a few more schools. We attend events and know families/teachers at Sac Waldorf, Rudolf Steiner College and other Bay Area schools - if you were to find "cult" Waldorf anywhere, it would be there. But nope, not there either. There are families from all walks of life - purists and not-so-purists
Sure, there are a lot of rainbows, playsilks and soft handmade toys but how does that differ from a Mothering playgroup where everyone has CDs, slings, a laptop lunch and a kleen kanteen?lol
Really, you cannot get a complete picture by reading posts online from people who have had bad experiences with Waldorf, nor by looking at Flickr photos. Imagine if MDC were judged by its forums and by the fact that some of us mams take photos of cloth diapers or slings or breastfeeding babes... Of all people, WE should understand the need to share online with people who care and understand.
What do you say to someone who is considering AP but comes across anti-AP blogs and websites? I think they refer to "us" as Sanctimommies. They are loving the whole MangoMama-AP-parenting-ruined-my-life story.
post #18 of 30
In my experience, people who feel this way haven't experienced a Waldorf school first hand. I had fears, read the websites, etc. prior to enrolling dd in preschool. NONE of my hesitations were validated, not at all. She returned for another year and we plan on keeping her there! We have family, die-hard Christian (whatever that means?), who are mum when our daughter's school is brought up. They formulated their opinions w/o even asking about our experience! Closed minded, really. But anyway, don't let it scare you away. There are going to be extremists, bad apples, etc. in every scene.
post #19 of 30
I've heard nothing but good about Waldorf preschools and kindergartens. Starting in first grade the opinions become more mixed. Some families thrive, some have no real detriment or benefit, others suffer.
So I wouldn't decide to stay with a school through all of elementary based on what I observed in the preschool/kindergarten and I wouldn't avoid the preschool/kindergarten based on what I saw/heard about 3rd grade.
post #20 of 30
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I would agree. People come and people go from school, but I don't know that any have run screaming for fear of the cult.
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Rules for par-boiling meat
Sarah Apr 23, 2007 05:18 PM
Do you start with cold water or plunk the meat into already-boiling water? Salt or not? After skimming the froth & foam, cover or not? I know to simmer, not hard-boil, but that's all I'm sure of...
1. Sam Fujisaka Apr 24, 2007 06:54 AM
A quick par-boil of rough ground beef and pork is the only cooking used when I make Lao/NE Thai laap.
1. purple goddess Apr 23, 2007 06:40 PM
I par boil thick sausages, particulalry our favourite gourmet ones, bullboars, as they are very VERY think and it's hard to get a nice smokey and crispy skin AND get them cooked all the way thru. I add the sausages to cold water.. no salt and bring the water to a gradual simmer. I heat for about 10 mins, skimming as I go.. until the sausages are firm to the squeeze.
This ensures I get a lovely cooked-thru snag, with a crusty BBQ smoked skin.
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paulj Apr 23, 2007 06:56 PM
Some recipes call for simmering sausages briefly to 'stiffen' them prior to other use (toad-in-the-hole comes to mind).
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woodburner Apr 23, 2007 07:13 PM
I'm with you Paul on the chicken rub, with some low and slow indirect fire, and finishing sauce if you like.
Try this with sausages: instead of grilling, or boiling then grilling, just put the sausages on with indirect heat, covered, for about an hour (turn at 30 min.) Use some wood with the coals. You will get a smoked sausage that is fabulous, with crisped skin. You can use regular italian sausage and people will go crazy. Remember that when you slice it open, the pink ring near the exterior is from smoke -- it is fully cooked. If it was undercooked, the pink would be at the center, not the edge. It is a whole different taste. Ah gaaaa-roooon-teeee!
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purple goddess Apr 23, 2007 10:56 PM
Woody, I shall pass that on to Mr Goddess who is DA KING of the smoke and grill BBQ in out house...
2. re: purple goddess
mojoeater Apr 23, 2007 11:04 PM
I had the hardest time with brats the last time I tried to grill them. I wanted to just cook them fast and skipped the boiling in beer. Bad idea.
3. woodburner Apr 23, 2007 05:22 PM
The rule is: Don't do that. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I can't understand why anyone would want to do that. It turns any piece of meat into a tasteless mass. Then you add sauce or whatever and it becomes cardboard with that sauce on top. What are you going to cook? Let's talk about cooking it without the pot of water...
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Louise Apr 23, 2007 05:28 PM
Actually, it's a common Chinese technique when making broth. You blanch the meat, throw that water away, rinse it, then reboil.
Sorry, can't add any fine details as I have never actually done it that way, just read about it.
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mingerspice Apr 23, 2007 06:15 PM
My various relatives would start pork or chicken in cold water, then, as soon as the water comes to a boil, drain the pot. Start with cold water again. It does make for much clearer broths.
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paulj Apr 23, 2007 05:44 PM
Par-boiling, as the other poster wrote, is not cooking it to death. It is a brief boiling, prior to further cooking, such as a longer simmer.
One reason is to remove the scum and offensive flavors and odors, producing a clearer broth during the main cooking step. I've done this with tripe and tongue. Par-boiling is not long enough to extract much flavor from the meat (unless cut very small or thin), nor should it toughen it. I wouldn't do it for a fine piece of steak.
Where it more controversial is whether to do this with ribs. Some view it as a way of removing excess fat, others think it extracts all the flavor from the meat. I suspect a true, brief par-boil does neither.
Simmering meat till it is nearly tender, and finishing it in some way that develops a crust and browning is a different thing. One of the ways of making Mexican carnitas does this - simmer the meat till the liquid is gone, then fry in the rendered fat. Yes, flavor is extracted from the meat while simmering, but it remains in the dish.
Boiled dinners are yet another thing. There are classic French and Spanish dishes that involve simmering a good flavorful piece of meat. But they use the broth as well as the meat.
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woodburner Apr 23, 2007 06:01 PM
Thanks, Paul. At least it starts to make some sense for me. Still, I'll hold my ground in relation to any BBQ effort.
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NYchowcook Apr 23, 2007 06:18 PM
Yup, I'm w/ you woodburner. For a while I was parboiling chicken pieces before making barbecued chicken. Perhaps a caterer's shortcut. A bad idea. The flavor is in the (discarded) water, and the meat turns out rubbery.
Better technique I've discovered is to use a spice rub in advance, barbecue over low heat (the side of the grilll w/o the charcoal) and add bbq sauce just at the very end (it tends to burn w/ sugar in it)
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paulj Apr 23, 2007 09:00 PM
I've frequently read of 'flavor in the discarded water'. I assume that most of this flavor is the juices that have been expelled from the meat as it cooks. I know that when ever I braise meat in a reasonably well sealed container (pot with lid, or foil package) that I end up with more liquid than I started with. What happens to this flavor when your roast, grill, or BBQ meat? Is less juice expelled? This could be tested by weighing meat, much as several people have done when they tested the myth about searing sealing in juices. Or do the juices evaporate, leaving flavor components on the surface of the meat? What about the juices and fat that drip on to the coals?
In a Mexcian barbacoa, the meat juices and fat are caught in a pan under the meat, and are served as broth.
Another possibility is that the simmering water actually leaches flavor components out of meat. That must happen with long simmering, such as when making stock. I'm less certain that happens when meat is cooked just long enough to be tender.
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woodburner Apr 24, 2007 07:27 AM
All I can tell you is that when I've seen ribs parboiled, they come out of the water literally gray (blech!) and flavorless. Then the sauce is added and they are grilled for a few minutes. Still blech! I want a dry rub on the meat, with smoke and low heat to melt the fat and let the seasonings, smoke and fat flavor that meat. I'm learning here that there are certain styles and dishes where the meat can benefit from a QUICK boil before full cooking... but it ain't for me.
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mingerspice Apr 23, 2007 06:14 PM
I've also very briefly parboiled duck prior to roasting to remove some fat and ensure the meat stays moist while the skin crisps later. I cooled the duck after parboiling.
1. re: mingerspice
NYchowcook Apr 23, 2007 06:20 PM
You don't need to parboil a duck if you use the amazing five-hour roast duck technique!
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paulj Apr 23, 2007 06:49 PM
Alton Brown did a duck episode, in which he steamed the duck (45 min?) before roasting.
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That was before Syria's foreign minister surprised the international community by explicitly acknowledging for the first time it had chemical weapons and that it was ready to yield them to international monitors.
Having suddenly taken that step, it was unclear how what seemed to be a significant concession by Damascus would play out inside Syria and its 30-month-old civil conflict.
"Our commitment to the Russian initiative has the goal of ending our possession of chemical arms," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said in a statement read from Moscow and broadcast by Lebanon's pro-regime Al-Mayadeen channel. Mr. Moallem looked grim-faced and spoke hesitantly, in marked contrast to his usual relaxed appearances.
Syrian state media outlets including the state-controlled news agency SANA didn't carry Mr. Moallem's statement. Instead, Syrian state television reran an interview with President Bashar al-Assad by the U.S. TV network CBS that was recorded on Friday in which the Syrian leader threatens a regional war of unpredictable consequences in the event of a U.S. attack. In the interview, he also refuses to admit that Syria has chemical weapons.
The regime's initial embrace of the Russian initiative seemed to be a calculus that moving toward giving up its chemical weapons was a lesser price to pay than confronting the unknown costs of a U.S.-led strike on its military installations.
Though an attack could still happen, Syria's strategy served at least to delay it amid a flurry of international diplomacy to address Syria's offer. It also achieves, at least for now, a goal that Damascus and allies Iran and Russia have been pursuing for weeks: blocking unilateral action by the U.S. and its allies in response to an alleged chemical attack on Aug. 21, while keeping the matter under U.N. Security Council oversight.
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The move puts Mr. Assad's regime back in the role where it seems to feel most comfortable—maneuvering with the aid of Iran and Russia to exploit rifts and discord on the world scene.
Regime officials also suggested it will allow them to preserve recent military gains, achieved with the help of Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and to participate in any prospective peace talks from a position of strength.
The Eurasia Group, a political risk research firm, said Tuesday that Syria will exploit a "prolonged diplomatic engagement" associated with a chemical arms disarmament plan.
"In the first few weeks, we expect Bashar al-Assad's regime to cooperate and remain sufficiently constructive to minimize the risk of U.S. strikes," it said.
Earlier on Tuesday, before Syria said it would give up its chemical weapons, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said his country "supports the Russian initiative that strives to stem the blood of Syrians and prevent a war whose repercussions could spread beyond the region."
Official and semiofficial newspapers in Damascus rushed portrayed the Russian initiative and the regime's swiftacceptance as a diplomatic triumph.
Al-Baath, the official paper of Mr. Assad's ruling party, suggested in a front page op-ed piece that the Russian and Syrian announcements were "previously coordinated calmly and away from the limelight."
Al-Baath said the initiative wasn't a response to off-the-cuff comments by Secretary of State John Kerry in London on Monday that Mr. Assad's regime could avert an attack by promptly handing his chemical weapons to the international community.
The newspaper also dismissed the one-week ultimatum issued by Mr. Kerry on Monday to Damascus to relinquish its chemical stockpiles.
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Generally, when using the conditional operator, here's the syntax:
int x = 6;
int y = x == 6 ? 5 : 9;
Nothing fancy, pretty straight forward.
Now, let's try to use this when assigning a Lambda to a Func type. Let me explain:
Func<Order, bool> predicate = id == null
? p => p.EmployeeID == null
: p => p.EmployeeID == id;
That's the same syntax, and should work? Right? For some reason that doesn't. The compiler gives this nice cryptic message:
Error 1 Type of conditional expression cannot be determined because there is no implicit conversion between 'lambda expression' and 'lambda expression'
I then went ahead and changed the syntax and this way it did work:
Func<Order, bool> predicate = id == null
? predicate = p => p.EmployeeID == null
: predicate = p => p.EmployeeID == id;
I'm just curious as to why it doesn't work the first way?
(Side note: I ended up not needing this code, as I found out that when comparing an int value against null, you just use object.Equals)
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You can convert a lambda expression to a particular target delegate type, but in order to determine the type of the conditional expression, the compiler needs to know the type of each of the second and third operands. While they're both just "lambda expression" there's no conversion from one to the other, so the compiler can't do anything useful.
I wouldn't suggest using an assignment, however - a cast is more obvious:
Func<Order, bool> predicate = id == null
? (Func<Order, bool>) (p => p.EmployeeID == null)
: p => p.EmployeeID == id;
Note that you only need to provide it for one operand, so the compiler can perform the conversion from the other lambda expression.
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Very very interesting. That actually makes alot of sense. Thanks. – BFree Nov 4 '08 at 20:05
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The C# compiler cannot infer the type of the created lambda expression because it processes the ternary first and then the assignment. you could also do:
Func<Order, bool> predicate =
id == null ?
new Func<Order,bool>(p => p.EmployeeID == null) :
new Func<Order,bool>(p => p.EmployeeID == id);
but that just sucks, you could also try
Func<Order, bool> predicate =
id == null ?
(Order p) => p.EmployeeID == null :
(Order p) => p.EmployeeID == id;
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The latter doesn't work, because the compiler doesn't know whether to convert to a delegate or an expression tree (or to, say, a Func<Order, object> which would be okay too). – Jon Skeet Nov 4 '08 at 19:55
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Mining for brown coal in the Otways: permission granted to explore
Queensland-based company Mantle Mining has been given 'priority status' to explore a 500 square kilometre area behind the Otways stretching from Barwon Downs to Moriac in the hunt for brown coal. Hear from Mantle Mining CEO Ian Kraemer, Victorian Farmer's Federation president Andrew Broad, Cam Walker from the Friends of the Earth and from a local landowner and geologist upon whose property the original brown coal mine was developed in the 1920s.
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While the nation's agenda continues to be dominated by discussion about the proposed tax on carbon, residents in communities bordering the Otways in Victoria's south west are pondering a decision granting 'priority status' to a mining company to search for brown coal deposits.
The area for exploration contains two previously explored tenements; at Dean's Marsh, where a 9 metre thick seam was worked from 1922 to 1951, and at Wensleydale, where a 40 metre thick seam was worked from 1921 to 1959.
This week the Dean's Marsh community will meet to discuss the public announcement of the exploration license; hear from various stakeholders on what this decision will mean for the area and what it might mean should coal deposits be found in sufficient quantities to begin mining.
The mining company
Mantle Mining CEO Ian Kraemer confirms his company's intentions are to export brown coal to the growing markets in India or China, and that if any coal is discovered, new technologies will assist in turning one of the world's most intensive carbon-based sources of energy into one of the world's cleanest.
"We see that there's opportunity with technology and certainly there's demand for low emission energy sources and that's why we've been looking at the Victorian coal area to see if we can apply for exploration licenses and explore and see what coal deposists are there, and see if there is technology applicable to clean that coal up so we can have low emissions."
Despite the recently announced success of the trial carbon geosequestration project at Port Campbell to find an efficient method of pumping carbon emissions underground, Kraemer states that should Mantle be granted a license to mine it would be using a system to evaporate the water content from the brown coal to lower emissions.
"It's not carbon sequestration; what it does is - brown coal emits more C02 (carbon dioxide) for every megawatt of poewr generated because it's got a very high moisture conbtent and that moisture has to be evaporated before you can generate power from the remaining energy. Brown coals of victoria have between 40 and 6- per cent moisture... if you can remove the moisture out of that brown coal in a very efficient manner and that moisture reduction doesn't in and of itself generate C02 emissions, then you've got a resource that you can utilise for power generation with much lower emissions.
While the two mines operating back in the first half of the 20th century were underground mines employing 'hand mining' techniques, if Mantle finds enough coal it will be developing an open-cut mine.
"[There's] ... two main methods to mine material; one is surface mining, one is undergournd mining. Coal that is generally in Victoria are generally surface mineable not so much underground mineable; they were mined underground in decades past; effectively they are very close to the surface, quite thick deposits under quite thin overburdens and they would be mined - if ever mined - by surface methods: strip mining, open cut mining, open pit mining; they are different terms for different designs, different layouts, for surface mining," says Kraemer.
The landowner and geologist
Roger Blake is a landowner in Dean's Marsh; a geologist by background, he runs a winery in the Dean's Marsh area and foresees a substantial community campaign to reject the idea of a return to coal mining in the region.
"The community's only just become aware of it through the issuing of a prospectus from Mantle Mining; it came as a bit of a shock to everybody, a lot of people are quite appalled, actually... a movement is starting now to oppose the granting of the exploration license," he says.
"The original Dean's Marsh coal mine is actually on my property; I'd be appalled to see an open cut mine in this area.
"I've got a little vineyard, specialises in pinot noir - very productive - I'd take issue with [comments by Ian Kraemer] who said 18 to 20 metres deep for open cut; the coal mine on my property is an 8 metre seam at about 40 metres, but within a kilometre it goes down to about 80 metres, so the scale of the open cut would be huge," he says.
"That's one of the reasons why I'm a bit astonished by this Mantle Mining application; the area was quite extensivley explored by CRA which is now Rio Tinto in the 1970s and 80s, and they did some drilling as well as several extensive book studies of all the wells and bores that had been drilled - and they couldn't come up with any econ omic deposits at the time. "
The Farmer's Federation
With some prominent confrontations and increasing concerns being raised over mining versus farming on prime land in Queensland and New South Wales, Victorian Farmer's Federation president Andrew Broad thinks local landowners in the Otways should pay heed to the hard lessons learned from farmers up north.
"...one of the things I've seen from the National Farmer's Federation is land uses in northern New South Wales and Queensland; one of the things we're saying to farmers is for goodness' sake don't sign anything - and get some good legal advice, because what we've seen in the past, mining companies turn up they want to explore they want to mine, they then present documents to farmers who haven't had a chance to really understand the issues, and those farmers have done themselves out of not only some money, but access to their own properites."
Andrew Broad foresees an increasing pressure upon Victorian landowners to balance the short-term profit incentive of mining with the long-term sustainability of Australia'd food producing areas.
"What we'll see is this will start to become an issue for Victorians; we do have reserves there, of gas and coal.
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updated 03:20 pm EDT, Fri July 31, 2009
FCC to probe iPhone gaps
The FCC will consider the limited rural availability of products like the iPhone as it explores the merits of exclusive American cellphone contracts, an interview reveals. "There are markets in the country where if you wanted an iPhone, if you wanted a Pre, you just couldn't get it -- from anyone," according to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. "So one question is, is that consistent with broad consumer interests?"
The probe was instigated by members of the Senate Commerce Committee, who in turn took their cue from a petition by the Rural Cellular Association. The RCA's main worry is said to be the inherent advantage national carriers have over rural ones, due to their ability to secure exclusives on high-profile phones. AT&T has defended deals like its multi-year iPhone contract however, claiming it keeps prices down and leads to innovation. Verizon may be attempting to defuse public concerns, meanwhile, by limiting all of its future exclusives to six months.
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1. jhawk95
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This is Ridiculous
First of all, those "Rural" phone markets have not deployed the technology for the iPhone to work in their markets. You cannot install full 3G towers with unlimited access for the 5 farmers who live within 50 miles of a tower in Western Kansas for example. It is not cost effective.
But if we are going to guarantee that every American that wants to buy a product have full and equal access to it.... then I am going to petition the FDA to get IN-N-OUT Burger to open up a franchise in my neighborhood immediately because I have been deprived my IN-N-OUT here in the Midwest for way too long.
1. Raman
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Joined: Mar 2001
"There are markets in the country where if you wanted an iPhone, if you wanted a Pre, you just couldn’t get it -- from anyone,"
Seriously. How childish. Do people really think they're entitled to everything they want?
1. garmonbosia
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RE: jhawk95
That was the argument conservatives used to try to defeat rural electrification and phone access in the 1930's. The truth is we have a right, when we allow a company ownership of limited public bandwidth, to make sure the general public good is served. You can't have a company skimming the most cost effective customers and refusing service to everyone else.
That said, I don't think every hermit living in the middle of nowhere is guaranteed every utility that city folk get. I think the FCC should make sure the cell companies aren't excluding parts of the country just to maximize profits.
Your In-and-Out burger example doesn't relate to this on two counts. 1) They aren't basing their business on using limited public airwaves, and 2) If burger chains had to serve a public good, since I'm here in Seattle, I'd insist on Dicks Burgers. ;-)
1. joesporleder
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I'd be happy with 2G spd
I live in North Central Kansas and travel much of Central and Western areas of Kansas for my job. There is a fairly decent tower access in most of the area when Kansas Cellular sold out to Alltel. Now Alltel has merged with Verizon. Unfortunately, its on the wrong network to work with an iPhone. I get 600-700kbps down and about 200kbps up when I tether my MacBook with a RAZR2. I know 3G is considerably faster, but I'd enjoy an iPhone that works, even if a bit slow on the network. Maybe someday between Apple, Verizon and AT&T, somebody will work my area of the word into their business plan, but until then, oh well. I like where I live more than my desire for an iPhone! :-D
1. vasic
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Nobody gets it...!
This is not about the rights of hermits in the boondocks. The complaint was brought up by rural carriers; those that already have a network and paying customers. Ironically, they most often are the only operator in their area, so they get all customers. As such, they don't NEED iPhone, or Pre, or Storm, or G1 in order to get people. All they are asking is to be allowed to sell these cool devices. Such a deal wouldn't threaten the big carrier that already has an exclusionary contract -- they don't HAVE a presence in the rural markets anyway.
Every big carrier has a few cool exclusive devices. This is exactly what they use to poach each other's customers. People served by rural carriers can't get ANY of these cool devices. All they can get is two-year old models that are commodity. Letting these carriers sell new devices in markets where nobody else is present won't hurt anyone's bottom line, but would allow rural guys to offer newer devices to their 100,000 (or fewer) customers.
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The Case for Energy Psychology
The Case for Energy Psychology
Snake Oil or Therapeutic Power Tool?
September 27, 2013
Clinical psychologist David Feinstein describes some of the compelling research behind energy psychology, a method based on tapping selected acupuncture points to address psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Drawing from contemporary psychological understanding as well as ancient spiritual practices and healing traditions, Energy Psychology (EP) provides simple methods for shifting the brain’s chemistry, specifically through a variation of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Using a combination of acupressure points, along with advanced psychological methods, EFT releases traumatic memories and facilitates healing.
The Evidence Accumulates for Energy Healing
Despite continuing professional skepticism, empirical evidence for the effectiveness of Energy Psychology (EP) has been accumulating. Treatment teams have been deployed to more than a dozen countries to provide mental health services following natural and human disasters. Outcome data systematically collected in at least five of these countries, and corroborated by local health-care authorities who had no stake in EP, were encouraging.
The first research using established measures to investigate treatment outcomes with disaster survivors was conducted in 2006 by a team led by psychologist Caroline Sakai, working with an orphanage in Rwanda. Of the 400 orphans living or schooled at the facility, 188 had lost their families during the ethnic cleansing 12 years earlier. Many had witnessed their parents being slaughtered, and they were still having severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including flashbacks, nightmares, bedwetting, withdrawal, or aggression.
The study focused on the 50 teenagers identified by the caregivers as having the greatest difficulties. All 50 were rated on a standardized symptom inventory for caregivers and scored above the PTSD cutoff. Each then received a single acupoint-tapping session lasting 20 to 60 minutes, combined with approximately six minutes spent learning two simple relaxation techniques.
Not only did the scores of 47 of the 50 adolescents fall below the PTSD range following this brief intervention, these improvements in serious conditions that had persisted for more than a decade held at a one-year follow-up.
Another recent study, a randomized, controlled trial (the scientific "gold standard" for establishing the effectiveness of a treatment) with traumatized male adolescents in Peru also used a single acupoint-tapping session. The findings, currently under peer review, showed that 16 boys who'd been abused all scored above the PTSD cutoff on a standardized self-report inventory before treatment. Of this group, 8 were given a single EP session, after which none scored in the PTSD range, and they were still below the cutoff a month later. Scores for the 8 in the waitlist control group were unchanged at the one-month follow-up.
In the first randomized controlled trial of the use of EP with combat veterans, presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference in Seattle, 49 vets showed dramatic improvement after six treatment sessions—42 of them no longer scored above the PTSD cutoff.
Conducted under auspices of the Vets Stress Project, participants were recruited from throughout the United States and were treated by volunteer practitioners. The gains persisted at the six-month follow-up. There was only one dropout. In contrast, less than one 1 in 10 of the 49,425 veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars with newly diagnosed PTSD who sought care from facilities run by the Department of Veterans Affairs actually completed the conventional treatments recommended.
After the Seattle report, I contacted the study's principal investigator and asked whether I could interview some of the therapists involved. One of them, Ingrid Dinter, described to me her work with Keith, an infantry soldier who had served in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. In his initial therapy session in April 2008, he reported that he had seen "many casualties on both sides." More than three decades later, he was still tormented with nightmares and repeated flashbacks.
"Sometimes I think I see Viet Cong soldiers behind bushes and trees," he added. His severe insomnia, complicated by the nightmares, made him fatigued and unable to function during the day. He'd been diagnosed with PTSD and reported that his group and individual therapy through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hadn't helped with his symptoms.
Keith had six hour-long sessions with Dinter, during which she had him tap on acupoints while he focused on traumatic war memories and other psychological stressors. In their first session, he reported that since the war's conclusion, he'd rarely gotten more than one to two hours of sleep at a stretch, and averaged about two nightmares each night.
By the end of the six sessions, he was getting seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep and was having no nightmares. He said that other symptoms, such as intrusive memories, startle reactions, and overwhelming obsessive guilt, had abated as well. A six-month follow-up interview and further testing showed that the improvements held.
Can Tapping Change the Brain?
Studies continue to confirm that Energy Psychology works and works quickly, but the fundamental question remains: How does it work? How could tapping on the skin be an ingredient in producing rapid cures for severe psychological disorders? How, in fact, can any intervention reliably overcome PTSD within a few sessions?
The emerging understanding of neuroplasticity—particularly the ways that thought and experience can decisively change the brain—suggests that significant therapeutic shifts can happen far more rapidly than we once believed. It's now at least plausible that therapeutic interventions can be developed that quickly alter the neural pathways maintaining emotional and behavioral patterns that were once protective (like trauma-based hyperarousal), but have become dysfunctional.
A series of studies conducted over the past decade as part of the Neuroimaging Acupuncture Effects on Human Brain Activity project at Harvard Medical School provides clues to why acupoint tapping may be such an approach. According to project leader Kathleen Hui, "functional MRI and PET studies on acupuncture at commonly used acupuncture points have demonstrated significant modulatory effects on the limbic system."
How does that apply to EP? It's always been obvious that psychological exposure is an ingredient in EP. Traumatic memories or other cues that trigger unwanted emotional responses are mentally activated during the acupoint tapping. Since exposure is the single therapeutic component present in virtually all studies of effective PTSD treatments, the success of EP has often been attributed simply to its use of that approach.
But this doesn't address the fact that clinicians utilizing the technique, and numerous studies, have found that by adding acupoint tapping, the exposure can be much briefer, requires fewer repetitions, and leads to positive outcomes with a greater proportion of clients. The new understanding provided by the Harvard neuroimaging studies is that stimulating specific acupoints generates signals that instantly reduce arousal in the amygdala.
So rather than relying on repeated or prolonged exposure to extinguish the threat response, EP introduces acupoint tapping during a brief exposure, which immediately counters the threat response. The process appears to work like this:
The client is asked to bring to mind an anxiety-provoking memory, thought, or related cue, activating an alarm response in the amygdala;
The simultaneous stimulation of acupoints sends deactivating signals to the amygdala, initiating an opposing process, reminiscent of Joseph Wolpe's "reciprocal inhibition";
The signals sent by the acupoint stimulation turn off the alarm response, even though the trigger is still present.
With a few repetitions, the trigger no longer evokes fear, and this innocuous experience, which becomes the defining memory about the trigger, is stored in the hippocampus.
The apparent operating principle, although not yet demonstrated by laboratory research, is that when a traumatic memory or other trigger is paired with an intervention that turns off the alarm response, such as the stimulation of selected acupoints, the neural pathways that were keeping the alarm response in place are altered.
In When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures, trauma researcher Ronald Ruden speculates on how interventions such as acupoint tapping during traumatic recall result in the elimination of conditioned fear pathways in the amygdala. Activating the memory makes the glutamate receptors that maintain long-standing signal transmissions between neurons vulnerable to disruption (this is well-established), and in a clinical one-two punch, the acupoint tapping sends new signals that "depotentiate" the vulnerable receptors. In this way, the conditioned fear is permanently eliminated.
When the maladaptive fears that are at the core of PTSD have been eradicated in this manner, associated symptoms also diminish. A marked decrease of flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, concentration problems, numbing, and even self-defeating thoughts and behaviors has been reported by clinicians, and is now being corroborated by systematic research. So while EP utilizes psychological exposure, the acupoint tapping allows for a kinder intervention, requiring far fewer and much shorter exposures to traumatic material...
EP is being used in the British and French military services to treat soldiers with PTSD, and Britain's National Health Service, which has been using EFT as a treatment modality for years, is now offering it to the public as part of its Mental Health Improvement Training. In the United States, however, partially as a consequence of the APA's unbending position on EP, many therapists still have to introduce the therapy surreptitiously, or risk censure. Still, EP methods are slowly finding their way into mainstream psychotherapy practice as well as institutions such as hospitals, VA centers, and HMOs, with major studies underway at Kaiser Permanente, the Sutter Health network, and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
EP's strongest enthusiasts speak of it as if it were the psychotherapeutic equivalent of penicillin, a clinical breakthrough that will revolutionize therapy, while its critics view it as a pseudoscience whose new ingredients are no more potent than sugar water. Because the basic technique is so easy to learn—the hard part being using it well with challenging cases—I'll sometimes ask a spirited skeptic, "Why not try it and evaluate it yourself? What's to lose?" In fact, that's part of the strategy employed by those bringing EP to disaster areas to gain the cooperation of local health leaders.
While empirical studies to fully demonstrate the speed and power of EP are still needed, it's hard not to be deeply moved seeing emotionally devastated people come back into happier, more effective lives after a few EP sessions. For instance, the video described earlier shows an Army combat veteran who'd suffered from panic attacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, anger, and depression for more than 30 years. His symptoms were getting worse, to the point that he was regularly and convincingly threatening to shoot his family.
In his intake session at a five-day EP program where two to three hour-long sessions per day would be offered, he said, "The dichotomy is so great between what I was when I went in and what I became when I got out that it's a very messy situation inside my head!" In his exit session on day five, he triumphantly announced, "I can't emphasize enough how important it is to actually feel like you're a real person again, and not be afraid, and not have to cover up all of your junk every single day of your life."
His wife also participated in the five-day program. On day three, she said, "He's had all the symptoms! We've been in psych wards for years. And in three days, we're talking! We haven't talked in five years—really talked!" Post-treatment testing confirmed his observable improvements, which persisted on follow-up assessments.
As we deepen our explorations of the complex mysteries of the human nervous system, rapid, noninvasive ways of repairing damage and dysfunction seem not so far away. Energy Psychology holds promise for blazing a trail toward that goal. As bizarre as it may have once sounded, the evidence has moved far beyond the early anecdotes, suggesting that tapping on the skin can reliably facilitate decisive emotional change with a range of conditions. However uncomfortable such findings may make old-time clinicians like me, they may force all of us to rethink our models of psychotherapy.
© David Feinstein. Used with permission.
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Specify LMI System at the Command Line
The following tutorial example is used to illustrate the specification of LMI systems with the LMI Lab tools.
Specifying LMI System
Consider a stable transfer function
with four inputs, four outputs, and six states, and consider the set of input/output scaling matrices D with block-diagonal structure
The following problem arises in the robust stability analysis of systems with time-varying uncertainty [4]:
Find, if any, a scaling D of structure (Equation 4-5) such that the largest gain across frequency of D G(s) D–1 is less than one.
This problem has a simple LMI formulation: there exists an adequate scaling D if the following feasibility problem has solutions:
Find two symmetric matrices XR6×6 and S = DT DR4×4 such that
The LMI system (Equation 4-6, Equation 4-7, and Equation 4-8) can be described with the LMI Editor as outlined below. Alternatively, its internal description can be generated with lmivar and lmiterm commands as follows:
X=lmivar(1,[6 1])
S=lmivar(1,[2 0;2 1])
% 1st LMI
lmiterm([1 1 1 X],1,A,'s')
lmiterm([1 1 1 S],C',C)
lmiterm([1 1 2 X],1,B)
lmiterm([1 2 2 S],-1,1)
% 2nd LMI
lmiterm([-2 1 1 X],1,1)
% 3rd LMI
lmiterm([-3 1 1 S],1,1)
lmiterm([3 1 1 0],1)
LMISYS = getlmis
Here the lmivar commands define the two matrix variables X and S while the lmiterm commands describe the various terms in each LMI. Upon completion, getlmis returns the internal representation LMISYS of this LMI system. The following subsections give more details on the syntax and usage of these various commands:
More information on how the internal representation is updated by lmivar/lmiterm can also be found in How lmivar and lmiterm Manage LMI Representation.
Initializing the LMI System
The description of an LMI system should begin with setlmis and end with getlmis. The function setlmis initializes the LMI system description. When specifying a new system, type
To add on to an existing LMI system with internal representation LMIS0, type
Specifying the LMI Variables
The matrix variables are declared one at a time with lmivar and are characterized by their structure. To facilitate the specification of this structure, the LMI Lab offers two predefined structure types along with the means to describe more general structures:
Type 1
Symmetric block diagonal structure. This corresponds to matrix variables of the form
where each diagonal block Dj is square and is either zero, a full symmetric matrix, or a scalar matrix
Dj= d × IdR
This type encompasses ordinary symmetric matrices (single block) and scalar variables (one block of size one).
Type 2
Rectangular structure. This corresponds to arbitrary rectangular matrices without any particular structure.
Type 3
General structures. This third type is used to describe more sophisticated structures and/or correlations between the matrix variables. The principle is as follows: each entry of X is specified independently as either 0, xn, or –xn where xn denotes the n-th decision variable in the problem. For details on how to use Type 3, see Structured Matrix Variables as well as the lmivar entry in the reference pages.
In Specifying LMI System, the matrix variables X and S are of Type 1. Indeed, both are symmetric and S inherits the block-diagonal structure from Equation 4-5 of D. Specifically, S is of the form
After initializing the description with the command setlmis([]), these two matrix variables are declared by
lmivar(1,[6 1]) % X
lmivar(1,[2 0;2 1]) % S
In both commands, the first input specifies the structure type and the second input contains additional information about the structure of the variable:
• For a matrix variable X of Type 1, this second input is a matrix with two columns and as many rows as diagonal blocks in X. The first column lists the sizes of the diagonal blocks and the second column specifies their nature with the following convention:
1: full symmetric block
0: scalar block
–1: zero block
In the second command, for instance,[2 0;2 1] means that S has two diagonal blocks, the first one being a 2-by-2 scalar block and the second one a 2-by-2 full block.
• For matrix variables of Type 2, the second input of lmivar is a two-entry vector listing the row and column dimensions of the variable. For instance, a 3-by-5 rectangular matrix variable would be defined by
lmivar(2,[3 5])
For convenience, lmivar also returns a "tag" that identifies the matrix variable for subsequent reference. For instance, X and S in Specifying LMI System could be defined by
X = lmivar(1,[6 1])
S = lmivar(1,[2 0;2 1])
The identifiers X and S are integers corresponding to the ranking of X and S in the list of matrix variables (in the order of declaration). Here their values would be X=1 and S=2. Note that these identifiers still point to X and S after deletion or instantiation of some of the matrix variables. Finally, lmivar can also return the total number of decision variables allocated so far as well as the entry-wise dependence of the matrix variable on these decision variables (see the lmivar entry in the reference pages for more details).
Specifying Individual LMIs
After declaring the matrix variables with lmivar, we are left with specifying the term content of each LMI. Recall that LMI terms fall into three categories:
• The constant terms, i.e., fixed matrices like I in the left side of the LMI S > I
• The variable terms, i.e., terms involving a matrix variable. For instance, ATX and CTSC in Equation 4-6. Variable terms are of the form PXQ where X is a variable and P, Q are given matrices called the left and right coefficients, respectively.
• The outer factors
The following rule should be kept in mind when describing the term content of an LMI:
Note: Specify only the terms in the blocks on or above the diagonal. The inner factors being symmetric, this is sufficient to specify the entire LMI. Specifying all blocks results in the duplication of off-diagonal terms, hence in the creation of a different LMI. Alternatively, you can describe the blocks on or below the diagonal.
LMI terms are specified one at a time with lmiterm. For instance, the LMI
is described by
lmiterm([1 1 1 1],1,A,'s')
lmiterm([1 1 1 2],C',C)
lmiterm([1 1 2 1],1,B)
lmiterm([1 2 2 2],-1,1)
These commands successively declare the terms ATX + XA, CTSC, XB, and –S. In each command, the first argument is a four-entry vector listing the term characteristics as follows:
• The first entry indicates to which LMI the term belongs. The value m means "left side of the m-th LMI," and −m means "right side of the m-th LMI."
• The second and third entries identify the block to which the term belongs. For instance, the vector [1 1 2 1] indicates that the term is attached to the (1, 2) block.
• The last entry indicates which matrix variable is involved in the term. This entry is 0 for constant terms, k for terms involving the k-th matrix variable Xk, and −k for terms involving (here X and S are first and second variables in the order of declaration).
Finally, the second and third arguments of lmiterm contain the numerical data (values of the constant term, outer factor, or matrix coefficients P and Q for variable terms PXQ or PXTQ). These arguments must refer to existing MATLAB® variables and be real-valued. See Complex-Valued LMIs for the specification of LMIs with complex-valued coefficients.
Some shorthand is provided to simplify term specification. First, blocks are zero by default. Second, in diagonal blocks the extra argument 's' allows you to specify the conjugated expression AXB + BTXTAT with a single lmiterm command. For instance, the first command specifies ATX + XA as the "symmetrization" of XA. Finally, scalar values are allowed as shorthand for scalar matrices, i.e., matrices of the form αI with α scalar. Thus, a constant term of the form αI can be specified as the "scalar" α. This also applies to the coefficients P and Q of variable terms. The dimensions of scalar matrices are inferred from the context and set to 1 by default. For instance, the third LMI S > I in Example: Specifying Matrix Variable Structures is described by
lmiterm([-3 1 1 2],1,1) % 1*S*1 = S
lmiterm([3 1 1 0],1) % 1*I = I
Recall that by convention S is considered as the right side of the inequality, which justifies the –3 in the first command.
Finally, to improve readability it is often convenient to attach an identifier (tag) to each LMI and matrix variable. The variable identifiers are returned by lmivar and the LMI identifiers are set by the function newlmi. These identifiers can be used in lmiterm commands to refer to a given LMI or matrix variable. For the LMI system of Specifying LMI System, this would look like:
X = lmivar(1,[6 1])
S = lmivar(1,[2 0;2 1])
BRL = newlmi
lmiterm([BRL 1 1 X],1,A,'s')
lmiterm([BRL 1 1 S],C',C)
lmiterm([BRL 1 2 X],1,B)
lmiterm([BRL 2 2 S],-1,1)
Xpos = newlmi
lmiterm([-Xpos 1 1 X],1,1)
Slmi = newlmi
lmiterm([-Slmi 1 1 S],1,1)
lmiterm([Slmi 1 1 0],1)
When the LMI system is completely specified, type
LMISYS = getlmis
This returns the internal representation LMISYS of this LMI system. This MATLAB description of the problem can be forwarded to other LMI-Lab functions for subsequent processing. The command getlmis must be used only once and after declaring all matrix variables and LMI terms.
Here the identifiers X and S point to the variables X and S while the tags BRL, Xpos, and Slmi point to the first, second, and third LMI, respectively. Note that –Xpos refers to the right-hand side of the second LMI. Similarly, –X would indicate transposition of the variable X.
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